Michigan Artisan; 1908-09-25

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Issue of a furniture trade magazine published in Grand Rapids, Mich. It was published twice monthly, beginning in 1880. and Twenty.Ninth Yea.r-No. 6 S~EM8ER 25,1908 Semi-Monthly ~----,--- rrl•S Chairs "THE PUSH BUTTON KIND" I• Royal M You c n make more money out of our NATfON-ALLY AI VER TIS ED lines of Morris Chairs, than you can by buying the unknown, unguaranteed kind. Our a vertising campaign begins in the Saturday Evening P st 1n September and the Ladiesl Home Journal in cto~er and will continue through the Fall. Every mon h eleven million people will see our ads, a facsimile f which we show in this space. \-Vebe ieve we offer you the best selling proposi-tion in the urniture line today. They are unlike any other beca se they are either UPHOLSTERED OR WITH LOSE CUSHIONS, WITH FOOTREST OR WIT OUT FOOTREST, rite us today for proposition for your town. CHICAGO SALESROOM.; Geo. D. Willia s Co., 1323 Michigan Ave., First Floor, Chicago, IlL STURGIS STEEL GO-C RT COMPANY, Sturgis, Mich. FOLDS WITH ONE OTION NO FUSS, NO FOO ING FOLDS WITH ONE OTlON All Steel; Indestructible, Perfected Beyond All Co petition, Frame of Steel Tubing, Will Carry 200 Lbs, Ov r Rough Pavements. The Only Perfect cartt,With a Large Perfect Quick Acti n Hood, CATALOGUE UPON APPLI ATION. FOLDED ._--~ II II, ,I ,I !IIII II• I I t Splendid New Line of Ladies' Writing Desks and I I Music Cabinets I I • For the first time we have prepared a splendid line of Ladies' Writing Desks, Combination Cases and Music Cabinets. The designs show all varieties, from the simplest and plainest to the most ornate. They represent the especially popu-lar styles called for by the trade today. There are altogether 18 different designs, besides different finishes and woods, including golden oak and mahogany, as well as imitation golden oak and imitation mahogany. The workmanship is in the very highest style of popular cabinet making, in line with all of our other moderate-priced "Q..UICK SELLERS." On this page we show one of the Com-bination Cases, but in the new special cata-logue now ready, we show regular Ladies' Writing Desks and Music Cabinets in excel-lent variety. This addition to your line of bedroom, dining-room and library furniture, as well as kitchen cabinets, makes it easier to figure a full car from our catalogue, than from any other manufacturer in the world. We offer hundreds, and even thousands of different styles, at an excellent range of popular prices, and with workmanship that always can be depended on as satisfactory. Our motto IS now and always "SELL ONLY Q..UICK SELLERS." Drop liS tl postal card by return mail [or our new (ota/ogaf Jupplemen/ary to the large general ({Jta/oglie ifJucd last Jafluary--the fargeJt dod handsomest furniture c%logue eVer jHued in this country. If you haflc 110t a copy of that general cata/oguc 011 hand. kindly let (IS send that also. Moil orders will ,"£tlitle the fiery prom/feU attelilion. and the hnt terms we make to anyone, Northern Furniture Company SHEBOYGAN, WISCONSIN • l _ • --- ---- ---- -- -- );[IqIlIGAN ARTISAN 1'----------- 1 ------·---------l See Here Price $11.25 Swell Top .and Top Drawers. Quartered Oak Finish. Fre.nch Beveled :Mirror, 16x28. Top 22xU· One Drawer Lined. It will keep you aH busy with your pencil to beat the price and quality of these two pieces, and many other patterns in 5 ide - boards, Buffet~, Chiffoniers and Dressers made by the old reliable Manistee Mfg. Company Manistee • Micltil!lln Price $7.50 Quartered Oak Firlish. Frel1ch Beveled Patellt Mirror 2Ox2-1. Top 20x'10. Divided Tup Drawer. j~-----,_--.-_----------+-----------,------~ OUR OAK AND MAHOGANY I! DINING EXTENSION TABLES ARE BEST MADE BEST FINISHED VALUES II ~- All Made from Thoroughly Seasoned Stock. j HIGH GRADE CATALOGS COMPLETE White Pri ting CO. GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN • - - ------------ 2 :V1ICHIGAN ARTISAN ,..----_._---_._-----------------. I, tI: I "The Better Make" WE HAVE OVER 400 PIECES IN OUR LINE. Bedroom and Dining Room Furniture --- SUITES TO MATCH --- NELSON-MATTER FURNITURE COMPANY GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Factoryand Salesroom, 37 Canal Street Catalogues to Dealers. on Heavy Plate Paper. ..---------- ---_._-------_ ..I P I'\. r~\ J.;. \ [' , ----+- -- -- -- -~ -- -- -- -----_. -- ~=== 29thYear-No.6. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH .. SEPTEMBER 25. 1908-. -----$\.00 pe,Year. ============±=== The Regular Dealer Wins by Comparison. A correspondent of the "\lic:higan Tradesman, writing from Burr Oak, 2\Iich" reveals ;l plan employed succc sfully in stopping the encroachment of catalogue houses uP< n the business territory of regular dealers. "For several years ,Valter ]. Hoesrhel, who is a trav-eling book agent. bad been an ardent advocate of tll cata-logue house. Everything be could buy of Chicago mai Older houses was purchas d of them, inclt'i1ing; wash oards and fire flhovds. The iscus-sion of the subjec,t beCjme. so common and the differ nce of opinion sc. marked tl at the o[ncers of the },Je hodist church :lrra.l1ged for joint debate, to be P<lrtiCiPltecl ill hy 1Ir. I-Joescbel on o'e side and E. H. Straley n the othcr. Tlle church \vas packed to suffocation and at' nments fh~\v thick and fast. JI'Ur. Stra-ley presented so matbr con-vincing st3tements ttat the judges tll1;LrJimot/sJy de ided in his favor. The peoI Ie 'i,VIto listened t.o t.he debate were made to sec the faltac of pat-ronizing catalogue ho ses and ce3:ied doing so to a reat ex-tent. This work was assisted very materially by t H~ mer-chants buying a few articles from the catalogtle ho tscS and n;taining them in the· r stores for the purposes oi e hibition and cornparison. For in-stance, a. certain rock r, whicJ1 .v..a..s sold by one of or l' deakrs for $4, wa~ apparently matched by olle of the catalogue hOl1se rockers for $1.!)8. T e dealer seTlt for one of the cab.logue hmlse rockers, only to earn that it was constructed of soft "\vood, crudely tbrown tog ther, and that "American quarter-sawed oak, ....as set forth in the cata~ logue meant that it was imitation qllarter-sa"\ved, which is given the appearance of the genuine by a mecha ical pro-cess. Whenever tl1is dcaler shoWE',da prospectivc cnstomer the difference bet\'Ilcen the t\\'o chairs he lrJvad2-bj sold the genuine instead of the bogus; and all aloHg the li e, wl1cn' the catalogue hOuse goods \\'ere exhibited by way COOl pac-ison, local dealers have succeeded in destroying the ooGdence of the cO\1stnnei' in the birness and good faith of t e Chicago houses. I commend tJ,i1;phJ.n to any merchant wh ) f-lnds his business encroached upon by the catalogue non es 'which deal almost exc111si'vely in culls and seconds." i Cheval Mirror No. 7101 Made by Woodard Furn. Co,} Owosso, Mich. To Meet Compet:tion Give Equal Inducements. It is always a pleasing sight to see business men show the brains to ri"e up and meet competition squarely in the road \vhene,,·er it is a case of fi.ght or give ground. H. L. vVild-ey. a retail dealer of Gratelinger, [o".·.a. , tells in the General ~derchants' Review how hc md mail order competition in bolding his store trade. VI/e quote it-not because we ,are ,:wiagollistic to mail order houses, for we are not, being equally interest<:d in the study of business promotion at all its angles-to illustrate that :l cOHJpetitor's methods always hav(' their antidote if one will use the same thing or a scheme tbat goes even one better. lh. \.\.Ti1d~ysays: "I adopted a constitution and by-laws which read: All mail order catalogues on the counter. Quality and freight considered, I will meet any pricc,. in any catalogue, on any article for cash. Tb.Jt statement of itself has lots of ad-vertising value .Jnd the faet that no other store made that proposition gave it additional prominence. That rule was the constitution and by-laws. There wa.s no getting away from it. If necessary to accept an occasional Joss in order to live up to it, I accepted the loss and incidentally, made iu- (luiry of my wholesale house why it was the catalogue house could retail goods at a profit for less than I could buy them at wbolesale. This, howeve~-, has happened but two or three times, and jn every lnstal1ce but one the catalogue price was met :HId a profit left for me. Generally the margin is satisfactory. so much so that I have repeatedly delivered goods at tl~e price they asked in Chicago, throwing off the freight charge. "/dmost every mail order customer I have talked with has told me the"t other merchants have scolded him for sending away because it is tile local dealer who pays taxes, etc. They answer, '\\Thy should 1 pay more on that account? The money is just as good to me as it is to him.' "I\ly proposition has always beel1, 'IJ.Tr. Buyer, if you call buy your goods, laid down here, cheaper from Sears, Roehuck & Co. or !lIonlgomery V.,rard & Co. than you can from me, you are a fool if you don't do it. But if I can sell you the S:llllC quality e,f goods for thc same money, delivered, that the catalogue bouse sells them for, then 1 have a right to the prefct-ence beCHI.5C a good town helps you."--Novelty News. Perpetual Principles. The prineipIcs evolved by the French, English anti Ital-ian decorators of the Renaissance are perpetual, but their adaptation to modern conditions requires grcat skill. The safe: way is tJJe easiest one, Don't try to be too origina1. Get ide.'l'; wherever you can. Nothing reflects so large a proportion of light a.s a mir-ror. At the head of stairways, at the end of halls, wherever walls are too dark or too solid, a mirror is the grcat cheer bringer. The mirror over the fireplace in the hall is its most import.ant feature as regards cheerfulness. MICHIGAN EVANSVILLE, Ind., September 20.-Furniture mannfac- UtTers report that business during the past month has shown some improvement over the previous month. At this date last month the factories were operated on the average of forty hOllTS a week and now the average is fifty hours, and sev-eral of the plants on full time. A great many orders have been received. "Vvhile the orders are small," said one man-ufacturer, "they arc numerous and the factories aTe bU.3ier now than they have. been at any time this summer. '.Things look good for a very lively fall and winter trade. Collec-tions, however, are slow, especially in the southern states. I know of one case ..v.here bills that fell due in Kovember aJ:"cat the present time Ul~paid." Salesmen tr<lveling through the southem states report that the cotton has not moved in ally great quantity and until the • Grand Rapids Caster Cup Co. 2 Parkwood Ave.. Grand RapIds, Mich. We are IlOW putting out the best Caster Cups with cork bases ever offered to the trade. Tbese are finished in G<Jlden Oak and While Maple in a light finii'lh. Tbese goods are admirable for polished floors and fum-iture tests. They will not sweat or mar. PRICES: Size 2U inches .. _..• $4.00 per hundred Size 2h tnc.bes······ 5.00 per hundred Try a Sample Ord". P. O.B. GrandRapids. ! i cotton trade looks up there will be little improvement in busllless. Cotton is the barometer of trade in the south. The situation looks' better right now to the furniture men than at any other time this Season and with the passing of the presidcntia.l election, it is believed that things will look up a whole lot. Mayor John VV. Boehne of this city, who is the democratic nominee for congress in the first Indiana congressional dis-trict, is touring the district with Thomas R. MarShall, the nominee for governor. Mayor Boehne is heavily interested 1U )ocal furniture factories and is ~Jso vice president of the Indiana Stove \Varks. He is one of the best known manu-facturers of the city. Benjamin Bosse left this week for New York to attend a church meeting. :Mr. Bosse is one of the leading furniture manufacturers of Evansville. He is manager of the Globe Furniture Cornpany and one of the heavy stockholders in the Big Six Car Loading Association of this city. Mr. Reichman of the Globe Furniture Company has re-turned from Chicago, whe:-e he went on business and pleas-ure. "Business is very good with us," said Hugh Schmitt of the Stoltz-Schmitt Furniture Company. "We are plugging away at the game and have received some very nice orders during the past month." ARTISAN .., "'Gus" Stoltz of the Stoltz-Schmitt Furniture Company is down in 1\'lississippi looking. after his 'rotton plantation. .He owns a fine tract of land there and gel e:-ally makes one triP a year to his plantati.on. About fifty of the Evansvi.lle furniture manufacturers antI their wives and f<>..milies made a delightful trlp to Tell City, Ind., on Labor Day and were the guests of A. P. Fenn. a well known furniture manufacturer of that city, and had a most enjoyable timc. Mr. and Mrs. Fel111 threw open their fine home to thc Evansville people and there was plenty of el1ter~ taillment. On Labor Day there was a ball gCl.meand other rccreatiQl1 for the visitors. 1\Jusic and songs were a part of the program, Mrs. Fred Stoltz and Hugh Schmitt of this city taking part. Mr. and Mrs. Fenn are good entertainers. \VorkOll the ncw Furniture Exchange building is progres-sing nicely, and the structure will be all imposing olle when completed.. "Gus" Konweikr of the Evans-vil\e Furniture Comp311Y has returned from Chicago. fie reports busine~s looking up and says there is no reason to feel blue over the sitnaticm. He looks for an active fa]] and winter trade. "Fred" Bockstege of the Big Six Carl?adillg Association is at Mackinaw Island, Mich., and reports fishing good. He is having a fine time aI:d promises his friends in Evansville a fish fry upon his return to the city. Mr. Bockstege is one of th"2 veteran mal1ufacture:'s of the city and has "made good." He has a host of friends who rejoice to know of his success. \V. C. Smith of the Big Six combination, who recently went to Denver for his health, has returned and resumed his place on the road. He 1S a hustler after business. T. T. Moore, another salesman for the company, was unfortunate, several days ago, in a hotel fire at Oklahoma City, Okla. He lost his suit case. Eli D. MillerJeports the folding bed business good. Mr. Miller is aile of the best hustlers after buisness in the manu-facturing line in Evansville. vVilliam Heyns of the Heyns Furniture Company is con-fincd to his home at \¥ est Heights with rheumatism. The Evan::;ville Bookcase and Table Company, located at 229 Second avenue, with E. C. Johnson presdient, is enjoying a good busine:;:s. The firm was incorporated in 1903 and its busil1ess hg.5 grown steadily. Ernest Scher of the Karges Furniture Company says he be:ievc.s that husiness is on the up\,.:ard grade and that it will continue to improve. The Wisconsin Chair Comp;ll1Y will start operations No-vcmber 1. The factory will give employment to 100 men when stg,rted. Until January 1. lumber will be brought hcre from the company's mill at Mound City, Ill., and following that date the company's sa.w mill here will be in operation. The local factory is onc of the five plants operated by the chair company. \Villiam i\. Kocll of the Evansville Metal Bed Company and presidcnt of the Evansville Furniture Manufacturers' As-sociation, is jubi.lant over ther t'rade prospects this fall. He is one of the live_ manufacturers of the city and has ma_de a reputation that ally young man might weB be proud of. A. F. Karges of the Karges Furniture Company has re-turned from St. Louis. He w<:,,Saccompanied by John n. Rohsellbe"ger, tl:e well known and efficient secretary of the Buehner Chair Company of this city. Louis and V\-TilliamKaneway and Louis J. Herman, dircc-tors of thc Enterprise Lounge and !