Michigan Artisan; 1909-04-10

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Issue of a furniture trade magazine published in Grand Rapids, Mich. It was published twice monthly, beginning in 1880. and --. - ~._~-------------------~..., GRAND RAPIDS m 1 'n'!! ny JqIl j Twenty-Ninth Yea.r-No. 19 APRIL 10. 1909 r-------------'---'--- II 1III IIII j I I, I:,I III Semi-Monthly • Purchase a I Moore Flat Surface Belt Sander Here's Your Chance to which has been discarded in favor of our No, 171 Sand Belt Machine (see ad. on back cover.) We can also offer you Drum, Disk and Drum, Spindle, Spindle and Drum. Sanders, replaced by our machine. Write for particulars. WYSONG 8 MILES CO., Cedar Street and Son. R. R. GREENSBORO, N. C. ~ ...The Best Truck--The Strongest Truck This is the famousGillette Roller Bearing Factory Truck-the truck on which it is said, "One man can move a load of 3000 pounds while with the other trucks it takes three men." This is the truck that is strong where others are weak-the truck that has an unbroeakable malleable iron fork. This is the truck YOU are looking for if you wish to invest in rather than wllste money on factory trucks. 11 -'" Gillette Roller Bearing Co. GRAND RAPIDS,MICHIGAN The Lightest Running, Longest Lasting Truck ....._----------~ ~... _IJL "ABC" Vertic:al Self-Oiling Engines are Arrtl.nged for Direct Conneetion to Any Make of Generator "The highest quality of material. workmanship and finish ever embodied in steam engine con-struction:' "ABC" Questions on Lighting If you need a boiler to run your engine and you use Ex-haust Steam for heating and drying, how in the world can any-one sell you electric current for lighting your mill, factory and yard as cheaply as you can generate your own? Can you aiford to belt a generator from your line shaft or can you direct connect a dynamo to any ordinary steam engine when an "ABC" VERTICAL ENCLOSED SELF-OILING ENGINE WILL PAY FOR ITSELF IN ONE YEAR IN SAVINGS OF OIL AND FUEL? You can aiford an "ABC" ENGINE and we can prove it. 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I I Il---H-IG-H--G-RA----!COAETALOGS COrlPLETE I ~ ---- .... · i 2 MICHIGAN ARTISAN , The magnet that draws dealers from everywhere The magnetic<lines shown constitute the magnet. Is your line one of them? Manufacturers'rl~iMtion DUildin~Co.' 1319 Michigan Avenue, CHICAGO • 29th Year-No. 19. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH., APRIL 10, 1909. $1.00 per Year. Differential Rates Threatened. The proposed abolition of rail differentials in the New England statts has caused a commotion among the manufacturers and jobbers of that region. Enor-mous interests would be affected diversely, and the business associations of Boston have called a conven-tion of representatives of six states to take concerted action in regard to the matter. It is dain'lcd that New England produces fifty-two per ccnt of all the cloth produced in the United States, thirty-one per cent of the paper, thirty-five per cent of the leather and its products, twenty-three per cent of the marble am} stonc. 1fassachusetts itself produces forty-five per cent of all shoes, thirty-one per cent of all woolen goods, twenty-eight per cent of all cotton goods, thir-ty- one per cent of all worsted goods, seventeen per cent of all paper and wood pUlp, twenty-two per cent of all rubber and clastic goods. Metropolitan Boston alone has increased its industries fifty-six per cent in a decade. In discussing the proposition, P. A. O'Connell, vice president o[ the New England Dry Goods Association, said: (lIt would be a great blow to our industries, and would tend to create a loss to other industries in general throughout New England. To offset the loss of differentials the manufacturer must either move or put up his prices. Either of these alternatives would reduce the purchasing power which would chiefly in-jure the dry goods business. I doubt if the increased price of sending freight would make much difference to 115. This is of minor importance as compared to the loss of purchasing power, for the public would have to pay the extra cost." . @ * @I Government in the Market for Furniture. The government of the United States has solicited hids for 2,600 desks, 2,600 bookcases, 2,600 tables and 2,600 chairs for use in furnishing army posts. On April 10 Mr. Ricc, representing Snellenberg & Co., and Royal T. Smith, the special contract agent of Gimble Brothers, Philadelphia, arrived in Grand Rapids and solicited b1ds of manufacturers for furnishing the goods. In discussing the proceeding, a gentleman promi-nent in the industry remarked: "It seems very strange that the government should purchase its supplies so largely of retailers. lly dealing direct with the man-ufacturers the retailers' commission of two or three per cent might be saved and if the total amount ex-pended by the government for supplies is considered the amounts so saved to the federal treasury would aggregate a vast sum." A manufacturer who had unsuccessfully tendered bids for supplying the government with furniture, hearing the remark quoted above, said: "There seems to he no means by which manufacturers could handle government contracts independently of the dealer. The plans and specifications submitted by the govern-ment are defective, while those presented by the retail-er are practically perfect. Despairing of his ability to deal with the government directly, he submits his bids to the retailer as a matter of necessity. No other course is open to him." Rids will be opened in a few days and the awards of contracts announced. @ * @ "Serious Attention." A story is afloat in the furniture trade (whether it true or not is of small consequence) to the effect that when the communication of the National Case Makers' Association, protestng against the enactment of the mirror glass schedule, as reported in the Payne tariff bill, reached the hand of a prominent member of the senate, whose name is so commonly known that it need not he mentioned! the usual courteous reply was pre-pared and mailed by the senator's very courteous and extremely obsequious secretary, as follows: HI respectfully acknowledg-e the receipt of your esteemed favor of recent date in respect to the tariff bill, pending action in the house. Be assured that when the bill shall have passed the house and brought before the senate for consideration, it shall be my duty to give the paragraph relating to raw cotton ser-ious consideration. "\Vith assurances of my great respect and esteem, r am," etc. @ * @ The manufacture of furniture will he undertaken by the Atlantic Furniture and Lumber company of Lineville, Ala., \vhen a factory in course of erection, shall be ready for their occupancy. MICHIGAN ARTISAN A New Mortising Machine. J\1any of the chair and furniture factories, as well as other wood working plants, have small mortises to make and there has always been more or less trouhle connected with this work, due to the breakage of chis-els and the tendency to split the lighter material and the tendency to breakage one hundred per cent or mOTCand at the same time make the mortises with greater rapidity than they can be made on any other machine. This machine also eliminates the boring of a hole for the mortise, as the boring bit is placed inside· the square chisel and the mortise is made entire and Wysong & Miles Company Mortiser. the chips left in the mortise by the chisel, necessitat-ing the taking as much· time to clean the chips Qut as to make the mortise. The \Vysong & Miles Company of Greensboro, 1'\. C., have recently placed upon the market a square chisel post mortiser that has overcome these difficulties. The stroke of the chisel is con-trolled by the operator's foot and by favoring the chis-el, when using the smaller sized chisels, he can reduce complete at one operation, or with one stroke of the chisel, all chips are forced out at the same time, leav-ing the mortise clean and perfect. The machine is recommended for making mortises from ~-inch to %- inch square in hard wood or ;}4:-inch square in soft wood. The machine is extremely rapid and the man-ufacturers claim that as many as forty square holes per minute have been made by -this md-chine in soft MICHIGAN wood with a }i-inch chiseL Dy removing the chisel, which can easily be done, this machine makes the most perfect boring machine ever designed for furni-ture work. For further particulars address the \Vy-song & IvEles Company, Cedar street and Southern Railroad, Greensboro, :N. C. @ * @ Wood ~arving in History. HThe interest of wood carving is not confined to its actual practice; the history of the art as revealed in the annals of its craftsmen is intensely interesting. \!lie are led to it by the study of examples of different styles, periods and countries; it takes lIS into many cur-ious byways of history, and this \s espcc:ially the case \vith French wood carving. France has always been one of the leading countries in art, and this particular craft has been encouraged and fostered there. The history of the joiners, carpentcrs, and cabinct-makers in the middle ages is. in France. also the history of "wod carvers, as for a long tillle these crafts were combined. These craftsmen were found in close connection with the court of the king and the courts of his great vassals. In a very inter-esting book called 'iLe 1\Jellble," written by 1\10n-siellr de Champeau~ he tells hD\ ..•..the furniture of those days followed the king- and his court frorn one royal palace to another. The beds wcre packed in large coffers, the plate, rich hangings, and all movahle furniture of the rooms were stowed in large chests. Heds, chairs, tables, armDires, lecterns or lutrins, as they were called, all were decorated with carvings or metal work, and they \vere generally unique ~'pecilllens, not produced in hundreds like our modem furniture suites. They were real valuables, only found in king's and noblemen's houses, or the houses of wealthy merchants. .?vfonsictlr de Champeau gives the name of a famous craftsman, Richard d' Aragon, a joiner as well as a wood carver, who lived early in the fourteenth century, among whose works were a chest for Philippe V of France, to keep the royal robes in, and another for the queen. There arc still a few of these early chests to be secn in the collections in Paris. one at the 1\1usee Carnavalet, and :.:ome in the l\lusee de Cluny. In 1352 there lived a painter known as Girard crOrleans, whD was also a wood carver~ cabinet m.aker and joiner. He made chests and chairs and tables for the king, and the record of his charges for the same is still extant. He worked for King John, of France, and accompanied him to England when he was taken prisoner by Ed-ward the Black Prince. While he was lodged in the tower of London, Girard made him a new chair~ and there is al-so record of a carved wooden table made by this artist for Charles V of Prance. This was eluring the tinle that the Gothic ~tylc prevailed, but the \vood carver had an equal prominence through the following period when that most ARTISAN 5 beautiful :"tyle of \-voael carving known as the early French rcnais~ance, was perfected, lasting from Francis 1. days until Henry IV. This style, the outcome of the revelation of the treasures of Italy to the eyes of the French artist, was quickly assimilated by the artists and craftsmen ,"'ho, grafting Italian ideas on to their own individuality, produced the most exquisite work. All the time the artists and craftsmen were encouraged and hon-ored by the kings of France, lodged in thcir palaces; hav-ing rooms assigned them in the Louvre in Paris, and evidently filling a position in :::ociety quite unknown to any of the present English cabinet makers or carvers. During this period are found s11ch b:110:1S r::en as Ger- Wysong fI< Miles Company Mortiser. , main Pillon rtnd J can Goujon, and their eminence con-tinued through the French styles of the three Louis, un-til the art of the \vcocl carver gradually declined before the introduction of the marqueterie and ormolu worker. Furniture was decorated with china plaques, precious stolles, and veneers of precious woods, until most of the 6 MICHIGAN ARTISAN • • PITTSBURGH PLATE GLASS COMPANY LARGEST .JOBBERS AND MANUFAOTURERS OF GLASS INTHE WORLD Mirrors, Benl Glass, Leaded Art Glass, Ornamental Figured Glass, Polished and Rough Plale Glass, Window Glass WIRE GLASS Plale Glass lor Shelves, Desks and Table Tops, Carrara Glass more beaulifullhan while marble. QENERAL DISTRIBUTORS OF PATTON'S SUN PROOF PAINTS AND OF PITCAIRN AOED VARNISHES. lIj For anything in Builders' Glass. or anything in Paints, Varnishes, Brushes or Painters' Sundries, address any of our branch warehouses, a list of which is Riven below: NEW YORK-DudsGD aDd Vandam St•• BOSTON-41.49 Sudb1lry St •• 1_9Bowker St. CHICAGO - 442-4S2 w&.baab A...e. CINCINNATI-Broadway and Court 8t8. ST. LOUIS-Cor. Tenth aDd Spruce St•• MINNEAPOLIS-SOO-SI6 S. Tblrd St. DETI\OIT-53·59 Luoed St••E. G&ANDRAP1D~ MICtl.-39.41 N. DI,.I.I.o" St. PITTSBUR.GH-IOt-I03 Wood St. MILWAUKEIt, WIS.-492·494 Market St. ROCHESTEa. N. y ,-Wilder ald•••MaiDlit EzchaDge St•• aAL TIMORE-3t 0·12:. t 4 W. Pratt St. CLEVELAND-1430.t434 Weet Tblrd 8t. OMAHA-II01-II07 Howard St. ST· PAUL-459·461 Ja.ckson St. ATLANTA, GA.-30-3Z_34 S. Pryor St. SAVANNAH. OA.-74S.149 Wheaton St. KANSAS CITY-Fifth and WJ'.ndoU. St8' BIRMINGHAM.!_ALA.-and Ave. and 19th St. ll'UP'FALO. N. "Y .