Weekly Artisan; 1909-12-04

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Issue of a furniture trade magazine published weekly in Grand Rapids, Mich, starting in 1879. and GRAND RAPIDS. -MICH•• DECEMBER 4. 1909 .. _.- ..--_ .... NELSON MATTER FURNITURE CO. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. \ \ ""-- -----------------------------_._._--------_._-------_._-----~~ II I BED-ROOM and DINING-ROOM COMPLETE SUITES in Mahogany. Circassiall Walnut and Oak. If you have uot oue in your store. a simple request will brlnll you our mallniUeent new Fall Catalollue of 12x16 ineh palle ll....uP.... how. inll suites to mateh. With it. even the most moderale sized furaiture slore ean sho'f" the best aad newest i_itare sa:tisiaetorilr. .. . . .. .-.... ., ..... ,. WEEKLY ARTISAN -------_ _._._. -- -_..-_-_ ..----------_ ..-- .. ---_. --_._. --------------_._--- _._-......,.., II I I II ....... ..... ... Great Improvements in Refrigerators for 191 0 SEE THE NEW LEONARD WATER COOLERS FOR REFRIGERATORS! SEE THE ENTIRE NEW LINE OF SATIN WALNUT REFRIGERATORS! SEE THE NEW COMBINATION-REFRIGERATOR AND KITCHEN CABINET! SEE THE NEW ROUND CORNERS ON THE "LEONARD GRAND RAPIDS!" SEE THE NEW WOVEN WIRE SHELVES IN OUR ENAMELED LINE! SEE THE NEW CHEAP LINE OF "NORTH POLE" REFRIGERATORS! SEE THE NEW ALL PORCELAIN REFRIGERATORS-INSIDE AND OUTSIDE! LET OTHERS fOLLOW-If THEY CAN. WE LEAD SEE THE NEW HOME OF THE LEONARD CLEANABLE REFRIGERATORS. The largest and finest refngerator factory In the world It IS only m such a factory that the best goods can be made for the least money, and orders promptly filled ThIS mammoth plant IS at your servIce for the ask1l1g Send for our 1910 catalogue Vlfe make nearly everythIng that we use The Porcelam Enamel for L1l11l1gs-the TInned \\ Ire Shelves-the Locks-the H1l1ges-the Water Coolers-the new desIgns and finishes are all made m thIs wonderful factory. Our assortment IS enormous, rangIng from the very cheapest to the finest And best of all, we help you sell the goods' The "Leonard Cleanable" reputatIOn IS behmd them Our magazIne advertismg and our store Sellmg plans wIll bring you many customers I White Enameled, "Leonard Grand Rapids." i RAPIDS REFRIGERATOR CO. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Factory, Nos. 52 to 202 Clyde Park Ave. Salesroom during January and July, LEONARD FURNITURE EXHIBITION BUILDING. Satin Walnut, with Water Cooler. Kitchen Cabinet and Refrigerator. I GRAND II• • _. ••.• • • . • • •• •• . .• _._. _. ......... _- ...~r. 2 ~---------------------~---------------- WEEKLY ARTISAN ....-----------------------------------------------~ I Qran~Da~i~sDlow Pi~e an~Dust Arrester (om~an~ THE LATEST devIce for handlmg shavings and dust from all wood-working mac/llnes. Our nzneteen years experience in this class of work has brought it nearer perfection than any other system on the market today. It is no experiment, but a demonstrated scientific fact, as 'We have several hun-dred of these systems in use, and not a poor one among them. Our Automatlc Furnace Feed System, as shown in thIS cut, is the most perfect 'lvorking deVIce of anything in this line. f;f7rite for OUI 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. Office and Factory: 208-210 Canal Street GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Clthrena Phone 1282 &ell. 10bln 1804 ~--... -_.- - ---------------- ... . OUR AUTOMATIC FURNACE FEED SYSTEM ___ J WEEKLY ARTISAN 3 4 ~-------._._. _.._-------_. ----_. WEEKLY ARTISAN i. IIIIII IIIt I II ,j ,I I tt IIIIIII II II III II ~------_.,._._---- ---_._---------------------------~ €IIII HIE LUCE LINE Many New Patterns In Dining Room and Bed-room Furmture for the Fall Season, SHOW ROOMS AT FACTORY, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH, I IIIIII! II!! I . ..-------------------------------------- ... LUCE FURNITURE COMPANY Catalogue Up01l rrquest, '" .va _.... _ a.a. ••••...•••••• .•. __ ••••• . • __.., I LUCE..REDMOND CHAIR CO., Ltd. II BIG RAPIDS, MICHIGAN I .--- MANUFACTURERS OF HIGH GRADE OFFICE CHAIRS, DINING CHAIRS Reception Chairs and Rockers, Slippers Rockers, Colonial Parlor Suites, Desk and Dressing Chairs In Dark and Tuna Mahogany, BIrch, Blrd' •• eye Maple, Q!!artered Oak and ClrclUSlan Walnut You will find our Exhibit on the Fourth Floor, East Section, Manufacturers' Buildmg, North Ionia St., Grand Rapids, ----------------------------_._--_._----- - .- -- .-- - .- ..- - ... :..<"{Ai' T~ ql~~ crn(.\ " 30th Year-No. 23 GRAND RAPIDS. MICH.• DECEMBER 4.1909 Issued Weekly PROMOTING INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION Extracts From Addresses Delivered at the Third Annual Convention of the National Socie-ty Held in Milwaukee This Week. ::\IIlwaukee, 111" , Dec 3 -~t a banquet lact eve11lng 111the Hotel PfisteI, Governor Jame~ U Dav Idson, a" toastmaster, opened the Third An mal Convention of the X atlOnal SocIety for the PIOmotlOn of Industllal FducatlOn \ddlesses were made by PreSIdent Charle~ \I an Bbe of the P11lVer"lty of \Vh- COW111, Dr George H ::\Ltrt111 of lJo~ton, :\1as", and Alex-ander C. Humphrey~, PresIdent of the XatlOnal SOCIety and Head of Sievens In;,tItute of Technology The members of the ~ atIonal SOCIety have receIved a cor-ellal welcome from the CItizens of MIlwaukee Several largely attended meet111gs of cltlzen~ \\ ere held before the gathermg of the X atlOnal SOCIet}, and dn urgal1lzatlOn commIttee of fifty ananged all det,uls of the e~S10n" The meet111gs are held 111 the \;"ew \lHlItollum \\ Ith lh great arena and Its numelOUS ~maller halk PresIdent \ an l11se m hb ope11lng address, speakmg of "G11lVel Slty \Id m Industnal EducatIon" referred to the forces whICh have caused the gleat state schools to con"lder the demand" for llhtructIOn on the part of all classess of CItizens He saId 111 pdrt "'Cnttl the nllddle of the 19th century the ~tores of know-ledge whIch the people could u"e had been fairly well aSSImi-lated The apprentIceshIp System \\a~ 111vogue and a trade pas"ed from ma~ter to apprentIce \fter a t1lne the apprenttce became equally "killed WIth hIS ma"ter In the latter half of the 19th century has come the great revolutIon 111 the 111du"tnal \\orld bv which the \\ ork of the ~kl11ed arthan Imtead of be1l1g clone m the ~mall shop h done 1.1 the great l11anUfactOl y Also the l111e~of 111clu~tryIMve va"tl} multJplted so that where form-erlyone product \\ as pIOduced many are now made "Thm the developl11ent of applIed kno\\ledge ha" far out- 1un It" a"Qnl1latlOn bv the dl tI ~an. 'I hI" "ltuatlon IS true both 111England and \melICa In Cerl11anv the development of the trade· chool ha~ taken place WIth the revolutIOn 111the 111dus-tnes, ~o that pel haps 111a "mgle CIt}, "uch as ::\1untch, there may he thirty (l1 more trade school" covenng all the trade" of the CIty In thIS countt) the trade school must be developed upon a fal leachll1g ~cale, hut a~ Jet "uch school'3 scarcely eXht. The Stdte of \\ l~con"m constItutes an e'CceptIOn to the extent that hade "chool~ have heen begun, there hemg 111thIS Stelte a ml111Iclpal trade "chool m :\1llwaukee, a m111111gtrade school 111 Platte\lllt:, and four agTIcultUl al tt ade ~chool~ 'The rapId d(h .ll1ce of applted knowledge Ul the \\ orld, and the ab~ence of trade school" 1ll the l'mted States, have made 1t advlsab"e fot 11111ve~lltle.., to gIve aId 111 111dustnal educatIOn. 1 hI"- ha" been done at the Umver 1t} of V\TIsconSlll and to a le:-,ser extent at othel IL1Iversltle" by the estabhsh-ment of the exten~IOn dl\ls10ns The extensIon dlvl'IOn of vI, 1",COlb111, beSIdes glV1l1g 1l1fOrmatlOn by lectures and hy 1l1"tl-tute~, a~ for ll1stance, bdk.el" 111"tltute", gives sy~tematlc tn structlon by con e~pondence 111many 111dustnal hnes In thIS matter the correspondence school~, e<.,tahh"hed upon a com-mercial ba"'l", have led the way and performed a great serVlCe The chlet defects ot ~uch schools have been that each man must work by himself and that he doe" not come 11 contact with hIS teacher The 111evltable consequence 1" that comparattvely few men have the stam1l1a to cont111ue long 111~tudy The great maJonty dIOp out of the com ,e'3 whIch the} begm "Rea!tzlllg the~e defects the L-mverslty of vVI"con~m haq handled It" COIre"pondence WOlk for artl"ans so that groups of men ""ork together and meet a teacher, the travehng pro-fessor. ThIS could only be successful by the cordIal cooperatIOn of the manufactllrers The manufacturer~, and e"peclally tho~e tn :\1Jlwaukee, have fur11lshed c1a"s r00111"-m whIch the men may meet, not onl} thIS but they pay theIr men for the tIme they are reCeIV1l1g 1l1"tructlOn, an hour once a fortmght ThIS attItude upon the part of the manufacturer IS broad gauged !tbel aht}, based upon a deSIre to help hIS men to Improve themselve" a~ well a" to have the serVIce" of tra111ed men. "The travelmg profe-,sor and the c1a"s room work place study by correspondellce upon a new and hIgher plane L;nder the new conchtIOn'-, the great maJonty of student, persI"t to the end of theIr courses The work of the 'II, bconsm extenSIOn dIVISIOn has met WIth enthu"Iast1c '3upport In thIS State and pendmg the WIele de" elopment of the trade "chool It IS the be.:,t method vet dev Ised to gIve mdnstnal educatIOn "Even \\ hen the trade school I~ fully developed, as It WIll be In the future, the extensIOn work for artIsans WIll be con-tmued 11en need a broMler tramJng than a "lmply vocatIOnal ant: They need to go tarther than the it ade "chool vVhen the trade "chooh are able m th1', Stelte to do sattsfactonly the vocdtIOnal \\ 01 k demanded, It wIll be the aIm of the L;mvel ~lty of \Vl<;conqn to cont111ue to teach the al than dfter he leaves the trade "chool, not only 111advanced stud1es relditng to hIS vocatlOn, but 111"tuches whIch concern hI:> dutIes as a CItIzen, and which concern him a~ a man It h our deSire to open to all the \lay to a hlghel mtellectncll and "pllItnal hfe," States l\'IustH..lp. Dr George H ::\lart1l1, formerly Secretarv of the State 6 WEEKLY ARTISAN Board of Educat10n of '!cl"",1Chlblth "putc on L..tatt I l~I' latJon for lndustnal F dUCcltlon DI \lell tm ",1)(1 "Leg,11 1'rO\ 1,lon 1~ not needed all) \,here 101 111\e"t1g,1l!( 11 of mdustnal cOlldltlOll, or mL1ustllal educatIOnal netd~, \11 the fdcts hay e heen kllO\\ll 101 t\\ent\ fi\ c \ eals at ]ea~t alld 1111 more ~tate comml,~lOll ~ al e needed to Ie <11'C(1\ U dll(l ]i! ( claIm them "F111anc1al ,ud h) the <;tdLel~ e""c<1tlal e\ Ul 111thc \\ (,11th 1e~t ,tate~ \\ e m,ly S,1) t]1<1t It ou~ht 110t to he \\ C lJ cl\ argue that to teach the element, of ,omt OCCUp,ltJ111 11\ \\ hld1 a bo) or gIrl may hecome ,e]f-suPI UIt111f?"l~ a~ l1tC~,',ll \ ,1~ much a part of the loc,d 1'ubhc burden a~ to It \ch Ihc three R'" hut the fact lemams, and \\t have to lecko]] \\llh Jl "Indu,tnd] tJ a111mg \\ 111me\ ltdblv add tu the Uht oj pu bhc edlkatlO11 'L he eyu1pment of mdlhtnal ,chool, h mOlc c" pens1\ e than for other kmd" the matellal u<;ed 111h,\11(]\\ ork must be paId fOl, and the teaLhel, cannot be hll ed jUl the \\age" now paId to grdde teachel'i m the puhhc 'lhl)l)] , \Yere dray<,111~ anti hand-\\ 01 k 1tlJUll ed m ,\11 dUlJ( 1L,ll \ publIc ~chool~, a foundcltlOn a, hro,ld a'-, the pubhl 'clwul '\' Lem, 1helf vvould he l,nd on \\ hKh mIght be b11llt ,\11\ lltUhL '-,ort of mdu,tJ 1al eclucatlO]] Shot ,chlo]" It ,ulL "lhOI)I, mad1!111st\ school~, agncultl1\,1l ,chooh \\ oulc1 all fmcl III 'm h prehmmal) work a common ,011 m \dll~h to loot Ihu (hl Iv ~', "The prohlem of the mdlhtnal tffiUellC\ ot thc l0111111~ generatIOn h meAtncahly mtel \\0\ en \\ lth the plOhlc111" or puhhc play~rouml'-, and g) mndSlum'-" of the ',llNt,ltlOl1 ot hou'-,e" of tht conge'-,tlOn of ttnement~ ,me! of thl h011l' 0 I labor of \\ omen a,lcl chl1e!ren "\\ hIIe \\e are talkll1~ tu llJ~ht about thl tUJ1l01111l \ dhll of 1I1dthtnal educatlOn, let u" not tLJ1~et that IntL111~t1ll l )11 sumers al e <i' nect"setr) to econ01111cal "UCLe", a, ll1tt]]1";l::nt plOclucers, that It \\ III be 1e!le to tra1l1 a genel at10n ot \\ m k ,11en \\ho ca'l produce hne thl11g'-,unk,,, tht\ ale ,t!"o ll,llllU! to enjoy and cle'lre fine th111g'o, Ihat II hnC111tllt ot I I'll '\ Jm h Lames from the ~tu(h of nat111c lltel,ltu1l eme! ,l1t b h k~1l1 mate amI a, e~'ientldl a pal t of ll1du'-,tllal U!tl"ltIOl1 md 111 111, end \\ 1]] be found to he ,l~ eCOnOll11L,11h plOtlte1bli \" tlll hand tla111lng \vhlLh \\ e are no\\ empha 1711112, Wasteful and Inefficient ~I etllO(}.,. I're<;lclent Hl1J11phlC\" ,poke 011 I h, I lOl1i) 111l \ 1lul lJi lndu'-,tnal FducatlOn. ffc (lJU\ an d.nell()~\ l)(t\\((l1 ltLlJl" wa'-,te of the Lountn .'-, neltl11el] 1 e,,0111ce'-,,l11r! tIll IlllJllO\ Hll11Le and ..,upufiClal Chd.ldctel of our ulJ1LdtHlllal pIOll'''t'' III p \1t he ,aliI , Of tllll teen 111111Wl1o'f \ OUl1g 111tI 111 thl l 111t«l '-,Uh" het\\ten the agt, of 21 ,md 3; ol1h t1\1:: pll lll1t lllll\( 111 STAR -~---_ .. _ _ ., CASTER CUP COMPANY II III II• III II IIIII I........_--~ I ~, . I I•II I,• I II II III II II I I I •II• II I II•I fob 01 and Rap>ds I~------------.. ... NORTH UNION STREET GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. (PATENT APPLIED FOR) We have adopted cellulOId as a base for our Caster Cups, makmg the best cup on the market CellulOId IS a great Improvement over bases made of other matenal When It ISnecessary to move a plece supported b, cups WIth cellulOld bases It can be done wlth ease, as the hases are per fectly smooth CellulOId does not sweat and by the use of these cup' tables are never marred These cups are fimshed 111 Golden Oak lInd While Maple finIshed light If you w.ll try a sample order of th.. e floods you u,ll des,re to handle them U1 quant.tles PRICES Size 2* Inches $5.50 per hundred. Slze ZJi Inches 4.50 per hundred. 1R Y A SAMPLE OR.DER the "choo] em\ dned prepalatlOl1 for theIr \OcatlOn", and of l'\ en ont hnndred g\adnatt'i of our elementary ;,chools, only ll~llt ohtamul then In ehhood b) means of the profess101b and ll)llllllCt ual j)nr,lllh \\ Ink the remall1mg mnety-two sup-pOl tul thenbth t'~ and theIr fanllhe, hy theIr hands It \\e al e optl1 to COI1\lctlOn, \\ e need no l11Ve,t1gatlOn to C01\\ mce n that the j1ubhc school '-,)stem of thIS country has not bten de\ eloped and lJ1euntamed fur the benefit of the mass-l" but lather ha~ been operat1l1g for the benefit of the few. \\ e h,1\ l .Jl' pO''''lb1e ngllt to bmlrl up a g-eneral "cheme of puhhc pnnMl \ and ~eLOndar) educatIon WIth the college as the goal ] hl'-, IS ",ldlficm~ the nun, for the benefit of the few, a useless ,acllfiLe ]Jelau,e the few C,ll1 he tdken care of WIthout resortl11g !o 'lllh \\ ,l tefulmethoe!s (hll j)u]J1Jc 'chcoh, speakmg generall), have so far pL\Lul the 11llph,\"h tt () markedly upon the ~o called cultural ~tndle" I'll "ol1'llh I ldnnot under'itand hoV\ any ~tue!y which h Iw H"t!v tOl1l)\\ell can tall to be cultural, as far as It goe~ (Jt btt \ ear", there hcl0 been an effort to e'itabh,h the balance, ,I' (\ Idencul 1n the mtrocluctlOI1 of manual tra111l11g. l he ])uhhe school '-,),tem ot a country m whIch the pu pIt ~O\ II 11 thtm,eh e., ce1ta1111) shoule! not allow the ,ub- "UtntlOl1 oj a '-,l1latlel111g of man) '-,0 called cultural ~tu(hes for a ~ood \\ orklllg kno\\ ledge or 1eetdmg, wntll1g, En~lhh and \ oLatwl1,tl mathematlL' [hel e 'huuld be acqmred more than ,I kno\\ lldgt of tht'-,t ,uhJtch-there ~huuld be acqmred a fac1- hh 111 the ll,e of thtse 'llhllLh ,l" lead\ tooL \\ e ,hould anl1 ~---------------------------------------------~--------------------- The season for banquets is here. Get a stock of our Banquet Table Tops so as to be ready to supply the demand. I..... _.. .. ....................'" Our Large New Line of DINING and OFFICE I TABLES I are the best on the American market when prices and qualIty are considered. STOW & Df\VIS FURNITURG 60. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. _ ...- .--_._. ----------._-------- ...I _ _ _~ City Salesroom. 4th floor. Blodgett Bldg. I, The Beautiful, New : Udell Catalog I I' ready for all Retdll Furmture Dealers. It wIll help sell the lIne that of Its kind has no supenor. It con tams 88 pages Illustratmg 41 LIbrary Bookcases, 88 Lad,es' Desks, 48 Sheet MUSIC Cabinets, 23 Prano Player Roll Cabinets, 14 Cylinder Record Cabinets, 11 D,sc Record Cabinets, 19 MedICine Cabinets, 10 Commodes, 9 Folding Tables. ACT A T ONCE AND WRITE THE UDELL WORKS INDIANAPOLIS, IND WEEKLY ARTISAN 7 No. 679 ~----------------------------------------------_ .... _ ..--- --------- ..... ... ------ -----------_.~--~--~-- No 354 ······----·····1 , II I,, III I _ IIIII II II .............-... No. 1239 claimed that these al e I,olated ca"e~, we Cdn P0111t to the case of the Hnthh ~ avy 111 ,,, hlCh many of the mlc1o,hIpmen were LIken 111yeal' ) ounger than 1~, and were gn en responsIbilIty and authontv often before they well' 15 ..\\ hen we compale onr methods WIth those of other conntnes and espeCially With Germany, there may be ddference" of opl1110n, but there ,eems to be hardly any room to questlOl1 the supenonty of the German Ideal. cr he German Ideal IS to tram It, youth for tuture effiCient cltl7enshlp \Ve seem to be not ,atl,fied 111l1es~we al e attemptlng to tram all of onr boys for leadershIp, although we mmt recog1117e, as PreSident ElIot ha~ more than once pomted out, that there 10, no such thmg amonl; men of equalIty at natm dl ~Ifts uf capacity for tral11- Inl{, olaf Intellectu,I1 po,,, er . In two of the hall, of tlIe \ew )uchtonum there has been dll anged an extensn e exhibition of trade school work. ThIS IS the lall;est and mo~t vaned collectlOn of such work gathered h) the XatlOnal Society. It compnses many large photograph" of ~hop" 111 operdtlOn, charts of courses, and a great collectlOn of speClmens of the work of different school" m the form of model"" patterns, mach1l1e pal t", teals dnd apparatus Xew York h ICjl1esented h) exhibIts from the \lanhattan Trade School for ()llls, ?\ e\\ York Trade School, :\lechal1lcs Institute, INDIANA fO! ,uch a degl ee of fdclht) and ,peed cI, c,m he ~eulle(1 ,",lth ont "dn lhunl; aCUll acy .,\\ e need 111dnstnal eclnc,ItJon for the ma~se' If we arc to mall1talll onr o\"n III the field, of lllcln"tl) and commerce. Bettel, pel haps, than an) other country of the globe we can afford to enclose am ,eh e, wlthlll a wall of tanff excln ~lOn, for the vallety of 0111 natmal reS011lce" due to vandtlOn ll1 chmdte dml othel c011ChtlOn~1, almost n111que Htlt, even then, If \ve .11e llleffiuent and wd,tefnl. th011l.:;hwe may not have to meet comnetltlOn a, a people, \\e llln,t finally fall on had tIme, Molly·Coddles of Both Sexes. ";\1) e'l:penence goe" to chow that many hoys ,Ire l11cltnre enongh ph) ,ICdlh cmd mentally to beg1l1 ,n apprentlce'ihlp 01 legtlLlr VOCdtlOI1ct1tla1llll1g elt 14 )la1, of a~" \\ e all know of bo" V\ ho at thl" ,l~ C \, el e better ahk to tdke ccue of them ~elve, than m,llly othu" at 18 v ears, In fact v\ e know of man) ,d1O ,\ el e hetiel ahle to care fO! th-::nheh e, at tll1" age than others al e ,It ally tIme dmll1g thell 11, e, I ,ometlmes \\ ,)l1del If \'ve ale not tc)') 1each to moll, coddle Otll ho), III sch'Jol-ye, ,ll1d onr gIll It ma) he clall11ul that the cases I refel to are eAceptJ011cll. \\ onld thel e not be more of them If OUI edncatwnal meth)(l" ,,,ere mOTe 1 ,1tlO11al and hettel de~l~ned to de\ elop man1ll1cs~, ,\ omanhnc s, and . elf rehance) It It I, RICHMOND DOUBLE CANE LINE "SLIP SEATS"-the latest and best method of double seating. Catalogues to the Trade. ~._-- No. 70 h_ ••• __ The Best Value and Greatest Service for the Money No 100. .... .... 8 l1<lt be a\ Olded 111 the clJ"cus~lOn of 1l1dustnal educatIOn All ,cheme" ot 111dust11dl educatlOn ba"e the1r c1ann" on the years \\ a~ted between the age" of 14 to If) There lS httle use m pI opo~mg d form of educatIOn necessanly expensrve and com-phc lted unle"s \\ e ctnke at the lOot of the e\ 11 E\ ery boy dnd gl1l up to the age of at least 16 years should be engaged 111a \\ ork profitable to hody. m111dand soul, Dr else m a school \\ ll1ch \\ e hope may be even more profitable School laws and tactor} lav'v" must work together The \\hole que~tl0n of mdlhtnal educatIOn 1S one for a ,t,lte gm ernment to cO'1s1der It ranks w1th the problems of ,tate canal" hlgh\\d\ s, forests and water powers. The con "en atton 01 ch1ldren 1" a" 1mportant a'> the conservatIOn of other natural re"ource". \" the subject of 111dustnal educatlOn Loncern ~ e, en 1ntere,t 111the state a 1d nat10n, 1t lS eminently nece"san that 1t be admm1stered by the same agenc1es that dclm1111-tel our pre"ent pubhc school "ystem'. Inclustl1.d ec1ucatlOn w1ll reqmre State funds No trades "chool" 01 agllcultural ~chool,> hay e been :ouccessful WIthout gOyernment and "tate a1d The state should not pay all the expen"es of industrial educdtlon Local enterpn"e and responslb1hty must be de\ el-oped \11 mdmtnal trade and agncultural schools must be do"e to the people 1he control of 111du'>tnal educat10n "hould be 111the hancl~ of enhstmg State Hoard" of Educat10n "If \\e are to '-,uccessfull} compete w1th the great mdus-tnal ndtluns of the wotIel, e\ ery state m the umon must put t01 th 1h be"t ehorts to estabhsh lndu"tllal Techlllcal Schoob, not tor the eAplOltatlOn of any "pec1al mte1 ests, and whether 1t be or~am7ecl labor, orgamzed cap1tal, or any other part of our bod} POlltlC If we hay e m ml11d the true pnnc1ples upon \\ hlch th1s mo\ emetn lS founded, we shall Jom hand" together lJ1 common a,cord for the matenal and 111dustndl uphft of all 1111Jlt many 5->tates ha,e enacted laws \\lth a V1ew of plOmot111g and ec.,tabhsh111g ]ndustndl Techmcal Schools, there h "tlll much \\ ork to be done, and the "tate that lags behl11d 111th1s great movement, \\ 111fall In Its duty to lt~elf, 1t" people and the natlon \1 h1le man} systems Me bemg advocated, dnd most of them hay e man, good teature~, we cannot afford to be wedded to am ha1d and fast lule or pollcy, we must be prepa1ed to measure our cloth accord111g to the coat that IS needed, and the dOO1 must he open to all " lIen and women mU'it not be early tra1l1ed as spec1alt"ts, but eqlllpped to grasp the hIgher techmque of the trade or cal-lmg they may be best fitted for They must leal n the way a thl11g be done, why it h done, and the very best and most WEEKLY ARTISAN Teachers College Cooper LnlOn Hebrew Techmcal In~tltt1te and the "ew York E1ectllcal Trade School Brooklyn al"o sends the ~ ork of Pratt In"tItl1te One of the most l11tele,tlng eAhlblt~ h that ot the Intel natlOnal TypographIcal lmon of Clllca~o ThI" ,ho\\, \\ hat the pnnters of that CIty are dOIng 111the tram111g ot clpprentlce' Among other ~choo1~ exhlb1tmg are the Frdnklm Ln1\ln ot Boston and the ?\orth I~nd Lmon and ?\ 01th Bennett Street School of the same CIty, the L mted ::,hoe ::\Ianufall11nng (0111 pany of Beverly, ill ass. , :Uecha111c'> InstItute of Roche-..tel " Y. ChIcago 1" also 1epresented b) e"hlhlh from the L 111\er,rl\ H1gh School and Le\'h In"tItute, and I hlhddphla 1n tht School of lndmtnal \rh, 1\ Ilhamson Trade School anel GIrard College \\ ork lS dl"o ~hoV\n b} Call1egle fech llcal School of Pltbburg, l aS1110 Techmc.tl "Ight "-chool of I" a"t Pltt"burg, l111011 Tech111cdl In,Utnte c'f Indlclnapolh Itchl11c,tl HIgh School of Spnngfield, IId~~ I[ar} lanel 1n'-tltnte ot BdItr more. ::\Id, Rank111 School of :\Iecha11lcal Crade, of ::'t. Low- :'lID, 111dustnal ::'chools of "ewark, " J . School ot Trade" ot :'IIllwaukee, 1\ 1"., Stout 1n-tltute of Ilenom111ee, \\ 1, School of Trades of Portland, ()re~on, and OhIO IIecha 11C" 111"tl1\11<: of C1l1c1l1natI, Oh1O Welcomed B) M8) or Rose. ThIS mornll1g the conventIOn \Vas called to orc1eI In the ne\\ \uclltonum by iredenck II ::'n} el, pres1dent of the "orth ~V\Te"t :Malleable I ran com pan} Dd\ Id :::, Rooe \Ia\ or of J\Itlwaukee, offered a cordnl \\ elcome to the delec;ate" p1e"enl who repre ..ented more thdn tvvent} states Iram ot the omceI'> of the state branches were pre"ent togethel \\ lth a ldl ~e 1eprc ~entdtlOn frorn the college" and l'rade :::,choolc.,of the Illelclle \\ e~t :'IIayOI Rose extended to all the \ I"ltor, the treccJu111 of the CIty, and told them what \[r1\\~lllkee helc done 111the de velopment of the Schea1 of Trade 1te hade them "tlFh thL fine exhlblt10n~ of T1ade ~chool \\ or]" 111the nel~hblllln~ hall, dnd see what the west 1'-, dOIng 11 Indlhtlral I:ducatl011. 1 he first addre-~ of the mett111g wa~ nude I)} a rep1 e"entdtJ\ e 01 organ17ed labOl, John Golden, ot I all I~l\ el lId'S Genercd PreSIdent of the L111ted CextI]e \ \ orker" of '\mcnca I Lt Golden spoke on the grO\\ mg need fOl ",tate LeghJatlOn on Indu~tnal Edncat1On, a 1cl pomtec] ont the need t01 Indl1 tlla] Schools de\ eloped nnc1u ctate amj>lce~ H e ~ald 111 pal t "The wage earners ot the cOl1ntr} rea]ve perhap,> 111a more keen "en<;e tlMn dn\ one else the cr} mg need ot IncIn~tnal Techmcal School" to snpplelllent the eXlst111g ~chool ,,\ "tem and to meet a new ed ncatlOnal need \, hlCh has de\ eloped \\ 1th the evolntlOn of our ll1dustnes and commerce "The ral'll1g of the compnlsory c;chool a~e to 16 year'> Cdn SEND FOR CATALOGUE. WEEKLY ARTISAN 9 artIstIc way of domg it, coupled wIth an economIC knowledge of the value of theIr labor. Thl~ 1<.,the kmd of educatIon that h neerled. Let all co-opel ate In bnng111g It about. 1he 000nel the tao;k IS accompltshcd the better for all ' ~fust Raise the Compulsory Age. "L\I thur D Dean ,;poke on "State 1\Jeech and Laws" Mr Dean IS c111ef of the dl\ ISlon of trade ,chool, of the" e", York state department of educatIon He <.,ald "Indu::,tnal educatIOn mea 10;the recltrect111g of our pubhc schaab, adapt111g them to the need" of our people, from an economIc as well ac; from a socIal standp0111t It IS 111 no way antagot1!o;tIc to the lSenel al functIOn of all educatIOn whIch 1" to develop and tram the 111md The 111111dmay be tra111ed by mean'i of many 'iubJect", and -0111e "ubJects or proc '"o;e'i are be"t for one group of per"ons and other proce"ses for other glOupr ThIS IS a problem whIch ha" no "inlSle solutIon There WIll be a" many c1a'islficatlOns a,; there are vocatIons, and nearly as many 'SolutIOns as there are commu11ltIes, Trades Unions Must Approve. "The CjuestlOn of 111du-,tnal educatIOn IS of VItal 111terest to 1rade 1:1110ns and manufacturers. The state can develop a plan of procedure whIch WIll meet the cooperatIOn both of employer and employee Orgamzed labor WIll not deny the utmost OpportU111ty to It'i own chIldren through mdu ~tnal tra111mg If labor can have confidence that what I'; to be done wIll be free from selfI"h explOItatIOn and rest UPOiI a tl uthful educatIOnal footmg and be gUIded by the common advantage of all the 111tere~ts concerned IIr Charles R RIchards, Dnector of Cooper UnIOn, New York CIty, spoke bnefly on the e),.hlbltlon of trade school work "hown at the com entlon He reHewed the plan of the NatIOnal SocIety to gather together at each meetmg, a repre'ientattve show111g of the latest and be'St work bemg done m trade "chooL allover the country, and noted the growmg e),.cellence of the plocluct of theoe school'i He saId "ThIrty 'Schools, e),.tend mg from Portland, Oregon, to BO'iton, iVla"~ad1l1,,eH'S, 'lre repre"ented 111thIS exhlbItlOn The work all over the Cih111tt y "haws great progress Charles F Perry, superVhor of mdustnal educatIon 111 the MIlwaukee Schools, spoke on methods of developIng trade "chool work for boy~. He CIted hIS expenence In orgamz111g the l\Illwaukee School of the Trades and saId "A new problem Is ans1l1g to tax the be'it efforts of School "['oards all over the country It is a questIOn of "enc1l11'~out the youth of (mr land from our publtc "chools IXllfL IJrel'Jled to ('ntel tl'c Lll1k" of earners ThIS invo1' c~ -,o111l'lhlllg 1\ hl.:11 \III! help ()1,r I'CI\ '- and gIrls to find themo~lve,,' Educate the Girls. ::\Ir~ Ray mond Robll1s of the \\ oman'" Trade U 1110n League of ChIcago "poke on "The Industnal EducatIOn of GIrlS" She "aId 111part "The que~tIon of ll1elIl,;tnal educallon for young gllls "tIll cause~ a good deal of confUSIOn In the publIc mInd The average person ,ee~ 111the young gIrl only the potentIal '" 1fe and mother, for '" hlch pOSItIon she ought to be qualtfied throul2,h tral111nlS, and forget,; the addItIonal and no 1e"s un-de11lable fact that for an average of 'Seven years ~he IS a bread W111ner The shortnes" of thl" penod 111 contrast WIth the ti\ ent\ cc1d year~ of her vvIfehood and motherhood. ea"Ily causes the Importance of trallnng for tho,e "e,e'1 years of bl ead wmlllng to be overlooked, and, 111 the publtc m111d, phce the e111phasI'S e),.ch1<.Ively on dome~tIc sCIence traI111ng "1he demand f01 home tra111111gIS based on the natural real1/atlOn of It'S value to the homc and the commulllty, but It I, no exaggeratIon to say that lac1, of eqUIpment for her y eal s of bread wIn11lng bnng" al'out re"ults even more chs-astrou~ than doe~ now hel LIck of knowledge of the dome~tlc aric A::, a memlwr of the great unskIlled and unorga11lzed group, the) oung gIrl act,; as an underbIdder 111the labor mar ket, and by acceptIng poor walSe' and long hours, by lowenng the "tandard of IIvme" she 1-, I'}"trumental 111 caus111g the greate~t posqb1e attack upon the home" The dl~cu'-"Ion on the ~ubJect of Trade Schools wa" Splfl-ted Among thme who "poke", ere .:\11ss Anna Hedges, Supel-mtenclent of the Hebrew Techlllcal School for GIrls, New York LIty, \Valter C. SmIth, General Dilector of the \V1l1ona Tech mcal In ~tItute of Indlanapoh<;, Ind., and LeWIS Gustafson, SuperL1tendent of the Dav Id Rank111, J r, School of l\Iecha1l1cal Trades of St LoUIS A pUbhc meetIng held at 2 o'clock thl" afternoon wa'S addre'S ,ed by Gem ge C,rmen, dIrector of the LeWIS ImtItute, ChIcago, by \ Vtllet 1\ Hayes a sbtant "ecretary of agnculturc, Pre"ldent John L Shearer of the OhIO 1\lecha111c" InstItute. C1l1c1l1natI and other,; At the evenmg se""lOn Dr Charle~ S Ho'0. c, preSIdent of the La,;e School of Anpltecl ::-,clence, pre:-:'Ided There was a large atienclance and among the speake" vvere Dr J e~se D Burks of the bunau of mU111clpal re"earch, PhIladelphIa, Mrs. Anna (JarlIn Spencer of the Souety of EthIcal Culture. Prof. Erne~t C ::\Iever of the department of PolItIC'll <;clence, Un l\eIslty of \Vlsconsm and other" In the course of her addre~s 1\1r" GarlIn declared "Before the age of eIght, at lea"t, no chIld should be forced to SIt 111a school seat, before a ~chool desk, or be held to any torm of school lIfe whIch forbId" or checks that c')n~tant actIVIty wInch nature demand" for the chIld'::, good From 8 to 12 there ma) he, WIthout harm to the body or m1l1d, a gradual 1l1ethodlzmg of actIVIty 111 accordance WIth the de-mdnel" of regular In"tructlon But we have made mIllIons of "tupld glown people out of mIllIon" of 'brIght chtldren,' by the u~ual treatment of 'PrImary School Puphs' It I tlll1e thIS were "topped" CREDITS AND COLLECTIONS ROBERT P LYON Ceneral Manager THE SPECIAL CREDIT BUREAU OF THE: FURNITURE, CARPET, UPHOLSTERY, UNDERTAKING, PICTURE FRAME, MIRROR VENEER, WOOD, CABINET HARDWARE AND HOUSE FURNISHINC TRADES. New York Grand Rapids PhIladelphIa Boston Cincinnati Chicago St LOUIS Jamestown High POint ~-------- -----_._----_ . GRANO RAPIDS OFFICE 412-413 HOUSEMAN BUILDING e. <:" NEv];RS, MIChIgan Manager Captlal, Credtl and Pay RatIngs Clearmg Honse of Trade Expenence The Most Rehable CredIt Reports I RAPID COL.L.ECTIONS. t .. _ .... IMPROVED METHODS WE ALSO REPORT THE PR1NCIPAL DRY GOODS DEPARTMENT AND GENERAL STORES. , . .. ._.