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- Woman seated with blanket
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- 1947-03-06T00:00:00Z
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- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
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- Scene of accident with tow truck standing by, crowd gathered
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- 1948-02-07T00:00:00Z
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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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- 1939-06-01T00:00:00Z
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- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
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- Volume 7, Number 6
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- The meeting house of the Grand Rapids Study Club, said to be the first organization for African American women in Grand Rapids. The house is located at 427 James Ave.
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- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
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- Volume 1, No. 3 issue of Woman: A Weekly Newspaper Of the Women, For the Women, By the Women. Began distribution in 1908 and publication ceased in 1909
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- 1908-12-05T00:00:00Z
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- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
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- 1901-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
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- View of the Ryerson building with automobiles parked along Library Street. A sign on the library reads, "Three Centuries of Maps of the Great Lakes Region, Free Exhibition."
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- Issue of a furniture trade magazine published weekly in Grand Rapids, Mich, starting in 1879. and -------------------------
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PUBLIC LIBRARY
GRAND RAPIDS. MICH.• OCTOBER 23. 1909
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ARE YOU INTERESTED IN THE WORLD~S BEST SAW BENel1 I "GRAND RAPIDS CRESCENT"
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Built to save time in setting up and the sawing of stock. Mistakes and inaccuracies are i:mpossible.
This machine is bound to save money wherever used. Send for co:mplete catalog of infor:mation.
CRESCENT MACHINE WORKS
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WEEKLY ARTISAN
Ten Years of ExhilJition Success
THIS IS THE RECORD OF THE KLINGMAN BUILDING
C]f The large number of successful manufacturers who have
shown their lines continuously in this building for the past five or
even ten years is positive evidence that an exhibit here is not an
experiment but the most satisfactory of marketing the product
of a factory.
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THE KLINGMAN FURNITURE EXHIBITION BUILDING.
C]f There is still a very limited amount of desirable space
open, but as the remaining space will be alloted before the
end of October, applications should be sent in at once.
ADDRESS ALL INQUIRIES TO
The Furniture Exhif>itionBuilding Co. of Grand Rapids
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
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The Chief Factors of Your Selling Success
are: your goods, how and where shown, and your "ways."
Look well to these and business will come to yo~. No - --
need then to murder prices or do the "knock-down-and-drag-
in" act.
It's the same as to Exhibition. Exhibitors come to
Thirteen Nineteen --The Big Building
because of its superior space, its unequalled attendance and
its pleasing "atmosphere." They know these are worth the
price. Trade comes to lines in 1319 because they are in
1319. Show your line here and have business brought to you.
Also: the Chicago furniture market, already the world's greatest, is taking the high
hurdles in record time, nor nothing, nor nobody on earth can stop her, because it is
Destiny. You want this growing trade---you can't deny it---but you've got to come to
Chicago in order to get it. Your live competitors are here getting it.
Manufacturers' Exhibition Building Co.,
3119 Michigan Avenue, Chicago.
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LABOR SAVING TOOLS
Our Multiple Square Chisel Mortiser
Makes the Strongest,
most economical and
most accurate case
construction possible.
It is entirely automatic.
It clamps, mortises and
releases, completing the
post in less time than the
material can be clamped
on other machines.
No. 181 MULTIPLE SQUARE CHISEL MORTISER.
Our No. 171 Patented Sand Belt Machine
will sand flat surfaces
and irregular shapes,
including mouldings,
better and faster than any
other process. Nearly
No. 171 SAND BELT MACHINE. 1000 of our Sanders now
in use by your competitors. Why give them an advantage over you in your
sanding department?
We also manufacture special patented Sanding and Mortising Machines that
are proving extremely profitable to the chair manufacturers.
Ask for CATALOG "E"
Wysong & Miles Company
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Manv New Patterns in Dmmg Room
and Bedroom Furniture for
the Fall Season.
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Reception Chairs and Rockers,
Slippers Rockers,
Colonial Parlor Suites,
Desk and Dressing Chairs
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I MANUFACTURERS OF I HIGH GRADE
OFFICE CHAIRS,
DINING
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In Dark and Tuna Mahogany, Blfch, Blrd's.eye Maple,
Q!!artered Oak and Clrcasslan Walnut
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You will find our Exhibit on the Fourth Floor. East Section, Manufacturers' Buading, North Ionia St., Grand Rapids .
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GRANO RAPID
PUBLIC LIBRARY
HISTORY OF AMERICAN FURNITURE
More Comments on the Exhibition of Antiques in the Metropolitan Museum
of Art. New York.
"Tany \\ lltel shave ll11plOved the opportul11ty furmshed by
the exhlbltwn of old furnIture arranged m the l\fetropohtan
1\1u eum of Art, New York, m connectlOn wIth the Hudson-Ful-ton
celebratlOn to gam mf01 matIon on the development of dec-oratIve
art m Amencan homes. 1\ number of these wnters
have l2,lven the reaclmg publIc the benefit of theIr observat1Ol1S
and each seems to have seen features m the exhlbltlOn that were
overlooked by the other" The followmg paragraphs, ~ome of
them shghtly abndged, are taken from one of the latest articles
on tne mtel estmg exlublt
Three gallene., have been arranged, the first shownig ex-ample';
of the eadle~t £urmtlll e used 111 Amenca, that brought
hy the Pllgnms and Puntans m theIr fil st voyages-the chests
court cupboard., and ~pmdle chaIrs of the mIddle class Enghsh
fa111l1yof the penod } ollowmg these are typIcal pIeces made
m thIS country smce that hme, arranged m the order of the de-velopment
of style Hel e WIll be seen the chests of drawer",
chests \;\lth c!rdwer" and the later outcome of thIS form, typIcal
11lghboys, the early form" of de.,ks, and m fa'2t the furmture of
the ~eventeenth century before the change m style which m Eng-land
came WIth the ddvent of vVlllIam and Mary, and whIch
Pldctlcally le~ulted m the forms of furmture of today
Intel estmg as the collectlOn of furmture IS, the character-
1shc" of the Colomal pellod al e not to be overlooked. It was,
as the hfe of a new and strugglmg people m a strange land must
be, WIthout color or bnlhancy, and It wa" mevltable that these
charactenshcs should Impress themselves on the arts and even
on the craft:, of the people. It IS as If they were not only the
puntamsm of theIr thoug-hts m their primlhve art but the gray
mood of the New England rocks in addlhon. So what there
IS of grace and beauty m the furmture now to be seen in this
exhlblhon comes flom the pIeces brought from Europe, whether
It was from Holland or England, and the pIeces manufactured
here under the more flowery mfluences that came m WIth the
tnumphs of ChIppendale, Sheraton, Hepplewhlte and the school
that worked strongly under the mfluence of the French de-
~lgners, whethel of the Regency or the EmpIre
That the hl~t01 y of the Amencan fur111ture is compre-henc1ed
m that of Engh"h fur111ture may be reach1y understood,
but what the f1ll111ture of the countnes from whIch the colomsb
came was at that time also more or less under the influence of
England it has remamed for Henry W Kent to dIscover 111the
mtel estmg hIstory of furnIture whIch he has supphed to the
catalogue Hlstones of flu mture are hlely to be un~ahsfac-tory
Usually they dre all pIctures wltn no descllptlOn beyond
emphaslzmg what IS pel fect1y appal ent to dnybody WIth two
eyes. OtherWIse they are too general to male any lmpreS.,lOn
or too techlllcal to be comprehended by any but the expert
J\1r Kent ha" contnbuted to the catalogue and to the ht-erature
of the subject a sClentlflc as well as an mstructlve and
mterestmg survey of the hIstory of Amencan furmture He
chvldes thlo hbtory mto three penod:" the first mc1udmg the
years from 1G20 to lG58, the second from 1658 to 1710 and the
last compnsmg the eIghteenth century In tlll" last penod, of
cour"e, are the beautIful objects 111 the collectlOn, for then
flounshed Thomas ChIppendale and hIS schoJl
Comfol t and luxllly now became an e~.,cnhal thmg even
WIth the mIddle classes, and the fur111ture not only reflects thb
but It shows agam how much ,111 manners and customs had to
do WIth the mouldmg and shapmg of It For mstance, the
changes from the generdlly mee! pewter to the more elegant SlI-ver,
from pottery to porcelain dnd glass, and from foho:, to
small books, allowed greatel hghtness m the pIeces of furmtur.c
that upheld these thmgs, wh1le gl eater safety was reqwred 111
the keepmg of them and better, more eftectlve d1splay place:,
Dunng the eIghteenth century there were perfected or came
into use all of the forms of furmture now knovvn and many that
have become obsolete, hke the very elaborate dressmg table.,
for beaux and belle:" wntmg tables, stands connected With the
ceremony of tea dnnkmg and cab111ets. The day beel gave WdY
to the double chaIrs and desks, h1gh and low boys, tables and
bedsteads were bwlt on the forms u.,ec1 today. Sets of furni-ture
began to be made, cha1rs m Slxes, whl1e highboys and low-boys
and elressmg tables were made to match them.
What may be called a nev, wood, sll1ce it dId not come
into general use untll 1'110-15, was found m mahogany, whose
tough quahtle" and finer color brought for It mstant popularity
on the part of the artisan and purchaser ahke. So Important
is the part played by mahogany that th1S penod of 1tS use is
often called by 1tS name It 1S adaptable m a remarkable de-gree
to the new forms ,1l1d ItS very shortcomings told m theIr
complete formatlOn
The first penod was one of utlhty rather than luxury, as
the colom~ts brought \\lth them only such small household ef-fects
as thelf fra1l ShIp" would hold.
The chest undoubtedly came w1th them and played a promi-
knobbed legged table, \\ Ith eIght legs, connected wIth turned
stJ etchers and \\ Ith two legs Jomed wIth cross stretchers that
,,\\ mg hke d gate to support the leaves Such tables, 111 Eng-land
called, 'gate' In Amenca "thoueand legged," are usually
oval m shape and are of all sIzes The"e wIth the "lowboy'
tables the lm\ el pal t of the "hIghboy," were the forms com-mane"
t 111use
I url11ture desl(~nel s who have studIed the J\Ietropohtan ex-
111blt are said to have taken gl eat mterest In the furl11ture lent
by R T Hames of 1I alsey, whIch show the handIwork of Duncan
Ph) fe at It, be,t There are chaIrs, sofas, tables of chfferent
k111ds and a bench b) thIs New York cabmet maker Ernest
r Hagen, \\ ho IS an autholltv on the subject, has thIS to say 01
the charactcnstlcs ot Phyfe\ fUlnlture "Phyfe's work was of
several styles, the be,t bemg done dunng the period when he
cal ned out the trachtlOm of Sheraton, prior to 18'20 After
tlldt date hb \\ 01 k became EmpIre m character, and after 1830
It degenerated mto the heavy and nonde~cnpt veneered style of
the tUDes-the overdecorated and carved rosewood sets whIch
Ph) fe hImself called the 'butcher furl11ture'"
Perfect m \\ orkmanshlp, proportIOn and feelmg for lme,
Ph) fe " turnlture I, \\ orthy of a place WIth furniture of It, class
made 111Ens;land It has, hovvever, an unmIstakable charactet
of lb 0\\ n m !te 1110ulchngs and fi111sh, showmg Its relatlOnship
to the Enghsh sty leo" but show111g even more an alhance witn
the Scotch adaptatIOn of these form" Phyfe's USe of the lyre
\\ lth brass stnngs for backs of chaIrs, sofas and bottoms of
tables the carved hon foot and central support for tables, but
abm e all It, treatment of the 1111esof table tops, vergmg on the
(,reck pl111uple, at entasl', arc among the sahent pomts of hIS
\\ ark
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nent part among the meagre effects of the earl) settlel s L sed
m all countnes dunng the GothiC penod, both 111chm ch dnd at
home, the chest m the seventeenth century \\ as still mdhpen
sable, e,peclally among the mIddle classes Important, fir"t as
a place for the storage of clothes and household eftecb, It often
held a shelf or box for valuables or for the t,tllm\ chp \\ lllch
plotected its contents from moths
The chest was equally conve11lent as a seat 01 tlunk \\ Ith
the more general use of chaIrs In old England It \\a, no langeI
needed as a seat and was then raised on legs for convel11ence,
and then begmnmg WIth one ch awer underneath added another
and another untIl It gradually became a 'che"t of ella\\ Ch
ThIS change had begun before the COl0111stsleft En~Ltnd C1 hc\
may have brought some of the new pieces \\ Ith them, but the\
early began to make them for them,elves
The chests and chests of drawers were the storage pbce"
for clothes, hangmgs, etc \Vlth I11creasmg po,se"SlOlb "pace
wa" needed for the objects used at mealS-Jugs. cup, and plates
-and the cupboard was the re"ult EccleSIastIcal turl11tl11e
furmshed the plototype m the "credence' or 'buftet ot Em 0-
pean countries
Adapted to Enghsh needs for gentf) and ) eomen ahke It
became what IS called a standmg buffet and a "court cupboard .
The two forms dIffer m that the latter has as ItS name Imphe"
cupboard", whIle the former ha, none Court cupboard, \ an
somewhat m detaIls of arrangement and decoration In a typI-cal
early example the cupboard of the upper part IMS spIa) ed
SIdes covered by a square top supported at the front corners b\
turned columns, whlle the under pal t IS square :-'ometlme,
the upper columns dl'3appear and a pendant h found m then
place, but the latter IS uncommon III \menca L ncom1110n
here, too, are the very elaborately carved examples found 111
England.
The fully developed wntmg cabmet came mto common lhe
dunng the second penod of lVIr Kent's hIstory and table" be-came
a more frequent accompal11ment of domestIc hfe Tables
indicate the luxunes of the tImes les" chrectly perhaps than bu-reaus,
desks and chaIrs, but mdlrectly even m them may be seen
the results of the growmg cultivatIon. In form they begm tv
be much hghter, though stIll keepmg then folding chal acter by
means of flaps.
WhIle Amenca chd not follow the mother country m all
her later fashIOns, she adopted for her own the turned and
Joseph M. Davis Bankrupt.
Joseph ::-1 DaVIS, a furl11ture salesman of Cmcmnatl, has
filed a voluntar) bankruptcy petItIOn He owes $3,656 99. He
was formerly m partnershIp WIth L\ A Chapman, doing busI-nes,
as the Southwestern Furl11ture Sales Company m LoUIS-VIlle,
Ky The debts gIven are the firm hablhtles and he re-ports
no assets above legal exemptIOns,
The fellow \\ ho does tlungs on the spur of the moment is apt
to get stuck
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Lentz Big Six
No. 694, 48 in. top.
No. 687, 60 in. top.
Others 54 in. top.
8 Foot Duostyles
ANY FINISH
CHICAGO DELIVERIES
Lentz Table Co.
NASHVILLE, MICHIGAN
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Hardwood Lumber.
Southern dealers and producer::. of hardwood lumber are
~epresented as cbsappolnted by the developments of the past
three months It IS stated that many of them have been cal-culating
on an advance of $3 or $10 per thousand In pnces and
the rise has not matenabzed They charge theIr disappoint-ment
mainly to VIOlatIOns of any agreement to curtaIl production
whIch b saId to have been much larger than was antIcipated.
MIlls in nearly all sectIOns, partIculaIly In Kentucky and Ten-nessee,
are reported to have cut much more hardwood than they
dId In 1908 and though there Is an apparent shortage at present
there is bttle doubt that there wIll be an ample supply within
a few months
The car shortage IS Interfenng WIth shIpments from South-ern
pOlnb, but It has affected the pine more than hardwood ShIp-ments
so far The markets at all pomt:> are reported steady
wIth a good demand and a tendency toward hIgher pnces for
the better grades and a steadIly increasing demand for the lower
grades of oak Maple and birch are reported scarce, "all
bought up" In MIchIgan and WIsconSin and elm is hard to find
There are numerous complainb of dullness in the demand for
ash and poplar and the supply of the lower grades of chestnut is
saId to be greater than the demand
On the whole, however, the concbtIOns In the hardwood
lumber markets are qUIte satI~factory to producers and Jobbers
Return to Grand Rapids.
The StIckley & Brandt ChaIr Company of Binghamton, N
Y, who showed theIr line in Grand Rapids a few years ago
have exhIbIted In ChIcago for the past few years They now
announce that they WIll show In Grand RapIds next January
havmg leased space In the Leonard bUIlcbng
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This is one of our
popular Hotel chairs.
Our chairs are found
in all the leading
Hotels in the country.
The line includes a
very complete assort-ment
of chairs, rock-ers
and settees of all
grades; Dining Room
furniture, Reed and
Rat tan furniture,
Special Order furni-ture,
etc.
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All furmture dealers are cordtally invited
to visit our building.
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THE FORD & JOHNSON CO.
CHICAGO
A complete hne of sam-ples
are displayed In The
Ford 8 Johnson BUlld,nl!,
1433-37 Wabash Ave., In-c1udInI!
a special display of
Hotel Furniture.
SLIGH'S SELECT STYLES SELL AND SATISFY
Many New
Features Added
for the Fall Season
Everything for
the Bedroom
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SLIGH
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Grand Rapids, Mich.
Office and Salesroom
corner Prescott and
Buchanan Streets,
Grand Rapids. Mich.
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New York Markets.
N ew York, Oct ?~ --After remammg quiet and steady for
SIX weeks Im~eed OIl advanced .:\.cent" per gal10n last Saturda}
and the new pnces have been mamtamed to thIs date i\ pe-culIar
feature of the market IS that the advance m prIces has
been followed by a largel} mereased demand and a rapId m-crease
m the volume of trade The advance IS credIted to the
dIscovery of a shOl tage m the ~upply of flax~eed rather than
to mal11pUlatlOn of the market. \!\ e~tern raw I~ now quoted
at 60@61 cents, cIty raw, 61@G'2, smgle bOIled. 6Z@h). double
bOIled, 63@64 In each ca~e the hIgher figure~ are for le~~
than five-barrel lot~
Turpentme I~ off about a cent hel e and nearl} as much at
Savannah-GO cents here and 3()0@t5G;}4 m the Southern mar-ket
Shellac IS qUIet at fonner quotatIOns though a ~lIght m-crease
m the demand IS reported
A better demand for varni"h gums IS noted though the mal-ket
IS remdrkably qUIet for thIs tl1ne of the year.
GOdt skms are dull at last week\ figure~ The busme"" h
small m volume owmg to la-::k of suppl} of the most desll able
grade" Large I ecelpt~ dre expected dunng the com111g \\ eek
from :\Iexlco and South \mencan ports and a change 111quo-tatlOm
I~ antICIpated
Cordage b firm 111 ~ympathy WIth the prImary markets The
quotatIOns do not var} mOl e than a quarter of a cent from last
\\ eek' ~ figures
The burlap market ~hows more lIfe than for several weeks
past Contract~ on the Calcutta market have been made for
delIvery dunng the filst SIX months of 1910, at pnces a lIttle
hIgher than are paId for current receIpts. but the card I dte"
here-3 153for eIght-ounce and -+ 50@4 J.J fOl ten-ounce good~-
ha\ e not been changed
New Furniture Factories.
Harry E teldman and others have 111corporated the Dlspla\
Table and AdJl1Stable hxture~ Company, capltalI7ed at $10.000
to manufacture furl11ture ~peClaltIe~ In Chlca~o
The Pan~ l\Jattre~s \Ianufactunng Company ha, been 111-
corporated WIth a capItal of $10,000 by A II Rodgers, If t
T111111nand other~, to e~tabhsh a fdctory at Pan~. Texas
The John Cobb Chall Company of Shelb} vIlle, I nd, has
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SEND SAMPLES. ORAWINGS OR CUTS FOR PRICES.
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been 111corporated \\ Ith d capItal of $6,000 by Thomas J. Cobb,
Charle" L Davl' and other~ They WIll manufacture ancl ,ell
fur11lture
The Robert KeIth Furl11ture and Carpet Company of Kan-sas
CIt}, Kan, has accepted plam for a new four-story buildmg
66xHJO feet to cost $60,000 It WIll be used as a mattress and
upholster} factory.
P R Han dd ha" completed plans for a two-story brick
budd111g at Sandpomt, Idaho, whIch will be occupIed by Robert
FI e\ WIth a furmture and woodworkmg plant uncler the name
ot the Idaho :-Ianufactunng Company
A Convenient Contrivance.
\lVlth about eIght 111che~of wIre and a httle pIece of tIn Wm.
H Rou~e. the well known furnIture ~ale~man of Grand Rapids.
hd ~ 111vented a neat lIttle pnce-card holder that wIll be appre-
CIated not only b} the fur11ltUl e men but by office employes and
all other" \\ ho have occasIon to place cards, photos or copy and
h3\ e them held 111any desired posItion. Mr Rome has ap-plIed
tor a patent on hIS inventIon and I~ hav111g it nlclllllfacturecl
,11 ( t 3ml H IpHh It I~ certa1111y a convement contll' ell CC thdt
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No. 57
Flat Arm
Rocker
RICHMOND
CHAIR CO. Richmond Tablet
Arm Chair
DOUBLE CANE LINE
"SLIP SEATS" - the
latest and best method of
double seating.
Catalogues to the Trade.
RICHMOND
No. 100
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here. Get a
stock of our
Banquet
Table Tops
so as to be
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Our Large New Line of
DINING and OFFICE
TABLES
are the best on the American market
when prices and quality are considered.
STOW & Df\VIS FUKNITUKf, GO.
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
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MANUFACTURERS IN CONFERENCE.
Monthly Meeting of the Interstate Furniture
Association at Jamestown. N. Y.
The October meeting of the Interstate Furmture Manufac-turer,,'
ASSOCIatIOnwas held at Jamestown, 1'\. Y., last Satur-day-
October 16-wlth all members except two represented
Several members of the ~atlOnal AssoClatlOn of Furniture
Manufacturers were also In attendance. mainly for the purpose
of calling attentlOn to the benefits and advantages to be denved
from membershIps in their orgamzatlOn.
The visItors were A. F. Karges, president of the Karge"
Furmture company, EvansvIlle, Ind , F. R. Upham, vice presi-dent
of the Upham Manufactunng company, Marshfield, Wis ,
G. H Elwell, Mlnneapohs Furl11ture Company, Mmneapoli'i,
Minn , George P Hummer, vVest Michigan Furniture COIT'
pany, Holland, Mlch , John INlddlComb, of the John \Vlddi-comb
Company, Grand Rapids, IVI1ch; Charles R Shgh, of the
Shgh Furl11ture company, Grand RapIds, Mich ; John Hoult,
of the Luce Furl11ture company, Grand Rapids, MICh, and J. S
Linton, secretary of the natlOnal a~soClatlOn, Grand Rapid~,
Mich.
The A H Hellman Company of Wllhamsport, Pa, and the
Hall & Lyon Jmpany of Waverly, N. Y, members of the
Middle States Furl11ture ASSOCIation of the east, were also rep-resented
at this meetmg and IN J Maddox of the Maddox Table
Company, although not a member of the Interstate AssoclatlOn,
which is compo"ed only of case work manufacturers, was mVlted
to be present as preSIdent of the Jamestown Manufacturers'
ASSoclatlOn. Mr J\ladcJox gave a bnef but deCldely mterest-talk.
He is well known to the we~tern manufacturers who were
well pleased to meet hIm m hIS home CIty.
Nearly all the VbltOl s addressed the meetmg, but Messrs.
Linton and Hummer were the pnnclpal speakers, and much of
value to the manufacturers present was gamed from theIr re-marks
The pm pose of the NatlOnal ASSOCIatIOn of Furni-ture
Manufacturers IS to keep the manufacturers mformed as
to the trade by the pubhcatlOn of bulletl11s, to bnng influence
upon leglslatlOn and to generally work together for mutual ad-vantage,
they declared.
The natlOnal organization has not yet attempted to con-trol
or regulate prices, but may decide to do so at the semI-an-nual
meeting to be held m Chicago next month. The Inter-state
ASSOCIatIOnaccepted an InvitatlOn to send two delegates to
the ChIcago meetmg and named C S Homer of the Warren
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Table Company as one of the representatIves, the other to be
named later-at the November meetmg whIch Will be held be-fore
the date for the natlOnal a"soclatlOn In Chicago SIxteen
of the manufacturers present agreed to attend the Chicago meet-ing
or send representatIves m addItion to the delegates repre-sentmg
the Interstate AssoclatlOn The Interstate AssoClation
passed re~olutIOlb thankl11g the VISItors for theIr presence and
assunng them hearty co-operatIOn In theIr associatIon work.
From this It appears that the members of the natlOnal 01'-
gamzatlOn succeeded m arous111g conSIderable interest in the
work of their associatlOl1, e"peClally 111the com111g meeting at
Chicago, whlCh IS expected to be of great llTIportance to all con-c\
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Oriental Rugs Most Durable.
Never have the rugs from the handlooms of the far
Onent, unequalled In nch, unfachng colors and durabIlity, been
mOl e wlth1l1 the means of the average household Not only
are they now regarded as treasures of art, but as 1l1vestments
that are consIdered economIcal in the long run The certain-ty
of theIr practIcally everlast1l1g wear, and the beauty of the
mellow colonngs and artIstIc conceptIOns, whIch harmonize
\i\ Ith any style of 1l1terior decoratIOn, l'> ga1l11l1gfor them un-limited
appreciatIOn One Oriental rug in a house is usually
the means of hav1l1g the floor coverings soon replaced by
more OrIentals.
The antIques, of course, are rare in thIs country, and as
the finer OnEJSare u,.,ually woven of all SIlk, they are consider-ed
too thm for floor rugs, and are used as couch or table covers.
Among the cotton rug" a few of those which are being used in
the greatest number" are the Kihm, the Saruk, the Bokhara,
the KhlV a, the Sll1raz and the Senna rug.
In the Anglo-PersIan velvets, mntatlOns of the Onentals are
supersedmg all other pattern~. 1he colors are fdlthfully repro-duced,
and a WIlton m the"e de,lgm, m a <Jx12,may be bought
for $53 The pnce, vary accordmg to SIze, of cour<;e A com-paratIvely
new development m the vVIlton rug, called the Ama-xm,
I" the plam, two toned velvet, wIth a border consl"tmg
slmplv of a rtralght band of the darker shade, probably <' foot
WIde, v\Ithm whIch IS another, half the WIdth, of the contrast-ing
tone These come m cardinal, green, brown and a beauti-ful
"hade of old blue Another novelty in the pla111er rugs has
a sohd ground of ohvc green, wIth a conventIOnal border of "0
dark a green a~ to appear black, and a figure of the border re-peated
111 stripe" to cover each "eam.
Jn carpets there I~ a WIde scope of price and design Body
Erussel" may be had at $123 a yard or WIlton carpeting at
$2 23 Very few rooms are entIrely covered WIth carpet now-adays
It IS much better, partIcularly when the room to be
covered is Irregularly shaped, and a border carpet b used, to
have the carpet made m rug shape, If deSIred, and laid on the
floor, than to attempt to fit the room, which only emphasizes its
irregularity Another hmt from a professional decorator is
that the tone of a room should shade down to the floor, other-wise,
If the rug is lIghter than the walls, one gets an impression
of top-heavmess The same decorator also insists as a rule on a
stair carpet WIthout any pattern at all, If possible, as the effect
of a pattern meant to be horizontal and forced to follow the ins
and outs of the staIrs, is annoy mg to the eye, and lacks a certain
digmty dnd generosIty of treatment that the plam carpet will
supply.
"The "rag style" carpets are greatly favored for bed rooms
and bath rooms, as much for the pOSSlblhty of color scheme" as
for theIr quamt attractIveness The keen mtere~t m handcraft
of every clescnptlOn IS responSIble for a I eVlval of hand-woven
rugs Many women are takmg advantage of thIS to make these
rugs to order m ongmal de"lgns They are usually made of
out flannel, embrOIdered m heavy woolen yarn
Every man "houlel have an ann 111lIfe, but lob of u<;couldn't
hIt the SIde of a barn,
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No Stock complete Without the Eli Beds m Mantel and UpTIght.
ELI D. MILLER &, CO.
EVANSVILLE. INDIANA
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clerical capaCIty Soon after the dedth of IllS father, Fred VV.
Kehkel JI , formed a partnerslup wIth Ius brother, Charles K.
Kelskel The name of the fi11n, F \V Kel~ker & Son was re-tamed
The h\ a brother" worked tog ether for success and
m 1901 they transferred the busmess to Fourth avenue and
vValnut street They were among the first bus mess men of
Lomsvllle to recoglllze the great future for the busIness mter-ests
out lourth -\venue
The Idea of the new home was conceived about three year"
ago, when the two brothers agreed that the busmess of the firm
had grown so much at 462 Fourth avenue that larger quarters
\\ ere nece~sary They opened negottatlOns wIth the Baroness
\ on Zed\\ ItZ. of the Caldwell estate, and after a whIle succeeded
m c10smg a deal f01 the It:asmg of the "Ite and a new bmldl11g
on \ V alnut street \ V ark began on thIS structure about one
yt:ar ago and prog-ressed slowly for a ttme, but It was finally
con'pleted about one month ago
\s \\ III be seen by the accompanYl11g 1IIustratlOn theIr new
home IS a noag11lficent five-~tory bUlldmg It IS 56x160 feet
amI b one of the mo"t completely eqmpped and most conveni-ently
arranged store bUlldmgs m the country
-\mong the admIrable eqmpments that attract specIal at-tentlOn
IS the pasenger elevator It IS of the automattc con-structIOn
and \\ arks so perfectly that a child can operate It It
h operated b) electnc power dnd controlled by electnc buttons
\\ hlch are numbered to corrccpond wIth the different floors It
IS only nece,sal) to push on the button numbe1ed for the floor
the passenger wIshes to v10it The machme nses to this floor
and stops of ItS own accot d. It \\III not stop at any other
floor on the \\ a\ up unlees a button IS pu"hed, and refuses to
\\ 01 k \\ henever a door to the shdft IS left open
The bUlldmg IS \\ ell hghtecl throughout. FIxed m ever)
cellmg and along some of the walls are hundreds of wh1te-frosted
electric globes wIth glass shades They 111ummate
e\ er) part of each room and throw theIr soft ray" down upon
the fine fur11lture on the hardwood fl001 s so that each depart-ment
of the mtenor of the houoe ghstens hke a bed of crystal
m the sunhght
The mam floor IS spauous, and on
assortment of fur11lture and fm11lshmg~
LOUISVILLE'S FINEST FURNITURE STORE
The Magnificent HOIRe of Fred W. Keisker & Son Recently Com.pleted and Now
Occupied.··A Bit of History.
The Ke1ske1 Fur11lture Company of LOUlsv1lle, Ky. was or-gamzed
December 1, 1878, \\hen Fred \V Ke1Sker father of
the pre.,ent head of the house wIthdrew from the \Vrample-me1er-
Keisker Compdny, at that tune manufacturers and retaIlers
In those days the furmture busmess was m ItS infancy m LOU1S-ExterIOr
Vlew of the K91sker Bmldmg, Lomsvllle, Ky.
ville, but the father of the present merchant looked forward to
a growing bUS111ess He opened hIS fir"t estabhshment, inde-pendent
of outsiders, at HZ \Vest Mam street, 111a small bmld-mg.
