Michigan Artisan; 1907-04-10

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Issue of a furniture trade magazine published in Grand Rapids, Mich. It was published twice monthly, beginning in 1880. and --~ ._-----------------------.., GRAND RAPIDS Twenty-seyenth Year-No. 19 APRIL 10, 1907 Semi-Monthly WYSONG & MILES 100 % to 200 % PROFIT PER YEAR on this SAND BELT. The investment is a small one. The few months you are getting along without it is losing you the entire price of it. HUNDREDS OF THE MOST PROMINENT FURNITURE MANUFACTURERS using this Sand Belt state that these claims fall short of the real 'merits of the machine. IT HAS THE DESIRED ADJ.USTMENTS QUICKLY MADE OUR CLAIMS ARE that It will sand WITH THE GRAIN and require no re· touching by hand the fonowing: Mirror . frames, round, oval, any shapei drawer rails; drawer fronts, base rails, etc" ser-pentine, agee, round or swell; straight veneered or cross veneered; agee, round, bevel or straight edges of dresser or table tops, of round, square or scrolled patterns; table rims, dresser po s t Sj veneered rolls or columns; straight; ogee, Of rounded mOUldings; raised surfaces of panels; spirals of table legs; curtain !';latsfOf roll-top desks; !Spindle carvings; French table legs; plumbers' wood work; etc., etc. NO. 164 SAND BELT MACHINE. LEE AND JACKSON STS. CREENSBORO, N. C. r$;" The Best Truck==The Strongest Truck This is the famousGillette Roller Bearing Factory Truck-the truck on which it is said, "One man can move a load of 3000 pounds while with the other trucks it takes three men," This is the truck that is strong where others are weak-the truck that has an .unbreakable malleable iron fork. This is the truck YOU are looking for if you wish to invest in rather than waste money on factory trucks. Gillette Roller Bearing Co. ORAND RAJ;'IDS, MICHIOAN The Lightest Runniagto' ,,: Longest- Lasting, Truck =WHEN PROPERLY USED= Wheeler's Patent Wood Filler is cheaper than any otbe,r"wood filler on the market, even if sold (ot only half its price per poune. fjf Thill fact we stane ready to prove by actual !efts by pradicalmen riaht in your own factory. 411H iDterefted in ohtaining a superior finish at an economical cost, write., aDd we will ao folly into tbe matter. THE BRIDGEPORT WOOD FINISHING CO., New Millortl, CDnn. New YDrk; Chlcaoo; Philadelphia: Boston. ~_' •. .>l- New Thoughts on finish Consistency: tJI Occasional flashes of Elegance-T one-and Character-do not avail for highest degree ot success-there must be con-tinued excellence--consistency. tJI Furniture finished well one time and poorly another will never win the implicit confidence of the trade. Furniture reputation depends mightily upon the character ot the polish-ing varnish used. tJI The Poiishing Varnish must be consistent--made of uni-formly superior materials, by uniformly superior methods, with uniform intelligence and care--all the way through ~~alwaYs. Andrews' Polishing Varnishes are consistent. "The polish that holds" is the reputation they have owned. Their remarkable evenness, and the ease with which they work and rub, explain their constant preference by the knowing workman. (j[ Over half a century's experience in making fine varn-ishes, is the foundation on which they have built success. g Non-absorbent--and they will not check, crack, cloud or bloom. Complete purification by our peculiar process, thorough seasoning and rigid testing--give them that extra touch ofgood-ness that makes them. different. tJI If you would profit in furniture sales-save delays and double work on rejected pieces-increase output-by adopting the rule of consistency in the matter of finish- 4JJ Write us and invite our nearby representative to call and tell you more aboul AndrewS' Polishing Varnishes. Varni'" Pratt al Lambert Makers Buffalo Paris New York l..ondon Chicago Hamburg THE MARIETTA PAINT & COLOR COMP'Y ART NOUVEAU Our New Cement Combination Stain-Ellier Arl Nouveau is the very new~ discovery in wood finishing, II is put up ready for use and i. already being used by a hUIle number of manufacturer. who have become enthusia3lic over its su~ 'and the e:llOfInOUS llaving of time, labor and: meney it means to them. With Art Nouveau you can produce in one operation what it formerly re<Juited four to C()Dl~ plete, viz: ,ftaininll',shellacing, sanding and fillinll . • This new fillet-iltain dries hard ill five houl'$ and can be shellaced and varniahed the same day if deshed. Mr.& in mahogany-and OU:.eJ sha.:kt.. Manufacturers a grade of WOOD FINISHING MA TER-IALS that are today recognized as- possessing the reputation not only for the highest Standard of excellence and perfection, but for their absolutely practical qualities. The reason for this is that before a Slain or hIler is offered to the trade it is put through a series of practical tesis both in the laboratory and the company's own finishing department, where it is applied and worked out just as it is intended it should be by the furniture manufacturer or the customer who uses them. SPARTAN TURPS SPARTAN TURPS i~one of our our own pro· duds and is W1deniably one of the best thiI1i8 Iwown to the finisher for reducing varnishes, stains. paints. !tis not in any sense a subfutute for IUfpellbne. hav-ing properties exclusively and pe<:;Uliarlyits own. It is betler than turpe:llbne for many reasons. one of the mast important bei~ that it is the most perfect aolvent known, while it is an enormous money saver The Marietta Paint 8 Color Co. MARIETTA. OHIO Wood·Working Machinery and Supplies These Specialties are used all Over the World Veneer Pl'esses, all kinds and sizes. HlHld Feed.Glueillg MMhlne (Pat. pending.) Eight styles and sizes, Veneer Presses 61ue Spreaders 61ue Healers Trucks, Etc" Etc. Powel' Food Glue Spreading Machine, (Patent applied fol'.) Single, Double nnd LET US KNOW Cumbination. YOUR ViANTS C"AS. E. fRANCIS &. BRO.D 419-421 E. Eighth St. :So, 20 Glue Heater. CINCINNATI, O. No, 6 Glue Heater. Do You Want The Originality of our work is one of its chief characteristics. WE BUILD HIGH GRADE Something CATALOGS COMPLETE Original? ENGRAVING PRINTING BINDING White Printing Co. 2 to 20 Lyon Stred GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. 1 2 New Double-Cylinder Plane~ Large Capacity---Best Work This machine is intended for the line double-surfacing of any mill, working material on both sides 24 inches, 27 inches or 30 inches wide and up to 8 inches thick. It is built especially strong and no studs are used in its construction. The cylinders are of forged steel, four-sided and slotted on each side, carrying four knives when so desired. The upper cylinder is driven at both ends. The lower cylinder is placed directly after the upper, insuring absolutely accurate work. It may be drawn out at the left side of the machine for sharpening and setting the knives. The bed is substantial, deeply webbed and strongly girted and litted into the frame with a bevel gib for taking up wear. It is raised and lowered on powedul screws mounted on ball bear-ings' and operated by a crank at the feeding-inend of the machine. There are four feed rolls driven by heavy gears keyed onto the shafts, which have an out-side bearing doing away entirely with the use of studs. The feeding-in roll is made in four sections, divided or solid as desired. The sectional roll allows the feeding of pieces of different thickness at one time. There is always a pedect bearing on the material. , Feeds 30, 40, 50 feet per minute. Faster if-::..- desired. Send for Circular, Testimonials; General Catalog. 205-225 WEST FRONT STREET, Tite World} StanJard for Woodwvrkinglfacltinery; PUBLIC LIBRARY 27th Year-No. 19. GRAND RAPIDS. MICH., APRIL 10, 1907. $1.00 per Year. FURNITURE FACTORY METHODS. Topics of General Interest to Managers and Superintendents Discussed by Manufacturer:; How do you determine whether it is best to use the piece work plan or pay day wages? How do yOll "keep tab" on the productive value of men and machines? How do you keep track of stock in the process of con-struction? How do you keep in touch ·with the market and take advan-tage of bargains in supplies, etc.? The foregoing questions were put to a number of Grand Rapids furniture manufacturers by a representative of the Michigan Artisan during the past week and son:e of the re-plies were as fo110"\v5: William Widdicomb, president and manager of the Wid-dkomb FurnitUI"c Company-There's no piece work done in this factory. I have always paid day wages. There may be advantages in the piece work plan, but the advantages and benefits in the day method are so much greater that I have no desire to make a change. "Keeping tab," as you call it, on the productive capacity or value of men and machines is a matter of judgment or of knoVl,ing your busincss-a matter of instinct, if you pkase. Mr. 1{owatt and IVlr. Rice, whose views you published re-cently, put the matter about rght. I will not say that I fully endorse all that they said, but they are pretty nearly correct. They an', evidently men who do not need to pur-chase much in the way of intellect. Keeping track of stock as it passes room to room through the factory is another matter of judgment or skill in the men who have charge of it, We have no system of reports on such matterS. We never buy systems. In fact, we have nothing in the managemellt of the factory that can be called system. \'Ie have never felt the llc<'.d0-£ it. \Vitl1- out it v· ...e manage to keep the materials moving SIlloothly and steadily from the lumber yard to the shipping room and that is all that is necessary. The matter of keeping in touch with tbe markets and pick-illg up bargains in materials, supplies, etc., is still another thing that can be done without ,any particular system. It is largely a matter of judgment. \\T e do it by keepinl-l"onr eyes open, using our best judgment and trusting· in Provi-dence. Charles Snyder of the finn of Shelton & Sllyder.-Thc answer to your first question depends almost entirely on the kiud of men yOU have. If you have the rigbt kind of men it is immaterial whether you pay by the piece or day wages. If yon haven't the right kind of men it makes a great differ-encc. Some men, capable enoug·h, will not do allY more than barely earn their wages and it is difficult to get them to rush things unless you, put them on the piece ba.':iis. Sometimes they shirk purposely to induce yOLlto put them on the piece plan. \\T e have a number of men who are just as good on day \vages as at piece work and it makes no difference to us how they are paid. Others rush too much at piece work and slight the work. That is the worst objection to the :piece work plan-unless you have the right kind of men you have to employ an expert inspector. \,Ve have no regular system for "kecipng tab" on the pro-ductive value of men and machilles. \Ve judge of their efficiency by general observatioll. It is easy to tell when a man does a good day's work or when a machine is working all right. We do not trace stock in process of construction, except when getting out samples. Then it is necessay, to fix the cost. We try to keep posted on the markets in a general way. When offered anything in our line we are always ready to make tests alld comparisons and do not hesitate in making changes when we find anything better than the article ,we are using. L. C. Stow of the Stow & Davis Furniture Company.- \Vhetber to employ men on piece work or at day wagcs de-pends on the character of the men to a certain extent but (Continued on Page 6.) THE CORRECT Stains and fillers. THE MOST SATISFACTORY first Coaters and Varnishes I MANUFAcrURc:.o UN.L.Y U r CHICAGO WOOD FINISHING CD. Z59·63 ElSTON AVE.mZ·16 SLOAN ST. CH I CACO. 4 ·f'~MIF]iIG?JN ? TRIUMPH OF THE ROCKING CHAIR. An American Product, of Unknown Origin, That Has Con-quered the World. From the 1'\ew Yark Sun.- What lazy person first con-ceived the idea of applying cradle rockers to chairs, which had for ages been of an upright severity calculated to mor-tify the flesh? What humorist discovered the merry thought of making of a s.tubborn and stiff-backed generation a set of grown-up babies? Nobody now seems to know and the wisest of antiquaries cannot tell. When questioned by some curious Edmund, "0, buoyant rocking chair, whence come you?" the rocking chair This is 110 idle boast, it seems. The rocking chair, like the brook, has grown apace from its unknown source till it bids fair to sweep around the world. From being despised abroad as the amusement of a crude people the American rocking chair is now only another name for grateful ease with all civilized races, is making excellent progress with the half civilized ,and is the pride of many a savage hut. A curious tribute to its popularity is found in an adver· tisment in one of the English magazines. It is that of a dealer in antiques who presents a picture of what he calls "one or two old carved walnut rocking chairs which he has for sale." The picture shows a piece of furniture with a wonderful pair of high carved rockers frC'm which spring a is as silent as the sphinx in regard to origins and merely re-plies: I sway, I swing, I rise, I fall In countless fluctuations. I surge, I slacken; free to all My flexible vibrations, Noiseless, 1 stir on carpets soft; On b9ards with cheery squeaking, I tremble with emotion oft, I lull with drowsy creaking, And tossing, restless, to and fro Or stayed to gentle quiver, Though men may come and men may go Still I rock on forever. span of sea ho:r:ses to support the arms, These rampant steeds each have ,a cupid d'river who curbs it from the point where the arms join the back. The seat is very wide, quite wide enough for two, and the back is as elaborately carved as the rest, but with an indefinable difference of style. The piece is distinctly in the style of the Italian Renais-sance. But far from proving an artistocratic link in the un-certain ancestry of the rocking chair it is pronounced either w holly spurious or spurious in part . . The photograph was taken to a famous Fifth avenue house whose business is decorating and whose specialty is period furnishing and its expert said at once that rocking chairs were not known till the second half of the eighteenth cen-tury and that this piece if genuine at all was made up from a J\D:~~~!Tt: FILLERS AND STAINS have won UNIVERSAL RECOGNITION because of their SUPERIOR Q..UALITIES. There is no guess-work in the preparation of our goods. Their merits are determined by men, who, by reason of their tireless research and experience, are quali-fied to judge filler and stain values with scientific accuracy. Every possible defect has been eliminated. Leading architects specify the use of our Fillers and stains for high grade work be-cause they are absolutely non-fading; because they are correct and uniform in shade-will not sag, pit or wipe off with wax or shellac. Send for Standard Fillers and Stains hooklet. Real wood panels showing 21 shades. Finest booklet ever supplied. SUPERIORITY BRINGS SUCCESS. THERE IS LASTING SA'TISFAC'TION IN USING 'THE BEST. STATION E baby's cradle. \Vhcre everything is mysterious, this passes all, that the rockers of a cradle, which were in use from very earty times, should not have sooner suggested the rocking chair. In ChipPclldale's "The Gentleman and Cabinet l\.laker's Director," there is not so much as t\1e suspicion of a rocker. Mr. Lockwood's opinion, which seems to be shared by most authorities on old furniture, is worth quoting. I-Ie is con-servative and does not commit himself entirely, which is well, for there is always a chance that in excavating the uttermost depths of ancient cities the progenitor of the rocking chair may yet be found. At present the sum of knowledge is as follows: "Vlfe do not find a single reference to rocking chairs in any of the early Colonial inventories. The opinion is that they are of comparatively recent date and \ve have never seen one which could with any degree of certainty be placed earlier than Rev-olutionary times, for in our experience "'lithout exception the pieces of earlier designs have had the rockers added where it is possible to trace within a hundred years. "The rocking chair is probably indigenous to this country and is called an American idiosyncrasy. 