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- Issue of The Michigan Suffragist newsletter, published between 1914 and 1917 in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
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- Issue of a furniture trade magazine published in Grand Rapids, Mich. It was published twice monthly, beginning in 1880. and L l .-_._- Sligh's Superior Styles Sell ALL THROUGH THE SEASON No complaints of dull trade uttered by dealers handling the SLIGH LINES ... THE PAST SEASON'S SALES OF SLIGH GOODS A ~ RECORD BREAKER. ~ CORRECT STYLES, GOOD MATERIALS AND HONEST WORKMANSHIP, STRONG FEATURES IN THE SLIGH LINES. A Mammoth Exhibition of Fine and Medium Furniture for the Bedroom Ready on June 17, 1907 SLIGH FURNITURE COMPANY BUCHANAN STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. 3 1883 --- 1907 Michigan Chair Company GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN "FOREMOST CHAIR FACTORY IN MICHIGAN" IIHE opening day of the coming Furniture Sales Season, June J 7th, is a holiday in many sections of our country, and we are going to cele-brate same by having our warerooms dressed in very attractive attire., From one end to the other will be seen handsome Chairs, suggestive of com-fort and usefulness with a range and scope so broad as to make selection mere-ly a matter of which and what. A carriage to come in if you wish -and to go as well. Cordial greeting and best attention. REPRESENTATIVE SALESMEN East: CHAS. H. cox ROBT. E. WALTON CHAS. F. M<GREGOR South: W. R. PENNY We,t: CHAS.B.PARMENTER ROBT.G.CALDER MICHIGAN CHAIR COMPANY ~ --- --~ --- --- -- - -- - 4 A B L E s FOR EVERY ROOM BUT THE KITCHEN L 187~ ----------- THE MOST COMPLETE LINE OF EXTENSION TABLES . MANUFACTURED IN AMERICA , 1 PILLAR TABLES FROM $12.50 UP I OFFICE TABLES ALL SIZES PARLOR TABLES LIBRARY TABLES DEN TABLES MEDIUM PRICED MAHOGANY SAMPLES ON EXHIBIT AT THE FACTORY No. 615 TAKE SCIUBNEJt ST. CAR. No. 617 ! I IMPERIAL FURNITURE CO. I Grand Rapids. Mich. I 5 Grand Rapids Chair Co. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. weare I iSinil.tors ! . nor I I__ ~.~.....-.a. llators_J Strictry High-Grade Furniture At Medium Prices 1186 BUFFET Desks Buffets Sideboards Hall Racks China Cabinets Music Cabinets Tables Hall Seats Cellarettes Book Cases Hall Glasses Chests and Boxes Goods shown at our factory only. Full line now ready. 6 ORIEL Cabinet COlnpany ======Grand Rapids, Mich.====== La~gest Manufacturers In the W orId OF ------------ Furniture Novelties Line Ready for Inspection by the Trade on June 17, 1907 The Higher Degrees of Furniture Construction Have Been Taken by the ESTEY MANUFACTURING CO. For Workmanship CHAMBER SUITES No. 912 For Quality SIDEBOARDS and BUFFETS OWOSSO, MICH. CATALOGUE TO THE TRADE ONLY For Designs For Finish ~---------------- -- - L. The Line with Invincible Points of Merit Inspect Our Parlor Cabinets Music Cabinets Hall Trees Hall Seats Hat Racks, Framed Mirrors No. 320 Table Inspect Our Buffets China Cabinets Combinations Gents' Wardrobes Shaving Stands Ladies' Dressing Tables Ladies' Dressing Chairs WITH PATENT ADJUSTABLE FiXTURES No. 680 Cabinet Full of NOVELTIES and USEFULNESS Show Rooms: NEW YORK 4th FLOOR NEW YORK FURNITURE EXCHANGE With THE: WEATHERLEYS It will pay you to look our line over even if you don't buy. ROCKFORD FRAME andFIXTURE CO. ROCKFORD IWNOIS . Show Rooms: GRAND RAPIDS 2d FLOOR BIG BUILDING CHICAGO 6th FLOOR FURNITURE EXCHANGE With PECK &: HILLS - . THE Manistee Manufacturing Co. MANISTEE, MICHIGAN CJl We say but little but do a lot in the way of bringingout one of the strongest lines of Sideboards, Buffets, Chiffoniers, Odd Dressers and Gentlemen's Wardrobes there is on the market. This is One of Our BEST This is One that will SELL No. 266 Sideboard. Top 25x60; Minoy 18x50 CJl Our full line of one hundred patterns will be shown on the 6th floor, spaces 17 and 19, Manufacturers' Exhibition Build-ing 1319 Michigan Ave., Chicago. We make our own Exhibit. Call in and we will treat you right, and give you your money's worth. CHAS. ELMENDORF, in charge. 9 r---------------- --- I· l 10 Berkey & Gay Furniture Co. Grand Rapids The Line will be ready for inspection by the Trade Monday June 17 1 907 Chamber Furniture Dining Room Furniture Library Furniture It is all Furniture of Character That Has the Charm of Quality i II ..I Luce Furniture Company Godfrey Ave" GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Line Ready at FACTORY JUNE 17, 1907 New Features in Upper Class Circassian Walnut A Large Addition to Our Line of Staples· Medium and Fine Furniture for the Chamber and Dining Room 11 ~------------ 12 13 ~~IIMPORTANT!~1~~ It is a matter of IMPORTANCE to every Furniture Buyer that he inspect our Fall Line before placing orders for Davenport Sofa Beds-Box Couches Adjustable Sofas _.Plain or Tufted Couches and Davenports .... WE HAVE THE STYLES AND THE VALUES .... No_ 583 .. SIMPLICITY t1 Sofa Bed, a popular medium priced pattern from our Spri[]g Line AN INNOVATION We will also show our Initial Line of TURKISH CHAIRS and ROCKERS in "RELIANCE" LEATHER. A sensational short line of sure sellers. We Exhibit at Grand Rapids only. JUNE·- JULY SEASON. JAMESTOWN LOUNGE COMPANY Manufacturers 01 Superior Guaranteed Upholstery JAMESTOWN, N. Y. 14 Royal Furniture Company GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN Dining : Library Bedroom Suites HALL CLOCKS IN "COLONIAL" STYLE NEW ADAPTATIONS Ready for Inspection June 17, 1907 SHOWN AT FACTORY SALESROOM THE ROYAL fURNITURE Co. GRANO RAPIDS, MICHIGAN, - - - -- -- ------------------------ 15 Why Biggest in the World? At the coming Furniture Exposition at Grand Rapids (opening June 17th), and that in New York (from July Isth to August 3rd), the Northern Furniture Company will as usual, have the largest space of any American Manufacturer. Though but a few years old, the Northern makes more bed-room, dining-room, and kitchen furniture than any other Ulanu-facturer in this country, and that means' in the world. WIlY? Why' 7:oasJ.Vorthern space last 'year more cro7:oded than any other at these f'lfJO exposi-tions? BECAUSE-The Northern line sells best on the floors of the ,.etail dealers. It's a quick mover. It doem't get stnek. It gives satisfaction. The prices are the kind the people want-not so low as to necessitate poor workmanship, not so high as to be fancy. The Northern line is noted for its elegant simplicity. J t is stylish without being over-iJrnGtnented. [t is substantial without being gaudy. [t looks well for years and it wears <Dellfor years. [t is solid "Uthe way through. It has illlter quality as v.Jeli as ollter quality, And the people know it. Do you know it9 C"U ""d see tis. You you,.self will then know WHY. The plates on this page are but a suggestions of our enonnous line. NORTUERN fURNITURE COMPANY Sheboygan, Wisconsin 12th- Season CHICAGO Commencing July 1, 1901 MANUFACTURERS' EXHIBITION BUILDING CO. 12th Season Commencing July 1, 1907 The Original Building-1319 MICHIGANAVE.-Admission to Dealers Only PAI\TIAL LIST ON EXtiI&ITOI\S Manufacturers' Exhibition Building Co., 1319 American Furniture Co., Bassett, Va. American Metal Ware Co., Chicago. Banta Furniture Co., The, Goshen, Ind. Bassett Furniture Co" Bassett, Va. Blanchard-Hamilton Furniture Co., The, Shelbyville, Ind. Billow-Lupfer Coo. Columbus, O. Bissell Carpet Sweeper Co., Grand Rapids, Mich. Booth Furn. Co., Peru, Ind. Brumby Chair Co., Marietta, Ga. Buckeye Chair Co., The, Ravenna, O. Burkhardt Furniture Co" The, Day-ton, O. Bay View Furniture Co., Holland, Mich. Cad.illac Cabinet Co., Detroit, Mich. Campbell, c.. H" Co., Shelbyville, Ind. Campbell, Smith & Ritchie, Lebanon~ Ind. Capital Furniture Manufacturing Co., Indianapolis, Ind. Capital Rattan Co., The, Indianapolis Cass, .R T. & Co., Chicago. Cates Chair Co., Thomasville, N. C. Central Bedding Co., of Illinois, Chi-cago. Chippewa Falls Furniture Co., Chip-pewa, Falls, \hlis. Choate· Hollister Furn. Co., Janesville, Wis. Conrey & Birely Table Co., The, Shelbyville, Ind. Conrey-Davis ]"'lanufacturing Shelbyville, Ind. Co-operative F.urniture Co., Rockford Coye Furniture Co., The, Stevens Point, \Vis. Cramer Furniture Co., Thomasville, N.C. Crowell Furniture Co., Bassett, Va. Davis, Horwich & Steinman, Chicago. Dillingham .Manufacturing Co., She-boygan, \-Vis. Dixie Furniture Co., Lexington, N. C. Dunn Co., John A., Chicago. Eckhoff Furniture Co., St. Louis, 1:10. Elk Furniture Co., Lexington, N. C. Emmerich, Charles, & Co., Chicago. Empire Furniture Co., Jamestown Empire 1'loulding Works, Chicago. Emrich Furniture Co., The, Indiana-polis, ~Ind. Fall Creek Manufacturing Co., Moo-resville, Ind. Faultless Mfg. Co., Geneva, Wis. Fenske Bros., Chicago. Ferguson Bros. Manufacturing Co., Hoboken, N. J. Fisher, Charles A., & Co., Chicago. Foster Bros. Manufacturing Co., Utica, N. Y. f'uUer- Warren Co., The, Milwaukee Fulton Manufacturing- Co., Chicago. Frank Todd, Chicago; Freedman Bros. & Co., Chicago. Garvy Co., The,' Chicago. Globe-Home Furniture Co., High Pointj N. C. Golden Furniture Co., Jamestown Goshen Novelty & Brush Co Gos-hen, Ind. Heroy Glass Co., Chicago. Herzog Art Furniture Co., Saginaw, Mich. Hillsboro Chair Co., Hillsboro, O. Hodell Furniture Co., The, Shelby-ville, Ind. Hohenstein- Hartmetz Furniture Co., Evansville, Ind. Co., Hollatz Bros., Chicago. Hood, F. L., & Co., Nashville, Tenn. Hulse, E. 1\01., Co., The, Columbus, O. Humphrev Bookcase Co., Detroit Ideal Register & Metallic Furn. Co., Detroit, 1-1ieh. Indiana Brass & Iron Bed Co.I Indian-apolis, Ind. Indianapolis Chair & Furniture Co., Indianapolis, Ind. Johnson & Sons Furniture Co., A. J., Chicago. Kelly, J. A., & Bros., Clinton, Ia. Kelly-Sorenson Furniture Co.,. Clin-ton, la. Kemnitz Furniture Co., Theo., Green Bay, Wis. Kendallville Furniture Co., Peru, Ind. Kincaid Furniture Co" Statesville, N. C. Kindel Manufacturing Co., St. Louis Kinney-Rodier Co., Chicago. Knoxville Table & Chair Co., ville, Tenn. Lamb, George L., Nappanee, Ind. Langslow-Fowler Co., Rochester, N.Y. Landay, Joseph 1., St. Louis, Mo. Landay Steel Range Co., St. Louis Lathrop Co., The, Chicago. Lilly Varnish Co., Indianapilis, Ind. Lustre Chemical Co., Chicago. Manistee ~'1anufacturing Co., Manis-tee, Mich. Marietta Chair Co., Marietta, Ga. Marvel Furn. Co., Jamestown, 'N. Y. . 1Jayhew Manufacturing Co., Milwau-kee, \Vis. McDougall, G. P., & Son, Indianapo-lis, Ind. Mechanics' Furniture Co., Rockford l\'[eier & Pohlman Furniture Co., St. Louis, ·Mo. 1linneapolis Furniture Co., Minnea-polis, Minn. ;':1ission Furniture Co., S1. Paul. Minn. Modern Furniture Co., Cincinnati, O. Naperville Lounge Co., Naperville, Ill. National Carriage & Reed Co., Cin-cinnati, O. National Table Co., Marietta, O. Norquist Co., A. c., The, Jamestown, N.C. Oakland Manuafcturing Co., Winston- Salem, N. C. Oberbeck Bros. Manufacturing Grand Rapids, Wis. Onken Co., Oscar, The, Cincinnati,O, Palmer Furniture Manufacturing Co., A. E. Adrian, Mich. Palmer Manufacturing. Co., Deb'oil Pana Metal Bed & Manufacturing Co., Pana, Ill. Penn Furn. Co.. Huntington, W. Va. Pioneer Manufacturing Co., Detroit Plimpton, F. T., & Co., Chicago. Posselius Bros. Furniture Manufac-turing Co., The, Detroit, Mich. Preston & Khouri, New York. Probst Furri. Co., The, Pomeroy, 0. Pullman Couch Co., Chicago. Queen Cbair Co., Thomasville, N. C. Ranney Refrigerator Co., Chicago. Richmond, . Ind., Manufacturing Co.,· Richmond, Ind. Rishel Furniture Co., J. K, Williams-port, Pa. Rockford Furniture Co., Rockford, Ill. Rockford Standard Furniture Co., Rockford, Ill. Rome Metallic Bed Co., Rome, N. Y. Root Furniture Co., Shelbyville, Ind. Rothschild-LuskY Mfg. Co., Nashville, Tenn. Royal Mantel & Furniture Co., Rock-ford, Ill. Sanitary Feather Co., Chicarro. Sanitary Steel Couch Co., Elkhart, Ind. Schneider & Allman, Chicago. Knox- Schram Bros., Chicag-o. Schultz & Hirsch, Chicago. Sellers, G. 1., & Sons Co., Elwood, Ind. Sextro Manufacturing Co., Cincinnati Shelbyville Wardrobe Co., Shelby-ville, Ind. Shreve Chair Co.) Union City, Pa. Sidway Mercantile Co., Elkhart, Ind, Sikes Chair Co., Buffalo, N. Y. Skandia Furniture Co., Rockford, Ill. Smith-River Chair Co" Bassett, Va. Spencer & Barnes Co., The, Benton Harbor, Mich. Spiegel Furniture Co., Sh~lbyvil1e, Ind. Sprague & Carleton, Keene, N. H. Standard Chair Co., Thomasville, N.C. Standard Chair Co., Union City. Pa. Standard Furniture Co., The, Cincin-nati. Stickley & Brandt Chair Co., The, Binghamton, N. Y. Stomps-Burkhardt Co., The, Dayton, 0. Streator Metal Stamping Co., Strea-tor, Ill. Streit Manufacturing Co., The C. F" Cincinnati, O. Sturkin-NeIson Cabinet Co., Logan-sport, Ind. CO'I Swift & Co., Chicago. Thayer, H. N., Co., Erie, Pa. Thomasville Furniture Co., Thomas-ville, N. C. Union Furniture Co., ]ame,:;town \Vashington Manufaetu·ring Co., Washington, Court House, O. Western Hardware & Manufacturing Co., Mlwaukee, Wis. \Vestcrn Picture Frame Co., Chicago. White Furniture Co., The, Mebane, N. C. White-McCarthy Furniture Co., Chi-cago. Widman, J, c., & Co., Detroit. Mich. \\Tisconsin Chair Co., The, Port Wash-ington, Wis. Wisconsin Furniture & Manufactur-ing, Co., The, Neillsville, Wis. Wolf & Kraemer Furniture Co., St. Louis, Mo. Wolverine Manuafcturing Co., De-troit, Mich. Yeager Furniture. Co., The, Allen-town, Pa. Michigan Ave., Chicago GRAND RAPIDS PU2LIC LIBRARY 27th Year-No. 24. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH., JUNE 25, 1907. TALKED ABOUT TREES. Timber Topics Discussed by Members of a Michigan Horti-cultural Organization. The June meeting- of the Grand River Valley Horticultural Society was devoted to the discussion of "Trees and Timber." William H. Anderson, presidcllt of the Fourth National Bank of Grand Rapids read a paper Oll the "Comparative GrO\.vth of Trees" in which he showed that the harder and more val-uable timber is from trees of slo-w growth. The whitewood or poplar is the most rapid grower among Michigan trees while the boxwood 15the ;-;lowest. Prof. Filibert Roth, state forest warden talked on "Refor-est ration as an Investment." He presented figures showing the state could set aside land now held at a dollar an acre, plant trees, care for them for forty or fifty years and-eli-minating taxation-realize 100 per cent profit, in addition to compound interest on the entire investment. Taxation, he said, is a bar to reforest ration by private parties, The local assessing officers value the property so high that the taxes more than over balance the profits. He charged the assessing officers with having hastened the wanton destruction of Michi-gan forests. By overtaxing timber lands they conlpelled the non-resident OW'ners to cut the timber as soon as possible and allow the land to go back to the state. The state does not pay taxes; therefore it is not handicapped in that way. Prof. Roth spoke of erroneous ideas, frequently expressed in the newspapers, as to what the forestry commissioners arc doing and from his statements it appears they are not doing much in the way of planting trees. It is not necessary to replant the pine barrens of Michigan in order to make them valuable and a source of profit to the state. There are plenty of young trees-many varieties-now gro\ving on nearly all of the so-called waste lands, he said, and all that is necessary is to keep the fire away from them and allow them to grow. Four years ago the commissioners asked the legislature to set aside a few thousand of the six mitllon acres of waste. lands owned by the state, to be protected and used as a forest reserve. The request was granted, but the state officials were not friendly to the i<1c,aand they picked the poorest of the lands-some that the state had been trying to dispose of for years. They were offered at 50 cents an acre and the state had spent more than that amount in trying to sell it. The largest tract reserved contains about 29,000 located in Roscommon county just south of Houghton Lake. No trees have been planted on this tract. To pay a watchma.n to look after trespasses and guard against fire, with a few assistants in the dryest, most dangerous seasons, the commissioners have paid, on an average, a little more than $800 per year. During the four years they have sold dead timber for which the state has receiv,ed nearly $6,000. For the first year the sale of dead and down timber brought $870 and for the last year $2,900. The young trees are growing with surprising rapidity and Professor Roth figures that without cutting a live $1.00 per Year. tree tlle land will pay the expense of protection and less than lorty years hence will be worth more than 200 times what the state asked but was unable to g;ei for it. Prof. Roth ridiculed the idea that "it requires 150 years to gro\'v' a big cork pine. A vcry repectable tree will grow in 70 years," he declared. H. C. Beardsley, formerly timber agent for the Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad Company which had a large grant of Michigan lands, corroborated Prof. Roth's statement in regard to excessive and unfair taxation, causing the rapid destruction of the forests. vVil1iam \Viddicomb, the veteran furniture manufacturer, gave an entertaining talk on "One Furniture Vvood"-ma-hogany. He told of the peculiar growth of the tree, the dif-ficulties encountered in cutting it and getting it to market and how the wood is obtained by the furniture makers, the fine5t being purcb::.sed at fabulous figures at the a.uction sales in England. To illustrate his talk, he exhibited three fine boards finished in the natural color, one of true mahogany from San Domingo, another of the Mexican variety and another about ten inches wide sawn out of a limb from a tree cut ill Honduras. Mahogany is an evergreen, said Mr. Widdicomb. Tt is a member of the cedar family. There arc several different varieties of the tree. They are found in Mexico, Central and South America, the West Indies, in (Continued on Page 20.) THE CORRECT Stains and fillers. THE MOST SATISFACTORY first Coaters and Varnishes --------------------- - - - I Central furniture Company ROCKfORD, ILLINOIS WHOLESALE MANUFACTURERS OF "IG" GRADE fURNITURE COMBINATION BOOKCASES LIBRARY BOOKCASES, CHINA CLOSETS BUFFETS (jj Better made goods than ever. (jj Better styles than ever. (jj Better prices than ever. (jj WHY? Because we do not spend hundreds of dollars showing our line at Furniture Expositions. . F. T. PLIMPTON & CO. 8th Floor, 1319Michigan Ave., CHICAQO REPRESENTING: Humphrey Book Case Co. Sedional Book Cases, Phonograph Cahinet' Preston & Kourki Imported Brass Novelties, Oriental Rugs Goshen Novelty and Brush Co. Novelties in Mission F urnifure. Lamps Banta Furniture Co. Extension Tables. Dining Room Suites Campbell Smith Ritchie Co. Kitchen Cabinets, Wardrobes Billow-Lupfer Co. Mattresses, Feathe", Box Springs--guar. anteed Five Years Sidway Mercantile Co. Alwin Go-Cart., Shaving Stand., AdjuStable Bed-Tables Spencer & Barnes Co. Bed Room Furniture·-·Mahogany, Birdseye Maple, Oak ===== BissellC~et Sweepers .- Brass Candle Sticks ===== Samples on 5th Floor. Open Entire Year 19 M,esserSMiDis An Advertisement Reproduc6u from the Buffalo Courier of April 28, 1907. The Original Occupied Space 181nches Deep Across SiR ColulDns, 20 (Continued from Page 17.) Africa and other sections of the world, but the true mahogany tree is found only on the western hemisphere and there north of the equator. Mexic.an mahogany and, lately, the African variety are largely used by the furniture makers, but the best, -the true mahogany-comes from the West Indies, the very best from San Domingo. The tree grows frequently to a height of 150 or 175 feet-70 or 80 feet without a limb. The limbs branch out like those of the live oak, the top spreading over a space 150 feet in diameter. In order to stand against the hurricanes of the tropics the tree is buttressed or braced by the roots which arc of immense size above the ground. In order to fell a tree it is necessary to erect a scaffold on which the workmen stand to cut it off above the bracing roots. In speaking of the English auctioJ1s I\.Jr, Widdicomb said that in 1903 two mahogany logs were sold at Liverpool fOJ" something over $8,000. A sman log brought $300 per thous-and feet, board measure. Later a single log-sQuared-sold for $15,768. It was bought by Americans and the speaker modestly admitted that the Widdicomb Furniture Company is tense with desire. Just at the right time he gives it a toss and away the beautiful thing soars to meet the sky. He was ready when the wind blew. :Many failures in this world come from trying to fly kites after the wind has reached its height and begun to die down. The mall that tries that way may get his kite up half way and then see it drop helplessly to the earth. Discouraging, isn't it? Out West there are a good many land booms. Who are the men that make money out of them? Kot the men who come late and buy land when the boom has reached the crest and begun to go down on the other side. Oh, no. It was the man who was on the spot early and was ready to sell when the price had climbed to the top and the late-comer put in an appearance. Out in the western part of this state a man had a thousand bushels of potatoes to sell one -year. He thought he saw a chance to make some money out of the crop. They were bringing·a good fair price, but he thought that wasn't just time to sell. He would wait till they were a little higher. And he did wait. The price began to go down. The breeze had spent its force and his kite was still in his hand waiting -~--=..-~-:~-_..~ A FEW SAM.PLES FROM THE LARGE LINE OF DlNING TABLES MANUFACTURED BY THE IMPERIAL FURNITURE COMPANY., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. got" a piece of it." These logs were from San Domingo-the true mahogany. "The English manufacturers," said Mr. Widdicomb," are frequently quite jealous, when Americans out-bid them at the auctions." Ernest A. Stowe, president of the Grand Rapids Board of Trade talked on the "Use and Abuse of Trees" giving some valuable information as to the value and care of shade trees. Proper Time to Fly Your Kite. Have you ever tried to fly a kite? If not, watch some little chap before you begin. You will get some pointers about the matter that will stand you in good stead, not only in the business of flying kites, but also in the more serious affairs of life. The kite is done. The tail is furnished with bits of paper or cloth to give the proper balance, The lad is out on some high point of land. watching. Watching? For what? Listen! "Here she comes! Get ready for it!" Down there in the valley yon hear· a rushing sound. The trees bend before the wind. In a moment it will be here. Get ready. And the lad does get ready. Before the breeze strikes the knoll his kite is face to the wind. Every nerve fo" the fresher gale .. It did not come. He kept his potatoes till they went clear down to smash. Many of them he fed out to the cattle. Did it pay? A::;k him. He has some positive views on the subject now. The time to fly kites is when the wind blows. What is your particular line of business? Be ready for the breeze. Put up your kite and see it sail to the sunshine. Takes a smart man to know just when to do that. It certainly does, but it is the smart men that win. in this world. All the rest are sitting under the awning wondering why luck did not stand by them as well as by the other feHow. Half the victories of this life come from knowing when to strike. How can a man get the gift of hitting the spot at the precise moment? Isn't it, after all, a gift, and not something everyone may have? The secret of it is in this plain truth: No hound ever caught a fox unless he kept his eyes open, his mouth open and his legs on the keen scoot.-Spare Moments, Wise is the man who knows just what to say-and when not to say it. Secret of Remarkable Success. Many furniture men are interested in the extraordinary sUccess of the Northern Furniture Company of Sheboygan, 'Vis., Wl1ich, in a few years, has grown from a modest begin-ning to the largest manufacturers of bedroom, dining room and kitchen furniture in the world. Just ",,-hathas caused or contributed to the phenomenal success of the Northern is a matter of something like mystery to many less successful manufacturers, though most of the dealers know how Oley do it. Those well acquainted with the product of the com-pany and who have met the managers and salesmen can g-ive good reasons for its success, but to those who have not b-een so fortunate a little explacation may be acceptable. One of the leading causes of the success of the Northern was the fael lhat its managers ·were among the First to notice the drift of public taste toward the simple though elegant and tasty styles. For years most manufacturers and dealers had entertained the idea that only the wealthy possessed taste good enoug"h to appreciate simple designs and plain elegance in furniture. For the masses it was thought necessary to provide cheap, over-ornamented, highly colored stuff, but the Northern people djd not like that idea. Tbey believed tbat the ordinary people had taste equal to that of the wealthy Richmond Chair CO. RICHMOND,,\;INDIANA Doullie Cane Line SEE OUR NEW PATTERNS CATALOGUES TO THE TRADE 21 and they proceeded on that line. They threw out most of their carving machines, turned their attention to the plain and durable, though really elegant designs, used good materials and the best of workmanship even on their cheapest pro-ductions and the results were surprising even to themselves. The plan was a success from its inception. Another point in the success of the Northern people is that their aim is not merely to unload their furniture on the retail dealers but to see that it moves quickly out of the deal-er'swarerooms to make place for another order. The North-ern people would rather destroy a job lot than force it on Made b}~Mechanics Furniture Co., Rockford:, Ill. some dealer who would not be able to sell it. Their motto is "Sell only quick seIIers." Still another element in the success of the Northern people is the fact that they are good advertisers. They also conduct business on thc highest plane, give each and all fair honorable treatment and thus secure the respect anq confi-dence of their patrons_ Advertising "Before the War." The New York Press recently reproduced a few adver-tisements that appeared in Horace Greeley's NewYork Tri-bune in 1859. The advertisements in those days "before the ·war" did not "run to spate and display" as much as they do nowad;tys. Neither did they go into particulars to such an extent as at present and the cuts were lacking. Here is a copy of one used by one of the most enterprising furniture dealers of hj5 day: "FURNITURE EXTRAORDINARY." The finest kind of Broadway furniture ean be purchased of H. P. DeGRAAF, at Ko. 87 Bowery, at about half Broadway prices. He em-ploys 150 hands, and lays in his stock for net cash. His store is 240 feet deep, and six stories high, filled from ROOF TO BASEMENT with all qualities of FURNITURE AND MATTRESSES And-he says he will not at/ow himself to be undersold by any man. TheM and s Line IT SELLS and SATISFIES Do you know that we. have been making upholstered furniture more than two decades and satisfying our customers every minute of that time? We are making the line that Sells and Satiyies and would be pleased to add your name to our list that you may become a satis-fied customer. ROCKFORD, ILL. WHO ELSE COULD MAKE IT) China Closets Combination Cabinets Buffets Library Cases· Write for New Catalogue. Watch for oLlr ad next month. Everything for the Parlor, the Library and Drawing Room will be found in oue July Exhibit. MUELLER & SLACK CO. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. No. 919 Buffet OF COURSE THE STANDARD LINE OF AMERICA IS MADE BY THE ROCKFORD STANDARD FURNITURE CO. 23 Valley City Desk Company Grand Rapids, Mich. We can furnish you desks in any grade. Reasonable prices and high quality are what you are look-ing for. Our line on exhibition Top Floor, North, Furniture Exhibition Building GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. No 114 CATALOGUE MAILED TO DEALERS ONLY. r;:::::::= Quality - Individuality , • The distinguishing feature of a PAINE PIECE is its INDIVIDUALITY We make Davenports, Odd Sofas and Library Chairs. Suites and Leather Goods. We make them GOOD and we make them DIFFERENT No. 275 Quality in Upholstery C. S. PAINE CO., Ltd. GRAND RAPIDS CHEVAL DRESSER LOUIS XVI SUITI:: IN SOLID MAHOGANY MADE BY THE NELSON-MATTER FURNITURE CO.. GRAND RAPIDS. MICH. BED CHIFFONIER TOILET TABI-E THAT PACIFIC COAST TRUST TRAIL. Charges in the Indictment Against the Furniture Men in the Far West. During the first week in June the federal grand jury in Portland, Ore., found 182 "true bills" against furniture manu-facturers, jobbers and retailers in California~ Oregon, \Vash-ingtoll and Idaho, who are charged with having organized and maintained a conspiracy to restrain trade in violation of of the Shennan anti-trust 1a,'l_ The charge as set forth in the indictments reads as follows: "That during the whole or a part of the time [lioresaid (being from June 7, 1904, to June Made by Mueller & Slack Co.