Weekly Artisan; 1909-09-18

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Issue of a furniture trade magazine published weekly in Grand Rapids, Mich, starting in 1879. and ~ ~__ ~~ 1 I I I IU NSOL IC ITED Our Patented Sand I I I ! W N 5~owCRS Pee" " new, Seey Belt Machines are ! I I ! superiorto all others. ! I I : They have proven : I I indispensible to hun~ ! t I ! c c, 345W 0 :::H H' , n dreds of customers. II I June 4, 1909. I I: Rece nt Improve~ I: I I : Wysong &: Miles Co., ments make them I I I ! Gentlomen::reensboro, N. c. still more valuable I , I 'I Please ship us at oree One No.170 Sand Belt Machlne to yOU. II ~lthout the roller table, as we wish thls machlne to be used for I I I 0 II I sanding serpentine drawer fronts only. 0 not waste time l ~e alrerdy have one of these machlnes in serVlce in our I drawer front derartlI'ent and flnd lt a very satlsfactory tool in and money by delay. !, every respect ~ * ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ p ~ ~ * * ~ ~ * p ~e are 1n despe- I W I II rate need of thlS machine and wlll thank you to make sl'ipment at e guarantee to I the earllest posslble moment. '" '. I '•. ' , , I produce better re~ I I We always have been and are yet great advocates and strong I I bellcvers in your product as we have now some five or six macrines suIts than you are I I I I I : of your make in dally operat~on, and find them to be even more than now getting and at I I you have ever claimed for them. Your mortlser and belts are the I I I l best labor saving tools we have ln our plant. * l: ~ l> " <: '. ' , * ess expense. I Yours ver~ trulv. I I I II IIII II•1 SHO\YLRS BROS. CO. PBR VJ!~:c§ftJWl::;~r_ "E" GRAND RAPI PUBLIC LIBR} DY GRAND RAPIHS. MICH.. SEPTEMBER 18. 1909 NEW Ask for CATALOG WYSONG & MILES CO., CEDAH ST, AND SOU, H. H" GREENSBORO, N. C. ,--_. . .._ ..... a •• a ••••• __ ••••••• - ••••• ---- •• - • a __ • TRADE: MARK AMERICAN BWWER COMPANY "SIROCCO" ANY EFFICIENT GENERATOR 'ABC" SELF OILING ENGINES are generating thousands of kilo-watts all over the world, and each engine is paying for itself every year in savings of fuel and oil. direct connected to an " ABC" SELF OILING ENGINE will electric light your plant, run fans, etc., and if you are now buying current, will pay you in savmg (Exhaust Steam is Available for Heating and Drying) ThIS plant runnlnO In IQUITOS, PERU. WE DIREGT CONNEGT TO ANY GENERATOO 25% PER ANNUM ( Wrtte fir proif if above.) WE WILL GLADLY QUOTE YOU, WITHOUT OBLIGATING YOU TO BUY GENERAL OFFICES, DETROIT, MICH. NEW YORK PHILADELPHIA PITTSBURC ATLANTA CHICACO ST. LOUIS SAN FRANCISCO SEATTLE ___ a ._. ._. _••• ._. _ .... . SLIDING SHOE FOR USE ON DESK LEGS This shoe does the work of a caster yet allows the desk legs to set close to floor. Fastened with flat head wood screw and furnished in three sIzes. SEND FOR SAMPLES AND PRICES No. 1493 PULL A very fine handle for desks in the square effect. SomethIng dIfferent from the regular bar pulls. GRAND RAPIDS BRASS CO. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. -------_._-------------_ ... -~ I I.. GRAND RAP! PUBLIC LIB~.i ~'{ ~, -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------~ , I I : I I , ·I ,, f I I, I, I , I I I , ,I II I I I , I I I I I• ,I I I f I I• I •I I• I · , ,,I I,, I I ,: ,I I , I I I I I• I, I I ,·:• ,I,I ·I ,• I I I I Oran~~a~i~sDlow Pi~e I , I an~Dust Arrester (om~an~ I I• II I THE LATEST deVIce for handlmr; I : 'ihav1JZgj and dU'it from all wood I I uOllmlg mac!zmes Our nmeteen years I I expellellee 1Il thH class of worl? hG'; I : blouglzt /t Il('wer perfeetwn than Qll~' : I athel ly.'Jtem OI! the lIlar1?et today I I ! I ts 110 erperzment, but a demonstrated , I sCleJltdic facI, as zue have leveral hUll I I dred of these sj'stems 1JZuse, alld 1/ot a ',' poor one among them. Our Autornal1c • ,, Furnace Feed System, as shou'll m thll ,, : cut, IS the most perfect workmg deZ'1((' I , of anythmg in thIS [me TVntc for our , II prices for eqwpmentr; II I : I WE l\IAKE PLANS AND DO ALL , : DETAIL WORK WITHOUT EX- I ! PENSE TO OUR CUSTOMERS !I' I, EXHAUST FANS AND PRES- , II SURE BLOWERS ALW AYS IN, I: STOCK ,I :I , Office and Factory: I : 208-210 Canal Streetl I ",I GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. ,," ' em•• ne Phon. 1282 ~ell. Main 1804 I 'I OUR AUTOMATIC FURNACE FEED SYSTEM I ~:------------------------------ .._---------------------------------- 1 ---------------------------------- ------------------------ ,, •II THIS IS THE MACHINE That BrinJ!s letters like the FoliowinJ!: BUSS NEW No.4 CABINET PLANER Bues M chine Works, Holland, Mlch Wetwish t.o cOlllpllmen Jou on the wOl'Kl"'lgot' Jour new"'" Plan.r JUS 11stalled for us This machine does: the best- wo"'k of an) planEl'" we have eve" seen. AIl<1 we are frunk to sa, SO lIluch bal.!."r than He expec: ed. th,-,t. otU" t'ON/IIa& s",ld 1 e simplJ co.J..1d nor. ge1; along >ithouy. It,and WQ.SS\l!'e 1'{, waUl\) pa.~ the prioe of ;1tsalf WHhl'1. a ya...r in wOl:'ksa ad on machJ.nea tollow:Ul,. Wishing JOu dese:r-lled succ:ess witn this new pattern, Pla NtJll,/.lln. Yours ve!'; truly. Robbfn/i: TabLe Co The Buss Machme Works are havmg marked success WIth this new design of cabinet planer. The new method of beItmg-feed gears machme cut-together WIth the steel sprmg sectional front feed roll and the late new sectlOnal chipbreaker, make a cabmet planer second to none on the market today. The Buss Machine Works ale old manufacturers of cabmet planers and other woodworking tools, and keep abreast WIth the tImes WIth machmes of great effiCIency Woodworker s of all kmds will not make a mistake by wnting dIrect or to theIr nearest selling representatIve regarding any point on up-to-date cabinet planers. These are the days when the lIve \\oodworker wants to C11tthe expense of sanding HOLLAND, MICH. BUSS MACHINE WORKS GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. .'.--.--------------------------------- ---- -- ----- -- - -_._-_._-~~~-...--- ~----._------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------·-----'1 Cabinet Makers MACHINERY In these days of close compel1tlOn, need the best possIble eqUIpment, and thIS they can have In BARNES' HAND AND FOOT POWER Our New Hand and Foot Power Circular Saw No.4. The strongest, most powerful, and In every way the best Send for Our New Catalogue. machme of Its kwd ever made\ for llppmg, cross·cuttmg bOTlng and groovlDg F. & JOHN BARNES CO. 654 Ruby Street, Rockford. illinois '--------------------_._- ---- _._----_._--------_. -- -.-- .- - .- .- - • '1 ...-.. II" WEEKLY ARTISAN 1 ~••••••••••••••••••• ••••• ••••••••• •• ·······~······· __1 These Specialties are used all Over the Warld I ~---------..~~~---------------------_... .._----------------------------------------~ I I t Ven~. d.fferent kinds and sizes (Patented) HapnedndF1elle8d.) MGlauneyingstyMleascahninde si(zpeast.ent::: .1 Veneer Presses Wood·Working Glup Spreaders Machinery i Glue Heaters and Supplies I Trucks, Etc., Etc. PowDo~i,j: ~~~:.bi':.~~:n~a(~~~ite~;ngle. LET us KNOW I (Sizes 12 in. to 84.n wide.) YOUR WANTS i No 20 Glue Heater. CHAS. E. FRANCIS COMPANY, Main Office and Works, RushYille, Ind. No 6 Glue Heater. • ... •• • • • • •• • • ••• --. .' • • •• _...l MARIETTA PUMED OAK ACID STAIN To the finisher who has been using the fuming chamber to produce his fumed oak our Fumed Oak Acid Stain is a revelation. This stain is in no wayan experiment but practical working stain, producing a more uniform color, and giving t9 different grades of oak the same shade. It is a strong, penetrat.. ing stain, going into the wood and yet it can be used without injury to the hands. This is not a substitute for fuming. The stain actually fumes and is permanent, but it fumes in obtained on red as well as a different manner....s..aving white oak. The most con.. the cost of a fuming cham.. vincing evidence of the per.. ber and the time required feet working qualities of this in fuming by the old pro- stain will be manifest in a cess. Unlike the Fuming single trial. Write us for a process good results can be sample. THE MARIETTA PAINT & COLOR CO., Marietta, O. THE MARIETTA PAINT & COLOR CO" Marietta, O. ... _. .. ,...------------------ -----------------...,. III• I II II I ~------------------_.--------------------------~ Ill" ~~=~~~~-"1~I WRITE FOR PRICES AND DISCOUNT I ...... Ba -- ••••••••••• - ... ,.- •• •• __ --- - •• • ••••••• '1 I -SEE t I West Michigan Machine & Tool Co., Ltd. I 1 CRAND RAPIDS, MICH. I I for U1GH GRADE PUNCHES and DIES '" ~ •• _ .. ••• T" •••• _ ••• _ ...... 10uis babn DESIGNS AND DETAILS OF FURNITURE 154 LlVlngston St. GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN Citizens' Telephone 1702. --------~~-~~~ 2 WEEKLY ARTISAN Grand Rapids Benches Are Best BElTER MATERIAL---BETTER CONSTRUCTION---BETTER WORKMANSHIP There are several reasons why you should use the "Grand Rapids Benches. " They are built to stand hard usuage. They won't warp or split, are built of well seasoned Mich-igan hard maple. Write for catalog showing full line. GRAND RAPIDS HAND SCREW CO. 918 Jefferson Avenue Grand Rapids, Mich. Bntlsh Representatives Ohver Machme Co , Ltd., 20 I Deansgate. Manchester, England. =======--===-~==-= - -- - -=----- Np FILLER I' . - u~" ~ I"'· ~ If The PILLER that FILLS. The L. Mac. E. FiJ/ers are noted tor their Uniformity. They work properly, packing well under the pad. They dry hard over night They will not Shrink as we use a water floated Silex. WE CAN MATCH ANYTHING. The lawfence-McFadden Company PHILADELPHIA, P A. WEEKLY ARTISAN r ..... .. , .. --.-----------------.---- n. . ---------------- • i :THE BIG WHITE SHOP I • • aa. • . __ •• ____________. a. a_a... •.. •• ..I We Furnish Every Article of Printing i Needed by Business Men. II I WHITEl~~~~!I!ic::.iS£MANPY I Grand Rapids, Mich. ~-- -------. ~------------------- -1 I THE BIG WHITE SHOP I ~ -------------------- -_ .. _.P.· - --------------. ..----- .•. --~ 3 II II1 II II 4 ._-----------------------~ WEEKLY ARTISAN ...-----~------_.-- -~-~--~_.---.------_. __.---_._-----_.._---------------., I. THE LUCE LINE Many New Patterns In Dining Room and Bedroom Furniture for the Fall Season. Show Rooms at Factory, Grand Rapids lu(e furniture Co. I~------------------------- --------------------------------- .____._1 ---~._-_.-- -- ~- ._-----_._--- -- -----_._-_. _. -- --------_. _. -- _..-------------- ----- .... f LUCE~REDMOND CHAIR CO., Ltd. BIG RAPIDS, MICHIGAN MANUFACTURERS OF HIGH GRADE OFFICE CHAIRS, DINING CHAIRS Reception Chairs and Rockers, Slippers Rockers, Colonial Parlor Suites, Desk and Dressing Chairs I IIII Ii ~-~------------------------------------------------------------------------------------_ .._-~ In Dark and Tuna Mahogany, Buch, Blrd\.eye Maple, OlJartered Oak and Circasslan Walnut You will find our Exhibit on the Fourth Floor, East Section, Manufacturers' BUlldmg,North Ionia St., Grand Rapids. GRAND RAPIf' .. PUBLIC LIBR} ~y 30th Year-No. 12 GRAND RAPIDS~ MICH.~SEPTEMBER 18,1909 Issued Weekly AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN METHODS Mr. Tuthill Tells of What He Saw and Learned on a Trip Tbrongb Italy, France, Germany and Great Britian. \!1ctor 1\1 Tutlllll of the firm of Baldwm, Tuth111 & Bolt.on the well knO\~n ma 1Ufactu1 e1s of saw-fitt111g and fi1ll1g room machmer}, (rrand Rap1ds, has returned from a SlX weeks' tnp 111Europe He ~ ent with a pal ty of to lnsts 'chaperoned" by Rev A \\ \t\'lshart, pastor of the Fountam Street Baptist Lhm ch of tIll', ut} and hke all othe1 members of the party he de-clare" that It was a m'1st plea"1l1g an 1 enjoyable vacation tnp ).Ir Tuth1ll talks of hlS expenences and observatlOns i 1 such a deCldedl} mtel estll1gly and entertall1lng manner that It 1S 1m-possible to ~ nte an mtervlew ~~Ith h1m 111such a way as to glVe the reader a full apprec1atlOn of ll1S WOlds HIS des~nptlOn;, of the people, the sce,1ery, the c1tIes, the bUlld111g" and partlcularly the manufactullng lllst1tutlOns, WIth the1r metnods, management, I tc, are more 111tere"tll1g and more 1l1struct1ve th:m those gIVen by professlOnal lecturers because he loooked at th111gs fr0111 a practical, rather than from an aesthetIC, a [{)mant1L or a theoret1- cal "tandpomt "1he great dJfi:erence between Amencan and European peo-ple and methods 1" Just the drfference bet~~een extenslVe and 111- tenslve," saId .:\11 Tuth1ll The Europeans do not tr} to do ,,0 much but they tr} to do everythll1~ well-as It "hould be done To them a large output 1__not of ,,0 much 1mportance as the quaht} 01 chara<::ter of the1r product That IS espeClally true of the1r factones, tllOugh thclr fa1l111ng h done on the same pnn- Clpal-1t IS ll1tenslve i\Ia 1} of them a1e qmte progresSlVe, eager to p1ck up new Ideas and w1lhng to adopt Improved mach- 111e1y when C0nvlllced that It ~~III be to their advantage to do so They are hard to com I lce, however, and many .of them are usmg the same method" that they used fifty } ears ago There I;' some preJud1ce agamst ncw or Improved machl,lery, espeCially that of Amencan make, but that IS due to expenence WIth poor samples of Amen<::an p10ducts or comes from foremen, or unskJll-ed men who fear that the mt10ductlOn of Ame11can machmes and methods mIght throw them out of w01k or reduce theIr Vvages, which a1e low 10remen and filel'i-they call the filer" 'saw doctors'-get 8 sln1l1l1gs, $2 pel da} The 'doctors' are experts at fittll1g fine "aws, but the} are slow "European manufacturers hke large, heavy nglCl mach1l1es and 1t IS lhfficult to conV1l1ce them that the hghter Amen'.:an mach1l1e" \\ III do the1r WOlk That accounts for an order we recelVed a few} ear" ago that we could not understand. Afte1 can espond1l1g \'lth plOspectlve buyer;, for some time we found ont \\ hat they wanted the machme to do and were surprised to rece1ve an order for a machll1e mOle than tWI~e as large as the one we had expected to send them and costmg nearly three tunes as much The} eVIdently doubted our Judgement and lack-ed faIth m our guarantee and, m order to make sure that the mach1l1e would ansvver theIr purpose, ordered the larger and more expensive pattern "\Ve have ,ent many machmes to Europe, but our export 11ade 1S not entlrel} ,atIsfactory because It IS "pread over a Wide terntory I th111k I learned what has pi evented the more rap1d grO\\th of our bus111ess and w111try to remove the hat'c!lcap It 1" somethmg that handIcaps neady all who a1e trY1l1g to in'.:rease their export tl ade It IS SImply lack of mformatlOn for thGse to whom the} want to sell. Our catalogues are pnnted 111Eng-ldl They should be pnnte(l m I rench, German .or m the langu-age of the country 1,1 whIch they are to be ch"tnbuted Few of the people of Europe, except 111Great Bntal11 can read Engllsh, and 1t IS (llfficult to find rellable 1I1terpreters "Then \\ e should gwe more defimte mformatlOn about pnces l\Ianv catalogues quote pnces 'boxed or f o. b Grand RapIds' ~ow as a general rule the European doe" not know whether G1and RapIds IS 100 or <)00 mIles from N ew York He does not know and ha" no means of findmg out what the fI eIght charges WIll be and WIll not take chances on be111g'stuck'-they are care-ful over there Some expOl ters quote pnces 'f 0 b New York,' but that does not help the forelg,l purchaser much, because there are other charges, beSIdes the .ocean freIght, that must be pald. FIrst there are what Vve call export charge". They are not export dutIes, but somebody mu"t see to the transfer from the cars to the ShIp and see that the goods al e properly bIlled and such ser- V1ce" must be pa1d for Then the Import dutIes must be paId \vhen the goods leach the other slde and the tanff laws over there are even more comphcated than they are here and} ou know that 1t reqUlres an eApertto mterpret our tanff schedules, so you that It reqUlres an eApert to l11terpret our tan ffschedules. so you can see that tne buyer m I"ranee or Germany, for l11stance can not eve,1 make a good guess on what the goods WIll cost when clellverecl at hIS home The catalofiues and pnce lIsts should tell the prospectIve buyer Just what the goods should cost h1m laId clown at hiS door, or dehvered at some nearby pOl11t, w1th all fre1ght, cartage, eAport and 1mport charges paId It wIll reqUlre tIme and a great deal of correspondence and mvestIgatlOn to pre-pare a catalogue on thIS plan for use m drfferent countries, but -------------------------------~- G WEEKLY ARTISAN I~---------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------_.