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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-sixth Year-No 3 AUGUST 10. 1905 Semi.Monthly FOREMEN SUPERINTENDENTS SALESMEN we want to teach you by mail our system of FURNITURE DESIGN Weare proud of the results of our school, and the quahty of the work our students are turning out. Write for full particulars. THE ONLY SCHOOL IN THE WORLD TEACHING ROD MAKING AND STOCK BlLUNG WITH THE REGULAR COURSE. Grand Rapids School of Furniture Design ARTHUR KIRKPATRICK, Pwprietor. 543 Houseman Building, Grand Rapids, Mich. "GI LLETTE" If "almost anything win do" in trucks they can be had "almost anywhere" and at "almost any price. If on the other hand the demand is for "the best" in trucks as in other things - for a compact and strongly built, all steel and malleable iron frame- for malleable iron wheels carefully bored and reamed to secure a perfect bearing surface - for a practical and effective roller bearing which is neither a freak. a failure nor an infringement - it can be. met only by the purchase of the Gillette trucks. Made in but one quality-the best, and in all types and sizes. Prices reasonable. TRUCKS of all kinds for factory and kiln purposes. Carts for milland yard use. VEHICLE , AXLES III square, coach bed and "round. in all sizes from I 10 3 inches 6 FOOT TRUCK FOR CROSS-WISE: PIL.ING GILLETTE ROLLER BEARING CO. GRAND PATE.NTEES AND SOLE MANUFACTURE:AS U. S. A. WHEELER'S PATENT WOOD RAPIDS, MICHIGAN, .........-----"TRUCKS"-------- THE BRIDGEPORT WOOD FINISHING CO.-New Milford. Conn. F I L L E R Forms a _permanent fnunrlation. Brings out the full life and beaut v of the wood. Goes further and saves labor and material, hence cheaper than other fillers. 55 Fulton St •• New York. 79 W.lake St., Chicago. 231 Dock'St .. Philadelphia. SPARTAN PASTE FILLER Made in Marietta. A High Grade Article in Every Respect, possessing qualities that put it easily ahead of other fillers from the fineness and character of the ingredients that make up its composition. We produce this in all of the leading shades, including our FAMOUS GOLDEN OAK IMITATION QUARTERED OAK TRY OUR SPECIAL FILLERS AND STAMPING INKS We are producing-the goods of this nature that brin/{ results to perfection. Sample our Fillers No. 800 and No.810 and our Inks Nos. 5, 6 and 11. . In OIL STAINS, remember, we lead! Our Golden Oak and Mahogany Stains stand without a rival. Write us for samples and full information. The Marietta Paint and Color Co. MARIETTA.0Ii10. TO THE TRADE: We have purchased the business of the Benedict Furniture Clamp Company of this city, including all patents, patterns, machinery and stock owned by them, and we will continue the business under our own name. We will be prepared to furnish any of the Benedict Clamps and other devices made under the Benedict patents after August 15th. The addition of the Benedict line gives us the most complete line of factory furnishings on the market. Every furniture factory should have our new catalog, which will be out September 1st. Write for a copy of it. GRAND RAPIDS HAND SCREW CO. Bartlett and Ionia Streets, Grand Rapids, Mich. I, Wood-Working Machinery and Supplies These Specialties are used all Over the World Veneer Presses, all kinds and sizes Hand Fel!'d GlueingMac:hine. (Patent pending,) Eigbt Styles and Sizes. Veneer Presses Glue Spreaders Glue Heaters Trucks, Etc.. Etc. Power Feed Glue Spreading Machine. (PatE'nt 8.pplied for). Single, double and combiuation LET US KNOW YOUR WANTS 419-421 E. Eighth St. -C"AS. E. fRANCIS s.. BRO.D CINCINNATI, O. No. 20 Glue Heater No.6 Glue Heater The Pittsburg Plate Glass Company ~lANUF.-\CTURRRS AND JOfWBRS OF Plain and Beveled Mirrors, Bent Glass for China Cabinets Plate Glass for Desks, Table Tops and Shelves Our facilities for supplying furniture manufacturers will be understood when we state that we have 10 Glas.'i factories, extending from Pennsylvania to Missouri; and 13 Mirror plants, located as follows: Also, our 22 jobbina houses carry heavy stocks in all lines of "lass, paints. varnishes and brushes: and are located in the cities named below: New York Boston Phlla.delphia. But'falo Cincinnati St. Louis Minneapolis Atlanta Kokomo. Ind. Ford City. Pa. High Point. N. C. Davenport Crystal City, Mo. NEW YORK-Hudson aud Vandam Streets. BOSTO~-41-49 Sudbury St., 1-9 BowkeT 5t. CHICAGO-442-4,52 Wabash A\·euue. CINCINNATI-Broadway and Court Streets. ST. LOUIS-Cor, Izth and St Charles Streets. MINNEAPOLIS-,500-5IO S. Third Street DETROIT -53-55 Larned Street E PITTSBURGH-mt-to::, \VOQrl StTeet. MIL WAUKEE, WIS.-492-494 Market Stred. ROCHESTER, N. Y,-Wilder Rllilding, Mflin and Exchange Sts. HALTIMORE-22I-223 W. Pratt Street. BUFF ALO-372-4-6-8 Pearl Street. BROOKLYN -635 and 637 Fulton Street. PHILADELPHIA-Pitcairn Building, Arch and Eleventh Streets. , , DAVENPORT-4Io-416 Scott Street. CLEVELAND-149*5i-53 Selleca Street. OMAHA-I008-1o-U Harney Street. ST. P AUL-34l.r51 Minnesota Stt"eet. ATLANTA, GA.-so, 32 and 34 S. Pryor Street. SAVANNAH, GA.-745-749 Wheaton Street. KANSAS CITY-Fifth and Wyandott Sts. BIRMINGHAM, ALA.-2nd A,-e. aud 29th St. It needs no argument to show what advantages may be derived from dealing directly with us. AGENTS FOR THE COULSON PATENT CORNER POSTS AND BATS. Indianapolis. Indiana Write lor Information, Prices Etc. The Universal Automatic CARVINO MACHINE '-= PERFORMS THE WORK OF 25 HAND CARVERS And does the Work Better than it can be Done b~ Hand =======~MADE BY Union [noosslna MA(U1nr(0. 1 ,.....------------------- 2 26th Year-No.3. GRAND RAPIDS. MICH.. AUGUST 10. 1905. Manufacturers Misrepresented in Congress. A question that is often asked is, whether manufacturers are adequately represented in congress. It is a question that manufacturers, as often answer in the negative, emphaticany in the negative. Every time nominations for congressmen are to be made, the query is circulaled among manufacturers as to what man among them is fit and able to represent them, to look after their tlltere'6ts in the hom,e. as they would them- !'ielves look after the interests of their own business. Over and over again the question has been put, and over and over again manufacturers-whose great and varied interests re-quire men of the very first calibre to look afteT them-have been met 'I\lith the same difficulties. Almost invariably it has been found that there is no man in the community ·who is both willing and able to represcnt them in congress. The natural, but no less unsatisfactory result or this is that a makeshift is llomillated and elected. It is illcomprehensible how such a state of things can be tolerated. As a body, man-ufacturers are a powerful set of men, intellectually and finan-cially, and yet, year after y('.ar, their intcrests ate flagrantly misrepresented. T f ample proof of this were not in evidence. it ·would only be necessary to turn to such a question as the present aprarent impotence of manufacturers to free alcohol required for industrial purposes {roul the import duties and inland revenue taxes that at present hamper the development of that commodity a5 a powerful agent in extending and broadening a number of important industries in which alcohol is extensively used. Congressmen whose powers of intelli-gence can perceive no distinction beh ..·.ecn the vastly diffcrent purposes for which alcohol can be used, and who are willing to sit still and givc their tacit consent to the equal taxation of alcohol, whether it be [or drinking purposes or for industrial uses; or who diHcgard the calls of manufacturers for the re-vision of the tariff regulations on lumber and glass, and other articles whose taxation holds back important American in-dustries, such men, we think, show themselves to be lac.king in the first principles of statescraft, and at the next elections a supreme effort should be made to turn them out of their high places to make room {or abler and more progressive rep-resentatives of the manufacturers, with whose interests those o{ the people are so closely bound up. Stalwart champions of right and progress should be sought out, and at the time of election manufacturers should combine in a united endeavor to get the right men into congress as their represcntatives. The power of the manufacturers has been little realized, or used. That power should be brought out and demonstrated. During the campaign of 1896, manu-facturers roused themselves to some extent. Bnt it would seem that that campaign, commendable as it was, almost ex-hausted their energies. Since that time manufacturers have retired within the walls of their factories, and, as a gentleman expressively put it the other day, have gone off to sleep agatl1. Let them be warned in time, else, too late, their somnolenCe will be disturbed and, yawning with discontent at the results of the elections in which they have taken so small a share, they will find that many of the old incompetents, an{l a nnm- $1.00 per Year. ber of new incompetents, have been duly elected, and that manufacturing interests will have about as rosy a prospect of being properly looked after as they have at the present time.-Buffalo 1\Jal1ufactmer. Furniture Exposition in Prague. Consul Ledoux, of Prague, Austria-Hungary, reports that the exposition committee of the Association of Cabinetmakers of Prague and suburbs invites the co-operation of foreign ex-hibitors for their exposition of furniture and kindred manu-fectures, to be held at the Industrial palace from August 20 to September 30. Under the supervision o{ the Technological museum of Prague, a special international technical depart-ment is to be established, comprising motors, woodworking machinery o{ all kinds, cabiI1etmakers' and jointers' tools of all kinds and appliances, metal fittings and decorations, fur-niture coverings of cloth and leather, varnished and half-fin-ished materials used by joiners and cabinetmakers. Patents and new inventions and processes for these trades wilt receive particular attention. Mr. Arthur Gobiet, of Prague-Karolin-enthal, Bohemia, has been appointed agent of the exposition, and is prepared to represent foreign exhibitors and to furnish all desired information. The exhibition is held under the patronage of the Chamber of Commerce of Pragu'e. THE CORRECT Stains and fillers. THE MOST SATISFACTORY first Coaters and Varnishes MANUFAr:TURCD DlfLY 8 Y CHICAGO WOOD FINISHING CD. Z59·63 ELSTONAVE.'" Z·16 SLOAN ST. CHI CACO. WADDELL ~~~A~!A~TUM~~~~u~~: FURNITURE ORNAMENTS IN WOOD 220 PAGE CATALOGUE; NEARLY 15()()ILLUSTRATIONS, l\WLED ON RECEIPT OF 15 CENTS INSTAMPS LABORERS' INSURANCE IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES. Twelve Countries of Europe Have Attempted a Practical So}ution of the Question----:.Germany's System Leads the World. United States Consul Haynes, of Rouen, France, who has made a careful study of labor conditions abroad, has written an interesting article on the question of illsurance [or -..vork-men in a number of foreign countries ,'vhere it has received more 01' less of a 1)racticrrl solution. At the present time such protectio!l, obligatory or voluntary, is afforded the workmen of England, Belgium, Austria. Denmark, S\\'edcll. Nrjt'way, Hungary, Italy, Finland, Switzerland, N('w Zealand and Ger-man}'. In England there is a voluntary insurance against disabil-ity, which assures to those employed in industrial or agri-n\ ltural labor, and whose carnings do not exceed ~480, an av::rage annuity of $85. The insurance is directed toward millers in Belgium, and Austria as well, but in the latter country there is also an obligatory sick alld accident insur-ance for all classes of labor. Pas.t the sixtieth year, the needy in Denmark arc looked after by the state and commune. A workmen's insurance committee has existed in Sweden for the past sixtcen years. Gottenborg, famous for its ex-cellent habitations for workmen, is one of the first cities to solve successfully the question of insurance for workmen employed in the cily's public works. There are ],500 of these laborers intbat city. The question is fully and effectively met by according a retiring pension to all superintendents, chiefs, inspectors and workmen employed by the city, upon their baving reached sixty~f1ve years of age, providing they have bccn in its service for-at least t\venty-five years. The pensions are divided into five classes, ranging from $289 10 $80. Insurance is compulsory in Norway for all industrially employed workmen. Hungary offers an oblig-atory insurance for all employes of both sexes. There exists in Italy a volun-tary insurance against sickness and disability, and an obliga-tory insurance against accident·. In Finland all workmen are authorized to insure against s.ickness, the cost being' borne equally by employer and emplqye. Every workrnan in an in-dltlstrial estblishmcllt gailling more than $145 is compelled 1 insure against accidents. GERIVJA"IY AFFORDS nEST PROTlcCTlON. HThere is perhaps no conntry in the world," says Consul aynes, "where workmen are so protected by the state or a e so cared for as in Germany. Even clerks, shop assistants. ahd servants, are compelled to insure. The insurance is effected by pasting into a book certain stamps every -week, "t1d it is tbe duty of every employer to see that this is faith-f l11ydone. In the Gern:-an empire .there are three il.1s.urances f r workmen, all of WhlCh are oblIgatory and under the <1U- ,tority of the imperial insurance office, viz: Sickness, acci-d nt, old ag"e, or infirmity. This insurance is mutual, and its a ministration autonomous llnder state control It embraces W11ithoutdistinctioll of llationality, all per:-i()J~s w(;rking it~ ermany. "Insurance against sickness is especially for those occu-pied in industry and commerce receiving a yearly salary of $480 or more; but the law allows other \vorkmen, comprising domestic servants, voluntarily to take advantage of it. It has 22,672 local offices, and 9,500,000 workmen g(~t the ycarly benefit of $36,500,000. The object of this insurance is to guar-antee to the insurcd a Slife and efficacious aid for at least thirteen weeks from the .beginning of sickness. "VI,"orkmen ill the illdustries and in agriculture, ete., farm-ers, renters, day workmen, etc., gaining less than $482, must insure against accident. In certain- cases those gaining more 5 than $482 are allowed, and sometimes compelled, to insure. A complimentary law insures soldiers against accident, and the aid to all the employed in the empire embraced in the in-surance law against accident, is in the form of state pensions. This insurance is an emp1oycrs' mutual insurance with a state gLlaranty, and its bureaus have a civil personality with COlll-plete administrative independence. "Everyone insured in case of accident during work at a wage has a right to gratuti.tous medical treatment. If the v'I'ounded is not insurerl against sickness, the owner of the establishment in which he is employed must accord to him from his private purse the same treatment he \vould have re-ceived from the bureau of illSUrallCe against sickness had he been insured thcr-::in. If the wounded is also insured against sickness, his pecuniary aid can amount to two-thirds of his \:vages. Builders and farm and forest workmen are treated for the first thirteen weeks at the expense of the commune in which the acc.ident occurred. ACCIDENT INSURANCE COMPULSORY. "Accident insurance pensions are not calculated according to the personal gain of the vieti.m, but according to the aver-age wages fixed by age and sex. The amount paid in by em-ployers is not determined by the number of workmen em-ployed, but by their