Michigan Artisan; 1907-05-10

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Issue of a furniture trade magazine published in Grand Rapids, Mich. It was published twice monthly, beginning in 1880. and Twenty-seventh Year-No. 21 MAY 10. 1907 100 % to 200 % PRO FIT PER YEA R on this SAND BELT. The investment is a small one. The few months you are getting along without it is losing you the entire price of it. HUNDREDS OF THE MOST PROMINENT FURNITURE MANUFACTURERS using: this Sand Belt state that these claims fall short of the real merits of the machine. NO. 164 SAND BELT MACHINE. IT HAS THE DESIRED ADJUSTMENTS QUIOKLY MADE ()UR CLAIMS ARE that It will sand WITH THE GRAIN and require no re-touching by hand the following": Mirror frames. mund, oval, any shape; drawer rails; drawer fronts, base rails. etc., ser-pentine, agee, round or swell; straight veneered or cross veneered; ogee, round, bevel or straight edges of dresser or tabJe tops, of round, square or scrolled patterns; table rims, dresser po s t s; veneered roUsor columns; strah~ht; agee, or rounded mouldings; raised surfaces of panels; spirals of table legs; curtain slats for roll·top desks; ~pindJe carvings; French table legs; plumbers' wood work; etc., etc. WYSONG &. MILES LEE AND JACKSON 81"8. CREENSBORO, N. C. The Best Truck==The StronJrest Truck This is the famousGillette Roller Bearing Factory Truck-the truck on which it is said. "One man can move a load of 3000 pounds while with the other trucks it takes three men/' This is the truck that is strong where others are· weak-the truck that has an unbreakable malleable iron fork. This is the truck YOU are looking for if youwish to invest in rather than waste money on factory trucks. Gillette Roller Bearing CO. ORAND RAPIDS, MICHIOAN The l..ightest RUBDlng, Longest Lasting Truck By Using Wheeler's Patent Wood Filler It#:!' , you caD lot only greatly imp"'V<e your fuzirb. but _ Nye money. 4.lI1f interested in obwnma- Ihete IWlka, write to-day, and we.will ga fully ioto the matter. THE BRIDGEPORT WOOD FINISHING CO•• New Milford, Conn. New York: Chicago; Philadelphia; Boston. _ ,,;,r '1 _.. A Vital Thought on Finish . Profit: Buyers who waut thiugs just a little better--furniture with character -individuality-are willing to pay a little more for it. The long profits are in the higher grades. Many makers put both material and workmanship "just a little better" into their furniture--and so far are entitled to extra returns in profit--but the buyer does not Know it. The buyer really sees only the finish, and if it is common-place, he does not respond with that extra price which he is willing to pay for the indi viduality which he seeks. Finishing your goods with Andrews' Polishing Varnishes is justlikelayingon an extra layer of profit. Theiruniformlyrich, full lustre gives that extra touch of character which distinguishes refined elegance from the bizarre, the cheap and the mediocre. Their'sis"The Polish that Holds." Theiruniform evenness -their dependability at all times and under all conditions- and the ease with which they work and rub makes their use a plea$ure with the workmen. And they make for manufacturing economy- by saving the time and expense of rejected pieces-whichmeatis increased output. - Moisture-proof, check-proof,-crack-proof, c1oud-and-bloom-proof, be-causethey are completely purifie4,thoroughly seasoued,rigidly tested. We have been making fine varnishes for over half a century-our success is founded on experience. There'sextra profit to you in these "Thoughtson Finish."Give our nearby representative opportunity to call and explain how to get it. Write us. '....-- \ Pratt & Lambert Varnish Makers New York London Buffalo Paris Chicago Hamburg . 1 THE MARIETTA PAINT & COLOR COMP'Y ART NOUVEAU Our New Cement Combination Stain.F!lIer Art Nouveau is !he very neweSt discovery in wood I1nWUl18. II is put up (eady for !me aml it alrea<b' being used by a large Dumber of malllufadQIel'l who haV<l become eatbusidtic over ih 8Ueeef;!\ ·and the enotJnOUI saving of lime. labor and moneY it means to them. With Ad Nouveau you can produce in erne operation what it fotmerly required four to oom- Il1ete, viz: iltainini, sheIlacinl' Baoding and Jillinl . . ihis new liUer-$laio dries hud in live houn and can he shellaced and varnished the &aIDe day if deeired, Made in mahogany and mire:- shab,. Manufacturers a grade of WOOD FINISHING MA TER-IALS that are today recognized as possessing the reputation not only for the ~hest staudard of excellence and perfection, but for their absolutely practical qualities. The reason for this is that before a Stain or filler is offered to the trade it is put through a· series of practical tests both in the laboratory and the company's own finishing deparlment. where it is applied. and worked out iust as it is intended it should be by the furniture manufacturer or the customer \Xho uses them. SPARTAN TURPS SPARTAN TURPS is one of our our 0'W11 pro' ducb and it undemably one e5 the bdt thi. Ir.oown 10 the 6nishet for reducing varnidles, ftai1l>l. paints. It hi not in any rel1&eII substitute for turpentine, bav~ ina: properties exclusively and peculiarly its own. It ill better than turpentine for lllany reasons., one of the moStimportant being that it is the moat petted aolvent known, while it is an eOOmlOlla mooey .. ver The Marietta Paint 8 Color Co. MARIETTA, OHIO These Specia.lties a.re used all Over the World Hand Feed Gllletng Machine (Pat. pending.) Eight styles and sizes. "'e-neer Presses, all kinds and sizes. Veneer Presses Glue Spreaders Glue Heatersl Trucks, Etc.. Etc. Wood·Working Machinery ,---.~ and Supplies Power Feed Glue Spreading Ms.cbIne, (Pateut applied for.) Single, Donble and CombinaUun. LET US KNOW YOUR. WANTS 419-421 E. Eighth St. CHAS. . fRANCIS &. BRO.D CINCINNATI, O. No. 6 Glue Heater. The Originality of our work is one of its chief characteristics. Do You Want WE BUILD HIGH GRADE Something CATALOGS COMPLETE Original? White Printing Co. 2 to 20 Lyon Street GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. ENGRAVING PRINTING BINDING I LONG WANTED A BAND SAW THAT WILL DO EDGING HAS BEEN A LONG FELT NEED. WE HAVE ONE See that revolving chain in the table directly underneath the feed rolls? That is the principal feature in the edging device on this machine. It moves by power and drops below the surface of the table when not in use. Then this machine has that Patent finiCe Edge Balance for the upper whee1---the only perfect straining device known. Get circular describing this splendid tool. Write today. 505.525 W. Front St. ====C:=incinnati.Oh.io. U.S.A. The H'or/(Ij Stantbud.for H'oodwor1J:ingNaclt.ineQ< -- -- ------ ------ ----- 2 7th Year-No. 21. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH .. MAY 10, 1907. $1.00 per Year. WILL HUNT THE MOOSE. John Waddell, Roy S. Barnhart, B. F. Hall, W. H. Muir, and Others of the Furniture Trade Preparing for a Great Campaign. Although the sep..sOI1 during v,'hich moose may be legally killed in the wilds of Canada, docs not open until November, the mighty moose hunters of the furniture trade are organiz-ing parties and making preliminary preparations for a cam-paign of royal sport. A number of gentlemen who have ac-companied Messrs. v\laddell, Bamhart and Hall will be unable to go this year, but their places will be taken by several sport men who have never enjoyed the, thrilling adventures incident to the pursuit of the monarch of the forests. The average reader of the Artisan is not possessed of much knowledge in regard to the moose, his history and as-pirations. He is an unusually interesting ;{nim~d, as W. Howie lI,fulr of the Jenks & 1·1uir Manufacturing company, Detroit, learned during his stay in the woods upwards of one hundred miles north of Sault Ste. J\larie, l\lich., during the hunting seaSO\l last year. The reader is advised to loosen his "bustibles" before proceeding to the enjoyment of Mr. Muir's contribution which [ollcnvs; THE MOOSE. (By \V. Howie l\fuir.) The 1100se is a species of '\vild animal found in inaccess-ible countries, taxidermists' shops, over fire-places in. large front halls, but more often in dreamland, being much sought after on account of the horns that some of them wear, to be used as hat racks and for other decorative and utilitarian pur-poses. The hide is t1s1Jally sent to Aberc-rombie & Fitch, to be made into mot'.casins at five per pair. One can buy them in any drug store at a quarter the price. The hoofs, are often mounted to serve as ink-stands; and lastly the meat, which, if properly hung and well cooked, reminds one of home, it 50 closely resembles hamburger .steak witbout the ham. The meat is mo"t expel1sive, figuring in the outfit, in-cluding ammunition, the license tags a great many of which are never tlsed--and time, which is the essence of all cou-tracts. In appearance, the moos<:: is a conglomerate of a great many animals having a leg in each corner. In fact it is a cross between a man from IvIassachusetts and Isse Cohen; with a lip like a rolled up drop cnrtain and nostrils like the op-ening of a coal mille; horns like two inverted family umbrel-las, and ears resembli11g a pair of gold seal shoe packs. Over the withers it puts the faithful camel to blush, and from tllere to the tail it drops clown hill like rln old time to-boggan slide. The tail is like grandma's fur tippet, and hangs down like the Plymouth Rock rooster's tail in a rainstorm. The bell fastened lInder its chin won't bring you a high-ball, unless yoU bring the bell hack to camp, and then you're li-able to get two high-balls, a whi;<;key sour and a nne young jag. The bell the Holstein family wears will only bring you a milk-shake. The si7.c of tbe moose ranges necorrllng to the views of the hunter. Uncle John has watched a she cow moose, with-out horus, that he claimed '\vould weigh an even ton, net, and was ten feet eight at the Shoulder, measured alongside a rose bush, by the aid of a tape li11e,he uses to tie his specs on with. Nobody dse except Johnny or Jack ever failed to get the male moose when shot at, so that all of this sex of over twenty hundred weight are still in the bush. The fe-male cows have all the v·...ay from one to one and a half and two calves each year, which, if caught young, make the best kino of house pets, and can be taught to bring your slippers and shut the door. In color they are of a rusty stone-grey in summer, but when the chilling blasts of '\vinter commence to brush the stately pines and sway the fragant balsams, the color changes to a deep sea black, full of lustre, but 'without ur:ider-coat or vest on the head and body, and the legs turn to the color of your seven-year-old corduroys. Their senses of hearing and sight are magnificently devel-oped during the calling season, which lasts from the first of Septen1.her to the middle of October. They can hear the "steamboat whistle going round the bend," the hunter be~ fore he shoots, and the owl after he hoots-hence the s.imilar- THE CORRECT Stains and fillers. THE MOST .SATISFACTORY first Coaters and Varnishes .A"'U'-~U;TIJ.ICO .", ....... y CHICAGO WOOD FINISHING CD. Z59·63 ELSTONAVEmZ'16 SLOAN ST. CH I CACO. r 4 ity. The eyes are so situated in his head that he can see as well lying down as sitting up_ The sense of taste is just barely'apparcnt, as it seldom drinks, chews or swears. The olfactory nerve is of extremely delicate' COl1st'rtlCtiOll, re-sembling the mechanism of watches offered as premiums by patent drug houses, The sens'e of touch is only nottceable when he has been fairly hit in or about the vitals by a 50ft-nosed steel clad bullet. ~'11;. y,l)artSgone by the moose were often found in kitchen-g~{{d'en:",country fairs and engaged driving motor cars, but of late years they have taken to the less thickly populated districts of both the United States and Canada, so that anyone, or a party of hunters, going out after Moose should take at least enough provisions for over-night, and a pack ot' cards to skin the "angel" out of enough to pay the expenses of the trip. Some people go "down wlnd" when hunting moose, think-ing that the liberal use of perfumes, colognes, hair tonics, cheap tobacco and bad whiskey will so overcome the sensi-tive a.nimal that he will be hypnotized and remain standing can, and reasonably low if within two hundred yards. Then get ready to shoot again and" again-if the animal gives you a chance. The skinning and packing in is a drudgery, and should not be mentioned in so important a scientific article, Only one more thing to be mentioned: Don't think you're the only man in the bush, going back to' camp like a Fourth of July procession, and "when you get to camp don't lie about how many thousand miles you covered, how many hundred yards the animal was from you, and that you practically got him with the first shot, when about the time you were filling the woods 'with lead and noise from your fifth cartridge your Indian had plunked him twite just after you shot your first, and he was disappearing over the ridge about as fast as your money did when you backed "Molasses" to win the Spring handicClp stakes at odds of 40 to 1. Moving Into Larger Quarters. The Grand Rapids Hand Screw Company, as heretofore noted in the Artisan, will soon move into the large, commod- •• MOOSE HUNTERS • John \Vaddell Brinton F. Hall broadside long enough for one to shoot him in the neck, at the angular point 01 llle ja"v, while others approach "up winrl," vvith <dmost noiseless tread, taking every precaution to hI' '11 readiness to shoot, after Grst making sure that. the moose is not another hunter or the stump of a piece of down timber. The only way to get a moose is to go to it; it is just like taking salts or the fifth frapped martini, never giving up till you're down and out. If you are on a hardwood ridge go quietly and m?ve slowly, especially if you are not Dn a track, -don't go like a runaway ice wagon with the yoke strap of one of the horses busted. If you are working in spruce or low land, don't flop around like a mullet out of water, but take time to stop and listen every once in a 'Il,'hile. and' if you art on a fresh track, keep your eyes peeled for the el-evations on each side. Now, when you are so fortunate as to get sight of your game, make a quick calculation of your distance, take a careful aim, being cautions to get as dear a sight as possible, and shoot- shoot for the shoulder if you Roy S. Ba.rnhart ous building which it bas erected on South Division street. opposite the Maeey plant. The old quarters at the corner of South Ionia and Bartlett streets, ,,,,ill be occupied by the John D. Raab Chair Company as soon as the bUilding can be overhauled and equipped with the best of modern machin-ery. This company has been organized only about a year, but it has been so prosperous that it has already been obliged to move twice and I1mv a third move into larger quarters is absolutely necessary. Enlarging Their Capacity. Another of the concerns whose business has outgrO\\rn the capacity of their plants is the Grand Rapids Wood Finisl1ing Company, who are just completing an addition to their fac-tory on Ellsworth avenue. The addition is of red brk1~ to match the main structme. The offices wiHbe moved :nto this, giving much needed space in the main building. 