Weekly Artisan; 1909-07-10

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Issue of a furniture trade magazine published weekly in Grand Rapids, Mich, starting in 1879. and GRANJ:' RAPID~ PUBLIC LIBRA ~y GRAND RAPII)S~ ~IICH.• JULY 10. 1909 THROW OUT. ALL Disk, Drum, and Spindle Sanders are money wasters. There IS not a pIece of sandmg that our Patented Sand Belts will not Polish Better and Faster No 171 Sand Belt MachlOe 400 machmes already m operation. Why gIve your competitor an advantage over you m thIs department) WIll sand and polish flat surfaces, all irregular work In your sandmg department. Ask for cat-alog E. PATEN fFD Januarv 13th, 1907 May 17th, 1901 I\ovember 14th 19m February 13th lQ(j(, October 2nd, 100(, WYSONG & MILES COMPANY, Cedar St. and Sou. R. R., GREENSBORO, N. C. ~- The Best Truch--The Strongest Truch -----------------g This is the famous Gillette Roller Bearing Factory Truck---the truck on which it is said, "One man can move a load if 3000 pounds while with the other trucks it takes three men." This is the truck that is strong where others are weak---the truck that has an unhreakable malleab/~ironfork. This is the truck YOU are looking for if you wish to invest in rather than waste money on factory trucks. Gillette Roller Bearing CO. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. I The Lightest Running, I Longest Lasting Truck A BIT OF INDUSTRIAL HISTORY Are You Running an 1860 or a 1910 Plant? "Debolt" Return Trap. PATENTf<..D. In 1800 cottonseed removed from the bol! by gmmng was garbage-thrown away. By 1870 gmners managed to conVince some people that cottonseed was good fertIlIzer. By 1880 It was consIdered good cattle food and In 1890 It ",as being used as a table food By not utIllzmg all the cottonseed In 1900 (one year) twenty-sIx ml!hon dollars that someone could have had, was thrown away. The City of Glasgow, Scotland, gets 9,000 horse-power every day-free- by catching and utII Izmg furnace gases formerly wasted. The steel corporatIOn WIlllight the town of Gary, Ind., and run all street cars wIth energy that would otherwIse be wasted and belched out of furnace stacks. If you use steam for heatmg and drying and you allow any condensatIOn to go to waste-you are losing money. Put all your condensation back Into the bOIler wIthout pumping-and hotter than a pump with hft-with "DETROIT" General Offices: DETROIT, MICH. Automatic- Return Steam Traps Manufactured and Guaranteed by Works: Detroit, Mich. and Troy, N. Y. --ENGINEERS AND MANUFACTURERS-- "ABC" Moist Air Dry Kilns. "American Sirocco" Slow Speed Exhaust Fans. SlidinJ! Shoe for Use on Desk leJ!s This shoe does the work of a caster yet allows the desk legs to set close to floor. Fastened with flat head wood screw and furnished in three sizes. SEND FOR SAMPLES AND PRICES No 1493 PULL A very fine handle for desks in the square effect. Something dIfferent from the regular bar pulls. GRAND RAPIDS BRASS CO. I" GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN II E E K L Y ART I SA K These Specialties are used all Over the World Veneer Presses, dIfferent kmds and sIzes (Patented) ~ Hand Feed Glueing Machine (Patent pendmg) Many styles and SIzes. Veneer Presses Glup Spreaders Glue Heaters Trucks, Etc., Etc. Wood·Working Machinery and Supplies No.6 Glue Heater . ._-~----------------- ~,------------_._.--_._-----------------------._.--.-~-_.----------------------------------------~ IIIII II!I! Our Spa1 tan Stams Impart to woods a finIsh, That 1'1111theIr natural beaut) ne'er cllmll11sh, For like a modern E, e 111fashlOn " finery an ay eel, \\ ood 1'3much Improved ",hen Its figure IS cllsplayed, \nd like a raIment of the finest fabl1c The<:;estams doth clothe the V\ ood vv1th beauty s magIc IIIII III II IIIII I-~I BEAUTY'S MAGIC EARLY ENGLISH SPARTAN STAIN Manetta Early English Stams re-present the Ideas of the best 111form-ed people They are corrFct m shade and work111g qualities As the name Implies, Early English IS Simply a reproductIon of an old English fimsh which was in use m England a cen-tury or more ago Our Early En-glish Stams are not surface '3tams they are absorbed entirely by the wood, becol11mg a part of the wood lise If, 1111pal tmg a character and a beauty that appears entirely natural They stain the wood so perfectly that filling doe", not remove the stain, consequently It IS not necessary to "hellac over It In order to bind, a'3 '3omestamshavetobetreateel \Ve le-produce two dl:-.tlnct color tones-the gray and the brown-both cor-led, anel repl e'3ent1l1g cltfferent pel lOel" 111 the Fnglt"h ta;-,te for art THE MARIETTA PAINT & COLOR CO. MARIETTA, OHIO THE MARIETTA PAINT & COLOR CO. ~--_.-_. ...-----_. ----~-~------ .... ... _ ..---------_. _.~--_._._--_. ....... _- ..-. -~ WHITE PRINTING CO. GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN HIGH GRADE CATALOGS COMPLETE II ~. _ ....- .... ~ .._- ..------------- - _ .._ .._--~ 2 WEEKLY ~RTISAN ~-.-_----------------- ---~_._----- The above cut IS takeu dIrect from a photograph, aud shows the range of one size only, our No 1, 24-1Dt-h Clamp "e make SIX other sues. takIng in stoCh. up to 60 Inches wide and 2 inches thick Ours is the most practIcal method of clampiug glued stock in use at the present tIme Hundreds of factories ha' e adopted our" ay the past year and hundreds more wIll in the future Let us show you Let us send ;rou the names of nearly 100 factories (only a fraction of our list) who have ordered and reordered many times Proof positIve our way is the best, A post card "ill brmg It, catalog included Don't ~--- - - - -----_._-_. __._-----------------'" III II I I III II III II I II III III I II The Capacity of Your Jointer is Limited to the Cutting Capacity of the Cutters. Unless you are usmg the Genuine Morris Wood tJJ Sons 20th Century Solid Steel Glue Joint Cutters you are not gettmg the fUll value out of your machme. They are harder and reqUire less grinding than any other make, and when they do need grinding the cutting surface IS so small that It only takes a few minutes to put them III order agam Write for catalog No 35A. It tells all about the cutters and Willhelp you to mcrease your profits. MORRIS WOOD & SONS -----., I Palmer's Patent CluinJ! Clamps IIIII I I II II I II II II III• III IIIII II I I dela~, but write today I I I I AI..~.~~~~;~~,,~;,~~~~,~~~~~.~:~II~~CH. I Schutte, Cologne, ParIs, Brussels, Liege, ~rilan, Turin, Barcelona, t. • and BIlboa I I I ___ ~ .--4"I •I • ----.-----------------.-.--- ... N = uu' c hI' .....,,-;1'/;;. ~;:'I ~..,...~}, 2714-2716 W. LAKEST. CHICACO, ILL. FILLER The PILLER that FILLS. The L. Mac. E. Fillers are noted for their Uniformity. They work properly, packing well under the pad. They dry hard over night They will not Shrink as we use a water floated Silex. WE CAN MATCH ANVTHING . Th8 lawr8nc8-McFadd8n Company PHILADELPHIA, PA. WEEKLY ARTISAN 3 ~-.-------_._-----------------------------_._---_. ----------------~-------.-.I The Celellrated EFFand EFF Line of Excellent Workmanship and Finish, consisting or ROCKfORD fRAME AND fiXTURE CO., Rockford, III• Parlor Cabinets, Music Cabinets, Hall Trees, Hat Racks, Shaving Stands, Buffets, China Closets, Gilt Mirrors, Dressing Tables, Chairs, and Adju.stable Fixtures DISPLAYS GR AND RAPIDS-Second Floor, Furn- Iture ExhIbItIOn Buddtng, CHICAGO-All the year round, Chica-go Furmture Exchange, 14th and Wabash Ave. and 10 the New York Furmture Exchange ~~--- -----------------_-.-~--------------._-----_._------ I f ----_._------- ..I These saws are made from No. 1 Steel and we war-rant every blade. We also carry a full stock of Bev-eled Back Scroll Saws, any length and gauge. IIIII .,I_------- III II ....._------------ .. MACHINE. I\NIVES PERFECT QUALITY RIGHT PRICES PROMPT SERVICE ABSOLUTE GUARANTEE Dado or Grooving Heads, Miter Machines. Universal Wood Trimmers. 80ring Machines, Etc. FOX MACHINE CO 185 N. Front St. • Grand Rapids. Mich, •• .-----.---------. -•-•-•-----_- ._.___._._-.-_.__..__. ---._-.-_..a... r - .. -~:~: IN-~~TROIT 'll !:!~~I!~!~ Cor. Adams Ave. and Park St. • In the Center of the Theatre, Shop- It pIng, and Busmess Dlltnct. A la Carte Cafe Newest and Finest GrJlI Room in the City. Club Breakfast. - - 40c up Luncheon - - - 50c Table d'hote DIDners 75c Muslcfrom6P M to IZ P M III III-------..aI Every room has a private bath. EUROPEAN PLAN Rate.: $1.50 per day and up. L. W. TULLER, Prop. M. A. SHAW, Mgr -------------------- ----_.~-_._.-----., THE Wellin~ton noteI I fI .._--------------- '""-----------------------_._---_ ... Cor. Wabash Ave. & Jackson BOUlevard CHICAGO Remodeled at a cost of $150,000 Hot and cold running water and long dIS-tance 'phones in aU rooms. ZOO rooms 100 WIth bath Smale or en 'u,le. Rales $1 00 and upwards One of the most Unique chmng rooms In the country Our famou, IndIan Cafe NOTED FOR SERVICE AND CUISINE McClintock and BayfIeld PReF'S. I:I III ..............-... ARTHUR S WHITE. PreSIdent ALVAH BROWN. V,ce PreSIdent HARRY C WHITE. See y Treas GRANf' RAPIDS PUBLIC LIBRJ ~y 30th Year-No.2 GRAND RAPIDS. MICH.• JULY 10. 1909 Issued Weekly ADVERTISING A FURNITURE STORE. By MARLIN N. BAKER, GRAND RAPIDS The fur11ltl1re dealer should be one of the heav1est retal! advert1:oers Although e, e1 " bod} m u"t bu} and use fUl111tUle, thele are few other lmes of busmess thdt w111 ~tanJ so much ad, ertIslnQ, People as a rule lack the 1l11tIatn e to start afte1 new fU1111tme to replace the old, e'-,pec1ally when the ldtter 1S not u:oele:os, but merely '-,habb} 01 out of '-,tyle Your advertI:o-lllg should furlll~h th1" 11l1tIatn e by sugge'-,t'ug the des1rab1hty of refur111shlllg the home II1th the more beantIful and com-fortable fur111ture of todd} ~uch ad, e1tISlllg C1eates bU:Ollle"s that would not otherVvlse eX1:ot Your ad should al \Va} s gn e conC1'-,e but complete de'-,cnp-tIons of the matenal and IV 01kmansh1p of the artlcle adH'r-ttsed, statlllg "h} the a1ttcle 1Sbetter than some S11111la1p1ece of fUl111tm e Ad, ertIse cont1nuoml} and seasonably In all cases except :opec1al sale~, small furmture ad:o should contam but one artIcle at a tlme c\n a'h erilsement filled w1th a d1redo1Y of the :otore" content'-, coufu'-,es the leader. and one scarcely knoVvs \\ here to beg1l1 1eadl11g If one a1ttc1e only 1Su:oed, fa1 better 1e:oult-, a1e ohta1l1ecl The OppOl tUlllttes for strong d1'-,play ale greater, dnd the leade1 1:0left Y\lth one clear lmp1ess1On 1l1'-,tead of a cong10merdt1On of d d07en a1 tlcle'-, Make your ads open and eas} to 1ead \\ h1te :opace 1:0 Just as essenttal to an a(l'. e1t1sement as 1S the 1eadlllg matter VVhen prepanng copy for an ad, after dete1 mm1l1g the :opace to he med, make a lay-out the exact :017eot the ad Gn e th1S pal t of the work as much careful thoul5ht as you do the Vvord-mg 01 body matter Select a sUltab1e cut If for neVv:opaper", u~,e a goodhne or stlpp1e lllu"tIat1On Fl11e screen half tone" and electrot} pes from half tone" do not P11l1t ,I' ell on news-paper stock If you do not ha, e a g ooel cled1 pllntl11g cut, better lea, e 1t out A pOOl l!lusttat1On detracb "A good l11u:otIatIon w111 dttract and hold the 1eader " attent10n Gn e the cut a prom1- nent pos1tlon If the ad 1S a small one, place the cut at the upper nght or left hand COlner Now dra,y the borde1, work- 1ng out some stllkl11g eflect that can be set up b} the pnnte1 1\ e"t, the head lme 1S to be cons1dered Let me :oay nght here that the hCddlllg 1:0Just as 1mp01 tant a~ the body matter, 1f not more so It should contaw the text of the ad, as \\ ell as a selllllg pomt ot the artIcle adyertIsed I remember 1ead I11g a small ad headed' \Vall Paper" Th1s \\ as ::oet 111 hea, I' GOth1C dbp1a} I prepal ed myself to 1ead about wall pape; The ad contInued, ' Is not am 1111e,but 1f ) au are lookmg for ha1 dware we can :oupply your needs" ~uch ads are d1SlSust- 111gand never bnng busllle:o:o to the advertIser Make the head hne lllterestlllg If you lose the reader':o at-tent10n III the headlllg, he 01 she 1S forever lo:ot, and all your effo1 ts 1n the body matter are of no aya1l .sUPPOSlllg the ad,e1tI'-,ement 1Sof a porch rocke1 The mere VvOld1l1g"Porch Rocker" 1:0 ha1 d1y '-,uffic1ent "Cool, Comfortable Porch Rocker" Vvould be much betie1 Here the words "cool, com-fot table," tell somethlllg The "uggestlOn of a comfOl table rocke1 1S brought to the readel's mllld, and the chances are he 01 she ,1'111read on No,,, that you ha, e the reader's attentlOn, create a deslre for the rockel Tell of ltS beauty, the enjoyment of a com-fot table rockel, the WOlkman:ohlp, qualtty and matenal Tell \\ h) 1t :ohould be bought at Y0ul store Good bu::omess bnngmg ad, el tIsements are never wntten m a m111ute G1ve yom work your whole m111d and atientlOn ~tudy It; le-Vvnte 1t Place yourself 111the customer's posltion Look at } our ad as a custome1 would Does It 1mpress you \'lth a de"lre for the article? Does 1t present the article 1n a busme'-,s manner? \Vould the ad make you want the art1cle "" ell enough to '-,end fOl It? Then re-wnte 1t, bod lt down to a good, "trong ter'-,e talk, "tat111g hone'-,t fdcts I have re- ,ynUen an ad,ertisement as many a:o ten times before bel11g satisfied that lt was the be:ot that could be done Gooll dl"p1a}, t} poglaphlcal arrangement and hlgh class lllu:otratlOns are the pnnclpal element::-. fOl attract111g attention Get yom reader's aUentlOn, then con,111ce hlm that he needs thlS partIcular aritcle The opportul1lties for artist1C d1:op1ay, good descnptlOn and ploductlve hie1 ature, are", lthout ltm1t ln the furl11ture bU"l-ness In wntl11g an ad, el tisement, the lSreat question to be borne 111m1l1d 1S not, '\V 111 thlS 111tere"t :oomebody, wlll 1t make them laugh and say that 1" certal11ly c1e, e1 ?" the questlOn 1'3, "\Vlll It makt' them come 111 tomonow and buy a dre:oser, a chaIr, a kitchen cablnet, couch or whatever the article may be?" In a nut :ohell, your statement. 