Michigan Artisan; 1908-03-10
- Notes:
- Issue of a furniture trade magazine published in Grand Rapids, Mich. It was published twice monthly, beginning in 1880. and Twenty-Eighth Yea.r-No. 17 MARCH 10, 1908 Semi-Monthly
The Only Drawer Fitter
THAT WILL SAND DRAWERS WITH LIP ON FRONT
No. 169 Double Belt Drawer Filter.
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No waste of sand paper.
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Paper lasts longer.
~ The Best Truck--The Strongest Truck
This is the famousGillette Roller Bearing Factory
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weak-the truck that has an unbreakable
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This is the truck YOU are looking for if you wish
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THERE ARE TWO WAYS TO DOUBLE
THE CAPACITY OF YOUR
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OLD WAY
Build additional kilns, thereby doubling the investment, greatly increasing
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NEW WAY
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New Patterns •In Hooks .
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ORAND RAPIDS BRASS CO., Orand Rapids. Mich.
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All pressure bars and chip breaker are adjustable and swing out of the way, giving access to
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All gears are full width face-the gears for the lower rolls are as heavy as those of the
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28th Year-No. I 7. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH., MARCH 10, 1908. $1.00 per Year.
How to Get By the Man at the Door.
"I\,fr, Smith i1'; busy, sir; what do yOU "Vatlt to see him
about:"
1\ 0 doubt you have run up against this q:uestion many
times, especially if you afe a salesman, or if ~.'Ol1r business
takes you much among people. The man at ithe door bars
your way. He iSHot satisGed with yOllr card or your name .
.He looks at you as if he v·.rould read your souL Sometimes
he is a private secretary and a man of some dj5F~tiol); often-er
he is an office boy who knows nothing except a hard and
fast rule.
Now, if you have come to sell somc::thillg to: the president,
or secretary, or somebody else ·who happens to be secluded
in a private oft-Ice,you are IIp against a stone ~'all t1111e55 you
know how to handle this pestiferous creature who wants t.o
know your pedigree. 1£ you don't know ho\v to do it you
might as well turn around and march oul.
An old and successful salesman tells how!' he meets the
problem. I
"The man at the. door is a tough propositiol~ to cope \.,.i..th.
He is an outcropping of trusts and big establisbments. Twen-ty
years ago all a salesman lw.d to do was to {)pen a door anQ
walk in. Today he must give the history of 1j.islife to some
dinky little felow who is so puffed up with his ;$8 a 'Neck that
~e thinks other folks have no right to live.
"Years ago 1 came to the conclusion that turn ahout is
fair play. If a merchant employs a lot of salesmen himself
and sends them all over the country to bother: other folks, he
ought to be willing to be bothered by saleSI,nCl1 who come
to see him. \A/hen I go after su~h a man .1l)d his lackey at
the door refuses me admittance I get busy.
{(There are two ways to get into the merchant's pri~rate
office, The first is to grasp the lackey nrUlly but politely
by the coat collar, yank him out of vour w:.h,-,and proceed
with dignity. I ha,,re tried this meth~d a gobd many til11es,
but as a geller~l thing it is not to be recoDll11qnded.
"The other plan which I pursue with gre:lt success is to
use my wits instead of my muscle. [follow a' regular system.
I l11ake such a sudden and psycholog-ically ,startling attack
that I am admitted out of pure curiosity. In about thirty
seconds I change the whole situation. Instead of being a
supplicant, I become an invrcd guest. The ,Iller-challt wants
to see me, He is really desiroi.1s to know 'Yhat I look like,
and what I have to say. He voluntarily drops important
business to ask me in. ,
"Yesterday 1 called Oil the general l11~ll1agcrof a 11llge
concern in Chicago. He is also the head of the buying dc-partment.
No doubt he is overrun with slalesmen, hut he ,
ought to expect it. That is what lle is pai'd for. I argu.
that he should treat visiting salesmen as he want:'; his own
salesmen to be treated. He had different ldeas. A shriv-eled
up little man blockaded the way.
"''Alho are yon,' he demanded.
"I knew that to give him my business qatd would be to
commit bu:;iness suicide.
J
" 'Tbat,' s<lid I, 'is none of your business. I want yOIl t(l
take a note to Mr. Jones. It is ,private, :and mind yOU, if
you open the envelope I'll throw you out of the nearest win-dow.
Understand?' '
"Often the door lackeys witt read v..~1ate::Veyrou write, but
this fellow didn't.. 1 knew how to talk to 11im.
"\Vhat I wrote was this:
"'Mr. Jones: The nuisance who guard'i the door has im-pertinently
refused to let me in. I never 14t a nuisance stand
in Iny way. I have too many of them m~se1f to allow them
to bother me. I go <dong about my businciss, no matter how
mUch they annoy me. I am a salesman, 'representing ~-.
I am out for business. I know a lot of ~our salesmen, and
I have shown at least a dozen of them ho1wto Ket past just
such rodcnts as this one here. In doingjthis I have added
perhaps five per cent to your annual sa1csf , This is my re-ward:
T believe I have earned ten min\ltes of your time.
My proposition speaks for itself.' i
"The result was just what I anticipated~instantaneous, ,
Jones wac; astonished. No salesman had 'ever written a let:"
ter like th<1t before. He was really anxiouls to see me. Here
\-\'as something new in salesmanship. B;ewas a salesman
himself, and I touched him on the psychological spot.
"Kow, I never·attempt to get into a man's presence by ly~
ing about my identity. Only the novice idoes that. I refus~
pointblank to tell the door keeper my llatpe or business, but
when I \-vrite a note to the man inside I cqme out boldly with
the truth.
"The other day I ran up against a doorkeeper who refused
to deliver a note unless T told him the natjure of the message.
" 'Young man: I said, taking out my watch, 'I'll give you
just sixty seconds to get that note to l'I[r. :Brown. If you
don't do it I'll take it in myself.' I
"'I've seen you fellows before,' he r~torted. 'You're a
salesman and I know it. l'vfr. Brown is,~ot seeing salesmen
today.'
"'Thirty seconds!' I said.
"IIe looked about helplessly. He kne'v,--,he would catch it
if he allowed me to burst in on Brown. I was bigger thail
he, and he ..".a. sn't used to desperate men.
"H e took in the note, This is what it said:
".l\1r. 'Brown: Otle of your sa1c:smen ~vas intoxicated fast
month and I was EOQlish enougll to help him out and save
your house a large sale. Don't ask me l~is name, for I won't
tell it. There is a fellowship among ~alesmen, and often
they make sacrifices for each other. Tal a salesman myself,
representing ----. I used the word "foolish" in the fore ..
going bet.ause, in the light of the _prese t it looks that way
to me. The wretched little rat at th door bars me out,
w]leJ) I ought to be welcomed, and get a brass medal in addi-tioll.
I don't want any charity, but I laim the right to do
business. 1'fy proposition will make yO inoney.'
"1 walked in a mOlnent later.
"I wouldn't give away my system
that I'm going to quit the road soon.
E. JVr. \-Vool1ey.
if tt wasn't for the fact rjve kept it a secret.-
4 ~MIFrIG7!N
STOLE THE DESIGNER'S BRAINS.
It Looked for a Time as if the Thin Air Betrayed His Plans
to His Rivals.
"I've got a design for a buffet," said the manager of the
Houston I'urniture Company to the president of the concern,
"that has all the other houses back in the grubs. It wilt
be the correct thing this scasop ,all right."
"Have you taken up designing?" asked the president.
"::.la," replied the manager. "I only m.ake suggestions to
the designer and then we talk "them over together. Of
course, only about onc idea in' a hundred that comes to me is
any good, but when 1 do make a. wining it is all to the candy.
You come up some night and I'll tell you all about it."
The new buffet put on the market by the HoweJl company
was just the thing he had figured on!
"\\There did you get this?" he asked.
"One of the traveling men brought it in."
"Do you know how long it has been out ?'!
"l\·ot more than a week or two."
Raymond sat down in a chair and fanned himself with the
top of an envelope box.
"\-Vhat's wrong?" asked the president.
"vVrong?" repeated Raymond. "Wrong? Why, that's
my buffet.'!
"It is?" shouted the president. "Where did they get -it?"
The head of the Houston Furniture Company had been
hopeful of the promised new buffet. The firm needed some-thing
new and novel in that lillC, and he had made arrange-
"NEARLY" COMFORTABLE
In plalllling- the fIlom shown ahove the decorator nan'ow1r escaped the accomplishment of a very comfort-able
room. The rest inviting divan, the cosy WtllJOWseat. the rattan d"ltr al\d table, all with 1005e tushi. 'lIS,
satisfy the eye alld afford ease aud comfort to the owner. The rococo mirror above the mantel is out of place in
a colouial mom, and tbe annoyillg eft"ct uf a picture hunA' over a decorated wall is painfully prominellt at the
Clltrance to the "tairca<;e. The picture is not properly huag. Two hooks supporting the picture from its elld~
should have been used.
"All right,' said the president. and promptly forgot to go.
Raymond, the manager, thought so, much of his new buffet
that he. wasn't willing to have tllC wO'rking plans made and
taken to the shop until he had every little detail figured out.
So the l"l1akingof the grnnd Hew thing was delayed for quite
a long time.
"Better go slO\'\1than to have the idea stolen bya rival
house," Raymond said.
One day the president called the manager into his private
office and handed him a photograph.
"Yon've got to go some to get out a buffet that will beat
this one of Howell's," he said. "How are you getting 011
with the great-and-only?"
Raymond thought for a moment that he was going to
have a fit. The offi.ceweut round and round for a minute, all
right.
ments to rush the thing along as soon as Raymond got ready,
He was not a little annoyed at the discovery that Raymond's
design had been stolen.
"I don't know where they got it," said Raymond, in
answer to the question. "They got it of some one who has
heard me talking about it."
"I hope you haven't been goose enough to talk abont it to
outside parties," said the president.
"There are just three persons besides myself who know
about it,"· said Raymond, thoughtfully. "The three are
youself, the designer, the foreman. Now, which one gave
it away?" I
"I haven't told 3 living soul," said the presid,ent.
"Not even your wife?"
"Not even my wife," roared the president.
I want~d to have the design printed in the
"Do you think
magazines? I
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MANUFACTCRERS OF
Wood workers' Benches.
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tell yott I haven't mentioned to a soul the fad that we have
an idea in the buffet line,"
"It isn't the designer or the foreman,···· said the manager.
"Then who is it?"" thundl"xed the presidellt.
"I guess my thinking of the thing so steadily created
thought waves, like the 'wireless, you kno"v, and these thought
waves crept into the cranium of Howell's de::;igncr."
"f hope the loss of the plans isn't going to make you dip-py,"
said the president. "You get busy and {lnd out who
sold those designs to Howell. \,\ihat we wallt is to knov.' If
we've got a thief ill the iactory."
"The fact of the matter is," said Raymond, Uthat the de-sign
wa~~ ne'vcr even put on p<lpel~! Tt has only been talked
about. There 'were no drav· ...ings to steal! That's wby I
Slid that the thing rIlust have gotten out of the V\rlndow and
connected with Howell's desrgocr."
"Come O\1t of it!" said the president, sharp!}'. ;",/Vf>'v",
got to find out 'Iyhere thi:; leak came from. V,,re can't gO on
doing business with a traitor in the manufacturing depart-ment.
\"'T e lllust find out ahout this right away."
"I'll talk it over with the designer and the foreman," said
the manager.
"Don't you do it," said the president. "y' OLl lay low for
a time and see what cmnes of this. Kccp .<;till ahout ii.. .1
reckon tl1is i!i the ouly photogrnph of the Howell huffe.t th~lt
is about the place, and the others may not know about its
being here. Go right on with tht designer and the fore-man
as if nothing had happened. Vv'e can get a 11('.\V desigh.
but we can't afford to have a thief in the plant."
The manager ,veut a way feeling pretty che8iJ. r n the
first place, he blamed himself for tbe delay in putUng the
new buffet 011 the market. Then 11e felt that the president
blamed him lor the loss. He did not see how this could
justly be done, btlt had no dOllbt that it was being done. He
wanted to talk the matter over with tbe two men to whom he
had confided his plans, but could not do it /l1ndcr the instruc-tions
he had received. i
The president v.'as knocked all of a heap, as the saying is,
over the matter. He had trusted all his employes, the men
in the factory as well as the manager, the designer, and the
foreman. Now he went at the matter of tlie theft in a purdy
business way. He could not understand h10w a design which
had never been put on paper could be stolbn, but he was go-ing
to find out. . i
He sent for three private detectives and had the manager,
the designer and the foreman ·watf::hed. The detectives
looked puzzled when informed as to their! duties.
"It looks odd to me, this hunting for ~he man who stole
something that never was," said one of. the mell. "How
could a design lvbich never was on paper ibe stolen?"
"One of the three men gave it away','! said the president.
"Ho ..v..el1 is always there with a bribe if he can make a dollar
by it. Ii something had been stolen fr9m the shop, some-thing
like a thousand dollars" worth of be:dsteads, I shouldn't
have thought so much of it, but this stifaling brains before
the act of expression gets me." !
"\Ve'll shall have to shadow these men night and day,"
said the hoss of the gang of detectives i who had been em-ployed.
';\Ve'll have to find out ,,,,,-here ~hey go nig-hts, how
much motley they spend, if they mix \vith Howell's men,
and if they are leading double lives, or anything like that.
VVe may rip up something you ' ... ·OI1't wal~t to know flbout."
"You go ahead," said the president. ; "Do all you can to
keep the men from suspecting that they!are suspected. l'm
gOillg to the bottom of this thing, if 111)' mOlley holds Qut,
and 1 rather think it will."
