Michigan Artisan; 1906-12-10

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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_seyenth Year-No. 11 DECEMBER 10. 1906 Semi-Monthl,. SANDED AND POLISHED TO A HIGH FINISH BY UNIVERSAL SAND BELT MACHINE G H R I E G A H T P ,~,' S 0 P L '.~ E I ; E S )~ 0 H , ,1 ·4,l Ail for Ask/,r ~ Catalogue Ctlt(J/~gtie uE" "E" ·1 WYSONG &. MILES COMPANY, pg A GREENSBORO, N. C. Voluntary Letter of Praise J. E. DAVIS MANUFACTURING CO. PIANO CASES, BACKS, BRIDGES. Md STOOLS. Cortland. New York. Oct. 24th, 1906. Gillette Roller Bearing Company, Grand Rapids, Michigan. Dear Sirs:__Replying to yours of October 17th. your trucks are certainly O. K. One man can move a load of 3000 pounds while with the other truck.s it takes three men. We give trucks very hard usage and the other makes are continually breaking. As fll$t as they break. we propose not 10 repair them. but 'plIt them in the junk heap anti replace them with your make. Meantime, the trucks we have recendy received from an-o\. hel concern are for sale at half what they cost us. You may enter our order for six dozen to come at the rate of a dozen. a month. Thi~ will take care of the breakage and in lime we will have Ihem all replaced. Before this order is filled we will probably give you another one as we have no doubt as we use your trucks more, we will decide that we cannot a60rd to keep the old ones, and wi!! find this way 100 slow a process of replacing the ones we have. Very huly yours, j. E. DAVIS MANUFACTURING CO.• [);ctaled J. E. D. J. E, Davis, Pres. ' Truck Frames Steel or Wood---your choice. WHEELER'S - ...- PATENT WOOD FILLER Forms a permanent foundation. Brings out the full life-and beauty of ,tM wood. GOb furtber ami saves labOT and material, hence ch.eaper that! other fillers. Tile Bridoel'ort Wood Finisbing Co•• Np- MilfOrd. Conn.; 66 Fulton St .. New York; 70 W, Lake St. ChleauQ; 41-43 SOut\\. 3rd St•• Phlla. delphia: 48 Cornliill, Boston. . - '" r--------~--- ---- lI r II' Three Vital Principles Underlie the Manufacture of ======== Andrews' Polishing Varnishes CHICAGO WORKS AMERICAN WORKS NEW YORK-BUFFALO-CHICAGO BUFFALO WORKS FOREIGN WORKS LONDON-PARIS-HAMBURG NEW YORK WORKS SECOND: They are the result of an experi-ence of over half a century in the manu-facture of fine Varnishes. THIRD: They are thoroughly aged and test-ed before being placed on the market, • therehy guaranteeing to the ner absolute uniformity and constancy of quality. FIRST: They are produced from the best raw materials obtainable. Andrews' Polishing Varnishes should not be confused with the ordinary Polishing Varnishes on the market. They are made on different principles and produce results not obtainable by auy other line. They please the finisher because they work and rub easily and do not sweat. They please the manu-facturer because they harden up quickly so that work can be put through with dispatch, and at the same time they are proof against water and will positively not check or crack. In addition, they produce a beautiful, full, polish which holds. These results could not be obtain· ed were it not for our peculiar system of manufacture througb which all our Var· nishes are purified, thus overcoming all tendency to cloud or bloom. ff vou are not at present usin/('Andrews' PolishingVarnishesdrop us a line at any of our factories and we wil11i.aveOl1e of our representatives call and see you. ==- Pratt 8 Lambert VARNISH MAKERS New York London Buffalo Paris - Chicago Hamburg --- ----------------- 1 SPARTAN LIQUID EARLY SURFACER ENGLISH OAK SPARTAN S;'rAIN No. 380 The most talked of and most sought after Dark Oak Finish on the market. A PRACTICAL AND PERFECT STAIN THIS Surfacer is made with a perfectly transparent pigment. It will not cloud any finish. It flows out and works as easy as a polishing varnish, and lays so close and smooth to the wood that it requires very little sanding. It is being more and more appreciated as A PERFECT FOUNDATION FOR ALL KINDS OF WORK Write us for Ten One-Gallon Ideal Buckets at the Barrel Price. The Marietta Paint & Color Co., MARIETTA, OHIO Yel'wer rreS~!il, flll Itlnds llnd sizeN, Veneer Presses Glue Spreaders Glue Heaters Trucks, Etc" Etc. These Specialties are used all Over the World H:mf1 Feed Glueiug l\oIacbine (Pllt. pending.) Eight styles and sizes. Wood-Working Machinery - .:..-------- and Supplies P~we1' :l'eed Glue Spreading Machine, (Patent applied fu}".) Single, Double and Combination. LET US KNOW YOUR WAN'I'S 419-421 E. Eighth Sf. CHAS. E. fRANCIS &. BRO..8 CINCINNATI. O. Do You Want Something Original? Ko. 6 Glue Hea,ter. The Originality of our work is one of its chief characteristics. WE BUILD HIGH GRADE CATALOGS COMPLETE ENGRAVING PRINTING BINDING White Printing Co. 2 to 20 Lyon Street GRANDRAPIDS. MICH. r---- - - 2 .. l - .- - -- ~~ ~- ----------------- 2 7th Year-No. I I. BOOKS ON FURNITURE. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH., DECEMBER 10, 1906. =-==-====:=.:= A Rare Illustrated Volume Recently ,Added to the Grand Rapids Public Library. Vhth a view of pleasing their constituents by furnishing valuable information for designers, manufacturers, and others interested, the library authorities of Grand Rapids, 11kh" for the past fev\' years, have been buying books on furniture, the clty's most extensive and most important industry. They have succeeded in obtaining a large number of books written by authorities on the various de_partments and pro~esses in the furniture indtl.stry~ hut most of them are in foreign lan-guages and devoted to technical affairs, maklng them of little use to any except students and experts, Recently, how~ ever, a volume has been added that will be of interest not only to designers but to all connected with the furniture in-dustry and to many others. The book referred to is in the reference department of the library. It's cata~c.gue number JS i~;-1-9. i.\Lli It's title is "Specimens of Antique Furniture and \Voodwork'.' It was written and illustrated by Arthur 1Iarsllall, an Engli"h arch-itect, copyrighted in 1888 and published by \V_ H. Allen & Co,. London, wtth printing. and photo-lithographing by R. T. I Mountcney, of Nottingham, England. It is dedicated to Her Royal Highness Princess Loui"e, Marchioness of Lornc, to whom the author ackJlOwledges his obligations. for favor!'. and encouragement. Thc purpose of the book as stated by the author ,vas to "bring out and illustrate .authentic specimens of antique carved furniture aml woodwork, dating from the fifteenth to the eighteellth centuries, at present in the possession of pri-vate collectors and from such other sources as are accessible only to the few." The book was published only for subscribers of whom there were 69, one. of them taking 5 copies, two taking two and 66 taking one copy each, only 75 copies being prlnted. Last spring Olle copy W:-iS listed in Bumpus' cat.alogue of second hand books by Stevens & BrovvI1 of London and was immediately ordered for the Grand Rapids library, at a cost of £3 l5s-abol1t $18.75. It W.lS received in time to be in-cluded in the November additions to the catalogue and is believed to he the only copy in an America!l library. The' book does not contain any great amount of. reading matter. The ellgravings, with notes or short explanations fot'"m the great feature of the volume. The pages are 14 x 20 inches in size and fifty of tht',l11 are. devoted to pictures of furniture, etc., the specimens being from 100 to 350 years old. The illustrations, include bedsteads, eabil1ets, chair:", chests, desks, doors, mausoleum screens, "overmalltets," pillars, pulpits, "settles," tables, etc., some of them with de-tailed drawings of parts_ There is also a front view of the "Feathers Inn," LOl1don and a picture of a fireplace in Stoke-say Castle, Sbrops11ire. The best or, at least, most interesting specimcnts of cabi-nets are from Shrewsbury, Ludlow, Oswestry and Stoke-say castte in Shropshire, and from Korth Nottingham, York- $1.00 per Year. shire. A church cabinet, or credence, is a magnificent speci-men of French carving in the fourteenth century .. 1'105t of the chairs represented were found in Derbyshire, one page showing six old chairs from Stafford Castle. One of the most elaborate, and perhaps the most interest-ing, plates shows a bedstead that was found in an old farm house near Skipton, Yorkshire. It is one of the richest specimens of seventeenth century canring now in existence. It has an oaken canopy, panelled nnderneath, supported by the llead-board and two fluted and carved pillars at the foot corners. The latter stand Oll square flat bases, each suppor-ted by four smaH, short, sp1ral or twisted pillars. There are two arched panets in the head-board, separated by an exquis-itely carved rail which forms the door of a little secret cup-board. The bases of the foot-pillars and panels in the foot-board are elaborately carved and numerous secret shelves or slits for hiding money, jewelry, etc., are found in the side rails and other parts of the strllcture. This book will certainly be of illterest to all admirers of carvcd furniture. However it is not the only "carving book" in the Grand Rapids library. Another almost as interesting as Mr. Marshal1\:, volume is entitled "Examples of carv~d Oak andvVoodwork Found in the Houses and Furniture of the Sixteenth and Sev('.nteenth Centuries!' It was written and il1ustr;Jted hy \Villiam Bliss Sanders and publls.hed by THE CORRECT Stains and fillers. THE MOST SATISFACTORY first Coaters Varnishes r------------- -- -- - - - '--- 4 Carvings have been tried and have made good. UNBRfAKABLE is rightly used when applied to LIGNiNf'. Stronger than wood, no waste in your factory. Perfect Reproduction of wood. Write for catalogue and prices. ORN4MENT4l PRODUCTS CO., fort """ Twelfth St •. , DfTROIT, Mien. THE CLASSIFIED WHITE DIRECTORY of the Manufacturers of Furnituret Pianos, Organs, Bedding. Interior Finishes and kindred Trades. Price $5. WHITE PRINTING CO., Grand Rapid., Mic:h.. Bernard Quartich, 15 Picadilly, London. Catalogue number, R. 749-sa 5. Two other books that may be of value to furniture work-ers, have been added to the circulating department of the Grand Rapids library recently. One is entitled "Style in Furniture," by R. D. Benn. It was published in 1904 and CQ\'ers the period from James I to the present time. Cata-logue 1lumber 749.21. The other is "Polishes and Stains for V./oodwork; How to Prepare and Use Them,". by David Denning, 1905. Cata- .logue number 698.11. Table Prices Ten Per Cent Higher. Forty or- fifty furi1iture manufacturers, most of them table makers, met inform'ally in Grand Rapids, Mich., on December -3 to discuss c\1rrent conditions. The meeting was held at the suggestion of fOUf prominent Grand Rapids manufactur-ers. It was not called officially nor at the suggestion or re-quest- of the Grand Rapids Furniture Manufacturers' Associa-tion, but most of the factories in that city were represented, less than a dozen from other towns bClng present. The visiting members were guests of the Grand Rapids men at luncllcon served at the Morton and in the evening all enjoyed an elaborate dinner at the Hotel Pantlind. After a general exchange of views and social discussion it was de-cined unanimously that the table makers should take action "imi\ar to that takcn by the manufacturers of case goods, the brass bed makers, the spring bed manufacturers and the glass men at their meeting in Chicago recently and agree on an advance of ten per cent in prices, to take effect on January L It was generally conceded that te.n per cent is not enough to cover recent advances in materials, and some wanted to make it twelve and one-half or fifteen per cent, but as the case goods men had fixed their figures at ten per cent it was thought best not to t1)ake a greater raise at present, though it may be necessary to do so before spring or even before the dose of the January selling season. Theory vs. Practice. There was a clash between theory and practice at the re-cent meeting of the Case Goods Manufacturers' Association in Chicago. The modern theory of figuring costs, as ap-proved by experts, was illustrated by applyying it to a dresser that manufacturers lmve been selling for $12. The experts proved beyond a doubt that the cost of the article was more than $12 and that those who had made and sold it at that fig-ure had been doing business at a loss In discussing the matter most of the speakers endorsed t' theory, but an old Gerinan, who had been in the busitl""s for years, and whose chief output consisted of the $12-dre~ser, expressed doubt as to the correctness of the conclusions reached by the experts: "I don't know about that," he said. "I have made those dressers for a good many years. I sold them Just Out of Press, Ready for Delivery. Unbreakable for $12-sometimes for less-and I didn't notice that I was losing money. I didn't have much at first, but now I have my factory, my machinery, my stock, my hame, some bills corning to me and some money in the bank. Now, if I have been losing money all these years. how did I get all my prop-erty? I think somebody must have made a mistake. May be their rules are wrong." The German's remarks are said to have closed the dis~ cussion of the subject. A Rapid Fire Screw Driver. A machine for applying screws at the rate of fifty a min-ute, if necessary, has recently been placed on the market and consists of a hopper connected by a vertical flexible shaft and tube to the driving mechanjsm below. The withdrawal of the bit from each screw as it is driven causes a new screw to drop out of a magazine and fall in line with the bit and also allows a screw to fall from the hopper into the magazine. The use of the intermed~ate magazine was found necessary, as WAXED PAPE.RS For FURNITU~E Prevents varnish from printing. Keeps out moisture. Will not scratch the highest finish. Excellent for wrapping mouldings and green varnished goods. Rolls or sheets. WRITE FOR SAMPLES AND PRJCES, H. P. Smith Paper Company; Sacramento .rIId ClU'ToJlAveatlue_. CHICAGO. the operation of the machine is 50 rapid that too much time would be wasted in waiting for it to drop from the hopper. The screws are caused to revolve at the rate of 1,200 re-volutions a minute by means of a friction drive so adjusted that the screw stops after it llas been driven the required distance. Office Furniture Prices Advanced. Prices on office furniture were materially advanced last spring after the San Francisco disaster, but not enough to cover the advances in the cost of materials, labor:, etc., in the past six months. The manufacturers of office furniture in Grand Rapids, Mich., and vicinity have therefore decided to follow the lead of the case goods men, table makers, chair .manufacturers, etc., and will add ten per cent to present prices on January 1, 1907. ~r;..I9.rIG7}N , News, Notes and Comments. The Spartanburg (South Carolina) mattress works were burned out on Kovember 23. Nuemechek Bros. of Kearney, Nebraska, has sold tllier furniture business to Arthur Robertson. Andreas Martin, for fifty three ycat'S a furniture dealer in DeJial1ce, Ohio, died on Nov. 27, aged 83 years. Fire on Novemher 29 damaged the furniture store and stock of C. N. Tufts, Herrington, Kansas, to the extent of $500 or $600. George L. Lamb, formerly of Goshen, is completing the third addition which he has made to his novelty furniture factory at Nappanee, Ind. The O'Connor-Alten Furniture Company of Columbus, Ohio, has dropped the latter part of its name. It is now the O'Connor Furniture Company. Charles L. Jackson, for thirty years a furniture dealer in Reading, Penn., is scUing out his stock, fixtures, horses and wagons and will retire from business. J. Glaser & Son, furniture dealers of Clinton, Iowa, have sold out to James Buchner and Walter Lane, who are to take possession of stock and store on January L Pratt &" Lambert, varnish makers of New York, Buffalo and Chicago, will hold their annual salesmen' conventiorl at their Buffalo works December 18 ,19 and 20. The Will E. 3.1atber's House Furnishing Company of St. Paul, Minn., suffered a loss of $13,000 by fire all the second and third floors of their store on November 21. The Columbus (Georgia) School Desk Company is erect~ ing a two-story factory building, SO x 150 feet, in which they will install a sprinkler system and the best of machinery. The Huron Manufacturing Company, recently organized at Port Huron, Mich., has built a hctory and is working a force of twelve men on spring beds, etc., at North Port Huron. E. H. 1\.foore of the firm of Pettijohn & I\,foore, furniture dealers, Gallatin, Mo., has sold his interest to Corey Petti-john, a brother of his partner. The firm is new Pettijohn . Bros. The T. VI/. Jones Furniture and Transit Comp<lny of Chicago suffered heavy loss hy the burni11g of their ware-house, 428 Twenty-ninth street on Nov. 27, but were ,veIl in-sured. Will E. Dale, furniture dealer of "\Vashington Court House" Ohio, has added another floor to his store building, making it seven stories which is considered a sky-scraper for that town. 