Weekly Artisan; 1909-07-24

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Issue of a furniture trade magazine published weekly in Grand Rapids, Mich, starting in 1879. and '~RANr" RAPJO... ~~IBRJ~Y GRAND RAPIDS, MICH., JULY 2i, 19UU t' THR·OW OUT.\ ALL Disk, Drum, and 3~indle Sanders are money wasters. There IS not a pIece of sandJDg that our ~ Patented Sand Belts will not Polish Better and'-Faster 400 maCl1fnes already In oper~tlOn. Why gIve youe,competItor an advan'tage over you m thll!.tgep;rtment? WIll sand and pohsh flat surfa~s, all irregular work In , your sandmg 'C!epartment Ask for cat-alog E. PATgNTFD January 12th 1907 MdV 17th, 19M "member 14th 1905 Febr uary 13th lQ()(,. October 2nd, 1906 No 171 Sand Belt Machme j, ~ ~)YYSbNG & MILES COMPANY, Cedar St. and S~u. R. R., c;REENSBORO, N. C. ~- The Best Truch-- The Strongest TrucK This is the famous Gillette Roller Bearing Factory Truck---the truck on which it is said, "One man can move a load if JOoo pounds 'l1{hilewith the other trucks it takes three men." This is the truck that is strong where others are weak---the truck that has an u~hreakable malleable ironfork. This is the truck YOU are looking for if you wish to invest in rather than wtpfe money on factory trucks. Gillette~Roller Bearing Co, I' GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. ----------I-The Li-ghtest R-unQi~~-. _' ._..~ I Longest Lasting Truck A BIT OF INDUSTRIAL HISTORY Are You Running an 1860 or a 1910 Plant? UDetrolt" Return Trap. PATL""lTl-<[) In 1860 cottonseed removed from the boll by glOnmg was garbage-thrown away. By 18.0 gll1uers m_waged to convince some people that cottonseed ',I,as good fertlll/er By 1880 It was considered good cattle food and 10 11'.90 It lIas bemg used as a table food. By not utIiILll1gall the cottonseed m lCJOO (one \ear) twenty-sIx millIon dollars that ~omeone could have had, was thro',l,n away The CIty or GlasgolA Scotland, gets CJ 000 horse-power e\ery day-llee by catchll1g and utll- Izmg furnace gases formerly IIa~ted The steel corporatIOn \\ III hght the town 01 Gary, Iud, and run all street cars wIth energy that would otherwIse be wasted and belched out of furnace stacks It you use steam lor heatmg and dry1Dg and yOU allow any condensatIOn to go to IA aste-you are losing money. Put all your conden~atlOn back mto the boiler II Ithout pumpmg-and hotter than a pump \\ Ith htt- II Ith ~~fJwfi~~~ III1 I1I1 III11 1II1 I _ I" Ilqllll III11 " I I Ii [I --ENGlNEERS AND MANUFACTURERS-- "ABC" Moist Air Dry Kilns. "American Sirocco" Slow Speed Exhaust Fans. "DETROIT" General OffIces: DETROIT, MICH. Automatic- Return Steam Traps Manufactured and Guaranteed by Works' Detroit, Mich. and Troy, N. Y. to" ----------------------------------------------------------- No 1493 PULL - - ..-"..I III II• I II I IIII II I III I•• III I IIj I IIl! II J SLIDING SHOE FOR USE ON DESK LEGS Tb IS sboe does t he work of a casttr yet allows the desk legs to --et close to floor. F'astened wtth flat bead wood screw and furni"hed m three SIzes. SEND FOR SAMPLES AND PRICES A very fine handle for desks In the square effect. Somethmg different from tbe regular bar pulls. GRAND RAPIDS BRASS CO. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. •••• I •••••• _ '\ I ,.. ._.- " GRANI:' RAPIDS PUBLIC LIBRAltY Qran~Da~MsDlow Pi~e an~Dust Arrester (om~anJ THE LATEST devIce for handltng shavings and dust from all wood-workIng machmes. Our nineteen years experience in this class of work has brought It nearer perfectlOn than any other system on the market today It IS no experiment, but a demonstrated sCIentIfic fact, as we have several hun-dred of these syste1ns in use, and not a poor one among them. Our AutomatIc Furnace Feed System, as shown in thIS cut, is the most perfect working deVIce of anything ill this line Write for our prtces for equipments. WE MAKE PLANS AND DO ALL DETAIL WORK WITHOUT EX-PENSE TO OUR CUSTOMERS EXHAUST FANS AND PRES-SURE BLOWERS ALWAYS IN STOCK Office and Factory: 208-210 Canal Street GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. ' Clth~.n.Phone 1282 Bell. M.ln 1804 OUR AUTOMATIC FURNACE FEED SYSTEM " \ t .. 1 r---~--~-'------- -. .- . . . -------,---------..,-- !" I THE BIG WHITE SHOP ,---------~ _.~ ,-------_ .. ;..... -- ,- I We Furnish Every Article of Printing Needed by Business Men WHITE PRINTING COMPANY 108, 110, and 112 North Division Street, Irt __ . .... ~ ~ __ , Grand Rapids, Mich. THE BIG WHITE SHOP ,------- ,-------- ---_.. _.- -----~---~ ~ -' .. WEEKLY ARTISAN 1 ~- --- - - - •.•.•..•..•...------------- .. _ ...._-_ ..._---- .._----------~.--------------,---------~ Veneer Presses, different kinds and sizes (Patented) Veneer Presses Glup Spreaders Glue Heaters Trucks, Etc., Etc. These Specialties are used all Over the World Power Feed Glue Spreadlbg Machine, Smgle. Double and Comblbation. (Patented) (Sizes 12 lb. to 84 In wide.) Hand Feed Glueing Machine (Patent pendmg.) Many styles and sizes. Wood-Working Machinery and Supplies LET us KNOW YOUR WANTS :.------_ ..- ._._._--------------_ .._------- -- - .._._-_._-_.---------------- No 20 Glue Heater. CHAS. E. FRANCIS COMPANY, Main Office and Works, Rushville, Ind. No.6 Glue Heater. . ~------_._._-------------_._. ._._-------_._.---~ __ ..__ .. - _ .. -_ ... --_ .. j ._------------------- -- .-_. -- .-----_. --., MARIETTA FUMED OAK ACID STAIN To the finisher who has been using the fuming chamber to produce his fumed oak our Fumed Oak Acid Stain is a revelation. This stain is in no wayan experiment but practical working stain, producing a more uniform color, and giving to different grades of oak the same shade. It is a strong, penetrat.. ing stain, going into the wood and yet it can be used without injury to the hands. This is not a substitute for fuming. The stain actually fumes and is permanent, but it fumes in obtained on red as well as a different manner....s..aving white oak. The most can.. the cost of;.a fuming cham.. vincing evidence of the per.. ber and the time required fect working qualities of this in fuming by the old pro- stain will be manifest in a cess. Unlike the Fuming single trial. Write us for a process good results can be sample. THE MARIETTA PAINT & COLOR CO., Marietta, O. THE MARIETTA PAINT & COLOR CO" Marietta, 0, II ~-....-_ ....--- IIII •••• a •••••••• __ •• a.a_a ••• ----. ••••• ••••••••••••• ~ CREDITS AND COLLECTONS ROBERT P LYON Ceneral Manager THE SPECIAL CREDtT BUREAU OF THE: FURNITURE, CARPET, UPHOLSTERY, UNDERTAKING, PICTURE FRAME, MIRROR, VENEER, WOOD, CABINET HARDWARE AND HOUSE FURNISHINC TRADES. New York Grand RapIds Philadelphia Boston CInClnnalt ChIcago 5t LOUIS Jamestown HIgh POint CapItal, Credit and Pay Ratings Cleanng House of Trade Expenence The Most Rehable Credit Reports i RAPID COLLECTIONS. ~ •• __ •• • we •••••••• • - •••• we •••• ~ IMPROVED METHODS WE ALSO REPORT THE PRINCIPAL DRY GOODS D~PARTMENT AND QENERAL STORES. GRAND RAPIDS OFFICE 412413 HOUSEMAN BUILDING C C NFVERS MIchIgan Manager ---~----------------- ARTHUR S WHITE. Pre81dent ALVAH BROWN. VIce PreSIdent HARRY C WHITE. See y Treas WEEKLY ARTISAN 3 NEW YORK~S NEW FURNITURE EXCHANGE BUILDINGS Covering the entire blocks from Lexington Avenue to Depew Place~ 46th to 48th StI'eets Each building 200 x 275 feet in size and 12 stories high 1,300,000 Square Feet or Nearly 28 Acres Floor Space THE LARGEST AREA WHOLLY DEVOTED TO WHOLESALE SALESROOMS IN THE WORLD WILL BE READY FOR OCCIJPANCY DECEMBER 1st, 1910 Applications for space should be made to CHAS. E. SPRATT, Secretary NEW YORK FURNITURE EXCHANGE 4 WEEKLY ARTISAN ---_._--_._. _. -- --- _._.-- -------------.---~III ,I,I II IIIII• •I II III•I II IIII II• II• i iI II II ,• I II I• IIII ,I• IIIIt t II• ....... I •• _ • II Tt KI THE EMBLEM OF SUPERIORITY Two Winners in Varnish This is the verdict of the manufacturer who knows. Paradox Rubbing Is the best high~grade, quick~rubbing varnish ever pro~ duced. Can be re~coated every day and last coat rubbed safely in three days. Ti-ki Lac Is our high-grade first or second coat varnish. Dries hard to sandpaper over night_ Last coat can be rubbed in twenty-four hours. The man who knows is the man who wins. VARNISH DEPARTMENT Acme White Lead and Color Works DETROIT, MICHIGAN ~ ...-...------~~-~-----_~...•..... MISSION LIBRARY SUITES are one of the attractions as contained in the new line of the ROCKFORD CHAIR AND FURNITURE CO. Buffets Library Furniture Chinas Pedestal Dining Tables ... THIRD FLOOR, BLODGETT BUILDING 30th Year-No.4 GRAND RAPIDS. MICH.• JULY 24.1909 Issued Weekly iRANr" RA~'!f) PUBLIC LIBRp ~y SHOULD MANUFACTURERS ATTEMPT TO CONTROL PRICES? Opinions. and Ideas on the Various Sections Suggestions DUrIng the mld-:oummer sales season the Dally t\rtisan- Record pubhshed Inten lews wIth furl1lture buyers and deal-ers from all "-ectlOn:o of the country on vanous tOpICS, among them being the questlOll, '~hould }1anufacturers Attempt to FIx Retall Pnces on Then Prorluct:o)" Some of the Op1l1- IOns, '-,ugge"tio!1'-, and Ideas must have been deCIdedly Intere:ot-mg to readers, thel efore, the follovv 1I1g exerpts from the mter- \ lews are repubhshed for the benefit of reader:o of the \Veekly Artisan who hay e not vI"lted the markets, and vvho are not subscnber" of the Dall) t\rtisan-Recorrl \\ G Drdndt, buyer for the Orchard 8..- \\ dhelm Compan) , Omaha, Neb "Pnce restnction" upon retaIlers I do not be-lIe\ e m at all, :od\ e pel haps dS connected WIth some staple articles Pnces are gOYel ned b) local condItIOns and are something no manufacturer can lay dov" n rule" for The legItimate merchant can be depended upon to pI e"en e the Integnty of the callIng, and an) merchant who doesn't come In that cla'-,s :ohould be promptly lopped off " George N BaIlIe of J D \\ 111te 8..- LO, Atlantd, Ga "The restnctlOn 01 fix111g of pnces create:. pIrate" m the fmmture trade, and has the '-,ame n"ult In almost e\ el y bUS111e:osoUblde of thIS It stimulates compelltion that hm ts the pnce fixer, and :oooner or later force:. hIm to retreat from IllS pOSItIOn and come down to a figure that reple:oents a "acnfice he can 111 aftord A manufacturer cannot prey ent hIS goods from be111g ImItated, regal dIes" of the patent laws He cannot plOhlblt hl:O competItor ham putting on the market a deSIgn that IS near enough lIke hl'-, to decel\ e the casual purchaser, yet may be techmcally dIfferent from the ongmal product But, lea\ Ing the mevltahle ImItatIOn and competition out of the questIOn entnel), what nght ha" a manufacturer to say to the merchdnt, 'You mu"t sell my good" dt a certam p11ce, no matter how long It remains 111your stock?' If) au break thIS rule yOU mu:ot pay d penalty-no matter If the article yOU sold was a '"ticker' If I find among the l)lece" on our :oales floor an al tlcle thdt IS gettmlS to be an eyesore, I" It con"l"tent to ask that 1 let It remam there ulltIl some near-sH~hted pm-chasel come" dlong and pay '-, the pnce that It sold at a year ago? I don't th111k so Cuttmg pllce" to the qmck hmb bus111ess Of course It doe" But I <1on't thmk that the e\ 11of pnce cuttmg IS nearly so prey alent as some of the manufact-urers tIy to make out In my mmd, the fix111!.;of prIces at whIch goods shall be sold at retaIl WIll never be :ouccessful unt11 the manufacturers wlll ~uarantee the sale of theIr pro- Subject by Buyers and Dealers From. of the Country. duct" wlthm a given tIme I don't beheve a spyglass would locate many manufacturers of furmture today who would offer thIS g-uarantee" Edward GeIger of CTelger & Sons, EvansvIlle, Ind "I do not thmk It vvauld be a good thmg for manufacturers to fix the prIces for whIch good" shall be "old by the retaders In my op111lOn, If the retaders entered Into a combinatIOn WIth the manufacturers to sell certain artIcles at certam pnces, some of them would be sure to break the agreement The scheme would never work satIsfactonly for eIther manufact-urers or dealel s In our town" c\rnold ElmendOl f, head of the firm of Elmendorf & Co , Evansvdle, Ind "I do not beheve It IS good polIcy to have pnces fixed by manufacturers It ha:o been trIed m OUi cIty to some extent, and was not satIsfactory to anybody The retaIler should never be tIed clown to an agreement to sell any artIcle at a certain figure 'suppose a mdn comes Into the store and buys a bIg order of good" 1he merchant feels hke he wants to cut on :oome artIcle, prOVIding the bdl he IS selling IS large enough and the buyer mIght ask for a cut on the very artIcle whIch the manufacturer tells hIm he must sell at a certdln pnce If he could not make a cut on thIS very artIcle the man who IS bUYing the goods mIght become dIssatisfied and leave the store WIthout bUYing anythmg A retaller should be free to make hIS own sellIng prIce He IS often forced to cut down on one artIcle, and maybe on the next artIcle he selb he wlll make a handsome plOfit A Wl:oe retaIler WIll not sell dt a lo'-,s, howeYer, a" we are all In bU:olness to make a profit I do not beheve the retallels of Evansvl1le would stand for an) further experImentIng In that lIne" E L ZeIgler of Eaton & Co, \\'mmpeg, Man "I am not a behever 111 pnce re"tnctlOns upon goods It may work all nght WIth some staple arilcle:o, but a:. a general proposI-tion I belle\ e the dealel "hould be trusted to ma111ta111pnce" on all good:o upon a legItimate ba:Ols, and for the 111terests of all concerned, manufacturel, hl'-, house and hIS patrons" J H Mohler of McAlhster, Mohler & Co , Columbus, 0 "I am a belJever 111 the pnce re:otllctlon on good:., although hay mg no quanel WIth those vvho enterta111 different Op111- IOn" It':o SImply the P0111t of \ lew There ale a number of artKles vve callY whIch have "uch re"t11ctlOn') placed upon them by the manulacturer, and I have never dIscovered that they 111terfere vvIth our freedom 111mak111g sale", eIther of the good:. themseh es or of stl11 other articles StIll, I can reaclly ~ale, at a cut pnce, honestly explaimng to the customers why It IS done, and allowlI1g them to see what they are buymg" This \\ nter also thmks the success of the system depends largely upon the honesty of the salesmen "Until a few years ago I was very much against thIs system, because I knew that \\ hen unscrupulous salesmen get the chance to make a P. M on a piece" they will move, so to speak, heaven and earth to do so, not thmkmg or caring whether the customer gets an artIcle Sl1l table to him or not. The same salesman would also nl1S-represent the piece Just to make the extra fifty cents or dollar This IS only true, though, when you have a lot of sales-people who don't care for the reputation of theIr house or for their o\\n reputation In latter years, knowmg that I had a good corps of reliable salespeople, I took up the P. M. system and found that, if judicIOusly applied, 11 is not only all nght but a good idea I conduct my