5 A HUMMER FROM STURGIS CHARACTERISTIC FEATURES Massive frame with wide and deep base. LooJ;r and large bearings for cylinder. All necessary adjustmenls. Different combinations of tables from 3 to 4 feet. Back frame divided for making "spring" joints. \Vant more information? Write, STURGIS MACHINE COMPANY STURGIS. MICH. Prefers Commission to Salary. }f neb has been said on the question of salary versus com-mission for salesmen. As a mlc it is the inexperienced sales-man or the man who lacks confidence in h::5 own ability "\1,'ho prefers to work for a salary. He feels that having a salary, he has a sure thing, There are n~any points in favor of straight commission for the salesman as ',yeH as the: company. First, the man work-ing for commission is independent. His time is his money. He depends entirely upon his own efforts and if he v.'orks overtime he is paid for it. There is greater incentive for the man working on commission to devote his entire time to his \vork. He is like a pruspector-always all the lookout for more business with the hope that he ·will make a strike. Prom the company's point of ·view there are many reasons why a connnission basis is preferable. The saLesm'\11is IHorc w-iH-ing to take <.ulvantage of the help givell him by the home office in the ,vay of trying out new methods, using ~ldvertisillg matter to better advantage, etc., fOI"the reason that he reali7.es that the company is not spending large sums of money each year to increase the busi-ness simply for the sake of spending money. If he does not take advantage of it he is tbe loser. It also puts the salesman on a co-operative basis with the the firm or part1H:rship, therefore it ,yorks out more satisfac-torily. The salesman thus has more than a working interest ill the concern because his income depends solely upon his 0\'\'11 efforts and he is ll0t apt to limit himself to hours or shirk allY of the hardships or obstacles that come i11to his path, He realizes that the more business he secures not only increases his income but also illsures his security of retaining the territory. The longer he stays in a territory, if he properly handles it, the more productive it. becomes, because the customers re<'.Hy hecome :1 clientage n{ his. They all work for him and Citizens' Telepho'ne 170::;:. 1Loufs 1)abn DESIGNS AND DETAILS OF FURNITURE 154 Livingston St. GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN assist him in closing sales. He also finds out one thing that few salaried men ever learn, and that is, that he is working a smaller territory with greater profit and keeping out compe-tition. /\. man .vorking on commission will cater to a higher grade of business and take particular interest to see that there are no strings to the order, thus avoiding possibility of its being cancelled, lor, as a rule, he does not receive any com-mission until the goods are delivered and settled for. Cornmission develops confidence in one's own ability and strengthens one's character, inasmuch as on a commission basis a man feels he is working entirely upon his own re-sources rather than being employed to work under the direc-tion of others.-C. A. Forster. Long Leaf Pine Doomed to Extinction. It has heen estimated that if present eonditions are per-mitted to continue, the extinction of' the long leaf pine will be eompletee within the next forty or fifty years. The Unit-ed States government is fully alive to the situation, but it il; diffJcult to see in what way they can remedy it, further than by giving advice to the owners. It is customary to lease tracts of timber for short terms of years to turpentine oper-ators. The lessee naturally endeavors to obtain the largest quantity of products he can during the term of lease. As there is practically no supervi,;ion, he bleeds the trees to such an extent as to damage them. The timber speculator and the turpentine operators appear to be in control and .are in different. as to whether the country is depleted of the long leaf pine. \Vith this condition of affairs existing it is per-tincnt to ask where will the furniture manufacturers obtain their supply of turpentine in 1950? And what will they have to pay for it? Perhaps they may find a substitute. Another Man Who Burns Ashes. Since the discovery by "the Altoona cobbler" that coal ashes may be burned if mixed with a little coal, salt and oxa-lic acid, several others have claimed the honor of having made the discovery. Among them is James W. Geyer, president of a mining company. 'who gave a demonstration of his claim in the boiler room of the Park Avenue Hotel, New York, recently, and is said to have convinced the witness¢s that there are millions in his invention. He mixes the coal and ashes in the same proportion used by the "Altoona cob-bler," but does not divulge the other ingredients of the mix-ture. He states, however, that the "incidentals" are inex-pensive. Mr. Geyer has applied for a patent on his "inven-tion" and proposes to organize a company to exploit it. 6 ·:f'~MICHI.1G7AN i The LION VARNISH and SHELLAC WORKS KAREL DE LEEUW, Manager. 1475 State St., CHICAGO, ILL. Lustreless Special Finish for Mission and Fumed Oak Furniture. Does not retain wax. A quick dryer and does not stick. Samples Furnished on Request. ONE OF OUR SPECIALTIES HOW FEATHERS ARE MANIPULATED. Cleaned, Sterilized, Deodorized and Sorted by Machiner)-- The Mixer's Trade. Feather tnlxmg is one of the hardest trades to learn, but 'when mastered is also one of the best paying methods of earning a living. The worker, who interidstci make this trade his life work must start when he is young, for it ·takes on an average thirteen years for a man to work up from pil-low filler to feather mixer. Feathers that have been plucked from hens, duc-ks, turkeys and geese are the cinly kind of feathers that are used, says .the Chicago Tribune. One kind of feathers at a time is .placed in the drum, to be beaten and to be sterilized by hot air process. The drum is a large machine, not unlike the washing· machines used in laundries. In the center of each machine is an axle with eight beaters attached. The beaters 'ma·ke.over 200 revolutions per minute beating the dust out of the feathers and cleaning them thor-oughly. A thin screen on the front and back of the machine lets the dust out. This part of the work is the most unhealthy, for the win-dows of the dust room are not allowed to be opened and the dust that comes from the feathers is inhaled by the worker. Many of the drum men contract consumption in a year or mOre dojng this work, and are compelled to give up and seek other employment. The work is not so unhealthy as it was in former years, for the men are now allowed to leave the room while the machine is in operation. After the feathers have been beaten and sterilized in the drum they are placed in the blowing machine to be sorted and to be deodorized by the cold blast. As in the drum the kind of feathers are put in the blower separately. The blow-er is the most simple and yet the most powerful machine that is used in the feather business. The machine is built with a large funnel shaped mouth on top, and always placed at one end of a large room. The feathers are placed in the funnel, through which they fait down into the center of the machine. The cold air blow-ing from the fan deodorizes them, and they leave the machine in a steady stream, flying all over the room. 'fhe worker finds himself in what looks like a miniature storm, for the feathers fly around the room as high as the ceiling. An onlooker might well wonder where the s'orting comes in of the maze of feathers. It is here that the wonderful part of the machine lies, for the air pressure is so arranged that the heaviest feathers, which are also the cheapest, will fall precisely into a bin about five feet away from the machine. The next heaviest will fall into a bin fifteen feet away from the machine, and the rest of the seven different grades of feathers will fall accurate-ly in bins that have been provided for them. The down, which is the most expensive, flies around in the air the longest but when it comes down it faits into a bin that is placed over seventy-fi\'e feet away from the blower. Thus the seven dif-ferent grades of feathers have been sorted, each kind in a bin and without having been touched since leaving the blower. The drum and blower man, after putting in five years at this kind of work and also learning the different grades of feathers, takes another step upward in the business and be-comes an assistant to the mixer. His work consists of weighing feathers and learning the different combinations that are used in stuffing pillows. In a few years- he probably will know how to mix some of the combinations, but usually it takes five years of experience before an assistant can become a mixer. The combination used in the cheapest pillows is hen and turkey feathers. Duck and turkey combination is used in a little better grade of pillows, and the best combination of all is duck and goose feathers. The most expensive filling is CHOICE BIRD'S EYE Veneers CUT RIGHT. DRIED RIGHT. WHITE WRITE US FOR SAMPL.e:S. GRAND RAPIDS VENEER WORKS, ~~~~A':.APIO•• made of downy feathers from geese. These combinations have different prices and the mixer must know these prices, and, when he can, experiment with the various kinds of fcathers to try and get a cheaper combination that will last as long as the dearer kind. Colonial Dressers With Paneled Ends. "Manufacturers make a mistake when they construct Col~ onial dressers with paneled ends, in the belief that a saving in cost is gained thereby," remarked Arthur Kirkpatrick, a practical designer and cabinet maker. The regular Colonial end is cheaper to construct than the paneled end. Besides, it presenres the harmony of the design and furnishes an ar-tistic effect that is impossible to gain by the' employment of the paneled form of construction." 7 Turtle Green Oil Stain No. 1239 --- filled with --- Ethiopian filler No. 1620 a rich very dark green background with a light flake. finished in varnish and polished. ALSO Black Onyx Oil Stain filled with Ethiopian filler No. 1620 a jet black background with a white flake by far the two most attractive shades yet offered. Send for samples of all of the above to The Barrett -Lindeman Co. Wood Finishing Supplies FILLERS STAINS In consolidation with The lawrence--Mcfadden Co. PHILADELPHIA and CHICAGO 8 WOOD FOR WALL FINISH. New Style of Interior Decoration Is Now Very Popular in the East. Consult a high classs interior decorator nowadays and he is likely to be enthusiastic on the subject of woodwork. Not at the very start, maybe. Until satisfied of the size and elasticity of a customer's purse he throws out suggestions tentatively. Discovering that the purse will not stand for elaborate wood decorations, he generally confines himself to a consideration of materials costing less than wood, kalso-mine and wallpaper, for instance. But if the purse is all right, then a customer is bound to hear more about wood in-teriors than perhaps he ever heard before, and further, he will get an object lesson of what is in the decorator's mind. The objeet lesson. by the way. is a novelty, comparatively speaking. Heretofore only a very few of the highest priced house decorators included in their establishments rooms or sections of rooms illustrating special designs" In most cases persons up against the always puzzling task of selecting wall decorations for a particular style of house arrived at a de-cision chiefly by the aid of photographs and sample::>of wood, paper and brocade. It is not like that now. In this city there are establish-ments easily got at and not at all exclusive where rooms of all characters-dining rooms, drawing rooms, sleeping room libraries, foyer halls-~fresh from the decorator's hands and exhibiting many grades of cost and the materials and designs now most in fashion are offered for inspection as freely as a furniture dealer displays his newest models of tables and :chairs. In most cases the quantity of wood bears out the state-ment of a well known decorator that the present demand for wood fittings and trimmings in private dwellings exceeds any-thing he has encountered in a business experience of two decades, and that the varieties of wood in Use are even more surprising than the quantity demanded. "Dull finished woods," he continued, "have gone ahead of polished woods in most cases. Everybody is clamoring for natural oak, chestnut, mahogany, walnut, etc., and there are a dozen different ways of treating these woods. "For the time bein/t few persons who come here will look at polished walnut or mahogany or rosewood for wall pan- ,ding. Everything and anything of dull finiSh, with the grain ~of the wood much in evidence, leads in popularity, and the brighter browns have given place to ash browns and grays. Let me illustrate:' The decorator led the way to one of the show rooms, a library, whose walls to a height of nearly six feet from the floor were covered with wood divided into panels 2% feet wide. Both panels and dividing strips were perfectly flat one-half feet wide by strips of the same wood four inches and plain without carrying mouldings of any description. The decorator said the wood was oak. To a novice it looked quite unlike oak. In color it suggested a two toned, mottled arrangement of dull gray and grayish green, and the natural grain of the wood, every appearance of grain at all in fact, had been obliterated. The oak, it was explained, had been treated with a solu-tion of lead rUbbed well into the pores and then finished with a dull stain only. It is conceivable that an old fashioned woman might prefer the natural oak. New fashioned house-keepers, though, rave over the oak in its new dress and will have no other. In another room, a dining room, the walts to a height of seven and a half feet were lined" with oak of a dull gray showing little or no grain' and as~ smooth as wall paper. Across the bottom was a seven inch baseboard and a few inches from "the top the surface was ornamented with medal-lions perhaps a little more than three inches in diameter, placed about a foot apart. These were carved in the wood. It was the color, though, which most attracted. A second· dining room was wainscoted to within three feet of the ceiling with chestnut wood of a drab or putty color, the conspicuous black brown large grain of the wood showing up in a moire antique effect describing an inverted V. This was done by piecing the panels down the center and cutting the wood on the bias, matching the grain as perfectly where the halves join as a dressmaker would match the stripes in a silk gown. In this room the same effect was carried out in the heavy mantel, the door and the window panels. Red mahogany, treated to accentuate the warmer tints, was the feature in a· third dining room. There was no wain-scoting here. All the wood work in the room, including the mantel was of red mahogany, and the novel features were the tint of the wood and the cornice. In a Colonial dining room designed for the country house of a New Yorker a cornice and freize fifteen inches wide of white enamelled wood topped a plain delft blue burlap cov-ered space, which in turn topped a seven foot high wainscot- Dining Room in the Country Home of Geo. Westinghouse, Near Pittsburg; iog of white enamelled wood. There may be a question as to the gracefulness of the wooden cornice, but no difference of opinion, the decorator thought, as to its good style for the time being. Dull finished walnut, quite unlike the walnut of our grand-mother's day, is in great demand for lofty foyer halls where dark effects are desired, its gloom being relieved with touches of gold leaf on capitals and columns. But it is in the drawing room perhaps that the growing popularity of wood and vagaries 'of color are most noticeable. Interiors solely of wood, excepting the ceiling, are more and more asked, and enamelled woods, cream, pure white and of many tones of color, are the favorites. White mahogany, really a pale ecru in