\.1attress Company, have entered suit in the circuit court here agaiilst Charles Kane-way, to require him to turn over to them ce:·tain books and papers now in his posses3ion, but which it is alleged right-fully belong to the company. They charge that he ha.s the books and refuses to surrender and -that he wrongfully occu-pies the position of treasurer of the company. The case will probably be tried some time this fall. The Fellwock Auto and ~Ianufaduting Company of this ,r---------------.-- kfrCHIGAN ARtISAN ._----------------_.~ • J LADIES' IDEAL DRESSER THEY SELL AT SIGHT Have seven drawers. Jewelry drawers plush lined. All the ladies like them. Don't cost any more than old fashioned dressers. SEND FOR BEAUTIFUL ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE . EMPIRE FURNITURE COMPANY JAMESTOWN. NE.W YORK city is rapidly inrging- to the front and winning laurels in the cOl11me~cial "'\'01'1<1. The following are the of-Jiccrs of the company: \V. E. Fellwoek, pre~ident; ]. F. Fellwock, vice president, and _'. B. f'ellwock, secretary. One of the substantial firms of this city is the E~'-;Hlsville "!',/Iirror and Beveling Company, with John C. lutt secreta;"y. 1'\11'.Zutt is also a director in the Citizens' Glass Compauy, \vhich recently took over the glass plant t,1<1t belonged to the Evansville Glass Company. A great furniture manufacturing center is Tell City, Ind., one of the tIlost thriving tmvllS ill the Ohio valley, Tbc fa.c-tory operated by the Chai;·makers' C"nioll, tb.'lt oi tbe Tell City Furniture Company and also the Tell City Desk Com-pany mean much to the town, as employment is given to a large number of people. Tell City has long been noted as one of 'the live towns in southern lndiana, and the various furniture plants h<lve done much to advertise the city away from home. Made In In Prices All from Styles Six ( and to In Twenty All Dollars I Woods I I .~ i-... . . ____ • 5 The Sc:helosky Table Company of this city was incorpor-ated in 1907 a.nd the officers are as foHows: President, 'V. H. Schelosky; secretary and treasurer, O. A. Klamer. In the short time the company 11<1\'Eb'.een in business they have built lip a fine trade. ?IIany of the loeal l11allufacturers are figuring now on theit catalogues and calendars for the coming year and it is cer~ bin tilt)" will scud out some fine work to the trade. The literature stnt out la.st year reflected great credit u1!>on the l1'<ltlllfacturef!'i. C. vv. B. Increased Capital Stock. The Padfic Furniture Company, North Yakima, 'Nash" of which E. B. Joues, H .. H. Lombard, C. L. Owen, R. S. .Martin, \'\1. E. Coumbe and Frank Horsley are leading stock-bolders, has made :in arrangement for increasing its capital stock from $:10,000 to $30,000. -- -- -- - -- ------~----------- -- -- -- 6 :yrICHICAN ARTISAN Credit Granted by Careless Manufacturers. A case Wllich sllOws how lax manufacturers often are in gr~lliting credit, without tho.-ough investigation, to :people claiming to be dealers has just been brought to a consumma-tion through tl:;e indictment and conviction of a man whose real llam~ is ·Martin ]. Muil1ch, and who under various aliases put in stocks of goods at Korbornc, Braymer and Cowgill, 110., Loui5burg, K~\l., Sweet Springs, ]'vIo., and Valley Falls, Kan. It appears that the fatlle.- of 1I1uinch was a reputable lllan who was in good credit, on which reputation the son, to some extent, traded. At different timcs 1,vrittell statements were made to the Furniture Commercial Agency concerning the resources of .:\Juinch and his standing. These statements formed an im:po'l"t~nt link in the successful prosecution of s11ch goods as he had left to Kansas City, and was preparing to open a store at S\'Ileet Springs, Mo., as Jake M1.linch. \iVhen the trail of the man was finally secured Muinch had al-ready left Sweet Springs. Mr. Richmond of the adjustment burc[I,u personally visited Sweet Springs and gathered enough information to justify the employment of detectives. Mrs. Muinch ,"vas located in Kansas City and the indications were that Muinch was about to open a rooming house in Excelsior Springs with some of the furniture he had purchased osten-sibly for a retail stock. It later developed that be was op-ening up at Vallcy Falls, Kan., where he was located and ar-rested. He was taken to Paola and jailed, and after a con-fession sentenccd to Leavenv·.rorth prison for an indetermi-nate sentence of from one to five years. MuillCh told about his operations freely, and turned over the furniture, which was found in a brick cot-tage in Kansas City. At each point where .Muinch did busines:i. his methods were pf<l,ctkally the same. A store was opened an(l goc:ds sold at any price, v('ry often U the utter demoralizati011 of other merchants doing bt:siness at that place. The money l,vas pocketed and ibe-fore the bills matured a· ra~lgement3 '\v:C're made to open at another point to l:vhich the unsold stock w<'.,s shipped, although in the 1(\:;.t case part of the gor·ds were put in a rooming house and a vacant house in Kan~ s"s City. The goods located in these two place,s had had the labels and marks of iden-tii1e<',. tionremoved. These goods were later sold for the henefit of thl?,creditors. It is believed that Wllel1 2\1uineh oper-ated at V"llley Falls, Kan., and probably Sweet Springs, he had a confederate, the confederate being a relative of Muinch's wife. An effort is being made to Secure definite information which will lead to the conv-iction of this confederate. Me Richmond of the adjustment bureau started on the f1nal trip in search of his man on June 14 and on June 20 had .MUillCh under arrest and on June 25 he ·was sentenced to the penitentiary. The complaint on which he pteaded guilty, that of the Holtgre'l,ve-Vornbrock Furniture Company, was for gco{\s which had been so1d him ullder the name of John 1brtin, and which went to Louisburg, Ran. 11uinch em-ployed an attorney, and at first dedded to make a CDntest. Four additional complaints were then f11edagainst him, which decided him to plead guilty to the first charge. Besides the goods recovered in Kansas City other ship-ments t.....e. re found in the depot of the Missouri Pacific rail-road at Sweet Springs. This case illustrates what can be done through co-operative efforts and by concentrating claims ag3.1nst a debtor. The adjustment tureau prosecution 'work of the associat:tH1s is going to make it more and more difficult for the crook to make a comfortable living in the pursuit of hls caning. Made by Charlotte Mat:ufacturir.g Company, Charlotte, Mich. Muillch, which was b .·ought to a conclusion in co-opcration l",ith the Furniture Commercial Agency, by the adjustment bureau .of the S1. Louis Credit .:\Jen's As:,ociation. 1Iuinch had asked for credit at different times under the name of John "X'Iartin,Jake ~luinch, which btter was tbe nalIle of the father, who ,"vas originally engaged in the furniture business, John \\Tilson and ]ohl1 Miller. The c:'iminal career of the man has extended over a considerable period, but he bought goods under false pretenses during the past fiftccn months for stores which he estahlished at Cowgill, Kan., Louisville, Kan., Sweet Springs, l\-fo., fll~d Valley Falls, Kan. Under the name of John I\.fartin, ),1ul11chbought a bill of goods of Holtgrewc-Vronbrock Furniture Company at St. Louis, who shipped the bill of goods to Louisburg, Kan. The claim of the firm named amounted to but $69.25. but the St Louis manufacturers named were so convinced that 1'fuinch or Martin was engaged in swindling oJ)erations that they de-termtned to use every effort to put the' lllan behind the prison bars. Their claim was placed in the hands of the adjust-ment bureau of the 51. Louis Crcdit Men's Association, with which the Holtgrewc- Vornbrotk Furniture Company is af-filiated, with an 'added sum of moeny to push the case to a conclusion. The credit for the finD.1apprehension and con-viction of this fellow therefore belongs to the Holtgrewe- Vornbrock Furniture Company, which had the courage to undertake to put an end to his operations, even though it COf>t them in excess of their claim. If there were other manufac-turers who would pursue the same course the~e would be fewer of these cases, and felver loses from sales of this sort. "Vhen the claim was placed in the hands of the adjustment burea.u, Muinch or Martin had left Louisburg and shipped The Swinging Settee. swinging settee, now quite popular writer for a newspaper published in with New Concerning the house furnishers. a York says: "Thcre has come into fashion a crudely made settee that does not rest Oti the floor, but swings from the wnJ!. It has been considered an ideal resting place for years hy many lux-urious wome.l1, Some of the artistic homes have these swing-ing couches in the living rooms or private sitting room in-stead of the ordinary divan. "The fashion has <-orne about through the importation of ~-------------------------------- -- - - MICHIGAN ARTISAN Larg_est line to select from, a~ quality and workmanship can't be beat. Come and see the line and be convinced. We have 7 --------_._----~I 'three Piece Suites in LOQse Cushions can't be cem_ pared, they are the best. ,.---------------------_. I IIII IIII : IIII I,II t I,j:III; •I t II: THOS MADDEN, SON & CO" Indianapolis, : Show Rooms, 3S to 4( N Cat"tal Avenue. t ~---------------------------------------------~ \ ASSORTMENT the (STYLES PRICES .lladdeli"s J)av,,!1,/iorl llerllinf is thf. talk oft"e crmnlrJ/ from toa><t to towrt: dOH·! fail to 1;isit us or write for cuts and prtee8. a few ·wollderfully c;uTccl Olles from rhe E;l.st, which are up- Iwlster-cd vdth gJ(Hving orieJltal fabrics and embroideries. "They arc suspcnded from the wall by iron links, and aTC USNl in tllt, middle of the r00111 ir.stead of the corner. "So lovely j.~, (Jl~C that helongs to a literary woman 'who had it S\Vllllg ia the middle of her library, then covered with ye1)ow satin clYhroidcrecl in gold, ,...\lich h?d (:0111C from Chilla via an army ofilccr, that mallY inf12rior one:::,ktve been made. "Athough these attcr aTc not expensive and afe not carved tbey af(: quite as luxurious as the other kind. They are m;:1.deof heavy ,vontl, stained black antI jointed togeth~r in the mission style, \vit!1out nails. There is a woven wire sprin;!; inserted. and above this a small hair mattress. "Vlhatever one can afford in the way of ornamental clrap-cry is laid ovel~ the mattress, r'.nd at both cnds are heaped cushions, mallY of which arc stuffed with S\vcct-smelling herbs, spices and mint leaves. "One call get any nurnber of these cushions at a small price now since such wonderful cotton fabrics at sligllt cost have been copic,l from the barbaric Eastern ones.n Leather Rocker line is very large and prices right. Couches from the cheapest to the best. Ind A Special Offer. The Rowlett Dc'sk 1\-lanufacturing Company of Richmond, Jul., have a special proposition to offer on birch, mahogany I~r.i:.;hedtypewriter stands, built like the one shown in cut. If A High Art Catalogue. A remarkably beautiful catalogue has been prepared for distribution among dealers by the Sligh FurnitUiC COn/pa,ny of Grand Rapids. It contains one hundred Radium pages, 10 x 14 inches in size, bearingup;.\'arJ of one thousand beau-tiful half tOlles artistically printed in colors, representing the goods manufactured by t11c company. A heavily hot em-bossed cover in three colors adds to the attractiveness of the book. The features of especial value to de<lh'rs in furniture are tlle illustrations, as the Sligh line is the strongest ill its class manufactured in the tTnited States. The book is the joint product of the IvJichiga.n El1graying Company 2.nd the \,rhite Printing Company-The Artisan Press. Made by Rowlett Desk Mfg. Co., Richmond, Ind. at all interested, it would pay you to write them for partku~ lars and let them send you a sample stand for inspection. Aulsbrook & Jones' Catalogue. The Aulsbrook & Jones Furniture Company of Sturgis, 11ich., have issued a catalogue illustrating and describing their line. \Vithin recent months the company have streng-thened their line, both as respects design and quality of v·,rorkmanship. Dealers in furniture can obtain copit:s of the catalogue l,pon application. 8 MICHIGAN ARTISAN r------· • • You Can't Make a Mistake By planning for an Alaska agency for 1909, if you 00 not now handle the line. Our sales for 1908 have far exceeded our expec-tations, and the demand has been strong throughout the season. ALASKA QUALITY is what does it. The lines are complete in styles and linings. The Alaska Refrigerator CO. EXCLUSIVE REFRIGERATOR MANUFACTURERS, Mpskellon - - MIchillon "A Question of Men." "Some thirty years ago," sa.id E. H. .t"oote of the Grand Rapids Chair Company, "I was going to Chicago from Fort \-'\layne, <!.nd met a gentleman on tl:e train from New York. He asked me this question, 'How long can Grand Rapids ex-pe{'. t to hold her p:'esent p0!litiol1 in the m~JmIacttlre of furni-ture?' and then he took a map ont and drew a line from New York to Chicago, and from Boston to St. Louis, to show me that Grand Rapids was only a little niche in the woods away off the line of trav('J between the east and west. "I replied to him that it is not a .question of travel at all, but a question of men; that I knew the men who had started the manufacture of furniture in Grand Rapids, and they started with but vcry little else than push and pluck; that they had pushed their business to the front rank, and still had the pluck to keep it there. "Today Grand Rapids has its position far in advance of its competitors_ The men. who were the pioneers in the busi-ness :ire rapidly passing away, <J.1ldtheir places are being as I ~ I MUSKEGON VALLEY FURNITURE COMPANY MUSKEGON MICH •••• GOlonlOi 8ulles TOil POSI BeOs I OOd Oressers I ehilloDierS ! Wardrobes • l!lllies' TOilms I oresslng I Tables Mnhnonny 100DiO GooOs Line on sale in ManufactureR' Buildine. Gt-and Ra.pid •• rapidly filled, not by imported talent, but as these founders of the industries were workmen, their places are being filled from the ranks of the working men, who kl~OW the business from the stun:p to de drawing room. "Our city owes much of its success to the wo"rking meH. I think that no other city of the size of Grand R;:'_pidson this green ea.rth has workll1t':n who are so well housed, clothed, fed and groorced; who are so well informed on the questions of the houT. My great faith in the future of Our city is that we may always have this source to draw from for the man-agement of Ollr industries. "The panic of 1893 found some of our factories financially weak. Bonds had to be issued, and in one case the private fortune of one who, at the time, was not under the· slightest obligation to do so, was put up in order to save the name a.nd business of an old established house. Since that time these bonds and obligations have been paid, and the late financia.l unpleasantness round our iactories in good condition. "The past year they have made but little, if any, money. They were obliged to run short hours to reduce their outllUt. As they did not reduce the wage scale, this meant an ad~ vance on cost. To increase their prices was out of the questioll_ They were not in the position of the railroads, and could not advance the freight simplyhecause they needed the money. The result has been a division of the loss; a loss of dividends for the stockholders and a loss of time for the workmen. "As to the future! I can see nothing that need disturb C011- Jidcnce in a fair business and a fail- remuneration, both for the manufa.cturer and the workmen. Conditions have cer-tainly improved since the July sales." "White" Treatment. A mistaken idea which some n:erchants have 15 that a traveling salesman is of no use unless he wishes to buy goods from him. If the store is stocked fully in the traveler's line he. is given scant courtesy. There a:-e merchants who do not follow such a line of conduct. \Ve saw one not long ago. He met a salesmall, shook hands ·with him cordially, asked llim about conditions in general, told him he didn't need any goods, but looked over h1s stock. He stuck to his "no buy" statements, but he treated the traveler wllite and, as a re5\.11t, got some informatioll of considerable value to him.