~ I SEND FOR A FINISHED PANEL OF CIRCASSIAN WALNUT STAIN Weare the only firm preparIng a stain of this character, which is used on gum wood, preserving the natural beauty of the grain and producing the tone of the genuine Circassian Walnut in splendid imitation. Send for a sample No. 2765 and full directions. The Ad-el-ite People I.-----------_._-------------- - - .-- ---- ------ when It IS done the greate~t handIcap on am e"pOl t trade \\ 111 have been ren10ved "I vIsIted several sa\\ -mIlls and \\ c\~ l1l1Lh 1I1telesteel 111 thell operatIOn, parttcularly In Glasgo\\ and London The\ do not use band saws over there ~o exten~l\ ell a" \\ e do here J hell logs or tImber 15 nearly all1l11ported and theIr ~leatest care h to make as httle saw dust as jYlsslble Thell ann h to hay t a thm kerf and leave a smooth SUItace so that httle \\ III be \\ a'ted 111 planer shav111gs TheIr sa \\ 111111 nMch111el\ 1~ hec\\ \ al d ,tl on~ I found a cIrcular veneel saw 13 feet 111 chameter Hele to\11 ()1 five feet IS consldereel a large sIze In the ~a111e11111\\1as a \ eneCl kl11fe t\\ elve feet long and the} elo fine \\ ark \\ Ith both the sa\\ dnd the kl11fe. "In saWl11glogs the} n~e a sa\\ hke the old uj111ght th \t \\ ,\~ common here fifty 01 slxt) yec\rs ago, anI) It runs honzontdlh 111stead of perpendlcu1ar1} The log I" clutched a 1 a heavy cal-nage, and the feeel 15 very slow The first boal d IS taken from the top sIde of the lo~ and then Imtead at 1110\111gthe loe; the saw 15 dropped clo\\ n m po"ltlOn to take off the ne"t boal el 1'he capac1ty of "u(:h ,1 saw can not be mal ethan c\ few tho lsand feet per clay but they seem to be sdtt"fied \\ Ith them The} sa\\ 01 re-saw deal~, 1mportecl from Canada 1\ on\ a\ and S\\ eden, \\ Ith what they call frame ~a\\ s-hke otll gang sa\\ ,-and the) use from SIX to twenty-sIx saws 111 a frame "Usually when an ], ngh,h manufadurel bu) ~ lumber he does not get It b} boarel mea~me but by log measme He b11\~ the log whIch I" tc\ken mto the 111111and sa \\ ed for hl111 Then the boards are laId together 111 the ~a111eorder 111 \\ Inch the) came from the saw anel bounel \\lth lope, \\Ire 01 chall, hefore beme; hauled a\\a) or shIpped 'Then metholl of fittln~ sa\\ s both 111 Fne;Lll1d and on the contInent chffer~ from oms mamlv 111 settmg The} use tht ~pring set r c\rely USl1le; the S\\ age and fe\\ of them use ,a"~ ...... -_ ... "tJ ctchel' '1\ c have sent consIderable of our machmery to I rench manuLlcturers ,mel have been negotIatIng WIth several othel' I had \\ ntten one concern m Pans that I expected to c,1I1on them ,\hont the mIddle of Augllst, and they were 'laymg tor me \ \ hen I arnved they had an anged three pagec of t\ pe\\ ntten que~tlO,ls on all :"orts of subjects for me to answer and It 1 eclulred se\ er ,11haUl s to do ~o They, as are all others, ale la\ mahle to the mtrocluctlOll of Amencan mach111ery and l11uhoe!-' but ltt::e the l11c\nft am l\ItSSOUll, they want to be shown \t London m company \\ Ith John ;\1owat, of the Grand RdIJlr1" ChaIr Company I vI~lted the glcat Lebus furmture fac-t01) \\hlch IS known a~ the largest 111the world It 15 certainly a £;1e,\t ll1"tltutlOn :;\Ir "'lowat not only aclt11ltted that It wa~ the lal e;eq fur11ltnre plant 111 the world, but declared that it was h\ e tll1le, a, Jal L;e a, dn} hll111ture plant 111Amenca They are 110\\ bm1cltng ,111 ac!clttlOn that b as large or larger than our larg-est furl11tnre Llt101les IIe ma) be able to gIve the Europeans much valuable in-f01matlOl1 but \,ye do n0t 'know It all' We can learn much from them and \\ e make d great 111l~take when we form our 1deas of the general charactel and capablhttes of the people over there fl0m the appeal ance and actIOns of the foreIgners who come here seekL1L; comlllon 1,11101 The European~ elo not rush th111g:oa" \\ e do 1be \ 'bec\t us ,\ mde' 111 means for safety and conven-lenee~ f01 traveler, can e;lve u~ pOlnters on how to enJoy hfe and tho"e of rlance (rermam and Ita!) can '5how 11S'how to ~oh e the h'luol clue,tlOn" Some 111enal e expert WIth theIr hands and some WIth their feet, ~0111eare knockers and S0111eare kIckers Some men are not satisfied to have their money talk unless it 11seS a megaphone WEEKLY ARTISAN ,~----------------------------------------------------- ._~~--------------_.-._._._-----_.., 7 We w111have the nght styles at the nght pnces and made to give satisfactIOn. Don't miss c0ming to see the line, it will pay you. I BEST LINEo~:sDAVENNPORT BEDS II IN THE MARKET !IIl\II I I I I I• ,II• II I,I IIII II IIII I• I I f It III I I II• III II ---_ .,. Parlor Furniture Show Rooms 35 to 41 N. Capital Ave. Ask for catalogues. Couches Leather Rockers t THOS. MADDEN, SON & CO., Indianapolis,Ind. ~._---------------------------------------._------------------------------------------- Chicago Manufacturers' Annual Meeting. Chicago, Sept 15- The annual meetmg of the Chlcae;o I,t1f-mture Il.Ianutactl1lers' ASSOelatlOll was held at the ChICago -\thletIc ASSoclatlOn rooms, Tuesday mght, September 11 At b 30 the banquet began, Illce- Pre~ldent \V B Jackson preslclmg 1,allOWIng the chsposal of the menu came the bUt>mess haUl anJ the followll1g offi_ers were elected for the ensUIng yeal Presldent N els Johnson, vice presIdent, Lams Schram, treasurer F J Seng, seci etary, P D. FrancIs Dlrectors-C H HIll, Emory ~ onnast, L Z. Valentme. F A.. Po" ers and GeOl ge L Peterson, J r A feature of the meetm~ VI< as an address by George C:r Fowers of the emon \;Vlre Mattress Company, \\ho was appoInt-ed by the I, urmtUl e :!\IanufactUl er,,' AssocIatIOn as a member of the Tlade ExtenSIOn CommIttee sent out by the Cllllago ASQo-elatIOn of Commerce, descnbmg the tnp made by the committee through the northwest m a most mtel estmg manner and the sentlment prevalhng 111 that sectlO,1 m fa, or of Ullcago as d furmture market. :!\Ianager C J Kmc1el of the Kmdel Bed Company left last Saturday for i\ew Yark oty to spend tv\ 0 weeks C L Barron, sales manager of the Oberbeck Blathers 1\1an-ufactunng Company, IS spel1d1l1g several weeks on a busmess tnp thlOugh Oklahoma and the southwest Feather Beds Are Not Extinct. "Hello, what's thIs'" exclaImed a ~ew York auctIoneer s nevv as"lstant "vVhy. I'll be blessed If It Isn't a feather-bed" "Sure It's a featherbed," "aIel the auctIOneer. "There are two more back there 111 the storeroom Oh, yes, I know what you al e g01l1g to say-you thought featherbeds were out of date, extmct \Vell, maybe they are 111 most houses, but for all that we handle a few of them Most of them have been bro,1ght here, I presume, by country people and foreIgners, who t>tlll chng to the feather habIt After a short reSIdence 111 NeV\ Y::lrk everyone except the hopeless old-fashIOned transfers hb aL leglance to the mattress, and so the featherbeds finally w1l1c1,Ill 11 the auctIOn room" Some people belIeve only half they hear, and others bel1evc tWIce as much. ---~._---_._-_.~---------- ---------- .. r We Manufacture tlte Lar!!est Line of (I III III I1 II 1 II III II ...---- - - _ ..--- -----~--------- fOlD,"~ ("AID~ In the Dnlled States, SUitable for Sun day Schools, Halls, Steam-ers and all public resorts We also manufacture Brass Tnmmed I r 0 n Beds, Spnng Beds, Cots and Cnbs m a large vanety Send for Calalogue and PrtCeJ to KAUFFMAN MFG. CO. ASHLAND, OHIO ..._-_._--_ .... 8 WEEKLY ARTISAN --'------------.._-------_ ...- .._-_.. ---._-----,------------------- --- ----------.., Mahogany Circassian Walnut Quartered Oak Walnut Curly Maple Bird's Eye Maple Basswood Ash Elm Birch Maple Poplar Gum Oak II• •III ---------------------------------_ .. -------- ----~ PREPARING FOR WINTER SEASON. New Exhibititors in Chicago's "Big" Building and Othe1'sChanging Their Locations. ChIcago, Sept If-The \lanufacturers E:xlubltlOn TImId mg, 131c) :VlJchlgan avenue WIll have a number of ne\\ and pr0111- ment hnes e:xhlbltmg m the' BIg Jhllldmg tne com1l1g Janual \ Secretary (,e01 ge \ V Jdckson ~tate~ they \\ 111 mducle the to11O\\ 1l1g The l\Ioclern Pallor rurmture lompam ot hh-l Ea~t 1)1\ h- Foreign and Domestic Woods. Rotary, Sliced, Sawed. floO! ThIS lme \\ d f01merly exhIbIted on the fifth floor ""chIa111Brothers, of ChlCdgO have moved from, the SIxth to the ,ccond floor, WIth then popular lme of musIc cabmets The \\ esteln llctm e II dme Company, \\ ho have been e:xhlbltm;:[ WIth :-'chram Blothers on the ~Ixth flool WIll also be WIth them m the ne\\ ~pace on the second floor The LenOIr Chalf Company of LeaOlr '\ l tOl1l1erly on the hrst floor WIll hereafter be tound on the fourth floor ancl WIth them \\ III be the Moore Fur-llltl11e lompam a).,o of LenOlr Tms compan) manufactures la~e g{)od~ and \\ III dl"pla) thc lme tor the first time 111 Chlca!S0. Made by Holland F urmlure Co, Grand Rapids, Mlch ion street, ChIcago, iN 111 exhIbIt theIr splenchd hne for the hrst time m ChIcago and have taken a large block of space on the fi fth floor The Pltbburg- HIckson C0111pan) of Butler 1'a, \\ III here-after be found m the l.nG bmlchng havmg secmed a \el\ large and fine space on the seventh floor The ::\1111\ al1kee \Ietal LIed Compan}, formerly knmvn as the \V estern 'Ietal Becl Company of MIlwaukee have retm ned to ChIcago to e'chlblt dnel lM\ e ~e-cured permanent space on the hfth floor The [I a\ el ~e llt\ (1\1Ich.) ChaIr Camp allY have s,"cured space amI \\ III ]x found permanently located on the fourth uoor ThIS compam tormerh dl~played on the fir~t flool The Kno'Cvllle Table ancl lhan C0111 pany of Knoxsvllle. Tenn, have removed ft am the fir~t flOO1 and WIll be foune! m Ja'lUal) on the second flool whel e they ha\ e senlree! double the amount at space the\ had hE.retofore i\rthur Palmer, WIth the popular A 1.. Palmer Furmture 'Ilal111 factunng C0111pan) s lme WIll be found m Januar) on the second The .sho\Ver~ BlOth-oL Company of Dloommgton, bd, WIll here-after be permanentlv located on the first floor havmg taken thE. space formerly occupIed by the Kno:xvIlle Table and ChaIr Com-panv ancl the Ro) al \lantle anel FI"ture Campa 1y, both of Roc\-- tOIdIll, ha \ e renewed then" leases and \'olIllbe found as here-tofore on the fifth and SIxth fioor~ I espectlVel} The Schult7 & Hersch Camp an) , manufacturers of hlg!l e;rae!e becldll1g, feathers, feathel pIllows, clowns, etc. upholstered bo:x ~pn 19S and CUlled haIr mattresses are hdvmg a very satI~- fadln \ \olume of bUSll1e~s tll1S year PreSIdent 1'redellck .schultz say s then tracle b commg from all sectIOns [he ll110lJ \\ Ire 'IIattress Company recently sent out 10,000 of tnelr fall catalogues PreslClent l' ~ Power~ repol ts the \ olume of bU~L1eS~ smce Jannar} as hlghl} satlsfactor) At present the company has all the busmess they can handle Their tI dele LOmes fl0m nearly all sectIOns of the emtee! States WEEKLY ARTISAN Praised and Criticised. A correspondent of the Trade Review, writing from Bruns-wIck, Ga , alternately praISe'i and roa'its Grand RapIds as follows "Grand RapIds 1'1 a beautiful and clean city. One finds plOSperIty everywhere, and, above all, the mO'it notIceable thl11g 1'1 the way the people cale for thell homes The backyard is kept a" neat as the one 111flont, and c1eanl111ess IS the order of the day. There are "everal modern hotels. and the Pantlind is the queen of them all It IS up to date 111every respect, and the fGlce of courteous attendants makes one feel thoroughly at home Grand RapId" 1" generally known a" headquarters for fine furni-ture, and one would take It for granted that the people of that CIty, and the manufacturers m partIc1uar, would make a deteI-ml11ed effort to susta111 thdt 1eputatlOn, and would use every means to add to theIr laurels f\OW fer a httle fnendly roast along tl1lS hne (I arrIved m Grand Rapllls on Saturday night, antI soon \\ a" comfortably quartered at t 1e Pantll11d I faIlei. to find a notIce of any k111d,eIther m the hotel or new'lpapers, that there was a furmtUl e .,how on, or that thel e eXIsted 11 Grand RapId" a place where a furmture buyer mIght receIve a fnendly greetmg and be made to feel at home Of cour"e, I spent one of the longe.,t and most tllesome Sundays at my hfe 111Grand RapIds On :\Ionclay 1\\ent to three furmture e.xchanges, and ll1 all faIled to find a man who had a \\ ekome for me. but I was simply SIzed up lIke a ma,1 who g Jes m a gambll11g rcom, awl the mhabItants figured out Ho\\ muc'1 I "I would hke to kno\,; how Illuch th' sal s amount to which are made dUrIng tllese fe\\ weeks a 1el 1 am mcllllecl to thll1k that the grand total could be materially increased by gIving the viSItors the glad hand dfter they have tI aveled hundreds and "ome of 11" thou'dnds of m11e" to 'Ce the markets of Granel RapIds "Get busy, gentlemen, anel let us get acquainted the next tIme we meet m 'Grand Rapids.' " The cOlfe"ponelent was aitogetnel too modest and not ac-quall1ted WIth the wayS of the market. If he had sent an ad-vance carel to the Luce Furl1lt 11 e Company he w)uld have been met at the depot by an auto 10bIle It after his arrival at the Hotel Panthnc1, he had called up WI ham vViddlcomb, he might have been mVlted to attend mormng "er \ ice at the Presbyterian Lhurch, follO\,;ed by an excellent dl11nel If he hdd notified W. II Jone-o of hb dlnval a "cat ll1 the gland ,td 1d for the ball game would have been pro\ Id~(1. The Arti"an might write columns of the entertaInment that would have been provided for the sen::>ItIve, neglected Gem glan. 1f the manufacturers and 'ielhng agenb had but known of hIS presence According to his state-ment he VISIted three of the exposltlOn bmld111g" dnd dId not find the glad hand But few of the Gland Rapids hnes were shown III the e.xpo'ItlOn bmlchngs Had the viSItor m:1de himself known at the factol") \\clrelooms he waul 1 have I13.dnothing to complain of Don't let your past expenence discourage you, Mr.Georgian, bnt take time 111the futnre to learn the Grand Rapids way of dOll1g thmgs Furniture Fhes. The Pease Furlllture Company of Texico, N M, lost $-1,00 or $5.000 111a fire that caused a total loss of $60,000 on Septem-ber ;) Crosby, Patterson & Co, of St Johns. N Mex, lost theil warehouse and content'i by fire on September 7 Loss, $8,000, w1thout 111surance The hardware and furlllture departments of the Ferguson HObtman MercantIle Company of Poplar Bluff, Mo, were total 1y de'itroyed by fire on September 7. . ---_.-. - ~I .,-. ------------- --------------_._---_ . It I THE FORD & JOHNSON CO. \ CHICAGO This is one of our popular Hotel chairs, Our chairs are found in all the leading Hotels in the country. The line includes a very complete assort-ment of chairs, rock-ers and settees of all grades; Dining Room furniture, Reed and Rat tan furniture, Special Order furni-ture, etc. A complete hne of sam-ple. are dIsplayed in The Ford 8 Johnson BUlldml!. 1433.37 Wabash Ave., in-cludml! a speCial display of Hotel Furnlture. \I~-_.