color, is much ad-mired for the same purpose, but because of its higher cost is less frequently ordered. By way of illustration the spec-ialist cited the drawing room of an uptown New York dwell-ing just completed. The color scheme is French gray and white, done in en-amelled wood panels of varying widths and carved in a leaf and vine Lou;s XV. design. The wider gray panels are bor-dered with carving, the six inch wide white panels are al-most covered with the same decoration, and the windows, doors and mantel, -in which gray and white wood are com-bined, are similarly treated. There is no gold ornamentation to detract from the simple effect, the ceiling of the room, too, being of cream white plaster, delicately frescoed where it joins the wood work ---- ----- ---~---------------- 9 It's a Case of "NO CURE. NO PAY" with Us in the Matter of DRVING LUMBER This Cut Shows How Lumber 8 Comes Out of Our I'\.ilns8 No. 1. An oak center sbowing that knots after be· ing dried bv Ollr process, plane as smooth as straight-grained lumber. No.2. A big oak knot center of board and near the end. Note that board is not checked either side of knot or on ends and board is as flat as though there were no knot in it. No.3. Three knots in a 12 inch oak board and at the end. Note the straight edge, absence of checking and small wa~te required to get into good lumber. Nos. 4 and .J, Emphasize the fact that knots do not by our process warp the wood or check beyond the knot. No.6. A piece of oak dried in ten days, green from the saw, one~half a swirl, Note that it planes just as smooth as balance of piece. Comp.re "l'hls to Your Own Output. OUR PROPOSITION ""e will furnish plans, specificatlonsand instructions to build you a new kiln, or equip your old kiln with our process and guarantee to increase the capacity of your kiln front 50to 100per cent without warping, checkingJ honeycombing at case hardening your lumber, or refund your money. We can !iave 50 per cent of your waste and one ..third of the labor cutting up the lumber. Write for question blank-me.otion the Michigan Artisan. GRAND RAPIDS VE.NEER WORfiS GRAND RAPIDS, MICtilGAN which entirely covers the walls. Rose color portieres and furniture give the touch of brightness needed to offset the prevailing gray tones. A second drawing room just finished is lined from ceiling to floor with paneled p8lest green enamelled wood combined with white enamelled wood touchcd up with traceries of fine gold leaf and has doors, windows anq. mantel to match. In a third drawing room the walls are almost covered with ivory enamelled wood, relieved here and there with a panel of rose silk broca.de beginning about three feet from the floor and reaching to within two and one-half feet of the ceil· jng and about thirty inches wide. There is no gold on the wood panels, which afe ornamented in the corners with a Louis XVI. pattern. In sleeping rooms, too, even in the nursery, there is an increased partiality for wood-sycamore, birdseye maple and birch alternating with enamelled woods, the former all in a new dress, and French gray and ~i1e green are favorites in the newer color schemes. The former, in one case instanced, is used with convincing effect as a hackground for a Marie Antoinette room. Panels of gray enamelled wood reach from floor to ceiling, alternated with panels of gray and white wall paper patterned in small 'wreaths of gray on a 'white ground. In a sleeping room finished in birdseye maple there was a baseboard or wainscoting about 27 inches wide, and a cor-nice and frieze 18 inches deep of the wood. One of the new style nurseries was wainscoted 'with syc-amore of yellowish tint to a depth of three feet, the space be-tWeen the wainscoting and ceiling being broken half way with a wide moulding of wood. "There is a belief that wood is more hygienic than paper or other upholstering fabrics which may account for the in-creased demand for wood fittings," said the decorator, "but I am inclined to think that the main reason is a love of change, a liking for something new,"-New York Sun. Gave Salesmen Full Credit. Above all thiug·s else, every cent's worth of business that comes from a salesman's territory should belong absolutely and l,,,,holly to him and to no one else, and there never should be any discussion about it at all, no matter who sells the bill, and the salesman whose tcrritory the business originates in should receive full credit "whether he is on hand to claim it or not, says S. 'Iv'. 1\Jlen in "Office Appliances." If a buyer comes into the office or store and pla.ces an order, that order should at once go to the credit of the salesman in whose ter-ritory the buyer IS located and the salesman should be noti-fied of the sale. Drawing the Lines Closely. Recently a manufacturer operating several factories, en-tered into an agreement to furnish a mail order house goods of a special pattern amounting to $250,000. The retail fur~ nitme dealers' association of several states were informed in regard to the contract and have declared war On the sale of his regular line of goods. - Ready for Delivery---The Classified White Directory of the Manufacturers of Furniture, Pianos, Organs, Bedding. Interior Finishes and kindred Trades. WHIT£ PRINTING CO., Grand Rapids. Mich. - 10 CAR SERVICE REGULATIONS. Rules That Are Expected to Expedite the Movement of Loaded and Emptied Cars. The new per diem ru.les to govern the movement of loaded and empty freight cars proposed by the executive committee and adopted by the American Railway Association at its meeting in Chicago recently, are as follows: Cars may be loaded for any point (via any route) so that the home road will participate in the freight rate. b.-Loaded to the road from which originally received, if such loading is in the direction of the home road, but not otherwise. c.-Loaded to an intermediate road in the direction of the home road. Note-A road or a combination of roads competing with the road owning the car from point of delivery to destina-tion shall not be considered as an intermediate road or roads. d.-Loaded in local service in the direction of any junction point with the home road. e.-Cars may be loaded locally in an opposite direction from the home road or home route if it be loaded according to a, b, or c. f.-Empty cars belonging to a system havlllg a direct con-nection must unless the owner objects, be returned to such connection regardless of whence they came. , g.-The car owner shall have the right to demand the re~) turn of his cars at the junction point where they were deliv, ered loaded. h.-Empty cars may be sent in an opposite direction from' the home road or home ronte, if to be loaded according to section a, b or c_ i.-Empty cars may be delivered to connecting roads; switching or otherwise, to be loaded in accordance with see... tion a, b or c, but not otherwise. j.-When necessary to return cars empty belonging tel roads other than direct connections, they may be delivered to ,the road from which received. k.-Cars received loaded in switching service must be con-£ fined to switching territory and whcn made empty must ~~ returned to the owner if a direct connection within that ter-ritory Qr otherwise to the toad from which received. The penalty for each active or constructive violation of these rules is $5.00. They have yet to be submitted to a referendum vote by letter ballot before May 15, and, if this is favorable, will become effective on September 1. As each road is entitled to as many rates as it owns cars, it is not doubted that the majority wlU endorse the propositi6n. The Pennsylvania is committed to the adpotion. of the measure and with its aBies will be able to carry it. There is a confident feeling that the proper handling -at foreign equipment the·n will be assured and less trouble occasioned by car shortage. The basis of the rules was a voluminous re-port made by the committee on car efficiency. In addition to the $5 penalty, and effective Sept. 1, as just shown, all roads are to be included in the agreement fixing a per diem charge of 50 cents for the use of a car when on for-eign rails in excess of the free time allowance. The association has been advised by W. J. Calhoun. of Chicago, that a railroad refusing to allow its cars to go upon the tracks of another that refused to become a party to the per diem agreement is entirely within its legal rights. It is expected, therefore, that all roads will be forced to join if they want the use of cars loaded with frieght consigned to points on their lines. Japanese Contracts are not Sacred. Curious ways the Japanese merchant has of doing busi-ness. A special agent of the United States government who is now in Japan gives some illustrations. The buyer, he says, makes no payment until the arrival of the goods. If in the meantime the· market has dropped the Japanese will often go to the American and intimate that he is not pre-pared to stand all the loss and that the American should di-vide the loss with him, though to do so might wipe out the profit on the transaction. As a merchant explained, the Japanese sees nothing wrong in evading the letter of the contract, because when they make a contract they don't-at least in their minds-absolutely agree to do a certain thing or to make a certain payment, but simply to undertake to try to do it. _ If there appear certain obstacles in the way of their doing so, they· do, not consider themselves bound to proceed with it. To Simplify Freight Classification. It is expected that before the end of Mayan freight traffic associations will have named committees to act in conjunc-tion with a committee appointed by the Central Freight As-sociation in the work of undertaking to formulate a uniform classification that all the'associations will be willing to adopt. This movement is in response to notice from the Interstate Commerce Commission that if they did not accomplish some-thing looking to the adopt.ion of a uniform classification the commission would do it· for them. The initiative was taken recently by the Central Freight Association. When uniformity in this regard is est~blished it will be easier for the uniform bill of lading committee to complete its enormous task. ESTABLISHED 1858 BERRY· BROTHERS' Rubbing and Polishing Varnishes MUST BE USED IN FURNITURE WORK TO BE APPRECIATED THEY SETTLE THE VARNISH QUESTION WHEREVER TRIED WRITE FOR INF'ORMATION, FINISHED WOOD SAMPL~S. AND LITERATURE. BERRY BROTHERS. LIMITED VARNISH MANUFACTURERS DETROIT NEW 'tOAK, BOSTON, PHU ..AD6:LPlilA., B/ilLTIMORE. CANADIAN FACTORY, WALKERVILLE ONTARIO CHICAGO, CiNCINNATI, ST. LOUIS, SAN I"AANCISCO. THIS IS THE CAN AND LABEL II - _. - - -- ---------------------- / 10 Spindle Machine Allill made with 12, 16, 20 and 25 Splndle8. DODDS'NEW GEAR DOVETAILING MACHINE 11 This little machine has (1flDemore to perfect the drawer wOl'k of Inl'oiture manuladul'ers than anything else in the furni-ture trode, For fifteen years it bas made verf6Ct-fitting, ",'ermin-proof, dove-tailed l;Itock a· possibility. Tbls bas been accomplished at reduced cost, all tbe machine cuts dove-taUs in gangs of from 9 to 24 ut one operatiOD. ALEXANDER DODDS. GranO Rapids. Mich. ~presented by SCHUCHARDT " SCHUTTE at BerUn, Vienna, Stockholm Rnd St. Petersburg. Represented by ALFRED H. SCHUTTE at Cologne, Brus~ MJ!s, Liege, Paris, Mil:llll and Bilbao. 50 PERCENT OF THE CIRCULA TlON OF TRADE PAPERS. EXCEPTING THE Michigan Artisan IS mailed to manufacturers. designers, shop hands, com= mission men, jobbers of fac-tory supplies and others who do not sell furniture and kin-dred goods. To reach the largest number of retailers use the Michigan Artisan's Mercantile Editions Mailed to Retailers Only THE KNOB THAT WONT COME OFF NO-KUM-LOOSE WOOD KNOBS CU1' shows the construction of our line of Wood Knobs. The metal nut is clinched into the wood at ils front end, pre-venting turning or pulling- out. to the back end of the nut is riveted a steel base, having projecting spurs which enter the drawer front. The knobs are held in place by a screw and corru-gated spur washer, which avoids any possi- , in'h "A" bility of unscrewing .. All goods are smooth-ly sandpapered, and shipped only in the white. Regular screws furnished will take drawer fronts ti to 1}1lthick, longer screws to order. Stock knobs will be kept in mabogany only. Other woods to order. The face of knob "A" is veneered with specially selected fancy stock, same as used in making crossband veneers, presen ting a beautiful and attracti ve appearance when finished. TOILET SCREWS: 1}4 to 4 inch knobs can be furnished as toilet screws to order only with standard bolt 3;0 inches long and patent nut and washer. Section of "A" GRAND RAPIDS BRASS CO., Grand Rapids, Mich. ) 12 ·"~tvLIFjIIG7f-N 3 7'IR.T 1.5'JL1\I e $ S. WRITE US PRICES ON WALTER CLARK 535 Michigan Trust Building - Citizen. Phone ,933 MAPLE DRAWER BOTTOMS I Machine Dried and Flat as a Pancake. I PFlOMPT DEL.IVEAIE-S. GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN AMUSING EXPERIENCES. Traveling salesmen derive one half of the compensation they enjoy from the amusing experiences that follow the pur-suit of their occupation. "While visiting a buyer in Omaha last year," one of the travelers remarked, "I was asked if our house had any 'close-outs' in stock. I told him we might have a few rockers and perhaps, a desk chair or two. I would write the house and ascertain. 