direct taxes. Small proprietors can be exempted, totally or partially, from any dues. "This insurance in the German empire is obligatory from the sixleenth year, alld embraces every workman earning over $482. It is optional for workmen whose annual earnings are 1110re than $724. The resources for this insurance are fur-nished by the employer, the emp10yed, and the state, the lat-ter giving toward each pension a uniform subvention of $12 and raying the workman's dues during the time he is serving his military term. All remaining expenses are shared equally by the employer and employe, who pay according to the five classes into which the imperial insurance offtce has arranged the insured, vi7-: (r) \Vorkmen gaining no more than $84 pay 3.3 cents per week; (2) a wage not greater than $1,33pays 4..8cents \",eekly; (3) a maximum wage of $205 :pays 5.8 cents; (4) a maximl1111wage of $277 pays 7.24 cents, and (5) a wage beh\7een $277 and $482.50 pays 8.68 cents weekly. The amount paid by the workman is deposited in the bureau by the em-ployer, who buys s:r;ecial stamps and aftixes them to the em-p1oye's receipt, after having deducted from his wages the amount due. ;;An old-age pension is paid to every insured workman of seventy years or over 'who has deposited not less than 1,200 weekly dues, The dues de~osited for the employe by the state during military service is counted among these 1,200, as well as temporary interruptio·ns. Old-age pensions of the first class amount to $26, second class $;H, third class $41, fourth class $48, and fifth class $55.50." Jamestown Company StiIl Doing Business. Since the destruction of its factory by fire July 4, reports have been circulated that the Jamestown Pauel & Veneer company was Ollt of bllsiuess. Such is not the case. To the contrary, the company has leased a factory bnilding of ample size at J ame,-;towl1, which it will occupy while rebuilding, and is at present in a position to suppy its customers with its usual promptness. The company will rebuild as rapidly as possible, and expect to be in a new factory by December I, \'\7hen it will bc capable of double the capacity of the past. Bill Dismissed. The bill to enjoin infringement of letters brought against Charles Kaiper'.s Sons, by Charles F. Streit in the United States District court, southern district of Ohio, has been dis-missed at the complainant's costs. l Long-Knight Lumber Co. ==============SPEC IALTY:============== QUARTERED RED AND WHITE OAK INDIANAPOLIS,--------------------IINDIANA We were Pioneer .. fn Produefng a Succ.ssful and Practical Rub_ btDIt and. Polishing Machine and a PERFECT Sander As II ~..mdel', it will do !Ill tl18t tiny othel' nJlld/ln" will do, and Ilially tllill.e:~ tllatllo OtlWl' lll~l"hine can do, HU1ldl'ed~ ofmll.clllne~ in constant use workiul!: UpOll woo<], varnish, brass. copper. slate, marble, \V01'';';many faetoril's using from 6 to 14each Cor sanding, rUboiuk and polIshIng, MAD DO X MAC H I NEe 0 M PAN Y, JAMESTOWN, NEW YORK TffE CREDIT BUREAU OF TffE FURNITURE TRADE The LYON FURNITURE AGENCY Grand Rapids Ollice, 412-413 Houseman Bldg. GEO. E, GRAVES, Manager CLAPPERTQN & OWEN, CounseJ ROBERT P. LYON, General Manager THE STANDARD REFERENCE BOOK CAPITAL. CREDIT AND PAY RATINGS CLEARING HOUSE OF TRADE EXPERIENCE THE MOST RELIABLE CREDIT REPORTS CREDITS and COLLECTIONS IMPROVED METHODS COLLECTIOMNASDEEVERYWHERE PROMPTLY - REUABLY Various Matters. The St. Johns Table company, having decided to move their manufacturing business to Cadillac, :r-dich.,."here finan-cial aid awaits the corporation, the people of St. Johns pro-pose to bond the city for a sufficient sum to purchase the old plant and offer its occupancy for a nominal sum to some in-dividual or corporation to fit up and operate the same. The plan is a good one and should speedily attract the attention of those seeking a location in which to establish a manufac-turing business. The occupant would pay no taxes upon the real estate and but l11wleratc rent. The plan is an improve-ment upon the boous system so generally pursued by munici-palities in their efforts to develup manufacturing inrlllstries within their horders. • • • Manufacturers of case work h.ave practicaJJy abandoned the graceful swell ends and fronts used so successfully during recent years of the past. The old square. box-like shape re-turns with the. demand for early English and the mission and Dutch forms in furniture. It does not look so "s\vell" as the cnrved forms, and its use make!; the artistic furnishing of rooms a more difficult problem for the decorator. • * • Manufacturers of case work in the English, Dutch and mission styles find it more economical to cut the strap band hinges and handles used on dressers and doors than to pur-chase the same from metal working factories. • * * Other manufacturers tan the hides used in the manufac-ture of furniture covered or partly covered with leather, and cast the metal lamps, vases and like pieces considered neces-sary for properly decorating the plain, straig"ht furniture in vogue. • * • Because a piece fails to sell well this season accords no ground for supporting the presumption that it will not ,sell easily in the sea>ian to follow. Very often a. piece that fails to attract attention and appreciation when first shown proves to the buyer, after he has had an opportunity to calmly con-sider the same, to be a very meritorious production. This fact proves that the second judgment of a buyer is often more valuable than the first. • • • ;;The panic of 1893 was a blessing to the manufacturers of furniture in one way," remarked a gentleman with a pain-ful recollection of the hard conditions of manufacture during that and the following three years. "Any old thing- having the semblance of an article of furniture would sell, and the designers were not permitted to give expression to the artistic taste and skill gained in the schools 'of design and the factory. But a great lesson was learned during the years of the trade panic, and the manufacturers have since given the designers greater freedom. Only articles of recognized merit find pur-chasers in these years of prosperity, and the designer is COlJ-sidered of great importancE'. by the trade. \Vith the booming trade prevailing, however, there is a disposition to contract the field of usefulness filled by the designer, and another panic may be necessary to teach the manufacturers again the lesson they learned in J893." • • • The demand for golden oak is not so great since the in-troduction of the \'veathcred and early English fmislles. The big figured oak flakes covered with shellac and polished var-nish jars the artistic sensibilities of per!;ons of refined tastes. The quiet, unobtrusive wax finish soothes and satisfies the user. The big, noisy figures of the oak, when filled with stains of gold, then varnished and polished like a mirror, is as startling as the unexpected explosion of a powder mill or 7 a mine charged with dynamite. Quiet tones will grow in de-mand as the people progress 1I1 their studies of art in the home. * • * To those who never saw him in action, the work of W. A. Harker, the buyer for the Pacific Purchasing company, of Los Angeles, in the warerooms of Grand Rapids during the past month, was a revelation. Mr. Barker needed one-half million dollars' worth of goods for immediate shipment. The eight stores of the company handle $2,5°0,000 worth of fur-nitme annually, and the man who buys for the combination has full employment for his time. \\Then Mr. Barker entered a wareroom he brought an air of earnestness and energy that suggested the hero of the squared ring. Throwing off hat, coat, vest, collar, cuffs and tie, be rolled up his sleeves, took a reef in the legs of his pants and sailed in. Running through a line with the speed of a colkgc pedestrian, he would bring up at the starting place and call for a stenographer to take his order. Unless the follower of Ben Pittman or Graham pos-sessed great speed, the huyer was plainly impatient and irri-tated. It is within bounds to say that .11r. Barker bopght four carloads of ladies' desks and music cabinets from the Grand Rapids Fancy Furniture company in less time than has been taken by the writer to prepare this paragraph, and the writer fancies that he is not slow. In other lines Mr. Barker kept up his break-neck, nerve destroying, brain-racking pace. * * * It can be readily seen why a man upon whom rests so much work and responsibility as has been put upon Mr. Bar-ker by the Pacific Purchasing company should urge that one exposition ce held by the manufacturers, and that sucn a one be located in Grand Rapids. It would save so much time and expense. It did not Occur to Mr. Barker that no single fur-niture exposition town could accommodate all manufacturers who .vOL1ldrequire space for showing their lines. • * • The Chicago Journal continues to misrepresent the Grand Rapids market. The latest issue contains this paragraph: ''In Grand Rapids the total of the visiting buyers was 869." The truth is that the total was over 1,000, and at this date (August 1), they are still coming. * • * The printers, the engravers and the photographers suffer heavy loss Oil account of the uIlusually active trane in the furniture exposition towns last month. Many orders for catalogues have been cancelled. • • • During the past month one of the local newspapers of Grand Rapids assigned reporters to the task of ascertaining the views of manufacturers in regard to the proposed reduc~ tion of the tariff. Very emphatic statements were made by E. H, Footc, Charles R. Sligh, and others, in support of the demand for reductions in the duties levied upon articles used in the furniture manufacturing business. The low priced lumber of Canada, the cheap mirror plates of Belgium and Germany, would 'be available for the manufacturers but for the excessive duties imposed by congress. Mahogany is not grown in the United States, and no industry is benefited by the duty exacted from the importers and by the importers from the consumers. Secretary John A. Covode, of the Ber~ key & Gay Furniture company, would not disturb the existing schedules. • • • "They" (the manufacturers of Grand Rapids), "are likely to find their position" (as leading manufacturers), "not so conspicuous a few years from now, as it is at the present time."-Chicago Furniture JournaL The wish' is father to the thought. Mahogany Silacene! WHAT. IS IT? ~ \.~~ ~~ ~~ IT IS NOT a Shellac SUbstitute, but IT IS a FIRST COATER or primary coat, to be used over mahogany water stain when imitating mahogany on birch, maple, beech, elm, etc., etc. IT IS superior to shellac for tbis class of work for many reasons. Here are a few of them: IT works more freely under the brusb and flows out over the work and levels itself away more smoothly than does shellac and does not set up so rapidly as does shellac. IT WILL NOT bleed the color of the stain as does shellac. IT WILL enhance the tone of the stain, giving a greater depth of color and much clearer results. IT WILL NOT raise the grain of the wood as does shellac, but IT WILL stop absorption and hold out the subsequent coats of varnish, givinl< the work a much heavier body than does shellac. MAHOGANY SILACENE dries hard and flat in from six to eight bours, can be tbinued from 75 to 100 per cent and covers 1000 square feet of surface per thinned gallon. IT IS NOT a spirit preparatiou. Last but not least comes the question of cost, and where we clinch our nail good and hard. We can furnish you MAHOGANY SILACENE at just about balf tbe cost of shellac. WHEN ORDERING SPECIFY 354-2. Our Catalogue will give you our best selling shades in all of our specialties but I WE CAN MATCH ANYTHING I Send us a sample of what you want matched and we will do the rest. A copy of "Lindeman, the Filler naker," can be had for the asking. We carry a full line of FILLERS STAINS PRIMERS SURFACERS JAPAN COATERS ENAMELS LACQUERS and everything needed in the Finishing RO?m. ft ~~ 4 ~ ~ ~~ The Barrett=Lindeman Company 1400=2=4 Frankford Avenue PHILADELPHIA, PA. No. 146 Band Rip and Resaw. The combination of a band rip saw and a band resa ..". will certainly be recognized by experienced operators as 1l10iit desirable and convenient, having all the advantages of two macmncs and yet occupying the floor space of one. VY'hile the combination is nev,,' the mechanism for both operations embodies the featllres that have bcen so successful in our single tools. The machine has three patents and it soon repays its COiit. The LIpper wheel is free from vibration, and saws of ·varying length may be nsed. The upper wheel is fitted with OUTpat.ent knife edge straining device, always giv~ ing an eVen tension to the blade, thl1s prolonging its life. The lower wheel is solid (or wehhed), lessening vibration, circulation of dust, and preventing over-Tunning. The wheels arc forty-two inches in diamet.cl" and carry a three-inch blade. The table is mounted on a rocker bearing, rermitting it to be 9 The feed is regulated by variable speed frictions operated by lever convenient. to operator. For resawing it may be varied from ten to fifty feet per mirltltc, and for ripping from thirty to one hundred and forty feet.. A brake mechanism is furnished to instantly sU)~)machine. Further particulars can be had from thc makers, L A. Fay & Egan company, of No. 505 to No. 525 \"1>./. Front street, Cincinnati, O. Also ask for catalog'ue or books on band saws and sanderii. Ended Convention With a Spread. The ),Jarietta Paint & Color comp~ny's employes fittingly brought to a close their recent convention at Marietta, Ohio, with a sumptllOl1S l:anquct, at which the officers of the com-iCany and traveling salesmen wcre the guests of honor. The ev::nt ·was attended by Pr(:~ident C. S. Dana, Vice President angled fifteen degrees for bevel sawing, and is made in two parts. The front part, carrying the resaw rolls. is instantly reversible, and t.he lower side, ,"v'hen reversed, forms a per-fectly clear table for ripping, and upon which arc friction rolls to facilitate the ieed. The resawing rolls are arranged to self center, or by moving the lever pin onc set of rolls can be made rig'id to saw from one side of board. Boards up to eigllteen inches wide may he resawed, and the rolls open t.o saw to the center of eight inches. The feed rolls for ripping are carried on an adjustablc dovetail slide fitted onto the upper bearing arm, and the distance between the feed in and feed out ones is short, to permit feeding short stock. The machine can he almoiit. instantly changed from a rip saw to a resaw, or vice versa, and by one man. The fence is a. new eccentric locking type and can be moved back to permil sawing up to twcnty-four inches wide. The saw guides are new and improved and are placed close to cnt of saw. c. J. La Vallee, Superintendent I~obert \Valker, P. 1\-1. Sey-mom, of the :"l. C. & c.; A. H. Snyder, of t.he B. & 0.; \V, C. Adams, of the Pennsylvania lines; Joseph Gobel, of the First. National bank, and the traveling salesmen, as follows: John Reiver, S11dbyville, Ind.; ::\1. ]. \V01z, Grand Rapids., Mich.; C. G. Edwards, vVilliamsport, Pa.; John \V. Marsh, Thomasville, N. c.; Vv'. C. Patterson, Boston, Mass.; R. S, I\IcKay, lvIcConneltsviIle, Ohio; H. V. Gresang, Minneapolis, '\Jinn.; V'l. J. Stevenson, Parkersburg. W. Va.; C. F. Dabold, and H. F. Dahold, Marietta. At t.he conclusion of a detectable four-course menu, toasts ",,'ere responded to by the following, C. S. Dana acting as toastmaster: C. J. La Valle, Robert \Valker, T. J, Kelly, John Reiver, C. G. Edwards, 11. J. v\'!olz, John W, 1hrsh, C. F. Dabold, \V. J. Stephenson, H. F. Dabold, \V. C. Patterson. R. S. McKay, J. S. Gobel, Dr. C. F. Batlard, P. ~L Seymour, A. H. Snider, and W. C. Adams. 