\:\Then the founder of the firm and father of Fred \V
Keisker, Jr , dIed Apnl 16, 1900, the business was left In charge
of the son, who was adl111tted to the firm mne ) ear" before, or
in 1891, when the name was changed to F W Keisker & Son
From 1891 to the tune of the death of ::VIr Kelsker's father,
Charles K. Keisker had been 1denttfied with the company in a
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Turkish rugs, chairs of gemune walnut and mahogany inlaid
with mother of pearl, parlor, bedroom and dmmg-room suits
All these thlllgS are true of the floors above, for they, too, are
all filled wIth fine household furmshlllgs.
The mterior of the walls of the new bmldmg are a soft
green, whIle the ceihngs are covered wIth "ubstantIal cream-colored
enamel The appomtments m marble, dull-fimshed
brass and mahogany are most attractIve to the eye.
BesIdes bemg pubhc-spmted CItizens, there is a side to the
natures of the ::\lessrs Kebker that deserves commendation
Down in the shlppmg department of the new store there
labors a man patiently every day, year m and year out. His
name is George Herter. He was employed by Mr. Keisker'"
father when he was a member of the Wramplemeler-Kelsker
firm. He, hke the other men mentIOned, reports for duty every
day on tune and does not depart untIl his day's work IS done
The motto that could be adopted by the Messrs Kelsker and all
theIr men IS "Do the work of each day in that day," in other
words, "never put off tIll tomorrow," etc
From thb It goes WIthout saymg that the Kelskers com-
VIEW OF THE MAIN FLOOR IN THE KEISKER STORE, LOUISVILLE, KY,
Out of regard for theIr father's memory, they made provision
for all the men who were employed by their father when he es-tabhshed
the busmess on Mam street, and who labored for his
success from the start.
At present John M Stokes is employed as a salesman Mr.
Stokes accepted a posItIon WIth Mr. Keisker's father in the or-igmal
store at Fourth avenue and Mam street. Fred Harig,
J r, salesman and advertbmg manager, and Arthur Clarke, in
charge of the affaIrs of the office, have been in the service fif-teen
year~ They all stand hIgh in the estImation of their
employers.
mand the good wIll and respect of the people of the community
in whIch they hve and do business In fact that good WIll is
largely responsIble for theIr remarkable success in business and
is one of their most valuable as"ets.
The only idea some people have of slllcenty is to say dif,-
agreeable thlllgS to theIr friends.
The clmging nature is often Illustrated by the way a man
hangs on to his money.
, :\lost of the m111ers are absolutely honest among them-selv
es You may have your '3ack of gold dust labeled and lylt1g
111 a pIle among many other~ and It IS a" safe a" It would be 111
a safety deposit vault 111 C111cmnah They are also very fnend-ly,
and share their ratIOns and supphes with each other a~
long a" they la"t
"To Illustrate the character of those men I will tell :Jf
thh 1l1cldent There was a camp of sixteen men 111 one place,
\\ hel e they had been for "ome time, when two of the men had
a chfterence, \\ hlch became so sharp that they came to blow",
and e\ en that chel not satisfy them, so they determ1l1ed to have
a duel, and noth111g "hort of the death of one or both would
square the account The others remonstrated with them, all to
no purpose, ,,0 the l11ght before the duel wa" to come off each
was handed a paper signed by the other fourteen stat1l1g that
which ever one surVived was to be Immediately hanged. That
ended the stnfe, and there was no duel.
"Supphes are received not only from Seattle, Portland and
San FranCISCO, but even from N ew York and the farthest
camp" have to get their supphes 111 the fall for all winter and
up to late 111 the spnng
"1 \\ a" told of one 1I1stance when storms had carned
a\\ a) (\ er) bndge and railway, and left a great many m111ers
\'vlthout meat or other supphes, when what would seem to be
an act of PrOVidence brought a vast herd of moose that way
and they were able to supply themselves with abundance of
meat for all the season
'I do not th1l1k Ala'3ka can ever become an agricultural
country, except 111 the extreme southern part The summer
IS too short Some vegetables may be grown there, but corn
and wheat and other cereals Will not grow to matunty. StIlI
I th111k there 1'3 a great future for Alaska as the mines are
probably the richest m the world
, Portland IS de"t111ed to be the great city of the north-
\\ e'3t I \va" amazed dt the magl11tude of the bus111ess 111 man-ufactunng
and merchandls111g carned on there The lumber
hU"l11e"" IS one of the greatest 111 the United State::>, whde many
other 1l1du"tne" are Immense
"I paid a VISit to the Dornbecker furl11ture fa(:tory and
sa\. there I" not a bettel equipped furl11ture factory in C111Cl11-
natl
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II Over 850,000 Alaska
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Perfect preservation of
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L E. Moon, New York Manager,
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TALK ON WONDERS OF ALASKA.
Chas. E. Francis of Cincinnati Tells of Its Ex·
tent, Its Resources and Its Miners.
Charle" E. FrancI", the well knov\ n L111C111natimanufac
turer of wood work1l1g mach1l1er), and wIfe "pent se\ el a\
weeks in Alaska, vVashmgton, Oregon and Cahforl11a, return-mg
home m September Mr1' rancls gave the \\ eekly Artisan
nearly an hour of hiS tnne telhng of the wonders of Ala"ka
and other place" 111 the far west "1\0 one can have anyth1l1g
hke a correct understanchng ot Alaska Without gOing there,"
said he. "One th1l1g that amazes you IS the vastne"s of the
tern tory It IS almost beyond comprehen "Ion Alaska
stretches along the PaCific coast away up nearly to ASia, and
If you draw a straight 11l1edown south flom the mo"t westerly
coast to a P01l1t opposite San FranCISco you wdl find that San
FranCISco 1'3Just half way from your 1111eto 1'\ew York
"The flowers in Alaska have the most bnlhant colors I
have ever seen I saw pansies there as large as the top of an
ordmary teacup Alaska IS not only nch In fore'3t", but abo
111 coal, gold, Silver and other metal", and as nl1n1l1g IS the
pnnclpal 1l1du'3try the supplY1l1g of the camps IS develop1l1g
into a large busmess I saw no large town" thel e, as the mmer"
are qUIck to abandon camp when other nllnes are found that
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I~f leaves are bound (by your-self)
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or departments.
BARLOW BROS.,
Grand Rapid., Mich.
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"Portland has a vast ShlPPl11g Illdustry not only coast-wi"
e to Japan, Ch1l1a and all eastern ASia San Francisco
IS rapidly bmld1l1g up and one can get 111 the hotels and res-taurants
everyth111g that can be fonnd 111any of the eastern
utle", wll1le III Lm Angeles I fonnd It Just the opposite
\\ hy It I" so, IS difficult to explain \Ve went Illto one of the
best re"tanrants 111 the city and haVing hved on meat as the
pnnClpal diet for some tIme, we were anxIOus to have a meal
mostly of vegetables vVe asked the colored walter for several
thlllgs on the bdl, which he said 'Yes sah, I thlllk we have
got It,' and when he returned he said 'Weare aU out of that
mistah,' and It kept on that way untIl at last he brought us
"ome toa"t and coffee.
"There IS not a hotel or restaurant 111 that city that wdl
.:.upply you With vegetables such as you would get In the most
OIdmary restaurant 111 an ea"tern city Los Angeles IS Simply
hV1l1g on the resorters who come from the east" ", . --------_._._._..--.-.~
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West Michigan Machine & Tool Co., Ltd.
CRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
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Factory and Home Dynam1tted.
At Zanesville, Ohio, last Saturday morn111g an attempt was
made to de~troy the factory of the Zane"vllle Furniture company
and the residence of D B Gary, with dynamite The factory
and stock were damaged to the extent of several thousand dol-lars
but the explosIOn ehd not start a fire Noone was 111Jured
111the Gary home but the kitchen was wrecked Just as Mrs
Gary was about to enter It
Mr. Gary IS pre "Ident of the CIVIC League, which organiza-tion
has been actively engaged 111prosecutIOn of hquor cases
before Mayor Campbell of K ew Concord Fifty-six cases have
been tned and a conviction obta111ee!in each case.
Improving a Good Machine.
The W) "ong & Miles Company of Greensboro, N. C, who
have recently placed on the market a double multiple chair post
mortising mach111e, although It was a great "uccess, are now ad-e!
111gimprovements that Will 111crease the capaCIty and make the
machine still more valuable to chalr manufacturers and thiS ma-chine
IS now far 111the lead of any other mach111e on the mar-ket
for mortising chair posts Anyone desinng further 111for-mati
on 111regard to thl:->ane! other speCial furmture mak111g ma-ch111ery
can secure same by ae!dress111g the Wysong & MJ1es
Company, Cedar street and Southern R R, Greensboro, N. C.
From Chicago to Elkha.·t.
It IS announced that the Brunswick-Ba1ke-Callender com-pany
Will move their Chicago factory to Elkhart, Ind.
Over 200 men will be employed With the beg111n111gof operatIOns
111December It I:-> expected that fully 700 men Will work 111
the factory.
Refngerators will be manufactured, in addition to bank,
hotel and barber fur111ture Economy IS the alleged reason for
the move. The heads of the concern figure that in a smaller
city the co~t of the change would be made up in the matter of
taxes. Room for expansIOn was also needed.
Enjoined From Quitting His Job.
The General Flreproof111g Company of Youngston, 0, has
secured a temporary lllJunctlon aga111st Pete M Wege, assist-ant
to the general supenntendent of the plant, who has resigned
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TOll POSI BenS
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to go With another conceln The company allege" that vVege
had Signed a contract to rema111 With the corporatIOn five years
and to turn over to It all 111ventlOns he might develop for the
manufacture of steel fur111ture and other products made by the
p1a111tiff The petitIOn alleges that W cge has taken out patents
in hiS own name and the company wants these as:,lgned to it.
Reilly and Oestull Surrender.
Eugene Reilly and F H Oestull, the agents of the Ameri-can
Seatmg company who were mehctee! at Richmond, Va., for
breakmg into the high school bmld111g and substltut111g sample
seats, have returned to RIChmond and given ball for appearance
for tnal They were found at Charlotte, N C, where they
claimed to have gone on a bus111ess tnp The school authon-ties
have cancelled their contract With the seat111g company and
are advertlsmg for new bids on the contract
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COMPANY No. 834.
No. 185. MUSKEGON, MICH.
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wage hotly, a c[rcular went out to the custom houses to declare
that "paragraph 717" should be understood to provide for the
free entry of wo! ks of art "m the hberal meamng," provided
the) had been produced l"ore than one hundred years before
the date of theIr importatlOn. This admIts bronzes, terra cot-ta.
pd11an, pottery. porcelain, altars, clocks, chandehers, tapes-tne,.
and. 111general, "antlques" The antlques are commg,
but the one-hundred-year stlpUlatlOn imposes an interestmg and
altogether flattenng comphance WIll It provIde a safeguard
agamst antlques manufactured in Kalamazoo, and beanng the
trade mark J Hereafter the mere statement that the goods
entered the countn cluty free should be proof of their genuine-ness
Or w[ll the necessIty of estabhshing the fact of theIr
ant1ql11ty keep them on the other ~lde? Manufacturerb who
make the 1eproductlODS of antlque furmture a feature of theIr
busmess w[ll be satlsfied WIth the rulmg of the treasury depart-ment
on the subject.
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A S WHITE MANAGING EDITOR
hntered as second class matter Ju1} '>, 19C9 at the post office at Grand Rapids. 11lchlgan
under the act of \.larch J [879
The Weekly Artlsan ma) have been [111S111formeda~ to the
ments of "FIsh's stamp ~aver~." as stated 111the letter from the
L FIsh Furmtl11 e Company, which appeal s on another pa~e
If so it is stlll m1smtormell t01 the company s lette1 ~1\ es no
mformatlOn as to how the stamps are u,ed and lea\ b the 1eadel
to a~sume that they are handled b) the same methoclc; u"eel 111
the old trad111g stamp schemes As \v111 be seen, the letter ad-
1111tsthat the Al tisan wa, lIght 111 stat111g that If all dealers
were to use the stamps none would denve anv benefit or ad-vantage,
but It declares that all are not allo\\ ed to use them-that
when a mel chant agree' to use them h1~ competltoh are
ban ed fro111 the pnv11ege In theory that plan ma, be plans-
1ble, but 111 practlce It seems It \\ ould be chfficult e\ en 111so
large a cIty a~ Chicago to have 5000 merchants uSll1g the stdmp~
without encroach111g on each other's terntor) The ll~h plan
may be ddIerent from the old tradll1g system but it is eV1dentl)
worked on the same pnnc[ple \s stated heretofore somebmh
must pay fm the stamps The F[sh company doe, not pay for
them, neIther does 1t fl11msh them fO! nothll1i.S The letter sa) s
they do not cost the merchants anythll1g TherefO! e the mer-chants'
cu~tomers mu~t pay for them [he F[sh sv,rem is ev[-
dently velY much hke other pnze-gl\ll1g plans It ma\ 111-
crease a merchant's trade temporanly but If all \\ e1e to use It
there would be no advantage to anybody LIke other premIUm
glvmg plans It IS not founded on ,ound bus111ess principle" It
may be better and may hve longer than the old systems which
are now condemned by nearly all mercanttle assoClatlOns. ami
are used by fe\\ reputable dealers, but It can hve no longer than It
is pos"lble to make people beheve that they can get someth111g
for nothmg
The [mportatlOn of antlque furmture furmshed conSIder-able
dISCUSSIOnby bus111ess men seekmg mterpretatton of the
111numerable problems m ta11ff taxatIOn, ansmg on account of
the Payne tanff bIll Importer" had placed liberal orders m
the old world for Roman chaIrs, Dutch clocks, I le[111~h oak
chests, carved chaIrs, settees and tables \\ 1th spra w Img leg,
from Holland, England, France and Spam, under the 1mpres,lOn
that the goods would be admItted duty free as works of art.
On bemg 111fO! med that such was not the offiCIal construe
tion placed by the lTmted States upon the language of the btll,
the purchasers have slgmfied the11 pa111ed SUl prise at the faIl-ure
of the government to share theIr vIews of the case. The
distinction made by the department 1S between works of art
"within the "tricter meamng of that term" and "works of art
WIthin the hberal meamng' \Vhen the dIscussion began to
"\\ hen my l111e IS nght, and the conchtions of trade a1e
nommal I can sell m Granel RapIds the output of my factory
for a season, m ten day, or two weeks," remarked a promment
manufactm er of tables "The bIg buyers place their orders
m Grand RapIds I would rather take one bIg order m Grand
Rap[ds than a dozen httle ones, such as I have booked mother
fur11lture centers' The gentleman quoted has learned that there
h a rhfference m the fur11lture market~ of the country and he
has tlled out all market town, that have assumed that d1stmction.
J "\ewton \md ha, 1etired from the Chicago Furniture
J ouxnal, hav111i.Ssold h1s mterest m that publicatIOn to P D
1 ranCl~, the founder and bus mess manager of the Journal. Mr
lranc1s 1S \\ ell grounded 111the pubhshmg bu"mess and his ca-paClt)
IS proven b) the success he has won Mr Nind WIll
travel abroall and rest h1s weary facultles To furnish trade
cop, such as he ha~ \\ ntten dunng fifteen uninterrupted years
should entitle Mr. Nind to a long penod of repose
To secure unifonmty in colors and quahty of fi11lshes would
It be necessary to employ an inspector of fimshes for a group
of factones? \Vould It be necessary to Ube the fimshmg goods
of one manufacturer to obtam the result desIred? The above
are but two of many questlons that are causmg the manufac-turers
to think deeply on the problem of umfonmty m fi11lshmg
fur11lture.
Is It economIcal for a manufacturer of furmture to mix the
~tams and fillers he uses m hIS finishmg department? Foreman
fimshers who understand the art of fimshmg wood declare thai
it IS, whl1e manufacturers of wood fimshmg goods are ever
ready to prove that 1t 1Snot In such a sltuatlOn the manufac-h1rer
of furmture must be both Judge and jury
\ stale shO\\ w111do\\, fly-specked and dirty, repulses trade
and mchcates the character of the man respom1ble for it To
attract trade the owner of the store as well as the "how wmdow
must be neat, clean and wholesome.
The factones m course of construction for the use of manu-facturers
of furniture 111G1and Rapids at present, when in me,
WIll furmsh employment for 1,000 adrhtional men.
The exhIbIt of furmture at the Seattle expositIOn was not
worth mentionmg At least no one mentioned it.
WEEKLY ARTISAN
How to Rejuvenate Old Rugs.
A wnter in the Brooklyn (N' Y) Cltlzen tells how to re-
Juvenate old rug~ The Weekly I\rtlsan wIll suggest to those
who thmk of trymg the expenment that they may save tIme
hard work and aVOId "vexatIOn of ~PIrlt" by employmg an ex-pert
to do the work The Cltlzen'0 contnbLltor ~ays
A dmgy, frayed-out rug cel tamly b not a thmg of beauty,
however hand"ome It may once have been. Fortunately It IS
often possIble to bnghten up and repaIr such a rug and make
it once more a respectable pIece of furmshmg.
For bnghtening up the colors, get ordmary package dye,
in such colors as may be needed, and two or thl ee small round
camel's haIr brushes Dls~olve a portIOn of each dye m a lIttk
b01ling water, to whIch add a plllch of salt and a spoonful of
vinegar.
Clean the rug and lay it on a table, or If large on a smooth
floor. When all IS ready touch up the colors m the deSIgn wIth
the hot, strong dyes, using them freely enough to permIt them
to penetrate Vi ell mto the fabnc When thIs IS done layover
the dampened portion~ a dry cloth and iron untIl thoroughly dry
Thi~ takes the place of b01lmg and helps to set the dyes.
If the rug IS frayed and ragged at the ends, tnm and ap-ply
a new bmdlllg or fnnge It 1~ wonderful what a few cent~'
worth of dye, a few hour~' work and a new bmding WIll do for
a shabby rug.
Sometimes it h better to gIve a small hght-colored rug an
entire dye-bath than to try to re~tore the onglllal colors A
plalll dark-red or brown rug wl1l look well m almost any sittmg
or dinmg room-far better ~urely than a faded-out, dIrty-look-ing
hght one
Flimsy rugs may be gIven body by pastmg to the back d
hmng of firm cotton-cloth Lay the rug wlong-slde up on the
floor, cover well WIth thIck, raw flour paste, lay the lining care
fully m place and Iron untIl the paste b thoroughly cooked and
dry Patches, 1£ any are needed, should be pasted on rather
than sewed A httle care wl1l gIve the rug a new lease of hfe
and make It ornamental as well
Wants a Good Tenant.
The Weekly ArtIsan, Grand RapIds, MIch., Gentlemen.-
I have a bUlldmg at 207 East Mam street, three stones hIgh, 30
:A150 feet, for rent It would be a very deSIrable bUlldmg and
a good locatIOn for a furmture bu~mess It IS a httle over
half block from court house and m the center of the bu"mess
dlstnct and I want to ~ecure a good tenant
Have Just had mstalled a steam heatmg plant on the vacu-um
system, a steel cellmg, e1ectllc hghts and an electnc: elevator,
and a 10-horse power motor. The entIre mtenor of the bUlld-mg
has been newly pamted and frescoed, one of the best bL11lcl
ings m Fort Wayne, Ind. E THUMAN
Oct. 18, 1909. 222 Ea"t Wayne Street
Coffin Makers Must Raise Prices.
Forty or fifty manufacturers of coffin~ and caskets held a
conference m CmcmnatI last week They came from all ~ec-tIons
of thl~ country and Canada and dIscussed matters of mu-tual
mterest. They c1emed emphatically that they mtendec1 to
make an effort to control pnces, but agreed that pnces of theIr
products are too low and declared that owmg to the increased
co~t of matenals there must be an advance in the pnces of cof-fins
and caskets They are dlssatI~fied WIth the gradmg, or
lack of gradmg, of theIr lumber and appomted a committee to
confer WIth lumbermen WIth a VIew of estabhshing standard
grades.
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SINGLE CONE ALL STEEL SPRINGS
Are very popular with the Furniture Trade.
$2~
E.ach
Net
$2~
E.ach
Net
No. 46. Single Cone. $2 Each. Net.
We manufacture a full line of Single and Double Cane All Wire Springs.
SEND US YOUR ORDERS.
SMITH &. DAVIS MFG. CO., St. Louis
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Complete lines of samples are displayed. It is worth the time
, and expense required in making a trip to Evansville to inspect
these lines.
THE BOCKSTEGE FURNITURE CO. I Manufacturers of the "Superior" Line of Parlor, LIbrary, Dining and Dressing Tables.
I THE METAL FURNITURE CO.
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THE KARGES FURNITURE CO.
Manufacturers of Chamber Suites, Wardrobes, Chiffoniers, Odd Dressers, Chlfforobes.
THE BOSSE FURNITURE CO.
Manufacturers of KItchen Cabinets, K D. Wardrobes, Cupboards and Safes, In ImitatIon
golden oak, plaIDoak and quartered oak.
THE WORLD FURNITURE CO.
Manufacturers of Mantel and Upright Foldmg Beds, Buffets, Hall Trees, Chma Closets,
Combination Book and Library Cases.
THE GLOBE FURNITURE CO.
Manufacturers of Sideboards in plain oak, imitatIOnquartered oak, and sohd quartered oak,
Chamber Suites, Odd Dressers, Beds and Chlffomers in nmtalJon quartered oak, ImitalJon
mahogany, and imitation golden oak.
Manufacturers of "Hygiene" Guaranteed Brass and Iron Beds. CrIbs, WIre Springs and Cots.
Made by The Karges FurmtUl e Co
Evansville is the great mixed car loading center of the
United States, made so by the Big Six Association.
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AMERICAN METHODS IN LONDON.
Mr. Selfridge Tells How the English People
Take to What They Consider Innovations.
That "Selfndge's," the Amencan stole m London, ha~
proved a great success and that the Engltsh buy mg people ha' e
accepted qmckly the mnovatlOns they found there "as stated b,
H Gordon Selfndge, the propnetor, formerly a partner \\ Ith
Mar~hall Field & Co, Chicago, who with .:\lrs Selfndge ane!
their two daughters, arnved m New York la~t ~lonc1ay ane! \\ent
to Chicago for a visit.
"1 have been away one and a half years," began .:\Ir Sel-fridge,
"and the store has been opened seven months 1 be-lieve
that most of the Enghsh merchants looked on the new store
as conSiderable of a venture, ancl the large share of them felt
that It coule!n t 'iucceed Now, 1 don't belt eve there h more than
1 per cent of them that e!on't know that It h a bl~ and gr O\ung
success Amencan methods have made It so '
"vVhat are some of the mnovatlOns?" wa~ asked
"There are many," answered ~lr Selfndge, "ane! one of
the pnnclpal ones IS the stoppmg of the tlppmg habit 1 have
made a hard and fast I ule that any clerk found acceptmg a tiP
Will be cUl11nanl} discharged ane! I have dls~harged several em-ployes
because they have broken the rule
'"It came as a surpn~e to many of the Enghsh cu~tomer~
and they readily accepted the situatIOn With a degree of plea~-
ure that was VISible, They had been 111 the habit ot gl\ Il1g
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NEW MACHINERY
I have on hand for Immedtate shipment the following brand
new machines which I will sell at reduced pnces
4- Two-spindle Radial Boring Machines to bore
from 1;£ to 18inch centers.
3- Two.splndle Radial Boring Machines to bore
from I to 12Inch centers.
2-Eighteen inch Cabinet Makers' Lathes.
I-Sixteen Inch Cabinet' Makers' Lathe.
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J. C. DeBRUYN, 130Page St., Grand Rapids,Mich.
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DELAWARE, OHIO.
LARGEST
"QUALITY"
LINE
of
DOUBLE CANE
LEATHER
l MISSION
CHAIRS, ROCKERS and SETTEES
CATALOCUE TO THE TRADE ONLY.
from thnppence to a ~hdlll1g for ~t11all serVices and they ap-pleClated
the savmg I made It up With the employe~ by glv-mg
them the regular salary for their clas" of work With the
average amount I ecelved III tips added
'Then there b another popular Idea, and that is the privI-Ic~
e ot ShOpp111g You know that 111New Yark and Pans a
"oman can 'chop'-that IS, look around a store Without bUY111g
If she h not at fil -t SUIted. You can't do that With the olCh-nary
Engh~h storekeeper He expects that when you have
come mto hiS store }au have come to purchase somethmg and
you kno\\ what that somethlllg IS. He is not at all pleased If
}ou go out \\ 1thout bUY111g 1"\ow the Enghsh women can shop
to theIr heart-., content, and the Amencan VISitor abroad, why,
she h ]lht at home 111our store
, \\ hlle "e have had to adapt ourselves to the ideas of our
Enghsh COU-I11S111many lllstances, for you know we are in their
countl) om bmeaus of I11formatlon and accommodatIOn, wnt-
11l~ rOOl11~ \\ 1th free matenal and attendants, all have been
taken up \\ Ith n,ost k111dl} They have ql1lckly seen the utIl-
It}, dnd they are 'itrong draw1l1g cards With them and havens
of rest and lllformatlOn for the thDu~dlld'i of Amencan fllends
that have vIsited us
"To our 'home folks' we have extended our ngth hand III
a fm elgn land 'vVe do our utmost to serve the i\mencan" who
come to our 111formatlOn bureau, for 111stance, and make them
feel that they are not qt11te alone in the vastness of the great
Lit} of Lonclon They ~an ask for any mformatlOn that they
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WHEN IN DETROIT
STOP AT
Hotel Tuller
New and Ab.olutely Fireproof
Cor. Adams Ave. and Psrk St.
In th. Cent.r 01 the Th •• tre, Shop-pmlil.
and Busmess Dutnct.
A la Carte Cafe
Newe.t and FlDe.t Gnll
Room ID the City.
Club Breakla't - - - 40c up
Luncheon - - - - 50c
T .bl. d hote lAnnelS - 75c
MUSlclrom6P M to 12 PM I Every room haa a private bath.
EUROPEAN PLAN
Rate.: $1.50 per day and up.
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WIsh and they wIll be answered. I have two bright English
gIrls who are d01ng well III thIS work and have a sort of seml-
Amel ican con,ulate wIthout the offiCIal dist1l1ctlOn, in order to
set Amencans nght.
"There are hundred~ of vlcltors who desIre to know where
and when to go and what to <;ee. Then there are those who
wish to purchase some thlllgS that we do not keep. We send
attendant<; WIth the,e people to the places of business and neither
charge fees nor receIve commissions We WIsh their friend-
<;hip and treat them honestly, and they al e as much at home as
they would be shopplllg on FIfth avenue III New York or on
State street in Chicago
"Yet there are new sItuation" developlllg every day, for It
is not much of a bU;'1l1e~;,if these are not created, and we are
constantly <;tnv1l1g to meet them satisfactonly to our customers
I am proud to say that the Amencan store in London is a great
"uccess."
"And how about the Ice cream soda?" was asked. "It
wa<; cabled here that the first opemng of the fountain at the
store was accompamed by the looking on of a bIg crowd, who
saw Ice cream sodas partaken of and gazed WIth as much amaze-ment
as if at a cage of cunous WIld animals"
MI Selfndge laughed and saId tho' that too had taken
WIth the Engb"h ShOpplllg pubbc
"They have a sweet tooth, and dunng the warm season
there were hundreds each day who ate and drank f.or the first
time at an Amencan soda fountalll and then went out and
brought fnends III to share the pleasant and novel expenence"
Another Corporation Tax Ruling.
The Washington authonties have added another to the
numerom rul111gs 111legard to the collectlOn of the corporatlOn
income tax The latest is to the effect that "the fact that a
corporation does not receIve a blank form from the commis-sioner
of internal revenue on whi-:h It may make return" of net
incomes for taxatlOn under the new tariff act WIll not excuse
the corporatlOn from the penaltIes of faIlure to make returns
within a specIfied time"
It is stated that the commlSSlOner of mternal revenue ex-pects
he will be able to send out the blank forms III 40 or 50
days. Before that time the regulatlOns for the enforcement
of the law WIll have been promulgated. It i" expected that
these regulatlOns WIll lllform the corporatlOns fully as to the
requirements, and the COml11lSSlOnerwtll try to have the blanks
and regulations sent to every corporatlOn III the country.
The forego111g announcements are accompamed by this
statement: "The treasury department doe" not expect that
there WIll be much fnction 111puttmg the law into effect."
No Rise in Frei2ht Rates Just Now.
James McCrea, presIdent of the Pennsylvania ratlroad, ha,
notified several organizatlOllS representlllg shtppers 111trunk l111e
tern tory that the trunk l111es are not cOllSIdenng a general ad-vance
in freIght rates or m c1aslficatlOn and that no such actlOn
IS contemplated as the ,hlpp111g orgamzatlOns had assumed from
a recent pamphlet Issued by C C McCa111, chaIrman of the
Trunk Line Association.
Most thlllgS are governed by the law of supply and de-mand,
but the crop of fools isn't one of them.
There are people so constituted that they seem to get a lot of
fun out of never having any fun 111bfe
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Complete Outfit of HAND and FOOT POWER MACHINERY
WHY THEY PAY THE CABINET MAKER
He can save a manufacturer's profit as well as a dealer's profit.
He can make more money WIth less capItal Invested
He can hold a better and more satlslactory trade With hIS
customers.
He can manufacture m as good .tyle and timsh, and at as low
cost as the factOries
The local cahmet maker has been forced mto ouly the dealer's
trade aud profit he cause of machme manufactured goods of factones
An outfit of Barnes Patent Foot aud Hand-Power Machmery,
remstates the cabmet maker WIth advanta.l(es equal to hiS competItors
If deSired, these machmes WIll be sold on tr.a! The purchaser
can have ample tIme to test them m hI< own shop and on the work he
WIshes them to do. JJescr.ptwI cata!ogu8 and pr,c8 !tst jru
HAND ClRCULAR RIP SAW COMBINED MACHINE No 3 WOOD LATHE
No.4 SAW (ready for cross-cuttIng) W. f. Ii.. JO"N BARNES CO.,654 Ruby St., Rockford, III.
No. 4 SAW (ready for npping)
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VISIT OUR SHOW ROOMS AND SEE THE
BEST LINE OF DAVENPORT BEDS
IN THE MARKET
We WIllhave the nght styles at the nght pnces and made to glVe
satIsfactIOn. Don't mISScommg to see the lme, It Will pay you.
Couches
Parlor Leather
Furniture Rockers
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Show Rooms 35 to 41 N. Capital Ave. Ask for catalogues.
THOS. MADDEN, SON & CO., Indianapolis, Ind .
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MORE CORPORATION INCOME LAW.
Commissioner oi Internal Revenue Tells What
Iniormation Must Be Furnished.