-372.14-76-78 Peart St. BaOOKLYN-635~631 FuttOD St. PHILADELPHIA-PltcalrD Bldg., Arch aDd 11th Sta. DAVItNPORT-410.416 Scott St. ~----------------------_._-----------------' work of the artist craftsman went completely out of fashion during the terrible years of the French revolution, dying for want of the patronage it had hitherto received in such abundance. All this art history is not confined to Paris. North, south,east, and west France was full of art centers, such as Lyons, Orleans, Rheims, and Rauen; where crafts-men worked in their own style and never thought of copying a dead one; never merely reproducing the art of the past as is done so much in modern English work-shops, but studying these former styles carefnlly as a basis on which to develop their own ideas, until they too had evolved a style on which their successors could build. All this can be seen by any wood carver who, when au his travels, will take the trouble to study the subject both in the museums and in the private collections of France, and the student will be well repaid by the added interest with which he will return to his own efforts in the craft that has given material for such a noble chap-ter in the history of art. The above is taken from a book called "Some Arts and Crafts" for which seven writers contributed, discus-ing a number of subjects including furniture and decora-tion, wood carving, art of enamelling, book-binding and other topics. The book is iu the Ryerson Public Library, Grand Rapids. @ *@ He Knew His Business. Wm. H. Rouse, who for several years has been in charge of the Grand Ledge Chair Company's show rooms in Grand Rapids, was for many years a traveling sales-men. When the Old \Volverine Chair Company was in business, (making as good walnut diners as ever came out of a factory) Mr. Rouse took the photos one day and went to New York. There was an eccentric in the furn-iture business of that city whom we wiII call Jones, a ter-ror to the traveling man. l\fr. Rouse went into the store and found Jones busy in his office, and presented his card. Jones looked up at him and blurted out "Youug man, didn't you see that sign out there indicating the time when drummers would be received? HI did not come here hunting for signs, sir, I came here for business," was the reply. "Well, I want you to understand that that sign means what it says. If you corne here at two o'clock, (not five minutes to two or five minutes after) I'll see what you have.'J "All right, I wiII be here," was Mr. Rouse's reply, and he arrived on time and so did Jones. Jones took UP one of the photos and said, "How wide is the front of this chair?" "Eighteen inches." "What is the length of the front stretcher?" "Fourteen and three-quarter inches." "Back stretcher?" "Thirteen and a half inches." "Width of chair at top of back 1" "Fifteen inches." "Distance between back posts at back of seat?" "Twelve and one-quarter inches." "vVelI, young man, you know your business, and I will give you an order. I am tired of the fellows who corne here aud dou't know anything about the goods they are seIling." @ * @ Millions for New Hotels. Capitalists of Spokane, Washington, have financed two important hotel enterprises, to be undertaken this year. An enlargement of the Pfister and a new hotel for ""V. H. Cowles involve the expenditure of millions for construction, equipment and furnishings. The last item will not be the least important. @ * @ Additions to the works of the Standard Furniture company at Nashville, Tenn" are under construction. The company will add chairs to its line of manufacture and enlarge the fiuishing aud shipping departments. :VllCHIGAN What Carelessness Costs, Even the elevator passengers and the operator can throwaway money for the OV.lncr of a building. ::-Jot counting the wear and tear on the machinery, cables and other equipment, the expense of funning a car back to a floor which it has passed a few inches has a notice-able effect on the mouthy cost sheet. \Vhen an elec-tric elevator starts up or do,vn, empty or loaded, the first four seconds after throwing the lever cost as much money as traversing three floors after full speed is at-tained. Reducing this to figures for a large size pas-senger elevator it is safe to say that is costs half a cent to start it. Take a twelve story lHlilding with five elevators. Assume that in each trip, both up and down, two errors wefe made, partly owing to the passengers and partly to the operator. Thus for every round trtp of each Sketch by K. J. Hoagland, Little Falla, Minn. elevator there will be four errors made in bringing the car to the proper level. Assuming these to cost half a cent each there will be a loss of ten cents in the time required for all the elevators to make one round trip. In an office building with five elevators running contin-uously for eight hours at twenty round trips an hour or 160 round trips a day each, the added expense would be $16 a day, Thus in a building where traffic is heavy all day, as in those of the financial district, 'where messengers arc continually going in and out of the buildings and the cars are large, it can be seen that this item is to be ser-iously considcred. 'With 300 working days a year this loss, counting the wear and tear, could easily amount to $4,000 if electricity were paid for at ten cents a kilowatt hour. The more rapid depreciation of the controler, magnets, contacts, motors, cables and power transmission, such as the steel worm and the bronze gear wheel, are all items which it would be difficult to measure accurately.-Exchange. ARTISAN 7 ~,---,--------_._---- II I • Spiral Grooyed and Beyel Pointed DOWEL PINS Note how the ,tIue: In the Spiral Groove forma Thread like BScrew. Be\lel Pointed, eBSY to drive. Straight so will not split the frames. Prices and discounts on application. STEPHENSON MFG. CO., SOUTH BEND, IND. • • • I, WHBN IN DBTROIT STOP AT Hotel TuIIer , New and Absolutely Fireproof Cor. Adams Ave. and Padio. St. In the unlet of the The4tre. Shop-pjnll. and Bllanell/! Dilstrict. A la Carte C.f., I Newest and Finest Grill I Room in the City. , Dub Breakfut - • • 40e up ILuncheon ~ - ~ - 501'. Table d'hole Dinners - 751'. ( Muslcltllm6P.M.lol2P.M. , • Every roOI11 hu a private bath. • EUROPEAN PLAN : Ratell: $1.50 per day and up. I L. W. TUlLER, ProP. M. A. SHAW. Mgr. • • :~~~\;:~~;~~ ,~ -C'p THE Wellin~on notel CO't. Wabash Ave. 8r: Jackson Boulevard CHICAGO : Rell10deled at a cost of I $1501000 I Hot and cold running water and lon, dis.- tance 'phone. In all room •• 200 rooms. 100 with I bath. Sill8le or en luite. Rate6 $1.00 and upwards. lOne of the mOllt unique diniDll JOOmlI in the country. Our famous Indian Cafe. I NQT~O FO•• HVlC~ A"" CUI""~ McClinfock and Ba~field I PROPS. • ROllS THE "RELIABLE" KIND THE FELLWOCK AUTO & MFG. CO. EVANSVILLE, INDIANA, 8 MICHIGA!\ ARTISA!\ Horrible Things in Arts and Cralts. The exceedingly interesting, and for the most part beautiful, examples of the household art of the eigh-teenth century, which have been on view at the Colony Cll1b1 New York, for its members and invited guests, have much more than a merely esthetic value for those fortunate enough to see them. On every side keen interest is manifested in the arts and crafts movement, both in this country and abroad, and mingled virith expressions of interest and approval are, quite naturally and properly, criticisms as to methods and results. But mainly, Or at least most in-sistently, is heard the complaint of prices as being too high. That may well be for the purses of many would-be purchasers, but the point to be remembered is that beautiful examples of handwork \overe never cheap, and were intended only for those who could pay for the beauty so ardently desired. As for the multitude, they must go without. For the multitude today there is good and inoffensive machine work that is far better than that possessed by any but the very rich in those days of dainty romanticism and squalid misery. Nir. Lawrence Binyon, in the London Saturday Re-view, has a word of warning to say in regard to the present state of the Arts and Crafts in England that may veryw,ell-be taken to heart here: "There is so much gratuitous hideousness in our houses and sur-roundings, and life for so much of our population has been so joylessly dehumanized by modern industrial conditions, that we ought to see good in every effort toward bringing back a sense of the pleasures of art into manufactures. Horrible things, no doubt, have, been produced in the name of the Arts and Crafts movement, more especially on the continent; but after a complete rupture in tradition one cannot expect the finest results all at once. The general weakness of the revived handicrafts is a desire for personal origi-nality, and a lack of patience which results in a kind of coarseness. But things are improving." Mrs. Blashfield, in her delightful brochure, "L' Art de la Maison XVIII. Siec1e," written on the occasion of the Colony Club's exhibition draws attention to a consideration too often forgotten in discussions of the cost of beautiful handwrought articl~s. whether of to-day or of an earlier period. In speaking of the eigh-teenth century she says: "Then the artisan, if not an artist, was a well-trained craftsman, furnished with sound traditions and equipped for his work by a long apprenticeship. Pretty things, the decoration of life, were not made by the gross then, and each one, if not a separate inven-tion of the maker, was the product of patient, often en-thusiastic effort, and sometimes was a-masterpiece exe- ,uted under high pressure oUervor and delight. vVith .'ess knowledge there was more feeling than we pos- 3ess. Formery there ,""ere fewer industrial artists be-cause then no one followed art without ardor and love enough for it to struggle with difficulties. Now with ~he planing away of-'technical obstacles, everyone rl3b-bles in art, and the result is mediocrity. The general (mblic, too, has ceased to discriminate between the real creative pr9duct and its feeble imitation or weakened copy. "Enthusiasm was not confined to the handicrafts-man; it was shared by his patrons. The industrial arts counted all the Louises from the Thirteenth to the Sixteenth among their promoters. The history of Sevres porcelain, of Gobelin tapestry, of the Savonner-ie carpets, is a record of royal favors. And the prices paid for a set of Gouthierc fire irons, a desk of BoulIe, 1. coffee service by Germain, when we consider the rel-ative purchasing power of money in the two periods Ivere far greater than .the sums given today for some Htrvival of this golden age of handicrafts."-Exchange. @ * @ A Busy Man's Recreation. VV. D. Trump, the general superintendent of the Pere Marquette railroad, operating one of the most ex-tensive systems of transportation in the world, is a very busy man, but, like all wise busy men, does not allow the performance of his duties to call for the full employment of his time. Recreation is necessary for his physical and mental welfare, as it is for every suc-cessful man in business. In his leisure hours Mr. Trump is a cabinet maker. The spacious attic of his house in Detroit is provided with the tools, benches and other conveniences necessary to the cabinet maker, and the articles produced would do credit to an expert. ='Jot only in fashioning original designs, but in re-building old pieces Mr. Trump is successful. One day he decided to construct a davenport and in study-ing the material on hand his mind recalled a discarded bedstead stored in the barn. Bear in mind fhat IHr. ~rrump is not addicted to the practice of sawing chairs out of \vhiskey barrels, converting step ladders into easels, packing cases into chinac10sets or box couches .. but when his skilled mechanical eye recognizes the practicahility of cutting the head of an empire bed-stead into two parts for the purpose of using the same for ends to a davenport, there is merit in the plan. Mr. Trump construets, chairs, cabinets, tables and like ar-ticles and presents many of the pieces to friends. His ,"vark room is very handsomely decorated; the con-struction and ornamentation was by his own hands. After a week of exhausting -labor in the office or on the road, a few hours spent in his little cabinet shop pre-pares him to cheerfully take up again the railroad man-ager's burden. @ * @ Humphrey-Widman Company. The plant of the Humphrey Bookcase Company of Detroit was sold recently to J. C. v'l1idman, who took immediate possession and resumed the manufacture of sectional bookcases, under the name of the I-Ium-phrey- Widman Company. The plant was sold for $22,000 and creditors will realize about thirty-three per cent of their claims. The new company is wellsnp-plied \'vith orders. MICHIGAN ARTISAN <) ~"-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------1 : Wood Bar Clamp Fixtures Per Set SOc. OVER15 000 OFOUR Price $2.80 to $4.00 : I , I : STEEL RACK VISES IN USE i II 25 doz. Clamp Fixtures bought I b~'one mill last ~·ea(. \Ve ship I all approval to rated firms, alld I Iluarantee our goods uncondi-tionally. Write lor list of I Steel Bar OlamlJ8, Vises, Bench • ~,dc. I I E. H. SHELDON So CO. I : 283 Madison St.. Chicago. &APID-AO'fma WOODWORKER'SVISE No.3;. i ~------------------------------------------------------------------ ~ Furniture Men "Kick." ]. S. Linton, secretary of the National Association of Case Goods IVlanufacturers, recently issued a letter to every furniture manufacturer in the country, urging activify against the plate glass schedule in the Payne tariff bilL The present tariff on plate glass 16 x 24 inches is eight cents, and the proposed rate is 10 cent~". The rate on sizes up to 24 x 30 is 10 cents and the pro-pu:; ed rate is 120 cents. The present tariff on larger larger than 24 x 30 and not exceeding 24 x 60 is 227~ cents, and that is not changed. In his letter =.\fr. l..inton points out the proposer} changes and then says: "All glass used in the manufacture of furniture, ex-cept the larger sizes, is to be advanced. *' '" ,t The smaller sizes used for the cheaper furniture which goes into the homes of the poorer people bearing such ad-vance. This proposed advance is in defiance of pub-lic sentilllent. in complete disreg-anl of the rightful in-terests of the consmllcr, contrary to the spirit of the protective principle and ante-election promises) op-posed to good public policy and inirn:cal to the inter-ests of the furniture industry. The manufacturers of glass, having already been llberally aided and thor-oughly established, have no right to demand that this tax shall nov~rbe increased. ".Every effort \vill be made to pnsh this rneasure through as drafted. If we are to prevent this ad-vance in the glass schedules it is imperative that every manufacturer act at once. \\Trite a letter to the rep-resentative of your (listrict and to the representatives from other districts in your state; \vnte the senators frOln your state, calling their attention to this matter and demanding that these tariff schedules shall not be >"----------"---- IIIIII II II advanced. Do this in COHlmon justice to your own industry and to the public welfare. The schedule once passed \vill probably remain unchanged for the next ten years. It is a matter, therefore, of the 11t-most importance to our industry and the whole people that the bill as finally passed shall bE made as nearly equitable as possible""-Grand Rapids Herald. It has already been explained that when the bill reaches the senate, the skilled manipulator of sched-ules, 1fr. i\ldrich. will engage in an extended swapping campaign, and that in the end every interest will gain what it seeks. The mirror glass makers, the silverers, the bevelers and others having special interests to fos-ter, are not \vorrying over the outcome. @ * @ Might Have Beens. "I might bave been a millionaire, if I only had done so and so vdlCn I had the chance," is a saying common among men. "1 might have been in the firm and mak-ing a pile, instead of head bookkeeper at a salary, if ] only had developed the p(HVerS within me instead of chasing pleasure and wooing folly. It's too late now, and a drudge I'll be to the end.p Young man, don't make the mistake of being satisfied to take things as they come, writes an old business man. Study your-self and then with all your might develop your gifts. Each step forward increases your opportunities and makes possible victories that at the start were not within the range of your thoughts. If you fail to se-cure an entrance at olle door of advancement, try an-other. There are fields where your peculiar talents are needed. Seek thern patientl y and lay hold of every legitimate advantage that comes your way. -------------------------------------------------------------. OFFICES: CINCIN...,ATI--Second National Bank Building. NEW YORK--346 Broadway. B05TON--18 Tremont St. CHICAGO--134 Van Buren St. GRAND RAPIDS--Houseman Bldg. JAMESTOWN, N. Y.