Of tourse. after a time, the three mell suspected that they
v'/ere watched, and it made them angry and rec.kIess. vVhen
they found out to a certainty that they I: were being followed
night and day they talked the situatiol1Jver together and de-
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535 Michigan Trust Building, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH,
dded to give the detectives some merry chases. They went
off into the country in automobiles on dark, cold stormy
nights, and nearly froze the shadowers, who weren't prepared
for any such leaps into the arctics, and were therefore oh~
liged to follow on the spur of the moment in light clothing.
They dined at swell hotels and so made the suspicious presi-dent
dig down deep into his pocket. But after all, it wasn't
so much fun being watched like a thief.
One day after the shadowing had been going on for a
month, when the detectives were beginning to realize that
they were being played with, and when the president began to
look askance at his expense account, the denouement came.
The three detectives walked into the private office with a
common canvas bag in their posseSSi{)ll, which bag seemed
to be filled with hlo<:-ksof wood, which rattled together as
the man threw it down on the floor. In additi0l1 to the bag
of blocks, they, had in custody a very pale young man in the
dusty garments of the shops.
"The next time you have anything to dig out," said the
chief of the detectives, "you would better let the operators
start in in their own way. Here you've kept us up nights
for a month, following a trio of men who would have jumped
into the river if they thought we would follow them, and who
have been laughing at us and at you, while the place to look
for the trouble was in the shop. Look here,"
The detective turned the contests of the canvas bag out
on the table and began arrangiug them in order. In about
five minutes falnt pencil tracings on the blocks developed
roughly sketched designs for new buffets and for new articles
of all sorts. The young man in the dusty clothes made a
leap for the door as the designs showed on the white 'wood,
but was met and stopped by the three suspected mell.
"These three men," said the detective, "are in the habit of
meeting down in the machine room and talking over their
plans. As they talk .and suggest, the designer has a bad
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way of sketching on a piece of smooth board and throwing it
away. \lilben another point comes up he will sketch that
and throw the block away. Clear enough, eh?
"Well, this cunning young man l1ere," pointing to the
young man under arre~t, "has been in the habit of preserv-
Sk.etched by Otto Jiranek, Grand RapidS, M1.ob.
ing these blocks! Cute idea, that, eh? He's got about a
cord of blocks in his room. Here are' the crude designs for
the buffet. He sold the idea to Howell, and he was getting
ready to sell all your ideas to him-all he could find on chips
in the shop! All Y(n1can do is to fire him, I guess."
The president did that, and then went out and boug)1t diu-ner
for the detectives and the three suspects.
"The truth's about equal to your window theory," he said
to the manager, as they sat at table. "I'm almost ashamed of
the trouble I put you men to/' he added, with a flush that was
almost a blush.
"Oh, never yOll mind that," said the three in a breath.
"\iVe rather enjoyed it." ALFRED E. TOZER.
Passive Philosophy.
Now when a man to silence clings
Steadfastly day by day,
There are lots of foolish things
A fellow doesn't say.
\'Vhen he pursues his daily round
And to the line cloth hew,
A lot of foolish things I've found,
A fellow doesn't do.
.'\n.:1when a chap has reached a pitch
To mind his biz, you bet,
There's lots of trouble into '\vhich
A feHow doesn't get.
A Famous Resaw.
It is not often that a manufacturer of woodworking 111«-
chinery will spend hundl-eds of c10lJnrs on a catalogne to
illustrate and de.'icribe one machine. This the Cordesmall~
Rechtin Company of Cincinnati have done, and the 1fichigan
The Cordesman-Rechtin Company's No. 3~ Band Resaw.
Artisan is favored with a copy, vvhich illustrates and de-scribes
their famous 1\0, 3Y~ band resaw. The book has a
handsome illuminated cover, and ;s beautifully printed on the
finest qUCllity of catalogue paper. The introduction says:
"Among the many machines we have had the pleasure to
present to the woodworking public nOlle has received more
attentioll than the band 1'('saw. Forty years' experience
bnilding band san·'s of all types, from the small scrolling ma-chine
to the log band mill, with nine-foot wheels and 12-inch
blade, enable.s us to offer all that is best and most desirable
in a machine of this kind, The interest shown by the IJub-lic:
in our latest production-the No. 30 band resaw-has
prompted the issue of this special booklet. In it we en-deavor,
with the aid of photographic cuts, to give a clear Ull-derstanding
of the machine, its labor saving and protit-mak-ing
qualities, as well as its construction."
Then follows twenty-five pages of illl1strMiolls, descrip~
tions, ",'orkings, Jl0W to care for the machine and the sa"vs,
and, a multitude of things that every operator of a band sa..v.
ought to know. This maclline is made to run by belt or
electric motor. The folIo\"'ing are a few leading points
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which should not be overlooked: Excepting the outside
support for the lower wheel shaft, this band resaw is wholly
self-contained.
The wheel shafts, with their bearings, arc adjustable, to
maintain perfect alignment at all times. There. is an im-proved
method of attaching wheels truly and securely to theil-shafts.
The top wheel has universal adjustment, which allows the
operator, in his natural position, to give the desired lead to
the saw while it is in motion_
The feed can be instantly adjusted to run fast or slow,
and may be instantly stopped or started without change of
. position on the part of the operator.
Feed Tolls can be speedily set for siding, and also br. in-stantly
spread for a thick piece and just as quickly closed for
a thin piece.
The back half bronze feed roll journals that take the 'pres-sure
of rolls in contact with the. stock being resawed, are ad~
justable fat' \venr where it actually OCCUTS. This improved
feature is peculiar to Cordesman-Rcchtin machines alone.
The feed rolls are made sensitively and positively self-centering,
yet one set of rolls can be locked to position while
the opposite. set yields for the variation in the thickness of
stock. A screw is provided for hair-line and independent ad-justment
of rolls.
The guides may be quickly thrown back to allow a rapid
change of blades. The)' are adjustable every way-for light
or heavy gauges, for ,"vide or narrow blades.
The top guide is counterbalanced, and by our patented
device it may he instantly raised or lowered for wide::or nar~
row boards.
It would be impossible to tell of all the good points of
this baild resaw in a brief notice such as this, but enough has
been said to whet the appetite for more, and this can best
be supplied by the book itself, which everyone interested in
the sav.·.i.ng of their lumber may have by addressing the
Cordesman-Rechtin Company, Pearl and Butler Streets, Cin-cinnati,
0,
Thin Stuff.
Every furniture manufacturer uses a great deal of "thin
stuff"-drawer bottoms, mirrOT backs or veneers of son,'~
kind. The manufacturers of upholste.red furniture are using
a great deal of cross-banding veneers in the Colonial designs
now so popular, especially in davenports and large ann chairs
and rockers. It is not always cas)' to get just the "tLin
stuff" one wants, unless he knows just where to get it. The
\Valter Clark Veneer Company 535 1ilichigan Trust building,
Grand Rapids, can supply promptly nearly everything in
"thin stuff," especially in thin lumber and quartered oak ve.-
neers, drawer bottoms and sides, mirror backs, etc. It is
well to keep in touch with this house all the time.
Morton House
( AmericanPlan) Rates $2.50 and Up.
Hotel PantJind
(European Plan) Rates $1.00 and Up_
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
The Noon Dinner Served at the Pantlind for SOc is
THE FINEST IN THE WORLD.
J. BOYD PANTUND, Prop.
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TUIS MACUINE MAKES TUE MONEY It makes a perfect imitation of any open grain because it uses the wood itself to print from, and one operator and a couple of
boys can do more work with it than Q dozen men with any other so-called machine or pads on the market.
That's why it's a money maker. It imitates perfectly.
PLAIN or QUAI'..TER.ED OAK. MAHOGANY. WALNUT, ELM. AS" or any olher wood with open grain.
WRITE THE
Posselius Bros. Furniture Manufacturing Co., Detroit. Mich.
FOA PRIOES AND FUf...'-PAATICUl-ARS. MENTiON THE MICHIQ,AN ARTISAN
Does it Pay?
Everybody has heard the story of the man with the leaky
roof, who said: ""Vhen it rains I can't shingle it, and when
it is fair, I don't need to." That's just the way with SOllle
business men. When. the times are good and they are full
of business they say they don't need to advertise, and when
tradeis dull they say they can't afford it. It has come to the
ears of the Michigan Artisan that one furniture company has
$400,000 worth of furniture stored in their warehouses. 1\-0
one ever saw their advertisement in a furniture paper. An-other
house, whose manager "can't afford to advertise," has
goods enough piled up in warehouses to meet their ordinary
demand in good times for nine months, and have laid off
two-thirds of their force for an inde6nite time. No one
has seen their "ad" in a furniture paper in twenty yC~.r5.
On the other hand, the Artisan knows a manufacturer
who has had an "ad" in every issue of the dealers' edition
during the past five years, whose factory is runniI1g- with a
full force, on fuJI time, and has orders ahead for months to
come. There is never a day when a car is not standing on
the siding by the shipping room door, and as fast as one is
filled' ~l11othertakes its place. \-Vhich of these manufactur-ers,
think you, is wise?
Lack of Uniformity in Glues.
"Different CJualities in glues arc requ-ired for different
woods. Glues that \\'ork satisfactorily all oak may not work
well on mahogany or other woods," remarked an experienced
cabinet maker. "The best qualities of glue are manufactured
in the United States_ The only point of superiority in Eng-lish
and Irish glues is their uniformity in strength. The
first shipme.nt from the boilers of an American manufacturer
is usually of very high grade in quality; the second usually
is greatly inferior to the first. Whether this fact should be
attributed to carelessness ill manufacture or to the lack of in-tegrity,
I have not fo,med an Opi1.110n. But I suspect greedi-ness
for unlawful gain is the dominant motive."
A Reliable Surfacer.
A pigment first coatcr, manufactured by the Royal Var~
nish Company of Toledo, 0., and guaranteed to satisfy users!
is called the "Royal Surfacer," Reliable polishilig varnishes
are manufactured by the same company.
Plant for Sale.
A mOderll furniture plant, equipped for immediate use, is
offered for sale by Henry G. Low of Owensobro, Ky. For
particulars, see another page.
The best boss is the man who has been bossed.
BIG OPPORTUNITY FOR A MANUFACTURER
A Furniture Mauufacturlng Plant All Equipped, Ready
for Use. Awaits the RIght Mart.
The plant has 50,000 sq. feet of floor space well equip-ped
with up-to-date machinery having superior motive
power,switch tracks to three trunk Jines of R. R .• Dry Kiln,
suitable out buildings all of brick, detached office bUilding
with vault, and large grouuds on street car line.
The above described property can be secured Fru oj'
debt by a manufacturer having an established paying busi-ness-
capable of increase-which has outgrown hi. present
manufacturing facilities and who can bring $25,000 in money
for working capital. Investigation offered and required.
Address, HENRY G.LOW,
P. O. Box 299, Owensboro, Ky.
Oran~Da~i~sDlow Pi~e
an~Dust Arrester (om~an~
THE LATEST device for halldling
shavillgs alld dust from all '''ood-
·u.mrking machhzcs. Our H'ineteen JJcars
experience in this class of work has
brought it 1lcarer perfection than au).'
other system on the marleet today. It
is 110 experh'ucl1t, but a demonstrated
scientific fact) as we have se'vcral hUJl-dred
ot these systems in use, and not a
poor one G'lnoug therrt. Our Automatic
Furnace Fecd System) as shown in this
cut) is the nwst perfect 'Z~'orking device
af anything ill this line. Write for our
prices for equipments.
,-VE l\lAKE PLANS AND DO ALL
DETAIL WORK WITHOUT EX-PENSE
TO OUR CUSTOMERS,
EXHAUST PANS AND PRES-SURE
BLOfVERS ALWAYS IN
STOCK.
Office and FlI!Il.ctory:
208-210 Canal Street
GRAND RAPIDS. MICH.
8.11, Main 1804
OUR AUTOMATIC FURNACE FEED SYSTEM
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Live Talk to Sell Goods.
Half a century before the dawn of this electric age little
importance attached to the man engaged in the sale of
merchandise. It was. largely a hap~hazzard-catch-as-catch-can,
go-as-yolt-pleasc business, with no g'uiding principles point-ing
the way to success.
Now things have radically changed. The day of the
plaid suit dude, the whisky drinker, the loud mall generally,
the day of the so-called merely good~fellow as a sales-man
has passed away.. \Vhat the world demands and in
many lines of business seriously needs is business rl1eo of
real, solid ability as salesmen.
'Are are living- in a new commercialism today. The
Alienee people which is the secret of salesmanship. The man
who can reach the- witt, {:reatc a desire in the customer, is
the man of value. The dolt can hand out that which the
customer has already resolved to purchase.
The primary essential of salesroanship~ as in any other
Hne of achievement, is energy_ It is the active, wide awake
salesman who leads the list. To be stlccessful he must be
a hard worker, not only with his hands, but with his head.
He must go below the superficial part of his brain-must
sti.r up hi.s mental soil.. The unthinking salesman makes
his business automatic, robbing it of its real life and soul.
The model salesman must be a man of ideas; he must
acquire a thorough, scientific knowledge of his stock of
A DEFECTIVE INTERIOR
The large JO\'\'arch above the m8.utellllustrated above is intended to relieve a room Lllat oLhc'wise would
impress the OCCUj)allt!lS being a long, low sha\IQw \)oJ{. The Inch is so weak in cOllstructioll. however. that one
must live ill the c<Jrlstant fear fhi'lt the bricks are liable at "lIlYmoment to fall upon him. 'The heh:ht oj the
apartmellt would be increased by the use of paper WIth a striped figure. In either case pictures should not be.
hlln~ on papered walls. An east:1 supporting a poltrait or laJ.dscape would help the decoraU"e scheme if
placed in Olle of the corners riot shown.
old methods. of merchandising have been revolutionized.
Like the crude machinery used in the industrial world of the
past, they have been set aside for the new and improveJ
methods which are now in force. The high lntel1ectual and
moral plane of the present day demands higher laws to
govern the retatlon hetween distributor and the public.