10 BUIL~UP PANELS AND VENEERS FOR FURNITURE. MANUFACTURERS We can furnish you 2, 3 or 5 ply Panels in Quartered Oak, Mahogany, Plain Oak, Ash, Elm, Birch, Maple or Basswood; and guarantee same in every respect. We use high grade Glue in our work and our Veneers are thoroughly dry and our Machinery up·to-date. Our 2 and 3 ply Drawer Bottoms and Glass Backs are the finest on the market. We can also furnish you with Rotary Cut Maple, Birch and Elm Veneers in 1·30, 1-20, 1-16 and 1-8 inches thick. All of <;mrVeneers are dried in the new Coe Roller Dryer, and lay flat and are free from crinkle. If you wish to buy Panels and Veneers that are RIGHT AND THAT "WILL STAY RIGHT, give us a chance to figure with you and submit samples and prices. MT. PLEASANT, MICU. THE GORHAM BROS. CO. Do you see the We do not cla.im to be· lower in price, but we do claim our pa.nels are cheaper in the lona run. a.r they .10 .A .10 Submit your wants and let uS make you happy. WorKs, TILLOTSON TOILET FASTENER Full Size of No. o. No. 0, ~ x 2M"in. bolt, for very li~ht work, such as shaving stands, dressing tables, etc. Packed 100 in box. Net price, fi.5 per thousllnd. No. I, 5-16 x 3 in. bolt, fM medium toilet standards. Packed 100 in box. Net price, $20 per thousand. No.~, 11-32x 3% ill holt, for heavy standards. Packed 50 in box. Net prke, $30 per thousand. No.3, % x 4 in. bolt, for extra heavy standards and sideboard backs. Packea 50 in bOl:o Net price, $40 per thousand. MAN~C~<;J~~~~YBY GRAND RAPIDS BRASS COMPANY 156.166 Courl Sireel, Grand Rapids, Mlch .. U. S. A. This article is designed for fastening toilet standards to dressing cases, chiffoniers and washstands. It is also used for the backs of sideboards and for any piece of furniture that is made in two or more parts for convenience in packing and shipping. All boring is done to g-auge in the factory, and as the nut is in-serted in place by the case maker (projecting slightly) it can never drop ont or he lost. After the bolt is screwed in standards by the trimmer the Toilet and case are both ready for pack-ing and the manu-facturer can feel safe that they will}it and go together when the goods reach their des-tination. Dealers are daily growing more appreciative of the merit of this device over wood strips or other fastenings. Sample models showing their application will be sent to furniture makers on request. THE MAN WHO fiNOWS He has a good thing is always glad to send it out on trial for he knows that is the best way meritorious goods can get an even show with weaker imitations. If you are going to buy a Swage or Swage Shaper, ask your filer if he don't want to try a Hanchett Adjustable Saw Swage and Swage Shapero We will gladly lend you one for 30 days' use, and if at the end of tbat time you feel you call do without it, return it at our expense. That's fair, iSll't it? Hanchett Circular Saw SW3{lewith 861\ch Our Circular "L" tells all about it, Send for it. Attachment and Jointer. Hanchett Swage Hanchett Circular Swage Shapero Big Rapids, Mich., U. S. A. IGNORE THE "TOUCH." Manufacturers of Wood Working Machinery Divide Profits with Superintendents and Foremen No More. "Grafting doesn't end with men in public affairs, and every grafter isn't after the big graft," said a well-known manufac-turer of wood ·working machinery the other day. The sub-ject had been brought up through his expression of his free and unbiased opinion of the misdirected enterprise of one of the city fathers of his town. Suspicions wE'fe held that the same city father's eft'orts to gain possession of a certain piece o( real estate were not of so purely paternal a nature as befit his office. ;...~{Gu'll find the man with the outstretched palm and elastic conscience is unpleasantly conspicuous in mercantile concerns and quite noticeable in ours. '!I,Te have had little trouble with them recently, but a few years ago they were the one partic- Illar dark spot in om otherwise bright and happy life. "I rcc.all one instance wJlere this spirjt of corruption was made manifest, and, incidentally, the uugrateful side of hu-man nature. There was, a wood carver here in the state of financial embarrassment through lack of a job on whom I had pity. He was a good man at his trade and I secured em-ployment for him with a firm at Rochester, N. Y. Soon after that we sold this firm several planers and shapers. Immedi-ately following the delivery of the goods came a letter from the man I had befriended politely requesting ten per cent commlSSlOn. His part in the whole transaction had been the fact that he had hailed from the city where the machines were made, and, also, had been on speaking terms with th~ manu-facturer. No need of his ever taking any celery for his system. "But the incident which stands out most conspicuously in the events of that time ,"vas connected with an order sent to a firm in Chillicothe, O. Soon after. we had sent the machine, which was a planer, we received word that it wasn't working well. There was an excursion 10 Toled0 about dut time, so 1 went down there. "1 succeeded in getting into the factory and locating the machine without being challenged. I found a boy working oue spindle at the time, and I soon learned that the entire ma-chine was in perfect order. I then hunted up the superintend-ent and told him so. He said the machine was all right, but he wanted $10. He got the ten. "How do I account for the discontinuance of graft solici-tors in my business? Simply because they have discovered that we are no longer susceptible to the 'touch.''' WOODPECKERS MAKE BIRDSEYE MAPLE. Maine Man Has 1,000 Birds Making Valuable Timber. "\i'"Thena man has spent eighty years and more than $7.,,- 000 in studying the ways of wild things," said Greenleaf Davis, "it would seem as if he should know something about the nature of animals and birds, but I am obliged to own that T am more ignorant today than 1 was when my father came here from Massachusetls and built a sawmill in 1824, when J was nine years old. He left .all his property to me, including miles of timber lands and money in bank, and I have spent all of it except this spot where my camp stands. "\-Vhat have I accomplished? That depends very much upon how you 'look at it. The way the world seeS things, my life has been wasted. Instead of being rich, J am very poor, so poor that the town keeps me in the almshouse free of cost through the cold weather. I have almost assured myself of very many facts, though I am not absolutely certain of any except two. "The first is that every woodpecker that digs a hole in a tree for a nest chooses the east side. I have spent more than half a century studying woodpeckers. Within half a mile of 11 my camp are 612 woodpecker nests. I have the largest col-lection of woodpeckers in the world, though none of them is tame or more than lwlf domesticated. J have spent as much as $250 in a year buying meat to feed the woodpeckers. -No-body, living or dead, has studied the woodpeckers S0 111llchas 1 have, but the SUl11 of my knowledge is very small. "I know that these birds insist on having the holes that enter their nests face the east. because I have --waited until the eggs were laid in the holes in posts [ had put out and tllcn turned the posts abont. I have done this when the birds were away, and never has any bird continued to incubate her young when the hole was changed from due east. I think the wood~ peekers choose an eastern aspect for the reason that they can know when the sun is up. They are all early risers and, hav~ ing no alarm clocks, they make sun dials of their nests. "11y second discovery is of some commercial use. For hnndreds of years lumbermen and cabinet makers have been stndying to learn what causes maple wood to assume the mot-tled and spotted form known as 'birdseye.' In a hundred rock Juaple trees, perhaps one is a birdseye. Nobody can pick the specific tree out by inspecting the bark or the manner of growth. You may have to chop two hundred trees before you rind one, but it is worth the sacrifice. "Fact is, the woodpeckers make all the birdseye maple there is in the world. In flying about the woods, they come to a rock maple tree that yields very sweet sap in the seaS01l when sap is mnning. 1\'10st birds like sweets-woodpeckers are very fond of Sl1gar. Having found a tree yielding a large per cent of sugar, the birds peck holes in the trunk and then stand against the bark and drink the sap as it oozes out. "After the sap has ceased to flow and the trees have leaved out, ncw \,-voodand bark form in those small holes. The peck-ing and sap gathering goes on for years until the tree, having given up so much Sap to the birds, begins to furnish fluid con-taining less sugar. In ten or twelve years after the birds quit a tree the holes are grown up, and nobody can pick out the big birdseyes from other trees that the woodpeckers did not visit, "1.Jore than fifty years ago I started in to induce the wood-peckers to help me make birdseye maples. This spring I had more than one thousand birds in my employ for two months. On the side hill overlooking my camp are about three hun-dred birdseye maples of my own make. I know everyone of them, though nobody else can guess at the valuable trees. If I live a few years longer I am going to begin cutting, after which I shall have more money than I can spend. If I die, I have left a record of every tree, so that the Audubon society can market the wood and dcvote the money to giving protec-tion to woodpeckers."-Ex. Simply a Case of Hoss an' Hoss. A lockout and a strike are legal and have been placed in the same relative category by the supreme court of Pennsyl-vania. In a recent decision by Judge Clark, in the case of the City Trust Safe Deposit & Security company, of Philadelphia, against \Valdheuer, he stated that in so far as restraint of trade is concerned a 10eko11t is no greater restraint of trade than a strike, :lnd yet a strike is 110tunlawful. Death of August Spiegel. August Spiegel. formerly the head of Spiegel, Thoms & Co., for many years a-leading firm in the manufacture of fur-niture at Indianapolis, died in that city recently, aged eighty years. The fIrm retired from business in 1895, when Christian Spiegel, a brother of deceased and a member of the firm. moved to Shelbyville and, with the assistance of his sons, or-ganized the Spiegel Furniture company. Deceased was highly esteemed by the people of Indianapolis and by hundreds of friends in the furniturc trade. Citizens Phone 1282 Bell, M..ln 1804 Oran~ Da~i~5 Dlow Pi~e an~ Dust'Arrester (om~anJ THE latest device for handling" shav-ings and dust from all wood wood-working machines. OUf eighteen YE'ars experierlce in this class of work has brought it nearer perfection than any other system on the market today. It is no experimen tJ but a demonstrated scientific fact, as we have several , hundred of these systems in use, ai1d not a poor one among them. Our Automatic Furnace Feed System, as shown in this cut, is the most perfect working device of anything in its line. Write for our prices for equipment". WE MAKE PLANS AND DO ALL DET AIL WORK WITHOUT EX-PENSE TO OUR CUSTO MERS EXHAUST B'ANS AND PRESSURE BLOWERS ALWAYS IN STOCK Office and Factory: 20&-210 Canal Street GRAND RAPIDS. MICH. OUR AUTOMAT1C FURNACE FEED SYSTEM How to Handle Shop Hands. '''lhen ;m employer appreciates the value of capable em-ployes and knows how to secure them he bas only begun to solve the employment problem. Competent men will be worth no more to him than men of mediocre ability, unless he knows how to use them. To he really slH:cess{lll he mllst be able to get the be,st possible results out of every man in his employ and to retain those who make good. Andrnv Ca:negie puts tl1;S matter well when he says that his success \-vas due llot only to surrollnding' himself with clever men, but also to knowing how to nse. them to the best advantage. Ko employer is so nearly perfect that he \...-illnot occa- ~,iollally be deceived in men and engage a few who prove had investments, either incompetence, lack of adaptability to the w'ork, or some other cause, lIe can, however, remedy such 11l.istakes if be will watch the work of h~s employes closely and promptly dismiss those ,,,,ho do not make good. USE CARE TN SELECTING MEN. 1£ you use care in selecting- your employes everyone of them is worth a t~ardul trial and ShO'tl1d not be dismissed without thorough consideration of the reaSOllS for his not coming up to your expectations. Perhaps the failure is not entirely his own fault, but is due to conditions ,,,,,hich may be remedied. Another point to remember is that it takes some men longer than others to ad<l.lAthemselves to new work and often the most capable mall will be 510\\'e5t to sho,,,, what is really in him. Vv'hen you are unable to find a way of getting results out of him, do not hesitate to dismiss him at oneco To keep a man "\vho is not making good is doing him a wrong, for in some other positioJ1 better suited to his ability he might be able to succeed. lNCOMPETENTS SPOIL GOOD MEN. It is also of importance to remember the demoralizing effect which a few incompetents retained in yOllf service will have upon the capable men. The carable men, seeing incom-petent otles kept on the pay rolls month after month, say to themselves, "If these men can hold their jobs, there is cer-tainly no need for us tu feaT, so we can take things a little easier." In this wa.y trouble has begun in many a firm, and before it is remedied by the discharge of the incompetent men it destroys the efficiency of the force and causes actual losses of thousands of dollars. Tl1C".wise employer wil1 not put off firing his bad clerke; 1l11tilthey have lit 011t with the pett.l{ cash, llOf will he put off raising the salaries of his good ones until his competitors have stolen them. TRAINING WORKERS NOT PROFITABLE. It seems hardly a profitable experiment to make an estab-lishment a training school for competitors. If a man's meth-ods are worth anything at ail, he cannot afford to keep train-ing up young men to a POillt where they will not work without more money, and then Jet them go ever to his rival to give him the belle fit of the exverictlce they have acquired. Some Srms do this. They pay a slllall percentage of their Illen laq{i' salaries, and the rest they keep down to the lowest possible figures. The result is that their young men are constantly leaving and taking positions with other houses in tIle same line. Soon these firms gain reputations as schools for clerks and men who have had experience with them are in great demand and cummand high prices fnjrn otht'r employers. RAISI"iG OFTEN DOESN'T PAY. l\Iany employers seem to think that the only "lay to retain good men is to keep raising their salaries, and that economy, therefore, makes frequent changes necessary. The truth is, a little talk will often do more to retain a man than a d07.en 13 advances in salary. What the :ivcrage employe wants is to feel that his interests and his employer's are identical, and that the employer wants to retain him so long as he makes good. \Vhel1 you get your entire force together give them a talk about the past, present and future of your business; and you will be surprised at the results. The 10yalty,andenthl1siasm of capable men will increase in proportion to their knowledge 01 the general aim of your business, its successes, and its possibilities. GOOD EMPLOYE A GOOD ADVERTISl':R. rf yOllr employes are familiar with the details of your business-such details as can be made public-and are inter-ested in it, they can exert a tremendous advertising force in your behalf, Vlhcll yOll set out to fight for foreign trade, and open forccs in AtlstraJia and South Africa., they will spread the news among their friellds. They will· advertise the fact that the se'\vingmachines yotl make are tlse.d the world over, even in Lapland; that your food products are turned out in the cleanest factory in the United States--or a hundred and 011e other things which it is good to have the public kna ..v... In short, an employe who is familiar with, -and interested in, a busi.ness can prOve of as mu.;:-h advertising value. as many dollars' "\'\;orth of newspaper or magazine space. Hy far the most imponant factor in retaining capable employes in an intimate and thorough knowledge of them. DIFFERENT TREAT3iIENT FOR WORKERS. No two men can be handled in exactly the same manner. One will produce the best results when he is constantly under the lash, and another can do well only when frequently en-couraged. A word of praise might ruin one of the former type, and harsh criticism would prove equally disastrous to one of the latter. Men are not machines and they resent being treated as such. They can do their best work only when they are sat-isfLed and enthusiastic, and the wise employer, by courtesy, consideration and a careful study of their various tempera-ments, will always strive to make them so. A loyal, enthusiastic, rcsult producing force of employes is a prime essential to modern business success. The ideal force is still a long way from us, but employers are constantly dra" ... illg nearer to it when they use system to find out which of their men are worth retaining, and then use tact to retain them and get from them the best possible work.