'Oh, don't take that trouble,' the buyer remarked 'vVrite the house to ship a few desirable patterns, 'twill be all right: I forwarded the order, which was fined as directed, and in a short time the house received a telegram reading: "Why did you ship so many chairs?, 1 supposed you were having a clearing out, not a closing out, sale.' The amusing feature of the transaction lies in the fact that the house had shipped three rockers and two desk chairs. A closing out sale, indeed." Another salesman mentioned the fact that he had sold the line of a company that was noted for the very bad finish of their goods. The line was placed on exhibition in Grand Rapids and in the hurry of its preparation several pieces were shipped after the filler, stain and shellac coats had been applied. The goods looked so much better than the completely finished samples as to cause surprise. The president of the company spent a few days in the market and in conducting a customer through the line one day, pointing to the partly finished samples, re-marked, "These pieces do not represent our regular finish. Our completely finished samples are back -of us." Turning to look at the regularly finished work, the buyer remarked. "How did you manage to finish them so badly? Give me the half finished goods when you fill my order." Another manufacturer engaged in pushing the merits of his goods upon a group of buyers, remarked, "\Vhy, gentle-men, we sell many of these goods in Porto Rico. In Porto Rico, gentlemen 1" The remark was repeated several times, at intervals, when one of the buyers remarked, "1\0 doubt these faulty designs and miserable constructions sell well in Porto Rico, where the peopLe are poor and uneducated, but why don't you try to make a line of goods suitable for trade in the United States?" Another salesman was reminded of an incident when he represented a chair company engaged in business in the state of New York. Much attention was given to period work at that time and the salesman had been rcquested to purchase any noted reproductions he might find in t):le stocks of the re~ tailers and ship the same to the factory. In Buffalo he found a ge-m of the Em?ire period, and speedily forwarded it to the manufacturer. In a short time a letter came to the hands of the salesman complaining that the seat was too narrow; the legs too light and that some of the parts were of birch, stained, instead of mahogany. The salesman replied as follows: "The Empire chair forwarded to you was made by the Chair Company, who make the best selling line manufactured in the United States," They Ask for a Square Deal. The Yawman & Erbe :Manufacturing Company of Roches-tcr and Barber & S..v..artout of Geneva, N. Y., have filed com-plaints with the Interstate Commerce Commission against various railroad companies, charging tbem with unlawful dis-crimination in the classification of freight. The former COI1- cern makes general office furniture. It alleges that fifteen western railroads have disctill.1inatedagainst its business by placing too high <l rate upon roller copiers made by the Yaw-man & Erbe Company and that, as a result, the concern can-not compete with rivals who are given a lower classification. The railroads complained of are the following; Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe; Wabash; Chicago & North-western; Chic;ago, Burlington & Quincy; Chicago & Great Western; Chicago, Milwaukee & St, Paul; Rock Island; Great Northern; Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe; Missouri Pacific; Nor_ thern Pacific; Oregon Railroad & Navigation Company; Ore-gon Short Line; Southern Pacific and Union Pacific. Barber & Swartout of Geneva claim that the Lehigh Val-ley railroad has refused to assist them in shipping freight from their factory by declining to put irl a siding on the pro-perty. The company asks for $5,000 damages, and that they be paid $125 for preliminary work done on the proposed sid-ing. Martin S. Decker, assistant secretary of the commission, went to Rochester and gave the complainants a hearing. He is said to have discovered that the case of Yawman & Erbe is of more importance than was supposed and it is expected that members of the commission will go there and take evi-dence in the near future. Prosperous Carving Company. The Knoxville Carving & Moulding Company, establishel three years ago in Knoxville, Tenn., have made a good repu-tation for the quality of their work. They have been very successful in their business and. recently have incorporated with an authorized capital stoc.k of $25,()OOto take care of in-creasing business. The officers are: C. Evan Johnson, president and manager; William Wolford, vice presi<Jent and superintendent; and Edward Arning, who has recently en-tered the firm, treasurer. Death of "Joe" Sextro. Former Senator Joseph G. Sextro, for many years promi-nent in the furniture manufacturing business of Cincinnati, and a gentleman highly esteemed in the social and political circles of that city, died recently. 13 Additional Exhibition Space at Grand Rapids The re-modeling of the entire north half of the first and intermediate floors of the big KLINGMAN BUILDING places on the market 30,000 square feet of very desirable space available for the June-July exhibition. Get your application in promptly to secure the choicest location. Write today for detailed information. rates, plans, etc., to Furniture E.xhibition Building CO. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Daily Labor Reports and Time Sheets. A lumber manufacturing corporation loeated in the state of Texas employs the system described below to ascertain the labor cost of their product: "The forerun in charge numbers each man when he be- J-::ill:i 'work {or the first time in that certain department, and should he at any time work for another foreman, his number i, retained in order that only one account may be kept with him OIl the time book. 'This makes the time book very neat ,Hit! compact. \";hen the day's work has begun, the number of each 11,;\11 employed is taken, and should he drop out at any titre during the day, the exact number of hours are re-corded, whid leaves no opportunity for incorrectly keeping time. The o:iginal of each foreman's daily time sheet is turned in to the time keeper, and the carbon copy is posted in a most convenient place for observation. In this way, if there has for any reason, been any omiSS10J1S from tllC time the day prcv:ous, it can be rectified the following day. If the foreman's attention is not called to the matter immediate-ly, there will be no change made, as this provides ample op-portunity for such corrections. "Our daily labor report has so many advantages, that, without consuming a great deal of space, it would be impos-sible to call special attention to each feature. It embraces every department from stump to cars; sho\vs the· exact num-ber of men employed in each; number of hours worked; num-ber of feet of lumber handled per man; cost of lumber per thousand for each day, and also the cost to date. ';\Vhile it is advantageous to know the number of feet of lumber handled in each department. it is of more material advantage, in regard to trucking and stacking lumber, a::, each day we know the exact number of feet handled by our stackers and truckers. Of course, a certain amount of lum-ber has to be trucked and stacked each day, but by knowing .Just what each man should do, it does away with the necessity of employing extra men to handle the mill cut. "Even with capable, intelligent men employed as foremen of the different departments there. is always room for leak-age, and without these daily reports, it is very easy to employ more men than are absolutely necessary to handle the lumber in the various departments. "These matters are small when viewed individually-just one man here and there, but in the course of a year, or even one month, it will make quite an additional cost. "All lumber manufacturers know how much more careful employes arc in the management of big things as com-pared with the small, and it is realty the small things that count. "The foreman in charge will take care of the big things, but the mill man must take care of the small. Many a ship has been scuttled by a small leakage. "Under our system of daily reports there is absolutely no chance for any leakage. Just as a train dispatcher knows the exact location of each train under his supervision, we can, at any time during the month, know the exact cost of OUf manu-facture to datc; the amount of labor performed by each em-ploye, and just where conditions could be improved. "It is needless to say that the daily labor report has every advantage over the monthly." Will Make Substitute for Turpentine. EpJHaim Machet, Samuel Wierenberg and John Welch of Baltimore, Md., have incorporated the Southern Substitute Turpentine Company with a paid-up capital of $.,00,000. The articles of association state that the purpose of the company is to manufacture and sell oils, varnishes, etc., and "also a substitute for turpentine," but the nature of the substitute has not been divulged. 14 FURNITURE MEN'S REMINISCENCES, How a Young Manufacturer Was Surprised and Worried by His -First Success. Most of the Grand Rapids furniture manufacturers are men who have worked up in the business from small beginnings. Many of them began without money and with little credit and went through strenuous financial struggles before 3chiev-mg success. Such men like to talk of their early experiences and sometimes they relate anecdotes atid reminiscences that they would not wish to see in print. They are proud of their achievements, however, and many of their stories are in-structive and amusing. Two of the most successful manufacturers in the city be-gan their career together making chairs in a small town near the city. They were young men then, and' are not old now. They understood their business all right, but iackedcapital and as the furniture business was not so buoyant as it is today they had great difficulty in com·peting with the older, well-established concerns. One of them tells the following at the expense of the other-and it rarely fails to involve a li~tle expense: They heard that a new hotel in Cleveland, 0., was in the market for an outfit of chairs, The contract would amount to only a few hundred or perhaps a thousand dollars, but it looked big to them, and they decided to try for it. The hotel man asked that samples be s.uhmitted with the bids and it required about all the capital at their command to get them out and send them down to Cleveland. They had confidence in their work and really expected to land the contract, so one of the partners followed the samples prepared to explain their merits and show them to the best advantage. He was successful. He got the contract with-out question, closed the details and was thinking of starting for home, congratulating himself on his good fortune, when he received a surprise that was almost a shock. To use his own words, it nearly knocked him out. After arranging as to when the goods were to be finished and giving shipping directions, the ho.tel man said, ""VeIl, I suppose I might as well pay you something on this." and pull-ing out a fat wallet counted out $450. That was a surprise to the young furniture manufacturer. He had not thought of asking for anything. They had figured that if they secured the contract they could borrow money to keep the factory running, and that was the greatest incentive for their trying to get it. The shock caused by the receipt of the unexpected money was followed by worry over the danger of being robbed. The young man was 250 miles from home with $450 in his pocket. He had never had such a pile of money in his pos-session before and his only thought was of what a predica-ment the facto:-y would be in if he should lose that money. He decided to start for hom,~ at once and with visions of robbers, thugs, hold-Ups confidence men, etc., in his mind made his way to the depot, only to learn that he was too late for the early cvening train and could not get out until 10 o'clock. He was afraid to rOdm about town-he did not dare to go Qut for supper. However, he managed to slip up to the lunch counter, where he ate a sandwich and drank a cup of coffee with one hand on the pocket that contained his treasure. Then, selecting a well-lighted corner of the waiting room he sat down and from 6 until 10 o'clock watched every man and woman who entered the room, expecting every minute that someone would attempt to rob him. Going out to the train, he was car:eful not to get into a crowd, and to avoid close contact with anybody, and after he was seated in the car he looked for suspicious characters in front and behind him. The car was crowded and he wished he could' have secured the rear seat with his back to the waiL He did not smoke. Keither did he cat, drink or sleep that night. He kept his eyes and ears wide open and did 110trelax his vigilance until he had reached home and de-posited that pile in the hank. His associates scoffed at his fear and anxiety, but he insisted that there was cause for it, and even now when reminded of that experience declares his action was justified. "That money meant everything to us,'; he says. "Had I lost it- that would have been the last of our factory." Then his associates usually congratule him on the fact that his career as a furniture manufacturer was not "nipped in the bud"-was not "ended before it began," as one of them puts it." Another Upholstering Factory. The Criswell-Kepler Company, composed of James Cris-well and Fred Kepler, and capitalized at $10,000, are to estab-lish a factory for the manufacture of high grade upholstered mahogany furniture at the corner of North Front and Wcst Leonard streets, Grand Rapids, Mich. Mr. Criswell has rep-resented the Dexter Chair Company in this section for some time. Mr. Kepler will have charge of the upholstering de-partment. This will make eight upholstering institutions in Grand Rapids, where there were none ten years ago. Now those who make upholstery a prominent feature of their factories are the Retting Furniture Company, Mueller & Slack, Grand Rapids Upholstering Company, the C. S. Paine Company, the Century Furniture Company, Sweet & Biggs and the Michigan Chair Company, and there are several others who do more or less upholstering. FAULT~:': point where:;other casters refuse to turn is G'he Po:lnt with The Faultless Pivot Bearing Caster The FAULTLESS received the Highest Award at the World's Fair, 1904, over all other casters. Itissupplled wit h Faultless Patent Steel Spring Sockets. The Faultless is interchangeable; will fit six differ-ent sizes of IrOll. bed sockets, :-: TheFaultless has no weak spots-n 0 mechanical flaws··it's Fault-less in name-in action-and as a seller :_: '_0 If you are after a money maker,write to TShe Faultless Caster Mfg. Co., Nebraska City, Neb. They only manufacture 15 STA.E CHICAGO TRACE MARK REGISTe:RED FILLERS AND STAINS AND MISSION FINISHES You want to make all the profit you can, don't yOU? You wish the best results with the least outlay in time and money. Ad-el-ite Paint Specialties will accomplish this for you. Our Fillers and Stains are .uniform in quality, correct in shade and nonfading, they are dependahle goods of established favor. Popular taste demands the use of the old, dull, velvety Missiou effect in finishing woodwork and furniture in halls, libraries, dens, dining-rooms, etc., and you can secure this with a single application of anyone of the many shades of our One-Coat Dull Finish. A test will convince you of its worth. SEND FOR BOOKLET AND SAMPLES FREE TO YOU. Employers' Organizations Absolutely Necessary. All Souls' church (Universalist) Grand Rapids, Mich., has a class in Religion and Life which meets Sunday afternoons for the discussion of religious, economic, social and political subjects. George A. Davis, of the Stow & Davis Furniture Company and president of the Board of Education, addressed the dass recently on "The Organization of E111~ player." He gave a general review of the growth of labor unions in America and a brief history of the employers' as-sociations, declaring that the former made the latter absolute-ly necessary. He said that some In1l1dred years ago when the apprentice sy:,;tem was in vogue ill this country the cabi-netmaker, wheelwright and shoemaker made the completed article, and that then competition ,,,'as only betweell the work-ers themselves. After the pre5ent factory system was in-stalled each worker only made a part of the whole article, which condition brought about a three-corpered competition, namely the competition behvccn employers, that between em-ployes for the highest wage, alld the agitation and strife be-tween employer and employe resulti.ng -in the organization of unions. The speaker declared that siilce the disappearailce of the apprentice system in America, thfTc has ,uisen a grcat strife between the skilled and the unskilled workman while this is not the conultion in Europe. Organized labor, he said, is recognized by the English and German governments because skilled workmen arc not subjected to the same competition by unskilled labor as in this country. He believed that this con-dition ",;as due to the fact tInt in those COUll tries the parent of the student i!'