1t is often difficult to determine whether a piece was originally a rocker or not. Vv'ehave never found a geunine rocking chair earlier than the slat back and the commonest varieties of the Dutch. They had nO distinctive style and were merely adaptations of the prevailing ones, the Windsor being the commonest." Though. they are now treated more respectfully, many years ago American idiosyncracies were not much in favor. This particular absurdity, the rocking chair was spoken of by the average foreigner with a sort of amused contempt. An Englishman, especially, was convinced that American women were pretty, overdressed, possessed of ridiculously little feet that they spent nearly all of their time swaying laz-ily in rocking chairs. Martin Chuzzlewit on his very first visit Chicago to a pleasant American household exhibited this English ob-session. "There were two YOUllgladies, one 18, the other 20, both ver)' slender, but very pretty." Dickens goes on to describe the members of what is sup-posed to be a typical American family, but "Martin could not help tracing the family pedigree from the two young ladies, because they were foremost in his thoughts, not only from being, as aforesaid, very pretty, but by reason of their wear-ing miraculously small shoes and the thinnest possible stock-ings, the which their rocking chairs developed to a distracting extent." It must be confessed that the rocking chair is a necessary stage property ill all the scenes of a domestic drama and it is likely that the seven ages of the American woman could scarcely run their course from infancy to decrepitude without it. Neither used we to deny the soft impeachment of tiny American feet. In this association of ideas, where all is so dark, so buried in mystery, as in the case of the origin of the rocking chair, may there not be found a glimmer of light? Who knows but that some pre-Revolutionary belle with· a foretaste of that charming audacity which afterward made her country women famous, who knows but that she, in one flash of gen-ius, invented the rocking ch,lir so that her aristocratic, fairy-like little feet, in which she cxc~lled all other women, should receive the full share of attention to which they were en-titled? Dull in the East. For the past several months trade has be~n quite dull in the eastern states. Washington is practica~ly at a stand-still, while the condition -in the metropolitan district has not been encouraging. The spring season of trade seems to be growing of less importance with the departing years. At present trade is good and improving in the southern states. 5 6 (Continued from Page 3.) more on the character of the work. On some kinds of factory work the piece plan is quite practical and may be desirable, while on others it will not do at all For instance, there is no advantage in having machine work done by the piece. It may do very well for cabinet work and in other departments but there is usually "a tendency to slight the work and it is not always easy to detect the defects. We have a system for "keeping tab" on the work of mel1 and machines that has worked very satisfa,ftorily. Its ad- .vantages are not-so much in showing the productive value or capacity of the men and machines as in showing the actual . cost of the machine work on each job and it accounts for each man's time. Everything goes through the factory under a job number. The machines are numbered and each man is given a number. Then we have blanks On which the work-man reports the time put in on each job on each machine. I will give you one of the blanks and you can see how it works. (The blank is reproduced herewith.) work. Some men will do their work just as well, or even better, when paid by the piece as when paid by the, day or hour. They take pride in doing their work well and seem to be better satisfied when they can control their time than when they are required to put in regular hours. There are others who do not do so well on piec;e work. To decide which system is preferable, yOU must know your men thor-oughly. We use both methods. We make no attempt to "keep tab" on men and machines except by general observation. It is impos~ible to do it with anything like exactness in a furniture factory and even if it could be done, it woulji not be oj any great benefit or advantage. We keep track of stock closely, from the time it enters the factory until it comes out in the finished product. The record is necessary in order to know at all times just how the work is progressing. To keep in touch with the markets we depend on general information from any source that may be available and are STOW & DAVIS FURNITURE CO. Factory Time Card. WorkmanNo . Date .. . 190- i ___ 1 __ - _ I ~ach.No·1 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Irrrfil'i rYfil rnoril'i rYfil 'IYYfi' rrirf I Job No. JobNo. Mach. I N0'I Remarks.··-· Keep your time accurately. Workman.··· The reports are sent to the office and the bookkeepers charge up to the cost of each job the time shown to have been used upon it on the date of the report We use this system only in the machine room now, but I think plans may be evolved to apply it to other departments For tracing stock in course of manufacture we have a stock book in which each job is entered when it is given to the cutter. Other entries made from reports furnished by the for"emen show when it goes to the machine room, to the cabi-net- room, to the finishing room and to the warerooms or shipping department. The record shows where the job is, and its condition and it is easy to tell when it should be fin-jshed. ' We have no _particular ~ethod for keeping in touch with the markets, but try in every possible way to keep well post-ed on the prices of materials that enter into our product. David E. UbI, president and manager of the Grand Rapids (Mich.) Fancy Furniture Company.-The answer to your first question depends on the men as well as on the nature of the Examined and Corrected by.... always ready to investigate and take advantge of anything that looks like a bargain in supplies or materials. Charles H. Leonard, president and manager of the Grand Rapids Refrigerator Company.-vVith honest, capable, trust-worthy men, piece' work is un'doubtedly better than day wages for both emp1oyeS' and employers. We usually pay our men day wages at first. After they have worked awhile and we see what they can do it is easy to figure out what they should be allowed by the piece in order to earn the wages and most of them prefer to try it. The result in nearly all cases ,is better for both the men and the factory-they earn more money and we get more work out 'of the plant than we would get on the wage system. Of course, it will not do to employ all men on piece wotk, but with the right kind of men it is certainly preferable to paying day wages. The matter of "keeping tab" on the productive value or efficiency of men and machines is left entirely in the hands of the foremen who have absolute authority in their depart- ments. They are held responsible for results and there-fore must have the right to hire or discharge men. Our factory is different from most of the furniture fac-tories. Our product is quite uniform. We have no little jobs and small orders are filled from the general output, so it i.s not nec.essary to keep track of stock in various stages of manufacture. \Ve have a little system in buying materials. V/hcn we see that we will want <1uything in the line of supplies and materials we ~end out cards to dealers or manufacturcrs invit-ing propos,ils and quotations. The replies are placed on filJl, and in that way l,\le have no trouble in keeping posted on the markets. There are very fev,; bargains offered nov\.:adays in any line of manufacturers' materials. Black Brothers Machinery Company. This company is located at rvlendota, Ill., 83 miles west of Chicago, on the Burlington road. So rapidly has their trade - ---------------------------~ 7 ceived the idea of a ncw moulding sander and quit the plan-ing mill business to go into the manufacture of it and is one of their principal machines. They have built up a large ex-port trade, sending their machines into alIi countries where wood working machinery is used. Their mr-chines are made exceptionally strong and durable, and their domestic trade has extended to all parts of the country. The Black Brothers arc experts in their line and every machine is thoroughly test-ed before being 5h-ipped. Dry Kiln Litigation. The Grand Rapids (Mich.) Veneer Works has started snit against the New Process Kiln & Engineering Company, Charles ;-r. Noyes ,md Edward D. Sidman of Detroit, and Fred S. Torrey of Grand Rapids to have them restrained form using a new proccss for drying lumber, of which the com-plainant claims control. The bill of complaint alleges that AN ATTRACTIVE FAMILY ROOM. gTown in the last iour or five years that they have decided to build an cntire brick factory, yvhich will be more than twice the size of their present plant, and will have it completed and occupied before August 1. They rnanufac. ture a large line of wood working machinery, clamps and applianccs for furniture and other wood working factories. Among these are the "Pioneer" mOlllding sander and its sup-plies; panel sander; "Acme" mortiser; "Quickest" hand screw, piling clamps, cabinet clamps, column clamps, chain clamps and veneer presses. They have just brought out an im-proved glue press embracing entirely new features, by which the operator can glue stock much faster than by any other presses. This presS can glue stock from 7 feet long by 20 feet wide down to the smallest sizes. It can be made to glue up any length of boards or panels desired. They have also brought out a new mortising machine, a valuable dcvice for a]] wood working plants where mortising is done. The firm is composed of \Valter, William, John and David Black. They went to Mendota seven years ago from Chi-cago, where they operated a large planing mill. They con- Allen D. Linn, while in the employ of the complainant dis-covered a new process of kiln drying lumber, on which val-able patents \vere issued and others applied for. The com-plainant, 'it 1~claimed, hought those patents and the sale right to exploit the process and entered upon the business of con-structing the kilns. Further, that Fred S. Torrey, who is an officer and stockholder in the complainant company, had special charge of the kiln drying department, and that he aftenvards associated himself with Sidman and Noyes and began to appropriate to himself for his personal benefit and that of his 'associates knowledge he had of the dry kiln busi-ness. Later the three formed the New Process Kiln & Engi-neering Company amI it charged that the new company has 1)(:en representing that it has taken over the business of the veneer works, and that the complainant, as exploiter of the ne\v dry kiln, has gone out of existence. The bill places a value of $10,000 on Mr. Linn's invention. A temporary restraining order was issued to remain in force pending a further hearing of the case. 8 THE KNOB THAT WONT COME OFF NO·KUM·LOOSE WOOD KNOBS CUT shows tile construction of our line of Wood Knobs. The metal nut is clinched into the wood at its front end, pre-venting turning or pulling out. To the back end of tbe nut is riveted a steel base, having projecting spurs which enter the drawer front. The knobs are held in place by a screw and corru-gated spur washer, which avoids any possi-bility of unscrewing. All goods are smooth-ly sandpapered, and shipped only in the White. Regular screws furnished will take drawer fronts j{ to l)i thick, long-erscrews to order. Stock knobs will be kept in mahogany only. Other woods to order. The face of knob "A" is veneered with specially selected fan,cystock, same as used in making crossband veneers, presenting a beautiful and attractive appearance when finished. . 2 inch "A" TOILET SCREWS: 17;\ to 2 inch knobs can be furnished as toilet screws to order only with standard bolt 3~ inches long and patent drive nut and washer. Section of "A" GRAND RAPIDS BRASS COM PA NY, Grand Rapids, Mich. 10 Spindle Machine Also .wade wJth 12, 15, %9aDd 26 SpiDdles.: DODDS' NEW GEAR DOVETAILING MACHINE This little machine hllJl done more to pe:rfect the drawer work of fumit,ure manufacturers than llnything else in the furni-ture h"u,de. :t'or fifteen years it has made perfect-Otting. -"'ennln-pl'Oof, dove-tailed stock a pllsl\Iibillty. Tbis h_ been a(~compIisbed at reduced cost, as the DUlcblne cuts dove-tails in gangs of from 9 to 24 at ODeoperation. ALEXANDER DODDS, Grand Rapids, Mich. Repl'esented by SCHUCHARDT 8& SCHUTTE at Berlin, "lenna, StClckhohn and St. Petersburg. Represented by ALFRED H. SCHUTTE ILt Cologne, Brus-sels, Liege, Parls, MUan and BUbao. Mailed to Retailers Only 50 PERCENT OF THE CIRCULATION OF TRADE PAPERS, EXCEPTING THE Michigan Artisan IS mailed to manufacturers, designers, shop hands, com= mission men, jobbers of fac-tory supplies and others who do not sell furniture and kin-dred goods. To reach the largest number of retailers use the Michigan Artisan's Mercantile Editions 9 The LION VARNISH and SHELLAC WORKS KAREL DE LEEUW, Manager. 1475 State St., CHICAGO, ILL. ONE OF OUR SPECIAL TIES Lustreless Special Finish for Mission and Fumed Oak Furniture. Does not retain wax. A quick dryer and does not stick. Samples Furnished on Request. TABLES ON TEN.CENT COUNTERS. Yankee Ingenuity Ignores Precedent and Makes for Progress of the Nation. American business men are never bound by precedent, and to this fact the United States largely owes its present position as the greatest business nation of the ",,"orld. A short time ago a consignment of street cars was made in East St. Louis for use. at Los Angeles, Cal. The usual custom is to load new rolling stock of this kind on flatcars for ship-ment, "\Vhy not run them out to Los Angeles on their own wheels?" suggested the venturesome spirit of Ingenuity. "Such a thing has llever been done," replied cautious Prece-dent." "That's no reason why it can't be done," replied Ingenuity, and the cars \verc made ready. They were fitted with a temporary equipment of couplers and air brakes, and a train of twenty-four cars and a caboose was started. Oilers rode in the caboose to watch for hot boxcs and the scheduled speed of fifteen miles an hour W(:l.S maintained. This was the first instance in which street cars have been run on a railroad track. ~lakers of American agricultural implements have been more aggressive than almost any other c'lass of Americans in pushing their wares into foreign markets. One l11inois concern sent a man to Asia Minor with instructions to stay there until he opened the market. Catalogues, samples, much talking-nothing could over-come the precedent of two or three thousand years of plough-ing with bullocks and a crooked stick. After three years of failure the Illinois man got it into his head that these Asiat-ics were closely related to the inhabitants of his neighboring state of Missouri and would have to be shown. He showed them. He rented a piece of ground and divided it in half. One side he ploughed \...