-H. J. H. in Chicago Trihune. How Soft Wood Can Be Made Hard. It hal> fallen to the lot of a French engineer to show the world how soft woods can in many eases be substituted suc-cessfully for hard woods. The difficulty in the past has been the rapidity of decay around the spikes and bolts through the oxidation of the metal. The Frenchman's method overcomes this by a device con-sisting of a screw dowel composed of a cylindrical piecc of well-seasoned and creosoted beech or birch wood. This piece of wood is in the form of a screw with au exceedingly wide thread. A hole is bored in the center to admit a screw bit or ordinary spike. Tn bridge building and other construction wb:rk the ill-l'eLltion is ca1c1Jlated to be of great valuc. New Factory in Operation. 1'11e Henry Rowe )'lanufactming company, of Newaygo, lVlich., has commenced operations in its recently established factory, and made its first shipmcnts. The company manu-factures dm'lel pillS and rods, automatic turnings, mouldings, etc. 14 BUSS MACHINE WORKS HOLLAND, MICHIGAN ~:t~::',~~;W::~o3ofd Work.ing Machinery ~~~1,.:~Pl~an,ers, Vertical Sanders and Glue Jointers Write for Descriptive Circulars and Illustrations Improved clamps have now become an absolute necessity. We believe ours meets all require-ments, and why. Palmer Oluing Clamps Patented April lI,I8<}3. May 16, 18gq; March 22, 1904. FIJlsT-They have unlimited stren/{th and power; clamp instantly. yet securely, instantly released and the work removed as fast as it can be handled SllcoNv-They w111adjust themseh'es to am' width or thickness (not to exeeed the limit of size clamp used) and can be used to put a truck load under pressure while still on the truck. .. THIRD-Very durable, being" all malleable iron and steel, and not easily broken or ~ot out of order under any condition, no l:llatter by whom or how used. Catalogue explains all-write for it. A.E.PALMER NORVELLj MICH. Jackson County Concerning Your Backing Are You Usiug the New Travers Adjustable Spring Back on Your Typewriter Chairs? An improved, practical, tlJodem chair iron of low prices and durability. T his sutteasful chair back is the product of mUch effort and long ~xDeri· ence. Furniture men will find in 0 U T met a 1 chair fittings, something- that will put doHars in the till. You fumish tht' woodwork and our irons will perfect it. WRITE TODAV FOR SAME'LE AND PRICIUio Western Malleable and Grey Iron Works 903 Chase St., MIL WAUKEE, WIS. Our Clamps received GOlD MfD4l World's fair, St. louis CHAJNCLAMP tPatentedlJune 30, 1903. PILING CLAMP BLACK BROS. MACHINERY co. MENOoTA. ILL. VENE.ER. PRESS Patented June 30, 1903 GLOBE TRUCKS ARE COMERS. Convincing Features of a Practical Nature Win Admirers Wherever They Become Known. Tl1e excellent satisfactioll given by tlJe Globe Trucb, manufactured by the Globe Vise & Truck comlCany, has re-sulted in their attainng almost instantaneous popularity in every town or city where they have been introduced. Hun-dr~ ds of them are now in operation on the floors of the large1- factories and smaller shops throughout the country, and the replies received from their l1scrs arc strong testi-tllonials uf their merit. 111 each instalLce they are meeting with the :o;arIle uniform success, proof of \vhich is clearly dem-onstrated hy the SllcccS!-iive orders received from every place where they have once been introduced. The trucks are manufactured in two styles, No. 21 and No. 24. No. 2T is equipped with Gillt;'l1.e's frictionless rollcr bear-illgS. No. 24 is made with a smooth turned axle, chilled huhs and boxes. The wheels to this truck revolvc on the axle, the axle in turn revolving in the boxes. The regular sizc of the shop truck is twenty-five inches by forty-eight inches. The stakes to the truck stand thirty inches above the platform. A sufficient stock is ah ..·.a.ys carried on hand to insmc prompt shipment of every order. The company is pleased at all times to answer any inquiries, and to furnish fllll ill{orma-tion and price list of trucks whellcvcr desired. Electricity for Light and Power. Leading, yet keeping far ahead in the industrial progress of the \-vorld. the little electric spark of Benjamin Franklin's time has reached a state of development which the ordillary person, though aware of, fails to reali;::e. It is not surprising, for the ascendancy of elo::·.ctricityto the position of the world's greatest power has, for the most part, been an unostentatious one. Not but what the discovery of each new invention of which it is the life has becn duly recorded in the public press at home and abroad; still its rapid strides in sllpplanting every other known motive power is almost beyond comprehension. 15 A fe'''' years ago electricity was considered in the light of a luxury and too expensive-to be of any use in promoting the industrial growth of the city. Its introduction was gradual and its first recognition came as a sour~e of light. Many factories at the time were using the primitive kerosene lamp to light the dark nooks and corners, with perhaps an occa-sional arc lamp. At length, although this semi-darkness pre-vailed fOl' the workmcn, light dawned in the minds of the elnptoyers and several loo-light machines were installed in the largcr factories. The success of this step, as shown by the increased amount of work derived from the employes, led to the installation in a few years of SOD and I,ooo-light ma-chines. The ultimate result was the introduction of single lights over the bench of each "\yorkman. Electricity as a power followed, and during the past ten years has become daily more popular. Its practical and cconomic side is best exemplified in the case of small fac.1o-ries. Few plants of ordinary capacity being erected today but what depend upon the electric fluid for motive power. The saving is in the power house, engines, boilers and miles of beltit1g clnd ~haftillg. Instead of these motors are in-stalled, the power beillg Sl1PDliedby the local or nearby power compclny. The capacity of the,se motors ranges irom two to fifty horse-power. depending urOI1 their arrangement and the work dcmanded of them. In some factories individual motors are used, one being- installed for every machine. In others the machines are grouped to a sing-1c motor of sufficient power, ()l- a motor for each /-loor. Every plant is an individual case, requiring different trcatment, so that no fixed principle or Ttl1c can he followed. The arrangement depends solely upon the conditions and the amollnt of power required. In the larger plants steam is often necessary, which admits of the ma11tdacturc of their own power. Dynamos are in-stalled with the motors and the building wired to carry the cm-rent to all parts of the shop. It is stated by experts on tbe subject that the loss of power through loose belting and shafting is from twenty-five to fifty per cent, while wher(~ electric I11otors are used it does not exceed fLfteen per cent. [n addition to the saving in power is the total elimination of all danger to eDll;loyes, and of fire throngh oily waste and friction about belts and shafts. Morse Buys Samples. Among the huyers of large quantities of samples during the past month was GeorgeM. Morse, of the 'Morse Dry Goods cOl11pany, Grand Rapids. The IvIorses burned out early in the year and, having acquired a fortune, the an-uouncement was made that they would retire. An option was granted a gentleman from Chicago for the lease, good will and equipments of the establishment, but his failure to accept tbe same forced the l\Iorse brothers to resume, Their store, in which merchandise of every description is sold, is one of the hngest in the state of IVlichigan. Will Try the Co-Operative Plan. One E. F. lVIaho[lcy, a ,vorkmall, is promoting the organi-zation of a comrany on the co-operative plan to ellgage in the manufacture of fnrniture in Logansport, T nd. He is look-ing for twenty-five practical workmen with $1,000 each. or fifty with $500 each, to associate with himself in the organi-zation of the company. Factories, except in rare instances, have not been successful when operated on the co-operative plan in the woodworkillg industries, but perhaps Mr. Mahoney is possessed of the tact and managerial powers necessary to prove himself the exception to the rule that has caused fail-ures in the past. 16 ;tI~TI'{-:rQ .,.- • WITHOUT DOUBT Workmen do more and better work in comfortably heated building.,. than when shivering with the coldAAA With no system can the desired results "A 'R. C" be secured so rea.dily as with the V Fan System THE NATIONALWOOOgNWARE Co. of Grand Rapids. Mich, recommend it in the following language: "We are pleased to state that we have made a thnrouJlh test of the H1!lll.terwhich we purchased of you about two years a~, and find it satisfactory in every way. We. find that it promotes a unifonnity of temperature, the best of ventilation, aod little expense in operation. We will be gilld to recom-lr.. cnd your Heatus to any olle who wishes a thorollgh and effective healing system." It's none too early to prepare for winter. We would like a chance h sol",e your pl"OblelD. AMERICAN BLO WER r'-o",.,DetTOI°, t M'~ch. -FaDS aDd Blow... for all PurDoa.s- NEW YORK CHICAGO ATLANTA LONDON INSIST ON HAVING Morris Woo~ 3 ~ons' SoM ~teel Qlue Joint (utters fol' there are no otherJ' "ju.rt aJ' good .. They cut a clean perfect joint always Never burn owing to the GRADUAL CLEARAI\CE (made this way only by us), require little grinding, saving time and cutters. No time wasted setting up and cost no more than other makes. Try a pair and be convinced. Catalogue No. 10 and prices on application. MORRIS WOOD ®. SONS Thirty-one years at 31-33 S. Canal Street. CHICAGO. ILL. STlI.ffORD fURNITURE ENGRII.VING Our half tones are deep, sharp, Clear; giving them long wear and ease of make-ready. Every plate is precisely t,!<"pe-lugh, mounted on a perfectly sq,uared, seasoned block trImmed to pica standard. All llre proved and tooled until th .. hest possible priJlting quality is devel ...p.ed. Specimens mailed on request. STAFFORD ENGRAVING CD. "Th~ House of ldea8', I'\lDIA.NA.POUS. INOII\NA. Jamestown Panel an~ Veneer (0. (INCORPOR.ATED) ========'~f A N UF ACT U R ER 5 0 F======= Veneered Panels and Table Tops Lll.RGEST STOCK Of VENEERS MAtiOGANV, QUARTERED OAK, RlRDSEYE MAPLE, CURLY BIRCH, WALNUT, PLAIN OAK. PLAIN BiRCH, MAPLE, eROS$- BANDING. The Best Workmanship and Finish Office. 50.58 Steele St. JAMESTOWN.N. Y. TWOLARGEfACTORIES-Jamestown. N.Y. AshVille, N.Y. Get our prices before buying elsewhere. Samples on application. .1 7IR'r I.s' JI.l'J" M# ? $r. 17 WALTER CLARK 535 Michigan Trust Building Citizens Phone 593 3 WALTER CLARK has a fine, large stock ot PLAIN VENEERS In OAK, BIRCH, MAPLE AND POPLAR. Just the thing for Backing, Cross- Banding and Facing G RAN D RAP IDS, M I CHI G A N EXPANSION AND CONTRACTION OF WOODS. Timber That Causes No End of Trouble While Going From the Dry Kiln to the Finishing Room. One of the great difficulties with vvbich the wood\vorker 111 the furniture industry has to contend is the s\'\-elling" and shrinkage of woods after they have left the dry kiln. The effect of the climatic conditions ie.; similar to the expansion and contraction of iron by heat and cold. There is OllC great and all-important difference, h{HVever. an(! that is the effect of varying temperatures on iron has been reduced to a scien-tific basis, mathematically computed and involved in engineer-ing principles, ,'vhich are religiously taken into consideration in all iron structural work of today. vor the workel'" in woods there is no such guidance, because the uncertain ~ll1ality of his raw material in this respect vv"illnot permit of its b~ing accurately gauged. For much of the following information on the expansion and contraction of woods the Artisan is in-debted to J aIm T. Strahan, ~ well-known and experienced superintendent in the manufacture of furniture. So long as there is any life in a wood it will shrink and swell. The extent of this diversion frol11 the dimensions orig-inally established by the saw may depend upon four things-the ql1ality of the wood, the couHtry of which it is native, the conditions lInder which it is cut, and the climate in which it is used. All of these exert a vital influence. JiIany 'NOorl'i have a tendency to s\vell or eXfand in summer and to shrink in winter. This is because the dry kiln process does not kill all of the life in the wood. This is ,vel! illustrated in the aver" age house. A door, even though it has been in llse several years, ·will sometimes swell in the summer through the wood having absorhed the atmospheric moisture to such an cxtent that it 'will require considerable planing to induce it to close. If it is planed too much, a wide crack will he found in the winter between the edge of the door and the casing, alld the housewife will wonder why. This is shrinkage or contraction of the wood through the thorough dryin/S out of its pores again. But, although the expansion and contraction of woods may well be considered a universal property, there are some woods in which it is more marked than in others. Among the woods that are noted for the amount of moisture they will absorb after leaving the kiln are poplar, basswood, elm and cotton-wood. A cottollwood board one foot. in width will. under certain conditiolls, expalld one-quarter of an inch or more. This wood will also contract in abollt the same proportion. Plain oak belongs to the class of woods prominent for their shrinkage in width. Quartered oak and sycamore ,,, ...ill not shrink in width. but will contract in thickness. This is a characteristic attributed to all varielies of qnartered woods. Thoronghly air-dried and kiln dried ll1lnbcr will not sho-w this shrinkage and swelling. Efforts are made by the woodworker to uvercome these deviolls and uncertain traits of his material by a combination of veneering and oifferent kinds of wooos. This accounts for the amount of frame and panel work of today. In all cases where there is a large surface, as in bureau and table tops and some forms of piano work, the five and sevell-ply work is used in an attempt to overcome this difficulty. In this respect it is not always effective ·where the surface dimensions exceed four inches. It is almost impossible, according to the best authorities, to make good furniture out of lumber that is not air-dried or seasoned eefore it is kiln dried. Po.rters Enlarge Factory. C. O. & !