111add1tlOn to bemg well cltsp1ayed, must he lUCid, cOn,lnC1l1g and correct It's the way of the world that the people we envy are envying somebody higher up When money talks the mllhonalre can afford to be a mar of few words. No man need be a failure who does'nt yeaJ '1 fGr the unattaill able, HOW TO SECURE BETTER FREIGHT RATES An Address Delivered by Ernest L. Ewing at the Annual Banquet of the Grand Rapids Manufacturers' Association in June, 1909. Is there any factor In the development of ) 0111 bus111ess that IS of greater Importance than freIght transportatIon ser- VIce and cost? How many thousands of dollars worth of freIght transportatIOn IS bought and paId for by the furnIture manufacturers of Grand RapIds each year? '""ould not the total amount easIly parallel the expendItures for other com-modIties to the purchase pnce of whIch greater attention is paId? It IS claImed b) the manufacturers and Jobbers of :MIchI-gan that freIght rates to, from and between P0111tSm ::\IIclllgan are, and always have been, too hIgh and It IS partIally con-ceded by representatIves of the rallroad that the general condi-t10n is capable of readjustment Is It not surpnsmg that such a condItion could long eXIst without an orgal11zed eff01 t bemg made to have It conected? The freIght rates between r-hchlgan pomts and POll1ts east and south are entIrely based upon percentages of the rates between Chicago and New York; the present adjustment has remamed practIcally unchanged f01 approximatel) thirty years. "Vould It be a comphment to any man's mtelhgence to endeavor to convmce hIm that an adjustment of f1 eIght 1ates, '30 vItally affect111g the commerce of the state, completed thirty years alSO could pOSSIble be commenS111 ate WIth the re-qUlrements of the present tIme? Is It reasonable to suppose that any adjUstment of freIght rates, based On pI esent condI-tIons, would be accepted as reasonable thlrt} ) ears hence) The entire fabnc of freIght 1ates, m ItS oIigm. \\ as purely expenmental It could not be othel \VIse for the1e was no pre-cedent to be gUlued by and as the transportatIon bus111ess of thIS country has been developed one expellment has suc-ceeded another untIl we have today a condlt1On that IS be::,t de-scribed as chaotIc It has been asserted and but feebl} de-nied that the only freIght rates 111effect, that are reasonable and just are such as have been forced to theIr pre:,ent baSIS by the efforts of the freIght payers to overcome that tIme hon-ored custom that has alwa) s prevaIled 111 freIght rate construc-tIon 1 e to assess "all that the traffic WIll bea1 " There are freIght 1ates 111effect that are as unreasonabh low as othels are unreasonably hIgh and an equItable adJust-ment demands the rals111g of such as surely as the reductIOn of the other A rate that IS unreasonably low affOlds a false standard by \vhich higher rates are guaged and deprives the carner of the revenue to which It is entitled 'Vith the co-op-eratlVe and comb1l1ed efforts of tJIe shIppers and the carners toward an eqUltable adjustment It WIll be many years before the same is accomphshed because such effort must keep pace WIth the natural growth and development of the country's commerce whIch contmously gIves bIrth to ne" and unpre-cedented condItIons and transportatIOn problems The MichIgan ShIppers' AssocIation was organized with the definite object of secunng a more favorable baSIS of freIght rates Such an orgal11ZatIOn, WIth such an object, cannot fall to obtain results that WIll be of matenal benefit to every freIght payer m the state of MIchigan It IS not pOSSIble to confine the benefits of the work of such an orgal11ZatIOn to those who lend moral and financial support. The benefits are shared by all In seekll1g a readjustment of freIght rates we must deal \Nlth facts not theones, m formulatmg our demands on the carners we must be as reasonable as we ask them to be in their rates, rules and practIces There must appear no SpIrit of antagol11sm, but absolute co-operatlOn between the shippers and between the shIppers and the earners should prevail; they should meet m conference early and often and an actual kno\\ ledge of condItIOns should be the first step gained to\\ ard the desned end When, m the rates, rules or practIces of the carners, there IS anythmg that IS unreasonable, unjust or unduly d1scrim-mator) . It may be properly demonstrated and when so demon-strated the remedy IS sure to be obta111ed There is an in-creasing tendency, on the part of the carriers, to meet the ship-pers half way m such matters and when the shIppers have exhausted theIr efforts with the carners and have faIled to obtaIn satIsfactory results, It is then proper to proceed before the Interstate Commerce CommisslOn. Before that body they \\ 111be aftorded equal opportul11tIes WIth the earners, to demonstrate theIr SIde of the questIOn involv ed and the pomts at Issue WIll be settled absolutely upon theIr ments. In thIS d1rectlOn the traIl has been blazed by SImilar or-ganizatlOn elsewhere Rockford, Ilhnols, formerly rated upon a baSIS of 122% of ChIcago-New York rates, by persistent, 1l1SIstent and conSIstent effort has accomphshel a reduct10n to the 116% baSIS, Kansas CIty Denver, Ind1anapohs and more recently, Spokane, "V ash , have acllleved even greater results and many other commercial centers are investigating their freIght rates and are paY1l1g red-hot attentIOn to any evidence of unreasonableness or undue discnm1l1atIOn. The eftorts of the freIght payers of Spokane to escape from the strangle hold of the Great Northern and Northern Pac1fic roads and the success attend1l1g theIr efforts have been of mterest to every traffic manager or orgalllzation and have encouraged other:, to keep up their fight for more equitable freIght rates. If the Mtcll1gan Shippers' ASSOCIation recelVes from the MIchigan freIght payers, the support they should accord, ill then own 111terest, there can be no doubt of the final outcome. The propositlOn to readjust rates to and from MichIgan is one of magl11tude and one that will affect a vast territory. The carners cannot consistently grant all that will be asked; there IS every reason to belIeve that resort to the Interstate Com-merce Comm1ssIOn w111 be necessary to do full just1ce to the p10poSltIon However, It remams to be seen just what can be accom-phshed with the carners. It is 1l1tended to arrange a joint and mformal conference w1th1l1 th1rty days if pOSSIble, that the entIre sItuatlOn may be the subject of friendly dIscussion and that the carners may be afforded an apportunity to de-fine theIr pOSItIon If they so deSIre In conclusion I WIsh to state that I belleve the furnIture mterests have everyth1l1g to gatn and noth1l1g to lose by lend-l11g to the MIchIgan ShIppers' AssociatIOn theIr entIre support In my railroad and traffic expenence I have long been aware of the present rate adjustments and in my capacity as a traffic manager I have been employed by the Assoctation merely to do some prehm111ary work In assemblmg detailed information pert1l1ent to the propOSItion and to prepare some comparative statements which WIll be submItted to the carriers at the pro-posed conference. I appreciate the opportunity of addressing your Associa-tion this evening' and regret that I had not more time to pre-pare a mOl e interesting discourse Except as I have just out- , WEEKLY ARTISAN hned I have no personal mterest in the MIchIgan Shippers' AssoclatlOn but have located in Grand Rapids for the purpose of placing expert traffic servIce at the dIsposal of the Michi-gan shIppers III connection with their llldividual requirements In that connectlOn I hope to have the opportunity of again addressing your AssocIation at an early date. I thank you for your kind attention. When a fellow proposes a gIrl always loses her head, bur she generally finds it on his shoulder. The man with a chronic thirst resembles a spoPgc, except that a sponge isn't always dry. Furniture Notes and News. George Adams, a dealer in furniture in Houston, Texas, lost hIs stock by fire on July 6. The Woman's Association of South Pasadena, Cal., will erect a club house at an expense of $15,000. WIlham N. Booth, a dealer in furlllture at Marysville, Cal , was damaged by fire to the amount of $700 recently. F. ]. Senior and others of Salt Lake City, contemplate the erectlOn of a hotel to cost $500,000, on Great Salt Lake. Brown Brothers & Company of Gardner, Mass, will double their output of chairs by the occupancy of an additlOnal budding. The Peck & Hdls Company, of ChIcago, have been award-ed the contract for furnishing a new high school in Phoenix, Ariz. The American Avenue Furniture Company, unincorpor-ated, of Long Beach, Cal., IS dissolved. V. H. Rowland will continue the business. A. M. Van Valkenberg and others have organized the Palace Furniture Company in Deer Creek, Okla. The capital stock paid in amounts to $1,500. The Oakland, (Cal) Furniture Company have leased a large budding WIth eIghty feet front of show windows, and will occupy the same in the near future ]. D. Ingram, L. H. Turpin and others have organized the Turpm & Ingram Furniture Company in Nevada, Mo. Their capital stock amounts to $30,000. The Order of Odd Fellows w1l1erect a temple in Los An-geles, Cal, for lodge purposes, to cost $200,000 Manufac-hIrers of lodge furniture may note this item. The Baker-Trisler Company, of Des Momes, Iowa, have closed out theIr book and art busllless and WIll confine their trade hereafter to office furniture and supplies. The Ilhnois Refrigerator Company have 1l1creased their capItal stock from $50,000 to $100,000. The company will greatly enlarge their plant located at Morrison, Ill. A freight locomottve recently hauled 5,544 tons from Altoona to Harrisburg on the Pennsylvania road. This is said to be the heaviest load ever pulled by a locomotive. Kelso & Company is a new corporation with $30,000 capi-tal orgalllzed in New York to manufacture pianos. The stock IS held by Minnie Kelso, Alice K. Pink and Winifred Sullivan of 30 Broad street The O. H. Harding Furniture Company, Pine Bluffs, Ark, successors to the Rhodes-Harverty Furniture Company, will erect an annex to their store building, thereby adding 6,000 square feet to their floor space. Benjamine N. Gorman of No. 52 south Sixth street, Brooklyn, N. Y., and others have organized the Automatic Wardrobe Company capitalized for $200,000 The company will manufacture automatic wardrobes. 7 A brick bull ding conta1l11l1gfive floors 1 sin course of erec-tlOn at 1025 Arch street, PhIladelphIa. When completed, January 1, 1910, it will be occupied by the William Grant Company, dealers in furniture and rugs. The Knickerbocker Art Galleries, recently incorporated in 1"\ew York, will deal in modern and antique furniture. The 1I1corporators are Charles Hugh Smith, Frank J. Bang of Mt. Vernon, N. Y., and Clara A. Smith. The Phelps Furniture Company has been charted by the state of West Virginia to engage in the furniture business in Bluefield. The capital stock amounts to $25,000. W. S. Phelps, ]. M. Himes, T. J. Phelps, C. P. Bell and ]. F. Phelps all of Bluefield are the incorporators. Tomlinson & Knox, retailers of furniture in Pine Bluff, Ark, have filed articles of incorporatlOn. To the capital stock of $25,000, $10,000 has been subscnbed. F. B. Tomlinson is the president; Van H. Knox, vice president and Hunter H. Knox, secretary and treasurer of the corporation. A pointer for house furnishers:-] ames Ark and F. H. Leiretz will erect fine residences in Bakerfield, Cal ; Eugene Daney, W. B. Gavin, Louis vVild, Frank Somons and Wlison Chamberlain, "Artistic Seashore Homes" at San Diego, Cal. Margaret Ward, two cottage" at Pasadena, Cal, and Miss Stephens of Pasadena, a modern home. The plant of the Rowlett Desk Company, at Richmond, Ind., will go out of operation as soon as orders on hand shall be filled. George H. Knollenberg, the owner 1l1tends to re-tIre from the bUSIness Mr Knollenberg IS largely engaged 111 the sale of merchandIse and banking, and the desk factory has been a burden rather than a source of revenue to him Inexperienced and lllcompetent management has contnbuted largely to the lack of success of the company. ---~------~... ~ I , . Henry Schmit 8 Co. HOPKINS AND HARRIET STS. CincinnatI, 01,,0 makers of Upholstered Furniture I! •• for LODGE and PULPIT, PARLOR, LIBRARY. HOTEL and CLUB ROOM .. . .-- ----_._._------- ---- -----------.., r·We Manufacture the Largest Line of 10 the United States, SUItable for Sun day Schools, Halls, Steam-ers and all pubhc resorts. We also manufacture Brass TrImmed I r 0 n Beds, SprIng Beds, Cots and CrIbs In a large varIety Send for Catalogue and PYle .. to 1._. _~. __ ... __ .. ~ KAUffMAN MfG. CO. ASHLAND, OHIO \\ EEKLt PUBl.1SHEO EVERY SATURDAY BY THE MICHIGAN ARTISAN COMPANY SUBSCRJPTION $1 00 PER YEAR IN ALL COUNTRIES OF THE POSTAL UNION $1 50 PER YEAR TO OTHER COUNTRIES. SINGLE COPJES 5 CENTS. PUBLICATION OFFICE, 108-112 NORTH DIVISION ST, GRAND RAP DS, MICH A S WHITE MANAGING EDITOR Members of the New YOtk MetcantIle Exchange and of the New York Poultty and Game Trade AssocIatIon are trying to abohsh the practice used b} raIlroads of 1SSU1l1gbJ!ls of ladtng befOl e the goods are actually deln e1eel and placed m thetr cars Such btlls are usually tssued as an accommoda-tion to shippers by agents who are over eager to secure fretght for their roads The shtppers put up the btlls as collatet al tOl loans and thus obtam funds to pay for poUlt1 y, gram, butte1 eggs Or live stock, but sometImes they faJ! to load the cars Then the raJ!roads refuse to honor the btlls and the man "ho has advanced the money must depend the shIpper to mal"e good and he tS not always found financtally responstble That method of kttIng bIlls of ladl11g "as forme1ly usedm \I1chigan by men", ho bought wheat for DetrOIt and Toledo mal kets but It lead to trouble S11111larto that no\\ reported from ~ e" York and It \\ as discont1l1ued years ago It is surpns1l1g that New York bankers and commISSIon men are stIll honot1l1g drafts based on bIlls of ladIng Vvlltten \"tth otdtlJan lead pen- CIls and SIgned by agents befo1 e the goods ha, e been deln e1ed to the railroad compames They are bound to "cut It ont' now, however, by reqUIring all bIlls of ladmg attached to eh afts to be \\ 1Itten WIth mk or 111c1ehble pencJ! and to CaIl\ an official stamp mcl1catmg the agents authollh to SIgn and showing the date of hIS SIgnature ThIS rule, It IS belte, eel will at least prevent the raIlroads from repudIating btlls of ladmg and WIll probably put a stop to the ISSU1l1g of bIlls 111 advance of actual loacltng A prominent mercantile house located in Chicago handl1l1g house-furnishing goods, keeps a card record of every piece of goods purchased from the time it IS ordered until It shall have been dIsposed of. Every detatl m connectIOn WIth the purchase and sale IS noted and upon the rec01 d revealed de-pends subsequent orders for the pIece "Too much system" IS frequently condemned on account of ItS cost Probably clencal aSSIstance IS cheap In ChIcago Salesmen are tam1lta1 WIth the lady who enteI'" the st01 e and wanders about, aguely uncertaIn of what she want'i, and behevIng that :"he comes to see and not to buy Hel e IS a field ------ -. :...RTISAN fl esh tor :"ugge"tIOlJ, and the salesman who neglects to sm, ,eeel In such a field IS neglect111g an opportullltv rOut co-operatn e "t01es located m \\ I~COn'i1l1 d1'icon-t111ued bU"1l1es,, recently They were conducted along the u'iual 1111es but faJ!ed Almost mvanably the usual result ::'uch entetpn:oes ale not In accord \'dth the baSIC pnnclple" at trade dlstnbutIOn '\ 0 'ialesman need" to be Idle fOl a s111gle moment 1ll any 'itore There IS plenty to do always There are not always cus-tomer" to walt upon, but there are many other thmg'i whIch may be done '\ 0 salesman wastes hIS t1111em 'itudyl11g pnces, 1m} 111gor methods of salesmanshIp Called on the Carpet. '\. large number of manufacturers and dealers 111 fur11lture 111 ChIcago, ha, e recelveu notIces to appear before the Board of Revtew and ",how why theIr taxes should not be Increased In thIS connectIOn the amounts reported b} the compa11les 111- \ oh ed for ta-xatlOn dunng the current year, are not without Interest In 1908 the John M Smyth Company was asses~ed for $250,000 For the current year the amount reported for assessment is $200,000 The Tobey Furniture Company have 111creased theIr amounb from $203,000 to $225,00 H. E Scholle repon", stock valued at $35,000 subject to assessment, A H Re, ell & Company $158,000; the Speigel House Fur-msh111g Compan}, $39,500, the Hartman Furmture & Carpet Company, $88,500, J A Colby & Sons, $85,838 and the Ken-nedy FurnIture Company $35,000. The reports filed by a number of manufacturers of the value of personal property sub] ect to taxatlOn are as follows' A. H. Andrews & Co., $46,- 500, W. K Cowan & Co, $85,675, Ford & Johnson Company, $63,199; Haggard & :;\larcusson, $40,275; Johnson Chair Com-pany, $135,000, S Karpen & Brtohers, $205,200; Windsor Foldmg Bed Company, $42,000 Run It Out. "Run It out' though you tlunk It is useless, Don't stand as though tied to the place "Run It out" though the chance is agamst you, Perhaps you can get to your base The crowd on the bleachers IS shouting; Be game and take heed to its call. "Run it out," for the other chap maybe Wtll hopelessly Juggle the ball 'Run It out" is a pretty good motto, \Vhatever the game that you play, For there's always a chance for the fighter Who doesn't give up in dismay You WIll find that the man who's successful, The man who is lauded by all, Runs It out and qUite frequently gets there 'WhIle the other chap juggles the ball. ·.. .. ..