-Trades-lnall. 1 Win Resume in Grand Rapids. The Gale Chair CompallY, burned out recently in Grand-ville, Mich., is preparing to resume in Grand Rapids. :VII CHI G A N /\ l{ TIS A N 9 No. 1141 Dresser, Walnut. ~-------------- Woodard Furniture CO. OWOSSO. MICHIGAN MAKERS OF HIGH GRADE MEDIUM PRICED Bedroom Furniture t]] In suites or single pieces. Made in all lhe popular woods and fini:mes. fjJ Our new catalogue IS ready. If you have not received it ask for it. An Unusual Expe.:1diture. Recent i~.;sltes of Hoston newspapers contain four-page ad~ vcrtiscmCllh of the house furnishing department of Henry Siegel", store. Snch !l,n expenditure is llllusuai. 'rile ave:'- age departn:ellt store lllal~agcr spends a little money grlldg'- ingly for the benciit of the furniture section. Altbough fur-niture. Wh('11 properly <1ispb ..yed, forms a most important feature of a lllcrc;Llltik cstablishn:ent. it is seldom given a \vindow, alld ill the divisOll of door space it is generally placed in the mcst illCOllSpicllOllSand Hell ea:oily accessible part of the building. The goods are stingily a.<1vertised, if at all. alld whe1\ the furnitnl'e section fails to draw the trade as largely as other sections of t1Jc e:;tablishn~cnt, the manager ch;!,rge_~tl~c cause of the failure to the il1comptcncy of his assistanb. tlnfortt1nate~y selected to har:dle the furniture trade. A striking eX<llrple of the lack of foresight was fur-nished by llillman in Chicago. The buyer, J. I-bury Steiner, is one of the mest successful teen in his occupation in the furniture trade. \Vhen full page ad\"ertisements were ordered by the nl(lllag;:n~cllt published in the J1('\,\'spapers the ftLnitllre section \vas :~eldolll granted I1"wre than o;le-thirty-second part of th;: space purchased. Harry made '"'"brave showing with the little con;er allctted to him, but it \vas pitiful in-deed wh(11 compured with the 11lagniticent Lberality displayed by John 1\1. Sn~yth. Tobey. H,'..rtm;\n, Fish and other leaders in the furniture trade. \Vith a small, and, generally speak-ing, inferior stock, not "vell IOC:lted to attract attention, ham-pered in the execution of his plans beyond endurance. it was a happy day when 1\1r. Steiner found an opportunity to exer-cise hi~ ,lhility by the t(':,dvr of ;t, position at l'he Fair. Neither the people who think the worst of you nor the people who think the hest of you are CO:Tect in their es-timates of you. • Teaching Ladies to Sell Goods. Por th(~ first time in public school history a course in saleswomanship, designed for retail and department stores, has been incorporated in the curriculum of the evening schools for women in 1\e\'\' York city. The course, which extends over lWO years, includes lectures, praxtical talks and s::::ientitic icstrtlction in the art of selling, store organization, comIcer'cial arithmetic. elementary law ,wd manufacture of commercial products. As many young women may be pre-vented from completing the two years' wo: k, it has been planned that certifIcates be issued to all pupils crediting them with the periods of work lwrformed. There are 30,000 women clerks in :\ ew York city! none of whom has had pre-lin-. inary scientific trailling in the responsihilities of this ser-service. Hulse's Catalogue. The E. l\L Hulse Company recently received froni the printer their fall catalogue of automatic davenport beds, dav-enports, couches and adjustable divans. There are in this line thirty-nine leather and plush couches, forty-cight daven-ports and thi;-ty Turkish divans in leather and plusbes. The frames are in mahogany ~..nd oak, 'and the best of everything in their grade goes into the~,e goods. That's why the E. ]\1. Hulse Cornpany have built up a large bllsicess-olle of the largest in the country in their line. It takes sixty pag-es to illu:;-trate .1nd describe these goods. It's all attrnctive cata- 10gue llound tip in green and gold. To Incorporate. Articles of incorporation for the Johnson Brotbers Furni-ture Company are in the eoursc of preparation. - The com-pany will engage in the manufacture of fine and medium dining r00111furniture in Grand Rapids. 10 MICHIGAN ARTISAN A GEM-LADEN DAVENPORT. The Hartman Furniture Company's Uncommon Experience. A davenport couch, an ardent wooer, and $500 worth of diamonds form a combination that is likely to keep the police awake for a night or two. The puzzle is: "v\'ho has the gems and who is Esther Rosen going to marry?" The Hartman Furniture Company, ~27 Wabash avenue, Chicago, which advertises the advice to "feather your nest," has been requested to "produce the gems" and Esther, who "feathered her nest" with the gems, though frequently re-quested, has refused to name the giver of the jewels. Hm ..-.. ever, it was a sweetheart; which one nobody but Esther and the donor know. She is a diplomat. Getting down to the facts right quickly, Esther owned the diamonds and also the couch. She hid the diamonds in the couch and then the Hartman people sent three unsympathetic fellows to cart the couch away under the false impression that she had not paid the full amount due, while, as a matter of fa.ct, shc holds a receipt from a second hand furniture deal-er for that particular piece of furniture. When the case is thoroughly sifted it will probably turn out that the original purchaser bc::ught the couch from Hartman, but before it \vas entirely paid for disposed of it to the second hal1(l man, "vho sold it to Esther in good faith, u~d she pcrh;',ps never knew that it was second-han(!. i\ t ;111yrate, when she caught up with the conch again the diamond", were gone. Esther, fair, fat and shy two years of forty, has had several beaux, who recognize her <l.S a "good business woman.'" She O\vns a sllit making fac-tory in the rear of 237 Maxwell street, in the heart of the Ghetto, and has in her employ a dozen n~en and nearly that many womcn. From the busitle~:;sshe derives a good income. Esther has not been in Chicago many years. She brought with her from Russia a husband in the perSall of "Jake" Blumenthal, but three or four months ago she procured a divorce and re-ceived permission to resume her maiden name of Rosen. From that time on Esther began growing pop_ ular with the sterner sex. There 'has been great rivalry for her hand, it is said, and, realizing that her old sleeping quarte~s in the building in front of the shop were not exactly suitable for "social functions," she moved to more sumptuous quarters at 704, South California avenue. \Vbile still at the old place she purchased $60 worth of goods, paying cash, from the J. G. B;-UllZFurniture Company, 287 \Vest Madison street. In the lot were the davenport, a Morris chair and a library table. They were delivered at the old address and a few days ago moved to the new address. A "tracer" for the Hartman Company traced the daven~ port to the old address and then to the new, and last Monday called at the residence while Esther was at her place of busl-ness and wanted to take the davenport away. But Esther's sister, 2\lrs. Dina Laposky, who recel1tlycame from Russia, knows a thing or two, and sat down on the couch, and the tracer's plans were frustrated. That was on Monday. On Tuesday Esther went to the Hartman store a.nd told a clerk she bought the couch from another, but she avers the clerk intimated that she had got it there under an assumed name. Perhaps Esther didn't understand him perfectly, for she continued to allow her diamonds to repose between the back and the bed of the couch. She was at her shop again yesterday when the tracer and two others arrived at her home. Dina tried her former tactics, but the men carried her to the street and dumped her oft the cotlch. Then Dina ran to the shop and Esther rushed to the office of Alderman Arthur \V. Fulton ;l11dtogether they hastened to the office of Captain O'Brien, at detective headquarters. Here the real excitement began. \-Vhilc detectives rushed to the furniture house to locate and search the couch-which they did without finding the gems-Esther was quizzed. She answered everything in a frank manner except an inquiry as to which sweetheart had given her the diamonds, which consisted of two earrings, aile solitaire ring and one ring set with two stones. Perhaps Esther doesn't wish to or perhaps she isn't quite ready to Try as he might, Captain O'B.-ien man's name. "\-Vhy didn't you wear the diamonds?" asked the captain. 'II was afraid of robbers," was the reply. Then, with all the appearance of innocence that he could command, the captain asked: IIWhy didn't you carry them in your stocking, th(11;" Esther blushed a hit ;u,d then blurted out: "Because I know a woman who lost her ring throu1h t~]e open work that way." Soon the detectives came back with a were unable to locate He dian~ol1ds, and offend the other suitors, reveal her. heart's secret. could not get the lucky report that straightway they they Made by Charlotte Manufacturing Company, Charlotte, Mich. were sent to Harrison street to procure "John Doe" warrants charging larceny of the gems against the "movers." Judge Gemmill, however, refused to issue warrants be-cause "intent" could not be shown, <\nd pointed out that the diamonds might have dropped from their hiding place while the men were handling the couch and the men not be aware of it. The court advised that civil action be brought, and Aderman Fulton immediately notified the Hartman people tbey must "produce" the davenport and the $500 worth of diamonds or stand suit. John Barnes, a salesman for tbe second-band dealers, told the police he sold Esther the davenport ""ith the other things and wrote the receipt for $60. Esther returned home instead of going back to her shop, and her brother, Abraham Rosen, sULd"She was awful sick and could not be seell."-Exchange. Matrimonial. Three Germans were sitting at luncheon recently, and were overheard discussing the second marriage of a mutual friend, when one of them remarked: "r tell you vhat. A man vhat marries de second dime don't deserve to have lost his first vife." MICHIGAN A Great Institution. Tile Gram] Rapids Refrigerator Company has moved from the old factory on Market and Ottawa streets to their new plant on Clyde Park avenue, just off Grandville avenue, the terminus of the Grandville avenue car line. It required nearly a year and a half to build this mammoth plant-tile largest, most modern and best equipped refrigerator factory in the ""rorId. The Leonard Cleanabl(' refrigerator lws gained a ..v..orld-wide reputation for excellence, and is sold in evcry country \I\/here refrigerators are used. This reputa-tion could only have been secured by a constant endeavor for more than thirty years to rnakc the best refrigerator that ARTISAN 11 Light and Color. Cheerfulness depends more all light and color than on shapes or sizes or ornament, or even pictorial suggestion. )fa room dressed in black could possibly be cheerful. Nor is there anything cheerful about absolute darkness. On the other hand. tbe glJre of noonday }18.S its inconvenience, and there is no light more discouraging than the whiteness re-flected from fields of snow or sand. The makers of artificial light had no sooner succeeded, ntter repeated effort .. in pro-ducing a white light, than they were obliged to tone it with color. An absolutely pure white cannot, of course, be at-tained with paint. But even the whites that call be obtained NEW PLANT OF THE GRAND RAPIDS REFRIGERATOR COMPANY. skilled workmen and the use of the best of everything· exper-ience could suggest :led a constant desire to make each year's product better than that of the year before. The writer of this item bas had a Leonard Cleanable refrigerator ill con-stant use for twenty years, and the "ice man" says it is the best preserver- of ice on his route, although the box stands in one corner of the kitchen, where the summer sun bea.ts down on the roof not over b"iO feet from the top of the box. If anyone has a box that can beat it, the writer is ready to trade. Miss Three. Year-Old. 'Tis very strange her table talk Of words should be so chary. For every meal she gravely sits Upon the diction3.ry. should be used with caution. {crable. The room with ivory takes less light than any other Ivories and creams are pre-ceiling and cream woodwork to make it cheerfully bright. Argument by a Mirror Maker. It would be a blessing if every home had at least two mirrors to a room. The residence of a famous architect decorator recently deceased, had an average of three. They are quite ns important for cheerfulness as are windows. \Vho can retain the fro'\"n that the mirror shows is disfiguring his brO\"i? \Vho does not sometimes smile involuntarily at her reflecteel face? vVho is not interested to see friends from several points of view? 12 MICHIGAN A Course to Train Experts in Decorating and House Fur-nishing. To teach men employed in the great decorating and fur-nishing houses how to decorate and furnish artisticalty the bachelor <~.partment or the simple flat, the suburban cottage or the Fifth avenue mansion, is the purpose of the night courses in furnishing and decorating which will open in the PhiladelphIa Furniture Truck with Open Side and Bu1lt~up Top. "",Vest S:de Young 11en's Christian Association, 32D West Fifty-seventh street, New York, October ?O, The course also will deal '-vith costume in its relation to' interiors, and with the proper harmony of color and texture of fabrics. This school will be under the direction of Frank Alvah Parsons, who wilt offer two cou~'scs: One in the principles of color and form harmony, and the other in historic period structure and ornament and present application. All lectures lending them-selves to this treatment will be fully illustrated by material owned by the great decorating houses. Much of the work in the second course will be done in the Metropolitan Mus-eum of Art. These courses are intended primarily to train professional decorators, furnisl~<:;rs;_buyers, designers and architects, s<tlesmen of art objects', window dressers and mak-ers of window cards. The lectures are so 'designed, however, that through using the actual decorative material. men of means may learn to superintend the furnishing of their homes, and the young prospective benedict may gain knowledge which will enable him to fit up an artistic little flat with the least possible expendltme. Some of the topics to be dis-cussed in these courses are: Choice of carpets, rugs and hangings; selection, framing and hanging of picture::;; color schemes for watts and furnishings; window displays; and plans for fitting up rooms for homes, public buildings and theatres. The general public wilt be admitted to the 6rst lecture. Stray Bits of Furniture :Kews. A union of peddle:·s has been org<!llized in Chicago. Its members wilt enter politics in order to "protect their rights.'" The Queen City Furniture