\. D. Porter, of Grand Rapids, manufacturers of vvood working machinery, have been obliged to add 2,300 square feet of floor space to their factory on account of in-creased bllsiness. They state that their business this season far exceeds that of a year ago and that orders on hand are keering them working to fun caracity, with no let-up in sight. Appellate Judges to Define Boycott. The appellate court will shortly be called upon to consider the question of whether uuion labor methods of denoullcing non-union hOl1ses by publicity, appealing to patrons to throw their trade to other firms, can be termed a boycott. The mat-ter will be brought before the higher court through an apr;eal by the president of the union barbers. It will involve many interesting points of value to labor leaders. Eulogized William Roscher. The St. Louis (Mo) Furniture Board of Trade, at their monthly meeting on August I, adopted resolutions of respect to the memory of the late William Roscher, formerly the president of the board. Remarks eulogistic of the deceased were made by J-I. ]. Kentnor, G. 1'. Parker, ]. A. Reardon, and others. NEW YORK AND PHILADELPHIA. Via GRAND TRUNK·LEHIGH VALLEY ROUTE. Three fast trains leave Grand Rapids 9:30 a. m. daily, ex-cept Sunday, arrive New York 10:50 a. m., Philadelphia, 10:30 a. m. Leave Grand Rapids 2:45 p. m. daily except Sunday, ar-rive New York 4:30 p. m., Philadelphia, 3:40 p. m. Leave Grand Rapids 5 :30 p. m. daily except Sunday, arrive New York 8:40 p. 111.; Philadelphia, 7:25 p. m. Sleeping car Detroit to l\~ew York all 9:30 a. m. train; sleeping cars Durand and Detroit to New York on 2AS and 5:30 p. tn. trains, C. A. JUSTIN, C. P. & T. A. 18 ESTABLiSHED 1880 PUBLISH EO BY MICHIGAN ARTISAN CO, ON THE 10TH AND 25TH OF EACH MONTH OFFICE-2-20 LYON ST.• GRANO RAPIDS, MICH. ENTERED AS MATTER OF THE SECOND CLASS An exchange discusses the possibility of developing a typ-ical American style, as follows: "Most writers on the subject make a serious mistake by looking for some sort of style in handicraft. Never, my masters! The most typical American feature is the use of machinery. America is the greatest ma-chine- using nation, and the American style will be one adapted to machine manufacture. Its first "samples" may be made by hand, but the thing that must be made by hand only will never be of sufficient import to form and uphold an American style. Tn a Paris of a few hundred thousand peo-ple, the life centered in the courts with its thousand or so people, a style-hand-made-could live and make a mark; in an America of 80,000,000 the single hand is lost; ten thousand looms, woodworking machines, raper printing machines, must work at the same style before it becomes existent." Let us look into this matter a little further. The style that typifies the character of the American character is plain, neat and substantial-the kind of furnitnre that was first made by the monks in the missions of southern California. \Vere not the monk cabinetmakers Americans, and the missions where their furniture was built in America? The style the monks originated fulfills the requirements suggested 'In the para-graph quoted above. The newly organized association of manufacturers of fnr-nihue has already served a good purpose. It practically pre-vented price cutting during the late exposition season. A few cases of reduced prices were reported, due to over-anxiety to sell when the prospects for the season were not encourag~ ing. The association might serve another good purpose by instituting an investigation of the buyers and sellers' com-bine, operated to the loss of both the manufacturers -and the merchants. "Graft" is not confined to the factory department of the furniture business. Manufacturers of good furniture long ago realized that it IS impossible to finish a piece proj)erly so long as the least bit of moisture remains in the wood. \"lhen a water stain is applied, means must be taken to extract the least bit of mois-tnre before the work shall be filled. The moisture in glued-up work must also be extracted, and in properly equipped fac-to'ries dry kilns form a part. Very often it is advisable to permit wood to season before the process of mannfact1.1re is completed, to escape the evils following the contraction of the grain. Having sllccessfully grafted the American walnut with the English walnut and produced a fast-growing tree that will be of great value in commerce, it is said that Luther Burbank is considering the practicability of grafting the bird's-eye maple with mahogany. \Vha! a wonderful example of figure and color would result if the graft proved successful. It is stated that twenty thousand by the mail order houses of Chicago, persons are employed All kinds of merchan-dise is sold, and a very considerable part is furniture and kindred goods. The trade of these honses is greatly esteemed by the manufacturers of furniture, especially when their ware-houses have been filled and trade is dull. In the opinion of the Chicago Furniture Journal the at-tendance of buyers upon the semi-annual furniture exposi-tions in Grand Rapids will not increase in number, while a steady il1C'xcasemay be looked for in Chicago. Of course. The knocker sees only his side of a proposition. The sale of sample lines of furniture in Grand Rapids is badly split up, every retailer of note having engaged in the game. Buyers have learned that samples are sold in Chicago and other cities, and the trade is not of so much importance by fifty per cent in Grand Rapids as formerly. Rothschild, of Chicago, is selling a stock of chamber suites the house claims to have purchased for sixty cents off list prices. In the eyes of the public the profits of the manufac-turer of furniture mllst appear to be enormous. Any cabinet maker can make a piece of furniture; some cabinet makers can sell it; but thccabinet maker who ean make a pieee of furnitme, sell it for a profit and make good use of it, cheats folly and becomes wise. Perhaps if the sample selling business was not so well advertised there would not be so many samples offered in the markets. In this connection it is proper to inquire, "Does advertising pay?" When the beef trust shall be rooted out, the C05t of glue should be reduced. This statement is made with deliberation. It will be noticed that the word "when" is employed. Reports from Chicago show that all of the striking furni· ture wagon drivers have been restored to work by their em· ployers, the furnitme dealers. The most valuatlc woods for manufacturers of furniture are mahogany and maple. Neither will swell or shrink during the process of manufacture. Spindles are freely used in the manufacturers this season. ing? Queenanllward? many of the \Vhither is lines offered by the trade drift- The buyer can he driven through a line of samples, but he cannot be made to buy if he fails to see merit in what is offered. Queen City Furniture Club Entertain Ladies. "Ladies' Day" was fittingly observed by the Queen City Furnitllfe club, Cincinnati, at Krollman's garden. The event was carefully planned and successfully carried out. A feature of the day was the canquet in the evening, at which covers were laid for abol1t one hundred members of the club and their friends. An excellent menu was served, followed by speeches and music, making it a memorable occasion for all who participated. David Tappe, president of the Modern Furniture company, is president of the club. DIFFERENT METHODS OF PAYING SALESMEN. Sales Mana~ers of Prominent Houses Give Plans That They Have Found Effective Through Practical Experience. In answer to the question, "What system of paying- sales people secures the greatest efficiency and the best results?" "System" prints four intervic'wi-i with sales managers who have tried different ones in actual operation. Two of these men are managers of retail stores and two of manufacturing houses that sell direct to the consumer. Their replies show that the rate of c()mpell~ation is many times governed by the character of the business as wel1 as the qualifications of the salesman. The interviews in part follow. J. J. Blumenfeld, general manager of the Eoston Store, Chicago, says: "Make the money relation right-instill the feeling that the employe is getting .vhat is coming to him-then you will get loyalty. Ten per cent of am employes have been with us ten years; twenty-five per cent were in onr em-ploy five years ago; fifty per cent have heen with us at least two years. These facts and fig-UTes talk and scarcely need any comment. They are the result of two principles laid down: First, the ideal money relation which \ve have estalJ-lished- the s,ystem by "vhich clerks are paid according to the work they do and the results they obtain; second, because of the general friendly, fair treatment we accord to them at aU times. SMALL SALARY AND GOOD CO"I"lISS[().)L "\'Ve pay our employes a comparatively small salary, hut in addition to this we pay them a special commission upon every sale they make. Thus, if they have the 'stuff' in them, their real stilary is higher than the average paid to retail sales people. :-'leetings of the clerks are held on every floor of the house nearly every night. l'donthly meetings of in-spectors, cashiers, buyers, floor walkers and department man-agers are held. At all of these the (:;rincipal subject of dis-cussion is 'Sales'~why they were not higher, how thcy can be increased. And these meetings bind the saks force to-gether- creatc a feeling of llnity. Vle have a book in which are recorded the llames of the three salesmen making the highest fales for a given period, and the names of the three making the least. The strife to have the honor of a name among the first three is very keen among the sales people. These names are known to everyone in the store each month. The names of the lowest are not made public." D. F. Kelly, manager of Mandel Brothers, says: "\Ve em-ploy a modification of the straight salary system of paying sales people and believe this gets the best possible results in a retail business. Vo/e do not use the commission system, as '·...e believe this is a subterfuge to get the salesman to work off unprofLtable stock. V"/e have worked out a method. henv-ever, of managing our salary system which gives a salesman the same spur and incelltive to boost his sales. This is ac-complished in three ways. "First, we judge of a man's sales ability when we hire him, by his appearance, personality and previous experience. We then fix his salary on the basis of his apparent selling ability. QUI' sales people are divided into several classes, according to their sales, the people in the same class receiving approximately the same salary. Second, we have a schedule of sales for the sales people in each class. A salesman must approximate this amount each day to keep his record good. there is a fixed amount below ".·.h. ich his sales should not fa.ll. Third, we keep a schedule, and the resl1lts of each sales per-son's efforts are placed before them continually hy verbal praise and repriman[ls. 1t is for these reasons that I helieve a sales force should be made up of high-priced, experienced men. The returns they bring in are worth more net profit to any concern. It is a false idea to suppose that sales can be inflated by the commission system." 19 TRYING OUT THREE SYSTEMS. I-Tarry M. Ballard, district manager of the Fox Typewriter company, mentions three systems which his finn is experi-menting with at present with a ,,~iew toward obtaining the bcst results. "First, there is the straight salary," says Mr. Ballard. "This has its limitations. if a firm had a force of sal,esmen all of whom had been tried out and found to be First-class, this would be the ideal system. nut it takes three months to tryout anew man. Then he may do just well enough so that we give him a chance to hang on three months longer. If he then proves a failure we are compelled to dis~ charge him and the six months' salary has been wasted. "Second is the system of paying a salary and commission, which is now employed by most of the tyrewriter comranies. This method is unfair to the man who makes the highest sales. Third is the straight commission payment. This se-cures good results to a certain extent, but it has its draw- ]lacks. The main difficulty with it is that the sales manager is not able to keep a firm hold on his men. If a salesman re-ceives only a commission he becomes too independent. He may become irregular in his hours of work. This is demor-alizing to any sales force." Joseph T. Leimert, manager of the retail department of the Cable Piano company, says: "This question resolves itself into the proposition of how to sell the greatest number of pianos at the least possible expense. There are three plans of paying salesmen in general use-a straight salary, salary and conunission, and the straight commission. I have worked l1nder each plan and have operated sales forces under each plan. }ly experience has convillced me that the straight salary is by far the most satisfactory to both employer and enlploye. Atv reasons for this ,conviction may be summed up under the following heads: "First, a straight salary secures more perfect team work among the salesmen, which is very important in selling pi-anos. Second, it avoids destructive competition among sales-men of the same house. Third, it avoid!'; loss of time and frequently the loss of a sale. Fourth, the straight salary system makes for kgitimate methods in selling. The sales-man is not allxions to sell at any price to get a paltry com-mission. Fifth, the straight salary system secures a better quality of salesmen, and therefore a better grade of business." Are Wearing That Happy-Surprised Look. Good, steady trade is reported by the lll"addell Manufac-turing company, with every indication for its continuance through the fall months. "I have just returned from a trip through the east," said Mr. W'addell, "and I saw big crops on the farms through Michigan, Canada, New York and Pennsylvania. This speaks well for the fall financial condi-tion of the farmers, and it is a recognized fact that the life of trade comes from the soil. Locally, 1 fmd the business men wearing a sort of happy-surprise look. All, invariably, report good business, which is contrary to their expectations of last spring." For the Benefit of Creditors. In the case of the L"tica Fire Alarm Telegraph company against the \Vaggoner \Vatchman Clock company, which has been on trial in the Grand Rapids courts, the receiver for the defendant has been granted autbority to dispose of some of the property for the benefit of creditors. A "Shut-Up" Bed. The introduction of the folding bed in this country dates hack to 'lye Ilfesse bedstead," which appeared about 1653. It is defined in Johnson's dictionary asa bed so formed as to be shut up in a case. 20 Furnishing a Honeymoon Flat. By HARVEY J. O'HIGGINS. 