Weekly Artisan; 1909-12-11

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Issue of a furniture trade magazine published weekly in Grand Rapids, Mich, starting in 1879. and GRAND RAPIDS, MICH., DECEMBER II, 1909 POSSELIUS BROS. FURNITURE MANUFACTURING CO. DETROIT, MICH. Just a few of our new patterns of DINING EXTENSION TABLES The entire line will be on exhibition on the second floor of the MANUFACTURERS' EXHIBITION BUILDING, 1319 Michigan Ave., CHICAGO In charge of F. A. Kuney, J. O. Kemp, H. J. Armstrong. Our new catalogue will be ready for mailing by Jan. 1, 1910. 2 \\ E E K L Y '\ R 'I I SAN CHOICE TOOLS FOR FURNITURE MAKERS If you do not know the "Oliver" wood workmg tools, you had better gIve us your address and have us tell you all about them We make nothmg but Quality tools, the first cost of which IS consIderable, but whICh Will make more profit for each dollar invested than any of the cheap machmes flood-mg the country. Oliver Tools UOhver" New Variety Saw Table No 11 Will take a saw up to 20" diameter Arbor belt IS 6" Wide Send for Catalog "B" for data on Hand Jomters, Saw Tables, Wood Lathes, Sanders. Tenoners, MortIsers, TrImmers, GrInders, Work Benches, Vises, Clamps, Glue Heaters, etc., etc. OLIVER MACHINERY CO. Works and General OffIces at 1 to 51 Clancy 51 GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. USA BRANCH OFFICES - Ohver MachmeryCo , Hudson Termmal 50 Church St , New York Ohver Machmery Co. F"'ll National Bank BUlldmg,ChIcago. III Ohver Machmery Co , PacIficBUlldmg.Seattle. Wash Ohver MachmeryCo •201-203 Deansgate.Manchester,Eng Save Labor rempers Cost "OLIVER" No. 16. Band Saw 36 Inches. Made wIth or wuhout motor dnve Met a I table 36"x 3D" Will take 18" under the gUIde-tilts 45 degrees one way and 7 degrees the other way Car-nesa saw up to 1%11 WIde OutsIde beanng to lower wheel .halt when not motor dnven WeIgh. 1800 lb. when ready to shIp ~---------- ------------------------~III A BARGAIN! III I III I t I I II I IIII IIII HE~E'S THAT IS No 537. 28x42 top Quarter Sawed Oak, Band Rim, Polished, Cross $7.50 III , IIII •• I•• I I ~---------.--.----------------~-~-----------------~ You can't make money faster than by buymg thIS fine lIbrary Table by the dozen, unless you make up a carload out of thIS and other good thmgs we have to show you. PALMER MANUFACTURING co. 1015 to 1043 Palmer Ave., DETROIT MICH. ~-_._--_._------ I IIfI I! ,II• •I•• II I,I• ,I,I III I II III ,,•••• ••I~--------_._._.~----_._._-------- THE FORD & JOHNSON CO. ----~--------~ II CHICAGO This IS one of our popular Hotel chairs. Our chairs are found in all the leading Hotels in the country. The line includes a very complete assort-ment of chaIrs, rock-ers and settees of all grades; Dmmg Room furnIture, Reed and Rat tan furniture, Special Urder furni-ture, etc. A complete Ime of sam-ple. are dIsplayed m The Ford fs Johnson BUlldml!' 1433-37 Wabash Ave •• 10- c1udml! a speeral d.splay of Hotel FurnIture. All fttrmture dealers are cordwlly mvtted to visit our building. I .........I WEEKLY ARTISAN 5 COMPLETE LINES Of REfRIGERATORS C"ALLENGE REfRIGERATOR COMPANY GRAND HAVEN, MICH., U. S. A. AT RIG"T PRICES SEND FOR NEW CATALOGUE AND LET US NAME YOU PRICE. ...._-_._-_._-~~~~_._.-_. _. _.---._.-----_._--_. . ~ II III• I• III If Here is a Rocker That's a seller. Write for the price. GEO. SPRATT 8 CO. SHEBOYGAN, WIS. No. 592 1-__ .-.-----------------------. - .._~II ~---------------- ,• I I I -----.--._.-._---------~ Give your men tools that are ac-curate to the one-thousandth part of an inch. Tools that are straight and true and hold their cutting edge. No matter how expensive and per-fect your machinery may be, if the cutting tools are not of the best, you can not turn out good work. We pride ourselves on the fact that we have manufactured only the very best for thirty-five years Write for our complete catalog. It shows many new ideas in fine labor saving tools. MORRIS WOOD & SONS .508-1510 W. LAKE ST., CHICACO, ILL. 1------_._.-.---.-.-.------ 3 .1I IIII I,, I,IIII II ,, Catalogue UPOll rtquest. !I ~-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------~ 4 ------._---------------- IV E E K L Y \ R TIS A N I} I ••••••••••• - ••••••• __ •••• ·-1 THE LUCE LINE Manv New Patterns lD Dmmg Room and Bed-room Furniture for the Fall Season. SHOW ROOMS AT FACTORY, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. LUCE fURNITURE COMPANY Makers of Rockford Chair and Furniture Company ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS. Our entire line will be on exhibition in January on the third floor of the Blodget Building, Grand Rapids, Mich. DINING ROOM FURNITURE Buffets, China Closets and Tables. Library Furniture- Library Desks, Library Tables, Library Bookcases, Combmatlon Bookcases, Etc. 30th Year-No. 24 GRAND RAPIDS, MICH., DECEMBER II, 1909 Issued Weekly GRANf' RAPll Pnn'>' ~)nt Lt ' -4JiV Liljl\! " CORPORATIONS AND TRADE SCHOOLS An Interesting Discussion in the Annual Convention of the National Society for the Promotion of Industrial Education. ::\lllvvaukee, \\ IS, Dee 6 -One of the most mtel estmg diSCUSSions m the thud annual conI entJon of the K atlOna1 SOClet} for the PromotlOn of I udustnal Education, which closed here Saturday, December 4, vvas upon the "'llb]ect of "CorporatIOn Schaab a" orgal117Cd by Employ el" for the Tra1l1mg of ApprentIce,,' 'L hiS diSCUSSIOn vvas opened by C \\T Cross of the K ew York Central Ralh, ay 'iy"tem, but the pnnclpal addres", was de1n el ed by Joseph J Eaton, dIrec-tor of the trades schoob of Yonkers, K Y, Vv ho 'iald m part "CorporatIOns are popularly 'iuppo"ed to be vvIthout souls and hearts, and pOSSibly without a few other organs Em,- e, er, thh may be, there IS no que'itlOn that a 'iucce"sfu1 car-pal atlOn posse%es a bra111, and It IS a "lgl11ficant fact that many of the most successful COIporatlOns ha, e established apprentice schools which they direct and ma1l1tam These two statements apparently shov .. that, f1om a manufacturer's P0111t of 11ew, some sort of Systematlc tram1l1g, apart from the shops, IS really worth wll1le "Recently two supenntendents ,vere reqLllred by a lalge corporatIon Investigation dl..,closecl the startlmg fact that not one of the local foremen was fitted for thiS ad, ancement ::\1en of the desll ed capacity were not obtall1able In tIllS coun-try It wa'3 ev Ident that, m order to be more self contal1led, some prm ISlon must be made to stImulate local mtel e'it and glowth The Ludlovv TextIle School IVas therefore CIeated IVIth the clefmlte a1l11 of trammg appl entIces fOI executn e pO"ltIons 111the mills. "ThiS :-,chool, IS of the half-tIme class, that is, pupIls cle-vote half a work day or flve hours to work m the mill and half a school day, or three hours, to school \vOlk TIll1'i dunnlS eight haUl s of each day the pupIls are m the employ or un-der the superVISIOn of com pan} offiCials I, or thl" tmw they are paid, I eceIVmg Just as much for each school hour as for each hour spent 111 the mIlls "In ordel that the mill IV ark may not be mtelrupted the boy s \'Yolk m palr'i, alternat1l1g the mIll work With that of the school 1hI" shIft OCC'tll" each day ] t 11lllSht be mtel e",t1l1g to note that the mill "ork "uffer" m no \\ ay by thiS a1l angc-ment as the boy who goe'3 to the ml11m the afternoon takes up and carnes on the work commenced 111 the mo' nmC; by hi" partner As far as the mIll work I" concerned the appren-tIce" become a.., profiCIent as other VI orkers and they acqull e a broader knowledge of mIll v\ 01k than that possessed by some of the foreman ThiS seems I ather remarkable a" the school has been estahh'3hed le"s than three years POSSibly one of the factors contllbutmg to thIS h that each apprentice has been I emen ed m great part from monotonous and ma-chme lIke repetition demanded of other vvorkel s VI hlch has such a deadenmg effect on the motor "ense3 "L~nder these arrangements the so called 'difficult age' I" cared fOl There l'i a defimte connection bet" een the school \\ork and the oUblde \York In the mIll the apprentIces arc actuall) d01l1g IV hat IS to be clone and they ha, e a place to 2,0 to have answeled questIons I al"ed m the mIll 'PupIl" brJ11£.; theIr mmd.., as well a" thell boche" to school' a'3 the 'ichool vvark 13 I eal and tane;lble " 1'Ie,,!dent John L Shealer of the OhIO '\Iechamcs In",tl-tute of CmcmnatI, "poke on the e\ emng schools He said that no claim should be made that evemng mstructlOn IS the Ideal method of m'3tructlOn and contmued "E,e111112, school" ot the past, as well as the plesent, hale heen a11d are stIll engae;ed m patchmg defectIVe p1lmal) educatIon 1hey a1e provldmg 111111ted,one mIght almost sa) supel fiClal vocatIOnal tra11lmg to meet the demands of the hour Tech111cal proces"es hav Ing applIances ha\ 1I1g become so genelal It 1'3found that the establIshed educational system, thoue;h taxed 10 Its utmost, cannot ..,upply the demand for men and women \I ho are tJ amed to peIfOlm speCific task" The 111ght '->chool h, therefore, an ImpOl tant adJ11l1ct and feeder, so to speak, to the many bu..,mess mtere'its of to-day "Captains of Industr~" Should Help. "As an mtegla1 palt of the general system of educatIon, WIthout the gUldmg fOlce of bu::,mcs;, men, vocatJonal even-mg mstructlOn IS too apt to become a formal, un} leldmg, mflexlb1e tram1l1g, pool1) adapted to the reqUIrement::, 0- the employer The "tudent "hould recen e that whIch wIll most easIly and qUlckl} help hl111 to achieve a defimte lesult, re-cogUlzmg the fact that he mu"t be equipped for mdn Idual future growth as well a" for pre'ient 1I1dU'itna1 effiCiency "1'01 permanent "'ucce"", thl'" defi111te \ ocatJOnal eve111ng IlhtlllctlOn requIre" tll e dlrectme; hand of men of affan sand teachel" 1'\ho al e ma "ter::, m then re"pectn e crafts 1'10 fesSlOnal teacher'>, howe, el, "hould gn e m..,tructJOn m the pUlely theclletJcal subjects and those blanches whIch forms a bmdel bet\\ een theory and pi actIce "J\Ien who ha, e made their fortunes thlOugh mc1u'3tI ial 111 the \ ICl11ltV of the II estmghouse interests at East Pitts-burg In the beg1ll11lng there \Vere half a dozen teacner,; and a few d07cn studenb \\ ho attended classes III :rawll'g ann e1ementalY mathematic" The graVYth and development has been such that thcI C l~ no\\ offered an opportutnt} fOI :OJ "tc- 11latIc stnch III "uch fnnda11lental "oences, as -JVlathematlces. \ recha111cal Dra \\ 1l1g \1 echanll", c\pphed and Thu'ret!c ,I Phv"lcs TheOl etllal and c\pphecl I'lectIlclty, Thf'OfttJcaJ ana Apphed Chemistry, Pattern Shop PlactIce, l\Iachine Shop Practice lonndlj Practice "'team etc, to men ('L1,pl.)\ cd 111 dalh commercIal activIt) , The total enrollment f(Jj the pi esent iall term IS some-thing 0\ er 250 ..,tudents wIth a faculty of 27 lnstf11(tL;r The attendance ha" ah\ ay" heen 70 per cent to 80 per ceni of the enrollment Of the 4S men \'V ho hay e been gl ad!1? rt rl In thf past three ) eal.., practically all hay e been steadlly ach anced In posItIOn and re"pons1b11lt) lorty are still WIt 1 thell 0 1- !:;mal e11lplu\ er" The"e men are 111 "uccessfl1l compc tJtI0 1 WIth the l:;radnates of the leachng tech11lcal scLoul.., of fIe connt1 y 'The engllleenng nIght school ha" a lall:;e felei of c.(,Ltvity \t the \ en q,ll t 1h "tudents po""e:o" "omethmg chat tne new collel:;e graduate "eldom ha", namely a clear Idea of com-merual I' act1ce fhh earh e"penence mst111s all al'pltC1- atIon ot the \ alue of time and of the \ alue c - :::denti0f' j 1 alJl1ng \\ hlch tend" to prodnce the most efficient ,tndent 6 WEEKLY ARTISAN enterprises and who are constant 1) profitmg by the appll-cation of sCience to mdustry and who mu"t hay e a constant supply of trained men and carryon the comphcated opel-ations of busines", cannot Ignore their duty and responsiblhty to contnbute liberally to education of this sort ~ 0 betiel 111vestment can be made Money thus contnbuted should, however, be used for the dIrect benefit of the 111du"tlles con-tributing and such evening or contmuatIOn school,; should retain their mdependent workmg methods, that IS, not 111- fluenced much by so-called educatIOnal standards, thereby guaranteeing positive returns 111the form of skilled \\ 01 kmen to the shop, tramed men for the count111g room and mte1h-gent recnnts for the sales departmenb of busI11ess Channmg R Dooley, PreSIdent of the Casmo Techmcal Night School gave an Illustrated lantern talk on "Tram111g Non-Techlllcal Men" He ,;poke of the work of the Casmo Night School, and showed vanous lantern shdes of the "tu-dents at work 111 the drfferent shops In part he said "The present scarCIty of skllied vv orkmen IS a mattel of great concern in plans for the future which l'\ lllmsure men ot all-round skIll He may reI} upon the eng111eering collelie" for the majority of his managers, but" ho \l' III broaden and tram his wOlkmen ~ That "hlch h best for the mdl\ Idual 1" best for the corporation for whIch he WOIks The mana~e-ments of large concerns al e eagedy lookIng for" al d to the increase m the earning power of the wOlkmen, and \\ 111 willingly pay for It accordmgl} The great question IS not ho\\ to get a man to do a day's work for the least pay but hcm to get the most effiCient work out of the men, 111CI ea "mg then pay accord111gly. Westinghonse ~Iethods. "The development of the boy and not Shop PlOductlOn' should be the watchword of the apprenticeship department of every company At the works of the Y\ est111~hot1,;e Elec-tric and l\lanufactunng Compan} of Ea"t Pltto;bnrg, Pa, the apprenticeshIp department IS bemg de\ eloped m a most s\ s-tematIc and careful manner, the first vIce-president of the company takmg an active personal l11terest The \\ 01k of the apprentIces IS dIVIded mto two departmenb, the Shop and the Classroom "In the shop the plan IS to de\ ote a certa111 "ectIOn to the apprentices, thiS sectIOn IS fitted With a complete eqUIpment to furlllsh shop practice 111 all branches of the machllll"t" trade. In the shop the boys are under the gUIdance o± shop instructors, having the rank of foremen The cla"sroom m structIOn IS prOVIded on company time ThIS wOlk IS a part of their dally schedule and they repol t to the class mstructOl as systemlcall) a" to their shop foreman SpeCIal rooms 111- side the work,; ha \ e been SUItably fitted up for thiS cIa ss \\ ork "SIX years ago the Casmo Tech11lcal ~ Ight School "tarted Apprentice Systmu Out of Date. DI 1 cJgal S Darne) PnnCIpal of the Hebrew Technical Ll"tltute, \e\\ tOlk City, deo;cnbed the school which ai'11o; TO 'in e c broad ) et practical, educatIOn to the boy who must Cdl'"PlC te hIS "c1lOol \'V 01 k at sixteen He saId: ''''he old apprentIceshlp system has become a 'dead let tel' The ne\\ "ouologlcal and 111du",tnal conditIOns render ItS] evn al an Imposslblllty, el' en If, WIth ItS disadvantages and narrcm eflects, It l'\ el e deslfahle \\ c o;hould not look to forelgn-"kllled labor to fill the gap, n01 allow foreIgn compe-tItIOn- undel a better '>ystem of vocational and techmcal educatIOn-to supplant our 1I1dustne" Y\ e 1111ht look to our schoolo; to mtroduce thorough practical course'> 111the mdu'>tnes and the trades, courses of practlcal shop \\ ork, under skllled mechamcs, together WIth "uence, dla\\ mg, mathematIC,>, and subjects leadmg to an llIdustnal mtelhgence Such cour"e" \\Ith suffiCient time aftel lea\ 111g "chool to acqUIre o;peed and accuracy, v 11 gn e us a clas" of educated. skllled mechalllcs 'It ha'3 been conclu"n el} demon "trated by eX1st111g schools that the tendenc) to leal' e "chool a" "oon a" the pupll has pa"sed the State com pulsar} age, may be ver) greatly reduced, 1)\ gl\ 111g him a practJLal course With a defimte end In \ lew Our ,;choob at present are too ex- 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 gettmg. WE GUARANTEE SATISFACTION. Furniture and Chair Factories, Sash and Door Mills, Railroad Compames, Car BUIlders and others Will consult their own interests by usmg It. Also Barton's Emery Cloth, Emery Paper, and Flint Paper, furnIshed m rolls or reams. MANUFACTURED BY H. H. BARTON & SON CO., 109 South Third St., Philadelphia, Pa. -~~~-------,----_._--_._._------------_._._---------- ---~ A WEEKLY ARTISAN / --~--._-----~ ........