-_. . . r----~~---------.---W~EEK-L-Y---A-RTISAN . . ._..__ .__._... 9" "THE BEST IS THE CHEAPEST" BARTON'S GARNET PAPER Sharp, Very Sharp, Sharper Than Any Other. SUPERIOR TO SAND PAPER. It costs more, BUT It Lasts Longer; Does Faster Work. Order a small lot; make tests; you will then know what you are getting. WE GUARANTEE SATISFACTION. Furniture and Chair Factories. Sash and Door Mills, Railroad Companies. Car BUIlders and others will consult their own interests by using it. Also Barton's Emery Cloth, Emery Paper, and Flint Paper, furnished in rolls or reams. MANUFACTURED BY ~----_._-------------_._._.-_._------------------_._--------------~~---_... H. H. BARTON & SON CO., 109 South Third St., Philadelphia, Pa. --_ ..I. Do Schemes Pay? \iVhile staymg m the city for a week last month I had a chance to watch the end of a "contest," if that is what you would call it, that was worked by a number of small retail merchants in an effort to advertise themselves and their neighborhood says Old Yardstick. For a month they gave away with every 5 cents' worth of goods a numbered ticket A drawing at the end of the month determined the lucky numbers and prizes, including a china closet, a morris chair, a set of dishes, a brass bed and so on Several of the merchants also gave individual prizes The prizes were exhibited for some time ahead 111 the store windows. I was there the last week and had a good chance to see how the affair wound up and the effect it had. The only per-son who made anything on the scheme as far as I could see were the ticket printers, and, of course, the lucky winners. I went along from one window to another on the night the win-ning numbers were posted to listen to the people. What I saw and heard amused me. There was one nervous woman with a fretful, obstreperous boy chasing from window to window with a list of numbers on her tickets and slapping the boy each time she found a prize number that was not hers. She got madder and madder the farther she went and if there had been a few more pnzes than there were she would have knocked that boy silly. As it was, do you think she was a "pleased customer" for any of the merchants? I saw a man who had two women with him hunting around and heard his lIttle prayers as he finally crumpled up a lIst a foot long and banged it on the pavement. Was he a "pleased customer" for anyone? I found a drunkard who had started out by copying dovvn the winning numbers in a list and then retired to compare them with the list of numbers on his tickets. He used a glass while comparing the numbers-not a readmg glass, either-and got his lists mixed up. When he started down the lme the first thing he found he had the number that was posted for the brass bed He thought that was too heavy to carry home and moved on. Hello! He had won the china closet Too heavy also. Next he had the right number for the morns chair. That looked good to him He went into the store and insisted on taking possession and sittmg there, smilmg and bowing to the crowd outside, who could see by the card that Miss - had won the chair. The proprietor was a little man, but he called for help and had the fellow taken home. Nice adverbsmg? It was the only event of the evening that pleased the crowd, nevertheless, because everyone who failed to win something got mad. That's the pnncipal disadvantge of such a contest. The losers all get mad. The winners feel pretty good, but do they buy any more from the prize gIvers than they did before? No. Now, to conSider thiS from the standpoint of the indivi-dual storekeeper. Does it benefit him? No one but the win-ner and his or her friends remember who won or who gave or what was given very long The druggist who does not lend his support to the contest nevertheless sells barrels of soda water to the crowds. The furniture man who goes in hardly sells many carloads of brass beds and sets of furniture Does he? The only kmd of scheme that will draw real benefit to one is one in which he controls the results and in which every-body can wm. For instance, the use of purchase checks, in return for which one gives back so much in cash or merchan-dise Trading stamps are a bad thmg because they simply amount to a tax of so much on one's business. As a rule a girl elthel wears her hI an on het "leelTeor keeps it 111 cold storage. r Gra~~-'~~~~~'~--~~~~~e~r-~_.~-~:.~ 2 Parkwood Ave.•Grand Rapids, Mich. We are now puttmg out the best Caster Cups WIth cork bases ever offerea to the trade. These are filllshed m Golden Oak and WhIte Maple III a hght filllSh These goods are admIrable for pohshed floors and furn- Iture rests They will not sweat or mar. PRICES: SIze 2U lUches .... $400 per hundred SIze 2M Ill~hes 5.00 per hundred Try a Sample Order FOB. Grand Rapeds j.. - _. .... •• •• • .... 10 \\ EE K L t \RTIS \N CHOICE TOOLS FOR FURNITURE MAKERS If you do not know the "Oliver" wood working tools, you had better give us your address and have us tell you all about them. We make nothmg but Quality tools, the first cost of which is considerable, but which will make more profit for each dollar invested than any of the cheap machines flood. ing the country. Oliver Tools Save Labor UOltverU New VaTJely Saw Table No 11 WIll lake a saw up '0 20" d,ameter Arbor bell is 6" wide Send for Catalog "B" for data on Hand Jointers, Saw Tables, Wood Lathes, Sanders, Tenoners, Mortisers, Trimmers, Grinders, Work Benches, Vises, Clamps, Glue Heaters, etc., etc. OLIVER MACHINERY CO. Works and General OffIces at 1 to 51 Clancy 51 GRAND RAPIDS. MICH, U. S A BRANCH OFFICES - Ohver Machmery Co • Hudson Termmal 50 Church 5,. New York Ohver Machmery Co, F",n Nabonal Bank BUIldmg, ChIcago. 111 Ohver Machmery Co PaClfic BUlldmg. Seattle, Wash Ohver Machmery Co • 20 I -203 Dean.ga'e, Manchester Eng Furnitul'e Notes and News. A brIck hotel to cost $20000 ,,111 be e1ected 111C;e!ma, Cal BIds "Ill be opened on ~uguc.,t 1 t01 the electIOn at a budd- Ing for the chamber of comme1ce of "dll Bel!Jaldll1o Cal The I rank Rea' es Sd:oh, Door ~ \IIll lompam ,,111 el ec t a manufacturIng plant 111Lac., \ngelee." to cost ~100 000 J C T1cknor has leased a stale bmld111g 111 Hemet, Cdl and wIll open a fine stock of ht1111tm e The Masons of Delano, Cal \\ 11!el e, t a temple 111tllclt elt, 111the near futm e \Vork upon a manual tt altlll1g school htt1ldll1~ hd" 11ecn commenced at Impellal, Cal \ fi, e-e.,tol) hotel" dl be el ected at Long Beach La! h, the Harhol Clt} Land Compan} R F Iltllgel has commenced the erectIOn of a lal~e addi-tion to hIS hl1111tme store 1115chenectad), \ \ I u addltton to the factor) of the Co-opel atll e Company at Rockford, Ill, 1:0undel constructIOn 50 x 50 feet 111SlLe, and four stones high The George R Ruckel COmpdl1\, h0u-,e tur111shel e., 0f Uoe.,ton, :\Iass, has ac.,c.,u:;ned fl11 the henefit of crechtols to Flank B Barnard FUI111tUIe It \\111be The Lenno'\. Hospital Bed Camp an) of \\ ll1ch Lome., T Lenno:A IS tru:otee, \'vas 111corpol clted 111Detiott I ecenth Ih capItal stock IS $20,000 \V L Offenbacher has cltsposed of ll1S fUIJ11tm e hlb111e"':l 111Zane:ovtlle, OhIO, and mo, ed to Columbus, \\ hel e he \\ 111 engage 111an automobIle trade The factOl} of the John Shrader, SI , rur111ture Compam 111 Loms'lIle, Ky, has been leased to a C111c111natJfirm. \\ hlch " Time "OLIVER" No. 16. Band Saw 36Inche •. Made wlth or Wlthout motor dnve Metal lable 36/1x 30/1 W,ll take 18/1 under I h e gUIde-bits 45 degree. one way and 7 degrees the other way Car nel a saw up to 1 %11 WIde. Outside beanng to lower wheel .halt when not motor doyen WeIgh. 1800 lb. when ready to sh,p u Tempers " Cost \\ J1l em;at~e 111the manufacture of parlor hl1111ture The plant ha" been Idle ':le, el a! ) eal " "111cethe death of John Shrader He111' \\ look ldte of \\ est Daml11e, Vt, has entered the emplo, ot the -\mellcan I,t11111ture Compau} of Den\ el, d':l lecen 111gand Sll1pp111g delk } \\ llalk of \Iarsha11to"lln, 10'\ a, ha:o :oold hiS stock of IUIJ1ttme to \1 L ::-'tonel)1aker and E C Harden The st}le ot the ne\\ fil m \\ III he ~tonebl aker &. IIarden The CapItal rm1l1tme :\Ianufactunng Compan} of Xobles- \ tlle, 1nd, has 111creased It" capital stock from S15,OOO to S~O 000 \\ Ilham H Craig IS the secretary of the camp an) \ facton to <-onta111one hundred thousand squal e feet of Hool "pace 'vi III be el ected dt DI aztl. I nd , and" hen completed, the Knlght-BI1t1kel hoff Plano Company will mOve Its bus111e"s t 10m Charlotte. :\I1ch to that place \n add1tlon to the tactOl} of the \\" H Gunlocke Chair C0111pan} at \\ a)!dnrl \ \ 1" 111the comse of erectIOn It \\ III be 60 '\. 100 feet 111c.,17e,thl ee stones high, and used for cab111et and fi1l1shmg purpo',es Tv'v0 01 three moto! sand c.,e\el al m ach111ec.,£01 mak111~ chairs \\ 111he 111sta11ed '1 he 'sha\\-\\ dlker Company of Mu:okegon, 11lch, has re- ,en eel a conti act from the ~eneral ~m el nmcnt for fil111g ca<;e" to l)e u<;ed 111a la1i.2,enumber of gm ernment bmld111gs dunng the CUllent fiscal} eal The c-ontlact amounts to $50,000 ~mon£; the bUll cl111~e.,to 11e "upplted Vv Ith fi!111g ca:oee.,are the po"tofficee., dt Grane! Rap1ds, DetlOlt, San FranCISco, Chatta-noo::; a and Lo" ~m~e!ee., DUlln£; the 111ght ot June 30 a :Odfe111the office of the S A I ,on Fur111ture Com pam In ~t J o"eph, 1\10 . \\ as opened b) burglals and $140 111 cash ,vas e.,tolen Checks amount111g to $300 \\ el e undl stm beel fhe oUblde door \\ as opened with- 11 Single Cone All Steel Springs Are very popular with the Furniture Trade. $2~ Each Net $2~ E.ach Net No. 46. Single Cone, $2 Each, Net. out the a1d of tools E\ldentl} the lObbe1} \\as the \\01k of an expert The LaurenE, rS C) Fl11l11tl11e Compan}, capltah7ed f01 $34,800, has beei1 chartered by the ~tate of Georgia The ~tockholder" are R T Dunlap, J h \1111te1 and E P .:\1111te1 They \\ 111Cdlf} on bus111ess at Columbia The Ramseur ('\ C) Fur111ture Company has completed the erectlOn of a large adchtlOn to 1tS plant and eqlllpped the same with Impi 0\ ed mach111ery One hundred and t \\ enty-fi\ e men are employed, and the plOduct of dre~s111g tables, chdfon-le1 sand dre<,sers amount') to one hund1 ed and fifty cases per day A dry bIn vnth a capaCIty of three hunch ed thousand feet of lumber \\111 be erected m the nea1 future \ telegl am f1om 0\\ OE,SO,M1Ch , bears the 111fo1mdtlOn that the E')te} Manutactunng Company ha') <,nspended bUS111eSE, BOYNTON &, CO Manufacturers of Emboued and Turned Mould-i n gI, Embo'l~ ed and Spindle Carving., and Automatic Turnings. We also manu fadure a large hne of Embo .. ed Ornamenta for Cou"h Work. We manufacture a full line of Smgle and Double Cane All Wire Springs. SEND US YOUR ORDERS. SMITH &, DAVIS MFG. CO., St. Louis 419-421 W. Fifteenth St., '..-.---.----_. ----- f01 the p1 esent 1he control1111g 111tere<,t III the compan\ \\ a" pm cha'oed a fe\\ day s ago by Charles J:, R1gley and 0 U E')te) Some time ago a b011us of $50,000 \\ as offe1 ed to the company a') an 111ducemenl to 1ebl11ld factory A, \\hlch \\a" de~t1 0) ed b) fi1e 1111905 The offe1 \\ as 1efused P1 eS1dent RI(!,le\ states that 1t 1S the purpo~e of the com pan} to 1hume the manufaLtu1 e of fml11tu1 e ,\ 1thm one} eal Manufacturers are dropp111g the fancy names used \\ hen "gum" lumber came 111to ql11te general use in the manufactu1 e of fur111ture. When questioned by the ul11nitiated in regard to the wood used 111a piece of fur11lture they reply without he')- ltancy "gU111" "Sat1n walnut" and other names sound "ell but do not satlsfy the man w1th the orders to place He is 100k111g for facts not poetical suggestlOns ~---_._._._._._-_._._.----- ,1 II I,IIIIIIIII I,I ,,I II•: SAMtJEL J. SHIMER & SONS, Milton, Penn. II Manufacturer, of the ShImer Cutter Heads for FlOOring, Celill1g, : Sldll1g, Doors, Sash, etc ~------- .......----~,I II, II II Don't Burn Your Moulding. Blackened edges so olten tound 111 hard wood Mouldll1gs lI1dlcate the use of lI1ferIor tools Wh1Ch frictIOn and burn becau~e of their failure to have proper clearance The ShImer Reversible and Non- Reversible Cutters are made of the finest tool steel by experienced workmen. In deSIgn and con- ~tructton they are supenor to anythll1g on the market. They cut \\ ell and retall1 their shape until worn out. Send us drawmgs or wood samples for estimates on speCial cutters. Many useful de signs, With prices, are gIven 111 our catalogue :I ---------~._._._.--.....-.-. WHY NOT SPELL IN FIGURES? The Bookkeeper Expounds a Theory to the Girl at the Switchboard. "There I" said the bookkeeper, and slammed the ledge1 shut The manner of thIS was clear to the gIrl at the switchboard "Gee, .but I'm glad you're fil11shed postmg," she saId "Everythmg IS dead slow this afternoon, and I'll Just pen"h If I can't talk to someone" "All those bills checked off?" he mquired She nodded. "No interest111g conversations on the WIres?" She shook her head "Nothing but some poor guy klckmg about his last order, and a Dutchman slmgmg German at the shipping clerk" The bookkeeper pulled the daybook toward hIm "Then you'll have to nng up that fly friend of yours at 4420 'Vall I must foot up thIS book yet" "You fresh thmg I" she exclaimed 'F01 that I m J u"t going to help you ,. She mounted on the rungs at the back of his hIgh stool, and with both elbow:" restmg on hIS shoulders proceeded to count rapIdly mto his ear. "TY\-o. nme, twenty-sei en, fiit}. forty-three, th1rt} -eight," and so on; but the bookkeepe1 con-tmued hIS ta:"k Imperturbably, footed up, call1ed f01\\ a1d. footed up and balanced. "I often thmk," he remarked, Wlp111ghls pen cal efull} , of what some old geezer once saId about the via) people make a fus:" ovel gnt and Call! age and all that whlle the one 1call} great virtue 111a man lS patience" "I'm awfully sorry lf I queered you," "aId the g111 I \\a" domg my level best est to help you" "Queer me I" he retorted "My deal ) oung lad), }all couldn't get my mind out of those columns ii lth a CIO\\bal It would take an earthquake or a C)clone 01, or-or the 1JO';;", to 1l1terrupt me 111those calculatlOn:" "It's strang e," he conilnued, arrang111g the 01del shps read} for entry, "or maybe I'm be111gpaId on account naY\-for some of the comeback that's due me 111the neAt wodd, but an} \\ ay it's strange that I should have to do thIS kmd of WOlk nOi\ Now, when I was a boy, allthmetIc was my abom111atlOn "But look at me now' Why, If myoId teacher could -..ee me here, he'd thl0W a fit. I thmk fig ures, 1 talk figUles, 1 eat figures, I sleep figures. In my dreams I'm stJll pOSt111g01 foot-ing up or something, The only l11ghtmares I ever have al e when I dream that my balance doesn't gee, 01 that I've found a mIstake of $3 33 in it four months back I tell you that's a ternble dream "You see, our brains are Just hke any of our muscles; by plugging eternally at it we get the habit It's the same with me as with the man swingmg a sledge hammer or anything hke that. When he first