Michigan Artisan; 1906-06-10

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Issue of a furniture trade magazine published in Grand Rapids, Mich. It was published twice monthly, beginning in 1880. and Twenty-sixth Year-No. 25 JUNE 10, 1906 Semi-Monthly WYSONG & MILES LEE AND .JACKSON STS. CREENSBORO. N. C. 100% to 200 % PROFIT PER YEAR on this Sand Belt. The investment is a small one. The few months you are getting along withollt it is losing you the entire price of it. HUNDREDS MOST~~RTo':.:iNENT FURNITURE MANUFACTURERS using this Sand Belt state that these claims fall short of the real merits of the machine. IT HAS THE DESIRED ADJUSTMENTS QUICKLY MADE Our claims are that.it will sand with _thegrain and require no retouch~ ing by hand the following: Mirror frames, round oval,- any shape; drawer rails; drawer fronts, base rails, dc., serpentine, ogee, round or swell; straight veneered or cross veneered; ogee, round, bevel or straight edges of dresser or table tops, of round) square or scrolled patterns; table tops. of round, square or -scrolled pat. terns; table rims, dresser posts; veneered rolls or columns; straight, ogee or round· ed mouldingli; raised surfaces of panels; spirals of table legs; curtain slats for roIl-top desks; spindle carvings; french table legs; plumbers' wood work; etc., etc. No. 164 Sand Belt Machine. A MESSAGE OF IMPORTANCE TO THE MANUFACTURERS ,OF AMEIHCA: Do you wish to lessen the cost of handling your pro_ ~duct by the use of light running, lOIlg lasting axles? If so -explain to your wagon builder that Gillette Roller Bearing Axles are inexpensive to buy-easy to install-simple iu con-struction and highly effective in reducing the draft"'-that they can be made a part of YOUR vehicle at OUR risk as we ship on approval to responsible persons. And ask him to write to U5-or do so yourselves. IT WILL PAY YOU. Yours for the cheapening of manufacturing costs, THE GILLETTE ROLLER BEARINGCOMP ANY Patentees and Sole Manufacturers, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN. BEAUTIFUL ARDWO OORS H OD FL . To obtain the m'ost satisfactory and durabJeresults fill with Wheeler's Patent WoodFill" .ndnn's' wit •• coat of Bce;oJg'.FJOOT.PO];sh. OnTp"n"p";' ,. walk on the wood, not on the finish. THE BRIDGEPORT WOOD FINiSHING CD., New MiUord. Conn.; 70 W. Lake St •• Chicaao; 41.43 So. 3rd St., Philadelphia; 48 Cornhlll. Boston. '.; GOOD FINISHING Is the most essential part of the business of FURN-ITURE MAKING. Our WOOD FINISHING MATERIALS are not only good-they are THE BEST. You need not take our word for this---you can PROVE IT FOR YOURSELF. Write us for samples of any ot our products. We shall be glad to send them to you. The Marietta Paint al Colo..-Co. Marietta. Ohio A Few of Our '" Products That Have Been Tried and Have Become Famous for Their Practical Merits: GOLDEN OAn A PRACTICAL OIL STAIN EARLY ENGLISH OAn SPARTAN STAIN WEATHERE.D OAn OIL STAIN No. 700 FUME.D OAn AN ACID STAIN For Heavy Work Use the BENEDICT CLAMPS Grand Rapigs Hand Screw Company 130 Ionia St., Grand Rapids, Mich. Manufacturers of Hand Screws, Cabinet Makers' Benches, Factory. Trucks, etc. DOUBLE CASE SECTION CLAMP. . ,. i' ' 7IR-T I.s AJ"J" 'Rij q 7T+ • 1 The Pittsburg Plate Glass Company MJo.NlJl"ACTUaEllS AND JOBBERS 01' Plain and Beveled Mirrors, Bent Glass for China Cabinets Plate Glass for Desks, Table Tops and Shelves Our facilities for supplying furniture manufacturers will be understood when we state that we have 10 Glass factories, extending . from Pennsylvania to Missouri; and 13 Mirror plants, located as follows: Also, our 22 jobbi.ng houses carry heavy stocks in all lines oj glass, pai.nts, varnishes and brushes and are located in the cities named below: NEW YORK-Hudson and Vandam Streets. BUFFALG--S7:l-4-6-8 Pearl Street. BOSTON-4l-49 Sudbury St., 1-9 Bowker St. BROOKLYN-635 and 637 Fulton Streel. CHICAGo-442-45:l Wabash Avenue. PHILADELPHIA-Pitcairn Building, Arch (tIIll CINCINNATI~Broadway and Court Streets, Eleventh Streets. ST. LOurS-Cor. 12th and 5t Charles Streets. DAVENPORT-4Io-4J6 Scott Street. MINNEAPOLIS-SQO-SJO S. Third Street. CLEVELAND-149-SI'53 Seneca Street. DETROlT-S3-55 Lamed Street E OMAHA-I608-Io-12 Harney Street. PITTSBURGH-IOI-103 Wood Street. ST. PAUL-349:-SI Minnesota Street. MILWAUKEE., WIS.-492-494 Market Street. ATLANTA, GA'-30,32 and 34 S. Pryor Stn·('t. ROCHESTER, N. Y.-Wilder Building, Main SAVANNAH, GA·-74s-749 Wheaton Streel. !londExchange Sts. KANSAS CITY-Fifth and Wyandott Sis. BALTIMORE-221-223 W, Pratt Street. BIRMINGHAM, ALA.-2ndAve. and 29th St New York So.ton Philadelphia Suffalo Cincinnati St. Louis MtnneapoU. Atlanta. Kok.omo. Ind. f'ord City. Pa, Hi8h Point. N. C. Davenport Cryatal City. Mo. It needs no argument to show what advantages may be derived from dealing directly with us. AGENTS FOR THE COULSON PATENT CORNER POSTS AND BATS. Veneer Presses, all kinds aud sizes Veneer Presses Glue Spreaders 81ue Healers Trucks, Elc.. Etc. These Specialties are used all Over the World ::::::::==-===.:---------::::: Power Feed Glue Spreading Machine. (Patent applied for!, Single doublealld eombination. No. 20 G"lu.f!: Heater C"AS. E. fRANCIS &. BRO.D Hand Feed Clueing Machine. (Patl:'nt pending,) Eight Styles ana Sizes. Wood·Working Machinery and Supplies LET US KNOW YOUR WANTS 419-421 E. Eighth St. CINCINNI\T1, O. No, 6 Glu~ Heater The Universal Automatic CARVING MACffINE ==== 'PERFORMS THE WORK OF ==== 25 HAND CARVERS Anddoes the Work Better than it can be Done by Hand ====== MADBEY====== UnIOn [MDOSSlno MAcnlnr (0. Indianapoli8. Indiana Write for Inlormation, Prices Etc. -- 2 Che YEARS' SUCCESS In the designing and constrnction of woodworking machinery is the lasting guarantee of abso-lute satisfaction and unwavering dependableness that backs up every Fay and Egan ma-chine everywhere. It is the spirit that is daily pushitig Fay and Egan machinery onward and upward to the ideal of tomorrow, and forever raising that ideal higher and higher, so that judged by present standards, Fay and Egan machines are always at the pillnac1e of perfectioll. No matter how large or small your business may be you want to be free from the worry alld waste of inferior machinery, you want to be sure of the loyalty of your'meehanical helpers, you want to know that under the most tryillg conditions, they will always stand stanch and true, and never desert or lower your standard. Here is one of the tested and tried Fay and Egan machines. It is a modern inside molder that will do the finest and the most work continually and is especially adapted to furniture factories. Works 12 or 15 inches wide and up to 6 inches thick. Send for Circulars .on any Woodworking Machine. Catalog free. 505·525 W. front St., CinciI\.l'.O.ti.Oh.io. US.A. 26th Year-No. 24. GRAND RAPJDS, MICH., JUNE 10, 1906, $ 1.00 per Year. Handling Labor in Germany. Consul Harris, writing from Mannhei1l1, quotes ;l German manufacturer whose products go to all quarters of the globe, and whom he heard say that it ""vasnot their patenls, nor their technical force, hut their workmen which gives them a com-manding place in his trade. Although German wages are low, Mr. Harris enumerates some of the advantages which Cerman laborers enjoy, as fotlows: Many GeTman concerns own dwelling houses, and rent them to '..·.orkmen at actmd cost. Th:::y p~ovidc restaurants and meals at actual en'lt, fU':l\lsh fucl at \\.hoksale cost, g-lvc transportation ill whole or part to employes living at a dis-tance, pay pensions in certain cases, and work people's read-ing rooms, baths, hospitals, savings banks, and cooking schools for girls are maintained. The annual report of tbe imperial 'insurance department for 1905, recently submitted to the Reichstag. shows the sums paid to beneflcaries untler the compulsory insurance laws in force for the protection to wo,kmen. For accident injuries $32,415,UOO was pa.id to 1,- 034,773 persons injured or their dependents, an a·verage of practically 011e out of evry sixty of the total population of the empire. Sick and indigent pen;ons re'ceived last year $38,080,000. Annu1ties were granted to 145,412 persons, To these sums is to be added $40,460,000 paid yearly from the local sick funds (krankenkasse) throughout the empire as sick bene tit, burial charges, etc., m3king a total of about $1l1,R60,OOO annually paid as benefits under the \vorkmen's insurance laws now in force. During the same year 200 con-cerns employing labor paid in gifts to workmen ami in perm-anent funds and other provi,,,ions for their "ielfa:'c, apart from "",ages, $27,608,000. Reference is fllso m:J.de to the measures adopted by the department of mining in Prussia for miners' homes, of which 8,636 with room for 18,962 fam-ilies, have been provided wholly or in part at state ,expense. Thi.ty-b\'O bUlltl-ings, with 5,Ojl beds, have ,been provided fOl' unmarried mine employes in the same manner, and are fur-llished at low prices. It is perhaps too SOOIl to determine how these forms of state and. private 1>enevolence may fll1ally come to be viC\ved by \vorkmel1. Large mauufacturing' con-cerns, from ,,,horn much attention has bt.:en given the class of w{)rk referred .to, have not ·wholly escaped labor trouhles during tbe past year. The employe dass have in senne cases sben'n an apathy toward present advantages and future re-wards for f:J.thfu\ service, and have resorted to strikes and other means to securc higher wages or shoo tel' llOurs of labor. 1t can at all events be said that the state has with much ingenuity and skill sougbt to lessen the dist~ess due to accident, disease, 'and old age among its wage earnes, and that in all parts of the empire private enterprise has done much toward the same end. The results, worked out under conditions differing much from those in the United States, are thus far for the most part satisf;-lctoi'}'. Immigrants Unevenly Distributed. The real trouble in immigration, thinks a large manufac-turer, lies not in the fact that immigrants are not coming to our shores fast enough, but in tbat they do 110t get to the sections of the country where they are most needed. If some intelligent methods we,'e devised to hand~e our ineom-ing- gl1e~ts and steer them in thosc directions '" here there is a real demand for them, the so-called immigration ques-tion would be completely solved. \-Vhat would facilitate and prevent tbe unnecessary return of undesirable immi-grants would be the reqltt __ ement from an immigrant of a cei-tiilcate fro in the consul of each district of embarkation show-ing a clean bill of health and such other qualifications that would be fIlled ot~t, and this cl:rtificate being .presented to the officials of Ellis Island, would go Llr toward corrl'cting one of the greatest immigration evils. The national gov-enltnent, he says, v.rill have to take' up this matter sooner or later, and it alone can be trusted to handle it with thorough- He:;,;. Canadian Anthracite Coal. The discovery of anthracite coal in Canada was announced by the minister of mines in the legislature of Ontario, re-ports Consular Agent 1turphy, from S1. Catharines. 'The re-po: t is that extensive heds of anthracite exist on the Hudson Bay slope in the neighborhood of Albany River, which forms the dividing line behveen Onta:'io and the Northv.;est Ter:-i-tory. 'JI" THE CORRECT Stains and fillers. THE MOST SATISFACTORY first Coaters Varnishes 4 B0VNT0N eX C0. Mfrs. of Embosltd and Turned Mouldings. Pordt Work. Wood Orllls. and Auto. matlc. Turning. We also ll1anufac· tur~ a large line of EMBOSSED ORNA-MENTS fOr couch work. Send for Illustrations. Removed to 419·421 W. fifteenth St., C"IC400, ILL SEND FOR CAT~ALOGUE If your DESUiNS art right, people want the Good •• That make. PRICES right, (t(arence 1R. bfUs DOES IT 103 Madison Aventle--Cit'izeml Pbone 19&1. GRAND RAPIDS. MICH. MANlJFACTURBRS OF DROP CARVING AND GENERAL EMBOSSING MACHINES Die' for all klnds of Machines. At lowest prices. 7 Second SI" LAFAYETTE, IND. Wood Forming Cutters We offer exceptional value in Reversible and One- Way Cutters for Single and Double Spindle Shapers. Largest lists with lowest prices. Great-est variety to select from. Book free. Address SAMUEL J. SHIMER & SONS MILTON. PENNSYLVANIA. U. S. A. ORAnD RAPIDS WOOD f1nlSnlnO (0. ItXCLUStVE MANUFACTURBRS OF WOOD FINISHING MATERIALS That is our specialty. We confine our business to Fillers, Stains, Polish Furniture Wax alld Finishing SnppJies. We are the originators of Weathered, Antwerp and Mission Stains in Oil. Our shades are absolutely correct. We ate authority on Early English, Fumed, Cathedral Oak, and SHver Maple Stains, and w1JJ match any particu-lar shade desired. Office and Factory, 55, 57,59 Ellsworth Are., Grand Rapids, MiGh. B. WALTER & CO. Monufa,",,,,, of T ABLE SLIDES Exclusively WABASH INDIANA WRITE FOR PRICES AND DISCOUNT FaIding :Bed Fixtures Profitable fixtures to use are those which give the least trouble. They are made by Folding Bed Williams in many styles and designs, suitable for every folding bed manufactured. Furniture Cast-ings, Panel Holders, Corner Irons, etc. New ideas and inventions constantly being added to the line. F. 8. WILLIAMS 3811 Vlnce:n:neB Ave., Chloago. Manufacturer of Hardv.'STe Specialties for the Furniture Trade. Established 18'18 Sfep~eDsonnff. (0. South Bend, Ind. W ood Turnings, T umed Moulding, Dowel. and Dowel Pin•. Catalogue to Manufac4 turers on Application. .5 1Loutsbabn DESIGNS AND DETAILS OF FURNITURE 154 Livingston St. GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN Citizens' Telephone 1702. JOHN OUER & SONS BALTIMORE. MD. GBblnet "ardware Bnd Tools Etc., Upholstered Goods Ha.ndiorIlell PuB on the Market for the Money Write for prices and sample I-------~---~--- ----- • fOUR TRAINS TO AND fROM CmCAGO Lv Gd. Rapids 7;10am Ar Chicago 1:15pm Lv Gd. Rapids 12:05 nn Ar ChicaIO 4:50pm Lv Gd. Rapids 4:25 pm At Chicac-o 10:55pm Lv Gd. Rapids 11:30 pm daily Ar Chicago 6:55 am PuUman Sleeper, open 9:00 pm on 11:30 pm train every day. Cafe service on all day trains. Service a la carte. PNC Marquette Parlor cars on all day trains. Ra.t. reduced to SO cent •. T"REE TRAINS DETROIT TO AND fROM Leave Grand Rapid, 7:10 am Arrive Detroit 11:55 am Leave Grand RapidS 11:15 am daily Arrive Detroit 3:25pm Leave Grand Rapids 5:~ pm Arrive Dctroit 10:05pm Mealilerved a la carte on traiJls leaving Grand Rapids at 11::15am and 5:20 pm. Pete Marquette Parlor C.rs on all trainl i seat rate, 25 «:ents. "ALL OVER MICHIGAN" H. J. GRAY, DlllTKIer PAIIIlXNCEIR.AGENT, PHOKE 1168 Gand R-.pid.,),II1•c. : THE WEATHERLY INDIVIDUAL GLUE HEATER Send your address and receive descriptive cir-cular of Glue Heaters, Glue Cookers and Hot Boxes with prices. WEATHERLY CO. GRAND RAPIDS. MICH. These sa ws are made from No. 1 Steel and we war~ rant every blade. We also carry a full stock of Beveled Back Sc(oll Saws, any length and gauge Write us (or Price List and dl.count 31-33 S. FRONT ST •• GRAND RAPIDS Correspondence Solicited JAnmown PAnn AnD vrnrrn conPAnT (IncorDorated) ManufaClurers of Veneered Panels and Table Tops Lardellt Stock of Veneers MAHOGANY. QUAR.TEREDOAK. WALNUT. BIRD'S-EYE MAPLE, CURLY SIR.CH. PLAIN OAK PLAIN BIRCH. MAPLE, CROSS RANDING The Best Workmanship and Finish Office, SO-58 Steele Street, Jamestown. N. Y Two Large Factories: Jamestown, N. V. Ashville, N. V. Get Our Prices Before Buying Elsewhere. Samples on Application Excels aU band Icrew clamps in adaptation to work, convenience of handling and quick llction Especially adapted. to Veneering Panellng and all work requiring long broad jaw. 45 Center Sl BATAVIA, N. Y. COLT'S UNIVERSAL CLAMP Catalog and Price List Furnished Batavia Clamp Co. Me-nUbn Micnigan Artliilan. 