\fter another consultatlOn with the attorney general, the
com111ISSlOner of mternal revenue has reached a concllblOn a'i
to about what mformahon officers of corporatlOns WIll have to
furl1lsh 111order to aVOld penaltles unposed by the corporatlon
mcome tax law i\-::t111guncler the adVIce of the attorney gen-eral
the commbS1On announces that a careful considerat1On of
the law shows that corporations m mak111g their report:-. for the
calendar year 1909 will be required to fur111"h the follow111g m-formatlOn
The total paId up capItal stock or "hare capltdl outstanc1mg
at the clo"e of the }Cdr, the total bonded and other indebt-edness
at the close of the yeal , the grofs mcome denved from
all 'OU!ce, dunng the year, all chvldends receIved wlth111 the
year on stock 111other corporatlOns, the total amount of all or-dmary
and necessary expenses actually paId wlthm the year ont
of the earn111gs 111the mamtenance and operatlOn of the bUSI-ness,
statmg separately all rent, franchIses and so forth; all
lo"ses actually sustall1ed dunn~ the year and not compensated
by msuran-::e or otherwIse, also amounts allowed for depreci-at10n
and, in cases of ll1surance compames, the sums paId on
pobcy and annUlt) contracts and the net adcht10n to the reserve
fund reqUIred by law, ll1terest paId dunng the year on bonded
or othel mdebtedness not exceedmg the paId up capItal stock or
share capItal, all taxes paId WIthin the year After all these
Items of eApenses have been footed up and their total has been
subtracted it om the aggregate mcome, the remaimng amount is
"net income"-and all of It except $5,000 IS subject to the tax
Commentmg on the con1mIS"lon'" announcement an edltonal
writer m a New York paper tel1s how corpordt1Om may dodge
a consIderable pOl t10n of the tax, but It IS not probable that many
of them WIll act on hIS sugge"t1On lIe sa) s
"Of COUFe, the records and accounts of the COIporat1Ons up
to date from Janual") 1, 1909, wIll yIeld the mformat1On for thIS
appIoxllnatel) mne-1110nth)' penod, but for the remammg twelve
weeks of the year It would be easIly possIble-were a company so
chsposed-to readjust expense Items In su-::h a way as to keep the
net income down to a comparatIvely smal1 figure or to make It
vamsh entlrely In close corporations-where the ~tockholders
are all salaried officers-It makes no dIfference to them how theIr
111comes from the busmess reach theIr pockets, whether m the
form of salanes or dIVIdend" or both 111part; and If next Janu-ar)
doce not wItne's among these concerns a very general raIs111g
of salanes at the e"pense of dIVIdends, It WIll be a wonder- and
such corporatIOns <ire numerous throughout the country
Aga111, It would an easy matter f01 many corporations to
"stave off" the payment of bIlb receIvable dunng the last two
months of th1S year untIl after December 31, ,,0 a" to make sue1,
revenues appear 111the 1910 accounts, borrowl11g money meantIme,
If needed to meet theIr own obhgat1Ons-and these items of really
1909 revenue would thus appear 111the records as debts and help
keep down the apparent net 111comefor tIllS year.
" 'The law,' says the attorney general, '1;0 so plain that any
corporatIOn or Ilv agents should be able to understand just what
111formatIOn the commIssioner of mternal revenue WIll require.'
"And he mIght well have added 'And it is g0111gto prove to
be a law unusually ea~y of evaS10n '
"It IS qmte possIble, too, that It may be declared uncon"titu-tIonal
pnor to Jlme 30, 1910-the last day on which the retroac-tIve
tax for 1909 can be paid
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The Fellwock Company's New Factory.
The Fellwock AutomobIle and .:\Ianufdctunng com pan) ot
E,vansville, Ind, ha~ Just moved mto a new factor) \\ blch IS
shown in the accompanying pIcture. together with their two up-town
garages The plant, shown m the center, I~ located at the
corner of Harnett and V II gmla streeb. I t I~ mdnaged b\ T 1
Fellwock and produces veneered rolls cmd dutomobIle spelldl
ties.
The bUlldmg at the left I~ the gal age dt 213 DIvIsIOn
street, WE} ellwock, manager, where up-to-date ~elvICe IS
gIven m renting, stonng and repalnng
The bUlldmg at the nght IS the general office and saleSlOom
at 3 Upper Fourth street, P B I"ellwock, manager Thel e the
polIcies of this bus mess are dl~pemed and a full lme of deces
sorie" carned m connectIOn wIth the Maxwell, Ovelland, Stod-that
when a man buys anything he own" it and should have the
prn IlelSe Jf selling It dt hIs own pnce. but experien,:e shows that
It \\ ould be to the advcl11tage of all dealers to hdve dnd observe
some km<l of a rule m regard to mdmtammg pnces That the
latter Idea IS growmg was shown elt a recent meeting of the
Cclhformc retaIlers who adopted re~olutlOns recommendmg "that
manu fact lrer~ reqUIre from the trade, agreemenb to mamtam
cl certam establIshed retaIl ~ellmg pnce upon producb, favor-mg
the s cllmg of good~ on the contract plan by the manufac-turel
am pledgmg co-operatIon wIth manufacturers m main-tam111g
sllch pnee, declanng It the duty of every retaIl assoCIa-tIOn
on the PaCIfic coast to lend ItS mfluence towards encourag-
111gthe ScIe of goods of tho~e who mamtam retaIl sellmg prices;
expl essm:; elppreclatlOn to the national a~soClatlOn for havmg
blOUght 1I10re forcibly to the attentIOn of mannfacturers the ne-dard-
Dayton and Baker automobIles of whICh the Fellwock com-pany
are southern IndIana clIstnbutors
This IS an mcorporated company composed of the three
Fellwock brothers It was started 111190G m a small shop \\ hlch
was totally destroyed by fire "IX months after the ~tart \\ Ith a
heavy loss Temporary quarters were then taken, but the bu~-
iness increased by leaps and bound" so that It became necessary
to go mto larger quarters, and the above factory has been ac-qUIred
with faCIlItIes to double theIr busmess m veneered rolls.
automobIles, tonneaus, tops, seab and shIelds Other speCIal-ties
will be added from tnne to tIme
Should Manufacturers Fix Prices.
The idea that manufacturers should fix both wholesale and
retaIl pnces and that dealers should assIst them m mamtammg
the latter seems destmed to be put 111general practice 111the near
future. There IS no gettl11g around the logIC of the argument
cesslt) of adoptmg thIS plan, call111g upon all manufacturers to
adopt the fixecl pnce system and enforce It by collecting dam-ages
m t 1e courts from pnce CUtter~, and pledgmg support to
all manufacturel s thus actmg, declanng that when a merchant
refuse~ to abIde b) the request of manufacturers who establIsh
honest pnces, he shall be declared a cutter and manufacturers
requested to reqUIre wntten contracb from such merchants be-fore
"ellir g them goods.
The CalIformans may be conSIdered rather too radical in
theIr Ideas, but theIr actIOn WIll attract attentIOn to the subject
elml \\ III undoubtedly lead to dISCUSSIOnand perlIaps a snnIlar
e:ApreSSlOllof vIews by other a~~oclatlOns of dealers.
Tell 1marned man he doesn't look it and he will be terribly
flattered
SIlence Isn't always golden Sometimes It IS an admission
of guilt
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Order a small lot; make tests; you will then know what you are getting. WE GUARANTEE SATISFACTION. Furniture
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of T S & G B. Martm, who have decIded to discontmue their
furmture department
Albert VV Seegert, manager of the Cotton Felt Mattress
Company of ChIcago, and 1\Irs Augusta Zuber, daughter of
Charles Greve, a ChIcago cap1tahst, were qUletly marned at
\Vaukegan, Ill, on Octobel 8.
The hardware and furmture firm of M L Stover & Co., St
Petersburg, Fla, IS about to be mcorporated, with a capItal
;,tock of $10,000 The name of the new concern WIll be the
Stover-Presstman Company.
The first annual meetmg of the American SpeClalty Manu-facturers'
I\.ssOClat1On WIll be held m New York CIty, N ovem-ber
11 and 12 The assoClat1On now ha" fourteen aux1hary
assoc1at1Ons, covenng 23 states
Theodore Eggleston, who a few months ago sold hIs inter-est
and retlred from the CIty FurnIture and Undertakmg Com-pany
of Columbl1'3, MIs", has now purchased the mterest of
Mr Plumber, a new member of the company, and WIll agam
take an actIve pal t in the management of the bl1'3mess
The Dubuque (Iowa) Coffin and Casket Company are look-mg
for a new 10cat1On and are expected to accept mducements of-fered
by SIOUX CIty, Iowa Such '" as the report from S10UX
CIty last Monday, but PreSIdent Beller of the company says
"there ~ nothmg m It, we WIll stay m Dubuque for the present
at least"
The SeIdel Furmture Manufactunng Company, 515-52G
Barracks street, New Orleans, La, estabh"hed m 1885, IS gomg
mto the manufacture of coffil1'3 and caskets, a supenntendent of
one of the largest casket factones haVing purchased a maJonty
of the company'0 stock The manufacture of furniture WIll be
chscontinued
MISCELLANEOUS NOTES AND NEWS.
The Carlyle (Ky) CredIt Company, hou"efurmshers, have
made an aSSIgnment
Curtm D Stump, undertaker of Reachng, Pa, WIll put m
a stock of furmture
E E Oylear has purchased an mterest in F E Lambert's
furmture store at Genesee, Idaho
T A. Freeman, manufacturer of chaIr stock, Brownw1lle,
T enn , IS plannmg to enlarge hIS factory
The undertakmg firm of 1\Iaus & Shannon, Prescott, Anz,
has been dhsolved, Mr Shannon retlrmg
The Letterborn VVoodworkmg Company of Hartford, Conn,
has been mcorporated CapItal stock, $50,000
The SterchI Furmture Company of NashVIlle, Tenn, have
doubled the capItal stock-from $10,000 to $20,000.
George G1lle~p1e 1~ a new undertaker at Columbus, Ind
He was formerly m the same busmes" at Hope, Ind
The MIchIgan Oak F loonng and Intenor F1msh Company
is a Pontiac, MICh , corporation ,apltah7ed at $30,000.
The undertakmg firm of Sherwood & DIck, Kankakee, Ill,
has been chs"olved Mr DIck contmues the bl1'3mess
The G E Schloss Company of ~ ew York Clty has been m-corpor
dted to deal m lumber and furmture. CapItal stock,
$75,000
S B Donchian of Harford, Conn, b erectmg one of the
handsomest bUlldmgs on Pearl street to be used for hIS onental
rug busmess
CredItors have filed a petltion m bankruptcy agamst C H
Dodd & Co, mcorporated, furmture dealers and decorators, of
Cleveland, Oh1O
John Fmger, receIver for the firm of Vetter Bros & LeWIS,
furmture dealers of LOUlWllle, Ky, WIll chspo~e of the stock
and c1o~e out the busmess.
The J W. Fox Excels101 Company of Grand Rapids. re-port
trade excellent for the past ClX month" the largest demand
be111g from the HOOSIer state
The carpet 111111'0 at W estboro, l\fas~, have been sold to the
Magee Carpet Company and the machme1Y is being taken out
to be moved to Bloomsburg, Pa
The Boyne CIty, NItch, boa 1d of trade is negotlatmg for
the estabhshment of a furmture factory, offenng a good SIte
WIth water and raIl transportation
The M1S,,1On Furmture Company of Syracuse, NY, have
decided to change the 10cat1On of theIr factory and have been
negotlatlng for a site in Tonawanda, N. Y.
H Crockm, furmture dealer of Norfolk, Va, has pur-chased
a site adJoimng hIS pi esent quarters and will erect a
three-~tory bUlld111g ()Ox300 feet, at a cost of $30,000
The DIxie School Desk Company, cap1tahzed at $25,000,
ha~ been mcorporated to take over the plant, stock and bl1'3iness
of the old Columbus School Desk Company at Columbus, Ga
The GIbson Refngerator Company of GreenVIlle (1\11ch)
are increasing the capaClty of theIr plant They have Just
completed a new warehouse that WIll ~helter 20,000 refngerators.
The Hanson lurmture Company of Janesville, W IS , manu-facturers
of chmng and pIllar extension tables, report that m
the volume of bl1'3mess the year 1909 IS the best in theIr hIstory
The Hudson FurnIture Company of Austm, Texas, has
been mcorporated by E A Hudson and ~evet al of hIs employes
mc1udmg E 0 Garrett, J L. Garrett and Elmer Vvoolff Cap-ital
stock, $80,000
The W1lhams Furmture Company of Dawson, Ga, have
purchased the stock of furmture carned in the general store
New Furniture Dealers.
J 1\1 Cwtello ha<, opened 1m new fUlniture store at Kear-ney,
Nebr
W C Hay WIll estabhsh a new furmture store in Aber-deen,
S D
R A Melv m has engaged in the retaIl furmture trade at
Parker, S D
Meyers & lmsterwald are the newest furmture dealers 111
Detroit, MIch.
Stephen L Woodward has opened a new furmture store at
Charle101, Pa.
The PaCIfic Salvage Company IS startinlS a furmture store
111TIllamook, Oregon
The Vendeventer Company of Lafayette, Ind, ha~ been in-corporated
WIth a capItal of $10,000 by J. L Vendeventer and
others, for the purpo ,e of buy mg and sellmg furmture at
wholesale or retail
Frank Berman and John W Martm of Chester, Pa, and
Reuben SatterthwaIte, Jr, of W1lmmgton, Del, have 111corpor-ated
the Berman company, cap1tah7ed at $30,000, to deal m fur-mture,
hardware and c10thmg m Phtlacle1ph1a
Has a "Kick Coming."
A J Kingsley, a manufacturer of chaIrs m Portland, Ore-gon,
appeared before the mterstate commerce comm1o,SlOn re-cently
and stated that d1stnbut1ve freIght rates by rall were so
arranged that he could not do busme;,s m compet1tlOn WIth firms
located m the ea"tern states to any extent east of the Dalles
Only about five per cent of hIS trade comes from terntory east
of Portland 1\Ir Kmgsley certamly "has a kick coming."
demned Of course, when orga111zed labor permIts It-self
to cympathlze wIth vIOlent methods, wIth breaches of the
la\\, wIth boycotts and other methods of undue dures", it is not
entItled to our sympathy But It Is not expected that such or-g<
lmzatlOns shall be perfect, and that they may not at times, and
m partIcular cases, show defective tendenCIes that ought to be
corrected -\11 advantages of trade~ unIOn, great as they are,
cannot weIgh a feather m the scale agamst the nght of any man
to work for whom and at what pnce he wJ1I"
Kow thIS sOlmd" the keynote of the whole mdustnal and
economIC sItuatIOn "Vhat J\1r. Taft says 111thl:O ImpressIve
paragraph IS the eternal truth; and I feel free to say that when
the tune may come when a non-U1110n worker can feel the Im-l11U111t)
of a true Amencan cItizen, when he and his WIfe and
httle one" are fJ ee from the brutal 111su1tSand devlhsh perse-cutlOn:
o of behgerent U1110111sm, for whIch Gompers and MItchell
stand sponsors, then and not till then, WIll PreSIdent Taft be
lustlfied 111asst1111lng that 1m, kmdly recommendatIOn of labor
U1110ns\\111 be accepted by patnotlc Amencans 111good faIth
\Vhen ilfr Taft saId that «AJI advantages of trade" unions,
great as they are, cannot weIgh a feather m the scale against
the nght of any man to \\ork for whom and at what pnce he
WIll," and then m another sentence says, «I t1unk the employer
\\ ho declmes to deal WIth orga111zed labor and to recognize It as
a proper element m the :oettlement of wage controversIes is be-hmd
the tunes," I am perplexed to under~tand whIch statement
he mean" should be accepted as hIS real opi111on, They cannot
both be accepted because anybody at all fal111har WIth the sub-
Ject kno\\ s that Gompers-::\Iltchell unio111sm does not conSIder
a settlement of a wage ~cale or any other matter in controversy
except on a closed shop baSIS, whIch IS quite eVIdent at variance
WIth l\Ir Taft's statement quoted, Not only that, but we all
know that If, m case of stnke, the employer attempts to run
hIS bu:omess WIth other men, dll sort~ or coercIve means are al-
\\ a) s emplo) ed to enforce such adjustment as they may dIctate,
and 111de111al of the very rights whl'2h l\Ir Taft has so ably de-fended
Then, too, MI, Taft ha~ stated that he favors a modi-ficatIOn
of the 111JunctlOn law~, 111cases of labor dIsputes, What
for, S111cesuch a courc;e would SImply afford the mob element a
greater opportu111t) to perform its work of slugg111g and des-truction
of propel ty )
In hIS reference to thIS subject he saId, «I propo:oe 111the
next sessIon of congl e~" to recommend the legIslatIon on the sub-
LABOR ORGANIZED AND UNORGANIZED
Comments on President Taft's Chicago Address by President Kirby of the National
Manufacturers' Association and Others.
John KIrby, Jr, 111A111Cl1caJZ IndustJzcS for October -I
cannot understand why Mr Taft should deem It to be wlth111
the dutIes of the preSIdent of the 1T111tedStates to explOIt the
cause of labor U111on" and denounce employ ere; who I efuse to
recognize them Pel haps If I \\ere 111the pohtlcal bu"mes, I
would understand all about It, but I am not In thl" CI1J(a~o
dehverance MI Taft ndturally talked a" the repl esentatlve and
spokesman of the mas,es of the Amencan commonwealth, that
is to say, for all classec; except one-the soclah-t element He
Isolated thIS element WIth httle com tesy 01 merq, thm placmg
them 111the category of ahens He even went so far a, to de-clare
that the SOClahsts have been repudIated by orga111zed labor
whose label he frankly p111ned to hh jacket m the declaratIOn
that labor U1110111smhas I11SposItIve and hearty approval He
even endorsed stnkes, and benevolently suggested to the U1110ns
the advbablhty of provldmg a fund to take care of stllkers fam-ihes
111the event of prolonged lockouts 01 stnkes -\nd \\ hlle
he gently rapped Gompel c; for attempt111g to drag the U1110ns
mto pohtlcs last fall, he was magna111mous to concede that that
ponderous celebnty IS also opposed to Soclahsm He moreover
mgemously )lbtlfied hIS contentIOn of orgalllzed labor by cIting
the fact that he (Taft) was supported last) ear by both U1110n
and non U1110nlabor He chd not, however, refer to the part
the business men of the country played m secunng hIS electIOn
On ItS face, hI" generom concessIOn to the rank and file of
Ulllon labor seems fan and Just But the fact remaUb that
Gompers IS still the accrechted head and chctator of orga111zed
labor, whIch appear~ to Justify the mference that tll1s element
IS not, at ItS best a very potent factol m our pohtlc~ -\nd \\ h)
should It be, when It IS remembered that the labOl U1110nsem-brace
les" than ten per cent of the labor vote 111thIS repubhc, of
whom perhap~ twenty-five or thIrty per cent vote the Soclahst
ticket, the balance bemg about equally chvlded between the Dem-ocratIc
and Repubhcan partIes
Be It noted, further, that the preSIdent 111hIS speech came
nobly to the defense of the non-Ulllon worker m such ulll111stak-able
language that hIs remarks should be echoed throughout the
world, He said:
«K othmg I have salCl or shall ~ay chould be construed mto
an attitude of cntlcbm aga1l1st or unfnenc111l1ess to tho~e \\ orJ..-
men who for any reason do not Jom the U1110ns TheIr fll:;ht
to labor for such wages as they choo~e to accept IS saC!ed, dnd
any lawless 1l1VdSlOnof that llght cannot be too severd) con- rH~te-l---LiNDEN~IHO-F- FMAN----~RO~HE~-;-c~~-I I FT. WAYNE, IND. I Indianapolis I
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SpeCIal Rates to FamIlIes .'
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Ject of mJunctlOn wl1l'::h was pr0l111sed m the Repubhcan plat-form,
and to see whether by such legIslatIon It b not possIble to
aVOId even a few cases of abuses that can be cIted agam;,t the
federal courts m the exerCIse of theIr Jun~dlctlOn"
J'vir Taft may have 111mllld "a few cases of abuses," but
dunng the argument on the so-called Pearre antl-lnJunctlOn bIll
111the last congres~, 1\1r. Roo,evelt and Samuel Gompers, al-though
repeatedly urged by the Juchclary commIttee of the house
to present such cases, made an Ignommous faIlure to produce
any, and It would therefore appear that thIS bulwark of safety
to the nghts of cItIzens of all classes should not be tampered
wIth to accommodate the unholy p lrp05es of those whom It re-strams
from breakmg the law
In deal111g wIth the matter of mjt1llctions m labor case:;,
I have yet to learn of a smgle case of a ,tnke where there was
no VIOlence or coerC1On, when the employer has attempted to
Made by The Udell Works, IndianapolIs, Ind.
run hIS bu"mess wIth non-Ulllon men, or where the mJunctIon
has worked any hardshIp on stnkers or 111terfered wIth their
legal nghts, and Just why the plcket111g mob would be gIven any
opportulllty whatever to destroy hfe and property before they
are restramed, e,peclally smce the plamttff must gIVe bond to
msure the defendant agamst peculllary loss, If such a thmg un-der
such CIrcumstances IS conceIvable, IS mcomprehenslble to
me, unle;,s it be that a httle "sop" along this lIne wIll help po-htlcally
I do not under"tand. however, that the mJ'.:lnction legisla-t10n
whIch Mr Taft ment10ns as promhed m the lZepubhcdll
platform 1" mtended to change the present practIce of bsuing
temporary re~tram111g orders or mJ unctIOns, WhICh are now IS-
~ued wIthout notIce dncl hearmg only when m the Judgment of
the court Irreparable damage I~ llnmment In VIew of Mr
T dff~ forceful and patnotlc utterance" m defen~e of the nghb
of 111dependent woI1one,men It I~ safe to a",Sl1l11ethat he WIll not
approve of a 1) le::;I~alt1On \\ hI::h \\ 111 111any manner Jeopal ellie
the~e nghts
N"aturally, I hesItate to be placed on record a" cntIcb111g the
presIdent\' -peech. whIch. m the mam, muct be taken as the
111gemous delIverance of a chplomat amI state~man. Cel tain!)
It mu"t be conceded that the preSIdent of the 1]lllted States can-not
afford to betray allY preJuchce or preference as between CltI-
7ens or da~se~ unless such preJuchfe or preference be clearl)
~hown to be a~amst the enemle, of the repubhc The chIef
fault I find wIth hI~ ChI-:ago utterance I~ thIS That in lend-mg
hIS great mfluence to the encouragement and exploitation of
labor UlllOlllsm he strangely omItted any comphmentary refer-ence
to the ments and claIms of the employmg element upon
whom the workmg people naturally depended for subSIstence
On the contrary, he dIsposes of the latter element WIth the ICY
cntIclsm that he ha~ no sympathy for those who oppo"e the or-gdlllzatIon
of labor
Had Mr Taft been personally confronted by thIS problerli,
a~ have the many ldrge employers who al e, one after another,
contmuonsly refusmg to recognIze labor UnIons to whose clIc-tatonal
methods and msolent demands they have for years been
~ubjected, I thmk he would not have saId "I thmk the employer
who declIneu to deal WIth organIzed labor and to recognIze It a,
a proper element m the ~ettlement of wage controversle, IS be-hmd
the times."
Echtonal m Amc! [call lndustrzcs for October-PresIdent
Taft declared recently that, If fate had had placed hIm among
what IS commonly termed the "workmg classes" he would have
Jomed a labor union ThIs IS mterestmg If true It is doubly
mtere",tmg because we know that the natUlal bent of thIS states-man
is toward law and order, and also that he IS not, and could
not, be of that pecuhar cdhber of whlLh the average labor UnIon
leader IS largely composed No one personally acquamted WIth
PreSIdent Taft, or even havmg a general krowledge of hIS char-acter,
could Imagme for one mmute that he would long hold a
UnIon card under condItIons daIly set forth before the Amen-can
people The average lawyer is adverse to vIOlence, the
average statesman abhors mFbtIce. the average respectable CitI-zens
prefers peace and qUIet m hIS dally hfe Our ChIef Exec-utIve
IS all of these, and therefore hIS statement must be ac-cepted
cum .~raIl0 sahs-chctated, not so much by the heart as
by-may we ",ay pohtics?
EdItonal In A11ZC1tCan Industrzcs for October-It is po~sIble
that Mr Taft can have so qUIckly forgotten that other statement
he made, when in the first flush of VIctory at the polls he de-clared
so fervently, and we thought gratefully, "I owe my elec-tIOn
pnnclpally to the loyal support of the bu",mess men?"
Surely the JudICIal mmd whIch raIsed WIlham H Taft from the
obscunty of an uUlmportant lawyer's office to the exalted office
of ChIef MagIstrate of the UUltecl States must know that the
business men of the country fall to appreCIate an approval of Il-legal
acts and cnml11al v101ence Perhaps the preSIdent was
Ulisquoted, perhaps he Joked-perhap", he suffers from poor ad-
VIce. Busmess men WIll accept anyone of the~e explanatIOns
to e~cape the dread that \VIlham H Taft IS chsloyal to honest
pnnclples
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Resldence~-Frank Johnson, 16iZ7 [' arragut street, ChlCago,
$7,000 n J ame<, Jarrell, 1256 Early ave, ChIcago, $3,550.
J Callo" 5810 Wash1l1gton boulevard, ChlCago, $1,700. ~:I\1ary
\ Lanca~ter 1,11 E WashIngton street, InclIanapohs, $5,00(; n P S Robert, Pal kway and ChIcago street, Indlanapohs, $3,30U n Edgar R VIncent, ::-J renn~ylval11a street, Indlanapohs, $4,000.
'f DEW ebster, Hartford and Shepard streets, Ml1waukee,
$+ iOO n C 13 PallIn, 730 Stowell street, l\lllwaukee, $4,200.
'f ~ S Smedegaard, Denver, Colo, $ct,300 'f PIerce Bnes,
\lounta1l1 \ Ie" and 1"enty-~econcl street, Denver, $5,000 n R.
1 Thompson Tremont avenue, Youngston, 0, $3,500 n G.
\\ Spnng",terbach, 1119 Newton avenue, M1l1neapohs. $7,000
'f Geo L GIllette, Dean boulevard, ':VI1l1neapohs, $7,500 11 Glen
L SaAton, 3iZOO S Emerson avenue, 1\11l1neapohs, $6,500. n Fntz
Holzaptel, 1i18 ~ GIrard avenue, M1l1neapohs, $4,800 n Geo
L Hart,oc:k, 37,)/ ChICago avenue, M1l1neapohs, $5,500 n R.
l Hob"on, 2070 J'\elson avenue, MemphIs, Telm ,$3,000 'f Wal-ter
\nclel "on. Omaha, Nebr ,2181 S ThIrty-fourth street, $2,500
'f W L Kelley, S2 .s111clalr avenue, Atlanta, Ga, $3,000 11 Ja-
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Top 46x23. MIrror 30x24. Wood
knobs. Hand rubbed fimsh.
CHARLES BENNETT FURNITURE CO.
CHARLOTTE, MICH.
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No. 537. 28x42 top.
Quarter Sawed Oak, Cross
Band Rim, Polished, $7.50
You can't make money faster than by buymg thIS fine lIbrary
Table by the dozen, unless you make up a carload out of thIS and
other good thmgs we have to show you.
PALMER MANUFACTURING CO.
1015 to 1043 Palmer Ave., DETROIT MICH. ~-------_._- ._ ..._-----_ ..--- - _._-_._- ...~
VIew In the Rug Department of the Kelsker Store
cob SeIdel, IlJS Boulevard E, DetrOIt, $10,000 n Herman Yat-zek,
1ill Lelce~ter street, DetrOIt, $12,'iOn n George \V Lynn,
1l:2() Humboldt ~treet. DetrOIt, $:1 .Jon n A.xthur Schultz, San
Ant011l0, rj eAas, $:1.,)00 'f LeonalCl HI11Js, Peona, Ill, $13,000
'f J \1 Robb. Peona, Ill, $-1 2,)0 ~ E. C Roh1f~en, Peona,
Ill, (bungalow) $4.)00 11E L RIchmond, Peon a, Ill, $'),500
'f J C 0 HaIre, St Joseph, Mo, $4,500 'f Clara B QUInn,
J20iZ Shenandoah street, St LOUIS, 110, $9,500 n Lulu Tuffy,
JS16 St Louh street, St LOUIS, Mo, $4,700 11 E Popper, 918
T'orty-elghth Place, Clucago, $12,000 n F. L SlVyer, Lake
Dnve :\111\\aukee, $12,000 11 :\Irs S H Kle111, Denver, Colo.,
$.3,000 'f .sophIa Gaston, Denver, Colo, $3,000 ~ Mrs So-phIe
\11ller, 901 Glengyle Place, ChIcago, $9,000 'f Wm. WhIte,
Las La Me<,a Miraville, Cal, $7,500 11 R. Scott, Mesa, Ariz,
$6,000 'f A D SmIth, POl11t Loma, Cal, $4,000. ~ A L
Morey, 4465 Bartmel evenue, St Joseph, ~Io, $7,500. 11 \Vm
H Frantz. 6134 :;-'lcPhercon avenue, St Joseph, :1\10, $5,500
'f T R Wheelock. 4319 GIllham road, Kansas CIty, Mo, $4,000
11 1\ A ChI1berg, 1900 Ryons avenue, Ll11coln, 1\'ebr, $4,500 n Paula Plesko, IS5 Schenectady, N. Y , $4,000 1"[ R M. Dun-naway,
269 Lake avenue, Atlanta, Ga, $4,~00 n T. L Smith,
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OVER 15,000 OF OUR
STEEL RACKVISES IN USE
Price $2.80 to $4.00
25 doz Clamp FIxtures bought
by one mIll last year. We shIp
on approval to rated firms, ana
guarantee our goods uncondi-tIOnally.
Wrote for !l8t of
Steet Bar Clamps, V,ses, Bench
Stops, etc
E. ". S"ELDON &. CO. 283 Madison St. Chicago.
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\mmton Ala. $G,500 ~ G. A. Gorham, Blrmmgham, Ala,
$.'5,000 ~ lIr" A 1\1 Erwm, ::Y1acon,Ga, $4,800 ~ Wilham
Dun\', cody, Macon, Ga, $8,000 ~M aJ W W Gordon, Sa-vannah.
Ga. $20,000 Jame'i Connelly, 1b32 Hazel Dnve,
Cleveland, 0 , $15.000 ~ A. R Hme, 10025 Somerset street,
Cleveland, 0 , $1,500 ,-rFrank Gentele. J r , Broadway, LotllS-Ville,
Ky, $4,400 T E McGm111'i, Duke street, St Paul
Mll1n, $8,600 ,-rJames SUl1(Jns, "!'Ilarshall street, St Paul,
:\lmn, $:'0,400 ,-rMr'i Anna Connor, 2403 N 45th street,
Omaha, Nebr, $7,000 ~ Anna Dray V{arrack, Sacramento,
Cd, $5,000 ,-rWm L. Scharf, 2157 Eighth avenue, N. Y,
$7,300 ,-rl\1rs W n Sleeper, Huntmgton Park, Cal, $G,400
,-rJohn Peter'ion, 1115 Humboldt street, Chicago, $5,000 11Jd-cob
Bowman, 1120 North J efferSQn street, Peona, Ill, $.3,500
,-r,\ J \\;ellbanks, 802 Lexmgton avenue, Syracuse, NY, $4,800.
