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6211. Anderson, Agnes

Notes:: Woman seated with blanket
Date Created:: 1947-03-06T00:00:00Z
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6212. Accident, Lee at Belden SW

Notes:: Scene of accident with tow truck standing by, crowd gathered
Date Created:: 1948-02-07T00:00:00Z
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6213. 1939-06; Peninsular Club

Notes:: Issue of a magazine published in Grand Rapids, Mich. Created by the Peninsular Club. Published monthly. Began publication in 1934. Publication ended approximately 1960.
Date Created:: 1939-06-01T00:00:00Z
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Collection:: Volume 7, Number 6

6214. Grand Rapids Study Club

Notes:: 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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6215. Volume 1, No. 3

Notes:: 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
Date Created:: 1908-12-05T00:00:00Z
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6216. Report of the Seventeenth Annual Convention of the Michigan Suffrage Association

Date Created:: 1901-01-01T00:00:00Z
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6217. Ryerson Building Exterior

Notes:: 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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6218. Weekly Artisan; 1909-10-23

Notes:: Issue of a furniture trade magazine published weekly in Grand Rapids, Mich, starting in 1879. and ------------------------- / ( GRAND RAPIDS PUBLIC LIBRARY GRAND RAPIDS. MICH.• OCTOBER 23. 1909 , - ---- - _------ ._.. --------------------------------~ I II ARE YOU INTERESTED IN THE WORLD~S BEST SAW BENel1 I "GRAND RAPIDS CRESCENT" Type IIIi II III III III ,I I I II III I of Grand Rapids~ Mich. II ...I 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 l... - -_ - . .. -_._..__._..__-_._-_._---, _._---._-~----------~ 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. I ill II I II I I I ill I II I I 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. 1 2 WEEKLY ARTISAN 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. WEEKLY ARTISAN ...---- •• wa. __ • _we.' _._. w. - we .- -------..... --------., 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 Cedar St. and Sou. R. R., Greensboro, N. C. ~ ••• ._ ••• w ••• w_ we we a_a ••• ~ •• - ., • a.a. - we •••• -.- --_ ... 3 -. ""tcf : .... -.,! •• 1 t\ • , ,4 WEEKLY ARTISAN ~-~ --- - ~----~-_._._- --._--_. -_._._._----- _. _. ---------------- --_ ..-- ..-- ------. THE LUCE LINE Manv New Patterns in Dmmg Room and Bedroom Furniture for the Fall Season. SHOW ROOMS AT FACTORY, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. 1 I I I II IIIII I II ..------------- --- ------ --------------------- -----_._----.--_.-~ I LUCE FURNITURE CO. .----_. -- - --_._------------ ---------- --'--" --.- .. --- -- -----_._------_.----- Reception Chairs and Rockers, Slippers Rockers, Colonial Parlor Suites, Desk and Dressing Chairs ...... I LUCE~RED1V19t:~MStlt\IR CO., Ltd. I MANUFACTURERS OF I HIGH GRADE OFFICE CHAIRS, DINING CHAIRS In Dark and Tuna Mahogany, Blfch, Blrd's.eye Maple, Q!!artered Oak and Clrcasslan Walnut ....-- .. . _ ..., You will find our Exhibit on the Fourth Floor. East Section, Manufacturers' Buading, North Ionia St., Grand Rapids . .'.-. -_.-..---_ ..... ....... __ a_ 4 30th Year-No. 17 GRAND RAPIDS, MICH., OCTOBER 23,1909 Issued Weekly 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 6 WEEKLY ARTISAN 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 ._~-_._----------- -- -- --_._---~~----_.--~-~---_-._._-----_._.~~----~-------------~ I 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 II ,, ,, ,, II ,, II ,, , II a.. - - - •• --------------~-- --~~-. ---------------------------~ WEEKLY ARTISAN 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 7 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. Ito ••• All furmture dealers are cordtally invited to visit our building. ---_._---_. _.