With this advance has come a demand for a higher class
of salesmen to represent the merchant tn business, sales-men
with larger abllity amI a wider range of talents. The
modern idea calls for true salesmanship which in its highest
sense, is at once a science and an art-a science because of
the many deep principles involved: an art because of the
talent and skill requited in the applicat10n of those laws
and principles to effect a desired end.
A man possessing the common virtues and bearing the
stamp of siucerity and honesty, wilI have the power to in~
goods. A knowledge of human nature, too, is almost as
indispensable as a knowledge of the merchandise itself.
Some customers can be driven, others must be led; some
must be talked to, others must be allowed to do the talking.
One should study well the law ,.of suggestion, being able
quickly to judge the customer's tastes and fancies, then hasten
to stlpply the. demand. He must possess tact.
The ideal salesmall will possess self-esteem, which is a
practical virtue, as well as one of ornament to the character.
Belief in self is necessary to the best attainment in any
endeavor. Rut the employe must carefttlly guard his healthy
condition; he must use good sense-the best preventative
against that disastrous disease known as the "big head."
The wise salesman avoids self-coTls.ciousn~5s, yielding him-self
up completely to his customer and the article of sale.
Exterminating the personal pronoun "I," he parades judiciotls
ideas instead at egotistical impropri.eties. \Vhen a sales-man
consents to serve a customer he, for the time, forfeits
all personal rights. In other words, he belongs to th(l.l
~ttstomer as much as docs the merchandise after it ha3
been paid for-that is, his time, his attention, his experience,
all that he pos~e5ses, the customer .is entitled to, since [J<ly-ing
for them as \·vell as for the article of sale.. This is sclf-surrender,
The value of cheerfulness in any event cannot be too
highly estimated. Self-nl.astcry is placed at a high premium
always. It makes no difference whether the customer is dis-agreeable
in the extreme or 'whether graciously considerate
of the clerk's feelings, whether he bnys a large bill of goods
in a few minutes or consumes an hour of hi;.; precious time
witho'-\t purchasing anything~it makes no difference with the
master of art; he should do all cherfully amI therehy compel
that customer to carry at least one tll.ing out of the storc-a
good impression, which will bear fruit in the future.
There is nothing so dlcap as courtesy. and nothing more
influential in business. The salc:sman's attitude should he the
same as if the customer v,rere a gttest in the drawing room
of the salesman's o\...n. home. By ever bearing this in mind all
danger of unpleasantness is removed-he places himself in
a frame of mind to engender courtesy in any emergency.
Courtesy is a product of kindnes", and kindness begets
patience, which in turn is a erowning virtue.
Anothet' paramount essential which should characteri7.e
the ideal salesman of course. is personal appearance.. A
strong personality is an enviable gift. hut all cannot possess
it since it is; <t\1. attribute of nature. But one thing which all
may possess is a good personal appearance, \'\'hidl is ·in~
dispellsable in modern clerkship It is therefo~'e, the tirst duty
of eveqr person serv.ing the public to regulate his toilet and
dress in the highes;t degree of consistency,. The influence
this of essential weighs mightily.-C. S Ginn, in ?vloclcrn
lIIethods.
Method for Successful Salesman.
harren
One
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Two commercial sale~men \:vc:re 'waiting 1Il a
country railroad station for the only train of the day.
,vas in excellent spirits while the other was gloomy
complaining.
Success for the day was depicted in the face of one,
failure ror tlJC other. In the commercial world nothing
seems to give greater sati:::-factioll than a goo(1 sale. Tt acts
as a stimulant. It makes the salesman see the best in
his s\1rroundings and the satisL!C'.tion achieve.:j contributes
to his contentment. Contr:lrywise, failure to make :1 sale
eallSCS depression and is likely to Jnakc a s"le:smal1 feel
blue and fretful.
1J 1". Goodhnmor \vas enumerating tbe joys of the country
life, the pleasure of calling- on the country trade and the
hearty and honest welcome the country merchant extended
to salesmen. Mr. T1lhumor forcefully expressed his opinion
that the town was dead. the merchants slow and their
lTlcthods primitive. The more 'Mr.. Goodhumor attempted
to cheer his eompanion, the marc pess,jmistie 1lr. tllhnlnor
lwcame.
"Mr. Illhulll.or," said 1Jr. Goodhml1or in a last desperate
attempt to touch the agreeable side of his fello,",v salcs!TI[tn:
,. r formerly had as chronic a case of fault-finding as yotl
have. 1 was irrit[tb1e and cross, found littk satisfaction in
everything, had no eonfic\ence in anybody 311J the harder (
worked the less I accomplished. 1 was optimistic naturally
hut someh()\v failure to make sales when orders were ex-pected
made me blue. Right in the midst of a bus:r seaWl1
J dropped work and went far into the back ,...oods where r
could do some thinking undisturbed by outside influences.
\i'lhik there 1 tho,oughly !>tudied my failure. At the start
7IR'T' 1.5'J'I~
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1 rightly concluded that the fault was with me a\1d not due
to circumstances over which I had no coutrol.
"The trouble \\,<\sthat I had not been working my territory
intelligently, 1 jumped trom town to town without regard
io regularity and not even ascertaining whether or not there
waS a demand for my line in the towns visited. I\'lany a
time I did "Nhat you have done today-made a small town
on a branch road and did not receive it simple thank-you
for my efforts to help the small retailer. I wandered aim-lessly
abollt without a prealTanged plan. Consequently I did
not visit my trade often enDugh to get welt aequait1ted with
possible customers and to secure the;r confidem:c, which is
nec(:ssary for stlccessful selling.
';Once having located tl)(' ca1.1':leof trouble it was not
difficlrlt to prescribe a remedy. I {lrst reduced the size of
my territory, for I realized that the smaller the territory
the better acquainted I could become with the trade <\nd
gre<lter would b(:come the confidence of the huy.ers in my
ability to serve them. Then I made a list of the:: largest
btlyer~ in my territory. I planned to call on these large
buyers frequently and to have them know me so well and to
think so highly of me that they would not resent my e::aHing
them by thtir first names. \Vith a plan outlined to my
satisfaction I returned to work..
"Yes, the remedy was a success. I have built up a large
trade and enjoy the confidence of my customers. Every
one SeelllS glad to see rn~. '1\'ly calls <ire frequent cnough
to attend to their ..vants promptly. I know my trade in a
social way. I know their individual strong qualities, their
wenkncss and I can call many of their children by name.
"H.arely 1 visit a small town like this one unless I fi ..s..t
call my customer by 'phone and illdirectly 111a pleasant talk
learn whether or not he is in a huying disposition. Con-seouelltly
the percentage of sales on sl1ch trips is large. I
(,!ljoy these trips, too. They affo ..d.. me a change. J n
variably my cllstomer:; invit~ me home ~() dmner <lnu to me
d home cooked dinner is cel-tain}y appeti7.il1g.
"\Vell. here comes our traiu. ~-Iy friend, just carry two
preo;;criptions around in your pocket. Label one, 'Agrec-
:,\)Ieness' and the other 'Methods.' Take them in alternati\re
do"es. You will have a better disposition find will be more
successful on the road."-W. \;1,,'. I{i~.cox in '\'Jodern -;"Iethods.
Paying the Employes.
A Urge employer of factory hands in an eastern city
"'mploys the following system in paying his employes:
The time and payroll keepers use a payroll ledger which
rt'quires the writing of employes' names but four times a
year. \Veekly International Card Time Recorders are placed
in each department of tbe factory and the employes keep
their own time by recording on a card the time they arrive
and depart. 1£ on time and regular theit· records are in
hlne. If late or early out the recon! sbO'.vs red. The time
keeper then only has to note the red registrations. This
reduces his labor to a minimum. He transfers tht total
hours to the ledger, making out the pay tll.veIopes at the
same time and passes them to the cashier \'lho puts the
money in the envelopes and places them in pockets in
especially designed racks which he turns over to the pay-masters..
On payday the mcn pass by the pay winc1o\\'s,
call their numbers and get their wage envelopes. ill a jiffy.
Not for Michael.
';\Vhat's the matter with ~'fiehael?" aske~l one workman.
"'E's got a splinter in his "and," replied another.
"\Vhy don't 'e puB it out?"
"\:Vot~ In his dinner houd"
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Information Concerning Commercial Salesmen.
The follov,:Jllg notice is prominently displayed at the
desk of the A.lbany Hotel, Denver, Cola:
"'Commercial men who become guests of the Albany
·Hotel, whether they have 'lines" that require the use of
sample -tables or not, will greatly favor the management of
this 110tel 8.-nd-,inciJentlly, possibly benefit themselves, by
giving to the clerk the name and address of the house they
re,presel1t and also t1H~line of goods they are handling,
"It frequently occUrs th.at a huyer calls to look at a certain
line of goods but has forgotten the name of the party he
."..ish'e:. to see. or he will ask the name of the representative
of a certain business house, or he may not know the reprc~
sentative of any speclal house but wishes to look at a (:ertairl
line of goods-aU of which inquiries the derk (:an the m.ore
satisfactorily answer if he has in his possession, systematical-ly
arranged, the above requested information.
"\Ve hop" to have your cordial assistance along this
line.
"Find below blank for your convenience in giving us the
illformation we respectfully ask.
"The Alhany HoteL"
FOR THE USE OF CO~IMERCIAL SALESMEN.
Give the Information as Explained in the Above Card.
:Name of house represented ..
Line of goods.
Street and number.
City and state.
Represented by
Permanent address
City and state.
New Bulbs Save Money.
The incandescent electric lamp is one of the mOst com-monly
known and simplest factory devices with which we
have to deal. The lamp in general use is labeled 16 candte-power,
and the average user of these lamps is generally
contented with the mere knowledge of how to turn his light
on and off. He will undoubtedly grumble at times at the
amount of his monthly bill for lighting and vlfill often be in~
convenienced by- the dimness of some if his lamps, hut the
deficiency in light is made good by turning on another
lamp, and the monthly bill is further increased, says the
Technical \Vorld. It probably would never occur to him
that it would be an actual e<;onomy in dollars and cents to,
SKETOHED BY OTTO JIRANEK,
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH_
throwaway his old lamps and provide new ones at his own
expense, and yet such is the case.
The "smashing poine' cannot be accurately dete',rmined for
any lamp without rather extensive tests, but in' general it
is not necessary to determine its accuracy. A variation of
one or two candle-power will hardly be perceptible under
the ordinary conditions. It is only when the lamp falls off
three or four candle-power that its dimness becomes appre-ciable,
and it is a safe ru[e to followj and it will prove more-economical
to buy a new lamp rather thatl burn an old one
after its diminution in candle-power becomes noticeable.
By this is meant that it will be more economical for the
,lffiOt1Ot of light obtained, because as the lamps faU off in
can(lle-power more lamps must be burned to obtain the
OI"iginal amount of light. If the reduced quantity of light
from old lamps is sufficient-as, for example, in halls and
closets-it W0111d still be cheaper to throw out the old lamps
Rnd replace them with new ones of smaller candle-poV',,-er..
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PAINTED PIANOS IN DEMAND.
Instruments Valued at $50,000 Each----Scenes From Well
Known Operas on Cases.
There was a time when a piano was only a piano, and
that was all there was to it. For decades piano builders
gave all their attention to sound mechanism and there was
abOllt as much variety in piano exteriors as there is to tele-graph
poles. The case was of rosewood or mahogany.
Your piano had serpentine moulding or it did not have. It
had angular legs or curved ones. That was about all the
variety you could get, and you could pay your money and
take your choice.
The piano makers of to-day are a unit in declaring that
the vogue of the ugly piano case, with its huge, unshapely,
etephantine legs and unrelieved lines, is gone forever. The
American demands almost as wide a range of choice' in piano
cascs as in furniture, and gets it. Out of this demand,
s~rengthcned by European example, has grown the painted
plano.
It is truc that some of the more elaborate spinets of
Colonial days were hand painted, but the development of the
pianoforte did not carry with it the decoration of the case.
Perhaps this was due to the hideousness of most of the
scenes inflicted on the long suffering spinet. Any way,
when the piano began to be considered an article of furniture
and ornament its artistic aspect assumed importance. So
long as simple, haircloth furniture held its vogue the old
rosewood standby was good enough. Its passing came with
more frequent trips to Europe and the introduction of type
or period furniture into American homes.
The identical "ase piano was doom'"ed with the first white
and gold music room. The clumsy, old type piano was so
out of harmony that even its music was not appreciated.
Makers 'vere forced to turn to curly maple and other lig-ht
woods. They took long breaths and gilded and enamelled the
cases.
The piano was the last piece of furniture to fall into the
decorator's hands, but it may stay longer, presenting marc
possibilities than tables or chairs. At first the cascmak::rs
wcre content to conform to a particular period, with the
idea of fItting the pi8nO into its surroundings. Onc of the
first decorative examples of onc of the oldest purely Ameri-can
piano houses ,vas inlaid work along marquetry lines.
There was a year w:len Louis XVI piano cases were all
t'~e rage. Then came Empires and Henry lV's. Thtre was
a fad for white and gold cases, which ..went out because of
the g;lOstliness of white enamel and because American cn-amellers
could not obtain the opalescent effects of the
pflrisian workmen.
But there is more to it.' Americans learned that some of
the great arthts of Europe did not scorn to use their brushes
on piano cases. A few rich imported theni without
lnterior m('.chanism. The imported exterior was better than
8I1ything made here.
The $50,000 Marquand is the most notable relic of this
age of importation. The case was designed by Alma-Tadcma
and executed by Poynter. It cost the famous art co\lectOT
fully the amount named, though at auction sale on his death
it brought only $14,000.