,-rE E Huznrd, I2? Fitch street, Syracuse, $6.000 ,-rAhce
1\1 Thoma'i, 34 Columbus street, Buftalo. NY, $2.800 ~ Ma-nan
~ Horan, 361 Seventh street, Buffalo, $4,000 ,-rIsrael
Golc1stem, 249 PUle street, Buffalo, $3,500 ,-rJohn Brunner,
Evanston, Ill, $12,000 ,-rMichael Murphy, Evanston, Ill, $4,-
300 ,-r"Gu,," Hartmetz, EvanSVille, Inc1, $4.500 11E F
Hanna, Salt Lake City, Utah, $7,000 ~J E Roehr, 930 We"t
Twelfth 'itreet, Oklahoma City, $4,500. ,-r Thomas A Parry,
SdJt 1 ahC (It), Ltah, $3,500 ,-r Wilham A Holstead, DetrOIt
Mlch, $9,000 ,-rCharle'i Coulter, DetrOIt, $5,000 ,-r Henry
Bergeman, DetrOIt. $-1,:JOO ,-rJ G Ka,ter, DetrOit, $5.600
,-rCharles Miller, HG Ellery "treet, DetrOIt. $6,000 ,-rB M.
Levy, Gray avenue. Houston, Texa'i, $4,000 ,-rJ R Darnell,
Gray avenue, Houston. Texas, $-1,500 11R C Hobson, 20'/0
~ ehon avenue, l'\1emphls, Tenn , $) ,500 11W L Adams. 1425
Laurel 'itreet, St LOllh, 1\10, $3.000 \Vl1ham Damman, Lo-gan
avenue. Young'itown, OhIO, $3,(,00 ,-rSamuel Teltz. Day-ton
'itreet, I\ewark, K J. $10,500 111\1r., M M McCall,
34 \tVe'it Fourteenth street, Atlanta, Ga . $6,000 ,-rl\Ir" Ehza-beth
Calder, J06 Murray dvenue, Pltbburg. Fa, $5,000 11S
R Byarly, Arch and Twentieth streets, Little Rock. Al k, $3,
000 ,-rMrs. L H Curnayn, 2341 Kemper street, Cmcmndtl,
OhIO, $8,000 L A Chesebro, 54 Parkwood boulevard, Schen-ectady,
NY, $3,000 ,-rJoseph Vogelberger, Young'itown,
OhIO, $+,500 ,-rC ~llller, 5625 Woodlawn avenue, Chl'.::ago,
$15,000
Schools-Mmneapoh", Mmn. Seward School, $90,000,
St. Paul, Mmn. Cleveland high school, $118,000, Los Angele",
Cal , has secured a ten-acre tract for a high school, bUlldmgs to
be constructed on the group plan at a cost of $243,000
Hotels-Albert FI'iher, Salt Lake City, Utah, $100,000, W
S Bane and daughter, Corona, Cal, $.15,(,00
Mi"cellaneoU'i-Sheltering Arms orphan asylum, Mmnedp-
011", $30,000, Plans for the new court house at Bakel sfield, Cal,
call for an expenditure of about $330,000, Contract ha" been
awarded for the constructIOn of the city hall at Redlands, Cal
Baptists will bUlld a church at Arte"la, N 1\1, at a co"t of
$25,000 A new court house IS to bUIlt at Lebanon, Pa, a"
soon a'i an agreement can be made as to the site Fourth ave-nue
Baptists, LOUlsvllle, Ky, are bmldmg a church to cost $.)3,-
000
Making More Denatured Alcohol.
Figure'i sent out from \Vashmgton last Monday "how thdt
the productIOn of denatured alcohol 111 the Umted States 111-
creased about 28 per cent dunng the year endl11g J nne JO, 1909,
a'i compared With the prevloU'i wear The productIOn for tne
past year aggregated 3,7n.,370 gallon~ aga1l1~t 4,356,419 gallom
for the prevIOus year
Even 111 fish1l1g for husbands It IS generally the big ones that
get away.
SEND FOR CATALOGUE.
ket and should be well up m values Perhaps our buyers do
not know their bu"mess, but we will say this, we are now paying
much more for them and If you can place an order for 1000,
landmg them m Chicago for us at $1 50, we will give you $200
for your trouble, but, even If what you say IS tl ue, don't you
thmk this kitchen table a pretty good premlUm when you take
mto con'-lderatlOn that we IPu~t set up, finish and dellver our
pi emlt1ms to the customers' houses?
\\ e aLa \\ I~h to remInd you that Flsh\ stamp savers may
select dn, other al tlcle 111either of our five stores, marked $350,
or may appl) a book of our stamps as $3 30 on account of any
prevlOm pUl c11ase or use the LQok m an) way that $350 cash
'auld bc Ihed In our ~tOIes
\\ hcn )OU d\ lOwe olle must pa, for the stamps' vou ale
con cd but do the Irel chant~ hancllmg our ~tdmps pay any more
or as l11uch for acIni tl~111\Sthan we must p,y the SlI:;h Furm-
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THE NEW STYLE TRADING STAMPS.
The Fish Furniture Company Takes Exceptions
to What the Weekly Artisan Said About Them.
Editor of the Vveekly ArtIsan, Dear Sn - -\s a sub"cnber
of the Artisan, of many years' standmg, we \'Ish to thank} au
for the wrIte-up Qn our FHh's Stalnps, but the man} mis-state-ments
conta1l1ed in }our artIcle force upon us the conchhlOn
that the wntel thereof must have either have been I11I~mfOlmed
or he Jumped to concluslOns Without any authentIc 111formatlOn
m regard to the sub1ect matter 111hand
Before we proceed further, we Wish to assure} au that evel \
word m our advertIsement, whlLh you so k111dl} replOducec1, I~
the absolute truth, and It IS so 'L('ell establIshed that there are
thousands of mel chants 111 ChIcago who '« lit (eJ Itl, 'ic It/lOltt
question, our claim
Fish's Stamps are not called Tradll1g Stamp, for the very
gcod reason that a~lde from the fact that the) are ~I\ en out
and collected 111the same way, they ha\ e 1I0th1Jl~ I1l C01l1111011
your statement to the contrary notwltlbtandll1g
You ,ay, If we, au plomoters of Fish s Stamps 'iL{:re to stop
now, "the 5000 mer-::hants mIght find It to then ddvantage to
cont1l1ue their uee." wunch chllch h 111Vle\\ at the fact that the; e
are 5000 mCi chants 111 ChIcago nOll' USIII!!; them and \ all \\ III
doubtless admit that It would be conservative to estimate thClr
customels at an dverage of 100 each, representing as the) do
all lInes of merchanchsll1g, dr} good, clothll1g, grocery, mar-kets,
teas, coffees and kindred lines.
ThiS makes the approximate number of I I~h S stdmp say el ~
111 Chicago someth1l1g hke OIlC halt 1111lium people \0 ~ll1dll
mfluence \\ hen we can Ider that the gl eatel maJOlIt\ at thesc
stamp 'aver~ are z('omcll and the heads of fallll!les \\ auld It
not be Ill-adVised to conclude that thiS vast number of senSible
econ0l111cai people who. dunng the pa,t four years that I I::>h'
,tamps have been grow1l1g 111 p'lpulanty, al e /lot stud \ l1Z~ thell
best intclest by ,a\ 1I1g them)
The old 1l11e stamp compames are stIli aggles..,lVeJ, H'PI e-sented
111 Chicago and that Flsh\ stamps nave thL great foIlO\\-
mg speak worlel, for the dlffe} e/lce betzl cell the tlL'O
We do not ..,ell to competll1g mel chants, giving to eve! \
merchant who co-opelate~ With us hiS legitimate tJ ade I adzwJ
crcluswns, Improvement 0, er the aIel ctamp cOl1lpal1le" \\ a\ s
but effectively answers another Item 111 the mchLtment which you
make against u" m your article
As to the comment which you make as to the value of the
premlUms shown, a kitchen cabmet table 'Iookmg cheap and hke
It should be produced at $150," we have anI) thl" to say Y0l1
are 111 Grand Rapld~ on the ground floor of the f11l11ltl11e mal-
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A~only the edge outlines of the
Cutter comes Into contact With the
lumber, there ISno frIction or burn-
Ing of the moulding!> when made
with the Shimer Reversible or One-Way Cutters. These Cutters
are carefully moulded to suit your work, and are very complete,
inexpensive and time-saving tools. We supply special Cutters of
any shape deSIred and of any SLi:eto SUIt your machine spIndles.
Let us havt' your speCifications. For odd work not found In our
catalogue send a wood sample or draWIng.
SAMUEL J. SUlMER &. SONS, Milton, Penn.
Manufacturers of the Shimer Cutter Heads for Flooring, Ceiling,
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J@'h~jrtet"
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I for 1Fish S1tunpBook:
If you want to make every dollar count, 1 hIS CabInet IS made from thoroughly
trade where you can receive Flsh'sStamps seasoned hardwood, will not split or
You must cat,and sleep and hve ThiS, uack It hdS an unvarmshed, smooth
of neceSSIty, costs money In the spend close ~ratned, whIte top The leg.s and
mt,\ of money. the art of where to !;pend It SIdes <lre finIshed With the very best high
IS the knowted~e g,reat men show in quahty varnIsh fhIS Cahmet wIll make
buddmg fortunes your kl.tchcn more attractive, and the
'\ hat IS true of the great fortune bul1d~ work easier It con tams flour bIn, ca
ers IS hkewisc true of those 2 OOO~OOO paclty about 50 pounds, larg,e center
human beings who hve In ChIcago In drawep and bread and meat board It
thIS great CIty there are o"er 5 000 stores 15 handsomely trImmed With brasshandles
which handle" FISh s Stamps These and good casters Ahigh~grade kItchen
merchants sell as low If not lower t1tan adornment and a household neceSSIty
other merchants They deal in every 1hislSjUstoneof hundreds of things
thmg you need They Me Jocated Fish's Stamps bring free to you Furnt-on
the ,",orth South and West ture and housefittmgs of all kInds
s1des and for ma.ny mdes around for the home In every department
Ctllcai?,0 open to your selection
Sa ve these stamps They are worth dollars to you. One
httle book full of the stamps wdl make you the owner
of the KItchen Cabmet shown above.
Eden full,
Book of lllsl\s stamps
is wortf\.
$3.5Qo
MNch.nU <.,,,1SI."d. •• p.". Who A"e N.t Sapplied Call Up 1404 Colurnd
On every"
haseyou
make askfor
Fish~ .st<l.p~
given FREE at
over 5000 stores
tUI e COl11pdn) (v\ h0111\\ e see ae!verti~e~ 111 YQllI paper) when we
bu) from them, 01 do you \\I"h to 'Oay that the Shgh Furmture
company should ac1vertl~e and the merchants who co-operate
With tIS should not? \"T e ~ell our stamp~ to the merchants with
the c~ZI(J1 antec that the} Will merease hiS buslncss or they cost
hU11nothm~ -can} 011 ,ay as much to )'our advertisers?
Our stdmp proposltlOn IS Simply co-operatIve advertlsl11g
between the mel chants ancl OUl0elves and IS as different from
the regular exclUSive stamp company plan as e!ay I~ from l1Ight.
That our plan IS ecoJlomlcally nght and a tremendou;, Im-provement
over the ole! tl ad1l1g ,tamp, should be mal1lfest tQ
any falr-m1l1clecl observant pel son ane! considering that it IS be-
I11g adoptee! and coplee! practIcally the \\ hole country over, from
Canada to Te"as. only makes another I11dlcatIve, forceful argu-ment
Qf the Il11prO\ement our plan :.hows over the aIel-fashioned
tradll1g stamps
\Ve feel that an 1I1JustIce has been done us by the trend of
your article and consIder It only a matter of JustIce to u" and
bu"iness courtesy that you give equal publICity to our explana-tory
letter
Thank1l1g you aga1l1, we beg leave to remain
Yours very truly,
L. FISH FURNITURE CO
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WEEKLY ARTISAN 31
EVANSVILLE BUSINESS BOOMING.
Furniture Factories Running Ten Hours a Day
and Some of Them Working Nights.
Evansvl1le, Ind, Oct 21-Business is booming with the lo-cal
furniture manufacturer" Practically every factory IS run-nmg
on full time In speakmg of local condItions, Harry H.
Schu, of the Crescent Furmture Company, saId: "Our four
hundred employes are now working on a schedule of ten hour~
a day and the packers are workmg mghts. Weare placmg our
products m the east, whIle heretofore the field has been restricted
to the south and southwe"t
A F Karges, secretary of the Karges Furniture Company,
which IS a part of the BIg S1'\: Carloading AssociatIOn. saId'
"In my OpInIOn busmess is twenty-five per cent better wIth the
local furmture manufacturers than one year ago There IS a
feelmg of confidence m the blbmess world VI e are now work-ing
our plant ten hours a day and orders are coming m mcely
InquirIes are mcreasmg rIght along"
Gus Stolt7 of the Stoltz-SchmItt FurnIture Company, say s
m hIS cplmcn trade IS better now than It has been at any t11ne
dUrIng the past two years Hem y Menke of the Indiana Furn-mture
Company amI Edwal d Ploeger of the Bosse" Jurmture
Company also expressed theme elves as well pleased wIth the
trade outlook
Benjamm Do,,~e of the Globe FUlmture Company, spent
~everal days la~t week m Inchanapohs on blhmess
Carl WIlson. of the Wllson Furmture Company, of LOUIS-vIlle,
was here a few day" ago on busmes
FI ed L StolL::. Iranager of the Crown Cl,air company 0:
tIns CIty, has pnrchased the stock from the vanous stockholders
and IS now "de owner of the plant
Th(' Umted States Furmture Company have recently ad-ded
a lme of davenports whI,::h are takmg well WIth the trade
Charles Fnsse of the \Vorld Furmture Company. Edwal (1
Ploeger of the Do se FurnIture Company and Carl R RItter
1eturned from Cl11cago a few days ago whel e they went on bUS1-
ness
It is said that the plant of the Henderson (Ky) ChaIr com-pany
whIch wa0 recently de~troyed by fire WIll be rebmlt.
The reSIdence of WIlliam Ko'::h, of the Evansvl1le "Metal
Bed company, lS nearly completed The home w111 cost him
about $30,000 and be one of the finest In tl11S CIty. Mr Koch
IS Justly proud of the fine resldence and has a llght to be
w.n. C
The Man of Fifty.
The best of the world's work in every field of useful actlvlty
has been accomph;,hed by men whose age~ vvere nearer to fifty
than to thIrty-five say;, Forbes Lmdsay m Harpers Weekly
The statement IS aXIOmatic Any doubt about lt WIll be dlSS1-
pated by ten mmutes' flight of memory. And a" the mmd runs
over many coroborative Illustrations another fact WIll be forced
upon it-that the older the actor, the surer the performance
The achievement of the man of fifty is the result of cold calcu-lation
and mature judgment If luck enters into the matter It
is an mCIdent, not an essential factor The young man, on the
other hand, delIberately mcludes chance in hlS plans and freelv
take" risks One m ten of him effects a brIllIant coup The
other nine make a fizzle But lt is the startlIng success that
holds our attention and mo1cls our opimon. The popular mmd
IS mfluenced by mstances rather than by averages One man
may create a reputation for the entire clas" to which he belongs.
The meteonc rise of a George Perkins is widely accepted as
evidence that a man lS at his best m what is really the period of
immaturity.
But this fallacy IS not entirely fancJful. Our pre"ent sys-tem
of busine"s, bemg abnormal, produces abnormal effects
Our grandfathers scrawled "Slow and Sure" in thelr copy-books
until the maxim was engraven upon theIr brams. The present
generatIOn finds no pomt in the story of the tortOise and the
hare. The head of a large corpOi atIOn declared to me that he
would rather employ a man of "peedy deCISIOns, even though he
made occasIOnal ml stake;" thdn one of the "slow as chtch-vv ater
but certam as death" kmd The commercial world of today is
a sort of hothouse m whIch the young shoots are prematurely
forced Naturally enough, they detenorate at an earher age
than they should Also, in thelr eager development, they exert
an upward pressure that pushe~ many a healthy plant out by the
roots.
The dIctum has gone forth that the man of fifty has passed
the perIod of hlS greatest usefulness ThI;, Oslensm h fast be-com111g
a general belIef Gl ay haIrs and wnnkles are a senous
Made by World Furmture Co , EvanSVIlle, Ind.
bal to employment 1he man of fifty who lo;,es hI;' place m
the proce"s10n hds ;,mall chance of regammg lt, and may deem
h1111sel£fortunate if he contnves to squeeze mto the rear ranks
i\nd thlS applIes to all classes m the pur;,ml;, that demands edu-cation
and knowledge Bu"mess men, college profes~ors, engI-neers,
and even clel gymen find themselves undel the ban at fifty
Strangely enough, the chance" of employment of the man of
fifty are greater 111the cdllmgs where brawn lS a more nnportant
qualIficatIOn than bram
The man of fifty may know that hi;, faculties are keenel
than ever before: that his experIence 1;' nper, hlS judgment
sounder, hb constitutIOn and habits more stable, and hl;, power
of steady, even applIcatIOn greater But he can't persuade the
world to share hlS behef
Try the Smooth Cook Stove.
W. D Sager, manufacturer of stoves and ranges, 330-342
N Water street. Chlcago, has an advertisem.ent m thlS Issue of
the Weekly Artisan whIch all dealers should read. The "Smooth
Cook" stove lS mentIOned m .Mr Sagel 's "ad" and dealers WIll
do well to send for complete catalog
Furniture Fires.
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Miscellaneous Advertisements.
WANTED-SALESMAN.
Expecting to Increase our force of salaried salesmen we
want to hear from furniture salesman, open for engagement
January 1st. Must have experience In road work In medIUm
and better case work, and general hne of furnIture. State
reference. None but well recommended, expenenced furni-ture
roadman Will be considered. Address High Grade Care
Michigan Artisdn. '10'-23-tf.
WANTED-SUPERINTENDENT.
For Indiana factory, making sewing machme woodwork,
address "Echo" or Weekly Artisan. 10-23.
WANTED LINES FOR 1910.
Experienced salesman With estabhshed trade between Buffalo
an~ Bangor, Me., would hke to carry several hnes of medIUm
pnced case goods on commiSSion. Address "EsPI" care
Weekly Arttsan. 10-9 t. f.
WANTED-SALESMEN.
The. new. management of the Modern FurnIture Company,
CmClnnatt, 0., deSIre canable salesmen to carry a new and up-to-
date hne of Hall Racks in all parts of the UnIted States
Oct 9-16-23-30.
WANTED.
A hne of medIUm priced Bedroom SUites and Sideboards for
Pennsylvania outside of Philadelphia. On terntory twenty
years. Address L D., care Weekly Artisan. 10-9, '09
WANTED.
Capable foreman to take charge of wood-working shop.
Office furniture factory near Toronto, Onto Reply stating
age, expenence and reference. One who IS now a foreman or
assistant foreman preferred. Apply to A. F. Smith, 97 Wel-lington
St. W., Toronto, Onto 10-9 '09.
WANTED.
Traveling Salesman for I1lmols and Middle Western states to
sell Foldmg Carnages on commissIOn. Liberal propOSItion
to nght party. Address Rockford Folding Carnage Co.,
Rockford, Ill. Oct. 2-9-16-23.
WANTED.
First class spindle carvmg machme operator on heavy claw
feet and heads. State wages expected. Address 3-B care
Weekly Artisan Sept. 25.
WANTED LINES
One who is a thoroughly experienced and practtcal furm-ture
man seeks to represent as salesman on commiSSIOn a
good furmture and a good chair factory. Prefer central
states. Have been supermtendent, draftsman, also sales-man
last fifteen years. Best references given. For further
mformation address "W" care of Weekly Artisan.
Sept. 18-25 Oct. 2.
COMPETENT BOSS FINISHER WANTED.
Man who can get out production and do it right. Send
references, state experience and lowest salary in first letter.
Addre1§s "Mlsco," care Weekly Artisan. 9 18-25.
WANTED-POSITION.
In progressive furnIture factory, making case goods, beds or
tables by a competent superintendent having ten years' ex-penence.
Thorouglily famlhar With all branches. Address
"W" No.2, care Weekly Artisan. 9 4-11-18-25
WANTED-WOOD SEAT CHAIR FACTORY
To locate on our property at Columbus, Mississippi; unlimit-ed
supply of red and white oak; red and sap gum and beech at
extremely low cost; plenty cheap labor; fine factory site; un-excelled
shipping facilities and low freight rates to good mar-ket.
Might take some stock in well managed company. Ad-dress
Interstate Lumber Company, Downmg Building, Erie,
Pa.
BARGAIN!
40 H. P. direct current motor, latest make and in first class
running conditt on. Grand Rapids Blow Pipe & Dust Ar-rester
Co., Grand Rapids, Mich. 8-2Itf
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'1 he lola (Kano) Rug Compdny l{)~t about $9,000 by tIre
that stal tee! III the engllle room. Fully 1l1sured
I Pope, fUf1lltnre dealer of Morn~on, l\Io, was burned out
completely on October 1-1 Loss $2,000, no 1l1surance,
The EvanSVille (Ind) Mirror and Beve11l1g company SI, r
fel eel a lo~~ of $J,OOO by fu e on October III Insured
Blomgren Bro~, fwmture e!ealer~ of J\I111neaPDh~,
lo~t alJout $~'l,()()O b) fire in their store on October 11
l11surecl
H T Hamill furniture and hardware dealer of Malrssa
III , wa~ burned out last week With a los" of about $20,000, only
partially Illsured
Geo A Popple, aged 17, an employe of the Waite Chair
Companv at Baldwmville, MdSS , havmg been demed a raise III
wages sought revenge by settmg fire to one of the company's
bUlldmgs and causlllg a l{)"s of $3,000 A httle later he fired
another causmg a loss of $8,000. He has confessed
Mllln,
Fully
The "King" Stove.
\ttentlOn of dealers IS called to the advertisement m this
Issue of the \Veekly ArtIsan of W. D Sager, manufdcturer of
sto\ es and ranges, ,l,)O-,l~2 1\ ~Water street,C1llcago .!v1r
Sa::;er \\ho IS one of the be~t known manufacturer~ m the busI-nc'-
s calls attention to "Thc Kmg' ctove adapted for heatmg
"chool h{)tl~e~, hall", factones, etc Dealers should wnte for
complete catalog
INDEX TO ADVERTISEMENTS.
Alaska Refngeratcr Company
Barlow Bros
Barnes, W. F. & John Company
Barton, H. H. & Son Company
Bennett, Charles, Furn. Company
Big SIX Car Loadmg ASSOCiatIOn
Bockstege FurnIture Company
Bosse Furniture Company
Crescent Machine Works
DeBruyn, ]. C
Delaware Chair Co:npany
Ford & Johnson Company
Furniture Exhlbuon BUlldmg Company
Globe FurnIture Company
Hoffman Bros. Companv
Hotel Lmden
Hotel Tuller
Karges FurnIture Company
Lentz Table Company
Luce Furniture Company
Luce-Redmond Chair Company
Madden, Thos., Son & Co
Manufacturers Exhibition BUIlding Company (ChIcago)
Metal Furniture Company
Michigan Engravmg Company
Michigan Machme and Tool Works
Miller, Ell D. & Co
Miscellaneous
Moon Desk Company
Muskegon Valley FurnIture Company
New York FurnIture Exchange
Palmer Manufactunng Company
Richmond Chair Company
Rowe, E P. Carving Works
Royal Chair Company
Sager, W. D.
Sheboygan Chair Company
Sheldon, E H. & Co
Shimer Samuel J. & Sons
Shgh FurUlture Company
Smith & DaVIS Manufacturmg Company
Stow & Davis Furniture Company
Udell Works
Weatherly Company
White Prlntmg Company
World Furniture Company
Wysong & Miles Company
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GRAND RA'"
PUBLIC LIBRAR
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These buildings form part of the MONUMENTAL GRAND CENTRAL STATI N GROUP, Lex-ington
Ave. to Depew Place, 46th to 47th, 47th to 48th streets and contain 1,3 0,000 square feet.
More Profit
The Furniture Manufacturer is in business to make furniture and sell it n a market at a profit.
Three Essentials Required to Make a Ma ket
A Place to Show His Samples.
A Place Where Buyers Congregate.
A Consuming Population.
These Mammoth Twin Structures, the New Home of th
New York Furniture Ex hange
are the largest buildings in the world devoted to wholesale salesrooms and afford an unexcelled
opportunity for the manufacturer to display his full line.
The manifold attractions of New York and its commercial supremacy draws t e buyer as the magnet
draws iron.
New York is the center of the greatest consuming population on earth: EI en million within three
hundred miles.
To Secure the Profit I
Make Your Lease N~w
and obtain a choice location. \
Address, Chas. E. Spratt, Secretary,
NEW YORK FURNITURE EXCHANGE
Lexington Avenue and 43d Street, NEW YORK.
- Date Created:
- 1909-10-23T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Collection:
- 30:17
- Notes:
- Issue of a furniture trade magazine published weekly in Grand Rapids, Mich, starting in 1879. and -----------------
lRA~~DRAPIL
GRAND RAPIDS. MICH••APRIL 23. 1910
SLIGH FURNITURE COMPANY
The Largest Manufacturers of CHAMBER FURNITURE
EXCLUSIVELY IN THE WORLD
Catalogue to Prospective Customers. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
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LUCE FURNITURE COMPANY
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
Manufacturers of COMPLETE lines of MEDIUM PRICED DINING
and CHAMBER FURNITURE.
Catalogues to Dealers Only. ~-- .. ... --- ._------_. _.-------------. .. -.....-
Luce-Redmond Chair Co.,Ltd. I
BIG RAPIDS, MICH.
High Grade Office Chairs
Dining Chairs
Odd Rockers and Chairs
Desk and Dresser Chairs
Slipper Rockers
Colonial Parlor Suites
In
Dark and Tuna Mahogany
Bird' j Eyt Mapll
Birch
!f!...IIIIrftrtd Oak
and
ClrcaJJlan Walnut
Our Exhibit you will find on the
Fourth Floor, East Section, MANUFACTURERS'BUILDING, North Ionia Street
GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN
Exhibit in charge of J. C. HAMILTON, C. E. COHOES, J. EDGAR FOSTER.
30th Year-No. 43 GRAND RAPIDS. MICH.• APRIL 23.1910 Issued Weekly'
MUCH BETTER THAN THE NIGHT SCHOOLS
Cincinnati's Co-operative System Enables Boys to Secure an Education Without Loss
of Work and Wages.
Through the co-opelatlOll at manufacturers w1th the
school authontle" Cmcmnd.tI h "aid to ha, e "oh ed the pro
blem of hO\\ to contmue the educdtlOn of apprentice" m the
"hops without cuttmg do,vn the earnmg cdpaClty of the boy"
whom nece"''''lty ha" drnen to become wage earnel" at a ten-der
ag e
It has been a problem whIch economists and "tudent"> of
good gm ernment all over the country have been wre"tlmg
wIth fOJ many yed.rs The average apprentice can not, or
w111 not, attend the mght schools after a hard day's toll, and
the result has been that hundl eds of thousands of worker",
have grown mto manhood eqUlpped only wIth the rudImentary
educatIOn aJbsorbed 111 the pubhc schools before they were
12 or 14 year.:; old.
DUllng the years when the boys are in greatest need of
instruction m those things which do not actually pertam to
their tI dde, but whIch fOlm" "uch an Important part m quah-fY1l1g
the lads for pOSItIOns on a hIgher plane than an unedu-cated
man could fill, they ha\ e been shut off f1am mtellectual
growth Appal ently the only thmg which conld msure edu-catlOnal
development of the applentlces wa.:; the co-operatlOn
of the employer" Such co-operatlOn ha" been cfbtamed m
CmCll1natl, and alt present thele is a continuatlOn school m
operatIon thel e which bids fair to be emulated 111many of
the large manufactunng centl es of the- country 111the near
future
1he manufactUl ers of Cmcinnati have j0111ed forces wIth
the board of educatlOn to compel the d.ttendance of appren-tices
111the contmuatlOn school The manufacturer", pay the
apprentice, for the time they "pend in "chool, and they "ay
that the results will more than justify the cost
A com p1eh enSlVe de"criptlOn of C111c111na tI'~ expenmen t
wit'] her contmuation school for shop apprentlces IS gIven
Iby F B Dyer, superintendent of the pubhc schools of C111-
cinnati, who wa;; m New YOlk a few days ago to attend the
conventlOn of the N atlOnal Metal Trade'> association, mem-bers
of whIch have contnbuted greatly to the success of the
experimental day school for apprentlces m that city
"Some years ago m Cmcinnarti we opened mght classes
for apprentices," "aid Mr Dyer. "Pattern mak111g 111ay be
taken as an example We advertised a course for apprentices
in every shop m the city There were fewer than thirty re-sponses
The attendance was In egular and capncious, though
the teachlllg was excellent Though the courses were con-
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tmued they (hd not appeal to those we were wantmg The
I11ght schaab fills a need WIth olJer workmen, but the appren-tlce
b a day~tJme propositlOn He mu,>t come regularly and
through a senes of y eal" The employer must make It
worth hI" while to come, and, 111fact, must see that he Joes
come.
"Some of the progles"ne manufacturers of our C1ty for
"evel al years ined to cope With the problem by employmg
teachers for then apprentices, but ",uch teachers are scarce,
and only very large concerns could afford It The obstacles
to the extensive operatIOn of such a plan are too cibvlOUS to
need discU"sion The only agency thalt is adequate to cope
WIth the situatlOn is the state, and the state Will co-operate
when it understands that it is the great 111du;;trial class that
IS to be helped Employers may have to make some shght
'>acrifices They may have to concede to } oung workmen
a httle time for theIr 111tellectual betiterment, but 111 the ena
It w III be money well "pent a:-, an mvestment If authority
IS not given to require employers to send theIr apprent1ce"
to recelVe the 1l1structlOn whIch is the nght of every youth,
111a democracy at least, It is the priv1lege of every city to
offer an opportulllty to such youth 111part..,tlme day schools as
well as 111night schools.
"These Idea:; ripened 111the minds of some of our wisest
C1l1C1l1nati manufaoturers, and thus it came about that the
Board of Education of Cmclllnati last Summer proposed to
offer contmuatlOn course" for apprentices in any trade, and
plOceeded to vpen a school for machine shop appl entices as
soon as 150 stuJent,., were guaranteed More than 200 stu-dent"
were registered by eighteen manufacturers, and the
school ,;tarted Sept 1 A man was placed 111charge who had
been a teacher, a practIcal shop man, and for many years an
111structor of apprentices He tra1l1ed hI" own assistant The
average attendance has been 180 per week The boys came
four hour", per week, a new squad com111g each half day
The employers pay them for their time, and If they do not
show up at school they are reporetd and docked The school
runs forty-eight vveeks a year, eight hours a day, four and a
half day" a week, besIdes visiumg the boy" m the shops,
tallong With the foreman an,l keep111g a lme on the needs of
the boys The school is coSt111g the board about $15 a year
per boy.