-----------_._._. __._._,_.-._._._-------- ..... _. .... ...------------------~ ,I 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 •• I IlII• I II• II II II• IIII I• I I• [Memum and Fme Qualtty I WRITE FOR CATALOGUE SLIGH FURNITURE CO. Grand Rapids, Mich. Office and Salesroom corner Prescott and Buchanan Streets, Grand Rapids. Mich. ~---------------------------------------_.~----.--- ---------._.------------------- ... --------..6I .....I .-.... I• III Ii I 8 WEEKLY ARTISAN 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 ... iI ~.... _______ --. _ •••••••••••• _ a .., I :l\fEA~OU INTERESTING PRICES g~'i~I{Vk.~~~ SEND SAMPLES. ORAWINGS OR CUTS FOR PRICES. CWartiatleogfuoer. II E• P• ROWE CARVING WORKS , ALMLEICGHA.N. ~---- -.-- -._.- .. . . . . .. . - .. 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 \\111 plOilllJI) coniC to be con~ldered a necessIty - -.- ..... -- - - .... _. - -.-, INDIANA 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 ........ ---------_ -- ~ WEEKLY ARTISAN 9 ___________ . . a- - .. _ --- ~ t - i I,, !, I The season for banquets will soon be here. Get a stock of our Banquet Table Tops so as to be ready to supply the demand sure to come. I..--------------._~--- 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. City Salesroom, 4th floor, Blodgett Bldg. ----------_._---_._-----._---------~---_._._---_ ... 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 _ ••• a_a_ aa ._.- 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\ ern-ed.--- --- ---- --- _.- ---- - - - - - - .--------~ • ",[here's Il'Athe Button" 2,5 MILLION PEOPLE Are Reading OurAdf. They're 1JUVl•n!! rncoyaJ"r"Lf'laIrS ((lmlUETTONPUSIfHINO\ l by the Thousands Sales .Doubling. TrelJling.Our Dealers fietting TheProfit Get. lOurs this 1'earBy Hanrlling The Greatest Seller YouEverDad WRITE FOR NEW CATALOC ~CbiJjrco. STURGIS MICH. .-- . 10 WEEKLY ARTISAN o Z I'il Eo< ~ The Beautiful, New Udell Catalog is ready for all Retail F umiture Dealers. It wIll help sell the line that of its kind has no superior. It contains 88 pages Illustrating 41 Library Bookcases, 88 Ladies' Desks, 48 Sheet Music Cabinets, 23 Piano Player Roll Cabinets, 14 Cylinder Record Cabinets, 11 Disc Record Cabinets, 19 Medicine Cabinets, 10 Commodes, 9 Folding Tables. ACT AT ONCE AND WRITE THE UDELL WORKS INDIANAPOLIS, IND WEEKLY ARTISAN j, •• ___________________ • • 0 _ .__ ~_______ _ --4 ~ •••••• _._ •••••• _ ••• ••• _. a • __ •• _._---- -------- •••• _ •••• -_.- ••• - - -~ 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, ~----------------------------- ....-._ .._-_ ...~ I TUE "ELI" FOLDING BEDS ARE BREAD AND PROfIT WINNERS No Stock complete Without the Eli Beds m Mantel and UpTIght. ELI D. MILLER &, CO. EVANSVILLE. INDIANA Wnte for cuts and pnces ON SALE IN FURNITURE EXCHANCE, EVANSVILLE. - ._.a_a .. a. ------ ••••••• --- ••• - ",-- - 11 I ." 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 It is dIsplayed a fine There ale divans, -------_._._----., I " •....•..•..••. II "The King" Adapted for I.eatin!! S~I.ool Houses, Halls and FactOries. HEAVY WEIGHT LARGE SIZES No Weight 21 185 22 250 23 320 24 460 Dlam Top Height fIre Chamber Pnce 3 It 9m 16 m $13.50 4 ft Yz m 19m 14.50 4 ft 3 m· 20m 16.50 4ft 6m 22m 19.50 "THE LINES THAT SELL" SEND FOR CATALOGUE. w. D. SAGER 483·497 No. Water 5t , CHICAGO, ILL. '------- .............._~ WEEKLY ARTISAN 13 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 14 WEEKLY ARTISAN .-..-..-. -_.-----.-._. ----- --_.~...