>compelled to choose one of three courses of practical and manual training, which ,,,,ill fit the boy begin-ning at an early age, for a defmite trade or profession, During the past eight years, declared the speaker, the em-ployers have been awakened by the <J-ggressio!1of the unions, by their attempts to dictate wages and hours, and to limit the output of factories and plants. As evidence proving that they really try to control the output, he read a section from the by-laws of the Upholsterers' union, Mr. Davis declared that the employers hold nO ill-feeling against union men except those who are arbitrary and unrea-sonably aggressive. "Vle belie~'c," he said, "that the true open shop, where the true spirit of brotherhood exists, is the solution for all difficulties between employer and employed. and furthermore that the closed shop is un-American in prin-ciple." .Retailing in an Exposition Building. Quite a sensation was caused in ChicaQ;"orecently by the local furniture dealers' association. An agent was employed to ascertain whether goods were sold at retail in the exposi-tion buildings. Several "offenders" were located and posi-tive proof of their indulgence in the retail business obtained. Singularly it appears that none of the occupants of the Man-ufactnre, Ts Exhibition building were among those spotted, and the local association has given the management of that enterprise their approval. "Vhat course the association shall take in regard to the offenders remains to be seen. The employment of spotters is unusual in the business of retailing furnitme. Perhaps the conditions of the trade in Chicago justify the service rendered. They Promise to be Good. The retailers of Chicago banquetted and talked a few nights ago. Quite a number of commission men and manu-facturers 'were guests of the association. All made speeches and promised to be good. George Ctingman referred to the fact that the salc of goods by retail in the exposition build-ings of Grand Rapids had been discontinued. 16 ·~r;..IP ..HIG~ $ 71R TIS' A.l'l e . ? re ~ ....11.. A "REGULAR FURNITURE DEALER." His Requirements "Officially" Defined by President Rosen_ bury. A short time ago the Michigan Artisan received a letter from a gentleman about to engage in the business of selling furniture by retail and incidentally by mail, by means of cata-logues, .enquiring as to what plan of conducting sales it is necessary to pursue in order to obtain recognition as a legit-imate dealer by the state and national associations of retail-ers. The matter is of such importance that the Artisan felt it incumbent upon itself to submit the question to the high-est recognized at!-thority in the retail trade, C. C. Rosenbury, the president of the National Retail Dealers' Association, for an official defmition. Under date of April 29 President Ros-en bury replied as follows: Editor Michigan Artisan:- Yours of April 27 to hand. A regular furniture dealer is generally considered to be an in-dividual or firm who carries a stock of furniture adequate to the community in which he is doing business, e,,'en thougb this individual or firm should issue a catalog in connection with this business. But would add, further, that the sales from stores should comprise the bulk of such business, and not where some concern doing practically a mail order busi-ness stocks a limited amount of furniture, merely to enable them to be classed amOng the regular retail furniture deal~ ers. Curb-stone dealers or curb-stone brokers, as termed, refers to parties selling furniture from catalogs, \vithout car-rying a stock. Yours truly, C. C. ROSENBURY. If the National Retail Dealers' Association shall under-take to compel its members and the thousands of dealers who are not members, to observe the definition supplied by Presi-dent Rosenbury as to a legitimate dealer in furniture it will find the task a formidable one. The reduction of Port Ar~ thur would be but a small affair in comparison with, an at-tempt to compel retailers of merchandise to conduct tlleir business on the basis laid down.by President Rosenbury. It is not necessary to seek far for i~pregnable trade 'barriers which the National Retail Dealers' Association would have to overcome before it could put its. policy into effect. Spiegel, a retailer of Chicago, is credited with having sold through the mails outside of Chicago, last year, furniture and kindred goods valued at over $3,000,000. Hartman of the same city is credited with installment sales through the postal service, amounting to $5,000,000. Winegar Brothers of Grand Rap-ids, it is claimed authentically, s~ll $50,000 and upward an-nally outside of Grand Rapi.ds as the result of their enter-prise in distributing catalogues through the mails, and the Bishop Furniture Company by the same means a considerable larger amounts. Bishop mails 200,000 catalogues annually. Another installment house sells less than $25,000 from its store in Chicago, but its mail order business amounts to $2,500,000 annually, These enterprises, and there are many others, are destructive of the interests ,of the legitimate re-tailer, as defined by Mr. Rosenbury. But what is the legiti-mate retailer going to do about it? In business, only the fit-test sunrive. Many will cease to be "legitimate" retailers and thereby prolong their existence. Testing the Erdman Law. A case of much interest to both employers and employes was recently tried in the federal court at Nashville, Tenn., and has been carried to the court of appea·ls with a view of testing the validity of the act of 1898, generaly known as the Erdman law. The act grew out of the great Chicago railroad strike of 1894. It provides that any person discharging a man from the service ofa railroad company because of member-ship in a labor organization shall be deemed guilty of a misde-meanor and shall be liable to a fine not exceeding $1,000. Master Mechanic Adair of the Louisville & )Jashv1lle road was found guilty of having violated the law by discharging a fireman and was tined $100. He admitted the facts alleged in the indictment, but claimed that the law was unconstitu-tional. In the appeal his lawyers attack the validity of the act on the ground that the regulation of the relations between the railroad and its employes is beyond the power of con-gress, under its regUlation of interstate commerce; that it embraces employers engaged in domestic as well as inter-state commerc.c, the former being within the sale regulation of the state, and that it was class legislation because it con-ferred on union labor engaged in interstate commerce privi-leges not conferred on non-union labor so employed. Unless special arrangements can be made to expedite the case, the court of appeals will not give it· a hearing until ne~t winter. The importance of the case lies in the fact that sev-eral states have enacted similar laws applying to all clas'ses ()f employers and the legislatures of others have such bills under consideration. DeGroot Will Sen Veneers. Edward DeGroot, recently resigned his position as mana~ ger of the Battle Creek (Mich.) Table Company and entered into an engagement with the Talge Mahogany Company of Indianapolis, as sales agent. His territory is the states of Michigan, [ndiana and parts of the states of Ohio and Ken-tucky. Through his long connection with the furniture trade, Mr. DeGroot has acquired an expert's knowledge of timber of every variety ~nd the uses to which the same may be put. He will enter upon the discharge of his duties dur-ing the current month, To Our Western Patrons NOTE: There has been no change in the management of our CHICAGO FACTORY. the same practical men who have brought it to its present high standard continue in our employ. BE NOT DECEIVED. WE CAN MATCH ANYTHING FILLER BONE HARD OVER THAT WILL DRY N I G H T f ' The great majority--in fact just about all ot the manufacturing trade ask for a filler to be hard dry the day after filling. We can do better than that. USE OUR FILLER AND YOU CANNOT DIG IT OUT OF THE PORES THE ==== NEXT DAY==== IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR VARNISH TO PENETRATE THE SURFACE IT SANDS OFF IN A POWDER THAT WILL LEAVE YOUR SAND PAPER CLEAN AFTER THE WORK IS DONE. The Barrett-Lindeman Company IN CONSOLIDATION WITH The l.Jawrence-McFadden Co., Ltd. 61-63-65-6No7. Ashland Ave., CHICAGO. 1400·2-F4rankford Ave" PHILADELPHIA. 17 18 l!STABLlSHIlED 1880 PU.LISHED BY MICHIGAN ARTISAN CO. ON THE 10TH ANI;) 25TH OP' lEACH MONTH OFFICE-Z-20 LYON ST., GRANO RAPIDS, MICH. ENTERED .lIB MATT!R OF THE SECOND etA'S Chicago manufacturers-some of them; not all of them-are said to be opposing a bilI now pehding in the Illinois leg-islature which requires that machinery in factories, shall be so constructed, located arranged and protected as to lessen the danger of injury to the operators. The opposition is said to be based on the grounds of expense, the manufacturers claiming that the proposed law would require extensive changes in nearly all factories. The objection may be well-founded but a reading of the bill does not seem to suggest the necessity of any extensive changes, in modern factory equipment. The most prominent provision is that which requir~s exposed set· screws to be counter-sunk into the shaft, instead of being allowed to protrude. To comply with that provision of the law might cost some factory owners $50 or more, but when it is known that protruding, unpro-tected set-s!!rews caused more than 100 deaths in Illinois factories in the year 1906, the expense, even if increased ten-fold, should not be considered. It will not be considered by any manufacture who has had a man mangled or killed in his factory, and remembers how much he would have given to have avoided the accident. Others should not consider the expense nor oppose the bill. If they succeed in defeat-ing the measUre they may save the expense, but they are like-ly to invite the enactment of laws much more expensive, such as a bill now pending in Pennsylvania, which is intended to bar the plea of "contributory negligence" in sUits for dam-ages for injury or death. 'I' '\' 'I' 'I'· The learned lawyers who represent the New York Central Railroad Company do not lack ingenuity. They make the point that the Elkins law is void because it exempts water transportation lines but the main feature of their plea, on which they expect to save the road from paying fines aggre-gating $136,141 is based On rea.soning something like this: Corporations have no consciences, therefore they have not the faculty of reasoning. Without consdence and the ability to reason there can be no intent to do a wrong. As the in~ tent is the essence of the crime there can be no crime without intent. As there was no intent there was no crime, 'I' *1' 'I' '1' Arthur Hale, manager of the Chicago Car Clearing House in an address before the Transportation Association of Mi1~ waukee expressed the opinion that discussion of the car fa-mine, during the past year, has done a great deal of good, by bringing the public and the railroads closer together and es~ tablishing a better understanding of the situation all round. He stated that a year ago the average distance covered by a freight car in a day was 24.8 miles. Now it is 25.7-a gain of almost a mile. The gain does not indicate much in the way of' reform but it must be conceded that "every little bit helps." *'* *r* *r* *r' Wall street is stifl "in the dumps" but general financial, commercial and industrial conditions do not point to anything like depression, reaction or even a halt in the prosperity of the country. The railroads continue to report ·'traffic that taxes their facilities" and the iron market presents signifi-cant features, notably a scarcity of crune steel and an ad-vance of $1 per ton in the price of pig iron at Pittsburg. From the present outlook it appears that nothing except a failure of crops can prevent a continuance of "good times" during the coming year. '!' '1* 'I' *1' The American Cotton manufacturers' Association has en-dorsed a proposition to improve the telegraph service' by requiring messages to show the time they were filed for transmission. It is urged that the time of receipt at destina-tion as now marked on messages is rarely of much conse-quence to either sender or receiver, but the time at which the message was filed is frequently of great significance and im-portance to the receiver. The proposed reform would un-doubtedly tend to prevent delays in transmission. 'I' 'I' 'r* '1* In the little town of Litchfield, IlL, a liye merchant named E. M. Austin carries a stock of furniture not only sufficient for the needs of his town, but for many towns in the sur-rounding country. He advertises extensively and sells many orders by mail. The National Retail Furniture Dealers' Association is antagoinzing the mail order business, and if it is consistent it will employ its powers to put Austin out of "btBiness, if Austin will allow it. *1' *1' "I' 'I' At the annual meeting of the United Journeymen Plum-bers, Gas and Steam Fitters Association of New England, held at New Haven, Conn., recently, resolutions were adopted opposing legislation to give cities and towns the power to establish and maintain trade schools. They object to schools "which will pretend to give a mere boy instructions in the fundamentals of a craft which at present a man must spend five years in learning." 'I' 'I' *1' '1' Smith, Adams & Gibbs of Boston, have been troubling their local and the New England association of retail furnitUre dealers. They have been allowing country dealers· to bring their customers into the store and sell goods to them at the retail prices as 'marked on the tags. The fact that the prices are sometimes lower than the figures of other Uregular" dealers in probably the real cause of the trouble. '1* 'I' 'I' 'I' Some of the railroads are trying to retaliate for the pass-age of two-cent fare laws in western states, by discontinuing the sale of interchangeable mileage books except for use in states that have not passed Jaws reducing fares. That" poHcy " is not likely to prove beneficial to the roads. It will prob-ably be upset by the Interstate Commerce Commission. *1* *1* *1* *1* The annual congress of manufacturers of the United States will be held in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York on May 20 to 22. Among the guests will be Secretary Oscar S. Straus, Speaker Cannon, Senatdr Doliver, Admiral Sigsbee, General Bell and former Judge Prouty. The furniture in-dustry,. it is expected, will be well represented. *1' *j* *J* *j' One half of the total national income goes to one tenth of the people; the remainder is clhrided among the nine-tenths, composing the well-to-do and poor classes. How many man-ufacturers of furniture are there grouped in the one-tenth class, with the publishers of the trade papers, Carnegie, Rockfeller and Harriman? *1* *\* *1* *1* New York has a new Jaw-to take effect January 1. 1908- whichprobibits the employment of minors under 16 years 0f age in factories for more than eight hours per day-they must not work before 8 o'clock "a. m., or after 5 p. m. The necessity and advantages of· the latter feature of the law are not clearly apparent. The Universal Automatic CARVINO MACHINE ==== PERFORMS THE WORK OF ==== 25 HAND CARVERS And does the Work Better I:han it can be Done by Hand -------MADE BY--'------- UnIOn [nOOSSInQ MUUlnr (0. Indianapolis, Indi.n. Write for Information, Price. Eto. The Pittsburg Plate Gla~s Company MANUFACTURERS AND JOBBERS 01' Pla.in and Beveled Mirrors. Polished Plate. Bent Glass. Plate Glass for Desks and Table Tops. CARRARA GLASS El new pl'od\lct Uke po1ts.hed white m.&l'ble. Our facilities for supplying furniture manufacturers with everything in Plate Glass, rough or polished, large or small, will be· understood when we srate that we have eight glass factories, extending from PennsyLvania to MillSouri, and fourteen Mirror Plants located as follows: New York Boston Philadelphia. Buffalo Cbicago Cincinnati 8t. L(lule. MlnnelllJlolfs AUalltll Kokomo. Ind. Da.venport Crysta.l City, Mo. Ford City. Pa. ](ansa.e City, Mo. High Point, N. C. Largest Jobbers of Window Glass in the World Also, our 23 jobbing houses carry heavy stocks in all tines of glass. paints, varnishes and 'brushes and are located in the cities named below: New York-Hudson and Vandam Sts. Baltlmo..