P. M. system the followll1g way Every pIece carned over the previous season is kept en-tIrely separate from the current season's merchandIse and a P. 11 of fifty cents put on. You would be sur-pnsed to learn how many would rather buy one of these re-duced pIeces than a pIece of the present season. And why not? The change from one season to the next is generally not very perceptIble and the value is so much better, after the style IS properly reduced 111 pnce, that a customer really does get a bargain TIme and tIme again men come to me and ask for last season's reduced goods. So I for the world can't see why, If a P \1 system IS conducted by honest men and in an honest \\ay, It should be hurtful. ThIs merchant makes use of it to sell his best goods: "I never use the P. M system for getting rid of any undesirable styles or left-overs. I do, however, constantly use it on the hIgh pnced goods, offermg a salesman 75 cents on suites sellmg for $37 50 and a dollar for $40 and $50 suites, so that there IS always an mcentive to have my men give the customer somethmg better than he really intImated he wanted. In this way I feel that I encourage the men to sell better goods to the customer, who is always pleased at his purchase and not dis-gruntled afterward by fee11l1ghe has bought something out of date or 1l1fenor and th'1s get sore at the store" G WEE K L Y j\ R TIS 1\ ~ understand how thIs mIght be the case wIth other hou,.,es It 1'- 'iMplv our expenence that I" my gUide III "peak1l1g of thl" quc,.,1.on" ~: B vVelch of El Paso, Texa;;, "I do not th1l1k It \\ be to plate pnce restnctlOns upon artIcles Thev al e too lIkelv to hamper the retaIler and the pnce to the consumer may "afel) be left to the Judgment of the retail merchants ,. The Premium Money System. In regard to the advantages or dIsadvantages of uS1l1g the system as a stimulus to salesmen to run off left over or stock of any kmd that may not sell readIly, we make some ex-tracts from a senes of letters on thIs subject that recently ap-peared m a trade Journal, belIev1l1g that they may be of m-terest, as every merchant has more or less stock that he deSIres to get nd of, and any legItImate plan that will enable hIm to accomplish this WIll be welcomed One wnter saId: "The apphcatlOn of the P. :i\I , to thorough-ly apprecIate ItS relatIon to selling must be classIfied It can be used to get nd of undeSIrables or It can be used to move per-fectly good stock whIch, for some reason, has faded to sell The latter IS a reputable measure that IS employed sometImes, both to our advantage and the cu,.,tomer's \J., e occa"lOnally find that certain stock IS g01l1g slo\\ly, not through any de-fect or undesirable quality, but because It has sImply not hap-pened to get the call that someth1l1g else, perhaps not really so good, has receIved On the other hand, will be found the P. M. applIed as a VIOlent purgatn e to correct the eVIls of slovenly buymg. Then It works as great a wrong as the sale of the bad stock itself would The combinatIOn operates to destroy confidence U nloadmg plunder has never yet been found to attract and hold steady trade, and the pre-sence 111 the stock of unsalable or undeSIrable merchandise IS 111itself a canker, to sell whIch under any se1l1l1g plan, no matter what it may be, IS a menace The P M sCIentI-fically and honestly applied, comb1l1ed with the most analy-tIcal buying, is a good th111g We are not all qUIte perfect InfallIbility has not yet been reached and artIfiCIal treat-ment is at tImes necessary to ma1l1tain good health " Anothel said "The P M system is one of the most Impor-tant questIOns that the up-to-date merchant must deal V\ Ith, and It is perhaps the most fiercely debated \Ve WIll find large and up-to-date merchants who wIll defend and attack it Perhaps the greatest objectIOn and danger that anses from the P. M. system is the tendency of salesmen to dIsregard their employer's interests m 100k1l1g out for theIr own Sales-men such as these WIll push a P 1\1 upon a customer aga1l1st his Wishes, m orclel to make fifty cents for himself A salesman hke thIS mIght be a good one, and could cony mce the purchaser that the artIcle is 'Just what he wants' The customer takes his 'bargam' home, he examines it WIth his fnend, they find that it IS old stock In nine cases out of ten he becomes dIS-satIsfied WIth hIS purchase The questIOn may arise' 'What shall we do with our PM's if we should not push them upon our customers?' If the merchant will pay hIS salesmen theIr worth, ga1l1 their respect, and encourage them toward a hIgher salary, the amount of PM's in his stock wIll be greatly reduced, and what there are can be disposed of at a legItImate Favors Federal Control of Rates. A. B StIckney, formerly pres1dent of the Chicago & Great \I estern raIlroad, declares that raIlroad rates satIsfactory to both cartlers and shIppers cannot be fixed under present con-dItIOns He declares that the interstate commerce law ~houlc! be amended so as to gIVe the comm1SSlOners not only the nght to approve or c!lsapprove freight and passenger rates but ab- ~olute authority to fix rate" for all railroads. In an 1l1tervlew at Seattle last week he sa1d "N at untIl all raIlroads are consolidated or the government proceeds to do d1rectly what 1t now attempts to do 1tlchrectly, vlZ F1xes absolutely all raIlroad rates, will there be an era of stablhty and of peace and fa1r play both to the raIlroads and to the public CompetItion between raIlroads makes low rate" at competing points and they are obliged to recoup by excessive charges at non-competItive points. No tmlroad can make sure what rates its competItor IS giving a favored shipper In a desire to get business away from a rival rates are secretly cut ind1scriminately ThIS m(lkes the raIlroad business extremely hazardous" WEEKLY ARTISAN 7 FROM THE LINE OF THE HOLLAND FURNITURE COMPANY HOLLAND. MICH. DOINGS IN THE CHICAGO MARKET. Four Hundred Furniture' Men Enjoy a Theatre Party Arranged Especially for their Pleasnre---Personal Notes and Interviews. Ch1cago, July 23 -FOUl hunche'l fUl11ltUle men \\ 1th then W1ves and "weethearts attended the ploduct1011 ot L he 'II en - ehng Salesman" at the IlhnOl~ theater Tue"da) l11liht DUI11l~ the presentat10n of the well known poker "cene 111the second act, ~everal hlt:o wele made on plomment furl11ture men \\ hen the call came for Joseph Meyel and MIlton Hartmdn, the bell boy on the stage 111formed the playel" that both "el e ,e1, bu,,) at the Metropohtan, from whIch ~tatement 1t "a" In ferred that neIther gentleman was btn lug or sellm:s tllll11ture The play wa" greatly enjoyed by the audIence \\ hlch filled the theater to 1tS capac1ty, and frequent and heal tv applau"e greeted the players "\fte1 eIght etll tam CedI" 'III \Iclnt\ 1e who has the role of the tra, elm~ "ale"man, made a pI ett\ latle "peech, of wh1ch the keynote wae., that the p1Ofe""1On ah, d)" hkes to play to people who apprecIate the good pomb made After the perfOlmance there \\as an 111formal gdthel111g 111the Dutch room of the Stratford, m whIch :oe\ eral of the perf 01 m-ers 111"The Travelmg Salesman" partlClpated \11 enjoy ed them:oelves hugely and the commIttee In chan~e of the affal1 dl~played an uncommon amount of good sense b) not blll den- 111g theIr guest" \\lth a lot of :oet speeche~ and toash The program at the Dutch 100m \\ a" Idrgel) of a mU:Olcal nature The commIttee 111cha1ge of the affaIr consl:>ted of Challman J Henry Ste111el, l' lJ Franc1s, Jo:oeph \Ie, el, John \ Thompson, A Karpen and Henrv S SmIth Roy G H arllson, manager of the Grand RapId" Parlor Frame Company, spent Tue"day and \\ ednesda) In Chlcd~() Mr and Mre., Dan \\ tlltam" of 111(ltanapohs \\ ere m ChI-cago to ~pend the day on Thur"da) . uncle Dan, \\ ho ha~ repre~ented the Udell hne for many ) eal ", look e., hale and hearty and good for many more) ea1 e., Theodore E1chelsdoeJfer, des1gner fOl the Shelb\ I tlle hne" was 111Ch1cago the pa"t \\ eek "J oe" Hamtlton of the Blancha1 d- H am11ton Compam lett Fllday for ShelbY'l11e, Ind, and afte1 spend1ng a tel\ eLl''' the1e w111go to Petoskey to spend "orne t1me Clalldm" L Jones of L1ttle Rock, \rk, ann e I 1n U11calio Thur:oday from Grand Rap1ds He lea\ e:o today f01 ~t Low:o Mo , where he goes before retllrmflg home VV II Good\\ 111at G \\ Good\\ 1n [( Son", F1 ankfort, Ind , was 111Ch1cago \Vednesday Bll"me"s the pa"t "1:Amonth" has been a httle slow w1th us sdld;\Ir Good\\ m, . but \1 e are antIC1patmg a splend1d fall trade The crop cond1tIon.., are certaml) fine 111our sectlOn and, a" a ft1end of mme put a the other day, 1£ a contrdct wele to he metcle beh\een the terntory wlthm a radIUS of se, enty-nve mtle" ft om rrankfort and the terlltory wlthm the ~ame rachu" flom Ch1cago, the con-trast would be ,ery stnkmg I want to tell, ou that C01 n m our part of the country l~ ~J'( feet hlgh, and other ClOpe., al e com111g along 111the same \\ a) BU"111ee.,ee..,,hould be e'(cellent wlth u" th1S fall " E L \Vlnte and L C Tldball, bu) er:o fot I"ake" ~ Co rort \Vorth, 1exa", and J :\1 fhomas, buyer t01 the e.,ame house at Dalla", Texas, were in ChIcago tIm, v,eel to make theIr July purchase" The) report a good sn month~' bU~inee.,~, dnd beheve the fall outlook bnght The FOl t \\ orth ..,tore and also that at Dalla", has added con"lderable Hoot e.,pa(e and more deck room recently Flank Avery, manager of the Com~tock-~\ ery Compan\ who operate store:o at Peon a, Ll11coln anel Canton, Ill, \\ as III Chlcago thl" week and states they are c1o~l11g out the Pe0l1a e"u1JlI"hment a" the company ha~ sold the bmldl11g \\ Intbeck [( RanlSer of Behldere, Ill, are enlargmg then" ee.,tdblt~hment b) the addltJon of anothel flOOl The firm re-pOl to" a good season's bu~mes" ~lr:o J, E Moorman of the PractJcal Sewlllg Machine Com-panv, Grand Rap1d~, was III Chlcago Thursday •\1' ::-,te\\ art, the hustll11g traveler for the ShelbyVIlle lllles, 1e.,no\\ ownei of two different I anches w1th a total acre-a£( e of 560, near BOlse, Idaho "Al" bought ~ome of the prop-el tv m December la:ot and the balance III June The land 1S e'-ceedlllgl) fel tde and located 1n the Snake Rlver \! alley 1t "a" :\1r Ste" al t's llltentlOn to at first raIse alfalfa and "null g I am" but \\ lthm a } ear he wlll put two hundred acre" to fnnt, probably apples, peaches, apncots and pear" The land \\ 111become much more valuable \" lthm a few years, as the Ore~on Short Lme lS belllg put through wlthm a half mtle, and the plopert) 1.., also located II lthm a mlle and a half of a neVI town :Olte called G1ant Y1ew m O\\yhee county The plopert) lS located near the foot of \Var Eagle mountalll, on IV h1ch Ie.,Slh er C1ty, one of the oldest mlllmg towns of Idaho 1he altttude of \\ al Eagle mOllntam, Mr Stewart says, 'IS ten thou ~and feet above "ea lev el, and "hile ltS top is generally (0\ el eel \\ 1th "no,\, the, alley ln which hIS land lS located lS ne, er ,i:,lted b} late fro"b fhe "ale" force ot (:r P McDougall gave a complimentary d1l1ner ~unday mght at the Hotel Metropole III honor of R B Thomp:oon and hls bnde, formerly MI::'s Blair of Elkhart, Ind ::\11 fhompson covers the not thwest for the McDougall 11ne ::\11 and Mrs Thomp::,on \llli re:,lde in M1l1neapolis, and be at home after ~ugu"t 1 to thelr fnend" Those who attended the chnnel \\ el e l P McDougall, who pi eSided as master of cerem0111e", J C, Edmund" and wJfe, Ru"sell Mll1l1l1s and \II~'" ::\Iulll11~, .l\11 and .l\IJs E M Clawson and J H Hulbert D J Gear} buy er for the D H Halme1 Company, )J e\\ Or!ee1l1e., La," a~ 111Chlcag 0 the first half of tlllS week, lea, mg hele latel fOJ the Grand RapIds market The Holmes Com-pam has been e"tabltshed for Slxt) years, and lS capltahzed at t\\ 0 mIlllOn dollars, all pald m The house 1:' known as the . J\lar"hall F1eld Store of the South," and lt ha:o the largest de-partment store 111 the "outh, employmg seven hund1ed people, the fi\ e-st0t) bUlldmg co, enng the square bounded by the :otleeb Iben dIe, Dauphme, Bourbon and Cdnal Mr Geary has been associated wlth the Holmes Company for thlrty-fi, e ) ears, and alway:o held the pos1tIon of bUyer and manager of ,allOU" depal tment~ Fn e years ago the company opened then fUrl11tUle department, and he has been at the head all of that tIme '\\ e lu\ e had the be"t SlX months' bus111es:o 111 our hl..,tor) ," sald Mr Geary, "and the good tImes seem to have been £(enei dl among the other bu"mes:o houses of New Orleans I thmk the good bue.,mess done has been due to the confidence of the people, wl1lch has largely been prompted by the good crop" we hd \ e been ha, mg Ye", we ad vertlse pretty hea vtly, but do lt lan~e1J through the new"papers Our house 1" so \\ ell kno\\ n that lt 1" unnecessary to adopt extraordmary method" to dtttact attentlOn \Ve hay e fine wmdow dl"play", but do not <td\ ertise leaders" DANHOF '1 he ~) "tem Cab1l1et Company, capltal17ed for $10,000, to n1dnufaLtUl e dnd cleal 111 hhng cabmeb, office furmture and "upplte" \\ as or~a111zed m Chlcago on July 22 by Fred Huett-man, F F R1Ckmeye1 and E H Johnson wIll have no rea"lJl1 to (omplaln of not gettlllg Ic"ulh fWIll hIs expendltm e " T H Rogers, EI Paso, Texas "\Ve are libel al advertl"- el s for the volume of busllless we do, and use cuts m Illustra-tion of the goods we offer These Vve find are a good busmess puller Our o,how wmdows and fiooro, al e made attractIve, and our sellmg force, mcludlng the fil m member", are always ",tudymg methods to better them"'elve" In theIr callmg, and through Vvhlch they can be of a%lstance to the patrons Above all we want at the outset to m",tlll the Idea wIth our customers that they are our fnends and we theIrs \lVe \\ ant to contmue to grow, and the only way to do this IS by estabhshmg confi-dence \\ Ith the people who gIve you theIr trade" J E SmIth, Charlotte, '\T C 'From my pOint of View, the mIstake the average merchant makes In tnmmmg hIS show \\mdows l', that hI" fi11l"hed work present" too much of an artIfiCIal appearame The g-oods dl",played m a wmdow should look JlI"t as they would m the home of the customel the dealel \\ ants to bnn~ mto hI'" ",tore For Instance, If I \\ ere ",howmg chma clo",ets as a ",:>eclal feature, I would eqUlp the c1n"et complete vvlth elthel chma or American cut glass Or, If I \\ ere eAhlbltmg a braso, bed as a leader, I would dres" It as It should appear m the reSIdence of the Ideal home of the day In other words, I \\ould stnve to ploduce an effect that would make the passmg man or woman stop, look, and t>ay, 'That" Jllst what I want to have In my home' " C P Coughlm Butte, Mont "M y beItef IS that cuts "hould be freely used With fur111ture advertbmg, but by all mean" hay e the..,e cuts true representatIves of the goods they are deplctmg ~ e\\ "'papers are our mamstaj m the advertlo,lng Itne" ~ H Fm,\\ell, buyer for Frank J