Compar.y's business at Baker City, OregoIl, was purchased recently by A. Michael. "V. P. Rhoades succeeds Rhoades & Barrows in the fur-niture trade at :Merrill, Oregon. Manufacturers of Rockford will encourage an upholsterer to locate in that city and engage in the manufacture of parlor furniture. This line of production was abandoned in Rock-ford in 1884, when the Excelsior Furniture Company failed. One-half million dollars will be expended in furnishing the new Hotel Goe1et, now under construction in the city of New York. The building will cost $2,100,000. C. H. Hildreth, who died recently in Cpicago, was a mem-ber of the firm of Holton & Hildreth, leading retailers of ARTISAN Chicago, thirty years ago. \Vhen the jinn dissolved he or-ganized the Windsor Folding Be'"d Compa.ny and manufact-ured folding beds successfully a. number of years. Case 'work was taken up with the passing of the folding bed. At It Again. ';\¥hen the n:aI:ufacturers of brass beds engage in a sense-less warfare in prices, the retailer is left floating in the air with not so much as the frame of a flying sky scraper to cling to," remarked a retailer of furniture. "He is not able to determine, when placing orders for beds, whether he is buying at as low prices as his competitors. If he orders a bed today to cost $9.00, tomorrow he may have an opportun-ity to pUichasc 01:(' equally as good for $7.00. The me.,rket is quite demoralized jtlSt !lOW and thc:-e seems to be l~O pros-pects for the resun;ption of stabiLty in prices. If the man-ufacturers \"ould benefit themse:ves and their customers they should stop the cutting of prices immediately. A trust agreen:ent is not advisable. Goods should be marketed for <'. fair margin of p 05t, b::uocd upon style <=:.nd quality!' Headquarters at Cincinnati. The Ford & Johnson Company will move their central office L"om Chicago to Cincinnati in the near future. The company operates factories located in several sta.tes and dis-tributes its products from many warehouses. The manufac-ture of furniture in addition to chairs, i7;an important depart-ment of their business. Bonuses Offered. Several towns have offered bonuses to C. o. & A. D. Porter, manufacturers of machinery in Grand Rapids. The offers will be considered by the firm and probably the most attractive accepted. ------_._--~ I Rockford Desk Co. Rockford. Illinois Manu£actuteQi of China Closets Music Cabinets lmd Ladies' Desks II • Full line on sale with M. L. Nelson &. Co., 1411 Michigan Ave., Chicago, IIJ. • -------------------- - ..------------------_._----------------.~ I I I ! I IIII • MICHIGAN ARTISAN No. 88R 30x48. CHARLOTTE CHARLOTTE MFG. CO. MAKES GOOD h _ i! I Our Famous No. 709 13 NOW IIIIIIII AT CHICAGO 192 MICHIGAN AVE . PERMAMENT EXHIBIT TABLES CHARLOTTE, MICHIGAN -------.., Aulsbrook & Jones Furniture Co. Formerly Aulsbrook & Sturges Sturgis, Michigan "------------_._------- The Fall Catalog tells all about it 14 MICHIGAN ARTISAN BSTABLISHEO 1880 "'l,IEll.l5ttll:D .... MICHIGAN ARTiSAN CO. ON THE IOnt AND UTtt OF EACH MONTH OFFICE-lOS, 110, 112 NORTH DIVISION ST.• GRAND RAPIDS. MICH. Low prices should not be the only point considered by dealers when placing orders for goods. Very often the manufactmer selling goods for less than the cost of produc-tion finds himself unable, and not infrequently unwilling, to fill such orders, and in consequence the retailer is hampered, annoyed and subjected to loss. Dealers who axe willing to concede to manufacturers a fair profit on goods purchased never have cause to comp1ain of unfair treatment at their hands. °tD °tD The big merchants, Wanamaker, Macy, Siegel and others. spend $500,000 each every year for advertising sp:l.ce in the daily newspa.pers of New York. As neither of the mer-chants named is a newspaper philanthropist, it can safely be assumed that their expenditures for the purposes stated mu,;t return a profit equal to, if not greater, than the amount of in-terest the investment of such a sum in stocks, bonds or other securities would return. Manufacturers of chairs and upholstered furnitu:'"e report a steadily growing demand for goods and in many instances the fadores are in operation to full capacity. Case makers arc a,dding workmen and increasing the hours of the work day. With the near-by election out of the way, there win be nothing to claim the interest of the American people ex-cept business. The outlook could not be better. ~t" "t" H. C Hauch of Indianapolis arises and passionately en~ quires: "Is there any sane or logical reason why Gmnd Rapids should have outstripped Indi",.,napo1is in the manufac~ ture of furniture?" Oh yes; Mr. Hanch. In the words of the English jingo song, slightly changed, Grand Rapids "has the men, has the money, and has the factories, too." Rea~ sons sufficient for the day, are they not: "to ~t" Ma.ny traveling salesmen gain success through the friend-ship of the men on the floors. In one department of the .Marshall Field establishment in Chicago forty salesmen are employed. A trave1ingsaJesman boasts that he is on friendly terms with twenty-five of their number al1d states that the goods he handles move easily in large volume because of the interest of these men in the same. 't' 't' Owners of horses lIsed in the delivery of goods to CllS-tamers in the large cities are consideril1g the practicability of organizing horse insurance companies. It is hardly worth while. Electrlc and gasoline trucks will soon sl1pplant the horse on the streets of the city for delivery purpose.;. There is not a merchant in the United States who could not give to his neighbors in trade irifonnation that wouU pro-t'ect them from loss in almost every instance. \Vhy, then, should not merchants organize for the purpose of co~operat-ing in the .granting of credits? Legislatures of several states will be asked to pass bills to prevent the Use of fictitious names in business. Had stich a law beel1 in force in California t11e notorious Kragen fail-ure acd robbery cf credito:'s could not LiVe betH planned and executed. A scheme to tax Larkin soap clubs has been started in <l I~umber of :NIissouri towns. In the city of Columbia (:1 university town) organizers of clubs are taxed $%.00 pe, an-llum. Such ordinallccs ought to prove effective, when en-forced. When necessary to meet local conditions (especially in territory ""vherein the mait order houses and soap boilers have gained a strong foothold) the merchatlts of western Pennsylvania favor co-operation in buying good3. "t~ °t~ The margin of profit has been" reduced by competition. Losses from, bad debts must be eliminated, or reduced to a minimum, if dealers would avoid the courts of ballkruptcy. °t~ °to When properly handled, the policy of taking back goods and refunding the purchase price is wise. If it C<1.n11obet done cheerfully, the wise merchant will not attempt it. °tO °t" Bills to prohibit "fake" auction sales will be prepared by associations of business in several states of the west for the approval of legislatures during the coming winter. °t~ "tOO A resolution opposing price fixing by manufacturers for retailers was tabled by a convention of retail merchants held at New Castle, Pa., recently. Afraid of the trusts? "to "t" TIusiness associations will urge the legislatures of several states, to assemble next winter, to enact laws to abolish sa.lary loan agencies. °t" °t~ By deferring the. placing of orders "till after election," dealers may not be able to obtain goods needed for the holi.,. day season. °t~ °t~~ If advertised retail prices were founded upon a profit basis <l great deal of ill-feeling would be saved in the world of busi-ness. "to ~tO Many mercha-nts who are worth $1,000 are more dese:-ving of credit than others worth $100,000. 0,<> 0tO Successful merchants name the terms and the time lmder which sales are made. ..t.l.) °tO Four, fonr, four weeks more, and then a day at the ballot box. 't' 't' The friends of salesmell a.re their most valuable asset. Reversed the Sign. Before the show window of a big furniture store there was suspended a board upon which was painted the words "Ko Loafing Here." A traveling salesman slttmg on a bench outside the own-er's ·office awaiting an audience, noticing the listlessness and the indifference manifested toward customers entering the store, suggested that the sign he reversed, that it mig-ht be read by the salesmen of the establishment. .. --- -.., I SMITH & DAVIS MFG. co. I St. Louis I ~l I c: H I C;A ).J No. 155 Woven Wire Couch, $4.00 Net Write for 1908 Catalogue No. 146 Iron Frame Woven Wire Cot, real ,upport, No. 152 Link Fabric Couch, $3.60 Net Designs in Upholstery. "Give an upholsterer who knows his trade a few s\lTlple frames, Turkish [or instance, and yon will be surprised at the variety of styles he 'will ttlm out." The back offers the greatest opportunity for the display of his skill; over its top and around its ends he builds <t great variety of beautiful forms, and with the figure and col~r of the [allries at his command there is scarcely a limit to the effects that may be produced, plcasillg and satisfyil1g the llJiJ1(J. ne-ror'" the advent of the l\lonis C:l,ur. 11:;trly £ralLlcs \vere I".!:i.rlnfaetured to furnish in a Ine;!~lne th,' r(~djl\in:-: feature that lovers of ease i'ind ill the chair of \Villiam .\loni:'>. l\Iany of Slleh specimens m:l:y be seen ill the upholstery repair sholJs, but the \f orris and its combi1l8tion, the sleepy hoUm\,. have a place in the estimation of the 11l1blic that is enduring. YVilliam I\Iorris gave tn the world hook;;. bindings, fabrics and dyes of great value hut the ~T()rris chair will perpetuate his fam2 when his other l-E'(Jcluction:-i s.hall have perished." A Lucky Cast. She was <l. freckled C0l111Ly maid, She did her mother's duty; i\ city fellow married her To get a speckled beauty. Bill Nye's Simple Life. This is the reply that the late Bill .:.Jye sent to <In 111- quiry as to his personal habits: "\Vhen the weather is such that T ca.nnot exercise in the Open air 1 have a heavy pair of dumbbells at my lodgings, which I use for holding the door open. -r also hclOllg to an athlelic club and use a pair of Indian clubs with red handles. I owe llluch of my robust health to :this. T do most 01 my \"'tiling' in a sitting posture or in ARTISAN 15 $1.85 Net No. 73 Link Cot, $3.25 Net 3.50 Net 2 feet, 6 in.• 3 feet, --_._---------- 1 an autograph album. \Vhen T am lIot el1g<Lged in thought r .:un employed in recovering from ils effects. I am very gCl1ial ,1llc1 pleasant to he thrown amongst. I dress expell- A Swiss Wood Carver. sivcly, bnt lIot so as to attract attention. In the morning I \·vear 11l0:'llillg dress, and ill the evening I wear eveBing (1re:~sal1d at night night dreS5." ~- ~~--------------------- Hi 1\1I CHI G AN ARTISAN • I MICHIGAN FURNITURE CO. ANN ARBOR MICHIGAN I II • BED No. 83. DRESSER No. 83. CHIFFONIER No. 83. Manufacturer, of Bedroom Furniture in Oak and Ash. Also Odd Dressers in Birch and Imitation Mahogany. The best goods on the market for the price. Write for pictures and prices. Enlarging Their Line. The Northern Furniture Company of Sheboygan, Viis., tjll(ler the intelligent and progressive lranagement of Mr. Huette, has broadened and strengthened their product until it covers about everything needed for furnishing the home. Their latest addition is a line of music cabinets, writing desks and con:bination bookc~ses, en-.l.racing a wide range of styles for popular prices. The compacy issues large catalogues cove ing their lines and sU'pply d:e sarre to dealers upon rc-t/ uest. Very Feeble. \Villiam T. Powers, who engaged in the manufacture of furniture in Grand Rapids Hcarly sixty years ago and who was thenrst to etr.ploy machinery in a cabinet shop, is a resident of Grand Rapids. He is over ninety years of age and his. health is. very L;:ehle. lIe is the Qwne, of Powers' Opera House, and the oldest living ex-mayor of the city. Bur-gla:-s Foiled. Tt-.e fnn:itt1~e store of \Villiarn Gadsby at Portland, Ore-gon, was enter::d by burglars rece:1tly and an ullsucces.;fnl ['..ttempt made to open the safc, which cOlltlined $l,ROO. \A'here did Gadsby get so much money? Some Great Bargains. The Ma.nistee :rvlanufacturing Company are advertising some great bargains. They have a lot of attractions ill side-boards, buffets, chiffoniers and dressers. The goods of this company are made right and the style.s ate as attractive as· any medium priced goods on the market. Charley Elmen~ dOff knows how to make good furniture, and his facilities are • such as to enable him to get them out as economic<llly as any one in the business. Every furniture merchant who takes enough pride in his business to want to be up-to-date should obtain a copy of their catalogue, and also keep close tab on their "ads" in the IVIichigan Artisan Lom month to month. Made by Manistt;lE'lMfg. Co, Mautatee1 Micb.. :,1 !C !! !C; A N c\ R T 1 S ;\ ;.; Sligh9s Select Styles Satisfy Dealers MANY NEW FEATURES ADDED FOR FALL SEASON. II,I I EVERYTHING FOR THE BEDROOM C\1edium and Fine Quality). Office and Salesroom corner Prescott and Buchanan I Streets, Grand Rapids, "Mich. 'Write for catalogue. I '- -- ...-.-. --"1' I Luce-Redmond Chair Co., Ltd. I BIG RAPIDS, MICH. High Grade Office Chairs, Dining, Odd Rockers and Chairs, De,k and Dresser Chairs, Slipper Chairs, Colonial Parlor Suites Dark and Tuna Mahogany, Birdgeye Maple, Birch and Circassian Walnut. We have moved New Exhibit Location Fourth Floor, East Section, MANUFACTURERS' BUILDING, North Ionia Street, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN. ~-----_. 18 ~,11CHI G A N ARTISAN Freight Often Goes Astray. "V/hy in blazes haven't you filled our order of August I?" writes the indignant customer who has botl.:sht of the Chicago wholesale house. "What in blazes did you do \...i.th our ~h:pment of August 2, billed to So-and-so, Skagtowll?" writes the wholesale house to the agent at the railrO<ld depot f om which the goods should have been sent. ""Vhat in blazes arc IvIore:soods, Packingcasc & Co. kick-ing about?" writes the station agent to the claim departmi:nt of the railroad at hcadqua:ters. After which the claim clerk of the railroad gets busy.' For the lost, st~ayed, or stolen shipment which doesn't arrive costs a railroad company mOTC worry and bother than all the wrecked goods knocked galley west from crooked. At least incase of wreck the railroad knows where to look for damages. . In the case of the lost shipment everythihg is guesswork as to how, when, and where of it. How does a package of freight get lost? The ways are multitudinomo. Tn general therc a __ e three main possibilities. It is loaded into the wrong car; or the good:; have been packed in a box at second hand, leaving the old stencil mark standing out plainly as new; or the waybill blows out of the hand of the train conductor f:'om the rear end of the caboose, is mislaid by the station agent at the receiving point, or disappears goodncss knows how or when. Naturally, the truckman who euns his bre<:dloading freight at a depot isn't fitted for managing either a Sunday school or a wholesale business house. He loads stuff on a truck, trundles it out on the platfwm, and wants to dump it as soon as possible in the waiting car. But there may be twenty or fifty cars to be loaded, headed for every po;nt of the compass, A long car numbe-, such as 179867, stand-ing dose to a car 1:U111bered8679-7is likely to be confusing to him-and a package or a truck load of ~hem get into the wrong pe""-. "\\That'in blazes became of that shipment of August 2?" is started at once. Cars at these platforms may have been loaded for five big terminal stations on the line and at such distances apart that a traveling claim clerk wodd need to spend a \'lcck visiting them all. So the claim clerk starts a trace:' thrcugh means of corrcspondence. Hlls any agent at any of these stations checked one package "over," billed to John Smith & Company, Skagtown? Just here the careless shipper, using the old packing case from which the old address has not heen removed, may enter into the. mystery. "No," reports the agent from Milledgeville, far to the southwest. "But we are 'over' one package addressed to vVilliam Jones & Company, Jonesville." \-Vell, that doesn't mean much to the claim department, for Jones & Company haven't raised a row about anything of the kind. What has become of the stuff for Smith & Company? And the claim department gets busier than ever. In the meantime the agent at Milledgeville is holding the Jones & Co"mpany shipment, for the reason that it had 110 bill of lading accompanying it and he doesn't wan't to fo;'- ward it until he knows whether it was prepaid or for col-lection at destination. In many depots on many lines of road there is an "over" room or corner in the building devoted to the storage of such packages. After a few days the package for Jones & Company finds its way into this "over' room, ,"tand;n~ marked side up ready for the first ..