Weekly Artisan; 1910-02-12

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Issue of a furniture trade magazine published weekly in Grand Rapids, Mich, starting in 1879. and GRAND RAPIDS DBLIC LIBR1RY ~~~==~~ GRAND RAPIDS. MICH••FEBRUARY 12. 1910 Our No. 171 Patented Sand Belt Machine will sand flat surfaces and irregular shapes, including mouldings, better and faster than any other process. Nearly 1000 of our Sanders now in use by your competitors. Why give them an advantage over you in your sanding department? We also manufacture special patented Sanding and Mortising Machines that are proving extremely profitable to chair manufacturers. Ask for CATALOG "E" No. 171 SAND BELT MACHINE. WYSONG & MILES CO., W Cedar St. and Sou. R. R. Greensboro, N. C. "l~heBest Truck---The Strongest Truck This is the famous Gillette Roller Bearing Factory Truck---the truck on which it is said, "One man can move a load of 3000 pounds while with the other trucks it takes three men." This is the truck that is strong where others are weak---the truck that has an unhreakable malleable iron fork. This is the truck YOU are looking for if you wish to invest zn rather than waste money on factory trucks. Gillette Roller Bearing CO. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. ----------.- ,E The Lightest Running, Longest Lasting Truck WEEKLY ARTISAN . ~----------- •• - ---.----------------------------.---------- ••••••••••• _--- ••• _-- • _. -I One of Our New FIBER·RUSH PATTERNS Freight Shipment Insured PLACE YOUR ORDERS NOW Our greatly enlarged line of Fiber ..Rush Furniture and our recently increased facilities for its manufacture, insure a wide variety to select from and prompt ship.. ment of orders. Genuine Fiber-Rush Furniture is manufactured solely by The Ford & Johnson Co. . Th.e following salesmen will represent the Company in the respective terntones: W. B. Chase ( J. B. Gough ~ C. G. Shaw J. N. Mehornay Paul Clark Tom Woodbury C. F. Lehman E. A. Sibley J. R. Walters SALESMEN 1910 Pacific Coast J. I. Brewer J. R. Cline J. C. Hubbard L. D. Green F. H. Waterbury J. S. Boyer F. E. Hunn L. H. Steiner A. H. Jennings Southwest Michigan and Ohio Central South Southeast City of Chicago Floor salesman Floor salesman Floor salesman City of Chicago THE FORD & JOHNSON CO. Iowa, Nebraska Missouri and Colo. Illinois and Indiana Northwest City of Chicago Credit Department Sales Manager II I&.-----.. . .--------. .. ......---- - ---- -"---------.-----------------------------i Show Room: 1435-37 Wabash Avenue. Chicago Warehouse: 16th Street and Indiana Avenue, Chicago. Factory: Michigan City, Indiana. IIj . -- -. 2 WEEKLY ARTISAN Complete lines of samples are displayed at 1411Michigan Ave .. Chicago, and in the Furniture Exhibition Building, Evansville, THE KARGES FURNITURE CO. Manufacturers of Chamber SUItes, Wardrobes, Chiffoniers, Odd Dressers, Chlfforobes. THE BOSSE FURNITURE CO. Manufacturers of Kitchen Cabinets, K D. Wardrobes, Cupboards and Safes, In ImitatIOn golden oak, plain oak and quartered oak. THE WORLD FURNITURE CO. Manufacturers of Mantel and Upnght Folding Beds, Buffets, Hall Trees, China Closets,. Combination Book and Library Cases. Made by The Karges FurnIture Co Evansville is the great mixed car loading center of the United States, made so by the Big Six Association . ...... • • • • __ • • • • • ~e:- .. _ •• - •• _. - - - • • • • • - - - ••• • - '"' THE GLOBE FURNITURE CO. Manufacturers of Sideboards In plam oak, Imitation quartered oak, and sohd quartered oak, Chamber Suites, Odd Dressers, Beds and Chiffoniers In umtahon quartered oak, lr<lltatlon mahogany, and imitation golden oak THE BOCKSTEGE FURNITURE co. Manufacturers of the "Superior" Line of Parlor, Library, Dlnmg and Dressing Tables THE METAL FURNITURE CO. Manufacturers of "Hygiene" Guaranteed Brass and Iron Beds. Cnbs, WlIe Spnngs and Cots WEEKLY ARTISAN 3 I IIII I •II I • Made bv World Furllllure Company. Made by Karges Furllllure Comp,ny. Made by Bockslege Furlllture Co. Made by Bockstege Furlllture Co "I ..-----~._--._...-----. ..._._--_._-------_.~._~----~---.-_-.-_...I_-_. II I•II I •• I •II I •• •• I II ••I I II I ._ ...... 4 \\/EEKLY ARTISAN ..__ .. -_ - __ -_._.._------------------- 80 81II, II!!I ,•IIIII II, I ._e ••••• __ •..•..•• ..•••.•.••. . .. - ~ Have you had anything from The Luce Furniture Co. lately? Bedroom and Dining Room equipment in profusion. Time---Now. Place---Grand Rapids. ..-- ...._. .- _. .- --_.. ..- .-- _. -----------------------------------------_ I ..... C"ALLENGE REfRIGERATOR COMPANY GRAND HAVEN, MICH., U. S. A. 5 COMPLETE LINES Of REfRIGERATORS AT RIG"T PRICES SEND FOR NEW CATALOGUE AND LET US NAME YOU PRICE. GRAND RAPIDS PUBLIC LIBRARY 30th Year-No. 33 GRAND RAPIDS, MICH., FEBRUARY 12, 1910 Issued Weekly CONNELLSVILLE COKE TAKES A TUMBLE Various Theories as to thc~ Causes and Effects of the Decline of Twenty Per Cent in Prices. Adv1ces from P1ttsburg Ieport the greatest dechne in the pnce of coke ever 1ecorded m a smgle week Smce last Satur-day Connellsvdle coke has dropped from $2 50 per ton to $2 and sales have been made at $1.90 for spot dellvery while contract coke, on whIch the manufacturers were asking $2.65 a ~,eek ago IS be111goffered at $2 25. The mdependent operators m the Connellsvdle legion are demorahzed T,,,o meetmgs have been held sl11cethe middle of last week Efforts al e bemg made 10 1eVlVe the merger plan which faded last yeal as the only solutIon to the SltU-atlOl1 whIle steel corporatIOn 111fluences have volunteered to assist the 1I1dependents 111 fOlmmg a sellmg agency. 0, er-plOductlOn 111 the Connellsvdle field, coupled with the fadure of the steel corp01 atIon to take coke from the open malket for the filst half of the year, m as large quantItIes as II as expected, 15 blamed for the present situation, but thele IS a strong SUSpicion that the present conditIon of the indus-t!} 1Sthe 1esult of a plan to force the mdependent operators mto the combine and thm IestOle pnces to figures that ruled a month ago, or hlghel, and thus preven1 a recurrence of such a state of affairs as has existed thIs "eek It IS a fact, hO\, e\ eI, that smce the first of the year the olltpUt of the Connellsville IeglOn has mcreased steaddy, while shIpments have fallen off Last "eek, the plOductlOn for the upper and 101'e111 Connellsvdle fields was 474,496 tons, the hIghest 111 the histOl y of the 1 eglOn Up to last November the recOld for a smgle week's output "as 426,000 tons, made clUl1l1gthe heIght of the 1907 boom It 1Sconceded that 1£ the pnce of coke remains at $2 or less in the Connellsvdle region It wdl soon cause a decline in the cost of such val1et!es of bituminous coal as are used for heat1l1g pUlposes-that householde1 s "ho a1e now bUlning coal p1efer to use coke and wiII qUIckly change If plices are to IUna1l1 a" at p1esent quoted Such a movement would not be t 'epected to affect the cost of soft or steam coal ho\\ever Few factories ale equip-ped WIth coke-bUlnmg gi ates and It would have to decIme much 11101ethan fifty cents a ton in the pnce of coke or the hlgher glade of blltuminolls coal to make it profitable fOl manufactUl el s to use It for steam plOduc1l1g purposes. Some of the leaders of labOl orga111Latiom, particularly the m1l1ers have advanced the Idea that the decline in the pnce of coke has been forced hy what they call the Coal Trust and that is the fil st move of the operators against the demand of the miners for higher wages-that the purpose is to cut prices of not only coke but all kmds of coal and thus create an excuse for refusing an increase or perhaps for cut-tmg the present scale of wage. vVhlle lower pnces for fuel '" ould be heartily welcomed by nearly .111 consumers very few Will expect the producers to 3dopt the pollcy predICted by the labor leaders and st!ll fei\ er "III expect any decrease m their fuel bIlls dunng the com111gsixty days. Failure to Make Sales. A merchant, a manufacturer of interior finishes and two newspaper men met at a table in a popular cafe in Grand Rapids recently and m the course of the conversation that ensued the manufacturer remarked: "I call(>clat} our store yesterday and asked for a mackintosh. The man 111 charge of the clothmg department smiled and re-marked that you had not had one 111 :,tock in the past ten years. He called other salesmen to his side and '>tated the object of my call. The salesman regarded me as an escaped lunatic and inti-mated that I should be taken into custody. I visited other de-partment stores but was unable to purchase a mackintosh. I '>pend much of my tIme in the woods and need such a garment vel J much" ..If thet e is anythmg that will make me wild It is the 1eport of such an eApenence as you had at our store.," re-marked tht merchant "\Vhy we have mackintoshes in stock at thIS moment-we alway" have them in stock in season. I am tempted to discharge the whole outfit of wooden headed salesmen. Your expe nence was the result of their faIlure to keep informed a" to what we have in stock." The merchant, who is a thorough bU"ll1e"sman, pushed his roast beef aSide and it wa" pLlinly evtdent that his appetite had been spoilcd. I have had under considet ation for some time the employ-ment of· a rule reqmring salesmen to report why sales have not been made to callers. While the enforcement of the rule would place a lot of additional work upon the office I believe it would prove profitable," the merchant continued, picking daintily at a salad. "We introduced the 1U1e~everal years ago," the manufac-turer remclrked, "and have profited thereby Whenever we fail to secure an order we have sought, I am promptly informed why. It IS a good 1ule and I think it will be adopted by merchants and manufacturers generally when its value IS understood." WEEKLY ARTISAN RETAIL FURNITURE ADVERTISING Conducted by H. H. STALKER. Dealers Are Urged to Send in Samples of Their Advertisements and to Offer Any Suggestionl!l and Helps Which They Believe Will Be of Benefit to Others. This Department Aims to Be of Practical Sel."vice. Help Us to Make It So. Here's an 1dea f01 a wmdow ch~pla} Beg, hm HJ\\ or sk,d three wax figures, two of men and one woman Then, m }om wmdow, make a regular stage setting sho\\ mg one large room beautifully and tastefully furnished Wlth the figm e ot a man and woman comfortably pOS1tioned. Suppo:Ol11g' ou mahe 1t dllling room scene with table set for suppeI. Have man and woman at table, with an appropnate settlllg about them ot buffet, chllla cabmet, chaus, etc Go I11tO deta1l perfecth ~!!iiii<a~a?m This Is a Positive $8 Styled "Arts and Crafts" Rut we t60k all :\ Grand Rapido mak-er had left on Jan, 1 and offer them Monday at each onl) Rocker 0 Eal J) Lngll.;;h finlbh t)f course-beautlfull) '\\&'\.ed-made UP flom hea'lh dlnlE>llbfon€'d quarter sawed oak The pOJ::>t.,: and allns ale hand <;hapeu-the seat i,;; full sprtngNl and co\elcd "ah folnC\ Boston leather It s one of those- ma<s-sh e, unIque. 'E't thorough Iv comfortable pit."cE's that will loom up nlo~t an'\" hE'te S""e them in the windo\\ s-see othe-r exanlph:-,;; of FtlllutLll e llnoerpl iCIng In the wlnJo\'\ <,.,- see what a lILG1~ alnOllnt of money J. au 11 c;ave b) wdlkln a mel p block 01 '0 tarthel than usual It WILL pay) ou The Omaha Furniture & Carpet Co., 1209- 211-1213Farnam St. Have food on the table, dIshes on the buffet w1th fruit in them, fancy d1shes 1ll the chllla closet, a vase of fio\\ ers on top, etl Give it the atmosphere of a real home. Then have a d1Vldlllg partttion. Picture a d1sconsolate, lonesome ll1dn \\ ho room., and boards. Use old furnIture, out of date, such as 1mght be found 111a boardlllg house Have an old wa.,lbtancl \\ 1th old style pitcher and bowl and other fur11lshings to match Make the sett111g as forlorn and cheerless as you can Then w1th ap-propriately worded signs, not so conspicuous as to dIsturb the harmony, suggest the d1fference and urge young folks to get married and hve m comfort The contrast may be made so vi-vid that it cannot fall of the desired effect. It w111touch an d1h\\ e1ing Ch01d in the heal t of many a s111gle person, It w111 get them to thmk1l1g along hnes calculated to l!lcrease the sales ot t1111l1tule and vv 111cduse some d1latory persohs to hurry the hdpP\ e\ lilt '\ ot only that, but 1t w1ll attract general attentlOn, uuse fay orable comment, make other sales, etc. Yes, certainly, It \\111 be a httle trouble It will take time and labor. But it \\ 111also pdY and vI 111add to your reputatlOn and presttge in the commu11lty You l111ght carry out the plan throughout the This Is a Positive $8 Styled "Arts and Crafts" Rocker But we tlHlk all a Grand Rapids mak-er had left on lall. I and offer them Monday at each only Early Bngllsh tinlbb, of course-beautifully waxed-made up from heavily dimensIoned quarter saw...:! oak The PUbts and arms are band shaped-the seat Is full sprJnged and covered with fane, Boston leather It'., one of those ma~· slve, u;'lqu.., 'at thoroughlv comfortable pieces that wlll loom up most anvwhet e See them in the wlndows--see other examples of Furnitule underpIIClng In the wtnlo\\b-see what a Huon amount of money you II save b) walkln a mere block 01 _0 brthel than usual It WILL pay )OU The Omaha Furniture & Carpet Co.• 1209-:2U-1213Farnam St. hou~e, c1hplaymg one room at a tIme coztly and artIstIcally ar-ranged. The Omaha Furniture & Carpet company has spoiled a 111lghty good "ad" WIth a hideous, heavy border which complete-ly overshadO\\ s everything else The printer is probably at fault, but If the "ad" man had laid out his work and specified the n~ht k1l1d of bo1 cler, it would not have occurred. The "ad" 15 reproduced as 1t came 111 and I have also reproduced It w1th conect bordel treatment The improvement is ObVlOUS. Thi5 lead., me to almost plead w1th you to watch these details. ... WEEKLY ARTISAN 7 ._. -. --. _. ----- .-- _-- -... ._. ,. - - - ----------_._-~._-_._----~ In GRAND RAPIDS Only, January, 1910, OLD SPACE, Furniture Exhibition Bldg" Fourth Floor. The UDELL Line MANY NEW ONES in Library Bookcases, Medicine Cabinets, Ladies' Desks, Commodes, Sheet Music Cabinets, Folding Tables, Piano Player Roll Cabinets. A Lme whIch IS well worth &010& to .ee A Lme that you should have a complete catalog of. The fact that you have not our catalog can only be rectIfied by WrIting for your copy to-day. THE UDELL WORKS INDIANAPOLIS, IND. ~.- , --~ --------•••-•••-•••-----w-e -•-•••---a -••-• -----•-• - -~-----------,-------_.