- ... . . -., IF IT'S THE BEST REFRIGERATOR IT'S AN ALASKA II Over 850,000 Alaska refngerators sold sin eel 1878. DeSirable features I I of an Alaska Refngerator: I II IIII I II II Small consumption of Ice. Maximum amount of cold, dry air. Absolutely sanitary pro-vision chamber. Simplicity of operation. Perfect preservation of food. We sell to dealers only WRITE FOR CATALOG. The Alaska Refrigerator Co. II L E. Moon, New York Manager, 369 Broadway, New York CIty. II ... .. Exclusive Refrigerator Manufacturers. MUSKEGON, MICH. ..-- ...- 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 promise better results -".--.-..-------~.~.--.-- _._-~-~--~-.,-- A~I~G ~~~r ~:Ja::ip:h~·n d~l:~ I~f leaves are bound (by your-self) and mdexed by /Ioors or departments. BARLOW BROS., Grand Rapid., Mich. Wnte RtghtNow I ................. _---- ~ "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" ", . --------_._._._..--.-.~ I =====-SEE:===== West Michigan Machine & Tool Co., Ltd. CRAND RAPIDS, MICH. for "IG" GRADE PUNC"ES and DIES .~I ~ ea_ w. _ •• ••••••• we - WEEKLY ARTISAN 15 - ... --- -- --- - ---------_._--_._---- - - - ... -_._-------_._-- ---------------------------., I II IIII 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 • • •• - • _ ••• •• I • _ •• - •• _ •• ---~ f'-.---------- ,I I MUSKEGON VALLEY FURNITURE COMPANY MUSKEGON MICH •..• COlOnial sUlles TOll POSI BenS oaa DreSSerS CnlllOmefS worarobes LOmeS' TOile IS Dressma Tobles MOnOaOny I InlOla GOoas I! ' I WRITE FOR CATALOG ~-------------------------------------------~ 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 MD OE OS Nfi COMPANY No. 834. No. 185. MUSKEGON, MICH. ~---------------------_...----------- ...- -------------------------------------------_ ..... 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. 16 WEEKLY ARTISAN PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY BY TH~ MICHIGAN ARTISAN COMPANY SUBSCRIPTION $1 00 PER YEAR ANYWHERE IN THE UNITED STATES OTHERCOUNTRIES $200 PERYEAR. SINGLE COPIES 5 CENTS. ---- ---- --- PUBLICATION OFFICE, 108-112 NORTH DIVISION ST, GRAND RAP DS, MICH. 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. 17 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 18 WEEKLY ARTISAN 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. II 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. a..---------- . ---------- a.a. a •• _. ••• .... .. WEEKLY ARTISAN 19 , I• II ,,• II• II I,I ,III I I• I• •,, II II M", ", '0""0,0 ''',n"'",, Co. I• IIII II• I II, I• ,III I,• II II I• ,• •I Mm""' "o,~ F,,""'"'' C"",.",. •~------------------------------------------_.------_.---.------_._------------------------------- .- ~ Made by Globe Furlllture Comp Ul) Made b) Bockstege Funllture Co. 20 WEEKLY ARTISAN --- ,- --- --- - - - - ----- - - .--_._- -_._---------_._------ DELAWARE CHAIR CO. _ _ __ •••• _. a •••••• .,I IIIII I III .-------- ------ .--------------------- ---- I ~---------._._--- _. -- -- -- -------------------_._------------~ 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 .. .. .... .... ...... ...... -------.., 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. ---4DDRESS-- -- J. C. DeBRUYN, 130Page St., Grand Rapids,Mich. I ~---- . ---_ ---------- .._- .. -------~ 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 .,..-------- II• III I ._- .--------_._-----------------------~ 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. L. W. TULLER. Prop. I M. A. SHAW.Mgr ~----------------- ------"--_._-------~----_..... I___________ 4I WEEKLY ARTISAN 21 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 ...--._------_- ._---_.-----------_._---------------- ------------ ---_._---_.-- .- . I MORTISER 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) IL__ 'N~_,;~~ .."~~~E~R~.":':U_L~E~. HAND TENONER No.7 SCROLL SA..W......... ... ••••••••• a._.a •• a •• 22 ~-- ,•I• •I• II II III IIII III I, I WEEKLY ARTISAN SUITE No. 748 By MUSKEGON VALLEY FURNITURE CO, MUSKEGON. MICH. ._--------------------------_.------------------------------------------------.----._------------~ a,.. •• __ a •••• --------------- •• ------.