Murphy, Baltimore, Md "Our expellence IS that cut" today detract from the eftect of your ad\ ertlsmg matter I beIteve m makml:S plam, stralght-for\\ ard statements of fact Make the"e "tatements at> con-u.., e as pO""lble Can y the argument home \\ Ith one dIrect dppeal i\Iake your statements "0 clear a child can under-stand them, and above all, make your advertIsmg copy clean and artI"tIc Plam black and whIte bnng the results we aIm at \Ve are free users of pllnter's mk and back our statements up With the goods, WIth the attractIve appearance of our sho\\ rooms and display \\ indows The"e are our methods of appeal, and at lea"t they \\ ark to our satIsfactIOn" Talkmg about advertIsmg, C E Berdon of Lake Charles, La, mentIOned that he had succe"sfully med several speCIal advertl "ements contal111ng catchlmes, wl11ch compelled the attentIOn of the reader's eye, and forced hIm to I ead the name of the filln The"e ads v"ere m ,:>Imple, e\ ery day language, and dppealed to both adults and chIldren Mr Berdan beIte\ es that If ) au catch the e) e of a chIld In a home \\Ith an ad that It wIll often lead to obtalmng the trade of that household "Children," he saId, "are eAcellent ad\ ertlsers of a store that has feature w1l1dow trim.., O! does dnyth1l1g out of the ord1l1arv, and I make It a pomt to appeal to them whenever I can For the small boy or lSlr1S, once started talkmg about a certaIn "tore and the wonders It contams, are apt to continue that sort of con\er-;atlon 1l1defi111tely, and thu'" 1l1fluence thplr parenh to go to that estabItt>hment" C L \\ oodlmg of SteVvart 1310'" Company, Lou";;\ lIc, K v "\\ Ith Out ad\ ertIsml:S \\ e are great beltevers In the use of cuts, but these must be actual representatIons of the al tlcles THE USE OF CUTS IN ADVERTISEMENTS Various Ideas and Suggestions Clipped From Interviews Recently Published in the Daily Artisan-Record. E B \ Velch, £1 1'a",o, TeAas 'Om ad\ el t1,;mg l', dOl1e through the newspaper~ and I am a great belIe\ el 111the u~e of cuts whIch are eAact representatIons of the goods featured Cuts can be gotten so I easonably noVv and the publtc unclel-stand" ach ertls111g so \\ ell that It IS poor economy and wor"e bUS111ess sense to use stock cuts I th111k the manufacturel s can help out well 111thIS directIOn The furl11ture produc('1 S Itke the producer of leady made cloth111g and countless othu artIcles of regular use, can well affO! d to ma111ta111an ad, P' - tlt>111gmanager to get up matter whIch would be an aid to h,.., customer~ He could then get a number of cuts and each ,n quantIty to send out The cost would not be great, but It could be added to the pnce for hIS goods and no progress, \ e dealer would, I belIeve, object to thiS rate charge m vIew Ot the service ,- J F Jones, The FaIr, Montgomery, Ala "Our genel;;J managel IS a man who helIe\ es that wOlld-- can be sway cd by mk and paper He has not been conservatne m h,.., ll"e of these matellah-though the poltC) of the sto! e has alwa3 " been to get \ alue out of e\ el) blt ot ac1\ el tlsmg mattel vH "end out The man who \\ Iltes 0111 dd vel tI ..,111gCOpy kn )vb human nature-he knows PS) chology, not from hooks, JU1 from practIcal eJ\.penence-he kno\\ b what wIll appeal to thf' people we \\ ant to reach Ever) advertIsement IS studIed o",t carefully and the value of every word It>tested before It geb mto t) pe And when the ad appears 111 the newspapers or on the "treet car or m the hand bills that \\ e Circulate, e\ er) lme has a mea111ng E\ ery shot tells \Ve don't believe 111 Vvat>tmg amm umtlOn " H S Halt7el, Pnnce Fur11lture Company, AllentoV\in, Pa "Ad\ ertis1l1g IS one of our mam dependenCies, as IS natural WIth the 111stallment furmture busmess V!e are lIheral users of newspaper ;,pace and employ cuts liberally to show the artIcles we are offenng The cuts are made for us alone, and are actual repre"entatlon", of the good'" we offel In the ,;tore we back the ad" up With the ",ho\\ loom (1Isplay and With the pnces Out wmdows and those 111 all the "to! es are made au x- Iltary advertIsement" The object I'; to get the people 111tOour stores, and once there It IS up to u;, Vvlth salesmant>hlp, \\Ith pnces and good,; to close the campaign" J W Rowlands, Luna, OhIO, "peak1l1g of the best ways to get bus1l1ess, and after that, more bu--me",s, said he made It a practice of quotmg pnces on leaders d1'->played m well buIlt w1l1dow tnms "})nces talk, and they speak loudly ," dedal ed ),fr Rowland--, "and I believe that real barga1l1 figures on mentonous al ticle" that the people really need and use m their home'" bnng fdr more bu"'me",s to the mel chant than \\onderful "pedaculal display'" that catch the eye and enter-tam, but do not fulfill the redl purpo"e of wmcloVv tnms-that of maklllg the spectator" want to come Ill'-,Icle Give your pI ospectn e cu"tomer a rea,;on for entenng your store, though ) au do It WIth pnce", and goods "hown In your wmdow"', though you do It With a banner hung from a balloon, or WIth a brass band, and yOU have accompll",hed all that newbpaper or any other k111d of aclvertl"'lng can do fOJ you The only purpose for which the new'-,paper ad I" de"'lgned I.., to bnng the people 111tOyour store \fter that, your lSood" and your sale"men must do the re..,t I thll1k thdt If the man who \\ould spend hIS money 111 a(h ert1"m~ of an} kll1d \\ auld only re-member that one cal dlnal pnnClple-the Idea of glV1l1g the public a tangible, gemllne reason for gOll1g Il1to hIS store, he EVANSVILLE LETTER. Evan'i' llle, Ind , J ul} 22 -Charle" \\ Talge of the E, ans-vllie Yeneer Works, accompal11eel b} 111""Ifc left a te\\ ela\ OJ ,lgo for the \VI"COn"ll1 lake rc"ort" Edward Ploegel of the Bosse Furl11ture COmpelll\ l'i hack horn ChIcago, where he attended the Fml11ture E'Cpo"ltIon He report» trade condItIons p1ck111g np The additIon to the plant of the Hender'ion Desk Com-pany, 111 which Mr Ploeger IS Il1tel ested, 1'i completed _\ P Fenn, the fur11lture and chair manntactmel of Tell CIty, Ind, is arrang1l1g to 'lend out a lot of :"om emr'i to hi" numerou'i fnends, from a cedar tree whIch \braham Lincoln planted when a small bo). at LIl1co1n Clt} Ind L1I1w1n planted the tree a :"hort tIme befole he mOl ed \\ 1th hI" fathc1 Thomas Lll1co1n, to the :"tate of I1hnOJ" Recentl\ the tl ce 'vas blown down dUrIng a storm, and lay tor "ome time 1\1the H ex ~lenke IndIana Fnrmture Company, \-lctor Pustel, Incltane! I~ur11ltmc Company LOUI" Kanowsky, Crescent Couch Lompan} , John Bcckede. E'ans\ l11e Metal Bed Com-pam .:\11 'is Ue""Ie Bano"" s, Kal g e'i FUll11ture Company, Chade" ~I rllsse, \\ odel Furl11ture Company, H J Karges, 1ndlana Stm e \\ orks, Edwa1 d Kelch1e, Southern Stove \\ ork'i, eu1 Diekman, Crescent Stm e \Vorks, Aaron \Vell, Cro\\ n Potter) Compan) , Al thur L Davld:"on, Crown Pot-tel \ Company , H F Reichman, V, e"t End Dank, Carl Ritter, Globe rl1l111ture Lompan), H F BO'ise, VI/or1d Furl11ture Compam, \Va1tel Kra"ch, Bockstege FurnIture Company, 11 ank Dlth1 ~tdi G'l11l11ture Company, Loms Schwe1t7el, Star r111111tl11e COmpdl1\ F1 eel Rleh1s, SpeClalty Furmture Com-pam. 1heoelOl e ",d1t11te \\ oriel Furl11ture Company, Lows ~toll 5tolt-::-c11111ltt rl1l111ture Compan), Hugh SchmItt, r UR!'.ll URE ''\.CH \!'.cr ill [[ Dli'.C £\ A\.5"\dLLE I1\D yard of A P Rhode" at L111co1n CIt\ .:\Ir lenn secured thc tree and had It "hIpped to one of hIS factOrIes at Tell CJt\, and wll1 make It 1I1to mce httle souvemrs He \\ 111 send them to several notables, ll1c1udmg Pre"ldent Taft and former Pres- Ident Roosevelt Local veneer manufacturers report trade on the mend, and beheve that It wlll pick up thl:" tall Hundreds of persons moved 111 a cont1l1uous hne from the seventh to the first floor of the bIg Furmture Exchange b11l1c1- 111gon Fnday and Saturday of last week at the formal opel11ng of the build1l1g to the public There \\ ere mam out of to\\ n buyers here for the occa'>JOn, and all seemed \\ ell p1ea ..e..d at the many fine exhIbIts they saw The opemng P1O\ ed to he a great event for the furmture, chair and stm e manutactlll eI" of Evansvllle The foIlow1l1g served on the receptIon com-mIttee Fred Sto17, Crown ChaIr Company, \VI1Itam nIt" EvansvJ11e Desk Company, Edward P10e~ el, Hendel son De"k Company; Fred Kratz, Crescent CIty ChaIl Compal1\, Hel-man Marstall, Marstall Furl1lture Company, Hender"on, K} '-lto17-Schmltt Furlllture Company, GeOlge MIlleI, Ell D \[ll1er Compdny, L0111'> Kuehn, SpeCialty Furmture Com-pan} ,F c\ Diekman, 130'i"e Furniture Company; Oscar Jan- "en, Hohen'>teIn, Hartmetz Furl1lture Company, Charles GI1- bel t seCl etell) of r111111t11e1 Exchange, LoUl~ Hahn, Grand Rapid" Gus' ::\on"" eIler of the EvanSVille Furmture Company ':la}" 11ls company IS havmg a IlIee run on theIr Co1omal styles C W.D 1 hel c \\ ould he some pleasure m be111g a '>alesman 1£ u el \ customer had 111'i 111111dmade up a" to Just \\hat he \\ anted' remarked a (lJsgusted sd1es111an, after a trymg half hour With a (hfficult propos1tJOn The real '3alesman finds more )0\ m 0' erc0111111gchfficuhhes, brInging results where none are pr01111'ied and succeedmg after a hard tIme, than he does when he has merely to do the dutIes of a cash reglster WEEKLY ARTISAN HAND SCREWS THA T STAND THE TEST OF TIME AND SERVICE Good strong, easy working handscrews---the best that it is possible to make. In fact there are none bet-ter made than the "Grand Rapids." Twenty-five per cent greater strength is secured by the special saw cut thr~ads on second growth hickory spindles---more lasting, greater endurance and less strain on the wood than those of any other make. Our spindles show, under actual test, extraordinary twisting resistance; they are tough and practically un-breakable. The jaws are sawed from the best of Mich-igan hard maple, sanded smooth and oiled. It's poor economy to use any but the best. Write for our catalog 14. It shows a full line of benches, clamps, hand screws, etc. Yours for the asking. GRAND RAPIDS HAND SCREW COMPANY 918 Jefferson Ave., Grand Rapids, MIch. Bnbsh Repre",nt.llve Ohver Machme Co, Ltd, 201 Deansgate, Manchester, Eng Xo ~tock cut wh1ch "lmply '3erve" a" a general repre~entatlve \Vlll do I hene ll1duced the Stewart Company to use cuts after '3howll1g ho\'> effectIve they were In connectlOn w1th the pubhc1ty work of the Bacon house New"paper'i we employ hberally, and from thIs medlUm we obtam the best re'3ult'i' G N SCO\llle, Decatur and QU1l1cy. III "In the mam our advertl'il11g 1:-0 done m the daIly pre'3'i, and I am a free user of cut'i wh1ch ale made e"peClally for my own u;"e They can be obtall1ed at ;"uch moderate co"t now and the publIc 1'3 'iO thoroughly educated up to good ach ertlslllg that It 1'i fal'ie economy on the part of any dealer to employ "tock cuts That IS my opmlOn, and I behe, e 1t 1'i ,,,orth mak111g known If for noth111g else than a ~uggestlOn to othe1" who ha' e not thought of thh matter a;" much as 1 have \Ve me other advert1t>mg medmm'3, however, whIch come" \Vlthm the slope of your query a" to bIll boald announcement'i \;Ve do not ut>e b11l bOdfd'i for the slmple 1ea"on that nobody look" afte! them, especIally If they are 1n the country, whIch 1" a fertIle field tor U", n01 do we U'ie fence'i, \Vh1ch offer the ..,ame obJec-tIon" I have no\'> a crew of men out palntIn~ my SIgn" and announcement" 0' er a tern tory forty mJ1e" 111radlU" from Decatur. and they u'iually contract wIth a farmer to place the read111g matter upon the 'i1des of hI" barn There 1t "tand'3 out prom111ently 1he farmer 1" gn en 'iome conces- SIon for the prn J1ege, and, alUlng the 1ecompen"e he see'3 to 1t that nothI11[; harmt> that advertl"ement ,. \\' H Romey. RIchmond. Ind 'AclvertI"111~ I" a b1g 1tem "lth U'3, and carned on "y"tematlcdlly I take care of tIm, department my "elf and am a fJ ee u"er of l uh \'.1c get matnce" from the manufacturer" flom "hom we buy. and each cut 1epresent'i good" that we otfer for sale The manu-facturer'i are good about these th111g", a'i fal as they have taken them up I th111k my self, though, they could ad, ance the fUIl11ture cause greatly by mamtaIl11ng pubhclty departments 11 a'3 the bIg clotlunt{ hou"es and other great manufactunng en-terpn:' oe'3 do It Isn t absolutely essent1al that they should do any more actual advertlsll1g of the1r goods than 1S now done, but thIS 15 only a 'imall feature of the other hnes mentlOned; 1tS great benefit 1S the help accorded 111suggestlOns to the dealers they sell to " J H Mohler of McAlh..,ter ~ Mohler, Columbus, 0 "\Ve ad, ertl"e a" lIberally as 1'i compatIble w1th the class of hU'ilne,,~ we do \Ve have ne, e1 done anyth111g 1n the 1n- 'itallment lIne, and so perhap" there 1'i no occaSIon for such e,,- tensn e publIclt) work as such houses must do Our adver-tlt> ll1g, though, 1S lIberal, and we use cuts whene, er we thmk they \'>111help out the appeal" Isador Sllverman of Kobacker & Bra, Toledo, 0 . "Cuts are one of the ma111 dependenCles 111our advertlslng, but we get the effect a httle dIfferently from mO'it people \Ve take photo£;raph'3 of the a1tlcles we want to l11ustrate, get up aUf copy, ~et Up the whole, get 1t photographed, make a blue pnnt, and then a matnx from thl'S We know 1n advance just how that copy IS to look, and \'>e can use that matnx as often as we \Vant to do and get the same effect The newspaper'S make the mats for us free of charge, and so we get cuts whIch actually represent the goods we handle at httle cost to us But even Jf there was a cost, 1t would be ·the only method to pursue" Luck. Some men beheve in "luck;" nut that 1S when they fall: If they succeed, they tell, indeed, A very different tale Many a man's a1m 111hfe seems to be not to have any 12 \\I:Ll\.LY \RllSr\1\ '----------------"1-' --------------------------' SUITE NO 1235 BY SUGH FURNITURE CO GRAND RAPIDS, MICH WEEKLY ARTISAN SINGLE CONE ALL STEEL SPRINGS Are very popular with the Furniture Trade. $2~ Each Net $2~ Each Net No. 46, Single Cone, $2 Each, Net. We manufacture a full line of Smgle and Double Cane All \Vlre Springs. SEND US {OUR ORDERS. SMITH &, DAVIS MFG. CO., St. Louis Should Manufacturers ~lark 'Veights? The followl11g explesslOm l11leSpOnse to the que"tlOl1 asked 111 the above head llne have been heard from furl1lture dealers whtle VISlt1l1gthe Grand RapId" market dunng the past thl ee weeks \Iv H Romey, RIchmond, I nd "I helle\ e the placl11g of weIghts upon each package by the "hlpper Vvould be a help to the dealers If It had no other effect It would serve as a check upon the raIlroad weIghts, whIch IS all we have to go by now I know from shIpments we make to nelghbor1l1g towns that ratlroad clerks are very careless about tIllS weIght matter In some 1I1stances It looks as though they SImply guess at the weIght In fact, there are some shIppers \\ ho do not heSItate to say It IS a ft U1tful source of graft on the part of raIlroads I won't go as far as that, but the manufacturers could help the dealers out 1f they would place theIr own weIghts upon each package" A L Hart':Jhorn, Manufactmer and Jobber, Fort vl/orth, Texas "I hardly th1l1k the plac1l1g of \\etghts on the packages would be of much help to the dealer The raIlroads l11S1Stupon the use of theIr own weIghts, and they could not be 1I1duced to accept those of the shIpper It mIght serve a-, a check, but what's the u"e) \Ve are accustome'l to the condItIOn down our way, and an} change \\ould mean somethIng In the wav of readjustment at methods ThIS would dIsturb bus1l1ess to a certa111 extent, and there l..,n't enough at ..,take to make It worth whIle In fact, we al e too bus} takl11g care of present bus111ess and mak1l1g It better to enter mto a contloversy about weIghts" W G Johnston, Oklahoma CIty, Okla "As It IS now, we are forced to take the ratlroad compal11es' weIghts, and an}- body who has had much expenence WIth raIlway clerks of the m1110r order, such as those who do the welgh1l1g, knows the) al e a tufle careles-, to speak k111d1y If there IS an} doubt or any lee\\ay to he granted, these clerks WIll gIve It to the raIlway company evel y tnne Perhap'" you can't blame them They are not espeCIally dd'felent flom shlpp1l1g clerks 111stores ,\,11the -,ame, thl'" pnnclple, to call It such for want of a better term, IS not mak1l1g for bus1l1ess along golden rule llnes It Imght not better th111gs for a tune If these weIghts were placed by the 1I1anufacturer" upon the packages, but they would sene as a check flom the oUbet, and probaLly 111 the end would bnng about a readjustment of present condItIon.., whIch \\ auld mean JustIce for the 1aIlroads, and certa111ly better the chances of the dealer for a fall "how" It doesn't reqUIre much strength to raIse an objectIon ~,----------------------------------------------~ IIII II I, II I II II III I II II fob Grand Rap,d8 ~----_ ..