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341. Report of the Equal Suffrage Campaign for 1912

Date Created:: 1912-01-01T00:00:00Z
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342. Transcription of Jennie Loomis Diary, 1896

Notes:: Jennie writes of various diseases in the area, her health, social life, and involvment with the church. She also mentions the election of her father as a state senator.
Date Created:: 1896-01-01T00:00:00Z
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343. Weekly Artisan; 1910-10-08

Notes:: Issue of a furniture trade magazine published weekly in Grand Rapids, Mich, starting in 1879. and GRAND RAPIDS, MICH., OCTOBER 8, 1910 NELSON-MATTER FURNITURE CO. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. BED-ROOM and DINING-ROOM COMPLETE SlHTES in Mahogany. Circassian Walnnt and Oak. If you have not one in your store. il simple request will brinll you our magnificent new Catalo4ne of 12x16 inch pa4e .troup., .how-inll .nite. to Dlntch. With it, even the most moderate sized furniture store can show the best and newest furniture satisfactorily. i!Sj!.ec;Jia.listsfQ tneJiUrniture Trade. MICHIGAN ENGRAVING CO.GRANDRAPIDS CHOICE TOOLS FOR FURNITURE MAKERS If you do not know the "Oliver" wood workmg tools, you had better gIve us your address and have us tell you all about them. We make nothmg but Quality tools, the first cost of which is considerable, but whIch wIll make more profit for each dollar invested than any of the cheap machmes f1ood-mg the country. "OLIVER" No. 16. Band Saw 36Inche •. Made with or WIthout motor dnve Met al table 36"x30" win take 18" under the gUIde- blls 45 degree, one way and 7 degrees the other way Car-nes a saw up to );.6" Wide Outside beanng to lower wheel ,haft when not motor driven WeIgh, 1800 Ibs when ready to ship Oliver Tools Save Labor 14 Tempers " Cost "Oliver" New Variety Saw Table ~o. 11 WIiltake a saw up to 20' diameter Arbor belt IS 6' Wide Send for Catalog "B" for data on Hand Jointers, Saw Tables, Wood Lathes, Sanders, Tenoners, Mortisers, Trimmers, Grinders, Work Benches, Vises, Clamps, Glue Heaters, etc., etc. OLIVER MACHINERY CO. Works and General Off,ce. at 1 to 51 Clancy St. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH .. U. S. A BRANCH OFFICES-Ohver Maclunery Co. Hudson Terminal. 50 Church 51. New York OlIver Machinery Co • Fmil Nahonal Bank BUilding, ChIcago, III , OlIver Machinery Co , PaCific BUIlding, Seattle, Wash OlIver Machmery Co, 201-203 Dean,gale, Manchester, Eng WEEKLY ARTISAN 1 . YOU CAN MAIL YOUR CATALOG OCTOBER 24th If you place the order with us. WHITE PRINTING COMPANY GRAND RAPIDS, MIC". I PRINTERS FOR THE FURNITURE TRADE. I 2 WEEKLY ARTISAN -_._. ----- ------------., , I LUCE FURNITURE COMPANY i,I ,t II IIII II I• II II III II I III II I I ~---.----- -------------------------------- GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. I I I I I II III III III II II Ij -------------------------~ Manufacturers of COMPLETE lines of MEDIUM PRICED DINING and CHAMBER FURNITURE. Catalogues to Dealers Only. ..-- _ .... a_a •••• _.T ••.•. aT •••• luce-Redmond Chair Co.,ltd. I BIG RAPIDS, MICH. High Grade Office Chairs Dining Chairs Odd Rockers and Chairs Desk and Dresser Chairs Slipper Rockers Colonial Parlor Suites In DfI! k Iwd 1'U"II Mahoga"J Blrd's E)( Maple Birch !i!...uarttrtd Oak and CJrcasuan Walnut Our Exhibit you will find on the fourth floor, East Section, MANUfACTURERS'BUILDING,North Ionia Street GRAND RAPIDS, MICmGAN Exhibit in charge of J. C. HAMILTON, C. E. COHOES, J. EDGAR FOSTER. GRAND RAPIGS PUBLIC LIBRARY 31st Year-No. 15 GRAND UAPIDS, MICH., OCTOBER 8,1910 Issued Weekly CAUGHT BY THE LURE OF THE ANTIQUE Cunning Dealers Take Advantage of Collectors by Imposing on Their Ignorance as to the Gpnuineness of Curios. Ihe chal111 uf the eall} AmellLan colol11"t~ ldy 111 the fact that although they had hved labonous 11\e" a~ plOneer" 111a sa, age count!} , the} had kept theIr bltthnght as heIrs of 'vell-cleveloped cn Ihza tlOn~. The 111\ entory of the PIOP-crty belongmg to the great great grandfather of John "\dam" "llOvved that thele had been a sIlver spoon 111 the famlly fOl11 generatlOn~ back. and Lafayetie and de Segur, wIth theIr C'Cdct111lS"tandard of mannel~, the standard of the aIel nohIllty ot [<'rance, te'-,td'iell th,1t they never met truer gentlemen thdn theIr ho"ts 111 the Ne\\ England VIllage" The same charm attaches to the eady COl0111,1lhomes \ s '-,oon as the battle WIth the wIlderne% wa~ 0\ ercome, and for that matter much earhel, \\hIle s,1vage neIghbors and lough tOIL dnd pe~tllence vvele stIll a fa1111har part of the common hfe, the urbamtJes anL] luxunes oi the count! les flom wInch the ~ettlel ~ ch ew j'egan to find pldce 111 thell .,ll11- pIe house'- \1 uch ot the household furl11ture that \\ as bloufiht 0\ er wa~ of goo,l qUdhty, although, under the eXlst1l1g COll- ,1ltl0n". thel e could be hut fev, pIece" for each settler Vel} earl, 111 the hlstCllY of no~ton, the bU"111es'-, at ,1 "llvll'-mlth \\dS ,lccountec1 a prO"I)E'I()t1~ one, and John J1l11t. \\ho lbed llt 17~:;, left a d propelty 1l1\cl1tolled at OVCI $30,- 000 a huge sum fOI the tIme It 1" obvlou~ therefOle, that thc present recrucle~cence at en th uSla~m for colomal rehc" and \mcncdn ",1ntJques' of \ arrou" kInds lead" DO Ii\ ard no bal barous sty les or CIude fumbl1l1.s;s aftel beaut} of ferm and color Perhap~ vve can-not be ~alc1 to have !.;I'lvvn toward Cludlty In our 1Lleals, hut leI ta1l1ly the Amellcan home has lost 111uch of the fine har- 111on, hel()n~1l1g to Its mellow youth, and thc dc~lte to re"tOl e to It ,1 htUe of the at llCJsphel e of culture and mtllTlacy be- 1111gl11~to a tl111e \\ hen the home "a~ the centle of ~OCl,tl e'(,~tence de~en e~ to be furthered ~n e'Ccellent httle book on "The Lille of the A.ntlque," Ii\ ntten bv II alter A Dyel and pubbhed by the CentUly Company \\111 go far towal c1 ~ttmulat111~ the mtere~t of the 1110derately 1111tJated lovcr of old thmgs, and at tile "al11e tl11e ,,111 pro\ Ide hIm WIth many an Item of 111formatlOn as safe-gUdrds agamst error and fJ aud The authol Writes 111an admirable ~Plllt WIth m()d~ratlOn, knovvledge and, what I" mo~t e"sentlal of all good taste "\lake } OU! antIque furnIture a means, not an end," he sav~ "Thele IS charm and beauty 111 1t, when It 1" chosen WIth gO'ld taste and gooel Judgment, which the de\ otee call ne\ el adequately expres" nor the Phl11 ~tJne ever under~ tand J t I:" ,leslrable only when It I~ real, when It 1" beautIful, when It IS good for somethlllg, when lt means somethmg In ~hort, \"hen It i~ good. It is very, very good, and when It I~ bad, 1~ 1~ hordd" The old nur"ery rhyme has seldom been mal e truthfully apphed, and the fact that the quest for antIque" IS bec0111111g1110le and more a quest for examples characterizec\ by beauty of des1gn and material is one of the 1110"t favorable augt111eS for permanence of popular interest 111 thIs field The furl11ture used by our forefathers, chairs, tables, beds. chcsts, etc naturally c1allJJs first attention by it~ 1mpol tance 111the general eqUIpment of the household IVe have learned from our Hudson-Fulton exh1bitlOn how "lmple wa" thc furlllture bl0ught to thIS country In the seventeenth centt11y Thel e were fir~t the che~ts of the "Connecticut type." some-tIme., can eel and paneled Later came a che~t WIth a drawel under 1t as the householl] belongings multiplted and mOl (' ~torafie ~pace wa~ needed. thcn tv.'1 c1Ja\\el~, and three until l?,1adually the 11lghboy appeal e(l \\ lth It~ accompany 1l1~ 10\\ hay, WIth elabOldtely turned and cal ved leg~ the \\ hole a"pect of the pIece 111lhcatmg the progl e"s made In the art of 11\ mg '-,mce the humble oak box sel ved the needs of the famlly \11 Dyel de\ otes only a paragl aph to the~e useful pIece,; of furnIture under pressure of the multltudlllOUS material offel ed by his general subject but he wisely dl~c1alm~ any lntentlOn of behtthng their importance Had he not gIven some ~uch aSSt11ance, the shade" of our gl anelmother., would hay e haunted hIm in protest agaInst hl~ neglect of their mo~t LOmfOltable and clear possession Chalr~ pUI sued 111uch the same lSenelal 11lJe of develop-ment as the che"ts, 1110V1l1g from the 111aS~lve toward the hght and elaborate ~tyles. but \\Ith many mOle vallatlOns and detour~ A.mong the chalts c1escl1bed are the old French, '-,pal11sh, FlemIsh, and Hallan types, but the Enghsh chalts, 1110"t of which emboched foreIgn elements of style were the prototypes of those used in America The \\! mclsor chalr fr0111 the fil st wa~ popular WIth oUr cabmet makers for Its qua1l1t grace and ctrength but it was a peasant style and not to be compareJ fOI beauty of proportion to the best of the Chlppendale and Hepplewhite It vva~ about 1750 that the famous Thomas Chippendale came up to London, there to conncct his name permanently Rockford Chair llnd Furniture Co. 4 WEEKLY ARTISAN t..- -~- w1th mahogany, the fa"hlUnahk Dt-\\ \\00(\ ±Jom \\hICl1 \\,tl pole was shortl) to re1110\e the duty Ch1ppe11lLde L,] e1c d to every class and made It hI" anll not to ueatL hu' to 1111 prove and refine the present ta::,te 1h1::, he Lhd no L a1\\ av ~ succeed m d0111g He desIgned, aecOl chng to 'Ih D\ e1 a few 10w-broVved, broad-seated, heavy-footed dftdlb that take the palm for ugl1l1ess and discomfort but \\ l11ch tod,]\ com-mand fabulous pnces" But IIr Haldane IIac raIl \\ 110 h'l" written authontatn el) concern1l1e, Cll1ppencLde, ha, ,1 1athll more lenient feel111g to\\ ard the"e hea\) p1eCL' pllhlueell 11\ a des1gner who ord1l1anl) excelled 111 grace ot tOlm dnd beauty of proporilons, The later cha1r~, Hepplev\ h1te, \dam a 1d Sheraton, hi 111£2. the reader dmvn to the c!oe,e of the penoel \\ hleh c mtamecl the styles most deslreel by the colle,JOl and 1111bll,H1lIh 11L glven Vv1th approXImate pnce" at \\ h1ch sn111lar pIece" m1g1] t be bought at the present ume, 1angmg flOm a S30 1\ mc1~1I1 to a $200 Ch1ppendale "Any general statement regarellllg p11ce" and \ aIue::, \\ c ulcl be hke1) to be m1slead1l1g," the author sa) -, The GeOl glan chairs command the hIghest pnces \\ hIle some ot the be'l ul the cottage cha1r::, may be pIcked up tor a song- -\ thou"anrl dollars would be a reasonable pnce for a "et of "lA genul11e Ch1ppendales, whIle you may he able to get a goud slat bdck of much earher date for 75 cents at a countrY aULt10n ' In th1S country, probably 1t \\ould be \ erY ClJit1luIt to get SIX genume Ch1ppendale cha1r" 1c.r a" htUe il~ a thou~and dollars, but at the sale of the content:, of Cambllelge ROthe Regents' Pa1k, last "pnng, such a gTOUp \\a" qtLJte 1 :l~ hnng 111g a hundred pounds L1ttle, ho\\ ever Cdn )Je ill g-ued 111111 the mere statl"tlcs of the sale"room, the L01](huc n awl jJc110cl of the pIeces sold, as well as theIr genumenes" 11a\ 1ng ,I prom1nent part In then auctlOn-r00111 suce~~ The pnces for old mahogany 1nrl11tUl e of all kmd" run h1gh---from the standpoInt of the collee tor of ml,c1erate mean" The handsome and cO'11nDd10ch ule! c1e"k" dnd \H1t1l1e, tablc" Vvhlch had become an 1mpOl tant part of the hunhh]ng- oj Amencan houses by the lattel halt d the eIghteenth centu1 \ are quoted dS bnngmg, 1Tl the ea"e ut the TIner jJ1CCC"of the claSSIC GeorgIan penod an) \\ here tJ om $500 to $2. 'iOO, II Il1le even the more common 10rms of the late \me1lcan "ecleta1, of mahogany veneer are worth from $100 to $200 Tables, wh1ch \ aned 111style as much as the chaus, almO'lt every form of old chair havmg ItS correspondIng tal)le, a1 e ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS Dining Room Furniture BUFFETS, CHINA CLOSETS and TABLES Library Furniture-LIbrary Desks, L1brary T ables, LIbrary Bookcases, Combination Book-cases, Etc. Our entire Ime WIll be on exhIbItion in January on the thIrd floor of the Blodgett Building, Grand Rapids, Mich. e"ceechngh populal \\ Ith ccJlectlJ1s, dnc1 certdll1 forms, when pl11C 111"t\ le dwl 111g )od condItlOn, bnng extravagant pnce, \1 r D, cr I1]en l( 11'- a e,enu1l1e "ple-LrU"t' table that brought '-:; 000 11')1ICI11g- ill!,Cl,and add" that $1,000 IS not a11 uncommon jJ11ce t d glJO 1 e"ample The latter sum 1'3 also not mfre- Cjuenth paId 101 a SIdeboard of unusually fine quahty [he ehdpLe1 on becJ...,teads opens up a field 111 whIch the )](l1na1\ Cullectc 1 1\111 \\ I::,h to tread \\ anly, the eumbersor1_ 1 ur jJu-,tL1 01 thc ughteel1th century hav1I1g no place 1r 1110;; -mall 1(0'11-' ot the '110dern hou:oe, and the coIleeto1 who IS 1111hng to turn hh houe,e mto a museum of useles" articles hay me, no place 111 IIr D\ er\ aucllence lh 17:;0 fou1-jJu"tU'l of an early Georg1an type \'vC1Q L )11111111 In thh ClJuntl\, and those that were made hele ,\ e' ' pla111, depcnc!J1H; t r elJ\ enng upon the ample drape11es, d1S-l111': l~ed1101111110lem homes on the ground of hygIene 11 e gl eat cajJmet makers no doubt produced a suff1Clent 111] 1]1)el ot 1Jed~tcad'o but authentlc examples are rare dnd \ CI \ cO'oth rOU1 po"te1s that are sIxty or seventy , ca1 ~ old ,ll e ab eadv \ al uable, and a stnkll1g bed, cumbll11ng the ,,1\ Ie 'Jf the \dam brothel ~ w1th that of 11cl'l'lc- \\ hlte ot elate 177~, IS c"tllTIated to be worth about $700 Ha\ 111g 1110culateG t'1C 1l1eApenenced readel~ vvltll jle -ubtle pOl"on of the collector's pas"lOl1, the author 1" OCf'C0'o t" the antJclote ] lenone kno\\s at the present day of cele-h1atec1 "fake..," thdt \\ ere palmed off as anLqaes, and of lellbtatec\111Lthod" of 11111tatmg certa1l1 marks of age, b11' ~he cClol rehearsal 111 connectIOn w1th one's fay ante hobb\, of l'1 e lngenlOu~ de\ lce~ b\ \\ h1ch the c')lIectOl ma) he an 1 ile- <juenth 1~ decen ed 1" a hlo'Jd-curdlmg affan J l1rllltllle espeualh lends Itselt to the vvIle" of the faker \[r D\e1 d~~Ule~ u" that at least t\\) n1Pn, \\lth1l1 the last generat10n, haye made fortunes b) manl1tacLun1H; fraudulent "pecnnen" and that man) others haye made a 11\ ehhood p1ec- 1112, tog-ethel ddre1ent parts, tleat111g the wood vvltb "tams and lId" -.;ll1lng so apmg c1ent1l1g, and othel W1"e slmulat111g ]e \\ ea1 dnd tCdl dnd tIme He d1\ Ide" fake antIques mto 1111 ec \ ,t! Jetlc~ I The piece made up of bIte, of old antique l II\ 111gand j),tnel". the pla111 genl11ne antIque v,h1ch has been Jade to conJl11c1nc1a lllghel p11ce by means of added carvmgs, 111la, etc the pIece that h faked throughout---u'3ually a CllP) , The first sort 1" mo"t "ucce""ful 111 Europe, where old church pews ancl vv111dm111beams are converted mto hand- WEEKLY ARTISAN TRUCKTALKS Might not convince you wit~out evidence. But compare a wagon to our truck, note the similarity of construction fea-tures- No box bearings; nothing to easily break or get out of order; extra large center wheels, revolving on taper turned axles; wide treads; special first-class cast-ings. Grand Rapids Trucks are first, last and all the time the safest in construction, and positively the best. No. 15 Catalog Shows Them. Grand Rapids Hand 61B North Front St. Screw Co., Grand Rapids, Mich. '-,ome furmture \v lth deceptl\ e perfcctlc n of \\ orkman",lllp The second clas" lS sometllnes 'oj)nken of a" "ghnfied' ftlll1lture, and the author advlses a do"e e"al11111atlOnto detee t cllfterence'o 111 the old and new \AGCel, the presence of modern "cre\\I", natl", ctc, and, 111 the caSe at the plecru"t tahle, 1n- \ e"bgatlOn of the thlekne"" of the celltre, 'gl"nfied" tables hayll1g heen de\ eloped from table" \\ lth plal11 rll11S "haved elm\ n Il1 the centre 1n OJ del to gl\ e the 1 ::l1"e1 g-al1el'> at the edge, \\ hlch 1" then cal \ eel 111 the ple-crn -,t pattel n II hen the coHee-tor buy'o of d dealer and IIr Dyer 1'> rea"onablv optlml,>tlc a,; to the chance of faIr treatment at the hand'> of the a\ erage dealel, the demand for a wntten ~ualan-tel 1" acll 1"ed, a,;, a"lde from cnmmon lwnesty bn"me"" prn-dencc and the la\'1 d1"coura~e slgnmg one" name to a \\ nttcn fahehood De} and defi11ltc rule" for gellda11Lc In hen ll1g old fl11m tUle, "hleh nece",;allly ale c10seL rl"tllded tn qUIte Ob\IOU" precautlons the f )llC)\vl11g propn';ltlOne; arl acll anced for the benefit of the pro"pectlVc collectors of hUl11tnrc "fue;t "me-tenths of the ant1'luee; offel ed for sale 111 the open mal ket are f}ue-,tlOnable and man} 1'lece" al e cer-tamh fake" "Second E\ en though a ]Jlece 1" a gcnuJ11e antlqve lf lt lS decrepIt and c1Jlapldated, T "oLd,! ha\ e none of 1t It may be all nght fOJ a l11USeWll but not fO! a home, \\ here there should he no room for \\ hat 1'; useless "ThIrd A.ntlque,; "hould ne\ el be boug-ht ,;imply be-cau,; e the) al e antiques, v\lthout regal c1 to ll1t!ln';IC beauh If yOU look long enough and pay enong-h, }OU can seCUle beautiful thl11g" ['elmlt 1l0th1l1g ugh ln VOUI !lome, no mat-tel how old It h . F ow th l T se al '>UetlOn 111 the e;elcellon of "ty les I et the pleces harmomze wlth each other, wlth the decoratlOns of the rooms, wlth the whole house Don't crowd m together a lot of Itahan and Spamsh and Chmese and Dutch and Turk- 1,;h antlques Don't make an olJ cunoslty shop out of your home" It lS ll1exphcable that a collector wlth a zest for the beautl-tul old" ood,; and tefined shapes of the best furmture famlhar to our forefather" "hould need such ll1stI uctlOn, but a brief 1e\ Ie\\! of the colle ctlOns known to us, and knowledge of the ehscurslve tendency of the amateur l11111d,prove it to be by no mean" superfluous in a book addressed to the beginner and mexpert buyer Funeral Services for "Bert" Quigley'" Set \ lce,; for the late "Bel t" QUlgley were held ln the Park C'mgregatlcnal church, Grand Raplds, on October 3d. nnder the auspices of the Kmghts Templar A large number of fnend", ll1cludUlg representatlves of the furmture trade, and members of the J\Iasomc fratermty, were present The "en lce~, conducted by Rev E VV B1Shop were 1mpressive and the Kmghts Templar reclted the burial ritual at the grave 1\0 man ever struggleJ harder for hlS llfe than dld yIr QUlgley Beanng heav} responslbllltIes and purposes in bUS1- ness unfiulfilled, he struggled along his hard path\'Vay of the \\ orld'e; actl\ ltle" meetll1g and overcoming obstacles that onl} the lIOn-hearted \\ould attempt to overcome H1S cour-age, hls confidence and unbendIng WIll excltee! the sympathy am! ad1111ratlon of all I'ho met him For hlS devotion to his fannl}, loyalty tn fnend" and brayery under the most ad\ erse Cll cUllhtances 'Bert' Quigley vdll long be remembered 5 6 ~--~--------~--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------~ WEEKLY ARTISAN III IIIIIII It I,IIII III II IIIt IIII i I IIIII II•• I• I It• III •I I IIIII III II• II I• III t I•III II• III •I II I II I II IIIIt I II II •III It I •,I I I, ___________ ~ ~ .~ __.~ ___1 A Page of Illustrations from the Fall Catalo2ue of the I>osseliu8 Bros. Furniture ~lanufaeturill2 Co., Detroit, Mich. Dining Chair No.5 ~----------....-. ---- Buffet No. :; China Closet No. :; Diniu2 Table No .. bO,...? A.m Chair No. 5~ WEEKLY ARTISAN Extended the Trade of His Employer. A sa!e:-,l11an formerly emplo} eJ 111 one of the great de-partment StOIes of ChIcago" hel e busines'i is carried on mOl e ,IgOloU"I} and hUllle(Hy than many othel Clt} of thc ''>01ld, tor fanl1ly Ieason" fLIt compelled to Ieille {rom the "erVlce nf the gI cat lllcrchant and 1 etUlll to the !tttle 111iellOr l1iy \\huc he hdcI "1)(nt hI" ho}hood He cIH;agccI to "el\e a lucdl dealer In fll1 n1Lure, hllt the "Lock wa" small and com-j) o"ecl '1{ cheap "tuff the "tOle cOlltamed hut a vel} model ate d1ea of £lOOI "pace and no convenIences WOlth lllentlon111l2, I he well-to-do people of the commul11tj pUlchased 1110'it of the tIllng'3 neede I 111fur11lsh111g then home'i In ChIcago on dCCOlwt of the lack of qualIty m the stocks of the local mer-chants, and dunng much of the tIme of the home comer there was nothing to be done by 111111 at the store To a man who had acquIred the ChIcago habIt of work1l1g "lIke the cllckens," all the tI111ethIS conc!ttlOn was unbeatahle, and he '30 informed I11S cmplo) er He could not In e wtthout actlOn, and 'iug-t; e"teJ that the merchant provIde a lot of "photos," a few catdlogues, a hunch of passage tlckeb on the 1I1tetUIban hne'i or an automobtle and permtt hIm to "ark up a tl ade The merchant wlsel} Jeter111ll1ed that the plan was worth a tnal, and ploceeded at once to ploeure the pIctures needed by the salesman An automobile was also engaged and the man stal ted in at once on a tour of the small towns of hIS sect JOn and the farmers In 111g in the tel ntory mten ening On the thu d day he sold a Berkey & Gay dll1Ing SUIte for $1,200 011 the fifth day he sold a S!tgh chamber sUIte for $500 and a lot of fancy upholstereu chaIrs from the !tne of the Centun Furniture company Sevel al smaller sales were made the la'it day of the week, and the total footed up over $2,000 The ,-ucce,,:-, gaIned by the young former ChIcagoan was so satI'i-factory that he was al10vved to contmue hIS work outSIde and ,1 month later he landed an ordel for completely fUrlll'3111n!.; "e, entY--'five bedrooms of a new hotel The dressers selecteel ,-old for $1800 each The man p10ved his claIm that the he"t \\ a, to gaIn trade IS to aVOId waIting for it to t trn t'p, but go out and turn trade up. A large budding for the use of the general gm ernment was 111course of erection In one of the prosperous anJ grow-mg CIties of the mIddle west. One day when the weather" as cold and wet two men, beanng great stacks of over-coab on their shoulders, stopped at the offlce of the const1 uctlOn company and rested Shortly afterward the men e111played on the structm cleft thcir work dml II e11t to the office IIhel e the} rere1ved thell wagcs The ~----------------------------------------------~ I,IIIII III I• II ,II Grand Rapids Caster Cup Co. 2 Parkwood Ave., Grand Rapids, Mich. We are now puttIng out the hest Caster Cups With cork bases ever oflerea to the trade. These are timshed In Golden Oak and White Maple In a light timsh These goods are admirable lor polished floors and lurn Ilure rests Theywill not sweat or mar. PRICES' $4 00 per hundrlld 5 00 per hundred FOB Grand llaptd, Size 2Ji Inches Size 2X Inches Try a Sample Order ._--_._-------------------- ---_ .. 7 "BEAVER," "GINDERELLA," "DOCKASH" STOVE HEADQUARTERS "THE LINES THAT SELL" NoteIMPERIAL BEAVER-one of many. 13est, They Stdnd the 'lest:' THIS IS the IMPERIAL BEAVER. It is the finest cookmg range made anywhere m the world. We think so, and so WIllyou when you see its advantages: Study the above picture. The glass oven door is guarantted not to break, No heat lost when you look at your baking. This range holds ltS heat longest, saves 25% in fuel, and has unusual hot water capaClty. It is the b~t looking range built-and wears as well as it looks. Send for samples and see it-but we warn you that no other kind wi). ever satisty you again, if you do' W. D. SAGER, 330-342 No.WaterSt.,CHICAGO men bearing the OH'lcoats soltClted the artentlOn of the workel s and in the course of fifteen or t" enty m111utes dls· posed of the stock of coats The salesmen know what the men would need and when theII needs mu"t be met The monev palu for the coats was theIr re,v al d fO! clever sales-manshIp }>r('ferred by Salesmen. \\ hell questtoned In regard to the Illle of goods he pre- [eI" to 'iell, the old tIme salesman replIes, 111most instance:-" , chaIrs" Asked to name hIS second chOIce he 1'i apt to reply "chamber sUItes" More chaIrs are used than other artIclc'3 of furnitUIe A house occupIed by five pelsom WIll contain ono dining room table, one SIdeboard, one mUSIC cdb1l1et, fi\ e chamber SUltes and eighteen or twenty chaIrs No proof 1" needed, not supplied by the OIgans of SIght, that the chall IS not the most generally used of all the fur11lture contained 11l the average home, hence the 1epre'ientatives of a good makel of chaIrs has a vvide mal ket for the goods he handles \n a, erage of five SUItes IS not a Im;h estimate for the cham-hel fur11lture of the average home There is, therefore, 111 the trade a chance to sell five chamber stutes for an outfit that conta111s but one dining table, one SIdeboard or huffet. one china closet, one bookcase and one music cabinet The reason why the old salesmen prefers to sell chamber furniture to case work for the dining room or the library is evidenced when the facts stated above are considered. Rockers and many kInds of upholstered furniture are designated as "chairs" in the trade 8 (1 I\elle' Jlle 111 and ~ D hJ1I1gel of Vlnta, Kan hay e 1n- ,( rp Jlatecl tbe K1111gel lUlnlturc company, eap1taltzed at $2,- U)O to engage m the retaIl hllnltu1e bU~11less at VI111ta (,eo1[!:e L lberle. "ho reeentl) ~(Jlc! hIs 1etall fUll11tm e 11tl., l~h at \\ atetIoo Iowa has purcha"eJ an mtrest 111 the III \ ,t( Ie lu~t (lJ)Cned b, Tohn I-JI1l111Rock Island, Ill, ,,,hleh \1 11 be concludec! uncle! the name of the HIll-Eberle Furn1- WEEKLY ARTISAN IDEAL STAMPING AND TOOL CO. SOCKETS, DOWELS, TOP fASTENERS and GUIDES for Extension 1abies. Also special stampmgs In steel and brass Write for NO·KUM.OUT TABLE SOCKET. Patent applied for samples and prices 465 N. Ottawa St" Grand Rapids, Mich. New Furniture Dealers. II H Boatner ba~ openecl a ne\\ !UIll1t111e -tole at \uI01a, j,Io The Rome) 1\ llt/ 1111111t111ec lmp,lln ale l1e\\ (!ealu- 111 Cedar RapIds, Io,,,a The :\Ianufactul el < lUI1l1tuI e compam ha' e opened a new wholesale hou"e 111\1emphh ren n Cnder the name of the People, lulnllule Lompam C r Dobbs has opened a ne\\ ,tore 111 l'ale,t111e 1e, C 1'\ Sch1effle1 ha~ opened an 111,tallment housc a, She boygan, ,VIS 111 \\ hlCh he callIes a c ,mp1ctc lme 01 hl1111t111e and house fUI111Sh111ggoods J J and J L Tone~ bale 11l(Olpoldted the Ilt,ll11\J11 Fur111ture compan, to e'H;a~e 111the I etal! tUl1l1tUI c uadl 11 Bra11clnJllc S C \11l1l111UmcapItal ,lolk q,OJO '\braham '\c1lel, '\bl,1ham 13an()\\ 1Llh dllCl \])I,lhd 11 "hIli ha' e 111C01poratccl the \ lJl th \I al d 1 UInltlll C lompdm. e IJlI-tahLed dt $100,ooJ to engage In thl Ictal! tllllllt111l ])11-1'1l-- III ), cwark. ?\ J Le\\ I~ T,,"1111gel~J l t \]a'loul,tll 111. r L\\ I- T"hn~cl 11 ..- -- - - - - - - - - - - - -------- '--4 , Ull l(impan, Furniture Fires. L I 1',)1\t tlllllltl11C de,tlel of Shelb, 10\\,1, \\cl~ b IrJlcd '1\t n '-,eptl1l1bcl 2<) 10"" S'l,OO\) [he II11111lb,lgO] \l1l1lture lompan, ot [( nl! d1\ LaG \11" uft ered cl s111,dl10"" tram hre on 'Jeptembcr 30 lull) 1I1,L11 ed 1he leleH hie III the plallt at the 111lna" Office alld B:mk 111111ltllle lompam at Incl1anapohs dest1o,ed about $() 000 \\ U1 tll ot tlllllltUl e that had been made fOJ the n~" g lvel n l1ent hllllCllIl;:; 111 -\tLl11t, Ga II r T 'l111b- lUll1ltl1le ,tOlC II loledo OhIO \\a" !mlncd ! \-t '-)ullCL\\ 1110011lm., "lth a lo,~ of $ ~COO or $i,()('0 aLo 1t I1dJf 1l1-11Ierl \[1 T 1111band famlh lneel abo\e the store and lo~t ncal h all ot thl hou~eho!d goods anc! c1oth111£;" See Walter Clark's ""Ad:' It \\111 pal l \ Cl' manufactlll CI of fUrl11tul e to turn to the \\ dlel Llcllk \ C]leu COlllp,l1l\ 0; 'aJ 111 thlo; ISSUe of the II uk', \Itt-all ,1lld ,ec "hat a \al1et) OJ gooch ihe, hale III -tolk l'10habh thh company keep" 111o;tock as large all \--\ 1 tl1 l nt lit \ I neu ". (lrclWer hottom". hack1l1g eic, ao; any l 11 Jd] \ III thl \\ l- dill thc go l(]-, ale ,11l\a) " the he"t, and l' +he 'Igln pIlle, FOUR NEW in acid and oil. in acid and oiL in acid and oil. TRADE MARK REGISTERED PRODUCTIONS BARONIAL OAK STAIN FLANDERS OAK STAIN S M 0 K ED 0 A K S T A I N EARLY ENGLISH OAK STAIN Send for finished samples, free. Ad-el-ite Fillers and Stams have long held fIrst place m the estImation of Furniture Manufacturers and Master Painters. In additIon to the reg-ular colors the above shades offer unusually beautiful and novel effects. in acid and oil. The Ad-el-ite People CHICAGO-NEW YORK .. --_ ... ----- .. EverythIng In PaInt SpeCIaltIes and Wood F,n,sh,ng matenals Flllers that hll Stalus that satIsfy _______ -01 I-.----_._------~_._--------_._.~..~_.. ..~ ~ . ,.-------------------- - - WEEKLY ARTISAN • ~I ------------------------------ ... ..-------------.----- .. - . --------'" I ~ PLY BACKS IIII II III II IIII•II f •• IIII!•I ,II : Maple, unsanded and not cut to size and left thick II enough to dress smooth to three-sixteenths of an inch. . The following sizes now in stock ready to ship: 33+ X 43~ 31-~-X 37 ~ 29~ X 39; 29~ X 351- 27~ X 37~ 25 ~ X 31~- 23 X 40 20 X 42 19~ X 371- for BACKS and BOTTOMS, ready to ship. 23i- X 29~ 18 X 41~ 12 X 29~ 16 X 41 ~ 25~ X 31+ 331- X 43~ 29-i- X 33~ 20 X 431 21+ X 33~ 18 X 43+ 16; X 33~ 16 X 431 31~ X 37~ 24 X 56 21-~X37~ 20 X56 19~ X 371 18 X56 16 X 56 1-4" Rotary Cut Yello~ Poplar IIII Iff I f •II,IffI I WALTER CLARK VENEER COMPANY I,I.. ------ No better stock can be made. We make immediate shipment and at attractive prices. Please note our new address SOUTH IONIA AND PRESCOTT STREETS. GRAND RAPIDS. MICH. .- _._------ --------- -------------------~ 9 10 WEEKLY ARTISAN Automobile Hearses. The automobIle hearse has not yet come mto general use, but at lea::,t one such hearse has actually been bmlt and It has been used on two occ~slOns, say s the '\ ew York Sun Th1~ hearse m Its general outhnes and appearance IS of the Lon-ventlOnal type It IS a hearse body mounteJ on an automo-bIle chaSSIS From the front edge of the body \ ro l1 there h carned forward over the driver's seat a sheltenng root a., with a hmousine On one of the footboard~ IS carned a tool chest and at the rear the usual automobtle lamp, an,l the vehicle carries an automobIle horn The onh lamp., Larned forward are two conventlOnal coach lamp~ by the drl\ er - seat. In the detaIls of ItS constructlOn and finish thIS automo-bile hearse is elaborate Its sides are each dn 1ded mto three panels, the central panel of glass and the h\o end panel- on either side of carved wood The lamps and all the metallIC trimmings and ornaments of the hearse are sIlver plated So this is a costly hearse made to sell at about $5,000 ~uto-mobile hearses of simple deSIgn could of course be made at lower cost. perhaps for $3,000 or less The pre-ent co~t of the automobIle hearse is given as one reason II hI' It ha~ not sooner come into general use Undertakers are among the most consen atl\ e at men, they are slow to make changes They hay e hItherto clung to the old horse drawn hearse, but there al e undertake 1:0 II ho think the automobtle hearse IS commg An undertaker of extended expenence ha- expre~",eJ the opinion that automobIle hearses 1'1111finally be brought mto use without exciting comment by the mcreasmg U~e of auto-mobile carriages in the funeral procession. people ,,111 become so accustomed to see automobIles at funerab that the autu mobile hearse will seem nowIse out of place Another undertaker of long expellence looks to -ee the automobile hearse first brought mto Use by consen atl\ e peo-ple of ample means who. in some CIrcumstances, may find It", use advantageou<; and deSIrable At some funeral- nUll the casket is moved four times between the hou ",e and th e g 1a, e once when ongmally placed In the hearse at the hou-e. agalll in transshlppmg it to a funeral cal m a cIty ral1road :otat10n, again in removmg from thIS car at the cemetery statlOn and again m removmg it from the hearse in the cemetery at the grave. With an automobIle heal se the casket could he car-ried from the house direct to the cemete1 y, j 0110\, ed h\ the limited number of closed automobIles that II ould be reqmred to convey those attendmg the mterment cerem011les \\'lth the automobile hearse thus introduced mto use he look.., to see its use extended. An automobile man says that whIle the autCJmobtle heat:oc now costs more and so undertakers may no,\ on that account hesitate about buying It, yet it costs nothmg, as horses do, when idle, and it always IS ready and. unhke horses tt can go any distance, the danger of breakdown bemg practtcalh eh-minated. and it can move quicker. WIth these advantages for It and WIth automobIle (a1- riages and vehicles generally constantly mC1easmg III num-ber he looks to see in the not distant future the automobIle hearse commg mto extended use -"'--~-----~------~._---~._----~ WABASH B. WALTER & CO. INDIANA Manufacturer.ot T ABLE SLIDES Exclusively WRITE FOR PRICES AND DISCOUNT .. .. New Haven, Conn., June 2, 1910. Messrs. Haley & Son, St. Joseph, N. B. Gentlemen :-We have yours of May 30th in reference to the Grand RapIds Veneer Works kIln. All we have to say that is that our expenence WIth thIS kIln has been eminently satIsfac-tory, growingly so, sInce we wrote the letter to the Grand RapIds people some tIme ago. We examIned several kIlns before putting tills one in, and whLle they all have good pOInts, thIS is the best one by all odds. uur supenntendE>nt wntes me as follows: "Another big ad-vantage in thIS kiln IS that we have never had a piece of checked lumber Slllce the kLln has been III operation. We have no trouble III dryIllg 4Y4 oak in seven to eIght days, and 4x4 whitewood in five to SIXdays. As to your questIOn about the bmlding. Our kIln IS bmlt with bnck SIde and center walls, WIth wood cellmg covered with spe- CIal paper and waterproof paint furnished by the Grand RapIds Veneer Works. If the kIln IS prollerly put up, and nalnted prop-erly. we do not thmk there would be any trouble with mOIsture rottmg out ~Jle wood, espeClan..,.If the kIln IS kept going all the whLle. The great trouble caused by mOIsture In wood is stopping the kIlns, and lettmll' It dry out, thus causmg a rot, while if the kLln IS kept going all the whIle the lumber WIll stand up fa.irly well. Very truly yours, THE NEW HAVEN CLOCK COMPANY. •0 C). :c (,) '01)'" c:: ~ .... !- ~ ... (5 ~::!s- " (J ~ • to! ai tLJ po ::s ~ 0 ~ s:: 10 l() 41 e l() CO 0 ~ Q.) ~ CO) Z ~ 0 ... 0 .,.. ~ -0 $.t e I.I.). ~ ..... 0... CO ~ I,,I .. WEEKLY ARTISAN Slick Swindler Works Mourners. A well-dressed young man with downcast eyes has I e-centlly been ")Sltlllg home" on the east side that have been vIsited by death, exchanging sympathy for a square meal In most cases he left the houses ncher, not alone by food, but by substantldl gifts of money and c10thlllg HIs last expel 1- euce, though, sent him away somewhat les" sympathetic than v\ hen he approached the mourners It IS customary III J e" Ish home~ for the husband or \"Ife and the children of a dead person to ob"erv e a penod of seven days' mourlllng, III which they Sit constantly together 111 one room, ne\ er lea\ mg the house, and vIsited by then fnends V\ho come to con"olle them 01 take part 111 the mem-onal services each mornl11g and evenlllg In the"e se\ en da) s called the "Shlva," the mOl11nel s' ~nef I" unresitcllned say e for such comfort as they can draw from their rehgion It IS onlv after this penocl that they al e directed to turn theil tho~lghts flam the dead back to the dutle" of hfe In the ITI1dst of t1llS pellod of mournlllg there recently appeared at one house a rather good-looklllg young mdn With mfilllte Pity 111 hiS "ad broV\ n eyes. Like all other comers at ~uch a time, he ""as ushered directly into the loom of mourn-mg, '" here the Widow dud 01phans sat, surroundeJ by many of their friends. "I am so sorry. dear madam," he said, With a shght Ger-man accent, to the Widow "I read about your deM husband's death in the newspapers It may seem strange to you that I have come here, fm you probably do not know me As a matter of fa clt, though, I feel almost as If I had a personal interest in your dear husband's death As a matter of fact, I bear hiS \ ery name He '" as my namesa ke." There was a general chorus of "111 pnsed exclamatIOn') from the assembled fnends at the "trange c0111cidence. One of the woman thought, somehow, that she had seen the young man before She wa" sure of It when she saw him furtively wipe away a tear V\Ith the cuff of hiS coat sleeve "Of course," cont111ued the young man, "we may not have been related at all But nevertheless in sorrow at least we are certamly related I, too, beheve me, my dear Madam, have been viSited by gnef But, as the Talmud says, when God sends us grief He loves us" And he pres')ed the weeping Widow's hand, sweeplllg her 01phaned children With a look of melting pity. In the course of the next half hour he managed, in an-swenng the kmd questIOns that ",ere put to him, to disclose the fact that he had only recently come from Germany, bling-mg hi" Wife and several chtldren With him, and that both he and they wel e at present sadly stranded and without more than a fe'" cent" for the next meal. He hoped, howey el, to be able to scrape together a few dollars With which to 11\ e until he could get work as a book-keeper, a olerk, a street cleanel, an) thmg, III short He was not afraid of \'\;ark ... ., -_._._.- 11 ,..---_._----_._._._._---- I REVERSIBLE AND ONE-WAY CUTHRS The ShImer ReverSIble Cutters .... -_ ., for Single Spindle Shapers, Variety Moulders or Friezers, are carefully moulded opposite to the shape of the mould to be produced, in such a way as to have only the cutting edge touch the lumber. They are complete-inexpensive-time saving. We also manufacture One-Way Cutters for Double Spindle Shapers They are used in pairs, right and left, one Cutter of each shape for each spindle. In ordering special shapes not listed In our catalogue, send a wood sample or an accurately made drawmg Address SAMUEL J. SHIMER &. SONS, MILTON, PENNSYLVANIA A.. _ •••• ••••••• -..4 One of the sons of the dead man presently took him aside and began gently to broach the gift of a few dollars It IS customarv III houses of mourlllng on the Ea"t Side to devote a certalll'sum to chanty, in honor of the dead. The son, 111 the present case, began hiS proffered chanty by insisting that the young namesake of his father should take a hearty meal downstairs Sadly consent111g, the young man stepped up to the widow to bid her a temporary adieu. "Surely," he began gently, "if my honored namesake was as kllld and generous as his widow and children, as I am sure he must have been, he is no\,\; with the pIOUS in Paradise." Just then the woman among the assembled friends wh9 had been trying to place him looked up With a glance of sudden recognition. "Excuse me, my dear sir," she said, tapping the sympathetic young man on the shoulder "I am a little hard of hearing. What did you say your name was?" The man of infinite pity gently repeated the name of the dead man. "So?" exclaimed the woman in a voice of higher pitch: foreboding a hystencal scream. "And you are the namesake of my dear salllted husband, too, who died last year. Yes?" "I don't understand you, my good fnend," protested the watery-eyed YlOung man, edging toward the door. "No, but you understood well enough how to eat your fill at my house when we were sitting 'Shiva' for my poor husband I" cned the woman. "And you knew how to be his namesake and swindle us out of a memonal gift at that time, chdn't ylou? And now you come to be somebody else's name-sake, with your Wife and seven children, and to try to dupe them, too!" The fnghtened widow and several of the visitors inter-posed between the now genu1l1ely disturbed young man and the last year's widow For a time they thought she must be mistaken, and that the young stranger was a bona fide name-sake, sympathizer, and 'father of seven children. Unfortunate-ly for him, another visitor who entered at just that moment, upon hearing the cause of the strange disturbance in the house of mourning, Identified the man as one who had figured 111 the same way at mem01 ial services she had attended a few \\ eeks before. The young man, quotmg the TalmUd Ion the wickedness of slander and the sinfulness of lYlllg tongues, hurrIedly left the house ---~ ew York Times II l Jvrany a young salesman fails to accomplish thiS year the thmgs he dreams of accomplishing next year. tur11lng and commg- once more mto then ol'.n Frost and mIlle\\ hay e done thell \vorst condItIOns whIch vvould have Iume,1 fine1 thm£;s hay e hhghted hut not an11lh1lated Unde1- neath the old pdmt the \vood IS well prese1ved PossIbly the 11b11 seaLs a1 e '3illl mtact If so, soap and water and ohve 011 \\111 £;1\e thel11 rene\\ed hfe If too far gone for thIs '31l11ple re-tll1 atlon, l'e\\ seab may be added No matter how cl1lapi-da ted the, are ,vell 'Ivorth rescumg They l11dy be pllzes ,Idtm£; hack t'l the earh eIghteenth century but the chances ,1I e the \\ oodshed pIeces behng to the eanly nmeteenth \\ hen ru~h m thIs cuuntrv and m England had a great vogue 1 hmna" Sheraton m h1S later clays used rush extensnely m one t\ pc 01 1Uln1tltre, nd111ely m 111"cheape1 pamted p1eCe'3 lha1r" and settee" \\lth lush seats and charmmgly deco1ated 1rames helle\ eel to be hIS are found occa"lOnally 111 thIS coun-t , and 1,1nk \\ lth the mo"t mtere"t111g tlnngs 111the pallltecl 1111e \\ hlch the a\ elage c~llcctor runs auo'3" The hIgher ~1,1 Ie ot pamted tU11111tlle, lomb111ecl WIth cane, IS seldom I lun I In thc u"ual d\ enue", of collectmg \1any lollectors \\ n such pIece" but they have heen purchased m the old countn Ul ordered through the expensIve shops there ThIS Ul11que dl](1 beautIful fU1111ture does not seem to have heen 1111- JJOl ted to d11\ e"tent at the tlllle of Its ongm It was a costly lU"U1\ then and ha::, never at any tIme been of moderate pnce L dne 1ur11ltU1e 1~ a sepal ate story tram 1ush, \\ 1th even an olele1 h1ston, though rush seats go back a long, long way Gcca::'l mall) a chall of the early seventeenth century IS seen, hea \ v 01 cles1~nand beanng ev e1y md1ca tlOn that the seat IS as r lei a" the oak tra111e\"ork ThIS type IS found In the museums ot \ e\\ LnglanJ and the South, and now and then 111pnvate l ollectloll s It IS at the earl) turneel vanety I'. h1ch fa 110\"ed clooel) on the all oak 01 ''vvd111SCOtchaIr" In Ptlgnm Hall, Ply-mouth, IS a specImen at thIS class, once the property of rlde1 TI1e\\ stel nm\ roundIng out a thIrd century m company \\ 11h l{ose "tanelhh s sampler, the shIp chest of Ml1es Stand- 1"h dllrl the table 01 Gm e1n01 Carver Such SpeCl111enS,how-c\ e1, CdnnU be taken 111as any \"ay t) p1cal of what a quest for olel 1U"h tur11ltUre would yIeld 1he pamted pIeces men-tIOned and the older hIckory anci bass chaIrs of ladder or hd11l~te1-hack 10rm the larger portlOn of "hat one may expect ti) uuca1 th, together I'.lth here and there a 1eally fine chaIr of mahogany 01 \Vdlnut 111Queen Anne style The latter are the gems of the aIel rtbh pIeces, If of walnut, probably made dunng Anne'" reIgn, 1702-1714, If of mahogany of a httle 12 WEEKLY ARTISAN RUSH FURNITURE-OLD AND ~E'~T Historic Styles and Their Influence on the 'Vork of Modern Desianers. (By Virainia Robie in the HOllfiie Beautiful. 1 The \\heel of fa,hlOn 1ll 1Ulll1t1J1e \Vlnk Il"" 1dplcl l1l lh revolutlOns than the ta"hnn \\ heel 01 clothe" t1J1n" none the less persIstently \ del aele ago old mahoga11\ \\ a" hunted a::, 1£ It we1e someth111g entneh ne\\, ldtel old )ak charmed the collectmg wodd, next Robelt \dam \Va" a';l1n clhcJ\ered, then the \V11ham anel \1a1 v cult hecaml \\ 1elC-PIed,l anel n )1\ old rush furl11tl11e h londh he1 aIded a" qU1LL the late,,! Jarl 111the furl11ture \\ mId If the \ anous fashlUn~ \\ cre confined to collector 11 \\ onld make httle ddlerence \\ hethe1 JLhh l,111l l1lelh(~d111 r r rlelk were 111 the learl, hut 111a"l1lnc11as tht~c mattel ~ ha\ e a \\ ILIl! slgl11ficance and touch 1110 Ie \\ a\ 0 anothc1 ::tL,ual hLu-c fUl111sh1ng, the) claIm the 111te1e~t and attentlUl1 ,t l 11l11111lL1 of people ;"'ot only do fa..,h10lb 111turnlttlle lled'l a lema ld for gel1n111e old pIeces but a much lar~e1 and tal morc 1m portant Olle fc 1 good 1eplodnl1lr1l1" \n,11t I" \\ )111\\ "I 11lte that thIS demand u"nallv COllt111Ul~elHe1 tht lollllt111g L1el/l has ched a\\ a\ Thu'3 It 1" thdt col )l1lal Tarl beall \\ 1111,1111 and \1ary, and \dam 1ep10dnLtlUn~ all' dlmr "t lqu,dh PLjJn lar today, and soon, 01 e\ en no\\ ma) be added 1n"h "q Ie" ThIS rush f11111lture comes to u" 111man\ ~l11"e~ It take" the form of the old hIckory ladder-back" 1\Ith JLhh b lt1 om" found m quantitIes, 111"e\V England, ot thl qna111t pamtecl chaIrs WIth rush seats made 111the ead\ p,llt ot thlll111lLeel1lh century, of the charm111~ hcldle and -pOOll hack ch,w" III mahogany anel \\ alnut at the eall) elgh te en th CUll nl \ ahLJ of more mIxed sty les lasth It C0111e~111 man v e )tt~ae tornh of sll11plest design. There are many old pIece" tu be tunl1 I ,ll I the11 C11dll1l IS undel11able The dust of lountles" att1l" "clm" to Ll111..., to the C01ners, whIle 111\hI ble co Il1\ elh a1 e p 1 d111h "t c 1 1J\ the 1magmatn e In many aIel honses \\ here thL ,ll1uent llhh chaIrs are not actual attic' plOpert1es the\ hay e IJ11~ bct 1 regarded as "kItchen 01 even '\\ ord"hed an 1 11l 1~11(m111\ qUlte equals the latte' "teltus \n at tll ha" Jlll1ltlC "C[ ue It dusty trachtlOns, hnt 110 10mance lln"ter" ahout a "e\\ rl1~ land woodshed The old rush plecc", bd11lshec1 to that bOUlne a1 e no\\ 1e- ..... ~..... ------.... ---- ---------_. ------------------_. Lentz Big Six No. 694, 48 in. top. No. 687. 60 in. top. Others 54 in. top. 8 Foot Duostyles ANY FINISH CHICAGO DELIVERIES Lentz Table Co. NASHVILLE, MICHIGAlv &0. --------~I I II• ,, II• II I ..I WEEKLY ARTISAN 13 --~ 1 I III I I ~-------------_._----- II I,, II I II UNION FURNITURE CO. ROCKFORD, ILL. China Closets Buffets Bookcases , I II If IIII III II , ~-------------------------------- We lead in Style, ConfuudJon and Finish. See our Catalogue. Our lme on permanent exhIbi-tion 3rd Floor, New Manufact-urers' Buildmg, Grand Rapids. III _~~ ...l ldter ddte but qUIte 1ll the Queen :\nne mannel Chan11ln£; 111deed are these old "pecl111ens, \\ lth fiddle hack, Cabll'lle leg and flat-foot. vanouslv knoV\ n as "duck' 'VI, eb' anJ "camel' 1'hls particular furl11tUl e extre1111ty \\ en~ out of fa..,hlOn as the IJall and Llavv glevv 111fa\Ol H~pple\\ll1te tned to reYlye It 111"e\ eral exquislte httle seVVl11gtables, but late eIghteenth centun London V\ould hay e none of It. and h 1edlh dId nIt belon~ to the deslglllng of that day [t chd, hoV\ e\'er, fit It'3 OYV n bnef pellod perfedh so \\ ell; 111 fact that there seem s httle 1ea:oon to graft It on another The rush seats of the Queen \nnc chall s are )f ..,upu lOr \\U1kmanshlp ancl 111 mdny cases are de, \\ell pre~en eel a" the flames \e\\ lush cloes not always have t'11S reshtance to tIme and wedr "\ g-rcat (leal of ..,o-called rush I, composItIon al though entll ely hfehke on the surface Papcl, t\'Vlc,tecl and dyecl and othen\ l"e treated IS the baSIS of many a ne\\! rush "eat There are shops where real' rue,h "eat111g;' IS done, but seems to be a secret brotherhood about the craft chfhcult to penetrate ChaIr frames may be left ln the care of many dealer" and after a vvh1le, a long vvhl1e they come hack hke 'new If one lS vvtll111g to Vva1t and tJ go to the e'(pense "leal rush" IS guaranteed ,Vlth fine chalrs thlS 1..,\vell \\orth whtle "hen the frdme.., are mahogan), \\alnut or che"t11ut, the bce,t h not toe) fine, and vvlth the more lllteree,tlng of thc palnted plee es, the real IS still the Wl..,er chOlce \\ lth the oM ldddelbacb, \\ hlCh 111the11 be"t dav.., were fOJ COmlTI011alJCI hard usag-e, perhaps the papel~but that lTIU"t htt left te the collectmg" conSClence, sometImes eX'treme1y sen"lt1\ e on "uch pomts \\ here a chall 1..,frankh neV\, merely old m dec,lgn. the paper rush doe" not seem so 111congruous It seems to be mereh a part of the modern scheme of thlngs llke the Jam 111 " \hce 111the Lookl11g Gla"s," called jam The po..,..,lblhtle" of ru"h furnlUl e \\ hether oIl or new dre lon"lderable Suppo"e the pIece" choe,en are of the pa111tecl \ dnety of the early nlneteenth century. say chlllng-room chaIr" pamted black, decorated 111 grape'" 111 gold and other "oft tones, and hav111g "eats of fineh woven ru..,h, a httle green ll\ It" ca..,t ChaIr" of thi.., type are sometime" found \\ Ith cane seab. but they are 110t qUlte ,,0 de"ll-ahle and ..,0 vve confine our..,el\ e" to rush The chaIrs desC' lbed are "'ple11chclly adapt-ed t ) a countr) dl11l11g-room , to a clln1l1g-room III an apartment dnd under some conchtlOn.., to a elty house One clever craft,,- man begmnmg WIth six chalrs had a round table made to order, pdlpted lt hlack and Jecorated lt \\lth a bordel of g'apes. lea\ e" and tenclnls, cle\ erly matchlllg the chalfs The walls were hung m an old-fashlOned block ~mnted papel copled from one of the room" 111 the' Vadsvvorth-Longfellow hou"e Portland, and obtalned from a dealel who makes a e,peu,l1t\ of leplOduung olci c1ls1~ns 1hc chalh V\ele old, but everythmg else in the room was ncv\, even to the peasant chma on the table, but so \\ ell ch Jsen were the thmgs that no lnharmony was felt It wa" a dehghtful place, the em y of many visltors Another room with rush chall S and settees V\dS all new, but Rresented even a quainter appearance Thh wa.., a In ing loom m a summer cottage, The frames of the chalrs and e,ettees were of hard wo,xl, pamted whlte. many coats, smooth and softly pohshed. but not enameled The JecOl atlO11S V\ ere the \'lork of a young woman who ha, "peClahLed on thl" style )f fur111ture They were 111 the form of flovver ba"kets, suffl- Clently pnm to hay e the old fla VOl, and colorful wlthout beIng bright There was enough blue m the "cheme to ]u,;tlfy blue as the chIef color note m the 100m, that cool, gray tone ..,een 111Canton ch111a The \\ oodwork \\ a.., also whIte and the vvall covenng was larg ely \\l11te \\ Ith a con ventlOn~hzec1 small tree pattern ln the fine old blue The same papel, by the :\ ay. may be pm chased In gl een, a \ lv Id but very old-fdshlOned green, lend111g ihelf V\ ell to vvhlte pal11t and mahog-any, or to paInted fu rl11tu1e Braided rugs 111blue, whIte dnd black, and the SImplest curtams in blue lmen cont111ued the blue ldea 111 thlS summer cottage "\ blg magazme table, two bookcases and a desk \\ ere al..,o pal11ted v\hlte and had been made expresslY to use v\lth the chairs, ' Anothel 11\Ing-rOC'lll. tIllS time 111 a CIty hon"e v\ a" fUl n-hhed wlth cottage plece" 1u"h a" to the' seat" ~f the arm chaIr" SIde chalfe,. 1(cker" and seUle, purcha"ed of a big firm 111ak111ga specialty of cotta£;"e t111ng.., "\11 the piece" had been pa111ted grd) at the fador} The V\all" hdd been painted a llttle gl dy and the wood work pd1l1ted the tone of the fnr111tul e ,Vlth thl" gray nee,s a l.;ood dedI when walls, tnm and furmture wa" taken mto con"idel atlOl1, was combined the nchest posslble shade of "mulberry," not the purple bro\",n mulberry of old chll1a but decorator,;' "mulben)," \\hlch lS almost a claret Over curtams, cu"hlOn" and a plaIn rug were th 1" l11terestmg color, a" vvet e several "mall things They were sJ!\ er candlestIck". and 111a "mall corner cupboard a "et of fine old SlIver lustre. A mulben y and gra) "chlme of another 01 der produced d most decoratl\ e effect ()n the \\ all.., wa" an Imported pdper 111 grdy moire "\ deep border 111 mulbelly, velvet, dpparent1y, \\ as looped at ll1tel \ dls \\ Ith mulberry roses The borcler and paper were 111one pIece and gave to the room a \ er) uld-fashlOned appearance, Thl" bac1<ground wa" of LOur"e too ,;umptuou,; for rush and paInted furl1lture b11t e,Ulted perfectly the fine mahcganv pleces whlch had been cho"en hy the mistress of the house In thIS ca'ie the back-ground had been "elected t J g I V\lth the furnIture, vvhlch lS t he usual decorative precedence In the Boston Xew" Lettel of the thud \Veek of Xovem-ber 1779, \Vas 111serted the follovv111g bld for patlol1age "For c,ale d t "hart credIt or ca ,;h at the Slgn of the Beehlve and Bea\ e" Cornh111, a lot of new1} lmported chalf". \Yl1ld"ors to match any set, mahogany In d1\ er"e pattelns wlth chOlce of stuffed work. also Rush Bottum" III g-reat \ anety Old chdlrs need111g new rush hottom" \J enJed on exchange \IousetJ a po, and Ladies' Glo\ es LIke" 1"e wax \\ 01k'3 to J1 der " Hotel Grand. San Dif'go. The hotel Grant, erected bv 1.' S Grant, a "on of the famous general, at an expeme of $1000,000 and "upplled WIth fUll1lture, mostly made 111Granl Rapld", \alued dt $200,000, wlll soon be ready to recelve guests It vnll be under the management of Mr. Holmes. late of the Green hotel, Pasadena Cdl ' 14 WEEKLY ARTISAN -----~--------------.~------------_. --~-------------~~~--_. -_-.. - - - ...II III II I• •I I• IIII NE'''T DESIGNS I-N LOUIS XVI STYLE No. 1711 No. 1705-1705 WRITE FOR SAMPLES AND PRICES. GraQd Ilapids Brass GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Cull Lumber in 1883. The fourth senll-annual COl1ventwn ot the II estel n 1 UIl11- ture I\lanufactUl ers' assoc1atlOn v, as held In GI and Rapid, on July 18. 1883 The plOceec1mg~, considered ot cl ,enou, nature at that t1111e, II QuId he amu"111g If blought helO1 e a conventlO11 of furn1ture make1:o at tll1:, tlme I\1r Ba1nard of :\IJl1neapolts. ehscussecl the burlap que" bon, and expressed the op1111on that the prel aJ11ng p1act1ce of allow111g burlaps to he ~retul neel to the mal1t~tactUl el'~ should be abol1'3heJ J\Ir Sextro of Cmc111natl, lemarked that the a~~oc1atlon, at a former conventlOn, had deCIded that burlaps u"ed fOl packmg should be added to the cost of goods but no PIO-vIsion had heen made for theH I eturn and CIeeht of theIr ,aJuc to the account of customers '.11 Harn" e"-JlIes"ed11h 0PIJI)- "Ition to the practIce of chdl~lllg the customel tm bUtlclj) whIch were of no U"e to 111111a,nd the, naturalh ohlectee! t(l paymg fo! artlCles thev ,hd not \I ant He \lould gn e the burlap to the buy el \ re"olutlOn bll1chng the members of the associatIOn to charge the net cost of burlap tIthe I etade! and refusmg to reeen e the same when returned \\ as adoptee! by a ,ate of 29 to 3 I\'llham A Belke.' 1110\ ed that a lOl1111llttee he dpJlOlntu! to report a S) stem for gradl11g lumbu He held aftl1 h\ ellt \ years expenence 111 handhn~ lumber, deCldec1 to mea"uI e ,m!> sound, good lumber of shlpm ents recen eel \Ir Hodell expl essecl the 0p111l0n that cull" al e \ ahll less In bUYl11l; lumher the manufacturer must act on hIS 0\1 n ]thlgment and OppOl ttlmtles Se\ elal speakers defined the mean111g of culls 111 then locdlttle.., and then the sl1h]eLt Wd" refeIred to a committee In an adell e"s on the suhJect of the aIm" and ob1 ects oi <00. the a~soclatlOn 'III Sextro expre"ed the hope thdt the COil gl e~, ot the t mtLL! States \lould 11ft hea\ 3' burdens from the ,lwuldel ~ at the manutacturer:o b, remm 1ng the dutIes leVIed on matu lal~ u-,ed1l1 the ll1dustn Best of Them All. ] he \e\\ fiel\ en Clock company, ~ew Ha, en, Conn, hel\ e a Jettel In the Grand RapIds Yeneer \Vorks "ad" 111this l~"l1e ot the \\ eekh ArtIsan, \\ herem they say the Grand Raplc1~ \ eneel Ilorks bIn IS the best of them all :0)0 one can get an) thlllg better than the be"t Read up and get po~ted and If ) ou dIe 1ll the market fur a dl Y k1Jn, or expect to he make hllthe I 1l1ljUllleS it om the Granel RapIds Venee1 II O!k" and the\ \\ J1l g"n e \ all enough refuences "to make ,Ol1l he,Hl ~\\ 1111 to the a common e'<pl eSS10n lMm~~~,~_~ WRITE TO J 'CHICA60MIRROR~ART61ASS-F~'<k\ 217 N. Clinton Street. Chicago, Ills., U.S.A. '-: -~-=~ ...-.::~~ ............... _ - --- - .. 15 -~---------_._------_._. ---_._-_. --_._._-----------~-------.., WEEKLY ARTISAN ..-.., iI1 II Wood Bar Clamp Fixtures, Per Set SOc. P....ent Malleable Clamp Fixtures. E H SHELDON & CO • Chlcal1;o, Ill. Gentlemen -We are pleased to state that the 25 dozen Clamp Flxlures which we boutht of you a little over a year ago are giVing excellent servIce We are well satisfied wIth them and shall be pleased to remember you wbenever we wanl anythmg addllional III this line Yours truly. SIOUXCIty. Jowa CURTIS SASH & DOOR CO. 30,000 Sheldon Steel Rack Vises Sold on approval and an uncon· ditIOnal money back guaranlee SHELDON'S STEEL BAR CLAMPS. Guaranteed Indestructible. We sohcll pnvllege of sending samples and our complete catalogue E. H. SHELDON ~ CO. 328 N. May St.• Chicago. "'--_, • • • • • •••• •• • __• . • -..A An Effective Sales Producer. Good pIcture" of anything which touches om home hfe are ,d\\ a) s mtere"tmg-fascll1atl11g J mt as the \\ ell dressed W111- dow of the fUr11l1Ure "tore attrach attentIOn dnct cause" more than 01dmary Cl1nO,',lt) III ever} passerb}, w doe'S Illustrated pnnted matter of thmg" about the home, engage senous dtten-tlon \Ve remember <;eeing, some ttme ,1gO, a fom page circular used by a rlealer 111 ~rISSOUll On Nch page he had a good sIzed Illu'StratlOn "hO\\ mg how each of four rooms m a house would look If furmshed \\ Ith the fml1lture and other materials whIch he sold The descnptlve matter of the CIrcular was written in such a pleasmg, forceful, compelhng way that the people who re-ceIved It could hardly resist a VISIt to the store to actually see the new goods whIch he chsplayed He maIled these CIrculars to the woman of the home 111every home 111 11l', town and surround-mg country The scheme proved so profitable that he decided to ~end them out every fall as well as every spnng This merchant would first dress hlS wmdo\\ to look ltke a room m e\ ery detall-rugs, furmture, wall paper. portieres and pictures Each wmdow stood one week at a time During the week he would take a photograph of lt. When he had a photoO-graph of the hbrary, dining room, bed room and kltchen, he \vould then get his advertismg clrcular under \'Va} This appeals to us as a very effective method and one \'Vhich almost any dealer could adopt to advantage -.VOI them FU111itllre A Man of Ideas. John \\ addelll" a man of Idea" There IS hardly anyth111g under the sun that man has made but that John thinks It Cdtl he made better Of cour"e he does not trouble himself with trymg to recoOnstruct the Universe, nor does he bother himself \\ lth other thmgs than those which apply stnctly to his own buslDess, that 1" mak111g vvood ornaments for the archltects and furl1lture maker" and the machmes to make them The \\ nter had the plea"ure of a tnp \\ Ith John through the ..... \Yaddell .i\l1anufacturmg company 's factory a few days ago and watchmg the wonderful machines that do the work of a half dozen men. Many of these machmes were designed and made by hIm ID hIS own machl11e shop, which is completely fitted up \\ lth the best Iron-worklDg machinery. To do by hand what these machlDes do \\ auld require more than a thousand hands, and then they could not do it as well. So rapidly has the business grown that they \\ III soon start to build a large addItion, the bricks and other material having already been purchased They have gradually purchased land until now they have nearly the entire square, and probably will have the whole square in a year or two "Character in Furnitureo" The Berkey & Gay Furniture company have issued a beautIful booklet beanng the above title, in which the history of the development of furniture, from the rude work of the barbanans to the high art of the present day is reviewed. in-telligently and entertainly. Special attention is given to the period of Louis XV, XVI, the various Colonial features, the Engltsh classIcs, includmg the art of Sheraton and Chippen-dale. and several pages are devoted to the modernized Flan-ders and Flemish Renaissance. The booklet will be found of great value by the retaIler and his salesmen. The women of the world are making such progress in acquinng knowledge of the arts and manufactures that the merchant who fails to keep posted ln regard to the upward and onward movement ID the industries soon finds hImself not to be considered when goods for the household are needed The book is a beautiful example of the printer's art Successful merchants start the week by publishlDg attrac-tive l\Ionda} messages In the newspapers ro------------------------.---------o-----'----------.---,.0-----------,---.., A. PETERSEN &CO., CHiCAGO -, MANUFACTURERS OF THE BEST MADE and LEADING LINE of OFFICE DESKS IN THE COUNTRY. Our attention to every detail from carefully selected and matched lumber to the finished product has given the Petersen Desk its Leadership. t ,__ ~ SEND FO• R CATALO~.GUE. FULL LINE. RIG'HT PRICES. __4I .. Iledd 1m ltul dll C011l111erClal orgamzatiOns to Join w1th the d' ~()U'lt1CJl1hc It'J)) e'lnb 111,111effOl t to COllect the eVils practiced h, thc cApl e" compdllles, throngh an appedl to the 111terstate C0111111elceC011111115SlOn 16 WEEKLY ARTISAN PUBL..ISHEO EVERY SATURDA.Y lilY THE MICHIGAN ARTISAN COMPANY SUBSCFlIPTION $1 00 P'ER YEAR ANYWH~RE IN THE UNITEO STATES OTHEFl COUNTRIES $200 PER YEAR. SINGLE COPIES 5 CENTS. PUBLICATION OFFICE, 108-112 NOPlTH DIVISION ST, GPlAND RAI"IDS, MICH A 5 WHITE MANAGING! ED/TO" Entered ... second class matter July 5, 1909, at the post offic~ at Grand RapIds MIchl"'" und~r the act of March 3 1879 CHICAGO FlEPFlIlSI!:NTAT/VIE E LEVY In 01 del to g,un and huld 11 ade IlJ the ma1kel uj the Cl-tU 11 states th1rty odd I eal ~ ac,o, mal1nlaL tu1 e1, 10Ldtec1 1ll thc II c' were compelled to place thell sample, a11d \ cUll'ldel ahle q ] \11 tlty of ,tock 111"a1ehonSh 1n "\c" \u1k l'1C llelkn <\ (,l the \\ ldd1comh the 1'hoe111,- dnd the \, e(so 1 Ilalle] I 111 nIt 11lC lOmpal11es of Grane! Rdp1d~ the I me"t C1t1 I lltl1ltU1e C0l111M1l\ of Rockfmd the Fstc\ l[anl1factl1ll11~ com\Jd11\ 1) ()II )--) and the 13-'11tle, &. Genl1e, 11llt1ltme compam I)t l' llk"j,!J 11..., "ere a1Jung tho,c "ho 1l1,ullecl thl" C\.t1a e"plll'C hdppll1 I) lOlJ((er neCeS"al\, 111 "dhne, e,ood- \ble h1l::h j)IILul 111 \ Ja...,cl' !loLlbl} J \\ \\ hcdock, C. \\ Ilalch\ 111 [1 eel hlc11ldull-1 \11(1 I red Croll, \"ere emplo\ eel and man\ c;ood "tIc, \\ t 1l 1]] Idl ::\[anuLlctt11U~ "ere ob!Jgecl to pl()\lc1t' t\\O hm, (It 'lllpll (one tor the '\ ell YOlk and the homc e"h1blt1'Jnl dl1<l the C"- pense of transactme, bnsmes, nnelel tbl' plan let! a \ e1\ l1c\111\\ margm OJ profit \" the l111es "ele 1111eet,ed 11J m11111)elot p1eCl' the b111den of expen~e [',1e\1 ldl e,el and fi11<\lh thl II ,I l hOllee, "e1e c1o,ed "lthol1t 10'" c'£ tlddc Dm e1, Id1<l 1] I 1 formerlv 111speLtedthe ,amplcs 'll1d lldued the C;,),lCl-thc \ me(ll 1 111 the "arero01l1~ of \, ell York II el c c')111pdled t) llldke 1\ tll]), ever) ) eal to G1and Rap1ds dn1111e, thl opc J111e,,Chi 111, ,111dtheIr nn111her h,I' 111c1ea"ec1\\ 1th the 11ct"~111o£t:; \ l1.1_ "\ 1'1ogl e,\lve bUyer 1mated 111the eastern stdte, \\ auld con"ldu for a moment cnttme, out the "e,te1 n markCh \\ hen 11J w'((1 of good, f01 h1' store lhe SCl1etane, or one hundled bO'llCl, ot tl,HIc ,lnel chdlJ1 flU c of l0111111elClmLt 1n (,rdnd RdP1d~ OLJOLt ,hC1 () l1ld ell, cn~~ecl mam to]J1C' of 111tele~t to the loc,!llt1l' thE'\ 1 e{llc-cn d A "arm deb,lte l1j)O!1the snb]llt ot ohl111JC; bOl1U'"" b\ lllllm 1 IMht1C' to ,eCl11e 11e\\ fact011e~, m whIch the plan \\,' dCnOll'll"d and condemned pre-:edecl Its 1eference to the committee on 1"'0 lntlOm to repO! t at a later seS~lOn The Sc!lemes ()1 11l1'Unpn lon' bonn, p1omotcrs \\ el e 1evealed, and an op11110n eAplc '-LC 1 b) one of the ~peake1" th"t It 1, mOl e for tbe mtCll,t OJ a C01'1- 111U111t} to foster and clevelop the mdustl les 1t alreaLh po"e~,e, tl1<1nto encourage competttors of tha t mc1u~1I\ to ch,me, e thelI 10catwl1s and elH;alSe 1n 111dustnal warfa1 e WIth 111dnutactm e1, \vho had e'otab!Jshed their bnstness throngh their own effort, A. Vel} able paper 1eveahng the £;1eed of the eX])1e,,~ cOIJ1 pames 111the fixllJg ot 1dtes and 111re!1cle11lJ~ msnffiuen" "e1III to the pnbhc, was read by ::\fr Mead "eC1etan of the II el ch,m'- a s~ociatlOn of Ne\v York before the com entlOn of seu dallt ~ ()1 l1111111cipabloards of trade, 111G1,l!1C]RalWl" 011OCtobll 6 \ r 1 Dlllln,.; thc 1ecent C011\entlOn of the 1etall furnture clealer;., ut 1[111ne'ot,1 one of the dealers mentlOnee! the l.;reat benefit he dUl\ t d fl UI11 1t 'lcltng the \\ eekly \rtlsan The plal~e bestowed up 111 thb pubhcatlOn "cl~ heal tll) endorsed by othel retallel S, 'lnd the a~5011dtlOn ,,111 lend It, powedul alc1111the \vork of ex-tend111e, the urculatton of thl \r1l ,an 1he publtsheh of the \1 tban al e e,r'ltlfied ovel the~e expression" of kl11dly 1l1terest, ,1jlP It lid t1on an e! f;ood "Ill \ nl II ,p ljlU b 1e')pon~lble for the ~t,ltement that J Pler- 1Hil)L1[)le,dl) \Ill! \1,lt C1l1Unnatl fOl the purpose of sleepl11g 111 ,1bull OU11C101Jla1l1111$£1; 00,000 IV orth of LoUIS XIV furmture, 111the llJlIIt011 dollal le'ldenle of the late Jl1dge Stallo A mind ,0 bUl clened "lth the aHall s of the" 011d as J. Pierpont carries IlJ hb head II oulcI 11lubabl) find as much rest in a $2 hammock l' In 1. LOllh >-.1\- bed Pel haps J P \'\111tell the world "what clbout 11' latel ] hc pt lpIc ut \1..