-ith an Illinois plough, harro\"ied it with an Illinois harrow and planted twenty pounds of wheat with an Illinois wheat drill. The other half \vas ploughed with native bullocks and a crooked stick, wasn't harrowed at all, and was planted with sixty-six pounds of wheat sowed broadcast. Everybody waited for the harvest. The Illinois half produced a 10 per cent greater yie'1d, and the Asiatics were reminded that less than one-third as much had been sowed on it. After that Asia Minor became a good market for Illinois agricultural machinery. Americans like to buy East Indian rugs, but the native designs have not proved entirely pleaslng to Yankee tastes. Therefore a company of American carpet makers went to India, bought ten large factories employing 15,000 workmen, and began the business of making Indian rugs' with Ameri-can designs. The material used, the dyes and the methods of weaving are all Indian. Last year $400,000 worth of rugs were made in these American factories in India and sent to the home market in this country. One day last summer two business friends were chatting at a club in a manufacturing town in the Middle West. One of these men was a manufacturer of furniture and the other was a buyer for a chain of ten cent stores located in pros-perous towns in the Mississippi Valley. The furniture manufacturer was lamenting the fact that the dull season was upon him, that many of his expert work-men whom he would have to layoff would drift away where he could not locate them when the rush came on a few months later. The buyer scented a business opportunity, and asked the other if he would be willing to ~urn out stuff at cost in order to keep his organization intact. The manufacturer said he would, arid they figured an over the back of the bill of fare. Result: An order for several trainloads of little stand tahles w.hich were sold at 10 cents apiece in the various stores of the buyer's combi-nation. Vv~ith the multiplication of inventors and inventions came an increase in the problem of how to manufacture small articles without the forced expense of erecting a fac-tory especially for the purpose. Some factories took in CHOICE BIRD'S EYE Veneers CUT RIGHT. DRIED RIGHT. WHITE WRITE US FOR SAMF'L.ES. GRAND RAPIDS VENEER WORKS, ~:'t'::~":PID•. jobs, but this method often proved unsatisfactory to an in-ventor who wished his model to have more attention than' that generally paid to a side line. So necessity has again borne a child. A specialty fac-tory 10 Rhode Island has a plant equipped with all kinds of maehin~ry. The concern makes nothing for itself, but merely sits by and waits for customers. It will undertake on a moment's notice the manufacture of anything from a campaign button to an airship model. 10 ESTABLISHED 1880 PUBLISHI!"O Ill'\' MICHIGAN ARTISAN CO. ON THE 10TH AND 21J,TH OF EACH MONTH OPFICE-2·20 LYON ST., GRANO RAPIDS, MICH. EIHEAEO AS MATTER OF THE SECON!) CLASS \Vith the exception of Alabama, Nebraska is supposed to ha~re given the railroa(ls a worse deal than any other state. A bill was passed creating a state railroad commission, pas-senger fares were reduced to 2 cents per mile, freight rates reduced 15 per cent, a reciprocal demurrage bill went through, express rates were reduced 25 per cent and a bill to force the railroads to pay municipal taxes in the different cities through which the lines run was passed. This latter item alone forced the railroads to pay taxes on property worth $15,000,- 000 in Omaha, which had heretofore totally escaped taxation of that nature. Railroad and express managers accused the state of confiscation and threatened to appeal to the courts. They declared the laws would take 50 per cent from the value of their property and proceeded to curtail both freight and passenger service. As an example of what might be ex-pected, one road took off several trains before the legisla-ture adjourned. The predictions, however, have not made good. On the contrary, the railroads are finding that the new laws are good for them. \Vithin a month after the legislature adjourned the fast train service was restored and passenger traffic had increased to such an extent that it was necessary to use more cars and put on more trains on nearly all roads. In short, Kebraska's experience with reduced rates is much like 'that of Ohio, and the same result may be expected in Indiana and other states which have enacted similar, though less stringent, laws. By accepting the laws in good faith, the railroads ..".i.ll certainly increase gross re~ ceipts and probably add to their net earnings, They will also enlarge the volume of general business, prolong prosper~ ity a11dtend to postpone the "reaction" which James J. Hill and a few others have pretended to see in the near future, *1* *1*. *1* 'I' At this season of the year workmen in the wood working shops become dissatisfied \vith their employment and their surroundings. The bright rays of the sun, the balmy atmos-phere, the music of the birds and the bursting buds beckon them to the world outside and many leave the shops to en-gage ill other employment. Finishers usually take up house painting; cabinet makers, carpentry. and machine hands seek employment on the street and interurban railways. The high wages paid for common labor attract trllckers and por-ters, while packers and trimmers find other fields of-remuner-ative employment. Operators of factories are annoyed be~ yond expression by the irregularity of their working forces. After the Fourth of July shall have passed, the men who de-serted the factories in the spring will commence returning, realizing that a good, warm shop, during the fall and winter months, is preferable to employment in the open air. The newspapers published in the furniture manufacturing centers contain many advertisements for factory hands, which in-dicates that the annual exodus from the shops is in progress. *1* *1* *!* *1* Several af the large furniture manufacturing corporations of Grand Rapids are full of orders for hotels, the contracts for which were secured through retail dealers. In discuss-ing this branch of the furniture manufacturing business re-cently, the superintendent of one of the large plants re-ferred to remarked that much illy designed furniture is used in the equipment of hotels, because proprietors of the same have employed architects to prepare special designs. The average architect is not conscientious in the drafting of de-signs and aims to please his employer rather than to give truthful expression of the art he undertakes to portray. He is usually successful in fitting the furniture to the wall and floor spaces it is intended to occupy, but beyond that reqt1ire~ men! he is seldom successful. \\lhile the conscientious man-ufacturer endeavors to carry out the purpose of the architect many instances arise in which changes are necessary in order that strength and utility shall not be sacrificed. The av-erage hotel keeper, owing to his lack of experience, does not inspect the furniture purchased on his account as closely and as intelligently as tne regular trade buyer, and when he places an order directly with the manufacturer, the opportunity pre-sents itself for the manufacturer to slight the construction and finish of the goods ordered. No manufacturer of estab-lished reputation, hmvever, will take advantage of such op_ portl1l1itics. *1* *1* *1' *1* The Interstate Commerce Commissioners recently re-ceived unofficial information to the effect that the Great Northern and Northern Pacific railroad managers had de-cided to advance rates fifty per cent on lumber from Puget Sound points to St. Paul, making thefig-iues 60 instead of 40 cents per 100 pounds. The announcement caused 2011- siderable excitement among lumbermen both east and \..·.e~.:, and they protested most vigorously. It appears, howeve;, that they were borrowing trouble-the report was unfound-ed. vVhen the matter was mentioned to James J. Hill he i.;; reported to have exclaimed: "There's nothing in it!" Thtn he asked: "\iVhy should we advance rates when it co:'>t,:;<)nly $130 to move a car from Puget Sound to 51. Paul and we get $250 for it?" Lumber dealers and consumers will be pleased to learn that the rates are not to be advanced, but if Mr. Hill has been correctly quoted they will 110t rest easily until the rates have been reduced. A charge of $120 per caf over actual cost is certainly cxorbitant. *1* *1* *!* *!* :Missourians, instead of insisting on being shown, have undertaken the task of showing the railroads. They have enacted a law that provides, forfeiture of charter for any railroad that starts litigation in the federal courts when the state courts have jurisdiction. Now, when a railroad wants an injunction it will have to apply to the circuit judges all along the line. 'I' *1* *1* 'I' The furniture makers of ancient Rome held Julius Caesar in gratefUl remembrance on account of an order for 60,000 couches for use by the populace in witnessing the festivities following the return of the ruler from one of his campaigns of conquest. They were not davenports, adjustable, sanitary nor of the "Simplicity" pattern .. "'1* *1* *1* *1* Chairman Knapp of the Interstate Commerce Commis-sion tells the shippers of the North'west that the car shortage is much worse in the Southwest. Wonder if he doesn't re~ verse the idea when he is in the Southwest. '1* *1' *1* '1* "Condition of crop better than ever before at this time ,the ye<rr," say reports from nearly all of the winter wheat states. Another big wheat crop.will cause "General Reac-tion" to postpone operations for a ·year or two at least. *1* 'I' *1* *1' "A good blower system is necessary for a wood working factofy.-Ex. Outside or inside the plant? '1* *1* *1' The really. good superintendent knows. "t* is always better than he 11 at Additional Exhibition Grand Space Rapids The re-modeling of the entire north half of the first and intermediate floors of the big KLINGMAN BUILDING places on the market 30,000 square feet of very desirable space available for the June-July exhibition. Get your application in promptly to secure the choicest location. Write today for detailed information, rates, plans, etc., to Furniture Exhibition Building CO. GRAND RAPIDS, MIeD. Will Fight the New Labor Law. On the ground that the new federal labor law is class leg-islation, the railroads aTe understood to have planned to tight it tooth and nail. One item in the law excites their bitterest antagonism. It is that which provides a nine-hour day for certain classes of telegraphic. 0llerator5. This. law, it is asserted, ,,,,,ill ~ost the railroads annually $10,000,000 more than they now pay for such service. Under this law, when a telegraphic office is open day and night, no operator shall work more than nine hours. This will compel railroads to employ three men in thousands of offices ·where the work is now done by two. According to figures compiled on one western road, the increase in its ex-penses for this service will not be less than $400,000. It is claimed that President Roosevelt, Commissioner E. E. Clark and Secretary Mosely of the Interstate Commerce Commis-sion """ere overruled in their opposition to this clau!'ic. It is declared by many operating officers that the rule will tend to limit extensions of the block signal systcm, owing to the larger number of additional operators that would have to be employed and the difficulty in getting competent men. It is asserted that in yielding to labor organizations and discon-tinuing the employment of student operators the railroads have reduced the available supply of skilled men. Will Enlarge Manufacturers' Building. It is announced that the owners of the Furniture l\Ianu-facturers' Building in Grand Rapids, Mich., which was erected last year at a cost of $130,000, have decided to en-large the structure to almost double its present dimensions. The building is seven stories and basement and has a frontage of 132 feet on North Ionia street, with a depth of 95 feet. It is of what is known as modern mill, slow-burning con-struction, and the addition is to be of similar type. It is understood that options have been received on property necessary to extend the building through the block to North Division street, on which the frontage will be only twelve feet less than on Ionia street. The addition will be built during the coming summer, and wiH be ready for occupancy for the winter season of 1908. Must Enlarge Their Factory. The business of the Stow & Davis Furniture Company of Grand Rapids, 11ich., has outgrown the capacity of thc fac-tory. The building is crowded to such an extent that some of the departments cannot be operated economically. The company has just completed a brick boiler room with con-crete roof, making it practically fire proof, and has purchased a strip of land ninety-five feet wide running the futl depth of the factory, on which a three-story addition will be erect-cd during the coming summer. The boiler power has been more than doubled. The additional boiler was set up out- Side of the factory and put into commis!'iion. Then the old hailer was moved out beside it and the walls were built up around them, the whole improvement being completed with-out shutting down. Death of Julius Karpen. From the effects of injuries sustained in a fall from his horse, J ulills Karpen, of the firm of S. Karpen & Brothers, Chicago, died recently. Mr. Karpen was """idc1yknown in the trade and nt the time of his death was at the head of the firm, as its business manager. The management will he resumed by Adolph Karpen, who retired from the position lately filled by his brother, only a few years ago. He is an able business man alid has many friends in the trade. The death of JuEns Karpen is mourned by may who knew and .appreciated his good qualities. 