__._._.~. ~ __.-_.-._----------_-..1 10 WEEKLY ARTISAN Variety Single Sawing Machine. ThIS machine is bUIlt to meet the demand for a hea\ v and finely constructed smgle saw, such as IS reqUIred m the modern cabinet and pattern shop It is eqll1pped with every ImpIO\ e ment and convelllence possIble to facIlItate accurate and rapId operatIOn. The table-this is a very large and extremel} hea\} ca,t-ing havmg double rIbs running around the SIde to faclhtate the use of clamps and smgle rIbs to strengthen the center The rIbs and the table ibelf are made of % materIal gn 1l1g extreme stIffness. Large hmges securel} bolted to planed spots on the column support the table The,e 11lnge' al e at an a, possIble and as close to the i\rbor as possIble to avoid the lea,t \ 11)1atlOn These \vays are supported by heavy proJec-t1Om. ca ,t sohd "Ith the column and rendered free from vibra tIOn The yoke has fOUl pomts of contact on these ways, each havmg a bearIng of 15 square mches, or a total bearing of 60 'quare l11che, for the \ oke ThIs gives an elegant bearing free trom \ Ibratlon and "hlch cannot b1l1d or wear out. The ver-tIcal adjustment ot the yoke IS accomph"hed by a cut steel \\ aIm clI1d gear \\ hlch m turn are operated by a large hand wheel. convemently placed on the front of the column. A man Cdn ea"Ily operate tl1l', hand \\ heel WIthout changing his pOSItIOn \\ Ith 1elatIon to the ,aw or WIthout bend1l1g lu~ knees. DI-approved type, machll1ed all over and ale suffiuenth L11gc dlHI heavy to rema1l1 "ohd and tru~tworth\ Indefimteh 1he tront lunge IS equipped with a chal and p01l1ter accurateh Q,raduated from 0° to 45°, through whIch the table ma\ be tllted. \ heavy round rod h1l1ged to the left undel SIde of the table and passll1g through a lock-nut sItuated on the it ant at tne column "erves to lock the table in any pOSItIon to "hlch 1t ma} be tIlted The table Itself IS hll1ged m the center, mak1l1g It evenly balanced and permlttmg It to be tIlted WIth pel fect ease. The J oke-th13 IS a strong, rI~Id cast1l1g hav1l1g two 6-mch boxes WIth loose caps prm Ided \\ Ith adlthtmcnt fOl wear These boxes ale lined WIth 2;enmne babbItt and cHC oiled from ample reserV01r~ by capillal} actIOn '1 he \oke ha' a.vertIcal adjustment on two heav} way" placed as far apal t - . Mahogany Circassian Walnut Quartered Oak Walnut Curly Maple Bird's Eye Maple Basswood Ash Elm Birch Maple Poplar Gum : Oak ........ 1ecth bellk 01 the hand \\ heel 1, a hand nut, whIch loch the } oke lI2;Hll} at an} P01111. The Belt [Ightenel- ThIS h automatic In It-. actIOn and keep, a propel temlOn on the belt at all times. It 1S supported b\ t\\ 0 bi ad,ets 1>olted to planed spots on the real SIde of the culumn ThIs tlghtner operates m an al c on the ll1s1de of the mach1l1e \\ hen the }oke IS way up the tightner pulley should be nearly m contact WIth the arbor pulley \Yhen the yoke IS way down the tIghtener pulley drops through a space of 12 m-ches Proper allowance 1S made for tak1l1g up the stretch 111 a ne\\ belt 1he macll1ne h btlllt by the Crescent Maclune \Vorks, J11dnnfalturers uf Patented and Improved \1\ oodworking Ma-chll1er}, (7rancl I~aplcl" j\lIchigan, USA. --------_._-~._._._--------., II• I I... Foreign and Domestic Woods. Rotary, Sliced, Sawed. .. .--- ...- ..- ----_._._---_._----_..__._- --_._-_. ---------~-_._._. _._._---_. _. --_._._-~--_._-------~ WEEKLY ARTISAN •••• Ie ••• • I ••• a ••••••••••••••••••• _.-- ,I I\ Waddell Manufacturing Company I GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. III II III I• I• III• I• ,I II,I ,I,I I• I, I,III II I•• •• •II• II II I I IiI A new line of Carved Baled Handles made in all the different woods. These handles are very popular with the manufacturers of the best furniture. Send for illustrations and .prices. See illustrations of Period Handles on another page of this Issue. 11 .. •i•----~------.----.---.------.----.--.-- ---.~._-----------------.--_..-... •••• - • ••• •••• ._ ••••••• _ - I. . ."" 12 WEEKLY ARTISAN .....------~--------------- -----_.----------------------------------~ Our No. 171 Patented Sand Belt Machine No. 171 SAND BELT MACHINE. will sand flat surfaces and irregular shapes, including mouldings, better and faster than any other process. Nearly 1000 of our Sanders now in use by your competitors. advantage over you in your sanding department? We also manufacture special patented Sanding and Mortising Machines that are proving extremely profitable to the chair manufacturers. "E" Why give them an Ask for CATALOG Wysong & Miles Company Cedar St. and Sou. R. R., Greensboro, N. C. I II II I f I II I f I I I:, II• IIIIIIIII I I III ---------.---------- ------------------ .-4 AMONG JAMESTOWN FACTORIES A Newsy Letter on the Furniture Industry in the "Grand Rapids of the East." Jamestown, N. Y, Dec 2 -The Dal!e) Jone, C011lpcll1\ will make a change 111 their name January 1st \fter that date the company wIll be styled The Bailey T dble Compan\ The present style has been cont1l1ued, up to this tlme not\\ Ith '3tandmg the death of Mr Jone~ se\ eral ) ears al:;o One of the "peClal events 111 fur11lture CIrcles 111the !d-,t week 111 Nmember was the marnage of Pie" and Genua! Manager, P. B. RosencrantL of the Banner Fur11ltUle Compan\ and MISS Maud ~ lchols-a prom1l1ent society lach on Thanks giving Day The ceremony took place at 9 a 11J.at the home of the bnde's parente, J\1r and J\Irs BenJaml11 '\Icho!, L hc happy pall left at 1030 the .,ame day on a tnp to \e\\ \olk Philadelphia and 13altJmOl e The .:vracldox Table Com pan} , one of the mo,t \\ J(!Lh known concern" 111 the fUfJuture vvorld ha\ e done a ,01u11Je ot busmess the past "Ix month, which has been fullv up to thc correspondmg penod of any norma! ) eal. The J anuan !1I1e Will embody many new features m adchtlOn to then ,taplc hne", '1 he Maddox products are made a merchanchs111g propo"lt1U'1 for the dealer so that he can put them on llls floor and mike good proflts a~ well as qUIck sales The BaJ1ey Jones Company have recently b1111ta battcn of modern dry kiln') of cement and "teel and dlso ha\ e en-larged their woodwork1l1g depal tment so as to 1l1crea,e thell capaclty to a considerable extent. The Jame'itown Cabmet Company recently under\\ ent a change m management, \ Ice-president and supenntendent, L0111') Lucas, havelllg retired to devote all of hIS time to the Lucas lidchl11e Comp,llJ\ a 1(l 0 r. \nderson \\ ho \\ ac, formerly for d te1111 of \ eare, tldvehng ",tlesman for the J\[an el Furl11ture Lompan} becom111~ the manager to ~ucceed IIr Luca" 1 he T amestO\, n Lounge Company are erectmg a four story l)ll1l(hl1~ on pI e111he, purchased north of their present factory 1 hh mc1ucle'o \\ ater PO\\ er nghts and the company al e puttmg 111 a ne\\ model n high power turbme wheel whlch Will furmsh tor the largest part of the year all the 1'0\\ er needed The lower floor of the ne,v b111ldlllg Will be an extenslOn to the machlllen depal tment and the upper floors v\ III be used for fil1hh1l1l:; and upholstenn l:; The J anllary lllle of the Company has been strengthened 111e, ery department and the exhibit Will be chspla} le! 111the lbual ~pace 0'1 the third floor of the Furm-ture E,<:hlbltlOn Bul1d1l1£;, GI and RapIds. A special feature of the exhibit ,,\ III be d new mnel mattresc, da\ cnpOl t bed which \\ 111be shO\\ n for the fil "t t1l11e. One of the bue,le,t J ame"town plante, 1'0 that of the J amec, t(J\\n :Uetctl Jurmtltle Com pan} , manufacturers of high grade commerCial furmture. who have been runl11nl:; a 11lght crew the past month dnd from plec,ent mchcatlOn" they Will have to cont1l1UC to do c,o '1 he company IS em pIa} mg at pre~ent three hundred hand.,. 1he Jame,tovvn ChaIr Company 1:0 another of the buc,v plant'-, \\ 111ch hae, been runmng I11ght, thlOugh Ko, ember \Ll11ager L :\[ CrOUld1l1Qr,e"porh a large volume of bUSiness The "tancIal d 1 able Com pan} Ie, one of the new concernc, m the furmture manutacturlng bus111ec,s of ] amestown and are manu±dctunng a ILle of hIgh grade table OperatIOns were e,tal ted October 1 and up to date thell trade has been very .,atlsfactor} The officels are as follow., Plesldent. L G Cmv1l1g VIce Pres, \. J. Lawson, SeC}-treds, "\. Harnson Re, nold~ The chrectorate mcludes III additIOn to the officers named, 1\Iec,sre, John T Carbon and C ,- \\lJllald. WEEKLY ARTISAN 13 The Pearl CIty Furlllture Company, manufacturers of pedestal~, pedestal table~, ~kl1t boxes and noveltIes, is another ot the young concern ~ wluch started to do bus111es" July 1 last The company IS a co-partnehhlp con,l~tlng of G J, Lllldbeck anu. J \\. Lmtlbeck and are manufactunng theIr hne at 59 Harn"on street. The AllIance Funuture Company have lecently 111creased theIr capaCIty fifty per cent by the bmld111g of a four story adchtlOn on theIr old buIlr1l11g, the SIze of whIch is 64 x 106 The company ha~ also bUIlt an adchtlon of four stones 16;... 50 The present year, 111volume of bus111ess has been fully up to nm mal for the AllIance The fall trade bemg unusually larger and above normal 1 he company's trade comes largely from the ea"t The EmpIre FurnltUIe Company are busy on theu new catalogue to be sent out to the bade January L The catalogue 'v\111 be the lal gest and best evel put out m theIr hIstory, The January Fmplre hne wIll show new style" and desIgns through-out and exhIbIt-, WIll be made m the l\Ianufacturel s' Exchange Bmld111g, Grand RapIds and at ;:.Jew York m the FurnIture Exchange F 0, Anderson of the EmpIre FurnIture Companv left on the 22nd 111Stfm the south to spend several weeks 111100k111g after hl s 111terests 111that sectIon The J ame"town Panel & Veneer Company IS mak111g im-prO'> ements on Its plant. Smce the loss by fire of theIr plant at /\.'ihvllle, l\J Y, last July, the company ha" purchased the pldnt of the Falconer Veneel Company of East Jamestown and WIll add a rotary cuttl11g veneer machme to that plant and VI111 also 111crease the capaCIty of thelf dry 101m The Falconer Veneer Company's plant cuts dally SIX thousand feet of 10g'3 The State "tIeet plant IS used for glu111g table tops, panels, antomoblle dash boards and dll c1a'3se;-,of veneered work The Company has been hav111g a v olume of bus111ess dunng 19W whIch has been fully up to a normal year and conSIderably ahead of the past two yeal s The Level Furl11ture Company WIll exhlblt their hne for the first tune the cOlmng January and WIll have their dIsplay on the '3econd floor of the Furl11ture E;...hibltlOn Bmld111g, Grand Rapld'i The Level'" whole hne of O'vCr one hundled pIeces of fancy parlor tables, iabourettes, etc" WIll be shown, Salesman J P GaIge WIll be 111charge. The company have Just completed an adchtlon of 30 x 70 feet, thlee floors, whIch 111- crea"es the capaCIty of the plant one tlurd The Amellcan Carv111g \;Yorks, manufacturers of all k111ds ri II I, II I PITTSBURGH PLATE LARGEST .JOBBERS AND MANUFAOTURERS OF GLASS COMPANY of carvl11g~, are Just completl11g theIr new plant, the erectlOn of whIch Wd'i begun Apnl 15 last. It 1" a three story bmld- 1ll~ of stone and wood and Its dUllenslOn., are 34;... 64 feet The neVI factory IS located at the corner of Crescent and Sheney "treet~ and WIll he eqUIpped WIth all the latest lmprovemenb, The Amencan Carvmg vVorks was estabh.,hed two years ago and now ha've a trade extenc1mg all over the Ll11tec1 States It lS a co-pal tner"hlp composed of Messrs Adolph C Schulze and Rudolph Schulze and Jacob Van Stee, the last named havmg been employed m Grand RapIds furnIture factones before com111g to Jamestown, The Messrs, Schulze receIved theIr tra111111gat O\\osso, 1IIch" Adolph hav111g been 111the em-ploy of the \Voodard FurnIture Company The Atlas Furmture Company WIll e;...lllblt aga111 m Janu-ary and WIll have thelf dIsplay 111the same place 111the Manu-factulers' ExhIbItIOn Bmldmg, Grand RapIds, MICh The January llne \\ 111 be unusually attractIve ancl WIll show many new ~ty les and deSIgn" Messrs H L Chamberlalll and Em11 Johnson wlll be 111charge The Lynlldon !lIlrror Company, manufacturers of French mIrror plates, are bmld111g an addltlOn to theIr main bUIldmg, t\'.o stones, 30 x 40 feet, An engme loom 20 x 25 feet IS also bemg bUIlt The 11llprOVementq are e;...pected to be completed m January. The 0mon Furl1lture Company, manufacturers of chma .:abmets, buffet'3, royal chll1a buffets and hblary bookca"es, have recently completed a two story adchtlOll 60;... 228 feet, \'.hICh was bUIlt on top of the old two "tory structure They are also m:otalmg a spnnkler sy~tem throughout theIr plant. l\Jew machmery IS belllg put m and when completed the 1111- prm ements WIll double the former capaClty of the plant. The UnlOn Furl1lture Company started busmess seven year" ago and ha'i developed 1apldly, theIr trade commg from all sectlOn:o of the country The Shearman Bras Company, manufacturels of hIgh grade upholstery, davenports, couches and u11lversal sofa beds, are makmg a large mcrease In theIr January hne 111 thl ee-pIece ;,mtes, and odd chalr~ and rockers in leather Manager Shearman states they also WIll bnng out a number of Flanders plecec 111three pIece 'iuites and couches New styles and de- SIgns WIll charactenze the January hne throughout "Vhen a man I" cornered he naturally cloesn't conSIder It a squale deal. GLASS IN THE WORLD Mirrors, Bent Glass, Leaded Art Glass, Ornamental Figured Glass, Polished and Rough Plate Glass, Window Glass WIRE GLASS Plate Glass for Shelves, Desks and Table Tops, Carrara Glass more beautiful than white marble. CENERAL DISTRIBUTORS OF PATTON'S SUN PROOF PAINTS AND OF PITCAIRN ACED VARNISHES, (j[ For anything in Budders' Glass. or anythlllg in Pamts, Varmshes, Brushes or Palllters' Sundries, address any of our branch warehouse .., a lIst of whIch is glVen below' NEW YOBX-Budson and Vandam sts. CLEVELAN:D-1430-1434West Th1:rdSt. BOSTON-41-49 Sudburyst., 1-9 Bowker St. OMABA-1101-1107Boward St. CBICAG0-442-452 Wabash Ave. ST. PAUL-459-461 Jackson St. CINCINNATI-Broadway and Coun sts. ATLANTA,GA.-30-32-34 S. p:ryo:rst. ST. LOl1IS-Cor, Tenth and Spruce sts, SAVA:N:NABG,A_745-749 Wheaton St. MINNEAl'OLIS-500-516 S. Third St. XANSASCITY-Fifth and Wyandotte sts. :DETBOXT-53-59Larnedst" E. BXBMINGBAM, ALA.-2nd Ave. and 29th st. GBAN:DBAPI:DS,MICB-39-41 N. :Divisionst. BUFFALO,N. Y.--372-74-76-78l'ear1 st. l'ITTSBl1BGB-101-103 Wood St. BBOOXLYN-635-637 Fulton st. MILWAl1XEE,WZS.-492-494 Marketst. l'BILA:DELl'BIA-l'itcairU Bldg., Arch and 11th st •. BOCBESTEB,N.Y.-WilderB1dg"Main & Exchange sts. :DAVENl'OBT-41G-416scott St. BALTJ1lll0BE-310-12-14W. l'ratt St. OXLABOMACITY,OXLA"210-212W. First St. I ----------------_._---_._--------- --._----~---_._------------_._-_..-.. .. ---- 14 ---- .. --_....., WEEKLY ARTISAN Buildings That Will Need Furniture. ResIdences-Lol11"e Sch\'dng. SIC) BH;elow "treet, Peoria Ill., $3,000, John E Thatcher, Oak Lawn, Dalla..." Tex, $5,700, D S Beemer, Scranton, Pa" $5,000. Charles E ::'\orn~, 280 Franklm avenue, Columbu~. 0, :j;3,500. E ". Heston, 108 ChIttenden avenue, Columbus, $3,000, R II .:\Ia'C\\ell. 3666 Jeffer~on avenue, Kansas CIty, .:\10, $7,500, \ J IIalgoll11 Parks Ide avenue, PhIladelphIa, Pa" SIxteen three-story hou~cs $72,000, C L. Stanton, 405 Grant BUlldll1g, Lo~ \ngele~, Cal $8,000, Jason Canon, 226 Myrtle street, \ tlanta Ga. S6 500 D. J Fant, 400 CapItal avenue, L\tlanta, Ga, $3,500, John R Lord, 5909 Park avenue, PhIladelphIa, Fa, $4,600, John R Halshlp, SIX brick dwellmgs. 