It is a grand piano, with solid ebony case, inlaid with
ivory and lapis lazuli. The cover and the ?anels have scenes
representing Greek maidens dancing to the accompaniment
of ancient ffiusIC'.atinstrt1ments. Then there was a Rnrne-
Jones p:ano that attracted much attention. The artist fairly
covered this Pl<l110 with his work. There were paintings
on both sides of the lid and all nround the band.
Am~ricans who cared enDu2;h about a piano to \lay $50,000
for it were not numerOus. Several. however, were willing
to invest $25,000 and run the fisk of getting an art w0rk so
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delicate and yet so unwieldy safely through a dangerous
ocean voyage.
One of these $25,000 pianos came to a member of the
Vanderbilt family. It was wonderfully carved with garlands
hanging free from the body of the instrument. The panels
were painted by Kammerer, of Paris, and aside from the
panels the case ,vas covered with cream white enamel.
Of late years the special order case has been the rage,
and there are not a few houses along Fifth avenue and
Riverside Drive that have specially decorated pianos. They
arc not $25,000 creations by any means, but there has been
and still is an unusual demand among people of wealth for
decorated pianos costing $8,000, $10,000 3nJ $15,000.
There is a wide latitude in the decorations. Some show
small panels on strict school lines, a Louis XV case, fOf
Sketched by Otto Jiranek, Grand Rapids, Mich.
111stance, with panels painted after Watteau or Boucher.
Often the piano is taken as the backk'i-oUlld for idealistic
paintings. There have been <'Faust" pianos and "Romeo and
Juliet" planas, with scenes from these operas.
",,"'hen the prospective purchaser of a decorated ,piano
11<1S eccentTlc ideas we have our troubles,'" said the manager
of one of the big 'piano houses to a' Tribune reporter the
other day. "I remember one woman who had her own ideas
about 'Faust.' She insisted on a 'Faust' scene for the lid,
which would not have been so bad.. Then she insisted that
Faust, in the love scene with Marguerite, sit upon a tomb-stone,
'with relaxed muscles.' The arti.st asslgne(l to the
task gnashed his teeth.
"Our g:rca.t dread in this decorative work," said another
mart whose name connotes pianO" wherever heard, "is the
<lifficulty in repressing the portrait effect. \¥omen are most'
often victims of t.his incongruous desire. They come. in with
the portrait of some departed 'loved one which the.y want
painted on the piano cover, As a vehicle for portraiture
the piano is unsuitable, no matter how attractive the sub-
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Send for sample and new catalogue showing Drawer Pulls, Capi-tals,
Pilasters, Drops, Shields, Heads, Rosettes, Scrolls, etc.
ORNAMIlNTAL PRODUCTS CO., 556 Fort St., Detroit, Mich.
jeet. They g('f. their in memoriam,'; if they insist on them, but
we'd rather brand the pianos with our rival's name."
ExatlJ-plcs in which there is an utter absence of symbolic
relation in the decoration either to the piano or the music
are frequent.
;'Do you band paint pianos?" <111 arrival from Pittsburg a
few months ago asked a prominent piano maker. Decoration
in VV'attcau style upon the top and rim of a Louis XV case
was suggested.
The Pitts burger looked over a sample, but did not like the
beautiful maidens playing old-fashioned musical instrumentS.
"'Tain't up to date enough/, was his verdict.
"It is the latest design of one of our finest anisls," re-turned
the piano man.
"You don't get my idea," said the. man of money \vith a
superior air. "ThM may be art, but I want art that I can
compare with the original in my mind',,) eye. Kow, the man
who decol-ated my safe at the office down Broad st;c:et caught
the idea. You know I've opened ~111 office down there among
the hulls and hcar~. No, I'm not going into business. It's
just a place to loaf in wher~ I can close to the ticker,"
"\Vhat did the 'artist' put on your safe?" ,,vas asked to
shut off the Piusburger's boast of v",hat he was going to do
to ''''all Street.
"VV'llY. he p:1inted the Brooklyn Bridge with one of 'Bob'
Evan'5 battleships coming under the arch, full tilt," said
the Pennsylvanian. admiringly. "That's (he sort of art 1
wal1t. NO\\·, on tbis piano let us have the Hudson River,
"lith the Palisades ill the distance."
The piano maker groaned ashe booked the ec:centric
order.
"Have your artist paint in a steamboat or t",..o, one of the
Day lines. for instance," was the parting instruction. I like
planty of life and motion."
[.Jost piano artists have little admiration for the great
gold and white piano that decorates the V/hitc I-louse. The
C~l.~ebouses an eXJLllisite instrument. The panels are ham
the brush of T. VV.Dewing. If the decorations stopped there
all would he well, but they don't. The coats of ar1115 of the
var;ous states have been plastrxed over t.he instrument until
the last illCh is utilized.
"It reminds me of old Joe Kirby," sajJ a recent visitor
to the 'Vhite House. after gazing on the overdecorated
wonder.
"And who was Joe Kirby?" interrupted a YOllthfulmember
of the party.
"You did 110t tet me finish," said the critic. "J wns about
to say the piano reminded me of J 00 Kirhy wrapping him-self
ill the American flag and dying to slow 11lu~ic:'
Kirhy \vas once thQ 1110st popular actor of the. Bowery,
('nd he was best in death scenes. ;'\~7ake me up \'\,hen Kirby
dies" was the injunction of the sleepy members of his audi-ences.
It becam.e one of the sayings of his time.
One of the most IloteR'orthy pianos ever designed in )Jc ..v..
York 'N:lS executed for the Chicago \VorId's; vair exhibit
of a prominent piano company. Vlhen the exhibition dosed
the instrument ,vas brought back to l\-ew York and eventually
found a purchaser in H. Cob en, a rich East Sider, who gave
it as a wedding present to his daughter. It was the pride
and amazement of Henry street for years.
Another handsome piano made by this same house lies
at the bottom of the ocran now. It was pure Empire in
style and \vas ptH in the music room of a pleasure yacht
that sank. .
Vihe!) painted pianos first became the rage there was a
great deal of mystery about them. It was impossible to get
photographs of them,and the number made was limited.
The owners of the pianos feared their exclusive designs
would be copied and reproduced in stock instruments. The
exact de~iglI executed by E<hvin II. BlashJield for a piano for
Mrs. Antbony Drexel, of Philadelphia, was a close secret
for a long time. "1.fusic" is the theme of this decoration,
the band being divided into panels, each of which typifies
some particular class of music-military, ecclesiastical, clas~i-cal,
etc.
A late achievement in piano dccor<llion 5s "The Rhein-gold,"
now on e.xhibition at a piano house on Fifth avenue.
The whole top of the piano is thrown into one picture, com-posed
ill such a way as to fit the arbitrary form of the in-strument.
The Rhine 11aidens are sccn in the deptbs of the
water circling round their hidden treasure, which sends
UlJ its ycllO\y glare. tingling nJHl irradiating their floating
forms and draperies. The ugly 4warf, with his sordid,
voracious face, forms ;lll effective foil for the beauty of the
maidens. Near the top of the picture three or four fish, un-eOllsciollS
of their supernatural c0111panions, arc complacently
basking' in the sunlight that filters through the translucent
,vaters.' The peculiar opalescent oliv{'. light that a diver sees
when he opens his eycs under water is the prevailing color
note of the picture.
On the piano legs and lyre reeds gilded and tinged in
greenish hue are carved in relief, and elsewhere the sculptural
ornamcntations of the instnllnCllt are made np of these
samc reeds.
Among the Americans who have notable pianos de luxe
;lre Mrs. Cornelius V~lt1dQrbilt, George Gould. \~iil1iam E. D.
~tokes. :"'!rs. George Drexel, Ex-Sel1ator \Villiam A. Clark.
:\Trs. Tbom:ls Scott <'lnd ll,{rs. James L Flood. Sir Donald
Smith. of Canada. also has a costly instrument.-N rw York
Tribune_
Foreign m;Jrkets S110111d lw cultivated assiduously not as
a temporary makeshift but \'lith the purpose of establishing
a permanent tr<'lde.
The difference bet~\;een "red tape" and system is a prob-
1e1l1nnot easily solved_
Economy is not stinginess. The economical man invests
his funds wisel)'.
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Write foy prices and particulars.
BLACK BROS. MACHINERY CO.
MENDOTA. ILLINOIS
ralillBr'S ratBnt ijlUinu ()lamDS
Mr. Manufacturer-Do you eVerconsider what joint gluing colib f
The separators and wooden wedges, if you use them and many do, are a
large item of expense accounts; but this is small compared to wage ac·
counl:8 of. workmen who wear them out with a hammer, and then a
la!ge per cent of the joints are failures by the insecurity of this means,
RE.SUL T, it has to be done over again. if possible. If you use inde.-
pendent st.rew clamps the result is better. but slower, ahogetber too slow,
Let WI tell you of something better, PALMER'S CLAMPS. AU
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"Rotllry Slyle" for Drop Clll','ing", Embluuled l\loulding8. Fanels.
:U..-.chines for 1J,11purposes',' and at prices within the reacll of
nil. Every mnchine ba.il out' guarantee aping( brnakagl;l tor 006
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"Lateral Style" tOI" large capncity hea.vy Carvings Rnd Deep
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Then write any or all of them about it, and if they don't say they are the best they ever had or
ever saw, write and tell us so. We are not afraid to have any of them express their honest
opinions about us and our work. If we make your next catalogue
IT WILL BE RIGHT
THE CARGILL COMPANY
( GRAND RAPIDS ENGRAVING CO.)
GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN
Pipe Right.
Up~to-date manufacturers operating woodworking ma-chinery
frequently find it necessary to put in improved ma-chinery,
for the enterprising builders of machinery are ever
studying and working out mechanical problems so as
to enable the production of machines that will do more
and better work than those then in use. The woodworker
is compelled to keep pace with the machine builder because
he realizes that his sharpest competitor will do .50 and
economy lies in having the best of ev(',rything. Every ma-chine
that displaces an old one, <lnd every new machine Pl1t
into a plant, should be "piped right.:' No woodworking
plant can be brought to its best use until it is "piped right/'
The Grand Rapids Blow Pipe and Dust Arrester company
knovv's how to "pipe right," and has no patience with any
other scheme. Its the cheapest way because it is the
best way. If one needs anything in that line the company
PETER COOPER'S GLUE
is the best in all kinds of weather: When other manufact-urers
or agents tell you tbeir £'lue is as good as COOPER'S.
they admit Cooper's is the BEST. No one extols his pro-duct
by comparing it with an il1ferior article. Cooper's Glue
is the world's standard of excellence. With it all experi-ment
begins, an comparison continues. and all test el1ds
~old continuously since 1820. Its re.putation, like itself,
STICKS.
Peter Cooper's glue is made from selected hide stock,
carefully prepared. No bones or pig stock enter into its
composition.
In strength it is uniform, each barrel containing the
same kind of glue that is in every other barrel of the same
grade.
ORIN A. WARD GRAND RAPIDS AGENT 403 Ashton Bldg.
CITIZENS PHONE 93.:33
will send a mechanical engineer to look a plant over, prepare
plans and estimates, and put in a job that will be "piped
right."
Hood & Wright, Manufacturers of Veneers.
A walk through the log yard of this firm of veneer manu-fncturers
at Big Rapids, Mich., is liable to make one think
that they had never heard of such a thing as a panic or
money stringency. One would think that to cut all those
logs into veneers and lay them out flat they would cover
all of Mecosta County. And they are all new cut logs,
. brought in by the farmers from the surrounding country.
They embrace all the native woods, and the firm has one
of the hest equipped veneer and panel mills in the state.
They make a specialty of birch and birdseye maple, also
furnish quartered oak and mahogany, and are prepared to
make prompt shipments. If you don't know them you had
better get acquainted, and teU them the Michigan Artisan
says so.
Handy for the Desk.
The opening of spring with its more or less gentle breezes,
the season when windows and doors aTe thTown open and
the office worker longs to commune with nature, served to
remind the vVysong & Miles company, manufacturers of
wood working machinery, at Greensboro, N. c., that a paper
weight would be a useful article on the desk of busin"ess men.
A vcry attractive design was adopted and the company are
supplying the weights to their friends in the wood. working
tr.1.de.
One accident to every six policies of indemnity is the
ratio. No man need feel sure that he behil]-gs to the lucky
five.
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~M..JfflI.G7J-N JI~TI'{{f~ ~.
A New Safety Collar.
An excellent safety collar has been invented by Mr. S.
F. Murchie of ,Kaukauna, \Visconsin. It i!":i wmcthillg new
along this line iin that no set screws are necessary to secure
the coBat to Vhe shaft. The collar is made in Lwo parts.
The collar proper is bored ill the usual W,ly to fit the shaft
dona contains t .."..o projections or bosses; D.ne on either side.
The outside ·shell or ring is made slightly eccentric on
the inside to correspond with the projections referred to.
The collar being slotted on one side allows the outside ec-centric
ring, :when turned part way round, to come in con-tact
with th~ bosses. The tightening of the outside ring
compresses the insid~ collar and brings th~ two ends, where
slotted, toge~her, causing same to grip the shaft. \Vhen
the collar is in position it looks the same as any other or-dinary
collar with the set screw removed. It can be re-moved
Or adjusted in less time than it takes with ordinary
collars. It is a practical arrangement and bccausc no set
screws are required it is ~bsoll1tely devoid of the danger
that attends the ordinary collar with the set sere .\..'. exposed.
Stephenson's Increased Facilities.
The Stq}henson Manufacturing company of South Bend,
Ind., manufacturers of dowels, dowel pins, dowel rods,
drawer tops, table pins, etc., have reccntly added two large
additions to their factory and are no..\.'. in position to turn
out "work promptly and make prompt shipments. They
have recently issucd to the trade circulars and cards illustrat-ing
and describing their numerous products with prices at-tached.
By sending samples or exact drawings prices will be
quoted promptly by the company.