-:ail of the tr;m:.'ling clerk, who may be sent d.own the line in sca,ch of such claims. One day, irritated and sto:-ming, the claim agent COmes into the depot in search of the missing Smith & C')mpany 'Packag~, The Jones & Company case is there plain enough, but in the rest of the heaped up matter nothin:J is found of the Smith & Company's missing consignment. In anger, perhaps, the claim agent kicks ,over the Jones & Company case. And there on the bottom of the box <~sit sat he leads: ************ * ** * * S"IITH & CO., SKAGTOWN, MICH. ******** ** * Do you wonder that the claim age'nt swears, and the claim office swears and the shipper swears, 2nd the con-signee, too? But the chief f~ult was with the sh:ppe', who didn't destroy the cld marking on the box before he 1l3cke(1 it again. Loading a shipment into a wrong car always has been ~ prolific source of trouble to the claim department. Yea:-s ago J. F. :Y1orton, now with the Chicago Association of ." '",. .~ ~" pi" ,YI,~ ">,, "'1. . "'1'\' "II' .., I' i" ~ Sketch by Oharles De Lano. Commerce, was agent for the S;JUthern Rail-way n Col-umbia, S. c., an 1, suffering from this f. equcnt error of 1. uckmen, adopted a schcme to prevellt mistakes. Incident-ally, not all of tl e trouble came to the claim department, eithcr, for it was no uncommon thing to discover an error had "been made with certain freight that had been loaded first into a car and when the error was discovered t:le car was already nearly full. Mr. Morton's scheme was to disregard the official number of cars that stood ready for loading and to number them consecutively from onc up to seven 0, twelve, as tJ1C case might demand. As each truckman received his load he was handed a slip of paper on which was written the number of the car to which it should go. At right angles to the car 'was posted a boa,d on which from either side the temp-orary simple number could be read by tllC truckman. In-side the c"r was posted a block of printed tickets- correspond-ing to the car number outside. The duty of the truckman was to retain his penciled slip, unload his truck, tear off one of the p:-inted numbers inside, and return; handing both slips to theforem<:'..n superintending the loading. Joseph Howells, 1\1 I C rr I G A 1'1 1\ I, TIS A N Raising the Table. There has been a long-standing difference of opinion in the Plunkett family cOllccrninJ; the diil-ing tahlt,. ),11'". Plunkett maintained th;~t its le:];5 were tco short and ought to be lengthened at le<:st l:aJi all inch. "It doesn't fit our chair:;, Jared, and you kilOW it," she ccntended. "\Vl1cn \ve s:t down to this table ,vc're too high above it. YOll coule! have pieces of ·wood glucd on the end.'> of the legs. That would be e'lsier than tn 5,lW off the ends of all the chair legs." "1 dOll't agree with your proposition at all, Conleli;l," said Mr. Plunkett. "I think the table is just right. nut rill willing' to compromise the matte:" YOll have been ·want-ing a hardwood floor in this dillin~ room for ;l long tlll1C, 1":<I"en't you?" "Yes," "\IVell, we can lnrve th(lt new kind o[ 11anlwoo<1 floor that is laid all top of the old floor. That will raise the table, of course, just so much. Boy.· 'witl that do:" This seemed to be a fair proposition, a11([ without ;\ moment's hesitation :\Tr5. Plunkett accepted it as a satis-facto:- y cOl11prornisc.-Ex. The habit of looking at freight.s, l10t goods, has cansell buyers to stand pat against a purchase because of ten or fifteen ccnts ill the rate. when there was fifty c('nL_ dif-ference in the goods ill favor of the more llis~allt 111~trket. Sl1cll hoyers are gc\'crned by slr.;lll things rather than by larg-e 011CS. .._------------ :; I j !! I I I ! ! ~----------------------------------------~ 1r) .------. Fred J. Zimmer 39 E. Bridae St .• Co rand Rapids, Mich. Mak"r of HIGH GRADE UPHOLSTERED FURNITURE rf"rihfor {)I/'I' G'nd I'rices. E'l/ery Piece GuarAnteed PERFECT. Reedcraft Furniture. F. E. Dryden, for many ye;I..rs know11 to the trade as a cOlllmercial desigllcr, with a residence ill G,and !(;Ip:ds, 1." engaged in the manufacture of "RccdcrafC ft-!"nitur~ in San Francisco. Thc name adopted suggests fI:·ed ftlrnitur-:, althotlg'lJ 11'11'.Dryden says his processes are u}Vcred by kttCTS p".te\1t. CO\1"BINED MACHINE Complete Onlfil of HANO and FOOT POWER MACHINERY WHY THEY PAY THE CABINET MAKER He can save a manufacturer's profit as well as a dealer's profit. He can make more money ,..-ith less capital invested. He can hold a better and more satisiactory trade with his customers. He can manufacture in as good style and finish, and at as low cost as the factories. The local cahinet ma)l::er has been forced into only the dealer's trade and profit, because of machine manufactured ~oods of factories. An outfit of Rarnes Patent Foot and Hand-Power Machinery, reinstates the cabinet maker withaavantag-es equal to his competitors. If desired. these machines will be sold on trial. The purchaser can have ample time to test them in h1$ own shop and on the work he wishes them to do. 1JeStriptil!1l cataloqu~ and price tist fru. III salesmanship it is not commendable to give a buyer :t leader on an article hc knows and then "soak" him on the sale of an article he does not know. W. f. So JOUN BARNES CO.• 654 Ruby St ••Rockford, III. HAND TENONER HAND CfRCULAI{ RIP SAW MORTISER ,..------_._-----------_._---------------_. II I No.4 SAW (r~adY for cross-cutting) FORMER OR MOULDER I• • No_ 3 WOOD LATHE No.4-SAW (read)' for rippl.ng) No.7 SCROLL SAW ..?o WOMEN SELL COFFINS. :v]]CHIGAK AR"rISAK Advantages Possessed by Salesladies on the Road. Sc;1esladies "have come to stay. The commercial's pros· perity congress; ecelltly held iri New York afforded a good chance for inquiries on this point. The replies were monot· onously un2oimous. "To stHY? \Vhy, yOll couldn't gd thC1:, Ollt vvitli a tall of dynamite!" There is s0111cthing rueful ill a reguta-r knight of the grip when he talks about his p ofessional sisters. One of them told an especially harrowing tale. He ran t~p against his ilst female com:)ctitor last fall when be started out v.:ith a line of holiday goods. He was going onat a leisurely gait, taking a good line of orders from his old custome s,whcn he struck Cleveland Henry Schmit 8 Co. HOPKINS AND HARRIET STS. CincinDati, OLio makers of UpllOlstered Furniture fo' LODGE and PULPIT, PARLOR, LIBRARY, HOTEL and CLUB ROOM and disaster. The first dealer he called on met him with the blithe announcement that he .had come too late; a "sweet and aimia.bl~ young woman" had been there and had received the entire holiday order. ';l\ot the entire order?" stammered the dumfounded mall. "Yes; everything she wanted." Every cnstomer the man had in Cleveland had gone over to the enemy_ ~-rehustled all to Columbus. She had been befo,e him there. It -"V8S the same 2t Cincinnati and a little more of the same at Indianapolis. He finally caught up with her at Denver and proceeded to find out for himself \.,-hat sort of wizard this sweet and aimiable person was. He had to admit that she was the cleve·est. most diplo-matic woman he baJ ever met and tbRt her success was legiti-mate. He found out afterward that it was her first trip and "that when she had been out three weeks her house had to wire her to holJ on i1 bit. for she was sending in orders faster than they could fill them, "I know a young ,,,,'oman who sells hats (and so do T "vhen r can keep ahead of her)," said another salesman in re-lating his experien~e; "but let me drop in behind her and it's all day \vith me, fo:- ,",'hen she strikes a tmvn she carries ~:way every order in it. ;'But in this she bas the ;::dvantage of me; she is strikingly pretty for a milliner's model and tries all every shape hat she has for sale among he:- samples, and she places them all on her pretty head in such a coquettish and g ·aeeful way that it shows off the beauties of the hats to perfection. )[ow, I would look pretty trying on ladies' hats, wouldn't I? "These won-en are as a rule st~ong, healthy, clear headed and in every way belong to the twentieth century. S:Jme of them do exactly as mcn do~visit the merchants personally and solicit orders. Others rent a suite of rooms in the best hotel in which to display goods, notify their customers ['.nelawait them there. "And there is still another class who c(!ter to individual custom, and "these are too ve~y succcssfui. Quite a number of New York women work in this manner. "There is one youug woman who travels for one of the largest houses in Cincinnati. She is of I rish parentage and L's 'the D2;n,tifuJ eyes and complexion wc :;0 often scc among-the lr:slt-Amcrican girls. Her figure is simply perfection, ~~l1dall of the l1l2deup ~~arments among her sample:; are made on the \\',:11, and wh2n shconce dClIls them she shows them to the best advantage, and "he seldom fails to get <:'11 order. "She told me she w,~s a g,·;J'Fte of one of the leading co:leges for women in Ame :c, ;'net h"s s:nce studied every ;~rt th;:t might be of benefit to h2r :n hu business. She has had mally offers of marriage from some _ofher b~st customers. but she is happy ~nd content to live on he:· salary of $4,000 <l year and commissions, wb~ch often run it up to $5,000. be-sides all of her expellses. ;'Her trade is worth $300,000 a year to he~ house, and thi!:i is enormous when it is considered that fa: only six-mouths in the year th'ese goods can be sold." One of the most successful is a 110unt Vernon Wfl1TI;tll. For years she solicitcd orders for corsets from doo:- to door. her success was phenomenal beyond the wildest expectations of the firm she worked for, and they could not comprehend extraordinay ability. She is now a whole:;ale representati\'e for this same firm of corset manufacturers <lnd commands a :;alary of $5,OCO yearly. Another well known WOm2Jl is one whose husband form-erly traveled for ~n underwear house. He dicd leavin; he~· with a large family to support, and it occured to her that sI~e might take up her husband's business. She accordingly went to the firm and asked for the pos-ition, They demurred <It first, fearing to trust a woman to handle this kind of goods; but finally. through sympathy and a desire to help the wife of Oue who had so long and faith-fully served them, they consented to give her a triaL Her success was p··ompt and striking. Each mail brought fresh evidence of it and the result is she is now a confidental member of- the firm. A Philadelphia woman almost monopolizes the trade of her territory in fruit extracts, flavo-·ing 2nd spices. She doe:; not spend on an average more tJJall two weeks 2t home dming the entire year. She is but twenty-five, and- receives a salary of $3,500 a year and all her expenSes. One young woman sells coffin trimmings for one of the large silver manufacltlr(:rs in Connecticut. Her :;uccess h~\s •.--------_._--------~ II Big Rapids Furni-ture Mfg. Co. BIG RAPIDS, MICH. SIDEBOARDS BUFFETS HALL RACKS "In Quartered Oak, GoJden and Early English Finish. No. 128. ,Price $12. 2 off rmdaY8f. o. b, Big Eapids. been wonderful, the in during the year promptly. Another woman sells coffins, and one of her "knight" rivals says she sells so many that undertakers have to make kindling wood of them to get their stocks reduced, people don't die fast enough to keep up the demand. Her hallS':: allows her ample money for expenses and pays a liberal salary besides. house often being obliged owing to inability to fill to call her her orders M 1 C 11 [ CAN ART I S '\ N ARTISTIC andINEXPENSIVE CATALOGUE COVERS LET US FIGURE ON YOUR PHOTOGRAPHING ENGRAVING and PRINTING PERFECT WORK PROMPT DELIVERIES COMPLETE CATALOGS MICHIGAN ENGRAVING CO. .t Right Prices GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN 22 - ._--- ----------------------------- MICHIGAN ARTISAN Manual Training School at Saginaw. Saginaw, l\Jich., through the vencre,:;;ty of Hon. 'Vetl-ington R. nurt, now enjoys t;le di:;tinctinn (If having the finest and best equipped n:anual training school in Michigan, Olle that pos:;e.sses features not contained in any other iike HON. WELL1NGTON R. BURT. establishment in tl~e state. It is a b:-ick strllcture of three stories· the first floor being built of Bedford stone and the rcmain:ng two stO'ries of paying brick, makn:J a subst:,nt:al open all .~uml11er for the benefit of the pupils; the watcr b~ing changed chell enough to keep it pure. Until the close of the 1904 school' year the high school {Jllpils occupied the cld h:gh school building, where manual tra:n:n:{ \V3S tau:lht to some extent, but since its e:'ection in 1893. the. s~hool has more than doubled in t~le number of its pupils, and the old buildin3" could no longer accommodate the increasing ;:'.ttenJance, but ldr. Burt's additional gift of $78,333, just three-fourths of the cost of erecting and equip-ping the new bnildinz, made it possible to e E'et the new m<lllll<t1 training high school, which was opene~l September. 190;. This building ~1[\S a most thorough equipment for all c~<:sse;; in manual trainin~:?; including woed and iron work for the boys and cooking and sewing for the girls. On the fi st floor there are rooms devoted to carpenter work and woad turning, seventh and eighth grade wooJ ,",Iork, f01~ndry, fcrge mz:chine shop, recitation and a laundry· for the girls. The ca:-pentry and joinery roOm is furnished with twelve double benches, each fitted wit~l Herriman vises and <1.ccom-ll10daticg two student;;. In each half of these benches there are four drawers holding individual sets cf carpenter's tools ~nd a compartment containing cc:tain tools which are used in commOll. The drawe:'s can be locked and each pupil is held respol1!Oible for his own tools. The tools for this rOOm comprise saw' plane. chisel. spoke sb:ve, dividers, :hammer, brace and hit, a thirty~six by three and one-half inch grindstone and glue )le"cttng afparatlls and all the common carpenter':" tools. Tlec room is thirtv-n:ne feet Icu:J and thirty feet wi:le. SAG1"';AIV MAKUAL TRAINJ:>r; SCH'-.JGL yet magnilicC'nt building. 'V. T. Cooper, a 10c~1.1architect, planned the ~trl!ctu'-e and it "vas t ..v.o years ill building. In connection witb this building is a t\venty-two by S!