• Grand Rapids, Mich. 6, 1907,) defendants were members of at least one of certain retail furniture dealers' associations, namely, the Northwest Furniture Exchange, the Northwest Furniture Dealers' Pro-tective Association, the Oregon Retail Furniture Dealers' Association, the Portland Retail Furniture Dealers' Associa-tion or the Lewiston Furniture Dealers' Club, engaged in the business of buying at wholesale and sclling at retail, furniture and household goods, vvhich they, the said retailers and mem-bers of the aforesaid last-mentioned associations would and had secured and purchased from the said manufacturers, wholesalers and jobbers of the same, who resided and were doing business in states other than those in which said re-tailers resided and ,vexe doing business, and Frank F. Free-man, who was at the time aforesaid the secretary of the afore-said the Northwest Retail Furniture Dealers' Protective As-sociation, and who was at the time aforesaid the secretary of the Oregon Retail Furniture Dealers' Association, and who did during the period aforesaid co-operate with and assist the above-named defendants in the organizing and bringing about of and accomplishing the purpose of a certain unlawful combination, conspiracy, confederation and agreement here-inafter in this court more del-lnitely set forth, the aforesaid defendants and all of them in the 1:itateand district of Oregon and within the jurisdiction of this court did, during the period aforesaid, knowlingly, wilfully, unlawfully and maliciously conspire, combine, confederate and agree together between and amongst themselves to restrain trade and commerce amongst the several states of the United States, and parti- 25 cularly amongst the States of Oregon, Washington, California Montana and Idaho, and engage in a certain combina-tion, conspiracy, confederation and agreement in restraint of trade and commerce then being carried on among the several states in the United States, and particularly among the last-mentioned states; that is to say, a certain combina-tion, conspiracy, confederation and agreement in restraint of trade al1d commerce, t]len being carried on among said states in furniture and household goods, and that said unlawful com-bination, conspiracy, confederation and agreement for the restraint of the said commerce." As 'will be seen in the charge the "trust" is alleged to have existed for the past three years. The methods of transacting business are said to have been very much like those used by the "Prudential Club" ",ihich recently "came to grief" in Chicago, but the western organizations have a much wider scope and their rttles and regulations are not so stringent nor so effective as were those ttsed by the church and school furniture men. It is said that very few of the indicted dealers had any intention of violating the law when they became members of the organizations. The manufacturers also deny their guilt. And it is said none of them will plead guilty. The indictments, however,are accompanpied by specific charges describing certain transactions showing how the combinations were managed and if these allegations can be supported by sufficient evidence some of the officers and managers seem to be in danger of conviction. Window Trimmers and Advertising Men. In the smaller stores, the manager or owner of the store does the advertising, so that it is easy for the window~trimmer and this advertising man to get together and plan out the best things to put in the window. But in the larger store, where there is an advertising man, when he conceives an idea for a special sale, it is only proper that hc and the window artist discuss the question of getting the public in-terested as much as possible. How the goods shall be placed in the window will, of course, be left to the trimmer. In some stores the trimmer does the advertising for the store, and this man can supplement his ads with windows of the same goods or supplement his windows with advertise-ments of the same wares. You can readily imagine that this combination would bring results granted, of course, that the man was capable. This same close relation of the two de-partments should obtain e'iten where they are presided over by two individuals. These heads of departments should work together for the common good. Grand Rapids Caster Cup Co. 2 Parkwood A.... Grand Rapids, Mich. We arc now putting aD the best Caster Cups with cork bases ever offeree to the trade. These are finished in Golden Oak and White Maple in a light finish. These goods are admirable for polished floors a~d furn-iture rests. They will not sweat or mar. PRIGES: Size 2U inches••.... $4.00 per hundred Sizt;2Minches······ 5.00 per hundred T1'jIa Sample Order. F. O.B. Grand .Rupia.. 26 ROYAL MANTEL & rURNITURf COMPANY ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS Manufacturers of FINE and MEDIUM FURNITURE WE DO Nor MAKE MAN7~LS TJ-\t:= ROYAL LINE: will be found as usual in CHICAGO, 6th floor, 1319Michigan Ave .. and in NEW YORK at the Furniture Exchange during July. Buffets, China Closets, Combination Bookcases and Library Bookcases. SPRATT'S CHAIRS ARE THE JOy OF THE CHILDREN. Our new CHILD'S MISSION ROCKER was a winner from the start. Write for Catalogue and prices. Our line is large and prices are right. We make CHAIRS GROWN-UPS as well as CHILDREN. GEORGE SPRATT & co. Sheboyvn, Wis. Say you SQ= tllis ad in the Michigan Arti-san. The White Directory CONTAINS A CAREFIJLLY COMPILED LIST OF MANIJFACTIJRERS OF FURNITURE, PIANOS,ORGANS, INTERIOR FINISHES AND KINDRED INDUSTRIES Now Ready. Send inyour order. WHITE PRINTING COMPANY PRINTERS. ENGRAVERS, PUBLISHER.S, BINDERS 2-20 LYON ST., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Caliinet Makers In these days of close competition, need the best possible equipment, and this they can have in • . . • BARNES' Hand and Foot POWER Machinery Our New nand and foot Power Cll"cula ...Saw No.4 The strongest, most powerful, and in ~very way the best machine of its kind ever made, for ripping, cross-cutting. boring and grooving. Send for our New Catalogue. "W. F. ®. JOHN BARNES CO. 654 Ruby Street. Rochford. Ill. The Ford 8 Johnson Co. MANUFACTURERS Chicago Salesroom Ford-Johnson Bldg., 1433-35-37 Wabash Ave. For the July market we will have many new things to show. All furniture dealers are cordially invited to call and inspect our line, which includes Chairs, Rockers and Settees---all goods; Dining Room furniture; Mission furniture; Fiber Rush and Malacca furniture; Reed Rockers; Children's Go-Carts and Carriages, etc. WE ALSO SHOW SAMPLES AT OUR OWN SALESROOMS IN Cincinnati Atlanta New York Boston 27 28 Use for Mail Order Catalogues. There is said to be nothing so bad but what it might be worse; there is nothing so utterly useless but what it might be put to some good use. As an eye-opener to many a sleepy dealer, the mail-order house catalogue is a whole brass band at the head of a torch-light parade. "I never thought before that people would go to a hard-ware store for that/ remarked a small~town dealer recently in the writer's hearing, "until I noticed it was listed in the hardware department of a mail-order house catalogue. Oh, yes, I read them regularly now; it used to be spasmodic, till I got my awakening jolt over this little article. When I first saw it listed I laughed to myself, then got to thinking it over and wondered, why not; then it occurred to me that I had had a few calls for that very article. Now I look over all the mail-order catalogues I get my hands on and very often get awakened to SOUlenew thing that I ought to keep and don't. Those fellows as a rule are bright men, and know Underwriters Discuss Protective Methods. The eleventh annual convention of the National Fire Pro-tection Association was held in New York. The usual dis-cussions on modern methods of fire protection and the reports of -committees on special hazards were listened to with deep interest. The importance of the work which the Association is doing in the direction of standardizing fire protection devices and bringing about uniform requirements for betterments in construction was forcibly brought out in the opening address of President C. A. Hexamer. A comparison, he said, of the per capita fire loss in this country in 1906 with that in six prominent countries of Europe shows that the former was $3.30, including the San Francisco loss, and $2.25 excluding it, while the latter was only 33 cents. The percentage '0£ loss to premiums received by all the fire insurance companies reporting to the New York department last year showed the unprecedented ratio of %.9 per cent, a ratio, continued Mr. Hexamcr '~lhich certainly merits the attention of the highest legislative bodies of the nation. The committee 011 special hazards and fire record submitted a report which stated that the year 1906-7 was especially noteworthy in the large Humber of heavy losses due to failure of sprinklers to hold fire in check. Of seven fires which caused a property loss of two millions of dollars, three were in New England, viz., thc Lynn fire, the Dover (N, H.) fire and the Springfield (Mass.) fire. Made by Valley City De8ki:Co., GrandJRa,pids, Mich. what the people want, often better than I do. Several ar-ticles they have by their lists induced me to keep in stock I bave found to bc exceptional sellers. "It has taught me this lesson, too. If I, with a life long experience, do not know what I want to keep in stock until I see it listed elsewhere, it is pretty good evidence that there are others who want something that they do not realize until they see it; then they buy. If they had happened to see it first in some house catalugue the chances are they would have bought there and probably a lot of other stuff along with it. 'Vbo could blame them? One thing though, make all the use possible of the mail-order house catalogue but do not leave it kicking about the store or office. If a customer happens to see it be may be-come interested, if he hasn't any particular scruples against dealing with foreign firms; if he has, he will conclude that I am myself a patron of the catalogue-house and that if he is to take that quality of goods from the -local store anyway, he may as well send off direct and get the goods first hand. It's good logic on his part, if he catches yoU studying these cata-logues; but it isn't good business on your part to let him catch you."-H~ware. Tips Exceed Wages. The large furniture houses have men to go around and fix up any scratch or damage a customer may find in goods he has bought. His presence in a house, with his snug kit of tools and polishes, usually emphasizes the wabbly legs of an old chair, the scar· in the table top which Freddie's shoe made months ago, and a score of other things with which the repair man has no concern. But he fixes them readily enough, though sometimes pressed for time, and he always carries away a good-sized tip. Some days the money thus earned "on the side" exceeds the repairer's salary from the firm.-New York Sun. - - --------------------- 7IR'T' I t5' A...N 1 $ ,. • 29 Character in Furniture. "Quality" in furniture is not so lightly <:onsidcred that the manufacturer can afford to disregard it. In fact those manu-facturers who do not claim some intrinsic goodness for their particular product are cultivating a speaking acquaillLance with the bankruptcy court. But quality is not all. i\ silk gown of tbe early forties \vould hardly be appropriate in a modern ball-room. The ''cluality'·' would be there but the "style" has changed. A solid mahogany davenport in an ex-pensive covering made by high class workmen would hardly be saleable unless it had that indefinable something called "style." l\lr. Paine of the C. S. Paine Co., in a reccnt intervie\v emph;lsized the above distinctio11. "Furniture" said 1Ir. Paine "to be salenble mnst be distinctive as_well as good. It ing, fourth floor. Geo. C. Dyer will meet his metropolitan friends, Ernest IL vVilliams wilt represent the Middle West, J. D. Douglas, the Pacific Coast and H. M. Robins, the South. How To Treat a Salesman. "How would you treat a traveling salesman?" asked a re- Uiilcr of :t -vetc:,;w commercial traveler. "Treat him the best you know ho~v," caine the answer quickly. "1£ you can buy, stop your work and buy; if you can't buy, say so. Remember that the traveling salesman, 110 matter how jolly a fellow he may be, is busy making- a living for himself and family. Re~ member that traveling expenses are high and that he has just a limited time to devote to your town and generally even a shorter tillle to you. Treat him right always. Remember, MADE BY C. S. PAINE CO., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. must express t:haracter. The individuality of the line must be so marked that an ordinary furnitut'e man can 'spot' it. The retail customer must be attracted by the character of the piece as well as by its goodness. We make a big effort to secure this individuality in our line. ~IallY a design though other-wise good is rejected, because its character is not suffic.iently distinctive. We are bringing out this season nearly seventy-five entirely new patterns everyone of which is purely and exclusively 'Paine.' We look {or the largest volume of busine!:iS we have ever had." The Paine line will be s}lOwn in the large exhibition build-too, th;1t you can always get a better deal from the traveling man than from the firm direct. This applies to every busi-ness; and why? Because the commercial traveler is sent Qut to sell goods. That is what the house pays him for, and the house wants you to deal -with him, not with the house." Lives of many great men remind us, As we learn them day by day, That they'd best be put behind us, Out of sight and far away. MADE BY C. S. PAINE CO., ORAND RAPIDS, MICH. IT'S BECAUSE WE HAVE THE RIGHT KIND OF MECHANICS THAT ~ MAKE THE RIGHT KIND of FURNITURE MECHANICS FURNITURE COMPANY • ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS Write for neW Catalogue and keep your eye p~eled for this space ne~t month. UNION FURNITURE CO. WE manufacture the larg-est line of FOLDING CHAIRS in the United State8~ 8ttitable for Sunday Schools, Hall.s, Steamers and. all PUblic Resorts. . • . . We also manufacture Brass Trimmed Iron Beds, S-pt'ing Beds, Cots and Cribs in a larKe variety. . . . ~d for Catalocue aDd Price. to Kauffman Mfg. CO. "SULANO. OUIO ROCKFORD, ILL. China Closets Buffets Bookcases We Icad in Style, Comtrudion and· Finish. See our Catalogue, OUT line on permanent exhibi~ lion 7th Floor, New Manufact-urers' Building, Grand Rapids. The New Banquet Table Top a~weil aI OFFICE, DINING and DIRECTORS' TABLES are 001'" specialty. STOW & DAVIS FURNITURE CO.. 2:clt..':""'· Write far Catalogue. Gel sample:tof BANQUET TABLE TOP. Thousands in Use Furniture Dealers need have no more fear. With the use of Cline's Caster Cup one table may be placed on top of another without injury. Made in two sizes in the follow~ tog finishes: Oak, Mahogany and Ro-5ewood. Special pre-pared felt bottom, preventing ,sweat marks, scratching, etc. Price: 2)( in. per 100, $3.50; 3);; in. perlOO. $4.50 We alsomanuiacture IRe most reliable C.s.rd Holder on the market. Write for our new 40 page Catalogue. L. Cline Mfg.Co.• 123.Wah •• hAv ... Chicago 31 Something DiffERENT in Couches No. 155 WOVEN WIRE COUC" $4.00 Net We have made for some time, Couches and Davenports with woven wire tops. OUf latest essay in this line is Dlffl:RENT. Made and shipped K. D. Easily set up. A trIal order will convince. SMIT" ~ Dt\VIS MfG. CO., St. louis. Johnson Chair CompJny CHICAGO, . - ILLINOIS Manufacturers _ Office Chairs, Dining Chairs, Bedroom Chairs, and Parlor Rockers Sendfor our new catalogue, just out, illustrating our entire line. PERMANENT EXHIBIT: Furniture Exhibition Building, 1411Michigan Avenue 32 PACIFIC COAST CONDITIONS BUSINESS IN SAN FRANCISCO DEMORALIZED BY LABOR TROUBLES AND A HALT IN REAL ES-TATE SPECULATIONS. Bankers and Business Men Combine to Fight the Strikers and Speculators-A Slump in the Price of Lumber. "Business affairs in San Francisco are in bad shape," said Charles R Sligh, the well known Grand Rapids furniture manufacturer, who has just returned from the Pacific coast, where he spent four weeks looking after his business and tim-ber interests. "I was in San Francisco in June last year-about six weeks after the earthquake," he continued. "Then the future of the city \vas doubtful. Some thought it would never be rebuilt, but doubt gave way to confidence and the city has already been rebuilt to a large extent and there is now no question as to its future. The amount of rebuilding done during the year is surprising. Comparing present con-ditions ,""ith those of a year ago it does not seem possible that the change was made in so short a time. "Just now, however, building operations are practically at a standstill and business of all kinds is more or less paralyzed. The trouble is due mainly to the strikes, but a halt in real estate speculation has also had. a bad effect. When I left the city there were no less than seventeen strikes in pro-gress besides the street railway strike. Most of the strikes are in the building trades, but all kinds of business are affect-ed and there is no telling when the trouble will end. The bankers and business men have apparently joined with the the contractors and manufacturers to down the strikers and there is little doubt of their success, but it may be a long fight. "The bankers have also shut down on the real estate and other speculators. Real estate speculation had been carried to an extreme that made it dangerous and the bankers were obliged to make some effort to call a halt. There is plenty of money in the banks, but it cannot be borrowed for specula-tive purposes. The speculators, when they cannot obtain money to meet their obligations will have to throw their holdings on the market and sell for whatever they can get; some of them have already been obliged to do so. As a consequence values are uncertain and their business is demor-alized. "The halt in real estate speculation is not confined to San Francisco. It extends to all towns on the coast, or, at least, all north of San Francisco, though it is not so noticeable in Oregon and Washington. I did not go down to Los An-geles. In Oregon and Washington-at Portland, Seattle and Tacoma-general business is good. Those towns have certainly been benefited by San Francisco's misfortunes. They have felt no falling off in any line of trade or industry, ex-cept in the lumber business. There has been a slump of $1.50 to $2.00 per thousand in the price of lumber recently, due, in part at least, to San Francisco's halt in building opera-tions. "Whether San Francisco dealers will buy as freely as usual at the summer exposition is doubtful. Conditions there are not Made by Valley City Desk Co., Grand Rapids, M.ich. encouraging, but they are hopeful and may bank on an early settlement of the labor troubles which would assure them a booming fall trade. Dealers in Washington and Oregon are prosperous and will probably place orders larger than usual." Merchants Organize a Fire Insurance Company. The Retail Merchants Exchange of Los Angeles, which is composed of sixteen commercial organizations, at a recent meeting took preliminary steps to organize a mutual fire in-surance company, which is to be known as the Merchants' Mutual Fire Insurance Company of Southern California. It was decided that the company should have a reserve fund of $50,000 at the start and to bea "non-boarder." (ESTABLISHED lass) BERRY BROTHERS' Rubbing and Polishing Varnishes MUST BE USED IN FURNITURE WORK TO BE APPRECIATED THEY SETTLE THE VARNISH QUESTION WHEREVER TRIED WRITE FOR INFORMATION, FINISHE.O WOOD Si\MPLES, AND LITERATURE. BERRY BROTHERS. LIMITED VARNISH MANUFACTURERS DETROIT THIS IS THE CAN AND LABEL NEW YORK, ii10STON, PHIUDELPH'A, BALTIMORE. CANADIAN FACTORY, WALKERVILLE ONTARiO CHICAGO, CINCINNATI, ST. LOUIS. SAN ..RANCIBCO. REMINISCENT. Twenty-eight years ago the writer gained his first irnpres~ siems and knowledge regarding the Grand Rapids furniture ex-position. No ol1t-of-to·wn lines were exhibited and the local lines werE: few in number and, in comparison with the Jines of today, unimportant. The Berkey & Gay Fur-niture Company, Nelson & 1\Jatter, the \Viddicomb Furniture Company, the Phoenix Furniture Company and the Grand Rapids Chair Company and Stow & Haight were the only ex-hibitors, and yet in view of the fact that the lines exhibited would be considered of little conse.quence today they were strong enough to attract huyers from the leading retail houses of the United States to Grand Rapids. The writer remem-bers having met in the market twenty-eight years ago ]'Vfr. Hildreth oi Holton & Hildreth, 1h. Schone of Vv'irts & Scholle, Jacob Beicrsdorf, Harry \Vright of the Tobey Furni-ture Company and John II,!. Colby of Chicago; Mr. I\Jatthews of Milwaukee; Clark A. Brockway, representing Marcus Ste-vens, and George \V. Fowle of Detruit; A, S. Hereoden and Mr. Barstow of Cleve1alld; C. F. Doll of Schlund & Doll, Buf-falo; Johnny Hand, Fred Pulhrnan, R. 1. Horner and Mr. De- Graaf of New York; '\ilr. Stone of Dewey & Stone, Omaha; Mr. DeCostar of DeCostar & Clark, St. Paul; 1'\'1r.Phelps of Phelps & Bradstreet, Millllcapolis; Co1. Abernathy of Leav-enworth; John H. Sanderson (of capitol furnishing notoriety), Philadelphia; \V. B. J\'loses of \Vashington; Mr. Minch, 1'/1r. Chalmers and Mr. \V2.Lte of B;l1timore; Sam Burrell and Mr. Jones of St. Louis; }1r. Elder of Indianapolis; Mr. Barth of Louisville; Mr. Plum, Mr. Heeney and 1'fr. Cole of San Francisco. 1'l1r. Conant and :r..-rr. IVleilink of Toledo; Mr. Orison and Mr. Keith of Kansas City, and othe-rs whof-c l1am~s are for the moment forgotten. The spring season opened in March and the fall season in August. Of the sales-men who received and attended the visiting buyers, :.vir. \Vheelock and 11r. Fitch of Nelson & ::'I.'1atter,!'vir. Sligh and ¥r. Corson of the Berkey & Gay Furniture Company, Mr. Foote of the Gr::tl1dRapids Chair Company, Mr. W. H. Jon~s of the Phoenix, Jacob Moore of the Grand Rapids Furniture Company, John E. Foster of the \Viddicomb Furniture Com-pany, and R. J. Stow of Stow & Haight are remembered. The hotels were small, and many of the conveniences deemed essential to health and comfort by the commercial tourist of today were lacking. ]\1any of the buyers mentioned above have passed away, but the market grows and will continue to grow in importt.nce to the end of time. The art of manu-facturing is planted in Grand Rapids as firmly as sculpture i.n haly, painting in France and music in Germany. A. S. WHITE. "Fancy Furniture." ~lallY years ago the Oriel Cabinet company commenced advertising their lille as "fancy furniture." The goods were morc realistic than fanciful, although in their design play was given to the ingeniollsness of the designer. Factories producing "fancy furnitme" began to multiplY and so lllaHy . "freaks" were brought out and designated "[auc.,,-· that lraua-gel' C. \V. Black, decided upon a departure for the Oriel Cabinet company. Sometime ago it was annolltlced that the OTicl. Cabinet company .vauld thereaitcl.· manufacture furniture novelties, a term that suggests the line of work pro-duced more tittillgly than·' "fancy". The Oriel is showing many furniture novelties this season. Steadily Progressing. Since the new purchasers of the Grand R~-ipids Farnitt:re company (formedy the Nev,.· England) took 1JOS3C·.~;~('1l of the property, steady pTogress has been made in improving the quality of the line and in placing the same on the floor of the leading retailers of the United States. A marked advance has bcen made for the fal! season of trade, and buyers visiting Grand Rapids should not leav{~the market before making an inspection of the company's offerings. 34 The Udell Works Are Now Ready With Their New Line 01 Sample, in Grand_Rapids Only. July, 1907 Exhibit. 4th Floor. S,,-uth Hall. Furoiture Exhibition Buading. 1245 Mission Desk LARGER BETTER CHEAPER THE UDELL WORKS, Indianapolis,Indiana,U. S. A. fJ Get on our Mailing List for New Catalog in July. Robbins Tabl6 60. OW0550, Mi6higan No. 318. AMERICAN OAK. 44x48IN. TOP, AMERICAN BASE. 7 IN. PILLAR. Ladies Desks, Music Cabinets, Bookcases. Library Tables YOU will be the loser if you don't see them. 1242 MiSHion Desk The New "PERFECT" FOLDING CliAIR Comfortable Durable Simple Neat The Acme of Perfection in the line of Folding Chairs.PBRP"H(:T COMPACTJ'(ESS when folded. WRITE for PRICES The PeabodY School Furniture Co. North Mancheater. • .. lndlana MANUFACTURERS OF HARDWOOD ~~~~i~~ SPECIALTIES: ~'l.U;1?l'l3QUAOR.AK VENEERS MAHOGANY VENEERS HOFFMAN BROTHERS COMPANY 804 W. Main St" FORT WAYNE, iNDIANA 3S t. EXTENSION TABLES Complete Line sho\lln in (lur new space FURNITURE EXHIBITION BUILDING First Floor, North Half. Grand Rapids, Mich. ST. JOHNS TABLE COMPANY CADILLAC, MICH. Cf\}3lNET Mf\KER~ CO· Grand Rapids, Michige.n ... New Dining Room Suites No. 1115, CUBAN MAHOGANY. New Library Tables, Desks and Sewing Tables. These are all novelties---something different from anything on the market. FIRST FLOOR, SOUTH HALF, MANUFACTURERS' BUILDING. John Samuelson, F. H. Bogges, C. F. McGregor, M. D. Blum, A. T. Kingsbury and Robert Baxter. 36 ESTABL.ISHED 18BO ",(i " , ,"'~~ , '-~ .~:\. ~ ~ --"""""'!' ~ - - PUElL.I$HI!!:D BT MICHIGAN ARTISAN CO. ON THE 10TH AND 25TH OF EACH MONTH OFF1CE-2-20 LYON ST.• GRANO RAPIDS. MICH. ENTERED AS MATTER OF THE SECOND Cl.AS~ The growth of agitation in the trade press and retail mer-chants' organizations against what they call the mail-order evil, affords opportunity to a class of promoters who, without any personal preference or interest in the matter, offer to co-operate with the oppressed merchants in their efforts to check the advance of the enemy. Those promoters advance various schemes to put the mail-order houses out of business, but nearly all of them arc merely plans to bleed the merchants individually or through the associations. Very few, if any, of them, even if worked out as planned would have any effect on. the catalogue trade nor would they benefit the merchants in any way. In nine cases out of ten, at least, the merchant who, individually or through association with others, goes into any scheme to fight the mail-order houses fmds that it costs him more than he loses through the mail-order competition. The only way for a retail merchant to meet the dreaded en-croac'hments of the catalogue dealers is to improve his busi-ness methods, make the most of his location and natural ad-vantages and work his field to the limit. Mail-order com-petition has few terrors for the live, up-tn-date retail dealer. *1* *1* *1* *1* The past month has been a strenuOUS one for President Kanitz of the Muskegon Valley Furniture Company, and Sec-retary Foote of the Grand Rapids Chair Company. What with the work of closing up their lines for the fall season of trade and defending the management of their pet institution, the Michigan Soldiers' Home, they have llad no time to at-tend the camp fires or their regimental reunions. The insti-tution and the lines are Ila11 right" and ever will be a long as Messrs. Kanitz and Foote shall remain in their present act-ivities. Both are honorable and able men. *\* *\* *1* *\* The action taken by the railroads in several western states, as noted on another page, shows that they are deter-mined to fight the two-cent fare laws to a finish and if defeat-edthey plan to retaliate by raising freight rates through new regulations and changes in classification. They may sllcceed in defeating the people in this matter, but it will be an empty victory. It will only encourage the Socialists and tend to convince the people that the government should not only control, but should O\vn the railroads. *1* *1* *1* *1* Every customer, whether man, woman or child, rCll'"lembers the store where they have been kindly treated. Salesmen should be made to understand that everybody's call is impor-tant. No man likes to be approached by a careless, slov-enly salesman with the question: lIWhat do yon want?" A man who does not possess the instincts and the training of a gentleman is hardly fit for serVIce in a barnyard or among the pig styes. *'~ *1* *1* If there is not a r-l:ch 1:' rger turn-out of buyers to the exposition in Cl~inTn t"C't C· o:·th it will not be the fault of President ~.Ieyns of the i\Lu'ufaeturers' Exhibition building. Dud .......,.t~(·' r :'~t four I11cnth he has kept the mails well toad- .cd \vitl1 letter;; ~:ddressed to dealers, setting forth substantial reasons why every dealer should become a market buyer. The arguments presented by Mr. Meyers are unanswerable. *1* *!=ll *1* *1* "Salesmatlship is a profession in itself," remarked a veteran merchant. I'The salesman who is able to ascertain why the public buy, and who is able to inspire enthusiasm in the minds of prospective purchasers, is sure of advancement and' steady employment. By taking a correct view of their' profession and making good in its practice the op?ortunities for con-scientious and industrious salesmen are unlimited:' *1* *1* *1* *1* Failing to receive prompt attention, when apparently there is no cause for delay,' makes a customer "grouchY," and when a merchant has more people in ,his stme than can be waited on ii is his misfortune. Salesmen cannot inspire enthusiasm in customers when flying from one to the other. Men are especially keen in their remembrance of how they are treated by the storekeepers and their employees. *\* *\* *\* *1* Want of tact is almost a common fault in salesmen. ",'hen this is combined with carelessness the explanation is fur-nished why many individuals employed by merchants earn so little. The best training schools for salesmen find the correction of these faults very ditlicult to accomplish. Slov-enly persons arc disposed to remain slovenly all their days. *1* '*1* *1* *1* Visitors to the mid-summer expositions in Grand Rapids and Chicago will be pleased to learn that the Hotel Ottawa thirty minutes ride from Grand Rapids al1d five hours by boat from Chicago, will be open for the reception of guests on July 1. In the past this resort has entertained large numbers of fllfIliture men. *j* *1* *1* *1* Many samples were received in Grand Rapids during the first week of June and the w~rk of putting the floors in order has gone steadily forward since. The placing of the lines on the floors is not easily accomplished. Often weeks are required to properly display a single line. *1* *1* *1* *1* Fears are expressed that on account of the indictment of two hundred furniture men on the Pacific Coast the attend-ance of buyers from that section will be smalL Many will have pressing engagements with their lawyers during the mid-summer season. *\* *1* *1* *1* During the months of July and August large red spots will appear on the maps of the United States. These will indi-cate the locations of Grand Rapids, Chicago and New York, the great furniture centers of the world. *1* *1* *1* *1* The successful merchants of the future will be the men; who have had experiel1ce on the f1!)ors of mercantile houses with Cllstomers. The office offers no such opportunities as the floors or the road to acquire power in salesmanship. *1* *1* *1* *1* There is a steadily increasing demand for f~rnit\\re made of toona mahogany. Many supposed that the light finish employed on this wood would not remain long in favor, but it seems to have gained a lasting position in the trade. *1* *1* *1* *1* It seems to be a well established principle that a manufac-turer has the right to open his exhibit whenever he pleases, and to close it at any time, without asking the cons.ent of the sheriff. *1* 1111**1* *1* Incivility and lack of attention on the part of satesmen caUses the loss of more trade through the resentment of customers than the delivery of inferior goods or the pay-ment of excessive charges . _._-------------------- "INCOMPARABLE CENTURY LINE" PARLOR. LIBRARY AND LIVING-ROOM FURNITURE IN MAHOGANY. WALNUT. AND GOLD LEAF. ALSO MAHOGANY DINING-ROOM CHAIRS AND CHAMBER CHAIRS AND ROCKERS. REPRODUCTIONS FROM THE FRENCH. OLD ENGLISH AND THE COLONIAL. REPRESENTATIVES: L, D, BERRY W. T. WELCH A. T. KI NGSBURY ROST, E. BAXTER CENTURY FURNITURE CO. SALES-ROOM 153-159 CANAL ST .. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. 38 Detroit, June 24.-A. VV.Bosley has purchased n:e stock of furniture and good will of tl:e estate cf the late W. E. BarkeT at 211-14-16 Michigan avcm,e, and will contil1ue the business at that location in addition to his present store at 14-16 Gr::.ttiot avenue. lvIr. Bosley has been a successful iUT nituTe merchant in Detroit for nventy years or more and is a man who has done and is doing his full share to advance the city's prosperity. Victor V. Cel1lebroek, who has been with the IVlichigan avel'l".C store sillce it started, rC11la:l;S with Mrs. Bosley in charge of the alTice. ~dT. Ceulebrce~k has been in the furniture business as a manufacturer, salesrr.an and with Mr. Barker in the store almost sil1ce boyhocd, and his many friends ·will be glad to know he is still in ·the busi-ness. Idr. Bosley has the best wishes of the rVlichigal1 Ar-tisan for success in his l~ew vcr.ture, and he will surely win it as he 'deserves to do. The Possclius Bros. Furniture Manufacturing Company ·will show an entire t'.ew line of dining extension tables at their permanent show rooms, 1319 :'lichigan avenue, Chicago, in charge of l\Jessrs. Kueey, Kemp and Armstrong. This is one of the largest lines of extension tables in the market and in addition to thc famous Victor, their line en:braces Murphy Chair Co. MANUFACTURERS A COMPLE.TE DETROIT, MICH. LINE. Pioneer Mfg. Co .. , DETIlOIl, MIen. Rood furniture Babu GarriaOllll Go-Garts Fall line l'hown lJon second floor, 1319 Michll!an Ave., Chi. calilo, in 'anuary. ItOOKWOOD and a general line of fl\NGY TI\BlfS Write for Cuts and Pricea ........ PALMER Manufacturing Co. 115 to 135 Palmer Ave. DETROIT. MICH. Full line -.hown on teeond £100", 1319 Miehigan Ave., ChiealrO. in January. many pattcrns in round and square tops, in mahogany, quar-ter sawed golden and mission oak. It is so large and varied that i,t cannot fail to be one of the slrongest lines in the build-iug. The Safety Folding Bed Company will show their full line of metal safety lockless folding beds on thel1rst floor of 1411 Michigan avenue, Chicago. .\lessrs. Fitzpatrick, Ryan and Radtke wilt have charge of the line ;and it will be a winner. The Palmer IVTanufacturing Corhpany will have a beaut:- ful line of library anl parlor tables, pedestals and tabourettes on display at 1319· Michigan avenue, Chicago. The Pioneer Manufacturing Company show their fine line of reed and rat-tan rockers, children's ..:arriages and go-carts in with the Pal-mer Manufacturing Company. The Detroit (;:thinet Company'" fine line of fancy furni-ture wil1 be shown as usual in the big Furniture Exhibition building, Grand Rapids. George}. Reindel's new six story building is rapidly ap-proaching completion, and when finished he will have one of the finest furniture stores in the west, Don't Be a Whiner. Lucky is the man in business who doesn't feel occasionally like giving up the fight. There are times when everything seems to go wrong and nothing comes your way. When in such a condition the following, written by a buyer for the An:erican Tobacco Journal may serve you as a bracer: "Don't, gentlemen, play the part of the under dog. Don't let the public think that your business is being injured by the trusts or by any other combination of men or circum-stances. Put \-lp a bold front, look the world in the face and whistle, whether you win or lose. You can't win anything with a whine. Thc man with troubles r::ever lacks an aud-icnce, but his auditors seldom leave him with more respect for him as a man than they had before they knew he had any troubles. "Humanity is a peculiar proposition, anyhow. Give them somcthing to look at; put up a show of sightliness; keep things ncat, attractive and cheerful and you will get the business re-gardless of other things. To hold a business you have got to have, something else of merit, but to hold trade you must have some trade to hold in the first place. It isn't necessary to brag, but it is viblly necessary to keep the public thinking you are ;1l1 'is-cr' and not a 'was-cr.' If once yOll let the people thick yOU have gone 1111derthey will fall on you like Sibcrian wolves alid eat yoU Up. Every time and all the tirrc people follow th~ successful man; they trade with him and try to tn8ke friends with him." The buyers bought light in January <l11d from "hand-to-mouth" since. Upon these facts the prediction of a lively mid-summer season is based. • 39 i To Make Sdre of It, When in Chicago, Go to 1411 MICHIGAN AVENUE F1RST FLOOR NEAR THE ELEVATOR AND SEE THE Safety Lockless Metal Folding Beds ·---------1-1 -- MADE BY THE ---- Safety Folding Bed ~\. C L d ) ,If{"; il~, 0., t. I DETROIT, MICHIGAN I J. d~"fTHrs' FITZPATRICK,M. E.RYAN .,dA P.RADTKe '-------------1 I I I Np-KUM-LOOSE FASTENER 4 \I' 1\\ is the only device th t makes it absolutely impossible for the Knob, Pull or Toilet Screw to grt loose or come off. As they cost the manufacturer absolutely nothing af. all, no manafacturer c~n afford to trim his furniture without using these rasteners. Manufactured under the Tower PatentS only hy the I GRAND RAPID~ BRASS CJ. GRAND RAPIDS, MICmGAN I S ARE BREAD AND The "ELI" fOL~!~~,~d~i~Mant:Ra~:'~p:~:~ERS No Stock complete wlthou O MILLER &, Evan.ville. Indi~Da ELI . CO.Writeforcutsandpnces TUE BOCKSTEGE fURNITURE CO. EVANSVILLE IND. Globe Furniture Company Globe Side-boards Are me BeSI on me G10De lor me MOney GET OUR CATALOGUE MeQlion-the MICHI-GAN AR!ISAN when wnlmg. EVANSVILLE. IND. Kitchen Cabinets , Cupboards and K. D. . Wardrobes. That Plell8e. Send for our 1907 C.ta1ague Now Ready. The Bosse Fumiture CO EVANSVIll.E. IND.- .nar~es War~ro~es are Good Wardrobes GOOD Style Construction Finish PRICES RIGHI Write for Catalogue Karges Furniture Company, EVANSVILLE, IND. 42 ===== OUR ENTIRE NEW LINE OF THE ===== ~~·I FAMOUS VICTOR1==--=1 OUR GREAT SPECIALTY and a full line of EXTENSION TABLES are now on Exhibition .at 1319 Michigan Ave., (2d Floor) Chicago IN CHARGE OF F. A. KUNEY, J O. KEMP, H. J ARMSTRONG -- --_ ..- --- --- ----- ---'---- I POSSELIUS BROS. FURNITURE MFG. CO. DETROIT. MICH. Luce-Redmond Chair Co. Big Rapids. Michigan Om Largest and Finest Line of Bedroom, Slipper Chairs and Rockers Parlor Suites, Office and Dining Chairs In Mahogany, Oali:, Maple and Chxassian Walnllt Furniture Exhibition Building, 2d floor, South Half to the front Sections 15 and 16, Grand Rapids. In charge of ], C. HAMILTON and EDGAR FOSTER, assisted bytbe followiug Representatives: L. G. WALDRON, J0r.:; T. HEALD, A. D. HUDGINS, :A. R. SANKS lUld C. R. DAVIS oj the Wisconsin Furniture Co. 43 - - - -- --------- --- --- 44 Grand Rapids Furniture Co. SUCCESSORS NEW ENGLAND FURNITURE CO. Dining Room Furniture in Complete Suites MEDIUM PRICES Side Boards, China Cabinets, Serving Tables, Extension Tables, Chairs '1 Line strengthened and mad'(: more Com-plete by addition of New and Artistic Patterns. Show Rooms at Factory IOn Canal St. On the First Floor at 1319 Michigan Ave., CHICAGO ~TH.ROPCO. :f 9- Display complete Lines of samples from the following factories: Elk Furniture Co~ } ~~\is~i:RS. Dl'XI'e" " CHIFFO~IERS. SIDEBOARDS Crowell Furniture Co. §~rttAL Thomasville Furn, Co. ~~'t1KF~~~i~ Standard Chair Co. g~Wci'¥2,O,J'Gd Queen Chair Co. ~~~AT Pro bst -B'Iggs F urn. Co. GSdIDBEUBFOFAETRSDS Choate-Hollister Furn. CO.l:I1AA~GGRADE . TABLES OoIden F urn. Co. PCOHLIFISFHOENDDIREAElRlSWSSo.oE".R,.;S SeIIers & S ons Co. CKAITBCIHNEENTS MI.S. SlOn F urn. Co. AMRISTSSGidO.,CN.;RAFTS Capi·taIF urn. Mfg. Co. FOUARKPNOITRUCRHE GET OUR PRICES AND DISCOUNTS, 'READY JULY 1st. MANUFACTURERS' EXHIBITION BUILDING, 1319 MICHIGAN AVE" CHICAGO ~MlfrIG7}-N Fight the Two-Cent Fare Laws. Eighteen railroad companies in Missouri are fighting the two-cent fare law which is to take effect in that state on July 1. They have secured an injunction, from Judge Smith McPherson of Kansas City, restaining the state officials from taking steps to enforce the law until the courts have passed upon a previous petitioll asking that the law be de- 45 rates and will raise the mll1l1TIUm caT load weight on more than 90 per cent of the articles named in the western freight classification, abolish several special commodity tariffs and restore the articles to classification. Such action would ad-vance the minimum car load of iron articles, 6,000 pounds, agricultural implements 4;000, grain products 5,000 and all other carload commodities from 3,000 to 6,000 pounds, and, elared invalid all. constitutional grounds. About twenty roads have taken similar action in Illinois and a smaller number in Minnesota, Arkansas, Iowa and Nebraska. It is expected the decision in the Missouri case will be accepted in the other states, but as that case may be appealed to the United States Supreme Court the operation of the laws may be sus-pended for a year or more. The y;.'iscansin senate, by a DINING ROOM, MANCHESTER, ENGLAND with the abolition of commodity tariffs on low grade ship-ments, .v..o..uld have the effect of making a general advance ill freight rates of about six per cent. . The Sextro Line. The Sextro Manufacturing Company will have their new line for the July season on display on -the sixth floor of the BEDROOM. MANCHESTER, ENGLAND votJ of 6 to 20, killed the twO-cent fare bill 'which had passed the 'lower house of the legislature. It is announced that in case the courts uphold the two-cent fare laws, the railroads wilt withdrawnj all special rates of less than two cents a mile, except comntutation rates. They will also withdraw all "less than car load" commodit}" freight Manufacturers' Exhibition building. 1319 Michigan avenue, .Chicago. Manager Sextro states that his company have had an l1l1USllal1ylarge volume of business during the past year and that :it the present time they are still behind On filling their ordets. The Sextro table line is one of the strongest to be found on the markets. 46 We Sell to Dealers Only. New Catalogs Free. COLONIAL DESIGNS Appeal to the best trade. Many new Colonial pieces, with our complete line of Mahogany, Birds-eye Maple and Q!artered Oak BEDROOM FURNITURE will be shown on the Fifth Floor Manulacturers' Exhibition Building CHICAGO, ILLINOIS ..... The Spencer & Barnes Company BENTON HARBOR, MICH. Some of our Salesmen who will "show you" F. T. Plimpton: & Company, M. A. Harmon, S, Mercer and E. B Benbow. NEW· LINE on DISPLAY Manlacturers' Big Exhibition Building CHICAGO. ILLINOIS WRITE FOR CATALOGUE THE SEXTRO MFG. co. CINCINNATI, OHIO 47 Moon Desk Co. MUSKEGON, MICH. HOFFICE DESKS New Styles for Fall Season q Line on sale Seventh Flocr, Manufacturers' Building, Grand Rapids, Mich. No. 384% Dining Table. OUR OAK AND MAHOGANY Dining Extension Tables Are Be:fi Made, Bdl: Finished Values. All Made hom Thoroughly Seasoned Stock. No.3&4~Dining Table Top. 48x:48. Made in Q!:!arteted Oak. Full Polished, Nickel Calfters. NQ. 384. Same style as above with square top. LENTZ TABLE CO. NASHVILLE. MICH. WHITE. PRINTING CO. I I GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. HIGH GRADE CATALOGS COMPLETE 48 Free Excursions Like Trading Stamps. During the past two years many towns in Minnesota and some in other western states inaugurated bargain weeks- and buying excursions, during the progress of which they offered Made by Manistee Manufacturing CO., Manistee, Mich. railroad fare free to those who came in from other towns and bought goods to a certain amount. The proposition naturally has some attractive features and at first showed signs of being a profitable investment for the promoters. Like the trading stamp scheme, how-ever, it was not long before the idea was overworked. Other towns' began to employ the same means to attract trade and eventually the large city of Minneapolis decided to take a hand in the matter and recently held its tlrst "Free Fare Trade \Veek." The jobbers and manufaetttrers of the latter city have evidently decided that they do not care to continue such me-thods of enticing the people to come from out of tOW11to buy in that market. They apparently believe, as the business men of every good market town should believe, that they have de-sirable lines to after and that no inducements should be nec-essary in order to attract business to that center. 1£ each city were to inaugurate a plan of this kind, no oue would be deriving 'any henetlt from the plan but illstead the merchants would be distributing to their customers in the \-yay of rail-road fare a large amount of money, which eventually mnst be made up in some other way. As- mentioned ahove, it would practically become a duplicate of the trading stamp scheme. In summing up the experience gained after its first trial in Minne'apolis, the North \Vest Trade of that city dis-courages the holding of future similar excursions and says: "No city can hope for commercial honors as a manufac-turing and distributing point where its manufacturers and wholesalers are called upon to combat such commercial her-esies and methods as exemplified in this scheme, as it inspires, and justly, a feeling of resentment on the part of the mer-chants whose trade is thus raided. 'Free Fare Trade Week' was not a success. The expenses attending its operation were almost prohibitive, the more so as it was not inspired nor put into effect by Minneapolis retailers themselves, but by a couple of 'promoters' or schemers from the outside loaded, with' fair predictions and bright promises. The city has not been crowded, nor has the volume of business shown any decided increase. "The single item of fares should have exhausted legitimate profit on the required minimum of merchandisepu.rchased, but in addition there were heavy expenses for thegerierotis newspaper advertising, the strolling band, the maintenance of the bureau of registration, and last, but by no means the least, the promoters' share. And the grand aggregate formed such a handicap that the scheme has been voted many things but a success." New Record £0[' the West Michigan. The business of the ",Vest !vIichigan Furniture Company, Holland, .~dich.,for the spring of 1907, has been the heaviest in the history of the company. The line, covering golden elm, maple mahogany, golden ash, golden oak, imitation fig-ured mahogany, imitation figured quartered oak, genuine ma-hogany and qnartered oak veneered goods in chamber suites, chiffoniers and dressers, is the largest they have ever pro-duced. They have also' had a very extensive trade in their imitation quartered oak sideboards as well as in the genui11e quartered oak goods. The managers announce that they will make very few changes for the fall, the line 'being so popular with the trade that they do not deem it necessary to make changes. Every month their business this season has shown an increase over any and all preceding seasons. Foreign Trade not Desired. One of the consular rcpresenfatives of the United States, in a long letter to the secretary of ,state at Washington ,gives many reasons why there is no market to speak of in England for furniture manufactured in the United States. It is a well known fact that the trade of great Britain is not sought nor desired by the manufacturers of furniture on this side of the Made by Grand Rapids Chair Co., Grand Rapids. Mich Atlantic. So long as the domestic markef takes the goods produced, why bother with the trade of the tedious, fussy Englishmen? \\Then the domestic market shall not beab!· to handle the output of furniture made at home, the American manufacturers wilt engage in the business of supplying the English market with such goods as tbat country needs. The factory cafes, for which Grand Rapids is famous, were fully stocked up and ready for the enterta.inment of visiting buyers on June 17. UNLAWFUL COMBINE ADMITTED SOME OF THOSE INDICTED FURNITURE MEN PLEAD GUILTY AND PAY SMALL FINES. They Adapt Resolutions Withdrawing All Obligations and Agreements With the Northwest Furniture Exchange. Sillce the artjcle appearing Oil nnother page relative to the indictment of furniture men in the far northwe5t was printed, it is announced from PortlaTHl that sixteen manufacturers and wholesalers ;llld fOUf rct<lil dealers pJc;::dc{1 guilty on Tuesday June 11, and paid fines of $25 carll, Previous to entering the plea of g'uilt)' the respondent:, held a Ineeting and adopted the following resolution \vhich 1vas presented to the COllrt: "Resolved. That the KOTthwcst Furniture Exchange be dissolved; that the relationship of different members of the organization be terminated, jbe agreel1~cl1ts aed ohligatiolls FURNITURE POLISH We offer a polish guaranteed to produce a BRILLIANT and PERMANENT lustre on any finished wood. A dealer's trade butlder. Send for sample )( gross) $3.75. Our Superior Repair Finish never fails to remove burlap marks and mars; and, used with crystal shellac and a set of our colors, [alli/ioe, to match any finish] will repair deep scratches and jams, and reproduce the original finish, at once. A boon to factory or store. Repair outfit complete, with colors, one quart finish, and inslructions for use, Send for Samples. Grand Rapids Furniture Polish Co. 24 Milton Ave.• Grand Rapids. Mich. A.uti£Jma.ttc: Phone 8226. $3.25 of the respective members thereof be annulled, and the i!l-dividual corporations, firms and persons forming the associa-tion pursue their respective husiness ",,'ithollt regard in any way to the exch811ge, and ,vithout any combil18tion of prices, or in any resp<:ct, in restraint of trade." The names of those vdw entered pleas of guilty on June 11 are as follows: \Vashington Parlor rurniture Company of Tacoma; Car-man Manufacturing Company. George E. K. Fitchner, Rob-ert E. Bri.<;tow, Portland 1\lattress & Upholstery Company, Oregon Casket Compal\Y, Ot·cgon Fllrniturc}'1anufacturing Company, Henry DOl1.<;ing, Theodore Donsi"g, Peters & Rob_ erts, Doernbecher )'lanufacturing Company of Portland; F. S. H8r111oll & Co., of Tacom,t; D. 1\, & E. \Valter & Co. of San Francisco; Seattle }.-Iattress & UpllOlstery Company of Seat-tle; A. 1\Jcr1e & Co., T-Teyv"()(HlBrothers & \Vakefie1d of Portland; F. H. ]. Lestoe, I-I. Goldstein, Ricket Company and L. Rubenstein. On vVednesday, June 12, twenty more of the respondents pleaded guilty of being in the combine. Three members of the Nortbwest Furniture Exchang-e, and seventeen sm811ercon-cerns were reprcsentcd. Fifty-seven finns asked for an ex-tension of time in which to plead, and were given until July lD. J'\'105toi these were out-of-town nrms. The follo\ving small dealers were fined but $10 each. Kick v\.Teis,Baker City; F. A. ;'\utbrown, F. S. N"utbro·wtl, 1. Dau-toff, S. Hockf-ieJd, A. Hirt, B. },blo\vitz, H. A. Ker11S, E. C. Yatlet. IT. Hausen and the Havvthotne Furniture Company of Portland. Thos'e fined $25 were as follows: Chehalis Manufactudng Campa11Y of Chehalis, \Nash.; Frank \V. Hollis, 1Tark Baker, 49 F. \V. V,\reeks of lVIedford; \V. H. Phelan, F. A. Jones, W. M. Taylor, L Rllvcnsky 2nd Herman JI,-Ietzger of Portland. At the meeting mentioncd above the object~ and motives of the Northwcst Furniture Exchange were discussed and ex-plained. It was declared that t.he primary purpose was pro-tection of credits, from which it drifted to the rcgulation of prices, which finally kd to action tending to restrain the trade of dealers who were not members of the organization. Since June 12 others than those named above have come into court and pleaded g11iIty or asked further time in which to plead. S0111eof those at distant points have made their requests by mail or by wire and it is thought it will not be necessary to issue a warrant ill any case. As shown by the fines imposed, the court seems dis-posed to leniency with those who plead guilty with a disposi~ tion to \'v·ithdraw horn the associations, but heavier fines may be expected for those who stand trial-if convicted. The maximum penalty for the offense charged in the indictments is a fine of $5,000 and imprist)nment for two years. Sale of Christmas Goods in March. In his remarks in regard to the conditions of the fumiture trade on the Pacific Coast, pUblished in another column, Arthur F. Switz states that a large quantity of house furnish-ing goods and toys ordered by dealers in Seattle and other towns for delivery· in "Kovember last, in time for holiday tr8de, \"ere not received unt.il late in February, and that the dealers inaugurated special sales of Christmas goods on 1,farch 1. which were not very sllccessful. The toys at1d many other articles \vill be carried over until next faU and considerable lms must result from deteriora.tion. In these days of pat.ern.alism, when it seems to be deemed proper for business men and corporations, when in distress, to call upon the state and national governme11ts for assistance, is it not strange that the trade opportunists of the northwest failed to induce the governOl"S of the states whose business men Were disastrously affected by the slow movement of freights, to call special sessions of the legislature for the pur-pose of passing laws to create "buying days for Christmas goods" and providing a penalty to be inflicted upon every Illan ..v..ho should fail to pur~hase and distribute Christmas gifts to the members of his family. If it is legitimate to employ the forces of government to promote tbe mnnufacturt: of toys and house furnishing goods. why should not the same forces ne hrought into action when necessary to provide mar-kets for the products of the indllstries in the manner Stlg-gested? The D. & B. Line Steamers leave Detroit weekdays at 5:00p.m., Sundaysat4:00 p. ffi. (central time) andfrom Buffalo daily at 5:30 p.m. (eastemtime) ~.E"-----~~ reaching their destinationthe next "-._t!f;.~ ~: ..--.:::c'---- morning. Direct connections with early t.rain& Lowest rates and superior service to New York, Boston,PhiJadelphia,AtlanticCity,alJpoints east. Popular week end excursions to Buffalo and Niagara FaIls, leave Detroit every Saturday. RAIL TICKETS AVAILABLE ON STEAMERS All cla9~e9 of tickers sold readin(:" via Mlcb{gan Central, Wabash and Grand Trunk railways between Detroit and Buffalo in either direction wili be accepteq for transportation on D. h B, Line S:eamers. Send 2c. stam~ for illustrated PampbletandGreatl...akeamap. AddrC88: L. G. LEWIS, G. 1". A. DETROIT & BUFFALO STEAMBOAT CO., Detroll, Mieh. PHilIP H. McMILLAN, VICIE-PRES. A. A. SCHANTZ. GEl(. MGR. 50 Spread of· the Mai1~Order Method. The outcry against mail order competition that comes from the small retailer is bitter indeed, and- it is not w,ithout reason. Yet not all retailers join in this condemnation of CORNER. OF A MORNING ROOM. LONDON. ENG. a mail-order catalogue for the use of its customers going to departments of their own. Not only the farmers living in sparsely-settled western districts purchase supplies in this manner, but the suburban dwellers abont large eitie's, and the people living in small cities of the East, and, even residents lOllg~distancc business. Among neighborhood retailers the dis-position is to fight mail-order trading; but as soon as the re-tailer grows out of his neighhorlcood he turns to and develops this class of patronage. It is fundamental, and has come to stay, and when the retailer goes with the current instead of up-stream he finds it a means of widening his opportunities. The telephone aed trolley are bringing in new conditions for merchants, and, perhaps, will be more or less in the nature of salvation to some of them within the next ten years. The small retailer, today, is ~ghting against a parcels post Oll the assumption that it will divert most of his trade to the mail-order hOllses. But ten years hence he may find ~ueh a ser-vice exactly the thing he needs to deliver packages ordere(l by telephone and mail. .l\-fail"-order trade has been built up largely by intelligent pron~otive work. The price factor counts, beyond doubt. En the .local merchant has always the advantage of being the man on the sp:Jt. He can save time to his customers, ;ll~d that is a greater advantage, prob~ ably, than the average local merchant re:l1izcs today.-Ex. Justice Knows No Color Line. T\vo court decisiOlls recently reported from SouthCaro-line furnish a lesson for dishonest installment dealers and also indicate that Southern justice does not recognize the color line. In one case a negro- woman sued the Eagle Furniture Company (N. Lifchez, proprietor) claiming dam~ ages for being overcharged to the extent of $3.35 on furniture for which she had agreed to pay $39. She was awarded judg-ment for $6UO, the furniture having been seized and removed hy the dealer, but the judge reduced the amount to $400 on condition that it be paid 'within ten days. The other case, which has been affirmed by the supreme court, seems to put the seal of approval lIpon the action of jurors "soaking" installment dealers fdr overcharging. In this case, also, the complainant was a colored woman who sued the Drake Furniture Company of Columbia and got a verdict of $100 for havillg her 50 cent tablecloth seized wrong-funy. The costs fall the total expense of seizillg that table-clcth up to about $250, In the Lifchez case the collector alleged $7.65 due, but AN ENGUSH DINING ROOM of the largest cities. In New York, for instance, the re-tail house that delivers within a few blocks in winter, issues a mail-order catalogue for the use of its customers going to the country or seaside in summer, and its trade becomes a Lifechez himself claimed there was $10 due and procecde-d against the goods. The woman employed a lawyer, who ten-dered $7.65, which was refused. Recei.pts were introduced to show that the bjll had, in reality, been reduced to $4. cases, 5\ GRAND RAPIDS FURNITURE PRODUCTIONS are ~ouli!.ht and CORRECT DESi~~;orld over by the discriminating buyer of ARTISTIC In CABINET CONSTRUCTION and FINISH they are the highest possible attainment. The GUNN. SE~TrONAL BOOKCASES stand ont from all other m"l.kes, Dot only be~ cause of this high grade of construction and finish. but becauSe of the MANY EXCLUS-IVE, PRACTICAL PATENTED FEATURES of the system. Points of superiority Over the older makes are; THE ROLLER BEARING. NON. BININGDSINHGEL, VREESM. OVABLE DOORS' NO UNSIGHTLY IRON BANDS OR PROTRUD-THE OVER LAPPING DOOR, making a perfectly DUST PROOF CASE UNIFORM ~~ONTj doin~ away with the step ladder effects found in other makes. Sections that JOID so PERFECTLY, the appearance is that of a SOLID PIECE OF FURNITURE. fLooroekpfuorrchthaesi~neg.SPECIAL POINTS OF MERIT, found only in the "GUNN," be- SAMPLES OF DIFFERENT FINISHES SENT FREE. TEhx'p'E·rRviTarceOeSyUsooRufrsEXPERT DESIGNER and of our entire force of LIBRARY to COllllU3.nd. SEND FOR FREE CATALOGUE TODAY. Giving valuable hints on the furnishing. of your home Library. .' <./ Sold through leading furniture deaLers' everywhere or direct from factory. THE GUNN FURNITURE COMPANY Grand Rapids•. Michigan Sole ManufadUt_ ers of Gunn D~"ks and Filing Device. The above is a reproduction of one of our full page. advertIsements to be run in the fall months. No dealer can afford to overlook the Agency for the three greatest selling lines on the market. GUNN SECTIONAL BOOKCASES GUNN SECTIONAL FILING DEVICES GUNN OFFICE DESKS $100,000.00 This enormous sum will be spent during the fa II months of 1907 by the manufact-urers of Sectional Bookcases wit h the prominent magazInes. It i s needless for us to call the attention of the live dealer to our advertising c a m-paign, which goes steadily on for the benefit ofGUNN AGENTS. We do not ad-vertise spasmodi-cally but contin-uously, and are prepared to prove to you that our carefull y studied campaigns s e I I Gun n Sectional Bookcases. We look for an unusually Ia r g e volume of trade t his fall which will result from the heavy ad ver-tising expenditure in the Standard Magazines, and suggest too u r presen tag e n t s, and those dealers who contemplate taking on our line of Sectional Book_ that stock orders be placed at the earliest possible date to insure safe and prompt delivery. With the recognized high quality of uGunn" products there can be only one result. and that is. the leading advertised lines from this time forward are to be the Gunn Sectional Bookcases, Filing Devices and Office Desks. Write/or hoth catalogutJ. Free/or the aiking. GUNN FURNITURE COMPANY, Grand Rapids, Mich. M.nn~:~~n~ ·~MlffIIG?JN THE LEXIN6TON _ /lInl." 22d Sf CHICAGO. ILL Refurnished and re-fitted throughout. New Management. The furniture dealers' bl!ad-quarters. Most con-veniently situated to t b e furniture display houses. Inler·Slale Holel CO. OWNBa &; PROPklETOR E. K.. Criley. Pres.; T. M. Crlley, V. Pres.; L, H. Firey, Sec·Treas. WALL PAPER HISTORY. Present Methods of Manufacture, Conditions and Prices Com~ pared With Those of Forty Years Ago. S. S. Conner of Westfield, Mass., is said to have been in the wall paper business longer than any other man in this country. It was forty years ago that Mr. Conner made his first venture. l\Iachinery such as is now used was then Ut1- unknown, and all the wall papers were printed by hand. Now a wall paper .11ial1ufacturer boasts that in two hours he can convert a tree into pulp, manufacture it into wall paper and have it on the wall. But the use of the wood pulp without other stock to strengthen the paper, makes it so brittle that it is hard to hanule and has little. wearing quality. Early wall papers were intended by the manufacturers to last more than a year. Mr. Conner has sold wall paper for $4.50 and $5 a roll. Of course, this was of the finest quality and design, which requited considerable time in the process of manufacture. The most difficult and tedious parto{ the work was putting on the designs. The paper came in a big roll drawn over some flat surface and the block on which had been cut the design was dipped in .the color and it was then pressed upon the paper. This operation was repeated with a number of blocks until all the colors required in the design were put on. 1 The paper was moved along a short distance and the process repeated. So well was the. paper made that it would last a lifetime, and the house\vife never dreamed of having it pulled off ev~ ery fall or spring to be replaced with new, as is the custom nowadays, when paper can be· bought for 3 and 4 cents a roll. In the old fashioned days the wall paper tame in rolls twenty inches wide instead of eight,een inches as at present. Borders were not made to match the designs in tllC wall paper, so the customer selected the decoration he wanted for his wall and then took the border that looked best with it. Borders with gilt background were in general favor and most of them were decorated with dark red flecking. Flecking was produced by covering the gilt paper with a mu-cilaginous substance and then sifting through the desig-n vel-vet trimmings. After the velvet had dried on, the trimmings that did not adhere to the glue were brushed off. Sometimes these borders were flat g.ilt papers, sometimes the flecking was put on solid. Solid flecking was used for wall decoratioin up to fifteen years ago when the modern wall papers began to come into the market. English wall paper came in rolls of eighteen yards but after the industry secured a foothold in this country the length of a roll was reduced to sixteen yards and the cutting down has been going on ever since, until nOw some rolls do not con-tain more than thirteen yards. Early manufacturers paid high wages to color mixers and block cutters, men who cut the designs in wood blocks, and the result was the manufacture of fast colors. It is said that one firm in New York paid its color mixer $60,000 a year and he had as an assistant his son, who drew $15,000 a year salary, and they. only worked eight months in a year at that. De-signers and cutters received $8 a day. Color mixers soon discovered that arsenic produced the most beautiful green for printing wall papers and its use quick-ly became general. It was not long before its poisonous ef-fects were discovered, the paperhangers being the first to suf-fer from it. Physicians have reported many cases of arsenical poison-ing from wall paper and only a few months ago the news-papers printed a story about an Illinois farmer who lost three wives in three years by death, the cause of which was found to be the arsenic in the parlor wall paper. According to the story, tbe women were taken ill immediately after the spring house cleaning, during which the waJl paper in the parlor had been brushed. An investigation of the house led to the dise'overy of the cause of the women's deaths. Gerieral knowledge of the dangerous properties of green wall paper caused a falling off in the demand and dealers soon stopped buying it, with the result t11at the manufacturers to a large extent abandoned the use of arsenic, so that today there is very little of this kind on the market. Soon after the introduction of the printing- presses the manufacturers vied with onc another in producing artistic wall papers, the principal object being to put the largest Hnm-ber of colors in a design. One Philadclphia firm surpassed an its competitors in this work and succeeded in producing designs having eighteen different colors, but this fad died out and now not more than eight colors are found in one design. Borders are manufactured to match design in the wall paper and the paper is trimmed and butted so that there is very little waste. When wall paper was made by hand, the borders sold 'IS high as $3.50 a single roll or $7 a double roll, but now the border and wall paper are sold for the 51-meprice, Added Dining and Chamber C':1airs. The Ottawa Furniture company of Holland, Mich., have added a line of dining and cham ber chairs, in fre1:ihand novel patterns (;to their" choice lires of furniture for the chamber and dining rO~Jlll. Samples will be exhibited in Grand Rapids and New York during the mid-summer selling season STAR CASTER CUP CO. NORTH UNION STREET. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. (PATENT APPLJED JI' ....R) We have adopted celluloid as a base for ollr Caster Cups, making the best cup on the markel. Celluloid is a g«'at improvement over bases made of other material. When it is necessary to move a pie-cesupported by cups witb cellulnld bases it can be done with ease, as the bases are per-fectly smooth. Celluloid dot's not sweat. and by tbe use of tht'se cup.'i tables are never marred. These cups are finif<hed in Golden Oak and White Maple, finished !;l7{ht. If you u'iU try a 8ample order oj tlMtJe goods ,//OU will del/ireto handlethem in quanUtieff. PRICES: Size 2M"inches $5.50 per hundred. Size 2U inches 4.50 per hundred. f. o.b. Grand Rapid8. TRY A SAMPLE ORDER. ------------------------------------------ - 53 IN FORCE FROM MAY 15th to JULY 15th, 1907. We have imported direCt from Japan 300,000 good quality folding Fam. specially prepared,for us, and will give these out to our customers during the nextsixtydays. Dealers ordering BISSELL'S "eyeo" BEARING SWEEPERS during the period our Fan Offer is in force will receive the fans free, in accQrdance with the conditions of our Fan Offer. The Fans will please your customers, thereby advertising you, and at the same time will help the sale of our goods during the warm seaSOD. PLEASE WRITE US FOR FULL PARTICULARS REGARDING THIS LIBERAL OFFER $} BISSELL CARPET SWEEPER CO., Grand Rapids, Mich. (LARGEST AND ONLY EXCLUSIVE MANUFACTURERS OF CARPET SWEEPERS IN THE WORLD) Branches: New York; Toronto: London; Paris, Woodard Furniture Co. OWOSSO, MICH MANUl'ACTUREI<S 0' HIGH GRADE, MEDIUM PRICED BEDROOM FURNITURE IN ALL THE FANCY WOODS and FINISHES Our beautiful new fall line of 400 pieces will be especially strong in Circassian Walnut and Colonial designs. Shown in Grand Rapids in our usual space, 3rd floor Klingman Building. New catalo,R ready for mailing July Ist. WOODARD FURNITURE CO. .... 54 Show of Appreciation is Good Business Policy. Men need a word of cnc.-,ouragement now ar.d then just as n:uch as they need food. For as food is to the bcdy, so is encouragement to the n~jlld and heart. A worker who is discouraged is not half. a man. And even the mo~t liberal compensation call 110t take the place of a word of appreciation and encouragement given in the right siprit in the rigH time. "That is a wMd job, Henry," said a business man to his clerk, who had jL:st finished ruling a bock for him, and the young man threw himself into his work with rer:ewed energy and interest. The man never knew how much that slight word of approval meant to the clerk, nor how much it added to his enthusiasm, Men and women crave assurance that their work is meet-ing with satisfaction. To withhold that assurance when it i.3 due is not ITlcrcly poor b1..1Sinesspolicy, but it is also an in-justice. Part of the compensation of every worker is the satisfaction of knowing that he is accomplishing .something, and to withhold that satisfaction is often more -grievous than to hold back money duly earned. More .and more must tllOsc in authority in business recognize the human elen~ent in men ar.d women-the part the heart plays in the world. It is possible, of course, to say too n1\1ch to a man, gj·..,inghim an over-elated sense of his value, bllt the tendcl1(:y seems rather in the other direc-tion; men do not get cllccuragen;,ent enough-V\raldo P. \Varren. "An Unburnable City," A New York fire insurance man is reported as declaring "Some day 'we shall have an unburnable city!" The declara-tion was made after inspecting the Caledonian building on Pine street, in the vVall street district, which is considered morc nearly fireproof than any other large bt1i~ding ill the city. It is twelve stories high and has a cast iron frame protected by porous terra cotta and brick. Tts insurance rate is 5 cents per $100, while the rate 011 the New York Exchange building, ten stories high, with its metal frame only partially protected, is 10 ents per $ICO. From this it appears thzt The Sargent Mfg. Co. MUSKEGON, MICH. Bachelors' Cabinets Ladies' Desks Extra Large Chiffoniers ----- __ AISO Manufactulell aDd ~ of _ ROLLING CHAIRS Chairs adapted to all kinds of invalidism, both. for house and street use. OVER FORTY DESIGNS TO SELECT FROM Line on Sale in KUNGMAN BUILDING. GRAND RAPIDS. 7'lR. T 11T5'Aee.l\I Muskegon Valley Furniture Co. MuskOl!OD. Mich •. Odd Dressers Chafoniers Wardrobes Ladies' Toilets Dressing Tables' Mahogany Inlaid Goods Ladies' Desks Music Cabinets Line on sale in Manufactur-ers' ExhibftiQU Building, GRANIJ RAPIDS. the way to obtain low insurance rates is. to construct fireproof buildings. Fans From the Flowery Kingdom. The Bissell Carper Sweeper Company of Grand Rapids have imported 300,OCO fans direct from Japan, which will be distributed to dealers handling the Bissell sweepers free be- Made by the Spencer & Barnes, Co., Benton Harbor, Mich tween .the present and July 15. The fans will 'please cus-tomers and will help the dealer in making sales of Bissell sweepers. The company 'will give the particulars of their "fan offer" to dealers requesting the same. OUR NEW 1907 LINE OF ALASKA REFRIGERATORS with side ice chamber is made in twenty-one styles, zinc lined, white enamel and porcelain lined. Our cataloguewill interestyou. Write for it. Exclusive Refrigerator Manufacturers. MUSKEGON, MICHIGAN. THE ALASKA REFRIGERATOR CO. A Dirge for the Price Cutter. never pays to cut prices. The cutter is an object of Sl1_~- piciol1 from the time he hegins the trick. It is bad practice, and one that is dcmoratizillg to trade. And, like the boom-erang, it strikes back at the one who thnnvs it. The retailer-for he is the one \\'ho cllts-only cheapens the price of hi:; goods to attract customers. He is hungry for trade, and oftell unwisely thinks that he had rather sell tJJrce pieces at a pr(Jllt of $2 each than Ol:C at a gain of $5. Ma.tleby The Spencer & Barnes Co., Benton Harbpr, Mich. In theory this looks good. But it is Door business. To sell three pieces he mLlst have thrice the capital or credit that he ,"vollld J,ave to scJl Olle, The less proflt per dollar he tUrllS ..·.'.It on this clpital, the poorer financier he is. The price cutter is looked upon w.ith lvonder by business men. Tf he is llOt demanding <t fair profit ttpon his wares a manufacturer Or johbcr will soon be made vy'jse ;ll1d 1vary and his business sanity at Oncc undergoes an examination to determine if be is not sllffering from dementia damphoolicana, If found to be a victim his credits are tightened, and his sup-plies limited. The business associatcs smile. when the price cutter's name is mentioned. Poor fellow, the sheriff or the idiot annihi-lator \vill 50011 pick his mercantile bOlles. He loses his stall ding among those \vho 01lC~ welcomed him as a business competitor and the dogs shun him as one likely to snatch thc hone they have clain-.ed as legitimate prey. Only the vul-tures will give him even half-hearted welcon:e, as in his greed he has become one of them. And tlle 11ludJ sought custorner,,-they, too, doubt the honesty of pllTIH}se of the price cutter. They look at his offers \Nitb sllspicjoJ) born of experience. They know that staple goods have a fixed price. They are "hep" to the meth-ods of price slashers, and want nOlle of it. A el1..,tOl11erwho is offered a cut expects fake goods. If he is offered a stand-ard article he at Ollce believes there is something w;'Ong w'ith it somewhcrc- ·last year's make painted over, or a flaw puttied up, or possessing son:c defect-and !line times Ol1t of ten he looks at the t111dersdler and his wares with it feeling that tbere is a job ill it somewhere. goes over to t11e other man and pays the ruling price for the thing he needs. Time 1-Vas""hen cUstOIUers went bargain hunting. They looked about lor the cllC;lpest goods they could buy, were swindled. and h<J.\'elearnnl better. Now, when a man starts price cutting J e is looked UpOn as a 5~vjl1dlc-r. They know that furniture, farm machinery anI ill1plen~ents are as staple as wheat or oats or corn. They kll0W, too, th.at the manufac-turer does not countenance slashing of prices. They further know that no one dealer can buy from the maker cheaper than another. The consumer ,""ho buys from a price cutter expects to be fooled. He didn't once, but he does now, So if he wants a first class article hE:is willing to pay the ruling price. So the price Cl1tter dm:s not do the busil~ess he expected when he sbrted On the road to ruin and if his creditors do not close him up before h{~gets over his demoralization, he goes back to Jiving prof-its, and sells at the same figure his compatriots do, arid SCCllTes tr.nde by legitimate advertising and personal pcrsuasion. It doesn't pay, and the cutter knows-or should know-it before he blkes 011 the dangerous pra~tjce.-Eli Grocee Will Have «Everything Good." Prominent business men of Columbia, S. c., [aye incor-pmatcd the Gibson-Mille' Company, capitalized at $20,000, with $19,000 subscribed and 25 per cent paid in, to open a first class furniture store in that city. A. M. 1\leetze is president, Athol H. 3.Tillcr secretary and treasurer, and E, B. Gibson general manager. The company promises to ha die "every-thjng good in fumiture m:d house furnishings." 56 ·~MI9rIG7}N The Window's Influence on Trade. One of the greatest problems of today which the merchant has to solve is how to influence trade, says C. T. Cullom of Sedalia, Mo., in an article on "V\lindow Dressing" in the American Artisan. Naturally the 6rst thing to do is to use the newspapers freely. Let the public know who you are, what you are, and impress upon them that you are alive and up-ta-date, and in position to give them good value for their money. And when you have advertised be sure that you have the goods which are, in every particular, an you claim Made by the Bosse Furniture Co., Evansville, Ind. for thew, so that your patrons will have confidence in yoU and your goods. If you can't get their confidence your effort:; to get their trade will be in vain. The first step toward gaining the confidence of the public will be in the appearance of your store. Let a customer come into your store and find everything topsy-turvy' and -he will at once lose confidence ill you as 'a storekeeper. To my judgment the window is the index to the whole store. When yon Sf.'.f.' a nice window di!'>play,just step inside and you will find, without single exception, a well arranged store. You will find each class of goods arranged to good advantage and well displayed. No jumbled up goods there. Kinety-nine chances out of a hundred, when you see a store with attractive window display, inside yOUwill find ~nergetic, industrious clerks and a prosperous -business. In talking to merchants who do not pay attention to win-dow displays, it is almost a universal opinion that it is too much work and expense for the results ohtained. Also, that it takes a 'window dresser of experience to make an attrac-tive window. This is a very common idea. For instance, the display for which the A~erical1 Artisan recently awarded me the second prize in its contest, took me just two days' work in arranging at intervals when I was not waiting on trade. I could easily have arranged it in half a day with nothing else to do, and all the actual expense was not to cx-ceed five cents. I do not pretend to be an expert window dresser; in fact, my experience is ve.ry limited; and I am encouraged to know that I was able to win a second prize among so many contes-tants, There isn't a store in the country but what has a man who could with a little time, a few cents, and the good-will of his proprietor, make a window which would attract a good deal of attention, and draw trade enough to pay his time and the few cents spent many times over. The results obtained from success in window dressing will fire the ambition of any man and lead to better arrange-ments and display throughout the store, "Goo{ls well dis-played are one-half sold." Taking into consideration the silent salesman, the V.llndow, as per salary you pay, is the hest investment any merchant can make. Significance of Colors in Oriental Rugs. Kot only the designs but the colors of rugs woven in the Orient are full of significance. They represent national or individual traditions, they stand for virtues and vices, social importance or social ostracism. They are the result, says the Eclectic Church Magazine, of the political and religious his-tories of the countries in which they were made. Tyrian purple is almost universally regarded as royal. Red was regarded by the Egyptians as symholic of fidelity. Green has been chosen by the Turk as his gala color, but he would not approve its use in rugs, where it would be trDdden by the feet. Rose tints signify the highest wisdom, black and indigo sorrow, with the Persians. Preferences for duller tones of color among the Persians give to all their embroideries and other products of the loom a certain richness and dignity. New Furniture Dealers. "'T. H. Obling, \Vichita, Kao. Brunswick Furniture Co" Brunswick, Neb. Painter & Ehrenberger, Schuyler, Neb. Albert J. Fountain & Son, !l'1esilla, N. M. L. Switzer, Kalispell, Mont. M. Buller, Klamath Falls, Ore. Sheehan Furniture Company, Couer d'Alene, Ida. R. L. Loflin---,-----incorporated$,20,(J(JO-Hlgh Point, N. C. Newell & Co.-incorporated, $lO,OOO-Newport News, Va, Sheridan Furniture Company, Shcrldan, 'Nyo. Capi.tal f,tock, $50,000. Kirkland & Overstreet, Pearson, Ga, Furniture Fires. Arthur G. Pike, Chelsea, Mass. Loss $5,000. Enger & Olson, Duluth, Minn. Loss $800. Dou'glass Furniture Hospital, Chicago. Loss $6,000. Bradley & Thomas, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. P. Vl. 'Madsen, Salt Lake City, Utah. Campbell & Skinner's mattress factory, Reno, Nev. The Newton Company, San Angelo, Tex. The Hoffman Company, Wilmington, DeL W. S. Clark & Son, Seward, Pa. Mohawk (N. Y.) Manufacturing Company. Plant pletety destroyed. Loss $75,000; insurance $44,GOO. rebuild. com- Will New Factory For Grand Rapids. AHred B. Nachtegal, Julia .Nachtegal and George J. Vie\"- heilig of Grand Rapids, Mich" Stephen P. Spitz of Washing-ton, ·D. c., and James E. Reilly of Charlotte, N. c., have in-corporated the Nachtegal Manufacturing Company, capital-ized at $100,000, with tenper cent paid in, to manufacture and sell office, store, bank and other fixtures. The factory will be located in Grand'Rapids. 57 J. C. WIDMAN & CO. 14th, 15th, Kirby Ave" and G. T. Ry, DETROIT, MICHIGAN Man%cturen tJf ---. Mirrors, Hall Furniture, China Closets, Buffets, Chevals NEW YORK, 428 Lexington Ave. PERMANENT SALESROOMS .. CHICAGO, £,3£9 Michigan Ave. Art in Selling "Spiffs." Selling of "spiffs" by salesmcll in stores is a source of rev-enue that often adds to the \veckly salary and forms a legit-imate means for the clerk to illcrease his income and at the same time assist his employer. "Spiff" is a term that is understood well by salesmen and prohably is seldom heard outside the stores. Spiffs are the left-over:)- goods that have passed the novelty stage and are not staple, They arc as good as ever, but their salable quatit:es have declined until newer goods are IT. ore easily sold. "VVhCll such goods <1ppear ill a stock a premium is placed on their sale, and the man \vho gets them out of the store receives the premium in addition to his regular pay. They are marked low to move them, and the careful salesman \-vho watches his chances can dispose of them often and thus profit. Buying spiffs is not a thing that harms the purchaser, for the price he pays is fair and the goods are all right except that the dea1er \vould rather have his money than the goods. Often they are just what tbe purchaser wants, and often are preferred to the newer goods that arc popular at the time. One instance will illustrate the 1n:tllal benefit that may come from spiff selling. In shoe stocks most sales are from the 1redium sizes, and unusually small and unusually large sizes are like1y to remain unsold until the style may have cbanged. They become spiffs. The man with a large foot or the woman with a small one may purchase these shoes at a low price when they are spiffs, and the salesman makes his commission, the dealer getting his money ant and ready to invest in new goods. So it is all through the line of merchandise of whatever kind. A suit of clothes in a clothing store is left from a cer-tain line and with 110 inducement for its sale the salesmen would work from full lines and neglect the old suit. As a spiff the clerk has it in mind, and when opportunity presents itself for its sale he gives the purchaser a real bar- EXCEPTIONAL FACTORY OPPORTUNITY Do you wish to find an openin~ for a CHAIR FACTORY or would you like to remove to some more favorable location? If so, it would repay yOIlto at once request information about a fine location in the great timber section of Southeast Missouri along the • Liberal inducements are offered to secure a bona fide proposition em-ploying not Jess than forty men. Good dj-<tributin~ faciHties for finished product. Correspondence is invited regarding this and other excellent opportunities for furnitllre, mattress. iron bed and other factories along-our lines. Send for industrial descriptive matter about the Rock 18tand- Fri8CQ, M. SCHULTER. Industrial Commissioner. Roek Island· Frisco lines. 1144Frisco Bldg •• ST. LOUIS. MISSOURI. gain and collects his commission. It fills the bi.l1 and the pur-chaser feels he has been treated well. At holiday time the salesman in a busy store may 'move ~L great deal of spiff stock in the rmh seas 011 and perhaps double his salary. The goods are all right except that some factor of the trade has placed them in a position whcre they are likely to be neglected unless an inducement is held out to the salesman to make a special effort to dispose of them. The better the salesrr.an the closer watch he keeps of his stock and the better judgly.ent he i.1ses in dealing with his cus-tomers the more chance he has of fitting the spiffs to purchas-ers and adding to his incorr.e. It is one of the arts of the trade, and salesmen vie with one another to excelt in this as well as in moving the newer goods.-George H. Manlove. Failure Should Not be Fatal. The word "failure" has a daunting sound, but it means less than might be expected to those who have achieved real SUccess. Such workers know v,iell that failure only is serious or discouraging when marked by lack of the cheery, confident ability to "take heart with the day and begin again" that means new and augmented progress. Perpetual, recurrent fail-ure looks bad for the individual, but one or more distressing, perhaps seemingly absolute failures easily may be the result of will and talents turned in the wrong direction, unsuitable cir-curr. stances or environment, over-competition, anyone of a variety of inevitable effects or causes. Few of the world's shilling successes but can remember, even if they will not ac-knowledge, at least one early mistake or blunder serious enough to be called failures. MallY a presently successful worker actually is proud of the untoward preliminary events and adventures that led to his enviable today's situation. These facts equally apply to the worlds of commerce, pro-fessional endeavor, and art.-Exchange. Morton American House ......Plan Rates $2.50 and Up Hotel Pantlind European ......Plan Rates $1.00 a.nd Up GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. The Noon Dinner Served at the Pantlind for 500 is the fiNEST IN THE WORLD J. :BOYD PANTLIND. Prop. 58 Jamestown Lounge Company to Make Leather Turkish Chairs. Arthur H. ~Greelilund, vice-president of the ]amesto"Wll Lt'~nge Company is particularly well 'pleased with the new fall line of J1;5 concern, now practically COI1:1p1etcd. .Mr. Greenlund's enthusiasm is unmistakable. To use his own words, "we have outdone ourselves tbis season :111(} we will show a line at the market which will make lively times around our space." AsM L Grccnlund has persolJal]y supervised the designing and production of every new line hrought out by the Jamestown Lounge Company since the business 'was es-tablished, and has also attended in person every exhibit made by them during the fourteen years in which they have shown their line at the markets, he should be pretty well qualified to judge as to results. The Jamestown Lounge Company were might have handled some more business, their shipments are, as a matter of fact, slightly in excess of the spring season of last year, establishing a new record. The Udell Exhibit. Indianapolis, June 22.-The "Udell Works will make a big showing this July seasoll at Grand Rapids, where this com~ pally is now exhibiting exc1uisvely. Manager Cobb states that the July line ·wj1] be as strong as ever and that it will be of special interest to the buyers of ladies' desks, music cabincts, piano player roll cabinets, bookcases and library tables. He says, however, the quality will 110t be sacrificed on aCCOl1ntof .reasonable pric:es. The Udell line this season will show son~e beautiful patterns in Circassian walnut in the department of one, two or three ladies' drawer desks .. The ne\v Cdcll catalogue will he ready by the rlliddle of July and \vill contain sixty or more jlages of ictcrcsting reading and illustratetI matter. The exhihit this season will be in charge of the following gentlemen: F. L Billings, who looks after Chicago antI Milwaukee; Dan G. Williams, who travels in Pennsylvania and Ohio, also coveril1g Detroit; W, H. Mur-phy, middle West; Geo. C. Dyer, the East, and Paul M. Roth the Pacific coast. INTERIOR OF A COTTAGE AT LETOHWORTH, ENGLAND. am011g the lirst of the ot1t3ide manufacturers to recognize the advantag"c of showing their line at Grand RapiJs, and al-though occasioned exhibits have heen made in other markets, Grand Rapids has long been recognized as their regular ex': hibition market. The Lounge Company will surprise their customers this season by showing for the first tin~e a line of Turkish chairs and rockers upholstered in "reliance" leather. It was decided to add these goods owing to the insistent demand for them by the trade, and although a new department, it will not by any means be conducted in an experimental way. The com-pany has engaged as manager for this branch of their business one of the most expert men In this line of work who has for many years been in charge of this department for one of the larg~stconcerns inaking leather furniture. The initial line will not be large as to number of patterns, but will be confined to ."l range of tJle most popular gr.ades and wj}l be filled b as occasion demands. Although considerable complaint of Quiet business has been heard throughout the season from both the retailer and manufactmer, the Lounge company report that while they L On the Kalamazoo. Stuart Foote and Russell Taylor, of the Imperial Furni-tune company spent two weeks recently in boating and fishing on the beautiful Kalamazoo river. After a few day on the river they becarr:c dissatisfied with the boats for hire On the stream and proceeded to Muskegon where they purchased a neat little naphtha launch and in eight hours made the ruri of fifty miles from Muskegon to Saugatuck, on Lake Michigan, The outing was greatly enjoyed by the young men, and they returned to prepare for the opening of the season "reinvigor-ated and in jubilant spirits. 7'119-'T' I.sJI.AI t 7,$9+ REX [;:;t:~]MATTRESS CHAS. A. FISHER & CO., 1319 Michigan Ave., Chicago. WRITE FOR BOOKLET AND PROPOSITION WarehOUlIelil ST. LOUIS, MO. KANSAS CITY, MO. PEORIA, ILL LINCOLN, ILL MINNEAPOLIS. MINN. CHICAGO, ILL. EVANSVILLE Eva nsvillc, Ind .. J tllle 22.- The }'1etal Furniture Con-p,,-cy, which erected a larg-e plant and cOlllmenced the manufacture of brass <llHl iron beds in this city a year or two ago after a rocky experience on account of illC0111petcnt rmll~a:;'c111elltJ has passed into ("<ljl:thlc hands, and the iutnfe of the industry is no longer uncertain. \Vith the business in the h:lllds of B. B. Bosse, \'\1. A, Koch, the Karg-cs Brothers and their as-sociates. SlIccess is assured. The Evanville 'i\.Tetal Bcd CompallY ,,,,ill S0011 issue it cata-logue illustrating ar:d describing the Banner line of bras:; ami iron beds. The J ndiana Furniture Company have given orders to their cngraver for Ctlts to be used in printing their annual catalogue. Salesn,en representing the Karges, Globe and Borkstege Furniture companies will handle the line of the Evansville Metal Furniture Con:;pany hereafter. Louis Hahn and James A. Anderson, the "cry successful designers of Gran! Rapids have been employcd for several weeks in the prcparation of new p::ltterns for lo~,ll rnanufac .. UtTers. SalTples of ;111 leading lines made ill Evansville will be fOUlld On sale in the Furniture Exposition building, S1. Loui.: The Eli n. }Tiller Company will exhibit their excelle::t line of m;llltel folding beds in Chicago. Eli D. 1\filJer will attend the sale, with his "git thaI''' stroke. Buyers will find mallY good things ill the lvliller line. "Fred" Boc],stege has decided to spend a part of his sur-plus cash by the erection of a splendid home in Evansville, rather than ill planting a furniture factory at Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. The Rosse Furniture Comp;lt1y have had a very success-ful season of trade. Their line of kitchen cahinets and wardrobes are ever ln steady demand. A catalogue may be had for the asking. Montgomery Rockers and Couches. The H. ]. I\fontgomer:r flJanufacturing Company of Silver Creek, X. Y., has sent out a neat little booklet describing and illustrating their line of high grade Turkish rockers and couches. They specialize in the manufacture of these goods, confining themselves to these fe\-\' patterns of couches and chairs. Tll couches they use a double cone spring on a slat, with the S. & 1-1. fastenings on top, no twine being. used. This is the constructioll used and approved by the Ul'ited States government. In their Turkish rockers particular at-tention is given to seat room and to the rocker spring and iu adjustment; avoiding· the annoyance mally have experie,l1ced in having to change the springs. Every buyer and dealer owes it to his business tn investigate their line and prices. Their motto is "A short line at short price:~." Additions to the Century Line. The Centmy Furniture CompallY of Grand Rapids Mich., announce the addition of a new department to thcir line con-sisting of dining chairs, chamber chairs and rockers. They will also add a llumber of new patterns including some re-productions of rare pieces by Chippendale and other old Why Not Order? Say a dozen at more Montgomery Iron Display Couch Trucks senlyou on approval? If nol satisfactory they can be returned at no expen.se to you whatever, while the price asked is but a trifle, C()m~ pared to the convenience they afford and the economy they represent in the saving of floor space. Thirty_two couches mounted on the Montgomery Iron Display Couch Trucks occupy the same floor space as twelve dis_ played in the usual manner. Write for catalogue siving full descrip-tion and price in the different finishes, to~ gether with illustrations demonstrating the use of the Giani Short Rail Bed Fastener for Iron Beds. Manufactured by H. J. MONTGOMERY PATRNTRR Silver Creek, New York, u. s. A. Dennis Wire and Iron Co., Canadian Manu_ faduren. London, Ont. English masters. Their line consists of the finer grades of parlor, library, and living room furniture in mahogany, walnut and gold leaf, including suites, davenports, sofas, couches,. odd chairs, rockers, fireside chairs, reception chairs, hall chairs, stools, tabourettes, piano seats, English upholstered ch::lirs, and sofas, dining room chairs, chamber chairs and rockers, etc., in accurate reproductions of all the great French and English styles, and also the Colonials. 59 60 MiEcellaneous Notes. The Imperial Furniture Company, Grand Rapids, Mich., have sold their sectional bookcase business t'O the (). C. S. Olsen Company of Chicago. The space hertofore used by that department will be used to increase the output of tables. The White Furniture Company of Mebane, N. c., recently shipped several carloads of furniture billed "To Uncle Sam, Panama." The cars were decorated with ballflcrS inscribed "For the Big Ditch; From the vVhite Furniture Company." The Dodge-Spear Company, successor to the old house of Pitts, Kimball & Co'. of Boston, is facing a petition in bank-ruptcy, filed by creditors W}lO were dissatisfied with the ap-pointment of a receiver selected by the debtors. I Eldredge & Peabody of Boston, who were burned out in December last, took possession of an elegant new store on the old site during the jirst week in June. Mr. Peabody will visit the Grand Rapids market as usual. J "VV. Dunwell of Butler, Mo., has sold l1is furniture busi-ness to James T. Glanville, a brother of F. J. Glanville, the well known furniture dealer of Kansas ,City, Kan, John Hummel, furniture dealer of BroDklyn, N. Y., who recently made an assignment for the benefit of creditors, will pay 100 cents on the dollar and continue business_ The Gutter Fumiture Company of Port Huron, Mich., will soon move into larger quarters, having leased and re-modeled the armory building on :\lilitary street. Pritz Brothers, furniture dealers of South Bethlehem, Pa., were closed out by the sheriff on June 10. The creditors; re-ceived less than 25 per ccnt. Turner & CUne, furniture, hardware and undcrtaking, Bradshaw, ).Jeb., have dissolved partnership. A. B. Turner continues the business. Conrad & Kiesker, furniture dcalers of Fresno, CaL, made an :l5sjgnnH',]]L \V. Parkcr Lyon bought the stock in bulk and crcditors were paid in full. The plant of the Kincajd Furniture Company, Statesville, N. c., was damaged to the extent of about $2,000 by a wind and hail storm recently. The general offices of the Simmons rVIanufacturing Com-pany have been moved
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- 1907-06-25T00:00:00Z
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- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
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- 27:24
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- Issue of a magazine published in Grand Rapids, Mich. Created by the Peninsular Club. Published monthly. Began publication in 1934. Publication ended approximately 1960.