Fifty-two Years 'in Business.
The Oliver Furniture company of Allegan, Mich., has
been in sllccessful operation fifty-two years. It was es-tablished
by the Oliver Brothers, one of whom is deceascd
and the other retired. vVhen the business was commenced
machinery was unknown in the furniture huslncss. Goods
were made by hand, .and many pleces from the Oliver shop
arc yet in usc in the state of 11ichigan. Deseend.ants of the
founders control the business at. present.
Will Move to Lowell.
The people of Low~ll, 1Iich., have subscribed $10,000 to
the capital stock of the Muskegon "\iVood Carving company,
and the business will be moved to Lowell when a factory
shall have heen made ready for occupancy.
Getin Line, fellows!
IF YOU ARE OUT OF WORK, MAKE
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t Furniture Designing I " '1lI'W" """'" ......... J
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A. KIRKPATRICK, InSlruclur and Designer.
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C. C. WORMER MACHINERY CO., 97 Woodbridge SI" Delroit, Mich,
fLY W"[EL [XPLOSIONS PREVENTED BY
TUE "LOCKE" AUTOMATIC ENOINE STOP AND
SPEED LIMIT SYSTEM.
By meanS of tbe "Locke" system your engine can be immediately
stopped from any part of tbe plant; tbe apparatus furnished includes an
independent speed limit which automatically slows down and stops the
engine when it starts to race ..
Read" When Fly Wheels Explode" bzthe February number
o/the "Michigan Artisan."
Oak Chair and Furniture Di.mension.
By F. W. WEBSTER.
Iv),.. President and Gentlemen of the Hardwood Mant1factLlr~
ers' Association of the United States: I have been asked to
prepare a paper and present to this meeting, on the subject
of t]le operating end of the f1;'(~nitt1re and chair dime11Siol1 de-partment
of this association. And ""hy should we as manu-facturers
of hardwood lumber, and members of this associa-tiOIl,
110t discuss openly and freely this branch of onr opera-tion!>
that is so very important to every mau,lfactnrer of hard-wood
lumber? , Important on account of the growing scarcity
of hardwood stumpa.ge and the reckless waste of valuable raw
materi.al. 1£ \ve. as manufactnrers of hardWOOdlumber, expect to
get the best results from our efforts and investments, then we
should look very carefully into the question of utili:>:ing that
part of the product of our logs, which at this' time goes to
the boilers or to the hogs, that is suitable for the manufactnre
of profitable and salable dimension lumber. \Vhcllwe carefully
consider the difference in expense of manufacturing our be:;t
slabs and edging il.1tOdimension lumber, and the getting of !>Hch
slabs and edgings out of ·the way, and fr0111the mill, ,vc will
fl1ld the difference very small, 311d the reyenuc deri"ed from
the sali;;' of such dimension makrial (jnite en<lllgh to warrant
taking care of it.
Now as to the manufacture of dimension stack for furniture
and chair purpose, I shalt treat the matter under two heads.
First~The manufacture of such part of th,; -,labs and edgings
from logs, which we are daily cntting up illto lumber, as are sLI.it-able
and -profitable to lTlanufadHre. There Shotl1d be in the
mill an intellig-ellt, energetic, wide-a\\'ake man, whose duty it is
to watch carefll1ly every slab and edging that leaves the saws,
and see that eyety plece that can he used prol1tably in dimen-sion
is cut illto snch lengths as will make the most profitable and
salable dimension material. 'Vhen this is dOlle these pieces
shoaM be conveyed by the most economical way to a place
ahont the plant provided with good machines, and there made
into s'xh dimensions -as will bring- the best i>rice. Keep these
machines in good order and see that the operators of the ma-chines
make the pieces the proper sizes, amI rllll 110 worthless
slahs or edgings tbroug-h the machines; hut throw sl1ch matcrial
into the wood piles. As to the proper sizes, if making- squares,
we think all pieces under 2 inches should he cut )i inch hl11;
from 2X:; to 4- inches elt ::I-Hi i'lch futI. so as to allow them to
1x: £.11\ tbickllCSS \vhen they 8'-e passed through the dry kiln,
ill cutting dit11ensioll boards lZre~ll, cut from ?-i to % inch f'_lll.
?ccorc1ing to the width of the hoard.<;; and Yil inch thicker than
dry si7.CSrequired. Do 110t alhnv staincd or damag"ed sap to
he. put into oak dimension and ex-pect to get -first-class prlces
for such material. A smal! quantity of poor material in a car
will create trotlhle and cause dissatisfaction with the whole
carload.
In the mauufacture of plain oak squares, especially in long
lengths, the saws should be kept in good fix and in perfect line
with the table or carriage of the machines, and there should be
no end play in the boxes of the mandrils. Otherwise,' the
squares produced will he poorly manufactured, not square, scant
at one end, a11dno one to blame hut the manufacturer.
Second-The manufacture of dimension material for furniture
and chair stock from bolts cL1tfor this purpose (or an in-dependent
dimension factory not ill connection with a saw
mill)_
In cutting for plain oak, such as squares, etc., cut bolts as
long a5 can be handled, and the timber will allow, taking into
cOllsideratiort defects and the crooks in the timber, l.o.ng
squares and other plain oak dimension bring more money than
short, alld ill .'ilabbing up the bolts cut any defect out and still
have the short stock. It is my opi111on that the most profitable
oak that can bc made from small bolts is squares, and the longer
plain oak that call be made from small bolts is squares, and the
longer the.y can be made, the more can he realized from them.
Begin by cutting the largest sizes yot! have sale for, a.nd if any
ar,e found thM will not make perfed squares in the sizes cut
for, cut thc.1ll down to fit sizes that can be used. After the
S(1l1ares have been cut to proper lengths, ha\'e them lliled on
yard, throwing out all poor ones, and piling them crosswise,
allowing as much as an ineh air space betwe~n each of them,
and puttillg good fouodations llllder them. Vve pile them out
in open air amI think we dry them quicker, and as well, as if
under slled. Leave two feet space between all piles of squares.
\Vhen dry enough to ship, take them down, inspect them care-
',11\'. tie them up in bundles of suitable number to each for
handling", and load them as tied tip. T f not ready to load ~nd
room is needcd, cover them well when tied '-lp, as they win
damage after heiug- bll11dledjf the rain is allowed to fall on them.
1n the mal1ufact'.lre of qnartered oak dimension lumber
from bolts. !>Hchas chair backs, seat stock, tahle tops, etc.,
au, expcricllcc is that it IS hest to cut the blocks into the
lenpths n'Cj'lired for the hill, for the reaSC)Jlthat we arc Sllrer
of gettinu; ahso{l1tely stralght blocks and avoid twisted g-rain
hlock5. as sali:,fartory fiO"l1reCa'lllOt be produced ant of twisted
gTain lo~rs. Colt th,,111as long as possible to Ret blocks of straight
rrfaill amI free frorn defects, on acco~U1t of price for long
Ir'lHrths. \Ve j,,'-ariably get more of the short and narrow pieces
than we can take care of. Never put a piece of partly plain
n1nh'c'~slon illb) shi'Dments when fHwre is wanted all over the
hnards. Do l~()t allow stained sap in shipments. It will redttce
the quality and .'itandillg" of your dimension alld get you as a
man"fadnrf; i'1 had repnte with the consuming trade. Es-pecially
is this the case in quartered stock, which goes into
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and Varnish Remover is far ahead of any similar preparation on the market and
our new, thoroughly equipped plant enables us to give better service than ever before.
You will find that Ad-el-ite contains more energy to the gallon, has fewer dis-agreeable
features and brings better results than anything you can get. Eats down
through any number of old coats of hard paint, varnish, wax, shellac or enamel
leaving the surface in perfect condition for refmishing.
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high-class ;:trtick" when finished. Never allOW shiJ)mellts to
contain red oak where wbite oak i", speciGec1. 1hke pieces all
fnll enough, both in thickness and width, to dress a;; required
after kiln (lryin:;!; and suit the purpose for which made and
sold.
In other words, make your Mock ri;;{ht, put up a £.1i1' gr<lc1e.
get a price that you call afford to manuhctllre and sell at,
for a fair profit, lO<1d it ont right and insist on the payment of
invoices without dedu<::tions. If yOll aTe dealing with a fair
COllSU1l1CT yon will get what is dlleyou, and if you do not get
what is due you, ..v.hi<:h you will learn hy experIence, lIass yotH-customer
IIp and look for those who will do tbe right thillg-.
There are TIleHty of them. I know from what T have seen
that S0111e manl1f.acturcrs of dimensions aTe 110t half as cardlll
as they should be with their grading and maihtfa<::tl1re. If the
pieces have 110t been cut thick enough, and the I11an loading
discovers this to be the case, send thellI hack for remanu-facture,
and save freight and the giving <i\o\..<:iYof poor pieces,
Lihwise is this the case with regard to faulty or defective
pieces. r saw on a cons11111cr's yard not many months ago
a carload of squares that were poorly manufactured and de-fective
which the consumer had turned down for good cause,
and ,v()llld not have the shipment at any prke. The same con-
Stuner showed 111e another car of 2/~-·itTch squares, containing
about 12,(J(J(J pieces, of '>.....hich only 2;'i pieces had been cnlled,
'I'llI': balance W:l.~ cntirelysatisfaetory,He made no claim for
cllilage, hnt gave the shipper fnll settlement: and gayc' hinI an
ordel' for 1;'j cars of squares at 8R pet' thousand above the Drice
at ..v.hich the other party \\'anted to sell. I laention this simply
to sho\v the difference in rcsn1ts of In-ope-rly trJa1HJiactllred 31Jc\
graded stock and that which is otherwise.
T am cOllvinced from experience there is a fair !)rollt in
di11lcw"ion hllsineso; when properly conducted: hnt douht if
there is a m~!"g;in when not properly' conducted. And I am
thoroughly cOll\'ineed that this association call and ·will be of
great beneFit to manufacturers of this class of material, by
bringing them together on a working basis to discliss these mat-ters
and profit by the experience and errors gleaned from such
discussions, and by co-operation help each other to get a f8ir
knowledge of the markets, demands and methods which are
most sltccessfuJ. The result of which sh(}111d be a materially
extended use of and ,villened market for this class of lumber,
There is no manufatt\1rcr who makes an artideout of dimension
1111nher who had not l~ather have the lumber cut of exa.ct
siezs required, and thus avoid a }leavy Joss. He can buy .15
<"ll1d 25 Jumber and still have a loss of at least 15 per cent
hesides the cost of working the- lumher up into dimension sizes.
Then why should we as makers of this dimension lumber not
get a good price for it? Don't be bashful and price yoltr di-mension
too lo\\,. The fault lies with 11S if we do not get a fair
price. A sale of recent date came to my notice of two cars
of 2}'-;;x?% squares at a price of $50. on a 25-cent rate 'of freight,
netting <tbout $;:\S at initial point.
aile phase: of this department I had abollt overlooked; it is
the '''lorking up of timber into dimension blocks from lands off
of which logs have been cnt. Go through the woods and cut ryut
all pieces from the tmnks of the trees left into lellgths suitable
to m.:umf<"lctllfe quartered dimension from. and if all the timbcr
on the land h;;l.'; been bOllght. ellt the small, smooth trees, that are
suitable for sqnares and other plain oak dimension, into lengths
for :mch dinwnsion, thus deriving quite a revenue from this
end. L know a bO~111dary of timber, cOlltaining 2:;0 acres of
laud, that, after all logs had been l-cmoved, tllrned out GOO
cords of profjbblc dimension material. In this time of scarcity
of hardwoods it behooves all of us to save every piece of timber
,ve call use in any length or shape.
Let 11S as members of this 8ssociation be candid and helpful
to all mallnfactmers, especially in this brallch, and all TmJl
togethcr and help lHlild up tbis very importa~t branch of the
klrdwood illnustJ·y of OlJT great country,
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ROBBINS TABLE CO., OWOSSO, MICH.
Difference
in
"WORKING QUALITY"
caused by
"ABC"
MOIST AIR KILN
"We are pleased to axlvise that the dry kilns whi.ch you built for U8 in Februal'y are perfectly saUs-factory;
in fact, we had no idea that there could beso much difference in the working quality of timber,
as we jlrlld in your .J:foistAir system ouer the old SY8tem we were using.
(Si!ned) ROBBINS TABLE CO.
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NEW YOR". 141 Broadwa~. CHICAGO, Marquette Bldo. ATLANTA, Empire Bldg. LONDON. 70 Graw;::h\lreh $,\.
BOYNTON eX CO.
Mallufacturer, of
Em bot-sed a.nd
Turned Mouldipp,
E.mbo.sed And
Spbldle CarvilllPl.
and Automatic
Turnin ...
We also rnanu-fact'llr~
a large line
of Etnbo.ed Om ..•
menta for Couch
Work.
SEND FOR
CATALOGUE
419-421 W. fifteenth St .• CHICAGO.ILL
These saws are
made from No. 1
Steel and we war-nmt
every blade.
We also carry a
full stock of Bev.
eled Back ScrolI
Saws, any length
and gauge.
Write till fot"
Price LWt
and discount
31-33 S. FRONT ST •• GRANO RAPIDS
MANUFACTURERS OF
HARDWOOD ~~~~~~.~
SPECIALTIES :
n'rt'E!'5QUAR.OAK VENEERS
MAHOGANY VENEERS
HOFFMAN
BROTHERS COMPANY
804 W. Main St" FORT WAYNE, INDIANA
Stephenson nf~.(0.
Soulh B.nd. Ind.
Wood T umings,
T urued Moulding.
Dowel. and Dowel
Pins.
Catalogue to Mauufa ..-
turers on Application.
If your DESIGNS are right, people want the Goods.
That makes PRICES right.