2801-2817 CapItal avenue, "\"\d.sh-mgton, DC, $24,000, J. C Heckman, 196 SoldIer,,' place Buffalo, N. Y, $12,000, Jacob DIttman, 212 \orthland avenue, Buffalo, $3,500, Henry J Humburch, 26 Sa) brook place But-falo $3,500, John S1l1c1alr, 44 J e~ ett avenue, Duftalo, $11 000 Henry Walter, 430 Northampton street, Duftalo $3 ::;00 J en111e Froehch, 202 East GtIca street, Buffalo, $4,000, lIar) J La \\- ton, 91 Tnmty place, Buflalo, $3,500, Gustave .:\Iet\., 916 Hum-bolt parkway. Duffalo, $4,500, "\V H Bauer, 0\\ ner fonr three story house~, Broad and Rockford streets, Pllllarlelphla Pa $22,000; LottIe GIllespIe, 755 Roberta place 53000, Sd.rah F. Murphy, 4423. Vlrgll1la avenue, St LoUl~, .:\10, $3,400, G B. Groughton, 1725 Preston place, St LOtllS, ~Io, $10,000, C .:\I. Radford, 3519 Cherry street, Kansas CIty, ~Io, $5,000, E B Bell, 2604 Lockndge street, Kan"as CIty, $4,500, .:\Irs Harn Baltmger, 156 Ocean avenue, AtlantIc Clt" \. J. $6,000 P B Dunn, J\Iagnoha avenue, San Antomo, Tex 33,::;00, J IL FIsher, 2322 Ann avenue, St. LOl11s, .:\10 , $4,200 \\ R Cl a \\- ford, Bartlett and Concord streets, .:\1Jh\ aukee. "\ I~, $3 750 Joseph KIrcher, YValnut and 38th ~t1eets IIlh\ aul--ee, Y\ 1~ $3,800; Mr~ ::\lary J\IcInerny, Seventh and G stl eeh San Bcr- ... .. ..---- _ ...-_. .--------.., I I I Alaska Refrigerators I I III I II II , •I •I I •I II I I II! in Zinc-Lined, White Enameled, Porcelain and Opal Glass Lined, in all sizes and styles. Our catalogues for 1910 WIll soon be out of press. WRITE FOR COPY. The Alaska Refrigerator Co. NeWYOrkOffice.::C::i::w:~frigerator M~~Sc;;rGI'ON, MICH. II L. E. Moon, Manager. ....... ad _ ••••• •••••• _ ... MUSKEGON VAllEY FURNITURE COMPANY COlOnial sUlles TOil POSI BeGs Odd DresserS Chillonlers wmdrooes lOUlBS' TOUBIS DreSSing TOOIBS MahOgany InlUld GoOdS II I I I I I I ! I I .!.------------------ ------_.-----------------_ ....I. WRITE FOR CATALOG nard1l10, Cal., $4,000, Dr. J. S. MIller, Redlands, Cal, $6,000; r J Symmes, Redlands, Cal, $10,000, E. L Pet/tfils, Gram-mercy place and II est 20th street, Los Angeles, Ca1., $8,500; F, L .:\Iorns, Hollywood. Cal , $8,000; Mrs. Charles Gordon, Wil-ton place, Lo:, \ngeles, Cal., $7,500; John Jones, Pasadena, Cal.. $8,000, Samuel Polk, 4445 Forest Park, St. Louis, Mo., S7.500 Joseph Habermehl, 4238 Arsenal street, St. Louis; E. Roth, 4230 \r"enal street, St Louis, $4,000, G. G Lewis, 7040 Dale a\ enue, St. Loms, $3,200, A. J. Enckson, 6757 S. Her- Imta~e street, ChIcago, $3,500, Miss D M. Hampton, 3348 N. Adams street, ChIcag-o, $9,000; J\Irs 'vV. C S1l1c1air, 534 Indi-ana street, ChIcago, $5,500, J C Joh11:,on, 6327 Ashland avenue, ChIcago $3,500, George H Platt, 623 South St. Joseph street, South Bend, Ind .. $3,750, E"ther R. Ballantyne, Champlost a\ e11ue and 11th street, PhJ1adelphIa, Pa, $4,000; Mrs. Lula St. Johns. JacksonvIlle, Fla, $3,500, Mrs. RIchard Barker, Tran- ~lt a\ enue and Glenmary street, LOUlsvllle, Ky, $5,000; Mrs. Barbala Langan, Scranton, Pa, $3,000; James R, Hughes, 900 \ \ oodla\\ n a\ enue, Scranton, $3,550; D F. Noble, 2647 ra~t Clearfield ~treet, Phtladelphla, Pa., $4,000, Dr J. A Ross, 1300 \\ 22d street, Oklahoma CIty, $3,600, Frank Coombs, 1001 \\ e~t 1st "treet, Oklahoma CIty, $3,250, Henry Huff, 217 Luule avenue, Atlanta, Ga, $3,000; H. M, Burkarth, 5227 TheodOSIa avenue, St Loms, Mo, $4,000, VIf C. Mardorf, 2136 South Grand avenue, St. LOUIS, $12,000, R. E. M. Bain, 3801 Flora boulevard, St LoUl~, $12,000; John T. Thompson, 120::; Ea~t LaIrd street, Salt Lake CIty, Utah, $3,000; 'vV. W. RanK1I1, 1202 State street, Schenectady, N. Y, $4,000; J. B. Bett~ 823 Buchanan street. Topeka, Kans., $17,500; Harry n \\ alker, SO::; Oak ;,treet, Kansas CIty, Mo, $10,000; E. Frankhauser, 7542 LakeSIde terrace, ChIcago, Ill, $12,500 l\[lscellaneous Build1l1gs-G. A Flmt wJ11 invest $35,000 or more 111 a new hotel bmld1l1g at YVilmmgton, CaL E. H. Stadler wJ11 buJ1d a modern hotel at Ferns, Cal. Fillmore Ca1., I~ to buJ1d a new hIgh school at a cost of $40,000. A new grammar school bmld1l1g IS to be erected at Santa Ana, CaL, at a co"t of $60,000 Contracts have been let for a fourteen-story addItIon to the Alexander Hotel, Los Angeles, CaL, whIch when completed WIll make the Alexander one of the large~t hotels in the Umted States, the addItIon alone costing $2,000,000 Fulkerson & Palmer have accepted plans for a WEEKLY ---------------_..-.... SA~~D } QUARTERED OAK SLICED AND MAHOGANY new theatre to be erected at San Diego, Cal., at a cost of $75,000 or $80,000, The Sextet Realty Company is bmldmg a theatre to cost $35,000 on Delmar boulevard, St. Louis, Mo T Reece Howard 1:> bmldmg a $50,000 theatre at 111-115 South 52d street, Philadelphia, Pa. Milwaukee, V{IS. IS bmld-mg a detentiOn hospital at a cost of $85,000 Samuel H. Bay-nard, Van Buren and 21st streets, vv 1lmmgton, Del, $5,000, Sarah A Glenn. 2015 Lake street, Omaha, N ebr, $3,250, C N Ray, Semmole street, DetrOlt, Mich $12,000, F. F Van Tuyl, 29 Taylor street, DetrOlt, $7,500, Herbert Jackson, 244- 6 Baltimore "treet, DetrOlt, $4.000, F J. Smith, Lelce"ter and John R streets, DetrOlt, $3,500. J \v. Clark, Brush and "!\I1d bury street", DetrOit, $lO,DOO; The Misses Roach, 259-61 Twenty-fourth street, DetrOit, $7,000, A. A Schanff, 5327 Cote BnllIante, St. LOUIS,1\10, $4,500; F W Giese, 2208 Holly avenue, St. LOUiS, $6,800. E M. Curti;', AlblOn street and 16th ARTISAN 15 THE:mndtl~ Are very popular with the Furniture Trade. ..--- . . . . . . . ., THE GREATEST HOUSEHOLD INVENTION OF THE AGE KI~,~~oL ~~~.~OT~~!;,NY \ -..---------_. -~ Need not be moved from the wall Protects covering by turn- IRg cushions Is so sImple and easy a child can operate It. Has roomy wardrobe box under seat ComprIses three artlclee for the price of one. Is fitted with felted cotton mattress. Has Luxurious TurkIsh SprlRgs. Is always ready WIth bed-dIng In proper place. Is absolutely sale-cannot close accidentally. Saves rent by saVIng space. WRITE~ WIRE, OR PHONE FOR PARTICULARS. --- .. -- avenue, Dem er. Colo $3,000, H. A Delden, \iVashington and Emerson street, IndianapolIs, Ind., $8,000. Revival of Gold As a Color. There is a reViVal of gold this season, not only in dress accessories but also in nearly every department of house de-cOlatlOn. In the matter of antique rugs those havmg a body or groundwork as near to gold color as pOSSible are the most favored and m all the lme of fabrics and te~tl1e" for curta111;, and portiere" wherever pOSSible gold thread IS interwoven. Gold or gilded paper and work baskets are seen, and 111fact all down the line the gold revival IS noted It seems more or less barbanc, and It is expenSive -~~----- Happll1ess may also consist of not getting the things we don't want. SINGLE CONE ALL STEEL SPRINGS $2~ E.ach Net No. 46. Single Cone. $2 Each. Net. $2~ E.ach Net We manufacture a full line of Single and Double Cane All Wire Springs. SEND us YOUR ORDERS. SMITH &. DAVIS MFG. CO., St. Louis 16 ~chools One of the most slgnIficant Sllrpnses in the 'l'lOja- UOll, trom the addresses h eV1dence of a change m the 3thttld: ot OJ ~d11lLed labor. \ few years ago the leader" of t"ack, Ul1l0t1~ \\ ele alm0st unammollsl} oppo"ed to mdustnal educa-tJon at state or pub1Jc expense Kow some of 1tS most carl1co,t aeh oLates al e knov\ n a" broad-mmded, level-headed lclbor leadel ~ IIho recog11lze the fact that 111 OppO"111g Indll,tllal educatIOll ,,0Ikl11~men are actmg agamst the best 111t(,1e~t ot then cll1lclren The acldre""es are \\ orthy of cons1der, bon 1 hey V\ 111com mce all mtelhgent 1eaders that mdustrl1l ('(1u-catlO, 1 1S nece,;sary to enable Amenca to compete succes"full} ,\ Ith J'uroqean nations m manufactunng mdustnes WEEKLY ARTISAN PUSLlSHEO E.VERY SATURDAY BY THE MICHIGAN ARTISAN COMPANY --------~------------------------ SUBSCRIPTION $1 00 PEA YEAR ANYWHERE IN THE UNITED STATES OTHER COUNTRIES $200 PER YEAR, SINGLE COPIES 5 CENTS, -------------------- ---------- - PUBLICATION OFFICE, 108-112 NORTH DIVISION ST, GRAND RAP'DS. MICH A S WHITE MANAGING EDITOR Entered as second class matter Jnly 5. 1909 at the post office at Grand RapIds "vllclllg1n under the act of March 3 1879 The officel" and mdnagers of the \Il11nesuta Retdl1 rm \ ture Dealer,,' AssociatIOn al e setting a ~oocl e,-ample t01 othe1 slm1lar organizatlOns They ale usmg methodo agaln,t ,lie md1l order h011::,esq1l1te dIfferent from tho'-oe uOluall} em])l(l\ (el. Instead of denouncmg mal! order goods as ]1111kdnd del la 'll~ that the managers of the big concerns are rogues and \ 1I1dl( ~ they recog11lze them dS competitor, deall11g not onh 111cheap and medIUm pnced goods, but also m high grade fUllllLlll which they sell at pnces lower than can be afforded In ~1l1dll deale1s buymg l11(hvldually The} ~lve the nUll olCler 111111 ager<; credit for the pos,esslOn of bram~ and ~o()(l b'l~ \I( , ablhty and plopose to meet the competItIOn h, us!n£; thc Sdl e means Recogm71ng that the succe~s of the mad {)IcIer 11O,hr, h due largely to 1udlClous adverth111g and to the ablltt} to place large orders at low pnces the) are tI}111g to put thcm selves m posItion to do hkewl"e and m th1S the} have SllCCU(luj to a larg-e extent Their repOl ts, announcements and bn 'iet '11' show, that by Lo-operatlOn they are able to bu) at such fi ~Ull' as WIll enable them to sell at pnce" even 10\\ er than al e 110" offered by the mall Older houses ancI If the} cont111ue thu co-opel atlOn methods the) \~111surel) cut dovvn the mall ( , (lu cOmpetItIOn or force the mall ordel loncelne, to cut pl1ce, ,me! thus cltm111l'ih theIr plOfits ~l1d II hen the cIn IcIcnd PI 1 11~ ab11lty of the bIg concelns beg111s to dvv111dlethele II III ,oon bt fewer of them and the dreaded competitIOn \\ 111ellm1111e,h 1 ,'to' J\lmnesota a<;soclatIOn has sho\\ n that ±urmture deale1 11} co-operation can meet an) kmcl of competitIOn and It b ~\ lJUlt th.tt the same methods can be used success full} by othec t;11p orgamzatlOns ~11 that b needed 1S the aJoptton of mal! CJ1 (l( 1 methods 111bu} mg anel advert1smg, dnectecl by bra111" and ';uod business energy and ablllty "\ oth111g can be accomphshed \_\ snnply wh111l11gand denounCIng the methods used by compet1- tors \\1 hen 111chvldual dealers are able to offer the pul)] L barga111s "equally as good" the} \'1111hay e no reason to fear mall order competItion The \Veekly Arttsan In thiS 1',sue dev otes comldel able space to the addresses dell\ ered at the thl1-d annual cony el1L1on of the !\abonal SOCIety for the PlOmotlOn of Industnal EdllL;:', tton, because It IS beheved the addresses and the gleat succe"s of the t11fee-) eal old orgal117atlOn sho\\ s progress 111the me ,( ment that wl1l be 111terest111g and surpnsmg to many reaell I,. Industnal educatIOn IS a subject of gleat Importdnce not anI) to the glowm~ generatton but to manufacturers and all othel employers of labor and all who reael the aeldresse'o dehvered n the :\Ilhvaukee com entIOn \\ III be 111chned to use theIr 111f1uellLP m favor of hav111g states and mUI11Clpalttles fo,ter the t~l(lc schools or 111dustnal cour'-oes of tra111111g111the grade and hI",} It ham} 'otcr} to me how they (hd 1t," remarked the I etl1 eel foreman, rellghtmg hh cigar "\ sked to cont111ue he 'aIel ':'II} last cngagement was WIth a manufacturer who lan h1'-, ,hop ,\ 1thout a S}stem anel yet earned a substantial profit e\ el \ ,eal \ 0 10ds, bIlls or checks were used and a memol- .tncIum ot £;ooc1~I equl1ed by the sales manager furmshed by the office from tIme to tIme was all that the management re- CjUlreel 111the opel atlon of the shop The ,;upenntendent car-ned all the deLl1l" of the bu-,mes" 111111', most wonderful head \'I 01kmen neecI111gm±ormahon had only to que:"tlOn the super 111tenelent to obta111 It 111stantl} My Job was such an easy one that T felt It a cnme to take the money The men qmt work to v\ ash up from flve to ten m111utes before the whistle sounded and elIel much as they pleased when on the premi"es If there \\ as a t1111eclock 111the factory I never saw 1t, and yet the men ,\ ere 10\ al to their employer and surpns1l1gly effiCIent I he ,upenntendent cIled after a time and when one cons1der~ the v\ clght ot I e~pon"lblllty he carned the wonder IS that he In ed so long. 'I\ hen a new supenntendent, filled WIth new fangled notIOn" took hold I deCIded that a Job on the road \, ould ~U1t me and a manufacturer of machmery endorsed m} ,Ie" of the matter But the old man WIth annexes on hIS hi a111 \\ ho operated the factory Without system, was certalllly the lal g e~t peach 111 the orchard" One of the speakers 111 the conventlOn of the ~ atlnn ,1 "Oclet, f01 the PromotIOn of Industnal EducatIOn at M,h dukee tIll' \ved. pi 0\ eel the 111efficlenC) of prevalllllg publIc school methods, II hen he showed that the publtc ,;chools of tod~} ft about one pup1l III a hundred for college and ca"t llL1<. t} rlnc adnft "Ithout means of <;upport or any defimte aun or I 1J( Lt 111hfe fhe Du,111es~ Men's Club 0f Cl11C111natI,which recently elected ~. J Conroy of 1\. J Conroy & Co, to the office of preslClent. made a WI~e selectIOn 1fl Conroy 1S 111 the furn-l" hl11g husllles'-o and Will ±urmsh the club WIth 1I1telhgence, ener£;y and good Judgement, a"set~ of unmea~ured value The club ,\ III pro~per under hiS leadershIp. Representatl\e \Tann of Il111101sfears a tracIe war With Candda and \\ 111try to 111duce Longres:o to re-open the tanff questIOn. \Iann h0pes to circumvent war hy talk Grand Rapids nses to expla111 that the gl eatest show (of fUl111ture) ou earth WIll open Its doon on J.tnuary 3, 1910 \. good hohda} trade ,\ ould serve to open the new} ear Just nght Push it along. . WEEKLY ARTISAN 5 COMPLETE LINES Of REfRIGERATORS C"ALLENGE REfRIGERATOR COMPANY GRAND "AVEN, MIC"., U. S. A. AT RIGHT PRICES SEND FOR NEW CATALOGUE AND LET US NAME YOU PRICE. Banldm~ Without the Use of Checlis. Very lIttle lS known m th1S country of the GIrO system of banklllg III Germany Thh ~y~tem has heen muse m the State of Hamburg Slllce the e'itahlI'ihment of the Hamburg Bank III 1019. An account 1~ opened m the usual manner, and when pay ments are to be made the payer mstead of prepanng a check merely 1I1struct.., hl~ banker to deb1t 111~account w1th the ~um 111volved and to cle,ht R1chaHI Roe''i account Vvith a hke amount 1£, howevel, payel and payee hdve thell dccounts 111 ,htferent ballk~ the payer then requbts hIS banker to tral1'ifer the amount m questlon to the bank of the pay ee, wIth 1I1..,tructIOn'i to credIt R1chard Roe'., account Vv1th the amount of the mdebtednes'i. Convel1lent hlank forms are provIded for makmg the~e notIfi.catIon'i. \\ hen the banker 1ccen e'i an 1I1structlOn of thh chalacter, he m turn notd1e~ RIchard Roe of the payment to hIS credIt and the name of the payer In Hamburl.?, the Rellhsh,lI1k and fi, e Important hank .. use the GlIO system. Representatlve'i of the-,e bank'i meet 'ieveral tlme'3 dally at the Re1chsbank, Vvhere transactlOn .. hetween theIr ..,e,elc,l cu~tomers are cleared In Hamburo b ven • lIttle matenal money I~ usec1111 eftectlllg transactlOns, the habIt belllg to settle all ohh~atl')ns, e, en of the mO'it m'olgl1lfiCdnt character by UbCr1('ClSltll ~s::;cttcl \\ hen paymenb are to be made fI om one CIty to another thI~ I~ done u ..nally through the Relchsbank, whIch has SOO blanches, more or le'i", throughout the empIre All tran:oactlOns are undertaken wIthout co..,t to eIther payer or payee, and on the contraly depO'iIts '3ubJect to th1~ modIfied form of checkmg usually draw 1 per cent Illterest per annum The advantages of the GIro S) ..,tem fall partly under the head of ~ecunty and partly of convemence Danger from forgery 1" ehmmated, as the notIficatIon sent to a banker by a payer could not by any po"sIblhty be utlhzed ad,antageou'3ly 17 by cnm1l1ally dIsposed pel sons The only 1I1convemence ob-servable allses from the fact that receIpts for payments are not acknowledged on bIlh a~ rendered, unless "uch receipts are speCIally ~ou~ht by me ..senger after the bank exchange has been made. It 1<; customary 111 ~mall tran~actlOns fOl a payer to note at the foot of bIll" the date of pay ment thlOUgh hIS banker, and 111 case of possIble dIspute the bank IS always prepared to clear up l1lI"ul1\ler"tandlng~ Concern~ d01l1g a large ,olume of buc1l1es~ and oblIged to make numerous pay menb dally are ..,pdIed the annoyance ot prepanng hundreds of mdlv1dual check~, a~ they ha, e merely to Wllte out a hst ot names and amounts on a long sheet, 'v, hlch they send to theIr banlze1 r n •• " -----. Grand Rapids Caster Cup Co. 2 Parkwood Ave.