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- 1938-02-01T00:00:00Z
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- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
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- Volume 4, Number 1
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- Robert Loomis gives a brief account of his activities throughout the year, chiefly his travels and different meetings. He also writes about the Chicago Fire of 1871.
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- 1871-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
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- Issue of a magazine published in Grand Rapids, Mich. Created by the Peninsular Club. Published monthly. Began publication in 1934. Publication ended approximately 1960.
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- 1940-08-01T00:00:00Z
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- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
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- Volume 8, Number 8
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- This scrapbook documents the participation of Alde Louise Tuck Blake (1857-1925) in the women's suffrage movement and in state and local politics. In 1899, Blake ran for (and won) a seat on the Grand Rapids School Board--the only elected office open to women. She became the third woman to serve and her success made many headlines. Blake was also involved in the suffrage movement. She served as an officer for the League of Women Voters as well as the Republican State Central Committee. In 1920 she ran for the state legislature. The scrapbook was compiled by Alde's daughter Dorothy. The original is located in the collections of the Bentley Historical Library at the University of Michigan.
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- [1876 TO 1920]
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- Issue of a furniture trade magazine published in Grand Rapids, Mich. It was published twice monthly, beginning in 1880. and [0 Twenty-sixth Year-No. 26 JULY 10. 1906 Semi-Monthl., WYSONG &. MILES LEE AND JACKSON ST$. CREENSBORO, N. C. I 00 % to 2 0 0 % PROFI T PER lE AR on. this Sand Belt. The investment is a small one. The few months you are getting along withollt it is losing you the entire price of it. HUNDREDS MOSTO~RTo'i.'iNENT FURNITURE MANUFACTURERS using this Sand Belt state that thesedaims fall short of the real merits of the machine. IT HAS THE DESIRED ADJUSTMENTS QUICKLY MADE OUI" claims are that.it will sand with the grain and require no retouch-ing by hana the following: Mirror frames\ found oval, any shape; drawer rails; drawer fronts, base rails, etc., serpentine, agee, round or swell; straight veneered or cross veneered; agee, round, bevel or straight edges of dresser or table tops, of round, square or scrolled patterns; table tops, of round, square or scrolled pat-terns; table rims, dresser postSj veneered rolls or columns; straight, ogee or round-ed mouldings. i raised surfaces of. panels; spirals of table legs; curtain slats for roll-top desks; spindle carvings; French table legs; plumbers' wood workj etc., etc. No. 164 Sand Belt Machine. A MESSAGE OF IMPORTANCE TO THE MANUFACTURERS OF AMERICA: Do you wish to lelSen the cost of handling your pro-duct by the use of light running, loqg lasting axles! If so explain to your wagon builder that () Gillette Roller Bearing Axles are inexpensive to buy~ea9Y to install-siinple i:o con-struction and highly effective in reducing the draft-that they can be made a part of YOUR vehicle at OUR risk as we ship on approval to responsible persons. And ask him to write to us-or do so yourselves. IT WILL PAY YOU. Yours for the cheapening of manufacturing costs, THE GILLETTE ROLLER BEARING COMPANY Patentees and Sale Manufacturers, GRAND RAPIDS, M.ICHIGAN. WHEELER'S Forms a permanent foundation. Brings out the full life and beauty of tb e wood. Goes further and saves labor and material, hence cheaper than other fillers. The Bridgeport WoodFinishing Co., NewMilfOrd,Conn.;IB Fulton St.• NewYork;70 W. Lake SL Chicago; 4t·43 South 3rd St•• Phila-delphia; 48 Cornhill,Boston. PATENT WOOD FILLER l The Principal Points of Merit Possessed by Our ~ MISSION LIQUID WAX It makes the color uniform where red and white oak is used in the same piece. It does not show white in the corners or on carved work. It colors the white pores left in all finishes that are not filled. It is especially adapted for red oak, overcoming the red cast left by the stain. . It gives a more durable finish than paste wax. We shall be pleased to send Samples. The Marietta Paint &Color Co. MARlETIA, OHIO. USE BENEDICT CLAMPS New Drawer. Revolving. GRAND RAPIDS HAND SCREW COMPANY 130 South Ionia St., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. MaDufacturenof HAND SCREWS, CABINET MAKERS' BENCHES, FACTORY TRUCKS, Etc. For all kinds of Furniture Work Special Section. STRONG. DURABLE and USEFUL Chair Seat, 1 The Universal Automatic CARVING MACHINE ===~ PERFORMS THE WORK OF ==== 25 HAND CARVERS And does the Work Better than it can be Done by Hand ==---~- MADEBY======~ IndianapQU8~ Indiaaa Write for Information. Prices Etc. The Pittsburg Plate Glass Company MANUI'ACTURKRS AND JORRERS Of!" Plain and Beveled Mirrors, Bent Glass for China Cabinets Plate Glass for Desks, Table Tops and Shelves OUffacilities for supplying furniture manufacturers will be understood when we state that we have 10 Glass factories, from Pennsylvania to Missouri; and 13 Mirror plants, located as follows: extending Also, our 22 jobbing houses carry heavy stocks in all lines of glass, paints, varnishes and brushes and are located in the cities named below: NEW YORK-Hudson and Vandam Streets. BUFFALO-37:ilo.4-6-8 Pearl Street. BOSTON-41-49 Sudbury St., 1-9Bowker St. BROOKLYN--635 and 037Futton Street. CHICAGO-442-452 Wabash Avenue. PHILADELPHIA-Pitcairn Building, Arch and CINCINNATI-Broadway and Court Streets. Eleventh Streets. ST. LOUI~-Cor. 7th and Market Streets, DAVENPORT-4IO-416 Scott Street. MINNEAPOLIS-soo-SIO S. Third Street. CLEVELAND-149-51-53 Seneca Street. DETROIT-53'55 Larned'Street E. OMAHA...,.I608-lo-I2 Harney Street. PITTSBURGH-JoloI03 Wood Street. ST. PAUL-349-5J Minnesota Street. MIL WAUKEE, WIS.-492-494 Market Street. ATLANTA, GA.-3'!, 32 and 34 S. Pryor Street ROCHESTER, N. Y.-Wilder Building Main SAVANNAH. GA.-745-749 Wheaton St~t. and Exchange Sts. 'KANSAS CITY-Fifth and Wyandotte S15. HALTIMORE-221-223 W, Pratt Street. BIRMINGHAM, ALA.-2nd Ave. and 29th St. New York Boston Phll.delphl. Bullalo Cincinnati St. Louis MllllllleapoU. Atlanta Kokomo. Ind. Ford City. Pa. High Point. N. C. DavelllPort Cry.tal City, }do. It needs no argument to show what advantages may be derived from dealing directly with us. AGENTS FOR THE COULSON PATENT CORNER POSTS AND BATS. Veneer Presses, all kinds and sizes Veneer Presses Glue Spreaders Glue Healers Trucks, Efc" Etc. These Specialties are used all Over the World -::::::-===,=--- - Power Feed Glue Spreading Machine. (Patent applied for). Single double aDd combination. No. 20 Glue Heater C"AS. E. FRANCIS &. BRO.D Hand Feed Gluelng Machine. (Patent pending,) Eight Styles and Sizes. Wood· Working Macbinel} and Supplies ~i " .•~ J '. (&.,.; LET us KNOW YOUR WANTS 419·421 E. Eighth St. CINCINNI\TI. O. No.6 Glue Heater , ,. 2 Dovetails either straight or swell front drawers without removing or changing any parts HIGHEST speed, absolute accuracy and most con-venient operation combine to make this the ideal machine for furniture factories whether large or small. It is built in the most compact manner possible so that the spindles can revolve at the highest speed without dan-ger of vibration and at the same time the spindles are made readily accessible for sharpening the cutters. The supporting table back of the cutters is formed with an adjustable roller so that any shape of swell front to a maximum of three inches and with one inch from the end to the beginning of the swell, may be held perfectly and successfully worked without removing or changing any part. This feature alone coupled with the the fact that the bits alwavs em the same Slze dovetail until worn out, should ca'mmend this tool to every modern furniture factory everywhere. Send for CIRCULAR and CATALOG. WOodworkinglfochinery. - -- ----- ------ 26th Year-No. 26. GRAND RAPiDS, MICH., JULY 10, 1906. ========~==~== $ 1.00 per Year. Accidents in Mills and Factories. The Hartford Courant recently puhlished accoullts of three accidents, very similar in character, which oCCllrred 011 the same clay in that state, a workman in each instance hav-ing been caught and >vhirlc.d around a rapidly rotating pulley or line shaft. vVhill' no particulars were given as to whcthe;- the casualties were due to carelessness on the part of the victims themselves or caused 'by negligence on the part of others in leaving unguarded dang"crously [ocatc<l helts. puHeys and setscrews. there is no question bm that workmen in machine shops, and factQrit~s generally, are (juite apt to take altogether too many chances, when working around mfl-chillery in operation. Sometimes they take risks through ignorance, but usually the practice in due to carelcssness or to familiarty which breeds contempt even for danger. Millwrights and repair men, 'whose work necessarily takes them aloft among the running shafting and pulleys, arc par-ticularly apt to become insensible to the possibility of being caught and injured. and it is a matter of general observation that they arc inclined to thoughtlessly :lssume unnecessary risks in keeping overheacl apparatus in rlInnillg order, though sometimes the blame for accidellts they med with must be placed on other shoulclers. The w iter rec'!lls distinctly the customary methods of these men in a certain large mannf<lc-turing establishment, ,"v-herehe was one time employed. <llld 'where, owing to the fact that nearly the ''v-hole establishment was driven from one engine, llobody liked to assume the re-sponsibility of having the whole plant tied U\) while S0l11C {lve;- head repair job was going OJl; cCll;;equultly it was not an uncommon thing fOt· wide, heavy belts to be n:n off their pul-leys, taken up aml put back on the pulleys witll the main shaft running at full speed. The writer Ol1ce saw in the department where he worked three men put a tight, 6-inc1l belt on a 36-inch pulley, ml1- ning at 150 revolutions, and was told by the men tbat tbe es-tablishment was never expected to stop dnrillg working; bOll"S, unless the engine broke down or some one was caught in the machinery. As a result of this policy, the millwright; put belts 011 "011 the By," anel where co'_\ntershaft belts were wound up and were cut loose to prevent the counter bcing pulled down, the belt coiled 011 the line shaft was removed without stopping ·the shaft, by one of the men holding a belt shifter against the wound-up belting .vhile the other man caught the free end, dragged it down as far as possible and cut it off. This process. repeated a half dozen times, removed the belt, but it was a dange-rotls performance and anything but pleasant to witness. Shortly after one of these exhibitions of recklessness in the depa: tment referred to, one of the same group of l11e11, while performing some similar operation in another section of the works. was caught in the shafting, whided around fl. number of times and thrown to the floor, with injuries which kept him in the hospital for many week.". A peculiar accident of this type occurred recently in <I New England shop, and, as stated by a friend who witness~ cd the affair, the principal in the occurrence escaped with much slighter 'injuries than one of the men who undertook to help him out of his predicament. \\ihile oiling a shaft which was located at some distance heI"ow the ceiling, the man's arm was caught by the shaft and he was whirled rapid-ly round, although swingi11g clear of the overhead beams at each turn. A fello\v-workman, however, who started to run to the engine room \vas struck in the face by the heels of the mall on the shaft, and, besides losing several teeth, was kuocked senseless, and in fact lald up for several days. Upon the machinery being stopped and the man released, it was discovered that he had recei\'ed no further damage than a had fright, a few bruises and a seve:-e shaking up in general. The courts have made such decisions in these matters as to constitute an insufficient influence toward the provision of wfety devices. Ivren who value their jobs wit] take risks by confo:'ming to the custom of the ptace in which they work. 111 Enrope generally lives of workman are much better pro-tected than here, and we ought to improve. Lumber Plentiful. Lumher is very plentiful in the south at present. The cause of this condition is the high water. The lumber is being stored in large quantities. The Abernathy Furniture ),{allufacturing company of Leavenworth, Kan., have enough hnnher stored to co\'er twelve city lots. THE CORRECT Stains and fillers. THE MOST SATISFACTORY First Coaters and Varnishes I ,..--- l 4 The Wallace Collection in London. The \Vallace collection "yas bequeathed by the late I.ad), \Vallace to the British nation. It includes armour, paint-ings, bro1Jzes,FreJlcll fl1rniture, enamels, clocks, candelabra. porcelain, marbles, sculptures. carved \'.'nod work, majolicas, coins, ivories--in fad, all the rarest art objects one can think of, gathered together and (/isplnycd ullder 011C maf-that of Hertford House. The collection \\,;15 hrought togeth-er by Francis Charles, third l\Tanillis and Richard, fourth l\1arquis of Hertford. The late Sir H.icbard \V,t!lacc atId;cd largely to it and re-organized jl;, The paintings by Prellch maste:"s of tile eighteenth century as well as those by Span-ish, Italian, Flemish, Dutch and English artists arc of great value and cannot be surpassed in S0111e particulars even by the Louvre. The building itself is said to be th(', original of Gaum !louse in Vanity Fair. It was formedy the residence of Sir Richard and Lady \'Vallace and is vcr.!/ large ana linel)' ar-rangeel. The inner court on the ground noor is very at-tractive, palms and a playing fonntJin lend quite a tropical effect. The grand staircase is of Louis Quatorze style. The marbles busts of the third 1Jarquis of Hertford and those of Sir Richard \Vallace and his wife adorn the landing of the staircase. The upper rooms arc very numerous and con-tain so many interesting objects one cannot hope to see them :dl ill one visit. or a dozen. The furniture is 1110stly of the French style of the Louis Xl V., XV. and XVI. per-iods and I talian of same periods, and is richly gilded, inlaid and has mounts of hrOH:r-e gilded, In the first gallery :Ire several sofas and annchain designed by JC<ln-8aptiste Oudry. The sofas are of wood, carved and gilt. covered with Beau-vais tapestry of the style and period of I.ouis Quinze, the framework of Louis Seize style. The arrnschair corres~ pond in style and all have hunting sce]Jcs for subjects of tap-estry. A stnall cabinet ior medals in marqueterie of 1nttal on tortoise shell has mounts of gilt brnnz(;. cast and chased. A writing table of tulip wood is ill LOllis Quinze style. An Italian mirror of the eighteenth century has a carved and gilt ..v.ood frame, showing foliage and conventional scroll work. intermingled, surmounted by a cupid and swans. In the next room a cabinet of ebony ".Nith marquderie of tortoise shell and white mdal on yellow metal, has g-ildc(] and chased mounts of bronze, in Louis (jllatorze style. bllt .~aid to have been made in T.ouis Seize period by an imitator "I BOlLlle. A console table of gilt \V00(1 thought to be of Ital-ian style, eighteenth century, has a top inlaid witb lalld;;c.apcs and patterns in colored marbles. The supports of wood. carved and gilt, are threc life sized ligures of cnpiJs Ivr(,3t!Icd with garlands of berries and knves. A scrcen of wood carved and gilt, frames a piece of embroidery of Louis Quatorze design, raised in silver thread on a ground of crimson velvet. An oddity was a mirror of polished steel in a frame of walnut-wood, at the base the device of the ;\'ledicis (the balls) are painted on a shield. This is of course, in the Italian Renaissance style, of the sixteenth century. A French table of sixtenth century style is very elaborately carved. It is of oak supported by fJgures of three Fauns, There are many examples of \valnut and oak furniture and a wood called i1l11boyn'l. similar in color to birch. An armoire of carved w;:dnttt in two sections, crowned with a broken pcdiment, adorned with ligures is in a~ldition ctJ:'iched by inlays of green n:ined marble, A rather odd chair of carved oak in Renais-anc\, style has cane bottom and back. An ecclesiastical seat in carvcd walnut is of early 16th century sLy!(:, a panel in the center represents the Annunciation. A very fine ebony cabinet of Louis Quatorze style has panels decorated with l10ral designs in marqueterie of various woods. This cabi-net belongs to the early period of Boutle. The ornamental ba1l<Js amI plaqucs arc ill marqueterie of metal on ehony and tortoise shell on metal. 1\ prominent featnre is the crown-ing decoration of gilt bronze, consisting of a milit<lry trophy, in the ceIltre of which is [i medallion of Lows Quatorze in early manhood. A large bllffet, shaped like a commode, is of mahogany with mounts and ornaments of Kilt bronze, ~igncd ]. F. Lelcll. ;'\ beautiful mitTo" is Ot Inarqueterie of metal 011 tortoise shell. \vlth [{iIt bronze mounts, style of Bcrain. A French eighteenth century table is magniticent, of eholly and gilt metal~ covered with marquclerie in tortoise shell, coppcr and white mctal, on yellow metal. A pedestal cabinet of ebony has inlays of metal on 'l"c<l tortoise shell with the usual gilt bron7:e mounts, A novelty 'was a barom-eter of tulip wood with bronze mounts, of L0Uis Quinze style. \ hUI"CClUUlb1c of ebolly attributed to HouJle has marqueterje of tnetal on tortoise shell. A rose,;vood commode is of Louis Quin;'l' style, A writing table of prirple \vood ill 1;;;:::=-17~-- -="'T'" ="11 Louis Quatorze style has decorations of gilt bronze. A wall mirror of wood carved and gilt is of Italian early eighteenth century style, the main features of the decoration are the dragon at the top and winged sirens at the sides. A large ebony cabinet is in three sections, vv·ith marquctcrie of metal on tortoise shell and mounts of gilt bronze, cast and chased, in the style of Louis Quatorze, but period of Louis Seize. A Boulle armoire in ebony, with marqueterie of metal on tor-toise shell, and gilt bronze mounts is ornamented with an un-usually high relief of a nymph and a young satyr. Placques at the sides, in low relief, symbolize Summer and Autumn. A sofa, part of a suite, is elaborately carved wood with gilt decoration and brocade covering. The subjects of the dec-oration are love's quiver, a guitar and other emblems, g-rouped with garlands of flowers, branches of foliage and birds. Twelve armchairs accompany this sofa and a second one. The latter is a companion piece to the Jlrst sofa. The chairs arc cO'7ered \vith modern brocade in style of Louis Seize. .il.. buffet of amboyna wood and mahogany is inlaid with stained woods. There are mounts, pbc(jues and ornaments of gilt bronze. This is of the style and period of Louis Seize. The late Frederick Davis purchased this, together with a com-panion piece and a secretary, in the year 1865 from a Rus-sian count and sold them to the ~'1arquis of Hertford. A marriage chest of ebony has a decoration in marqncterie of tortoise shell and white metal all yello\'I" metal', made for the marriage of a French prince, made in imitation of 'Roulle's style. A large table of satin wood and purple ·wood \,,;ith gilt mounts and ornaments has rich decorations of oak leaves and acorns. This is in the style of J. Dubois. A large bureau in marqucterie of various woods was ordered by the king of Poland, Stanislaus Leczinski, who died in 1766. It once belonged to the cro·wn of France. Th;s is in the late Louis Quinze style, signed Riesener. A table in red Egyp-tian pO:'phyry mounted in gilt bronze has a base of wood carved and gilt in the very elaborate 1talian Renaissance style. A small latIy's bureau of mahogany, has }t1lTee drawers, a frieze and mounts of gilt bronze in the late Louis Seize style. An upright secretaire in amboyna ,',;ood with purple wood bands is by Riesener. The gilt bronze mounts, placqncs and ornaments are ascribed to Thomire. This is in Louis Seize style. ./\ table of dark woods with a slab of red Egyptian porphyry, contains three drawers of satin wood. The delicate frieze and mounts, the capitals and flutings of the columns which form the legs are of bronze, cast and chased. This is in Gouthiere's style but probably a late work of J. F. Le1eu. A work table of mahogany made in late Louis Quinze styl'e has mounts of gilt bronze, cast and chased. A cabinet of tulip wood with marquetcrie of box- 7IR'T' I.5'.7I.L"I 2 T F 1* 5 wood and purple wood has Sevres porcelain placques painted ',vith flowers, of the Louis Seiz.c style by Martin Carlin. An ebony commode popularly described as the marriage chest of lI.'1arie Antoinette, has panels of Japanese lacquer framed in mounts and ornaments of gilt bronze. It rests upon legs formed by the fLgures of sea-nymphs or sirens bear-ing cushions on their heads. The panels of lacquer are half covered with zigzags and circular wreaths of roses in gilt bronze. Ovcr the lmvcr part of the central panel is a group in low relief of doves pecking, as they rest on cupid's quive'r. The edges are enriched with hangmg garlands of roses and other flowers in gilt bronze. It is signed J. Du-bois and is in Louis Seize sty Ie. An armchair of carved and gilt wood, covered with silk brocade, bears a monogram of "11" and "T" interlaced. It belonged to the Empress Marie Theresa of Austria, mother of Queen llarie Antoinette. A secretaire of mahogany of Louis Seize style is inlaid with geometrical patterns in box-wood and ebony. The mounts of gilt bronze, cast and chased, enclose p1acques of Sevres porcelain, painted with a farmyard scene and small landscapcs. A console table of wood, Louis Seize style, has carving and gilt throughout, "vith a frieze and decoration of pierced and detached work. A small bookcase is of pale green lacquer and gilt bronze, cast and chased. At the summit mounted on a circular ped-estal of classic type, is a group of Cupip and Psyche in gilt bronze; at the sides are the figures of Peace and Vvar; be- 10"\" is applied a classic trophy of arms. This piece with a ,vritillg table to be described later were made by Dubois for Empress Catherine II. of Russia. The writing table is of pale green lacquer and gilt bronze. Round the Upper part of the tahle is a series of freize-like panels of gilt bronze. The supports are figures of sea-nymphs in the same material bearing cushions on their heads and garlanded with festoons of oak leaves and acorns. This table is said to be the one used by Napoleon 1., Alexander 1. of Russia and King Fred-erick Vv"illiam III. of Prussia when the Peace of Tulsit was signed. A sofa designed by Francois Casanova in eighteenth century French style is of wood carved and gilt, covered with Beauvais tapestry. A small bureau ascribed to Montigny or Levasseur is of marqueterie of various natural and stained woods with gilt mounts and ornaments. Simulated book bindings in their shelves form a curtain to the front. A sofa of carved wood has gilt decorations in a white foundation, covered with Beauvais tapestry. The frame work has unusually sharp and delicate carvings of roses and other flowers, Louis Seize style. Eight armchairs accom-pany this suite. A small circular bureau of exceptional type is in mar-queterie of various woods with gilt mounts. This is believed to be the only existing bureau of the period with an oval upper part of this peculiar type, by Riesener and Gouthiere. The principal panels of marqueterie show trophies relating to music, war, wine. comedy and so forth. This is in Louis Seize style. This is far from a complete catalogue of the furniture in the \Vallace collection, but will be sufficient to give an idea of its rarity,.beauty and gnat historical and artistic value. Popularity of Fireless Stoves. The manufacture of fireless stoves is becoming more general. The latest factory to engage in its manufacture is located in Omaha. This stove is said to save seventy-five per cent of the cost of fuel. Everywhere they have been tried they have met with approval. Mrs. Conger Makes a Big Profit. 1\Jrs. E. H. Conger, wife of the United States mllllster to China, who recently bought a rug in China for $90 against the protest of her husband, has just sold the rug· to a Chi~ cago man for $7,000, netting her a handsome profit. Have You Solved the Conundrum? This matter of advertising is a conundrum to a great many people, and it will so remain. There are those who think they have solved it in one way or rlllOther and the so-lution apparently justifies them. This man don't believe in it. He aJvertised once, twice, a year, continually a long time, or a short time. :N0 one wrote him and said "1 see by your ad. in such a paper that you sell such a thing." He can p0int to no specific salc which he can tack onto advertising. In time he devel~ps into an unbeliever. 0" very curiously, he may generate a strong belief that advertising pays, although he can point to no specific instance. Different men having precisely the same experience in results often arrive at different conclusions. Curions thing. The matter itself to me is a conundrum. that is. the way peop~e differ in regard to it, but advertising itself is as sure to get re-sults, as being caught is a shower gets you wet. The-trou-ble is that you cannot always see the results. If you could trace every sale to its starting point, you would find innum-erable instances where advertising gave the push. Here is the main point: The firm whose name is most under the eye, "whose nallle IS associated with the goods they make or sell, so that when you think of the goods you think of the firm, is the firm which gets the most benefit. Take anything you like. Take Hood's Sarsaparilla. The fences yell at you to take it. The barns, from roof to sill, implore you to take it. Drug stores which sell it don't say so much of it; they have their own brands, which perhaps make them more mon-ey, hut they sell it, and sell a lot of it. Your system gets in a certain condifon, and you think you need a tonic. Then what? Yau remember the fences, and the rocks, and the bams. and you go to th('. druggist and ask for Hood's. Now, honestly, is that not so? You don't tell Hood you want his Sa -sapal"itla. Hood never heard of you, and probably never will, but you have patronized him and increased his net business. Does Hood stop advertising because he don't hear from you, and me, and a thousand others? ::Jot much. He doesn't judge of advertising that way. Neither shou1d you. You may adYertisefor years and never pin a net result hut you may be getting a hundred-fold under apparently an-other form. Take furniture, for instance .. You advertise in the trade or daily papers that you make it or sell it. Vour business goes on, now standing still, now IncreasIng. If you make furniture, perhaps you cannot point to a sin-gle instance in which an ad resulted in an orde;-. But re-member this: Every order, with few exceptions, was hatched, had down, then pin feathers, then ~athers, and eventually you bagged it. What do yOU expect? Orders just out of the shell with full blown feathers? It is not sufficient in these days to make a good thing and then depend on sales, because it IS a good thing. You will make greater sales by continually shouting for a poor thing oftentimes, than by standing Quietly behind a good thing. There is a funny corner of our Main, in which we contin-ually store away information, which we acquire unct-Ilscious-ly, don't know we have at all, don't forget because we never know we know it, and someday when the time comes, out pops the information and it has an influence. A buyer of furniture wrote me once asking where lodge fu!'"niture could be bought. I knew of Retting and Sweet, audfor years had been glancing over the furniture trade papers. In an instant there came to my mind a picture of Gothic chairs and a pulpit, and the name of Schmit of Cincinnati. I never bought a stick of such furniture in my life. Didn't know I knew who made it. But the information was there, and ad\'ertising put it there, and when the time came it came forth. I wrote my friend lodge furniture was made by Ret-ting and Sweet and Schmit of Cincinnati. Schmit got the order, as I afterward learned, but he never knew that order had down and pin feathers long before it flew. vVhen the time came for tonic he was Mr. Hood. There arc cases like that innumerable, and that's about all there is to it, atlyway. Advertising is faith, in a great measure. Away inside somewhere in everyone that ever lived is tucked an atom of faith. So, away inside of every business man, is stowed a grain of belief in advertising, be he ever so outspoken against it. The meat of the whole matter to me is this: The one "\vho advertises a little 'continually gets a better result than the one \vho splurges only occasion-ally, and the one who never advertises at all, or only when bus:ness is poor, is overlooking the main point of adve,tising-namely, to tuck his firm name and product away in the minds of the people who mig-ht later need his tonic. It is no ea~thly ~se trying to judge of advertising by mak'ng the order fit the ad and look acquainted. Perhaps the ad and the order that it hatched were mites and yea s apart. If you can make the public or the buyer think of you, when they think of what you sell or make, you are well advertised. You can throwaway motley on advertising, Sometimes it is harder to get a big ad in onc's mind than a small one. vVhat you are aiming at is the sub-consciousness of the buy-er, ami if you fire lots of bullets, you are likely to hit occa-sionally. The namc, and the product, and a picture over and over again gcts the best result. 1\uf sed, as Pickering puts it, and several others have made it stay put. Cozy Corners Abolished. The Oriental cozy corner fad is a thing of the past. Its impracticability was soon demonstrated. Housewives learn to shun dust catchers and the cozy corner proved such a nuisance and so unsightly and hard to keep clean that it is a relief to see it abolished. Sale of Cassie Chadwick's Valuables. Mrs. Cassie Chadwick's possessions are to be sold at pub-lic auction. The list includes besides some three or fou: hundred gowns, valuable furs and her valuable Vertin Martin cabinets and beds. What a chance for the collector of fur-niture once used by celebrities! Mrs. Chadwick's creditors will' undoubtedly profit by thi~ sale. A Test for Linseed Oil. Raw oil, one ounce, nitric acid, one-half ounce, shake welt together in two-ounce vial, stand twenty-four hours. vVhen pure the acid should be clear below, and the oil clear above. Some times there are three layers, one forming "be-tween the oil and acid. \¥hen such is the case the center "ayer is caused from impurities. The bottle should be well shaken. \\Then the test is completed destroy the bottle and contents. --- ----- ------------- "RELIABLEll ROLLS EXCLUSIVELY The "RELIABLE" is the best THE fEllWOCK ROll AND PANEl CO. EVANSVILLE, IND. GLOBE VISE ", TRUCK CO. Grand Rapids, Mich Makers 01 the BEST Quick Acting VISE Our Illustrated Circular will ten you aU abOllt it. 7 The Most Economical Table Leg Ma~hine IS T"E ONE T"AT TURNS OUT HIE BEST WORK No. S TARLE LEG MACHINE, (Patented) The old style Table Leg Machines may tum out just as large a pile of legs in a day as our new machine, but' we will guarantee that none of them turn out as smooth work. One of the main reasons is that our Shearing Cutter Head is far superior. There are also several other good features that are exclusive with this machine. CIVE US A CHANCE TO TELL YOU ABOUT THEM. C. Mattison Machine Works 863 5tb .'Itreel. BELOIT, WIS. -I THE TOWER PATENT FASTENER Is a Tower of Strength Nothing but fire or a screwdriver can loosen a pulI or knob from the drawer after it has been securely fastened by the TOWER PATENT FASTENER As it costs nothing to the manufacturer who buys the Grand Rapids Brass Com-pany's trimmings (and can be procured in no other way) it is very unwise to trim furniture without these fasteners. No scratching or marring furniture by loose pulls; no complaints from customers, and no calIs for rebates or damages. GET INTO CORRESPONDENCE WITH THE GRAND RAPIDS BRASS CO. AND SAVE TROUBLE AND MUCH MONEY. r- - ~- 8 Golden Oak Oil Stains STRONGEST NOW ON T"E MARKET 1914 1916 1917 DARK BROWN BLACKER BLACKEST All of which produce a rich black brown effect, increasing in blackness as indicated above. WILL NOT CURDLE Leaves no deposit or film on face of wood. Leaves flakes clean and white, more especially when used with our 20th Century Stain Solvent which is for use with all Oil Stains and costs very much less than turpentine. Write for samples. The Barrett Lindeman Co. IN CONSOLIDATION WITH The Lawrence Mcfadden Co. CHICAGO, III. 61-63-65-67 Ashland Ave. PHILADELPHIA, Pa. 1400 and 1402 Frankford Ave. ~MI9pIG7f-N 9 ,,,I ~" I Designed by F. VAN DOMELEN. 