6 Death of E.dward C. Gerwig. The furniture t;ade will be shocked and grieved to hear of the death of Edward C. Gerwig, of Parkersburg.' He was ill only three weeks, but death was not unexepected. His connection with the furniture hminess dates back to thit'ty years ago, when with v\lilliam Bentley, he en:sagcd in the retail furniture business in Parkersburg. In 1880 Bentley & Gerwig purchased the Shaefer Furniture factory and h11S1- /les.", has been vcry sueccssfl1L Mr. Gerwig was Leasurer and gene,al manager and to his efforts a large part of the success of the enterprise is due. The Parkersburg Up-holstering company is another factory in which IHr. Gerwig had an interest. He was also prominent in the municipal affairs of Parkersburg, having served several terms as a member of the city counciL lIe was likewise a member of the 'Vest Virginia commission of the Lousiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis. Mr. Gerwig [eaves a wife :lnd four children, besides a number of brothers and sisters, to mourn his Joss. Hotel Ottawa to be Opened on July 1. The big summer hotel Ottawa on Lake Michigan, thirty minutes' ride from Grnnd Hapids, the resort of many furn- 7IR T 1.5'A2'1 t , ,.. The Baldwin, Tuthill & Bolton's 1906 Red Book. Balctwin, Tuthill & Bolton Jwve issued a new 168-page catalogue of saw and knife fitting machinery, the 1906 edition of their Red Book. There are 250 illustrations of machines for filing room use adapted variously to the fitting of band saws ran;:{ing from one-eighth up to eighteen inches. wide, ci~cular saws up to seventy-two inch diamtcr, gang saws any length or width, machine knives up to thirteen feeCt]ong, cutter heads. etc., a showing that is by far the most compre-hensive of the kind put out to date. The company have been in business seventeen years man-ufacturing saw and knife fitting machinery, and from the or-iginal Rhodes circular saw swage have developed a large var-iety of specialties. Their goods have found a market in the Cnited States, Canada and many foreign countries where saw milling or wood l,vorking is carried on in a crude way. Fifty thousand catalo6ues will he issued this year either in complete or sectional form and best suited for practical purposes, and anyone writing for them is voelcome to what-ever" one he wishes. The tiling room of any mill O~ factory is of the utmost im-vortance in the production of results as regards quantity and quality of the output and it is remarkable that so many op-erators or buyers are so heedless of this fact and indifferent itute buyers during the mid-summ-er market season, will be opened for the receptiqn of gu(:'sts on July 1. Manager Pantlind has had a gang of decorators ancl repairers at \vork on the main structure and annex during the past_two-months. Lost Motion. Lost motion means a ·defect in the machinery_ It is energy going to waste, and true principles of economy for-bid ..'.f.asted energy. It is not an infrequent thing to discover lost motion in business as well as machine,y. 1\:laoy a_busi-ness mall finds his business machinery going alon-g voith a . limp and a jerk, indicating that there is waste energy some-where. The engineer at the head of the concerti may he crowding all a full head of steam, but the transmission of the power is faulty and results. are not achieved. Maybt: the old machinc needs a general tightening up; wo:nout COg~need replacing with neW ones; "perhaps the belt needs tightening. The busin('.ss machine may be clogged with goods that we:e bought because they looked like a bargain; but th~y refuse to move on out through the legitimate channels of trade. It is an old saying that "goods well bought are half sold," and "well bought" does, not necessarily mean cheap bought, for, unless the quality is there, goods will fail to turn over readily, and they cannot "be reckoned good assets. about the equipment of their filing rooms in an up-to-date manner. However, the greatly increased demand for their equipment from companies in all lines of lumber manufacture or conversion, demonstrates that their ~fforts in what may be termed an educational way, have met with a ready re-sponse, and the freedom from complaints from customers reJ~ ative to equipment furnished, is a demonstration to' this company that their machines are efficient and desirable. Practical saw bIers writing to the company for the same, will be gladly furnished with a catalogue. Water Powers' in Canada . Commercial Agent Shotts reports from Sault Stc. 1Iarie growing interpt in the water powers of Canada. 1lany plants are now utilizing the power and othe:-s are being built or "planned 'which, all told, will form a very small percentage of the availahle"power. The CLllladian Pacific and the Grand Trunk railways are planning to use some of this power for running trains on branch lines and possibly in some cases on the main lines. Americans might find it profitable to develop some of these water powers, as concessions are readily grant-ed by the government of Ontario, Jnd power will be in de-mand for the large numbers of mines and other develop-ments. New Band Rip Saw. The Fay and Egan No.1 band rip saw has been te5ted and tried with the greatest satisfaction and profit by fUI"'11- itttre factories everywhere, and now that this progres'sivc concern has bn)U'lht out a new band machine modeled along the same lines as the ;.J o. 1, but greatly improved through-out, it is rcadily seen that the newcomer must be a very su-perior tool. The small illustration will give some idea of its general ap-pearance, but interested readers should send to the J. A. ray and Egan company, 505-525 Vi. Frallt st. ed, Cinc:nllati, Ohio, for descriptive circulars giving larg'e views ()f both sides of the macbine and full specll1cations. As an outline of the capacity of this saw, it may be said to lake t\venty-four inches between fence and saw and ma-terial up to bvelvc: inches thick. An adjustments are most conveTliently made so that no time is lost by the operator. A single movement of the long lever adjusts the rolls up an:! tlowrl instantly. or raises them out of the way for use as a hand-feed rip saw. The Fay and Egan patent straining de-vice permits the lightest blade,., to be run at the highest spetd without the slightest danger to saw or operator and increases the general efficiency of the machine many fold. Up-to-date shops should know exactly ",-hat this ma-chine will <10. Complete information may be ohtained from the makers. Saved Himself Humiliation. Several years ago John )'10watt, vice president of the Grand Rapids Chair company, \'\.'as employed by a manufac-turer of furniture to order, in the city of Boston. Among the furniture manufactured was a large lot of "dog's head" chairs which were held in high favor by the students attend-ing Harvard, Dartmouth and other colleges located in the eastern states. The chairs wec'e ornamented with carved dogs' heads \vhicb were artistically cut bya former partner of the Boston manufacturer. The bloeks we:--e shipped to Dedham, where the carver lived, and the expense for the freight both ·ways, shared equally by the proprietor and con-tractor, amounted to a considec'ab1e sum. One day, when business was quiet, Mr. Mowatt and the }Yr"oprietordiscussed the matter of the cost of the dogs' heads and Mr. MO\,\,att re-marked that, having plenty of time to spare, he would cut the dog's heads if the proprietor desired. Mr. 1·Iowatt ex-pressed satisfaction with the price, $2.CO per head, rnid [')1' the work and on the f()1J,)wing day, by the desire of pis e'n-player, he cut the first head. The work met the approval of the proprietor and Mr. Mowatt was directed to eut the lot for the price agreed upon-$2.00 per head. Mr. Mowatt cut 7IR T 1.5'JI2'J' '4# zfbm Trte 7 1\.voon the second day, three on the third, four on the fourth and {lye on the fifth, making the sum total earned in five days $30.00. By this time the 'proprietor was beside him-self. "You are making too much money," he remarked tCJ llr. 1Towatt. "I am eafl1ing no more per head than your friend in Dedham earned," Mr. Mowatt repr'ied. But the old Scotchman could not take a reasonable view of the matter, and when the job was completed a readjustment of the ","age question followed. Later, when MT. Mowatt came to Grand Rapids he offered a place as foreman in the factol'y' of the Grand Rap-ids Chalr company to his old employer,'then in reduced cirCtltllstanees. It was refused. "You once· worked under me," he wrote 1\'11'. 1-Iov"att. "I have a reasonable am.ount of pride, ~111dw, hlle I am poor, I could never humili-ate myself by taking a place under you." Alcohol's New Day, The unanimous vote by ·which the senate pa.ssed the bill freeing from taxation denatured alcohol not only marks an important industrial and commercial change, but· is partic-ularly welcome at this time when the "muck-rakers" and even more conservative critics of the upper house of.congress have been doing mnch to undermine confidence in the senate as a body responsive to public sentiment and demands. That the senate has, in this matter-never mind guessing at the motive-list.ened to the demands of the people rather than to the wishes of vested business interests i,., very manifest. Incidental disturbance of important industries and of local distrilmtiol1 of labor VIi ill, of course, follow t.he use of untaxed alcobol. as is necessarily to be expected. The manufactur-ers of wood alcohol, whose business rested upon the tax im-posed on grain alcohol, will probabl"y have to curtail or ahan-don production. Already the growers of the woods used in \'.'ocd-alcohol manufacture are preparing to cut no marc. It i.~pessible that a limited amOrJ.nt of the wood product may be used in denaturing the g:-ain alcohol. This process is merely such t-eating of the grain alcohol, under the personal supervision of revenue officers, as shall spoil it for use as a bc\'crage or medicine, and insure its use pU:'ely for industrial ptlrposes.-Ex, Forests Disappearing. The National Hardwood Lumber Association at its recent meeting in l\lcmphis adopted a report that presented the dire possibilities of the destruction of the forest in the short period of thirty-five years. It was estimated that there now stood in the United States in the neighborhood of 1,475,000,000,000 feet of lumber, but that 45,000.000,000 feet of lumber was being cut every year. The report recommended that something mmt be done and done immediately. Recommendations were made by the repo;·t for the prohibitiun of log exports and exemption from taxes of tree plantations. Attention was called to the desirability of state legal enactments along the last line and some constitutiQnal provision by the general government of like eITect. Mention was made of the custom prevailing in France of requiring a tree to be planted for every tree cut down. Born to the Trade. E. D. Bolger of the Hoffman Brothers company, Fort \Vayne, Ind., \vas born into the lumber and veneer trade. His father, Ed\'Vard Bolger, one of the most popular gentlemen known to the traveling fraternity ten years ago, was an offic-ial of the old E. D. Albro company, and when his son had arrived at an 2ge when he could leave school, he \~as set to work in the factory and soon learned all the details of the veneer and lumber business. He is doing excellent work' for the Hoffman Brothers company, and among the pleasures of his occupation is the meeting of old friends of his father, all of whom hold his memory as something worth keeping. 8 MICHIGAN "If i fiR..T I.s A.l\J 4? Tt'S* HAND CZRCULA.R RIP SAW, N(), 4SAW (ready for cros&<utling) MQRTISI!"JI COMBINIW MACHINE. ~:~~HA'N=D.AND FOOT POWER MACHINERY WHY THEY PAY THE CABIN£T MAKER: He can save II. manufacturer's profit all well 89 a dealer's profit. He can make more money with leas capital invested. He can hold a bettel'"and more.atisfactory trade with his £ustomers. He can manufacture in as good style and finish, and at as low COllt, as the factories. The local cabinet maker has been forced into only a dealer's trade and profit; because of blacbine manufactured goods of factories. An outfit of Barnes' Patent Foot-and Hand-Power Machinery, rein-states the cabinet maker with advantages equatlO his competitors. If desiJed, tbese machInes will b4! sold ON TRIAL. The purchaser can have ample time to test them in his own shop .and on the work he ....ishes them to do. DES(;RIPTtVE CATALOGUE ANDPRICK LIST FREB. W. F, & JOHN BARNES CO,. 654 Ruby SI.. Rockford, III. FOR.MER. Oll. MoULDER. HAND TSNONBR, No.3 WOOD LATHB. No.4 SAW (ready lor~ripplng) No.7 SCltOLL SAW. WHITE PRINTING CO. GRAND RAPIDS. MICH IMPROVED, EA.SY and QUICK RAISING B~t. Elettric and Hand Power. The Best Hand Power for Furniture Stores Bend for Catalogue aDd Prices. KIMBALL BROS. CO., 1067 NInth St. Council Bluffs, la, KhnbaJl Elevator Co. 323 Prospect St., Cleveland, 0.; IOSllth St., Omaha, Neb.; 1:;WCedar St., New York City. We. PRINT THe. M1CH10AN AftTISAN, ANO MAK~ A SF"a:CIAL.TY OF CATAL.OC;YES FC)R THE F ....RNITURE T"ADE.. ELEVATORS New YOl"k -------------'-----OFFICES-------------_-i- __ Jameatown High Point Clnclnnatl Detl"(llt MlnneapoU. Anoelate Offices and Bonded At1OPDe7. &oston Grand Rapids Chicago St. LoUI~ In aU Principal clUes The Furniture Agency REPORTING FURNITURE. UNDERTAKERS, CARPET HARDWARE AND KINDRED TRADES. COLLEC-TiONS MADE BY AN UN'RIVALLED SYSTEM THROUGH OUR COLLECTION DEPARTMENT • , . wR PItODUCE RESULTS WHERE OTHERS FAIL WRIT!!: FOR P....kTICULARS AND YOUWILL SEND us YOU k B0 SIN E SS. Our Complaltlt and Adjustment Depariment Red Drafts Collect L. J. STEVENSON. Michigan Manage.. 