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Michigan Artisan; 1906-11-25
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- Issue of a furniture trade magazine published in Grand Rapids, Mich. It was published twice monthly, beginning in 1880. and ;'
MICHIGAN ARTISAN
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THE GREATEST LINE
of the GREATEST MANUFACTURERS of
CHAMBER FURNITURE . ~
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LARGEST FACTORY IN THE WORLD OPERATED IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CHAMBER FURNITURE EXCLUSIVELY.
Every Dealer Wants It
Because Everybody Buys It
SLIGH FURNITURE COMPANY
Manufacturers of Bedroom. Furniture Exclusively
GRAND RAPIDS,
New Spring Line Ready January 1, 1907.
MICH.
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THE MOST COMPLETE LINE
EXTENSION TABLES
. SHOWN IN JANUARY, WILL BE SHOWN
IMPERIAL FURNITURE CO.
GRAND RAPIDS. MICH.
AT THEIR FACTORY, 750 BROADWAY ST.
TABLES OF ALL KINDS.
OVER 700 SAMPLES.
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GRAND RAPIDS CHAIR CO.,
GRAND RAPIDS. MICH.
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iginutors ....l..u..ni.t.oot rs =.~==~:-
STRICTLY
HIGH-GRADE
FURNITURE
AT
MEDIUM
PRICES
HALL SEAT No. 314.
Desks Tables
Buffets Hall Seats
Sideboards Cellarettes
Hall Racks Book Ca""s
China Cabinets Hall G1~~~es
Music Cabinets Chests and BOIes
SIDEBOARD No. 1161.
Goods shown at our sample rooms at factory only. Full line will be ready Jan. 1st, 1907.
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No. 40.
D. IL. IConrey Furniture Company
SHELBYVILLE, INDIANA.
Makers of _
COMBINATION, LIBRARt and
SECTIONAL CASES,
CHINA CLOSETS,
MUSIC CABINETS and BENCHES.
Send for CatalOI!.
(TWILL PAY YOU TO SEEOUR LINE
Shownonlyat GRAND RAPIDS, MICH., TOP FLOOR EXHIBITION BLDG.
Conrey-Davis Mfg. CO.
SHELBYVILLE, IND.
,-------- MANUFACTURERS OF ------,
Medicine Cabinets,
Bath Room Mirrors,
Coat Hangers,
Directors' Tables,
Cafe Tables,
Extension Tables,
Costumers,
Umbrella Stands,
Plate Racks,
Wall Cabinets,
Book Shelves,
Butler's Tray and Stands,
Mission Extension Tables, Pedestal Extension Tables.
WE USE THE
INVINCIBLE LEG FASTENER
ON ALL OUR
FIVE LEGGED TABLES,
OUR COMPLETE UNES WILL BE READY JANUARY 1st
at GRAND RAPIDS----- -and- - ----------at CHICAGO
No. 33 Costumer.
Top Floor Furniture Exhibition Building. 8th Fioor, 1319 Michigan Ave.
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MANUFACTURERS· FURNITURE EXCHANGE
Selling Agents for CHICAGO Furniture Manufacturers
Handling Exclusively the F urmture Products of
THE GREAT CENTRAL MARKET
THE NEW FIRE PROOF FURNITURE EXCHANGE. WABASH AVE. AND 14TH ST. READY JANUARY 1, 1907.
CHICAGO made furniture, constituting CHICAGO shipments with CHICAGO promptness from
CHICAGO factories with CHICAGO freights. CHICAGO always
And exhibiting in the New Furniture Exchange, th.e home of the visiting buyer. and illustrated. in one catalog, A necessity
to every retail furniture dealer. CJJ This building will be ready January I. 1907. Onr catalog, however, is ready now,
and we want to send it to you so that we may become acquainted and renew the acquaintancewhen you visit the market.
Write ror catalog; DO IT NOW.
MANUFACTURERS' FURNITURE EXCHANGE
Temporary Offices: 3Hi Dearborn St., CH'ICAGO, ILLINOIS.
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NEW LINE OF SAMPLES IN GRAND RAPIDS
FOURTH FLOOR, KLINGMAN BUILDING.
Last call for holiday trade. PRICES ate RIGHT and QUALITY second 10 none.
5080 Book Calle.
Remember
Our
Li n es
Library Suiles,
Ladies Desks,
Music Cabinets,
Book Cases,
Medicine
Cabinets,
Folding Tables,
Commodes.
Write TODAY
for Catalog and
Stock Sheet.
THE UDELL WORKS, 1236w~~;:.~ty_E;ghth Indianapolis, Ind., U. S. A.
5082 I>f,.k.,
Rockford Chair and Furniture Co., Rockford, III.
OUR
SPRING LINE
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DuReis.
Doo~(am.
Oina
Closets.
li~rar~
Cases.
On Sale at
Our
Warerooms,
BlodJrett Block, CRAND RAPIDS, MICH., DurinJr January, 1907
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EVERLASTINGLY AT IT.
27th Year-No. 10. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH., NOVEMBER 25, 1906. $1.00 per Year.
Why a Lively City on the Ohio is Famous as a Furniture
Center.
Evansville, Ind.) Ko\'. 22.- That Evans-..,ille is the most
widely knmvn furniture center in the United States is due e,!-
tirely to the foresight and liberality of the m<t1ll1factufcrs.
The reader need only take up anyone of the eight prominent
furniture trade nC\vspapers and examine its pages for proof
of the above ."UtemenL It is fai,. to assume that every
dealer in tile United States i:~often reminded of the impor-tance
of Evansville and her manufactures through these im-portant
agencies. Evansville fllrnitttre is consistently, per-sistently
and uninterruptedly exploited. There is l1cver a
"let up" in their campaign 01 pronlOtion. In this the ma11U-facturers
are not like those of other centers whose expendi-tures
for advertising Bre limited to brief announcements of
their plans at the opening of each season. Evansville's
claims are well backed up by the goods her nnnLl{acturers
produce. Everything needed in furniture of medium and
low price is manufactured, and to this fact the city is indebt-ed
for its immense mixcd car business. The products of
thirty factories are not infrequently represented in a single
car and dealers appreciate the advantag-es of sucb important
facilities.
Evansville is 110t entirely dependent Upon the railroads for
shipping her products. From her -wharves steamers depart
daily for points on the Ohio, the Mississippi, the Cumber-land,
tbe Tennessee and the (ireen rivers, carrying to many
citics goods made in E\'ansville.
/\ vast 2l110unt of money has beell expended in the recent
years of the \)2st in the erection of factories and in extension_~
to the old plants. Among the companies that have made
large expenditnres for the purpose l11ClltiO'ledare the Bosse
Furniture Company, the Evansvil1e Bookc2se & Table Com-pany,
t\le E,;,m",·",mc "\{ct;'ll t'nrnitnre Company, 1-:.h n. ~lil1c:r
& Co., and the Specialty Ti'urniture Company. The output
of several of these factories has been donb1ed in the past
two years. The Standard Chair Company bas a new factory
of large dimensions in course of erection.
In almost every factory new lines have been prcpJfcd for
the spring- season of trade and catalogues illustrating and de-scribing
the same "vi11soon he ready for distribution. Among
those \'dlO ",...i11be prepared to respond to calls for these im-port2nt
sources of information, "not yet, but soon," are the
Globe Furniture Company, the Karges Furniture Company,
the Evansville Desk Compctl1y, Stoltz, Schmitt & Co.. the
Bosse Furniture Company, the Evansville Bookcase & Table
Company and the Crescent Furniture Company.
An Elevated Wedding.
A numher of furniture houses in Evansville, Ind., received
a lot of free advertising a few years ago in rather a uniq\.le
"\vay. The Evansville Electric Power Company had just
completed a t211 smokestack and the house furnishing firms
in Evansville offered to give the y01.11lgpeople who ,,,'-ould
consent to be married Bt the tOIl of that stack a bedroom
suile, carpe1;;, rugs, and china for their new home. These in-ducements
attracted two young people \.·..h.o consented to be
hoisted to the top of the stack and they were married there
on a platform especially constructed for the purpose and
on which there \vas no extra floor spact-~)llly enough for
the minister and the brid21 couple. This Ullusual circum-stance
was talked about through the southern part of Indiana
for weeks before and after the event occurred.
Undertakers May Shave Corpses.
The \Viscol1sin Board of Barber Examiners, having re-ceived
a protest 2g"ainst undertakers being allowed to en-croach
upon the field of the tonsorial artists by shaving
corpses, has decided that undertakers have the right to shave
corpses, b~1t must not charge lOT the service. The boards'
an1lual report recently filed says:
"VVe l12ve many inquiries regarding the shaving of a
corpse by the undertaker, and the Question is, has be a right
to do it? In answer ,ve \vill say that if the undertaker makes
a specif1c charge for shaving the corpse he will be liable to
prosecution and fine for the violation of the barber law, but
the fact is that the undertaker makes no specific charge for
'shaving,' but he puts in his bill for 'preparing the corpse for
burial,' and therefore he cannot be fined for shaving the
corpse as long as you cannot prove that he has made a specific
charge for that part of the work."
THE CORRECT
Stains and Fillers.
THE MOST
SATISF ACTORY
first Coaters and
Varnishes
"A~UFAC"TUR~D ",.,LY u"-
CHICAGO WOOD FINISHING CO.
ZS9·63 ELSTONAVE."'Z·16 SLOAN ST.
CH I CAGO.
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The Club Table That Sa tisfies Every bod y
SIMPLE
STRONG
EASILY
FOLDED
Size 32 In. IODIt;a1 in. wide; 17 In. billb
Co,.ered wltb Leath ... or Felt
COOK'S PATENT FOLDING ATTACHMENT 1~~:::s~~Sle~t~1~~c~~~ of the table, as shown III
the illustration. Our tables are made of hardwood, and covered with green-felt and leather. The cross_piece or cleaton end of
table keeps the top from warping, and is so arranged that a person elln sit close to the table without crampin~ the knees. The
felt used on this table is of extra thickness and made special. and is much better than padded tables where cotton batting is useq
and inferior Quality of felt. Very useful and convenient, for card parties, children's games, ladies fancy work, or tea table.
BELDING~HALL MANUFACTURING CO.
BELDING. MICHIGAN
WAREHOUSES-I % Monroe Street, Chicago. 213 Canal Street, New York
ROBBINS TABLE COMPANY
owosso MICHICAN
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No. 304. QuarteredOak, 44x48 io. lop, 9 in. Pillar.
FURNITURE FACTORY
OPE.NINGS.
Excellent opportunities for furniture factories exist in
cities and towns of the Southwest along the lines of the ... An ample supply of hardwood timber, besides most of
the soft woods, are procurable at low cost and within a short
distance of these locations. Full particulars upon application.
8endfor booklet about factory openings along the
Rock Island-FriSco,
M. SCHULTER. Industrial Commissioner.
Frisco Building. ST. lOUIS,Mo.
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PATENTEO JUl.Y 29, 1902.
The best FASTENER
for Five Legged Tables
Write/o/' Pria, and Infoymatjot\
-to--
Invincible Table Fastener Co..
Shelbyville~ Ind~
Fine Service
MICHIGAN CENTRAL
Grand Rapids" Detroit .. 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 "\Volverine/'
making the run in nineteen hours and fifty minutes: For
full particulars see Michigan Central Agents. Or
E· W. Covert. C. P. A.
Grand .'I\aplds.
o. W. k\1ggle., G. P. A.
Chlca;:o.
BETTER
MAKERS OF
WITH STANDARD
METAL
BED
BEDS
REVERSIBLE RAILS
No, 691 $12.25 net Standard Reversible Rail
2 inch pillars made of seamless tubing'.
Filling Ji and .% inch.
Head 64 inches.
Foot 40 inches.
Patented lu1y 15, 191)1, No. 704"101.
This rail is reversible in the true ~,ense
of the word-can be used either side up
and enables the dealer to make one set
of rails answer instead of having two
1 -' stocks, one of regular, the other inve:rted.
SOLID .. ., RIGID
REVERSIBLE
Smith & Davis Mfg. Co.
ST. LOUIS, MO.
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FURNITURE TREATED UNFAIRLY.
Department Managers Stinted on Advertising Space and
Show Room Facilities.
Readers interested in the furniture business frequently no-tice
that department stores, carpet dealers and others who
sell furniture in connection with other goods, usually treat
the furniture department unfairly in their advertisements.
~. B. Co" of f~rnft,:,re and
stove eCOnOmle3
EvelJ the hOllse furnishillg h011ses, whose stock in trade is
three-fourths furniture, use at least three-fourths of the space
ill advertising other lines. Indeed the ~l11anager of the fur-niture
department is lucky if he is allowed to use one-fourth
of the space. It is not unusual to see a page advertisement,
embellished with cuts and price figures of everything in the
store except the furniture, which is given a lower corner or,
perhaps, only a few inches in a single column. J \.1st why
this condition prevails is not clear unless it is because furni-ture
sells itself while the other goods must be pushed. How-ever,
it is a fact that furniture is generally slighted in the
matter of advertising and thcrefore the furniture dcpartment
managers find it l:ecessary to make the most of the small al-lowance
of space. How one of thcm managed to do so i.3
shown by the accompanying cut reproduced from an adver-tisement
written and arranged by J. Harry Steiner, buyer for
Hillman's, Chicago.
Not only is furniture given "the worst of it" in ad\'ertis-ing,
but it is frequently abused in the allotment of window
display and floor space. Some of the gennal managers seem
to think that "any old place" is good enough for the furnitme
department-that people who want furniture '''"ilt ask for it.
An example of this ktlld of management was found by the
\vriter in a Grand Rapids, Mich., department store the other
day. Having occasion to go through the "tore, he was sur-prised
to Jlnd .a large. ano wett selected stock of furniture on
the fourth floor, away back in that part of the building farth-est
from tbe CJltrance. He had not noticed any allusion to
such an elaborate stock in the advertisements of the house
\~'hich l1S'CS printer's ink qtlite liberally and he was bold
enough to suggest that such a stock ought to be given a het-ter
sho"~/. The manager of the furniture department heartily
endorsed the suggestion and confidentially admitted that he
had been discouraged in his efforts to secure more prominence
for his department. It appears that two men who had pre-ceded
him, having failed to induce the mana.ger to give them
"a fair show,'" had become disgusted and thrown up their
jobs. When the present furniture department manager was
engaged, the owners of the store were talking about closing
b
out the stock and dropping the furniture entirely. In speak-ing
of his experience the new manager said: "I've been
here about eight months now. All that time I've been
trying to get a better show for my department, but all I've
been able to do is to get a little space on the first floor down
near the front. I have had that only a month, but I have used
it carefully, changing the display twice every week, though
it's something of a job to move furniture from this 'loft' down
there and up again. That little improvement, however, has
had a decided effect. . That little show down there made a
sale the very first day it was pla:ed. A lady, passing, got a
glimpse of it, and came in to investigate. As a result she
found her way up to the 'loft,' where I sold her something
like $150 worth of furniture, which pleased the proprietors
almost as much as it did me. I had been given the little eor-
Iler down there as an experiment and that sale settled it. I
think I will hold it permanently and I hope to have it en-larged.
I haven't heard any talk about closing out the furni-ture
department since that first day's experience and my sales
are picking up nicely."
Horses on the Side.