- --- I I II IIIII II I I II t I III , I,II I,,I III • •• ••• • ••••• __._----...6 STAR CASTER CUP COMPANY NbRTH UNION STREET GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. (PATE"T APPLIED !'OR) We have adopted cellulOId as a hase for our Caster Cups makmg the best cup on the market Cellulotd IS a great Improvement over bases made of other matenal When It 15 necessary to move a piece supported by cups WIth cellulOld bases It can be done WIth ease, as the bases are per fectly smooth CellulOId does not sweat and by tbe use of these cups tables are never marred These cups are tiIltshed In Golden Oak and vVhlte Maple tiIltshed light It you wtll try a sample order of these gOOd8yo" w,ll destre to handle them w quant,t,e8 PRICES· SIze 2M Inches $5.50 per hundred. SIze 2)£ mches 4.50 per hundred. TRY A SAMPLE ORDER 13 14 WEEKLY .... a_a ••••••• ------------- How to Make Your Ads Attract Attention Good Cut, al e 80% of the pulhng PO\\ et o! dll} ad, ertIsement You wouldn't eal e to enter a turm tUIe store, for mstance, that displayed old belCh style furmture 111 theIr \\ mdov. s "auld v au "0 you would pa"s It by and pick out a stOI~ that haJ an attractive display of .l\ ev. Styles Just so with the woman who reads }our d uh announcements She l'i attracted by the IlllbtI a t10ns of pretty furmturc She IS 1I1terested 111 iUl 111ture, and reads the descnptlOns, which "houle! be followed by the pnce If you are unable to give proper care and thought to } our advel tlsmg, let u" do It fOI you \;Ve \\ 111 plOduce copy that WMl pull. We employ the beSf---copy e"pet h to be h ld-pay them high s;l!alles You can ha' e theIr pel sonal sen Ice at a figure ~o low you re t1h c 111 t elfford to neglect the opportlllllty Wnte us about thiS sen lee, tellmg dbout }0111 deSires, the class of goods you ccny and the amount of advertIsmg you do \Ve \\Ill send }OU ,ome ml~hty 1l1terest1l1g IntormatlOn FURNITURE CITY ENGRAVING CO. 403 Murray Bldg. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. i-·---_.~-----_._-_._._------- , I,, ,•• ARTISAN -----------_. ------_._._._.-_ ....----.... OCTAGON PEDESTALS TABLE LEGS AND That IS the questIOn and a bIg one too How do you nlake them? How much do they cost you? How good are they and are they unIform? .Just take a lIttle hme and let these questiOns soak In Because you nlay be wastIng on the manufacture of the Pedestals and Legs what you sa, e by eco nomical Manufacture on the Tops Your profits are then cut down Make the cost of the different pal ts balance One man wIth our LEG AND PEDESTAL MACHINE \\ III make Octagon and Polygonal shaped turnings at one tenth to one twentieth of what It costs by h<Lnd round Ones at one sIxth to one~tenth The sa,lng In tIme and labor is what makes that bal-ance we wele Just talkIng about Now, don t say that sounds pretty good, and let it slip your mInd Just WrIte us to-day ----------------- I! ----_.~._._~ II r I _ .. •• __ • ..... _ .... • •• • ~_._. . •__ ._. _""IiI • _ .. - ... C. MATTISON MACHINE WORKS 863 Fifth St, BELOIT, WISCONSIN. ----.., ..,I• I,,•II••• IF IT'S THE BEST REFRIGERATOR IT'S AN ALSAKA O\er 850,000 Alaska refngerators sold sIn c e I 878. DeSirable features of an Alaska Refngerator: Small consumption of Ice. Maximum amount of cold, dry air. Absolutely sanitary pro-vision chamber. Simplicity of operation. Perfect preservation of food. I• ,• ,,••••• I• !I• i MUSKEGON, MICH. ..-._---_._----- -----_._..-._._----_ ..-_--~ We sell to dealers only. WRITE FOR CATALOG. The Alaska Refrigerator Co. Exclusive Refrigerator Manufacturers. L. E. Moon, New York Manager, 35 Warren St, New York CIty OFFICES: CINCINNATI--Second National Bank Building, NEW YORK--346 Broadway. 80STON--I8 Tremont St. CHICAG9--14 St. and Wabash Ave. GRAND RAPIDS--Houseman Bldg. JAMESTOWN, N. Y.--Chadakoln Sidg. HIGH POINT, N, C.--Stanton·Welch Siock. The most sahsfactory and up-to-date Credit Service covering the FURNITURE, CARPET, COFFIN and ALLIED LINES. The most accurate and reliable Reference Book Published. Originators of the "TraQer and Clearing House System," Collection Servzce Unsurpassed-Send Jor Book of Red .Drafts. "----_ .... -- ----------_.....------------------ .... WEEKLY ARTISAN CHOICE TOOLS FOR FURNITURE MAKERS , If you do not know the "Oliver" wood working tools, you had better give us your address and have us tell you all about them. We make nothing but Quality tools, the firSt coSt of which is considerable, but which will make more profit for each dollar inveSted than any of the cheap machines flood-ing the country. Oliver Tools Save Labor "Oliver" New Variety Saw Table No. 11 Will take a ,aw up to 20' dIameter Arbor belt" 6' wIde Send for Catalog "B" for data on Hand Jointers, Saw Tables, Wood Lathes, Sanders, Tenoners, Mortisers, Trimmers, Grinders, Work Benches, Vises, Clamps, Glue Heaters, etc., etc. OLIVER MACHINERY CO. Works and General OffIces at 1 to 51 Clancy St. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH., U. S. A. BRANCH OFFICES-Oltver Madunerr Co, Hudson Tennmal, 50 Church SI. New York Ohver Machmery Co, Fm§l Nahona Bank BUlldmg, Chlca~o, UI , Ohver Machmery Co , PaCIfic BUlldmg. Seattle. Wash. Ohver Machmery Co , 20 1-2u3 Dean,gate, Manchester. Eng The }<"urnitureIndustry in Old Mexico. R E Hanmer of the City of MexIco, Mexico, a furmture commISSIOn man represent111g the ,Volverine-CadIllac Com-pames dnd a number of other hnes arllved 111 CllIcago la",t ~unday to 1ema111 111 the L11ltec1 ~tate~ tv, 0 month~ VISIt-ing the dIfferent fact01Ie" he represents and making Chicago 11Is headquarters dUrIng that t11ne Mr Hannier has been 111 the commISSIon bUSl11ess the past twelve years "I was to have been accompanied from MeXICO by Olaf Olsen, buyer for Mosler, Bowen & Cook, one of the biggest houses in ::\lexlco, but at the la"t moment he found hImself unable to leave," saId Mr. Hanmer. "The trade condItIOns In Me3>.ICOa1 e rather slow on account of the c01111ng preSIdential electlOn, which takes place 111 Mexico every "ix yea1 s The pre"ent Incumbent, Pres- Ident Porfiero DIaZ who has been In office for thil ty years WIll aga111 be a candidate and doubtless WIll be contl11ued 111 office as he 1" very popular WIth the people and under hIS admIIW.,tra-tIon MeXICO has been for the most part peaceful "We have a few furmture manufactunng compames 111 Mexico One of these owned entIrely by MeXIcans has re-cently started Up a new factory with a capItal of $100,000, but preVIOusly had been operatIng for eight years as a small plant. They are manufactUrIng chaIrs, wardrobes and bed room SUItes ThIS plant IS located at Monterey, state of ~ uevo Leon. We have another bIg furmture factory In Mex- ICO CIty, the American Furl11ture ManufactUring Company, WIth a capItal of $200,000 and owned entJrely by Amencans This company IS mak111g chaIrs and desks "Manufactunng In MeXICO IS 111 Its 111fancy practically, Just be~1l1n111g-and nece"sanly IS lather crude Last year there wa" Imported 111toMe'C1COfurnIture to the extent of one and a half 1111lhon (lollaI" j\lex1co, a -- you know IS a ~reat u TIme "OLIVER" No. 16. Band Saw 36 Inches. Made With or WIthout motor dnve Me tal lable 36" x 30" W,ll lake 18" nnder Ih e gUIde - lIlts 45 degre.,. one way and 7 degrees the other way Car-ties a saw up to 176" WIde Outside beanng to lower wheel shaft when not moloy dnven Welgb, 1800 lbs when ready to shiP " Tempers .. Cost 15 SlIver produc111g COUJ1try but on account of the low prtce of sIlver the condItIOn have been affected by It to a conSIderable extent Had 1\1r Bryan been elected preSIdent of the UnIted States 1 beheve the condItions In Me-''Oco would have been greatly dIfferent There IS now I should say about seventy five millIon" of foreIgn capital 111vested 111 our country of which fifty 11111l1On"IS Amencan capItal Much of this IS in-vested In raIlroads Your Mr Harriman IS putt111g an ex-tenSIon of the Southern PaCIfic through MeXICO entering through Texas, then to Sonora and from there the ltne Will go through the d1ffel ent states 111tOCentral Amenca." Prices Must Go Higher. "There neve1 \\ as a tIme 111 the hI st01y of the fur11lture 111- dustry \\ hen a dealer LOuld get so much for hIS money as at the pI esent tIme, was the comment of Charles G WhIte, representa-tIve for the 1\Iuskegon ,Talley Furmture Company 1111111ddleter-ntory "That's lIght " a,,~ented Ernest 'vVernher eastern repres-entatIve for the same company "Furmture never was better made, better deSIgned or better finIshed than at the present tnne," ('('nt111ued 1\1r \-\;hlte "and IS cheaper than It ever \\a" before and cheaper than it Will be in sixty days. Prices must advance and dealers who do not place orders now will miss the oppor-tumty of their lives That IS the way I size it up" Mr WhIte'S views are endorsed by others and it seems the press has got the same idea. In one of the Grand Rapids da1he" a "nter, whose 111Sp1ratlOnIS unque~tIOnably one of the old time manufacturers in Grand Rapids, voices the same idea and quotes figures to prove It A man's better half often 'oee__111'0worst SIde 16 WEEKLY PUBL.lSHEO e:VERY SATURDAY BY THE MICHIGAN ARTISAN COMPANY SUBSCRIPTION $1 00 PER YEAR IN ALL COUNTRIES OF THE POSTAL U,,'ON 51 50 PER YEAR TO OTHER COUNTRIES. SINGLE COPIES 5 CENTS. PIJBLICATION OFFICE. 108-112 NORTH DIVISION ST. GRAND RAP DS. MICH A S WHITE MANAGING EOITOR Fntered as second class matter July 'i. 19(9 :it the post office at Grand RapIds '11clll.!;111 unde! the act 01 '.I'll eh j 18i9 The Chas 5 Pa111e Camp an} . Grand RapI b recogl1l71ng that no man now makes a pIece of turmtl11 e complete. and that few men In a factor) ever see a completed pIece, opened then shovv room" la"t mght and 111\ Ited theIr emplo} e" and thell famlhe" to 111"pect the e\.hlblt of hIgh ~Iade paIlor furmture The 111\ItatlOn wa" glad I} dccepted and se\ eral J1l1nclJcd pel sons denved not anI} pleasure but much kno\\ ledge tram the mspectlOn The Pame Company s InnO\ atlOn 1111~htbe ddupt-ed by othel manufacturers and exhll)ltol ". \\ Ith pled"l1l e .1" ~ profit to all concerned It mIght be \\ell to e\.tencl the 1'1\' , hon to the general pubhc There al e thou"ancl" ot men .11' (1 \\ omen, even 111Gl and RapId", the Fl1lmture C It, \\ ho h,( never been 111s1de of a furl1lture facto! \. nOl ha \ e they "een any of the exhibit;., dIsplayed hel e To them an 111"pectwn of a factory "ho\\ room, OJ an hour or two m one of the exhIbI-tIOn bUlld111gs would be a '3ort of rev elatIon It \\auld enlarge theIr Idea" as to the Impol tance and extent of the turl1ltl1l e mdustr}, and would enhance theIr cle"lre to po""e,,-, and the the best that they can afford They \\ auld gd111 kno\\ ledge and 111formatlOn that would be of use to them and In no \\ a} detllmental to the 111terests of manufdctmer" exhIbItor" or dealers The announcement that the ~Ianutactl1l el '0 butld- 111g,the Khngman bUlldll1g, the Furl1lture E'\.change and uthel show room" would be open for pubhc l11"pectlOn un a cel ta111 day or evemng would probably draw thousands of \ 1:oltor" from the re"ldence sectIOns ot the Clt}, and man} tram "ur-roundmg towns ~uch an opportumt} vI,ould be \\ ell \\ 01th a JOluney of a hundred mIles or more That the furmture sales season now L!0"111ghas been bettel than any Sl11ce the summer of 1907 I" conceded b} all con-cerned That It ha" been better than \\ as expected at an} tIme before the Fourth of J ul} IS also conceded, } et the \ olume of orders placed was not so lalge as It c;hould hay e heen-not so large as 111the summer sea"ons of 1905, 1906 or 1907 The ev hI bIts were more numerou'i, larger, as a whole, and better than e\ er before, the 'ialesmen hay e made greater effort" to do bus111e"", and the buyers \\ ere more numerou" than e\ er, still the amount of bU'illleSS transacted dUJ Ing the month 1'-, un-doubtedly less than dunng the summer sea"on ot 1907 fhls condItIOn of affaIrs IS due to a feellllg of con"el \ atl"m among the buyers. that was brought on by the depreSSIOn of the past two years, and ha'i not yet entlrel} passed awa] J1U} er'i have placed orders qUIte freely, but have not been so hbel al as the] were two } ear'i ago Dealers are all confident and optimIstIC, however, and unless llldlcatlOns al e deceptn e the orders placed dunng the season wtll be supplemented b} mam addItions dunng the fall and early wlllter The fOJegolllg appltes to both Grand RapIds and ChIcago, and for Grand '\RTISAN RapId" 11 ma\ be "aId that the local fact ones and nearly all othel exhJ1)Jtor-, hay e booked busl11ess enough to gIve them a bu"\ tall \[o"t of them WIll be exceedmgly bu"y durmg \lIgu"t dnfl "-eptembel on account of the numerous early de- 11\ 11 \ ()] del" (dO\\ 1J1g 111tele'-,t-populal1t], It may be called-lll the (7r<1ncl RapId" turlllture mal ket I" clearly shown by numerous apphcatlon" fOJ e\.hlbltlon "pace receIved from manufacturels \\ ho hay e ne\ el shoV\ n theIr plOducts m thIS city There \\ ere "e\ eral new exhIbIts In the market thiS season, and mdn} more are plomlsed for the commg wlllter season ThiS calh attentIOn to the new bUlldl11g projects, and when It IS mentIOned. "tal ts dlscu,,"lOn of the need of more exhibitIOn "pact :--ome at the manutacturers and managers of exhIbItIOn blllldln~" e'\.p1ess fedr that the bwldmg busmess may be over-done fhe\ admIt that there IS none too much avatlable space at pI e"ent but ad\ ance the Idea that when the furlllture lll-d lI"tl\ I et1l1ns to the condItIOns that prevatled prevIOus to the \\ mter uf 1908. manufacturers Will not find It necessary to "110\\ then good" In the mal kets-that busmess WIll go to them at the factone", many of them wtll drop out of the mar-keh, and thus lea\ e much space unoccupied Others, how-e\ er, contend that the Grand RapIds market IS bound to ex-pand and that se\ eral addItIOnal bUlldmgs Will be needed to accommodate the exhIbIts WIthout crowdlllg The demand for freIght cars certamly shows a steady mCI ea:oe m the \ olume of general busllless, If not a rapId return ot pro"pent\ The ChIcago Demurrage A"soClatlOn handled 0\ el 11 000 more cars III June than m May, and a greater lll- (rea:oe I" expected for July The total lllcrease Sl11ce J antnrv 1 hd:O been 193,983, a'i compared With the first half of 1908 :"llntlal 1l1crea"e" are reported from Indlanapohs, Lake Su-pel !Or and other car servIce aSSOCIatIOn" The tlmher supply of the G1llted States IS surely dlmlmsh-m~ at a I apld rate, a" "ho\\ n by the government estimates and rep01 ts There IS yet enough, however, to last until the gentlemen who propose to '-,ubstltute steel, cement, paper l11achle etc fOJ wood as fur11lture matenal, can c:omplete their expellment'i and perfect theIr lllventlOns Though the mId-summer sale" season WIll be conSIdered c!o'ie'l \\ Ith the com1l1g week, nearly all of the Grand RapId" fdctones \\111 have theIr show rooms open to dealers through-out the:; ear The "ame IS true of many of the exhibits made here hy manufacturer'i from other towns Grand Rapids IS more nearly an all-the-year-round market than any other The merchant should work for the good of his town. He owes that much to hIS commumty It should be no half-hearted serVIce, either \\ hy? Viell, even If he owes the to\\ n nothmg, e\ ery good hck he puts In for It is a ltck for hIm-self The better the to" n, the better busmess IS Qwte a number of out-of-town salesmen would like to locate m Grand RapIds and quahfy themselves to vote III favor of a "dry" town when the questIOn shall be submitted to the \ oters III Apnl next, and some who would vote the other way :Men and women have the bump of cunoslty and investiga-tIOn well de\ eloped It does not do to assure them that It WIll be best for them to trade With you Show them Give them reasons If your reason" are good, results wl1l follow QUlcknes" IS a \ aluable asset for a busllless man, but quick-ness should be preceded by certalllty The way to Wlll trade IS usually a dehberate, earnest, sohd sort of progressIOn FIrst, 'iee the thing you aim at, and then go after It qUIckly • WEEKLY ARTISAN ~--.- •••• a •••••• •••• _. • __ •••• ~ iI : LET US QUOTE YOU PRICES ON OUR OWN MANUFACTURE OF I I Circassian, Mahogany, Oak, Poplar I and •II Esta.bllshed la3~lbro 1 Gum 17 Veneers . The ~.-.._ .._-- ..-._-- Veneer Co. .--_... - ..- ..- - ------_._-----~.~--_--_.. _.-._._._.~._---------_.-.__._--_.-..\ CINCINNATI., o. t ......- "' Timber Supply Rapidly Decreasing. The government department of agncultUl e IS agam callmg attention to the rapid decrease m the tImber t>upply, and pomt-mg out that a perpetual supply may be secured by checkmg wa~te and properly conservmg the natIOnal forests A bulletm Issued on July 15 says' "The ongInal fore'its of the Ul1Ited States, which In the CjuantIty and vanety of theIr tImber, exceeded the forests of any other regIOn of 'ilmllar size on the globe, have been reduced b) cuttmg, cleanng and fire from an acerage of 850 millIon to they furnIt>h much fil ewood, many posts, poles and crosstIes, and some lumber and cooperage :otock "The large pnvate holdIngs contam about 1,700 bIllIon feet These holdmgs generally Include the best tImber m the regIOns In which they occur They are the pnnclpal sources of the lumber which 1:0 used toda), and upon the manner In which they are managed depends In a large degree the tImber supply of the future "The fact that tImber has been cheap and abundant has made us carelet>s of Its productIOn and reckless In Its u~e Vie are cuttmg our fOle'its thl ee bmes as fa"t as they are gro~ mg MADE BY ROCKFORD CHAIR A!'.D FURNITURE CO. ROCKFORD ILL one of not more than 550 mIllIon, With a total stand of some 2,500 bIllIon board feet "Most of our fore"ts are prIvate property About one-fifth of the standIng tImber in the country IS held by the federal government In natIOnal forests, Indian re:oervatlOns, natIOnal parks and on the unreserved publIc domam, and by the state'i In state reserves or other state lands These publIc forests contaIn more than 100 mIllIon acres of saw tImber "The prIvate forests are of two distInct classes, (1) farm-ers' wood lots and (2) large holdmgs, either mdlvldual or cor-porate ASide from their protectIve and ornamental value, We take 250 cubic feet of wood per capita annually from our forests, whIle Germany uses only 37 cubiC feet and France but 25 On the other hand, Germany makes her state forests pro-duce an average of 48 cubiC feet of wood per acre "The necessity for more farm land tuay eventually reduce our total forest area to 100 mIllIon acres less than It IS at pres ent It IS entIrely possible, however, to produce on 450 mIllIOn acres as much wood as a populatIOn much greater than we have now Will really need If all the forest land IS brought to ItS highest prodUCing capacIty, and If the product I" econom- Ically and completely utilIzed ,. WEEKLY ARTISAN ~-.-_- ------- ._._---------- - .. - .--~_._- _. -------- -.- ..- .. .._ ..-_. The Celellrated EFFand EFF Line of Excellent WorkmanshIp and Fmlsh, COllSlstlllg or Parlor Cabinets, Music Cabinets, Hall Trees, Hat Racks, Shaving Stands, Buffets, China Closets, Gilt Mirrors, Dressing Tables, Chairs, and Adjustable Fixtures DISPLAYS GRAND RAPIDS-Second Floor, Furn Iture ExhibitIOn BUlldmg. CHICAGO-All the year round, Chlca go Furniture Exchange, 14th and Wabash A\e. and m the New York Furmture Exchange ... ., ROCKfORD fRAME AND fiXTURE CO., Rockford, III. t..----~_ ..~- ---_. _. _.--.-.-. ------- ---_.__.---._. -- ----_.---_. -.-._-- -_.._..__-- ........ N p ~" "'1'- ,,~~~'!:/I FILLER The FILLER that PILLS. The L. Mac. E. Fillers are noted for their Uniformity. They work properly, packing well under the pad. They dry hard over night They will not Shrink as we use a water floated Silex. WE CAN MATCH ANYTHING. The lawrence-McFadden Company PHILADELPHIA, PA. WEEKLY ARTISAN 19 ......... _a. - __ ._. __ .•..•. _ ._ .. _ ._ .. _ ..•. _ .• ••••• _........... • •. .,.... . .. I LUCE-REDMOND CHAIR CO., Ltd. BIG RAPIDS, MICHIGAN MANUFACTURERS OF HIGH GRADE OFFICE CHAIRS, DINING CHAIRS Reception Chairs and Rockers, Shppers Rockers, Colonial Parlor Suites, Desk and Dressing Chairs In Dark and Tuna Mahogany, BIrch, Blrd',-eye Maple, Qgartered Oak and Clrcasslan Walnut II lI IIII•II '------- You wIll find our ExhIbIt on the Fourth Floor, East Section, Manufacturers' BUlldmg,North Ionia St , Grand Rapids . ExhIbIt In charge of J C HamIlton, C E Cohoes, J Edgar Foster --------------------- -- -- ----------------------_._-_._-----_._--------- ~----_.- ---------------------_._--_.- ------~ WOOD rORMlna (UTTfRS I A~only the edge outlines of the I Cutter comes mto contact WIth the I lumber, there tS no frIctIOn or burn- • mg of the mouldmg~ when made : WIth the ShImer ReversIble or One-Way Cutters These Cutters I are carefully moulded to SUlt your work, and are very complete, ! mexpenstve and tlme-savlUg tools. We supply speCial Cutters of any shape desIred and of any sue to SUlt your machme spIndles II Let us have your ~peclficatlOns. For odd work not found It1 our catalogue send a wood sample or drawlUg. I SAMUEL J. SmMER s.. SONS, Milton, Penn. ............ _---------------- ----------_ ... _-- '------------------------ ••----.-- •••••• 4 • l' Morton House ( Amencan Plan) Rates $2.50 and Up. Hotel Pantlind (European Plan) Rates $1.00 and Up. I GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. I The Noon Dmner Served at the Pantlmd for 50c IS THE FINEST IN THE WORLD. J. BOYD PANTLlND, Prop. f -------------_.---. - . - ...-- ... Manufacturers of the ShImer Cutter Heads for Floormg, Ceiling Stdmg, Doors, Sash, etc. ' FOX SAW DADO HEADS SMOOTHEST GROOVES FASTEST CUT LEAST POWER LONGEST LIFE GREATEST RANGE QUICKEST ADJUSTMENT LEAST TROUBLE PERFECT SAFETY Also Machine Knlve.r. Miter Machines, Etc. PERMANb.NT ECONOMY FOX MACHIN£. CO. 185 N. Front Street. Grand Rapids. Mlch We'll cladly tell you all about It. . -_ _ .. TRADE NOTES 1:~ND NEWS. ] ohn ~tra111gel ha" ellga~ed III the "ale ot tUlllltUl e 1ll ~umner, 111 Quackenhush ~ Co \'\ 111fnr111sh the 1le\\ Elk" hall In Pat-terson, N J \\ ork ha~ been commenced upon the ne\\ ILu \ e, hotel ;1t Lamy J unctlOn, '\ ::\1 The Ge01ge T Ro'v\ land Furl1lture Lompan' \\ 111OCLllP' a new lJlu1d111g 111Lex111gton, Ky Hurst Brothers w1l1 erect an addItion to theIr plctnre tJ ame factory 1ll Baltlmore, .:\fd 5 A Van \\ a} whl en !Sage 1ll the "ah a2,e tl1l111tUIe ,mcl carpet c1ean1112,bu ~llle"" 111Rock I"I,1nd, III 1 he Look-(Jreen FUll1ltUl e Company of \valterboro, S C, LapltahLed f01 $2 000, V\a" O1galllzed on July 17, by VV S Cook ,1nd F U Gl een fhe \\ alte1 K Schmidt Company of Grand Rapids all' Sh1P]>111~con"lde1ahle quantities of maho~any stain" to Ma11' I 1, 1'h11Ipp111e Island::, L P Peck, I n Hollo", ell and A MontL ha\ e organ17ed the \lamo Furmtnre Company at ~an Antolllo, Texas, cap- 1t,1hzed for $20 000 1 he Rhode~- Pierce FUll1ltnre Company of Tampa, Fla, ,Ire negut1at111~ t01 the pUlchase of Thoma" Reed's stock of fUll11ture 111that uty 'I\Ol Il\ [\IPlIf' 1 L1,',JILhf' CO JA\lLSIO\\, 'I \ 1he \lll"ley ~lllrur \\ orks at ~he1b, \l11e Ind "a" dal11- a~ed h) fire recenth to the amonnt ot "200000 The Ju'entle Poh"h ~lanufactunn~ LUlllpan' oj \e' Albany, Ind, \\ 111manufacture tUll11tm e poh"h 5trad1ey & Co of G1eem 111e S L <- Jpltaltzed f01 $1 'i,000, wtll deal III general me1 chandl"e 1ncll1dlll~ fUll11ture The Frank P Knoch 1't1l11ltllle COllljJdn, h a ne" COI-porat1On ln \\ a"h1112,ton, located at 311 '--e, enth ~t1 eet " II Charles Rlche}, a dealer 111fur11lture In \la"ol1tO\\ n, \\ Va, was damaged by fire to the amount of q:; 000 on J uh 20 l\lcGrath &. Bl aucher, dealers III fundt nre at Llllcoll1 III h,1\e dhsoh ed pal tnersh1p ~11 Branchel" 111Ulnt111ue the bU"111es" ~rthnr \\ 1Pcorporated capital stock The C ~ Dorney Furl11tnre Compam of \l1entovvll Pa "'111 occupv a Luge "lk"t01} adchtlOi1 to then llt1t1dlll~ a" "0011 a" completed Schurbur~ and othe1 s ot 1 onke1" " 1 the Emplft' F111111tU1C lompal" \' lth ha' e (~'i 000 Cha"e &. \\ est of De" MOine", Iowa, are p1epanng to take p"""e""lOn of the11 ne,,, stOt e bU1ld111g ] t Will be the large"t 1 ctad "tore 111the "tate of iOwa Tohn r ~tantord ,1nd ~ P Reed ha' e organlLed the Stan-tOt d-I~eed Fur11lture Company 111 LeA111gton, Ky, and pur-cha~ ed the "tock of E R Rayner \\ alter John::,on and as~oc1ate bUyelS of the Atherton l. to1 es, l11ne 111 number, have completed the11 purchases 111 the IV e"t ancl 1eturnec1 to Brockton, ;vIass 1he Ha1'"on &. Dieckmann Furmture Company, recently l)l S ah17ecl 111LI111ton, Iow ,1, have commenced the manufact- Ule ot patlc r, ltblar} and d111111g100m tables Cu"ta, n 1'01111dncl other" of \\Test Hoboken, N J, have ( 1 s:;a1117edthe l'ohn-~1cLaughl111 Company 'v\1th $100,000 cap-lu: l to manulactm e church and "choo1 furmture The \, e1 \ ::\lattJ e"" factor) In 5--outh Fram111gham, Mass, \'~" dan1dgcgd ]y\ hre to the amount of $8,000 on July 17 The CO'11])an\ IV 111re"ume bU"111ess 111the near future [he Greenfield-Talbot-F111ney Company of Na"hv111", WEEKLY ARTISAN 21 ----_._.-._._---------_._._._ .._--_._._._.--_. ------------. III IIII I III II No "''' MOON ~u~~~, ~~~PANY I I : ~-----------------------~~------_.._.----------------------------------------------------------~ ~----._. __ ..-_.-.------------ - Tenn, have mcrea'ied theIr capItal "tack and changed thf'il name to the Greenheld-Talbot Fm mture Company, Mr F p-ne} retmng The company wIll expend $20,000 m enlarg1l1b" theIr manutactunng faculties The prefen ed stock of th,' company now amounts to $35,000, and the common stock to $215,000 G La WIence Stmbon wl1l erect a I eSldence to cost $25 ,ODe m Passadena, Cal , and ~ III need funuture for the same Oth er re"ldences to be erected m that CIty are by the follow111~ A L Phllhps, Mrs Irene Harmers, Adolph R \Vmney af1rt C B Balley Pasadena IS a mllhonalfe:.,' town where cheap house" and furmshmgs are not tolerated The estate of the late John A Colby, a former dealel 111 fm mture 111Clllcago, IS valued at $83,000 John t\ Colby, J r , lecenes capItal stock 111the company to the amount of $31,- 500 Fred J Ham, the buyer for the \'\1 al1ace Company of Schenectady, NY, has returned to hIS home after plac111g orders for large stocks of furmture wIth the exhIbItors 111 Grand RapIds One hundred and fifty members of the Furmture Dedl~1 ,,' AssocIation and theIr employes of Savannah, Ga, made ::l HI') to \Vl1m111gton Island on July 17, where the} enjoyed a fi"h dmner and a ellp 111 the sm f The George R Cohn Furmture Company, caplta117ed for :[,10,000, to manufacture and deal m household furmture, wa" orga1l1zed in Chicago on July 21 by George R Cohn, Charle" J Sal7enste111 and Rme Cohn Joslln Brother'" furmture and hardware St01e at Elbworth. 1\1mn, was entered by cracksmen recently and the safe wa" blown open The thIeve" acqmred $150 The damage to ~lle "tore on account of the eJ<..plo"lOnamounted to $150 A recen er has been appo111ted for Kal p Brothers dnd the \\ e"tern Fm mture Company, owned by the :oame partie", m Cmcmnatl. OhIO TheIr a"set'i amount to $20,000 and hal)Jl- It1e:o5;11,000 A disagreement between the brothers was the cau"e of the trouble George Keach, L t\ Keach. F L DOll11an, HaIry 110unday amI Charle:o A Bll"s have orga1l1zed the Home I<urmtul'; Company with $20,000 capItal "tock, to acquue the good ,\ ,11 "tach and busmess of the Home Furmture Company of tll It uty, umncorporate'l No eaJ.· ShOJ.