-- ••••• ------- I 5 ••• •••• _._._ ••• WEEKLY ARTISAN 23 ~_.. .._.... _. ~_~ ._~__~ ------4f 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 ~ t Show Rooms 35 to 41 N. Capital Ave. Ask for catalogues. THOS. MADDEN, SON & CO., Indianapolis, Ind . .. • •• _ • __ ~ __ • _. _._._________ _. ••• •••• T r • •• • •• - - ••• -l 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 24 WEEKLY ARTISAN 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 .I. . _ .. - _... .. --- - _.. -_.._._----------_ ._• ----------_._----- "THE BEST IS THE CHEAPEST" BARTON'S GARNET PAPER Sharp, Very Sharp, Sharper Than Any Other. SUPERIOR TO SAND PAPER. It costs more, BUT It Lasts Longer; Does Faster Work. Order a small lot; make tests; you will then know what you are getting. WE GUARANTEE SATISFACTION. Furniture and Chair Factories, Sash and Door Mills, Railroad Companies, Car Builders and others will consult their own interests by using it. Also Barton's Emery Cloth, Emery Paper, and Flint Paper, furnished in rolls or reams. MANUFACTURED BY .......... ..,, H. H. BARTON & SON CO., 109 South Third St., Philadelphia, Pa. ~-------- .---- - _...- ... ----._-_._._._-_._. _.--_._~------~-----_.-._---------.._. -.-..-.... 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 I Illinois and New York Sts. I , 6 Blocks from UnIOn Depot HAR I WOO I LU M BE R · I I ~5~1~~~:'nf:omInterurban StatIOn, .1, All Outs,de, w,th Fue Escape J elephone In Every Room, European Plan , Rates, 75c to $2 00 Per D"y, I, Dlumg Room In ConnectlOn SpeCIal Rates to FamIlIes .' and Permanent Guests ih~~':a"J::;B~~fr~~fenewlllFItld I SAWED} QUARTERED OAK {VENEERS I Stoppmg Place, AND GEO. R. BENTON I SLICED AND MAHOGANY Lessee and Manager • I "_.a _. ..s. .....•. . -._~-- -------- .. - ------ . ..a WEEKLY ARTISAN 27 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 ---------------------~I•I III II II II ... -_ ... THE WEATHERLY INDIVIDUAL Glue Heater Send your address and and receIve descriptive CIrcular of Glue Heaters, Glue Cookers and Hot Boxes with prICes. The Weatherly Co. Grand Rapid., Mich. I ~----------------------------_ _- ..~ 28 WEEKLY ARTISAN ............ ------" New Buildings That Will Need Furniture . 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- ... I I II IIII• I•• ..-- _. _ ..---_._.-._.-._ •..._-_._--_. -----~I $17.25 For thIS Genume Mahogany Dresser Top 46x23. MIrror 30x24. Wood knobs. Hand rubbed fimsh. CHARLES BENNETT FURNITURE CO. CHARLOTTE, MICH. ~----------------------- _-_ ---" • I• •II• II•• II •II!I III•• ! ~~~'~sA BARGAIN 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, f---'~B~oa~':~;=:P:e~-~W-E~-EK-:L-~Y-~.-~-AR-.T-I.S-.AN----.-----------------------------129 I I I I I I I I I I I I I I , I I I j..----------_. ..-..... 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. ---------_._---------- - . - .- ---- ------------ - - - . - . - . - - - -- \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- 30 WEEKLY ARTISAN 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- ...----------------- - _. - --'" WOODronnlno (UTnn~ 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, Siding, Doors, Sash, etc ,---_._.-_._._._._.-~-------.. ....--_. - .... ~s J@'h~jrtet" ! FREE 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&ltl.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 I• I ... 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. 32 WEEKLY ARTISAN ........-.-.--~---_._---------------._-------_. __._---~..-. I 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 ••• --4 , '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 14 14 21 24 28 18-19 18 18 Cover 20 20 7 1 18 26 26 20 18 6 29 4 23 2 18 Cover 14 11 32 15 15-22 Cover 28 8 89 12 29 29 30 7-10 17 9 11 27 Cover 18 3 GRAND RA'" PUBLIC LIBRAR '- -+ ---l~, 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.)
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6219. Weekly Artisan; 1910-04-23