One of the big department stores in New York does a very
profitable business in horses on the side. According to one
of the horse dealers of the city the store will only buy hand-some,
perfectly matched teams for its delivery wagons, and
the drivers arc men of experiell~e and discretion-which is
rarely the case with delivery wagon drivers. The handsome
teams arc all used in the uptown residence district, where
fine horses are in demand. The equine beauties attract a
great deal of attention as they prance and cavort in front of
the varnished wagons, and sooner or later some one who
wants a trappy team is certain to inquire the price. They
are always for sale, and, being perfectly city broken, C0111-
Made by Roddord Chair and Furniture Co., Roekford. Ill.
mand a good price. It is said that the store makes a very
handsome profit out of this branch of its business annually,
and in addition its handsome turnouts attract a great deal ,of
favorable attention, which ought to go to the credit of the
advertising account.
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MAlL ORDERS TO
WOODARD FURNITURE
COMPANY
OWOSSO,
MICH.
Our New
Fall Line
of Bedroom Furni·
ture is unusually
atfractive both in
design and price,
made in aU the
fancy woods and
finishes.
Dressers
in single pieces or
in suits to match.
SEND FOR
NEW CATALOGUE
C. F. SCHMOE & CO.
WOODARD FURNITURE CO. SHELBYVILLEI,ND.
ftil(~tn
(a~intts
of
Oualiij
Sell at .ghl,
and make a
greater profit
than other lines
of kilchen cab-inets.
Send for
catalogue.
T~, BBST
of
QUALITY
fo'
least mOlJey.
We bave dnuhled
our capacity and
will be belief ahle
to take care of our
IMe than before.
We loHc:ityour
patronage.
The Ford & Johnson Company
"EVERYTHING IN CHAIRS"
When in Chicago do not fail to see our im-mense
display at our Salesrooms, 1435·37
Wabash Ave. Many new patterns.
SEE OUR
Complete Dining Room Suites-Oak and Solid Mahogany.
Chairs and Rockers···All Kinds.
Mission Furniture-All Finishes.
Children's Go-Carts and Carriages.-1907 Line NowReady.
Reed.and Rattan Chair.. ··a Complete Line.
Fibre Rush and Malacca--the Ideal Furniture.
=====GENERAL OFFICES =====
Sixteenth Street and Indiana Avenue, Chicago.
SALESROOMS ========
BOSTON, MASS.
90 Canal Stred:
CINONNATl. O.
47 E. SDcth SIre"
ATLANTA. GA.
Marielta and Bartow Streets
FRANKFORT, KY.
1433-35.37 Wabash Avenue
CHICAGO
NEW YORK
202 Canal Streot
No. 92-7. Solid Mahogany
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"This Trade Mark Guaranteeslhe best," No. 526. No. 525.
Our
Oak and Mahogany
DINING
EXTENSION
TABLES
Arc Best Made. Best Finished V.dues. All
Made from Thoroughly Seasoned Stock.
No. 495 Dining Table
Top 48x:+8. Made in Q!arter-cd
Oak. Wcachered Finish.
Nickel Casters.
LENTZ
TABLE CO.
NASHVILLE, MICHIGAN
No. 495 Dining Table.
AU Kinds of
BASKET WARE MADE TO ORDER
Please Send for
Catalogue and Prices
FOR
WILLOW and RATTAN
WARE
I manufacture the Finest Clothes
Hamper or Bedroom Basket
IN
THE AMERICAN MARKET
F. PARTH I E R, Manufacturer of Willow and Ratian Ware, No. 209 GRAND AVE., CHICAGO, ILLS.
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"GRAND RAPIDS OF YORK STATE."
Jamestown's Ambition and Remarkable Ratio of Factories to
Inhabitants.
Jamestown, N. Y., Nov. 22.-This busy little city of 30,000
might, not inappropriately, be styled the "Grand Rap:ds of
York State." There are nearly forty furniture factories here,
and including all other manufacturing establishments there
is an average of more than one factory for every 500 inhabi-tants.
When you come to take (llIt the school children, the
teachers, doctors, dentists, lawyers, preachers and other pro-fessional
men, and then deduct those cngaged in mercantile
pursuits, railroading, and various other occupations, prac-tically
all the rest of the inhabitants must be at work in the
factories. In other words, there is a factory of son:e kind
for every 150 people who can be depended on for labor to
keep them in operation. Some of the factories employ sev-eral
hundred hands, which means that a great many more
must employ but very few.
Still, Jamestown is a great furniture town. Hardly a
month passes without one or two new ventures in the furni-ture
manufacturing business. As for variety, it is only nec-essary
to say that chamber and dining room furniture, parlor
and library fumiture, chairs, lounges, couches and davenport
sofa beds are made in large quantities. In conversation
with the manager of one of the leading furniture factories
he wc,nt carefully over the list, and from his own books made
<Ieakulation that the average hand in the furniture factories
here produces from $1,800 to $2,000 a year. That is the
highest estimate of any city that I have heard of.
As to quality, .some of the factories 'are turning out as fine
goods as are to be found anywhere in the country. One en-thusiastic
Jamestownian said: "In five years instead of
Jamestown manufacturers going to Grand Rapids to show
their goods, Grand Rapids will be coming to Jamestown." I
asked him if be had ever been to Gt-and Rapids. He admitted
he had not, but was confident that with Jamestown adding
three or four furniture factories. to everyone being added to
Grand Rapids, this city cannot help but distance her big
~l-'1ichiganrival in a very few years. Indeed, there is some
talk of pooling their issues, building a large exposition build-ing
here, and makillg a strenuous effort to attract the furni-ture
buyers to this market. While nothing has really ma-terialized
along this line as yet" it is this spirit of zeal and
enthusiasm that makes things go-that accomplishes great re-sults.
At the present rate of increase before the c1os~ of the
year 1907 Jamestown is likely to have fifty or more furniture
factories. That must certainly bring Jamestown into the
very front rank of furniture cities of the country.
There will be some notable changes in the Jamestown
lines in Grand Rapids, ill January. Among them is the
Maddox Table Company, who leave the Blodgett block and
t:1ke the entire fifth floor of the new Manufacturers' building
on Ionia street, comprising 12,000 square feet. This room is
to be beautifully decorated and lighted, and it is the intention
of the TVraddox Table Company and the Jamestown Chair
Con~pany, who show with them, to have one of the finest fur-niture
salesrooms a buyer ever set foot into. It will be in
charge of Jolly Tom Crane and a corps of the best known
salesmen in the furniture business.
The exhibitors in the Manufacturers' building are to keep
open house New Year's day. It will be a full dress reception
with pletlty of music, flowers, feasting, good cheer for ev-erybody,
but no business. Every order book will be locked
up, but bright and early vVednesday morning, J anttary 2, the
doors will be flung open to the buyers and business will
start with a bang.
The Jamestown Lounge Company will make a good dis-play
in the Furniture Exhibition building, GTand Rapids, con-
::;isting of their famous line of couches, lounges and "Sim-plicity"
sofa beds. This company, known all over "furni-turedom"
for the excellence of its product, realizes that dis-criminating
buyers are after quality even more than price,
and consequently with th~m "only the best is cheap."
Shearman Brothers, who for some years have exhibited
their line in Chicago, will return to Grand Rapids in Janu-ary,
and will occupy one-half of the sixth floor of the new
)'-lanufacturers' building and will make a large'!: and [mer dis-play
than they have ever before attempted. They will sho-....\'
a full line of Universal sofa beds, davenports, couches, ward-robe
couches and adjustable couches. Also a large line of
l\Iission sofa beds, davenports and couches, There will be
100 new patterns. There will be seventy Universal sofa
beds in this display, and a very large line of leather goods.
The exhibit will be in charge of Frank Shearman, hi~ son,
Frank Shearman, Jr., Wm. F. Walsh, Ed. J. IVIcGeeand 'E. W.
Hawkins.
The Bailey-Jones Company will make their customary
fine display of parlor and library table'S in the Furniture Exhi-bition
building, Grand Rapids, Buyers know that it is al-ways
a treat to go into this display.
Glenn Brown, so long with Skinner & Steenman, is to
take a bunch of Jamestown lines to Grand Rapids and show
them on the third floor of the Blodgett block. This display
will consist of the lines of the Liberty Furniture Company,
Alliancc Furniture Company and Himebaugh Brothers. L. C.
StC\vart of the Liberty, will be with Mr. Brown. This com-pany
has had a very prosperous year and is now adding to the
plant a four story brick building 36 x 65 feet, which will in-crease
their floor space fifty per cent. It will be used for
finishing, storage and shipping. The entire plant is to be
equipped with automatic sprinklers. The line consists of
dressers and chiffoniers in oak, mahogany, bird's-eye maple
and curly birch.
The Alliance Furniture Corr:pany's line consists of china
closets and combination buffets, while Himebaugh Brothers'
line is made up of sideboards and buffets in quartered oak
only-a medium and fine grade. This company has just
completed a new imu story brick factory 160x 60 feet. It
is fully equipped with the best of everything, and no doubt
will turn out a line of winners.
The Atlas Furniture Company, manufacturers of dressers
and chiffoniers in oak, mahogany, curly birch and bird's-eye
maplc, will exhibit on the second floor of the Furniture Ex-l:
ibition building with H. L. Chamberlain and Emil Johnson
in charge.
The Morgan 1\·1anufacturing Company has been re-incor-porated,
under the name of the Jamestown Table Company.
Capital stock $120,000. The incorporators are Cyrus E.
Jones, L. C. Jagger, Chas. L Moore, Thos. E. Pcrkins- and
Richard Peart. The company will continue parlor and li-brary
tables, and will at once build to double the size of the
plant.
TIle Jamestown Panel & Vcneer Company are having a
\'ery extensive trade in all kinds of furniture panels and table
tops.
The Diamond Furniture Company are having a fine cata-logue
engraved in Grand Rapids, which will not be ready for
mailing until early in January.
Gcorge W. Vanderbilt is reported to have abandoned his
chicken farm at Biltmore, N. c., because he found it unprofit-able.
Perhaps Mr. Vanderbilt did not understand the busi-ness,
but it is more likely that his failure was due to his hav-ing
located his project among p'eople who are experts in
"raising" all kinds of poultry.
Evansville (Ind.) has a "Merchants' Rebate Association."
Money paid for transportation is refunded to out-of-town pur-chasers.
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Perfect Baking 1S Assured on Our
New Victor Range ~'d::'::e.~~~ l\elth~, the pr(jl~"\(ln~' nor 'he "1lla,e''''- ",II ~,,,l ,!\~lea." '>'oud" 'n f!:n~'ng gO<>li
r~ul,-, Irom tn,." I"<:h',/!'I'arlc, range ThE' """," ni [I"',' ,,f tlie [)HJln)ne"t ~{II"\' ,n
Ull' e,l'- ha"~ hougln :\\'\\ \'''lor, tor "'" ", thelf 110:rne<, Th.,.. ~l'e :;,50(, Ind'
~l\av"fi~ ramilies ""'\g 'h~. ju"t ",I.: (/;\. '~:')II''''''/ .>Il" ,iJ '''',I'le, ~",\ I"{lU
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g-owJranl;~'
Sommers Complete Bcd Outfit
rcrm~ 51.00 Cash, SOt a Week
C" '0" "e"";'.· A~~1.~1.
Sommers
Leather Kocker
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SD.,E >Is LOW >,s U.oo.
New Victor Steel Ringe
$1.00 Casb. SOt \Veekly
A.RE:OUk -TERMS 0101 TIfll ,l"1l.MOlJS HtGH·GRADE RANG~
MORE THAN ~,50Q IN USE iN INOlANAPOJ..IS ASK '{QUI!
NEIGHBOR
Outfit
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A Handsome \Verl(Hn~ rr<:~cnL Fr<:~ \Vlth Every
Sommers Three-Room Outfit
'y< _iww ,Qmpo,'e
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rerrns $1.50 Casli, baLal'ce flayahk 750t \\'ec~l)
'l'o "(>B' ,,,'rl~.• v"«' 5<" I) •••• ~,,·,. W~ SHOW ~'~~,. M ~a,"
A.$ ~I:'I.~Q.
11 and J 3 East Washlllgon Sf.
SAMPLE OF GOOD ADVERTISING.
,
Sommers KitChen
Ca!.Jinet
51a Week .0 "".'" "","ri,," " '.owe, "'iced
,"""'0" '·a'''""', WE .HOW SOME
M L"w M H ..W.
Cold Coin
Baseburner
•
$2.611 C,sh -SUIO W~kly
,J,'"."" " lDw", .'!oM ~",d
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Sun Hot
Blast
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UNION FURNITURE CO.
ROCKFORD, ILL.
Buffets
Bookcases
China Closets
We~in&~,~~~~ooaM
Finilh. S(le our Caul~e_
Our lineaD PetmaIlenteshibitioll 7th
Floor. New ManufactureD' BuiJdirul.
G<>nd RoPido.
"Row, Styk" "" Drop e.m.,., Em""-'<l Mouidna. P• ..J.. Ek.
I:MBOSSING and DROP CARVING MAC"INI:S
Machinea for all pu~, aIl0 at prn:es withUl !he read! of aU, Every Machine
hall our lI:llaranteh ~t breaka.~ fot one yeaJ.
"Loldol Slyle ...... Luae e-dtY H~vye.m... ..d 0...Em"""'-
We have !he Machine)'eu waul ala ",tiIfactory Price. Write fur de.aiPtn'ecitaala.r&.
Alto make die. for .n make. of Mac:hinet.
UNION EMBOSSING MACHINE CO., Indianapolis, Ind.
7IR'T'IS'~ ; ZT·
HALL'S, the Polish thaI is Making Evansville Famous.
Nall's Red Stal' Polish dries instaJltly
and never softens or gums. No dis--
agreeable or offensive odor. Never set-tles
or ~apon\tf:S. A trial ()fdeTg,lways
:u"t~K~~b~: ~;c~U~i~J:~~?wi1e~~ furni.ture. ThiS Polis&is free from add.
Can be used by any child. Guaranteed
to give salisfactloll.
Sold in 1,2, Sand 10 gallon cans and
in barrels, also put up in l.·3 and 6 oz,
bottles retailing for 10c, 15e aDd
ZSc., altowin~ a liberal profit to the
retailer. Write for prices and state
qu~ntity wallt~d.
Apcrfeel Polish and Cleaner for FurnUure. Office and Ba.r. Fix-ture
•• Pianos, Organa. Bleyel., •• lrot'l bedfl. Cal'l'le.ge. and
Automoblhlls.
We rejlJ1' '!IOUto tlu Orucent Furniture 00., The 1J}van$ViUlJIJlJ8k Co.,
The Bll D. Muter Folding Bed 00., and th,e. City Nationat Bank of
./!hJafl,81JUle.
AMERICANPHARMACALCO., •• s uPP'.... s' s." EvanSlille, Ind
The New Banquet Table Top
all well tli OFFiCE. DINING and. DIRECTORS' T A.BLFS ue OUT ~ecia1t,...
riJJ'y'--, , --~- -'_....- "-"- - ~
I ' _
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STOW & DAVIS FURNITURE CO.• ~~p;,j"
Write (or Csla!oi\le' Get samp!ell of BANQUET TABLE TOP.
WE manufacture the larg-est
line of FOLDING
eRA IRS in the United
States, suitable for Sunday
Schools, Halla, Steamers and
all Public Resort •.