1. The ferry house clock, at the foot of Christopher ~treet. marked fifteen minutes r ast five, and all the trucks of the wholesale district were hurrying in, over the paving stones of the side streets, to the wide esplanade of asphalt that lies along this stretch of the New York water front. They kept coming like the straggling rout of a commissariat, with noise and confusion, clattering over the uneven pavements and bumping across the car tracks. Already, hundrd.s of them, their empty shafts thrown up before them like stiff arms, sup-plicated the sunset in long rows, cart-tail to cart-tail; and down the open passageways between them, the driver:=-,jolt-ing along on the fat backs of horses with dangling traces and swinging n0se bags, raced to the boarding stables like farm boys, free for the night. Carney was late. He had hoped to have his teac!! stalled by five o'clock, but his last delivery of packing cases had not been taken off his hands until ten minntes fast five. Now he came down Christopher street like a Roman chariot racer, standing behind the high seat of his double truck, shaken to the ears with the jarring of the axles, his hug,,_Clydesdales pounding along as if to break their hoofs. He tllfJlE'rl in on the asphalt at full speed, and wheeled with the recklessness of a battery going into action; and before the h~.'Ul1 {"Ollld catch breath, he had unhitched the tugs, freed the pole, vaulted on to "Sharkey's" back, and set off at a gallop to the stables. He hoped to be married that night-or, rathl"r, there was a fearfully alluring possibility that he might he -amI his bride-elect would leave Sturm & Bergman's displrry re-om.; at six. She might wait for him and she might not. It was already half-past five when he hurried into a. water front saloon to get the bundle of clothes which he had left with the barkeeper that morning; and he struggled for what seemed hours, in the· little washroom there~fighting with starched linen and twisted suspenders-to get himself into his wedding garments. It was a hot August evening". His fingers were slippery with perspiration; his neck was !:m'-ell~d with blood; he strangled in his efforts to fasten his celluloid collar; and every time that he paused to take breath. a l'lumb fear quaked in his inside at thought of the uncertainty he was facing, and he wiped his forehead limply on his shirtsleeves and sighed hard. He ran for a street car with his coat over his arm, pawing at the back of his necktie in a vain attempt to catch it under his collar button. The conductor pulled him to the platform as the car started with a jerk. "Wha's the time?" he gasped. The conductor thrust him aside. "Quart' t' six." He clung to the brass hand rail weakly. He had had. no food since breakfast, except a glass of beer and some free lunch biscuits; his legs were aching from the vibration of the truck; he swayed with the motion of the car; and every now and then-overtaken by the fear that she might have been merely giving him" a jolly"-he blinked like a man in a "drop" elevator when the cage floor leaves his feet. Not so the lady. She was a cloak model, "36 figure," in Sturm & Bergman's; and she had been parading all day in various winter furs and jackets before. the critical eyes of wholesale buyers from out of town. She had walked up and down interminably, as graceful as a drawing room belle, but as indifferent as a dummy. One of the younger buyers, ad-miring the stately creature in her "princess" gown of black brilliantine that fitted her like a mold, asked her with an air of gallantry whether she did not ever tire. She lowered a supercilious stare on him, and said "Ugh?" The salesman interposed hastily: "Now here's one of our newest de-signs--" At six o'clock she turned from the window where she had been idle, and went to the dressing room to put of her lihar,· ness' and elothe herself for the street. She did not hurry. The younger girls giggled and chattered around her, array-ing themselves in open-work finery and picture hats. She was the last to leave. Her face had lost its work-hour hcavi-ness and flushed with the faintest twinkle of excitement. It returned to affected indifference when she saw Carney across the street. They met as if by accident, at the corner. "Well?" she said . .He reached his hat brim awkwardly, his coat pinching him under the arms. "How yuh he'n?" "Fine. How're you?" "A' right." And suddenly there was nothing more to say. Carney usually relapsed into this satisfied silence as soon as they met; and she, tonight, instead of making conversation for him, looked straight before her with an air of saying: "Go on. now. I've helped yon all I intend to. You'll have to do this by yourself." They walked up Broadway together, as they had done a score of times before. jostled by the crowds that poured from the stores and office buildings. Neither of them spoke. When they came to Astor Place, she turned east toward Third avenue, as if she were going home. "Hal' on," he said. "Ain't yuh~-" She'looked at him. "Ain't I what?" He hitched up his neck in his tight collar. "Ain't yuh-gain' to have somethin' t' eat?" She could see that this was not the question he wished to ask, but she pretended to notice nothing. "Where'll we go?" "What's the matter with Dinkey's?" All right." It was six months before that she had met Carney-one midday-as she was going out to her luncheon and he was delivering a load of goods to the freight elevator of Sturm & Berman's. She had recognized him at once by the scar on his upper lip, and she remembered the day she had given him that wound accidentally. (She had been breaking up a box for her mother's firing, and the head had slip~ed off the hatchet and struck him in the mouth.) He had been little Ph illy Carney then, going to school; and she had been "Clare" Walsh, carrying parcels for "Madame Gilligan," of Ninth street. That was fifteen years ago now. They had been neighbors in Cherry Hill's "Dublin Row" at the time. But when her widowed mother died, she revolted against the slavery of her apprenticeship to the dressemaker and went on the stage as a chorus girl for three contemptuous years. The vanities of the theater had sickened her sturdy independence; she had returned to the working world as a shop girl and accepted a better position as a cloak model. When_Carney met her, she was adrift on the life of the city in a sort of unambitious isolation, working stolidly, lonely among the younger girls with whom she had no sym-pathy, and bruskly repelling any flippant advances from the men. She had lost track of all her girlhood acquaintances. "Dublin Row" had long since been torn down. And when she saw Carney with his truck, it was like meeting an old friend in a world of strangers, II. "What'll yuh take?" She looked over the greasy bill of fare, her arms on the little table. They werc in a basement restaurant that offered a "regular" dinner for .twenty-five cents. There were ants in the sugar bowl and gravy stains in the saltcellars. "I could ..:at a horse," she said. He turned to the unshaven waiter absent-mindedly. "Same fer me," When he stopped laughing with her at his was more at ease with himself and his clothes. that's a joke," he said, as soon as the waiter had bring soup. She patted her back hair, looking at him with that flirta-tious air which is proper to a cafe dinner. For him. the sparkle in her face was so hrilliant that he could not see any defect of beauty ill her high cheek bones and her lean mouth. She dazzled him. He weighed his fork on his big fingers. "Say," he asked huskily. "did yuh mean that, las' night,," She reddened, startled. "Mean what?" "You know:' She tried to laugh. "Did you?" "I seen Father Dumphy this afternoon."· ;;You did!" Her lips still held the wrinkles of their smile; but her eyes, fixed on him, kept twitching in and widening out in an alternation of incredulity and hope. "I thought you-I tal' 'm we'd be aroun' to see 'm t'night -if yuh'd come." mistake, he ';WeIL an' left them to 21 She had to continue in charge of the dinner, because Car-ney was in no condition to do more than eat; and he ate as if he did not know what he was putting into his mouth. All day, there had been but one thought in his mind; did she really mean to marry him? Now, with her assurance that she meant it, this woman with the walk of a goddess had suddenly stepped into his blank future and filled it with a bewildering richness; he went about his meal in a dazed attempt to re-construct his view of his life around that glowing vision. At one moment, he devoured his food; at the next, he sat with meat impaled on the tines of his fork, forgetting to open his mouth for it; and when she spoke to him, he listened, smiling, without any apparent comprehension. She left him to his silence at last, and they finished their dilll1er without a word. He sat over the empty dishes, until she said: "Vv'el1?" I-Ie grinned. ;;When did you say you'd be there?" ;'Where?" She did 110treply, and he looked up at her timorously. Her gaze searched his face like a light that took him full in the eyes and confused him. He stammered, "l-I~ " The waiter shuffled up with their soup and interrupted them. Camcy, in his embarrassment, gulped a steaming spoonful and burned his throat. He felt her smile on him and met it with a twisted mouth. She choked hysterically. "Did-did yuh mean it?" he insisted. She answered, behind her handkerchief; ';l guess so-if you did." She heard his spoon clatter nervously in the soup plate, \Vhen she had \viped her eyes, she saw him ''v'ith another scalding mOllthfnl at his lips, and she cried: "You'll hurn yourself!" He spilled it into the plate. He wiped the splatter from his coat front with his table na:lkin and mopped his forehead, ;;Gcc\" he said. She leaned back in her chah a:lc! watched him amusedly. ';Fish?" the waiter asked, behind her. ';Yep. Fish," she answered; and slle spoke in the voice of a woman who '...a.s henceforth to do the ordering for two. She straighten:!J her hat, trying to look up at it through her eyebrows. "Father Dumphy's." He came down to earth with a pe,rceptible jolt; he had forgotten that part of the affair. He was like a man unex-pectedly left a fortune; he was so busy planning his new life that he, had forgotten to consider the legal procedure incident to the inheritance. 1-1 e had Iorgotten more than that, as she discovered when they came down the stone steps of the church into the night, man and wife. She was both laughing and exasperated. "You're a peach:' she said. "How'd you think we could get married without a ring?" He shook his head, blissfUlly shamefaced. "It's bad luck," she said. "Besides, that ain't a "wedding ring at alL" He looked hopelessly at his father's big seal ring on her' outstretched j-inger. "Well, say. Come and get one." ';Yesl \!\.There'll we get one at this time of night?" "T don't know." "N o. Neither do 1. Put on your hat, silly," He put it on. They walked to the corner. He hesitated there, fumbling in his poc.kets. 22 "Well?" ""Vhere-where 're we gain' to go?" he faltered. "What!" "1-1 didn't know whether yuh meant it," he pleaded. J "An Ididn't make 00- lvly place ain't fit- It took all the money I hadto payhim. 1--" "Well, Phil Carney," she cried. "If you ain't the limit!" He did not deny it. He looked all around him at the passersby, as if he thought they could help him. "What're yuh gain' to do?" she demanded. He had money in the savings bank, but that was out of rc.ach till morning. He had a brother in Brooklyn. but they were not on very friendly terms. He might borrow some-where- enough for one night in a hotel anyway-perhaps ,-from Mrs. Kohn, from whom he had rented his room, or from his friend the barkccrer with whom he had left his clothes. But those two were at opposite ends of the town; and while he was trying to decide which h~ should apply to, she walked out into the road to reach an approaching street car. "Where yuh gain'?" "I'm going back to my room," she said disgustedly. "You can go where yOUlike." 7lRTI0'JI~ &3 7%+ he hired out by the day instead of by the week-for he had the finest horses on thc water front, and he wished to reserve the right to keep them in their stalls whenever the streds werc too dangerously iced in winter, or too dangerously sun-beatcn in summer, for them to be at work. So, when he w:)ke next mornin, he was under no necessity to ask leave of ab-sence for the day. Long before the other drivers had arrived at their stables, he was hitched up, and by the time the water front had wak-ened to the day's work, he was driving up and down the cross streets of the East Side, reading notices of flats to let. The janitors were putting out the ash cans. He hailed them from his high seat with "How much 're yer rooms?" Then, with the price in his eye, he "sized up" the front of the building, shook his head, and drove on. He wanted something new; no "second-hand" flats for him. He did not intend to .pay more than fifteen dollars a month rent; and he did not wish more than four or five rooms. It was eight o'clock before he came on the row of apart-ment houses that are known to the neighborhood of Second avenue and Twelfth street as "The Honeymoon Flats;" but it did not take him ten minutes to decide that he had found And when Carney t!nlered that parlor, he took oft his hat. "\Vell, say," he protested. "his home. The last of the buildings had just been opened for "Well, say," she mocked him. wrhe next time you ask a occupancy; it was in red" brick striped with white stone fac-girl to get ma.rricd, you'd better have some place to take her ings; there was a shining brass hand rail down the front to. I can't live in the streets, can I?" steps; the halls were gay with crimson burlaps; and on the That silenced him. He stood beside the car step forlornly fifth floor there was a flat of five rooms, papered in gorgeous as she got aboard. "Good night;" she said. "I'll see you to- designs of red, green, and gold, to rent for twenty dollars a morrow." month. He remained in the middle orthe street-watching the car The fact that the houses were called "The Honeymoon climb the slope of the avenlle-until a moving van almost fan Flats" because none but inexperienced housekeepers would him down. The shouts of the driver sent him back to the try to live in them was not known to Carney. They were un-sidewalk; the movement of the late shoppers turned him heated, except by gas grates, but he was not one to think of round; he drifted away aimlessly. heating arrangements in midsummer, and the gates were About midnight, he came to the foot of Christopher street bronzed and glittering. There were "cracks anjund the win-and stOOQlooking Qut at the bivouac of the army of trucks dow frames large enough to put a finger in, had he looked for like a deserter returned to his camp. Ilis hat was slanted them-but he did 11ot. He saw gasoliers as resplendent as dejectedly down over his eyes; the torn ends of his celluloid the most gorgeous he had ever seen in a saloon; and they collar were rrotuding under his chin; he carried his coat over hung from ceilings that were bright with squirt-brush deco-one shoulder. He stepped down heavily into the gutter and rations of red and blue flowers and red and green fruit. The stumbled across the road. lathroom shone like a plumber's window display. "A' right, Jim," he answered meekly, to the challenge of Carney nodded. "'5 all right," he said. "'S all right." the watchman, "I'm gain' to sleep in the cart." He left his watch as a "deposit" and drove off to his break-fast; but he went round about, ~by way of Third avenue and Canal street, slowly, on the lookout for furniture stores. When he came to one with a gold sign, in letters a yard high -"Everything for Housekeeping," he stopped short. Below III. Like the