"Tl1e course of study IS arnanged to coVer four years
Tlhe greatest difficulty wa" encountered 111getting the boys
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c1a"slfied correctly and placed 111 "lImlal gl0Up" \\ ]l1le this
was gl adually accomph"hec1 \\ lth the a-,shtance at the fore
men, it IS "till nece""ary to do con"lderable md1\ 1dnal 111-
structlOn, thn" reqt11nng an as"\,,tant, though there ,ue hut
twenty boy" 111a gtOUp The COt11se taken b\ the bel\ '0 h
not narrow nor lS 1t "'Ithout cultural elemenh It mdude"
mathematICs, meCha111C" c1ra\\ mg, C1\IC..,. ane! recllll11~ \\ nt-
1l1g and spellmg The 1I1treestmg th1l1g about It h that e\ el\
study 1S g1\ en a pract1cal colarmg-, and 1S made to fUl1ctlOn 111
the shop or expe11ence of the boy The boy see" the pUl-pose
of what he IS study111g, and has a mot1\ e m mastenng
every dtff1culty The end of all tim, b not as some suppo"e,
81mply to "end h1m back next Jay able to turn out more and
better Walk, 1t IS to a"'aken hI;" dormant po\\ers and make
h1m alert, thoughtful, ongmal, competent up to the l11111tot
his ability.
"These mental exerClses rehe\ e htm of the monotomy of
shop routme A" he learns of the great mdu"try m \\111ch he
is engaged, and of 1ts captams and m\ entor", and as he dIS-cusses
1t" relatlOn.., WIth other occupatIOns an,] \\lth human
hfe, his mterest m h1S work mcreases, and he comes mto
sympathy With the ~teat body of the ~warL],s \\orkel" .\"
he learns to find ne\\ plOblems 111 h1" 'ohop e"pel1ence and
appltes hIS knmdedge to them, hb \\())l become" tran"tormcd
Into a fascmat1l1g at t IIe cea"e;" to be a mere hand, and
asp1re, to be a free 1l1a"tet of an honO! able u at!
"A great many expert eJucator" from dd'terent parts of
the world have V1;"lted the school and e"ammed carefully mto
the course and the method" of mstrnctlOn and hay e que,twned
the boys at lengt,h They pronounce the course as one of the
mo;"t s1g11lficant effort" ) et made to a,lapt eclucatlOn to \ 0
caiton, and the method used as repre"entUlg the mo,t ad-vanced
pedagogical ,1e\\ s
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, \\ e th1l1k so much of the plan m Omcl11nati that the
roard of EducatlOn ha" offereJ to open a contl11uation school
for any other classes of apprentices that may be sent, and also
for) oung saleswomen m "tores, or girls workmg m trades
A. h111 lS no\\ hefore the Oh10 State Leg1slature empowering
Board" of EducatlOn to require the attendance of all youth
under 16 at part-t11ne contll1UatlOn sohools. If I had the
,]ctermm1l1g of 1t, there would be a law reqUlring the at-tendance
of all apprent1ces through the1r apprenticeship. Such
"chool" \\ 111 do much to elevate the standards of work, the
Jegn_e of l11telltgence, and the morIa character of )'1oung work-ers,
and \\ lllltft them m the ,",cale of 11\mg so that they may be
\\ hat they should be-the strength of our Nation and the envy
of the \\ orId "
Gevurtz to Erect a Hotel.
Intormat1on ha" been rece1ved from Portland, Oregon,
that Phl1hp Gev nrtz, the prosperous dealer 111 h011.oe furl11sh-mg
goods 111 that City, WillI erect a hotel dunng the coml11g
\ ea I to cost $755,000 The 3lte, corner of Eleventh and
Stark "treets. 0\\ ned by ~lr Gevurtz, 1" valued at $150,000
FOUR NEW
TRADE MARK REGISTERED
PRODUCTIONS
BARONIAL OAK STAIN
FLANDERS OAK STAIN
S M0 K ED 0 A K S T A I N
EARLY ENGLISH OAK STAIN
Send for finished samples, free.
Ad-el-ite Fillers and Stains have long held first place in the estimation
of Furniture Manufacturers and Master Painters. In addition to the reg·
ular colors the above shades offer unusually beautiful and novel effects.
in acid and oil.
in aGid and oil.
in acid and oil.
in acid and oil.
The Ad-el-ite People CHICAGO-NEW YORK
.. EverythIng In Pamt SpecIalties and WoodFIUlshmgmatenals. FIllers that fIll. StaIns that sahsfy
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WE MAKE REFRIGERATORS IN ALL SIZES AND STYLES
.......
Zinc Lined, Porcelain Lined.
White Enamel Lined, Opal-Glass Lined.
You can increase your Refrigerator Sales by putting m a
line of the "Alaskas."
Write for our handsome catalogue and price lists.
New Furniture Dealers.
\'\ ~1 Allen has opened a new furmture store at Brew-ster,
Ore
Don & Rau ha' e opened d new furnIture stale at Al-bany,
Idaho
RInehart & WIlson are neV\ furnIture dealers at Glen-dale,
\V. Va
Holcomb & Glrtanner are new furnIture dealers at Port
Townsend, "Vash
The Ironclad FurnIture and Hal dware company are new
dealers at Irondale, Ore
J acdb Bornstem WIll open a new furnIture "to! e on Sun-bur}
-.treet, Shamokm, Pa
John ErIckson is makmg allangemenb to open a new
fm mture store at Towner, N Dak
Arthur J. Jeffrey, formerly wIth the Dorsett & Jeffrey
company of Buffalo, has opened a new furnitm e "tore at
II'estfield, N Y.
Adams & May, under the name of the VidalIa Furmture
company Ihave opened a large 'Stock of furmtme in theIr new
store at VIdalIa, Ga
H H Tandy hac; opened two new stores on \Valnut
"treet, Columbia, ~[o, one stocked WIth furmture and the
other WIth hardware
C E WhItehall, D F Lane and E J HIckson have m-corporated
the Banner Furniture company, capltalIzeJ at
$100,000 to engage in house furnlshmg bU'omess 111 Muncie,
Ind.
Samuel Goldman, for many} ears connected WIth furni-ture
trade in St LOUIS, Mo, ha" Ju"t opene1 a new furniture
and carpet store of his own at the corner of Seventh street
and Franklm avenue
Trade With the Philippine Islands.
Trade of the Umted States WIth the PhI1ippme Islands
shoVl s a marked 111CI ease S111cethe pas"age of the act remO\-
1l1g the tarIff dutIes on domestIc merchanJlse passmg between
the Islands and the Ul11ted States The tanff act whIch went
mto effect on August 6, 1909, as IS well known, proVIded for
an interchange free of duty of practIcally all artIcles of do-mestIC
productIOn of the U l11ted States anJ the Phlhppme
Islands The figures of the Bureau of StatIstIcs of the De-partment
of CommeJ1ce and Labor, show that the value of the
shipments of dome"tIc melchanclI"e from the U111ted States
to the Phllipp111e r"lands from July 1, 1909, to the end of
February 1910 (practically all of whIch period except the
month of July wa" under the new tanff) amounted m value
to $10,151,276, agaInst $6,871,764 m the correspondmg pelloJ
of last year Durmg the same perIOd the' alue of merchan-dIse
Imported mto the L:111ted States from the PhI1Ippllle
hlands was $11,420,475, agamst $7,070,1.32 m the same months
of the preced;ng year, an mcrease In the total trade of about
55 per cent when campal ed WIth the corre"pondmg month" of
last year
Permanent Tenants for the Furniture Exchange.
The Palmer ManufactUrIng company of DetrOIt, have se-cured
space for a permanent exhllblt m the FurnIture Ex-change,
in GranJ Rapids They wIll h,lVe many new patterns
of 1Jbrary and Jming tables and pedestals, and WIll also ;;how
a line of reed rockers and chaIrs formerly made by the PIOneer
ManufactUrIng company These two hnes are very strong
and will add very materIally to the "how 111the Furniture
Exchange The Vleekly ArtIsan welcomes thIS 1111eto Grand
RapIds and predIcts that It WIlll prm c a great succc""
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"THE BEST IS THE CHEAPEST"
BARTON'S GARNET PAPER Sharp, Very Sharp, Sharper Than Any Other.
SUPERIOR TO SAND PAPER. It costs more, BUT It Lasts Longer; Does Faster Work.
Order a small lot; make tests;you will then know what you are getting. WE GUARANTEE SATISFACTION. Furniture
and Chair Factories, Sash and Door MIlls, Railroad Companies, Car Builders and others wal consult their own interests by using it. Also
Barton'. Emery Cloth, Emery Paper, and Flint Paper, furnishedin rollsor reams.
MANUFACTURED BY
H. H. BARTON & SON CO., 109 South Third St., Philadelphia, Pa.
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DO YOU WANT
the PRETTIEST, BEST and MOST POPU-L-
AR LEATHER FOR FURNITURE. ANY COLOR. WILL NOT CRACK.
If so buy our
GOAT and SHEEP
SKINS
Write for sample pads of colors.
DAHM & KIEFER TANNING CO.
TANNERIES
CRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
CHICACO, ILL.
204 lake Street,
CHICAGO, ILL. ..
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Palmer's Patent Gluinl! Clamps
The above cut is taken direct from a photograph, and shows
the range of one size only, our No 1, 2<l-inch Clamp We
make six other sizes. taking in stock up to 60 inches wide
and 2 inches thick. Ours is the most practical method of
clamping glued stock in use at the present time. Hundreds of
factories have adopted our way the past year and hundreds more
will In the future. Let us show you Let us send you the
names of nearly 100 factories (only a fraction of our list) who
bave ordered and reordered many times. Proof positive our way
Is the best. A post card will bring it, catalog Included Don't
delay, but write today.
A. E. PALMER & SONS, Owosso, MICH.
Foreicn Representatives: The Projectile Co., London, Eng-land;
Scbucbardt & Schutte, Berlin, Germany; Alfred H.
Scbutte, Colocne, ParIs, Brussels, Liege, MUan, Turin, Barcelona,
and Bilbo..
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BaIt ll110re, \p11l 20 -Some new bl11ldIng<; to go up here
nf lntcre~t to thc tt1111lture trade al e the follOWIng- A South-ern
~lethodlq Frll"copal church 11111 be erected at Charle<;
street and Ll1ller"lty Palkway, cost $175,000, the Ulllted
Brethren Church soclet) ,1111 bulld a church bulldmg at Roland
qreet and FIfth al emlt, m Hampden, near here; the Lakeland
Presbytenan chUl eh strnctUl e II 111 be erected at Belv eJere and
~Ja1l1 al enues, La1<eland, a subuJ1b, An Enock Pratt branch
1Jbrary II 111 be bUllt at Beason and Towson street, Locust
Point and WIll be eqlllpped WIth the latest appliances; The
Arundel Boat Club" 111 enlarge thelr bUlldll1g the extra space
to be l.beJ for a re'iltanrant, The Maryland School for the
Dll11d ,,111 spend $22 ~,OOOfor new bl1lldll1gs on plans prepared
b) J o"eph E, an s SperI), archltect a new bUlldll1g IS to be
erected for St \lary.., Industnal Sschool, to cost $100,000,
Banner Counul JunIOr Order of U I1lted AmerIcan Mechal1lco,
of Keedy "I Ille, \\ ashl11gton county, wlll erect a lodge hall
Fred \\ alpert &. Co. Korth Gay <;treet say this 1S the
dull sea:'>on fOl haIr trade, but the} get theIr <;hare and look for
a good) ear The} clean and d) e half anJ do a large bUSIness
from coa"t to coast
George D Summers of 1513 Fast Eagel ,tl eet has let a
contral t to buIld a thl ee <;tory blllldll1g at 1047 Korth Gay
"treet, to be 28 x l)0 feet 111 <;lze, the first story to have a plate
~ldss front He" 11111101 e there a" "oon as lt 1:0 completed
Thele I" d cODSldelable n1drket here for filll1lgs fOl mat-tre""
es dnd all "upphes 111acce<;sOlY hade, r'\mellcan and
\tlilan hble alL ~clll11~ \\ell, al"o a ne\\ 8clglan fibre, straw
and h\1'hS are qUIet, thele 1~ plentl on hand but not as much
u"ed a" fOlmerh
John C KlllJlP &.. Sons do d 11l~h class bU<;111es"111makIng
artl<;Uc and fine quahty of furnIture at 220 East Clay street
The ~tlantlc Furl1lture company on Fall mount avenue re-ports
busll1e"s a" qUlet They are makmg a new ll1le of sohd
oak. genUlne quartered ,tock, of SIdeboards, also elg-ht or l1lne
"t) Ie" ot chamher sUltes that "ell from $1650 to $5500 Clllff-ol1ler..,
and" al drobeo, are also a part of the lll1t?
The l~ostel BlOS J\lanufactullng company of 320 North
Holbda) street, makmg spllng beJ<;, mattresse3, cots and
couches, are runnIng full tllne The outlook IS good and
they ha, e enlar~ed the manufactUrIng buo,l1les<; and doubled
the output 1heH brass and lron beds al e made at Jersey
Clt), K J
A nell theatre wIll be bt1!lt at 311 \Vest Fayette ,trect,
t() ll'st $90,000 '1 he Engl1leer's Exchan~e club VI ill erect a
club hou"e at 308 \\ est Fayette street
The Bagb, T urnlture company of Eutaw and Lombard
~treets makl1lg chamber sUlte<;. dmIng room chaIrs and kJt-chen
furl1lture, expect sales for thl<; ) ear to go ahead of last
I ear b) 15 per cent '1 hey are COyelll1g terntory flom X ew
York to rlorIda The) find the ll1dple lme;;; 111 extra good
demand J R Lau" lS thelr 11e\\ ..,ale:'>ll1ento take 111 Delaware,
Vlrgil1la. Maryland and \Vest Vllgll1la
The Balt1mOle \letalhc Bcd company are the local
branch of the One11tal l\letal Bed com pan) of Hoboken, N
J. and ShOll one of the lalgeo,t Imeo, and a<;sortments of
up-to-date good" that can be "een anywhere Thelr busll1ess
for the pa"t ) ear het" been the be<;t 111 the hIstory of th1s
firm '1 hey plan to take larg-er quarters 111 order to fill orders
more prompth C D Oshorn 11111 take ont thIS hne through
the Carolll1a" and J Emery Rush 111 Floncia
The ),1 l'lme, company have a large factory on Front
<;treet, mak1l1g- 1~.OOOparlor Sl1lte<; a year of sohd mahogany,
birch, veneers, etc A tnp through this factory dlsclosed
the fact that the furniture after bell1g polished is handled
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only once, which is in the shIpping department The polish-ing
IS done after the upholstenng An up-to-date carv111g
machIne to decolate by power, wh1ch make" 6,000 revolu-tIOns
a minute, has been put 111and the latest belt sanders on
which one man does what three men J1d before
Comments on the Yerkes Auction.
"The succes" of the Yerkes auctIOn, 111New York, was
so remarkable that of course everybody has been comment-
111g on It," saId a collectol who attended It, "but do you
know that to me one of the most 111terestl11g comm ents was
that of a Wloman who attended the FrIday atternoon sale of
the great rugs vVe are all wonJenng why the pnces were
not higher, when she remarked
"'1 wonder how many thousand" of dollars fell off the
blddl11g when Mr Kn1by made that senous announcement
that It must ,be admItted that the rugs were 111bad condi-tlOn
and that Mr Mumford, who knew more about them than
anybody else, had arranged to restore them If purchasers
wIshed ?'
"She went on to say that there must be lot" of people
llke herself who not know111g much about rug" would be
111c1111edto 111fer from this that If the experts wIth 111sIde
knowledge took this VIew of the carpets it was time to be
cautious That was her explanatlOin for the pnces, whIch
fell be\tow expectations But one of her friends s3iid' 'Oh,
why, don't you know, that 1S only the same th111g practlcally
that Mr K1rby says down at the American gallener3 at a
porcelain sale when he announces' "If we know of any de-fecb,
ladles and gentlemen, we WIll P0111t thUl1 out to you"
Another attendant at that afternoon sale saId the way
out· "Did it ever stnke you that there is a marked dIfference
in the attitude of the rug collector toward the objects of hIS
devotion-or hIS fad, if you hke-and the attitude of a pIC-ture
buyer toward hIS beloved canvases? 1 mean m the way
they Judge art For example. If a paintmg IS by a partIcular
artt'it It is worth thousands, perhaps hundreds of thomands
of dollars and If not by that partIcular palOiter It 1'3 worth
next to nothing.
"We have just seen both these extremes nght here m
tihis sale of Mr Yerkes's pictures, so it isn't necessary to
hark Iback, even so far as the Bode bu"t. that's worth every-th111g
1f Leonardo dId It and nothing if a Victorian EnglIsh-man
did it.
"But now on the other hand thmk of what we have
seen here this afternoon DId anybody ask the name of the
artIst who produced one of these beautIful rugs? D1d any-body
say of those Pohslh rugs 'If tihey are by So-and-So they
are valuable, and If not hIS work then they are rubblslh?' On
the contrary, the buyers pa1d their thousands just on their
appreciation of the rugs as works of art
"ThIS seems to me-odd as it sounds-to give your rug
10\ er a nght to "ay that he I~ more truly an art lover, more
truly an amateur, than h1s pIcture collect1l1g frIend, who ha'3
got to have a name gn en to a canvas-and those gIven
names are many~before !he knows whether he wants to buy
1t or not."
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If your DESIGNS are right, people want the Goods.
That makes PRICES right.
(!"larence lR. bills
DOES IT
163 Madison Avenue-CItizens Phone 1983. GRAND RAPIDS. )lICH ..
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350 feet long, 100 feet wide, 8 stories.
MANUfACTURERS.
All the buyers, both big and little,
who go to market this coming
July, will buy at
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CHICAGO'S BIG
FURNITURE EXHIBITION
During the January buying season
just past we show a heavy increase
in attendance of visiting buyers and
a tremendous volume of buying.
These are the facts and a lot of
talk is superfluous.
Send at once for floor plan showing
desirable exhibit space open for
Same old price. Address
THE FOURTEEN-ELEVEN CO.
1411 Michigan Ave" Chicago.
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'--ACCURACY: DURAi~iLiTY:··£'-CONOMY 1
I Three most important requisites in case construction.
We absolutely guarantee our method of construction
to be stronger and less expensive than all others.
Let us tell you about It.
Ash for Catalog "J"
No. 181 Multiple Square Chisel Mortlser.
.... . WYSONU « MILES CO., Cedar St. and Sou. R. R., UREENSBORO, N. C.
SCHOOL OF INSTRUCTION.
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Waddell Manufacturing Co.
Grand Rapids. Michige.n
This is one of our Latest Designs in Drawer Pulls.
Watch This Space for Others
The largest manufacturers of Furniture Trimmings in wooa
in the world. Write us for Samples and Prices. Made in
Oak, Walnut, Mahogany, Birch and all Furniture Woods .
Manufacturers Will Have Something Like It at
Their Annual Meeting.
The annual mcctlllg of the Furmture \Idnutartlll el~'
National assoClatlOn 111 ChIcago next month \\111 he at m()Jc
than usual interest and Importance to membcl ~ The c....e
cutive commIttee wdl meet on Tue",day, )'Iay 10, to complete
arrangements for the general meetl11g the ne,t day For the
past two years or more the assocIatIOn ha'i been tl) lng to
have all members u"e d ul1Iform S) stem of figUIIllt:; co~t. and
at thIS meetmg the e'<ecutn e coml11lttee \\ 111pre~ellt an cldh-orate
report on ",hat has been accC'mp!Jshed m that Illle dur-ing
the pa'it year The report \\ 111 I ccommend "Ol11e ne\\
methods which will be explal11ed b) mean'- at nc\\ plctllrc~
and drawmgs of ddterent pIeces at turl1lture and the dh-
CUSSlon of the recommendatIOn, I,., eApected to take the f01111
of a school of lllStl uctlOn that \\ 111 Impart Ideas and Il1form-atlOn
of great value to man) manufactUl ers
At the reque~t of seuetary Llllton, C K ColI) er, chall-man
of the Un!fo11m Clas'ilficat1On commIttee, has pr0l11lsed
to dellY er an address on the commIttee's \\ ark and purpo~c~
He wIll tell what the commIttee ha5 done and IS dOll1g to
mduce manufacturers to co-operate 111 plans to secure deqrerl
changes in classlficatJon I ules-changes that \\ III operate to
the advantage of all concerned m the furlllture I11d1l5tr} He
will show that better class!f'icatlon rule.; ma) be secured b)
better methods of packll1g and the adoptIOn of a ullltorm
system for deslgnatmg \ anou", pIeces of furlllture lor 111-
stance a system that WIll pre\ent bureau" from bell1g da".;ed
as ohlftoniers, wa5hstands a5 commodes, SIdeboards as buffet5.
etc As IS well known the"e term~ ale now used qUIte proml,.,-
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CUOlbh 01 I11lll"cnmmately The practIce mterferes seriously
\\ lth thE \\ ark of the classlfica t10n commIttee and IS a detri-ment
to the trade to .;uch an extent that many would like to
.;ee abont halt of the names for slml1ar pIeces of furniture
dhcarderl entlrel) Cnder present practices it IS frequently
cll:ffictllt e\ en fOl CApel ts m the busll1css to dl'itmguish a
\\a,-h~tal1d from a dlcssel, a buffet from a sldeJboard, or a
lJ11reau fJ am a chdtolllel
The electIOn of officel'- \\ ill al50 be of mterest to the
melJ1ber~ of the d~';OClatlOn dud se\ eral other important mat-tel'
dl e e"pectecl to he ';tlgge"ted and considered at thIS
meeting
Furniture Fires.
LeBlack & Bem man undertaker,., of Lake Charle5, La,
.;uffered a snldll 1o"" hy fil e on Apml 16
Ste\\dft 1310S & \I"alcl's fUllllture stOle at Newark, 0,
\\as burned on c\ pnl 14 Lo"", $18,000, m SUIance, $12,500
;'Iellch &. B) field furl1l tUI C manuf,tcturer5 of Boston,
;'Iass , \\ ere burned out on Apnl 16 La","" $8,000, insurance,
S5 ()(X)
The nradtOl cl \\ hole"ale hUl1Itu re house in N ashv111e,
Tenn. \\ a" bl1luecl on \plll 16 One man \\ a'i killed and
.;e\ eral others hm t by a fallmg wall Loss, $25,000 partIally
m'itlred
1he 5hop~ of the '\ ew England ChaIr company at New
H a\ en, (onn , \\ ere burned on \pnl 13 Three firemen were
k111ed and Se\ eral others 1111ured by the exploslOn of the
bOllel dUllng the hre The bmld1l1g wa" an old dIlapidated
frame on \\ hlch Insurance rates were practlcdlly prohIbItive
The chall l ompan)',., los5 1,., about $12,000
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WEEKLY ARTISAN
Carpets and Rugs at Auction.
Alexander Smith & Sons, tJhe great New York rug and
carpelt manufacturers announce that beginning Monday, May
2 and cont1l1U111guntil the goods are disposed of, they will "ell
at auctIOn, through \Vtlmerd111g, Morns & Mitchell, 95,000
Ibales of rugs, and 30,000 rolls of carpet As usual, the Smith
company has Splung a complete surpnse on the trade, as It
was not considered hkely that there would be any auctIOn
sale, prior to the openl11g of the new season the second week 111
May
The goods to be sold at auctIOn Will consist of 45,000 bales
of wilton velvet rugs, velvet and tapestry rugs, of vanous
Slze3, also 50,000 bales ofaxm111ster, Smith axminster and Sax-ony
axmmster rugs 111vanOU6 sizes The carpet offerings Will
consist of 15,000 rolls of wilton velvet, velvet and tapestry, al-so
15,000 rolls of Saxony, extra axminster and Savonnerie
The last 3ale held by the Smith company was in Apl'II, 1909,
and conSisted of 16,000 pieces of carpets, and 28,000 bales of
rugs.
Wildmerd111g, Morri" & Mitchell, the well known auction-eers,
who Will handle the sale, announced that the goods Will
be sold on a credit of 4 per cent 10 days from July 1, antiClpa-tion
being permitted at the rate of 6 per cent per annum Sam-ple.,
Will be ready for 111spection by catalogue, on and after
Monday, Apnl 25, at the sales rooms of Alex. Sml1Jh & Sons,
105-107 F]fth avenue. In addition to announcing the coming
auction sale, the Smith company states that all qualities and
patterns of carpetings and rugs manufactured by the company
for the fall season of 1910 "'Ill be placed on sale Monday, May
9 Orders Will be executed up to October 31, so far as the
ability of the mills permit, at the pnce at which, they are ac-cepted
Complete hnes w111be 3hown at the offices of the com-pany
in Chicago, Kansas City and San Francisco at the same
date.
His Bluff Did Not Work.
How men will work to gain what they conceive to be an
advantage 111trade IS well Illustrated, by one of the best
known salesmen 111Grand Rapids, who has charge of a hne
of chairs in one of the furniture exhibition buildings in this
city, as related to the Weekly Artisan a few days ago: A
buyer came into the showroom and linspected the line, mak-ing
out a fine order, but before placing it he said to the
salesman, "what are your best tevms?"
"Two per cent off in ten days.
"I can get 5 off down in the Valley," declared the buyer.
"Well, there's the place to place your order," said the
salesman.
"Don't you meet competition?"
"Well, we don't allow anyone to make our prices or
terms."
"Well, I would like to give you the order, and I am
afraid I Will not have time to go back there, get d111ner at
the hotel and catch my train," said the buyer
"0, yes; there's plenty of time; and you can catch your
train all right enough"
"Well, I guess I'll not chance it. I'll give you the order,"
which he did.
Now, that buyer thought it was perfectly legitimate to
make that statement, but the salesman, who is an old timer
would not be bluffed, as he knew the house and was confi-dent
that they had not gIven the buyer any such terms.
Marriage is always a failure to those who get left.
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Each
Net
SINGLE CONE ALL STEEL SPRINGS
Are very popular with the Furniture Trade.
No. 46, Single Cone, $2 Each, Net.
We manufacture a full line of Single and Double Cane All Wire Springs.
SEND US YOUR ORDERS.
SMITH &. DAVIS MFG. CO., St. Louis
$2~
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Dodds' Tilting Saw Table No.8 I
We take pleasure In IntroduclIlg to you our new Saw Table The base IJ simIlar to what
we have heen usmg on our No 4 Saw T .hle. only we have made II larger on the Boor The
Ialsma and lowerlD, device IS the same 8S we have on the No 4 Machme. With lever and
pItman The lever IS made of steel
The arbor IS made of 1Yo meh steel. runDlng 10 long nng o~mg box~. and II for J -IDch hole
1n saw We furnIshone 14 .Bch saw on each machIne It wIll carry a 16-mch JaW If desIred
Table IS made with a center ahde 12 Inches wide WIth a movement of 21 Inches It hu a
lockmg deVIce to hold It when you do not wish to use H. and has a detachable mitre guaRe to be
used when usmll.the shdmg-table Can cross cut wIth table eXlended to 24 mches. also np up
to 24 mches wIde Table h.s a removable throat that can be taken out when usmg dado Jt
.Iso has two mitre guages fOI reaular work and a two rtded np guage that can be used on f"lther
side of the sa.w. more especIally when the table IS blted ..Jsoa hhmg np gauge to be u~ to cut
bevel work when you do not wISh to Illt the table The top IS 40x44 mche.
Countershaft has T & L pulleys lOx 14 mches. and the dnve pulley 16x5 mches. counter
.haft should run 800 Makmg 10 all aboul as complete a machme as can be found and at •
reasonable pnce Wnte us and we wlll be pleased to quote you pnces Address,
ALEXANDER DODDS, CO., !§1-183 Canal St.• G.alld Rapid•• M,ch'
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Here is
a Rocker
That's
a seller.
Write for
the price.
G80. SPRATT
8 O.
SHEBOYGAN. WIS.
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ARTISAN
METHODS OF PACKING FURNITURE
Grand Rapids Shippers Given Credit for Having
Established the Standard.
\\ H l,atchell '3upenntendent of tran"fer" for the South-ern
Railway company, vlslted Gland Rapld", ,lunng the past
week and entertameel a number of shlppmg clerks, foremen
of packmg rooms dnel others mteresteel, wlth a talk on pack-mg
and "h1pp1l1g dOl "een from the \ leWpOInt of transporta-tIon
managers He compared the methods u"eJ by packers
1Il dJtterent "ectlons of thiS country, and pointed out the
method" u"ed here and m Europe Crat1l1g anJ pack.mg ranks
lllghest m Europe, he "aiel. and m thiS country Grand Rap1ds
1S far ahead of most other CltJes or "ectlOns
"FUllllture," Sdld :\1:r Gatchell, "IS today the most im-portant
commodIty the raJIroads have to care for in ship-pIng
It 1S eld't!cnlt to transport safely for a number of rea-
"on", ch1efly perhaps because of 1tS general fragilIty and the
fact that 1t i" hable to severe damage from scratches. Rapid
trans1t 1S what } on want It IS what you demand. The
modern transportatIOn companies are extending every pos-slbe
effort to meet this demand. It rests with the shilppers
to prov1de packlllg which can stand the rapid transit. The
ra1lroad com pallles a1 e today spending immense sums of
mane: to lmprove every facility for transpo1'tation, and what
they ask 1S co-operatlOn It bes With the shippers to help
them 111thls mo\ ement.
"On account of the loose and slipshod methods employed
at large throughout the country III packing, thousands of dol-lars
are \cvasted annually. The railroads have to pay the
damage But thiS is not the only prase to be considered, al-though
it 1S most lmportant to us. When a firm receives
goods whlch ha\ e been damaged in the transit, he is most
llkely to change his place of purchasing, as he is put to con-
Siderable annoyance through his not being able to at once
place hiS cons1gnment of goods on his display floors. Grand
Rapids is -,ettmg the standard all over the Umted States for
better crat111g and packing"
:\Ir Gatchell stated that Gland Rapids packing is to be
made a critenon and standard willch WIll be held up to other
cities having large shlpments of furniture to make, and espec-ially
111cIties of the south where packmg is most careless. As
a result of hiS VISlt arrangements have been made to send
:"fr Gatchell at vVash111gton, DC, photographs of the differ-ent
processes of pack111g m Grand RapIds, with eX'planations
and a comparatl\ e cost per piece by the methods which are
employed here These photographs and descriptlOns are to be
used 111 the south for the purpose of llldllcing southern ship-per"
to adopt the methods which have proved quite satis-factor:
to tran"pol tatlOl1 companies, to shippers and to con-
31gnees
,
Mr. Karges Deserves Another Term.