-- Ii - _ ...... All furmturc dealers are cordially invited to visit our bttilding. ------------------~ 9 .....~ ... _-~ delOlh e,lc!ence 111 ~upport of the object of thl~ a~~oclatlOn It h rathel om <1e'ille to state pla1l11) dnd blleH) the pl1l1Clp,ll L1Ch pel tll1ent thel eto ,ubmlt a few Illu'itratlve cOll1pan'ion'i and to 111\He the I epl e~entatlves of the carners present to offer II Hll'im, or ~ugge~tlOn and to define then poslt1on cleanv dnd conC1~el) that "e ma) ImmedIately proceed to a prop~r ael- Ju, tment of all c1lffelences wIthout prejudIce or mlsuneler'- , tdmhng 10m 111\e~tlgdtlOn at the I ate'i m effect and companson of tlK dl <;Jance'i het\\ een nUl keb "Ill 1I11lnedlately demonstrate to 'OU d' am, 11<l~c1emonstrated to U'i. that we are unduly (lts- II 1111111dteddga1l1st 111 the present rate adJustments' If ctis-tance ma) be accepted a'i an Important fdctor in rate makl11g, (,rand RapId,. b20 11111e'ifrom \' ev. York, 'ihould be a 90 per ccnt p01nt 1I1'itedc1of q(). J a(;kson. 76q mJle" from New York, ,hould be dn '.,~ pel ceut pomt ll1stead of q2 and Lansing, 763 n1lle'i tlOI11 "e\\ \ 01k should be an 87 per cent point 1I1steacl ot \)) ~1l1l11al I eadlu,tmenh, throughout the entire lower pen-lmula \\ auld re"ult tl0111 the acceptance of clJ'itance as a baSIS fO! Idte makmg Chat chstancc h not the onl) fador IS be'it Illustrated by a U)111lldlhon ot 1ate, between p01l1t, \\ Ithm the lentral ~ 'iSOCla-hcm tel ntOl' and pomt, WIthout The pI esent I ate on potatoe, from 1'1aver"e City to Cmcm-natl a clt,tance of apprDxllnatcl) -+')0 11111e,IS 22 cents; the rate on potatoe, tJ 0111::,te, ell', Pomt. \VI'i20nSm to Cmcmnatl, a dls-tatH. e at appro>-llnateh ')30 11l11es.20 cent'i ,mc1 ham \Valworth, \ '\ d c1lstdnce of apploxlmatelv ') j I 11111e'it,he rate to Cmcm-natl I' 18 cent'i ('iee Perkett lore,ponclence ) I he pI e~ent I,lte on pot,ltoe'i from Traver'ie lit) to 1'Itt~bU1g ,l dl"tance of dpploXllnatel) ) I) n1l1e~, I~ 2'~ cenh, the rdte from "t !',m1 to l'lthblll g applOX11llately (100 11l1le'i, l'i 2.) cent'i I IOIlJ the 110 11! and 11) pel cent P01l1ts 111 ]\LlLhlgan the rate" to "e\\ 1 01 k on patotoe~ al e .l;. 3 l/i ane! )P~ ccnh per lOO pounc{.,. tlOm '-,t Paul \flun ,llld Ld lro"'ie, \Vi'i, the rate to \ e\\ 1O!k l'i but ]I cent" l\ct\\een pOInt'> on the WC'it ~hOle of Ldke ::\1tcl1H.\dn,me! "e\\ 1 01 k clt~taILe'i I am;1Jlg het\\ een ()(0 ,mc1 1000 n1l1e~. the cla~~ I,tte~ are ,) il3 )0 1). lO and 'Z,) cent" per 100 POt1I1c[." Bet\\ een Lacltllal. \f Ichl(.\an amI \ e\\ Y'OIk, clt'ita Jce~ appioxi l11atch q)O 1111le~and throu(.\h wlnc h P0111ttl etffiCfrol11 thc we~t "IJOIc of L'lke \ ItChlg,l11. Ltk111g the I,lte~ 1u~t quotcd. '" Olllcl l),j"~ thc cla,,~ latl" ale '.,; ,!. )) ,ll). ); ,111d'!') cellt~ pel 100 pOl1lJ(1" Ill-tIIClII (Il,md 1{,qm]-, dl](1 jllo'\.IIl1,ltell "l!O nl1Ic~. thc cld'>' '!'J ,md '! I cent-, (Tldl1([ r{apld~ I" 100 nllle" 1c~~ ch~ta'1CC flom \C\\ YOlk ,h,l11 Lhlcago amI thc Ilet dlffel llJCe~ I1J the dd"~ I,lte" dl e ,l. ~/'2 2 1'y:; dl](1 1 ccnh pel ]00 pound~ lmcmndtJ. ()hlO. I~ 1Z-! mIlts Ie"" ch~td Jce flam "e\v YOIk th,m LhlLd~o and the net (hfferences 111thc c1,I~" late'i ale 10. e., y; (, -< J /i. + and ,l;h cent" per 100 pound'i 'I he LIIlU11natl- [-L1l111lton 70ne. clt'itance from "c\\ York ,'I'., n111es I" accorded a pelce 1tage of 81, 111::\fI0hlga11. La11'imt:; and Jack~on lil, and iill) 1111le, 110m \ew York, encltne pel-centage, of (),) a,J(Il)'Z The lmc111natl-Hat1111ton 70ne I~ approx-llJdtCll 1,) n111e" ,onth of the dll ect loute between Cll1cag-o ,1Ild "ell 'I 01k ,md T ,In'lng and J ,lck '0 J elle le,~ thdn 100 l1111cs nOlth dnd ,lIC fnllhlII1101C dllCdh Illth111 the gte,lt eh'lI1ud of Cd,t ,t\td \IC,t lIl10ugh trdttrC DISCRIMINATION MADE AGAINST MICHIGAN CaSte'of flU" Shippers' Association as Prt"sented to Representatives of the Railroads at a Recent Conference in Grand Rapids. \t the confu en e held I1J GI and Rapld~ 011 ::"eptembel 1O. bet ween repl esentatlve" of the \hl hlgan ::"hlpper, \s"oClatlOn and ge,Jel al freIght a£;enh of ::\Ill hlg-an I allt l),td" the fol1<)\\111g ~tdtement of concht1On" dnd cOmpall'iOnS pI epc11ed b\ F L r=" mg of the hrm of EwmlS & \Je>..andel tl affic llJdnd~er" \\ a-pi e"entee! b} I{obel t \\ In, m, pre'ildent ot the 'shIpper, ~ "0- clat10n Gentlemen '1 hl'i 01gd 11zdtlon the IIld1H;an '-,hlpper~ ,\" 'iOClatlOn, mc1ttchng 111It'i ll1ember~111p the Board ot 11 aele and the Bus111es~ ~Jen 'i '\ ~'iOllatlO11'iof the plll1upal utle, dnd tC)\\n, of the westeln palt of the 100\el pe11111'inlaat 'III 11lgan. \\a~ perfected and made pelmanent £01 a ~peufic pnrpO'ie and \\ Ith a defil11te object m vIew whlLh we "Ill bneH} dehne prelU111nar) to the real bm111e" of thl'i confelence In the development of the natm ,t! I e~()mce" and the cOI11- mel ce of the 'itate of ::\fIchlgan. thel e IS no 11101 e ImJlOItdnt !ac-tOi than freight tl <tmportdtlOn faclhtle, c!ml lO,t The que-tlOn of fl eIght I ate" mtI ude'i It'ielf upon the (lalh 10l1t111Cot manufacture, pUIcha ~e and ,dIe ,wd ellter, mto e\ en tr,w,dctlOn \ s the merchant 01 the manu tdctm el ot thh ~td te note" the III Cleasecl productIOn dncl con,ul11ptton ot the comnl<)(htle'i ,hdt have theIr Ollgll1 ot theIr de,tll1atlOll \\ Ithln the 'itate and COI11 pdres the progre'>'i I J the dn ectlon ot !:;enel alh Il11plO\ed blhl nes~ conchtlOns WIth the progre", of othel ~tate, he h'h dnd e"peclall) dunng the vel' recent \ ed " Iecog111zed the tact thdt the conchtlon'i snn oundlng height tl all',jJOlLItton ha, e IU11dme I practlcall) unchanged and ~ta'lOnal\ amHlq the IapHI ,md genel,t! 111CeIa'ied development ot the tl affic ot the ,t,lte \\ h, thl" "llOUlcl be the fact l'i <t que~tlOn that lontlnll<llh p1e'ienh Ih-elt to the 'itudent of tl an "POI tatlOn and to the bU'i111C~"111dJ Jl]fll Vldudll) and tII1ol1gh 111'i01~a1l17,lt101h Reelhz111~ that Indl\ Idn,d dtOl t ,lIld dttllltlon lo,dc! not d(, jU,tlLe to a PIOpo~ltlOn of ~uch 11l,lgllltlldc ,h thc tlll~ht 1dtC Cjue"tloll ple"ents the vallOll~ l\o'\ld" of llade ,111dtne 1\\I'lne'" 'lIen" \~'iOClatlOn~ of the \\e"teln palt of thc lemu pellln~\I!d l)f \ltdl1gan have effected thh jJelmanent Olg,l111/dtlOn tl1<lt then 111elgle" l111ght be loncentlatul uJlon ,I caletnl and 0111pletc 111 v('"tWritlon of thc heIght Idte condltH)lJ'i ,Ind thl lbtal111nQ of ~IKh I eadJllqme 1t~ ,1~ the lonehtlon~ 1111(.\ht\1 all ent ,111cl cl-nMnd 1hl'. ~entlc111cn h thc olJject ot tne' \!lchlg,l11 '-,ll1ppll' \ .,.,ouatlOn and thc pUIpo,e of thh (l)ntelcIlCC h to b11cfh ],l\ ]xfolc V011"ome Ic"u1t, ot Ol!l 1m C"lIg,ltlOll to 111to111lalh <11" lll~" \\ Ilh ) Oll the umdltl(Jlh III ~enu ,d and W (Om LV to \ ou ail ,h,m dnce of om dc ~n e and 1 eel(11l1e~,to co-opel,lte \\ Ith \ OU to the Ut1110~t111wlMt \\e hope '\lIlhc a 11lutu,d and ~111Cl1eetlOlt 111 the dneltlOn of ~uch leddlu,t111Lnt dnd IIl1jJIO\e111ent'i a, JJI()1111,111~ ,I 111eJlCta, 01,1ble 11,111~P()J tdtlon conchtton fOl Ih and ,m l11uc,l,ed tldffic fOI thc C0111jJ,lnlC~\on leple~cnt \\ e have becomc f,lIl1Ihar \\1tII the Ollgln dnd opelatlo 1 l)r the ~\ ~te111of I ate nJdkl11g that pI m Hle'i thc ba~l, tal all fl el~ht I,ttcs to hom and \\Ithlll the 100\el penl11,ula ot \fIChl(.\,111 hl"t c"jabh'ihed 111 18~ I and \"111e notl11g leltam change~ amI leac!- l11~tment~ \\ hlch hd' e bel 1 made 'i111CetlLlt tll11e It I" not \\ ho]h dpparellt that 'ill'~h I eadJll"tmenh 11<1e\ J.,.ept ]MCe \\ Ith the 111 u ea"ed populatIOn con'iumptlOn and p10ductlOIl the changc, 111 the clescllptlOn of the tlaffic handled the dl,lnge, 111the route" tl,weled 01 the zencr,t! devcloplle It of the I e"o lIce, ,md COI11- n1LIlC ot thc t(111tOl\ \\e Icple"eIlt [t I' n{lt oUt Intcntloll to ll\lldcll tIll' LCmlul1l(C \Ilth lnl dct,lIlu! ~leltll1l(1l1 (ll glllY,llllC" \o!nltlllloll" "l,lthtlc, 01 pOll \CII YOlk ,1 c11"tdnce of .{j) I,lte, alc 'Z. (,'Z;0 It" .nf~. WEEKLY ARTISAN If the dll ect lllle between U11cago and .0, ew York IS to be accepted as the baslllg lme, It Immeehately becomes eVIdent that terntory lymg equally as far south of the ba~111g lme a~ many Imp01 tmt P0111t~ 111 ~I1chlgan al e north of fthe bdS111g l111e, and at equal or gl eater ellstances flOm ~ ew York, al e now accorded a lO\iVer percentage of the ChlcagJ-Xe\\ YOlk late':> than are the ~IlChlgan pomts and that whatever vallatlOn there 11M) be 1ll the c\en~lty of the traffic IS nnt. proportlOnall) as great a~ IS the vanatlOn m the rdte adjustments By th~ ,ame proce~s of reason111g we arnve at con~Hlcra-tJon of the pI actlcablllt) of the estabhshed Tram- \Ilchlgan routes bdween the east and the great northwe~t, entenng ~1Jchlgan vIa the Toledo, DetrOIt or Port EUI on gateways. travers111g 1he lower penmsula of :;\1xhlgan crossmg Lake 2\llchlgan vIa the car fernes and thence aClos~ WI~consm. a~ compared wIth the establlshed channels of through tl amporta-tlon thdt tr,tverse the terntory south of the chrect hne between Chicago and ~ ew York and whIch are asserted to prOVIde d den ~Ity of traffic that IS favorable to lm\ el rdte adjustments and ac-counts for the chspanty 111the I dtes to and from theIr SUIround-mg zones as compdrecl WIth the I ates to and from the \[Khlgan zones at all equal or le~s ch"tance north ot the basl11g hne an<1 from i'Jew York The congcstlOn of traffic Vld ChIcago has. c\Ullng I ece~ years, re~ultec\ 111 d cllverslOn of ~uch as mIght tJ avel vIa othel 10utes and gateway s DenSIty of traffic \Ivhlle a I eLC)g11lLec\ fac-tor 111 rate makmg IS not entlrel) advantageous beymd ,I degree tlMI overt,lxes the fa~lhtles prov)(led tor the handhng at the tl affic 1hel efore does not edst anel \\ est bound traffi-.: 1110\e Vld If lchlgan to an extent that places Grand RapIds and othel utles and towns repl e~ented by thb orgamzatlOn 111 as c10~e proxl111- It) to a great channel of thlOugh traffic that so 1l10ve~ at the present tune WIll beal c0111pall':>on WIth that mov Illg v la the ell I cet lonte bet\\ een ChIcago and X e\\ YOlk thlrh \ elrs ago \\ hen the pI esent I atc adjustments wel e estahhshecl '-,I11I1Lll C0111pdll'Olh nM) he eal Ileel on 111 Idimtch hIt \\ onld ol1h "el \ e to COn~lll11e tunc a HI rlond thc I"sne \\ e 11 )\\ \\ h'l to cdll attentIOn to the fact that \11c!mian ten It01 V ha~ no com pcn':>,ltlllg adv,ll1tage~ 111 othel dnecLlon" 11k () ..Istll~ ,11- I dng elllcllt of I ate, cia s~ a)(1 c01l11l1oehtv. ft om a 11 comp~ tl1lg tel ntm le~ to dll comllJon lllal keh atf01d':> us no advd.nt,ge \'V;1It e\ el dnd 111 llIan) Illstdnce~ el tllclll) pLlce~ u~ ,It ,I eh"clClvantdge 'l hc geogldplllcal 10catlOll of :\1Llngan ll1nst be eon"l lclcd It h III the ed"t "outh elnd "c"t tllclt am S\1pp'le,:> 11111"th P 11 eha"ed ,1,ld oUl PI0c111Ch lllcllkLted rJlele hI') l111pJ1L111t PI)- e!uct of i\ llclng,m me!lI"tl Ie ~ OJ ~0I1 tl1 It l~ not e111ph ILe! 111 the tUI]tOl) eel"±. ~outh ,me! \H~t ,1lHl \\e III ht thudole. In Ie] thc plc~cnt Idte eldjlhtmel1ts compete 111the COl1l111011llMI Lct" \\ltb otltu centel':> of PI{)e!U UOI1. plllch I"C ,11lCl" tic \OCeltU\ ,It e jU,tl ,uHl glceltu dl':>td'lCC" flom t1Jc,c lll,ll],ch hIt ellJ()\ln~ ,11ll01C ld\olablc ,1c!11htI1lCl1t of flu:.;ht 1,ltC~ \\ helt 11n" Hpc(,"\l1h \cdd) to thc bU'-Ill('-" llltUl-t" of thl" ..,telte ,lllCl1u t\k Id]!leh! I" ..,cI\me, thh tellltOl), "llO-c Illtele"h ,lie lllutual11ld) uot hc I Cde1d) 01 dCetll atcl) c "tll1lclted ,It thh t Il1K bnt th,lt It I CJ)l e..,\..nt" ,\11 cnonnon- ~1Il11 1l1U~t be conceded \t tll1~ tune \\C \\I-h to ,1~clll1 Idu to thc dpphc,ltlUl1 o[ thc 100 ]Jercent 1M~I~. 01 the tldt Unlae,o '\ e\\ \ 01 k I dte dlong the \\e~t short. of Lake ,1Iclng-an d, 1dl n )rth as ,Ienonl1nce \ltchlgan vIa the cal fellles and a~1 OS" the le)\\ el penlll<;111a of \ 1lLhlgan and vIa the 1'01 t HU! 011. DetrOIt and Toledo ~ate- \\ a) s ~nch tl affic pa~~es ehrectly through /one". III \1Id'le,au that telke a hlC;hel pelle ltagc of the ba~l11g r,ltes than do tl'e ]J01nh {)f 011e,1ll ,111(\ ck..,tlllatlOll llns \\ionld ,Ippe'll to hc a \ lo1at1CJll of thc Iou:.; ,1l1cl ,,1101t h,m\ CLIlhC "e et!on I o[ thc ,l( t to regulatc COl11l11elCl Ihdt I" not hO\\C\ll thl entnc "Ie; I11ficclnee of the r1esCl Ibed movement of Trans-:;\I1c1ngan tr,lffic The descnptlon of traffic that 1110\es to and fr0111 easte111 ane! northern \,\,ThcOnSIl1 POll1ts across Lake :;\hc1ngdn 01 Vld the U11cago gclteWa) and part!culad) that \v hlch onglll,lte~ III that tel fltor) , IS pradl~ally lelentlcal WIth tl1at 01lg111at1l1g at )1 de~tmee! to ]J01l1ts m 10\'Ver ,\hchlgan ,md 111the C01111110n111arkeb \V e are 111 dIrect competItIOn WIth the same at a chsadvantdge a s I egards freH~ht rates In the complamt ot tne GI ee 1 Bd\ BUS111ess ~len ~ \ssou atlOn.v~ n &. () R R et al Illtel stdte CommeJce COml111"- "On \0 1 ()ljj. It was developed that towns along the \'Vest shOle of Lake '\Ilchlg,n lecelvec1 th be1efit of the 1eo per cent baSIS because the lmes reachmg the eastern shores of Lake l\h~hlgan and operatIng car ferne<; ac ross Lake \llchlgan had ~een fit to e'..tend tnat belsls to them It \hlS also shown that J\Ieno,lllllee ~hebo)gan and J\Iamtmvoc do not receIVe the late became they are deep \V ater ports on Lake N[Ic11Igan but rather because they are ~o sItuated that the) have the benefit of the car fernes In tIns ca~e the C0l11l111S:>10nfinc1~ that the extenSIon of the 100 percent baSIS to towns along the \'Vest shore of Lake ~;flchlgan I' a f01 cee! me but holeh that the long m,untenance of the gIven late IS an adml<;~lOn ot the 1ea~011clblene~s of that rate If the 1ates 1r0111 our C0111pet1l1g terfltm y 111\Y l~conS111 al e I easonable. no ~I eater or 11101e CJnCh1Slve eVHle'lce of the unreasonableness of Ot11 I ates IS nee e~sal) Traffic between lower }I1chlgan pomb and PaClfi:: coast ter- IltO!\ elees not receIve the benefit of the DltferentJal Lake and RaIl 1 ates although same are apphcable to shIpments 'Jngmatml2, at pomb 111 other tellltor) farther 111anel such as Co!umbu<;, ()'1lU I dnewllle ()hlO and \Yheelme, anc1 other vVe<;t \ 11 g1111cl ~---------------------------_.-------- I It 1.. STANDARD UNIFORM COLORS Adopted by the Grand Rapids Furniture ASSOCiation are produced With our Golden Oak Oil Stain No. 1909, Filler No. 736. Early English Oil Stain No. 55, Filler No. 36. Weathered Oak Oil Stab No. 1910. Mahogany Stain Powder, No.9, Filler No. 14. Fumed Oak (W) Stain No. 46. RAPIDS WOOD FINISHING 5559 Ellsworth Ave GRAr'<.DRAPIDS, MICH GRAND CO. II ------------ ------------_. --- ... ])(Jll1b \ 1eccnt I"" c of the Tllan" Contm'ntd t,llltf~ plO- \ H!cd ~l1ch elp hC,It!e n 1 ) tal dt 0112,111Itl,l[', elt (;1 a](l RapHje, b 11 ,1 Lltu anel "l1ppL 11 IL,l' \ I~" 1e C!J'1111l,ILU! "cl111l 1 n~ dlife 1 ellLI,tls I elll~C fJ e 111 I/o CCllb to 2l cellh p 1 100 111' elud ,ll ( qJl'1 cl1Jlc to 11'ldl ,dl) C\U) dl"111ptlOll of tIdfftc th,lt Oll~1 natc" III Lhl':>tu l1t01 \ InellhtIll'" of C\Cl) (!c"UlptJOll "cck 10CltJOll \\helc tl,m"pol t 1(\(11l LluhtJe" ,ll c )\ thc hc"t ,111'1tl ,m"]J()1 LltlOll eo"h the 1m\ c~i ,me! lI1\e-tn Cllt "'Uk111~ c'l1)1t,d I" llJ"t to thc !OC,tllL\ t11dt "l1jfl1~ ,11lelllldl1]C" unc1uc c1hUlI'1111dtI011 h\ the c1111el, Jl h \\lthln thc \(1\ leUllt hl':>tol' of (11,1 1c1 l{cllJlds dl1d \\lth111 thc LnO\dee1~c lJf ,111 plc~ellt tl1clt unc vel) 11l1port,lllt l11e!JI'-tn thc \1\111le,m '-,c,ltm~ LUl11jl,l11V e!cuc1ed ,l((dl11~t the le1110vell of e lIC It It~ I,ll ~c"t pldllts. novv 10 attel at Eaune, \\JI~UJl1':>lll, iu th~ ut\ bCCdu,:>e of the f,ld that the delvalltelges of Its pI e ~ellt 10celt!oll 11um d tran~portatlOn "tanc1polllt chslounted an) ,leiv cln tae,es to be del1Veel tr0111 the l11()1e favorable lab:)1 ('onellt1On" l)"- lctlllg III (Tr,mel }(aplels combmed \'V Ith the very ~llght advan-tages that \\ ould be gamed 111c1er the present LIte aelJll~t111enh, III I c,lchlllg the e,lstel n 111clrket<; \nothel plant 110\\ Ie Cdted dt l\nitalo '\ Y "0 lId bc IC11l0ved to CIanci RapIds \\ele It not thc Llct 111.