begins he's bound to miss the dllll once or twice, but when he continues to use it day after day he gets so that he can make connectlOns every time with his eyes shut. "That's exactly the form ten years of thIS hard labor has left me 111 You don't think, do you, that when I'm running up and down these columns I'm thinking that one and one make two or that four and eight make twelve, or that seven and six and four make seventeen? "I don't thl11k anything at all about it, no more than you th111kof the do, re, mi when you're running up and down the scale on your plano. All my figuring is purely mechanical. "Talking of this reminds me of a very plausible old soak I met some tIme ago He had a particularly alluring method of hghtning calculation He got a strangle hold on me one day, and slung it at me thIS way: "What is the difference between figures and the letters of the alphabet? No dIfference at all, my boy. Both are merely characters used to denote an idea. Now, he asked, shak1l1g his finger at me impressively, 'what does c-a-t- spell? C-a-t spell "cat," easy and simple enough "'\Vell, what makes you ,,0 unheSItatingly certain that It spells "cat?" Tral11l11g,my boy, merely tram111g " 'Our mmds have been taught to recognize that that com-h111atlOnof letters represents that word, and so we say It once, thmk111g nothmg at all of the sound value of each separate letter, c-a-t spelb "cat" , "Do you follow?" mquired the bookkeeper. "I'm handing It to you Just the way he reeled it off to me. "Then he would proceed something like this: " 'Now, let us take three numbers, say seven, three, foUl, wnte them 111a row, the same as c-a-t, and what do they spell? The average man must stop and think before he can say "four-teen ," but why should it be harder for him to tell what those three figures spell than in the case of the three letters we had before or of any other three letters? " 'A question of trail11ng, merely and simply training. In the same way, take words of four, five, six or a dozen letters; do vie have to pause to figure out the sound value of each let-ter, or even of each syllable? No, we recognize the complete \\ 01d at a glance. " 'Then why not WIth four, five, six or a dozen figures, or a column full, for that matter? Should it not be as easy to read them up and down as on a hne? The Asiatics prefer to read in that way.' "He offered to put me wise," continued the bookkeeper, to give me a thorough course and send me forth a complete lightning calculator, for fifty plunks, payable in advance, but I declined." "Were you just out of small change?" quened the girl at the sWItchboard; "or couldn't he make his own system dope out?" "Sure, he could work it all right, all right," replied the bookkeeper; "but then I've known one or two fellows w!,o could do that WIthout any system at all. As I told him, therc'~ a certain k111dof fool born every hour, and a lightning calcu-latO! now and then, but as long as I wasn't born the one, I'm not trying to become the other Now, my friend ]ones,- Cheese it, the boss f"-Ex Bornste1l1 & Quinn will take possession of a new store 111Lowell. ~Iass , m the near future. The VV J Oakes Chair Company have commenced the operation of their factory in Columbia, Tenn. .... ,I f fI I •I II jI •I II II f Sligh's Select WEEKLY ARTISAN ... --_ •• a •••••• Styles Sell Many New Features Added for the Fall Season Everything for the Bedroom [ MedIUm and Fme Qual,ty 1 Oflice and Salesroom corner Prescott and Buchanan Streets, Grand RapIds, MIch. WRITE FOR CATALOGUE SLIGH FURNITURE CO. Grand Rapids, Mich . and .- ...., Satisfy I I I ! CREDITS AND COLLECTIONS ....--_ ... - ---_ ..------------ -. ... ... -------_. -------_._----_._-------_._------_._--- I THE LYON FURNITURE AGENCY III ............ _- . ROBERT P. LYON, Ceneral Manager THE SPECIAL CREDIT BUREAU OF THE FURNITURE, CARPET, UPHOLSTERY, UNDERTAKING, PICTURE FRAME, MIRROR, VENEER, WOOD, CABINET HARDWARE AND HOUSE FURNISHINC TRADES. New York Grand Rapids Philadelphia Iloston Clnclnnatl Chicago 5t Louis Jamestown HIgh POint CapItal, CredIt and Pay Rahngs Cleanng House of Trade Expenence The Most Rehable CredIt Reports RAPID COLLECTIONS. IMPROVED METHODS WE ALSO REPORT THE PRINCIPAL DRY GOODS DEPARTMENT AND QENERAL STOAEs. GRAND RAPIDSOFFICE,412-413 HOUSEMAN BUILDING C C NEVERS, MIchIgan Manager ~-------------------------------------------------------- .. '.a ••• •••• __ I,,I •,, III , I•IIII ~---------------------------------- ._ .._------------------------------------_.~._-------------._------~~ ...- -- _ . OCTAGON PEDESTALS TABLE LEGS AND That is the questIon and a bIg one too How do you nlake them" How much do they cost you? How good are they and are they unIform" Just i.tke d.. lIttle time and let these questlons soak In Becauee you may be wastIng on the manufacture of the Pedestals and Legs what you sa\ e by BCO nomlCal Manufacture on the Tops 1-our profits are then cut down Make the cost of the dIfferent pa!ts balance One man WIth our LEG AND PEDESTAL MACHINE WIll make Octagon and Polygonal shaped turmngb at one tenth to one t~ entIeth of what It costs by hand round ones at one sIxth to one-tenth The sa'\lug In tIme and labor IS what makes that bal-ance we ", ere Just talkIng about Now, don t say that sounds pretty good and let It shp your mInd Just WrIte us to.day C. MATTISON MACHINE WORK 863 Fifth St, BELOIT, WISCONSIN. 13 "" f I I• NEW YORK'S TWIN BUILDINGS Mammoth Structures Ar{" to Bf> Manufacturers · After negotiatIOns covenng a penod of "ev eJ al v Cd1~ arrangement" have fmal1) been concluded for the con"U Ul t- 1011 of ,1 ldfg e model n me1 cant11e btll1r1Jng fOl the "L \\ \ od~ ['u1111ture hxcham.;e I m1JOltant a~ thiS announcement h t() the furl11tme trade 1t becomes doubh '>0 tluough the tact that 111 1ts nevv home the I'url11ture L'\.change 1" to hl' thc nudeu'- of allm';tltut1on planned to IV 1dd an 1mpOl tant 111tlnencl on the wholesale l11terest:o 111 '\ e\\ York CIt) 1he l\lerchanh' anli ilIanulactm el s I'.-xchang e at ::\ e\\ York has been 111c01porated 'v 1th ,1 capital of $1,000,000, and has contl acted "lth the X ew York lenti al &- 11ud"on Rn eJ Ra11lOad, and Xevv York, Xevv Haven &- IIalttold R,ll1Joad f01 the construction of t\\o tweh e-"tOl v t\\ 111 U1111melUal bmlc1!ngs covenng the entll e blocks flom F01 tv -s1'::th to Forty -eighth stieets, Le'::111gton avenue to Depe\\ place 'l he~e btllld111g" IV 111be 275 x 200 feet 111"lLe, and be111g h\ eh e ~tolle' h1gh, \vlll each conta111 650,000 SCjua1e teet ot 11001 "pace 01 nead) tom teen aCl es, 01 a total of 1 300 000 ~qual e teet, prac-t1cally 28 aCles of eonl1111eCla1 floOl space the la1gest alea unde1 conb 01 ot one C01pOl atlOn 111the busllless \\ Olld The btllld111gs a1 e esbmatecl to cost a total of $3.500,000 and the ground they occupy cost <;;3,000,000 It IS nov\ occup1ed belO\\ the streci level by the back-, of the nevv $20000000 Grand Cenb al statJon, vvh1ch w111 adJ0111 the t vv0 bmlc1!ngs dev oted to the Fmnitme E"change and the )'Ielchanb' ,111'1),Ianu factmers' E"\.change The lease horn the 1aillOad company to the ),Ie1 chanb and Manufactmers' EAchange IS the la1gest one e\el nego-bated m Ne\\ YorL C1ty, the aggl egate 1ent,tl tOl the fir"t penod of the lease, vv1thout the 1ene\\ als, being 0\ el $6,400- 000 The lea"e \\ a,; negotiated by the" lcholls-R1ttel Realtv and Fmanclal Company, and the constl uctmn of the build-mgs w1ll be 111the hands of James Stew a1t fl. Co , the lal g est engmeel ing and contract111g concern m the countl v E P V Rlttel of the :'\icholls-Rlttel Realtv and Fll1anual Company, \\111 be preSident of the Me1chants' and \Ianufact-ure1:-:" E"\.change, Charles E Spratt of the Ye\V \Olk FU1111tUle E"\.change, i\ ill be vIce pi eS1dent and general m<l11a~el of the combll1ed conce1n" and among thc dn ectol" al e Geo C Smith of the ,Yes ilm;house compa111e", v\ho lS al"o a dn ectOl 111the Ca1 neg1e TI u:-:.t Company and othe1 finanCial Institu-tion", and preSident of the Gland Rapids, Gland Haven & Muskegon Ra11way; AleAandel ::\1 Ste" al t of J amcs SteV\;al t & Co, and the Stcv\ art- Kel bam;h-Shanley Company, eng1- neers and conti actors, and Liston L, Le\\ IS of Kcenel &- Le\\ IS, attorneys The bUlldll1g set aside for the use of the X ew YOI k FUl11l-ture E"\.change \Vill be espeCially deSigned to take care of the need'S of that 111stltutlOn Each floOl \\ ill conta111 55,000 square feet of floor space, so that a velY large number of concerns can be taken care of on each flOOl The most mod-ern ventllat111g, heatll1g and ope! atlllg dev1ces known to up-to- date con,;tructlOn \\ ill be utihzecl. and as the extenOl s of Erected for the Exchanges. Furniture and the"e bmld111gs \\ ill take the1r style from the mag111ficent c,tlUclm es bong built by the rail lOad for their term111al sta-tIOn and gene] ,ll offices, no doubt they will be far more mag- 111fic(nt than \vould have been the case 1f the new Furniture 1 "\.change had been bUllt 111 another location without regard to Ih beallng upon the genel al harmony planned for the ne\\ te1m1nal centel 'l he bl11ldllll!, conta111111g the ~ene1al offices of the J\ew 1Olk Central and alhed COlporatlOns wh1ch IS now finished 110m FOl t) -fom th to lort.y-fifth stl eets, and will ultimately l\e e"\.tended to the block from Forty-foUl th to Forty-third ~tl eel s, nov\ occupied by the;'; ew York Ft1l111ture Exchange, 10.one ot the most mag111ficent stluctures 111J'\Iew York City todav alHI ll1dlcates the st) Ie of arcll1tectme that v\ ill be em-plm ed 111the nei\ tel mll1al statIon to adjo111 It The hlock tram FOlt.y-fifth stleet, \\hele the New YOlk (t nl' al office hmldlllg ends, to 101ty -Sixth street, "here the lnl1l1tm e F"\.chang e begll1s, wdl be occupied by a modern commel udl hoteL and as ti\ 0 other hoteb are projected in the 1l11medlate v 1C1111t)of the nev, ,;tatlOn, and as the new R1tZ hotel 1:0 bnt. a block a\\ a) on Madison avenue, the Furniture 1"\.chang e IS certalllh housed 111the most conve111ent locatlon as tal as out-of-to\\ n trade 1S concerned, whereas the new '>ubv\ ell on Lex111gt.on avenue and the present subway make 1t ea sv of access to the )'1etlOpo1!tan d1stnct The \ferchants' and ),Ianufacturers' E'Zchange, With which the I ulmtme E"change \v111be amalgamated 1ll the new en-tel pllse contemplate" the employ ment of the same p10cess of lonlentratlOn of -,aleslOom:-:. that has been so :ouccessful 1ll thl ca'>e of the Fm111tm e EAchange, but e>,.tended to all othel tlade" and palt1culdrl) \\ltb 1eference to Emopean manufact- 111el :-:.eek111gth-e bU"ll1e"s of the Amencan 1etader ThiS 1:-:a' n e"pauslOn and amphficatlOn of the E,::change PlOpos1tJon that ),11 Sp1att has been WOlkll1g upon for several years, which I e,lehes ItS ft mtlOn no\\ th10ugh h1s alhance w1th finanCial l11t.ele,>ts \\ ho have sufficlent faith 111the p10ject to provide the mag111ficent c0111melclal palaces illustrated above for hous- 111'.;thl" 1mpOl tant comme1 clal 111stitutlOn "egotiatlOns al e In plOgl ess for the selle of "pace by entn e il()01S to Olganl/atlOns of manufact.urel s 111 England, France and Ital) , and ultimately negot1atlOns will be extended to othe! countlles In the meantime, prOVision will be made for Ameflcan manufacture! s, other than furniture, who desire t.o make d1:opla) s 1n the ),Ie1 chants' E"\.change bmld111g ThiS featul e of the bU'S111ess,hem ever, \\ ill be conducted entnely c,epa1dte hom the Fm111tme Exchange, which \\111 cont111ue its II ell kno\V n pllnClple of e"\.cIud111gflom its floors anyone eAcept. the le~ltllllate I eta1l tt11111tme dealer who carnes a stock I he 111te1nal management of the Exchange will be placed 111the hands 01 a boal d of repl esentative furnitm e men who \\ 111see that It 1Sconducted accOl d1l1g to the ideas of the retall tl acle of the C011ntn , \\ 1th then 111terest at all t1me" paramount The plans ot the bmld111g 1l1cIude club rooms, offices, con- IS ------_._._._-_._._._.-------------- WEEKLY ARTISAN ~, ..- - -_ . -~--------_._._._.------_._-----------., •I• I• I II I I I ~I---------------------~»----------------~-------------------------------------- ..__....~. NEVER ECLIPSED. No 1133% sultatIOn rooms, and evelY facihty for the free u"e of vIsltmg merchants, also a roof garden restaurant for use m the ~ummel The lower floors of the bmldmg devoted to the Furmture Exchange wIll be given up to a large assembly hall to be known as the Kew York Coliseum, desIgned to care for large trade conventIons reqmring an e},.tensIve flat flo01 area for the dIs-play of goods, machmery and apphances m any partIcular tIade It IS not designed that thIS shall be a large audItorium for the seatmg of great crowds of people, as is the MadIson Square Garden, but more to take care of events such as the Automobile Show, Sportsmen's, Busmess Shows, and such events as the Master Car BuIlders' convention, which" as re-cently held at AtlantIc CIty, when one of the extensIve pIers was entIrely gIven over to dIsplays of the machmery and ap-phances entenng mto the constructIon of raIlway cal s ThIS wIll supply a need that has always e"lsted in ::'\ew Y01k, and wIll complete ItS facihties as a tI ade conventIOn CIty Cleveland Retailm's Pull Together. Secretary Crnv mforms the "\1tIsan that the RetaIl Deal-ers of Cleveland, ha\ e formed an a,;soCIatIon "lth the follow- 111gofficers George B Koch, plesident, John L Young and F. Beiber, VIce presIdent; I J. Benesch, treasurer) F H Crew, secretary, H L Hopper, John S Hood and 13 SIlvel-stem, members of the executn e commIttee The objects and purposes of the aSSOCIatIOnare as folIo" s I.-To protect and plOmote the welfare and mterest of members by estabhshmg more intimate relatIOns wIth each other 2-To provIde methods and means whereby members may avaIl themselves of the greater power of combmed effort through the aSSOCIatIOn actmg as an authontatlve body, in endeavonng to secure Just and hon01able deahng from manu-facture1s' agents 3-To secure U11lfOrmIty of actIOn among the members of the associatIOn upon the general pnncIples herein set forth and upon such other principles as may be deCIded from tIme IN EVERY MARKET UNDER THE SUN THERE IS A READY SALE FOR MOON DESKS No 1132%-")") lI1ehes long 32 lI1ehes \\Ide +3 lI1ehes high Weight, 310 pounds No. 1133Yo-bO lllehes long 32 lI1ehes wide H lI1ehes hlgn \Velght, 320 pounds Quarter sawed White Oak Wntll1g bed 3 ply, bUIlt up SIX pigeon hole boxes Pnvate compartment with lock Card Index dra\\er Center dra\\er \\Ith lock Roll top sweep arms tlP top and wlltmg bed 17.{Jnche,;; thIck Square edge constructlOtl See the Line m the Manufacturers' BUIlding, Grand RapIds. MOON DESK COMPANY Muskegon, Mich. to tIme, as best for the general welfare of the members of the assocIation. 4--To provide methods and means whereby members may protect themselves agamst fraud, deceIt and imposItIOn in the business of retail furniture dealers, and to aid and assist them in said buisness. 5-To encourage and assist in the orga11lzation of other local associatIOns of retaIl fur11lture dealers throughout the state of OhIO, to aId and support the State and National Asso- CIatIOn of such dealers. 6-For such other purposes as may appear of general in-terest to members. 1he Jones-II endncks Lumber Company has let the con-t! act for the el ectlOn of a St01e "hlch wIll be filled with a ,;tock ot furl11tm e at ROSSIe, Iowa ~_._._----_ ...._----.- ..