_-.:.1y feet swimming pool, devoted to the use of the pupils five days each week and one day to the pttLlic. The pool is six feet deep at one end and three at the otller and is kept The wood tlL-ning room adjoins the carpcHlry room and 1S the same size and has a vcry cQmp\.de equipment, cun-sisting of twenty F. E. Reed auJ Company Jl ..'.e feet by ten inch turning lathes, one Oliver type C b<:nd saw, one Oliver pattern-maker's lathe and a thirty-six inch by three and one-half inch grindstone. This machinery is driven by a MICHIGAN ARTISAN 23 ~--------------,-----_._--_._--------~ RICHMOND CHAIR CO., Richmond, Ind. Double Cane Line "Slip Seats"-the lateSt and best method 01 double cane seating. Catalogues to the Trade. ~-_._-_. thirteen horse power electric motor stlspendul f;om the ceiling. The lathes aTe of the bench type, each bench is in t\",O levels, the lathe side having four drawers with indi-vidual sets of turning tools, chisel and gonges; the othe" side has five drawers, one for tools which ar~ used in com-ma)) and the other fOUf for individual sets. There is a stock room near this room provided with rip and cross-cut saws anl a Fay & Egan planer, driven by a seven ;md onc-haJI horse pov;'cr mota:" The foundry, which is located at tbe left of the wood turning rOOI11, is equipped to accotIl1nOdzLte twenty pupIls, with iJl(Jil'idtlal molding troughs, an emery grinder,. a brass flunace, core. oven zlIld a Xo. 0 \Vhitney Clll)ola, with a :';0. 4 Buffalo steel pressure blO\ver, d iven by a seven and one-half horse pm,ver motor. There are also 11eccssary hand tools. The forge room is a large room with equipment of the ve y latest type. There art' hventy Swrtcvant dml'l1-dr.1ft forges, tile blast and exhaust obtained from Sturtevant fans driven by a twcnt:i ho's::, powcr Sturtevant motor: twellty 130 pound Trenton <'l1vils set on cast ii"On ;lll\'il b10c1<s, ;l l:'rgc haLd shear, a tl-.·irty pound Justice hammer, a twenty inch Ilueier drilL L:ch forg2 has a tool stand contninin:~ four (Lawers for individual sets of tools. At the east end of the building is the machine shop which is the bugest rOOHl on the first floor, being seventy nine feet long aud thirty feet wide and has adjoining it twenty hy t'Ne1VE'. and a half feet tool room. There 3re hventy-four machines in this room run hy (l Lventy horse po\'l.'er \Vestinghouse motor: three Putrrwn tweh'e by flftccn enginc lathes, one Star twelve by hve, one Prelliice twelve by l1\'e, one Le Blonde h..velvc by five, ':\\'0 I~_eed t\vc!yC by five, one Lodge and Shipley fourteen by eizlt, high speed, quick-change gear hthe; one }{cfd fourteen by' six l<~the, with motor attached fo' direct or;\,e; one Stu speci"d nine inch s::::re',', cuting bench bthe; two Reed twelve by five speed lathcs; one 1\'0. 10 Cinclnnati milling ma-chine; one sixtee11 inch Cincinnati .,,;wper; one Gray planer twenty-four by twenty-four inch by six feet; onc Cincinnati Universal tool <ltld culter grinder; aile Barlles hvcnty-three inch IIp''ight drill press: Olle \'orton .sen.,;iti\'e drill; Olle Y<ll1kce twist drill gTilider; one wet emery grinder: one grindsto11e thirty-six by three and (me-half inch and olle :\JifJcr I,'>alls power hack saw. The shop has also complete sets oi inidvidual tools for classes of twelve; one Grecnerd ~rbor press; one Stua:t gas furnace; 011(', Hisey portable elcct~ieal driven grinder; one V./arner c:t nH:ter; one Billings jmpro~"ed milling tool; one lIofil1cr Falls breast drill 1'\0. 30, besides these tne;'c is an equipment of Armst:'ong" tocl holders, to illustrate the modern phase of machine shop practice. The laundry is a small room next to the r~citation room. It has all the facilities for teaching laund.ry work. There are ten Dorcelain enameled tubs with wringers and wash-boards, a steam dryer, and all the other necessary utensils for washing and ironing. The action of starch and bluein.;, removing stains and washing delicate fabrics is thoroughly tanght. On the second floor there are two rooms devoted to mechanical and freehand dra ..v..ing, two kitchens, a dining-room, reception room, bedroom, pantry, lihra:-y, two larg'e class rooms, a gymnasium; besides these are the super-intendent's offices, janitor's room and tocker. The dnnviIlg 1'001115 arc above the carpenter and wood turning rooms ;:nd are the same size as the rooms be-low. The very best equipment is provided for these rooms <~l1d illstruc.ticll ill drawing extends through all the grades. The gymnasium is seVe11ty-four by thirty-nine feet and i,,; connected with the bath house and swimming pool by 3 passageway. In the b;,th house are tubs. shower baths with hair drye-s for dryirig ladies hair. The kitchens are each thirty-nine feet by thirty feet and are equipped for classes oi twenty-four pupils. The tables arc ill the form of a hollow square. Each gi I has a moldin~ board· two gas burners, r\nd two drawers for her woo kin~ utensils. Each kitchen has a combination coal and g~lS range, a refrige ator, charts illustrating food V[I lues . n<..l lockers for aprons and other necessary articles. The butler's pant y opens into the dining .rooms from 011Q of the k:tchens. The dining room is furnished with tables. chai s, ~ideboanl, serving table, china closet and all the necess::rJ china; silver, glassware and linen for lessons for se,ving. The reccpt:011 room and bed room have appropriate furniture. There are th'ce sc\ving rooms and one room for clay nwdeling, the rest of the floor is bken up by two session rooms, each forty-three feet six inches by thirty-nine feet six inches, one class room, a room fo:' hook~keepil1S:, a room for commercial geography and a room for typewriting ant! stcllograpllY. The sewing rooms a'-(' (a), thirty fed by twenty-two feet, (b) twenty-six feet by twenty feet, (c) thirty feet by thirty- (Corwi ded 011pal{e2t;.) EVANSVILLE LINES MANUFACTURERS' FURNITURE EXCHANGE Corner Waba!h Avenue and Fourteenth Street Just one of the 100 styles of the "New Superior Line" of Extension,· Library. Parlor and Dressing Tables. This table is made with the l'Ideal" drop leg. Base is non-dividing, made in 6 n. to 14 ft. THE BOCKSTEGE FURNITURE CO. EVAN8VILL-E. INDIANA The· Metal Furniture Co. ===== EVANSVILLE, IND. MANUFACTURERS OF Metal Bedsteads F ulliine of Samples on exhibition during the entire year, on 6rst floor of the Manufaeturers' Furniture Exchange, corner Wabash Ave. and 14th St .. Chicago. THE WORLD FURNITURE CO. (Member of Big Six CaT LoadIng Association) EVANSVlUE INDIANA Manufac:tu ..ers of Folding Beds (Mantel and UpriKht), Buffets, HaD Treell. China Cl03et8, -Combination and LibTary Bookca.r.ell. FuD line of 1Il1Dlple. on exhibition during the entire year, on first floor of the Manufacturer .. Furniture Exchange, cOrner Wabash Ave. and 14th St., Chicago. Globe Side Boards and Hall Racks Are the best for the money. Get our Cata-logue. Mention the Michigan Artisan when writing. Fullline of samples on exhibition during the en-tire year, on the first Roor of the Manufacturers Furniture Exchange, Cor. Wabash Ave., and 14th St., Chicago. Globe Furniture Company . EVANSVILLE, IND. ON SALE IN CHICAGO MANUFACTURERS' FURNITURE EXCHANGE Corner WabaJh Avenue aud fourteenth Strut The Karges Furniture CO. EVANSVILLE, INDIANA Manuf<l.cturen 01 Chamber Suites Dressers Wardrobes ood Chiffoniers PLAlN OAK QU ARTERED OAK AND IMITATION QUARTERED OAK Fun line of 5amplco on exhibition durinp: the en_ tire )rear, on lililt Roor ot the Manufacturers' Furni-ture Exchange.comerWa-ba, h Ave, and 14th St_, Chi~lilo. Cupboards Kit~hen Cabinets and K. D. Wardrobes. Is all we make but we make lots of them. Get Catalogue and Prices. The Bosse Furniture Co. EVANSVILLE, IND. ]i'llll line oj sa1i<ples on exhibition durin.q the entire year on jtrltt floor of the jfannj'a(;furel's' Furnit1~re EX<'!uznge,eorMr Wabash Ave. and 14th Sf" Cldca.QQ, The "ELI" FOLDING BEDS ARE BREAD AND PROfIT WINNE.RS No Stock complete without the Eli Beds in Mantel llnd Upright. ELI 0 MILLER & Co It.ano.me, indIana • • Write for cuts and prices ON SAl.E IN FURNITURE EXCHANCE, CH1CACO, 26 MICHIGAN ARTISAN nine feet, and two of them are provided with sewing ma-chines, ..v..hile the other has a measuring and fitting room, and each room is fLlrnished with tables having dawers for in-dividual sets of utensils and al1 the necessary chairs and mirrors. Sew~n1: is very thoroughly taught, with the study of cotton material used in hand made domestic articles an:l • STAR CASTER CUP CO. NORTH UNION STR£ET. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. II I, II (PATENT APPLIED FOR) \\'e have adopted celluloid as a base fot"OUt Casle-r Cups, making the hest cuI-' on the market Celluloid is a great improvement over bases made ...f.other material. When it Is necessary to move a piece supportell by cups with celluloid bases it can be done wtth ease, 3.$ the hases are per-fectly smooth. Celluloid does not sweat and by the use of thf;'se CUJlS tables are never marred .. These cups are finished in Goldf'n Oak and White Maple, fimshed light. II you u,m trv a sample ordero! Uuse goOds you will desire to Mndu them in quantities. PRICES: ~ize2M inches ....• ·$5.50 pel" hundr.d. Si;:e 2}.( inches."." 4.50 per hundred. f'. Q. b. Grand Rapid8. TRY A SAMPLE ORDER, garment work, measuring and drafting in the first year or ninth grade. The next year IS a continuation of the fi.-st with the ex-ception that the pupil makes a special study of wool from fibre to fabric; by this time the pupil is capable of making ail entire shirtwaist suit. In the cleve,nth grade they have besides the ordinary sewing a special study of linen from flax fib:.-e to woven material. The twelfth grade ,york is entirely dress making with a study of silk. Laundry work and. waltress work a:"e given in the ninth grade. In the second year general cookery and very ele-mentary chemist·y are taught. The ncxt two .years ,Ire elective. The juniors study the science of canning and preserving with reference to the methods of combating moulds and bacteria. Emergency nur5ing is taught with a study of diets, care fa:' the sick, and how to maintain good health. The last year consists in instruction in fancy cookin;. home management, keeping of 2ccounts, and a more ~d-vanced 5tudy of menus and nutr:tive value. The mechanical drawing class produce drawings involving all kinds of geometric prc[)lcms, this dcpa_tment being the starting point of nearly dl mechanical projects; blue p,ints are sent to the shops and the construction work begins. Patterns a e made from these prints which involve general carpentry, carving and wood turning. In the foundry sand molds are made from the same patterns. The work of finishing these belongs to the eleventh and twelfth grade classes in the machine shop. The machine S110P contains certain feature:, not to be found in any other like shops in the country, and is a very interesting department but not marc so than than the cah-inet- making department. as some of the work r·oill this de-partment is worthy of professional c~binet-makers. Daven-ports, chairs, tables, hookcases 2nd fmn:ture of all descrip-tions are made by the pupils. Besides the manual training taught in the :high schaal a complete course in this braanctt of study is taught in the • lower grades. In the fint four g ades the work is done by regular grade teachers under the direction of a supervisor, and consists of paper folding, weaving with raffia and yarn and basket making. In the fifth and sixth grades the work is done by two special' teachers, who visit each school Cnce every week. The instuctioll in these grades consi~;ts of sewing for the girls Jnd knife work for the boys . The seventh ;md eighth g ades h:!.ve specid teachers also and sh.::dy carving and bench work in wo:;d. There ;'cre two wood working centers for the boys in these g-rr,des; one at the manual train:ng high school 8tH] cne ",t Snlina street schoo!. There are also two cooking center,; jor the girls; one £1t the Central school and another <t \\rashington street school. Every c:tizen of Saginaw is lOtHI in his praise of the '1enents of such a g-rand in.,titution 311d the gen~rosity of M .. Dtlrt is appreciated, as is shown by the steadily inere:.sin6: "ttendance at the school. Its benefits are already shown in the b:JYs who secure ('mployment at the u-:':fferent factories of the city, they having already lea:ned how to use their hands and minds at the same time, as well as knowing the proper use and care of tools used by them. It is predicted by those who have g;ven close attention to the ,'vork that in a very short time pnlctical1.y every boy and 'nea:-1y all the girls will take the m.<:nual training course as they now do their regular studies. There are sixteen special manual training teachers, among which number are L N Bryant, at the head of the d.epart-ment; Messrs. Hoerner, vVienke, Tippey and Ca:-rier, all teachers of wide experience. .. The open oppos;tion of the bankers to the general ad-option of the Oklahoma system of guaranteeing deposits furnishes ~.n argnment to dcposito':""sfor supporting the plan. • rI I I, arge Line ow Prices iberal Terms No. 30 K. 50:>.30x48'1 high. No. 54 K. 54x30)(4~fI high. Remember Rowlett Desks are thoroughly well made and absolutely dependable. Send for Cata.log and Prices, II ! ROWRLICEHTMTOND,DIENDSIAKNA,MUF. SG. A.. CO. • MICHIGAX ARTISAK 27 l------------------------------·--------------~ DOVIESTIC SERVICE DFPART~ENT C.SAGINAW MANUAL TRAINING SCHOQL I• MACHINE SHOP SAGINAW :\-lAr<iUAI, TRAIl';ING SCHOOL ------------------------------------ • 28 .\1 j C j-j I C ,\ i\ TILLIE GUDOUSKY'S WEDDING Wheels of Ind1.<stry Halted by a Weekly Event at the Factory. The manager of F;lctory B of the Ship Alloy Tick and Tuck Company, yelled at his foreman down the length Ili (Ill;: long room, <lw.l that slave of twenty-three dol:ars a y.,.'eek <.1.11<1 a iarge sa"plus of un::al)itdizec1 idiom hun-ied to the manager's desk at a gait that threatened to add a. spasm or two to his stock of uncbssified woes, \\1 hen the perspiring foreman brought up sharply manager's desk that highbro.w of ticks and tucks U11til the already ovcrhented atmosphere lor many ya.ds thcreabo~lt seemed smitten black anJ blue and pale aroulld the edges. "\i\,'hat arc all the machines stopped for?" he shouted. Foreman Sandonovitch shook his head. "Tillie Gudotlsky's gettin' spliced," he said with some hesitation. "Ain't it awful, boss?" "Getting married!" exclaimed the manager. "That's it. boss, th81'5 what it is." "\,Vell, is th<Jt any reason why the factory sho111d close down when orders arc piling tip on US every hon~?" "Ifs their way. boss, an' I can't stop 'eu}. They ain't the kind that's to be suppressed." "\Vhere are they?" "Hangill' GIlt the front \vinclows. Everyone of the two l;undred d8111eSis l:oldin' a pair of old shoes an' a bag d rice, byin' in W<l1tto slillg the whole blamed lot 8t the bride when she m~lkcs her exit for her matrim0ny debut." "Order them back on the job at oncc!" thundered the m':!1lagcr. "The i1 m's losing millions every minute!" "It ain't no use. They'd strike. I has tried it before. It's their custom. '!