·tagein the Far Northwest. I'acl1lt1es for movmg the gram crop of \Yash111gton, Idaho, 01egon and Montana, estimated at from 100,000,000 to 105,- NEVER ECLIPSED. IN EVERY MARKET UNDER THE SUN '[HERE IS A READY SALE FOR MOON DESKS No, 1132%-')'\ mehes lOIlg' 32 mches WIde 41 mches hIgh Weight, 310 pounds No 1133;5-60 mehes long 32 wches WIde 43 Inches lugh 'Velght. ~20 pounds Qualter sawed White Oak Wn\lOg be 1 3 1'1v, bllllt 111' SIX pIgeon hole boxes Pnvdle compaltment wah lor-k Card mdex dra\\er Center drawer with lock Roll top sweep arms tIp top and wnllng bed 17.;' ,nches thIck ~quare edge canstt uctlon See the Line in the Manufacturers' BUlIdmg, Grand RapIds. 000,000 bushels, of whIch 62,000,000 to 63,000,000 IS wheat, are hetter than ever, accord111g to "tatements made by raIlway of-fiCIals fro111that sectIOn The rolhng stock has been gl eat1y mcreased, and It IS not expected that a car shortage wIll be expenenced It IS declared that the only condItion to cause a matenal ~hortage In cars V\ auld be an attempt to move the entire crop "1111ultaneously ...-.__ . II _._ .._._---_.- ...._--~ LODGE and PULPIT, PARLOR, LIBRARY, HOTEL and CLUB ROOM ~---- I Henry Schmit 8 Co. I I Upholstered Furniture III I I I I III ---------,------- ..... -.-.----~ HOPKINS AND HARRIET STS. Cmcinnatl, Ohio makers of for -_.... .----------~ II I III IIII ~_....._--_ .... III MUSKEGON VALLEY FURNITURE COMPANY MUSKEGON MICH •• , , GOIomal~ulles lUll Post Beas Oaa Dressers Cnillomers wororooes lOUI'S' TOllelS Dresslrg mOles Monogony 1010ia Gooas III I I IIIII I Il Line on sale in Manufacturers' BUlldmg, Grand Rapids I ~----------------------------------------------~ 22 WEEKLY ". -- .._._~-_._._._.~--_._----~---------~---------- ARTISAN ._------._----------------------------~ I IIIII II ! II I!I•tIII I!I II•I I! ______ --tI! SLIGH'S SELECT STYLES SELL AND SATISFY Everything for the Bedroom WRITE FOR CAT ALOGUr: SLIGH FURNITURE CO. Many New Features Added for the Fall Season [ Medium and FlOe QualIty] Office and Salesroom corner Prescott and Buchanan Streets Grand RapIds, MICh Grand RapIds, MIch. ~--------.-------_------------------------------- .....------_ .. _ ...------~-----~ IIII•It •II• I I IIt I II•I IIt III III IIII I II• ,I II IIIII I,I ~--------------------------------------------~ ~, --- IIIj II The Capacity of Your Jointer is Limited to the Cutting Capacity of the Cutters. Unless you are USIngthe Genuine Morris Wood Cd Sons 20th Century Solid Steel Glue Joint Cutters you are not gettmg the full value out of your machme. They are harder and reqUIre less gnndmg than any other make, and when they do need gnndmg the cuttIng surface ISso small that It only takes a few mmutes to put them m order agam Write for catalog No 35A. It telts all about the cutters and wtll help you to mcrease your profits. MORRIS WOOD & SONS 2714-2716 W. L.AKE: ST, CHICACO, ILL. .__ ...---.._-----------------._-~ ~, ---~- --- ..._._-----_.~---- IIIIII IIIII II II I It I I III II I I II IIIII II ~--------_._.---_._-_._- -- ---~-~----------- _ .._---~ Palmer's Patent Cluin!!:Clamps I 1he abo,e cut IS t<lken direct from a photograph, and shows the range of one sue onlYf our No 1, 24-lnch Clanlp. 'Ve make SJ:A. other sIzes taking ill stock up to 60 inches wide and 2 mches thwk Ours IS the most practICal method of clampmg glued stoc;k m use at the present tIme Hundreds of factones ha,e adopted our \lay the P<lst year and hundreds more WIll in the futnre Let lIS show you Let ns send you the names of nearly 100 fac;torles (only a fractIOn of our list) who have ordered and reordered many tImes Proof poslthe our way is the best A post card wIll brmg It, catalog Included Don't delay, but wrIte today A. E. PALMER & SONS, Owosso, MICH. ForeIgn Representatives· The ProjectIle Co, London, Eng- I<lnd b<hu<hardt & Schutte, Berlm, Germany, Alfred H. Schutte, Cologne, Paris, Brussels, Liege, MIlan, Turin, Barcelona, and BI1boa WEEKLY ARTISAN r THE :BiG-wHiTE SHOp--1 ~---------------_______________________________________________________________ _ J I I We Furnish Every Article of Printing ! Needed by Business Men WHITE PRINTING COMPANY 108, 110, and 112 North Division Street, Grand Rapids, Mich. ~----------- -.. --------------------------~------------------------------------------------- --1I THE BIG WHITE SHOP f.. - ._ •••••••• - _ ••• __ • •• a •• a._ ~ 23 II, I II, I, I, I CLJlVELAND-1430-1434west Third St. OMAHA-1101-1107Howard St. S'r. PAVL-459-461 Jackson St. A'rLAN'rA, GA.-30-3lil-34S. pryor St. SAVANNAH,GA.-745-749 Wheaton St. XANSASCI'rY-Pifth and Wyandotte st •. BmMDrGHAK, ALA.-2nd Ave. and 29th St. BVPPALO, N. Y--372-74-76-78Pearl St. BBOOKLYlII'-635-637Pulton St. PHILADJlLPHIA-Pitcairn Bldg., Arch and 11th st •• DAVENPOB'r-410-416 Scott St. 24 WEEKLY ARTISAN L.ARGEST .JOBBERS AND MANUFACTURERS OF GLASS IN THE WORLD Mirrors, Bent Glass, leaded Art 6lass, Ornamental Figured Glass, Polished and Rough Plale Glass, Window Glass WIRE GLASS Plate Glass for Shelves, Desks and Table Tops, Carrara Glass more beautiful than white marble, CENERAL DISTRIBUTORS OF PATTON'S SUN PROOF PAINTS AND OF PITCAIRN ACED VARNISHES. III For :lnything- III Builders' Glass. or anythmg III Pamts, Varnishes, Brushes or Pamters' Sundries, address any of our branch warehouses, a list of whIch ISg-lVen below NEW YOB.K-Hudson and Vandam Sts. BOS'rOlll'-41-49Sudbury st., 1-9 Bowker st. CHICAG0-442-452 Wabash Ave. CIlII'CIlII'NA'rI-Broadwayand Court sts. S'r. LOmS-Cor. 'renth and Spruce st. MIlII'lII'EAPOLI8-500-516S. 'rhird St. DE'rBOI'r-53-59 Larned St, E. GB.ANDBAPIDS, MICH-39-41 N. DiviSIon st. PI'r'rSBUB.GH-101-103 Wood St. MILWAUKEE,WIS.-492-494 Market St. BOCHES'rEB,lII'.Y.-WllderBldg, Main &; Exchange sts. BAL'rIMOBE-310-12-14 W. Pratt st. ..----------------------------~-_._.__.__._------ _. --------------------_.._---------_----.-.-.-.-.-.-..-•-.-.----.-_"..... Her Little Baby's Chair. The auclloneer leaped on a chaIr, and bold and loud and cleaI, He poured his catalact of words-just 1Jke an auctlOneel An auctIOn sale of furnittlle, where some hard mortgager \Vas bound to get hIS money back, and pay hIS la,\yer's fee A humonst of WIde renown, thIS doughty auctlOneer, HIS horse play raIsed the loud guffaw, and brought the ano,\\ er-ing jeer; He scattered 'round hIs jokes, hke ram, on the unJu<;t and Ju--t , Sam Sleeman saId he Hlaffed so much he thought that he would bust." He knocked down bureaus, beds and stoves, and clock-- a,1d chandehers, l\nd a grand plano which, he swore, \"ould 'last a thou..,an' years ;" He rattled ant the crockery, and sold the slh el \\ al e At last they passed hIm up, to sell, a httle baby's chall "How much? How much) Come, make a bId, IS all your money spent-''' And then a cheap, facetlOu,> \\ ag came up and bId, ' one cent .. Just then a sad-faced woman, who stood 111 SIlence there, Broke down and cned, "My baby's chaIr! My poor, dead baby's chaIr ,,, "Here, madam, take y our baby's chaIr," saId the softened auctlOneer "I know ItS value all too well-my baby dIed last year And If the owner of the chaIr, our fnend, the mortgagee, Objects to thIS proceedlt1g, let hlt11 send the bIll to me" Gone wa <;the tone of ratllel y; the h ut110n<;t al1ctlOneel TUt ned, :,hamefaced, from llls audIence to bru<;h a\\ ay a tedl The laughtng crowd was awed and sttll, no tearless eye \\ as there, \\ hen the weeplt1g \\loman reached and took her httle baby 's chaIr -S E KISER .. --------. .- ------ --_.-------_.--------~ I I I I I I I 60--_________ .... ------. --_ •. _---...& No Show. By S. E. Kiser. Joel Beal 'ud set upon a kaig, Down to the groc'ry store an' throw One laig right over t'other laig, An' swear he'd never had no show; HOh no" said Joe "Hain't hed no sho';"." Then shift his quid to t'other jaw, An' chaw, an' chaw, an' chaw, an' chaw. He said he got no start in life, Didn't get no money from his dad, The washin' took in by his wife Earned all the funds he ever had. "Oh, no," said Joe, "Hain't hed no show." An' then he'd look up at the clock, An' talk, an' talk, an' talk, an' talk. "I've waited twenty year-Ie's see- Yes, twenty-four, an' never struck, Altha' I've sot roun' patiently, The fust tarn ash ion streak er luck. "Oh, no," said Joe, "Hain't hed no show." Then stuck like mucilage to the spot, An' sot, an' sot, an' sot, an' sot. I've come down regerler, every day, For twenty years to Piper's store; I've sot here in a patient way- Say, hain't I, Piper?" Piper swore, "I tell yer, Joe, Yer hev no show Yer too dern patient" -the hull raft J e:,t laffed, an' laffed, an' laffed, an' laffed. " _. .-.----..- - ..----------_._----- I STANDARD UNIFORM COLORS I•• I• IIII• II• II GRAND RAPIDS WOOD FINISHING CO. 5559 Ellsworth Ave. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH ..... ------. ..__ .. .--_ ...-- ... --~ I ....... _a_ ,. iIi Adopted by the Grand RaPIds Furniture Association are produced with our: Golden Oak Oil Stain No. 1909, Filler No. 736. Early English Oil Stain No. 55, Filler No. 36. Weathered Oak Oil Stain No. 1910. Mahogany Stain Powder, No.9, Filler No. 14. Fumed Oak (W) Stain No. 46. WEEKLY ARTISAN 25 ~_. __•••••• • •• ••••• _••• _.. 1 1 "THE BEST IS THE CHEAPEST" BARTON'S GARNET PAPER Sharp, Very Sharp, Sharper Than Any Other. SUPERIOR TO SAND PAPER. It costs more, BUT It Lasts Longer; Does Faster Work. Order a small lot; make tests; you will then know what you are getting. WE GUARANTEE SATISFACTION. Furniture and Chair Factories, Sash and Door MIlls, Railroad Companies, Car Builders and others will consult theIr own interests by using it. Also Barton's Emery Cloth, Emery Paper, and Flint Paper, furnished in rolls or reams. I ~----------....._.--------------_._.-.~.~._.--_._.-._.------_.-------------_ ...----_ ....._---- ..-._._-- ..- .._--~ MANUFACTURED BY H. H. BARTON & SON CO., 109 South Third St., Philadelphia, Pa. B1'eaking the Record for Arrivals. The furmture sales sea"on now cIosll1g pron11'.,e" to bl eak the record In the matter of buyer" vlSltll1g the Grand RapId" market The number registered m 1905 v. a" a httle more than eleven hundred The number thl" sea"on, up to la'lt \Vednes-day, when the Dally Artisan-Record closed It" "ea"on, was Y36 Smce that date nearly a hundred mOl e ha\ e arnved, and as they wJ11 continue to come for a week 01 more, the total for the season wIll probably be at least 1,150 and per-haps 1,200 Followmg IS a lbt of those arnvmg smce Wed-ne" day John A Hunt, Peru, Ind Chas :N"ewman, SturgIS, Mlch F VV Goehner, Seward, Neb VV H Monk, J r , MobJ1e, Ala C J Enckson, Lavv 1ence. Kan o J Daebler, Coldwater, Mlch \V B Tuttle, Coldwater, M1Ch Alex HIrschberg, LOUlsvJ1le, Ky Chas S Putnam, JanesvIlle, Vft" S Flhn, Flhn & Co, St Lams, Mo F Bayha, Bayha & Co, Duluth, Mll1n E J Downey, \\ m Glp'iOn, 1renton, Mo A F ~mlth, S Sweet & Co, Vlsaha, Cal \V F Mohr, Mohr & Co. New York, N Y \Vm D Hubel, Huber & Co, Dayton, OhlO P J a1111 , G Sommer" & Co ,St Paul, Mum Henry WIles, vVJ1es & Co, Logansport, Ind R Bulpitt, 1< S BulpItt l~ Son", TaylorvIlle, III N ell Gentry, Arthur Jacob}, Kansas City, Mo O. vV1tbeck, vV1tbeck & Ranger, BelVIdere, 1II W. F. RIchter, Lyman, Lay & Co, Kewanee, 1II John G Rogers, R Rogers & Son, Frankfort, Ky W A Healy, F S Harmon & Co, Portland. Ore John G Roger", R Rogers & Son, Frankfort, Ky G C Blacklock, John Kay Company, Toronto, Ont Roy A Chestnut, Chestnut & Son, Taylorvdle, III \V E. Stewart, Emah1zer & SpIelman, Topeka, Kan ::VID Cox, F H Peterson & Co , vI1l1neapoll", MU111 Geo Charbon, 0 T Johnson & Co, Galesburg, III R E Kearns, VV H Keech Company, P1ttsburg, Pa D J Galy, D H Holmes Company, ::\few Orleans, La Geo H J ack',on. Love, Casselman ~ Co , Alhance, OhIo P A Nelson, Porter Furmture Company, Fremont, Neb Peter Gobrecht, Gobrecht-Geyer Company, NOlV'.O')(l, () R A Euwer, Euwer Bros Company, New Kenslllgton. 1'2 Geo H Raymond, McDougall & SouthwIck, Seattle, \Vash U Shuttleworth, J Shuttleworth & Son, Am'iterdam, N Y. Thomas R Powell, Cooper-Powell Company, Denver, Col J J Vaughan, J J ~ D G Vaughan, Eaton RapIds, MICh \V T McCoy, McCo} Furl11tllle Company, Charlotte, N C F H Peterson, F Ii Peterson & Co Mlllneapoh'i, Mllln \\ A Koch, Koch Olltfittmg Company, E, ansvdle. Ind R G Chappell, The 0 T Johnson Company, Galesburg, 1II A M Jacoby, Jacob} Furlllture Company, Kansas CIty, ~Io Peter V{ Hart, Hart Furmtlll e Company, J acksonvl1le, Fla R VY Povvell. Stovver'i Furmture Company, Blrmlllgham, Ala S S Gadbee. Stower'i FurlJltlll e Company, 13lrmmgham, "\la J T Clarke, J Cr Kilpatnck F1ll1l1tUl e Company, Denver, Col vv l\I Longmeyer, Lcmf;me} er, Draper & GO, Shawnee', Okla \V vI, Shuttlev.Ol th, J Shuttleworth & Son, Amsterdam. N Y F H Ralke, Ralke,,' House Furl11"hmg Company, Terrell. 1exa" George Schell, ~chell-Demple Furlllture Company, Keokuk, Iowa H R Buettner, Buettnel Furl1lture Company, Burhngton, IOvva U P Ba:xter, Hennessey Mercantile Company, Butte, Mont D J Havland, Ml"soula Mercantile Company, Ml'iSoula, Mont, D G Cole, MmneapolJ" DIy G00rlS Company. Mlllneapoh'i, Mmn VV G Knollenberf;, G H Knollenberg Company, RIch-mond, Ind I'red S Tucker, Tucker Fnrl1lture Company, Colorado Spllngs, Col L A vVeldenborner, Amencan Hou"e Furlll"hmp, (0m pany, St Paul, Mmn Chas vI, allbloom, \\ allbloom Furl1lture and Carpet Com-pany ~t Paul. M111n An Improved Re-Saw. The vI"est SlCle hon vI, orb of eland Rapids 1'i makll1g a new hand re-'iaw that IS claImed to be the be"t product the) have ever turned out The new ~aw" have been mstalled by the :vIlchlgan Cha1r Company and the Impenal FUll1lture Company of Gland RapId", and by the Cable-Nelson Plano Company of South Haven, Mlch, and are saId to have been found supenor 111many re'lpect" to any re-saws heretofore used $50,000 The contract for fell mshlllg will be let sevel al months hence Rlclurd Thorn, of Carlsbad, N of tmll1tm e and resumed buc;lness b} nle lecentl} )" gun aCCIdentally dIscharged Sitlel a salesman employed by the 111 Pasadena. Cal Jacob Ghck and othel s have formed a copartner"hip under the name of Ghck & ScheIdler, to deal m f11l11lture and dry £;oodc; 111~ew York l' \shton I r} \\ III erect a hotel to contall1 two hundred ellld htteen room" In Los \ngeles, C'al It ~Ill be known as the "e\\ Baltlmol e ' lied Hame} of \\ ,1\ etly. Ill, has completed hiS purchas-e" ot f,lrmt're and l'J.rd\\are for Han e) & Co, 11 Chicago, and I eturned to hiS home \\ Ilham Ho11el an, recentl) engaged tn the fml11ture busI-nc" s at Puk\\ ana S D, WIll tray el for a whole~ale furnIture hOthe located 111 \Ittche11, S D John Cloxton, a dealer 111furl11ture In Kawnawa street, Cbarlt"tcn \\ \ a died on Jul} U Uo"ton wa~ a Chnc;tJan SCIentIst and refused medical ald. J 1 Crame and :\1r 2\IcGregor of the Huntly-Ht!l-Stock-ton comb111atlOn. ot \\ mston-Salem, :t\ C, wt!l spend a week In GI and RapIds placl11g orders for furl11ture C P Porter & company, dealers 111 refngerators and house furmsh111g goods 111PhIladelphIa, were damaged to the amount of $50,000 by fire 111their walehouse on July 10. Da\ Id Gropengel"en, of ~ew Orleans. spent a few days 111 Houqon, 1exas recently, whel e he leased a large wal