-221~228 W. Pratt Street. Boston-U~49 Sudbury, 1-9 Bowker. sts. Buffal()--372-4.-f:l-S read Street. Chicago-l4-2-452 Wa.bash Avenue. BrookIyp--685 and 687 Fulton Street. Cincinnati-Broadway and Court Sts. Philadelphla--l"itcairn BuUdJng, Arcb St. Louls-Cor. 7tb and Ma:rket Sts. and Elevent,h Sts. :a.linnea-poli-uOO-IHO S. Tbird St. Uavenpa.rt--nO-416 SCutt stftet. Detroit-58-55 Lamed St., E. Cleveland-1430-4 West Third Street. Gmnd Rapids,Mlch.-39-41 Y. Division Omaba-1608-10-12 Harney Street. St. St. Paul-349-0l M:iDnesota.Street. Plttl!burgh-lOl-lOS Wood Street. Atlanta, Ga.-~O, ~2 and M S. 1."17o'rst. Milwaukee, l\'i8-4-92-494 Market St. Snvsnnah, Ga.-745-749 Wheaton Street. Rocbeste:r, N. Y.-Wilder Building, Main Kansas City-Fifth a.nd Wyandotte 8t8. and Exchange sts. BiI'Dlingham, Ala.-2nd Ave. and 29th St. Sole dlstrlbuters of PATTON·S SUN PROOF PAINTS Wire Glass Best Protection Altalnst Fire It needs no argument to show what advantages may be derived from dealing directly with us. AGEN"tS FOR THE COULSON PATE-NT CORNER POSTS A~D BARS. We have over 12;different styles of factory and warehouse trucks to offer, also a complete lh.e of woodworking vises and bencbes. WABASH INDIANA GLOBE VISE AND TRUCK CO. Office 321 South Divi.ion St., GRAND RAPIDS. M1CH. Mfrs. of High Grade Wood Workers Vises AND Fantory Trunks Quality and Price taLk in factory trucks and we can interest you. Will you setld us your addreSS and let us write you about them? Writ~fllT PriCtl$ B. WALTER & CO. Mon.f.,,",," of T ABLE SLIDES Exclusively WRITE FOR PRICES AND DISCOUNT SOM.ETHING NEW WE have perfected a new GOLDEN OAK OIL STAIN without the use of asphaltum or acid. This stain is the strongest and most pene-tratjng stain on the market. It entirely pene-trates the WQod, leaving no surplus on the sur-face to penetrate with the filler. Samples furnished on application. CRAND RAPIDS WOOD FINISHINC COMPANY 5Ei-Ei!l E:LLS.WQ~TH AIlE:., G,P;AI'ID RAPIDS, MICH· 19 21l ~MlfplGJjIN , 7IR.T I.s' ..7U'l ? 2m· "No-Kum-loose" Mission Knob (PATENT APPI.IED FOR) This is the latest style in Mission Knobs. It is made in plain and quartered oak, and takes the same finish as the drawers it.is designed to go on. We make a toilet screw to match. We also make the "No·Kum·Loose"' Knobs in birch, maple, walnut and mahogany in many sizes and styles, and carry in stock a ful1line of Quartered Oak, Walnut and Mahogany. WADDELL MANUFACTURING CO., GRANDRAPIDS,MICH. SAY YOU SAW THiS AD IN THt. MICHIGAN ARTISA.N, APRIL 10TH EDITION. Our Clamps received GOLD MEDAL at World'. Fat ... St. Louis. Write fOT pri~s and particulars. Black Bros. Machinery CO. MENDOTA, 11..1.. VItNEER PRESS (Patented June 30, 1900.) CHAIN CLAMP (Patented June 30,1903.) CASINET CLAMP. Agency _C- OFFlCES, _ Boston New York Jasnest(t'Wn High Pomt Cincinnati Detroit Grand Rapids Chlca'o St. Louts Minneapolis A.ssoclate Offloes and Boooded AttorneJ'1Io frllaU Pt'frllcipaJ cftl .. The Furnitur REPORTING FURNITURE, UND RTAKERS, CARPET HARDWARE AND KINDRED TAVES, COLLEC· TION$ MADE BY AN UNRIV LLED SYSTEM THR01!l,;H OUR COLLECTION 0 PARTMENT •• WE PRODVCH RBstJl,.TS ..WHERE OTHE FAIL WRITK FOR PARTICULARS AND YOU WILL SBND U YOUR BUStNESS. Our Complalrllt and A Justment Department Red Dra te Collect Bolton Band Saw Filer lor Saws %. inch up. B. T. & B, Style D.'Knile Grinder. F II Automatic. Wet or dry Saw and Knife Fitting Machinery and Tools iJ'n"/i.g~~a~~~'~:t Baldwin. Tuthill ®. Bolton Grand Rapids. Mich. Filers. Setters. Sharpeners. Grinders. Swages. stretchers, Brazing and Filing Clamps. Knife Balances, Hammering Tool8. lnves£r::~OIlT New 200 page: Catalogue for 1907Free. This Machine Makes the Money BY SAVING IT=========== It makes a perfect imitation of any open grain because it uses the wood itself to print from. and one opemtor and a couple of boys can do more work with it than a dozen men with any other so-called machine or pads on the marke.t. That"s whyJit's a money makere It imitates perfectly PLAIN or QUARTERED OAK,'lMAHOGANY, WALNUT, ELM. ASH or any other wood with open grain WRITB TilE Posselius Bros. Furniture Manufacturing Co., Detroit, Mich. FOR PRICES AND FULL PARTICULARS. MENTION THE MICHICAN ARTISAN. 21 22 ·-:f~MICH·I.G77IN. a MIRROR PLATE CONDITIONS. Vice President Hart Talks of the Action Taken at the Pitts .. burg Meeting. "The mirror plate business is in bad shape," said Joseph S. Hart of the Hart Mirror Plate Company, Grand Rapids, Mich., when asked as to the condition of the trade recently, "It is not discouraging," he continued, "but it has been bad for the past year, especially during the past six months. The price of plate glass has been so high that there has been little or no margin for the mirror makers except those who 'were Joseph B. Hart. able to pick up bargains in what we call our raw materiaL It has been easy to obtain inferior plates, but the price on first class, perfect stock, such as is used by the Grand Rapids manufacturers and is known as the 'Grand Rapids Quality,' has been so high and so firm that there was little profit for the bevelers and silverers. The prices have not only been high, but they are still firm and nobody can see any sign of a decline in the near future." Mr. Hart had just returned from the East, where he had remained a week or two after attending the meeting of the mirror plate manufacturers at Pittsburg. Speaking of the action taken at the meeting, Mr. Hart said: "That meeting was not called for the purpose of forming a combine to raise and maintain prices. Our purpose was to consider the advisability of forming a defensive organiza-tion- there are no trust features in the movement. "Whether the movement will be successful or not re-mains to be seen, but I assure you that it is not the purpose of the organizatfon to boost prices unless compelled to do so on the account of the firm prices of raw materials. The mirror plate makers have been considerably encouraged by the action of the meeting." The organization referred to by Mr. Hart is called the Mirror Manufacturers' Association of the United States. The officers, who also constitute the board of directors, are as fol-lows: President-Robert A. Schlegel, Williamsport, Pa. Vice Presidents-Jacques Kahn of New York and Joseph S. Hart of Grand Rapids, Mich. Treasurer-Enos P,orter, Shelbyville, Ind. Secretary-F.Wineski of High Point, N. C. Before the interview with Mr. Hart-during his absence -a representative of the Artisan talked with several Grand Rapids furniture manufacturers about the condition of the mirror plate business and the probable purpose and effect of the new organization. Neatly all of them entertained the opinion that the movement would' result in an advance in prices in the near future-that such was the purpose-but niost of them were liberal in their views, adm tting that the mirror makers had been badly pushed and decl ring that the organi~ zation was necessary. One expressed he opinion that the new organization might help to raise and maintain prices, an<1another-James G. McBride of the Nelson-Matter Com-pany- said the mirror plate makers wo Id be justified in ad-vancing prices. "I believe they have een selling goods at figures which left them very little if an profit," he declared. Architects Are, Not Good Furni p.re Designers. Several af the large furniture inanufftcturing corporations of Grand Rapids are full of orders for hotels, the contracts for which were secured through retail ~ealers. In discuss-ing this branch of the furniture manu acturing busittess re-cently, the superintendent of one of the large plants re-ferred .to remarked that much illy desi ned furniture is used in the equipment of hotels, because pr prietors of the same have employed architects to prepare s ecia1 designs. The average architect is not conscientious n the drafting of de-signs and aims to please his employe rather than to give truthful expression of the art he undert kes to portray. He is usually successful in fitting the furniture to the wall and floor spaces it is intended to occupy, bu beyond that require-ment · he is seldom successful. While t e conscientious man~ ufacturer endeavors to carry out the pI rpose of the architect many instances arise in which changes re necessary in order that strength and utility shall not be acrificed. The av-erage hotel keeper, owing to his lack 0 experience, does not inspect the furniture purchased on his ccount as closely and as intelligently as the regular trade buy T, and when he places an order directly with the manufacture , the opportunity pre-sents itself for the manufacturer to sight the construction and finish of the goods ordered. No uanufacturer of estab-lished reputation, however; will take dvantage of such op-portunities. Cabinet Hardware --AND-- Factory Supplies Wood Screw•• CooeI. Serew•• Liqoid moe, Caster •• UpI.olaterer'. Taek•• Large Head Burlap Taek•• Wire Brads. Staodard Nail•• Cement Coated Nail•• Elbow Catehe•• Door Gat.ches, etc., etc. New England flint Paper. Barton Gamet Paper. Dooble faeed fliot aod Garnet fiui.hi"l! Paper. Brass Butts. WroOllht Steel Botts.' eabillet Loeks and Key•. Gold Plated and Gilt Cab-inet Keys. Beneh Vises. Bolts, Washers, Zioes. Our large and complete assortment of general hard ware is at your service; Correspondence solicited. Inquiries for prices will receive careful and immediate atlention. FOSTER, STEVENS & CO. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Mt". Manufacturer-Uo you ever consider what joint gluing colli? The separators and wooden wedges, if you use them and many do, are a large item of expense accounts; but this is small compared to wage ac~ counts of workmen who wear them out willi. a hammer I and then a lar~e y_~ cent of the joints are failures by the insecurity of this means. RESULT, has to be done over again, if possible .. If you use inde~ pendenl screw damps the result is better, but slower. altogether too slow. Let us tell you of something better. PALMER'S CLAMPS. All steel and iron. NQ wedges. no sepacaton, ad}llst to any width, clamp instantly yet securely, releases even faster. Positively one_third more work with one-third leas help. In seven sizes up to 60 inches. any thickness up to 2 inches. 200 factories convinced in 1906. Why nol you in 1907 t Althongh sold by dealers e'l'erywhere \el us send you p".cul.,. 1\. E. Palmer 8. Sons. Owosso, MiGh. FOREIGN AGENTS: Proiedile Co.• London. England. Schul:hardt & Sl:hulle. Berlin, Germany. The White Directory CONTAINS A CAREF'ULLV COMPILED LIST OF MANUF'ACTVRERS OF' FURNITURE, PIANOS, ORGANS, INTERIOR FINISHES AND KINDRED INDUSTRIES Now Ready. Send in your order. WHITE PRINTING COMPANY PRINTERS. ENGR~VERS. PUBLISHERS, BINDERS 2-20 LYON ST., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. GLASS KNOBS This Pallern Made in Three Sizes We will make you INTERESTING PRICES FOR QUANTITIES JOHN DUER &. SONS, BALTIMORE, MD. Cabinet Hardware, Tools, Etc. Ste~~ensonmf. (0.1 South Bend, Ind. Wood Turnings. T umed Moulding, Dowel, and Dowel Pins. Clltlllogue to Manufac-turers on APplication. VENEERED ROLLS The "Reliable" Kind Why Worry with the Roll Question ===1= Leave that to us. We are prepared to solve it quicker and better be-cause we bave the knowledge and equip-ment. We use notbing but t:.b~'&tn\lt in 0 u r cores. Writeforpriclis. The Fellwock Auto-mobile & Mfg. CO. EVANSVILLE, IND. Formerly the FeHwock Roll & Panel Co. Nothing cbanged but the name, Morton House American ......Plan Rates $2.50 and Up Hotel Pantlind European ......Plan Rates $1.00 and Up GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. The Noon Dinner Served at the Pantlind for 500 is the fiNEST IN THE WORLD J. BOYD PANTLIND. P....p. 23 24 FOLDING BED FIXTURES Protitabte)ixtures to use are those which"give the least trouble. They are made by Folding Bed Williams in many styles and designs, suitable for every folding bed manufactured. Furniture Cast-ings, Panel Holders, Corner Irons, elc. New ideas and inventions constantly being added to the line. F. B. WILLIAMS 3812 VINCENNES AVE., CHICACO Mallufacturerof J1ardwareSpedaltiesfortbe Furniture"J rarle. Establish~d It\';8. BOYNTON eX CO. Manufacturers of Embot;&ed and Turned Mouldinas. Embo •• ed al:lld Spindle Carvinas. and Automatic:: Turnings. We also manu-facture a large line of Embouec:t Orna-menta for Coueh Work. SEND FOR CATALOGUE 419-421 W. Fifteenth St., C"IC4GO, Ill. We offer exceptional value in Reversible and One-Way Cutters for Single and Double Spin-dle Shapers. Largest lists with lowest prices.. Greatest variety to select from. Book free. Address Wood Forming Cutters SAMUEL J. SHIMER & SONS MILTON. PENNSYLVANIA, U. S. A. MACHINE. fiNIVES PERFECT QUALITY PROMPT SERVICE RIGHT PRICES ABSOLUTE GUARANTEE Dado or Grooving Heade. Miler Machines. Uo'Y.real WQ(IIdTrlnuners. Boring Machines. Etc. FOX MACHINE CO '8SN,FrontSt. • Grand R.apld_. Mich. ====MANUFACTURERSOF==== Furniture, Pianos, Organs, Refrigera-tors, Chairs, and Interior Finishes, read this, the Factory Edition, of the Artisan. IT IS NOT MAILED TO DEALERS OUR EDI'IION OF THE 25th OF EACH MONTH IS MAILED TO DEALERS ONLr. USE A MORTON KILN IT WILL END YOUR DRY KILN TROUBLES Does not warp or check lumber. THE MOST PERFECT MOIST AIR KILN ON THE MARKET. TRUCKS, CANVAS DOORS, RECORD-ING THERMOMETERS and other sup-plies, Write for catalog H which tells HOW TO DRY LUMBER. MORTON DRY KILN CO. 218 LA SA.LLE.ST., CHICACO. 25 PALMER'S Patent Gluing Clamps Are the IDO.t sucees.sful PilingCl.m~ Made For the foliowiD.i reason. They clamp instantlly aDywidth of dimension' 'SOOck,no ad~ Justipg clamps to fit the work, they hook at (tHee to tile desired wldtb. Released fnl!ltautly-throw out tbJ..>, lever and take th6DI oft". The work can be removed as fast as it can be handled. As tbe tllamp is placed over the work· and locks Into the oDe below it, the dmw is alike on both sldes, prevent!! all springing PO matter how wide the stock may be. Impossible for tbem to sUP; the wedge has 8errated edge and eannot be moved when clamp' is' closed, hammer all you .Ilke. Unlindt0d POWf!il';great l!Itrengtb and durabllity; malleable trOD llud steel; the knuckle joints are socket ~oiotl\ not rivets. Although the best they ~08t you les8. For furiher information ask tor catalogue No. 4, A. E. Palmer, Owosso, Mich. DURABLE AND EFFICIENT Although an essential 10 mill equipment, the ex-haust fan is usually located 10 an out-of-the-way place and greatly neglected. This fact was borne in mind in the designing of the "ABC" Exhaust Fan and is constantly kept in view in its manufacture, the reo suit being a Fan of exceptional strength and rigidity, coupled with high efficiency, FURNISHED WITH SPE.CIAL WHE.ELS FOR LONG, STRINGY SHAVINGS. ASK FOR BULLETIN No. 2I1MA. AMERICAN BLOWER CO., Detroit, Mich. NEW YORK CHICAGO ATLANTA LONDON 26 Commercial Graft. Too often the house is bled by those within its trust. Too. often the man for whose services adequate payment is made, and who is supposed at every turn to be watchful of his em-ployer's good, is reaping ill-gotten gains by receiving whai. he terms his legitimate "commission" on the side. "A men versed jn all the arts and requirements of'a red,lm line of business bought out a house which had enjoyeJ a large business for years, but which had netted small profib indeed. From all outward appearances the business was a pay·· ing one. Auditors who examined the books spoke highly 0;" its promised future. Yet there- seemed to be a leak some-where. The new proprietor, by close c:omparison, found that supplies in certain departments were costing far too much. He went to the seat of the trouble and to his own satisfaction determined that the trusted buyer was receiving rebates from a firm selling thousands of dollars worth of supplies to the concern annually. He immediately relieved the buyer of his job and put a man in his place in whom he. had implicit conftdence. The new man was instructed to ascertain the truth of the head's sus-picions if possible. An agent of a manufacturing firm shortly came around and the new buyer was given a proposition similar to the one the former man had been working under. He turned the offer down and acquainted his employer with the entire facts. The employer then communicated with the house to the effect that he refused to deal with a firm exercising such methods. He told them tersely that he was paying the men who worked under him what was agreed between them as man amI marl as sufficient salaries for their services, and as they could rebate the buyer, he was plainly paying too much for what he was getting from them. He closed with the statement that if there were any rebate it should go to the house and not personally to an employe of the house. But as he could not trust them to treat him hon-estly after his experience he cancelled all orders and abso-lutely refrained from ever giving them another. His word has conscientiously been kept. The wholesalers have lost thousands of dollars in trade, and he has set a pre~ cedent which if followed by other firms throughout the coun-try. ·will go far toward the stamping out of commercial graft so prevalent in all Jines of trade at the present time.