9 Qran~Dapi~sDlow Pipe an~Dust Arrester (ompan~ THE latest device for handling shav-ings and dust from all wood wood-working machines. OUf eighteen years experience in this class of work has brought it uearer perfection than any other system on tbe market today. It is no experiment, but a demonstrated scientific fact, as we have several hundred of these systems in use, and not a poor one among them. Our Automatic F'urnace Feed System, as shown in this cut, is the most perfect working device of anything in its liue. Write for our prices for equipments. WE MAKE PLANS AND DO ALL DET AIL WORK WITHOUT EX-PENSE TO OUR CUSTOMBRS EXHAUST FANS AND PRESSURE BLOWERS ALWAYS IN STOCK Office and Fa.ctory: 208-210 Canal Street GRAND RAPIDS. MICH. CItizens Phone 1282 Bell, M..ip 1804 OUR AUTOMATIC FURNACE FEED SYSTEM 10 Stringent Reforms Demanded. June 1, 1906. Editor Michigan Artisan :-At the present time there is much being written about the question of refo:-m, throughout the country, which effects not only the political but business organizations. The people are giving much attention to these questions, and there is a current of thought permeating the entire country demanding stringent reforms along many lines. Tn our own state of Michigan we find a menace to the men who are engaged in the manufacture of furniture. About three years ago a corporation was formed known as the Yp-silanti Reed & Rattan company, which had been located at Ypsilanti, Mich. With the connivance of men who con-trolled the political party of our state, with some outside as-sistance, they took into the fold a small firm, and secured various concessions in the way of contracts from the state, to employ convicts in the Ionia penitentiary. As far as can be learned they paid SS cents per day for each convict em-ployed and are now giving employment to about 300 convicts manufacturing rattan chairs 'and other goods of a similar character. vVhat is the result of this competition? One firm in Detroit has been driven out of business, who em-ployed eighty men. How is it possible for a manufacturcr who employs, for an example, 100 men at an average rate of wages of $2.23 per day, tv pay the same for raw material as the favorcd prison contractor? Thc prison contractor pays no taxes, while the manufacturer employing free labor pays taxes. The one pays each day $2.25 per man for J.1bor, while the other pays 5.5 cents per day, in a single month a difference in wages of $4,250 and in one year a difference of $51,000, who employs 100 men outside of the penitentiary for more than the favored contractor pays for the same number of men inside of the penitentiary. How long will it require an outside manufacturer to exhaust his capital? There has recently been established in the penitentiary at Jackson, Mich., a company known. as the Federal Table company, which came into life during the time that Mr. Vincent was warden, and relatively the same condition ex-ists. That convicts should be employed at some work is without doubt an economic question, which has been de-bated for many years from various standpoints and the con-census of opinion is that they should be employed at some work which ..should benefit either the state or the public at large. The various states have endeavored to pass laws which in some manner would protect men who are engaged eithcr in manufacturing, or are employed in the factories outside of the penitentiary, that are in competition with the contractors, WJ10 employ prison labor? There is now being agitated throughout the country the question of a direct tax: to be imposed upon all products made in the penitentiary. This tax should be from twenty-five to fifty per cellt ad valorem on all goods manufacturcd by state prison labor, and it seems that this is a feasible plan to dispose of this question, which is a menace to all manufac-turers and men that are employed in thc facto:-ies that arc in competition with prison made goods. Another __point is t? ·have all goods stamped in large letters where they" may be seen by the purchaser, with the words, HMade in Prison," and added to these words the state where-in the goods are made. This will protect in a manner not only the consumer of prison made goods, but also the man who is engaged in the various depa rtments of manufactur-ing that come in competition with prison made goods. We have laws far-reaching in their effect, to protect labor throughout the United States from the cheaper employed labor of foreign countries, and at the same time there is not adequate protection at home against prison made goods. It lias been almost impossible to secure the enactment of laws, either in Congress or through the state legislatures that produce any favorable results, which protect the outsidt> producer. It is hoped that the manufacturer and all men who are interested in the production of manufactured goods, that are in competition with prison made goods will appeal to t.heir congressmen and to the members of the state leg-islature to have laws passed which will protect them fully in their business, so that they can compete with the p:-odu:::- tion of prisons, and that all who may purchase prison made goods may know that they are supj::orting a system which would mean starvation to outside labo:' .• were they paid no more for a fair day's work than what contractors pay for the convict labor, that is performed within the watts of the penitentiary. This question is of more vital importance to men who are engaged in the manufacture of furniture than anyone commodity that is now being made in ,the state of Michigan, and should be taken up by them and a relentless battle waged until' these laws are upon the statute books and are enforced. The evil docs not end with what is produced and placed on the market by prison labor, because the goods are sold at slightly less p:-ices than commoditie.s made by. manufacturers employing outside labor, and there is a tendency to contin~ ually lower prices on what is made outside in order to lTLeet this destructive competition, and keep wages down to a lower scale, in all factorics making similar goods to those made in the penitentiaries. If the goods made in prisons were taxed and b:"anded then the purchaser would know what he is buying, and, as a rule, would give preference to what is made by free labor, even at a higher price than to buy prism1 made goods, which ought to sell at n1uc'h smaller prices than they are selling, as a rule, because contracts owned by com-panies employing convict labor pay a much greater profit, ac-conlinci to the capital employed, thari .a concern can make that employs the same number of men making similar goods with outside labn:-o Hence, under existing conditions, the people do not ltet the benefits of cheap goods made by pflson J'<lbor It goes to the men who have a "pull" with the party in powe· in the state that he may, or may not reside in, and is kept by judicious management until oftentimes outside manufac-turers are }Jushed to the wall, or cease to make the products of prisons, owing to the question of cost of labor alone, tht" average cost of labor being aJi the way from forty to fifty-five per cent on the dollar, for what is made, making a difference in favor of the prison contractor of more than two-thirds of the cost of labor entering into the article made. He has a clear field to dispose of his prison products, which no outside manufacturers can meet, and which is a positive injustice to not only the manufacturer, but to every man employed by him, and to the buying pUblic, as wen. Discrimination against capital and labor of this character is grossly wrong. and their rights are entitled to protection, and any unjust infringement on those rights should be speedily corrected. Very respectfully, F. T. PLIMPTON. Cox's Styl.e is Strong, Yet Chaste. Should "Charley" Cox of the Michigan Chair company ti"e of selling furniture and seek another occupation (a con-tingency not likely to occur) he would have no di:TIculty in nnding employment as a writer of advertise--nents. He writes the advertisement for the Michigan Chair company as a diversion. His style is chaste and the v.; ords he employs to express his ideas are happily chosen. He is a master of the King"s English, as wetI as the art of salesmanship. Death of George F. Buss. George F. Buss, formerly of the Buss Machine works, Grand Rapids, widely and favorably known by the -..vood working trades, died recently after a l~ng illness at a sani-tarium in East Grand Rapids. The funeral services, at the home of his b!"other, W. R. Buss, were under Masonic aus-pices. Deceased was generally respected and highly es-teemed. . 11 July Visitors will Find in Our Warehouses a Large and Carefully Selected Stock of VENEERS • -lD- • Quartered Oak Plain Oak Figured Birch Plain Birch Bird's Eye Maple Plain Maple , Poplar Crossbanding We Also Want to Quote You On BUILT-UP STOCK OF ALL KINDS We Will Make It Worth Your While to See Us. WALTER CL·.ARK 535 Michigan Trust Building . Bell Phone Mam 428. Citizens Phone 5933. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. 12 P. D. Reddinger Carving Worhs (Formerly Oincinnati Carviuy Works of Cincinnati, 0.) CAR.VINGS and FURNITURE OR.NAMENTS of all kinds. EVANSVILLE. IND. By sending me a small order I will convince you that I am the man who can make your carvings. ONE TRIAL WILL DO THlt BUSJNESS. New Styles in Table Letls I IS it not a big advantagct not only in the selling of your product, but In the prices you command, if you are able to keep changing the style and getting out something new right along and without any extra expense in tlu Cost? OUR NO.5 TABLE LEG MACHINE will turn, not only round, but octogon, hexagon, square or any irregular shape, and all with the same cl.lttcr hl:ad. It, capacity is equal to eight or ten hand turners, and it is guaranteeq to do the work sucl;essfully. WOULD IT NOT INTEREST YOU TO KNOW MOttE ABOUT THIS MACHINE" THEN DROP US A LINE. C, Mattison Machine Works, F1FT·.:'':.T., Beloit, Wis, MACHINERY FOR TURNING WOOD. The • DAILY ARTISAN· RECORD WILL BE ISSUED AS USUAL DURING THE MID-SUMMER SELLING SEASQI'J Daily Artisan - Record 20 Lyon Street. GRAND RAPIDS. MICH. Golden Oak Oil Stains STRONGEST NOW ON T"E MARKET 1914 1916 1917 DARK BROWN BLACKER BLACKEST All of which produce a rich black brown effect, increasing· in blackness as indicated above. WILL NOT CURDLE Leaves no deposit or film on face of wood. Leaves flakes clean and white, more especially when used with our 20th Century Stain Solvent which is for use with all Oil Stains and costs very much less than turpentine. Write for samples. The Barrett Lindeman Co. IN CONSOLIDATION WITH The Lawrence Mcfadden Co. CHICAGO, III. 61-63-65-67 Ashland Ave. PHILADELPHIA, Pa. 1400 and 1402 Frankford Ave. 13 14 Changes in Uniform Lading Bill. GuaHled expressions made within the past week by rail-road men in a position to know have led the shippers and bankers of Chicago to believe that the unifo:'tn bill of lading proposed by the special committee of ra~L-()ad men of which Frank J. Firth of Phil'adelphia, is chairman, will be withdrawn and a form submitted in its stead wh:ch will prove satisfac-tory to all interests concerned. Relying on the eorrectness of their information, the committees of shippers which have the matter in charge have ('.cased their activities in opposition to the proposed bill and are quietly awaiting developments. Just what changes \\iill be made by the railroads could not be learned here recently, but it is altog2thc-- probable the "non-negotiable," feature "..ill be the most import;::nt dealt with. Th e attitude of the banks as to accepting bills of lading as the American Bankers'Association. No meeting of the committee has been held recently, it being deemed advisable to await the promised action of the railroads.-Ex. Thin Veneered Furniture Not Durable. There is very little solid furniture made or sold in Mu-nich, Bavaria, practically all being veneered, and the veneer used is of poor quality, very thin and 110tdurable. The nat-ural result of the use of this thin veneer is that after very short use it warps and cracks and the furniture becomes val-ueless for ornamental purposes. Furniture dealers demand and obtain profits which to the American merchant seem in-crc'dible. The system of quick sales and small profits does not appeal to the more conservative Bavarian who prefers to obtain a large profit all one sale, which causes him less SUGGESTS COMFORT AND GOOD CHEER. cot1ate~al has caused much concern recently to the intci·esh behind the unifo:-m bill, it having heen suggested that banks, bankers and trust compani(~s jointly and severally agree that hereafter. bills of lading or carrier's rccepts for the trans-portation of me~chat1dise, 'will not be accepted as collateral or otherwise J1('xotiated 'W17(,I1- 1. The wo,ds "not negotiable" or theil equivalent appear at any place on such papers. 2. vVhen such bills bear changed dates or other material alteration. 3. When issued on so~callcd "uniform bills of lading." 4. When jointly signed by carrier's agent and shipper, the latter party to the contract when so signed waiving his com-mon law rights. 5. When signed hy carrier's agent in any way than wjth ink or indelible pencil. President Pierson of the National·Exchange Bank of Kev.- York is chairman of the Co_~mittee on Bills of Lading of l··ouble than a small profit on many sales, which latter, of coul-se, would extend his husiness more raridly than the for-mer method. A feature which must at first, at least, be reckoned with, is the system of long credits obtaining in that part of G~rmany. It is the custom for the tradesmen there to setHI their customers bills about every six months, and many firms send out bills only at the new yea.(. This system naturally caUSes a larger proportion of bad debts, and therefore increases the cost of the goods sold, but that t he cash trading system can be inrtoduced is indisputable, a5 bas been proved by the department: stores selling for cash. Uses a Pocket Mirror. "In doing somc kinds of work one is sometimes obliged to get down on his back to put in a screw or to see that every-thing is right," writes one of our readers, "for this purpose I often use a small pocket mirror having a handle and .ioint fo: turning it to any position." 15 • M. P. Michigan Artisan Co., Grand Rapids, Mich. Gentlemen, - Your esteemed favor of the 4th is just received and carefully noted and we would ask that you give us the top half of the back outside cover. We wish to insert in your next issue on the front cover the ad. for our Sand Papering Machine and on the back cover the ad. of our Multiple Mortiser (see ad. of the Multiple Mortiser in your April lOth edition). This will give us the Sander on the front cover and the Mortlser on the back cover. We are glad to state that we find your Michigan Artisan a first class advertising medium and we expect to carry both of these spaces indefinitely and may see fit to even increase this space a little later and we can recommend your paper in the highest terms to anyone wishing to place fUrniture machinery before the practical furniture men. We appreciate, also the kind consideration you have given us in all matters 'Ie remain, 'tours trUly, Wysong & Miles Co. 16 THE FINEST ESTABLISHMENT IN THE WORLD ----- - 0 FIT SKI ND---- --- ---- --- WorM's Qrealesl (alalo~ue GRAND RAPIDS ENGRAVING CO., Grand Rapids, Mich. NO MATTER WHAT YOUR DRY KILN REQUIREMENTS WE CAN FILL THEM In some instances it is necessary to have comparatively small quantities of a number of different kinds of lumber, in varying degrees of dryness. In such cases the "ABC" APARTMENT fiILNS are successfully employed. Note the eXpE'rience of the Hale & Kilburn Manufacturing Company of Philadelphia. il¥OU recently installed for us a seven compartment 'Moist Air' kiln which has proven very satisfactory OUTre-quirements are unusually exaetinz, manufacturing, as we do, furniture and interior bank and office fittings, and interior woodwork of the highest class, and our lumber must be thoroughly dried in such condition as to be sus-ceptible to the highest finish. These conditions have been very well met by your kilos. I'Your service has been prompt and satisfactory, and we heartily recommend you and your kiln to anyone whose requirements are similar to our own." AMERICAN BLOWER COMPANY NEW YORK, CHICAGO, ATLANTA, LOND·ON .7IR T 1..5'AJ"J 1 5 e t& Dodds' Patent TaMe=le~ Dovetailer We find upon investigation that OUT Dovetailing Ma-chine patent covers t his machine nicely. Cuts Mortise in the Top Cuts Mortise in the Cleats Cuts Tenons to fit the Top Cuts T enOllS to fit the Cleats Adjustable to keep Mm. t~e and. Tenon at a Standard size The Cheapest Joint Made Win turn out 250 to 300 Small Parlor Tables in 10 Houn The Dodds Tilting Saw Table has more practical features and good polnts than any other saw table on the market. MANUE'ACTURRO AND FOR SALE: BV ALEXANDER DODDS Grand Rapids, Michigan, U. S. A. 17 WHITE PRINTING CO. Printers for the Furniture Trade. Grand Rapids, Mich. PALMER'S Patent Gluing Clamps Are the Dlost successful PlUna Clamps Made For the followIng reasons They clamp iMtantly any width of dimension stock: no adjusting damps to fit the work, they hook at once to the desired width. Released instantly-throw out the lever and take them of!. The work can be removed as fast as it can be handled. As the clamp is pLaced over the work and locks into the one below it the draw is alike on both sides, prevents all springing no matter how wide the stock may be. Impossible for them to slip; the wedge has serrated edge and cannot be rno'ved when clamp is closed, hammer all you like, Unlimited power; great stren.l!th and durability; malleable iron find steel; the knuckle joints are socket joints, not rivets. Although the best they cost you less. For further information ask for catalogue No.4. A. E. Palmer. Owosso. Mich. . NEW YDRK AND PHILADELPHIA, Via GRAND TRUNK-LEHIGH VALLEY RDUTE. Two Fast Trains Daily Except Sunday. Daily. Leave Gd Rapids 2:45 p.' m. 7:05 p. m. Ar Philadelphia 3:4() p. m. 7:25 p. m. Ar New york 4:30 p. m. 8:40 p. m. Service unsurpassed. For further information apply at City Office, Morton House Block. C. A. JUSTIN, C. P. & T. A. Fine Service MICHIGAN CENTRAL Grand Rapids .!l Detroit .!l Toledo THROUGH CAR LINE Solid train service with Broiler Parlor cars and Cafe coaches running on rapid schedule. Through sleeping car to New York on the "Wolverine," making the run in nineteen hours and fifty minutes. For full particulars see Michigan Central Agents. Or- E. W. Covert.C. P."A. Grand R.aplds. O. W~Ruggle&. G· P. A. Chicago. . 