majority of New York truckmen, Carney owned his own team and wagon; but unlike the majority of them, it, on a net banner, he read: "Ask to see Ollf $T29 flat, fur-nished complete. Ten per cent off for cash. One do1Jar opens an account He read it twice, muttering it over. Then he whipped tip his horses suddenly and rattled down the street with as much noise as a tally-ho. "Gee!" he laughed as he swung the corner. "T11is'll b\.1st the bank." On the fourth floor of .i\littellJaull1 & Schwarz's "l<llrni-ture Emporilltn," the enterprising manager had screened off four compartments to represent a parlor. a beclrooll1, a kitchen, and a dining roolU. And \,.,,-11(C'1a1r11ey entered that parlor, behveen pea-gre('n portieres beautiful ,,,,ith yello\''''1Jall-fringe, he took off his hat. Four ricb red ;;damask" chairs and a sofa were arranged symmetrically abollt tbe walls; a square "parlor" table, as big as a chessboard, stood in the eX3.ct center of the room on the exact center of an ;'Oriental" rug that was made of a yard of cheap carpet with a border sewn on it; and in the eX;Jct center of the table, a very small lamp supported by a very large globe shade that was decorated like a dyed Easter egg. A ;'pier mirror of French glass" distorted reflections from the wall opposite the doorway. .l\ chromo au a bamboo easel stood before a pair of lace curtains that were hung to repre-sent a window. Everything was brilliant with varnish, rich with scroll saw carving, upholstered in imitation plushes and ball-fringe. Carncy looked around him in awed silence; and when the salesman turned his back to lead the way into the bedroom, the big truckman furtively smoothed his hair. That bedroom-from its "golden oak dressing case and wash stand" to its ';elegant, brass-trimmed, steel, enameled bed"-was luxuriously complete. In the dining room, an "oak" table was set with "decorated English" dishes, as thick as quick-lunch china. An ;;e1egant sewing machine with a five year guarantee' stood at the foot of the puffy leather couch. There were forty pieces of tinware in the kitcheu, a Hgolden oak" refrigerator, ten yards of oilcloth-;'everything to make home comfortable and a woman happy." Carney said, with a heavy affectation of nonchalance: "1 guess this'll do." He went down into his bulging trousers pocket for the roll of bills be had drawn from the bank. ;'1 got my truck outside. I'll just take the stuff along with me." There were difficulties, but he overcame them al1. No car-pets went with the $129 flat; he paid extra for them and got a superb design of yellow flowers, as big as pUlTJ.pkins,on a flaming scarlet ground. There "vas a cotton"'batting ;'down comfortable" on the bed, but no sheets or blankets; he hought them \"iholesale on the lower floors. If there was any-thing he seemed likely to forget, the salc::::man tactfully re-minded him. He hired )''1itteIbaum & ScIl\",arz's official carpet layer to help him move. in; and having paid $25 on account and signed an agreement to pay $2 a week thereafter, he took his center table in one hand and his parlor lamp in the other and led a procession of employes with chairs, tables, pillows and tinware to his truck. "Shake yerselvcs, now, hoys," he said. "I ain't got all clay on this job." They shook themselves. By midday, the parlor carpet. was laid; a green matting ,'vas down in the dining room; the ten yards of oilcloth adorned the kitchen, and Carney, standing in the disorder of the bedroom where all the fllrnitllre ,vas piled, smiled around him on the beginnings of his happiness-and felt hungry. It reminded him that his team had not been fed. He was alone in his own house all aftenioon, putting things to rights. The front room \,,,'as easily arranged, be-cause he remembered exactly how it had been set up in the: furniture store; but the bedroom gave him a bad haH hour. The side pieces of the bed did not tit the ends; the brass hall trimmings came off in his impatient grip; the pillows would not go into their slips until he took them fairly between his 23 knees and drew the cases on like stockings. The pillow shams he spread all the wash stand and dressing table. By four o'clock he had the forty pieces of tinware arranged on hooks around the kitchen, and the agate-ware kettle, filled with water, set on the gas stove. It was then he found that there was no gas in the pipes; but the janitor, frantically sum-moned. led him to the meter in the bathroom-a "quarter-in-the- slot" tenement house meter-made change of a dollar for him, and shO\>,iedhim ho\',,' to put his money in. The rest was a matter of hanging the curtains and the ('hromos in the front mum. Carney shook his head doubtfully at one of the latter -a pictme of a yellow horse dragging a sleigh-load of wood lip a forest road in a snowstorm. "Darn mut," he said. He'd ought t' 've had a team for that haul." But the crowning audacity of his day was the purchasing of a delicatessen dinner-cold chicken, sweet pickles! potato falad, Swiss cheese, bologna, rye bread, a wooden plate of butter, and fOUTbottles of imported English ale. He spread it on th~ table, in the dishes of the ';decorated English tea set," drew up two chairs ,md surveyed his work from the doonvay with a chuckle of uncontainable delight. IV. 1£ Mrs. Carney had been a bride out of a book, she would have entered that flat in the most adorable ecstacies of appre-ciation. But, unfortunately for Carney, her mind was not fic~ tional, and she had been using it all day. She had repented of leaving him, the night before, as soon as she had irrevocably laid her street car fare; and she had hurried down to her work, that morning, expecting to find him at Sturm & Bergman's side door. When he had not ap-peared at luncheon hour, she had been so worried that she could not eat; and the afternoon's parade in fall costumes, with the thermometer at eighty-six degrees, had worn her weak. At six o'clock she came out, desperately resolved to inquire for him at his rooms. And he was at the corner to greet her with a smile that: in the circumstances was idiotic. His explanations were irritatingly incomplete and incoher-ent. It exasperated her still more to find that her bad temper could not chafe a geniality in him that had no adequate cause apparent. She had to remind him again that she had no wed-ding ring as yet; and he blithely put her off with a promise that they should get one in the morning. She was peevish with hunger. She ",...ished her dinner at once. There was no sort of setlse in going to look for flats before they ate. Bnt just this one, Carney pleaded. They could get their dinner right near it. She would have left him again, but her day's experience had made her wise. She yielded at last in a sulky exhaustion, unable t.o argue with a man that did nothing but grin. They bad to stand in the street car. She mounted the four flights of stairs to the flat ,,,,ith her jaw set on a determination to disappoint the eager assurance 'with which he led the way. He unlocked the I:arlor door and ushered her in. She glanced around coldly. "What do you want to rent a fur-nisbed flat for?" "r didn't," he buhbled. "I rented it empty, an' furnished it myself." "Today?" she cried. dYah," he confessed more doubtfully. "'And that's what you've been doing all day!" He nodded. "v..'ell, Phil Carney!" she wailed. "If that ain't the mean-est! \\rhy-why-" She choked up with tears and anger. ';\,Vhy, that's all the fun!" She sat down in one of his damask cIlairs, fumbling for her handkerchief. He closed the door on his fiasco. "Well, say," he began. "A "'/, shut up," she wept. ;;You go 'n' do everything wrong. r bet yOll got the dangdest lot of old jUl1k~-" ..I ain't," he defended himself. "I got the best they had." "The best they had!" She summed up the shoddy rnagnifi~ cel1ce of the parlor in a sweeping glance of disgust. 24 He turned his tack on her to look out of the window. She whisked into the bedroom. "Achl" he heard her cry_ "Pine! . Cotton battin'! . Excelsior! It ain't even a hair mat-tress!" She flung into the dining room-and stopped in the doorway_ The pitiful mute expectation of the two chairs drawn up to the delicatessen dinner confronted her with a dumb re4 proach. Her face changed slowly, her eyebrows still knitted in a scowl that began to twitch uncertainly, her mouth trem-bling in a doubtful slant. When she came back to him in the front room, sht; took him by the two ears, from behind, and shook his head from side to side. "Darn you, Phil," she said, between laughing and crying, "jf you ain't the darncdest big baby--" He turned around and saw her face. ;;Well,say--" That was the beginning of a change in Mrs. Carney. She had come to marriage as a strayed cat comes to a saucer of milk, with a boldness that is born of hunger, and a tense weariness that does not relax under the first caress. To e's-cape from her single life of self··supported loneliness, she would .have married anyone of whom she was not altogether afraid; and she was not afraid of Carney. She had for him a feeling that was lightly conteml.tuOtlS even when it was most tender---'--afeeling that held him off and smiled at him with an amused tolerance, at best. It was with this smile that she sat down to their cold dHl-ner. But in the middle of the meal, she gathered~from some-thing Carney said-that he did not expect her to go back to her work in Sturm & Bergman's; and she was struck dumb. (She had been prepared to work until thc care of a family should keep her at home.) She listened to him with a pathetic expression of wistfulness and doubt, while he-in clumsy apology for having furnished the Hat without consulting her-took out his bank book and explained his indebtedness to the ';Furniture Emporium." "The stuff ain't all paid fer," he said, ;;au' we ·won't never pay fer it unless they take hack what yuh don't like an' give you somethin' else fer it." He t:asscd the book to her to keep, as the treasurer of the household. She turned it over in her Jlands as jf it had been a jewel box. ';You better look out," she said with a tremu-lous laugh. "Ill break you!" Carney looked at her solemnly trustful. "A' right. We go broke together now," And suddenly she put her hands up to her face and began to sob. She was somewhat tearful again in the morning when he left her to go to his work; and she hung out of the front win-dow to wave him good-bye as he turned the corner far below her. I-Ie was taking 'wonl to Sturm & Bergman's that their cloak model had left them; and she drew in from the window sill, and turned to look down the little flat, with a. new light in her face, all the domestic instincts stirring in her chokingly. The inherited desire to be protected, sheltered, housed in re-spect and love, took ber in its fulfilment with a hysteric swell-ing of the heart; and she clasped her hands under her breast and drew in a long breath, her eyes still shining with tears, her thin lips set in that hungry pout with which a child asks for either food or kisses. She walked slowly back to the dining room and sat in Carney's chair, stroking the handle of his knife caressingly. And when she was taking up the dishes to carry them out to the kitchen to be washed, she stooped over them and cuddled them and laughed. It was some six weeks later that Mr. Philip Carney, in his shirt sleeves, with his pipe in his mouth and his wife on his knee, sat in the breeze of the parlor window, enjoying the evening air. "Well," he said, "how d' yuh like bein' married?" She tweaked his sunburned nose smilingly; cooing to him in that ridiculous "baby talk" which seems to be the universal language of young married couples. He rescued his pipe. "Here," he laughed. ';Don't do that. Yuh tickle the roof 0' me mouth." She pinched his lirs, puckering up the cut she had given him in Dublin Row when she struck her "Philly wif 'm hatchet," as she said. There was a sort of fierce playfulness in her manner, a rough fondness that recalled her old im~ pcrious treatment of him. "H uh 1" he teased her. "That ain't the way yuh talked that night when yuh Ie£' me 'n Ninth av--" She clapped a hand over his mouth. "You promised you'd never--" hand. "A' right," he said. But how did yuh like the "Not au-furnished He caught away her other· word about it. . flat that day---:: Ouch!" She was pulling his hair. "Shut up, then, will you?" "Ow! Ye-e-es! Quit it! I'll shut up." She settled back against his shoulder, He grunted as he got his teeth into the worn mouthpiece of his pipe again; and in the contented silence that ensued-looking out over the bouses that had once been merely street walls to them, and remembering the lives they had led on the pavements and in the stores-those two waifs of the city were vaguely con-scious of the eternal miracle of domesticity and mildness that had been worked in them by the Honeymoon Flat. New Woodworking Factories at Knoxville. Knoxville, Tenn., is steadily increasing in importance as a woodworking center. \Vithin the past few years about thirty factories, a considerable number of which are operated in the manufacture of furniture and kindred goods, have been estab-lished in that place, and their number will soon be inaeased by the erection of a large factory by Sterchi Brothers, who will operate it in the manufacture of sideboards exclusively, The firm manufacture chamber suites on a large scale' and, having ria facilities for the manufacture of sideboards, the firm decided to erect a new factory. The Knoxville Moulding & Carving company is the name of a firtn organized recently by a number of young men re-cently connected with the woodworking indllstries of Grand Rapids. TJle manllfact!lre of mouldings and carvings will be commenced as soon as a large factory, leased for the puq~ose, can be made ready for occupancy. The machinery and equip-ment necessary in the operation of the factory is in the course '1f installation. C. Evan Johnson, formerly of the Waddell 11anufacturing company, is at the head of the firm. Jarr.es Waddell Takes to the Road. James Waddell, a son of George \Vaddell (deceased), has succeeded C. E,van Johnson as the traveling representative of the \Aladdell IVlallufacturing company. He is a yOtlllg man possessed of fine business attainments, and the Artisan com-mends him to the kindly consideration of the trade. His father was one of the organizers of the Waddell Manufactur-ing company, and his connection with the corporation con-tinued ulltil his death. Nice Export Order. The Cordesman l'.'Iachine company, of Cincinnati, Ohio. ha'le just recei"'ed an order from the Argentine Republic gov-ernment, of South America, through their New York repre-sentative, for some thirteen different ma~hines, among them heing one of their well-known No, 3;::; 1:and resaws. Mr. Garratt's Summer Home at Wequetonsing. Thomas F. Garratt, of the Michigan Chair company. Grand Rapids, owns a beautiful summer home at vVequeton-sing, on Little Traverse bay, northern Michigan. His family spends the summer there, and Mr. Garratt usually joins them for a day or two at a time, as the business of the company permits. We carry a line of Rebuilt Wood- Working Machinery for Pattern Shops. Furniture Factories. Sash and Door Manufacturers. Car: penters. Planing Mills.Etc. AI AI When in the market let us send you our list of machines and we aTe ~Urt~that we can interest you ill prices and quality of machines offered EDWARDS MACHINE CO, 34-36 W. Washington St. CHICAGO, ILL Points on Photographing I t is not necessary for any manufacturer to spend time and money in hauling his samples from one to five miles and take from four to twelve days to get a line photographed. THE BEST AND CHEAPEST WAY is to have our photographer come direct to your factory and do all the necessary work in less than two days if the line does not exceed a hundred and fifty pieces. No haul-ing- no waiting for others-and work done under your own supervision. Our booklet giving details and prices will be mailed to you on request. You may also be relieved of annoyance if you place your order with us for ENGRAVING and PRINTING. Let us submit samples and explain how it is done. THE JAMES BAYNE COMPANY PHOTOGRAPHERS GRAND RAPIDS, MICH . ENGRAVERS PRINTERS ..Relia~le" Rolls ..Relia~le" Panels THE FmWOCK ROLL AND PANEL COMPANY Mfrs. of "RelL'l.1>le" Built up Veneeled Rolls and Plural Ply Pal Ids for all PUfp"se~. Correspondence solicited. EVANSVILLE,II'D. Improved Cyclone Dust ColJector~ Automatic Fumace Feeders, Steel Plate Exhaust Fans, Exhaust and Blow Piping . Complete systems cbigned, rnanufao:tured. inslalled and guaranteed. Old systems remodeled on modem lines on mosl economical pliI.Ds. Supplementary s y s I ems added where pff8enl sys-tems ate QulgrQwn. De-fective sy S I e m8 corrected and put in proper worki"g 0.... 