------ .. --_ ... _._~ IT PAYS I 'lay It agall1, good (hsplay 15 half the "acl." Don't overlook it Tn the~e ddY~ of :,trel1UOU~competJtion one is inclined to bear down too heavIly on pnce, and not enough on quality. Puce b a good thing to feature, because folks hke to know the cost of ihings that interest them On the other hand there are many who are Just as much concerned about quahty; they be-heve in buying the best, and the latter CL1SS, are, in the last anal- YSIS,the best class to cater to. 1£ you gain a reputation for reliablhty, when you do see fit to have a sale your announce-ments WIll carry greater weight, and consequently stronger pull-ll1g power. Let the other fellow do the price slashing; the fl anilc spell-bll1dll1g stunt. Do you go quietly, persistently, and everla"tll1g after the kl11dof trade that stIcks, the hl11dthat I~ not carned away WIth every wind that blows, but which is determined to buy good goods, realIze that a fair return must be paId, and know where to go to get what they want. It IS perhaps slmver to blllld up a trade of thIS character, but its a hedp more sailsfYll1g"111 the end, and more profitable too. And on top of all that yon and yonr bn,ines, command twice the 1 e,pect of the community. Procrastination. Is saId to be the thief of tIme, but a bettel lendellng, it 5eel115to the v,nter, is, "ProcrastmatlOn IS the thief of pI os-pellty" Many a battle has been lo~t because of procrastI-natIOn, and many a bml11ess fallure could have been avOIded kid the manager had the wisdom and foreSIght to Sleze on the best thmg S before It was too late In the manufactUl e of furnIture thIS IS peculiarly the case Here IS a new machl11e, that WIll do a thIrd more than the old one, and do It better. Jones, who is a practical man, at once sees the advantage of It. whlle Brown, who has been runnmg his factory for a long tune, but runnl11g It from the office de"k instead of in the mIll, that IS, vvithout makl11g hImself famlhar WIth every depart-ment, from the lumber yard to the ShlPPl11g room, sees no reason why he should throw out IllS old machine and put in the new one just because the man who is trying to sell It to h1111knows hIS business and is a smooth talker. Probably the worst case of plOcrastination in the furniture Llctory IS 111the dry kIln Almost every man, w hen it comes to the dry111g of lumber, "is from Mlssoun," and demands tn be shown He knows perfectly well that there is some-ihmg 'vl0ng 'vlth his kJIn-that there IS too much waste 111mhel ~om£; to the fll1nace, 01 else he shuts hIS eyes to the tl ue condltJon of affall s untIl hIS old kIln ha- dumped hIm off the tIack mto the dItch of bdnkI uptC). If the reflder of tIllS will turn to the advel tJsmg of the Gl and Rapids Veneer vVorhs e\ el y v\eek for the neAt three or four months, and note what far-SIghted furnIture manufactul ers say, he WIll be convinced that there is a way-a llght way-to dry lumber and save enough from the furnace to pay for ItS imtallation 111 a year Procrastination WIll never do this ~v. L. G.'app for Secretary. The MIChigan Artisan takes upon Ibelf the responsi-blht} for suggesting to the membel s of the NatIOnal RetaIl Furniture Dealers' AssociatIon the name of \V L. Grapp of Mmnesota for the office of secletaly. Mr Grapp is endowed 'v Iih the quahftcatlOns necessary for performing the duties of the office successfully and for the greatest advantage of the retaIl furniture trade. He has demonstrated hIS capaCIty to handle large business transactIons as secretary of the Mmne- SOtDRetailers' ASSOCIation He IS resourceful, intelhgent, en-thusiastic, and a capable orgamzer. Not only should he be selected by the national association to fill the office of secre-tary, but a hberal salary should be prOVIded for his services. In the larger field he would render serVIces of greater value to the trade in general than the most optmllstic could antiCI-pate The Al tIsan has not consulted :\Ir GIapp in regard to plesentmg his name to the natIOnal a"soclatlOn for the office of secretary To accept the pOSItion, If elected, might be' detenmentDl to his pnvate intelests. Such a contingency deserves caleful consideratIOn vVlth the tender of the POSI-tIon to Mr Crapp should be an offer of compematlOn that vvould assure his acceptance of the honor Renewed Honor for Mr. Harris. VI L Harris, preSIdent of the New England Furniture and Carpet company of M111neapolis, was re-elected to the presidency of the PubhClty Club of that CIty Vv Ithm the past SIX months two hundred and siAty-elght names were added to the membt rshlp. . ...--- ....--.- ..- ... ..... -- ..-. f--"Be W'ALTER & CO. Manufacturera ot TABLE SLIDES Exclusively ..~ WABASH INDIANA WRITE FOR PRICES AND DISCOUNT. -~-------------,-----------_.-- - _... . ... ..... ------ 8 \\iEEKL"l North Dakota Enterprise. The accompanymg reproduction of an advertIsement mdI-cates that the up-to-date, energetIc, enterpl1smg fm mture dealeb and capable "ad" wnter" al e not all confined to the larger cltIe~ The 01 iginal of the reploductIon occupIed a full page 111 an elght-column paper and most readers WIll be surpnsed \\ hen they note that it was used by a dealer in a small to\\n-DevIl'~ Lake, North Dakota. Mr. Gilbertson has Just opened a ne\\ ±tumture ,tore 111 ,l building that would be consIdered a credIt to mam oldc 1 and GRAND OPENING North Dakota's Greatest Furniture Store JAN 15tl W oea",ewoabeda l\ nlaK a us e-& a a a g"" m .xl' b ~u l4> ,.. 1 nbPu!:t Of~e,. faeanJ en naK h G ndOlJen ~Cee dO Of";\\ oJ<' '<J t'rn n. N OUR\lOnO " !>oo ..,. ....... t.Iy_e.-.~ c.... _ y ......... "' .. w_ r..... """"'-..... ",-O_ ..... f.- __ I \ r~' 520.00 Fancy Blend Pottery 1- • CUSPldor "1:':•• " $1600 D:E -.~_..$225 RUGS E. W. GILBERTSON East fourth Street. Devils Lake, North Oak. much la1 ger town~ than Devil's Lake It is bmli of bI ick and covers a full lot 140:A 2l> feet, and has fom fl001 sIt b mcel} fimshed WIth steel ceIll11g, tasty electnc fi:AtUles and fine ft ont composed partly of pI 1~J11 ~las" \\ h1ch matel wlh aId, l\l IHsht1l1g the large room. The basement I~ fitted as a morgue and IS complete l\l evel \ detail In the basement IS also el dmt plOof loom \d1Ich IS used ao an undertakl11lS room and m thl" h chspla\ecl hh lau:;e ~tock of undertatl1lg good, The 1e111amdel ot the ba-,e111ent h thec1 for packmg "1uplus fml1ltule and I, loaded to the top \\ Ith hh new <;tock \\hlch he 1<;unable to find loom t01 on the othel l1001' The fil st and malll floor IS med f01 the dhpJa\ at hh ele-gant l111eof parlor, dm111groom and beell oom tltll1ltm e \mong the artIcles here dIsplayed are pieces 111metal, oak, of Val IOUS varietIes, black and ell caSSlan walnut, ebo!1\ and mahogany These articles are arranged 111 sets and 111<;mgle pIece" thel e are a1,les between them so that a pelson can pa~s hetween them and get a view of them to excellent advantage A broad stan way leach to the second flool \\ hl(h I' ,11Ianged m the form of a horse shoe, the stail s gomg up thl ot1~h the cen ter of It and the sides extending well to\\ arc! the hont of the bUllding Here is dIsplayed an elegant 11l1Cot rugs, cal pets, ARTISAN curtams, draperies, office furl11ture, ladles' wnt111g desks, etc. The fourth floor is reached by a staIrs 111the rear of thc bmld111g The rear part of thIS floor IS an ang ed 111to rooms \\ hel e }Ir and 1\1rs GIlbertson reOJde The flont, a large room, J" arranged as a chapel, for use in lodge funerals amI. such events' It b eqmpped WIth a chapel organ, pedestal, etc There IS a large closed elevator 111the rear of the bmldI'1g run111ng from the fOUlth floor to the basement. :Huch taste has been shown 111the arrangement of the bmld-lllg and the clIstl1butlOn of the stock. gIV111gDevII's Lake one of the finest fUll11ture :,tores 111the northwest. On the open111g day and each eve111ng dUll11g the week Mr GIlberbon had the DevIl'<; Lake orchestra present to furnish mu- '-Ie and he clId even thUlg 111hIS power to make his visitors en- JO) to the fullest the comforts and pleasures to be derived fl0111 a \ ISIt to hIs elegant new store. Souvenll s 111the fOlm of small booklets, contain111g pictures of }lr GIlbertson, the store and numerous publIc bUlld1l1gs, wel e gn en the VIsitors. Higher Wages in Germany. RepOl ts on the \\ Olkmg of Germany's compulsOly 111- ~1Jl Ztnce la \\ fUl111sh mfOlmatlOn that IS con <;Idered much more 1el18ble than that obtamed from census reports One of the most ImpOl tant featUles of the 111SUlance reports IS the collec-tIon of e,,-act mformatlon on wage rates among the workmg class ] he amount paId to each worker IS of necessIty recorded \\ It1 each entl y of msUl ance The sum totals supply 1I1ter-estmg data for vanous reglOns, for the dIfferent industries, and espeCIally as 1eg al ds the labonng populatIOn of the em-pn e as a \\ hole S111ce 1900 the m')Uled have been dIVIded into five cate-gOlJes based upon the late of wages, m 1900, among every I 000 \\01 kel t>. 189 \'vel e em olled 111 the first or lowest class; 342 m the second class, 238 m the thIrd; 158 111the fourth; and 73 m the fifth 01 most hIghly paJd class The changes in the COUlse of eIght \ eats ha\ e been remalkabble In the year, 1908 the claSSIficatIOn pel 1,000 \\as as follows FIrst c1at>s (lO\\est), 114, second, 263, tlmd, 243; fourth, 179: fifth, 201 The table shows a mal ked chm111utlOn 111the two lower categones, and a malked1l1CleaSe, practIcally a treblIng, of the em ollment 111 the fifth class of the better paId operatIves. EVJ-dently thele has been a steady movement upward in earnmg PO\\ er flom each clas<; to the ones above it As a result, the avetage wage of the Gelman \\Ork111g populatIOn male and female bas mounted \ el y 1aplClly J he a\elage \\eekl) wage \\as, 111 1891, $495; 111 19°1, $542, and 111 1908, $600 In other WOlds the German wOlk-er's avelage wage \\as m 19°1, 10 per cent greater, and m [90S, 2I pel cent g 1eateI, than m 1891 A Difference in Wood Carvers. PublIshed 111the MichIgan ArtIsan in 1880. "The demand to! clabOl ately cal ved furl11ture IS large, and 111 consequence ~kIlled carvel ~ find ready employment Tho,e of the hIghe<;t ,kIll elle paId \\ agcs equalll11g the salal ies paId to presidents of bank, Several local manufacturers have imported carvers from Italy, France and Germany, hop111g to obta111 high class work-men In thIS respect the} have not been successful \\t 1111e,as a rule, the imported men al e skIllful they are not famIlIar with the work in our shops and slow WIth the tools They lack the energy and qUIckness of the Amencan carver. So long as carv- 111gl' preferred 111ornamentatIOn of furniture it 1<;advI"able f01 manufacturers to employ as many apprentices as po"sIble and place them under competent instructors." (The art of utllI71ng the grain of the w10cl for 01namenta-tlOn \\ as practICally 1111knO\n'v thil ty years ago.) -Ed. ArtIsan ,.. WEEKLY ARTISAN 9 ......, DELAWARE CHAIR CO. DELAWARE OHIO. LARGEST I I "QUALITY" I DOUBLE CANE LINE ~ LEATHER I of J MISSION I CHAIRS, ROCKERS and SETTEES f CATALOCUE TO THE TRADE ONLY. .._---------_._-----_.~._.--._------~----------._--.--- _. ---_._---_._--- - .. ..... .- New Foctories. The Comb111atJon Chall" company ha:, been incorporated to estabhsh a ne,y factOl y at Salem, 01 e N. \\Telter lS plepallng to engage 111the manufactme of office furnitm e in speClal hnes at CentJ aha III Jesse D Sdcott IV dl engage 111the manufactm e of furm-tm e 111the Borreman bmld111gon J uhana street, Pal kersbm g, W. Va. GeOlge S. Brandfield and othel shave 111corp01ated the Hlbbard Furl1lture company capltahzed at $20,000, to estab-hsh a plant at Barnesvdle, Ohio. The Ruby Manufclctm111g company, cdpitalized at $10,- 000 has been incorporated to establish a fact01 y and make desks, bank fmll1m e etc , at H.uby, S C. A newly O1gal1lzed company has engaged in the manufdc-tllle of chair stock 111a bmlcl111gformedy used as a hosiery mIll at \~Test Rumney, near ConcOld, N. H Business men of Opehka, are orgal1lZ111g a company wlth capItal stock $25,000 to $50,000, for the purpose of estab-hshing a "bIg" furl1ltm e fact01 y 111their to\\ n Mayor Moeller of EvansvIlle Ind, i:, negotJat111g wlth a conceln that employs 400 to 600 men 111the manufacturc of school and bank fml1ltme and wants to move to Evansvdle. Adolph Torke, Thomas and Valent111e StJ auss, have 111- COlpOlated the Central Upholstering company, capltahzed at $10,000 to esabhsh a plant anclmanufacture upholstered furl1l-hue dl Sheboygan, \V1S. vV lllldm and Mlchael Haclchgan and Edwal d Conley, school boys, hdye estdblt:,hed a furmture factOly at 121 Tyng stJ eet, Peolld, III They n1clke chdlrs, tabourettes, stand:, dnll 'Sleds and al e sald to be mdk111gmoney \ \ dll11g & Glllm\, U S \, lS the name of a company -_._---~~----- III III .- .~ I I"--------------- . -_.. .. '"I '" cap11ahzecl at $1,25°,000, incOlpOlatecl by Samuel James War-ing, James Elston Wanng of London, Eng., and Sewell Philip Staats of New York to manufacture cab111etsand £mniture in Nell York City. The Johnson l\!anufactur111g company of Thomasville, capitahzed at $10,000 and the Rom111ger Funnture company of \N111E->ton-Salemc,apitahzed at $100,000, are the latest cor-porations formed to engage 111the manufactme of furniture in North Cdrohna The latter succeeds the Rom111ger & Black-burr company. New Furniture Dealers. G B. Webb & Co., have opened theu" new fmniture store at Uniontown, vVash. The Pee Dee Furmture chartered at $4,000 wdl open a new store at Ddlon, S. C. The Greenwood Furniture company have just opened a new store 111Seattle, \\Tash. Thomas VIalker is to open a new furl1lture store in the \;\711k111son budding, Trenton. N J The Washburn company have opened a new furniture 'Store on \\Tater street, DunkJrk, N. Y. C A Buchman, general dealer of Bucyrus, 0, has moved into new quarters and WIll add a line of furnitm e to his stock The Jake Tennenbaum company capital1fec1 at $roo,ooo ,v, 111buy and sell furmture and household goods 111C111cinnati, OhlO The M A Hunt Mathes:, factOly in C111c111natJO, h1O, was damaged by fire to the extent of $500 on FeblUary 3. Insured Mr and Mrs James Boyd have purchd'Sed a bmld111gon Flfth street, Beaumont, Tex, in whIch they wlll opcn a ft1lnltt1l e E->tore George Flowels, manager of the Dover (N H.) Furni-tnre company has reslgned and wdl open a new store for him- :,elf 111the same town Ech\ ard A Myd and Herman IV. \Vengler have incor- 11Hated the \Vengler Furl1lture company to engage 111the let:lll hade at Glasgow, 110 Capltal 'Stock, $15,000 1he (.rlas'STI10:, 1< Ull1lture company has been incorpOl ated to open a ne\v E->teOl11113m11111gham, Ala Then" capital 'Stock l~ lU11ltedto $5,000 and they wlll start bus111esswlth $4,000 pald 111 to WEEKLY ARTISAN /L J\ 10 SPINDLE MACHINE ALSO MADE WITH 12, 15 20 AND 25 SPINDLES DODDS' NEW GEAR DOVETAILING MACHINE This llttle machme has done more to perfect the drawer work of furul ture manufacturers than anythmg else m the furniture trade For fifteen years It has made perfect fittmg ,ermm proof dovetailed stock a POSSI blltty ThiS has been accompllshed at reduced cost as the machme cuts dove tails m gangs of from 9 to 24 at one operatIOn It s "hat others see about your busmess rather than wl1'lt )OU sa} about It that counts In the cash drawer It s the thnll of enthusIasm and the tl ue nng of truth you feel and hear back of the lold type that makes y au buy the thtng ad, el Used ALEXANDER DODDS CO., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Represented by Scbuchart & Schutte at Berlin, Vienna, Stockholm and St Petersbura Represented by Alfred H Schutte at Coloane, Brulsel., Lege, Pa", Muan and Bllboa Represented In Great Bollan and I"land by the Ohver Machinery Co. F S ThomplOn. Mar. 201-203 Dean.gate, Manchester, England ,.. ..- .--- .- - .- --- - ..