\\ YOlk C11"\ale con;"Hlenng a propositlOn \ 1](Jld ,I II otld, t,lll 111PH J \. fa1r "ould be a good th111g +( I thc 1 \lIt IMd" ,wcl the hotel keepers Bes1des the people of tlJe \Io]ld II oulcl be ,lfj 01clecI opportu11lttes to 1l1Spect Grand RI]Jld, tl11l11Ll101oCn -dle 111the gledt ot) American Warehouses in India. \ Il" \ eal, ago an \menlan commerc1al travele1 III I HIt I dttu 1m e"tlgdt1l1Q the questlOll of open111g a warehouse 1n ( ,IIcut"a fo] the c,-po"lt1011 and sale of "\meflcan pi octucts, C,l 11e t) t11t c0l1l1u"wn thet! the scheme IV as a good one Si'1ce '1Cll hc 11" I b1'ed the l111ted '-,tatt" dnd cltscussed the mat-l1 II lth tho-l \\ lth 1\h)111 he lS a~')c uated 1n htbll1eSS ane! WIth llldnlltaC!lll el - aw] e,-pOl tel s "ho zave hIm great encow dge-lJlCW t( Call\ ol1t the "che111e \\ Ith th1'o 111\ 1ev\ he "elected a III e,c l1l1l1lhe1 ot ,11 tlcle" that he thouQht ~lVould make a good ,h )\\ l11e, 1()1 the lnltecl States dnd 1elmned to In,lta He lS J]( \\ ene,ae,ed 111 call \ 111£:;out hiS pw po,e \ large r00111 ceMl,11h located 111 Calcutta has bee11 secured and th~ pI C 11111na1\ "tep" ellc 1)e1n£:;taken toward the 1l1stallatton of the l'"h1blt Ha\ 111£t:1; aveled for man} yeals 0\ er Imha he know, t1 11 l "pu Il11ce ,,1ut a1 tIdes of ll1elchanc!1"e \\ 111 appeal to ]H TlldJ'1I1l;h"l alld heme, )lll feetl) fa1111ltar WIth the methoc]s \ I dl)lnc; lJl1"lnC'" 111 Indld h ]11lpa1e] to OCCUpy thl:S fidd 111\h a le1 lamb of "ucccss It 1, the commerual tla\cle1\ purpose to lnnea"e the )Jumhu of artldes or mellhanchse f01 the e:xhlb1t from tllne t, tlmL' 1111t11he has "nch an exhIbIt as ,,111 meet the demands or the Tndnn hade He vVlll open expos1tlO 1 lIarehouses 111 Bomba\ ITad1 as Rangoon, and Colombo, 111 fact, he ha" all each establtshed branch headqua1 ters 1!l IIaclras and Co-lombo "h1l11 ale 111chalze of experienced and capahle 111en, thOl oue,1111 famtl1ar WIth Jnd1an trade reqlllrements He gives pel' )llal attlntlOl1 to the hns111ess and vvill work out a f;reat 'l1leC" not 01111 J01 h1111'3el£and hIS house in '\ew York, hut 1 \menlcln forelQn tJacle 111Ineh,1 genelall) \me!lCdl1 mallut,lctl1rel", "ho may desilc the name and I Idl c ," (it the ento pIl"ing sale~mall m11st a"k the Bureau i If l[alluLlclU1 (1" dc parlmC'nl of Commerce and Lahor, \\ ,b]Jll1e,tOll n C WEEKLY ARTISAN 17 RAILROAD FREIGHT RATE PROBLEM The Interstate Commission Not Expected to Reach a Decision Before January. i ht fir"t tOl111al meet1l1g of the Intel-State Commerce C()m1111"~lOnfollowmg the "ummer recess VIas helel 111 \\1 ash-ll12; tcm la"t ~ronday anel as the proposed advance 1D freIght Lites by practIcalh all the lallroads In the country IS gener-all} consIdered the moo.,t Important matter yet submItted to the people, all members vvere present, all know111g that It \\ ould be con o,ldered So far as the rate ca:=,e 1~ concerned the only conclUSIOn reached at the meetll1g wa~ that a further heallng shall be heard 111 \Yashington, In connectIOn \\ Ith plOposed advanced rates on eastern raIhoads, and that the 111- qUlf\ 111 the \veSt ~hall be resumed 111 Chicago. The \Va~h-ingJ; Dn heal1l1g was set fOl October 12 The date f.or the ChI-cago heanng v\a~ not fixed, althou2;h It VI as stated unOffICIally that the se~slOn WIll be held the lattel part of the month The C0111ml"S1Onal"o deCIded Just before adjournment to take up for heanng on October R the long and short haul cldu"e of the neVI lal1road act Thl" caSe IS second onh 111 Importance to that im 0lvll1g freIght charges dIrectly, as It ha~ a beanng on practically all raIlroad rates ~t the heanng- before the com1111s"ion on October 12, Ple~lc1ellt DroV\n of the Xn, Y)rk Central, PreSIdent ~rcClea of the Penn"yha1l1a and PreSIdent \\ Illard of the Baltl11101e & OUIO \\ 111ofter testimony a" to the financIal conchtlOn of theIr 1e~pectl\ e Ilne~ \\ lth a \ lew of SeCUlll1g appro> al of proposed 111Cl ea"ed rates ['le"enl lmhcail mo.,dle that the v,esteln and eao.,ICl11ldll-lOdd" that [;cl\ C l10tICe of an IntentIOn to advdnce rates \\ 111 fmther "uspend the effect!"\\:' date [he present suspensIOll, VI hlCh \\ as voluntanly made by the raIlroads followll1g COll-ference" of raIlroad pI e"ldents \\ Ith PreSIdent Taft, WIll eA-p1re on \0\ ember 1 ~1e111ber:=,of the Il1ter~tate C0111melce CommiSSIOn are of the oplmon the 1al110adb V\ 111 extend th-.: date to Januar} 1 I\t lea"t arrangement" to that end are now be1l1g made anel no cloubt 1S cxptessed that the ralhoad, WIll con:=,e11t to the e'<:tensIOn OffICial" pomt out that It ,'oulel he ll11jwo,slble for the C01111111SSlon t) leach a deCISIon 11" to the reasonablene"s of the p1oposed mcred"e h} Novem-ber 1 In fact, the comml,,"I011 may be unable to announce ltS deciSIon until the Jattel part of JanUal} At thIS 111eetl11gof the C0111ml"SlOnthe rate SItuatIOn \\ ,I" he pel mltted to raIse rateb OtherWIse they a\ el the 1 atlvv a \ ~ cam a~sed 111all of It" ramIficatIOns The employes of the 1allroad c0111panle" al e jemalldmg that theIr employ ers shall \\111 be unable to lalse \\ages Thl" pha"e of the que"tlOn \\a, (h"cus~ed at a cnnference heLl at the \\ hite House lao,t \\eek, repre"entatn es of the raIlroad bl otherhooel s tak111~ It up vvlth PI e"ident Taft Defore the pencIl11g InqUIry 1~ concluded labor leader" \iV J11 be gn en an opportumty to tell theIr SIde of the ~tory 111 the rate case~ ShIppers and rdtlroad men are \ ery h1uch COllcel ned 111 the deCISIOn of the commlSSlOn relatn e to the long and shot t haul clau,e of the ne\\ 1a\\ They say that the enf01cement of the ne\'\ long and "hort clau"e \\1111CSult 111 a reacIFhtment of 1ates 0\ el lal ge al ea~ For thIS reason the com1111SSlOn deslreo., to SeC111each Ice on the "uhJect from all pers )11S Inter-e" ted J \ \ COYert, 1)1Uplletor of the Queen LIt) Rug Works, Xorfolk, ),ebr, has cloubled IllS mechalllcal and workIng forc( To the Test! Marietta Put Us larity of your pet product. What you need is a stain specialist. Write Marietta. Making special stains to fit special con-ditions has been our special forte for years. Weare more than manufacturers, we are originators. Much of our paint is "custom made," all of our stains are "mixed with brains." A furniture maker gets a new idea-a "hunch." Designs a new line. It looks good to him. It is good--distinctive--out of the ordinary. PROBLEM: What shall the finish be? What particular color and tone will dove-tail with that particular design? Steady, now; you've got a real gordian knot to un-tie. Upon your success depends the popu- Address Desk NO.3. Paint &. Color Marietta, Ohio. Co. Minnesota Retail Dealers' Furniture Association 18 WEEKLY ARTISAN OFFICERS-Presrdent, J R Taylor, Lake Benton Mmn, VIce-PreSIdent D R Thompson, Rockford, Mmn , Treasurer, B A Schoeneberger, Perham, Mmn Secretary, W L Grapp, Janesvrlle, Mmn EXECUTIVE CO'\1\flTTEE-ChaIrman, Geo Klem Mankato, Mmn, a Srmons, Glencoe, Mmn, W L Harrls \11nneapolts, Mlnn I C Datuelson, Cannon Falls BULLETIN No. 145. PROCEEDINGS OF THE FAIR WEEK MEETING IConcluded) Contll1ul1l~ the dl,Ul"101l ot the ollap dub pl0blcm D \ :::,cho nenberg-er, Perham, II111n, "ud \0 l \\ do 100kll11; 0\ er Larkm S catalog- 111thh samp! croom '1nd ,ome of theIr product" It lookerl to me dt fi[';t thdt It would he lmprhs1ble tor any man or mel cantl1c concern to gIve $20 ,vorth of ,alue for $10 yet smce J 11'1ve come to the vaflous cOlnentl0n" and ,1, 1 stud) the helps v\ Jrked out bv )IH co operatI,e pleIn, 1 C,1I1 rCdcllJ) ,cc thdt It c 111 be done, and tIll' d,,- cusslOn only prove, to mc the v'llue ot our COopcrdtn e bU)llll.; ,)' tern and If \\e can buy our ltlll1lture at I hgure tll1t \\111 ('n tble u' to get the turl11ture premmmo upon the fight b'l 'vv In can t vve huv the other product'3 1f \ve combme our force,' C, Dal11elson, Cd11110n Fdlls, Ihnn '1 \vould not ad\1se d11y one to adopt the method'3 of the '3oap club concern" unle"s he '\vere torced mto It, because I can '3ee ho\\ It \\ ould upset cond1tlOn, 111 ) our to\\n, but 1f I could not get m) brother me1 chanb to go m w1th me on the propoS1tIOn (1f tlll' k1l1d, I behe\ e I \\ ould do the same as they arc d0lIlg and tace 1t unfimchmgh becalhe the "or,nel you down anythmg of th1s kmd the better It h for d11 concerned "(ow th1S 1~ the way I teel about It becau,e about three) ear, '1go I was ready to '3ell out hecau,e of the contl11ual nag;;l11g ot the matt order eVll, but thank, to our a,-oclat£on, I am now m a posItIon \\ hel e 1 can meet thiS competltlOn ,,\ Ith a '3mlle and ha\ e a firm con "\letlOn that 1 can meet 1t dn,l make d profit \nd I belIe\ e If ,11 assoClatlOn lIke our'3 can do that \\ e abo can v\ ork O\lt d ,olutlOll 01 the '3oap club eVIl, and J have alV>ay, found that the'e ,cheme' 1 hd\ mg someth111g fOI nothl11g seem to tcike and that l' \\ 11\ II 111 merua1 clubs 111 our '3mall to\\ Ib ought to v\ork to£;ether ,l, tl1C\ never ha\ e befOl e R IN Taylor, L,lke Benton 'I ha\ e hstened to the dbcUSSlon on th1'3 subject wIth a ';;1eat deal of mtere'3t, because I am beg111n111g to be made to realIze th1l1gs and I \\ ant to a,k yOU gentlemen tInt If a lady c"n get ,I Clllff011lci or lIbrary table or a go cart, that \ au and 1 under ord11lary conclIt10n'3 would ha\ e to '3ell fOf $10, '1nd then get $10 worth of teas and coffee, \vlth It can "\ou hone,tly bla111l her tor d0111g Ie I do not and a, '\ merchant I '\m °011114to ,weh tIllS p10blem from ,111SIde- and belIe> e there b '\ VI ay out of It :rOU1 years ,1140 1 felt th,lt noth111g could be \\ orse th'\n the m'l11 ordc1 (ompetltlOn d\ld \lOW as I ha\ e exp.ellcneed how easv It IS for an as ,oclatlon lIke th1~ to meet It, I ednnot hel" but feel that the outcome of thIS WIll h~ thdt our a"~oClatlUn \\ III be equ,tl to the OCC1.SIOn111r1 hnd a WdY to soh e thIS qnp club L\ 1\ I onh \\ Ish th,lt 1l1,te,1d ot the number we ha\ e here tod1.Y th'1t e\ ery de,1ler 111the ,t'lte \vere dere to hear the JlsclbslOns that ha, e been brou,;;ht out on thh subjcLl so that they would be made to re,tllze the gre"t good that thIS as,o clatIOn ,\ork IS d0111g Then the) VI ould be,;l1l to feel that 1t IS a duty to belong to dn as"outlOn th"t can unravel problems for n" And 1 want to urge each member oresent, as he goe, home to do everyth111g that he can wlth1l1 hl'3 power to '3pread the gO'3pel of what thlS assocIatIOn IS d0111g and get OU1 brother dealer'3 to JOIn u- In thiS great work" ( '\pplause ) D R Thomp'3on, Rockford, 11111n "The dbul"IOns of todl\ have certal1l1y done me some good and \\ h11e 1 am ,our \ Ice pre'l c1ent I am so ,Ituatcd that the bulk of mv bus111e'" lS 111othel 1111e, I belong to se\era.l other ,h'30C1atlOns and \\ant to say and I can 'a\ It With the least he~ltatlOn, that I know of no other assocIatlOn that 1'3 d0111g the work of thI'3 assoCIatIOn 111'Oh111g the problem, tInt come up 11]a prdctlcal \\ ,1y IN'ben I really stop to thmk of the vvork \ve are d011lg and the practIcal help'3 the assoc1atlon b gn ll1g I sometlme'3 feel and wonder \vhy the V'1nou" fur11lture dealer- dn not get more enthused dnd ,uppm t the a"oclatIOn \v ork more than they do I bcheve thdt the dctlOn taken at the Mankato meet1\1:< of pult111g an or ";d11l/er In the field wa'3 the he'3t mm e the ,bsoc1atW!1 ha'" l11dde fot ,0111C tl111e We do not dh\ dy, stop to th1l1k of the<,c t11ll1g'3 ,\'3 v\e ,hould and \\ hen thev Me pre'3cnted to Us III per'3on thry ,0111eho\\ appeal to us ,J gre,lt de d more <,trongl} thall throllgh the. med1ll11l of cold type" Co-operation The next suhject fOI dIscussIOn IS our co operatn e 1)lal1 The chairman of the buymg commIttee made a 1eport as to hO\\ m'\tter, ,tood 111 1eference to thb \\ork ,ho\\111g the \ olume of bus111e,,, done and enumeratll1g' '3ome of the drawbacks that had to be 0\ er come The dISCU'3SlOnthat fo11o\\ ed th" took up the balance of th~ forenoon meetmg wh1ch \\ as of '1 nature that made 1t prn ate Ill! Ir matIon, for members only, but thIS much can be saId that the vol ume m our ,anous factone'3 1S begmnmg to be such that It com-mands the 10we'3t pOSSible pnce and that the buymg commlttee l' be~ll1nl1lg to close contracts WIth lines that are standard, ,md stIll "Lt the p1Ice' lleel ,'al} to meet both the mall Older aud '3oap club condltlOn, The repOl! ot the bUYlllg commIttee ,hoV\ed th,1t qUite often ven de,lrdhlt h I gal11, Cdll be picked up but, OWll1g to the lack of \n\ btttu '\ "tem, tl1dll \\e dre now workmg under they Cdunot g-et the hulletl11' to our member" In tIme to do any good Usudlly when the ,c harg,un, come up they mlht be taken because othcrw1'3e the "tdtC 't1 ( et ,tOI (, ot ChlC,\go or mall order hou'ie' get them because lhn 11(' d\\,l, , III the muket To Illmtratc vVlll1e 111the market 1"t ,e,hOl\ the commlttee could hd\e p1cked up 600 go carl', whIch \fe usually sold to the trade for $550 tv $600, for $350, but not hav- 11114any speCIfied 'iystem the commIttee d1d not feel as though they ,hould bmd them~elv es for thIS amount of goods, whereas 1f we coulel hay e ,lrr,l11ged to '3hIp two, four or SIX cal ts to at least 100 memhCl'" \\ e could eas1ly have u5ed that uumber I II Thomp,on \nnandale, \1mn "1 have often wondered \\ In VI e could not hd\ e some speCIal understandmg as to th1S phase r)t our co operatn e bUY111g,and 1 feel that ,ve are expectmg- too much (1[ the bll\ 111g commIttee I am glad that thIS has been brought up t thh t1me a, membe1 S certall11y ought to be glad to get these Item~ VI h1ch come up 111 thb \\ ay, and not expect the bUY111gcomm1ttee to J'l1dnce tor them and beSIde, we all kno'\\ that at certam season, ot the \ e'l1 \ anou, Item, clre u;,ually thrown upon the market at the hie e o-t of matendl and I believe \\ e ought to be ll1 a pos1tIon to '\\ '\11 "nr,eh e, ot ,uch opport1l11lile, Therefore, 1 move that \\ e tdopt '0l1lC me,1ns tf) thI'3 end' J II Campbell, Trdcv, .:Ill11n 'The Idea sugg-ested by Mr [1lOmp,on 1, a good one and I would suggest that the secretary be 111st1ucted to dLlw uo a sort of contract wl11ch would cover thh re- {jwrement dnd 'iubm1t It to uo for our anproval" 1\10tlOn carned Conti act \\ as submitted and aft".r a good deal of dhcusslon the lollo\\ Ing torm VI '" {gre~d upon and accepted" AGREEMENT AND CONTRACT J thc under'-Igned a 111e111belof the ::VI111nesota.RetaIl Furl11ture Dealers rlSSOC1<ltlOn hereby authofl/c the bUY111gcomm1ttee to '3hlp to me "lIch Items not to exceed $ worth m one year, which 111the judgment of the bUY111gcommIttee, are extraord111ary value'3 r r \\ h1ch Ire needec1 111c.10S111gthen ong111al contract w1th the vafl- Olio 1dctone, \' a member I dgree to protect 111V01ceby check upon receIpt 01 notIce The follo\\111g lI'3t of Items are goods that I can-l1( 1t use ?II embel 's SIgnature The 'Secretary was 1l1structed to 5end thl'i cuntract to all the members of the aSooclatlOn for then apDloval :!\Ieetl11g adjourned unill 2 10 Afternoon Session. \1 eetlllg cctllec1 to ordel b; the -.,nIce preSIdent, II r Thompson The D1'3t sublect for dI'-CUS'3lOn for the afternoon wa'3 the plopooed LVls \\hlch \\ele \\orked out 1t the Lonterence of the FederatIOn 1\1 1h ,IdY meetmg and \\ hlch are th" Peddlers' L1cense law, the Fraud ulent -\ch ertlS111g ldw and the Gal 111shment law, wlhlch were duly read '\nd dbcusoed and It \\ as moved by R E Dare of Elk RIVer, that we, the furl11ture dedler'S 111 conventIOn assembled, most hearhly endorse the propo,ed lav\ s and that we apo0111t a comm,H"" f three to pre- '3ent the same to the 1I111ne'3ota CommerClal FederatIOn aSSOCIatIOn '\nd that v\ e l])P0111t l _peclal comm1ttee of three to make 1t theIr hn'1l1e,0 to attend to the,~ matte!" The chaIrman apP01l1ted E R J;?are of Elk Rlvel IIr \ndeIoon of -\ twater aud C Da111elson, ( 'l11110nFall, a'3 the comn11tte( lIt Anderson of At\'\ater, :JI11l11 '),uw that we ar". upon the matter of con'ildefln~ the FedelatlOn 1t s('ems that \\e ought to have WEEKLY ARTISAN 19 RICHMOND TABLET CHAIRS "SLIP SEATS" AND THE MOST SANITARY RICHMOND CHAIR CO. 1 ,peelal commIttee to mcet II !lh the \ dnou, eomnuttee, III the } ed eratlOn from other assoclatlOns, to try to work out some pldn to keep the' anou" hnes of merchandl"e m theIr propel chdnnels and do '" hat IS \\ Ith111 the power of our dssoclatlOn to 1l1duce the whole,ale gen () .II merchant jobber'i to I,sne 'ieparate c"tdlog'i 111 theIr re'ipedn c Ime'i '" Inch arc to be ,ent to those who carry certam Imes of good, 111'itock dnd that we go on record d'i fa' onng anv plan thdt wJ11 help thr01,\ tIllS class of matter mto ItS proper channel bv the whole'dJe jobber, blllmg It to the dealer", ho carnes the stock 1 tllerefOl e, move that the chaIr appolllt a commIttee to act \\ lth ,Imlhr com-mIttees of the other trade orga1117atlOns " The follov\mg commIttee was aDpolllted } H Petelson '.Im nedpolh Andre'" Peter 'ion, WIllmar J\lJnn, ~ C Han,on, i\Jexan dna J\lmn, and L J J\1argdch, Grandlll, N Ddk Chdrles H arn'ion, Kenyon, Mllln '1 was talkmg \\ Ith the see Ictal, jlht before the meetmg commenced 111 reference to the antI fraudulent advertlsmg bIll, and the thought comes to me no'" th"t at the comlllg leglslatn e 'ieS"lOn thel e wJ11 be a'i man, bad bJ1Jo 111tro c1uced ,t' good ones dnd 1 behe,e tllat our aSSocldtlOl1 onght to be d ndrt of n orgalllz,ltlOn whIch makes It Its bus111ess to look after ,llld keep 111touch WJth the ,anous bJ11'>thdt dl e belllg prono,ed III the eomll,u legl,latn e meetlllg dnd we know III ordel to do thIS th It \I~ wJ11 h,l\e to ha,e somebodv 'on the job' \\ho hd'i abl1lh along thdt lme We therefore, ou.;ht to authonze the commIttee th t h,b jnst been dPpomted to become d part of such an all'dngement and we, as m d"oelatlOn should ~t,lnd onr pIa Idt,1 share of the expense' Tlele belllg no OblectlOn, the chair declared that ',ueh \\ ere the '-ent1111ents of the meetmg' Peter Chllsten"en, Oldllclm S D '1 ha\ c only a f( w mm nte'i to be WIth you ancl I want to bnnu to ,our ,lttentlOn tile conch tlOn, of of "ffan s which might be 111terestlllg to OUI members dnd h In Itne WIth the lll,e,tJgatlOn thdt the plesldent has been Celrr,lllg on I undel "tand thdt v Inon" manufacturer" dnd jobhel' al e 'iendmg-out dIfferent Ihts on then good~, one Itst to the dealero m to\lns of 1 opulatlOn of 10,000 and more, anothel kmd of hst III to",m of a populatlOn at 5000 and then the long hst to Ib little fe11O\\s 'lnd e'i peCI 11y III the Dakota, 1 behe, e that thIS I' el ,y,tem that ougat to be expo'ied and WIth our member'i scattered el'i they are we cel tam!y h,11e the me'lns to get the propel Idnd of mformatlOn, and It seems to me that It ,\ ould be one of the dutle'i of OUI executn e commIttee to gather such proof'i a, It can 'lnd report at the ,1I1nual meetmg 111 [( brllary because I Cdn ,ee no reason why the dealel' 111the to\\ n of 1 populatIOn of 5 oro 'ihould get better pnce, that those sltlnted m ~mal1el town'i" I \\ Schalll, \\ alnut Grm c, \I111n ' I elm not much of a tdlker hut I \\ ant to edll our member,' attentlOn to the \\ m k tl1c1t h IS been gomg on through the Weekly Al tlsdn vVllIle 1 fully appreclatL the help, that the co operative bUYll1g anang-ement IS gn,111g me 1 mu,t contess that were It not that I receIve tlllS a,soclatlOn news weekly 1 mIght drop b Ick to the old way of d0111g bl1Smes'i I only WIsh that 1 had the ablllt} to help mal ethan 1 do Ho\\ the officet s of the as,oClatlOn mandge to keep theIr department so full of the good thmgs that come, to us 1 can hardly understand and as 1 hedl d the c!lsclhslOn In letelCnce to some of our members not \\dntmg to pay theIr SubsCllptlon It make'i me feel that they do not I cah7e wh It the, 'lIe domg 1 h 1\ e found mmy a number that has saved me more tlnn the ,eal h '>I1b'CllptlOn ,lI1d a, J am just spnkmg of the I1ttle td- ,el tI'ill1g helps of the c1epal tment to "av notlhmg of the enthus1'l'111 'lnd gmger that It pUh 111tO'In) one \'.ho reads It So J hope th it our members who 'lre ~Ull111g off ,anous ,tunts dunng- the year \\ III let the seCletalY ha' e the detaIls 'iO d' to get them 111thIS depart nlLnt bec,llIse yOU never can tell how much good It wIll do othel'i " '.J r <\nderson, Atwater, '.lmn "1" auld suggest that the ,ub ~cllptIon \\ auld be ad,~led to each member's first 1))11 of goods 1 111lke that a'i I motIon As there \la'i no OhjectlOn It \la'i so 01del ed o \ 0 '.Ioen Peterson ]\[111n "1 \\ auld I1ke to 'iay a \\ onl 111 1 del ence to the ach crth111g helps that the aSSoclatlOn IS pI esent111g- THE: 'YZ":SndtlpARLOR, NEW"'''' BED' ~eed not be moved from the wall. Always ready Wit h beddmg in place. So simple, 80 easy, a child can operate It. Has roomy wardrobe box. CHICAGO, Erie & Sedgwick NEW YORK, Norman & Monitor. I ha, e adopted lnen U11lt s) ,tem ,mJ hay e u,ed then' dllOlb head1l1g cuts \'.hlch In'l blought me more leturns than ,my one th111g-that 1 Ildve hdd elm1 ,,\hen I comp"re the eo,1 of gett111g out thIS k1l1d ot ,ld,elt1'-ement \\Ith the co,t of \lhelt It u,ed to be 1 don't see now ,1l1, fllnJltUl e (je,tlu Celn be '" lthuut tbese helps <\nd not only that hut 1 'id\ e ,It Ie l,t tl\ a thnd, of my tnlle m the prepdnnU of them and", b( n I get them pllnted I know thdt the} elre ngbt In talk1l1g WIth the "eLl eLtry 1 find tnat thl',; part of our \Iork I" not recel\1l1g the ,UppOI t that It ou,!;ht to ,llld If ,my at the membel shere hay ene, cr Ihed these U1llt'i for IJ, ertIsement, 1 want to a,k you to do It once or tWIce and elfter you do that you WIll see the ad, anta,.;e of the,e as"OClatlOn help, \\1 b}, T would be 111bus111ess d good m,ll1y ye"r, hdme T would under,t'llld how to get out el sene, of bul1etms a, pubhshed thl" \\ eek, expos111g the m,lll ordel traud 111,lch ertl,111g I behne thelt thl' I, one of the be"t stunts that the assoLlatlOn has evel pulled oft 1 bope that there are others ,\ho aglee "11th 11Je on thIS and \\ e ,Ill "'Ill do ,'.hat \Ie can 111help111g thl' movement along" Insurance. The ne"t subject of d1,~us"lOn \\a, 111Slnance, ",llIeh wa, dh clhsed by tile, Ice preSIdent \\ ho \\ as m very close touch \\ Ith hdrd- \\ are 111surance, and related how much sa'111g they had brought about but he thought our as,oclatlOn tOO} oung to stelrt an m"urance com-pmv a, It should be :,[r Ander,on of \twelter '.I111n also ,poke on thl' subject and tl11hhed by say111g that whIle tile Hardware ,ISSOClatlO11,a" bIg as It I', \\ Ith It, 1200 membel' hel' aecomplbhed a gredt deal m tbe msur 'l11ee 111elttel, vet thcy do 110t do as much for then members as thIS httle fU11l1ture 'l'iSOCleltlOn IS d0111g and he 1l1tImated that It WelS be e llhe the, lack the backbone to get altel troubles .IS they 'ihould and he hoped that tbe succe'i'> of thIS assocldtlOn \\ III be I good example fm them to f01l0'" '.Ioved and seconclcd thelt a, u<,u,t1 the bUYlllg comnllttee be au thorI/ed to add $1 to e, el y ordel t,lken elt the com entlOn to hel dL fl,IY tbe expenses at the samples ::\lotlOn carned '.10\ ed and seconded that a program commIttee be apPo111ted at thl'i meetmg m ordel to at range the best pOSSIble plogram fOI our 'lnnual meet111g 111f'ebruaq :,IOtlO11 carned, and the chaIrman elP-p0111ted tbe followlllg (ommlttee J T lernn, Redw111g-, C H Brodt, 1< Hl110nt D \1 Reynolds, C;herbun r C SchleIcher, l\flllsvllle anJ o Slll10ns Glencoe VIce Plesldent 1homp,on '\'i the hour IS gett111g late and a, \\e Plomlsed to ,aeate thl' loom b, 6 o'clock, ',e \\111 ha,e to C,Hly mer \\h,t t111ther cll,cusslOns you may have 111m111d There has not been '1 conventIOn that tIll' a,,,ocldtIOU has held 111 the past fi, e year, lhdt T attenJecl-and 'VIe hl,e hdd 'iome velY able men address us-thdt ppe'lled to me as 111ueh a, the cl1,cusslOn, of toda) To note the entllllSldSm and good 'Ill that eXI,ts here today dS eOmlJ.lred '" Ith the feel1l1g when we fir'it met IS certalllly pleaslllg 1 hope that you ha' e all been more thdn repaId for comIng and that you \\ III go home \\ Ith a hI mer conVIctIOn of the gleat \Toad the aSSOCl,LtlOn IS dOIng Has anyone elnythlllg to offer at thh time? If not \\ e w1l1 stand ad journed untIl our ,lnnual mectl11 In February No. 100 DOUBLE CANE SEAT RICHMOND, IND. No. 100 GENUINE LEATHER SEAT MISCELLANEOUS NOTES AND NEWS ~IIS ~Jaud 'IIdlll h,IS sold hll tl11111ttlle ~t01e dt 111111am, field, Ill, to [redenck Reed J vV Harpstel l1cl~pl1fcha~ul 1 S I"111~don ') I etall tUI-lllture bU~111ess,It Gr111nelI, 1m\ a C E liVel1S of } ort Doch;e h,ls ptll hasecd the fhollljHlll stock of tur111turl at 'Ir,lfuI~ 10\\ a I he CIty 1 Url11tule dnel l-nelu tdklnc, C(IllJllll' 'ULl l h the Cl1dtha111 Illl111tllrc Llllllj)J!1\ ot Chatham I IIL; 111Icl fhc Ostu man TUll1ltul C Company of Cle\ eland 1 )jllo have lecIuceel thel1 capItal stock 110m $-100(10 to $~+ (1(1(1 Scott &.. \\ Illtams of \then~ 1e,a, h,n e mO\ ul then tUI 11Iture stOlc llJto largu al1el l11uch 1ll00C dC'II,lble ljUlltC1 , 11 tl~e Pnnce bUllcl11l~ rlltl"h cotton 111111" bought; iOO bale, Ie" la\\ coUrl1 In ~ugU'it, 1910 than 111 the same month la,t ,cal but \\ l1o1t thcv dId b11\ cOot them $2000,000 mOl e Seer 0 Knuteson tllll11tlll e dealel ,ll1d undel take 1 Tn 1I1gston, \\ h , \\ a'i acclelent,tll) klllcd on c.,cptembel ')0 TIIUlngton &.. Thomp~on fur111tlll c dlalu ~ ot I'a\\ nCl (1],]1 have been succecded b, the Pa\\nee 11ll111tule alc1 lIllel\\ II company The TIdlclfolec II hoL~,t1c [1ll1l1tl11C c0111pam ot "a,h\l11 L'cnn 1:0 E:1cctm~ d lcu~e bllck btllldllJ~ to he thul ,I' ,I \\ III hothe amI fil11~hlllg elepal tment The Del b\ De,k LOmpam ot l1o'1On b'h tIll umtrdct fot fl11111~hing all \\ooden fUIllltule tOI the ht, 'Ilc 111011aILlbl ary of '\ C\\ Ha\ en Conn noston f1ll111tllle men thc I ctallel' al c dc, Ollt dc \ 'tCC' r thc IJm\1111g allll The, hd,e ,I ledgllC ot I\\ehc tCdIll' 111(1 have Just lllaugtllatcel the scasoll Dt lCJjO-ll The II estelll Hou;,ehold "upph Company Clllca~o, lld' been 1I1COI porateel b\ Samuel '-,choenher~el c.:amuel C TIld" hak al1d Herman LcfkO\\ It7 CapItal 'itock 82 :;00 The IIegel lUrt1ltlll e compam ot '\ e\\ Ila, e 1 (Ull 1 h let the contrac t fot I cbtllldmg It, htll1clt 19 tlut \\ a, b I'll cl I, cently The) ale dome; bus111e~~m tempm ,11 \ Cj lal t,I' Fl 'i\\ ell, 'Ilel71 & 'IfcCalln, f1l11l1tule elcalet-- ot TIalab(J) \\ h, ha\ l 111corpOlatuIllndcr the Ildl11Cof thc [I ~\\ ell 'If e]/I l"C 'I!ceJdnn 1 Ulnl1Ule compam Cdll!tdl stock S10000 rrhe CnIlIllIH?,ham f'UlllltU1C and l ndelLlklllg c l111p,\l1\ of Lo\\el!lllle, OhIO ha\e Inuea~ed thcn capItal q ck 11 m $+0000 to $i:; 000 They ha, e a hlanch store at Stl uthcr'i 0 Referee Stonec kel of thc fedel dl COUItat Topcka Ka n, has becn authOllzed to declarc a final c1n Idend to CIeclttc I ~ ot thc Opeld FUI111tule company, bankrupt of 1 a\\lcnce Kan Geor~c G Dunn anel Th0111a~ ::-, \\cJJ~ h,\\<:' P\llChl cd ereorge L Fbetle s 111telc~t In the IVatcr!oo ([o\\a) 11lll11t 11 and Carpet compc\1l\ ,mdno\\ ha\c full contlol ot thc h11'111," Thc film of 1\01ton &.. CanO\\a\ fll1111t11ICdedlel~ (t e ) 111mbllS, S C, ha~ consoltdated \\ Ith the Calolma r \llllltUI c company and WIll do bllSl11eSS unclel the name ot thc \hl am, 1 111 niture compdny "Not £01 profit' hut "tD plomote the lntele~1 ot let,11l tUI 11ItUle dealers" F '\ FabIan, \bram f' \c1elman anel [I cel Dltlm have 1l1corporated the f'urlllttll e Dealers' 'I[ el c antl1r L, change of ChIcago, III rI he Pearce- Robms~n company fur11lt11re dealcl s anJ un dertakel s, of San ~ntonlo, Tcx, are erect1l1g an undertakers' hUS111es~hou~e and el1dpcl \\ hlch b to be the 'fillc~t l)ll1ldll1~ Df 1ts kind south of St Loms" J Reelllldn &. '-,011 of e,l and RapId", 'I[lch ha\ c pul chdsed the plant of the \Tat Ion II Table \\ O1k, (11 \Llllettd Ohio, \\hlch ha" hccnldk fOJ se,Clal ,care; rIhe\ \\111 0\C1- -h,wl 11 dllll mdnutdLtlll c hIgh grade tdble,., dnd offIce chaIrs 1 \\ \ndrL\\s ha" pUlcha"ed tne J \\ Doufihty fur11lttlle ,tm e ,11lelulldcrt,t1ong bus111ess dt \Iontro<c, Ia J vV Doughty & ",on ha, c pUl1Jchased the J 'II Schanel fur111ture and undel-tak11l~ bllSmess ,It "penccr, 10W'1 fhc I etall I Ulllltnrc Dealel s a~COUdt!on and the Unelel-telkel ~ l 1l10ll ot "t LOlllS, \[0 l1clve 'Idopted resolut!on~ oppos- 1l1~ ,Utc \\ Ide plohlbltlOn ,111(1plec1e;lllg thClr member" to wOlk t(l! the defca t ot the PIOposltlOn at the electIOn next m011th The ~'i"ouatcd Rctalleh of St Lotll'i, ),10, claIm to have (h~u \ ereel thdt thell mterce;h ;,ufter tl'lm latlroad dlscnml-lldtl 11l ,lgal1hl then Llt\ ,11c1 11d\ e elppo11ltec1 a commIttee to hn 1 JUI \\ h It can be elone to secure a 'iquelre dealm the matter at tlel~ht late, I he Hcm e TUIllltUI e and Hard \Val e company of HO\\ e, llkLI hel' 1(cn \l1crrpOlated \\Ith capItal stock fixed at $50,- CO) e T,ellncc!l \\ T makc T ~ ",Thlte, ,v B Emery, F 'II 11Il, If \\e]1)(ln ( ~ B1111l1g'iley and R H Hayes ,'I c the ~tc ckhuldel ~ 1he \ 01th 'IIi bllc (\la) Development company has 11l-c1nccd thc (01111th ('IIlss) ChaIr comp111J to move Its plant tlU11] COll\lth to 'I[ob1le The cha1r company 1S expected to LllplO\ ,Ibout ])1) me11 l\l the facton a11d furlllsh \\ ork fOl dbol1t )1)(1 \\ Cl11]C'l11\(1£;nl~ at the1r home~ I rululel, '" T"\ el' fur111tUre dealer ot 30 I:ac,t Twenty-hl't ,ueet \e\\ \(Ik, ha'i been adJuJgec1 bankrupt, WIth 11dbtlltlC-' ,checInlcc1 at $:;0240, a"scts $29000 George F I] '" 11a, 1 Cln ap)lIJIlltell Iccen e1 w1th authunt) to CiJil ttJ1tlC thL lJt1,]nc~, tllltll "0\ cmhel 1 \!lCg111g th,lt Chht flom theIr nuitrcss factory damdges and (lccreace" the ,alue of hel adJll111111Rproperty, Bclle Orchard has ,ccureel an 1111t111ctlOna~a111st Roberti TIrothers of Los '\ngeles Cd 1e~tl ,\l11lng' them flam keep111Rtheil windows open and al 1(J\\111~the c1thL ftom the caldln~ 111achll1es to spread over the nelgh1JOIhood The conti 0\ el s, 0\ el the contest for co Irt hou"e fur1l1tUI-In ( 1e\ eland 0]110 \\ a, "ctUed b) the count) COmml'i'ilOner'i IC1LC[111"':thc 11\\ lq ll1d, t11dt of 1\ ,t11(U{U &.. Co, uf \[tl- \\ dukcc tU] 'l()?-\l?-\();0, dnd accejlt1l1g the next luwest, thdt of tl1C ILI\dcn (( Illjlam ot '\C\\ lurk CIty, $70000 CI here v"ele o11C11)1(1~langl1lg ±tom $77,000 to $88,000 Sanford Ta) 101 and [ \V Raw1111g." two ))U 19 men 1\ ho estahh"hccl the "~\ stems bl11cau" 111 St LOlliS '1[0 ab ut d ,ear ago ha, c 'iucceedec1 'iO well that they have de-llded t) enlalgl the ~cOJlC of thell hUS111eS'i and mOve to bet-tu qUdltU~ ,ll -Hi "r Ith rle;hth 'itlect \\here thfy \,,111carry d lull Imc uj l+tlLl ll1111lttlle dnd fjxtLlIC~ I hc ,I \!,alll/atJ()ll oj the Reta11 FUIllltme Dealer,,' as- -ouatl J1l ot Louhland ha-, been completed \lvlth 22 membele; fhe oiflcel' a1C ) l' c.:haffcr, "e\\ Otlean~ tJle'ildent, A H Duma, C T Cd111jJbell S H 1lnell R T \valsh J C J\Iat tIte\\' \ Ice pI c~J(lents :\ ~\ StIllman Lake Charles secretary S H Cobb 'I Ionl oe tt eaSllI er 1he Ore;d11lZat!on \\ as effected at \lexdncl1\a hut III the future the meet1l1g'i V\111 be held in '\ e\\ OJ!eam 1hc proplldolo of dcpartment 'itc I e~ and mel cantllc firlll~ CUI1lIuct111e;branch buslnes'ie'i 111 Germany are to hold a com ent! J11 In f'rankfOl t thIS month to form an organization tor the pm pc ~e of PIOtCCt111g thel1 IIltere'its ancl to prote'it e-,peualh ,1e;a1l1c,tthe hea\ \ burden'i ot tdxatlOn whIch they ale Iu[ulled tu bedl Thele ale thousands cf branch stores III eILIlllanv and mOl e than a hundrcd dIfferent hranche'i of bUSlllLc," IV III he I Cprt 'iented III thc COll\ entloll WEEKLY ARTISAN UPHAM MANUFACTURING CO. MARSHFIELD, WIS. No 2228 Toilet Table SEND FOR OUR Dressers Chiffoniers Dressin1! TallIes Suites Wardrolles Sidelloards Buffets Etc. Made in Oak, Bird's-Eye Maple, Mahogany, etc., and All Popular Finishes No 2240 TOlltt Table COMPLETE CATALOGUE Fire Losses are Heavy. From a file underwntmg standp01l1t ln~Ulance men state that 1fJI0 will pr J\ e to be a declded1) unprofitable) ear If the pre"ent plOpert) 10:os late heeps up until the end of next December A1reac1), It IS estimated. the fire" have far ex-ceeded the recO! d for the can espondmg pellod Il1 190fJ and proml:oe to transcend tho"e of any other ) ear smce 1906-- which was marked by the San Francl"co conflagratlOn-when the total for the year was $518,000,000 The total for 1909 was $188,000.000 ASide from the losses on smaller mercantile 1hks, the compames report that the) have so fdr been particularly un-lucky in fires m "a \vmIlls, lumber and flour 111111'3g,ram ele- , a tor.." warehouse.., of "anous bnds In the 1111c!cllewest and .south and depal tment and general stores fhele have been a number of 1alge group an,l water front fil es m wInch the pLJpel ty damage ha" excLeded $1,000 000, while the losses rangmg between $500,000 and $1,000,000 111 , anou s parts of the coun try number nearly a score Throughout the nort1n\ est, l11lClcl1ewest and '3outh the n umher of smdll tenv n.., whleh ha \ e lo",t their bu:omes", centel s throu~h lack of propel fire gettlng fauhtles and adequate \\ <ltel '-,upph ha') been dll1lor11ld1 and the pi operty m n) tewer ~----------------------------------------------~ I A. L. HOLCOMB & CO. IIIII II , II I I I~-------------------- Manufacturers of HIGH GRADE GROOVING SAWS DADO SAWS CItizens' Phone 1239 27 N. MarketSt .. Grand Rapids. Mlch 21 than fi\ e tovvns m the United States and Canada hay e been entirely wiped out. ASide ham mcenchar) an.i defective flue-fires, the two great causes. the underwntel s say that the statistics of causes will show a large increase 111fires from hghtn111g, brush fires, care1e'3s1y thro\\ n matches and Clgal s and tobacco pipes New Stamping Works. The Ideal Stamp111g and Tool company have rented a store at 465 Korth Ottawa street and are fittmg It up With machmery fOl the production of all kmds of metal stampmgs The founder of the mstItutlOn and one of the pnnclpal owners Ie.,1\Iannus Oosd)ke, v\ho for 111ne years "a'S the toreman fOl the Crescent "1Iachme \\ orks of Grand Rapids and the Hard- Y\ are supply company of GranJ Rapids, both exten'Sl\ e pro-ducels of speCial fi'Ctules for the fml11ture and \'Vood workmg tJades It" III thus be seen that Mr Oosc!yke has had the benefit of many years experience m the busmess \\ Ith an outfit of the very latest stamp1l1g devices the company are prepared to execute orde1 s fOl any stampmg \'V01 k \\ hllh may be reql11red b) the furniture tI ade They a1 t now makll1g th1 ee 01 fom useful lIttle artlclee., fOi the 11"e of llldnufaeturer'-, of chnmg tdb1e'o, among whIch are dowels dnd 'oockets, top fasteners and leaf gl11des These deVice" are, mentorious and are produced on the nght cost bae.,ls so that It wIll pav any fl11mture manufacturer or wood worker who may be In need of these (le\ Ices to obtain thl.., co llpan)'" f1gl11es hetOl e pldc1l1g Olelcl s The company's den"vel and socket Ie., IllU'otrated 111 thell ad\ el tJsement on another page of thiS h"ue Sample" of an) of thelr 1 egular lme V\ III be sent to an) manufactl11 el who may be mterested and quotations Will be made plOl11pt1y for any speCial \\olk II I I II ---' 22 WEEKLY ARTISAN AN IMPORTANT INSURANCE DECISION Combination of Indiana Companies Declared to Be Against Public Interests and There-fore Unlawful. That nearly all the fire 1I1surance companie, clOlng 1m-1- ness in IndIana, have entel ed 1I1to a comb1l1a t10n to l nto! ce uniform rates of 1I1surance has heen e,;tablt,;hed In \Uorne\- General James Bmgham 111 111'.,SLHt on hehalt ot the "tate aga1l1st tho<.,e compal11es, accord1l1g t'l a Jecblon I endel ed by Jud£;e Clalence L \\Ye11 of the -upell01 COUlt ,1 [11dlelll apolIs, \Ivho Is,;ued a pel petual lnJ unLlJ(ll1 ag,lln - t t h, l I 11 pa111e" to ple\ ent them flom mal11Lllnl11g -,lllh a l0ll1hl11ellll 11 Judge \Vell held that \\ hlle It \\ a" unla\\ Iul tIll lhe u Il1 pa111es to enforce rate" of 1I1,;urance In mean" Ilt a l0l1111111a tlOn, It was la\" ful for them t'l malnta1l1 thell hUI telLh and tll combIne for the purpo,;e ot ohta11l1l1g knO\\ leJl?,l 01 I bk, ,In<1 for the purpose of establI,;hlng "1l1111ant\ III l0l1dlt1C111- t po11cle,; ThIS WIll enable the 1I1"Ulanle lOmpell11e-, t) lOIl-tInue bureau,; 111 IndIana and to pUlcha,;e late -lhedule- -IJ long as they do not comh11le to entOlle plllt" the L ,Ult held that the 1l1"t1lc\ 111Lht he 11ee to U)l1tl,tLl 1111lIhUldliLl WIthout be1l1g hampelecl b} a pIlle cOl11b1l1alton ?\latters of [dCt onh \".el e con-'lClel ed 11l the clelhlun ,1-, on a prevIOus occa"lOn 111 connert1Un \\ Ith the elltUl11e\ genu al'" SUIt, Judge \Yeir had deCIded that the publtc l11tel e-,t was 1I1volvecl 111 the fire 1I1surance bLb1l1ess, and that theretol e thIS bus1l1ess was ,;ubJect to the authOllt\ ot the COUIh III caSe of unla\\ful comb1l1atIon,; Onl} a "mall number ot de fendant Insurance compames \\ere found h\ Judge \\ ell to be gutltless of comb1l1atlOn to fix pllces The perpetual InjunctIOn \\as I,;suecl aga1l1st the SelIel~ and McMurray btlleaLh, a,; \\el1 as the malO1lh ot th, cIeJen-clant companies The 111.., Ulanc e men declare they \\ III L,lI! \ the case to the state SUpl eme court and hIgher It necc,,-an but the attorney-general doe.., not belte\ e the\ \\ t11 take an appeal At any rate thev \\II! lla\e to dl",;ohc the11 comb1l1- atlOns for the present and It \vlll lequIre ,;ome tU11e to get a ru11l1g from the supreme court The IndIana deCISIon \\ III be ot 1I1tcrest to POItCi holder.., in al1 states that have so-caI!ed 1I1SUlance bUleaus and mo"t of them have orgall1zatlOnc; slmtlar, 111 methods and eflect" at least, to those enjOIned by J nde;e \\Ye11 \Ilchlgan has one WIth offices in the pnnClpal CItIes, but the m~ulance mell declare that It I'; not ,;uch a combmatlOn a" that declal ed t1le-gal in IndIana The) contend that cloe" not fix or mal11ta1l1 rates, but simply 111\ estigate,;, makes SUl\ evs and "adi Ises the compal11es as to the character of the n~ks hazard~ etc Policy holders, hoV\ ev el, kno\\, onl) too vveI! ' tha t the' ad-vKe" gIven by the ::\llchlgan In"pectlOn BUleau, a.., It IS called, IS taken as an order and stnctly obeyed by most ot the agents General agents of compall1es d01l1g bus1I1e,;" In \Illhlgan declare there is no agl eement or combmatlOn to mall1tdL1 rdte-but the) admIt that they fix late, stnctl} in aClOldanle \\lth reports and 1I1structlOn,; from the Inspectlon Bureau and that an ag en t refusll1g to fix rates a,; so "I ecommenJed" In the bureau would probably be deUled the Use of the In[OI111;- 1Ion fur111shed, even though wlll111g to pay hI'; ,;hale of the expense of mall1ta1l11l1g the bureau Most of the pollcy-holdel'; belle\ e that the rnall1 pUI-pose of the lI1spectlOn bureau h to fix and maIntal11 rate" whIch are hIgher than the} \\ ould be \\ Ith the CUl11pdnle~ actll1g lI1dependently, and the) pOInt to condItIons 111 Granel Rapi.ds as good eVIdence of the truth of such beltef Rates THE WORLD'S BEST SAW BENCH Budt WIth double arbors, shdmg table and equIpped complete WIth taper pin guages carefully graduated. ThIS machine represents the heIght in saw bench con-strucllon It ISdeSIgned and bwlt to reduce the cost of sawing stock. WrIte us for descriptIve InformatIon. THE TANNEWITZ WORKS, ~fc}f.gf:'PIDS, III Gldnd RapId" alt hlghu than 111 1110St othel CIties of -1l1111alS17e and concltltons, malnl} because of a lack of water "uppl}, though mo"t of the larger bUIldIngs have connectIOns \\ Ith the Clt} anc! the H) draullc company's mal11s. The cIty ha" Just lI1stalled a nei, modern pump, WIth a capacity of 12,000000 gallon- per da), \\ hich, WIth the old pumps stJlI Ul commISSIon \\ III fUlll1sh an ample supply of water for fire protectIOn and all other purposes. \\Ylth the l11stalIatlOn of the new pump many policy hold-el s hai e expected a material reduction 111 the l11surance raies \\ hlch they conSIder e:Aorbltant, but when they approach an agent on the subject they are told that 1I1sta1lll1g the new pump IS only a small part of V\hat must be done before the 1I1spectlon bureau can "recommend" a reductIOn in rates, \\ hen they ask for furthel partIculars, poltcy holders are I eferreJ to the 1l1SpectlOn bureau, and If they apply there, they are referred to a report filed WIth the fire and poltce com-mISSIOn by a CIVIl engll1eer employ ed by the bureau. The report referred to gtves the eng1l1eer's opinion as to \\ hat should be done 111 the way of fire protectIOn before the hUl eau should (ach I"e" 10\\ el rates on Grand RapIds 11sk" In addItIOn to the new pump It lecommends more eng1l1e houses, mal e men and addItional eqUIpment for the engll1e house" nuvv u<,ed, reVISIOn and radIcal amendment of build- 1l1g rules and regulatIOns, etc, All of whIch must be secured befOl e the NatIOnal Board of Gnderwnters can be expected to raIse Grand Raplds to a class that WIll ]t1stlfy the 11Ichlgdn In,;pectlOn BUleau III ('advlsmg" the agents to lower the raie" Any real merchant know,; the cllffel en,e hetv\ een buymg ivhat he admires and i\ hat he can sell WEEKLY ARTISAN 23 SHORTAGE IN STEAM COAL Grand Rapids Dealers Anticipate Trouble in SecurinJl Supplies in the Near Future. Some of the Grand RapId" coal dealers antIcIpate a "hOI t-age in the supply of coal cluIIng the late fall and early WII1ter In fact some of them ha\ e already experienced difhculty II1 secunl11g theIr "upp1y, owmg to delay In "hIpments or trans-portatIon, order" that "Were placed early In c\ugu"t for prompt de11\ ery havmg faIled to arrive untIl the fir"t \Hek m Octo-ber The trouble 1'-, not clue to a "hortage at the mmes but to the mabIlIty of the raIlroad" to transport the commodlt) There is saId to be plenty of coal at the OhIO and \Vest VIr-ginia mme". lI11uch of it in caIS standmg on sidetrack", but the raIlroads lack motlve po"Wer and some of them are "h01 t on cars Most of the soft coal used m Michigan C0me" over the Pere Marquette road and It" connections and the Pere Marquette IS said to he m bad shape m regaId to eqUlpment and unable to procure funds to invest in engines and new cars The same IS said of the '\ orfo1k & \\ estern. the DetrOIt. Toledo & Ironton, the Hockmg Valley and several other coal roads Another reason for expecting a shortage is the fact that owmg to a stnke the IIhn01:o mines have not been producmg for several months They are beIng worked now, full blast but will require some tIme to catch up with their orders and. in the mean tnne much of the field that has been using Illin01s coal will draw supplIes from the Indiana mmes, whIle :\IIchi-gan will ha\ e to depend mainly on OhIO and \Ve"t \Tirgmia mines with a longer haul Some MIchigan dealel s also have a gnevance agamst the raIlroads m regard to freight rates and weIghts. particularly as to weight It IS no uncommon thing for a car to be found two or three tons short of the rallI oad weight For instance the dealer IS charged freIght on 40 OJ 41 tons and is required to pay promptly \iVhen he finds the actual weight only 38 or 39 tons, he can demand a rebate and usually gets it but that involves delay and considerable "red tape" and the matter has become such a nUIsance that the dealers are considerinfS the advisabIlIty of unitmg in a formal protest Some of the dealers express the opinion that the trouble-some delays m shIpments are not really necessary, that the raIlroads are not so poorly eqUlpped as they pretend They mIstrust that the shIpments, m some mstances at least, are Jelayed purposely WIth a v Iew of showing that the rallI oael:" must be allowed to advance freIght rates in order to obtam funds to keep theIr equipment m proper conelttIOn to handle current busme"s. Advertised Goods Sell Best. Leadmg manufacturers of furmtnre are spencltng vast sums m helpmg the retaIler to sell their products Pages of the magazmes that were m past years filled WIth advertIse-ment:" of maIl OJ der merchants now contain the aeh ertise-ments of manufacturers. conveymg information to the publIc m regard to theIr good" anJ how to purchase the "ame \Tak-ers of sectIOnal bookcases lead in the amount of o.pacc uo.ed, closely followed by the makers of 1\J Isslon fUl nitUl e, brass beds, tall clocks and mattresses The manufactul el ~ also "uppl) retaIlers with mIllton" of CIrculars and booklet:" for rltstnbutIOn to cu"tomers It I" 1 are mdeed "When such manu-facturers complain of Jull trade AdvertI"ed good" sel1 be"t \Vhether the advertisement he I11tended for the I etaller 01 the consumer IS Immatenal The I esult IS the same The above cut 1Staken d1rect from a photograph, and shows the range of one size only. our No.1, 24-inch Clamp. We make six other sizes, taking in stock up to 60 inches wide and 2 lllches thick. Ours is the most practical method of clamping glued stock in use at the present t1me. Hundreds of factories have adopted our way the past year and hundreds more will in the future. Let us show you. Let us send you the names of nearly 100 factories (only a fractlOn of our list) who have or-dered and reordered many t1mes. Proof pos1t1veour way is the best. A post card w1ll brlllg 1t, catalog included. Don't delay, but wr1te today. A. E. PALMER & SONS, Owosso, MICH. FOBEIGN BEPBESEN'l'ATIVES: The ProJectile Co., London, England; Schuchardt & Schutte, Berlln, Ger-many; Alfred H. Schutte, Cologne, Paris, Brussels, Liege, M1lan, TUrin, Barcelona and Bilboa. ~-_ ....-... .._... -- ------------- .,...---------_._._._-_. _______ . _ __. __ •••• iiI.. _~ TUE "ELI" FOLDING BEDS ARE BREAD AND PROfIT WINNERS No Stock complete WIthout the Ell Beds m Mantel lLnd Upniht ELI D. MILLER &, CO. EVANSVILLE, INDIANA Wnte for cuts and pnces. ON SALE IN FURNITURE EXCHANCE, EVANSVILLE. j j.------- 24 WEEKLY ARTISAN SINGLE CONE ALL STEEL SPRINGS Are very popular with the Furniture Trade. $2~ $2~ Each Net Each Net No. 46, Single Cone, $2 Each, Net. We manufacture a full line of Single and Double Cone All Wire Springs. SEND US YOUR ORDERS. SMITH &. DAVIS MFG. CO., St. Louis Ford and Johnson Company Concentrating. /\. specIal meetl11g ot ,tach-holder, ot the l OJ d 6.. lohlHlI1 compan), manutactlll el" of chan" etl \\ ,1" held 011 -"'eptl1nhu 28 in Cl11Unnatl to dISCUS",1 leadJustment of the attalh {t t lL company, \\ hlch has a capItal of $,"l,000,000 La-t \ugust a "pe clal meet111g of stockholdel s \\ a, Lalled fO! the pm po,e oj Lon sldering plans for the I edl1l tlOn of the capItal and ,1 "peLl,t! commIttee \\ as named b\ the board to de\ I"e a plan dllli IepO! t at the Cl11cll1natI meetll1g 1111" speCIal meetll1g \\ a" po"tpnl1ec1 from the date of the ongll1al call untIl Septembel and ,H:: un in some tunc 111 January. The company has an Immen,e manufactultng plant at \JJLh- Igan CIty, plants 111 New Haven and Hal Hot cl Conll '\ e\\ \ O!k CIty, San FranCISco, Lomsvllle and I'tankfol t l~\ and ltl Un cago. The l\Ilchigan CIty plant emplo\ s ] 200 hand" 1 hL plan to whIch the stockholdels have gIven taCIt applov,l1 h t01 the dIsposal of a number of these branch houses ancl the LO1- centratlOn of the capital and enel gy 111 the J\1'Ic111ganClt\ pldl1t whIch WIll probably be enlarged. The pI esent capitahnt10n IS dIVIded 111to$1,300,000 of co 11 man and $11')00,000 plefelted ,tmk ]UIed \\ hlle 011 dut), \\ Ithout negh~ence on the part of the dltenclcl11t and I \\ Ithout sellOUS or WIlful mIsconduct' on hI ~ JMIt, but "oleh b} I eason of the necessary risk or danger of hh employ ment Behre the passage of thIS act he vvould ha\ e had absolutely no remedy at law under the then-exist- 111g ,tatutes, but no\\---If the fact stands the constItutIOnal te,t, he ma} lecO\ el damages accordIng to a fixed scale of lompenOlalOn \\ Ithout provl11g that the defendant company \\ a, 111 an} \\ a} at fault 111 the matter of the Il1Jultes sustained b\ hIm The case wIll have a heanng befO! e a full bench and may be calned to the court of last resort [t h bettel to make a mhtdke occa~lOnal1y than to (he of 11 all I Jl1 amI dl \ lOt ROL For Bed Caps, Case Goods, Table Legs and many other purposes; in Gum, Mahogany and Quartered Oak Veneers. Employers Liability Law Held Good. The workmen\ com pen ~atlOn la \\ enacted h) the leg lS-Jature of '\ew York last Wl11ter has heen held \ dhc1 hy Judge Pound of the state SU])1 emc court 111 a deCl~lOl1 rendel ed dt Buffalo, Idst \\ eek 'J he plal11tnf III the lase \\ a~ a 111dn named 1\ es who blOught ,mt agan1,t the South Duftalo RaIl- \\ a} company for damage" on aLcount of personal 1111Ul1e,1 e-lcned vvhde 111 Its 'ienlce B\ unl mttachctecl tesiJl1lon\ he pro\ eel that he \\ as employ eel a" a S\\ jtLhman amI \\ ,1S 111- The Fellwock Auto & Mfl!. Co. EVANSVILLE, INDIANA WEEKLY ARTISAN By E. Levy, Re-prese-utative. CI1I<..ago, Oct 5-I:arIy m ~eptembel \\ O1k \\ a" cem-menced on the el ectlOn If a n e\\- b11ck bmlclIng tor C L II de}, who~e \ eneer mIll I" at 2564 ",outh Robey ~treet, ChI-cago rll11::, h to be u~ed e'Cdusl\el} for v\arehouse pm-po" e" 1he ne\\ "tlUCtUl e \\ III be four stone::, and has an alea ot 53:x 100 teet It IS bmlt on tne mo,t moder'l Illle~ of mIll con"tlud1Clll and h as neal1} fireproof a:o ~uch a bmldlllg can be made Hel e they \\ 111hay e ample 100m to "tore then "tock of fine \ eneel, \\ hleh Ie; cut m theIr mIll acl- J01nlllg and It \\ 111be "tocked at all tIme~ \\ Ith ever} class of good::, 1eCJulled b} the plano and fmll1tm e manut,lcturers to gethel \\lth other u"ers of \ eneer" Tt 1:0 expected the buIld-lllR \\ III be vlmpletee1 \\ Ithlll a COUIJle of months ,md prepar-atlOnc; are bem£; made f01 OCCUpy111g It about the fil ",t week 111December \. ne\\ bus111ee;" ha" heen ee;tablIc,hecl under the name of the LOI eland & IIlnahan eompan}, at S27 II e"t Van BUlen -treet Cll1ca~o fO! the ~ak 0f 11e\\ and IH,eel \\ ooel \\ )jkmg Maje by the Charles Bennett Furmture Compdny, Gharlotte, MlCh maChmel} "a \v-mll1 maeh111el) and \\ ood \\ 01ke1;,' supplIes Both of the men \\ ho:oe names appeal In the company have hael a numbel of years' expe11ence m the handlIng and sale of \\ ood-\\ 01klll£; lllachmer) anel tool" a,HI dre thofll,lli"hly po~ted m theIr Ime of trade The) are young, enerlSetlc and hay e galle mto the buslneo" to "ta} They hope to e;ucceed 111thIs ne\\ \ entm e dnd If haHI \\ 01 k ,me! honest e!eahn~ \\ III adlle\ e then ene! then the} belIe\ e It \\ III be aitalllee! IJUC,1I1C.S\\Slth the ne\\I) f01mec1 h1l1lll\-R llllL co 1 p un I'> 1Cp01ted a" hay 1l1~ gOlle on \\ Ithont an} change 01 mter InptIOn \\ hatev er, and 1 II K1I1ne}, pre,,\(lent ane! Cdl1\ Ie 2S IL:IIal£;, "ale" mana~el, tog ethel \\lth othel::' who mOvecl \\ Ith them repO! t thdt the} hay e become cImte accustomed to theIr ne\\ el1Vllonmen t m the "plendld tactory which was bmlt bv the Central Bee!chng C0m])dn) Ie"" than tv\ 0 } edrs alSO at 3617-3431 Center a\ enue Du~me"s has gone on as thongh there ne\ er haJ been a 1e-orga111LatlOn and :\I[r K111- ne\ ,\\ ho ha" I )ng been a 1eSldent of the ~outh SIde, finds It both com e111ent and natmal to llde \\est to the new locatIOn \Ithon£;h It Ie; not mOl ethan d \ ear S1\1ce the Hd2,gaHl &. IIaluls"en compan) has occnplecl It" new plcl11t at Ie')") II e-t Tll1rtv -seventh street the} 1eport that the} al e aII eae!} be1l1g U 0\\ eled for splce thongh It \\ as thought \\ hen the} went mto It tlBt It \\ 0nld ampl} Idrge enongh to stem then neec!s for a n11111bcrof } eal s 1he bl1S111eoshas gro\\ n so qmckl} that the} al e contemplatmg ac!c!mg space to theIr splenchd ne\\ faciO!} to accom111oe!dte theIr fa~t gI0\\ m~ tIade m ",pung bed" The Hafnel lnrmtnre COmpdl1\ mal1nfactnrer", ot conches lonng es, cla\ en])O!ts etc ;2() W DearbO!n street al c \\ O!kI l~ on a ne\\ catalog- \d11Ch \\ III "0011 be reaclv to mall t'J the trae!e They get ont a cat,dog tv\ Ice a }ear of thcll exclnslve l111eof pat tel ns, the frames of \\ hlch are deSIgned and made m theIr 0\\ n lacto!} enablmlS the111to have all theIr deSlRlJs e,<:cIusl\ e and fO! theIr tI ade onh II D Sagel 1ep01 ts ,I lalgel trade 11l the "Imes that sell" 111 sto\ eo, indnc!111g the "(lflkhl11 st ' 'Bea\ el,' 'C1nderella' and "Dockash," than the} hay e e\ el had before and are 111nch pleased \\ Ith the b1hme,,~ they hay e clone thIS "eason I[r ",agel ha" heen sell111~ "to\ e" to the tl ae!e for mOl e than a cinartel-centun and thele IS no 'o;t')\ e" man In the conntr}, 1101stoves, better kno\\11 than he and hl~ He has some "pec 1 d th1lS" that may he learned abou1 by addlesslng 111m at 330 Last l\oJth Ilatel stleet, Chicago If 111 need of fnrnlture leather sene! f01 ~all1pIcs and prIce" to the Dahm & KIefer Tanning company, 204 Ldke ,tree1., ChIcago Thev make a "peclaliy of fnrl11tnre leather dncl offer some beantIful goods in fanc} dne! pla111 COI010 111 "heep and g-oat "k111e; New Factories. \ compam to he capltalIzee! at $ >., OCO h belll~ 01C;,lllILdl to establI"h a dUll factory ,it ~tates\ll1e, '\ C ] he Gl ay lurmtl11 e comp1nv has been 111corpOlatee! to e' tablbh a fdcto!} at \dnan IIIC h CapItal stock, :s~;; 000 Rnm01 hdS It that] \ Dennett IS h\ 1112p,"lans to estahh"h a ne\\ bCt)l\ at ~heboy2,"an, 111", f01 the manufadl11e of jal-clImel e stands, pcdestdls, elC Lee G :I\lelver, Chas P Rodgel s H II vI eIlu dne! J E I1tzslmmons have 111corporated the I ee 1111mtnre u mlHl1\ 10 estdbhsh a factory at Sanford, ~ C CapItal "tock s);.., 000 William Widdicomb Gone East. II >IlIam II lc!clIcomb, ple"ldent of the 1\ le!clIcomb lurnl-tUle com pam h ,ISlt1112,"the tIac!e III the metropolItan clIstnct Thlrt, "\ea1S ago the company occuplecl a large warehouse locatedlll Canal street In "'\ew York, ancl supplIed the eastel n tI a Ie \\ Ith goods needecl fIom t111'e to tIme from the same Tohn E Fostel \\ hI} stIli 1epl e::,ents the comnany 1n ea"tern tCllltOl}, Ildd Chal2,"e of the "ame lmally the qualIty of the II lc!clIcomb goocls bec,lllle "0 \\ ell known ancl sole! so ea"d} t) the tracle that It \Vao; deemed no 10ng-el nece"sary to ma111- tam the ·wareroom and It \\as clo"ecl J\Tl IYldcllcom], el1Joys hI'> occaSIOnal tfIP- 10 the metropolItan elIstnct \ en much, although he meeb but ft.l\ of the huvuo; who O1del eel "tocke thloUgh the Candl stI eet \\ al chouse 26 WEEKLY ARTISAN Most Attractive Inducements for Car Load Buyers Are Offered by the THE KARGES FURNITURE co. Manufacturers of Chamber Suites, Wardrobes, Chiffoniers, Odd Dressers, Chlfforobes THE BOSSE FURNITURE CO. Manufacturers of KItchen Cabinets, K D. Wardrobes, Cupboards and Safes, In ImItatIon golden oak, plain oak and quartered oak. Made by 1 he Katge, Furntlute Co Evansville is the great mixed car loading center of the United States, made so by the Big Six Association. I•• _ ••••• I ••• • •• .. THE WORLD FURNITURE CO. Manufacturers of Mantel and Upnght Folding Beds, Buffets, Hall Trees, China Closets, Combination Book and LIbrary Cases. THE GLOBE FURNITURE CO. Manufacturers of SIdeboards In plain oak, ImItatIonquartered oak, and solId quartered oak, Chamber SUItes,Odd Dressers, Beds and ChiffOniers In ImItation quartered oak, lr<Jltatlon mahogany, and imItation golden oak. THE BOCKSTEGE FURNITURE CO. Manufacturers of the "Superior" Line of Parlor, LIbrary, Dining and Dressing Tables. I THE METAL FURNITURE co. I Manufacturers of "HygIene" Guaranteed Brass and Iron Beds, Cnbs, Wue Spnngs and Cots WEEKLY ARTISAN 27 Made by Bosse FutI1lture Compau) l\Tadt:.. by \Vorld to urlllLure LOmpall\ ...---- Mdde by Bockslege FurnIture Co LEXINGTON HOTEL 28 WEEKLY ARTISAN SUM~IER RESORT SHOP·KEEPING Women Deal in Furniture Without Having a Store Carrying Stock. , II C u-,ually cleal about a thousand lollal sa, cal on our handlwolk e!Oln2,"the vvork In II 111tCI and ,dl111g It III -,ul11l11er,' sale! onc ot hv 0 v oung II omen II ho klCP l Itttk shop at a ,ummel 1esort 111ConnectIcut Ih tl111Hl d vOh' hi'r time 111collect1112,"and repalr111g old f1111l1tl11lvIInk r p lInt In 011-, ane! v\ ater colors "The htt1e house IIhllh IIC l1ave GllUplull 1 hc nd,t three sum111er-, 11,1', ol1g111alh ,I pOltablc hrl\1,e )[ r II 1))1ll It II as not 111e.,peu,t!L 2,"ooe!1epa11 II hcn I' c 1111C1 GUI hane!s and becau,c of that II e paId 1e-,' than ,l hl1 cl I II hat It II ould have COq Ih nell II e "-elected the sIte l)ecause the use of the lanJ II a, gn en u" fl ee ot rent and ,t!,o lJ( cause It v\aS fal enough al\dv to 2,"ne u' pIli acv and vet nra' L11Jugh to OUI ne1ghlJol" to ,upph that fle1111g (J1 pI nlCC'tl n that make" ev cn the hI av e"t ot II 0111en 111 ,Ie c )mIO' tahk ",\" all an::.;ed nOli 0111 house ha, nnh thJle 1 )( 111, tl1l 11\ 111g roO'l1 the beeh Oclm and the kltc11en I he II h( Ie phLC is the shop Eve!) al tlc1e 111 11 e"ccpt1l1g om \v~alln, Plnl d and hed clothes, h fm sale anel 111mCht 111,tdncc, t 1e plIC, h marked 111 p1a111 fig U1(> '\ oth lng h n11 a coun C1 \ f tCl makIng many C"pelllllent, lie toune! that ,hl hc-t IIdv dlsp1av OUJ "ale., lIas to put l\Cl\ altlde "he'e 1t l u1d bc useful, a~ an ornament 01 a nece',lh 111 11 ']( 1',ekeeD1l1f., "Ho\\ dId v\e find thh ot1t 1\ In hlCdlhl I -t ml ' ahVeI)" "anted to bm the ±ll1ng, vIe \\lle '1 n~ "\nY', a clhtomel come- 111tOou Itl 111~!lJ 111,111, u-ud1h find., other n1\ f11111Cl()J me 01 both ot U' 111'\ (v II Ul II ork c..,heh ,It 011le lmple,,,e 1 \\1th OUI dl thtll 'Ul1()111l(hn~c, ,1nd 111nIne ca"e" out of ten II ant, to bIn ,ome n1 thc t'llng' .,he "ees 'Ot11meals are all sened1l1 Ol1e COlnl '11 he blll1.:!, loom and beIng u"ed at a meal doe" not 1cnde, anv 01 IUl '~1)lc\\ 11e Ie"" attlaltne On sevela1 occa'1C11h T h,l\C l1ad uht'11el' entel II h11e "e v\ ele eattl1Q, an,l lnn the ~P001b and dbh,o> vve v\ ere actually nS111g "T ast summer II e ,Iep" on mal1\ Cllttll1l1 1,c ],tccl l~ ')e- Ccllhc II e sold ~nlCe""l\ ell tho,e \1 l n,e,' \\ c l1C l )11 lnn,tlh pU±+1l1g111d1fterent lha11., and lahle' ,11](11 am -nIL v\ (' l u'1 sell thlee tIme" a" many hureau" and (11 e""111g Ldl']l' I~ I' e 11dve e, er had m one season "II hen we fir"t started I' e n~ed one 1O( m d' a ,[1CJjl l" clnsl\ eh and hacl all the smallu al'lc!l" JdngLCI (n ll1ntcI' and "heh es after the lhual method 0111 c,el1e- II l re not l ,,- l eptlOnal, and eve!) one II ho came III "aI' t aul ts 111 l H n nUl mo"t attracttve pIeces Once v\e h1t on the plan ot hdv Ing III ev Idenle on1) those aluc1es lie could nse a" tnr111,hln~~ 1m our lOoms the yel) people IIho had "een the tanlh and 1111- perfecttono; v'Vere the first to aJmlle and In 111an, In,tanCl' to buy the very pieces they had not con sidered 1101th a ttcn bon "Though VI e get as much old chma ac, pO""lb1e he lJulk of II ha tile sell IS pa111ted b) me Often I use model n pattel1h and deSIgns, bnt as a 1u1e I make copies of old plece'- Snch ware sells well in 1'\ew FnQ,ldml "hele persons ale an'.IOl\' for the patterns, even thou£;h thcv knOll the, II el e 'eLenth palllted IVe make no pretence that snch II al e bold 01 011- gina1 "Besides the chma I also do a numbel 01 p1Ctt11e" 1n 011s and water colors, and as man) pmtrdlts as I can get O!elel" t01 The most popular thmg 1 do IS the sea vleI' tt om the II 111dcm of our hving 100m Onh 1a~t II eek I VI a., look1l1g 0\ el onr books and fonnd that I held pa111ted 11101ethan fifh C0p1CS of that viev\. ~--- .._-------------------------- .._.__ ....~ ,• II III•• II II• II •I III •••• I IIII 500 Rooms. Michigan Boulevard and 22d Street. EVERY MODERN CONVENIENCE. New Cafes. New Grill Room. Offices and Rooms Redecorated. Absolutely Fire Proof. "YOU WILL LIKE THE LEXINGTON." III I j --~--------- J E MONTROSE CHARLES McHUGH ProprIetors HORACE WIGGINS, ASSIstant Mgr. Also operating Hotel Montrose, Cedar RapIds, la, Rock Island House, Rock Island, 1Il -----~ '\' ± J1 the tUl mture II e sell, by far the larger half IS the 1Ltl th11l~ that 1" old pIeces :\Iy fnend makes a spe~lalty of hUJl±1ng (11cl p1ece" from house to hou"e L:"n1ess one has mdlk a hou,e to hOlhe hnnt for old furntture one can have no 1dea 11 the amount of mahogany ane! goocl oak that was 0\\ nLCl bv the onglllal ~ ell Fng1andel s IVhere It has been 11llcled dcm n 1n the same faml1v for genelatl0ns It IS next to 1111)('~lblc to get 1t bnt Jf It ha., felllen Into the pO""e%lOn of 1 ~1leI" CJ1 ,1 danghtel-m 1all 01 a second WIfe, then we find ladc uonble ,IIv fnend ah\ a) s o;d)s that 111100k111g f01 old furmturc ,he make., a bee111le for a house where she heclrs there IS a ~ll md VI IJe If the fil st VI lfe has beeu the owner of any old 11ll111tule ,he feel., pretty "U1e )f gettmg It \Iost of the pIeces she pIcks np are sold because out of lepall Fe" people Vlho haven't made it theIr business know ho\\ to lepatr old mahogany BeSIdes domg the actna1 mend- 1l1g thel e IS the gettmg lld of the connt1es" layers of varnIsh ]Jut on It flam ttme to time 111 an effort to freshen and make 1t a" good as new 'In maIn 1l1stance" "ome of the finest pIeces she has col-lected hae! been enamelled VI hlte She says there must have betn a Clazc 1n \ C\\ Fng1an c1, especlall) Connecttcut, some t \v ent) ,eal., ago [01 v\111te endmelled fUl11lture and all the he"t shaped mahogan, and oak recen ed thIS new finish "She 1S as fone! of her branch of the bu "111e%as I am of 111111e,and when the settltng tlme comes her slele often run" ahead It 1~ not often that \\ e have a pIece of ftlll11tUl e left 111the h011~e when the end of the season comes This) ear we held to pers11ade the last of our cu"tOl11crs to allow some of the Chellr" and tclhles h011ghl and paHl fot to remalll 11ntl1 VI e closed the shop "Of eOU1:oeT belt eve the secret of 011r S11ccess is 111hdvmg WEEKLY ARTISAN 29 r-'PiTTSBURC"PLATiuGLASS"·CO. I LARGEST JOBBERS AND MANUFACTURERS OF I GLASS IN THE WORLD M