• Grand Rapids, Mich. ., ~---~--_._-~--_._-_._.~----------_-.---~ We are now puttIng out the best Caster Cups with cork bases ever offeree to the trade [hese are timshed In Golden Oak and White Maple In a I1ght fimsh These goods are admIrable lor pollshed floors and lurn-lture rests Theywill not sweat or mar. PRICES Size 2)( mches ... $4 00 per hundred SIze 2% mrhes . 5 00 per hundred Try a Sample Order FOB Grand Rap.d, 18 WEEKLY ARTISAN ~Iinnesota Retail Dealers" Furniture Association OFFICERS-PresIdent LouIs J Buenger Ne\\ Ulm VIce PresIdent C DanIelson, Cannon Falls, Treasurer, o " 0 'Ioen, Peterson Secretan W L Grapp JanesvIlle EXECUTIVE CO'\l\lITTEE-D F RIchardson r>orthfield Geo, KItne, Mankato, W, L Harns, Mmneapolls, o SImon, Glencoe M L KlIne St Peter. BULLETIN No. 61. BEGIN NOW FOR CHRISTMAS BUSINESS. It IS sometime" said that there IS only a certam ...olume ot Chll"t mas bu"mess for the dverdge furmture dealer and that bu-mes, \\ III come whether you make an extra endea\ or to get 1t 01 not fll It may be true but It does not pro ...e that yoU Cdnnot cle lte , gle ltel demand than usu,11 fOI furmture If you WIll ask the average person when the} Ire oft then guard what they are g011lg tLl gIve theIr father, mother blother 01 ~Isti'l for Chnstmas, the chances are ten to one that they \\ III say they do not know It IS not necessary to be beh11ld the counter \ cry long to find out that over 75 per cent of your customers hay c nothll1~ defimte In mmd when they begIn theIr Chnstma, shoppl11,g 'IH\ 1l IS only through shoppmg that they begm to get Ideas of \\ hdt thn are gOIng to buy The Amencan people are observmg the beautIful custom of makmg generous Chnstma~ gIftS more and mOle Thh custom has now become e"tabltshed and anyone \\ ho cannot tee! the InSpIratIOns of Chnstma, shoppmg must be st011\ hearted m deed ChrIstmas bUYll1g IS contagIOus and the ~oonel ...ou c 111 ~et It started, the greater wll1 be your re\\ ard Some dealers wll1 say "That IS all ,ery true but ho\\ am I go mg to get Chnstmas shoppmg started m my eommu11lty" 0111 answer IS thIS "Do somethmg out of the ordmaly to dttract atten-tion, somethmg that wt11 bnng the Chn'itma, shoppe! mto ;)OUI store mstead of mto one m some othel 111leof busIness" ThIS IS the first step to\\ard gett11lg Chnstma'i shoppmg -tdfted earl) \ I) \ what would attract your attentIOn 111the customel ,pLlce \\ hat would ",uggest to you the Idea of glVmg a piece of handsome hU11l ture as a Chnstmas gift? Surely not the ordmar) furmture wmdo>\ There IS plenty of electnc ltght m almost e...el y town \vhlch, It prop erly used, WIll attract the attentIOn of mo"t pa'isers-b} \Ve kno\\ that there IS noth111g which attracts attentIOn and makes such a good ImpreSSIOn as a dIsplay of colored electnc ltghts After you have ,ecured your customel " attentIOn, you must db play your merchandise m such a way that It \\ 111gIVe suggestIOns to ChrIstmas shoppel s Don't be afrdld to change your methods a ltttle and attempt someth11lg new The fact that they have been successful so far IS no proof that they Will dhvayc, be \lany d man has found that hiS bu,me"" has glown fac,tel than IllS capaClty to dl rect It )U'it because he wac, dfrald to try nC\\ method'i ~ ne\\ com merclal era has arrr, ed, and methods which ploved sUlcesstul 111 1889 don't go m 1909 You must fight today's battles With the \\ eapom of today Bthmess methods ar" progre:OSlng all the time and the busmess wot!d hd'3 no place for the man \\110 \\111 not keep 11p \\Jth the times Therefore It IS up to you to get some wmdow dhpldYs thl'i yedr which Will go far dheacl of all preVIOU'3dl'iplays But remLmber thdt the w1l1do\\ dIsplay IS only the beg1l1n1l1g It attracts the buye, but what If he enters and finds a dmgy, III arrdnged, care1ec"ly kept stOJe? ""Vhat wlll be the good of your v.mdow display' ~ot oulv the \\m ThIS cut fUTlushf'd to our member <:; by eourtes:) of Butler Bros for 3 (' If SIngle Gut IS sent b) mall add IDe for postage This cut furnIshed to our mf'mbers b~ CDurtpc;y of Butler Bras for 35c If "'Ingle cut IS SE'nt bl- Inall add 10c for postag0 clo\\ but the \\ hole store must be cleLorated and that as early In De-cember as pO'isIble ::\ 01\ the passer'i by IS not the only one you want to reach Be- Sides your regular town customers, there dre the country people and } 01 must wake these people thmk of you whenever they think of furl11 ture Jn order to do thlS, you must reach them through the medium of Ilewspdper, CIrcular, booklet or some kmd of advertIs1l1g ThIS ad\ "rttsmg should be the forerunner of your Chnstmas preparatIOns '00 It should be dIfferent than usual and aln e wlth holtday sugges-tions For thb reason, we have devoted thiS week's department to such helps along these lmes a'i our associatIOn can give I t you \\ 111folloy\ our 'iuggestlOns With th" ...Im and the snap leCe,,~!) to a 11\ e furl1lture dealer, we know whdt your sales sheet \\tIl '''0\\ "hen S,nta Cldu" ha" come and gone We have tned tLLse meth )(ls a'1d l,now what we are talk1l1g about We know a 'itore 111 a "mall to\\ 11 \\ hlch has raIsed their sale of toys from $75 to 0\ el d thous tlld dol1ars In four years' time They did It by having ,L In e S,llla Caus and a k1l1dergarten In connection WIth theIr toy depart11ellt Don t forget that when you haye gamed the good WIll ot t;le lttt1c folks you have mterbted the mother which means that yon usually get the busmess If thIS could be done In d little town of 1200 what coulc! not be clortje 111 larger places? If thIS can be done v.lth toys, which are the harde't class of merchandl<;e there IS to ,,,'I, t surely Cdn be done '\lth furnIture whlch goes 1l1to the home l" 1 pc Imanent hxture \ world of ,uggestton for Chnstma" gIfts ltes 1J1 the furl11ture 1111tThe furmtl11 e dealers must give 'iU6gestlOns as to home comfort an-l JecOJdtlon m such a consplCUOIlSWdYthat the customer Will buy home furmshmgs rather thdn somethmg else After Chn'3tmas busI-nes_ IS easy busmess but we must get ,litel It, of course You mu,t pi epare for Chnstmas thiS year as you neve1 dId before We must hustle the rest of thiS year dnd make 1909 go way ahead of any pre \ IOUSyear Let th see If a11 of us cannot report m convention next month that we hdd the best and most prosperou'i holIday trade we C\ er enjoyed Yours truly, C DANILLSON, VIce Pres Cannon Falls, 1\1lnn \\ e hay e ten cheap chlffol11ers. SIX cheap <11essers, thl ee beds from Bul1etm \0 47 and Bullet1l1 No 46 at J\I1l1nesota Transfer and \\ e would hke to c!edn them up as soon as pOSSible and a" we Will not have dnother car thb year and as the pnce IS g0111g up, members u"mg thI'i grade of goods had better take advantage of these ltem'i As the matter of gettmg up Chllstmas wmdows thdt are attrac-tl\ e IS one of the hardest detaIl s to ovel come, we give four Illustra tIons 111thiS department, fur11l"hed to us by vanous member~ and WEEKLY ARTISAN 19 help they ought to have, we could employ one of the best artbts who could create an endless vdnety of special fur11lture cuts for all kinds of OCCdSlOns Until we get to that P0111t, we will ha,e to content ourselves by plck1l1g up the Ideas of others and US1I16 them as best we can but It IS the advertlsll1g committee's ambitIOn to mab.e thl~ department so full of helps that It Will soon be able to furnish Its members ong1l1al work along this l1l1e Can you doubt for one mo-ment that your advertls1l1g would not be Improved by the use of these various Christmas cuts? trust they Will be the means of lI1splr1l1g and k1l1dl1l1gnew Ideas 111 the m1l1ds of the readers of our department Any member who ha~ some photogrdphs of some of their displays would confer a favor up-on us by lettl11g-u~ have them for this department In connectIOn with thl" work, '" e want to advise our members that all we can do, with the help the assoCIatIOn now has, IS to as-semble such Christmas cuts as we can find and brl11g them to your notIce If our members would give the ad, ertls1l1g committee the SANTA CLAUS SUGGESTS RUGS FOR CHRISTMAS Chllstn1.aS rugs of all SIzes and COlOl S Gnf> of these soft neh lookIng rugs IS lust the thIng for an Xma~ gIft You can have nO Idea of the tonE' whwh they gIve to a loom until you have one In yOUI home Come in and se them for we can not do Justlce to theIr beuty and dura blllt} In a deSCrIptIOn No G1 unIt cost 7';)c account of tran&latlOu Continued on page 22. No 81 unIt cost 750 account of translatIOns 20 ,C,Llcch e\ Cl "lept 111the Stdte bed chamber, prefernng to he OIl ota" fitted 1\ 1th 1e~t, tor the feet, now m thIS room, no\\ 1n that \11 the pa"qge, 1111tone Ieadme; to the group of rooms on the ~round flOUl VI'h1ch he mo"t frequented dfter the edrth-quake 1\ e1e blocked up whlle the pa~sage \\ lJlch remamed open \\ ,IS filled y\ Ith che~t", cup1Joarc1'i, and even the humble,t p1ece, ot bedroo1l1 fUl111tme, "0 that t\\O meu could not pas" r]()\\ n It al11ea,t '1ga1n~t d c;l11~le enemy A.bdul Ha1111li felt h1m0df secure, tor he \\ CJl C 1111.11 and could make deadly use of the revolver~ that la\ e\tl)\lhe1e at hand HIS bolt holes, 1ron doors lead111g tll the 2,<\1den" 1\ e1e firml) ~ecured W1th111 and watched by ,entJl1tl, I\!thout I ld mrt emu,] erate OJ descnbe all the rooms of Y1lchz '10 catalogue endlec;" outrages aga111~t art1stlc taste 1\ ould be mclecent and 111a "en"e unJ1bt, f01 Abdul Hamid Wd" but a pc \,,<\nt 111mal1\ \\ al s-and a spoiled peasant too-whIle tho"e ,!l)()ut 111m \1 u e tlthel prl1111tn es or Chnstlan and 1Ioslem J el al1t 111e" \\ ho"e <\1tlstlC ) earmng" were of the crudest '1ou depal t ob"e,,,ecl b\ hornd viSIon '3 of rooms crammed \\ lth t\1ll1ltme and bnc a b1ac 111every style unde1 heaven-l1111t<\ tl0n Emplle. moclern Japane"e, the neVIest art nouveau ,H?,a111'tbac1"2,rounel, ot cnm"on \ ell et and blaz11g g1lt. The \1 dde"t 111con2,rllltJec; meet the eve-d room less oftenslVe. be-l, llhe claJ!,e1 and mOl e plamh furl1l~hed than the rest, ellS hgurecl b\ d I,Llge p1cturt worked 111a11l111ledyed wool of a \ erml1holl S\\ IS, \ lllag e embowered 111 bnlhant green groves, l arpeh from He1ekeh deC]gnecl to match the patterns upon the un ,H';hth ce11111g" d 10ugh deal table covered w1th green baize 111the 111ld"t ot a gaud) counc1l chambel. [lade catalogue" bound m vellum stamped WIth the un-pe11, tl rughra. ~llt dock~. "et presumdbly b) enterpnsmg manut<\ctm er" 111f1ame" repl esentlng the latest model of loco- WEEKLY ARTISAN TOKENS OF FEAR AND IGNORANCE What Was Found in the Palace After the "Sick Man" Had Been Banished. A correspondent of the London i Ime" \\ nte" the tollr)\\ 111[, descnpt10n of the II1tenor of the 1: 11dl? hlO"k, l )1't1ntlJH pIc the palace of e,(-'iultal1 \hdnl J ianlld II hkh "111ce hi depu~1 bon has been kept locked and can 011) be "een b\ '1 cLl,d pll m1~SlOn and m the compan) of a ::.\fJm"te1 The ~eab upo 1 the douhle door, are hlOk('n and thl 1\Illllster enter" You follovv, e'(pectll1~ to "ee <1\\ HIe 11<111 \ ~ a matter of tact) ou enter a \ eStlhule "mall ,\l1cl pia nh tU1n 1'ihed Then begms the e,-ploratlon of the palac~ !1 the hope of findmg 1f not perfect orde1 and 1eglllant) at 11a"t U1l1e ~lgns that 1t hac! been bllllt anc! I ]hal)1ted dite1 ,0111e plan 1mt there 1" nelthe1 pldl1 nor Olde1-a111S lontuSlUl' You wander m a maze ot 100111" pa,,~a2,e, and t\ll\\<1\~ for Abdul Hal111d wa" fOle\ e1 changlll~ the ,\11 <l1l('emuIt 0] hb c1wellmg place Doonv a), 1\ el e hllcked n) a,H! Ot],U" were dnven through outer v, alb, pa "a~ e II U e do"u1 U] ],\1 ro\\ed, room~ dn 1ded b) 1M1t1t1Ons, II ll1dr)\\" II erc n1<1de and unmade at lanc1om. ~e\\ quarter" ne\\ roon1' ne\\ II ,111" were e,er bemg added to the malll bulldlll!S" and II ell In tU11l altel ed and remodelled as the old had heen. So 1t 1S Impo"slble to descnhe \ 1ldiZ a" lt It \\ ere an ordmary palace It IS onh after) ou h:1\ e wandered thlOUgh 1t for come tUlle that) ou under-,tand the de"lgn that underhe, all thiS seeming confuslO11 The maZy house 1 erlech the till tuous, actn e and) et ten 01 llCldel1 "on1 of a de"pot \\ hom ,tll men feared and who feared all men It 1" the ueatlOn oj l mmd that had grown to hate the open and tealed 2,le<\t Ch,llll bers and stralght, WIde COllldors Dunng the last ten }ear~ ot hh leH.;n \bc1nl 1-1<1111](1 I-:==============.:::.======================n Equip your shop or factory with G. R. Handscrew products; you'll note a vast difference in the quality and quantity of work turned out. All of our factory trucks, benches, clamps, VIses, etc. are the best that money and skilled labor can produce. We use nothing but the very best Michigan hard Maple in the construction of all our products. It is not possible to turn out better goods than we now manufacture; years of manufacturing has taught us that it pays to use nothing but the very best material possible in the manufactur-ing of our product. WRITE FOR CATALOG SHOWING THE COMPLETE LIST OF FACTORY EQUIPMENT. GRAND RAPIDS HAND SCREW CO. Good Equipment 918 Jefferson Avenue Means Better Work Grand Rapids, Michigan WEEKLY ARTISAN 21 ,,--_.- . \II II I• '.•••I I• I• I I,• It IIt II It II Lentz Table Co. I NASHVILLE, MICHIGAl't I ~--~----,----------------------------~----------- ------------------------------------------------~ II• IIt II I It I I I I I• It III I I• II• !I III -~~-------------_ ... Lentz Big Six No. 694, 48 in. top. No. 687. 60 in. top. Others 54 m. top. 8 Foot Duostyles ANY FINISH CHICAGO DELIVERIES .._--------------------------~.-. -.