'!larence lR. bills
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WABASH
B. WALTER & CO. INDIANA
M... ",,,",,,,.{ TABLE SLIDES Exclusively
\I\!RITE FOR PRICES AND OISCOlJNT
Citizens'Telephone 170l.
10uis lbabn
DESIGNS AND DETAILS
Of' FURNITURE
154 Livingston St.
GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN
We can help you. Time
saved and when done
leaves are bound (by your-self)
and indexed by floors
or departments.
BARLOW BROS.,
Grand Rapid ... Mich.
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==SEE=_=~
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GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
for HIGH GRADE PUNCHES and DIES.
West Side 36 Inch Band Saw Macbine,
Bleason Palenl Sectional Feed Roll,
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IMPROVED, EASY 'N' EL EVATO RS QUICK RAISINC
Belt, Electric and Hand Power.
The Best Hand Power foy Furniture Stor~s
Send fOf Catalogue and Price~.
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Kbnball Elevator Co•• 323Prospect St., Cleveland. 0.;
l0811th St., Omaba, Neb.; 1:WCedar St., New York City.
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Economy in Tttble Leg Turning
Cannol be accomplished wheD the worlr. is done by h:lnd; nor is it much better to UlIe an
olcllasbioned Leg T urniulI: Machine that leaves the work in SIIcb TOugh condition thai it
{<'lqulreS b.nishi.u.1!l by haud.
The MATTISON No.5 TABLE LEG MACHINE
not only proouces the betlet quality of wcrk which ill TIlOlfi essential, hut it aJJ(l hu the
capacity to turD.out tM quantity ne=ary to make it eronomical.
The Hearl of the Machine is the Cutter-He.w. and if yoU will make a comparison
yOUcannot failla see datil 18far ahead of any competitor 011this point. Then l;QlIIes
tbe C}.;cillabt'lll Cauiaae wI-,im feeds 1M won &teadier llud with less effort than 8Df
other atranllement; nexl the Variahle fric'lion feed which haa pl'OV<eu without all. equal
for the purpose. There are also other lIood fealuret and we would like an oppor!lmity
of explaining them all iu detaiL Our large circular won', ~ you anythiolil and il
may prove WeIth a ~ dea\.
Wh.y nat~wri.te for it today?
C. MATTISON MACHINE WORKS
863 FIITH STRE.E.T. BELOIT. WISCONSiN, U. 5. A.
7IR, T I oSz' ..e7f.·l'\1
Paying the Salesman.
By 1\J. E. REAl\T, Sales Manager.
It seems that the mistakes which have been made in ar-ranging
the pay of salesmen have been principally along the
lines of paying too soon or payil;g too slowly. Concerning the
mistake of not paying at all does not fall under our subject.
The correct principle lS full pay for work done. No more.
No less,
The first necessity ill handli11g this matter is that there be
a defmik arrangement as to when payrnent shaH be made alld
how much, and that settled, it should be. u1Ule.ci.'.ssaryfor 1he
salesman to ask for payment after it is past due. and use.l('ss
to 'write for it before. Under such a system the salesman soon
ceases writing ahout it at all.
The proper relations between salesman and house demand
that on all points possible, their interests be mutual at all times.
This principle logically carried Ollt brings the following con-clusions:
It is ]1ot good to advance expenses before orders are laken.
T t weakens the salesman.. The percentage of loss is too great
to be borne by the house and it is not fair to load it on the
other salesmen.
It is not .vise to advance all of the commission unon ac-ceptance.
It is not best to pay all cOlnmissions on orders not shipped
and paid in full.
Commissions should not be paid on conditional Ol" incom-plete
orders.
Money should not be loaned against prospective orders.
\\There these principles are not maintained, the salesman has
no interest ill the final settlement and the way is opell for one
or l11oreof the following bad conditions:
Lack of effort.
Errors on orders.
Sa\es to poor grade credito,·s.
HForced" or "half sales'1 cancelled later.
Misrepresentation to the customer.
The salesman shonld be interested financially in the full pay-ment
of aCC0\1nt.
The llian foUowed hy omsdves is as f0\10)\'5:
\Ve send out each Friday checks for all due at tl1at tim.e,
both all first, or advanced portion of commissioners, and final
settlements.
Orders are acknowledged to salesman and customer, pend-ing
credit investigation. \\then accepted, commission slip is
made ant and sent to salesman and copy of order as entered
is sent to cllstomer for possible corrections or verificalion.
\Ve nse the voucher style of check and list on the back the
various items covered by the total amount. With the letter en-closing
the check we copy this list, preserving copy of our letter
in the files for future reference, and the saresman is asked
to preserve his copy for his own reference. Should customer
ask cancellation or circumstances arise later which would indicate
that the aeeOl-lOts were not safe or certain of collection, the
commissi.ons are charged back to the salesman and are only
credited to hirn when the matter is settle(l satisfactory with the
cltstomer or the account has heen -finally llaid. Salesmen are
not charged back where failure to collect arises from errors
upon Our part. vVe have always felt that the salesman should
hear the loss where failure to collect \vas due to an error upon
11is part, but have never put this in p'ractice because it works
a severe hardship LIpan the salesman. Hence our plan has
always been to charge him back ....i.t.h. full commission and dis-pense
with his services provided such mistakes are frequent.
In cases where ..he salesman has careless habits of entering orders
Cabinet Hardware
--AND--
Factory Supplies
New Enllland Flinl Paper.
Barton Gamet Paper.
Donble Faced Flinl and
Garnet Fini.!>in!! Paper.
Br... Bnlls.
WroU!!!>1Steel Butts.
Cabinet Lock. and Key••
Gold Plated and Gill Car,..
inet Key••
Bench Vises.
Bolt., Wa.hers. Zincs.
Wood Screws.
Coacl> Screw ••
Liquid Glue, Casler ••
Upholsterer' s Tacks.
Large Head Bnrlap Tacks.
Wire Brads.
Standard Nail••
Cement Coated Nails.
Elbow CaIMe ••
Door CatcL.es, etc.,. etc.
Our large and complete assortment of general hard
ware is at your service.
Correspondence solicited.
Inquiries for prices will receive careful and immediate
attention.
FOSTER, STEVENS & CO.
GRAND RAPIDS. MICH.
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Some of it may be in such condition that it can be reset any-
..v.here; some of it may be sold to go into windows in streets
less conspicuous, A big plate may come in with a deep scratch
in the middle. From slIch a plate they cHt out a strjp containing
the scratch, le~ving perhaps two clear smaller plates available
for smaller windows.
Architects may specify that 11CW glass shalt be used in ,con-strwtiOll,
but IllOl-e or less salvage glass is used in repair work
and rn replacing sheet glass. In a downstown city building that
was built \vitlI windows of sheet glass the windows have been
regJaxec1 with salvage plate, as have been also the glass windows
in the partitions of the offices on the ground floor. You might
find a scrat<::hhere and there on this glass if you looked for
scratches, hut the salvage plate is the old sheet.
Glaziers buy the salvage plate to replace broken glass in
smaller \vindows or to replace sheet glass. There is ,an inter-esting
detail connected with the use of plate glass in place of
sheet glass in windo\vs that are made to be raised.
Plate glass weighs about three times as much as sheet
glass, and of cOllrse to make the window.s work properly the
sash weigbts must be correspondingly increased .in we.ight. Now,
in the sash .veight pockets of the window framing as originally
constructed for windows with sheet glass the.re wouldn't be
room for 1<011weights of the additional length required by the
later on, we insist
the differences, if it
call on
possible
the
for
that lJe
is at all
which give trouble
customer and settle
him to do so.
A salesman is, as a rule, the best producer in the advertising
specialty business. In fact. he is practically the only factor
worth considering; and everything possible should be done to
assist him which is consistent with good business methods
and c\'erything possible done to eliminate those not entitled to
that assistance, in order that the remuneration of the faithftd
salesmen may be the greater.
Tbe result of the plan has been to eliminate <{ vast amount of
correspondence on matters of accollnt, the only 1lI:ed for snch
correspondence being on items where error" have lleen made,
and \\'here check letters are written ;md these arc mere forms
to be handled by clerical force.
The most valLJab1cresult has heen the appreciation on the
part of the salesman of this promptness and thorollg-hness.
To sum np: The salesman should he paid fnlly and
promptly for actual work done-no morc and no less.-Nove!ty
News.
SECOND HAND GLASS.
Many Practical Uses Found for Old or Broken Plates.
Among the innumerable things that may bc bought second
hand is window glass. "Vhat with the demolition of old build-ings
and the breaking of windows, old and new, there come into
the market large quantities of second hand glass; but for all
this there is a demand, for O1)e purpose or another, down to the
last scrap.
"Vhen a dealer in second hand building materials buys
a building to wreck for the materials contained in it he is not
likely, if this building should contain a plate glass front, to
take that out himself. Dealing in second hand plate, or, as it
is called, salvage glass, is a business by itseH,
So when the house \\'recker has a plate glass front to sell 11e
scnds to a dealer in salvage glass, who comes and looks it
over, measures the plates and notes their condition and makes
an offer; an offer that is likely to be sa.tisfactory, for plate
glass is a ,;aluable commodity, and the -dealer is ready to give
what it is ~\'orth. Salvage glass in good condition can be sold
at a price not'very far beJow that of new.
Broken plate glass the house \\'recker and dealer in second
hand bnilding materials takes to his own storehouses, and this he
may scll along in smaller or larger quantities to various huyers,
keeping whatever is not sold in this manner until he has accumu-lated
a lot of stIch glass, enough to pay for handling, when he
sells the lot to a dealer in sakag-e glass. And the dealer in
second hand bnilding materials can sell hr6ken sbeet glass to
glaziers for repair work.
~lt1ch of the salvage dealers stock comes from the plate glass
insurance companies. These companies have different methods.
One COl11pany,for instance, keeps 110 stock of glass on hand,
Il:1t Jrtys wheneyer glass is reqL1ired to replace a broken pane.
selling the hroken pane, if enough of it remains to sell, to a
.o;.'11vagdeealer. Another company may keep a warehonse of its
o\\'n to which it temO':es broken glass that may still be in fit
condition for use.
Perhaps one corner has been broken from a big light,
practically new; such a pane ean he cnt dm,vn toBt some smaller
window.
1n these days most plate glass everywhere is insured. but
not all of it is. If an uninsured plate is broken the owner goes
to a dealer. new or salY<lge,and gets a fresh plate put in. selling
the broken glass to the salvage dealer; and so from theinsnr-ance
companies and the house wreckers and from nninsnred glass
the salY'ige de,alt:rs accnml\\ate great stocks of second hand
plate glass, which is disposed of in various ways.
THE
WEATHERLY
INDIVIDUAL
GLUE HEATER
Send your addrtss and
receive descriptive cir-cular
af Glue Heaters,
Glue Cookers and Hot
Boxes and prices.
WEATHERLY CO.
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
added weight needed for plate; for with the added weight
required thc sash weights would be so long that you couldn't
raise the window to its full height or pull it down correspond~
ingly. So whcn they replace sheet glass v,rith plate in a window
that opens they replace also the irOll sash weights with weights
of the same size of lead, which is three times heavier.
Salvage plate that is too much scratche_d ~o be tlsed again for
window glass may be made into ground or frosted glass for
use in office partitions or doors.
Some of the salvage plate glass too small for use in window
PHI'poses is llsed for the glass doors of refrigerators; larger
pieces may be used for glass table tops. A good many small
fragments are cut for use as small hand mirrors, though only
clear pieces of glass can be llsed for this purpose.. Quantities
of salvage plate of pieces too small for any sort of windows
are used for making glass signs. A dealer in sah'age glass
would not consider as remarkabte an order for 10,000 strips
of plate glass cut to specified dimensions to be m8de into
glass signs.
So the salvage glass has many uses, but after the last
merchantable piece has been cut from it there still remain the
scraps and fragment!> in the cutting. Even the. scraps and frag-ments
can be sold; they don't bring much, bllt they do bring
something, and these are melted up, and used in the manufac-ture
of bott1es.-Sun.
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THE VERACIOUS MISSIONARY.
He Elevates· the Masses by Disseminating High Art Fur-niture
and Cannot Tell a Lie.
The boys on the road called him the Veracious Missionary
because his carelessness in the handling of facts was mostly
attributed to a too vivid imagination. He waR a fine sales-man.
As he expressed it, he "went abroad in the land lifting
the standard of intelligence and spirituality by making people
acquainted with high, art furniture," which furniture, by the
way. he sold for a Grand Rapids firm, He certainly had
all the boys back in the ruck when it came to converting re-tail
dealers, (terms cash) and he could spin yarns thnt folks
would sit up nights to listen to.
One day, just after the recent blizzard series, he reached
his home office and sat down in the cozy den of the manager
to talk over the trip and receive suggestions for the next one.
"We have a number of enquiries from the northwest,"
said the manager, "and it might be all right for you to go
up there. We can supply a few of the big firms up that way
if we can get at them right. I rec~on we've got all the
blizzard we ar~ going to get this year."
The Veracious· Mi!'isionary leaned back in his chair and
smiled.
HNever mind the blizzards," he said. "rm getting used
to them. I feel, after that Illinois trip, that I could take
a blizzard to bed with me and sleep like a little child with
,it in my arms. When you come to get acquainted with a
blizzard you don't mind them so much. There are blizzards
that have 'all the human instincts' of fairness and compassion.
I'm not afraid of 'em. They can't bite me."
"Let's see," said the manager, knowing well what was
coming, "you were out in one ,of the big blows? Of course.
How do you like being tied up in a snowbank, a dozen miles
from one of those things with froth on the top?"
"Like it;' said the V. E. "How can I help liking it? I
had the time of my life out there. By the way, you might
give me credit for $10 in my expense account. You see
I'm shy for a couple of days there. About the drift? Yes.
It was about nine miles long and sixty feet deep."