'The Moore-Miller Furniture Company of Louisville, Ky., which began business at Seventeenth and w1a1n streets about a year ago, has just opened an up-town store at 916-18 West 'Market street. One l1Ltndred merchants of. Toledo, Ohio, have been ar-rested charged with violating the child labor law ot that state. Among their number are several heads of department and furniture stores. Oliver Rothert furniture dealer of Atoona, Penn., who was burned Ollt recently, will build a six story block alld resume business on the old site, corner of Twelfth street and Twelfth avenue. Richard Hollzelan who bongllt the furniture stock of Cook & Crain of Lexington, Ind., has vacated the store and moved the stock to some point ill Missouri, where he will open a new store. George A. Findlater, formerly with the Akron Varnish Company, is now with the Blackburn-Nolan Varnish COt11- pany of Cincinnati, Ohio. His office is at 295 Pleasant street, Grand Rapids, Mich - -- ---------------------- - 5 The plant of Berman & Garfinkle, Allentown, Fa., has been sold at sheriff's sale to the Allentown National bank for $2,400. The plant was formerly known as the F. A. Ruhe Furniture VVorks. George D. Gardner has purchased t'he stock of the Focht. man Furniture Company of Petoskey, :~lIlich.,and will continue the business independent of his other store in Petoskey and a branch at Boyne City, Michigan. The Columbus (Georgia) Furniture & Fixtures Com-pany, recently incorporated, has elected the following officers: Prescident, John F. Weathers; vice president, Louis Sim-mons; secretary and treasurer, L. L. Noble. Creditors have :filed a petition in the United States court asking that the BOler Furniture Company of Toledo, Ohio, be declared bankrupt. It is claimed the company committed an act of bankruptcy by securing preferred creditors. Fire starting on the fourth floor of the Day Furniture and Carpet Company's building, in the business center of Peoria, Ill., on November 28, caused damage to the extent of $120,000. The Day Company's stock was destroyed com~ pletely, with the loss fully insured. £. Eo Gatewood, president of the Gallipolis (Ohio) Fur-niture Company, has been missing for a month or more. The affairs of the company, which are not in a satisfactory shape, have been placcrl in the h;lnd~ of Hollis C. J ohoston for in-vestigation and report. The liabilities are estimated at $180,- ueo. Creditors and stockholders have made an agreement to keep the- factory running. Mr. Cramer Will Recover. "Benny" Cramer, the well known varnish salesman, under- ~vent a dangerous surgical operation in a New York hospital and for two weeks the result was exceedingly doubtful. Mr. Cramer has many friends in the furniture business who will be pletsed to learn that he is now assured of recovery. Cabinet Hardware --AND-- Factory Supplies New Enlliand Flint Paper. Barton Garnet Paper. Douhle Faced Flint and Gamet Finishing Paper. Brass Butts. Wroullht Steel Butt •. Cahinet Lock. and Key•. Gold Plated and Gilt Cah-inet Keys. Bench Vise•. Bolts, Wasbers, Zincs. Wood Screw•. Coach Screw •. Liquid Glue, Casters. Upbolsterer' • Tack •• Lal'l!e Head Burlap Tack •. Wire Brads. Standard Nail•. Cement Coated Nail•. Elhow Catche •• Door Catclaes, etc., etc. Our large and complete assortment of general hard ware is at your service. Correspondence solicited. Inquiries fQ~ prices. will receive careful and itnmediate attention. FOSTER, STEVENS & CO. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. ------------------------- - - 6 ESTABUSHI!:O 1880 PUBLlSHf:D BY MICHIGAN ARTISAN CO. ON TH I!. 10TH AN 0 25TH OF EACH MONTH OFFICE-Z-20 1..YON ST., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. ENTERED ~S MATTaR OF THE eECOlllt1 CLAU If the contention of the Denver & Rio Grande railroad officials that the Interstate Commerce Commission has JW jurisdiction over shipments to points in Western Colorado after they have been "transshipped" at Denver, shall be held good, it is easy to see how the rate regulation law can be llul-ifLedto a large extent. All that is necessary is to rcbill the cars at the first station or junction within the state. That wiB rob the national authorities of jurisdiction and the rail-road reaching the final destination may charge what it "\\'ill. If that idea is good, there is nothing in the rate law to pre-vent the granting of rebate-s from any point to another within the same state, and, what is worse, it would seem that con-gress has no authority to amend the law so as to cover snch shipments. The Colorado idea is more fully explained Un-der the heading "A Snag for Rate Regulation" on allother page. If the contention is correct the law may be nullified completely by rebilling cars at each state line. *1* *1* *!* *1* TheannuaJ meeting of the Michigan Vehicle and Imple-ment Dealers' Association was held in Grand Rapids during the first week in December. The proceedings showed that the troubles of tllC members are much like those of the retail furniture dealers. ),.Iail order competition, prison made goods and retailing by manufacturers were the principal top-ics of discussion in both open and executive sessions, and they also placed themselves on record against the proposed parcels post. Thi;;>d,iscussions and the action taken showed that the vell;de and implement uealers are a few years behind the furniture men in dealing with the retailing manufaeturers and prison labor and that they lack confidence in their abiJity to snccessfully eombat the catalolSue houses. *1* "I' *\* *1* \\'hen a shipper orders a car placed for loading and ·fails to load within forty-eight hours, or ..v..hen he receives a car loaded with freight and i,1ils to unload it in forty-eght hour!i he must pay demurrage. Neither weather nor unforeseen conditions arc considered in fixing the amount of the penalty. Then why should the railroads not pay demurrage ".·.h. en they take two weeks to deliver a car that should go through in four days? There is no reason why the rule should not work both ways. *1* *1" *1" *1" The people of Texas will cngage largely.in the propaga-tion of Angora goats, the skins ,of which are used in the fur-niture trade. Nine-tenths of the Angora skins used at pres-ent arc imported. There is room enough in the great south-west for millions of goats and as there is a large margin of profit in the business, there i!i no reason why manufacturers who use kid and goat skins should be obliged to import their supplies. 11<1,* *1* *1* *1'" The result of the proceedings started by the Pacific Coast Lumbermen' Association against the Northern Pacific R.ail-road Company are of great importance and the outcome will be of great interest, not only to lumbermen but to furniture manufacturers and all other shippers. If a railroad charter 71R T 1.5'.7U"J 1 , •• can be forfeited or revoked for failure to furnish cars, car famines will probably be few and far between in the future. *1* *1* "'1* *1* President Roosevelt's demand for laws regulating condi-ti011Sof ehild labor, will be heartily endorsed by all who ear-nestly hope for the welfare and general good of the country. Vv'hile the Presidcnt'~ message was be.ing read in congress, the same sentiments in regard to child labor were expres!ied in the resolutions adopted by the convention of the Cititzens' Industrial Association then in session at Chicago. *j' *j" *j* *1* There is Ol1e man, at least, who does not think that the fines imposed for rebating are inadequate. He is a Kansas City broker who paid a fine of $1,000 for having accepted a rebate of five cents on a shipmel1t of corn. Perhaps the court may have entertained a suspicion that the re-spondent ha<l accepted rebates not mentioned in the indictment. *1* *1* *1* *1,* Again the country has congress on its hands and the par-cels post movement has been revived. Supporters of the bill should not be discouraged. Twelve years were re-quired in which to pass an amendment to the iJ1ter-state com-merce bilt and nearly as many to amend the pure food law. *1* '\' *1* *1* \Vell trained Spanish women learn to handle the sword from their earliest years, a.nd as a result they have admirable figures and an easy walk.-Ex. Well trained American women learn to handle varnish and paint brushes and as a result they have admirable figures in the savings banks. *1111 *1* *1* *1* Dealers, generally, do not exercise that promptlless in re-turning prints of negatives that they should. A number of manufacturers use postal cards especially printed for the pur-pose, in recalling prints loaned to dealers. 1\fuch expense is saved thereby. '1* "I" *1* 'I' The social clubs of Grand Rapids are preparing to royally entertain sojourning furniture- men next month. The prize dng will be closed, but those .",ho would look upon the chicken when he is game will not be disappointed when they go to the suburbs. *'* *j' *'* *j' The manufacturers of tables very sensibly concluded to follow the course of the case makers' association and have advanced prices to cover the enhanced cost of materlals used in their business. *,* *1* *1* *1* A New "Vay (but not a good way) Furniture company has commenced business in Milwaukee. Selling knock down furniture to the public has not proved I'a great snap" by those who have tried it. - *1* *1' *1' "I' Grand Rapids will have another furniture exhibition build-ing ready for occupancy before the fall season of trade opens. It is large and centrally located. *!' *1* '1* *1' "Hurry-up" orders for holiday stock burden the wires. The dealer in most instances generously permits the manufac-turer to pay the tolls. *1* '1* '1* *1* '''Labor is itself a pleasure."-Lt1credus. comes intolerable if followed too closely. But pleasure be- Laborious pleas-ure, as it were. *1* '1* *1* 'I' The adva;,ce in prices on all kinds of furniture will afford pecuniary satisfaction to the commission men. *1* *" *" ,,* A rising market for any commodity usually benefits all who handle it except the consumer. 7 The LYON THE CREDIT 8UREAU OF THE FURNITURE TRADE Grand Rapids Office, 412-413 Houseman Bldg. GEO. E. GRAVES, Manager CLAPPER1'ON & OWEN, Counsel Furniture Agency ROBRT P. LYON, General Manager CREDITS and COLLECTIONS THE STANDARD REFERENCE BOOK CAPITAL, rnEDIT AND PAY RATINGS CLEARING HOUSE OF TRADE EXPERIENCE THE MOST RELIABLE CREDIT REPORTS COLLECTIONS MADE EVERYWHERE PROMPTLY- REUABLY Care of Cutter Heads of Various Kinds. fbe use of the modern types of cntter heads is so general in woodworking plants of every description that it is not ont of place to emphasize somewhat the importance of keeping the bits in good order. A gage is commoniy furnished by the manufacture to serve as a guide when filing the bit to the proper slant and hook. [f you give the ..:dge of the bit a different slant, you change the relation of the cutting edge and it will 110 longer cut the true shape of the mold. If you increase the hook, that is, the slant from the throat to j Designed by Bernard ZierJeyn, Grand Rapids. Mich. the edge, the bit wilt cut deeper than originally intended and jf yoU diminish the hook, the bit "will cut shallower. The bits should never be filed on the Ollter circle. An eight-inch tapcr or three corner file is the most con-venient size and shape for all sorts of cutters. A half round file, four to six-inch, is useful in filing a\'vay the inside of edge for cope bits, where the very keen edge is necessary to prop-erly cut and form tenons across the grain. The operator ought to have a wooden bench so placed as to afford a good light on the work and fitted either \'v·ith a cutter head grinder or a cutter head filing stand, in order to keep up this work in the best manner. Thee are several types of cutter head grinders manufac-tured, some of which are exclusively for head work, while others have an arhor carrying an outfit of emery wheels of different thicknesscs and shapes to suit all possible require-ments in tool grinding, and even with a saw gtt1l1mcr at-tachment in connection for use if the filing room is not prop-edy cql1ippedwith an automatic sharpener for rip and cross-cut circulars. A good outfit for all purposes is the best kind of an investment in any kind of a plant, and it is remarkable to find how many are depending entirely upin hand fitting of heads. r"fuch attention is now being paid to the matching of hard maple flooring. Because of its close 6brous grain it is es-pecially difficult to produce satisfactorily under rapid feed "with the usual tools. "Matcher heads to~cco111plish this work ought to have many cutters to tp.ke part in the work so as to distribute the cut as finely and evenly as possible between all the cutters around the head. The importance of having each bit do its proportionate part of the work will be obvious 101' the working strain will otherwise come on only one or two of the bits to their disadvantage and the certain produc-tion of poor results. vVhen ordering bits special attention should be given to the matter of temper and order ought to state whether the bits are wanted hard to grind on a cutter head grinder, or of medium temper to nle slowly, etc. You may have a careful man upon whom you depend for the grinding or filing of your wood cutting knives of various kinds, a man who devotes all or much of his time to this class of work. The time he employs on this work and the wage scale paid are of importance, but far less important than the matter of increased output and the quality of the output. 'This fact ~mphasjzes what has been stated above concerning the usc of a machine tool for the grinding instead of hand fil-ing, The principle involved is the same as in that of knife grinding, Noone can file a knife as satisfactorily or accur-ately as it can be ground with an efficient knife grinder, and there is no operator except those who are working in thc most 1in~itfd fashion, that would attempt to get along a day v..