One of the dutJes to be performed at the annual conven-tIOn
of the l\atJol1al Furmture Manufacturels' association, to
he held III Chicago 111May is iJhe electIOn of a pres1dent Dur-mg
the past year thls honorable and re"pons1ble office has
been filled b) 1\ F Karge" of the Ka1ges Furmtllre company, 0
E\an", l11e. InJ \Ir Kalges has gIven much valuable tIme to
the bus111ess of the assoClatlOn and m the d1scharge of hiS
duties a" pres1dent he has exerClsed dIscretIOn and excellent
Judgement 1Ir. Karges desery es another term in the presI-dential
office. and should the honor of a re-elel,tion be con-ferred
upon him it \CV ould be but a fitting recogllltion of the
... ,all1e of hi" services 11l the past
WEEKLY ARTISAN
STEEL TRUST ACTS GENEROUSLY.
Will Try Out a Plan for the Relief of Injured
Employes.
ChaJnl1an Gary of the Untted State'3 Steel corpo1atlOn
last l\Londay announced the adoptlOn of a new plan fO! as'3ht-mg
mJured employes and the famtl1e'3 of tho"e killed by ac-c1dent
The plan 1S to be ined as an expenment for a year
If 1t proves '3at1sfactory to employers and employes 1t wtll be
continued If not ;,uccessful 1t may be amended or dIscarded
It 1S a plan 511111larto ~hat followed at the Krupp Works at
Essen, PrussIa Employes w1ll not be requ1red to contribute
any part of theIr wages and rellef wtll be glven wIthout re-gard
to whether the mJury or death is purely accidental, due
to the employe1's negllgence or to the carelessness of the em-ployes
SubsidIary companIes of the United States Steel corpor-ation
have been ass1stmg mjured employes and the famIlies of
those ktlled for many years w1thout regard to legal liab1lity
at an average cost of $1,000,000 a year, but the new plan will
let employes know just what t'hey may expect. In announc-ing
the plan Judge Gary sa1d
"Under thIs plan rellef WIll be paId for temporary dis-ablement
and for permanent mjunes and for death. The re-hef
IS greater for married men than for single men and in-creases
accordmg to the number of chtldren and length of
serV1ce During tempo1 ary dIsablement smgle men receive
35 per cent of t'he1r wages and marned men 50 per cent, with
an add1tional 5 per cent for each ch1ld under 16 and 2 per cent
for each year of serv Ice above five years
"Following ~he prov1slOns of all foreIgn laws and all legIs-lation
suggested m thIS country, there IS a period of 10 days
before payment of rellef begms For permanent injunes lump
sum payments are provided. These are 'based upon the ex-
.. tent to WhICh each lllJury interferes with employment and
upon the annual earl11ngs of ~he men injured. In case men
are killed in work accIdents then widows and chtldren WIll
receive one and one-half years' wages, with an addItIonal 10
per cent for eaoh child under 16 and 2 per cent for each year
of '3ervice of the .Jeceased above five years
"It should be understood that these payments are for
relief and not as compensation. There can be no real com pen-sattOn
for permanent mjunes, and the notion of compensation
IS necessanly based on legal liability, which is entirely dis-regarded
in tIllS plan, as all men are to receive the relief, even
though there be no legal liability to pay them anything, which
is the case m at least 75 per cent of all work accidents.
"Expenence will perhaps lead to some modifications of
this plan, but it will be in operation for one year from May 1,
1910, and if It meets with success and approval from the men
and the public it is hoped that similar and possIbly improved
plans may be adopted in succeedmg years"
Judge Gary further said that there has been under con-sideration
a plan for the payment of pensions to dIsabled or
superannuated employes, and It IS expected this will soon
be put into practlOal effeot
The rehef plan as outlined will affect upward of 225,000
men at once The average number of employes last year was
915,500, whose wages totaled $151,663,394 It comes m addi-tion
to the increases in wages recently granted, which will
add from $9,000,000 to $12,000,000 to the corporation's yearly
e""penses It is imposs1ble to estimate the additlOnal charge
1!he new plan WIll make on its revenues, but it will probably
be in the neighborhood of $2,000,000
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No.15F"OX
SAWING
MACHINE
WRITE 44 FOR
NEW CATALOG
rrox MAC H IN E CO • GR18A6NDN FRRAOPNITDSS, TREMEITC,H
ROLLS
For Bed Caps, Case Goods, Table Legs
and many other purposes; in Gum,
Mahogany and Quartered Oak Veneers.
The FellwDck Auto & MfJ!. Co. EVANSVILLE, INDIANA
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These saws are
made from No. 1
Steel and we war-rant
every blade.
We also carry a
full stock of Bev-eled
Back Scroll
Saws, any length
and gauge.
Write •• for
PrIce LIat
aud dlaeo_t
31-33 S. Front St., ORAND RAPIDS, MICH.
SEND FOR
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BOYNTON &, CO.
ManufaduterJ of
Embo•• ed and
Turned Mould.
ina., Embo ...
ed and Spindl.
Carnnp. aDd
Automatic
TurniDa•.
We a110 IIlaIlU-f.<!
lure a I.,ae Lne
of Embo .. ed
OrnameDts for
Couch Work.
'256.'258 W. Fifteenth St., CHICAGO, ILL. ... • 4.
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Yau can always get
IMMEDIATE SHIPMENT
1..8", 1..20", 1..24" and 1..28" R. C. BIRCH
1..16", 1..2 0", 1..2 4", and 1..28" POPLAR
1...20", 1...24" and 3..16" GUM
Direct from our Grand Rapids Warehouses.
We solicit your trade.
1..20" R. C. PLAIN OAK
WALTER CLARK VENEER
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
COMPANY
Making the Goods "Sell Themselves."
"\Ve are giving mOl e attentwn to the \\ ark of makll1g our
goods seI1 themselves uhan to the traIl1lng of salesmen," 1e-marked
a sectIOn manager of the Boston department "tore 111
Grand Rap1ds Asked to exp1all1 the problem the manager
continued:
"By the use of our wll1dows, the arrangement of stock \\ 1th
descriptwn and pnce cal ds attached, and the hberal use of ad-vertising
in the newspapers, upon tJhe b1ll boards and 111 the
street cars, we seI1 many goods w1thout the aId of salesmen
Any boy in our employ may rece1ve paJiment for goods and
take the Shlpp1l1g directIOns, a very sImple proceedll1g \Ve
1I1ustrate and descnbe an artIcle so minutely that when a cus-tomer
enters the store he or she knows where to find an a1bele
advertised, and seldom needs d1rectlOn from the floor walkers
The experienced shopper enters the rug department and ex-am111es
a rug, takes ItS number, goe" to the cashIer's desk, pa} ~
for the same and departs wIthout the loss of a moment's tIme,
if so disposed We are constantly stnvmg to enlarge thIS k1l1d
of salesmanship Take the httle Item of pIcture postal cads
N a one with a gram of sense 111 any hne of business gIves a
moment's attentIOn to the collector of such good" Rarely does
the owner of a store or his employes take tIme to count the
cards a customer has selected His part 111 the transactlOn 1Sto
place the cards in an envelope and recen e payment for the
same"
"Have you observed what your neIghbors are doing in the
way of salesmanship?" the interVIewer enquIred
"Salesmanship)" In many stores thne is 110 sa1e'iman-ship
in evidence.
For 1I1stance," the interVIewer injected.
"I have it A fev; weeks ago in passing the store of a
neighbor I saw a spnng overcoat in the window that took
m} fancy I entered the store and found four or five sales-men
engaged 111a warm discussion over uhe coming munici-pal
election 'WIll some one show me an overcoat,' I re-marked,
\\ hen I observed that none of the group was dis- ~
posed to pay an) attention to me 'You will find the over-coat
man at the rear of the store,' one of the group remarked,
and then broke into uhe discussion."
"At the back of the store I found a man seated in a
chall observ111g the throng passing on the stJ1eet and smokmg
a cIgarette 'I v; ish to look at an overocat,' I said. 'You
have one in the main w111dow marked $3500 that looks good
to me ,,,
" 'N 0 use 1t would not fit you vVe have none of that
make that would,' remarked he of the cigarette."
"'\Vould you ml11d showl11g me an overcoat,'
sume there 1S one in th1S stack (indicating a pIle of
overcoats plIed on a counter) that would please me."
" 'No,' What sIze do you wear?"
" 'About a 38 breast' I want a good coat-one that will
wear well."
"The salesman slowly arose and proceeded to paw over
the stack. 'Don't think Ithere is a thil1ty-eight in the lot,' he
said
I pre-spring
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Manufacturers of HIGH GRADE
OROOVINO SA WS
DADO SAWS
Citizens' Phone 1239
27 N. Market St., Oraad Rapid., Mich. .. _.. _a- ~
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WEEKLY ARTISAN
UNION FURNITURE CO.
ROCKFORD, ILL.
China Closets
Buffets
Bookcases
We lead m Style, Conttrudlon
and Fmish. See our Catalogue.
Our hne on permanent exhIbI-tIon
7th Floor, New Manufact-urers'
Bwldmg,Grand Rapids.
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"At this moment one of the proprietors entered and ex-pressed
pleasure in meeting me. 'Lookrng for a coat, eh?'
Well, "Ed" wtll show all the good ones we have in stock'
"Bd" began to feel a httle interest in his occupatlOn and
turned over the stack for my inspection. Near the bottom
two coats of the same pattern and material as the one I had
observed in the window were found, one of which I pur-dhased,
and left the store. Such indifference to duty, and
disloyalty to a firm on the part of salesmen would in time
wreck any business"
New Credit News Bureau.
With a view of making their service of trade information
more complete anJ effective the Lyon Furniture Agency have
effected a co-operative arrangement wii'h a number of .special
agenCte'i Under this plan each agency furnishes all its
subscribers wtth a supply of blanks to be used in reporting
first and increased orders, and method of payment of cus-tomers
about whom they desire this combined service. All
ll1formation reported on these blanks by all the subscribers
to all the agencies is compiled in tabulated form, so that
each inquirer is given full informatlOn of all new credtt
sought and how payments are made with all creditors who
have inquired withm the previous year.
To dtstingui~h thIS special service from our regular
We Manufacture ti,e
La~elt Line of
rOlDlno
("AIDS
in the Umted States,
SUitable for 5 Un day
Schools, Halls, Steam-ers
and all pub1Jcresorts.
We also manufacture
Brass TrImmed I ran
Beds, Spnng Beds, Cots
and CrIbs m a large
varIety
Send for Catalogue
and Prteu to I
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MfG. CO.
ASHLAND, OHIO
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work we oall this deparrtment the Credtt News Bureau, the
Credit News Reports, and the blanks to be used in making
inquiries Registry Blanks The large volume of information
that will Q)efurnished from lines of busmess necessitates a
nominal charge of five cents for each credtt news report is-sued
but the service wtll be found of such great value that
this 'charge will not deter anyone from maklllg lIberal use of
registry blanks
The reasons for this additlOn to the Lyon Agency's re-ports
are given as follows:
"Overbuying, whether with dishonest intent or from poor
Judgment, has always been one of the greatest dangers in
credit dealing and most dtfficult to detect or prevent.
"Slow payments usually precede a failure caused by dry
rot, insufficient capItal or lack of business ability.
"Knowledge by every creditor of all First Orders and
materially Increased Orders, placed by a given concern will
render overbuying almost impossible
"Knowledge by every credttor of every Slow Payment
will serve to curtail credit before the danger point tS reached"
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Japanese Taste and Refinement.
Not only will the forthcommg Bntlsh exhibiton at Shep-herd's
Bu.sh, London, contain the finest collections of Japan-ese
art ever brought together in the Occtdent, but it will also
give a remarkable presentation of the quaint domestic hfe
of the Mikado's sU1bjects
It is believed that as one result of the exhibition there
will be a pronou1l!ced renaissance of interest in and employ-ment
of Japanese domesttc art 111 Bttrope and Amenca As
most persons know the decorative ideal of Japan and
rthat of the we'it are utterly different. The Occt-dent
displays everything, finding satisfaction tn elaborate
detail and a multiphcity of objects-pictures, tapesltry, porce-lain,
rugs, carVll1gs, silver, furntture The Japanese, with
his more refined taste, takes care, beyond everything else,
that his rooms are harmonious, III good taste, the possession,
for in.stance, of a vase worth $1,000 does not mean that it
will be displayed If it happen that the vase does not harm-onize
wIth the owner's rooms it is wrapped up and put away,
and only produced when the collector wants to show it to
feHow connOIsseurs
In a Japanese house at the exhtbition the picture in the
centre of one wall is painted with such skill that only the
closest examinaion shows that it is not done in relief. As
a rule only one picture IS to be found in a room, the paint-ll1g
being seleoted and changed m accordance with the taste
of the occupier.
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Complete lines of samples are displayed at 1411Michigan Ave ..
Chicago, and in the Furniture Exhibition Building1 Evansville,
THE KARGES FURNITURE CO.
Manufacturers of Chamber SUItes,Wardrobes, Chiffoniers, Odd Dressers, Chlfforobes.
THE BOSSE FURNITURE CO.
Manufacturers of Kitchen Cabinets, K. D. Wardrobes, Cupboards and Safes. m Imitation
golden oak. plain oak and quartered oak.
THE WORLD FURNITURE CO.
Manufacturers of Mantel and Upright Folding Beds. Buffets. Hall Trees, Chma Closets,
Combination Book and Library Cases.
THE GLOBE FURNITURE CO.
Manufacturers of Sideboards m plam oak. imitation quartered oak. and solid quartered oak,
Chamber Suites, Odd Dressers, Beds and Chiffoniers in umtatIon quartered oak, illlitation
mahogany. and imitation golden oak.
THE BOCKSTEGE FURNITURE CO.
Manufacturers of the "Superior" Line of Parlor, Library, Dining and Dressing Tables.
THE METAL FURNITURE CO.
Manufacturers of "Hygiene" Guaranteed Brass and Iron Beds. CrIbs, Wire Springs and Cots
Evansville is the great mixed car loading center of the
United States, made so by the Big Six Association.
Made by The Karges Furmture Co
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Made by World Furmture Company. Made by Bosse Furmture Company.
Made by Bockstege Furmture Co. Made by Bockstege Furmture Co•
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PU8L18HED "VERT SA.TUROAY ay TH..
MICHIGAN ARTISAN COMPANY
'U.SC"'I'TION '1 eo I'E" YEA" ANYWHE"E IN THE UNITED STATES
OTHE" COUNT"'ES '2.00 I'E" YEA". 'INCilLE COI'IE' 5 CENTS.
~U.LICATION O~~ICE. 101-112 NOPITH DIVISION ST. GPIANO RA~IOS. MICH.
A. S WHITE. ""ANACOHNCiI EDITO"
Entered as aecond cia .. matter. July 5, 1909. at the post office at Grand RapIds. Michigan
under the act of March 3. 1879
CHICAGO REPRESENTATIVE E LEVY.
The Implement Trade Journal ad'1ses merchant" "not
to employ inexperienced salesmen" If merchants generally
should act upon this advice where "ould the expenenced
salesmen come from m the course of a fe" ) ear,,? A suc-cessful
merchant remarked recentl} that 1t "as hIs policy to
employ inexpenenced salesmen occasionall}; that dIsloyal
experienced sale"men know ho\\ to "hlrk in the performance
of duty; to "Ide-"tep d1sagreeable customer'S. to beat the
time clock and to do other mexcusable things For a tIme
the untried sale~man \\ 111 not be famlllar with such tncb
and will try to carry enthUSIasm mto hIS work and render
faithful servIce He will make mIstake" but the cost to the
management on account thereof will be no greater than that
of the lazyness or indifference of dIsloyal expenenced sales-men
Too much experience m a salesman 1S not a good
thing for the employer
The workmg out of the expenment undertaken by the
United States Steel corporation for the rellef of mjured em-ployes
WIll be of lllterest to manufacturers in all hnes Very
few employers of labor can afford to follow the example of
the Steel Trust in dealing with employes but if the plan
that is to be tried out proves satIsfactory, it may be used in
modified form by less prosperous corporations in meetmg an
expense that 1S much larger and of more importance to em-ployers
than IS estImated by the general public.
American manufacturers ha'mg plants on both SIdes of
the geographical line between the Lnited States and Canada
and the1r number IS already large and steadIly mcreastng, are
quite indifferent to the changes made 111the tanff schedules
of the two countries from tIme to time No matter ho"
<;,ltght or radical such changes may be they denn benefit
therefrom on one side of the hne or the other.
Business men are awakening to the fact that relief ma}
be found for the irrnpositlOns Imposed upon the people by the
express companies by the passage of the postal package btll.
now pend111g m congress A majority of the stock of the
expre"s companies is owned by the raIlroads and through
"uch control they are enabled to plunder shippers ruthlessly
Congress should be urged to act promptly
Now Cmcinnatl proposes to get Into the furniture ex-position
game in earnel"t. \V1th furniture shows in Grand
Rap1ds, N ev, York, Chicago, Sit LoUls, Jamestown, Evans-
'll1e and C111c111natI the semi-annual "easons may have to
be extended 111order to enable buyers to take in all of them
But It ,,111 be a good thing for the raIlroad".
The <:;tatement made by members of the Southern pine
a""ouatlon that, for the past two }'ears, they have been
"dulllpmg" thell product all over the country, at prices
barel} co, enng the c03t of production, must be interesting
ne" 'S to carpenters, contractors and builders generally.
From the announcement of an early auction sale by
'\le:xander Smith & Son of New York it does not seem that
I!:he eastern carpet and rug manufacturers Ihave been so
rushed WIth order" as has been represented by the trade
1ournal'S and New York and Boston market report3.
Perhaps there is no orgamzed combine among the furni-ture
manufacturer" of Canada, but in h1s interview, repub-lIshed
from the Toronto \i\T orld, the president of the alleged
holdmg company talks, ,ery much like an AmerIcan trust
magnate
Perhap" members of the Hardwood Lumbermen's as-
"oclatlOn hay e also been "dumpmg" a part of their product
m order to mamtain prices If so the furniture manufac-turers
..h..ould tr) to di"cover the dumpmg grounds.
Old Father Tll11e has swift wings-he needs no flymg
machine Only sIxty days hence furniture manufacturers,
buyers and sellers. \\ III be "all ready for the opemng of the
"ummer sale3 season"
Deslgner" of furnIture posters "hould take a course in
drawing \Vlth scarcely an exceptlOn the furniture used in
pnntmg for the bIll board3 and dead 'Vlalls is shockingly
bad
Exposition Buildina in Cincinnati.
Reports from Cmcinnati state that the furniture manu-facturers
of that city are to have an expoaition building and
that 1t W111be the largest u3ed for the purpose in the middle
west A deal was closed last week by which the promoters
acquire the Drucker building on the corner of Broadway and
:t\inth street for a consideratlOn of $100,000, possession to be
gIven on May 1.
The property was purchased for the Ohio Valley Furni-ture
Butldmg. \\ hich concern was recently incol'porated un-der
the la"" of Oh1O The deal i<; <;aid not to be a case of
outright purchase, but arranged on a lease basi'S The owners
of the realty are non-residents, the property belonging to the
Phipps estate Practlcally all of the furniture manufacturers
m Cmcinnati are 'SaId to be interested in the exposition
, enture
More Work for the Nelson-Matter Factory.
Dunng the pa"t week the Nelson-Matter company of
Grand Rapkl" ha\ e hooked an order for all the furniture for
the new HermItage Hotel m NashvIlle, Tenn The contract
for furl1lture, rugs, carpets and draperies was awarded to
Montgomery & Co, of NashVIlle, m competItIOn with New
York and ChIcago bIdders The successful bId was $126,500.
WEEKLY ARTISAN
PROGRESS DUE TO PARTS MAKERS.
The Specialist. by Concentrating Thought and
Effort. Outdoes the General Worker.
The Apnl number of The Hub, the ~ew York publlcatlOn
de, oted to the Interests of the vehIcle mdustl y has an artlcle
011 "Pal ts Makers" expre,sIng some Ideas that may be found
worthy of conslderatlOl1 Iby fUt mture manufacturer~ The
Hub's suggestlOns as to the aJvantages of speclaltzIng are In-tended
for manufacturers of automobdes, but they may be
applied, with less advantage, perhaps, to the furl11ture indus-try.
The Hub says'
"It is mteresting to note that the automobile maker on
the quantity basIs lays much stress on his <;plendld factory
organiz1ation by which it becomes possIble to produce the
needed parts not only cheaper but so much betJter than they
can be assembled by gathenng them from special sources. It
is said the expense is much 1educed, also. No doubt the
claim is builded upon a rock foundation of fact, but there is
a more important poil1lt of view l\Iany minds devoted to
speciallzatlOn are certainly llkely to thInk out refinements of
parts with more succes~ ll1 results than the busy maker, who
has a vast establishment to think about, espeCIally when all
hands must be more or less, generally more, bound by the
routine of manufacture
"Even the buyer and tber of the machmes is Iii, lse to this
proposition, as IS shown by the news of the ddy, 111 whIch it
IS stated that a company of one hundred men of wealth has
been l11corporated to bU1ld one hundred automobllec,-one for
each-the sole actuating reason being to select from any and
every source the particular part of extreme excellence and
practicability in an automob1le, and assemble it in thIS auto
de luxe, regal'dless of the expense of the undertaking The
point aimed at is perfeotion so far as the present state of the
art will afford it
"Very good I t IS along these very same lines that the
parts maker of the trade is pnogressl11g His activities are
confined to speClalization Any part, be it of engme, frame,
or any subSIdIary bIt of the mechanism, is the better for hIS
thought, attention and concentration. He will gIld the refined
gold of previous effort, and make somethink better than the
large complete orgamzation WIll think out Evidences of
such evolution al e already well to tJhe front The parts
maker's exhlibit at shows I" the sectlOn in which is to be
found the real advance in the business.
"The evolution is proceeding along e~actly the same
lines as could have been noted in tJhe horse-drawn vehicle
industry. From that quarter sprung all the advance in the
art of vell1cle btuldlng; It Will be the same in the motor
vehicle trade.
"The parts maker With his plain or patented improve-ments
due to h1s concentratlOn of thought and expenment
on a qingle part, will be the advance agent of progress to
whom the budder must look for what is best to use 111 as-sembl1l1g
a perfect vehicle
"It IS no disparagement to the brains and abIlity of the
large manufacturer that this will be so, it is just the na"tural
outcome of things No carriage budder ever forged an axle
having the perfectlOn of parts that 1t has com1l1g from the
man who gives axles his undiVIded thought The calnage
builder learned this truth, then gave up trying He bought
cheaper and better than he could forge himself This is
an indIvidual l11stance Multiply it along the line
"We belleve the as"embled parts of the auto are crude
1:o-day COImpared to what they WIll be in the not distant
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Manistee, Mich., Oct.
Grand Rapids Veneer Works,
Grand Rapids. Mich.
12,1907.
Gentlemen:
We ha ve your favor of the 9th, and we are very much
pleased to advise you that the dry kiln which you installed for
us is working very satisfactorily, and that we are able to turn
out at least one third more dry lumber with this system of yours
than we formerly could, and the lumber comes out in a very
much better condition.
We have another kiln that we are running with hot blast,
and we think that we Willmake a change next season and use
your system in both of our kuns.
We would be very glad. indeed. to recommend this kiln
to anyone who is having trouble in drying lumber, as we are
fully convinced that your system for drying lumber is the right
one. Yours truly,
THE MANISTEE MFG. CO.
Per Chas. Elmendorf,
Manager.
future, <Lnd the progress will be solely due to the parts
maker."
Satisfied.
It is a great thing to be satlsfied That means content-ment,
and in a business way prosperity. \Ve all like to have
our customers satlsfied. It's the best kind of advertismg, and
in this twentieth century of rush and striving for the first
place, advertb1l1g has come to be one of the most necessary
and valuable ad]t1l1cts of trade and commerce. This is well
Illustrated 111 the accompanY1l1g letter
Clinton, Iowa, Mach 14, 1910
Grand RapIds Veneer \V orks,
Grand RapIds, Mich
Gentlemen'
Replying- to yours of the 12th 1l1st, as to the results we
are gett1l1g from the Grand RapIds S) stem of dry kiln, we are
plea<;ed to mform you that we are well satIsfied It has
more than met our expectatlOllS and has done all you claimed
1t would.
Very respectfully,
HEMINGWAY FURN CO
Signed, \V E Hemingway
IMPROVED. EASY AND ELEVATO RS QUICK RAISINC
Belt, Electnc and Hand Power.
The Best Hand Power ./01' Furmture Stores
S"nd for Catalogne and Pnc"s.
KIMBALL BROS, CO" 1067 Nmth St .. Council BlUffs, la,
Kimball Elevator Co., 3~ Prospect St., Cl"v"land, 0.;
l0811lh SI., Omaha, N"b., 128C"dar SI , N"w York CIty.
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Wood Sar Clamp Fixtures Per Set SOc.
Patent Malleable Clamp FIxture.
E H SHELDOlli & CO ChlcaRo III
Gentlemen -We are pleased to state that the 21 dozen Clamp FIxture. "tllch
we bought of you a lIttle o\er a )ear ago are gnInR excellent se-\lce "e are
well satIsfied with them and .haJJ be pleased to remember you "hene,er we "ant
anything ilddltlonal In thIS hne Yams truly
SIOUXCIty Iowa CURTIS SASH & DOOR CO
30,000 Sheldon
Steel Rack
Vise.
Sold on appro\al "nd an uncon
dltlonal money bd.ck guarantee
SHELDON'S STEEL SAR CLAMPS.
Guaranteed Indestructible.
\Ve sohclt pnvllege of sending samples and
onr complete catalogue
E. H. SHELDON & CO. I 328 N. May St .• Chicago. i
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Buildings That Will Need Furniture.
Residences-John P .:\Iurphy. 12 \\ e"t lorty-thlrd street,
Kansas City, Mo , $3,500, J F Cottel1111,3314 Prospect street,
Kansas CIty, $3,500; E C Kreigh, 514 vYest 1'hirty-l1lnth
street, Kansas City, $5,000; J \IV. Bernardan, 3642 Jansen
place, Kansas CIty, $10,000, Henry ::\lohr, 46 :\orman street,
Buffalo, N. Y, $3,500, Fellx Famu1are, 301 Hamburgh place,
Buffalo, $5,000; Edward 1\ Meyer, 45 Ash street, Buffalo,
$3,000; Sophia DaVIS, 60 1\ akefie1d street, Buffalo. $3.000,
\iVaIlace Thayer, 39 A~be,rt street, Buffalo, $3,000; Alvin
Bauss, 532 Northampton street Buffalo $3.500, Fred DOlns,
114 Wesley street, Buffalo, $-1-,000,\\ Illlam Chabot. 34 1\ lll-slow
street, Buffalo, $3,600. "[argaret Pm' er '. 261 '\ orth
Ogden street, Buffalo. $3,500 Ech, ard Bll"k, 2423 Seneca
street, Buffalo, $12,000, P L Goodheart. 6526 DI eAel a, cnue,
Ohicago, Ill, $4,500, C H Noble, 2618 East Se\ ent} -fourth
street, ChIcago, $5,000, J J Keane. 6200 ChamplaIn a, enue,
Chicago, $35,000, T L Duque, 524 South Hd1 'itreet. Los
Angeles, Cal, $9,500, Stella !II Stan, 2817 Sun~et bou1e,ard
Los Angeles, $6,000, Sarah Y Ruhm"teen, EIghth a, enue
and T\, ent} -fitth street, Los Angele", $4,500, J T Cook,
Holh \, ood. Cal , $7,000, James Carr, 301 LydIa btreet, PeOlla,
Ill, $3,000, Dal1lc1 A Dugan, 606 Alden avenue, Trenton, N.
J , $20,000, LOtHS Mangold, 918 Llberty street, Trenton, $4,-
000, 'l{ IV Rose, 427 Pennll1gton avenue, Trenton, $3,500,
Edward Ramer, Hartley street and Lmden avenue, York, Pa.,
$11.000, R S Cov, an, 108 Twentieth avenue south, Nashville,
Tenn , $8,000, LOlliS MacDuff, 1451 Boulevard, DetrOIt, Mlch ,
$5,200, J II alter Drake, 116 Boston boulevard, DetrOIt, $10,-
000, L K Butler. 573 Jefferson avenue, DetrOIt, $7,500, 1-1
n Blank"tell1, 1418 Brush street, DetrOlt, $4,500, Paul Sun-da',
535 Hurlbut ~treet, DetrOlt. $55,275, J F ;\1cLaughhn,
Bru"h ;,treet and Garfield avenue, DetrOIt, $6,SOO. Peter Durst,
lIague and ] ohn R streets, DetrOIt, $4,500, Mlke Rogan,
420 .:\Iontgomel} a\enue, Youngstown, 0, $3,000, John S
\\' nght, Penns} Ivdl1la and Thlryt-seventib streets, lndlan-apoh",
Iud $6,500 ~1rs Stella 13 Colhns, 145 South Thlrty-first
"treet Omaha, \Jebr, $5,000, Ed Johnston, 1138 South
Central boule, ard, Omaha. $6,500, R SHall, 2418 Farnam
~treet. Omaha, $9,000, MI"s "Joe" V'lhon, 24 Broyles street, --_._~--------- ,-----------_.------- ----------------.-.-_ .-._-._~....
New designs In the Louis XVI Style.
WRITE FOR SAMPLES AND PRICES.
GRAND RAPIDS BRASS CO. GRAND RAPIDS, MIClH..
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STAR CASTER CUP COMPANY
NORTH UNION STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
(PATENT APPLIED FOR)
We have adopted cellulOId as a base for our Caster Cups, making the
best cup on the market. CellulOId IS a great Improvement over bases
made of other matenal When It ISnecessary to move a piece supported
by cups wIth cellulOId bases It can be done wIth ease, as the bases are per-fectly
smooth CellulOId does not sweat and hy the use of these cups
tables are never marred. These cups are timshed In Golden Oak and
WhIte Maple, Jimshed bght If you will try a sample order of thefe
gOOd,you WIll dellre to handle them In quantltle,
PRICES: SIZe 2X Inches .. $5.50 per hundred.