12 CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION. Building Material That Does Not Deprecia.te or Lose Value With Age. "System, the "}'hlgazine of Business," has been pubishing a series of articles on industrial subjects, written by civil engineers. The sixth of the series, entitled "Building a Factory," is by O. 11. Becker, industrial engineer, and \Vil-liarn J. Lees,. construction engineer of the International Har-vester Company. The article gives details of construction and is too long for reproduction here, but the introduction describing the advantages of reinforced concrete, may be of interest to men who comtemplate the .erection of new build-ings or additions to their plants. It reads as follows: "The peculiar field for reinforced concrete is obviously in multi-story buildings, though shops of other tYlles are now erected entirely of this material also. Of all building ma-wood and similar materials because of the constantly increas-ing scarcity and cost of the latter. Even at present prices there arc often conditions where this type of structure is actually as cheap as the mill type. This is true in case a building is used for working or storing non-combustible ma. lerials. An all concrete structure under such circumstances would need no sprinkler system for fire protection; and the total cost of the structure 'would be reduced to that extent-a reduction that not uncommonly amounts to enough to equa-lize the cost of concrete and good mill construction for this class of buildings. Even at considerably increased fint cost a concrete structure would be cheaper than the mill type, be-cause it docs not deteriorate, but on the contrary actually increases in value with age, as already mentioned. "Tn combination with a steel frame, whose members are covered and protected by concrete, there is scarcely any limit to the range of its applications. Furthermore, the first cost in such structures, as well as of the ordinary reinforced con- A WEL1~ l<'URNISHED DRAWING ROOM. terials now available, concrete is undoubtedly the most desir-able for all-round usc. It has, in fact, a utility Tully as wide as that of steel. Its one drawback is the comparative slow-ness necessary in the setting of the concrete The placing· of the forms and the setting of the concrete both take COll-siderable time. Compared with the debys frequently en-countered in the mill deliYery of sections for steel structures, however, this is as nothing. The constituent" of reinforced concrete are so easily obtainable everywhere that delays of a similar sort are unnecessary. "The" perfect adaptability of reinforced concrete to all forms and structural parts is one of its advantages. Unlike other structural material~ concrete has the peculiarity also of resisting vibration, and increasing its strength as it ages. It is for the former reason peculiarfly adapted to the sev-eral story type of structure, especially """hen filled with rapid-running machinery. And since its hardness and strength increase with age, it affords the anomaly, when erected, of a structure actually enhancing- in value instead of depreciating-, as is the case with aU other structural materials. "Evidently concrete will in a few years quite supersede crete, is practically the final cost. Maintenance and repair expense are practicaly negligible Quantities. "Even serious fires resulting from outside exposures do so lil11e damage, wholly superficial. if the the structure has been properly put up, that repairs may be counted as nil. Fire danger from the ontside is specifically mentioned because there could be no such thing as a serious fire within unless a building were badly designed in disregard of the principle requiring the division of large buildings containing inflam-mable materials into relative small compartments ""\-Viseselection of materials for construction will always reward the builder in the long run. It is not intended here to go into details as to the design and proportions of struc-tural members. Data for these are at hand in every archi-tect's office." Recovers His Health. Eli D. Miller, the energetic manager of the Eli D. Miller Company, makers of folding beds, of Evanwille, Ind., has re-covered his health after a long illness' and resumed his work at the company's factory. MICHIGAN RAI ROADS GO TO COURT. Claim That Alaba a Legislature Has Overdone the Matter of Regulation. Alabama has 0 tdone all other states in the m.atter of anti-railroad legislation at the current session of the lcgisla-hue. So radical, nd far-reaching are the laws enacted th.at the railroad official believing the state has exceeded its pow-ers, have started i junction suits to prevent ellforcement of the la'''5. They claim that the laws are oppressive, that the rates established a e too low and if defeated in the district courts will appeal t, the supreme courts of the United States. It is intimated that1hCY hope to brtng on a clash between the state and federal a thorities and have the state overruled by the national Im·\,s. The suits have b en brought by every railroad entering the state, except the JH~bi!e, Jackson & Kansas City, which "v'ill get in bter. The tree acts that have aroused the opposition are, first the rate and classification measure, which fixes charges that may )c made on 110 commodities, gives the rallroad commisslO1 power to change classification of com-modity, and classifies the lines allowing the commission to re-classify at will. T e rates so fixed can only be changed by act of the legislat re, so far as rais-ing goes, though the commission may 10 'er them at will. The second is the passenger fare law, that reduces the fare from 3 cents to 20 cents a mile. It is argued that few of the lines are makin expenses now, hauling passeng-ers, and that to reduce them one-si.xth is radical and unreasonable in a country so thinly populated as Al;tbama. It is said that this reduction woul cost the Louisville & Nashville alone $207,000 a year. The third act is hat which nukes lhe rates in effect Jan-uary 1 last, the max·11l1.1m rates for all time. The roads point out that there were many rates in effect at that time Wlljc.h cannot be kept up, . s they 'were made to meet existing cou-ditions. Another qttesti01~1 involved and Ol1e that is likely to make the most trouble afrr all, is th;tt which has to do with the control of the com IJOll carriers. Attorneys claim tbat the states noVl' have suc~ a patetn\~ork of rates that it is hard to keep all of them anf not get mto trouble. One state may be radically differcnt\ frOln a state 1"warby, ::tnd thereby create conditions that the Jailroads Call1lOt possibly keep. Hence, the litigation wllich ~rol11ises to be long dra-wn out and which involves more than $100,COO,OOO of lHol)('rty, has the ad{\1- tional interest attach ng to the question of state rights. The matter will hardly g t to a hearing before late in the summer as it wilt take several ll1ol1tbs to get tbe evidence in and the records ill shape for presentation to the court. Question Awaits Satisfactory Answer. Complaint is ma e by j"dependcnt wagon making con-cerns in the central ~'est that the American Harvester Com-party, which manufacturers wagons as well as farm machin-ery, is employing Sta ldard Oil methods to drive them out of business. The Mic igan Artisan of Grand Rapids tells of the trust hiring spie. to learn of orders obtained by the in-dependent manufactu ·ers, in which cases the trust steps in with a much 10w<;1' bid for the business-calculating, no doubt to make good any losses after the 'independents have been crushed out. Th trust furthermore has succeeded large-ly in gaining control f the output of manufacturers of hubs, spokes and other par s of wagons, and so hits the indepen-dents from behind. \Vhy are such illegitimate methods re-sorted to if these co binations are able to manufacture so much more ecol1omi ally than smaller concerns? It is a question frequently sked and it still awaits a satisfactory answer.-Springfield 1\'lass.) Journal. - - --------------------------------- CLASS K'NOBS This Pattern Made in Three Sizes We will make you INTERESTING PRICES FOR QUANTITIES JOHN DUER & SONS, BALTIMORE, MD. Cabinet Hardware, Tools, Etc. 13 VENEERED ROLLS The "Reliable" Kind Formerly the FeUwa<:k Roll & Pal1<;!,l C(\. but the name. Why Worry with the Roll Question ===?= Leave that to us. We are prepared to solve Jt quicker and bHter be-cause we have the knowledge and equlp-nJo!' nt. We use Ilothing but ehel5tDut iu 0 u r cores. WrUeforprice8. The fellwock Auto-mobile & Afg. Co. EVANSVILLE, IND. Nothing changle:d CyClone Blow Pipe Co. Improved Cyclone Dust Colledors, Automatic Fumace Feeders, Steel Plate Exhaust FaDs, Exhaust and Blow Piping Complete SYlitems de-signed, mltnufac-tured, installed and gnRNlDteed. Old sys-tems remodeled on mOdeI'D lines (I n m 0 S t eeonomical plang. Supplemen-tary 8Ylltems added where pteMent SY8~ teml> a~ QutgrQwn. Defective systems cOlTected and put in proper workipg or-der. 10 W. Jackson Street, (PATHNTKD) CHICAGO, • ILL. Step~eosoom~.(0.1 South Bend. Ind. Wood T uroings, Turned Moulding, Dowels and Dowel Pins. Catalogne to Manufac-turt:~ rson Application. wALTER CLARK 535 Michigan Trust Building Citizens Phone 5933 14 WE ALWAYS HAVE IT IN STOCK RIGHT HERE IN GRAND RAPIDS QUARTER SAWED OAK VENEER COME AND SELECT IT OR WE WILL DO IT FOR YOu. GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN The Saw Bench. Is onc of the most necessary and usefttl machines in evel"Y woodworking shop. The perfect saw bench, or dil11.ension saw, like the No.2 Cordesman-Rechtin Company's saw, illus-trated herewith, must have a heavy, broad base. so as to afford strength and rigidity, overcoming vibration, even wben rUll at top speed. This macine is designed for cross-cutting small, count of the destruction of the wood working machinery, amounted to $40,000. In the efforts of the .purchasing de-partment to obtain the needed machines, it was learned that the earliest deliveries of planers are in June, and that but fnv machines could be had for that date. "In most in-stances," the department state5, "it is impossible to get wood working machinery earlier than late in the current year, a.nd medium and occasional large size dimension stock, and gener-al cabinet work, ripping, cross-cutting and plain rig-ht or left handed mitering, or compound mitering may be easily and perfectly done with the regular outfit, as can also boring, routing, dadoing and grooving when suitable attachments arc provided. It is a first class aU-around machine, thoroughly tested and warranted before leaving the machine shop. The machine is six feet long and four feet wide over all, is a money maker because it is a time-saver, and 'will pay for it-self in a very short time if put to the test. For full particulars and prices 'write the Cordesman-Rechtin Company, Pearl and Butler streets, Cincinnati, Ohio. Machinery is Scarce. The scarcity of wood working rnachil1ery is shown by the experience of the New York, New Haven & Hartford R:J.il~ road Company in their efforts to obtain machinery to rc~ place the implements destroyed by the burning of their car shops at Reedville, Mass, The loss to the company Oll ac~ cases are reported where machinery could not be delivered until the spring of 1908." The Cradle of the King. At Fountainbleau I saw a little bed, Fashioned of polished wood, with gold ornate. Ambition, hope and sorrow; aye, and hate, Once battled there, above a childish head; And there in vain, grief wept and memory plead. It was so small: but ah, dear GodJ how great The part it played in one sad woman's fatel How wide the gloom that narrow object shed. The symbol of an overr~aching aim, The emblem of a devastated joy. It spoke of glory and a blasted home, Of fleeting honors, and disordered fame, And the lone passing of a fragile boy. rt was the cradle of the' King of Rome, -Ella Wheeler Wilcox in Cosmopolitan Magazine. 15 . WARN NG TO ALL FURNITURE MANUFACTURERS! . If you ~ant to get on the inside track of some pretty good machinery, glance over this list of secondhand rnac~ines we have for s.ale. If interested, write us for fu~ther par~ieulars. We can quote you prices that w111be perfectly sattsfactory. These machlnes were mcluded m the purchase of our .new plant andlwe have absolutely no use for them. They are all in good condition. Spiral Table I!,eg Turner Tenoning Machine , ... Wood Top Saw Tables Wood Top E1;e Jointer Benedict Case Cla.mp Larae 12 Inch Sand Rel!law Table Leaf J inter ar.d Ripper 4 Spindle Table Leaf n.oring Roult's Stroke Jointer 14 Spindle D ve Tailer Machine 24 Inch Joiner 6 Spindle Do e TaUer Buss Stroke Jointer LAN~SLOW. FOWLER CO.. M.n~~~\~r.rJ' Ore~ on Retailers' Association. The annual me ting of the Oregon RetaIl Furniture Dealers' AssociatiOl .vas held in Portland 011 March 27. ;.Jine-ty- four firms, locate in different parts of the state, ,,,.'ere rep-resented, by delcgat s. The following gentlemen were elect-ed to fill the va. riot s offices of the association: President, F. M. VQrdz, Baker ity; vice presidents, :!\.1. Ostrow of Port-lnd and \V. H. 1'1a IY of rVlac11innville; treasurer, F. ]. Chap-man of Dallas; see etary, F. F. Freeman of Portland; exec-utive committee, illiam Carhy and H. A. Calfet· of Port- Jand, 1\1. A. Ra(Jer f Pcndletol1, and D, H, James of Salem. Car shortage ocellI ied most of the time and attention of the delegates and man plans for correcting the evil were dis-cussed. A ban que was held in the evening and Captain vVilIiam Gadsy dis inguished himself as toast-master. Sev-eral eloquent and \ ,itty speeches were made and the occasion was thoroughly en'oyed by the participants. ar Shortage Continues. Railroad officia s of lines entering Chicago report all in-c. reflse in the dem nd for freight cars during the past two weeks. The sho tage is declared to be as great now in nearly all sections lof the' country at is was during the middle of the winter, whep the roads were having the greatest diffi-culty in moving tlrains. Fanner!:> in the 'vest arc making loud complaints bJcause they cannot get cars to send to mar-ket the grain, forjWhiCh there is great demand, and which they are anxious a selL An official of a 1 eastern trunk line is reported as saying: "\Ve are as short f cars today as at any time during the last two years. 1'1a ufacturers of all classes are demanding cars in order to fiVl 'rusb' orders. Building supplies and ma-- terial of all kinds particularly iron, are being forwarded in large quantities. Instead of 'hard times' the present signs are that, this caUl try is going to break all past records for prosperity. " Mi ror Plates Unusually High. The manufach ren; of mirror plates have advanced prices beyond all reasOl in the estimation of the manufacturers of furniture, It is predicted that the prices quoted cannot be maintained. Th demand for furniture is declining and the use of plates is \ ut moderate on that account. l\ meeting of the plate mak rs will be held in Pittsburg, on April 12, when it b expec cd that prICe!; for the fall season of trade will he establiSh;d r. Holbrook Pleads Guilty. On Apnl 2, . A. Holbrook, mallaglllg dlrectqr of the ~me~ican ~eatinl.companY, \vho 'was indIcted by the grand Jury lTI Ch1cago ecently, appeared in the Federeal court and entered a plea 0 [{nilty to the charge of maintaining an or- ROCHESTER. N. Y. ganization in restraint of trade, etc. Sentence was deterred. Representatives of the corporations that were indicted with 1vlr. H olrbook entered pleas of nolo contendre, which means "1 do 110t wish to contend." This is generally con-sidered equal to a plea of guilty, though it does not place the defendants on record in that light. They may deny their guilt and ask for trial later. • Manager Klingman Has Space to Rent. Changes were recently made i11the Furniture Exhibition building, Grand Rapids, by which 30,000 square feet were add-ed to the floor Sp.'1CC. II.'1anager Klingman will receive pro~ posals for renting thi.s space which is very desirable. point where other casters refuse to turn is fShe Point with The Faultless Pivot Bearing Caster The FAULTLESS received the Highest Award at the World's Fair, 1904, over all other caslers. It is s uppli ed wit h Faultless Pat e n t Steel Spring Sockets. The Faultless has no weak spots-n 0 mechanical flaws--it's Fault· less in name--in action-and as a seller :-: :-: The Faultless is interchangeable; will fit six differ-ent sizesof Iron bed sockets. :-: If you are after a money maker, write to She Faultless Caster Mfg.Co•• Nebraska City. Neb. They only manufacture 16 AMERICANS IN CUBA. Pouring Millions Into the Island and Will Soon Control All Its Industries. (\Vritten for the Michigan Artisan by John D. Case, secretary of the Sligh Furniture C6mpallY, of Grand Rapids, Mich., who recently returned from a few weeks sojourn in the "Island Repubtic.") The island of Cuba has attracted the attention of many of our people in the past few years as indicated by the large number of tourists who make that place their objective point. That they are charmed with the beaUtl1tl1 d-imate and foreign character of the island is evidenced by the crowded condition of the steamers sailing to Havana, and the hotels which can't increase fast enough to accommodate tbem. That many are impressed with the future possibilities of the island is evidenced by the investment of over $160,000,000 by citi7.er1s of our own country in the past few years; why not, when ten acres of good land there, costing thirty dollars per acre, will yield as large a revenue as 100 acres of land here, costing $100 per acre? Think of it for a minutel No frost, no irri-gation, no fertilization, what a combination \ Thi.s does not apply 'to all lands, as there. <t_regood lands and poor lands there, just as there are here, Sugar and tobacco have been the principal products of the island, but in the past few years many acres 11ave been planted to citrus, fruits and vegetables by Americans. The latter crop has proved to be very profitable. The formel' takes about five years to begin bearing well, and its success is not yet assured, but the prospects are very encouraging. The few orchards that have reached the bearing period have produced the finest quality of fruit 1n large Cjuantities, and are held at $750 or more per acre. The future vahle of landfi must he determined by thetr productiveness, and trom all indications that value is soon going to be many times greater than at present. The transportation problem is being solved very satis-factorily. New lines of steamers are being added from ~cw York City to the different ports of the island, so that fruit and vegetables can be shipped to that port at less expense (including the duty), and in much shorter time tl1an from California; another advantage is that the seaSOll is earlier in Cuba than in 3.ny state of o'\1runion, and the early product;; bring the best prices. The exports for the past year in fruits and vegetables have increased very materially. 