"You mean sixty feet long and nine miles deep!" said the
manager. "Make it good I"
"You ought to know by this time," said the V. .M., "that
I never need help in framing a statement of fact concerning
the things I see on the road, I'm there with the unabridged
when it comes to wrapping words around indisputable pro-positions.
You ought to know that by this time."
"All right," said the manager. "Nine miles long and sixty
feet deep then."
"-That's right! There were five coaches and two hundred
people, not counting the trainmen. The banks of snow all
the right of way kept getting deeper and deeper until we
could~'t see out of the windows, and by-and-by the old
(Choo-choo stopped. The interior of the coach I was in
looked at that moment like the inside of a theater ~ith the
Eghts turned low and that creepy music afield, We didn't
know whether we'd ever get out again or not. The ladies
mourned audibly and to such good purpose that the con-ductor
came in and requested them to refrain from weeping.
'If you flood this coach,' he said, in the kindest manner in
the world, 'and it freezes, we'll all be standing on OUr sky-pieces
half the time. Kindly remember that this is a cold
day.'
"And you were in there two days and two nights?"
"That's what we were t"
"You must have had a hard time of it."
"Wet!, sir, we didn't. The thoughtfulness of the train-men
saved all OUT lives. We hadn't been stuck an hour
before they distributed bearskin overcoats to the men and
sealskin coats to the ladies. They gave each one a foot-warmer,
supplied with caloric from the engine, and brought
the porters in from the dining car to sing the babies to sleep.
There were four coons there that could sing some-and then
some tucre."
"Dining car along, eh?"
".Dining car? Everything along! They served six
meals a day, six COUrses, with fizz stuff on ice and every-thing
passed out on silver plates. If you'd been there to
partake of those meals, sir, y(m would have thought you were
in Bauman's, all right. The odors were delicious. The
little rabbits and faxes and bear cubs used to tunneI through
the snowdrift and rub their hungry noses against the plate
glass windows until the ladies cried like children. The
tittle things looked so cold and hungry. We opened a door
and tried to get a little bear into the car, just to keep as
a souvenir of the trip, but he gave the man who reached out
after him such do swip~ with his mit, that the conductor
wouldn't let him in. Ne said that \Vall Street was a pretty
good illustration of what bears would do when they held t'\1".
winning hand, and he didn't want anything that would re-flect
on the company coming off there.
"What the conductor said went, for after he had paid all
om poker debts and handed each a box of fine cigars, we
hadn't the heart to oppose him in anything. That conductor
was a mighty good fellow. Two men selling toys got into
a fight in the smoking car and he arrested them both. There
was a justice of the peace on board who got on at the last
station, and he held court and fined 'em twenty each and
five hours in jail. The conductor paid the fines and locked
two brakemen up in the baggage car in place of the drum-mers.
He said that the passengers surely - needed cheerful
amusement, and there might be a chance of the drLlmm~r5
getting together again."
"It must have been a mighty fine experience," ventured
NO! NO TROUBLE HERE!
Simply wanled to get yOIl to give this something better lhana passing
glance and &ince we bave cat.q:lhtyOUI eye let's catch your orders for
Veneered Ron.. We build the famalle 'IRELlABLE" ROu.s.
WRITE FOR PRICES.
The Fellwock Auto. & Mfg. Co.
EV.ANSVILLE. INDIANA
Oitrs ia the largest RQtl Plant in flu United Statts.
·!'~MI9fIIG7!N
,. • 1
Pittsburgh Plate Glass
Jobbers and Dealers in
Company
Plate Glass, Mirrors, Window Glass, Ornamental Figured Glass.
WIRE GLASS, the Great Fire Retardant.
CARRARA GLASS, a New Product Like Polished White Marble.
For anything in Builders' Glass, or anything in Paints, Brushes, or Painters' Sundries, address any
of our branch warehouses, a list of which is given below:
NEW YORK-Hudson llnd Vandam. Sta.
BOSTOH-41.49 Sudbury 81., I·' Bowker St.
CHICAGO 442..452 wa.ba.h Ave.
CINCINNATI-Broadway and Court Sts.
ST. LOUIS-Cor. Tenth and Spruce St...
MINNEAPOLIS-SOO.516 S. Tb.trd St.
DETROI"T-S3.59 Larned St •• E.
GRAND RAPIDS.. MICH.-39 .....1 N. DivisioD St.
PITTsaUR.GH-ltll.103 Wood St.
MILWAUKEE. W15.-492.494 Market St.
ROCHESTER. N. Y.-Wllder Bid•• , Maln 11.9 ExchanJte Ste.
BALTIMORE-31O-li ..l4 W. Pratt St.
the manager, with a yawn. "Something doing all the time,
eh?"
"\Vell, I guess yes. That was the trip where the be-trayed
parent materialized. Yes, the outraged and betrayed
father. The young man and girl who were running away
to get married heard that there was a justice on the train,
and they got him to tie 'em up. It isn't every railroad com-pany
that will put up a tight, and a wild animal performance,
and a wedding on a stuck train, is it? You bet not! This
was along the last hours of the blockade. It seems that
the old man had follo"\ved on and found the train stuck in
the drift. He cut through the crust all top of the snow and
dug down, arriving at a window of the parlor car just in time
to see the justice making one out of two. The language
he used was cnough to call the blush of shame to the cheek
of a yellow newspaper reporter."
"You couldn't hear him through the \vindow?"
"Oh, didn't I tcll yOU about that? Earlier in the day a
rabbit had frozen his ears so hard that they had cut through
the plate glass like diamonds. These were the holes the
betrayed father talked through. He sure looked like a
fIsh in an aquarium as he bellied up against that window.
It was worth the price of admittance, all rig-ht, until the bear
with the mits came again and then-"
"I think:' observed the manager, "that you ought to
have a short rest."
"\Vell, it was man and bear for a long time, and the boys
got up a pool and I het on the bea.r. All bets "vere declared
off, though, for the last VI'e saw of the bear and the in-dignant
father as we steall:1ed away they were chasing each
other around a snowdrift, and we couldn't tell which was
running away from the other. Funny thing about a round
and round race like that, eh?"
"T think." said the manager, "that I wouldn't get mixed
up in another drift if I were you."
uOh. we all rather liked it until the very last end. The
wind blew so hard that the coaches teetered and rocked so
as to put a good many to sleep. Talk .1.bout a gentle breeze J
The gale blew down a haystack about a mile off and sent
the hay in our direction. The blades came straight and
horizontal and went through the windows and sides of the
coach like steel barbs. Out on a hillside we saw a man on
a roof trying to mlil it down, but the wind blew the nails
in so far that they dropped into the house and never did any
good. T don't know wh8t hecame of the man. The last I
saw of him he was held flat against the chimney and his
wife was trying to prod him down with a cistern pole."
CLEVELAND-1430-1434 West Third S1.
OMAHA-1608 ..1O.12 Harney S1.
ST. PA'UL-461-463 Jackson St.
ATLANTA, GA.-30-;n·34 S. Pryor St.
SAVANNAH. GA.-745·749 Whea.ton ~1.
KANSAS C1TY-Flfth aDd Wy ..ndr:oue St8·
BIRMINUHAM. ALA.-2nd Ave. land 29th St.
&UFFALO, N. Y.-372.74·76.78 Pearl St.
&ROOKLYN-63S-637 Fulton St.
PHILADELPHIA-Pitcairn. Bldg.. Arch aDd 11th St••
DAV.ltNPORT-4.10-4J6 Scott St.
"Must have been pretty cold in the coaches, with all those
hay hates in them," said the manager.
"Cold? 1\ot on your life! We had a barber on board!"
"\Vhat the-"
"And the barber went along o:nd shaved off the hay where
it protruded through the sides of the car and that left the
holes filled up. I guess that most of us were sorry when
we got thawed out and left. Say, but that was a hot old
finish."
"Hot, with a sixty-foot drift?"
"Sure. You see, there was an undeveloped coal mine un-der
the right of way, and the hot fire in the engine burned
through the surface of the earth and the live coals dropped
down in the mine. Thaw? You bet we thilwed out quick.
The snow, melting and pouring water on the tracks, was the
only thing that kept 'em from melting, When we left there
peach trees were in blossom on one side of the track and
the bear and the man chasing each other around a drift on
the other side. Red Saunders' bear wasn't in it with this
one for speed. Yes, I rather like that experience. When
we got to Chicago, the conductor passed hundred dollar
banknotes around among the passengers, but I didn't take
mirH', for they had heen so square th~t-"
Then the manager threw something at the Veracious
r-o,fissionary and he fled the room.
ALFRED B. TOZER.
III ,
ALHOlCOMf) &CO@
MANUFACTURERS ,.rJP DEALERS
IN HIGH GRADE BAND AND SCROLL
SA~S
REfAIRING-SATI5FACTION GUARANTEED
CITIZENS FHONE 1239 27 N MARKET ST.
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
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HOMES FURNISHED FREE OF COST. In the household .line, and when they send away ten dollars of
our hard-earned money to :Swell the wealth of Chicago, they
get a premium of a ten-dollar piece of furniture!'
"That's clever of the Chicago house, Do they send furniture
that has to be tied up with strings until it can be sawed off
Tom Gilman, the furniture salesman, knO\\5 what to do when on the premium-winner."
he gets to the little city of Fellows. There is only one furniture "If you buy $10 worth of soap," continued the merchant,
store there, and he talks haff a day to get his order down in "they will give yeu a cute little writing desk, with paper veneer
black and white. That is, he talks when Pritchard doesn't hold pasted on the inside of the lid to make it look like it had
the center· of the stage. Anyway, it takes half a day to do seen better days. I have known these desks to last as long as
business with Pritchard, and, what is more, at least a dozen ~ month."
prime cigars. "I see. 1s that the kind of furniture that they carve with a
Pritchard is a good sort of a chap, but he has the whole stamping machine?"
town to himself in the furniture line, and is inclined to become "They don't carve it at all," replied the merchant. "They run
touchy at the slightest opposition. He can't stand hard knocks it through the planer once and put it together with flour paste."
without making a yell, as the boys say_ "Can't they be arrested for giving it away?" demanded Gil-
Gilman strolled into his place last Saturday and handed out man. "It seems that a man ought to get six months for a thing
a cigar the first thing, wondering what form of insanity the like that."
merchant's mind was infected with, "They're getting rich, that's what they're getting," replied
"If he gets the freight tariff hee to buzzing," thought the the merchant. "If you invest in a dollar's worth of crackers
salesman, "I'll have to stay over night and sleep in that Ice you get a cute little doll that can open its eyes, or the small of
box known as the traveler's best room at the Fellows Home for its back, or can drop a leg or an arm any old time,"
Incurahles, sometimes called a h~teI." "And these ladies are furnishing their hOln(:s with this craze
Pritchard had a newspaper spread out on his desk, and was for groceries? \Vhat do the grocers say about it?"
bending over it like a school boy at his lessons. "I'm having troubles of my own," said the merchant. "I
"I don't want anything to-day." don't know what the grocers are saying about it. If you want
He did not even look up, but Gilman took a chair. to get a chiffonier that will make you think of the ones mother
Pritchard went on reading, but the salesman could see that used to make, just order a ton of coal, )r 50mething like
he was waiting for him to start something. that."
"You act to me like a man who thinks he has come to the "Do they send the coal in the chiffonier?"
spot where he can keep right on selling furniture without ever "I don't know. If the chiffonier would stand the racket they
b~tying any." might save freight money by doing so, but I'm afraid the
Pritchard turned around in his chair and lifted his reading yarnish and stuff would muss up the coal. I have an ac-glasses
to the center of his forehead. f)uaintance tip there on the hill who sent $20 for groceries and
"I've got to the place where I can't keep on buying furniture drew a parlor suit. She keeps it locked up in the wood house
if T never sell any," he said, with a scowl. for fear some one will sit down on it. She seems to think it
Gilman glanced hastily around the store. was made to serve standing-room~only swarrys."
"Looks like good business," he said. "I guess I'll redecorate my furnished ro( m," said the sales-
"Yes," was the reply. "I looks like fine business_ This is man. "They may give me an automobile with a breath like a
my b~lsy week. I'm rlfty dollars behind on expenses." glne fadory."
Gilman knew beter than to argLle. He got his pictures "I don't mind a little competition," resumed the dealer,
O:lt and opened his new order book Then he leaned back and ignoring the remark of the salesman, "but when it comes to
smoked. giving bookcases away with laundry soap; how is an honest
"Do you know how to produce a bank account by cross- man to pay his pew rent? To be frank about it, I don't know
breeding a furniture store with a provision house?" :'.;i"whether .they give the bookcase away with the soap or the soap
. Pritchard looked grave enough, but there was a twinkle inj-'.fnawaY"wlth the bookcase. Anyw.ay; they've got an air-tight
hIS eyes. lI'i5ame.
HNot I!" said Gilman. "Fact is, I don't know much ahout "How many parlor chairs do they give away with a dollars'
bank accounts. \Vhat sort of a tree do they grow on? Or is worth of sugar ?~'
it a bush?" "I haven't got to that yet, hut I reckon they furnish a four-
HI'm not joking about cross-breeding with the furniture room flat complete if. yOll buy your first month's groceries from
trade," said the dealer. "If you want to sell furniture in this them, Now, its nice selling furniture in a town like this,
town you've got to go at it in disguise." isn't it ?"
Gilman smoked meditatively. The merchant seemed to be "YO·.l might try giving away Teddy bears," suggested Gil-warming
up. r.. man.
