Michigan Artisan; 1908-11-10

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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-NinthYear-No.9 -------- NOVEMBER 10, 1908 -----------------_._-~III III IIIII III I, _______________ 1 1 j II I1 1 II I 11I The Only Drawer Fitter THAT WILL SAND DRAWERS WITH LIP ON FRONT No, 169 Double Belt Drawer Fitter. WYSONG & MILES CO., Cedar St. and Son. R. R, GREENSBORO, N. C. --~ ------ ----- No waste of sand paper. No waste of time. Requires less floor space. I Requires less power. I Dust removed perfectIY_~_1 Paper lasts longer. ~ -- ,~ The Best Truck--The Strongest Truck t I Thisis 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 Lightesl Running. Longest Lasting Tr • k -----------~~ We have been making good factory trucks for 16 years. During that time we've been using )arg~ numbers of them ourselves for a variety of purposes. We daily truck immense loado:;of I,umber, machinery, hardware and other commodities used in our busi-ness, and we are in a position to know just what a truck must do tobe efficient. So we ha\le a double knowledge. We know how to make trucks mechanically perfect and we know how to make them extremeLy practical. There are three fundamental points about our trucks whkh -make them leaders. FIRST. All of the framework, stakes and handles in our trucks are made of the best hard wood, thor-oughly kiln-dried. SECOND. All the castings are heavy and of the best quality~stTong-, durable and tougll. Tlle large wheels are 14inches iu diameter with 2!£-inch face. They revolve on turned bearings on 17S-inch axles, which do not revolve and wear .away the woodwork. THIRD. Our trucks are built from beginning to end by skilled workmen-not boys. All the frame-work is well-bolted tOf'(ether. The result is a well-balanced, dependable truck. A truck you can bank on to do what you require of it day after day, year after year. You don't want any other kind of a truck and by purchasing of us, you won't get any other kind. Our ('atalog tells all about them -explains detail, special sizes, kinds, etc. You better have our catalog right now. It's the kind of a catalog that helps you select intelligently and it tells aU about our Hand Screws, Clamps, Bt-nches, elc. Write f~rit today. I Grand Rapids Hand Screw Co. 918 Jefferson Avenue. Grand Rapids, Michigan. Factory Trucks- "',-----------------~ •III , SLIDING SHOE FOR USE ON DESK LEGS This slloe does tlle work nf a cast"r yet allows the desk legs to set close to flnor. Fastened witll flat head wood screw and furn-ished in three sizes. SEND FO.1lSAMPLES AND ~IlICES. III No. 1493 PULL A. very fine handle for desks in the square effect. Something different from the regular bar pull•. GRAND RAPIDS BRASS CO. GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN .---._------_._--------------------~ The Depend-able Kind. I J MICHIGAN ARTISAN r------.------------. Veneer PreNe5. different kinds and I,ize.. (Pa~ted) Yeneer Presses Glue Spreaders Glue Healers Trucks, Etc" Etc, These Specialties are used all Over the World Power Feed Glue Spreading Machine, Single, Double and Combination. (Patented) (S.i.zell 12 in. to 84 in wide.) Haud Feed Gluemz Mac:hine (Paten! pending,) Many styles and ,i:l'lell. Wood·Working Machinery and Supplies L.ET us KNOW YOUR WANTS ------_ .._------ 1 ~--_._------------ -------------------~ TUE MARIETTA MA"OGANY STAINS I (jJ To produce a perfect Ma-hogany finish we recommend our Mahogany Pas t e Wood Fillers. The,e fillers can be used over our Spartan Mahogany Stains or our Water Stains. Write us for sample of color you want. MARIETTA MA"OGANY fiLLERS The Marietta Spartan Mahogany Stains are non-fading and are the most perfect working stains made. They are used for genuine or imitation Mahogany and can be used either in the dipping tank or with the brush. These stains are superior to a water stain as they do not raise the grain of the wood. blister veneers, open joints or bring out wind checks. ...._--------- WRITE FOR SAMPLES. T"E MARIETTA Paint and Color Company I ------------------------_.--------~ Marietta • Ohio ....- I .... iI WHITE PRINTING CO. I I GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. I I HIGH GRADE CATALOGS COMPLETE 2 MICHIGAN ARTISAN I firand Da~idsDlolY Pi~e I an~Dust Arrester (om~anJ II THE LATEST deZ'ice for handling shavings and dust from all wood- 'li'orking machines. Our nineteen 'scars experience in this class of work has brought it nearer perfection than any other system on the market today. It is no experiment, but a demonstrated scientitic fact, as We have several hun-dred of these systems in use, and not a poor one among them. Our Automatic Furnace Feed System, as shown in this cut) is the l1tOSt perfect working device of anything in this'line. Write for our prices for equipments. ........._----_._-_._--_.OU~R AU~TOM~ATIC:FURNAOE FEED SYSTEM WE MAKE PLANS AND DO ALL DETAIL WORK WITHOUT EX-PENSE TO OUR CUSTOMERS. EXHAUST FANS AND PRE~ SURE BLOWERS ALWAYS IN STOCK. Office and F.c:tory: 205-210 Canal Street G~AND ~APIDS. MICH. Cltizeo. Phone 1282 29th Year-No.9. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH., NOVEMBER '0, 1908. $1.00 per Year. Manufacture of Small Dimension Stock. There is no branch of the ,",:ood working' industry that has had more ups and dOWl1S and \;vitnessed more disconragiuf:r experiences, prohahly, than that of manuiacturing snwll di-mension stock; and yet it continues per,:,~stcntly to tempt people. There is no doubt but it should continue to tempt people, too, because there js much good llw.teriJl goes to waste that could be worked lip into small dimension stock to g'oad advantage, and there is nothing Vl"rong 'with men being continually tempted to experiment with the idea until a 511C-cessful outcome is found. The "",vrong,or the error rather, is not in the idea of utilizing the ..v..aste itself but is in the method resorted to to carry ant the idea. The most common error is thnt of too elaborate equipment, and comes from the pursuit of the natural but erroneous notion that small dimen-sion stock can only be successfully manufactured by practi-cally automatic handling. It has been dem011strated so often that every well-in-formed mill man should know by this time that automatic handling calls for enormous quantities of material, in the first place, and quite frequently ne,cessitatcs this material being clear stock. Every now and then a mall is met with who has experimented with very expensive automatic machines, each of which has S(Hne separate appliance (or handling small dimension stock, and he finds in the end he can get better results-more for hi:; money-with two at r'hree hays and a couple of plain rip saws, This is not always the case, neither is it an argument in toto against automatic machinery. That sort of machinery has othet uses, and is important in the scheme of mech~.nics, but when it comes to making small dimension stock, cspecially out of serap ma.terial from around the saw mill, a few simple machi11es in the 'way of rip saws and cross-cuts and a few men at \vork 'Nho know the-1r busi-ness, and who use their brains as \vell as their hands, are worth more than the compJic;tted and expensive machines. One reason for this is that scrap stock can be had only in limited quantities for these small dimensiones, and each piece must usually be given individual treatment, which it can get with a good man in charge who knows that it is himself and not tl'e machine that must be depended on to get proper re-sults. The savim>: of scrap stock and converting it into small di- )"ension :o:tock suggests in some v,rays a sort of relation to cPicken brlT'ing, in whic:h W<lste material of vario1.1s kinds about tIle place are used to feed the chickens and produce eg?"s. lIen with sharp pencils and brigllt ideas have set (lown and I1l'rured 'i\-"hatgore;!t returns, comparatively. farmers' wives arc g-ettlng from their chickens, and from this they nQ;- UTe out on paper the possibilities of magntficent results to be obtained from going into the poultry farming business on a large scale and in a scientific manner. The results of such underta,kin~s have been the subject of jokes in the funny papers for years, and need not be related in detail: but the moral may be cited, which is that certain thim~s have Iimita-tiol1s in tile way of extension and manipulation. Herding too many chickens together breeds cholera, and working too mud] stock togetber breeds confusion, both of which are ac~ companied \vith ftnancial disaster. In short, the plain road to succei;S tight now in the small dimellsion stock business is through each man making a small business 01 it, just as farmers' wives make chickens and~ eggs an incidental business and get a very gaud thing out of ;r limited nurnber of chickens. the aggregate of which amounts to an enormous figure. The farmers' wives can tend to a fev,," chickens and be comparatively free from cholera epi-demics and things of that kind, and the average mill man can give a modicum of attention to the small dimension gt"ock business anel realize therefrom a fair share of profit.~St. Louis Lumbcrm<\n. °to 0t" Department Store Buyers Misunderstood. /\. bU>iiness man who had for many years dealt with pur-chasing agents found an entirely diccrent individual in the depal'tmcllt store buyer. His attention was fIrst invited to the fact that the department store buyer is very exclusive, inaccessible, dictCltorial and grinding in his transactions. He would examine samples or photos between nine and ten on three days of the week only, and it was not an uncommon experience to find fifty salesmen cooling their heels in th(: corridor leading to the buyer's office, most of whom would be sent away "I-,\'ithoutan interview. Later it dawned upon the complaining- gentleman that the department buyer is a mer-cha. nt primarily and that all but one or two bouri'; each day is devoted to the selling" of g,-oods. .He has a force of assist~nts to organize .1.nd train, and upon his ability as a merchant he must depend for snccess. If he cannot show satisfactory results .in the management of his branch of the business he is granted very little space in advertisements published by his firm and but rarely space in the show windows. The value of a 'window display is rated entirely upon the amount of sales it is making from hour to hour. ';Vhen the offering::; of one buyer fail to attract a sufftcient volume of trade the window is promptly given to another. Under this system the changing of goods placed in the windows may be made five or six timE'!3 in a day. The department buyer has his proportion of the rent to pay, also light, heat, overhead clJarges, besides he must reckon \vith the merchalldise mana-ger. 110t always an indulgent a.nel peaceful itldividua1. Selling agents should keep these facts in mind when considering the department buyer. Like the policman in an old comic opera, l'is lot "is not a happy one." @ * @: Shavings Used for Decorating Walls. Shavings are converted into beautiful1y tinted wall papers in Japan. Tn 111eJapanese shops the planes are made very \vide, sort) etin~es cightc:en or twenty inches, and when the wood i;:; shaved long pieces are taken off. These are pre-pared and tinted in a l\'3y that does not interfere with their being washable. This cannot be done with American papers and there is besides a beautiful lustre and a design that tor beauty cannot be matched, because it is one of nature's. j lIf!CHIGAN ARTISAN ------------------------1 WOOD-WORKING MACHINERY AT BARGAIN PRICES. Having pu.rehased the entire Elkbart, Jnd., plant of the Hu.mphrey Bookcase Co.. we are offering.t bal1rain price. the £ollowin8; A.-I woodworkjug tool"t Band uw, 32 in.CteiCent. Jointer. 8 ill. hand with 4-tided head. Rip saw lable. with cOWIIeMaEtand saw. s.w tahl.~. 3Os.48 in; witb mdinll Rtlage. Band ~aw. 36 in. Crescent. Knife grinder. 32 m. Builalo aulorna,tic. Rounder, two_spindle with countenmaft. Shaper, sii:ta)e'6pindle. table 37x42 in , Band saw, 26 in, Silver, iron lilting table. Lathe,. Whitney back..l.nifewith counter- Rod, pin and. dowel m.aebine No.2, E.t1an. Badr.-knife lathe. Whitney, shan. Smith. with beads Sander. Young's new •• itOD flame Boring machine, 721 B-'Windle Andrews. Lathe. Trevor au!otnatlc 4' 2" be~11 Rod aoo dowel machine No.2. £alln aDd top. Borioll machine. 3-lpindle horizontal. ~nten. power feed. Stave bait e<:Juali=r wilb two 30" saws. Borel, No. 21 bench., Slaler & M!l~n. La.the, 14 in. <:abitwtma!rer''l'E.ifl.ll. Sh.aper. ,jn1J\e sPind. C,lladA,. with fric~ T {ueb, 38 miscellaneous factory tnlcks. Boring machine, No. 2% Clemeut hori- Moulder. 14 in. Hermance, 4-stded. tien c. s. Tenoner. American double end. umlal. Moldet. -MM. h.d. Smith F-6 wilh 4 in. Swing 5IIW, coll1plete with saw and fell:. T"noneT. single head Cordeunan & Ell'ap Carver, 3.spindJe, with cOllnlershaft. 4-sl'l<I hd. equip with cut_off attachment. Cabiru:ltmater~' sa:...., double <'.l1t-<:>ll. Mouldet, ItYle F·6 Smim, one side with. SaPder, two-spindle with oountershaft. T cnoner. self-feed blind mal, J. A. Fay. CbaiT bendiUil press, Swartz. cap sash.head. Saader, 36 in. Columbia triple-dl'tlm. T <\,none.r.6" double bead. H. B. Smith.. CbalMer cuttel with iron frllPke. table 48 Mortiser and borer. double-end automatic. Sander. 42 in. Columbia. triple-drum. T eD.OneT·baod-feed blind .Iat, J A. Fay. :dO Latison. Mortiser and borer, Colburn imp. blind Sticter. J4W Hermance with ~ular eqlLi.p. Tenoner. self-feed adjuAable blindlI&!. E.cl'iinll saw. 36"xl81 with. saw arnor. style. Sanderj 30 in three-drulD Egan. Twi5l machine. ShaW)Iel", 28 in. cent., Cul.off law machine, Clement double Planer, 30 in. ClemenlGingle cylinder. Saw laDle. 38x63 in. woOO. t<)p. 11) in. $W1l'. Glue jointer, Myen, with ooullteJ".maft. Planer !U1d matcher, 24" sin-.ile cylinder Saw tabJe. 29ldO in. cut-oil, rip and 8 in Woodwork.er, Parkscomhilled lathe, rip Ji~ 'Saw. colllp.]elewilhrell"lliareqpipment. 4-roU. matches 141 J. A. Fay. saw. and cut_olf saw. shaper. etc. Jointer. Mvers glue. Planer, si'!ll!' cyl. surfaoe 2OxO to 6 in. SCfoD saw. iron fro wood lop, Cord'$Dl'n Joinler, 20 in. PorieI' hand. Con'l & D. &. E.gan. ' .. ~J"d:'=:':~ici~!':'~C. C. WORMER MACHINERY CO., 98West Woodbridge St., Delron, Mlcb• \Vhile Detroit is not as far advanced as some cities in Michigan in its manual training system, the interest is con-stantly growing and more attention is being given this branch of school work. Although an entire building cannot be devoted and eqtlipped for instruction in manual training, the high school and elementary school huildings are being enlarged to :lC-commodate pupils who wish to take a course in this branch. One of the points made by the superintendent in a recent report shows the annual cost per pupil, of instruction along this line, from the time he or she enters the fourth grade until the eighth is reached. 