24 Goodrich St. Slooenl in the Grand Rapidl 5cllool of F ufmture Desig:n I, IJ r - 10 General Observations of Circular Saws. If a saw is properly adjusted and everything about the machine right, it should run cool or nearly so. lf the saw heats .at the center, it is usually either the fault of the maud:"el heating or the collars not being properly turned, or the carriage being out of line, or the saw being rUll with too little Set. If the saw heats at the rim it may arise from leading too much into the log, causing it to bear too hard against the out-side guide, or the backs of the teeth may be too high, or the saw may be trYlng to cut mo::-ethan it will chamber. If a saw is run at a higher rate of speed than that for which it is adjusted, it will be too large on the rim and will Tun in and out or "snaky." On the con~rary, if the speed for which it is adjusted it not kept tip, it will be too large in the center and is disposed to dish or rUI1out of the log. If a savir inclines to run out of the log, give it a little lead, and if tight on the rim increase the mot:on to expand the rim. If it inclines into the log, lead out by filing the points of the teeth or adjusting the mandrel. If it runs in and out, lead into the log, file the points of the teeth to lead out, and if necessary reduce the set of the teeth. This will cause the saw to warm a little and expand. 1£ it heats at the center while the mandrel runs cool, line into the log a trifle and increase the set. If it heats at the rim and not at the center, line out of the log a trifle. As the saw enlarges on the rim by wears. lead out a triHe to expand the center and equalize the tension of the rim. The track rnmt be solid, level alld straight. The carriage trucks must be free from cnd play, and the set works accurate and positive. The saw arbor must be abundantly heavy, level, with very little end play, and the saw must hang plumb, The saw must have an easy, c1o!'lefit on the mandrel and lug pins have a good fair bearing. The tight collar should be slightly con caved ; the loose collar flat. The saw should stand straight on the log side when the collars are screwed up and tbe saw ruuning at the' required speed. The saw must be in line with the carriage and lead a trifle into the log. The saw must be in perfect round or balance. The gullets mllst be properly shaped and sufficiently l'arge to chamber the dust. The backs of teeth must not be higher th,1I1 the points. The teeth must be 1Iled or sharp~ned per;eetly square on face and back. The !:iwaging must be sufficient for perfect clearance, and should be evenly baJanc.eA The guides must be perfectly adjuHed when the saw is standing still. or l1ghtly running. The saw must have sufficient teeth for the amount of ieed. The saw must be properly thick for the character of the work. The teeth must have proper pitch for fast, free cutting. The mandrel and carriage must be free from spring. The mandrel must not be allowed to heat in the bearing. The saw must be kept sharp and not run when dull. The teeth must be sided ·essed to mah: the extreme point and face oi the tooth the widest with a proper taper or clearance down and back from point. Tbespread of the swaging must be suffidcnt to properly clear the blade of the saw to prevent friction. The speed ought to be uniform both in and out of the cut. Do not lead the saw with the guide pins, but by slueing the mandrel or proper filing. Reduce the set or spread of the swaging if you wish the saw to run warmer at center. Increase the set or spread of the s\\aging if the saw runs too warm at center. 1ncrease the gullet or lower the back if the saw heats 011 the rim. Increase the motion if the saw is too light on the rim. Keep it cool in tl1e center. Don't set '.he guide pins too close or the saw wilt heat at the rim and run snaky. Kecp the saw Lee from gum by proper swaging an·d the use of water, or the rim will beat from undue friction. Keep your swag'e and saw sharpener constantly in good o:der. Fair, evenly balanced swaging, taper side dressing and perfect sharpening are essentials to a fine cutUng saw. Keep all gum and sawdust off the trac~{s. Don't use over 3~32 set equally divided on the saw. Do not attempt to straighten saw until it shows about the right amount of tension for your work In testing a dished saw lean it over until it shows as near-ly straight as possible, and then test with straightedge. Oth-erwise you will nut be able to loc2te the lumps. -. Heavy blows must be carefully avoided, and blows Ull- July hard near the eye have a g;'eater tendency to dish the saw than if placed near the rim. You may get your saw too open for your speed, in which case you have ouly to reduce the amount of expansion by blows around the rim, as previously des~ribed. The use of the sharpener, and the constant strain on the saw near the rim will presently enlarge it here and so render l1ecessary the expal1!:iJonof the central po~tions until it is ncessary in hammering to go right down to the eye. A saw with the tension too near to the eye is not likely to srab well. A s'aw when put up for its speed wiJl cut well in any kind of timber and without special adjustments of the guide for various woods. A saw used for work in frozen timber needs more tension than for summer work. With many small mills It is a common fault that the power is insufficient for the load and the speed of the saw i!:itherefore far from uniform. The motion is up when the saw enters the log anJ is down wben it leaves the log. The next eut starts before the saw has recovered its normal mo· tion. If, then, the saw tUns out, you get a thin board, or if it runs in, you get a thick one. If saw heats on rim, but does not snake, you have too much lead; if it wa:ms on the eye, there is not enough lead. Saws th'at are laid over or dished out will wa:'m on the eye; if dished in, will warm on the rim. If motlon is steady in any @ut,and the saw snakes, the saw is 110topen enough. \Vhen saw is too open, you get thick and thin boards. Saws should run at high speed to accomplish the best re-sults. Short, slim teeth can be run on lighter cuts. High speed saws will stand heavier feed in proportion to the length of teeth than low speed. Long tct.th will not hold corners well. The use of water on circular saws is helpful in keeping the saw cool and free from gumming. The piping may be so arranged that if the water is required at any particular part of saw h may be there applied. "Vatcr is also used succcss~ fully running into the journals of the saw shaft. A small rather than a large stream will do the work and a tiny jet is often all that is needed. CAUSES FOR HEATING ON THE RIM. Saws not open enough in the body ior the speed. Accumulation of gum or pitch cn the teeth. Teeth without sufficient swaging or set. Backs of the teeth too high for clearance. Gullets too small to chamber the dust. Guide pins set too dose to the saw. CAUSES OF HEATING AT THE CENTER. Saw too open in the body or center for the speed. Teeth without sufficient sV"'clging or set. .Mandrel running hot. Saw lined too much ill to or out of the log, Sa,,,,, lined too much out 9£ the tog. Speed insufficient to expand the rim. The remedies. for abovC'. should sllggest themselves. Use large collars not less than eigh't-inch diameter for a sixty-inc.h sa'N. It is said that for every 11'2 inch you arid. to the size of your collar you can take one gage off the thick-ness of your saw. A ten gage sixty-inch saw with nine-inch collars will do as good work, and as much of it as an eigllt gage saw on a six-inch collar. The collars should have from five-eighths to three-quarter-iuch bearing surf~ce on the SJ.W, the halance tumed out clear; the collars should be of good tool steel, Tor those collars made of cast iron are not stiff enough, as the center is liable to be squee:zed in by the nut and the saw is not properly clamped. The guides should be as near to the cut as possible and rigid, with as little opening as yossiblc, although the sawyer must regulate the guides according to the condition of the saw. Cow's horn makes one of the be,st and roost durable guide pins known. The guides should be within about one-inch of the throats of the teeth. Small, light mills having too many teeth in tile saw for a full swagil1g, sh.Duld run half swage and half set. Atlantans Are Busy. Everything in the furniture manufacturing line in Atlanta is going these days. Every plant is working full time, and quite a number of factories are adding a considerable amount of extra machinery and floor space. Skilled help is in demand and furniture workers can get a job any time. The outlook is good for a heavy output for the coming six months. The !',outhern demand for goods looks good while the plants are all well stocked with dry lumber. Nothing scarce save skilled labor, although considerable help drifts in from the Carolina factories, hut they have to be made over in order to hold their places. The Natiol1al Furniture comp;my is building an additional machine room 50 x 200 feet in size and they will need it all to take care of their increasing business. The 1\" ationa1 to-day is the largest factory in the south, and are makers of a higher grade of goods than any south of the Ohio river. D. E. Spencer, superintendent and designer of the plant is not a believer in a cheap grade of goods so year by year he has made a better grade ulltil there is no one in the south can equal him for 4.uality. The gn.l\vth of the National is a di-rect proof of the policy of giving their superintendent abso-lute control of thc manufacturing of goods. The firm says "Here is the material, the kind you ask for, make the stuff." And he does it. The superintendent says: "Here's your goods made right. Sell 'ent." And they sell' them, and so they prosper. Snperintendent Ed. Klaap of the Fulton Furnitwe Co. is making a success of that factory, and considering the length of time they have been running they are doing a spl ~ndid business. Ed. has a machine room that is freer from du"t than any factory the writer evcr saw. Charlie Vv'ise lS Ed's machine foreman, and things certainly "do move." Another plant has been added to Atlanta's ftlrniturp tn<Jk-ing interests. Tt is the United States Chair C0ITlp8_t1y and they will manufacture only medium and high grade chairs. The company is buliding a new factory building on Marietta street. The officers are as follows: C. V. Baker, prcs-i-dent; J. J. Freeman, vice president; A. L. Myers, secretary and treasurer; F. E. Spence, assistant treasurer. The or-ganizers of the United States are all practical furniture mak-ers and wat make it a SUccess. 11 Stickley's Goat Skin EnterpriSte. A gr(:at deal of time has been given by Alhert Stickley of the Stickley Brothers company, to the study of leathers for seatings, during the past hvo years. In pursuit of his in-vestigations, 11r. Sticklcy has made several trips to Europe and traveled through all the countries of the old world. Sev-ci- al years ago he became convinced that sheep skin was ut-tcrly unfit for Use in seatings for furniture, and as the cost of cattle hide makes the use of that leather almost prohibitory, 'i\-lr. Stickley sought to find something that would be prac-tical for the pwpose mentioned. After the conclusion of his investigations and experiments he decided that the skins of goats, 2.nd to a certain extent, calves, were best adapted for furniture seatings. The question then arose where could a sufficient quantity of goat skins be obtained to meet the requirements of Lhe manufacturers of furniture in the United States? nut 3. compM<ltively small number of these animals are raised in our country, for the re.ason that beef and mutton are largely IFeferred for food, \""hile in )'lexico, Spain, Switzerland, Aus-tria and many other- countries of the old world, goats are raised by the millions, as much for their flesh as for their hides. The Stickley Brothers company have recently made contracts with houses in Europe to supply their facto~y in ~rH'II'. DESIGNED BY F. VAN DOMELEN. 24 GOODRICH ST. Student in lhe CriI.Dd Rapida School of Furnit.u~ Dai'itn. lhis city with 12,000 hides per month} and have cornmenc<cd using the same in their furniture factory, as well as supply-ing other manufacturers of leather goods with the hides. The trade has gradu;-llly learned the value of these hides and are gradual1y subsdtuting the same for the unsatisfactory sheep skin and the high priced cattle hide that have been used in the past. The Stickley Brothers company guarantee the quality of every goat skin purchased for five years. The tanning facilities of the company will' be materially enlarged in the Ileal' future. :"'lr. Stickley is entitled to great credit for bringing this industry to Grand Rapids. Factory Furnishings. Catalogue No. 10 of Factory Furn:shings, issued by the Grand Rapids Hand Screw company, -is just out. Its a handy little forty page book of illustrations and descriptions of hand SCf(',WS, hand damps, carvers' and cabinet makers' and manual training benches. saw tables, factory trucks, Bene-dict furniture clamps and other factory furnishings. It should be in the hands of every factory superintendent and manager of a wood working establishment of any kind. A postal' card addressed to the Grand Rapids Hand Screw com-pany will fetch it. I ...lIIII "'- - - 12 NOW IT'S ADAM FURNITURE. Designs Easy to Get, But Genuine Adam Products Very Scarce. It was not marc than a decade ago that Empire furniture was a virulent fashion in this city. All sorts of Empire pieces were dragged out and imitated and new pieces that seemed like Empire to the furniture makers we:-e manufac-tured to supply the demand for Empire pieces. Ormolu imitations were turned out in vast quantities and any kind of old mahogany, which had been· guiltless of orna-ment during all its previous existence, was stuck over with ormolu appliques representing Au:-ora, the a?otheosis of Apollo or some pseudo-classic scene. The Empire craze was potent while it lasted. Anybody who has studied the rooms in the Empire styl~ made for Napoleon at Versailles or in other French palaces however, have just been put up. They are copied after houses built by Robert Adam of London. It is safe to say that few noteworthy houses built in New York or its immed-iate neighborhood during the last two years have failed to have at least one room furnished in the style of Robert and James Adam, These two worshipful architects and decorators did not make furniture themselves. They maLie designs for it. Un~ like some of their famous contemporaries t1H~Y were not cabi-net makers and did not know the practical ·side of decoration. Even perSOJ1S who have not heard of Robert Adam or his brother James, havc seen the most common kind of the Adam furniture, which is usuall'y of satinwood painted with dif-ferent kinds of figures. Frequently these are classical fig-ures with a little landscape. Some of this yellow satinwood-nearly all of the Adam furniture now to be had is made of this wood-was decorated by such artists as AngeJ'ica Kauffmann. Other pieces were AN ADAM DININC ROOM, knows that these apartments rarely contained more than two or three pieces. The Empire style was possible to per-sons of taste only when very little of this massive furniture was shown. The rage that struck this country and especially this city never felt any such restraint. If Empire furniture was the style and was expensive and hard to get, the thing to do was to get as much of it as possible, The~efore rooms ..v.ere jammed with heavy pieces until it was difficult to make one's way between cllairs and tables. A room which would have been amply furnished in the taste of the Empire period with two or three pieces was made to hold twenty. The most painful feature of this craze is the small price to be got now for Empire furniture. vVhen this kind of furn-iture went out of style, it went entirely out al1(f there is so little demand for the furniture that those who do not want to keep it are advised sometimes to hold on rather than to sell at the loss likely to be suffered. Empire is today the style of antique furniture least in de-mand. It is possible that there may some day be a revival of the taste for it. It is out of the mode now. There is another style that promises to be almost as much of a craze for the next decade. It is the absorbing passion of certain builders and furnishers of houses just now. Virulent as the fad fQr Empire fashions became, there were no Empire houses built. Two houses in the style of Adam, decorated by Flaxman with figures like those th'at appear on the Wedgewood pottery. Their work was as remarkable for its symmetry as for any other beauty it possessed. When they built a house they flot onJy decorated the rooms, but made the designs for even the locks on the doors, that all might be in harmony. The finest specimen of their work in domestic architec-ture was the home of the Earl of Derby in Grosvenor Square, London, which exists now only in the drawings which the Adam brothers made of it and its decorations. The house that Robert built for himself in London is said to have been altered very little and gives the best idea of WIJ2t hjs vmrk was that can be obtained except from his engravings of the great homes he did in England. The Grosvenor Square. house was regarded as the masterpiece of the brothers. In their decoration the Adam brothers made use of the-urn which forms the exterior decoration of one of the Adam houses recently put up here, the laurel leaf, the ribbon bands and the garland which were also much used by their immed-iate successors, the oval paterae, the arabesque and the acan-thus leaf. These elements of their decorative work were of course not new, Robert Adam, after studying in Italy, returned in 1754 to England and determined to bring out of the complicated ro-coco style of household decoration that was prevalent then something purer and more in accord with classic models, r--.--- Ten years later he published a book of drawings engraved by Bartoloni showing the ruins of the Emperor Diodetian's palace at Spalato. Several years later the two brothers be-gan to issue their "\\/orks in Architecture," which estab-lished as classic their style of building and decoration. "Sim-plicity, elegant slenderness and low relief" 'were the fore-most qualities that an old critic found in their decorative work To get the execution of his designs as he had planned t~em, Robert Adam brought from Italy Bartolozzi, Pergolesi :ll1d Capriani to carry out his plans. Some of the >rew Eng-land houses of the type called colonial :l re in reality very gooJ specimens of the most modest style of Adam. The Adam style seemed classically simple after the dec- (jrat\.oll that pl"<.'.ccdcdit in London. This was a comhination of the c1emellts of the period of the fifteenth Louis clumsily (>xecuted by English decorators combined with Chinese ad-ditions. Today the work of the Adams seems extremely ehlborate and of rather a degenerate period of art. That purely critical consideration has not, hO\'I'ever, rered with the favor of Adam furniture and decorations. have an Adam house, built takes, of course, a fortune. 011('. just completed in l'ifty-sevcnth street is to have every room decorated in Adam style. r 11 many cases in England the interiors of old country houses done by Robert and James Adam have been taken ui) to London so far as it was possible to transfer them. H ere there ,Ire no old houses with Adam interiors and it is possible to buy only mantels-the Adam mantel was a very marked feature of the room's decorations-furniture, urns and other decorations of a portable character. There are many Adam mantels in the 1:\ ew York shops and their number is likely to increase so long as the fashion continues in favor. They are manufactured now in great number in England. The Adam houses are certain to he a relief from the mo-notony of the French exteriors which have during recent years grown so numerous in New York. The two Adam houses recently built are very similar in design, to judge from their facades, but there must be resemblance in all of them, as very few contrasts are possible in Georgian archi-tecture. inte1"- To The The Adam houses are the most characteristic in the Lon-donstreets~ The Adelphi terrace, which they designed, got its name from the fact that it was the work of the two brothers-a delphoi-a rch itects. \-Vhen n certain kind of furniture becomes so popular as Adam is and Empire was, most of its buyers do not seem to care very much whether it is genuine or not. Of course, there 'was n great deal of Adam furniture manufactured in London during the lifetime of the brothers and their habit of overseeing every part of the equipment of the houses they built has left many specimens of their handiwork. It is easily possible th8t there are many genuine speci-mellS of their work in existence; but not one-third of the stuff which has been added to the visible supply during the past two years is regarded as genuine by the honest dealers. "You must understand," one of them said to the Sun re-porter, "that the Adam designs have been for the past cen-tury a standard pattern with most of the English furniture makers. For the past forty years the big English manuiac-turers have turned out so-calted Adam furniture in large quan-tities. "So, of course, there is plenty of that kind of furniture to be had. \Vhen it gets a Fe}\'years old and looks a little "'lorn it can readily pass as the work of the Adam brothers, partic-ularly with ''v·omen. "Real Adam furniture. of the -finest kind, with decocJ.t\ons by the best painters is almost impossible to get hold of, and very expensive when it does come into the market. The ma-jority of the Adam furniture here now is the product Df fac- 13 tories that came iilto existence long after the two designers had ceased from their labors. "The Adam mantels sold ior two or three hundred dollars are in very few cases genuine. Adam brought from Italy the method of using stucco in his decorations and that was the material from "vhich many of the mantels were made. "It is very easy to copy the design and mould as many of them as there is call for. These may be imitations, but they are nevertheless very graceful and pretty. "Adam upholstery stuffs are practically imposs;ble to get. The two not only Llesigned a chair, bL:tthe covt:r for it as well. One Adam chair that I kn(l\v of with the O:'iginal covering for it designed by Robert Adam is in the museum of the Cooper Institute. Some of these stuffs, which always fol-lowed the pattern of the decoration, have also been copied hy the makers of the p;'esent day and very fair imitations of the genuine Adam goods are to be had. ;;I do not personally believe that the Adam craze will last yery long Some of the effects that we:'e most admired in _r~~ I, i, Dmsned by F. VAN DOMELEN. 24 Goodrich ~l. Student in the Grand Rapids Sehool (If Furniture Desiin the time of the Adams would now seem yc:"y bizarre and no-body could say that they v.·..ere in good taste for domestic decoration "Take his use of the Vv'edgwood color schemes, for in-stance. John Flaxman would designe plaques an'd panels to be inlaid in' the furniture. Sometimes these were imbedded in the yellow satinwood and at other times they were put into the wood of another color which was painted in the blue and \vhitc of the y"r edgewood 'ware. "The entire room wouM be done in these tints of blue and white. Even the piano of that day would be made to match with its blue and white figures 011 the blue background. "Of course no American builders of Adam houses are like-ly to have any Adam furniture of this kind, for it is worth its weight in gold. But v.·..ould they want it? I doubt it -very much and women who are building and decorating houses now should think not only twice but several times be-fore they adopt any school of decoration so pronounced as the Adam."-New York Sun. ", 14 THE USE AND ABUSE OF STAINS Written for the Michigan Artisan by C. J. LaVallee, Vice President of the Marietta Paint & Color Co., Marietta, Ohio. Tt is only within a comparatively few years that the \Vo.d stain in connection with the wood tin-shing craft, has been understood. Ten years or more ago the finisher used what was, and is today, called wood dyes and pigments to make his stains with-such as sielluas, umbers, Vandyke b,owns and the lakes. These comprised at that time the known stainers. nut since the advent of the coal tar dyes the 'Nord stain has taken OIl a different meaning and it is now possible to produce effects that were undrl;'.amcd of a few years ago. The stains of today are perfectly transparent, enabling the expert to change as it were the very nature of the wood" This js especially tnn' of oak. As proof of this, we have for instance the Old English, the Early English, the Cathedral Oak, the f<'Jemish Oak, and many others, each one representing a distinct period of our civilization. Thesc different effects were not produced by the skill of man in those carlier days, but were instcad o:'ta"ned only by the action of the weather and by age affecting the different meth-ods of finish in vogue during this pe_ied. The finish, no doubt, intended more as a preservative agent, might have been oil, or wax, or acid, but it re::luired the aid of atmos-pheric conditions and time to bring about the different effects. Now we produce in one day, with the a:d of our perfected ,;tai11s,what it formerly took centuries to accomplish. The Marietta Paint & Color company has spared ncither time, effort nOr cxpense to bring its stains to the highest pojnt of practical efficiency and perfection. BUl while there arc hundreds of furniture manufactuiers who arc successfully using our products, there are also many who, not using the goods properly, arc unable to get the best results. This is not as a rule, the fault of the finisher, for while a certain stain may be practical and well <1d<lptedto one special line of work it may not answer the purpose on another line. For instance, a stain may be used successfuly in a dipping tank, hut whcn applied with the brush does not produce the desired effect. The trouble will be found 1Iot in the stain, but in the mode of application. The finisher must by experience acquire a knowledge of the use of the stain. Knowing this, we send out with all our products a sheet of instructions for finishers in the f1rs1'use of our stains. These instructions are the result of the experience of s~)me of the foremost fin-ishers of the country who have successfully manipul~tcd our stains, and if properly carried out the;'e cannot be any dis~ appointment or failure in sccuring satisfactory results. As to the misuse of stains, it is unfortunately true that there are a fcw finishers who are for some rcason or other opposed to trying anything ncw, and who when forced by their employers to 'fest these stains, pos·~ively refuse to fol-low the instructiollS, and assuming that the manufacturer is not himself qualified to instruct in the art of finishing, the finisher, hidebound in his opposition to all progress, tests the goods according to his own ideas and condemns them for his failure to secure proper results. This form of prejudiced oppnsit~on we find rapidly dying away. In fact, the furniture manuf1cturer who has been thus handicapped, and finds hims~lf dropping behind his more progressive competitor, has become enlightened and insists on a finisher who will test and use the new goods and conform to the new ideas. L It is only the truth to say, however, that we find the ma-jority of finishers anxious and willing to try anything that promises to give them the best re.sults with the, least work, and the Marietta Paint & Color company is frank to con-fess that it is only th,ough the assistance and perseverance of the finisher that it has been .able to make such wonderful strides in the manufacture of pract:cal stains and finishing materials. To the fillisher is largcly due the credit for the wonderful strides wbich have been secured in the last few years in the mock n a. t of wood finishmg. A Popular Finish. Thc Chicago Wood ,Finishing company, 259-277 Elston avenue, havc a popular finish before the trade today in their Colonial wax finish. Colo'nial wax finish is used over old finish to give it new life. It is also used on wood, cloth, leather and other materials which have never had any finish< on them. It is as easily applied by anyone in the household as by an experienced finisher, and with perfect results. It is not put on with a brush, but is appt:ed with a piece of cheesecloth. It is the most economical finishing material to employ, since a single gallon will Coyer fifteen hundred to two thous-and square feet of surface, or ~lS much as four gallons of varnish. . Unlike varnish, it is a self-leveler, so that it only requires t() he ruhl:t.ed on with a piece of cloth to produce an even, hard, wax-finished appearance. Leather, cloth and other fabrics arc given a durable and high grade finish by being coated with Colonial wax, finish. In order to obtain the best results, the finish must be ap-plicJ in a very thin coat when used on leather o~ cloth, sam(" as when put on wood. If put on in a heavy coat, the finish has a high gloss, whereas, a soft, wax-finished a~pearance is much mo:e desirable, and put on in a thin coat, the cost is of course, much less. Thus, leathcr used on fu:-niture, tru.nks, traveling bags, hand satchels, etc" and cloth employed on cases, trunks and other objects as a cover, may be easily giv-en a wax finish. Colonial wax finish takes the place of wax and saves the great labor expended in applying wax and in polishing it. Any surface which is coated with Colon:al wax finish may be washed and wiped. A light coat applied every few months keeps anything on \vhich it is used in fine condition. It dries hard over night. It is used in place of wax, yar-nish or other finish, and may be applied over shellac, varnish filler or stain. Registration for Protection of Designs. In the June number of the Upholsterer a good suggestion is made in regard to the registration and p otection of de-sig- us. It is believed that with such a law in operation the manufacturers and designers, particularly would all prollt by it. In Europe it has proved successful as an open market is thus created. Rel"ations between schools of design and manufacturers would be closer. Designers would feel freer to submit designs in competition as manufacturers would buy 'more freely and artists not in the strictly commercial line would be more likely to compete. The Highest Grade of Brain Pow-er Should be employed by the manufacturer when engaging in the difficult task of preparing a catalogue for publication In the mailer of goods to be advertised and the prices to be charged the manufacturer alone must be the judge, but when it comes to the engraving, printing and binding of the book, we come in and respectfully offer our assistance. Do you need our skill and experience of many years to aid you ? We have been engaged in the business of making catalogues many years. We have ample facilities including newly built presses, linotype machines and competent workmen and guarantee the quality of our work. Send us a statement of your requirements. We can help you. White Printing Company 2 to 20 Lyon St., Grand Rapids, Mich. 16 ·~MIF]-IIG7JN , P. H. Reddinger Carving Worhs (Formerly Cincinnati Carving Work/?of Cincinnati, 0.) CARVlNGS and FURNITURE ORNAMENTS of all kind •• EVANSVILLE, IND. Bysendil)g me a small order I will convince you that I am the man wbo can make your carvings. ONE TRIAL WILL DO THE BUSINESS. . £t.l.'