--ChlLdakotn Bldg. HIGH POINT. N. C.--Slanton-Welch Block. The most satisfactory and up-to-date Credit Service covering the FURNITURE, CARPET, COFFIN and ALLIED LINES. III I I H. J. DANHOF. Michigan Manager, 347·348 Housernan BulldlnC. Grand Rapids, Mich. -~.._------_.-------~ The most accura.te and reliable Reference Book Published. Originators of the "Tracer and Clearing House System." ColfecliollService Unsurpassed-Send for Book oj R,d Drafts. h .: _ 10 ;,1ICHIGAN ARTISAN f FOX SAW DADO SMOOTHEST GR.OOVES FASTEST CUT LEAST POWER LONGEST LIFE LEAST TROUBLE PERFItCT SAFETY Also Machine Knlve.l'. Miter Machin ••• Etc. We'1I a1adb tell YOU aU about It. PERMANENT ECONOMY FOX MACHIN....CO. '85 N. F•• n' • .a;.,. Grand R.apid•S•t•M••tcth• •, These saws are : made from No. 1 I 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 for rrlce List and discount 31-33 S. FRONT ST., GRAND RAPIDS f DON'T BURN YOUR MOULDING. Blackened edges so of-ten found in hard-wood Mouldings indicate the use of inferior tools, which friction and burn beca.use of their failure to have proper clearance. The Shimer Reversible and :Non-Reversible Cutters are made of the finest tool steel by experienced workmen. In design and construction they are superior to anything 011 the market. They cut well and retain their shape until worn out, Send us dra, •..-ings or wood samples for estimates on special cutters. 'lVIany useful designs, with prices, are give:l in our catalogue, SAMUEL J. SHIMER'" SONS, MILTON, PENN. Manufacturers of the Shimer Cutter Heads for Flooring, Ceiling, Siding, Doors, Sash, etc . •i IMo(rton House~ Amenean PI.n ) Rate. $2.50 and Up. Hotel PantJind (European Plan) Rates $1.00 and Up. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. !I The Noon Dinner Served :a1 the Pantlind for 50c is THE FINEST IN THE WORLD. J. BOYD PANTLIND, Prop. CHICAGO, Ill., ApriI8.-Mr. Jackson, secretary of the Manufacturers' Exhibition Building Company, 1319 1\1ichigan avenue, says the prospects are flattering for a big exhibit in the big building in July. Every space will be occupied and more could be sold if there was more to be sold. The Seng Company have brought out an improved Harrington spring for platform rockers, and although the price will not be increased, they will put a five-year guarantee on every set. When one remembers that no one ever thought of guaranteeing a rocker spring for more than one year, it is a pretty positive ev-idence that Frank Seng has hit upon something better than was ever put on platform rockers before. Louis F. Nonnast has moved into his new factory on Goose Island, and it is said to be one of the )liodel furniture factories of Chicago. The Koenig Furniture Company will soon move to their new factory, at North Green and Chicago ave-nues. Charles L. Gamer, for nearly forty years a manu-facturer of furniture in Chicago, has packed his house-hold goods and taken his family to Germany, where he will probably make his home. The old firm of Koenig & Gamer was one of the best known in Chicago and when Mr. Gamer sold out his interest he did not feel like starting in business again. May his home in the fatherland be all that he anticipates, and may he live to a ripe old age-even as old as was Moses when he went to the top of Pisgah to view the promised land -one hundred aud twenty years. L)'man R. Lathrop, manager of the Fourteen-Elev-en Company, say a fire there demoustrated that theirs is a fireproof building-the only one, he thinks, in the whole bunch of furniture exhibition buildings. He expects to have 1411 so full of exhibits in July that there won't be room even for cuspidors. The Johnson Chair Company will soon be located in their new factory at North avenue and West For-tieth street. S. Karpen· & Brothers will in July place on the mar-ket a new davenport sofa bed. @ * @ Locate at Traverse Cit)'. The Grand Rapids Cookerette Company will es-tablish a factory at Traverse City, Mich., aud trans-fer their manufacturiug business to that place. A. T. Halleck, the manager, is negotiating for a site. @ * @ An addition to the factory of the Henderson (Ky.) Desk company's factot)' is under constructiou. It will be used for finishing and storage . ] • MICHIGAN ARTISAN Not Interested in War. During his stay in Nic:araugua E. H, Foote, treas-urer of the Grand Rapids Chair Company, "vas so bus-ily employed fishing and pleasure hunting that he paid no attention to the revolution against the government. It is said that he would not attend a dress parade of the George D. Emery company's armed force of 2,000 lum-ber jacks. There might have been a half dozen revo-lutions in full operation for all that he cared, or there might have been none. I-Iaving participated in the war between the states and knowing the horrors of real fighting, the little comic opera outbreaks so irequently indulged in by the South Americans fail to create the slightest interest in the mind of NIr. Foote. The Emery Company (a Boston corporation) controls about all the mahogany bearing lands in Nicaraugua and the government sought to restrict their operations. A few blank cartridges were exploded and then the government at Vvashington raised its index finger and the misunderstanding will be "fixed up" peacably. 1V1r. Foote visited Panama and inspected the canal and came home via Jamaica and New York. I-Ie had a good time, and upon arriving in Grand Rapids was as ready for work as a newly arrived emigrant from Italy or Russia. @ * @ Valued for Rude Beauty. ·.fhe Charles P. Litl1bcrt company, of Holland manu-facturers of arts and crafts furniture, get many ideas from the Holland \vorkmen employed in the factory; many of \vhom were born in the old country and well acquainted \'I.'ith old country styles. 'They are steady, in-dustrious and skillful, and some of the suggestions they have made in designing the furniture have been of great valuc. Very little furniture manufactured in the Netherlands is to be found in Holland, Mich. The Michigan pioneers had the long ocean voyage to make, then the trip by canal boat and Lake Erie to Detroit and finally by wagon across the state to their place of settlement on Black Lake, Michigan. With such a trip in prospect bulky goods \vere left behind. The pioneers made such furni-ture as they required when they had built houses to live in. It was of native timber, sa\<\.'edand chiseled out of the tree cut from the land l;vhich they were tryling to clear for farming purposes. This old hand~made furniture was for the most part discarded when times improved and better furniture could be procured, but a few pieces have sur-vived the ycars and afe valued highly as relics and for their rude beauty. @ * @ Murch & Loomis Open. Thomas B. Murch, formerly of Morris, Murch & Butler, Boston, recently entered into a co-partnership with a IVlr. Loomis and the firm opened a new stock of furniture at 45 Bowker street in that city recently. The firm occupies a large store, centrally located, and deals in medium and fine furniture. 11 Ii IMPROVED, EASY "D ELEVATO RS QUICK RAISINC Belt. Electric and Hand Power. The Best Hand Power for Furniture StortS I Send for Catalogue and Prices. KIMBALL BROS. CO,. 1081 HI ... st.. Council Bluffs, la, I I ' Kimba.ll Elevator Co •• :uJ Prospect St., Cleveland, 0.\ I 1081lth St., Omaha, Neb.; 12&Cedar St., New York City. ~-------- .-"" ~------- III: 163 Madison Avenue-Citizens Phone 1983. ~_._--- •I I 11your DESIGNS are right, people want the Goods. That makes PRICES right. (t[arence 1R.btus DOES IT GRAND R~PIDS, MICH. I t---- ----.------. :1: AKIN1G N I' [~~s~elrl)~and·i:nd.exted::hy~flO&OfS /;::~ or deparlmepl:s. BARLOW BROS.. I Grabd Rapid •• Mich. Write Right NoW. , • I~--_._------ i 1ou{s babn DESIGNS AND DETAILS OF FURNITURE 154 LivingstonSt. GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN ~----- -------..!. Citizens'Telephone 1702. A. L. HOLCOMB & CO. Manufacturers of HIGH GRADE GROOVINO SAWS up to 5-16 thlck. --- Repatrlft ..... Sattsfa.ctlon g.. aranteed. Citizens' Phone 1,289. ._-2-7 N-. Market St •• Gl"aad Rapids, Mich. .f '-west Michigan Ma;~~ooi Co.,ltd. GRAND RAPIDS. MICH. for ",GH GRADE PUNCHES and DIES • ~--_._---_._----------1~ • WABASH INDIANA WRITE FOR PRICES AND DISCOUNT ~._--------_._---------4 12 MICHIGAN ARTISA}; Quick Action Vises. "Oliver" quick acting vises Nos. 150 to 153 inclu-sive, are bound to satisfy users because of their qual-ity of finish and cheapness of price. They are power-ful and well adapted for educational institutions, pat-tern shops and wood workers in general. The screw is steel l?i inches in diameter! and has buttress thread which makes it a smooth acting vise. The guides are %-inch diameter steel. The nut is solid bronze. The handle tee (1') is malleable iron. All of the other parts are iron. The back jaw is screwed to the bench and supports. from its farthest end, all of the "Oliver" Quick Action Vise No. 150. remaining parts of the vise on t"tf-inch steel tnmions. The bronze nut is underneath the screw and is sup-ported in a pocket cast under the back jaw. To get the quick action it is only necessary to lift up the sere,,,,, and it will he free from contact with the nut. Then the front jaw may be pushed in or out with the greatest ease. At any position the front jaw may be let go and the sere1.-vat once drops down into the nut and is engaged for screwing any distance, This vise is easy to operate, exceptionally powerful, and will not give any trouble. @ * @ Patented Chair Machinery. The chair manufa-etufcrs throughout this country will probably be interested in the new chair mortiser, the chair back and seat mortiser and the new chair hack sander recently placed on the market by the Wy-song & Miles Company of Greensboro, N. C. This company arc making a specialty of sanding and mortis-ing machinery and are shipping their patented ma-chines to all sections of the United States and Canada and have also made shipments to Scotland and Ger-many, as 1.-vellas Cuba and :i\fexieo. This new chair back and seat mortiser clamps the back to the circle to which it is bent, makes the mor-t: ses accurately and relea:;;es the back and it is capable of making one, two, three, five or more mortises and it is capable of making mortises varying in length from a round hole up to sixteen inches in length. The chair post mortiser will make three or four mortises simultaneously; it automatically clamps the fost and springs it to its true position, makes the mor-fses accurately of varying lengths and in or out of line and automatically releases the post. For further information in regard to these machines and other patented mortising and sanding machinery, write the 'Wysong & Miles Company, Cedar street and Southern railroad, Greensboro, N. C. (§) * @ Part of the Price. 1t is interesting to observe that a great deal of the expense of doing business is made necessary to pre-vent dishonesty. There are many overseers whose chief business is to see that others keep at work. There are elaborate systems of bookkeeping and checking which are designed primarily to prevent misdealing. From the time a piece of raw material is taken from its original source, until the goods are made and delivered and receipted fOf, there is this constantly accumulat-ing expense for protection. The public at last pays for it. Every high price, and every low bank account, every skimped luxury or necessity, and every unsatis-fied need is, in some degree, a reminder that one is helping to pay the price of insincerity and dishonesty. It ought to make the opposite virtues much admired by those who prefer to enjoy the full fruits of their labor. -Collier's. @ * @ Reincorporated. The Luce Furniture Company, Grand Rapids, have reincorporated under the laws of the state of Michigan, with $300,000 capital, one-half of whieh is preferred. Among the largest snbscribers to stock are Manager John Hoult, Secretary A. S. Goodman, Gregory M. Luce and Mrs. C. C. 1.uce. The original company was organized in the year 1879 under the name of the Mc- Cord & Bradfield Furniture Company and for a num-ber of years mannfactured a folding table and a few patterns of bedsteads. The business grew rapidly. The company has since acquired distinction in the manufacture of medium and high grade furniture for the dining room and the chamber. @ * @ New Hotels in Washington. Local capitalists have contribnted to a fund of $50,- 000 to be used in the erection of a hotel at Ritzville, \N ashington. It will be three stories high, of brick. The Pythian fraternity of Elma, 'Washington, has completed the erection of a hotel of sixty rooms, cost-ing $30,000. AS TO BEING ONE'S OWN BOSS. MICHIGA!\ ARTISAN 1 ., .. ,) No Man, No Matter How High Up. Really Free to Do as He Pleases. '(~1y impatient nephe\v," sald Uncle Bill, "says that what he wants is to be his own boss; he's tired of working for other people. He's tired of hearing the boss where he works say to him: 'Here, Jim, do this,' or iDo that,' or "Hurry up, no'\',' or 'Get a move on,' Or '\Vhat's the matter with you? Don't go to sleep l' "It makes him tired ..Jim says, to be bossed around, and he wants to be his o\vn boss_ "Poor Jim! He doesn't know that nobody ever is his own boss in the sense that he means, so that he can't be ordered around. Never was a greater clc111- 51011, Lots of people think that if they can get one step up, or get a business of their o"vn. why, then they'd be free, be thcir own boss; but goodness grac-ious, no man in the world ever getss-o· high up but what he still has a boss-somebody or SOlllething over him. "",Vh}'",the earth itself that ,ve live on, T tell Jilll, has a boss in the rest of the universe, Suppose the earth should some day get tired of being bossed ar0und the ""vayJim does, and sa:r to itself: Ii 'I'm sick of this turning around every day, just so, every tvventy-four hours, and following the same great circle besides year arter year. 1'rn sick of hav-ing to do this same old grind clay after day and year after year. being bossed around like this, and I'm going to be my Own boss.' "Suppose some day the impatient earth shollhl trv this, sh.ould try setti.ng up on. i.ts own account; why, in about onc minute and three-quarters the whole busi-ness "vould be going to goldinged everlasting eternal smash, and us along with it, The faet is that there isn't anything or anybody but \vhat has something or somebody over it or hin1. ,!