·ithout a knife grinder. It is equally important that filing room have a good cutter head or bit grinder and those who are not al-ready equipped in this line, will surely 1111(1 it of advantage to look up wllat the market affords and equip INith something that can be recommended as \vel1 suited for the purpose. John Bates of Hampton, Iowa is closing out his stock and will quit the furniture business. SOMETHING NEW WE have perfected a new GOLDf:N OAK OIL STAIN without the use of asphaltum or acid. This stain is the strongest and most pene~ trating stain on the market. It entirely pt'"ne~ trates the wood. leaving- no surplus on the sur-face to penetrate with the filler. Samples furnished on application. CRAND RAPIDS WOOD FINISHINC COMPANY 55-159 ELLSWORTH .a.VE.• GRAND RAPIDS. MICH· 8 How They Fool the Antiquarians. Evidently America is 110t the only fool's paradise where the 1:J.oodwinking of collectors of antiquities is a profitable business. Here is a scheme which, according to the Grand 1Jagazine, is true in all its details and is practiced in London: Let the reader imagine he is listening to the en dof an earnest conversation between a dealer of world-wide reputa-tion and one of the latter's most important customers, a man whose bottomless purse is the lodestar of all swindledom. The visitor complains that nothing really fine is to be picked up -nowadays. When he thinks he has at length discovered some ancient piece of funliture in an out of the way farm~ hotlse, he is sure to learn at the last moment that it is not au-thentic and has merely been planted there by some cunning rogue o( \VarJour street or the Rue des Faussaires. "Ah," replies the dealer, looking very sage, "I know at least Olle place where there are still some perfect treasures! Its an old Elizabethan mansion in Slumberingshire, but the owner, all ullmarried lady, nearly 70, though she has barely enough to live upon, absolutely refuses to sell a single article. She ''\1011'teven allow a stranger to enter the house. I mall-aged to get in once by a trick, and I assure you I ''v'as al-most dumfounded at what I saw. The whole place is in identically the same state as it was two hundred years ago." The hook is llOW· baited, hut the dealer, who knows his man, allows several days to ·e!apse. Then he sends a tele-gram: "Just learned that the old lady will be absent from home for a day or two; can bribe servants to. show house." The place is at some distance from London; no matter, off the pair go, only to find on arrival at their destination th8-t by some fatality the O'wner of the house has not gone away after all, so the inspection must perforce be put off. Naturally the colleetor, if he be worth his salt, knows no rest now ulltil allOther opportunity to see the treasures presents itself. B is desire is finally granted, and in company with his lidis_ interested" cicerone he is allowed to run hastily through a few rooms filled with dusty old furniture piled up in picturesque confusion. He is not permitted to make a dose inspection under the pretext that the old lady may return at any moment and that he will nnd 1t difficult to explain his presence. "\\That a terrible pity," sigh both men simultaneously as they hurry away, "that such admirable specimens should re-main here in the dust !!, A month, perhaps two months, pass; then one morning the dealer rushes in breathlessly to his customer's pres-ence. HYou remember the old lady?" W"{es,what ab0l1t her?" I<She is absolutely compelled at last to r<lise some ready money and has consented to sel! me some of her most prec-ious' historical relics." MANUFACTURERS OF" DROP CARVING AND GENERAL EMBOSSING MACHINES Die'S for all kinds of Machines. At lowest prices. 7 Second SI., LAFAYETTE, IND. l "By Jove, what luck! Buy everything you can for me. must have those things, whatever they cost." \Vhat the confiding millionaire did not know-though he assuredly suspects something of the sort now-is that the Elizabethan mansion was rented by the dealer;· that all it contained was the same personfs property, and that both the carefully trained servants and the "old lady" herself were in his pay. The "Fonetik" Fad. We are redy to folo the leed ofPrezident Ruzcvelt for fonetik"spelling and to mak plane how it wit afect the kemikttl hizness we are spesifying- a few wet known artike1s.in the line Des.iff,n by Henry De Loof, .. Student of the-Grand Rapidl School of Furnitur-e Designing_ so that reeders of "Thingz Kemikul" may se whatz kuming. Aeston, asetik, sitrik asid, fosforic asid, analeen kul-ers, sulfur, zink, fosfat of kalseum, rosin, blu vitrul, ferus amoneum, sulfat, magncshum sulfat, etc. Its ging tu mak Ieterz and documents, in which it is uzed, luk funy until we bekum akustemed tu it, but in the long run it wi! mak speling and riting ezyer for t15 al. Thingz Kemi-kul, tho, will not at onee llse fonetik speling in its reeding pages, at least until pcepul are familur wit.h the nu skeme.~ Things Chemical. Another Point to Remember If you place your announcements in the MERCANTILE EDITIONS of the ARTISA N the.v will be read by DULfRS in fURNITURE and KINDRED GOODS ONLY. UNCERTAINTIES OF BUSINESS. Only One Out of Every Twenty New Ventures Are Really Successful. Five per cent of new lirms starting in business make a Sllccess. The other 9.1 per cent fail. This is a statement startling when first met ""jth. To the business man of Johg and wide experience and the variolls mercantile reporting agencies it is not startling because it is not new. It has been accepted as a fact for so long that it is now only a matter of conrse. But to the worker who contemplates advOlllcing his position and fortune by leaving a sure salaried position and setting lip in business for himself in a small way it is a cir- Bear This Fact •In Mind YOU can present your claims for uade to a larger number of buyers of furni-ture and k.indred goods through the mer· cantile editions of the Michigan Art. isan (mailed to dealers only),than is possi. ble by the use of any other furniture trade paper. Write for rate card. CU111st<lnce to· be considered soberly and carefully before the important move is made. "\Vill I be one of the favored 5 per cent? Or will 1 be numbered among the vast majority, the 95 per cent who fail?" arc questions for all ambitions young workers to consider, says 11artill Arends, in an article on "the craze to be in busi-ness" in the Chicago Tribune. If morc people would ask themselves these questions and think over them earnestly, the list of banrnptcies, defalcations, dishonest dealings, wreck-ed lives and homes and suicides dne to "business troubles" would be much diminished, The rashness \",ith which men rush into business at any opportunity, assuming debts, ob-ligations and duties which they are equipped to hear no more than the schoolboy is equipped to be a teacher, is probably as great a somce of unhappiness and suffering ill the lives of the class which is above need and yet not independent as any cause one might take up. Scarcely a day goes by but in a city of lndnstrial importance some -ill steered commercial bark goes on the rocks of failure with a hopeless crash. Tn the '''lake of the crash there is often a wrecked life, sometimes several of them. This is not to be taken to mean that the vvriter would counsel the young, ambitious man ..v.ith ideas to slick to his salaried position if a favorable opportunity should pre- SCllt itself. On the contrary, in tl,ese columns, '''le have ad-vised such a move under certain conditions. Faint heart never' Wall success. But as statistics show tha~ there are all too many people trying to get into business for themselves. the one contemplating it shoulcl be sure that he has the ex-perience. the idea, and the capital at least to save him. from wreck, if not pull him to success. Each of these three qualifications is as important as the others. Experience is the corner stone upon "hich the structure of a business must be buiit. "Vhile no one can come to a new enterprise with all the experiences necessary to run it smoothly to success, the man beginning in busi-ness is like a lamb among wolves if he lacks experi,~nce. This does not mean that he shalt merely understand his business. It means that he should also have plenty of experience in fI~~Iq;~~~~· dealing with men and t'ith the world in general. Competi~ tion to the edge of battle is the condition of the business world today. Probably I half of the greatest successes of the day owe their pre-emintllce to an ability tv outwit and out-fight competitors. Such ability could not exist without a wide and useful knowle1ge of men and busin.ess life. A man may be able to make 4 good brand of shoeblacking, but if he doesn't know how t~ put it up! advertise it, and present it to the trade and the !pubtie in a manner to make it com-pare favorably with otl~er brands of shoe blacking he has a poor chance of winningj patronage that witt yield him a liv-mg. His shoe polish n~ay be better once it is on a' patron's shoe, but this will avail nothing if other manufacturers get their polish there. ! vVhile experience isi the foundation, it is quite helpless without capital-as hc1~less as capital is without experience. Few new firms are sufficiently equipped in the matter of capital. One of Chica~o's largest manufacturers expresses the average condition ofl beginners in manufacturing as "hold_ ing a $2,000 equity in ai $20,000 place." The new enterprise under this condition hais to carry a load that is practically sure to prove too heavy. The machinery maker of a mort-gagor in six cases out 6f ten is the true Owner of the plant, not the man or men those names arc on the letterhead. \Vhere in many instancb a start with a paid up equipment would end successfully, ~he start when made with only enough for a partial payment qf machinery, etc, ,proves disastrous. The seller of equipment~ wants his payments and his interest every so often or the I~ortgagee wants his interest and his fee for extending a loatt, and this, of course! in addition to the pay roll, the rent, and the other natural costs of operation. , The extra burden top often breaks the back of the firm. Unless the idea upon wrich the business is started is one of phenomenal ,\70rth and ~ossibilities and so will carry its pro-mulgators into instant ifavor without the usual long, tire-some fight against comnetition, etc., existence for the begin-ner becomes a harried qne ·of hurrying and scurrying to get trade, to get in money,! to borrO\v, to raise sufficient funds ill any old way to keep the -pay roll going, tamed bills, and to stave off the mortgagee .. VVith a combination! of these three assets, capital, ex- , perience, and the idea lin the proper quantities, a man is properly equipped for ~n entrance into the business world. 6enn~tt &. Witte MA!fmFACTuRERS OF LlJJM6ER For Furniture Mfrs••Far Sullders aDd Carriage Trade. Plain and f Wh"t ' d D d 0 16 J ptalnand Quartered 1 e !an I"'Irr.e B.n. "I Quartered RED and SAP GUM Poplar, Cottonwood, Ash, Elm and Chestnut. A Full Line of Sou.her~ Hardwoods. Export aDd Domestic. WRITE EITHER OFFICE. Branch: Memphis, Tenn. i Main Office: Cincinnati, O. We sell <m. Nationai1 Hardwood Lumber Association inspection only. \;Vithout them he is noJ, and the chances for anything but failure are so small that ithey cannot even be called a gambl':" ing chance. Ruin in bus~t1ess is a disaster which few recover tram. The papers ehrobic1e suicide on account of business troubles with no great idfrequency. More often they tell the tale of defalcation or dther dishonesty that has been dis-covered. These things ~re wel! worth considering long and seriously before one yiellds to the popular craze for being in business, I 9 EASY MONEY IS MADE B' USING THE ENTIRELY AUTOMATIC BAND SAW SHARPENER MADE BY US There is no need of spending money year after year in having your band saws hand filed, "l;hen by paying us only a little morc th.l.n tht: cost of hand filling one saw for one year you can own an automatic machine that will last a lifetime, and with practically no repairs. Why not write us and find out about it ? We aho miJlle au!omaric hand saw sha"'peners, and autamaric circular saw sharpeners. ROTARY FILE &. MACHINE CO., 579KentAve., BROOKLYN, N. Y. SOUTHERN .QGENTS: AMERICAN MFG. CO" ATLANTA, GA 10 ~MIfaf'HIG7fN Men Who Are Worse Than Demagogues. At the annual convention of the Cititzens' Industrial Asso-ciation, held in Chicago, December 3 anu 4, resolutions were adopted denouncing child labor and favoring the establish~ ment of manual training schools throughout the country, The principal address of the session was delivered by James W. Van Cleve of St. Louis, who rabidly denounced those who oppress or treat their employes unfairly. "Such men," he declared, "are worse citizens than the demagogues whom they condemn." The speakerdeelared that no man despised the agitators and the unW1se; arbitrary, oppressive and tyrannical methods of the Labor unions more than he, "but still," he said, "it must be admitted that they have ac-complished much for the benefit of their members and for labor in general. They have done much that is wicked and wrong, but it must be remembered that if all employers had treated their employes right there would have been no need of labor unions." C. W. Post of Battle Creek, Mich:, was re-elected presi-dent of the organization with F. 'V. Nunemacker of Louis-ville, Ky., and James W. Van Cleve of St. Louis as vice-presidents. The board of directors, or governing board, for the ensuing year is composed of George P. Bennet, Chicago; T. J. Mahoney, Omaha; A. C. Brown, Sioux Falls, and J. V.i. Franks, Peoria, Ill. The convention will be held ill Battle Creek next year. A Snag for Rate Regulation. "The Interstate Commerce Commission has no jurisdiction to regulate the freight rates on our lil1e~, when the rates apply to shipments made from points in the East to points on the ·western slope of the mountail~s in Colorado, for the rcason that the consi::rt1ments are transhipped in Denver. and we carry them from state point to state point. Tile commi5sion has 110authority to interfere with state btlsiness, as state rights demand that the commissions keep their hands off." That is the principal point made in the answer of the Denver & Rio Grande, the Colorado ~Iidlatld and the Colo-rado &: Southern to the petition of the 'Merchants' Traffic Association, demanding that the rates between the eastern and western part of Colorado be equalized. Besides denying the authority of the commission to super-vise their business, the railroads say that the present rates arc "reasonable and just." The main fight, however, is on the question of jurisdiction, as the Colorado roads don't want to come under the rate supervising power of the federal government. Panama Canal, Politics and Railroads. John F. \Vallacc; fdrmerIy chief engineer of the Panama Canal is quoted as saying: "The construction of the Panama Canal as a private enter-prise would be an· easy matter. In fact, many railroad en-gineering feats of a 1110redifficult character than the building of this canal have beep carried to completion in the United States within recent times, but they attracted very little atten-tiOl1. The making of the canal is everybody's job, but with private enterprises there is no politics to contend againsL" Mr, Wallace also denied that railroads are opposed to the canal, and added: HI have not talked to a railroad president or a traffic mana-ger of a railroad who said that he was opposed to the scheme. l\. great many fal5e stories of that tenor have been put into circulatjon for political purposes. There is nothing to all such talk. The transcontinental business will in no way be injured by the building of the canal, and the railroads have no reason to hinder its construction." Long Cars May Go Through. The rule of the Transcontinental Association prohibiting the billing through to the Pacific coast of cars more than forty feet long, has been abolished, to take effect January 1. This is of importance to both eastern and western shippers, The action of the association is expected to help relieve car congestion. The limitation noted has been a source of hard-ship, especially to shippers of furniture. BERRY BROTHERS' Rubbing and Polishing Varnishe:s MUST BE USED IN FURNITURE WORK TO BE A~PRECIATED THEY SETTLE THE VARNISH QUESTION WHEREVER TRIED WRITE TODAY FOR INFORMATION AND PRICES. FINISHED SAMPLES ON REQUEST. BERRY BROTHERS. LIMITED VARNISH MANUFACTURERS DETROIT NEW YORK BOSTON PHILADELPHIA BALTIMORE CHICAGO CANADIAN FACTORY, WALKERVILLE, ONTARIO rlNCINNATI ST. LOUIS SAN FRANCISCO , A Page from Collier's Weekly, CRAFT IN PENNSYL VANINS STATE CAPITAL. 