879,000 crates of pineapples, 300,000 cocoanuts, 700,000 crates af oranges were shipped in the month of January, besides other products of which I have no statistics. Around Santo Domingo, about 150 miles east of Ha V;-llla, are located seventy Americans, an from Michigan, who own property in that vidnity; we visited many of them, especially the Santa Clara Fruit and Cotton Company, who have over 200 acres planted to citrus fruits which will begin bearing in a yea.r or two, and if nothing unforeseen happens, the~y will certainly re.n.p a rich reward from their investment. At Ceballos, a few miles further east, is a citrus truit plantation of 30,000 acres, partly under cultivation; the trees are just beginning to bear fruit, and the owners predict from the present crop that in a short time they will be shipping over 1,l}0l},OOO boxes every year; if you know what oranges are worth, figure that out. The tendency of the new settlers is towards the east, on the main line of railroad running to Santiago, There are the virgin lands of low prices, capable of producing crops of great value. The country along the railroad eastward is rolling, and in places hilly and mountainous, especially as you approach Sanitaga. Compara'tively small tracts are yet under cultivation. 7IR T 1.5'JIJ"l e 0/ r:. We saw numerous tracts of timber by the way as we journeyed eastward. The trees average small, but are very salable, being in demand for fence posts, railroad ties, tobacco poles, cigar hoxes, building material and furniture. Mahog-any al1d cedar are the most valuable woods, but many of the other native woods have a beautiful grain and are capable of taking a fine finish like the majuga. Then there are the lignum vitae, acana, jiqui, cottonwood, logwaod 'and jaguey, aU illdigenous to that country. The better timber lands are further back from the line ot railroad, though we saw a number of saw mills, mostly run by American capital, that are said to be doing a profitable husiness right on the main road. Same of the large tracts of timber in the interior can be bought at very low figures at the present time, the land being worth the purchase price after the timber has been removed. That means an invest-ment for the future or large capital to extend railroads to carry out the lumber. The principal mineral products thus far developed are iron ore, of good quality, copper and manganese, American cap-ital is developing a gold mine near Holguin, on quite an extensive scale, and the managers are confident that they will be richly rewarded for their labors, The question of what wil'l be the future mode of govern-ment for the island is the all important subject there at present. The liberal party seems to be most prominent just nOw. It probably outnumbers all the others. It is com-posed of the late insurgents and those dissatisfied with the fonner government; they will probably be able to elect their men 1D the coming election. Whether they will be able to estahlish a stable government is very doubtful indeed. 'The conservatives who supported the Palma administration and arc composed of the better element) S;iY they can see no hope ill the future under the liberal government, and would prefer to have the United States establish a protectorate, The annexationists, composed of many of the business men, cap-italists, foreigners and Americans, are in favor of annexation, and declare that the United States soldiers will never leave the ishtnc1; that it should belong to the United States' on account of its relative position to the Gulf of Mexico and the Panama c<.\nal; that American c,i1pital is how deve'loping the island, and will soon control all its industries and make it one of the: richest and most productive countries in the ',.Yorld; that the late Palma government was a sad failure. though composed of representative Cubans, above the aver-age class, and that the only solution to the whole question is allnexation to the United States. Mr. Rupper's Success. R. H. Rupper recently acquired complete control of the Rupper ~1allufacturing Company of Holland, Mich., and is novv rumllng the business under his own name. Under Mr. Rupp<,x's v.hk management the plant has built up a splendid reputation 101' the quality and general excellence of 'the pro-duct, which includes as specialties carving tools) jointer and shapeI' beads, and the business has increased so rapidly that it is frequently necessary to add new machinery in order to sup-pl)' the trade. "Good work and prompt shipment," is Mr. Rup-per's motto and those who deal with him know that he always "makes good." See his advertisement in this number of the Artisan. Plushes in Favor. Plushes, of the grades known as pan and silk, are .used mainly for covers by man'\1fadurers of upholstered furniture. The usual amount of leather is consumed on library work, but this material is becoming so expensive that in many quarters it is regarded as a luxury. In the manufacture of rockers and davenports, Turkish frames are used largely, but the old-fashioned five piece over-stuffed Turkish suite is seldom caIled for. --------~--- To Our Western Patrons NOTE: There has been no change in the management of our CHICAGO FACTORY. the same practical men who have brought it to its present high standard continue in our employ. BE NOT DECEIVED. WE CAN MATCH ANYTHING FILLER BONE HARD OVER;, THAT WILL DRY N I G H 'f . The great majority--in fact just about all of the manufacturing trade ask for a filler to be hard dry the day after filling. We can do better than that. USE OUR FILLER AND YOU CANNOT DIG IT OUT OF THE PORES THE ====NEXT DAY ==== IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR VARNISH TO PENETRATE THE SURFACE IT SANDS OFF IN A POWDER THAT WILL LEAVE YOUR SAND PAPER CLEAN AFTER THE WORK IS DONE. The Barrett-Lindeman Company IN CONSOLIDATION WITH The I.lawrence-McFadden Co., Ltd. 61-63-65-6No7. Ashland Ave., CHICAGO. 1400-2F-4rankford Ave., PHILADELPHIA. J7 18 7IN-TI.5'~ .... 2 • ? ee Simple Study in Detailing Furniture. (By Arthur Kirkpatrick, Instructor and Desigllcr, Graml Ra}lids School of FUTnitmc Designing. See iHnstrations.) No.5 is a block from which the fOUf curved sides or rails ue sawed. In sawing stock of this character, the band s;n:vyer oilen cuts the curved piece from the front of his stock and has it glued on the back. This enables him to cut ~111his stock up into curved pieces, therby using all the lum-ber. V\ihcn these two stools are drawn, the student might select some plain mission chair, copying the general sizes from any chair he may see of the same character. For in-sbnce, if he is making a dining chair, he will be able to get No. 1. Tn the fir!;t studies of dctailillg furnitme, a man should select avery simple, straight-line pic,ce of fumiturc, such as No, I, with straight, square legs and an oblong top, with rails either dowelled or tenoned. In taking up a simple. study, he will understand every move he makes. The gener- <D • - - - - - - -14· - - - - - - .... ~ ___h "--- ~ -UJ • o· J/) ® 0 • - ... -~.-._-'_._~-.., .....-. -.......".... ' If o ! ~ " -~ I I -- -'- -.-.-.-. -------- .--~.--.~~---.( o Q :5 I,;. ~, I I al scheme lIsed in the detailing ot turl1tttlH'. can he studlcd fqml this simple beginning. No.2 shows the tenon OIl the rail and the groove in llle leg and gives a clear idea of one of the simple constructions. No.3 shows the system of construction by dmvels, both the legs and rails being bored; the dowels arc then placed ill the bored holes in the bils, and the rails then clamped to the leg. When you have fully detailed the small stool and the table of this character, you might take No.4, which has a round top, a curved rim, a sawed shelf and tapered legs. the regular sizes !rom any diner. If he is studying at home, he may continue his studies taking the general sizes of his home furniture. OIle reason why so many drop this study after they have gone but a little way into it is that they do not make the start simple enough, and become dis.couraged becaus.e they cannot handle the difficulties they meet 50 soon in the more com~ plicated pieces of furniture. TllC same fning- is true in the matter- of carving. In the start, the student should select some very simple pieces of carving and keep working on it until he becomes thorougJ:1ly 19 trail1cd in the sbaping of the leaf. By taking a few simple examples to beg-in with, he ..v..ill SOOl1 nnd himself in a position to work Ollt the more difficult pieces. New OseiHating Lock Mortiser. This machine is adapted to furniture, chair, planing rnill and interior tillishing plants and will mortise from 7:+ to 1 inch in width and Ji inch to 5 inches in length. Tt has aU-tomatic fecd for deptb and width of Ctlt and 'I.",illmortise any style of oval Of curved drClwcr front. It is a great labor saver, as it will mortise at least 700 piece,':>complete ill a day This sum corresponds to the additional profit a grocer or butcher would make if he sold fourteen ounces to the pound. As a matter of fact an "inch" board seldom, if ever, is an inch thick. Probably it is seven-eighths; perhaps the man-llfaetttrer needed the additional profit, it measures five-eighths. Sometimes "inch" boards measure only three-fourths of an inch. If one will stop to think of the millions of feet of lumber sold some idea of the immense profit re-sulting from "scant "lumber may be secured. If you go to a lumber yard and order for your new house you \yjll get short measure by at least one-eighth, and per-of 10 llOur:-;, Ruarnlllced to be smooth, clean and ready ror the lock. The motion of the ctltter is snch as to avoid break~ age of :-;amc. This machine is also a pc-fleet borer. Ship-pillg weight, 575 Jlounds. :.\tanufacturcd by the Valley City !\lachine \\/o!"ks, Grand Rapids, \lich., U. S. /\. Lumbermen Use Scant Measure. To sell fourteen OUtlees for a pound is ;'cheating,"' and the offender probabty w6ul<1 be lYI.11lishcd,yet every day in Chi-cago eoulllless thousands of feet of "inch" lumber i!i sold, not one plallk of whieh is all. inch thick. This is not called cheating; it is "commercial custOln,"' says the Chic<lgo Jour-nal. Chicago dealers are helpless; they have to sell the lum-ber as they get it from the manufacturer, who is the man .vho profits by the scant measure. A lumberman has estimated that in ii' mill which cuts 50.0CO,000feet a year the extra pro-fit resulting from cutting the lumber scant is $100,000 a year. haps three-eighths. You can't help yourself, unless you or-der the lumber sawed to order, and then you probably ·will have to pay as much as if the boards were an inch and one-cig- hth ill thickness instead of an inch. This condition is queer, but it is a fact. One at least anlOng ClJicago lumber firms insists when it orders its lumber stock that the lumber be ClIt "full measure." This, of course, etlls deep into the company's profits, for it has to pay the lllallUfacturer more, yet cannot sell at it higher price than COll1petititors. "'Scant' lumber is universal in this part of the United States." said a prominent dealer. "The custom has grown up and tbe people have come to accept it, because they can-not help thelllselves. Of course, the large consumer knows all about it, a1HI there is no deception as far as he is con-cerned. It is true that an occasional buyer of lumber may be thc victim ot the deceit. He may not know about 'scant' and ;plump' hunber." 20 "No-Kum-looseH Mission Knob (PATENT APPLIED FOR) This is the latest style in Mission Knobs. It is made in plain and quartered oak, and takes the same finish as the drawers it is designed to go on. We make a toilet screw to match. We also make the uNo.Kum-Loose-' Knobs in birch, maple, walnut and mahogany in many sizes and styles, and carry in stock a full line of Quartered Oak, Walnut and Mahogany, WADDELL MANUFACTURING CO., GRAND RAPIDS,MICH. SAY YOU SAW THIS AD IN THE MICH'GAN A"lTISAN, APRIL 10TH EoITION. Ou-r Clam.ps received GOLD MEDAL at World"", FIll!r. 51. Louis. VENEER. PRESS (Patented June 30,1903.) CHAIN CLAMP (Patented June 30, 1903.) Write for prices and particulars Black Bros. Machinery Co. MENDOTA, ILL. CABINET CLAMP. OFFIC£S------------------ Ja1D.eatown High Point Cincinnati Detroit Mlnoeapo!ts Associate Offices .nd Bonded Attorneys Grand Rapids Chicago In all Principal cities St. Louis B08ton The Furniture Agency REPORTING FURNITURE, UNDERTAKERS, CARPET HARDWARE AND KINDRED TRADES. COLLE(:> TIONS MADE BY AN UNRIVALLED SYSTEM THROll(;H OUR COLLECTION DR"ARTMENT •. WE PRQDUCi< RESULTS WHERE OTHEKS FAIl- WRITK FOR P,HIT1CLTLA.IlSAND VOU WILL SEND us Y OUR BUSINESS. Our Complaint aDd Adjustment DepartmeDt Red Drafts Collect Saw and Knife Fitting Machinery and Tools U"',".Ja""'~la~';~,~J~1 Baldwin, Tuthill (g). Bolton Grand Rapids. Mich. Filers. Setters, Sharpeners. Grinders, Swages. Stretchers. Brazing and Filing Clamps, Knife Balances. Hammering Tools. l!lvet~:~oar New 200 page Clltlll0R"ue for Ig07 Free. Bolton Band Saw Filer for Saws 71 inch up, B. T. & B. Styl'!!D,'Knife Orinder. Full Automalic. Wet or dry - -- ------------------------~ This Machine Makes the Money =========== BY SA VI NG IT ============ It makes a perfect t"mitation of any open grain because it uses the wood itself to print from. and one oper:ltor and a couple of boys can do more work with it than a dozen men with any other so-called machine or pads on the market. That~s why it's a money maker. It imitates perfectly PLAIN or QUARTERED OAK; MAHOGANY, WALNUT. ELM. ASH or any other wood with open grain WRI'l'E THE Posselius Bros. Furniture Manufacturing Co., Detroit, Mich. FOR PRICES AND FULL PARTICULARS. MENTION THE MICHICAN ARTISAN. 