\t ,:>lnJll11cnb fl0111 th,lt pLnl ,Ue jJl!J1e ljJ tlh 11l1C!c t) thc l'.IUItCCOel"t lellltul\ ,1Ildlllldll thc IJlc..,c llldtC ,1c1JlI,tJ]hllt~ 11 -"I III• I• II III ROLLS 12 WEEKLY ARTISAN 1'"._ •• -----~ I,,----------_. III II IIII III - - - 0 0 ~ __ ~ __ • __ ~ UNION FURNITURE CO. ROCKFORD, ILL. We lead m Style, ConstructIon and F,nish See our Catalogue Our lme on permanent exhIbI-tion 7th Floor, New Manufact-urers' BUlldmg. Grand RapIds. China Closets Buffets Bookcases may be made from Buffalo at a lesser rate than from GI and RapIds Traffic between our compet111g tel ntor} \\ est and north\\ est and points 1n southern. southeastern and south\\ estern tern-tones, m0ve:, on the baSIS of rates equally or more favorable than we enjoy and 111evel} chrectlOl1 are \\ e handIcapped be cause of our traffic be111g sub1ect to an adlustment ot late~ that was estabhshed pnor to and 111no antlclpatlOn of the 1mmen~e and rapid development of our resources and commerce In d1sm1ss111g the recent comp1amt of the Sagmav, Boal d of Trade WIthout plejuchce, the Inter~tate Commerce Commh- SlOn referred to the general effect upon all the pe11lnsu1a I ate~ that would result from the readjustment asked for 111 behalt ot Sagmaw and Flint alone and It \\ as 111antlupatlon of such <tl1 expreSSlOn by the comm1S"lOn and 111 recog11ltlo11 of the plmuplc mvolved that thIS a"soclatlOn \\ as formed to comp1 he the en-tIre terntory of the western portlO11 of the 10\\ el pen111,u1a In the descnptlOn of traffic that ha, Its 01lg111 or 1t~ de'tl-nati0n ¥iithin the lowel pemn,u1a of \I1c1l1lzan mal be found a greater percentage of l11[.;hdas" COm1l10dltle" 'lelelll1l.; a l11g-hel average revenue pel tOll n11le thd11 ±tom <tn\ c0l1esp011l1111~te1- ntory. The per centage of 10\\ glade C01111l1ocbtlesh so small as to be almDst neghg1ble The po,slb1htles of 111CeIaseel con-sumption and productlOn of equally hIgh grade tlaffic under more Just and eqmtable transporLltion conchtlOn<; are second to tho"e of no other locahty The fact that MIchIgan llldustne<; have so 1ap1dh progrc"sed to their present stage of development anel prospellt} under pres-ent and past tran,pOltatlOn cond1tlOn" n1d) onl) be consldcled as md1catlve of what may be accomhshed under the mOle fa\- orable transportatIon conchtlOm to \\ l11ch \\ e dl e entItled "0 well informed student of tran"portatwn 01 manufactm e \\ 111cn-tertam or advancc a suggestlOn that a contmuance of rre~cnt adjustment:> WIll be commensurate \\ Ith om \\ e!fare and neces- SItIes. The carners have ~hared 111 such prospent) as we have enjoyed and vV1llparticIpate 111the benefits to be dellved from a readjustment that WIll place us npon a 11101e eqUltable baSIS WIth our competlton Development of natUl al resom ces, lll-creased population, growth of manufact\1l111g 01 proc1ullng fa-citltles and increa'Sed traffic on ralhoad" all crcdte changed conditlOns that VI arrant change" 111rate~ and 1ate adjustment'S in order to afford Just aneI reasonable opportu111tles tor thc 111- terchange of traffic between P0111tSof ploductlOn and POllltS of large consumptlOn The present adjmtments may ha\ e been reasonable and just when estabhshed but are no more so at the present tlme than any adjustment estabhshed today mal be ex-pected to prove commensUl ate wlth the necess1t1e, of :\Ilch1gan traffic thIrty years hence One com111ochty, lumber, ha, dl\\ d)" been accOl eIed 1ates more favorable than would be the apphcatlOn of the estabhshec1 THE "RELIABLE" KIND THE FEllWOCK AUTO & MFG. CO. EVANSVILLE, INDIANA. class rates; v\e learn that it has very recently been decided to grant a sllmlal and speClal bas1s to the sugar mdustry of the state It IS wlthm Jour power, gentlemen, to grant to all Mich- Igan traffic the rehef to whIch same IS entitled by reason of the undue dlscnmmatlOn that eXIsts It but remains to determme 111 \\ hat manner \\ e may best co-operate or other"'lse proceed to efiect the reac1jmtment that further 111vestlgatlOn, conslderatlOl1 and confere11ce ma) demonstrate as reasonable and necessary In the fe\\ compansons and statements \\ e have "ubnutted we ha\ e not CIted extleme cases, 111 seek111g readjustment we an11 dnc1 dc"ll e to be a~ redsonable and Just as we ask) ou to be 111 }am 1ates, lules and practIces and 111conclUSIon V\ e ask that a" tal a, ) on nM} com1stently do so, you nnmechately define your po- ~ltlOn ant 1 ) om propo~ed actlOn 111 tll1s matter We beheve thdt CO-OPClat1011 \\ 111"olve all problem s of t1am portatlOn that con front the cal nel " and theIr patron", fnctlOn represents ch- I cet la,,, ot ener~ \ Let 11'" therefore, ImmedIately and in d ,pmt of co-opel dt10n plOceed to the betterment of a sltuatlOn that dcmands an entll e readjustment Successful in Business and Politics. leaton 01l10, Sept 9-The 01110 IlOn and Blass Bed Com-lHl1\ are planmng to bul1c1 an adchtlOn to theIr plant to be med a" a machlnc 100m It WIll he a two-;"tory bllllchng 40x 70 Ld"t.: Cdl t111':>L01lllHlly put up an aelclluon 40x160 wh1ch II dO, b\11lt for \Val ehou"e pIll pose'3 Tho company I" now c;emllng out theIr fall catalogue, five thousand of them be111g malled at tIm, t1me V1ce-P1 e"ldent and General Manager [) J \11llel ')tates that busmess for the past two months es-pellalh ha" been good and he lS loolong for a steady growth In ,Olt1I11Ctlom nO\\ on 1he Ohl0 lIOn anel Bla:,s Bed Com-palH ha" heln l1ldlont.;' "cull-annual exhlblt" of theIr stron~ 111le of metdl beels 11l the G1amI Raplcb market for the past ten) ear" dlld It II on1d he chfficult meleed to find an outslde mal1ufac tnnng concern In the fllllllture trade that has proven lbel± 11101 e 10) al to the ell anel RapId') mal keto The company no\\ ha~ a peln1<lnent OJllhlt at the Furmtme Exchange [hl IdpHl ele\ elopment and glowth of tIll:, company may be lalgeh attnlJl1ted to \Lll1ag-e1 ::\Itller, who IS not only a suc-ces" ln! manutadtll e1 but aho sncce"sful 111the field of po11- tIC" J or the pa~t h\ a ) edl s :\11 ::\fIller has been mayor of the Clty of Eaton ha'l11g been electeel to office on the Demo-cratIc tlcket 111 a Repllbhcan Clty He has proven h1m'3el£ an able eAecutl\ e and J. few days ago was renom nated by a practlcall) llnanIl11011c; ,ote for another term The valne of e"pellcnce IS only clemomtrated hy the after effects WEEKLY ARTISAN Works and General Offices at 1 to 51 Clancy St. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH., U. S. A. BRANCH OFFICES-Oliver MachlOery Co, Hudson TermlOal, 50 Church St, New York, Ohver MachlOery Co, F"St National Bank Buddmg, Chlcal1o, III , OlIver MachlOery Co , PaCIfic BUlldlOg, Seattle, Wash, Oliver MachlOery Co ,20 J -203 Deansgate, Manchester, Eng CHOICE TOOLS FOR FURNITURE MAKERS If you do not know the "Oliver" wood working tools, you had better give us your address and have us tell you all about them, We make nothing but Quality tools, the first cost of which is considerable, but which will make more profit for each dollar invested than any of the cheap machmes flood. ing the country. Oliver Tools Save Labor "Obver" New Variety Saw Table No. 11 WIll take a saw up to 20' dIameter Arbor belt IS 6' WIde Send for Catalog "B" for data on Hand Jointers, Saw Tables, Wood Lathes, Sanders, Tenoners, Mortisers, Trimmers, Grinders, Work Benches, Vises, Clamps, Glue Heaters, etc., etc. OLIVER MACHINERY CO. UNDJ1:RTAKERS USE TRUST METHODS. Combine With Livery Men and Supply Dealers to Prpvent Independents Getting Business. A disgraceful conte~t between nval uncle1takers of 111(hana pohs for pOSSe%IOnof the five men k11ledm tne 1ecent automobIle races on the speedway m that Clt) led to an 111vestlgatIOn whIch has Ievealed the eJo-btence of somethm<Y very much lIke a trust b • ' that mc1udes not only the undertakers but lIvery men who fur- 11lsh hacks for funerals, manufacture~" of caskets, coffins and dea1e1s m unclertakers' supphes The orgamzatiol1 b said to be so ~tIon~ that It IS llnposs1ble for an mclepcnc1ent undertaker to 1m) supplIe" m the CIty or sccme call1a~e~ to can) fncn<b of tlIe dead to the cemetery J C \Vl1son has Just begun smt alSam~t the cO'11bine \Vlbon was formerly an undertaker at Acton, a httle town near IndIana-polIs Two years ago the undcrtaker" of the CltV deClded not to bId for the contlact for cOl1nt) wOlk, but to mak~ pllces for each fune1 alOne of thc county comm1S"IOner~ knew \V11son and 1l1ducetl hI11l to bId f01 the wOlk The contract was awarded \1,' tIson, vv ho thercupon ope11e(l a place of hl1;,111eSSm the city 1hen h1~ trouble" be~an Other llndel take1 '0 1efused to have an) thmg to do vv1th 111m If he wanted a burial robc It wa~ 1mposlble to buy one 111 the CIty Tf he wanted cloth or handles fOI a coffin nobody had any f01 ~ale vVhe.1 at Acton he could come here and get v"hatever he wanted and 111 an} quantity he vvanted, hut when hc hegan busl11ess in the city he could ~et noth1l1g L - \Vhen \V1lson opened hIS shop a numbe1 of llvclymcl1 solI-cited 111'0""01 k TIe made an agreement wIth one of them, but when he callf'd for carnages a few da) s later he was informed that all tbe ngs were engaged He was supplIed by another "OLIVER" No. 16. Band Saw 36 Inches. Made w,th or w,thout motot dnve Metal table 36"" 30" WIll take 18" under the gUlde- ults 45 degrees one way and 7 d.egrees the other way Car-nesa saw up to 1%ilt w,de. Outs,de beanng to lower wheel .halt when not motol dnven We,ghs 1800 lb. when ready to ,h,p " Tempers .. Coot 13 j ~table, but the ne,-t tIme he hacl a funeral he called up the first In eryman and aga111 was told that everythmg was out Then he had 1ecourse to the other stable and receIved the same answer, but when he went to the stables hllnself he discovered that either of them could have sel ved hun The liverymen were candId enough to tell hIm that they clId not want his busine"s, that he was on the blacklIst, and 1£ they let out theIr carnages to him no other InclIanapohs undertaker would empl~y them \V lIson saw that he must have stock and carriages and horses If he was to mamtam the fight, so he erected stables and purchased eqUlpment. and IS now m the fight to a fimsh Those who have become fam111ar WIth h1S story are standing by him and IllS bUS1l1ess is gro\Vmg Tn addItIOn to thIS some of the 1l1te1esteJ parties are aiding 11111I1n secunng te"tll11ony as to the combme's operatIOns for use m the SUlt he has brought to recover damages from the trust. It IS proposed to bnng out 111the SUlt the cost of funerals and the profits that the comhme IS mak111g It is charged that the under-takers pay lIverymen $3 fOI each carnage and charge $5 for the serVIce, thus mak111g a rakcoff of $2 on every carriage and $5 on CVe1) pall wagon that IS fm11lshecl Dless111gs often C0111echsguised, but adversity is always bare-faced If your DESIGNS are right, people want the Goods. That makes PRICES right. ._-_ .._ ....-... i " . (tlarence 1R. bins DOES IT i~_.._._._----_._---------_. --_._- ----- _. - ... .. 163 MadIson Avenue -CItIzens Phone 1983. GRAND RAPIDS, },{ICH ..... --------------------------------------,. 14 WEEKLY ARTISAN ------------------------------------------- .._---------------, .... II .I,, ,I• II ,,,I ,,I II ,I ,, I,, ,I ...._-------------~ ~----------------------- ,,,,, ,I I,II ,I ,•I I •III •I,II II I •I~---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Our Large New Line of DINING and OFFICE TABLES The season for banquets will soon be here. Get a stock of our Banquet Table Tops so as to be ready to supply the demand sure to come. are the best on the American market when pnces and quahty are considered. STOW & Df\VIS FUKNITUKI; 60. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. City Salesroom. 4th floor, Blodgett Bldg. lc,ldel' by the mall 01del house" The ~eu etal y turns the 01del ~ {)\el to the buy 1l1g commIttee dne! It I" up to them to get the good., at co,t not above whdt 1., pale! b) the mdIl ore!eI house., d](l m nearh all cases the commIttee ha~ succeeded m mak1l1~ the de"lred arragnements 1 he second part of theIr plan IS the co-operative adveI-tl" 1l1g ,,\ ,tem descnbed m the \;\Teekly ArtIsan of la,t Sdturda), and thI~ al"o has been successful, th{)ugh It has not been used a~ eAtemlVely a., IS de.,lred George J HIlyer of ~ mona declared tlMt co-operative bUy1l1g and advertlsmg has worked so well m hIS to\\n that "\V1l10na melchants expect to become mllhon- ,Ill e, \\ tthm ,) few ) ears" He stated that co-operative huymg through the .,tate fl1lmture r1ealer~' aSSOcIatIOn enable'S him to bm at the ,ame pnce the bIg mall OJ der houses pay and that he and the other merchant5 of the tO\, n advertIse together, each cdtalo£;ue deI-Ismg the IeClplent to go to cel tam stores for cer-tam al tIde, The commIttee on ae!vertl"mg urged gleater and more ex-ten51ve me ot the co-operatIve plan, m order to shut the mall ordel home out {)f the state Reports were receIved from the secretary and other standmg commIttees and, after luncheon, the members \\ ent over to St Paul to attend a meetmg of the \ltnne.,ota Commer~lal I'ederatlOn, an orgamzatlOn workmg on Ime" 'Iml1dl to tho~e adopted by the furmture dealer", but h'1\ mg ,1 \\ Hlel .,cope as It tdke., m neall) all branches of 1etall t1 ade MINNESOTA RETAIL METHODS. Co.opel·ative Buying and Advertising is Suc("€'s~· ful Only When Supported by a :Maiority of the ~fell1bers. The ,peClal meetL1g {)f the \lmntsota RetaIl I tlll11tl1le ])ealel~' \~soclatlOn, helel m }\J1l1l1eapo1J~on \\ eclne,cLn '-,epL-ember i"l, mamlv for conSIderatIOn of the repOl t trom the com-mIttee on co-operatIVe bu)mg \\ a" a "ucce~"tul ,mcl enthlhla, tic affaIr The aSSOCIatIOn nm\ ha., someth111g 0\ el 2llll mel11- bel" and a maJOllty of them \,ele pleSe,lt The most pro111111entfedtl1l e 111the repOl t oi the co opel a-tl\ e bU)lng commIttee \\ a, the declaratIOn that co opel <1t1\e 1myll1g Cdn be made succeS5 ful onh \\ hen 1malh ,UppOl ted b\ ,1 maJont) of the retaIl hlll11tlll e dedleI' 1 he :'Ifll1ne,0L! commIttee IS ~uppOl ted b\ more than ,1 ma 101lt\ ut the dedlel' 111 that .,tate, hence theIr efforb ha, e been ql1lte ~ucce,,~ful though It has taken much tIme and persIStent \\ ork to arou5e the dealers to an apprec1atlO,1 of the benefits to be cler1\ ed from ul11tec1actIOn 'b "tated heretofore the :'I1111nesota furl11ture dealers ha, e been fightll1g the mall 01der hou.,e~ p,ll tlclllal I- tho,e ot LhlLa- £:,0. ,m(] helve been mOle "ucce.,siul than IM\e tl1o.,e 111an) othel .,tdte They have t\\O defil11te pLl11s 01 ,\ "tem, \\ lllch \\ I1U1 \\ 01kul t0l:Sethel, enable them to melt mall m (1<:1 competltllln \\ Itllont lllatellal loss, though <1t ,mall plohh I he mm c Ul1- pottant h co-opelatl\l bUylllg Ihe m(Jmellt thc mal1 mdll hou"e cdtalo£:,ue appe,llS \\Old h ,ellt to all membCI' 11 the ,)S"ollatlon Each membel "ell(]-, to th~ .,eu etal \ of the d",O-u, ltlon ,l!1 e.,tlmate of \\ hat he C,!l1 u"e oi the dl tIde" u,ecl a" \, ,t'ltul heletofole, much of the succes" of the \Il11ne- ,oL! I<etal1 lUlmtl11 e Ded!er, \S.,ollatton IS cleehted to the "ec-letdl) \\ L LTlapp, an(] the ba"''' of 1m, succes" IS 111dlcatecl b) the follm\ 111g quotatIOn from an mterVle\\ pubhshed the day aftel the \I111neapohs meet111g 'OUI \\ork has been qUlte .,ucce',-,ful," sale! :'IIr Grapp. but 111ordel to nMke It ,0, dnd keep It so, It 15 necessary to keep the memhel" of the aSSOCIatIOn 111clo~e touch WIth each othel 1hdt h the Pl11111j)dlIdea 111hold111g this meetll1g. \Ve keep h,lmmelI1g uJl1t111uall) at the 'don't care' and II1different de,del' [he lm~~el the olCler we place the lower the pn,es, ,0 \\ e \\ ant e\ el \ hUl11ture dealer 1111111e,so we can continue to eumpete ',lKces"fully ~nother of our objects IS collective ad- \ el th111g \\ e beheve 111extensIve advertlSll1g Of course it is 11l1pOS,Ible 101 the httle country dealer to aclvel tl"e as do the gl eat mall order hou~es. but when we all work together the cost IS small to each 111dlvlc1nal We try to stimulate the neces~Ity ot evella,tmg ac1vertlsmg We gIve the small merchant the op-portul11t) to do so at a cost that IS not prohIbitive The curb stone furmture dealer and the manufacturer who sells at retaIl are other men we are fighting." WEEKLY p •••••• ••••• ••••• 4.