12 SPECIALARTICLESIN FURNITURE ====HARDWARE ==== Door Catches in great variety The Tillotson Toilet Fastener Push Bulton Catches, Wardrobe Rods and Hooks Desk Lid Supports Toilet Hings, Shell Supports, Dowel Pin' Enamel Knobs and Automatic Wood Trimmings Hardware Supply Co.,c;,rand Rap;d.;-Mfdl. THE GRAND RAPIDS PANEL CO. 4.. n. SUERWOOD, Manager Manufactur.r. or ELASTIC GRAINING PLATES GRAINING MACmNES GRAND RAPIDS, - - MICHIGAN. IF YOUWANTTHEBEST fURNITURE P"OTOGRAP"S WRITE M. P. TUiELE &. CO., 242 S. front St., GRAND R4PIOS. Mlell. WHITE PRINTING CO., PRINTERS OF CATALOGUES and. everythi.ng needed. by busi,tle$S men. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. New Factories. Wilson's Automatic MU'15ic--L~aJ-Furniture Company is a new corporation that wili estaBlish a plant in Portland, Oregon. A. J, Kingsley, Margaret White and]. N. Teal have organized the Oregon Chair Coppany at Portland, Or,,:gon They have $75,000 capital. The Oriental Rug and Drugget Company is installing machinery to manufacture reproductions of oricntal rugs and druggets at Manchester, Virgina. A. H. Pettingill, from Calif ofilia is to establish a furni-ture factory and employ 200 hands on a site given him by the business men of Raymond, Wash. Philip Harbach of Des Moines, Iowa, 'w.ill establish a fac-tory in which he will make an improved upholstering device on whch he has recently secured a patent. William Genge, E. F, Bean and David Herman have or-ganized the Inland ~Iattress & 'Upholstering Company at Spokane, Wash. They expect to begin business in Decem-ber. Lincoln, Neb., is to have a new factory to make a patent adjustable window shade. L. K Wettling is the principal prorhoter.$everal state officials are stockholders in the project. B. 0: Jackson, W. W. and H. W. On have organized the Jackson-Orr Company with $5,000 capital stock, all paid in, 'to establish a plant and make beds and mattresses in At-lanta, Georgia. A dispatch from Decatur, Ala., states that the Common Council of that town has offered exemption' from taxation for L SYDNEY J. OSGOOD S. EUGENE OSGOOD OSGOOD & OSGOOD, Architects. F ACTORV CONSTRUCTiON AND D~SIQNINC A SP~C'AL.'TY. GRAND'RAPIDS, MICHlGAN. Michigan Art earvi g Co. ---~-FOR WOOD CARVINGS of all kirtcIs. Mention Michigan Artisan. GRAND RAP~DS, Micb. I ====S!EE=====' West Michigan Machine & Tool Co., ltd. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. for mGU GRADE PUNCUES and DIES. saved and' when done leaves are bound (by yOUl""' self) and in~cxedby 800rs or deptllrtm~ts. BARLOGWra~nROSRapid•s•. Mieh. L.. ·_WR;:.:;;,:ITE.I:G::;HTNOW. ,", ! I j, i MIClJlOAN ENORAVlNO CO. Grand Rapids, Mich. ENa~AVBRS BY ALL P~OCESSES. . ten years to Kentll<;;kY gentlemen whoVTopos to establish a large chair factory "on a site donated by De atur business men. W. B. Teague, A. E. Lewis, T, D. Harris nd James H. Johnsoo have organized, the Staley Chair Can pany, capita-lized at $25,000 with $4,000 paid in, to establis a plant and manufacture chairs and chair stock at Staley, C atham coun-ty North Carolina. The Lake Geneva Piano Stool Company is a new ,Illinois corporation capitalized at $15,000, with the purpose of oper-ating in Wisconsin. The company will start business in the old plant of thc Lake Geneva (Wis.) Manufacturing Com-pany, but will soon build a new factory. George F. Felker of Logansport has purchased a site of thirteen acres and let contracts for buildings for a furniture factory at Lebanon, Ind. He has purchased the patents and patterns of the kitchen cabinets formerly made by H, C. Clark and will confine himself to that line at the start, but expects to add other lines later. •t Enlarging Their Buffalo Plant. Pratt & Lambert, varnish makers of New York, Buffalo alldChicago, have in course of construction at their Buffalo works, two large brick buildings" one being an additional cooling room and the other~:i·garage for their automobile de-livery trucks, the second floor of' which will have commodious lunch rooms for the factory employes. William Mauthe, furniture dealer of Fond du Lac, Wis., has taken four of his clerks into partnership and incorporated the business, the capital stock being fixed at $25,000. How to Banish Child Labor. Give the children a chance. This has been the demand of advancing civilization everywhere. Too often it has been vetoed by the counter-demand of a despotic industrialism. For the sake of cheap labor we have our child-slaves of the coal breakers, of the iactories, of the cotton milts, vVhat capital saves in cost of production, the nation loses in the de-struction of life, and in a growing generation ignorant, stunted and brutalized. Each state is a laW' unto itself, in the matter of protecting its children. \Vhere pmverful and ruthless interests dominate, there are no adequate laws; or laws adequate in themselves are inadequately enforcel. The remedy lies in federal authority. Senator TIcveridge has ad-vanced an ingenious suggestion (to be embodied bter in leg- DESIGNS BY Eo. A. HAKE., GRAND RAPIDS. MICH. -It 11" 7IR T I oS' JIj'\J 1 2e 13 nicely and assures Mr. Flint that he will s'oon be able to get out, though it was a remarkably narrow escape from death. New Dealers. Chas. S. Robison and H, A. :Ylartin have organized the· Roblnson-Martin Furniture Company and have opened a new store at 23-25 East Hunter street, Augusta, Maine. The People's Furniture Company has opened a new re-tail store at 206 South ~ain street, Lima! Ohio. Olam'-s Olson has purchased the Allard block in Spring Valley, Minn. He will remodel the building and open a furniture emporium. A. Steinkamp & Co., have opened a new furniture store is1ation) which will hardly he opposed by any but the most cyllical of vested interests. The Beveridge child labor bill will not seek to interfere with or overide state laws. It will simply shut Ollt of inter-state commerce the output of any commerce which employs children under fottrteen years of age, Thus will each offending state be choked with its own evil. The taboo would seem to be the easy and righteous solution of a threatneing- problem.-Ridgway·s. Close Call for Mr. Flint. S. B. Flint, nUl11;tger of the Hellrung & Grimm Hotlse-furnishing Company of 51. Louis, Mo., well known as a lib-eral buyer in the furniture markets, is suffering from the re-sults of a peculiar accident. On November 10 he was ad-justing the back ofa Morris chai·r in the store, which re-quired considerable exertion. \lv'hen he arose from a stoop-ing posture he felt a sharp pain in his chest. Ill' was taken home in a carriage and did 110t realize the extent of his in-jury until the next day, when the physician told him he had ruptured his left lung. He is confmed to his bed and not allowed to talk, but the doctor says the wound is healing in 'Portsmottth, Ohio, under the management of C. A. Han-sen, from Wars a"", Ky. The Davidson Furniture Company, chartered by A. T. I-Jarris and associates, with $4,COO capital stock, 'will run a house furnishing store in Raleigh, N. C. Fumed Oak Water Stain. Fumed oak has been in use a few years, and is very popu-lar on furniture of the novelty order. It has been produced by subjecting the work to a chemical bath in a hot room; that, however, is 110t 'within the reach of the average iurni-ture manufacturer, and as a result the Barrett-Lindeman- Lawrence-McFadden Companies have produced a water stain that they think gives a better result for any shade that may be required from a soft yellowish brown toa dark blackish brownl including the shades t'ending to the greenish cast. It is a manufactured stain and not furnished in powdered form. Negotiations are pending for the reorganization of th~ \Vabash (Ind.) Cabinet Company, which has been in the hands of a receiver for the past six months. 14 Get Busy ===~ AND===· Get Space IN THE SOUTHERN FURNITURE EXHIBITION My! How YOU'VE ().ROWN~ ~ THE REASON WHY. Open Every Day in the Year Pioneers always get the cream of the trade and secure an immense advantage over competitors who foil their lead. Be a Pioneer. Atlanta is the geographical and railroad center of a buying population greater than that of the whole Trans-IVIississippi region. Reduced rates are available nearly every day in the year to our 4000 buyers who can see your samples in no other way. Space in the great new Show 'It the Gateway of the South is being rapidly taken. The Exhibition building is in the heart of Atlanta's business dis-trict, .I minutes walk from leading hotels and post office. Steam heated, electric lighted, with elevators, toilets, local and long distance phones, telegraph office and every other modern convenience. Samples may be unloaded direct to the building from the cars through an ample loading shed. The management can supply competent salesmen without conflicting in lines. A limited amount of storage space available at low rates for those desiring to distribute from Atlanta. SOUTHERN FURNITURE EXHIBITION COMPANY ATLANTA, GA. I72-178 MARlETT A STREET I " Chicago, December S.-The retail market in furniture is less brisk now than it \vas earlier in the season. Probably this is the lull before the storm. 11anufacturing interests, however, remain very active. The factories have never been busier than at present. ':lilany of them are running overtime. Reports show au ullusually large volume of business for the past year and many manufacturers arc contemplating addi-tional facilities for getting out their products, vVith many firm,s, out-of-town orders have been rcsponsible for the in-crease in yolume, while with others the city demand has kept them running overtime. Still the mail order house grows! lliIotltgomery \Vard & Co. have recently taken out a building' permit for what is believed to be the biggest single store huiJ(\iilg in tIle 'Node.!. The ground dimensions of the Hew structure will be 296 x 717 feet, and being eight stories high it will contain over t11irty-five acres of floor space. It is to be divided into six separate section,s with three stainvays in each. The material used will be steel, tile and concrete, with brick walls. It is to be ready for occupancy July 1, 1907, when the company will abandon their present quarters on the lake front. A special meeting of the mileage bureau of the western railways is to be held in Chicago the week of December 10, at which it is hoped some change ''v'ill be made in the present rate of mileage books. No challge has been made in the western mileage book for over ten years and public sentiment is llOW demanding a reduction in the price. The present 2,000 mile book of the \Vestern Passengc\' Association costs $60.00, a refund of $19.50 being made for the cover. A proposition to reduce the price (}f the book to $50.00 with a refund of $9.50 is now before the bureau and will likely be adopted at their next meeting. It is also proposed to place on sale a 1,000 mile book for $30.00, giving a refund of $5.00. l\Ir. F. T. Plimpton, 1319 Michigan avenue, left last week for a ten days' trip in the east for the purpose of perfecting his lines for the coming exhibition season. ],\'lr. Plimpton still has charge of the eighth floor of "The Big TIuildillg" and will have several new lines and a greater variety this yf'.ar than before. When the new .Furniture Exchange, Fourteenth st;-cet and vVabash avenue, is completed the Peck & Hills Campau}' will ocCUpy the three top floors of the building. They ex-pect to take possession of their new quarters on January 1, 1907. Major Burkhardt and son of the Burkb<1rdt Fl1rnitm'c Company_, Dayton, Ohio, were in attendance at the meeting of the Chair Associ.ation held in Chicago December 5. They spent the morning at 1319 ':.Iichigan avenue, inspecting their exhibiti.on space. for the coming season. They report a ca-pacity business. For the benefit of their Christmas buyers Vol. K. Covv"an & Co. have issued a miniature volume entitled "Thc Cowan Gift Book," which contains all kinds of suggestions for gifts at prices ranging from 50 cents to $8,000. [t is a beantiful advertisement of real usefulness, printed on Jap:l1l parchment in gold and colors a11(lcontaining many blank pages for mem-oranda. Louis Kanitz Honored. The chamber of commerce of :Yluskegon, Mich., recently elected Louis Kanitz (the president of the Muskegon Valley Furniture Company) to ftIt the prcsidential chair of that im- 7IR'T' IoS JI.l'J' eM' 4 7 e • 15 portant organization. Mr. Kanitz is one of a group of use-ful men that have "made Muskegon famous." As a member of the board of education for many years and the improve-ment committee of the chamber of commerce, he has ren-dered the city important and valuable service. Mr. Kanitz is also a member of the board of managers of the l\:1ichigan Soldiers' Home. To quote the remark of oue of his as-sociates on the board, "he gives morc time to the affairs of the instituation than any of his associates and is really thc most l1scf111 man in the organization." The term for which Mr. Kanitz was appointed will expire next month. If Gov-ernor 'Varner is wise he will probably tender Mr. Kanitz 'an-other term. Buying Out of Season. During the past week \Villiam T. Chittenden and George H. \Vol1ey, who are to manage the Pontchartrain, Detroit's nc\.... three-million-dollar hotel, that is being erected on the site of the popular old Russell House, wcre in Grand Rapids, selecting fu1'11itl1refor the llew hostelry which is expected to be the finest in the west. R. G. Alexander, ,Po N. Evers and Charles Solomon, buy-ers for the Siegel-Cooper storcs, placed some large orders for furniWre with manufacturers in Grand Rapids and Chicago during the last week in Kovember. D. E. Frederichs, furniture dealer of Seattle, was in Grand Rapids on November 30, placing'orders for quick delivery. \V. 1T. Miller, buyer for Marshall Field & Co., Chicago, placed a few orders with Grand 'Rapids manufacturers on De-cember 3 and 4. FAULT.