.S-. PHONE: 3333. FOUR TRAINS TO AND fROM • Lv Gd. RApids 7:10am ArChieago 1:15pm Lv. Gd.lU.pidl 12:05 on Ar Chicago 4:50 pm Lv Gd. Rapids 4:25 pm ATChicq:o 10:55pm Lv Gd. Rapids 11:30pm daily Ar Chlca~o 6:$ am 4;25 pm and 11 :30 pm run daily. Pullman Sleeper, on 11:30 pm train open 9:00pm. A II. carte Cafe service on all day trains. Pere Marquette Parlor cars on all day traIns. Rat_ reduced to 50 (:elltl;. T"REE TRAINS D ET RO I T TO AND "ROM Leave Grand Rapids 7:10 am Arrive Detroit 11:55ant Leave Grand Rapids 11:10 am daily Arrive Detroit 3:05 pnt Leave Grand Rapids 5::;W pm ArrIve Detroit 9:20 pm Note fad time made by both midday Bondevening train. Meal. seNe<! II.lll.carte on trains leaving Grand Rapids II.t It:15lltu and 5:20pm. Pere Marquette Parlor Cars on all train.; seat rate ••IS cents. "ALL OVER MICHIGAN" H. J. GRAY, DtnRICTP.UIENGRR AGENT, PHONE .. 168 Gnmd. Rapids, Mich. NO MATTER WHAT YOUR DRY KILN REQUIREMENTS WE CAN FILL THEM "ABC" APAR TMt:NT filLNS are successfully employed. Note the experience of the Hale & Kilburn Manufacturing Company of Philadelphia. "You recently installed for us a seven compartment 'Moist Air' kiln which has proven very satisfactory Our re-quirements are unusually exactinf", manufacturing, as we do, furniture and interior bank and office fittings, and interior woodwork of the highest class, and our lumber must be thoroughly dried in such condition as to be sus-ceptible to the highest finish. These conditions have been very well met by your kilns. "Your service has been prompt and satisfactory, and we heartily recommend you and your kiln to anyone whose requirements are similar to our own." In some instances it is necessary to have comparatively small quantities of a number of different kinds of lumher, in varying degrees of dryne15s. In such cases the AMERICAN BLOWER COMPANY NEW YORK, CHICACO, ATLANTA, LONDON Oran~Dapi~sDlow Pipe an~Dust Arrester (ompan~ THE latest device for handlillg" shav-illgs alld dust from all wood wood-working machines. Our eighteen years experience in this class of work has brought it nearer perfection than any other system Oil the market today. It is no experimentj but a demonstrated scientific fact, as we have severa1 hundred of these systems in use, and not a poor one among them. Our Automatic Furnace Feed System, as shown in this cut, is the most perfect working device of anything in its lille. Write for our prices for equipments. WE MAKE PLANS AND DO ALL DET AIL WORK WITHOUT EX-PENSE TO OUR CUSTOMERS EXHAUST FANS AND PRESSURE BLOWERS ALWAYS IN STOCK Office and Factory; 208-210 Canal Street GR.AND R.APIDS, MICH. Citizens Phone 1282 Bell, M ..ID 1804 OUR AUTOMATIC FURNaCE FEED SYSTEM 18 ~M.JFHIG7fN Portable Saw. An inter-csting /lovelty of recent make is a portable wood ~:lW driven by a turbine and operated by compressed air. Air is admitted through a throttle and passes through a .con-duit cast ih the frame on the back of the machine to a gover-nor valve which is mounted on the hub of the turbine. It is operated by centrifugal weights, whi,ell move a collar laterally against spring resistance and operate the valve. Three ports discharge air against the buckets, of Wl1ich there are 35. A pillion on the turbine shaft drives the saw through a train of gears, 'which reduces the speed from 8,000 revolutions per minute at the turbine to 5,000 revolutions per minute at tJl(~ saw; or, by shifting an intermediate gear, the saw can be operated at the full speed of the turbine for light work. An adjustable grooved hearing pcrmits raising or lowering the saw shaft so as to allow of the use of smaller or targer saws, this vertical adjustment being accomplished by a set screw. The machine sets on a base resembling a hand plane. The bottom of this base is polished, so that the machIne is easily moved along the work. ,A brake at the side of the turbine is so arranged that when the air is shut off it is automatically released. One of the largest t1ses for this tool is trimming roofs of freight cars in car shops and for ripping wood gcner-ally. It is adapted to lumber up to 10 inches or in some cases 2 inches thick. The air turbine is also used for operat-ing an emery wheel, the wheel being placed on the shaft in-stead of the saw for surface grinding. Steam Separator. In a newly-designed steam separator the idea of throwing the moisture out of steam by imparting a rotary motion to the column of steam is adopted, and the designer of the separator has now accomplished the feat of separating the steam and water in such a. way that tbe water can not be taken up again by tbe steam, and that there shall be no noticeable loss of pressure between the in-let and outlet of the separator. The helical worm in the throat is, integral with the main shell casting, so that, aside from the gage glass fittings, the separator consists of a single piece of neat design and absolute simplicity, with no internal parts to get loose and rattle or become inoperative. The moisture after being thrown to the outside by the contrigual force of the revolving column, gathers in the pocket and is trapped off, while the clean and dry steam passes down the eentral riser, in a direct line with its original direction of flo,v~ with no restriction of its passage or sudden change in motion which would require energy which could be sup-plied only by a fall of pressure. It is built in sizes adapted to pipe of from one to 12 inches in diameter. Burlap Market Awaits Jute Forecast. There has been an active demand for lightweight burlaps and heavy orders for the same have been placed. The heavy-weight end has been decidedly quiet, however, and practically 110 new business of any sort c'an be repo:-ted. Calcutta eight-ounce goods are firmly held at 4.85 cents, and ten and one-half-ounce at 6.25 cents, All interest in both the jute and burlap markets is center-ed in the coming jute crop. Should the new crop amount to 9,000,000 bales, as many predict it will, buyers of both jute and bUrlap' will, it is helieved, wait for a break in priee:s be-fore doing any purchasing. On the other hand, should the forecast indicate a yield of less, or even the same size as last year, namely, 8,5CO,OOO bales, prices will, it is stated. un-doubtedly be forced up sharply. In the meantime the mar-kets are decidedly quiet on hu-laps. while jute in Dundee is slightly easier, being quoted for prompt shipment at £27 per ton, and new jute at £22 5 shill"n·;s for October delivery. Buyers are determined to await the issuance of the jute fore-cast before purchasing or placing any new contracts. Im-porters in this market are not worry'ng over a lack of de-mand, as they have very little to offer for spot or nearby fut-ure delivery. Metal Beds Favorites in Many Lands. 1Ietal beds are in use in many foreign countries besides Europe,-South Africa and South America, Turkey, Egypt .and others. Those of American w<lke find a ready salcinfor-eign countries although they are more· expensive than those of English make. English manufacturers failed to succeed in forming a combination, as those who refused to enter sold orders at their own prices. An idea of the quantity of iron beds imported from England may he gained when it is stated that Egypt receives from 20,000 to 25,000 pieces, Asiat;c Tu~key from 50,000 to 60,000 pieces yearly, It is said that at present there is a wide latitude for rivalry between the product of Great Britain and the United States. Lowers Furniture Rates. The Missouri railway and warehouse commlSSI011 has issued amendment No.4 to the maximum freight rate sche-dule under which carload rates on agricullural implements, furniture and wagons are reduced to 177';3 cents. The former rate was 220 cents. The westen] llnes concerned in this re-duction which applies across the state say that the order was issued without a hearing, and as it would affect the rates on either side of the state from Iowa to Colorado, a meeting of the western trunk liries' freight committee will be called to consider the snbject. I F' YOU H AV ENE V E R T R I E 000 UR RUBBING AND POLISHING VARNISHES DETFlOIT r ...CTI)RY C ...NADI ...N .....CTORY YOU HAVE YET TO LEARN THE F'ULL POSSIBILITIES OF' THIS CLASS OF' GOODS WHY NOT PUT IT TO THE TEST BY GIVING US A TRIAL ORDER? BERRY BROTHERS, LIMITED, VARNISH MANUFACTURERS NEW YO"K eO.ToN "H'''.PEL''HIA BALTIMORE CHICAQO .T. LOUI. CINCINNATI SAN ,.RANCISCO FAQTQRY AND MAIN OFFICE, D.TItOIT CANADIANFACTa.,. WALKERVILLE. ONT 19 IOtis Mfg. Co. New Orleans. Chicago. nAUOOAnT Chicago Office and Dislrib· Importers and Manufacturers of Dling Yards: 2251 to 2261lUMBER ST. R. S. HUDDLESTON MANAGER Washing Machine. A Hew washing mac.hine of the ruhher or ball.-bearing type, claimed to possess many advantages over other ma-chines similiar in construction, has just been introduced. It has a doubte ball-bearing at both the top and bottom, in-stead of a single ball-bearing such as is used in other ma-chines of this type of manufacture. The advantage of tbis is understood when it is considered that any hearing to worK in perfect alignment must have two points of contact. It is claimed that this makes the machine keep a perfect align-ment, revolve easily and \vo~-k to better advantage. By us-ing a corrugated tub, thc operator not only rubs the clotlles 011 top and bottom! but also on the sides. The tub is manu-factured out of Louisiana red cypress, which is less suscep-tible to expansion and contraction because of hot an cold water th.an any other lumber known, The frame is made of the best material, and well braced by four iron braces run-ning diagonally across the frame, while the wringer board is a special invention, being a continuation of ttlC f:'ame and fitted with a slidillg drip board, so that the wtnger call be kept attached to the machine at every washing, Hand Saw Filer. A new type of hand saw lilc:-, suitable for us¢ on a bench O~-pedcst31 is adapted lor automaticl1y filing any ordinary small hand saw. The vise which cnrries the saw is c1am)cd together by spring pressure suAicient to hold the saw fimly, yet allowing it to slip th,ough as each tooth is fikd, At eac;] re~'ollition of the tile shaft, the li1c is ;'t1t:_)\l1a~ically with-drawn from cngag;ement with a tooth, dropped back, anrl ju--t as the smooth portion of its ci;'cul11fercl1ce reaches the ~W"I:, it pushes the sa\v atong for the next tooth, this movement being regulated to the si:<:eof the saw tooth, by a thumb-screw. The file is ccntrolled by Celms to cut only a certa;n depth each time, and this feature insu<-es ,;ccur;:lte and even teeth. The s,nv carrier can be S\VUllg so as to gc~ any r!c!-iired angle of hook and ally bevel up t-o 30 degree,. The saw ,'" "':cr sl:des e;~s:l'y on a long In'·. i , GLOBE VISE AND TRUCK CO. Office 321 South Divi8ion St., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Manufacturers of HIGH GRADE Wood Workers Vises AND Factory Trucks Simplicity in construc-tion enables us to lItive qnalilY am~ durability, aud meet all competi. tion. Wrile/or Prices, I No. 21. RoUer Bea'il\'i!s. SlI.me style Tt"llcks No. '2,4,without Ron~rRearings Shellac. Calct\tta was cabletl stronger and London linn at the ad-vance Hoted recently. The New York market is moderate-ly active under a continued good demand and the tendency 01 spot pr-ices is up·ward. Orange Shellac- Ordinary 1'. 1\', ... ,., Bright orange grades. Diamond I. V. S. 0, D. C A. C. Garnet lac.. Button lac ... , Bleached shellac. wet, Klin-dried " '" .47@48 . _ ' .. 49@S4 .......... 55@56 ......• 55@56 ...... 60@ .. ......... ,46@47 ..... , .... 36@50 .. 47@48 ................ 59@60 Flexible Auger. ,'\n auger wllieh is guaranteed to ~o cleaning in the most obscure places and work itself into almost any conceivable position is made of a flexible steel spring that glides easily and without injury through the oddest-shaped pipes. It is simple in construction and easily and effectively operated. This device is especially useful for cleaning drain pipes, etc, It will also clean and remove obstructions from all kinds of pipes leadillg from sinks, wash bowls, bath tubs, etc. For sCVI;er pipes, boiler flues, dc., there is supplied an auger \vorking on teels and carrying any length <Iud size of con wire desired, with necessary parts for use in diffe:-ent pipes. Valuable ";Nalnut Logs. \Valnut logs to the value of $17,5(0 were recently loaded on cars at Fayette, Ark., for export to l-bmburg, Germany, where they will be converted into furn:ture. The represen-tative of the fo:-eign firm has been in Howard county for a couple. of years looking after this export bulslness. The fine old forests of walnut are gradually disappearing in that sec-tion. One tree recentl"y cut brought $150 to its owner. Silex Wood rmer: Fumed Oak Oil Stain (Origi.nal produ'Ctiol1 in oil) No morEl fuming, No more sandina. This stain can be sbeUaced over in tbiny minutes after It is applied, Every piece of furniture on whicb it is used can be tiilished and. ship-ped the same day. We are the originators oiWeath~ ered, Early. En",sh, A~twerp and other mission oil stains. Samvlegfurnighed on application. Grand Rapids Wood Finishing Company GAANr:! RAPIDS, MICH. B. WALTER & CO. ~VNADU~~ M,nufa"um. of TABLE SLIDES Exclusively WRITE FOR PRICES AND DISCOUNT .'-_._-_. ... r- 20 5aw and K"'ofe FOlitnt"g Mhaoe lnery and T00,S TLihne' BMigagnesutfaoanlud"dB. est Baldwin, Tuthill ®. Bolton Grand Rapids. Mlob. Filers. Setters. Sharpeners. Grinders. SW80e&. Stretchers. Brazing and Filing ClamJ)s, Knife Balances. Hammering Tools. 801l0n Band Saw Filer for Saws ~ inch up. New 200 page Catalogue for 1906 Free. B. T. & 8. Strle D. KnifeGrinder. Full Automatic. Wet or dry INSIST ON HAVING MorrisWoo~3 Sons' Soli~ Steel alue Joint (utlers (or there are no otheror U ju.rt a.r good." They, cut a clean perfect joint always. Never bum owing to the GRADUAL CLEARANCE (made this way only by us), require little grinding, saving time and cutters. No time wasted setting up and cost no more than other makes. Try a pair and be convinced. Catalogue No. 10and prices on application. MOR.R.IS WOOD ®. SONS Thirty_two Yf:ars at 31_33 8'. Canal Street. CHICAGO.ILL. Cyclone Blow Pipe Co. Improved Cyclone Dust Collectots. Automatic Fumace Feeders. Steel Plate Exhaust Fam, Exhaust and Blow Piping . Cmoan..u..f.a..c.tur"e"d"."" iostadllaedoi"a"n"d-llUacaateed. Old ~ remodeled on modem lille!l on most economical plaDll. SIJI?~enlary 8y 8 t em 8 added where prerent ~8~ tems are outgrown. De~ fective 8y s t e m 8 corrected and put ill. proper workin:g ...w. 70 W.•Jackson Street, CHICAGO, • ILL. NEW YORK AND PHILADELPHIA, Via GRAND TRUNK-LEHIGH VALLEY ROUTE. Two Fast Trains Daily Except Sunday. Daily. Leave Gd Rapids 2:45 p. m. 7:05 p. m. Ar Philadelpbia " " 3:40 p. m. 7:25 p. m. Ar New york 4:30 p. m. 8:40 p. m. Service unsurpassed. For further information apply at City Office, Morton House Block. C. A. JUSTIN, C. P. & T. A. The Furniture Agency ------------------OFFICES--_--------------- Bo.ton New York J aDleetown High Point Cluclnnatl Detroit Grand R.8jlIlds Chtc~o 5t. Louis Minneapolis Associate Offices and Sonded Attorfteys 1ftall Principal cities REPORTING FURNITURE. UNDERTAKERS,. CARPET HARDWARE AND KINDRED TRADES. COLLEC-TIONS MADE BY AN UN'RIVALLED SYSTEM THROUGH OUR COLLECTION DEPARTMENT ., .. WE PllODUCE RESULTS WhERE OTHERS FAIL WftlTH FOR, PARTICULARS AND YOU WILL SEND us Y aU.R BU 5 IN E 55; Our Complatnt and A4JuetmeDt DeplIrlmeDt Red Draf,. Collect Lo Jo STEVENSON. Micblg ..n M..nager .7IR T I .5'JI.l"l $ 2M;;;;; $ r f* 21 WEATHERED OAK OIL STAIN Fast Color. Correct Shade. Most Penetrating Stain Made. WILL NOT WIPE UP WITH WAX OR SHELLAC. AO-EL-ITE FINISHING WAX Dries Harder Than Ordinary Wax. For Use on Weathered or Mission Finishes. SEND FOR SAMPLE PANELS AND PRICES. Ask for our "STANDARD STAINS BOOKLET," real wood panels showing twenty-one Fillers and Stains. The finest booklet ever supplied. ~ CHICAGO. Dept. 5. 'The Ad-el-ite People. L Richey, Halsted & Quick, CINCINNATI. OHIO OAK----Plain and Qgartered. POPLAR-Soft and Yellow. Cool Comfortable Inexpensive Goo d Service Chicago and Grand Rapids FARE $2 ONE WAY • l $3.75 ROUND TRIP Leave Chica,e;o 7:45 p. m. Leave Gmnd Rapids 7:55 p. m. daily. Reserve berths at docks, foot of Michigan Ave. or City Ticket Office 101 Adams St., Chicago; 91 Monroe St., orB1 L)·on St., Grand Rapids. PALMER'S Patent Gluing. Clamps Are the most successful Piling Clamps Ma.de For the following reasons The\' clamp instantly any width of dimension stocki no adjustit:lg damps to fit the work, they hook at Qm:e to the oesired wlQth. Released instantly-throw out the lever and take them off. The work elll be removed as fast as it can be handled. As the clamp' is placed over the work and locks into the oile below It the dmw is alike on both sides, prevents all springing no matter how wide the stock may he. Impossible for them to slip; the wedge has serrated edge and cannot he moved when clamp is closed, hammer all you like, Unlimited power; great strenIrth and dumbilitYj malleable iron and steel; the knllckle joints are socket joints, not rivets. Although the best they cost you Jess. For further information ask for catalogue NO.4. A. E. Palmer. Owosso, Mich. F, 22 7IRTI.s'fU'l a z,.. Finest In the world. Birch and Poplar Cross banding ==-::=== ..A•LWAYS IN STOCK =======~~~~ WAL TERCLARK 535 Michigan Trust Building Citizens Phone 5933 GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN Factory Notes. The Parker-Little "Furniture company of Raleigh, N. c., has been organized with $25,OCOcapital to manufacture and deal in furniture, carpets and oth;::r hou:;ehold goods. The incorporators are: A. C. BtLke, v'l/. F. Snuggs, G. M. Lipe, J. M. Burris, M. F. Litt1c:; v..'. A. Boger, P. O. Skidmore, and T. S. Parker, all of Albemarle. The KendallviJle, Ind., Furniture cOlnpany will mm'c to Peru in the same state, where a new th:'ce story btlliding 48:x 148 feet has been erected. A fire in the Golden Furtliture company's plant .. James-town, N. Y., resulted in $40,000 damage. The loss is fully insured and the company will resume business. The :\a-tional Furniture company also suffered some damage. The factory of the Brunswick-Blake-Callender com-o Ily is to be moved from Chicago to :Mtukegon, :I\Tici.l. ;..~ soon as the buildings are reoldy. August 1 is the time set for completion, but the work will not be done for some time after that according to present indications. The Crescent Manufacturing comp'.ny, Louisville, Ky .. has been incorporated with $100,GOO c<:pital to make office, school and store furniture. The incorporators are E. r~. :VIcClain, A. E. Shaner, E, E. Crone, Frank Baldwin an 1 John A. Miller. The IvIartin Brothers factory in Jamestown. )oJ. Y., W;\S almost totally destroyed by fire, recently, with $12.0CO loss, incuiance $10,000. The vVait-Fuller Furniture company, Portsmouth, 0 .. have increased their capital to $75,CCO. The American Seating company has been incorporated in Chicago with a capital of $53,000. The French Mirror & Beveling company of Chicago will move to Allegan, Mich., whe:-e a site, has been fu~nished by the city and the company agrccs to payout $35,000 annually in wages and to cmploy f:'om 50 to 100 men. Enoch Ohnstral1d will engagc in the manufacture of metal furniture in Jamestown, N. Y. He has becn super-intelident of the Art Metal Construct:oll company for the past six years. A metallic furniture factory is to be located in Falcone:·, N. Y. Lodge furniture wilt be manufactured by the Hender-son- Ames company, Kalamazoo, Mich. The Columbus (Ga.), School Desk company has becn or-ganized to manufacture school desks, opera house seats. church pews and other furniture. The Keystone Upholstering House is a new firm to en-gage in the manufacture of pad'or fumitu-e in Philadelphia, The Badger Invalid Bed company of Green Bay, V\.ris., will engage in the manufacture of patented beds for in-valids. Capital is $30,000. The Luce Furniture company of Grand Rapids have com~ rnellced the erection of a $5,000 warehouse. The new plant of the Chippewa Falls (Wis.) Furniture company is busily employed on ordc:-s. A night force is required. A fire in the Trade Table company, insid~ the Jackson, (l\.lich.,) prison resulted in a loss of $4,500. Onc hundred and twenty-five convicts were employed in the factory. Thc plants of the Atlanta Spring Bed company and the Atlanta Iron & Brass Bcd company W2:C dcstto)'ed hy d DESIGNED BY F. VAN DOMELEN. 24 GOODRICH ST. Studellt in Grand Rapids School of Furniture Deflen. lire June 22. The loss is estimated to be $60,000, fully in-sured. Jo11n Posthumus the supe.intendent of the Estey Manu-facturing company, Owosso, died recently as the result of a railroad accident. l-T e was well known)n Grand Rapids and to the fllrnjture trade. The l\ilarvel Furniture Co.,. ]aniestmvn, N. Y., was re-cently incorporated. Capital. $60,000. -~ ·:f'~MI9pIG7J-N The Demopolis Coffin & Cabinet company of ).'lont-gomery, Ala" have e0l1,n1enced business with $10,000 capital. The incorporaco1"s arc: \Villiam E . .:\Jichael, Jr., T. C. Bailey, A. M. Sledge and lsaJ()~-e Bley. The BaHller Furniture company of Kew York having a capital of $20,000 have incorporated. The incorporators arc Paul B. Roseneraub:, No. 21 Allen Street, Jamestown, N. Y.; August S. Soderstram, /\ndrew Norlander, Cha,ks Johnson, Jamestowll, 1\. Y. A large factory is about to be erected near Pittsburg for th(~ manufacture of beds, mattrc.~s and bed springs. Twelve hundred men will be cmp:oycd. The name of the firm is the Hickson-Pittsburg company. The plant will be one of the largest in this country. The Fall Creek 1fal1ufaeturing company of 1Iooresville, Ind., have organized with $15,000 capital to manufactu:e furniture. The directors are vViliiam /\. Votlcanon, Fred L. Dutton and Charles G. Morris. The plant of the Ordway ':'VlallufactlFing compall:y Bristol, Tenn., is closed, awaiting its sale by the OW1H;rs. The Southern Upllolstery comVany h.~s been mganizcd Atlanta, Ga., with a paid in capital of $5,000. The sixty employees of the New Orleans Furniture com-pany have been locked out by the general. manager J. \\'. \~lright 011 aCc()llllt of their joining the union. In the mean-time the plant is closed. Mr. \Nright refuses to take the men back and states tl1at he paid more than union wages. The l1lallUi'actUr(·.of carpet s\veepers is a new indust.'y to be established in Racine, \Vis., by the Dodd Carpet Sweeper company of Chicago provided that the company has a clear title to the article manufactured. If 50 a factory will be operated to employ one hundre.d men. The c.apitai invested is $300,000. A. ll. Dodd of Chicago is the inven-tor of the sweeper. The: organization of the Brunswick-Balke-Collcnder COIll-pany in Grand Rapids has been completed and is a separate , organization. Capital is $50,000. Th~ plant of the Grand Rapids Table company 'will be occupied for factory llse. The officers of the IVlichigan company are n. E. Bensinger, presi-dent; Julius Blake, vice president and Frank J. Lyons, mana-ger of the branch, seeFetary, treasurer and manager. The Buckeye Parlor Furniture company having an au-thorized capital $10,000 will manufacture upholstered £1.wn1- lure in Toledo. Davis & Halbert, Seattle, Vv'asb'J manufacture upholstered furniture. A. J. Charleston succeeds Davis & Charkston in Seatt:e, \Vash., in 'the manufac.ture of upholstered furniture. The Dearborn Desk company organized by Chicago men will be located in Marion, Ind. Capitalization is given as $50,OCO. The ~\lichaels Bedstead factory will be. used and desks and other modern office furniture manufactured. The incorporators are Alexander A. Samuel, Charles S. Ferry and Jon P.Ho\ton, who are also the directors. The Klein Specialty ::\fanufactnring company of Hen-derson, Ky., will manufacture kitchen cabinets and othc;' specialties. The company has a capital stock of $35,000 and ,vill construct a plant modern in all respects. The l\Iohawk Desk company succeeds the I-Torfocks-11etz-ler company with \Villiam Horrocks president. The othn officers arc: Vice president, Edwin Jones; treasurer. Harvey Fc1dmier; secretary, Fred C. Burney. The Crippeu & Railey company has been organized tn manufacture furniture in New York with $10,000 capital. The incorporators are :\Tarvin D. Crippen, L. T. Baliey and Charles L. Bartoll of Rochester, N. Y. The factory of the Hagerstown Lounge company was recently struck by lightning and badly damaged. Insurance covers the loss. Valuable antique fl1rnitu;-e in the building was also badly damaged. 23 The Globc-\Vernicke company has declared a regular qua rtcr\y dividend of 10 of per cent on its preferred stock, payable July 15 to holders of record June 30. The Scott Chair company successors to George \-Valter Scott has been incorporated in Newark, 0., with a capital stock of $251000, to manufacture chairs, rockers and other furniture. A retail business will also be conducted. The plant will be enlarged and new machinery added. The Kearns Upholstering company of High Point, N. c., has he en organized with $25,000 capital to manufacture all kinds of upholstered goods. The Ne"v Orleans Metal Bed company Ltd., have incor-porated with $75,000 .capital. A new factory will be con~ strudel.! containing 90,000 feet of floor space. The com-pany bongbt the business of Magee, Dow & c.ompany. 1lr. DO\v will be manager of the new company. 1Ianufactllrers of furniture in Canada met in Toronto re-cently to effect an organization. Circular Saw Vise. One of the main features of the 11e\iI,o"ecsitrcular saw vise IS that it is adjustable to almost every conceivahle position. This is possible because of its swing on a pivotal! the way of a circle and on what might be termed an axis to any point of three-quarters of a circle. These cliffe.ent positions make saw iiling very casy, because they make the vise adaptable to tll(' fancy of eve:'y liler a~ well :J.S suitable for every style of saw or cutter. The vise is all iron, Wi.t'-1 the rnost metal Ivhcre most needed to make it strong and l"lljatrable, thus p -eventing all possibilities of vib:'aLons while being operated. point where other casters refuse to turn is 75he POint with The Faultless Pivot Bearing Caster The FAULTLESS received Ihe Highest Award at the World's Fair, 1904, over all other casters. Itissupplied wit h Fauldess Pat e 11 t Steel Spriug Sockets. 'rhe Faultle .. has no weak spots-n 0 mechanical .flaws·~it's Fault~ less in name-in action-and as a seller :-: .. If you are after a money maker, write to 75he Faultless Caster Mfg. Nebraska City. Neb. They only manufacture the The Faultless is interchangeable; will fit six differ-ent sizes of 11"o!~ bed sockets. :.: Co•• 2+ ·~MI9rIG7!-N : 7IR. T I...s'..7I.2'l 2 $ $: e" BOYNTON &. CO. Mfrs.of 'Embosltd and Turned Mouldings, Porch Work, Wood Orllls. and Auto. matlc Turnings We also manufac-ture a large Hne of EMBOSSED ORNA· MENTS for couch work. Send lor illustrations. SEND FOR CATALOGUE Removed to 419-421 W. flneeltlh St., C"IC4GO, ILL. If your DESIGNS arc right, peoplt want the Good •• That mak.. PRICES right, CIlarence 'JR. bills DOES IT 163 Madison Avenue-Citizens Phone 1983. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. MANUFACTURERS OF DROP CARVING AND GENERAl EMBOSSING MACI1INES Dies for all kinds of Machines. At lowest prices. 7 Second St" LAFAYETTE, IND, Wood Forming Cutters We offer exceptional value in Reversible and One- Way Cutters for Single and Double Spindle Shapers. Largest lists with lowest prices. Great-est variety to select from Book free. Address SAMUEL J. SHIMER & SONS MILTON, PENNSYLVANIA,. U. S. A. FaIding Bed Fixtures Profitable fixtures to use are those which give the least trouble. They are made by Folding Bed Williams in many styles and designs, suitable for every folding bed manufactured. Furniture Cast-ings, Panel Holders, Corner Irons, etc. New id.eas and inventions constantly being added to the hne. F. B, WILLIAMS 3812 VlneeDneB Ave•• Chlcaio. Manufacturer of Hardware Specialties for the Furniture Trade. Established 1878 Step~ensonnr~.(0. South Beud, Ind. W ood Turnings, Turned Moulding, Dowels and Dowel Pins. Catalogue to Manufac-turers on Application. Fine Service MICHIGAN CENTRAL Grand Rapids .a Detroit .a Toledo THROUGH CAR LINE Solid train service with Broiler Parlor cars and Cafe coaches funning on rapid schedule. Through sleeping car to New York on the "Wolverine," making the run in nineteen hours and fifty minutes. For full particulars see Michigan Central Agents. Or E· w. Covert. C. P. A. Gf'BDd R.apld •• o. w. Ruggle •• G. P. A. Cblcaso. L 25 HAND CIRCULAR RIP SAW, MORTISKR COMBINBD MACHINE. No.3 WOOD LATHE. ~:;~"::. HAND AND FOOT POWER MACHINERY WHY THEY PAY THE CABINET MAKER: H~ eaR save a mauufadu1"er's profit as well as a dealer's pront. He can make more money with less capital invested. He can hold a better and more satisfactory trade with his cllstomers. He can manufacture in as good style and finish, and at as loW cost, as the factories. The local cabinet maker bas been forced into only a dealer's trade and profit, becau$e 01:ma\:hinl:= m:muiaclured goods of factoties. An 3Utftt of Barnes' Patent Foot llnd Hand-Power Machinery, rein- !Itate!! the cabinet maker with advantages equal to his competitors. If desired, these machine,; will be sold ON TRIAL. The purchaser can have ample time to test them in his own shop and on the work be wishes them to do. DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUEANDPRICK LIST FRRK. W. F. &. JOHN BARNES CO., 654 Ruby SI., Rockford, III. NO.4 SAW (ready tor ripping) No.7 SCROLL SAW. No.4 SAW (readY for cross·cutting) WHITE PRINTING CO. No.2 Sell.OLL SAW FORMER OR MOULDER. HAND TBNONKR. Printers for the Furniture Trade. Grand Rapids, Mich. Do~~s' Patent TaMe=le~Dovdailer We Dnd upon investigation that our Dovetailing Ma-chine patent covers t his machine nicely. Cuts Morlise in the Top Cuts Mortise in the Cleats Cuts Tenons to fit the Top Culs Tenons to .fit the Cleats Adjustab\e to keep Mor-tise and Tenon at a Standard size The Cheapest Joint Made Will turn rnl\ 2S0 \1) 300 Small Parlor T aWes in 10 HoufS The Dodds Tiltin.r:: Saw Table has more practical features and good points than anyotber saw table on the market. MANUFACTURRD AND FOR SALE BY ALEXANDER DODDS Grand Rapids, Michigan, U. S. A. 26 Band Rip Saw. A new pattern of band rip saw is constructed throughout with heavy cored column and is able to resist all vibration. The wheels are 42 inches .in diameter, entirety of iron and .steel, the upper ligbt~nd strong, the lower heavy with solid web. The straining device is fitted to,the upper wheel and has a for ..v.ard, backward and side adjustment. The blade is kept uniformly taut at all times and the lightest blades can be run at the highest speed with entire safety. The saw guides have sectional hardwood bracks arranged to take up the sligl1test wear. The feed is very pO'NeduL Speeds of 30, 60 and 125 feet per minute are furnished regularly, but faster feeds are furnished when desired. The feed rolls are adjustable up and down instantly or they may be raised from the board instantly stopping the feed, or lifted entirely 011t of the way for use as a hand feed rip saw. All the ad~ justments are accomplished by a single movement of the tong lever. A Pretty W,edding. The ma:-riage of Edward Jackahoice «lid :\1iss Helcn Hake took place in Grand Rapids at St. Mary':; churcl{ recent-ly. The wedding 'was a beautiful one and a large c'ompany attended the weddin~ breakfast. rVIr. and 1lrs. Jackaboice left on the afternoon train for New York, where taey sailed June 16 for Naples and they wilt spend three months tour-ing Italy, Switzerland, Germany and Fracc·e. 1lr. Jacka-boice is'very popular and is president of the \\/cst Side CrOll \""'lorks. Summer Furniture is Very Attractive .. One of the most striking sets of S~lmmer furniture seen this season i~ of bent wood highly polished and colored a shade de('ver than forest green. The backs and seats of the sofas and chai. s arc cushioned with a bealltifullincll taffeta ill a large design of green lattice and shaded' purple blos-som.". Green wicker furniture upholste: ed-if the fresh chintzy cushion can have so stuffy a llame~with green ,:nd yellow c:-etollne, is. among the ~leanest looking of ..