18 Aging Oak With Ammonia Fumes. Strong ammonia fumes may be used for aging oak, says the Manual Training Magazine. Place the piece to be fumed, with an evaporating dish containing concentrated ammonia, in a box and close it air tight. Leave for twelve hours and finish with a wax polish, applying first a thin coat of paraffine oil and then Tubbing with a pomade of prepared wax made as follows: Two ounces each of yel1o.w and white beeswax heated over a slow fire in a clean vessel (agate ware is good) until melted. Add fOUf ounces turpentine and stir till entire-ly cool. Keep turpentine away from the fire. This will give the oak a lustrous brown color, and nicking will not expose a different surface, as the ammonia fumes penetrate to a COll-siderable depth. A Good Rip Saw. The ,Cordesman-Rechtin company, Cincinnati, manufacture the long wood frame rip saw illustrated herewith. Like all of theit' machines, it is made on honor-a machine calculated to more than pay for itself the first year. Every wood work-ing factory must have a rip saw, and only a good machine, Wertheimer In The West. Harry Wertheimer, one of the members of the corps of salesmen for some time past with the Yeager Furniture com-pany, has accepted a position as salesman with the National Parlor Furniture 'company, to take effect June!. Mr. Wer-theimer will cover the territory from Chicago to Denver; tak~ ing the territory formerly covered by Karl' Steenberg, de-ceased. Returned From California. Willard Barnhart, pres:dent of the Nelson-Matter Furn-iture company, returned recently frOm Califo'-nia, after spend~ .ing the winter at Pasadena. Shortly before his return he was joined by Roy S. Barnhart. the treasurer of the above com-pany. A tour of the timber districts of the coast con-sumed several. VY"eeks. New Factory in Huntington, W. Va. The Penn Furniture company, of Conneautville, Pa., manu-facturers of tables, chairs and lumber, have commenced the erection of a factory in Huntington, W. Vd., which will be that does its work well; seldom or never gets Ollt of rcpair; that can be used every day in the year, is cheap. That's just what this machine is. For full particulars and prices write the Cordesman-Rechtin company, Pearl and Butler streets, Cincinnati, O. Prone to Slight the Glue Kettle. "Cabinet makers, especially those employed on contracts, are disposed to slight the glue kettle whe 11 framing tlP case ends," remarked a factory superintendent. "When gl'ue is applied liberally or in proper quantity, to mortised and tcn-oned stock it oozes out of the joints and considerable time is required to clean .the stock. When but little or no glue is used, the time that should be spent in cleaning the cnds ~s saved to the cabinet maker. Unless the joints are properly glued up the ends will soon part and then trouble ensues for the manufacturer-" D. A. KEPPERLING Commercial Photographer Phon< Sou'h, 709 1414-1416 Wabash Ave., CHICAGO operated under the direction of Charles Philadelphia, in the manufacture of tables. the secretary of the corporation. Svobody, late of R. R. Knapp is Samples Cut in His Youth. Among the treasures possessed by John IVlowatt, vice p'fes-ident of the Grand Rapids Chair compa!1YI.isa:~mal1 collec-tion of carved birds and heads of dogs, cut byliimseIf years ago when he was an apprentice in a carving shop in Toronto, Canada. He pri~cs the collection very highly. To Test Turpentine. To test the purity of turpentine drop a small quantity on a piece of white paper and exp?se to the air. No trace will be left if the turpentine is pure, but if it contains oil or other foreign substances, the paperwiJ1 be greasy. Green and Purple Intermix.ed. Manufadurer-"My indigestion is becoming chronic. At night I dream of purple covered sofas and green porch chairs." Salesman-"What do you do in the day time?" Manufacturer-"I spend most of my time reciting my dreams to my manufacturing friends, and they mix their new finishes to correspond with the colors of my dreams." WEATHERED OAK OIL STAIN Fast Color. Correct Shade. Most Penetrating Stain Made. WILL NOT WIPE UP WITH WAX OR SHELLAC. AO-EL-ITE FINISHING WAX Dries Harder Than Ordinary Wax. For Use on Weathered or Mission Finishes. SEND FOR SAMPLE PANELS AND PRICES. Ask for our "STANDARD STAINS BOOKLET," real wood panels showing twenty-one Fillers and Stains. The finest booklet ever supplied. Dept. 5. ~ CHICAGO. 'TIle Atl-el-ite People. Phone Union StaUoo for Reservations G. R. ~ I. fLYERS BETWEEN Grand Rapids and Chicago To Chicago To Grand Rapids ----- - -------------- ---- Lv. GRAND RAPIDS. Ex. Sun.. 7.10 A. M. Ar. CHICAGO ..... , . , ..... , .... , ...... 12.35 Noon Buffel Parlor Car [,v. CHICAGO , , , 8:45 A. M. Ar. GRAND RAPII)S _ " , .. 1:50 P. M. Lv. CHICAGO, ~ihCSt~::lWE~x~. Sun.. 1.15 p~M. Ar. GRAND RAPIDS _ 5.50 P. M. Burret Parlor Car Lv. CHICAGOi,~ihcBr~~~tlE~x~. Sun. . .. 5.30 P. M. Ar. GRAND RAPIDS. . . . . . .. .. . . ' , .10.25 P. M. Parlor and Dlnlne Car Lv. CHICAGO, NibC;;t~S~D~:a~ily, - .11.55 Night Ar. GRAND RAPIDS , 6.45 A. M. Electric Lighted Steeplnll Ca.r Lv. GRAND RAPIDS. Ex. Sun . ,., 1201 Noon Ar. CHICAGO _ , 4.50 P. M. Parlor and Dloln, Car Lv. GRAND RAPIDS, Daily _ 11.50 Night Ar. CHICAGO , ,. _ , 7.15 A. M. Ele~trle Lighted 51eeplns Ca.r Phone Micblgllrs Central City Ticket Office for ReeervattoDe. 119 Adams St ..t:=et 19 20 ESTABLISHED 1880 Pl,lBLlSHao BY MICHIGAN ARTISAN CO. ON THE 10TH AND 25TH OF EACH MONTH OFFICE-2-ZO ...YON ST., GRANO RAPIDS, MICH. ENURED "S MUTER OF THE SECOND CLASS Manufacturers and merchants in the southern states have asked the railways of that section to discontinue summer c'x-curSlOllS. Complaint was made that the frequent excursions run in past years out of commercial centers invited the work-men to leave the mills and stores during the hot weather, cutting down the number of men employed. The railroad officials have decided that the freight business was more important than the passenger and this summer will run only one excursion out of each commercial center. '~Mahogany is the most satisfactory wood known to the manufacturers of furniture," remarked the veteran manufac-turer. "It not only improves with age, but when it is desired to ornament the wood it can be canoed twerity-flve per cent cheaper than oak. The. finish will look as good ten years from now as when it is first applied. How is it with oak? No oak finish yet discovered remains in favor more than on2 or two years." Consul James c. McNally, of Liege, Belgium, writes that creosote injected into wood has the well-known preserving effect, but as injected under a German process, according to The Tramway, the effects are considerably enhanced. It is said that this process has succeeded in submitting the resin-ous woods to the action of creosote, heretofore considered re-fractory. An Omaha refrigerator manufacturer announces that he IS about to put on the market a fireless stove. If he would stick to his own business and give us an iceless ice-box-not like the one that is iceless because the ice is priceless and the dough-bag is doughless, but one that wculd freeze things without ice-he would be doing a much greater service just now. One of the large furniture manufacturing corporations of Grand Rapids sells annually goods valued at $650,000. Of this amount $250,000 is sold during the exposition seasons. Who questions the value of the expositions, when such results can be 'shown? The buyers coming to the eastern markets during th ~ next month from San Francisco and· vicinity will undoubted-ly bring many orders for chun::h, lodge and hotel furniture. There's a great day coming fo;- the makers of such furniture. The federal court of Iowa, in a damage suit against th~ Big Four, ruled that cars loaded in one state carrying com-modities to another are engaged in interstate commerce and cannot be attached.' This makes a common practice illegal. The state board of trade of Pennsylvania will sternly op-pose every candidate for the legislature who does not favor a passenger rate of two cents a mile. It is estimated that the coal supply of the world will be exhausted in two thousand years. Send in your orders early. What a salesman is going to do never increases the-bus-iness of his employer nor his own bank account. It is not necessary for a man to take a job traveling on the road in order to' become a successful liar, The less a man knows about making furniture the marc he want!; to tell it. Praise has spoiled more designers than criticism. A poor superintendent remains poor all his days. First Thing to do in Case of Accident. Keep cool. Summon a surgeon at once. Send a written message, describing the accident and injury, if possible, in order that the surgeon may know what instruments and rem-edies to bring. Remove thc patient to a quiet, airy place, where the tem-perature .is comfortable, but· never to an engine room, and keep bystanders at a distance. Handle the patient quietly and gently. Arrange the injured person's body in a comfortable po-sition; injuries to the head require that the head be raised higher than the level of the body; when practical, lay the patient on his back, with the limbs straightened out in their usual natural position. Unless the head be injured, have the head on the same level as the body. Looscn the collar, waist-bands and belts. If t.he patient should be faint have his head rather lower than his feet. If the arm or leg be injured, it may be slightly raised and laid on a cushion or pillow. \~'ateh carefully, if unconscious. ~If vomiting occurs, turn the patient's body on one side with the bead low, so that the matter vomited may not go into the lungs. If a wound be discovered in a part covered by the clothing," cut the clothitl3" in the seam. Only remove sufficient cloth-ing to uncover and inspect the wound. In case of burns, pour lukewarm water containing a little baking soda over the clothing before attempting to remove it. All wounds sbould be covered and dressed as quickly as possible. If a. severe bleeding sbould occur, see that this is stopped, if possible, be-fore the wound is finally dressed. Do not touch the wounds with the hands either during examination or while appl'ying dressings, unless they h_avebeen previously been made. surgi-cally clean, After dressing a wound, do no more to the pa-tient unless necessary to restore him to consciousne'ss or relieve faintness. If sufiering from shock, place him in a comfortable position and await the. arrival of the surgeOll.. Meeting of Southern Manufacturers' Association. The Southern Manufacturers' Association met in Chatta-nooga in May and considered many topics of interest to the furniture men. A banquet and automobile rides were pleas-ant diversions. The el"ection of officers resulted as follows: president, Captain A. 1. Gahagan of Chattanooga; vice. presi-dent, J. Cal Sterchi of Knoxville; secretary-treasurer, Wil-bur Jones of High Point, N. c.; board of governors, 1. Temple and Robert Morrison of Chattanooga, Rohert Morrow of Memphis, S. Papenheimer and Otto Swab of Atlanta, and J. Cal Sterchi of Knoxville. To Test MUeage Ticket Law. The Northern Central, one of the Penns.fl'vania's lines, re-fused to sell a thousand-mile ticket to Aaron R. Anders and he began a suit to recover $50 damages under the provisi~ns of _an act passed by the Maryland legislature, of which Mr, Anders was the author. The Northern Central has applied for a writ of certiorari to take the case into the circuit court. It is believed the litigation will go to the court of last resort to test the constitutionality of the law. 71R'T'I.5' A.2'l ? 7 eri 21 Otis Mfg. Co. New Orleans. Chicago. MANAGE;R Crude Oil for Power. An announcement has just been issued by a western finn describing a device whereby crude oil is enabled to furnish the source of pmver for gas engines. The mechanism and principle involves a horizontal rotating drull1 with interior spiral ribs, enclosed in an outer casing. The crude oil ell-tel's the drum at one end and by rotation and the spiral ribs, is'carried slowly and uniformly through it. ""hile the oil is passing through the drum, it is exposed to sufficient heat to generate gas, ,...h.ich is drawn off and utilized by the engine in proportion to the amount generated, and the residue is discharged. The heat is supplied by the exhaust of the en-gine, v;hich passes between the drum and the outer shell and keeps the drum at a certain t~mperature, just high enough to get all the gas out of the oil. The rotating drum stirs the oil, turns it over and over, carries it in a thin sheet up on the sides of the drum, and exposes it to the heat. By this method the gas is generated without an excessive amollnt of heat, the residue is discharged as' soon as the gas is extracted, thereby obviating the necessity of the continuous cleaning heretofore necessary, while it inSt11-eSa regular uniform sup~ ply of gas to the engine. The diffe:ence in cost between gasolene and crude oil compares as ahout 18 to 4 cents. South's Huge Riches Revealed. The rich south supercedes the penniless south. Vv'ith a population of 5,OUO,000 or 6,000,000 less than the population of the entire country in 1860, the "vealth of the fourteen south~ ern states is no\',' greater than the wealth of the entire coun-try in 1860. The average increase per year between 1900 and 1905 was more than three times the average increase per year between 1890 and 1900. The advance in ·southern wealth since the turn of the century is immcdiate.ly connected with the betterment of the cotton situation, through the systema-tization of making and handling the cotton crop. Since 1900 the output of :;l9uthern coal mines has increased from 49,000,- COO to 70,OOO,{J{JO tons a year, the oil wells from 17,000,000 to 60,000,000 barrels. Agriculture, mining, lumbering and man~ ufaeturing, based upon _these elemental il1dustries, railroad construction, internal trade, and foreign commerce added last year to the true wealth at the rate of $2,750,000 a day. MAnoaAnT Chicago Office and Dlstrib· Importers and Manufacturers of uting Yards: 225710 2267LUMBER ST. R. S. HUDDLESTON A Perfect Shellac Varnish Substitute. On another page of this issue will be found the ad of M. L. Barrett and company, in which they lay special stress on their shellac varnish substitutc-Zaco. They make some rather strong claims for this product, but, neverthel'ess, they are all hacked up with facts and figures which cannot be ques-tioned. One of the strong features of Zaco is. its