We also maaufacture Brass
Trimmed Iron Beds, Spring
Beds, Cot. and Cribs in a.
lar~ variety. . . •
Send for CataJO&'Ue
ud Prlcn·to
Kauffman Mfg. Co.
UnLAND. onlo
Morton House American
......Plan
Rates $2.50 and Up
Hotel PanUind European
......Plan
Rates $1.00 and Up
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
The Noon Dinner Served at the Pantlind
ror 50c ~ the FINEST IN THE WORLD
J. BOYD PANTLIND. Pl"Op.
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TUE TALK Of TUE MARKET
DURING THE
JULY. 1906. SgASON
YEAGER'S
HIGHEST THE REASOI NS GREATEST QUALITY VALUES
T"E YEAGERFURNITURECO~,Allentown, Pa.
cnlCAGO -Furniture Manufacturers' Exhibition Building, 7th Floor, 1319 Michigan Ave.
NEW YORK-(Salesroom) 333-341 Fourth Ave., Cor. 25th St. ~d Floor.
THE ONLY CASTER CUP THAT Will NOT MAR OR SWEAT
A. NewCaster CUP.a' Furniture Protector and a Rest
W:e guarantee perfect satis-factton.
We know we have
the only perf~t caster cup ever
made. This cup is in two sizes,
as follows: ~J4 inch and 3 inch.
and we use the cork bottom.
You know the rest.
Small sixe, $3.60 lI'er 100
Large size, 4.60 per 100
F O. B. Grand Rapids.
Try it and be convinced.
OUf Concave Bottom Card
Block. does not touch the sur-face
but upon the rim, permit.
ting a circulation of air under the block, thereby preventing moisture or
marks of any kind. This is the only card block of its kind on the market.
Pric!!, $3.00 per 100
Grand Rapids Casler Cup Co" 2 .,,'woo' A" .. Grand Rapids, Mich.
Also can be had at LUSSKY. WHnE " COOLIDGE. 111.113Lake St., Chicaao
MANUFACTURERS OF HARDWOOD ~~~~~~~
SPECIALTIES:
~'l~'fE[Qj UAR. OAK VEN EERS
MAHOGANY VENEERS
HOFFMAN
BROTHERS COMPANY
804 W. Main Sf" FORT WAYNE, INDIANA
oh~
PEABODY SCHOOL
FURNITURE CO.
North Manchester. Indiana
The New
"PERFECT"
FOLDING CHAIR
PATENTED OCT. 20, 1903.
Comfortable
Simple
Durable
Neat
The Acme of Perfection in the line of
Foldina: Chairs. PERFECT COMPACTNKSS
when folded.
Hard maple, natural finish.
WRlTH FOR PRICES.
NEW YORK AND PHILADELPHIA,
Via
GR~ND TRUNK·LEHIGH VALLEY ROUTE.
Two Fast Trains
Daily Except Sunday. Daily.
Leave Od Rapids 2:45 p. m. 7:05 p. m
Ar Philadelphia 3:40 p. m. 7:25 p. m.
Ar Ne~ york +:30 p. m. 8:40 p. ,m.
Servic~ unsurpassed. For further information apply· at
City Oflire, Morton House Block.
C. A. JUSTIN, C. P. & T. A.
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ESTABLISHED 1880
P'U!lLI5HED BY
MiCHIGAN ARTISAN CO.
ON THE 10TH AND 25TH OF EACH MONTH
OFFICE-2-20 LYON ST., GRANO RAPIOS. MICH.
E!'ITERi':!l AS MATTER Of THE .6ECOND OLM.S
Sharp advances in iron ore and in iron and steel products,
advances in wages by railroads and other corporations have
been prominent features in the industrial field during the
past month. At the same time scarcity of money, especially
in ,Vall street, has been a feature in the financial world.
Advances in wages and in the value' of staple commodities
do not usually occur at the same time with financial strin-gency.
In fact, this is the first time recalled in the history
of the country, that advances in prices of iron and steel and
a general rise in "vages have come during financial stringen-cy
in Wall street. This unusual occurrence has caused con-siderable
thought and speculation as to its effect-as to what
developments may be expected in the near future, In some
quarters there is a disposition to fear that the country has
reached the crest of the long wave of prosperity and that re-etction
is due to set in during the coming year. Similar pre-dictions
havc becn made again and again during the past two
years. They were not fulfilled and there is no reason for be-lieving
that the current croakers are wiser than their prede-cessors.
On the contrary, there is every reason to believe
that they are false prophets. The apparently inconsistent de-velopments
of the past month only emphasize the fact that
the country has been divorced from Vi/all street-that the
country's welfare and prosperity no longer depends on the
success or failure of the financial speculators. With the
railroads placing unprecedented ordcrs for new equipment to
be delivered in 1907, with factories running night and day in
order to meet thc demand for their products, with the great
steel companies six months behind their orders and at the
same time Alaska, South Africa, Australia and the United
States rapidly incrcasing their gold production; there is no
chance for reaction in business affairs. Nothing less than
em absolute failure of crops <:an mar the prosperity of the
country during the coming year. Ylerchandise, materials and
supplies for the year 1907 will he bought on rising markets,
and unless some unforeseen issue arises in the presidential
campaigl1 the same conditions will prevail in 1908.
*1'" *i* *1* *1*
An exchange remarks that the price cutter would gain
;;1 commanding position in trade if he could stay ill business
long enough. The truth of this statemcnt was demonstrated
in the history of a dealcr in furniture in Evansville, Ind.,
who cut his prices so often and so deeply that he cut himself
out of business· in a comparatively short time. When his
successor took hold of the business, customc-rs of the house
demanded the cut prices they werc accustomed to, but the
new owner calmly and patiently maintained that he was not
in business for his health and eventually gained a foothold
in the community by steadfastly adhering to prices that re-turned
a profit. Selling goods for less than cost may enable
dealers to pose as public benefactors for a short timc and
gain distinction in that large class of failures usually desig-nated
as fools with a profane prefix.
*1' '1* *1* 'I'
At a meeting of the Western Mirror Manufacturers' As~
,;ociation in Chicago 011 November 15, it was decided to ad·
vance prices twenty or- twenty-five per cent, basing their ac-l
tion on the increased cost of raw materials-particularly mer-cury-
and higher freight -rates. The mirror men were' prob-ably
justifie.d in advancing prices, but they seem to have made
a blunder in giving reasons for their action. Some of their
members declare that very little mercury is used on the backs
of mirrors nowadays-that it has been supplanted by the
patent back-and as for freight rates, it is generally expected
that the new rate law will effect a reduction instead of a raise.
Can it be possible that the mirror glass makers have been re-ceiving
rebates on their sand freight bills?
*1' *1* *1* *j'
Charles E. Spratt of New York is authority for the state-ment
that the furniture dealers of the country pay, annually,
in fire insurance premiums at least $27,000,000 more than is
required to pay their losses by fire. He also states that
forty-eight per cent-almost half-of the .losses are due to
dishonesty-in other words to incendiarism. If Mr. Spratt's
figures are right, it ought to be an easy matter to induce
the furniture dealers to organize· a mutual company, carry
their o-wn risks and quit supporting the fire-bugs.
*1* *1* *1* *1*
An advance in wholesale prices of furniture does not al-ways
mean additional profit for the manufacturers. The
manufacturers are frequently forced to raise prices in order
to avoid actual losses. The advances are usually due to an
increase in the cost of labor and materials and under present
conditions the men who furnish the materials are able to
gobble up all, or nearly all, of any advance that the manufac-turers
may make.
*1* *1* *1* *1"
New factory projects in Rockford, Ill., have been so num~
erous of late that it is difficult to keep track of them and,
owing to contradictory reports as to who the promoters are,
it is impossiblc to distinguish the real projects from the
imaginary anticipations. However, .there is no doubt that
the furniture manufacturing business is having an unpreced-ented
boom in Rockford.
'j* *1* '1* *1*
Clean furniture, rugs and draperies favorably impress the
ladics, who buy most of the furnishings for the household.
The duster should be used as often as the business of the
store will permit, and the same is true of the furniture pol-ish.
Clean, frcsh looking stock commands attention.
*!* *1* *1* *1*
A considerable number of man'Jhcturers of <,-,;'Ise goods,
having withdrawn from Grand Rapids for the purpose of tr>5t-ing
the claims of other markets, are returning to Grand Rap-i~
s. There are no doubts in their minds in regard to the lo-cation
of the most important case goods market in the world.
*1* *1* *1* *1*
With the approach of the holid<lYs merchants will find
profit and satisfaction in devising atttactiOllls for their
show '\'v·indows. It is the season of the year wl~en every
buyer is a Missourian and must be shown.
*1* *1* *1* *i*
From the decision of the \Visconsin Barber Board, as
given on another page of this number of the Artisan, it ap-pears
that a man must die before he can legally get a free
shave in the Badger state.
*1* *1* 11<1*1*
Grand Rapids will be able to better accommodate the trav-eling
and sojourning furniture men in future. Boyd Pant-lind
has addcd the Park to his string of hotels,
*1* *1* *1* *1*
Early English is moving but moderately. The Colonials,
the French lines and to a less extent the Mission, have the
call.
*1* *1* *1* *1*
A few pieces of pyrography linger in the furniture stores.
This fad received its deathblow from the hands of women.
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"Un()reaka()l~Beds--Do They Co.rt More 1"
HERE IS A',SAMPLE ONE FOR YOUR INSPECTION.
Hel"lu 50 inclies. Widdis 4 ([. 6 in.,
4 ft •• 3 ft. 6 in., or 3 ft. Posts seam_
less welded pipe I J -16 in. <liameter.
Finisltes 1 1-8 in. Rods 5-16 in. and
3-8 in.
All caslings malleable iron. This
bed is guaranteed 25 years against
breakage. It is dean and neat in ap~
pearance, If the Michigan Artisan is
mentioned we will letouch castings in
gold without extra charge.
~rice (frei?;ht allowed up tc New York City
or Chlcago rate) $3.75. Dark or light green or
blue at same price.: Dired auached springs, wood
frames $1.25 extra or steel frames $2 extra. Try
sampJes.
NORTHWESTERN DEALERS.
HARD MANUFACTURING CO.
D,p •. A. BUFFALO, N. r.
Observations Taken at Spokane, Portland, Seattle, Victoria
and Vancouver.
A recent viiiit in the far northwest disclosed the fact that
the furniture dealers of that section are prosperous and their
business rapidly ill creasing. The iitores of Spokane and Se-attle
were explored by the writer as \'\lell as a fc,w in Victoria
and Vancouver, British Columbia. In Spokane two-thirds
of the b1.-1SillcSS is done on the installment plan. The stores
there arc all large aud 'wel1 lighted. That of Goble, Pratt
& Robbins is the nC\vest and has a corner outlook ''lith large
windows for displaying goods effect'ively.
Tull & Gibbs and the Grote-Rankin Company also have
large stores very artistically arranged. Besides a quantity of
furniture from Grand Rapids factories, Chicago, Rockford and
other eastern cities wcre well represented by their products
in the same line.
The western fir is quite extensively used in the ITlanufac-ture
of cheap bedroom a1ld other furniwre by western fac-tories
and with the weathef(~d oak fmi5h makes quite a
good substitute for oak.
Tull & Gibbs also have a larg-e store in Portland and the
Grote-Rankin Company have al\other in Seattle.. The 1''\111
& Gibbs store in Spokane covers ~)O.ooo square feet of Hoot'
space, four stories and sixty-five mell fi.11demployemcnt there,
Mr. Hebard, the 1ll;l1l.lger, was ill ill a hospital in Portland
and Mr. Jones gave all the information wanted.
The Grote-Ranki.n Com-p<m)"occupy a three story buildtllg
and annex with 110,000 square feet of space and employ sev-enty-
two men. There are h",·o basen~ellts. Jlr. Hall is the
manager. He is also buyer for the china department. 1I<m}'
handsome pieces of Gral1d Rapids and Chicago furniture were
seen. They have an upholstery department.
The Goble, Pratt & l~obbins store, of \vhich 1fr. Rogers,
formerly of the l-Iastillgs. l\lich., Tahle Company, is a stock-holde'!",
has only been (''ighteen montl1S in busilless. Tbey
occUpy a modern three story and basement building.
The store of the Stal1dard Furniture Compally was being
torn down and a new one will he erected.
Frederick & Nelson have a line store in Seattle with 1(;8,-
000 square feet of floor space consisting of five floors and two
basements. The store covers a block on Second and one-half
block on the side streets. A very small investmellt
half block en the side streets. /\ small installment business is
dOlle. :r...fostof the trade bUYii only tbe medium <lnd fine
goods. . The lines carried include carpets, rugs, stoves, a
china de,Jartll1ent and recently a ladies' '!"eady-made garmellt
departm¢nt has been added. Mr. Nettleton kindly spared an
hour of pis time to shmN the visitors around, I-Ie said that
Ci'!"cassi;m walnut is in great demand and sells very well. The
dull fini.sh of. furniture 'is very popular. Washington fir, spok-en
of above, IS mueh used for the woodwork in Seattle homes
10 tlpholttery green is the only color the public seem to 111,'a11t:
A large upholstery department is kept busy on orders. The
white w(~odwO'l"kand green walls of the store are very rest-ful
to the eye. One very much appreciated feature of this
immeuse :store is the tea-room for public use, with its green
w~lls anq ntgs and mahogany furniture. The capacity of
thIS roon!: has been doubled since the flrst of October. Fred-erick
& Nelson have in twelve years gro"..-n to the present size
from a secoJld hand store on this same site. One side of
the building was occupied by a clothing store and that was
crowded out to give more room for the furniture business.
1h. Nettl~ton is a believer in special sales.
III Vic~oria \Veiler Brothers' store was visited and there
the furnitpre from the iitates is decidedly scarce. One sees
a11Yql\an~jty of Canadian manufacture, however. The Ma-cey
sectio~1al bookca!'ies shown were made in Seaforth, On-t,
lr10, and !uot in C-rand Rapid:;.
The Hhdson Day Company have ~llarge piece of land ad-joining
their present location ill Vancouver and in COUrse of
time will nave a much larger store. Their present quarters
are very 11,1uchtoo small and it v.rilt b(~ a great help to them
to have the congestion relieved. Goods of Canadian mall11-
facttlrc ..v..ere 'ill the majority llerc as well as in Victoria, one
of the ex~eIJtions being a library suite in silve'!" gray, up~
holstered in green, C011sisting of an arm chair, two others alld
a desk frotH J. & ]. Kohll. 1h. ""Vittner sa'iu the call tllere is
for the golden oak fiuisll, whicr sells ill preference to any
other. Tl~e dull finish is not appreciated by the majority in
VancouverJ
Taken tltogther, it w;tS a treat to be able to visit other
cit'ies and frct a new point of view on the subject of furniture
and house· furnishings.
,
Hiram Slete of Hamilton, believed to have been the oldest
und('.rtaker ~n Ohio, died on October 29, aged 81.years.
I
. . iTHE HAWKEylt KITCHEN CABINET
OngUlal feat*res. Desl.'l:D.finish and cabinet work the hest 011earth. Prices
rQt.we.irom $;l.25 to $60.00. ~xclusive sale given. Sold to dealers only.