~:': point where other casters refuse to turn is 'fShe Point with The faultless Pivot Bearing Caster The FAULTLESS received Ihe .Hlghesl Award allhe World's fair, 1904, over all olher oaslers. It is s uppli ed wit b Fauldess Pat e n t Steel Spring Sockets. Tbe Faultless is interchangeable; will fit six differ-ent sizes of Iron bed sockets. :-: The Faultless bas no weak spots-n 0 mechanical flaws·-it's Fault· less in ,name-in action-and as a seller :~: :-: If you are after a money maker, write to 75he Fa.ultless Ca.ster Mfg. Co•• Nebraska City. Neb. They only manufacturo 16 ·~MIPJiIG7JN ' Hat Racks Out of Fashion. Ordinary hat racks are going out of fashion," said John E. Brower, designer for the Sligh Furniture Company. "It is almost impossible to make them artistic or practicaL When they are empty they are unsightly and when loaded they are a nuisance. Their pTace is being taken, by hall stands and costumers, but the hall stand is not much of an improvement over the old style hat rack. The closet is the place for hats and overcoats and they a.e provided in most of the modern houses and apartments. Where there is no convenient clos-et, however, a substitute may be easily provided. I live in the Hoffman and I have just made a substitute for a hall stand and put it in the end of the entrance to our apartments. It is made in this way," and Mr. Brower proceeded to make an off-hand drawing, showing two shelves for hats and, un-derneath the lower one, hooks for wraps and coats. "There," he said, "I m~de it just the right length to fit the space and fastened it at tJ1C right height against the wall. It is not unsightly, it answers the purpose all right and you can't and undoubte~ly some of those received in Berlin are the same. In the return letters the students are told of their mistakes, benefiting both the Germans and the Americans. The teachers place restrictions on what shaH be said in the letters possibly to avoid any international romances. In order to join the correspondence classes, the ',students have to inform the teachers of the opposite nations as to the busi-ness in which their parents are engaged. It has been suggested that furniture designers might find amusement and profit, perhaps, by following the example of the Battle Creek students. By an exchange of sketches both American and German designers might gain new ideas, pro-viding the drawings are definite enough to indicate an idea without too much explanation. ' A Well Informed Radical. Vigorous measUres taken by George ]. Kindel of Denver, Col., in dealing with the freight rate problem before the trans- Mississippi Commercial congress have been watched with in- De,ign by W.L. Kimerly. Grand Rapid•• Mich. knock into it when going through the hall. By fitting it with doors it could be made a shallow closet or it might be inclosed with curtains. "The regular closet, however, is better for hats and over-coats. They are also best for umbrellas and overshoes when they are dry; when they are wet they are left on the porch of'in the vestibule. "Over in Europe they get along without hat racks or hall stands by building closets in the walls, and that idea will soon be adopted in the better class of houses in this country." Suggestions for Designers. Students in German at Battle Creek, Mich., High School have adopted a distinctly novel plan of assisting their work along this line by exchanging their papers with German boys and girls who are studying Eriglish in Berlin and other cities. The local students write letters in German to the foreigners, -who respond in English. Some of them are irresistibly funny, 50 PER CENT of the circulation of trade papers (excepting the MICHIGAN ARTISAN) is mailed to manufac-turers, designers, shop hands, commisQ.ion men, jobbers of factory supplies and others who do not sell furniture and kindred goods. To reach the largest number of retailers use tbe Michigan Artisan's Mercantile Editions MAILED TO RETAILERS ONLY. L tcrest in the west. Kindel is radical; so much so that west-ern commercial bodies have refused to endorse his actions, but that he is thoroughly familiar with freight rates is not disputed. The character of Mr. Kindel was shown recently when the Colorado supreme court handed down a decision whk:h did not meet with his approval. He placed in the front window of his store an American flag draped in black and also a rope made into a hangman's noose, together with placards stating that the noose should be used for the.judges who made the decision. With all his radicalism, however, freight men have been unable to show Kindel why in shipping mattresses, which he manufactures, to California,he could get a cheaper rate by sending them to Chicago and shipping from there to San Francisco than he could by shipping direct-ly from Denver. Yet such was actually the case. During the session of the Commercial congress he attacked E. H. Harriman and other railroad magnates so vigorously that their friends in the organization were silenced. TO OUR WESTERN PATRONS NOTE: There has been no change in the management of our CHICAGO FACTORY. the. same practical men who have brought it to its present high standard continue in our employ. BE NOT DECEIVED. WE CAN MATCHANy'THING I FILLER BONE HARD OVER THAT Will DRY N I G H T The great majority--in fact just about all of the manufacturing trade ask for a filler to be hard dry the day after filling. We can do better than that. USE OUR FILLER AND YOU CANNOT DIG IT OUT OF THE PORES· THE ====NEXT DAY ====== IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR VARNISH TO PENETRATE THE SURFACE IT SANDS OFF IN A POWDER THAT 'WILL LEAVE YOUR SAND PAPER CLEAN AFTER THE WORK IS DONE. The Barrett-Lindeman Company. IN CONSOLIDATION WITH The l.Jawrence-McFadden Co., Ltd. 6/·6365·67No, Ash/and Ave., CHICAGO. 1400·2·4 Frankford Ave., PHILADELPHIA. 17 r-·· 18 WOOD WORKING MACHINERY Mnnufaetured by VAllEY CITYNACHliYE~OIllf5 CHANDRAPIDS,MICH.,USA. BEST JOB IN THE WOODS. How the "Timber Cruiser" Earns His Five Dollars a Day. Would any young "city fellow" like to bettcr his condition by becoming a litimber 'cruiser"? Here is a picture of the man and his job painted by a western exchange: The timber cruiser is the autocrat of the woods. He is the king of wood-men. He lives well, feels well, and does welt financially. He never has to take a vacation to get away from the grind of the office. He never has brain fag. His liver is always in order, and his conscience is clear. At night he sleeps without disturbing dreams. But he has to work harder than most men think it possible for man to work. The timber cruiser's business is to estimate the amount of timber contained on areas of land. He can walk through the woods and tell within ten per cent, frequently within· five per cent, of the amount of lumber the standing trees would make. He can tell you, besides the boards, how many piles there are in your stretch of woods, and how many railroad ties can be made from it. He does all this for $5 a day and his expenses, counting from the moment he leaves the lumber company's office for the woods. The accomplishment of thc cruiser appears more wonder-ful on closer exa111ination. He works hard and fast, "look-ing" one qLlarter section everyday, and frequently two. Man-ifestly, it would be impossible for him to count the trees or measure them. Packing enough to last generally for several weeks, the cruiser and his compass man start for the piece of woods they are to estimate. The compass man is an apprentice, and his is a bard apprenticeship, but he. too, is well paid. He gets $3 a day and expenses. Arriving at the neighborhood, the cruiser and compass man first find a scction corner. This may take them but a few moments, if a farmer can tell them where to look. It may take hours, or perhaps even days, The cruiser has a blue print map. with the sections and quarter sections marked on it. together with some streams, and perhaps a few roads. This gives him the general lay of the land, The cruiser and compass man find their way through the woods by means of a compass, which the compass man car-ries. On arriving at the corner, the compass man takes a dght at some distant tree which lies in the direction he wishes to go and walks straight to"ward it, never taking his eye off the tree, He may fall over windfalls, tumble down gullies, and tear his clothes in going through the dense brush, but he never loses sight of the tree. How does he know when he has gone far enough? By the number of steps. He figures by tallies, sixteen making a mile, and generally counts 130 to 140-steps too a t~lIy, and so expert do these woodsmen become that they can "tie up" at the end of a mile of walking through the woods. tip hill and down, within a few paces of the place the map shows them the corner mark should be. In estimating the timber the woodsmen regularly go through each forty acres twice. The compass man walks ahead, the cruiser following and observing the timber. At each tally the compass man paces off twenty-five paces and measures perhaps half a dozen trees. A circle with a radius of twenty-Jive paces is figured as an acrc, and the cruiser. by taking the average circumference of the trees in this acre, and counting the trees, can gain an idea of the amount of timber on this single unit. He regularly estimates the height of the timber. as it varies arbitrarily. Log.· scales enable him to figure out how much timber there will be, say in a tree three feet through and one hundred feet high. The end of the day finds the cruiser and his compass man tired and hungry, but their work is not fmished. While the compass man prepares supper the cruiser makes his elabor-ate compilations. At the end of perhaps a morith, in which they have traveled possibly several hundred miles. mostly on foot, the cruiser and his compass man come back to town to report what they have found. One is paid $150. the other $90, and it is almost clear profit, for a good cruiser seldom has to wait more than a day or two between jobs. De.ip by Arthur Kirkpatrick. Grand Rapib. Micb. 19 Sawed and Sliced Cut QUARTERED WALTER CLARK 535 Michigan Trust Building Citizens Phone· 5933 OAK VENEERS ===========ALWAYS IN STOCK ===================--- You May Come and Select it for Yourself or we will do it for you. G RAN D RAP IDS, M I CHI G A N Don't "Thir..k Business" in Bed. Numerotls business men, as well as their executives and employes, bear testimony to a great and common weakness-- their inability to stop thinking about business after retiring for the night. Tn this way they are robbed of so much steep that they feel "all llsed up" the next day-are "total wrecks, on arising. To a prominent New York business man thus afflicted, O. S. Marden, a contributor to the Business t.Jen's IHaga7.inc, not long ago gave this advice: "Cultivate the habit of closing the door of his business brain at the same time that he closes the door of his business office." You should, said the prescriber, insist on changing the current of your thoughts "vhen you leave your business for the day just as you change your environment, or as you change your dress for dinner when you go home in the even-ing. Turn your thoughts to your wife and children, to their joys and cares; talk to them, play games witli them, read some humorous or entertaining story, or some strong interesting book that will lift yOU, in spite of yourself out of your busi-ness rut. Go out for a long walk or a ride; fill yottr lungs with strong, sweet, fresh air; look about you and observe the beauties of nature, or have a hobby of some kind to which you can turn for recreation and refreshment when you quit your regular business. Be master of your mind; learn to control it instead of allowing it to control you and tyran-nize over you. Hang up in your oed chamber, in a conspJC- ~UOLIS place, where you can always see it, a card bearing in bold illuminated characters this motto: "NO THINKIKG HERE." Shut off all thinking process of every kind when you retire for the nig-ht, relax every muscle, let there be no tension of mind or body, ar:d in a short time you will find that sleep will come to you as naturally and as easily as to a little child. The habit of thinking after going to bed is fatal to all frt;:'shness of brain wark. These men have not learned to lock their business in their offices or factories when they quit for the night, so they drag it home, bring it up at the dinner table and depress the whole family. Or, if they do not talk about their problems, their anxiety and absent-mindedness to-tally unfit them for the pleasant companionship of their fam-ilies. They are so absorbed in the problems of their VOca-tions that they do not know what is going all around them. They do not know hmv to sleep ""'ith all their burden, just as a timid camel lies down in the desert with its great burden stitt on its hack. It i!i a great art to he able to shut the gates in the great mental power house on retiring, to control yourself, to put oneself in sympathy with those about him, in harmony with the world, to expel from the mind everything which jars, ir-ritates, all malice, envy and jealousy, the enemies of our peace .and happiness, before we go to sleep. World Wants American Wood. The bureau of statistics of the department of commerce and labor issued a statement November 2:~, which says: "Practically the wbole world is asking for Amer.ical1 wood and its products. The exports of this character have in~ creased thirty-three per cent during the nine months of the present year over last year. Dur-ing this time the value of these exports ....a..s.. $59,000,000. This total is raised to $61,~ 000,000 by adding shipments from American ports to contig~ uous territory. Ten years ago the total value of exports of tbis class ..v..as $32,000,000." The larger part of the exports is classed as boards, deals, planks, poists and scantling, and the next largest is furniture. Germans Have a New Metal. The American consul general of Frankfort, Germany, re-ports the use of a new metal called Alzen, composed of two parts aluminum and one part zinc. It is said to equal (',ast-iron in strength but is much more elastic. Alzen is superior De.ign by Henry De Loof, Student in the Grand Rapids School of FUl'I'Iiture DeRlI;Iling. because it docs not rust as easily as does iron and it takes a high polish. Resides being very strong this new metal is capable of filling out the most delicate lines and figures of form!i in casting, and therefore is superior to anything yet discovered for ornamental purposes. .J 20 Otis Mfg. Co. New Orleans. Chicago. Chicago Office and Distrib· uting Yards: 2257 to 2267 LUMBERST. Importers and Manufacturers of MAnOOAnl How Many Table legs Can You Turn Per Oayand How Good are They 1 WE can figure with you either way on Ihis ptoposition. If you have the quantity you haven't the quality of work done on our No.5 Table Leg Machine; if yOIl have the quality you· haven't the quantity. A queer proposition? Yes. BUIowingto the simplicity of ope ..a-tiOD; the oscillating carriage; the variable friction feed, and last, but nol least, the cutter head of this machine, no other machine on the market can come anywhere near it. It will turn heavy table legs piano pillars; piano stool legs, couch legs. len pins. etc" round 01' almost any odd shape, better and faster than any olher possible way of do. ing Ihis kind of work. Your correspondence is solicited. C. MATTISON MACHINB WORKS, 841 Fifth Street. Beloit. WiM:onlin. R. S. HUDDLESTON MANAGER HANP CIRCULAR RIP SAW. MORTtSltR Complete Oulfi! of HAND and FOOT POWER MACHINERY WHY THEY PAY THE CABlfI,1ET MAKER. He can save a manufacturer's profit as weU I1S a dealer'l!I p1"(Jflt. . He eau make more money with less capitat invested. He can hold a better aud more !lutlKfuctory trade with hbl. custoiners. He caD manufacture in as good d;l'le ll·n(1finish, and at llS low cod as the fadories. The local cabinet IIlRker hils been foreed into 6nly tbe deal-er'l! I trade and profit, because of macbIoe manufactured goods of factories. An outfit of Ba.rnes' Pat~nt Foot and Hand-Power )Iachio_ ery, reinl!otat~ the enbinet maker 'WIth ad-vantages equal to his competitors. If desired, these ntaehines will be MId ON TRIAL. The purcbsu;:er can have ample time to test them in his own shop and on the work he wlshe8 them to do. Descriptive cata-logue and price Ust tree. No.4 SAW(ready for cross-cntting) W. f. & JO"~ 84RNES CO.654 Ruby St .