ehouse and \\ III engage In the manufacture of furl11ture 1he Gatshck Funllture company 111 N orth Adam~, :l\Iass, IS prepanng to qUit business, after an experience of four years 111 the trade The stock WIll be disposed of at once 1 B Smtth of the E B Smith Furniture C0111pany, SIOU" r all" S D, \\111 spend ten days In Chicago, Grand Rapids. \Illwaukee and Rockford. plac111g ordels for fur11ltme R '\ Stale). buyer and George Hass, hl~ aSSIstant, re-pre'ient111g the Fd~ard \\ ren Company ale attend111g the fur-mtul e eXp0'iltIOn'i In Graml RapIds and ChICago They are plaung hbelal order" " H ("Gleat') Scott. formerly a 'A ell known figme In the fur11lture exposltJom. WIll sail on \\ ednesday for Ireland, \\ hllh he left forty years af;o, to viSit c;cenes of his bo} hood \Irs B J Pond ~ III erect an eIght room houc;e to CO'it S::;200 In Pa~edena, Cal, and PerCIval Thompson of Chlcag, a hand"ome re'ildence on Ocean Bouln arcl, San Diego Both \\ III bu) ne'A fur11lture The V A Garcia Company has been 111corporated to manufacture fur11lture In New York city Capital stock, $15,- 000 Incorporators, Valent111e A Galcla, Frank H Flcld awl Sab1110 de Bal renechea T J Flack, manager of the Rhodes-Burford f'ur111ture store 111 New Albany, Ind., IS <pendmg a few days In Grand Ra pld '3, P lfcha'illlg stock He 'AIII VISIt Milwaukee and C111- cago before returmng home A storage VI arehouse and dry bIn, a botler house and ship-pIng bUlldmg, VV III be erected by the \Vl'iCOn'iln Fm111tm e Company, 111 Fond du Lac About $25,000 WIll be expended 111 the makmg of these Improvements The reduced railroad rates from we~tern and southern telfltor} to ChIcago wluch \'Vent into eflect Saturday are not confined to merchants or furmture buyers though they were TRADE NOTES AND NEWS. The furnIture exp0'oltlon 111 Philadelphia conta1l1'-, 3000 pIeces. A VI. Applegate WIll erect a wood \\ ork1l1g factor} 111 Drawley, Cal Not untt! the freight cars run short agal11 Will some people begIn to mISS the waterways Dr \V A Cundy, Will erect and furl11sh a fine home to cost $5,000 111 Pasadena, Cdl Fmey & Young of Long Beach, Cal , ha, e reft1111lshed the Hotel l\letropole, 111that Clt) Twenty-sIx eJl1bltors constitute the fll! nitut e eXp'lSltlOn now 111 progress In Phllaelelphll fhe Horn Furnlttll e Com pan} Will open a branch store on Genessee street, \iVaukegan, Ill. The Mohler Furmture Compan) \\ III erect an ad(!JtlOn 55" 50 to theIr store m Abel eleen, S D Theodore Anderson wIll erect a three story brick furmture warehouse m St Paul to cost $24,4G8 This country IS comIng to look upon an} plOphec\ a'i SpUflOU'i unles" uttered b) "JIm" HIll Jesse J ack'ion of Gramtey l11e, (;a succeed" 0 TIm S\\ 01th m the furmture bus1l1es'i 111 that place Dr J C 1'\earne Will erect a I eSldence to CO'it SlO 000 l\l San DIego, Cal, and Will need furmtUle Bids Will be opened on July 28 for supph 1l1f; tml11tul e tOl the new court house tn Hoboken, X J An uphobtery shop has been opened b) ,1artm \\ 1l1klel at 1'\0 6 Church street, Ossm111g, '\ Y A. H. Badger sustained a lo"s of $15,000 hy a fire 111hl'i fur11lture store 111 B01'ie, Ida, on Jul) 12 The Masons of Clmmeron K :\1, \\111 elect a bUIldIng to! the use of theIr fratermty to co~t $15,000 \iV A. Pansh & Co , upholsterers of DetrOIt, \HI e damag-ed by fire to the amount of $500 on J uh 1-1- Victor Colby, recentl) a member of the \-,t Petel (\1l11n) Fur11lture Company. commItted c;t11ude In ::,eattle Jacob :\lltnlck ha'i leased a 'itOI e bUIldIng 111 Baltll110lC :\ld , preparatory to engagmg In the furl11ttll e trade Max Samovllle'c; stock of furl11ture in PIttsburg, Pa. was damaged by file to the e'{tent of $4,500, Jul} 13 Claud Stev, art's stock of furmture at Fillet Ida, \\ as des-troyed by fil e recentl} Loss $2,300, pal Ua11) Ilhm ed Fur11lture has been shIpped b} the \\ alleager ,Ianutac-tunnf; Company, fOI the new capItal at 1,I ankfort, K \ The capital stock of the Haggard & \Ial CUS'iOI1Com pam of Chicago ha~ been 1l1Clea"ed from $7:; 000 to $100000 J 1\1 Vanl\letre, of Columbus, S C, \\ tll erect a lalge bmldlng and OCCUpythe same WIth a 'itock of ftlll11ture J vVhlttlker of the l\Ianon (Ind ) f'nrmture Compam, IS attend1l1g the furmture exposltton s In Gl and RapIds and ChI-cago The Gl a11lte State Spnnf; Bed COl11pam of "a'ihau " H have filed artIcles of incorporatIOn, With a capItal stock of $5.000 The Northwestern Furniture Company, capitalized for $50,000 will begl11 operatIOns at Chippewa Falls, W IS, on Au-gust 1 Marcu" :\Ioreland of the l\Ioreland Furmture C(jl11pan\. Shreveport, La, IS spendIng the 'A eek In ChICago plaung 01 ders The Ford-::YIassey Furmtme Company have pUlchased a bflCk budding In \VIlm111gton, Delaware, to be used In theIr busmess The Elks of Long Beach, Cal, will erect a temple, to cost 1\1, has purchased a stock I-lIs "tOle was destroyed se\ erely wounded \V R Nold Furnltme Company WEEKLY ARTISAN 27 }< RO\1 I Hb. Ll'lE O} THE NELSO'l MA I TJ:R FUR'-! fUR} CO GRAND RAllDS MICH so l11tended One road takl11g advantage of the recent rullng by the Interstate Commel ce CommIssIOn, offered the speCIdl fare-and-a-half rates to the general pubhc and the others were oblIged to do lIke\\! Ise CommerClal orga111zatlons of POI tland, Seattle and Taco-ma hay e u111ted 111 an effO! t to "eCUIe better ea"t bound rates They are to have a heanng before an Interstate Commerce CommIssIon at Portland at an early date The LIncoln Furniture company, in PhIladelphia, has exe-cuted a mortgage on their factory in that city to the Penn Mu-tual LIfe Insurance company for $50,000 The company I~ about to erect an extension to their factory, which probably ac-counts for the loan A.le'Cancler Bolle", late \\! Ith J01111 \Vanamaker, "ucceed'i Han y L \\ ILks as bu} er for the fur11lture department of Stern Crothers, l\ew York He has had many yeal s' exper- Ience III the retat! trade, and IllS appllcatlon for the posItIon ""a" endor"ed b} hIS predecessor The FIsk & Loosely annex contai11lng sIxty thousand feet of Hoar "pace devoted to the sale of house furUlShlllg goods 1.1 Molme, Ill, of which thIrteen thousand square feet IS devoted to the furnIture department, was opened on July 10, 111 th( charge of 1\1r. Harn~ The growlllg busllless of the firm n cessltated the rental of the addlbonal bUlldlllg. The firm jC, conducting an up to date department store The heIrs of Shepherd Knapp, the former head of the firm of ::-'hepherd Knapp & Co, 111 ;-Jew York CIty, have en-gaged 111a family quarrel for the possession of the fortune of $400,000 left by the deceased. One of the heirs has filed a petItion asking for an accounting Shepherd Knapp died fon years ago when Hi-am Knapp succeeded his father as president and E D Tuckel, d son-111-law, as trea"urer An attorney fOJ the WIdow declares that 11rs Knapp, a" admlUlstratnx, has g1\ en former accountmgs and that thel e are no grounds for hUgatlOn The Decatnr Column & lurmture company WIll commence the manufdcture of fml11ture and columns for porche~ 111New Decatur, Ala, in the near future. They have purchased the plant of the Janmon ManufactUl111lS company and WIll greatly enlarge and Improve It The officers of the company are G L Dowles, presIdent and treasurer, New Decatur; Gilford Dudley, vIce presIdent, NashvIlle, B. \'1 Watson, secretary, New De-catur New YorK's New Labm' Law. Labor CommIssIoner \iV Illlams of New York has sent notIce to all employers of labor III that state, call1llg atten-tIOn to Important changes 111the labor law, affecting danger-ous employment, whIch become operative on Oct 1. The ne\\ law p-Ol11bIL the e1lployl11ll1t (If cll1ldrcn under III yeals of age 111the operatIon of various forms of machinery, such a" cIrcul.lr s, WS, plane'> plc1,ers, rnnth1lS pre'i'ies opel ated hv motive PO\'\ er other than foot, stamping mach111es, rollIng machlllery and laundrylng machlllery The law also prohibIts the employment of cht!dren in ad- JustIng any belt to machlllery, or in the preparatIOn of any composItIOn In whIch poIsonous acids are used, or III the pack-ll1g of matche'i, or ll1 the manufacture of powder, or 111 an) place where a1coholtc ltqunrs are manufactured or bottled GirlS under the age of 16 shall not be employed III any capacIty where such employment compels them to rema1l1 stancl111g- con'itantly No chtlcl under 16 years shall be per-mitted to manage or operate an elevator, eIther for freight or paS'iengers e,penment and t11o"e ,\ ho al e WIlling to retreat £lom the malch ot progre;,"lOl1 wdl show theIr adherence to old fog) Ide,I" \\ Ith ,Ill the defectl\ e methods aClOmpan)lllQ," To tear loo"e "Ol11etlme" I eCjt1lre" real courage, but u"ually 'Ouch "how thell plOt;re""ne "pInt and lompen"ate b} the early ad,an-tdt; e" to theIr complete "atl..,factlOn :\ atm all) the I eadel may he;'ltate O~lll~ to the vaned method;, of n"111g the th111 klllfe Some advocate the use of a square head v.lth thm klllfe and spnng steel back, whereas other;, purchase complete heads of w11lch there are a vanety to "elect from, espeCIally ;,mted to the use of the thm steel klllfe I t matter;, httle whIch at the methods now III vogue may be adopted, becau"e the) all show espeCIally ad, anced Idea;, for the p1alllng and ;,nrfacll1g of 1nmber There IS one pOll1t, how-e\ el, at partlcu1al II1terest, and that I" re1atl ve to the kll1d of tlnn 'itee1 knn e" one adopts :Ylan) makes of these klllve;, may be found WIth varYlllg dec;1 ee" of ment. but tho;,e \\ hlch are c;,peClally llseful and mal(Jn~ partIcular clall1l to "upenonty are the Bedee Klllves manutactured b} ::'amuel J ShImer & Son", Milton, Penns)' 1- ,allla, to \\ ho"e plOduct tIns Journal ha" frequently referred In the pa;,t twent) vears 28 WEEKLY ARTISAN Fire Did Not Cripple Them. The plant of the Tlavclse CIlI (),Ilch \ Chall Compan) was damaged to a con"lderab1e nJent by hre 1d"t [ne"da\ lllght, but not so bad as ,\ d;' reportecllll the clad) papel" The fire dId not reach the machll1e depal t111ent, ancl a ch"patch to the \IV eek1y Artisan state:" that It WIll cause a delay of ollh th1 ee or four clays In fillms; order;, \\' R Compton. who ha" charge of the company's exhIbIt In the FUllllture L.'..cham;-e here, states that reports of the hre pubhshed In the dad} papers \\ ere greatly exagge1 atecl, and that all good;, "old dm-lllg the 'iales ;,eason WIll be shipped promptl} The 10"s I" fnlly covered by II1surance FUlonitureNotes and News. C E SmIth l'i enlarglllg hh fm U1ture "tOI e 111 Rockland :\le Fehx McCloskey, a fur11lture deale 1 of John"tm\ n 1',1 ha" been declared a bankrupt HIS hablhtle" amount to SlO 30.+00 and hl'i asset;, are \ a1ued at $20,78000 \\ h} dId he tall) The Keybndge Furllltnre Compan} of '\ ev. York \\ III m-crea,', e theIr capItal 'itock from $100,000 to $1 ;0 000 SImon Brothers of POItchestel:\ Y recent1 \ dec1al ed bankrupt have oubtandll1~ habllltle" amountm~ tu ';3 -+;6 Asset'i $1,760 The Pomona Department ::,tore \\ 111OCCUP} a ne\, budd-mg now under con;,tructlOn m Pomona, Cal A court house to cost ~150,000 WIll be erected 111 Reno. Nevada The 'ium of $50,000 WIll be expended for fur11lture and eqUIpment Crane Brothers, archItect.., of ::,an BernalCl1l10 Cal hay e prepared plan~ for an eIght StOl} hotel ht1l1dll1~ to be elected 111 that cIty dunng the CUll ent } eal SHand R H 1310wn of ::,an Francl"co hay e pUlcha"ed the furl1lture 'itock of A KIst In \lameda. la1 Ed LeBreton of Albuquerque. X .:\1 ha" opened a "tock at furl1lture and announces that he wdl ;,ell the 'iame for hard tlme;, pnces " Mlram Karaghe"lan, a wealthy rug Importel of '\ e\\ 'r ork was arrested 111 New York on a Dutche;,;, count \ 'I all ant and was held under $11,000 batl pendll1g the outcome at d Cl\ 11 'itllt brought aga1l1st hIm by Ed" ard D .:'IIa}er, a Pough keepsle lawyer, to recove1 $50,300 damage;, for Il1June" Ie celvec1 111 an autol1lobl1e aCCIdent Among the suffe1 ers of loss b\ fire amountll1c; to S70 000 111 Allstll1, Pa, \iVaSthe Po\\er" 8..- \\ alcott JUI11lt11le lOmpdJ1\ The Empire Home Furl1lture Camp am ot Yonker" '\ 'r on July 17, WIth $3,000 capItal stock, V\tll manutacture dnd deal In furlllture The 1I1corporators are a" follO\, s \1 thur ::, Schurberg, Yonkers. ~ Y, Charle.., Rlll~el. Derb}. Conn. Charlotte Schurberg. Yonkers N Y and Mana RIl1ge1 1)e1 b\ Conn Filling the Leonard Building. The Yeager l\Ianufactunng lompan} of \l1ento\\ n Pa have 1ea<;ec1the ent1re fourth floor at the Leondrd bmldll1~ Grand RapIds The Northern Furl1lture C ompan \ of '-.hebo\- gan takes the entire thIrd floor, whIle She11e\ 8- \h1 and the Cutler Desk Company go on the fifth floor "0 that the plOb-ablht1e'i ale that the entlle bmldll1g \\111 he lea"ed hetOle the close of the present furmture season Mission FUloniture.How to ~Iake It. Cloth covers. 96 page". 90 Illu'it1 atlOl1" Pllce 2; lent" A new book of general Inte1e"t to that lal!~e lLI"" of per:"on" ~ho dehght 111 p1ckll1g up a fc" tool" c1ullng t11elr "pale mo ment'i and makIng ,,011lethll1g worth whIle and of lrecht to themseh e" It cons1'ib of pI actlCal, p1dlJ1h \\ lItten 1I1"t1UC-tlons for mak1l1g and fil1l"hlllg twent} -Lme chtfe1 en1 pIece" of thIS popular ;,ty1e of furl1lt11l e, the text hell1~ alcompamec1 by 90 detatled workll1g dra~1I1s" and hdlf-tone I11u"tratlOn" Popular Mechal1lc", ChIcago Thin Steel :Knives. To use th1l1 steel knn es or not to-j" a PIOj)O"ltwn that comes to the m1l1d of e\ el v pI 0:';1e""I\ e lumbe111lan at th1"o tnne The faclhtles offered by theIr u"e ale no longel an Extending the Parcels Post. \\ a"hll1gton ach Ice" '".tate that the postma;,ter general has conduded a~1 eements WIth the po;,tal ad1TI111lstratlOns of Den-marl~ and Japan by whIch after August 1 parcels exchanged \, Ith thO'ie countnes may be accepted up to $80 111 value and 11 pound" 111 weIght Th1:" IS 111 accordance WIth the depart-ment" plan to e.'..te11(l the u"efulne"s of the parcels po;,t to t01 el~n connt11es The II-pound \\ eIght hmlt now applte;, to all countnes e...l.e.pt1l1~ F1 ance and S" eden, whIch IS stl1l four pounds, SIX ounce" The 11lTIltof \ alue IS not. however. ;,0 nearly umform --- ..- ----------------- ...- _. THE WEATHERLY INDIVIDUAL Glue Heater Send your address and and receIve descriptIve CIrcular of Glue Heaters. Glue Cookers and Hot Boxes WIth prICes. The Weatherly Co. Grand Rapid., Mich. ,---~-_._-------., I I, I I, II ,II ,III I I III ....--------_ ...._---------------------------- ... ----_._---------- Grand Rapids Caster Cup Co. 2 Park.wood Ave, Grand Rapids. Mich. \\(' ate !lOW puttlt1g' out the best Caster Cups "lth cork bases ever offeree 10 the tJcH..Ie 1hese are fill1shed III Golden Oak and WhIte Maple IlL d lJ .....ht fillJ ...h J hec;e g-oods are admIrable for polIshed floors and furn~ 1lme le,ts They WIll not sweat or mar. PRICES $400 per hundred 5 00 per hundred FOB Grand Rap,d8 SIze 2)( mches ~Ize 2% mches II y a ~amJllf 01der WEEKLY ARTISAN 29 r l -..