011 the start it is only six cents and gradually works up to forty-five cents. In only two grades, the seventh and eighth, are special teachers em-ployed, the regular grade teachers doing tlle work in other grades. TARLE OF STATISTICS OF MANUAL ;TRAINING IN THE DETROIT PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Grade '0" I ~ I~i ~~ >,~ .:;~ ~:; l~~:a~r-~ ~$'~;j~~rVl ~----I'-----+--~-- ---- --._-'--'-- Cardboara Grade Roys 1 1 50 $.15 ! $0.061 $0,(16 conslructlOn teacher and I I. I GIrls r ~I Cardboard - Grade Boys -,- -,- 251 None -,p.wl l SO.os. constructIon leacher I Ktndof WQ\'"k Fourth Sevcllth consWtruoctoiodn Stepa'cchiearl Bo"I~I--;-1 " I "°-'::1$0'; 1'302 :ixt~- i~~~;i;;dt~;::hBdO':r; - 1}"I-I15 $0.12-;, 12 conWstrouoctdion Stepa,cdh"er BoY'In6 11512511"'>0 1$03" $2.92 Eighth At present there are twenty-nine manual tramIng centers in the ci.ty l,vith the best instructor and facilities for carrying on the work. Thorough industrial training is, however, out of the question, as there is not the necessary equipment nor the time devoted to the subject t6 make it possible, J They have no thoroughly equipped machine shops nor foundries and the "Chiefattention being paid to pattern mak-ing, mechanical drawing and in the grades cardboard con-struction, i. e" in fourth and fifth g:,acles, Mechanical draw-ing for mechanics covers the problems met in o:'dinary draft-ing room practice. Each pupil provides his own outfit, and learns the use of instruments, inking, geometrical problems, orthographic projection, isometric drawing, lettering and reading blue prints. In the secolld course machine designs are inclUded, i. e., dra.wing of machines, screw threads, bolts, nuts, etc. In course three, sheet metal draftings of pipe connections, boiler plates and elbows are made. In the last three courses in drafting lettering, structional drafting as detail beam connections, mill construction, trusses for roofs, structural steel girders, bUilding and con- • Standard Uniform Colors We are producing the standard uniform colors recently adopted by the Manufacturers' Association of Grand Rapids, These colors are produced with our Golden Oak-Oil Stain No. 1909 and Filler No~736. Early ElIgJi,h-Oil Stain No. 55 and Filler No. 36. Mahoe:a.ny-Powder No.9 a.1\d Fille,. No. 14. Weathered Oak Oil Stain No. 281. Fu.medOak-A~id Stain No. 45. Place your orders with us and get the correct shades. GRAND RAPlDS, WOOD FINISHING CO. 55-59 Ellsworth Ave., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. • struction details, moldings, arches, elevation and sectional plans, vertical sections. doors, windows and architeetllTal let~ tering are taught ill the order given. Shop work \vill include, for- the evening classes as well as the day pnp-ils, carpentry, cahinet making, wood turning, pat-tern making, forging and machine shop practice. The course in carpentry covers instruction in the use, care and sharpen-ing of ordinary bench tools. construction of such joints as are use in house framing, door and sash bllilding and- a study of material as to cost and amount. The pupil will learn in cabinet making the construction of different joints used and their application in at least one ar-ticle of furniture, .also thc structure and chaqlcteristics of dif-ferent cabinet woods alld method of finishing. In wood turning and pattern -making the ordinary pro-cesses are taught, such as spindle, face plate and chuck turn~ ing, filling and polishing ;ind the construction of patterns of simple machine parts and some foundry work in soft metal to demonstra.te the process of making castings. Forging inclUdes the processeS in lIand forging such as r ROYAL WHliE-MAPLE POLISHING VARNISH I MICHIGAN ARTISAN 5 • White-the Emhlem of Purity--our White Maple Polishing Varnish is Pure-and the WHITEST GOODS on the market. It dries to recoat every other day; can be rubbed and polished in four to five days. Ask for testing sample. ROYAL VARNISH COMPANY TOLEDO OHIO I• dra ..v.ing, bending, twisting, rivctiJlg, welding, punching and tool steel ,'vark, including hardening and tempering. In the machine shop there wiB be gi'len bench 'work in chipping and fding and all the simple IlfOCCS5CS ordinarily performed on small engine lathes, drills, planers, shapers. milling and grinding Inacbillcs. The most thorough work is being done in the department of dornestic science a.nd art. The aim of the cOW'sc in do-mestic art is to make the girls more self-reliant and respon-sible and to lead thern to self~exp1"ession in their work. The subjects cOll,~idcred are machine sewing, including tucking. practice sewing, ca:__ e of machine, etc. They make, besides their underwear, shirt ·waist smits. sofa pitlows and all kinds of practical and fancy sewing; as they advance their time is If your DESIGNS are right, people want the Goods. That makes PRICES right. (t[arence 'fR. 1bills DOES IT 163Madison Avenue-Citizens Phone 1983. GRAND RAPIDS, M.ICH. , 4 .~ devoted morc and more to dressmaking, with careful ('.011- sideration of drafting of patterns, measuremcnts, texture of material, dcvoting some time to the study of wool, silk, cot-ton and linen in regard to culture, manufacture and durabili-ty. Domestic science is illtended to give the pupil a knowledge of all food principles in a concerete ·way, to make thcm a.c- (luainted with the tl3(: and rare of kitchen utensils and to cultivate a habit of order and neatness and some amount of skill in USillg the different contrivances contained 111 the kitchen. The subject of composition and comparative value of dif-ferent foods is first brought before the pupils in lectures. After this the pra.ctical work begins. when the pupil learns the proper methods used in preparing and cooking foods. Be-sides cooking, they learn to serve. care ior table, linen, silver, glassware and also the duties of a hostess. Canning and preserving of fruits come next 'with a spe-cial study of molds and bacteria. No course in nursing or laundry work is given, but some illstn1ction in hygiene and sanitation. The object of manual trainiilg- in all schools is undoubt-edly the same, unles:=i the student can specialize, as sutflcient time cannot be given the diHercnt subjects to make the pupil skillful in a.ll. The benefIt derived from tbis line of instruc-tion then is that they gain a general knowledge of different trades and this accomplishment is as valuable to the la,yyer or doctor as to the mechanic, in that it helps to ma.ke val-uable citizens. Given below is an extract from the annual report of the b<;>ard of education which shO\vs the disciplinary value of manual training: U5EFCL HABITS. PROCE~SES BV MEANS OF I ;CONDITIONS FOR THEIR DB-WHIC H I tiE HABIT IS Ri':Sl:LTING HABITS'IVELO. P~ENT BY MEAr-S OF FORMED CONST RUCTIVIi EXERCISES. ---------- of mental im- Accommodation. Hab- A resulting product repte-it o~ aHacking diffi-, seuting the mental image cultles. I nached through the pu-pils very best eflott. Objectifying ages. Occupations J<:iving oppor-Order and neatness. tuuity J"oractIons inVOIV~1 ing the ~lelnents 01 ordel and neatness. Successful efforts in reaCh-I' Accuracy, or truth. ing accurate results. Prolonged efforts crowned Perseverance, by Sllccess. Final success in the various Self-reliance. exen.:ises. A place for everything and ever.Ything ill its place. An accurate product. Acts of service. Careful progrt;'ssiOIl of the I exeldses. Attractive :models, interest and accurate work Never ask a class 10 do What they ca.nnot do welt. ------- The evclling schools of Detroit have cqua.l, if not super-ior advantage" with thc day schools. As these evening stu-dents have :1 dcllnite end in pursuing certain studies ami the. knowledge obtained will be made use of immediately in the positions they hold. All of tbe shops 1n different high schools have been thrO\\'11 open to the evening students this year and so far are proving very poplllar. It is an innova-tion that is being watched with great intei"est, not only by the teachers but also by the people of Dettroit. It is safe to predict, a.fter a thorough investigation of what is being done in the "City of the Straits," that manual training is bound to become a greatC'r factor in the educa-tional circles of that city. West Side 36 Inch Band Saw Machine, Gleason Patent Sectional Feed Roll, --MA ...U. FACTVRED!lY WEST SIDE IRON WORKS CRAND RAPIDSt MICH., U. S. A. II. W. Petrie, QUI'agents for Canada. QtfiU8, TO'ronlo, Montreal and Vancouver. • 6 MICHIGAN ARTISAN I MICHIGAN LIE NARD. A Famous Designer, Modeler and Carver. By Arthur Kirkpatrick, Grand Rapids School of Furniture Designing, The most prominent French modeler, carver and designer since the time of Napoleon was P. Liellard (1810-1870), From about 1835 to the time of his death h", was the favorite designer for the Parisian architects, goldsmiths, cabinetmak-ers and architectural iron and bronze \vorkers. The restora-tion of the castles of Amboise, Versailles aud Bloise \,>'ere under his direction, and he also designed a part of the sculp-ture of the Louvre. Unfortunately for this great designer, he lived in a period of art stagnation. The socia.l ambitions of the revolutionists had been crushed by Napoleon and it was by -;,r apoleon that the divine right of kings was set at naught when he crowned himself emperor and his \vife em-press of France. Later he divorced himself from the empress, thus ignoring the rules of the church, and ..\.'i.th traditions, ---------_._.,I •I II~---. Montgomery Hardwood Lumber Co. Mallufacturers of all kinds of NATIVE FURNITURE LUMBER Crawfordsville, Indiana. E. S. STERZIK, Pres. customs and social ambitions knocked hitller and yon, and with the defeat of Napoleon 110 mastermind was left strong enough to mould public opinion and !:iet a new pace for the industrial and a,rt revi\'"al. The ideals of tile people lacked concentration, a condition inviting degradation. It is not surprising therefore that there was no demand for original desig'ns al,c1 that Lienard was called a great imitator. The Renaissance seemed to be his greatest source of inspiration, but he \Vas i"·ell versed in the preceding styles, and used Barocco, Gothic and Swiss motives, adding enough individ-ual charader to make them a valuable work of refere~1ce for carvers alld designers. At the industrial art l~xbibiti()n ill 1849, the manufacturers a.ttempted to revive the taste of the people by placing a llumber of Lienard's richly carved fltrni-ture designs upon exhibition, and were sUtcessful in restor-ing wood carving as a decoration upon fin~ furniture. :Ko leaf, lizard or rat seemed too humble to be noticed and find a place in Lienard's decorative designs. The human figure, trophies of all kinds, shells, fruits dud flowers inter-woven with scrolls and clusters of ivy, oak and acanthus leaves and the cxtreme active attitude of the domestic and wild animals al·ways added interest and life to his ornamcnt. He displays an extensive knowledge in his carved allegories; passion and pleasure, peace and war, life and death, com-merce hy land and sea, and the grouping of the holy symhols of the church ·with flgures so well chosen and :crtistically ar-ranged that one sees at a glance that he was a master of his art. \IVe have serectcd one of Lienard's can'ed allegories, 1'lle Seven Ruling Passions, showing the amount of meaning that can be represented in ornament. These fi g;ures are well chosen and accurately placed according to evolution. Down near the root of human progress, and most Jowly of them all is CO\'\;ardness depicted with a he<ld 'INhich lacks a space for br:cins, ·with usekss 'wings, long, lanky limbs, a kind of a devil with a forked tail which can be bought and sold for miser's gold ·whose purse he kisses. upon one of the lower limbs is Laziness fast asleep. ,\ spider has ·woven a web since last he moved, and a rat haos nibbled his tail in two, but still he slumbers. A lobster's horn tickles his nostrit but neither cloes he stir. He is a crouching, sleeping sloth and lacks the voluntary action of ARTISAN 7 the heart because blood does not even flow from his broken tail. .A.. little higher in the branches of progress we find Vicious-ness '..vho is always looking for trouble, facing and inviting a fray and who is represented by a figure of action in deadly combat with poisonous ,crawling, squirming lower life, a tiger's body with horns upon his head, and a devil's wing, active and alive with bristling spurs, and a face ."herein is mixed defiance, hatred and tragedy. Tl,is was a ruling pas-sion in days of old when men fought and risked their lives for a trifle. A step higher we find the Glutton who turns his back upon the ot/lers, lest tltey should see his food and want to eat, aml who is shown as a, dragon with a stout short neck, strong body, and well filled mouth and claw, and his eye hrightcned by his keen appetite. Hig}ler still is htl1lgry Greed, represented by the uncov-ered head of a carnivorous vulture sunk into his shoulders and with the grasping claws of an eagle showing the progressive unattractive stride of ;L steadily accumulating miser who trudges on through a path of thorns, caring naught for pain or pleasure, but guarding well his bags of gold . Two monkeys in ungainly attitude, one looking to the lust of the flesh and the other looking up to the progress and propagation of its kind upon the earth most truthfully por-tra. ys Licentiousness. The apple of forbidden fruit which tempted Adam's fall has caused a fall for many a man since that time. Towering above them all is cunning, gaudy, devilish, flat-tering- Pride 'Nho has a footing near the root, and who has grown the greatc::it and most beautiful of them all is repre-sented as a story~with boastful strut and bloated breast, be-dccked with .iewe s from head to tail. She is cunning for her (oxey cye and ea , gaudy far her Hashy peacock breast, dev-ilish for her f(ll~ed devil's wing and flattering because she scratch('s the bac~ of Greed. According tOthe growth and development of humanity, co\vardllcss, and )a2iness 'were the ch.ief failings of the tree clirnbers and cav dwellers. Later on, we have the knights and duelists repr'sented, and still farther "n, the feast days when strong d 'nk and over-eating held sway. Later still, in Europe, e have g-reed, immorality and the pride of the ruling' classel carried to the extreme before the French revolution. This practica.l)' illustrates conditions up to the present time .. but these s rat2s in ruling passions will go on and the developments of another round are now in sight. There is a compensation or everything, alld for every positiv.e there., IMP OVEO, EASY "'NO ELEVATORS QUICK RAISINC BeLt, Ele<:tric and Hand Power. T. e Best Hand Power for Furniture Stores Send for Catalogue and Prices. KIM All BROS. CD., '067 Ninth St.. Council Bluffs, la. Kim all Elevator Co. 3D Prospect St" Cleveland, 0.; t 10811th St., Omaha, Neb.; 129Cedar St., New York City. I • is a negative, all for every night a day, and thus cowardice is being replace by bravery and activity is conquering lazi-ness. VicioLtsn ss has suffered in the conquest with gen-tleness and c1run en gluttoness is being subdued by temper-ance, and moral ty now lives where licentiousness used to thrive. Greed nd generosity are in deadly combat, with generosity g'aining at every thrust and modesty will under-take to buy pride, and so the ruling passions of Lienard's time may be conquered passions of today, and sO may the out-grown designs of other days be carried to perfection in ours by placing beautiful human characters in the place of the ugly and grotesque and by ..v..ea:ving about them emblematic suggestions of the good that they have done. 8 MICHIGAN ARTISAN Used in Many Factories. Morris Wood & S011S, 2714-16 \;\,Test Lake street, Chicago, show a two-bit boring machine which is perhaps as well known as any wood working machine on the market, Its popularity is shown by the fact that there are several hun-dred of them in operation in some of the largest furniture factories in the United States. This is only one of the val-uable machines shown by this firm and a request will bring advertising matter all any of the fifty differcllt kinds of ma-chines which cover almost every requirement of a wood work-ing factory. Their tool catalogue is also free for