~. _ IIF IT'S THE BEST REFRIGERA~~;~ii I IT'S AN ALASKA I 1 1 I,1 :~:~,~~~:y~1U~~:.~:' 1';'1 vision chamber. I Perfect preservation of 1 food. I1 I1 1 1 I I Exclusive Refrigerator Manufacturers. I L. E. Moon. New York Menager. I 35 Warren St. New York City. -...--------- --------- _. ---------~ The Over 850,000 Alasla refrIgerators sold sIn c e 1878. DesIrable features of an Aldska RefrIgerator: Maximum amount of cold. dry air. Simplicity of operation. \Ve sell to dealers only. WRITE FOR CAT-\LOG. Alaska Refrigerator Co. MUSKEGON, MICH. ....4_~__•__ • -.---------------- I! Ii 1I ----_ ....--------------~ .. ,,1 I \ I1 I!1 1 11 111 1 1I1 1I1 1,1 I I11 1 1,1 I,I MORRIS WOOD & SONS Il • ••••••••• ad ••••••••••••••••• ~ I••• t ••• Give your men tools that are ac-curate to the one-thousandth part of an inch. Tools that are straight and true and hold their cutting edge. No matter how expensive and per-fect your machinery may be, if the cutting tools are not of the best, you can not turn out good work. We pride ourselves on the fact that we have manufactured only the very best for thirty-five years. Write for our complete catalog. It shows many new ideas in fme labor saving tools. CHICACO, ILL. ARTISAN 15 r-·-----·-·-------- --.--.---------~ I,1 111 II I,1 II III ,III I,I• 1 I11 1 II1 III1I I,I I II1 , III Palmer's Patent G1uinll CIampsII III1 IIt,,IIII II A. E. PALMER & SONS, Owosso, MICH. I Foreign Representatives: The Projectile Co. London, Eng- I land. ~chuchardt "" Schutte. Berlm, Germany; Alfred H. I Schutte, Cologne, Paris, Brussels, Liege, Milan, Turin, Barcelona, and Bilbo... , ..I. 'lite abo\ e cut is taken direct from a photograpb, and sbOW8 the Junge of one &ize only, our No 1, 24-inch Clamp 'Ve m..lke bix other blzes takIng In stoCh. up to 60 inches wide and 2 inches thlCh Our& IS the most praLtIcal Inetbod of dampIng glued stock in use at the present time. Hundreds of f~l.ctoriesha' e adopted our "ay the past year and llundreds more \\ III in the future Let us show you Let us send you the nanles of nearly 100 factories (only a fraction of our list) who have ordered and reordered many bnles. rroof positive our way Is the best. A post card will bung it, clltalog included Don't delay, but write today. "'-----_._---_. __.,...-_.--.-._- ---_ ..-...----------- / \ 10 SPINDLE MACHINE ALSO M A.DE Wil H 12, 15, 20 AND 25 SPINDLb.S DODDS' NEW GEAR DOVETAILING MACHINE Tlus lIttle machllle has done more to perfect the dtawer wOlk of furtll ture manufacturers than anythmg else 111the furnIture trade For fifteen years It has made perfect fittmg, vermIn proof dovetaIled stock a PO~~I blhty 1hIS has been accomplIshed at reduced cost, as the machme cuts dov".talls In gangs of from 9 to 24at one operatIOn It s what othets see about your buswess rather than what you say about It, that counb III the cash drawer It s the th1111of "nthu"asm and the t1ue ring of truth) ou feel and hear back of the cold type that makes you buy the thing advel ttsed ALEXANDER DODDS, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHICAN Reprelenled by Schucharl & Schutt. at Berbn, Vienna. Stockholm and 51 Pelenbure. Rep",Mnled by Alfred H. SchUlte at Coloane, Bn ... I•• l.aeae. Para •• Milu &IICI 8Jlbot. I\cc_nled ill Great Bri""n and lrolaiul bY the Ohyer Machinery Co.• F, S, ThompoclR. Mil .• 201.203 D ..... alll. MallchUl." £lll1allll • 16 dpparent ale so great that expert accountants and statisticians declare that 1t wIll be well mgh 1mposs1ble to comply w1th the law Yet the law imposes heavy penalt1es on those who fall to comply w1th 1tS prov1slOns. It 1S contended by able lawyers that a law wh1ch reqll1res a man. men or corporatlOns to do 1mpOSS1- ble thmgs 1S vOld and for that reason an I on c::mstttutlOnal grounds the la\\ WIll surely be tested 111the courts ,w1th the sanctlOn not only of those who are opposed to 1t, prinCIples, but also of 1tS fnends \\ ho th111kthat 1t could have been slmphfied to a large extent If the law and the methods prov1ded for 1t:>en-forcement shall be held good It WIll certamly Impose burdns on manufactunng corporat1011S costly enough to reduce their net mcomes cons1derably WEEKLY ARTISAN PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY BY THE MICHIGAN ARTISAN COMPANY SUBSCRIPTION $1 00 PER YEAR ANYWHERE IN THE UNITED STATES OTHERCOUNTRIES $200 PER YEAR. SINGLE COPIES 5 CENTS. PUBLICATION OFFICE, 108-112 NORTH DIVISION ST, GRAND RAP OS, MICH A S WHITE MANAGING EDITOR Entered as second class matter July 5, 1909 at the post office at Grand RapJds, l\!Jchlgan under the act of March 3 18,9 Amencan manufacturers of \\ ood \\ orkmg machmery have gamed a foothold m Europe, 0\ e1comIng, afte1 many years, local prejudIces and competltlOn The ettOl ts of our countn-men to dIspose of mfeno1 goods ha\ e 1etarded the gl 0\\ th ot busmess On thIs subject SOl en LIster, consul general at Rotter-dam, reports to the government at \Vash1l1gton as fo11O\\:o "In Amencd, manuLlctUI er5 do lJDt care 50 much about the long hfe of a machme They say, tdke dll the plol1t :\ou can lrom "\our machme tools" hlle thcy are up to datc, ,crap them a, -oon a- "IOU see that somethmg better IS produLLcl People m the "crhulal1Lh however, care very mULh about the long hte ot the machme tool, they u"e, and consequently look out tor a stlongh bUilt UldCnl11C It dppears to us that the I cdl dltlerenLe hcs bct" cen \\ hat the c\mel ILan manufacturer calls d "trongl, bUilt mach111e tool and thc mean 111g Wh1Ch the '3dme words hd"l e hel cOne ot the hr,t and 111 tact the almost III \ andble que,tllll1 put to "de'111cn 111 thc "etherll11 10 1S, What 1S the ",eight of :\ our mdc1l1l1c? 'lnd It h oftcn \\ ell 111gh lmpoSSlble even f01 a thoroughly expcllel1Led tLch111L tl m 11l to PCI suade hiS customcr to look at d nnch111e ot I call, o"lgl11al ,111elup-to date constructIOn, a, the Lltlel WIll lI1'3ISt on consldenng solcly and SImply a mach1l1e, tnL chIef qU'lhtIy of \\ hlch h 115 eXLcptlon-ally hcavy make" With the average \mencan d hmt 1Sas ~ood as an argument If the Hollanders reqll1re \\ eIght \\ 1th quaht\ the aC0ommoc1at-mg manufacturers of Amen0a \\ 111supply them It h an ea,\ propos1tlOn "When unde1 stood Managers of eastern ra1h oads have rene\\ ed the C1I that was heard Just before the pa111Cof 190. f01 the 1I1crea,e 111 fre1ght rates As m 1907 they dedare that nothm2, less than an mcrease of 10 per cent \11ll enable them to cont111ue bu,11e" w1thout actual loss It 1S true that there ha') been conSIderable mcrease m the cost of matenals used by the 1all roads and a small increase 111vvage5 m the past ten years, but Judgmg by then reports and quotatlOn:o on the1r stocks, even tho:oe that are 0', e1 cap1taltzed to an enormous extent, seem to be domg faul) \\ ell When a great 'ystem hke the Xorthwe')tern ,hO\\ s a net proM of over $22,000,000 on the busme,s of the dull \ ear encltnl?, June 30, 1909, 1t 1Scltfficult to belt eve that an mC1ea"e 111rate., j, I eally necessary. The N orthweste1 n 1~ generally concede I to be the best managed 1atlway 111the country and a" 1t shO\\ s large net ear111ngs above mterest and all k111ds of expenses 111dull tlmes It is easy to reach the concIuslOn that Improvement 11 manage-ment and squeezmg of "Water out of cap1tahzatlOn wo lId be bet-ter for the people and for the ra1lroads than an 111crease In fre1ght rates. Every ltttle bIt of adchtlOnal ltght thlO\\ n upon the C01pora-tion tax law shO\vs pel plexmg compltcatlOns, most of which are due to the methods prescnbed for deterl11mmg the amount of net income on wlllch tax 1S to be leVIed The cltfficult1es already The perelllllal UI1lf01l11blll of ladmg que5tlOn was cons1der-ed at a conterence of shIpper'), merchants, bankers and freIght carne1 s fr0111 all sectlOns of the country held m CIu':ago last \Ionday, w1th the result that congress and state legIslatures will be asked to legahze the b1ll of ladmg heretofore agreed upon by bankers' and sh1ppers aSsoClatlOns Ra1lroad men in the con-ference supported the resolutlOns adopted. It is to be hoped that congress \\ III take actlOn and reach an agreement in less tIme than has been ,pent upon the subject by bankers and com-merCIal orgalllzatlOns The corporatlOn tax 1S not the only th11lg that wJ1l annoy the manufacturers dunng the conung year. The census takers \\ ell supplted \v1th red tape, WIll be around m the spnng and they \\ III ask 111any questIons that few manufacturers can answer correctly w1thout long cons1deratlOn and close consultatlOn of the1r book, As 1t IS proposed to make the com11lg census much more comprehens1ve and complete than heretofore in the matter of ,tatlstlcs, manufacturers may expect to be asked questions that they \\ III be unable to answer except WIth a guess J 1111HIlI of raIlroad fame declares that the country needs 11101e fa1 mers There are a lot of men m the fur11lture industry that could be spared They would make better farmers than manufacturers and yet the agncultural mdustry would not be strengthened very much. The N atlOnal Manufacturers' Assoc1atlOn w111 contmue 1tS campa1gn for the e,tabltshment of a pe1l11anent tanff commission. Richmond. Ind.• Notes. RIchmond, Ind., Sept 16-The RIchmond Chairl Company, manufacturers of double cane cha1rs and rockers are gettmg out the1r 1909-1910 catalogue to be ready, Pres1dent ]VI J. O'Brien states, for ma1lmg to the trade October 1 The RIchmond Furl1lture ::YIanufactunng Company are do-ing an excellent volume of busmess th1<"year, the trade commg pnnc1pally from the eastern and central state" :\Ianager CT E Kemper of the R1ch1110nclFurlllture :\Ianu-factunng Company has Just retuL1ed from a two weeks' b,ls111ess tnp 111Ch1cago LOUlsv111eand Cmcinnatl The Calltson Compaay of Pmevllle, Ky, WIll erect a ne\\ bUlldmg to theIr Je\\ elry and undertakmg busmess N P Lau) of vVashtucna, \iVash, is e1ectmg a 23x60 foot bUlldmg for the1r Jewell v and undel takmg hmmess The new store of the Carlll1gton Fur111ture Company at N ashud, N H, was opened on September 8. WEEKLY ARTISAN 17 ~ ..- .....•........ --_.--_ ..__ _- -- ---_ --- _.-- __ ........•............• The Beautiful, New Udell Catalog No.679 No.354 No.1239 New FacfOl.·ies. The Southland veneer Company I~ estabhshmg a new plant at Tuscaloosa. Ala. The Norton Chair Company, a new corporatlOn vvlth $10,000 capital IS to estabhsh a chair factory at Norton, Vir J C. Brundes of Fanbault, ]\1mn, is expected to invest $10,- 000 m estabbshmg a fur11lture factory at Monroe, Wa~h. J V. Hamilton proposes to estabhsh a plant for the manu· facture of cabmets and other case gooch m Fort Scott, Kan VV H Cole of l\Ialden, ;\Iass, I~ said to be promotmg the orga11lzatlon of a company to estabh~h a furmture factory at J\Ionroe, La The J\Illner Upholstering Company has been incorporated with $10,000 capital ~tock, to estabhsh and operate a factory at Stockblldge, 11:lch. Max Sender\'v Itz, Anna Den11lson and others have mcor-porated the Lehigh Star Beddmg Company and Will estabhsh a factory, at Allentown Pa The Raleigh (N C) Cabmet v\' orks has been mcorporated by Charles L vVoodall, G M. Spencer and others, who will es-tabhsh a small factory. Capital stock, $2,000 V'hlham S J ohmon, Henry l\I. Pierce and John R. Phibps have mcOl porated the Hatcher Refngerator Company to manu-is ready for all Retail Furniture Dealers. It Will help sell the line that of its kind has no superior. It contains 88 pages Illustrating 41 Library Bookcases, 88 L':ulies' Desks, 48 Sheet Music Cabinets, 23 Piano Player Roll Cabinets, 14 Cylinder Record Cabinets, 11 Disc Record Cabinets, 19 Medicine Cabinets, 10 Commodes, 9 Folding Tables. ACT A T ONCE AND WRITE facture refllgerators, household articles and noveltle~ In Chica-go Capital, $3,000 G S Hohday, preSident of the nusme~~ ::\Icn'~ AssoClatlOn, Clmton, l\Io, can fur111~h mfOlmatlOn legarclmg a new 'v\oocl-workmg factory to be estabbshed m that Clty Joseph A vVerwI11sk! and W H '0, Iggms of the Studebaker l\1:anufactunng Company are mterestecl I11the orga11lZatlOn of a company to estabbsh a large fur11lturc factory I11 South Bencl, Incl. The Implovecl Office PartltlOn Com pan) has been I11corpor-atecl With $25,000 capital stock, by Isaac Rosenthal, Joseph C Kaclane ancl other:, to manufactm e \'vood partltlOn~, cabmeh, etc, m N e\\ YO! k Clt) New Buildings in the Far West. Resldences-c. '0,'. Schaub, $R,UOO, Lena Battmacher, $3, )1'0 ancl Edward Batchelder, $3,600, all of Passaclena. Hotels-A modern hotel of 100 rooms IS to be bUllt at 1\e,v-port, ncar Redland~, Cal, ata cost of $'1-0,000 John l\ I 1\ bm maut IS the promoter of the new hotel bUlldmg that IS to he erecl-ed m Santa :.\1:011lca,Cal, at a cost of $150,000 Pubhc BUllclI11g~-Pol} tech11lc school at Hollywoc d. C 1, $123,000 .-----------------_._._._.--._-_._._._.-._ __._.--._._.-._.------_ _--_._._._-_ _----------_ ---------..~ THE UDELL WORKS INDIANAPOLIS, IND. ........ _ .._. . No. 57 Flat Arm Racker INDIANA RICHMOND CHAIR CO. DOUBLE CANE LINE "SLIP SEATS" - the latest and best method of double seating. Catalogues to the Trade. .... - -.- - Richmond Tablet Arm Chair No. 100 .. ._------------------------- ---------- ._--_._. ------ --.. -~ RICHMOND 18 A Page From a Supplementary Catalogue Recently Issued by the WARREN TABLE WORKS, Warren, Pa. WIFKL Y \RTTSAN THE \!\rAR, R,EN No. 515. IIn rOI, 24" 30 IIahogany Toona [op, 21 " 44 $)) 00 3300 No. 319. Mnlol,24x36 l[aho~aIlY 1 oOlla rap 21" 40 ~);-,00 3R 00 No. 615. J\lnIOI, 16 '{ 20 J\llh()~aI1Y 10011.1 lop, 20 x 32 $2900 2900 No. 8138. Mil ror, 16 x 20 Qu.l1 tered Oak Mahogany 'laona Ell d's Eye Maple 10p, 20 x 30 $18 SO 19 SO 1950 1950 WEEKLY ARTISAN 19 ~------------------------- ,I II ,, ,,II•• ,,II• ,, ~-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------._--------~ ~ 1 I III - . Wood Bar Clamp Fixtures Per Set SOc. OVER 15,000 OF OUR STEEL RACKVISES IN USE Price $2.80 to $4.00 2, doz Clamp Fixtures bought by one m111last year We ship on approval to rated firms, and guarantee our goods uncondl tlOnall) TVr,te for itst of Meet Bar Clamps Vzses Bench Slops ele E. ". S"ElDON &. CO. 283 Madison St, Chicago "THE BEST IS ______ a _. _•• • ---------.------------.-.-----.-------~ THE CHEAPEST" --- -.~, III ,II ,I•• I,• ,• ,I I• :, II MANUFACTURED BY SAMUEL J. SHIMER &. SONS, MILTON, PENNSYLVANIA. BARTON'S GARNET PAPER Sharp, Very Sharp, Sharper Than Any Other. SUPERIOR TO SAND PAPER. It costs more, BUT It Lasts Longer; Does Faster Work. Order a small lot; make tests; you will then know what you are getting. WE GUARANTEE SATISFACTION. Furniture and Chair F actones, Sash and Door Mills, Railroad Companies, Car BUilders and others Will consult theIr own mterests by using It. Also Barton's Emery Cloth, Emery Paper, and Flint Paper, furnished m rolls or reams. H. H. BARTON & SON CO., 109 South Third St., Philadelphia, Pa. I~---,-----.------------------- -_.~I ,------_.-----,_.~.--_._.--_.~.