PrIce IS a good salesman. QualIty is a better one. We have them both
Catalo.ltue on: application. Union FUl'nUu,"4,') Co•• Rmn ..T!'lCT(,}~,IOWA:
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HORN BROS. MFG. CO.
281 to 291 W. Superior St.. CHICAGO.ILL.
MANUFACTURERS OF
Chamber Suites. OddDressers. Chiffoniers
UDiES' DRESSINGTABLES to match
Made in Golden Oak, Genuine Mabo~hY Veneered, BIrdseye Maple,
White Enamel Highly Poltshed or Dull Finish.
We also make a liRe of PRINCESSDRf:SSfRS from $13.00 up. In
Quarter-Sawed Oak, Mahogany and Birdseye Maple, Veneered
rr you have not received our. Spring supplement, uk for it.
SAMPLES SHOWN BY pECK & HILLS 1319 Micbi,g:ab Avnue, and
HALL &: KNAPP, 187 Michigan Avenue, Cbu:ago.
RICHMOND
Chair Co.
RICHMOND, IND.
The Standard line of Double Cane
CHAIRS and
ROCKERS
Menti()O MICHIGAN ARTISAN
The Luce Fumiture Co.
INVITES ATfENTION TO ITS LARGE LINE Of
Bed Room and Dining Room
Furniture.
GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN
SALESROOM AT fACTORY ONLY.
I,
Big Profit in DininJ Room Suites
The latest money-maker in furr:iture has beer! the dining room suite that costs $25
and looks worth $100.
We originated these suites not long ago andi they have been among our heaviest
sellers the past year. I
One dealer tells us that a salesman got $140 for a suite that cost $35. It had
not been marked and the salesman did not know the Iretailprice, but the finish was so good
the customer was satisfied..
One dealer in Philadelphia sold 54 suites in sixty days.
At the winter resorts in the South, at the summer resorts in the North, in California,
in hundreds of cities where refined and modest homes:are furnished and people appreciate
good style though they have not the money to pay high prices, Dining Room Suites sell
steadily, profitably. You can always make a good pJ>fiton them.
Nos. 5020, 5026, 5036 and 5038 have b~en exceedingly popular sellers, and
we strongly recommend them---the cheaper ones for t~mporary homes, at resorts, etc., East
West, North, South (they go in all parts of the country), and the higher priced for per-manent
homes in the larger cities outside of New Yor~ and Chicago.
NORTHERN FURNITUk, E COMPANY
SHEBOYGAN, WIS.
Klingman Building, GRAND RAl'IDS. I Furniture Exchan\l<l, NEW YORK.
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Rockford, IlL, Nov. 22.-Rockford is one of the most thriv-ing
manufacturing towns in the great state of Illinois. In
Ofle respect it is different from ma.ny other cities, and that is
this: In the twenty-odd years 1 have been visiting this city
I cannot recall a single instance where a manufacturing es-tablishment
has wound up its business and moved to some
other town to hetter its condition. To be sure, tbere have
been some fires and some failures, but I know of no one who
has moved from Rockford to some other place because he
could not succeed here.
Then, again, there are very few cities that have made
greatcr proportionate strides in manufacturing than Rock-ford.
I think there were but five furniture factories here
at the time of my first visit, viz: The Union, Forest City,
Central, Co-operative and Excelsior-the latter in the uphol-stering
business. All of them but the latter are still in busi-ness,
and there are two of them, either of which is nearly or
quite as large as the whole five. Today there are at least a
dozen that would he figured among thc largest furniture fac-tories
in any city in the country. And still they are build-mg
more. Two very large ones are now under way, while
several others have recently finished or are about to start
large <ldditions.
And so Rockford bids fair to become the greatest furni-ture
manufacturing city in the west, if its present rapid
growth continues, But furniture is not the only manufactur-ing
industry here. Indeed it is doubtful if the furniture busi-ness
is as much as fifty per cent of the aggregate manufac-tures
of the city.
Every manufacturer of furniture visited said he was having
a great business year. Trade never was better. The Cen-tral
Furniture Company will not show at any of the furniture
expositions in January. That is a pretty good indication
that they are not suffering for business, and have not been for
many years. Their line consists of combination bookcases,
china closets and bUffets. These are all well made from
good styles, and are popular with the trade everywhere.
The Mechanics' Furniture Company has long been famous
for the beauty of design and excellence of construction of its
goods. A number of new china closets and buffets wiH be
added to the line and shown in January on the third floor of
the Manufacturers' Exhibition building, 1319 Michigan ave-nue,
Chicago, in charge of S. J. LeRoy and J. E. Hanvey, the
latter their western representative.
The Standard Furniture Company has nearly completed
an addition 80 x 96 feet, four stories and basement, to be used
for offices, finishing and storage. The new officcs will be
finished in quartered oak and will be among the most attrac-tive
in the city. The factory is now about a block long with the
exception of a small space between the two main buildings,
which only breaks a solid brick wall the entire distance.
There .."ill be thirty-five or forty new patterns of china clos-ets,
buffets and bookcases added to the line, which will be
shown as usual on the first floor, opposite the elevator, of
1319 Michigan avenue, Chicago, in charge of "Yohnny Yohn-sonH
and assistants.
The Rockford Chair & Furniture Company has in courSe
of erection a very large addition to the factory, and the fin-est
factory office building in the city. But Robert C. Lind,
the secretary and manager, said: "Don't say much about
that. We don't want to sell the factory, but just tell the
people tha.t our display of china closets, buffets, combination
and library bookcases in the Blodgett block, Grand Rapids, in
January will be one that will please every buyer who calls to
inspect them." Well, that is no exaggeration, and every
buycr will say so who sees them.
The Royal 11antel & Furniture Company has started an
addition 80 x 112 feet, four stories high, for finishing, shipping
and storage. It is expected to have this building ready for
occupancy early in the spring. Trade is good-never better.
The line will be on exhibition in January on the sixth floor,
1319 Michigan avenue, Chicago, in which will be shown a
large number of new patterns of china closets and buffets.
The Rockford Frame & Fixture Company will show a finc
line of new patterns of fancy furniture in January on the top
floor of the new Furniture Exchange building, Fourteenth
street and V\Tabash avenue, Chicago, with Peck & Hills, also
in Grand Rapids in the Furniture Exhibition building, am} ill
the New York Furniture Exchange. This is one of the larg-est
and most beautiful lines of fancy- furniture on the market,
and never fails to attract the attention of the best buyers.
Oscar Bergquist, as "head push" of the Rockford Desk
Company, seems to find no time_ for anything but work, and
Made by Rockford Chair and Furnitu-re Co., Rockford. Ill.
he just lives on it, and grows happy and prosperous day by
day. Oscar has got into the habit of making nice china <clos-ets,
ladies' desks, parlor and music cabinets, and M. L. Nel-son
& Co" 1.411 Michigan avenue, Chicago, (who show the
line the year round), have got into such a habit of selling
them that they can't stop.
The Rockford Palace Furniture Company show their line
with Hall & Kna.pp, 187·Michigan avenue (Karpen building),
Chicago, the year round. It consists of buffets, sideboards,
china closets, combination aJJd library bookcaseSt ladies' desks
and music cabinets in oak and mahogany finish. Its a good
line and puts money in the pocket of the merchant who
handles it.
The West End Furniture Company will make a fine dis-play
of furniture in January on the'sixth floor of the Blod-gett
block, Gr311d Rapids, also with Peck & Hills in the new
Furniture Exchange, Fourteenth street and Wabash avenue,
Chicago. The line consists of china closets, buffets, combi-
nation and library cases, and every buyer in both markets
will do well to give it a careinl inspection.
Rig, fat, jolly Buell Pease will show a ful! line of the
Union Furniture Company on the top floor of the ':Vlanufac-tnrers'
building, Ionia street, Grand Rapids, where he was
kept so busy last July. The -Union line of chinas, buffets,
combination and library cases is one of the big ones and
among the great sellers. Pease and his line are always at
the top.
The Larson & Hult Company is the name of the latest
firm of dealers and 11lldcrtakers in Rockford. They have a
fine store well stocked with all kinds of furniture, mattresses,
Made by Roc.kford Chair and Furniture Co., Rockford. III,
pillows and beddinl< at 420-422 Seventh ,tceet, Aug. W,
Larson, the president, has been in other lines of business for
several years, ".,..hilcCharles A. Hult, the secretary and treas-urer,
has been intimately connected with the manufacture of
furniture in Rockford for many years. He has been the sec-retary
and manager of three of the leading furniture compan-ies
at different times, and is thoroughly posted in all the de-tails
of the trade. They report having a good business,
'''"hic.h lS rapidly growtng, alHl the Artisan wishes then) all
kinds of good luck and prosperity.
Different Qualities of Mahogany.
To those who are not in close touch with the furniture
business and even to many of those who handle the finished
product, mahogany is mahogany, whether it comes from
Cuba, South or Central America or Africa. To the factory
men, however, there is a great difference in the qualities of
the wood. The toughest mahogany comes from Cuba, but,
like that from Mexico, it has little figure-it is very plain.
The African mahogany has the best figure, but it is too brittle.
The laying of veneers made from African crotch mahogany
is considered a good test of a cabinet maker's skill and abil-ity.
Comparatively few men are able to do it successfully.
Few dealers or users of furniture have anything like an ade-quate
idea of the difficulties encountered in making a perfect
piece of furniture and the time, expense and perseverance
that have been put into experimenting ..d..th different methods
in order to attain the desired results.
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Corpse Can Not Be Replevined.
Two greedy undertakers of Superior, Wis., got into a dis-pute,
both claiming the right to take charge of a corpse and
prepare it for burial. By a shrewd move one obtained pos-session
and the other sought it on a writ of replevin issued
by a justice of the peace. The case was appealed to the cir-cuit
court, where it was dismissed, the judge holding that a
writ of replevin will not hold a eorpse because it is not prop-erty
in the ordinary sense.
This decision was based on an opinion given in a similar
case by the supreme court of Michigan. It was the case of
Keyes vs. Hanke, in which the plaintiff was suing for the re-covery
of the body of his brother. It seems that the brother
had died at a hospital and the defendant took the body and
began to prepare it for burial. The plaintiff got out a writ
of replevin to secure the body and when the case came up
the judge decided that a human corpse was not property and,
as it is given in the report "a writ of replevin will not lie
for its return."
The Vlisconsin judge, in discussing his ruling, suggested
that the proper move to have been made by the aggrieved
party ,vas to apply for an injunction restraining his oppo-nent
from acting.
Owners of factories located at Holland, Muskegon, Man-istee
and other points on the big lakes of the state of Michi-gan
enjoy a decided advantage in these days of scarcity of
freight cars. The big steamers crossing the lakes carry
heavy shipments of furniture from the lake ports daily.
The business of Edward J. Kjolseth, Stoughton, Wis., has
been taken over by the E. ]. Kjolseth Company, which has
been incorporated with a capital stock of $3,000. The incor-porators
are C. J. and J. E. Melaas and Mr. Kjolseth.
No. 244 Muaie Cabinet.
---Manufacturers of---
BOOKCASF.S, LADIES' DF.SKS,
COMBINATION CASES, MUSIC CABINETS,
and CHINA CLOSETS.
New Catalogue ready for mailing.
=,=~SHEBOYGAN, WISCONSIN~=,=
Mr. Dealer:
If you want your
oreler filled promptly
and want goods that
you can make good
profits on during the
coming holiday sea-son,
mail your orders
to us, We solicit
trial orders.
Sheboygan
Novelty
Company
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OVERLAND FREIGHT TRANSFER COMPANY,
POOL CARS FOR PACIFIC COAST
SAN FRANCISCO. CALIFORNIA.
TEAMING FORWARDING STORAGE
make a specialty of distributing pool cars 01 all kinds and PARTICULARLY, furniture, carpets, linoleum
and interior finish. Referellces, Bradstreet's or Dun's and any bank in San Francisco, and the trade.
Cadoader in Chicago Carloaderin Grand Rapids
j. W. Welling, 633 So. JeffersonSueet Gelock TransferCompany, 108 So. IoniaStreet
at
Opalite Lined
Enameled Lined
Charcoal Filled and
Zinc Lined
Zinc Lined with
Removable
Ice Tank
Galvanized Iron
Lined
Stationary Ice
Tank
Send for new
CATALOGUf Bnd let
us nllme you
Price
five Complete Lines of Refrigerators
Challenge Refrigerator Co. GRAND HAVEN, MICH., U. S. A.
fOUR TRAINS to and from CHICAGO
Lv Gd Rpds 7:10 am Ar Chicago 1:15 pm
I,v Gd Bpds 12:06 pm AI" Chicago 4:50.pm
Lv Gd Rpds 1:25 pm Ar Chicago 10:55 pm
"Lv Gd Rpds 11:3"0 pm Ar Chicago 6':55.tun
* Daily.
Pullma.n Sleeper, on 11:30 train open 9:00 pm. A la carte Cafe
service on all day trains.
Pere Marquette ParlfJr cars on all day trains, Rates reduced
to 50 cents,
THREE TRAINS to and from DETROIT and TOLEOO
Lv Gd Rapids 7:12 am Ar Detroit11:55 am Ar Toledo 1:00pm
*Lv Gd Rapids 11:10 am Ar Detroit 3:05 pm Ar Toledo 4:15 pm
Lv Gd Rapids 5:20 pm Ar Detroit 9:20 pm Ar Toledo 10:45 pm
• Dally.
Note Fast Time Made by Both Midday 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 aU trains.
Seat rates, 25 cents.
uALL OVE-R MICHICAN"
H, J. GRAY. DJstrlct .P.lUI.!wnguAgent.
Phone 1168. Grand Rapids, Mich.
• 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 Furniture, 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, "pnt. 624 Ch8m~.1 BvlJdi.D. St. Louis. Mo.
The Sargent Mfg. Co.
MUSKEGON, MICH.
Bachelors' Cabinets
Ladies' Desks
Extra Large Chiffoniers
___ Also Manufacturefll and Exporters of ---
ROLLING CHAIRS
Chails adapted to all kinds of invalidism, both for
house and street use.
OVER FORTY DESIGNS TO SELECT FROM
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Muskegon Valley Furniture Co.
MuskeilOD
Mich •••
Odd
Dressers
Chiffoniers
Wardrobes
Ladies·
Toilets
Dressing
Tables
Mahogany
Inlaid
Goods
Ladies
Desks
Music
Cabinets
Moon Desk Co.
Mnskegon, Mich.
OFFICE DESKS
See our new
TYPEWRITER CABINET
White Printing Co. HIGH GRADE
CATALOGS
COMPLETE
=~=====GRAND RAPIDMSICH.,~=~===
Stafford Makes Upholstered Furniture
Send for our new Catalogue showing a full line of up-to-date Couches, Sofa
Beds and Parlor Suites. t.ll Prices on Lodge Furniture and Book Fixtures quoted 011
application.
;------~------------~--,
No. 22S Leather Couch.
t.ll Every
Visit our Exhibit at 1323 and 1325 Mlchi~an
Ave., Chical!<>,with Geo. D. Williams Co.
E. H. STAFFORD MFG. Co.,
262-264 Wabash Ave., CHICAGO.
We also make School Furniture, Church Pews and Opera Chairs.
furniture dealer should sell all of the above lines.
Little Things of Great Importance.