_~., ., -•••• --~alii ... -oil-o _ -••• ------._--------------~--------- 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 wen worth gOlDg' to pee A Lme that you should have a complete catalog of r he fact that you have not our catalog can only be rectified by WrItIng for your copy to day THE UDELL WORKS INDIANAPOLIS, IND 1._----------_. ----~.----.-~----.---------------'-----------------------------~ Coming Back to Grand Rapids. INest Farmmgton, O. Dec 8 -The l\llller Table Com-pany, manufacturers of eAtenslOn tables WIll return to the Grand RapIds market to eAhlblt theIr lme next month They wlll make theIr dIsplay m the lurl11ture Exchange on the second floor PresIdent C L\. \lIllel and B S INolcott one of the company's salesmen, w1l1 be In attendance to look after the want.., of theIr patrons The January lme wlll 111- elude nun) new deSIgn.., PresIdent l\flller reporb theIr trade the past three month.., as excellent and says the outlook for the commg year 111thIs sectlOn IS fine on account of the revlvalm the Iron 111du~try 11r Mlllel abo says that wlth- 111the neAt two or three months the company wIll bmld an addltlOn to theIr mac1l1ne r00111 and glumg room to meet the demands of theIr bus111esb elusIvely lIterary f01 the average actl\ e boy of thIrteen to seventeen Trades Unions Becoming Friendly. "In the eady vears of trade and 111uustnal school agl-tatlOn. the tradeb unIons \Tv ere bItterly hostIle Such school" were denounced as rU1110U" to the wages of the mechanIc It IS claImed that no school could prepare a boy to enter a trade. that, at be..,t the ~racluate" "el e only half baked' Thl.., latter charge "ab not altogether unfounded, not be cause the genel al pnnClple of the "chool wab wlOng, but be-cause, In the proces-, of the "chool's evolutIon, -,uffiClent tlme had not elap:oed for It" full de\ elopment "c\ better feel111g, ho" e\ er, I" growll1g amon~ the trdoe" Ul110ns The) are beg111mng to under..,tand that schools can pl epal e a young man "0 that, wIth tIme In whIch to acquIre a COmbll1atlOn of speed and accurdC}, he can become a "kIlled mechamc and a oe"llable acqUIsItIon to the unIOn, one who, m tIme, WIll help to hft the Llllon to a hIgher and more 1l1tel-llgent plane "Cp to the present tIme, almost all that has been ac-complIshed has been done by "chools wpportccl by prn ate contnbutlOns v\ hen 111dustnal and techl11cal school.., are SUpp01tecl h} the State "0 tl1dt the) belong to member" of lahor orga111zatlon" a" well as to non members, the anta~on-l: om WIll be adjusted ' The story of the semI annual "ew York exposltlOn IS a hIstory of contll1ued ~1 0\\ ll1g buccess In the 38th, to be opened from January 17 to F ebruar) 5, h" 0 hundred and fifty manu-facturerb wIll exll1blt the best and the newest 111 fur11lture The modeln gIrl IS brought up to elate, and) et "he often m1- presses us as not hdvmg much bl1ngmg up. ~----------- ..... ----------_.-----------------------------------------------------------------~ III I I DELAWARE CHAIR CO. DELAWARE OHIO. I DOUBLE CANE r LEATHER J MISSION LARGEST "QUALITY" LINE of CHAIRS, ROCKERS and SETTEES CATALOCUE TO THE TRADE ONLY. -_ -----------_ ---------_ _--~----------------- _-- ... "'------ and challtable 01c,an1/at1Ons and other public instItutions II e 1I1tend to c,n e a "elles of motIon pIctures in the audl- Wlll11ll tl0111 tl111Cto tIme \\hlch \\111 :ohow the art of weav1l1g 1 IH'; -, lace maklllc, the 111anufacture of pottel v, room scenes, and other featm e" of d sl1111lal nature Thel e IS a lot of bUllchng gOIng on 111 BI1111mgham The \mencan Steel \1 Ire com pam I" putt1l1g up a fi11l:oh1l1gmIll to co:ot three m1lhon dollars and a fi\ e mI1l1On dollal resen OIr IS be1l1g bmlt by the ll11ted States steel Lorporat1On 8 WEEKLY ARTISAN FIGHTING THE DEMURRAGE RULES Grand Rapids Board of Trade Trying to Secure Reconsideration and Rejection of National Code. The transportatIon commIttee of the Grand RapId, Board of Trade are makmg earnest, determmed eft 01b to secure reconsiderat1On and rejectlOn of the demurrae,e rule" recently approved by the N atlOnal Assoc1atlOn of RaIlroad CommIssioners as WIll be seen by the followmg letter \\ hlch has been sent out to sh1ppmg assoClatlOns, manufactUl ers orga11lZatlOns and other" \\ ho should be mterested In the mat-ter Gentlemen For some 1110nths the quest10n of umform natlOnal demurrage rules has been agItated '\0\ embe1 1C) the NatlOnal AssocIation of Rallroad Comml,,:OIoneh adopted theIr commIttee's report, recommendmg mstallat10n of um form national demurrage rules, and recommendmg as :ouch rUles, to govern all classes of freIght, and e\ er} sIze and k1l1d of car, 48 hours free tIme, ..,ome con:oH1elatlOn to be gn en to inclement weather, and "hunchmg' of cars ;\s an cdtC:I-natIve, IS offered an a\ erage plan, gn 1I1g 48 hour" free tIme weather cond1t10Ib and "bunching" ehmmated. open car., to be balanced by open cars, and box cal s by bo'. cars As md1vlduals, you know what such rules \\ ould mean to you The MIchIgan RaJ1lOad Comm1s"lOn IS empowered b\ legIslative actIOn to fix demUlrage charges and legulatIon-, m this state, and ItS pa"t attItude \\ ould 111dlcate d " I1hnc,ne,,-, on Its part to dIsregard the abm e recommendat1On ot the national assoc1atlOn, and formulate such demunage 1ule", a" wIll best meet the need" of MIchIgan shIpper" The loyalty of the :i\I1c111gan RaIllOad COml11h..,IOn to tIle interests of our stdte demands co-operatIon on om pan De 111urrage being purely a local mattel should 11e 2,m el ned h\ local conditIOns and ,;tate raIlroad C01111111SS1Oannd It h \ Italh Important that you and your aSSOClat1On, at ItS \ eI} eal he-,t opportumty draw up and pass resolutIons thank1l1g the :\IIChl-gan RaIlroad commIssIon for the stand It has taken up to thh tIme, express111g your VIgorous dlsappro\ al of the-,e 01 an\ other UnIform nat10nal demm rage 1 ule", and ur(?,lll(?, thc com-mIssion to dlslegard the act10n of saId natIOnal assouatloll dnel formulate such rules a" shall best meet our needs ::,ene! these resolutlOns to Hon C. L Glascow chaIrman. "\IIchlQ,an RaIlroad COm1l1bSlOn, and a COP} to the Grand RapIds Boare! of Trade, so that we may keep m touch WIth thl:O SItuatIOn 111 the future as we have m the past ThIS 1'0Important Dela} may be expensIve Yours truly, GI and RapIds, Dec 10 1909 R IV TR \\ 1\ Cha1lman Greatest Store in the South. Joseph Loveman of Loveman, Joseph & Loeb E1l mmg ham, Ala, was In GI and Rapld:o on Thur'oda} thl" \\ eek I",'hen asked as to conchtlons m Ill" home CIty IIr Lm eman saId "The year 1909 WIth us IS the best m Ou! hlstOJ}- conSIderably ahead of 1907 \Ve al e <.;tartmg to buIld an addItIon to our establIshments whIch, when completed \\ III make our store the large-,t of Its kmd ,',outh of ChIcago 1 he addItIon WIll be eIght stones all of steel, and to be fi11l:ohed b} Sept or Oct, 1910 The dlmen"lons of the -,tore "WIth the addItIOn WIll be 140 x 140 feet and wIll afford a flOO1 "pace of 450,000 square feet VI e are gomg to prO\ Ide f01 a publIc restaurant and also an audltonum capable of seatmg ii\ e hundred people \VhlclI WIll be donated for use tofchUl che~ Everybody Rushing at Rockiord. Rockford, Ill, Dec 10 -Everybody and everythmg con-nected WIth furmture In Rockford IS domg a double stunt just nO\\ There are "0 many factones, and "uch large lInes, and competItIon IS "0 sharp that extra efforts are necessary 111 Older to get out the lmes and hay e them on the floors m Grand Rapld-, and ChILago by the first of January One of the lllles that \\ III be of mOl e then ordmary mterest m J anuar} IS that of the Rockford ChaIr and 1-;urnlture (ompany, makers ut dmmc, room ane! lIhrary furmture One of theIr fine three-pIece dlnmg room 'o111tSI" dIsplayed on anoiher page of thIS I-,~ue \\ 111ch IS \\ OJthy pf much attentIon \\ Olk on the "upenor rnr11lture company's new factory b j1lOgleS.,mg hneh, and the} wIll have theIr lIne ready for the ~ummel -,ea'oon of 1910 The \atlOnal, the Royal J\Iante1 and FurnIture company, the RockfOld Frame and FIxture company, the Standard, CentI aI, \\ est End, Rockford Desk. SkandIa, Rockford CabI-net l11l0n, :\lechamcs, Excel and others WID be lIght on tune "Ith the be"t they can get up, and that mean~ a lot of splendId l111e" OHicers of the Alexander Dodds Company. 1he \le'.ander Dodds company, the mCOIpo ration men-tIOned la"t \\ eek as <.;ucceechng \lexander Dodds in the manuiactul e of \\ OOe!-WOlklllg machmery m Grand RapIds ha" elected :\Ir Dodd., as pI eSldent and Harold B \1.' oodcock a~ secretary and treasurer J\I r \\ oodcock is a son of the late Robel t \\ odcock and ha,', only lately Identified hImself \\ lth the busll1ess -\lhel t C Stm er, the othel <.;tockholder learned hIS trade \\ Ith "\r1 Dodd" and has been connected WIth the instItutIOn fm the past "e\ enteen years and foreman for SIX years The husme% WIll be contmued "Without mterruptIon Sears-Roebuck Stock Goes Up. Common stock 111the Sears-Roebuck Company went up from 154 to 157 III the Chicago market last Tuesday and ha" ,',mce held that pllce It made a SImIlar ad\ ance on the New York stock eAchange The boom IS generally credIted to a pro"pectn e l11crease 111 the dl\ Idend rate At the last dIVIdend meetmg the board advanced the annual rate from 4 to 6 per cent and a further ad\ ance IS expected in February Out of the eal n111gs of th1-, year the company has alI eady bought 111 for cancellatIOn $7)0.000 of the preferred stock and may take more It IS the l11tentIon also to l11crease the bond Ieserve by ahont $1,000,000 Upholsterers Advance Prices. The Grand RapIds manufacturers of uphol,',tered fur1l1ture hay e deCIded to ad\ ance pnces about ten per cent. the exact amount and the method of notifying the trade bel11g left to the chscretlOn of the members of the aSSOCiatIOn, l11dn Idually The} have also dc:clded to apply f01 membE rshlp In the NatIOn-al :Uannfacturers' AssoClatlOn --- WEEKLY ARTISAN Pullman Germ Catchers. The othel l1lght some of the good ladies who spoke 011 the pI e, entlOn of tuherculoSIS called attentIOn to the beautJ-fu1 lSelll1 hatchenes and ~erm catcheries known as Pullman cal s, sa)" the Rocky "1\lountam "Tews of Denver, Col The ~ood larlIe" wel e follow1l1g a vcry anCIcnt pI ecedent \\ e do not belIev e there has been a medICal or quasI-mechca1 o-ath b ellng m thIS country m fifteen vears whIch has not con-demned the p1u-,h u~hol"tenno- ;'f the Pullman" But the h Pullmans go on beIng upholstered m the all-catchmg plush, ctl1d we go on bUyIng the berths because we mu:ot \\ hy a company whose operatlOns are usuall) conducted WIth at least a faIr measure of mtellIgence inSIsts on thIS antiquated fUfm"hmg, we have never been able to see Lea-ther IS clean, or can be kept clean, It affords no restmg-place fOl germs, It does not gathel all the dust that comes along and dIstnbute that dust where It WIll do the most harm The first cost of leathel 1:0 doubtles" hIgher than the cost of the present abOm1l1atlOlls but the weanng qualItle:o of leather would probably make It about as cheap m the end Then there are dIve 1s patent sub"tltute:o for leather, or, 1f one must ha, e cloth. why not take a cloth of filmer weave \Vhy--? But what's the use" One couldn't pOSSIbly find a new I eason to urge agamst the present upholstenng And the company that IS respon:Olble "eems to take no account what-ever of hyglemc comp1amts Bettel sa, e one's breath to mhale germ kJllmg sprays "The Chest With a Chill in It:· One of the g-aye-,t and most attractIve catalogues recently put out 13 that of the l\lame ;'\1anufactullng Co of Xashua, K H, manufacturers of the famous \\ 11lte J\Iountam refng-eratOl s It IS neatly pnnted 111 COlOl" on t1l1ted pages and the announcements, for the season of 1910, are decIdedly inter-e" t1l1g The \Vhlte Mountain refngerator IS advertJsed a" "the chest WIth the chIll in It" and the factory which was establIshed 111 1874 IS saId to be the largest refngerator factor) 111 the world The larger part of the catalogue IS devoted to descIIptlOns and 11lustratlons of a new style of the company'" procluct called the "pure whIte \Vhlte Moun-tain refrIgerator,," "hlch are lllled WIth pure white baked enamel as hard a:o flInt and as smooth as china and has a nch glo"s appal ently baked 111 The company also uses another lIn1l1g known a" the "stone white" which IS made of natural stone obtall1ed from quarnes owned by the company and so treated as to gn e It the appearance of porcelain It 1" claimed that thIS IS an Ideal matenal for the purpose, as the coolll1g qualIty of the stone enhances the chIll The \VhIte Mounta1l1 IS made in all deSIrable styles and SIzes, rounded corners bell1g a featm e of the woodwork 9 Mailed Catalogues Early: The Spence1 & Ba1l1es Company of Denton Harbor, J\I1ch , took tIme by the forelock and completed the printing of theIr catalog so as to begin ma11mg 1t the latter part of :t\ovember The catalog embraces ,some 40 odd chamber smtes made m mahogany and Clrcasslan vva1nut after clas-sIcal types ThIS company's product has been before the public for nearly 35 years dUJing which tIme they have achieved a 1eputatiol1 for honest construction, good finish and good, alnes The 11l1efills a pecuhar l11che In the stores of hundreds of fUJl11ture dealel s who want thIS partIcular c1a"s of good::, for theIr specIal requirements The catalog IS a good speCImen of the pnntmg art. .,,..