- ---------- ..._---~ l lI MUSKEGON VAllEY FURNITURE COMPANY MUSKEGON MICH. , • , IIIII••I•I II,I III Lme on sale In Manufacturers' Buildmg, Grand RapIds. I ~------------------- ---_ _---------~ COlomOI SUHeS TOil Post BenS 000 DreSSers cnillomers wororooes lOOIes' Toilels Dressmo TObles MonoOOny InlOid GOOOS 16 WEEKLY \RTISAN Save in the Cost of Handling A Truck That Will Pay For Itself Many Times Over Grand Rapids 918 Jefferson Ave. Sn ..teen yeals of truck makmg has placed us m a ])OsltlOn to know the real value and tlme savmg de- Hved from good factory trucks \\ e use them In our own factory truckIng Immense loads of lumber, machmery and heavy hardware and kno" of II hat matenal a good truck must be made \11 frame work, stakes and handles are made of se-leLted hard maple, k11n dned-strong, tough and dur-able- the hest lumber we can buy. All castmgs are heav, and of best grade matenal assurmg Ion£; wear- Ing quahtles and supenor strength The workman"hlp IS the best that can bc produced h\ ...,kIllerl II orkmen-not boys Bolts, not nalls, are u...,eclto a...,semble all pal ts The Grand RapIds' IS as good a truck as It IS pos- ...,Ibleto make ThIS we unhesltatmgly guarantee \\ nte for cat210g No 10 It tells all about our tlucks as well as our Hand Screws, Clamps, Benches, etc ,-lours f01 the ask1l1g Hand Screw Co. BritIsh RepresentatIves Ohver Machine Co , Ltd t 201 Deanagalet Manchester, Ene. Grand Rapids, Mich. Objects to "Pdnted Letters." The followmg IS a type copy of one of the most amUSl1lg bona fide, dead-m-earnest busmess letters that has ever been written. It was written by an Oklahoma man to a saw mIll concern in Arkansas, and, as will be seen, the Oklahoman con-siders a type-written communication as a reflectlOn upon hIS educational qualifications. Here it is: i want you to understand, sur, that i ain't no dam fool when I bort that Bill of goods from that red headed agent of yours he tole me that you sent him all the way from --- to git that order I thought he was lying and i bort all my goods from mr. --- at --- and he tole me that he sold goods for the same furm and that he could sell me JIst hke he solc from the --- consurn. now, you writes me a printed letter and seL If I "end you the munney in advance you will send me the goods-i rekcll you will-most enny durn fool ud do that thmg I would not min a Bit sendin the munney and risck aglttm the goods but when i reckerlect how you and youre agent dun me i refuse to do it and if you would a treated me rite and rit me letters in writin and not asent me that printed news paper letter llke I was a dam fool and could not read writing, i would atook the goods and pade the cash. now, i dont want no more of yore printed letter i won·t stan sich from no house i am 50 years old at the wmdin of the next comin jinuwary and the fust man has got to put my back on the ground yet i may not hav is much larnin in gram-mer as you got but i kin whup you are eny other dam yankey that wants to try a ntm me a printed letters You res trewley, Some of the shIppers in the East and a few in the West, most of the latter in Chicago, are reported as predicting a shortage of freIght cars during the rush of traffic in the com- 1l1g fall Though thousands of cars have been idle for nearly two years-at one time the surplus was over four hundred thousand-the available "mts" have been rapidly put into ser-vice in the past few weeks and it may be possible that all may be m use before the first of August. It is true that a freight car deteriorates almost as rapidly whlle standmg idle as when 111use The Pennsylvallla Railway is saId to have recently dls-larded and destroyed 6,000 can., that were considered m £air lOndltlon when they ",ere '3idetracked and had not been moved ...,mcea year ago last wmter On the other hand nearly all the I dllroads have ordered new car" In large numbers. The total )f such O1ders as now filled IS eStlmated at 65,000 to 70,000 but It IS feared that the new cars can not be made and dehvered In time for use dunng the expected rush. There 1Sno occasIOn for borrowing or antlclpat111g trouble, however. Car famines do not come 111hard times or when busmess IS below the normal volume, so a shortage must mean a large increase in trdffic over the record of the last year and a corresponding betterment m general busmess conditions Lee Clyett of Dunnellon proposes opening a furniture ...,torem Cedar Key, Fla WEEKLY ARTISAN 17 ~- - _ ., ...., Mahogany Circassian Walnut Quartered Oak Walnut Curly Maple Bird's Eye Maple Basswood Ash Elm Birch Maple Poplar Gum Oak Foreign and Domestic Woods. Rotary, Sliced, Sawed. II ____ ••• _ •••• _. AI ....... __ .a __ a __ •• a •• _ ••••• Mr. Brockway's Reminiscences. While in Grand Rapids recently C. A. Brockway of the Wanamaker stores talked remIniscently to a newspaper re-porter as follows: "My first ViSIt to thIS CIty as a buyer was in 1873," saId Mr. Brockway " In those days the old checkered store was still standing in Campau square and Canal street had not been filled to its present level, and every spring the red-sashed brigade came in from the log drive to make thIngs hum Those were great old days in Grand Rapids The furniture manu-factured here then was good of the kind, but the kind was not such as would appeal to the popular taste today It was of walnut for the finer grades and maple and ash for the cheaper, with some cherry. The dressing cases and bureaus were much given to marble tops and little decks on the side, and the bed had carved and other ornaments that were thought to be pretty nice then, but which would be laughed at today. But It was good furniture as far as the workmanship was concerned, and we bought lots of it. \Vhen I first came here in '73 It was for Marcus Stevens of Detroit In 1880 I went to Wanamaker's and have been there since In those day" the capital of the furniture world was Boston, WIth such concerns as Geldosky, \iV eymiss & Bra, and the F M Holmes Furmture Company doing business The eastern market had heard of Grand Rap- IJS, but Boston held the place that Grand RapIds does now as the great center of the trade "Many changes have taken place since I first came to Grand RapIds," contInued Mr. Brockway. "The furniture produced here now IS of the finest type and Boston-Boston IS scarcely on the map any more ThIS CIty at first had the advantage of an abundant supply of natIve cabinet woods, walnut, maple and ash, and thIS gave It its first advantage Grand Rapids was fortunate also in having men who knew how to make furmture-first class cabinet makers, and the standard of workmanshIp has always been maintained. It helped when It became known that the furniture from this city would stand up Then when popular taste demanded some things better In the matter of design than the manufacturer could make out of his own head, the Grand Rapids manufacturers had the WIsdom to employ first class designers, and lD the matter of deSIgners they have managed to keep just a httle ahead of anybody else." Mueller & Slack Will Enlarge Their Factory. Mueller & Slack Company, manufacturers of medium and high grade upholstered furmture, Grand Rapids, have accepted plans for the erection of a four story addItion to their factory. The building will afford twenty-five thousand additlOnal feet of floor space and enable the company to double their present output. The contract for the erection of the building will be let during the current week. LARGEST .JOBBERS AND MANUFAOTURERS OF GLASS IN THE WORLD Mirrors, Bent Glass, leaded Art 6lass, Ornamental Figured Glass, Polished and Rough Plate Glass, Window Glass WIRE GLASS Plate Glass for Shelves, Desks and Table Tops, Carrara Glass more beautiful than white marble. CENERAL DISTRIBUTORS OF PATTON'S SUN PROOF PAINTS AND OF PITCAIRN ACED VARNISHES. CJI For anything in BUilders' Glass. or anythIng in PaInts, Varnishes, Brushes or PaInters' Sundries, address any of our branch \\ arehouse~, a It<;t of \\ hkh IS given below NEW YORX-Hudson and Vandam Sts. CLEVELAND-1430-1434 West Third St BOSTON-41-49 SUdbury st., 1-9 Bowker St OMAHA-1101-1107 Howard St. CHICAG0-442-452 Wabash Ave. ST. PAVL-459-461 Jackson st. CINCINNATI-Broadway and Court Sts. ATLANTA, GA.-30-32-34 S. Pryor st. ST. LOVIS-Cor. Tenth and Spruce sts. SAVANNAH, GA-745-749 Wheaton St. MINNEAPOLIS-500-516 S. Thud st. XANSAS CITY-:E'lfth and Wyandotte sts. DETROIT-53-59 Larned st., E. BIRMINGHAM, ALA.-2nd Ave. and 29th st. GRAND RAPIDS, MICK-39-41 N. DiVISIon St. BV:E':E'ALO,N. Y.-372-74-76-78 Pearl St. PITTSBVRGH-101-103 Wood St. BROOXLYN-635-637 :E'ulton st. MILWAVKEE, WIS.-492-494 Market St. PHILADELPHIA-PItcairn Bldg., Arch and 11th Sts. ROCHESTER,N.Y.-Wilder Bldg., Main &; Exchange Sts. DAVENPORT-410-416 Scott 1St. BAL'.rIMORE-310-12-14 W. Pratt st. ~ _. __ a_a. ..•••••• _••.•. _••••. .• __ .....• ._._a . .a.a._ •••• _ • \\ E E I" L Y - - --- - ----- ------------------, <\RTISAN IF IT'S THE IT'S ~'-------~--_.~----------- -.------ ----------.--------- ---------------1 I I II I I I I IIII I I III I I ! I I I I ~I. __ ._._. ._ •••. a.a._a_ .•. _. .~ . ._. ~t AN BEST REFRIGERATOR ALASKA Over 850,000 Alaska refrIgerators sold s!nce 1878 features of an Alaska Refrigerator: Small consumption of ice. Maximum amount of cold, dry air. Absolutely sanitary provision chamber. Simplicity of operation. Perfect preservation of food. We sell to dealers only WRITE FOR CAfC\LOG DesIrable THE ALASKA REFRIGERATOR. CO. £'1, c!uswe Refngel ator 111allufact1l1 eJs MUSKEGON, :;\![lCHIG<\:\ L. E. Moon, New York Manager, 35 Warren St. New York CIty Furniture Season .Jokes. Some of the older fl11111ture "alesmen livel e talklll~ the other eve111ng abollt the clIffeI enec In the (.Jrand Raplcls mar-ket now and ten or a dozen) ears ago 111respect to ha'l11l:; good tImes or so called good tl1nes They 1emarked that the average man, both buyer and selleI, no'\'\ comes here for bUSI-ness, attends to that duty and goes about hIS way In the tIme long ago, many of the buyers and sellers too~hough thel e were always many exceptIOns to that 1ule, came to! a good tIme. To many of them It was in the nature of a holIday In those days the Morton house was the headquarter" of the leaders 111both salesmen and buyers. and the plactIcal lokes played were many and they came WIth frequent regulallty One of the greatest Jokels "ho c,eJ came to the malket "dS Charhe Spratt, who has mIssed few, It am, of the semI-annu,l1 gatherIngs All Jakel" have the table" turned on them at tIme". Then, as now, there vvere glll \valters employ ed at the :\ [01 ton house din111g room and the} w el e ah\ it} ~ 111fOI the tun ot the thing as well as the boy ~ :'Iifrs. Spratt has nevel been 111Gldllli R<lplcl" hut OIlCe (\ 11 111ga furmture ~eason, and theleb} hal1g~ a tale ?'ot lon~ ago a part} of Grand Raplcb people \\ a" entel tamed at the ~PI ,ltt home in ~ ew York Someth111g \\ as saId dDout the ~Ll1ll anllual furnitme meetmgs 111the \\est, and :\Irs Splatt wa" a~ked If she had ever been 111attendance on one of them She 1emal ked that she had accompamed :\Ir Spratt to Grancl Rclpld" 01' e during the furniture season, that was enough It seems flom ~II ~ Spratt s stOI \ that "he and "I'llllce Chatlle had b,en 111 Chicago. They came to Gland Haven by boat one eve111ng, ar-rivmg 111 GI and RaplcL eaII} one blIght sn111mel 11101tllll-!, A,fter makmg "ome 1epall s to thell tOIlet, they 1epclll ed t, the clm111g 100111tor the mor111ng meal The} \\ 11 e "eatecl m thc ordinary place. Then the fun began. Morley 01 Ste1111gel or Jim Wheelock, or more likely all of them, for 111those days these three WIth Pop HIll" occupIed one table, called d gill to them and asked her to pass II r SPI dt~" clnlr and ~a\ . Good morning, CharlIe, I dId not expect you so soon" 2Vlrs Spratt looked some\\ hat surpl bed, and "oon anothel glll came alon~ with the same Iemalk m eftect :\lIS Spratt began to glale but the gIrlS bemg well posted kept It np, one of them pa"SI11'.~ his chair every few minntes WIth abont the same 1emal k IIr~ Spratt sald somehow she managed to get through bI e<lkta ~t after which she annonnced she was g0111g back to J'\ ew Yark '\v hich I chd," said she, "and I never have VISIted Grand Rapids dU1Ing a tur11lture season since." It was 1evenge on the part of the COnSpllato! s bnt It cost Charhe a lot of explainmg The qme trIck \\ a" pld} ed 011 CharlIe \Venderoth, who at tl1<lt tIme \\ a~ 1epI esentmg the Roper Fur11lture Company and \\ ho had IllS \\ Ife m the CIty" Ith hIm for a few day~. He had to be pn111shed and the t1111d degI ee was worked upon hun to a I1n1'b He also had ~0l1le explam111g to do Once III tbe long ago, a certain manufactnrer In Cmc111natI \\ ho \\ a~ kno\\ n f01 hIS SPOItmg proclIVItIes was met on the boa1 d \\ cllk at \tIantlc Clt) accompa11lec1 b} a woman WIth a cel tdlll \\ ell kno\\ n salc~man '>'vho has carload prefi'(ed to hI" name ":\1r Morley," said the manufacturer, "this is my wife." "\\'hich one," blandly asked "Ed" and there was some ex-pld111mg \ certam well known COdSt travelel \\as on hIS way home flam a long trIp He stopped 111Chicago for a few days and the £;clng that hnng alOnnd 2-H \Vabash avenue qnietly slIpped a \\ oman's stocking into his trunk. All nnsuspecting he came home, had the trunk sent up to the house; "wifey" unpacked it ,wel to! some months there were explaimngs. ThIS epIsode plOb,lblv came the neal est to being serious of any of the Jokes. Oh \ e, the "thll d deg 1ee" has \\ orked among the boys all 11gbt Advertised Goods the Best Sellers. ]n a Iecen! I"sue of a promlllent trade JOlunal, the edItor ~l\ e"- 111"meIL1unt leaders the ad\ Ice to sell onlv well advel-tl "ed ~ood" \mon!?, othel dl gument" he says "l\dvertI "ed ~ood" al e ea"IeI to ::,ell YOUI cu~tomer" know somethmg dbont them '" hen the) come 10 yoU! "to! e Yon have les" talkIng to do when, ou offer those goods fO! sale, and yon a::,,,ume no l1"k III recommend111g artIcles backed up by a ..;nal antee at (OnCelnS of natIonal 1eputatIOn Such good::, also "ell U!ore 1aPldl), and ,011 Cdn tU!n ) our money qU!ckeI Thel e IS no danger of gettll1!?, "tllck v\lth well ad\ ertIsed good" and, 011 \\ J11 not ha, e to sdc11fice yonr 1epntatlOn to get rId ot them a~ ,011 do 1J1feIlOI, unhno\\ n al tIcle~ You al e al "0 Jllde,ecl ])\ the branch whIch, on caIr) and the best ad, ertI"ed brand", pl0dnce the be"t 1mp1 e"SlOn \\ 1th } Ol1r customeI" " \ good many cash cnstomers complain that they do not get a~ good treatment a'3 the credIt customer. SometImes this is the case, bnt It IS not rIght. The cash cnstomer IS everything thdt a customel shollld be He desel ves the best you have. \\ EEKLy ARTISAN SUBSCRIPTION OFFER TO FURNITURE =======================0EALERS,======================= Through our ability to dispose of a large number of these books we have been able to obtain a price which enables us to furnish this fine work on Decorating Show Win-dows and interiors and send the WEEKLY ARTISAN one year at the price of the book alone. The Regular Price of the Book is $3.50 The Subscription to the Weekly Artisan one year is 1.00 Total, $4.50 We will send the book, express paid and the Weekly Artisan for one year for $3.50 Address all orders and inquInes to the WEEKL y ARTISAN, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Parties desiring to examine the book before purchasing may do so by forwarding $3.50 for price of book. If after examination it does not prove satisfactory, upon the return of the book, express charges paid, we will be pleased to return all of the $3.50 The book consists of over 400 pages, bound in cloth and is profusely illustrated. The two opening chapters of the book are reproduced on another page of this Issue. PRIZE CONTEST The Weekly Artisan will give away $32.50 in money each month for the best Window and Floor Displays of Furniture Contest open to both Subscribers and Non-Subscribers. I Are you good at arranging window and floor displays? Then here's your opportunity to capture from $1.00 to $10.00 every month. Beginning with this number, the Artisan will conduct a series of prize contests for the best window and floor displays of furniture. The rules are simple. Anyone conducting a furniture store may enter the contests, the only provi-sion being that each contestant must enter a GOOD plate of his exhibit and a brief description of how it was accomplished, especially where technical or mechanical contrivances are used in pleparing the display. That is all. The decisions will be rendered by a committee selected for the purpose, and all awards will take into full considera-tion the natural difficulties which it was necessary to overcome in order to produce the results shown. For instance, the small or medium sized stores will not have the advantages of the larger ones, and the excellence of the small store work will be judged accordingly. Thus all will have an equal opportunity and an equal chance in the distribution of prizes. 