•RockfOrd. III. COMBINED MACH1NE. FOR lifER OR MOULDER. HAND TIlNQNlla. No, 3 WOOD LATHIl, NO.4 SAW (ready tor ripping) No. l' SCR.OLL $A.w. r .21 THIS MACHINE MAKES THE MONEY ===BY SAVINGIT'=== It makesa PERFECT IMITATION of any open grain becauseit usesthe wood itselfto print from. and one opera lor and a couple of boys can do more work with it than a dozen men with any other 50pcalled machine or pads on the market. That's why it's a money maker. It imitates perfectly PLAIN or QUARTERED OAK, MAHOGANY, WALNUT, ELM, ASH or any other wood with open grain. Write the Posselius Bros. Furniture Manufacturing Co., Detroit Mich. FOR PRICES AND FULL PARTICULARS. MENTION THE MICHIGAN ARTISAN. j 22 -------...... ----,,--- IT'S UP TO YOU MR. MANUFACTURER to nnd out tbe real merits of our "Special" grade.of leather Beltinlr for Wood Workinlr Machinery Years of experience have taught us your requirements in this line and we are therefore prepared to guarantee you the very best Belting for small pulleys and high speed. Sen'd iti Iour Inquirin. GRAND RAPIDS BELTING CO. MANUFACTURERS OF LEATHER BELTINC, LACINC, BELT DRESSINC NO BELT CEMENT. PHONE 4518. 99·IOI·6th St., Grand Rapids, Mlch" U. S. A, We manufaclure a grade of Belting for Carving Machinery which has proven a great success, Let us tell you abouf it. (PATENT APPLIED FOR) "NO-KUM-LOOSE" Knob "8" This Koob is the latest thing out iu the way of a drawer knob. It will never come loose. CJI A sample sel 01 out styl~A and B mailed Iree on application. Prices quoted lor Qyartered Oak, Birch, Walnut and Mahogany. We carry Qyartered Oak, Walnul and" Mahogany in stock. 1'.I~ft, I}>;" Net.50 pet dozen i IX' 65" .. 2" 75" .. f. o. b. Grand Rapids. WE MAKE A TOILET SCREWTO MATCH. Waddell Manufacturing Co., Grand Rapids, Mich. Saw and Knife Fitting Machinery and Tools n:"'..'ffn·~~a~~~,~~t Baldwin. Tuthill ®. Bolton Grand Rapids. Mich. Filers, Setters, Sbarleners, Grinders. Swages, Stretchers. Brazing and Filing Claml)s. Knife Balances. Hammering Tools. Inv~stis:ate our Lme. New 200 page Catalor;rue for 1'}06 Free, Bolton Band Saw Filer for Saws % inch UP. B. T. & B. Style D. Knife Grinder. Full Automatic. W~t OTdly -------------------OFFICES----------~------- Bo.ton New YOl'k JaMe.town High Point Ciaciaaatf Detroit Grand RapJds Chicago St. Louie MJn.fteapoU. ".&Gelate Offtce. IUld :Bonded AttorneyS In all Pl'lnclpal cUtes WE PIlODUCE RESULTS WHERE OTHERS FAIL WRITlt FOR PARTICULARS AND ,\:OU WIt.L SEND US YOUR JIUSINESS. Our Complaint and Adjustment Depal'hnent ked Dl'afts Collect I A New Style of the "Everlasting Dado-Head." The, accomp:Ol11yingcut shows a new style of the "Evcr-lasting Dnc1o-Hend" recently gotten out by the C. 1daUisol1 l\1achine \;Yorks of Beloit, \Visconsin. The new feature of thi~ head over the old Olle is that it carries eight knives in-stead of four, giving it twice the cutting surface. To any mechanic the p-icture will readily show that the head is entirely practical and suited to all kinds of dado work. The claims of advantage made for it are: 1. It 'works faster and smoother than any other style of head because its grooving knives are made to cut with a shear. 2. It is adjustable to the smallest fractional part of an inch, to cut a groove to fit any odd size of lumber, 3. It is indexed and can be accurately adJusted without rcmoval from machine. 4. It is renewable \",here the wear comes, that is, on the knives. They can be replaced by any 1l1echank, making the head "E\'erlasting." ;"l. The knives are adjustable in and ont and the diameter is always kept the same. This makes it cut with the highest efficiency until the knives arc entirely \yorn ont. 6. It is simple in construction and very easily taken care of-an important point where a head is left about the factory for the general use of whoever may happen to need it. 7. /\ set screw is used to fasten the hub to the arbor, the latter being protected by a feather fastened in a slot in the hub. This does away with the need of saw collars and also permits of the head beiJlg placed anywhere on a long arbor. The C. Mattison !\.fachine \iVorks sell this head on the con-dition that if after ten days trial it does not prove entirely satisfactory, it may be returned at their expense. A circular containing a large picture of the head and giving complete description will be cheerfully sent to any me-chanic or mill-man. D. A. KEPPERLING Commercial photographer Phone Calumet 709. 1414-1416 W.I..,h Ave., CUiCAGO SATISFACTION GUARANTEED. 23 Americans Must be More Liberal. An experience of Consul Albert Halstead of Birmingham tn an effort to help introduce an American novelty into the United Kingdom carries a lesson that he thinks should be learned by Americans who would enter the foreign market. The consul writes: As a result of one of my consular reports a lette'r came from an American manufacturcrasking if he could be put into communication with some firm who migbt be interested in handling his product. 1 wrote to a large and substantial firm of merchants here and received a reply that was non-committal as regards the American novelty offered, but con-tained the following paragraph, which is most instructive: "Vie carry a hlrge and varied stock, including some Ameri-can goods, but there is a limit to these, and we do not often find American producers considerate. They generally want to sell out and out, 'cash down on shipment, and we are not disposed to take all the responsibility and risks in creating :1 sale. To have samples and take orders to be delivered is too slo'", and contrary to what our customers look for from us. 1£ any of your correspondents are prepared to venture SOOL(·.- thing we are confident we can be useful to them and help to justify it, but to buyout and out shipments of all articles that they think \..·.ould sell at sight on this side we are not pre-pared to do." The experience of this fmn is not exceptional. American exporters insist very frequently on being paid f. o. b. New York. They will give little credit to foreign firms and de-mand an acceptance of goods unexamined. They offer the would-be purchaser no opportunity to see that the goods are up to .':iample,exactly are as ordered, and have arrived in good shape. They manifest little, if any, faith in the foreign buyer and deman an almost unlimited faith in themselves. \~rhen citizens of other exporting nations give long credits and large discounts for cash and smaller discounts for pay-ment within comparatively short periods, y:uoting prices de-livered at a seaport in the country to which they are export-ing, or at the point of destination inland, such exporters nat-urally capture trade which the American exporter could have if he did likewise. In addition to this lack of faith in the foreign purchaser is the fact that goods sold f. o. b. in New York cost much more for shipment from the American seaboard to the foreign sea-port or inland city than those upon which the freight has been paid by the shipper. The shipper has the opportunity of getting freight rates from several steamship lines, That means competition, and consequently lower freight charges. The foreign shipper, if the goods are sent IIfreight collect," must pay the freight charges assessed on the goods on their recdpt. He can not calculate in advance upon the exact cost of shipment, and can not th~refore know when ordering the exact cost of his purchase. This is manifestly a decided dis-advantage to the foreign buyer. The American exporter mLlst take his share of responsibility and risk or lose thE' chance of making a sale. Trying to Force the Railroads. The executive committee of the Pacific Coast Lumber l\fanufacturers' Association, which was empowered by the association to institute <lIly action deemed necessary, has in-structed attorneys to begin suit in the federal court at Ta-coma, Vlash., against the Northern Pacific Railroad Company for a writ of mandamus to compel the railroad company to furnish cars; also for a forfeiture of the charter for a viola- .t:ion of the same as a common carrier. An action will also be brought before the Interstate Com-merce Commission, which will sit in Tacoma to consider the complaints of delay and discrimination in handling lumber and products. A complaint also v-"'illbe filed with the state railroad commission. 24 P. H. Reddinger Carving Worhs (Formerly Cincinnati (Jarving Works of Cincinnati, 0.) CARVINGS and FURNITURE ORNAMENTS of aU kinds. EVANSVILLE. IND. By sending me a small order I will convince you that I am the man who can make your carvings. ONE TRIAL WILL DO THE BUSINESS. INSIST ON HAVING MorrisWoo~a Sons' Soli~ Steel alue Joint (utters for there are no otherJ' U Ju.rt aJ' good .. They cut a clean perfect joint always. Never burn owing to the GRADUAL CLEARANCE (made this way only by us), require little grinding, saving time and cutters. No time wasted setting up and cost no more than other makes. Try a pair and be convinced. Catalogue No. 10 and prices on application. MORRIS WOOD &. SONS Thirty_two .,.ear. at 31-33 S. Canal Street, CHICAGO. ILL. THIS, THE FACTORY EDITION OF· THE MICHIGAN ARTISAN, IS Mailed to Manufacturers Only. IF YOU WISH TO REACH ALL DEALERS IN FURN-ITURE. USE THE MERCANTILE EDITIONS OF THE MICHIGAN ARTISAN. MAILED TO DEALERS ONLY. L. 25 USE A MORTON KILN IT WILL END YOUR DRY KILN TROUBLES Does not warp or check lumber. THE MOST PERFECT MOIST AIR KILN ON THE MARKET. TRUCKS, CANVAS DOORS, RECORD-ING THERMOMETERS and other sup-plies. Write for catalog F which tells HOW TO DRY LUMBER. MORTON DRY KILN CO. 218 LA. SALLE ST" CHICACO. PALMER'S Patent Gluing Clamps Are the most &ucce&sfut Piling Clamps Mi1de For the following reasons They damp iD!ltantlly lUly width of dimension I!\tuck, DO ad- .lU!olting clamps to fit the work, they hook at once to the desired width. Releallcd iOMtaOtly-throw out the lever and take them oft', The work CRn be removed as faMt as it cAn be bandled. '\8 the clamp i8 placed over the work and locks into the 000 below it, the draw 18 alike on both sides, prevents all springing no matter bow wide the stock may be. Implll.sible for them to sl1p; the wedge has serrated edge and cannot he mOlred when damp ill closed, hammer all YUUlike. UnllmUed power: great st,rength and durability; malleable Iron and steel; the knncklo joints are socket joints, not rivets. Although the best they COl!It you less. For further Information ask for catalogue N<>.4. A. E.. Palmer. Owosso. Mich. (Engine Patented,) Engine Satisfaction Assured by the use of our VERTICAL, SELF-OILING ENGINES (Type A). Regarding their experience with them the Marietta (Ga.) Chair Co., write: "In regards the TVPE A Engine of your make that we are using, beg to say thjs engine has been in operation for about fourteen months, and has been the most satisfactory- piece of machinery we have ever run for that length of time. \Ve use it to drive two light dynamos, and are get-ting most excellent results from it." Our descriptive matter is yours for the asking. American Blower Co., ---DBTROIT'--- New York Atlanta London '------- - 26 ·"'~MIF[IIG7J-N , Fine Service MICHIGAN CENTRAL Grand Rapids .II Detroit .II Toledo THROUGH CAR LINE Solid train service with Broiler Parlor Cars and Cafe coaches running on rapid schedule. Through sleeping car to New York on the "Wolver-ine," making the run in nineteen hours and fifty min-utes. For full particUlars see Michigan Central agents Or E. W. COVERT, C. P. A., O. W. RUGGLES, G. P. A., Grand Rapids. Chicago. 1------------ . BOYNTON «CO. Manufacturers of Embo ... ed Ilnd Turned Mouldil'lp. Embo.&ed -and Spindle Carvinp, and Automatic TlU'Ilingll. ''lie also manu-facture a large line of Emboaaed Orna. menb for Couch Work. SEND FOR CATALeGUE 419-421 W. Fifteenth St .• CUICI\GO. ILL. Wood Forming Cutters We offer exceptional value in Reversible and One-Way Cutters for Single and Double Spin-dle Shapers. Largest lists with lowest prices. Greatest variety to select from. Book free. Address SAMUEL J. SHIMER & SONS MILTON. PENNSYLVANIA. U. S.A. 50 PER CENT of the circulations of trade papers (excepting the MICHIGAN ARTISAN) is mailed to manufac-turers, designers, shop hands, commission men, jobbers of factory supplies and others wllO do not sell furui ture and kindred goods. To reach the largest number of retailers use tbe Michigan Artisan's Mercantile Editlons MAILED TO RETAILERS ONLY. Sfe~~ensonMf~.(0. South Bend, Ind. Wood Turnings, T umed Moulding, Dowels and Dowel Pins. Catalogue to Manufa<:- tllrers on Application. If your DESIGNSare right. people want the Goods. That mak.. PRICES right, (tlarence 1R.bflla DOES IT 163Madison Avenue-Citizens Phone 1983. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Folding Bed Fixtures Profitable fixtures to use are those which give the least trouble. They are made by Folding Bed Williams in many styles and designs, suitable for every Folding Bed Manufacturer. Furniture Castings, Panel Holders. Corner Irons, etc. New ideas and inventions constant-ly being added to the line. F. B. WILLIAMS 3812 VIDCenD.ee ATe •• Chicago. Manufacturer of Hardware Specialties for the Furniture Tmde. Established 1878 Factory Locations There is in the various offices of the Land and In-dustrial Departments of the Southern Railway and Mobile & Ohio Railroad late information regarding a number of first class locations for Fumiture,.Chair and other Woodworking Factories, which will be furnished Manufacturers upon application.. An invitation is ex-tended to all -who use wood in their plants to write about the timber supply, good sites and markets avail-able in our territory.. Address your nearest agent. M. V. RICHARDS, Land and Industrial Agent. WASHINGTON, D. C. CHAS. S, CHASE, Agent. 624 Cbe~lcal BUlld!~a!$~._~o~i~ Mo. 27 The LION VARNISH and SHELLAC WORKS KAREL DE LEEUW, Manager. 1475 State St., CHICAGO, ILL. ONE OF OUR SPECIAL TIES Lustreless Special Finish for Mission and Fumed Oak Furniture. Does not retain wax. A quick dryer and does not stick. Samples Furnished on Request. Wages in Great Britain. The annual report 011 ''''ages and hours of labor in the United Kingdom in 190;) h;lS recently been published by the, la bor departmcl1t of the British board of trade as a parlia-mentary paper. A. \;Vitson Fox, in his introduction, says that the changes in ",'ages reported during the year resulted in <I net reduction. The amount of the decrease, however, meas-ured in weekly loss of wages, 11e says, ..v.as considerably smaller than in any of the four preceding years, while in the first half of 1906 there was, on the whole, a decided upward movement. In the fonr years, lD01-1D04, reductions in the rates of ,-"ages of coal miners formed a prominent factor. In 1905 rates of ,,·:ages in the industry continued to decline, but there was ~n important advance in the cotton trade, and wages also rose in the pig iron and iron, steel and manufac-tnring industries. He goes on to say: Taking into accollllt the various dates at which the changes in :1.905 came into operation the llet decrease in the year's wages bill due to the changes recorded in this report may be ronghly estimated at $554,781, as compared with de-creases of $4,564,7'77 in lD04, $2,433,250 in 1903, $1l,192,950 in 1902, and $7,786,400 in l!)01. The general report gives a summary of the results of the labor department's inquiry in 1905. It figures out that the net result of all the changes was a decrease of nearly $l1,OOQ per week. It is stated that the last five years, 1£101-1905, have been years of falling wages in the United Kingdom. It is further started that for thc first half of 1906, 832,526,,,,'arkpeo-ple had a net increase in their wages, while 6,66[1had a net decrease, and others were llllchanged. But the net effect of all the changes \Vas an increase of $1:;0,000 per \,veck in the toted wages. The changes reported in llOurs of labor durillg the first half of H106showed that 2;'"),017 work people had a reduction in hours amounting in the ag'greg-ate to 41,902 hours a \veek, while 74 persons bad their hours illcreaseda total of 132 hours a week. Bankers and Currency Reform. Because the currency progTamme cut out for COllgress has the unanimo1ls indorsement of h;l11kers, it is argued tbat it must be perfect, hut there is a lot of public opinion in this republic to th(', effect that ban-kers are 110t the only people who have an interest in the currenc:r, says the Chicago Eyen-ing Journa1. Possibly it is very ahsurci, but there is a wide-spread belief that banker.