-." e can't. any of us, be our boss in the sense that Jim is thinking of, frce to do what we like. "Yoll take, for instance, jim's boss, Jim seems to have an idea that his boss can do what he's a mind to; that he's the head of the \\Thole outfit and free to do as he pleases; hut heavens and earth! If Jim's boss has got the gumption I give hirn credit for he's got a hun-dred bosses, a hoss in every customer that comes into the store. If Jim's hoss has the brains and common sense that he appears to have he treats everyone of these customers politely and squarely, puts up \vith the peculiarities of everyone of thexrI, whether he likes them or not, serves everyone of these hundred bosses to the very best of his ability, just as Jim o1tght to serve his one boss. "But his custOlners arc not the only bosses Jit11·s boss has by a long shot. Suppose jim's boss, like many another man, is doing business on insufficient capital. Then he has to borrow money to carryon his business; and every man that lends him is sure enough his boss, and he may be a hard boss. "Suppose tracle is dull and Jim's boss has to get out and hustle for business. vVhy, every man he meets is his hoss, after a fashion, and many of them turn Jim's boss dov.rn in a way that woulJn't please Jim a bit. "Jim"'s boss may even find it hard sometimes to get together the money to pay his help, ] im included, on Saturday night. Humph! Jim wants to be his own boss! He thinks if he ""vas he'd find life pleasanter. IIe doesn't know. liThe faet is that no man in the world is. e.ver h;~ o\vn boss completely and it's a good thing for many of uS that \ve can't be. Some of us if we could would be idter~, loafers, tramps, shLwning off all rC'sponsihil-it)". doing as \ve pleased. Such may be restnined by NATIVE FURNITURE LUMBER --------~ the necessity of providing for others; we can't idle or loaf; but I tell Jim that you take the rim of people, the great majority who work and who never think of do-ing anything but work, and there is not one of them but ,:vhat has somebody over him, or a boss in the shape of the restraints of la\vs and C11stoms. il)J0 man can do as he pleases, 110 man can get so high hut what he has sOlnething or somebody over him, Stop and think of any man yon know; there's sOlneho(ly over him, or he has to conform to some re-straining po\,\rer. This is so all the way up, clean to the top. 'If suppo51e Jim would think that the president of the United States is his ovvn boss because he is the highest up man in the lan(l; b11t good heavens, he has eighty million bosses scattered allover the country, to say nothing about the few thousands or few hundreds or fc\v score \vho are near enough to him so that they can make him hear, and who are continually hollering at him to do this or that or the other thing. "~o man can ever be his own boss in the way that .~ :111 is tbillking about-free to do as he pleases. One thing a man can do, if he has got the stuff in him-he can by the exercise of ~eJf-control boss himself; and the fnallwho can do this is a big man; but I suppose the man that comes nearest to being a real boss is the man that gives the best service. "1\J aybe Jim will come to understand some of these things ~o1l1etillle."--Kew York Sun. @ * @ Will Erect a Large Factory. The John \Vicldicomb Company are preparing to crf'ct a factory with a capacity for the employment of 1.000 Illen. in Grand Rapids. \Vork on the plant will prohably be commenced during the current year. 14 MICHIGAN ARTISAN Marking Freight. There seems to be a great need of some method of marking packages so as to Cl1t down the amount of freight that goes astray. In the roug! handling which freight almost necessarily receives it is not to be wor:- dered at that many.tags come off and the packages can i5ketch by K.J. Hoagland, Little Falls, Minn. not be sent to the' proper destination. \Vhen to this condition is arlded the confusion resltlting from old markings on second-hand boxes, insufficient marbng-on some portion of the shipment, and tags that have faded Qut in the sun-a very common thing-it causes much trouble on the part of the railroads and perhaps more on the part of the shipper or consignee. The loss is often far greater than the cost of the goods, as is the case when a single casting is needed to complete a machine, or to go on with certain work, and without 1t there is a deadlock or an expensive delay. Season-able goods delayed beyond the wonted time are often worthless, in addition to the loss and inconvenience oc-casioned by their delay. Much of this trouble could be obviated if railroads would more carefully inspect the markings of freight received, a~d shippers were ig~piQs.f\ich: impressed with the importance of eliminating care-lessness in the marking of goods sent out.-Colliers'. @ * @I American Furniture Fails to Interest Frenchmen. George H. Jackson, one of the numerous consuls representing the United States in France, in a report recently submitted states that American furniture, with one exception, "had failed to interest the French public. They have very fixed views on this subject," he continues. "considering nothing an improvement On the beauty of the historic lines of Henry II, Louis XIV, Louis XV, Louis XVI and l'Empire. They do, how-ever, distinguish in this regard between the aesthetic and the practical. It is this latter which will make its way in France. The exception referred to is the roll-top desk. This article is finding its way every-where, and close upon its track will doubtless follow the American revolving office chair and office files. The furniture purchased by the poor here is very infer-ior and very dear; especially bedroom suites. Amer-ican cheap furniture must be seen in France to be ap-preciated." @ * @l Remarkable Engine. The American Blower Company of Detroit, Mich., received the following letter reporting the excellent service rendered by a self-oiling engine furnished the Provident Chemical INorks by the company: An-sv. rering your favor of the 14th inst., will say the gen-erator direct connected to one of your type A self-oiling engines pl1rchased by us some four or five months ago, is doing fine service, and we take much pleasure in tes-tifying to the excellent satisfaction it is giving us. As to the cost of oper.ation, it is so small, our engineer has never been able to figure it out, but he is· confident the cost does not exceed $7.50 per mouth for about 120 six-teen candle pm/ver lamps ,:ve arc bt.1rning. VV~e figure the cost of the entire outfit. will be saved in considera-hly- Iess than a year's -time from date of installment. Our ouly regret is we did uot install this outfit long ago. Provident Chemical Works, by S. H. Thomson, Treas. _ @ * @ A factory is under construction at Salamanca, N. Y., for the use of the Sterling Furniture company. MICHIGAN ARTISAN ~------------------------------------. !I!II IIII I I firan~ Dapi~s 610\'1 Pipe I an~Dust Arrester (om~an~ I I I! 15 i. • I'. i, ~I I THE LATEST device for handling shavings and dust from all zvood- 7.f.wrkin,gmachines. Our nineteen years experience in this class of 'uJork has brought it nearer perfection than an')' other system on the market today. It is no exper£J1zent) but a del1Wl'lstrated scientific fact, as 'li!e have SC'iJcral hun-dred of these Sjlstems hi use, and 110t a poor one ontong the111. Ou-r AUtOl1WtiC Furnace Feed Syst(111) as sh07.J.m in this cut, 1~}the lltOS! perfect zewrking device of anything in this line. Write for our prices 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. Offioe and Factory: I 208-210 Canal Street G~AND ~APIDS.MICH. • Cltlsen. 'bon. 1282 Bell. M..in 1804 •• 1G MICHIGAN ARTISAJ'i Essays on Industrial Education. A book composed' of essays on the subject of "In-dustrial Education" by Paul H. Hanus, is in the Ryer-fion Library, Grand Rapids. l'vlr. Hanus was chair-man of a commission appointed a few years ago by Governor Guild of l\-1assachusetts to investigate condi-tions in the factories of that state and propose a way to remedy industrial troubles and to establish indus-trial schools. Many public speeches were made by members of the commission in an effort to interest the public generally in the subject. Mr. Hanus believes that boys and girls who wish to gain an industrial edu-cation should receive help from schools founded es-pecially for that purpose. 111Germany what are called "continuation" schools take the pupils who have finished the elementary grades and give them instruction in whatever trade they care to make themselves proficient ill. Manufac-turers in the United States are handicapped by the lack of skilled labor. If schools giving a four years' courSe of instruction were open to receive the young men anxiotls to learn their trade, this obstacle in the path of the manufacturer would be removed. Instructions should include the study of mathematics, natural science, dravl"ing, the history of industry and com-merce, civics, shop and business English. in addition to shop work. These studies should be pursued for the first two years, the last two years to be devoted to .<;peeialized instruction in the tradcs appropriate to a g-ivcn locality. The same line of study as before should be pursued and part of the time should be spent in the "factory. l\.1anual training schools could carry Ollt this work easily. Tvianual training in itself is of too general a nature to do morc than give a knowledge of the principles of all trades and teach them. In industrial schools everything studied has its specific application and so lS of inestimable value to the stu-dent. By beginnlng at fourteen a young man in four or five years devoted to a vocational training could become a skilled workman able to earn a living wage. The need for these schools is becoming greater con-tinually. The manufacturers cannot secure trained On account of the rapid advance of the movement help, although several schools have already been start- toward prohibition in the sale of intoxicating liquorsl ed by municipalities co-operating with the state indus- especially in the southern states, the manufacturers of trial commission of :Massachusetts. This commission billiard tables have suffered heavy losses in trade. makes an annual report to the legislature of the pro- H_undreds of billiard room outfits, purchased on con-gress made in creating industrial schools in that state. tract, have been returned, and the 'warehouses are It is suggested that a boy's fitness for any mechani- filled with second-hand goods. Supposing that many cal trade would be discovered by "trying them out" by of the saloons would be converted into bowling alleys, a two years' course of. ~tudy, and what especial trade!- manufacturers of bowling materials stocked up heav-they are fitted for. Schools established to teach'th'e' ily and now have the goods on hand. It is stated that subjects above mentioned would give both boys and the Brunswick & Balke factory at Muskegon will be girls a chance to prepare themselves for work in the '- operated in the manufacture of bank and office furni-skilled industries. The workman needs a training iti _ ture hereafter. all the processes of -his' trade, 'instead of a single .p'rd~: cess, in order to prevent his becoming a narrow me- Gimbel Brothers, the great merchants of Philadel-chanic. phia, will establish a store in New York. A huilding .:\{en of forty or more now employed in factories feel 200 x 400 feet in size and thirteen stories high will be the need of iurther jn~tr:l1c:;tiQnfor_ their own imprQv.e-,,__ erected for their use. ment and for the betterment of their chances in the in-dustrial world. The two schools of trades in Spring-field and Cambridge, Mass., show that there is a widespread demand for that kind of instruction, as also do the correspondence schools and Y. M. C. A. classes, I t is interesting to learn about the ((cont"inuation"" schools of )\,1unich. Continuation school education is compulsory for three, sometimes fOUlt, years in Bavaria for all elementary graduates. Employers are required by la\v to give their employes the necessary time, six to twelve hours a \veek, for the purpose of attending these schools, the number of hours depending on the school. Each pupil is required to study the trade or business in which he has found employment. These schools have been institnted since 1900 to replace the evening elementary schools. There are thirty-eight now in operation in Munich and every trade imagin-able is included in the list, from chimney sweeping to cabinet making. Instruction is given by members of trades in the city or by day school teachers. Relig-ion is taught by members of the different faiths, each to the people of his faith, as the law requires it. A committee in charge of each school is responsible to the school authorities and special pains are taken to secure the best representatives from the trades or busi-ness for which a school stands. In the school for car-penters and cabinet makers studies include religion, arithmetic and bookkeeping (suitable to the trade), reading and business compositionlstuJies in life and citizenship, drawing and practical technology. Detail descriptions of the work done in each school is pub-lished by the city. Results are good. So every effi-cient worker must have a general education and also technical preparation for the work he is to do. And now is the time for more American municipalities to make a start in the same direction. @ * @ Manufacturers of Bowling Alleys and Billiard Tables Suffer from Prohibition. @ * @ I MICHIGAN ARTISAN 17 ,, I,I I,I I!, I I ' I I Michigan Artisan Co.II I Wrl"~ __ , ... ,No.'A. 110 N. DIvision St., Grand Rapids, Mich. I I 2714_2:~~~~~St.WOOD & S~~C~gO' Ill. . --,---_._---- r---------------------------------------1 r I List of Buyers II ! I I I I ,,I f,, I I I I I I List of Buyers! t II,II• Doyou want it? Doyou want it? List of Buyers Doyou want it? If so send in your order with 25 cents at once. list of Buyers --------., ralm6r'S rat6nt 61uloo GlamDSI! The abo\'c cut hi taken dh'ect from a pbotogrn.ph, aud ~hoWEi the range of one &izfJonly, our No.1, 24-tueb Cllt.mp. ",Ve make ~i:l: (.ther liiizcl'l, taking in stock up to 60 focheR wide and 2 inches thick. Ours i\l, th~ mOllt practical method I[)f clamping glued st()('k in ust'! at the present time. Hondreds of fadories have ad(~Fted OUTway the past year and hundreds more will in the future. J~et U\l,show you, Let us send yoU the tunnel> of nearly l(}O :fal~tl:Il:,l.es(only a fmctiou of our list) who hfl\'C ordered and reordered many times. proof positive our way is the be!;t. A post car.1 will bring it, .~atalog inclUded. Don't delay, but write today. i I~ _...i A. f. PALMER &. SONS. Owosso. Mich. Foreign Rellr(Jsentativcs: The Proj~tile Co., LGudon, Eng-lllnd; Eiflm('fmrdt &': Schutte, Berlin, Gerwany; Alfred H. S('hutte, C()logne, l'aris, Rrussell>, Liege, Milan, Tndn, Ba-rcelona, und Bilboa. • The result of thirty-fiYe years of Cutter making ex-perience. Insist on having your new jointer fitted with the genuine i\lorris \Vood & Sons' 20th Century Solid Steel Glue Joint Cutters, for there are no others just as good. They cut the same perfect joint, when new, pa,rtly or fuEy woro ant. They never burn. Require l~ss grinding than any other make, saving time and cut-ter. No time wasted setting up as with knives, and cost no morc than other makes. Try a pair and be con-vinced. .. • - - - -------' 18 MICHIGAN ARTISAN lESTABLl5HED 1880 "UBl.I5HCD • ., MiCHIGAN ARTiSAN CO. ON THIE 10TH AND 25TH O~ EACH MONTH OFP'ICE-10a, 110. 