1st Prize 2nd Prize 3rd Prize $10.00 7.50 5.00 4th Prize 5th Prize Next 5 $2.50 2.50 1.00 each Each month the winning displays will be reproduced in the Weekly Artisan, which will afford an excellent oppor-tunity for readers to study each other's store methods. We aim to make these contests of more than monetary interest; they are designed primarily to stimulate superior effects in display and to offer a source of education along these lines. Good window and floor displays require serious study. The advertising value of well kept windows and floors cannot be over estimated. If you present to the multitudes who daily pass your windows, an attractive setting, you will arrest their attention and admiration, and while they may not draw every passerby into your store at once, they are nevertheless doing a helpful work, and one which pays in the long run. When sp ace permits, it is a good plan to reproduce room scenes, thus suggesting to the prospective purchaser how she may obtain good effects in her home. This plan is carried out very suc-cessfully in large cities. Now, then, brothers, send in your photos, and go after the prize money. All who wish to enter the August contest must have their photos in by July 25th. Address WEEKLY ARTISAN, Grand Rapids, Mich. 19 20 WEEKLY ARTl::,AN ~-.--. .._---_ _--~---- . _._._----------------- --_& --_ _. II OUR LINE OF-- I I CHINA CLOSETS ! BUFFETS AND BOOKCASES IS more complete and up-to-date than ever before. Samples shown III Chicago only, 1319 Michigan Ave., Manufact. urers' Exhibition Bldg., first floor, OpposIte elevator. In charge of exhIbit F P. Fisher, N. P. Nelson, Ferd Luger ---- . -_._ ..----~ Rockford Standard Furniture Company, Rockford, Illinois ~ a __ ._a __ . ._ •.•. _._ . _ ----- .-.-.._. . ..--.---. .-. .- .. --. ..-. .. - ..- ..-. _ _-- ~ OFFICES: CINCINNATI--Second National Sank Sulldlng, NEW YORK--346 SroadwaJ'. SOSTON--18 Tremont St. CHICAGO--14 St. aad Wabash Ave. GRAND RAPIDS--Houseman Sldg. JAMESTOWN, N. Y.--Chadakoln SId;. HIGH POINT, N. C.--Stanton·Welch SIock. The most satisfactory and up-to-date Credit Service covering the FURNITURE, CARPET, COFFIN and ALLIED LINES. Tbe most accurate and reliable Reference Book Published. Originator. of tbe "Tracer and Clearing House Syatem'" CollectionStrvice Unsurpasud-Send for Book of Red Drafts. ...-..-...-...-..-...-.-------------------- -- ---- _. ----- - ... --- ------_ . .._..I. ... ----------------.,- ~.._-------------.--------- - ... --- --.-------~ Morton House ( American Plan) Rates $2.50 and Up. Hotel Pantlind (European Plan) Rates $1.00 and Up. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. I The Noon Dmner Served at the Panthnd for 50c I IS THE FINEST IN THE WORLD. J. BOYD PANTLlND, Prop. I ........ _- ....- -------_._ ..... _-_ ....-- ...... ROLLS THE "RELIABLE" KIND THE FELLWOCK AUTO & MFG. CO. EVANSVILLE, INDIANA. ------------_._-------------_._--------- ---_..._._._._.__ ._---------._----------.., WEEKLY ARTISAN 21 ...... Poplar LET US QUOTE YOU PRICES ON OUR OWN MANUFACTURE OF Circassian, Mahogany, Oak, and Gum Veneers. III ...... - . The Albro Established 1838. Adds Insult to Injury. Oh, those wl1y mail-order houses I Not content with steal-ing all the bu:oiness they can from country retailers, they are now adding insult to injury by causmg the retaIler to aId them in their schemes by furmshing reports on prospective ma1l-order customers In other words, they are inv1eglmg the retal1er to commIt commercIal suiClde and furnishing hIm the weapon wIth which to do It, says the St LoUls Interstate Grocer. Many are the plans of the catalogue houses for obtaimng the names of dwellers III the country and III small country towns, but thIS latest scheme is qUlte the most cold-blooded and unprinCIpled. The plan is worked hke thIS' To a country merchant they address a courteous letter requesting, under gUlse of a favor which a business concern asks of a business man, a rating on some one of the country merchant's customers, say-lllg they may estabhsh an agency for theIr pubhcations in Mr Merchant's town and would hke to know how Mr. So-and-So stands as to property he owns, his promptness in paying bIll,; and such other mformation as a credit man would want. But thIS information IS not for a credIt agency It 1:0a path, a blazed trail, by which the catalogue houses are gUlded as to the extent of credit they may safely allow a customer, for the catalogue houses resorting to this trickery are becom-ing lllstallment houses and can obtain this informatlOn only through the merchant with whIch the man they are after deal" So smooth is the letter the mail order concerns send oUi, and so skillfully worded is the printed cIrcular to be filled out by Mr. Merchant, that the obhging merchant fills out the blank and mails it before he stops to think. The struggle against such establishments is hard enough for the small country retaIler without insulting him in such a manner. Time was when he was not everlastingly on hIS guard against reveahng informahon which could be converted mto a tool for his overthrow, but that hme has passed. Today he is forced to look for a "joker" in every letter he receives from a firm he knows nothlllg about. Help each other, you brethren of the scale and yardstick' If you receive any suspicious request for information, look up the ratmg and business of the firm, and If it is not calculated to set your mmd at rest, pass the word along to your nearest neighbor. Help those in your line of business and you help yourself! -Exchange. Veneer Co. CINCINNATI, O. - ..... t Bible in Every Room. The Indiana G1deons, the state dlvislOn of the commercIal travelers' great Chnshan orgamzatlOn, has started out to put a Bible III every bedroom in every commercial hotel in In-dIana They have just put BIbles III two hundred rooms III the Denison hotel, and expect to get copIes in the rooms of all of the other Ind1anapohs hotels withm a month or so. The work was begun several weeks ago, and already the BIbles are on the tables or dressers of every room that a man will make hIS home for a night The work is being carried on entirely by "free will offer-mgs," and already $400 has been subscnbed to t11l';fund More, however, IS needed and the subscnption hsts are open to every-body, whether members of the orgamzatlOn or not. The \h)t \. is thought to be especially bmely now, when "booze" is being taken out of the hotels L----J 10 SPINDLE MACHINE ALSO MADE WITH 12, 15, 20 AND 25 SPINDLES. DODDS' NEW GEAR DOVETAILING MACHINE ThiS ltme machIne has done more to perfect the drawer work of furniture manufacturers than anythIng else In the furnIture trade For fifteen years It has made perfect fittIng, vermm proof, dove taIled stock a pOSSlblhty ThIS has been accomphshed at reduced cost, as the machme cuts dove-taIlS In gangs of from 9 to 24 at one operation ALEXANDER DODDS, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHICAN Represented by Schuchart & Schulle at BerllD. Vienna. Stockholm and St. Petersbur, Represented by Allred H Schulle at Cologne. Brussels. Lege. Pans. Mdan and Bdboa Represented In Great Bnhan and Ir.land by the Oliver Machinery Co, F. S Thompson. Mll'" 201-203 Deansllate, Mancllefter. Eniland. THEY DIG FOR PUBLICITY Advertising Methods Used With Good Effl"ets in Coffeyville, Kansas. ChIcago, July 6--0ne of the most interestIng scheme~ for boostIng sale" and IncreasIng profits was told to the A.rtlsan- Record representatIve by L E Ferguson of Furgeson Brothers, Coffey,l11e, Kansas Mr Ferguson, or "Ferg}, as he is affectIOnately known, always makes It a p0111t to come to the ChIcago market dUrIng the furmture eXpOSItIOn and spend ten days or two weeks dlggl11g up new and effectl\ e methods of gettIng publICIty fOl 111Sfirm and bunging ne\\ LU~- tomels to hi" ~tore ;\11 Felgu~on con:'lelel" thlo, \\olk equa11) a" Important as bu) 111£;stock HI:' tlme I:' ah, a):, \\ ell o,pent lIe I:' pre"ldent of the }Ierchant~ "\:,soClatlOn at Cofre) \ Ille lIts firm'~ "tatlOner) bears the "logan, :\Iall) the Gnl, \\ e 11 l' urm"h the Home,' and thlo, phrase hao, made the llbtltutlOn talked 01 all 0\ el Kansas \\ hat :\11 Felguson and Ill:' fe11O\\ merchant" 111Coffe) , tIle c!ld for them~el \ es IS be.,t told In hlo, ()\\ n \\ ords "In the mIdst of the finanCIal pamc of 1907,' he related am aSSOCIatIOn met and lesoh ed not to he trIghtened \\ e 111slsted that 'bus111ess \"as gooe!' \\ e declaled \\e \\ould ~tlLk together and help each other, no mattel \\ hat happened "And then VI' e sm pll~ed our 0\\ n !tttle \\ odd b) decld111Q" 111the face of the depI e~SlOn, to :,pend a gl eat c1eal mOl e mone\ to get bus111ess 1111908 than we had e, el spent betol e \ \ e \, el e crItIClsed, but that dldn t htll t \\ e began b\ ottellng to I efund raIlroad fare to out-of-town bu) ers on all ptll chases of a certaln relatn e S12:e The farther a \\ a) the to\\ n ttom whIch the customer came, the ldrger percentac, e \\ e offel eel a" a I efunel \\ e made It eas) fOl these people-\\ e ,I""m eel thcm there was no red tape about the offel-all the\ hac! to do \\ as to come and we'd hand them e\ el) cent the) \\ el e entItled to And the crowds came "It was expected that thIS \ entme \"ould cost us bet\\ een four and SIXper cent on am sale:, Jt cost only about three and a half per cent \Ve prepaId ft eIght on all purchases sent out of town, Felguson Brothers put 111a premIUm 1111e \Ye of-fet ed a practical gIft WIth e\ ery pm chase amount111g to S.25, ~50 or $100 The premIUms were not artIc1e~ that ,Ire solel In a furl11tul e store-so ,;y e \\ ere not cutt1l1g OUI 0,\ n t hI oa t" \Ye worked our mallmg !tst-whtch CO\el s the to\\ n., \\ Ithm a radIUS of fift) l11tles-to the limIt As a I esult the net profits In the first SIX months of 1908 totaled 95 pel cent of those m the filst o,lXmonths of 1907 The months of \ugnst Septem-bel and October of 1')07 wele boom months In 1908 the\ showed an mCI ea~e of neady 20 per cent The entll e ) ear of 1908 sho\\ eel a liberal mcrease, both 111\ olume of tl ac!e and In profits That condItIOn ha., contInued "The most successful ach ellIs111g scheme that we h'l\ e e\ el trIed was responSIble 111a gleat mea:,ure fOl the surpll"lnc, results gaIned by Ferguson Brothel s dt111l1c, the la~ t \ ear Early 11l 1908 we spread blOadcast an offel to preo,cnt a sohd gold rIng to evelY baby bOln In Coffey\ Ille and the sunound- 11lg tern tory 11l 1908 Na purchase of any kmd was I eq tIlred ,Ve kept thIS fact e, er befo! e the puL!tc The sole stipulation was that the bab) must be htought to om store to be mea"t\l ed for the rIng Inasmuch as thel e al e only thl ee sIzes of llngs for mfants, and the average baby could be fitted at a gueso, If he were half way around the v\arId, It vvlll readIly-be seen that 1\ e had a 1110tn e other tha'1 tl:1e WIsh to measure tmy fingers "\Vhen the fond parents brought theIr chIldren to the store. -JUI g1l1 c1el ks took the SILe, name, age, date of bath, asked 101t, -se\ en other questIOns, talked baby talk to the small VI" ltl'I." "l/ed up the proud fathers and mothel s, and told them they \\ ould be notIfied \\ hen the rIng was ready, reml11cltng the111 that the\ \\ ould not he reqUIred to 'make a sl11~le pur-l ha"e \\ hen 1::;0fingers had been measm ed, we got out letten: "a) In~ that the rIng had been Oldered, and that they would be tOld \1 hen to call for It-whIch would be shortly befO! e Chllst- 1l1cl" \\ e lematked, mCldentally, that we had learned the) \\ el e contemplatmg the purchase of a sew 111g m"chl11e, or a bedloom sUIte. 01 a kItchen cahmet, accordl11g to \\ hat we thought the) needed, and that we would ltke to show the111 o,omethmg 111that pal tIcular lme Ive got man) replIes Some turned us do\\ n gentl), but qmte a number answered, saymg, \ ou must ha\ e been mISInformed I had no mtentlOn of buy-m~ a se\\ 1I1g mach1l1e nut Twas th111kl11g of gettmg an ex-ten" lon table \\ hlch must have been \\ hat was meant' \\ e gave avva) 256 rIngs The scheme brought us count- Ie"" customers \\ ho had never before entered our store, and \\ e \\ el e kept on the hump fillIng orders \\ e ha\ e a lIst of all the babIes born in our vlclmty-we kncm the hlstor) of then fanl1lIes-and we know that babIes need \ dllOUS th111g:, whIch we sell Dunng the tIme sInce the scheme \\ as wot ked, we ha, e done a lIvely bUSIness m high chall sand bab} carnages, cnbs, CIadles and SImIlar th111g" -\nd thl" plomlses to contmue \Ve gave away a 'worth while' ~et at c1bhes to the young lad) makmg the largest number of \\ 01d" tram the lettel s 111 the phrase 'Marry the GIrl' ThIS hr()u~ht u~ lots of publtclt)-and sales" :\11 l el ~u"on told ho\\ the mel chants 111 hIS cIty guard agall1"t fake ad\ ertI"mg :,chemes The) have an advertIsll1g lommlttee, the members of which are unknown to the oUblde \\ odd The chairman's name only IS made publtc, and the "tl ang el \\ ho m\ ades the town WIth a plan to "mC1 ease ) OUI blhll1e"" a thou~and pel cent m a month" must submIt hIS propo"ltlon to the sClutm} of the commIttee tll10ugh the chall-man befOle an\ metchant v\tll consldel It Somewhat DiHel"ent. Appllcant-"Say can you gIve me a job ?'. The noss-"vVhat kl11d of a job are you looking for?" Appllcant-"Oh, any kmd of a job WIth light work and regular pay" The BOss-"SOlry, I can't do anything for you, The best I can offer IS regular work and light pay," 1he 11\e tOY\ n doesn't boast of its cemetery. That ltttle old apology for a trade paper publtshed 111 Cl11cl11nati IS very properly called the Furniture Worker. A fur11ltltl e wod,er, be It remembered knows very lIttle 111 regard to the busmess of furmture manufacturers and dealers, It IS merely a shop hand and a poor one at that. WEEKLY ~RTISAN ....................... * -- • .. .. ------ .. .. .. • .. iI ----------------- ....- ....._---------~I We offer you 500,000 feet of Quarter Sawed Oak Veneer to select from, personally if you wish. We cut to size, when desired, I Yellow Poplar ~ Birch Crossbanding and have log run widths and lengths always in stock. I,I Did you ask for I Poplar and Gum Drawer Bottoms t I : We have them, machine dried. I j II ! And the Old Reliable I Irish ~ L and ~ Glue I! Imported and always in stock. !I III I I Walter Clark Veneer Company I I 535 Michigan Trust Building, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. ! I I h--- ••••• _ ..