-~I Palmer's Patent Cluin!! CIamps I I Ihe abo,e cut is taken direct from a photograph, and shows the range of one size only, our No 1, 24-lllch Clamp We make SIX other sizes takIng in stock up to 60 inches "Ide and 2 inches thick, Ours is the most practIcal method of clamping glued stock III use at the present time, Hundreds 01 factories have adopted our way the past year and hundreds more will in the future, Let us show you Let us send you the names 01 nearly 100 factories (only a fraction of our list) who have ordered and reordered many times. Proof positive our way Is the best, A post card will bring it, catalog included, Don't delay, but write today, A. E. PALMER &, SONS, Owosso, MICH. Foreign Representatives: The Projectile Co" London, Eng-land: &chuchardt & Schutte, Berlm, Germany: Alfred H, 8chntte, Cologne, Paris, Brussels, Liege, Milan, Turin, Barcelona, and Bilbo". .. NEW YORK CORRESPONDENCE Paragraphs About Furniture Manufacturers and Dealers in the Metropolitan District. Xew YOlk, leb 10-Business contmues good in a general \\ clj \\ Ith the I11dnufacturers dnd \\ holesalers There are many urdel ~ m Sight "hlch \\ III keep the plants g0l11g all rH;ht. The letaller, ale hay 1I1g ~peL1al sales and all dOIng a lIvely busmess 1 he furmtu! e eAposltJOn which closed Idst Saturday was a good ,ucce,s, as <ho\\ n by the large number of buyers and the lIberal 01 del S placed m all lInes, The buying was up to that of the othel }edrs and all seem very well satisfied, Conditions m gen-eral are Improvmg and look bnght for the current year The Grand Rapids Show Case Company, makmg c1othll1g cabmets and the McKenna Brass company of PIttsburg, making \\ mdo\\ fixture", had exhibits at the clothes show m Madison Square Garden ::'Ia'C LlOn has resigned as manager of the Monarch lurni-ttlte compan}, of 161 E 125th street. The Yogel Cabmet c{)mpany has been incorporated to do t;enelal cabmet \\ork, \\Ith a capltell stock of $10,000, headed by Jacob Schlesmger, 1]0 IV Thirty-fourth street and John Vogel, '216 II' 110th street The Sl1pellor 1\If'tal Bed company WdS incorporated to man-llfaetme bra~s cll1d Iron bcdstedds and furniture, With a capItal stock ot SlU 000, promoted by Isaac Stein, Abraham Stem a 1d S D Dodll1 \ new company IS opeldtmg the plant of the \ntwerp ('1" Y) Chair company. fhoma s D lltzl.;el aId has been dosmg out the stock of the C:;II"beerurl1lttlte compan) of Elmila, N Y. The ), mcteen- '\ meteen company which dealt in furnitUi e at 165 BI oad" a}, has had a petition m bankruptcy filed against them The hablhtles arc scheduled at $9,000, a<sets $5,000 The Thompson Starret company has made a record m rapid ,teel constl uctlon on the new GUllbel Bras, store by completing the big ,teel ~hell 111 about 40 days 1I10re than 22,000,000 pound ~ of ~tee1 "Ill enter mto the completed ctructure About 11,000 tons of steel at the rate of 1,800 tons weekly, were put m place The record for settin~ fire proof tile has before been 115 loads a day but thiS concern has put up 170 loads a day B '\lav retail humture dealer, 347 Third avenue, IS going out of the fUI11Iture busmess altog ether Robert J Ehlers has bought a controlling interest in the IV r, \Vhitne} Chair company of thiS city, and Will conduct It as a Jobbin~ fUll11ture house at 19') Grand street under tbe name of the R J Ehlers company. S Teitelbaum, for 13 years a fur11ltUl e dealer at 91.2 Thml avenue, Manhattan, has opened a new store at ~G2 Broadway, l3rooklyn under the name of C; 1 eitelbau111 & Son Morns Teitelbaum, formerly salesman for E. Schloss & Co, will do the bUYll1g CO\\ pertlm dlt & I saae" 11d,e divided their business clncl (h,,- -.oIvecl J L Isaacs goes "ith the FOld & Johnson C0111pll1Y dnd Hel bel t Cowpel th" ait takes the line of the Hall & L) 01 rur111tule compan}, Choate-Holhster company and others ~leAancler Boller, late fUl11lture buyer for Stern Bros IS the bu, er for the new fur111ture clepartment of i\dams, Fla111- l;an & Co , \\ ho have bmlt a large aclchtion to their store in the Bronx Herbel t CO\\ perth" ait has gone to Chicago V\ here he is ex-hibiting his lines, as well as at Grand Rapids and did not ex- 111blthere L A Corey Will represent hll11 111 Brooklyn J K Rogers, manager for the labnkoid company, cayS that all cotton goods have gone up 25 to 30 per cent in the past vear and that .. Fabnkoid has been advanced 10 per cent, ". _ ...._. .. .. .. ... WEEKLY ARTISAN 11 These Specialties are used all Over the World Power Feed Glue Spreading Machine. SlOgle. Double and Combination. (Patented) (Size. 12 in. to 84 in wide.) Veneer Preue •• different kind. and .ize. (PateRted) Veneer Presses Glue Spreaders Glue Heaters Trucks, Etc" Etc, ._-~ !I ~ Hand Feed Glueing Machine (Patent pendmg.) Many .tyleR and RizeR. No.6 Glue Heater. _ .. ColIe & Son, the parlor goods manufaciunng concern of Brooklyn, N. Y, are c10smg out theIr warerooms at 20 E Twentieth street. Moritz Weisberger, who was in busmess at 372 E Houston street and sold out to the present propnetor, has opened a new store at 44 Avenue C Ehrich Bros., who went mto business at 6th avenue and 23d street 22 years ago and later moved to 287 E1gthth avenue. c1d1m to be the largest dealers 1n beds, bedd111g, Ollc1oth and 1111- oleum in the city. Frank M. Randall 1S mak111g good progress 111gett111g the construction work done on h1S ne" budding and he w1ll use from two to four flOOl s. He expects to be located m the buIld-ing by July. The K111de1company, Dav1d Robertson, manager, has moved 1ts factory from E1ghteenth street and the Ea:"t river, Man-hattan, to Brooklyn. The 1. J. Nolan company has engaged in the retail furniture business at Albany, with $5,000 cap1tal Incorporated by Thom-as J. Nolan, Moses F. Kuwan and otbe1 s The New York and Albany rurmture company has star ted 111business at Albany, N. Y. Foster Bras have put "Cliff" Schutt on the road Armin Herrmann 1S a new furmture dealer in the Blonx M/Jrns M111er & Co, who have a furmture store at 106 Manhattan avenue BlOok1yn, have opened a new store in Man-hattan, at 41 Union Square. Randolph U rlander has opened a ne" cab111et and uphol-stery shop at 681 Amsterdam avenue. ,....------ ----- 0 • _ These saws are made from No.1 Steel and we war-rant every blade. We also carry a full stock of Bev-eled Back Scroll Saws, any length and gauge. Write us for PrIce Llat and discount 31-33 S. Front St., ORAND RAPIDS, MIC". I~------ ....._----- One of the nove1tJes for G1mbe1 Bros.' new store vnll be a roof garden on the top of the bui1d111g for the use of the em-ployes. Em11 BenOlt, late w1th James McCreery & Co, is the new buyer for John Wanamaker. ] ohn Malkin of Schechter & Ma1k111,1299 Third avenue, has left the firm and has opened a new store at 618 N111th avenue. J\lr Schechter cont111ues in business at the other store E. Samuels, furniture dealer at 94 Fifth avenue, Brooklyn, ha:" moved to 4~9 Fifth avenue. Herman Sigall, who was salesman for Max LIOn, 1S now w1th Finkenberg on Third avenue. S. K Pierce & Sons' factory has been taxed to the utmost capaCIty to fill order~. A. P. Brown is the manager. Cheney Bros., who manufacture silks and plushcs at 14'1' Broome street, are moving to the Parker bUl1d1l1g, N1l1th street and Fourth avenue, where they have a 21 years' lease The annex for the upholstery business at 811 Broadway WIll be dropped dnd merged with the new quarters. .-.. Personal Mention. The following paragraph appeared in the Michigan Artis•an on September I, 1880· "During the past week the following commercial 'Salesmen vis1ted Grand RapIds: Joseph S. Hart, Bcndit Drey Co, New York; F. D. Hill, D. W. Selleg, NewbUlg, N. Y.; C. H. Somers, Glover & Willcomb, New York, J. F. Hams, Murphy & Co., Cleveland, 0 ; J. A. Adams, Masury & Son, ChIcago; Thomas D LIlley, S B Vrooman, PhiladelphIa; J. N Murray, C. SId-ney K on 1S & Co., BaltImore, A L SprOUl, FaIrfield (Conn) Rubber company; H ;\. Newkllk, HIlls, Turner & Co., Bos-ton, Mas". .. ._0. . . _ I•• 1ou{s babn DESIGNS AND DETAILS OF FURNITURE 154 Livmgston St. GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN I.-- -- - ..._--------_._-~I CItizens' Telephone 170~. ~-- ---------- -------~~----_._~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ the fi1st half of the )eetl the p11ces of plate glass \\ere the 10\H~t J11 the hht01) ot the 111dust1) TO\\a1d the end of the \ ea1 ds g enelal busll1ess 1esumed nOlmal p1Opm tions, the P11CESof OLD p10duct inCl eased, and \\ e look for d cont111udnce of the~e 1111P1O\ eel COn(htlOl1S ::'\ot\\ Ithstctmlmg the 10\\1 P1ICC~ of om p1Oducts, the \uh'me of om hlhl11e~" lllued"ec1 flom $[6,925,79999 fm J{)o.'( to S1976<) 8-1-756 f01 la"t ye~l1, all lllUeetSe of 168 pel cent 'L his lllCl ea "e dCC011l1b p11llClpally £01 the lllCl ease 111the ,Il( ount " dnd bIll" 1ecen able, alld to a C011e~pondll1g e'(tent t() 1\,e llluease III 1n11o. and accounts payable J \\ 0 \ acanues 111 the board occm1 ed c1ml11g the year tIll ough the 1eg1 eadble dc,lths of H on Ethan Allen Hltch-cock and \\ llltd111 D Hal tupee both of whom had been identl-fied \\ 1th the mdnagement of ) our C0111peU1ysl11ce 1tS consoh-c1atJun and had 1ende1 cd p1aheW01 thy sel vice 111 their respec-tne sphe1es :;\I1 E(h\a1d P1tccllln VIas chosen to fill one \ acanc) and \11 E D Ra)mond, the other. 1\11' Raymond has had 20 ) eals' e"penence III the manufactullng department of the Gene1 al Electl1c Co, for the last si:A years as general superintendant of the1r Schenectady works, and has just come llltO am 01ga111LatlOn It lS 111tended that he shall fill the PO"1t10ll [Ol111e11) occup1ed b) ~rr Hal tupee 12 WEEKLY ARTISAN PITTSBURG PLATE GLASS STATEMENT Chairman Pitcairn's Report on the Business Transactions of the Company in 1909. John PltCel1lll, Chc111nlctnof the hOetld of dlledm" ()f thc P1tbhmg Plate Glcts" L01llpetll) l1d~ l""ued the ful1O\\ 111'.; "LttL-ment "h()\\ mg p1e'oent asseh and hdbI1ItJe'o dne! lO\ el 111~ the mOl e 1111])01 tant tJ eU1"ctLL10nsof the compan\ dUl111~ the \ C,ll 19°9 \b~('1b 111\ ':>t111tut C;tOt ks llah Glass \\ Indo,\ (TI a::, '; 11111 PaInts ~lettelldl an 1 ,\Volldng Account<- Cash Bllb and. A CLounis nee en aIJI( QU1C'k A..ssets Liabilltie. Capital "tock DIlls and Accounts rUyablo Bdls Payable Sundry CredIts Inbulance rund S nklug Fund-ChICago anct Cleveland DU1hl1ngs <"'Ulplus Janua1-v 1 1909 Profits 1900 D CUll] c;, IS "" 1 " 1 31 j I P uJ ~ ) 0 1 0 I Of (l )0 G 1 1 \ 1lclD S q ( 0024000(0 11084-:>30 "I S I , 0 9 1-0 i 19 ro 4 B33 189 1" 101301 H .fotal Le.s D1\11cnds 1909 ])cprf>ClatIon Smplus Januar} 1 1910 q.,1 2 t.ll)O 00 I1G0060 J& 000[0 )1 )1 J G The greater part of the incl ea"e 111the 1m estment ac-count 1S 1epl esented by ne\\ con:ott 1ktlOn elt the Kokomo and Cly"tal CJty plants The old plclnt" at these POllltS hd, e been dlmost entirely 1~L/ed dnd dl~mant1ed 1he nc\\ constlllCtlOn 1" of the most substcl1lt!al cha1 actel ,tnd model n de"lg n rl he plOductn e cdpac1t y of these plcl11t~ \\ III he much g 1 edte1 than 011g1nally planned Th1" \\ 111enable us to mamtdlll tul1l OUI 1e1attve pO"ltion in the pIette glas", tJ ade and to 1e(hllC O!11 cost of p1OductlOn Necessa111y the P10\ l"lon fOl sl1lh lll- Ll ease in capacIty 111\oh ed a cons1de1 able mC1ease III plant llll estment, as sho\\ n in the abo\ e statement In cOl1S1denng the 1esults of the yea1 's blls1ne"s 1t S110111d be un de! stood, thdt on account of the heal) 1econst1 uct10n \\ 01k, the Kokomo plant has been ent11 el) shut do\\ n, P10- dUClng no glass chu1l1g the past ) ea1, ancl that the CJ \ stal CJty plant has been opelating on only a small pal t of 1ts capa-city, so that the 111vestment 111those pLl11ts. for the pe11O(1 COYe1eel by the statement, has been almost \\ holh unplOdl1l-tive Dl1l111g the plesent ) ear these plants shollld be fi11l"hlll and 1eady to opel ate tu full capaClt), and It the 1111p1O\ eel bus111ess conclltlOns now p1e\ aI1111g continue thlOUg bout the ) ea1, sabsfactOl) ea111111g" should be made on the l1K1eetsed 111\estment rollowing om usual pohc\ \\ c cha1ged a sub"tGlllt1etl --nm to clepleclatJon, as appealS 111the statement Om natmal gas opelatlOl1S \\ hleh appealed so ]l om1"lllg a yea1 ago, ha,e p1O\en chsappomtmg, the lalge \\ells 111the ne\\ field hav111g become 1apidl)- exhansted The loss on the--e ope1atlOn~, amounting to about $45,000, \\a" cha1ged to ev pense The shOl tage of gas tempOl allly handlcapped 0111 ~'\llegheny Valley factolles although at the pI esent tllne \\ e hay c an ample suppl) Cons1denng the chal actcr of the busmc~~ and the heel\ \ e'{pendltm es that must be made flOm ) eal to \ eal to keep our factones modeln the plOfits f01 the past) ea1 a1e ha1(lh adequc1te, althou~h they may lJe 1ega1 ded a:o satlsfactol y, m v1e\\ of bade conlhtlOn" that p1evalled dUllng the pe110(1. F01 Running Overtime. B1g Retp1cls, ~I1ch, Feb II-The Luce-Redmond Cha1r LOmpany had the la1 g cst bus111ess 111Janua1 y they have ever had S111cethc Olga11lZatJon of the company and are running 1.\\ehe dnel one half homs a day That's because they make ~oud L11dl1'1111a leuge numbe1 of pattell1s in oak and mahog-am and of the stvles and canst! uctJon and finish not sur-lM,,~ e(l 1)) elm othe1 cheW mdhCI S 111the counby Hood ~ IIl1ght the veneer men ne\ e1 had such a la1ge ,tm[ hne "toch of log'o in then) ald as now. c111dthe wOlks ale ] 111, to C,qMUt\ e\ e1\ c1<1\ In addition to mak111g \ eneer" they 111,lke p,wels and elL1\\ e1 bottoms in great \ a1iety TIllS 1" one of the most'successful houses in their l111e111the countly rl he BIg Rap1ds FUll1ltUl e ::\1anufaeturing company have blOught out a ne\\ l111eof hall and dming 100m fUll1ltUle that 1" \ el' 11lce fm the Jl11ce a11d \\ hen the mal het opens up on case '.;()O(\" they e"pelt a g 1edt 1un John Widdicomb a Generous Man. rJ he late John 1\ 1dchcomb \vas noted for hIS inte1est 111 ll\ lC aftan sand .phllantlll ophy He \\ as a substantial sup-pOl tel ot the L 13 \ Hos1ptal, Bel tsch Home for \Vomen, the Deelcones,,' IIome and k111ched instJtutions He took an elctive 111te1est in the "eHa1e of his wOlkmen and often as-sl~ tcd them when e11l1Janas~ec1 by Cllcumstances As a tol~en ot 1e--l)Cct to h1" mem01 y all the clVic boa1 els of the elty and th emplo) e" of the \1 1dchLOmb FUlmture and the John \ Vlel-dJComb factollcs attended the fune1al Four hunched LIC-t0l1eS 111the l1ty \\ el e shut elO\\n \\ h]le the se1 \ lce \\ as helel Had OrdeJ.·s Left Over. l-IeISt1l1gS, Feb 9 -The Hastings Cabinet company had eln e'{ceptlOnally bu"y )ed1 dUllng 1909 a lalge number of ()]del s bel11g left 0\ el on J anual)- I Viil11ch had not been jll1ed P1e,,](lent-manager. L 'D. \Vatel s ~tates that the ad-d lt10n l11dde to then plant ,l1lll completed lclst fall has m- II eel~cd then capaelt) h\ ent) -fi\ e pel cent The improve-ments 111clllcle a quantItv of ncw mach1l1ery The capitali- ZeltlOn of the Hastin~" CabUlet company \\ as 1eccntly in- Cleelsed to $60 000 WEEKLY ARTISAN Catalogue House Expanded. The fol1owm~ taken trom a ChIcago paper of 1ecent date, sho\'\; s that the managers of onc of the great maIl 01der houses e"pect a contmued growth of theIr busll1es5. Seal s, Roebuck & Co, are havmg plans prepared for the adchtlOn of SIX floors to the t\~a anne"es of the mam merchandl:oe bllllclll1Q, of the plant on the west sIde, and ~~hen thIs adchtlOnal space I" added the melchanchse bmldmg \,\;111 be the lalge"t sll1~le structl1le m the \V()tld III all about $-1-00,000 IS to be spent 111 completmg the addItIOns The extIa fluOls ale to be added to the t\',o v\II1Q," on the mel chandlse huIldll1g, \V hlCh al e now th I ee stone" Il1 heH~ht The mam portlOn of the bmldmg IS mne stories hlgh and the L"t!a fioO! s al e to be added to the vv1l1g bl1l1chngs to make the HEYMANtS HEYMANS IfEYHAN$ ftEYMANS lfEYMANS RED LETTER SALE .,..,::,,:.C:~·"-:;l~Ine": advantag.: s." .. Walnut Flnl.h '" p '.: '" '"' Two 9t71_ to S.,I ...,t Fro.,. ~ ;:::",,,'" "( '"0--;I W: ~ .. ho. >. \> up., Your credit IS alw~a good Red Letter Sale Lace Curtains N;t~nS;50a~c:rta:,nj.59 1(. L 2 68 Arabian Cluny ...nd 5 V> '"" "'"j .. J 89 RenalsJUIftCe Lace Curlalns ~ 3ba.o ~ "~./ .. ~ ~$';:8~:::'" ""M~~ j{ ~ ,,:~u~ oi~:gg "EYMAN COMPANY 47-61 Canal Street A Sample AdvertIsement. structure Ul1lfOlm 111 heIght and to prov Ide addltlOl1cll spacc, whIch has become nece-;sary for that department of the firm·s busmess The floOls to be added \\ 111 compllse appro:Xlll1ately 300,- 000 sqllal e feet of "pelce 1 hIS wlll Q,I\e the mel chandlse hU1ldm~ 2,000,000 squale feet of flOO1 space, \\ ll1ch I" equal to about f01 ty-fiv e and two-thllds acres 1he \\ mg c11\ 1"10n 111 the stl ucture makes It pos"lhle for a lad\\ av S\\ Itch track to be Iun II1tO the bl11lding Patent Claim Settled. 