112 NORTH DIVISION ST., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. ENTERiO IN THE POSTOFI'roE AT &ItANI> It,o,PIl>9, MICH., ,\8 BECO"'D 0LA1i8 "A.,TIUI, In aU probability the advanced rates on mirrors dud the imposition of a duty on mahogany, contained in the tariff bill passed by the national house of representat!ve~, will be retained by the senate. Manufacturers of furni-ture and kindred lines will be obliged to add the adcli-tional cost of these materials to the goods now in prepar-ation for the fall season of trade. With a dull market and no immediate prospects for a revival. higher price~ for goods will not put life into trade. + .. Having advanced freight rates to cover the shortage in their receipts since the two cent-a-mile laws for trans-porting passengers in many states took effect, railroad magnates are now busily engaged in the courts and legis-latures in efforts to restore the three cent per mile rate for passengers. The money is needed to pay dividends on watered stock. .. .. Quite a number of manufacturers of furniture who wisely invested a part of the profits acquired during the long-to-be remembe<ed years of 190617 in sugar stocks, are said to be quite indifferent in the matter of higher duties on mirrors and mi~ror plates proposed in congress, so long as the sugar schedule remains practically un-changed. .. .. It is stated that President Taft was inspired by an economical impulse when he appointed General Dickin-son to the office of Secretary of War. General Dickin-son is as large as the president, and his appointment would save the cost of a chair for the secretary. .. .. Marquetry is used but moderately. In the west and south there is practically no call for it. When applied in moderation this form of decoration appeals to re-fined tastes. It is seen to the best advantage on pianos, music and parlor cabinets... .. The proposition pending in congress to levy a tax of five per cent upon mahogany logs, equal to about $5 per M. does not afford unalloyed pleasure to the manufactur-ers of medium and high grade furniture. .. '" The agency that ordered 1,000 saw mills shut down pending advancement in prices for lumber is not a trust, lumbermen declare, but it serves trust purposes ven' efficiently. '" '" The way a man receives something new reveals his standing ,either as a uhas been," a Hnever was,'l or an "up-ta-date" individual. .. .. The liberty to express one's talents in ways that serve the common good, is a great inheritance. .. .. The manufacture of carved elettrical fixtures of woodl is an important industry in New York. @ * @ Valuable Timber on Coos Bay. The vast quantity of standing timber in the Coos Bay country can scarcely be realized for there is proba-bly not another place iu the world where so much timber is found near a fine harbor affording manufacturing and shipping advantages. It is estimated that within a radius of sixty or seventy miles from Coos Bay and so located that the harbor is a natural outlet there is something like a hundred billion feet of standing timber-that is, about one-third of the standing timber in Oregon and one-tenth of that in the entire United States is here. The principle variety is fir intermixed with spruce. red cedar and the Port Orford or Coos Bay white cedar, which is very valuable in ship building or wherever the lumber is to be subjected to the action of water. There are also maple, ash, alder and myrtle, the latter admitting of a beautiful polish, moderately used for furniture and residence fittings. @) '" @) Chippendale Copied designs. More credit is given to Chippendale than is due. in the estimation of many art connoisseurs. It is charged that his designs were virtually copied from the French, the Gothic and Chiuese styles. @ * €I Sheraton Wen Sustained. Sheraton occupies a well sustained position of emi-nence in the art world on account of his inlays, carving and delicate paintings ,applied in the construction of turn· iture. @ * @ Grandeur, Elegance and Grace. The style of Louis XIV is noted for its grandeur in ornament; of Louis XV for its elegance and of Louis XVI for its grace. @) * @ \Vhite enamel furniture was introduced in France during the life of Marie Antoinette. @ * @ Light and graceful designs won favor with the public during the Jacobean period. - -- -----------------------------, MICHIGAN ARTISAN Improved Boring Machines. The boring machines sho\:\,'11belmvl are manufactured and carried in stock by l\.forris \Vood &50115, 27T1-1tl Tu}o Bit Boring lliachine. Furnished With or vVithout Foot treadle. w. Lake St., Chicago, Ill. Their late catalog shows many styles of boring machines as well as tools, drills and cot- Multiple Spindte Machine. ters for woodworkers. This catalog should be i11 the hands of every woodworker who wants the best, and will be sent on application. @) * @) Unsafe Conclusions. The livng root of most of the errors that infest the business world-whether those errors concern the ad-ministrative policy of a railroad president or the way the office-boy puts the stamps D nthe envelopes-will be found in a certain inherent trait of the human mind. It is the habitual tendency of every human being to reduce his observations to dogmatic condt1.sions, and to begin sub-sequent thought from that point. A composite of the dogmatic spirit is the policy which says: "I always handle that sort of thing this way." Examine a cross-section of the average mentality and you will fiud it filled with little conclusions. Trac.c many of those conclusions back to their beginnings and you will find that they have been reached by one or two feeble observations, hastily inter-preted) and a large measure of unfounded guesswork. The key is turned on that point, and that conclusion, no matter how inadequate, becomes a factor in all subse- 19 qnent thinking. Any new thought that disagrees with that condn~ion is regarded with suspicion if not with contempt. Possession of a dogmaticconc1usion is nine points of the law of loose thinking. The lazy mind de-lights in a short cut, and the more it gets used to these short cuts the more lazy it becomes. \i\Thcn the mind gets dogged up. and thoughts do not flow freely, it is almost a certainty that one of these little conclusions forms the obstruction. The mind that is ever seeking to know is alive. The one that is satisfied that it knows, and condemns every conflicting opinion, and will listen to no more evidence, has ceased growing. Fear of new evidenc.e is a self-conviction of insecurity and all utlwill-ingness to be found out. A fixed conclusion, based on meager and untypical observation, and that misinter-preted, is the most dangerous instrument ever devised by man. Progress is largely a matter of breaking up such cOlleJusiollS.-Ex. @ * @ Tube Cutters. A new catalogue of pipe and tube cutters has been issued by the Fox )VIachine company of Grand Rapids. One of these machines is extra heavy, provided \vith a motor drive) and is used in cutting off boiler fiues, and by steam fitters and plumbers. The smaIler machines are adapted for cutting light brass tubes and bicycle tubing. @ * @ Chairs \vere first used in England during the reign of Henry VIII. • FOR SALE io o ,~,.". ,,0 ".. ~ '"" ..o.. o<:~ o~ L~ ",- ooz The owner desiring to retire from the manufac-turing business offers this plant for sale. H is perfectly equipped for the manufacture of case goods, and is turning out the best known line of I mediul11 priced office desks on the market. Correspo:tdence or personal visit in'l:lted. I I I I --- 20 MICHIGAN ARTISAN .----_. j I ---_._---._--------- ... ~----_._---_. •II! OCTAGON PEDESTALS AND TABLE LEGS That 1:;; the question; and a. hlg one, too. How do )'UU makE': them? How much do they cost you? How good al'e they, and aTC they uniform? Just take a. little time and let these questions soak in. Hel:aulOc yOUlTIay he wasting on the manufacture of the Pedestals and Legs what yOU save by eeo-nomica.( Manufacture Vel the Tops. Your profits are then cut down. Make the lCost of the diffet'ent pa.ds l:mJanc",. One man wlth our LEG AND PEDESTAL MACHINE will ma.ke Octagon and polygonal ~haped turnings at one-tenOJ to on'>twentleth of what It costs by ha.nd; round ones at one-sixth to one-tenth. The SIll'i.ng in time uod labor is what ffia,kes that bal-ance we were just talking about. Now, don't S9,Y "that sounds pl"etty good," and let it slip your mind. Just ''\Tite us to-day. -------_._--- c. MATTISON MACHINE WORKS 863 Fifth st" BELOIT, WISCONSIN, Grand Rapids and New York the "Greatest." "New York is the greatest furniture market in the country and Grand Rapids (Mich.) the greatest manu-facturing center/l declared the New York Sun recent-ly. "Jamestown is a dose second to Grand Rapids and a great deal of manufacturing is done in Chicago." Continuing) the Sun said: "Three furniture exposi-tions are held during the year. The first and most notable, at Grand Rapids, opens on January 2. This is of so much importance to the trade that a large party [ THE NEW GRAND RAPIDS MACHINERY STORE Wood Working Machinery Factory Equipment Machine Knives, Bits, Etc. Everything in Equipment for tbe Woodworker. Offic. and Store, 58 South looUt. St •• Oppo,ite Uuioo DC!lpot. McMULLEN MACHINERY CO. GRAND RAPIDS. MICH. >----_._-----------~ of New York and eastern buyers went to it from the metropolis this year in a special Pullman car. "The second is held at Chicago immedately after the close of the Grand Rapids exposition. The third is opened in this city about the middle of January. "The main object of these expositions is to present the new styles prepared for the market. It has been stated that 150 carloads, comprising 15,000 pieces, were shown this year at Grand Rapids. uThe season opened in marked contrast with last season. Last year many factories had shut down and those which kept running had generally rednced their working force so that thousands of workmen had been tbrown ant of employment. ,Vitb the opening of this year the reverse was the case. The factories were all running on full time in view of the known fact that stocks in the hands of dealers were unusually low. "The large attendance of eastern buyers at the • Grand Rapids exposition was regarded as an early justification of the manufacturers' hopeful anticipa-tions, and consequently there ,vas a prevailing feeling of encouragement. rrhe manufacturers had their samples ready in ample time for the exposition, and it was admitted they had done jnstice to the ideas of tbe designers. "The feeling in New York as to the future is fairly expressed by the following utterance of a recognized authori(Y in the trade: 'This season is likely to prove a satisfactory one to the manufacturers generally, to all who can give dollar for dollar in strong selling val- 11,es. The fact that buying is nOW being done on a steady, and even strong, market, will make for the benefit of the trade as well. Indeed there are instances as in the case of mirror plates, where an advance has taken place.) " Several statements contained in the above are inac-curate as follows: HIt is admitted that the manufac-turers had done justice to the ideas of the designers." Corrected, the statement would read, "the designers had done justice to the ideas of the manufacturers." Six, instead of three, expositions are held annually in the trade centers mentioned. Fifteen thousand pieces would scarcely represent the lines manufactured in Grand Rapidsl not to men-tion the out-of-town lines, Chicago outranks Jamestown in the quantity of goods produced. @ * @ Will Furnish the Blackstone. The Nelson-Matter Furniture Company of Grand Rapids will furnish the furniture for the bedrooms cOn-tained in the new Hotel Blackstone, now under con-struction in Chicago. The contract cans for suites amounting in value to $100,000. The Blackstone will be a mammotb, modern house, costing $1,500,000, and thc furnishings $750,000. @ * @ Bulman Will Help Duncan. Frank R. Bulman has been engaged by the Duncan- Scbell Company of Keokuk, Iowa, to assist Mr. Dun-can in buying stock for the firm. MICHIGAN ARTISAN ..._-------------------------------------_._.-- "ere are the Exact Shades Adopted by the Qran~Ra~i~sfurniture Manufacturers'Ass'n Their "Golden Oak Oil Stain" is our No. 3424. Their "Early English Stain" is our No. 3425 Oil Stain. Their "Weathered Oak Stain" is our No. 3426 Oil Stain. Their "fumed Oak" is our No. 3427 New Process fuming liquid. Their "light Mahogany Stain" is our No. 3428 Dry Mahogany Stain soluble in water. Their "Dark Mahogany Stain" is our No. 3429 Dry Mahogany Stain soluble in water. Send for Samples and Information. III! ~- WE SUPPLY EVERYT"ING NEEDED IN T"E flNISmNG ROOM. G"ICAGO NEW YORK ----------- THE AO-EL_ITE F='EOF"LE ------------------_._- ~e1fridge's Arr.erican Department Stcre in Londen. .At last a modern department store has been opened in LOl1(lon by II. G. Selfridge, a forrner Chicagoan. 'Ihe event "vas celebrated 011 11arch 15. vvhen 200,000 people thronged the store and expressed their surprise and Je1ight at the beautiful and complete arrange-ments. For the first time the other large stores llsed advertisernents in the nCvvspapers illustrated by signed dra,vings of well known artists of the Punch staff. J\fr. Setridge received many cahlegram~ from Chicago friends wishing him success. The store is of eight stories and has three stories belOV\7 the street. No skyscrapers are allowed to be constructed in London. In an intervie"\v 1\-Ir. Selfridge said: "1 think v.,ie have had a successful opening. Please tell my former fellow merchants in the United States of America, and especially those in Chicago, how pleased I have been to get their congratulatory telegrams. I hope to show London vvhat the genuinely modern store ought to be. I am here in the center of a population of twelve mil-lions of people and am sure there is room and business enough for us all. I intend to do Lusiness strictly on English lines. I am not trying to Americanize the trade here." 'fhere is only one picture in Selfridge's office; that is a big portrait of l\larshall Field. The eh ief point in Selfridge's advertising is the dig-nity an(} moderation of his statement. Selfridge's bus-iness maxims, reiterated in every advertisement, are dignity, courtesy, energy, integrity, originality, liber-ality and value. Here is a characteristic paragraph from his advertise,ment: i'Uere the charm of nevvness is to be experienced to the full. for at Selfridge's everything is new except the splendid old, time-tried principles that must govern it --integrity, sincerity, liberality in dealing and courte- OltS service," Harrod's store, Selfridge's chiefest rival, discovered that it was entitled to a diamond jubilee and advertised it heavily! that day in order to offset Selfridge's open-ing-. London, hO"vvever,packed Selfridge's to the doors. @ * @ Co-Operative Buying Practical. The executive committee of the );linnesota associa~ tion of retailers, several months ago, decided to test the value of co-operative buying. The movement received the hearty support of members of the association and the sum of $7,000 \-vas invested in staples. By plac-ing large cash orders the SU111 of $1,200 was saved. The assodation will prosecllte the plan vigorously, purchasing only such goods as the mail order houses handle. It has been shown that co-operative buying enables the retailer to compete successfully with the mail order houses. @) * @) A statue of the Venus of '\Iilo with a clock imbed-ded in her stomach is one of the freaky things seen in a jewelry store. 