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344. Robert Loomis Diary, 1865-04-14

Notes:: Robert Loomis' journal entry concerning the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.
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345. Transcription of Robert Loomis Diary, 1885

Notes:: Robert Loomis writes of his travels and the various meetings he attended. Additionally, he writes about the decision to build the Soldiers Home in Grand Rapids.
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346. Michigan Artisan; 1907-06-10

Notes:: Issue of a furniture trade magazine published in Grand Rapids, Mich. It was published twice monthly, beginning in 1880. and GKAND f ''In 'n, RAPIDS ! ., \. J I" I! {i J") l'i! ' 'I,:, r01f j d I Twenty-seventh Year-No. 23 JUNE 10, 1907 Semi-Monthly You Want the Best ~WE HAVE IT-----. g Greatestspeedand highestpolish, g Pays 200 % per annum on the amountinvested. g Will sand with the grain and requireno retouchingby hand. g No troubleto answerquestions. Write for Catalog E Wysong & Miles Co. Greensboro.N. C. No. 166 SAND BELT MACHINE CEDAR ST. AND so. R. R. The Best Truck==TheStrongest Truck This is the famousGillette Roller BearingFa~t;'~y Truck-the truck on which it is said. "One man can move a load of 3000 pounds while with the olher trucks It takes three men," This is the truck fhat is strong where others are weak-the truck that has an unbreakable' malleable iron fork. This is the truck YOU are lookingfor if youwish to invest in rather than waste money on factory , trucks. Gillette Roller Bearing CO. ORAND RAPIDS, MICHIOAN The Llghte.t Running, Longest Lasting Truck .,.---------------rg WHEN PROPERLY USED heeler's Patent Wood Filler i. c:heaper than any other wood flUe!' on the market. even if sold for only half ill tlI'ice per pound. q Thil fa.:! we etaDd teady to prove by actual teSts by Pf*dicalmen rillht in your own factory. fJ If inlerefted ill obtaining a superior finish at IlII economical COlI, write, Uld we will ao fully rolo tile matter. THE BRIDGEPORT WOOD FINISHING CO•• New MlllorG. Conn. New York; Chicago: Philadelphia: Boston. I, A Final Thought on 1fIII'IIIIII Application __ •__ ........ Finish, In this serieswe have discussedFinish--:'as a factor in furniture sales,from the standpoint of Elegance, of Tone, of Character, of Consistency, and last but not least-of Profit. And in each of these talks was a distinct suggestion of profit to the manu-facturer who was alert, progressive and sufficiently receptive to make the personal application. Of these there have been many. And thosewho have applied the suggestions and investigatedthe differences in polishing varnishesare now applying to their furniture output-greater varnish satisfactionthan they have ever before known-i. e.- Andrews' Polishing Varnishes These varnishesare the application of our more than half a century's experience in the mahing of fine Varnishes. There's pleasure in their application, to the workman, in the evenness and ease with which they .worh and rub-and in the dependable uniformity of results. He knows when he gets through with a piece that it is done-' a fin-ished finish. There's profit in their application (reduced factory cost in the finishing department), as they do not sweat, nor check, nor crack, nor cloud, nor bloom. They are completil3lypurified-thoroughly seasoned-rigidly tested-they are different-'-andyours is the profit-in I "The Polish That Holds'" Your inquiry~ill facilitate the direct application of these sound and profitable "ThoughtsonFinish;" Write uS;this time, if you did not before-and let our nearby representative.call soon' arid tell you all you want to know concerning Andrews' Polishing Varnishes. Pratt' <D.. Lambert Varnish Mahers NewYorh London Buffalo . Paris Chicago Hamburg -------------------- ~----- 1 EARLY ENGLISH ART NOUVEAU Our Early English Spartan Stain con-tinues to hold its popularity and has be-come a strong favorite with both manufact-urers and dealers in high grade furniture. In the peculiar beauty of shade is found one of the reasons for the great and increasing demand for this finish. If you have not tried these stains write at once for sample of our Early English Spartan Stain No. 830' This shade has been the choice of discriminating dealers and manufacturers. "A New Art" •••The very newest method in Mahogany Finishing. Art Nouveau will produce in one operation the same re-sults heretofore requiring four operations. It is a stain and liller combined; dries well and can be shellaced and varnished same day if desired. HAVE YOU EVER TRIED OUR SPARTAN TURPS A POST THE CARD Will bring you detailed information reprdiIUl allY wood liniih desired, or if \her~ is '" ftaill 01 filler yeU woo to try we shall take pleasure in IIelldinlll you a salllple with full imtruc!tion.s for usinll: 88tDe. MARlETT A PAINT and COLOR COMP'Y MARIETTA, OHIO Sparlan Turps i; one of our own products and j,:, undeni-ably one of th", besl thiOl;l5 l:nown to the finisher for reduciull' Varnishes. Stains Paints. elc. It is the mo!!: perfeCl: wtvent known. These Specialties are used all Over the World Hand Feed GlueJng Machlne (Pat. pending.) Eight lItyles and. sizes. Veneer :Presses, all kinds and sizes. Veneer Presses Glue Spreaders Glue Heaters Trucks, Elc" Efc. WnmI·Wnrking Machinery and Supplies .~ Power Feed Glue Spreading Machine, (Patent applied for.) Single, Double Rud Combination. LET US KNOW YOUR WANTS 419·421 E. Eighth St. C"AS. E. FRANCIS &. BRO.D CINCINN4TI. O. No. 6 Glue Heater. The Originality of our work is one of its chief characteristics. Do You Want Something Original? WE BUILD HIGH GRADE CATALOGS COMPLETE White Printing Co. 2 to 20 Lyon Street GRAND·RAPIDS. MICH. ENGRAVING PRINTING BINDING 2 Our No. 156 Cabinet Smoothing Planer is the acme of the planer idea. That IS not "Him flam" but it is founded on obvious fads. Let us enumerate the points in the coniltrudion of this planer upon which we base . our claim. 1st. The table is set on inclines operated by parallel screws mounted on ball bearings. These inclines have inde-pendent adjustment so that the surface of the table can be kept parallel with the knives. 2nd. The feed rolls are driven down and every gear is keyed to shahs·-· no Studs are used. 3rd. The cylinder runs between Sectional Clamp Bearings which never get out of order and which never have to be re-babbiued. Any looseness in the bear-ings from wear can be instantly taken up by simply loosening the clamp bolts and pressing down the plates with the hand. Get full descriptive circular. It will tell you all. When you know this machine fully you will have no other. I The King of Planers The H'orJd} Stazukrd for Woodwor:l<in!/lfaclainery. 27th Year-No. 23. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH., JUNE 10, 1907. $1.00 per Year. EFFECT OF UNTAXED ETHYL ALCOHOL. Methyl Prices Down Fifty Per cent and Many Manufacturers Using the Denatured Article. The law exempting alcohol from internal revenue tax. when withdrawn from bonded warehouses, denatured and used under rules and regulations prescribed by the govern-ment authorities, has now been in torce nearly six months-since January 1. That it has been of great advantage to those who use alcohol for other than medicinal or beverage purposes, is shown by the fact that the denatured article is no"", sold at about 37 cents per gallon, while: pure ethyl or grain alcohol of 180 degrees proof or strength costs $2.55, and methyl or wood alcohol, which formerly cost 80 or 85 cents, is no",; sold for 40 cents, the manufacturers having been ob-liged to meet the lower price of the denatured grain orvege-table product. \VhiJe manufacturers and people generally are pleased with the law 2nd its effects there is considerable criticism of the manner in ,,,,hieh it is enforced. The law of itself is brief, but the rules and regulations prescrib~d by the internal reve-nue offici[lls [lre so numerous, stringent, technical and compb-cated that it requires an expert on the subject of "law ;'l11d liquor" lo undcrst,and and comply with the requirements. They are even more elaborate and more difficult to interpret than are the 1a".·.5., rules and regulations relative to the manu-facture and sale of whiskey and tobacco. The red tape-bonding, gauging, marking, mixing, book-keeping, reporting, elc.-is annoying to distillers, owntrs of bonded v,rarchouses and dealers and equally or lIlore so to manufacturers who use tbe denatured article to the extent of more than 11fty gallons per month. The manufacturer ..v.ho uses less than fifty gallolls per rncnth is not bothered by the red tape. He lllay buy his supply from any licensed dealer or distiller anI does not have to secure license or give bonds, make reports nor provide and maintain a -"denatured alcohol store room." The manufacturer ".'·.h. o usues an aver-age of more than fifty gallons per mOll_th, must have a license and if he wishes to have hi;; alcohol d(>natured \vith any other formula than tllat prescribed for ge1leral use by the goverl1- ment-ten per cent alcohol and one per cent henzine-he must give a bond so conditioned that in case he fails to com-ply with all the requirements of the law, rules and regula-tions he must pay the full amount of the internal revenue tax on all alcohol that he uses during the year. The manufacturers who use more than fifty gallons per month of alcohol denatured by the general formula and those who use that denatured by a special formula must also pro-vide and maintain a "denatured alcohol stale room" and des-ignate som('body to act as custodian of the same. They must keep records showing the date when each order of alcohol is received, the number aud size of packages in the shipment, the name and numbc;r of the distiller, the name of the gauge:-, the serial numbers on the packages, the serial numbers on the dcnatured alcobol stamps, the number of wine gallons and the number of proof gallons. All these entries mllst be made wl1en the alcohol is received and deposited in the "denatured alcohol store room" at the factory. The st0re rooms in each revenue district must be numbered and each must have a sign above the door reading "Denatured AlcohOl Store Room No. On the other side of the record, under the head of "Dis-posed of --" the manufacturers must write the date when the packages are opened for use and repeat the entries, rela-tive to namcs of distillers, numbers on packages, stamps, etc, Before the tenth day of each month the manufacturers must take an inventory of their store rooms, and make a transcript of their records which must be sworn to by the custodian and forwarded as a report to the collector of inter-nal revenue for the district in which the factory is located, This report shows the numbers of packages received and the numbers of those opened for use during the previous month and also the number on hand at the end of the month. The manufacturers must not mix completely denatured al~ cohol with that which is specia.11y denatured, nor with wood alcohol. They are not allowed to dilute it, but as the rules 5ay, "it must go into manufacture or consumption exactly in the same condition as when it left the denaturer." All permits, bonds, etc., expire with the government's fis- (Continued on Page 6,) THE CORRECT Stains and fiUers. THE MOST SATISFACTORY first Coaters and Varnishes 4 ·"~MICHIG... .7I7-N - f Reprehensible Trade Journal Methods. 1\0 stronger evidence of the valuelessness of a trade paper as an advertising medium can be presented than tbat of soli-citing upon the strength of sales of machinery or other goods which may be brought about through the influence 0) of the paper's representative, says a writer in the Paper Trade J otlrn-al. It is at once a frank confession of the lack of the essential qualities upon which the advertising value of any publication must of necessity depend-a bona fide subscription list ~nd that influence which comes through prestige. Surprising as it appears, shrewd manufactur"ers have been beguiled into signing advertising contracts upon implied or expre;;,sed promises of desirable business to be secured only through the personal influenc-c of the advertising solicitors. Prospects of big orders are frequently held out as bait; dis-creet reference is made to mills in which the solicitor is or is to be, interested. The position of purchasing agent in'some prospective mill is hinted at, as well as various other seductive references to conditions through which the solicitor can make it worth while for the advertiser to "sign up." Back of every such proffer is always the reversal' of the proposition, im-plied or not, that if the advertisement is not placed the desir-able business will be received by a rival manufacturer. Stripped of all imputations of thJ;"eat against the prospec-tive advertiser, if he does not come in, there remains a mani-fest injustice to the manufacturer already advertising in the paper, for obviously if the solicitor of any publication can influence business of any kind, this influence should be thrown to the manufacturer who is spending his money with the pub-lication. The solicit01 who hawks around a prospective order as a bait for a new advertisement injures the present advertiser who might have secured the order had the solicitor kept hands off. Naturally, the representative who resorts to such CHOICE BIRD'S EYE I Veneers CUT RIGHT. DRIED RIGHT. WHITE WRITE us. FOR S.AMPl-ES. GRAND RAPIDS VENEER WORKS, ;,~t~'~A':.·P•.ID practices is not averse to "turning an honest penny," and sug-gestions of commissions on orders have frequently been made. "Part of traveling expenses" in return for good offices which the solicitor will exercise ""hen "among the mills" has been proposed, No publisher of legitimate trade papers sanctions or per-mits the practice of this buncombe and injustice, with which many advertisers in this field have become acquainted. Re-ferring to the matter some time ago a victim expressed dis-appointment over such a deal. "We cannot recall a prom-ise of any specific order, but running all through the conver-sation of the solicitor was certainly an implied promise for business that we should secure and which never materialized. Naturally we discontinued our advertisement at expiration of the contract." It goes without saying that any inquiry for goods or ma-chinery which comes into the office of a legitimate publica-tion, through the solicitor or otherwise, is referred to all ad-vertisers in those lines, thus giving the manufacturers who are spending their money with the publication the fullest measure of service. Advertisers who are approached with the bait o( "a pro-spective order!! in trade for an advertising contract will do well to remember that once their advertisement is secured, other orders which they might get in the natural course of business may be drawn away from them, to be traded for a new advertisement. The publication which cannot secure advertising patronage upon its merits is certainly not worth consideration. Prudential Club Members Fined_ On May 20 Judge Landis of the United State District COLlrtin Chicago, pronounced sentence upon members of the Prudential Club, composed of manufacturers of church and school furniture, who had pleaded guilty to the charge' of maintaining a combination in violation of the Sherman' anti-trust law. Before imposing sentence Judge Landis said: "Tn this matter the indictments contain each three counts, but there is only one offense charged. In a general w:!.~.- this offense is entering into a conspiracy in restraint of trade. The terms of the Sherman law, I had assumed the business men of the United States were familiar with. "They used the 'assist' or 'straw" bid, the object of which is to deceive a seller or a purchaser of property. In this case, when an assignment of a contract was made by Holbrook to a company in the combination, the intended purchaser of church or school furniture was made to believe that there was real competition, when in fact brother members of the combination received quiet tips to put in bids, but their bids were to exceed the one of the company to which the contract had been assigned by Holbrook. "To my mind this is the most contemptible feature of the whole transaction. I have seen that kind of trick in practi-cal operation, and it is very nasty. When I reflect upon the methods resorted to I wonder why it is men engage in such a business to get money." 1<1 find in this case that the real offenders are the big of-fenders. As for the small concerns, it becomes my duty to avoid closing up such institutions, and it seems that severe punishment would force some of them into bankruptcy. To keep them in independent operation is the only hope the consumers have against the big concerns." The court then ordered that the respondents be' required to pay fines as follows: A H. Andrews company, Chicago $5JOOO F. H. Holbrook, "managing director" of the Prudential Club , ".... 5,000 Superior Manufacturing Company, 1Iuskegon, Mich .... 1,000 Owensboro Seating & Cabinet Company, Owensboro, Ky .. .. Southern Seating & Cabinet Company, Jackson, Tenn _. Cincinnati Seating Company, Cincinnati- . Fridman Seating Company, New Richmond, Ohio : H. C. Vaught Sons & Co., Parker City, lnd _ Minneapolis Office & School Furniture Company, Minne-apolis, 1finn. _ , 2,250 Illinois Refrigerator Company, Morrison 111. 1,750 Peabody School Furniture Company, North Manchester, Iud , .. Haney School Furniture Company, Grand Rapids, Mich. Hudson School Furniture Company, Logan, W. Va ... Cotton Belting All Right in Its Place. "High speed wood working machines can be driven with cotton belting very satisfactorily "remarked John Waddell of the Waddell Manufacturing Company. "It does not run so well on cones, on account of the lack of the stiffness ne-c. essary in be.lting in changing the speed by shifting." --_._- 1,500 1,500 2,000 500 500 1,000 500 500 ---------------------------------- -- - The Pittsburg Plate Glass Company MA.NUFACTURERS AND JOBBER$; 01" Pla.in and Beveled Mirrors. Polished Plate. Bent Glass. Plate Glass for Desks and Table Tops. CARR.ARA GLASS a new product like poHshed white marble. Our facilities for supplying furniture manufacturers with everything in plate Glass, rough or poLished, large or small, will be understood when we state that we have eight glass factories, extending from Pennsylvania to Missouri, and fourt~n Mirror Plants located as follows: New YOl'K Boston Philadelphia &uffalQ Chicago Clnolnftatl St. Louts Minneapolis Atlanta. Kokomo. Ind. Davenport Crystal Ci~y.Mo. Ford CIf,.. Pa. Kansas CUy.Mo. High Point, N. C. Largest Jobbers of Wihdow Glass in the World Also, our 23 jobbing houses carry beavv stocks in aU lines of glass, paints, varnishes and brushes and are located in the cities named below. New York-Hud!!iou and Vandam 8t8. Baltimore--221-223 W. Pratt Street. B08t00-41.-49 !SudburY, 1-9 Bowker. St&. Bulralo-372-4-6-8 Pearl Street. Cbicago-142~452 '\"abtVJh Avenue. Brooklyn-63S and 6'31 Fulton Street. Cincinnati-Broadway Ilnd Court 8t8, Philadelphia-Pitcairn Building, Arch St. Loui-Cor. 7th Bnd Market Stij. Hnd Eleventh Still. Minneapolls-500-MO S. TWrd St, . J)avenport--UO~416 Scutt Street. J)(ltroit-53-fHi La:tned St., E, Cleveland-14S0-4 West Third Street. Grand Rapidll, Mlcb.-39-41 N. Divlshm Omaha-1608~10-12 lIarmlly Stl'eet. St. St. Paul-.'J49-lil MInnesota Street. l"itbibnrgb-lOl-103 Wood Street. Atlanta, Ga.-30, 82 and 84 S. Pryor St. J\)i)WHnkee, Wis-i92-494 Market St. Slniannah. Ga.-745-749 1Vbeaton Street. Rochester, N. 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The Universal Automatic CARVING MACHINE ==== PERFORMS THE WORK OF 25 HAND CARVERS ~nd does the Work Batter than it can 11eDOJ'eb)l Hand MADE BY Ready for Delivery· ••The Classified White Directory of the Manutacturer:i of Furniture, Pianos, Organs, Bedding, Interior Finishes and kindred Trades. WHITE PRINTING CO., G..a.nd Rapid.. Mich. - - 5 (, -- ---- Power Saved Cut the Corners Labor Saved YOUR DRY KILN IS RESPONSIBLE FOR 20% OF YOUR WASTE. Our new drying process will cut this percentage in two. Swirls and knots dried as straight, and planed as smooth as clear lumber. Warping, Checking and honeycombing absolutely prevented. All this in half the time, with half the power and half the la,bor now required. Looks good, doesn't it. And we gua,ra,nteeto make it good, in a,n old kiln or a,new one. Write us, Your dull season is at ha,nd-just the time to remodel your old kiln or build a,new one with the least inconvenience. GRAND RAPIDS VENEER WORKS Dept.K Waste Grand Rapids,Michigan Saved Time Saved (Continued from Page 3.) cat year-June 3D-and must be renewed the same as liquor or tobacco dealers' licenses. Some of the Grand Rapids fur-niture manufacturers who filed their applications last winter did not receive their permits until after June i-just about when they should be applying for permits tor next year. The records in the office of the collector of internal revenue show that most of them have taken Qut permits, established their store rooms and otherwise com.plied with the require-. ments of the government rules and regulations. The fore-man of the finishing room is usually designated as the cus-todian of the store room. Heystek & Canfield of Grand Rapids, Mich, who have qualified as wholesale dealers in denatured alcohol, report that it is rapidly supplanting wood alcohol for use in the furniture factori{'s. Their sales for factory use are usually in five harrel lots and the pn.>.sentprice is 37 cents per gallon. They claim that the furniture makers prefer the denatured article because it "goes farther." It docs not evaporate so rapidly and therefore there is less waste. They concede that wood alcohol is the better drier, or, rather, that it dries more rapidly, but claim that rapid drying is not always desir-able- that it is 11(1t always conducive to durable finish. An-other point in favor of denatured alcohol is that it does not injure the eyes of the workmen who use it. Vi/ood alcohol is known to have nearly destroyed the sight of workmen who llsed it without proper care. W. P. Wllllams, who represents Berry Brothers in Grand Rapids, says that he cannot see that the introduction of de-natured alcohol has had alJ~' effect on his trade in wood al-cohol. ';V\Te are seHing just as much of it as we ever did." he saiJ. "That it is better than the denatured article is shown by the fact that \ve are ~ettitlg 40 cents a g-allon for it, white the other is sold at 37 cents. Grain ~lcohol is oily; the finishers do_not like it because it dries too slowly." H. B. Fairchild, manager of the ITazeltir:e & Perkins Drug Company, wholesalers, Grand Rapids, states very few retail druggists are handling denatured a1c0hol. "They ob-ject to the complicated rules -and regulations," he Ea.id, "and when we offer them wood alcohol at 40 cents or denatured at 37 cents they take the wood product, rather than be bothered with the permits, keeping records and making monthly re-ports." The manufacturers of and dealers in wood alcohol are said to be pushing their product more strenuously than ,ever. They have not only met the price of the competing article, but art' using every means available to convince conSumers that wood alcohol is more economical and gives better results than the grain or vegetable product, I1 Syndicates Are Not So Popular. Syndicates of late have been more or less exclusive in their make-ups, differing materially from two or three years ago, when brokerage house6, individuals, and all sorts of per-sons had a part in the formation of syndicates. Many men who were always on the list for syndicate participations have been missed from those lists for sor.e time. Certain brokerage houses were always offered a participation in syn~ di;:ates having their origin in certain banking houses, hut bad losses in one or two syndicate ventures discouraged them, ~l~dthey have ceased to be a factor in that particular branch of tre investmetlt or speculative markets. Not so long ago it was accepted as a certainty that membership in a syndi-cate meant big profits, somedmes without the necessity of putting up the full participation in actual cash. As a matter of fact. a majority of the syndicates in the last year or so have re~lized profits for their members, but a few spectacular installces on the other side have operated to elminate the popularity of the syndicate as a healthy investment.-Banker and Tradesman. EXPENSIVE ECONOMY. Experience of the Manufacturer Who Tried to Utilize Second- Hand Machinery. 1 have just !'icen the conclusion of a ca!:ie of "smat"tness" on an owner's part that is amusing, though it has a most serious side for one of the owners of the concern. Two southern factories were started within a stone's throw of each other. made the same class of goods, and llscd the same niachinery as far as possible. One mill, whose owner admitted that he did not know anything about the principle of machines, and only wanted results, took a salesman at his word. and, on a guarantee that his machine would do certain \\'ork at cer-tain feed, bought it and pt\t it in. By the way, it was a sur-facer, for two-side work. The other man laughed at him, and said be was the easiest thing- for a stick machinery sales-man that he had ever secn. So, he, the party of the second part, as it \"ere, invest<:;d in a second-hand machine, that was "as good as ne..v.," and had been run only eight or ten y<:;;usby every bum of a feeder in the tOWll. But he could make any machine eome up to the work of any of these new-fangled notions on surfacers. So, he got the second-hand machine. 1n the course of time, both hctorles were ready to run, and both of the planers had an even start. They have been running for a year, and here is the result: The first factory has had its surfacer running day in and day out and for the last five months it has heen making the regular three lJjghts a week with a half night extra on the surfacing for custom \'Vork. It 118s been running for the greater part of the time on a feed of 20 icet a minute, the fast feed of leO fec.t being so fast that the truckers could not keep it out of the way, nor could the two band saws furnish it with stock to keep up the feed. It t;.lkes two men to feed jt, and four to take care of the lumber on the i1nishing end, and it has co"t absolutely nothing but- the oil ~ince it started nearly a year ago. The same belts are on it, and, from their looks, it is fair to assume they arc good fOf' two years more. That is the simple tale of one of them. Then the other! "Listen to my talc of woe!" The first machine "va~ too light, it wa, conceded, but it was next to nothing in cost, and in dressing }i-inch and 9/s-inch stock, it was heavy enough. Perhaps. that \>,'as so, but \-vhen it is retnembered that much of this :hi-inch stock was from dog-boards and miscl1ts, and the machine frequently had to cut down I-inch or 1.'ih-inch to %-inch at one run, it wilt he seen that it took a pretty stout machine to stand up to the work. This machine stood for a time, but, one by onc, the litLk g"ean, \vore out, the teeth broke off, and, one evil day, with a heavy cut, one of the teeth on an upper gear broke off, dropped in between the next pair and the machine split in two clear across the frame, bent all the studs on the gears in the train and \'v"reeked the machine entirdy. (t is now in the scrap heap. Another old machine was substituted. and it did fairly well until the stlHls iri it gave way under the strain, and after two months of dubious service, it, too, went to the ll1-i1l bone yard. :Vleantin::e, the boss had c1iscovered a peach of a hJ.rgain ill a big surfacer way up in l\lichigan in one of the mills that had "cut out" and quit. I-Ie got it for ju~t half of what the JJew machine in the other mill had cost. and, as it was ex-acHy of the same size, it was just the thing. Big and heavy, it looked strong etlOugh to stand the gaff of such work, <ind it elme. Can you imagine what a machine would look like ami wbat condition it would be in if it had been "laid by" twenty years ago, -without anytlling having been dOlle to put it in repair? And it was pnt on skids and shipped just as it was. The machine and all its parts had been having a game of 7 hide and seek hy the tin-.e it got to the milL The counter-sbaft had gone through thc shaving hood and the box of kniv~s, and they had been gamc enough to hang Onto part of what w~~nt through them, as they held on to thl:_ rim of two of the pulleys and cracked thc others. The knives suf-fered a good deal in the encounter, as they had gaps in them 11ntil they resembled a reape.r blade. V..n,en they were ex-amined for w~ight, they were five ounces out on one set and nine ounces out on anothcr set. That was'on "dead weight" only \vhik tl/(cir differe1lce ill H,idth on the ends must have mnde them a good pound out. Can you imagine the condition of a machine laid by for "bout twenty years? \\,'ith a badly sprung journal on the top cylinder, the box on that end showing it by being worn down into the: casting, ridges fully le inch deep in the jour-nals, gear loo.'ic ill several places, the complicated wedge tog-gle of the enclosed bottom cylinder bent, and out of the little clamps holding it in pcsition, the feed rolls worn all out of line, boxes needing new metal, the whole machine had that indefinable air of being a "has-bcen." This was the condition of the machjne whell unloaded. Further examirJation bore out the \vorst fears for its condi-tion, the attempt to run it being but a story of trouble and wony, expense and no results. But the main mechanical Designed by Otto Jiranek, Grand Rapida, Miell. man of the factory was clearly "nutty" on the subject of second-hand machines. He would rather lose money on a :\ccond-hand machine than to make it on a ncw one if he could only break even sooner or later. Yow for results: A stl-aight year of a trial is enough to tell most any story. The one mill have run their modern machine. for \...h..ich they paid something like $1,400 before it was in Ttlnl1ing shape in the mill, getting a straight year's Ser-vice at a fast feed, :finc work, and no'~ a dollar of repairs. The second man has had a year of wony,vcxation, loss and 1,0 lumber drcssed. T",·,o machines ot a cost of $900 have been totally mined. Anolhcr machine at a cost of nearly $700 has taken their place, giving intermittent service, spend-ing a good part of the time between the mill and the shop. It has C01-1t over $100 to get it to its present conditiori, in ad-dition to its original pt-ice. And there is nothing to repre-sent it but a complicated pile of ",'(Jrn-out machine that had better he in the junk man's hands. To sum up, the Erst man paid ab6ut $1,400 for something that has p"id him well, because he wa" satisfied he did not kllo\- .... enough to tell an "ble me(:hanic what was best for a n".ill, and the second man lws nothing to show for it but a. pilt:' of scrap. One man has as smooth a running factory as you could find in the !;tate, though he seldom goes into it, while the other one has a junk shop, with an assortment of every conceivable sort of pulley, size of shafting and freak of drive that can be imag"ined or constructed. The first mill waf; put in from a well-defined plan, and is still running that \-V,ly, wbile the second has undergone its third complete trans-formation.-- Exchange. Vose & Everett haVE:closed out their furniture and carpet bttsi!H~sS at Compton, Cal. 8 Envelope Slip Is a Nuisance. "Advertising is good in its place, and a necessity in busi-ness all 'l"ight/' said the treasurer, " but there's such a thing as carrying it too far. "Look at this envelope. A few days ago I wrote this firm asking if they would not send us a check for the money due us. In reply I received this answer, There was two cents postage due on it. Opening the envelope I found six circu-lars about their different fans and ventilators, a slip advising us to hurry and place our order. and three copies of testi-monial letters from Users of their goods. I had to look over all this stuff to find a short note saying they would remit in a few days." "Now what do you suppose they sent all those circulars to me for? I don't know anything about fans and ventilators. My specialty is greenbacks and silver dollars, and how to get enough of them for the payrolls. We have a purchasing agent, and that firm knows it, yet every letter from them, no matter what department it is for, is filled with printed matter. Of course it goes into ·the waste hasket, and is just so much money wasted." The above is quoted to call attention to the fact that many firms are making a mistake in their method of sending out circulars. It is the rule in soIDe offices not to send out a letter unless some printed matter is enclosed. Usually a series of slips are printed in suc_h form as to just fit the en-velopes, and anywhere from one to a dozen are enclosed in each letter. Whether this kind of advertising has a value proportionate to its cost is a question. When a man receives a letter he wants to know what it is about, and whether it requires an answer. His mind is taken up with the subject matter of the letterj and unless the enclosed circulars are connected with that subject matter, they receive scant attention. In nine cases out of ten they are thrown into the waste basket without being read. 1t '\vould be well to look into this method care-fully, and fwd out if a large percentage could not be eli.minat-ed, saving money for the sender and time for the receiver.- C. C. Prescott, New York Leads in Bills of Lading Frauds. At a meeting of the national Commission on Uniform State laws, held in Philadelphia recently, a proposed act to provide for uniform bills of lading was considered, It was drafted by Professor Samuel Williston of the law school of Harvard University, It has the effect of placing bills of lad-ing, as negotiable instruments nearly all on a par with pro-missory notes. Discussion of the measure by representatives of railroad, banking, commercial and maritime interests showed that the consensuS of opinion was in favor of the principles of the bill. There were, however, differences of opinion regarding ..some of its provisions, especially in the matter of the definition of the word "value." F. D. Page and Abram 1. Elcus, represent-ting the Merchants! Association -of New York, suggested the substitution of New York's definition. Pointing out that 30 states of the union had accepted the definition set forth in the act, Francis B. James, chairman of the committee, said that the definition in the bills of lading act was the one used in the sales act, warehouse receipt act and other uniform enactments. In the state of Ohio, he said it had received the universal indorsement of the boards of trade and business organizations. "But," retorted Mr. Page," the merchants of Ohio are child-ren in the matter of frauds in connection with bills of lading and warehouse receipts. While such frauds may be rare in Ohio and other states, in New York the crime is very com-mon among the smaller merchants of foreign extraction. Those immigrants were brought up under laws which imbued th~m with the belief that they could only succeed by- beating the law, or, in other words, by fraud. It is remarkable the ingenuity they display, and the variety of frauds they commit in New York is greater than those committed in all of the other states together. Obedience to Law Good for the Railroads .. In an address recently delivered at a banquet of supply and machinery dealers' associations in Cincinnati Judson Harmon of Cincinnati said that the operation of railroads in strict conformity not only with the letter but with the spirit of the law is a benefit to the railroads as well as to the ship-pers and general public. Mr.Harmon declared that he spoke not as a theorist, but from actual experience, and told how he had taken hold as receiv('x of the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton and Pere Marquette systems, comprising 3,5QO miles of track, and em-ploying 17,000 men, and had made them pay where they had not paid before, simply by obeying the law while the officials of competing lines were evading it. Mr. Harmon urged upon .his auditors as extensive ship-pers to do their part to aid the railroads to serve the public properly, by loading and unloading cars promptly. He said the shippers were to blame, in a large measure, for the car shortage, and in this connection rapped the so-called recipro-cal demurrage plan. He said railroads would furnish cars promptly if they could get the cars! and that demurrage, to he really reciprocal, would tax shippers for failure to have anything to ship if it taxed the railroads for failure to ,furnish the cars they could not get. The Greenfield~Talbot-Finlley-Battle Company, furniture makers of Tullahoma, Tenn., have purchased 2000 acres of land near Altamont a'nd will build a saw mill "to cut the fin-est timber in the state." 9 I ~ Il Gran~ Da~i~sllDlowcPi~e an~Dust Arrester CompanJ THE LATEST device for handling-shavings and dust from all wood-working machines. OUf twenty years experience in this class of work has hrought it nearer perfection than any other system on the market today. It is no experiment, but a demonstrated scientific fact, as we have several hundred of these systems in use, and not a poor one among them. Onr Automatic Furnace Feed System, as shown in this cut, is the most perfect working device of anything in its line. Write for our prices for equipments. WE MAKE PLANS AND DO ALL DET AIL WORK WITHOUT EX-PENSE TO OUR CUSTOMERS EXHAUST FANS AND PRESSURE BLOWERS ALWAYS IN STOCK Office and Factory: 208-210 Canal Street G~AND RAPIDS, MICH. Citizen. Phone 1281 Bell. Aobfn J804 Qua AUTOMATIO FURNACE FEED SYSTEM 10 FURNITURE FOR SUMMER HOMES. Oriental Styles Three Hundred Years Old Are Now Popular With Rural New Yorkers. Rattail furniture has rapidly increased in popularity dur-ing the past two years according to a writer for the New York Sun, 1\'lallufaeturcrs are making extra efforts to adapt oriental styles to occidental tastes. The most· popular :styles are not new. 1n fact, those most popular in New York now were used by the .vealthier classes in India 300 years ago. In the year 1600 cane panels decorated the bedsteads used in high class houses of India, and yet they cattle in style over here only a couple of years ago. A salesman in a New York store is quoted as saying: "This year's dc.signs show a remarkable advance over any-thing yet ShO'l.V11, both in durability and artistic features, and as a result in city as well as in country houses rattan and wil-low pieces are popular. A specialty this season is the intro-duction of leaf and floral designs· into the rattan weaves, This is an entirely new feature, confmed principally to the best grade of goods. Another sl)ecialty is the many new tones of color shown in rattan furniture." He waved his hand toward a particular section of the de-partment where saine of the novelties were displayed in a suite of Oriental rooms, which in woodwork and wall cover-ings were a copy of those seen in the residence of a high class Chinaman. The furniture was not, of course, Chinese, but it gained by the Oriental setting. There was a set of pale blue rattan, the seats upholstered with cushions of white and blue cretonne, in one suite an oval shaped segment of upholstery decorating the centre of the back of each chair and settee. Tn another the backs had no t1pholstery at all. In either case all the rattan not covered was twisted into leaf designs combined ,vith scrolls, and the shape of the furniture included graceful curves. A cream white rattan drawing room suite was noticeable. In this the backs of chairs and settees were not upholstered. They were too handsome to cover up, the salesman said. In the back of the settee. which like that of the chairs, was high with rOllt1ded edg-es, the rattan, delicately fine, was woven to describe two large oval fans filled in with rattan lace work and separated with Chinese scrolls, The same idea ,vas carried out in the chairs. A movable cushion of tap-estry upholstered the seats. ){eaT that was a similar suite of bisctiit color rattan ",;oven in floral designs, the upper half of the high backs and the seats upholstered in cream and old rose tapestry. Biscuit color and dove gray arc the very newest colors. A dove gray suite of four pieces. Queen Anne style, attracted attention. There \vere nO angles in this suite. The sides and back of the settee and the two large chairs were of uni-form height, describing a semicircle, and were without uphol~ stering, the bamboo being interlaced to form a combination of conventional and leaf design. Many shades of green and of red never before seen in rat-tan and willow appear ill this season's output and the varie-ties of enamelled willow are as plentiful as those of natural finish. A shade between a turquoise blue and a green was used in one five-piece suite. Another was of tobacco brown and a third of canary yellow. In the latter the willow was braided after the fashion seen in a pony carriage and the cushions were of white and yellow cretonne. This suite in-cluded a modified ::I.10rrisrocker of beautiful workmanship. Odd chairs of various designs were noticed in stock, for in-stance a Sir \Valter Raleigh chair of tobacco brown willow, high in the back and roomy of seat and with or without mov-able cushions. The shape at once attracts seekers after nov-elties. Prairie grass furniture is in a class by itself and it shows, if anything, even more novelties than the other summer grades mentioned. It is used both inside and outside the house, its toughness making it suitable for verandas and to withstand climatic changes. Enameled wood beds arc very popular just now in white and in all sorts of colors: sometimes trimmed at the head and foot with panels of cretonne or of cane, but oftener plain. The dining room furniture most in vogue for country houses, is not unlike mission furniture in design and is of quartered natural oak, with cane or rush seated chairs. Rivals to this are Colonial dining room sets of white enameled wood, the chairs finished with rush seats and backs. Lumber Company to Operate in Mississippi. Congressman Fordlley of Saginaw, Frank W. Gilchrist and his three sons of Alpena, Mich., have organized the Gilchrist- Fordney Lumber Company, capitalized at $1,200,000. The company has purchased 50,000 acres of timber land near Laur-el, Miss., estimated to contain 400,000,000 feet of logs, mostly pine, with some hardwood. The company also has purchased the Kingston Lumber Company's plant at Laurel with a ca-pacity of 150;000 feet a day, A House Boat on the Lake. Charles S. Paine, of the C. S. Paine Furniture Company, has completed the erection of a commodious house boat on White Fish Lake, thirty miles north of Grand Rapids. Everything necessary for the comfort of Mr. Paine and fam~ iIy and their guests has been provided. Mr. Paine will en-tertain a number of friends in the furniture trade during the mid~summer season. FAULT.~:. point where other casters refuse to turn is ohe Point with The faultless Pivot Bearing Caster The FAULTLESS reoeived Ihe Hlghesl Award allhe World's Fair, 1904, over all olher oaslers. Hissupplied wit h Faultless Pat e n t Steel Spring Sockets. The Fanltless is interchangeahle; will fit six differ-ent sizesof IrO!.l bed sockets. :-: 'I'heFaultIess has no weak spots-n 0 mechanical flaws--il's Fault-lessin name-in action-and as a seller :-: ._. If you are after a money maker, write to 75he Faultless Caster Mfg.Co•• Nebraska City, Neb. They only manufaoture the M+I.C,,H. IGAN 7IRTI.5'7I.J"\I e &r'!' . $5+ TALK ON VENEERS AND CORES. Features of the Largest Plant in the World Re:m::ning Op~ erations at Marshfield, Wis. "There's little new in the veneer business," s,lid Fred K. :'inkharn, dealel" in furniture m,11:uf:teturers' 5u:)plies, Grand Rapids, )jich. "The demand for veneers is good," he COIl-tinued, "but 1 don't know that 1 C<-in tell you anything- of in-terest to yOur Haders, unless I tell YDU ::,.bout the new plaut of the Roddis Lumber & Veneer COHillary at l\larshfield, whith is to resume operations on June 10. That company's plant has been burned t\vice-the last tineC in February of this year. It has been completely rebuilL in it little over four months and is /lOIN ~he largest and best equipped veneer plant in the world-it is t,,\,o and one-half times larger than it .Va-S before the last fire. "The main building is 84 x 270 feet, three stories. There is an addition of 24 x 150 feet, in which they have installed a Philadelphia textile dryer that has a capacity of 120,000 feet b t'~n honrs. ;;'1'hen there is the power house furnished with boilers ag-gregating 600 horse power and a SOD horse pl)wer engjne. All the old machinery has been discarded and replaced by the best up~to-date eql1iprr:ent. They have tbree rotary veneer cutting machines, a new Linden-,an jointer and a Dennis tap-ing machint':o The latter, I think, is made, or sold at least, by the Royal Furniture Company of tbis city. "The plant i~ equipped with automatic sprinklers through-out so it is not likely to be destroyed by fire again." \\1\1('11 the subject of cores or backing fo,!" vencers was mentioned .:'If r. Tinkham said: "Lumber bas become so scarce and tlit;: cost is so hiRh that many manufacturers are experimenting with various kino:is of wnod for cores. Poplar and chestnut make the best cores. \Vorm boles ~re not objection;l1Jle if tlJe wood is otherwise sound-the glue fills them up. The 1>t1pply of pop-lar and chestnut is scarce, howe";'cr, and many have to nse other kinds of wood-ash, basswood or anything else that can be found. }'Iany have tried to usc gUlh, but their efforts are not 3l\.V:lys stlccessful. The troab!c with gum is its te1l-dency lo buckle-it warps and twists. There is so much oil or gum in the wood that it difficult to get it out. In order to get the gum out, the trees are girdled. That kills them and then tht;:y are allowed to stand a year or more. A por-tion of the gum dries out. TJ1Cll the logs an,~ steamed in vats and in that W<lY nearly all the gurn is drawn out, but it is an expensive process. Some of the best material for cores nmv comes from the veneer mills. The cylinders that are left after the veneer has been cut off-four, (\ve or six inches in diarneter-arc cut into hoards, stacked Out and allowed to dry in the air for several months or a year. Then they are put into the dry kilns am! they come out all rigllt. The supply of that k:nd of stock is exceQdingly limited, but it is good so far as it goes. In the early days of veneering the cylinders \verc considered waste or were cut up for stove wood." Southern Lumber Freight Trust "Busted." The supreme court of tlle United States has decided that the Interstate Commerce COll'triss;ot1 has a rigH to prevent an unreasonable advance in freight rates. Tl1e suit invoh'ed a recent raise of two cents pt;:r 100 pounds on lumber shipped from Georgia to Ohio river points and wa:;; made a test case. The advance in rates was made by aJl the southern roads and ol1e of the chargt;:s was thatche roads had acted in con-cert to raise prices contrary to the aoti-trust laws. It was shown that some of the roads had not complained of the old rate as unremunerative. but had explained the advance as in pursuance of a desire to share in the "phenomenal prosper-ity" of the country. 11 These saws are made from No. 1 Steel and we war-ra. nt every blade. We also carry a full stock of Bev-eled Back Scroll Saws, any length and gauge. \Vrtte us for Price List and dilWount 31-33 s. FRONT ST•• GRAND RAPIDS IMPROVED. EASY and QUICK RAISl:NG Belt, Electric and Hand Power. The Best Hand Power for Furniture Stores Send for Catalogue aud Prices. KIMBAll BROS. CO., 1067 N;,lh SI•• Counoil Bluffs, la. Kimball Elevator Co•• 3~ Prospect St., Cleveland,O. 108 11th St., Omaha, Neb.; 1~9Cedar St., New York City. ELEVATORS GLOBE VISE _AND _ TRUCK CO, Manufacturers of Strictly up-to-date quick-acting_ Wood WOTk~rs' Vis e s. They lire time savers and make II barrel of tnol1ev for those that use tllem. Our prices are the best. Write for them. We also make a complete line of factory aud warehouse trucks. Our circulars aTe cheerflllly mailed upon request. GLOBE VISEanG TRUCK CO. Grand Rapids. Mich. Slep~en50nnr~.(0. South Bend. Ind. Wood Turnings. T umed Moulding. Dowel. and Dowel Pins. Catalogue to Mallufac-turers au i\pplication. 12 Worktime and Playtime. The majority of boys and young men waste their off-times. They use them for mild forms of dissipation, and for a loafing sort of resting which contributes nothing to anything. On the other hand, many boys and young men, who work hard during the day, devote most of their spare time to study and to what they think will be of intellectual benefit to them, This shows proper spirit, and they a~e likely to succeed. But there is such a thing as carrying it too far. There are only 24 hams i.n a day, and a part of the day belongs to sleep another part to resting, another part to diversion, and another part to work. Noone can profitably work all the time any more than he can naturally sleep all the time. The boy or young man who spends all his evenings for study or for some other hard work would accomplish more if he gave a part of each evening or a part of his evenings to resting and to suitable diversion. One can accomplish more in an hour when he feels like working than he can in several hours when he is fatigued. Quality of work is worth more than quantity of work. l\'1any of us over-work and over-do, under the delusion that this over-work and over-doing will pile up greater accomplishments. As a matter of fact, the)' accomplish less. If the mind and body are not given the rest which belong to them, they will refuse to do their best work. The proper kind of rest and diversion restores energy. A period of rest and diversion with a period of work will ac-complish more than two periods of work without a period of rest. Ivlost of us work too many hours, and for many of us there seems to be no way out of it, and the great majority of us carry the strenuousness of the shop, the store, or the office into our evening life. The life of work should not be completely separated from the Hfe of home, nor should the . life of the home he entirely separated from the life of work. Each is but one branch of a common trunk. But the strenu-ousness of the shop should nnt be carried into the home. The time will come, and I hope it will arrive speedily, when there will be :five days of labor, one day for rest and diversion, and one day for the special worship of God and the up build-of man's inner qualities, but until that condition arrives, we must not ignore present conditions, and we must not forget that it is our duty to contribute our part toward forcing con-ditions to anive at a better and more civilized state. For the present, this over-work will continue, and the business in the near future is likely to be more strenuous and more trying to men's bodies and minds, There appears to be no relief in sight. The boy who enters any calling will fil"'d it l1ecc5sary to work hard, and often to over-work, if he would H:eet success. It is for him to regulate his 24 hours so that he may make the most of them under existing condi-tions. If his work is sedentary, he should take exercise in the. open air. He should not devote more than a part of his evenings to heavy reading 0'£. to hard and systematit: study, and part of his off-time should be used for restful di-version and ior those pleasures which are all the more plea-surable because they contribute to progress.-Kathaniel C. Fowler. Case Goods Manufacturers Annual Meeting. The a.nnual meeting of the National Case Goods Manu-facturers' Associa.tion of America was held at the Auditorium Hotel, Chicago, on lVlay 8. withh President George P. Hum-mer of Holland, Mich., in the chair. The method for figuring cost adopted at the last meeting, was reported as worki.ng quite satisfactorily and the secretary reported a considerable increase in the number of factories repres.ented in the associa-tion during the past six months. The constantly increasing cost of raw materials and re-cent advances in wages were discussed and many members favored an advance in prices of furniture for the summer selling season. The matter was left open however. to be considered by the members who are to report their views to the Secretary to be submitted to the executive committee, for definite action at a meeting to be held about the middle of June. Officers for the ensuing year were elected of follows: President-George H. Elwell of the Minneapolis Furni-tUfe Company and the Elwell Kitchen Cabinet Company. Vice-PresIdent-A. F. Karges of the Karges Furniture Company, Evansville, Ind. George G. Whitworth, of the Berkey & Gay Furniture Company, Grand Rapids, Mich. The Executive Committee consists of Geo. H. Elwell, Min-neapolis; M. W. Coolbaugh, Springfield, Mo.; Geo. P. Hum-mer, Holland, Mich.; E. H. Foote, Grand Rapids; John Emrich, Indianapolis; A. F, Karges, Evansville; John Scott, EauClaire, Wis.; John Horn, Chicago; P. A. Peterson, Rockford, Ill.; Chas. E. Rigley, Owosso, :"1ich.; A. G. Stein-man, Cincinnati; Frank Upham, Marshfie.ld, Wis.; Chas. H. Wolke, Louisville; W. B. Schobe.r, Gallipolis, 0.; J.A. Stein-meyer, St. Louis; Geo. G. Whitworth, Grand Rapids; E. V, Hawkins, Connersville, Ind.; R. G. Morrow Memphis, Teno; A. H. Hall, Leominster, Mass,; Clarence H. Burt, PhHa-delphia, and R. G. Homer, \Varreu, Pa. J. S. Linton of Grand Rapids, 1:1ich., WC\S re-ap-P0lnted Secretary by the Executive Committee. The Chehalis, (\Vasb.) Furniture & 1\lanufacturing Com-pany has just completed the instaltation of an important addi-tion to the plant in the shape of a sawmin and veneer cutting departme.nt. THIS IS THE CAN AND LABEL NEW YORK, 1iI0STON, PHILADILPHIA, IiIALTIMORE. VARNISH MANUFACTURERS (ESTABLISHED 185e) DETROIT CANAOIAN F'ACTOR'(, WALKERVILLE ONTARIO CHICAGO, CINCINNATI, ST. lOUIS, SAN FRANCISCO. I BERRY BROTHERS' II Rubbing and Polishing Varnishes I MUST BE USED IN FURNITURE WORK TO BE APPRECIATED THEY SETTLE THE VARNISH QUESTION WHEREVER TRIED WRITE FOR INFORMATION, FINISHED WOOD SAMPLES. AND LITERATURE'. BERRY BROTHERS, LIMITED 13 It's a Case of "NO CURE. NO PAY" with Us in the Matter of DRYING LUMBER This Cut Shows flow Lumber .6 Comes Out of Our nUns .6 No.1. An oak center showing that knots after be-ing dried bv our process, plane as smooth "as straight-grained lumber. No.2. A big oak knot center of board and near the end. Note that board is not checked either side of knot or on ends and board is as flat as though there were no knot in it. No.3. Three knots in a 12inch oak board and at the end. Note the straight edge, absence of checking and small waSite required to get into good lumber. Nos. 4 and 5. Emphasize the fact that knots do not by au r process warp the wood or check beyond the knot. No.6. A piece of oak dried in ten days, green from the saw, one~half a swirl, Note that it planes just as smooth as balance of piece. Compare This to Your Own Output. OUR PROPOSITION vVewill furnish plans, specifications and instructions to build you a new kiln, or equip your old kiln with our process and guarantee to jncre.:lsethe capacity of your kiln from 50 to lQO per cent without warping, checking, honeycombing or case hardening your lumber, or refund' your tnoney. We can save SO per cent of your waste and one-third of the labor cutting up the lumber. Write for question blank-mention the rvIichigan Artisan. GRAND RAPIDS VENEER WORI1S GRAND RAPIDS. MICHIGAN Concrete Is Not Fireproof. "The term 'fireproof' is about as much misunderstood as 1S the term 'fire. prevention/ JJ says F. \TV.Fitzpatrick, exe-cutive otTlcer of the International Society at Building In-spectors, in Fire. He continues: "In the 6rst case, it is foolishly imagincd tbat the mere protection ot certain struc-tural parts of a building produces absolute: immunity to those and all other parts of that structure. This is as great a folly as that other that permits people to maintain a few empty buckets about their premises and hang up a half dozen glass bottles containing some mysterious liquid and then com-placently go about their busines~, satisfied that their building is fuJJy protected, and indeed the protection is so complete and perfect that they need carry no insurance! "A fireproof building is one in which the structural parts are absolutely incombustible, first and foremost, and then these are to he protected again with some material that in-sures that at no point can these structual parts be assailed by fire. Of course, the Jess damageable this protection is in it-self the less will it cost to repair in case it is assailed by fire or water. In this connection it may not be amiss to quote from the report of the Committee of the American Sodety of Civil Engineers, that has been at work for a year' collecting data anent the San Francisco earthquake and fire, and that, referring to the re-inforced concrete buildings so much dis-cussed, ~ldvises tha.t: 'As integral structural parts they (rein-forced concrete columns, girders, beams and floors) should be fireproof as well as similar members of a steel frame strtl-ture. For Concrete is Destroyed by Fire Nearly as Quickly as Steel.' "But to continue with our fi.reproof building, not only must the structure be protected as above described, but it 1111.1bset designed in a fireproof manner. Its units of space should be small; its stories absolutely cut off one from another by en-closjng stairnrays and elevators.; its roof should be as fire-proof as its floors or walls; its windows and doors should be wire glazed or otherwise safeguarded against external at-tack; t11erc should be ample water supply, hose and connec-tions; a sprinkling system il1 many cases is desirable; auto-matic fire alarms are not an extravagance, and everything should be done that intelligence and experience tell us is ne-cessary to flTst and foremost cut the possibility of fire do-..vn to the smallest space we can; have it so that only the contents of that area can be affected and th~t the structure can in no wise be harmed or used as a vehicle for carrying that incip-ient fire to the contents of other spaces, and then to have all the spaces or units of a building so provided and protected that fire in anyone of them can be quickly and, if possible, automatically extinguished. "There, and there only, have you a fireproof structure." Will Test That Anti_Blacklist Law. Tbe anti-blacklist la,v, passed by the Texas legislature at the recent session, is to be tested in the courts. The law is so stringent in its provisions against the discharging of em-ployes that many lawyers thjnk it is invalid. The test case was started by an employe of an oil company who claims to have been discharged "without good and suft"icient cause." Lumbermen's Combine "Busted." The Lurnbermell"S Bureau of Credit, of Toledo, Ohio, has sl1rn;ndered its charter to the Secretary of State and dis-c. ontinued business. It was compostd of fourteen retail lum-ber dealers and had a nominal capital of only $1,000. The dissolution was due to indir.tments by the Grand jury, for viol<].tingthe Valentine anti-trust law to which the members pleaded guilty and paid small fines. 14 .:f'~ JYLI9,.HIG ?IN TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING.' On Narrow Lumber a Cir~ular and Planer Beats a Band Saw and Sander for Re-Sawing. Don't we overdo the hand S;:lW business. some times? Is all this effort to\vard "band-s;nved" lumber well directed? Sometimes the writer thinks this can be pushed a little too far. Here is a case that has been under study ior three months. A concern 'which had been funning a circular resaw and a planer was "convinced" that they were lostng motley fooling with a circular. They were funning a 19-9l1agc saw, thick cen-ter and the kerI was but a little over rJ inch and the output was sleddy and about as fast as any hand the writer has ever seen. But good illustrations and some good talk got them interested in the band saw proposition. Added to the saw part of it the fact was developed that instead of a planer that took 50 much thickness to dress onj a double sander was "the thing," finishing stock right from the saw w1th both sides snl.Oother than any planer could make it. It looked good. There is no doubt that the prospect was alluring. But of the results. As a box maker ,,\'as a mill man~ the writer wanted to know how this was coming out. And the results up to date arc about as follows. The band saw was put in, and the two saws that came with the machine did good work for a while. But the circular filer was no band filer, and soon thc work was a sight to behold. The sander "vas a new thillg, and it took a skillft:l man to run it, and the work that came from this new outfit was not half as good in quality nor within two-thirds of the quantity, done by the old machines, and here was a situation worth studying. The machine makers sent a "skilled expert." For ten days that saw -and sander ,vent into all sorts of experiments. Nothin' doin'. The expert finally went home, and left the mill man up against this condition. The saw was not doing within half as good or as much work as the old circular, and the kerf was more than that of the circlllaI". Then, to keep from having the machines thrown out, two more experts came in from the factory, and at present they arc straining their ef-forts to see what they tun do to beat an old circular that runs with a 19-9uage sa,,, on stock ten inches and less. I believe this is all a mistake. The band has its uses, and it will stand quite a lot of work, but when it comes to resawing stock ten inches wide or less, and having it done Citizens' Telephone 1'702. 