---_ ••.•..... III II 1 II I II I ---_._------ -----,--_._----_._._._--- -_._------ -... ....--- .. The NEWEST and MOST CORRECT S"ADES IN FUMED OAK STRATfORD OAK fLANDERS OAK and EARLY ENGLIS" FUMED OAK- -Our Fumed Oak Acid StaIn IS largely used by manufacturers who recogmze in It a practICal pIece of good s produc mg not only a correct but a UnIform color WIth out the use of a fumIng chamber. This stam has proven a success wherever trIed and even manufacturers who have a fuming chamber have found that by using this stain over the fumed product they can tone up the work and make the color umform. Wnte for sample panel. STRATFORD OAK --ThIS IS one of the new staInS now comIng into favor and will probably be much seen on Arts and Crafrs furn Iture the coming year. It ISa very deep brown color WIth a purple undertone W rIte for sample panel. FLANDERS DESIGN - The Flanders IS a new deSIgn in furniture finIshed In a deep nut brown shade of color, In soft, velvety, dull effect. We make this staIn m the correct color. WrIte for sample panel. EARLY ENGLISH The Manetta Early EnglIsh ISconceded by the best authoritles to be correct In color and the finest workIng staIn on the market. Wnte for sample panel. Furniture manufacturers who seek the correct shades in these increas-ingly popular finishes will find our stains will meet every requirement as to color and working qualities. If you are interested in any of the above write us for sample panels. II .. MARIETTA, OHIO . ._-~-----~_~,._.-._._._. --.----~-.--.-.._....~•..-.-•.-.-•..•-•.•.•._..---._.~.. Poplar 10 WEEKLY ARTISAN ...._-------_._--_._-~------_._--------------------- LET US QUOTE YOU PRICES ON OUR OWN MANUFACTURE OF Circassian, Mahogany, Oak, and Gum Veneers. The Albro I.. Established IB3B. Veneer Co. CINCINNATI. O. BEWARE OF THE FAKED ANTIQUES Genuine Pieces Can Not be Duplicated but Good Imitations May be Had Quite Cheap. Six genuine Chippendale chaIrs were sold for $1,000 last week in N ew York, and thIs was by no means a fancy price Two hours afterwards the dealer had an offer of £1,200 for them and the followin~ day an offel of $2,000, II hlch goes to bear out his statement that there IS absolutely no market l,dce for certain pnces of antique furmture They cannot be dupl' cated and as time goes on they will, hke the print:, of famou0 etchings whose plate'S are broken. command any price the 1'1- dividual is willmg to pay for them "How much does It co"t to furmsh a house in dntHj!'c furniture?" repeated the deaer 111Chlppendae chair,. 'VV el', it costs just twice as much to buy antique furniturr to (lay as it did three years ago Of couP,e It is still po,sible to f111111.,h <in apartment for a comparatn el} small sum. "For example, I ]u'St furl1l~hed a pretty hOI11~up 111Con-nectlcut- four rooms were done 111 mahogany-for "3(JOO, no more than any pef,;on of moderate means wou1(1 ~"Dend in buying modern stuff It was all good genuine antique fUl ni ture I put in, quaint, mce stuff. One bedroom, for i'ls13nce, was done entirely in curly maple. There was 1. pletty old £0111 post bedstead wIth slender po"ts, a nice burc:1t1. a desk, tWD chz,irs, a rocker and a washstand. "The room was done in blue and white, whIch c0ntra."ed delightfully wIth the curly maple. Blue and ,\ hite chint<: WdS used for the bed draperies and for window hangmgs and a large blue and white rag rug covered the floor It ,"'to a moot elfcc tivc room and every pIece 111 It was genu111e 8'1t''lUC "A second bedroom wa~ fur11lshed 111 l1Jan()~c\I1' of the French penod A fine old Emplle bed amI 111 [I\'p'l(' hl,le,l1l Manufadurersof Emboued and Turned Mould-ing., Embo•• - ed and Spindle Carving., and Autom a tic Turning •. We also manu facture a Jarge line of Emboued Ornament. for Couch Work. 1256-1258 W. Fifteenth St., CHICAGO, ILL. ............. -- 1\ Ith tall columns, a wash~tand, sewing table, two chalr~ and a !O( ker completed the ~et Yellow and white r:ngli~h chintz that set off the mahogany to perfectIOn was used for bed dra-penes and II meloll curtams I t was one of the smclrtest rnom ~ yOU could a'Sk to ~ee "In the parlor wel e a fine old Colonial 30£'1, two fireside chaIrs of the II 111gvanety. a bIg Colonial rocker, two or three ~lde challs a mce centle table. secretary, bookcase and otto-mans. -\ stunn111g rag lUg m soft bronze blown" an~l dark I eel, co, ereel the flool, hal momzlllg perfectly with t~le rich 1eds of the old mahogany Oh,} es, the fin'pLlee haJ st,ltely antique andIron" to complete the pIcture. "So much for the furnishmgs of an Illc,.pcnslI e home. ]u"t recently III ]1o,ton I furmshed a house that cost $50,000 to butlcI II Ith antIque ,:,tuff to the extent of $5,000, ])11thell.' again the pIeces II el e ral e dnd consequently more valuable. There wel e, for eAample ~ome" ery handsomely C,_l "ed. f0111 pc!' t bed::,. mlald slope top desks, a serpentine Hepplc\i\ l1ite bure'll1 and so on One "lope top desk, which was \'i'llnut hl t a genU1l1e antique had Lome to me III the rougll. Fev\' per"Dlls II auld have e, en looked at It, for the legs were gone and it \\ as m bad shape. but the woman buying it was ver"e(~ i'1 antiques and saw Ib posslbl1Jties. The top was Leauti~l'lly in-laId and when done over and put in good shape ,"<1S ..1 beauty. "BuYlllg antique.., is a passion that increases with a know-ledge of It UnfDrtunately women and men too, for that matter, have to buy their expenence very dearly sometimes. vVhen you con"lder that fully 60 per cent of all furniture offered as antique IS spurlOU'S, then you can see how dIfficult it is to tell the genU1l1e from the fake "If ",omen buying antIque ftllDlture would only get good authentic books all the ,ub]ect and study them up, ~O that they viould be postec1l11 d meaome, the} would ~ave them"ehe.., -----.---0--------------'1 CO. II ROCKFORD, ILL. I!!IIII too UNION FURNITURE China Closets Buffets Bookcases We lead In Style, Conollruchon and Finish. See our Catalogue Our line on permanent exhlbl-bon 7th Floor, New Manufact-urers' BUIlding. Grand Rapids. I • • I..._--~-.-----~._-----~------...~~-_ I I _. WEEKLY ARTISAN ---------------------------~ much disappointment It is far better to increase your library of information than to pay too dearly for the experience. Personally, and I know others who are hone"t merchants, I should far rather sell to those who are well lllformed than to those who are plainly 19norant of the value of the stuff they are buying "Even expenenced per,ons are sometImes taken in by the bogus antIque faker, espeClally at auctIon "ales, where there is !lttle opportumty for examlllmg the artlc1es. One man I have m mllld now, an old cabmetmaker who has been in the bUSllless m Ph1ladelphia for nearly twenty year", bought at an auction what he thought wa~ a genu111e Chippendale cha1r with the ball and claw feet and all the earmarks of the real. He d1d not find out untll he got to hiS shop that he had been fooled "These faker" make de"l~s from bureaus and chairs from secretanes, and so on, but at. a rule the amateur collector after he has been fooled a few tImes gets wise and then he begins to weed out the poor and buy the genume to take its place It i" better to have even one piece that is a genuine antique than a whole roomful that IS spurious. "One th111g please remember, that If any antIque dealer offers you what purports to be a gemune pie crust table or a Chippendale chair for a song you can put It down at once he IS faking. There are p1eces to day like the Chippendale cha1r, mentlOned that have ab'lolutely no market pnce, so rare are they "Good Chippendale cha1r", pie crust tables, block front bureaus, scroll top highboys. inla1d Hepplewhite sideboards are some of the th111gs that are rare and expensive. Even 1£ they seem to be genu111e you wlll have to get all the proof poss1ble as to their history to make a~surance doubly sure In rega1d to the Chippendale cha1rs I fortunately had the1r entire history They were brought to this country by a Capt Greene of Phlladelph1a on the first sallmg vessel that sailed the neutral seas after the Revolut10n and have been in his fam1ly ever since "They were gemme Ch1ppendale, w1th the ball and claw feet, the shell carv111g. and $1,000 was cheap for them. I knew it too. I \'Vent for them w1th the cash in my pocket and after I had bought them I brought one of them away with me in the small carriage I was dnv111g 111for fear the family would change their mlllds and want them back "They went to a young woman in Rhode island who has a passion for antique furmture. She is not married herself, but has filled up her mother's house and that of her grand-mother as well as the barn w1th fine old genuine pieces which she has bought for pure lOve of them. "As to prices of antiques, 1t 1Sdifficult to give any definite rates, smce taste, ranty and the dealer's c!lentele rule to a great extent. Certam shops in the Clty that cater to a wealthy trade would ask five tImes probably what I or "ome other dealer might. You can count on the1r thmgs bemg genuine, and many women who have the means but not the expenence had rather pay for the1r knowledge than to acquire it themselves. "Accord111g to my standard a serpentine Hepplewh1te bur-eau would sell for $100 and a set of six old stencilled chairs With rush "eats "tlltable for a country honse for, say, $60. That swell front bureau of mahogany with stam wood bands and old brasses Will cost $75 and that Eng!lsh h1gh boy w1thout the scroll top $100 A good Sheraton sldeboard may cost anywhere from $125 to $1,000, accordmg to 1tS cond1tion and beauty of lllle and proportlOn A slope front "ecretary desk w1th d1amond panes can be bought for $150, and that old combinatIOn secre-tary and lmen cupboard, which 1S qUlte unusual, for $200. The upper portion of this place 1S fitted with shelves or trays that pull out. It 1S for stonng away llllen-a style-antique seldom seen. "Of course we have funny experiences in selling antiques, ... .. . .. _ .. THE Hindet KIND THE GREATEST HOUSEHOLD INVENTION OF THE AGE Need not be moved from the wall Protects coverinG by turn- Ing cushions Is so simple and easy a child can operate It. Has roomy wardrobe box under seat. Comprises three artlclee lor the prIce of one. Is filled with felted callan mattress. Has luxurious Turkish Springs. Is always ready With bed-ding In proper place. Is absolutely sale-cannot close aCCIdentally. Saves rent by savlhg space 1] WArn:. WIRE. OR PHONE FOR PARTICULA"S. ....------- --------_.._-----------_._---------_ .. KINDEL BED COMPANY 1 CHICAGO NEW YORK TORONTO ~II .. _ .. -- ------ -- --- -- -- --- . -- -_. _.- r"HOTELRNORMMANDIE-1 tI CONGRESS STREET Near Woodward Avenue I Amencan Plan, $2 50 per : Day and upwards. I European Plan, $1.00 per I Day and upwards. t Hot and Cold Runmng Water I 10 all Rooms. I. Rooms WithBath extra. A High Grade Cafe. I Restaurant and Buffet In connection I GEORGE FULWELL, Proprietor. r---'--------------- Morton ----_.------_.~ House ( American Plan) Rates $2.50 and Up. Hotel Pantlind (European Plan) Rates $1.00 and Up. J. BOYD PANTLlND, Prop. ..--------_.----- ----- ---------------' GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. The Noon Dinner Served at the PantllOd for 50c IS THE FINEST IN THE WORLD. "'----_._-------------------_.--"' i i 1lhese savvs are made from No. 1 Steel and vve vvar-rant every blade. We also t.arry a full stock of Bev-eled Back Scroll Savvs, any length and gauge. Write us tor Prlee Llat aud dlseount .~ 31-33 S. Front St., ORAND RAPIDS, MICH. ~-_ ----_ ~ 12 \\LLKL\ \RrllS\~ ••• ------- -- - --- 1 ~--------------------------------------------- ,I•• •I HOOD &WRIGHT lI Since our enlargement we have the largest and best equipped Veneer and Panel plant in N orth-ern Michigan. We are prepared to fill orders promptly for all kinds of veneers in native woods, and especially in birdseye maple and figured birch. We are also makers of panels, mIrror backs, drawer bottoms, etc., and are prepared to ship in car lots or open freight as desired. II ~------~_.