21 -_. -------------- 22 7:IR T I .s'JI.l\I ?Ni Q Tee Raw lnalerinls, consisting of fossil gums imported from f;n away countries of the eastern hemisphere, Calcutta oil from Tndia, turpentine from the Southern states, and linseed oil crushed from the finest flax grown along the northern borders of lhe United States, are landed at the factory door by canal boats and freight cars, the latter coming over the company's own railroad siding. After arriving at the receiving room, these raw mater-ials are Ill'st thoroughly tested in the chemical and physical laboratories, and if they come up to the established standards, are sent to the different departments on requisition. The oils arc first prepared, after which the gum is melted under the watchful eye of a corps of experienced varnish makers. The oil and gum arc then combined through a system of cooking. From this stage the varnish passes into the re-ducing rooms where it is reduced to the proper consistency. From the reducing room the varnish-which is now in its first form-is carried along through pipes to the cooling rooms. From here it is sent to other rooms to undergo a purifying proccss, then to the filter houses where it is filtered under po\ver pressure to clarify it and remove the dirt and other foreign matter which has accumulated during the differ-ent processes. After leaving the- filter rooms it is trans-ferred to large tanks, where it is allowed to age according BUFFALO CAN BOAST. Has One of the Largest Varnish Making Plants in the World. From the. Buffalo Times:-Most Buffalo people uo not realize that they have in their midst one of the 1arge~it Var-nish manufa(:turing plants in the world .. A trip through the main factory of Pratt & Lambert is both interesting and instructive. \lVhile the Buffalo plant is the largest, ::'IIesHs. Pratt & Lambert also maintain works in Ncw York, Chi-cago, London, Paris and Hamburg, The Buffalo plant covers five acres and comprises thirty different buildings, such buildings being so arranged that the raw materials enter one end of the factory, allel after passing through the various operations, merge from the other end of the plant as varnish-the finished proclut::l-to bc shipped to all parts of the civilized world. Pratt & Lambert's high grade varnishes arc the result of experience gained in the fifty years of the company's existence, coupled with improved and modern factory equip-ment, methods and system. to g:',lde trlllll three months to two years. The tank r001115, \\·\lich prrl\-idc' storage for about one million gallons, arc kepl ;ll ;111,'\·OJ lcmperature the year round, as the grades cspcciallj-" ~II'(' sensitive to atmospheric changes, until the ,";lflli~h is t:lOroughly ripened. \Vhen properly aged, the y;,rlli.s:1 is t r;l11sferrcd to delivery tanks from \vhich it is (\I'a\\')] ittto barn'1;;; and cans. It is then passed along to the l:tl)c\ing room,;, ;ltlcl from there to the packing and shipping rnoms, \\·\:ere it is ready for shipr:nent. Thl' te~lillg- of varn-ishes at this plant is a matter of great detail. a~ the different varnishes are carefully examined in tho laboratories as they pass through the different stages. Tile :·ll1i~hl·l\ ,·arni"b, which has received the approval of the lah()r:Ll()rie~ i,:: .submitted to expert finishers, who subject th(' good;;; to "ariatl:'> practical tests, such tests being sub-miLteJ to tlle general superintendent, before the gooJs are finall~y approved. The w'neral manager of this company is "V. H, An-dre, vs, who is also vice president of the Chamber of Com-men: e and a welt known resident of Buffalo. The secretary of the company is J. H. McNulty. BAND RES AWING IN WOODWORKING PLANTS. The first recLuisite is a well constructed mill and there are so many different makes, sizes and styles on the market car-rying' saws irom two to ten inches wide, variously adapted to the practical needs of all kinds of plants, that it is up to the practical lIs..:r to decide after a careful con~,ideration of what the market affords, which type will best serve him. The ma-chine should have a heavy base and should be set on a very solid foundation and be secnrely holted thereto. The wheels should be well balanced alld mllst nm perfect-ly without jar or vibration. The wheels should be perfectly lined before the saw is put on the mill. This can he done by dropping plumb lines. Next put 011 the saw and you can train it with the tilting device to run as you \vant it to . .\lost practical men do not iavor the use of the crosslinc ex-cept ill case of an emergency, as for eX<lmple, when the sa,,\, crn\vds back on the wheels. The crosstine should be ar-ranged before adjusting the saw on the wheels with the tilt-ing device, to run the sa'v back on the wheels properly. The saw is bound to crowd back on the ,"",heels as the teeth ,vill wear dull hom sawillg or when in wide stock It is highly important th;Jt the gnides be set properly and to do this you will first strain the SCl\V ready to run, loosen-ing the top and bottom guides, pushing them back from the saw, then bringing the inside guide, upper and lmvcr, up to the saw, close enough to barely see daylight, hut being careful to avoid touching the saw or pushing it in the least out of line. You will then set the outer guides, upper and lower. in a similar manner, make them secure and the saw is then ready to run. The guides :;hould be watched carefully at all times, and if the saw Butters or strikes the guide .it is a S11resign tl1at the guides need readjustment, presuming of course that the saw itself i:; not at fault. It would perhaps be better to run the saw entirely without guides than to have it striking them c.ontin-lUlUy as under such conditions it \\'i11 soon become crystal-lized and cracks will result. Hard wood guide.s are preferred by most operators.: metal guides should not be used. A saw should be so put up with respect to the leveling, tensioning and the fitting of the teeth, that it will J;"tmalmost indepen-dently of guides. The mill wheets should be slightly crowning, although the tendency of late years has been to the use of a flat wheel, par-ticul<: lrly on log band mills and to some extent on band resaw mills. The purpose: of the slig'ht crown is to hold the saw better in position and prevent any back thrust when resawing wide stock Line the rolls after the saw is in positiOlI and strained ready to !"tm. Take a short straight edge and start at tll(' bottom of rolls and line 5<:\\',1'vith them by having thc straight edge touch the rolls and saw at same time. Line the toll of rolls in smne fashion; then test the bottom again to make sure there has been no movement. The straight edge show~ jn~ parallel, next bring the outside rolls up to the straight elge while touching the inside rolls at top and bottom, and you will then have the rolls properly lined. Then see that the rolls afe kept in proper aligmuent with sawall of the time. Cannot Fix Demurrage Charges . The Interstate Commerce Commissoners have decided that they have no jurisdiction over rules and regulations for reciprocal demurrage between shippers ;lDd railroad com-panies. The decision \vas brought out by the complaint of James B. lvIason against the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific railroad.1'Iason asked for the appointment of H:ceivers of interstate freight for all interstate roads who should deduct from freight charges a reasonable sum per day as demurrage in all cases of delay in shipment. The commissioners say they have no authority to make such a rule. 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 Ull for 1"r'1ee List and di!lcouot 31-33 S. FRONT ST•• GRAND RAPIDS MANUFACTURERS OF HARDWOOD LUMBER &. VENEERS SPECIALTIES: ~t'Y'fE'5QUARO.AK VENEERS M A HOG A NY V ENE ER S HOFFMAN BROTHERS COMPANY 804 W. Main SI., FORT WAYNE, INDIANA IMPROVED, EASY aJld ELEVATORS QUICK RA.ISI'NG Belt, Eleclrlc and Haud PoW~I'. The Best Hand Power for Furniture Stores Send for Catalogue and Pri~. KIMBALLBROS. CO., 1067 Ninth St.. Council Bluffs, la. Kimball EJe",ator Co•• 313Prospect St., Cleveland, O. l0811th St., Omaha, Neb.; \29 Cedar St., New York City. EXCEPTIONAL FACTORY OPPORTUNITY Do you wish to find an upening for a CHAIR FACTORY or would you like to remuve to some more favorable location? If 50, it would repu)' you to at once request information about a tine location in the great timber section of Southeast Missouri along the • Liberal inducements are uffe.red to se~lJr~ a b.vna fid~ .proposjtio~ em· ploying not less than forty men. Good dl ..tnbutlO~ faclhtles for finished product. C01'Tespondence is invited regarding thlS and other excelIent opportunities for futnitltre, mattress, iron bed and other factories along our Jiw~s, &ndforindlf.8frial descriptive matter abrmt tke Rock 18tanrl- Frisco. M. SCHULTER. Industria' Commissioner. Rock Islamj·FrisC'o Lifle$, 1144 FrIsco Bldg., ST. L.OUIS, MISSOURI. 23 , 24 Wood Forming Cutters FOLDING BED FIXTURES Profitable~fixtures to use are those which give the least trouble. They are made by Folding Bed vVilliams in many styles and designs, suitable for every folding bed manufactured. Furniture Cast· ings, Panel Holders, Corn~r Irons, etc, New ideas and inventions constantly being added to the line. F. B. WILLIAMS 381'2 VINCENNES AVE.! CHICAQO Manufacturecof Hardware Spedalti<:'.SfQrtbe FurnituH'_ -\ rade. Established 1878.. BOYNTON &. CO. Manuf<ll'.tllren; of Embossed and Turned Mouldinge, ElIlboAlled and Spindle Carvingll. Bnd Automatic Turnings. We also manu-facture a large line of Ernboued Orna_ menu for Couch WQrk. We offer exceptional value in Reversible and One~Way Cutters for Single and Double Spin.- dIe Shapers. Largest lists with lowest prices. Greatest variety to select from. Book free. Address SAMUEL J. SHIMER & SONS MILTON. PENNSYLVANIA. U. S. A. MACHINE I1.NIVES SEND FOR CATALOGUE 419-421 W. fifteenth St .• &"I&A60. ILL. PERFECT QUALITY RIGHT PRICES PROMPT SERVICE ABSOLUTE GUAR.ANTEE Dado 01" GroQvlng Heads. MUeTMachlm.e5. Universal Wood Trimmers. 50rlng Machines. Etc. FOX MACHIN ....CO •••N. Front St. L • Grand Rapid •• Mich. ====MANUFACTURERSOF==== Furniture, Pianos, Organs, Refrigera-tors, Chairs, and Interior Finishes, read this, the Factory Edition, of the Artisan. IT IS NOT MAILED TO DEALERS OUR EDITION OF 'THE 25th OF EACH MONTH IS MAILED TO DEALERS ONLr. USE A MORTON KILN \T WILL END YOUR DRY KILN TROUBLES Does not warp or check lumbe.r. THE MOST PERFECT MOIST AIR KILN ON THE MARKET. PALMER'S Patent Gluing Clamps 25 TRUCKS, CANVAS DOORS, RECORD-ING THERMOMETERS and other sup-plies. Write for catalog H which tells HOW TO DRY LUMBER MORTON DRY KILN CO. Are the alast sliccessful PUingClamp. Made For the follow-ing reasons They clamp instantlly an.y width of dimension stock, no ad-jUl! lting ChlIn}»l to fit the work, tb@y blHlk itt once to tbe desired width. Released iQl'itantly-throw out the lever aodtake them off. The work caD be removed R"lfast as it can he handled. As the clump Is placed over the work and locks into. the onc below it, the draw is alike aD both sides, prevents aU springillJ; no matter how wide the stock may 00. IIn})OSi;ible {or them to slip; the wedge hag !;ICl'l'ste.dcOge Ro(l eaonot he mo\Ced when dam)) i..clmied, bllmmer all YOUlike. Unlimited power; gl"eat ..trength and durability I malleable irun nnd 8teel; the knuckllll jllints are socket joints, not rivets. ,\lthough the best they cost you less. rot" further information ask tor catalogue N('t. 4. 218 LA SAl.l.E ST., CHICAGO. A. E.. Palmer, Owosso, Mich. DURABLE AND EFFICIENT Although an essential In mill equipment, the ex-haust fan is usually located m an out-of-the-way place and greatly negleCled. This faCl was borne in mind in the designing of the "ABC" Exhaust Fan and is constantly kept in view in its manufaClure, the re-sult being a Fan of exceptional strength and rigidity, coupled with high efficiency. FURNISHED WITH SPECIAL WHEELS FOR LONG, STRINGY SHAVINGS. ASK FOR BULLETIN No. 2I1MA. AMERICAN BLOWER CO., Detroit, MicL. NEW YORK CHICAGO ATLANTA LONDON 26 It's a Case of "NO CURE, NO PAY" with Us in the Mattet" of DRVING LUMBER This Cut Shows How Lumbet" .e Comes Out of Out"ll\ilns .e No. 1. An oak center showing that knots after be-ing dried bv our process, plane 35 smooth as straight-grained lumber. No.2. A big oak knot center of board and near the end. Note that buard is not checked either side of knot or on ends and board is as flat as though there were no knot in it. No.3. Three knots in a 12inch oak board and at the end. Note the straiRht edge, absence of checking and small wa~te required to get into good lumber. Nos. 4 and 5. Emphasize the fact tbat knots do not by our process warp the wood or check beyond the knot. No.6. A piece of oak dried in ten days, green from the saw, one·half a swirl. Note that it planes just as smooth as balance of piece. Compa.re. This to Your Own Output. OUR PROPOSITION We will furnish plans. specifications and instructions to bnild you a 'new kiln, or eqnip your old kiln with our process and guarantee to increase the capacity of your kiln from .')0to 100 per cent without warping, checking, honeycombing or case hardening your lumber, or refund)'our money. We can save 50 per cent of your waste and one-third of tbe labor cutting up the lumber. Write for question blank-mention the Michigan Artisan. GRAND RAPIDS VENEER WORfiS GRAND RAPIDS. MICHIGAN Turpentine From Stumps and Sawdust. Fifteen or twenty years ago the extracting of turpentine from sa.N...dust and pine stumps in the Michigan pineries was tried, but the experiment was not successful in a linallcial way. Now, ..v..ith an improved process the industry has been resumed at Paxton, Florida, where there is an abunda.nt sup-ply of the "raw materials," and as the cost of turpentine pro-cured in this 'way is said to be less than 30 cents per gallon, sllccess seems to he assured. In the process used in Florida the saw milt waste is first passed through a "hog" and together with the sawdust is carried on a conveyor chain through the ttpper pHt of a turpentine still, the dust being automatically dropped into the open retorts. After these retorts are filled they are se-curely closed, and steam is turned on, extracting the crude turpentine in about an hour. The turpentine passes into a tank with the condensed steam, the oil rising to the top and being partly cleaned during the process. It then goes through another still and fro111this through a cooling worm whieh lo-.,versthe temperature and thus prevents evaporation. Passing from the cooler,it goes through a series of vats. which thoroughly cleans it from impurities. Tt is claimed that more pure turpentine per cord of wood is obtained by this process than by any othcr now in opera-tion; in addition the value of the wood for fuel is not de-stroyed. The company has a six-retort plant with tank, still. cooling worm, boiler, engine, eight-inch "hog," cOlI\'eyors, etc., and from its mill refuse is turning out about 79 barrels of 52 gallons each. per month. The mill is cutting about 75,000 feet of lumber per day, or 2,000,000 feet per month. Thus thc product is about a gallon of turpentine fro111the waste from 500 feet board measure of output. Arrangements are being made by the same experiment with a stump puller and also l,vith a sawing tops from fat stumps on cut-over land. company to machine for With these machines in operation, its turpentine plant will he able to run nights and dispose of its surplus fuel to a nearby power plant. According to figures supplied by this company, saw mill dust will yield fro111 five to ten gallo11s of turpentine per cord, fat lightwood from fifteen to twenty gallons, pine stumps from twenty to thirty gallons, and fat tops from thir-ty to thirty-five gallons. Old Stock Used in Chairs. Thomas F. Garratt. treasurer of the Michigan Chair Company, related a number of incidents in the history of the company recently that amused al1d entertained his hear-ers: "We had a lot of walnut chair stock on hand when we closed our factory at Grand Ledge, sixteen years ago," said he. "vVe tried to seU it, but no one would buy at any price. V\T e movcd the stock to Grand Rapids and are now using the last of it. When we had been in business a few years we manufactured a trial lot of chairs in oak-twelve dozen. We were unable to seJl them at my price. We sold low back caned diners in walnut for $24.00 per dozen. We could sell the same chairs for $40.00 per dozen at present." 