• ------- .....• -- •.. ---------- .. ---------------------------- ...• _-~ 23 --~~~~-- 24 \\ E E K L Y ART I SAN ,.. • a.a • •• • • a.a • a.a •••••• _.___ • •••• _a ••• a_ •• _ ••• ._ ... THE BIG WHITE SHOP .---------- - _-_ -------------------------- .- I ~.. "... .....--_........, . --.. '--.'''..._ ......--..... " .._....--1 I THE BIG WHITE SHOP I .. ••••••••• La ••• _ •••••• La _... • ••• __ •••• • •••••••• La •••• L.. . .... We Furnish Every Article of Printing Needed by Business Men WHITE PRINTING COMPANY 108, 110, and 112 North DivisionStreet, Grand Rapids, Mich. I I WEEKLY ARTISAN As to Funeral Reform. The echo of the ostentatlOU':> and eAtl avagant funeral V\ h1ch M Chauchard, the extremely nch propnetor of the Magasin du Louvre, ordered fm himself, has not yet died away III Europe Leadlllg Journals haye had long, senous comments, drawlllg moralle%ons from the slllgular display The London Spectator says "VY e hope that the displeaslllg, and, after all, lllexcusablc, scenes III Pans wdl at all events turn people's attentlOn (for thiS cannot be done too often) to the wrong-headedness of dis-play at funerab-of all forms of expenditure perhaps the most vulgar and senseles'3 vVe know that it IS done often enough by Slllcere and affectlOnate mourners with no thought except to honor the dead, but It 1;-'easdy demonstratable that It does not even do that '" >- f The popular taste has 1mprov ed Immeasurably, but the taste of undertakers, who supply a kllld of fUl mture, IS a ,,>ort of grotesque monopoly It IS ut-terly bad, and If you ask an undertaker for ;-'lmphc1ty he con-cludes that you V\ Ish to be medn It 1;-'not so easy to change the hideous trachtlOnal deSigns of undertakers as might be supposed As one only dies once, ha1 dly anyone IS enough Interested to lead a general ref 01m " A Second Suit Filed by Wysong & Miles Co. A ;-,econd ':>lutwas filed by \Vysong & Mdes Co of Greens-boro, XC, Apnl 23, 1909, III the U S ClrcUlt Court at Park-ersburg, \V Va, agalllst S n Stiles as recen er for Oakley & Jansen Machllle Co, Stdes Foundry & Supply Co, and U mon Trust & Depo'=>lt Co, lately appolllted receiver for .stiles Foundry & Supply Co, and Stiles Bros, for lllfnnge-ment of the vVysong patent No 832,114, the circumstances as we understand It, belllg thai sometime Slllce Mr. S B Stdes was appolllted receiver for the Oakley & Jansen Co and later, as we understand It, the Stdes Foundry & Machine Co, manufactured some of the machllles fm S B Stdes, re-ce1ve1, and that now the Stdes Foundry & Supply Co and Stiles Bros haye made assignment to the U1110n Trust & DepOSit Co ThiS IS the second SUlt filed by the \Vysong & Mdes Co, the first Slut belllg agalll'=>t the Oakley & Jansen Machine Co on patent:'-Jo 575,187. The first SUlt IS III court belllg still prosecuted notw1th-standlllg any reports to the contrary The retad funllture dealers assoclatlOn of Nashvdle, Tetm, Journeyed to Frankllll On June 26 and enjoyed a dlllner at the Ar1111gton Hotel E :c Howse, T F Bonner, John J ones and others responded to toasts The Compartment Fthng Cab111ct Company, cap1tahzed for $25,000, wtll manufacture and sell fihng cablllets 111Chicago Ill. The incorporators are R S Prybyl, C E. Snyder and Max G J Hoffman . ... ----. _ .. __ .- .... IIII II I I I , I III I '--- - ... -- ---_ ...• How to Make Your Ads Attract Attention Good CUb are 80% of the pulhng power of any ad, ertlsement You \\ ou1Jn't care to enter a furm ture store, for 1l1S1dnCe,that dlspldyed old, back style furmtUJe In their \\mdows would you' No, you would pass It by dlld pick out a store that had an attrdctlve display of New Style" Just so With the \\ oman who reads your dally dl1110uncements She 10 attracted by the Illu~tl a-tlOns of pretty fur111tUle She IS mterested m fur mture, and reads the JescnptJOns, which ~hould be followed by the pnce If you are undble to gn e proper care dnd thought to your advertblng, let th do It for you We Will pi oduce copy that Will pull. \\! e employ the best copy expel t~ to be had-pay them high salm les You can have their per-sonal sen Ice dt a figUJe so low you really L'an't dffol 1 to neglect the opportumty W nte us dbout tll1S sel, Ice, tellmg about your deSires, the class of goods you carry and the amount of ad, el tlsmg you do IN e Will send you some mighty mterestmg mformatJOI1 FURNITURE CITY ENGRAVING CO. 403 Murray Bldg. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. -- ---_. -------_._------ ----------., I THE NEW GRAND RAPIDS MACHINERY STORE ~.- ... _-- ... III I II , III I II OffIce and Store, I 58 South IonIa St . Opposite URlon Depot. ~---- -_ ..------ Wood Working Machinery Factory Equipment Machine Knives, Bits, Etc. Everything in Equipment for the Woodworker. McMUllEN MACHINERY COI GRAND RAPID, MICH i..a .. I Ih .. _.. _ 25 I I• ~ood craftsmen, '" ho (bd the best they knew how, and I have no doubt they had to hustle Just as hard for orders as we do today )Jot untIl they had been many years dead was the "ark of the dIfferent penod" studIed, classIfied and named . , Our own colomal furmture, whIle classed by Itself, is in 1 ealIt) of many t} pes, and can be traced back to many sources. 1 hel e IS the :::\e", England colomal, PUrItan or Dutch m its charactenstlc, pla111, solId, and essentIally honest The New yO! k colomal 1" Dutch, Pennsylvama IS German and Quaker \ Irgul1a has the ca\ alIei type, and New Orleans the French and Spamsh '1 he colomsts brought their furmture ideas \\ Ith them across the water, and ItS type depended upon where the colol11sts came from, and the modlfymg influences were "uch tools as the colomsts may have had, the materIals at hand and the skIll of the arttsans The sea capta111s also In-fluenced furmture st} les Com111g from some foreIgn port, Lngland, France, Italy or perhaps Ch111a, they found ready market 111the colomes for any furniture they may have taken on. chaIrs, tables, desks, beds and chests, and this furmture \\ auld sen e as models for the colomal cab111et makers I t IS \ er} 111terest111g to study the colonial furmture and trace back Ib probable ong111 "Thh country has produced a type or school of furmture all ItS o\\n, as dlst111ctlve as any of the EnglIsh or French types, much mOl e easIly recognized and whIch I belIeve wIll be as endunng I refer to the mIssion, the furmture of straight lIne::, and square angles, and without ornamentatIOn other than may be conta111ed m the wood used or Its finish ThIS ::,t}Ie IS popularly supposed to have been originated by the '-,pamsh monks at the Southern Califorma missions. TheIr tools \\ ere few and crude, and it IS probable their skIll was not great They needed furniture and made it as best they could, \\ Ith such matenal as they had, and what they made had at least the mellt of sImpltclty and servicability. Long \ ears after the pas:0111gof the monks, some enterprising manu-tacturer saw specImen" of thIS old mISSIon furniture and, real- 171ng ItS pO""IbilItles as a novelty, reproduced some of It The mISSIOn furmture of today reta111s the characteristics of the furmture that the old monks made, but these charactenstIcs have been modIfied and refined and made smtable for any room m the house One thIng that has given thIS class of furniture ItS populallty is the ease with which It is recognized and called by ItS name The ordinary indIvidual WIll get hopelessly tangled among Eltzabethan, the Lams XV and ChIppendale and Sheraton and Louis XVI and the other types, but he can't mI:oS it on mission, and therefore he likes mISSIOn "The styles of furmture have been mfluenced by the mate-nals used The anCIent EgyptIans used ebony, which may expla111 111some degree why they had so little of it. The Romans and Greeks used cedar and olive. In the early Engltsh penods, from ElIzabeth to William and Mary, oak ",as the matellal m common use In the WIllIam and Mary and Queen Anne penods walnut was popular Mahogany was brought to England by Sir Walter Raleigh in Queen Eliza-beth's day, but dId not come into immedIate use as a cabinet wood. A" the matenal to work in changed, methods of treat-ment had to change to meet the condItions A design that might be effectIve 111oak would not be satIsfying in walnut wIth its radIcally dIfferent gram, color and texture Chip-pendale and Sheraton had mahogany, and modern furniture 111these desIgns are most effective 111that material. I some- DESIGNER KIMERL Y DISClJSSES FURNITURE Som.e of His Observations and Experiences During a Tour of Europe "The first step to a proper understand111g ot our modern furmture IS to read and know hIstory," said \V L Kunerl} desIgner for the Grand RapIds Furmture Company "The hIstory of many lands, of many people and of man} ages IS reflected m the furmture of today, and \\ e must kno\\ thIS hIstory, the chang111g customs of the people, and theIr progress m enlIghtenment and art to understand and appi e clate the furmture that IS offered. "The anCIent EgyptIans dId not have much furmture, but such as they dId ha\ e, as It has come down to us 111one form 01 another, IS 111terest111g and not wIthout ItS value Roman ,t11d Greek hIstory IS rich m matenal, not that our fnends at 2,000 years ago produced or used much furmture, for the} dId not, but because of theIr hIgh development m art, sculpture and archItecture The mIddle ages produced theIr B} zant111e and GothIC arts, known as medIeval, and then came the 1enaI:o-sance, and follow111g thIS the penods whIch are "0 much at-fected today. In a genel al way our model n penod fUImture can be classed as Dutch or Lat111 The French penods ha\ e theu baSIS in the art of Rome or rather of Italy, and 1eached theIr hIghest artIstIc development in the reIgns at LOUIS Xl \ , Louis XV and LoUIS XVI, covenng a penod of a centur} and a half The early EnglIsh pellods can be tt aced back to the art of Holland and BelgIum, where a dISt111Ct type had been developed. The Spamsh rulers of the K etherlands, early m the 17th century, persecuted the people on relIgIous grounds, and many of them sought refuge m England :'lany artIsans and mechamcs were among these fugItIves from the stake and wIth them to England they took theIr skIll and craft In England enVIronment, dIfferent materials and no doubt to some e2'-tent the demand" of trade mfluenced the furmture they made, and as the first :otep thIS ga\ e us what \\ e call the ElIzabethan The Jacobean, the \VIllIam and :'lar} and the Queen Anne followed, 111 all CO\enng the pelIOd trom the mIddle of the 16th to the open111g of the eIghteenth centur) The term Jacobean, by the way, should not be confused WIth the J acobins of the French revolutIOn The \'\ ord 1::' from the Latm Jacobus, or James, and refers to the 1elgn of the Stual ts There IS no sharp demarkatIon between the furmture of these penods, but 111each penod dIfferent influences were at \\ ork, and tht'se influences were strong enough to create t) pes, and the dIfferent types are easIly dlstingmshable About thIS tIme mdlvldual deSIgn" and CIaftsmen developed such talent that they created type::, or schools of theIr own, and what they created IS today known by their names They broke away from the anCIent Dutch art and sought 111splratton from the classic Chippendale 111 England and the designel s in the Lams XV penod m France were contemporaneous, and theIr work has many charactenstIcs in common, indlcat111g a more or less common source of Ideas The same IS true of Sheraton and Lotus XVI Hepplewhlte and Adams were others of the great artIsts m wood An EnglIsh officer named Chamberla111, returmng from Ch111a, brought back many Ideas m Ch111ese art, and tned to apply them 111the ornamentation of furm-ture He was not a success, but Chippendale adopted and adapted these Ideas, and gave us what IS now kno\\ n as the Ch111ese ChIppendale '·It should not be Imagmed that the great masters of the craft, or those whom we recogmze as such in these modern times, set themselves up as creators of schools or types or styles m furmture, or that theIr \'-ork was espeCIally prIzed by the world m whIch they lIved Alive, they were sImply WEEKLY ARTISAN hmes wandel what would have been the creatIOns of these masters If they had had only oak to \\ ark 111 "The charactenstlcs of the people are shown 111 the fUl- 11lture they used, and so IS the conditIOn of the times The fur-niture of the French penod was made for gay courts and an extravagant noblhty There were no common people It is full of grace and beauty and fnvohty, reflect1l1g the spmt of the time and of those who used It In early England the fur- 11lture was for the common people rather than for the court, and It was produced by artisans who depended on their own sk111for a llv1l1g 1I1stead of upon court fay ors ThIs gave the Enghsh furmture the national character, square toed, smcere and not afraid. It is true there was much gaiety 111court dur-mg the reigns of the Stuarts, and the French mfluences were strong, but the causes which lead to the common wealth checked ItS spread and It dId not go deep nor extend far, at least not as It IS seen 111the furmture of that penod The Italtan furmture IS ornate, the Spamsh IS boastful and the Flemish IS maSSIve, even 111ItS decorative features Our own mISSIOn fur11lture 1'3Simple, practical and busme~s-hke in its beauty, and 111 thiS reflects natIOnal character "I was greatly 111terested 111Enghsh fur11lture when abroad last w111ter In the med1l1m grades, such a" ordmary people use, we have the Engh~h manufacturers beaten a ml1e, ahke 111workmanship, treatment of matenal and fi11lsh In high grade special stuff they surpass us, but It IS not because we cannot do as weB as they, but because they have enough of a market for such goods to make It" manufacture profitable, whl1e we have not A custom that IS qmte common m Eng-land, especially 111the large shops, IS to especIally deSign each room In the house to be fur11lshed In one place there IS a head deSigner who gives general directIOns and oversees It all, and he has some 35 draftsmen to carry IllS ideas 111tOexe-cutIOn, or rather to put them on paper The deSign of a room shows the furniture, the tI eatment of the walls, the carpet or rugs, and even the curtams and drapenes-all worked out 111 careful detal1 and In colors The man hav111g hiS house re-furmshed knows how each loom w111look, deSigns and colors, before the work IS "tarted ThiS IS a 1egardless of expense method, but It IS very effective The Idea IS be111gadopted m thiS countly to some extent by some of the bIg CIty furmture houses, but It does not begm to be as common here a.'>111Eno- l:> land The manufacturer.'> 111 England follow our plan for the most part 111prepanng the deSIgns for ordmary commerCial furnIture They have one deSigner who may have "uch aSSIst-ants as may be needed If the 1111eIS large Men who have made speCial study of certa111 classes of work may be employed as experts, and these '3pecIaltsts may do work for half a dozen different concern" ThIS method IS followed to a conSIderable --------_._~-..-...-...~. -- II IIII ._~------_._....... ...I. THE WEATHERLY INDIVIDUAL Glue Heater Send your address and and receive descriptive circular of Glue Heaters. Glue Cookers and Hot Boxes with prices. The Weatherly Co. Grand Rapid., Mich. •... 