1Louis 1babn DESIGNS AND DETAILS OF FURNITURE 154 Livingston St. GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN smoothly, the mill or bOK man who thinks he can improve on the feed or finish of the old cirCUlar resaw is going up against something that it ,vill cost money to find out he cannot do. A circular won't cut wide. tumber as well as a band, and there is no !c)l1ger a question about that, but milts that have a good circular a11d a man at something like $2.50 a day that can file them to do good work, arc simply throwing money t:l the birds in trying this ne'w-fangled idea of resawing with a band and finishing with a sander. That work can be done, there is no doubt of that. But it cannot be done by the n"len who can run a circular and Ht~ tie planer successfully. And the difference between $2.50 and from $4 to $5 a day is a darn sight morc than this ma-chine combination call show in results. As soon as anyone has anything to say against a band saw, there is a suggestion of a "back number." But there is such a thing as too much oia good thing. There is no advantage over a circular in feed and not nearly as smooth a finish to the hand work as there is to the circular, so it takes more to dress off the saw marks from a banq than from a· circular and the band makes no more lum-ber in a given time, with the added expense of high-priced' filer!'- for the band, when we can get men at a good deal lower price who can beat the band work all day long.-Pa<:kages. Workmen's Compensation Laws. There has been considerable discuss10n in insurance circles recently of the general movement to secure the passage of workmen's compensation acts by state legislatures. The SOMETHING NEW WE.have perfected a new GOLDEN 04.K OIL STAIN without the use of asphaJtum OT acid. This stain is the strongest and most pene-trating stain on the market. It entirely pene· trates the wood, leaving no surplus on the sur-face to penetrate with the filler. Samples furnished on application. CRAND RAPIDS WOOD FINISHINC COMPANY 65~'il t:\..LS,WORTM AVE .. G'UIND RAPIDS, MICH. movement seems to be an effort to apply in the concrete the principle that society owes something to the operative who is injured in the course of his occupation irrespective of whether or not the employer was negligent. In fact, it is the same principle which to a greater or less degree has led the legislatures throughout the country to set aside ~ome of the old common law defenses to a claim of negligence, When this principle is embodied in statutory law, employers will pay a good deal morc for their liability insurance than they do today. Speaking generally, the premium rates (as under the workmen's Compensation Act no\-v operative in England) will approximate the sum of the current rate for employer's liability and workmen's collective insurance",. There arc many employers in the country who make it a practice to pay at least half wages to an injured employe~ when there is "no liability" indicated. The files of a large casualty insurance companies show many cases where the as-sured, under an employers' liability policy, has accepted a set-tlen:. ent of this kind without seeking reimbursement from the company. It seems that this furnishes the a.;rent with tbe best possible material with which to solicit l,vorkmen's col-lective insurance. The e,tr,ployer would then be enabled to establish this terr.porary "disability expense" upon a stable annual basis proportioned to his annual payroll for product-ive operation. Tn addition, it wotlhl enable him to secure in-surance to cover the death or permanent disability of an em-ploye due to an accident covered by the contract, The broker or agent contrOlling an employer's liability risk can double his commission by writing a "collective" pol-icy. It should be borne in mind that, while commission rates are lower on the Hcollective" line than on employers' liability, yet the premium rates, on an average, are much higher. John Wanamaker. Incorporated. A news dispatch from Harrisbmg, Pa., states that John \Vallamaker and his two sons-Thomas B. and John R-will form a corporation to manage the Wanamaker mercantile in-terests in New York and Philadelphia. The company is to be known as "John \Vanamaker, Incorporated." ----------------------------- -- / 10 Spindle Machine Aliso wade with 12, 15, 20 and 25 Spludlea. DODDS' NEW GE.AR DOVETAILING MACHINE. This little lU~bine has done more to perte<lt the drawer work of furniture manufacturers than anything else in the fll:rDi~ ture b'Ude. Fol' fifteen YCIUBit hUI!!made perfect-fittiug, vermin-proof, dove~tailed stock a t>ossibility. This has !men accomplis-hed at reduced cost, IUI the machine cutlll dllve-tuils in gangs of from 9 to 2-l at oDe oPeration. ALEXANDER DODDS. Grand Rapids. Mich. Repl'esented by SCHUCHARDT &: SCHUTTE at Berlin, Vienna, Stockholm and St. PetersbUl.'g. Represented by ALFRED H. SCHUT1.'E at C(liogne. Bms-sets, Liege, Paris, MUan and Bilbao. 15 USE A MORTON KILN IT WI~~ ENO YOUR DRY KILN TROUBLES Does not warp or check lumber. THE MOST PERF"ECT MOIST AIR KILN ON THE MARKET. \ TRUCKS, CANVAS DOORS, RECOR-ING THERMOMETERS and other snp-plies. Write for catalog H which tells HOW TO DRY LUMBER. MORTON DRY KILN co. 218 L" SALL& ST., CH'CACO. The "ABC" MOIST AIR fiILN Improves the "Worhing Quality" of Lumber Note the experience of the R.obbin. Table Co.• Owosso. Mich.: "Re-plviIlg- to yom favor of May 7th-are pleased to advise that th .. dry kilns whkh you built for us are perfectly satisfactory; in fact, we had no idea that there could be so much difference in the working quality of timber as we find in your moist air systetn over the old system we were using." Shall we send you our ca.talogue No. 166 MA? AMERICAN BLO\AlER COMPANY. Detroit. Mich. NE.W YORK CHICAGO ATLANTA LONDON Quantity and Quality SOME peopl. look to QUANTITY without regard to QUALITY Otb.et5want QUALITY. but can't get it and QUANTITY at the sante time. The factorY that is equipped with the Mattison No.5 Table Leg Machine get> hoth QUAUTY and QUANTITY. Both aro ",.ubalto proht-making these days. Let us send you our printed matter. It may open your eyes-may convince yOll lhat your present machines and methods are not up~t().odate; that is. un!e;s you already have Mattison machines. C. MATTISON MACHINE WORKS &63 FIFTH STREET. BELOIT I WISCONSIN, U. S. A. Asking Congress to Tackle the Timber Problem. Arthur M. \Vight, manager of the National Association of Box ~lanufadurers has issue.d a circular to the members of the organization, which will be of interest to furniture man-ufacturers, and all others who use wood as material. It reads as follows: "The census of I8BO-contained an estimate of the timber stumpage of the United States at 856,290,100 M. feet. Since 1880, the actual cut of timber, as shown by available stat~stics, has been over 700 billion feet. At that rate, the entire timber supply of the United States, which is being cut at the rate of more than 34,000,000 M feet per year, will be exhausted in five years! This 'we know is impossible. "The census of 1900 gave an estimate of the stumpage then standing at 1,390,000,000 M feet. Others estimates have also been made showing the standing timber at the present time to be about 2,000,000,000M feet. AU of them are guess work. "It is well known that there has been an advance in the price of lumber of about 100 per cent. in eight years, and this advance is hascd on the increased scarcity of lumber, and the increased cost of carrying' it to the central markets, be-cause the standing supply is now so far therefrom. " Our greatest source of supply is now 011 the Pacific Coast. An estimate of this supply made this year shows that there is 700,658,080 M feet. If the annual lumber cut of the United States should be taken from this supply exclusive~ ly, it would be depleted in twenty years, at the present rate of cutting. I'The National Bureau of Statistics says-'Practicatly the whole world is asking far American waod and its products." The United States Forest Service declares that the timber of the United States is being cut three times as fast as it is growing. "Is it not time something was done? Like all good busi~ ness men, should we not know first where we stand? Let us stop guessing and estimating and KNOW the exact amount of staqding forest timber i.n this country. The' time to do this is in 1910, when the next official census is taken. It is an immense piece of work, but perfectly practical. 'I The ma-chinery for it already exists in the Bureau of the a,ensus and in the Forest Service of the United States. To i authorize these bureaus to do the work is all that is necessi~ry. "Will you assist in this work by requesting you±- Member of Congress to vote for a resolution to authorize the Bureau of the Census and the Forest Service to incorporate!:this work in the census of 191O?JJ ' , . Crisis in Belgium Furniture Factories. I According ta a report from American Consul ~. P. At-well of Ghent, Belgium, some of the furniture makers of that country must emigrate or find other employment. IHe says: \ The furniture manufacturing industry of Malines is the most important in Belgium, and large quantities of American lumber are imported each year for use in the factories. This. industry is now nearing a very serious crisis, caused principal-ly by the high prices of lumber and other articles necessary in the making of furniture. The -prices of oak, walnut, and mahogany have increased from 30 to 40 per cent, according to species and quality, and the same may be said of supplies made of iron and copper, such as locks, hinges, and do'or knobs, all of -which have increased from 10 to 15 per cent; varnish, turpentine, and glue incrc<lsed from 5 to 8 per cent, while the price of glass of all kinds increased approximately 10 per cent. H is thus easily understood that the cost price of all ar-ticles of furniture has considerably increased. Manufac-turers, with few exceptions, are without stocks on hand, and it may be said that the prices have gone Ul} from 30 to 40 ?er cent. It is quite natuul that with the increased prices pre-vailing orders afe scarce, the retail dealers deliberately refUS-ing to purchase at the increased prices. The situation has a very serious effect on the manufacturers of less importance; these, fil1dingthemsclves without orders, will be obliged to close their workshops, and the result will be that nearly 3,000 furniture makers will find themselves without work. Slander on American Machinery, Here is someth-ing that will convey a new idea to most readers and it will not be endorsed by men who are well post-ed on the subject. The statements are certainly misleading when applied to wood working machinery: According to a report furnished to the British Government by Captain Kennedy, director of the public works department in Soudan, he finds that British firms are defectively repre-sented in that part of Egypt, and that all American machin-ery is "absolutely inferior." As regards the American ma-chinery, he says: "A certain amount of special plant has been received from America, and this, though excellent in design, has been in every single instance of an inferior quality structurally. For ex-ample, some well-boring plant-of the American oil-type-though admirably designed, was of the very worst descrip-tion, with bulty castings and beariilgs, and unfinished machine work. Some stearn TOad rollers also, designed for special work, were found to be manufactured and finished in a man-ner that certainly fell far short of the ordinary British stand-ard. Tn consequence of this, it has in some cases been found advisable in the case of special plant of American types, to obtain the detailed designs from America and have the manu-facture of the same carried out in England." The Kynder Manufacturing Company, capital $100,000,wm make furniture and fixtures in Chicago. ------- ---- ---- -- I , , ~ L.'. ,i INSIST ON HAVING Morris Wood ~ ~on5' ~olid ~teel Qlue JOint (uners for there are no other.r U ju.rt aJ" good." They cut a clean perfect joint always. Never burn owing to the GRADUAL CLEARANCE (made this way only by us). require little grinding, saving time and cutters, No time wasted setting up and cost no more than other makes. Try a pair and be convinced. Catalogue No. 10 and prices on application. MORRIS WOOD&. SONS Thlrt.,._two years at 31-33 S. Canal8treet. CHICAGO. ILL. Mr. Manufacturer-Do you ever consider what joint gluing eoSl:s? The sepan,lou and wooden wedges, if you use lhem and many do, are a large item of expense aCCQunt$; but lhis is small compared to wage ae-c. ounts of workmen who wear them Qut with a hammer, and then a large per cent of the joints are failures by the insecurity of this means. RESULT, has to be done over again, if possible. If you use inde~ pendent screw damps the result is beuer, but slower, altogether too slow. Let us tell you of something better, PALMER'S CLAMPS. AU tl:eeland iron. No wedges. no separators. adjust to any width. clamp instantly yet securely, releases even faster. Positively one~th.ird more work with ooethird Jess help. In seven .'!izes up to 60 illches, any thickness up to 2 inches. 200 laetories convinced in 1906. Why not you in 1907} Althongh sold by dealers everywhere let us send you p"ticul.". II. f. Palmer 8 Sons, 01'10550. MiGh. FOREIGN AGENTs: ProjeCtile Co., London, £ngla,nd. Schuchardt & Schutte, Berlin, Gennany. ---FOR:---- HARDWOOD LUMBER NOT LIKE OTHER TALLY ~HEETS. C. A. JOHNSON, Marshfield, Wis. "u.otary Style" for Drop Carvings, EmbosS6d Mouldings, Panels. EMBOSSING AND DROP CARVINQ MACHINES. ])[-achines tor all purposes, and at pl'lces within tbe reach of nil. Every nlucblne bas our guarantee lIgnlost breakage lor one year. "'.awral Style" for la:rge CBIl!wity beavy Canlngs aod Dee)) Eml:.Oss11lg8. We have the Macblne yl)U want at a 8nt18faetory price. Write for descriptive clnnlaJ:08. Alsl) make dies tor all makes 01 Ma~ chinel;. UNION EMBOSSINO MACIiINE CO., Indianapolis, Ind. 17 18 ESTABLISHED 1880 ,',' ~/~~~ ~ ~ - - PUBLISHED 1ST MICHIGAN ARTISAN CO. ON THE: 10TH ANC 28TH OF lEACH MONTH OFFICE-2-20 L.YON ST•• GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. ENTERED AS IIIATT!R OF THE IIfCOND CLAsa In the light of recent eV'¥lts, it does not require a sixth s~nse or anything like clairvoyancy to see that any organiza-tion of manufacturers or dealers is liable to get into trouble with the government authorities and those that are supposed to operate secretly are in greater danger than those that are conducted openly or publicly. The Sherman anti-trust law has been given a wide interpretation by the judicial authori-ties and under present conditions the members of any or-ganization that attempts to maintain unreasonable prices or places restrictions on sales are liable to find themselves in trouble. This does 11ot,or should not, mean that the organ-izations must be prohibited or abolished. In these days of intense competition they arc not only necessary, but, if fairly conducted, are beneficial to dealers and consumers as well as to manufacturers, To avoid trouble with the federal or state authorities all buyers must be treated fairly~all must be treated alike. It will not do to refuse to sell to certain deal-ers while others are allowed easy terms and reasonable prices. The right of organizations to fix rules and terms under which their members will do bu~iness has not yet been attacked. It is only arbitrary and unfair oppressive discrimination that the government is seeking to prohibit. The association or orgaulzation that fixes reasonable prices and terms and makes them available to all "vho may apply is not likely to be mo-lested. In short application of the open shop principle to t~e buying and selling of products as it is being applied to labor will place members of manufacturing and trade organizations out of danger and banish fear of grand juries. *1* *1* *;* "'1* Officials ·of the Cincinnati & Muskingum Valley railroad claim that the two-cent fare law has worked a serious loss to their road, which is entirely in the state of Ohio. They figure the loss for last year at 19.9 cents pcr train mile, but have to admit that the loss was 17.5 cents pcr train mile dur-ing the previous year, when they were 110t bothered by the two-cent law. Since the law went into effect the num-ber of passengers carried increased 3.4 per cent, while the passenger earnings decreased 3.9 per cent. *1* *1* 'I' 'r* The O'~eill-James Company of Chicago claim their estab~ lishment to be "the largest premium hOL\Sein the \vodd." The house makes it possible for retailers "to g-ive a $25.00 Busy Bee talking machine, free, to every home keeper" with out cost to the- merchant handling the. same. Every home contains Ol1e or more talking machines, and the cost of main-taining the same is sometimes quite appalling. But no one of sense would live without one, and the castles5 ta\k1ng machine offered by the firm mentioned would not be con-sidered a satisfactory substitute. *1* *1* *1'" *)* One of the strongest snpporteTs of the exposltion plan for selling furniture, recently stated that he sold ninety-five per cent of his output, (which amounts to several hundred thousands of dollars in value annually) during the exposition seasons in Grand Rapids. He needs no argument to prove the practicability of the plan. The man who invented discounts evidently did it with th~ laudable intention of encouraging prompt payment by mak-ing it worth while. It has served its purpose very well, too, but, likemal1ygoodthings.itis frequently put to unwise Use, and, as a result of this abuse, discounts are somewhat akin to the dog that kept had company till it lost a certain measure of respect. *1* *1' *1* *1* A "reasonable" advance has been made by the manufactur-ers of furniture for all purposes. An t1nreasonable advance at this time might impel the retailers to write to the manu-facturers of Canada for catalogues and price lists. The Ca-nadians have cheap lumber. *1* *1* *1* *'1* That New York insurance agent is probably right in his opinion that some day we will have unbtirnable cities, but when his prophecy is fulfilled what wlll become of the insur-ance agents? Will they take up the ft1rniture business? *1* *1* *1* *1* Many of the manufacturers of Grand Rapids are spending a con·siderable part of the current month in the taking of the semi-annual accounts of stock Not always a pleasing diversion. But the "Kicks Coming" are soft and low. "'j* *1* *1* ""1* Wonder just what the real, simon pure, genuine exper-ienced salesmen think of all the different ideas that have been evolved during the past two years for' doing away with the middleman or salesmanship in various industrial lines? "'1* *1* *1* "'1* Large- nttmbeTs of jobs have been thrown on the markets during the past sixty days. To what extent these sales will affect the July season is a matter only tJ-.~ near future can solve. "'1* *!* *t* "'1* Let's see. Howald will you be when the Pennsylvania Railroad Company begins to cut ties from the trees that are being planted on the Allegheny mountains. this. year? *1* *1* *1'" *1* The lumber users of today owe a duty to the future that should inspire them to co· operate in every ra.tional movement for the conservation of our forest resources. *)* *1* *1* *1* Any fool can find fault and create discouragement, but it takes a wise man to eliminate faults by recognizing and cultivating the good traits in others. 1111* *1* *1$ *!* Exhibitors in the exposition towns are putting their lines in readiness and calmly await the opening of the season. *1* *1* *1* *'1* Call the "left over" a sticker no more, It is 110W called a "spiff" by the high grade merchant. *1* *1* *!'" *1* The better the cOf!ditiolls of your plant the better class of men will find their way to it. *1* *1* *1* *1· The "periods" will be strong features of the new fall lines of furniture. *1* *1* *1* *1* The check book is the best guide book for the traveling sales.man. *1* *1* *1* *1* The ollly undignified job is loafing. Enla.rging Their Plant. The Valley City Desk Company have had a very success-ful year, and have commenced the erection of a large addi-tion to their plant, in anticipation of a much larger business during the year commencing with July 1. A large line of office desks is manufactured. -SEE~~~ West Michigan Machine & Tool CO" ltd. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. fo .. UIGU GRaDE PUNCUES and DIES. SYDNEY oJ. OSGOOD S. EUGE.NE' OSGOOD OSGOOD & OSGOOD, Architects. FACTORY CONSTRUCTION AND DESIQN'NC A SPEC IA L T Y. GRANO RAPIDS, MICHIGAN. lr YOUfDfSIGNS arc right. people want the Good •• That makes PRICES right. <tlarence 1R. 1bfUs DOES IT 163 Madison Avenue-eitizens Photle1983. GRAND RAPIDS. MICH. A. L. HOLCOMB ~ CO. Manufacturers of HIGH GRADE OROOVINO SAWS up to 5-16 thick. - _ Repairfng- •• Sa.tisfaefion gu iIoran(eed. Citizens" Phone 1239. 21 N. Market St .• Grand Rapids. Mlch. WHITE PRINTING CO., GRAND RAPIDS. MICH. PRINTERS OF CATALOGUES and everything needed by business men R. H. RUPPER /;.\?t~I~1~ ManuElI.d.urerof Machine and Carving Tool8. All kind~of Woodworking Tools ta ordeI-ShaperHeadr;. Jointet" Heads, Spindle Carver Cutters and <':Verythinll in took Hard Work, Responsibility and Low Wages. Probably the poorest job i5 that of shipping clerk, write5 Robert Blair in the Chicago Tribune. The men ''''ark hard and there is EttIe variety to make their day interesting, While the work seems to be v.nied with the nailing of crates and loading of ';\.:agans, receiving goods and keeping an account of the day's shipments, it is a dun grind, the same thing every day; and the pOor salaries paid make the job undesirable to those who have push and energy_ 110st of the positions are filled by men ..v.ho have 105t all ambition for anything higher and who plod along daily like machines, hopi]]g ior the end of the week and pay day, ,~..-hel1they may have a Ijttle enjoy-ment for a time with the small s;tlarjes they earn. Handling heavy boxes and creates is no easy thing and-the shipping clerk must be strong and healthy. It happens fre-quently that telegrams are received by firms from· out-of-town (:ustomers who order goods and ,"'ant them shipped the same day. It may be after 3 o'clock in the afternoon that SUch an order is received and the shipping clerk must halt"" the goods ready for dclivery in time to get to the freight house before dosing time. I Nearly every large concern has a head shipping clerk and f some as~istants and the bosses get the most money and do L~__ 19 We can help you. Time saved and when done leavesare bound (by your:- ",If) and indexed by Roo" or departments. BARLOW BROS., Grand Rapids, MiClb. WRITE RIGHT NOW_ Michigan Art Carving CO. -----IFOR WOOD CARVING of all kinds. Mention Michigan Arti~an_ GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. WRITE M. P. TmfLf &. CO., 242 S. Front St., GR4NOR4PIOS.MICII. IF YOU WANT THE BEST FURNITURE PHOTOGRAPHS West Side 36 Inch Band Saw Machine, Gleason Palent Sectional Feed Roll, WEST SIDE IRON WORKS, CRAND RAPIDS, MICH., U. s. A. MICHtaAN ENORAVINO CO. Grand Rapids, Micb. EN(JI{A.VBI{S BV A.ll PI{OCBSSES. the lea5t work. The assistants do the heavy work., but they have little worry. The head of the department must keep his eyes and ear5 open at all times, tr-usting no one. If anything is wrong in the department he is held responsible by the firm. Such a little matter as pasting the wrong label on height is a mistake tllat means considerable trouble to him. The wrong customer gets the goods, and in nine cases out of ten will open the box or crate and examine the contents merely Ollt of curiosity_ The goods are damaged when they finally arE'.returned to the shipping clerk, and extra freight charges help to pDt the firm in anything but good humor. It j~ said that anyone who is physically able to stand the hard work can get a position as shipping clerk with any of the large [inns. Experience is not necessary, and this alone is what cheapens the job and keeps the ranks of the shipping clerks :fined with undesirable men. The good man who hap-pens into the position soon learns that there is 110 advance-ment for him and gets out. The Southland Turpentine Company, with headquarters in New Orlean5, will build a branch plant at Lake Charles, La., ,:osting ~15,OOO, 20 OPPORTUNITIES ARE NOT LIMITED. Effects of Trusts and Department Stores on Retailers and Those Who Would Be Merchants. (From an article written by James H. Collins for the Saturday Evening Post, Philadelphia.) Kow, how abotlt the young man starting in life to-day; who fee~....that he has within himself the making of a prosperoltS merchant? What changes have been wrought in retail con-ditions since Wanamaker and Marshall Field began? How large ,,,ill the trusts loom on his horizon? Fifty years ago it made little odds where the path of glory led. \iVhere it began was ill a country store, and the neophyte matriculated by_ sweeping out the place and wash-ing the windows. Mr. Rogers started there to be an oil king. Rockefeller started in a commission store. 1Ien like vVan-amaker and Field became clerks and stayed in the retail line, and even General Grant's real career dates baek to his clerkship in Galena. It seems rather curious to find so much ability coming up from the retail store, until one goes back and looks carefully. Then it becomes apparent that, at that time, there wasn't any other place to start, unless one wanted to be a farmer. To-day the young man who is not especially attracted by the retail career can find a number of other cntrance-points to Life. How about the youngster who really wants to be a merchant-who is willing to begin by sweeping out, if necessary-who would kecp his shop in the hope that it will keep him? In previous papers it was shown that the trusts have, if anything, immeasurably increased the nt1.mber of salaried places and amount of salary. It was showing too, that perhaps, the independent manufacturer has fair opportunities to hold his own, even against a trust. In the retail trade of this country there have undoubtedly been more radical changes brought about the past quarter-century than in either of these other fields. The trusts them-selves, as manufacturers or controllers of manufactured goods, may not bear so heavily upon the retailer as has been asserted. Many of them need him in their plans, just as they need the able salaried man. Other forces, however, are revolutioniz-ing retail conditions, If one applies this Jnose word "trust" to everything that makes for concentration, large-scale dis-tribution, narrowing of profits, etc., then some of these forces may be classed as trust activities. But other conditions are far outside, even, of this wide classification. The retail merchant is certainly facing some ugly facts. FiTSt, there are pseudo-trust influences, three in number: the department, store, the mail-order house, and the chain of stores operated by one management. The latter is eithe.r a department store spread out over a whole city, with its econom-ies in buying, or system of shops scattered ovcr the whole country that carries one line of goods direct from manufac-ttner to consumer, also with resutant economics A. T. Stew-art did a gross business of sixty~.five million dollars a year, but a large portion of this was wholesale. In Chicago to-day are two mail-order concerns, whose business is of a retail natllre, competing with retail merchants, and each of them does nearly as mt1c.h business as did Stewa.rt both his whole-sale and retail establishments. All these changes in retail trade are based on natural conditions-the growth of popu-lation in cities, the perfection of mail and freight service, the increase in publications, the nationalization of demand. The retailcr is also a buffer between manufacturer and consumer. One tri.ms his profit to meet competition in pro-duction, while the other trims it because the -cost of living has -.advanced. He is even tip against what some believe to be the greatest American problem-the servant question. Thousands of small shops ill the large cItIes would have no clerks at all did not the proprietors rear their own. Small shopkeeping has drifted largely into the hands of the thrifty German and Jew, who put t.heir wives, sons and daughters behind the counter. The old-type retailer, too, works harder for his money than allY- '1ody else nowadays. Whether there is as much profit to-day in a modest retail business as a gencration ago is rather a complex questiOll. Thousa11ds of small merchants still amass comfortable com-petences in trade. They may not make as much proportionate to the increase in eost of living. Their rewards appear small beside those of n,anu{acturcrs, and even of salaried meu. But they are often men who have risen from the ranks of wage-camers, and might not have done ~s well in other fields. For the young feltowwho b.:ls,gennine retail ability there are unqt1.cs,tionably larger opportUl:1ties ,than ever before. He must look for them in new places, hpwever. Under some (":ircumstal1ces his most attractive field may lie in a salary with a great merchandising organizatifl1l. Under others he mny build up a far-reaching organization of his own. As tlte pTO-prietor of a single retail business he may, by unusual ability, earn a satisfactory profit. And lt is held by most persons in the wholesale al1d manufacturing' trades that there is still room for a moderate success where a man of only average ability cnters retailing. Perhaps the best way to crystallize this matter is to draw pictures of two typical retailers-the man of average ability and the man of unusual ability, There are abollt two thousand retail druggists in Greater New York. Their average profit must be very low-five thousand dollars a year would doubtless be too liberal a BENNETT& WITTE MANUFACTURERS OF ==LUMBER== For Furniture Mfrs•• Car Builders and Carriage Trade. P)ainallli I Whl'te and Red O..L..- J Plain and Quartered)" 19l~ I Quarteroed RED and SAP GUM Poplar. Cottonwood. A$h. Elm and Chestnut, A Full Line of Southi!lrD Hardwoods., E2lPori and Domestic. WRITE E.ITHER OFFICE.. Branch: Mempbis, Tenn. Main Office; Cincinnati. O. We sell on Natinnal Hardwood Lumber A9~ociation inspection only. l11a:-.::ilrcUiU for all of them, or for any retail line. }';!uch of the retail trade of every city is mere pushcart traffic. Yet some of these dealers, by only fair ability, managc to clear from five thousand dollars to eight thousand dolJars a year, and a few of the exceptionally able ones from ten thousand dollars up-ward. Our typical druggist of average ability was an elderly German, who had kept a' shop in the lower part of Man-hattan Island for forty years and more. We have figures of his gross turnover lor a period about twenty years ago, before the department store became a force. He was back in what is now assumed to have been a goldel1 era of retailing. of textiles, and had but two busy seasolls-spring and fan. In between times there was stagnation, reduction of expenses, dismissal of clerks, It was the need for keeping busy every month in the year, and the ne\=cssity for keeping a clerical force intact- that led to the addition of other departments. New lines were superimposed on the dry-goods trade, and a cycle of business built up, by advertising and special sales, that keeps a great store active the whole year. * * * * The best season is that around the Chrlstmas holidays. Jannary i5 made a good month by extraordinary bargains in housefurnishings and staple white goods. There is no reason 21 Grand Rapids Office, 412-413 Houseman Bldg. GEO. E. GRAVES, M.anager CLAPPERTON & OWEN, Counsel The TlfE CREDIT BUREAU OF THE FURNITURE TRADE LYON Furniture Agency ROBERT P. LYON, General Manager CREDITS and COLLECTIONS THE STANDARD REFERENCE BOOK CAPITAL. CREDIT AND PAY RATINGS CLEARING HOUSE OF TRADE EXPERIENCE THE MOST RELIABLE CREDIT REPORTS COLLECTIONS MADE EVERYWHERE PROMPTLY - REUABLY all earth why people should buy such goods in January, but department-store activity has made it a great mercantile event of the year. February, dullest of all months except August in the old days, is a time for pushing goods that lie dormant at other seasons-silverware, leather goods, floor coverings. Then the spring trade comes along, rLlllning until J UIlC, and another season of forced selling occurs in the dog-days. August is the month of relaxation, when employes take vacations. Then follows the fall trade, and this leads again into holiday business. This cycle of selling keeps busy at all times a force of trained clerks. Clerks are shifted from section to section for special sales, and made a charge On the buyer who needs them, perhaps for only one day. Based on such economic principles, the department store has grown until there are now many establishments that do a gross business of ten million dollars to fifteen million dollars yearly. Cities of 40,000 population support such stores. There arc five hundred with capital of fifty thousand dollars to two million dollars each, one thousand more dry-goods stores \'\1ith thirty thousand dollars to five hundred thousand dollars capital, and ten thousand others, smaller still, \'\1ith ten thousand dollars average capital. Their yearly gross turn-over is estimated at five times their capital. Old trade has been diverted, but the chid effect has been stimulation of new business. They influence manufacturing, mercbandising a.nd all activity. One remarkable effect is shown in our newspaper. Yet his daily sales did not greatly excc,ed twenty dollars gross. counting Sundays, and thirty dollars was an uncommon day's business. The gross annual turnover did not reach ten thou-sand dollars, and profits \,\7ere not much over thirty-five hun-dred dollars. This drug·g·ist did a trade that is still done to-day in every city, and which will probably continue to be practicable for many years to come-a small neighborhood trade. Prescrip-tions, medicines and toilet goods made up the bulk of it. His shop had become a land mark and gossiping place. He was content, did not think of advertising, bad not kept abreast of demand, \"iaS not a shrewd buyer. Part of his profits each year were on the shelves in stock, some of it unsalable. He took what trade gravitated to him, and had fallen into com-fortable h8bits of building a fire each morning, taking an ob-servation on the weather, and wondering 110W tIle next elec-tion would go. About twenty years ago this old-time druggist hired a boy. He was rather an extraordillary boy for three dollars 1 week-quick, observant, interested. He saw a customer be-fore the customer saw him, and waited on him in a W8Y that made friends. He took pride itl the appearance of stock, and put circul<lrs in packages, and brought so much initiative into this passive business that eventually the old druggist sent him to take a course in pharmacy. The boy won highest honors in a class of seventy-one. and came back, not a pbar-macist, but a chemist. Then the proprietor took him in as junior partner, and by and by, when he died, the business pass-ed to the younger mall. The latter has since developed this neighborhood store in a \-vay that makes it unique. First, on the mercantile side, he has put in a fine stock of druggists' sundries and knicknacks-goods upon which the druggist of ullusltal ability, with a central location, often builds an enormous trade, his prescription department becoming a mere accessory. * * * * * * * * * One of the large Sixtb Avenue department stores in New York was built up On its millinery department-as a good many similiar stores have been built in other cities. Taste and reasonable prices in millinery make a magnet that draws trade to fifty other departments. The millinery buyer in this store receives a salary of twenty thousand dollars a year, it is said-not an unusual one for a department-store buyer of exceptional ability, for a few well-known buyers receive thirty tllOusand dollars. This man runs a department that does a gross business of one million dollars a year-the larg-est in the country, perhaps. He pays no rent, no taxes, no insurance, takes no risk. An error of a few thousand dollars in buying might put our energetic druggist into bankruptcy. An error of fifty thousand dollars with the millinery man would mean nothing serious, for the store would move the goods by a little activity and price-cutting, and make good any loss a few months later. There are bundreds of buyers for the great depJrtment stores who receive salaries of ten thousand dollars to fifteen thousand dollars, and from that on downward the positions illcrease in number, until we find many paying twenty-fl\'e dollars a week into which exception-ally bright clerks are stepping evet·y day. Here is one great channel for the young man with retail ability'. As the youngster who seeks a salaried place in a manu-facturing company, Or means to be a manufacturer himself must learn to sell goods, so the neophyte who is possessed with the ambition to become a merchant must learn to buy. Let us look at this department~store business a moment, and find out where it began, and how it is conducted to-day, and what jt seems destined to become in the future. The department store grew out of the old dry-goods store. It is very new as yet. Tbe greatest growth has come in the past decade. Ten years ago the department business of New York was perhaps not one-quarter that of to-day. The old-time dry goods store of thirty years ago handled a few lines. Growth of afternoon and Sunday papers is based upon their advertising patronage. A conservative estimate gives thirty-five thousand dollars as the annual advertising expenditure of department stores in New York and Brooklyn. The news-paper publisher now delivers his,afternoon and Sunday paper to readers belmv cost, taking bis,profit from department-store advertising. The all~important man in these hUge retail or-ganizations is the buyer. He it 'is who ransacks the world's markets for attractive goods, and who studies demand, the weather, the changing seasons and flitting fashions, the needs and whims of the purchasing pUblic. A small retailer often buys several different lines of goods. He must usually buy at home, He has smal capital, ,a small margin for errOrS, a (Continued on Page 24.) 22 This Machine Makes the Money BY SAVING IT=== It makes a perfect 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 i\'s a money maker. It imitates perfectly PLAIN or QUARTERED OAK, MAHOGANY, WALNUT, ELM, ASH or any other wood with open grain. WRiTE THE ---------------- Posselius Bros. Furniture Manufacturing Co., Detroit, Mich. MENTION THE: MICHIGAN ARTISAN. FOR PRICES AND FULL PARTICULARS. I 1 ----------------------------- - FOX SAW SMOOTHEST GROOVES FASTEST CUT DADO HEADS GI\EATEST RANGE QUICKEST ADJUSTMENT GLASS KNOBS This pattern made in THREE SJZES. We will make yOIl inltruting pria, f Q r quanli/;es. JOHN DUER & SONS, Baltimore, Md. CABINET HARDWARE, TOOLS, Eh::. LEAST POWER LEAST TROUBLE;, read this, Why Worry with the Roll Question =?= Leave that to us. \Ve are prepared to solve it quicker and bEtter be-cause we have the knowledge and equip_ ment. We use nothillg but ~he.blut itl 0Ill' cores. WrHe!01'prices. The f~llwock Auto.. mobill!; &, Mfg CO £VAN5VILLE. IND. Nothin,l!; changed Manufacturers of FURNITURE, PIANOS, ORGANS, REFRIGERA-TORS, CHAIRS, and INTERIOR FINISHES, LONGEST LIFE PERFECT SAFETY We'lI gladly tell yOU all about It. Also Machine Knlve..,.. Mher Machines. Etc. PERMANENT ECONOMY FOX MACHINE. CO. 185 N. Front Street. Grand Rapids. Mlch FOLDING BED FIXTURES Profitable fixtures to use are those which give the least trouble. They are made by Folding Bed Williams in many styles and designs, suitable for every folding bed manufactured. Furniture Cast-ings, Panel Holders, Corner Irons, etc. New ideas and inventions constantly being added to the line. F. B. WILLIAMS 3812. VINCENNES AVE.] CHICAGO ManufactllfcT of Hardware Specialties for the Furniture Trade. Established H178. The Factory Ed~tion VENEERED ROLLS Tbe "Reliable" Kind Fonnerl)' the Fellwock Roll & Panel Co. but the !lame. OF THE ARTISAN It is Not Mailed to Dealers. Our Merchants Edition is Mailed to Dealers Only. 24 (Continued from Page 21.) small outlet The department-store buyer, however, special-izes on a single line, and can go abroad if necessary_ He has enormous purchasing power, and an outlet that permits him to take reasonable risks. Buying goods is. as much a mattcr of human nature as sell-ing, but, instead of studying a few customers, the buyer· studies people in the mass. It has been said that a knowledge of retail human nature is the key to business success in any line where public taste must regulate one's operations. T}-oe failure of almost any unsuccessful retail business is frequently traced to poor judgement in buying, while shrewd gauging of the public taste often carries a business into success de-spite lack of capital. Many elements enter into the equipment of the buyer who rises to a position at twenty thousand doJ~ lars-the output of merchandise is to~day so vast and varied that even a little news instinct is needed. But the careers of most buyers, traced back to beginnings, are found to be laid on a knowledge of goods and the public gained in selling be-hind the counter. The logical place to begin in this field is as a clerk. There is a wide spread notion that department store clerks are a poorly paid! sapless species of humanity. But it is not borne out by fact. Under conditions in the old dry-goods stores, promotion often went by favoritism, as it does still in the English "living in" system, But few classes of workers in any field are to-day more inde,pendent or better paid than efficient department store clerks. * * * * * With knowledge gained as a clerk, many a bright young man and woman has become a department store buyer on large salary. Entering a store as wrapping boy or cash girl then going behind the counter, there acting as assistant to one of the buyers, then intrusted with the purchasing for a minor department, and so on upward-these are the successive steps of advancement. A buyer's promotion is in large degree based on actual showing of results. As the clerk asks for more salary on his sales record, so the buyer is advanced and given wider scope according to the grass business of his section.- Some of the shrewdest men turn stock in a single department a dozen times a year, and on ca-pital of five thousand dollars will swing a gross business of fifty tbousand dollars. The ob-ject in typical bargain stores is to turn stock quickly, and buyers do so by finding opportunities to purchase stock cheap-ly. In stores that deal in luxuries, on the contrary, the world is scoured for novelties, regardless of price. The s;;Lmeabilities that would make a merchant successful in his own establishment will, when directed into this new field, give him a larger money return. He needs no capital, and takes practically no risk. His independence, too, will be ample. Anything notable in achievement gets about, not only in a buyer's own organization, but among other stores, where keen eyes are open for exceptional purchasing talent. In fact, the department stores of every large city now employ "shoppers" who go daily to rival establishments, note the quality of advertised offerings, the interest aroused among pa-trons, the new goods on sale, etc. These spies work under instructions, and their reports shape the policy of the store that employs them. E...e.r.y little triumph of the buyer is known in e...e..ry other store before night, and he gets into the mercantile "Who's Who" very quickly when- his work war· rants a place there. * * * * * * * The largest percentage of commercial disaster falls on the independent retail trade. But statistics show that incompe-tence, neglect, inexperience and extravagance are responsible for nearly twice as many retail failures as .1<ickof capital or unfavorable trade conditions. \i\Then a retail merchant prov£;s that he has genuine mercantile ability these days, it is much easier for him to obtain credit from wholesalers than a gener-ation ago. A surprisingly large proporation of the retail trade of this country 1S carried on the capital and credit of whole-sales, jobbers and manufacturers. The outcry of retailers against department stores and mail-order houses has been very bitter. Yet, despite the enor-mous volume of goods sold through these establishments, the neighborhood retailer can hold his own up to the natural limitations of his business. Department stores and mail-order concerns sell pianos by the thousand, yet the retail piano trade is growing, too, and it is so in practically all lines. Price competition may be reduced largely to clever offerings of spec-ial articles when keenly analyzed. For instance, a ma.n went into a large New York department store's jewelry department to have his watch repaired. The price asked was three dollars It seemed excessive, so he went to a small jeweler a block away and had it done for (l dollar and a half. This jeweler told him that much of the big store's repair work came into his own little shop. Country merchants have repeatedly fought mail-order houses by quoting comparative prices from catalogues against their own regular prices. * * * In some W<l.ys mail-order houses press country merchants closely. Yet they draw only a portion of the cash business from a community. The local merchant can have the credit business, and much of the best trade, sneh as that in pianos, stoves, farm implements and otber lines of considerable pro-fit per sale, gravitates to him. Instances might be multiplied. But it is sufficient to say that, while retail conditions have been wonderfully altered in a generation, yet the small merchant who has ability, prudence and industry in his make~up, can still live, and live well, up to th~ natural limitations of his business. His field has not nar-rowed, either, but is unquestionably wider than a generation ago. The youngster with retail virus in his blood may earn more on salary. Yet, if he wishes to keep his own shop, he witt have no caUse to quarrel with the world on the score of opportunities. Cabinet Hardware --AND-- Factory Supplies Wood Screws. Coach Screws. Liquid Glue, Ca.ters. Upholsterer's Tack •. Large Head Bu.lap Tack •• Wire B.acls. Staudard Nails. Cemeut Coateel Nails. Elhow Catches. Door Catcl.es, etc., etc. New Euglaud Fliut Pape•• Barton Garnet Papel". Douhte Faceel Fliut aud Gamet Fiuishiug Pape•. Bra.. Bott•. WroUllht Steel Buus. Cahinet Locks and Keys. Gold Plateel and Gilt Cah. inet Keys. Bench Vises. Bolts, Washe..., Zincs. Our large and complete assortment of general hard ware 15at your service. Correspondence solicited. Inquiries for prices will receive careful and immediate at'entioo. FOSTER, STEVENS & CO. GRANDRAPIDS.MICH. -- -- ----~-~--------- ~-------- -- - - WEATUERED OAK O!!: STAINS·\ Just the thing. Will not wipe up under either Shellac Wax or Lacquer. Popular Shades, No. 1207, No. 1253, No. 1255 EARLY ENGLISU Oil STAIN No. 1244 Penetrating and Strong. filled with our No. 1620 filler Will not wash up when being filled. SEE OUR MISSION flA TAll which is positively flat. Send fot samples of all of the above to The Barrett ~Lindeman Co. Wood Finishing Supplies FILLERS STAINS In consolidation with The Lawrence-Mcfadden Co. PHILADELPHIA and CHICAGO 26 A HUMMER FROM STRUmS Characteristic Features Massive from with wide and deep base. Long and large· bearings for cylinder. An necessary adjustments. Different combinations of tables from 3 to 4 feet. Rack frame divided for making "spring" ioints. Want more information? Write STURGIS MACHINE COMPANY STURGIS MICH. I Bill of Lading Controversy Still Unsettled. As heretofore stated an agreement was reached between the eastern railroads and the shippers whereby the latter men would petition the Interstate Commerce Commission to dis-miss the famous bin of lading cas.e which has been bdore that body since December, 1905. On the other hand, the rail~ roads agreed to present to the commission a new uniform bill of lading which contains provisions for only one rate and, therefore, accepts without question 'the common law liability for loss and damage which attaches to the carriers. In view of this agreement, both the railroads find the shippers in the west will be surprised to Ir am that the com-mission has set June 15 for the reopening of the bill of lading case, with a view to making a complete investigation. Both sides believe this to be a mistake, and declare that the agree-ment reached will mark one of the most bitter contests ever waged between shippers and railroads. The entire question was one of liability on the part of the carrier ior loss and damage shipments. Twice have the eastern railroads attempted to rid themselves of such liabil-ity. In order to do so they put a note in the official clas&i-fixation, which provides that where the shipper does not elect to ship at his Own risk he will be charged 20 per cent in ex~ cess of the classiftcation rates. The hill of lading contained a similar provlsion. The railroads first attellTpted to enforce this rule in 1889, whereupon the board of trade prevented it. Again in 1905 an attempt was made and was met by the filing of a petition by the Hlinois. Manufa,turers' Association before the Interstate Commerce Commission. Then the railroad officials and the Illinois Manufacturers.' Association sign ell a stipulation asking the commission to postpone judgment until negotiations for a settlement l.:ould be had. These negotiations have been going on periodically ever since and were recently successfully completed at a final meeting in this city. It may be that the commission reopens the matter to receive the new bill of lading and hear the ap-plication for dismissal of the old complaint. That any arbi-trary move is contemplated does not seem reasonable. Co-Insurance Riders UnhoTF't-d. The supreme court of Michigan in a test case sent up from Detroit, has decided that the so-called "co-insurance riders' used on policies covering large risks in that state, are an evasion Ot" violation of the state statutes and must not be used as a basis in the settlement of losses. The "rider" is simply an agreement by which the -policy holder is granted a rate lower than ~he regular percentage if he carries insur-ance. aggregating a certain per cent of the value of his prop-erty- usuaHy 80 per cent. Formerly the companies im-posed this condition 3rbitrarily, but in 1895 the legislature passed a law making such requirement illegal. Then the "riders" were introduced,. by which the policy holder agreed to the special pro ...i.sion. This arrangement was supposed to be perfectly legal and legitimate as it was in the nature of a contract and the "riders" were attached to nearly all pol-icies on manufacturing plants and other large risks. They read as follows: "Percentage Clause-In consideration of a reduced rate of premium, it is hereby agreed, that in case of loss, this com-pany will pay only such proportion of the loss, as the sum hereby insured bears to per cent of the valUe of the property insured. Whenever this clause is made part of a policy covering two or more specifications, it shall be consid~ ered as applying separately to each of said specifications. But in no case shall this comapny be liable for a greater pro~ portion of any loss, than the a.mount hereby insured shall bear to the whole insurance, whether valid or not." The decision of the supreme court was a surprise to the insurance agents and also to policy holders, most of whom were pleased with the arrangement because it gave them low-er rates and did not require them to carry more insurance than they desired. As a result of the decision a stiffening of rates is expected. It does not invalidate any of the policies now in force. It simply deprives the companies of the ad-vantage they would have in settling losses on the terms stated in the "riders." Pennsylvania Lines to be Consolidated. The Pennsylvania Railroad Company owns about thirty roads west of Pittsburg that are now operated by separate companies, some of which use methods and regulations quite at variance with those used on the main lines of the system. According to a report sent out from Pittsburg, these lines are to be taken over and the entire system placed under one general management. This move will be of particular in-terest to the officers of the subordinate companies as some of them will lose their positions, but it is of importance to shippers who have been annoyed by the lack of uniformity in methods and management. The consolidation is expected to facilitate shipments and in some instances it may bring about a reduction in rates. It is stated that it will take two years to make the changes necessary to put the consolidation plan into operation. The legislature of Wisconsin has passed a joint resolu'- don asking Congress to abolish the tariff duty on lumber. New Process of Drying by the Morton Dry Kiln Co. The Morton Dry Kiln Company, Chicago, Ill. have per-fected and are placing on the market a new process of sea-soning lumber for use ill connection with their Morton 1Ioist Air Kiln. This system is so arrangcd that it is equally as well adapted to other makes of lI.'foist/\ir Kilns with a few ehang"es in the constrl1ctioll and the proper a111nunt of heating surface, and from results reported on the new system, it is calculated to revoluti()11ize and replace present methods of drying. Es-pecially is this true for factories drying oak and other hard-wood lumber ullder conditions such as they are today, when thc lumber that has been air-dried only a short time must be used on account of the scarcity of well air-dried stock. \\lith the new process the Morton Dry Kiln Company claims to be able to take any kind of commercial lumber and dry it quickly and without injury in any \vay. They further claim that the system will reduce the time of drying from om'.-third to one-half in drying oak Olndother hardwoods over any other ordi-nary method now in use and that further, 1t win leave the lumber in excellent condition without honeycombing. warping or checking", and that it will be softer and work better in ma-chines and show no perceptible shri~"kage in drying; and fur-ther, that practically all the acid is removed from the lumber, therby insuring that glued joints \vill 110t open. The Morton Dry Kiln Company have expended consider~ able money and time in perfecting this system and thoroughly testing it before offering it to the trade. They already have se\'eral installed alid in operation, upon which they base their claim for results obtained. The equipn~el1t consists of a splendid sheet iron tank or hood, counter balanced with weights and having guides so that it may be raised or lowered onto a concrete base, making an absolutely tight chamber, in \vhich the lumber is given a preliminary treatment or sweating process of from two to four hours duration before being run into the kiln, where -it is dried in the ordillary manner under a high temperature. The drying chamber also has a special equipment to obtain a proper amount of humidity, which they claim is absolutely necessary in order to obtain the high temperature in the dry-ing room. Another feature of the special equipment offered, is that it can be arranged for use in conection with the hattery of kilns, as well as one room and thus reducing to a minimum cost of installing the system in one or more rooms. They .7'IR.T I ..5' Al"J" 1 $ eri 27 also advise firms that have not the s'pace or room to install one of these special chambers in connectioo\vith the kiln, that they have arranged the system so that it can be put in-side of any kiln \vith equally as good results, with a fcw·,inex-pensive constructive changes. The ~lorton Dry Kiln Company will be pleased to give further information regardiflg this new process either to firms that are desirous of increasing the capacity of their present kilns, or firms that are contemplating the erection of a new kiln. \Vrite them at 218 La Salle street, Chicago; Ill., and get their new catalogue "0" just issued, containing valuable information with respect to kiln drying lumber, which they v\-,il\.be pleased to mail upon request. Must Adv&Uce Prices. The vVestern Brass and Iron Bed Association and the ,\r estern Spring Bed Association held meetings at the Annex and Auditorium, Chicago, respectively, Thursday, May 16. The meeting of the former association was called to discuss mat4 ters of great importance to all manufacturers of brass and iron beds. A recommendation was made to advance prices five per cent all all beds, but no definite action was taken. The increase of [lve per cent is based on the increased east of raw material entering into the "construction of both brass and iron beds, the latter having from thirty to sixty pounds of pig iron castings to a bed, an increase of fifty per cent lately being made on this iron. Manufacturers have also been not-ified that an advance on tubing will soon. be made. Thus it is plainly seen that in order for manufacturers to realize any profits prices must advance. Fox Trimmers in Demand. The Fox 11achine Company of Grand Rapids, Mich., have just received an order for two No.8 Fox trimmers, the larg-est si.:ed trimmers manufactured and twenty of the small No. 4A Fox trimmers, for installation at the Pennsylvania Gen-eral E1ecrtic Company's Stearns plant, Erie, Pa. The demand for Fox trimmers is so heavy that whereas it is customary to carry several hundred of these machines in stock for immediate delivery, at the present time orders are being received for the machines faster than they can be Designed by Otto Jiranek, Grand Rapids, Mich. crowded through the works. The redesign of these ma-chines a short time ago has apparently added very materially to the sale and aU possible trimmer users, both large and small, are showing a disposition to give this class of equip-ment the attention, which it has always deserved, but often failed to receive. Alexander H. Revell & Co., Chicago, have increased their capital stock from $240,GOO to $500,000. 28 .7'IR.T 1.5'JI.l'1 , 7$. D-EI.rIT I TRACE MARK REGISTERED FILLERS AND STAINS AND MISSION FINISHES You want to make all the profit you can, don't you? You wish the best results with the least outlay in time and money. Ad-el-ite Paint Specialties will accomplish this for you. Our Fillers and Stains are uniform in quality, correct in.shade and nonfading, they are dependable goods of established favor. Popnlar taste demands the use of the old, dull, velvety Mission effect in finishing woodwork and furniture in halls, libraries, dens, dining-rooms, etc., and you can secure this with a single application of anyone of the many shades of our One-Coat Dull Finish. A test will convince you of its worth. SEND FOR BOOKLET AND SAMPLES FREE TO YOU. STA.E -I CHICAGO Manufacturers Favor Tariff Revision. The Kational Association of Manufacturers, at the An-nual meeting held in New Yark during the third week in May, adopted a report favoring a revision -of the tariff laws "at the earliest opportunity" and the negotiation of more re-ciprocity treaties. The report as presented by the committee, appointed at a previous meeting to consider the subject, was based on a poll of 3,000members of the association. Of the total number replying, 55 per cent declared for immediate re-vision, while 20 per cent expressed a "hands off" sentiment. Eight per cent believed that the time for revision had not ar-rived and the other 17 per cent expressed indifference or made noncommittal answers. The association also adopted resolutions favoring the "open shop" and industrial education and opposing illegal combinations of either capital or labor. A committee was appointed to raise a fund of $1,500,000 to be used in carry-ing on a campaign of education against "dictatorial combina. tions." James W. Van Cleave of St. Louis, Mo., was re-elected president and F. H. Stillman, New York, treasurer. Looking Forty Years Ahead. Alarmed over the failure of the steel manufacturers to . produce suitable steel cross ties at practical cost the Pennsylvania Railroad Company will go into the tie-pro-ducing business on the largest scale ever attempted in the world. The plans include the planting of 20,000 acres of land in the Allegheny ~vIountains with timber. Assistant United States Forrester E. A. Sterling ha!'i been pl~ced in charge of the new forestry bureau 0'£ the railroad. More than a million trees will be planted this year in the 20,000 acre tract which lies between Altoona and Hollidays-burg on the eastern slope of the Allegheny Mountains. It will be 40 years before the trees now to be planted wilt be available for the first crop of ties, but the" railroad has decided that it must look that far ahead. The Pennsylvania annually uses more than 5,500,000 wooden ties. At the present time ties command an average price of 95 cents each. After the first 40 years it is expected the forest will produce 4,328,000 ties annually. No Postponement This Year. A meeting of the Grand Rapids F~rniture Manufacturers' Association W<lS held on May 15, to consider a proposition to postpone the opening of the summer sales season for a week or more, some of the members, apparently, having become convinced that June 17 is too early. After thorough discus-sion it was decided to allow the date to stand, as a postpone-ment would cause inconvenience and annoyance to those who have sent out notices to customers and made other arrange-ments for opening their exhibits on June 17. It was generally considered, however, that the third ·week in June is too early for the opening and it is probable that it will be fixed at least a week later next year. The matter of advancing prices on case goods was also brought up but no definite action was taken, further than to abide by the result of tbe referendum ordered by the National Case Goods Manufacturers' Association at the meeting held in Chicago recently. The Ou:1ook is Good in the East. David E. Uhl, manager of the Grand Rapids Fancy Furni-ture company, returned from a tour of the eastern cities, recently and reports a decided improvement in the Outlook for business. He anticipates a lively season of trade during the remainder of the year. Mr. Vhl was appointed a member of the police and ·"fire·commission of Grand Rapids early in May. Ca~inet Makers In these days of close competition, need the best pOSliible equipment, and this they can have in . • • . BARNES' Hand and Foot POWER Machinery Our New "and and foot Power Circular Saw No.4 The strongest, most powerful, and in every way the best machine of its kind ever made, for ripping, cross-cutting, boring and grooving. Se
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347. Michigan Artisan; 1908-09-25