the asking. This catalogue ,covers the line of drijh. bits, cutters and tools which the Jirm have manufactured for over thirty years. Their plant is thoroughly equipped with the most modern machinery obtainable, and all orders entrusted to them are filled with reliable, prompt and careful attention. @ * @ The Turpentine Supply. rure turpentine, ''lie are told, is becoming increasingly scarce on account of decreased forest area in the southern turpentine belt, but it is suspected by many competent au-thorities that the real conditions have been exaggerated for commercial purposes, chief among which, it is charged, is the attempt to market imitation products. vVith those manufacturers who are selling turpentine sub-stitutes under their proper label we have no fault to rmd. Their's is a legitimate business, and buyers under such cir-cumstances need not be deceived. \Vith the people, however, who are seltingan adulterated article for pure turpentine, at a pure turpentine price, we take immediate issue and brand them as commercial highwaymen. Under the modern refinements of preparing turpentine, and turpentine adulterants for market, science and chemistry have united to deceive the painter. The extenders that for-merly smelled to heaven have been so acted on by processes of chemistry that their smell has been practically eliminated. leaving the pure and unmistakable odor of real turpentine· to guarantee the purity of the sample. Moreover, turpen-tine is now subjected during manufacture to a. refining treat-ment that virtually removes all discoloring substances so that the test of putting a few drops upon white paper for an evaporation trial is hardly to be relied upon. AboUl the only reliable test is that to be made with the hydrometer. A sample of spirits registering 310 per cent or below 30y,; per cent may well be declined. It is said, of course, that the sophisticators of turpentine arc now even able to some extent, at least, to beat the hydrometer, but this instrument is nevertheless the most reliable detector of tur-pentine impurity. The sense of smell should always be ex-ercised in handling samples of turpentine, ;for at the present time a comparatively small proportion of adulterated spirits is deodorized and with petroleum and kerosene sophistication practiced to the extent of anywhere from fifteen to twenty-five per cent in a given sample the odor may be unmistakable. However, the painter need not, or should not, trust his 01- factories too largely in this matter of detecting the good or itl .qualities of the turpentine supply, for pitch wood distilled turpentine, which is not infrequently pure turpentint:, has a particularly penetrating and fairly overpowering odor as com-pared with turpentine distilled from the pitch, instead of the wood. It is not to be understood that the wood distilled spirits is to be rated the equal of the pitch distilled product. Color thinned with the former works less freely, and dries very much less quickly than a similar color thinned with the latter. -Exchange. @ * @ Sprinklered Plants Destroyed by Fire. Insurance men, and especially those specializing on sprinkle red business, are seriously concerned over the notable series of heavy sprinklered losses to ·which they have been subjected recently. \\iithin one week there have been three bad fires in sprinklered risks, the Jenkins lumber plant at Blaine, Wash., being burned with a total loss to insurance of $210,000, a sprinklered mill belonging to the Rock Island Lumber Company at Rock Island being burned Friday, also with a total loss, beside the serious damage to the sprink-lered "A" mill of the Korthwestern Consolidated Milling Company at Minneapolis on the same day. Both the lumber losses ·were caused by fires which started in the lumber out-side the mitt and attained such headway that the sprinklers were unable to hold the fire. Under such conditions the equipments are not expected to accomplish much. The Jen-kins plant at Blaine had been shut down for a year, but sprinklers and wa.tchmen were maintained, and the last re-port showed the equipment to be in good condition. At Rock Island the sprinklered frame planer and hrick woodworking factory were destroyed by a sweeping fire starting in the closely piled lumber outside. The planer was equipped with Kane, Grinnell and Hibbard heads on a Grin-nell dry pipe system and was graded at seventy per cent. The woodworking plant graded between eighty-five and ninety per cent and was equipped with Kane, Hibba.rd and Walworth heads on a Grinnell dry pipe system. At the Minneapolis milt the fire started outside the dusthouse and burned the outside and the roof, where the sprinklers· could not he effective. The fire loss was about $500, with a $10,- 000 damage from water. MICHIGAN ARTISAN ARTISTIC andINEXPENSIVE CATALOGUE COVERS LET US FIGURE ON YOUR PHOTOGRAPHING ENGRAVING and PRINTING •• Right Price. PROMPT DELIVERIES COMPLETE CATALOGS PERFECT WORK MICHIGAN ENGRAVING CO. GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN 9 10 MICHIGAN EVANSVILLE, IND., November B.-Business with the furniture manufacturers of Evansville a.nd vicinity seems to be better. During the summer months only a fair amount of business was done. That the campaign had a bad effect on the local, as well as the general, trade is believed by aH. Hon. John W. Boehne, mayor of the city and interested in several local furniture factories, was elected to congress ou the Democratic ticket last Tuesday. Mr. Boehne is the first Democrat to be elected to congress from this dist.ict since 1892. He has made a splendid record a.s mayor. Business with the local veneering plants is picking up some and the indications are that trade will continue good all sea-son. The plant of the Evansville Veneer Company is one of the largest in the United States. News was received here this week from Louisville of the killing of S. C. Moore, a furniture man in that city and well known in Evansville and vicinity. Moore was shot and killed by Frank Hackensmith, his business partner. The men engaged in a quarrel over a business deal. Both men were members of well known Kentucky families. The value of the plant of the E. Q. Smith Chair Company on the river front, near Sunset park, has been placed at $20,- 875 by the appraisers recently appointed by Judge Louis O. Rasch 6f the Vanderburg county circuit court. The property is that which the city asked the court to condemn on the ground that they wanted the site in order to extend Sunset park farther up the river. Under the new scale of minimum car weights promulgated by the lines west of the Mississippi river, running into Texas territory, for use after December 10, there is a general but not radical re-adjustment of weights for furniture shippers. Notice of the adoption of the change has just been received here by J. C. Keller of the traffic bureau of the Evansville Manufacturers' Association. The change was brought about through the effort on the part of the southwestern railroads several months ago to advance minimum ,..eights to such an extent that they amounted practicaly to an advance in rates, the minimums that were set being almost Impossible of ful-fillment. \Villiam Heyns, a well known furniture man of this city, who has been in for the past several weeks at his home on West Heights, is able to be up and about. Here are some of the live industries of the city that have done much during the past several years to advertise Evans-ville abroad as a great manufacturing centc:-.r: The Buehner Chair Company, Standard Chair Company, Eli D. Miller & Company, the Specialty Furniture Company, the Karges Fur-niture Company, the Bosse Furniture Company, the World ARTISAN Furniture Company, the Globe Furniture Company, the Bock-stege Furniture Company, the Metal Furniture Company, the United States Furniture Company, the Indiana Furniture Company, the Schelosky Furniture Company, the Evansville Book Case and Table Furniture Company, the Evansville Fur-niture Company, the Crown Chair Company, the Evansville Metal Bed Company, the Evansville Mattress and Couch C01.npany and the Stoltz-Schmitt Furniture Company. C. W. B. @ ~ @ A NobI. Calling. The schoolmaster, if he is an honest man, is the noblest work of God. There is no avocation in life where a man can can do more to make or mar fortunes of others than teaching. A man may have a thorough knowledge of that which he is to teach, but if his life is not in his work and his chief desire is not in the welfare of his scholars, he is a false teacher, and in later years his pupils will rise up to curse instead of to bless him. On the other hand, if his chief desire is the sue·· cess of his students; if above all things he desires to send out men and women into the world with honest principles, who would rather fail in the right than succeed in the wrong, that schoolmaster will build for himself as well as for his scholars a character that will last when the rocks of the mountains shall have melted with fervent heat and this old world will have been rolled up as a scroll. Such is the man whose picture adorns this article. It is t1,e work of one of his students, hastily sketched with pencil, and yet so true tv life that everyone who ever saw him will recognize the pro-prietor and manager of the Grand Rapids School of Furniture Designing-Arthur Kirkpatrick. @ * @ Portland (Oregon) claims to be the Grand Rapids of the west in the manufacture of furniture. High Point claims to be the Grand Rapids of the south; Jamestown the Grand Rapids of the east, while little old Grand Rapids of Michi-gan is the Grand Rapids of the world. The commercial value of the name is widely recognized. i THE CREDIT BUREAU OF THE FURNITURE TRADE The LYON Furniture Agency ROBERT P. LYON, General Mana!!.r CREDITS and COLLECTIONS Grand Rapids Office, 412-413 Houseman Bldg. GEO. E. GRA YES, Manager CLAPPERTON & OWEN, COl1nsel .THE STANDARD REFERENCE BOOK CAPITAL, CREDIT AND PAY RATINGS CLEARING HOUSE OF TRADE EXPERIENCE THE MOST RELIABLE CREDIT REPORTS COLLECTIONS MADE EVERYWHERE PROMPTLY-RE.UAIll-Y ---- ----------------------------- MICHIGAN ARTISAN 11 Cabinet Makers In these days of close competition, need the best possible equipment, and this they can have in BARNES' HAND and FOOT POWER === MACHINERY Send for Our New Catalogue. Our New Hand and Foot Power Circular Saw No.4. The stron~est, mCJStpowerful, and in every way tbe best machine of its kind ever made, for ripping, cross-cutting, boring and grooving. , w. F. & John Barnes Co. II I I...----_. 654 RUby Street. Rockford. Ill. J 200,000 square feet of floor space. Railroad siding to save cartage-, auto-matic sprinklers, reducing insurance and preventing loss by fire, steam heat, elec-tric light, elevator and janitor service, all at one-half the fates usually charged in Grand Rapids. The location is central, viz. on Ottawa St. next the Blodgett Block. Manufacturers requiring large space on one floor can now obtain it. Manufacturers who have been kept out of Grand Rapids on account of expense can now afford to come. The opening of these buildings for Furniture Exhibition Purposes assures Grand Rapids' suprem-acy as the furniture market of the ",odd for many years to come. Reservations Should Be Made Early. Floor Plan Sent on ApPlication. ORAnD DAPIDS RUDIOmATOR =======(OnPAnT======= • 12 MICHIGAN ARTISAN !:Ii y; I BARRETT'S PRIME SHELLAC VARNISH l!fi IY; !fi made from strictly pure Shellac Gum cut in Specially Denatured or !fi Wood Alcohol. The results of 25 years' experience in the importa-tion of gums, in the use of solvents, and in the manufacture of varnish embodied in "Barrett's Prime." Ask for samples and prices. M. 219 LAKE ST•• L. & CO., I CHICAGO !:Ii y;1 BARRETT Installations Made by the American Blower Company. De-troit, Mich. riA. B. C.'! Engines-Fried & Reineman, Pittsburg, Pa" for stoker equipment; Stephens, Adamson ~{allufacturing Com-pany, Aurora, Ill., electric light; Michigan Employment In-stitute for Blind, Saginaw, MlCh., electric light; Westing-house Electric & Manufacturing Company (for export), driv-ing generator; Hiram Walker Sons, Walkerville, Can., power purposes; Fairbanks-Morse Company, Chicago, Ill., three en-gines for driving generators; City of Rocky Mount, N. c., mu-nicipal electric light plant; Ault & "Viborg Company, Cin-cinnati, 0" driving blower ~ Allis-Chalmers Company, Mil-waukee, Wis" two engines for driving generator; Barr Holi-day Box Company, Isola, :Miss., electric light plant; Isthmian Canal Commission, driving generator; Flint Body Company, Flint, Mich., electric light plant; Western Electric. Company, Boston, Mass., driving generator; W. T. Osborn & Co., Kan-sas City, 110., electric light plant. "A. B. c." Heating and Ventilating Apparatus-National Museum, Library of Congress, thirteen fans; U. S. Ramping Company, Moundsville, "V. Va.; New Palmer Falls school, New York, N. Y.; New Corinth school, New York~ American Lead Pencil Compa,ny, :Murfrecsboro, Tenn., factory; Tucker, Speycs & Co., -:.!cw York, N. Y., loft building; Washington school, Indiana Harbor, Ind.; Ilion school, New York; Es-tate of Benjamin Lichtenstein, New York City, loft building; Clark Wilcox, Brooklyn, N. Y., 10ft building; Packard Motor Car Company, Detroit, Mich., factory; South Brownsvll1e (Pa.) school; Ashland (Ky.); BuIlock Electric Manufacturing Company,. Cincinnati, 0., factory; Zechine Coa1 Company, Newcomb, 'Tenn., mine ventilation; International Paper Com-pany, BrowtlsviIle,N. Y.; International Paper Company, Liv-ermore Falls, Me.; Union school, Wheeling, W. Va.; State Female Normal school, Farmville .. Va.; Sanita.ry Can Com· pany, Indianapolis, Ind., factory; Seventh Ward school, Alle-gheny, Pa.; President Street Bath building, New York; First "Vard scbool, Ambridge, Fa.; Monessen (Pa.) school; Trussed Concrete Sted Company, Youngstownl 0.; Arm-stro1Jg Cork Company, La,ncaster, Pa.; School building, Rocky Mount, N. c.; Auburn (N. Y.) school; Carrollton (Ill.) school; Hobart College, Geneva, N. Y.; Clay County High school, Clay Centre, Kan.; Maryville (Mo.) High school; Hotel Gotham, New York; Presbyterian church, Batavia, N. Y. "A. B. c." Forced Draft Apparatus-Richard Best, New-a. rk, N. J.; Eisenbrath & Schwab Compatly, Chicago, IlL; To-ledo Furnace Company, Toledo, 0.; Auburn (N. Y.) Light, Heat and Power Company; Assam Distillery Company, Jor-hat, Assam, India; House of Providence .. Detroit, Mich.; Am-erican Shipbuilding Company, Lorain, 0., steamship; H. T. Weston, Beatrice, Neb.; Beatrice Poultry & Cold Storage !fi !:Ii Comp.any, Beatrice, Neb.; Dutchess Tool Company, Fishki11- on-Hudson, N. Y.; Waterworks, Beatrice, Neb. "A. B. C.' Dry Ki1ns-Erith's Engineering Company, Lon-don, Eng., special dryer; Alhorn & Waller, Morganfield, Ky., brick dryer; American District Steam Company, North Tona-wanda, N. Y., moist air kiln; Gardner Broom Company, Ams-terdam, N. Y., broom dryer; \V. D. Young & Co., Bay City, Mich.; moist air kiln; J. T. Wylie & Co., Saginaw, Mich., cooperage dryer; Mitsui & Co., Kobi, Japan, special dryer. Detroit Auto Return Steam Traps-B. Schmid, Fabrica, De Tamalina, Monterey, Mexico; Morgan Floral Company, Henderson, Ky.; "Vilson & Wanless Company, Bay City, Mich.; Fisk Rubber Company, Kansas City, Mo.; George Reinberg, florist, Chicago. Ill. @ * @ CUPID DEMORALIZES DEPARTMENT STORE. Waukegan Firm Reveals Enmity Toward Little God of Love. And now a wait goes up from "Dan" Cupid that depart-ment store managers are organizing against him. What with divorce courts, affinity finding bureaus, and the like, it is a wonder that he is able to eke out an existence at all. And when he did find a field where he could quietly practice his archery and was beginning to get back into his old form, another lot of signs are ,nailed up barring him from the pre-serves. The campaign against Dan began .recently in a store in Waukegan, and it is expected the warfare will spread all along the line. This want ad appeared: "WANTED-Two or three lady clerks who have no pres· cnt intention of getting married. No others need apply. Young ladies with no regular gentlemen friends preferred. Apply in person to' the George R. Lyon & Son store." In this particular store it is sa,id therc has been a marriage among the sales force to every two bargain sales. One crowd of ladies was pretty well married off and a new set had just gotten on' to the ropes. It seemed as though there might be smooth sailing for a time when suddenly Cupid broke Ollt again. Miss Nina Kennedy walked into the man-ager's office. "Guess I'll resign," she said, "Why, what's the matter? Are the hours too long? Aren't you getting enough-" "Oh, yes, that's all right, only-well, I don't think -I'll have time to work for yOll any more; I'm-I'm going to be married." Miss Kennedy is to wed Claude Bates next month. And double bars went Up against Cupid with the publica-tion of the unique ad. MICHIGAN r II i~~!no~~l~~d,?' ~~~~nnl~~~; tell you their glue is as good as COOPER'S, they admit Cooper's is the BEST. No one extols his product by comparing it with an inferior article. Cooper's Glue is tbe world's standard of excellence. With if all experiment begitlS, all comparison continues, and all test ends. Sold continuously since 1820. Its reputation, like itself, STICKS. Peter Cooper's glue is made from sdected hide stock, carefully pre-pared. No bones or pig slock enter into its composition. I In strength it is uniform, each barrel containing the same kind of glue that is in every other barrel of the same grade. ORIN A. WARD GRANoRA.IDSAGENT 403 Ashton Bldg. l CITIZENS PHONE 933.:3 _.