~ care more for their own iuterests' than they do for the interests of other people, and that when all the bankers get together 011 allY currency proposition it is time for the public to look Ollt for the hooks. Unfortunately, bankers are apt to entertain the idea that currency is created for the benefit of banks, not that banks exist merely as a currency convenience. To the banker mind money exists for the yielding of interest. To the average business mind it exists for the saving of illtcrest. Thc essential purpose of currency is to facilitate general industry, and its volmne and flexibility ought to be regulated solely to tbat cnd. Quite a different viewpoint is that of the banker 'who \vould like to have the money supply so far regulated by himself as to afford him the highest possible rate of interest. Congn:;ss kno'\\'s very well that the currency system is de-fective. But congress kTlOWS,too, or ought to know, that the main defects are not due to any oversight of the inter-etsts of the money loaners, but to an 'oYersight of the inter-ests of the hundreds of thousands of money borrowers. Currency reform by bankers is "reform" in the wrong di-rection and in the interest of the wrong kind of people. From Owosso to Sheboygan. James Findlater, for the past tcn years with the Estey Company, Owosso, Mich., has resigned and gone over to Sheboygan, Wis., where he takes charge of the finishing de- DeBig-ned by E. A, Hake, Grand Rapid&, Mich. partment for the Northern Furniture Company. Mr. Find-later is known as a conscientious, capable workman, and the Northern people are to be congratulated upon securing his services. 28 ·~r;.I9 ..HIG7fN Il I'o"u!lelius Bl'os.Furn. Hfg Co., Vetrcit, lJi<'h. l~l'(l.bst Fum. Co., Pomeroy, O. Queen Chair Co., Thoroasl'ille, .N. C. Ranney Refrigerator Co., Greenville, ~lich. Richmond Ind. Mfg. Co., Richimond, Ind. Ri!lhel Furn. Co., WilliamsJ;JilJrt. Pa. Rockford Furn. Co., Rockford, nl. R-ockford Standard Furn. Co., Rockford, DI. Rome Metall.ie Bed Co., Rome, N. Y. Root Furn. Co., Shelbyville, Ind. Royal Mantel & lurn. Co., Rockford, m. !Sanitary Steel Couch Co., Elkhart, Ind. Sextro Mfg. Co., CIncinnati, O. Schneider & Allmman, Chicago, III. Schneider it Allman, Chicago, m. Shreve Chair Co., Union City, Pa, SeUors, G. I., & 8008 Co., Elwood, Ind. !iihelbyvllIe Wardrobe Co., Shelh)'ville, Ind. Sikes Chair Co., Buffalo, N. Y. Skandia Forn. Co., Rockford, III Smith River Chair Co., Bassett, Va. Spencer it BaJ'ocs Co., Benton Harbor, Mil'll. SpIegel Furn; Cu., ShelbyvUle, Ind. Spl'ague & CW'leton, Koone, N. H. Standard Chair Co., Thomasville, N. C. StiCkley & Brandt Chair Co., Binghamton, N. Y. ~trillmp8-Burkhurdt "·orn. Co., Dayton, O. Strlet Mfg. Co., C. I'., Cincinnati, O. Sturkin-Ne1son Furn. C<t.,Logansport, Ind. Suitt Bro8., Cambridge, O. Swift & Co., Chleago, III. Toledo Metal ·Wheel Co., 'l'oledo, O. Thayer, H. H., Co., Erie, Pa. Thomas\'iUe Chau Co., Tholllllsville, N. C. Thomil!ivllle Furn. Co., ThfJomasvllle, N. C. 'thompson Chair C-6., Thoma~llrllle, N. C. t:nlon Foro. Co., Jamestown, N. Y. "·e8tern Hd\\'. & )-·urn. Co••, Milwaukee, \\'is. "·e"tern Furn. Co., Indianapolis, Ind. "'Idman, J. C., & Co., Detroit, Mich. ,,"'isco-nsln ChaIr Co., P"rt Washio.gtun, ,Yilil. ll'isconsln Forn. It lUfg Cu., Neillsville, Wis. ""olf & Kl'aemer Furn. Co., St. Louis, Mo. Wolverine Mfg. Co., Detroit, Mieh. Yeager Furn. Co., Allentown, PaT 11TH SEASON "THE CHICAGO EXHIBITION" THE BIG BUILDING Thirteen Nineteen (1319) Michil!an Avenue, CHICAGO, LINES IN READINESS JAN. 1ST,1907 PARTIAL LIST OF EXHIBITORS. THE MANUFACTURE'RS' EXHIBITION BUILDING COMPANY 1319 MICHIGAN AVENUE CHICAGO, ILL. American ·I·urn. Co., MartInS"'ilIe, "11. AmericllD. Bolet.alware ·Co., Chicago, UI. Banta 'Furn. Cll., (}QliIhen, Ind. Bassett Ful'D. Co., Ultssett, Va. Blanchard-Hamilton lurn. Co., Shelb)'ville, Ind. Billow-I.npfer Co., Columbus, O. BockeYe Chair Co., Rnvenlla, O. Bnrkhardt }'U1"O. Co., Dayton, O. B.RY View Furn. Co., Holland, Mich. Cadillac Cabinet Co., Detroit, Mleh. Campbell, C. H., Co., Shelbyville, Ind. Campbell, Smith &, Ritchie, Lebanon, Ind. Ca.pital Rattan Co., Indianaplllil" [nd. Cass, B. T., & Co., Chicago, nl. Clttes Chair Co., Thomasville, N. C. CiUltl'al' .Bedding Co., Chicago, Ill. Conrey-Blrely Table Co., Shelbyville, Ind. Conrey-Davis Mfg. Co., Shelbyville, Ind. Co-operative Furn. Co., Rockford, ID. Crame., Furn. Co., Thomasville, N. C. CroWl'll} Fum. Co., Lexington, N, C. Davis, Horwich & Steinmllll, ChIcago, Ill. Dillingham Mfg. Co., Sheboygan, Wis. Dixie Furo. Co., Lexington, N. C. Eckholf Furn. Co" Lexington, N. C. Elk Furn. Co., LexingtllD, N. C. Emmerich, Cbas., It: Co., Chicago, Ill. Empue lurn. Co" Jamestown, N. Y. Empire Moulding Works, Chicago, UI. Emrich FUrII. Co., Indianapolis, Ind. Fall C.-eek ~[fg.Co., Moores-'iille, Ind. Fenske Bros., Chicago, III. Ferguson 81'1)8., Hoboken, N. ,J. Finley Mfg. Co., Jameshwn, N. Y. Fisher, ChaM. A., &: Co" Chicago, Ul, Foster Bros. Mfg. Co., St. Louis, 1\010.,11011 Utica, N. Y: )-'uller &: "·arren Co., Milwaukee, ",,'1M. )-'reedmaD BrllS., ehlengo, III. Gar\'Y, The, Co. Genge Co., .t. C., St. Authuu)' Park, lliull. ('lIaheD Nm,eUy & Brush Co.• UOlihen, Ind. Hawks Furo. Co" Goshen, Ind. Heroy /It, Marrenner, {'blcago, nl. Herzog Art Furo. Co" Saghut\v, Bolich. Bodell Furn. Co., Shelby\'iUe, Ind. Hohensteln-][l1rtmet.z FnrIl. Co., E-"II,IIS\'ille, Ind. Hollatz Brolil., Chicago, 111. HOOD, F. I•., & CO., NASHVILLE, TENN. Hulse, E. M., Co., Columbns, O. Humphrey Book Case Co., Detroit, !oUch. Indianapolis Chair & Fnrn. Co., IndlanapoIls, Ind. Indian Brass & Iron Bed C(I., Indlunapolilol, Ind. ;'ameatowll Table C"., Jamestown, N. Y. ,Iohnson, A• .I., & 80ns, Chicago, Ill. Kelly, J. A., & Bros, Clinton, Ia. KeUy~So.-ensen Foro. Co., Clinton, Ia. Kemnitz Furn. Co., Green Bay, Wi8. Kincaid Furo. Co., States\'llle, N. C. Kindel Bedding Co.: St. Louts, 1\10. Knoxville Table & Chair Co., KnQxvllle, Tenn. r.amb. Geo. L., ::Sappanee, Ind, J.angslow-Fowler Coo., Rllchester, 1'l. Y. I.ANDAY, JOS. I., ST. LOLlS, 1\010. r.!tnday Steel Rlinge Co., St. I..ouis, :&10. I.ATHROP, THE, CO., CHICAGO, ILl •. Luster Chemical Co., Chicago, Ill. llanistee Mfg. Co., Manistee, Mich. Mayhew Mfg. Co., 1\lilwlIukee, ,,:is. McDougall, G. P., /It, Ron, Indianapolis, Ind. Mechanics' Furn. Co., Rockford, nr. Meier 8:. Pohlman :turn. Co., St. Loul!'i, 1\la. Modern Furn. Co., CincinDati, O. Napen:iIle I.ounge Co., Napen,me, III. National Table Co., Jamestown, Y. Y. :Norquist, A. C., & Co., Jl,mestowo, Y. Y Oberbeck Bros. "Ifg. Co., Grand Rapids, ·Wis. Oll:car, Onken Co., Cineinnutti. O. Palmer Furn. Co., A. E., Adrian, :Mich. Palmer Mfg. Co., Detroit, :MIch. Pana 1\oletul Bed Co., Pana, n1. PJ.D[PTOX, F. T., &I CO., CHIC.'.GO, U.J,. 7I19-.T IoS .7I.l'I 7" • 29 Qran~Da~i~snlow Pi~e an~Dust Arrester (om~an~ THE LATEST device for handling shavings and dust from all wood-working machines. OUf eighteen years experience in this class of work bas brought it nearer perfection than any other system on the market today. It is no experiment, but a demonstrated scientific fact, as we have several hundred of these systems in use, and not a poor one among them. OUf Automatic Furnace Feed System, as shown in this cut, is the most perfect working device of anything in its line. Write for our prices for equipments. WE MAKE PLANS AND DO ALL DETAIL WORK WITHOUT EX-PENSE TO OUR CUSTOMERS EXHAUST FANS AND PRESSURE BLOWERS ALWAYS IN STOCK Ofrice and Factor)': 208-210 Canal Street GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. CUla:en. Phone 1282 Bell. M.In 1804 • OUR AUTOMATIC FURNACE FEED SYSTEM 30 1Loufs babn DESIGNS AND DETAILS OF FURNITURE 154 Livingston St. GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN Citizens' Telephone 1702:. THE WEATHERLY INDIVIDUAL GLUE HEATER Send your address aDd receive descrip-ti1.'(' l circular of Glue Heaters, Glue Cook-ers and Hot Boxes with prices. WEATHRL Y CO. GRAND RAPIDS. MICH. These saws are made from No. 1 Steel and we war-rant every blade. We also carry a full stock of Bev-eled Back Scroll Saws. any length and gauge. Write U8 tor Price List and discount 31-33 S. FRONT ST •• GRAND RAPIDS • FOUR TRAINS 10 and from CHICAGO Lv Gd Rpda 7:10 am AI' Chicago 1:15 pm Lv ad Rpds 12:05 pm. Ar Chicago 4:50.pm Lv Gd Rpds 4:25 pm AI' Chicago 10:55 pm ~Lv Gd Rpds 11:30 pm AI' Chicago 6:55 am • Daily. Pullman Sleeper, on 11:30 train open 9:00 pm. A Ill. carte Cafe service on all day trains. PeTe Marquette Parl(t)l' cars on all day trains. Rates reduced to 50 eants. THREE TRAINS 10 and from DETROIT and TOLEDO Lv Gd Rapids 7:12 am Ar Detroit 11:55 am At" Tol(!do 1:00 pm *Lv Gd Rapids 11:10 am Ar Detroit 3:06pm Ar TOledo 4:15 pm Lv Gd Rapids 5:20 pm Ar Detroit 9:20 pm At" Toledo 10:45 pm • Dally. Note Fast Time Made by Both Mtdday and Evening Train. Meals served a la. carte on trains leaving Grand Rapids at 11:10 am and 5:20 pm. Pere Marquette Parlor Cars on all trains. Seat rates, 25 cents. "ALL OVER MICHIOAN" H. J. GRAY, District Passenger Agent. Phone 1168. Grand Rapids, Mieh. IMPROVED, EASY and ELEVATORS QUICK RAISING Belt, Electric and Hand Power. The Best Hand Power for Furniture Stores Send for Catalogue and Prices. KIMBALL BROS, CO" 106' Ninth St•• Council Bluffs, la. Kimball Elevator Co.. 323Prospect St., Cleveland,O.; 108 11th St., Omaba, Neb.; 129Cedar St., New York City. Another Point to Remember If you place your announcemeuts in the MERCANTILE EDITIONS of the ARTISAN they will be read by DEALERS in fURNITURE and KINDRED GOODS ONLY, NEW YORK AND PHILADELPHIA, Via GRAND TRUNK-LEHIGH VALLEY ROUTE. Two Fast Trains **7:05 pm **7:25 pm **8:40 pm Leave Grand Rapids , *2:45 pm Ar Philadelphia *3:40 pm Ar New York.". . *4:30 pm *Daily except Sunday. **Daily. Service unsurpassed. For further information ap-ply at City Office, Morton House Block. C. A. JUSTIN C. P. & T. A. JOHN DUER & SONS BALTIMORE. MD. Cabinet Hardware and Tools Etc., UPholstered Goods Hzwd&omeIt PuU on the Market for the MoO<l' Write for prices and Sample CQrrespondence Solicited No. 1573 WHITE PRINTING CO. ORAND RAPIDS, MICH WE PRINT THE MICHIClAN ARTISAN. ANt> ""AKE: A SPECIAL.TV OF CATALOOUE:5 FOrt THE F"URNITURE: TRADE:. DECEIVES PUBLIC AND DEALERS. How Makers of Bogus Antique Furniture Age Their pro-ducts. Sober. he js Ol1e of the most interesting men T know. Unfortunately, he is sober only three days a week. \\Then I ~\sl, him the reason he merely says he doesn't know. Yes-teniay, when I .va1ked into the taboratory at the back of his little village shop, he was a band of hope epitomized. "There's somdhing you'll like," he said, indicating a small bureau, old Spanish mahogany 'iv-ith new satinwood veneer-so far unpolished-without. The veneer was inlaid with ebony lines and kingwood bands. The accuracy of the joint-ing was wonderful; the fi.nish perfect. "You must come in again when I've stained and polished 1t," he went on, "and then you'll think 1t one of t'lle best Queen Anne pieces extant." "Don't your customers ever Jlml you out?" I asked. "Lord, no, sir! \-Vhen you've pulled seventeetlth century lurniture. "to pieces all your life and learnt the things the tcn~ ons and mortises and the finish tell you, it's easy enough to get the righ effect. The public haven't any judgment, and, for that matter, many of the dealers aren't much better?" "But this vcneer--so very new?" I hazarded. "Ah, wait till you see it toned down, and the drawers fitted with a set of old Boule handles and 'scutcheons I've got by me and a few little dents hammered here and there-espec-ially about the feet, where they get kicked. You'U not know it then. See that little black knot I've left on the face of the third drawer?" He is always frank with me about his fakes. to take a pride in being able to deceive a trained satisfaction in explaining his dexterity. I left the bureau aud began examining a heavy looking oak settee, gray with age. "Looks ancient, doesn't it?" he observed. "Looks !" I "'cllldered. "Surely it's genuine ?" He shook his head with a wise old smile. "It's as g"ctluine as dilute nitric acid can make it. Oh, yOUneedn't go by the panels. They're purposely warped with hot ammonia. The sun and rcl1n do the rest-bleach it, you know. "But the carving?" I argued. "It's almost effaced in places," "It would be after half an hour with a sandblast-a little thing of my own contrivance. The wormholes I rnake with a very fine ])uneh. Beginners use shotj but that's a clumsy way. Of course, the timber it's made of is old. Bits of a Charles the First table, mostly. The hinges are ordinary trade copies toat have lain in the ,vet all summer and got nicely rusted; and if you were to draw the screws that hold them you'd find they were rusty, too, and had no points. Those I filed off, and then hammered the heads a bit." "1 didn't kl10\V you-treated metal as well as timber." admitted. ;'Sometimes. See that fircback?" I went to the corner indicated and scrutinized the Greback. As far as 1 COUldtell it was a beautiful specimen of ham-mered work bitten and worn by over two centuries of use, as its date, 1687, seemed to show. "I bought a dozen of those of different dates from a man who makes them. They're only cast; but after they've had a bonfire over them in my yard for a week or two they get soft and look right enough, don't they?" I admitted that they did, flinching a bit, though, at the adjective he used. "There's a regular trade between the manufacturers of faked antiques and the country dealers. Why? Vl"ell, the manufacturers have discovered that people go into the COl1n- . try districts now hunting for antiques. They think the thing5 they pick up there must be genuine. The simple countryman inspires confidence! He seems eye and a 31 "There's nothing hardly that can't be imitated," he went on, "It's merely a question of time-and skill, of course, and it's only by accident-or talking, as I'm doing-that the fact's discovered. But when a man knows he can take in an ex~ pert it's difficult for him to keep it to himself. That is, if be's got a sense of humor. Do you think that Syriall gold work they had at the Louvre would have been known as a targer)' if sorcebot\-y hacf!y't talked? No, indeed! There's china, now. People always think it is ab0ve suspicion; but you just look at t:lOse two china cows all the shelf there. One's genuine old Staff(lrd-the other isn't. Can yOli tell the difference?" r used a pocket magnifying glass this time, but at the end of seyeral nlinutes I came to the conclusion that they \vere identical, and said so. He denied this. His ethics are summed up in the statement that given per-fect workmanship and material, ·he argues that if the imita-tion is as good as the original there is no dishonesty in selling Design by E. A. Make. Grand Rapid •• Mich. it as such. He bas st~preme contempt [or the indifferent cr<lftsmall. A flaw in his own work will condemn it. It must be above suspicion before it leayes his shop. He knolNs everything there is to know about furniture, faience, tapestry, pewter, Jacobean glass, Adam's brass~work, colored prints, old Sheffield plate, and a hundred other thing.;. His shop is full of them, He buys most of them from the surroU11(ling farmers who are ignorant of their value, and his profits go in old brandy. Some of it is as antique as his goods. "If T were like some of them," he resume~, "I might have made a mint of money. I've seen the trend of public taste for £lily years-and always been able to anticipate it.. When people lived with heavy Victorean mahogany I laid in a little stock of Sheraton and Chippendale. When they changed from that I was ready for them with Hippelwhite and Adam. i foresav'i the craze for Empire things, and now-wen, I'n telt yOU something, and yoU can go away and make money out o[ it. The curio-hunters will be running after Italian furniture next. Not quinque-ecnto stuff-it's not comfort-able: but Venetian chairs of carved walnut-the semi-cir-cular shape-upholstered in old rose and gold brocade. And they'll "vant Italian walnut paneling with the fine simple pat-tern in relief, and Della Robia ware to go with it." He paused for a n1011)ent. "And I can make it an just as wetl-and you couldn't tell the difference."