A pull, knob or toilet screw on a door, drawer or toilet
standard is a little thing, but it is a matter of great import-ance.
Many a piece of furniture has been marred, damaged
or converted into a nuisance because the knobs or pulls were
not properly fastened. Nearly all housewives have had such
experience, hence when they buy furniture about the first
thing they inspect is the fastening of the knobs, and not in-frequently
they find them loose or easily loosened. Such a
discovery places the salesman at a disadvantage. He may
explain that the defect will be made good, bl1~instead of sat-isfying
the customer the fact that an excuse is necessary is
more likely to spoil a sale. Such a condition of affairs is
entirely unnecessary. Let the retailer insist that all his
purchases shall be equipped with the Tower Patent fasten-ers,
made under the Tower patents, by the Grand Rapids
(Mich.) Brass Company, and he will never be troubled with
a loose knob or pull. There is no extra charge for the "N 0-
Kum-Loose" fasteners on any piece of furniture. They are
furnished to manufacturers free of cost, hence retailers may
have them for the asking.
Milwaukee May Make School Desks.
Milwaukee newspapers state that the school authorities
of that city have decided to manufacture school desks in
order to protect the city from paying extortionate prices that
are being asked by the manufacturers. It is the opinion of
the officials that an understanding at least exists between a
number of the manufacturers and that they 50 control the
market that it is impossible for the city to secure anywhere
near a price that is right.
Secretary Harbach of the school board advertised for bids
on 1,000 desks twice. The best offer received so far was
$3,287.22, or $3.28 a desk. 1\:lr. Harbach has investigated the
matter to some extent and he is confident that the repair de-partment
for the schools can t'urn out a satisfactory desk
for $2 at the outside.
The Standard Upholstering Company of Topeka, Kan.,
has been placed in the hands of a receiver. The company
was arganized at Abilene and later moved to Topeka. It has
never been considered a success. Liabilities about $8,000.
l10pklhl IRd l1arrlet SU.
Cincinnati, O.
"enry Schmit &. Co.
MAII:BRS 011'
UPHOLSTERE.D..FURNITURE WDDf AND PULPIT. PARLOR
UKRARY. HOTEL
AND CLUB ROOM
Detroit, 1\lich., l\'ov. 23.-The Possdius Brothers FUnli-ture
)'Jallufacll1ring Company will have a finer show room
and a hettel· ;:wd larger lilJe thaJl ever before in the -5011th-east
corner of the second floor of the Furniture )i1anufactur-ers'
Exhibition huilding at 1319 :11ichigan avenue, Chicago, in
January. Everything "viii be in readiness when the exhibi-tion
opens, and everything points to immense sales.
The Falmer },Tanufacturing C01Tipal1Yhave eomll1ellced the
erection of a fine brick building ,,:~x 50 feet, three stories awl
basen:Ctit, which "vill greatly relieve the congestion in the
factory. \Vhen cOly.pleted the office will be moved from
the present building, and the cabinet makers, rUbbcrs and IJol-ishers
will he lEaved into it. They will also have sample
and stock rounts in the new building, which it is expected to
have ready for occupancy early in January. They will
make tllcir usual fine display On the second floor of the Fur-niture
Manufacturers' Exhibition building, 1319 11ichigan ave-
11l1e,Chicago, in the space vacated by the Posselius Brothers'
Furniture \hnuiacturillg Company, A large number of new
pattems of parlor and library tables and pedestals will be
added to the already large line.
The .Pioneer l'vIanllfacturing Company will make a joint
Pioneer
Mfg. Co ...
DETROIT. MICH.
Rccd furniturc
Babu Garriagcs
Go-Garts
Full line sbown on
second floor, ] 3 19
Micbillan Aye., Cbl.
cago, in Janu.lll")",
ROOK WOOD
and a general line of
F#\N6Y Tf\8LES
\Vrite for Cuts and Prices
PALMER
Manufacturing Co.
1015 to 103.5Palmer Ave.
DETROIT, MICH.
Full line shown on second
flO<lor. 1319 Michigan Ave.,
Chicago. in January.
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display with the Palmer Manufacturing Company in Chi-cago
and will show a fine line of reed rockers, baby carriages
and go-carts.
The \Vo[verine Manufacturing Company the Cadillac
Cabillet Company and J. C. vVidrnan & Co. will make their
usual magnificent joint display on the seventh floor of 1.319
i\Iichigan avenue, Chicago. Tll{~jrs will be one of the larg-est
and finest displays in Chicago,
Retail trade in Detroit is good. The Grand Upholstering
Company, 125-12·7 Gratiot avenue; George J. Reindel &
Bra" 17cJ-176 vVoodward avenue; "V. E. Barker>i's two stores
on \Voodward and Michigan aVel1lleS, aU report excellent
business, and as these stores are all the three great shopping
streets of Detroit, they arc a fair criterion of the state of
trade in gel\eraL
The Rosewood Fad.
"The letters written by a cherished hand" must be taken
out of the "little rosewood casket which is sitting on the
stand.-'-' Perhaps the rest of the song \"lill be heeded and the
sister, having brought them, will "read them everyone to me,
who have often tried to read them, but for tears I could not
see," But the letters are not the chief thing. It is the rose-wood
casket ,vhich counts and the reason it counts is because
it is rosewood, says the writer, in the Chicago Post, The
wood is coming back into favor. That is why old attks arc
being ransacked for pieces of it, and why those people who
possess it are accounting themselves fortunate.
Beds and tables and sofas and chairs of the wood are the
fad of the hour, and even caskets smaH enough to "sit upon
a stand" arc dragged forth from their hiding places, glued
together and exposed to the gaze of those unfortunate ones
who possess nothing more lraluable than 11CW mahogany.
As yet, the demand for rosewood furniture has not grown
beyond the supply, althoug·h d~ale1"s in thE higher grades of
fl1rniture say it is the fad of the haUL At the present writ-ing-,
therefore, the fortunate oues who own rosewood would
do better to keep it for the cnvy of their less fortunate friends
who possess new mahogany, rather than trying to sell.
"\\T e are not making any special efforts to buy rosewood,"
said one furniture dealer this morning," although we may
have to do so soon if the demand C(mtinues, We always have
picked up any pieces we could find, for it always has been a
safe investment.
"RosC\'vood grows in South America but y~ars ago the
forests were almost exhausted. For tkit reason most rose-wood
furniture is really antique,"
Frederick K. Rockwell, the pioneer fttrniture dealer and
undertaker of \iVilliamston, 11ich" was found dead in his bed
on November 15, a victim of heart disease. He was 81 years
old.
Murphy Chair Co.
MANUFACTURERS DETROIT, MICH.
A COMPLE.TE LINE.
.' GLOBE SIDEBOARDS
l
c--------ARE THE---------,
BEST ON THE GLOBE
FOR THE MONEY
GE'I OUR CATALOGUE.
Menti'n the MICHIGAN ARTISAN when writing.
I
Globe Furniture Company EVANSVILLE,
INDIANA ..
Bockstege Fumiture
Company
EVANSVILLE, INDIANA
Makers of the
fjJ"SUPEiRIOR"
EXTENSION.
PARLOR.nd
LIBRARY
TABLES
NewCATALOGUEjustissued.
--lGET ONE.--
are Good Wardrobes
GOOD
Style
Construction
Finish
PRICES RIGHT
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Company,
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BY
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CABINETS
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Best Goods
Lowesl Prices
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The "Ell" fOLDING BEDS ~~~frTR~'':.N~~~
No Stock complete without the Eli Beds in Mantd and Upright
E 0 M &. Co Evaa5vUJe. JDdJana LI. ILLER . Write for cuts and prices
1858 1906 E. Q. SMITU CUAIR
=== COMPANY === MANUFACTURERS OF
WOOD, DOUBLE CANE, CANE, COBBLER
TUfTED LEATHER AND VENEER
SEAT C"AIRS AND ROCKERS
No.H5
Rec::eption Rocker
Veneered Rolled Seat
Quartered Oak
Finished Golden
Office and Warerooms, Cor. Third and Division 518.
Factory and Supply Mill, Foot of Oak St.
______ EVANSV1LLE,IND.,------
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Libt'1U'Y Suite Made by the Udell Worb,lndiaDapolU. huI.-Librar:r Table. Bookcase, De.k, M•• a%ineC.billet and Lamp Table.
~MI:?PIG7fN
Ralph P. Tietsort's Beautiful Home.
During the past year Ralph P. Tiet"orl, treasurer of the
Royal Furniture Company, Grand Rapids, devoted milch time
to the erection and furnishing of a home, located on Madison
ENTRANCE.
avenue, one of the most beautiful thoroughfares in the city.
The hOU3e is in the Colonial style, constructed of brick and
DRAWING ROOM,
surmounts an eminence overlooking the avenue. In fitting
up and furnishing this home ]\,1r. Tietsort has made liberal
expenditures, and it la{:ks nothi:~.;' that is required by the
well-ta-do house owner in the way at fitments necessary for
convenience or comfort.
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I
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The rooms are finished with fine imported cabinet woods,
their cheerful colors and beautiful figures contributing largely
to the adornment of the apartments,
In selecting the furniture for his home Mr. Tietsort adopt-
UBRARY.
the slyle of thc colonies, <lnd some of the pieces are of great
value on account of their history and the events associated
with them. :rvIc and Mrs. Tictsort are not alone in the en~
joyment of their lovely home. The rising generation is well
represented therein, their presenc.e contributing to the ever-reigning
joy of the household.
Had to EJ1large Their Plant.
Hubbard, Eldredge & Miller of Rochester, N. Y., are just
llJlishing a fine five story brick addition to their factory, which
v·,:ill give them 30,000 square feet of floor space, to be used fol'
on-ices and warerooms. \iVhen completed this will be onc of
the very largest factories in the country making fille chairs.
Trade has been so heavy all this year that this new building
became an imperative necessity. They will make an unusu-ally
fine display in the big Furniture Exhibition building,
Grand Rapids, in January. The display will be very stmng
in solid mahogany, ..v..ith a great line of Mission styles and
medium priced wood scat chairs and rockers.
Langslo\v-Fmvler & Co. witt make their customary fine
display of upholstered chairs in J auuary at 1319 Michigan
avenue, Chicago.
Forced to Raise Prices.
"The advance of ten per cent on case goods was impera-tive,"
said John A. Covode, secretary of the Berkey & Gay
Furniture Company, Grand Rapids, :rvlich., after the Chicago
conference had taken action. "Recent advances in raw ma-terials
made that action absolutely necessary, and there is
likely to be further advances, for materials are going higher
and higher.
"Yes, I notice the railroa~s afe raising wages," continued
~dr. Covode. "That's all right; the men deserve it and it's
very nice in the railroad managers to raise wages voluntarily.
They can do it very easily for the increase in business has
increased their net profits. Railroads do not produce any-thing.
They simply handle the products of others and the
cost of those products cuts no figure in the profits on haul-ing
them to market. The cost of raw materials does not
affect non-producers as it does the manufacturers."
Norman Roos has resigned his position as manager of
the RaGS Furnjture Company, South Bend, Ind., and will go
into business on his own account. He is succeeded by J. A.
Smyth of Grand Rapids, Mich.
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DOWN AMONG THE BUCKEYES.
I'
News and Comment From the Ohio Furniture Making Cities.
Cleveland, 0., November 22.-0hio is a big, rich, prosper-ous
state, full of big cities, big industries, and big men. To
be a Buckeye is considered by everyone 01: her people as
great an honor as being a Roman citizen in the palmiest days
of the Caesars. Ohio is a state where they do things~
make things go. If they prosecute John D.'s octopus they
bring it in guilty; if they lay for the railroads they compel
them to give a. universal two-cent fare-which proves to he
a great boon to the railroads as well as the people. Politics,
like' chestnuts, seem to grow on the trees, and the harvest is
always abundant. There is never a time when the Buckeye
is not ready to drop everything and rush to the political de-fense
of his beloved country.
Cleveland is one of the big tOW11Sof Ohio; famous as the
home of John D. and of Mayor Tom L. Johnson. After
Chicago it is the largest of the lake cities and is growing
very rapidly. O. K. Wheelock & Co., the Beelmen Cabinet
Company, the D. T. Owen Company, the Forest City Bed-stead
Company and lvIarble & Shattuck Company will show
their lines of furniture in Grand Rapids in January_ These
lines will do their fuH share in making Grand Rapids the
great central market for exhibiting and selling furniture.
Bedford is a suburb of Cleveland, twelve miles south and
reached by two railroads and a trolley line. It is a prosper-ous
little place, the home of the B. L. Marble Chair Company,
which has been doubled in size this year! and the Taylor
Chair Company, wTiich is now erecting an addition to the
storage and finishing building, 80 x 84, three stories and base-ment.
Both of these prosperous chair 'lOuses will make
their cl1stomary semi-annual exhibits in Grand Rapids in
January.
Akron, the home of Senator Dick and the Goodyear Rub-ber
Company, famous also for its sewer pipe industries, al-though
forty miles south of Cleveland, I discovered was a
great seaport. The only evidence I have for this statement,
however, is a sign which read: "Wanted-500 men to unload
schooners."
Canton, the home of President McKinley and still the
home of his much loved widow, is famous for its watches and
watch cases. It is also the home of the John DanuerManu-facturing
Company, manufacturers of sectional bookcases,
whose line is regularly shown in Grand Rapids as it will
be in January.
Delaware, the home of the Delaware Chair Company, is
also the home of the great Methodist college. It is a hand-some
little city of 20,000 prosperous, contented and happy
people, about twenty-five miles north of Columbus. The
Delaware Chair Company has a new catalogue l"eady for mail-ing
and will make a fine display of chairs and rockers in
January on the first floor of the big Furniture Exhibition
building in Grand Rapids.
The Columbus Couch Company is a new but decidedly
vigorous concern, which proposes to make its mark in the
furniture worhL
Columbus, the home of the E. M. Hulse Company, and sev-eral
other important industries, including the big law factory
sometimes called the state capitol, is in a <;trugg1e with To-ledo
for third place among the big cities of Ohio. The city
is growing rapidly, has an immense busines3 and will always
be among th~ great commercial cities of the west. The E.
1-1. Hulse Company now bas a well equipped frame factory
which became l1ecessary in order to keep the upholsterers
supplied with frames. E. M, Hulse is a jolly good fellow.
But for his everlasting good nature he would die about twen-ty
years before his time, for he does enough work '(all head
work; the hardest kind of work) to wear out two ordinary
men. He will tell more stories (and good ones, too) and
answer more questions and give morc directions, and find out
l
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MR. DEALER:
Think of the trouble you've had
with other Sofa Beds---the break-downs
---the disgusted customers.
Think of the sales you've lost on
account of the dissatisfaction of the pro-spective
purchaser with the crudities of
design---or the frame construction---or
finish---or the hard upholstery---or the
wide opening between the upholstery
and the ends---or the unsightly fixture in
the box---or the noisy action---or the
narrow seat---or absurdly high back---
and so on, ad infinitum.
IT'S DIFFERENT WHEN YOU
HANDLE THE
"SIMPLICITY"
Easy Sales.
Satisfied Customers.
Big P""fits.
And "It Stays Put."
Our new "SIMPLICITl'D CAtalogshows thi largest
and hest stlling line of Davenport Beds you ever saw. A
p~stt1'gets it.