quick dry-ing properties. \Vithin an hour after applying, tb~ wood is perfectly dry and can be treated in any manner desired. This is a very desirable feature especially when rush orders must be shipped on short notice. The cost of Zaco is approxi-mately that of a good shellac varnish and its use elimi-nates a large item of expense. It is now enjoying its tw'Clfth year of uninterrupted success, and from latest reports orders are coming in thick and fast which is a pretty sure indication that it is backed up by quality, The Barrett people are also extensive manufacturers and importers of furniture manufac-turers' supplies, such as gum shellac, shellac varnish, wood alcohol, wood stains, pumice stone, etc. They are an old and reliable concern, and yOll can "bank" on what they ten you and that, you will receive better sati:sfaction than you ha-d anticipated. A trial order is the best way to get ac-quainted. Cement For Belts. Cook thoroughly six OUllces of Peter Cooper's white or cream glue aud when it is well done add two ounces of powd- -ered white lead. :vIix well. Use same propo:tions for larg-er quantities. For use for any length of time in summer leave thick and thin .down with alcohol. ¥lhen thoroughly cooked turn out into something to cool. Cut off a piece as wanted. In applying, make the splice the same length the belt is wide, hammer it well together and the belt can be used in onc hour. Thick Veneers. It is said that the Hoffman Brothers company of Fort vVayne, Ind., were the first to introduce thick veneers of ma-hogany. For several years in the past they have cut twen-ty- six veneers to the inch, and when desired, stock cut twen-ty- four to the inch, will be supplied. IF YOU HAVE NEVER TRIED OUR RUBBING AND POLISHING VARNISHES OETR(lIT FACTORY CAKADIAN "ACTOI'll' YOU HAVE YET TO LEARN THE FULL POSSIBLITIES OF THIS CLASS OF GOOeS WHY NOT PUT IT TO THE TEST BY GIVING US A TRIAL ORDER? BERRY BROTHERS, LIMITED, NEW YORK .oeTON PHILADELP'HIA BALTIMORE VARNISH MANUFACTURERS CHICAGO .T. LOUie CINCINNATI eAN FRANc'eco FACTORY AND MAIN OFFICE, DETROIT CANADIAN FAC-TOlIl' WALKERVILLE. ONT. 22 ~l'1.IP]iIGJ(N 2 The Toles Rapid Acting Vises. T'he \v. C. Toles company, In.,ing Park, Chicago, Ill., manufactll ers of "Rapid Acting Vises" for wood workers and manual training benches, is one of the companies widely known in the trade. For morc than twelve years they have been engaged in the manufacture of their rapid acting vises which have been tested under every known condition without a failure.' Their manual training benches are meeting every requirement for manual training and arc being adopted as a standard for grammar school, military and trade schools, high and normal schools, colleges and universities evcry-whe:" e. One of the strongest evidences of the hold the Toles that over 6,000 of their products have gone into the manual training schools and more than 600 of the 'Toles Rapid Act-ing Vises" have been shipped to the Philippine schools of arts and trades_ The Toles company claims their vise to be "The king of rapid acting vises for wood workers," and their bench "The king of manual training benches for schools." The factory of the Toles company is located on the line of the Chicago & Northwestern raihvay at Irving Park, Chicago, Dependent Upon Imported Skilled Artisans. The matter of industrial' training is to come to the front 111 the next few years in a ,:vay that it has not come in the past in this country. 'vVe note in various states the stir being made by a spre:Hli,;g demand ior more industrial schooJs, and manufacturers arc rather more insistent even than in previous years, judging from the res.olutions adopted at their conven-tion in urging a training--up of industrial experts instead of a continu~~d importation thereof. The commission appointed by Massachusetts to look into this matter has reported that the Bay State industries arc ';lamentably" dependent on im-ported skillet! artisans. The commission, at the same time, reported that as far back as ten years ago Prussias special schools of an industrial character numbered th:-ee thousand, with an aggregate attendance of over 200,000. Massachu-setts sho111d,on a like basis, have three hundred instead of her meagre ten, and an attendance of twenty thousand. Some, of the other states are discovering equally lamentable conditions, and it look:~ as if, with all onr commercial p:·ogress and our rare development of industries employing \,,:tst capital, the in-dustrial schools will engage our attention in a much more general and practical form during the ncxt few years. No, 65 Rapid-A<::tinlMapl,.,-Faoed Vite with Bench Stop a.ad Front Jaw Ova. Manufactured by W, c. T ol,.,sCompany, Irvilli: Park, ChicalilO.III, with adequate shipping and receiving facilities. It is located but a short distance from the Mayfair Junction of the Chi-c, ago & No. thwestern, the Chicago, I\1ilw<ltlkee & St. Pad railway and the belt lines connecting with every railroad en-tering and leaving Chicago. Shellac in New York. Continued strc,ng markets arc repoj·ted, but the~c is Ild further quotable change in values. Orange Shellac- Ordinary T. N . Bright orange grades... . . Diamond T ..•••••••• , • , , • . . , ........•. ., .441i]45 ..46iDSO . 55@ .. v. s. . 55@5" n. c. Bulton Lac. A. c.'Garnet lac_. Bleached shellac, Kiln-dried 0 .. ....... 60@._ ....... 34@50 . .43@ .. ............ 40@41 .... 50@51 wet. --- ---------- Etchison Retires. ::\1. L. Etc.hison, for a number of yea~s employed as buyer for the Robert Mitchell Furniture company, will retire from the employment of that company on July 1. His successor will be Robert Mitchell, who will have the assistance of \v. B, :Richards in the conduct of the business. Mr. Richards has been in the employ of the firm twenty years, lately as cor~ respondent. It is the purpose of the manag·ement to add a foreign and domestic rug department, discontinuing their mantel business. The second floor \ovillhe devoted to the new department. Grand Rapids Furniture in Mexico. \v. R. Penney, who represents the Nelson-Matter Furniture company the ?'ilichigan Chair company, the Imperial Furn-iture company and the Grand Rapids Desk company, In Mexico, is having great success in introducing Grand Rapids goods to the trade of old ~\'fexico. He says the -Mexicans prefer heavily carved to plain goods, ..... ~MI9]-ilG7JN 2 Various Matters. Charley Retting of the Retting Furniture company, hav-ing had years of experience in the taking of special o~-ders, has a mind well stored with interesting incidents of his business career. \""ihen the cares of the clay arc thrown aside and the genial Mr. Retting finds himself the center of a group of friends, with a pLentiful suppLy of cigars and fuscs, his talks are yery entertaining. ·'A. B. and E. L. Shaw sent me to a city in Connecticut a number of years ago," he remarked upon a festive occasion a short time ago, "to meet a commit-tee having in charge th(~ selection of furniture for a masonic t~lllPIt:.'. S. C. Small of Boston, who died the other daY, was a competitor and was favored by one of the committee. The second favored my firm, while the third was non-committaL He was a colltractor and builder and in the discussion I gained an insight to his position by a question asked. Our firm mortised and tenoned the joints of our seats while Small used dowels. "\lv'hieh makes the strongest joint, the mortise or the tenon ?" the contractor enquired. "Our firm have al-ways used the mortise because it considered the strongest and the best. ,\That do you use in your buildings? -When you frame a house do you dowel or mortise the timben:; you use?" "1 use the mortise of course," he replied, and when the Yotes were taken on the question of letting the contract, he voted fOJ" our linn. His judgement may have been at fault, for by this enlightened generation the dowel is considered the st:·ongcst for use when jointipg seats for cha;rs." The life and character of a prominent salcsIll_an in the. furniture trade, l;ltdy deceased was under discussion, when one of the trio remarked: '·He was very independent. If a buyer entered his exhibit during tile exposition season from some point outside of the territory covered by the deceased he would not show his lines. "vVhy should I spend any time with you?" he asked the buyer. HI have these lines exclusively in my territory, and 1 decline to sell you. Look around? Yes, you can look through the samples if you wish, but \\,11at good would that do you?" Deceased was regarded as a suc-cessful salesman and yet I can but regard his policy when dealing with the trade as a mistake. If he had lived longer and in the course of time been transferred to other territory he might have met the buyers be had treated discourteously ill the market and found that they still resented it. Politi-ness and gentlemanly consideration, costs nothing and he who treats those whom he meets in a manly, cordial way ever p~-otits by his conduct. Our late friend might have referred .:he huyers whom he could not sell to others handling the lines or advised them to e<rrespond with the manufacture:·s di:-cet, and gaillccl the good ",,·ill of l1'len who had written him dc)\i...n. as discourteous and uncivil. ** ** ** "1 never knew a cabinet maker to amollnt to much who worked with a collar on," remarked the veteran superintend-ent. A few weeks ago a well dressed, clean shaven, active young man applied for work in our shop. His appearance and conversation created a good impression and I gave him a bench. vVhell he removed his coat and put on an apron, hut failed to take off his collar, I feared he would not do_ Ilis work was poorly done and the end of the week witnessed his departure in search of another job. Give me the collar-less cabinet maker in preference to the dude." ** ** ** The disaster at San Francisco reminded Charley Retting of the Johnstown flood and' of the mistake he made in "cut-ting out" that tOWll. "I was selling medium and high priced stuff, when the flood oc.c\1rred and reasoning that only cheap goods would be required during the time that would neces-sarily -be taken ill rebuilding the town and probably for sev-eral years following, confined my travels to points in the vicinity of Pittsburg while touring western Pennsylvania. 23 , In the course of time I entered Johnstown, however, and learned that the dealers had enjoyed a very large trade in goods of the class my firm was making. It was explained that owing to the generosity of the people throughout the wuntry in contributing sums for the relief of the sufferers, Johnstown had never had so much money before. Every sufferer was royally cared for, th03e in 'charge of the relief funds sttPplying medium and rille furniture to replace the cheap stuff that wcnt down stream." *of. ** ** The bankers of the statc of Alabama are stirred up over a decision of the supreme court of that state to the effect that when a bank takes over a draft and bill of lading and pays the drawee it becomes responsible for the safe de-livery of the goods as to quantity and quality. In other wo:-ds the bank is in the place of the shipper and the shipper is by the transfer of the invoice, draft and bill of lading, relieved of responsibility so far as the consignor is concern-ed and the hank becomes obligated to deliver the goods contracted fo;- between the original shipper and the customer. ** ** ** Do yOU kllOW that the man who invented the a.uger got his idea from an insect he had studied th:·ough a microscope? J-T e observed the work of the insect carefully and the auger be constructed later was almost an ex('ct copy of the boring machine he had studied under the microscope. The patent Our UnbreaKable products can be glued and nailed, filled or fin-ished same as wood, with oil, water or spirit stain. Xo. '39 A No. 152 B BETTER THAN WOOD Much stronger and more durable, full depth of grain. A perfoct reproduotion or band carving which absolutely defies detection. Send for SlUI'lple. Send for CATALOGUE. ORNAMENTAL PRODUCTS CO. T weUth aod Fort Sb'eet!l. Detroit, Miclqan. upon the auger which he obtained later proved of great value but history fails to record that the insect benefited from the invention. Run System Mad. ",Ve '<vill devise a system, submit designs and a report to any reputable individual or company," is the burden of many communications reaching the hands of business men every day. T t would seem that a large number of men have engaged in the labor of attempting to show men of business, no matte!' hmv great has been their success, that they really do not know the rudiments of business. "For $200.00," one systematizer writes, "we will give you the benefit of our expe;·ience and a system inexpensive to operate. In addition to submitting all of the designs, ruled in colors and engrossed exactly as they will appear when printed, and our report ex-plaining the workings of the system and describing proper methods of distributing indirect exper.ses according to each claS:-i of husiness, we also a:"sist the management in connec-tion with any matters that come to light in the course of in-stalling tIle system." System is all rigbt wben it is original and put into force by a man who has knowledge of his own business. No out-sider can gain such an intimatc knowledge of a business as the man who c:-eated it. System bids fair to run mad unless checked by common sense. 24 SKETOiES BY H. N. HALL, GRAND RAli"lDS. MICH. SKETCHES BY H. N. HAu.., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. ....,.-0 __ ~~--~- ~~=- 25 26 "THE NEW WAY." An Old Way and a Bad Way. A mail order house in Detroit has discovered "a new way of making furniture to be shipped knock down." The way employed is an old way and it is not a good way_ Thc, man- Detroit Wholeaale Price $10. New Way Price $3. Whole.ale Price $15. New Way Priee $4.75. ufacturcr proposes to teach the buyer of a table, a bedstead or whatever else he may order how to set up, trim and finish the piece and save a lot of money fo:- himself. Troubles in-numerable are in store for the manufacturer should he StlC-Wholesale Pric<i!I$30. New Way Price $10. eeed in interesting the public in his scheme. The first trouble will be caused by the swelling of the wood containing the grooves in the piece illust,ated on this page, making it im-possible to erect the piece or pieces purchased. Innumerable troubles will follow the efforts of the unskill'ed in their attempts to finish the goods. More tremble will be raised, when the purchaser learns that he has paid an exorbitant Wbote.ale Price $18. Detroit Whole.ale Price: $21. New Way Price $6.25. New Wa;. Price $7. price for an inferior article. The bedstead in oak or birch illustrated on this sheet the manufacturer declares would be cheap if bought of a wholesale manufacturer for $30.CO. The Deb'oit Wholesale Priee'$20. New Way Price $7.50. fact is that a splendid full panel'ed bed, in mahogany can be purchased at wholesale for $25.00 and $17.00 will buy a very handsome spindle bed in mahogany. The: illustrations and Wholesale Price $]o. Construction. New Way Pric:e $3.25- prices shown in this number illustrate the impracticability of the scheme. The manufacturer reveals his pian as follows: Our plan is to build the parts of the furniture in such a THE "NEW WAY" OF SETTING UP AND FINISHING FURNITURE. manner that any person ('.an put them together, ship these parts packed in a crate, knocked down and unfinished with a set of instructions ior setting up and finishing. There arc no fake dowels and mortises, imitation tenons and keys glucd on the outside to give the article the appear-ance of Mission work. No veneers are used" Wholesale Price $10. New Way Price $4.50. The parts arc mostly made with lock grooves, dowel pins, mortises, tenons and keys so that they slide together, but wherever screws are needed the holes are properly bored and th~ heads sunk. :.r 0 glue is necessary c:xcept on dowel ~1'1is. Improvements in Furniture Hardware. Tn the fall season of 1900 the Hardware Supply compauy of Grand Rapids placed before furlliture matlufacturers ;j Ilew device in a fastening for doors of bookcases, cabinets and other pieces where the doors do not need locking for the sake of security. This was a simple" ptlsh button" catch to be used in connection with a finger pull. The new' fastell-- ing soon gailH'd favo· with the t ..ade <l:-.d the demand grt:"N to such prapo: lions that other hardware manufacturers SOO,) began making silililar goods, and during the past four or five years several different styles of catches of this sort have been made from time to time, but now the I-brdware Supply company has brought out the. neatest one yet made, and it is beiug placed all furniture sampks for the July sale. A good market is al:-eady assured, one of the largest factories having placed a vcry large order for its fall supply. The same com-pany has gotten out a ne\"" extension hook for wardrobes, a steel dowel and socket for extensio11 tables, and a cheap support for book case shelves. Catalogues Complete • WE Photograph Max Thiele in Chal"se Engrave Michigan Enl"ravinB" Company Print and Bind White Pwointiq Company LET US FIGURE. THE WHITE COMBINATION H. C. WHITE; Secretary Grand Rapids, Michigan Buyers of Fumiture. We have published the LIST for June, 1906. IP IP DO YOU WANT IT? IP IP WRITE us. MICHIGAN ARTISAN CO. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. 27 28 ·f'~MICHIG.7I.N 7iR.TI S'..7I.l'J ..~. 1'lIf,. i 2 ,. S,.. Bennett &. Witte MANUFACTURERS OF LUMBER For Fu.rniture Mfrs.. Car Sullders and Carriage Trade. Plain8nd I Wh't d D d 0 'lr j Plain and Qu;uten~d I 1 e an ....e.. . au. .,Quartered RED and SAP GUM Poplar. Cottonwood. Ash. Elm and Chestnut. A Full Line of Southern Hardwoods. Export and Domestic. WRITE EITHER OFFICE. Branch: Memphis,Tenn. Main Office: Cincinnati, .0. We sell on National Hardwood Lumber Association illspection only. Richey, Halsted & Quick, CINCINNATI, OHIO OAK-Plain and Qyartered.~ POPLAR---Soft andYellow. The No-I\um-Loose TOILE.T SCREW" IS THE LATEST DEVICE TO BE FITTED WITH THE Tower Patent Fastener Toilet Screws with Ij.( to 2 inch knobs can be furnished to order only, with standard bolt 3}f inches long, and patent drive nut and washer. Remember that the Tower Patent Fasteners on these toilet screws, as well as t,he brass, glass and wooden knobs and brass pUllscost the manufacturer nothing. The sales of all goods with the Tower Patent Fasteners is rapidly increasing, and they are daily growing in popUlarity because they are the only practical devices ever put on the market. that absolutely prevent Knobs, Pulls and Toilet Screws from getting loose. The Grand Rapids Brass Company GRAND RAPIDS. MICH. QUARTER-SAWED IN~~~~OAKVENEERS CHOICE FIGURE :: EXTRA. WIDTHS When writing for prices, mention widths required and. kind of figure preferred.. HOFFMAN BR.OTHERS co. Fort Wayne Indiana Factory Locations There is in the various offices of the.Land and Industrial Department of the SouthemRailway and Mobile & Ohio Railroad late information regarding a number of first class locations for Furnituret Chair and other Woodworking Fac-tories, which will be furnished Manufacturers· upon· applica-tion. An invitation -is extended to all who use wood in their plants to write about the timber supply, good sites and mar-kets available in our territory. Address your nearest agent. M. V. RICHARDS. Land and Industrial Aaenl, WASHINGTON, D.· C. CHiS. S. CHASE. Agent, _ _622 ChemioatBuirdina~ St. Louis.- Mo_ M. A:. HAYS. -Agenl, 226 Dearborn St.• Chk:aQt. III 29 Cool Comfortable Inexpensive Goo d Service "RELIABLE" ROLLS EXCLUSIVELY Chicago and Grand Rapids FARE $2 ONE WAY " ~ $3.7S ROUND TRIP THE "RELIABLE" IS THE BEST THE FELLWOCK ROLL & PANEL CO, EVANSVILLE, IND. Leave Chicago 7:45 p. m. Leave Grand Rapids 7:55 p. m. dairy. Reserve berths at docks, foot of Michigan Ave, or City Ticket Office, 101 Adams St., Chicago; 91 Monroe St., orB! LYOllSt., Grand Rapids, w. C.TOLES .Box 25, IRVING PARK No. 20 Rapid Acting Vise FOR WOOD-WORKERS COMPANY = CHICAGO, ILLINOIS InvestiRate our Line. CATALOG Of this Vise and forty other different Styles sent to any address on application. The best Vise in the world tor Cabinet-Makers. Sawan d Kn"fl e FI"tt'109 Mach"Ineryan d T00,S TLihoeeMBaoigufga~cttu and..Bd~. t Baldwin, Tuthill ®. Bolton Grand Rapids. Mich. Filers, SeUers. Sharpeners, Grinders, Swages, Stretchers, Brazina and Filing Clamps, Knife Balances, Hammering Tools. New 200 page Catalogue for r906 Free. Bolton Band Saw Filer for Saws }'S inch up. B. T. & B. Sl~le D. Knile Grinder. Full Automatic. ,Wet or dry MICHIGAN .... W f Oppose the Introduction of New Processes. 'No kmen, ~specially of the old fogy class, stilt oppose the introduction of new processes in manufactu:·c. There is not so much opposition to the installment of improved ma-chinery as formerly, since it has been demonstrated that new machines make more work and call for a larger number of men to take care of the output than was possible in the d::tys when machinery was first introduced to slI!-,plant hand labor. The superintendent of a large furniture factory 'who owns the patent for a vcry successful process for the treatment of the various kinds of cabinet woods, was visited a few months ago by the owners of a large plant operated in the manufac-ture of pianos. Their purpos~ was to make an investigation of the new process owned by the superintendent. When they had satisfied their minds as to the practicability and value of the process, they purchased a shop right and returned to their home. Calling the heads of several departments to the office, they revealed the process ar~d explained how it should be operated, and ordered the subo:·dinates to install the same at once. The men expressed doubts as to their The party wi.thdrew, the workmen very much crestfallen <Iod the proprietors in an unsettled state of mind. An hour or two later one of the proprietors returned to inform the superintendent that his lecture had affected the men very seriously-that they had determined to make one more effort to put the process iuto use. Nothing more was heard of the firm for several months, when a letter came to the superintendent reading as follows: "Eureka! \file have conquered! Process installed. '''larking beautifully. \Ve are making the handsomest pianos in the world. Nothing is too good for us. When you have another good thing, wire usY Prosperity for Manufacturers. The manufacturing industries of the nation were unusual-ly prosperous last year, and will be still more prosperous this year. Reports from Chicago atid other western cities arc to the effect that up to the present time busine,ss is 5 to 15 per cent ahead of last ycar's large aggregate, and similiar reports come from the East. The weather enabled the spring An Attractive Interior. ability to carry out the orders of their supcrio: s and, shaking their heads dubiously, left the officl.'. A few days later the men reported their inability to install the p~ocess, greatly to the disappointment of the heads of the company, when it was resolved to pay another visit to the home of the super-intendent, the officials taking the shop men n':th them. '''hen the party arrived at the office of the superintendent the shop men wcrc imroduced and then the snperintendent asked the eldest man: "How long have yOll worked for this firm?" "Twenty~eigllt years," the man replied. "And how long have yon been wit:, the lirm :" tl:rning L, the other. "Twenty-t'11ree years." "If yOU were in my employ I would discharge yOIl without a moment"s \.varning. You and your class have bl'come fossiliz-ed. You are secmingly incapable of learning anything and have outlived your usefulncss. If the world depended upon men of your class. there would be no prOgress-no improvement. If your shop mates are of yonr dass I would fire the whole crowd and look for a crcw of workmen who were not loafing in the world for the sole purpose of delaying the work of the undertaker. The process you have been o:-dered to install is a very simple one, and you can make it work if you try to." business to begin two weeks earlier than usual. The farmers did so well last year that they buy more'liberally, and con-snmption has increased, according to the rcports from all sections. The foreign trade also show a relative increase. Imports at New York since Jan. 1 have been greater than for the corresponding time in any other year excepting 1905, when they were sli'ghtly above the figures of this year. Ex-ports also make a good showing. From All Over t~ Country. The West End Furniture and 'Carpet company of Wil-liamsport, Fa., published an advertisement several weeks ago announcing their purpose to meet the competitioll of a soap prize distribution house. The advertisement was copied in the Artisan of April 25, and attracted so much attention that the \-Vest End company, to quote their exact language have received letters from every section of the United States "signed by dealers" who had read the Artisan and desired fwther particulars. This fact indicates, in a measure, the esteem in which the Artisan is held by dealers in furniture and kindred goods. Manufacturers who desire to keep ill touch with the many thousand readers of the Artisan use its advertising paK'es. Importance of Constructing Fire-Proof Buildings. The trouble with fire-proof buildings has been the great amount of wood furniture and trimming. Recently much success has 'heen attained in the substitution of 111linft8m-mable compositions for wood in the manufacture of furniture doors, wainscoating, etc., and two of the newer hotels in New York are believed to be really fire-proof, while the owners of a third arc so sure it is fj;-eproof that they have refused to insure it. The mint and the postoffice in San Francisco are but little damaged, and several of t1le privately owned buildillgs only suffered from fire in the interior; the walls stood earthquake and fire with very moderate damage. In this fact there ties the promise of really fireproof cities in the future, but private prudence and municipal supervision should combine to secure fire-resisting construction in future buildings witfiout waiting for genc:'al devastation. Saw Grinding Machine. A new machine for sharpening the inserted teeth of high duty saws. has just been placed on tl~e market. This grindel-is particularly effective at moderate speeds. The frame is of cast iron, the arm being cast on the base in one piece, so as to insure perfect rigidity. An adjustable s:tddre moves along the arm of the tool so as to enable the f::p·inderto he used on saws of different diameters, and after being placed in the position desired, may be fastened rigidly to the arm by lock l1uts. A short slide operates in grooves along this saddle. This slide is surmounted by a disk having " raised center, on which the saw to be sharpened is placed al~d held in posib)ll by suitable bolts. Perfect ttniformityof depth and 8ngle of the cutting tools is claimed to be iusured with this tool, which is TI(HV being made in three sizes to take Sa\'\'5 t1p to thirty inches 111 diameter, from thirty to forty-eight inches <lnd irol11 forty-e:ght up to sevent/-two inches (rameter. Is Now the Parkersburg Plate Glass Company. At a speci8\ meeting of the stockholde-s of the Colonial Plate Glass comp<lny, held recently at Parkersburg, \V. V:1, it \Va., decided to complete the plallt res soon as possih1c. It was given Otlt that :\ llew comp<lny 'with a cap;tal qock of $4GO.COO or $500.000 is to be organized under the n8mc of the. Parkersburg Plate Glass company, :lnd itwiH be under this name that the c.oncern will be operated. Plate glass will be manufactured under the same manner and process pro-posed by the old company, and Colonel 1'1. R Peppers has been chosen as sl1pcrintelldcnt. Freights by -Water to Chicago. CaPtain "Rob" Irwin. as his many friends affectionately call him, real'ized the ambition of many yea··s, \\'hen the' steamers "Grand" and "Rapids" of the Grand River Trans-portation company, of which he is the president, commenced making regular daily trips between Grand Rapids. Grand Haven and Lake Michigan. The boats are s\vift and drawing but twenty-two inches of water, "vill make t'ips without in-terruption when the Vij ater in the river is :1t its l<nvcst. A g-reat deal of furniture and kindred goods will be shipped to Chicago and 1'lih".·aukee by water. No Time for Visits. The buyers in the big stores of Ncw York transact busi-ness very rapidly. They have no time for visiting. The: .. treat all salesmen courteously, but never lose- command ')f their time. In the evening they arc consideration personi-fied. It is then that "Lheydon the dress suit and the social side of their natures shine resplendent. In the \'!,-est th.-; buyers are ready for a visit every hour in the day, and their time so spent is not lost. From the traveling salesmen they gain many ideas of value when put into use in their own business. 31 Keep Oil Out of Boilers. l\1any hoiler experts insist that oil or grease inside a boiler or heatillg surface is far worse than the ordinary scale de-posited from the water, in cutting off heat from the water and ove- heating the boiler plate. Tests have been made to show this. Vlben the temperature of the water was made to rise rapidly in a clean boiler, the difference in temperature between the hailer plate and the wate;· did not increase at the same rate, showing that the heat passed through the water Ilea ly as fast. as received. "\lith a ,rery,high evaporation of steam per hour in a clean boiler there was little .danger of overheating the metal. But covering the inner surface of the metal with a thin layer of heavy mineral oil and evap-oratillg about as much steam as in the first place, 'the fire side of the boiler plate was 392° botter than the water side. The plate itself must have stood a temperature of about 6300 F., at which iron and mild steel weaken and are easily broken. Any ftav....in the plate would, oi course, add to the danger, Hence, for safety and economy, when exhaust steam is mixed \vith the feed water, use feed water heaters in which the steam is on one side of the tubes; and the water to be heated on the other, if possible. A Growing Business. The business of the Grand Rapids Blow Pipe and Du:,t Arrester cotHpany is'larger this y('ar than ever. Among the recent orders, several of which are welt under way, are for th~' new Illinois Cabinet company of Rockford, Ill.; C. P. Limbert company, Holland, l'dich.; tlce Fuller & R1ce Lumber company, Grand Rapids; C. A. Sauers, }\.1n Arbor, :vIich.; the Standard Sanitary company, mal~ubctl1rers of sanitary supplies. Det:-oit: l\-litchell B-others (maple flooring plaut) Cadillac, 1\-Ticb.:the Detroit Shipbuilding company, Detroit; and the Otto Body company (automobile bodies) Lansing, \Tich. Several otber large jobs are in sight, and prospects are h:·jght for a heavy business during the rest of the year. . They All Want Them. Alexander Dodds of this city received orders on the first day of June for three of his patent gang dovetailers, a~d one swing iOaw. The Dodds dovetailer is a first class machine, and the demand is constantly increasing for it. When lHr. Dodds first broug-ht Oftt his dovetailer, it was made with nine spindles, with an occasional o..