Size 3U Inches. 4.50 per hundred.
f o. b (]rand Rapidl PRT A SAMPLE ORDER
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Atlanta, Ga, $4,000; Mrs. M. ::.vreimeyer, 4248 Virgima ave-nue,
St Louis, Mo., $4,000, J C Guckenberger, Mabbett and
Rusk streets, Milwaukee, Wis , $3,500, E J Coogen, Fortieth
street and Elm avenue, Ml1waukee, $4,000, Herman Bohlman,
2417 Center street, Milwaukee, $8,500; George \i\! Barfield,
4801 Second avenue, Woodlawn, Blrmingiham, Ala, $4,000;
B F. Selman, North Ninth avenue and Seventeenth street,
Birmingham, $5,500; H L Newton, 560 Laclede street, Mem-phis,
Tenn, $4,500; C H Crisman" 1556 Vmton avenue,
Memphis, $11,000, A D Mmkler, 1552 First avenue, west,
Seattle, Wash, $15,000, A P Molloy, 4344 FOity-.-.lxth ave-nue
northwest, Seattle, $10,000, VhllJam J. Trett, 905 MIdland
avenue, Syracuse, NY, $5,000, H C Clark, 100 Swaneola
street, Syracuse, $4,000; E J Scouller, 148 Corning avenue,
Syracuse, $5,000, Anna Thomasmeyer, McBrIde and HIckory
<;treets, Syracu<;e, $6,300; Huam Hucker, 930 Gr3Jpe street,
Syracu<;e, $4,500, Mary E Tucker, 604 Park avenue, Syra-cu<;
e, $6,000, Lucy A Jacbon, Bland and Lmcoln avenue~,
Evansvl1le, Ind, $3,000; J B Young, 500 North Market
street, WHJhlta, Kan, $3,500, A. E Schuh, 416 West Main
street, Richmond,' Ind , $3,000, August Anderson, 421 HarrI-son
avenue, South Bend, Ind, $3,000; Steven Nyccos, 1216
\i\! est Washmgton avenue, South Bend, $4,000, Thomas J ohn-son,
331 John avenue, Superior, Wis, $3,000; C CLines,
413 Perry street, Peoria, Ill, $3,000, R T Hollerook, Cherry
and Seventh streets, \i\!inston-Salem, N. C, $6,000; Wilham
Stuckenlberg, 3253 Texas avenue, St Louis, Mo , $3,500; Rose
Meyers, Penn and Twenty-sixth streets, St Joseph, Mo, $4,-
000; J D Ormsby, 229 Campbell street, Wmnipeg, Man,
$5,000, J. T. Parker, 408 Aubrey avenue, Winmpeg, $4,500,
F. J. Smith, 4944 Dupont avenue, Minneapohs, Mmn, $4,-
000; Mary C Russell, 4408 Thomas avenue south, Mmne-apolis,
$3,800; L. E Stetler, 2510 Logan avenue north, Min-neapohs,
$3,500; Mary P Thurston, 633-9 East Thirty-second
street, Mmneapohs, $20,000, Arthur Zekman, 61 East Seven-teenth
street, Minneapohs, $10,000; H W W Ilhams, 2322
Rice street, Little Rock, Ark, $3,000; S HAllen, 210 Eighth
avenue, Salt Lake City, Utah, $10,000; W. R Baxter, 354
North Main street, Salt Lake CIty, $6,000; Albert Wihite,
419 I street, Salt Lake City, $3,800; S S DIckenson, 676 East
Second South street, Salt Lake City, $4,000, Mrs E V VV.
Anderson, East Twenty-eighth and Burn<;ide streets, Port-land,
Ore, $15,000, H J Fisher, Patton avenue and Shaver
streets, Portland, $4,000, ~T T Scott, 1158 Adams street,
Mobile, Ala, $4,500; W E Flinn, Beauregard and Hamllton
streets, Mobile, $3,500, William F Simpson, 5203 Wall street,
Los Angeles, Cal, $4,750, L. B. l'Esperance, 355 Alexandria
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avenue, Los Angeles, $5,500, Jesse M Cox, Detroit
and Thnteenth streets, Denver, Col, $5,000, E. E Williams,
10840 Drexel avenue, Cleveland, 0, $5,500, Mary E Cassell,
1006 Eighteenth street, Columbus, 0, $4,800; Charles Defen-baugh,
490 Twenty-second street, Columbus, $3,600; A. E
Legg, 227 Maynard avenue, Columbu<;, $4,000; Harry Wright,
1215 Garfield avenue, Topeka, Kan, $3,500; J H. Bailey, 714
Mas~abeslC .-.treet, J\Ianche~ter, N H, $4,000, M V. BaIley,
99 Grant street, Manchester, $3,000; Dr D. C Lefferts, Red-lands,
Cal, $20,000
Miscellaneous Buildings.- The CatholJcs aI e building a
$50,000 school house at 5201-9 North Fifty-second avenue,
Ohicago St James illethodist M1.-.slOnare budding a church
to cost $100,000 on Tabor road, PhIladelphia, Pa The Corner
Realty company IS erect1l1g a theatre on North Twelfth
street, St Louis, Mo , at a cost of $185,000, exclusive of seat1l1g
and furniture The W1l1dom Park Baptists are buildl11g a
$25,000 church on Twenty-fifth avenue, M1l1neapohs, M1l1n
BU'-,l11e.-m.sen of Santa Paula, Cal, are plann1l1g for the erec-tIOn
of a $50,000 hotel The Mystic Shriners are to l11vest
$100,000 in the erection of a temple at Phoenix, Anz The
boarJ of trustees are advertising for bids for furnishing the
city hall at VisalJa, Cal, address M J Brynes, city clerk.
~T ork has been started on the erection of the First Baptist
church at Pomona, Cal, which IS to cost $60,000. The Uni-tarians
of San DIego, Cdl have adopted plan<; for a new
church to cost $80,000 ,
Flattery generally has an axe to grind
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An Interesting Controversy Between St. Louis and Toronto Lumber Journals That
May Lead to Lower Pric{"s.
The follow1l1g from the Canacla Lumberman of Toronto,
seems to expla1l1 how the high pnces of southern pine lumber
are ma1l1ta1l1ed and may strengtlhen the <;usprClOn long enter-tained
by fur11lture manufacturers and others that the cost
of hardwood lumber rs not governed entrrely by the la\\ of
supply and demand:
An Ontario traveler for a lumber manufacturIng firm
recently called upon a large manufactunng company \\ hrch
uses a great deal of lumber 111the course of the year, and
found that they needed a good sized bill of tank ]OlStS and
timber. He figured on the brll as closely as posi>rble and told
the manufacturer what rt would cost V\'hen the 111tervrew
ended he felt farrly satisfied that he would secure the order
In the course of a few days he returned, expect111g to close
the contract, and found to hrs drsapp0111tment that a tra, eler
for a Southern p111e concern had struck the traIl of the con-sumer
and had offered his goods at pnces which cannot be
approached by the Ontano ml1ls There \\ as not a smgle
item in the ltst on w1hrch the pnce'3 of the Southern pme
were not two or three dollars per thousand feet less than
the prices of the Ontano mrll, and on many of the Items the
difference \\as as great as $15 per thousand feet Tank jOlstS
4-in by 16-in by 24-ft \\ ere offered m Ontario \\ hrte pme, "e-lected
bill stuff, for $46 Tlhe Southern p1l1Cpnce \\ as $32 For
3-inch by 16-inch by 22-foot the On tan a p111e prIce \\ as $44,
and the Southern p1l1e pnce $31 SO For trmbers the pnces
were not so wide apart, an example being 6-inch b} 16-111ch
by 22-foot, for whrch the Ontano p111e pnce \\ a'3 $39 and the
Southern pme prIce $32 It must be borne m mmd. hO\\ e\ er,
that the Southern pme pnce was "deltvered," \\ hrle the On-tario
price was fob mrll, whrch means that another $2 or
$3 would have to be added.
There 1S no p0'3s1b1lity of talkl11g against an argument
of this nature, and the Ontano traveler had to lea Ye \\ ithout
an order, in spite of the fact that the Canadran mills seemmgly
had the gre<Lt advantage of a sibort fre1ght haul. In sp1te of
this, the Southern firm was able to quote a 10\\ er price,
freight included than the Canad1an manufacturer could quote
f. o. b. cars at the mill.
Is the Canad1an manufacturer askmg too much for hrs
lumber, or is the Southern firm askl11g too ltttle? Certamly
the former is not the case Canadrans have lost enougi1
money in the last two or three years to justrfy them m ask-ing
every cent they are asking today The cost of manufac-turing
is sufficient to warrant the pnce<; \\ hich are bel11g
quoteJ by Ontano mrlls The trouble ro, that the Southern
manufacturers are mak111g a convenience of the Canadian
markets and are strll at the old game of dumping their lum-ber
here at almost any figure 50 long as they can secure money
111return They mu<;t have money to meet the demands of
therr bankers, and are sellmg lumber for anything they can
obtam There rs no question that the Southern pine is being
"dumped" m OntarIo The price of 6-inch by 16-inch by 22-
foot, for instance, was $32. The same material was sold in
Boston recently at $38 'With a $10 frerght rate from the
South. there would only be $22 of the Ontario price left for
the cost at the mrll, whereas in the South an average price
is $23 SO
Trs dumpmg however, has been going on for many
} ears. and pme m the Southern States is being cut apparently
at a \\ a"teful rate, but one would expect that long before
thrs tIme man} of the Southern manufacturers would have
reached the end of therr resources, or rather, of their borrow-mg
pm" er" 1'hr<; 1S the real puzzle 111 connection with the
srtuatlOn II hrch Canad1ans are unable to solve. The best
solutlOn<; seems to be one which wao, recently given by a
Canadran on h1:o return fram a tnp through the South. He
thmk" that It 1S easier for a promoter to secure capital for
doubtful enterpnse" m the States than in Canada. Appar-ently
ne\\ caprtal b bemg interested from time to time, as
the old capital goes out of existence, and it begins to looJk
as If tIllS process could be kept up aLmost indefinitely, espec-ially
rf a fair living price is obtained in United States markets
There are other features of the situation which are of
111tere'-t to Canadians Visitors to the South all agree in
cnticr7rnR the enormous rate at which the lumber of that
countn IS being cut, and they contradict the reports which
are frequently published regard111g a reduction of the quan-tIty
of trmber be1l1g taken out The Canadian referred to
abm e <;tates that one of the most surprising sights of his
trip was the great <Lmount of lumber-laden traffic which his
tram, going south from Ohicago, passed on tlhe way. Prac-tically
e, ery ten miles a freight train was met, and over 50
per cent of the freight was lumber. Not only this, but in
the lumber manufacturing process there is far more waste
than there is in other lumbering districts Large permanent
ml1ls are not erected The machinery is not up-to-date, and
the timber is frequently unevenly cut
Coming back to the Canadian end of the situation, one
naturally Ivonders '" hy It i,..,that lumber which can be offered
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at such cheap prices compared with the Canadian product,
does not completely monopolize the market There is, first
of all, one simple reason. A man who oflders a bill of South-ern
pine may get it in a few days, and he may not get it
for months. Deltvery is a very uncertain matter. If he
orders Canadian lumber he can depend upon delivery within
a reasonable time It frequently happens that after ordering
Southern lumber a Canadian consumer secures some of It
after a long delay, and in the end has to order CanadIan lum-ber
to take the place of the Ibalance of the order, which he
cannot secure in time for his work. For this reason Cana-dians
have been able in the long run to hold down the sales
of yellow pine The chief evil in connection with the sale
of yellow pllle in the Canadian markets is the disturbance
which it introduces into trade conditIons Iby providing a fac-tor
for the depression of pnces and by acting as a general
trade disturbing factor.
The Lumberman of St. Louis, Mo., takes issue with its
CanadIan contennpo'rary and prints interviews and letters
from a number of southern lumber manufacturers to show
that the Toronto papers make many misleading statements
in regard to the yellow pine business in the Dominion. The
denials, however, are evasive. It is admItted that there is an
over production of yellow pine lumber and that some of it
may have been dumped in Canada, but, "it has been dumped
everywhere since 1907." The Southerners emphatically deny
Ithat their export prices are lower than quotJations to domestic
consumers and declare that the sale referred to by the Can-ada
Lumberman must have been made by some concern
that was heavily overstocked and in need of ready cash The
St Louis Lumberman commenting on the letters and inter-views
says:
"Any well-informed manufacturer of yellow pine can pick
out of this editorial a number of statJments that are untrue
and ridiculously absurd. Just as an illustration our contem-porary
certainly knows or ought to know that the sentence
"Large permanent mills are not erected. The machlllery
is not up to date, and the lumber i" frequently unevenly cut"
~that caps the climax of ignorance Where in the world,
and that includes Canada, can you find larger, better, more
permanent mills than those in the South? What mills in
British Columbia can be mentioned in the same day with
those operated by Wm. Buchanan, the Long-Bell Lumber
company, the Chicago Lumber and COClciIompany, the Great
Southern Lumber company, the Kirby Lumber company, the
Central Coal and Coke company, Frost-Johnson Lumber com-pany,
the Pickering Mills, the Industrial, the Newman and a
score of others that we might mention? Our Canadian
friends need not worry abot~t the excellence of the material
they purchase on this side and they can be sure that the most
up-to-date machinery has been used in its making. And we
have an Idea, too, thalt they can be assured of prompt ship-ments.
Our Canradian contemporary should come over on this
side, visit the mills of the South, get his head full of real
information and then go back to Toronlto and tell his readers
of his many mistakes and erroneous statements."
Though It claims that "any well-informed" manufacturer
of yellow pllle can pick out a number of stwtements that are
untrue and ndiculously absurd" the St. Louis Lumberman
fads to mentlOn any such statements, except that in regard to
the character and permanency of the Southern mills. The
same is true of the letters and interVliews, intended to refute
the statements made by the Toronto paper. In fact the south-erners
admit even more than is charged agalllst them in re-gard
to the "dumping" pohcy some of them excusing that
practice on the ground that banks and finanCIers do not back
the lumberman as they should.
On the whole the Canadian editor seems to have "made
his rase" again<;t the yellow pine combine Whether it will
have any effect on prices remalllS to be seen, but if it is true
that "there is a great overproduction" and no combination to
maintain fictitIOUSvalues a sharp decline in the prices of yel-low
pine is certainly in order And a decline in southern pine
might bring about a decIllle in the cost of hardwood lumber.
Common sense doesn't mix very well with a love affair. .,
Henry Schmit 8 Co.
HOPICINS AND HARRIET STS.
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Manufacturers of
"ABC" low speed;
low power exhaust
fans.
"ABC"roller bear-ing
trucks, trans-fer
cars and flexi-ble
doors.
"Detroit" Return Steam Traps.
New York Trade Notes and News.
X e,\ York. \pnl 21-Bus111ess IS qUIet in most lines. In
"ome there I'; c1ullne,..,s, due to tlhe appmach of the summer
"ea"on, but futl11 e orders for fall dehvery are com111g 111very
"ell \lreac1y the annual 1111mlgraJtlOn of busmess men gomg
to Fl11ope ha" started and the hst IS one of the largest on
relOl d so earh 111 the season In the furl11ture 1111ethe whole-
~ale tl ade 1<;falrl} <;easonable The retallers are not rushed
\, lth bus111e"" Some of them are carrymg on special rednctlOn
sales ~lanfacturers are not disposed to place large orders
for supplIes at ple"ent pnces
1he \tlantlc ~letal Bed company has been 111corporated
to manufacture bed", \\Ith a capital of $5,000, by John \V
\ \ Jlke-" John T Inglesby, \"1 0 Douglas J aCQIb Koeppel
an d Joseph Bartfeld
S Ornstein and 1. Ginsburg have opened a new furni-ture
store at 1957 Second avenue.
Lester Alexander has leased a loft at Grand street and
BlOadwa), where he will put in a big 1111eof upholstery
goods for tthe wholesale trade.
Fraas & Miller, retal! furl11ture dealers of Linden street
and Broadway, Brooklyn, have made Improvements 111their
store and put 111new ,..,how w111dows
The Ford & Johnson com pan) have taken a new ware-house
at 213 West Twenty-sixth street and wlll add a con-tract
department for school and church furl11ture
R Lawrence, who was assistant buyer for the O'N el!l-
Adams company, IS now furniture and upholstery buyer for
the Clstner-Knott Dry Goods company of Nashville, Tenn
R \ '\lorton who was 111the furniture department of
the Fourteenth street store and Rothellibergs, has succeeded
Frank S Haggmann as buyer for Price & Rosenbaum, Brook-lyn
D A Cella, who was for years with the Aimone Manu-facturmg
company has started the "Cella shop" in the Wind-so:-
Arcade, Fifth avenue, to handle choice decoratIOns, an-tique
furniture and bric-a~brac.
The Josiah Partridge & Sons COlllpany, have started m
a new l111e, makmg the American bent wood chairs Tlhey
have put m new machinery and a big demand is reported all
0\ el for these hnes.
H 1\ assel11 , late furl11ture and upholstery buyer for the
Goldburg-Slegel company, is now sellmg staff of Price &
Rosenbaum, Brooklyn.
'Dhe Bronx company a depal tment store at Third avenue
and 163d street and Jules DubOIS as the New York Molding
Manufacturing company, 643 Eig'hth avenue, are both being
closed out in bankruptcy
Charles A Unseld is contJinuing the busmess of L Un-seld,
deceased, at 131 Graham avenue
Herbert Cowperthwalt has secured from France, the agen-cy
for a new gildmg caster, which is a steel dOlme, without
wheels or hearings.
Alfred Schiebal has opened a new picture and frame
store at 3519 Bloadway
J & H Sakal sky, Grand and Essex streets, has taken th(
agency for the Carbon Stove and Range company of Beth
lehem, Pa
J acolb & Joseph Kahn, who have a large warehouse on
Twenty-seHnth street, are handhng a lot of spring and sum-mer
goods m porch and veranda chairs as well as speCial
hnes of bronze and monogram chair." office chairs and hall
racks
The Metropohtan Chair company are remodeling their
blllldmg on Twenty-seventh ,..,treet to make it a palace sale~
room They will have fine lighting facilities, spacious win'
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CHAS. E. FRANCIS COMPANY, Main Office and Works, Rushville, Ind.
dows for daylight and high power tungsten electric lamps
for even1l1gs '1he ceIlings and walb wIll ,be 111 white They
wIll have a number of sam1=>lerooms and shlppmg and stor-age
floors Ford & John30n have part of the first and
second floors and all of the thIrd and fourth floors
J F Woodlll, formerly a Phlladelphla furmture man,
late wIth R J Horner and Fred Ever3 of this CIty, IS now
WIth the Brooklyn Brass Refinishing company
::\;1 Gluck, who was assi"tant furmture buyer for Rothen-hergs
I" now aSsIstant buyer for A. I Namm & Son, Brook-lyn
Thompson & Co, manufacturing couches, beddmg and
box spnngs, has a fine line on show at his warerooms in
Brooklyn
Hammacher, Schlemmer & Co, Fourth avenue and
Thnteenth street, have an exhIbit of a fine lme of tools and
hardware for the furmture j rade
Olrver Bras of Lockport, NY, have a notable exhIbit
at 110 West Tv.enty-seventh ",treet, of brass and Iron beds
They make a specialty of the four post colonial and canopy
effects
Walter F Barnes of 372 Broadway is building up a
large bus1l1ess in desks, office and lodge furnIture
The Pantasote compan y, 26 vVest Thirty-fourth street,
are pushing their sales of pantasote, which is a substitute
for leather.
The Sons-Cunningham company of 26 Cherry street, are
making a fine lme of reed and Iattan furniture.
John Bottomly, late salesman for F. Mohr & Co, has
gone back to his old employt'r, R J. HDrner, on East Twenty-third
street
Baumann & Haubenstock have taken a new buIlding at
618 Grand street, Manhattan, an addltlOn to 614 Grand anci
have enlarged their parlor sUlte factory at Brooklyn.
Cowperthwait & Sons glive their salesmen bronze medals
for good work and service
The Pablow Reed and V\ lHaw Manufacturing company
have added anothel floor to then factory wt 128 West Thirty-third
stteet
The Carpentel company, retail furniture house of 378
East 143d street, John B Slattery and G. E Dahlhouse pro-pnetors,
have a large store but are lookIng for a chance to
secure a larger one
The Furniture and Carpet Employers' Mutual Benefit
association of Brooklyn are trying to combat any evening
No.6 Glu. H.at.r.
opening of the stores Some firms have been talking of keep-ing
open untIl 8 or 9 o'clock
Sears & Roebuck's Operations at Sparta.
During the past week it has been reported in Grand
RapIds that Sear3, Roebuck & Co, were to add a line of
cheap furniture to the product of their gasoline engine fac-tory
at Sparta, a httle town 20 mIles northwest of Grand
Rapids on the Pere Marquette If the managers of the big
mail order house have any such 1I1tentlOn they have not told
the people of Sparta anythmg about it They are building
an addItion to their engme factory, Ibut it is ma1l1ly for a
boiler and engine l'oom, and WIll not enlarge the capacity of
the plant to any great eXitent. Heretofore they ha,:e used
power furnished by the Sparta Mlllmg company but the ar-rangement
was not satisfactory to eIther party and finally
resulted m a law SUIt
The ga",011l1e engine faotory was establrshed by two
young men who sold Itheir product to Sears & Roebuck, but
went to the bad financially 111 trying to meet the require-ments
of their contract and sold out to 1Jhe ChIcago concern
who have improved the plant and its product and are now
enlarging it.
Sparta, Iby the way, is a prosperous little town. It's
greatest draw back is lack of houses for workmen with
families.
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NO FURNITURE TRUST IN CANADA. -----------------------1 ,
President Harmer of the Alleged Holding Com-pany
Emphatically Repudiates the Ideo.
Fram the TOIonto \\ otld of A.prll 16-The \\ eekl} Sun,
in an edItorial under the captIOn of "A FurnIture CombIne
Too," pens an edItorial agal11st combl11es, basl11g Its argu-ment
on a despatch appearing 111 Thursday's Globe relatIve
to the meeting of the Ontano Fur11lture :,Ianufacturers'
assocIatIOn at Guelph, Its facts are so 1I1accurate and ItS
speCIal pleas so fOl ced that It has been brought to the attentlon
of some of the lead111g furnIture manufacturers 111 Toronto
R, Harmel, presIdent of the Canada Fl11 nlture IIan utac-turers,
LtJ, wa" seen by The \\ orId yesterday, and hay 111g
been shown the edltonal fr01l1 the \\ eekl) Sun, saId "There
IS absolutely no furnIture comb1l1e 111 Canada ~-\t the meet-ing
that Tlhe \Veekly Sun refers to my company \\ as not rep-resented
ThIS company was fOlmed 1ll 1900 and then 0\\ ned
and operated sIxteen furniture factones; It today operates
only eigiht. ThIs has been the result of metlhod" of economy
in management, and as a matter of fact thIs company was
formed in order to lessen the costs of manufacture and man-agement
and to put the fur11lture bU"111es~, so Lll d~ \\ e \\ el e
concerned, on a staple business baSIS
"So far as I can learn the meet1l1g at Guelph was for the
purpose of discuss~ng conditions and talkmg over busmess
procedure and plans looking to\Vard the development of the
furniture business 111 Canada I don't th1l1k any effort \\ as
made to fix pnce.>, because my knowledge of the furnIture
business tells me that no agreement to fix pnces could be
kept owing to tlhe uncertain condItIons prevalent 111the trade
"I t is not usually knoY\ n, but It IS none the less a fact,
that there are few furmture factones 1I1akmg a reasonable
profit on theIr business It is one of the most precarious
businesses m Canada and success 111 It depend~ on an accur-ate
and economIc systam of cost and dlstnbution The
statistics of Bmdstreet's WIll show tlhat WIthin very recent
years upward of a score or more of furniture factones hay e
failed, The sea of busl11ess IS stre\vn \vlth the wreckage ot
Canadian furniture factories
"We have found that the hig'h cost of lIv mg has 1l1creased
tlhe cost of production of furmture Our workmen demand
higher wages and our salesmen demand hlg1her salane~, and
the price of lumber IS much hIgher than a vear ago The
demand for furnIture IS necessarily 11l111ted 111 a country as
small as Canada lIhe great demand for oheap furmture
from the rural dIstricts IS chIefly 111 t<he \\ est, \\ hlch mu ~t be
sold alt low prices, which do not repay adequately t<helr manu-faoture,
The demand for hlgh-c1as, furmture 111 Canada b
compalmtively small, the competItion b keen betv\ een the
Canadian factOries anJ those 111the Umted States I belIeve
in order to profitably ma1l1ta111 tlhe furmture 1I1dustry 111
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f'cutting tools are not of the best, you
i I f ,can not turn out good work.
<J' Q) ~e:,
We pride ourselves on the fact that we
have manufactured only the very best for
thirty-five years. Write for our complete
.catalog. It shows many new ideas in fine
I ~11aborsaving tools.
IF"
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Canada It \v III be necessary for the factory managers to in-crease
theIr pI Ices at least five per cent and even at thaJt no
factOr} \\ III be maklllg a fair bUS111es3 relturn on money in-vested.
Effect of the Tariff.
, So fal as I know, no furlllture manufacturers are com-pla111111gabout
the states' t3Jnff, but a reduction from 30 per
cent to 20 per cent at the present stage of the mdustry would
senously cnpple It The whole furlllture industry m Can-dela
IS bUIlt on the hope that WIth the mcrea~e m population
the demand for Ganaelllan-jmade furnIture will sufficiently
lllcrease to make Its productIOn on a large scale return ade-quate
profit, and untll our populatIon gro\Vs much larger and
the demand fOl hIgh and medIum grade fUl mture IS greater,
no fortune~ are gOlllg to be made out of tlhe furnIture bUSI-ness
"The sty les m furniture change like the styles in mI1-
11ll(ry, and the furniture that is out of Jate has to be "ac-rificed
3Jt a great loss to the manufacturer.
"Again I say, emphatically, tlhere is no combine among
Canadian furniture manufacturers but tlhe conditions of the
trade are such that an advance m the prices of furntlUre may
rea'3on3lbly be expeoted by the purchasing public. I might
add also that the furniture factones are <lJmong the glreat in-dustries
of Canada, consuming millions of feet of Canadian
lun ber, employing 1Jhousands of workmen, providing wages
ior hundreds of homes, and are reasonable subjects for fair
treatment by the tanff"
That lIquor Imploves WIth age seems to be demonstrated
by the fact that the older some men get the better they
lIke it.
WEEKLY ARTISAN
American Ex])osition in Berlin.
That AmerIca IS to have a comprehensive and I epresent-atl\
c eXposItIOn m Betlm m 1910, openmg m September, IS a<,-
sured :\1anufa'Cturer~ and bu"mess men throughout the coun-try
are ,hsplaying a ltvely interest m the undertakmg, and
appltcatlOlls fOI space hay e been receIved by the A..merican
C011111l1tteefrom many states The mdlcatlon<, are that every
bl al1ch of AmerIcan progres, ~ III be shown at the eXposItIOn
\merIcan manufactul el' of office fllrl11tllre hay e been suc-ce~"
fllim findmg an outlet 111 L1110pe for a pal t of thClr pro-dllCt,
and It wOllld seem that the all AmerIcan exposItion to
be held 1Il Berltn wOllld afford manufacturers mother lme"
OpportU111ty to do ltkewlse Bellm I" the commercIal center
of Furope, and our manufacturel s couLl not make a 1110re
favOlable ImpressIOn on foreIgn buyers than by exhIbIting at
the exposItion to be held thel e
Impetus has been given the exposItIOn enterpl be by the
appollltment of former Governor DavtJ R Flancls of .1\11,,-
souri, to the office of first vIce-president of the A..merIcan
Committee
I t is lIltel esting to note that the prospectu<' emphasl7e"
the practical benefit of an exposItion held In the heart of
Europe rather than making ,LU appeal to the natIOnal pnde of
prospective exhibItors The booklet draws attentIOn to the
Illustrious allspIces under wrllch t1he eXiposltlon IS to be held
and lays "tress upon the value thIS WIll have in enhancing
Ametican interests abroad PrInce Henry of PrussIa, brother
of the Emperor, ItS pI eSlden l of the Gellman ReceptIOn Com-mittee,
whtle m this country J PIerpont :\forgan is pre"ldent
of the commIttees whIch are dlrectmg the work of selectmg
representatl\ e exhIbits FOlmer Governor FrancIs IS first
vIce pre"ident and John VVanamaker IS "econd v Ice-presIdent
The prospectus points out 1 he practical SIde of the exposI-tion
as fol1o~ s .
"As this WIll be the fil st all-AmerIcan el\.po"itlOn ever
held in a foreIgn country ,It will he of mterest to all Europe
as ~ ell as to Amenca ExpJsitlOns have not been over-done
there a" they have here. American entelprI"e IS well recog-nized
aJbroad, anJ the rapId progress of thIS country has at-tracted
the attention of the entire world Thus, an AmerIcan
expositIOn held in the heart of Europe, WIll he of mestimable
\ alue to the manufacturer and business man in that It WIll
give him an opportu111ty to show and to demonstrate to a
receptive audience what has been accomplished in the Ul11ted
States along every line of endeavor"
Panama Canal "Has Been Dug."
Reports from \\T ashmgton state that th e Panama Canal
a<, orIgmally planned and adopted by Congre"" has been
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to the end of 1\1alch last was 103,20S,666 cubIC
yards, or wlthm 590,004 of the total excavatIOn reqUIred
Ohanges m the plans made subsequently by order of the
\\ ar Department, however, mcreased the total amount of
excavatIOn to 174,666,594 cubIC yards Only about 70,000,000
cubIC yarJs therefore rem am to be excavated A..ctlve exca-vation
work on a large ~cale did not begin untd 1907, and
neatly the entIre excavatIOn called for under the orIgmal plan
has been accomp1Jshed m three and a quarter years
The ~ orth Branch (1\1lch) l'url11ture company ha" been
mcorporated Capital stock, $4,000 '
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Our Motto:
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26 WEEKLY ARTISAN
Furniture
Association
Minnesota Retail
Dealers'
OFFICERs-PresIdent J R Taylor, Lake Benton Mlnn Vice PresIdent, D R Thompson, Rockford, Mlnn ,
Treasurer, B A Schoeneberger, Perham, MlUn Secretary, W L Grapp JanesvIlle, Mlnn
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE-ChaIrman Geo Klein, Mankato, MUIn, 0 Simons, Glencoe, Mlnn, W. L
Harns Mmneapohs, Mmn I C Dalllelo;otl, Cannon Falls
BULLETIN No. 106.
\'\T e present you thIs ~ eek wIth IllustratIOns from ['27 ~ hlch ha, e
been tried out m fifteen chfferent stores and ha, e proven to be thc
l11"Ostall-around ;,attslactory table that we could 1l11d \\ hl1e :)on md,
be dble to get some tables that look slmlldr to these \ve klliH\ b,
comparison that you cannot get any better table, ,1t dn\ prlCC tha11
these drc Thcreto! e, ~ e want C\ ery membel to try a few as the
tables ~ III speak for themseh es when vou get them These tables
Me priced fob ChIcago If you put a few of these on your floor,
,ou ne\ er nccd to fe,lr mall at der competitIOn Send your orders to
tbe ,ecretar:; Tanes\ dlc, :\Imn, and comply with assoCIatIOn rules
F27 No 006 Plam oak, ,!;olden
oak fimsh 1Vz mch legs Glo,",s
fimsh 24" 24 mch top PrlCC, I 0
b. Clllcago, V/ood Foot, $105, Glas"
Foot, $1.55
l<27 :1\0 41 28 x 28 mch top Qual-tered
oak or golden oak Hand rub
bed and pohshed top Pnce fob
ChIcago, Wood Foot $355, Gl.l'i'
Foot, $455
127 '\ n 26 (,olden oak 12 x 12
mch top GIn" 11111,h 30 mches
hlgh PrJcc lob (1111 ago, $1,60
F27 No 01 24 x 24 mch quartered
oak top, golden oak fimsh, gloss
Price fob ChIcago, Wood Foot,
$144, Glas" Foot, $194.