-- motives 01 torpedo destroyers, hghten by a comic touch the depressIOn mduced by their surroundmgs Three rooms "tand out mo~t clearly m my memory The first IS a receptIOn room on the second flo0r, v. Ith whIte and blue cellmg and carpets to match, vvIth gold and cnm son cur-tam s, and motheaten polar bear skms for rug" Of Its furmture no two piece" match, save the chair" and two grand plano~, which are cOvel ed with gray canva' At the end of the room stands a huge deal orchestnon of the ,ort seen 111 T) lOlese mns fitted with a complex battery of 1I1stlU-ments, among which are to be seen a "erpent and a kettledrum The second IS a smaller room wherem ~bdul Hamid often "lept It IS fub of portfolIo~ and protographlc albums con-tammg phot0graphs of uowned head, Impenal pnnce, and ve~sels of the TurkIsh fleet TV'!0 book shelves contdm recent works on the Turkish EmpIre m EnglIsh, 11ench and German In the middle of the room IS cl ) ellow plmh sofa bed, beSide'=,It a lIttle rest for coffee CUD"or a revolver i\ lacquer screen hides a todet table and a ba.,m newly bUIlt mto a corner of the room. Tv. 0 cupboards are full of arms, arnong which are a few Clrcasslan daggers ano an old pistol or two, the re-ma1l1der being revolvers and automatic pbtols, '3ome splendidly mlald With gold and mother-0f-pearl and all 111 ~ood conclItlOn. vVhen the Young Turks entered YIlc1u arm" lly every-where. There were loaded rev oh ers m the bathrooms, m cup-boards, by bedsides and on the wntmg table., Some were carned off as tlOphles, but most wel e ctoweo away for safety Tn thiS partIcular room they had found more thdn ten Even now two shirts of mall With thm plates of hardeneJ '3teel covered With brown dnll are lymg upon an armchau Lastly, there h the room v.here the pnsoner of hiS own so1clIels heard his "entence of depOSitIOn It IS small-lese; heavII) furmshed than many others Clgdrette end'3 and scraps of crumpled paper he m one COIner, m anothel are the Sultan's goloshes, for the C0nquerors have, whe,1ev er pos~lble, left all as they found It On the table m the middle of the room 1° a decanter con-tammg a u Imson febrIfuge l~acmg the chair where Abdul lianucl 'Oat I" an orchestI IOn, behmd It, half hidden by a black curtam (h awn on nng." a strange picture crudely pamted A felfyboat carnes "1'( bearded father'3, m '3outane and buetta, across a nver In the stern the ferryman stano~, grIPpmlS m one hand a paddle \;\1Ith the left hand he holds a bag of money t0ward the shore which he near". AwaltL1g the boat stand 2J'( naked women, young and comely. With flowl11g hair, and be- Side them, naked and Jet black, With horns, tall and cloven feet, the deVil There IS httle that IS valuable and le"s that IS beautiful either 111 the palace or 111 ItS nelghbonng klOsk.o-2\1eraSllTI, Shah and the TaalIl11 Kham. The Jewelry and plate to~ether With a few really valuable pieces of porcela1l1 and tapestry were taken to the Serasklerate The objects which remam are more Imple., Ive for bulk than beauty At any rate, the black sheep hves longer than the fatted calf. .-... . . . - --- - . . .---- ------ - --------------.., \ "THE BEST IS THE CHEAPEST" BARTON'S GARNET PAPER Sharp, Very Sharp, Sharper Than Any Other. SUPERIOR TO SAND PAPER. It costs more, BUT It Lasts Longer; Does Faster Work. Order a small lot; make tests; you will then know what you are getting. WE GUARANTEE SATISFACTION. Furniture and Chair Factories, Sash and Door Mills, Railroad Companies, Car BUIlders and others Will consult theIr own interests by using it. Also Barton's Emery Cloth, Emery Paper, and Flint Paper, furnished in rolls or reams', MANUFACTURED BY H. H. BARTON & SON CO., 109 South Third St., Philadelphia, Pa. ..------~----._.---~-_.-----_._------,------------- - - - .--- .. 22 WEEKLY ARTISAN MINNESOTA RETAIL FURNITURE DEALERS' ASSOCIATION (Continued From Page 19.) No 1 IS Inade from common cord ,\ ood uSIng the bark only and makIng It Into a frame work anI plastel'lng up the edges WIth clay The v; Indo\\ s ale paper "'lndov;s and the roof and snow effect IS brought about by the liqe of cotton and dIamond dust Thf' fire plaCE>and chImney IS luade out of 1( ] paper WIth '''hlte chalk malks The background as hIgh as the peak of th loof IS madE' of l\-hite cheese cloth and abo\€ It blue cloth upon \\hlCh I"'i strewn thln cotton to gl\ e It a cloud effect In back of thIS cheese cloth \\"1" placed electrIC lIghts 11lsHle of a f..lilnel the flont ot \\hlCh \'ias cut out In stars of varIOUS SIze and a moon \\ as fastened on a pIece of \\ lle so that It could be graduall3- mO\f>d from the front of the "Indo" do"\\n to hack of tht cabInet ,,,hICh produces a ,er3- UIGf' effect Common Amas bees make UP "Dads The fire place" as arrangpd WIth a pIece of red paper 1\Ith an electrIC lIght under It ,,,hIch gIvE'S It a Vf'rJ.' real effect No Thl<:J WIndow IS accomplIshed In a ,\ Indo\\ anI.\- A j fE'et an 1 outsld£' of the "ark It cost In matenal fOI (lecoratng the back and front was onh sevpral dollars "Inch gOE'S to show what ('an be done even In a lImited space If one but WIll The fire place and Xmas tree IS always at tractive at Xmas trme and fOI stores that c"lIry t03-S as a SIde 11ne thIS kInd of dIsplay IS a1\"ays attractIve though a lIttle old The outsIde dISplay sho\\s what a small country store does to attract attentIOn Don t "ou belIeve that no matter \\ ho came In town v,. as attracted by thIS '" hiCh only goes to show what can be done In almost any CIrcumstances If you but "\\III ~lhiS cut furnIshed to our mem.bers for 75c If SIngle cut IS sent bJ.' marl 1\0 2 A mInIature church ",as bUllt for the b3-ckground In ",hleh was placed chImes and a to.\- church Olgan "'hiCh proved "ery attractne to the chIldren V\ ho \Isited thIS dISplay The background was made out of whrte cheese ('1oth 1\lth brUSh arranged In front of It WhICh ",as varnIshed and upon "\\hiCh \\ as thro" n dI'1ffiOnd dust to gIve It a frosty appearance Cotton sprInkled "lth dIan10nd dust \,as used for snow and In the front WIndow "as placed a sno\\ storlll niachlll€ "\\hiCh could be shaken at a certaIn penod and produce a genUIne sno\\ siorm WhIle thIS wIndo" does not suggest any lllcrchandise 3-et It IS a good attentIOn attractor and more than paId for Itself OutSIde ....Iew-Ready for Chrrstmas Trade Foreign Trade Doesn"t Help in Hard Times. "I do not take any stock m the oft quoted statement that a trade m foreIgn countnes help~ out the domestIc manufacturer in times when business IS depressed and money scarce," re-marked C. S. Dexter of the Grand RapIds Chair Company "I have noticed that when we have hard tImes at home tImes are hard abroad. The foreIgn trade the manufacturer expects in such a penod falls to matenahze Con,.,lder for a mom-ent the dull penod of 1907-8 Did you notice any unusual activity among such manufacturers as market a part of their product:-> dbroad? Is It not a fact that 111our own city of Grdnd RapIds such manufacturers reported trade uncom-monly dull? I have 111m111d a large corporation that sells a large part of ItS output 111Europe. During most of last year ItS factory was operated but eIght hours per day four days of the week. Of how much value were the markeb of Europe then? I tell you there h nothing 111 It \Vhen a manufacturer can not sell hIs output 111the home market in times of de-pressIOn he loses nothmg on account of hIS faIlure to estabhsh trade 111foreIgn lands WEEKLY ARTISAN 23 Wood Handles. The Waddell Manufacturing Company of Grand RapIds, have brought out a new line of carved handles to match all of the new penod styles so proper with the trade. They include English and Enameled Suites. The Nelson-Matter Furniture company have In the course of preparation for the spnng season of trade a considerable number of chamber suites in English styles and fimshes, also the Tudor, Flanders, Jacobean, Elizabethan. Chippendale, etc the accompanying cut shows a number of these styles, while their advertIsement on another page of this ISSue shows another group equally as attractive. It will be well for the interested reader to watch the pages of the \Veekly Artisan as other Illus-trations will appear from time to time. French suites WIth caneel paneh The company wlll finish several of the new pattern,., 111 whIte enamel. Enterprise Abandoned. The Sheraton Furniture Company will not engage in the manufacture of furniture at Grandville, Mich., as reported. The practical men who were to go into the enterprise have en-tered the employ of the Colonial Clock Company, Zeeland, Mich. January 17 the next New York Exposition opens to close February 5. 24 WEEKLY ARTISAN fooN I3-w-----P-RO C-E-SS'~ FUllING LIQUID produces on any oak results equal in every respect to those obtained by the old tedious and expensive actual fuming method. This especially prepared material when applied to any oak acts with the acids in the wood and produces that peculiarly beautiful, brown-ish effect known as "Fumed Oak." Nothing affects the finish, which may be thoroughly sandpapered without fear of cutting through. Send for FREE sample. We supply everything in Paint Specialties and Wood Finishing materials. I CHICAGO ~.-_. . ._-~---------_._--- NE\Al YORK -----_._---_._------_.~ An Important Court Ruling. In a S111tb) the ~llOCCO Eng111eellng Company (one lJ t'l, constltue11t compa111e~ of the present \mellcdn Elm\ ('1 ~ un pany) agamst tne B } Sturtevant Compam for ll1fnngment of the Davld"on patents COycnng the' SIrocCO' t) pe of , (n11l frugal fan or blowel, a declslOn ha", Just been renc1erl d h\ Judge Hough m the l'mted Stelte~ ll1U11t lourt fo the southern ChstllCt of ~ ev'v York adem t11lel b\ elefenda It allegll1g that the reIssued patenb \<\1 ere" Old The court aIle' descnbmg the multI-blade or ""qullrel cage fan of the ()j -';' nal patent, sa) s "The patentee clI~cu\ eled (d~ he ong1l1alh as~erted) t111t by provldmg d relatIvely large 111take chan' her prdctlcedh unobstructed, by the projectIon mto It of blade~ OJ othel 1M '~ and by emplo)mg blades \\ hlch extend a~ short a dhtance from 'LO~ MANUFACTURER5 p.~O DEALERS \ IN HIGH GRADE BAND AND SCROLL SA~S REfAIRI NG-5ATI5FACTION GUARANTEED ~ CITIZENS FHONE. 1239 27 N MARKET 5T ~ GRAND RAPIDS. MICH. ~~"""""""4-'Vvvvt~~ the penpben of the fan mward a~ 1, consIstent WIth strength ot con,tl uctlOn \ lbratlOn" and edelles V\ere m1111111lzedann tl e \ eloclt\ and" olumc of flUId dlc,charged for a grven speecl of rC\01utlOn \\cre gleatl) lJlCrea ed ThIS \vas the kernel of (om-pldmLtllt::, 111\entl0n. In other \\ords, the chscovery C011"l-terl III PlOy Irll11g a meall" of construct111g and operatmg a centrally lOtatl11g llal rem bladed fan or pump of cylmclncal form ,'.lth a lal ge unoh~truetcd a"ldl 111take chamber The patent (o"'vered a large \ and\ of forms all cylmdncal, all wIth laree mtake chambers, all wlth ndrrow blade", all aXIally rotated, and dif-fenng from each other only m the "hape and ~17e of t1'e fan blades then relatlOlls to each other l!1 penphel alar c,' cn111- terentJal adjuotment, and the lelatlOn of casmg to hn or pU111jh" \ftel "tatl'lg how the O1l~111al was dn ldecl 111tOthree 1e- 1" ued patenb, the COlUt says ,. J do not th111k It would h 1\ e been posslb\: 10' an) form ot ellU111 "hdped dAlaIl) rotatll1g fan \\ lth narf('W ',I,,'[es and d large ullob"it ueteel a"Xla1 1l1tdke chamber h hen e been con "trl1dec1 \v hllh VI e'uld not hay e been eIther dll mfnll~Cl11ellt 01 dn antlclpdtlOn aCC"l dl11g to the t1111eof It:, dev'''l11'' The com t accordl11g1) 0\ ('rrule" defendant's uemnl rtt w1th lea'l to dn,,\\ er on pay ment of cost, \\ hlk thh deU"lon 1" not fi lal adj'ldlcatIon of all 'lues twn" all 1l1g 11 thl" 111fnngement "mt, Jet It dIspose" of de-tendant" attack r,l1~ed by dcm U1 rer upon the "alIcIa y of the ru""ued patent, co\ ellng the "lroccO fan The ~ltOCCO fan or ble \\er" ale manufactuled m the l:mtc:d State, solely by the \melllan BlcJ\\ er Cc 111Jldll), DetroIt, Mlchlgan Many a homel) man ha", a handsome mug 111 the barber's shop WEEKLY ARTISAN 25 r-----------Rockf~rd---- .---------------------~-i II II "'- ~~ 1'1 \ K i 1 I , I"- II I \ \l \ II \ \ I I [ II )~ VI \ II ",,-,...... U \ 60 Library and Dining in Selected Quarter Sawed Oak and National Furniture Company Manufacturers of HIgh Grade MAHOGANY Our full hne will be on exhIbition on the 4th Floor, North Half, Room Furniture "' . ~, It F//// -" ~ , t. . ' ,- \\ • ',n.. --. "'- ~y-,I' I' I \1 ~ ~ ~'\ 11 11 '11 ~11~l\ ,111111 it1rlo I~ ~611~I~ dl~ r \ I(I"II ; /'iiillAll'~I ,~\ ~'II\;[;~",i1rI~''~illIl~l,(I" ~ "-- 1\1~~;j Jril~~> ~11~IIIIIIIS~I~l CJII 1111i.. ,", /' III ~ I ~ ., ? 810 \I FURNITURE EXCHANGE GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Chi•• Cabinet 186. New Furniture Dealers. )'fax Bohman I~ a new furl11ture dealer dt PIedmont, Ala. L vY Howell & Co are new furl11ture dealers at Dawson, Ky Alfred Schlert wIll open a retaIl furnIture store at Easton, Pa John P J one" 1'i prepanng to open a new furmture ~tOle at Taylor, Pa Leytze & Schrem er have opened a new furnIture store at Decorah, Iowa E A. Knapp opened d new furmture "tore at Geneva, OhIO on N ovember 2~\ E. VV '\1 Day WIll open a ne", flll ltmre store at New Plymouth, Idaho The Gay Furmture compan) ha, e opened a ncw retaIl store at Gay, Ga. S H Cress & Co opened d ne\\ furl11ture ~t01e m \ustm. Tex., on December 1 E. V\T Gregory & CO. IS the name of a ne\\ retal! furnIture firm at W11hamstown, S C J H HIllen & SO'1S, general dealer, of Pomona, C al , vvIII add a furlllture department to theIr bu sme"s GIlbert DeJ\farsh and Gl1bert Casavant are to open a furn- Iture and drapery store m Hu) ck bmldmg, J\Iam street, Her-kImer, N. Y, on December 8 Carl Hauser anel others have mcmporated ,the Hau",er Furl11ture company to conduct a retaIl furnIture bUSll1ess at Portsmouth, OhlO CapItal, $10,000 John A \iV Ibbe, Ray L Sharpe and George E Bartlett have 1l1corporated the J\IcGee I urlllture company, capltahzed dt $3,000 and WIll open a "tore 111Kan~as CIty, J\lo Noah Bedk1l1. Jame" Kelle) and \\ (T \\ ard, WIth $2,400 capItal all subscnbed ha, e 111corporated tne Bard\\ ell lurm-ture and Undertak111~ compan) to do l)tlsme,~ clt Bardwell, Ky. The general store, known <t" Chdncller\ 111~an Bernard-mo, Cal, w111 move llltO magl11ficent quarter" 111 the Yan Dorm hmlcllng on \\ est ThIrd ~treet anel a Lnge. completc 1111eof furl11ture WIll be added to the general stock Ritch in the Kipp-Kiel Deal. :YIIlwaukee, Dec 1-Ben]amm A KIPP, pre~ldent of the B A Klpp FurnIture Company, whIch recently ..,old out to the Kle11 urnture compan) of Klel, \\ IS ha.., filed ~Ult agam"t J B. Lann and A \\. Ddscler, pnnClpal owner of the Klel com pan), charg1l1g that thev a1e not carr) mg out the term'3 of the sale contract. He vvanh the courts to compel them to do ",0 anel to make them renelel an ,1ccOlmtlng The htlgatlOn •1 Buffet 286. does not effect the com..,tructlOn of a large new adchtlOn, to cost $60.000 01 more, to the KIPP furmture plant at Thlrty-seconel anel Center streets \\ ark all the adchtlOn began tvv0 weeks ago and WIll cont1l1ue untIl the bIg bm1chng, a "ohcl bnck structure, four stone::> hIgh, b completed It WIll gIve work to over 100 more table makers Mr K1pP'S compla111t 'itate'3 that he sold the bmld1l1gs and ground for $82,000 and the mach1l1ery, stock and fixtures for $45,585 The defendanh paId $20,0')0 cash and gave notes for the rest He claIms the) now refuse to make payment'3 agreed upon. Mr Klpp al'3o wanh pay as manager S1l1cethe transfer was made. Model Plant in Pennsylvania. Ulllon CIty, l'a, Dec I-The UnIOn CIty ChaIr Company who WCIe completel) burned out twO) eal sago hay e been nm-nmg theIr new plant no\\ for some tIme and It 1~ one of the finest and mo~t 'iuhstantlal to be found anywhere The bul1d- 1l1gs are all of bnck WIth lovver floors of cement The plant mclude~ a machmery hmldmg 64x 2~0, a fim"h1l1g and storage bul!dmg ()4:x 320, a '3ortlng room 64 x 100, the dry klln-a four track kIln 88 feet long and a bendmg ronm and dr) kIlns m connectIOn, The bmlellllgs throughout are equIpped with automatIc spnnkler~ and the plant WIth a large fire pump. The Looml'> Table and Furmtme Company are gettmg out a new lme of hbrary table.., made m oak and mahogany and m all of the vanous fimshes The company contmues to make a large lme of extenSIOn tables. Running Night and Day. Corry. Pa, Dec I-The Kurtz Bra.., Beel Company are planmng for the erectlOll of a new plant, the chmen"lOn~ of the mam floor wIll be 100:x ZOO feet, two stones An addItIOn dbo IS planned to be u~ecl au a bufflllg room and to be 25 x 100 feet, onc "to!) r1 he company has been runl11ng night and day f01 the past three month" The company ha, secnred optlon~ on three (hfferent sItes but IM~ not \ et defInltel) fixed upon the locatIOn for the new pldnt From Januar) 17, the openmg day of the 38th semI annual exposItIon of ~ew York the comprehen~lve "arnple 11l1esof 250 manufacturers WIll be on vIew until the clo'1I1g day on rebrudr) 5 It doesn't always take a far-'ieemg man to see hIS own £.111sh. 26 Walter Clark Veneer Company II 535 Mich. Trust Building GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. WEEKLY ARTISAN WE ALWAYS HAVE IT READY FOR SHIPMENT Rotaru Cut Plain R6n ann Whit6 OaKV6n66r GOOD SIZES. CUT FROM CHOICE LOGS. TRAFFIC IN ALLEGED ANTIQUES II Frauds Perpetrated by Unscrupulous Dealers Up-on Unwise Collectors Exposed by an American Consul. ::\Iaxwell Blake, ~mencan con"ul at Dumferhne, Scot-land, wntes Intere'itlngly and 111structl\ ely of frauds that al e still perpetrated on the 111expenenced coIlector ot old "Ih Ll and ch1l1a and penod furmture by dealer'i throughout the U111ted K1I1gdom and continental Europe He ,;a}:o The U111ted States I" reputed by the well Intormed to harbor more "artistic atroCIties" that were purchased as c;en U111ethan any other country In the \\ orId and vve mav "ee even a greater flu" of pseudo vOolr,ks of art to ~nlellLan "hm e'i unlcss these fraud" are detected by gOvernment e"perh 01 rejected by the pubhc ta"te. The purpo"e of thl'i article 1:0 to state facts, not OpinIOn", and It IS not addre""ed to the c'- pellenced collector. A real sen Ice, hO\\ ev CI ma} pO'i:Olbh be conferred by \\ ar1l1ng the 1I1expellcnced-tho:oe \\ ho pel hap" go abload fm the first tune and find the cunosltv "hop" places of 1I1terest, and man} of vyhom doubtle'i'o, can httle affOld to be so heaVily penahzed fOI their cleduht} b} an tlque dealers Just now miniature" and decorated snuff and patch bo,-e'i are be111g most cxtenSI\ ely collected by \mencan" The'ie and other such smaIl "articles of vertu" al e manufactured by dextrous copyist-, and are readily procurablc by the glO% No one not po""es';111c; knowledge of the subject, gleat eA.