\.'a.m we<lther ftunishings. 1Iiss Jane Addams takes especial p'ride in showing Hull House visitors the old dining room f.urnitlce which was presellt at the discussion in which the settlement W<lSo:-ig-i-nally started. There is a Difference·· LeI us tell you. .Ask for Catalogue No 135. When you buy Eccenlrlc Clamps specify COLT'S BATAVIA CLAMP COMPANY 45 Center St•• BATAVIA. N. Y. '- . The Importance of Well Kept Factory Grounds. The beautifying of factory 'grounds ordinarily unsightly with· piles of lumber, and various odds and ends is getting to be a matter deserving of more attention. - Nor.only does it put ·the workmen in good fettle, but it becomes a matter of comment, and favorable mention of that sort cannot hurt and may help business. The factory wl~ich gives attention to general appearances isyery apt to be con-sidered one which also gives attention to well made goods. Some factories encourage noon sports among the work-mcn, furnishing a ball field, if suchbeavailabre_ It certain-ty helps along the good will between men and their employers. The G_'and Rapids Chair company are well advanced in this respect, a large area in front of the factory being well kept in grass and flower beds. Bk:ycle sheds arc provided for those who ride, and there is a general air among th.e men of being looked after. The factory of Innis,Pea~'ce and company of Rushville, Ind., is a good inst.ance of fine taste and artistic appearance. In front of the factory is a well kept lawn sloping down to a small banked pond. The area . s provided with shade trees, rustic seats and summer houses. The factory, which is a fine looking one, presents a striking appearance in connection with these tasty su,rou'ndings. As arnIe, city factori~s, from lack of space" have little opportunity to do much In this line, but there are numer-ous establishments around the smaller towns whose general surroundings could be improved, and it will not be lost labor hy any means. Supply mell, t:-avelers, and occ<lsionalbuy-ers note it, and <lny mcntion of a factory ill that connection is a help. Antique Furniture Fac~ories Busy; The oak furniture factories in Yorkshire'and Belgium are now working overtime turning out treasures for Ameri-can miilionaires. Of these, the most popular tilii seasoil is the chair in which King Charles 1. sat during his trial by Parliament. Three thousand of these chair-shave been made <lnd sold already. A native rndian ruler owns a musical bed. The weight of the body sets the works in motion, and its plays half an hour, while life-sized figures of G:-ecian maidens at its head and foot finger string-ed instruments. Fans are waved by a concealed motor, which keeps them gOillg the whole night long. Buyers of Furniture DO YOU WANT IT? WE HAVE PUBLISHED THE LIST FOR JUNE. 1906. WRITE US. MICHIGAN ARTISAN co. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. 27 LIGNINE CARVINGS Unbreakable Perfect reproduction of hand carvings. Full depth of grain. Will not chip, crack uor shrink. Stronger than wood. Are applied the same as wood carvings by nailing aud glueing; no heating or steaming. Finished with filler or stain. Will help sell your goods. Samples furnished prove all we claim for LIGNINE. Send today for samples. You can well afford to use carvings at LIGNINE prices. Write for prices, catalogue showing designs of heads, scrolls, claws, etc. ORNAMENTAL PRODUCTS CO., Fort and Twelth St,., DETROIT, MICH. auxiliary, serving only to keep the jaws together when the wrench is used with the jaw side up. Under ordinary COll-ditions the weight of the jaws tends to keep them closed. There are no sllding parts and no loose, shackly joints. All the joints are pivot bearings, and the strain at these points is a shear strain on the rivets. There are no nuts or screws to adjust, so that no time is lost in changing from one size of pipe to another. All that is necessary to attach it is to b:-ing the outer jaw against the pipe and apply pressure. Automatic Wrench. The evolutions of the monkey wrench has of latc years been a subject of no little interest to mechanics and ma-chinists of all kinds. It is evident t\lat the day of the clumsy old implement which first bore this name is passed, and that in the future the machinist is to have a much more efficient assistant in the wrench line than ever before. The invento s who have specialized on wrenches seem to have taken the human hand as the model for their experiments, and they have at last produced ;L tool which in its operation and ac-compllshm(', nts is about as human as anything made of steel can be. In outline the new wrench is not at all unlike the hand, the article to be grasped heing held securely by two jaws, one of which fairly well represents the thumb, and the other the partly closed fingers. The fore-arm is represented by the handle, and a couple of inconspicuous joints and a spring imitates almost perfectly the human ,,,,-rist. In this new wrench thclc are th~·ce separate levers, compounded, and so arranged that the pO'wer applied to the handle is tran-smitted through the jaws in a tangential direction to the pipe. Hencc the power is applied in a wringing manne' similiar to that exerted by the hand. The spring is merely Glue Warmer. An article particularly of service to furniture makcrs and wood workers in general is a new style of glue warmer, ar-ranged to be connected to steam and over-flow pipes at the benches of the workmen. Tt is supplied with an extended apron to rC;lch over the edge of the bench, thus enabling thc worker to keep his be.nch c1ean and free from glue, wlth a glue faucet to enable the user to withdraw all of the glue at any time, thus keeping the warmer in a cle~n condition. It is furnished with lids when so ordered, that will enable the user to keep his glue in first class condition indcfinit,ely. 28 ~M.1frIG.7fN These saws are made from No. 1 Steel and we war- . "rant every" blade. We also tatty a full sto<:k of BeveJed Back Scroll Saw's', any length and gauge. Write us for Prloe Lht atlld dl_oount 31-33 S. FRONT ST., GRAND RAPIDS 10uis babn DESIGNS AND DETAILS OF FURNITURE 154 Livingston St. . .. ' GRAND RAPIDS, MICHiGA~.'~~7:'~C:~ '..;:.,,- Citizens' Telephone li02. Jlnrnown PAnrl AnDvrnrtK conPAnl ,(Incorporated) M"DUf~cturei'8' i:)f VeneC;;red Panels and Table Tops La.rd.at Stock or Veii6er'8' MAHOGANY, QUARTERED OAK. WALMUT~ 61R.D·S.EYItMAPLE. CURLY BIRCH,.P'LAINOAK PLAIN IUR.CH, MAPLE, CROSS 'BANDING The Best Workmanship and Finish Office, 50..58 Steele Street. Jamestown, N...Y.. Two Large Factories: Jamestown, N. V. Ashville. N. V. Get OUf Prices Before Buying Elsewhere. Samples on Application THE WEATHERLY INDIVIDUAL GLUE HEATER Send your address and receive descriptive cir-cular of Glue Heaters, Glue Cookers and Hot Boxes with prices. WEATHERLY CO. GRAND RAPIDS. MICH. L COLT'S UNIVERSAL CLAMP Catalog, and Price List Furnished Batavia Clamp Co. Meritkm: MiChigan Artisa~. gs:cds all hand screw clamps in adaptation to work, i::onVenlence of bandlifig and quick action. Especially adapted to Veneer.nll: rlinellfti" ltnd all wOrk req'Uiring long-broad jaw, 45 Cenler 51. BATAVIA, N. Y. '~.. Cabinet "ard\liare and Tools £tc .. lJpholstered Goods l-laDdsomett .Pull on Ihe Mar~ fix'lhe Money Write for prices and Sample JOHN DUER &. SOlS BALTIMORE. MD. Correspondence Solicited IMPROVED, EASY and ELEVATORS QUICK RAISlNG Belt, Electric and Hand Power. The Best Hand Power for Furniture Stores send tor Catalogue and Priees. KIMBAll BROS. CO., 1061 Nl.th St.. Council Bluffs. la. Kimball Elevator Co .• 3t3 Prospect St., Cleveland,O.; l0811th St., Omaha, Neb.; ]2(1 Cedar St., New York City. WHITE PRINTING CO. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH WE PR11',1T THE: MI'CHIOAN ARTIS"-H. ""'NO MAK~ A ""PECIAL.T ... ·OF" CATAI.OOUES FOR THE rVRNITI,JRE TRAO&. "FLOWERY BEDS OF EASE" MODIFIED MISSION 29 , _._~~---'-~-~-' 30 Safety Gates for Elevators. Before placing orders for freight elevator safety gates anti (ire doors, there are a 11tllnber of impo:tant points to consider in addition to the probable cost, Among these essential features are: Reliability of the equipment, ease of opera-tion, simplicity and durability. The. Richmond Safety Gate company of Richmond, Ind., <.Ireengaged exclusively in the manufacture of these special appliances and desire to remind those interested that fifteen yea~s' experience and a thorough knowledge of the b.usiness are at - their dispo:'>aL The elevator safety gates and fire doors mal111factu~ed by this company are so 'Well and fa,":o"ab- 1y known that many architects specify Richmond appliances exclusively. The products of this company are a standard for excellence and mechanical perfection. Among the best kJlOwn devic.es are the Zeller and Columbia safety gates .. the Underw. iters' gravity fire door, the Richmond horizontal t--oHey door, and Richmond counter balanced iron door. In addit'on to. the above they also manufacture standard tin cl;~d fire doo~s and shutters with fixtures complete and arc prepared to fnrnish estimates on any class of equipment desire'd. Anyone contemplating the purchase of safety gates and fire doors arc invited to correspond with this firm and a,e assured of courteous t--eatment and prompt service. Mistakes in the Application of Wax Fb.ish. Of the many errors which occur in wood finishing t' c most frequent to come under the observation of the Adams & Elting Co., is in the application of wax finishes. The)' find that a great many finishers heat the specially prepa ed waxes and apply them with a brush. This, of course, leave,s an excess of wax on the surface, which will have a cloudy. grayish appearance after the work is finished. Another error frequently made by finishers is in the use of :soft waxes, such as bees wax, paraffine, etc. \\raxes of this kind do not dry ha--d consequently will not take a high polish and stand the wea;· and tear as do the specially prepared waxes. To obtain the best results with wax finishes, a good, specially prepa,ed wax should be used, applying it very thin ;md evenly with <l soft cloth. This should dry at least twenty or twenty-five min-ntes and then be rubbed briskly until a velvety-like 'lustre is produced, Tbe best results arc assured when the Adams & Elting company's Ad-el-ite wax finish is used. AfHicted With a Poor Memory. A salesman of mill wright snpplies is afflicted with a poor memory. Many times he is at an utter loss to remember names and faces."I \-vas going by a trolley from Saginaw to Bay City .. when a young. well dressed IUan came and sat down beside me and asked questions about the co ·reet ropes to use and so on. I sat there and suffered, trying to remember where I had seen 11imand when. Finally he made a remark about the superintendent of the factory, r had visited that day and then r knew who he was, Many times I meet well dressed men in the hotels after working hours whom I can't remember at first but finally discover them to be factory men I have done business with that day but whose changed ap-pearance from factory clothes to other and better ones made them unrecognizable. I have, though, a list of seven hundcrd people whom I know well enough to caH by name and I ought to know fifteen hundred others, who are also my cust0I11ers." McAllister & Mohler of Columbus, Ohio, are remodelling the entire rear of their store. It is already one of the fin-est furnitu~e stores in America, presenting a beautiful ap-pearance on entering, and the alterations -will make it equally so througllOut, L Modem Resaw for Furniture· Factories. The makers of this machinc claim th<lt by mounting the upper wheel directly upon a JleiH'Y up:-ight column, vibration is practically eliminated and the speed is inceascd nearly two·fol<l..6ver most other styles of resaws. This method of construction in connection with the patent straining device for the top wheel, insures the steadiest pos-sible rUllning as the bhlde is kept uniformly taut all thc time and entirely protected hom sudden strains and vibrations, The feed rolls open to receive any materiall1p to eight inches thick and twenty-four inches wide. They are self-centering and have a special device for reducing thick lumber into picture backing, panels, etc., the outside :ol1s being moved to and from the saw. A quadrant divided to eighths -of an inch gauges the space most accu~ately. Three speeds pffced are regularly furnished, fifteen, thirty and fifty feet peti1)in-ute, but for certain work a faster feed is permitted. The rolls may be tilted twelve degrees for 'sawing at an angle. This machine is built by the J. A. Fay & Egan company, 505-525vVest Front street, Cincinnati, Ohio, to whom an re-quests for circulars should be sent. They will gladly fur-nish complete details of this or any other modern machine on request. Cock Chest.: A useful novelty for campers and others consists of a frame box of wood or metal, a g(anite vessel or pot of standard size and a secret non-conductive filling agency_ The ehest is mani.lfactured in different sizes and with one or mor~ compartments. Food is brought t~ a strong boil in the kettle over a gas or coal range and the kettle tIlen trans- '{erred to -the chest, where it is closed with an airtight cov-er and left until ready to serve, during which time the heat is maintained and the cooking continues, Experiments are cited of food brought to a boiling point over an open fire in the evening, placed in the cook chest and served hot the fol-lowing noon. The chest fills an important place in a camp-ing or outing outfit. Claim is made that food cooked in'the chest retains its whole strength, taste and nourishment and that a saving in the fuel bill of 75 per cent, as well as great economy of time in watching and stirring food,is effected. ESTABLISHED 1880 PU.Il ..ISIolECieY MICHIGAN ARTISAN CO. ON THE IOTIol AND 2!1TIol OF EACH MONTH OFFICE -2-20 LYON ST., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. ENTEIlEO AS MATTEI! OF THE SECO"D CLASS \\-hell goods rnovc slowly manufacture s are prone to at-tribute the cause to overproduction. When the price of cot-ton ill the south or corn in the west is low, the growc:-s of those staples resort to the use of lire for the purpos('. of re-moving the surplus. \Vhen the out)ut of diamonds in South Africa is ut1usually large, the diamond trust closes down one or more of the mines and locks up thc surplus stock in their vaults in London. It has never occurred to the manufactur-ers of fnrnitui'e that a way might be found for disposing of their surplus stocks without cutting prices. By co-operation, the markets abroad might be opened to receive tb. S111"- P;llS or it might he stored t11ltil such time 2S it is nccJ-eel. If either of these plans, the COnS\Y11\113t\On of WhlCll might be affcct~d through organizafon, shall not be dcemed practical. the remcdy ,:dopted hy the pi2110 makers when the.:.: found the markets glutted with old instruments and new pnes of small value, remains tor conside: atioll. T. o~1sallds of instruments were assembled and the toreh applied. The crackling of the burning pine and mahogany cleared the mar-kets of a great deal of rubbish. Secoud hand furniture might be gathered and disposed of by th:;:: same means. The cost of the old stuff might be added to the price for the new, ",,,hich the people, perforcc by nece:.;sity, would buy. The:·c are other ways for doing things than the ways that arc fol-lowed, aud the foregoing is offend for t e purpose of in-ducing the trade to endeavor to frce ibelf Lom the old ways and to take up v,rays that are better. r I I .I\lr. Albert Stickley of the Stickley Brothers company, Grand Rapids, who studies the markets diligently, observed recently that demands for better tbings ill house furnishings which are supplied from year to year ,He created because of the education the pcople havc acquired in recent years in art and utility. wftle Americans are the most prosperons people all earth," 1\.'lr. Stickley ramarkcd, "and they arc making good use of their mOllCY. They travel everywhere, and nothing of practical value escapes their attention. In. the commercial :tlld a: t centers of the old world they filHl better things in the line of household furnishings and personal ndorn111cnt than they have bccn able to obtain at home, and upon their return to America, their minds elLic·hed by study and the exper iences afforded during their ahsence, they dem:md of the mer· chants goods more :n kcc"ing w;th th(',\r cnltH'"e and n1eall~ for obtaining the same. The merchant is ever conservative. He always holds the middle ground in thc p:-ocession. The keen witted Inanufacturer, knowing what the people will want, is ahvays husily at Vv'ork improving his line, knowing full well that the people will compel the merchant to buy the new and better things." In view of these fads, it is evi-dent that the prosperity that cnables thousands to go abroad for the improvement of their minds. is widely diffused. R. J. Ferris, of the Royal Furniture company, while con-ducting a cLlstome-:s throug·h the company's exhib:t. engaged in a discll-~si()n of the uses of mirrors upon sid'--,hoa:-ds "Sheraton alld the old English cabinet makers, constructed thei - sideboa:-Js without mirrors," he remarked. Thc glasses -wen::: added long- after the old master cabinet makers had passeL! alvay. \Ve furnish thes~ pieces with or without mir-rr, rs, and I-ind tb;\t more of the latter are demanded than the forl11er." The visitor studied the line carefully and C0111- p,\re~l the pieces su:·mounted by the high backs containing mirror plates with those with backs rising but a few inches above the tops of the case. "To my mind,' he remarked, "lIle cases without mirrors are preferable. All that is gained by the addition of the mirrors is height, and that is not de-si able in a line like this." The educated and refined people wi\\ approve the t3ste of that dealer. To make the grcatest success in his line of work and busi-ness, the entrxprising manufaetur~r sl~otl1d at all times try tu keep in touch with every influence that will tend to help him in that work. Too much trade knowledge can hardly be acquired. \Vhen one has arrived at t~eknow·it-all stage it is about time to put up the ~hutters. Try to get a place ill the front rank and stay there. Don't be an "also ran." Remember, there's always plenty of room at the top for the hustrer. Tht: solution of the mid-summer opening question seems tl) have settled down to an understanding that the manufac~ tmers -who desire to sell the heavy buye,s from the east must ll<IVC their goods re<:ldy to show in the exposition buildings ea:·ly. Those who do not care to deal with the buyers from. that section will open on July 1. It is quite evident that the buyers representing the I'-big" merchants of the great cities of the east have fixed the early openings of the mid-summer selling se,lsons in HIe west~ 11 markets, and that thLy are not disposed to concede any part of lhc vantage g;·ound in respect to the openings. The Colorado supreme court, by a unan~tnous opinion, has upheld the constitutionalty of the employers' liability act, passed by the Legislature in 1901. It mah~s an employer liable ror the death of all employe by an accidcnt, even jf it is caused by the negligence of a co-employe. I '·fJi;perity in all brallches of indust-y is assured fOT the remainder of the year. Everything that goes for making the people happy and contented is provided by the munificence of 1\Jother Earth. and there is rejoicing thro1tshottt the hmd. The higher prices asked for furniture did not unfavorably affect the buying. ulated the markets. and kindred goods The advance stim- Experiment on Sulphur Process to Fill Pores of Wood. The faculty of wood to withstand atmospheric pressure is so small, compared with its mechanical resistance, that a close study of new systems aiming at its preservation is of great interest industrially. All wood preservative methods now employed are defec-tive, in that they make use of solutions, the evaporative na-ture of which makes their action upon the wood effectual only ror a certain time. The new method in question, goes furth-er and utilizes a fixed bcidy ,vhich becomes solid upon being llbtilled into the pores of the wood. This substance is sul-phur. the physical properties of which offer interesting ad-vantages, being fusible at about 115 degrees, a temperature which the wood c.an support without any perceptible change. The sulphur is applied in liquid form, and in hardening com-pletely fills up all the interstices of the fibrous tissue. Although sulphur oxidates easily if subjected to a high temperature at a medium temperature it remains impassive. resisting· not only the influence of water but also that of acitb, concentrated nr diluted, and alkaline solutious, if eo~~ ~ /~/ -- ·§'~MI9«HIG7J-N "Rotary Style,. for Drop earn.111l1.Emboaecl MouldiDIlI. Pane1t, Etc, EMBOSSING and OROP C4RVlNG M4CniNES Maehines for all pUl'»OSe8, audlal prieetl withia tkreach of all. Every Machine w our guarantee !l~aiD6tbteakas:e for one year. "Lateral Style" for Lafi;e Capacity Heavy Caninlll and Deep Emboainlf$. We have the Machine you want at ill satiJactory price. Write for descriptive cireu1an. Also make diea for all makes of Madrinee. UNION EMBOSSING MACHINE CO" Indianapolis, Ind. Factory Locations There is in the various offices of the Land and Industrial Department of the Southem Railway and Mobile & Ohio Railroad late information regarding a number of first class locationsfof Furniture) Chair and other Woodworking Fac-tories, which will be furnished Manufacturers upon applica-tion. An invitation is: ~xtended to all who use wood in their plants to w.rite about the timber supply, good sites and mar-kets available in our territory. Address your nearest agent. M. Y. RICHARDS. Land and Industrial Allent. WASHINGTON. D. C. CHAS. S. CHASE. Agent. M. A. HAYS. AGent, 622 Chemical Building. St. Louis. Mo. 228 Dearborn St., ChicaaG. III FOX~lSJ\.W SMOOTHEST GR.OOVES DADO UEADS QREATEST RANGE QUICKEST ADJUSTMENT FAST~ST CUT Also MachiD.e KniveJ'. Mlter Machines, Etc. LEAST POWER LEAST TROUBLE LONQEST L1FE PERFECT SAFETY We'll gladly teU .,ou all about It. PHRMANENT ECONOMY FOX MACHlNf:. CO. 185 N. Fl'Ont Street. Gl'aDd R.aplds, Mlch Richmond Safety Gate Co. RICHMOND, INDIANA C1I Manufacturers Exclusively of Automatic Elevator Gates, Automatic Hatch-way Doors, Underwriters' Gravity Fire Doors, Rieh-m0 n d Counterbalanced Ir 0 n Doors, Richmond Horizontal Trolley Doon, Automatic Division Wall Doors and Shutters. WRITE FOR CATALOGUE QUARTER-SAWED INDIANA WI1ITE OAK VENEERS CHOICE FIGURE :: EXTRA WIDTHS When writing for prices, mention widths required. and kind of figure preferred, HOFFMAN BROTUERS co. Fort Wayne Indian ... , There's a Great Day ==Coming== f, for manufacturers who may desire to extend their business. NINETEEN THOUSAND DEALERS will receive the Special Mercantile Edition of the Micnigan Artisan. IT WILL BE READY FOR THE MAILS SOON . .._----- -----------_ .._------ ----- WRITE FOR RATES AND SPACE AT ONCE. MICHIGAN ARTISAN COMPANY GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. F .L rt:~·,rI 34 American Furniture Wanted in Mauritius Island. L'nitcd States Consul Theoc1os:us Botkin writes from Port Louis on the island of :\huritius asking for descripti\'<..' catalogtleS and price lists of household, school and office fur-niture. A New York liml ~old the only American goods on the island, but it was t1.imsy stuff and .Me Botkin says that "Cwadian IUl"nitun' will donbt!ess be purchased in fut-ure ill preference to American unless a better quality d goods is forthcoming. The ::\ew York jobber recommends the purchase of the Canadian product and they also demand. ill addition to their- commission iroll1 the lll<llltlfactt1l"er, a eom-mission lof 2y; per cent from the purchaser. [t is under-stood, of course, that t1h' jobber is not in business for his IYcalth; hut when he is paid a commission to sell goods for the manufacturer, or makes his llrot-lt on the goods sold, I would respectfully suggest that his exaction of a like com-mission from the purchaser is carrying that 'business' too far. And when he informs his foreign customer that in- Lerest at six per cent will be charg-ed Oil the amount of the purchase for the pcriod elapsing between the date of ship-ment and the arrival of the remittance in Nw York, an utter disregard is given for foreign trade. "o'\l1oth('-1"question that strongly concerns these local deal- ...r.s relates to the time and manner of payment. In conver-sation with one of them he said that he objected to being-cempellcd to send a draft v",ith ally order he might give, bUL preferred thirty and sixty days after· the tlfi"ival of the goods and could furnish good banking assurance that drafts tlpon him would be h01lOred. It seems that the banks here sdl no American exchange and all tnlllsactiolls would have to he cH;·ied tllrough Londnl1, unless our Amcrican bankers W:RITE EITHER OFFICE. Branc:.h: Memphis, Tenn. Main Office: Cincinnati.Oa VIlesell on Katiollal Hardwood Lumber Association inspection onl~'. Bennett &. Witte MANUFACTURERS OF LUMBE.R For Furniture Mfrs.. Car Bunder. and Carriage Trade. Plain and l Wh't d R d 0 u J Plain.nd Qllartered I I e an e 8I'i.! Quartered RED and SAP GUM Poplar. Cottonwood. Ash. Elm and Chestnut. A Full Line of Southern Hardwoods. Export and Domestic. will place thernselves in touch \vlth the ballks here. \vhich are safe and strong anu have London backing. "Tf AmericlIIs arc to build up and hold a trade in this island our flimsy wares mll:.;t be kept at home and only ser-viceable goods sent here. In this cOl1lwction I again urge the establishment of an American supply stclre here, for its presence ,yould effectiyely remedy Sl1C~ evils as the above." Cotton Mills in Japan. Consul Shart) 11111lter.\vriting from Kobe, says that raw cottOll forms the largest single item of import into Japan, its manufHcture being- also the most important industry. He continnes: "Japan having seen th~\t Great Britain, though not a cot-ton producing country, spins and weaves that staple for about fifty per cent of the people of the world, and having seen that many of the conditions in the two countries are parall'e{ no doubt wishes to profit by the example of her prosperous .:.:l.1ly. Thus cotton mills have been eseahlished thmughout l 7I:R- 'T' I oJ' AL"'J 1 7 e *ri this C0111ltry.more p;l\-ticularly in the I'_oile district, anQ ,in these American and other cottons are transformed by cheap labor illto fabrics which not only go toward supplying the home demand, but in certain lines a: e also largely exported. ;'The quality of the cotton imported is mostly middling ;llId infe-rior. of which the greater part comes from British BUILT UP STOCK Advertiser will contract to furnish anythin g in this line; also will contract cabinet work. Address "Y," 1019 W• .27lh SI., INDIANAPOLIS, IND. India, America, and China, in the order nam(~d, while Egypt supplies the relatively small amount I cqui.-ecl for tht~ higher grade yarns. Yarn for home cOnStllllption is composed al-most entirely of American cotton. but ili tb,;t for export it is mixed with others to the extent of from ten to twenty per cent. "Formerly the 111:lchinc~lIsed~hcl11d aud foot power gins -\Ve:l~ imported from China, but now the Japanese are re producing them of better quality and at a much lower figure. and nllt only supply their own market, hut are also exporting them largely to Chill a and other Asiatic countries. The foot gin is 011e foot two inches wiue and sells for $11.95; the hand gin is three v./itk and sells for $23.90. "The Dutch C011S111 at Kohl', seeing that over fifty per cent of the cotton imported here comes Lorn British India, while :\etherlands India. p.-oducing the same grade. contribute's ouly <:1 small quantity of unginned, has had the machines mentioned photographed, copies of which he has sent to his cotnifrymen in the Dutch colonies with the view of indu'cing the people to adopt their u::>!:b.',elieving that thereby Nether-lands India can very largely illcrease her exports of raw cot-tnn to the J apallese markets." He Did Not Succeed Because- He tried to do everything himself. He did not know ho"" to advertise. a He did not keep up with th(~ times. He tried to save by hiring cheap help. His work could not be depended upon. ~e looked upon system as useless red t<lpe. He strangled his progress by cheeseparing economy. He did not 'have the ability to multiply himself in others. He did not think it worth while to look after little things. He never lenrned that it is tbe liberal policy that wins in business building. His first success made him overconfident. and he -got a "swelled head." D. A. KEPPERLING Commercial Photographer Phone CaluDJet 709. 1414-1416 Wabash Ave•• CHICAGO SATISFACTION GUARANTEED . 1 M I CHI G 7Ii"J" *"If t\ 7I.R..T 1.5' JI.l"J +k4 j $ ,..,M THE CREDIT BUREAU OF THE FURNITURE TRADE Grand Rapids Office, 412-413 Houseman Bldg. GEO. E. GRAVES, Manager CLAPPERTON &: OWEN, Counsel The LYON Furniture Agency THE STANDARD R£.ffiRENCE. BOOK CAPITAL. CREDIT AND PAY RATINGS CLE.ARING HOUSE OF TRADE EXPERIENCE THE MOST RELIABLE. CREDIT REPORTS ROBERT P. LYON, .General Manager CREDITS and COLLECTIONS COLLECTIONS MADE EVERYWHERE PROMPTLY RELIABLY Miscellaneous Advertisements, WANTJ1:II-P(1joJitlou By {,)\'eman of cabind and machine rooms. ~ightccn ~'ears expel"ien(':~(In. mediunl anct fine bedroom and dining room furniture jn Grand Rapills. ,'u1(11''''''$ ":0;," ean' of Miclli- -gan Artisan. 7-ll:l-H ~~------_.._----.-----~._---- n'ANTEH---FIlr('\l'll
- Date Created:
- 1906-07-10T00:00:00Z
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- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
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- 26:25
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- Issue of a magazine published in Grand Rapids, Mich. Created by the Peninsular Club. Published monthly. Began publication in 1934. Publication ended approximately 1960.
- Date Created:
- 1934-11-01T00:00:00Z
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- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
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- Volume 1, Number 1
- Notes:
- Issue of a magazine published in Grand Rapids, Mich. Created by the Peninsular Club. Published monthly. Began publication in 1934. Publication ended approximately 1960.
- Date Created:
- 1937-07-01T00:00:00Z
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- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
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- Volume 3, Number 7
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- Robert Loomis writes in his diary of business trips throughout the Midwest and New England, as well as the various types of meetings he attended.
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- 1869-01-01T00:00:00Z
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