---------------------------------------~_. the pllnClpal sort being wIth the v\oman \\ho e,eb he1 fiJst taste of the crazE' She comes. sees and 1s conque1 cd and \\ anh to buy at once. Then "'lth the harga111 Idea III he1 mllld "he sets out to VISIt other places and \\ hen she comes back het manner is "omewhat colel and pelhap'i flIppant "D<J you know yonr pnces al e \ ery hIgh"' she sa) s I can get precIsely the same chaIr, a vvlllg rockel, for so much, d<Jwntown, It's genu111e too' "Well, I suggest she VI auld better buy It If she can !Set It at that pnce; then she beg111s to get he1 expenence dnd soon ells covers that It IS not anI) a fake but a ver) pOOl tal"e at tl1clt. "The1 e at e, as everyone knO\\ s, shops 111the Clt) that a1e turning out bogus antJques III great qnantJt1es \ man came here anI) ) esterday 'Don't) au \\ ant to put 111 a te\\ 1 epr<J ductlOn~ with) OUI stock)' he rema1 ked lll~l1Htaune,h \Io,t ever) one carnes them ,. To tho,e \\ ho ha\ e a £;U1\1111e10\ C for the antJque It would be nothllle, less than a ClIme aga1l1"t nature to d<Jso "BesIdes the 'vomen, lllexpenenced themselves, \\ ho thlllk that unless a thIng IS e"penslve It h not genu111e, there IS stIll another clac.., v\ho tlunk that honest dealers can bc made to COllle down on thetr prtces slmpl) becathe the take dealet can but the} soon chsabu'ie thc11 nllnd'i of tbat Idea tal antIques a1 e d" ~tanda1 d a., gold cnn enc} and £;ood pICLe'i commdnd the11 em n pnce. It could onh be an unfore"een OCCttlrC'lce lIke death 01 extJeme need that would lllduce the sale of e,enUlllt ,1l1ttqUl" at ba1 e,atn counter pnces. "I don t mean for one moment tl1clt \\ e \\ onlcln t lel\\ e1 0111 pllce for some one who !Senulllel) 10\ ed ant1(lue~ fOJ then 0\\ n llltllnSlC \\ 01th f01 tf the1 e IS atl' tlune, an cl11ttque deale1 ap pI eC1ates It lS a cnstomer who kno\\ s and understand., 111''' IV ares. "rrequently ) ou heat ,1 \\ oman sa} 'Oh I Itke dntlCjne fmnttlue lf tt ha., been In m) Ov\n fanlll) bnt I havc absolutch no u..,c 101 a lot of stuft tI1clt has belonged to some one cl"e' It hn't a fad and It hn't becdn0e It h getttng ra1e that men and VI 0111en of td"te love old thlllgS of thh 'iOtt Tt IS becdu"e the1l b nothlllg toeLn that can compare \' 1th the gl aceJ:ul lltles anel stately proporhon., of the olrl mahogan) £ur111ture It bas a cl1drm all ItS own wh1l.h VI 111ne\ et fall to be felt b) sensltn e souk "The1 e ccln't he the beauty 111the mode1ll chall, £01 e'(- ample, "hen humlted- of arms, le~s and back" ale tmlleel out at one wl1cld. and thcn put together any old \\a), \\hen III tbc old ela) s a cahllletmaktr 'iVould mdke hIS chaIr table 01 bmeau it om one VI 11<JlepIece of \\ ood f'ach pOl tton 1\ as made to stll t the other. the vvood wa" all O.le COl01 anel one gram ane1 \"'b left to season untJl there \\ a" no chance of ItS sprearhn!S apa1 t Vencenng 111 the olel clay s "as qmte a cl1fte1ent thing from \\hat it IS to clay 1hen the vcnccI was cut b) ha11(1~t;cod th1ch BIG RAPIDS, MICHIGAN III II II I --_ .... p1ece~ of \\ oocl \\ h1Ch were gluecl on to stay Now the work 1" done h\ mach111c, the \ enest shvers serv111g to replace the careJ:ttlh C\.1t seeLton S ot the old VI OOdWOlker As a result the "\enee1 IS apt to blt,te1 ,mel peel off. It h fim ~hIn',; that costs 111 the sale of antIque furmture, and I hale deClCled to elo no more of It. I sell the artIcle in the laugh and leal e the rest to the cabInetmaker. There IS only one trouble aho\.1t thIS. ancl that IS that not el ery one can see pO'''ll)lhtte~ m a b10ken clown bIt of anttque mahogany. But b, abandon1l1g thh brdnch of the VI ark It gn es us much more capItal to put 1I1to 1eally good pIece" when the opportunity at n\ es to bu) them '\Ian) antIque 10\ ers ltke to go out fOlagmg for their 0\\ n pIece" but the tJme has passed when really genuine an-tlCJue" Lan be bought at an) chance farmhotbe along the lOad I e,o out I e1I httle 1m "elf, but I have people on the lookout all the tIme ,It mal ~eem to some that thet e IS a good deal of hIt and mIss m the bucmess of dealmg 111 cl11tJquc fUll11ture, but as a matter of fact dealer" knov, where ever) bIt of gelltl1ne antIque h m the CO\.1ntn They \\ atch It a, a cat watches a mouse ancl \\ htle It mal not be 111 the market to-day or to morrow or ne,t \\ eek ,tll olel th111gs ale for sale some clay 1£ you walt long ll1oue,h. , Our Opp01 tU!l1tv come~ of course, In ca'iCS where perhaps thL Lht ot se me old famtl) ha d1ecl oft. or \\ here some per"on ha"\In g had hh tlUllg S 111'itorage for a long tIme deCIdes to sell oft a pOl tlOn to pay the stOlage cha1!Se, ancl \ve get the benefit of It The plOht 111 the antICJne busmes" IS ltl bnymg, not 111 sellttle,- , ~-------------------------------~-- ~ ..III II ~~K'i:A~ou INTERESTING PRICES g~~~V:l'l~g SEND SAMPLES, DRAWINGS OR CUTS FOR PRICES II~--..---------------------.- ..__ _ ..-.--~I Write for I Catalogue. \ E• P• ROWE CARVING WORKS, ALMLIECGHA. N, WEEKLY ARTISAN 13 The Blue Print and Catalogue Binder the furniture Manufacturers and Dealers "ave Been Looking for I Style "P. B.n I I Style "P. B. n I Binder Locked as it appears in use AN ANTIDOTE fOR RING BINDER EVilS. T"E PROUDfiT LOOSELEAf CO., 8 and 10 Lyon St., Grand Rapids, Mich. One-"alf Inch Binding Margin Absolutely Flat Opening Buildings That Will Need Furniture. Residences-Oscar 1\ Lar"on, 721 '\ 44th avenue, Ch1cago, $3,000, F Jacobe1t, 6200 Morgan street, ChlCago, $4,800, Frank Evans, 6623 S '\lay "t1 eet, Clllcago, $6 SOO, H C \Iadsen, 6502 LoomIS street, Ch1cago, $4,200, J\11s Sl '3stel, 269 \V ells street, ChIcago, $8,500, Otto Swa11'3011,1305 Thorndale ave-nue, Ch1cago, $6,000, C F E Grosse, Pasadena, Cal , $25,000, L. ::\1. Burntrager, .:\lanon and 7th sh eets, Dem er, Col, $7,000. vV J K1rk, Vme and 21st street, Den\ er, $6,000, F \Y \Yh1tes1de, Lafayette and 4th streets, Denver, $5,000, Ed1th A R1chardson, 27 Oakwood place, Buffalo, 1'\ Y, $4,500, J uha E Rmg, 822 Potomac sh eet, Buffalo, $6,500, Ca1ne Vogt, 24 Exeter street, Buffalo, $8,400,1' J\ VO1gt, 204 Tenth street, Savannah, Ga, $3,000, J R Ml1ler, 3801 Aldnch avenue, Mmneapohs, Mmn, $3,500, J\Iary E Kame, 1700 Emerson avenue, ;\1mneapohs, $5,400, John J and Anna .:\1 Lmdqmst, 3033 Fremont a\ eflUe, \lmneapohs, $3,000, George J Renner, Youngstown, 0, $4,000, 1\1 J Fountam, 366 Oak street, Columbus, 0, $4,500, F 0 Pratt, 234 Broadway, South Bend, Ind, $3,500, Geo II Platt, 623 South St Joe street, South Bend, $3,600, 1\lrs .:\largaret Hennes, Chestnut and 29th streets, Ene, Fa, $3,000, J R Patterson, Seneca and 12th streets, St Joseph, Mo, $4,000, Pybstallers Slsters, Grand Fork, N Dak, N Dak, $6,000, Mark P .Moss-holder, Fourth and Thorn streets, San DIego, Cal, $3,750, P W. Dyment, Kalm1a and Umon streets, ~an D1ego, (bung-alow) $3,000, James K1rby, 9924 Avenue J, Ch1cago, $4,100, C 1 Fntschler, 7364 Shendan road, Ch1cago, $15,000, T P For' est, San Anto111o, Tex, $3,500, H L J\I1ller, San I\.n-t0111o,$ 4,000, H 1\1 Gl1swold, 519 VI! . Jefferson street, Spnng-field, Ill, $3,500, L L ='J01ris, Ashtabula, Ohio, $3,500, Elzea1 Pellet.1er, Beech street, :i\lanchester, ?\ H, $4,000, SIlas VV Call, Lake avenue, Manchester, $3,200, C S Mc Bnde, R1tter and Dovvney streets. Ind1anapohs, Ind, $5,000, John Connors, 3231 :;\lontgall street, Kansas CIty, \10, $4,500; Samuel C J am1son, Darhngton road, P1ttsburgh, Fa, $9,000, Mrs E A Hammond, 1105 Ch1s1ett street, P1ttsbmgh, $4,500 C 'IV. Bnght, Parkview place, 5t LotHs, Mo, $6,900, Dr S J. Wh1te, 349 Tenth street, Dallas, Tex, $3,500, Mather IVelter, Earle and Ross streets, St Paul, ::\lmn , $4,250, Jesse E L1mage, Amherst and Baldwm streets, St Paul, $3,675, IV H Kennedy, 402 Goodnch street, St Paul, $4,800, IV J Hasselman, 3445 Central "treet, Indlanapohs, $16,000, Fred 'II ade, 2900 North Pennsylvama street, Indlanapohs, $5,000, VV. H ::\loncton, Columb1a, S C, $3,000, Elloine Fnnk- Hoover, Elkhart, Ind, $3,250, .:\ladam Narc1sse Cote, Que-bec, Can, $8,500, Robert Gl1more, 2212 Ii\ 19th street, Okla-homa C1ty, $4,000, John G Games. 906 E 105th street, Cleve-land, 0, $4,500 B1shop Flt71uaunce, Ene, Pa , $23,000 , John P. Leonard, l\llffhn and 20th streets, Phtladelph1a, Pa., $11,- Sheets are "eld as in Bound Book Wonderful Expansion 400, -:\lrs A Pnce, I'hoe111x, "\riL, 9;6,000; Frank Lane, Phoemx, $4,500. H J I Perk111s, 2176 VV 24th street, Lo,", \ngeles, Cal, $11,000, R J Andehon, 1\' estern Annex, Los Angeles, $7,000, Fanl11e Chace 5222 Ontano street, Ch1cago, $3,750, Anl) B Bennett, J acbom lIle, f'la, $3,000, G IY Sponslett, 200 1'1escoti. avenue, Sc anton, Pa, 4,200, H H Burschel, Elm and 9th s1.1eets, Scranton, $3,400, Mrs Ahce II ovve11,176 LucIle a\ enuc, Atlanta, Ga , $3,000, Charles 'IV \\ elser, 712 1\ 6th sheet, Rcadl11g, Pa, $3500, -;\1rs \\ D .:\la) field, Frankhn IIelght'l, El Paso, Tex, $5,000, H E Blann, 3805 Campbell street, Kansas C1ty, .:\10, $9,000, \Irs }la1y E Thaw, 1212 Gett):oburg "t1eet, P1ttsburg, Pa, $4,800, Anl11c Bente1, 476 AdelaIde street, PIttsburg, Pa, $4,000, 1\10rns I\ron, 2347 E 33rd s1.1eet, Cleveland, 0 , $5,500, }lrs Petel Jansen, 1a1[\1<'W, Beatllce, ='Jcv, $12,000, Joseph Laughll11 J ena and Cadl7 streets, ='Jew O-leans, La, $S,500, RIchard Lrne:ot, R1chmond place and Howard street, \Jew Or leans, $3,800, I\. B Da\ IS, Fern and Burdette streets, ='JC\\ Orleam, $18,080, SophIa Case), 5927 Galfield a\Cnlle, St Lomns, 1\10, $4000, Lafayette Beeson, 300 'IVest \lam street, RIchmond, Ind, $3,500, He1 man P11gnm, $7,000 Lmtlv C Somers\ tile, N \i\ avenue and 32d "treet, II;d~anapohs, $3,000, J ::\1 Chapman, 312 Sp1uce street, Kansas CIty, 1\Jo, $3,000, John Youngberg, 1224 \stor street, Ch1cago, $14,000, Deha \\ alke1, 616 ::\"111tha\ enue, Denver, Col, $7, SOO H IV II elsbrodt, Alexander street and Manon avenue, C111Cl11- na1.1,0, $14,000, Kate C Hedllck, J acksonv111e, Fla, 9;3,600 J\Itsc Bmldl11gs-Edmllnds w111bUlld a S1x-story hotel on 011\ e St, Los An\?;eles, at a co"t of $75,00001 $80,000 The Ra\ Consoltdated J\1111l11gCompany 1'3to butld a modern hotel at Keh 111, Anz Lon\?; Beach, Cal , wtll erect a polytechl11c hIgh school bmldm\?;, estlluated cost $150,000 "-\ synd1cate has purcha"ed the famous Fobom- Young home m Salt Lake CIty and V\ III use 1t as a sIte for a hotel that V\ tll cost $150,000 to $200,000 The contract for addl11g th1 ee stones to the Van 1'\uys Hotel, Los Angeles, Cal, has been let at $35,160 The RadlUm Sulphur Spnngs company wtll bmld a sanat01lum hotel m the suburbs of Los Angeles at a cost of $70,000 The 1\1asons of Phoel11x, Anz , have started wrk on a temple that 1S to cost $90,000 The Gayety Theatre company has been granted a permIt for the erec1.1on of a nme-stor) hotel ancl theatre at 121-129 Clark street, Ch1cago, at an es1.1mateCl cost of $450,000 Connelley & Scales are bUlldmg a $30,000 hotel in Oklahoma CIty Phoel11x, An7 , lS adver1.1SUlg for bids on the erectlOn of three school butldmg s for wlllch $100,000 has been appropnated The Hotel Sherman com-pany has been gl anted a penmt to construct a hotel buildmg at 127-141 Randolph street, Ch1cago, at an e"t1111ated CObt of $2,000,000 The Church of the AscenSIon 1S erectl11g a $15,000 house of worsh1p m Montgomery, Ala 14 --_._.~.--.._---------_._---- WEEKLY \RTISAN .. I . .. ..... Our No. 171 Patented Sand Belt Machine ..... ---- NEW YORK BUILDING PROJECTS Many Millions to Be Invested in the New Furn-iture Exchange Building and Numerous Public Structures. New York, Dec 7-Managers of the New YOlk Furniture Exchange speak glowingly of the prospects for future trade and of the 1mproved conditions for d1splaying products that will be afforded when the new building is finished. The undertaking is a big one and that it w1ll prove to be one of the most important business points when it opens early in 1910, is not doubted. Other lines as well as furniture will havel exhibition space There will be club rooms in the building and the service rendered to tenants and visitmg buyers will be of the best. There will be also, automobile service for the convenience of buyers. E. P. V. Ritter is pres1dent of the Merchants' and Man-ufacturers' Exchange, Charles E. Spratt, vice president and general manager, Marcus Nathan, assistant general manager. B. F. Zalinger, assistant to the president, T. G vVaterman, assistant to the vice president, Raymond B. Keating, secre-tary and treasurer, Parchal S Ritt'er, assi~tant secretary and H. B. Cooper, manager of the furniture department The buildings which are to be a part of the Grand Cen-tral Station are to cost $20,000,000, altogether. The milhons of population here and close by make this a great buying cen-ter and distributing pomt. New York is so congested that it has been a problem as to how sample rooms could be main-tained in the; heart of the City and yet have all advantages and be large enough to accommodate all. Hundreds of thousands of buyers visit New York each No. 171 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. advantage over you in your sanding department? We also manufacture special patented Sanding and Mortising Machines that are proving extremely profitable to the chair manufacturers. "E" Why give them an Ask for CA TALOG Wysong & Miles Company I Cedar St. and Sou. R. R., Greensboro, N. C. ---------------- . 3' ea1 from tv, 0 to ';I}.. tImes and come here to buy and this centrahzed market, \, 1th dlVerslfied stocks from first hands w111save them much time, money, worry and energy. The hea, y cost of such an undertaking has heretofore pro,-ed to be an 1l1surmountable barrier. Private capital "auld not take up the proJect. Property is so high in New York that there 1S not room and the cost would be too high for each ind1vidual factory to have central salesrooms It w1ll fac1litate the work of the traveling man and will be ad-vertised thoroughly all over the country A card 1l1dex of the buyers who viSit New York wlll be kept and lists of new th1l1gs will be mal1ed them regularly. A roof garden restaurant wl1l command a magnificent bird's eye view of the c1ty There will be three lower floors for trade conventions w1th displays of merchand1se and ma-chinery It will be the greatest mercantIle show place in the world, "ith a minimum of time and comfort. The West Side Young Men's Christian Association or 318 N. 57th street, has opened a new branch of this trade school called "Advanced Course in art applied to furnishing and decorat1l1g." Frank Alvah Parsons, of the New York School of Art is the 1l1structor. The "Art in Trades Club" has had a regular course in "practical demonstrations in the principles and applicatlOn of color, line and form har-mony" and "practical demonstrations in historic period structure ornaments and fur1l1shings." S Bauman & Bros, 6th avenue and 15th street, report a good trade at the main store and also the other stores on 8th avenue and On 3d avenue. The Board of Estimates has made appropriations of $10,- 000,000 for 28 new school buildings and for the sites. There wlll also be a Brooklyn high school built, a boys' high school I t ...