F27 '\ ° 36 (,olden °lk or qllar
tercd oak 12 x 12 mch top 32 111-
ches hIgh. Pohsh fimsh Pnce f
o b ChICdgo, $2 78
F27 No 34 28 x 28 mch top
Quartered oak, golden odk or ma-hogany
Hand rubbed and puhshed
Price, fob ChIcago, $7 56
SEND ALL ORDERS TO THE SECRETARY, JANESVILLE, MINN.
Minnesota Retail Furniture Dealers' Association.
BULLETIN No. 107.
HIGH CLASS LIBRARY TABLES.
In pre'ientmg you thIs lme of lIbrary table'i we feel} ou wIll not realIze what bar
gam'i they dre untIl you see the qualIty, fil1l'ih and constructIOn They are m e, ery
way hIgh class good" and the sellmg qUdlItles of these ha\ e been tned out 111tbe ld"t
SIX months 111twenty of OUI dIfferent members' sto! es Tn all ea'ies, they l1<\ve reported
tbat they dl e wIthout que"tlOn the be'it l111eof IIbl anes they wel e ever db1c to buy dt even
a much hlghel pnee These tables are ,tll fob ChIcago, and the fdLtory can make
prompt shIpment We h,lve abo arranged a complete 'iet of advertlsmg Ul1lts of each
one of these tables wIth tbe deSCrIption dttached vYe ",ant to urge our members to
use them as much as they pO~'ilbly can, knowmg the help they wIll bnng to our mem-bers
These Ul1lts are dll made up wIth hand drawmg cuts whIch WIll gIve a clear-cut
pIcture, no matter ho" coarse the mk nO! how coarse the paper IS upon whIch they
dre prInted You WIll note tbat our pnces on these arc "orne less than when they were
first bulletmed whIch goes to show what volume docs We are trYIng to make tll1"
factory account so good thdt It '\'\111brIng us still further savmg 1hIS can easIly be
done If all of our members WIll put them on theIr floor, Send all orders to the
secretary, JaneWllle, M1I111, and comply wIth assocIatIOn rules It takes a week to
ten days to make deln ery
Yours for hearty co operdtlon,
THI: BUYING COMMITTI:E
F27 No 45 Quartered oak top Golden oak fil1lsh
36 x 24 meh top Rubbed dnd polIshed top Pnee,
fob ChIcago, $473
F 27 No 56 Golden oak or quartered oak 44 x 28
meh top Hand rubbed and polIshed fil1lsh 5Y;; meh
legs Pnee, fob ChIcago, $11 57
['27 No 02 Golden oak or quartered oak,
gloss h111'ih 24 x 24 l11eh top Pnee, fob
CIlIeago, $227
};27 No 35 QUdl tel ed oak top, golden oak 11111"h
40 x 26 wch top hdud rubbed ,ll1c1 polIshed Pnce f
o b Chle,lgo, $655
F27 No 405 Quartered oak, band rubbed and pol-
Ished Pnce, fob ChIcago, $1393
MINNESOTA RETAIL FURNITURE DEALERS' ASSOCIA TION---Bulletin No. 108.
ADVERTISING HELPS.
Your eommlttce on ach ertls111g IS hnd111J tlldl 111 01 (Ill \0 ~(\ ld
veltls111" unIts fOI ,tll thc Ilcms "c hdndle I' d tlcl11cncl,l\' lob ll](1
wl1l be cal ned out only ,10 LIst as dS~olldtlOn fund, \\ III \\ 111 l11t In(l
IlllJ1c!tnQ. to the ,UppO! I thdt thIs movemcnt get" VI hy not 01 clcr
,ome 01 the fe llC)\\ 1116 umts and 1.1) them out In your ddvHtlS111g thIS
c 1111n,--month) It) Ol\ \\ III onl) gct a fcw no\\, Wl Id10w thdt you
\\ III 'oon bCg111 to Ildl1/c thc hclp that thIS U11lt syote111 bnng'3 ) au
r 27 No OOb IhlS pallor 'land IS
made of nlam oal, golden oak fimsh
It IS fim~hed m gloss The top IS 24
,24 mche~ TI,e 10" er shelf Ib
roomy and the legs al e neatlv t rned
The stock and fimsh ale e,ceJlf'nt
and the deSIgn "\ery artistIC"
vV,th t,pe 40t ",thout
Pncf' fob ChIcago
,Vood foot
Glass foot
t'pe 25c
r 27 No 36
ThIS pedes
tal I~ made
of golden
oak 01 quar-tf'red
oal,
polIsh fimsh
Top IS ] 2,
]2 In C he S
and It IS 32
mches hIgh
The can
structlon J '"
hIgh gladf'
thrnout It
IS a good
p r act I c al
pIece
WIth tvpe 40c ,'Vlthout hpe 25c
Pnce fob Clllcago $2.78
F27 No 34 'lllls pedestal table
1 q made m qual tered oak golden
oak or mahogany 1 he top IS 25 x
28 mches It IS 11and 1ubbed and
polIshed 'rhl~ IS a good senslblf'
deSign beSIdes beIng "\er\ artIstic
WIth type, 40c WIthout type 25c
Pnce, fob ChICago $7.56
$105
1.55
F 25 No 26
ThIS pedestal
's trade, of
golden oak It
IS fimshed m
gloss The top
IS 12 x 12 m
ches and It IS
10 mches hIgh
ThIS IS a good
practlcal piece
I' _, " 11\ 1hl-- llttlc padol
~tand Ie::. \' (11 111'1(1(' of golden oak
or "'t\ Ith '1 qual terpd oak top The
top IS 24, '4 mehes It 1 __ fimshed
In glo ...s.. and 11'1<;"a good "'lzed 10" er I shelf The It g __ ,ue hea,' turned
A good o;;;;trong <;;,ten'SIble table
"nil t\]H In,
!lll( E' f 0 1) (
"o(Hl f I( t
Glq ......, f( It
" 1tllou t t, pe 23c
hHag-o
\Vlth type
PrIce f 0
10, ,Vlthout type 25c
b ChIcago $1.60
$1.44
1.94
r 27 No 4'> TIllS llbrary table is
well made of quartered oak The
top IS 36 x 24 mches It has a hand
rubbed and pollsh fimsh The large
lower shelf IS of extra SIze There
IS a drawer under the top ThIS table
IS ., ery heavy and the constructIOn IS
of the best It WIll last for years
The lower part IS well braced This
IS a good sensIble deSIgn and a
practIcal SIze
F 2, '0 H I hl'o table IS made
of (I lal tel eel oah 01 golden oak The
top 1'-. g-O(Hl <;;;I7e beIng 28,- 28 Inches
It 1<;;' hand I ubhed and poh<;;;hed The
urn 1 .... heR\ \ and It ha..... '1 lllge shelf
1111'-. 1'" a \eI\ ...I.n ....Ible d..'" "ell ao;;
an al tI'3tH PICl(
",th t, pc 10( ",thout t, pe, 25c
PrI( e fob Clllcago $4.48
,Vllh type 40c WIthout type, 25c
PrIce fob Ch,cago . $4.73
1'" - .......0 j rlil ....laIge- quartered
cd.k taJ>lt-' 1 d'" 1 14- '. _~ Inch top It
has d del D 11111 lad d dla\,"pr The
legs ale e'-tla Ilea\' a ..... the'j are
made of e, tl a hea,.. ..,tock thruout
The de'-.lgn 1.... e ...c..e..edlngl' artIstIC
and It 1'" a ,f'r, PIRctlCcll <;;;Ize It 1<;;;
hand 1 ubhed lnd poh ...h.ed One of
the ...e. tlhl("~ "ltll t,\o 01 thlf)(> hea"
(llRll.., to lllc1tl11 ,\ ould 111'1h.€ '1 ,er'
Lttl a( tn f' 111nal') set 'llle giain 111
till", t'1bh 1 .... ('\.tla fine
:B 27 No 105 Tllls genume quar-tered
oak table ha' a large 48 x 28
mch oval shaped ton heavy legs
and a large dra" er It IS hand rub
bed and pollshed Very massIve and I
hea' v It IS 11lgh gratia m every
" a, and IS gotten up m a plam, rIch,
colomal btyle It ha~ a deep rIm
"Ith drawer and a lower shelf ThIS
1~ a large very substantIal and shape-
Iv table
- _~ 1
,V,th t, pe
Pllce, f 0
10c WIthout type 25c
b ChIcago $11.57
WIth t,pe, 40c WIthout type, 25c
PrIce, fob Chicago ....••.. $13.93
CANADIANS ARE SUSPICIOUS.
WEEKLY ARTISAN 29
But Generally They Approve the Suggestion for
a "Get-Together" Conference.
The editonal from the N ew York CommercIal, publIshed
in the \Veekly ArtIsan last Satm day, "uggestlllg that priOl to
the fOJ1mal conference between offiCIals of the DomllllOn and
the Ulllted State~ lookmg to the negotIatIOn of a recIprocity
treaty or trade conventIOn between the two nations a conven-tIOn
be called at Montreal of representatIves of manufacturers
busmess intelests of Canada and thIs countIy to take actIOn
on "\anoue; quee;tlOTI<;that would be helpful to the government
officIal" met WIth general approval fIam the press anJ the
bu"mess people "across the lIne" However, the approval
IS not unanimous over there as IS shown by the followmg
letter to the New York paper from a promment manufacturer
of ::YIontreal who probably expre"se~ the vievv s or feelings of
many CanadIan manufacturers:
EdItor, ~ew YOlk CommercIal
Sl1-1 am m hearty "ympathy with an} thing that mIght
lead to closel relatIOne; WIth our respectIve natIOns, if on a
mutually advantageous basis, but must confess some doubt
as to the punty of your motIves m thIS case Thl s doubt IS
]u",tIfied by our past treatment at \¥ashmgtol1 and by your
frank statement that our market and resources look good to
you Your pa.,t selfine'iS as a natIOn 11d~hleped ue; to grow up,
and you must not be Impatient of om present attltuJe If It
infers abIlIty to stand alone
Pere;onally, I would be plea,ed to see the convention
held, as a large number of your busl11ess men would come m
per"onal contact WIth our" and learn our pomt of vIew \Ve
once thought we could not eXIst WIthout your markets, but
yom delegates WIll find that am honzon has bloadened so
much that we may not properly apprecIate your benevolence
As to your sugge",tion that the conventIOn be called under the
auspices of the CanadIan Manufacturers' associatIon, the Idea
IS beautIful and worthy of the Golden !\ge, but I doubt If the
Candadldn manufacturel s are fal enongh advanced to mVlte
your manufactm ere; to a banquet where their own heads will
be offel ed a" the pIece de re"ls.tance I do not want to seem
to elJscam ag e so vast a step toward the mIllenlt1m but I be-lteve
that on cloe;el study of Canddlan condItIon:'> y au WIll
find that we hay e grown too tough to eat even when CO\ered
by your almost irresist<Lble flattery an,l that the best and
only way to get on board now IS to come 0\ er and help us
develop up, and you can be ,nre of a most hearty welcome-for
we lJke yOU lots, a" mdlvldual s
J 1I SlmRRARD
1\Jonilcal, C anacla, \pril 18, 1910
Pleads "Guilty."
Commentmg on l\Jr Sherrard's leiter the New York paper
says
"The CommercIal can easIly put Itself m thIS CanadIan
manufacturer's place, see Jnst how we look to 111mand appre-
CIate his feelIngs on the situatIOn It i", a matter of history
that our abrogatIOn of the la"t commercial treaty with the
DominIOn forty-four years ago was almost an insult in the
manner of ItS proJectIOn, since then we have never met Can-ada
anywhel e near half-way m any steps for recIproCIty; and
we have been e;elfi..,h, If not posItIvely hoggIsh at tImes \Ve
"acknowledge the corn" Hone'lt confeSSIOn is gOBd for the
soul
"It is tl ue also that Canada could much better afford to
worry along without our American markets than we could
without hers For the last three years our sales to Canada
were more than double her sales to us-$526,976,21O, as
agamst $239, 541, 688 But Canada meantIme has been buIld-mg
up other foreIgn malkets, and her commerCIal hOl'lzon has
certal111y bl oadened, It IS fast comprehenchng the world-mar-kets
"And, all these thmg, being conceded, why shouldn't the
Canaehan manufacturers take kmdly to the proposed mter-natIOnal
commelClal conventIOn, get our delegates from every
State of the PnlOn over 111 Monheal and tell them all these
plam facts, no mattel how dlsagl eeable or uncomplimentary,
at close range-"ngiht to theIr faces," as It were? That is just
what we Yankees would want to do were the condItions and
cilcumstances rever",ed The average American ltkes things
to be called by theil nght names, and all the world knowe; that
the aver<lJge Bllton or Canuck ltkes so to call them In no
better way-perhaps m no other way-coulel these two sets
of business neIghbors get together and learn what would be
moe;t desiralble for both in the ltne of trade reciprOCIty
"A", to the suggestIOn that the CanadIans would ne\ er
consent to parhC'lpatmg 111 a conference 111 whICh they might
be "ealten up," our correspondent IS far too mode~t He fears
that 111e;fellow countrymen could not be trusted to come out
of "uch a gathellng wlt1h tlhelr head:'> on We have It from
one Paulus J OVIUS,who u:'>eJ to do stunts in hlstory-wntmg
away back about Anno Dommt 1540, that "the whole Eng-lte;
h nation, beyond all othel mortal men, i", mOSit gIven to
banqueting and feasts"
"The CanadIans of thl" day dnd generatIOn must have
111htllted that predIspOSItIOn to feastll1g If thel e IS anythll1g
edIble in SIght, they are pI etty sure to take It in We Yankees
al e by no means tender-foots-but vve may be tender-headeJ
And the ~hances are that fmm an ll1ternatlOnal conference
,uch as hae; been e;uggested our delegate:'> would come home
headless instead of havll1g their stomachs lIned with CanadIan
pate" nut let's put the thing to a tee;t, any way"
MIchIgan IS ll1c1uJed 111 the lIst of e;tates from whICh the
CommercIal hae; recelY ed approval of ItS suggestIOn by manu-facturere;
and pI oml nent an c1finanClal men
New Factories.
(;eorete G Gllffith & Son are to establI"h a new furlllttll e b
factOly at Muncie, Tnd
The \Vllght Cabll1et COl11pdlly have establIshed a furnI-ture
factory at Nevada, Io-wa,
Tihe Peona TIeddll1g company IS a llew concern located
in the old patte! y build111g ,Peona, 111
]lhe TaylOl Bedehng company wtll manufacture mat-tree;
se;;, etc, at Taylor, Tex CapItal stock, $12,000
The EclIpse Metal Bed company, capItalIzed at $5,000
WIll manufactm e bede;, cnbe;, eraelles, etc, 111 New York
John \Vlalser, 0 C SchmIdt, Leonal d Koerber and
Fredenck Daub dre makll1g an angements to establI:,h a fur-nlttll
e factory at Elora, near BerlIn, Ont,
The Chamber of Commerce of OrOVIlle, Cal, ie; to furn-
I"h a site for a fur11lture factory to be e'3tablished in that
town by the Butte County Pll1e and Hardwood company
The Commercial Club of Orange, Tex, are negotiating
for the establIshment of a furnIture factory in that town,
WIth good prospects for cloe;ing a deal wllth a northern 00n-celn
that has been looking for a nevv locatIOn
The Sammett-Fogg company of Boston, bec1dll1g manu-factm
ers, have organIzed an aUXIlIary company WIth $25,000
paId up capItal to establie;h a factOly in PhiladelphIa, from
whIch they WIll supply their trade in Pennsylvania and the
South
30 WEEKLY ARTISAN
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WYSONO « MILES CO., Cedar St. and Sou. R. R., OREENSBORO, N. C.
makes it possible to dispense with
hand sanding.
Our No.i71 Sander produces a
fmish on flat surfaces, irregular
shapes and mouldings that would
be spoiled by hand retouching.
Ask for Catalog liE"
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Rugs Six Hundred Years Old.
Joseph \\ dd & Co l~ltth a\ enue and Thlft) -fitth "treet,
N ew York, have on e'Chlbltlon a collectIOn contdl11lng "orne
of the oldest ru~" 111 C'.htence most of them be1J1g of Chlllese
ongl11 The collectIOn I" of pecuhal l11teJ<>t and contalll"
several <;peClmens "hlch \\ ould not "eelll out ot plale 111 a
museum, rug" WO\ en dUl111g the :,I1l1~ D) na"t\, bet\\ een 1368
and 1644, whIch onS;111all) \\ ere <;plead mer "ome altar or
were part of the fur11lshlt1g of a parlor The) are beautltul
pIeces of work, in a perfect state of preserv atlOn, and are III
the nchest of colonng, 'loft 01,1 blues, 1\ ones, deep ) ello\\ s
and peach blow tones prevaJ1111g In onh one or t\\ 0 are e\ 1-
dent, the bri1hant color" usually a""oclated \\ Ith Chlllese art
at blue \\ Ith man) figure<; in blue anJ brownish and yellow
"hades n
-\nother hand"ome rug ha:, a ground of deep yellow wIth a
p1J1kl"h tone and blue and Ivor} III the figure:, and a rich
border of th(' blue One large central cIrcle and four small
ones each conta1J1ll1£; d deSIgn in blUIsh tones ornament a rug
at txqulslte pedch blO\\ ground
A Baltimore Factory.
On e of the finest factories 111 DaltimOl e b that of Leven-
~on & Zellltl at 3 ~orth Gay street They make parlor furn~-
tt1le couche" ml""lon fUl11ltUle, davenports and a large line
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ONE OF THE PROMINENT FURNITURE FAOTORIES IN BALTIMORE, MD.
Most of the rugs have a centrdl oblong portIOn at a hght
tone wIth scattered figure:, and a border at the old blue \\ Ith
floral, Svva3tlkJa or other com entlOnal de"lgn, and III almo"t
every case the exact center of the oblong I" mal ked h) a large
cIrcle. The dragon, the tea plant and reproductIOns of the
Jade Images of "gla\ e foods" placed 111 the JO"" house" are
faVOrIte symbols.
In one rarely beaUtiful speCImen, about 250 ) ears old,
valued at $3,500, all the figures are placed upnght, d" 111 a
painting A blue dragon I11hablb the center cIrcle On
background of softest IVory are tea plants, \ a<;es. frUIts and
other obj ects, mostly 111 blUIsh tones There b a tnple horder
at leathel JUl11lture They are the ong1l1ators of the patent
l'ullmdn beel the) make for the southern states at pnces
I dl1g1l1g from $18 to $50 They also make a large 1l11e of
church lodge and club room furniture, of whIch they is"ue
a sepdrate catalogue They have the best of equIpment for
mak1l1g tht 11 hnes and have recently est:a~lisheel a wareroom
on Frederick street C E Hooper of San Antol1lo, Tex.,
b one of their <;ale<;men. covenng southwestern territory.
The b ~",t man at a wedding is the fellow who isn't get-tmg
marned
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MISCELLANEOUS NOTES AND NEWS
J W Bowman IS a new undertaker at Braymer, 1\10
George J Kaber has purohased the retaIl furnIture husi-nes"
of J C Shafer at As'>umption, III
H. B & J B LaIng have succeeded :;vr E Glea'>on, furni-ture
and hardware dealeI, of Ely, l'vhnn
o E Perry has closed out hi" furniture Ibusiness at
Albany, Ore, and movecl to Newport, same state
The Rogers FurnIture company of Texarkana, Ark, have
reduced then capItal stock from $50,000 to $40,000
The Hammoncl-Brown-VV all Furmture company of Spar-tanbmg
have opened a branch store at Eevsley, S C
D. Sommers & Co, house furmshesr of Indlanapolts, Ind ,
hay e incorporated With capital stock fixed at $150,000
Halgus & Andrews have succeeded C D. Buckmann, in
the furnIture and undertakIng bus111es'> at Emmet, Idaho
The fluft rug factory recently establtshed at Marquette,
Mich, i" 1 eported as having more bUSIness than they can
handle
J A Gillison, undertaker, of Owensboro, Ky, is suc-ceed
ed by the J\Itller-Gdlt '>on Undertak111g company Incor-porated
N. G. Vander Linde, furniture dealer and undertaker of
Muskegon, Mich , has chsposed of his stock and retired from
bu"ine'>s
:t\ N Littlefield ha" bought a half Interest in the furni-ture
"tore of Sandltn & Bngman, FItzgerald, Ga, Mr Bng-man
retIr111g
n Engel has closed out his furmture business at Bo"ton,
Ga, and moved to Thomasville, where he wIll open a new
furn ture store.
C. M Pace, a banker, has purchased an interest in the
People's FUlmture company of Roanoke, Va, and has taken
charge of the store.
L F. Shank, undertaker of Des M01l1es, Ia, has sold out
to J \V Patnck, who has consoltdated the busmess WIth
another undertakUlg firm .
The Meyers-Spattl manufacturing company of Houston,
TeA, mattresse" and bedd111g, have 111creaserl their capitdl
'>tock from $300,000 to $350,000
\\ Illard Bal nhart, presIdent of the Nelson-Matter Furni-ture
compan), and famIly have returned to Gland RapIds from
their WIntel home 111 Altadena, Cal.
George Story, a retIreel furmture man of Grand Rapids,
MIlh , dled on Apnl 17, aged 59 years He has been a resi-dent
of the Furmtme CtIy "mce 1875
The Globe VI'>e and Truck company of Grand Rapids is
workmg on an order of forty trucks for one of the promInent
manufactunng compames of that CIty
The Gldclmg,> block, DanvIlle, Ill, IS beIng remodeled for
the me of the Hub Furmture company, at a CO'it of $15,000
mcludmg $3,500 for a pl3!te glass front
The Lashlee FurnIture company, dealers of Camden,
Tenn, have made an assignment WIth ltabIlities amountmg to
about $800 ancl assets estImated at $1,100
Albert L Lindholm, presIdent of the Lmdholm Furniture
company, San FranCISCO, Cal, was robbed of $160 by pick-pockets,
whIle ndmg on a Market "treet car.
The vVallager Manufactunng company of Milwaukee,
\;Vi" , have the contract for mak1l1g the furniture for the post-office
in Los Angeles, Cal TheIr bId was $48,198.
ScheIn & \VIener, furniture dealers of 1531 Third avenue,
N evv York, have settled WIth their credItors and the bank-ruptcy
proceedings aga1l1st them have been dIsmissed
The stock of furnitture owned by W B Anderson of
Angleton. Tex. whose bu"iness was recently placed 111 the
hands of a receIver, has been sold at auctIOn for 2651z cents
on the dollar, of the inventoriecl value
The retail furnIture dulers of Salt Lake CIty have
"igned an agreement to close then "tores at 6 o'clock on
Saturday" the same a" other evenings and to close at 1 o'clock
on Saturdays dunng June, July and August
Royal Beal, who for forty years conducted a furnIture
factory at Oxfordvdle, N II, dIed at the home of hIS son
Frank J. Beal of Plymouth, Mass, on Apnl 16, aged 92 years
He was well known as the Ulventor of the band saw
Edgar C Graves for thIrty years a member of the firm
of P H Graves & Son, furniture dealer" of Waltham, Mass,
has sold his interest m thatt hou.,e anel gone to Lynn, Mass,
where he takes the pOSItIon of presldent and manager of
the Symonds Furmture company.
The Colomal Furmture company, recently orgamzed m
Grand Rapids, with $5,000 capltal stock, "ucceeds an 1l1dl-
VIdual who has been engaged 111 the manufacture of piano
benches on a modest scale The company Will contInue the
business TheIr shop lS in the hland company's butld1l1g
The Hood & \v heeler Furl11tUle company of BIrm1l1g-ham,
Ala, has been 1l1corporated With capltal stock Itmited to
$50,000 all paid In The Wheeler Ulterest seems to have
been albsorbed by the Hoods James Hood is preSIdent and
treasurer, Rosa C Hood, vIce1plesldent and Mant Hood secre-tary
The Kunzelmann-E,,'>er Furniture company, dealers, of
MIlwaukee, WIS, are erect1l1g an elght-stroy bnck and con-crete
buIlding at the corner of MItchell street and Second
avenue, south side. It wdl be one of the largest and most con-venient
bus1l1ess bUlldmgs in the city and WIll be ready for
occupancy 111September
Henry J Nelson, the oldest furniture dealer in Bur11l1g-ton,
Vt, and probably the oldest 111 New England, dIed on
Apnl 10, aged 69 years He had been m the bus1l1ess since
he was a boy of 18 years He was born 111 Burltngton 111
1841, had always Itved withm 20 rod.., of hIS bIrthplace and
had done busllless at the "ame stand for over 50 years
The Ohio Casket company, Columbth, 0, has been or
ganized WIth $30,000 capItal stock The new company take'>
over the property of the CapItal CIty Casket company, re-cently
sold at bankruptcy sale, WhICh WIll be put in '>hape at
once for the manufactm e of all kinds of coffins and caskets
The officers are J A Cheney, presldent, \V S Hatcher,
'lce-presIdent, C MAnderson, "ecretary-treasurer and gene-ral
manager
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WOOD rORninO (UTHR~
As only the edge outlines of the
Cutter comes Into contact With the
lumber, there is no friction or burn-
Ing of the mouldings when made
with the Shimer Reversible or One-Way Cutters. These Cutters
are carefully moulded to suit your work, and are very complete,
inexpensive and time-saving tools. We supply special Cutters of
any shape desired and of any size to suit your machine spindles.
Let us have your speCifications. For odd work not found In our
catalogue send a wood sample or draWing.
SAMUEL J. SmMER &. SONS, Milton, Penn.
Manufacturers of the Shimer Cutter Heads for Flooring, Ceiling,
Sidmg, Doors, Sash, etc.
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32 WEEKLY ARTISAN
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Miscellaneous Advertisements.
WANTED.
Clean, medium priced line of Buffets and Chma Closets for
territory east of Buffalo, N. Y., to Portland, Me, and south
to Norfolk, Va., by a well known experienced salesman.
Address "Results" 342 Sumner Ave, Brooklyn, N. Y.
4-23 4-30.
EXPERIENCED BRASS BED SALESMAN
Is open for clean cut, snappy, up-to-date lme to sell in cItIes
of Atlantic coast states from Portland, Me., to Norfolk, Va
Address "Ecce Homo", care 1238 Halsey St., Brooklyn, N Y
SALESMAN WANTED
To sell on commission a good lme of Buffets and Sideboards,
havmg an establIshed trade m MiSSOUri, Kansas and Ne..l
braska. Address A. B C., care Weekly Artisan. 4-23
WANTED
On salary or commiSSion a lIne to sell m OhIO, West Vir-ginia,
Pennsylvania, Maryland and Washington, D. C, by a
salesman with establIshed trade of more than 20 years. Ad-dress
"L. G.", care Weekly Artisan. 4-23tf.
SALEMAN
Travelmg New York, New England and South to Vlrgima,
wants representatIve lme of Dressers and Chiffoniers. Ad-dress
"Note Bene" 511 W. 21st St., New York City. 4-23 4-30.
WANTED.
Furniture men to learn furniture designing, rod making and
stock billing by mall. Our course of instruction IS just the
thing for superintendents, foremen and factory men who
wish to increase their knowledge and salary. Grand Rapids
School of Designing, Dept. L., Grand Rapids, Mich. Arthur
Kirkpatrick, Instructor and Designer. 4-9 e.o.w. tf
WANTED.
Salesman. If you are not making $10 dally sell our lIne of
Rocking Chairs and Novelties to Furmture Department
Stores. 15 per cent commission. Address Box 291 Cas-torland,
N. Y. 4-16tf
WANTED.
Position as commercial photographer of furniture by a prac-tical,
competent man. Ten years' experience. Best of refer-ence.
Address J. H. Packer, care Times Union, Jacksonville,
Fla. 1-22tf
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New York Markets
New YOl k, \])111 22-L1l1~ceel 011 h held f1ll1lh at the
lug h pnce~ e:ota!Jh "heel la"t \\ eek Dealer ....a 1 t pI eChLtlIlg a
b1eak but C1u sheh ref the to make concession ~ dnJ thc trad(
IS of d. hand-to-mouth nature The quotdtJl)n~ .11 e not ba~ed
on \Veste1n la\\ \\lm:'h ,tand" at 83 @ 8-\- tenh Llt\ la\\ I~
quodted a cent hle,he1 .md slIlgle bOlled and douhle hOlled a1 e
quoted at the same fie,m es-8:; @ 86 cent ~-01 \\ It111I1tom
cents of the pnce of the Calcutta pi oeluct
Varni:oh gum~ ~ho\\ more actl\ It\ than tor ~e\ clalnwnth;,
Thele IS con"lJeldhlt lllqt1ln tor pcllleh ot thc hetiel gldclc~
to dlnve [elm I, '\0 1, I" quoted at 18 @ -\-.J cent,. \u 2
25 @ 32, \0 3,1:; @ 18 D.lmar-Data\ld.13 0J I-\- \landa,
pale, IS @ 18, dl11hel, 13 @ 15 ~1l1gapole 8 @ U}'i
Shellac IS dull Buyel ~ and sellers do not agree on
pnces cxcept fm small lots and thel e al e frequent conces-
SlOns from Vhe ca1d rate;, which have not been changed ma-ten
all} for a month or more
The turpent1l1e market ma\ bc te1med Ccl~\ tho\15h p11ce...,
alC qUIte steady 62 @ o2~ hC1e and tillce cenb 10\\CI at
Savannah
Receipt, of goahkins ha\ e been qt1lte hberal 1 )11.., \\ eck.
especIally Lat1l1- \mencans, hut nea1ly all a1e reported a~ ~oLl
upon an 1\ al and pi Ices are firm today, though lower than a
week ago MeXican frontlets are quoted at 31 @ 32 cents,
Duenas A.yre-., 40 @ -H, Payta'o, 4230 @ 43 ,\Iontere}, ram-
IPICO-.,etc, -t4 @ -\-:;, San Lm-., Zacatecas, etc, 45 @ 46 Vela
Cruz, 48 @ 50
The burlap husllless cont1l1ues dull-almost hfeless Bag
manufacturer, are not huy lllg at present The quotations in
..., the open market are 325 for eig1ht-ounce and 42S for 10.0-
ounce Calcutta goods, but the figures are frequently shaded
on actual tran:oactlOns
~heet Zlnc IS firm at last weeks quotatlOllS $775 per
100 pounds fob Peru, Ill, extl as and ,11scounts unchanged
Kiel.Kipp Deal in the Courts.
The deal maJe la~t fall by which the K leI Furlllture com-pany
at K1el. \\ lS, purchased the property and Ibusmess of
the B \ Klpp company of :1I1lwaukee, has resuLted in liti-gatJon
The \Itlwaukee papers state that B A Kipp has
brought smt agd111st J B Laun and A VI! Dassler for the
perfOll1lance at a contract alleged to have been enrtered into
Sept 9 1909. b} \\ hlth the defendants, who are owners of
the KId l~llfl11tnre company, agreed to purchase the assets
and ~t()ck at the 13 -\ KIPP company, and to take over the
contlOl of the company The pla111tJff states that the trans-fer
of the pi opert}
- Date Created:
- 1910-04-23T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Collection:
- 30:43
- Notes:
- Grand Rapids view looking east. Central High School is in the rear left. Kent County Court House is in the rear center.
- Date Created:
- 1880-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)