\JiUions doesn't count with them." The Ship Ahoy concern's manager was furious. "I'll settle the 018tter right here and now! this Tillie GudotL:ky a lesson she wen't forget. to me, quick." rt looked as if Tillie GlI<lollsky were to be eaten alive, "She's got her dough an' lit out," said the foreman. S:lC'S hidin' downstairs Ilear the frollt <lcor, afraid of the shower of r;ce an' old shoes. "So that'3 it, is it. ,",VeIl.you go right back on the job. I'll rout her out. Every minute lost means a million further a'''''ay from the Shi~ AllOY'S cxchequer." And amid the unusual silence of hushed machines ::lnJ breathless clerks with their heads bellt low ove' hooks and papers, and pens suspended in midair, the manager re-lmttoned his collar and lYI<ldea perspiring dash for the door. Tillie, in fresh shirtwaist al1CIbbck pictu:'e hat, had b2cn cowering in t1'e d:"rkness of the lower stairway, blushing Wit;l hc:pp:ness and t""c:llhling with timid:ty. Tt wasn't that she was really afrnid. It 11;-'<1 been tl~e custom for all the gi 'is to hide, and thot~gh sLe W;'S amiiol:s to get home and m8ke some final pre);lr:-ticl1s for her wedding th2..t evening, it would have looked bold not to allow the girls to wait haH 2..nhour 01' mO-e for I-cr to appear. A door slammed overhead, and looking LIp,Tillie thought she discerned a gl int of pale gr8y in the darkness of the stairway. The marager was- the only one \VllO wore pale gay. At the last turn of the stairway the pale g:'ay suit burst into full view. coming <:t a tremendous r~te. Tillie knew and rm:de a hre:'k for the street. There W[tS a wild shout from the windows and a cas-cade of rice and s~1Oeswas suddenly let loose. It was the hat1essman~gcr Imns _If \vho got the shower, for Tillie had sped like a hare down the street, only turning when half a block awC\y to rew:!rd the waitin~ ones for their patient vigil with blushes and lJalld v.raves .::nd a hedaaling "ucc<-,s_,;- ion of smiles. at the cussed sqtl~lrc a trifle I'll teac-h Sen<l he, ,\ R TIS A N Even Tim, the elevator man, had to smil~ at t::e man-ager's p edicament, though he took precious good care not to let that irate gentleman see him. Timothy vVoooruff Dennis hzd marriecl :t girl from this f2ctnry himself. It ,vas ten years before, wLen th" p eS('11tmanager W3S a col-lege boy-Timothy ;:nll otber.:> ;1.:1<1 often \vishecl he mig:,t have .::Iways re:T1<l:ne<la colleg:2 boy <lnu let the "old g~nt" br!ng en lon;;rer. "1"he.--would 11ave done the work; they said so--:!ndTimothy b.::d ilever forgotten the shower of rlce [!ld o:d shccs thf:t I~ad descended on the fai- head of Lis Esther. For one reason Esther, now the mother c( four, h~cl never ceased talking about it ...-.\'l-ien in one 0: her \veek since t~lere had been one or mo~e weddings from the factory. They never gre\v st81e to Tim, ncr to the w('fld at la-'ge either, for t:1e wbole street for more than a block was still 2.stl1', althou.?;h Tillie was almost out of sight. She would be standing Up befo:'e a rabbi answering a lot of questions and makng all sorts of promises before the factory had closed down for tho..-day; but this was the real wedding. All the factory girls were hang<ng out of the front win-dows, and six big windows st etching from side to side of tl:e facto!"y six stories high ea:1 hold lots of heads. There they ",,'ere, black, brown, <:tlburn, red all shades uf h;ond and tow, thrust li.ke nestFng birds over the stone ledge" of the windows, and evey one of them decorated with wh'te love knots fashioned Ol:t of tissue paper: Yv hen the br:de did arpC2.1",md escaped the shower, and the m<:.nager following close on her heels caught it, the pco;J]e on the sidewalks and the factory girls aod men h;:,n,n,-ingout of otberfactory windows gave vent to thei~ mirth and cheered lustily. Timothy \Voodruff Dennis almost had a spasm right then and there. "An' him a bachelor" he gasped between paroxysms of pure deligh t. The manage;- went back to his revolving chair, the gi.rls returned to their machines and the street once more took on its workaday aspect after Til1ie Gudousky had passed entirely out or sigllt. "\Vhat was Tillie's dowcy?" asked one girl above the ro;:}r of revitalized machinery, as she put the finishing touches on the llnderg';lrmcllt she was making. "Two hundred dollars,'.' was the ,'dlSwt:r from a mouth stuffed with pins. "My! An' I lost a whole 1-:.our,£.ud I haven't saved up r: "e'n a hundred dollars," wailed the questioner. Every head of every color bent buslly over, th~ machinfos. These Russian girls knew they were not considered marrhge- ,,~Ie until they h.::'d saved up two or three hundred dolbrs, ; ndtheir ?::trent3 were .::n:-;:nus to g~t them married as soC'n ;,s possibk /\ Girl should hove s~ved up a sufficient .lowry t') attract the c:epid:ty cf ~:O!l1em21l h~fore she had leL he;- t: ens. The manager cndollhtedly knew this, but ;le didn't ~et'nt t':e least bit interested ill dowries. \\-'h<1t he thought about w::s the time the (Irm 103t every time this C:1st0I11of shower, in.5 the bride p e"ailed. Th~s weddings w~rc getting too numerot:s for him. "If there;, f(' many more marriages like the Tillie Gud-o: lsky affair t::c S~lip AllOY Tick and Tuck Compally, Lim-ited, will be woo:n1 and wethFng a bankruptcy petition, sure thing." Po 'em:ll1 S;'.lldonnvitch I-cud and said soothin:;ly: "They don't ll;lppen muc't o;tC'llel"11 once a week, boss-sometimes twice."-Stl11. Memories of past unpleas:~nt experiences cause lack of confidence in salesmen. It is well to forget the-past. Look t'pwards, ;]s the sailor does when the weather threatens his life, and push ollward. .-------------------------------------------- I IIII III I 100. 110. 112 ! norl~ Division~1. I! Gran~napi~s I I •II IIIIII II I III :II III •IIII III II II III ,I 10D. 110.112 I n-o-rl~-D-ivis-io1n~1.iI Qran~napi~s III• I I, j II I ~I 1C I r 1C /I. i\ f\ IZTIS i\ i\ OUR BUILDING E N GR A V E RS PR INT ERS B INo E RS Erected by White Printing Company. Grand Rapids, 1907. ! Michigan II,,----. Engraving Company:: Michigan Artisan White Printing Company Company I Io I -----. I j PRINTE R 5 B IN oE R5 E N GR A V E RS 30 MICHIGAN f OUR LARGE NEW LINE OF The 8eason for banquets will 800R be here. Our Banquet Table Top is jU8t the thing for banquet •. • SCHOOLS TAKE UP VOCATIONAL WORK. Increased Industrial Training to be Prescribed for All Boys of Twelve or More. \Vithin two weeks New York will begin its experiment in vocational training, regarded by educators as the most impor-tant innovation introduce? in the public schools in many years. "As the armor of. the Middle Ages would be wholly in-adequate to resist the modern bullet, so the ancient equip-ment of the three R's is totally inadequate to equip the coming generation for the place that they must take in our essentially industrial civilization," declared Commissioner Frederic R. Condert, Chairman of the Special Committee 011 Trade Schools, in his report urging a t. ial of the experiment. Commissioner Coudert and his commttee. who gave nearly six months of study to the situation in New York, say that the educational institutions of the city have not adapted themselves to the ne"v conditions forced upon the people in tl~e h:st two-score years by the vast changes re-sultant from the applications of science to industry. To meet the new problems and to place industrial training within the reach of boys and girls who do not wish to enter the professions or have not the aptitude or the opportunity to do so, the board of education, following out the plan suggested by its committee, has decided upon a h ..·.ofold action. Effort will be made to improve the efficiency of the pr('s-ent system already in operation in the schools by reorgan-izing the manual training from a vocational point of vi;::w, so that it may bear a direct relation to the industrial effi-ciency of pupils when they leave school. The city has now a great many schools without work-shops, in which there are boys in the seventh a11(1eighth years. The board will introduce workshops in snC:l schools throughout the city as rapidly as possible, adding to the tools now in use a turning lathe, combination saw and grinder. It is expected by this means to develop higher forms of work than now attempted and to familiai;::e the older pupils ·with simple power machinery. As not a few boys reach the age of fourteen and are obliged to go to work before entering the sixth year, as is often the case on the upper and lower east sides, it is plan-ned also to give them early knowledge of the use of as many tools as possible and the advantages of shopwork. Just how this can be done has not been wholly worked out. ARTISAN • DINING and OFFICE TABLES are the best on the American market when prices and quality are considered. The prices put on our goods June 24th .re guaranteed through the f.1I season. Stow· £5 Davis Furniture Co. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. City ""Iee~om, 4th Door, Blods-ettBide• • Some members of the boa· d of education think it would be wise to curtail the time now given to the ordinary sub-jects of the common school curriculum, while other,", say this would not be done, but that the additional time for sho? work may be found by opening the shops between three and five o'clock each afternoon, on Saturday morn-ings, and, if necessary, in the evenings. Those favoring the latter plan argue that this will not be injurious ns the use of tools involves the exercise of a great number of muscles not usually employed by a boy, and manual train-ing has always been popular with the boys. The board purposes to open special schools for boys in the secondary ninth and tenth school years which fhn1J give training for particular vocations or industries. Seveml types of these schools are to be organized, the course in each to be two years in length, the pupils to be those whD l1ave graduated f om the public elementary schools or have reached the age of fourteen and are prepared to undertake the required work. A general course will be prescribed to be taken by all the pupils up to a certain poir:t, and after that, a variety of industrial courses will be offered, any ODe of which may be selected by the stt::1ents on entrance. The board does not expect these vocational schools to graduate jOt1Tneylren or skilled mechanics, but to give the pupils skill in the use of tools and a knowledge of those processes and principles underlyin:I con!;tructive work, so that the lll1pil may be able to apv1y the knowLedsc thus gained to definite and concrete p oIllem!;. h is also hoped to do away, to a certain extent, with the situation cre?ted by the specialization in industries which has rendered it so difficult for a young m<:n to learn ani one tr2de com~)letel~r. The board will establish additional night schools, primarily in-tended for young men already engaged as apprenfcs ill trades. T,vo such schools are now in operatio:], one in Long Island City and the other in Brooklyn, and it is proposed that a third .shall be established this session in the Stuyvesant high school building, whe:'c there is already adequate equipment for the work. Girls are also to share ill this industrial education. As there is at p:'esent nD sewing taught in the seventh and eighth years, it is pointed out by the commissioners that much the girls have already learned about sewing is for-gotten before they graduated. The board will therefore introduce sewing as a required subject in all girls' schco:s where there are seventh and eighth yea. classes, and will open in Brooklyn a separate vocational school for girls be-tween fourteen and. sixteen.-New York Times, ~l 1 C IT TeA N ART TSAN , I GEO. SPRHT & CO, SHES'YGAN. WIS. Manufacturers of Chairs and Rockers, A complete line of Oak Diners with quarter sawed veneer backs and seats. A large line of Elm Uiners, medium priced. A select line of Ladies' Rockers. Bent and high arm Rockers with s"lid seats, veneer roll seats, cob-blerSeats and up-bolstered leather complete. High Chairs and Children's Rockers. rou 'Wifi gtt in on the xrml.t.d floor whfn you buy from us. "- No. 542 No. 542 Oak. Solid Seat. p,ice, $17~~~_ ---------------- No. 540% Same as No. 542 on Iy Quartered Oak Veneer Seat, $IB ~~;. Ko 805C~ C"ICAGO The line includes a very complete assortment of Chairs, Rockers and Settees of all grades. Dining Room Furniture. Mission Furniture. Fibre-Rush Furniture, Reed and Rattan FurniturE', Go-Carts and Baby Carriages. Our complete line of samples lire rflspla}red In The ford &. Johnson Co. bulldln,g, 1333·31 Wabash Ave" InCluding a special display of Hotel f"urn'lure. AU Furniture Dealers are cMdlaUy invited to Vi8il our building. ~- ~ I MANUFACTURERS OF I I HARDWOOD ~~~~~~~! I I I 31 --------------., SPECIALTIES: ~'L~'iPt~QUARO.AK VENEERS MAHOGANY VENEERS I I I: HOFFMAN I BROTHERS COMPANY , L~~4 W, Main SI" FORT WAYNE, INDIANA j .. ~ IMorton House I I (AmericanPlan)Rate. $2.50 and Up. I Hotel Pantlind I (European Plan) Rate. $1.00 and Up. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. The Noon Dinner Served at the Pantlind for 50c IS THE FINEST IN THE WORLD_ J. BOYD PANTUND, Prop. >------------. ,..----_._--------------------., IIII ,! II , We Manufacture the Largest Line of Folmna Ghairs in tht! Unitt'<l. Statt's, suitable for SUllday Sdwo!s, Halls, Steamers and all puhlk resorts. We also manufacture Brass Trimmed Iron Beds, Spring Beds, Cots and Cribs in a large variety. , --- ---~ II UNION FURNITI IRE CO. ! RcJ;;~CKFORD' ILL. I II I Ch na Closets Buffets ::r~:~:n~ru&on and Fin~. See our Catalogue. Our line on pefmanent exhibi.- tion 7th Floor. New Manllfaet~ llrers' Bilding, Grand Rapids. J_ Send for Catalogue and PriceJ to I IIK/\UffM/\N MfG. GO. ASHLAND, OHIO >_.------ • ~I I CII I l; f\ 1\ "Chippendale"-The Creator of a Style. Thomas Chipp'endalc, who came into his own in the rn~ddle years of the eighteenth century, created a style which finds an echo in every modern vill::. But although Chippendale is a name to conjure with in the' furnishing trade, it mea,os something more to the c()]ll1oisseur. Chippendale and his sons had their little ",rorkshop in St. l\Iartin's Lane. At the ua\vn of the. age of mahogany he readily adapted h:s designs suitable for working in the new wood. 1Iaho~any, it is true, was discovered by Sir \Valter Raleigh, who broLlght specinicr~s hon~e, but it:' did not come into gccentl use till after the first quarter of the eighteenth ----------, (t. :J13. '!batftelb, IDcaigllcr Blodl;!elt Bid!!., Grand Rapids. MicL. Drawings prepared for special ordered work, and co"tracts let. Don't allow this branch of the business to get away from you, as there is mone} in it. ChargtS reason ..ble. Odr Skelches Gel tht Ortler. ~----_._---- century. The wood used by Chippcndde was sp:endid i:1 quality, cOlr:ing as it did from the great UlltoUched forests, producing ;1t that time tjn~ber the like of which ill dimensio:1 is now unprocurahle. A t~ovel might be written of the buc-ca11eering exploits of British crnvs ..v..ho coolly lar.ded and cut timber from the Spar::ish p05scssiollS in America in spite of the protests of the 0""\'11cr5. l\fany a stiff figH occurred, and many lives were lost in shipping this stoletl mahogany to England, to supply the demalld for furniture. The nefa.rious proceedings more than once threatened to bnng about a war between Ellgland arHI Spain. Chippendale's early ,vork ,vas in walnut, and sometimes even in oak. Settees with his characteristic ca,briole legs and ball-and-claw feet, sometimes with heavy slat backs and lat<er with his camel backs with typical pierced centre: rail, are among his most highly' prized examples. But as he ~'-o-gressed he employed ]l'ahogany as better <;uited for his elab-orately e<irved ribbon pattern and other intricate designs. He was a prillce of chair~makcrs, all(l there is little won-der that his masterly adaptations have hrougllt him fame, al~d wh;~t is concomitant ~ith fame in art-a th~Jusand n~cretri-cious copyists. His ball-and-claw feet 11('.horrowed from the spacious chairs of old Dutch ·origin. His ribbon pat-tern smacks of the French scho'ol of carvers who tied knots with Cupids and ~astoral crooks in the days of Louis Quinze. His intricate fretwork in chair-back alld table-top was impon-ed