• .. . 1 WEEKLY ARTISAN . .- .. -- . ~ RlCHMOND,TABlET ARM CHAIR RICHMOND CHAIR CO. GENUINE LEATHER SEAT RICHMOND INDIANA DOUBLE CAME LIME The Best "SLIP SEATS" - the Value latest and best method of and double seating. Greates Service Catalogues to the Trade. for the No. 70 Money -. I • . . - •• r ._. .. to cost $400,000, gIrlS' high school to cost $100,000, and the Erasmus hIgh school to cost $400,000 The Metropohtan Museum of Art will have an addition to cost $750,000 to be built each year for 10 year'3-a total cots of $7,500,000. There wIll be samet good orders for furniture WIth these pubhc bulldmgs The city IS bUlldmg a $10,000,000 municipal buildmg on Chambers street whIch WIll be completed next year. A new pohce headquarters has Just been fimshed whIch IS the finest in the country. Samuel Weisglass, whose brass bed manufacturing plant was burned at 382 South street, has a temporary office at 372 South sh eel. The entil e plant, stock and machmery '" as destroyed with a loss of $75,000, covered by $40,000 m-surance. A new factory WIll be estabhshed right away and work wIll be contmued and order'3 WIll be filled. G B MacBride, who was connected WIth John Wana-maker'' 3 furmture de pal tment, ha'3, Vv Ith Martha Deane Bal- Ian, opened a place of bmme"s at 27 E 45th street, to handle period furmture. The fUlmture and department store men are having some fine bowlmg matches on the Gotham alleys Joseph \Veber, the bankrupt furmtUl e dealer of Union HIll, N. J , has turned the store over to Daniel RO'3enbloom MI Frankel IS manager and buyer A H Stiehl, late WIth the New York FUlmture Ex-change, ha'3 '3tarted in busmess as the A H StIehl Furm-ture Company, havmg the second floor at 35 W. 19th street A wholesade busmest> wIll be done and he will have associ-ated WIth hIm Charles Auth, who is president, Mr Shehl secretary and treasurer The capital stock is $5,000 and they have now a large hne of tables, chairs, bed room fur-mture, chIffoniers. F Mohr & Co, who are a new firm at 6th avenue and 34th "treet, have opened the Furmture Manufacturers' Sam-ple Company, and have the entire 5th floor at 112 W. 42d '3treet. A cheaper grade of furmture WIll be handled in charge of H M. Livmgston. The McHugh ·WIllow Furmture Comapny of W. 42d '3treet, are making a specialty of mission and arts and crafts furniture. The K. J Collins Company has been incorporated WIth 15 $125,000 capItal stock to do a retaIl furmture business, pro-moted by J. Kelble, P A Hathng and J. H Miller. M. HerskOWItz, who was assistant to the buyer of up-holstery, Samuel Schoenfeld, for the Simpson-Crawford Company, smce the death of Mr. Schoenfeld, has succeeded him in that position Albert B. Kerr, as trustee, is cleanng up the busmess accounts of the Weeks-Hoskms Company, in the office of Macgrave Coxe, referee m bankruptcy, 50 Church street. H ...-._._.__.---_..__._.__._._-_.---- - .. . ... .... , I Palmer's Patent GluinJ! CIamps The above cut is taken dIrect from a photograph, and shoWS the range of one size only, our No.1, 24-inch Clamp. We make six other sizes. taking in stock up to 60 inches wide and 2 inches thick. Ours is the most practical method of clamping glued stock in use at the present time. Hundreds of factories have adopted our way the past year and hundreds more will in the future. Let us shOWyou. Let us send you the names of nearly 100 factories (only a fraction of our llst) 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; Schuchardt & Schutte, Berhn, Germany; Alfred H. Schutte. Cologne. Paris, Brussels, Liege. Milan. Turin, Bareelona, and Bilbo... - ....-- .. ... --- ... ..... 15 1\ (J e ot the shabble..,t con"tructlOn, no sectIOn could plO-duce cheap fUl11lture at such 10" cost as the manufacturers ot \ orth Carohna. Tennessee and other tImber regIOns of the -,outheln states Compalatll ely fel'v of the plants earned a plofit and the changed conc1ltIOns of the tI ade which has catbed the partial abandonment of cheap fur11lture offers a nel\ problem tor the makers of Ulechum and fine furmture to cons1C1er The southern manufacturers cannot hope to compete \Iv 1th those of the north so far as regards quahty for a nU111ber of year" to come owmg to the1r lack of expellence and ~cat CIll of skl1led help Low pnces wdl be the sale dttl actIon thel \Iv 111be able to ofter the buyers \Y E E K L Y \. R TIS A X PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY BY THE MICHIGAN ARTISAN COMPANY SUBSCRIPTION $1 00 PER YEAR ANYWHERE IN THE UNITED STATES OTHER COUNTRIES $2 00 PER YEAR. SINGLE COPIES 5 CENTS PUBLICATION OFFICE, 108-112 NORTH DIVISION ST, GRAND RAP DS, MICH A S WHITE MANAGING EDITOR Entered as second class matter, July 3, 1909 at the post office at Gralld Rapids \I,ch,gall under the act of March 3 1879 The i\mencan glass slh erer:o and be' e1el s al e appa1 ent1) bound to keep pace w1th or a htt1e ahead ot the ~ene1 al ad vance 1ll pnces At theIr meetmg at Duftalo 11l Octobo they advanced the1r pnces about ten pel cent on both plaIn and beveled plates Kow, smce the fUlUlture mal1utaC!U1el" have been forced to ach ance p11ces ten pel cent the glas" men are reported to have made another ad\ ance on plam plates m add1tlOn to the 10 pC! cent orde1 ed at TIuftalu mal(]n~ the cost of plam plates c011S1de1abh 11101e than \Iv a ~ paId for beveled plates before the Buffalo meetmg i\~ dn e~Cll"e for add1l1g more to the cost ot pI am plates the gla"'" men point to a shortage or scarClty of plates and hay e 111- duced the newspapers to pubhsh articles callml:; attentIOn to the dlfficulty 111 obtammg plates, but furnIture manutacturel" are not mchned to accept that explanatIOn 01 e~uIse Thel declare the latest adchtlOn to the cost ot SIll e1ed plates 1" unwan anted and some of them plOpose to do mOl ethan merely enter a plCltest It 1S understood they are con sldennl:; a propos1tlOn to have the1r national as"oc1atlOn estabh"h em Il11me1be "111elmS; and bevehng plant-several of them, pel haps-on the co operatn e plan and thus become mdependen t of the sIl\ el eh and bevelers' assoClatlOn The promote1" of th1s plan de clare that 1t 1S entirely feas1ble and practlcahle and that It IS necessa1 y m order to escape paY1l1g exorb1tant pnces f01 glass They do not anticIpate any c1lfficulty 1n obtamm~ what may be termed the1r raw matenal from the Plttshurg Plate Glass company or othC! s1111l1ar concerns, but 1n ca"-c such dIfficulty 1S encountered they Vvould 0\ ercome 1t bl estabhshmg a plant and mak1l1g plate" for them seh es J" Iom th1S 1t wl11 be "een that what the furlllture manufaLtUl er" con-slder someth1l1g hke greed on the part ()f the sl1v ere1 sand bevelers 1S hkely to lead to mtere"tmg developments m the plate glass 1l1dustry A cons1derable number of manufacturel s located m the southern states hay e purchased \ eneer presses, glue spreade1 s and the necessary tools fCll laymg I eneer:o and are -,eekmg for expenenced men to help m the work of passmg flam 10" to mechum and hIgh gl ade manufacture.., \ few years ago the \vnter met an agent of a veneel cuttmg house located m CmcmnatI at rilgh P0111t He had spent h\ 0 ,veek, 111 the southland, but up to the time of h1', an IV dl m H1gh 1'0111t he had not found a factOly that used ,eneer TII" "ample case.., had not been opened "mce he started on 111St11P The south has had almost a monopl) of the bus1l1es:o of producmg cheap hllmture dunng the last decade \Ii. 1th cheap lumber, cheap help, long hours of labor and cheap plant:o, many of wh1ch SenatOl Cummm.., of ]owa, who was mVlted by the plesi dent to 10m m the mfo' mal conferences at the \Vll1te Hou"e to lOIl"-lde1 amendment" to the Intel state commerce act, ha" C~PI es-,cd h1S cllssent £Iom the Idea" advanced by the PreSI-dent Senato1 Cummms 1Sopposed to the Pres1dent's plan for an 111terstate commerce court He behe, es that the pre"ent commlS-,10n should be stI engthened m the matter of powel s and \Iv 111IntI oduce a l'lll confernng on the commisslCln power to make and publ1"h trelght I ates 1\ hlCh shall be bmdmg on dll ultel ~tate callIer-, IIost shlppel-, and rece1vers of fre1ght II 111 he 111cl11led to endol "e the plan of the Iowa senator 1a the1 than the P1 e:Oldent'" plClposal To estabhsh an inter-sta te commerce COll't V\ould gn e the radroad managers means to entangle al,;gneved :oll1ppers 111,exatlClus litIgatlCln netter pel1ect pI e"ent s, stem than to t1Y a new one, because too man) cooks m1~ht sp011 the broth" The common councd of L1ttle Rock Ark, has passed an 01dmance 111flJct111fSa penalty upon conv1ctlOn, upon "any pel "on" firm partnershIp or corporatlCln who 'ihall falsely I ~1'1e"ent h, ach el tl"ement, 01 by any othel means, that the ~ood~ \\ l11ch he they 01 It shall offer for sale are of a certam ~I ade ()) quahh, 01 that he they or 1t wdl sell them at a cel tam pel cental:; e of then cost pnce or value and shall after- \Iv al d "ell goods of a ~racle or quahty mfenor to that repre- "-LIlted 01 advertised 01 shall sell saId goods at a hlghel per l en! ot theIr co"t value than represented and thereby impose upon dn\ one V\ho Inn" On the faIth of such repl esentatlClns " J he ordmance 1'0 expected to p10tect reSIdent merchants agalll st th e WCllk of fl) -b) mght dealers i\ "lllt to test the I ahchty of an act of the leg1slature of the .,tate of \I1c111gan In11ltmg the hours of employ ment for \Iv omen to e1ght per day, ha" been commenced in the clretllt court of Barry count} at Hastlllg" Two women pIece IV orkeb hale filed a b111 1ll IV h1ch the c1aHn 1S "'et up that thel are unable to 'oupport themseh es and those dependent upon thell labor \Iv hen not perm1tted to V\ork ten hours per day ~i\n act of the leg1"latlll e ()f Ilhnol" of sllndar charactel and purpose, V\as dec1a' eel unconstItutIonal by the supreme CCllllt of that state a few months ago It 10 claImed that the J\Ilchlgan and all such laV\s llnpall s the nght of contract 1'he tederal appelate court for the Flfst dlstnct of IllmClls lende1ec1 a deClslOn, m Ch1cago la-,t l\Ionday, to the effect that expl e,,~ compa111es arc hable for the full \ alue of good:o c1estl 0) ed 1n trans1t th10ugh the neghgence of the carne1 s or thell agents, notv\ 1th"tand111g the $50 estimate placed on the packdge \'\ hen the shIpper has faded to declare Its value ]hat deClSlCln seems to be 111accord Vv1th good law and com-mon sen"e, though of cour"e It ,,111 not hold good where 1t can be shoV\ n that the sll1ppe1 purposely neglected to declare the, alue of the package \\lth a ,le" of alOlchng a legitl mate rate ,..-._._---~---_. I We Manufacture the Largest Lme of rOlDInQ I (nAID~ III the U lllted States, I sUItable for Sun day Schools, Halls, Steam- I ers and all pubhc resorts I We also manufacture Brass Tnmmed I r 0 n Beds, Sprlllg Beds, Cots and CrIbs In a large varIety Send for Catalogue and Prrces to KAUffMAN MfG. CO. ASHLAND, OHIO WEEKLY ARTISAN I \ I ! ~ .. - ... --- . -~ SUCCESSFUL CO-OPERATION The Berkley System for Meeting Competition 'VIth the Mail OrderHouses. The Berkley sY'item of co;operative buying has suc-ceeded In enabhng many merchants to meet mail order com-petition qUIte succes'ifully, accordmg to a circular sent out from the headquartel s of the orgamzatlOn at SIOUX CIty, Iowa The plan seems to be much hke that of the Minne-sota RetaIl Fur11ltUl e Dealers AssodatlOn, but it covers a wIder field" cm enng nearly all hne" of goods handled by mall order honscs, fnr11ltnre bemg among the exceptIOns The clrcnlar descnbes the 'iystem as follows "Certam specIal artlcle'i that have been handled by the mall order hou<.,esm enormous quantities are selected They o-enerally are staple goods for whIch there I:' a steady de- ~1and - The "mall 'itorekeepers combine their orders, 111 thIs way making them mount np to a huge aggregate The manufacturers belongmg to the assocIation are thus able to produce the goods and place them on the small merchant:.' shelves at pnces lower than the mall order people can afford to sell them but at a In 111gprofit to themseh e". ~1any lmes are placed with the dealers 'on consignmcnt'-to be paId for vv hen sold The goods sell better and faster when dIsplayed m the stores than they do from the catalog "~ 'imgle article wlll llh.btrate how this plan has been workmo- out The mall order concerns had been selling to. thousand:. on thousands of kitchen 011 stoves Wood 1"'- expensn e on the westel n plams, and 011 IS cheaper and han-dIer f01 the housewIfe The Berkley stores and the mann-facturers assocIated WIth them took up these stoves, WIth the I csult that the bl.lsmcss of the mall order houses m this ar-ticle throughout the Il11ddle west has fallen off tremendous-ly "Today thl'i Berkley system has 6,000 "tares enrolled as members and l'i lSettmg recruits at the rate of ten a day-300 a month The 'i} stem gets out its ad\·ertlsing in the cheap-est f01m It depends on advertIsements m local papers and clfcular'o The merchants are furmshed with plates for theIr neVIspaper notices and clrculal s are kept supplIed with some-th1110- new even week or C\ ery fortmght, ,,0 there shall be to. - no concession of mterest on the part of the buyers and so III II -----~III I III IIII I I III III II .. __ ... HARDWOOD LUMBER SAWED AND SLICED } QUARTERED OAK { VENEERS AND MAHOGANY ~------------_.