-Armiger Barclay in Chicago Examiner. 32 ·~r;.I9]-iIG?!N B. WALTER & CO. Manufactu"'" of T ABLE SLIDES Exclusivdy WABASH INDIANA WRITE FOR PRICES AND DISCOUNT ===Fnmed Oak Oil Stain (Origioalproductlon in 'OIL) No more fumina. No more sancHnt!. This stain can be &heIlaeed over in 80 minutes after it 1M applied. Every pice of furniture on which it is need can be fin.- ished and chipped the same day. We are tbe originators of Weathered, Early Engli8b, Antwerp and "I hel' l\fismon oil stains. Bam-plcsfut'n18hed on application" Grand Rapids Wood Finishing Company GRAN~ RAPIDS, MIeN. GLOBE VISE AND TRUCK CO. Offi(:e 321 South Division St., GRAND RAPlDS. MICH. Mfrs. of High Grade Wood Workers Vises AND Faolory Trucks Quality and Price talk in factory trucks and we ran interest you. Will you send us your address and let us write you aboUL them ~ TYrite/or Prices. "'Ie have Over 12different st)'les of factcn-y and warehouse trucks to offer, also a complete lil.e of woodworking vises atJd benches. The Universal Automatic CARV/NO MACHINE ===~PERFORMS THE WORK OF ===~ 25 HAND CARVERS And does the Work Better than it can be Done by Hand --~~---MADE BY------- Union [nuosslno MA(U1nr Co. IndianapoU8# Indiana Write to, Info,mation, P,icel Etc. The Pittsburg Plate Glass Company MANl]FACTtr1lRRS A.ND JOBBERS OP Plain and Beveled Mirrors, Bent Glass for China Cabinets Plate Glass for Desks, Table Tops and Shelves OUTfacilities for supplying furniture manufacturers will be understood when we state that we have 10 Glass factories, extending from Pennsylvania to Missouri; and 13 Mirror plants; located as follows: Also, our 22 jobbing houses carry heavy stocks in all lines of glass, paints, varnishes aad brushes and are located in the cities named below: New York Boston PhUadelphia New York-Hndllon and Vandam St8. Buffalo--B72-4-6-8 Pearl Street. BUffalo Cincinnati st. Louis Bosto0-41-49 SUdbury, 1.9 Browker. Stll. Brooklyn-6S6 and 637 Fulton Street. . Minneapulis Atlanta Kokomo, .Ind. Chicag0-442-4JS2 Wabash Avenue. Philadelphia-Pitcairn Bollding, An' Ford City, Pa. High Point, N. C. Cincinnati-Broadway and Croun Sts. and Eleventh Sts. St. Loul~or. 7th aod Market Sts. Davenpo1'~lO-416 Soott Street. Davenpflrt CrJ'shJl City, Mo. MfRDetlpaJ,8-M)t)-.lHQ S. ThIrd St. CleveIaod-149-51-511 SeneCa Street. Detl'olt-.'i3-1'15 Larned St., E. Omaba-lOO8-10-12 HUDey Street. PUtsburgh-lOl-l03 Wood Street. St. Paol-S<l9-51 Minnesota Street. It needs no argument to show what Milwaukee, Wis-492.494 Market St. Atlanta, Ga.-30, 32 and S4 S. Pryor St. Rochester, N. Y.-Wtlder Building, 1\Iuio Savannah, 08.-745-749 Wheaton Street. advantages may be derived from dealing and Exchance Sh. KRnrms CUy-Fifth and Wyandotte Sts, directly with us. Baltlmore-221-223 W. Pratt Stl'eet. Birmingham, Ala.-2nd Ave. and 29tb St. AGENTS FOR THE COULSON PATENT COR.NERPOSTS AND RATS. Glue-Pot Efficiency and Economy. "AllY manufacturer who foLlmvs the. atd method i.n using all oil lal11V for keeping glue warm or the other common method of a bot .\'ate1' pan with several lift-out glue pots, is behind the time~," says a well known Inal1ufacturer of Grand Rapids, :~v1ich. 'The oil tamp requires time, is \.\npkasant and unsafe i~la fire risk way. "The central battery, with the carrying of glue back and forth, is also unsatisfactory. for even if at the right tempe nt-ture when taken, it cannot remain so for n10re than a fe.w mo-ments. A little calculation of lost time going to and from will be a surprise to the mall who takes the trouble to figure it out. "The up-to-date method consists in a tine of steam pi.pes usually 1 inch or three-fourths of an inch, starting from a high point in the factory and extended with a constant down-ward grade just bnck and over the benches, "with a T' fitting at each bench, to which is attached a water jacket (ste.anl heated) with a lift-out glue pot. The stearn does 110t, however, Colt's Universal CLAMP Excels all hand screw clamps in adaptation to work, convenience of handling and quick action. Especially adapted to Veneering, Panel-ing and all work requiring long broad jaw. Ask for Catalogue No. 135. BATAVIA CLAMP CO. 45 Center St .• BATAVIA, N. Y. Mention Michigan Artisan. enter the \-vater or have any escape \"h;ltever, except at the extreme end of the line, for the relief of condensation. On th(: entire system, be it flve or tifty kettles, only two valves are needed-one at the feed and one at the return ends. "The adjustah1e feature of the steam heater premits per~ feet regnlation of temperature. It may be kept always just right. It does away with the seri011S complaint against the central steam patl, that is, pouring' a cloud of vapor into the "oom constantly, damaging alike to stock and timber \vork." From the foregoing it appears that the heatlng of glue and keeping it at the proper temperature for use IS a matter of great impe,rt::mce to furniture manufacturers. There are many glue pots and similar eJc-viees 011 the market, but it is COllceded that the glue pots and glue heaters invented and made by YV. C. \Veatherly of Grand Rapids, Mich., come nearer the ideal {\cscribed above than any other 110\'\7 offered. l\lr. \Veathcrly also manufactures and sells a "hot box" that has pUJ\·ed its worth to many manufacturers. The Ad·el-ite Folder. The Ae1;lms & Elting Company of Chicago has recently issued a folder illustrating the merits of their popular one-coat dull finish. Samples of oak and mnhogany, to which their Ad-el~ite dull finish has heen applied, are attached. This finish is well liked for halls, dining rooms, libraries and all interior wood work. It shows up well in weathered oak and all rich, subdued effects of the old Spanish Missions. It stains awl finishes complete in one cont. Any desired shade can be produced by mixing the different colors together. Ad-cl- ite dull finish will cover t\vice as much surface as yarn"ish stains or Fmishes do and \...i.ll not scratch, mar or wear ofT. 1- 7IR T I.s A.l'f e T r:.. :n Death of Mrs. Walter Langley. 111'S.""Va.lter Langley of Grand Rapids, Mich., met death suddenly and in a peculiar mallncr on December 10, She had been standing on the veranda at their home, watching her husband phiying with their little daughter, who in's1sted· on accom.panying hin! to the grocery. The walk and the \'eranda floor were covcred with ice from the rain and freeze of the night before and as J\hs. Langley turned to go into the house, she slipped and fell backward, the back of her head striking the stone walk. Her skull was fractured and she died an hour later without regaining consciousness. :\lr. Langley is well and favorably known as traveling salesman for the Herzog Art Furniture Company of Saginaw, l\lich., and has many friends i.n the flltuiture trade who win sincerely sympathize with him ill his sad bereavement. Substitutes for Folding Beds. "Then>. has certainly been a great falling off in the demand for folding beds recently," said P. J. Vlegrler of \Vegner Bros., Grand Rapids, lVfich. "I suppose it is due to changes and improvements in the styles of lounges and· couches. The sanitary eouche~ have taken the place of the old cheap lounges nlH..!the davenports and other convertible couches take the place of the old style folding beds. So, you see, that while \-ve notice the fatting off in our sales of folding beds we also notice an increase in the demand for the substitutes, which are easier to handle, especiaf1y where they have to be placed 011 the Upper floors of apartment buildings. The converti-ble lounges ;u'e surely more convenient, more sightly and less CLtlllber!',ome than the. old style folding beds." Mr. Dodds' New Factory. Alexander Dodds, the well known manufacturer of wood \vorking l1ladllnery ot Grand Rapids, Mich., has found it nec-essary to enlarge his plant. He has had plans prepnred for a new building to be erected on the old site ·over the canal, at a cost of $15,000. The building will be of what is known as mi1\.constfaction cllld ,vill be rendy for occupancy early in the spring. H. Friedmnn & Co., dealers in furniture nnd carpets, 124 East Broadway, New York, who \',,'cre adjudged bankrupt in October, have settled with their creditors at 25 cents on the dollar, The Hastings block in Salem, N. Y., in which E, B. Cruikshank's, furniture store wns located, was destroyed by fire on November Hi. I\fr. Cruikshank's loss is about $3,000, two-thirds insured. ALHO~ . . MANUFACTURERS ,..rlD DEALERS IN HIGH GRADEBAND AND SCROLL SA~S REf'Alftl NG-5ATI5FACTION GUARANTEED \ ~, GRAND RAPIDS. MICH. CITIZEN5 F'HONE: 1239 27 N MARKET ST 34 A One-Coat Weathered· Oak Finish. A little over a year ago there began to appear in the lead-ing Furniture Journals of the country an advertisement of it One-Coat Weathered Oak Finish, sent out by that well-known hot1se- The Marietta Paint & Color Company of 1farietta,Ohio. Furniture manufacturers, always on the look-out for anything that will save time in the finishing room, became interested at once, and a number immediately gave the new :finish a trial. In this, as in all its other products. The Marietta Paint & Color Company has sustained its re-putation for manufacturing nothing that is not practical, and in the case of this new product its succcess is already acknowledged. The One-Coat Weathered Oak Finish produces a com-plete finish in one operation. It has all the qualities of a stain and wax finish both in appearance and durability. The finish is made so as to cover any large or small surface with-out leaving brush marks, runs or laps, and will flow out even-ly, leaving that beautiful wax finish appearance. It is a finish that is bound to meet with favor and to be much used by manufacturers who make up a cheap Or med-ium grade of work as one coat will produce a finish that will wear equal to a stain .and wax finish. It is already being used with marked success and all who have tried it are en-thusiastic over the splendid results obtained. This One-Coat Weathered Oak Finish will be found to prove a money saver, enabling the manufacturer to produce a weathered oak effect on this class of work at a cost much below a stain and wax finish. Men Wanted in the Lumber Woods. Reports from the Northern woods indicate less than the usual activity during the coming winter in the logging camps. A great handicap is the inability to get enough men. What would be regarded by old-time lumber jacks as ex- Morton American House ••...P. lan Rates $2.50 and Up Hotel Pantlind European •...••Plan Rates $1.00 and Up GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. The Noon Dinner Served at the Pantlind lor 500 is the fiNEST IN THE WORLD J. BOYD PANTLIND. Prop. -------- traordinary high wages are being offered to induce men to go into the woods, but the unusual prosperity of the country has tied men up in the city factories and in other lines that some-times have a surplus of labor during the winter months. In consequence of the shortage of men, work is advancing slowly. It was almost impossible to get enough men to open the necessary logging roads. This is an important matter, because after the ground becomes solidly frozen it is almost impossible to build roads, and without the roads operations omst halt. This means that the operations this winter will be confined largely to the old camps. From the information obtainable it is apparent that the dearth of labor is going to have considerable influence on the winter's output and may cause an advance in the price 0.£ lumber next season. Some operators say they have been able to secure only from 25 to 50 per cent of a full Quota of employes. Others, however, say they are short only a small percentage and expect to bring the camps up to the full standard before the winter is fully set in. Used in Finishing Interiors. The mahogany oil stains manufaeturedby the Chicago, (Ill.) Wood .Finisl1ing company are used largely on interior work of birch, to produce an imitation of mahogany wood. Office buildings, hotels, public institutions and clubs as well as private residences, have been finished with birch, (a com-paratively low priced wood) and stained .in such a perfect imitation of mahogany as to deceive all but experts in the art of finishing. The company will furnish samples free of cost. "1 can sing 200 notes without taking breath" remarked a trained vocalist. "That is nothing," remarked Dedbroke. "1 can sign 500 notes ,",,'ithout breathing and yet not realize the value of one breath on the Jot." The White Directory =====OF MANUFACTUORFE==R=S== FURNITURE, PIANOS, ORGANS, IN-TERIOR FINISHES and Kindred Indus-tries is now ready. Send in your order. Price 15.00 Wh·Ite Pn" ntIng Co··. PPRUIBNUTSEiRiESlis,ENCRIDANVDEERRSS'· 2-20 LYON ST., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Cyclone Blow Pipe Co. Improved ~yclone Dust Collectors, Automatic Fumace Feedl:ts, Steel Plate Exhaust Fans" Exhaust and Blow Piping •••••. Complete systems de~ s I g n ed, IIlQnufac-tured, instalkld and guaranteed. Old sys-tems remodeled on modern lines 0 n m 0 s t economical plans, Supplemen-tary systems added where present syll-terns are outgrown, ~fectlve &ystems CQftl6Cted and put 10 proper working or-der. 70 W. Jackson Street, CHICAGO, • ILL. GLOBE VISE -AND-TRUCK CO, Manufacturers of Strictly up·to-date quick-acting Wood Workers' Vis e s. Thev are time savers and make a barrel of money for those that use them. Our prices are the best. Write for them. We also make a complete line of factory and warehouse trncks. Our circulars aTe cheerfully mailed upon requeBL GLOBE V1SEand TRUCK CO. Grand R.apids. Mich. EARLY ENGLISH OAK OIL STAIN The most popular and up~to-date finish of the season. Brings out the natural beauty and grain of the wood and gives a beautiful and permanent finish. The strongest and most penetrating stain made. Will not fade or wipe up with wax or shellac. Send for sample panels and information. Ask for our Standard Fillers and Stains Booklet. Real wood panels showing twenty-one Fillers and Stains. Finest booklet ever supplied. ~e~ ~CHICAGO Sta. E. Manufacturers of Wood Finishers' Supplies. . THE KNOB THAT WONT COME -OFF NO·KUM·LOOSE WOOD KNOBS CUT shows the construction of our line of Wood Knobs. The metal nut is clinched into the wood at its front end. pr<- venting turning or pulling out. To the back end of the nut is riveted a steel

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