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. - ---------.------------- --- WEEKLY ARTISAN 1 2 WEEKLY ARTISAN r- ••• - .• ._.-... -.. 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- 1 _ 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 4 WEEKLY ARTISAN 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 .. 1 IIII I~------------- ., I _ • _ 4 , \\ 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 • WEEKLY ARTISAN 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"" 5 ~~..-.-..--..-----------------------------,------_.~.~._. -~-.--------1 "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. .. . 6 WEEKLY ARTISAN t-----------.-.-.-- ----------.., .~ 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. .. 1"'----------------- ..-...----., 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.. t.. .. T.......................... .... .. .. ---.- ~ Baltimore Correspondence • 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 ." - ------------------- -- WEEKLY ARTISAN 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." ~.. 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 .. .. 1 350 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 1411 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. 1 8 WEEKLY ARTISAN '--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. ----------------_.--------_. 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,.,- ,. ... II IIII I 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 ...... •• --. '! - _ ------ ••••• ---- --------- ---------------- _ ... • 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. 9 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~ • $2~ Each Net to WEEK LY p ••••••• _- •••• _._---_. ---~ 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' .1.-.0.. . .. , ._. ~-- ••••• --- 04 ._..- ---.-4-------..- .....--.. Here is a Rocker That's a seller. Write for the price. G80. SPRATT 8 O. SHEBOYGAN. WIS. No. 51111. -.----------~~-------~.. --- 4, •• 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 f······ . ...........•.. ~ 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 po • - ••• _. •••• • •• - - -- --_._---------- ....__ .... 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 ~-- _.- _-----_ .......•••• - ....... 11 r ··· ~ 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. 1---- I I - - - - -- --------~~ ------- - - - - 12 WEEKLY ARTISAN 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 ~.. ..._--_ _-_ --_ - . A. L. HOLCOMB & CO. Manufacturers of HIGH GRADE OROOVINO SA WS DADO SAWS Citizens' Phone 1239 27 N. Market St., Oraad Rapid., Mich. .. _.. _a- ~ -'---------------_ ........ 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. .._--_._._------_._--- "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 I'-_.---------_._-------------- KAUffMAN MfG. CO. ASHLAND, OHIO _40 13 ..-..-_--_-._---------. ------- _. -----------.-.-..-___ ._-- ... 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" 1 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. 14 WEEKLY ARTISAN 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 ~. . . , ••: ,.--------------------- - -- WEEKLY ARTISAN 15 .. Made by World Furmture Company. Made by Bosse Furmture Company. Made by Bockstege Furmture Co. Made by Bockstege Furmture Co• . ,_._ ..-._.. . .......•. . . 16 WEEKLY ARTISAN 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 11 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. ... . .. ...., .... ... . . 18 WEEKLY ARTISAN ,,- - .......... . .." 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 •••.• _. a. __ ", ~---------~-~----- _a· __ ~ . _ - - • - - - -- - - - - - • 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.. No. 1711 ... No. 1705·1705 WEEKLY ARTISAN ... _ .. ... ..... 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 ~ __ • Te ••• _ •••••••••••• .. .... 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 19 ...~ ::K1:A~ou INTERESTING PRICES g~~~Vllt~6 SEND SAMPLES, DRAWINGS OR CUTS FOR PRICES. CWartiatleolfroure. lf E. P. ROWE CARVING WORKS, ALMLft~N, I.. • . ..... .. ..~.. . . avenue, Los Angeles, $7,000; Evalene M McCay, 648 Haw-thorne 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 .. .-~ HOFFMAN BROTHERS CO. FT. WAYNE. IND. HARDWOOD LUMBER I SAWED} QUARTERED OAK { VENEERS SLiCED AND MAHOGANY I Ira _. _.. • • I. •• ••• .. DUMPING SOUTHERN PINE IN CANADA 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 ••••••••••••••••••••• a ••••• ... . ~ OFFICES: CINCINNATI--Secoad National Bank Building. NEW YORK--346 Broadway. BOSTON--18 Tremont St. CHICAG8--14th St. aad Wabash A"•. GRAND RAPIDS--Houseman Bldg. JAMESTOWN, N. Y.