Notes:: Issue of a furniture trade magazine published in Grand Rapids, Mich. It was published twice monthly, beginning in 1880. and Twenty.Ninth Yea.r-No. 6 S~EM8ER 25,1908 Semi-Monthly ~----,--- rrl•S Chairs "THE PUSH BUTTON KIND" I• Royal M You c n make more money out of our NATfON-ALLY AI VER TIS ED lines of Morris Chairs, than you can by buying the unknown, unguaranteed kind. Our a vertising campaign begins in the Saturday Evening P st 1n September and the Ladiesl Home Journal in cto~er and will continue through the Fall. Every mon h eleven million people will see our ads, a facsimile f which we show in this space. \-Vebe ieve we offer you the best selling proposi-tion in the urniture line today. They are unlike any other beca se they are either UPHOLSTERED OR WITH LOSE CUSHIONS, WITH FOOTREST OR WIT OUT FOOTREST, rite us today for proposition for your town. CHICAGO SALESROOM.; Geo. D. Willia s Co., 1323 Michigan Ave., First Floor, Chicago, IlL STURGIS STEEL GO-C RT COMPANY, Sturgis, Mich. FOLDS WITH ONE OTION NO FUSS, NO FOO ING FOLDS WITH ONE OTlON All Steel; Indestructible, Perfected Beyond All Co petition, Frame of Steel Tubing, Will Carry 200 Lbs, Ov r Rough Pavements. The Only Perfect cartt,With a Large Perfect Quick Acti n Hood, CATALOGUE UPON APPLI ATION. FOLDED ._--~ II II, ,I ,I !IIII II• I I t Splendid New Line of Ladies' Writing Desks and I I Music Cabinets I I • For the first time we have prepared a splendid line of Ladies' Writing Desks, Combination Cases and Music Cabinets. The designs show all varieties, from the simplest and plainest to the most ornate. They represent the especially popu-lar styles called for by the trade today. There are altogether 18 different designs, besides different finishes and woods, including golden oak and mahogany, as well as imitation golden oak and imitation mahogany. The workmanship is in the very highest style of popular cabinet making, in line with all of our other moderate-priced "Q..UICK SELLERS." On this page we show one of the Com-bination Cases, but in the new special cata-logue now ready, we show regular Ladies' Writing Desks and Music Cabinets in excel-lent variety. This addition to your line of bedroom, dining-room and library furniture, as well as kitchen cabinets, makes it easier to figure a full car from our catalogue, than from any other manufacturer in the world. We offer hundreds, and even thousands of different styles, at an excellent range of popular prices, and with workmanship that always can be depended on as satisfactory. Our motto IS now and always "SELL ONLY Q..UICK SELLERS." Drop liS tl postal card by return mail [or our new (ota/ogaf Jupplemen/ary to the large general ({Jta/oglie ifJucd last Jafluary--the fargeJt dod handsomest furniture c%logue eVer jHued in this country. If you haflc 110t a copy of that general cata/oguc 011 hand. kindly let (IS send that also. Moil orders will ,"£tlitle the fiery prom/feU attelilion. and the hnt terms we make to anyone, Northern Furniture Company SHEBOYGAN, WISCONSIN • l _ • --- ---- ---- -- -- );[IqIlIGAN ARTISAN 1'----------- 1 ------·---------l See Here Price $11.25 Swell Top .and Top Drawers. Quartered Oak Finish. Fre.nch Beveled :Mirror, 16x28. Top 22xU· One Drawer Lined. It will keep you aH busy with your pencil to beat the price and quality of these two pieces, and many other patterns in 5 ide - boards, Buffet~, Chiffoniers and Dressers made by the old reliable Manistee Mfg. Company Manistee • Micltil!lln Price $7.50 Quartered Oak Firlish. Frel1ch Beveled Patellt Mirror 2Ox2-1. Top 20x'10. Divided Tup Drawer. j~-----,_--.-_----------+-----------,------~ OUR OAK AND MAHOGANY I! DINING EXTENSION TABLES ARE BEST MADE BEST FINISHED VALUES II ~- All Made from Thoroughly Seasoned Stock. j HIGH GRADE CATALOGS COMPLETE White Pri ting CO. GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN • - - ------------ 2 :V1ICHIGAN ARTISAN ,..----_._---_._-----------------. I, tI: I "The Better Make" WE HAVE OVER 400 PIECES IN OUR LINE. Bedroom and Dining Room Furniture --- SUITES TO MATCH --- NELSON-MATTER FURNITURE COMPANY GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Factoryand Salesroom, 37 Canal Street Catalogues to Dealers. on Heavy Plate Paper. ..---------- ---_._-------_ ..I P I'\. r~\ J.;. \ [' , ----+- -- -- -- -~ -- -- -- -----_. -- ~=== 29thYear-No.6. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH .. SEPTEMBER 25. 1908-. -----$\.00 pe,Year. ============±=== The Regular Dealer Wins by Comparison. A correspondent of the "\lic:higan Tradesman, writing from Burr Oak, 2\Iich" reveals ;l plan employed succc sfully in stopping the encroachment of catalogue houses uP< n the business territory of regular dealers. "For several years ,Valter ]. Hoesrhel, who is a trav-eling book agent. bad been an ardent advocate of tll cata-logue house. Everything be could buy of Chicago mai Older houses was purchas d of them, inclt'i1ing; wash oards and fire flhovds. The iscus-sion of the subjec,t beCjme. so common and the differ nce of opinion sc. marked tl at the o[ncers of the },Je hodist church :lrra.l1ged for joint debate, to be P<lrtiCiPltecl ill hy 1Ir. I-Joescbel on o'e side and E. H. Straley n the othcr. Tlle church \vas packed to suffocation and at' nments fh~\v thick and fast. JI'Ur. Stra-ley presented so matbr con-vincing st3tements ttat the judges tll1;LrJimot/sJy de ided in his favor. The peoI Ie 'i,VIto listened t.o t.he debate were made to sec the faltac of pat-ronizing catalogue ho ses and ce3:ied doing so to a reat ex-tent. This work was assisted very materially by t H~ mer-chants buying a few articles from the catalogtle ho tscS and n;taining them in the· r stores for the purposes oi e hibition and cornparison. For in-stance, a. certain rock r, whicJ1 .v..a..s sold by one of or l' deakrs for $4, wa~ apparently matched by olle of the catalogue hOl1se rockers for $1.!)8. T e dealer seTlt for one of the cab.logue hmlse rockers, only to earn that it was constructed of soft "\vood, crudely tbrown tog ther, and that "American quarter-sawed oak, ....as set forth in the cata~ logue meant that it was imitation qllarter-sa"\ved, which is given the appearance of the genuine by a mecha ical pro-cess. Whenever tl1is dcaler shoWE',da prospectivc cnstomer the difference bet\'Ilcen the t\\'o chairs he lrJvad2-bj sold the genuine instead of the bogus; and all aloHg the li e, wl1cn' the catalogue hOuse goods \\'ere exhibited by way COOl pac-ison, local dealers have succeeded in destroying the ooGdence of the cO\1stnnei' in the birness and good faith of t e Chicago houses. I commend tJ,i1;phJ.n to any merchant wh ) f-lnds his business encroached upon by the catalogue non es 'which deal almost exc111si'vely in culls and seconds." i Cheval Mirror No. 7101 Made by Woodard Furn. Co,} Owosso, Mich. To Meet Compet:tion Give Equal Inducements. It is always a pleasing sight to see business men show the brains to ri"e up and meet competition squarely in the road \vhene,,·er it is a case of fi.ght or give ground. H. L. vVild-ey. a retail dealer of Gratelinger, [o".·.a. , tells in the General ~derchants' Review how hc md mail order competition in bolding his store trade. VI/e quote it-not because we ,are ,:wiagollistic to mail order houses, for we are not, being equally interest<:d in the study of business promotion at all its angles-to illustrate that :l cOHJpetitor's methods always hav(' their antidote if one will use the same thing or a scheme tbat goes even one better. lh. \.\.Ti1d~ysays: "I adopted a constitution and by-laws which read: All mail order catalogues on the counter. Quality and freight considered, I will meet any pricc,. in any catalogue, on any article for cash. Tb.Jt statement of itself has lots of ad-vertising value .Jnd the faet that no other store made that proposition gave it additional prominence. That rule was the constitution and by-laws. There wa.s no getting away from it. If necessary to accept an occasional Joss in order to live up to it, I accepted the loss and incidentally, made iu- (luiry of my wholesale house why it was the catalogue house could retail goods at a profit for less than I could buy them at wbolesale. This, howeve~-, has happened but two or three times, and jn every lnstal1ce but one the catalogue price was met :HId a profit left for me. Generally the margin is satisfactory. so much so that I have repeatedly delivered goods at tl~e price they asked in Chicago, throwing off the freight charge. "/dmost every mail order customer I have talked with has told me the"t other merchants have scolded him for sending away because it is tile local dealer who pays taxes, etc. They answer, '\\Thy should 1 pay more on that account? The money is just as good to me as it is to him.' "I\ly proposition has always beel1, 'IJ.Tr. Buyer, if you call buy your goods, laid down here, cheaper from Sears, Roehuck & Co. or !lIonlgomery V.,rard & Co. than you can from me, you are a fool if you don't do it. But if I can sell you the S:llllC quality e,f goods for thc same money, delivered, that the catalogue bouse sells them for, then 1 have a right to the prefct-ence beCHI.5C a good town helps you."--Novelty News. Perpetual Principles. The prineipIcs evolved by the French, English anti Ital-ian decorators of the Renaissance are perpetual, but their adaptation to modern conditions requires grcat skill. The safe: way is tJJe easiest one, Don't try to be too origina1. Get ide.'l'; wherever you can. Nothing reflects so large a proportion of light a.s a mir-ror. At the head of stairways, at the end of halls, wherever walls are too dark or too solid, a mirror is the grcat cheer bringer. The mirror over the fireplace in the hall is its most import.ant feature as regards cheerfulness. MICHIGAN EVANSVILLE, Ind., September 20.-Furniture mannfac- UtTers report that business during the past month has shown some improvement over the previous month. At this date last month the factories were operated on the average of forty hOllTS a week and now the average is fifty hours, and sev-eral of the plants on full time. A great many orders have been received. "Vvhile the orders are small," said one man-ufacturer, "they arc numerous and the factories aTe bU.3ier now than they have. been at any time this summer. '.Things look good for a very lively fall and winter trade. Collec-tions, however, are slow, especially in the southern states. I know of one case ..v.here bills that fell due in Kovember aJ:"cat the present time Ul~paid." Salesmen tr<lveling through the southem states report that the cotton has not moved in ally great quantity and until the • Grand Rapids Caster Cup Co. 2 Parkwood Ave.. Grand RapIds, Mich. We are IlOW putting out the best Caster Cups with cork bases ever offered to the trade. Tbese are finished in G<Jlden Oak and While Maple in a light finii'lh. Tbese goods are admirable for polished floors and fum-iture tests. They will not sweat or mar. PRICES: Size 2U inches .. _..• $4.00 per hundred Size 2h tnc.bes······ 5.00 per hundred Try a Sample Ord". P. O.B. GrandRapids. ! i cotton trade looks up there will be little improvement in busllless. Cotton is the barometer of trade in the south. The situation looks' better right now to the furniture men than at any other time this Season and with the passing of the presidcntia.l election, it is believed that things will look up a whole lot. Mayor John VV. Boehne of this city, who is the democratic nominee for congress in the first Indiana congressional dis-trict, is touring the district with Thomas R. MarShall, the nominee for governor. Mayor Boehne is heavily interested 1U )ocal furniture factories and is ~Jso vice president of the Indiana Stove \Varks. He is one of the best known manu-facturers of the city. Benjamin Bosse left this week for New York to attend a church meeting. :Mr. Bosse is one of the leading furniture manufacturers of Evansville. He is manager of the Globe Furniture Cornpany and one of the heavy stockholders in the Big Six Car Loading Association of this city. Mr. Reichman of the Globe Furniture Company has re-turned from Chicago, whe:-e he went on business and pleas-ure. "Business is very good with us," said Hugh Schmitt of the Stoltz-Schmitt Furniture Company. "We are plugging away at the game and have received some very nice orders during the past month." ARTISAN .., "'Gus" Stoltz of the Stoltz-Schmitt Furniture Company is down in 1\'lississippi looking. after his 'rotton plantation. .He owns a fine tract of land there and gel e:-ally makes one triP a year to his plantati.on. About fifty of the Evansvi.lle furniture manufacturers antI their wives and f<>..milies made a delightful trlp to Tell City, Ind., on Labor Day and were the guests of A. P. Fenn. a well known furniture manufacturer of that city, and had a most enjoyable timc. Mr. and Mrs. Fel111 threw open their fine home to thc Evansville people and there was plenty of el1ter~ taillment. On Labor Day there was a ball gCl.meand other rccreatiQl1 for the visitors. 1\Jusic and songs were a part of the program, Mrs. Fred Stoltz and Hugh Schmitt of this city taking part. Mr. and Mrs. Fenn are good entertainers. \VorkOll the ncw Furniture Exchange building is progres-sing nicely, and the structure will be all imposing olle when completed.. "Gus" Konweikr of the Evans-vil\e Furniture Comp311Y has returned from Chicago. fie reports busine~s looking up and says there is no reason to feel blue over the sitnaticm. He looks for an active fa]] and winter trade. "Fred" Bockstege of the Big Six Carl?adillg Association is at Mackinaw Island, Mich., and reports fishing good. He is having a fine time aI:d promises his friends in Evansville a fish fry upon his return to the city. Mr. Bockstege is one of th"2 veteran mal1ufacture:'s of the city and has "made good." He has a host of friends who rejoice to know of his success. \V. C. Smith of the Big Six combination, who recently went to Denver for his health, has returned and resumed his place on the road. He 1S a hustler after business. T. T. Moore, another salesman for the company, was unfortunate, several days ago, in a hotel fire at Oklahoma City, Okla. He lost his suit case. Eli D. MillerJeports the folding bed business good. Mr. Miller is aile of the best hustlers after buisness in the manu-facturing line in Evansville. vVilliam Heyns of the Heyns Furniture Company is con-fincd to his home at \¥ est Heights with rheumatism. The Evan::;ville Bookcase and Table Company, located at 229 Second avenue, with E. C. Johnson presdient, is enjoying a good busine:;:s. The firm was incorporated in 1903 and its busil1ess hg.5 grown steadily. Ernest Scher of the Karges Furniture Company says he be:ievc.s that husiness is on the up\,.:ard grade and that it will continue to improve. The Wisconsin Chair Comp;ll1Y will start operations No-vcmber 1. The factory will give employment to 100 men when stg,rted. Until January 1. lumber will be brought hcre from the company's mill at Mound City, Ill., and following that date the company's sa.w mill here will be in operation. The local factory is onc of the five plants operated by the chair company. \Villiam i\. Kocll of the Evansville Metal Bed Company and presidcnt of the Evansville Furniture Manufacturers' As-sociation, is jubi.lant over ther t'rade prospects this fall. He is one of the live_ manufacturers of the city and has ma_de a reputation that ally young man might weB be proud of. A. F. Karges of the Karges Furniture Company has re-turned from St. Louis. He w<:,,Saccompanied by John n. Rohsellbe"ger, tl:e well known and efficient secretary of the Buehner Chair Company of this city. Louis and V\-TilliamKaneway and Louis J. Herman, dircc-tors of thc Enterprise Lounge and !\.1attress Company, have entered suit in the circuit court here agaiilst Charles Kane-way, to require him to turn over to them ce:·tain books and papers now in his posses3ion, but which it is alleged right-fully belong to the company. They charge that he ha.s the books and refuses to surrender and -that he wrongfully occu-pies the position of treasurer of the company. The case will probably be tried some time this fall. The Fellwock Auto and ~Ianufaduting Company of this ,r---------------.-- kfrCHIGAN ARtISAN ._----------------_.~ • J LADIES' IDEAL DRESSER THEY SELL AT SIGHT Have seven drawers. Jewelry drawers plush lined. All the ladies like them. Don't cost any more than old fashioned dressers. SEND FOR BEAUTIFUL ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE . EMPIRE FURNITURE COMPANY JAMESTOWN. NE.W YORK city is rapidly inrging- to the front and winning laurels in the cOl11me~cial "'\'01'1<1. The following are the of-Jiccrs of the company: \V. E. Fellwoek, pre~ident; ]. F. Fellwock, vice president, and _'. B. f'ellwock, secretary. One of the substantial firms of this city is the E~'-;Hlsville "!',/Iirror and Beveling Company, with John C. lutt secreta;"y. 1'\11'.Zutt is also a director in the Citizens' Glass Compauy, \vhich recently took over the glass plant t,1<1t belonged to the Evansville Glass Company. A great furniture manufacturing center is Tell City, Ind., one of the tIlost thriving tmvllS ill the Ohio valley, Tbc fa.c-tory operated by the Chai;·makers' C"nioll, tb.'lt oi tbe Tell City Furniture Company and also the Tell City Desk Com-pany mean much to the town, as employment is given to a large number of people. Tell City has long been noted as one of 'the live towns in southern lndiana, and the various furniture plants h<lve done much to advertise the city away from home. Made In In Prices All from Styles Six ( and to In Twenty All Dollars I Woods I I .~ i-... . . ____ • 5 The Sc:helosky Table Company of this city was incorpor-ated in 1907 a.nd the officers are as foHows: President, 'V. H. Schelosky; secretary and treasurer, O. A. Klamer. In the short time the company 11<1\'Eb'.een in business they have built lip a fine trade. ?IIany of the loeal l11allufacturers are figuring now on theit catalogues and calendars for the coming year and it is cer~ bin tilt)" will scud out some fine work to the trade. The literature stnt out la.st year reflected great credit u1!>on the l1'<ltlllfacturef!'i. C. vv. B. Increased Capital Stock. The Padfic Furniture Company, North Yakima, 'Nash" of which E. B. Joues, H .. H. Lombard, C. L. Owen, R. S. .Martin, \'\1. E. Coumbe and Frank Horsley are leading stock-bolders, has made :in arrangement for increasing its capital stock from $:10,000 to $30,000. -- -- -- - -- ------~----------- -- -- -- 6 :yrICHICAN ARTISAN Credit Granted by Careless Manufacturers. A case Wllich sllOws how lax manufacturers often are in gr~lliting credit, without tho.-ough investigation, to :people claiming to be dealers has just been brought to a consumma-tion through tl:;e indictment and conviction of a man whose real llam~ is ·Martin ]. Muil1ch, and who under various aliases put in stocks of goods at Korbornc, Braymer and Cowgill, 110., Loui5burg, K~\l., Sweet Springs, ]'vIo., and Valley Falls, Kan. It appears that the fatlle.- of 1I1uinch was a reputable lllan who was in good credit, on which reputation the son, to some extent, traded. At different timcs 1,vrittell statements were made to the Furniture Commercial Agency concerning the resources of .:\Juinch and his standing. These statements formed an im:po'l"t~nt link in the successful prosecution of s11ch goods as he had left to Kansas City, and was preparing to open a store at S\'Ileet Springs, Mo., as Jake M1.linch. \iVhen the trail of the man was finally secured Muinch had al-ready left Sweet Springs. Mr. Richmond of the adjustment burc[I,u personally visited Sweet Springs and gathered enough information to justify the employment of detectives. Mrs. Muinch ,"vas located in Kansas City and the indications were that Muinch was about to open a rooming house in Excelsior Springs with some of the furniture he had purchased osten-sibly for a retail stock. It later developed that be was op-ening up at Vallcy Falls, Kan., where he was located and ar-rested. He was taken to Paola and jailed, and after a con-fession sentenccd to Leavenv·.rorth prison for an indetermi-nate sentence of from one to five years. MuillCh told about his operations freely, and turned over the furniture, which was found in a brick cot-tage in Kansas City. At each point where .Muinch did busines:i. his methods were pf<l,ctkally the same. A store was opened an(l goc:ds sold at any price, v('ry often U the utter demoralizati011 of other merchants doing bt:siness at that place. The money l,vas pocketed and ibe-fore the bills matured a· ra~lgement3 '\v:C're made to open at another point to l:vhich the unsold stock w<'.,s shipped, although in the 1(\:;.t case part of the gor·ds were put in a rooming house and a vacant house in Kan~ s"s City. The goods located in these two place,s had had the labels and marks of iden-tii1e<',. tionremoved. These goods were later sold for the henefit of thl?,creditors. It is believed that Wllel1 2\1uineh oper-ated at V"llley Falls, Kan., and probably Sweet Springs, he had a confederate, the confederate being a relative of Muinch's wife. An effort is being made to Secure definite information which will lead to the conv-iction of this confederate. Me Richmond of the adjustment bureau started on the f1nal trip in search of his man on June 14 and on June 20 had .MUillCh under arrest and on June 25 he ·was sentenced to the penitentiary. The complaint on which he pteaded guilty, that of the Holtgre'l,ve-Vornbrock Furniture Company, was for gco{\s which had been so1d him ullder the name of John 1brtin, and which went to Louisburg, Ran. 11uinch em-ployed an attorney, and at first dedded to make a CDntest. Four additional complaints were then f11edagainst him, which decided him to plead guilty to the first charge. Besides the goods recovered in Kansas City other ship-ments t.....e. re found in the depot of the Missouri Pacific rail-road at Sweet Springs. This case illustrates what can be done through co-operative efforts and by concentrating claims ag3.1nst a debtor. The adjustment tureau prosecution 'work of the associat:tH1s is going to make it more and more difficult for the crook to make a comfortable living in the pursuit of hls caning. Made by Charlotte Mat:ufacturir.g Company, Charlotte, Mich. Muillch, which was b .·ought to a conclusion in co-opcration l",ith the Furniture Commercial Agency, by the adjustment bureau .of the S1. Louis Credit .:\Jen's As:,ociation. 1Iuinch had asked for credit at different times under the name of John "X'Iartin,Jake ~luinch, which btter was tbe nalIle of the father, who ,"vas originally engaged in the furniture business, John \\Tilson and ]ohl1 Miller. The c:'iminal career of the man has extended over a considerable period, but he bought goods under false pretenses during the past fiftccn months for stores which he estahlished at Cowgill, Kan., Louisville, Kan., Sweet Springs, l\-fo., fll~d Valley Falls, Kan. Under the name of John I\.fartin, ),1ul11chbought a bill of goods of Holtgrewc-Vronbrock Furniture Company at St. Louis, who shipped the bill of goods to Louisburg, Kan. The claim of the firm named amounted to but $69.25. but the St Louis manufacturers named were so convinced that 1'fuinch or Martin was engaged in swindling oJ)erations that they de-termtned to use every effort to put the' lllan behind the prison bars. Their claim was placed in the hands of the adjust-ment bureau of the 51. Louis Crcdit Men's Association, with which the Holtgrewc- Vornbrotk Furniture Company is af-filiated, with an 'added sum of moeny to push the case to a conclusion. The credit for the finD.1apprehension and con-viction of this fellow therefore belongs to the Holtgrewe- Vornbrock Furniture Company, which had the courage to undertake to put an end to his operations, even though it COf>t them in excess of their claim. If there were other manufac-turers who would pursue the same course the~e would be fewer of these cases, and felver loses from sales of this sort. "Vhen the claim was placed in the hands of the adjustment burea.u, Muinch or Martin had left Louisburg and shipped The Swinging Settee. swinging settee, now quite popular writer for a newspaper published in with New Concerning the house furnishers. a York says: "Thcre has come into fashion a crudely made settee that does not rest Oti the floor, but swings from the wnJ!. It has been considered an ideal resting place for years hy many lux-urious wome.l1, Some of the artistic homes have these swing-ing couches in the living rooms or private sitting room in-stead of the ordinary divan. "The fashion has <-orne about through the importation of ~-------------------------------- -- - - MICHIGAN ARTISAN Larg_est line to select from, a~ quality and workmanship can't be beat. Come and see the line and be convinced. We have 7 --------_._----~I 'three Piece Suites in LOQse Cushions can't be cem_ pared, they are the best. ,.---------------------_. I IIII IIII : IIII I,II t I,j:III; •I t II: THOS MADDEN, SON & CO" Indianapolis, : Show Rooms, 3S to 4( N Cat"tal Avenue. t ~---------------------------------------------~ \ ASSORTMENT the (STYLES PRICES .lladdeli"s J)av,,!1,/iorl llerllinf is thf. talk oft"e crmnlrJ/ from toa><t to towrt: dOH·! fail to 1;isit us or write for cuts and prtee8. a few ·wollderfully c;uTccl Olles from rhe E;l.st, which are up- Iwlster-cd vdth gJ(Hving orieJltal fabrics and embroideries. "They arc suspcnded from the wall by iron links, and aTC USNl in tllt, middle of the r00111 ir.stead of the corner. "So lovely j.~, (Jl~C that helongs to a literary woman 'who had it S\Vllllg ia the middle of her library, then covered with ye1)ow satin clYhroidcrecl in gold, ,...\lich h?d (:0111C from Chilla via an army ofilccr, that mallY inf12rior one:::,ktve been made. "Athough these attcr aTc not expensive and afe not carved tbey af(: quite as luxurious as the other kind. They are m;:1.deof heavy ,vontl, stained black antI jointed togeth~r in the mission style, \vit!1out nails. There is a woven wire sprin;!; inserted. and above this a small hair mattress. "Vlhatever one can afford in the way of ornamental clrap-cry is laid ovel~ the mattress, r'.nd at both cnds are heaped cushions, mallY of which arc stuffed with S\vcct-smelling herbs, spices and mint leaves. "One call get any nurnber of these cushions at a small price now since such wonderful cotton fabrics at sligllt cost have been copic,l from the barbaric Eastern ones.n Leather Rocker line is very large and prices right. Couches from the cheapest to the best. Ind A Special Offer. The Rowlett Dc'sk 1\-lanufacturing Company of Richmond, Jul., have a special proposition to offer on birch, mahogany I~r.i:.;hedtypewriter stands, built like the one shown in cut. If A High Art Catalogue. A remarkably beautiful catalogue has been prepared for distribution among dealers by the Sligh FurnitUiC COn/pa,ny of Grand Rapids. It contains one hundred Radium pages, 10 x 14 inches in size, bearingup;.\'arJ of one thousand beau-tiful half tOlles artistically printed in colors, representing the goods manufactured by t11c company. A heavily hot em-bossed cover in three colors adds to the attractiveness of the book. The features of especial value to de<lh'rs in furniture are tlle illustrations, as the Sligh line is the strongest ill its class manufactured in the tTnited States. The book is the joint product of the IvJichiga.n El1graying Company 2.nd the \,rhite Printing Company-The Artisan Press. Made by Rowlett Desk Mfg. Co., Richmond, Ind. at all interested, it would pay you to write them for partku~ lars and let them send you a sample stand for inspection. Aulsbrook & Jones' Catalogue. The Aulsbrook & Jones Furniture Company of Sturgis, 11ich., have issued a catalogue illustrating and describing their line. \Vithin recent months the company have streng-thened their line, both as respects design and quality of v·,rorkmanship. Dealers in furniture can obtain copit:s of the catalogue l,pon application. 8 MICHIGAN ARTISAN r------· • • You Can't Make a Mistake By planning for an Alaska agency for 1909, if you 00 not now handle the line. Our sales for 1908 have far exceeded our expec-tations, and the demand has been strong throughout the season. ALASKA QUALITY is what does it. The lines are complete in styles and linings. The Alaska Refrigerator CO. EXCLUSIVE REFRIGERATOR MANUFACTURERS, Mpskellon - - MIchillon "A Question of Men." "Some thirty years ago," sa.id E. H. .t"oote of the Grand Rapids Chair Company, "I was going to Chicago from Fort \-'\layne, <!.nd met a gentleman on tl:e train from New York. He asked me this question, 'How long can Grand Rapids ex-pe{'. t to hold her p:'esent p0!litiol1 in the m~JmIacttlre of furni-ture?' and then he took a map ont and drew a line from New York to Chicago, and from Boston to St. Louis, to show me that Grand Rapids was only a little niche in the woods away off the line of trav('J between the east and west. "I replied to him that it is not a .question of travel at all, but a question of men; that I knew the men who had started the manufacture of furniture in Grand Rapids, and they started with but vcry little else than push and pluck; that they had pushed their business to the front rank, and still had the pluck to keep it there. "Today Grand Rapids has its position far in advance of its competitors_ The men. who were the pioneers in the busi-ness :ire rapidly passing away, <J.1ldtheir places are being as I ~ I MUSKEGON VALLEY FURNITURE COMPANY MUSKEGON MICH •••• GOlonlOi 8ulles TOil POSI BeOs I OOd Oressers I ehilloDierS ! Wardrobes • l!lllies' TOilms I oresslng I Tables Mnhnonny 100DiO GooOs Line on sale in ManufactureR' Buildine. Gt-and Ra.pid •• rapidly filled, not by imported talent, but as these founders of the industries were workmen, their places are being filled from the ranks of the working men, who kl~OW the business from the stun:p to de drawing room. "Our city owes much of its success to the wo"rking meH. I think that no other city of the size of Grand R;:'_pidson this green ea.rth has workll1t':n who are so well housed, clothed, fed and groorced; who are so well informed on the questions of the houT. My great faith in the future of Our city is that we may always have this source to draw from for the man-agement of Ollr industries. "The panic of 1893 found some of our factories financially weak. Bonds had to be issued, and in one case the private fortune of one who, at the time, was not under the· slightest obligation to do so, was put up in order to save the name a.nd business of an old established house. Since that time these bonds and obligations have been paid, and the late financia.l unpleasantness round our iactories in good condition. "The past year they have made but little, if any, money. They were obliged to run short hours to reduce their outllUt. As they did not reduce the wage scale, this meant an ad~ vance on cost. To increase their prices was out of the questioll_ They were not in the position of the railroads, and could not advance the freight simplyhecause they needed the money. The result has been a division of the loss; a loss of dividends for the stockholders and a loss of time for the workmen. "As to the future! I can see nothing that need disturb C011- Jidcnce in a fair business and a fail- remuneration, both for the manufa.cturer and the workmen. Conditions have cer-tainly improved since the July sales." "White" Treatment. A mistaken idea which some n:erchants have 15 that a traveling salesman is of no use unless he wishes to buy goods from him. If the store is stocked fully in the traveler's line he. is given scant courtesy. There a:-e merchants who do not follow such a line of conduct. \Ve saw one not long ago. He met a salesmall, shook hands ·with him cordially, asked llim about conditions in general, told him he didn't need any goods, but looked over h1s stock. He stuck to his "no buy" statements, but he treated the traveler wllite and, as a re5\.11t, got some informatioll of considerable value to him.-Trades-lnall. 1 Win Resume in Grand Rapids. The Gale Chair CompallY, burned out recently in Grand-ville, Mich., is preparing to resume in Grand Rapids. :VII CHI G A N /\ l{ TIS A N 9 No. 1141 Dresser, Walnut. ~-------------- Woodard Furniture CO. OWOSSO. MICHIGAN MAKERS OF HIGH GRADE MEDIUM PRICED Bedroom Furniture t]] In suites or single pieces. Made in all lhe popular woods and fini:mes. fjJ Our new catalogue IS ready. If you have not received it ask for it. An Unusual Expe.:1diture. Recent i~.;sltes of Hoston newspapers contain four-page ad~ vcrtiscmCllh of the house furnishing department of Henry Siegel", store. Snch !l,n expenditure is llllusuai. 'rile ave:'- age departn:ellt store lllal~agcr spends a little money grlldg'- ingly for the benciit of the furniture section. Altbough fur-niture. Wh('11 properly <1ispb ..yed, forms a most important feature of a lllcrc;Llltik cstablishn:ent. it is seldom given a \vindow, alld ill the divisOll of door space it is generally placed in the mcst illCOllSpicllOllSand Hell ea:oily accessible part of the building. The goods are stingily a.<1vertised, if at all. alld whe1\ the furnitnl'e section fails to draw the trade as largely as other sections of t1Jc e:;tablishn~cnt, the manager ch;!,rge_~tl~c cause of the failure to the il1comptcncy of his assistanb. tlnfortt1nate~y selected to har:dle the furniture trade. A striking eX<llrple of the lack of foresight was fur-nished by llillman in Chicago. The buyer, J. I-bury Steiner, is one of the mest successful teen in his occupation in the furniture trade. \Vhen full page ad\"ertisements were ordered by the nl(lllag;:n~cllt published in the J1('\,\'spapers the ftLnitllre section \vas :~eldolll granted I1"wre than o;le-thirty-second part of th;: space purchased. Harry made '"'"brave showing with the little con;er allctted to him, but it \vas pitiful in-deed wh(11 compured with the 11lagniticent Lberality displayed by John 1\1. Sn~yth. Tobey. H,'..rtm;\n, Fish and other leaders in the furniture trade. \Vith a small, and, generally speak-ing, inferior stock, not "vell IOC:lted to attract attention, ham-pered in the execution of his plans beyond endurance. it was a happy day when 1\1r. Steiner found an opportunity to exer-cise hi~ ,lhility by the t(':,dvr of ;t, position at l'he Fair. Neither the people who think the worst of you nor the people who think the hest of you are CO:Tect in their es-timates of you. • Teaching Ladies to Sell Goods. Por th(~ first time in public school history a course in saleswomanship, designed for retail and department stores, has been incorporated in the curriculum of the evening schools for women in 1\e\'\' York city. The course, which extends over lWO years, includes lectures, praxtical talks and s::::ientitic icstrtlction in the art of selling, store organization, comIcer'cial arithmetic. elementary law ,wd manufacture of commercial products. As many young women may be pre-vented from completing the two years' wo: k, it has been planned that certifIcates be issued to all pupils crediting them with the periods of work lwrformed. There are 30,000 women clerks in :\ ew York city! none of whom has had pre-lin-. inary scientific trailling in the responsihilities of this ser-service. Hulse's Catalogue. The E. l\L Hulse Company recently received froni the printer their fall catalogue of automatic davenport beds, dav-enports, couches and adjustable divans. There are in this line thirty-nine leather and plush couches, forty-cight daven-ports and thi;-ty Turkish divans in leather and plusbes. The frames are in mahogany ~..nd oak, 'and the best of everything in their grade goes into the~,e goods. That's why the E. ]\1. Hulse Cornpany have built up a large bllsicess-olle of the largest in the country in their line. It takes sixty pag-es to illu:;-trate .1nd describe these goods. It's all attrnctive cata- 10gue llound tip in green and gold. To Incorporate. Articles of incorporation for the Johnson Brotbers Furni-ture Company are in the eoursc of preparation. - The com-pany will engage in the manufacture of fine and medium dining r00111furniture in Grand Rapids. 10 MICHIGAN ARTISAN A GEM-LADEN DAVENPORT. The Hartman Furniture Company's Uncommon Experience. A davenport couch, an ardent wooer, and $500 worth of diamonds form a combination that is likely to keep the police awake for a night or two. The puzzle is: "v\'ho has the gems and who is Esther Rosen going to marry?" The Hartman Furniture Company, ~27 Wabash avenue, Chicago, which advertises the advice to "feather your nest," has been requested to "produce the gems" and Esther, who "feathered her nest" with the gems, though frequently re-quested, has refused to name the giver of the jewels. Hm ..-.. ever, it was a sweetheart; which one nobody but Esther and the donor know. She is a diplomat. Getting down to the facts right quickly, Esther owned the diamonds and also the couch. She hid the diamonds in the couch and then the Hartman people sent three unsympathetic fellows to cart the couch away under the false impression that she had not paid the full amount due, while, as a matter of fa.ct, shc holds a receipt from a second hand furniture deal-er for that particular piece of furniture. When the case is thoroughly sifted it will probably turn out that the original purchaser bc::ught the couch from Hartman, but before it \vas entirely paid for disposed of it to the second hal1(l man, "vho sold it to Esther in good faith, u~d she pcrh;',ps never knew that it was second-han(!. i\ t ;111yrate, when she caught up with the conch again the diamond", were gone. Esther, fair, fat and shy two years of forty, has had several beaux, who recognize her <l.S a "good business woman.'" She O\vns a sllit making fac-tory in the rear of 237 Maxwell street, in the heart of the Ghetto, and has in her employ a dozen n~en and nearly that many womcn. From the busitle~:;sshe derives a good income. Esther has not been in Chicago many years. She brought with her from Russia a husband in the perSall of "Jake" Blumenthal, but three or four months ago she procured a divorce and re-ceived permission to resume her maiden name of Rosen. From that time on Esther began growing pop_ ular with the sterner sex. There 'has been great rivalry for her hand, it is said, and, realizing that her old sleeping quarte~s in the building in front of the shop were not exactly suitable for "social functions," she moved to more sumptuous quarters at 704, South California avenue. \Vbile still at the old place she purchased $60 worth of goods, paying cash, from the J. G. B;-UllZFurniture Company, 287 \Vest Madison street. In the lot were the davenport, a Morris chair and a library table. They were delivered at the old address and a few days ago moved to the new address. A "tracer" for the Hartman Company traced the daven~ port to the old address and then to the new, and last Monday called at the residence while Esther was at her place of busl-ness and wanted to take the davenport away. But Esther's sister, 2\lrs. Dina Laposky, who recel1tlycame from Russia, knows a thing or two, and sat down on the couch, and the tracer's plans were frustrated. That was on Monday. On Tuesday Esther went to the Hartman store a.nd told a clerk she bought the couch from another, but she avers the clerk intimated that she had got it there under an assumed name. Perhaps Esther didn't understand him perfectly, for she continued to allow her diamonds to repose between the back and the bed of the couch. She was at her shop again yesterday when the tracer and two others arrived at her home. Dina tried her former tactics, but the men carried her to the street and dumped her oft the cotlch. Then Dina ran to the shop and Esther rushed to the office of Alderman Arthur \V. Fulton ;l11dtogether they hastened to the office of Captain O'Brien, at detective headquarters. Here the real excitement began. \-Vhilc detectives rushed to the furniture house to locate and search the couch-which they did without finding the gems-Esther was quizzed. She answered everything in a frank manner except an inquiry as to which sweetheart had given her the diamonds, which consisted of two earrings, aile solitaire ring and one ring set with two stones. Perhaps Esther doesn't wish to or perhaps she isn't quite ready to Try as he might, Captain O'B.-ien man's name. "\-Vhy didn't you wear the diamonds?" asked the captain. 'II was afraid of robbers," was the reply. Then, with all the appearance of innocence that he could command, the captain asked: IIWhy didn't you carry them in your stocking, th(11;" Esther blushed a hit ;u,d then blurted out: "Because I know a woman who lost her ring throu1h t~]e open work that way." Soon the detectives came back with a were unable to locate He dian~ol1ds, and offend the other suitors, reveal her. heart's secret. could not get the lucky report that straightway they they Made by Charlotte Manufacturing Company, Charlotte, Mich. were sent to Harrison street to procure "John Doe" warrants charging larceny of the gems against the "movers." Judge Gemmill, however, refused to issue warrants be-cause "intent" could not be shown, <\nd pointed out that the diamonds might have dropped from their hiding place while the men were handling the couch and the men not be aware of it. The court advised that civil action be brought, and Aderman Fulton immediately notified the Hartman people tbey must "produce" the davenport and the $500 worth of diamonds or stand suit. John Barnes, a salesman for tbe second-band dealers, told the police he sold Esther the davenport ""ith the other things and wrote the receipt for $60. Esther returned home instead of going back to her shop, and her brother, Abraham Rosen, sULd"She was awful sick and could not be seell."-Exchange. Matrimonial. Three Germans were sitting at luncheon recently, and were overheard discussing the second marriage of a mutual friend, when one of them remarked: "r tell you vhat. A man vhat marries de second dime don't deserve to have lost his first vife." MICHIGAN A Great Institution. Tile Gram] Rapids Refrigerator Company has moved from the old factory on Market and Ottawa streets to their new plant on Clyde Park avenue, just off Grandville avenue, the terminus of the Grandville avenue car line. It required nearly a year and a half to build this mammoth plant-tile largest, most modern and best equipped refrigerator factory in the ""rorId. The Leonard Cleanabl(' refrigerator lws gained a ..v..orld-wide reputation for excellence, and is sold in evcry country \I\/here refrigerators are used. This reputa-tion could only have been secured by a constant endeavor for more than thirty years to rnakc the best refrigerator that ARTISAN 11 Light and Color. Cheerfulness depends more all light and color than on shapes or sizes or ornament, or even pictorial suggestion. )fa room dressed in black could possibly be cheerful. Nor is there anything cheerful about absolute darkness. On the other hand. tbe glJre of noonday }18.S its inconvenience, and there is no light more discouraging than the whiteness re-flected from fields of snow or sand. The makers of artificial light had no sooner succeeded, ntter repeated effort .. in pro-ducing a white light, than they were obliged to tone it with color. An absolutely pure white cannot, of course, be at-tained with paint. But even the whites that call be obtained NEW PLANT OF THE GRAND RAPIDS REFRIGERATOR COMPANY. skilled workmen and the use of the best of everything· exper-ience could suggest :led a constant desire to make each year's product better than that of the year before. The writer of this item bas had a Leonard Cleanable refrigerator ill con-stant use for twenty years, and the "ice man" says it is the best preserver- of ice on his route, although the box stands in one corner of the kitchen, where the summer sun bea.ts down on the roof not over b"iO feet from the top of the box. If anyone has a box that can beat it, the writer is ready to trade. Miss Three. Year-Old. 'Tis very strange her table talk Of words should be so chary. For every meal she gravely sits Upon the diction3.ry. should be used with caution. {crable. The room with ivory takes less light than any other Ivories and creams are pre-ceiling and cream woodwork to make it cheerfully bright. Argument by a Mirror Maker. It would be a blessing if every home had at least two mirrors to a room. The residence of a famous architect decorator recently deceased, had an average of three. They are quite ns important for cheerfulness as are windows. \Vho can retain the fro'\"n that the mirror shows is disfiguring his brO\"i? \Vho does not sometimes smile involuntarily at her reflecteel face? vVho is not interested to see friends from several points of view? 12 MICHIGAN A Course to Train Experts in Decorating and House Fur-nishing. To teach men employed in the great decorating and fur-nishing houses how to decorate and furnish artisticalty the bachelor <~.partment or the simple flat, the suburban cottage or the Fifth avenue mansion, is the purpose of the night courses in furnishing and decorating which will open in the PhiladelphIa Furniture Truck with Open Side and Bu1lt~up Top. "",Vest S:de Young 11en's Christian Association, 32D West Fifty-seventh street, New York, October ?O, The course also will deal '-vith costume in its relation to' interiors, and with the proper harmony of color and texture of fabrics. This school will be under the direction of Frank Alvah Parsons, who wilt offer two cou~'scs: One in the principles of color and form harmony, and the other in historic period structure and ornament and present application. All lectures lending them-selves to this treatment will be fully illustrated by material owned by the great decorating houses. Much of the work in the second course will be done in the Metropolitan Mus-eum of Art. These courses are intended primarily to train professional decorators, furnisl~<:;rs;_buyers, designers and architects, s<tlesmen of art objects', window dressers and mak-ers of window cards. The lectures are so 'designed, however, that through using the actual decorative material. men of means may learn to superintend the furnishing of their homes, and the young prospective benedict may gain knowledge which will enable him to fit up an artistic little flat with the least possible expendltme. Some of the topics to be dis-cussed in these courses are: Choice of carpets, rugs and hangings; selection, framing and hanging of picture::;; color schemes for watts and furnishings; window displays; and plans for fitting up rooms for homes, public buildings and theatres. The general public wilt be admitted to the 6rst lecture. Stray Bits of Furniture :Kews. A union of peddle:·s has been org<!llized in Chicago. Its members wilt enter politics in order to "protect their rights.'" The Queen City Furniture Compar.y's business at Baker City, OregoIl, was purchased recently by A. Michael. "V. P. Rhoades succeeds Rhoades & Barrows in the fur-niture trade at :Merrill, Oregon. Manufacturers of Rockford will encourage an upholsterer to locate in that city and engage in the manufacture of parlor furniture. This line of production was abandoned in Rock-ford in 1884, when the Excelsior Furniture Company failed. One-half million dollars will be expended in furnishing the new Hotel Goe1et, now under construction in the city of New York. The building will cost $2,100,000. C. H. Hildreth, who died recently in Cpicago, was a mem-ber of the firm of Holton & Hildreth, leading retailers of ARTISAN Chicago, thirty years ago. \Vhen the jinn dissolved he or-ganized the Windsor Folding Be'"d Compa.ny and manufact-ured folding beds successfully a. number of years. Case 'work was taken up with the passing of the folding bed. At It Again. ';\¥hen the n:aI:ufacturers of brass beds engage in a sense-less warfare in prices, the retailer is left floating in the air with not so much as the frame of a flying sky scraper to cling to," remarked a retailer of furniture. "He is not able to determine, when placing orders for beds, whether he is buying at as low prices as his competitors. If he orders a bed today to cost $9.00, tomorrow he may have an opportun-ity to pUichasc 01:(' equally as good for $7.00. The me.,rket is quite demoralized jtlSt !lOW and thc:-e seems to be l~O pros-pects for the resun;ption of stabiLty in prices. If the man-ufacturers \"ould benefit themse:ves and their customers they should stop the cutting of prices immediately. A trust agreen:ent is not advisable. Goods should be marketed for <'. fair margin of p 05t, b::uocd upon style <=:.nd quality!' Headquarters at Cincinnati. The Ford & Johnson Company will move their central office L"om Chicago to Cincinnati in the near future. The company operates factories located in several sta.tes and dis-tributes its products from many warehouses. The manufac-ture of furniture in addition to chairs, i7;an important depart-ment of their business. Bonuses Offered. Several towns have offered bonuses to C. o. & A. D. Porter, manufacturers of machinery in Grand Rapids. The offers will be considered by the firm and probably the most attractive accepted. ------_._--~ I Rockford Desk Co. Rockford. Illinois Manu£actuteQi of China Closets Music Cabinets lmd Ladies' Desks II • Full line on sale with M. L. Nelson &. Co., 1411 Michigan Ave., Chicago, IIJ. • -------------------- - ..------------------_._----------------.~ I I I ! I IIII • MICHIGAN ARTISAN No. 88R 30x48. CHARLOTTE CHARLOTTE MFG. CO. MAKES GOOD h _ i! I Our Famous No. 709 13 NOW IIIIIIII AT CHICAGO 192 MICHIGAN AVE . PERMAMENT EXHIBIT TABLES CHARLOTTE, MICHIGAN -------.., Aulsbrook & Jones Furniture Co. Formerly Aulsbrook & Sturges Sturgis, Michigan "------------_._------- The Fall Catalog tells all about it 14 MICHIGAN ARTISAN BSTABLISHEO 1880 "'l,IEll.l5ttll:D .... MICHIGAN ARTiSAN CO. ON THE IOnt AND UTtt OF EACH MONTH OFFICE-lOS, 110, 112 NORTH DIVISION ST.• GRAND RAPIDS. MICH. Low prices should not be the only point considered by dealers when placing orders for goods. Very often the manufactmer selling goods for less than the cost of produc-tion finds himself unable, and not infrequently unwilling, to fill such orders, and in consequence the retailer is hampered, annoyed and subjected to loss. Dealers who axe willing to concede to manufacturers a fair profit on goods purchased never have cause to comp1ain of unfair treatment at their hands. °tD °tD The big merchants, Wanamaker, Macy, Siegel and others. spend $500,000 each every year for advertising sp:l.ce in the daily newspa.pers of New York. As neither of the mer-chants named is a newspaper philanthropist, it can safely be assumed that their expenditures for the purposes stated mu,;t return a profit equal to, if not greater, than the amount of in-terest the investment of such a sum in stocks, bonds or other securities would return. Manufacturers of chairs and upholstered furnitu:'"e report a steadily growing demand for goods and in many instances the fadores are in operation to full capacity. Case makers arc a,dding workmen and increasing the hours of the work day. With the near-by election out of the way, there win be nothing to claim the interest of the American people ex-cept business. The outlook could not be better. ~t" "t" H. C Hauch of Indianapolis arises and passionately en~ quires: "Is there any sane or logical reason why Gmnd Rapids should have outstripped Indi",.,napo1is in the manufac~ ture of furniture?" Oh yes; Mr. Hanch. In the words of the English jingo song, slightly changed, Grand Rapids "has the men, has the money, and has the factories, too." Rea~ sons sufficient for the day, are they not: "to ~t" Ma.ny traveling salesmen gain success through the friend-ship of the men on the floors. In one department of the .Marshall Field establishment in Chicago forty salesmen are employed. A trave1ingsaJesman boasts that he is on friendly terms with twenty-five of their number al1d states that the goods he handles move easily in large volume because of the interest of these men in the same. 't' 't' Owners of horses lIsed in the delivery of goods to CllS-tamers in the large cities are consideril1g the practicability of organizing horse insurance companies. It is hardly worth while. Electrlc and gasoline trucks will soon sl1pplant the horse on the streets of the city for delivery purpose.;. There is not a merchant in the United States who could not give to his neighbors in trade irifonnation that wouU pro-t'ect them from loss in almost every instance. \Vhy, then, should not merchants organize for the purpose of co~operat-ing in the .granting of credits? Legislatures of several states will be asked to pass bills to prevent the Use of fictitious names in business. Had stich a law beel1 in force in California t11e notorious Kragen fail-ure acd robbery cf credito:'s could not LiVe betH planned and executed. A scheme to tax Larkin soap clubs has been started in <l I~umber of :NIissouri towns. In the city of Columbia (:1 university town) organizers of clubs are taxed $%.00 pe, an-llum. Such ordinallccs ought to prove effective, when en-forced. When necessary to meet local conditions (especially in territory ""vherein the mait order houses and soap boilers have gained a strong foothold) the merchatlts of western Pennsylvania favor co-operation in buying good3. "t~ °t~ The margin of profit has been" reduced by competition. Losses from, bad debts must be eliminated, or reduced to a minimum, if dealers would avoid the courts of ballkruptcy. °t~ °to When properly handled, the policy of taking back goods and refunding the purchase price is wise. If it C<1.n11obet done cheerfully, the wise merchant will not attempt it. °tO °t" Bills to prohibit "fake" auction sales will be prepared by associations of business in several states of the west for the approval of legislatures during the coming winter. °t~ "tOO A resolution opposing price fixing by manufacturers for retailers was tabled by a convention of retail merchants held at New Castle, Pa., recently. Afraid of the trusts? "to "t" TIusiness associations will urge the legislatures of several states, to assemble next winter, to enact laws to abolish sa.lary loan agencies. °t" °t~ By deferring the. placing of orders "till after election," dealers may not be able to obtain goods needed for the holi.,. day season. °t~ °t~~ If advertised retail prices were founded upon a profit basis <l great deal of ill-feeling would be saved in the world of busi-ness. "to ~tO Many mercha-nts who are worth $1,000 are more dese:-ving of credit than others worth $100,000. 0,<> 0tO Successful merchants name the terms and the time lmder which sales are made. ..t.l.) °tO Four, fonr, four weeks more, and then a day at the ballot box. 't' 't' The friends of salesmell a.re their most valuable asset. Reversed the Sign. Before the show window of a big furniture store there was suspended a board upon which was painted the words "Ko Loafing Here." A traveling salesman slttmg on a bench outside the own-er's ·office awaiting an audience, noticing the listlessness and the indifference manifested toward customers entering the store, suggested that the sign he reversed, that it mig-ht be read by the salesmen of the establishment. .. --- -.., I SMITH & DAVIS MFG. co. I St. Louis I ~l I c: H I C;A ).J No. 155 Woven Wire Couch, $4.00 Net Write for 1908 Catalogue No. 146 Iron Frame Woven Wire Cot, real ,upport, No. 152 Link Fabric Couch, $3.60 Net Designs in Upholstery. "Give an upholsterer who knows his trade a few s\lTlple frames, Turkish [or instance, and yon will be surprised at the variety of styles he 'will ttlm out." The back offers the greatest opportunity for the display of his skill; over its top and around its ends he builds <t great variety of beautiful forms, and with the figure and col~r of the [allries at his command there is scarcely a limit to the effects that may be produced, plcasillg and satisfyil1g the llJiJ1(J. ne-ror'" the advent of the l\lonis C:l,ur. 11:;trly £ralLlcs \vere I".!:i.rlnfaetured to furnish in a Ine;!~lne th,' r(~djl\in:-: feature that lovers of ease i'ind ill the chair of \Villiam .\loni:'>. l\Iany of Slleh specimens m:l:y be seen ill the upholstery repair sholJs, but the \f orris and its combi1l8tion, the sleepy hoUm\,. have a place in the estimation of the 11l1blic that is enduring. YVilliam I\Iorris gave tn the world hook;;. bindings, fabrics and dyes of great value hut the ~T()rris chair will perpetuate his fam2 when his other l-E'(Jcluction:-i s.hall have perished." A Lucky Cast. She was <l. freckled C0l111Ly maid, She did her mother's duty; i\ city fellow married her To get a speckled beauty. Bill Nye's Simple Life. This is the reply that the late Bill .:.Jye sent to <In 111- quiry as to his personal habits: "\Vhen the weather is such that T ca.nnot exercise in the Open air 1 have a heavy pair of dumbbells at my lodgings, which I use for holding the door open. -r also hclOllg to an athlelic club and use a pair of Indian clubs with red handles. I owe llluch of my robust health to :this. T do most 01 my \"'tiling' in a sitting posture or in ARTISAN 15 $1.85 Net No. 73 Link Cot, $3.25 Net 3.50 Net 2 feet, 6 in.• 3 feet, --_._---------- 1 an autograph album. \Vhen T am lIot el1g<Lged in thought r .:un employed in recovering from ils effects. I am very gCl1ial ,1llc1 pleasant to he thrown amongst. I dress expell- A Swiss Wood Carver. sivcly, bnt lIot so as to attract attention. In the morning I \·vear 11l0:'llillg dress, and ill the evening I wear eveBing (1re:~sal1d at night night dreS5." ~- ~~--------------------- Hi 1\1I CHI G AN ARTISAN • I MICHIGAN FURNITURE CO. ANN ARBOR MICHIGAN I II • BED No. 83. DRESSER No. 83. CHIFFONIER No. 83. Manufacturer, of Bedroom Furniture in Oak and Ash. Also Odd Dressers in Birch and Imitation Mahogany. The best goods on the market for the price. Write for pictures and prices. Enlarging Their Line. The Northern Furniture Company of Sheboygan, Viis., tjll(ler the intelligent and progressive lranagement of Mr. Huette, has broadened and strengthened their product until it covers about everything needed for furnishing the home. Their latest addition is a line of music cabinets, writing desks and con:bination bookc~ses, en-.l.racing a wide range of styles for popular prices. The compacy issues large catalogues cove ing their lines and sU'pply d:e sarre to dealers upon rc-t/ uest. Very Feeble. \Villiam T. Powers, who engaged in the manufacture of furniture in Grand Rapids Hcarly sixty years ago and who was thenrst to etr.ploy machinery in a cabinet shop, is a resident of Grand Rapids. He is over ninety years of age and his. health is. very L;:ehle. lIe is the Qwne, of Powers' Opera House, and the oldest living ex-mayor of the city. Bur-gla:-s Foiled. Tt-.e fnn:itt1~e store of \Villiarn Gadsby at Portland, Ore-gon, was enter::d by burglars rece:1tly and an ullsucces.;fnl ['..ttempt made to open the safc, which cOlltlined $l,ROO. \A'here did Gadsby get so much money? Some Great Bargains. The Ma.nistee :rvlanufacturing Company are advertising some great bargains. They have a lot of attractions ill side-boards, buffets, chiffoniers and dressers. The goods of this company are made right and the style.s ate as attractive as· any medium priced goods on the market. Charley Elmen~ dOff knows how to make good furniture, and his facilities are • such as to enable him to get them out as economic<llly as any one in the business. Every furniture merchant who takes enough pride in his business to want to be up-to-date should obtain a copy of their catalogue, and also keep close tab on their "ads" in the IVIichigan Artisan Lom month to month. Made by Manistt;lE'lMfg. Co, Mautatee1 Micb.. :,1 !C !! !C; A N c\ R T 1 S ;\ ;.; Sligh9s Select Styles Satisfy Dealers MANY NEW FEATURES ADDED FOR FALL SEASON. II,I I EVERYTHING FOR THE BEDROOM C\1edium and Fine Quality). Office and Salesroom corner Prescott and Buchanan I Streets, Grand Rapids, "Mich. 'Write for catalogue. I '- -- ...-.-. --"1' I Luce-Redmond Chair Co., Ltd. I BIG RAPIDS, MICH. High Grade Office Chairs, Dining, Odd Rockers and Chairs, De,k and Dresser Chairs, Slipper Chairs, Colonial Parlor Suites Dark and Tuna Mahogany, Birdgeye Maple, Birch and Circassian Walnut. We have moved New Exhibit Location Fourth Floor, East Section, MANUFACTURERS' BUILDING, North Ionia Street, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN. ~-----_. 18 ~,11CHI G A N ARTISAN Freight Often Goes Astray. "V/hy in blazes haven't you filled our order of August I?" writes the indignant customer who has botl.:sht of the Chicago wholesale house. "What in blazes did you do \...i.th our ~h:pment of August 2, billed to So-and-so, Skagtowll?" writes the wholesale house to the agent at the railrO<ld depot f om which the goods should have been sent. ""Vhat in blazes arc IvIore:soods, Packingcasc & Co. kick-ing about?" writes the station agent to the claim departmi:nt of the railroad at hcadqua:ters. After which the claim clerk of the railroad gets busy.' For the lost, st~ayed, or stolen shipment which doesn't arrive costs a railroad company mOTC worry and bother than all the wrecked goods knocked galley west from crooked. At least incase of wreck the railroad knows where to look for damages. . In the case of the lost shipment everythihg is guesswork as to how, when, and where of it. How does a package of freight get lost? The ways are multitudinomo. Tn general therc a __ e three main possibilities. It is loaded into the wrong car; or the good:; have been packed in a box at second hand, leaving the old stencil mark standing out plainly as new; or the waybill blows out of the hand of the train conductor f:'om the rear end of the caboose, is mislaid by the station agent at the receiving point, or disappears goodncss knows how or when. Naturally, the truckman who euns his bre<:dloading freight at a depot isn't fitted for managing either a Sunday school or a wholesale business house. He loads stuff on a truck, trundles it out on the platfwm, and wants to dump it as soon as possible in the waiting car. But there may be twenty or fifty cars to be loaded, headed for every po;nt of the compass, A long car numbe-, such as 179867, stand-ing dose to a car 1:U111bered8679-7is likely to be confusing to him-and a package or a truck load of ~hem get into the wrong pe""-. "\\That'in blazes became of that shipment of August 2?" is started at once. Cars at these platforms may have been loaded for five big terminal stations on the line and at such distances apart that a traveling claim clerk wodd need to spend a \'lcck visiting them all. So the claim clerk starts a trace:' thrcugh means of corrcspondence. Hlls any agent at any of these stations checked one package "over," billed to John Smith & Company, Skagtown? Just here the careless shipper, using the old packing case from which the old address has not heen removed, may enter into the. mystery. "No," reports the agent from Milledgeville, far to the southwest. "But we are 'over' one package addressed to vVilliam Jones & Company, Jonesville." \-Vell, that doesn't mean much to the claim department, for Jones & Company haven't raised a row about anything of the kind. What has become of the stuff for Smith & Company? And the claim department gets busier than ever. In the meantime the agent at Milledgeville is holding the Jones & Co"mpany shipment, for the reason that it had 110 bill of lading accompanying it and he doesn't wan't to fo;'- ward it until he knows whether it was prepaid or for col-lection at destination. In many depots on many lines of road there is an "over" room or corner in the building devoted to the storage of such packages. After a few days the package for Jones & Company finds its way into this "over' room, ,"tand;n~ marked side up ready for the first ..