Jamestown Lounge Co.
World's Largest Makers if
Davenpurt Beds,
JAMESTOWN, N. Y.
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CHAS. A. FISHER & CO.,
1319 Michigan Ave., Chicago.
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more of what the other fellow is doing than any other man in FROM AWAY OUT WEST.
the business. His big line of couches will be on exhibition
in January, as usual, at 1319 ~'1ichigan avenue, Chicago.
Cincinnati, the Queen City-the city of business and beer;
art and music; machinery and furniture; lumber and varnish;
the home of "Alice and Nick," and George B. Cox; the city
of narrow streets and tall buildinp;s, and "the Rhine" running
through the center; next to Milwaukee probably the most
pronounced German city in the United States, is always in-teresting,
picturesque, and, smoky. The writer of the his-tory
of the furniture industry of Cincinnati would require to
trace the growth and progress of the city for nlore than half
a century. At one time the greatest furniture manufacturing
city in the west, if not in the whole country, it still maintains
a high place in the furniture world because of the excellent
quality and variety of furniture made. Here are manufactured
large quantities of office chairs, chamber furniture, uphol-stered
furniture, including church and lodge furniture, dining
room furniture, hat racks and fancy cabinet \varei folding
beds and wire mattresses, pillows and cotton felt mattresses,
hall and mantel clocks, and a great variety of other house-hold
goods. 1.fany of these concems make semi-annual ex-hibits
either in Grand Rapids. Chicago or New York. Among
those who will exhibit in Grand Rapids in January are Stille
& Duhlmeier, \vhose line will contain many fine specimens of
Colonial designs in chamber suitesJ"W'ardrobes, chiffoniers and
toilet tables in mahogany, oak, bird's-eye maple, Circassian
\valnut and other popular woods. The exhibits will be on
the fourth floor of the Furniture Exhibition building, in
charge of Mr. Frederkk Stille. His brother George will also
spend a few days in Grand Rapids if business will spare him,
Steinman & Meyer, the Standard Furniture Company) the
Phoenix ·Manufacturing Company and others will be repre-sented
in Grand Rapids.
Portsmouth, one of the most thriving cities of southern
Ohio, has two prosperous furnitnre compar,es, the Vlait Fur-niture
Company and the Wait-:Ful1er Cabinet Company.
Both of these are engaged in manufacturing sideboards, and
the fanner "''''111 show in Grand Rapids as usual, being an im-portant
part of the McVey aggregation, in the Furniture
Exhibition building.
Gallipolis has three furniture factories under one manage-ment,
al1d a fourth in Charleston, \Vest Virginia. It has
been decided 110t to show at any of the furniture exhibitions
this year, but to depend upon their salesmen, catalogues and
advertising in the trade papers for business. If they have
the right kind of salesmen and advertise judiciously, they are
not likely to be disappointed.
Mr. Sligh Talks of a Recent Trip on the Northern Pacific
Coast.
Charles R. Sligh .. president of the Sligh Furniture Com-pany,
Grand Rapids, Mich., spent most of the month of Oc-tober,
with .M. J. Clark, also of Grand Rapids, in Oregon,
\Vashington and :Northern California) looking for timber in-vestments.
While talking of their trip, llt. Sligh said:
"We fouod plenty of timber, there·'s lots of it out there,
but most of it has been pjcked up by investors or speculators,
Eastern or Northern.lumbermen and other capitalists have
bought immense tracts and the price of stumpage has doubled
or wore in the past year or two, Of course, a large number
of homesteaders have taken up claims in the past few years
and there is a large amount of valuable timber on their
holdings, but it will not come into the market right away-they
will require from fourteen months to five years to prove
up and secure their titles. Timber conditions out there are
much the same as they were here twenty-five or thirty years
ago, except that the country is over-run with land-lookers
and the timber is being picked up much more rapidly than it
ever was in Michigan.
"The coast cities of Oregon and Washington are having
more than their share of the country's prosperity. The San
Francisco disaster has thrown a large amount of business
to Portland and Seattle that they would not have gotten but
for the earthquake and fire. Several San Francisco wholesale
houses have established branches or moved temporarily to
the northern c1des and they are doing enormous business.
They intended to stay there only until they could rebuild in
San Francisco, but the chances arc that most of them wilJ
become permanent fixtures in Portland and Seattle,
"Seattle is having a great boom. They now claim over
200,000 inhabitants and real estate is sold at New York prices.
r saw a piece of property that was sold rec.e.ntly for $3,000
per foot ·frontage, and it is not on a main street either. The
town is certainly wild onreal estate values, but it is claimed
that present conditions and indication for the future justify
the enormous prices set on all kinds of property.
"Vole did not go down to San Francisco, but judging from
\",hat we heard from there I think it will take twetlty-five
years to rebuild that town, or even make it what it was in
the way of business before the earthquake. They have built
a large number of 'shacks' and it will he hard to get rid' of
them."
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WE MANUFACTURE AN EXTENSIVE LINE OF
Zinc Lined, White Enamel, OpaIite Lined
and Porcelain Lined Refrigerators of every
desirable size.
THE ALASKA REFRIGERATOR CO.
Exclusive Refrigerator Manufacturers,
New York Ollice, 35 Warren St MUSKEGON, MICH.
Comfort Sacrified for Beauty.
Is there ally real reason why fttrniture should not be com-fortable?
This is a question that, like the refractory midrib
in a mission chair, bears hard on the average householder.
We have become so arts~and-craftity snobbish about every-thing
nowadays that even that great and beneficent invention
of a noble friend of humanity, the 110rris chair, is getting
frigid, formal, and more a thing to he looked at than to be
sat in. TllC shape of nine out of ten pieces of furniture is
miserably contrived to exalt, if possible, the reputation of the
owner for artistic taste, not to make him or his friends feel
good and snoozy around the domestic fireside.
1t is said that our latest esthetic rage, the Mission furni-ture
is modeled after chairs, tables and benches left in the
ancient Spanish missions of southern California when those
outposts of the church in a barbat·ous land w"erc abandoned.
It is not stated whether the Mission furniture had anything
to do with causing the missions to be abandoned. It may
well be that they did. In any case, it is known that several
hair shirts were found in the missions at the same time,
which is a most suggestive circumstance. It points unerr-ingly
to the apparent fact that the pious Franciscans had the
chairs and benches there for puqlOses of penance. Beyond
a doubt, something of the penitential character of this furni-ture
has survived in its commercial representative in the mar-ket
today.
Some of the oldest of us can remember a kind of easy
chair used in the long ago which was built to fit a man's
back It cunred jnv\"'ard a little bit where the back curves in,
bulged backward and sideward pleasantly where the should-ers
expand, came forward again in a nice little nip at the neck
and fltlally afforded a comfortable pillow-like recession for
the head to lie back upon. One sat well down into this chair,
but at the fT{mt there \Vas a kind of San Juan hill that pre-vented
one from slipping forward. The arms weore ample.
This chair had absolutely no estllctie qoalities ·whatever.
There was no beauty about it, except the heauty of peace and
seretlity. But to sit in it was a benediction, not a 111orti11ca-tiOl],
of the flesh.
\Vc helieve that this chair has its comfortable successors
in the market, htlt they are availahle only for millionaires, or
for presentation purposes. This gennation has acquired
altogether too strong a sense of the picturesque to bc willing
to be merely comfortable when it has a chance to be esthetic
at the sacriflce of its ease.-New York Mail.
Mahnke Succeeds Reilly.
Charles F. Reilly, for the past six years representing the
Jamestown Lounge Company in the large cities of the east,
has resigned his position to enter ~l1siness for himself as a
member of the Miller Cabit1et Company. Mr. Reilly has
built np a very large and successful business for the Lounge
company and his resignation was accepted with much regret
by the managers. His many friends will join in the wish
that he may meet with unlimited prosperity in his new ven-ture.
~Ir. Reilly's successor will be Richard Mahnke, for the
past seventeen years with S. Karpen & Bros. and their pres-ent
eastern reprcsentadve. 1Ir. Mahnke's engagement with
the Jamestown company will date from January 1, 1907. His
(ong experience in the manl1fadure and sale of upholstered
fnrniture render him particularly well fitted for his new posi-tion.
In fact, he is regarded as one of the best posted men
in the country selling 11pholstered goods.
Many of 1Ir. Reilly's cllstomers are already well acquaint-ed
with ::\.'!r. Mahnke and those who are not so fortullate
will soon have the opportunity of making his acquaintance.
A brilliant success for Mr. Mahnke in his new position is a
foregone COllChlsion.
The Globe-Wernicke Company has declared the regular
quarterly dividend of one and one-half per cent payable De-cember
10.
Remo'Ye.SbippinS Marksp
Mars. Scratches, Stains.
Cleans, Fills in and Polishes.
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HIGH GRADE
BEDDING
We Manufacture an Unsurpassed Line of
MattressesL-DoWD_ Cushions
Feathers and Feather Pillows
-OUR-
1906 CATALOGUE
Gives you detailed information on
GRADES, QUALITIES and PRICES
Schultz & Hirsch Co.
260 South Desplaines St.
CHICAGO, - • ILL.
SPRATT'S CHAIRS
ARE THE JOy OF THE CHILDREN.
Our new CHILD'S MISSION ROCKER was a winner from the start.
Write fcr Catalogue and prias. Our line is large and pril::esare eight.
We make
CHAIRS
GROWN-UPS
as well as
CHILDREN.
GEORGE
SPRATT
& CO.
Sheboygan,
Wis.
Say you SQW
this ad in tb~
Michigan Arti-san,
Our New"end and Foot Power Circular Sa", No.4
The strongest, most powerful. and in every way tbe best
machine of its kind ever nuLdc, {or -ripp.i.ng,
cross-cutting, boring and grooving_
Cal>inet Makers
In these days of close competition,
need the best posaible equipment,
and this they can have in . . . .
BARNE.S'
Hand and Foot .
POWER
Machinery
Send for our New Catalogue.
"W. F. al JOHN BARNES CO.
654 Ruby Street. Rochford, Ill.
For the Holiday Trade
The
A YOUTH'S
ANUAL TRAINING l BENCH
Is an Article That CanJ Be Beat. A Useful Article in Any Home.
A I erfect Gift for the Boy.
Same Bench we Fu nish the Best Manual Training Schools.
Strictly high grade in every respect. Sold at a price that places it within the reach of all.
I! sold like "hot cakes" last Chris mas. Get it on yonr list for this year. Write for full
information and prices.
GRAND RAPIIDS HAND SCREW eo. 130 Sout~ Ionia St., Grand Rapids, Mich.
LARGEST MANUFACTURERS OF BENCHES IN THE WORLD.
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News, Notes and Comments.
The South Side Furniture Company has OPlt1ed a ne\"
store lt1 Youngstown, Ohio.
The \Vhlte l'ront furniture store at Orofino, Idaho, was
de<:troyed by fire on November gLoss, $3,500
Hemy'\T. IIclge, for over lMlf a century a furnIture dealer
in Louisville, Ky., dled Novembmer 18, ag-cd 71 years.
The Bair Cabinet Company, rcccllt1:~; orgallifcd in Des
l'vIoines, la., is turning out physicians' cabinets a1d sectional
bookcases.
Fire in the sho\v room of the IVlcLeod & Smifrh furniture
factory, I\'linneapolis, caused a loss of about $3'iIOO on N0-
vembe:r: 12.
The Deinzer Fumiture Company of Monroe, ?vliCh.,which
also makes mirrors. has been obliged to enlarge the mirror
department. . .
The IVlanhattan Furniture Company of Los A geles, Ca1.,
suffered a loss of $5,500.by fire in the factory andl warehouse
on November 11. .
Rockford, Ill., now has seventeen furniture factories for
'which the payrolls, combined, amount to somdthing over
$100.000 pcr w,,·k. l T. he Tennessee Ch~ir Company's factory at Covington.
Tenn., was totally destroyed by fire on Novembe 14. Loss
$12.000 with $4.000 il1sur~ncc.
The Sanitary Bedding Company of Louisvill . Ky., has
made an assignment for the beneflt of creditors. Assets es-timated
at $300; liabilities, $1,200.
11ilwaukee furniture men have organized the :r:v1ilwaukee
l\'lanufacturers' and Jobbers' Club for the 1>urplse of "de-veloping
Milwaukee as a furniture cellter,"
V'l. T. Evans, fu 1iture dealer, "vas. 011('.of the losers by a
fire that 'wiped ou several buildings in V·larrllton, Ga..
on November 9. ·s loss was fully insured.
Herbert Gordon f Eugene, Ore., has sold his etail fumi-ture
business to Lee Campbell and Joseph Fellman, who will
take possession January 1 under the name of Campbell &
Fellman.
A. A. Valentine, & Co., importers of oriental goods, )lew
York, have opened a branch store at 1624 Chestnut street,
Philadelphia, which will be known as "The House of a Thou-sand
Lamps."
Scranton ,Pa., had a half-million-dollar fire on November
10. Among the losses arc ]. Scott Inglis & Co., furniture
dealers, whose loss was estimated at $90,000 to $100,000,
with about $75,000 insurance.
John Bolhouer, a DClfoit butcher accused of buying furni-ture
on the installment 'plan, selling it and skipping out with
the proceeds, "vas caught in ),Jitwaukee and is fighting against
being taken back to Michigan for triaL
vv. J. Campbell, the Springfield, Ill., undertaker, who was
too handy with his pen, has been convicted of forging
checks and awaits sentence. He is a cocaine fiend and has
been twice an inmate of the asylum at Jacksonville.
Fort y."T orth, Texas, is to have a wholesale furniture house
owned by men who ha"'e recently sold out a similar business
in I\femphis, Tenn. The Fort \Vorth concern will be known
as the Fort y."Torth Furniture Exposition Company.
The Buchanan Furniture & Cal·pet Company of Kansas
City, ),Jo., has ()LltgrO\v~lits quarters in the "Old Rookery"
building, and will mov~ to 1204-06 Main street. The new
quarters, which ,,",'ere fonnerly used as a furniture store, are
being re-modeled and will be ready for occupancy hy Janu-ary
1.
Fire that started in the furniture warehouse of Owen &
Co., Detroit, Mich., November 21, caused the death of one
man a11(1 property loss, to the extent of $50,000 or $60,000.
Frederick VIl. 1\fartindaIe, a furniture finisher, was the victim.
He was at work on the; fourth floor and after appearing at a
front window he fell back into the burning building.
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Theory VB. 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 have been selling for $1.2. 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 the theory, but <\1\
old German, who had been in the business for years, and
whose chief output consisted of the $12-drcsser, expressed
doubt as to the correctness of the conclusions reached by
the experts: "I don't know ahout that," he said. "I have
made those dressers for a good many years. I sold them
Ordinance 723, which has never been repealed, if enforced,
would play havoc with the business of the town ,unless Mayor
McClellan dropped all other duties to sign exemptions. It
provides that no person shall' use or have on any street of
New York any "calcium, Drummond or other light of intense
brilliancy unless by the mayor's permission." N,or shaH any
person place any such light on any house in the city so that
the same shall reflect or shine upon any street or avenue.
One can imagine the effect of the enforcement of this law
upon Sixth (lvenue or the Great White Way.
Carpet Dealers in a Buying Trust.