- penence, and c1lscllm111atlOn should ever allO\y him self to be tempted to purchase mln,ILllre" unles" he I conte"1t to pas scs., a cab1l1et of fOlgene., rj he va.,t quantltv of blJoutene Dresden, and Battelsea enamel \\are that h Ju-,t no\\ flood1l1g the market IS made on the cont11lent, pnnClpally for the \mer- Ican trade Apart from thc palllting On these boxes, \\ hlch 1'3 poor 111quahty and e;enerally a crude copy of ,ome oll~lllal example, If one wlll ob"en e do"ely It Will reveal that thc nm to wl1lch the top h hinged 1'3 al tlficallj colored dnd that thc eVidence" of fre"h c;lue exud111g from underneath I., d iUl ther betray dl of It" modern and ha"ty ong1l1 Color pnnt'> die almost a" chfficult to Jud~e a" ml111a tures and .,nlJffboxe", .,U1Ce 111the pa..,t thev have becn vel v legnnately, and .,U11letlme., vel y beautifully, copied I\ut many of the'e fine reproductIOn", \1 hlch onglllalh \\ ere onl} 1I1tended d" such, hal e been conv el tec! Intu "antique" to be sold to the mexpenenced at much enhanced pnce.,. It lll<1v therefore "afely be acccpted, on the authont} of tho"e \V ho know, that genu1l1e old pnnts and engrav 1I1g, ,11 e nevel to be found on the barga1l1 counter by the amateur collector 1 he collectIOn uf chllla, hkewI.,e, mu"t mevltahly lead the no\ Ice to an el cn more hopele"s phght (]cnu1l1e examples ut Drc.,den eh el"ed "" orce ,tel, or Bow are worth more than thell \\ eH:;ht 111 gold ) Lt whdt one may fondly Imag1l1e to he a con\ 1I1unC; PICLL with It., I efinecI cJecordtlOn and "Implc ~Ilehng be,mn~ the golden anchor, I" not a bit of old Chelsea, but a "fakc' made by well-known firm" 111 the contment On I) the u11ll11tated now put any rehance III "aIel marks" Thel are mea111ngle'3"', and are freely apphed to modern copies \\ Ith open and notonou" forgery. There are occa'ilOnally '3ome 1 al e pieces of chl11a and pottery ) et to be pi ocureel, as well a" ge11t11ne example., of the more recent penoel" of some of the notable factone'i (usually early mneteenth cen-tur) ), :ouch d:ODerby, \\ orcester, Spade, Coalport, and Rock 111gham ch1l1a and \\ edgewood, Spade, Masl11, and Staf-forcl" hlrc pottene" '1 he.,c may po"scss "ome shght ~entl-mcntal and antIquc \ alue, and are \I ell worth bU)l11g fOI l)ractlCal u"e, but In themseh e, thcy can not be called fine and al e other\\ Isc un\\ orth) of collectl11g But even then "uch piece" should be purcha.sed only under e",pert ad\ Ice and \\ Ith a \\ Iitten guaranty of gel1l11neneC;" \\ Ith I eference to the effectiveness of the wntten guar-ant} the J~ngh"h caUl t'3 haye recently ~lhtal11ed the con tentlon that If a false dC'3CnptlOn of an antique I" given 111 the 1I1vOIce the purchasci IS entitled to full I ccovel y The wnt-ten guaranty h therefore far from be1l1e; \ alue1es'3 anel shoule! ah\ay s be 111'3lsted on as a protectIOn lurthermore, an) evaSIOn or he.,ltatlOn on the part of a e!ealer to gl vc one should be accepted a., a token of hh dl.,honestj Difficulties thicken a" the subject of old Enghsh fur11l ture IS approached Large "tdke'3 al e here frequently played for the cunn1l1g of the dealer amoun-b-., to .,heer genius. Illu"tratl\ e of thl., an In'itancc of recent occurrence mav be Cited \\ hat purported to be some exceptIOnally rare Chip-pendale chalr:o were sole! by a well-known dealer to a certal11 nobleman who unhc"ltatl11gly accepted the dealer'", word that they wel e genUl11e Some time after thl", however, the ser \ lLe" of all eApert were emplo) eel to fm thel exarmne them, 1\ hen It \I a, revealed that a "wl11dle had been perpetrated, the chair" hel11g notll1n~ morc than fine modern cople" The cu"tomer 111fOlmed the dealer of tll1S clhCO\ er), e!emauchng, on pendlt} ot c"po.,ure, that thc full purcha"e pnce be 1111 mecha tel) refunded. :1\1ueh to the purcha.,er'" '3Urprhe the dealel refu.,ed to makc JestltutlOn under urcum"tances w 111ch he allegcd 11n oh ed both Ill" reputation and hiS honor But to put It chfferentl}, If the Cl1'3tomer would .,mply ,tate hiS chssatJsfactlOn vllth hh purchase, then he (the elealer I, !~n()w- 1I1g the chair., to be genune, would thank 111mfor the ).111 vllege of be111g allowed to recm er them, but, It must be c1hflnct]) WEEKLY ARTISAN 27 under<;toocl only UpO,l the tel nb and condItion" of an ord1uary sale The dealel the! eupon offered $1,000 over and ;thovc t1l(' sum for y\ hlch the chaIrs had prevlOu"l} been purch::t..,ed III thl", of COUI~e, the nobleman demurred, protestIng that hf' desl1 eel no profit hom an unfortunate venture, but 111 tI'e end, 111orelel to secure the recovery of hIS money, he Yyas prevaIled ufon to acql11eoce 111thIS ext! aorelmary proposal The chaIrs hay l11g heen duly returned, no great tllle elapsed before another cu"tomer took theIr purchase under con"lderatlOn A ~ale had now, however, become much "1111- phfiecl, for not only could the source of the purchase be pomte<! to \\ Ith pride, hut actually the check wa" exhIbIted, showl11g beyond all doubt that the chaIr" had heen purchased from Lorel---, the well-known collector, at a price l11dlcatlve of theIr appal ent worth Thth the dealer, shadowIng hIS own chshonesty by thl" clever ruse, contrived to snatch even a further profit out of thl" second and more un"crupulous tran~ actIOn It IS no exaggeraiJon to say that such epIsodes are a dall} occurrence m the al1t1que trade, except that, generally "peaktne" the Ignorant purchasel "e1dom get" m exchange for hI" mve"tment even ..,0 much a" a good modeln copy l\Iany so called antique shop::, actually carr} on bu "111e,,s \\ Ithout hav111g one genl11ne pIece of antique furl1lture 111 theIr estab-h.., hment.., F111Cl)1ece" 0+ period furl1ltUl e bring hIgher price, 111London than 111K ew York, and the 111eXperlE'I1CedAmerican collector ha" httle chance of outwlttmg the alert dealers and connOIsseur" of England when It comes to securing some-thmg for nothmg In Holland old che..,ts, cahlnets, de<;ks, and chalr3 of httle value are collected and, after hClng \ eneered WIth cheaply mdde marqueiJ y, are "ellt to CJreat Brltam Olel oak beams from demoh"hed churchts or granaries are hkewlse 111 con- "tant demand for cony erSlon mto Jacohean refectory tables po and Oueen Anne furnture l\Ild- VIctorian pedestal SIdeboards are amputated mto "'peClmen" of Robert Adam, and COllven-tlonal mlay SUItable for Shelaton furl1lture 1<; cut out by machmery and supphed m an} quantity to those who have sktll and mclmatlOn to fabricate antIques Crrandfather clock" are trequentl} made up of such mcongnlltles as a modern chal WIth a fOlged maker'::, name and date, and old case patched up and ~et off b} modern 1I11ay. anel perhaps work.., of about fifty yeal" olel. CJrandfather chaIrs arc also, almost without exceptIOn, modern, or old ft ames debauched by new cabrlole or claw-and-ballleg::" \"lOhn::, ~Igncd StradIvariUS or Jacobus Sta1l1el, surreptltlonsly hIdden In rubbIsh heaps, are replaced by others a3 soon as "old. "Old" armor, medals, and medal-hons. all of modern orlgm, abound m rich profuslO'l "An-tique" ~pdnhh, Portuguese, and Cnghsh paste Jewehy every- \\ here mtrude" Itself A flood of cheap and mdrtlstlC Japanese ware IS also pouring out over the country, prints, gold lacquer, clOIsonne enamel, IVor}, and bronze contrlbut1l1g a full "hare to the swelhne, volume of alloys and commerCIal antIques To succes"fully collect nowadays reqUIres expert know-ledge and techl11cal tram1l1g, "mce It may be generally ::,tated that nothmg but the \ erle"t tJ ash IS to be found 111 90 per cent of the anttque "hops of Great Bntam and the Cont111ent Those, therefore, who wl::,h to secure genume antIques would better make up theIr mmch thdt It WIll be more satisfactory and cheaper In the end, to purchase only on expert adVIce or of dealer::, \\ tlhng to gIve a written stipulatIOn that all artIcles sold are guaranteed to be approAlmately of the penod repre sented, and, WIth respect to Englt <;h furl1lture, that no can mg, 1I11ay, or repaIrs not frankly admItted have been added, pur-chase money to be refundee! should any of these statements prove on exam1l1atlOn to he untrue Furthermore, the servIce of tllls office (the consulate) are at the dIsposal of any person WIsh1l1g more "peufic ane! detaIled adVIce --_. - - - - - -' - ----------_--._---------, SLIDING SHOE FOR USE ON DESK LEGS This shoe does the work of a caster yet allows the desk legs to set close to floor. Fastened with flat head wood screw and furnished in three sizes. SEND FOR SAMPLES AND PRICES No. 1493 PULL A very fine handle for desks in the square effect. Something dIfferent from the regular bar pulls. GRAND RAPIDS BRASS co. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. •••••• •• _._ •••••• _._ v •••• I ---_ .. ~treet", St LoUIs, :\10 have decIded to close out stock 011 hand and dh~oh e the corporatIOn Claudc Paxton V\ ho ha~ been assocIated", Ith hIs uncle El} l'a"ton 1lJ the undertak111g buslI1es~ at Spnngfield 1\10, paId $8 100 for thc fU1111ture al1d u11dertak111g bu qnes~. owned by the estate of the late J. \\ \\ hlte of the samc cIty The \\ hlte ..,tOle 1~ 110\\ the property of the Paxton firm but wIll be run 1)\ l Lll1de l'a"t()n a, cl epal dte hU~111es~. lluhtor~ oi ]'alker J \\ ebhel furnIture dealer of L}l1n \Ll' \\ ho ma(k an cl,slgl1ment recentl}. ha\ e accept hl~ offer to 1M\ GO cellt~ (11 the dollal HI~ a~seh \\ere lIsted at $20,7;3. hdhJ1lhe~ $18 ;40 [Ie" J11contn1t1e hU~111e~~ [II~ ffaJ1ure I~ ,aId to h,l\ e heen duc to 0\ U bu) Illg. dunng thc summer ~ea ,on MISCELLANEOUS NOTES AND NEWS The httle town of Amt1l1. r\} e county. "evada needs a furnIture store. E Z Sdttler, furnIture dealel of J\[a/on. III IS ..,uccecded by Slattery & Belger on John \\. \;\Thlte, fur111ture dealer at Kankakee III ha" sold out to Fred \\. K111gdon John Peterson hd~ bought the retaIl fur111tUle 1)ll'11ll~" ot \V. J. Harper at l-Jolyoke. Col OrvIlle \\ \oel ha" j)Ulchased thc undel t;Jhlng hlbl Ie..,.., of Albert~en & Koch at Pek111. J]] J O. h~hheln fur11lture dealer ot Cheteh. \\ h ha" dl Clded to close out III hU~llle,~ and go "outh The ~pencer & Redell compan\ of \lemon Ind. h,l\ l changed thclr name to the ~pencel Tl able com pam . ] he Ea"t Undertakll1g compal1\ capltall/ed ,It SIO 00) ha~ been mcorporated to do bus111e~s at Te'<:arkana \1 h The E J\T. nand I UI11Iture company of \a~h\ J1le 1enn IS erectmg a buck wal eholl'e 11O:x 110 feet three stone" J J Thweatt, the plOncel melcl'ant ot JTull1holc!t 1elln has soldl1ls furl11ture and gIOCCI\ hU~ll1e" to \\ 1-1. I!le G G Hartel &- Co. furnlturc dealeh 01 1\1\ all ()hJ(l are succeeded by the" \ C \ [untLmger lur11lture Com pam The name of the undertak1l1g firm of H & \\ II \1 Jck Bellmgham, \A. ash, has been changcd to \ \ H \lock & ~Oi1S The COye FUlllltUle c'Jmpdny of ~tl\ e h l'mnt \\ I" paId a dIVIdend of fi\ e pcr cent on Decem hel I-a total (11 $6,000 Barker Bro" furnIture dealer" for 20 ) ears on .south Spnng street, hay e mO\ ed to 724-30 South BlOad\\ a \ Lo, Angele", Cal The partnel ~hlP of lTeorge l Scheel and Y\ l \ \ alhl k fur11lture dealel s of \lhuquerque \ \1 l" ha.., ]Jecl1 (11"" 1h ed ::\Ir ,I"arhck I etlllllg The Burtner 1'ur111ture company, (TreensbOlo " C, ha\c purchased the ~tock of the (Tm]forcl ]url11tme compal1\ Ie cently declared bank! upt The Rhodes- Bm ford lurl11turc- Compal1\ of LoulS\ 1ll1e. Ky, has estabhshed a dhtnbutlllg blanch at 41-+-16 "mth Broadwa), St LOUIS. :\10 The Prufrock-Lltton lml11ture compan\ at St Louh ;\10, has estabh"hed a branch Ictad tore out 011 \orth Broad-wa~ at the corner of ~t lhalle" street The QuaInt -\rt FUlnltUle compal1\ 01 S\ raC11se \. \ have 111creased the capItal staCh from $5000 to $.2:;,COO a 1](1 have enlarged the capaclt} of theIr plant Thos J\;fac1den, Son & Co, manufactUl ers 0f da\ enport beds and parlor fur111ture. Indlanapoh~ Ind ale bmldm£; dn adchtlOn to theIr plant at d co t of $-+.;00 A. J\l Swam ha.., tI dded real e"tdte tor the fl11111ture de-partment of Holton, (Tra) &- Co. general dealers and under takel" of Hradvllle, Iovva. He doe, not ~et thc undertaklll£; busme"s of the firm The MonrOVIa (Cal.) Plal11ng J\1J1l Company ",ho recenth converted theIr plant 111tOa furmture factor\ hd\ e madc UIC fir"t Shlp:l1ent of then new ploduct and ha\ e more 01 cleh than they can fill for carl) deln el} Thc\ report a ~hOl tage ot labor. ) ohn H Kernan, pre~ldent of L phol 'oterer\ L nlOl1 "0 53, Boston, 1\1ass. wa, fined $100 dml costs on \ 0\ ember 2-+ fOl contempt of court He \ lolated an mJunctlon prohlbltJ;1~ thc plcket111g of a factory \\ here the 11111011 employ e~ \vere on stnke Lease of their present C]uartel" ha\ 111geXIJlleel and bC111g unable to securc a de'lrable new locatIon the (hrcctOl s of thl Kelly J1ur11lture and Carpet Com pan) 011\ e dnd Ele\ enth 1he ,,",pear "'ample ['urnrture Company of Cle\ cldnd. O. hdd a nm e1 vI;Indol;\ ell ,pIa} 0 I the clcly before Thanksglv1l1g-a I cal \\ edd111g. Han e\ L. Kllncr and ;\11~s Rosa Broecke1 \\ ere the contI aLtlllg parties The ceremony was wItnessed 1)\ an enCl111m" UO\\ c1 a11d thou~dnd., saw the happy couple ib the\ lOde thJ()ugh the "tI eeh m an automohJ1e whIch had ]JlCn applOpn,lte!v decorated for the occa~lOn. -\ "mt entitled the ll11ted State.., vs the Globe-\) enllcke company IS pendmg m the federal com t at Cmc111natl. The compal1\ IS acuhed of hav111g J1legally co werted h Itself ,e\ el al thousand acrcs of land sItuated m \labama It IS charged that the company secured thl~ land frow the govern-ment b\ ha\ 111g a num]'er of per~on" file entry therefor as If the\ mtencled It for them "elv e and then turn It ovel to the uJIl11Jan}, \ill ho sold It to I 111{)Centparties New Factories. Illlle nlOther,,- It ~eph and John Keclar-ha\ e establIshed cl lalJlnet sbop dt Lame..,\ dIe. (Ta I he (Told 1'1lr111tl1re company. cJpltahzecl at $20.000 has been 1l1corporated to e"tabhsh d factory 111ChIcago H O. I-Lm thorne wdl estdbh~h a factor) or remodel an old one m "e\\ I onc!on lonn. to manufacture wardrobes for the 10ld111g \\ al(hobe cC'mpany of l\ew York. \ \ Ilham DICk111on and othel s hay e 111corporated the Dlck- 111son ] able Lock company to estabh~h cl plant and manu-facture fur111ture and hard \Val e m Buffalo 1\ Y. Capital stock S; 000 R (Tocppert and other~ have I11corporated the NatIOnal Shadc Cloth company to manufacture wmdow .,hades, shade cloth", etc 111 ChICago III lapltal stock. 