--Chadakoln Bldg. HIGH POINT, N. C.--N. C. Savlag_ Bank Bldg. The most satisfactory and up-to-date Credit Service embracing the FURNITURE, CARPET, COFFIN and ALLIED LINES. The most accurate and reliable Reference Book Published. Originatora of the "Tracer and Clearing Houae Syatem," Collect£onServ£ce Unsurpassed-Send for Book of Red Drafts . ......................... ••• ••••••••• •••••• ••• sa •••••••• w •• I ••• _ • aT h ••• 1 •••••• • • c ••••••• WEEKLY ARTISAN 21 -----~-----~------~-.-""-.-.-.-.-.-.-. a_ ••_. ....- . .•., f Lentz Big Six •• a a ••••••• I ------------------_._._---_._._. _._.----_.. ... --. .. ..._. -.... - .. ._. . .. ...- - - - - - ... -. 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, MICHIGAh 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. eiDclnatl. OLio makers of Upholstered Furniture for LODGE and PULPIT, PARLOR, LIBRARY, HOTEL and CLUB IWOM 22 WEEKLY ARTISAN Drying Furniture Stock If the information contained in this book would save you a carload of oak a year, would it not be worth reading through? I Not a common catalog, but a book of information, containing practical suggestions really valuable to men interested in lumber drying. A complete treatise on Forced and Nat-ural Circulation Kilns (progressive and apartment types) with details of equipment. A book you ought to have. Sent postpaid to any address. Where shall we mail your copy? AMERICAN BLO'¥[R CoMPANY DETROIT l"dCH ---- USA 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' WEEKLY ARTISAN 23 .'" These Specialties are used all Over the World Power Feed Glu. Sl'r.adine Machine, Sinele, Doubl. and Combination. (Patented) (Siz •• 12 in. to 84 in wide.) -- Ven.er Pre ••••. different kind. and .ize. (P.leated) Veneer Presses Glue Spreaders Glue Heaters Trucks, Etc., Etc. - Hand Feed Glueine Machin. (Paleat penmna.l Many .tyle. and .iz ••. Wood·Working Machinery and Supplies LET us KNOW YOUR WANTS 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. Pleasure IS almost anyth1l1g we dan't afford ~-._ -- .. ........ 1 THE WEATHERLY INDIVIDUAL Glue Heater Send your addrea. and and recei... de.cripti ... Circular of Glue Heater •• Glue Coohr. and Hot Bon. with price •• The Weatherly Co. Grand Rapid., Mich. 24 WEEKLY ARTISAN 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 ~.._ . •• -1' 10ufs babn DESIGNS AND DETAILS OF FURNITURE 15-4 Livmgston St. GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN Cltlzens'Telephone 170Z, ,.. . II III II ,., ?, , ~Give your men tools that are ac-curate to the one-thousandth part of an inch. Tools that are straight and true and hold their cutting edge. No matter how expensive and per-fect your machinery may be, if the 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" lt~~~~I~ LWA-K~S-~~'C~C~'~L~ .. .. - - _. ._. ..~ 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 2S .. -..... -- - ..-- - -.. Grand Rapids Crescent THE WORLD'S BEST SAW BENCH . Built with double arbors, sliding table and equipped complete with taper pin guages carefully graduated. This machine represents the height in saw bench con-struction. It is designed and built to reduce the cost of sawing stock. Write us for descriptIve mformation. CRESCENT MACHINE WORKS '--~----_._._OF._G._RA._ND- RAPIDS, MICH. _. _. _. ------- -------~ &.. - •••••••• .... dug This plan contemplated a total excavatIOn of 103,795, 000 cubIC yards of earth The ~Iand total of excavatIOn ac-compltshed 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 ' -------_._--_._------------------_._----- Pitcairn Varnish Company Reliable Varnishes of Uniform Quality Our Motto: "NOT HOW CHEAP-BUT HOW GOOD" C. B. Quigley, Manage~r Manufacturing Trades Dep't. 1--,_. ,__..__. ._. • • , • _ •• • • •• •• It •• * ... -----------_._._--- - . . ... Manufacturers of Factories: Milwaukee, Wis.; Newark, N. J. 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 ..- -._. _ ...._----,----------_._-.----_-------_._---- -----. --.. , NO OTHER SANDER No. 111 Patented Sand &elt Machine. 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" .. -. .I. 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 1 ) _..-/ '-- ) 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 - - - --------------.., 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 ... •• _. a_ •• __ e - ••••••• _. we •• __ ., 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. ....... - _._--- .. ._", 32 WEEKLY ARTISAN ~ . 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 • 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

6220. Grand Rapids view, 1880

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.)

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