~;;;.;~:.a~~~~·--_·_---------- -----.--- Quartered Oak I Walnut I Curly Maple II' Bird's Eye Maple , Basswood I Ash I Elm Birch Maple Poplar Gum Oak ..... ._. .. •• am. I. __ • ._--_._a-.-_.-------, I Foreign and Domestic Woods. Rotary, Sliced, Sawed. II I~------_._.--_._---._-_. ----._._--- _.--._--- _..._._._---------- - ....I Lowman is Confident. D H Lowman of the Penn Furmture Compan), PhIla-delphIa, who spent a week In Grand Rdp1d" placmg orders, recentl) talked optuTIlo,tlcally to a reporte1 for the PhIladelphIa Press after hI" return to that Lity "If anyone doubts that we are on the threshold of an er,l of prospenty unparalleled 111the l1l'.,tory.. of tluo, country, let hIm take an extended tnp through the farm111S;and manufact-unng d1stncts of the mIddle weste1 n states a" I have done, and he wIll return a confirmed optUlll"t fhe farmers are 111 elm er, and are reap111g the ha1 vest I, 1slted one farm 111 IndIana compllsmg one hundred acre" that YIelded $3,900 net profit thIS yea1 Tlllo, fa1m cost the Ovv ner only $4,000 fewer than twenty year" ago 1hIS IS only one mstance of the re-markable mcrease 111farm values, and the multIplymg profits that have resulted from model n methods of cultl', atlOn "Another 1mpre"Slve mdlcatlOn of the return of prospentv 10,the extraordmary demand for automobdes I VIsIted a num-ber of these factone" m ChIcago, Cle, eland and DetroIt and found nearly all of them taxed to theIr capacIty At ChIcago, Grand RapId", Rockford and at other furmture manufactunns; places, the number of buyers and order" dosed were greatly m excess of the normal, and a noteworthy fact was the eVIdent demand upon the part of bu) ers for a hetter grade of furmture and the deSIre of the manufactlll e1'0 to produce a better ela"" of goods" New Ym"k View of the Market. New York, July 23 - The1 e IS a bnsk demand for Iron, "t1 uctural "teel and hardware of all kmds from nearly all sec-tIons of the country An ad, ance m pnce" on Iron and steel I" expected dunng the commg week There IS a growmg demand for lumber, pal tIcularly f01 hard woods Pnces are hIgher at nearly all pomts, the only vv eakness be111greported from gulf pOl ts L111seed 011 contmue" dull, WIthout matenal change m quotatIons Balled m fi, e barrel lots 10, held at 62 cent", double boded at 64 and we "tern raw at 60@61 Calcutta IS 75 cents The turpentme ma1ket IS firm and exceedmgly dull at the recently advanced pnces It IS quoted at 49@ 490 cents for "pot dell', ery Jobbers report hght bUSIness m shellac, WIth pnces well mamtamed The) quote orange "hades 111T N case" at 14@ 140; bnght orange, 17@;19c, fine orange gladeo" 20@22 cent" Varmsh gums are steady and are e'{pected to remam so untd September at least Kaun"\;o 1, 41@48 cent", No 2, 21@25 cents; Ma11111a,pale. 1~@18, da1k harel, 12@14, amber, 13@lS Burlaps are dull, hardly Me enough m the mal ket to estab-h" h pnces The latest quotatlOns are $3 37ri@3 40 for e1ght-ounce goods, and $4 4:;@4 470 for 1O-0111lCe Chas Lugnn, huyer f01 the Atherton lur1111111eCompany. of LeWIston, Me, hds returned to Ill" home, after pnrchdsmg a o,tock of ftU1111ure for the fall "ea"on, m Grand RapId" ITe met many dealer" whde absent and IS confident flom the 1e-ports heard as to the prospects for trade that the retall furm-ture bnsmess wdl be good dunng the fall and wmter An Improved Saw Bench. The above half tone represents the new u111versal double 1evoh mg arbor saw bench, bllllt by the Crescent Machme 'vVarks of Grand RapIds, M1ch ThIS mach111e hao, two saws always ready for mstant use, o,hdmg table WIth graduated mIter gauge, set WIth taper p111Sto permIt several pIeces of "tock bemg sawed at a tune 1able tIlt" five degrees m one dIrectIon and 45 degreeo, m the other Complete graduatIons, exelusl\ e conve111ences and great range makes thIS mach111e the peer of all saw benche" for the cabmet shop Guaranteed to ehmmate mIstakes and maccuraC1es, and to reduce the cost of "awmg stock to a mm1mum ~ -.. "- -.-----_._-- ---- --- ._--_._--- _. ---._------------., I I We Manufacture the Largest LlDe of fOlDlna ("AIDS In the U filled States, sUltable for Sun day Schools, Halls, Steam-ers and all publIc resorts We also manufacture Brass TrImmed I r 0 n Beds, Sprmg Beds, Cots and CrIbs m a large varIety , II I it ""---- ..... - .._------------------_ .. ----~ Send for Catalogue and Prices to KAUffMAN MfG. CO. ASHLAND, OHIO 30 - - - - ---------------------. ---~._--_. -_._-------------------------------- -----------_. -_. ----.., WEEKLY AR'llSAN OUR LINE OF CHINA CLOSETS, BUFFETS AND BOOKCASES IS MORE COMPLETE AND UP·TO.DATE THAN EVER BEFORE. SAMPLES SHOWN IN CHICAGO ONLY, 1319 MICHIGAN AVENUE, MANUF ACT. URERS' EXHIBITION BUILDING, IN CHARGE OF F. P. FISHER, N. P. NELSON, AND FRED LUGER. .._------------------------ --ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS :: Ii \ --------------------~ ROCKFORD STANDARD FURNITURE CO. ---------.., -, --------------------------.., : I I I I, I I, New and Ab.olutely Fueproof Cor. Adams Ave. and Park St. • : In the Center 01 the Theatre. Shop- : pIng, and BuslOess Dlstnct •,I I••• I~-_... ---------------------_._._ .. --------~ THE Wellin~ton notel Cor Wabash Ave & Jackson Boulevard CHICAGO Remodeled at a cost of $150,000 Hot and cold running water and long dis-tance 'phones in all rooms. 200 rooms 100 wIth bath Smgle or en sUIte. Rales $1 00 and upwards One of the most uOlque dmmg rooms In the country Our lamous lneban C,le Il.~~.. _ NOTED FOR SERV CEAND CU 5 NE McCltnlock and Bayfield PROPS. 'I- ••• I• These saws are made from No. 1 Steel and we war-rant every blade. We also carry a full stock of Bev-eled Back Scroll Saws, any length and gauge. Write us tor Price List and discount J l-JJ S. Front St., ORAND RAPIDS, MICH. ~--------------------------------------------~ •II BOYNTON I: &, CO. I , I I,' Manulacturers of I' l"'- ~:r::~~o:~d~ : :. _ - Jngs. Emboss- I SEND fOR ed and Spmdle Carvings, and I Automatic I: Turning'S. We also manu I lacture a large hne ': 01 Embossed , Ornaments for I 4'9-42' W. Fifteenth St., CHI~;;:'~LL.! I i ~------------------------------ ..--------~ WHEN IN DETROIT STOP AT Hotel Tuller I,I:II I ......I A la Carte Cafe Neweat and Finest Gnll Room In the CIty. Club Breakfast - - - 40c up Luncheon - - - 50c T ahle d hote Dmners - 75c MuSIc from 6P M to 12 P M Every room has a prIvate bath. EUROPEAN PLAN Rates' $1.50 per day and up. L W. TULLER, Prop M. A. SHAW, Mgr WEEKLY ARTISAN SUBSCRIPTION OFFER TO FURNITURE ========================E=A=L0ERS====================== Through our ability to dispose of a large number of these books we have been able to obtain a price which enables us to furnish this fine work on Decorating Show Win~ dows and interiors and send the WEEKLY ARTISAN one year at the price of the book alone. The Regular Price of the Book is $3.50 The Subscription to the Weekly Artisan one year is 1.00 Total, $4.50 We wiIJ send the book, express paid and the Weekly Artisan for one year for $3.50 Address all orders and mquIries to the WEEKLY ARTISAN, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Parties deSiring to examine the book before purchasing may do so by forwarding $3.50 for price of book. If after examination it does not prove satisfactory, upon the return of the book, express charges paid, we will be pleased to return all of the $3.50 The book consists of over 400 pages, bound in cloth and is profusely illustrated. The two opening chapters of the book are reproduced on another page of this issue. PRIZE CONTEST The Weekly Artisan WIll give away $32.50 in money each month for the best Window and Floor Displays of Furniture Contest open to both Subscribers and Non~Subscribers. Are you good at arranging window and floor displays? Then here's your opportunity to capture from $1.00 to $10.00 every month. Beginning with this number, the Artisan will conduct a series of prize contests for the best window and floor displays of furniture. The rules are simple. Anyone conducting a furniture store may enter the contests, the only provi-sion being that each contestant must enter a GOOD plate of his exhibit and a brief description of how it was accomplished, especially where technical or mechanical contrivances are used in pI eparing the display. That is all. The decisions will be rendered by a committee selected for the purpose, and all awards will take into full considera-tion the natural difficulties which it was necessary to overcome in order to produce the results shown. For instance, the small or medium sized stores will not have the advantages of the larger ones, and the excellence of the small store work will be judged accordingly. Thus all will have an equal opportunity and an equal chance in the distribution of prizes. 1st Prize 2nd Prize 3rd Prize $10.00 7.50 5.00 4th Prize 5th Prize Next 5 $2.50 2.50 1.00 each Each month the winning displays will be reproduced in the Weekly Artisan, which will afford an excellent oppor-tunity for readers to study each other's store methods. We aim to make these contests of more than monetary interest; they are designed primarily to stimulate superior effects in display and to offer a source of education along these lines. Good window and floor displays require serious study. The advertising value of well kept windows and floors cannot be over estimated. If you present to the multitudes who daily pass your windows, an attractive setting, you will arrest their attention and admiration, and while they may not draw every passerby into your store at once, they are nevertheless doing a helpful work, and one which pays in the long run. When space permits, it is a good plan to reproduce room scenes, thus suggesting to the prospective purchaser how she may obtain good effects in her home. This plan is carried out very suc-cessfully in large cities. Now, then, brothers, send in your photos, and go after the prize money. All who wish to enter the August contest must have their photos in by July 25th. Address WEEKLY ARTISAN, Grand Rapids, Mich. 31 -.. II ~.--.---.-.- -------------------- I I Miscellaneous Advertisements. I I I I I I I I I I , II II I I I I I I ___ ~ • .~ .."t II II II III II 32 WEEKLY / 10 SPINDLE MACHINE ALSO MADE WITH 12, 15 20 AND 25 SPINDLeS DODDS' NEW GEAR DOVETAILING MACHINE Th,s little machine has done more to perfect the drawer \\ ork of furn' tare manufacturers than anything else In the furnIture trade For fifteen years 1t has made perfect fittmg, vermm proof dovetaIled stock a PO')Sl bl11ty ThIs has been accomplIshed at reduced cost as the machme cuts dove talls In ~angs of from 9 to 2.t-at one operatlOn It s ,\ hat others see about your busmess rather than what yOU say about]t that counts III the cash dr1.wer It c;. the th1111of t'nthuslasm and the t1ue nng of truth )OU feel and hear back of the cold type that makes you buy the thlTlgad\ ertlsed ALEXANDER DODDS, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHICAN Represented by Schuchart & Schulte at Berlm. V,enna. Stockholm and St PeteubUtg Reptesented by Alfred H Schutte at Cologne. Brussel•• uege, Pan. MIlan and BIlboa Represented m Great Bnhan and Ireland by the Ohver Macluner; Co. F S Thompson. Mgr. 201-203 Dean.gale. MancheS\et, England ___ ~~---_-----_-_4__. . __., THE NEW GRAND RAPIDS MACHINERY STORE Wood Working Machinery Factory Equipment Machine Knives, Bits, Etc. Everything in Equipment for the Woodworker. Office and Store. 58 South Ionoa St , Opposite UnIon Depot. McMULLEN MACHINERY CO, GRAND RAPID, MICH .-_._---------------- ARTISAN INDEX TO ADVERTISERS. \ Acme WhIte Lead and Color Works Adams & Eltmg Company Alaska Refngerator Company Albro Veneer Company AmerIcan Blower Company Barnes, W. F. & John Barton & Son CompanY Boynton & Company Buss Machme Works Dodds, Alexander Edge, Frank & Company Fellwock Auto and ManufacturIng Company Fox Machme Company FranCIS Company, Chars. E. FurnIture CIty Engravmg Company FurnIture Commerolal Agency GIllette Reller B3anng Company Grand RapIds Brass Company Grand 2apds Caster Cup Company Grand RapIds Hand Screw Company Grand RapIds Woed Fmlshmg Company Grand RapIds Electrotype Company Holden, Henry S. Veneer Company Hotel Tuller Hotel Pall tlmd Hotel Wellmgton Kauffman ManufacturIng Company Lawrence-McFadden Company Luce-Redmond Chair Company Lyon FurnIture Agency McMullen Machmery Company MarIetta Paint and Color Company MattIson Machme Works MIchIgan Engravmg Company M,scellaneous Moon Desk COlnpany Morton House Muskegon Valley Furlllture Company New York FurnIture Exchange 011ver Machmery Company Palmer, A. E & Sons PIttsburg Plate Glass Company Rockford ChaIr and FurnIture Company Rockford Frame and FIxture Company Rockford Standard FurnIture Company SchmIdt, Henry & Company ShImer & Sons S11gh FurnIture Company SmIth & Davis Manufacturlllg Company Star Caster Cup Company Ward, Orm A Weatherly Company Weekly Art,san WhIte Prmtlng Company Wood, MorrIS & Sons WYSOllg & MIles Company 4 Cover 14 17 Cover Cover 25 30 Cover 32 30 32 19 1 14 14 Cover Cover 28 11 24 24 29 30 19 30 29 18 19 1 311 1 14 4 311 21 19 21 3 15 211 24 4 18 30 21 19 211 13 13 19 28 31 23 22 Cover WANTED WANTED COMMISSION MEN, For Indiana and Illmois to sell our Suites, Dressers, Chiffon-lers. Stands, Beds and Wardrobes. McKim & Cochran Fur-niture Co., Madison, Ind. 7-3-4t WANTED-WOOD SEAT CHAIR FACTORY To locate on our property at Columbus, Mississippi; unlimit-ed supply of red and whIte oak; red and sap gum and beech at extremely low cost; plenty cheap labor; fine factory site; un-excelled shipping faCIlities and low freight rates to good mar-ket. Might take some stock m well managed company. Ad-dress Interstate Lumber Company, Downing Building, Erie, Pa . WANTED-TRAVELING SALESMEN. To handle a line of Extension Tables, Pedestal Tables, Ward-robes and Kitchen Cupboards, on commission. State what other lmes you handle and Territory desired. Address Koenig Furniture Co., 2620 N. 15th St., St. Louls, Mo. ----~ -- --- - ~---- I,I I I IIII IIII II III I .•........... - ... WANTED. A good cabmet maker; one who can detail and make clothing cabmets. Address B. S., care MichIgan Artisan. 6-10-2t. WANTED-POSITION AS MANAGER. A practical busmess man, familiar with the manufacturing of bed room furniture and who has a few thousand dollars to mvest; can assume charge of one of the best furniture plants m the South. If interested, address "Business," Box 853, Greensboro, N. C. 6-10-4t

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1909-07-24T00:00:00Z

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Collection:

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Subject Topic:

Periodicals and Furniture Industry

Language:

English

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