Manufacturing trusts, agricultural trusts, transportation
trusts and selling trusts and combines are so numeroUs now-adays
that their methods and operations cause little comment.
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 home, some bills
coming to me and some money in the bank. Kow, 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. ~by
be their rules are wrong."
The German's remarks are said to have dosed the dis-cussion
of the subject.
New York's Dead Letter Laws.
It may interest everyone of our department store dealers
In furniture and carpets to know that on each secular day of
the' year they are violating the la,...-, says the Furniture
Trade Review. Ordinance 633 of the revised ordinances pro-vides
that "articles of furniture may he exposed for sale and
sold" at six places only in the city,; viz., Peck Slip, Burling
Slip, Old Slip, Broad street, bet¥veen Front and South,
and Vesey street, bctwe'en Church and Washington, and the
square in front of Greenwich Market on a line with Christo-pher.
street, west of Greenwich avenue.
MADE BY
FANCY FURNITURE CO..
GRAND RAPIDS. MICH.
Buying trusts, however are rare, though there is apparently
no reason why they should not flourish. This seems to be
the idea of the great carpet dealers of the "Middle East,"
who have formed a buying combination in which such houses
as House & Hermann of Wheeling; W. H. Keech Company
of Pittsburg; M. H. PiekeringCompally, Pittsburg; House &
Herrmann, \Vashington, D. c.; Brown & Co., Cleveland, 0 ..
and Kiplinger & Co., Baltimore, 1'ld., amI Lancaster, Pa" are
represented.
Buyers for the houses in this combine, instead of going
abroad, have arranged to have the good brought to Pitts-burg,
where during the past two weeks th y have been exam-ining-
samples and buying stock for thei ~pring trade from
reresentatives of the principal carpet man tfacturers of Amer~
ica and Europe. The arrangement w'Il undoubtedly cut
down expense accounts for both buyers a ld sellers.
P. Weinberg & Son, Limited, have in orporated, to carry
all a department store business at Elizab 'th, N. J. :The cap"-
itel stock is $10,000, and the incorporato s are Philip, Jessie
and Rose Weinberg.
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~HIS PUSH BUTTON distinguishes the
"ROYAL" Morris Chairs from the other kind
MORRIS CHAIRS
--FROM---
$6.00 to $30.00
CATALOGUE UPON APPUCATION.
Royal Chair Co.
STURGIS, MICH.
Higher Prices for Beds and Bedding.
Although advances have been Inade quite recently in the
price of metal beds, fur:ther advances are looked for bdore
the end of the year. This is due to the great increase marie
in the price of fa,,," materials, UpOll vv"llichthere seems to be
no settled prices. According to the quotations puhlished in
the American 11etal 1Iarkct, Daily Iron and Steel Reporter
and tbe Iron Age, copper is now quoted at 23 cents, as against
17 cents last year and 14% cents in 1904. Pig iron is quot-ed
as selling now for $22.50 per ton, as against $lG.~2;,l"ajst
year. Even at this it is more or less scarce and premil11ns
are being paid for quick delivery. The price of spelter in 1903
averaged about $5,50 and the present rate is $6.40. \Vben
it is taken into consider<\tion that brass is made of two-thirds
copper and Ii spelter, some idea of the increased cost of the
manufacture of heds may be inferred.
Iron pipe has been advanced $3.50 per ton during the past
few weeks and foundry:coke is now selling at $6.40 per tOll
delivered, in comparisoll'with $4.15, which was the price three
months ago.
Varnish and gums arc always advancing in rates and this
makes the, cost of the enamels greater than before and the
price of bbor is also said to be advancing.
Some of the 'ne(\ mallUIacturers have ad\'anced the price
of their beds about fifteen per cent during the past few weeks,
while others have found it \vise to discontinue the making
of certain patterns and filling only the orders received at the
new prices.
Advances in the prices of mattresses and bedding may be
expected to take place at any time ill the immediate future,
which will be due to the scarcity of f,L"\V materials and the
eontinual increasing prices of the same. Tickings have ad-vanced
about twenty per cent quite recently and a scarcity
of all grades is reported. So far as cotton is concerned,
Six Years
of Test
have
Established
Supremacy
THE" ROYAL.'
PUSHBUTTON
MORRIS CHAIR
prices are unsettled. The market is rising and every time
an order is give.n -it lS taken only at higheT Tates than the
previous one. 'Manufacturers making woven wire springs
are now compelled to pay Jifty per cent over former prices
for the wooden parts of the same. These and other recent
Cidvances make it an almost absolute certainty that advanced
prices in bedding may he looked for very shortly.
Mr. Kremer Quits the Factory.
Edward .A. Kremer has resigned his position as vice pres-ident
and assistant superintendent of thc V\Tinnebago Furni-ture
Company, Fond du Lac, \iVis, and is succeeded by Henry
Ley, who bas been employed in the company's office for sev-eral
years. Mr. Kremer ".·.i.ll devote his entire attention to
the retail furniture business of Kremcr Bros. He has been
with the \Vinnebago company twenty-four years.
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CHICAGO. ILL.
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throughout. New
Management. The
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veniently situated to
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OWNEIl & PROPRIETOR
E. K, erHey. Pres.;
T. M. CrUey, V. Pres.;
L. H. Firey, Sec:-Tleas.
Chicago, November 24.-"That country is most prosperous
in which the greatest number of the inhabitants shar~ in the
fruits of industry. It is not the volume of business done by
a nation, but the number in which the profits of business are
divided that gives character and reality to prosperous con~
clitions. Measured by this standard, the United States at
the present moment is more genuinely prosperous than at any
other time in its history. Kever has the volume of business
been so large; never has there been a wider or more liberal
division of profits. As may he seen 'from a survey of the
industrial field, there have been announced by railroads and
industrial interests, increases ill wages tbat will Tun iJlto the
hundreds of millions during the coming year, And it is an
advance due to natural economic laws and conditions. There
is an unprecedented demand for labor, a demand that labor is
not prepared fully to meet. The supply being less than the
demand, the price advances automatically. Every wage
earner who is receving more for his labor today than he was
a year ago, does not need to be told the country is prosper-ous,
because he has come into intimate touch with prosper-ity.
To him it is real."
The foregoing editorial which appeared last week in the
Chicago "Evening Post," best describes the present trade
condition in Chicago as well as elsewhere. In the same issue
appeared an extended article dealing with the "immense rise
in wages and the present l.1nparaJleled era of prosperity.
Most of the large railroad companies have re-adjusted their
scale of wages and other Chicago industrial firms have fallen
ihto line and granted substantial increases. At the same
time the manufacturer and employer faced a labor shortage
reaching a total _of between 300,000 and 500,000 men.
A visit to the various factories in and around Chicago
proves that there is plenty "doing," as they are running to
full capacity. Many manufacturers declare that they could
run far into the spring or orders already in hand.
Retail business in Chicago was dulled somewhat by in-clement
weather. The holiday season here, though, has
opened earlier than in previous years, due in p<l;rt,no doubt,
to the fact that retail merchants have used every effort pos-sible
to get peopJe t() their stores early and avoid the regu-lar
holiday rush. Practically all of the Christmas goods
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are now on display. The big stores comtnenced weeks ago
to increase their help in order to accomt
'odate what they
declare will be the biggest holiday trade this city has ever
experienced.
C. G. \-Vhite, se_cretary of the Manufa turers' Exhibition
building, 1319 IVlichigan avenue, reports very foot of floor
space in the entire building subscribed fo, A corps of in-terior
decorators, carpenters, and general utility men have
been at work for several weeks getting the big building in
shape for its eleventh season. Mr. White promises more
exhibits and a greater variety of articles for this year than
ever before and is preparing to accommodate a still larger
number of visitors.
Although country dealers in all lines of goods have been
waging a fierce war against the mail order houses, the lat-ter
seem to be thriving. An official of Sears, Roebuck &
Co. recently g'ave out the following statement: "Our gross
earnings this year will be considerably: more tban $54,000,000,
and the increase ovcr last year will be more tban 337:3 per
ccnt Profits have not increased in such a ratio during tbe
year, but they are entirely satisfactory. Enough will be
earned over and above dividends on the preferred stock to
provide a surplus that will permit the payment of dividends
on the common stock in a few months."
Great Rush for Carpets and Rugs.
The demand for carpets an~ rugs has been so heavy since
the spring season opened that quite a few of the best selling
lines have now been withdrawn from the market. IVIanufac-turers
state that their mills are sold up for the entire season
on these lines, and that there is no use in taking orders which
cannot be delivered. Rugs of all descriptions have been or-dered
in large quantities, buyers who balked at the advanced
prices having returned later, eager to place large orders.
Manufacturers ofAxminster rugs state thatin spite of an
advance of 25 to 75 cents placed on' the goods, the orders
placed have been the largest in the history of the trade. Con-cerns
handling Axminster and other goods have refused to
sell buyers Axminster rugs unless they placed orders for
other goods as well. They claim that this is due to the fact
that buyers have come into the market and placed their or-ders
with certain houses for general lines, and when un-able
to complete their orders for Axminsters have gone
through the market and purchased these goods wherever they
could secure them. In this way, certain sellers find that they
ate heavily oversold on Axminster fabrics, while the other
lines have not been touched.
The Wilton rugs are running a close second with Axmill-ters,
as these goods have been in excellent .request in the 10.6
x 12 sizes and 11.3x 15 sizes, The 6 x 9 sizes have become
very popular and in some quarters further orders are refused.
Manufacturers of tapestry rugs who found that these goods
did not sell welt last season named slight reductions at the
opening of the present season. These reductions on an
otherwise very stiff market seem to appeal to the buyer, and
the demand for tapestry rugs, especially in the 9 x 12 sizes,
which were reduced 50 cents per rug, has been very heavy,
It is now 5tated that if this demand continues, prices will un-doubtedly
be placed on the old basis at a very early date.
.Body Brussels and Smyrna rugs have also been very popu-lar,
and a large business has been put through. The in~
grain situation continues rather mixed, as some manufactur-ers
have advanced thcir prices, while others are holding their
goods on the fall basis.
The demand has not been large and it looks very much as
if the ingrain cal'pet is gradually being fon::ed out of exist~
ence. In certain sections of the country a fair demand con-tinues
for goods of this description, especially for the rugs,
which are reversible, wear well and are cheap.
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PRINTING AS A SALESMAN.
Must Be High Grade and Up-to-Date in Order to be Effec~
tive in Securing Busines.s.
The object in using printers' ink <111(1 the printing art,
whether it be in the daily press, the magazine or by circulars,
is ob ...i.ously to create a market fwd sell goods. says Frank
Brown in the November number of Profitable Advertising.
As one of the principal factors, almost all advertisers today
realize the importance of bigh-grade printing. They know
that every circular, booklet or c;ltalogue sent out creates an
impression and that impression should al"ways b{~the best.
People like to trade with a fLrm that is prosperous and noth-ing
reflects the prosperity of a firm so unceasingly as high-grade
printing.
before the developmellt of illustration, as it is practised
today, plain-type cmnOUllccl11enb;filkd the bill; but with the
rapid strides made in phntaengraving, color-making and com-mercial
dra\;ving there has been constantly dema11ded of the
printc:r an art \,i\Torkmanshipin keeping with it and faithfully
portraying to the prospective customer the value, adaptability
or other de!:iirablc features of the advertised goods.
This has brought about a new printing salesman, One who
not only can give a reasonably close estimate of the cost, but
can plan and suggest ,vays and IlJCaOS of interesting a pos-sible
customer, And to be successful he must be versatile.
He must have a knowlc:dge of the various processes of C11-
graving and the qualities of paper best adapted to the differ-ent
kinds of engraving. He must be at least somewbnt of
all art critic: and familiar with the combination of colors, lIe
must be prepared Hot only to suggest styles, arrangement and
individuality, but also to furnish drawings, snpply Jiving
models, if nccessary, "work tiP" the photographs cwd take
charge of the production of cuts and electrotypes. Often-times
he is called npon to prepare the "copy" or text-matter
of a booklet or catalogue, and should be therefore a thorough
"ad" writer.
Printing salesmanship for high grade £inns means more
today than disposing of so much pl1per and ink. It means
keeping alive ,...i.t.h the times; it means a campaign of educa-tion
toward a combination of the artistic and commercial.
And the salesman must l1ever sacrifice one for the other, to
be successful, for the customer, while looking to him to pro-duce
something pleasing, is always after the dollar,
He is not in business far the encouragement of are al011e.
The work mtlst sell goods. There is nothing, except showing
the goods themsdves, that will d(l this so effecti~Tcly <IS well
prepared ~l11dfinely printed illustrations.; or .• better still, a
combination of illustration and harmony of colors which is at
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once pleasing to the eye and accentuates the picture. This
must be most carefully done, however. No one realizes .better
than a competent salesman that a photograph rarely pro-duces
the desired impression if used for cut-making as it
comes from the photographer. It must go through the hands
of an artist who retouches, in other words brings out by
means of paints the details of the goods as they arc plainly
discerllable and obliterates all disfiguring features.
A grc<it deal of the high-grade advertising of today is of
the .H. issouri "shcl\v me" variety-illustrations by living mo-dels
actually llsing the article-and there is no doubt that it
is m.ost effective, at the same time being capable of very
artistic treatmellt. Of necessity, illustrations of this charac~
ter must be finely printed in order that the story may be told
in its most seductive manner.
Other firms, employ high-grade printing to the eXclusion
of samllles and almost to the exclusion of the personal sate,s-man.
This is done by the use of three or four color plates,
iaithfutly reproducing the colors of the goods. In time to
come this means of conveying to the purcl1aser a correct
understanding of the nature and quality of the goods will
be more and more employed. The demand of the public and
the efforts of the printing salesman will be a potent {actor in
bringing this ahout,
Higb~grade printing is not confined to the catalogue, al-though
this is usually the most pretentious publication of a
finn. Circulars have largely gone out of date for high-grade
advertising and have hettn supplanted by the booklet, which
offers greater ovportunity for attradi~'encss and creates a
better first impression. The letter-head) invoice and state-ment
should all bear out the good impression created by cata-logue
or booklet.
The true printing salesman recognizes the fact that high-grade
ptinting is not always, or even ofte.n, ornamentaL It
may be severely plain in its make-up. It is essential, how-ever,
that it should have character and be done in a studied,
'workmanlike manner. It may be artistic if plain.
As rdated to advertising·, printing is merely the dress in
which it goes fonh) and high-grade printing is its best suit
of clothes. It is merely so mueh display, unless there is a
story behind it, and that !3tory 111Ustbe most convincingly
told. A smart talker appropriately dressed will be a power
in selling" goods. The Ulan behilJd the "mon" will entertain
a well dressed visitor,. but if he is going to purchase he wants
to knuw all about the goods and the values that are offered
him. Therefore it is essential that after the introduction
the information be complde and the argume1Jt convincing.
The salesman should sell high-grade printing with a view
to properly introducing high-grade argument, The result
cannot fail to be high-grade business,
ii BERRY BROTHERS'
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II
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WRITE TODAY FOR INFORMATION AND PRICES
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NEW'0" VARNISH MANUFACTURERS CH'CAOO
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New Factories.
Wilson's Automatic Musk. Leaf Furniture Company 15
a new corporation that will establish a plant in Portland,
Oregon.