-der for an eleven spindle machine. Now orders are for machines running from t~11to twenty-fonrspilldles, and the large machines work as perfect-ly as the small ones. No m;l11ttfacturer of case Vi'ork can af-ford to he witlJotit one. III, ALHOlCOMD &CO@ MANUFACTURERS "tlD DEALERS IN HIGH GRADE BAND AND SCROLL SA~S REFAIRI NG-SATI5FACTION GUARANTEED CIT1ZEN5 PHONE. 1239 27 N MARKE.T ST ~ GRAND RAFIDS, MICH. "- 32 "Rotary Style,. for Drop Caninas. Embossed MouldiDIlS. Panels. EI<:. fMBOSSING and DROP CIlRVlNG MIlC"llllfS Machines lot all purpo5eli\ and al pnce. within the reach of all. Every Machine ha, our lPIaranlee against breakage for ODeyear. . "Lateral Style" for ~ Capacity Heavy Carviop and Deep EmbosBiovs. We have the Machine you wanl al a satisl:actory price. Write for descriptive circulars. Alao make dies for aU makes of Machiriea. UNION EMBOSSING MACHINE CO" Indianapolis, Ind. Cyclone Blow Pipe Co. Improved Cyclone Dust Collectors, Automatic Furnace Feeders. Steel Plate Exhaust Fam, Exhaust and Blow Piping . Complete systems c!~¥Jledl manufactured, insla11ed and guaranteed. Old s~lems remodeled on modern lines on mosl economical plans. Supplementary s y s t ems added where presomt !Ws-reml are OUtvrovrn. De_ fective I y S I ems conecled and pul in proper waTkins ."""- 70 W. Jackson Street. CHICAGO. • ILL. GLOBE VI.S."E TRUCK CO. Grand RaQids, Mich. l\fakers of the BEST Quick Acting VISE Our mustrated Circular will teU you all about it. INSIST ON HAVING Morris Woo~ 3 Sons'Soli~ Stetl Glue Joint Cutlers for there are no other.,. ..ju.rt aJ" good." They cut a clean perfect joint always. Never burn owing to the GRADUAL CLEARANCE (made thi, way only by us), require little grinding, saving time and cutters. No time wasted setting up and cost no more than other makes. Try a pair and Qe convinced. Catalogue No. -10and prices on application. MORRIS WOOD ®. SONS Thirty-one year. at 31.33 S. Canal Street. CHICAGO. ILL. PER.FI!;CT QUALITY RIGHT PRICES MAClIINE. I1.NIVES PROMPT-SERVICE ABSOLUTE GUARANTEE Dado or Grooving Heads, Miter Machines. Universal 'Wood Trlmm.ers. Boring Machines. Etc. FOX MACHINE CO. Gr~~~.~i3~.'JI";'. ·J'~MlfrIG7}-N t 7lR..T I.s A.l'J J t 7e'+ 33 Our Clamps received GOLD-ME'OAL at World' .. F.fl"". St. Louis. V&N'ItER Pkl!:SS (Patented JUlle30. 1903.) CAIUNET CLAMP. Safety Fire Bucket Tank. The lIre bucket is a COllstant tempta-tion to the workman who happens to lleed <t pnil and- can"t fi1ld Oil;.' handy. Th~' 6re bucket.s to be of use when really Heeded must be in h?nd~r phlces. r f tlH:y are set around on. thc. flo.0.r they are either in the W.:ly or soon disappear. If hung up Otl nails or hooks Of placed Oll shelves, they dry out and are often fOllOd empty and ready to fall to pieces when the fire comes. All ea.,:tern concern has conceived a pC'actical solution of the fire pail problem by using" (\ galvani%ed iron tallk partly tilled with vorater in which tht' pails are kept. A lid to the tank keeps o!'t dirt and prevellts e'l<J.poratiou. Handy Beit Clamp. This simple ilnd convcnient clamp is made of one-half inch by two inch iron and is intended for belts not larger than twelve inch,'s wide aud three-eights inch thick. The <limellsiolls of the clamp call be increased in proportion for largoer belts, hOWCi'CT. The side bolts of !he clamp are o{ seven-eighths illCh stOCh:, twenty-fnur inches long- and the bolts ('Jamping the cro~spieces are of olle-half inch stock. two and one-half inche.s IOlJg 1','Lth square heads. In taking the clamp off, first slacken up on the long bolts, then 011 the small bolts and take two of them out. An Adjustable Horse for Paint Shops, ,-\ pair of adjustahle horses, like the one shown lt1stratiol1, will b(~ found convenient in many shops. in the il~ A plank should be laid across to form the staging. is cxpl"aincd by. the ~ketch. The construction ! Write £o:r prices and particular4- BLACK BROS. MACHINERY ~O. MENDOTA, ILL. !, Emptying an Oil Barrel. The illustration shows a method of emptying oil tram the lH\rrc:l that "",ill do the \-'lark in from ten to fifteen !minutes. ! I I I I Tht· apparatus illcllldes the following parts: A, pubp (all:Y nld pump \vil1 do); B, hose; C. bush on hose; D, oi~ barrel; E, large bushing·; F, three-fourths inch pipe; H, thrcf-fourths inch elbow; T, o-il tank, The oil is forced out by air. Hints Qn Glue. It requir('s more water to dissolve good glue tha 1 to dis-solve pOOr glue. The best glue will require from I ol1e~half to more than Jouble the water required for pDor glue; Good glue breaks hard and tough, with a splintered edge, I Cleanse the glue kettle often. Frozen glue is so pOl'"OUS thit it can be made up at Once. I I 1 [ the representatives of the people reaDy wa something for their constituents it would be a goo eliminate seeds and distribute free pianos, or Qed r or partor furniture. GLOBE VISE AND TRUCK C Office 321 South Divillion St., GRAND RAPIDS. MICH, I ! Manufacturers of HIGH GRADE Waad Warkers Vises AND Factory Trucks Simplicity In construc-tion enables us to .':ive quality and durability, and meet aU competi· tion. Write for Priees. No. 21,.Roller Bearings. Sante style Trucks No, 24, wlth()utRollet t to do plan to am sets Tings 34 Black Brothers' Pioneer Moulding Sander. The illustrations below represent the Pioneer )"Joulding Sander for sandj'ng crooked or straight work. The firm was awarded a gold medal by the Louisiana Purchase Exposition on account of the merits of tIlls machine. The manufactur-ers have introduced new features in the machine and claim it is superior ill construction and operation. An important feature is the revolving belt or cushioned pad. ~hich runs under the sand paper belt. It can be run norma~ty slack or tight, as the demands of the work in hand may re'uire. The pad eliminates all friction and forms a backing or ~urfacer for I the sand paper belt to run UpUIl. The manuiactuters furnish revolving cushions of various thickness, and- the 'cuts shown herewith illustrate th~ three different ways in which the ma-chine may be set up. The centeT' roners, 'OVCT 'wh-ich --the sand pap\'x belt 0, cushioned pad runs, <:.al1 be used either straight. convex or concat·e. The rubber friction drive for the sand paper belt is an importallt feature, in that it permits the operator to run the'beltat almost any degree of slackt1es~ as the various kinds Of;work handled may require. Cut No.1 carries a belt eight inches wide and is practi-cally adapted ior doing swell drawer frollts, chair anus or other work _of like nature. Cut No.2 has a belt four inches wide, and in the position in which the machine is set a great variety of work in furn-iture and kindred plants may be performed. This machine is manufactured by Black Brothers, Mendota, Ill'. Linseed Oils. The .:-.JewYnrkmarkct for linseed oil au June g was quiet. An improvement is expected, but present conditions are rather uncertain Prices remain unchanged, however, upon the ba~is of 38(Q\Nc tOT state and western, and 40't(41c IUI fa"\' city oil. City raw, ;\merican seed, 5 bhl~. or more. T.ess than 5 oble,. City, double boiled, /\mcrican . Less than 5 .bbls. \Ne~te;n raw . 40((iH J . 41 (il)42 seed, 5 bbl"s. or more 42@43 ... A3@44 ........... . .38@39 Factory Notes. The Marion (Ind.) Iron & Brass Bed company will erect seven new fire-proof buildings to be used for their manufac-turing business. A contract was signed with the Commercial Club agreeing to erect these buildings and have the plant in operation by September 1, 1906. A wire bed spring factory v;i11 also be constructed. Thc company agrees to begin operations with one hundred men and guarantees to increase the force to 250 in eighteen months. The consideration given is that the company is to have a bonus of $15,000, pay~ able twenty-five per cent on September 1, if the factory is completed and in operation, and twenty-five per cent every tlJirty days thereafter until thc entire amount is paid. Thc Heron Iron Bedstead company of Chattanooga, Tenn., will extend its foundry at a cost of $2,500. The Dargatz Parlor Frame company has bcen organized \vith $2,500 capital to manufacture furniture in Chicago. A. 'VVierzba, formerly foreman of the vVinnebago Furn-iture company, Fond du Lac, \~'is., ,,,,-illconduct a furniture factory of his own. The Spokane Show Case & Cabinet company has heel1 organized with a capital of $25,000 by the following: R. E. Fisher, J. W. Evans, C. E. Rodes, \l\'. H. Plummer and Thomas Hye. The 1Iichigan Steel Boat company of Detroit are about to engage in the manufacture of knock down furniture. The Minneapolis Desk company sustained a loss of $25,- 000 as a result of a fire in their factory. The damage will be repaired at once. The Art Metal Construction campa}' of Jamesto\\n, N. Y., has been awarded the contract for furnishing steel furniture for the new courthouse in Des Moines, la. The price paid i, $40,325. The Illinois Cabinet company of Rockford, Ill., have in-creased their capital from $25.000 to $50,000. The company's business is increased to such an extent that additions to the plant wilt have to be made. The Tomlinson Chair Alanufacturing company of High Point, N. c., have begun work on an addition to the bctory. The Tennessee Furniture ]'l'1anufaeturing company of Nashville have changed the firm name to the l'vlarfJeld Furn-iture Manufacturing company. The S. A. Cook company, Medina. N. Y., have purchased a shoe factory and will add it to the present plant. George H. KnoJ1enberg has bought a controlling interest in the Rowlett Desk lTanufacturing company, Richmond, 111d. The recent election of officers resulted ill the follow-illg: President, George H. Knollenberg; secretary and treas-mer, Walter KnolJenberg; superintendent, J ohll Lindstrom. The Proctor Furniture company of Knoxville, Tenn., have added the manufacture of offiee desks to their present line of goods. The \Vhitney Furniture Manufacturing company, Detroit, 1\lich., have filed a mortgage showing $10,000 indebtedness. the Detroit Trust company being appointed trustee. The Sheffield (Ala.) Furniture factory was burned recent-ly. The main building was saved. Losses a!4g'regate $7,000. The factory of A. C. Burt and company, Chester, Fa., has shut down, owing to financial difficulties. Indebtedness is $20,000. Fire in the Rockford (Ill.) Cabinet company l'eslllted in $1,200 Jo". Gavin Ritchie '& Sons purchased the machinery and fix-tures of the Battle Creek (.\lich.) Iron Hed company recent-ly at auction. The' Haley Furniture & Manufacturing company's plant' in Sheffield, Ala., was damaged $5,000 by fire, partially in-sured. Bristles may be stiffened by immersing them in cold alu-tn water for a short time. 35 A gill of shellac added to a gallon of asphaltum is a good hardening agent. The color of common mahogany may be improved by ap-pl'ying a solution of potassium hydrate, or lye, to the surface. To determine the required strength of the solution test on a piece of waste stock of the same kind before applying. Fill with a dark paste 1,-'lood-filler,va.rnish and polish with sheJl.ac. Coal containing a large amount of ca:bon gives the best heat, the oxygen being combined with hydrogen as water is of no value. An excess of hydrogen in gas coals, however, is an impo:tant item in the production of heat. In lacing belts the pointed ends of the laces may be ~ti:ff-elled and made easier to insert by burning them, One cubic foot of steam is produced from one cubic inch of ..v.ater evaporated under ordinary atmospheric pressure. "Tops of glued~up stock should not be planed within five days of the date when it is taken from the vises," remarked the veteran superintendent. "If such tops be planed before they have had time to seaso'n properly, every joint will show through the finish." A chair factory wiJJ be established in Owensboro, Ky., in the near future by capitalists from Lewisport, Ky. The McCray Refrigerator company of Kendallville, Ind., arc building a factory in Detroit, Mich., to employ from 600 to 1,000 men and turn out 100 refrigerators a day. The Graham & Davis Manufacturing company will manu- A. F. BURCH CO. 15-17 Park St., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. =====Jobbers of===== Upholstery Goods and Furniture Supplies Call Long Distance Citizens Phone 1123. .. Bell 1223. We solicit your inquirie •. facture tJw Davis kitchen cabinet in Windfall, Ind. The cotnpany has been organized with $7,000 capital. \ViI'liam Horrocks has bought out his partner, John Metz-ler and wilt continue the business of the Horrocks & Metzler company in Herkimer, 1\, Y. The Florida Chair company has been organized in Jack-sonville, Fla., with $25,000 capital. The New Chair company will manufacture chairs, office amI bank fixtures in New Orleans, La. Capital is $50,000. The Knoxville (Tenn.) Table & Chair CQmpany have doubl'ed their capital stock in order to increase their output. How to Recut Old Files and Rasps. Dissolve four ounces saleratus in onc quart water and boil the files in the solution for a half hour. Remove the files, wash and dry them. Then to one quart of water slowly add four ounces sl1lphuric acid. Immerse the files in this prep-aration and let stand from six to twelve hours, according to the fineness or coarseness of the files. Earthen vessels only should be used for the acid preparation. Bottle the liquid and it may be used again; but be careful in handling it, as it is poisonous. "Out" West. Charles R. Sligh, president of the Sligh pany, is making a tour of the Northwest. before the session opens. Furniture com- He will return 36 Causes for the Great Annual Fire Loss. Carefully compiled statistics show that fire annually de-stroys one hundred and fifty million dollars worth of pro-perty. Many seem to see it/'" this awful record merely an unavoidable condition with which a country as great as ours 1111.1St ne.cess<l-ri.'y be content. And this absurd and hurtful idea is entertained not alone by those irresponsible and ignor-ant, but also by those in whose eharge are vast property in-terests and .vhose very names seem to compel success. These last are those who appear to think that just so long as their investment in a manufacturing plant sbows a profit, or that the buildings they -erect and rent to tenants are money makers, it doesn.'t matter how hazardous the process of manu-facturing, or how dangerous may be the stock merchandized so long as fire insurance is obtainable. They seem blind to the fact that a premium on a fire insurance policy is a tax no less than any other tax, and that it will increase and be-come more and more burdensome as the fire waste increases. The cause of many fires has been explained by, "a rat. he gna\"'ed a match," but p-rovidcntially losses from ~uch an ori-gin are in the minority. In the majority of instances they are due in the first place to improperly guarding against loss by fire. In these days of hustle, directly against the archi-tects' advice, many buildings are erecte<l without loss of time but with a corresponding loss of intcgrity. A brick build-ing is hurried up with weak walls, unprotccted iron posts and girders, thin floors, and is topped hy a roof which w1ll at least keep out the rain. It is heated variously by gas, steam, and ;;cannon ball" stoves. It is lighted by "juice" from the trolley circuit. Electric wiring, not always in accordance with the National Electrical Code is mazed throughollt the building. Electricity furnishes power to run the elevator, and when J6illl Doe and company inhabit the structure with their machinery, it runs that too. Doe and company are away behind on orders, and are altogether too busy to bother v,:ith the gasoline can, or oily waste, or to clcan out the foot of the elevator shaft, or even to sweep the floor. If the boys tear do,vn the wires of the lighting circuit and hang them on nails so they can "stick right on the job" in the winter after-noons, why, what matter? The engineer can put the .