12 and 14 s. Clinton St. CHICAGO. • ILL. 26 BE UP-TO-DATE. Get one of the New Electric Spindle Carvers and keep abreast of the times. You cannot afford to let the "other fellow" have the work you should be doing. The Electric Carver will keep the trade you have and get more for you. Our Carving Cutters are of the be.t. Wesf Mi(~i~anMa(~inean~ Tool(o.,lM. GRAND RAPIDS. MICH. G. R. &. I. fLYERS BETWEEN Grand Rapids and Chicago To Chicago Lv. GRAND RAPIDS, Ex. Sun 7.10 A. M. Ar. CHICAGO ..•.. " 12.35 Noon R\1ff.t Parlor Car Lv. GRAND RAPIDS, Ex. Sun 12.00 Noon Ar. CHICAGO ..... " .................• 4.50 P. M. Parlor and DlnlrrollCar Lv. GRAND RAPIDS, Daily 12.35 Night Ar. CHICAGO " 7.15 A. M. Eleotrlc Lighted Sleeping Ca.r Phone Union Stal10n for R••• "atioD. Peter 'Cooper's Glue If yOll have any trouble this warm weather with your glue, has jf oc4 curred to you to use PETER COOPER.'S? When other manufactur-ers or agents teU you that their glue is as good as COOPER.'S. they admit Cooper's is the BEST. No one extols his product hy comparing it with an inferior article. Cooper's Glue is the world's standard of ex-cellence. With it all experiment begins, all comparisons cominues, and all test:s ends Sold continuously since I ho. Its reputation, like itself, STICKS. Peter Cooper's glue is made from selected hide stock, care-fully prepared. No bones or pig stock enter into it:s composition. In stTength it is uniform, each barrel containing the same kind of glue that is in every other barrel of the same grade. ORIN A. WARD, Grand Rapid. Agent S03 Pytblan Temple ClllzeD& Phone 3333 ToG ran d Ra pi d s Lv. CHICAGO, ~ihCSt~~~~~E~x~. Sun 1.15 P. M. Ar. GRAND RAPIDS.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.50 P. M. Buffet PaTIo.. Car Lv. CHICAGO, NihCst~~{~l~E~x. Sun 6.55 P. M. Ar. GRAND RAPIDS " 11.50 P. M. Parlor and Dlnlnli Car Lv. CHICAGO, r:ihCSt~~~r;D::=aily 11.55 Night Ar. GRAND RAPIDS.. . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . .. 7.00 A. M. Electric Llghn-.d SI.ep'ng Ca.r Phen.e Michigan Central City Ticket Offfll;le for Reservations. 119 Adams Street t~","·· "'I" :t··~t' $""" Stephenson nt~.(0. . • • Soutb Bend. Ind. ". Wood T umings, Turned Moulding. Dowels and Dowel Pins. Catalogue to Manufac_ turers on Application. SOUTHERN TRADE NEVER LOOKED BRIGHTER. Unusual Prosperity Seems to Prevail in All Sections-Scar-city of Walnut Wood and Its Effect. Although latc in placing their orders, due to the llllcer-tainty of the cotton croj) and its low price of a few months ago, the Chattanooga fnrniture manufacturers now anticipate an acti'le trade from die 1st of August through to the close of the year. Their salesmen are now making all active can-vas>; of the territory [rol11 the Carolinas down lo Tcyas. Conditions of the early summer months, for which the' de-pressing effect of rain on the corn crop!; of the southern and western COUOll states was rcsj:ollsihk, have underwent a wonderful improvement. The tendency of new dCl,'elopment in manufacturing en-terprises is southward, and this. combined with the large amount of mon(~y now being inve,sted in southern enterprises, practically insnres active and prosperous bu"iness condi-tions for the next succeeding years. Both the sonthern banks and the merchants are in the best financial condition in their history. Southern manufacturers are steadily and rapidly extending their territory into the north and ,,,'estern sections of the country, particularly in New England and states north of the Ohio river. By adding to their lines and correspond-ingly improving the quality of their goods, they are meeting with liberal encouragement from the dealers. Southern manufacturers, with tho"e ill the north, are con-fromed with the harrlwood problem. The south has been the great :l-ield for the production of oak !umher, and the supply is rapidly becoming exhausted, tbe quality deteriorating in the same proportion. A" a result of this, it is predicted that there will ce a tendel1cy to increase the output of iron furni-ture, particularly beds. There hi!; never been a greater de-mand among southern mills for oak lumber, and in pine neatly all the mills are short of stock. This class of lumber goes into building lines. In this respect the same extensive building activity of the north and \vest this year is being duplicated in the prosperous cities of the south. Phenomenal growth in the iron and coal industries, coupled with unusual stridcs in the advancement of railroad construction work, add to the prosperity of the country and promise much for the progress of the southern states during the next decade. Development of the Chest of Drawers-and the Trunk. There is "nothing new under the sun," is a statement im-pressed upon the mind of the average reader nearly every day of his life. Ideas and inventions are continually ad-vanced that seem to be no more than a repetition of some-thing we may discover hidden cack in the catacombs of history. Yet, despite the fact that "hiMory repeats itself," the ,,,,'orld is progressing. A modern writer recently aptly 27 portrayed the idea when he likened the world's progress to a spiral stairway. Its general course may be circular, but it is always tending upward to something higher and better. There bas heen placed upon the market during the last year or two what might be considered a decided novelty in trunks. This trunk is constructed with a complete set of drawers, instead of being the usual box-like affair, and is calculated to preserve the orderly shape of one's be-longings while passing- through the gentle care of the av-erage haggage smasher. Yet the idea was anticipated in a crude form hy the cabinet makers of the J7th century. A trunk of this pattem is mentioned in "The Furniture of Our Forefathers." The trunk is built with a heavy case, square and stolid in appearance, and contains four drawers. Each of thcse bas a lock, on each side of which is a dropped ring knob of brass. It is covered with red leather and studded with brass nails arranged to form a border of rose, thistle and shamrock. Upon the top is the monogram "A. R." It is said to have been the traveling trunk of Queen Anne. Par-ticular interest is attached to the work as showing the devel-opment of the chast of drawers from the most elementary form of chc,st. Webster's Bill That Grew. Daniel \Vebster was never noted for attention to detail in business matters. His well-known failings wcrc often taken advantage of by ullscrupulous creditors, who gave no receipts for paid bills, simply because they were not demanded. Web-ster was \-vell aware of this, but it seemed to trouble him very little. On one occasion a creditor presented a bill which seemed familiar, and \\Tebster asked: "Isn't this bill pretty large?" "1 think not," replied the maker of it, confidently. "\Vell," said Vl ebster, handing over the money, "every time 1 ha,,re paid that bill it has seemed to me a trifle lafier." Armchair of Historic Value. A historic piece of furnitme is now on exhibition in Milwaukee in the shape of an old iron armchair which wa$ at one time the favorite restil1g place of President Martin Va.n Buren, and played an important part in the demo-cratic councils of the ante-bellum days in New York. The chair hecame distinguished through having for fifty years been intimately connected with the life of the late William E. Cramer, the veteran editor of the Evening Wisconsin, vvho was a warm personal friend of President Van Buren. It was recently rescued from oblivion and underwent thorough repairs at the plant of the Ferronx Brazing com-pany and reupholstering by the Slater-Price-Leidig com-pany, 1\Jilwaukee. IF YOU HAV E NEVER T R lED OUR ~ RUBBING AND '"POLISHING DETROIT FACTORY VARNISHES CANADIAN FACTORY YOU HAVE YET TO LEARN THE WHY NOT PUT IT TO F"ULL POSSIBILITIES OF" THIS CLASS THE TEST BY GIVING US A TRIAL ORDER OF" GOODS PHILADELPHIA BALTIMORE BERRY BROTHERS, LIMITED, VARNISH MANUFACTURERS NE:W YORK BOSTON CHICAGO ST. LOUIS CINCiNNATI SAN FRANCiSCO FACTORY AND MAIN OFFICE, DETROIT CANADIAN FACTORY WALK£RYILLE, ONT. 28 Bolton Band Saw filer lor Saws ;4 inch up. 111V ....sligat~ our Line. Saw and Knife Fitting Machinery and Tools r~ne,B~g,~'~I,~;~,~:.'t Baldwin. Tuthill a>. Bolton Grand aaplds. Mich. Filers. Setters. Sharpeners, Grinllers. Swages, Stretchers. Brazing and FilinG Clamps, Knife Balances. Hammering Tools. New 200 paj!8 Catalo£ue for 1905 Free. B. T. & B. Style D, Knife Grinder. Full Automatic. \Vet or dry CABINET MAfiERS BARNES' Hand and Foot Power Machinery Our New "and and foot Power Circular Saw NO.4 Tbe strongest, most powerful, and in every way the best machine of its kind ever made, for ripping, cross-cutting, bOTing and grooving. In these Clays of close competition, need the best possible eqnipment, and this they can have in . Send for our New Catalogue. "W. F. ®., JOHN BARNES CO. 654 Ruby Street. Rochford. Ill. -OFFICES Boston New York Jamestown High Point Cincinnati Detroit Grand R.aplds Chicago St. Lou.is Minneapolis Associate Offices Ilnd Bonded Attorneys in all Principal Cities The Furniture Agency REPORTING FURNITURE. UNDERTAK.ERS, CARPET, HARDWARE AND KINDRED TRADER. COLLEC-TIONS MADE BY AN UN,RIVALLED SYSTEM THROU(TH OUR COLLECTION DEPARTMRN'T' .• WI<:PRODUCK RI<SULTS WHERE OTHK"S-JlAIL WI<ITE I'HI< PARTICULARS AND YOU WILL SEND US YOUR; BUSINESS. Our Complaint and Adjustment Department Red Drafts Collect L. J. STEVENSON, Michigan M4nager WOODS PRESERVED IN SUGAR. Another Method Is Through Use of Live Stearn, Which Also Lightens Freight Bills. An exchange gives the following two measures for sea~()n-ing timber and preventing the growth of dry rot and other diseases to v"hith it is liable: "One method advotates the ringing by the removal of a wide strip of bark, including the bast and sap layers, of those t1"E~es which are to be felled in the autumn, as S0011 as the leaves or new fir needles have been formed. The ascent of moisture from the ground being thus hindered. the foliage extracts from the trunk all the sap and liquid particles in the cells. Moreover, ,".'ood thus treated dries rapidly after being felled. "Another process recently brought forward is that in which beet sugar or saccharine replaces the sap in the trees and drives out the natural humidity. The log is rolled into a huge cylinder provided with pipes and supplied with sugar. The heat from the hot water forced through the pipes boils the sugar, \"...hich penetrates the pores of the \~,rood. Cold water is then sent through the pipes, and the log is conveyed into a special room, where it is dried by hot air. After being again cooled. the wood is left in such condition that insects cannot destroy it." Superintendent John l\fuwatt, of the Grand Rapids Chair company, in commenting on the above, said: "I have no doubt but what both of the methods set forth are effective in the results obtained, but it strikes me that the latter one 1,.vouldbe rather too expensive to be thoroughly practical. "A similar, yet simpler, form of the last protess mel1tiol1cd is now in ltse by a mahogany lumber dealer in BostOll. After the log has been cut iuto boards they are placed all a steel truck and run into a large boiler. In this iron kiln thc lum-ber is subjected to live steam at an ul111sl.1allyhigh pressure. "If T am not mistaken, the lumber is left in there no longer than half an hour. The live steam penetrates every cel1 of the \vood and destroys every living organism that it could contain. The drying process is rapid, and ·wbile one load is in the kiln another is being prepared to follow it. An addi-tional advantage to the dealer, aside from the complete pres-ervatioll of the wood, is that. as wood is much lighter dry, this process greatly lessens his freight bills." Judge Reed on the Necessity for Trade Schools. Judge \hlarren A. Rced, whom Governor Douglas, of Mas-sachusetts, has appointed a member of the commission to in-vestigate trade schools, is an enthusiast on the subject. Judge Reed's idea of what a trade school should be is a place where young people who have reached the age when they aH, of lit-tle value in a business way, when the education they have re-ceived is all right so far as it goes. but hardly Gts them for actual working flaces. may get the proper training to enter some branch of actual work. lIe feels that such a school should take up a boy or girl on their leaving grammar school studies and teach about the same studies as ate nO\v handled in the high schools, and, in addition, should furnish experts to teach certain trades, giving the pupil a chance so that he may pick out vvhichever trade he thinks he is best st1ited foT. Two. three or four years in such a school as this wo·~ld grad-uate a pupil v..·.ith a far better general education than he had on entering, and at the same time would leave him fitted to take up a position \vhere be could become a skilled workman, could command good wages and be sure of a place in the world's work. The whole course should be devoted to the teaching of the trade. Principles of manhood. citizenship, history of the country's achievements, mathematics, langnage a.nd other general knowledge should be instilled in the pupil's mind. 29 Haste and Waste. TTaste and ..v..aste are extravagances that often go together. "The more haste the less speed" is an old and trite saying, and nowhere ahout the furniture factnry is it more applicable than at the swing cnt-off saw. This is at the beginning of things, and while an expert sawyer may do a fair day's work with a poor machine, an ordinary sawycr will waste more in time and lumber than his \\,'ages and interest on the machine comes to. Unless the frame is rigid and the saw nms true, the cut will not be straight. thus necessilating a second cut, which is a vvaste of bot11 time and lumber. Vlith a Cordesl11an Machine company's patent iron frame swing- cut-off saw, with patent double balance weights, as shov·...n in the i[lustratioll herewith, there is only carelessness or incompetency at fanlt if the best results are not attained. This machine is hllilt for cross-cutting all kinds of rough stock, and may be depended On to cut at all times perfectly s(jtlare, Eor dIe reason that tb.c frame heing cast in one piece is stiff and rigid, and the 'balance weights being placed on each side of the machine equalizes the wear of the swinging journals. The Cordes man Machine company pride them- :;elves on this machine, and well they may. For further par-ticula

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