- __ .__ _ ..1 MACHINE I1NIVES PER.FECT QUALITY RIGHT PRICES PROMPT SERVICE ABSOLUTE GUARANTEE Dado or GrOOVingHeads. Miter Machines. Universal Wood Trimmers, Boring Machines. Etc. II• FOiX MACHINE CO. ._--_._-_._-~ Lsi The "RELIABLE" Kind. I T1EFEll~~:Ks!.~!!'~DMFG. CO, ··--~I-B0YNT0N & C0. Mallufacturern of Emboued and Turned Mould-ings, Embo .. - ed aJ1d Spindle Carvings. and Automatic: Turning •• We aJso manu-fadure a large 1i~ of Emb.oued Ornament. for Couch Work. SEND FOR y, ' . •• ~.. /", ~ ~ ~-~ -- - - CATALOGUE 419·421 W. fifteenth St., C"ICAGO.ILL • ARTISAN •I .---------_._-_..-----_.~ palm6r'S pat6nt 61Ulno Glamos Mr. Manufac:m..er: Do YoUever <:onsider what joint gluing <:osls~ The separators lIud wooden wedaes, if you U!Ie them and Ulllny do, ate a large item of expense aCCQunls; but thi, is small compared to Wage aCCQunts of workmen who wear Ihem out with a hammer, and then a large per cent of the jointll are (.aures by the inseculily Clf this meaM. RESULT, it h.s to be done Clver allain, if ll'»5ib\e. If you use independent screw damps the result is belIeF, bul ~oweJ", a!lD.geIher too slow, Let us tell you of $(l1llething beUeJ", PALMER'S CLAMPS. AU steel and iraq. No wedll'eS, no l\eparalorn. adjl18l to allY widlh, clamp instantly yel secuwy. releasts even faBler. Positivdy one-third more work with one_thircI less helP. In lIeven sizes up to 60 inchC!l, any thick.nell8 lip to 2 inches; ZOO factories in 1906. Why DOt you ill 1908? Altbol1i:h sold by dealers ~here let us send you pat!icuiau, It E. Palmer & SO"5. OW0550, Mi6b. FOREIGN AGENTs: Proiedi1eCo., London. Eoi'kad. Schudwdt & Schutte, Berlin, GermallY_ ~--- ~ r MorrisWood3NS~~~S';liiSt~dcQlue Joinl (uffers : FOR THERE ARE NO OTHERS "JUST AS COOD." They cut a dean perfect joint always, Never burn ow-ing 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 p'l'iees on application. MORRIS WOOD & SONS, 2714-2716 W. Lake St., Chicago, Ill. • • 13 • I.. 14 MICHIGAN ARTISAN iI1 EVIL EFFECTS OF AN ENGLISH LAW. Come to Grand Rapids I IF YOU CAN"T COME And Take This Course III FURNITURE DESIGNING IF YOU CAN. TAKE IT BY MAIL OUR SCHOOL IS OPEN ALL DA.Y AND TUESDAY EVENINGS, The Grand Rapids School of Designing ARTHUR KIRKPATRICK, Insll'uctor and Designer 542-545 Houseman Bldg., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Workmen Prefer Indolence to Employment. Many of the evil results arising from the workmen's com-pensation act in England have already been pointed out. To the working of this act is attributed much of the present al-most unprecedented prevalence of unemployment. Large numbers of middle aged and eldeI'ty men have been discharged by employers on the assumption that they are more liable to- accidents than younger men, though several large en:ployers of labor have published fig;;res showing that this is not' the case. Be that as it may, the fact remains that great nurrbers of efficient workmen are paying a heavy pen-alty' for the' aet from which their class expected to derive much benefit. An evil effect of :J.fothcT kind was shown in a case at the Bow County court the other day when the demoralizing in-fluence of the <Let on a young man was demonstrated with great clearness. The young m~n had lost three fingers in an accident and claimed a pension for life of ten shillings and one penny a week from his employers. The later disputed the full claim on the ground that they had offered him work which he was able to 1\0, but which he had refused. The fo1- lowing dialogue passed betwcn the employers' counsel and the plaintiff: "Are you willing to do any work at all?" "N0," replic.d the young man, stoutly. "Do you say you are not wilting or not able?" the judge asked. "I said not 'willing," was the unblushing reply. "Would you rather live your present life at ten shillings one penny a week than take a job as caretaker or anything of tha t kind?" counsel asked. "Yes/, said the man, with decision. "You are looking forward to ten shillings one penny a week faT the rest of your life?" "That is not much, is it?" "\Von't you get tired of doing nothing?" "):fo, sir." "What do yOU do with yourself?" "I s:t and watch the fire." "If your doctor said that you were entirely recovered, would you go back to work?' UNo." J The judge s~id that it was impossible. for a crippled man to go upon the market, and the firm must pay the ten shillings one penny a week. "But," he added, "I still think wOTk 01: 50me kind would be good for him." @ * @ Woman Designed Furniture. An American teacher, Miss Hclen Hyde, Is now living in .bpan and using life there as material for her prints. Miss HyJe h:J.~her house and studio at Akasaka, where she lives in jap,l!1f"e style, but still retains "all the comforts of home .• iTHEHERKIM'-EHOTERL -AN-D-C-AF'E~ GRAND RAPIDS 130 rooms. with run_ ing water, telephone, electric light, s.tea m heal, etc, in each room, Many with private bath. English, Mi.. ion and Colonial Cafe. Service a la Carte. 'J a. m. k! 12 p. moO5(k; Table d'Hote. Dinner, 5:3010 8 p. ro., SundaY$ included RooIDa up to $2,GO peT day for one penon, South hound Wealthv-Serihner car from UmoB or Graod Trunk $tations. • Into the little Japanese house, with its bamboo frame, and walls of sliding screens, Miss Hyde has int:t"oduc~d the Amer .. ican push-button belt, American chairs, (the Japanese prefer to sit upon floor mats) and even the unheard of luxury of an open grate fire. By designing most of her furniture herself along Japanese lines and -having it made by Japanese work-ing men out of their l1ative material, 3.1iss Hyde has made a house and studio equally compatible with American ideas of comfortable living and the Japa.nese standard of art. @ * @ Having tried out the exposition plan of selling goods in New York and Chicago, C. H. Medicus & Co. of Brooklyn have decided to test the merits of Grand Rapids as a selling market. The firm has leased an entire :floor in the Furniture Exchange, MICHIGAN ARTISAN OFFICES: CINCINNATI-PickE:trlog Sunding. NEW YORK--346 Broadwa.y. SOSTON--18 Tremont St. CHICAGO--134 Van Buren St. GRAND RAPJDS--Houseman Bldg. JAMESTOWN. N. Y.--Chada.koln Boldg. HIGH POINT, N. C.--Slanton-WeIQh Sioek. The most satisfactory and up-to-date Credit Service covering the FURNITURE, CARPET, COFFIN and ALLIED LINES. I!I ____ • -4II The most accurate and reliable Reference Book Published. Originators of the "Tracer and Clearing House System:' I>-------------------_._-_._------_. Collection Service Unsurpassed-Send for Book of Rea Drafts. H. J. DANHOF. Michigan Manaller. 341·348 Housem.an Buildllll", Grand Rapids. Mich. . -------------------------------------------_. Wood Bar Clamp Fixtures Per Set SOc. OVER 15,000 OF OUR STm RACK VISES IN USE Price $2.80 to $4.00 25 doz. Clamp Fixtures bought by one mill last year. \Ve shi[l on .approval tu Hued firms, and guarantee our goods llllcondi-tionall~ ·. Write for list of Steel !far Clamps, Vises,Bencn. litops, dc. E.". S"ElDON &. CO. 283 Madison St .• Chicago. >--------_._----------_._-------- THE Wellin~lon nolel ----, : J WHEN IN DETROIT • I STOP AT I I!:!?!~~Ol!~!!~~ Coco Adams Ave. a';Ill Park St. III the Center of the Tbeatre, Sbop-pinll. and BusineM District. A la Carte Cafe Newestand Fined Grill Room in tbe City. Club Breakfast - 40c up Lunche<:m _ • ~ 50c T abJe d'hole Dinners _ 75c Music from 6 P. M. to 12 P. M. Every room has a private bath. EUROPEAN PLAN Rates: $1.50 per day and up. I L. W. TULLER; Ploop. --4 ... M. A. SHAW. Mer. _ Cor. Wabash Ave & Jackson Boul+'vard CHICAGO Remod·\ed at a c"stof $150,000 Hot and cold running water and long di6- lance 'phones in all room6. 200 rooms. 100 with bath. Single or en suite. I Rat ..s $1 00 and upwards. lODe of the most unique II di"i"g roomsllllhecl>tJlllry. 0" '.mo", ,'''., C.,,_ >----------- McClintock and Bayfield PROPS· • --------_._-_._------_. -----,I Pittsburgh Plate Glass Jobbers and Dealers in Company Plate Glass, Mirrors, Window Glass, Ornamental Figured Glass. WIRE GLASS, the Great Fire Retardant. CARRARA GLASS, a New Product Like Polished White Marble. For anything in Builders' Glass, or anything in Paints, Brushes, or Painters' Sundries, address any of our branch warehouses, a list of which is given below: NEW YORK-Hudson a,nd Vandam Sts. CLEVELAND-1430.1434 West Third St. BOSTON-4t-49 Sudbury St .• 1·9 Bowker St. OMAHA-1608.10.12 Harney St. CHICAGO 442-4S2 Wa.ba&h Ave. ST· PAUL-459-461 Ja.Ck50D St. CINCINNATI-Broadway and Court 5t8. ATLANTA. GA.-30-32~34$. Pryor St. ST. LOUIS-Cor. Tenth and Spruce Sts. SAVANNAH,GA.-74S-749 Wheaton St. MINNEAPOLIS-SOO.S16S. Third 8t. KA.NSASCITY-'lftb and W.,..ndoUe Sts. DETROIT-53·59 Larned St •• E. BIRMINGHAM. ALA.-2nd Ave. aDd Z9tb St. GRA""'DRAPIDS. MICH.-39_41 N. Dlvlalon St. BUFFALO. N. Y.~372-74·76-78 Pearl St. PITTSBURG}f-101_103 Wood St. SROOKLYN-63S-637 Fulton St. MILWAUKEIt. WIS.-492·494 Market St. PHILADELPHIA-Pitcairn Bid••• Arch and 11th St•• ROCH ESTER, N. Y.-Wilder Rldg••M..In 6' Exchange St.. DAVENPOR T-410-416 Scott St. BALTIMORE-310.12_14 W. Pratt St. Sole distributer. of PATTON'S SUN PROOF PAINTS. II I I> 15 , Il 16 MICHIGAN ARTISAN ENG R A V E R ,S P R INT E RS B IN oE R5 lOB, 110, 112 nort~ DiYision~I. Orand Ka~ids P R I NTER5 B INoER5 ENGR iI 5 I:I II I Michigan Engraving Company :: White Printing Company Michigan Artisan Company IOB,IIO,I12 nort~ DiYision~I. Orand Kapids OUR BUILDING Erected by White Printing Company, Grand Rapids, 1907. MICHIGA~ ARTISAN ------_._-_._---------_._--------~ I I• Table Legs and Pedestals Round, Square, Octagon ot any Polygonal Shape fJ Tumed on the Mattison Leg'Machine at. a fraction of what it costs by hand. Every piece comes out smOGih. true and exactly alike in size and shape. no malter how delicate the pattern. g It is sold on the condition that if after it has been run in your own factory. you do not find it to be in every way as represented. we will take it back. and pay freight charges both ways. g Better send for a copy of out large circular and let us tell you what the machine will do for you. C. Mattison Machine Works 863 Sth St., Beloit, Wis. 17 --------- ._-_._------------ .... Substantial Workmanship. In the fall of 1894 four sofas, \vith iramcs of ·wood and covered with leather, ,vere purchased ot the Nelson-1latter Furniture Company for the USe of one of the local lodges of Knights of Pythias of Grand Rapids. Recently it ''''as found necessary to open the seat of one of the sofas to put in a new spring, when a yellO\v..stained piece of paper, neatly folded, dropped to the floot". One one side \-vere \vritten the words "Open this Paper." On the reverse the following memor-andum appeared: "These 4-----6 sofas were made by Fred J. Zimmer and Louis Schuitema, at Nelson & Matter's shop, Grand Rapids, 1\Jich., August 14, 1894." After fourteen years of hard service the sofas are practical-ly as useful as when purchased. :r:vlr. Zimmer is in business on his own account in Grand Rapids, making reliable, substantial upholstered furniture. @ * @ Non-Dividing Pillar Tables. The manufacturers of dining' room tables held a meeting recently in Cbicago and spent considerable time in the discl1s-sian of matters pertaining to the manufacture of extensipn dining tables. A new stand"rd form of pillar extension tables was approved. This type permits an extension of the tables \VitJlOllt the opel1ing of the pillar. It '\vill be sold for one price only by all manufacturers of the a~~sociatioll. The guarantee of prices which was adopted six months ago has produced satisfactory results. Pric:es ·were maintained and the same will be continued. J. A. Conrey, the chairman of the association. was presented vdth a silver headed cane and a handsome umbrella was given to his wife. @) * @ j'Lightning Change" Buyers. "Dave" Kahn, formerly with Siegel-Cooper & Co., Kauf-man Brothers, R. H. \Vhite and numerous other firms, has "thrown up" his job "'''''ith a firm in New Orleans and ..,.r.ill buy for Simpson, Crawford & Co. in Kew York for a season. Kahn rivals as a lightning change buyer A. L. Goldstein and R. G. Alexander. Probably no buyers in the trade have had a wider or more varied experience with managers than these gentlemen and should they.a.t some future day decide to ·write the stories of their lives and publish the same, under the title "\iVlJat ,:\r e Know About Store Managers;' it would be a reig'ning sensation for a year. @ * @ New Hotel for Little Rock. Claudius Jones, a leading retailer of Little Rock, arrived in Grand Rapids on October 26, accompanied by a Mr. Lenon and ""vifeof that city. A week was .spent in selecting furni-ture for a new hotel nearing completion in that city. About $50,000 'will be invested in furnishings. @ * @l ~._--------- • Although Chicago's population is less by one-half that of London, the annual sales of a single department store in the former city are said to exceed all the large stores of London combined. The Universal Automatic CARVlNO MACHINE ==== PERFORMS THE WORK OF ==== 25 HAND CARVERS Anti does 'he Work Better than it can be Done by Hantl -------MADE BY------- Union [MDOSSlnG MA(n1nr Co. IndianapoU •• Indian.a Write for Information. PrieM Etc. "'---------_._-----------------_ .....