from China, a.nd Chippendale caught the taste from the fashion set by Sir \Villiam Chambers, the arditeet of Somer-set I-T ouse, who built the pagoda in Kew GardellS. His Gothic style was another attempt, a11d a misgl,icled 011C', at adaptation. But, like Josiah ""Vedgewood, who c:mght the Greck spirit 2,nd translated it into English pottery, Chippen-dale, in his adaptations, becan,e origina', ::!.cd they were sturdy and robust in their new home of adOption. So much for real Chippendale, and the prices obtained for gcnuine examples are phenomenaL A cr"lple of his chairs have realized £1.100 r.t Christie's. But if all the furniture sold as genuine Chippendale were put together it would choke up St. Martin's Lane from one end to the other, and it would be the first time that many of the spe6'1"'1ens have found themselves in the neighborhood of Chippendale's workshop. The truth is that they were made at the same time that Chippendale made his own examples, and "~crc mnde by con-temporary cabinet makers. It reminds onc of Tennyson's poem, cntitled "The Flower," where "thif'les from o'er the wall stole the seed by night," and, in allusion to his OW11 style of versification, the pod goes on to say: ")'1ost can raise the flowers now, for all have got the seed." It was the same story with Chippendale. In 1754 he published his "Director," or book of designs, "calculated to improve ,and refine the A I, T j S ,\ ;\ pTesent taste, ;11:<1 suited to the fancy am' "ircuITlstances of persons in all degrees of life." As a matter of fact, every town of importance started a centre for making furniture- on Chippendale lines. Up and down the country, from the confines of Yorkshire to the highlalHls of DeVOll, n:aster cabinet makers took their cue from, the ~-'I~irector," and produced excelJ~ntly made furni-hue, -with fH~e joil"'lery and of sound worl,.malL,hip. Now-adays the~e ue tl~e rivals of Chippendale himself in the anc-tion room. And after Chippel1dale's death ger:crations of craftsmen continued the style. So that, for purposes of ckssifieation, it tray he said that tl:ere are, first, the rare alld genuine speci-mens of ill ll'tttre ~\ctually made bi Chippend::!le or his ,,(l1l~3 in the-i.r worksllOp. And, secondly, there is cO:1temporary furniture m<lde after his designs in various oarts of England by good craftsmen, who readily seized his idefl..s. Thirdly, sprcad over a long- period, tbere is other '-furniture s~ro:"'Igly inflllel~C"edby this coctcn'porary school, and lradc ~t any tin:e after Chippcr:dalc's death to eJ.rly ";l~etecnth ce:~tl1ry days. And here el~ds 2.11 Chippend3.le fmniturc, or "(l1i:)- pendale style" furniture, whic'h appeals to ''"'Ie collector. There is, too, rncdern furl"itl'rc inCbr'Jendale style, not pretending to be other than wbnt it is--,-modern-made fU1'lli-ture of a p::trticular design, and, lastly, there is furniture "faked" to gi...e.. it He appeanmce of age. This is always an atterrpted COpy of son::e 'ovell known pattern. It apes the grandeur al~d the rille s'oveep of curve thai '.he master drew. But it has been artfully, almost artistically made, with intent to deceive, ,:nd it does deceive in nine cases out of ten, and changes owr:ers at a great profit to the fr;>',dulent maker. In view of these facts, and the public h qradually becom-ing schooled to the various frauds perpetrated upon it, the days of "Chippendale," in inverted comma~ :l:cluding all else but furniture made by him or in his day, ~.re drawing to a close. He h::,s, to use the trade term, been "dolle to d .~;.th ,. The time was Ollce ,."hen all that was not Chippendale was held to be Sheratcn. The two names were bandied abollt in the middlc- Victorian days as rcpresentative of <'..11 that thc eighteenth century bad left as a heritage. Like Monsieur JOllrdiaIl, who le;lTllt, to his ~I11OlZemel1t,tl~L.t all 'W~S not poetry was prose, so the woulJ-hc ]Jurc!ns:?~was tallJ~·t to believe that all that was not Chippendale was Sheraton. But a good deal of water has passed under London Bridge since the Rerlaissance of English rr:odern taste in furniture. One factory would serve the needs of a community as well as ten if the people did not buy more than they actually need. , • f• Why Not Order? Say ill dozen or more Montgomery Iron Displa)' Couch 1 rucks sentyou on approval? If not satisfactory they can be retUrned at no _expense to you whatever, whilethe price asked is but a trifle. com_ pared to the oonvenien~ they a.fford.and the economy they represent in the saving of Roar space. Thirty_lwo couches mounted on the Monlgomery Iron Display Couch Trucks occupy the same Roar space as twelve dis. played in the usual manner. Write for clllalogue giving full descrip-tion and price in the differenl finishes. to-gether with illustrations demomtraling the use of the Giani Short Rail Bed F aslener lof Iron Beds. Manufactured by Ihe R. J. Montl!Omery MEII. Co. PATENTHIiS Silver Creek, New York, U. S. A. MICHIGAN ARTISAN I Hafner Furniture Com IanyI I , ESTABLISHED 1873. , 2620 Dearborn St., CHICAGO lI II , III!,I ,II ~------_. , Couches, Box Couches, Adjustable ounges, Davenp rts, Bed Dave port~, Leather Crairs, and Rockers No. 3106 Couch-Size, 76 inc.hes long and 30 inches wide. A luxurious couch with a graceful gondola shapt!. The wide frame is elegantly decorated with rococo mould~ in~ and carved ornamellts. Has heavy winged clawfoot legs. Frame is made of kiln dried hardwood lumber beautifully finished in American golden grained quarter sawed oak. The upholstering is of the small diamond tufted style with deep snake rulfl.es on the sides.. The filling ia of tow with hair top. Hafner warranted steel spring coo· struction having 28 springs in the seat and 9 in the head. Heavy white canvas duck bottom. Shipped K. D. legs 01:1 and weighs about 125 lbs. Samples shown Manufacturers" Furn-ilure Ilxchange,War.a.~ Ave. and 14th St., Chicallo. I ____________ I _----.... formed of tradil1g" dt your store Iflyou wlll give them "i chance they will he glad to buy othCl~goods as well And the, wider r<l\lg-e of yon I" customers' W IItS yOll can serve, the mOTe goods you '~lll sell The only safe rule IS Buy of c eh aruc1e the smallest <jl1<lJltity that will enable you to tak proper Cafe of your t,,,de. t The roadman lTIay not like to see Oll chang;e to the buy-small- and-often plan and he may raise 11is eyebrowswhel1 you order a d02('n where you llsed to huy six dozen, But when he sees you mean business, be sure. lre wi~l be glad to take your order for one dozen, and at a rl~ht pnce. If the panic of 1907-1008 forced Of ~1e)pedyou to get rid of overstocks so you have a clean stock today, it may prove the best friend you evet had. Price, No. 1 Leather. $31. Straight From the Shoulder. In the course of the year, in person and by Jetter, <:1 great many re.tailmerchants who atc not satisfied ,vith the condi-tion of their business tell us their-troubles, says t[1(: Butler Drummer. In nearly every instance when exposed, it is the same old thing: portion to sales. For many years we have said that over-buying is the cause of most of the ills that afflict a, mercantile business. :Most retailers agreed with us ill theory, hut disagreed in practice. In de6ancc of their own best judgment, they continued to place a,dvancc orders and to buy in qUantities. The late unpleasantness forced a goood many thousand merchants to realize that through habitual over-buying they had crossed the danger line, Vv' e firmly believe the average retail stock could he "boiled" a quarter or a. third with no injury to sales and with the best possible effect on the health of the business. Too many merchants carry three stocks, one on the shelves, one upstairs and OIlC in the warehoosc. It is the old question of siluple profJt versus compound profIt. \Vhell yOU buy three months' supply of an article yOli in-vest fonr times ai-;much as yOLl need do for a, three wc.eks' supply. For tl1<: same ineRtment you could buy a thrr::e 'Neeks' .~t{)ck of each of fout articlcs and tlJcreby multiply your sales withont increasing investment. Vie cannot say too often or too earnestly that snrpluR stock does not help sak~ ill the slightest. The money tied up in o\'erstoeks wonld enable you to add departments you do not no,,\, handle, to increase YOllrpresent li"nes, <tnd would provide the room to take care of the new goods, The best asset you have is the habit your customers have the root of thc trouble is Too many goods in pro- A Bride's Courage Rewarded. At Denver on September 26, T. n tIhe presence of severa I thousand people at Coliseum Hall, ,,~hi1e the labor fair was in ,progress, ),..fiss ])/larg-aret Parks p~omised to love, honor and cherish-not obey-Clarence. Cok, and received for her courage furniture for a house. r: \Vhen 'a committee of the state Ie (:rat;on offered to give the young couple furniture for their ew home jf they would consent to a public wedding at the C liseum, both agreed in-stantly. But when the time fOT tl~e event drew llear' the bridegroom's courage failed. He l~ad not anticipated that there would be such a crowd of specrators-and-and-and-.-- But tIle bride bad. the courage of two and for~two~ "I'm going through with it," she said, '(because I have promised." That left nothing for Mr. Cox to do hut follow' tllC lead jf he wanted the bri.de, and he did. To the strains of the ·'...e.dding- march the- two asc"ended' th(" platform while the crowd at the' fair gathered a,rmmd. 33 I :VIICHIGAK ARTISAN ~-------------------------------------.. .~Moon Desk Co. MUSKEGON. MICH MANUFACTURERS OF OFFICE DESKS FOR ALL PURPOSES t~------•.---_.. ,.I Conducting a "Retail Store. To start with, 1 am going t/l be frank to say that r woulfl probably make some mistakes if 1 were confronted with the problem of conducting a retail store. But-I would not make a great many mistakes that are made every day hy h1111- <!reels of mer.chants, a great many of whom succeed in spite of them, says B-erton Elliott in Reta.iler. I do not possess an expert knowledge of aH goods, hut I clo know business and human nature pretty well. [would surround myself with the best clerks that I could find all(l hire-and 1, myself, would learn the details of the business just as rapidly as [ CQuld. First, I would take my place of business, and regardless of its appearance, ar~d no matter how shabbily it looked. [ would "fix it up" il~side. I v.'ould try to make it noticeably different in some respect from other stores in the town. I might finish the woodwork in mission effect-D[ paint the entire inside in light, pleasingeffec:ts, a light gray perhaps, for the side w~d!s, cnntrasting it with a different shade for the ceiling-T might set some palms about the floor-or have two or three large, comfortable looking chairs setting in the frout part of the store with a telephone on the st.and-nearby- or whatever seemed to be most practicable, that would leave an impression-a pleasing and favorable im])Tc~- sion-on visitors, because of being different from the nsual arra.ngement of a store. But whate'.!ei other things I did, 1 would have eve'ything spick and span, neat and clean, a bright, cheerful, ll1.viting looking place to trade in. I would let in just as much dayhghtas possible. In summer time 1 would let in plenty of fresh air, and would keep the ventila-tion good a.ll the time. A store interior that is attrae-tive and neat not only makes a better impression on cnstomers, but in-vitesa second call as well. People apprecIate a: well kept store, even more than is generally realized and like to trade there. Then I would take the outside of the building and brighten it up. I would paint it some pronounced color-a brilliant red or a bright orange, perhaps"'"""-'-sthoat it would stand out l1:ke a "sore thumb." The "brightest spot in town" I would make my store, both 'inside allCl outside. People would be sure to see it, to remember it, and to talk about it. I would have the window glass as large as possible. It always pays to have one pane of glass instead of two, 00 matter if the cOSt is considerably more, because it not only presents a more at~ tractive and substa.ntial appearance to the store, but greatly impr"ov'escthe looks of window displays. It also pays to use the bcst.'qttaJity -of glass, as a poor ·qualhy ""ill obscure and I,, II ,I!III II ----------------------_-: No .,1,8:1. distort the goods shown in the windov·,:. 1 would not have the front of the store cluttered up with a lot of miscellaneou'> signs stuck up in hit-or-miss fashion, but would have lIly name and l;msiness neatly lettered in gold leaf on the window and on the door. Before 1 diel this r would observe the other windows in town and notice what styles of lettering were simple and easily read and stood out strong and distinctive in character. I would Insist that the sign painter use the S"Ltll(' style of fetter for my Sigll. T would also see that the side-walk in front of my store was kept perfectly clean from the frollt of the building clear down to the gutter. Not only would I see that they were scrupulously dean, but T would neycr permit" baskets or stands of goods to be displayed out on the sidewalk. This always looks cheap, and unless one is in 'the second hand business or running a p'Lwn shop, the reputation of the "cheap JOlll'I," who sacrifices everything to price, is not what you are a.fter. Tht"s dOlle, 1 would give my particular attelition to the goods I handle.d. [would sell only g-O()<!, honest merchan-dise. I would take no chances on injuring my reputatlon and ,Standing in the community by selling goods that ·were not known to be of highest standard quality. Tn the words of Emerson: T~Ie man who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has an enemy will find him everywhere." This is particularly significant in merchandising. NQ one can profit by this bit of philosophy better than the man who has something to sell. If a customer is not entirely pleased and satisfied with any purchase there is no end to the damage he may do. You find him everywhere, on the street, at li:hurch, at the club, telling neighbors, friends, anybody he happens to meet. that things you sell cannot be depended upon. )..lanuracturers whose good are not of recognized standard value-whose chief claim for the dealer's cOllsidenltion is the low price of their goods~are not so careful to guard the repu-tation of their product. They have- no varticularincentive. Tn fad, they generally make the quality of their goods fit the price they ask, instead of making the very best goods it i's possible to produce, a.nd then selling them for what they arc worth. I would not have goods of this kind in my store. l\Ierchants are safeguarded in dealings with their customers .. '1,\'\10 handle well known, wen advertised goods of estabHshed reputation. -------------------------- - 2\UCHIGAN ARTISAN 35 ,..----------------------------_._-------- ,I II ,,t I I III ,I tt II I,, ,,,I ST CHAS. A. FISHER & CO., 1319 Michigan Ave_. Chicago. WKITE FOR BOOKLET AND PROPOSITION Warehouses: LOUIS, MO. KANSAS dTY. MO PEORIA. ILL. LINCOLN, ILL . MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. CHICAGO. ILL. .._---------------------_. UNIFORM BILL OF LADING. New Document Will Go Into Effect Throughout the Country on November 1, Upon lhe J"t'commendatiol1 uf the Interstate Comlllerce Commissioll, ,,,,hie\) was rna{te after public hearing upon the matter. at ,·vhich ;t11 interests were afforded an opportunity to he heard, the carriers \v;l1. on Xovcmhcr J, 190R. adopt a new u\liform hill of lading con~billed ''\lith a new shipping order. Tbis co

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