---- PLATE ~OBBERS AND MANUFAOTURERS OF GLASS GLASS I N THE W 0 R L 0 COMPANY Mirrors, Bent Glass, leaded Art Glass, Ornamental Figured Glass, Polished and Rough Plate Glass, Window Glass \l\JIRE GLASS Plate Glass for Shelves, Desks and Table Tops, Carrara Glass more beautiful than white marble. GENERAL DISTRIBUTORS OF PATTON'S SUN PROOF PAINTS AND OF PITCAIRN AGED VARNISHES. (j[ For anythmg m BUilders' Glass, or anythmg m Pamts, Varnishes, Brushes or Pamters' Sundnes, address any of our branch warehouse~, a lIst of which IS given below NEW YOB.X-Hudson and Vandam Sts. BOSTON-41-49 Sudbury st., 1-9 Bowker st. CHICAG0-442-452 Wabash Ave. CINCINNATI-Broadway and Court Sts. ST. LOUIS-Cor. Tenth and Spruce sts. MINNEAPOLIS-500-516 S. Thlrd St. DETB.OIT-53-59 Larned St, E. GB.AND :RAPIDS, MICH-39-41 N. Dlvlslon St. PITTSBUB.GH-101-103 Wood st. MILWAUXEE, WIS.-492-494 Market st. B.OCHESTEB.,N.Y.-Wllder Bldg, Main & Exchange Sts. BALTIMOB.E-310-12-14 W. Pratt St. CLEVELAND-1430-1434 West Third St. OMAHA-ll01-1107 Howard St. ST. PAUL-459-461 Jackson st. ATLANTA, GA.-30-32-34 S. pryor St. SAVANNAH, GA -745-749 Wheaton St. XANSAS CITY-Flfth and Wyandotte sts. BIB.MINGHAM, ALA.-2nd Ave. and 29th st. BUFFALO, N. Y.-372-74-76-78 Pearl St. BROOXLYN-635-637 Fulton St. PHILADELPHIA-Pltcalrn Bldg., Arch and 11th DAVENPOB.T-410-416 Scott St. OXLAHOMA CITY, OXLA , 210-212 W. Flrst St. ~-----------------_._._-_. -------------------------------------------._--------------~._-- -. fREvERsIBLE--AND-ONE~WAy--cuTT~Rsl r-- i The Shuu" Rn " "hk Cut' ec. I I , 101 Slll~1e SpIndle Sh tpct '>, VdllLly I' • I IIoulc1u" 01 llleLU -', arc e,l1efnlly I ,I moulded oPPosIte to the shdpe of :' ' the monld to bc plocluced III such : , a V\ ay IS to h n e only the cuttl1lg I ed!Sc touch the lumbel fhey ,11 e eompletc-l1lexpenslve-tlme saVl1lg : Wc dbo manufdctUl e One \Vay Cntters fell Double Spl1lclle I ShapcI" Thcy .11e used 111 pd11<', lIght ,11ld left, one Cutter of , each shapc for cach spmdle In ordcnng speCldl sh,lpes not listed In our cat.llogue, send a \Vood sample 01 an accur.1tely madc drawl1lg Addrebs I,,I , II II , I ..... THE WEATHERLY INDIVIDUAL Glue Heater Send your address and and re~elve des~r1ptlve ~Jr~ular of Glue Heaters, Glue Cookers and Hot Boxes WIthpri~e•• The Weatherly Co. Grand Rapids, Mich. .... . . tune 111manutactunng . antlquc" fllr111ture and retlred ten years a~o, dIed last ::\Ionday, aged 60 years James H March of Lexington, Ky, prom1l1ent as a fllrm-tm e dealer and Democratlc polItlclan, dIed from a stroke of apoplex), on 'september I, aged 68 years Cletrence H Young, of Rockland, Mass, has acqUIred a contI oIlIng 111tere~t and taken actlve management of the factory ot the -\ K' Bed Company of Boston II ednesda), SeptembcI 11, \\ as the greatest pay day in the hhton at Rockford, 111, \\ hen the fur111tllre factones paId out 0\ el Sl j() ()( I) as \\ agc, for the month of August \Ie"" ,rcCmle) [lank '[c,Iullen and Ech\ard Lalk1l1 have 111lOlpOIated the Kellman Company to do a general unclertak1l1g and 11\el) bus111ess at Ottawa, III CapItal, $5,000 Percy Ra), formerly wIth the IV est :'IIlchlgan Furniture Compam at Holldml, succeeds John Veneklassen as manager of the \I 01\ ellne } m111tme Company of Zeeland, 1\Ilch \I 13 Huyck, fur111ture dealer of San Jose, Cal., has sold out to the \oonan [Ur111tm e Company of San FrancIsco, who WIll lontmue the bus111ess \\ Ith J E Kllpel t as manager The plant at the Eggel" \ eneer Company at Two RnTers, \lIS h be111g eqmppec1 \\ Ith specIal mach1l1ery for mak1l1g \ eneered door., for thc Chtcago \ eneer Door Company. hed Fe), ±ur111ture dealer of Lora1l1, OhIO, has purchased the Baumhardt block from the K atlOnal Bank of Commerce, \\ hlch \\ III gIve hun room to enlarge hIS prosperous bus1l1es" 'slsslOn & Parker of Lo~ Angeles, have caught the retatl tUlmture stock and store of french & Harley at L1I1dsay, Cal anel \\ III cont111ue the bus111ess \\ Ith Joshua Hadley as manager. [he [amous [mmture and Carpet Company of Spnngfield, ,10 , hd\ e pm cha ,eel a sIte on whIch they WIll erect a three-star} bllch. bmld111g \\ hlch the} expect to occupy about thc mIddle of \ 0\ cmber The Globe furnIture Company, Kew BrunSWIck, N J has been 111lOlpOIated \\ Ith a capItal of $20,000 by Albert Marks, Bertha ::\Ial ks anel Harr) ::\Ia!ks, to deal 111fur111ture and house-hold goods \I atk111s 1310", fm11lture dealer., of Pueblo, Cola, have moved 111tOne\\ qual tel s at the corner of Santa Fe avenue and I hlrel street and nm\ claIm to have the "11Iftles1" fur111tUIe store 111the state EmIle 13enOlt, formerly manager for the upholstery depart-ment for J ame~ ::\lcCrcer) & Co ~ ThIrty-fourth street store. \e\\ York, IS nm\ upholsten buyer for John \\'anamaker's PhIla-delphIa stOl e J 'stel du, one of the bl otnel s \\ ho own a cham of fl1rmtm e StOlc~ 111ea stel n Tennessee WIll open a new storc WIth an ex-tensIve l111eof fur111ture cal pets, rug" etc , at bZ1 1\Iarket street, Chattanooga, about the mldclle of Octobel \ Lohenstc111 & 'sons,fl11mture dealel ~ of 1280 vVa"hlng-ton street, Boston, :'IIass, have been (lIsc:hdlged 111bankruptC) The) paId 23 per cent 111cash and l?;ave notes for 25 per cent mal e all CIeclttOl s relelv111g ,jO pel cent of then cldlms The Prufrock- T~ltton Furmtm e Company of St Lams, 1\10, shm\ ed a hundred loom., furm shed complcte 111evel y detaIl at thc open111~ of then ne\\ qual tel s on Scptember I Two cntll e flOOl' 111the ne\\ bUlld111g \\ CIe elevated to room cltsplays \VIIlIam '\ olkel & Co manufacturers of housefur111shing 10veltles, havc Just completeel a new five-story fire proof butlding to be useel dS factor), \\ al ehou.,e and salesrooms at 1628 Four-tccnth street, onl) 1\\0 blocks from the cIty hall, Dcnvel ,Colo R Adam, of Cedal RapIds, Iowa, has sued the Iowa Fl11- mture In.,Ulance Company to collect $500 on a polIcy that covered the fur111ture store of 1" rank vVaterbury, whIch was burned m September last year The polIcy \\ as assIgned to A..dams, but MISCELLANEOUS NOTES AND NEWS. The SullIvan (Ind) Cabmet Camp an) \\ 111move theIr plant to Terre Haute The Bedford IUll11ttl1 e Company of \ alle]o, Cal, are en-larg1l1g theIr St01e E J. & P. D IV IllIngnam of 1\Iacon Ga, are remodelmg theIr fl1rmtl1re store FI ed J '\Tarsh, fUlmturc dealer of Bakel sfielcl, Cal , h-ls solcl out to E C Crowell 1he Star Fmmture Company of Seattlc \I ash, hae; been 111- corporated WIth $3,000 capItal J ,s 1\Iernll of ::\Iechamcs T dlls ::\Ic ha., .,olel hh tmmtul e store anel retIred from bu,Ille,s Creclttors have fileel a petltlOn 111bankI uptC) agillnst Robert E 1\IcCullough of Lom WIlle, I'\.) The MobIle (Ala) [ur1l1ture Company has been c1ec..Iarcd bankrupt on petltlOn of uedItor, A petltlOn 111 bankruptcy ha., bcen filed agalllst thc 13mlee; Furmture Company of 13essemer, Ala. Hager Bras, fUl11lture dealel., of ::\Iarquette ::\Ilch opened then handsome new store letst '[onela\ There I, a gredt dcmand fOI competcnt (It al1ghhmen 111the 111dustnes, e.,peClall) 11 thc Stl ucturdl steel Imc The Standard ::\1n rOl Cewpan) ot Bl1ftalo, X Y, b to erect a new factOly bmld111g at a cost e~tlmated at $-10,000 The Calk1l1s-V\I hlte Brothers Fur111ture Company of Pueblo, Colo, has been 1I1corporatec1 CapItal stock, $2,),000, dll paId The Central Fmmture Company, dea~ers of LomtvI1'e Ky, have 1I1creasecl theIr capItal stock from S20,000 to S30,000 Charles K Henr) , manufactm el of metal and office ±tn11l-ture of Portland, Ore, IS bUllellll~ a ne\\ fac:tol \, to cost S'2j 000 or $80,000 The Rusco Fur11lture Comp,ll1\ of Pomol\a, Cal, C ~-\. Rus-co, manager have movedmto ne\\ qua' ter" on Gale\ a\ enue and Second street. - The twenty-second annual conventIOn of the \atlOnal P,nnt OIl and Varmsh \ SSoclatlOn \\ III be held m PhIladelphIa, October 12, 13, and 1+ The f1l1111tme factOl) of Z00k & ZOdl, of Intercom se, Ya, IS runmng ovel tIme The facton emplo} s four men besld.,s the propnet01 s The Eastern Outfittmg Com!Jan), furmtUl e dealer., of San FranCISCO, Cal, have moved mto theIr ne\\ SI'(-StOI) bUlldmg at 1017 Market street The Grand RapIds (l\ltch) Hand SCIe\\ Com pam ha \C employed a full force of men and Iun thc tactm \ ()() hOl1r~ pel \\ cek for thc past month J A MohI, the only fUll11ture dealer m Ponca ,X eb, IS l1ayor of the CIty and hIS trade I" grow111g so .upldl) that he WIll have to enlarge hIS store Herbert L Scofield, fUIl11tUIc deale 1 of \ e\\ Canaan Conn, WIll erect a large bnck bUllchng on 1\Jam Stl eet to accommodate hI s large and 111creasmg bl1S111ec;s Yalentme 1hoe,en fOlmeII) \\ Ith ] Len1) Thoe~en, \ C\\ York now represent., thc J ame., II Cooper (ompam of Phlld-delphIa, in the I\C\\ Em;land ,tate, The manager~ of the Koemg I\l1mtul e Compam of St LOUIS, 1\10 , whose plant \\ as blll ned 1 ecently have nnde atrange-ments to rebUIld on an enlarged scale As a result of troublc bet\\ een pal tner" the undel takmg bus-iness of Weber & l\Illler, Cmc1l1nati, OhIO, has been placed 111 the hands of ::\Iartm G rll1l1, as I ecelver G. II J acke;on of \Iltance, 01110, a salesnun of \\ Ide cxpeI-lence has accepted thc posItIon of manage 1 of the Hoo\eI-Row-land furmture store of ::\IallOn, OhIO Peter Dotzauer, a German of New York, who made a for- WEEKLY ARTISAN 21 the company refuses to pay on the ground that other credItors of Waterbury claIm a '>hare of the money clue The P Mahony Company of K ew York CIty, manufactUl ers of wIllow and rattan ware have been mcorporated by \\ Ilham D Saunders, James C BrIll and Henry D 1\[OIr Lapltctl :,tocK paId m $10,050. The name of the .:\Iontgomery Avenue FurnIture Company of Chattanooga, Tenn , has been changed to the KIrkpatrIck Fur-mture Company E 13. KnkpatrIck i'3 presIdent; J. T. KIrk-patrIck, vIce-presIdent, :\ L. KIrkpatnck, secretary and treasurer dnd there are mOle of the '>ame name mtnested In the :,ame b lSI-ness John G Koppelman, presIdent ot the Koppelmdn 1:' urmtUl e Company, St LOUIS, Mo, dIed on Septembel 3, from the effects of a '3U1glcal oper <1tlOnfor ctppemhCltl'3 A natIve of Gelmany, G7" The corner pIeces al e beautIful One is the American flag WIth all ItS tmy :,tars m place, a reproductIOn of the brass cannon m the cIty hall yard, a 1\Iasomc emblem and a star On one edge is the Odd Fellow:,' emblem "\mong the thIrty dIfferent kmds of vv ood used in the table are four vanetle'3 of mahogany, Ru,>slan walnut and mulberry, black walnut, boxwood, red cedar, whIte holly, box elder, syca-more, ebony, soft pme, willte oak, red odk, apple, olIve wood, boxwood, rosewood, lIard pme, cotton wood, beech and osage orange To Educate Mechanics. The Stuyve'3ant evemng traele school wlll open the fall term m 1\ ew York on September 20. These subjects wlll be taught· Made by Grand Rapids Fancy Furmture Co, Grand Rapids, Mich. he had been a resIdent of St Loms smce 1857 He succeeeded hIS uncle, Henry Koppelman m the furmture manufactunng bus-mess and II1corporated the company 111 1877. Table Made With a Jackknife. J ame'> Hutchll1son, veteran, solcher, archJtect and carpenter of Peona, Ill, wIll present Bryner Post, GAR, of that city WIth a centel table for then new hall 1he table wIll contam over +000 piece:, of wood, 3,578 of ",luch have been placed. The PeorIa Transcnp declares "the most wO'ldel ful thmg about the wOIk I:' that the whole tlung was made WIth a common pocket kmfe, whose blades are now worn down to small stubs. 1\1r:'"Hutchmson has been at work on the table for over six months and expect'> to complete It before Thanksgivmg Day In the center of the top IS a checker board, the squares mlaid ,\ lth dark and whIte wood A fancy border skirts the board presentmg fantastIc deslgm made of Ihfferent colOl s of wooel Part of thl'> border contall1'> 2,;552 small pIeces of wood carved mto chamonds Around the edges of thl'> fancy V\ ork are wlute letters carved with the mscnptlOn, "Bryner Post, GAR. No Carpentry and jomery, cabmet making, patternmaking, black-slmthmg, plumbmg, machme shop work, printmg and type'>et-tmg, mathematics, free-hand, alcllltectural, and mechanical draw-mg, machme deSIgn, applIed electnClty, steam engmeenng, elec-tnc wmng and InstallatIOn, mdustrial chemistry, and applIed phySICS Only th0'3e pel sons Will be admitted as students who are not m attendance upon the day school and who are employed dUrIng the day at some regular occupatIOn PupIls over 21 years old Will be reqmred to fmm:,h the plmcpJal WIth a recommenda-tIOn from their employers or other responSIble persons to the effect that It IS the mtentlOn of the'3e pupils to contmue the cour'3e for whJc hthey had registered untIl the end of the school year. IMPROVED, EASY AND ELEVATO RS QUICK RAISINC Belt, Electnc and Hand Power. The Best Hand Power for Furmture Stores Send for Catalogue and Pnce•• KIMBALL BROS. CO., 1067 Ninth St.. Council Bluffs, la. Klmbatl Elevator Co., 3~ Prospect St., Cleveland, 0., 10811thSt., Omaha, Neb., IZe Cedar St , New York City. " ....... •. ..... _.a. .. .--~ ARTHUR S WHITE. PreSident ALVAH BROWN, Vice President HARRY C WHITE, Sec y Treas WEEKLY ARTISAN 23 _.... I II II ••I,•• I I t IIII I• III •,II I, I... ....-- --------------_._------------------~ III• I t,•t •• ,,• •II II II II , I,•• , .•I. THE Wellin~ton notel Cor. Wabash Ave & Jackson Boulevard " , CHICAGO Remodeled at a cost of $150,000 Hot and cold running water and long dis-tance 'phones In all rooms. 200 rooms 100 wIth bath Smgle or en sUlte. Rates $1 00 and upwards One of the most UnIque dlDIQi rooms In the country Our famous Inchan Cale NOTEO FOR SERVICE AND CUI S NE McClintock and Bayfield PROPS. ~-.- ----------~-------------------------~ ,I 'WHEN IN DETROIT '. : STOP AT I ! Hotel Tuller I I New and Ablolutely FIreproof • ,I Cor. Adams Ave. and Park St. ,, • In the Cenl.r of the Thealre, Shop I • pm•• and Busmess Dlstnct t " ! A la Carte Cafe , I Newelt and Flnelt CrIll 1 I Room In the CIty. , : ,~C~lub-B-r.akfast - 4~0c up , , T abl. d hote Dmners 75c : I MUSlcfrom 6P M to 12 PM. : Every room haa a prIvate bath : I EUROPEAN PLAN , Ratel. $1.50 per day and up. : L. W. TULLER. Prop I M. A. SHAW. Mgr I ..---------~-------------.---.-_------------------------------------------------------~--~I, I I,II III•• ,II I I,, -- ,I I,, II , II , Hotel LINDEN Indianapolis Illinois and New York Sts. b Blocks from LnlOn Depot 2 Blocks from Interurban StatIOn 250 Rooms \11 Out'lde, WIth Fire E,cape I elephone III Every Room. European Plan Rate' 75c to $2 00 Per D l\ Duung Room tn ConnectIOll SpecIal Rate' to FamIlies and Permanent Guests I adles Traveling Alone will FlIld [his '1 Yen DeSirable StOpplllg Place. GEO. R. BENTON Lessee and Manager ~----------------------------------------------~ ~, -------------------------- I,I• ,•• •,I III ,I• ,II ~-- • III III III Morton -------------------~IIIII IIIt •II• I,I I •••••••• • _---4 House ( AmeDeanPlan) Rates $2.50 and Up. Hotel PantJind (European Plan) Rates $1.00 and Up. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. The Noon Dmner Served at the Pantlmd for 50c IS THE FINEST IN THE WORLD. J. BOYD PANTLIND, Prop . ~-------------------------------... -----------~ I I ,I BOYNTON &, CO. ,I I , : Manufadurers 01 I " Illy:. Embolled and '. g~TwiWi!lr ... "\i1i.6QSJANTff' Turned Mould : . _ Ings, Emboll- I • SEND fOR ed and Spindle I , Carvlnlrl. and , •• Automafic ,I • Turnings. • • W. also manu : ladore a large hne I I of Embo.led I t Ornaments for t : Couch Work. : I I I I I '256-'258 W. Fifteenth St., CHICAGO, ILL. : II •I ~----------------------------------------------~ ~, ----------------------------------------------~ 1 I I II••• I I,,,• I, I I•• , III I• II ~------------------- II I,,• I, II, II --------------------------~ Spiral Grooved and Bevel Pointed DOWEL PINS Note how the glue in the Spiral Groove forms Thread like a Screw Bevel Pointed, easy to drive Straight so will not split the frames Prices and discounts on application STEPHENSON MFG, co" SOUTH BEND. IND. ~----------------------------------------------~ I , • • ! HOFFMAN BROTHERS CO. ! I FT. WAYNE, IND .