• 18 l!STABLISHED 1880 MICHIGAN ARTISAN "U~I.ISHI!O .v MICHIGAN ARTISAN CO. ON THE lOTI'! AND 25TH OF EACH MONTH OFFICE-lOB,110.112 NORTH DIVISION ST •• GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. ENTERED II'i THE POSTOFFICE ~T G1R.l,Nl)RAPIDS, MICH., "'B SECOMD CLAn MATT!R. Some of the la.rgest manufacturing concerns in the country maintain a regular systematized suggestions department and pay their employes for every suggestion that is found to be of value. The plan is worthy of a trial. "to "t'" Nat infrequently shrewd buyers size up a proposition by the man who makes it. It makes very little difference how good an offer sounds, if it isn't backed by a business integ-rity that can be depenned upon. °t" "to \-Vise manufacturers fill their warehouses with goods at this season of the yea.r in anticipation of the large volume of trade that will ensue in January. °to eta An inconsiderable quantity of goods suitable for the holi-day trade is in the hands of the manufacturers. As a rule the stuff has been cleaned out. °to °to :'lost of the dark. habit. the failures in business a.rc caused by jumping in Wise business men have acquired the Missouri To hold a position a man must show signs of life. A pull \vill not carry him very far. °to °to A poorly constructed shipping crate causes the retailer to suspect the value of its C{l11tents. ato °to In trying to get out of a rut many a man drops into a hole. Still the effort is worth trying. ato °to The man who does not take pride look for another occupation. 't' 111 his business should A dirty shop or wareroom who \.,.ould buy your goods. 't' 't' u:ii.fa~orably impresses the man "If the "boss" did 110t work harder than his hired hands he would lose his job. "to °to The best place to carry a grudge is any place outside of your business. "to °to The best men and women are the product of hard exper- Iences. "to "to Poorly finished goods may finish yom career in business. "t" ato After business is the hour for funny stories. TRIED TO SAVE A COMPETITOR An Unusual Experience of a Manufacturer. 111 no branch of manufacturing is there stronger competi-tion than in the refrigerator business. Efforts to combine the industry in the past have failed and while now and then a weak participa.nt in the scramble for trade may fall by the wayside, to rise no more, the giants ru"h on with never-les-sening vigor. Mr.]. H. Ford, the general manager of the Alaska Refrigerator Company of Muskegon, related an un-usual experience to the writer a few days ago that is well worth reading. "One of the company's salesmen, Mr. H~f1nah, came home from Detroit and stated that he had found a competitor in Detroit who had offered a refrigerator for $20 that seemed to be as valuable as one the Alaska had sold for $25. 'What can we do with this problem?' he inquired of the manager. "'Nothing. The larger number he sells at his price the sooner he will fail and go out of busi.ne-ss,' the astute mana-ger replied. 'Advise the dealers in Detroit to buy as many as they can secure at that price.''' Shortly afterward Mr. Ford went to Sturgis, :'lich .. 'and sought an interview with the offending manufacturer. "I am informed that you arc selling refrigerators cheaper than others and I would like to learn how you can afford to do so," he remarked. The visited good-naturedly welcomed the visitor and an inspection of the factory and the system em-ployed in its operation followed. When this had been con-cluded the two gentlemen engaged in a heart-to-heart talk, Mr. Ford giving his competitor much sensible advice and then before taking his depa.rture, he invited the Sturgis man to visit the Alaska plant at Muskegon with his foremen and such other persons as he might choose to select for the journey. "If you shall conclude that what I shall show you does not compensate you for the time and <xpensc involved for yourself and associates in making the trip I will reim-burse you for your expcnses," :Mr. Ford remarked as he stepped aboard a train running northward. A few days later the man from Sturgis, acccimpanied by several a.ssociates in business inspected the great factory of the Alaska company at Muskegon Heights and Mr. Ford opened up his books and explained his system of operating the plant. An entire day was given to an inspection of the plant and when the hour for the departure of the visitors arrived they took the train much surprised and a great deal wiser than when they entered tbe Alaska~s office. Mr. Ford was not asked to pay the bills involved. Having contracted their output for prices that the refrig~ erators could not be produced for, the manufacturers soon went to the wall. @ * @ PleaEed With the Result. Roy S. Barnhart, treasurer of the Nelson-Matter Furniture Company, Grand Rapids. is very much pleased with the re-sults of the·late election. He is confident that business will rapidly grow in volume and that an era of prosperity was in-at1gurated upon the conclusion of the counting of the banots. @ * @ The Shanahans Much Pleased. The Shanahan Brothers-John, Maurice and Robert E.-all prominent officials of the Bissell Carpet Sweeper Company of Grand Rapids, are Democrats of the old school, but· all voted for William H. Taft fOf president and rejoice very mUch over his election. °to °to By carefully studying the grain of the wood and using re-markably fine saws in cutting the same) the Japanese wood workers produce good furniture without using nails, dowels or· screws in its construction. MICHIGAN An English Illustrated Catalogue. During a recent visit to the Ryerson Public Library, Grand Rapids, the writer rummaged <:l.tnongthe books on furniture and found one published in 1905 in London. It is an illus-trated catalogue issued by Jamr,5 Shoolbred & Co. of Totten-hame Court Road a11d it consists of 572 pages devoted to "Complete House Furnishings, Interior Decorations and Household Requisites," Besides their showrooms in Tottcnham House the com-pany have shops for cabinet making, hlinds, bedding and upholstery, carpet and pJanlJi.llg floors, carpentry and decorat-ing. In the preface the company state that "they have striven to render the book thoroughly up to date and to il-lustrate as wide and diversified a range of articles as possible from the modest appointments of a bachelor's flat to a sumptl1ot1~ly furnished mansion." They are importers of ARTISAN 19 cabinet called a coat cabinet, but resembling a bookcase. These pieces may be handsome in reality, but they don't look it. Such poor dr:nv1ngs cannot show up the goods to ad-vantage. There is another point in which we excell-in the making of beautiful cuts. There were a few good cuts of interiors, but very few. Other l1l11strations show ugly hall racks, crude looking chairs, awful bookcases, tables badly designed. The roll top desk of American style is imitated, but not well. The dmwillg room furniture is stiff and ancient looking. The dining room chairs are not bad, but the sldeboa.rds are too heavy and of ugly designs, with flat surfaces, but with elab-orate carvings. Upholstered pieces for dining room use, such as couches, arm chairs. etc., are out of place, to say the least. The bedroom furniture is massive, heavy and ugly. Iron bedsteads show lack of variety in style. The drawing Sketched by Otto Jiranek. carved and fretted cabinets from the Orient, tables, chairs and Settees from Hindostan. In the f11rniture department their stock of antiques jl1~ eludes examples of Chippendale, Sheraton, Heppelwhitc, Georgian, Queen Anne, Jacobean, Tudor and Elizabethan styles, an assortment of ancient and modern French furni-ture from tlle per10d of Francois I to Louis Seize and the empire. The furnishing of h?tels, public buildings and the-aters is pursued to a great extent. The ~atalogt1e itself is poorly illustrated and does not shm"'- the furniture to advantage. The difference between the English and American styles is plain. The English styles of the past are excellent, but the modern are anything but beautiful, "l.1Jd it is evident that American styles outclass them, judging by the examples in this catalogue. Seven pieces of inlaid hall furniture include: two settees (called benches), hanging hat rack (called l1a,t rnil), chair, hall cab-inet, hall tab1e (resembling a buffet) and a tall quadrangle room furniture is better, though the stiff "cozy" corner ar-rangements belie their name. The library furniture is good, writing tables are quite attractive. Easy cllairs upholstered in morocco are inviting looking. The bookcases are awful; the "dwarf" bookcase, unheard of here, is a low case not much differing from the others. Another interesting book is called "Alicient Furniture and Other \Vorks of Art." It illustrates a collection formed by Vincent J. Robinson, C. L E., of Parnham Rouse, Dorset. TIle illustrations are beautiful, some of the old pieces, such as cupboards or armoires date back to th<;>. fourteenth cen-tury and are of Italian make. The armoire was originaUy a cnpLoard and was used as a. clothes press and forbe,dding, but afterwards became a separate piece of furniture.' The panels are often elaborately carved and decorated with scti.1p-tured mouldings. There are quaint old tables, too, and chairs galore. It is a beautiful book; and Such a contrast to the other. 20 MICHIGAN ADDED LUXURY OF FLAT LIFE. Featur'es of Up~to-Date Apartments. It almost seems as if a limit had been reached in the con-veniences and labor saving devices installed in the newest and most·· expensive flat hOllses. Unless an aeroplane for each tenant were thrown ir:i with the rcnt there seems to be very little left to offer the dweller in the modern New York apartment. Now a womati can chtertain unexpected guests at a mo-ment's notice by simply phonoing for oile of the extra bed chambers provided by the management. One's children can play in a private roof garden playground while the older folk take an airing l1nder a pergola,. It is possible' to have ice in one's room in a twinkling without the botber of having it brought into the apartment. AU the laundry work is done in a co-operative laundry at the top of the house, letters can be mailed by simply stepping outside the apartment door, maids, cooks and waitresses are supplied on order for any function alld electric buttons dis- ARTISAN York and goes far to pt::ove the"s.tartem-ent m~\de some' time ago that the, day was not, far distal,'lt.-wh~:l1,t~ere ,would be comparatively few .private dwellings i11-;.Manh,attan except those of the very rich. Though the rents may seem exorbitant to- the average per,· son-fat jnsta.nee, from $l,SGOup for one room and bath and from $3,ODO up to $6,DOO or $7,000 .for a housekeeping apart~ mcnt of nine rooms and half a dozt':n.baths-they do not seem so high to hundreds of others, for long before the ne'west flats are finished there are' plenty' of, tenants not ·only ready but eager to take them. Children are not barred from the newest 'and most 'expen-sive apartments. On the contrary. they are "ove1comed,and high up on the roof playgrounds have been designed for the little folks. These are fitted up with swings, tennis courts, and a big floor space for' .roller skating. Just adjoining there is usualty a promenade, a pergola for the~older folks. where a wonderful panoramic view of the city is obtained and where one can get the air without going away. from one'", own doorstep. Think of having always available rooms for chance 'guests one might be unable to accommodate in one's own flat. The roomS are all furnished complete except for bed linen and toweh. These are fur-nished by the hostess naturc..lIy. Think what a joy this is to the housekeeper. the hospitable wo-man who loves company and who in her own home trembled at the arrival of the unexpe<:.ted guest. Not only can extra guest rooms be secured, but extra servants are provided by the manage-ment at a moment's notice. If a woman wishe., to give a dinner party and needs an extra wait-ress all she has to do is to order one by phone and the maid appears all spick and span in eap and a.pron, Like\",ise, if the cook makes trouble the mistress has only to call for a substitute. The kitchens are marvels of convenience in the higher priced apartment. A $6,500 flat's kitchen will be quite as commodious as that in any private dwelling, much larger than some. Besides the coal range there is usually an electric stove also. to be Llsed in emergency or in lieu of the coal range. In5tead of having one's room filled with the steam and unpleasant wash-day odors. the wash-ing is all done in the laundry at the top of the house, where 150 tubs are installed. Large iron-ing rooms, two or more, and as many drying rooms, are also for co-operativ~ service and there are steam drying lockers which economize time wonderfully. No ice is ever brought into the apartment from outside, yet it can be had at any time. In the refrigerator a.re calls through which refrigerated brine is forced. Here articles of food are kept as cold as may be. \Vhen ice is needed all th,)., one has to do is to set a vesscl of water on the coil and in a few moments the ice is ready. To have one's steam radiators eOI1J:ealed and out of sight is one of the qelightful improvements in the modern apartments. Nothing seems quite so ugly as an exposed radiator. Now they are placed beneath the window sill and so covered with wainscoting that. they are wholly invisible. They are so constructed that the told air enters the galvanized iron box which encloses them at the bottom and is heated as it passes upward through the b.ox and' register at the top. This. method precludes any cold draught in the room. The duplex apartments-those on two floors-are a great joy to most women. There is about them the exclusiveness I Home of the Mechanic Institute-School of Mechanic Arts, New York City. close closets in unexpected places, cook one's dinners, tell the time and accomplish many more interesting things. All this marks a turning point in the home life of New MICHIGAN ENGRAVING CO" Grand Rapids, Mich. ENCRAVERS BY ALL PROCESSES. :\lICHIGAN ARTISAN 21 ._-_._------_._----------., rI "m,'" *f""mU,U," "''0' om"" ... "_om" ._ ". "~,"~" mm'" ~m. ,." ~. "_m, .00 , -boys can do more work with it than a dozen men with any other so called machine or pads on the market. I That's Why It's a Money Maker. It Imitates Perfectly. If I couple of THIS MACHINE MAKES THE MONEY • 50 More Satisfied Manufacturers I!II Plain or Quartered Oak, Mahogany, Walnut, Elm. Ash or any other wood with open grain. Write the Posselius Bros. Furniture Manufacturing Co. For Prieea and Full Particulars. Mention the Michigan Artisan. 50 Macblnes Sold last Year Detroit, Mich. ._-------_._- of the private dwelling and the convenience of the flat. One of the especial advantages enjoyed is the fact that not all the apartments arc built alike. Every woman loves variety and every woman who lws gone flat hunting knows to her sor-row that there is little deviation in flat arrangement. Now one can get an apartment which is as unusual in style and division as it is novel in arrangement. No hvo apartments in the same building are precisely alike Space has regulated this in a measure, but a distinct f;'::fforthas been made to secure artistic and surprising results. In one of the big eo-operative studios where the apart-ments arc a11 duplex some charming schemes have been car-ried out. One artist and his wife who are utilizing tlNO studio .apartments have had sliding doors cut through so that the rooms when thrown together make an auditorium some 100 feet in width. Entrance to ont': studio is gained through a concrete arch-way in Gothic style which supports one end of the balcony. This balcony, onto which opens the sleeping apartments, runs str.aight across the room. From the arch to the \'v"all it is curtained off, making a. channing little reception room. The bedrooms are wholly different in each apartment, both in style and size. One has half size Dutch windows, the other deep embrasures and French wlnclows. In each, as indeed in all modern flats in Nev·... York, the most important of all rooms is the kitchenette. New Yorkers should ha.ve as their coat of arms a kitchenette decorated with a cook rampant and a crest shmving the arm of victory-a mailed hand waving a chafl11g dish triumphant, as indicative of the New York woman's emancipation from the enslave-ment of the domestic problem. A woman had largely the planning of one of the most at-tractive of the studio apartments, so there are plenty of clos-ets and closet room, and in the most unexpected places. Be-neath the narrow winding stair that ascends to the mezzanine floor, for instance, a series of drawers of varying sizes is built in. An entry way, the sides of which to the uninitiated are seemingly fLtted only with very handsome panels of ,vood, may by a pressure of a button open and disclose to view a space sufficient for a man's entire wardrobe, or at least a woman's :'i1erry 'V'-lidowhat. Corners have been utiljzed and china cabinets have been built in, and then there are the regulation closets, b1,ltroomy ones such as one used to have at home and all lighted by electricity. 