-:ail of the tr;m:.'ling clerk, who may be sent d.own the line in sca,ch of such claims. One day, irritated and sto:-ming, the claim agent COmes into the depot in search of the missing Smith & C')mpany 'Packag~, The Jones & Company case is there plain enough, but in the rest of the heaped up matter nothin:J is found of the Smith & Company's missing consignment. In anger, perhaps, the claim agent kicks ,over the Jones & Company case. And there on the bottom of the box <~sit sat he leads: ************ * ** * * S"IITH & CO., SKAGTOWN, MICH. ******** ** * Do you wonder that the claim age'nt swears, and the claim office swears and the shipper swears, 2nd the con-signee, too? But the chief f~ult was with the sh:ppe', who didn't destroy the cld marking on the box before he 1l3cke(1 it again. Loading a shipment into a wrong car always has been ~ prolific source of trouble to the claim department. Yea:-s ago J. F. :Y1orton, now with the Chicago Association of ." '",. .~ ~" pi" ,YI,~ ">,, "'1. . "'1'\' "II' .., I' i" ~ Sketch by Oharles De Lano. Commerce, was agent for the S;JUthern Rail-way n Col-umbia, S. c., an 1, suffering from this f. equcnt error of 1. uckmen, adopted a schcme to prevellt mistakes. Incident-ally, not all of tl e trouble came to the claim department, eithcr, for it was no uncommon thing to discover an error had "been made with certain freight that had been loaded first into a car and when the error was discovered t:le car was already nearly full. Mr. Morton's scheme was to disregard the official number of cars that stood ready for loading and to number them consecutively from onc up to seven 0, twelve, as tJ1C case might demand. As each truckman received his load he was handed a slip of paper on which was written the number of the car to which it should go. At right angles to the car 'was posted a boa,d on which from either side the temp-orary simple number could be read by tllC truckman. In-side the c"r was posted a block of printed tickets- correspond-ing to the car number outside. The duty of the truckman was to retain his penciled slip, unload his truck, tear off one of the p:-inted numbers inside, and return; handing both slips to theforem<:'..n superintending the loading. Joseph Howells, 1\1 I C rr I G A 1'1 1\ I, TIS A N Raising the Table. There has been a long-standing difference of opinion in the Plunkett family cOllccrninJ; the diil-ing tahlt,. ),11'". Plunkett maintained th;~t its le:];5 were tco short and ought to be lengthened at le<:st l:aJi all inch. "It doesn't fit our chair:;, Jared, and you kilOW it," she ccntended. "\Vl1cn \ve s:t down to this table ,vc're too high above it. YOll coule! have pieces of ·wood glucd on the end.'> of the legs. That would be e'lsier than tn 5,lW off the ends of all the chair legs." "1 dOll't agree with your proposition at all, Conleli;l," said Mr. Plunkett. "I think the table is just right. nut rill willing' to compromise the matte:" YOll have been ·want-ing a hardwood floor in this dillin~ room for ;l long tlll1C, 1":<I"en't you?" "Yes," "\IVell, we can lnrve th(lt new kind o[ 11anlwoo<1 floor that is laid all top of the old floor. That will raise the table, of course, just so much. Boy.· 'witl that do:" This seemed to be a fair proposition, a11([ without ;\ moment's hesitation :\Tr5. Plunkett accepted it as a satis-facto:- y cOl11prornisc.-Ex. The habit of looking at freight.s, l10t goods, has cansell buyers to stand pat against a purchase because of ten or fifteen ccnts ill the rate. when there was fifty c('nL_ dif-ference in the goods ill favor of the more llis~allt 111~trket. Sl1cll hoyers are gc\'crned by slr.;lll things rather than by larg-e 011CS. .._------------ :; I j !! I I I ! ! ~----------------------------------------~ 1r) .------. Fred J. Zimmer 39 E. Bridae St .• Co rand Rapids, Mich. Mak"r of HIGH GRADE UPHOLSTERED FURNITURE rf"rihfor {)I/'I' G'nd I'rices. E'l/ery Piece GuarAnteed PERFECT. Reedcraft Furniture. F. E. Dryden, for many ye;I..rs know11 to the trade as a cOlllmercial desigllcr, with a residence ill G,and !(;Ip:ds, 1." engaged in the manufacture of "RccdcrafC ft-!"nitur~ in San Francisco. Thc name adopted suggests fI:·ed ftlrnitur-:, althotlg'lJ 11'11'.Dryden says his processes are u}Vcred by kttCTS p".te\1t. CO\1"BINED MACHINE Complete Onlfil of HANO and FOOT POWER MACHINERY WHY THEY PAY THE CABINET MAKER He can save a manufacturer's profit as well as a dealer's profit. He can make more money ,..-ith less capital invested. He can hold a better and more satisiactory trade with his customers. He can manufacture in as good style and finish, and at as low cost as the factories. The local cahinet ma)l::er has been forced into only the dealer's trade and profit, because of machine manufactured ~oods of factories. An outfit of Rarnes Patent Foot and Hand-Power Machinery, reinstates the cabinet maker withaavantag-es equal to his competitors. If desired. these machines will be sold on trial. The purchaser can have ample time to test them in h1$ own shop and on the work he wishes them to do. 1JeStriptil!1l cataloqu~ and price tist fru. III salesmanship it is not commendable to give a buyer :t leader on an article hc knows and then "soak" him on the sale of an article he does not know. W. f. So JOUN BARNES CO.• 654 Ruby St ••Rockford, III. HAND TENONER HAND CfRCULAI{ RIP SAW MORTISER ,..------_._-----------_._---------------_. II I No.4 SAW (r~adY for cross-cutting) FORMER OR MOULDER I• • No_ 3 WOOD LATHE No.4-SAW (read)' for rippl.ng) No.7 SCROLL SAW ..?o WOMEN SELL COFFINS. :v]]CHIGAK AR"rISAK Advantages Possessed by Salesladies on the Road. Sc;1esladies "have come to stay. The commercial's pros· perity congress; ecelltly held iri New York afforded a good chance for inquiries on this point. The replies were monot· onously un2oimous. "To stHY? \Vhy, yOll couldn't gd thC1:, Ollt vvitli a tall of dynamite!" There is s0111cthing rueful ill a reguta-r knight of the grip when he talks about his p ofessional sisters. One of them told an especially harrowing tale. He ran t~p against his ilst female com:)ctitor last fall when be started out v.:ith a line of holiday goods. He was going onat a leisurely gait, taking a good line of orders from his old custome s,whcn he struck Cleveland Henry Schmit 8 Co. HOPKINS AND HARRIET STS. CincinDati, OLio makers of UpllOlstered Furniture fo' LODGE and PULPIT, PARLOR, LIBRARY, HOTEL and CLUB ROOM and disaster. The first dealer he called on met him with the blithe announcement that he .had come too late; a "sweet and aimia.bl~ young woman" had been there and had received the entire holiday order. ';l\ot the entire order?" stammered the dumfounded mall. "Yes; everything she wanted." Every cnstomer the man had in Cleveland had gone over to the enemy_ ~-rehustled all to Columbus. She had been befo,e him there. It -"V8S the same 2t Cincinnati and a little more of the same at Indianapolis. He finally caught up with her at Denver and proceeded to find out for himself \.,-hat sort of wizard this sweet and aimiable person was. He had to admit that she was the cleve·est. most diplo-matic woman he baJ ever met and tbRt her success was legiti-mate. He found out afterward that it was her first trip and "that when she had been out three weeks her house had to wire her to holJ on i1 bit. for she was sending in orders faster than they could fill them, "I know a young ,,,,'oman who sells hats (and so do T "vhen r can keep ahead of her)," said another salesman in re-lating his experien~e; "but let me drop in behind her and it's all day \vith me, fo:- ,",'hen she strikes a tmvn she carries ~:way every order in it. ;'But in this she bas the ;::dvantage of me; she is strikingly pretty for a milliner's model and tries all every shape hat she has for sale among he:- samples, and she places them all on her pretty head in such a coquettish and g ·aeeful way that it shows off the beauties of the hats to perfection. )[ow, I would look pretty trying on ladies' hats, wouldn't I? "These won-en are as a rule st~ong, healthy, clear headed and in every way belong to the twentieth century. S:Jme of them do exactly as mcn do~visit the merchants personally and solicit orders. Others rent a suite of rooms in the best hotel in which to display goods, notify their customers ['.nelawait them there. "And there is still another class who c(!ter to individual custom, and "these are too ve~y succcssfui. Quite a number of New York women work in this manner. "There is one youug woman who travels for one of the largest houses in Cincinnati. She is of I rish parentage and L's 'the D2;n,tifuJ eyes and complexion wc :;0 often scc among-the lr:slt-Amcrican girls. Her figure is simply perfection, ~~l1dall of the l1l2deup ~~arments among her sample:; are made on the \\',:11, and wh2n shconce dClIls them she shows them to the best advantage, and "he seldom fails to get <:'11 order. "She told me she w,~s a g,·;J'Fte of one of the leading co:leges for women in Ame :c, ;'net h"s s:nce studied every ;~rt th;:t might be of benefit to h2r :n hu business. She has had mally offers of marriage from some _ofher b~st customers. but she is happy ~nd content to live on he:· salary of $4,000 <l year and commissions, wb~ch often run it up to $5,000. be-sides all of her expellses. ;'Her trade is worth $300,000 a year to he~ house, and thi!:i is enormous when it is considered that fa: only six-mouths in the year th'ese goods can be sold." One of the most successful is a 110unt Vernon Wfl1TI;tll. For years she solicitcd orders for corsets from doo:- to door. her success was phenomenal beyond the wildest expectations of the firm she worked for, and they could not comprehend extraordinay ability. She is now a whole:;ale representati\'e for this same firm of corset manufacturers <lnd commands a :;alary of $5,OCO yearly. Another well known WOm2Jl is one whose husband form-erly traveled for ~n underwear house. He dicd leavin; he~· with a large family to support, and it occured to her that sI~e might take up her husband's business. She accordingly went to the firm and asked for the pos-ition, They demurred <It first, fearing to trust a woman to handle this kind of goods; but finally. through sympathy and a desire to help the wife of Oue who had so long and faith-fully served them, they consented to give her a triaL Her success was p··ompt and striking. Each mail brought fresh evidence of it and the result is she is now a confidental member of- the firm. A Philadelphia woman almost monopolizes the trade of her territory in fruit extracts, flavo-·ing 2nd spices. She doe:; not spend on an average more tJJall two weeks 2t home dming the entire year. She is but twenty-five, and- receives a salary of $3,500 a year and all her expenSes. One young woman sells coffin trimmings for one of the large silver manufacltlr(:rs in Connecticut. Her :;uccess h~\s •.--------_._--------~ II Big Rapids Furni-ture Mfg. Co. BIG RAPIDS, MICH. SIDEBOARDS BUFFETS HALL RACKS "In Quartered Oak, GoJden and Early English Finish. No. 128. ,Price $12. 2 off rmdaY8f. o. b, Big Eapids. been wonderful, the in during the year promptly. Another woman sells coffins, and one of her "knight" rivals says she sells so many that undertakers have to make kindling wood of them to get their stocks reduced, people don't die fast enough to keep up the demand. Her hallS':: allows her ample money for expenses and pays a liberal salary besides. house often being obliged owing to inability to fill to call her her orders M 1 C 11 [ CAN ART I S '\ N ARTISTIC andINEXPENSIVE CATALOGUE COVERS LET US FIGURE ON YOUR PHOTOGRAPHING ENGRAVING and PRINTING PERFECT WORK PROMPT DELIVERIES COMPLETE CATALOGS MICHIGAN ENGRAVING CO. .t Right Prices GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN 22 - ._--- ----------------------------- MICHIGAN ARTISAN Manual Training School at Saginaw. Saginaw, l\Jich., through the vencre,:;;ty of Hon. 'Vetl-ington R. nurt, now enjoys t;le di:;tinctinn (If having the finest and best equipped n:anual training school in Michigan, Olle that pos:;e.sses features not contained in any other iike HON. WELL1NGTON R. BURT. establishment in tl~e state. It is a b:-ick strllcture of three stories· the first floor being built of Bedford stone and the rcmain:ng two stO'ries of paying brick, makn:J a subst:,nt:al open all .~uml11er for the benefit of the pupils; the watcr b~ing changed chell enough to keep it pure. Until the close of the 1904 school' year the high school {Jllpils occupied the cld h:gh school building, where manual tra:n:n:{ \V3S tau:lht to some extent, but since its e:'ection in 1893. the. s~hool has more than doubled in t~le number of its pupils, and the old buildin3" could no longer accommodate the increasing ;:'.ttenJance, but ldr. Burt's additional gift of $78,333, just three-fourths of the cost of erecting and equip-ping the new bnildinz, made it possible to e E'et the new m<lllll<t1 training high school, which was opene~l September. 190;. This building ~1[\S a most thorough equipment for all c~<:sse;; in manual trainin~:?; including woed and iron work for the boys and cooking and sewing for the girls. On the fi st floor there are rooms devoted to carpenter work and woad turning, seventh and eighth grade wooJ ,",Iork, f01~ndry, fcrge mz:chine shop, recitation and a laundry· for the girls. The ca:-pentry and joinery roOm is furnished with twelve double benches, each fitted wit~l Herriman vises and <1.ccom-ll10daticg two student;;. In each half of these benches there are four drawers holding individual sets cf carpenter's tools ~nd a compartment containing cc:tain tools which are used in commOll. The drawe:'s can be locked and each pupil is held respol1!Oible for his own tools. The tools for this rOOm comprise saw' plane. chisel. spoke sb:ve, dividers, :hammer, brace and hit, a thirty~six by three and one-half inch grindstone and glue )le"cttng afparatlls and all the common carpenter':" tools. Tlec room is thirtv-n:ne feet Icu:J and thirty feet wi:le. SAG1"';AIV MAKUAL TRAINJ:>r; SCH'-.JGL yet magnilicC'nt building. 'V. T. Cooper, a 10c~1.1architect, planned the ~trl!ctu'-e and it "vas t ..v.o years ill building. In connection witb this building is a t\venty-two by S!_-.:.1y feet swimming pool, devoted to the use of the pupils five days each week and one day to the pttLlic. The pool is six feet deep at one end and three at the otller and is kept The wood tlL-ning room adjoins the carpcHlry room and 1S the same size and has a vcry cQmp\.de equipment, cun-sisting of twenty F. E. Reed auJ Company Jl ..'.e feet by ten inch turning lathes, one Oliver type C b<:nd saw, one Oliver pattern-maker's lathe and a thirty-six inch by three and one-half inch grindstone. This machinery is driven by a MICHIGAN ARTISAN 23 ~--------------,-----_._--_._--------~ RICHMOND CHAIR CO., Richmond, Ind. Double Cane Line "Slip Seats"-the lateSt and best method 01 double cane seating. Catalogues to the Trade. ~-_._-_. thirteen horse power electric motor stlspendul f;om the ceiling. The lathes aTe of the bench type, each bench is in t\",O levels, the lathe side having four drawers with indi-vidual sets of turning tools, chisel and gonges; the othe" side has five drawers, one for tools which ar~ used in com-ma)) and the other fOUf for individual sets. There is a stock room near this room provided with rip and cross-cut saws anl a Fay & Egan planer, driven by a seven ;md onc-haJI horse pov;'cr mota:" The foundry, which is located at tbe left of the wood turning rOOI11, is equipped to accotIl1nOdzLte twenty pupIls, with iJl(Jil'idtlal molding troughs, an emery grinder,. a brass flunace, core. oven zlIld a Xo. 0 \Vhitney Clll)ola, with a :';0. 4 Buffalo steel pressure blO\ver, d iven by a seven and one-half horse pm,ver motor. There are also 11eccssary hand tools. The forge room is a large room with equipment of the ve y latest type. There art' hventy Swrtcvant dml'l1-dr.1ft forges, tile blast and exhaust obtained from Sturtevant fans driven by a twcnt:i ho's::, powcr Sturtevant motor: twellty 130 pound Trenton <'l1vils set on cast ii"On ;lll\'il b10c1<s, ;l l:'rgc haLd shear, a tl-.·irty pound Justice hammer, a twenty inch Ilueier drilL L:ch forg2 has a tool stand contninin:~ four (Lawers for individual sets of tools. At the east end of the building is the machine shop which is the bugest rOOHl on the first floor, being seventy nine feet long aud thirty feet wide and has adjoining it twenty hy t'Ne1VE'. and a half feet tool room. There 3re hventy-four machines in this room run hy (l Lventy horse po\'l.'er \Vestinghouse motor: three Putrrwn tweh'e by flftccn enginc lathes, one Star twelve by hve, one Prelliice twelve by l1\'e, one Le Blonde h..velvc by five, ':\\'0 I~_eed t\vc!yC by five, one Lodge and Shipley fourteen by eizlt, high speed, quick-change gear hthe; one }{cfd fourteen by' six l<~the, with motor attached fo' direct or;\,e; one Stu speci"d nine inch s::::re',', cuting bench bthe; two Reed twelve by five speed lathcs; one 1\'0. 10 Cinclnnati milling ma-chine; one sixtee11 inch Cincinnati .,,;wper; one Gray planer twenty-four by twenty-four inch by six feet; onc Cincinnati Universal tool <ltld culter grinder; aile Barlles hvcnty-three inch IIp''ight drill press: Olle \'orton .sen.,;iti\'e drill; Olle Y<ll1kce twist drill gTilider; one wet emery grinder: one grindsto11e thirty-six by three and (me-half inch and olle :\JifJcr I,'>alls power hack saw. The shop has also complete sets oi inidvidual tools for classes of twelve; one Grecnerd ~rbor press; one Stua:t gas furnace; 011(', Hisey portable elcct~ieal driven grinder; one V./arner c:t nH:ter; one Billings jmpro~"ed milling tool; one lIofil1cr Falls breast drill 1'\0. 30, besides these tne;'c is an equipment of Armst:'ong" tocl holders, to illustrate the modern phase of machine shop practice. The laundry is a small room next to the r~citation room. It has all the facilities for teaching laund.ry work. There are ten Dorcelain enameled tubs with wringers and wash-boards, a steam dryer, and all the other necessary utensils for washing and ironing. The action of starch and bluein.;, removing stains and washing delicate fabrics is thoroughly tanght. On the second floor there are two rooms devoted to mechanical and freehand dra ..v..ing, two kitchens, a dining-room, reception room, bedroom, pantry, lihra:-y, two larg'e class rooms, a gymnasium; besides these are the super-intendent's offices, janitor's room and tocker. The dnnviIlg 1'001115 arc above the carpenter and wood turning rooms ;:nd are the same size as the rooms be-low. The very best equipment is provided for these rooms <~l1d illstruc.ticll ill drawing extends through all the grades. The gymnasium is seVe11ty-four by thirty-nine feet and i,,; connected with the bath house and swimming pool by 3 passageway. In the b;,th house are tubs. shower baths with hair drye-s for dryirig ladies hair. The kitchens are each thirty-nine feet by thirty feet and are equipped for classes oi twenty-four pupils. The tables arc ill the form of a hollow square. Each gi I has a moldin~ board· two gas burners, r\nd two drawers for her woo kin~ utensils. Each kitchen has a combination coal and g~lS range, a refrige ator, charts illustrating food V[I lues . n<..l lockers for aprons and other necessary articles. The butler's pant y opens into the dining .rooms from 011Q of the k:tchens. The dining room is furnished with tables. chai s, ~ideboanl, serving table, china closet and all the necess::rJ china; silver, glassware and linen for lessons for se,ving. The reccpt:011 room and bed room have appropriate furniture. There are th'ce sc\ving rooms and one room for clay nwdeling, the rest of the floor is bken up by two session rooms, each forty-three feet six inches by thirty-nine feet six inches, one class room, a room fo:' hook~keepil1S:, a room for commercial geography and a room for typewriting ant! stcllograpllY. The sewing rooms a'-(' (a), thirty fed by twenty-two feet, (b) twenty-six feet by twenty feet, (c) thirty feet by thirty- (Corwi ded 011pal{e2t;.) EVANSVILLE LINES MANUFACTURERS' FURNITURE EXCHANGE Corner Waba!h Avenue and Fourteenth Street Just one of the 100 styles of the "New Superior Line" of Extension,· Library. Parlor and Dressing Tables. This table is made with the l'Ideal" drop leg. Base is non-dividing, made in 6 n. to 14 ft. THE BOCKSTEGE FURNITURE CO. EVAN8VILL-E. INDIANA The· Metal Furniture Co. ===== EVANSVILLE, IND. MANUFACTURERS OF Metal Bedsteads F ulliine of Samples on exhibition during the entire year, on 6rst floor of the Manufaeturers' Furniture Exchange, corner Wabash Ave. and 14th St .. Chicago. THE WORLD FURNITURE CO. (Member of Big Six CaT LoadIng Association) EVANSVlUE INDIANA Manufac:tu ..ers of Folding Beds (Mantel and UpriKht), Buffets, HaD Treell. China Cl03et8, -Combination and LibTary Bookca.r.ell. FuD line of 1Il1Dlple. on exhibition during the entire year, on first floor of the Manufacturer .. Furniture Exchange, cOrner Wabash Ave. and 14th St., Chicago. Globe Side Boards and Hall Racks Are the best for the money. Get our Cata-logue. Mention the Michigan Artisan when writing. Fullline of samples on exhibition during the en-tire year, on the first Roor of the Manufacturers Furniture Exchange, Cor. Wabash Ave., and 14th St., Chicago. Globe Furniture Company . EVANSVILLE, IND. ON SALE IN CHICAGO MANUFACTURERS' FURNITURE EXCHANGE Corner WabaJh Avenue aud fourteenth Strut The Karges Furniture CO. EVANSVILLE, INDIANA Manuf<l.cturen 01 Chamber Suites Dressers Wardrobes ood Chiffoniers PLAlN OAK QU ARTERED OAK AND IMITATION QUARTERED OAK Fun line of 5amplco on exhibition durinp: the en_ tire )rear, on lililt Roor ot the Manufacturers' Furni-ture Exchange.comerWa-ba, h Ave, and 14th St_, Chi~lilo. Cupboards Kit~hen Cabinets and K. D. Wardrobes. Is all we make but we make lots of them. Get Catalogue and Prices. The Bosse Furniture Co. EVANSVILLE, IND. ]i'llll line oj sa1i<ples on exhibition durin.q the entire year on jtrltt floor of the jfannj'a(;furel's' Furnit1~re EX<'!uznge,eorMr Wabash Ave. and 14th Sf" Cldca.QQ, The "ELI" FOLDING BEDS ARE BREAD AND PROfIT WINNE.RS No Stock complete without the Eli Beds in Mantel llnd Upright. ELI 0 MILLER & Co It.ano.me, indIana • • Write for cuts and prices ON SAl.E IN FURNITURE EXCHANCE, CH1CACO, 26 MICHIGAN ARTISAN nine feet, and two of them are provided with sewing ma-chines, ..v..hile the other has a measuring and fitting room, and each room is fLlrnished with tables having dawers for in-dividual sets of utensils and al1 the necessary chairs and mirrors. Sew~n1: is very thoroughly taught, with the study of cotton material used in hand made domestic articles an:l • STAR CASTER CUP CO. NORTH UNION STR£ET. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. II I, II (PATENT APPLIED FOR) \\'e have adopted celluloid as a base fot"OUt Casle-r Cups, making the hest cuI-' on the market Celluloid is a great improvement over bases made ...f.other material. When it Is necessary to move a piece supportell by cups with celluloid bases it can be done wtth ease, 3.$ the hases are per-fectly smooth. Celluloid does not sweat and by the use of thf;'se CUJlS tables are never marred .. These cups are finished in Goldf'n Oak and White Maple, fimshed light. II you u,m trv a sample ordero! Uuse goOds you will desire to Mndu them in quantities. PRICES: ~ize2M inches ....• ·$5.50 pel" hundr.d. Si;:e 2}.( inches."." 4.50 per hundred. f'. Q. b. Grand Rapid8. TRY A SAMPLE ORDER, garment work, measuring and drafting in the first year or ninth grade. The next year IS a continuation of the fi.-st with the ex-ception that the pupil makes a special study of wool from fibre to fabric; by this time the pupil is capable of making ail entire shirtwaist suit. In the cleve,nth grade they have besides the ordinary sewing a special study of linen from flax fib:.-e to woven material. The twelfth grade ,york is entirely dress making with a study of silk. Laundry work and. waltress work a:"e given in the ninth grade. In the second year general cookery and very ele-mentary chemist·y are taught. The ncxt two .years ,Ire elective. The juniors study the science of canning and preserving with reference to the methods of combating moulds and bacteria. Emergency nur5ing is taught with a study of diets, care fa:' the sick, and how to maintain good health. The last year consists in instruction in fancy cookin;. home management, keeping of 2ccounts, and a more ~d-vanced 5tudy of menus and nutr:tive value. The mechanical drawing class produce drawings involving all kinds of geometric prc[)lcms, this dcpa_tment being the starting point of nearly dl mechanical projects; blue p,ints are sent to the shops and the construction work begins. Patterns a e made from these prints which involve general carpentry, carving and wood turning. In the foundry sand molds are made from the same patterns. The work of finishing these belongs to the eleventh and twelfth grade classes in the machine shop. The machine S110P contains certain feature:, not to be found in any other like shops in the country, and is a very interesting department but not marc so than than the cah-inet- making department. as some of the work r·oill this de-partment is worthy of professional c~binet-makers. Daven-ports, chairs, tables, hookcases 2nd fmn:ture of all descrip-tions are made by the pupils. Besides the manual training taught in the :high schaal a complete course in this braanctt of study is taught in the • lower grades. In the fint four g ades the work is done by regular grade teachers under the direction of a supervisor, and consists of paper folding, weaving with raffia and yarn and basket making. In the fifth and sixth grades the work is done by two special' teachers, who visit each school Cnce every week. The instuctioll in these grades consi~;ts of sewing for the girls Jnd knife work for the boys . The seventh ;md eighth g ades h:!.ve specid teachers also and sh.::dy carving and bench work in wo:;d. There ;'cre two wood working centers for the boys in these g-rr,des; one at the manual train:ng high school 8tH] cne ",t Snlina street schoo!. There are also two cooking center,; jor the girls; one £1t the Central school and another <t \\rashington street school. Every c:tizen of Saginaw is lOtHI in his praise of the '1enents of such a g-rand in.,titution 311d the gen~rosity of M .. Dtlrt is appreciated, as is shown by the steadily inere:.sin6: "ttendance at the school. Its benefits are already shown in the b:JYs who secure ('mployment at the u-:':fferent factories of the city, they having already lea:ned how to use their hands and minds at the same time, as well as knowing the proper use and care of tools used by them. It is predicted by those who have g;ven close attention to the ,'vork that in a very short time pnlctical1.y every boy and 'nea:-1y all the girls will take the m.<:nual training course as they now do their regular studies. There are sixteen special manual training teachers, among which number are L N Bryant, at the head of the d.epart-ment; Messrs. Hoerner, vVienke, Tippey and Ca:-rier, all teachers of wide experience. .. The open oppos;tion of the bankers to the general ad-option of the Oklahoma system of guaranteeing deposits furnishes ~.n argnment to dcposito':""sfor supporting the plan. • rI I I, arge Line ow Prices iberal Terms No. 30 K. 50:>.30x48'1 high. No. 54 K. 54x30)(4~fI high. Remember Rowlett Desks are thoroughly well made and absolutely dependable. Send for Cata.log and Prices, II ! ROWRLICEHTMTOND,DIENDSIAKNA,MUF. SG. A.. CO. • MICHIGAX ARTISAK 27 l------------------------------·--------------~ DOVIESTIC SERVICE DFPART~ENT C.SAGINAW MANUAL TRAINING SCHOQL I• MACHINE SHOP SAGINAW :\-lAr<iUAI, TRAIl';ING SCHOOL ------------------------------------ • 28 .\1 j C j-j I C ,\ i\ TILLIE GUDOUSKY'S WEDDING Wheels of Ind1.<stry Halted by a Weekly Event at the Factory. The manager of F;lctory B of the Ship Alloy Tick and Tuck Company, yelled at his foreman down the length Ili (Ill;: long room, <lw.l that slave of twenty-three dol:ars a y.,.'eek <.1.11<1 a iarge sa"plus of un::al)itdizec1 idiom hun-ied to the manager's desk at a gait that threatened to add a. spasm or two to his stock of uncbssified woes, \\1 hen the perspiring foreman brought up sharply manager's desk that highbro.w of ticks and tucks U11til the already ovcrhented atmosphere lor many ya.ds thcreabo~lt seemed smitten black anJ blue and pale aroulld the edges. "\i\,'hat arc all the machines stopped for?" he shouted. Foreman Sandonovitch shook his head. "Tillie Gudotlsky's gettin' spliced," he said with some hesitation. "Ain't it awful, boss?" "Getting married!" exclaimed the manager. "That's it. boss, th81'5 what it is." "\,Vell, is th<Jt any reason why the factory sho111d close down when orders arc piling tip on US every hon~?" "Ifs their way. boss, an' I can't stop 'eu}. They ain't the kind that's to be suppressed." "\Vhere are they?" "Hangill' GIlt the front \vinclows. Everyone of the two l;undred d8111eSis l:oldin' a pair of old shoes an' a bag d rice, byin' in W<l1tto slillg the whole blamed lot 8t the bride when she m~lkcs her exit for her matrim0ny debut." "Order them back on the job at oncc!" thundered the m':!1lagcr. "The i1 m's losing millions every minute!" "It ain't no use. They'd strike. I has tried it before. It's their custom. '!\JiUions doesn't count with them." The Ship Ahoy concern's manager was furious. "I'll settle the 018tter right here and now! this Tillie GudotL:ky a lesson she wen't forget. to me, quick." rt looked as if Tillie GlI<lollsky were to be eaten alive, "She's got her dough an' lit out," said the foreman. S:lC'S hidin' downstairs Ilear the frollt <lcor, afraid of the shower of r;ce an' old shoes. "So that'3 it, is it. ,",VeIl.you go right back on the job. I'll rout her out. Every minute lost means a million further a'''''ay from the Shi~ AllOY'S cxchequer." And amid the unusual silence of hushed machines ::lnJ breathless clerks with their heads bellt low ove' hooks and papers, and pens suspended in midair, the manager re-lmttoned his collar and lYI<ldea perspiring dash for the door. Tillie, in fresh shirtwaist al1CIbbck pictu:'e hat, had b2cn cowering in t1'e d:"rkness of the lower stairway, blushing Wit;l hc:pp:ness and t""c:llhling with timid:ty. Tt wasn't that she was really afrnid. It 11;-'<1 been tl~e custom for all the gi 'is to hide, and thot~gh sLe W;'S amiiol:s to get home and m8ke some final pre);lr:-ticl1s for her wedding th2..t evening, it would have looked bold not to allow the girls to wait haH 2..nhour 01' mO-e for I-cr to appear. A door slammed overhead, and looking LIp,Tillie thought she discerned a gl int of pale gr8y in the darkness of the stairway. The marager was- the only one \VllO wore pale gay. At the last turn of the stairway the pale g:'ay suit burst into full view. coming <:t a tremendous r~te. Tillie knew and rm:de a hre:'k for the street. There W[tS a wild shout from the windows and a cas-cade of rice and s~1Oeswas suddenly let loose. It was the hat1essman~gcr Imns _If \vho got the shower, for Tillie had sped like a hare down the street, only turning when half a block awC\y to rew:!rd the waitin~ ones for their patient vigil with blushes and lJalld v.raves .::nd a hedaaling "ucc<-,s_,;- ion of smiles. at the cussed sqtl~lrc a trifle I'll teac-h Sen<l he, ,\ R TIS A N Even Tim, the elevator man, had to smil~ at t::e man-ager's p edicament, though he took precious good care not to let that irate gentleman see him. Timothy vVoooruff Dennis hzd marriecl :t girl from this f2ctnry himself. It ,vas ten years before, wLen th" p eS('11tmanager W3S a col-lege boy-Timothy ;:nll otber.:> ;1.:1<1 often \vishecl he mig:,t have .::Iways re:T1<l:ne<la colleg:2 boy <lnu let the "old g~nt" br!ng en lon;;rer. "1"he.--would 11ave done the work; they said so--:!ndTimothy b.::d ilever forgotten the shower of rlce [!ld o:d shccs thf:t I~ad descended on the fai- head of Lis Esther. For one reason Esther, now the mother c( four, h~cl never ceased talking about it ...-.\'l-ien in one 0: her \veek since t~lere had been one or mo~e weddings from the factory. They never gre\v st81e to Tim, ncr to the w('fld at la-'ge either, for t:1e wbole street for more than a block was still 2.stl1', althou.?;h Tillie was almost out of sight. She would be standing Up befo:'e a rabbi answering a lot of questions and makng all sorts of promises before the factory had closed down for tho..-day; but this was the real wedding. All the factory girls were hang<ng out of the front win-dows, and six big windows st etching from side to side of tl:e facto!"y six stories high ea:1 hold lots of heads. There they ",,'ere, black, brown, <:tlburn, red all shades uf h;ond and tow, thrust li.ke nestFng birds over the stone ledge" of the windows, and evey one of them decorated with wh'te love knots fashioned Ol:t of tissue paper: Yv hen the br:de did arpC2.1",md escaped the shower, and the m<:.nager following close on her heels caught it, the pco;J]e on the sidewalks and the factory girls aod men h;:,n,n,-ingout of otberfactory windows gave vent to thei~ mirth and cheered lustily. Timothy \Voodruff Dennis almost had a spasm right then and there. "An' him a bachelor" he gasped between paroxysms of pure deligh t. The manage;- went back to his revolving chair, the gi.rls returned to their machines and the street once more took on its workaday aspect after Til1ie Gudousky had passed entirely out or sigllt. "\Vhat was Tillie's dowcy?" asked one girl above the ro;:}r of revitalized machinery, as she put the finishing touches on the llnderg';lrmcllt she was making. "Two hundred dollars,'.' was the ,'dlSwt:r from a mouth stuffed with pins. "My! An' I lost a whole 1-:.our,£.ud I haven't saved up r: "e'n a hundred dollars," wailed the questioner. Every head of every color bent buslly over, th~ machinfos. These Russian girls knew they were not considered marrhge- ,,~Ie until they h.::'d saved up two or three hundred dolbrs, ; ndtheir ?::trent3 were .::n:-;:nus to g~t them married as soC'n ;,s possibk /\ Girl should hove s~ved up a sufficient .lowry t') attract the c:epid:ty cf ~:O!l1em21l h~fore she had leL he;- t: ens. The manager cndollhtedly knew this, but ;le didn't ~et'nt t':e least bit interested ill dowries. \\-'h<1t he thought about w::s the time the (Irm 103t every time this C:1st0I11of shower, in.5 the bride p e"ailed. Th~s weddings w~rc getting too numerot:s for him. "If there;, f(' many more marriages like the Tillie Gud-o: lsky affair t::c S~lip AllOY Tick and Tuck Compally, Lim-ited, will be woo:n1 and wethFng a bankruptcy petition, sure thing." Po 'em:ll1 S;'.lldonnvitch I-cud and said soothin:;ly: "They don't ll;lppen muc't o;tC'llel"11 once a week, boss-sometimes twice."-Stl11. Memories of past unpleas:~nt experiences cause lack of confidence in salesmen. It is well to forget the-past. Look t'pwards, ;]s the sailor does when the weather threatens his life, and push ollward. .-------------------------------------------- I IIII III I 100. 110. 112 ! norl~ Division~1. I! Gran~napi~s I I •II IIIIII II I III :II III •IIII III II II III ,I 10D. 110.112 I n-o-rl~-D-ivis-io1n~1.iI Qran~napi~s III• I I, j II I ~I 1C I r 1C /I. i\ f\ IZTIS i\ i\ OUR BUILDING E N GR A V E RS PR INT ERS B INo E RS Erected by White Printing Company. Grand Rapids, 1907. ! Michigan II,,----. Engraving Company:: Michigan Artisan White Printing Company Company I Io I -----. I j PRINTE R 5 B IN oE R5 E N GR A V E RS 30 MICHIGAN f OUR LARGE NEW LINE OF The 8eason for banquets will 800R be here. Our Banquet Table Top is jU8t the thing for banquet •. • SCHOOLS TAKE UP VOCATIONAL WORK. Increased Industrial Training to be Prescribed for All Boys of Twelve or More. \Vithin two weeks New York will begin its experiment in vocational training, regarded by educators as the most impor-tant innovation introduce? in the public schools in many years. "As the armor of. the Middle Ages would be wholly in-adequate to resist the modern bullet, so the ancient equip-ment of the three R's is totally inadequate to equip the coming generation for the place that they must take in our essentially industrial civilization," declared Commissioner Frederic R. Condert, Chairman of the Special Committee 011 Trade Schools, in his report urging a t. ial of the experiment. Commissioner Coudert and his commttee. who gave nearly six months of study to the situation in New York, say that the educational institutions of the city have not adapted themselves to the ne"v conditions forced upon the people in tl~e h:st two-score years by the vast changes re-sultant from the applications of science to industry. To meet the new problems and to place industrial training within the reach of boys and girls who do not wish to enter the professions or have not the aptitude or the opportunity to do so, the board of education, following out the plan suggested by its committee, has decided upon a h ..·.ofold action. Effort will be made to improve the efficiency of the pr('s-ent system already in operation in the schools by reorgan-izing the manual training from a vocational point of vi;::w, so that it may bear a direct relation to the industrial effi-ciency of pupils when they leave school. The city has now a great many schools without work-shops, in which there are boys in the seventh a11(1eighth years. The board will introduce workshops in snC:l schools throughout the city as rapidly as possible, adding to the tools now in use a turning lathe, combination saw and grinder. It is expected by this means to develop higher forms of work than now attempted and to familiai;::e the older pupils ·with simple power machinery. As not a few boys reach the age of fourteen and are obliged to go to work before entering the sixth year, as is often the case on the upper and lower east sides, it is plan-ned also to give them early knowledge of the use of as many tools as possible and the advantages of shopwork. Just how this can be done has not been wholly worked out. ARTISAN • DINING and OFFICE TABLES are the best on the American market when prices and quality are considered. The prices put on our goods June 24th .re guaranteed through the f.1I season. Stow· £5 Davis Furniture Co. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. City ""Iee~om, 4th Door, Blods-ettBide• • Some members of the boa· d of education think it would be wise to curtail the time now given to the ordinary sub-jects of the common school curriculum, while other,", say this would not be done, but that the additional time for sho? work may be found by opening the shops between three and five o'clock each afternoon, on Saturday morn-ings, and, if necessary, in the evenings. Those favoring the latter plan argue that this will not be injurious ns the use of tools involves the exercise of a great number of muscles not usually employed by a boy, and manual train-ing has always been popular with the boys. The board purposes to open special schools for boys in the secondary ninth and tenth school years which fhn1J give training for particular vocations or industries. Seveml types of these schools are to be organized, the course in each to be two years in length, the pupils to be those whD l1ave graduated f om the public elementary schools or have reached the age of fourteen and are prepared to undertake the required work. A general course will be prescribed to be taken by all the pupils up to a certain poir:t, and after that, a variety of industrial courses will be offered, any ODe of which may be selected by the stt::1ents on entrance. The board does not expect these vocational schools to graduate jOt1Tneylren or skilled mechanics, but to give the pupils skill in the use of tools and a knowledge of those processes and principles underlyin:I con!;tructive work, so that the lll1pil may be able to apv1y the knowLedsc thus gained to definite and concrete p oIllem!;. h is also hoped to do away, to a certain extent, with the situation cre?ted by the specialization in industries which has rendered it so difficult for a young m<:n to learn ani one tr2de com~)letel~r. The board will establish additional night schools, primarily in-tended for young men already engaged as apprenfcs ill trades. T,vo such schools are now in operatio:], one in Long Island City and the other in Brooklyn, and it is proposed that a third .shall be established this session in the Stuyvesant high school building, whe:'c there is already adequate equipment for the work. Girls are also to share ill this industrial education. As there is at p:'esent nD sewing taught in the seventh and eighth years, it is pointed out by the commissioners that much the girls have already learned about sewing is for-gotten before they graduated. The board will therefore introduce sewing as a required subject in all girls' schco:s where there are seventh and eighth yea. classes, and will open in Brooklyn a separate vocational school for girls be-tween fourteen and. sixteen.-New York Times, ~l 1 C IT TeA N ART TSAN , I GEO. SPRHT & CO, SHES'YGAN. WIS. Manufacturers of Chairs and Rockers, A complete line of Oak Diners with quarter sawed veneer backs and seats. A large line of Elm Uiners, medium priced. A select line of Ladies' Rockers. Bent and high arm Rockers with s"lid seats, veneer roll seats, cob-blerSeats and up-bolstered leather complete. High Chairs and Children's Rockers. rou 'Wifi gtt in on the xrml.t.d floor whfn you buy from us. "- No. 542 No. 542 Oak. Solid Seat. p,ice, $17~~~_ ---------------- No. 540% Same as No. 542 on Iy Quartered Oak Veneer Seat, $IB ~~;. Ko 805C~ C"ICAGO The line includes a very complete assortment of Chairs, Rockers and Settees of all grades. Dining Room Furniture. Mission Furniture. Fibre-Rush Furniture, Reed and Rattan FurniturE', Go-Carts and Baby Carriages. Our complete line of samples lire rflspla}red In The ford &. Johnson Co. bulldln,g, 1333·31 Wabash Ave" InCluding a special display of Hotel f"urn'lure. AU Furniture Dealers are cMdlaUy invited to Vi8il our building. ~- ~ I MANUFACTURERS OF I I HARDWOOD ~~~~~~~! I I I 31 --------------., SPECIALTIES: ~'L~'iPt~QUARO.AK VENEERS MAHOGANY VENEERS I I I: HOFFMAN I BROTHERS COMPANY , L~~4 W, Main SI" FORT WAYNE, INDIANA j .. ~ IMorton House I I (AmericanPlan)Rate. $2.50 and Up. I Hotel Pantlind I (European Plan) Rate. $1.00 and Up. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. The Noon Dinner Served at the Pantlind for 50c IS THE FINEST IN THE WORLD_ J. BOYD PANTUND, Prop. >------------. ,..----_._--------------------., IIII ,! II , We Manufacture the Largest Line of Folmna Ghairs in tht! Unitt'<l. Statt's, suitable for SUllday Sdwo!s, Halls, Steamers and all puhlk resorts. We also manufacture Brass Trimmed Iron Beds, Spring Beds, Cots and Cribs in a large variety. , --- ---~ II UNION FURNITI IRE CO. ! RcJ;;~CKFORD' ILL. I II I Ch na Closets Buffets ::r~:~:n~ru&on and Fin~. See our Catalogue. Our line on pefmanent exhibi.- tion 7th Floor. New Manllfaet~ llrers' Bilding, Grand Rapids. J_ Send for Catalogue and PriceJ to I IIK/\UffM/\N MfG. GO. ASHLAND, OHIO >_.------ • ~I I CII I l; f\ 1\ "Chippendale"-The Creator of a Style. Thomas Chipp'endalc, who came into his own in the rn~ddle years of the eighteenth century, created a style which finds an echo in every modern vill::. But although Chippendale is a name to conjure with in the' furnishing trade, it mea,os something more to the c()]ll1oisseur. Chippendale and his sons had their little ",rorkshop in St. l\Iartin's Lane. At the ua\vn of the. age of mahogany he readily adapted h:s designs suitable for working in the new wood. 1Iaho~any, it is true, was discovered by Sir \Valter Raleigh, who broLlght specinicr~s hon~e, but it:' did not come into gccentl use till after the first quarter of the eighteenth ----------, (t. :J13. '!batftelb, IDcaigllcr Blodl;!elt Bid!!., Grand Rapids. MicL. Drawings prepared for special ordered work, and co"tracts let. Don't allow this branch of the business to get away from you, as there is mone} in it. ChargtS reason ..ble. Odr Skelches Gel tht Ortler. ~----_._---- century. The wood used by Chippcndde was sp:endid i:1 quality, cOlr:ing as it did from the great UlltoUched forests, producing ;1t that time tjn~ber the like of which ill dimensio:1 is now unprocurahle. A t~ovel might be written of the buc-ca11eering exploits of British crnvs ..v..ho coolly lar.ded and cut timber from the Spar::ish p05scssiollS in America in spite of the protests of the 0""\'11cr5. l\fany a stiff figH occurred, and many lives were lost in shipping this stoletl mahogany to England, to supply the demalld for furniture. The nefa.rious proceedings more than once threatened to bnng about a war between Ellgland arHI Spain. Chippendale's early ,vork ,vas in walnut, and sometimes even in oak. Settees with his characteristic ca,briole legs and ball-and-claw feet, sometimes with heavy slat backs and lat<er with his camel backs with typical pierced centre: rail, are among his most highly' prized examples. But as he ~'-o-gressed he employed ]l'ahogany as better <;uited for his elab-orately e<irved ribbon pattern and other intricate designs. He was a prillce of chair~makcrs, all(l there is little won-der that his masterly adaptations have hrougllt him fame, al~d wh;~t is concomitant ~ith fame in art-a th~Jusand n~cretri-cious copyists. His ball-and-claw feet 11('.horrowed from the spacious chairs of old Dutch ·origin. His ribbon pat-tern smacks of the French scho'ol of carvers who tied knots with Cupids and ~astoral crooks in the days of Louis Quinze. His intricate fretwork in chair-back alld table-top was impon-ed from China, a.nd Chippendale caught the taste from the fashion set by Sir \Villiam Chambers, the arditeet of Somer-set I-T ouse, who built the pagoda in Kew GardellS. His Gothic style was another attempt, a11d a misgl,icled 011C', at adaptation. But, like Josiah ""Vedgewood, who c:mght the Greck spirit 2,nd translated it into English pottery, Chippen-dale, in his adaptations, becan,e origina', ::!.cd they were sturdy and robust in their new home of adOption. So much for real Chippendale, and the prices obtained for gcnuine examples are phenomenaL A cr"lple of his chairs have realized £1.100 r.t Christie's. But if all the furniture sold as genuine Chippendale were put together it would choke up St. Martin's Lane from one end to the other, and it would be the first time that many of the spe6'1"'1ens have found themselves in the neighborhood of Chippendale's workshop. The truth is that they were made at the same time that Chippendale made his own examples, and "~crc mnde by con-temporary cabinet makers. It reminds onc of Tennyson's poem, cntitled "The Flower," where "thif'les from o'er the wall stole the seed by night," and, in allusion to his OW11 style of versification, the pod goes on to say: ")'1ost can raise the flowers now, for all have got the seed." It was the same story with Chippendale. In 1754 he published his "Director," or book of designs, "calculated to improve ,and refine the A I, T j S ,\ ;\ pTesent taste, ;11:<1 suited to the fancy am' "ircuITlstances of persons in all degrees of life." As a matter of fact, every town of importance started a centre for making furniture- on Chippendale lines. Up and down the country, from the confines of Yorkshire to the highlalHls of DeVOll, n:aster cabinet makers took their cue from, the ~-'I~irector," and produced excelJ~ntly made furni-hue, -with fH~e joil"'lery and of sound worl,.malL,hip. Now-adays the~e ue tl~e rivals of Chippendale himself in the anc-tion room. And after Chippel1dale's death ger:crations of craftsmen continued the style. So that, for purposes of ckssifieation, it tray he said that tl:ere are, first, the rare alld genuine speci-mens of ill ll'tttre ~\ctually made bi Chippend::!le or his ,,(l1l~3 in the-i.r worksllOp. And, secondly, there is cO:1temporary furniture m<lde after his designs in various oarts of England by good craftsmen, who readily seized his idefl..s. Thirdly, sprcad over a long- period, tbere is other '-furniture s~ro:"'Igly inflllel~C"edby this coctcn'porary school, and lradc ~t any tin:e after Chippcr:dalc's death to eJ.rly ";l~etecnth ce:~tl1ry days. And here el~ds 2.11 Chippend3.le fmniturc, or "(l1i:)- pendale style" furniture, whic'h appeals to ''"'Ie collector. There is, too, rncdern furl"itl'rc inCbr'Jendale style, not pretending to be other than wbnt it is--,-modern-made fU1'lli-ture of a p::trticular design, and, lastly, there is furniture "faked" to gi...e.. it He appeanmce of age. This is always an atterrpted COpy of son::e 'ovell known pattern. It apes the grandeur al~d the rille s'oveep of curve thai '.he master drew. But it has been artfully, almost artistically made, with intent to deceive, ,:nd it does deceive in nine cases out of ten, and changes owr:ers at a great profit to the fr;>',dulent maker. In view of these facts, and the public h qradually becom-ing schooled to the various frauds perpetrated upon it, the days of "Chippendale," in inverted comma~ :l:cluding all else but furniture made by him or in his day, ~.re drawing to a close. He h::,s, to use the trade term, been "dolle to d .~;.th ,. The time was Ollce ,."hen all that was not Chippendale was held to be Sheratcn. The two names were bandied abollt in the middlc- Victorian days as rcpresentative of <'..11 that thc eighteenth century bad left as a heritage. Like Monsieur JOllrdiaIl, who le;lTllt, to his ~I11OlZemel1t,tl~L.t all 'W~S not poetry was prose, so the woulJ-hc ]Jurc!ns:?~was tallJ~·t to believe that all that was not Chippendale was Sheraton. But a good deal of water has passed under London Bridge since the Rerlaissance of English rr:odern taste in furniture. One factory would serve the needs of a community as well as ten if the people did not buy more than they actually need. , • f• Why Not Order? Say ill dozen or more Montgomery Iron Displa)' Couch 1 rucks sentyou on approval? If not satisfactory they can be retUrned at no _expense to you whatever, whilethe price asked is but a trifle. com_ pared to the oonvenien~ they a.fford.and the economy they represent in the saving of Roar space. Thirty_lwo couches mounted on the Monlgomery Iron Display Couch Trucks occupy the same Roar space as twelve dis. played in the usual manner. Write for clllalogue giving full descrip-tion and price in the differenl finishes. to-gether with illustrations demomtraling the use of the Giani Short Rail Bed F aslener lof Iron Beds. Manufactured by Ihe R. J. Montl!Omery MEII. Co. PATENTHIiS Silver Creek, New York, U. S. A. MICHIGAN ARTISAN I Hafner Furniture Com IanyI I , ESTABLISHED 1873. , 2620 Dearborn St., CHICAGO lI II , III!,I ,II ~------_. , Couches, Box Couches, Adjustable ounges, Davenp rts, Bed Dave port~, Leather Crairs, and Rockers No. 3106 Couch-Size, 76 inc.hes long and 30 inches wide. A luxurious couch with a graceful gondola shapt!. The wide frame is elegantly decorated with rococo mould~ in~ and carved ornamellts. Has heavy winged clawfoot legs. Frame is made of kiln dried hardwood lumber beautifully finished in American golden grained quarter sawed oak. The upholstering is of the small diamond tufted style with deep snake rulfl.es on the sides.. The filling ia of tow with hair top. Hafner warranted steel spring coo· struction having 28 springs in the seat and 9 in the head. Heavy white canvas duck bottom. Shipped K. D. legs 01:1 and weighs about 125 lbs. Samples shown Manufacturers" Furn-ilure Ilxchange,War.a.~ Ave. and 14th St., Chicallo. I ____________ I _----.... formed of tradil1g" dt your store Iflyou wlll give them "i chance they will he glad to buy othCl~goods as well And the, wider r<l\lg-e of yon I" customers' W IItS yOll can serve, the mOTe goods you '~lll sell The only safe rule IS Buy of c eh aruc1e the smallest <jl1<lJltity that will enable you to tak proper Cafe of your t,,,de. t The roadman lTIay not like to see Oll chang;e to the buy-small- and-often plan and he may raise 11is eyebrowswhel1 you order a d02('n where you llsed to huy six dozen, But when he sees you mean business, be sure. lre wi~l be glad to take your order for one dozen, and at a rl~ht pnce. If the panic of 1907-1008 forced Of ~1e)pedyou to get rid of overstocks so you have a clean stock today, it may prove the best friend you evet had. Price, No. 1 Leather. $31. Straight From the Shoulder. In the course of the year, in person and by Jetter, <:1 great many re.tailmerchants who atc not satisfied ,vith the condi-tion of their business tell us their-troubles, says t[1(: Butler Drummer. In nearly every instance when exposed, it is the same old thing: portion to sales. For many years we have said that over-buying is the cause of most of the ills that afflict a, mercantile business. :Most retailers agreed with us ill theory, hut disagreed in practice. In de6ancc of their own best judgment, they continued to place a,dvancc orders and to buy in qUantities. The late unpleasantness forced a goood many thousand merchants to realize that through habitual over-buying they had crossed the danger line, Vv' e firmly believe the average retail stock could he "boiled" a quarter or a. third with no injury to sales and with the best possible effect on the health of the business. Too many merchants carry three stocks, one on the shelves, one upstairs and OIlC in the warehoosc. It is the old question of siluple profJt versus compound profIt. \Vhell yOU buy three months' supply of an article yOli in-vest fonr times ai-;much as yOLl need do for a, three wc.eks' supply. For tl1<: same ineRtment you could buy a thrr::e 'Neeks' .~t{)ck of each of fout articlcs and tlJcreby multiply your sales withont increasing investment. Vie cannot say too often or too earnestly that snrpluR stock does not help sak~ ill the slightest. The money tied up in o\'erstoeks wonld enable you to add departments you do not no,,\, handle, to increase YOllrpresent li"nes, <tnd would provide the room to take care of the new goods, The best asset you have is the habit your customers have the root of thc trouble is Too many goods in pro- A Bride's Courage Rewarded. At Denver on September 26, T. n tIhe presence of severa I thousand people at Coliseum Hall, ,,~hi1e the labor fair was in ,progress, ),..fiss ])/larg-aret Parks p~omised to love, honor and cherish-not obey-Clarence. Cok, and received for her courage furniture for a house. r: \Vhen 'a committee of the state Ie (:rat;on offered to give the young couple furniture for their ew home jf they would consent to a public wedding at the C liseum, both agreed in-stantly. But when the time fOT tl~e event drew llear' the bridegroom's courage failed. He l~ad not anticipated that there would be such a crowd of specrators-and-and-and-.-- But tIle bride bad. the courage of two and for~two~ "I'm going through with it," she said, '(because I have promised." That left nothing for Mr. Cox to do hut follow' tllC lead jf he wanted the bri.de, and he did. To the strains of the ·'...e.dding- march the- two asc"ended' th(" platform while the crowd at the' fair gathered a,rmmd. 33 I :VIICHIGAK ARTISAN ~-------------------------------------.. .~Moon Desk Co. MUSKEGON. MICH MANUFACTURERS OF OFFICE DESKS FOR ALL PURPOSES t~------•.---_.. ,.I Conducting a "Retail Store. To start with, 1 am going t/l be frank to say that r woulfl probably make some mistakes if 1 were confronted with the problem of conducting a retail store. But-I would not make a great many mistakes that are made every day hy h1111- <!reels of mer.chants, a great many of whom succeed in spite of them, says B-erton Elliott in Reta.iler. I do not possess an expert knowledge of aH goods, hut I clo know business and human nature pretty well. [would surround myself with the best clerks that I could find all(l hire-and 1, myself, would learn the details of the business just as rapidly as [ CQuld. First, I would take my place of business, and regardless of its appearance, ar~d no matter how shabbily it looked. [ would "fix it up" il~side. I v.'ould try to make it noticeably different in some respect from other stores in the town. I might finish the woodwork in mission effect-D[ paint the entire inside in light, pleasingeffec:ts, a light gray perhaps, for the side w~d!s, cnntrasting it with a different shade for the ceiling-T might set some palms about the floor-or have two or three large, comfortable looking chairs setting in the frout part of the store with a telephone on the st.and-nearby- or whatever seemed to be most practicable, that would leave an impression-a pleasing and favorable im])Tc~- sion-on visitors, because of being different from the nsual arra.ngement of a store. But whate'.!ei other things I did, 1 would have eve'ything spick and span, neat and clean, a bright, cheerful, ll1.viting looking place to trade in. I would let in just as much dayhghtas possible. In summer time 1 would let in plenty of fresh air, and would keep the ventila-tion good a.ll the time. A store interior that is attrae-tive and neat not only makes a better impression on cnstomers, but in-vitesa second call as well. People apprecIate a: well kept store, even more than is generally realized and like to trade there. Then I would take the outside of the building and brighten it up. I would paint it some pronounced color-a brilliant red or a bright orange, perhaps"'"""-'-sthoat it would stand out l1:ke a "sore thumb." The "brightest spot in town" I would make my store, both 'inside allCl outside. People would be sure to see it, to remember it, and to talk about it. I would have the window glass as large as possible. It always pays to have one pane of glass instead of two, 00 matter if the cOSt is considerably more, because it not only presents a more at~ tractive and substa.ntial appearance to the store, but greatly impr"ov'escthe looks of window displays. It also pays to use the bcst.'qttaJity -of glass, as a poor ·qualhy ""ill obscure and I,, II ,I!III II ----------------------_-: No .,1,8:1. distort the goods shown in the windov·,:. 1 would not have the front of the store cluttered up with a lot of miscellaneou'> signs stuck up in hit-or-miss fashion, but would have lIly name and l;msiness neatly lettered in gold leaf on the window and on the door. Before 1 diel this r would observe the other windows in town and notice what styles of lettering were simple and easily read and stood out strong and distinctive in character. I would Insist that the sign painter use the S"Ltll(' style of fetter for my Sigll. T would also see that the side-walk in front of my store was kept perfectly clean from the frollt of the building clear down to the gutter. Not only would I see that they were scrupulously dean, but T would neycr permit" baskets or stands of goods to be displayed out on the sidewalk. This always looks cheap, and unless one is in 'the second hand business or running a p'Lwn shop, the reputation of the "cheap JOlll'I," who sacrifices everything to price, is not what you are a.fter. Tht"s dOlle, 1 would give my particular attelition to the goods I handle.d. [would sell only g-O()<!, honest merchan-dise. I would take no chances on injuring my reputatlon and ,Standing in the community by selling goods that ·were not known to be of highest standard quality. Tn the words of Emerson: T~Ie man who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has an enemy will find him everywhere." This is particularly significant in merchandising. NQ one can profit by this bit of philosophy better than the man who has something to sell. If a customer is not entirely pleased and satisfied with any purchase there is no end to the damage he may do. You find him everywhere, on the street, at li:hurch, at the club, telling neighbors, friends, anybody he happens to meet. that things you sell cannot be depended upon. )..lanuracturers whose good are not of recognized standard value-whose chief claim for the dealer's cOllsidenltion is the low price of their goods~are not so careful to guard the repu-tation of their product. They have- no varticularincentive. Tn fad, they generally make the quality of their goods fit the price they ask, instead of making the very best goods it i's possible to produce, a.nd then selling them for what they arc worth. I would not have goods of this kind in my store. l\Ierchants are safeguarded in dealings with their customers .. '1,\'\10 handle well known, wen advertised goods of estabHshed reputation. -------------------------- - 2\UCHIGAN ARTISAN 35 ,..----------------------------_._-------- ,I II ,,t I I III ,I tt II I,, ,,,I ST CHAS. A. FISHER & CO., 1319 Michigan Ave_. Chicago. WKITE FOR BOOKLET AND PROPOSITION Warehouses: LOUIS, MO. KANSAS dTY. MO PEORIA. ILL. LINCOLN, ILL . MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. CHICAGO. ILL. .._---------------------_. UNIFORM BILL OF LADING. New Document Will Go Into Effect Throughout the Country on November 1, Upon lhe J"t'commendatiol1 uf the Interstate Comlllerce Commissioll, ,,,,hie\) was rna{te after public hearing upon the matter. at ,·vhich ;t11 interests were afforded an opportunity to he heard, the carriers \v;l1. on Xovcmhcr J, 190R. adopt a new u\liform hill of lading con~billed ''\lith a new shipping order. Tbis co
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348. Transcription of Robert Loomis Diary, 1882

Notes:: Robert Loomis writes of purchasing property, a city election, and attending meetings.
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349. Transcription of Robert Loomis Diary, 1886

Notes:: In his diary, Robert Loomis records his travels in Michigan while working as a supervisor. He also briefly writes about labor troubles in the country and a riot in Chicago.