---------_. .. . . that the stock shall be kept mov111g evenly and rapidly. Generally speakmg, It IS hke a huge department store, not under one roof, but WIth ltS various branches scattered throuo-hout the L11lted States In thIS way the busmess of to. these country stores has revIved incredIbly The volume of their advertising has mcreased 300 per cent in the last two vears, and theIr bU'imess has grown deCIdedly. The coun- ~ry ncwspapers are glad to take the local stores' advertise-ments at the lowest pOSSIble rates and to help them fight the mall order houses, bccause the latter do httle, If any, news-pa per advertising "Thus far the Berkley system has been managed most judiCIOusly WhIle the manufacturers belongmg to the a,,- sociation have kept the cost of production down to the low-est pOSSIble notch, they have receIved such tremendous or-ders from the sy"tem that they have been able to fill them at rock bottom pnces yet at a In mg profit to themselves. The country merchants, who are m a sense theIr co-partners, are thus able to compete successfully WIth even the bIggest of the mall order houses The arrangements WIth the mantl-facturers permIt the goods bemg shIpped direct from the factories to the 'Customers as fast as the orders come 111,so there is no expensIVe handling or stonng of the goods be-fore they are needed In e\ ery way, m fact, an effort is bemg made to handle the vast busmess WIth the strictest economy, not WIth a vIew of centrahzing the bulk of the profits in one place, but of dlstributmg them impartIally and equally among all who are concerned In theIr makmg." Are you gomg to be one of the happy buyers vlsltmg the 38th "em I-annual N"ew York eXp0'iltlOn? Any time between January 17, the open111g day, and February 5, the closing day, will be a good tIme. 17 18 -------- _. _. _. _. _._. --------- - \V E E K L Y \ R TIS A N to • I The season for banquets is here. Get a stock of our Banquet Table Tops so as to be ready to supply the demand. 6-- •• ..... _---------------------------------- Woman Worked the Club Scheme. A few months ago a ) oung woman, ,vho IS a fluent talk-er, and has a persuasIve manner and plea"ll1g pel sonalIt) , vi"ited the town of \YaIren, R I, and made a thOIough can-vass of the resident sectIOns Her scheme was the orgam-zation of clubs for mutual benefit and to those who joined the following card or agreement was pI esented and sIgned. "The Reliable Furmture Company of Providence, R I, hereby agree" to sell to (name of the person) household merchandIse for the sum of $10 at the terms of 25c a VI eek in advance, saId purchaser to be a member of one of OUI clubs, $10 worth of melchandlse, to be delIveIed to one of the members of saId club (chosen 111 such manner as the company may approve) each week as an advel tIsin({ medIUm untIl each member of the club shall have recen ed goods to the value of $10 \VheneveI any member shall become en-tItled to posseSSIOn of merchandIse as above prov Ided, said company wIll, 111 conSIderatIOn of recelv1l1g from saId pur-chaser the names and addresses of three person::, IV ho "ould in hIS or her judgment be lIkely to J01l1 the club, gIve to such person a receIpt in full for any balance then 01\1I1g un-der this agreement" Beneath the agreement was a 11l1e for the SIgnature of the company's representatIVe, but in every 1I1stance the only signature is the ImtIals "c. ::\1 " There is not a street 111 the whole town 1\here number" of housewives cannot be found who have in theIr posseSSIOn cards bearing on one side the above-quoted agI eement, while on the other SIde there are receipts noted whIch shO\, that payments were made regularly and that ilIa or 111 some ........... ... Our Large New Line of DINING and OFFICE TABLES are the best on the American market when prices and quality are considered. STOW 8. Df\VIS fUKNITUKE, GO. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. City Salesroom. 4th floor. Blodgett Bldg. .... ~ cases three more payments would entItle them to their mon-e) s I,orth 111 "merchandIse." The mce young lady attended to the collections and for sel eral weeks she made them promptly Then she failed to appear and 1I1vestigation showed that some of those who had been reported as having "matured their claims," had not received the goods In fact only one member was found 1\ho had "matured" and she IS the wife of a policeman, 1\ho, when he learned she had joined a "club," told her to "cut It out." The collector heard of his advice, and of his occupatIOn, and the ne'<t week the policeman's wife was the luck) member of her club She received an easy chair well I,orth the money, whIch tended to boost faith in the clubs and make collectIOns easy IVhen the collector had faded to appear for two weeks, some of the II arren 1I1vestors went to Providence and called at the office of the company, whIch they found vacant with a sign "for rent" dIsplayed 111 the window. They found that the st01 e had contained a small stock of furniture which had dbappeal ed some tune before the collections ceased. The "lady 111 the case" is said to have had a few clubs 111 PrOVIdence and to have worked other towns, as she dId II arren, 1I1clud1l1g Fall RIver and Taunton, Mass It seems much easier to go from bad to worse than from good to better. A man naturally rises in his own estimation when he set-tles down. -----_ -_ . . ..., No.15 FOX SAWING MACHINE WRITE 44 FOR NEW CATALOG FOX MACHINE CO, 185 N F'RONT STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH j III I I III I I ------------~- WEEKLY ARTISAN ---_.---- _. ----- --_. _. --------~-------------- Qran~Da~i~sDlow Pi~e an~Dust Arrester (om~anJ THE LATEST dev2ce for handlzng shavings and dust from all wood-working machines. Our nineteen years e.x-perience in this class of work has brought it nearer perfection than any other system on the market today. It is no e.x-periment, but a demonstrated scientific fact, as we have several hun-dred of these systems in use, and not a poor one among them. Our Automatic Furnace Feed System, as shown in this cut, is the most perfect working device of anything in this line. Write for our prices for equipments. WE MAKE PLANS AND DO ALL DETAIL WORK WITHOUT EX-PENSE TO OUR CUSTOMERS. EXHAUST FANS AND PRES-SURE BLOWERS ALWAYS IN STOCK. Office and Fa.ctory: 20&-210 Canal Street GRAND RAPIDS. MICH. Citizen. Phone 1282 OUR AUTOMATIC FURNACE FEED SYSTEM 19 --_.. . .. .. ..... 20 \\ L EK L \ ,.-. ...- --- - ----- .-., A~I~G ~m~~r ::::t::JlP:h~'nd~l:~I f leaves are bound (by your- • IH self) and mdexed by /loors I or departments. • BARLOW BROS. • Grand RapId •• Mlch • Ifnle R'ghtNolL : •... . ----------- -~ .., ••• I •• II ••••••••• •• I I ... IIIi• ~-- --~-~_.-._.------------ j-------- --.~~-~~~b~~-~-. - •I• DESIGNS AND DETAILS OF FURNITURE "j iI IIIII IIIII ._~~-------~ 154 Livmgston 5t. GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN I~-----_._~~_._.---- CItizens' Telephone 1702. ... •I,, Ii•• ,I• - .. It your DESIGNS are right, people want the Goods, That makes PRICES right, <IIarence lR. bills DOES IT 163 MadIson Avenue -CItiZens Phone 1983 GRAND RAPIDS MICH ...._....-..-..-_...__-_-. -_._-------_. _. _...._---~ ,,-. - ..--- .--.., Henry Schmit 8 Co. I HOPKINS AND HARRIET STS. i CIncinnati, OhIO "I maker .. of Uphol.stered Furniture II• •,I --···---- •••••• 4 ,.... LODGE and PULPIT, PARLOR LIBRARY, HOTEL and CLUB ROOM for ...---_. III ._------- -------------- B. WALTER & CO. Manufacturers ot TABLE SLIDES Exclusively \\' A B A 5 H INDIANA WRITE FOR PRICES AND DI~COU~ r ~ --- .....- ....-- -------_. ----------_._-----.,III ,, IIIIII ......~ =====-SEE--~---- West Michigan Machine & Tool Co., Ltd. CRANO RAPIDS, MICH. for mG" GRADE PUNC"ES and DIES ~- -..-----. -- - \RTIS'\N New Furniture Dealers. 1\ altel Reith I" to open a furniture store at Joseph, Ore \ Hoffman has opened a new furniture 'StOte at La.; \ e~as, \e\ , fhe J\lIilel r Ulnlture com pan} have opened a new store dt \then", Ga Hen 111 &.. Steld ha\ e opened a new fUll1ltnre store at 1\ 111che'Ster, Tenn 1red Hal tman '" III add a furl1lture department to hi~ general ~t0re at J\1111nelska, 2V111111 Bennett & 11111er have opened a new fUll1ltnre store 111 the C,teele block at \atlOnal, Cal lIartuld BlOthel" ha\ e enga~ed UI the furl1ltnre and harch\ al e bthlne"" at Ra\ enswood, \\ Va 1\ \ \ Tharpe, '" ho 1ecently sold Ius fUll1lture busines" elt Elh.111 '\ l, h orga11l7lng a company to open a new lull1lture "tore 111;:,tate,,\ Jile, ~ C 11 1\ Due~lel ha\ 111g re"lgned hI" pO~ltlOn WIth L B Segur, furnIture dealel and undel taker of Dlo0111111gton, III, announced that he \\ 111 open a furmture "tOl e of IllS Own 111 the same Cllv C \\ Spencel who recently .,old hiS Interest m the loall furl1ltnre hU"U1e"" of Cahee & .spencer of Rutland, Vt, h el ectm ~ a hUlldmg 111 v\hlch he wJiI open a aew furl1lture store 111the same to",n New Factories. The \utomatIc Bed ChaIr compan), lI1corporated WIth $10,000 capItal "tack wIiI estabh..,h a factory 111Cleveland, 0 The Gros~ Brown ::'IIanufactllnng company, capitalized at $')0,000, has been 1I1corporated to manufactUi e refngerator~ at Gale;,burg, III John II Keogh & Co, manufacturers of tow for uphol- "tel el., \\ Ith headquarters in ChIcago, WIll e:,tabhsh a branch faLtol \ 111St Paul, ::'Il111n TIus111ess men of Brenham, Texas, have appOinted a com-nllttee to orgal1lLe a company With $50,000 capital "tock to e"tablI"h a fllrl1lture factory 111 or near that town E 1\ IIammen of EvanSVille, Ind, I" promot1l1g the ()l gamzatlOn of a company to rev Ive the old furl1lture fac tor) 111 Paducah, K}, whICh has been "till for two ) ears HIs plan IS heartJi} "upported by the Paducah Commelcial Uub, membel.., ha\ 111~ subscnbed half of the propo"ed $SO,- 000 capItal "tacK --., III• .. Furniture Fires. 1 C 7Ie"k} of Bel ea, 0, '3uffered fire 111hh furl1lture "tore on December 3 $1,000 McCadd111 & McElwee, hou'3e furnisher", were heavy 10'3- er'i In the half-mIllIOn-dollar fil e 111 BaltImore, on December 4 Their loss IS fully co\ ered by 111surance The IYIpperman ::\IercantJie company, dealers in furniture and hardware at Hank1l1son, :N" Dak, were damaged by fire to the eAtent of $7,.300 on December 2 Fully insured The plant of the Lle'icent Bed company, ~ew Orleans, La \\as de..,t!o\ ed on December 1, WIth a loss of $60,000, partially m "U1ed The fil e was caused by the lack of a "pal k an e"tel on the smoke stack a lo~s of $2,000 by Insurance on stock, Office Improvements. 1 he Bel ke\ & (Tay lurl1lture company have enlarged and reananged the offices of the officers, salesmen and office em pIa} e" of the C01 po ratIon The company's factory IS oper-ated to capacIty on ordeI s and new stock. WEEKLY ARTISAN Factories Made the Town Prosperous. Stmgls, ::VI1ch,Dec 9-All four of the furmture factones here are being operated at full capacIty and consequently Sturgb IS prosperous The Aulsbrook & Jones Furmtnre company, makel s of bedroom fm mture m mahogany, circa~- sIan walnut and oak, wIll bnng out many new pattern" for the January show and WIll exhibIt them on the first floor, east front, of the Manufacturers' bmldmg, Grand RapIds The yeal's business has been the best in the history of this company, and they are making preparatIOns to do still better next year The Grobll1..,er Cabmetmaker~' company, makers of fine chnmg room and lIbrary furl11ture, are also havmg a fine busllle"s They will show III January on the second floor, west front, of the Manufacturel ",' bmldlllg, Grand RapId::>, the finest lIne of goods they have ever offered for inspection The buyers who visit this dl"play every season, may expect to see somethmg fine, and will not be dlsappo1l1ted Smce my last VISit to the Stebbim-\i\TIlhelm factory It has been enlarged by a one-story bmldmg covenng nearly as much ground as the ong1l1al factor) The offices have been moved 1l1to this bmld1l1g and also the "tOl age and shlp-pmg departments, which greatly relIeves the congested fac-tory, and enables them to largely increase their output They WIll add many new patterns of wnting desks to the already large hne of tables, and the whole exhibit will be made on the first floor of the "!\lanufacturers' bmldlllg, (east front), Grand RapIds, Mlch The Royal ChaIr company's new two-story bnck build- 1l1g will soon be ready for occupancy It Will mCIease their floor "pace at least one-third This year's blh1l1ess Will be the largest in the hi"tory of the factory They ""Ill exhIbIt then hne m January m Grand RapIds and ChIcago Toledo Factory Improvements. Toledo, O. Dec 9-The Buckeye Parlor rurmtme com-pany has recently fil11<,heda two story addition to their ma1l1 bmlchng, the fourth floOl havmg been fitted up as an pxhl-bitlon room and the thIrd floor to be used for a fim'ihmg room The entire factory bmldmg has been remodeled throughout making the plant very sub<;tantial and commod-ious Manager Torgler Will get out a higher hne of goods the coming January than they have ever before brought out and WIll have many new de"ign<; and high-pI Iced pieces The Columbia Couch company ale planning to build an addition 30 x 35 feet, two stones, next spnng It will be added to the ma1l1 bmldl11g Manager Fruckbemer states they have added one hundred and twenty-five new deSIgns thIs fall and WIll add thIrty-five more for their spnng trade He reports then trade for 1909 as very good, almost up to a normal year The factory is runn1l1g overtime at present The Toledo Pallor Furmture company repO! t theIr trade for 1909 as fully up to a normal year They have I ecently completed an addition 60 x 90 feet, two stories to be used as a machine room, Samples Received. The first shipment of "amples for the January eAposltlOn was received m Gland Rapid" on December 8 Bills of ladmg I epresent1l1g eleven additIOnal shIpments were received on the "ame day In the Hands of the Photographers. The N elson-J\Iatter Furmture company have commenced photographmg theIr new l1l1e of chamber and dmmg room furmture, SINGLE CONE ALL STEEL SPRINGS Are very popular with the Furniture Trade. $2~ E.ach Net $2~ E.ach Net No. 46. Single Cone. $2 Each. Net. We manufacture a full line of Single and Double Cane All Wire Springs. SEND US YOUR ORDERS. SMITH &. DAVIS MFG. CO., St. Louis 21 22 WEEKLY \RTISAN Wood Bar Clamp Fixtures Per Set SOc. iI ~.... Holland and Zeeland Factories. Zeeland, Mich, Dec 10 -ThIs bttle c1t} of 2,000 mhaL-itants has four furmture factones, and all of them are p10"- pemus. The olde'3t and largest of these IS that of the Zec land Furniture Company, makers of bedlOom fUlmture of the medlUm grade These are good goods and, er} popular "\11th the trade Peck & HIlls of ChIcago carry theIr tull bne 01 samples