1Iirrors are set in closet doors, thus obviating the neces-sity of a, a pier glass. In the living rooms are real fireplaces, not gas logs or make-believe ones, but fireplaces in' which real country logs can be -burned. About the 'baseboard of the living room are placed at intervals connections for elec-tric wires, so that if One wishes to have an electric lamp on a convenient table no more of the wires than is necessary will show. In the very newest of the housekeeping apartments the building is constructed around a court so that all of the rooms are light. In the centre a fountain \'-"illplay and a luxury of exotic growth abound. A sub-courtyard for tradesmen's wagons is a feature. No wagons will be allowed to drive into and stand amund in the majn courtyard, hut all will drive down into the sub-comtyard by mel' ns of an inclined driveway. Thc house's eight service elf vators will go all the way down into the sub-courtyard and the tradesmen can deliver goods at the side door of each ap<lr\ment. This is an important feature of modern apartment house improve-ments from a constructional standpoint and those who are able to afford it will appreciate it.-Sun. @ * @ The sales of the stores located On State .street, Chicago, amount to $8,000,000 during the holiday season. 22 The Comparison Man. To carry the right goods at the right prices, a great mer-chant in one of the eastern cities employs a "comparison man." His knowledge of manufacturing dud selling mer-chandise is very extensive; he kno'ws what is doing in every important factory in the ' ...o.rId. A sideboard is placed on sale in a certain department of the store for fifty dollars. The comparison man calls one of his "shoppers" and tells him to go to every competing store in the city and find out who sells the best sideboard for fifty dollars. When detailed descrip-tions of every sideboard offered in the city for the amount named arc turned in, the comparison man quickly learns the MICHIGAN ARTISAN The Leonard Furniture Exhibition Buildings. The three buildings of the Grand Rapids Refrigerator Company fronting on Market and Ottawa streets are in pro-cess of transformation from manufacturing to ftirniture exhi-bitionbuildings. TV"'cnty-five tl:ousand dollars will be in-vested in remodeling and decorating and whcn completed they will be as attractive as any other ~xhibition rooms in Grand Rapids. Two hundred thousand feet will thuS be added to the show room uor spacc in Grand Rapids, increasing the space for showing of furniture to an amount much greater than any other city in the world. These buildings are but one block from the Blodgett building, less than five minutes' Leonard Furntttll"e Exhibition Buildings. walk from the Morton and Pantlind hotels and not more than six or seven mInutes from the Livingston and Cody. Lo-cated on several lines of railroads, a good saving in ca.rtage is effected. The buildings are well lighted and heated, pro-vided with elevator service and everything convenient. Ap-plications for space are coming in, and those contemplating showing in Grand Rapids will find it to their advantage to correspond with the Grand Rapids Refrigerator Company. @ * @ Will Manufacture Refrigerators.. The Gibson Refrigerator Company have purchased the plant of the Skinner & Steenman Company at Greenville, Mich., and will opera.te the same in the manufacture of refrig-erators. M.r. Gibson, who was interested in the old company, is quite largely engaged in the mercantile business. The capital stock of the company is $100,000, of which $10,000 is subscribed and paid in. @ * @ The Tacoma (Washington) .:\Jirror & Beveling Company is arranging for the establishment of a glass factory in that city that will represent an investment of about $26,000. @ * @ The "boss" cabinet maker is looking over the political lumber yard preparatory to commencing work on "thatcabi-net." capacity of his buyer of sideboards. judicious one it is suspended. @ ¥ @) If the sale is not a One's trade may be large, but the desire to make it larger is ever present. No matter how many customers one may have there is always room for one more. @ * @ The salcsman with the greatest number of friends has an asset which is worth something to him and to his em-ployer. 10uis babn DESIGNS AND DETAILS OF FURNITURE 15.f Livingston St. GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN Citizens' Telephone l7OJ. • ;"1I CHI GA N Sold to a Hair Mattress Factory. There js weeping and wailing and g-nashing of teeth in our midst at this ,vriting, as a great tragedy has v:sited this man's town. O\~e of our n,ost famous institutions has beell wiped out of existence by the cruel hand of fate and the Republican party combined. Deacon Lemuel Stubbs bet his whiskers on Bryan. For IIlany years the Deacon's whiskers have been the pride and joy of this village and formed one of the famous he;{uty spots of our community. The deacon has spent t11' best years of hjs life propagating the alfalfa to which every loyal citizen pointed with pride. Once when he ..v.as helping his wife do the weekly '''lashing and accidentally caught his whiskers in the wringer, tearing off a,bout a foot of them, he was swamped with messages of condolence from noted per-sons, among them being Senator Peffer of Kansas and Sena-tor Pettus of Alabama. The deacon was so sure that Bryan was going to be elected this time that he bet what was dearer to him than life-his whiskers. He bet with \~lilliat11 Tibbitts, the latter putting up three boxes of red herrin', a neck yoke, a barrel of crack-ers. two mouse traps, a box of axle grease and three pounds of mixed candy agin' the whiskers, After the returns was all in Deacon Stubbs went down to Tibbitts' store aml Tib-bitts cut the whiskers off in his feed cutter. Several of our .---------_._-------~ WANTED CABINET MAKERS; at least one who can do carving, MACHINEMEN,andCUTTER. STEADY WORK. Write O. W. UHRICH, Atchison, Kansas. We can helpyou. Time saved and when done leavesarebound(by yoUI~ self) and indexed by flooTs or departm~ts. BARLOW'BROS •• Grand Rapids, Mich. Writ/! Right }llow. •.--------- ---_._---~ WABASH B. WALTER & CO. INDIANA M••uf.".",••r TABLE SLIDES Exclusively WRITE FOR PRICES AND DISCOUNT • ====~SEE==== West Micbigan Macbine & Tool Co" ltd, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. for "IG" GRI\DE PUNC"ES and DIES ARTISAN 23 best citizens were prescnt at the sad ceremony, which had many of the aspects of a funeral, The deacon is staying dose at home now for fear of catching cold 'in his chest and is inconsolable. Tibbitts:~ disposed of the \vhiskers to a hair mattress factory down to the Rapids at a fancy figure.-Roy K. Moulton in Hopper-town Gazette. @ * @ Dodds' Oscillating Mortising Machine. This machine makes mortises from ~ .inch to one inch wide and any length up to five inches long, makes a clean cut mortise, 'The oscillating of the bit t:; a great help in cleaning out the chips. The automatic feed works stcad-ily and is less liable to break the bits; can be used or not as desired, and 'when used as a lock mortising machine, makes the key hole clean and complete at the same clamping. By disconnecting the oscillating pitma.n yOU have an au-tomatic feed horizontal boring machine. This machine will be found complete for either of these purposes: Mortising, lock mortiser or boring machine. Manufactured by Alex-ander Dodds, 181 and 183 Canal street, Grand Rapids. @ * @ • Put This on Ice for Four Years. "Just before the battle, mother," the very young and in-experienced salesman remarked, "politics makes strange bed fellows, but that does not help the sale of bedsteads very much." @ * @ If one million dollars worth of goods were sold at the act-ual cost of the goods and handling, yielding no profit, a hand,.. some margin would be realized on the discounts granted by manufacturers. • 24 MICHIGAN ARTISAN ( Made and dried right, and white. Samples furnished on appUcation.) 500,000ft. 1·20 inch Quarter Sawed Oak carried in stock. Come in and see it. Birch and Poplar crossbanding and rotary cut Oak. Birch, Maple, Basswood, Poplar and Gum Drawer Bottoms. PROMPT DELIVERY. ALL PRIME STOCK. FIGURED WOODS. MAHOGANY. WALNUT. QTR. SAWED OAK. BIRCH. HENRY s. co. 23 SCRIBNER ST., HOLDEN VENEER GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Personal Appeal in Salesmanship. Stephen Girard, the eccentric Philadelphia philanthropist, by his will endowing Girard College, made the strange pro-vision- as is known probably to most of you-that 110 clergy_ man could ever cross the portals of that institution. Ac-cordingly, a guard has stood at the gate every day since Gir-ard College was opened to intercept any gentlemen of the .loth. Horace Greeley, the veteran editor of the New Yo:-k Tribune, had a way of wearing a plain black suit a.nd white tie that little betokened the fires of human emotion that often welled up in his breast. It is told that one day as Mr. Greeley was passing through the gate of Girard College the guard stoPl)cd him with a "Hey there-halt! You can't go there'!" Mr. Greeley stopped and fixed his gaze upon the offender. "The hell I can It," he replied with emphasis. "Oh, that's all right, then-you can, sir," said the guard, opening wide the portals to this son of earth. I recount this incident from American history to estab-lish my rights as ambassador for the National Association of Advertising Novelty Manufacturers, to appear in these Coun. cils and have a voice in this Holy of Holies of -modern pub-licity. If any otd~time advertising man, holding to the ex-ploded theory once cherished by newspaper and magazine publishers and agencies, that "there is but one way to ad-vertise,"- should such a benighted soul claim tha,t there is no virtuous publicity in signs and calendars, paper weights and yardsticks, celluloid buttons and key rings, pocketbooks, lead pencils, thermometers, boys' caps, carpenters' aprons, horse covers and wagon umbrellas-should such a blind propllet of the old order of things dare to challenge my right as the spokesman' for "three-dimension pU.blicity," or say I, cannot invade the precincts of this fane of advertising,.I will ans-wer as did Horace Greeley, to the, effect that "I can qualify." Advertising, like religion and medicine d,nd government and science, is an eyolution. The old order is constantly passing away. The new is on and ever unfolding. In publicity matters surely times are not what they used to be -and as Ed Gibbs says, Hand never were." Once advertising was shotgun work. Broadsides were fired aimlessly at space in the hope of hitting something. Then rifle practice crept in-the plan of piCking a customer and shooting straight at him. That evolution worked the principle of "personal ap-peal in advertising, and we have all found out that the strong-- er the element of "personal appeal" in any campaign. the more successfully it sells goods. It is because of this fact that an advertising specialty makes the strongest possible sort of personal appeal tha.t a better.name for novelty or specialty advertfsing is "personal appeal advertising." That is just what many manufacturers of business souvenirs and advertising gift articles call it. And because of this fact of appealing to the heart and emotions of the multitude as specialty media do and because of that further indisputable fact that the great masses of peo-ple are quickest, easiest, cheapest and surest reached in that way, it follows that no ad\'ertising campaign is complete which fails to include the use of advertising specialties in some form. With general publicity alone, you plow, harrow, fertilize and water the field, yet without dropping the seed of personal appeal-the sine qua non of the whole operation, the one step in alt the publicity transaction which insures the sprouting of a harvest of purchasers and orders. "The field of novelty "letter en1cosures" now being cre-ated makes every business house's mail take on new aspects of efficiency in getting orders. These enable a house to get full '..-alue for the postage it pays. Did you ever stop to realize that most every house pays for twice as much weight in postage as it utilizes? Drop a novelty in your outgoing mails soliciting business or acknowledgiing favors already received and it costs you nothing for transportation. Your two-cent letter will carry your message and your nov-elty both. Of course you could pile up circular matter to full weight, but you and I both know what happens when a letter weighed down with printed matter is opened. Yet a novelty is gladly received and wins consideration for the matter. Personal a.ppeal in an advertising senSe is rifle shooting to hit the very heart of the prospective customer. There was a strong personal appeal in that verse of scripture, to illus-:- trate, which the old negro preacher selected as his text when he arose and said: "Brethren and Sistern, I takes my text from the one-eyed verse of the two-eyed chapter of the three-eyed John: 'Paul, the apostle, pinted his pistol at the 'Phesians.'" Could any-thing be better advertising? \Vhether writing an ad or an epistle to get business, the message should be pointed just like a pistol straight at the hearts of the people whose trade is solicited. This is one phase of "personal appeal" in ad-vertising- that one phase of the subject perhaps that most of you are familiar with. Advertising, broadly speaking, may be divided into two main purposes; to give information and to make personal ap-peal to prospective customers. Informative advertising is the oldest, best known, most used and likewise the most expensive branch of advertising. It is well defined by the term, "general publicity." It talks to the intelligence, to the reason. It is cold, impersonal, thoughtful, but exceedingly forceful if done at all well. It makes a trade mark and its commodities household words. It makes everyone know about the advertiser. It makes people think and talk about him. Surely these are prime requisites in all advertising campaign. They are the founda-tions of a great seIling' campaigi1. but they Jack the SUpefw structure; they lack sufficient "personal appea1." Let me define these. terms "novelty advertising" and Hspe_ MICHIGAN cialty advertising" before gojng further. In some ways both terms afe insufficient and misleading. You know that no science or system or institution can be defined and explained by a single term. Even a brief statement of essential facts is sometimes misleading, You remember the Irishman's epitome