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350. Weekly Artisan; 1909-09-18

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The most con.. the cost of a fuming cham.. vincing evidence of the per.. ber and the time required feet working qualities of this in fuming by the old pro- stain will be manifest in a cess. Unlike the Fuming single trial. Write us for a process good results can be sample. THE MARIETTA PAINT & COLOR CO., Marietta, O. THE MARIETTA PAINT & COLOR CO" Marietta, O. ... _. .. ,...------------------ -----------------...,. III• I II II I ~------------------_.--------------------------~ Ill" ~~=~~~~-"1~I WRITE FOR PRICES AND DISCOUNT I ...... Ba -- ••••••••••• - ... ,.- •• •• __ --- - •• • ••••••• '1 I -SEE t I West Michigan Machine & Tool Co., Ltd. I 1 CRAND RAPIDS, MICH. I I for U1GH GRADE PUNCHES and DIES '" ~ •• _ .. ••• T" •••• _ ••• _ ...... 10uis babn DESIGNS AND DETAILS OF FURNITURE 154 LlVlngston St. GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN Citizens' Telephone 1702. --------~~-~~~ 2 WEEKLY ARTISAN Grand Rapids Benches Are Best BElTER MATERIAL---BETTER CONSTRUCTION---BETTER WORKMANSHIP There are several reasons why you should use the "Grand Rapids Benches. " They are built to stand hard usuage. They won't warp or split, are built of well seasoned Mich-igan hard maple. Write for catalog showing full line. GRAND RAPIDS HAND SCREW CO. 918 Jefferson Avenue Grand Rapids, Mich. Bntlsh Representatives Ohver Machme Co , Ltd., 20 I Deansgate. Manchester, England. =======--===-~==-= - -- - -=----- Np FILLER I' . - u~" ~ I"'· ~ If The PILLER that FILLS. The L. Mac. E. FiJ/ers are noted tor their Uniformity. They work properly, packing well under the pad. They dry hard over night They will not Shrink as we use a water floated Silex. WE CAN MATCH ANYTHING. The lawfence-McFadden Company PHILADELPHIA, P A. WEEKLY ARTISAN r ..... .. , .. --.-----------------.---- n. . ---------------- • i :THE BIG WHITE SHOP I • • aa. • . __ •• ____________. a. a_a... •.. •• ..I We Furnish Every Article of Printing i Needed by Business Men. II I WHITEl~~~~!I!ic::.iS£MANPY I Grand Rapids, Mich. ~-- -------. ~------------------- -1 I THE BIG WHITE SHOP I ~ -------------------- -_ .. _.P.· - --------------. ..----- .•. --~ 3 II II1 II II 4 ._-----------------------~ WEEKLY ARTISAN ...-----~------_.-- -~-~--~_.---.------_. __.---_._-----_.._---------------., I. THE LUCE LINE Many New Patterns In Dining Room and Bedroom Furniture for the Fall Season. Show Rooms at Factory, Grand Rapids lu(e furniture Co. I~------------------------- --------------------------------- .____._1 ---~._-_.-- -- ~- ._-----_._--- -- -----_._-_. _. -- --------_. _. -- _..-------------- ----- .... f LUCE~REDMOND CHAIR CO., Ltd. BIG RAPIDS, MICHIGAN MANUFACTURERS OF HIGH GRADE OFFICE CHAIRS, DINING CHAIRS Reception Chairs and Rockers, Slippers Rockers, Colonial Parlor Suites, Desk and Dressing Chairs I IIII Ii ~-~------------------------------------------------------------------------------------_ .._-~ In Dark and Tuna Mahogany, Buch, Blrd\.eye Maple, OlJartered Oak and Circasslan Walnut You will find our Exhibit on the Fourth Floor, East Section, Manufacturers' BUlldmg,North Ionia St., Grand Rapids. GRAND RAPIf' .. PUBLIC LIBR} ~y 30th Year-No. 12 GRAND RAPIDS~ MICH.~SEPTEMBER 18,1909 Issued Weekly AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN METHODS Mr. Tuthill Tells of What He Saw and Learned on a Trip Tbrongb Italy, France, Germany and Great Britian. \!1ctor 1\1 Tutlllll of the firm of Baldwm, Tuth111 & Bolt.on the well knO\~n ma 1Ufactu1 e1s of saw-fitt111g and fi1ll1g room machmer}, (rrand Rap1ds, has returned from a SlX weeks' tnp 111Europe He ~ ent with a pal ty of to lnsts 'chaperoned" by Rev A \\ \t\'lshart, pastor of the Fountam Street Baptist Lhm ch of tIll', ut} and hke all othe1 members of the party he de-clare" that It was a m'1st plea"1l1g an 1 enjoyable vacation tnp ).Ir Tuth1ll talks of hlS expenences and observatlOns i 1 such a deCldedl} mtel estll1gly and entertall1lng manner that It 1S 1m-possible to ~ nte an mtervlew ~~Ith h1m 111such a way as to glVe the reader a full apprec1atlOn of ll1S WOlds HIS des~nptlOn;, of the people, the sce,1ery, the c1tIes, the bUlld111g" and partlcularly the manufactullng lllst1tutlOns, WIth the1r metnods, management, I tc, are more 111tere"tll1g and more 1l1struct1ve th:m those gIVen by professlOnal lecturers because he loooked at th111gs fr0111 a practical, rather than from an aesthetIC, a [{)mant1L or a theoret1- cal "tandpomt "1he great dJfi:erence between Amencan and European peo-ple and methods 1" Just the drfference bet~~een extenslVe and 111- tenslve," saId .:\11 Tuth1ll The Europeans do not tr} to do ,,0 much but they tr} to do everythll1~ well-as It "hould be done To them a large output 1__not of ,,0 much 1mportance as the quaht} 01 chara<::ter of the1r product That IS espeClally true of the1r factones, tllOugh thclr fa1l111ng h done on the same pnn- Clpal-1t IS ll1tenslve i\Ia 1} of them a1e qmte progresSlVe, eager to p1ck up new Ideas and w1lhng to adopt Improved mach- 111e1y when C0nvlllced that It ~~III be to their advantage to do so They are hard to com I lce, however, and many .of them are usmg the same method" that they used fifty } ears ago There I;' some preJud1ce agamst ncw or Improved machl,lery, espeCially that of Amencan make, but that IS due to expenence WIth poor samples of Amen<::an p10ducts or comes from foremen, or unskJll-ed men who fear that the mt10ductlOn of Ame11can machmes and methods mIght throw them out of w01k or reduce theIr Vvages, which a1e low 10remen and filel'i-they call the filer" 'saw doctors'-get 8 sln1l1l1gs, $2 pel da} The 'doctors' are experts at fittll1g fine "aws, but the} are slow "European manufacturers hke large, heavy nglCl mach1l1es and 1t IS lhfficult to conV1l1ce them that the hghter Amen'.:an mach1l1e" \\ III do the1r WOlk That accounts for an order we recelVed a few} ear" ago that we could not understand. Afte1 can espond1l1g \'lth plOspectlve buyer;, for some time we found ont \\ hat they wanted the machme to do and were surprised to rece1ve an order for a machll1e mOle than tWI~e as large as the one we had expected to send them and costmg nearly three tunes as much The} eVIdently doubted our Judgement and lack-ed faIth m our guarantee and, m order to make sure that the mach1l1e would ansvver theIr purpose, ordered the larger and more expensive pattern "\Ve have ,ent many machmes to Europe, but our export 11ade 1S not entlrel} ,atIsfactory because It IS "pread over a Wide terntory I th111k I learned what has pi evented the more rap1d grO\\th of our bus111ess and w111try to remove the hat'c!lcap It 1" somethmg that handIcaps neady all who a1e trY1l1g to in'.:rease their export tl ade It IS SImply lack of mformatlOn for thGse to whom the} want to sell. Our catalogues are pnnted 111Eng-ldl They should be pnnte(l m I rench, German .or m the langu-age of the country 1,1 whIch they are to be ch"tnbuted Few of the people of Europe, except 111Great Bntal11 can read Engllsh, and 1t IS (llfficult to find rellable 1I1terpreters "Then \\ e should gwe more defimte mformatlOn about pnces l\Ianv catalogues quote pnces 'boxed or f o. b Grand RapIds' ~ow as a general rule the European doe" not know whether G1and RapIds IS 100 or <)00 mIles from N ew York He does not know and ha" no means of findmg out what the fI eIght charges WIll be and WIll not take chances on be111g'stuck'-they are care-ful over there Some expOl ters quote pnces 'f 0 b New York,' but that does not help the forelg,l purchaser much, because there are other charges, beSIdes the .ocean freIght, that must be pald. FIrst there are what Vve call export charge". They are not export dutIes, but somebody mu"t see to the transfer from the cars to the ShIp and see that the goods al e properly bIlled and such ser- V1ce" must be pa1d for Then the Import dutIes must be paId \vhen the goods leach the other slde and the tanff laws over there are even more comphcated than they are here and} ou know that 1t reqUlres an eApertto mterpret our tanff schedules, so you that It reqUlres an eApert to l11terpret our tan ffschedules. so you can see that tne buyer m I"ranee or Germany, for l11stance can not eve,1 make a good guess on what the goods WIll cost when clellverecl at hIS home The catalofiues and pnce lIsts should tell the prospectIve buyer Just what the goods should cost h1m laId clown at hiS door, or dehvered at some nearby pOl11t, w1th all fre1ght, cartage, eAport and 1mport charges paId It wIll reqUlre tIme and a great deal of correspondence and mvestIgatlOn to pre-pare a catalogue on thIS plan for use m drfferent countries, but -------------------------------~- G WEEKLY ARTISAN I~---------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------_.~ I SEND FOR A FINISHED PANEL OF CIRCASSIAN WALNUT STAIN Weare the only firm preparIng a stain of this character, which is used on gum wood, preserving the natural beauty of the grain and producing the tone of the genuine Circassian Walnut in splendid imitation. Send for a sample No. 2765 and full directions. The Ad-el-ite People I.-----------_._-------------- - - .-- ---- ------ when It IS done the greate~t handIcap on am e"pOl t trade \\ 111 have been ren10ved "I vIsIted several sa\\ -mIlls and \\ c\~ l1l1Lh 1I1telesteel 111 thell operatIOn, parttcularly In Glasgo\\ and London The\ do not use band saws over there ~o exten~l\ ell a" \\ e do here J hell logs or tImber 15 nearly all1l11ported and theIr ~leatest care h to make as httle saw dust as jYlsslble Thell ann h to hay t a thm kerf and leave a smooth SUItace so that httle \\ III be \\ a'ted 111 planer shav111gs TheIr sa \\ 111111 nMch111el\ 1~ hec\\ \ al d ,tl on~ I found a cIrcular veneel saw 13 feet 111 chameter Hele to\11 ()1 five feet IS consldereel a large sIze In the ~a111e11111\\1as a \ eneCl kl11fe t\\ elve feet long and the} elo fine \\ ark \\ Ith both the sa\\ dnd the kl11fe. "In saWl11glogs the} n~e a sa\\ hke the old uj111ght th \t \\ ,\~ common here fifty 01 slxt) yec\rs ago, anI) It runs honzontdlh 111stead of perpendlcu1ar1} The log I" clutched a 1 a heavy cal-nage, and the feeel 15 very slow The first boal d IS taken from the top sIde of the lo~ and then Imtead at 1110\111gthe loe; the saw 15 dropped clo\\ n m po"ltlOn to take off the ne"t boal el 1'he capac1ty of "u(:h ,1 saw can not be mal ethan c\ few tho lsand feet per clay but they seem to be sdtt"fied \\ Ith them The} sa\\ 01 re-saw deal~, 1mportecl from Canada 1\ on\ a\ and S\\ eden, \\ Ith what they call frame ~a\\ s-hke otll gang sa\\ ,-and the) use from SIX to twenty-sIx saws 111 a frame "Usually when an ], ngh,h manufadurel bu) ~ lumber he does not get It b} boarel mea~me but by log measme He b11\~ the log whIch I" tc\ken mto the 111111and sa \\ ed for hl111 Then the boards are laId together 111 the ~a111eorder 111 \\ Inch the) came from the saw anel bounel \\lth lope, \\Ire 01 chall, hefore beme; hauled a\\a) or shIpped 'Then metholl of fittln~ sa\\ s both 111 Fne;Lll1d and on the contInent chffer~ from oms mamlv 111 settmg The} use tht ~pring set r c\rely USl1le; the S\\ age and fe\\ of them use ,a"~ ...... -_ ... "tJ ctchel' '1\ c have sent consIderable of our machmery to I rench manuLlcturers ,mel have been negotIatIng WIth several othel' I had \\ ntten one concern m Pans that I expected to c,1I1on them ,\hont the mIddle of Augllst, and they were 'laymg tor me \ \ hen I arnved they had an anged three pagec of t\ pe\\ ntten que~tlO,ls on all :"orts of subjects for me to answer and It 1 eclulred se\ er ,11haUl s to do ~o They, as are all others, ale la\ mahle to the mtrocluctlOll of Amencan mach111ery and l11uhoe!-' but ltt::e the l11c\nft am l\ItSSOUll, they want to be shown \t London m company \\ Ith John ;\1owat, of the Grand RdIJlr1" ChaIr Company I vI~lted the glcat Lebus furmture fac-t01) \\hlch IS known a~ the largest 111the world It 15 certainly a £;1e,\t ll1"tltutlOn :;\Ir "'lowat not only aclt11ltted that It wa~ the lal e;eq fur11ltnre plant 111 the world, but declared that it was h\ e tll1le, a, Jal L;e a, dn} hll111ture plant 111Amenca They are 110\\ bm1cltng ,111 ac!clttlOn that b as large or larger than our larg-est furl11tnre Llt101les IIe ma) be able to gIve the Europeans much valuable in-f01matlOl1 but \,ye do n0t 'know It all' We can learn much from them and \\ e make d great 111l~take when we form our 1deas of the general charactel and capablhttes of the people over there fl0m the appeal ance and actIOns of the foreIgners who come here seekL1L; comlllon 1,11101 The European~ elo not rush th111g:oa" \\ e do 1be \ 'bec\t us ,\ mde' 111 means for safety and conven-lenee~ f01 traveler, can e;lve u~ pOlnters on how to enJoy hfe and tho"e of rlance (rermam and Ita!) can '5how 11S'how to ~oh e the h'luol clue,tlOn" Some 111enal e expert WIth theIr hands and some WIth their feet, ~0111eare knockers and S0111eare kIckers Some men are not satisfied to have their money talk unless it 11seS a megaphone WEEKLY ARTISAN ,~----------------------------------------------------- ._~~--------------_.-._._._-----_.., 7 We w111have the nght styles at the nght pnces and made to give satisfactIOn. Don't miss c0ming to see the line, it will pay you. I BEST LINEo~:sDAVENNPORT BEDS II IN THE MARKET !IIl\II I I I I I• ,II• II I,I IIII II IIII I• I I f It III I I II• III II ---_ .,. Parlor Furniture Show Rooms 35 to 41 N. Capital Ave. Ask for catalogues. Couches Leather Rockers t THOS. MADDEN, SON & CO., Indianapolis,Ind. ~._---------------------------------------._------------------------------------------- Chicago Manufacturers' Annual Meeting. Chicago, Sept 15- The annual meetmg of the Chlcae;o I,t1f-mture Il.Ianutactl1lers' ASSOelatlOll was held at the ChICago -\thletIc ASSoclatlOn rooms, Tuesday mght, September 11 At b 30 the banquet began, Illce- Pre~ldent \V B Jackson preslclmg 1,allOWIng the chsposal of the menu came the bUt>mess haUl anJ the followll1g offi_ers were elected for the ensUIng yeal Presldent N els Johnson, vice presIdent, Lams Schram, treasurer F J Seng, seci etary, P D. FrancIs Dlrectors-C H HIll, Emory ~ onnast, L Z. Valentme. F A.. Po" ers and GeOl ge L Peterson, J r A feature of the meetm~ VI< as an address by George C:r Fowers of the emon \;Vlre Mattress Company, \\ho was appoInt-ed by the I, urmtUl e :!\IanufactUl er,,' AssocIatIOn as a member of the Tlade ExtenSIOn CommIttee sent out by the Cllllago ASQo-elatIOn of Commerce, descnbmg the tnp made by the committee through the northwest m a most mtel estmg manner and the sentlment prevalhng 111 that sectlO,1 m fa, or of Ullcago as d furmture market. :!\Ianager C J Kmc1el of the Kmdel Bed Company left last Saturday for i\ew Yark oty to spend tv\ 0 weeks C L Barron, sales manager of the Oberbeck Blathers 1\1an-ufactunng Company, IS spel1d1l1g several weeks on a busmess tnp thlOugh Oklahoma and the southwest Feather Beds Are Not Extinct. "Hello, what's thIs'" exclaImed a ~ew York auctIoneer s nevv as"lstant "vVhy. I'll be blessed If It Isn't a feather-bed" "Sure It's a featherbed," "aIel the auctIOneer. "There are two more back there 111 the storeroom Oh, yes, I know what you al e g01l1g to say-you thought featherbeds were out of date, extmct \Vell, maybe they are 111 most houses, but for all that we handle a few of them Most of them have been bro,1ght here, I presume, by country people and foreIgners, who t>tlll chng to the feather habIt After a short reSIdence 111 NeV\ Y::lrk everyone except the hopeless old-fashIOned transfers hb aL leglance to the mattress, and so the featherbeds finally w1l1c1,Ill 11 the auctIOn room" Some people belIeve only half they hear, and others bel1evc tWIce as much. ---~._---_._-_.~---------- ---------- .. r We Manufacture tlte Lar!!est Line of (I III III I1 II 1 II III II ...---- - - _ ..--- -----~--------- fOlD,"~ ("AID~ In the Dnlled States, SUitable for Sun day Schools, Halls, Steam-ers and all public resorts We also manufacture Brass Tnmmed I r 0 n Beds, Spnng Beds, Cots and Cnbs m a large vanety Send for Calalogue and PrtCeJ to KAUFFMAN MFG. CO. ASHLAND, OHIO ..._-_._--_ .... 8 WEEKLY ARTISAN --'------------.._-------_ ...- .._-_.. ---._-----,------------------- --- ----------.., Mahogany Circassian Walnut Quartered Oak Walnut Curly Maple Bird's Eye Maple Basswood Ash Elm Birch Maple Poplar Gum Oak II• •III ---------------------------------_ .. -------- ----~ PREPARING FOR WINTER SEASON. New Exhibititors in Chicago's "Big" Building and Othe1'sChanging Their Locations. ChIcago, Sept If-The \lanufacturers E:xlubltlOn TImId mg, 131c) :VlJchlgan avenue WIll have a number of ne\\ and pr0111- ment hnes e:xhlbltmg m the' BIg Jhllldmg tne com1l1g Janual \ Secretary (,e01 ge \ V Jdckson ~tate~ they \\ 111 mducle the to11O\\ 1l1g The l\Ioclern Pallor rurmture lompam ot hh-l Ea~t 1)1\ h- Foreign and Domestic Woods. Rotary, Sliced, Sawed. floO! ThIS lme \\ d f01merly exhIbIted on the fifth floor ""chIa111Brothers, of ChlCdgO have moved from, the SIxth to the ,ccond floor, WIth then popular lme of musIc cabmets The \\ esteln llctm e II dme Company, \\ ho have been e:xhlbltm;:[ WIth :-'chram Blothers on the ~Ixth flool WIll also be WIth them m the ne\\ ~pace on the second floor The LenOIr Chalf Company of LeaOlr '\ l tOl1l1erly on the hrst floor WIll hereafter be tound on the fourth floor ancl WIth them \\ III be the Moore Fur-llltl11e lompam a).,o of LenOlr Tms compan) manufactures la~e g{)od~ and \\ III dl"pla) thc lme tor the first time 111 Chlca!S0. Made by Holland F urmlure Co, Grand Rapids, Mlch ion street, ChIcago, iN 111 exhIbIt theIr splenchd hne for the hrst time m ChIcago and have taken a large block of space on the fi fth floor The Pltbburg- HIckson C0111pan) of Butler 1'a, \\ III here-after be found m the l.nG bmlchng havmg secmed a \el\ large and fine space on the seventh floor The ::\1111\ al1kee \Ietal LIed Compan}, formerly knmvn as the \V estern 'Ietal Becl Company of MIlwaukee have retm ned to ChIcago to e'chlblt dnel lM\ e ~e-cured permanent space on the hfth floor The [I a\ el ~e llt\ (1\1Ich.) ChaIr Camp allY have s,"cured space amI \\ III ]x found permanently located on the fourth uoor ThIS compam tormerh dl~played on the fir~t flool The Kno'Cvllle Table ancl lhan C0111 pany of Knoxsvllle. Tenn, have removed ft am the fir~t flOO1 and WIll be foune! m Ja'lUal) on the second flool whel e they ha\ e senlree! double the amount at space the\ had hE.retofore i\rthur Palmer, WIth the popular A 1.. Palmer Furmture 'Ilal111 factunng C0111pan) s lme WIll be found m Januar) on the second The .sho\Ver~ BlOth-oL Company of Dloommgton, bd, WIll here-after be permanentlv located on the first floor havmg taken thE. space formerly occupIed by the Kno:xvIlle Table and ChaIr Com-panv ancl the Ro) al \lantle anel FI"ture Campa 1y, both of Roc\-- tOIdIll, ha \ e renewed then" leases and \'olIllbe found as here-tofore on the fifth and SIxth fioor~ I espectlVel} The Schult7 & Hersch Camp an) , manufacturers of hlg!l e;rae!e becldll1g, feathers, feathel pIllows, clowns, etc. upholstered bo:x ~pn 19S and CUlled haIr mattresses are hdvmg a very satI~- fadln \ \olume of bUSll1e~s tll1S year PreSIdent 1'redellck .schultz say s then tracle b commg from all sectIOns [he ll110lJ \\ Ire 'IIattress Company recently sent out 10,000 of tnelr fall catalogues PreslClent l' ~ Power~ repol ts the \ olume of bU~L1eS~ smce Jannar} as hlghl} satlsfactor) At present the company has all the busmess they can handle Their tI dele LOmes fl0m nearly all sectIOns of the emtee! States WEEKLY ARTISAN Praised and Criticised. A correspondent of the Trade Review, writing from Bruns-wIck, Ga , alternately praISe'i and roa'its Grand RapIds as follows "Grand RapIds 1'1 a beautiful and clean city. One finds plOSperIty everywhere, and, above all, the mO'it notIceable thl11g 1'1 the way the people cale for thell homes The backyard is kept a" neat as the one 111flont, and c1eanl111ess IS the order of the day. There are "everal modern hotels. and the Pantlind is the queen of them all It IS up to date 111every respect, and the fGlce of courteous attendants makes one feel thoroughly at home Grand RapId" 1" generally known a" headquarters for fine furni-ture, and one would take It for granted that the people of that CIty, and the manufacturers m partIc1uar, would make a deteI-ml11ed effort to susta111 thdt 1eputatlOn, and would use every means to add to theIr laurels f\OW fer a httle fnendly roast along tl1lS hne (I arrIved m Grand Rapllls on Saturday night, antI soon \\ a" comfortably quartered at t 1e Pantll11d I faIlei. to find a notIce of any k111d,eIther m the hotel or new'lpapers, that there was a furmtUl e .,how on, or that thel e eXIsted 11 Grand RapId" a place where a furmture buyer mIght receIve a fnendly greetmg and be made to feel at home Of cour"e, I spent one of the longe.,t and most tllesome Sundays at my hfe 111Grand RapIds On :\Ionclay 1\\ent to three furmture e.xchanges, and ll1 all faIled to find a man who had a \\ ekome for me. but I was simply SIzed up lIke a ma,1 who g Jes m a gambll11g rcom, awl the mhabItants figured out Ho\\ muc'1 I "I would hke to kno\,; how Illuch th' sal s amount to which are made dUrIng tllese fe\\ weeks a 1el 1 am mcllllecl to thll1k that the grand total could be materially increased by gIving the viSItors the glad hand dfter they have tI aveled hundreds and "ome of 11" thou'dnds of m11e" to 'Ce the markets of Granel RapIds "Get busy, gentlemen, anel let us get acquainted the next tIme we meet m 'Grand Rapids.' " The cOlfe"ponelent was aitogetnel too modest and not ac-quall1ted WIth the wayS of the market. If he had sent an ad-vance carel to the Luce Furl1lt 11 e Company he w)uld have been met at the depot by an auto 10bIle It after his arrival at the Hotel Panthnc1, he had called up WI ham vViddlcomb, he might have been mVlted to attend mormng "er \ ice at the Presbyterian Lhurch, follO\,;ed by an excellent dl11nel If he hdd notified W. II Jone-o of hb dlnval a "cat ll1 the gland ,td 1d for the ball game would have been pro\ Id~(1. The Arti"an might write columns of the entertaInment that would have been provided for the sen::>ItIve, neglected Gem glan. 1f the manufacturers and 'ielhng agenb had but known of hIS presence According to his state-ment he VISIted three of the exposltlOn bmld111g" dnd dId not find the glad hand But few of the Gland Rapids hnes were shown III the e.xpo'ItlOn bmlchngs Had the viSItor m:1de himself known at the factol") \\clrelooms he waul 1 have I13.dnothing to complain of Don't let your past expenence discourage you, Mr.Georgian, bnt take time 111the futnre to learn the Grand Rapids way of dOll1g thmgs Furniture Fhes. The Pease Furlllture Company of Texico, N M, lost $-1,00 or $5.000 111a fire that caused a total loss of $60,000 on Septem-ber ;) Crosby, Patterson & Co, of St Johns. N Mex, lost theil warehouse and content'i by fire on September 7 Loss, $8,000, w1thout 111surance The hardware and furlllture departments of the Ferguson HObtman MercantIle Company of Poplar Bluff, Mo, were total 1y de'itroyed by fire on September 7. . ---_.-. - ~I .,-. ------------- --------------_._---_ . It I THE FORD & JOHNSON CO. \ CHICAGO This is one of our popular Hotel chairs, Our chairs are found in all the leading Hotels in the country. The line includes a very complete assort-ment of chairs, rock-ers and settees of all grades; Dining Room furniture, Reed and Rat tan furniture, Special Order furni-ture, etc. A complete hne of sam-ple. are dIsplayed in The Ford 8 Johnson BUlldml!. 1433.37 Wabash Ave., in-cludml! a speCial display of Hotel Furnlture. \I~-_.-- Ii - _ ...... All furmturc dealers are cordially invited to visit our bttilding. ------------------~ 9 .....~ ... _-~ delOlh e,lc!ence 111 ~upport of the object of thl~ a~~oclatlOn It h rathel om <1e'ille to state pla1l11) dnd blleH) the pl1l1Clp,ll L1Ch pel tll1ent thel eto ,ubmlt a few Illu'itratlve cOll1pan'ion'i and to 111\He the I epl e~entatlves of the carners present to offer II Hll'im, or ~ugge~tlOn and to define then poslt1on cleanv dnd conC1~el) that "e ma) ImmedIately proceed to a prop~r ael- Ju, tment of all c1lffelences wIthout prejudIce or mlsuneler'- , tdmhng 10m 111\e~tlgdtlOn at the I ate'i m effect and companson of tlK dl <;Jance'i het\\ een nUl keb "Ill 1I11lnedlately demonstrate to 'OU d' am, 11<l~c1emonstrated to U'i. that we are unduly (lts- II 1111111dteddga1l1st 111 the present rate adJustments' If ctis-tance ma) be accepted a'i an Important fdctor in rate makl11g, (,rand RapId,. b20 11111e'ifrom \' ev. York, 'ihould be a 90 per ccnt p01nt 1I1'itedc1of q(). J a(;kson. 76q mJle" from New York, ,hould be dn '.,~ pel ceut pomt ll1stead of q2 and Lansing, 763 n1lle'i tlOI11 "e\\ \ 01k should be an 87 per cent point 1I1steacl ot \)) ~1l1l11al I eadlu,tmenh, throughout the entire lower pen-lmula \\ auld re"ult tl0111 the acceptance of clJ'itance as a baSIS fO! Idte makmg Chat chstancc h not the onl) fador IS be'it Illustrated by a U)111lldlhon ot 1ate, between p01l1t, \\ Ithm the lentral ~ 'iSOCla-hcm tel ntOl' and pomt, WIthout The pI esent I ate on potatoe, from 1'1aver"e City to Cmcm-natl a clt,tance of apprDxllnatcl) -+')0 11111e,IS 22 cents; the rate on potatoe, tJ 0111::,te, ell', Pomt. \VI'i20nSm to Cmcmnatl, a dls-tatH. e at appro>-llnateh ')30 11l11es.20 cent'i ,mc1 ham \Valworth, \ '\ d c1lstdnce of apploxlmatelv ') j I 11111e'it,he rate to Cmcm-natl I' 18 cent'i ('iee Perkett lore,ponclence ) I he pI e~ent I,lte on pot,ltoe'i from Traver'ie lit) to 1'Itt~bU1g ,l dl"tance of dpploXllnatel) ) I) n1l1e~, I~ 2'~ cenh, the rdte from "t !',m1 to l'lthblll g applOX11llately (100 11l1le'i, l'i 2.) cent'i I IOIlJ the 110 11! and 11) pel cent P01l1ts 111 ]\LlLhlgan the rate" to "e\\ 1 01 k on patotoe~ al e .l;. 3 l/i ane! )P~ ccnh per lOO pounc{.,. tlOm '-,t Paul \flun ,llld Ld lro"'ie, \Vi'i, the rate to \ e\\ 1O!k l'i but ]I cent" l\ct\\een pOInt'> on the WC'it ~hOle of Ldke ::\1tcl1H.\dn,me! "e\\ 1 01 k clt~taILe'i I am;1Jlg het\\ een ()(0 ,mc1 1000 n1l1e~. the cla~~ I,tte~ are ,) il3 )0 1). lO and 'Z,) cent" per 100 POt1I1c[." Bet\\ een Lacltllal. \f Ichl(.\an amI \ e\\ Y'OIk, clt'ita Jce~ appioxi l11atch q)O 1111le~and throu(.\h wlnc h P0111ttl etffiCfrol11 thc we~t "IJOIc of L'lke \ ItChlg,l11. Ltk111g the I,lte~ 1u~t quotcd. '" Olllcl l),j"~ thc cla,,~ latl" ale '.,; ,!. )) ,ll). ); ,111d'!') cellt~ pel 100 pOl1lJ(1" Ill-tIIClII (Il,md 1{,qm]-, dl](1 jllo'\.IIl1,ltell "l!O nl1Ic~. thc cld'>' '!'J ,md '! I cent-, (Tldl1([ r{apld~ I" 100 nllle" 1c~~ ch~ta'1CC flom \C\\ YOlk ,h,l11 Lhlcago amI thc Ilet dlffel llJCe~ I1J the dd"~ I,lte" dl e ,l. ~/'2 2 1'y:; dl](1 1 ccnh pel ]00 pound~ lmcmndtJ. ()hlO. I~ 1Z-! mIlts Ie"" ch~td Jce flam "e\v YOIk th,m LhlLd~o and the net (hfferences 111thc c1,I~" late'i ale 10. e., y; (, -< J /i. + and ,l;h cent" per 100 pound'i 'I he LIIlU11natl- [-L1l111lton 70ne. clt'itance from "c\\ York ,'I'., n111es I" accorded a pelce 1tage of 81, 111::\fI0hlga11. La11'imt:; and Jack~on lil, and iill) 1111le, 110m \ew York, encltne pel-centage, of (),) a,J(Il)'Z The lmc111natl-Hat1111ton 70ne I~ approx-llJdtCll 1,) n111e" ,onth of the dll ect loute between Cll1cag-o ,1Ild "ell 'I 01k ,md T ,In'lng and J ,lck '0 J elle le,~ thdn 100 l1111cs nOlth dnd ,lIC fnllhlII1101C dllCdh Illth111 the gte,lt eh'lI1ud of Cd,t ,t\td \IC,t lIl10ugh trdttrC DISCRIMINATION MADE AGAINST MICHIGAN CaSte'of flU" Shippers' Association as Prt"sented to Representatives of the Railroads at a Recent Conference in Grand Rapids. \t the confu en e held I1J GI and Rapld~ 011 ::"eptembel 1O. bet ween repl esentatlve" of the \hl hlgan ::"hlpper, \s"oClatlOn and ge,Jel al freIght a£;enh of ::\Ill hlg-an I allt l),td" the fol1<)\\111g ~tdtement of concht1On" dnd cOmpall'iOnS pI epc11ed b\ F L r=" mg of the hrm of EwmlS & \Je>..andel tl affic llJdnd~er" \\ a-pi e"entee! b} I{obel t \\ In, m, pre'ildent ot the 'shIpper, ~ "0- clat10n Gentlemen '1 hl'i 01gd 11zdtlon the IIld1H;an '-,hlpper~ ,\" 'iOClatlOn, mc1ttchng 111It'i ll1ember~111p the Board ot 11 aele and the Bus111es~ ~Jen 'i '\ ~'iOllatlO11'iof the plll1upal utle, dnd tC)\\n, of the westeln palt of the 100\el pe11111'inlaat 'III 11lgan. \\a~ perfected and made pelmanent £01 a ~peufic pnrpO'ie and \\ Ith a defil11te object m vIew whlLh we "Ill bneH} dehne prelU111nar) to the real bm111e" of thl'i confelence In the development of the natm ,t! I e~()mce" and the cOI11- mel ce of the 'itate of ::\fIchlgan. thel e IS no 11101 e ImJlOItdnt !ac-tOi than freight tl <tmportdtlOn faclhtle, c!ml lO,t The que-tlOn of fl eIght I ate" mtI ude'i It'ielf upon the (lalh 10l1t111Cot manufacture, pUIcha ~e and ,dIe ,wd ellter, mto e\ en tr,w,dctlOn \ s the merchant 01 the manu tdctm el ot thh ~td te note" the III Cleasecl productIOn dncl con,ul11ptton ot the comnl<)(htle'i ,hdt have theIr Ollgll1 ot theIr de,tll1atlOll \\ Ithln the 'itate and COI11 pdres the progre'>'i I J the dn ectlon ot !:;enel alh Il11plO\ed blhl nes~ conchtlOns WIth the progre", of othel ~tate, he h'h dnd e"peclall) dunng the vel' recent \ ed " Iecog111zed the tact thdt the conchtlon'i snn oundlng height tl all',jJOlLItton ha, e IU11dme I practlcall) unchanged and ~ta'lOnal\ amHlq the IapHI ,md genel,t! 111CeIa'ied development ot the tl affic ot the ,t,lte \\ h, thl" "llOUlcl be the fact l'i <t que~tlOn that lontlnll<llh p1e'ienh Ih-elt to the 'itudent of tl an "POI tatlOn and to the bU'i111C~"111dJ Jl]fll Vldudll) and tII1ol1gh 111'i01~a1l17,lt101h Reelhz111~ that Indl\ Idn,d dtOl t ,lIld dttllltlon lo,dc! not d(, jU,tlLe to a PIOpo~ltlOn of ~uch 11l,lgllltlldc ,h thc tlll~ht 1dtC Cjue"tloll ple"ents the vallOll~ l\o'\ld" of llade ,111dtne 1\\I'lne'" 'lIen" \~'iOClatlOn~ of the \\e"teln palt of thc lemu pellln~\I!d l)f \ltdl1gan have effected thh jJelmanent Olg,l111/dtlOn tl1<lt then 111elgle" l111ght be loncentlatul uJlon ,I caletnl and 0111pletc 111 v('"tWritlon of thc heIght Idte condltH)lJ'i ,Ind thl lbtal111nQ of ~IKh I eadJllqme 1t~ ,1~ the lonehtlon~ 1111(.\ht\1 all ent ,111cl cl-nMnd 1hl'. ~entlc111cn h thc olJject ot tne' \!lchlg,l11 '-,ll1ppll' \ .,.,ouatlOn and thc pUIpo,e of thh (l)ntelcIlCC h to b11cfh ],l\ ]xfolc V011"ome Ic"u1t, ot Ol!l 1m C"lIg,ltlOll to 111to111lalh <11" lll~" \\ Ilh ) Oll the umdltl(Jlh III ~enu ,d and W (Om LV to \ ou ail ,h,m dnce of om dc ~n e and 1 eel(11l1e~,to co-opel,lte \\ Ith \ OU to the Ut1110~t111wlMt \\e hope '\lIlhc a 11lutu,d and ~111Cl1eetlOlt 111 the dneltlOn of ~uch leddlu,t111Lnt dnd IIl1jJIO\e111ent'i a, JJI()1111,111~ ,I 111eJlCta, 01,1ble 11,111~P()J tdtlon conchtton fOl Ih and ,m l11uc,l,ed tldffic fOI thc C0111jJ,lnlC~\on leple~cnt \\ e have becomc f,lIl1Ihar \\1tII the Ollgln dnd opelatlo 1 l)r the ~\ ~te111of I ate nJdkl11g that pI m Hle'i thc ba~l, tal all fl el~ht I,ttcs to hom and \\Ithlll the 100\el penl11,ula ot \fIChl(.\,111 hl"t c"jabh'ihed 111 18~ I and \"111e notl11g leltam change~ amI leac!- l11~tment~ \\ hlch hd' e bel 1 made 'i111CetlLlt tll11e It I" not \\ ho]h dpparellt that 'ill'~h I eadJll"tmenh 11<1e\ J.,.ept ]MCe \\ Ith the 111 u ea"ed populatIOn con'iumptlOn and p10ductlOIl the changc, 111 the clescllptlOn of the tlaffic handled the dl,lnge, 111the route" tl,weled 01 the zencr,t! devcloplle It of the I e"o lIce, ,md COI11- n1LIlC ot thc t(111tOl\ \\e Icple"eIlt [t I' n{lt oUt Intcntloll to ll\lldcll tIll' LCmlul1l(C \Ilth lnl dct,lIlu! ~leltll1l(1l1 (ll glllY,llllC" \o!nltlllloll" "l,lthtlc, 01 pOll \CII YOlk ,1 c11"tdnce of .{j) I,lte, alc 'Z. (,'Z;0 It" .nf~. WEEKLY ARTISAN If the dll ect lllle between U11cago and .0, ew York IS to be accepted as the baslllg lme, It Immeehately becomes eVIdent that terntory lymg equally as far south of the ba~111g lme a~ many Imp01 tmt P0111t~ 111 ~I1chlgan al e north of fthe bdS111g l111e, and at equal or gl eater ellstances flOm ~ ew York, al e now accorded a lO\iVer percentage of the ChlcagJ-Xe\\ YOlk late':> than are the ~IlChlgan pomts and that whatever vallatlOn there 11M) be 1ll the c\en~lty of the traffic IS nnt. proportlOnall) as great a~ IS the vanatlOn m the rdte adjustments By th~ ,ame proce~s of reason111g we arnve at con~Hlcra-tJon of the pI actlcablllt) of the estabhshed Tram- \Ilchlgan routes bdween the east and the great northwe~t, entenng ~1Jchlgan vIa the Toledo, DetrOIt or Port EUI on gateways. travers111g 1he lower penmsula of :;\1xhlgan crossmg Lake 2\llchlgan vIa the car fernes and thence aClos~ WI~consm. a~ compared wIth the establlshed channels of through tl amporta-tlon thdt tr,tverse the terntory south of the chrect hne between Chicago and ~ ew York and whIch are asserted to prOVIde d den ~Ity of traffic that IS favorable to lm\ el rdte adjustments and ac-counts for the chspanty 111the I dtes to and from theIr SUIround-mg zones as compdrecl WIth the I ates to and from the \[Khlgan zones at all equal or le~s ch"tance north ot the basl11g hne an<1 from i'Jew York The congcstlOn of traffic Vld ChIcago has. c\Ullng I ece~ years, re~ultec\ 111 d cllverslOn of ~uch as mIght tJ avel vIa othel 10utes and gateway s DenSIty of traffic \Ivhlle a I eLC)g11lLec\ fac-tor 111 rate makmg IS not entlrel) advantageous beymd ,I degree tlMI overt,lxes the fa~lhtles prov)(led tor the handhng at the tl affic 1hel efore does not edst anel \\ est bound traffi-.: 1110\e Vld If lchlgan to an extent that places Grand RapIds and othel utles and towns repl e~ented by thb orgamzatlOn 111 as c10~e proxl111- It) to a great channel of thlOugh traffic that so 1l10ve~ at the present tune WIll beal c0111pall':>on WIth that mov Illg v la the ell I cet lonte bet\\ een ChIcago and X e\\ YOlk thlrh \ elrs ago \\ hen the pI esent I atc adjustments wel e estahhshecl '-,I11I1Lll C0111pdll'Olh nM) he eal Ileel on 111 Idimtch hIt \\ onld ol1h "el \ e to COn~lll11e tunc a HI rlond thc I"sne \\ e 11 )\\ \\ h'l to cdll attentIOn to the fact that \11c!mian ten It01 V ha~ no com pcn':>,ltlllg adv,ll1tage~ 111 othel dnecLlon" 11k () ..Istll~ ,11- I dng elllcllt of I ate, cia s~ a)(1 c01l11l1oehtv. ft om a 11 comp~ tl1lg tel ntm le~ to dll comllJon lllal keh atf01d':> us no advd.nt,ge \'V;1It e\ el dnd 111 llIan) Illstdnce~ el tllclll) pLlce~ u~ ,It ,I eh"clClvantdge 'l hc geogldplllcal 10catlOll of :\1Llngan ll1nst be eon"l lclcd It h III the ed"t "outh elnd "c"t tllclt am S\1pp'le,:> 11111"th P 11 eha"ed ,1,ld oUl PI0c111Ch lllcllkLted rJlele hI') l111pJ1L111t PI)- e!uct of i\ llclng,m me!lI"tl Ie ~ OJ ~0I1 tl1 It l~ not e111ph ILe! 111 the tUI]tOl) eel"±. ~outh ,me! \H~t ,1lHl \\e III ht thudole. In Ie] thc plc~cnt Idte eldjlhtmel1ts compete 111the COl1l111011llMI Lct" \\ltb otltu centel':> of PI{)e!U UOI1. plllch I"C ,11lCl" tic \OCeltU\ ,It e jU,tl ,uHl glceltu dl':>td'lCC" flom t1Jc,c lll,ll],ch hIt ellJ()\ln~ ,11ll01C ld\olablc ,1c!11htI1lCl1t of flu:.;ht 1,ltC~ \\ helt 11n" Hpc(,"\l1h \cdd) to thc bU'-Ill('-" llltUl-t" of thl" ..,telte ,lllCl1u t\k Id]!leh! I" ..,cI\me, thh tellltOl), "llO-c Illtele"h ,lie lllutual11ld) uot hc I Cde1d) 01 dCetll atcl) c "tll1lclted ,It thh t Il1K bnt th,lt It I CJ)l e..,\..nt" ,\11 cnonnon- ~1Il11 1l1U~t be conceded \t tll1~ tune \\C \\I-h to ,1~clll1 Idu to thc dpphc,ltlUl1 o[ thc 100 ]Jercent 1M~I~. 01 the tldt Unlae,o '\ e\\ \ 01 k I dte dlong the \\e~t short. of Lake ,1Iclng-an d, 1dl n )rth as ,Ienonl1nce \ltchlgan vIa the cal fellles and a~1 OS" the le)\\ el penlll<;111a of \ 1lLhlgan and vIa the 1'01 t HU! 011. DetrOIt and Toledo ~ate- \\ a) s ~nch tl affic pa~~es ehrectly through /one". III \1Id'le,au that telke a hlC;hel pelle ltagc of the ba~l11g r,ltes than do tl'e ]J01nh {)f 011e,1ll ,111(\ ck..,tlllatlOll llns \\ionld ,Ippe'll to hc a \ lo1at1CJll of thc Iou:.; ,1l1cl ,,1101t h,m\ CLIlhC "e et!on I o[ thc ,l( t to regulatc COl11l11elCl Ihdt I" not hO\\C\ll thl entnc "Ie; I11ficclnee of the r1esCl Ibed movement of Trans-:;\I1c1ngan tr,lffic The descnptlon of traffic that 1110\es to and fr0111 easte111 ane! northern \,\,ThcOnSIl1 POll1ts across Lake :;\hc1ngdn 01 Vld the U11cago gclteWa) and part!culad) that \v hlch onglll,lte~ III that tel fltor) , IS pradl~ally lelentlcal WIth tl1at 01lg111at1l1g at )1 de~tmee! to ]J01l1ts m 10\'Ver ,\hchlgan ,md 111the C01111110n111arkeb \V e are 111 dIrect competItIOn WIth the same at a chsadvantdge a s I egards freH~ht rates In the complamt ot tne GI ee 1 Bd\ BUS111ess ~len ~ \ssou atlOn.v~ n &. () R R et al Illtel stdte CommeJce COml111"- "On \0 1 ()ljj. It was developed that towns along the \'Vest shOle of Lake '\Ilchlg,n lecelvec1 th be1efit of the 1eo per cent baSIS because the lmes reachmg the eastern shores of Lake l\h~hlgan and operatIng car ferne<; ac ross Lake \llchlgan had ~een fit to e'..tend tnat belsls to them It \hlS also shown that J\Ieno,lllllee ~hebo)gan and J\Iamtmvoc do not receIVe the late became they are deep \V ater ports on Lake N[Ic11Igan but rather because they are ~o sItuated that the) have the benefit of the car fernes In tIns ca~e the C0l11l111S:>10nfinc1~ that the extenSIon of the 100 percent baSIS to towns along the \'Vest shore of Lake ~;flchlgan I' a f01 cee! me but holeh that the long m,untenance of the gIven late IS an adml<;~lOn ot the 1ea~011clblene~s of that rate If the 1ates 1r0111 our C0111pet1l1g terfltm y 111\Y l~conS111 al e I easonable. no ~I eater or 11101e CJnCh1Slve eVHle'lce of the unreasonableness of Ot11 I ates IS nee e~sal) Traffic between lower }I1chlgan pomb and PaClfi:: coast ter- IltO!\ elees not receIve the benefit of the DltferentJal Lake and RaIl 1 ates although same are apphcable to shIpments 'Jngmatml2, at pomb 111 other tellltor) farther 111anel such as Co!umbu<;, ()'1lU I dnewllle ()hlO and \Yheelme, anc1 other vVe<;t \ 11 g1111cl ~---------------------------_.-------- I It 1.. STANDARD UNIFORM COLORS Adopted by the Grand Rapids Furniture ASSOCiation are produced With our Golden Oak Oil Stain No. 1909, Filler No. 736. Early English Oil Stain No. 55, Filler No. 36. Weathered Oak Oil Stab No. 1910. Mahogany Stain Powder, No.9, Filler No. 14. Fumed Oak (W) Stain No. 46. RAPIDS WOOD FINISHING 5559 Ellsworth Ave GRAr'<.DRAPIDS, MICH GRAND CO. II ------------ ------------_. --- ... ])(Jll1b \ 1eccnt I"" c of the Tllan" Contm'ntd t,llltf~ plO- \ H!cd ~l1ch elp hC,It!e n 1 ) tal dt 0112,111Itl,l[', elt (;1 a](l RapHje, b 11 ,1 Lltu anel "l1ppL 11 IL,l' \ I~" 1e C!J'1111l,ILU! "cl111l 1 n~ dlife 1 ellLI,tls I elll~C fJ e 111 I/o CCllb to 2l cellh p 1 100 111' elud ,ll ( qJl'1 cl1Jlc to 11'ldl ,dl) C\U) dl"111ptlOll of tIdfftc th,lt Oll~1 natc" III Lhl':>tu l1t01 \ InellhtIll'" of C\Cl) (!c"UlptJOll "cck 10CltJOll \\helc tl,m"pol t 1(\(11l LluhtJe" ,ll c )\ thc hc"t ,111'1tl ,m"]J()1 LltlOll eo"h the 1m\ c~i ,me! lI1\e-tn Cllt "'Uk111~ c'l1)1t,d I" llJ"t to thc !OC,tllL\ t11dt "l1jfl1~ ,11lelllldl1]C" unc1uc c1hUlI'1111dtI011 h\ the c1111el, Jl h \\lthln thc \(1\ leUllt hl':>tol' of (11,1 1c1 l{cllJlds dl1d \\lth111 thc LnO\dee1~c lJf ,111 plc~ellt tl1clt unc vel) 11l1port,lllt l11e!JI'-tn thc \1\111le,m '-,c,ltm~ LUl11jl,l11V e!cuc1ed ,l((dl11~t the le1110vell of e lIC It It~ I,ll ~c"t pldllts. novv 10 attel at Eaune, \\JI~UJl1':>lll, iu th~ ut\ bCCdu,:>e of the f,ld that the delvalltelges of Its pI e ~ellt 10celt!oll 11um d tran~portatlOn "tanc1polllt chslounted an) ,leiv cln tae,es to be del1Veel tr0111 the l11()1e favorable lab:)1 ('onellt1On" l)"- lctlllg III (Tr,mel }(aplels combmed \'V Ith the very ~llght advan-tages that \\ ould be gamed 111c1er the present LIte aelJll~t111enh, III I c,lchlllg the e,lstel n 111clrket<; \nothel plant 110\\ Ie Cdted dt l\nitalo '\ Y "0 lId bc IC11l0ved to CIanci RapIds \\ele It not thc Llct 111.\t ,:>lnJll11cnb fl0111 th,lt pLnl ,Ue jJl!J1e ljJ tlh 11l1C!c t) thc l'.IUItCCOel"t lellltul\ ,1Ildlllldll thc IJlc..,c llldtC ,1c1JlI,tJ]hllt~ 11 -"I III• I• II III ROLLS 12 WEEKLY ARTISAN 1'"._ •• -----~ I,,----------_. III II IIII III - - - 0 0 ~ __ ~ __ • __ ~ UNION FURNITURE CO. ROCKFORD, ILL. We lead m Style, ConstructIon and F,nish See our Catalogue Our lme on permanent exhIbI-tion 7th Floor, New Manufact-urers' BUlldmg. Grand RapIds. China Closets Buffets Bookcases may be made from Buffalo at a lesser rate than from GI and RapIds Traffic between our compet111g tel ntor} \\ est and north\\ est and points 1n southern. southeastern and south\\ estern tern-tones, m0ve:, on the baSIS of rates equally or more favorable than we enjoy and 111evel} chrectlOl1 are \\ e handIcapped be cause of our traffic be111g sub1ect to an adlustment ot late~ that was estabhshed pnor to and 111no antlclpatlOn of the 1mmen~e and rapid development of our resources and commerce In d1sm1ss111g the recent comp1amt of the Sagmav, Boal d of Trade WIthout plejuchce, the Inter~tate Commerce Commh- SlOn referred to the general effect upon all the pe11lnsu1a I ate~ that would result from the readjustment asked for 111 behalt ot Sagmaw and Flint alone and It \\ as 111antlupatlon of such <tl1 expreSSlOn by the comm1S"lOn and 111 recog11ltlo11 of the plmuplc mvolved that thIS a"soclatlOn \\ as formed to comp1 he the en-tIre terntory of the western portlO11 of the 10\\ el pen111,u1a In the descnptlOn of traffic that ha, Its 01lg111 or 1t~ de'tl-nati0n ¥iithin the lowel pemn,u1a of \I1c1l1lzan mal be found a greater percentage of l11[.;hdas" COm1l10dltle" 'lelelll1l.; a l11g-hel average revenue pel tOll n11le thd11 ±tom <tn\ c0l1esp011l1111~te1- ntory. The per centage of 10\\ glade C01111l1ocbtlesh so small as to be almDst neghg1ble The po,slb1htles of 111CeIaseel con-sumption and productlOn of equally hIgh grade tlaffic under more Just and eqmtable transporLltion conchtlOn<; are second to tho"e of no other locahty The fact that MIchIgan llldustne<; have so 1ap1dh progrc"sed to their present stage of development anel prospellt} under pres-ent and past tran,pOltatlOn cond1tlOn" n1d) onl) be consldcled as md1catlve of what may be accomhshed under the mOle fa\- orable transportatIon conchtlOm to \\ l11ch \\ e dl e entItled "0 well informed student of tran"portatwn 01 manufactm e \\ 111cn-tertam or advancc a suggestlOn that a contmuance of rre~cnt adjustment:> WIll be commensurate \\ Ith om \\ e!fare and neces- SItIes. The carners have ~hared 111 such prospent) as we have enjoyed and vV1llparticIpate 111the benefits to be dellved from a readjustment that WIll place us npon a 11101e eqUltable baSIS WIth our competlton Development of natUl al resom ces, lll-creased population, growth of manufact\1l111g 01 proc1ullng fa-citltles and increa'Sed traffic on ralhoad" all crcdte changed conditlOns that VI arrant change" 111rate~ and 1ate adjustment'S in order to afford Just aneI reasonable opportu111tles tor thc 111- terchange of traffic between P0111tSof ploductlOn and POllltS of large consumptlOn The present adjmtments may ha\ e been reasonable and just when estabhshed but are no more so at the present tlme than any adjustment estabhshed today mal be ex-pected to prove commensUl ate wlth the necess1t1e, of :\Ilch1gan traffic thIrty years hence One com111ochty, lumber, ha, dl\\ d)" been accOl eIed 1ates more favorable than would be the apphcatlOn of the estabhshec1 THE "RELIABLE" KIND THE FEllWOCK AUTO & MFG. CO. EVANSVILLE, INDIANA. class rates; v\e learn that it has very recently been decided to grant a sllmlal and speClal bas1s to the sugar mdustry of the state It IS wlthm Jour power, gentlemen, to grant to all Mich- Igan traffic the rehef to whIch same IS entitled by reason of the undue dlscnmmatlOn that eXIsts It but remains to determme 111 \\ hat manner \\ e may best co-operate or other"'lse proceed to efiect the reac1jmtment that further 111vestlgatlOn, conslderatlOl1 and confere11ce ma) demonstrate as reasonable and necessary In the fe\\ compansons and statements \\ e have "ubnutted we ha\ e not CIted extleme cases, 111 seek111g readjustment we an11 dnc1 dc"ll e to be a~ redsonable and Just as we ask) ou to be 111 }am 1ates, lules and practIces and 111conclUSIon V\ e ask that a" tal a, ) on nM} com1stently do so, you nnmechately define your po- ~ltlOn ant 1 ) om propo~ed actlOn 111 tll1s matter We beheve thdt CO-OPClat1011 \\ 111"olve all problem s of t1am portatlOn that con front the cal nel " and theIr patron", fnctlOn represents ch- I cet la,,, ot ener~ \ Let 11'" therefore, ImmedIately and in d ,pmt of co-opel dt10n plOceed to the betterment of a sltuatlOn that dcmands an entll e readjustment Successful in Business and Politics. leaton 01l10, Sept 9-The 01110 IlOn and Blass Bed Com-lHl1\ are planmng to bul1c1 an adchtlOn to theIr plant to be med a" a machlnc 100m It WIll he a two-;"tory bllllchng 40x 70 Ld"t.: Cdl t111':>L01lllHlly put up an aelclluon 40x160 wh1ch II dO, b\11lt for \Val ehou"e pIll pose'3 Tho company I" now c;emllng out theIr fall catalogue, five thousand of them be111g malled at tIm, t1me V1ce-P1 e"ldent and General Manager [) J \11llel ')tates that busmess for the past two months es-pellalh ha" been good and he lS loolong for a steady growth In ,Olt1I11Ctlom nO\\ on 1he Ohl0 lIOn anel Bla:,s Bed Com-palH ha" heln l1ldlont.;' "cull-annual exhlblt" of theIr stron~ 111le of metdl beels 11l the G1amI Raplcb market for the past ten) ear" dlld It II on1d he chfficult meleed to find an outslde mal1ufac tnnng concern In the fllllllture trade that has proven lbel± 11101 e 10) al to the ell anel RapId') mal keto The company no\\ ha~ a peln1<lnent OJllhlt at the Furmtme Exchange [hl IdpHl ele\ elopment and glowth of tIll:, company may be lalgeh attnlJl1ted to \Lll1ag-e1 ::\Itller, who IS not only a suc-ces" ln! manutadtll e1 but aho sncce"sful 111the field of po11- tIC" J or the pa~t h\ a ) edl s :\11 ::\fIller has been mayor of the Clty of Eaton ha'l11g been electeel to office on the Demo-cratIc tlcket 111 a Repllbhcan Clty He has proven h1m'3el£ an able eAecutl\ e and J. few days ago was renom nated by a practlcall) llnanIl11011c; ,ote for another term The valne of e"pellcnce IS only clemomtrated hy the after effects WEEKLY ARTISAN Works and General Offices at 1 to 51 Clancy St. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH., U. S. A. BRANCH OFFICES-Oliver MachlOery Co, Hudson TermlOal, 50 Church St, New York, Ohver MachlOery Co, F"St National Bank Buddmg, Chlcal1o, III , OlIver MachlOery Co , PaCIfic BUlldlOg, Seattle, Wash, Oliver MachlOery Co ,20 J -203 Deansgate, Manchester, Eng CHOICE TOOLS FOR FURNITURE MAKERS If you do not know the "Oliver" wood working tools, you had better give us your address and have us tell you all about them, We make nothing but Quality tools, the first cost of which is considerable, but which will make more profit for each dollar invested than any of the cheap machmes flood. ing the country. Oliver Tools Save Labor "Obver" New Variety Saw Table No. 11 WIll take a saw up to 20' dIameter Arbor belt IS 6' WIde Send for Catalog "B" for data on Hand Jointers, Saw Tables, Wood Lathes, Sanders, Tenoners, Mortisers, Trimmers, Grinders, Work Benches, Vises, Clamps, Glue Heaters, etc., etc. OLIVER MACHINERY CO. UNDJ1:RTAKERS USE TRUST METHODS. Combine With Livery Men and Supply Dealers to Prpvent Independents Getting Business. A disgraceful conte~t between nval uncle1takers of 111(hana pohs for pOSSe%IOnof the five men k11ledm tne 1ecent automobIle races on the speedway m that Clt) led to an 111vestlgatIOn whIch has Ievealed the eJo-btence of somethm<Y very much lIke a trust b • ' that mc1udes not only the undertakers but lIvery men who fur- 11lsh hacks for funerals, manufacture~" of caskets, coffins and dea1e1s m unclertakers' supphes The orgamzatiol1 b said to be so ~tIon~ that It IS llnposs1ble for an mclepcnc1ent undertaker to 1m) supplIe" m the CIty or sccme call1a~e~ to can) fncn<b of tlIe dead to the cemetery J C \Vl1son has Just begun smt alSam~t the cO'11bine \Vlbon was formerly an undertaker at Acton, a httle town near IndIana-polIs Two years ago the undcrtaker" of the CltV deClded not to bId for the contlact for cOl1nt) wOlk, but to mak~ pllces for each fune1 alOne of thc county comm1S"IOner~ knew \V11son and 1l1ducetl hI11l to bId f01 the wOlk The contract was awarded \1,' tIson, vv ho thercupon ope11e(l a place of hl1;,111eSSm the city 1hen h1~ trouble" be~an Other llndel take1 '0 1efused to have an) thmg to do vv1th 111m If he wanted a burial robc It wa~ 1mposlble to buy one 111 the CIty Tf he wanted cloth or handles fOI a coffin nobody had any f01 ~ale vVhe.1 at Acton he could come here and get v"hatever he wanted and 111 an} quantity he vvanted, hut when hc hegan busl11ess in the city he could ~et noth1l1g L - \Vhen \V1lson opened hIS shop a numbe1 of llvclymcl1 solI-cited 111'0""01 k TIe made an agreement wIth one of them, but when he callf'd for carnages a few da) s later he was informed that all tbe ngs were engaged He was supplIed by another "OLIVER" No. 16. Band Saw 36 Inches. Made w,th or w,thout motot dnve Metal table 36"" 30" WIll take 18" under the gUlde- ults 45 degrees one way and 7 d.egrees the other way Car-nesa saw up to 1%ilt w,de. Outs,de beanng to lower wheel .halt when not motol dnven We,ghs 1800 lb. when ready to ,h,p " Tempers .. Coot 13 j ~table, but the ne,-t tIme he hacl a funeral he called up the first In eryman and aga111 was told that everythmg was out Then he had 1ecourse to the other stable and receIved the same answer, but when he went to the stables hllnself he discovered that either of them could have sel ved hun The liverymen were candId enough to tell hIm that they clId not want his busine"s, that he was on the blacklIst, and 1£ they let out theIr carnages to him no other InclIanapohs undertaker would empl~y them \V lIson saw that he must have stock and carriages and horses If he was to mamtam the fight, so he erected stables and purchased eqUlpment. and IS now m the fight to a fimsh Those who have become fam111ar WIth h1S story are standing by him and IllS bUS1l1ess is gro\Vmg Tn addItIOn to thIS some of the 1l1te1esteJ parties are aiding 11111I1n secunng te"tll11ony as to the combme's operatIOns for use m the SUlt he has brought to recover damages from the trust. It IS proposed to bnng out 111the SUlt the cost of funerals and the profits that the comhme IS mak111g It is charged that the under-takers pay lIverymen $3 fOI each carnage and charge $5 for the serVIce, thus mak111g a rakcoff of $2 on every carriage and $5 on CVe1) pall wagon that IS fm11lshecl Dless111gs often C0111echsguised, but adversity is always bare-faced If your DESIGNS are right, people want the Goods. That makes PRICES right. ._-_ .._ ....-... i " . (tlarence 1R. bins DOES IT i~_.._._._----_._---------_. --_._- ----- _. - ... .. 163 MadIson Avenue -CItIzens Phone 1983. GRAND RAPIDS, },{ICH ..... --------------------------------------,. 14 WEEKLY ARTISAN ------------------------------------------- .._---------------, .... II .I,, ,I• II ,,,I ,,I II ,I ,, I,, ,I ...._-------------~ ~----------------------- ,,,,, ,I I,II ,I ,•I I •III •I,II II I •I~---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Our Large New Line of DINING and OFFICE TABLES The season for banquets will soon be here. Get a stock of our Banquet Table Tops so as to be ready to supply the demand sure to come. are the best on the American market when pnces and quahty are considered. STOW & Df\VIS FUKNITUKI; 60. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. City Salesroom. 4th floor, Blodgett Bldg. lc,ldel' by the mall 01del house" The ~eu etal y turns the 01del ~ {)\el to the buy 1l1g commIttee dne! It I" up to them to get the good., at co,t not above whdt 1., pale! b) the mdIl ore!eI house., d](l m nearh all cases the commIttee ha~ succeeded m mak1l1~ the de"lred arragnements 1 he second part of theIr plan IS the co-operative adveI-tl" 1l1g ,,\ ,tem descnbed m the \;\Teekly ArtIsan of la,t Sdturda), and thI~ al"o has been successful, th{)ugh It has not been used a~ eAtemlVely a., IS de.,lred George J HIlyer of ~ mona declared tlMt co-operative bUy1l1g and advertlsmg has worked so well m hIS to\\n that "\V1l10na melchants expect to become mllhon- ,Ill e, \\ tthm ,) few ) ears" He stated that co-operative huymg through the .,tate fl1lmture r1ealer~' aSSOcIatIOn enable'S him to bm at the ,ame pnce the bIg mall OJ der houses pay and that he and the other merchant5 of the tO\, n advertIse together, each cdtalo£;ue deI-Ismg the IeClplent to go to cel tam stores for cer-tam al tIde, The commIttee on ae!vertl"mg urged gleater and more ex-ten51ve me ot the co-operatIve plan, m order to shut the mall ordel home out {)f the state Reports were receIved from the secretary and other standmg commIttees and, after luncheon, the members \\ ent over to St Paul to attend a meetmg of the \ltnne.,ota Commer~lal I'ederatlOn, an orgamzatlOn workmg on Ime" 'Iml1dl to tho~e adopted by the furmture dealer", but h'1\ mg ,1 \\ Hlel .,cope as It tdke., m neall) all branches of 1etall t1 ade MINNESOTA RETAIL METHODS. Co.opel·ative Buying and Advertising is Suc("€'s~· ful Only When Supported by a :Maiority of the ~fell1bers. The ,peClal meetL1g {)f the \lmntsota RetaIl I tlll11tl1le ])ealel~' \~soclatlOn, helel m }\J1l1l1eapo1J~on \\ eclne,cLn '-,epL-ember i"l, mamlv for conSIderatIOn of the repOl t trom the com-mIttee on co-operatIVe bu)mg \\ a" a "ucce~"tul ,mcl enthlhla, tic affaIr The aSSOCIatIOn nm\ ha., someth111g 0\ el 2llll mel11- bel" and a maJOllty of them \,ele pleSe,lt The most pro111111entfedtl1l e 111the repOl t oi the co opel a-tl\ e bU)lng commIttee \\ a, the declaratIOn that co opel <1t1\e 1myll1g Cdn be made succeS5 ful onh \\ hen 1malh ,UppOl ted b\ ,1 maJont) of the retaIl hlll11tlll e dedleI' 1 he :'Ifll1ne,0L! commIttee IS ~uppOl ted b\ more than ,1 ma 101lt\ ut the dedlel' 111 that .,tate, hence theIr efforb ha, e been ql1lte ~ucce,,~ful though It has taken much tIme and persIStent \\ ork to arou5e the dealers to an apprec1atlO,1 of the benefits to be cler1\ ed from ul11tec1actIOn 'b "tated heretofore the :'I1111nesota furl11ture dealers ha, e been fightll1g the mall 01der hou.,e~ p,ll tlclllal I- tho,e ot LhlLa- £:,0. ,m(] helve been mOle "ucce.,siul than IM\e tl1o.,e 111an) othel .,tdte They have t\\O defil11te pLl11s 01 ,\ "tem, \\ lllch \\ I1U1 \\ 01kul t0l:Sethel, enable them to melt mall m (1<:1 competltllln \\ Itllont lllatellal loss, though <1t ,mall plohh I he mm c Ul1- pottant h co-opelatl\l bUylllg Ihe m(Jmellt thc mal1 mdll hou"e cdtalo£:,ue appe,llS \\Old h ,ellt to all membCI' 11 the ,)S"ollatlon Each membel "ell(]-, to th~ .,eu etal \ of the d",O-u, ltlon ,l!1 e.,tlmate of \\ hat he C,!l1 u"e oi the dl tIde" u,ecl a" \, ,t'ltul heletofole, much of the succes" of the \Il11ne- ,oL! I<etal1 lUlmtl11 e Ded!er, \S.,ollatton IS cleehted to the "ec-letdl) \\ L LTlapp, an(] the ba"''' of 1m, succes" IS 111dlcatecl b) the follm\ 111g quotatIOn from an mterVle\\ pubhshed the day aftel the \I111neapohs meet111g 'OUI \\ork has been qUlte .,ucce',-,ful," sale! :'IIr Grapp. but 111ordel to nMke It ,0, dnd keep It so, It 15 necessary to keep the memhel" of the aSSOCIatIOn 111clo~e touch WIth each othel 1hdt h the Pl11111j)dlIdea 111hold111g this meetll1g. \Ve keep h,lmmelI1g uJl1t111uall) at the 'don't care' and II1different de,del' [he lm~~el the olCler we place the lower the pn,es, ,0 \\ e \\ ant e\ el \ hUl11ture dealer 1111111e,so we can continue to eumpete ',lKces"fully ~nother of our objects IS collective ad- \ el th111g \\ e beheve 111extensIve advertlSll1g Of course it is 11l1pOS,Ible 101 the httle country dealer to aclvel tl"e as do the gl eat mall order hou~es. but when we all work together the cost IS small to each 111dlvlc1nal We try to stimulate the neces~Ity ot evella,tmg ac1vertlsmg We gIve the small merchant the op-portul11t) to do so at a cost that IS not prohIbitive The curb stone furmture dealer and the manufacturer who sells at retaIl are other men we are fighting." WEEKLY p •••••• ••••• ••••• 4.~. _ IIF IT'S THE BEST REFRIGERA~~;~ii I IT'S AN ALASKA I 1 1 I,1 :~:~,~~~:y~1U~~:.~:' 1';'1 vision chamber. I Perfect preservation of 1 food. I1 I1 1 1 I I Exclusive Refrigerator Manufacturers. I L. E. Moon. New York Menager. I 35 Warren St. New York City. -...--------- --------- _. ---------~ The Over 850,000 Alasla refrIgerators sold sIn c e 1878. DesIrable features of an Aldska RefrIgerator: Maximum amount of cold. dry air. Simplicity of operation. \Ve sell to dealers only. WRITE FOR CAT-\LOG. Alaska Refrigerator Co. MUSKEGON, MICH. ....4_~__•__ • -.---------------- I! Ii 1I ----_ ....--------------~ .. ,,1 I \ I1 I!1 1 11 111 1 1I1 1I1 1,1 I I11 1 1,1 I,I MORRIS WOOD & SONS Il • ••••••••• ad ••••••••••••••••• ~ I••• t ••• Give your men tools that are ac-curate to the one-thousandth part of an inch. Tools that are straight and true and hold their cutting edge. No matter how expensive and per-fect your machinery may be, if the cutting tools are not of the best, you can not turn out good work. We pride ourselves on the fact that we have manufactured only the very best for thirty-five years. Write for our complete catalog. It shows many new ideas in fme labor saving tools. CHICACO, ILL. ARTISAN 15 r-·-----·-·-------- --.--.---------~ I,1 111 II I,1 II III ,III I,I• 1 I11 1 II1 III1I I,I I II1 , III Palmer's Patent G1uinll CIampsII III1 IIt,,IIII II A. E. PALMER & SONS, Owosso, MICH. I Foreign Representatives: The Projectile Co. London, Eng- I land. ~chuchardt "" Schutte. Berlm, Germany; Alfred H. I Schutte, Cologne, Paris, Brussels, Liege, Milan, Turin, Barcelona, and Bilbo... , ..I. 'lite abo\ e cut is taken direct from a photograpb, and sbOW8 the Junge of one &ize only, our No 1, 24-inch Clamp 'Ve m..lke bix other blzes takIng In stoCh. up to 60 inches wide and 2 inches thlCh Our& IS the most praLtIcal Inetbod of dampIng glued stock in use at the present time. Hundreds of f~l.ctoriesha' e adopted our "ay the past year and llundreds more \\ III in the future Let us show you Let us send you the nanles of nearly 100 factories (only a fraction of our list) who have ordered and reordered many bnles. rroof positive our way Is the best. A post card will bung it, clltalog included Don't delay, but write today. "'-----_._---_. __.,...-_.--.-._- ---_ ..-...----------- / \ 10 SPINDLE MACHINE ALSO M A.DE Wil H 12, 15, 20 AND 25 SPINDLb.S DODDS' NEW GEAR DOVETAILING MACHINE Tlus lIttle machllle has done more to perfect the dtawer wOlk of furtll ture manufacturers than anythmg else 111the furnIture trade For fifteen years It has made perfect fittmg, vermIn proof dovetaIled stock a PO~~I blhty 1hIS has been accomplIshed at reduced cost, as the machme cuts dov".talls In gangs of from 9 to 24at one operatIOn It s what othets see about your buswess rather than what you say about It, that counb III the cash drawer It s the th1111of "nthu"asm and the t1ue ring of truth) ou feel and hear back of the cold type that makes you buy the thing advel ttsed ALEXANDER DODDS, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHICAN Reprelenled by Schucharl & Schutt. at Berbn, Vienna. Stockholm and 51 Pelenbure. Rep",Mnled by Alfred H. SchUlte at Coloane, Bn ... I•• l.aeae. Para •• Milu &IICI 8Jlbot. I\cc_nled ill Great Bri""n and lrolaiul bY the Ohyer Machinery Co.