all the year. They WIll bnng out a new catalog about the first of the year and It promises to be the finest they have ever Issued The \volvenne Furmture Company, man1.1factm e1" of bedroom furmture, WIll show a lot of new patterns m thell catalog to be 1s~ued early In the new 3' ea1. The MIchigan Star FurnIture Campa} IS ha'1l1g a fine trade and WIll bnng out quIte a large numbe1 of ne"\l pattern,; of chamber and d111111groom furmture The Colomell IIan ufactunng Company. maker" ot hall clock.., are ha, mg rl1"h- 111g business as usual. All of the Holland factones are d0111g well The HoI-land Furniture Company WIll add a great many ne" patteln:, of chamber furniture to their 1111Cin the Manufacture1 s' Building, Grand RapIds, In January The Ottawa Furmture Company \\111 ShOl' In the FurnI-ture Exchange, Grand RapIds, and \\111 have a fine hnc ot chamber furniture in theIr dIsplay The MTest Michig;an Furl11ture Company, one of the largest in the west, mak111g chamber furl11ture, IS hay ing an excellent business. The Buss J\1achine vVorks, makers of IV ood\l orktng ma-chinery, are having about all the business they can attend to Extras in Cost of High Grade Furniture. "The average merchant does not kno"," why there should be "uch a marked dIfference m the pnces charged for goods in the dIfferent grades" Remarked a veteran manufacturer. "~ medIum pnced sideboard contams about the same amount of matenal as a high pnced one There 1'Shttle dIfference in the sIze'S of the mIrrors, the tnmmmgs are substantially the same and It costs Just as much to pack and shtp the one as the other Of course more work IS put on a finer piece of furmture, but the Important fact that must be considered IS the tIme reqmred in the productlOn of the pIece-Take the item of fimshing for mstance The medIum pnced SIdeboard can be made ready for the packers m one half the tIme that IS reqmred for the fine piece The extra tIme required m making fine work cut;, down the possIble output of a factory Twice the volume of cheap work and one thIrd larger in medium is the dIfference in the average for the productlOn of a fine piece A more ex-pensIve outfit IS reqUlred, especially m machinery, while wages of hIgh grade workmen is an item that b entitled to conSIder-ation. There are many other features that make the cost of high grade furniture so hIgh as to entitle the maker to top notch prices." OVER 15,000 OF OUR STEEL RACK VISES IN USE Price $2.80 to $4.00 21 doz Clamp Fixtures bought b, one mlll last year We ship on approval to rated firms, and guarantee our goods uncondI tlOnalh W,.,te for list of Steet Bar Clamps V,ses Bench Stops ete E. H. SHELDON &. CO. 283 MadIson 5t. Chicago I I ..l Furniture Men as Church Pillars. On c..,unda, m0111111£;,December 5, m less than half an haUl SII 000 \I a'S subscnbed by the congrega1ilOn of the rou11ta1n Street Baptl';t church, to meet expenses and pay oft the 111clebtednes" uf the socIety. Among the contnbu-t01 ~ \I e1ese, eral prom1l1ent fnrmture men, including \V. IJ Ga, of the Berkey & Gay Company, John Mowat of the G1and RapIds ChaIr Company, Frank E Leonard of the Gland RapIds Refngeartor Company, M S Keeler of the Keeler r1a~-, II arks, IVillard P Sha1p of the Grand RapIds Chan Company R IV Merrill of the Phoenix Furnitnre Compa11} and others. F A. Baldwin and VIctor M TuthIll 01 Bald\l111 futhdl & Bolton, manufacturers of saw-fittIng and fi1111£;loom mach111ery, also made generous contnbutlOn;, The Drawing-Room And Its Furniture. The c!taYvmg-room, or "WIthdraWIng room" as It used to be called-the room to which g nests v,lthdrew after a meal-calLs for a tOuch of formahty and dIsplay in its furnish- 1l1g Seen so often under ItS gala aspect when the "lamps sh1lle o'er fair women and brave men" It would offer appropriate setting for the gleam of Jewels and the "frou-frou" of stlk and lace. Such a sett111g is to be found in the furni-ture of the French epochs, in the magnificence of Lom" XIV and the Regency, the gayer graces of LoUls XV. or the claSSIC elegancies of hIS successor. "Penod" furmtnre of thIS character, ab-solutely correct as to deSIgn and of a rare perfectlOn of techmcal executlOn, occupIes one of twelve galler'cs devoted to the display of Furl11ture of Integnty and DI"tInctlOn. THE FURNITURE GRAND RAPIDS COMPANY (Incorporated) 34 and 36 West 32d Street Between Fifth Avenue and Broadway, New York. Sample AdvertIsement. WEEKLY ARTISAN ,-. .-.-----._-.-. --..--.-.-_-. -------------------------_ ._. ~--_.------_.- ..- -- . Great Improvements in Refrigerators for 191 0 SEE THE NEW LEONARD WATER COOLERS FOR REFRIGERATORSl SEE THE ENTIRE NEW LINE OF SATIN WALNUT REFRIGERATORSl SEE THE NEW COMBINATION-REFRIGERATOR AND KITCHEN CABINET! SEE THE NEW ROUND CORNERS ON THE "LEONARD GRAND RAPIDS!" SEE THE NEW WOVEN WIRE SHELVES IN OUR ENAMELED LINE! SEE THE NEW CHEAP LINE OF "NORTH POLE" REFRIGERATORS! SEE THE NEW ALL PORCELAIN REFRIGERATORS-INSIDE AND OUTSIDE! lET OTHERS FOllOW-IF THEY CAN. WE LEAD SEE THE NEW HOME OF THE LEONARD CLEANABLE REFRIGERATORS. The largest and finest refngerator factory in the world It IS only In such a factory that the best goods can be made for the least money, and orders promptly filled ThIS mammoth plant IS at your service for the asking Send for our 1910 catalogue We make nearly everything that we u"e The Porcelain Enamel for Linings-the Tllmed WIre Shelves-the Locks-the Hinges-the \Vater Coolers-the new desIgns and fi111shesare all made In thIS wonderful factory. Our assortment IS enormous, ranging from the very cheapest to the finest And best of all, we help you sell the goods I The "Leonal d Cleanable" reputatIOn IS behind them Our magazme advertlsmg and our store selling plans vvlll bnng you many customers Kitchen Cabinet and Refrigerator. White Enameled, "Leonard Grand Rapids." Satin Walnut, with Water Cooler. GRAND RAPIDS REFRIGERATOR CO. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Factory, Nos. 52 to 202 Clyde Park Ave. Salesroom during January and July, LEONARDFURNITUREEXHIBITION BUILDING. "1.-.----------------------------------------- ------- 23 --., \II I II II IIII III II III \II III . - ---'" 24 -------------~_._._-- .. . ..._-_._.-._._-_._------. 1\ l~EKLY \RTISAN r· ..- _-- IIIIIII ,, II III ,,------------------------_. _.--~._._•-_.-._._.-- -- ...------------ MOON DESK COMPANY Grand Rapids Exhibit, January, 1910, 3rd Floor, Man ufaeturers' Building R E Moon, F M Barton, D L McLeod, In charge OFFICE DESKS No More Special Passenger Rates. The western railroads through the II estern Passengel assoclatlOn, have sen ed notIce on the ChIcago a~soclatlon of commerce and the commercIal as"ouatlOns of other large cIties that no mOle reduced rates ",,111 be glantec1 fOI melchant~ meetings The notice sent out b} Chal1man IIacLeod state~ that the ral1road s of the west, and pI esumabh tho"e III the east, have decIded to abohsh all reduced rates beg-llln1l1g J an 1, 1910, the only pO'o'>lble eAceptlOns to the ne\\ I ule belllg the late,> whIch are granted for colom"ts, homeseekel' and summer tOUllSt~ ] he ChIcago -\ S"ouatlon of Com- I ....••.•..•. __ .._~ Six Styles of Double Flat Top Desks. MUSKEGON MICHIGAN mel ce ha;, been tl} I11g to secure a 1 econSldel atlOn of the actlOn taken by the railroad managers and If pos-sIble hay e It rescmded, but so far hay e not been success-ful and at pre"ent the order seems 11kely to stand ThIS ,eem" to be Sh01 t-e.,lghted and uncalled-for actlOn on the part ot the lalllOad managers who a few years ago \"ere com-plal11mg because the la,,\ I11terfered wIth the grantmg of speCIal rate" prnml'>ulOu,>ly -\s they do not contend that the la\\ plOhlblh the specIal rates whIch they have Just 01 dered aboh"hed theIr 1'0 a suplclOn that theIr action in tIll::, case IS tOl the purpose of gettl11g e\ en wIth vanous mel can tde a '>"oua tlon s that hay e m slsted on enforcement of the la\\ s m 1 egard to the regulatlOn of freIght rates. The outcome of thlS matter \\ 111 be of great Importance to furni-illl e manufactUl e, '> and also to the dealers Hand ScreW"Company Changes OW"ners. \egotlatlOn" that had been pendmg- for some time were l!o"cd tbl'o \\eek 1)\ \\hlLh the John II lddlcomb company takes 0\ er the b11',me%. eqUIpment and ~ood WIll of the (T1and RapIds JT and ~ Clew com pan) .:\Ir 1\ lddlcomb \\ III mO\ e the eqUlpment to the old factor} of the Kent FUlmture company on '\orth l-<lont ~tlett \\hele the busl11ess WIll be enlarged and c011tmued under the old sty Ie The Hand Screw compan} whIch has been and 'otdl 1'0 a prosperous I11stltutlOn has occupIed a plant Jowtl} wIth the 1\ J!marth Show Lase com pan} and the bullc11ng-'o are to) small tor both concerns I he rell10\ al of thc Hand SCIew company \\ III enable the \YJ!- mal th Show Lae.,e company to enlal ge theIr hu~mee.,s WIth-out e1eciwg ddchtlOnal btl1ldl11g'o /I'------ ~ \ Horses and Mules. EdltOl II eekl} \1 tI;,an ::\T entlOn h made m an edltOllal of } our paper about the use of mota, trucks and \\ould a~k yOU to hmdly g1\ e me the names of one or two users of the latest de\ elopme11t m that lme. al"o name of the best publlLatlO11 makll1g a speCIal of the cUlrent de\ eloPl11ent and ImprO\ cment, presumll1g they are on } our exchan~e 11;,t Sll1ce the Doel and Spamsh wal s that demanded '30 much of our 11\e stock even to brood al1lmal~, hor"es and mules hay e become as 11lgh as auto-mohllcs, companng kinds 10 SPINDLE MACHINE ALSO MADE WIfH 12, 15 20 AND J5 SPINDL~S DODDS' NEW GEAR DOVETAILING MACHINE ThIS little machllle has done more to perfect the drawer work of furn! ture manufacturers than anythlllg else In the furmture trade For fifteen years It has made perfect fittmg vermm proof dovetaIled stock a POSSl bI11ty I hiS has been accomplIshed at reduced cost as the machme cut., dove taIls In gangs of from 9 to 24 at one operatIOn It s what others see about your busme<;s rather than what }Oll say about It, that counts In the cash drawer It s the thnll of enthUSIasm and the true nng of truth you feel and hear back of the lold type that makes you buy the thmgadvertIsed ALEXANDER DODDS CO., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Represented by Schuchart & 5chulle at Berhn, V,enna. Stockholm and 5t Petersburg Reprt"~entedby Alfred H Schutte at Cologne. Brussel., ue2e. Pans, MIlan and Bllboa Repr,...,nted m Great Bnllan and (roland by the Ohver Machmery Co. F 5 Thompson, Mar. 201-203 Dean'aate, MancheSler, Enaland Shre\ eport, La , Dec 4, 1909 Yours very truly, A CURRIE. L E Han"on of Lo" Angeles hd" purchased the mterest of lIlr Human In the furmture '-,tOle of Grant & Human, San Bernaldmo. Cal, and the name of the finn ha" been changed to Grant & Hanson The names of the Jones FUlmture company, dealers of :l\fesa, Anz, ha" been changed to the Jones-DavI" FUlmtme COmpdn}, C E Da, IS hay mg become a partnel WIth Arthur A J one'3 111 the busmess The "tate bOdrd of arbltratlOn and concIllatlOn has suc-ceeded m settmg the trouble between Bo'>ton furmture deal-ers and emplo} e" 111theI1 upholsteI} departments, 111a man-ner satI"fact01} to all concerned The StoufShton (1\la..,,,) Furniture company, one of the olde'-,t retaIl 111'3tItutlOn" 111the town hay e moved 111tOlarger and much mOl e con, cment quarters The} are now located ln Dr SWdn's block on Stoughton Squale Half} SmIth has purchased ::\11s TIlley's interest in the Swanton FUl11lture compan}, dealers of Swanton, Vt The company now occuple" three floors of a large block, has four "torehouse.., and IS d0111~ a large bUS111ess A F Thompson, r t \\ dters, H 1\1 HI~gmbotham, 0 G. N eldlmg er and \Y L N ITemberl}, propnetors of the Kahonal :\I1nor company of l\lassIllon" 0, have 111corporated theu bu"mess v. Ith capItal stock lU11lted to $60,000 Ed" 111and Edrle Th01nton, 111the undel tak111g business at Elkhart, Ind, under the name of George \\" Th01nton's Son'>, hay e made an a""Ignment to Glenn R Sawyer a" trustee for theIr CledItor'> Asset'> about $1,500, hsted hablhtIes $2,050 \\ 111 :e Den'3more, fur11ltm e dealer and undertaker of Saranac :\IIch, ha" pm cha..,ed the bu smess of IllS competItor, D C Reynold" and wIll con"ohdate the two estabhshments whIch ,,; 111 gn e hIm the lal ~e"t stock of furmtm e e, er caI-Ilul In the to" n Dd'Id E Barnald, \ mcent L Sano and \braham Hutter 010. employes of \\ 1se, SmIth & Co, Hartford, Conn, have been made pal tners m the firm l\Ir Barnard has been buyel for the humture, carpet and drapery departments of the "tOI e for several} eaI" \\ orcester Brothers, furmtnre dealel s on JIarvaI d Square, Cambndge, 11a"s. are erect111g a bmlclIng m HollIS, N H, whIch WIll be occup1ed by the postoffice, a gene1 al store WIth a fur11lture department and a thlrt} -room hotel all mana~ed by George C Cobb The hotel "Ill be known as Clanford Inn Henry J Nel'-,on of Burlmgton, Vt, has Just started hb fiftIeth year 111 the furmture manufactunng busmestJ H!::> fdctory i'3 111the buIldmg m whIch It was e"tablI"hed 111 1859 and the bmld111g ha'3 not been changed 111 extenor appearance He has lI, ed d11 11l" lIfe '\lth111 20 lOd.., of hIS lmth place and hIS factory IS only 40 rods a"ay MISCELLANEOUS NOTES AND NEWS Edward Castor, fmmture dealer of ::\ew Concord, °,has '301d out to Elmer Law The Bradle} Furmture com pan} of ElIzabethon, Tenn, has been declared bankrupt R 13 Sen"ency succeeds J l' IIovvell 111the retad furn- Iit1le bu"mess at :\Iartmsbun:;, Iowa B \7\. Moore succeeds Ed", ard J\loore 111 the retaIl fur111tm e bu S111ess at Georgetown, III Dora Cornett, furnIture dealer of P111evl11e. Ky, has made an ass1gnment for the benefit of credItors The \Yalte ChaIr company factory at BaldWIn", die, 1\T ass, 1" runmng m ertIme 111order to fill ru"h orders Derry beny & Forbes "ucceed \\ orkman & Derryberry, fur111tnre and Implement dealers 111NO! th PlaUe, 1\ ebr '1he Bl11m~'-,le) T'urmture and Hard\', are company-C A and II E B11hng"le}-of Hovve, Okla, ha" gone 111tObank-ruptc) John KlOetes, supenntendent of the Phoemx ChaIr fac-tory, Shebo}gan, \\ 1", dropped dead on \member 30 Heart d1"ease RepOlt" from :ene, Pa, "tate that the Kalz :\Tattre"s :\lan-ufactunng