10Ut6 lbabn DESIGNS AND DETAILS OF FURNITURE 154 Livingston St. GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN Citi.zens'Telephone 11cu. 27 CUTTING MAHOGANY IN CENTRAL AMERICA. Methods Are Not Much Like Those Used in Northern Pineries. Belize, the c3pitnl of tile British possessions in Central America, now a city of considerable importance, owes its origin and \vealth to mahogany cutting. Since iron and steel have taken the ]llace of wood in many kinds of construc-tion the mahogany trade has decreased to a notable ex-tent. Although it is still large <lJJd profitable, The expense and ditriclllty of getting out the wood are much greater. Few trees can nil\\, be found near a river of sufficient water to Anat the logs, Haying selected and secured a suitable locality and nrrangecl with one of tbe exportiug houses of Bclize to advance the means to provisions and cash to carryon the \vork, the mahogany cutter hires his gang for the season. .\"carly all the labor contracts arc made during the Christmas holidays, as the g,tllgs frotll the mahogany \""oods all congregate in Uelize at that time. The rnen are hired for a year, at ,"vages ranging- from $12 to $20 per month. They generally receive six months' wagcs in advance, one-half of which is paid in goods from the house which furnishcs thc capital. Early in J (\nuary the work is commenced. Camps for "banks,'"' as they are called, are orgallizcd at cOll\'enient places on the Illargin of some river in the district to be work-ed. Temporary houses thatched with palm-leaves are erected for the laborers, and a substantial building f(lr the store and dwelling of the overseer. All work ill mahogany cutting is done by tasks. The best lahorers are out at (layhreak an(l g-enerally finish their task by eleven o'clock. The rest of the day can he spent in fishing, hunting, collecting Tndia rubber and sarsapal"illa, or in work-ing up mahngally into dories, paddles and bowIes, for all of which they Gild a ready market. Game :JIJ(] , Jlsh 3re abuildaut, the former consisting of two varieties of hogs (wal"(~e and peccary,) deer and antelopes, tapir (11101111tain cow,) monkeys, two varieties of wild turkeys, armaclillos, gihonets, T11dian rabbits, partridges, quail, Ina-caws, parrots, etc. The rivers abound in excellent fish and the supply of terapin and iguanas is inexhaustible. The reg'- ular ratio1l for a laborer in this country consists of four pounds of salt pnrk and sevell quarts of Bour per week, which is de-livered to him evcry Sunday morning. The abundance of game, and wild fruits enables the ma-hogany laborer to save a large portion of his l'ations, which he either sells to his employer 01' sends home to his family. The Owner or overseer of mahogany works is a distin-guished personage. He U'ies well, and has many and varied sources of enjoyment. His rustic dwelling in the forest is supplied with every comfort and many luxuries. He travels up and d()\\"l1 the river in a bateau n~aJ(~ of Inahogany, and fitted up regardless of expense. His crew consits of from twelve to twenty skillful rowers, generally Indians, and a captain, cook, and waiting boy. He carnps out at night on the hanks o{ the river where savory dishes are prepared, which would puzzle the uninitiated. Ko menu is considered con,plete ,"vithout entrements of monkey and iguana cooked a 1a criolla, declicious even to the uninitiated, The mahogany-tree hunter is the most important, best-paid laborer in the service. Upon hi", skill and actiVity largely depends the success of the season. rVlahog'any trecs do not g-row in clumps or clusters, but arc scattered promiscouously through the forests a'nd hiddell in ,l den5e growth of underbrnsh. vine~; and creepers. It requires a skillful and experienced woodsman to find them. :::0 01le can make any progress ill a tropical forest .vithout tll(~ aid of a machete or heavy brush-knife. He has to cut his way stcp by step. The mahogcll;y is one of the largest and tallest of trees. The hunter seeks the hig-hest grot.1J1d, climbs to the top of the highest tree and surveys the $;\.1r-rrHllldi1\ g country. His practised eyes detect the mahogany tree by its pe-culiar foliage; he counts the trees within the scope of his vis-iOD, notes the directions and distalJces, then descends and cnts a 11arrow trail to each tree, \vhich he carefully blazes and marks. The axmen follow the hunter an<l after them go the sa"v-yers and hcvvers. To fell a larg-e mahogany tree is one day's task [or two men. On account of the \~lide sp\1rs which pro-ject horn the trunk at its base scaffolds have to be erected and the tree cut off· above the spurs, which-leaves a stump from ten to liftecll feet high, a waste of the very best wood. \Vhile the work of felling- and hewing is in progress other gang.s arc employcd in making roads and hridges over which the logs are to be hauled to the river. One wide truck-pass, as they call it. is made through the center of the district occupied hy the works, and branch roads arc opened from the main avenue to each tree. The trucks employed are clumsy and antiquated contrivances which no American would think of using. The wheels are of solid wood, made hy sawing off the end of a log and fitting iron hoxes in the ce11ter. Xo tires or spokes are needed. New '.{"beels <l.te in cot/stallt requisition. 1\lost trucking is done at nig;ht by torch lights made of pitch pine. The oxen arc fed on the leaves al1d twigs of the bread-nut trce, \vhich gives them more strength and endur-ance than any other obtainable food. The trucking is done in the dry season ,l11d the logs are collected on the bank of the river and made I-cady for the floods, which occur all the long-cst rivers 111June and July and on all in October and November. Callinet Makers In these days of close competition, need the best posaible equipment, and this they can ha'Vein . . . . BARNES' Hand and Foot POWER Machinery Our New nand and foot Power Circular Saw No.4 The strongest, most ~()VJerful.and in every wa)' the best machine of its kind ever made, for ripping, cross-cutting, boring and grooving, Send (Ot our New Catalogue. "W. F. ®.. JOHN BARNES CO. 654 RubY Street. Rochford. Ill. ANOTHER POINT TO REMEMBER IF YOU PLACE YOUR 'ANNOUNCEMENTS ------ IN THE ------- Mercantile Editions of the Artisan THEY WILL BE READ BY DEALERS IN FURNITURE AND KINDRED GOODS ONLY I 29 aran~ Da~i~sDlow Pi~e an~Dust Arrester (om~anJ THE LATEST device for handling-shavings and dust from all wood-working machines. OUf nineteen years experience in this class of work has brought it nearer perfection than any other system on the market today. It is no experiment, but a demonstrated scientific fact, as we have several hundred of these systems in use, and not a poor one among them. Our Automatic. Furnace Feed System, as shown in this cut, is the most perfect working device of anything in its line. Write for our prices for equipments. WE MAKE PLANS AND DO ALL DE'I'AIL WORK WITHOUT EX-PENSE TO OUR CUSTOMERS EXHAUST ~'ANS AND PRESSURE BLOWb:RS ALWAYS IN STOCK Office and Fa.ctory: 20&-210 Canal Street GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Citizen. Phone 1282 OUR AUTOMATIC FURNACE FEED SYSTEM I out to the cemetery. You can bet there is nobody getting any the best of Grouch if he knows it; and he is always look-ing for it. When he cats at a hotel he makes the waiters jump sideways. He commences to grumble right away as soon as he goes to bat and keeps it up. Of course the waiters hate him and talk mean about him when they get out in the kitchen, but you bet they wait on him. If they don't do that there will be something doing right away and a good deal of it. He grumbles at the gas man and he grumbles at the plumber. Furthermore, while the gas man and the plumber say things about Grouch that ought to make his ears burn, they do get a move on them and tend to his work and let Mr. Easy Mark's work wait. Grouch has a chronic row with every merchant he does business with. He grumbles about the kind of meat the grocer gives him, and rather than have him chewing the rag continually the butcher picks out the best pieces for him. The merchants hate him; the clerks despise him, but they all wait on him. They have to or have a row. Grouch generally has a kick to register with the city council, and oftentimes he is right., He keeps jawing and prodding the city officials and does make them give more attention to the duties they were elected to perform. Grouch does some good; in fact he does a good deal of good, but he is mighty disagreeable. Everybody cusses him and he is pointed out as the meanest man in the town. When he dies everybody says that it is a good thing that he is gone and that he will make trouble, no matter whether he lands in heaven or the other place. As between Grouch who grumbles at everything and quarrels with everybody, and Easy Mark who never complains about anything and lets everybody impose on him, it is better perhaps to be Easy Mark, but there is no use to be either. There is no use to be grumbling and chewing the linen continually and treat-in~ everybody as if they were trying to do you 'up; and neither, on the other hand, is it well to let everybody make a foot mat of you. There is a time to be good natured and a time to kick. There is a time to let disagreeable things pass and then there are times when it is the proper thing to get up and roar. If nobody kicked the world would be run ,by dead beats and grafters and honest men would have no chance whatever. The really good citizen is the one who is nearly always good natured; who doesn't do much grum-bling but who can make things sizz if the occasion really demands it. 30 EASY MARK AND MR. GROUCH. Both Must be Endured but Neither is an Absolute Necessity. This world seems to be made up of all sorts of classes of people, ranging from the easy mark at one end of the line to the chronic kicker at the other. Of the two extremes it is hard to tell which is the worst, the genuine easy mark or the everlasting kicker, says the Merchants' Journal. Of course Easy Mark is agreeable. He never gets in anybody's way, or if he does he is ready to apologize and get out at once. People get onto him right away. They understand that he can be worked and they work him; work him to a fare~you-wcl1. The butcher knows that Easy Mark won't roar if he gets a tough piece of meat when he ordered tender-loin. Somebody has to get the poor meats, and Easy Mark is the most pleasant customer to deal with. The grocer understands that he can put off inferior vegetables on Easy Mark and that good-natured man will stand for it. The hired man also understands that if he neglects his work Easy Mark will let it go without saying anything ,about it. If there i.s a job left over that the hired man ought to have done, Easy Mark will go and attend to it, himself. So it goes. They all hand "lemons" to the excessively good-natured man. Men come to him to get him to sign notes with them and then let him pay the notes. After he has been stuck for their debts, they never even thank him for his accommodation. Easy Mark never gets rich. It isn't in the nature of things that he should. He is probably indus-trious and saving so far as his personal expenses are con-cerned and makes ago.od deal of money, but there are plenty looking for chances to get it away from him. But then Easy :\1ark has this much compensation: He is gen-erally conceded to be a goOd man. He hasn't any enemies to speak of. People are even ready to hand him honors that don't cost them anything and mean work for him. For example, if there is a public function of some sort there is a lot of work to do. Easy 'Mark is universally selected as one of a committee to do that work. He goes uncomplainingly and does it. He works like a dray horse for nothing. He turns the ice cream freezer all day before the night of the church festival. There were other members of the com~ mittee on refreshments but -they slid out and left the matter to Easy Mark. They know he will do it and not kick about it. In fact they get a fool idea ,somehow that he really enjoys doing that sort. of business. All the way through life Easy Mark has to pull on the short end Of the double-tree, but when he finally dies the papers say that he was a splendid neighbor. On the other extreme there is Grouch, the kicker. Grouch was born kicking and he keeps it up until they carry him Choice Floor Spaces For Rent in Chicago. ]. S. Meyers, the president of the lVlanufacturers' Exhibi-tion building, 1319 Michigan avenue, Chicago, informs the Artisan that he has a few choice floor spaces for rent. Early applicants will secure same. NEW YORK, BOSTON, PHll.ADELPHIA, BALTIMORE. CANACUIN FACTORY, WALKERVILLE ONTARIO CHICAGO, CINCINNATI, ST. LOUIS, SAN FIIANCISCO. BERRY BROTHERS' Rubbing and Polishing Varnishes MUST BE USED IN FURNITURE WORK TO BE APPRECIATED THEY SETTLE THE VARNISH QUESTION WHEREVER TRIED WRITE TODAY FOR INFORMATION AND PRICES. FINISHED SAMPLES ON REQUEST. BERRY BROTHERS, LIMITED VARNISH MANUFACTURERS DETROIT How to Measure Men. A subordinate was speaking to the boss about another subordinatc. "He isn't much good," he said. "\Vhat's the matter with him?" asked the boss. "1 don't know," said the subordinate, dbut there is something about him that doesn't seem just right." He had nothing to gain by making this statement and he would have gained nothing had he left it unsaid. But it started the boss thinking. He began to watch the man who had been the subject of the conversation. He found that he went about his work quietly and patiently, that he was neat in his manner, that he always was on time, and never broke his neck to get out ahead of the others when quitting time came. He could see nothing remarkable in the way he worked, but, on the other hand, there was nothing about his work that was slipshod or badly done. So the boss went to the man who llad told him that he didn't like the man's work, and he asked him again if he could point out any specific defect. ';1 can't" the other confessed, "but I still have that fceling." "The trouble," said the boss killdly, "is not with what you were looking at but with the \i'1"ayyou looked, You did not want tllat man to please you particularly. True, you had nothing ag3inst him. You simply were indifferent to· him. That is the wrong way to size. np men. An experil.',nce of thirty-five years has taught me that if you want to see the bcst in a man alld want to get the bcst out of him the thing to do is to expect it. Remember this." HAND CIRCULAR RiPSAW. MORTISER COMBII'fKDMACHINE. Complete oulln 01 HAND and FOOT POWER MACHINERY WHY THEY PAY THE CABINET MAKEFl. lIe can sa"'e a manufacturer'!!! profit as well as a dealer's pl"1>flt. He can make more mlmey with less capital inve!lted. He can hold a bettcr and more saUdactory trade with hiOi cnstomers. lIe can manllfacture in as good style and finish, and at as low cost as the fll('l,ol'iel>. The lilcal cabinet maker has been foned into only the deal-er's tl'ade and profit, because of machine manufactured goods of factories. A:n outfit of Bllrnes' Patent Foot aJld Hand-Power :Ullchin-ery, reinstates tile cahinet maker wit-h ad\'antages equill to his competiturs. If desired, these machines will he sold ON TRIAL. The purchaser ~a," have ample time to test them in his own shop and on the work he wishes them to do. Descriptive cata-lQgue It.I\d price 1i8t !rt.",~. I - No.4 SAW (ready for cross-cutting) W. f. &. JO"~ BAR~ES CO.,654 RUby St .. Rockford. III 31 Too many men size up other men as beneath themselves or as inferior to themselves. Too many men bring in ver-dicts against other men without first getting aU the evi-dence. Cloth€s, little mannerisms, the state of the judge's digestion, whether or not the world has been good to him lately, all these things have a bearing on the reception that the new man gets when he goes to work. Judgments of a man's ability based upon such accidents and ulterior things as clothillg, manner, or the like are bad judgments. They are no worse intrinsically than judgments made upon the man's ability, but made with a prejudiced or an indifferent eye. Nothing is truer than that we get what we give. This applies to our impressions of others. V\T ork-ers who expect their fellow-workers to be good workers witt be surprised at the number of times that their impres-sions are confirmed by the event. Those who go through life too king for defects, tum-ing a thing over to pick flaws in the back, surveying this or that with glances that are born of distrust or dislike, such folk arc not capable of coming to judicious and sane con-clusions about anybody eIse. If they are employed in posi-tions in which some of their ''lork consists in the estimating of other men they arc worse than a passive badness. They are actual, livi.ng dra ..