-J. B. Colby. Al Adams Furniture House Bankrupt. A petition in bankruptcy has been filed by creditor; against Lawrence P. Adams and George C. Walker, doing retail fur· niture business under the firm name of MrOain, Simpson & Co., at 539 Eighth avenue, New YOt·k. The petition alleges that Adams and \Valker are insolvent and that they have com-mitted acts of insolvency by making preferential payments to the amount of $5,000 amI transferring property worth about the same amount. The business was started in March. 1890, by D. W. Mc- Clain, Thomas SjmpSOJl alJd George C. Walker, as 11cClain, Simpson & Co.. who continued together until November 1, 1891, when they dissolved and Ai Adams. the "policy king," who owned the building, took the business and turned it over to his son, Lawrence P. Adams, who took Me Walker into partnership. They have continued the business since under the old firm style. Hugh Blackburn Tours Michigan. Hugh Blackburn,of the Blackburn-Nolan Varnish Com~ pany. Cincinnati, makes oceasional tOtlrs of the wood working plants operated in the state of Michigan, accompanied by the company's representative, George A. Findlater. A fine busi-ness has been established. GLOBE VISE _N_ TRUCK CO, Manl.lfactl.lNlrs or Strictly up-to-date qUick-acting Wood Workers' Vises. Thev are time savers and make a ~:~~\~~tr::~h~~ Our prices are the best. Write for them. We also make a complete line of iact<>ry atld warehouse trucks. Our circulars are cheerfully mailed upon reques;t. GLOBE VISEand TRUCK CO. Grall" Rapids, Mich, IMPROVED,EASY", ELEVATORS QUICK RAISI·NG Belt, Electric and Hand Power. The Best "Hand Power for Furniture Stores Send for Catalogue and Prices. KIMBAll BROS. CO., 1067 Ninlh 61.. Council Bluffs, la. Kimball Elevator Co •• 3:0 PrO$pect St., Cleveland, O. 10811thSt., Omaha, Neb.; 129Cedar St., New York City. MANUFACTURERS OF HARDWOOD LUMBER &. VENEERS SPECIALTIES: ~'L~Efe~QUAORA. K VENEERS MAHOGANY VENEERS HOFFMAN BROTHERS COMPANY 804 W. Main St., FORT WAYNE, INDIANA GRAND RAPIOS· .. ·....·...MICHIGAN These saws are made from No. 1 Steel and we war~ rant every blade. We also carry a full stock of Bev-eled Back Scroll Saws. any length and gauge. Write us for PJ1.ce LIst and discount 31-33 S. FRONT ST., QRAND RAPIDS 27 KNOXVILLE CARVING AND MOULDING CO. KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE Manufacturers of SPINDLE and HAND CARVINGS, ROPE, !lEAD and EMBOSSED MOULDINGS, HANDLES, Etc. Write Jar Illustrated Circulars and Prices. Ready for the "Long Pull." Editorial in New York COl11mercial of )i1ay 4-lt is really remarkable .with what ease this cOl1lltry!--or, let us call it, the financial world here in the United States, because the country as a whole refused to be pertllrbcd-has recovered from the severe :flurry of a few week ago. It senns almost like a bad dream to look back at it; and there is 110 doubt that for a \vhile the skies were 10'.vering. That, 1n the end, nothing happened once morc demonstrates of what flimsy stuff panics aTe made. It is (rue that somebody was wounded. There cannot be a drop in the market price of stocks, as sudden as a drop in the barometer when a stOrm approaches, without knocking some "marketeers" off their legs. '\That really happened was a change of fortune among those who best could afford it. The country went right along about its business, and 'Vv'all Street was left to adjust itself as best it c0111d-..v..hich it is always certain to do in the course of time. The tremble has subsided, and prices are again going through the process of being fixed on a sensible basis. 1den are looking to the coun-try and to the crops, whence comes variable news. These crops may suffer some from the altogether unseasonable 'weather; they may yet expand to the full volume of product. There is no good reason, however, to believe that t~cie will be anything like: a "crop failure." \Ve have had ~l1ring the week now ending all sorts of reports from "intere-,ted" per-sons; and finally we have had a re.port from a hidy trust-worthy source-the Kansas State Board of Agriculture-on the condition of the crops in that Statc, whence news of the greatest damage had come. vVhat injury has been done to wheat, this report says, is more than counterbalanced by the increased acreage. And there you are! Kansas promises, a one-bl1ndred-million-bl1shel crop. We canlt ask anythtng better than that, ,,~/jthall tbe other districts Jet to hear from. The report of the United States Steel Curporation for the quarter was excellent. Conditions in that branch of industry \'v'ere all that could be desired" and they were on a par with expectations. The railroads some weeks ago showed a tend-ency. to curtail. That disposition exists in a meaSLlte still; but they are not guided by any fear or a slump in their busi-ness. Money is their paramount ques-.ion. If they can get it easily-and perhaps they can-their extensions will not be curtailed. New roads of great mileage are now building, too, or are contemplated, if] many sections of the country. To these are added the ever-increasing interurban trolley lines. Steel and t::opper are required for these. In addition, the cities are expanding at a rate that can be expressed only as wonderful. Hardly any section of the country is passed in this enthusiasm of building. Atlantic and Pacile-coast cities particularly are employing mechanics, in large numbers. Looking over the situation as it stands, then, need anyone be pessimistic over the long pul! through the Summer and Autumn months? Furniture Fires. 1.farion (lnel.) mattress factory. Loss, $8,500. P. "V, }\IadSeJl, Salt Lake City. Loss, $6,500. F. Oborndocrfor, Frederick, 1'1d. Loss, $8,000. n. Deutser Furniture Company, Beaumont, Tex. l\lontgomery & Co., KashvilJe, Tenn. Loss, $42,000. J. Vi. \\iatts & Co., Stony Point, )4. C. Loss, $2,500. Keystone Cabinet vVorks, Chester, Pa. Loss, $90,000. Story & Clark,Piano Company, Chicago. Loss, $38,000. James M. McDonough, Baltimore, .l\ld. Factory; loss $14,OU{). Keystone Cabinet \Vorks, Chester, Fa. Loss, lumber, $12,000. John M. Dean Company, Providence, R. 1. Storehouse. Loss, $12,000. 11atthews Bros., Manufacturing COmpa1l.1Y, Milwaukee, ''''Tis. Factory. Loss, $3,000. III I ALHOlCOM5&COs MANUFACTURERS ..r.lll DEALERS IN HIGH GRADE BAND AND SCROLL SA"IVS REFAIRING-5ATI5FACTION GUARANTEED ~ CIT1Z~N5 PHONE 1239 27 N MARKET 5T ~ -G.....RANDRAFIDS,MICH. Caf>inetMakers In these days .of close competition, need the best poslilible equipment, and this they can have in . • • • BARNES' Hand and Foot POWER Machinery OUf New"and and foot Power Circular Saw No.4 The strongest, most powerful, and in every way the best macbine of ita kind ever made, for ripping, cross-cutting, boring and grooving. Send for our New Catalogue. "W. F. ®. JOHN BARNES CO. 654 Ruby Street. Rochford. Ill. ANOTHER POINT TO REMEMBER IF YOU PLACE YOUR 'ANNOUNCEMENTS ------ IN THE ------- Mercantile Editions of the Artisan THEY WILL BE READ BY DEALERS IN FURNITURE AND KINDRED GOODS ONLY 29 Qrau~Da~i~sDlow Pi~e an~Dust Arrester (ompauJ THE LATEST device for bandIin~ shavings and dust from all wood· working machines. OUf nineteen yf"ars experience in this class of work has brought it nearer perfection tban any other system on the market today. It is no experiment, but a demonstrated scientific fact, as we have several hundred of these systems in use, and not a poor one among them. OUf Automatic Furnace Feed System, as shown in this cut, is tbe most perfect working device of anything in its line. Write for our prices for equipment •. WE MAKE PLANS AND DO ALL DET AIL WORK WITHOUT EX· PENSE TO OUR CUSTOMERS EXHA UST FANS AND PRESSURE BLOWERS ALWAYS IN STOCK aCtie. and Fa.ctory: 205-210 Canal Street GRAND RAPIDS. MICH. Cttl.2:.... Phone 1282 &"n, II( ..10 1804 OUR AUTOMATIO FURNACE FEED SYSTEM: ~---------- --------------------- -- -- -- 30 -"''''MICHIG.7lN •• E a 7IR-TIS'~ \~. ¥ sr- ~ Chair 1daDufa .. tu1"Ct'.r WARNING TO ALL FURNITURE MANUFACTURERS! If you want to get on the inside track of some pretty good machinery, glance over this list of second hand machines we have for sale. If interested, write us for further particulars. We can quote you prices that will be perfectly satisfactory. These machines were included in the purchase of our new plant and we have absolutely no use for them. They are all in good condition. Spiral Table Leg Turner Tenoning Machine 4 WoodTop Saw Tables WoodTop Edge Jointer Benedict Case Clamp Larae 72 Inch &and keaaw Table Leaf Jointer ar.d Ripper .f Spindle Table Leaf Roring Boult~.Stroke .Jointer 14 Spindle DoveTailer Machine 24 Inch Joiner 6 Spindle DoveTailer au .... Stroke Jointer LANGSLOW, FOWLER CO., ROCHESTER., N. Y. WHY APPRENTICES ARE SCARCE. Present Conditions Are Not Encouragingto Boys Who Wish to Learn a Trade. Why do the boys of today entertain such a dislike for ap-prenticeship? At no other period in the industrial history of this country has the lack of apprentices been felt to such an extent as at the present time. Many of the most skilled trades are in danger of eHmination through this condition of affairs_ There are many causes, says Geo. A. Russ. The usual term of apprenticeship in this country is from three to four years, though some trades require a training of five and even six years_ Yau can hardly blame a boy for not devoting this number of years in learning a trade, when he will receive no ~ore for his knowledge than will another boy who has merely "picked up," his trade who perhaps is only proficient in one branch of the trade. The world now is moving too rapidly for anyone to take four, five, or six years to learn a trade. After a hoy has served four or five years in learning a trade there is a chance that some one will jnvent an automatic machine which will do away with his skillfulness entirely. This is not a theory but a fact such as has been demonstrated in numerous trades during the last several years. Low wages is another cause which is damaging to appren-ticeship. In many trades the reason for the low rate of wages paid apprentices is that" the great profit derived from appren-tices is a matter which is given close attention by the em-ployer. A good example of the foregoing is the rate of pay laid down for apprentices in the plumbing trades: First six months _ , , .. $ .50 Second six months, ,... .75 Second year . _ _ _ , .. 1.00 Third year " ....•................. _.. _. .. 1.25 Fourth year _ ,. _ , 1.50 First six months fifth year " 2.50 Last six months fifth year , _.. , , .. 3.00 It will be seen that after an apprentice has begun his fourth year he receives only $1.50 a day. Just think how un-reasonable it is to ask a person, who has served four years at his trade, to work for $1.50 a day. How many practical men will admit that a man will work for $1.50 a day when he has been at the trade four years? Imagine a skilled mechanic with fOUf years' experience working at a job at $1.50 a day, and his digger receiving $1.75 or $2.'00 sometimes more. How many young men of 18 to 20 years of age would work as a mechanic for anything less than $2 a day? Not many, I dare say. Another example of the extremely low wages paid appren-tices is furnished by the printing trade. Their scale as fixed by some of the larger firms, allows for the first year one-fourth journeymen's wa~es; second year, one-third; third year, onc-half; fourth year, two-thirds. It will be seen by this scale that the earnings of an appren-tice are so low that it discourages intelligent and ambitious boys from becoming skilled workers. Under the apprenticeship system of the earlier days it was the custom for boys to begin the learning of a trade when quite young, as a rule 14 years was the usual age at which a boy was apprenticed. But in recent years the miinmum age of an apprentice has been raised to from 16 to 18 years. Com-pulsory school attendance laws and child labor laws have been leading factors in raising the age at which a boy may be apprenticed. In the earlier days a boy starting in when 14 years of age would have his trade learned by the time he was 18 or 19 years of age, Today a boy could not possibly finish his apprenticeship before he reached the age of 20 or 21 years. Still another cause for the present dislike ·of apprentice-ship can be traced to the disintegration of the different trades. At the present time there is a constant tendency eoward specialization and simplification of the ,processes within a trade. A boy who has served his time as an apprentice and is qualified as a first class mechanic usually is put at one branch of his trade and remains there. Along comes another boyar an ordinary laborer without any training whatever; he is put alongside of the boy who has served four long years as an apprentice and is jnstructed in that same branch of the trade. In a month or so he is earning just as much money as the other boy_ Under these modern conditions is no wonder then that a dislike has arisen for apprenticeship. With, all of these reasons existing against apprenticeship there still is a good reason for undergoing a period of train-ing in order to master a trade. A mechanic who has acquir-ed his craft knowledge by a process of difficult training possesses a pride of workmanship which cannot be possessed by the mechanic who has only "picked up" his trade. Then, again, the mechanic who receives an all iround training is en-abled to work in all branches of bis craft and thereby is en~ abled to change e.mployments to much ~etter advantage than the man who knows but one branch of bis trade. The mechanic who ha"s passed thr~ugh a period of ap~ prentice ship also is more independent, :"nd is better equipped to combat with the world for existence! than is the man who who knows only a small part of his trade. Willard Barnhart Returns. Willard Barnhart, the president of the Nelson-Matter Furniture Company, who is also interested in a number of manufacturing, merchandizing and banking institutions of Grand Rapids, returned recently with his family from Cali-fornia. .7IR.-T I.s.7Il"l @ 7$. 