"At least," continued the dealer, "if you get rid of a stock "You get Teddy bears with a nickel~s worth of gum;" was the
here you've got to conceal from the populace the fact that reply. "I'd like to have you see the parlor cOllch they gave
you've got to gct real money for it." away with a gallon of fruit extract. I'm sure going out of the
"What's the matter with the people? Do they sit, and eat, retail furniture business." "'-
and sleep, all the flOOT,like a lot of monkey-faced Japs?" "Here's a fine tine of Chippendale chairs," suggested the sales-
"Up in the hill district," continued the merchant, "the women man, opening his pictures. "They couldn't give one of these
have organized a Furnish-Your-Home-\;Yithout-Any-Money club. away with a ton of groceries, not unless they stole their
Do you happen to know the rules of any game that makes a goods."
noise like that?" "Yes," -snorted the merchant, ''I'd like to buy a lot of chairs
"Can. you p~ay a lulu hand more than once at a sitting?" and have the town flooded with prunes the next day, one chair
ashtl Gilman, mnocently. with every 'pot1l1d of prunes. Say, if you can figttre -this
"The ladies go abroad in the city," resumed the merchant, proposition out I'll give you an order."
ignoring- Gilman's irrelevant question. seeking to devour some "All right."
one's bank account. They take orders for soap, and spices, "If a man gives
and washing powder, and baking powder, and any old thing you buy ten dollars
Retailer Considers the Advisability of Cross.Breeding a
Furniture Store With a Provision House.
you ten dollars worth of furniture when
worth of groceries, and you do business
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with him, which one has the pole on foolishness? Is it the
man who must lose money if he sends out the stuff he claims to,
or the buyer, who gets a lot of stuff he ..v.on't dare pnt on ex-hibition
?"
"If I go to Chicago," said the salesman, "and a man says he
will sell me the Masonic temple for $50, and I give him my good
money, which is the dLlI1Ce? Is it the lllall who gets the money
or the man who gives it up?"
"Correct!" said the dealer. "Go to the head of the class.
Now, get ont your game and we'll see if I've got to buy of
yOll once more."
And Gilmall passed out another cigar and got down to work.
Pritchard gave a large order and never agam mentioned the
Furnish- Your-Hollle- Free- club.
ALFRED B. TOZER.
New Insurance Idea.
The world is fairly \"ell supplied with men of active brain
who inject new thonght and develop new ideas in regard to
business in general, and also to business detail. Some of the
ideas brought Ollt <lfe not practical to some men, some may not
be of practical application in any indnstry, but mally of them
are worth while. In fact, it might be said they are all worth
wh.ile, hec;nse it is ont of these that \ve develop progress and
thought. 1\0 one 111ancan use all the ideas or probably any
one of them in full detail. Still. there is always to be found
some thought which may be taken and I-ttted into o11e's business
and made to yield good returns, th\1s making the stndy of all
of them worth while.
Among the new ideas developed or aired dn,ring the past
fall there was ol.le on factory accident insurance treated of as a
new kind of illSurance by :vf 1". Anhnr D. Reeve in a recent
numher of the \Vorld's \\lork that contains an interesting
thought for saw mill and planing mill men.
Every man that operates macbinery or employs quite a lot
of me11 a1110n~\vhom there are accide'nts now and then knows
so \vell what it all meatis that the majority of ernployers of this
class pay fairly good premiums to a g'.larantee company to insure
them against damage resulting frol11 things of this kind. It is
110t a satisfactory solution of the prohlem and probably never
'was really intended to be a soll1tioll. It is simply a guarantee
against money loss, nothing more nor less, and this g'Jarantee
uSllally costs quite a stiff premium.
In treating of .the new i(lea in regard
above mentioned says that something over a
to this, the
year agO the
writer
largest
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power generating company in Ne'" York began the experiment
or dealing directly with the men who are injured in their employ,
110taccording to the legal liability incurred, but according to the
1110ralliability. They went ahout it systematically, 'too, tabulating
the amount of accidents dtiring the year, \,,,"hat each accident
cost, \vhat the guarantee illsurall~e costs, ctc., as compared to
pay roll. TheIL it seems, they evolved a method setting aside
a ccrtain amount of funds, the a111011nt probahly that they would
have had to pay O,lt for guarantee insurance, instead of paying
for such pmposes, and out of this fund set aside they had to take
care of injured employes, pay their wages while laid up, and
probably, at times, pay specific SUlns in addition. They care-fu1Iy
investigated each accident, and were very generous, even
taking care of men when the accidents were clearly the fault
of the men. and at the end of the year this is the way they
said it jlgured ant: During the year from May 1, 1905, to May
I, IDO(j, the premium that the company woul!i have paid for
liahility insurance would have been $21,:196.19. Of tbis, the sum
that would have been returned by the insurance company for
allO\vance of expenditures for "l1r5t aid" would have been
$l,;'iBR. That is. there would have been paid $19,858.19. But,
instead, the company assumed the handling of its accidents itself,
with the cost in doctors' bills of $li.297, and in druggists' bills of
$.1,.122.17, paying the wages of the men while ttley wcre disabled
to the amount in that fiscal year of $10,851.R3-a total of
$18.270.50. That is to say, the cash saving was $1,587.60.
There is a thonght contained in this that it looks like it would
be \vcll for em})loycr5 to give careful consideration and a place
among the new innovations that may be introduced at the first
of the year. It is not only a matter of keeping the money at
home, so to speak. but it is claimed by those that tried the
ci'"perimcnt to pay in that it makes the employe feel better, feel
1110relike his welfare has been looked after in the proper manner,
and it is thought that even though it may cost a little more in
the end. hecause it is set on the moral rather than the strictly
kl:'81 liability, that he will be more than repaid by the increased
efficiency and the better feeling generally. Just how the details
of the idea might be worked O,lt in each case depends somewhat
all local conditions. Each matI interested in snch matters will
ha\'e to take the idea home to himself, amI if it lOOKS"good"
as applied to his own b'_lSillt'SS,make up the details in sclch a
malltlCr that they will fit as' near as possible his 0"'11 particular
conditions. Whether or not the idea is practical, no one
probably knows yet, because it has not had the test of pro-longed
experiment in a general way, lnt it looks so attractive
Oil its face that it seems to he worthy of cOllsideration.-St.
Lonis Lltmberman.
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SCREENS AND THEIR MANY USES.
Originally Intended Solely to Use as Protections Against
Draughts, They Are Now Used for Decorative Purposes.
Screens and their uses are many and various, and in the
scheme of the interior decorator and the arrangement of
rooms the scree:11 plays an important part. Originally in-tended
for use and as a protection against draughts, it was ,L
necessary part of the furnishing of a room, and served as a
protection in the long, sparely furnished halls :lllQ living-rooms
of the castles of mediaeval times. In this stage it was
"usually constructed of wood, and heavily carved like the rest
of the fittings of the room, and, indeed, the bed of the Middk
Ages was a sort of screened alr;:ove built out from the wal1,
and the same heavy ornamentation is seen upon the screens
of that period. Later on with thedeve10pment of more
artis,tic furniture and ornamental cabinet work, which em-b'e'nishcd
the palaces and chateaux of the French monarchs
in the reigns of Louis' XII., XIV., and XV. in France, the
screen shared in the general elaborate decoration and became
a thing of beauty as well as a useful article.
Exquisite tapestries and brocades and fine lacquers and
woods were used in its construction, and the frames were of
wood and metal richly carved and gilded in all the designs
of the rococo and Louis XVI. periods. Mirror tops and
delicately carved 5upportsand feet were used in many of
these screens, and the boudoir or sitting room of the present
day, which is copied from the French rooms of the seven-teenth
and eighteenth centuries, use the screen as an im··
poriant part of the decoration.
The eastern people have always employed this article of
furniture, and for many centuries, both in India and Japan,
screens have been' utilized in perhaps the greatest variety
of ways of any nation or at any time, for the Japanese house
is usually made up of folding screens or partitions which can
be changed at will, More properly speaking, however, this
development of the screen is known as the ghogii, and the
Japanese scre~ns, which we know and use, are separate ar-ticles
of furniture. These same Japanese screens, which
have grown rather common of late years, owmg to their
reproductions in so many cheaper materials and in paper,
are oftentimes copied from very beautiful originals, which
are works of art and executed by well-known artists and
designers, and were both embroidered and painted by hand.
Nothing mote exquisite can be imagined, for instance,
than one of these Japanese screens with the background of
dull olive gray satin, embroidered with sprays and hanging
blossoms in high relief of the delicate wisteria vine, with its
purple clusters drooping across the panels, and in the distance
between the blossoms a view of the cone of Fujiyama, the
sacred mountain; or the cherry blossom screen, with the
pale pink and white clusters studding the brown branches
of the tree, and falling in a rain of petals to the ground be-neath.
Birds and flowers play an important part in these
decorative paneled screens, and if we were not so accustomed
to the manifold reproduction we would perhaps realize the
beauty of these specimens, which we see occasionally, and
which deserve as close study oftentimes as paintings, or
other works of art.
For the interior decorator who wishes to produce an
effect in his room, the screen is the greatest possible help in
the arrangement of the furniture, and the modern varieties
are endless, and, generally speaking, fairly good in design.
For dining room use, if the room be Colonial, the screen, of
course, should be of a more or less simple design, and if an
expensive one is not possible, excellent plain screens in th~
so-called 1\:lission work can be obtained at reasonable prices.
Tapestry screens, however, are always good for this pur-pose,
and if care is taken in selecting tapest-ries so that they
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harmonize with the decoration of the room, they can be
made extremely attractive. The rounded top ones, with the
brass-headed nails as the sale ornament, are the best for
dining rqom use in the tapestries, with three leaves, which
either rest upon the floor on a square base or with four legs
about two inches in height for the supports.
Also very beautiful and ornamental for this purpose, and
in hallways, are the large screens of the so-called Spanish
leather, which comes in many designs, and Me to be found
in the antique stores, oftentimes at quite reasonable prices;
though the genuine Spanish leather screen, jf 1n goo,] pre-servation,
is very expensive. The golden brown background
of the leather, with the design or pictured panel of figures
or landscape,is an extremely ornamental piece of furniture,
and will add greatly to a room, if the fittings correspond, as
these screens are somewhat heavy in design, and are not
always suitable to drawing rooms or boudoirs. In the
ordinary living roam of tbe modern house the tapestry or
velour screen, or the dark velvet corresponding to the color
scheme of the room, is the best, especially if the screen be
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made with the rounded top and trimmed around the edges
with a band of dull gilt braid of antique finish.
These screens can be used to the greatest advantage in
shutting off a rather too obtrusive doorway, or as a back-ground
at the head of a couch or divan, where the head of
the couch can be placed against the screen and a palm or
plant of some sort in the lliche beside the lounge. This
screen will serve as a protection from the draughts and will
make an effective corner in a room, which would otherwise
be, perhaps, too square in outline, and do a'way with the stiff-ness
of arranger ent so noticeable in many modern rooms.
In boudoirs alld n my lady's sitting room the screen, whether
of brocade of a elicate tint to match the walls or of glass
and tapestry, or even a dainty Japanese screen,' must har-monize
with the oft colorings of her teagowns and matinees,
so that the effec of the picture be not destroyed, but more
or less enhanced by this detail of ft1rnishing~
Very attracti e in this connection are the old-fashioned
fire screens ma e out of a bit of brocade which has been
treasured in the family for generations, or an old piece of
embroidery v,,·or ed by some one of our forebears and framed
either in mahog ny or gilt, and which serves to screen one's
complexion fron the too fierce glow of the fire.
Happy is the possessor of one of these heirlooms, while
for those who d( not pOssess them there are many old pieces
of undoubted at tiquity still to be found in embroidery and
tapestry which an be framed in like manner: and used as
ornaments in t e boudoir or sitting r00111. Very small
Japanese scree ILl heavily embroidered are used behind sofas
and make extr mely pretty pieces of color, especially if
the sofa be of ca ved teakwood or rosev..·ood, and the Japanese
idea carried out, if a vase of some dull colored pottcry with
a single spray a flowers in it be placed in the fold of the
screen, upon a eakvliood stand or tabouret.
A pretty des'gn in screens of a less expensive variety
U-w.mg to a newpoSt~
office ruling that all
sub~criptionsmust be paid
in i: dvance and that all
sub~cribers who become
ninety days m arrears
mus be dropped, we
urg~you to send in $ 1.00
todcy to extend your
subcription and thus
ma1e sure that you will
con inue to get this paper.
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was seen the other day, and the effect was extremely good.
The screen was a three-leafed one with rounded tops in the
centre, and the leaves on either side corresponded to the mid-dle
panel. It was of a deep rose pink in duB finish bro-cade,
and the only ornamentation was the hand of dull gilt
braid around the leaves, and the gilt hinges, The whole
screen had the effect of a piece of the watl, as it was placed
WOOD FINISHING MATERIALS
FILLERS, STAINS, POUSHES, ETC.
4] H in trouble with finishing materials, now is the
time to let us put you right.
tj We match all sample~ submitted and :fill all
orders promptly.
GRAND RAPIDS WOOD FINISHING CO.
55-59 Ell.worth Ave., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
by the doorway, and quite did away with the awkwardness
of entering the room directly from the Outer hall.
Against the screen was placed a table and chair, and the
background of the panels was used to hang several small
prettily framed French prints upon, which still further carried
out the idea of decoration. These screens can be made with-out
much difficulty by a good cabinetmaker, and the covering
can be selected to suit one's room and individual taste, as
the design is extremely simple and the framework easy of
construction, 'while the covering can be stretched on and
tacked with brass nails as one would make a photograph
frame, while the gilt braid can be either sewed on first or
fastened on with glue, and the screen will probably be found
more sa~isfactory than many that have been bought at
greater expense.
Fo, the ordillary furnishings of rooms in the country
house and in small apartments, screens of burlaIl and tapestry
with the mission frames can be bought very reasonably,
and are very good in certain rooms. The modern cheap tap-estry
comes in many excellent designs, and though the colors
are somevdlat crude, one cannot expect everything, and
a Innel of tapestry set above the burlap as a border brightens
the effect of the screen and makes
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