\rires back when the rush is over. The englueer, mind you, knows all about installing electric systems, if he didn't he '''''ouldn't have a patent on a lightning rod! The inevitable result of alt this carelessness is a t1re- "cause unknown," and right in the midst of a busy season Doe and company find themselves out of business with a per-plexing fire insurance adjustment on thcir hands. The in-surance companies settle with all the, haste compati.hle, with good business usages, the actual cash value of the property destroyed or damaged, but however short the time this takes may he, or how good the settlement obtained, Doe and com-pany discover, that by reason of interrupted business. with its many kindred contillgellcies, they havc sustained a CQtlse-quential damage not at all covered by thc insurance policy. And all of which mi.ght have. been avoided by a little. prndent, careful foresight. It is quite probable that ninety-five per cent of all fires that occur, could in their incipiency, be quenched by a gallon of water, and this is a cogent reason why all inspectors are sticklers for some simple method of individual fire protection. Outside of sprinkler equipment, which is the highest degree of such 'Protection, or stand pipe alHI hose-which is w:~)';.tin point of effectiveness, chemical extinguishers and simple barrels and buckets of salt water distributed have proved their usefulness. The barrels and huckets are a 1110st handy combination for the reason that the most ignorant operative," whom, when excited, valves on extinguisher tanks might delay, would hardly fail to get a bucket of water quickly. The efficacy of barrels and buckets is universally endorsed by fire underwriters, but in the case of at least one risk in the city of Buffalo the extreme of such protection has been reachcd. The superintendent of a certain foundry was re-quested by the inspector to provide six pails for ea..:-h barrel ·which is the standard requirement. One very material fact was overlooked, however, the number of barrels, of which there are 'ilearly fifty. After the superintendent had com-plied with the inspector's recommendation he found himself nearly crowded out of the works. He has festoons of ar-tistically galvanized iron pails in every department, and has unpacked crates of tbem for which he has 110 room. \\Then the writer introduced himself as a fire insurance inspector, he waS led to the door of the shop, the superintendent waved his hand toward the buckets and swore comprehensively and me-l" odiously. But this was merely a ludicrous hlunder. If property owners will follow out the advice given by the average in-spector the annual fire loss will show a gl'atifying decrease. Be a "good houseKeeper." Keep the manufactory clean. And be sure that when the decrease in the annual fire loss spoken of above obtains, a lower rate of insurance will obtain.- Buffalo l\Janufacturer. Walter Clark, \Vhose office is 533 Michigan Trust building and warehouse on Prescott street, loaded a car of selected quarter-sawed oak veneers June 4 for the Doernbecher Furniture company, Port-land, Oregon. That is about as far west as his trade extends; but he has a nice trade in the New England states; in Canada; and all over the midd.le and western states. Mr. Clark has a very large and carefully selected stock of ",enee'·s in quarter-saw and plain oak; figured and plain birch; bini's eye and plain maple and poplar erossbandiJ1g. He is also prepared to quotc prices and fill orders for built-up stock. RichmondSafety Gate Co. RICHMOND, INDIANA q Manufadurcn Exclusively of Automatic Elevator Gates, Automatic Hatch. way Doors, Underwriters' Gravity Fire Doonl, Rich-m 0 n d Counterbalanced J r 0 n Doors, Richmond Horizontal Trolley Doors, Automatic Division Wall Doors and Shutte1'$. WRITE FOR CATALOGUE 37 THE CREDIT BUREAU OF THE FURNITURE TRADE Grand Rapids Office. 412-413 Houseman Bldg. GEO. E. GRAVES. Manager CLAPPERTON & OWEN, Counsel The LYON Furniture Agency THE STANDARD REFERENCE BOOK CAPITAL, CREDIT AND PAY RATINGS CLEARING HOUSE OF TRADE EXPERIENCE THE MOST REUABLE CREDIT REPORTS ROBERT P. LYON, General Manager CREDITS and COLLECTIONS MISCELLANEOUS ADVERTISEMENTS W,"-NTEH Cabinet ltJaker~ and gene1'al lIlachine hauch,. Address l\111skegonValley ~'t11'niturf' ('om-pany, 1I,1\l~k",.g-Gn. lI.Ii~1). 1)- Hi It. "" A:S'l'EH---T,int's. }o'o)' June, l:ti)Il, on eommissiorl. Long ex-pel'jenc"". extensivr acquaintance. Alldl'cSS Box 273 ear" of Miehig-n,n Arti>5<lIl. 4-10, 5-)'\ (i-l0. FOR 8AI.F.. Poplar. F,d .and white oak !umt:lPr, plain or quartr]'ed, also dimension stock. Cor- ~·esponde.ll.e(' s0licited. }\\.b~rt R. Kampt, ~7 Board of Trade Building Louisvill!~, Ky. 6t-2 10. \l'ANTJ!:D-Trll"eling SalNllnell To the: fUJ'niturp. trade. Pick up their ex-penses and mOl'e too, taking order", for 0'''' patent medidn<? cabinets. Salc!!m.en's out- :ilt free. VlTrite for It today. Spencel' Cab-inet Co., 456 Og-den ,\.\'('. Chicago, III 1-~-3-4-" 6-6m. l\'AN'l'J<:U-Venur jUan. ).fail to take charge of venfH'r room work-ing ten mfm. 1I'111St be f.amiliar with ve-neering case goods and beds, in mah<)gnny. bird':; eye maple, dc Must 1Ia\'e g'ood know}f\(lge or cutting and matching. .'\.d-oJ'ess 0., NIxe o{ Michigan _'\rtisan. ltj-, -1ll tt. ~""l~~ Double daily train service to New Orleans. Send for a free descriptive booklet. Connects with Southern Pacific Steamship leaving every Wednesday afternoon for Havana. Send for free illustrated folder on Cuba. Through tickets, rates, etc., of I. C. R. R. agents and those of connecting lines. A. H. HA.NSON, P"ss. TRAFFIC MClR., CHICAOO. S. O. HATCH, OENERAL. PASS. AGENT, CHICAGQ. COLLECTIONS MADE EVERYWHERE PROMPTLY-REUABLY "",,":NTEH-.U:.nHgt'l' of FUrJliturl!' nctJll1't-lllent, v.re are desirous of gdling a good II'; ..', wlt1e-awake luan to nutnflg-e our furui.ture OBpa,rtment, to tltke charge of sa]('l':, h;(')J stoek and help us out In our advel'ti~lng. The Street & Hal'per cornpan~", OklailOlila City, 0, T. ----:-c-~--- \\-','\:'Ii'l'ED-BclPlS Cabinet .\laker. Practical workman to lake e]Hlxge of cab-i. net rOflm, OIl. beu l'<lom furnHur\i', Hl.elliu-m gl'ade. Must Irarn to handle: abol!t :':5 men. Will give assistance for a reason:oLblc tlmf'. A.(ldn·ss 0., ell""'" of Miclligan Artisan 6-10-7·10 ~t. \\'A'STED-Positi41ll liS Salesman On salary with some f",dory to travel In Ohio ant)' \H,~te"'n Penm';ylv7l.n\.a. \\iiU make liheral cOJ[traet jf permit led to calTy a sjde line. A.ddress Val D. eeron, 6803 Frank,<;- town An'" Pittsburg, Fa. "l-l'agon<\[all:t>rs :\fachinery for Sale. Big 8argllil1~. McGovenl cOlllpr<'ssion tire settcr, spoke lennonf~T Dolt thread f:\ltter, tire bC1Hler, punch and Sh"'(I,I'S, all up-lo-llat.", machinery; ::10 horsep()\ver engine: 2 14-feet b(1il"rs, 42- Inch, 2~r~_inell rlue. Must be sold, ""a-tional \Vagou company, Baflkrupt; \Vm. r. l"esbitt, Trl)stPl', Big nap!([s, Mich. ii-11l, 6-10-:'t. ----~--- FOR 8iH.t<:-Ollf< 60 N. r, Engine. Atl,'tS ALlto.rnatie eut-off eng-ine in flrst-class CO/l<litlon. Karges .Wut'niture company, R,vansviH(', 1ri\1. C-IO-lt, fOR 50 CENTS We will mail the Factory Edition of the Michigan Arti-san to any address in the United States during the remain-der of the current year. Remit with order _. MIC"IGAN ARTISAN CO. Grand RapidS, Mich. "l-l'A]o,-TED-Commission Salesman To ca1'1'Y medium prked line of sidebolLl'ds, Chiffoniers and dressers in state of Ohio. 'Vhen applyinl!; state what liue,s you are now carl'~·ing. Addl''''SS "Furniture," cat·e of Michigan Artisan. 6-10-3t. l\:A;."VTRD-Expert ~'uremaD Cbnir Fjnisher. GOod wages and permanent posHion for a COlU\.lct",nt, reliable man, Address ","-urora, Chair COmpany, Aurora, Ind. 6-10-tf. WANTED-(}abinet \\'tlI'kers and Jrlaebiu0 ][unds, Also common fad.or)' handS, Steady work all yF.Rr l'Dull(l and at g-ood wages. Address 'l'he Hamilton Manufacturing company, Two Rivers, \V[s., or call at theiJ· factory at Two Rivers. 6-10, 7-10, 8-10 3t. WANTED-Cabinet )[akenl Awl mall thoroughly eompetcnt to run sticker. AddrF.ss, stating experience and salary ,van ted, The T. X, L. & Goshen Pump company, Goshen, Ind. 6-10-lt. WA)'lt,TTJ!:D-Posltion. By expel'ieneed foreman finisher nQW holding an important position. SatisfactoQ'reasons for d~si:rin~ a cl.HtngP. Adllress E. T., care of Michigan Artisan. _-,,:- _ ~IA:NC¥AC,TrRl:N(; OPPORTUNITY. i'iIew, splendIdly equipped furniture fac-tory for sale, raw material eOJlYenient, abun-dant and (:hcap. Local capital will take an interest lf desired. n. B, Chaffin company (Inc. l, Richmond, Va. 6-10-25-2t. W,\'STEI>-FlnJsber. I<~irst class man to take charge of finishing room, OlW good coat.er, one good rubber and polisher for wood manlel factory. Address i'iIo. 82 G.. Mlcl)igan Artisan. 6-1(l-lt. 'WANTED-Position A spindle C1Ll"Ver of twelv\\ YC\\,l'S \i!:lI:J}er-lence desires position as foreman in cal·V-ing department. Can furnish good r<~fer-enees. Address Cl\l.'ver, care of Michigan Artisan, 6-10-lt. --~-- "'-~-\NTEn-SI,l~an Aequa.intcd with factory trade, to hanClie our line of trucks and speeialties, on salarY 0\· l'.ommi\\15ion. Mlcy,lgan Manufacturing & LUlll,ber compaTJ~", Hotly, Mich. 6-10-tf, WAWTED--Po"ition by :E~peJ't Bookkeepel". Fiftep.n ~'ear", fact.ory accounting. High-est. references. For personal int.erview fLd.- dress "I. G,," care of Mjchlgan Artisan. 6-10-25-2t. SllM)IER COTTAGE FOR RENT • .'\..rare opportunity to rent one of the finest fully furnished summer cattages at Otta- Wa Beach, Mich.; has living room, dining room, kitchen a.nd six bed room!!-for July; also one for entire Mason. Particularly de-sIrable for a fUl'llitun~ man obllged to he ill Grand .Rapids, at the July sales, to enjoy a summer outing for himself and fam.uy. Ad-dress D., care of Michigan Artisan. 6-10-H. We Teach fURNITU~E DESIGNINli, ROD MAKING, and ~TO(K8IlLlNG By Mail.------ We find positiomfo .. CotnpetentStudenu. Orand Rapids School of Fumlturl!: Dtsignlng Houseman Building, OrandRapids.Mich. A. Kirkpatrick, !nstTU{1f1T. 38 INDEX TO ADVERTISEMENTS AdamI'; & Elting Co. American BloweI' Co. .lD Globe V18e &I; Tru:mk Co ... Goodrich Transportation Co. HoftmaD »rOB. CO. Holoomb, A. L., ,i; Co Hahn, Louis Hardware Supply Co. Hills. Clarence R. Illinois Centrlll R'y .. Jamed"own PRnel 8J "elH!6l' eu; . Kepperling. D. A. KlJnbaIlBros. Co. .1. Baldwin, Tuthill & Bolton. Burnes, \\'. 1'~.& Joo" Co. Barrett, M. L" &I; Co. • .88 .1S • ...•..•.• I> . .. 28 White Printing Company Engravers Printers Binders Electrotypers CATALOGS COMPLETE 2 to 20 LyonSt. GRAND RAPIDS. MICH. Ward, O. A. , .. Weatherly Co. Williams, F. B. Whfte Printing Co. Wood. Morri$ & Sons. Barrett-J ..indeman Co., The. Bata"\'la Clamp ell .... Bennett & Witte .. Berry Bros. Co.. Black Bros. Co.. Boynton Co... Burch, A. F., Co.. Buss l'lacblne 'Works .. . 21 . .. 33 • . .. 35 Lyon .Agency Marietta Paint & Color Co., l\lattison, C., Co., Machine l'\'Ol'ks. Memmer, George, &: Co. .Cover Brldgepol't "","QDd Jo'ini!lhlng Co ... Cha~e, lWberh & Co.. ChIcago MIl'l'tll' &: Art Gla88 00 .. Chieago 'Wood :Fillishlng Co. Clark, Walter CO'l'desman-lWchtin C(). Cyelllne Blow Pipe Co. Dully Artisan-Record Dodds, Alexander .. .Cover 4, ..... 11 Michigan Artisan Co. Michigan Central B'y. l\IiChigun Engraving Co .. MlBl'eJlan60us . Ornamental Products Co. Oti$ Manufacturing Co. Palmer, A. E .. Pere l\larqnette R'y .. ptt~burg Plate Glas8 CD... ROOdlng$'l', r. H., Carving ',"orks. Richey, Halsted &: Quick. Richmond Safety Gate Co. .Cover . .... 32 .12 . Duel', John, &: Sons. 5 5 2 .2. Edge, Frank, & Co•.... Jo'aJ" & Egan Co... }'ellwock Roll & Panel Go.. Fox. Maehtne Co •. . .32 Frauds ('bas. E., & Bro. Furniture COUl. Agency Co•. 1 • Shf:mer, Samuel J., && SODS. Southern Railroad Co ... Stepbenllon Man-,rl'aeturing Co. Toles, R'. C., Oompany ..... , .. llnl.on Embossing Macbine Co .. Walter, B., 61: Co.. Grand Rapids Blow Pipe &: D. A. Co.. 9 Grand Bapids n..aJls Co. . ~8 Grand Rapids Eugra-,.-ing Co. ' 16 Grand Rapids Electrotype .:co. 4 Grand :Rapid!! Hand Screw Co.. . ... Co-"'eJ' Grand Rapid$ & lndlana R'y. . .. 19 Grand Rapldhi ~kbool IIlf Furniture De-tIIignins: .37 Grand Rapidllo Wood Finilolhing Co. • ... 4 Grand Trunk R'y.. . ,17 GWette Boller Bearing Co.. . .... Covel" ·WY80ng & Miles Co. .. 32-33 ..9ft .28 .31 5 . ('..over • ' .. 37 .IS • ...... 87 .Cover .12 • .27 · .17 .27 '. _.37 . •. 23 ... 21 . ..... 17 5 1 ..12 . .. 28 ... . .. 4 · .28 4 · .29 .1-32 • .S< 5 • .S~17-S8 .. 32 . .. Covel' Cut Your Shellac Varnish Bills •In Half By using ZACO. It will do the work as well, quicker and at half the cost of shellac varnish. ZACO has been on the market for 12 years-increased sales proves its true worth. If you don't use ZACO its because you have never tried it. Send for sample and prices. Wit CAN ALSO SAVE YOU MONEY ON: I Wood Stains Dry or Liquid Wood Alcohol Pumice Stone Shellac Varnish White and Orange Gum Shellac Orange or Blea.ched SEND FOR. SA,MP LES and PR.ICES. M. L. BARRETT ®. CO. 219 Lake St••Dept.G. CHICAGO Did You Ever Figure the C~t of That La.t Blockade in Your Cabi-net Room? No Sir! Stock Does Not Accum-ulate in Our Cabinet Room. We Use a BUSS DOUBLE CUT OFF SAW and All of Our Dimension Stock is Absolutely Square at Both Ends. BUSS MACHINE WORKS, Holland, Mich. How Are YOU.Doing Your Re-Sawing--How Long Does ItRequire to MaKethe Different Adjustments. All realize the importance of a Band Re-Saw in furniture factories, but many do not give the adjustments the necessary attention-a thing that should be seriously considered. If you could secure a machine on which all the adjustments necessary to he made while the machine is in operation could be manipulated by the operator instantly and with-out leaviug his natural position wouldn't it be a profitable investment? Consider This-. On The Cordesman~Rechtin No. 3% Band Re-saw the rolls may be Instantly spread or closed, are self-cen-tering or one set can be locked stationary for sawing stock to a given thickness; feed Instantly stopped or started, and speed of same Instantly increased or de-creased: feed works instantly tilted for siding; top guide Instantly adjusted to any desired position; both guides may be Instantl'Y swung aside to give free, access to saw, as in changing blades; top wheel Instantly ad-justed to give desired lead to saw-in fact every ad-justment is Instantaneous. Machine weighs full 4200 Ibs.; carries a 4 In. blade; re-saW5up to 24 loe,," wide and 8 lo&hu thick. THE CORDESMAN-RECHTIN COMPANY Dept. A, CINCINNATI, O. No. 3J' SAND RE·SAW. tilts installation means profit:- I l A Perfect Case Construction Makes the It is Entirely Strongest, Automatic. .It Clam.ps. Most Mortises and Economical Releases, Completing and Most the Post Accurate in less time than the Case Material can be Construction Clamped:on Other Possible Machines ~ ~ No. 119 N!ulUDleSqua.I'~'Chl.el Mortl~er Wysong &. Miles Co.•CedarSt.andSo.R.R. Greensboro. N. C. A New Dowel and Socket FOR DINING ROOM TABLES ~ Both sides bored with the same double bit-only one handling of stock when boring. !!I We have also the very latest thing in Push Buttuu Catchesfor Book Case and Qabinet Doors. The best thing yet made in this line.

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