1he dlspute 0\ er office chaIr Iron patents bet\\ een the GIlson Mal1ufactunng company of POl t \Vash111~ton and the Jenk111s Mach111e compal1y of Sheboygan also the claIm of the GIlson ::\Lll1ufactUlll1g company agal11st the \Volf RIver Chalr company of Ne\\ London, \\"15, has been settled. The \Volf River company settled by paY1l1g $6 a dozen lOyalty The telms of settlement by the Jenl~111s Mach1l1e company are pn-vate. This book is not simply a catalog, but a complete treat.. ise on the theory and latest practice in drying. Will be received with intense interest by the entire craft. Sent free post paid. Where shall we mail your copy? AMERICAN BLOWER COMPANY General Offices: Detroit, Mich.; Works: Delroit, Mich. and Troy, N. Y. 13 ,.--.-. ----------.-----" r-·-----------'--~--------·--,--~--------_.-----.-... I I I I DETROIT, MICH. II II I HOTEL NORMANDIE I I I,, !: iI ! ! I I I , I I I , I I I I I I I I i I ~ I~;._.--_._--- ------- ..---..-.i.. II I I Bos:es with pri"ea. , TL~!~~~~~~ 14 WEEKLY ARTISAN CONGRESS STREET Near Woodward Avenue Amencan Plan. $2 50 per Day and upwards European Plan. $1 00 per Day and upwards Hot and Cold Runmng Water 10 all Rooms. Rooms wIth Bath extra A High Grade Cafe. Restaurant and Buffet In connectlon GEORGE FULWELL, Proprietor. 6. •• • •• _ •• a •• _Fa ••••••• MORE EVIDENCE OF PROGRESS New York Merchants and Manufacturers' Ex-change Now Capitalized at $1.600.000. N early every day addItional evidence lS aft endell that the plan:, of the New YOlk Merchanb' and :;\1anufactmel S 'E" change are enlal g1l1g and that the enterpnse is to become mal C important than many have thought possIble vVhen the '\ ew York Furniture EAchange IS merged vdth the other more com-prehensive exchange and after the completIOn 01 the great Stl uc-tures under way it will be a part of a great commelclal undertak-ing enjoying ample capltal for the conduct of lb operatIOns 111 the broadest and most hberal manner The capltal \\ III Pl0- vide for the promotion of the mtel ests of the exchange and of the manufacturers of furniture taking pdl t on a ~cale \\ Ithout precedent in the history of the industry, and fOl the mtlOc1ucl1On and maintenance of the conveniences and all the de~ll ed featll! e, for facilitating business. A news item printed in the New York evening papers on Monday, January 31, should therefore be of pal tlcu1<n mtel e"t to the readers of this paper and to fm niture men 111 genel dl It stated that on that day the NIelchanb' and \IanufactulelS Exchange of New York certlfied to the :,ecretar) of ~tatL at Albany that it had increased its capItal stock from $25,000 to $1,600,000, dlVlc1ed mto $l,OOO,OOOcommon and $600, 000 pre-ferred. The certlficate was slgned b) E P. V. Rlttel the ple~- Ident and Raymond n 1'·,eat1l1g, the secretary of the e'<:change as repl esenting the stockholdel S at the ll1eetll1g at wlm h the 111- crease was authorized The Merchants' and Manufacturers' Exchange (of whlLh tbe Furniture Exchange will be part) has leased the b1..ulclll1gsand thi" THE WEATHERLY INDIVIDUAL Glue Heater Send your addreu and and receive descriptive circular of Glue Heaters, Glue Cookers and Hot large sum of mane) IS the \\<orking capital of a leasing and operat-ing company. Quite another matter is the investment in ground and bmldll1gs. The glOund is conservatively estimated to be \\ orth thl ee 1111l11ondolldrs or 111ore. The appropriation of the \e\\ YOlk Centtell anrl New YOlk & New Haven railroads for the g 1cat t\\ 1ll ~tructm es specIally planned for the Merchants' elml .:\Ianutactmer,,' Exchange amounts to four million dollars, :some half 11111110n1110re than \vas at first contemplated. The figures, so impressive in the aggregate, inchcate the importance and magmtude of the whole undertakmg. It IS explained by Mr. Spratt that the $25,000 former capi-tal was deCIded upon and subscnbed some six months ago mere-ly as a prelimmary, pending the complete working out of the plans, and the sIgning of all essential contracts. While the fi-nanCIal end of the exchange has thus had succe:ssful attention, and whIle preparations for the construction of the buildings ha\ e been under way m the offices of the architects and contrac-tor:" the work in .:\ifr. Spratt's office and the general offices of the exchange has been going on rapidly and satisfactolily. Al-read) leases have been made and signed representing 75 per cent of all the floor space avallable for the furniture department Lea'b fOl space 111 the other departments have been made, also, 111~dtl~1actOl) number and amount. The ground being all pre-pared, and the pI e11minalY work so well under way, the can-st! uct10n Wlll go on without let up or hindrance until the build-lllgS are completed and the expanded furniture exchange takes the importel1lt place its success has earned. New Supply of Hardwood. \\1 F Holmes, formerly of Grand Rapids, Mich, now a reslclent of }< lorida, is reported to have dlscovered a chemical process by \vhlCh the wood of the palm tree is hardened and made useful as a substltute for many kinds of hardwood He prop0'ie'i to e:,tabhsh a factory at Jacksonville, where he \\<111 turn out furniture and art pieces manufactured from the hardened wood He sent a number of s•amples of hIS wood to the commIttee on new enterpnses of the J ackson- VIlle board of trade, vvhlch body commented \ ery favorably on them fhb encouraged h1m to send a 1epresentatlve to ~ ew YOlk 101 the purpose of making demonstratIOns with the result that he was 1.11ged to make a commercial venture and ,:,tart a factory -"'-----_._----------_. ----~.~----_._._--.-.-..-.., II I II ~------_._-_._------_..•__.._------- -_ ..- _ ....._ ... We can help you. Time saved and when done leaves are bound (by your-self) and mdexed by Hoors or departments. BARLOW BROS., Grand Rapicla. Mich. Wrtte RtgktNou ..- "i' WEEKLY ARTISAN 15 NELSON-MATTER FURNITURE GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. CO. BED-ROOM and DINING-ROOM COMPLETE SUITES in Mahogany. Circassian Walnut and Oak. If ",on have not one in your store, a simple request will brintt you our ma4nificent new Catalol1ue of 12x16 inch page groups, show .. ing suites to match. With it, even the most moderate sized furniture store can show the best and newest furniture satisfactorily. 16 WEEKLY ARTISAN PUBLiSHED EVERY SATURDAY BY THE MICHIGAN ARTISAN COMPANY SUIISCRI"TION '1 00 "ER YEAR ANYWHERE IN THE UNITED STATES OTHER COUNTRIES '200 PER YEAR. SINGLE COPIES 5 CENTS. PUBLICATION OFFICE, 108-1l2 NOATH DIVISION ST. GAAND RAPIDS, MICH, A. S WHITE, MANAGING EDITOR Entered as lecond class matter, July 5, 1909, at the post office at Grand Rapids, Michigan under the act of March 3, 1879 Postals savmg shanks ha\ e been successful m othel Lonn-tnes but that does not glVe absolute a"sUlance that the c;\,,- tern VI ould be successful hel e, because col1ChtlOn~a1e not ..11111 lar m all respects PublIc sentIment, ho\\ e\ el 1'0 clead\ J11 favor of the system and It \\ III plObabh be tIled m the nea1 futl1l e The W01d "tried" IS used mstead of "adopted" be-cause it \\ 111be an e'Cpellment and It IS plOb,lble tl1dt, \\ hate\ e1 Its PlOVlSlons may be, the fi1st la\\ \\ 111ha \ e to be a111cndcd repeatedly before It ISmade to \\ 01k sat1c;factOllh I he g1eat est clIfficulty in frammg a law fOl thIS count1 \ 1'0 tonnel In prov1dmg for the use or mvestment ot the tunch ,lfte1 the\ have been depos1tedm postal banks. The gO\ e1nment can not affo1d to pay mterest on the money and ,dlo\\ It to 1em,ll11 Idle It must be kept m cIrculatIOn and that thel e I.. chtficult\ m solvmg the problem IS shO\\n by the 1epOlt that se\e1al changes m the bIll intlOduced by SenatOl Cu tel ha\ e ahead\ been suggested and some of them \\ III unc10ubtedh be adopted That the bIll \\ 111be passed at the CUllent sessIon of congles" 01 the next is generally concecled E\ en those \\ ho a1e oppo-.cc\ to It say that it \\ III be pao,sec\ afte1 bemg amended It 1'0 urged that RepublIcans must \ ate f01 It becau-.e the\ ,11 e pledged to its SUppOlt by then natIOnal platfOlm, and that Democrats should \ ate fOl It because the gl eat maJol1t\ ot the people \\ ant It, some fOl one Ieason and some tal dnothe1 The postal savmgs banks \\ 111be expected to clIa\\ out mone\ that has been hoarded and put It mto busme"s channels Ii they do not do so they WIll be a faIlure and the la\\ \\ III be repealed If they do b1mg out the hoarded money It can not hurt eXIsting banks, but WIll certainly benefit them by me1eas-ing theIr depOSIts, for it is now conceded that money placed m the postal banks must be tlansferred to other banks Tlms the system would tend to lower rates of mtel est and \\ mJlc\ advel sely affect only those whose mcomes ale clla\\ n flOm mterest on bank deposits. The banks can make mal e plofit by paymg 2% per cent on deposits and loa111ng them at 4 pel cent than by paying 30 per cent and loanmg at 5 per cent ChIcago IS fOllOW111gGrand RapIds m the mattel of estab-lIsh111gbranches of the publIc hbrary. The commlSS10ne1s ha \ e estabhshed 1efel ence and book-circulating statIOns m se\ e1al schools and 111one commercial establishment The latter IS looked upon as a novelty or, rather, as an experiment, but there is no reason why it should not pI 0\ e successful It should surely be to the advantage of employes in large me1cantlle estabhshments and factories to have books \"hele they may be obtained without the loss of time and expense in making a trip to the central library. A good book of fiction, bIO-graphy, history, travel, exploration is a joy and a solace to mOSLpeople The pleasUl es of hterature and the Imagmation ale not the monopoly of the few, but the helltage of all To place books In factolles IS, therefore, to Dung sunshme, \\ a1111th,l11elbe,mt\ mto thousands of humble homes It IS to tOo,tel Hleah..11l ll1tele"t m hh;-her thll1gs, home lIfe and !;oocl habIt., \ bIll to amend the msurance law of :\e\\ YOlk. penQll1g actIOn b\ the legIslatl11e of that "tate, leqUlre~ msurancc compal1le" \\ 1th111five dav" after lecelpt of notice of loss or dal1lage b\ fi1e to ckll\ er to the msnreel plOpet blanks tOl mak-ll1g ploof of such 10"" 01 cldmage as requllcd by la\\ or by the pollC) \\ Inch blanks shall contam printed instructIOns as to the manner 111\\ hlch such proof of loss shall be made Proofs made 111substdntlal COnf0l1111ty\\ Ith such 111st1'11ctionsand \\ 1thm the tll11epI esu IhecI shall be cIeemed suffiCIent pnm,l faCIe proof ()f such loss 01 cLu11age ['adUle of dn Insurance company to SUprly the lequned blanks \Valves the lIght of the company to 1eqUlle sen Ice of proof and l11ctkes1t hable for all loss 01 damage sustal11ecl unclel the polley, clesp1te any prOVISIons to the contI a1) If the mea" Ule, \\ hen passed, shall be so ad-l111l1lsteeJd ds to clIp the cIa\\ s of the adjuster sharks, It wIll -.e1\ e a gooel pm pCbe E1l1est \\ StImson an Enghshman has succeeded in an attempt to m1'Cup Fl ench cun es \\ ith arts and crafts features ,mel "n account of IllS achle\ ement "Good Housekeepmg," sa\ '~r 1 Stu11p..on IS tholOughly an al bst" HIS \" hole time I he eloe-.nt stop fOl lunch nor to take a bath if Housekeep-ll1g'" statement 10> t1ue-Ed) and attentIOn are concentrated on the study of a1tistic fmniture mak111g, and his work IS cl1alactelJ7ed by gl eat fil1lsh amI refinement Perhaps its sumphClty IS 1ather over-pronounced. The frequent banish-ment of all semblance of COInlCe produces a certam Idea of attenuatlon and gl\ es to pieces of furl1lture 111tended as thc pel111anent mmates of the rooms "of whose decOlative scheme the\ f01m a pal t, to bear a kinship to the packing case" \\ lthout doubt StImpson IS "bug house" A bIll to pe1mlt 1110,Uanlee compal1les to insure against 100,,,>or damage by the bleakage or leakage of spr111klers, pumps, tanks, \\ ater pIpes or plumb111g and aCCIdental mjury flO111any other cause other than fire or hghtmg to such ap-phallces IS pending actIOn in the Ke\\ YOlk legIslature BIlls of a sl1111larnatUle have been mtl oduceel111 the leglslatUles of other states "BIg bUSiness" IS opposed to the pubhc1ty clause of the natIOnal COlpOlatlOn ta'C law Congl ess IS the wlll111gtool of hlg busll1ess anrl a speed) lepeal of the ohnoxlous clause may be CtntJcipated Bank cIeal111gsm the pnncipal cities of the United States \\ Ith thl ee exceptlons last week were largely in excess of the COlIespondlng pe110d last year Local manufacture1 s are bUSIly engaged in ShlPP111%out Oldel s taken 111 Janual y and cuttmg new stock Repol ts of 1l111)1"ovement 111 the retail business come to hand daIl\ \\ lth the paSSIn~ of the winter season Catalogues mailed dUl111g the cun ent month are pro-ducing much new trade I•• I •III III •• •I III,I WEEKLY ARTISAN . .. .- ---- .. .. ------------------ --_._.._~ 17 ~-_.. -- .--. -.. --------_._._. __._. ._.__ ._...__..._._._._._._._----------------------------...& Made by Nelson-Matter Furmture Company, Grand Raplds, Mlch 18 WEEKLY ARTISAN r--~; ~~-;-~~a;~-~.~~~.-~~~u-'~;' ·~-O. 2 Parkwood Ave., Grand Rapids, Mich. We are now puttIng out the best Caster Cups wIth cork bases ever offeree to the trade. These are finIshed In Goldeu Oak and White Maple In a llght fimsh These goods are admltable for polIshed floors and furn- Iture rests Theywill not sweat or mar. PRICES' Size 2)« Inches •... $4.00 per hundred SIze 2')i Inches • 5 00 per hundred Try a Sample Order FOB Grand Rap.dl .... - -_ ... _.. . WHERE PHILADELPHIA EXCELS Sleepy Old City An Acknowledged I~eader in the Department Store Business. Phl1adelphia, Feb. 10-In this cIty the depdl tment StOlC idea is carried out on larger lInes than most other cItIes ::\a where in the country, not even in New YOlk or ChIcago, can be seen so many bIg stores, carrying such lal ge and vaned 11l1es as here. Men interested 111these 1111escan ah\ a) ':0 leal n somc thing in thlS city whel e the store~ al e g encrally conslclel cd models. The world over knows the name of John \\ anamaht praetJcally the angina tor of the great elepal tment StOle anel the others here are knO\\ 11 nearly as well especially GImbel BIos Lit Bros., Strawbndge & Clothler, \; Snellenburg &- Ca Bel g Bros. and Blum Bros. Every year the three depaltment ~tole" elt Elghth and "tell ket streets-Glmbel Dras, ~trawblldge & Clothlel dUel Lit Bros.-conduct a trade expositlOn, show111g many lme" of actual manufactUl ing 111 vanous hnes. There one may see carpet weaving, making of tabourettes, eye-glasse~, Je\\ eh), rug~, lace, shoes, cut glass, clothing and about 100 othel Imc", all eqUlpp d wlth machl11ery showing the actual process of manutaetul c It lS a great drawl11g cal el anel each firm gIves aut souvel1lrs. \s a paying proposltJon it lS not a great success, else lt \\ ould be repeated regularly every year. There are few cities \\ here the bIg lmes of ftlfl11tUle al e earned that can be seen 111the depal tme11t :ot01es hel e :::;ome~dV that the hnes are top hea\) that lS thc) al e too big anel un-wleldy and the money l11vested 1uns 111tObIg figures It 11111"! ..-. . . .--------_.--------- I HOFFMAN BROTHERS CO. t FT. WAYNE, IND. HARDWOOD LUMBER II SA~~D} QUARTERED OAK { VENEERS SLICED AND MAHOGANY I• •• • .__.__ _. • •• I I • _ _ ••• .~ II I III II II II• I•• I• I Il .I. o~ MANUFACTURERS p.~D DEALERS IN HIGH GRADE BAND AND SCROLL SA~S REfAIRING-5ATI5FACTION GUARANTEED CITlZEN5 FHO'NE 1239 27 N MARKET 5T .