21 22 MICHIGAN ARTISAN ,I I Write us for Prices on I CROSSBANDING . In Poplar, Birch and Gum. II Walter Clarh Veneer Company 535 Michigan Trust Building, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Trained for His Duties. H. C. Leonard, the superintendent of the great plant of the Grand Rapids Refrigerator Company, pre- H. L. Leonard, Superintendent Grand Rapids Refri~rator Company, pared himself for the position he occupies by spending five years in the factory and office of the company. •I S0VNT0N ex. C0. ManufaCturers of Emho-.'ed aDd Turned Mould-ing" EmboN-ed and Spindle Carvings, and Automatie "cumin.... We aJ.w:, manu-fad: ure a llllile line of Emb.oned Ornaments for Couch Work. I II • 419·421 W. fifteenth St .. C"ICAGO, ILL Commencing in the least important department he mastered its details and then entered another and still another, until he had acquired a comprehensive know:- ledge of the business he would soon engage in, in an important capacity. A few mOnths in the office com-pleted his education as a manufacturer. Previous to his entry into the active duties of superintendent Mr. Leonard had spent years in the public schools and in college thoroughly equipping himself for engaging in the large commercial and financial affairs of the com-pany. In the big factory under his superintendence six hundred men are employed and the system followed results in a large product at minimum cost. ® * @ Well Supplied With Quartered Oak. Walter Clark has a large supply of quarter-sawed oak veneers in his warehouse in Grand Rapids. It is customary for furniture manufacturers to go to his warehouse and make their oWn selections, but the eut-of- town manufacturers send in their orders and receive as careful and prompt attention. ,Valter Clark's ad-dress is 535 Michigan Trust building, Grand Rapids. He operates a large veneer mill in IVIississippi, seven miles from Vicksburg, running on oak and cottonwood and has close business relations with other mills, en-abling him to furnish customers at all times with the choicest veneers, croo:;:c;-banding, drawer fronts and bot-toms, mirror backs and everything that the furniture manufacturer needs from the lumberman. , MICHIGAN ARTISAN /,-----\ 10 SPINDLE MACHINIt ALSO MADE WITH 12, 15, 20 AND 25 SPINDLES. DODDS' NE.W GE.AR. DOVET AILING MACHINE This little machine has dOl1emore to perfect the drawer work of furniture manulac.turers than an},thing else in the fUDliture trade. For fifteen years It has made perfect-fitting, vermin-proof, dove· tailed stock a possibility. This bas been accomplished at reduced cost, as the. machine cuts dove-tails in gangs of from 9 to 24 ;l.t one opemtlOll. ALEXANDER DODDS. Grand Rapids. Michigan. Represented by Schuchart & Schutle at Berlin, Vienna, Stockholm aIld 5t Pe.lersb\Ull. Represented by Alfred H. SchUlte at Colollne, Brussels, ~, Paris Milan and Bilboa· Repreaented in Greal Bolian and Ireland by the Oliver Machinery c.:.., F. S, Tbompeon, MilT., 201·203 DeaDllllate, Manchc:5let, Enilland. ~ --~ I The capacity of your jointer is limited !I ! ~ the cutting capacity of. the cutters. I • Unless you are using the Genuine Morris Wood {iI Sons 20th Century Solid Steel Glue Joint Cutters you are not getting the full value out of your machine. They are harder and require less grinding than any other maker and when they do need grinding the cutting surface is so small that it only takes a few minutes to put them in order again. Write for catalog No. 35A. It tells aU about the cutters and will help you to increase your profits. MORRIS WOOD &. 2714-2716 W. Lake St. SONS "-----_._--- Chicago, Ill. ....I ----_._-_. _. --------- Do You Want the Daily? Orders for the Midsummer Edition of the DAILY ARTISAN.RECORD Should be Mailed to the Publishers Now. PRICE FOR THE SEASON FIFTY CENTS Address Daily Artisan-Record GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN. 23 24 MICHIGAN ARTISAN !:Ii !Ii I BARRETT'S PRIME SHELLAC VARNISH !Ii y; !:Ii made from strictly pure Shellac Gum cut in Specially Denatured or !:Ii !:Ii Wood Alcohol. The results of 25 years' experience in the importa- tion of gums, in the use of solvents, and in the manufacture of varnish !Ii !:Ii embodied in "Barrett's Prime." Ask for samples and prices. !:Ii . !:Ii !Ii M. L. BARRETT &. CO., I !:Ii !:Ii 219 LAKE ST... CHICAGO Discontinued the Manufacture of Furniture and Ac-quired Millions. In the year 1880 Seneca B. Anderson engaged in the manufacture of bedsteads in a small way in a small town in southwestern I\lichigan. The tracks of a forty mile line of railway were stretched through the village, and whenever the engineer did not forget to stop, persons desiring tD enter or leave the cars at Berlamont were permitted to do so. If such persons were in a hurry they walked to Grand Junction, three miles distant, a point where all trains from the fOUf quarters of Van Buren county were compelled by law to pause if but for a moment. 1,1r. Anderson had an advantage in the prose-cution of his industry, in a tract of choice hardwood tim-ber, and the disposition of the yeomanry of the section to accept modest wages for their services, aided in the win-ning of a fair measure of success. The shipping facilities of the Kalamazoo & South Haven railroad were none too good. Occasionally one of the three freight cars owned by the corporation would go astray and in that event J\Ir. Anderson was obligued to carry his output of bedsteads to Grand Junction on a wagon. After several years of operation, good fortune visited Mr. Anderson. His factory was destroyed by fire late one dark night and relieved him of the burden of his investment. His pockets were emptied, after paying his bills, but Mr. Anderson, freed of harrassing burdens, sought for fresh fields for exploitation. Endowed by nature with a good constitu-tion, tact, energy, "gumption" and sagacity by inheritance and acquirement, Mr. Anderson became an explorer of the woodlands of Tennessee, Arkansas, 1iississippi and Kentucky and in a few years his knowledge and ability were found to be so valuable by investors that he found full employment for his energies. Locating at l\femphis he engaged in the manufacture of hardwood lumber and veneers, dealing mainly in gum and cotton wood. A great factory is operated under the name of the Anderson-Tully company, and the owners are rated as multimillionaires by the agencies. l\llr. Anderson has not forgotten his ex-periences at little old Berlamont, although the place is no longer written on the maps, and a dear old mother, living at South Haven, where ~1r.Anderson was born, frequent- Jy calls the rich, hustling lumberman to the hearth side. A dutyful son, he never fails to respond. Furniture Dealers May Meet in Evansville. A letter from Evansville states that the July meet-ing of the National Association of Retail Furniture Dealers will probably be held in that city, and it seems fair to suppose that Chicago has given consent to the change. During the past five years Chicago has claimed the association for its own, and in permitting the association to hold a convention in Evansville, the big city evidences tender regard for the thriving .town founded by Bob Evans on the Ohio one-half a century ._---_._----~ f AN OPPORTUNrTY OF A LIFE TrME is offered to the right party. A splendidly equipped Furniture Factory located in Indiana, one hundred miles from Chicago. Factory is brick, mill construc-tion, about 73,000 feet floor space, with never failing water power, steam as an auxiliary, trunk line rail-road spur to the shipping room door and into the lumber yard. Will sell property on long terms or lease same with machinery, also have one million feet dry lumber, factory is in full operation the year round. Declining health compels the owner to dis-pose of the business. For full particulars address Hoosier 62, care Michigan Artisan, Grand Rapids, Mich. 1 and perhaps more ago. Evansville is well located geographicaUy and it has the conveniences necessary to accommodate and entertain a large crowd. The new furniture exchange and the thirty factories in op-eration in that city will prove of more than common in-terest to dealers attending the convention. The state of Indiana is largely represented in the membership of the association, and the ever busy Hoosiers will appre-ciate the change to Ohio river water after so many years of experiment with the mystifying fluid pumped out of Lake l\1iehigan. It is understood that Evans-ville has given a bond to return the association in good order to Chicago, and to guard it especially against the danger growing out of Mike Mulvihill's desire to make St. Louis the future abode of the association. @ * @ To put a fine point upon a business proposition it is not necessary to sharpen a pencil upon a buzz planer. A young man living in Grand Rapids tried to do so recently. The attending surgeon dressed the remains of two fingers; MICHIGAN ARTISAN 25 -----_._----_._---------------------------. II I Cabinet Makers In these days of close competition, need the best possible equipment, and this they can have in BARNES' == HAND and FOOT POWER === MACHINERY Send for Our New Catalogue. w. F. & John o.u· New Hand and Fool Power Circular Saw No.4. The stroR/lest, most powerful, and in every WU}' the best ma<:hine of its kin,d ever made, for ripping;::cross-cutting, bormg and grOOVlIlg. Barnes Co. 654 Ruby Street, Rockford. Ill. r----------------------------------------------------- II iII BECAUSE IT IS PREP/IRED TO INTEREST RETAILERS THE JIERCANTILE EDiTION OF THE k[[CHI-GAN ARTISAN IS THE MOST VALUABLE AD-VfiRTISING MEDIUM FOR lvlANUFACTURERS OF FURNITURE A/·m KINDRED GOODS. I! "'---- ------- ~-------------------------------_._-----------_._------------- ---------- III II I ! __ .__ J I j II II III I1 26 MICHIGAN ARTISAN rill lill/ll GOLDEN OAK STAINS Our improved process of Slain-Making produces STftrnOTn. prnnDATlOn and uun flAKrS No. 1918 -A Warm Brown, No. 19t4-Medium 8rown, No. 1911l-A Dark Brown, No. 1919-Extra Dark Brown' A'Certain Test of Good Taste. There is 110mOre certain test of good taste than the involuntary selection of subjects by the eye on viewing for the first time ornament in objects of art. Nature works on so large and true a scale that few judge her amiss. That which is maj estic, noble, picturesque, Of simply beautiful as a whole, classes itself at once in all minds, and the fact of a common decision on these points demonstrates the genuineness of the laws of taste. The common mind differs from the cultivated in its knowledge and appreciation of nature's beauty in detail. The former sees only partially, the latter grasps the whole and distinguishes the parts; nothing, however humble, which goes to make up the chord of beauty, escapes its notice. V\There the appreciation of the one ends, the pleasure of the other is but begun, Over GOLDEN OAK STAINS USB the L Mac E, NO, 506 TRANSPARENT FILLER, LYON FURNITURE For Plain Oak COMBINATION GOLDEN OAK FILLER NO, 1672. The tiller lhal "FlllS"-alwars gives pertelll satisfaction. THE LAWRENCE -McFADDEN COMPANY PHILADELPHIA, PA. ,.. = "'" so that his delight is as true and infinite as nature her-self. The natural eye, therefore, sees all things as in a glass, darkly-the cnltivated penetrates the film of nature, and looks into her heart.-James J. Jarvis. @ * l§l One Hundred Bedrooms to Furnish. An addition to the Hotel Piedmont at Atlanta, Ga., will be erected during the current year, involving an expenditure of $200,000. A ball room, a convention hall and one hundred bedrooms will be added to the accommodations of the house. The furniture for the original structure, manufactured in the south, in def-erence to local pride, was of inferior quality and it is presumed the owners will not repeat the mistake of shutting out northern competition . .--------------_._----------------------. I THE AGENCY CREDITS AND: COLLECTIONS New York Orand Rapids Philadel~hla Boston Cincinnati Chlcaao St Louis Jamestown Hll;Ih Point Capital, Credit and Pay Ratings. Clearinl!.House of Trade Experience. The Most Reliable Credit Reports. RAPID COLLECTIONS. ROBERT P. LYON, Ceneral Manager. THE SPECIAL CREDIT BUREAU OF THE FURNITURE, CARPET. UPHOL.STERY, UNDERTAKING, I=I'ICTURE FRAME, MIRROR, VENEER, WOOD, CABINET HARDWARE AND HOUSE FURNISHINC TRADES, IMPROVED M£THODS Wi: ALSO i'lEPORTT ...E PRINCIPAL DRY GOODS, DEPARTMENT AND QENERAL STORE$, GRAND RAPIDS OFFICE. 412-413 HOUSEMAN BUILDING C. C, NEVERS, Michigan M.anager. II _------------------------.------------1 f·----- --MI-CH-IGA-N---_ART.ISA_N -------_. I 2i -----~ The LEONARD Furniture Exhibition Buildinrr Is rapidly filling up. Some of the finest lines in the country will exhibit here by manufacturers desiring space in a central location, cheap insurance, R. R. sieling and team track at floor level; no smashing of goods by dumping them on the side walk and then down a chute. Elevator and electric light service first class. No danger of losing your samples by fire just when you need them most, as the prop-erty is sprinkled. In addition to all these advantages there is a GREAT SAVING IN EXPENSE caused by our low rates. Write to c. H. LEONARD, PRES. LEONARD EXHIBITION BUILDING CO., - GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. P. S. Do it now or you n~ay be too late. I~----_. ------ TRADE NOTES. The George Yale Hardware and Furniture Corn-pany is engaging in business at Bay City, Oregon. Califf Brothers arc starting a furniture store at Vancouver, 'vVashington. George Propeck has purchased a building in Free- Bketch by K. J. Hoegland. Little Falls, Minn. watef, Oregon, and has opened a new furniture store. \i\Tatters & \Vatters have started a furniture store at Slayton, Oregon. Veatch & La\vson, furniture finn at Cottage Grove, Oregon, have solel out to \Yalker & King. Me Veatch has reserved the undertaking, piano and scvv-ing machine departments. Recently one morning, just as the department store of L Gevurtz & Sons, Portland. Oregon, \vas being opened, three Blen entered and boldly snatched some 1 jewelry from a tray and fleeL Later suspects were ar-rested by the police, as they vvere trying to dispose of some jewelry similar to the description of that taken. O. II. James, F. I-I. Stege and F. J. Chapman have organized a corporation at Salem, Oregon, \vith the title of the Imperial Furntture Company. H. A. Sampson has purchased B. F. ::\forse's stock in the Lakeside Furniture Company, Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. \Y. G. Seeley has succeeded McGilvery & Seeley, furniture, at Lewiston, Idaho. @ * @ Returned From the Pacific Coast. J. 