of King Solomon, whom he described as "that wise old guy who had 3,000 wives and slept 'INith his fathers." How does specialty advertisiilg accomplish the injection of the element of salesmanship into an advertising campaign? Listen. The desire to get something for nothing is QIle of the oldest of human emotions. People of all classes and condi-tions, if approa,ched aright, aTC always ready for a gift. There is that ahout the presentation-even of a trifle-to one which warms the cockles of the heart and makes one feel kindly disposed to the donor. It is a little article that IS lIseful, perhaps, such as a novelty cigar cutter or key-ring; or perhaps it is very beautiful, as many advertising novelties of triflillg value are; or likely its newness and uniqueness be-stow an interest upon it ill excess of its value; or possibly it is a fnnmaker-,something funny or humorous which old Gray Head will laugh at and spring upon his friends, or take home to amuse his children \vith. No matter. He accepts the little advertising novelty yOll send him with a distinct feeling of interest, of appreciation, of gratitude and these states of the mind unconsciously incline this person 1avo,r-ably toward your proposition and stimulate a desire to give you his co-operation. As a sort of subconscious reflex ac-tion he resolves to buy your stuff when he has the chance. Your advertising messa.ge is read and given a great deal more attention than it 'would otherwise secure. Intelligent appreciation of what you have to sell theu mingles cordially with his desire to help you and give you his patronage and out of that wedlock of knowledge and personal appeal is born the desire to purchase your goods, is born orders. Specialty advertising is "personal appeal" advertising be-cause it talks to the individual in language that he can understand. Buying is always an individual matter. Peo-ple may be educated in masses, but they don't buy in masses. Their decisions to buy and their a.cts of purchasing are al-ways the movements of individuals_ Hence that method of advertising is the best "dosing argument" of any campaign which best singles out the individual and makes the greatest impression upon him. How can individuals be reached best? How arc the ninety and nine influenced among men a.nd women "and chil-dren? Are they swayed most by reason or emotion? Are they creatures of heart, of impulse, of feeling or are they ruled by the sway of brain? vVhich writes most of human history-the mandates of thought, of reason, of cold intelli-gence or the tug of human heart strings? There caJl be no doubt. There is no ground for an in-stant of debate. Mankind and womankind and c.hildkind are ruled by their hearts, their emotions. They feel and act ac-cordingly. They want, and that settles the matter. One in a thousand is ruled by his reason and we single him out and call him jurist, statesman, philosopher. The 999 are ruled by thejr feelings. Now don't you see why "general publicity" so often fails to do what is expected of it? It educates. It makes the masses know that an advertiser makes a certain kind of goods. 1t may even carry the impression of superiority to a high degree, but as yet the 'well springs of human emotion have not been stirred up, the matter has not been brought home personally to the individual, his desire of possession has no, yet been stimulated. The appeal is as yet only to reason and intelligence-and most people. haven't either when it comes to determining their course in life, or jf they have reason, they refuse to use it, but do about as they feel. Thus specialty advertising rightfully analyzed must be di-vided into 'lpersonal appeal" and "psychological appeal" and ARTISAN both are valiant business getters; From the allusion made to this "general publicity" feature of the various sign special-ties you must 11mv be prepared to understand what is true, that it is possible and easy to frame up a.nd Callduct an entire national campaign from ;;gelleral pUblicity" to final "pers011al appeal," with its stimulation of desire for possession, by using nothing but novelties and specialties. Considering all the other features of specialty advertising, this elasticity is in-deed noteworthy.-H. S. Bunting. DtD °t" A Prosperous and Progressive Firm. A few years ago two young men, the Davidson Brothen, looked over the city of Des l..Joines in the state pf Iowa, and decided to make a pla,ce of importance for themselves in the community. It was then supposed that the Harba'chs, Newell, Chase & 'Nest and one or two others were able to supply t.he people of central Iowa with everything needed in the line of house furnishing goods; yet the young men were undeterred in their resolve to try their fortunes in the capital city_ Opening up a small stock, they proceeded to stir up th~ town and surrounding country and in a short time the peo-ple were given to understand that a pair of real merchants were in their midst. TIHy gained a foothold and gradually expanded their field of trade; now they rauk very high in the business circles. The firm has invcsted over $100,000 in stock and \'1.'111 add two floors to their commodious buildin.T in the near future, expending $25,000 upon theS-S!:,me. '" @ * @ The "first call for breakfa'st" on a railroad train is not in-frequently uttered by a baby. Its call docs not bring many responses. Many merchants must be rated in the baby class when making calls for business. Their advertisements a.re so weak that they are never read outside of the homes 'of their families. / 10 SPINDLE MACHINE ALSO MADE WlTH 12, 15, 20 AND 25 SPINDLES. GE.AR MACHINE. DODDS' NE.W DOVE.T AILING This little machine has done more to perfect the drawer work of fumiture manufacturers than anytbing else in the hjlmiture trade. For fifteen years it has made perfect-fitting, vennln-proof, dove· tailed stock a possibility. Tbis has been accomplished at reduced CGst,as the machine cuts dove-tails in gangs ol from 9 to. 24 at one operation. ALEXANDER DODD5. Grand Rapid., Michigan. Repretented by SchuChart & SchUlte at Berlin, Vienna Stoelholm and St. PetersbUI@. Representative by Allred H. Schulte at Coloane, a;;;~.Lieae. Paris, Milan.rod Bilboa. Rep~ted in Gleat Britian alKllu-lzmd by theOli.et Machinery Co .. F. S. ThOfDPlOIl, Mtt., 201.203 Deanq:ate, MancbeQer, Eualand. 2S \ 26 MICHIGAN ARTISAN rI A Power Veneer Press of Pra&ically Unlimited Capacity Material lowered on truck, top beam raised, leaving the pre<:lsready for another set of plates. QUICK. POWERFUL. STRONG. Clamps for Every Line of WoodworIdnl!' We are atnoaY8 glad to lIwll ill'J8'r(/fed printed matter giving full particular .., Black Bros. Machinery CO. MENDOTA, ILL. PRECIOUS ANTIQUES. A Furniture Sale that Never .Took Place. "Let's have everything new," he said, when it came to moving out of the old home. 'Tve always thought I'd like the ·sensation of living in an entirely new house with en-tirely new belongings." "Of course,," she answered, "I'd gladly give them up if I thought we could get enough for them to buy new." They were aba·ut to emigrate from the old house in Chel-sea to the recently pl1fcha!'icd Flatbush home, and there was the natural hanker-iug after possessions that should suit the new house.· Yet there were family traditions that placed a high value on their furniture. The black \Nalnut dining room set with the grapes and the two quails carved all the side-board, 110t to mention the thick marble slab and the rickety chairs with the same bunch of grapes and the two quails in miniature, but still large enough to rest on the back of the occupant's neck-family tradition placed its value very high. The flaril1g rosewood chai.rs with the etagere and the oval centre table~also adorned with a marble slab~were ac-counted even more valuable in the recktming of the family treasureS. "They ought to bring high prices at an auction," she ob-served. "You see that parlor set's antique. Aunt Mary used to say she bought it in the finest furniture store in New York. It wa~<; down in Grand street. She gave it to mother as a wedding present. Then that dining room set ought to bring a lot. That must be rare now." Luckily it is, but no such knowledge of present day taste disturbed the convictions of the family. "If we could only sell it all," she said, "I'd buy mission for the dining room and get everything brocaded with no wood showing for the parlor. Wouldn't that be lovely in that house?" Under the inspiration of the mission and brocade idea thoughts of the sale developed in all directions. If the fur-ture brought as much as it ought to brin!r she would have enough money to buy some new pieces for the bedrooms. She pri,ed brocade for the parlor aml n'ission for the din-ing' room in half the furniture stores in town. .As the dis-cussion of what their oossessions might brin'3 'Irew tnme def-inite the amount steadily grew larger. "T don't know," she :finally said. "but what we tT'i~ht fur-nish the whole house with what we get from the auction sale. We mi,frht even get new china and carpets. V'ie must have a rew stair carpet.!> He came uptown early one Sc:lturday afterTloon that they mig-ht gooto an auctioneer to make arnngements for the sale, but they never got that far. She took him first to see the best mission dining room set she had found anywhere for the money, and it was so far to the store with the best brocade parlor sc't to suit her figures that it was, 6 o'clock before be had duly inspected them. "We'll go next week," she reassuringly observed. "It isn't as if we weren't sure about the matter. The money"s as good as in our pockets and it's only a question of just how much we can have to spend. I've picked out aii the other things too, so it won't take us any time, 'once we've got the nloney." She had been to call on some of t'Pe auctioneers, and her somewhat flattering description of the treasures she was about to put on the market drew the most encouraging assurances from the gentlemen she talked with. "People are back from the country now and ready to buy. Bring along your stuff as soon as possible and you won't re-' gret it," they told her. .. Then' the demand for fine antique furniture was described by the otber auctioneers as so great that she began to hesi-tate as to which she would trust with those precious articles 'fhat daily became more valuable in her sight. She was dis-posed to hold the auctiDueers at a distance, they all s~emed so a.nxious to dispose of her consignments. "You come up next Saturday," she urged as a way out of the dilemma, "and we'I1 see which is the 'best place to look tlfter our things. You knoW-we can't trust them first to any ordinary auctioneer. They're too valmtble to be auctioned off anywhere. Perhaps we ought> to put 'em in a.n art gal- If:ry, what? Well, we'll go toa'n:auction Saturday anyhow." She already knew the auctio~ ~ooms well and selected the sale that seemed to her most like her own idea of the atmos-phere she was seeking for the distribution to the public of her effects. .It was 3.n advertisement reading "Furniture belong-ing to 3 gentleman about to sail for Europe and recently taken from his residence near -Fifth avenue and consisting of elegant solid mahogany furniture for parlor, library and bed-rooms, superb antique Adam bedroom set, mre old Colonial pieces, fine china, silver and articles of vertu. No such re": cherche offering of high cI"ss articles has been made in years." That seemed about the sort of thing she wanted for her auction; so it was decided that he was to come uptown to lunch on Saturda.y. Then they were to go toq:ether to the auction. \'Vhether or not their sale should be handed over to this particular establishment was to depend altogether on the way he acquitted himself in disposing of the stock On hand. I<Remember now," she whispered, CIS they 'Picked their way through the crowding camp chairs until they found a place in the front of the room; "remember r:ot to say a word until we have seen how he gets through with these things. We don't want to commit ourselves too soon." It did not seem t_oher that the auctioneer remembered her MICHIGAN ARTISAN 27 P-EI.: (TRADE MARK REGISTEREO) STA.E , Paint and Varnish Remover Things don't grow without nourishment. Manufacturers do not increase their facilities unless there is a growing demand to supply. In point of sales, Ad-el-ite Paint and Varnish Remover is tar ahead of any similar preparation on the market and our new, thoroughly equipped plant enables us to give better service than ever before. You will find that Ad-el-ite contains more energy to the gallon, has fewer dis-agreeable features and brings better results than anything you can get. Eats down through any number of old coats of hard paint, varnish, wax, shellac or enamel leaving the surface in perfect condition for refinishing. Send for Free Sample. ~----- particularly, although she had talked with him several times. He made a 'bad impression on her othenvisc. He seemed flippant and lacking in the seriousness neeessary to deal with such valuable things as hers. "I don't think I11l1Ch of him," 'whispered her husband after a few minutes. "He's too funny." Just then the tV·iO men whose business it was to put the articles in vie,,,· of the spectators placed on the low platform a chair. She clutched his arm. "Just like ollr dining room set! The very identical thing-" she cried. Then she sat back proudly in her chair to see what wealth awaited her. The auctioneer glanced at the cata-logue and then at the exhibit. "Number 67," he went on. "Set of eight walnut chairs, hand carved with game and fruit. ",Vhat am 1 offered?" he asked. "Look at this beautiful chair. Kind that mother used to have. We hear a great deal about the black walnut period of American art, but it ..v.asn't so bad. "That's a beautiful chair. Two dollar,,? \Vhy, that would be giving it away. Eight of them-just the thing for somebody going to open a small homelike boarding hOLlse. ":\1"0 twenty-five cent bids-two fifty then. >row let m'~ have another-three dollars! That's more like it! Eight of them, jUiit think, and all in good repair. No more grease spots on the others than there a.re on this. Go see for yourselves. Thre.e and a half! "Thank you. You got a bargain that time. Eight chairs !ike that for twenty-eight dolhlrs. Let's see what have we got here now?" She had not loosened her grip on his arm. The roOh. had a.lready begun to swim around her. To think that chairs .so like her own treasures that they could not be told apart should have been sold for a sum she tlH:lUght each separate CHICAGO • chair should bring. It was awful. And the one brocade chair cost as much as this lot ha,d brought. "No. 68. Sideboard with same set," he read from the catalogue. "Now what is the Grst bid on that? Let me have something high to begin with. It's a fine piece. "Been in the ring a long time and a little disfigured, but still good for years to come. Let me have a g;ood bid. "Is it ten dollars? Four, then? Three, why it's a shame to treat an old timer like this 'with so little disrespect." The sideboard finally sold for $11 and was removed from the scene with the accompaniment of a facetious rema,rk from the auctioneer. Then a rosewood ccntre table "marble top alone worth what it brought," sold for $8.50. ",Vhat can be expect to get for such a lot of junk?" asked the woman ,vho sat next to her. "May 1 see your catalogue? It's no use stayitJg here to see people buy stuff like this." Tlle two men l'ad lifted down the Centre table. An etagere wa.s in view. It was like that they prized as the gem of their collection. "Come on," she said, clutching him by the sleeve, "there's no use to 'wait any longer." They walked a block after they left the auction rooms without a '''"ord. She saw her visions of the brocade and the lrissiol1 pieces floating out of her ken. She made no reference to the prices that they had just heard, however. "I guess it's better after all," was what she said, "to keep our own thinq-s. Everybody hasn't got 'em for one thing. And tben nobody hut you is likely to care much about ·cm. Don't you think so?"