\.'backs to the success of their employers' business. For they do not use charity. They do not allow for the personal equation. To everything they bring the hard and fast rule and that is 11C', method to use in measur~ ing- men. The wise know thi" The foolish are iorc~ d ~f learn it sooner or later'. FORMHR OR MOULPKR. HAND TKNONKII.. No. OJ SCII.OLL SAW. No.4 SAW (ready lor ripping) 32 "Rotary Style" for Drop Can'iogs, Embossed Mouldings, Panels. EMBOSSINC AND DROP CARVINC MACHINES. Machines for all pu.rpo~e!!, and fit prices within the reach of all. Every nuu~bine has our guarantee against breakage for one )..ear. "Lateral Style" for large capacity heavy Carvings and Deep Emwsslngs. We have the Machine you want at a satisfactory price. Write for descl'ipth'e circuhlr .., Also make die!! for aU makes of Ma· ('hInes. UNION EMBOSSINO M4cmNE CO., Indianapolis. Ind. Johnson's Tally Sheet -.,.---FOR---- HARDWOOD LUMBER ~._-- NOT LIKE 0THER TALLY SHEETS. C. A. JO"NS~N, Marshfield, Wis. P. H. Reddinger Carving Worhs (F01'tlle1"lyCincinnati (farmng Works of Cincinnati, 0.) CARVINGS and FURNITURlll ORNAMENTS of all kinds. EVANSVILLE. IND. By sending me a small order I will convince you that I am the man who can make your carvings. ONE TRIAL WILL DO THE BUSINESS. INSIST ON HAVING MorrisWoo~I ~ons' ~oli~ ~Ieel OlueJoinl (ullers for there are no otherJ" ..jUJ"t aJ" good." They cut a clean perfect joint always. Never burn owing to the GRADUAL CLEARANCE (made this way only by us), require little grinding, saving time and cutters. No time wasted setting up and cost no more than ot~er makes. Try a pair and be tonvinced. Catalogue No. 10 and prices on application. MORRIS WOOD &. SONS Thirty-two year. at 31-33 S. Canal Street. CHICAGO. ILL. Michigan Artisan Inset. Half T ones of This Quality CANNOT BE PRODUCED FROM A POOR PHOTOGRAPH BUT IF WE· DO .._-- YOUR PHOTOGRAPHING YOU WILL GET PHOTOS THAT ARE RIGHT. IF YOU WANT PHOTOGRAPHS THAT WILL PRODUCE HALF TONES IN YOUR CATALOGUE LIKE THIS HAVE US DO YOUR WORK. g We are the only photographers in the country that will get your work out on time, for we have all the modern improvements to do the work with. g Write for prices and arrange for a date to do your photographing. We will come to your factorY and do work if not convenient to ship goods to us. MAX P. THIELE & CO.,· Commercial Photographers GRAND RAPIDS . . MICHIGAN By petmiPion of Cherokee Manufaduring Co. Michigan Artisan Inset. 33 Quantity and Quality SOME people look to QUANTITY without regard to QUALITY Others want QUALITY, but can't get it and QUANTITY at the same time, The fadory that is equipped with the Mattison No.5 Table Leg Machine gets both QUALITY arid QUANTITY. Both are essenlial to prolit~ making these days. Let uS"rend you our printed matter. It may open your eyes-may convinee you that your present machines and methods are Dol up-ta-date; that is, unless you already have Mattison machines. C. MATTISON MACHINE WORKS 863 FIFTH STREET, BE.LOIT, WISCONSIN, U. S. A. Gleanings From Market Reports. The harwood [umber markets at ,vestern arl< southern points are reported easier than they were a mouth :"0. The increased available supply, however, is not suffic,,--ut to af-fect prices at any point. At present the shortage is 1110st severely felt in eastern IJennsylvania, ,",vhere furniture manll-fact1. trers, being unable to secure seasoned stock, are report- Drawn by James Nelson, Grand Rapids School of Furniture Designing, ed as "buying anything they can get." The warm \veather ill 1'1arch stimulated the retail trade in soft woods, hut not enough to harden prices except for building InateriaL The feature in quotations on supplies for furniture manu-facturers during the past month \,vas a slump of 5 or 6 cents per gallon in the price of t1.lrpentine. It is now quoted in Kew York at 73@74 cents against 780(g.!79~ during thesec-ond 'week in 1v1arch. The lower prices appear to have il1~ creased the demand, \',rhich i,s now reported brisk. Shellac is quiet, with both jobbers and retailers, without material chi-).ngc in prices. The ordinary is quoted at 48@49 cents; bright orange grades', 56@57; bleached wet, 48; kiln dried, 58. The feeling that linseed oil is too high continues, consum~ ers apparently buying only for present needs, Forty-one cents tor ,,,,estern raw is the basis for current quotations. Cal-cutta oil is firm at 70 cents. China wood oil, 70@8 cents_ The recent high prices of turpentine caused varnish makers to curtail the meltil1g of vartlish gums and a weakness i11 prices was noted, \Vith the decline in the price of turpentine they have resumed operations and the demand for gums has strengthened the Inarket, though prices remain practically un-changed. No.1 Kauri (standard) is quoted at 38@40 cents; ~(). 2, 22@23; fine selected, pale, 62@ 65; picture quality, 75 @ 80; !'vTanila pale, 16@18 cents. Jobbers and importers continue to decla.re that the sup-ply oi burlaps is short-practically exhausted, they say-but prices do not indicate alarm 011 the part of consumers, though there has been a slight advance in light weights since the first of ApriL Seven ounce goods are now quoted at 5.65 cents; eight ounce, 5.80 and ten ounce at 7.10. Will Rush Tennessee Lumber to Market. The river alld rail committee of the Lumbermen's. Club of Memphis, Tenn., which has been making a thorough inves-tigation of traffic conditions in that section and which has been working to secure improvement in the service afforded shippers of timber and lumber products, h.as submitted lU report. It declares that the roads operating in what is known as the Memphis territory will spend within the next twelve months $84,000,000 in extending their trackage, increasing ter minal facilities and buying additional motive power and equip_ ment. It further reports that these roads entering 1'Iemphis have already placed contracts calling for the delivery between now and October 1 of 24,500 new cars ane]. 375 new locomo-tives, the cost ot which is included in the foregoing estimate .. The belief is expl-essed that these improvements and the increase in equipment will bring about a better service next fall th~n has been witnessed in the history of the lumber bus-iness. The committee points out that much of the conges-tion recently experienced Jws been the result of lack of ter-minal facilities, and says that the building of these, together 'with more trackage and equipment, will prove the real solu-tion of that congestion which has become an annual feature costing shippers of hlmbcr hundreds of thousands of dollars. The man who continually entertains the idea that every-body is trying to cheat him is a nuisance to himself and to all who have dealings with him, An over-suspicious nature may bc more dangerous to success than a credulous mind.' 34 BEAR THIS FACT IN MIND You can present your claims for trade to a larger number of buyers of furniture and kindred goods through the mercantile editions of the Michigan Artisan, mailed to dealers only, than is possible by the use of any other trade paper. WRITE FOR RATE CARD Another Syndicate Scherr"'. The FllrJliturc. \Vorlel is responsible ror th(' following statement;; and C0111me11ts: .:'Ily~ Dut this is all era of big schernes. Just think for a llloment, a $10,000,000 buying syndicate in the furniture: 11l1sillc,;;s! Is it Jlractic~lP ft looks that way, and some of the brightest merchancli,;ing minds in l\Tassacltusetts haven't been (lble to illld a llal\" ill it, The scheme is being pm11lotecl in )'lassac:llt1seUs, ,\1](1 if it is succesful there it can be worked anywhere and every'- where. As T understand it, the profits ;Lrc to come out of the: lll;'l11ntacturers Df fU.l"ll1ture. The scheme is Lhi;; Capitalists arc to form a eOlllpany with $2,000,000 c;:Ish capital; SS,OOO,COO jf lleCeSSJry. They the money i.;,; to be made. Ten million dollars' annual pur-chases, $1,000,000 annual profit. Two hundred thousand dol1<trs. tile 10 per cent Oil the cash capital of $2,000,000, with S800,000 ror expenses and (livisioll among the syndicate mem-bers. The syndicate dealers pay their hills to the company and are c.arried ror four months. Tf they want longer time they pay interest. Everything s\imp\ifled, the company the dear-ing house betvveen the dealer and the manufacturer. Great is the power of cash ~ It looks fine for the dealer, but will tll'<'. mam.lltl.<:tnrer c01\cede Lhat 10 p"'x cent for cash? H c. is working 011 pretty close margins now. Trusts and pools have been promoted in the furniture trade without success, ., DESIGN BY JAMES NELSON, A STUDENT IN THE GRAND RAPIDS SCHOOL OF FURNITURE DESIGNING. waut for the use of this capital it net return or 10 per cent. That's all. Furniture dealers .,vitlJ a purcb"sillg power ot $10,000,000 annually are to be as~ociate lllewbers of this syn-dicate, stockholders if they so desire, but that is optiunal, not compulsory. Tile ~tatl1S of the dc:a1er is not chang-cd a particle. He goes to market, or selects his gnods from phot(\gTaphs in the bands of the manufacturer's s;J,le,"l1l;J,u, ;J,Sbefore, bIll he plan's nO orders direct. The orders go through the $2,OUO,COOl',lr-poration. For instance, if the syndicate members gu to Grand Rapids in J lily they will nlemo all the g-oods they de-sire and this mellloranda \'v'ill be turned over to tile company's representative or representatives who will be on the grolllHl The orders may alllount to $500,000 say, The corporation then deals direct with the manufacturers paying casb Ii ex-pects a.t \.east to get a 10 Dcr cC.nt discount. There's '<vhen' Think yOll this g'ig:antic scheme wiil fare any better? \i\/lJat !l<L\'e the manufacturers to say about it? Known by Reputation. :\t a recent meeting of the creditors of the bnnkrupt firm ()f David H. Brand & Co" Trenton, as the referee was about to) administer the oath to the appraisers, "\1 r. Drand asked permissiull to question one of them as to his knowledge of C;r~llld H.apicls furniture, which formed the larger part o( the .-itock to be appraised, The request \-vas granted and the apprai"er in answer to 11r. Brand's (jlleries said that while he bad Iln-er bandied Grand Rapi,h; gOlHls extensively, he .vas \n~llacqltainted with their reputation, which gave him know-ledge enough of their merits to enable him to be a good judge of thei.r value. ------ -- ---------------------------- -- - - The Pittsburg Plate Glass Company MANUF ACTURKRS AND JQBBERS OP' Plain and Beveled Mirrors, Polished Plate, Bent Glass, Plate Glass for Desks and Table Tops. CAR.RARA GLASS ill new product like polished whitca ma.rble. Our f.acijirie;for supplying furniture manufacturers with everything in plate Glass, rough or polished, and of any size, will be understood when we state that we have eight glass faetories, extending from Pennsylviinia to Missouri, and fifteen Mirror Plants located as follows: New York BostOD Philadelphia. 'Buffalo Chicago CIQclnn-.tl St. Louis Minneapolis Atlanta Kokomo. Ind. O....enport Crystal City. Mo. Ford CUy. Pa Kansas eu,... Mo. High Point. N. C. Also, our 23 jobbing houses carry heavy stocks in all lines of glass, paints. varnishes 3.Qd brushes and afe located in the cities named below: . New York-Hudson and Vandam Sts. Baltimore-221-Z23 W. Pratt Street. B08ton--4)_49 Sudbury, 1-9 Bowker, Sts. BlIJJ'altr-372~4-6-S Pearl Stl'eet. Chicago-44-2_452 Wuba8h A,:enue. Brooklyn-GaS and 637 Fulton Street. Cincinnati-Broadway and Court Sts. Phiiadelphiu.-PiteaJrJ'I Building, Arch St. wuis-Cor. 7tb and Market St8. and Eleventh StllJ. MinneapoUs--OOO-310 S. Third St. llavenport--UO~416' Scott Street. nctroit-ff~-5(j Larned St.. E, Cleveland-149-51-33 Seneca Street. Gl'anll Rapids, l\.nch.-~19-41 N. Dh;ision Qmuba_1608_10_12 Harney Street. St. st. Paul-349-51. l\olinn.esota Street. Pltt~burgh-lOl-103 Wood Street. Atlantll, Ga.-80, az IWd 34 S. Pl70r St. l\l1lwaukee, \"i8-492-494 Market St. Savannab, 6n.-74-5-749 WheatouStreet. Rochester, N, Y.-Wilder Building, Maiu Kansas City-FiUh aDd Wyandotte St8. and Exchange Sh. Blnninghant, Ala. 2nd Al'e. Bod 29th St. Largest JObbers of Window Glass in ihe World Sole dlstributera of PATTON'S SUN PROOF PA(NTS Wire Gl.S5 Best Protection Against Fire It needs no argument to show what advantages may be derived from dealing directly with us. AG£.NTS FOR THE COULSON PATENT CORNER POSTS AND BAR.S. WABASH INDIANA GLOBE VISE AND TRUCK CO. Office 32J South Division St., GRAND RAPIDS.MICH. Mfrs. of High GTade Wood Workers Vises AND Factory Trucks Quality and Priee talk in factory trucks and we can interest you. Will yOU send us YDllt address and let US write you about them 1 Write for Pri~<SB B. WALTER & CO. M'nufa"u"'. of T ABLE SLIDES Exclusively WRITE FOR PRICES AND DISCOUNT SOMETHING NEW WE have perfected a new GOLDENOAK OIL STAIN without the use of asphaltum or acid. This stain is the strongest and most pene-trating stain on the market. It entirely pene-trates the wood, leaving no surplus on the sur-face to penetrate with the fiJjer. Samples furnished on application. GRANO RAP/OS WOOD FIN/SHING GOMPANY 65·1S~ ELLSWORTH "'VE •. GRAND F1APIDS, MICH w~ha....e. over 12 different styles of factory and warehoui5e trucks to ofter, also a complete lir.t~of woodworking vises and ben<:hes. Indianapolis, Indiana Write for Information, Prices Etc. The Universal Automatic CARVING MACfllNE ====iJ'ERFORMS THE WORKOF 25 HAND CARV'ERS A.nddoes the Work Better than it can be Done b~ Hand MADE BY ----~-- Union [MDOSSlna M,COInt (0. 35 Company to make ('.arved mouldings and interior fmishings. Capital $15,000, half paid in. George L. Meri,veather and others have incorporated the Vnion Parlor Furniture Company to manufacture parlor fut'- nilmc in Boston, 1I1ass. Capital, $5,000. The Raab & \-Vinter Table Company has been organized in Grand Rapids, Mich" by John D. Raab, H, A. \Vinter and others, and will soon begin busi.ness in a factory on Canal street. Capital stock, :ji60jOOO. 36 Lounge Taxed as Woo1. j~ bitter tariff battle- ovex an upllolstered luungc ·was dc- ,jdcd rece1ltly hy the board Ol ge

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