'N. Oliver, president of the Oliver }fachinery Company, manufacturers of high grade wood working machinery, returned to Grand Rapids on April 8, after l~- FOR SALE-Fully Equipped Woodworking Plant Suitable for planin~ mill, box factory. furniture manu- I facturing or any kmd of woodworking business. Splendidly located in l<lichigan. Better than a bonus. Investigation solicited. Address L. M. M., care Michigan Artisan, • • spending two months on the Pacific coast, Naturally the wood working plants in California, Oregon and \Vashington interested him very much. =Vlanufactur~ ing industries have been developed very rapidly with-in recent years "on the coast," and 1\.1r. Oliver wit-nessed evidences of prosperity on every hand. ,. ---------------- - - - 28 ;\lICHIGAN ARTISAN ARTISTIC and INEXPENSIVE CATALOGUE COVERS LET US FIGURE ON YOUR PHOTOGRAPHING ENGRAVING and PRINTING PROMPT DEUVERIES COMPLETE CATALOGS PERFECT WORK MICHIGAN ENGRAVING CO. at Right Pric:es GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN • ICHOICE -rOOLS--POR -FURNITURE--MAKERS"j I I I I i: If you do not know the "Oliver" wood working tools, you had better give "OLIVER" Wi your address.and have us teUyou all about them. We make nothing but No, ~~. :eahne~.Saw f : Quality tools, the first co!ft of which is considerable, but which will make Made with or witlwul : I ,more profit for each dollar inveSted than any of the cheap machines flood~ ~b~r 3tj~e3<Yl~~iltt . h take 18" under Ihe I • mg t e country. iuide - tilts 45 cle~reea I I ope way and 7 degrees , I the olba way. Car· " OII'Yer Tools TieBa saw up 10 1}6" I l ~idb'w?rub~eat£~:f~ : Save Labor when notmotordriven. I Wei.llhs 1800 Ibs when : . Time ready to ship. I .'.. ::~o:'" I : : • I I "Oliver" New Variety Saw Table No. 11· I : Will take a wow up 10 20ft diameter. Arbor belt is 6' wide. :!t !,• II• ----------------_._--~ ! II BRANCH OFFICES -Oliver Machmery Co. Hudron Terminal, 50 Churctt St·, New York; Oliver Machinery Co., First National Bank Building, Chicago, Ill_; Oliver Machinery Co., Pacific Building. Sel!lttle, Wash.; Oliver Machinery Co ,201-203 Del!lnsgale, Manchester, Enll· ~------------_. ---_. MICHIGAN Send fQ( Catalog "8" 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 Office. at 1 to 51 Clancy St. GRAND RAPIDS. MICH .• U. S. A. Museum of Bad Taste. The world's first "l\luseum of Bad Taste" has been opened in Stuttgart, the capital of \Vurtenlberg. It is intcnded to make it a permanent exhibition of "horrible examples" in the domain of the liberal arts. It consists for the present of a be\vilclering "i'ariety of objects representing the most classic:. departures fronl the dictates of good taste \·vhich the human race has committed, and it will be added to from time to time. as often as fresh freaks come to the museum's no-tice. The project originated with Professor Pazau-rek l the director of the Industrial :\hlseum, which has devoted a special section of its buildings to the pur-pose, The "bad taste" museum is divided into three sep-arate departmcnts-improper use of materials, offense against constnlctionl ideals, and anomaly in decorative effects. I'llustratlve of misused materials is shmvn a col-lection of articles \vherein v'lOod, iron, ceramics) and other substances are employed to represent something else than that vvhich they really are. Among the "sins of construction" is an array of ob-jects which are plainly unsuitable for the purpose for which they appear to be designed, such as vessels which do not stand firmly and cannot be cleaned. dishes \vith grotesquely cut corners or projections, and absurd contradictions between form and object, snch as thermometers in the shape of riding whips, inkstands shaped like revolvers. etc. There are long showcases ARTISAN 29 full of "bad form" specimens born of speculating upon patriotic and religious sentiments. Among the fonner is a collection of freak ideas that originated in connec-tion \vith the Zeppelin craze last autumn. In the department devoted to decorative eccentrici-ties the museum contains examples designed to show humanity its sins in the direction of overdoing and u nclerdoing. 1\-Iuscum curators from all parts of Germany are journeying to Stuttgart to inspect the new museum, \vhich. it 18 generally agreed, fills a long-felt practi-cal want. @ * @ A Nonvegian boasts of having invented a patented process for colorillR \\Toods. ii\Vhole stems of green trees are colored; the sap is pressed out of the stem h)' force and the dye injected in its place. It is claimed that wood treated by this process is much more dur-able than ordinary wood and "ivill 110t warp." The process rnay be ne\v, but the result is of no more value than the green stains of 1880. @ * @ ]'he basis of style should be utility, determined in accordance \\lith one's occupation or habits; then form should be designed, embracing certain general charac-teristics which could gradually be developed along the lines of individual taste. The style of last year is the anomaly of this in certain branches of the furniture trade. 30 1\1I CHI G A N ART I SAN I TWO WINNERS IN VARNISH I THE EMBLEM OF SUPERIORITY This is the verdict of the furniture manufacturer who KNOWS Is the best high-grade, quick-rubbing varnish ever produced. Can be re-coated every day and last coat rubbed safely in three days. 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 j Color • l Lead and DETROIT, MICHIGAN ......._~_._--_._-_.------- ----- Paradox Rubbing Ti- Ki- Lac VARNISH DEPARTMENT. Acme White Works Vocational School at Fitchburg. The state of Massachusetts has appropriated $75,- 000 for the purpose of erecting a vocational school at Fitchburg, Furtber appropriations will be supplied when needed, Teachers will be provided by the state, but the city of Fitchburg will pay a per capita tax for each pupil in attendance, Pupils will be instructed in practical business affairs, commercial arithmetic, mechanical drawing and designing will be included in the course of instruction, Girls will be taught domes-tic science, sewing and housekeeping. Boys will be trained to fill positions in the industries and in com-merce. The work will be elementary, that of the craftsman. rather than the mechanic or machinist. ~._---- II Mahogany, C I Circassian Walnut, ee"" O. Quartered Oak, ,,: .. Walnut, e:tt'll Curly Maple. ;\.1. :tt'l :..~ 'Jeneers Bird's Eye Maple. 't..1'0 Ue..~ . 1.. Gra.de Basswood. S p . \\1g11- ~f~', \-\e:tt'l~ ..1 Dea.\erS ~DS' M\c\'l\G~ Birch, :.. ~ .. J .. a.nU St. Gtl/»t\D Maple, f'''"C\\1rer.. 3 so,,,,,,·' ' Poplar, ",II-~U:... Z Gum, \" ..o.a~ Oak. Period Styles. The Trade Periodical Company of Chicago have issued an illustrated volume of 220 pages, giving the history of the period styles in furniture. The author is Herbert E. Brinstead, editor of the "Furniture Rec-ord and Furnisher" of London, with chapters on "Mod-ern yIission" and "Craftsmen Furniture" by J. Newton Nind and Gustave Stickley, The book is dedicated Hto the increasing number of furniture dealers and fur-niture salesmen in America who want to know the his-tory of design and the influences which inspired artists and craftsmen in the production of styles which have endured." ]'he book is neatly printed and bound, hut there is room for improvement in the illustrations. •• Foreign and Domestic Woods. Rotary. Sliced, Sawed. MICHIGAN ARTISAN 31 "I suppose iI's a fact." sai,l Mr. 'VIacWhackt. "that about the \vorst habit you could contract is that of sitting down and waiting for something to turn up. OiI'vc knmvn a lot of men tbat have had this habit, bLlt I have never known one of them to have anything come to him yet. Of course there.'s a chance of a man's being struck by lightning, but if you take the total population of the world and divide by the number struck you would find that the chances of being s.truck are very small, and the chances of anything corning to a man who is \vaiting for something to turl1 up are a great deal smaller still. "Yo11 see. as I tell Illy son, \Villiam ?vTac- \\Thackt. Jr., something, that is to say the SOll1C- lI·ili*~IIIil:!iS"""'~il~"':"',=,,: thing that we are ahvays looking for to turn I· up, is really not, as you might ~ay! a thing of a migratory nature. that i::-, not a thing that seeks people. In fact one of its chief charac-teristics consists in its inclination to stick somewhere, g·entrally more or less far ofi. in \vhich it is like gold in its ra\\' shape, ·which lies buried in the earth at a great distance, ,~rhere ,ve must go and dig for it and <:hg hard if we \vant to get it. }\feasles and various other afflictions come to us, but not so, as a rule, with something, meaning prosperity, which we must go out and seek. "So I tell William that I hope he won't join the great army of those who sit down and \vait for something to turn up. He might be struck by lightning, but the chances are so much against it that it "vou1U.be a terrible waste of time to figure 'em out and there wouldn't be anything coming to him then. "What I hope is that William will get out and look and dig for \vhat he wants and not sit down and wait, and he won't find the competition as keen as perhaps he thinks, for really there are not 5'uch an everlasting lot of steady, stick to it diggers. There's a chance that if he doesn't get the biggest prize in the whole world he'lI get something, ann something worth having, if he'll only get out and get to work around among men in the places where the diggins are found. "That's \vhat I'm hoping \Villiam, Jr., will do-go out and work like a man for what he wants; the thing of all others that I hope he \von't do is to sit clown and "vait for something to turn up." -Ex. THE WAIrING HABIT, Which Mr. MacWhackt Hopes MacWhackt, Junior. Will Never Contract. the upper vacancies ,vith outsiders. This does not dis-turb the long- experienced vvorkers who have grown used to their tasks and \vould not thrive on a change. 'fhe outsiders can quickly learn from these \vorkers enough to enable them to fill the place. The effect is qttick and permanent. The shiny appearance gives way to the dull finish ,vith the first few rnbs, and soon t011es down to a. darker shade. 'rhe same effect may be secured by ill temper and red tape. but there are always some spots in the organization ,,,hich continue to shine, even if feebly, @ :>i' @ The Dull Finish. Employers ,vho may prefer to have their organiza-tion done in the popular dull finish, and avoid the vulgar shiny effect that is occasioned by life, can bring about the change with little difficulty. The work is so simple that no experience is required. Any short-sig-hted employer can do it with ease. Some have found it effective to fill .--- Sketch by C. R. Hills, Grand Rapids. in spite of these measures, whereas the other method removes all these shiny spots and distributes the dull finish quite evenly, and prevents it from \vearing off. Samples of this sort of work may be seen in a great many places. -Ex. @ * @ Discovered by Raleigh. Sir \Valte:r Raleigh carried mahogany timber fwm the West Indies to England for the first time. Its adapt-ability' in the manufacture of furniture was soon learnerl, and It has since helrl its place as the most valuable of all woods. , ------------------.., I MANUFACTURERS OF ! I HARDWOOD ~~~~I i~~ I I I I II SPECIALTIES: ~'i~"fE'l'lQUARO. AK VENEERS MAHOGANY VENEERS HOFFMAN BROTHERS COMPANY ~804-W-._Main.S_I., --- FORT WAYNE, INDIANA 32 MICHIGAN ARTISAN , ~ I :-,-E- stablished 1838. CINCINNATI, O. -1 We Import Direct, and Manufacture Circassian Veneers GENUINE PERSIAN WOOD. The Albro Veneer Co. Short History of American Art, vVe should all be familiar with the history of our own country. This is just as trl1e of art as of other matters. The fact that we are short on old masters and long on chromos should make no difference in OUf reverent appreciation of our own ideal. Draw near, therefore, litte children, that you may become cultured and educated. The first evidence of art in our dear country is dis-covered in the rude d weIlings of our forefathers. This is what might be called the New England Church per-iod. Dy some it is called the Colonial. This period has found its culmination in the arrangement of the New England back parloL One the one side is the glass case, filled with specimens of flora and fauna, and on the other side, on the white marble table, imported at great expense from the mother country, is the fam-ly autograph album, Underneath is the rag carpet, and overhead is the blue ceiling, This was high art in the Colonial period, The next period is the Paternal or Motto period, a ~ort of C'0mbination of father-of-his-country chromos and God Hiess OUf Home. No home was considered to be a true center of art in its highest phase that did not have a picture of George \Vashington crossing the Delaware in the front hall, and a worsted motto, worked with loving care by the lO-year-old feminine prodigy of the family, bung up in tbe front room, This period held undisputed sway for nearly half a century and even now its influence may be seen. The next was the gashouse period, or the period when panoramas of the battle of Gettysburg \vere dis-played in every important center, and no child was considered properly educated unless he had had the principal points in the battlefield pointed out by a vet-eran of the late war, who was drawing a pension and getting a rake-off on the gate receipts at the same time, \Ve then began to have so many periods that it is (hfficult for the earnest student to differentiate among all of tbem, We shall, however, do the best we can, When we have begun to get a respectable collec-tion of heroes together it was inevitable that statnes should be erected to their blessed memories, This was accordingly done, with the result that now no park is complete without the counterfeit presentments of 1110st of the politicians of the past, and a few of those VI/horn we really love, all done into brass or an alloy by workmen who didn't belong to a union. These statues are most of them imperishable. \Ve couldn't get rid of them if we wanted to. They are here to stay. Nature may protest, and the wind and rain do their best, but they are manufactured of too stern stuff. At the same time that this was happening our arch-itecture \,,'as beginning to took up. Now it is On such a high planc that our principal buildings are mostly capped with sno"v. And safar as oil paintings are concerned, we have them to burn-only we do not burn them. What is now termed the modern period of Ameri-can art is one in which the department store vies with the paint factories to produce the greatest amount of color in the smallest space, Culture clubs throughout the country arc giving talks about old masters, illus-trated with moving pictures; a collector is doing his best to keep the old masters all out of the country by storing them in England until the tariff is lowered; magazines are reproducing our principal actresses in a glorious Renaissance of halftones; frames were never so cheap, and cozy corners were never so uncomfort-abh On the whole, art is booming. Vlith a kodak in one hand. and a blowpipe in the other we can reproduce almost e"verything that nature gives out, from a red, white and blue landscape to \Vall street water coloL-New York Times. @ * @ When J. B, Howard of the Grand Rapids Chair Company returned from St. Louis recently, a friend asked: "How did you find the Annhyserbooshvill-ians, Jim?" "Kicking," the salesman replied. An instant's reflection supplies the explanation, \'I/hy should not kicking prevail in St Louis? That city is he most important mule market in world. @ * @ Intelligent composition is permissable in the fur-niture trade, but when a cabinet maker places Louis XV. chair backs on Roman stools it is time to ring the fire alarm bells and call out the police reserves. - - - -- --------------~---------- ... MICHIGAN ARTISAN 3:\ Hotel Furniture Buyers Arrive in Grand Rapids. On April l-:l:, C. ]. Owens, manager of the :;c\\! .A.d-dison hotel in 1'1inneapolis, arrived in Grand Eapids for the purpose of purchasing furniture. He was accom-panied by "Valter D. Boutell, Otto ]. ivlarewetz and \V. F. ]-~ehrens. The hotel is to be one of the finest and best appointed houses of its class in the llortlnvest and \vill contain 335 rooms. The furnishing-s arc to be artistic throughout and ,vill represent an invesbncnt of more than $200,000, It is estimated that the furniture alone will cost $100,000 and 1t is certain IT\i..lch of this will be of Grand Rapids production. In general it will 1:",011s15t of mabogany and Circassian \valnut. \VaLlack Brothers, who own and operate hotels in 1\"- e\v York and Cleveland, ar-rived on the same day and placed orders. @ -,' @ Addition to the John Widdicomb Factory, \\Tork has been beg-ull on the addition to the Fifth Street factory of the John Vviddicornb company, Gcnd Rapids. The timber used will be \\" ashington fir, 100,000 feet of\vhieh is called for. The addition will he to the south of the present building, l03x140 feet, four stories, to cost $20,000. I.t will be completed in three months. @> * @> Adding Furniture. Quish & Pratt, dealers in hard\,·,rare, Dexter. }{rch., will add furniture and would be pleased to receive cata-logues. @ * @ ::.