~, GRAND RAPID5~ MICH. WEEKLY ARTISAN 19 if It may have come from the bed rooms of Marie Antoinette or from one of the palaces of the LoUIs. The breadth, scope and magnitude of thIs sale can be understood only by inspection. In the Item of pianos, from 180 to 217 are generally sold every day at these sales If you want beddmg there are 45,000 pounds of stenhzed hall' and 26,000 pounds of deoclOl ized geose feathers It would take a few geese to supply thIs one firm alone wIth feathers. vVIlliam Grant & Co, the installment house at 1020 Race street, wIll move to ItS new bUlldmg whIch WIll be occupIed by them at Eleventh and Arch streets. Ackerman & Co, of Manayunk, making mohaIrs, plushes, veronas, etc, for the trade, al e reported as exceedmgly busy and do about the bIggest business m the countI y in theIr hnes TheIr prices have all been advanced 20 per cent as these goods are in strong demand and everyone wants orders filled promptly The supply is none too good and manufacturers are WIlling to pay the advance in order to get the matellals they need. WIlliam Gosnell, Jr, will not remain m the furniture man-ufacturing busmess with his father, but Intends to go mto the mining engineering business. George W. Dana IS rebuildmg his furniture factory \'v hlch Illllned at Camden, N. J. Jules Kippler leslgned hIs position on the 11001' at \Vana-maker's and Is now wIth Hunt, GIlkmson & Co. The Union Publishing company which does a bIg premIUm business in furniture, have moved from 902 VValnut street to 519 Market street N. GottlIeb, who was WIth the defunct firm of Feigenbaum & GottlIeb, is the manager \V. L. Hurley, who is presIdent of the Board of Trade of Camden, N. J., and of the firm of Gately & Hurley of that city, is building one of the finest homes there, at \Vhite Hou"e Pike and Magill avenlle. Harry Slocum, who was with Moses' fur11ltme store of Washington, is now with John Wanamaker. The \Vilson-Bennett-Porter factory at Montomsvllle, Pa., is completed and they are busy turning out their various lines. Robert Henderson havmg sold his intelest in the Hender-son Furniture company of Johnstown, Pa, has gone into busi-ness on his own account. Schrack & Sherwood, who had a bad lull stJ eet, some tIme ago, WIll rebUIld. takers' supplies and upholstery trimmings. The Loomis Table company of UnIon CIty, Pa, has out a very nice line of Jacobean and Flanders designs and have a very attractive catalog. The Penn Upholstered FurnitUl e company, of 220 South Second street, are very busy on their parlO1 suites. They have been running day and night and have not been able to keep up with the demand. A new line of mIssion davenports and suites fire at 1516 Callow- They make under- ROLLS For Bed Caps, Case Goods, Table Legs and many other purposes; in Gum, Mahogany and Quartered Oak Veneers. The Fellwock Auto & MfJ!. Co. EVANSVILLE, INDIANA Muskegon, Mich., Feb. 10th, 1908 Grand RapIds Veneer Works, Grand RapIds, MlCh Gentlemen Mr. H G Leonard of the Grand Rapids Refriger-ator Co, called on us last Friday to look over our kiln We took great pleasure In shOWing hIm the entire workmgs of the klin and went mto detaIl gIvmg an explanatIOn of the way It was operated and the results obtamed We are so well satIsfied WIth the kIln ourselves that It IS a pleasure for us to recommend It to others and we trust that what we saId to Mr. Leonard WIll result in hiS deCldmg to adopt our kiln. Yours very truly. BROWN, MORSE CO And He Did. "Nuf Sed." of three and four pieces is being put on the market S. Gold-man has been in New York lookmg for plushes as they can't get thm fast enough and the price has gone up also. The firm has bought the building at 221-223 and 227 and will greatly en-large the business in davenports, beds, etc. The Moore Furniture company, 234 South Second street, managed by G. H. Sheip, wholesale the bed room, bureau and SIdeboards made by the Lenoir (N. C.) Furniture company and have taken up a new hne of parlor, lIbrary and extension tables made by the Sanford M):l11ufacturing company of North Caro-lina. H. Block of the Fidelity hVtlse Furnishing company, 1540 Kensington avenue, has opened a new store at 2755 Kensington avenue. f------·-·-·--· ---._ ..---- - - - ..., I A veneer punch whIch removes defects satisfactonly from Blrd's Eye Maple and Walnut veneers. It Will cut out the defect instantly and plug the hole so that the patch cannot be detccted. Made of the best tool steel and tempered by a secret process so that the edge WIllnot turn over. Any size 18ft to 2.Lft mcluslve @ $3.98 each, or a set of three @J $11.75. I II I . ....... ..I. For sale by Birds Eye Walker, Chicago, III., Dept. D., 6611 Wood-lawn Ave. LONG DISTANCE PHONE HYDE PARK II ..._... -_. ~111I1~ WALKER 33 .--... _..... ..---_. _. _..-.-.._._._--- ..... 20 WEEKLY ARTISAN MADE BY HOLLAf\D FLJRNITURE COMPANY. HOLLAND. MICH WEEKLY ARTISAN 21 MINNESOTA UNDERTAKERS Over Four Hundred Attend the Twentieth An-nual Convention Held in Minneapolis. 1\Ill1nedpolIs, F eo 10- The hventIeth dnnudl cermention uf the Mll1nesota } unel al DIrectors' associatIon \vll1ch closed here this afternoon was attended by 0\ er four hundred under-tclkels, of "ham a do/en or more "ele women lVIany of the I etaIl fllll11ture dealers, v\ho held then" annudl com entlon hel e thIs week, al e undel takers and as they attended both com entlOns K111ghts of Pythias hall \\ dS filled to its capacity at evel y session of the Funeral Dil ectOls 1he Funeral Directors' conventions was ccllled to Older Tuesday morning by President J. A. \VIlh\ershled of St Paul Re\ J A. Corngan of St. Paul made mvocation and an dddress Other speakels "ere V. M. Grady of Duluth, and PlOfessor \V. P. Hohenschuh, E B. Norbert and Law- Ience \V Illwerschleld furmshed vocal music. In the afternoon the plesident delivered hIS annual ad-dress which was followed by the introductIon of members by J \Van"en Roberts of Mmneapohs the officers reports and addresses by Professor Hohenschuh and Harry C. Sinks, disinfector for the state board of health made up the program. Wednesday's sessions wel e devoted mainly to repOl ts of committees, addresses on vallous topics and demonstrations In the even111gmost of them joined in a theatre party at the 01 pheum. DISCUSSIons,demonstIatIons, etc, "ere continued today and at the close the convention" as conceded to have been the most successful ever held by the organizatIOn Over fifty new members \\ el e added Organization and Compulsory Arbitration. At the annual bclnquet of the Home Fm nishers' aSSOLl-dtlOn of :Massachusetts at the Re\ ere House in Boston, Allen T rJ Iedd\\ ay, pI eSldent of the stdte senate, speak1l1g on "The Mel gel'," declal ed : vVe \\ ant 01 gamzatlOn and \ve want it in every l1l1e of human conduct Above all, It IS necessary in polItIcs. Unless the 01gamZdtIon beh1l1d polItIcs IS sound civic implovement w III be ImpossIble As an OIgamLatIon your assoClaton has always had a salutaly effect on the shapmg of polItical Issues " Our facIlItIes for tIan"pOl taUon are sadly lackll1g. Ow-llL~ to this fclct we have lIttle bus mess connectIOns with the south\v estel n pal ts of Massachusetts Too much of your busmess IS \\ Ith New York It IS mcumbent upon us to get back what ploperly belongs to us" H\\ e also \\ant a law for the compulsOly settlement of labO! tI oubles HAn aLt of tlns kmd is m fOlce m Canada and It IMSbeen the medns of say mg more tlMn $3,000,000 wages, and male th·1l1,50,000 Idborels have been mvohed A la\V of thIS na-tu Ie ought to be mcol porated mto Olll statutes" Busy Factories at Chester. Pa. Chester, Pa, Feb ro-The New Farson Manufactullng co 11pany, Kmth and Howell streets, mdkmg chma clo"ets, halChvood \\ ater coolel s, music cab111ets,etc , have been fardy busy all fall and winter and are 100k111gfor alaI ge "pr111g tIade rl he old F clrson :'.Ianufacturing company used to make IefJ Igel ators, but the ne" company \\ III (hScont111uethat Ime and devote their time to mak111g fmmture specialties TheIr new line of chma closets ale saId to be velY atUactIve 'J he "ales al e made to the Ietail tI ade m :'\Iew Y01k Phlladel-pllla, Boston and the lalge southern cItIes A new catalogue will be issued in July and they WIll e:>Jl1l)ltat the July Furni-hue ExhIbition m New YOlk E S Farson is the general salee. agent tak111g in the East and South; J oseph ~1essick is plesident; George Messick, tIeasmel; John McCabe, Jr, secretary. R. J. Keppel & Co, Second stIeet dllll Concord avenue, make ch111aclosets, buffets, etc, ulllIel the fil111name of the Keystone Cab met company ThIS firm IS also qlllte busy. The La1\ler Flllmtllle Stale, on ThIrd stIeet, will go out of busrness S. Furniture Fires. Max Klssllove's FurnIture store at \Vaukegan, Ill, was destIoyed by file on February 3 The E A. Hadson FurnIture company of Houston, Tex, suffered a loss of $2,5°0 by file on Februdry 5, fully insured FIre in Thomas Roche's furmtme stole at BrIstol, Pa, on February 4, caused a loss of $2.5°0, whICh is fully covered by msurance. FIre m the Smith Calpet \Vorks at Yonkers, N. Y, on Febl uary I I, destroyed fimshed stock valued at $35,000. Fully insured George Horne & Co, flllmtllle dealers of Manchester, N H, lost about $3,000 by the burning of their walehouse on NOl ih Ma111stIeet, FebruaIy 4 Inslllance, $1,500 Chamber Suites in Gum. Charlotte, MIch. Feb I I-The Charles Bennett Flllm-ture company have recently brought out several patterns of Chamber stutes m led gum, finished as satin walnut and ma-hogany that are \ ery att! actI\ e These are great values and ale Illu$trdtedm a neat httle supplement \\hich any dealer may hdve fOI the asking. One of these sllltes is Illustrdted on another page of this week's Issue Others WIll follow in sue-ceedmg issues The Charlotte Manufactullng compdny, manufacturers of lIbbraly clnd parlor tables are hay mg a fall' trade A new catalogue wIll soon be ready fOl mal1111g Read by All the Readers. All persons who lead ne\" spapers and all pel S011'3\vho do not read neV\spapel s Iead posters. Advel t!"111gby postel s costs less than advel tIS111gby nev"spapers and IS much mOle profitable The \Vhlte Plmtmg company Kas I08 I 10 and 112 N Dn iSlOn street, Grand RapIds, nMkes a speCIalty of h\ 0 colored posters for dealers m flll111tllle and kmch ed goods \Vllte for sample and prIces ..---- I - - _ .... --------- ---------~._.------_.--. ON CARVINGS OF ANY KIND SEND SAMPLES. DRAWINGS OR CUTS FOR PRICES. f.._-- CWartiatIeoElIo'rue. II E•P. ROWE CARVING WORKS, ALMLEICGHA.N. !I ........ _------ -- . " Minnesota Retail Dealers' Furniture Association 22 WEEKLY ARTISAN OFFICIcRS-Prcsld.nt LoUIS J Bnenger !\e\\ Ulm VIce PresIdent C Danielson, Cannon Falls, Treasurer, o .. 0 \Ioen, Peterson Secretan W L Grapp Janesville E'l:ECUTIVF CO\l\IITTEE-D F RIchardson !\orthfield Geo Kllne, Mankato, W L HarTls, MlIlneapolts, o SImons Glencoe M L Kittle St Peter. BULLETIN No. 98. PROCEEDINGS OF THE FIFTH ANNUAL CONVENTION. Our fifth annual convention in ~Iltlneapoh~ opened leI,t Monday with over 200 members pre"ent. Dunng the da\ thc number was largely mcreased and betorc the clo'ie mOle than 350 dealers had mspected the exhIbIt of arbcle" secm ed tt 0111 mail order houses and placed side by sIde \\ Ith duphcatcs boug-ht by the association's buying commIttee at figureo that enable dealers to meet or cut the catalog pnces On each piece se-cured from mail order houses was pasted the catalog descnpt10n and a picture of article with adchtional t) PC\\ ntten matter p01nt-ing out wherein the goods dehvered fell Sh01t of de~C11ption amI picture. The exhibIt mcluded table~, chdiomer-, chall sand desks. Numerous dIagrams shO\vmg catalo1:; 1\\u' tl a t10n~ 111 light colors and with actual SIze of "mall artIcles dehvel ed \\ orkul in in black, were aho part of tIllS ch"pla\ ::\layor Haynes gave the furnltm e 111cn ,I heell t\ \\ elcome in an interesting addre"s and thell Iespome \\ as del1\ el eel b\ J. R. Taylor of Lake Benton President Buenger ot "ew L 1m, delivered his annual mesage and iE K. \i\TJlcox made an ad-dress on methods of salesmanship. The proceed111gs of the convention followed the plOgl elm as published very closely President TIuenQ,er's addre~s and the reports of the buying and <oap club commlttee'i alc pl1bh~hLcl this week and more of the pI oceed111g'i and some of the addres,e~ on special topics may appear 111 tIllS depal tment ne"t \\ eek, \\ lth comments on the convention wlllch i'i conceded to haye b~en a gratifying success. Election of Officers. The election of officel s for the ensuing ) eal Ic-,ultcd a-follows: President, J. R. Taylor, Lake Benton. Vice President, D R Thompson, Rockford Secretary, W L Grapp JaneSVIlle Treasurer, B. A Schoenbens-er, Perham PRESIDENT BUENGER'S OPENING ADDRESS. "Gentlemen, it affords great pleasure to me, for I ha\ e the honor of opemng om fifth annual COt1\ ent10n In dOlng- 'iO 1 cannot help but urge that the member'i of thIS a,socldtIon at tend to the working and doings of ItS bus111eos, thelt the a_so-dation bnngs with it and stay with us until all the mlpartellt work is completed. You have come hele and opent tune and money and I am sure thdt it will be well Ill\ested a, we \\ III have some very good demonstratIons and speakers The officers have tried hard to make this com ent10n the be'it we have held in our association, and w111prove to you that It is before you leave for your home. \Ve want each dnd e\ el \ member here assembled to feel that this 15hIS convent1On whethel he hold'i an office or not, that you are welcomed to all pm lIege' of thIS convention Don't be backward should any que-bon arise where you want to say something, as we \\ ould hke to hear from you all I want to urge every membel present to attend our meetings regularly and be on tune at the hour for which our meet111gs are called. As president of thi'i associ-ation I most heartily welcome you and thank you more than any words can express for your presence here today, in the dty of \I111neapoh'i whIch always reaches out a welcome hand to the :\Imnesota Retail Furniture Dealers' dssociation One of the important duties of the preSIdent, that of render- Ing the anl1l1dl message, IS the one duty which is most hard for me to accomplIsh, WIth a 'idtIsfdctlOn of having it well done. Yet I ha\ e been made to see by bemg in close touch with this \\ ark ,I, ) our pre'ild1l1g officer that It IS through the mstrumen-tahty of the preSIdent's message thdt the pohcies and reform \V ork of any d~soclat1On should come. Reahzing this as I do, I hope ) ou \\ rIl bear wIth me for a little whIle and I will try to do the be~t I can. This Year's Work. 10 'd\ that the past year has been a busy one is putting It nulc1h but T belJe\ e I can see that it has laid the foundation fOI pel manent succe'iS because I hold that no business or asso- CIation \\ 1\\ be prosperous until it has demonstrated that it can dnd doe~ g1\ e lllOle than vdlue leceived. You WIll always fitld men \\ ho \\ 1\\ lend their aid to any movement that has the ear-mdl k" ot help 1ll !t for d eel tam pel iod of time, but that sup- PO!t Celn anI) be made permanent by the "make good" policy \\ hlch appeals to the majonty. Our association is no excep-t10n to that natural la,\ Therefore I wish to emphasize that I beheve that our co opel atJve buying policy has made our as-sociation a success Not that thIS is in itself the great thing m our a'iSOC!atlOn \York, not at all, but it is the instrument that hI mg ~ m the ne\\ lJfe of the association without which no in-stJtution can plosper Expenence has taught us that after we g-et a dealer mto II hat we term the convention habit, that he finds the educational feature, the getting together, the exchang-m1:; of Ideas and the rubb1l1g of elbows with men bigger than themseh es al e after all the big things that make association hfe \ aluable ~ 0\\ please don't forget that. It IS onlv natmal that 111 a body of 200 or more live dealers thdt the! e IS at tunes a dIfference of 0p1l11Onas to what is the best pohcy to pursue, but I am glad that I can say that we are all '\mericans and that the great American policy of "the ma- JOllty 1ule'i" is a fixed law wlthm our association as it