75 per cent sub- ~cnbed, $40,000 Furniture Fires. Rea~oner & Blair, dealel" of Kennedy, Tex, burned out La".., $7, :;00 111'01d1n1ce. $-+,000 The furllltl11 e stolk and store of D E. El1ns, Inman, Kan" dal11a~ed about $7,000 by fire In"urance, $8.000 ] he plant of the Rex lllllc1 company, manufacturers of coffins and cd~ket" Empona. Kan. WdS totally destroved by fil e recenth L{),~ $18000, abont 60 per cent l11surec1 Tr:nyels in the South. \"1 B Scott ~\\ho 1eprese~1ts the Nel son- Matter Furl1lture Compan} 111 the sout1leln ~tates h at home 111 Grand Rap1cL, tOl the holIcla\ J ancl mId" Inter turmture sedson Some mcn ne\ er recogm7e an opportul1lt} unless it 15 labeled WEEKLY ARTISAN 29 New York Markets. \ew York Dec. 3-1urpentme has been up and down all thb 'i\eek. Sta1 tmg at 58 cent" on :;\londay It went to :;9 @ :;90 on Tuesday 580 on v\ edne::,da), back to 57 on Thur::,da) and today It IS "teady at 57 @ 570 Sa,annah figUl e" are 530 @ S4 Reporb of finnne::,,, at the pnmaly "ource" of supply ha, e "ttengthened the "hellac market here There have been no change::, 1'1 quotattons. however becau"e the current figure" have been "haded con"ldelah1y m neady all recent t1an"actlOns :.\Iarket nnpnJ\ ement I, nottced m the demand for, arn1..,h gum::" partlLularly from the ..,outh dnd we..,t Kaun, 1\0. 1, 1..,no\', quoted at 42 @ 47 cenb, ;\[0 2,20 @25, Xo 3, 1S @ 18 Damar-BatavIa, 13 @ 14 Smgapore, 7Yz @ 12 Man- Ila, pale, 14 @ 18, dark, hard 12 @ 14, Amber 13 @ 15. There h firmne..,::, m the lmseed 011 tl ade but tran::,actlOn s are confined for the mo"t part to ::,mall lots Few "ales are made at les::, than card rate':> VIhlCh are "till based on 64 @ 6:; cent" for we"tern raw. Flaxseed IS reported firm at western pomt" Goat skm" are ,trong and movmg qmte lnel), nearly all 1ece1pts bemg ..,old promptly Ura,nl" ha, e been hIgher and "omewl1dt exuted dunng the week Today they are quoted at 7'i @ 82 cenb Other quotatlOn.., are practIcally unchanged, :.\le'l.lCan frontIer" ,till sellmg at 34 cent'"> The burlap market IS ..,tlll «met though It ..,hmv" more "trength than ha" been noted fm ,e, eral week" Reporb of a .,hortdge m the raw matenal prO\ ed to be flCtltlOn::, and clld not affect the (luotatlOn.., wlllch rema1l1 at 350 @ 3:;5 for eIght-ounce good.., at 4 :;0 for the heaVIer grade Sheet 7mc «met at the former figures $8 per 100 pouncl::" fob Peru, 111., WIth 8 per cent dhCOllllt Steady l1nprovement m the haldwoocl lumber market h reported by dealers and producers at nearly all 1l1tenor pomts Generally there IS an actn e demand for the better glades but the fil mne..,,, I" al ,0 felt by the lower grade::, of all vanetle::' except whIte a"h Pnce::, though tak1l1g a WIde range may be de"cnbed a, stlffenmg but the actual advances are not numerous. .ModelFurniture Plant in Kansas. 1he Helme1 s :.\Ianufactunng company of Kan..,as CIty, \10., and Leavenworth, Kdn;" manufacturers and Jobber" of fur11lture, al e bmldmg a le\', plant, at Leavenworth, whIch promIses to be one of the model furmture makm£>; plant:> of the country The mam blnlcl111g WIll be of bnck, four stonec, 60 feet VI Ide and :;(0 teet long The dry bIn" and POVIer hou.,e WIll be ..,epclfdte bUlldmgs The kll11'3 WIll have a capaCIty of 300,000 feet 'I he plant WIll be ':>upplled WIth all modern fac t01 y C011\ emence" eqUlpped WIth the be"t machmel y and ope1- atec1 enttrely by elect1lc power The product WIll be cheap and medmm grade fur11lture well made dnd well fim..,hed. \\ e ale gomg to gIve the cheap and medmm-pnced ctuff a touch of quahty and fi11l..,hthat wlll be hard to beat," ::,ays V ICe-pI eSldent H J Helmer., Jr., "and we hope to make our estabh.,hme,1t headquarter;, for thl.., clds.., of gooch 111westeln terntory " Lots of New Patterns. The Luxury ChaIr Company, Grand RapId", sInce thel1 enlargement of the factory, have put m many new, up-to-date machme::, and otherwhe fitted up ::'0 a" to greatly mCl ease theIr output Trade I::' fine) and m January they wlll "how many new patterns of the now famou':> Luxur) chaIr." on the first floor, north half of the l' urlllture Exchange, Grand RapIds, and 190-191 l\IIchlgan avenue, ChIcago Speiker Retires. John Spelker, founder and manager of the ColonIal Clock Company, Zeeland, l\Ilch , ha" sold hIS "tock m the corporatIon to :.\Ie;,sl s De Krmf and LahlUs He WIll "pend the w1I1ter 111 I; londa and next year WIll tour EUI ope On hIS return he WIll engage 111 bus1l1es~. \[r. Spelker commenced hIS career as a manufacturer of c10CI,-~111 a small barn adJ01l1mg hIS reSIdence WIth two 01 three patternJ of Dutch clocb Undel hIS dlrectHm a large and prosperou~ 111du..,try wa" estabh':>hed and :.\,fr. acqull ed d comfortable hI tune. Spelker acqmred a comfOl table fortune Mr. Wolf Goes With the Nationals. J. H. \\ olf for thc pa..,t twcnty-llIne year::, \',Ith IndIan-apolts, Ind hou~ec, ,vlll at the clo.,e of the yeat sever hIS old connectlo'1 and wll1 go mto the ::,en Ice of the '\ atlOnal Furm-tm e Company of \tlant:l, Ga., to travel IlhnOls, Incltana and OhlO, "Ith d h le that the \JatlOnal company are bnngmg out for the commg sea on :.\lr 'vYo1£slang expenence on the road coupled WIth the met ItS of the ;\ atlOnal hne should gIve the company a bu,y year. Parlor Frame Company Reorganized. Petcr Van Dommelen and John L Ly nch hd' mg purcha::,ecl an mtere::,t In the Grdncl RapId.., l'drlor lrame Compan), a re-orgalllLatlOn of the company ha been effected. Mr Van nom-melen IS preSIdent, Sybrant \ \ es..,eltus, VIce pre..,tclent and :\1.r Lynch "ecretary amI trea,mer \lessr.., Lynch a lcl Van Dom m elen dre practical men of long expenencc m the (, rcmcl RdPld s factolle::, They propo..,e to lllcredc,e the company", lme of pro-duct, whIch Vvlll be ch"played m the TIlodgett htulclmg clunng the January ::,eason Alexander Dodds Incorporated. -\le:hander Dodd", the VI" ell known manufactm er of \', oocl- \',orkmg machmely, of Grand RapId", ha" Incorporated hIS bu"me"s under the name of the Alexander Dodds company The capItal stock I::' fi:hed at $63,OJ8 of whIch ::\1r Dodds hold" $52,000, H B W ooclcock, $10,500 and Albert C Stover, $500 Thl" actIOn was deemed nece""al y on account of the dIm en- "Ion" to whIch the bU..,111C"'"ha'" grown 111 the past ten yeal.., No Ohjection to HigheJ.·Prices. Roy S Barnhart. treasurer of the Kelson-Matter FurnIture Company, I eports that no obJ ectlOll'3 have been recelyed to the advances made on goods bj the :.JatlOnal FurnIture :\lanu-fasturer, ASSOCIatIOn la ,t month. RetaIlers ge lerally approve the ad, ance, It enahle., them to ,ell the good., on hand-and many were well stocked-for co 1Slderable mOle money than had heen expected when purchased Running on Full Time. The CJlancl RdPlcl.., 1 mmture Company, make1;, of lllgh grade furmture fOl the ch11lng room, are operatmg their factory to capdclty on 01 del':> and ..,tock for the commg year. l\lanager E VI. ErWlll IS pleased WIth the outlC'ok What to Buy and Where. The Henry S Holden Veneer Compa,ly, Grdncl RapId", have 100.000 feet of Clrcas'ilan \Yalnut Just 111,also a fine lme nf :.\IaholSdny. Quartered Odk, BII d s Eye :;\laple dnd Birch Crm.,bcl11dm£>;ready for prompt dehvery Some men's Idea of a corkmg good tl1ne IS an uncorking one. 30 WEEKLY ARTISAN N p Mission Oak Finishes The L. Mac 1:. Fumed Oah Acid Stain fumes the wood equal to a Fumed :Box Early English Stain No. 1719 and No. 506 Filler. Weathered Oah Stain No. 1725. They are the Standard Shades. SEND FOR FINISHED SAMPLES THE LAWRENCE-McFADDEN COMPANY PHILADELPHIA, PA. =======---- ~==~-~---- ----- _._~---_.._._._.~.~._._., I •IIIf I I ! I 1 I I I• :I ! I : I I : • I • I • I • I •• II I : I I t I t • t • I • I • I I I I •I II I : I THE "ELI" FOLDING BEDS ~~~f~-r~I~N~~~ ! I ELtD:""iVI°i'LLER"'"&"'CO. i II EVANSVILLE. INDIANA I Wnte for cuts and pnces : ON SALE IN FURNITURE EXCHANCE, EVANSVILLE. I t I ~_. ..._. .... - .. . -~ ...------------- I OLD-AGE PENSIONS IN ENGLAND The Law Does Not Work Out So Well as Was Promised by Its Promoters. (Jleat Ulltd1l1, old-d£;e pen'lOn law, whIch went 1I1tOeffect )" lldn I 1909. cluee, wt work out qUIte ,,0 e,atlo;factonly ao; \\ a, e"pelted b) Ib a(h ocate~ The law apphee, to men and v\omen ahke vvho are 70 ) ears of age or 0, er, who, If they fall "lthll1 the proVI",'OIlS of the law .are entitled to recen e $121 per "eek from the g~nelal go, ernment and dunng tne first mne n'onth'i of the ) ear 410,000 per~ol1'i m England, 184,000 111 lJeland and 73000 111 Scotland have drawn pellSlOm, aggle- ~ ltlllg d iSland total of $26298.000, and the total fOl the first \ ear I, expected to reach ;p38,000,OOO or, perhaps, $40,000,000 It wa:'>estl111dted vi<h,en the bJ11wa" pa",sed that there were 173,000 per'iom In lleland 70 year" of age or O\er, a1d that a consldel able nUl1lbel 111 thl'i ag£;re::;ate would be Il1ehglble to recen e old age pen~lons, eIther becduse they \i<e,l e paupers or had Il'COJlle" III exce,,'i, of the deSIgnated 11l1l1111lUmw, ll1le the 1111mber Inchcdted aru\ e who were entitled to rehef Ie, 11,000 III e),.ce'0 ()f the e"tll11ate (A the entire 1umber of per"ons over 70 \ edl -, of age. I he entIre e),.pen"e of the olel age pensIOns 111 the 1:l1Ited KII1~c1om 111borne h) the gO\ ernment, no contnbutlOn beIng I eqUlrcc1 from emDla) el " or frol11 wage-earners. dS 1'3the prac-tICe 111(Terman\ and other cauntne'i To be quahfied for a penslOl1 the apphcant muct be 70 years old, mu"t not have an II1COl11ee),.ceedll1g $153 per year, andmu'3t hdve been a Bntlo;h :oub]ect dnel re'ldec1111 the L11Ited KIngdom for the last 20 yeals There al e \ an01.b otbel grauncb of ell"quahficatlOn, the pnncl-pal of whICh 1'3the receIpt of lehef from the poor fumb dunng the) eal thh c1ebdrnng an apphcant till the ensUIng year The WEEKLY ARTISAN 31 ,.--------------------------------------- - . .. ---_.---- These Specialties are used all Over the World I II• III ,• II II No 20 Glue Heater. "'--_.. ............. . Veneer Presses, different kinds and sizes (Patented) Veneer Presses Glup Spreaders Glue Heaters Trucks, Etc., Etc. Hand Feed Glueing Machine (Patent pendmg) Many sty lea and sIzes. Wood·Working Machinery and Supplies LET US KNOW YOUR WANTS Power Feed Glue Spreadmg Machine, Smgle, Double and Combination. (Patented) (S,,,e8 12 In. to 84 m wide,) CHAS. E. FRANCIS COMPANY, Main Office and Works, Rushville, Ind. No.6 Glue Heater. - _. ----------- ----------- --_._----_._-- - - -- - - .- ----' pen:->lOnvanes from 24 cents to $1 21 a week, accorc1111g to the 111come of the apphcant, the ma'C1mum be111g paId "here the annual 111come IS not beyo ld $10. Some senou~ defects 111the law are "ho,," n 111the report from the ;\ ott111gham d1stnct N ott111gham's populatlOn I'> now 260,000 1 he number of c1anTIs filed for pen"lOn" wat> 3,779, of vvh1ch 3,358 were al- Ia,," ed by the 1m e tlgat111g C0l11111lttee Le"" than 3,008 apph-catlO~ b \\ ere e'Cpected ~mong the c1all11s (hsallo,," ed were ~ome the 1ehlsal at whICh, 111the op1111on of the comnllttee \\01k" ~ulh hard~h1p~ that the alt should be al1le HIed In one la,e of (l!,allov,ance the apphlant under great t>tre ., had beln 10(h;ec1 111 a vv01 khou ,e -Jne lllght, In anothe1 a woman had "upported he1 l11\ahd hu~h~L1d hy hawk1l1g until, VI hen he \va" dY1l1g ,he wa, forled to qmt her v.ork and attend to hIm, ,1 rehev111g officer gl\ 1l1g them a few chl11111g,>to a\ ert starvatlOn, thus c11::.quahfvmg her. ()n the other hand, apphcdnt~ \\ ho hay e con'lclerable money obtd1n pen"lOn'-. ()ne WIth $3.8)3 111ve"ted at 21~ per cent 1::' entItled to a pen"10n of $1.21 a week, the maAlmum A mal lIed WOl,1an v~h ise hmhancl had $6,083 111ve"tec1at 4 per cent, ) e11(hng $243 a year. was granted a pen~lon, fhe law pro 'video that the 111come of anyone ,if tv. 0 marned per'>o 1'>hv 111g together 1" t'lken to be not le"s than half of the v. hole of the mcome of both '1 he ""Ife apparently had no 111come and the hu"band S v\ as lees than double the amount wh1Ch (hsquahfie" an apphcant. The laY' \\ a~ understood to mean that the Wlt:::: \\ ould be a.,,,umed to ha, e half a, much 111come as her hu::.hand, and thl::' entitled her to a pen "Ion of 75 cents a week The relectlon of the apphcants who had recelved a httle poor rehef and the acceptance of tho"e who had an 111COn1l:' from mve"ted money were both relucta lt acb of the pen~lo 1 COml1l1t ee, who le olved to recommend a chan<;;e of the Itv.. Trenton. N_ .T. Factory Notes_ 1 ,enton, ~. J, Del 1-'1he '1 renton Spnnf?; l\lattre", Company dIe very bih) on mattret>t> v.ork and are al"o maktng bed", davenport">, couches, etc. They are three month" beh1l1d order" A '>pec1alty ,'V-th tlV'l11 1" t11e 1J1ak'll6" of '>pnng'>, III whlch they do a \ ery lan!,~ bu"ne".., 'I he 'Le,l and wIre market 1" a httle stiffer and b'1',111C"" \\ Ith c11d1r, lounge, bed and other manutacturers h strong The) 11a,(' outgro\\ n the present hUlld111g on Pal~lf avenue and helvc arranged to bul1d a new fadOl}, one ",tOly In he1gilt, 100 'C 200 feet 111"lze. A new l1l1e h be111g made or .:;Oih century . - ... -- t>pnngt> for davenportt>, couches, divan'>, E. '-, v\h1c11 1'-0 n Jh(,- le'>s and firmly "eated The New ] er,ey ~chool & Churc11 r'11l11tUl e Company are bUlld111g a large new factory for then 111('ff'a"'1J~ bU"l-ne" t>, to be 4 stone" 111 helght, 70 x 130 fe('t 1'1 "lL.C, v, h1(:h WIll double the output of the pl et>ent plant. '" ew 1\lrlch111cn WIll be put In and they wlll 'Soon be ln shape to (1) better 111cl J ever to keep pale wlth order" A .,peclalty 1" made of school .,eat" and de,k", "ome new hnes of manufactu~e \\ 11' he t-1'.;:e11 up more hand" wlll be put at \\ork and adJ'+(<J1'al "ale"men \\111 be put on "1he <- olumbla Bed Company have not bpt 11 \\ ::Jrk1l1!2, tor '>ome tll11e and wlll not re-open the plant T~p v ltJd.de hra'-::. and lron beeh The Kl111e ChaIr Company of 6 \ \ ood "treet, 11dke ckw., {OJ bable.." chlrOpo(h"h, etc, o{ lroll. "ome have uphobtered "eat" and back" 1 hey tUln out 180 to 200 a rlOntll lhe cheape~t chaIr t>elhng {o" $()J 00 [he firm lS bu"y '111.1 man a15e to get plenty of order" The \mencan 'J Ll hng LJ111pan\. who have a vllOle~2'c {Ull11tU1C bU"lllc" hert, have moved from the (,undhng bul1d111g, tll ! l111adeph a ::\lany a fellow It> all lIght 111hIS way, but It's the wrong \\ ay ~---------------------------------------------- ,,• II -~ I,• , I ~fKCl~ou INTERESTING PRICES g~~~~v:l1~5 SEII,fDSAMPLES. DRAWINGS OR CUTS FOR PRICES. WrIte for I E. P. ROWE CARVING WORKS, AL~ftH~N. Catalogue r ,. - .-------~--~------,-----------.~.. 32 ", . II WEEKLY ARTISAN Miscellaneous Advertisements. WANTED. Salesman with well estabhshed trade with retail and jobbmg furmture, house furnishmgs and hardware m Colorado, Ne-vada, Utah, New MexIco and Anzona, to handle an old and estabhshed Ime of Refngerators on commlSSlOn basIs Give full details as to hnes carried, references, etc. Address "May" care Weekly Artisan. WANTED. Superintendent-To take charge of manufactunng end only of factory makmg Library and Parlor Tables and Pedestals Must understand all branches of the work. An expenenced, progressive man. Address "Magnetic" care Weekly Arti-san. WANTED- LINES TO SELL. In the middle West. Large expenence in the sale of cham-ber and dmmg room furniture. Would engage on salary. Address "S. W. E." care Weekly Artisan. 11 27-2t W

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