\fany applications for space in the furniture exposi-tions of Grand Rapids! assure the usual large number of exhibits at the midsummer exposition. @ :[;@ B. J. Rosenthal has had plans drav'-'tl for a furniture exhibition building \'\-'hich he proposes to erect in Chicago. @ * @ The manufacture of tables will soon be commenced at High Point, N, C. by E. L. and E. V, Crouch. @ * @ The woodworking company will replace their plant recently burned at Germantown, Pa. @ *' @ July 12 is the date chosen for the opening of the New York Furniture exposition. @ * @ The factory of the Row"lett Desk company, Richmond. Ind., is offered for sale. @ * @ Brown & 1tcCellcy purpose to crect a chair factory at Winchendon, l\:Iass. @ * @ A planing mill win be erected by \V right & Kllntz at Piqua, O. •IIIII! Whatever your needs may be m III III IIII I, II IIf II IIf •• I, II ,f j I Benches, Trucks, Hand Screws or Furniture Clamps Remember that we are headquarters for these articles. Our catalogue describing the eutire line is yours for the asking. -----WRITE TODAY----- Name .. l\ " .:"'',:.''.'.....,....... I \It --------~--..-~.-./ -----_... Address I II II~---- Grand Rapids Hand Screw Co. ~15Jefferson Av~.• GRAND RApIDS, MICH, • 34 MICHIGAN ARTISAN Factory Economies Almost every advance in business development in-volves the discovery of new economies. New machinery usually has one unanswerable point in its favor in that it effects economies before unthought of. A new idea of business procedure usually means a greater revenue or a greater saving, In any event it is the making use of opportunities hitherto unappreciated. Atterition is turning. and will doubtless continue more alid morc to turn, to the great possible economies in de-veloping the productivity of employees. '['he ill-crease of ability, in re-sponse to instruction and encouragement, is very great. The value of an employee increaSes more rapidly than the need of increasing his salary, even if adequate encour-agement be given him for his improvement. ~\1any an employer is paying $100 for service that another employer gets doue for $50. This is not because the first employer pays better wages than the other, for ofteri he not only docs not do that, but he keeps his employees in a rut v-:here, after ten years, they are worth scarcely morc to him or another. The second employer gets the work done for $50 because he took an employee who~ for lack of training, was un.able to command a higher \vage., and by a systematic effort to bring out the best there \\'as in him, soon had a more efficient employee for his business than the other man who paid enough to command the services of an employee who had been trained elsewhere, or, as is more often the case, who paid for two or three untrained employees to accomplish the work of one train-ed employee. \iVhen the possibilities for economy in training em- Sketch by K. J. Haegland, Little Falls, Minn. The Weatherly Co. Gt-and Rapid •• Mich. THE WEATHERLY INDIVIDUAL Glue Heater Send Yl)ur address aDd and n:oeive desct-iptive circular oE Glue Heaters. Gluli!iCooli:en and Hot Boxes whit prices. ployees becomes more generally recognized, we may look for radical changes in the present methods of many in-stitlltions, where business system is composed largely of nIles as to what employees are not permitted to do, and involves very little to inspire them to develop greater and greater ability in their work. Success will attend such efforts for development in the proportion that employers, and especially their lieu-tenants, learn the economic difference between driving employees by constant fear of censure and leading them by awakening the potent influences of their better nature. The man whose faith in human nature is so blunted that he can not see the possibilities for individnal devel-opment, and who defends coercive measures as the only fruitful ones, is least of all capable of being an econom-ical manager. He may for a time deceive himself and his employers, and continue to kill the goose of spontaneity that lays the golden eggs of results, but as surely as the • * d ONE COAT FUMED OAK STAIN No. 46 0«, latest prod«ctian, Matches the new standard shade. Red«ces the labor-cost of finishing. The only one coat f«med stain. on the market that is giving satisfaction. Man«fact«red by GRAND RAPIDS WOOD FINISHING CO. 55-59 ElhwOl'th Ave., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. world is growing mQre enlightened, the time approaches when such managers and such methods will be seet! to be the most wasteful extravagances in business, which prog-ress and the economic law will inevitably eliminate.-~-Ex. @ * @ The Sterling-Welch company are preparing to take POssession of their new building in Cleveland. One 1100r 86x500 feet in size, will be used in the sale of furniture. @ * @) B. Rich, (he ought to be) of Nashville, Tenn., will erect a factory for the use of tbe Rothschild Lussky Man-ufacturing company. @ * @ A large plant, to be operated in the manufacture of .interior finish, sash and doors, will be erected at Tacoma, Washiugton, by the West End Manufacturing company. @ * @ The manufacture of furniture will be commenced at Talladega, Ala., by John L. Love, so soon as he can complete and equip a factory, under construction. @ * @ Brockton, Mass., will establish a school for tralIlIng boys for foremanships and superindendencies of factories. r- --- - ------------------., ; l_THE _BIC?W~ITE ~HOPj ! We Furnish Every Article of Printing II I Needed by Business Men II I,i I !Ii r-THE--BIG WHITE -s-Hopl , - -_. . . , II III II MICHIGAN ARTISAN WHITE PRINTING COMPANY 108, 110, and 112 North Division Street, Grand Rapids, Mich. 35 I I II , 1I MICHIGAN IMISCELLANEOUS ADVERTISEMENTS I WANTED WANTED-WOOD SEAT CHAIR FACTORY To locate on our property at Columbus, Mississippi; unlimit-ed supply of fed and white oak; red and sap gum and beech at extremely low cost; plenty cheap labor; fine factory sitej un-eXcelled shipping facilities and low freight rates to good mar-ket. Might take some stock in well managed· company. Ad-dress Interstate Lumber Company. Downing Building, Erie, Pa. WANTED-FIRST CLASS COMMISSION MEN To handle the Peerless Automatic Morris chair in every state in the Union. We have the best selling proposition in the country, and want none but hustlers. Address, stating ter-ritory. experience, and lines nOw carried, Peerless Chair Co., Sturgis, Mich. 4-10-2' WANTED-AN UP-TO-DATE WORKING FOREMAN AND DESIGNER For factory making case goods. Reference required. Address B.~ox--50-0-, -ca-re--o-f -M_ic.h_iga-n Artisan. 4-lo----Zt ---. ~- -_..~--- WANTED-TRAVELING SALESMAN ON COMMIS-SION. To handle a line of cabinet and furniture hardware as a si.de line in Ohio. West Virginia, western New Yark, western Pennsylvania and Indiana. H. W. Leutkemeyer & Sons, Cleveland, O. 4-1D--Zt WANTED-SALESMEN For an uP~to.date sectional bookcase line; makes the dealer a profit of 50 per cent. Humphrey-Widman Bookcase Com-pany, Detroit, Mich. 4-1Q--2t WANTED-TRAVELING SALESMAN ON COMMIS-SION to handle a line of Bird's-eye Maple kitchen cabinets in In-diana, Ohio, IllInois, West Virginia, Iowa and Missouri. Give reference and experience. Baines, Mosier & Co., Allegan, Mich. 3-10-2'. ARTISAN WANTED-TRAVELING SALESMAN On commission for a line of kitchen cabinetsl cupboaros- and wardrobes for Michigan. Indiana. Ohio and II inois. Answer at once. Edon Furniture ManufacturingCompa.ny, Edon, Ohio. 4-10---1, WANTED-DRAUGHTSMAN. Must be experienced in store. bank and general cabinet work. Good place. good salary· to competent man. Loca-tion in large city in Missouri: State full particulars. Ad-dress "A. R. J.," care of Michigan Artisan. 4~10-lt WANTED-LINES To design by one experienced in mission work, not fully oc-cupied. Address" A. B.••• care of this office. 4-10 WANTED-SALESMEN To handle first-class new line parlor furniture, medium and high grade. This is a first~c'lass opportunity for enterprising men. Address Box F., care of Michigan Artisan. 2-10-3t. FOR SALE FOR SALE. The furniture factory occupied by Blum & Company, Ham-ilton, Ohio. is for sale. Correspondence solicited by E. F. Blum, Mgr. 1-10-4' . Sketch by C. R. Hills, Grand Rapids, Mich. INDEX TO ADVERTISEMENTS. Acme White Lead and .Color Works .. , . . . . . . , .30 Adams & Elting........................... . 21 Albro Veneer Company, The.. . . .. 3'2 American Blower Company Cover Barlow Brothers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... 11 Barnes, W. F. & John,. Company...... . "'" .25 Barrett. M. L., & Company. . . . . . . . . 24 Boynton & Company............... . 22 Buss Machine Works. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cover Cordesman-Rechtin Company . .Cover Clark, Walter, Veneer Company 22 'Daily Artisan-Record . 23 "Dodds. Alexander..... . .. 23 Edge, Frank, & Company. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 10 Fellwock Auto & Manufacturing Company. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 7 Fox Machine Company, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10 Francis, Charles E., & Brother..... . . . . . 1 Furniture Commercial Agency .. , . . . . . . . . . .. . .. , 9 Gillette. RoUer Bearing Company , Cover Grand Rapids Blow Pipe & Dust Arrester Company 15 Grand Rapids Brass Company .. , . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. Cover Grand Rapids Electrotype Company 12 Grand Rapids Hand Screw Company. . . . . . ,33 Grand Rapids Wood Finishing Company....... .,.; .. " ~34 Hahn, Louis., ,.............. . 11 Hills. Clarence R ,........ . .. , .. 11 Hoffman Brothers Company 31 Holcomb, A. L., & Company................... .11 Hood & Wright , 14 "Hoosier" , , , 24 Hotel Tuller ,., " ; , , 1 Holden, Henry S.• Veneer Company , 30 Hotel Pantlind , , ','" .. , , 10 Kimball Brothers . . . . . . . . . .. . 11 Lawrence-McFadden Company. The... . 26 Leonard Furniture Exhibition Building,.... . . . . ,27 Lyon Furniture Agency , , " .26 L. M. M 21 List of 'Furniture Buyers , , , , , ,11 Manufacturers' Exhibition·· Building Company..... . . . . . . .. 2 Marietta Paint & Color Company , . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 1 Mattison Machine Works , , ,., " .20 McMullen Machinery Company , , , 20 Michigan Artisan Company , Cover-25 Michigan Engravin g Company.. . . . . . . . . 28 Miscellaneous '" . '" , . .. .. .. . 36 Montgomery Hardwood Lumber Company , 13 Morton HouEe , 10 Oliver Machinery Company , , 29 Pa1mer~A. E., & 80ns , 17 Pitt£burg Plate Glass Company .. " , . , -6 Rowlett Desk Manufacturing Company " .19 Sheldon, E. H., & Company............ . • .. . .. . . . . .. . 9 Shimer & Sons " '" " , , .10 Stephenson Manufacturing Company , . . . .. '1 Sirocco Engineering Company .', , Cover Walter B., & Company ,. .., , 11 Ward. O. A 22 Weatherly Company, The,_.... .,. '" .34 West Michigan Machine & Tool Company , , .11 Wellington HoteJ '" , '" ~.,. 7 White Printing Company 1....35 Wood. Morri~ & Sons .. ,..... . , 17~23 Wysong & Miles Company'. . . . . . . . . , , cover \I THIS IS THE Mf\6H1NE that brlnos In 16tt6rS Iik6 th6 followino: I I!I I I, BUSS NEW No.4 CABINET PLANER. • • You". v.!,;;' c.uly, The Buss :i\fachine vVorks are having marked success \\lit11this ne\\' design of cabinet planer. The new method of belting-feed gears machine cut-together \vith the steel spring sectional front feeu roll and the late new sectional chipbreakcr, rnake a cabinet planer second to none on the market today, The Buss 11achine Works are old ll1anl1factnrers of cabinet planers and other woodworking tools, and keep abreast with the times \vith machines of great efficiency. YV"ondworkers of all kinds will not make a mistake by writing direct or to their nearest selling representative regarding any point on up-ta-date cabinet planers. These are the days when the live woodworker ,vants to cut the expense of sanding. HOLLAND,MICH. BUSS MACHINE WORKS GRAND RAPIDS,MICH • • • • MAKE THE FACT KNOWN Want and For Sale Columns Do It Now If you are in the market for anything or want to dispose of something THROUGH THE .,. OF ... The Michigan Artisan (FACTORY GRAND RAPIDS. ECITION) MICHIGAN I "'-------------~ i..- I P~L1~~iior-F-·l-a-t--S--u-Srf-aac-en·-d-e-r·1 Why install any Sand Belt Machine for Flat Surfaces except the Wysong & Miles? You will pay twice as much for other makes and will get an inferior machine If you do not believe this, communicate with us and be convinced. No. 171 SAND BELT MACHINE. ASK FOR CATALOG E. WYSONG 8 MILES CO., Cedar St. and Sou. R. R., GREENS80RO, N. C. t 1 I Saw Mandrels and Duages We are not only prepared to take care of your wants in the larg-e woodworking machine line, but also give special attention to the supply line. Our rip and Cro5S-CUt gauges and saw mandrels are different than the ordinary run of supplies in this line. Want a circular describinj( them '! Keep \18 advised a. to your requirements in the Woodworking Machinery line. THE CORDESMAN-RECHTIN CO. CINCINNATI, OHIO • , I I I•

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1909-04-10T00:00:00Z

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Periodicals and Furniture Industry

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English

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