is in all \merican institut1Ons. If we analyze this a little further, we find that out of the varietv of opimon composed of the radical, the conservative, the indifferent, the don't care opinions, U5- nalh come a Just and equable policy. \Ye have dIscussed this so often that it may seem old and uninteresting- to ) ou but the effects of this evil are 'so far-reach-l11!.;' that \\ e ha\ e found It neceS'iary to g-ive it the first place in the hst'i of eVI):, that \'ve hope to correct throug-h a'isociation endea\ 01'i \\ hat I have to say I am 'iure ) ou will find decided-h intere'it1111:; Thie; problem i'i such a larg-e one that we cannot (l!'icm~ all Its phaoe~-suffice to say that we are just beginning to lc,l1n to get dm\ n to funddmental principles that have made tl110 mall order eVIl possible It is only reasonable to assume that ) ou can find a remedy for any great evil only after you hay e found out what has made those eVIls possible. That there must be some fundamental I ea'ion why the mail order houses ha\ e ~rown as they have, no one doubts I ask you to tell me ot am 1l1stance where a bmmess that caten to the public has g-roI\ n hke the mail order houses in the last ten years. If you cannot, It ploves that there must be 'iome fixed funddmental 1ea~on for It The natural response to that statement would be, \\ hat is it 0 A..nd I must confess that the fundamental princi-ple 1eferred to wa'i beyond me or rather that I did not con-sciously see it \iVhile unconscIOusly we had been pursuing the right course to meet this evil, its true significance did not fully dawn upon me until I picked up the Commercial News of WEEKLY ARTISAN Jdnuary dud read the drticle headed "The Debating of the Great Question of the Big Cataloger.", when It dawned upon me that 1\1r Sears has l111115elflet the cat out of the bag whether in-tentIOnally or not, by Sd)mg on page 5· "I am mtere;,ted in the tabulation m your book of the name;, of Jobbers and manufac-turers who do and do not sell to catalog houses To your readers wIth Imagmaly wounds I have no doubt thIS, sort of stuff IS a balm, but Just between you and me, it's a Joke, for I never knew a tU11e when the catalog house couldn't buv what It wanted wIth money, and wanting so much of It they can us-ually get a httle better quality than the retailer gets and almost always at an appreCIably lower price. The first part of this paragraph proves to me that the cam-paIgn of the various associations and especially of the Com-mercial News is having its effect being the diplomat that Mr Sears has proved himself to be He IS endeavoring to cover up this influenc~ calling it a joke, but the nugget of truth in his admission comes in the last four lmes, which please note care-fully, in whIch he says that because of their volume they get a little better quahty than the retailer gets and almost always at lower pnces. Before I go further, let those hnes sink deep mto your mind because thIS is an admIssIOn from a man who has made every dealer m the country at one time or other, think, and think hard. To me this admission proves that this policy of our buying committee is nght, when you stop to think that this admission comes from one who has proved its value in his busmess career Yes, Mr Sears has given us information that ought to be worth considering. At our last conventIOn Mr Sheldon told us (and I know of no better authority to quote) that by natural law any com-mercial transaction is dIVIded into four parts: the salesman, the customer, the things sold and the sale Itself. N ow then if all thmg S eHe equalm such a transactIOn, If the cost of handling mer-chanchse. co~t of sellmg and the fir;,t cost of the artIcle sold, is the same to all there cannot be created a competItIve or uni-versed pnce By that I mean that if all thmg's are equal that you WIll find that the average pnce upon a certam table, chaIr or whatnot sold for about the same price all over the states Now listen so you catch my meaning. Business experts tell us the cost of doing business is usu-ally the same, generally speaking, whether mall order honse or dealer. \iVhile the mall order house may be doing a greater volume, yet because It IS not in personal touch with the trade, its pro-rata expenses per dollars worth of merchandIse sold IS on an average with the majority of small dealers Vie find that the mail order house has no advantage there Now to the thought that I want you to remember. If the first cost of mer-chandise sold, is not the same to the small dealer as to the mal! order house, then the mall ordel house has the advantage over us which advantage in turn creates a condition for us to meet Therefore the solutIon of this problem resolves itself mto the bus-mess problem of "How are we getting to our source of supply?" If the recent busmess methods of gettl11g our supply are not in line with the best business pohCles that up to date business men have adopted, and which the mail order houses are considered masters of, then it is up to the small dealers to either adopt these modern methods or face a condition like this In order to more forclby Illustrate my meaning, let us take for example the buying of a $10 bed The maker of this bed m arriving at what he should charge for It has added the cost of material and manufacturing, those expenses necessary to mdintain a prosperous factory, basing his knowledge upon past e'{periences. He finds in order to sell this bed, that he must mdmtam a sales force, must caIry accounts thirty or sIxty days, and if he has a large factory and finds it necessary to cater to the jobbing trade, he must add to this first cost the jobber's pro-tection which varies from ] 0 to 33 per cent. N ow these ex penses are all added to the first cost of this bed before the man-ufacturer sa} s it must be sold at $10. Now follow me closely I am told by manufacturers that it costs 7 per cent to sell goods, 3 per cent to carry the accounts and offset the losses, which makes 10 per cent or $1 on the bed The jobber's protection IS 20 per cent or $2 and thus we find that it costs the manufacturer $3 to bring this $10 bed to the average small dealer. Now that is legItimate expense added to the first cost and the manufac-turer, in order to market this bed, must do what I have cited In the natural trend of business, I can readily see that the catalog houses stumbled upon these facts and saw the opportun- Ity to cut out all this unnecessary expense by adopting modern busmess methods of going dIrect to the manufacturers, paying 23 cash, whIch bnngs them this bed at a cost of $7 while the small dealer pays $10. If you andl)Ze It stIll clo;,el, you WIll find that the net profit to the manufacturer of this bed IS Just the same whether sold to the maIl OleIel house for $7 or the smdll dealer for $10 Ju"t as "oon as we get at the bottom of thIS, we find that the first cost of mel chandi se to the mall order house and the small dedler IS decidedly dIfferent Because of this concli-tIon, the mal! order houses hdve been successful. Couple this advantage WIth no freight added and the over-drawing of pic-tures 111 the mall order catalog and you WIll see what has created a vel y wide dIfference in the quotation of prices on merchandise '\s human nature is the same the world over, this wide dIffer-ence in price has made the mail order house successful. These are the stern facts that have faced your officers since they have begun to study this problem systematically and the remedy hes in adopting such business methods as will put you and I upon the same basis m our first cost of merchandise ThIS, I believe, we are doing in our method of co-operative buying. \iV e have tned to assemble here for} our benefit, the actual ma-terial WIth whIch to help yourself" ith and whIch WIll bring to you as it has never been before the possibIlIties that lie in actIve and hearty co-operation Co-operative Buying. As the permanent success of this movement depends wholly upon the volume that can be secured, it behooves each one of us to see that this volume ic just as large as we consistently can make it \iVhIle there are some difficulties ) et to Qvercome, the groV\th of thIS movement and the experience that we have gotten proves to me that with the help of the majority of our members, we wIll be able to bring to them helps that they now lIttle dream of I realize that this method of supply1l1g our wants is new and helS some drawbacks, but as we go on, we find that we can adelpt ourselves to the condItions and reqUlrements necessary to to bring to u" merchandIse WIth which to protect ourselves against phases of competitIOn that inchvldually we never ""auld be able to cope" Ith Therefore I urge you all to 1110re carefully con- SIder the Item" assembled here and that you lend your aid, ad-vIce and expenence to the buying committee in order that they may, in turn, be able to be of greater service to us all. I trust that you WIll consider well the source from which comes the op-position that this movement has receIved and trust that you are business men enough to see the reason why. If you wIll all give this portion of our Walk the thought and support it deserves, you WIll be able to abolish nearly, If not all the evils with whIch our business now is affiliatetl. Great Future Ahead of Us. \iVhile we have given the solvmg of the mall order evIl our first and most constant care, yet it is only one of the minor de-taIls of the pOoslbilities that lie before our association. You must remember that your officers al e necessarily the 1l1struments through \vhich you work and that they will follow the policies and methods you demand We are living in an age of short cuts in business methods and the motto of "Let's find the be'lt way" is beg1l1mng to be the business slogan of today. Through associated endeavors, our members \\ III be able to find the best way;, at conventIOn tImes whIch othel" ise would take years and years to learn if left to each indIvidual's actual experience in the school of life. I hope and know that the educational features of our association will grow in accordance with the demands made upon it and the financial support whIch it receives. If \Ve could only double our membership, we would have sufficient funds to bring to us at convention time the brightest minds that money em c1ell1dnd for our instructIOn and benefit. So make the reso-lution that} au \\ III bnng in one new member thIS year. Salesmanshi p. The a"sociation has always recogmzed the importance of this factor in the success of every bus111ess. I believe every dealer in find1l1g that because of the advanced educatIOn the gen-eral public 1<; getting, there is a demand for more and better fur-niture. Who is going to supply It, the mail order houses and k111dred concerns or yourselves? That is the important question for you. Do not forget that salesmanship backed up WIth an equality of the first cost of merchanclIse is going to be the master of business condItIons. Also do not forget that because of the great volume of the mall order and soap club concerns, they are able to employ the brightest ml11ds to be had to bring to them successful se1l1l1g schemes IndIVIdually the small dealer cannot afford to surround himself WIth the best that there is to be had along this l111e,but collectively, as an association, we can do this. 2+ WEE K L Y "\ R TIS A N Our Department Trade Journals. The supply of mdtellal to make OUI elepal tment 111 the tr dele jOl11nals interestmg and plOductIve has been the hellc1est dut} tn-volved, but we beheve It 15 the only \\ a} to keep dll\ e cont111ual mterest m assoclatlOn affaIrs You \\ 111notice \\ hen the report of the committee on credentIals IS mdde that deetlel" c \ tl \ \\hel C cue begmnmg to leahLe what the J\I111nc~OtelelS~OleltllJll 1~ dOl11~ \vl11ch pI aves to me tl1dt our \\ 01 k has been effectl\ e I most heal tlly 1ecommend that our by-ld\\ s be so changed that the ma11l td111ing of thIS depal t111ent can be made pel111el11entclllc1that e,lcll member be supphed wIth same tor the first \ edl at hh 1111111bel ShIP, cost of \\ hich IS to be palel out of hIS 1111ttatton tce" \t the expIration of the year, each member should PIO\ Ide hl111"elt \\ tth this department through the naturdl com "e at SUb"LllptlUll tt) the trade journal whIch pleases hl111most Dues. As dues are the hte blood at 0111 a,,~Oclat10n \\ e ought to be mOle prompt m pa}mg them It lOLl \\1111ead the annual tepOl ts and check up the vallet} of l \.penses nece""al\ to mall1- tam a hve orgal11LatlOn, }ou \\ 1111eadlh ,ee thdt It t,kes monc\ to pay the pnnter, postage alld other e\.pen':>es \ s e\ er} la-borer is worthy of his hIre, and as \ve hay e accomphshed \\ hat no other assoctatton has, I trust thIS I efel ence to dues \\ III be heeded and that you will not make It necessal \ fOI the ~ecrc tary lO keep cont1l1ually after thIS pl1<l~eot OUI \\ 01 k Secreta}')Y. '1he longer I am 111 tOllch \\ Ith the seLl etal \ " ofuce, the mOle J dm I111ple' sed wIth the fact that we eUe tOl tl1llclte 111 h2V1l1g J or Olll secretal y a man \\ho has been 111 con~temt tOllC'1 wltL the dealers throughout the state 111 the pa"t \ edl" becelU-e I am sUt e that wIthout hIS e),.penence the deteul s at the "eLll tary':, C'ffice could not be carned on el' they no\\ ,ll e \ \ hen 1 tell YO'l that I have receIved ovel 40(J0 copIes of letters \\ nttcn tIn, ;, :c'r you WIll beg1l1 to 1eah7e what the seCl etal \ "hIp of thIS a~"ociatlon means 1£ our office!:' \\ ere rev el sed, I am ~Ute thdt tlll:o amount of wOlk \\ ould hterally S\\ a111pme \ et 1 Lan ~d\ that our seCl etary ha s n1<lna~ed to \\ 01k out a "\" tl111 b\ \\ hll b thIS \\ork ha, not leCJmltd mOle thdn one hom 111 the torenoon and one hour after SI\. d eL1Y 1hh could be ~hOltened It OUI membel s would supply n ore matellal fOl the use of the tl ade journals. I hope that 111 the com1l1g vear \\ henever }au hay e run up aga1l1st d trade problem, celrrled ant a successful sale 01 got-ten hold of the detaIls of a sale out of the lelSlttmate l hanllel tlla1 yOU \\ould wllte It up and send It to the secletal\ tOI dl-pal tment use. If our work g1O\\ s 111 the ne"t SI\. month~ a" It has 11l the past, It WIll be necessary to eqmp the 0> eLl etal} s othce WIth another typew nter, 1111l11eogapl h and add 1e-s111g l11aChlllC 1£ all our membels pay up then dues pl0mptly and bnng m one ne\\ l1lembel, ,hIS can be accomph shed WIthout any extra burden upon our Jlll11lbels I therefore 1elommend that the e\.ll LltlVl COll1mlttee '-eel, 1u "upply the secretdry Cltf-tCC\\lth \\ h"t h 1Jec"S ',11 \ tc) lt~hjl 1 the \\ork as ':>oon a~ j)(h",Lle I \\clut '(' [11,. t]i1S 0PPOlt1111,,; to tlldnk tht seCletan fc the mdny Cl 1LC I have rece1ved and feel that I vOIce the sent1111e11tof 0111 mem-bers when [ say that vve all apprecIate the "01k that hI'"- office and our coml111ttees hay e done for us thh \ edl Conclusion. Wlu1e \ve hdve hdd a pl0spelOUS ,edl dml Ot11 as~ouatlOn 1, III bettel comhtlOn findnclally than e\ er befOl e, ) Lt I want to lautton om ll1ember~ 'lot to let up m a-~oucltl 11l endea\ OJs b~- Cduse when yOU lecelve the lepOJt ot the ,,(Jdp club C0ll1lll1ttee 1belteve you WIll see that there IS ~leatel nlle-~lt\ 101 a pcmel f ul and well financed assoClatton no\\ than e\ er b~iol c. "hl1e some of you may have thought that the mcltl order e\ 11 \\ a~ dl most an unsurmountab1c obstacle to Ovelcome, ) et It 1~ nothlllg 111companson WIth the results of the soap dub e\ 11 \\ hen once It gets a fi1m foothold 111your commu111t). Xow that \\ e have a good start, let us make the best use of the opportunit\ that a ell arsoclatlOn work affords. ThIS IS our fifth annual l11eetlllg dllll as I look back, I see that many