• I• I• I· ,, : HARDWOOD LUMBER ! I : I • •, •. l,l SA~~D l QUARTERED OAK VENEERS I, I SLICED \ AND MAHOGANY , I I ~• --------------------- -----------------------~ I :----------------------------------------------1 I These saws are I I I t made from No.1' • Steel and we war- ! I,! rant every blade. •I t We also carry a , : full stock of Bev- I I eled Back Scroll I ': Saws, any length I and gauge. I I , , I t Write us tor I : Price Llst : • nnd discount , I , I I I ! 31-33 S. Front St., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. I .. __ •• III III III III III III III III •••• _. I ••• __ .... WEEKLY ARTISAN 25 ------------- _.- . ------------------_._. __._------_._------_._._-----._------_._-_._---_ ..---~ This Group for ~51 Solid Oat{; French Plates; Any Finish Desired $18.00 6.50 4.00 8.75 775 6.00 Wardrobe Dresser Combination Dresser Commode Dresser Chiffonier Bed .,.- FINISHES-Golden Oak. Gloss, Dull Golden, Early EnglISh. Weathered of Fumed F. O. B. Manistee. I II'-------------,-----_._._._._-_ .._------------------- --------------_._.~._--------~ Manistee Mfg. CO. MANISTEE, MICH. Wanted-Table Legs. Vveekly Artlsan, Grand Rap1ds, l\llch, Gentlemen - \Ve wish to get 111correspondence w1th some concern '" ho manufacturers cheap extensIOn and cheap k1tchen table legs 'vVe have been unable to locate such a concern. but have been thl11kmg that you m1ght be able to refer us to some one who does this kmd of work If you can give us the names of two or three such manufacture! s we will greatly appreciate the favor. New York Markets. .;\e", York, Sept 17-The most notable feature of the 111 ~~- kets m which furmture manufacturer~ are 111tere"ted Ie al'ctLer advance 111the pnce of turpentl11e, willch IS now quote(1 Iere at bO@61 ce,lts Savannah, firm at 5,@:Jj 0 cents Ll11seed Ollis weak and there ha~ been c011S1der2ble shadl11e" of the quotabons wh1ch have been held for several (lay~ at oJ(~(~ 31' for western raw, sll1g1e bOlled, 3b@"}{), double bOlle 1 "}<)@b~ Calcutta, H@75 cents. Shellac finds a ready demand III small parcels but there 1S httle or nothlllg d0111g III round lots, T N m cases 1S quoted at lb@1G0 bnght orange grades at 18@19, Diamond 1, '26@;2'1 Bleached, fresh 17@1S, kiln dned 21@22 cents The trade 111varmsh gums stlll suffers from the h1g11 prICe 0f turpent111e. Sales are small and slow though pnces al e vveJI mamtamed Kaun Ko 1. -10@-18, No 2, 21@25. No. '3 ~0(("1 S cents :"lamla, pale, 15@17 , dark, hard, 13@1.) , amber, 12@H. Recelpb of goat skms are sbll hght but they meet the de-mand and quotatIOns have been Without matenal change for nearly a month J\lex1can frontlers, o,3 cents, Buenos Ayre~, JC@+2; Curacaos, :J0@52, Baybens, 4,J@J8. The cordage trade IS Irregular owmg to the unsettled conch-bon of the raw matenal markets B C twme, No] 8 is quoted today at lCJ@lG0 cents, No ]S fine, 11@11,Y:; Incha, ~os 4y2 to U, 7X@8. Sheet ZlllC IS quoted at $7 GO per 100 pounds, fob m111s The burlap market IS Without specIal features QuotatlOns stand at last weeks' figures-3 bO for eight-ounce goods, 4- 80 for 100 ounce Your~ respectfully, Dawley Furniture Company, Charleston- Kana wha, Sept 15, 1qOB W va. The Novelty Wood Works of Grand Rapids Will undoubt-edly be pleased to correspond With the West \ 1rgm1a company and probably other reader~ of the Weekly Arbsan Will addrecs the managers of the company, expressmg their ablhty and w111- mgness to supply their wants Will Consider Industrial Problems. An lllternatlOnal llldustnal congress w111be held in \Vash-lllgton dunng the comlllg year Dates w111 be chosen later. QuestlOns that naturally would be lllcludec1 m the program of the congress are :"1:ethods of conClhatlOn and arbitratIOn, llldus-tnal msurance, employers' habihty, old age penSIOns, out-of-work 111surance, the safeguardmg of machmery, profit shanng and questIOns relatmg to women and children in industry The call for the congress Will probably be Issued by the general gov-ernment. L Adams succeeds W L Block, furmture dealer of Oregon Hardwood Lumber Markets. CIty, Oregon Hardwood lumbermen-producers and dealers-m all sec-bons of the country report steady 1mprovement m thelr busmess An lllcrease 111 demand and a sbffenmg of pnces 1S the burden of the repOl ts A scarc1ty of 111gh grade quarter-sa\Ved oak IS reported from some p01nts, but as a ",hole the "upply seems to be about e(lual to the demand i\t any rate the alleged scarcity has not cau~ed any matenal change m pnces 111 the past two two weeks There IS salCl to be a much better demand for red oak than for the white vanety A few months ago the demand favored the white All kllld s of hardwood lumber except oak culls and low grade gum and cottonwood are reported as movlllg freely. ..--- - "• " -... --- ..- .. . . • Henry Schmit 8 Co' HOPKINS AND HARRIET 5i5. Cincinnati, Ohio makers of for LODGE and PULPIT, PARLOR, LIBRARY. HOTEL and CLUB ROOM \ dcalH one ot tho~e already fur11lshed IS qUIckly cleared and the desIred plc:es are put 111 The advantage of thIS plan I" that the cu"t0111er does not have to ' go It bhnd" 1.1 mak111g hIS ~electI0n". Instead of walt111g untIl the goods are dehvered, 110 can see at the StOl e how they WIll look when set up and as",e111bled, and when bUyIng hIs furnIture he can get valuable Idea~ a" to decoratl'e methods Thl" pldn of dIsplay 111g fur11lture has been In operatIOn about "1). month" at the Vvanamaker store, and It has proved "c. effect1\ e that other estabh",hmemts 111 ::.Jew York are adopt111g It Intele"tln~ as are the small dIsplay rooms the center of dttl altlOn III tne \\ dnalllaker store IS "The Home Palatial" 1 hl~ occupIes the east end of the bUlld111g and purpol ts to be a t\\ 0 ",tory home of refinement and wealth A ulllformed footman stands at the entrance The vIsItor enters a WIde fm er hall furnIshed In GeorgIan style To the nght IS a LOlll" X\ salon, VI Ith the paneled walls, the plano, the cabI-net the chaIr", fireplace, dock, hght111g fixtun:ls and other tm msh111g~) all 111 keep111g There IS a great Ehzabethan hbl ar}. \\ Ith timbered cea1111g and all the furmshmgs m the Ehzabethan sty Ie The dmmg room IS Jacobean, the slttmg loom I" Lm se}, the 11\mg room IS Morns, the study FlemIsh I endl <sance and the kitchen is a model with tile floo, and \\ alb and enameled smk" and utenSIls. From the dm111g room ope 1S a pretty Vle\\ of an Itahan Court Garden A WIde "talrVl a} lead" from the foyer hall to the upper floor, WIth the land111g 111 a large gallery hall One of the chambers IS Du Dan} another IS 111:\Iane l-\ntOlnette, and others are Sheraton, and colomal The guest chamber IS 111GeorgIan, the morlllng 1OG111h ~heraton and d wnt111g room 111Adams There IS a 1ll1I\el"lt} boys loom, a college gIrls room, a day nursery and a 11Ight 11tlrsel} Lach loom I" complete in Itself and as nearly perfect a~ good ta"tc can dIrect, even to the pIctures and floor coy ellll~S \\ htle the "house palatial" IS purely for show pur- ]JO~C" It I" e"ceedlllgl} home hke 111appearance, WIth the bIg chall" seemlllgl} I eady to be occupIed at any time and the c!Imng room \\ altlng for the chnner to be served Colored maId" are seen here and there, dUSt111g the fur11lture and thIS hel~htens the home hke effect. ] he "home palatial," It IS saId, cost upwards of a quarter of a mIllIOn of dollal s to 111stall The constrLlctlon 15 "ohd, the tlul11,hlllg ~ al e those of a mIllIOnaIre's home and the furm-ttu e IS of the latest and best ] hIS was estabhshed less than a } ear ago and one month dUlrng \\ hlch tab was kept the VISItors numbered more than 100,000 That the plan IS attractive IS furthel atte"ted by the fact that home butlders have come from as fal away as St Paul, Omaha and Denver to obta111 Ideas on furmshmg and to buy goods The \\ anamaker StOl e has a staff of a dozen or more deSIgners and artbb and the Engh"h mode IS saId to be grow- 111g In fay or If a house IS to be refunllsheld the deSIgner is a-,ked to subnl1t color plans, those plans llYlude the wall decOl at IOns, the floor covenng"" the drapenes and the furm-t urc 1he m\ ner knows what he IS gOIng to get before any \\ ork IS done and If the effects are not what may be deSIred or an} changes are asker] for, the only troubled mvolved IS do- Ing 0\ er the draw111g" Furnlsh111g by plan IS done In single looms SUIte" of rooms, and to embrace the whole house. In se\ el al 111stances old houses have been remodeled and then turm",hed accorchngly to the plans prepared, and such are the WANAMAKER'S GREAT SHOW ROOMS Word Pictures of the Most Complete House Furnishing Department in the World. An Interview 'Vith the Manager. rr he 'vVanamaker store 111~ e\\ York, IS a gl eat 111StltU-tlon. It IS a store of many depal tments and each depart-ment IS a complete store In Itself, the dggre!.,;ate IS Immel1"e It occupIes t\ll 0 of the large",t mercanttle bUllc!Ing" 111~ e\y York, dIVIded by an dlley and connected by an underground tunnel and an overhead 111dosed bndge The \Vanamaker fur11lture store occupIes three floors at one of the bl11lc!Ing" To VISIt thIS store I" an easy and plea~ ant way to a hberal ecltlcatlOn in the al t of furniture and furl-lllsh111g It I" worth a tnp half way acros" the cont111ent Ju"t to study the \\ anamaker method of arrangement and chspla\ The \Vanamaker bUlld111g" ha \ e large al ea", or \\ elb e, tend111g up through the centel hom the ma111floor to the glas" roof Each floor abo\ e the first I, a gallery alound th1" central area Thl3 gl\ e" good ltght and \ enttlatlon ] hc effect IS pleas111g 1hIs IS mentIOned 111c1dentall} ~ at e\ er} merchant can haye hI;" store arranged th1" way I n other re- "pect~, howey e1, \ \ anamaker HIed" can be obsu \ ed \\ Ith plofit The first floor or gallery In the furmtUl e clepal tmen t I" devoted chIefly to parlor and bed room ftu11Iture, the "econd to chmng room and hbrary and the tlllrd to office eqUIpment Around the centlal area, OCCUpy111g a gene10u" space thc furmture IS arranged 111tho con\ entlOnal tUl1l1ture StOl e \\ e1\ Here may be a row of chalf::, there a 10\\ ot ~Icleboal ds and <) on The goods arC! grouped accord111g to theIr kInd, and thele 1::' nothIng particularly "tnk111g m the d1"pla} TIut let the viSItor pass by this claSSIfied assortment and give his atten-tIOn to the mdl\ Idual e:Ah1b1ts Along the front and on the SIde of the first gallCly \\ III be found a double ro\\ of small looms made by the bll1lchng partItion" and the length of the ord111ary room In the ~econd gallery the"e smctll rooms al e around three "Ides and the th1rd along one slele The rooms are of d1fferent slze~ from 10xl0 to tWIce these (hmen~lon::, and there are SO or more of them. Each room h c!Ifterentl} fi111::,hed, decorated and fUlnbheel ~ome are In mahogdl1\, ",ome 1n oak, some 111 b1rch or b11d ,,-e} CI maple 01 m cnamel effects Some hay e wamscodtmg, some al e papel ed other" are frescoed anel some are 111bUllap or leather Each ,room is deSIgned to represent some feature in the house and the decora-tl\ e schem(j dccord", WIth thIS de"lgn \\ hen 1t 1'0ele"lred to dl"pla y an old Enghsh (hnm~ "Ulte, the fur111tul e 1S placed m one of the httle room" tl1dt ha" been fim"heel to lepresent a chn111g room and the room chosen IS one ',Ith decoratIVe effects that wIll harmonl/e WIth the furmture A beel room sU1te 111 the LOUI" XVI "tyle goe" 111to a room that ha" a da111ty French patteln on the wall The colomal sUIte WIll be seen anud colomal surround111gs The aIm IS to gIve the fur-mture effective surround111gs and the results are wonderfully pleas111g and full of suggestion, for the customer ThIs Idea IS carned still further than the fL1111lture and the \\ dll paper. :Even the pIctures on the wall, and e\ er) room has halt a dozen or more, the w111dow elrapelles and the rug", on the floor are carefully selected to be 111keepmg \\ Ith the general plan In a room that lepresents a hall \\111 be "ho\\n fam1l} portraIts The French bod room WIll hay e old pnnb 111 damty frames, the ltbrary \ 1ews of hlstoncal cathedral;" and castles and the parlol rare pa111tmgs In engra\ 111g", \Iost of the rooms are kept fur111"hecl for the 111spectton of VISItor", but If a cu"tomer deSIre" to see how a ~Ulte 111 an} pIece of furmture WIll look, If there 1S not a SUItable room WEEKLY ARTISAN 27 SEND FOR CATALOGUE. re"ouree.., of the \ \ anamaker e..,t:lbli~hment that contracts have been tahen whlen 1l1volvtd much teM1l1g 0 ,t and rebLnld Ing ;-"0 extra chalge IS made for the deslgnl11g when \\ ana-maker ge s the Job. \lorem er the desIgner and artist are always accessIble when customers desIre ac1\ ICe or 'Sugges-tIOn, \11 C c\ Brockway I':>at the head of the \Vanamakel fur111ture department \11 Brockway has been com1l1g to the markets a.., <1 b t'yel f01 more than thIrty years He 1° one of the best known of the semI annual \ ISILJro, and hIS annal I" always awaltecl V\lth 111terest and what he ha" to say regard111g tlade and prospects IS always lecelVed WIth l11terest He ha, an office m a qUIet corner on tho oppo"lte SIde of the bUllchng from the bus111e"s office I t IS a mod-e" tly funl1shed office WIth not too much furmture In It A group pIcture ot tne (rrand RapIds fur llture manuLtcturers adorns the wall Another pIcture IS one of the late Geo \\ Gay Half a d07en other photograph::, complete the decoratIOn s J\Ir Brockway gIves clOSCIpel sOllal attentIOn tel the busmess of hIS depal tment He I ote':l that f llrlllture meet<, WIth favor and that whIch the customer.., pa~s by. He ongmated the: model looms as a means of dlsplaY111g hIS wal es The hOlhe palatIal IS hh ulea HIS ong-l1ldhty has enormously Increased the bJ'-1l1e..,s of the hou..,e, and thel eby JustIfied the eApense mvolved m the llnprovements At Ins suggestIOn also each floor 01 Q,allely has Its 0\" n Shlrpllg room The dehver) v\agon mstead of walt1l1Q,at the aIle) door £01 tlle g-ood.., to be brought dO\\ n IS drawn lipan an enorlllOL1S elevator J he hor..,es are taken off and the wagon IS h01stecl h )chl) to the floor fJ om whIch the Shlp'llenh are to be made The goods ale loaded chreet from the floor and then the wagon I.., lowered to the street level The horses are hItched on and off they go for the delivery ThIS method saves much handhng, reduces the hanrd of breakage or n1drnng and saves tnne The shlp-pmg rooms on each floor are so large that If de'-Ired the wagon can be taken off the elevator to be I Jaded and thel eby release the elevator for other sel vIce lOne of the Hrocb\a) hobble.., IS deanhness "",ot a speck of chrt WIll be found any\\ here about hb department He has a corps of me'l and colored \\ omen constantly at \\ ork ahke 111 the gallery show room and 111the model r00111Skeep1l1g the dust off and making the furlllture look Its bnghte<t and best "Bmmess has been vel) satIsfactory tlms far thIS season, ' saId J\Ir Brockway "Thel e IS nothmg hke a boom, <lwl I have known tImes when the good.., have moved faster The feel1l1g IS Opt11111tI'c" and the prospects 111 111) opmlOn are ex-cellent "The Earl) Enghsh styles I thll1h are movmg more freely than the II ench or the Colomal, and I am lookmg for mcreased fa'vor f01 the Enghsh pellod goods ge11erally The French and the Colomal have been 1111ltated 111 cheap goods and thIS has tended to ImpaIr the demand f01 tl'e better grades ] he Early Engllsh styles, too, are newer and the man who wants some-thmg chfferent from that whIch hI'S neIghbor has, more or less naturally