31 CREDITS and COLLECTIONS Grand Rapids Office, 412-413 Houseman Bldg. GEO. E. GRAVES, Manager CLAPPERTON &. OWEN, Counsel The THE CREDIT BUREAU OF TilE FURNITURE TRADE LYON Furniture Agency ROBERT P. LYON, General Manager THE STANDARD REFERENCE BOOK CAPITAL, CREDIT AND PAY RATINGS CLEARING HOUSE OF TRADE EXPERIENCE THE MOST RELIABLE CREDIT REPORTS SAVING MAY BE A VICE. COLLECTIONS MADE EVERYWHERE PROMPTLY-REUABLY The Man Who Is Unnecessarily Economical Is An "Under-sirable Citizen." Can the average man save money? Certainly he can! In this sentence is embodied one of the greatest sociological questions of the time-a question that ever is riSillg for an answer and which ever is as· unsettled as before. Yet the plain affirmative is not to be challellged in its direct truth. Then, yoU will say, somethirig must he wrong with the whole proposition. To which I give another as emphatic affirma-tive: "\\thy, of course there is-that is the whole trouble." Like many another twisted great problem, this problem of money saving has been bandied about by the unthinking until half its garrulous advocates do not know the first ele-ments of true saying. As a first proposition they cannot tell you wlyat money is 1 Yet, arguing from a plane of lofty ethics, we hear them preaching the: doctrine: of saviug to all men in a~l conditions of life, as if in the mere spending of less than one earns, a man is showing his highest duty to society. An ethical treatise on the saving of money! One might as well preach a virtuous sermon on the individual preserva-t. ions of original sin. If ethics are to figure at all in the sel-fish proposition, let the question be not: "Can the averagc man save money?" Put it on the truly ethical basis, "Can the average man afford to ,save money?" Kat for a moment would society permit a man to save money at the cost of ragged, dirty clothing; be becomes a miser-meanest of hu-man kind--vI7hen he hoards money at :~uch price, says Henry C. Howland. Society will not countenance his saving if the means to it be the pinchillg" of his family's stom.acb. At the moment a man is known to have a hank account while in studied ways he is denying himself any of the necessities and many of the common luxuries of his position, society declares him an Oltt~ law citizen. Vlilt the conventional preacber of frugality, then, explain just what he rneallS when he urges the ethics of saving upon all men? For, manifestly, there are men in tens of thousands ,...h.ose incomes from year to year barely suffice them in liv-ing decently from hand to mouth. 11y O\vn practical experience of the "\vorid in its fixed ways would prevent my preaching against saving. But I maintain broadly that no other oue material doctrine is more lJ]imical to true ethics than is this civilized and enforced necessity for saving. Simplicity ;11]d frugality always ",,'ill be virtues; sav-ing as certainly always will be one of the vices of communtiy life. But what is saving in its conventional acceptance? It is the having of stored wcalth in excess of one's probable needs. It is perversion of a natural disposition in one to live well for himself and his family according to his means, and sub-stituting for this sane materialism a fetich \vorship of money. For a man merely to put aside money of the present in antlei· pat ion of a future necessity cannot be called «saving" in its acceptcd sense; this is a duty which he owes to himself and to his family. It is when saving becomes hoarding that vic-iousness enters into the equation. T"vo friends ate dinner with me a few months ago, Ea·ch of them was neatly dressed, and noticeably the trousers worn by each of them had been newly pressed. One of these men, whom I kn?w to be in poor circumstances, spoke jest-ingly of what a good job of pressing he had done the night before. I was expressing admiration of his economy and of his work ·when my other guest in bantering tones insisted that he, too, had one just" as well by his O"\vn garment. But this I disputed "'.·.a. rmly. 'Vhy? For the rea50n that this second friend wprth several hun-dred thousand dollars .. always has been a diisciple of saving. He has narrowed under the influences of saving. This one blot of "closeness," in his nature is the thing that has es-tranged many from him while 1, knowing the many sterling BENNETT& W~TTE MA~UFACnJRB:RS OF ==LUMBER== For Furniture Mfrs.• Car Suilders and Carriage Trade. SJ:~~r :~W~hite and Red Oak 1J~~~e~~ RED and SAP GUM Poplar. Cottonwood. A$h. Elm and Chestnut. A Full Line of Southern Hardwoods, Expod and Domestlo. WRITE EITHER OFFICE. Branch: Memphis, Tenn. Main Office: Cincinnati, O. We sell on National Hardwood Lumber Association inspection only. qualities that enter into his manhood, often regret its pre-sence. Tn the case in point it was meanness only -..vhich prompted him to save a quarter which in community fairness should have been paid to some tailor striving to make a liv-ing. Here is that ever present menace of the spirit of saving. It requires more character, more judgment, more sense of proportion, and more of the saving graces of life to determine just where and when and how much shall be hoarded in fair- 11('.S5 and decency than are involved of these graces in al-most any other relation in life. "Can the:' avcrage man save money?" Any man who will be·mean enough, selfish enough, bard enough, can save money. Can you doubt that state-ment for a moment? Haven't you seen ::l.; hundred examples of 1tS truth? But whether or not every, decent, honorable, manly man can afford to try to save money-that is some-thing for the individual only to decide. 32 ".Rotary style" tor Drop Can'ingll, Embossed. Mouldings, Panel!!. EMSOSSINQ AND DROP CARVINC MACHINES. Machines tor all purpolles. and at prices. within the reach of all. Every machine bas our guarantee a.galost breakage fOr one year. "Litteral Style" for Ial"ge capacIty heavy Carvings and Deep Eml;.ossmgll. We have tlw Machine you want a.ta -.tbltactory price. Write for descriptive c1l'culars. Also make dies lor all makes of Ma-cblnell. UNION EIIlBOSSINO 1Il4CnlNE CO., Indianapolis. Ind. Johnson's Tally Sheet ~---IFOR--- HARDWOOD LUMBER NOT LIKE OTHER TALLY SHEETS. C. A. JO"NSON, Marshfield, Wis. P. H. :Reddinger Carving WorKs (Formnly Cincinnati Oarving WOl'k8" Of Cincinnati, 0.) CARVINGS and FURNITURE ORN AMBNTS of all kinds. EV A.NSVILLE. IND. By sending me a small order I will convince you that I am the man who can make your carvings. ONE TRIAL WILL DO THE BUSINESS. INSIST ON HAVING norris Wood I Sons' Solid Sttd Olut Joint (uffers for there are no otberor U ju.rt aJ" good." They cut a clean perfect joint always. Never burn owing to the GRADUAL CLEARANCE (made this way only by us), require little grinding, saving time and cutters. No time wasted setting up and cost no more than other makes. Try a pair and be convinced. Catalogue No. 10 and prices on application. MORRIS WOOD'" SONS Tblr17-two .,.eare at 31-33 S. Caua! Stntet, CflICAGO. ILL. 33 Lignine Carvings Unbreakable flI PerfeCt reprodudions of. hand calvi~. Full depth of grain. Will. not CHIP, CHECK, CRACK nor SHRINK. t;lI Stronger Ihan wood, 'lI No wafte in your fadory. CJI Are applied the same as·wood carvings, by nailing or gluing. f1i' No healing nor steaming. FiMh with nJler oT &:ain. Write for sample and catalogue showing Capitals, Heads, Shields, Scrolls, Claws, etc. Consider UCNINE carvinga on your new creations. ORNAMENTAL PRODUCTS CO., 551 We.t Fort St., Detro;" Mieh. Fighting the Anti-Rebate Law. The New York Central Railroad Compal1y has filed two appeals in the United States supreme court from the decisions of lower courts in which it was convicted of having violated the Elkins law by allowing rebates to the American Sugar Refining Company. The first appeal was filed in April from !'\ix convictions, for .vhich fines of $108,000 were imposed. In 101 assignments of error made in the case the legality of the Elkins act is assailed on the grounds, among others, that it exceeded the power of congress by imputing to a corporation power to commit an act with criminal intt::nt and to subjE',ct it to punishment therefor. In the second C:ise most of the same assignments of error are reported and an additional claim is made that the act is void because it imposes unequal and unjust regulations upon railways engaged in interstate commerce whicb are not im-posed on interstate carriers by water. The latest appeal, filed on May 2, is based on a ease in which the railroad company was convicted and fined $18,000 for paying rebates amounting to $26,141 to LOl,vcll 1\-1. }ialmer, agent of the American Sugar Refming Company on shipments of sugar to Detroit, Mich. New Book "Opportunities." \Ve ha"'e recently received from the Indu~trial Depart-ment of the Rock Island-Frisco Lines, a one hundred and sixty page hook called "Opportunities" which is calculated to be of great service to any manufacturer or business man in search of another location, This book cont::Lins a concise write-up of each town and city along the 13,500 miles of rail-road embraced in the Rock Island, Frisco and Chicago & Eastern Illinois Lines, and in parallel columns on the same page with the description of the community, is given a list of the existing openings for business houses, factories, mills and industries of all kinds. Many new towns and cities have sprung into life along tbe large number at newly constructcd lines of the Rack Island-Frisco, and partiCUlarly in these com-munities numerolls fine openings exist. Any furniture, desk or interior woodwork manufacturer interested in changing his loca6on can secure a copy by addressing M. Schulter, Industrial Commissioner, St. Louis, Mo. Jamestown at Jamestown. The Jamestown (N. Y.) Lonnge Company will contribute to the success of the Jamestmvn, (Va.) Exposition by making a display of their famous "Simplicity" sofa bed and other pieces in mahogany with "Reliance;' leather. The display will consist entirely of Colonial patterns. Car Famine Slightly Relieved. Lake navigation having opened at Chicago, the railroads have been relieved of large amount of grain and package freight and are able to provide a greater number of can; for other kinds of traffic. "Much embarrassment stilI prevails in the vVest owing to the shortage. First class labor i.s salable at full value no\vadays and there is a good demand for other kinds. Wood Rapidly Disappearing. Every person in the lTr.;ied States is using over si:-;:tilll('s as much wood as he would use if he were in Europc. Thc country as a whole consumes every year between three and four times more wood than .all of the forests of the United States grow in the meantime. The average acre of forest lays up a store of only 10 cubic feet annually, whereas it Made by Ma.nuaI Training Depa.rtment, Grand Rapids Public Schoole. ought to be laying up at lea.st 30 cubic feet .in order to furn-ish the products taken out of it. Since 1880, more than 700,000,000,000 feet of timbcr have been cut lor lumber alone, including 80,000,000,000 feet of coniferous timber in excess of the tota.l coniferous stumpage estimate of the census in 1890. 34 Miscellaneous Notes. The Sowell Furniture Company of Columbia, S. C. has been declared bankrupt. H. C. Warsh of Rockford, Tll. has sold bis picture frame and rritre b~x plant to A. S. RubI. . The Graham & Davis Manufacturing Company, vVindfic1d, Ind. 15 in the hands of a receiver. The Roos Fuurniture COm\lany of Mishaw::.ka, Ind. has changed the name to the Beiger Furniture Con pany. The Dentser furniture factory, Beaumont, Tex. recently destroyed by fire will be rebuilt on an enlarged scale. P. K. Sapanoff and others have incorporated the Royal Stair Cushion Company of Brooklyn, N: Y. Capital, $50,000. Abraham Hartman furniture dealer, Columbia street New York has made an assignment.. ,Liabilities, $4,200; asse.ts, $1,2\)0. Chittenden & Eastman of Burlington, la., are preparing to construct a five or six story building to be used as a chair factory. Strauss & Son:~ furniture dealers 01 Jackson, Miss, have been adjudged.hankrupt. Assets, about '$10,000; liabilities, $17,000. The Rockford, Ill. exposition project is not making rapid progress. The promoters, however deClare that it has not heen abandoned. The Turnbull, Cameron, Degler Company, furniture deal-ers, of Superior, Wis. have increased their' capital stock from $18,CCQ to $30,OCO. O.L. Knox who recently retired from the Knox-\Valker Furniture Company of Pine Bluff, Ark. has resumed the management of the business. The upholsters strike in St. Patti, l\tlinn. has been scttled on the open shop basis. The men tetun~cd to work on April 15 at an increase of ten per cent in wages. Alex. H. Revell of Chicago is chairman of a special com-mittee that is to solicit the offering of special premiums at the National Corn Exposition to be held in that city in October. Those Georgia furniture manufacturers who were charged with peonage for importing Germans to work in the fac-tories at Newniil.t1,have been acquitted -hy a jury in the feder-al court. Citiiens of Fond du Lac, ·Wi"., having ralsed a bonus of $32,OCO for the Wisconsin Art Cabinet Company, the mana-gers . have discarded the ideabf tnoviilg the factory to Plymouth. The AssI'H.>.\ation of Extension Table Manufacturers will hold a meeting in New York Oil :.\hy 30.-31. After the meet-ing the members will-take arLocean trip to the Jamestow:l ExpositiO'l': Creditor's bf the Chicago Case and Cabinet Company, in-stigated it is said, by ;dissatisfied stockholders and officials, have filed a petition asking that the' ci)n~ern be thrown into bankruptcy. The Kuehner Br6thers 01 Freeport, IlL recently celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of their factory, which is the SltC- ~essor of a little cabinet shop established by their father, Darius Kuehner in 1857. The J. H. Crane Furniture Company of St. Louis, Mo. has executed a de.ed of trust to H. S, Tuttle, for the benefit of creditors. The assets and liabilities are supposed to about equal-estimated at $100,000. ehas. -V.l. Luce-firm name C. W. Luce & Co.-furniture dealer of Gloucester, Mass. has made-an assignment, As;:;ets, $200,O(lO; liabilities, $130,000. Arthur Long, of Heywood Bros. & Wakefield, Boston, is the assignee. The buildings formerly occupied by the Grand Rapids, Cv1ich.) Brass and Iron bed Company have been leased, for three years to A. C. Terrell and C. V.' Klassen, who, will install new machinery ar.d manufacture sheet metal products. ' Get, Next to the Real Boss. If the man you work for did.not have some'worthy char-acter the chances are he would not be your boss. Study him. Find out what it is has made him a success. Get "next" to his peculiarities. Every successful COl~cern has a personality behind it which is different. Sometimes the leading spirit is not the proprietor. It 111aybe an employe, or a wife, or a sister says Seth 'Brown in the New York Commercial. r knew a firm 0 brothers who astonished every- one by their b·old strokes, a1 d almost everything they touched turned out to t~e good. 1 ey took first place, and the magnitude of their enterprise u1tipli"ed until every ot"'.estood up and took notice. Natur lly there was a good many people who \vanted to get into he good graces of this successful :l1r01, and the number of p opositions presented to them was large. \Vhich one of the brothers had the "say" was the ques-tion. The older brother was a pleasant chap and would listen patiently and-"take the matter under consideration." I was one who had a proposition. The brother seemed to like my plan, ar:u he seemed to like me, but was'always unde-cided and 1 could not close with him. He talked as if he "vas the OllC to decide, but it all cnded in talk

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