27 '",I--EARLY' .... '--' "_'n .... OUR Stain No. 55, when used with our No. 36 Challenge FIller, is the standard shade adopted by the' Manu-facturers' Association. Now ISthe time to place orders for stam for samples to be shown at the June-July exhibit. ...-'ENGLISH OIL STAINS I GRAND RAPIDS WOOD FINISHING CO. 5559 Ellsworth Ave. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH ~.. .. .. extent here The EnglIsh deSIgners 111 theIr period furl11ture follow the ong111al much more closely than we, while we stick as close to types, but exercise a greater freedom in selection and comb111atlOn In England as 111thiS country, the constant aIm, however, is toward somethmg better, to elevate the standards, to make the Ideas more correct artistically. "I believe the furl11ture we are makmg now w111last It has artistic ment to a hIgh degree, and ment lIves whether It be in furniture, archItecture or art Weare closely followmg the best Ideas of the old mastel s, but this followmg IS m-tellIgent, not slavI~h Weare Improving on their construc-tion, in the treatment of our matenal and in fil11sh There IS no reason why the goods we admIre should not be admIred a hundred years hence, and If some of the work of the an-cients has la'3ted a hundred years, there IS no reason why ours should not endure two hundred The people are becommg educated 111furl11ture art and more and more are demandmO"b the correct and that \\ hich is true to type. ForeIgn travel, whIch means VISitS to art gallenes and museums where the treasures of the past are preserved, is a great educational m-fluence, and then there are the newspapels, the magaz111es and many books, all helping along the cause of popular educa-hon and fO'3tenng the demand for that which IS artistic and beaUtiful ThIS educatIOnal movement would be hastened If fur11lture dealers would 111struct theIr "alesmen 111the history and art of furniture and ItS deslgl11ng, and make them able to dISCUSSthe vanou" style~ and penods with some degree of intelligence It IS surpns111g how much Ignorance there is in the average furl11ture store" A Poor Salesman. Carey Johnson Ludlam, the Southern philologist, in the course of a lecture on "Neologisms," m Charleston, said: aAnother neologism is 'salesmanship.' Schools of 'sales-manship,' books on 'salesmanship,' secrets of 'salesmanship'- why, one reads of noth1l1g else." The aged scholar sml1ed. "And speaking of schools of salesmanship," he said, "I hope that the salesman who accosted me on my way here this evening WIll take one of them, an eight or nine years' course. I'm sure he needs it. "This salesman, a shabby young man, laid his hand on my arm and said: " 'Say, friend, lemn;e sell ye a box of this here patent ce-ment.' "I shook off his filthy paw. " , Cement!' I sneered, annoyed at his familiarity, 'what do I want with cement?' " 'Why,' cried the man, 111 apparent surprise, 'ain't ye broke? Ye look it.' " 28 \\ EEKL, \ R'l TS ~ N A CriJcteiiJloeN eller:; Mr. Dealer ~oud do;'t hav~l to" talk': your No wonder people want Royal Chairs-no wonder they Y d 't h t.. ea ..o to se ,Ro\al ChaIrs won't tahe anvother Read whatC. F Jackson Norwalk ou on ave 0 waste tIme on rubber-neehs" Oh1O ",rote us ' , We sWened seeulsl loR'uoeyrsal toC'yhoauirrsstofroercoynovuincedO-urerady to buy. .. ' , . ~e cannot Jell any other chalrJ here. Good ad<CJertu;nl!and .;~~N~a::tional Aii;;ertisiiiii~~4;fi~~:' is a tremendous sel1mg fOlce 25 Mllhon THE Pl/SH BUrrON A. E MIllett Amada MICh. ba s people are readmg our advertIsements every 1<,N D "'y Ch' ' 'd f i1 Y month they appear We use such papers Se::laJt o"r'd:r~~iC~~~-1Ire Je e rJ. as Saturday Evenmss Po~t, Ladles' Home Wehelp you In other ways as well Drop J oUTnal,Woman's Home Compalllon, Cos- us a lIne today-get our "busmessboommg" mopohtan, LIterary Dls.;est,Munsey's, Suc- propOSItIOn-Its a !lve wIre that gets the cess, ReVIew of ReVIews Everfbody's trade-makes your store popular McClure's and many oth~rs ' The Royal Chair Co., • Sturgis, Mich. Enormous Imports of Hides. Dunn~ the} eal endll1g June 30, 1909, the L 11lted ~tate') Imported more hlde:o and skll1:Othan Il1 an} other \ ear Il1 thell hIstory, though the total \ alue of the guods \\ a" "ltghtl} Ie"" than for the 1'1 e\ IOU:O} ear OY'vIl1g to a dec hne 111pI Ice" on some of the lal ger Item" at the port" of shIpment HIde" and Sk111" at e an 1mI'm tant featl11 e of the lmpm t tlade of the Umted ~tate", the \ alue of lmpol tattons of tht:o pal tlcular class of merchandIse hay mg a~gregated $1,000,000,- 000 In tound number", 111the last qualter of the century Of thIS $1,000,000,000 Il1 htdes and skm" Imported sInce 1884, goat skll1S Imports alone dt e 'all1ed at nearh $400000000 The value of the goat skll1s lmpol ted Il1 the ) e~l abm:t to' end wtll amount to about $25,000,000, or an a\ erage of about S2,- 000,000 a month, practtcally one-thIrd of the value of the hIdes and skim Imported The lmportatlOn of hIdes and skm s dn Ide" Itself pretty evenly mto three gl eat group,,-"hldes of cattle," "goat skms," and "all other" The g-roup "hIdes of cattle' 'IS undel the present law d uttable at 15 per cent All other al tides enter- 1l1g under the tItle of llldes and skms are admItted free of dub In 11 months, endmg May. 1909, the value of the dutlabie group, "hIdes of cattle," was $21,060,982, as;a111st $10,986,529 in the same months of la:ot } ear, goat Sk111S,$22,997,675, aga111st $15,498,633 111the same months of last year, sheepsk111", $7,- 331,469, and "all other," $17,872,322, 111dlcat1l1g that the total value of all hIdes and Sk111SImported Il1 the full year WIll be about :S75,000,000 The vanety of skIns of al11mals Imported mto the Ul11tecl States for tbe In manufactunng leathel IS much greater than would be supposed Buffalo hIdes, for example, amounted In 1908 in quantity to not less than 5,500,000 poundS, and 111 value to $750,000; hOlse and ass Sk111S, 13,000,000 poundS, \ alued at $2,250,000; sheep skins, 47,000,000 pounds, valued at 59,250,000; and even kangaroo Sk111Sof more than 500,000 pound", \ alued at $333,000 IndIa IS the pnnclpal source of the goat sk11ls and buffalo 11ldes 11111'01 ted 111tOthe U l11ted States; Canada, Argent111a and ~Ie'-lco supply most of the hIdes of cattle Imported; and thE' Cl11ted K11ls;dom, RUSSIa, Germany and France send the bulk at the mIscellaneous assortment grouped under the general tttle of 'all other hIdes and sk11ls" Of the 63,000,000 pounds of goat skll1s 1111pmted 111the fiscal year 1908, 23,000,000 came from IndIa, nearly 9,000,000 from Ch111a, 6,000,000 from Mex- ICO, nearly 4,000,000 from Brazd, 3,500,000 from Aden in .\rabla, 3,000,000 from France, 2,000,000 from the Ul11ted King-dom, 1,500,000 horn RUSSIa 111Europe, 1,333,000 from Argen-t111a, and 1,000,000 from BntIsh South Afnca Of the 98000- 000 pounds of hIdes of cattle Imported 111the same year', 25:- 500,000 came from Canada, 22,000,000 from Argent11la 11 000 - 000 from MeXICO, 7,000,000 from France, 6,500,000 fr~m Indl'a (largely buffalo hIdes), 4,000,000 from ColombIa, less than 4,- 000,000 from Uruguay, and about 3,000,000 from Venezuela. ~----~---------- I 10uis';~~n"""1 III IIII I I III ~_. . 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Evan~ville, Ind , July 8 -Busmess with the furniture man-ufacturers of this city and, IClnlty contmues on the up" ard grade, though the retail trade IS still sufferIng because of the street car strIke that has been on for the past five 'veeks The contracts for the new factory of the Ne, er SplIt Seat Company will be let on Monday, July 12 A P Fenn, one of the best known furniture and chair manufacturers of Tell City, Ind , was here a few days ago on bU'iiness, and called on several of the local manufacturers He says trade has been very good with hm1 all season, and he IS lookmg for an active fall Mr Fenn, with \Tayor Jacob Zoer-cher of Tell City, recently returned from a plea'iure trIp to the mountains of east Tenne'i"ee WillIam Spiegel of the Relt7-Sple~cl Fll1mttl1 c Company ha'3 returned from a husme~s trIp to IndianapolIs "Fred" 130ckstege of the Bocktotege Furniture Company, accompanied by hiS wife and a party of friends, will lea' e on Augmt 1 for the Alaska-Yukon Exposition at Seattle, and be-fore their return will spend several weeks vIsIting pOInts of mterest on the PaCIfic coast Strenuous efforts are being put forth by the local furniture manufacturers to obtain the 1910 conventIOn of the NatIOnal Retail Furniture Dealer'i' AssociatIOn for EvanSVille At the convention of the retail dealers of the state, held at Indlan-apob' 3 last week, the 1910 state conventIOn was secured for EvansVIlle, and Eb D Miller, the well known foldmg hed manufacturer, of thiS City, attended the convention, and feeb confident that the next natIOnal conventIOn will be secured for Evansville \iVhile at IndianapolIs he was called upon to pre-sent the advantages of EvanSVille, as pre'ildent of the local organizatIOn. EnthUSiastically he told of the CIty's progress a'i a furniture manufacturIng center, advancing to thlrd posi-tIOll m the entire country. The skyscraper Furniture Ex-change" as de'icrIbed m glowmg terms and when he had fin I"hed the plaudits of the as"embled delegates assured him that he had made an ImpreSSIOn NatIOnal President Mulvihill of St LOUIS, and the sec-retary of the natIOnal a'iSOclatlOn, announced that they favored E, ansville :,Ir ::\Iiller stated that only Chicago and Grand Rapids stood abov e Evans, ille m the furniture manufacturIng mdus-try The erectIOn of the Furniture Exchange, he thmks, has put Evansville up With Grand Rapids -C \V 13 The man who is satisfied to rest on his laurels IS generally afflicted with insomnia. III leo ~&CO@ MANUFACTURERS p.rJD DEALERS IN HIGH GRADE BAND AND SCROLL SA~S REfAIRING-5ATI5FACTION GUARANTEED CITlZENS PHONE 1239 27 N MARKET ST ~, GRAND RAFID59 MICH. WEEKLY ARTISAN 31 Wood Bar Clamp Fixtures Per Set SOc. ...- ._._._. _·~_._._. 4 __ ._._. ._. • Price $2.80 to $4.00 iII III,III ,'------ English and American Stores. Steppmg from the deck of an AtlantIC hner, fresh from the closest kind of an inspectIOn of the dry goods stores of the Enghsh metropohs, one cannot but feel the great difference in the way We do thmgs in this great country of ours-the immeasurably better way, the modern way, as compared wIth the way established by precedent years ago-and England rarely sets aside precedent, says 1. M. Flemmg. Coming from Regent, Oxford and other great retail streets, from Peter Robinson's really great store, from Harrod's palace, from all the great "draper shops" of London, and stepping out in front of McCreery's, Macy's, Sax's and other great retail stores of New York, one finds the contrast so strong that it is sure to impress Itself-in the character of the show windows first; in the apparent system, second and third in the improved quality of the stock carned, with perhaps more importance on the latter than on any other feature of the dry goods business. And knowing the stores of Chicago, of St. Louis and the Twin Cities I have not the slightest hesitancy in saying that they are far away superior to the best store that London pos-sesses. This, of course, does not refer to "the American store," as Harry Selfridge's new store will be known, but he is not an Englishman, and his ideas are the ideas that have made the greatest American store famous-I refer of course to Marshall Field's commercial palace in Chicago. It is a fact that the great retailers of London and other British cities make use of their show windows without regard to the artistic effect that is aimed at by American retailers. In place of the modern fixtures that are used in the tasteful drape~ of American stores, one finds ropes and cords, tables and hangers -the evident de'sire being to get just as many articles in the win-dows as possible, and many of these establihments carry m their windows a fairly good part of the stock of goods shown. II. making a sale they frequently have to take material or goods out of the windows In New York the windows are artistic in the extreme in theIr dressing. A few suits on well made models, materials on forms, gloves on hangers, backgrounds appealing to the eye, price cards small, neat and effective. On Oxford street and other London retail center~, the windows are crowded to excess, neatness IS not considered-the window is made the almost exclusive ad-vertising agency of the business. A New Store in Nashua. The L Carleton Furniture Company of Portland, Me, has leased the Pease hhck in 1\ashua, N II, and after re-modeling the same, WIll open the sale of a complete stock of iurniture, ahout September 1. The Carleton Company has .... .._----~ OVER 15,000 OF OUR STEEL RACK VISES IN USE 25 doz Clamp FIxtures bought by one mIll last year. We ShIp on approval to rated firms, and guarantee our goods uncondl· tlOnally. W,.,te for Itst of Steel Bar Clamps, V,ses, Bench Stops, ete IIII .••.....•..• _._ •.• 1 E. H. SHELDON &. CO. 283 Madison St, Chicago. long been engaged m trade in Portland and is widely known 111 the New England states Mr Macomber and Mr Archam-bault, formerly WIth the Pease House Furmshmg Company, Vvlll be assocIated WIth the Carleton Furl1lture Company The firm of FItzgerald & FIsh, dealers 111 furl1lture, car-pets, rugs and drapenes m ElmIra, N. Y, have dIssolved partnershIp, Mr FIsh retmng Mr. FItzgerald has been en-gaged m the furniture busmess smce as a mere lad he entered the employ of ]. M. Robmson & Sons, begml1lng his hfe's career at the bottom rung of the ladder He has inaugurated a dissolution sale and after reducing stock on hand wtll enter the market for new goods for the fall season of trade r"·B. WALTER & CO. ~~ T ABLE SLIDES Exclusively .., WABASH INDIANA '-.... - .....-- ...-- - _._._~----~._---~•!---' WRITE FOR PRICES AND DISCOUNT ~.- . . . .. .. ------ ...... ..- _ .....- ~ I AKI~Nf~~rWe can help you. TIme ,I saved and when done leaves are bound (by your- I self) and indexed by floors or departments. I BARLOW BROS., Grand Rapid., Mich. Wr,te R,ghf Now '-- . ..... -_ .. ------ • IMPROVED, EASY AND ·E· ·l- E'·V· ATO R'---S "11 QUICK RAISINC Belt, Electnc and Hand Power. Tne Best Hand Power for Furmture Stores Send for Catalogue and Pnces. , KIMBALL BROS. CO., 1067 Ninth St., Council Bluffs, la. III ~. II I~---_ _---- _ _ .. Kimball Elevator Co., 3Z3 Prospeel St., Cleveland, 0, 108 11th St., Omaha, Neb, 129Cedar St , New York CIty. ., ...-------------_ _. ---- .-- If your DESIGNS are right, people want the Goods. That makes PRICES right. ... I II ---~------_.___......I (tlarence lR. bills DOES IT 163 MadIson Avenue-CItIzens Phone 1983 GRAND RAPIDS MICH. ~----~----.~-_. ~., ---- -_._-_.-._--~-_.---., I =====:SEE:===== West Micbigan Macbine & Tool Co., Ltd. CRAND RAPIDS, MICH ...... 00 .... j for mGU GRADE PUNCHES and DIES 32 WEEKLY MISSION LIBRARY SUITES "J are one of the attractions contained in the IH'W line of the ROCKFORD CHAIR AND FURNITURE CO. Buffets Library Furniture Chinas Pedestal Dining TaMes THIRD FLOOR, BLODGETT BUILDING ARTISAN INDEX TO ADVERTISERS. Adams & Eltlllg Co Alaska Refngerator Co Albro Veneer Co American Blower Co. Barlow Bros Barnes, W. F. & John Barton & Son Co. Boynton & Co Buss Machme Works Clark, Walter, Veneer Co Dodds, AleFander Edge, Frank & Co. Fellwock Auto & M:tnufacturmg Co

Date Created:

1909-07-10T00:00:00Z

Data Provider:

Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)

Collection:

30:2

Subject Topic:

Periodicals and Furniture Industry

Language:

English

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