takes to theIr deSIgns The Loms XY a"1d LoUl.., XVI and the Colomal deSIgns have too much permanent ment ever to go out of style, L It what I mean h that the Enghsh pdtterm dIe ga1l1m~ 111populant) whIle the others are b~1l1g so newhat neglected "Our model rOOlll'Sand the ho.l..,e pctlatnl have plOve 1 hIghly sathfactory It IS ImpOSSIble to tell exactly how much the) have helped but \\ e know thl.., plan of chsplaymg goods has pl('ased our cu'Stomers and 1l1crea'Sed theIr numbers and the rdurns mchcate that what we spent 111fixmg up was a paym!S In vestment \Ve have no lllte 1tIon of return111g to the old method at any rate Our plan has helped bus1l1ess 111other departments than furlllture, m wall paper, drapenes, rug", arts and chmd People have '-een how we fitted up rooms and In many Instances have used our r00111Sas models III fittmg and furmslllng room" of theIr ()\\ n (Jur home palatial has been vel y extensIvely used, not eAactl) as a model b It a'S a source of lllsplratlOn and sugge'StlOn The) may not try for the same effects or even use the 'Same matenals but they get the Idea and work out the de-tad'S to "mt themselves and If the) buy of u.., that IS all we a"k III return fhe tendency today III the fl11111 Shlllg of fine homes IS to have tlung'S harmoll17e However hand..,ome the furlllture ma) be the re..,ult \\ III not be satlsf 1ct01y unless ItS surrounchngs dre 111 keep1l1g \\ Ith It 111 sty Ie and color liVe are dOIng every thmg \\ e can <md the great purpo..,e 111 the..,e model rooms I'S to educate the people III harmollle'S Judglllg from the number who come here and the care WIth whIch they study our moms, the people hke to be educated The popular taste IS mu-:::h bet-ter than It med to be an) way and the demand for the artlstl-call) COIlect, I beheve, IS steadIly growlllg The demand IS growmg also for furmture of real ment, goods that WIll be as mentonoU'S a hunch ed years hence a.., now There WIll, of course, be the usual chaslllg after fad'S, but more and more the tendency IS to take those goods \\ Inch WIll never groy;y old ex-cept m year~ TIns I'S a very encourag111g tendency and we are dOlllg all \\ e can to help It along' Cad Ehlenberger a ..,uccessful cabmet maker, of Brooklyn, '.J Y, who retIred a few) ears ago, dIed on September 2, aged G2 years He was a natIve of German) 28 ,\ ° It dId not requn e a great amount of money to do \\ hat \\ e hay e done \\ e bought the place for $2,080 and mac1e a pay l11ent of $208 The gleatest outlay has boen m the labOl of the carpenter" \\ e have an old-fashIOned gar-den that I" a \\ onder I t helped us to dlsposc of the place to] the ..,ea..,on ten \\ e hay e rented It for enouhg to pay for all the I epan.., \ ~ the place \\ a" not ready for the early ..,ea"on \\e kne\\ that a planted garden would aId us m find- Inl?,"a tenant ffl 'In our \\01k there are so many branches \Ve o~ten al range ..,C('1e.., fer play s, and as we make It our busmes" to be up to date on all knowledge of penods and of where to ~o to pr~Kure certam rare thmg" we are not at a loss to do \\hate\el \\01k come, our way \ bu..,me..,,, ..,uch a" ours cannot bo expected to meet 1\ lth ..,ucce..,.., dt once Ii h a development We carned Olh 111om hah tor t\\ 0 or three years before \\ e ventured to hIre a ~tl\(llO. \\ e began on a small scale as purchasers ior hou"ekeepe1 s and finally we have learned to know what om patlOns \\ ant better than they know themselves \Ve learnecl the stoch of the dIfferent shop" \1\ e made It a feature to seun e the effect" VvIth a nommal expenchture, untIl finalh \\ e took a step hIgher thlough commg m con-tact \\ Ith people \d10 ce ulc1 pay 11"ore \\T cl charged $5 a day tal OUl tIme m shoppmg at fir,t, and had aLa our own C0l11ml"..,10n flam the "tores, but now we buy our own stock and hay e OUl o\\n ..,cale of pnce.., \\ hen \\e send m a bIll thele 1" no tllne ..,tatemcnt do\\n on the bIll, but the charge 1" thel e all the same It h the demand that C1eatc.., the \ alue Hel e IS a ca"e In pOlnt \ \ e hay e bought up all of certam patter:1s In \\ all papers and 111other fabncs \Ve arranged WIth the manufacturers to regard thIS certam pattern OUI own In thh \\ ay thel e are "ome wall paper" \\ hlch we buy at 10 cenlt:, and sell at a $1 a roll The same holds WIth cretonne, \\ hat \\ e buy at 3:; cenL we charge 95 cents for Thus \\ e charge for our tIme and taste "\\ e a"o attend auctlOns and buy up the bargains IA hen \\ e can ..,lnce \\ e u..,ually know of a corner of a room m some- ])()ch .., hOlhe \\ hel e 1 u "t that artIcle I" needed \\ e fit out country houses for bachelor, ThE means that \\ e pUt the house m perfeJ2t conchtlOn e\ en to the 1111- tIab on the table l1l1en and the bechoom lmen Every-thmg e\ en to the kItchen clock and tea towels IS there com-plete and \\ e even put a housekeeper 111chal ge WIth exphClt dnectlon" a" to hel dutIes "::\Ioney maul hu..,mes,) You can I eachly see that there I" money mlt, Lut It must he a de\eolpment 1he first year \\ e had our "tucho \\ e (lId $30,000 worth of husmelss on $600 capItal ~ow \\e do many tImes that amount of bus'ness, and our capItal has made Itself I cannot attempt to say Just Vvhat our mvestment I", sInce our pnces belong to the art class. \1\ e may buy an antIque for $5, havel It put m condItIOn, and sell It for $175 \Ve know values "The great dra\\ back about our work IS the tremendous amount of detaIl 1he place must he complete when we lea\ e It In reaelInes ,-for a bachelor-we wIll say, e\ ery housekeeper know" hO\\ long It takes her to supply e\ ery detaIl Even WIth the utmo"t v IgIlance there IS hkely to be ..,ometh1l1g more to he added \\ e 'usually make what bU1ld-el" call a bId for the \"OIk In our early days we made the mIstake of makmg too ..,mall a bId, but VI e have learned by expellence the \ alue of httle thmg", and so now we put the , figure hIgh enough to allow for about $200 worth of neces- "anes, and we Just barely come out even. WEEKLY ARTISAN NEVER HAVE A DULL SEASON. Some Inside Information From a Feminine Firm of House Decorators. "Dull :oc~"on, dId )OU "a\) It ~ IH:\ el dull ..,ea"on fOl us I only WIsh It were, "aId the hcad ot a tem1l1111e tll m of house clecOlatols and funllsher" that ha" "tUdl(h m \\ e..,t Thnty-th1rd :otree , not far from Broad \\ ay, to a VI nter hr the \ ew York! Sun "1\ a matter how brOIlIng hot the weather 1:0, there I" alway s a telephone call for \\ork 111a countI y hou"e, {or \1 hen a cIty \\ oman mo\ es her hou:oe11lld goods out Into the country, 'th1l teen nl1le, fIom a lemon a.., Gall HamIlton "0 wlttll) "a1d 1t. then she \\ anh the thln~ ..,he wants han1e1 than C\ er " \\ hen 1:0the dull <,eason) \ e\ el. fhere h n.c\ (J a dull "eason L there e\ el a tIme \\ hen a hOlhe doe.., not need somethmg done t) It) \\ hy a h011..,e h lIke a \\ o-man's clothe", there I" ah\ a)" ..,ometh1l1g that need.., makl11L: Made by Mamstee Manufactuung Co , Mamstee, MICh over, or lefurhlshlllg, or else the effect 1" ,habbv \\ e \\ould lIke to run aWd) to I:Ulope, but It lo,)k.., now a.., If the tI Ip \\ould he Impos<,lblc, e-,peuallv "mce \\ e hay e countI) l)ldce<, on Oul hand" "YeIU see, wo bought one of the qualnte"t old tumble-down house, out 1n CnnectIcut, and \\ e hay e taken all our spare moment" fitt111g It up, budd111g on looms, teanng out partItIons, and trY111g to make It 11\ e up to the perfectly good sty Ie front door \\ hlch It pos"ebes \\ e are no\'-' 100k111g for a purchaser WIth about $12,000 'Pnce lngh)' ;\0, not too hIgh for the art and the taste and the ha11110ny and the qualIty wInch make all COyet the house once thc) hay e seC'n 1t "There h a demand for exactly the k111d of a hOlhe \\ e have to sell, and as ul all art l111e" the dcn'anll I" \\ hat leg ulates the value Onl) an artIst could hay e "elected the \\ all papers and the I ugs and hanl?,"l11C;s 1he pamt had to be treated <,0 that attentIon Vlould not be called to the fact that the VI oodwork wa" \ el) old The) ello\\ kItchen h a dream of domestIcIty In fact, \\ e 1m e the place ~o that we long to hvel In 1t our~ehe<,. WEEKLY ARTISAN 29 HISTORY OF NEW ENGLAND FURNITURE. More Lessons From the Exhibition Made by the Metropolitan Museum in Connection With the Hudson-Fulton Celebration. The exhIbItIOn of furmture used m :\menca, dunng two centunes-lG23 to 1823-arranged m the Metropohtan :!\Iuseum, ~ ew York, m connectIOn wIth the Hudson- I'ulton celebratIOn, shows that ~ ew England s furmture hIstory IS very dIfferent from that of the Southern colomes, very httle wooden furniture bemg Imported 1\ ew England made hel own wooden ware and e-xported It to tne other colomes, for her Jomers and cabmet-makers qUIckly became numerous and expert, though theIr furm-ture was unusually sImple Samuel Goodwm's furmture (about 1729) shows the strange mIxture of styles and matenals be-tokemng the transItion from carved oak to mahogany HIS thIrty-one chaIrs "ere cane, leather, Turkey work, matted bottom and carved back, and hl~ tables were of maple, black", alnut and whIte "'ood The pnces of the furmtUl e of most of the Jomers and cabmetsmakers were low, for thClr wage~ were mtended for the great cla~s of yoemen, artisans and manners Tne table of ::\1011 PItcher, the celebrated chvmer by tea, whIch b preserved IS typIcal of the time-roughly put together wIth fallmg leaves, cabnole IC'gJ and hoof feet Salem and l\Iarblehead were the head center" of manufac-ture and the mterestmg old home of the Turners m the former place made famous by Hawthorne m "The House of Seven Gables,' offers a good type of th~ elaborately furmshed \ew England home of the nllCldle elghteentl1 century ] he "be~t room' contamed one large black "alnut table, one Japanned, one small walnut and one mlald tea table and stand, twelve black cane chaIrs, SIX whIte cane chaIrs, one great whIte cane chaIr, a lookmg glas~ "'Itn tV'.a bra"s arms valued at £ ,'l(), two glass sconces and nmeteen gla~s covered meZLotmts hung on the walls The "best room" served as breakfast, chnmg and hvmg room The "great chamber" wIth Its all Important bed and eushteen chaIrs and tV'.enty pIctures, the hall wIth Its clock '" orth £ 1dc, the "hall chamber," the "shop chamber," the "POI cn cham-ber, . the "kItchen chamber" all had the mevltable bIg bed and elaborate bed furmshmgs and the equally mevltable chest Persons of wealth frequently had their furmture made to order from Imported fine woods or Imported It dIrect, sometImes m then own ShIp It IS mtere tmg to <late that the more ornate pIcture frame~ were Imported from London because the work could be done more cheaply there than m Boston In the mven, tones of the penod applIed black ornaments and knobs were cal-led "old fashIOned," whIle brass mounts had come mto favor, the chaIrs '" ere straIght, flat backed, and the slat chaIrs WIth backJ formed for two, three or five slats seem to have been popular, as well as the clown back chaIr of carved walnut or maho~any attnbuted to ChIppendale Now Jomers, turners carvers, up-holsterers, varmshers, clockmake1:o and cab111etmakers abounded stilet '" atch bemg kept for new arnvals of these trades, the I ecords showmg that character and means were the quahficatlO1L of admISSIOn The new era of furmture begmnmg the latter half of the eIghteenth century "'Ill be well represented 111the MetropolItan exhIbItIOn, many collectors of note havm~ pr01111sed to loan Im-portant speCImens, mcludmg George S Palmer of ~ew London, Conn , DWIght Blaney and F H BIgelow of Boston, the ex-amples havmg eIther come chrectly from England or copIed II thIS country ThIS era IS pretty generally knoV'.n, as It contams such well known names of makers as ChIppendale, Sheraton. Adam and Hepplewhlte, but between the pr edomlna<lce of Jacob-ean furmture and that whIch appears m Clllppendale's book there was a long transItory period m whIch many popular crazes reIgned, notably the Chmese craLe and a kmd of spunous GothIC reVIval Lac work mou IL, nch gdt and metal mounts carved objects m Ivory, teal and ebony charactenzed the former, "V'.111m-slcal ornamenL and mcorrect profiles, the latter Chmese (,otlllc, and French Renal~sance fads all had theIr htUe day and still remam mthe form of cunous Jouvemrs ChIppendale s deslg 1~ sho", a tremendous Influence of the French schGol, and the name of ] homas ChIppendale, althou~h not promment and mdeed almost totally Ignored dunng hIS hfe-tIme no\\ overshadows all others of Engh~h cabmetmakCl J \A hlle he m~lsted on practlcablhty of deslgl" he wa~ acove all else a carver and gIlder, and whel e glld1l1g could not be used h~ obtamed Its effect by the free use of brass wltn a can Iderable leaven of uphol~tery In thl~ count I y the fUl mture answenng to hIS publI"hed de"lgns IS found only II the ~Impler forms, such a chaIrs, tables and bookca~es However, the popular styles of the day whIch have com~ to be clas~ed under the general head ChIppendale, exhlbltln~ cabllOle legs and claw and ball feet are well exemphfied ::\Ir Bolle s collectIOn contams a table of thIS type eIght fold 111 "hape, carved m the center, supported by one balu~ter leg WIth tnpod cabnole teet eidmg 111 ball and claws The deSIgns of the :\dam brothers m the late elghteeneh century followed after the style of LOUIS X\ I The strat~ht lme, arabesque scrollV'.ork, gayety and lIgntness and formalIty were characten~tlcs, "Imphclty, elegant slendernes~ and low rehef were the essence :\s the furmture wa nch and costly It was necessanly not predommant, althou~h wealthy En~lhhme 1 who settled here temporanly or permanently and who endeavor-ed to keep up '" Ith the fashIOns at home Imported speCImen" The chan~ from the \ an Ren s~elder manor houJe are very ~0Q(1 eAamples The Hepplewhlte productIons claIm no ong1l1ahty for they sought only to satisfy the taste of the hour lIere the .:lawfoot IS seen rardy and oIly on bedposts, the ball never 1-1IS de-hght was 111 chaIrs, ~OLl~ and ~Ideboards, tne former shO\" 1I1g upholster1l1gs of SIlk, lmen or leathel fastened by rows of evenIv ~tudded bra"s nalls, often ornamented WIth three feathers on the back out of complllllent to tne Pllllce of vVales "StuffecI' fur-mtture wa" now most popular HClpplewhlte lasted but a short tIme, havmg caught the declme of popular taste, an 1 at the very end of the eIghteenth century or the begmnl11g of the mnetcenth 5heraton'~ de~lgn'3 "ucceecled m favor HIS style IS a reactIOn frJm the rococco, tall and ~len-cler, WIth tapenng "term" legs often flute 1, square backed chaIrs, SIlk or satIn 'upholstery, ~tnped, figured or WO\ en or pal11ted WIth formal deSIgns, looped green stlk behl11d the doors of hl~ boolcases or cabmlts, USI11~ ~ome maho~any but more gold, whIte and gold, satm wood and ]apannl11g A characten~tlc Sheraton chaIr belongl11~ to '\Ih" Anne Van Cortlandt, ClOton on the Hud~on. ha~ the central slat of the back 111 the form of a \aoe WIth te"toons, enclo"ed m a "pe-ual arcaclcJ open frame, reenfOl Led by a ...eumdal y and platner frame '1 he seat IS uphol"tel ed 111 "tnped "atm. At the outbreak of the Re\olutlOn Imported anel home made furmture made wealthy Amencan homb comparable to those of England Though 111 the 1'\orth slmpltclty \\ a, more marked than 111 the South, elegance wa" found e, en In ?\'ew England In l\Iaryland hcme" and 111 VlrglJ11a and Charlcbton :0 U111ptuousne~~ wa~ to be fonud Of all the Colomal hou~es now stanchng l\Iount Vernon I, of course the most mterestmg on account of Its a~"oclatlOn", and ItS tolerablv well known furm"h111g~, by no mean" palattal, are faIrly ;YPlcal of

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Periodicals and Furniture Industry

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