A. J. Kingsley, Margaret \rVhite and J. !or Teal have
organized the Oregon ChaiT Company at Portland, Or~g(J11
They have $75,000 capital.
\Villiam 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. E. Wrttling is the principal
promoter. Several state officials are stockholders in the
project.
B. O. Jackson, \V. W. and H. W. Ort have organized
the Jackson-Ort Company with $5,000 capital stock, all paid
in, to establish a plant and make beds and mattresses in At-lanta,
Georgia.
The Lake Geneva Piallo Stool Company is a new Illinois
corporation capitalized at $15,000, with the purpose of oper-ating
in \Visconsin. The company will start business in
the old plant of tht, 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, 1no. He has purchased the patents and
patterns of the kitchen cabinets formerly n)ade by H, C. Clark
and \vill conl1ne himself to that line at the start, but expects
to add other lines later.
Big Business With Little Profit.
Over sixty members attended the semi-annual meeting of
the National Association of Case Goods Manufacturers held
in Chicago during the second week of November. Secre·
tary 1. S. Linton of Grand Rapids, J\.Iich., reported that,
judged from the olltput of the factories, the past year was
the most prosperous in the history of the association. "The
capacity of all plants of the association was taxed to its ut-most
and the output shows an increase of over $5,000,000
over any previous year of our organization," he said. "But
unless we can secure the proper kind of labor for our work
the business next year will be depreciated harmfully. Every
member of the association needs lahar-men who can get the
timber out for us and men who can get out our products."
However, the profits on the last year's business were not
in proportion to the amount of goods produced. As a matter
of fact the mirgin between actual cost and selling prices had
been nearly wiped out by the increased cost of raw materials
and the lack of desirable labor. Therefore an advance of
ten per cent in prices was ordered to take effect on January
1, 1.907.
.7I.RTItSsYeI-2'f
From the Unel of the Luce Funiiture Co., Graud a.pid&. Mich.
LIGHT FROM THE SOUTH.
How a Kentucky Furniture Dealer Meets Mail Order Com-petition.
}1erchants from the South are generally supposed to be
slow-going, lacking in energy, enterprise and other qualities
that contribute to the success of retail business. After
travelillg through the South, men of the East, North and
Great \iVest frequently declare that what the South most
needs is some of the "git-up and git" that is practiced in
other sections of the country. Such has heen the condition
for lllany years, but it appears that a change has been tak-ing
place, or has already bee1l effected, and that some of the
Why Not Order?
Say a dozeD, or more Montgomery
Iron Display Couch Trucks sent you
on approval? If not satisfactory they can be
retumed at no expense to you whatever,
while the price asked is but a trifle, com-pared
10 the convenience they afford and
the economy ,they represent in the saving
of floor space.
Thirty_two couches mounted on the
Montgomery Iron Display Couch Trucks
occupy the same floor space as twelve dis-played
in the usual manner.
Wrile for catalogue giving full descrip_
tion and price in the different finishes, to·
gether with iliustrations demonstrating the
use of the Giant Short Rail Bed Fastener
fn Iron Beds. Manufactured by
H. J. MONTGOMERY
PATENTl:lH
Silver Creek, New York, U~ S. A.
D"nnis Wire and lron Co., Canadian Manu-facturers,
London, Onto
merchants at leas.t. arc now wide awake-fully \lP to dale in
their business mCthcds. At any rate, traveling sales1llen
and others who, a few years ago, had !liuch to say ~lbout the
lack of ellergy and ambition in the South, no\v declare that
the SOtlthern merchants arc "coming to the front" in the
matter of methods and means for getting trade and holding it.
That the merchant!:; of the South h"ve made great progress
in the past fevv· years must be conceded. They are not only
alive to the advantages of advertisilig, but they seem to be
less worried by competition than those in other sections of
the country. 1\" orthern merchallts '1Nould hardly think of
looking to the South for pointers as to bow to meet mai1-
order competition, but while many of them have been be\vail-ing
their prospective toss of track a Kentucky fumlture dealer
seems to have found a way to convince the lleople in his field
that it is not to their advantage: to patroni2e the mail-order
bouses. His method is fully divulged in an advertisement
which he nsed recently 111 the newspapers and also in the
form of a cil'cu1ar letler, of ",,'hieb the fotlowillg is a copy:
LET'S ITAVE A TALK.
Let us have an honest, eanlest talk about your furniture
buying. J--Tave yOU been buying from Chicago mail order
houses? If so, read carefully the comparisons which we
show belO\v.
\\.Te have olle of these "Buyers' Guides" bdore us in pre-paring
tlyi5 c.opy, and the comparison is not guesswork. '.tVc
will show you where you can save morey-say nothing of
building up 1ll01lster railroad companies and belping oat Chi-cago
buslness houses, which at the same time weakens your
country town, dr,l\C'v"sdowll the market for your produ(~c, and
lcssens the va1ne of your o\vn land in favor of real cstate in
the Korth, and then these people don't credit anyone. Kat
one in a thous;md has thought of this, and if yoU will read
carefully yon will see we can actually save you moncy.
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This Chicago catalogue quotes a
seat dillinglChair, per set of six at..
"-dd frelgh on 72 pounds.. .
Makl11g a total of
Deduct au regular PTlf:C
plain, double cane
. ,.$3.75
... 1.25
... $5.00
3.50
. ..... $7. J I
7.25
Leaves net
They ma
Add freigh
gain to yon of., . . $1. 50
e a big howl about a cotton felt mattress at. $7.40
on 44 pDunds... . , . .80
]I.'fakes the cost to you at depot.
Our regut r price is". . .
. ..... $8.20
. .. 8.00
Here we s
They gi
The freigh
ve yOU __ . . .
e a glowing description of an 1ron
on the bed is.,.
.... $ .20
bed at. , .. $6.30
. .. 1.07
The cost t( you ;1t depot is.
\Ve give y( t1 a better one for.
Leavillg a let saving of. . $ .12
This catalogue makes a big noise abont a solid oak
(-j foot extet 5.ion tabte and quotes a price of. . ..... $11.85
It weighs 2 [) pounds; freight is. 1.90
And it CC\ts you ..
Dedtlct OUI regular price.
. $13.75
12.50
And we sa e you just , $1.25
"\Ve COlli take up this whole pJ.per in giving comparisons,
and ill <'ve y instance it would be in our favor. We have
this cata1.o lC from one of the largest concerns in thc North,
and call 5h )V....yOll the pages alld description if you care to
see.
The Sd wab & Trieber Mirror Manufacturing Company,
Brooklyn, Y., h<15 been incorporated. The capital stock
is $30,000, l1'd the il1Corporators are L Schwab and G. 1J.
Treiber of rooklyn and \iVilliam H. Ricdelt of Yonkers.
by She.boygan Nove.lty Co., Shebo.,.ZlII.n. Wis.
...
40 -""1Vl.I9..H1G
7(N?
An Interesting Plant.
On,e of the most interesting plants lately visited by a rep-resentative
of the Artisan is that of the Hard Manufacturing
Company of Buffalo, N. Y. They manufacture metal beds
and a full line of bedding, employing over 200 hands, and
having more than two acres of floor space in their plant.
The interesting feature was that all their beds and cribs arc
machine made instead of foundry made. They have no cu-pola
and do not use a pound of cast iron in their work. Ev-every
casting is a piece of annealed malleable iron which is
7IR'T' IS' JI.l'1
3 0/ ee
stead of $5, the amount allowed by the county court for bur-ial
of paupers. The bill was presented immediately after
the funeral, but was held up as the judges believed it was ex-cessive.
Hendershot, a farmhand, accidentally shot himself white
hunting on the Platte river, near Edgerton, and the body was
turned over to the coroner of Platte county, who engaged
Undertaker McComas. After ,Mr. McComas' explanation
the judges decided to pay the bilL
"Yes, it's true,"said one of the judges, "that the country
ground and drilled to exactly fit the rods and pipe which go
thtolIgh. A dozen or more huge presses are used to set these
castings into place delivering" a pressure on thorn of from
twenty to thirty tons, depending on the size of the castings.
A lin'eof these presses is here illustrated at work and it is
eVideMt that 'the goods thus made are absolutely indestruc-tible.
Oile can ta1.::c"a.piece of this malleable iron and flat-ten
it\'ut on an anvil, in the same way that you can wrought
iron. Their manager told the writer that every bed and
crib that they send out had a !twenty-five years guarantee on
it and certainly they make-vbry, smooth, nice clean goods,
which ,we think it would pay '~urreaders to investigate.
Country People Respect the Dead.
"You see" we're in the coup try down -there, and we have
to give them a decent burial in the country. In the city, here,
it doesn't matter. Nail fOUI1boards together and another
board at each end, dump 'em! in and cover 'em up-that's a .
pauper burial in the city, but: in the country they wouldn't
stand for it for a minute. If we buried a pauper like that
down in Platte county they Jould run us out of town. It
would make no difference whether the pauper was known or
not, or whether he had "any friends; they'd take up a collec-tion
anyhow, and give him a decent buriaL"
These remarks were made recently to the county court
in St. Joseph, 1'10., by J. M. McComas, undertaker at Edger-ton,
Mo., in explaining why his bill against Buchanan county
for burial of Harvey Hendershot in April, 1,.905,was $22 in-people
won't stand for the pauper burial as we know it here.
And then, on the other hand, a person of means can die fifty
per cent cheaper in a small country town than he can in the
city, and get just as good a burial."
The plant of the Standard Chair Company at Union City,
Penn., was totally destroyed by fire November 14. The loss
was over $100,000 with $70,000 insurance. The owners, Roy
Church, Ray Fenno and Orville Hatch, announce that the
plant will be rebuilt.
Furniture Dealers need have no more
fear. With the use of Cline's Caster
Cup one table may be placed on top
of another without injUry. Made in
two sizes in the following finishes: Oak, Mahogany and
Rosewood. Special prepared feet bottom, preventing sweat
marks, scratching, etc.
Price: 2]4:in. per 100. $3.50, 3)j in. per 100. $4.50
We also manufacture the mo.t reliable Card Holder on
the market. :: Write for our Dew 40 pUe ,CataloBue.
L. Cline Mfg. Co.. 123. Wabash Ave., Chicago
MICHIGAN
Co.,
Rochford, Ill.
nl•ture
DR ENTIRE LINE (many of
hem new patterns) of
• Closets
41
Mechanics
CHINA CLOSET.
Ready for Delivery
The White
Classified Directory
POCKET EDITION
Manufacturers of Furniture, Pianos, Organs, Refrigera-tors,
Interior Finishes, Bedding and kindred goods Classi-fied
by states, towns and trades. Send in your order im-mediately.
Price $5,
WI.ite Printing Co., Grand Rapid., Mivl..
Ina
and
Buffets
ill be on exbibition on the Third
loor of the
Furnit re Manufacturers' Exhibition
Buildi g, 1319 Michigan Avenue,
Chica 0, Ill. "t(' "t(' "t('
n charge of
s. J. Le ROY9 J. E. Hanvey.
Made by Mechanics Furniture Co., Rockford. III.
Would Punish Railroads for Delays.
The ::\Icrchants' & Travelers' Association of Pbiladelphia
has ad pted Tcsoluti()Jls favoring the penalizing of railroads
\vhere he delays in shipments exceed a reasonable time.
The as ociation will join with I thirty-three other commercial
bodies throug-hout t.he country, representing a membership
of 200, 00, and institute a vigofollS crusade to enlist the sym-pathy
a HI support of congress for this rdorm in freight tranS-port;:,
ti 11.
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New Style Folding Beds.
"The old fashioned upright folding bed is out of date,"
said Morris Heyman of the Heyman Company, Grand Rap-
Made by Pioneer Manufacturing Co., Dettoit, Mich.
ids, Mich., when· his attention was called to the statement
credited to Rosenthal & Gumberts of Evansville, Ind., in
which they noted a great falling off in the demand for the
once-popular piece of furniture. "I don't know that we afe
selling as mally folding heds as we did formerly, but that de-pends
on how far back yot! go. vVe are certainly not selling
as many as we did ten or twelve years ago, when there was
a rage for foldillg beds, hut we are selling lots of sofa beds,
sanitary couches, cOllvertible davenports and the like. The
mantel folding bed is a gooQ. seiter and I think that taking
all the new styles together we are putting out just as many
folding beds as we did five or six years ago."
Owen; R.Chaffee of the firm of Young & Chaffee, Grand
Rapids, discussing- the same subject, said: "'1I,'e hay€ had
No. 309. Made by Robbins Table Co. OWOHO, Micb.
a good del11;twl for folding beds during the past few months.
The demand sometimes seel11s. to be spasmodic, I suppose
it is due to the season. Rents are high and maliy people find
it necessary to economize in the matter of space. 'J'he old
fashioned folding hed is out of style, but there are plenty of
substitutes. The 'Silnplicity,' made by the Jamestown
Lounge COl11pany, is one of our best sellers."
INDEX TO ADVERTISEMENTS 1
5
Woodard Furniture Co.
Yeager Furniture Co ..
8
. .13
Ameril'<UDl'harmaeal Co ...
Alaska Refrigerator ClI.
lmrneK, W. .1<•• &. John, Co.
Belding-Hall Mfg. Co.
Berry nl."others
BO('kstt'ge ]<Ul'1liture Co 24
Bosj;;e Furniture C(II. . ·~5
'Challengt' .Retrlgeratol." Co. . .20
-ehfeftgo ""ood Fini!lhing Co. 3
Cline, L•• l'11g. Co. 40
'Conrey-Da,vi~ Mfg. Co. b2
Conrll'!Y, n. L., FurnJtur!." Co.. . .112
Eva,ns,·tlle "Metlll Bed ('0.
Fi!>her, C. A.,. & Co ..
:}'ord &. Jahnson Co.
'FrilWO Sy!ltem
Globe J<'urntture Co ...
G. R. Ca",tel."Cup Co.
G. R. Chair Co.
G. R. Hllm) Screw Co.
Gl'IInd Trunk Ry.
Hal."dMfg. Co.
Hasslel.", Owen C., Co.
Hoffman Bl'others Co.
Horn Bros. Mfg. Co.
Hotel rautUnd
Illinois Central Ry.
Imperial I"llrniture Co.
Inter~State Hotel Co.
Invincible Table Fastener Co.
Jamestown T.Olmge Co.
Karges li'urniture C9.
Kauffman "l1g. C(II..
Lentz Table Co. 9
Luce )<'urnltnre Co. . 16
Mfdnt'. Ex. Bldg. Co., Chicago Cover
Mecbanics' J1'urnitul"e Co. . ... 41
· .32
. .. 29
8
5
. : .24
.................. 13
.al
.3::1
.. ,13
.15
. :n
. IS
. 16
.............. 12
· .4-2
. Cover
. .... 24
.. 12
l\olfctrs'. Furn Ex., Chi(~lIgo.
~Ulchigan Centrlll R)·.
Miller, Eli D., & (:0.
Montgllmt>ry, H. ,J.
::\-[oon Desk (~o.
Morton Hou~e .... 12
l\lobile &. Ohio R)·, . 20
Murphy Chair ()o. .23
l\[uMkegon "alley Furniture Co. . .... 21
Xorth!."rn Flll."nitllre Co. . .1.
N"elson-3-1aUer Furniture Co. . .Cover
Olsen, O. C. 8., 81; (~o. . .. ~7·35-:~8-n
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