• F, S, ThompoclR. Mil .• 201.203 D ..... alll. MallchUl." £lll1allll • 16 dpparent ale so great that expert accountants and statisticians declare that 1t wIll be well mgh 1mposs1ble to comply w1th the law Yet the law imposes heavy penalt1es on those who fall to comply w1th 1tS prov1slOns. It 1S contended by able lawyers that a law wh1ch reqll1res a man. men or corporatlOns to do 1mpOSS1- ble thmgs 1S vOld and for that reason an I on c::mstttutlOnal grounds the la\\ WIll surely be tested 111the courts ,w1th the sanctlOn not only of those who are opposed to 1t, prinCIples, but also of 1tS fnends \\ ho th111kthat 1t could have been slmphfied to a large extent If the law and the methods prov1ded for 1t:>en-forcement shall be held good It WIll certamly Impose burdns on manufactunng corporat1011S costly enough to reduce their net mcomes cons1derably WEEKLY ARTISAN PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY BY THE MICHIGAN ARTISAN COMPANY SUBSCRIPTION $1 00 PER YEAR ANYWHERE IN THE UNITED STATES OTHERCOUNTRIES $200 PER YEAR. SINGLE COPIES 5 CENTS. PUBLICATION OFFICE, 108-112 NORTH DIVISION ST, GRAND RAP OS, MICH A S WHITE MANAGING EDITOR Entered as second class matter July 5, 1909 at the post office at Grand RapJds, l\!Jchlgan under the act of March 3 18,9 Amencan manufacturers of \\ ood \\ orkmg machmery have gamed a foothold m Europe, 0\ e1comIng, afte1 many years, local prejudIces and competltlOn The ettOl ts of our countn-men to dIspose of mfeno1 goods ha\ e 1etarded the gl 0\\ th ot busmess On thIs subject SOl en LIster, consul general at Rotter-dam, reports to the government at \Vash1l1gton as fo11O\\:o "In Amencd, manuLlctUI er5 do lJDt care 50 much about the long hfe of a machme They say, tdke dll the plol1t :\ou can lrom "\our machme tools" hlle thcy are up to datc, ,crap them a, -oon a- "IOU see that somethmg better IS produLLcl People m the "crhulal1Lh however, care very mULh about the long hte ot the machme tool, they u"e, and consequently look out tor a stlongh bUilt UldCnl11C It dppears to us that the I cdl dltlerenLe hcs bct" cen \\ hat the c\mel ILan manufacturer calls d "trongl, bUilt mach111e tool and thc mean 111g Wh1Ch the '3dme words hd"l e hel cOne ot the hr,t and 111 tact the almost III \ andble que,tllll1 put to "de'111cn 111 thc "etherll11 10 1S, What 1S the ",eight of :\ our mdc1l1l1c? 'lnd It h oftcn \\ ell 111gh lmpoSSlble even f01 a thoroughly expcllel1Led tLch111L tl m 11l to PCI suade hiS customcr to look at d nnch111e ot I call, o"lgl11al ,111elup-to date constructIOn, a, the Lltlel WIll lI1'3ISt on consldenng solcly and SImply a mach1l1e, tnL chIef qU'lhtIy of \\ hlch h 115 eXLcptlon-ally hcavy make" With the average \mencan d hmt 1Sas ~ood as an argument If the Hollanders reqll1re \\ eIght \\ 1th quaht\ the aC0ommoc1at-mg manufacturers of Amen0a \\ 111supply them It h an ea,\ propos1tlOn "When unde1 stood Managers of eastern ra1h oads have rene\\ ed the C1I that was heard Just before the pa111Cof 190. f01 the 1I1crea,e 111 fre1ght rates As m 1907 they dedare that nothm2, less than an mcrease of 10 per cent \11ll enable them to cont111ue bu,11e" w1thout actual loss It 1S true that there ha') been conSIderable mcrease m the cost of matenals used by the 1all roads and a small increase 111vvage5 m the past ten years, but Judgmg by then reports and quotatlOn:o on the1r stocks, even tho:oe that are 0', e1 cap1taltzed to an enormous extent, seem to be domg faul) \\ ell When a great 'ystem hke the Xorthwe')tern ,hO\\ s a net proM of over $22,000,000 on the busme,s of the dull \ ear encltnl?, June 30, 1909, 1t 1Scltfficult to belt eve that an mC1ea"e 111rate., j, I eally necessary. The N orthweste1 n 1~ generally concede I to be the best managed 1atlway 111the country and a" 1t shO\\ s large net ear111ngs above mterest and all k111ds of expenses 111dull tlmes It is easy to reach the concIuslOn that Improvement 11 manage-ment and squeezmg of "Water out of cap1tahzatlOn wo lId be bet-ter for the people and for the ra1lroads than an 111crease In fre1ght rates. Every ltttle bIt of adchtlOnal ltght thlO\\ n upon the C01pora-tion tax law shO\vs pel plexmg compltcatlOns, most of which are due to the methods prescnbed for deterl11mmg the amount of net income on wlllch tax 1S to be leVIed The cltfficult1es already The perelllllal UI1lf01l11blll of ladmg que5tlOn was cons1der-ed at a conterence of shIpper'), merchants, bankers and freIght carne1 s fr0111 all sectlOns of the country held m CIu':ago last \Ionday, w1th the result that congress and state legIslatures will be asked to legahze the b1ll of ladmg heretofore agreed upon by bankers' and sh1ppers aSsoClatlOns Ra1lroad men in the con-ference supported the resolutlOns adopted. It is to be hoped that congress \\ III take actlOn and reach an agreement in less tIme than has been ,pent upon the subject by bankers and com-merCIal orgalllzatlOns The corporatlOn tax 1S not the only th11lg that wJ1l annoy the manufacturers dunng the conung year. The census takers \\ ell supplted \v1th red tape, WIll be around m the spnng and they \\ III ask 111any questIons that few manufacturers can answer correctly w1thout long cons1deratlOn and close consultatlOn of the1r book, As 1t IS proposed to make the com11lg census much more comprehens1ve and complete than heretofore in the matter of ,tatlstlcs, manufacturers may expect to be asked questions that they \\ III be unable to answer except WIth a guess J 1111HIlI of raIlroad fame declares that the country needs 11101e fa1 mers There are a lot of men m the fur11lture industry that could be spared They would make better farmers than manufacturers and yet the agncultural mdustry would not be strengthened very much. The N atlOnal Manufacturers' Assoc1atlOn w111 contmue 1tS campa1gn for the e,tabltshment of a pe1l11anent tanff commission. Richmond. Ind.• Notes. RIchmond, Ind., Sept 16-The RIchmond Chairl Company, manufacturers of double cane cha1rs and rockers are gettmg out the1r 1909-1910 catalogue to be ready, Pres1dent ]VI J. O'Brien states, for ma1lmg to the trade October 1 The RIchmond Furl1lture ::YIanufactunng Company are do-ing an excellent volume of busmess th1<"year, the trade commg pnnc1pally from the eastern and central state" :\Ianager CT E Kemper of the R1ch1110nclFurlllture :\Ianu-factunng Company has Just retuL1ed from a two weeks' b,ls111ess tnp 111Ch1cago LOUlsv111eand Cmcinnatl The Calltson Compaay of Pmevllle, Ky, WIll erect a ne\\ bUlldmg to theIr Je\\ elry and undertakmg busmess N P Lau) of vVashtucna, \iVash, is e1ectmg a 23x60 foot bUlldmg for the1r Jewell v and undel takmg hmmess The new store of the Carlll1gton Fur111ture Company at N ashud, N H, was opened on September 8. WEEKLY ARTISAN 17 ~ ..- .....•........ --_.--_ ..__ _- -- ---_ --- _.-- __ ........•............• The Beautiful, New Udell Catalog No.679 No.354 No.1239 New FacfOl.·ies. The Southland veneer Company I~ estabhshmg a new plant at Tuscaloosa. Ala. The Norton Chair Company, a new corporatlOn vvlth $10,000 capital IS to estabhsh a chair factory at Norton, Vir J C. Brundes of Fanbault, ]\1mn, is expected to invest $10,- 000 m estabbshmg a fur11lture factory at Monroe, Wa~h. J V. Hamilton proposes to estabhsh a plant for the manu· facture of cabmets and other case gooch m Fort Scott, Kan VV H Cole of l\Ialden, ;\Iass, I~ said to be promotmg the orga11lzatlon of a company to estabh~h a furmture factory at J\Ionroe, La The J\Illner Upholstering Company has been incorporated with $10,000 capital ~tock, to estabhsh and operate a factory at Stockblldge, 11:lch. Max Sender\'v Itz, Anna Den11lson and others have mcor-porated the Lehigh Star Beddmg Company and Will estabhsh a factory, at Allentown Pa The Raleigh (N C) Cabmet v\' orks has been mcorporated by Charles L vVoodall, G M. Spencer and others, who will es-tabhsh a small factory. Capital stock, $2,000 V'hlham S J ohmon, Henry l\I. Pierce and John R. Phibps have mcOl porated the Hatcher Refngerator Company to manu-is ready for all Retail Furniture Dealers. It Will help sell the line that of its kind has no superior. It contains 88 pages Illustrating 41 Library Bookcases, 88 L':ulies' Desks, 48 Sheet Music Cabinets, 23 Piano Player Roll Cabinets, 14 Cylinder Record Cabinets, 11 Disc Record Cabinets, 19 Medicine Cabinets, 10 Commodes, 9 Folding Tables. ACT A T ONCE AND WRITE facture refllgerators, household articles and noveltle~ In Chica-go Capital, $3,000 G S Hohday, preSident of the nusme~~ ::\Icn'~ AssoClatlOn, Clmton, l\Io, can fur111~h mfOlmatlOn legarclmg a new 'v\oocl-workmg factory to be estabbshed m that Clty Joseph A vVerwI11sk! and W H '0, Iggms of the Studebaker l\1:anufactunng Company are mterestecl I11the orga11lZatlOn of a company to estabbsh a large fur11lturc factory I11 South Bencl, Incl. The Implovecl Office PartltlOn Com pan) has been I11corpor-atecl With $25,000 capital stock, by Isaac Rosenthal, Joseph C Kaclane ancl other:, to manufactm e \'vood partltlOn~, cabmeh, etc, m N e\\ YO! k Clt) New Buildings in the Far West. Resldences-c. '0,'. Schaub, $R,UOO, Lena Battmacher, $3, )1'0 ancl Edward Batchelder, $3,600, all of Passaclena. Hotels-A modern hotel of 100 rooms IS to be bUllt at 1\e,v-port, ncar Redland~, Cal, ata cost of $'1-0,000 John l\ I 1\ bm maut IS the promoter of the new hotel bUlldmg that IS to he erecl-ed m Santa :.\1:011lca,Cal, at a cost of $150,000 Pubhc BUllclI11g~-Pol} tech11lc school at Hollywoc d. C 1, $123,000 .-----------------_._._._.--._-_._._._.-._ __._.--._._.-._.------_ _--_._._._-_ _----------_ ---------..~ THE UDELL WORKS INDIANAPOLIS, IND. ........ _ .._. . No. 57 Flat Arm Racker INDIANA RICHMOND CHAIR CO. DOUBLE CANE LINE "SLIP SEATS" - the latest and best method of double seating. Catalogues to the Trade. .... - -.- - Richmond Tablet Arm Chair No. 100 .. ._------------------------- ---------- ._--_._. ------ --.. -~ RICHMOND 18 A Page From a Supplementary Catalogue Recently Issued by the WARREN TABLE WORKS, Warren, Pa. WIFKL Y \RTTSAN THE \!\rAR, R,EN No. 515. IIn rOI, 24" 30 IIahogany Toona [op, 21 " 44 $)) 00 3300 No. 319. Mnlol,24x36 l[aho~aIlY 1 oOlla rap 21" 40 ~);-,00 3R 00 No. 615. J\lnIOI, 16 '{ 20 J\llh()~aI1Y 10011.1 lop, 20 x 32 $2900 2900 No. 8138. Mil ror, 16 x 20 Qu.l1 tered Oak Mahogany 'laona Ell d's Eye Maple 10p, 20 x 30 $18 SO 19 SO 1950 1950 WEEKLY ARTISAN 19 ~------------------------- ,I II ,, ,,II•• ,,II• ,, ~-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------._--------~ ~ 1 I III - . Wood Bar Clamp Fixtures Per Set SOc. OVER 15,000 OF OUR STEEL RACKVISES IN USE Price $2.80 to $4.00 2, doz Clamp Fixtures bought by one m111last year We ship on approval to rated firms, and guarantee our goods uncondl tlOnall) TVr,te for itst of Meet Bar Clamps Vzses Bench Slops ele E. ". S"ElDON &. CO. 283 Madison St, Chicago "THE BEST IS ______ a _. _•• • ---------.------------.-.-----.-------~ THE CHEAPEST" --- -.~, III ,II ,I•• I,• ,• ,I I• :, II MANUFACTURED BY SAMUEL J. SHIMER &. SONS, MILTON, PENNSYLVANIA. BARTON'S GARNET PAPER Sharp, Very Sharp, Sharper Than Any Other. SUPERIOR TO SAND PAPER. It costs more, BUT It Lasts Longer; Does Faster Work. Order a small lot; make tests; you will then know what you are getting. WE GUARANTEE SATISFACTION. Furniture and Chair F actones, Sash and Door Mills, Railroad Companies, Car BUilders and others Will consult theIr own mterests by using It. Also Barton's Emery Cloth, Emery Paper, and Flint Paper, furnished m rolls or reams. H. H. BARTON & SON CO., 109 South Third St., Philadelphia, Pa. I~---,-----.------------------- -_.~I ,------_.-----,_.~.--_._.--_.~.---- PLATE ~OBBERS AND MANUFAOTURERS OF GLASS GLASS I N THE W 0 R L 0 COMPANY Mirrors, Bent Glass, leaded Art Glass, Ornamental Figured Glass, Polished and Rough Plate Glass, Window Glass \l\JIRE GLASS Plate Glass for Shelves, Desks and Table Tops, Carrara Glass more beautiful than white marble. GENERAL DISTRIBUTORS OF PATTON'S SUN PROOF PAINTS AND OF PITCAIRN AGED VARNISHES. (j[ For anythmg m BUilders' Glass, or anythmg m Pamts, Varnishes, Brushes or Pamters' Sundnes, address any of our branch warehouse~, a lIst of which IS given below NEW YOB.X-Hudson and Vandam Sts. BOSTON-41-49 Sudbury st., 1-9 Bowker st. CHICAG0-442-452 Wabash Ave. CINCINNATI-Broadway and Court Sts. ST. LOUIS-Cor. Tenth and Spruce sts. MINNEAPOLIS-500-516 S. Thlrd St. DETB.OIT-53-59 Larned St, E. GB.AND :RAPIDS, MICH-39-41 N. Dlvlslon St. PITTSBUB.GH-101-103 Wood st. MILWAUXEE, WIS.-492-494 Market st. B.OCHESTEB.,N.Y.-Wllder Bldg, Main & Exchange Sts. BALTIMOB.E-310-12-14 W. Pratt St. CLEVELAND-1430-1434 West Third St. OMAHA-ll01-1107 Howard St. ST. PAUL-459-461 Jackson st. ATLANTA, GA.-30-32-34 S. pryor St. SAVANNAH, GA -745-749 Wheaton St. XANSAS CITY-Flfth and Wyandotte sts. BIB.MINGHAM, ALA.-2nd Ave. and 29th st. BUFFALO, N. Y.-372-74-76-78 Pearl St. BROOXLYN-635-637 Fulton St. PHILADELPHIA-Pltcalrn Bldg., Arch and 11th DAVENPOB.T-410-416 Scott St. OXLAHOMA CITY, OXLA , 210-212 W. Flrst St. ~-----------------_._._-_. -------------------------------------------._--------------~._-- -. fREvERsIBLE--AND-ONE~WAy--cuTT~Rsl r-- i The Shuu" Rn " "hk Cut' ec. I I , 101 Slll~1e SpIndle Sh tpct '>, VdllLly I' • I IIoulc1u" 01 llleLU -', arc e,l1efnlly I ,I moulded oPPosIte to the shdpe of :' ' the monld to bc plocluced III such : , a V\ ay IS to h n e only the cuttl1lg I ed!Sc touch the lumbel fhey ,11 e eompletc-l1lexpenslve-tlme saVl1lg : Wc dbo manufdctUl e One \Vay Cntters fell Double Spl1lclle I ShapcI" Thcy .11e used 111 pd11<', lIght ,11ld left, one Cutter of , each shapc for cach spmdle In ordcnng speCldl sh,lpes not listed In our cat.llogue, send a \Vood sample 01 an accur.1tely madc drawl1lg Addrebs I,,I , II II , I ..... THE WEATHERLY INDIVIDUAL Glue Heater Send your address and and re~elve des~r1ptlve ~Jr~ular of Glue Heaters, Glue Cookers and Hot Boxes WIthpri~e•• The Weatherly Co. Grand Rapids, Mich. .... . . tune 111manutactunng . antlquc" fllr111ture and retlred ten years a~o, dIed last ::\Ionday, aged 60 years James H March of Lexington, Ky, prom1l1ent as a fllrm-tm e dealer and Democratlc polItlclan, dIed from a stroke of apoplex), on 'september I, aged 68 years Cletrence H Young, of Rockland, Mass, has acqUIred a contI oIlIng 111tere~t and taken actlve management of the factory ot the -\ K' Bed Company of Boston II ednesda), SeptembcI 11, \\ as the greatest pay day in the hhton at Rockford, 111, \\ hen the fur111tllre factones paId out 0\ el Sl j() ()( I) as \\ agc, for the month of August \Ie"" ,rcCmle) [lank '[c,Iullen and Ech\ard Lalk1l1 have 111lOlpOIated the Kellman Company to do a general unclertak1l1g and 11\el) bus111ess at Ottawa, III CapItal, $5,000 Percy Ra), formerly wIth the IV est :'IIlchlgan Furniture Compam at Holldml, succeeds John Veneklassen as manager of the \I 01\ ellne } m111tme Company of Zeeland, 1\Ilch \I 13 Huyck, fur111ture dealer of San Jose, Cal., has sold out to the \oonan [Ur111tm e Company of San FrancIsco, who WIll lontmue the bus111ess \\ Ith J E Kllpel t as manager The plant at the Eggel" \ eneer Company at Two RnTers, \lIS h be111g eqmppec1 \\ Ith specIal mach1l1ery for mak1l1g \ eneered door., for thc Chtcago \ eneer Door Company. hed Fe), ±ur111ture dealer of Lora1l1, OhIO, has purchased the Baumhardt block from the K atlOnal Bank of Commerce, \\ hlch \\ III gIve hun room to enlarge hIS prosperous bus1l1es" 'slsslOn & Parker of Lo~ Angeles, have caught the retatl tUlmture stock and store of french & Harley at L1I1dsay, Cal anel \\ III cont111ue the bus111ess \\ Ith Joshua Hadley as manager. [he [amous [mmture and Carpet Company of Spnngfield, ,10 , hd\ e pm cha ,eel a sIte on whIch they WIll erect a three-star} bllch. bmld111g \\ hlch the} expect to occupy about thc mIddle of \ 0\ cmber The Globe furnIture Company, Kew BrunSWIck, N J has been 111lOlpOIated \\ Ith a capItal of $20,000 by Albert Marks, Bertha ::\Ial ks anel Harr) ::\Ia!ks, to deal 111fur111ture and house-hold goods \I atk111s 1310", fm11lture dealer., of Pueblo, Cola, have moved 111tOne\\ qual tel s at the corner of Santa Fe avenue and I hlrel street and nm\ claIm to have the "11Iftles1" fur111tUIe store 111the state EmIle 13enOlt, formerly manager for the upholstery depart-ment for J ame~ ::\lcCrcer) & Co ~ ThIrty-fourth street store. \e\\ York, IS nm\ upholsten buyer for John \\'anamaker's PhIla-delphIa stOl e J 'stel du, one of the bl otnel s \\ ho own a cham of fl1rmtm e StOlc~ 111ea stel n Tennessee WIll open a new storc WIth an ex-tensIve l111eof fur111ture cal pets, rug" etc , at bZ1 1\Iarket street, Chattanooga, about the mldclle of Octobel \ Lohenstc111 & 'sons,fl11mture dealel ~ of 1280 vVa"hlng-ton street, Boston, :'IIass, have been (lIsc:hdlged 111bankruptC) The) paId 23 per cent 111cash and l?;ave notes for 25 per cent mal e all CIeclttOl s relelv111g ,jO pel cent of then cldlms The Prufrock- T~ltton Furmtm e Company of St Lams, 1\10, shm\ ed a hundred loom., furm shed complcte 111evel y detaIl at thc open111~ of then ne\\ qual tel s on Scptember I Two cntll e flOOl' 111the ne\\ bUlld111g \\ CIe elevated to room cltsplays \VIIlIam '\ olkel & Co manufacturers of housefur111shing 10veltles, havc Just completeel a new five-story fire proof butlding to be useel dS factor), \\ al ehou.,e and salesrooms at 1628 Four-tccnth street, onl) 1\\0 blocks from the cIty hall, Dcnvel ,Colo R Adam, of Cedal RapIds, Iowa, has sued the Iowa Fl11- mture In.,Ulance Company to collect $500 on a polIcy that covered the fur111ture store of 1" rank vVaterbury, whIch was burned m September last year The polIcy \\ as assIgned to A..dams, but MISCELLANEOUS NOTES AND NEWS. The SullIvan (Ind) Cabmet Camp an) \\ 111move theIr plant to Terre Haute The Bedford IUll11ttl1 e Company of \ alle]o, Cal, are en-larg1l1g theIr St01e E J. & P. D IV IllIngnam of 1\Iacon Ga, are remodelmg theIr fl1rmtl1re store FI ed J '\Tarsh, fUlmturc dealer of Bakel sfielcl, Cal , h-ls solcl out to E C Crowell 1he Star Fmmture Company of Seattlc \I ash, hae; been 111- corporated WIth $3,000 capItal J ,s 1\Iernll of ::\Iechamcs T dlls ::\Ic ha., .,olel hh tmmtul e store anel retIred from bu,Ille,s Creclttors have fileel a petltlOn 111bankI uptC) agillnst Robert E 1\IcCullough of Lom WIlle, I'\.) The MobIle (Ala) [ur1l1ture Company has been c1ec..Iarcd bankrupt on petltlOn of uedItor, A petltlOn 111 bankruptcy ha., bcen filed agalllst thc 13mlee; Furmture Company of 13essemer, Ala. Hager Bras, fUl11lture dealel., of ::\Iarquette ::\Ilch opened then handsome new store letst '[onela\ There I, a gredt dcmand fOI competcnt (It al1ghhmen 111the 111dustnes, e.,peClall) 11 thc Stl ucturdl steel Imc The Standard ::\1n rOl Cewpan) ot Bl1ftalo, X Y, b to erect a new factOly bmld111g at a cost e~tlmated at $-10,000 The Calk1l1s-V\I hlte Brothers Fur111ture Company of Pueblo, Colo, has been 1I1corporatec1 CapItal stock, $2,),000, dll paId The Central Fmmture Company, dea~ers of LomtvI1'e Ky, have 1I1creasecl theIr capItal stock from S20,000 to S30,000 Charles K Henr) , manufactm el of metal and office ±tn11l-ture of Portland, Ore, IS bUllellll~ a ne\\ fac:tol \, to cost S'2j 000 or $80,000 The Rusco Fur11lture Comp,ll1\ of Pomol\a, Cal, C ~-\. Rus-co, manager have movedmto ne\\ qua' ter" on Gale\ a\ enue and Second street. - The twenty-second annual conventIOn of the \atlOnal P,nnt OIl and Varmsh \ SSoclatlOn \\ III be held m PhIladelphIa, October 12, 13, and 1+ The f1l1111tme factOl) of Z00k & ZOdl, of Intercom se, Ya, IS runmng ovel tIme The facton emplo} s four men besld.,s the propnet01 s The Eastern Outfittmg Com!Jan), furmtUl e dealer., of San FranCISCO, Cal, have moved mto theIr ne\\ SI'(-StOI) bUlldmg at 1017 Market street The Grand RapIds (l\ltch) Hand SCIe\\ Com pam ha \C employed a full force of men and Iun thc tactm \ ()() hOl1r~ pel \\ cek for thc past month J A MohI, the only fUll11ture dealer m Ponca ,X eb, IS l1ayor of the CIty and hIS trade I" grow111g so .upldl) that he WIll have to enlarge hIS store Herbert L Scofield, fUIl11tUIc deale 1 of \ e\\ Canaan Conn, WIll erect a large bnck bUllchng on 1\Jam Stl eet to accommodate hI s large and 111creasmg bl1S111ec;s Yalentme 1hoe,en fOlmeII) \\ Ith ] Len1) Thoe~en, \ C\\ York now represent., thc J ame., II Cooper (ompam of Phlld-delphIa, in the I\C\\ Em;land ,tate, The manager~ of the Koemg I\l1mtul e Compam of St LOUIS, 1\10 , whose plant \\ as blll ned 1 ecently have nnde atrange-ments to rebUIld on an enlarged scale As a result of troublc bet\\ een pal tner" the undel takmg bus-iness of Weber & l\Illler, Cmc1l1nati, OhIO, has been placed 111 the hands of ::\Iartm G rll1l1, as I ecelver G. II J acke;on of \Iltance, 01110, a salesnun of \\ Ide cxpeI-lence has accepted thc posItIon of manage 1 of the Hoo\eI-Row-land furmture store of ::\IallOn, OhIO Peter Dotzauer, a German of New York, who made a for- WEEKLY ARTISAN 21 the company refuses to pay on the ground that other credItors of Waterbury claIm a '>hare of the money clue The P Mahony Company of K ew York CIty, manufactUl ers of wIllow and rattan ware have been mcorporated by \\ Ilham D Saunders, James C BrIll and Henry D 1\[OIr Lapltctl :,tocK paId m $10,050. The name of the .:\Iontgomery Avenue FurnIture Company of Chattanooga, Tenn , has been changed to the KIrkpatrIck Fur-mture Company E 13. KnkpatrIck i'3 presIdent; J. T. KIrk-patrIck, vIce-presIdent, :\ L. KIrkpatnck, secretary and treasurer dnd there are mOle of the '>ame name mtnested In the :,ame b lSI-ness John G Koppelman, presIdent ot the Koppelmdn 1:' urmtUl e Company, St LOUIS, Mo, dIed on Septembel 3, from the effects of a '3U1glcal oper <1tlOnfor ctppemhCltl'3 A natIve of Gelmany, G7" The corner pIeces al e beautIful One is the American flag WIth all ItS tmy :,tars m place, a reproductIOn of the brass cannon m the cIty hall yard, a 1\Iasomc emblem and a star On one edge is the Odd Fellow:,' emblem "\mong the thIrty dIfferent kmds of vv ood used in the table are four vanetle'3 of mahogany, Ru,>slan walnut and mulberry, black walnut, boxwood, red cedar, whIte holly, box elder, syca-more, ebony, soft pme, willte oak, red odk, apple, olIve wood, boxwood, rosewood, lIard pme, cotton wood, beech and osage orange To Educate Mechanics. The Stuyve'3ant evemng traele school wlll open the fall term m 1\ ew York on September 20. These subjects wlll be taught· Made by Grand Rapids Fancy Furmture Co, Grand Rapids, Mich. he had been a resIdent of St Loms smce 1857 He succeeeded hIS uncle, Henry Koppelman m the furmture manufactunng bus-mess and II1corporated the company 111 1877. Table Made With a Jackknife. J ame'> Hutchll1son, veteran, solcher, archJtect and carpenter of Peona, Ill, wIll present Bryner Post, GAR, of that city WIth a centel table for then new hall 1he table wIll contam over +000 piece:, of wood, 3,578 of ",luch have been placed. The PeorIa Transcnp declares "the most wO'ldel ful thmg about the wOIk I:' that the whole tlung was made WIth a common pocket kmfe, whose blades are now worn down to small stubs. 1\1r:'"Hutchmson has been at work on the table for over six months and expect'> to complete It before Thanksgivmg Day In the center of the top IS a checker board, the squares mlaid ,\ lth dark and whIte wood A fancy border skirts the board presentmg fantastIc deslgm made of Ihfferent colOl s of wooel Part of thl'> border contall1'> 2,;552 small pIeces of wood carved mto chamonds Around the edges of thl'> fancy V\ ork are wlute letters carved with the mscnptlOn, "Bryner Post, GAR. No Carpentry and jomery, cabmet making, patternmaking, black-slmthmg, plumbmg, machme shop work, printmg and type'>et-tmg, mathematics, free-hand, alcllltectural, and mechanical draw-mg, machme deSIgn, applIed electnClty, steam engmeenng, elec-tnc wmng and InstallatIOn, mdustrial chemistry, and applIed phySICS Only th0'3e pel sons Will be admitted as students who are not m attendance upon the day school and who are employed dUrIng the day at some regular occupatIOn PupIls over 21 years old Will be reqmred to fmm:,h the plmcpJal WIth a recommenda-tIOn from their employers or other responSIble persons to the effect that It IS the mtentlOn of the'3e pupils to contmue the cour'3e for whJc hthey had registered untIl the end of the school year. IMPROVED, EASY AND ELEVATO RS QUICK RAISINC Belt, Electnc and Hand Power. The Best Hand Power for Furmture Stores Send for Catalogue and Pnce•• KIMBALL BROS. CO., 1067 Ninth St.. Council Bluffs, la. Klmbatl Elevator Co., 3~ Prospect St., Cleveland, 0., 10811thSt., Omaha, Neb., IZe Cedar St , New York City. " ....... •. ..... _.a. .. .--~ ARTHUR S WHITE. PreSident ALVAH BROWN, Vice President HARRY C WHITE, Sec y Treas WEEKLY ARTISAN 23 _.... I II II ••I,•• I I t IIII I• III •,II I, I... ....-- --------------_._------------------~ III• I t,•t •• ,,• •II II II II , I,•• , .•I. THE Wellin~ton notel Cor. Wabash Ave & Jackson Boulevard " , CHICAGO Remodeled at a cost of $150,000 Hot and cold running water and long dis-tance 'phones In all rooms. 200 rooms 100 wIth bath Smgle or en sUlte. Rates $1 00 and upwards One of the most UnIque dlDIQi rooms In the country Our famous Inchan Cale NOTEO FOR SERVICE AND CUI S NE McClintock and Bayfield PROPS. ~-.- ----------~-------------------------~ ,I 'WHEN IN DETROIT '. : STOP AT I ! Hotel Tuller I I New and Ablolutely FIreproof • ,I Cor. Adams Ave. and Park St. ,, • In the Cenl.r of the Thealre, Shop I • pm•• and Busmess Dlstnct t " ! A la Carte Cafe , I Newelt and Flnelt CrIll 1 I Room In the CIty. , : ,~C~lub-B-r.akfast - 4~0c up , , T abl. d hote Dmners 75c : I MUSlcfrom 6P M to 12 PM. : Every room haa a prIvate bath : I EUROPEAN PLAN , Ratel. $1.50 per day and up. : L. W. TULLER. Prop I M. A. SHAW. Mgr I ..---------~-------------.---.-_------------------------------------------------------~--~I, I I,II III•• ,II I I,, -- ,I I,, II , II , Hotel LINDEN Indianapolis Illinois and New York Sts. b Blocks from LnlOn Depot 2 Blocks from Interurban StatIOn 250 Rooms \11 Out'lde, WIth Fire E,cape I elephone III Every Room. European Plan Rate' 75c to $2 00 Per D l\ Duung Room tn ConnectIOll SpecIal Rate' to FamIlies and Permanent Guests I adles Traveling Alone will FlIld [his '1 Yen DeSirable StOpplllg Place. GEO. R. BENTON Lessee and Manager ~----------------------------------------------~ ~, -------------------------- I,I• ,•• •,I III ,I• ,II ~-- • III III III Morton -------------------~IIIII IIIt •II• I,I I •••••••• • _---4 House ( AmeDeanPlan) Rates $2.50 and Up. Hotel PantJind (European Plan) Rates $1.00 and Up. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. The Noon Dmner Served at the Pantlmd for 50c IS THE FINEST IN THE WORLD. J. BOYD PANTLIND, Prop . ~-------------------------------... -----------~ I I ,I BOYNTON &, CO. ,I I , : Manufadurers 01 I " Illy:. Embolled and '. g~TwiWi!lr ... "\i1i.6QSJANTff' Turned Mould : . _ Ings, Emboll- I • SEND fOR ed and Spindle I , Carvlnlrl. and , •• Automafic ,I • Turnings. • • W. also manu : ladore a large hne I I of Embo.led I t Ornaments for t : Couch Work. : I I I I I '256-'258 W. Fifteenth St., CHICAGO, ILL. : II •I ~----------------------------------------------~ ~, ----------------------------------------------~ 1 I I II••• I I,,,• I, I I•• , III I• II ~------------------- II I,,• I, II, II --------------------------~ Spiral Grooved and Bevel Pointed DOWEL PINS Note how the glue in the Spiral Groove forms Thread like a Screw Bevel Pointed, easy to drive Straight so will not split the frames Prices and discounts on application STEPHENSON MFG, co" SOUTH BEND. IND. ~----------------------------------------------~ I , • • ! HOFFMAN BROTHERS CO. ! I FT. WAYNE, IND .• I• I• I· ,, : HARDWOOD LUMBER ! I : I • •, •. l,l SA~~D l QUARTERED OAK VENEERS I, I SLICED \ AND MAHOGANY , I I ~• --------------------- -----------------------~ I :----------------------------------------------1 I These saws are I I I t made from No.1' • Steel and we war- ! I,! rant every blade. •I t We also carry a , : full stock of Bev- I I eled Back Scroll I ': Saws, any length I and gauge. I I , , I t Write us tor I : Price Llst : • nnd discount , I , I I I ! 31-33 S. Front St., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. I .. __ •• III III III III III III III III •••• _. I ••• __ .... WEEKLY ARTISAN 25 ------------- _.- . ------------------_._. __._------_._------_._._-----._------_._-_._---_ ..---~ This Group for ~51 Solid Oat{; French Plates; Any Finish Desired $18.00 6.50 4.00 8.75 775 6.00 Wardrobe Dresser Combination Dresser Commode Dresser Chiffonier Bed .,.- FINISHES-Golden Oak. Gloss, Dull Golden, Early EnglISh. Weathered of Fumed F. O. B. Manistee. I II'-------------,-----_._._._._-_ .._------------------- --------------_._.~._--------~ Manistee Mfg. CO. MANISTEE, MICH. Wanted-Table Legs. Vveekly Artlsan, Grand Rap1ds, l\llch, Gentlemen - \Ve wish to get 111correspondence w1th some concern '" ho manufacturers cheap extensIOn and cheap k1tchen table legs 'vVe have been unable to locate such a concern. but have been thl11kmg that you m1ght be able to refer us to some one who does this kmd of work If you can give us the names of two or three such manufacture! s we will greatly appreciate the favor. New York Markets. .;\e", York, Sept 17-The most notable feature of the 111 ~~- kets m which furmture manufacturer~ are 111tere"ted Ie al'ctLer advance 111the pnce of turpentl11e, willch IS now quote(1 Iere at bO@61 ce,lts Savannah, firm at 5,@:Jj 0 cents Ll11seed Ollis weak and there ha~ been c011S1der2ble shadl11e" of the quotabons wh1ch have been held for several (lay~ at oJ(~(~ 31' for western raw, sll1g1e bOlled, 3b@"}{), double bOlle 1 "}<)@b~ Calcutta, H@75 cents. Shellac finds a ready demand III small parcels but there 1S httle or nothlllg d0111g III round lots, T N m cases 1S quoted at lb@1G0 bnght orange grades at 18@19, Diamond 1, '26@;2'1 Bleached, fresh 17@1S, kiln dned 21@22 cents The trade 111varmsh gums stlll suffers from the h1g11 prICe 0f turpent111e. Sales are small and slow though pnces al e vveJI mamtamed Kaun Ko 1. -10@-18, No 2, 21@25. No. '3 ~0(("1 S cents :"lamla, pale, 15@17 , dark, hard, 13@1.) , amber, 12@H. Recelpb of goat skms are sbll hght but they meet the de-mand and quotatIOns have been Without matenal change for nearly a month J\lex1can frontlers, o,3 cents, Buenos Ayre~, JC@+2; Curacaos, :J0@52, Baybens, 4,J@J8. The cordage trade IS Irregular owmg to the unsettled conch-bon of the raw matenal markets B C twme, No] 8 is quoted today at lCJ@lG0 cents, No ]S fine, 11@11,Y:; Incha, ~os 4y2 to U, 7X@8. Sheet ZlllC IS quoted at $7 GO per 100 pounds, fob m111s The burlap market IS Without specIal features QuotatlOns stand at last weeks' figures-3 bO for eight-ounce goods, 4- 80 for 100 ounce Your~ respectfully, Dawley Furniture Company, Charleston- Kana wha, Sept 15, 1qOB W va. The Novelty Wood Works of Grand Rapids Will undoubt-edly be pleased to correspond With the West \ 1rgm1a company and probably other reader~ of the Weekly Arbsan Will addrecs the managers of the company, expressmg their ablhty and w111- mgness to supply their wants Will Consider Industrial Problems. An lllternatlOnal llldustnal congress w111be held in \Vash-lllgton dunng the comlllg year Dates w111 be chosen later. QuestlOns that naturally would be lllcludec1 m the program of the congress are :"1:ethods of conClhatlOn and arbitratIOn, llldus-tnal msurance, employers' habihty, old age penSIOns, out-of-work 111surance, the safeguardmg of machmery, profit shanng and questIOns relatmg to women and children in industry The call for the congress Will probably be Issued by the general gov-ernment. L Adams succeeds W L Block, furmture dealer of Oregon Hardwood Lumber Markets. CIty, Oregon Hardwood lumbermen-producers and dealers-m all sec-bons of the country report steady 1mprovement m thelr busmess An lllcrease 111 demand and a sbffenmg of pnces 1S the burden of the repOl ts A scarc1ty of 111gh grade quarter-sa\Ved oak IS reported from some p01nts, but as a ",hole the "upply seems to be about e(lual to the demand i\t any rate the alleged scarcity has not cau~ed any matenal change m pnces 111 the past two two weeks There IS salCl to be a much better demand for red oak than for the white vanety A few months ago the demand favored the white All kllld s of hardwood lumber except oak culls and low grade gum and cottonwood are reported as movlllg freely. ..--- - "• " -... --- ..- .. . . • Henry Schmit 8 Co' HOPKINS AND HARRIET 5i5. Cincinnati, Ohio makers of for LODGE and PULPIT, PARLOR, LIBRARY. HOTEL and CLUB ROOM \ dcalH one ot tho~e already fur11lshed IS qUIckly cleared and the desIred plc:es are put 111 The advantage of thIS plan I" that the cu"t0111er does not have to ' go It bhnd" 1.1 mak111g hIS ~electI0n". Instead of walt111g untIl the goods are dehvered, 110 can see at the StOl e how they WIll look when set up and as",e111bled, and when bUyIng hIs furnIture he can get valuable Idea~ a" to decoratl'e methods Thl" pldn of dIsplay 111g fur11lture has been In operatIOn about "1). month" at the Vvanamaker store, and It has proved "c. effect1\ e that other estabh",hmemts 111 ::.Jew York are adopt111g It Intele"tln~ as are the small dIsplay rooms the center of dttl altlOn III tne \\ dnalllaker store IS "The Home Palatial" 1 hl~ occupIes the east end of the bUlld111g and purpol ts to be a t\\ 0 ",tory home of refinement and wealth A ulllformed footman stands at the entrance The vIsItor enters a WIde fm er hall furnIshed In GeorgIan style To the nght IS a LOlll" X\ salon, VI Ith the paneled walls, the plano, the cabI-net the chaIr", fireplace, dock, hght111g fixtun:ls and other tm msh111g~) all 111 keep111g There IS a great Ehzabethan hbl ar}. \\ Ith timbered cea1111g and all the furmshmgs m the Ehzabethan sty Ie The dmmg room IS Jacobean, the slttmg loom I" Lm se}, the 11\mg room IS Morns, the study FlemIsh I endl <sance and the kitchen is a model with tile floo, and \\ alb and enameled smk" and utenSIls. From the dm111g room ope 1S a pretty Vle\\ of an Itahan Court Garden A WIde "talrVl a} lead" from the foyer hall to the upper floor, WIth the land111g 111 a large gallery hall One of the chambers IS Du Dan} another IS 111:\Iane l-\ntOlnette, and others are Sheraton, and colomal The guest chamber IS 111GeorgIan, the morlllng 1OG111h ~heraton and d wnt111g room 111Adams There IS a 1ll1I\el"lt} boys loom, a college gIrls room, a day nursery and a 11Ight 11tlrsel} Lach loom I" complete in Itself and as nearly perfect a~ good ta"tc can dIrect, even to the pIctures and floor coy ellll~S \\ htle the "house palatial" IS purely for show pur- ]JO~C" It I" e"ceedlllgl} home hke 111appearance, WIth the bIg chall" seemlllgl} I eady to be occupIed at any time and the c!Imng room \\ altlng for the chnner to be served Colored maId" are seen here and there, dUSt111g the fur11lture and thIS hel~htens the home hke effect. ] he "home palatial," It IS saId, cost upwards of a quarter of a mIllIOn of dollal s to 111stall The constrLlctlon 15 "ohd, the tlul11,hlllg ~ al e those of a mIllIOnaIre's home and the furm-ttu e IS of the latest and best ] hIS was estabhshed less than a } ear ago and one month dUlrng \\ hlch tab was kept the VISItors numbered more than 100,000 That the plan IS attractive IS furthel atte"ted by the fact that home butlders have come from as fal away as St Paul, Omaha and Denver to obta111 Ideas on furmshmg and to buy goods The \\ anamaker StOl e has a staff of a dozen or more deSIgners and artbb and the Engh"h mode IS saId to be grow- 111g In fay or If a house IS to be refunllsheld the deSIgner is a-,ked to subnl1t color plans, those plans llYlude the wall decOl at IOns, the floor covenng"" the drapenes and the furm-t urc 1he m\ ner knows what he IS gOIng to get before any \\ ork IS done and If the effects are not what may be deSIred or an} changes are asker] for, the only troubled mvolved IS do- Ing 0\ er the draw111g" Furnlsh111g by plan IS done In single looms SUIte" of rooms, and to embrace the whole house. In se\ el al 111stances old houses have been remodeled and then turm",hed accorchngly to the plans prepared, and such are the WANAMAKER'S GREAT SHOW ROOMS Word Pictures of the Most Complete House Furnishing Department in the World. An Interview 'Vith the Manager. rr he 'vVanamaker store 111~ e\\ York, IS a gl eat 111StltU-tlon. It IS a store of many depal tments and each depart-ment IS a complete store In Itself, the dggre!.,;ate IS Immel1"e It occupIes t\ll 0 of the large",t mercanttle bUllc!Ing" 111~ e\y York, dIVIded by an dlley and connected by an underground tunnel and an overhead 111dosed bndge The \Vanamaker fur11lture store occupIes three floors at one of the bl11lc!Ing" To VISIt thIS store I" an easy and plea~ ant way to a hberal ecltlcatlOn in the al t of furniture and furl-lllsh111g It I" worth a tnp half way acros" the cont111ent Ju"t to study the \\ anamaker method of arrangement and chspla\ The \Vanamaker bUlld111g" ha \ e large al ea", or \\ elb e, tend111g up through the centel hom the ma111floor to the glas" roof Each floor abo\ e the first I, a gallery alound th1" central area Thl3 gl\ e" good ltght and \ enttlatlon ] hc effect IS pleas111g 1hIs IS mentIOned 111c1dentall} ~ at e\ er} merchant can haye hI;" store arranged th1" way I n other re- "pect~, howey e1, \ \ anamaker HIed" can be obsu \ ed \\ Ith plofit The first floor or gallery In the furmtUl e clepal tmen t I" devoted chIefly to parlor and bed room ftu11Iture, the "econd to chmng room and hbrary and the tlllrd to office eqUIpment Around the centlal area, OCCUpy111g a gene10u" space thc furmture IS arranged 111tho con\ entlOnal tUl1l1ture StOl e \\ e1\ Here may be a row of chalf::, there a 10\\ ot ~Icleboal ds and <) on The goods arC! grouped accord111g to theIr kInd, and thele 1::' nothIng particularly "tnk111g m the d1"pla} TIut let the viSItor pass by this claSSIfied assortment and give his atten-tIOn to the mdl\ Idual e:Ah1b1ts Along the front and on the SIde of the first gallCly \\ III be found a double ro\\ of small looms made by the bll1lchng partItion" and the length of the ord111ary room In the ~econd gallery the"e smctll rooms al e around three "Ides and the th1rd along one slele The rooms are of d1fferent slze~ from 10xl0 to tWIce these (hmen~lon::, and there are SO or more of them. Each room h c!Ifterentl} fi111::,hed, decorated and fUlnbheel ~ome are In mahogdl1\, ",ome 1n oak, some 111 b1rch or b11d ,,-e} CI maple 01 m cnamel effects Some hay e wamscodtmg, some al e papel ed other" are frescoed anel some are 111bUllap or leather Each ,room is deSIgned to represent some feature in the house and the decora-tl\ e schem(j dccord", WIth thIS de"lgn \\ hen 1t 1'0ele"lred to dl"pla y an old Enghsh (hnm~ "Ulte, the fur111tul e 1S placed m one of the httle room" tl1dt ha" been fim"heel to lepresent a chn111g room and the room chosen IS one ',Ith decoratIVe effects that wIll harmonl/e WIth the furmture A beel room sU1te 111 the LOUI" XVI "tyle goe" 111to a room that ha" a da111ty French patteln on the wall The colomal sUIte WIll be seen anud colomal surround111gs The aIm IS to gIve the fur-mture effective surround111gs and the results are wonderfully pleas111g and full of suggestion, for the customer ThIs Idea IS carned still further than the fL1111lture and the \\ dll paper. :Even the pIctures on the wall, and e\ er) room has halt a dozen or more, the w111dow elrapelles and the rug", on the floor are carefully selected to be 111keepmg \\ Ith the general plan In a room that lepresents a hall \\111 be "ho\\n fam1l} portraIts The French bod room WIll hay e old pnnb 111 damty frames, the ltbrary \ 1ews of hlstoncal cathedral;" and castles and the parlol rare pa111tmgs In engra\ 111g", \Iost of the rooms are kept fur111"hecl for the 111spectton of VISItor", but If a cu"tomer deSIre" to see how a ~Ulte 111 an} pIece of furmture WIll look, If there 1S not a SUItable room WEEKLY ARTISAN 27 SEND FOR CATALOGUE. re"ouree.., of the \ \ anamaker e..,t:lbli~hment that contracts have been tahen whlen 1l1volvtd much teM1l1g 0 ,t and rebLnld Ing ;-"0 extra chalge IS made for the deslgnl11g when \\ ana-maker ge s the Job. \lorem er the desIgner and artist are always accessIble when customers desIre ac1\ ICe or 'Sugges-tIOn, \11 C c\ Brockway I':>at the head of the \Vanamakel fur111ture department \11 Brockway has been com1l1g to the markets a.., <1 b t'yel f01 more than thIrty years He 1° one of the best known of the semI annual \ ISILJro, and hIS annal I" always awaltecl V\lth 111terest and what he ha" to say regard111g tlade and prospects IS always lecelVed WIth l11terest He ha, an office m a qUIet corner on tho oppo"lte SIde of the bUllchng from the bus111e"s office I t IS a mod-e" tly funl1shed office WIth not too much furmture In It A group pIcture ot tne (rrand RapIds fur llture manuLtcturers adorns the wall Another pIcture IS one of the late Geo \\ Gay Half a d07en other photograph::, complete the decoratIOn s J\Ir Brockway gIves clOSCIpel sOllal attentIOn tel the busmess of hIS depal tment He I ote':l that f llrlllture meet<, WIth favor and that whIch the customer.., pa~s by. He ongmated the: model looms as a means of dlsplaY111g hIS wal es The hOlhe palatIal IS hh ulea HIS ong-l1ldhty has enormously Increased the bJ'-1l1e..,s of the hou..,e, and thel eby JustIfied the eApense mvolved m the llnprovements At Ins suggestIOn also each floor 01 Q,allely has Its 0\" n Shlrpllg room The dehver) v\agon mstead of walt1l1Q,at the aIle) door £01 tlle g-ood.., to be brought dO\\ n IS drawn lipan an enorlllOL1S elevator J he hor..,es are taken off and the wagon IS h01stecl h )chl) to the floor fJ om whIch the Shlp'llenh are to be made The goods ale loaded chreet from the floor and then the wagon I.., lowered to the street level The horses are hItched on and off they go for the delivery ThIS method saves much handhng, reduces the hanrd of breakage or n1drnng and saves tnne The shlp-pmg rooms on each floor are so large that If de'-Ired the wagon can be taken off the elevator to be I Jaded and thel eby release the elevator for other sel vIce lOne of the Hrocb\a) hobble.., IS deanhness "",ot a speck of chrt WIll be found any\\ here about hb department He has a corps of me'l and colored \\ omen constantly at \\ ork ahke 111 the gallery show room and 111the model r00111Skeep1l1g the dust off and making the furlllture look Its bnghte<t and best "Bmmess has been vel) satIsfactory tlms far thIS season, ' saId J\Ir Brockway "Thel e IS nothmg hke a boom, <lwl I have known tImes when the good.., have moved faster The feel1l1g IS Opt11111tI'c" and the prospects 111 111) opmlOn are ex-cellent "The Earl) Enghsh styles I thll1h are movmg more freely than the II ench or the Colomal, and I am lookmg for mcreased fa'vor f01 the Enghsh pellod goods ge11erally The French and the Colomal have been 1111ltated 111 cheap goods and thIS has tended to ImpaIr the demand f01 tl'e better grades ] he Early Engllsh styles, too, are newer and the man who wants some-thmg chfferent from that whIch hI'S neIghbor has, more or less naturally takes to theIr deSIgns The Loms XY a"1d LoUl.., XVI and the Colomal deSIgns have too much permanent ment ever to go out of style, L It what I mean h that the Enghsh pdtterm dIe ga1l1m~ 111populant) whIle the others are b~1l1g so newhat neglected "Our model rOOlll'Sand the ho.l..,e pctlatnl have plOve 1 hIghly sathfactory It IS ImpOSSIble to tell exactly how much the) have helped but \\ e know thl.., plan of chsplaymg goods has pl('ased our cu'Stomers and 1l1crea'Sed theIr numbers and the rdurns mchcate that what we spent 111fixmg up was a paym!S In vestment \Ve have no lllte 1tIon of return111g to the old method at any rate Our plan has helped bus1l1ess 111other departments than furlllture, m wall paper, drapenes, rug", arts and chmd People have '-een how we fitted up rooms and In many Instances have used our r00111Sas models III fittmg and furmslllng room" of theIr ()\\ n (Jur home palatial has been vel y extensIvely used, not eAactl) as a model b It a'S a source of lllsplratlOn and sugge'StlOn The) may not try for the same effects or even use the 'Same matenals but they get the Idea and work out the de-tad'S to "mt themselves and If the) buy of u.., that IS all we a"k III return fhe tendency today III the fl11111 Shlllg of fine homes IS to have tlung'S harmoll17e However hand..,ome the furlllture ma) be the re..,ult \\ III not be satlsf 1ct01y unless ItS surrounchngs dre 111 keep1l1g \\ Ith It 111 sty Ie and color liVe are dOIng every thmg \\ e can <md the great purpo..,e 111 the..,e model rooms I'S to educate the people III harmollle'S Judglllg from the number who come here and the care WIth whIch they study our moms, the people hke to be educated The popular taste IS mu-:::h bet-ter than It med to be an) way and the demand for the artlstl-call) COIlect, I beheve, IS steadIly growlllg The demand IS growmg also for furmture of real ment, goods that WIll be as mentonoU'S a hunch ed years hence a.., now There WIll, of course, be the usual chaslllg after fad'S, but more and more the tendency IS to take those goods \\ Inch WIll never groy;y old ex-cept m year~ TIns I'S a very encourag111g tendency and we are dOlllg all \\ e can to help It along' Cad Ehlenberger a ..,uccessful cabmet maker, of Brooklyn, '.J Y, who retIred a few) ears ago, dIed on September 2, aged G2 years He was a natIve of German) 28 ,\ ° It dId not requn e a great amount of money to do \\ hat \\ e hay e done \\ e bought the place for $2,080 and mac1e a pay l11ent of $208 The gleatest outlay has boen m the labOl of the carpenter" \\ e have an old-fashIOned gar-den that I" a \\ onder I t helped us to dlsposc of the place to] the ..,ea..,on ten \\ e hay e rented It for enouhg to pay for all the I epan.., \ ~ the place \\ a" not ready for the early ..,ea"on \\e kne\\ that a planted garden would aId us m find- Inl?,"a tenant ffl 'In our \\01k there are so many branches \Ve o~ten al range ..,C('1e.., fer play s, and as we make It our busmes" to be up to date on all knowledge of penods and of where to ~o to pr~Kure certam rare thmg" we are not at a loss to do \\hate\el \\01k come, our way \ bu..,me..,,, ..,uch a" ours cannot bo expected to meet 1\ lth ..,ucce..,.., dt once Ii h a development We carned Olh 111om hah tor t\\ 0 or three years before \\ e ventured to hIre a ~tl\(llO. \\ e began on a small scale as purchasers ior hou"ekeepe1 s and finally we have learned to know what om patlOns \\ ant better than they know themselves \Ve learnecl the stoch of the dIfferent shop" \1\ e made It a feature to seun e the effect" VvIth a nommal expenchture, untIl finalh \\ e took a step hIgher thlough commg m con-tact \\ Ith people \d10 ce ulc1 pay 11"ore \\T cl charged $5 a day tal OUl tIme m shoppmg at fir,t, and had aLa our own C0l11ml"..,10n flam the "tores, but now we buy our own stock and hay e OUl o\\n ..,cale of pnce.., \\ hen \\e send m a bIll thele 1" no tllne ..,tatemcnt do\\n on the bIll, but the charge 1" thel e all the same It h the demand that C1eatc.., the \ alue Hel e IS a ca"e In pOlnt \ \ e hay e bought up all of certam patter:1s In \\ all papers and 111other fabncs \Ve arranged WIth the manufacturers to regard thIS certam pattern OUI own In thh \\ ay thel e are "ome wall paper" \\ hlch we buy at 10 cenlt:, and sell at a $1 a roll The same holds WIth cretonne, \\ hat \\ e buy at 3:; cenL we charge 95 cents for Thus \\ e charge for our tIme and taste "\\ e a"o attend auctlOns and buy up the bargains IA hen \\ e can ..,lnce \\ e u..,ually know of a corner of a room m some- ])()ch .., hOlhe \\ hel e 1 u "t that artIcle I" needed \\ e fit out country houses for bachelor, ThE means that \\ e pUt the house m perfeJ2t conchtlOn e\ en to the 1111- tIab on the table l1l1en and the bechoom lmen Every-thmg e\ en to the kItchen clock and tea towels IS there com-plete and \\ e even put a housekeeper 111chal ge WIth exphClt dnectlon" a" to hel dutIes "::\Ioney maul hu..,mes,) You can I eachly see that there I" money mlt, Lut It must he a de\eolpment 1he first year \\ e had our "tucho \\ e (lId $30,000 worth of husmelss on $600 capItal ~ow \\e do many tImes that amount of bus'ness, and our capItal has made Itself I cannot attempt to say Just Vvhat our mvestment I", sInce our pnces belong to the art class. \1\ e may buy an antIque for $5, havel It put m condItIOn, and sell It for $175 \Ve know values "The great dra\\ back about our work IS the tremendous amount of detaIl 1he place must he complete when we lea\ e It In reaelInes ,-for a bachelor-we wIll say, e\ ery housekeeper know" hO\\ long It takes her to supply e\ ery detaIl Even WIth the utmo"t v IgIlance there IS hkely to be ..,ometh1l1g more to he added \\ e 'usually make what bU1ld-el" call a bId for the \"OIk In our early days we made the mIstake of makmg too ..,mall a bId, but VI e have learned by expellence the \ alue of httle thmg", and so now we put the , figure hIgh enough to allow for about $200 worth of neces- "anes, and we Just barely come out even. WEEKLY ARTISAN NEVER HAVE A DULL SEASON. Some Inside Information From a Feminine Firm of House Decorators. "Dull :oc~"on, dId )OU "a\) It ~ IH:\ el dull ..,ea"on fOl us I only WIsh It were, "aId the hcad ot a tem1l1111e tll m of house clecOlatols and funllsher" that ha" "tUdl(h m \\ e..,t Thnty-th1rd :otree , not far from Broad \\ ay, to a VI nter hr the \ ew York! Sun "1\ a matter how brOIlIng hot the weather 1:0, there I" alway s a telephone call for \\ork 111a countI y hou"e, {or \1 hen a cIty \\ oman mo\ es her hou:oe11lld goods out Into the country, 'th1l teen nl1le, fIom a lemon a.., Gall HamIlton "0 wlttll) "a1d 1t. then she \\ anh the thln~ ..,he wants han1e1 than C\ er " \\ hen 1:0the dull <,eason) \ e\ el. fhere h n.c\ (J a dull "eason L there e\ el a tIme \\ hen a hOlhe doe.., not need somethmg done t) It) \\ hy a h011..,e h lIke a \\ o-man's clothe", there I" ah\ a)" ..,ometh1l1g that need.., makl11L: Made by Mamstee Manufactuung Co , Mamstee, MICh over, or lefurhlshlllg, or else the effect 1" ,habbv \\ e \\ould lIke to run aWd) to I:Ulope, but It lo,)k.., now a.., If the tI Ip \\ould he Impos<,lblc, e-,peuallv "mce \\ e hay e countI) l)ldce<, on Oul hand" "YeIU see, wo bought one of the qualnte"t old tumble-down house, out 1n CnnectIcut, and \\ e hay e taken all our spare moment" fitt111g It up, budd111g on looms, teanng out partItIons, and trY111g to make It 11\ e up to the perfectly good sty Ie front door \\ hlch It pos"ebes \\ e are no\'-' 100k111g for a purchaser WIth about $12,000 'Pnce lngh)' ;\0, not too hIgh for the art and the taste and the ha11110ny and the qualIty wInch make all COyet the house once thc) hay e seC'n 1t "There h a demand for exactly the k111d of a hOlhe \\ e have to sell, and as ul all art l111e" the dcn'anll I" \\ hat leg ulates the value Onl) an artIst could hay e "elected the \\ all papers and the I ugs and hanl?,"l11C;s 1he pamt had to be treated <,0 that attentIon Vlould not be called to the fact that the VI oodwork wa" \ el) old The) ello\\ kItchen h a dream of domestIcIty In fact, \\ e 1m e the place ~o that we long to hvel In 1t our~ehe<,. WEEKLY ARTISAN 29 HISTORY OF NEW ENGLAND FURNITURE. More Lessons From the Exhibition Made by the Metropolitan Museum in Connection With the Hudson-Fulton Celebration. The exhIbItIOn of furmture used m :\menca, dunng two centunes-lG23 to 1823-arranged m the Metropohtan :!\Iuseum, ~ ew York, m connectIOn wIth the Hudson- I'ulton celebratIOn, shows that ~ ew England s furmture hIstory IS very dIfferent from that of the Southern colomes, very httle wooden furniture bemg Imported 1\ ew England made hel own wooden ware and e-xported It to tne other colomes, for her Jomers and cabmet-makers qUIckly became numerous and expert, though theIr furm-ture was unusually sImple Samuel Goodwm's furmture (about 1729) shows the strange mIxture of styles and matenals be-tokemng the transItion from carved oak to mahogany HIS thIrty-one chaIrs "ere cane, leather, Turkey work, matted bottom and carved back, and hl~ tables were of maple, black", alnut and whIte "'ood The pnces of the furmtUl e of most of the Jomers and cabmetsmakers were low, for thClr wage~ were mtended for the great cla~s of yoemen, artisans and manners Tne table of ::\1011 PItcher, the celebrated chvmer by tea, whIch b preserved IS typIcal of the time-roughly put together wIth fallmg leaves, cabnole IC'gJ and hoof feet Salem and l\Iarblehead were the head center" of manufac-ture and the mterestmg old home of the Turners m the former place made famous by Hawthorne m "The House of Seven Gables,' offers a good type of th~ elaborately furmshed \ew England home of the nllCldle elghteentl1 century ] he "be~t room' contamed one large black "alnut table, one Japanned, one small walnut and one mlald tea table and stand, twelve black cane chaIrs, SIX whIte cane chaIrs, one great whIte cane chaIr, a lookmg glas~ "'Itn tV'.a bra"s arms valued at £ ,'l(), two glass sconces and nmeteen gla~s covered meZLotmts hung on the walls The "best room" served as breakfast, chnmg and hvmg room The "great chamber" wIth Its all Important bed and eushteen chaIrs and tV'.enty pIctures, the hall wIth Its clock '" orth £ 1dc, the "hall chamber," the "shop chamber," the "POI cn cham-ber, . the "kItchen chamber" all had the mevltable bIg bed and elaborate bed furmshmgs and the equally mevltable chest Persons of wealth frequently had their furmture made to order from Imported fine woods or Imported It dIrect, sometImes m then own ShIp It IS mtere tmg to <late that the more ornate pIcture frame~ were Imported from London because the work could be done more cheaply there than m Boston In the mven, tones of the penod applIed black ornaments and knobs were cal-led "old fashIOned," whIle brass mounts had come mto favor, the chaIrs '" ere straIght, flat backed, and the slat chaIrs WIth backJ formed for two, three or five slats seem to have been popular, as well as the clown back chaIr of carved walnut or maho~any attnbuted to ChIppendale Now Jomers, turners carvers, up-holsterers, varmshers, clockmake1:o and cab111etmakers abounded stilet '" atch bemg kept for new arnvals of these trades, the I ecords showmg that character and means were the quahficatlO1L of admISSIOn The new era of furmture begmnmg the latter half of the eIghteenth century "'Ill be well represented 111the MetropolItan exhIbItIOn, many collectors of note havm~ pr01111sed to loan Im-portant speCImens, mcludmg George S Palmer of ~ew London, Conn , DWIght Blaney and F H BIgelow of Boston, the ex-amples havmg eIther come chrectly from England or copIed II thIS country ThIS era IS pretty generally knoV'.n, as It contams such well known names of makers as ChIppendale, Sheraton. Adam and Hepplewhlte, but between the pr edomlna<lce of Jacob-ean furmture and that whIch appears m Clllppendale's book there was a long transItory period m whIch many popular crazes reIgned, notably the Chmese craLe and a kmd of spunous GothIC reVIval Lac work mou IL, nch gdt and metal mounts carved objects m Ivory, teal and ebony charactenzed the former, "V'.111m-slcal ornamenL and mcorrect profiles, the latter Chmese (,otlllc, and French Renal~sance fads all had theIr htUe day and still remam mthe form of cunous Jouvemrs ChIppendale s deslg 1~ sho", a tremendous Influence of the French schGol, and the name of ] homas ChIppendale, althou~h not promment and mdeed almost totally Ignored dunng hIS hfe-tIme no\\ overshadows all others of Engh~h cabmetmakCl J \A hlle he m~lsted on practlcablhty of deslgl" he wa~ acove all else a carver and gIlder, and whel e glld1l1g could not be used h~ obtamed Its effect by the free use of brass wltn a can Iderable leaven of uphol~tery In thl~ count I y the fUl mture answenng to hIS publI"hed de"lgns IS found only II the ~Impler forms, such a chaIrs, tables and bookca~es However, the popular styles of the day whIch have com~ to be clas~ed under the general head ChIppendale, exhlbltln~ cabllOle legs and claw and ball feet are well exemphfied ::\Ir Bolle s collectIOn contams a table of thIS type eIght fold 111 "hape, carved m the center, supported by one balu~ter leg WIth tnpod cabnole teet eidmg 111 ball and claws The deSIgns of the :\dam brothers m the late elghteeneh century followed after the style of LOUIS X\ I The strat~ht lme, arabesque scrollV'.ork, gayety and lIgntness and formalIty were characten~tlcs, "Imphclty, elegant slendernes~ and low rehef were the essence :\s the furmture wa nch and costly It was necessanly not predommant, althou~h wealthy En~lhhme 1 who settled here temporanly or permanently and who endeavor-ed to keep up '" Ith the fashIOns at home Imported speCImen" The chan~ from the \ an Ren s~elder manor houJe are very ~0Q(1 eAamples The Hepplewhlte productIons claIm no ong1l1ahty for they sought only to satisfy the taste of the hour lIere the .:lawfoot IS seen rardy and oIly on bedposts, the ball never 1-1IS de-hght was 111 chaIrs, ~OLl~ and ~Ideboards, tne former shO\" 1I1g upholster1l1gs of SIlk, lmen or leathel fastened by rows of evenIv ~tudded bra"s nalls, often ornamented WIth three feathers on the back out of complllllent to tne Pllllce of vVales "StuffecI' fur-mtture wa" now most popular HClpplewhlte lasted but a short tIme, havmg caught the declme of popular taste, an 1 at the very end of the eIghteenth century or the begmnl11g of the mnetcenth 5heraton'~ de~lgn'3 "ucceecled m favor HIS style IS a reactIOn frJm the rococco, tall and ~len-cler, WIth tapenng "term" legs often flute 1, square backed chaIrs, SIlk or satIn 'upholstery, ~tnped, figured or WO\ en or pal11ted WIth formal deSIgns, looped green stlk behl11d the doors of hl~ boolcases or cabmlts, USI11~ ~ome maho~any but more gold, whIte and gold, satm wood and ]apannl11g A characten~tlc Sheraton chaIr belongl11~ to '\Ih" Anne Van Cortlandt, ClOton on the Hud~on. ha~ the central slat of the back 111 the form of a \aoe WIth te"toons, enclo"ed m a "pe-ual arcaclcJ open frame, reenfOl Led by a ...eumdal y and platner frame '1 he seat IS uphol"tel ed 111 "tnped "atm. At the outbreak of the Re\olutlOn Imported anel home made furmture made wealthy Amencan homb comparable to those of England Though 111 the 1'\orth slmpltclty \\ a, more marked than 111 the South, elegance wa" found e, en In ?\'ew England In l\Iaryland hcme" and 111 VlrglJ11a and Charlcbton :0 U111ptuousne~~ wa~ to be fonud Of all the Colomal hou~es now stanchng l\Iount Vernon I, of course the most mterestmg on account of Its a~"oclatlOn", and ItS tolerablv well known furm"h111g~, by no mean" palattal, are faIrly ;YPlcal of
Date Created:: 1909-09-18T00:00:00Z
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