-New York Sun. @) * @) A little self-examination by salesmen who .complain of lack of promotion or small salary will reveal the fact that' the fault lies with themeslves. If they would "ginger up" ad-vanta. ge to themselves as well as to their employers would be gained. 28 MICHIGAN ARTISAN , CUT TO NET SIZES IF REQUIRED. NO DELAYS IN DELIVERING THE GOODS. ABSOLUTELY NOTHING BETTER THAN OUR Poplar and Birch Crossbanding "WalterClarh Veneer Company 535 Michigan Trost Bnilding, GRAND RAPIDS, MIcff. ~----_. Furniture of Wood Destroyed by Insects. Consul General Arnold Shanklin of Panama semis the fol-lowing report on the unsuitability of wooden office equip-ment in the tropics: "After al-most three years in the tropics, I am of the opinion that metallic desks, bookcases and tiles prove to be. in the long rUll, less expensive than those of wood, for the reason that at least here in Panama, there is a' small insect which gets into the fl1rnilure and eats it away until there is nothing left but the out-side varnished shell. Upon tak-ing charge of.this consulate-general in November, 1905, not one of the desks here could be moved, even with the gre;;itcst care, without crushing through some part of the shell. On inquiry it was found that by putting a great many moth balls in the drawers of the desks and files .the work of these little animals could be stopped. That the effect ·of the wor"k of those insect~ n;tay b~: seen, there is trans-mitted herewith pieces taken from a roll-top desk in the office. These show the .&hell outside, the form in which the insects eat away the inside and also the peculiarly hardened, conglomerated mass which their work creates and builds." , @ * that once it is introduced in· this country its popularity witl be great for library and dining room purposes, as it is but-ressed near the ground to great proportions. It is close Made by Lentz Table Company, Nashville, Mich. @ grained, rich <ll1d beautiful in color and will take a high pol-ish." Mr. Penney say·s that he 'has a table made of one ofthes~ slabs which_is large enough to accommodate twenty persons. It weighed four tons and fsvery handsome, The wood of this tree sells for $175 a ,thousand feet, or more than $100 a thousand more than any trees grown in the United States bring. @' * @ Sixty Thousand Miles of Furniture Lumber. "Americans arc coming gradually to the realization of the wood wealth of the Philippines," said Walter H. Penny, who has recently· returned· from. a ten years' residence in Manila, where he wa.s associated with the quartermaster's department. "There is said to 60,000 miles of forest land there. Mt. Silay in Northern Negrosis a fair sample with its sixty-mile tract, containing 44,000,000,000 ft. of lumber, Such rare woods as mahogany, lignum vitae, dios pyrios (a wood akin to ebony) and others. ANew York lumbering company has recently had the tract on Mt. Silay surveyed and the esti·· mated value of the wood which can be logged at once is $44, 000,000. This estimate is made only on trees of twenty-inch diameter or more. Those of less di~rneter are said to far out-number the others and the supply wil11ast many years, ~'The cabinet woods are used there for making corduroy roads. Thousands of acres are overgrown with trees worth ~ ihreetimes as much as the most valuable wood that grows in the United· States. The Philippint mahogany is the _r.ichest of all. It is known there as the narra- tree. It i's thought The Johnso~ Furniture Company Is the latest addition to the "manufacturers of fine furnit~re in Grand Rapids. The Johp-"son boys were the original owners of the Cabinet-Makers' CO{11panY,which became famous as manufacturers of fine dining -room and libra.ry furniture and promise to bring our a line ofjjbrary and dining room ware fully equal to anything they ·have ever brought out in the past. They have leased the Povlers building at the west end of Pearl street bridge, and will have their first line in time for the coming January exb:ib!t. @ * @ The father of achievement is confidence. It reinforc~s ability, doubles .energy. strengthens mental faculties and in-creases power. MICHIGAN ARTISAN 29 \ CHOICE TOOLS FOR FURNITURE MAKERS' I i If you do nol know the "Oliver" wood working tools, you had hetter give us your address and have us tell you all about them. We make nothing but Quality lools, the fir;t co;t of which is considerable, but which will make more profit for each dollar inve;ted than any of the cheap machines Hood-ing the country. "OLIVER" No. 16. Band Saw 36 laches. " Time Tempers Co, Made with or without motor d.ive Metal table 36"" 30"1, Will take 18/1 unde( tbe auide-tilts 45 degrees f one way and 7 ~ree8 I the other way. Car- ries 11 saw up to 1 ~II wide. Oullide beating \0 lower wheel shalt I when pot motor driven. I Weiilbs1800loo wben ready 10 Bhip. I I I Save Labor Oliver Tools I II! II "Oliver" New Variety Saw Table No. 11· Will take a saw up to 20" diame1e[. Arhor belt ii 68 wide. Send forCatalog "B" for data (InHand Jointers, Saw Tables, Wood Lathes, Sanders, Tenoners, Mortisers, Trimmers, Grinders, Work Benches, Vises, Clamps, Glue Heaters, etc., etc. OLIVER MACHINERY CO. Work .. and General Office" at 1 to 51 Clancy St. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH., U. S. A. BRANCH OF8CES - Oliver Machinery Co .• Hudson Terminal. 50 Church St., New York; Olivet Mad,mery Co .• Fir .. National Bank Building. Chicago. Ill_; Oliver Machinery Co .• Pacific Buildmg. Sealde, Wash_; Oliver Machinery Co ,201-203 Deanslilale. Manchester, Eng ----,----------------_. _____ .4 • A Successful Lady Manufacturer. Tbe portrait shO\vll hcre\-vith is that of 1111'S.J nEa E. ]\100rm<1l1,invcntor of the Practical Sewing Cabinet. Up to a few years ago SIrs. 1\1001'111an ne-vcr bad any expericnce ill the furniture business. and never tbought of engaging in manufacturing. Be:ing ill need of a SC\yillg cabinet, she made MRS. J. E. MOORMAN. the rounds of the furniture stores, only to find that none of the cabinets offered for ,sale satisfied her. Her surprise at their mallY shortcomings prompted bcr to consider the pro-duction of a cabinet which ..v..ould appeal to women on ac-count of its adaptability to their wants. After considerable thought and study she had a few cabinets madc, which in their essential points differ very little from the very perfect article which is now being marketed. The sale on the ar-ticle has shown a steady growth, so that two of the factories which arc noW making thcsc on contract for Mrs. :Moorman cut them in 200 lots, and she is expecting to place la.rger contracts next year. The Practical Sewing Grand Rapids exhibitions Cabinet has for the past been exhibited at the two or three seasons, and as a rcsult quite a good many dealers carry the goods in stock continuollsly. The article is so adaptable to holi-day purposes that 1hs. ~Ioonnan _has had an unusually large number manufactured in anticipation of this demand. Asidc from the real merit of the article itself. 1Irs. 1100nnan's success is undoubtedly due to the assistance which she affords the dealers in making sales. She' has re-cently produced an artistic little booklet illustrating and mi-nutely describing the various patterns in which the cabinet is mamtfacturcd. These are sent to names furnished by dealers desiring their help in 111aking sales which this little book1ct affords. All that is necessary for a,l1y dealer to do is to carefully prepare a list of people ..".h. om he thinks would be interested in the Practical Sewing Cabinet and send the Jj;;t to the Practical Sewing Cabinet Company, Grand Rapids. :rvIich. Soon after the mailing of the pam-phlet the dealer begins to receive inquirics, so that he should be prepared to demonstrate the beauty and utility of the cab-inet by having at lcast one in each style and wood on hand. This requires a comparatively insignificant investment and yields profitable returns. The Practical Sewing Cabinet has been on the market long enough to have demonstrated its lIse-fulness and there are very few furniture dea.1ers whose trade will not warrant them putting in a few of these pieces a.t least. @ * @ His Dollar and Ten Dining Suite. After we have paid for the gas, coal, groceries and meat every month we have clear sailing becausc all there is left to do then is to pay for the ice, telephone, water tax, insur-ance and the installments on our unabridged dictionarY,our gas range, our "Vvorks of the'Six Best Authors,'! our DolIar- Down_and_Ten_Cents_a_\V"eek dining room suite. Thank goodness, we got OUT' 1.forris chair for a wedding present and our folding bed by saving soap wrappers.-R. K. Moulton. 30 MICHIGAN THE PROFITABLE MANUFACTURE Of Small Logs. Bolts, Veneer Cores and Slabs Into Heading. Shingles, Lath, Pickets, Slats, Box Boards, Crating, Han. dIe Squares. Bobbins, Basket Bottoms and Covers, Panels and Dimension Stock Suitable for Wash-Boards, Trunks, Pencils, Implements, Wagons, Chairs and Miscellaneous Wood Wot'k. There are numeroUS saw or veneer mitts and wood work-ing plants that are too unmindful of waste tram the slabs and edgings or small holts, all of which can be easily worked up into merchantable stock and sold at a good profit, while the cost to manufacture will be little'morc than it costs many to get rid of such stock. Some concerns are now taking up the Sketched by Otto Jiranek. manufacture of such dimension stock entirely apart from wood w'-orking plant ope-rations, utilizing for the purpose bolts that ra.llge from 4 to 24 inches in diameter, and from 2 to 10 feet long. 1hny concerns already equipped with abundant power and floor space lack only a few machines, such as a short"log saw mill, or a baIting mill, or a lath and picket mill, or a shingle mill. supplemented, as necessary, by something suitable" in the way of a cut-off saw and planer, to materially add to their profits by utilizing waste. The labor expense for the operation of an outfit is comparatively small, as two men can operate a bolting mill or a short log saw mill to ca-pacity. Good machines should, be employed for the cutting to size and dressing, if the latter is required. Care should be taken to prevent defective or worthless stock from being put through, the effect of which will be to lessen the market value. Hardwood stock under 2 inches in diameter should be cut .Y8 inch full; from 2J;i"to 4 inches -h inch full, so as to atlow all sizes to be full sized when passed through the dry -kiln. When cutting green dimension bolts, make them ~ to % inch full according to the width of the boa.rds, and % inch thicker than if required in dry bolts. Stained or damaged stock should not be allowed to go into oak dimension if the shipper expects to get :first class prices. A small quantity of ARTISAN poor stuff in a carload will cause a scaling down, and possibly the loss of further orders. In the manufacwre of dimension furniture and chair stock particular care should be taken to keep the saws in good condition so that the stock shall be cut uniform in size. In running a dimension factory il1depen~ dently of the sawmill, it is well to cut the bolts as longas the crooks and the defects of the timber will admit. Long squares should be piled in the yard on good foundations, crosswise, with an inch of space between the courses. Open air inst~ad of shcd drying is recommended to save time in seasoning, but if the stuff is to stand long in a pile before shipment it should be well covercd to protect it from rain. When loading for shipment, cull out inferior' and poorly man-ufactured pieces, give good grades, and you will surely get good p.ices and under such conditions you can insist upon payment in accordance with prices without deductions, and, moreover, fair buyers will not refuse to pay fair prices for good stock of this character. In the case of saw mill operators who wish to clear the lands of all merchantable stock, it is possible to work up profitably much smaller stuff by means of a bolter or short log mill, than if the usual log sizes only <Ire taken. 1n cer-tain parts of the country lumber tracts long since <lb1.ndoned a.re now being cut over and worked into boxipg and crating stock with an outfit of machinery costing only a few hundred dollars. There is an immense amount of short box and crat-ing lumber used in nearly all parts of the country at the pres- "ent time, and both the demand and market price· are con~ sta.ntly -increasing. @ * @ Joseph W. Smith, Commission M chant. Will you please announce in your locals tha.t I will enter the furniture commission business on Janua 1, 1909, in con-nection with the \\T olverine Manufacturing ompany and the Cadillac Cabinet- COffiJlany. I will carTy t () or three other lines that do not conflict and wilt endeavor a get interesting lines, qua.lity, style and price considered. L will cover the territory from Chicago to Pittsburg and uffalo, inclusive, east, and Detroit to Louisville, south, mak ng the territo.y frequently. Possibly you may know of so e very desirable line that you can refer me to. JOSEP 'N. SMITH. @ * @ The Empire Furniture Company, recen ly organized at Huntington, W. Va., has purchased the pIa t of the detu.nct Ohio Valley Furniture Company and will op r"-t~ th{' game. @:! * @ A cheerful phsiognomy may resemble a rubber shoe stretched around a telephone pole, but it helps to make fdends and sell goods. III' ALHOLCOM5&CO~ MANUFACTURERS "rlD DEALERS IN HIGH GRADE BAND AND SCROLL SA'A/S REf'A1ITI NG-SATISFACTION GUARANTEED CIT11E:NS FHONE. /239 27 N MARKET ST GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. MICHIGAN ARTISAN 31 The New Herkimer. In the New Herkimer, situated at South Division and Goodrich streets, Grand- Rapids has added to its hostelries an hotel of class and distinction. The fine modern European hotel and cafe ''v'as opened to the public Janua.ry 1, 1908. This has rapidly sprung into favor v\,jth the traveling public and the commercial men are ~aying a good deal about it. This hotel is complete in every detail, hom its spacious lobby and office, with their comfortable lounging chairs and- writing rooms, wa.sh rooms, etc., to the perfectly appoint-ed rooms with private and public baths, brass beds, box springs and imperial roll edge mattresses. The motto of the house. "The maximum of comfort at the minimum of cost," is indeed we1l chosen. In the Herkimer one fmds a clean, wholesome hotel, with an a.ir of reonement not usual with the gen-eral run of hotels in the larger cities. The cafe is comprised of mission, Colonial and English rooms, each of which is distinctly characteristi..: architcctllrally. Tbe period fllrniture, lighting ef_ [ecU, colorings a11(1 hangings arc typically artistic. Too much commendation cannot be given the cafe for tbe five course table d'hote dinner served to patrolls of the Herkimer at the nominal price of 50 cents. In a word. the Herkimer stands for the highest appreciation of modern hotel requirements -comfortable, homelike, clean and inviting with competent management, perfect caretaking, per fect service and cuisine, it

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