of the annoy me; tt ade eVlb ha \ e cllsdppeal ed and thdt there IS beg111111ngto develop an dltogethel cllffel ent trade feelmg-that we al e beglll11lng to look to\\ al d our conventlOn as a home gathering TherefO! e T \\ ant \ l U t) feel ,It hOllle dur111g thIS convention and to OUI neVI tt len 1" let 11~extend a most hedrty welcome. Let us all entel mto the "p,t It of the COl1ventlOn ~o that \\ hen thIS conveni!on I'"- hI t01 \ \\ C can look back to it and sa} that the 111spnatlOns ellld ~l 0 1 tc1- ~c)\\ "!J1p that thIS com lntton brought \\ ere the means of making us brrader, better and greater busmess men. I thank you L. J. BUENGER REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON CO-OPERA-TIVE BUYING. In ]Jllo>cnt111gOUI ~cLOnd lepOlt of the \volk done by the 1JU\ 111l2.' commIttee \\ e feel that we can show a consIderable ~I ()\\th ()\ u la 1 \ eal \ Ve found that a gl eat many ehfficul- IIe" hdd to be 0\ L~come m call J mg out the detaIls of this WOlk \\ e had to glOpe alOuml 111 the dalk to find our bealings dnd leal ,1 thl0ugh pI actlcal e),.pellence what tlungs could be accom-ph- hed dml \\ hat could not Thh mo\ ement stal ted out as a carload buying' proposItion hut \\ e ~oon found that the bulk of this business is done thru open L hlpments or fil1-111orders hetween seasons This pro-cltlce" a ldl ger \ olume than the onginal orders. The members ot \ our bm mg con1l111ttee, e),.cept one, who, by the way, has ren-duell u" \ el \ \ aludble d~slstemce are small dealers and be-l au,e of then ll1111tedoutlet, \\ ere not able to get in touch with the pllce that \ olume bnne;s TherefOl e, 111 our endeavor to bnne; to OUI membel s the matenal necessal y to meet various phd e" ot cOmpetltlOn \\ e had to go out of our natural sources of "upph and i!e up \\ Ith factOlles whose production did not come up h· selmple Then too, we had no reasonable data to go b\ m the eal h part of thIS work \Ve did not know whether \\ e COllld the $1 01 $10,000 worth of merchandise and so had to feel om "a\ '\0\'\ we have had a year's experience and knO\\ the \ olume \\ e can use \Ve find that our accounts are deudedh \\ 01 th \\111le to the factolles who al e hungry f.or bus-l11C" \\ e al e 111~tbegin11lng to get in on prices that volume commdncb and thth \\ e can repOl t that we l1dve made contracts \\ Ith factolle" of kno\\ n 1eputation who make the best class of goods 111theIr lespectlve l111es, as yOU WIll have noticed in this \ ear's displaY \ \ ear ago it \\ ould have been impOSSIble for us to bl ing to \ ou the special leaders that \\e have hdd made for our purposes Ihh 1'1O\~' that It \\ e arrange our buymg in accordance WIth t1 ,(> ]Joltdt" 11ll,,' al \ to call v on thIS \\ ork, we can supply ourselves \\ Ith dJl\ pdl l,cular Item thclt may be bothel ing th Vvc c~n do tIns at a pllce thdt \\ e hel ctofOl e ltttle dreamed of dnd WIthout 10clChn~DUIsc1\ es \vith large quanttttes because one or two items fOl the membel s of the a~souatlOn, uedtes a volume that will IJlmg to 11"am thing \\ e want \\ hIIe \\e l1d\e lald paltlculdr stteso> upon fllll11shing those thin~o> needful to meet catalog c0111petttlOn, \\ e feel that the sam-ple' g-dthel ed hel e \\ 111shcm that \ve have turned Olll attentlOn to better lllle" of goods \V111ch0111members can make a profit on, In do me111belshIp hke ours compoced of all the hve dealers in the stdte \\ e elll kno\V that the hve mel chant buvs closer than the indiffel ent and small mel chant Therefore, the saving we have blonght Out membel s \\ 111range flam 3 per cent to the big buyer, 10 p~r cent to the medlUm and 20 per cent to the small dealers \s the snlc1ll dealels ale in the majonty, it is safe to say that the caV1110 111money conSIderation is at least 10 per cent which mean~ that we have saved our members tbis year over $2,500 be- ",des pntt1l1g them in a positlOn to meet and beat any phase of lompetltlon that is bl ou~ ht to them If the 111('mbels here will study cal efully what we have as- "unbled for their inspection and do that which is for their best 111telest \\ e \\ 111soon hdve a \ olume that WIll make this move-mcnt self-sustaming and bl111g us sttll greatel advantages Thus far tbl~ movement has paid all ItS own expenses and borne part 1)( jl1l stenographer' expenses for the dssociatlOn It has also 1101ne the e"pense of mamtdming the depal tment 111the trade J 0111 netl" Thele has been a Vely chvelsified opinion as to the C1uahty 01 the goods shIpped out by the mall order houses. In order to show our members just what kind of a propOSItIOn they are up agam~t \\ e have assembled here for inspectton some 15 drticles tlOI11the mall 01 der house \Ve have arranged them so that they -tand -lc1e b\ SIde \\ Ith artldes we have had made for onr dealers to n-e 111mcet111g these 1tems ,Ve want to call your particular ,lttentlO'1 to the \\ orkmanshlp and quahty of these Items as com- 1111ed \vItI, the nMll order productton \iVhen conSIdering these ltems \\ e \\ dlJt yOU to ask vourself if ,ou could have gotten them othel '1\ I~C than thru thIS channel Don't these practIcal lllnotra-tl0ns show tl1clt It IS not neces5,lry to cut qUdltty m ordel j get the price necessary to meet thIS competttion ~ If we w; 111J WEEKLY ARTISAN adopt the Shm t cuts of bus111ess reqUlrements, we '" I I be on a more advantageous foot111g than the mail order house. 1£ you wIll gIve us the "upport that you have I the past year, we wIll aglee to double the volume and bring you till better matenal than we have 111the past If, by chance, we lave macl<: ,011le mIstakes, \\ e want to assure you that they were c used only by lack of expellence and that we are profit111g by thIs e perience TIecause we al e all dealers om selves and know what IS neces- S<lly, we WIll be able to Co1rect them sooner than would othel wise be the case. The greatest, most Important draw-bac to over-come IS the influence that the Jobber has over the m jority of standard lInes WhIle m market, your committee woul time and time again run into lines that \\ el every mVltmg and deals '" ere nearly made but just as soon as our field of operatIOn w s known, we found that certain jobbers had tIed up this territory nd there-fore the lme could not be had In "evelal instances Job ers have brouglIt so much influence to bear upon certain factone that our contracts could not be renewed but this dIfficulty will coon be overcome because our accounts will be mOle acceptable t an those of the jobbers if they grow as they have in the past We call your attention to thIs to give you some idea of the chfficulties your buying comnTIlttee has to contend with There-fore if you hear now and then mS111uations as to uur work, re-member that a knock is a boost and that they haVE' reasons fm It We have a certam phase of competition brought about thru the mail order house which is not of our making and which we must meet As self protectIOn IS the filst duty of everyone, we feel that we are Justified m following this policy until the C011- dltIons that affect us are removed. If, by chance, It hits a cer-tam mtel est, we cannot help It as our first duty IS to ourselves ThIS movement, no doubt, would never have crystalli7ed into what It has, were It not for the fact that the personalIty of thIS commIttee happened to be situated in towns afflIcted by the mail order eVIl. We followed every pOSSIble line of self-protectIOn that plesented Itself-such as the issuing of catalogs, monthly CIrcularizing and aggressIve advertIsmg This brou~ht home to us the practical results of not gettmg our supply at the proper first cost Thru thIS medIUm, we have been able to solve thIS problem at a very nominal cost to us as compared WIth the meth ods we were pursu111g before Therefore we feel that, person ally, we can afford to spend considerable tIme and money to bnng about a system that will make thIS work permanent. \Ve have turned a factor of competItion which vve ahv:tys dreaded into one whIch it is now a pleasure to meet. Thel e IS a satis-faction in beating a game whIch heretofore we helVe bund almost ImpossIble-that is and make a legitImate profit. ThIS no doubt, has been the reason which has spurred this committee on. to do the work It has \Ve fully belIeve that thru the source of edu-catIon along these lmes our members WIll soon see the great pos-sibilities that lie m thIS and give it a still greai er support than it has enjoyed in the past Your" truly, D R. THOMPSON, (hallman, C DANIELSON, F II PFTERSON, GEO KLI'IN" Committee REPORT OF SOAP CLUB COMMITTEE. The workings of the soap club evIl are beginl1lng to he felt more and mOl e to receIve the attentIOn and thought of eve I) member who IS huild1l1g for future business. Any method of adveltismg IS bound to he a factor to be lechoned WIth if It IS based upon fundamental busmes, pnnClples and has the ear-marks of sometbmg for nothmg Most of us tllought the mall order evIl the hal dect ploblem for the merchant to solve but snlce we have commenced to study this problem systematically we belIeve that the soap club eVIl IS gOIng to make us j h111k even harder than the mall 01del' problem. In studymg this, we find that the success of this proposi-tIon depends upon supplymg the mel chanclIse as well <ISthe first cost of the premIUm, m a scientific way The promoters of thIS SO<lpclub busmess have studIed human nature and selected such Items as appeal most strongly to those afflIcted with the human traIt of alway s wanting something for nothing If you will take a list of the merchandIse, soap, perfumes, eye water, etc., you can readIly see that they have selected a hne of goods on which there is generally a long profit Then if you ",ill study the list of premium supphes, you WIll notice that they have selected a 2S line which the avel age consumer knows very little about and which, as a rule, carnes a long profit. All this gives them a big leverage 111vvork111g"out their plan of giving $20 worth of merchanchse for $10. In getting data concerning this matter, your committee found tl1dt the average cost of the soap, drugs, eye water and sundries they ±nrlllsh cost $5 62 when bought in reasonably large quantItIes. The avel age pI emium that they give costs from $2 85 to $3 23 plus a fall' profit, if bought at the cost of manu-facture 1hus, vve find, in its final analysis, that the $20 offer really costs but $8 to $8 50. We have personally inspected their methods of manufacture and believe that they cut down thIS cost to about $7, l11clud111gtheir advertising expenses ThIS shows thdt they make a profit of $3 upon every $10 receIved, vv hlch meam that they receive a profit of $30 by the time their scheme has traveled the CIrcuit of one little club of ten. If bU'3mess methods were employed in carrying out this proposltIon, the results vvould not be so very far reaching. How-ever, we bave stuched the condItions of four towns who are much afflIcted vv Ith the soap club evil. We find that the secretary of these clubs b usually some domestic who sells to her friends in order to get wh?-t she thinks a $10 premium. These domestIcs, 111 turn, ask theIr mistresses to let them buy $10 worth of soap, dru~s, etc 1]sually, rather than offend the domestic, the lady gracIOusly coughs up $1 per month for ten months. Thus,"We find that after the circuit is complete, ten pieces of furniture have bee:1 dl<tnbuted and $100 worth of money taken out of the commumty. The WOlst of it is that after it gets started each one finds that they are paYIng for all they get but have not the nerve to ",ithdraw untIl the CIrcuit is complete. Thus we find that this competItion, by workl11g from the back doors of our homes, gets a support v~Inch It otherWIse could not command The latest move along these 1111CSIS the giving of $10 certificates. In dis-playIng theIr prel1uums, they have been wise enough to select the most claSSIcal, Iefined Items of furniture that it is possible to manufacture at a gIven pnce. These are given for two three 01 fOUL certificates whIch brings about an average of tl{ree or four $10 clubs where, origInally, there was only one. If the members of this association had been with Us the day vv e viSIted the factory in Rockford, Ill, where the premiums for the Lal k1l1people are made, you would all realize, as we do, the kind of a PIOposltlOn we are up against When you stop to conSIder that a factory 200 x 500 feet five stories high is devoted to the manufacture of soap club premIUms, exclusively, you "'Ill begm to realIze ltS ma~l1ltude. But that is not all. The factory is eqUIpped WIth all the latest Improvements and the machinery IS so placed that there is not a lost motion from the time the buzz saw cuts the lumber until the article IS finished As we stood gazmg at the chma closets, colonial bookcase;" and handsome lIbranes ",hich we, as small dealers, could not have bought wholesale for less than $8, $9 or $10, you may ap-preciate our pOSItion. We could see that they have adopted many short cuts In manufacturing. By devoting this large bUIld-ing to a short lIne of only about twenty pieces of furniture, utIlizing the most modern machinery and employing a class of help which the avel age factory does not, they are able to manu-facture a quantity of goods at a decidedly lower figure than we small dealers can get them-that is if we continue to get our supply in the long route of present day business. But we are grad to report that, thru the medIUm of our buying committee, we may be able to work out a solution of this problem. If it is falr to sell $10 vvorth of soap and give a $10 table, why IS it not fair to sell a $10 table and give $10 worth of soap T £ vve can arrange a plan by which we can do this and make .1 tall plDfit, vve say In all seriousness, why not be master of tIllS phase of competition? We would recommend that tlllS comlmt-tee be enlarged so that it may be in constant touch with the wOlk-ings of this evil in the towns where it has gotten a foothold L hen b} the tIme these combInatIOn colonial buffets and SIde-boards, selpentIne qualtered oak dressers and coloniallIblane, begin to arrive at our various towns as premIUms for one, two and three certificates, we wlll be able to show our customers that they could have gotten the same thing from Us under the same conchtlOns We know that at this point, some WIll sa}, "That IS all very well but I do not like to do this, that or the other thIng and I do not belIeve It necessary." Well, all we have to sa} IS that we belIeve that every dealer ought to be master of the condItIon in whIch he finds hnnself You alone are to be the Judrse of r--------------------- --~~~- 26 WEEKLY ARTISAN whether the confidence of your cmtomers IS "orth tll1~ \\ e know that the value of a reputatIOn of meetmg and beatmg dll sources of competItion is worth cultlvat111g. As the aSSoCIatIOn15 the medIUm thru which these 1l1flu ences are blought about, we bring you thIS report to set \ ou thinking along these hnes. We realIze that at the be"t, \ en little can be done thIS year, but v\e ought to lay our plath ,,() that by the next convention we WIll have some c1efil11teplan to present \\ e mmt not fOlget that committee vvork is slow IIor k dnd It dh\ a, ~ t,lkes longer than we figure on to bring about an accomphshed fact Yours truly, GEO J. HILLYER, A. GRAPP, M. BONSON, CommIttee MISCELLANEOUS NOTES AND NEWS George H LeGlOs has sold hIS fUI111tme and umlel takl11g lmsmess at Adrtan, Mlnn George LevlCh has sold hIS furnitm e StOle 111SlOU" Clt\ Ia , to hIS brother, A. LevlCh \!Vest P0111tMIss, wants a fur111tme factol} ,111d"" ants It badly" says the local paper. The D. F. Lane company, fm111tllle dealel'" of PIqua. OhIO, WIll move to MunCie, Ind A W. Pressler, of Keene, ~ H, has been granted a patent on a chrld's roCk111gchaIr Lerghton (T Fullman of Ludlo\\. Yt. ha ~ SeUlleel a patent on a chan of l11s0\\ n 111ventlOn 'The Hal t7feld Fm11ltm e company succeed" the 01 nel Furnrture company dealer s of Du BOIS, Pa. The Tobey Furnrture company of ChIcago has been 111 corporated wrth caprtal stock fixed at $ 15°,000 The Rhodes Furniture company of Loms\ llle Ky. h,h been l11corporated wrth capital stock fi"xed at $-1-0,000 Mrss Bertha Hor ton of TonganoAre, K,l11s, ha" been granted letter s patent, on a chan of hel 0\\ n 111\entlOn Credrtor s have filed a pebtlOn 111bank! uptcy aga111"t Grossett & MCauley, fm111tme dealer s of C) nthtana, K) J A Tyrholm & Co , dealer s 111fm111t1JI e elnd hat chIelte at New Rrchland, }\1111nhave 111corpOlatecl Capital stock, $5°,000. The G M Bauett company depa1 tment stOle. of ~1th\ au-kee Wrs., have l11creased then capital stock flOm $100.000 to $200,000. The Stewart Bras & AlI\ ar cl company fm111tule deale Is of ]\;ewark 0 have mcreased therr capItal stock itam $ 10 000 to $25,000. Jeffrey T. Stanley formerly a member of the firm 0 f Stanley Dros, fm niture dealer s of Manchester. ~ II. rs dead, aged 84 years The Espenhain DIy Goods and Fm111tme companv of MIlwaukee, \¥is, have mcreased theIr capItal stock fJ om $400,000 to $500,000 The Bolte Bros FUrt1rtme compan) of \\ lChlta. Kan". have purchased a site on wInch they \\ III elect a neVI bmldl11Q," at a cost of $25,000. The Southwestern Furniture company of Topeka, 1(an" , have increased therr capital stock from $30,000 to $75,000 and will enlarge their plant The Culver-Harris Furniture company of Dothan, i\la. have bought the stock of therr competitOl. :\1 Blumbelg and are closing it out at reduced prrces Manufacturtng corporations hay e expended mal ethan $2,000,000 m new buildings and machmery 111Lo\\ell, l\fass. and suburbs dm ing the past year A. E Levy furnrture dealer of Rodn FOl cl Cal ha" sold l11s stock, which 1l1ventoned dbout $TO.OOO to L \ Lamport and VV H Carl from Lamar, Col Frederick Sterm. dealer under the name of the Stel ns Fur11lture company, of Spokane, \Vash. has been adjud~ed bankrupt The store IS m charge of L J Gay as rece1\ er The stnke of the tapestry carpet pt mtel" of Phtla<1el-pIll,) ha" been settled \\ 1th a raise of five per cent m IV ages rl he ~tl1ke ,\ll1ch affected SIX manufelcturers started m N0- \ ember GeOlge Seymour Beckvvrth has sold hIS mterest in the film at Beck\\ Ith Dlos & Co prano leg manufacturers of \ \ e~tfield. ~Ia ss. Ii ho wrll continue the bus111ess under the old name Dr Samuel \ Vy coff Wal sh a prominent chair manufelctm er of Blooklyn, NY. (hed at his home on Feb- 1UelJ\ 2 aged ;1 \eelts, leav111ga wrdow, a son and a daugh-ter '1 he :\Iattatuck :\I anufacturng company of Hartlford, Conn, manufactm er s of fm11ltm e nails, trimm1l1gs, and brass ~o()ds. hay e mCIeaseo. theIr capital stock ftom $75,000 to 8;r25 000 \1 thur P Der b) ]tt11ior member of the firm of P. Derby &. (0. chall mamtf,lctmer s of Gardner, Mass, (hed on Feb- 1uar) 5. aged 5-1- He ,vas one of the town's most hrghly re"pected cItIzens The name of the Rhodes-Burford Fur11lture company of Lout"\ IUe, K). has been changed to the Rhodes-Burford Hou"e FUl11lsh111gcompany and the caprtal stock has been mCleased to $1.200,000 Samuel Goldman IS the new president of the Retarl FUl111tUle Dealel s' a,socratIon of St. Louis, 1\10 , and rs also one of the delegate" to the convention of the natronal assocr-atlon to be held m DetrOIt J La\\ lence Luther, fUl11lture dealer of Ebensburg, near John"to\\ n. Pa . \\ III close out his stock and qUIt the bus111ess, to take a pO"ltIon as cashier for the Cambna Trtle and Gual ant) compan) .=t new orga111zatron J o"eph J SchneIder and Norman E Lar son of Ma11l-to\\ OC, \\ IS, are repOlted to have taken stock 111the com-pan) that plomrsed to t11vest $2,000,000 111a ne,v fUlUltUle exposItIon bUlldmg on the North Srde 111 ChIcago J E DoughtIe has purcha"ed the interest of hIS partner, J E St,lple~ m the Doughtre Furmture company dealers of \fellc!Jan. :\11"s. and has abo effected a consolIdatIOn of the httsUles" \\ lth that of IllS competItors, the Lauderdale Furni-tUle company A reward of $250 is offered for information that wrll lead to the findmg, dead or altve, of H. B Bradford a fur11l-ture dealer of Ne\\ Orleans, La, who chsappeared about a month ago He rs about 60 years aIel and has a scar on th~ lett sJ(le of hIS nO'oe Frank Burnham and J A Coate", hav111g pttrchased an mte] est m the Prerce Under tak111g company of Los Angeles and Pasaclena, Cal, the name has been changed to the Prerce Bm nham & Coates company Mr Coates will have charge of the Pasadena blls111ess Hem \ H \ man and Morl1S Bessman, constituting the GIan(1 FttrmtUl e company, dealers at 658 Thi1 d street, M1l- \\ aukee. hay e filed \'oluntal y petItion m bankruptcy Liabrl- ItIes $6.310 of \\hlch $126 rs secured; assets, $1,015 of which $700 may be claimed exempt John FOlkenblock, has sold hIS interest in the bll"111ess WEEKLY ARTISAN ... ... ._. ..... II III IIII The season for banquets is here. Get a stack of our Banquet Table Tops so as to be ready to supply the demand. A-.. • of May Bros & Forkenbrock hardwaIe, furnitme and under-taking to Henry May Mr May takes over his share 111the hardware and furmtm e busmess, ancl Mr. Forkenbrock be-comes the sole owner of the undeI tak111g business. Holawasser & Co, furmture dealers of 1417 Third street New Yark, have been running notices in Connecticut and New Jersey papers, stating that their store will be open on the hohdays, February 12 and 22, to give visitors opportunity to mspect theIr stock, and that they wIll refund ral1road fare to those who make purchases amount111g to $10 or more on those days The resIgnatlOn of Wal ner F. Liedbald, president of the Jamestown (N Y.) :Manufacturers' aSSOCIationcaused some-th1l1g hke a new deal in the organizatlOn. Cyrus E. Jones of the J amestovv n Tabble company was promoted from chairman of the executive commIttee to the presIdency; vVIlham J. Mad-dox of the Maddox Table company who was first vice-presi-dent succeeds Mr. Jones on the executive commIttee and Arthur C. \Vade of the Al t Metal company becomes first vIce-president. A Sensible Suggestion. EdItor MIchIgan Artisan -BIgness IS often the parent of smallness The evolutlOn of the fm mtm e exposItIons held at Gland RapIds and Chicago, have been so rapId that It seems as though they haven't had tl1ne to pay vely much at-tent; on to small detaIls vvhlch on account of then smallness are so annoymg when 0\ erlookecl-whlch bnngs us to the point. In not one of the fUInitul e exposItIOn hUlldmgs is there Our Large New Line of DINING and OFFICE TABLES II are the best on the American market when prices and quality are considered. STOW& DRVIS FUKNITUKI; 60. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. City Salesroom, 4th floor, Blodeett BIde. a sectlOn and attendant proYided for checking one's wearing apparel, that one may go through the bmldmg unencumbered, without leavmg hIS hat, coat, umbrella. etc. m the custody of someone whom he does not wIsh to 1l1commode, even though they are ever ready to accommodate At the recent expositions, the writer's attention was called to the Imperative need of coat rooms m the furmture bmld1l1gs, in a manner which has no doubt been the experience of many others. At the automobIle exhIbition held in the Wayne Gardens m this CIty ample checkmg facIlitIes are provided and would suggest th.lt the Artisan forCIbly advocate makmg simIlar provISIons at the expOSItions, knowing that the installatIon of coat rooms will meet wIth the approval and apprecIation of the visitmg buyers. Yours respectfully, J. BRUSHABER SO:\fS, DetroIt, Feb 5, I9IO. Per Chas BI ushaber Have Outgrown Their Quarters. The Madem Parlor Furniture company of Chicago, manu-facturers of parlor furmture, couch and davenport beds, have outgrown their present quarters on DIVIsion street, where they have 30,000 square feet of floor space The growth of theil busmess. espeCIally in the couch and davenport hne demands expanSIOn and to meet present requirements and prOVIde for antICIpated glOwth they have purchased 20 lots, wIth a frontage of 265 feet on the ChIcago, MIlwaukee & St Paul raIlroad, on whIch they will build a new factory at a cost of at lea~t $75.000. I,.... .. -. .- _. --~~--_._-_._._--- .. .- - .. "THE BEST IS THE CHEAPEST" BARTON'S GARNET PAPER Sharp, Very Sharp, Sharper Than Any Other. SUPERIOR TO SAND PAPER. It costs more, BUT It Lasts Longer; Does Faster Work. Order a small lot; make tests; you will then know what you are getting. WE GUARANTEE SATISFACTION. Furniture and Chair Factories. Sash and Door Mills, Railroad Companies, Car Builders and others will consult their own interests by using it. Also Barton's Emery Cloth, Emery Paper, and Flint Paper, furnished in rolls or reams. MANUFACTURED BY H. H. BARTON & SON CO., 109 South Third St., Philadelphia, Pa. 27 - .., ..-.. ......, "--------~._._. -,_._._-_._-_. _. --_.~----- ----~--~---~---------- __ __01 ........_ . . .. 28 WEEKL't ~\RTISAN Trade School. New York City ISto hay e Its fn st out-and-out tl ade ::>chool f01 boys fully eqUIpped and lead) fOl busmess \\ Ith the open-mg of the spllng term It \\ III oc~upy the east \\ 111~ot PublIc School 100, at I38th stleet and I'lfth a\ enue \\ ImJl Ins a pleas111goutlook on sevel al \ acant lots and the Hatlem ElVer 1he equipment for the classes m plumbl11g, cal pentl \ pllntl11g, and ellaughtl11g has alI ead) been 111stalled, and a fe\\ boys have been ,lllo\\ed to come 111 and be~11l \\mk \\'hen the plant IS fil11sheclthele \\ 111be eqmpment tol a UlllI-plete course 111tl aele tl ammg such as 1'0otiel cd no\\ hel e el~c m the cIty "In the fit"t pIau," sa1(l C11cldes Pickett, the pI l11CIp,l1, '\\C ale a tlade school ptHe and simple and \\e mtend to tmll out fine \\olkmen and fine fe11O\\'S.but the standald I~ a plac tIcal one thl0Ughout For yeat s 90 pel cent of the gn band boys m this COlllltty hay e been geLtmg then 11\mg::. thl (Jugh manual \\olk, and onl., 10 pel cent have gone mto the plO-fes'Slo11'> But the schools have been planned f01 the 10 pel cent and not for the 90 pel cent ' The "tracle expellment" I" not deSIgned m any \\ a\ to take the place of a tech1\lcal hIgh school \n) glammal ~ch,)ul graduate may enter or ,Uly boy \\ho ha" leached the age at Lt and can pass an entlance exammatlOn 'to be g1\en b) m)::>elf, declal ed the pllnclpal '1he COUIse IS to be t\\ 0 ) eal S leg u-larl) , WIth pOSSIbIlItIes fOl the te\V \\ ho might \\ Ish to add two years furthel speualtzatlOn DUrIng the legulal COUlse the \\olk IS d1\ Ided mto the 'vocatIOnal" and "non-v ocatlonal," as the autholltles call It The academIC mclueles trade arIthmetIC and algebla, and such gleanmgs of trIgonometry as would be usedm a machme ~hop EnglIsh IS to be emphas17ed, CIYlCSand hlStOl\ fl0m the m-dustnal standpomt, appl led ph) SIC"and chemlstl \, elemental \ bookkeepmg and the ekments of commercial la\\ ])1 a\\ mg IS mcluekd m the non-\ ocatlOnal It,,t, awl \\ 111 l11ean mecha11lcal anel ;1Icllltectural ella\\ mg. mdu stllal de" IgIl (whICh means 'Suchthmg s a:; olnamentallettellng. Utt makmg cover deslgnmg, and \\Olk \\hlch \\ould teach a 110\ to plepale an attlactlve trade catalogue) blue-pllnt makll1~ anel dla\\ mg up of speCIficatIons "Drawmg IS emphaSIzed," e"plamed 111 Pickett, "be-cause the man m a handlClaft tIade must talk \\ Ith hiS penCil In the shops whele the ~ood \\olk IS done plactIcally all of It IS done from dra wmg In an) shop 01 factOl) the man \\ ho can tell from a sketch e",lctl) \\IMt IS \\anted and e"pl,lln to the othel WOlkel s I" a \ aluable man For a 11Iechal1lcthe m abilIty to use a penCil IS a sellous hanclIcap and the ablltty to u"e It gIVes any man a deCleled aelYant age " The non-vocatIonal \\ 01k IS eApected to OCCUpyft am one-qual tel' to one-th11d of the tIme, and no matte 1 \\ hat ebe ,1 boy takes he cannot avOId It The industllal tlammg IS dt-vldeclmto h\o genelal glOUpS wood and metal \\OIkmg In the first thel e \\ III he cal pentl y and jomel y, home cal penc!) vvood tUll1lng, patte In makmg and the use of nnllll1g 111,1- chll1ery, band sa\\s, JIg ,a\\s, JOIntels, cl11dso f01th In the metal workmg thele I" a genelal machme "hop tlall1l11g, fOlge wOlk, sheet metal \\olk, plumbll1g, pllntmg, both composItion and pless work, and electllcal wifing and mstallatlOn "Our boys \\111 be 10ughly clIvlded mto t\\0 c1clsses." saId Mr PIckett, "tho'Se who have "ome hne alI eady pIcked to follow and those who whde hay mg genelal aptitude ha\ e no defimte chOICe It I" safe to sa) tlldt a boy \\ ho"e fath<:! vvas a carpenter \\ ould most hkel) have hiS best openmg III WOOdWOlk,and \\oukl stalt light m on that "For the boy WIth no defimte openlllg \ve adVise genelal \\ olk before choosmg a Ime in \\ lllch to special lie How can c1boy tell \\ hether he \vould make a better cal pen tel' or ma-chm st untIl he has WOlked a lIttle at the trade? In the first \ e:l1 \\ e expect to gn e only the elements of the \\ ork, and the ~peClclllzmg mu"t come m the second year" \ rI Pickett IS emphatIC m hlS statement that the trade ~lhool 1" to be as fa! dlffelent from a tech11lcal hIgh school as pos"lble "I'o belSm WIth the course IS dIfferent The hIgh -,chool takes foUl \ ealS 01 dt least thlee and a half, and I" under tbe HOellc1of Re~ent'o 1\0 matter what a boy doe" m the lI1eclJal11cdl\\ OJ k he IS gl dded and gl aduated upon hIS stanel-lP~ 111 the aCclClemlcsubjects The be"t l1011\\orker 111 the ~ch()ol might not be gIaduated because he fell below 111 model n lan~uages "In thiS tl ades school the boy's shop wOlk \\ III count e(ludll) \\ Ith hIS CL1ss100m 1eCltatlOns \\ hen It comes to ~IaduatlOn the questIOn I shall ask is what can you do? not \\ helt do you kno\\? Om aim IS fl ankly the mastery of tools, \\ 111( h IS not that of the manual trammg high schools No teachel thel e unless he I" afflIcted \v Ith the mdustrIal bacillus- \\ hleh by the \\ ay, IS d \ ery new aIlment m this country-for It ~l\e~ Ius \\OJk such d plactlcal emphasis "1~Ulthel mUIe, the atmosphere Will be different It IS tu be a'o tal flam the schooh oom as posslbble. I mtend to "ub-tltute the dl"clplme of the shop for the dlsclplme of the sc1100hoom The boys are to learn to move in the man's \\ odd and to he Judged by a man's standards There wIll be 110 mOle l1Iles agamst whIsperIng and the chllclIsh pedagogical oftense'o, but OUI legulatlons \'1'111be those of a first class shop 01 factory' Domestic Raas Better Than Oriental Imitations. '1 he chOice at the lIght kmd of rug to complete a given ~cheme of decOlat Ion and fm11l"hmg IS perhaps as Important 11l 11'0 eftect" cl" any plOblem that confronts the home maker, "a)" a \\ Iitel m the Claftsman A rug must be absolutely IllSht m COI01,deSIgn and even texture, or It Will throw the \\ hole decOlatn e scheme out of key, and one of the most j 1 equent complamt" \\ e heal fl0m conscientIOUS and ehscrimi-natlllg hOl1le-makeI" h of the chfficulties they encounter m then eHO!t" to ~et lUgS that are at once beautIful, durable and not too e'l:pen~t\ e to come \,Ithm the reach of a moderate pUl"C But pel hap" the gleater pal t of these difficultIes arIse ft on. cel tam C011\entlOnal prejuchces It goes Without saymg tha the best of all kno\\ n lUgS are the ancIent OrIentals, WIth then \\ onc1elful dll1l llch colormg, theIr mdescrIbable 'Sheen ane1 the \\ea11l1lScl

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1910-02-12T00:00:00Z

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Periodicals and Furniture Industry

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