com pan} of ChIcago v. III move theIr plant to Ene 111 the neal future } rank 13 \\ 111egar of the \\' megar FurnIture company, dealers, Grand RapIds, JVlIch, has gone to Los Angele", Cal to spend the w111ter 'Lhe J \\ Owen" }ur111tme Company succeeds R A l~etSe In the retaIl furnIture bus111ess at ~ ev. man, Ga The "tock "'111 be enlarged The \\ eeks }url11ture company, dealers of \Yoonsocket, R I, IS 111finanCIal dlfficulty Crechtors hay e se1zed a pal t of the stock on attachments The plant of the lIreproof lurl11ture and Con'-,t! uctlon Company at HamIlton, OhIO, was v\fecked by a C)c1one-damaged to the extent of $1,000 01 more The Sydnor & Hundley company, 111cOlporated. of R1Ch-mond, \ a, are celebratmg then 21 '3t anmver'-,ar} V\ Ith a great sale of hohela} goocb at "peCIal pnces Le"ter D treed" Ice-pre"Ident and manager of the Freed Fml11ture company ha" been elected a" a dn ect01 of the Merchants Dank of Salt Lake CIty, Utah ChaIle'-, C Chapman, a farnous Old \I1SSlO11orange 2;rowe1 ot Fullerton, ha" purchased J E Stone's 111terest 111the Del- (VIer 1,url11tm e Company of }j Centre, Cal C F Boyett 1'-, now "ole owner of the Blakel) (Ga) lurl11ture and Harel,,; al e company, ha'Ing bought the 111ter-e" t" of C } Coleman and R \\ L"nden,ood The Cap1tal }t1ll11ture compan} of Lansmg, 1\IIch, manu-factmers of dre"ser" and chlifol11ers, hay e let cont!acts for the ercctIOn of a lal ge bnck addltlOn to theIr plant The Sellew- \;\ allace company of \7\ aterbury nov. c1a 1111 to be the largest furl11tm e 1eta11 furnIture dealel s in Conn 1 he} u"e 35,000 feet of floor space, and employ 15 salesmen J P Gptegrme of \\ llham E LptegloH & Bro, of New York CIty and of VpteglO, e & BeckWIth of Gland RapId" was 111the CIty of Grand Rapids from :\1:onday untIl Thursda}, thIS week George "[,dV\ard Rlechman, chIef accountant for the Globe lurmture Company of Evan"v1lle, Ind and J\I1"s Helen A Umbach were man led at the home of the hnde 111I\ ansvIlle on :"rovember 26 Henr} \Volke, preSIdent of the II \\ olke FurnIture com-pany of Lou!::>, 111e, Ky, (hed of sp111al trouble 111 N m cmbel 30, at I'a'3adena, Cal, where he ha'3 rnacle IllS ,\ mter hOlne for several yeals What to Buy and Where. \V dlter Clark al wa}.., has on hand a large "tock of TII'-,h glue ready for U11lnedlate shlpmcnt r\ .. . .- -- -----_._._._. _._-_._._-_. _._._.,III IMPROVED, EASY AND ELEVAT 0 RS QUICK RAISING Belt, ElectrIC and Hand Power. The Best Hand Power for Furmture Stores Send for Catalogne and Pnce •. KIMBAll BROS. CO., 1067 Ninth St., Council Bluffs, la. Kimball Elevator Co.. 3~3 Pro.pect St., Cleveland, 0 , 108 11th St, Omaha, Neb, 120 Cedar St , New York CIty. 1.- ._. - .-_.- -_ _ ~ 26 \\ E E K L Y ------------ ._--------------------- ----------------~ Mahogany Circassian Walnut Quartered Oak Walnut Curly Maple Bird's Eye Maple Basswood Ash Elm Birch Maple Poplar Gum Oak II I 6-. GEORGE J. KINDEL AS A LIVE WIRE Famous Denver Manufacturer ~Iakes :l'Iuch "Copy" for Newspapers and His City "on the Map:' George J Kmdel manufdcturel of bedcllng supphes, ot Denver, Col. who forced the railroad" to abandon then plOpO "Ition to ral'ie heIght rate,> bet\A,een \eV\ YOlk and TeAa" Oklahoma, Colorado and Ltah pomt'> 'Ia Gah e"ton and othel (,.ul£ ports, "eem~ to be a "on ot In e "II e He IS cel taml) a promment figure In Den' er The new "paper" gn e mort "pace to hI'> ~aymg" and dOIngs than to those of an} othel man In the "tate He '>eem'i to be a ,el "atIle "knocker al-ways I eady for a fight agamst V\hat he belle, e'> to be \\ long and IS usually "ucce'>sful -\" WIll be '>een m the tollcl\\ Illg quotatIOns from the Del \ er 'llme'i he I'> lu"t nm, engaged m a war agam"t what he believe" are eAtm tlOllate pI Ice" for coal "George J Kmdel's letter to the TIme" ,e..,tel eLL' bnng" home the forceful mCj1111, \\ III De'l\ CI ,>upmeh endure the extraordmary gl dft of the transportatIOn tllht In the freIght rate on coal from the northeln field? "Kmdel make~ a battle call He shovvs vd1ere the people may fIght WIth certall1t} of some kmd of tnumph Cal r} the case on complaInt to the state I allway comml~SIOIl It the commISSIOn has power to act and WIll not act (" hlch I'> sCdrcely po~slble), get a new COmmlS'ilOn If the commISSIon would reduce the rate but cannot enforce It" order'>, get a new law "There are ample precedents to JustIfy the demand for the reductIOn The mterstate commel ce comml~'>lon I uled that the rate, LOl11'ivllle to Den,er, V\a" tWIce a" hIgh a'- a leason able and JU'it rate The "tate ralll oad comml'>~lon reCjl11red and obtamed a reductlon m the case of coal rate'i Denver to Central CIty "It IS certam, from the charactel and abllltv of the men on the state comml~"lon, that a complamt m the Cd'ie of lates, LOl11svllle to Den' er, vvould recen e l111mecllate con ..,lderatlOn and that all pos"lble rehef ,A,ould be affOl decl Let cltlzens bear in mmd, a" The TImes has been assured b} operator'i, that 111JU'it whatever amount the freight rate ~hal1 be reduced the pnce of coal 111Dem er WIll be reduced That l'i somethmg vvorth fightmg fOI " ~Ir Kmdel doe" not U'ie all hl'i fig-ht111g ablllt, aga111'it the rallroad~ and bus111es'i monopohe~ He take'i a promI-nent part 111the dISCUSSIon of nearly all public poliCIes and helps to abolish abuse" and nght man, \\ ron'S'i Here h an extract from another Denv cr ncV\ 'ipape, of recent date wlllch fur111she'i a good example of hiS methocl" -\RTISAN -----------_._---- IIIII I I ------ ---4 Foreign and Domestic Woods, Rotary, Sliced, Sawed. "The tuberculo'il" exhIbit dt 1745 \rapahoe street vva" npped wiele open, both literally and figl11atlvely, when George J Kmdel addre'i'ied the meetmg held last 111ght for the benefit of the bUS111e,,'i men KlI1del'" fir'it objectIOn was to the place of holclmg the meet111g 'You preach fresh sIr," he saId, "but there IS no fre'ih air m thl'i room" Then he paId hIS I espects to the model exhIbIt Here are t\\ 0 sample rooms,' he cont111ued, "one show-mg "dl1ltan and the other un"al1ltary conditIon ~ I have tak-en matellal out of the mattres"e" On both beel" Nothing but HEYMAN'S HEYMAN'S HEYMAN'S HEYMAN'S going to be~.-..c ......... froze up all winter? ~~ W~ -or get a Garland? The re olv ng firepot s found on Garland Stoves and GARLANDS ONLY It s a. v1Iuable patent devce that enables YOUby one 1 !tIe tw t of the crank tocean hefirepot of a accumulaton of ashes and cl nkers that retard t'hehea! from rad a ngto eout s de of the stove r s worth ts we gl n go d to.,ne that wants full val eforeverydt> a spent for coal It s no expenmen hu nc mos prac C'I common ense and ~cent fic feature e er added to a hard coa heater regardless ofwha the otherfel1oy, says Look nto I before you pay YOUrgood money for a coal s ove- t 11be better than to WISH you had HEYMAN COMPANY 47-61 Canal Street A Sample AdvertIsement filthy shoddy 1he one flam the clean and the one from the unclean room. both full of mtlhon" of germs The rags whIch sO mto "hoddy are bought 1n man} l11"tance" from pest house" and ho'>pltal'i I hay e known ( f 1I1"tance~ In Denver where such V\as the ca~e Only the other day a I11dn dIed here of tuberculo'il" after a lcng IlIne"" HI'> body VI a3 sent ea"t Do 'ou know what wa" done With the l11attle% on whIch he had been "leepmg' It" a~ sold to an auctlon company, "hllh m "elll11g It agdln did not "ee fit to 'itate that the la'it pcr~on who had "Ie] t on It dIed of tuberculOSIs Dr Bartlett ,>ale! I V\ ould plObably mJect freIght rate" mto tIll'> meetmg I \\111 1m g0ll1g to shoVl what freight WEEKLY ARTISAN 27 rates have to do "'Ith tuberculosIs On account of these high rates, mattresses made of :ohoddy, the manufacture of which IS forbidden m many ::,tdte., are made here by a number of people Shoddy is mdde of old rag:o pIcked up m the guttel:O and streets and alleys It I., nothm~ but refuse and filth chopped up fine and placed 111 mattresses "The fl elgh t rate" on the proper matenal to make clean and sanital} mattres"es are so 11lgh as to make them cost beyond all reason 1 have heen fightmg the use of "hoddy for fifteen years "I haven't got tUberculo"ls, because I sleep wIth my windows open, eat apples and don't smoke 1 have a sana-torium of my own m ,Vest Colfax There al e forty acres and a board1l1~ house, and anybody who has a tent IS wel-come to pl"lch It over there and bve 111 the open" Tried to Indict Himself. Mr Kmdel hds been fightmg the shoddy bedding for years as IS shown by the tollowmg taken from a lettel that he addressed to the Amencan Health ASSOCIatIOn m September, 1895, "For years I have ea1l1e:otly endeavored to bring about reform in the manufactunng of beddmg In the mterest of pure and healthy beddmg, I three years ago, VISIted the health authones of the cItIes of ChIcago, St LOUIS, Cmcinnati, Boffalo, and New York City Also those of Liverpool and London, England "N ear New York cIty IS ma11ufactured today, a shoddy (rag) comforter that is sold m every cIty In the United States Shoddy (rag) mattte"ses are manufactured m every city of 100,000 inhabitant-, In OUI beautiful city of Denver, there are two such manufactunes, my own, and that of Kent & Stuch-field It is not by chOlce. but hy compulSIOn that they are made here ChIcago, Omaha, Lmcoln and ,Vlchlta sh~p them 111 by the car load, hence, we must make them or go out of the bedd\1l~ bus111ess, as 111thl" sectIOn four-fifths of the bedding IS made of thIS \ lIe .,tuff "In addltlOn to the nottce of thIS subject to the State Board of Health (see page four), I have again called the attentIOn of our esteemed HOdl d of Health to thIS subject, ",hlle a member of the (,rdnd Jllr) 111Apnl 1894, when I endeavored to mdlct m} self for makmg thiS dangerous bed fillmg We had the:oe medIcal officers before us to give expert testImony They cllffered WIdely Some went so far as to say that there ",as nothmg unhealthy, or dan~erous about it, )Jeedless to -.ay, the Gland Jury dId nothmg, ex.- cept to make a slw;ht mentton III theIr report to the court about it "So long as there IS no natIOnal law governmg the sub- Ject, Just so long wl1l these goods be manufactured and sold "nder the mnocent tItle of wool beddmg Every dry goo~ and house furl11shmg goods store have these goods on theIr counters" Mr Kmdel fay ors the enactment of state or natIOnal lav\s to prohibit the use of .,hoddy in the manufacture of bed dmg "We have mIlk mspectors, meat mspectors, etc ," he says, "why not have shoddy 1l1spectors to guard the publlc health, WIth law" reqmrmg effectIve fumIgatIOn of all second hand matenal that goes mto beddmg~" Advises the Women. The 'Voman's Club Journal of SaturdaJ, December 4, 1909, pubhshed the followmg letter glvmg l\Ir Kmdel's vIews on "The J\eed of TlansportatlOn Reform": In thIS day and age, fearless and patriotIC men of the "I WILL" pattern, like Col D C Dodge, Col D F Day and Judge Ben Lmdsey, are as few and far between as are the snowclad peaks 111our Rocky Mountams WHY? Becau"e the a\ erage man can not afford to champIOn a cause of the people Only mll110nalres llke Geo Washington and Rudolph Spreckles can I11dulge themselves In such commendable WOlk WIthout coml11g to gnef The system IS as cruel and oppressIve now as evel The methods, but not the results have changed Notwlthstandmg iA oman has been enfranchhed more than a dozen years m Colorado c011clltlOns are much the same as when "mere" man had an eAclus1Ve fight In pohtlcS Colorado women have not yet ma11lfested much mterest In commercIal affaIrs OtherWIse such a Joke (not found 111Puck or Judge), as Dem er payIng 100 per cent hIgher freIght and express rate per ton per mIle than any other CIty of Its sIze In the U11l0n, would not be perpetrated on u<; Coal rates, too, are 100 pel cent hlghel f10m LoU!sVllle to Denver than the "ame haul iA hen consIgned to our Ea<;tel n nelghbor<; Evel y commodIty that we eat or wear IS "ubj ect to thIS system of extOl tlO11 It h WIthout questIon expensIVe to live In Colorado, but It IS even mOle expen<;lve to dIe In proof of that, I iA ould P0111t out that to be cremated m Colorado costs nearly double as much a" It does either east or west of Colorado If you shIp a dead body by expl ess It co<;ts double the fare of a hve person, iA hlch Iule IS reversed when shlppmg a11lmals My adVIce to the wemen of Colorado IS to jam the Con-sumers League, and to th1l1k and "iudy before you vote the next t1l11e GEO J KINDEL , SEND FOR CATALOGUE. 28 ~IiIlnesota Retail Dealers' Furniture Association WEEKLY ARTISAN OFf< ICr RS-Prcslde t Lom') ] Puengef Ne\\ "llm \ lee PresIdent C Danielson Cannon Falls Treasurer, o \ 0 \IoLn Peter.."oIl Secretan W I Gr'lpP ] anes\ tile E'\TCL TIVE C0\1\[[ j 1 EcF-D F RILh'uelson '1Olthfield Geo Klme Mankato W L Harns 'VlrnneapolJs, o SImons Glencoe '\1 L KlIne St Peter BULLETIN No. 62. THE MEETING OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. ~"pe the CellI ot the pi eStele nt the e,ecutn e C011111111,1e n e1 1Ll11hato, 1\,1111n 011 1 uesd I} (\ enl11g "0\ embel 30 to 1111 H;e 1 I allel c1cc1c1e upon thl c11te" 01 lhe C0111111g COI1\ cntlOn Ihe 1 e )( 1t, of thc arh el tlsll1g comllllttee bllYJllf?; eomn11ttee 'wc1 the seCl et l1' \\ere lelel anel reee1\td T,lC 111'1ttlr (\ Lett1Jl'g sUJtlb1c (hL 101 thc COll\ entlO11 seemeel to bl the h 11de ,t let \11 1,elm L thL con n IltL( 1 hc luneral elnectch nd\ l Ltt thCll (htLo t(l! ] L111u t \ " 9 III n wh'ch \\111 mdke It Imp h'lbk to meet tlL LlmL \\LLh \\It'Wl'l \( ldppmg on,e d tv If '\ e mcet the ,"me \\ Ld It \\ h tl Ul ~ht 1(1 \lS2ble to meet 11011c11) 'lnc1 1uL"c1 I}, thc 7th l11(1 bth (lLC'l 0, 01 L t 20 pel eellt of the funer 1 dll ector, Ire Iu 111tUIe de du" 1111" \\ III bnng the eon\ CI tlO11 to a dehL the S'lme c!ly that the IUllel'll (llree tors as,eK1'l tlon (pell " If thL majOllt} ot the mcmbus \\ l11t It the bll\l1L, LUmmJttLL will 11,1111tal11 d s'l111ple loom ot dLLoultwn lL tlu, on I eblUl1\ \ .., nc1 5 three c1a}" bef01e the lOn\elltwn opcn, 'lnd lOlltl11Ul11~ llle eldy ,lltel The tollO\\ln~ l0111nlttcC, \\L1e IPP01111UI C0l111111ttee on Pl06"ll11-Ple" L J BUL11':;U ( \)\11111'011 l 1 non raIl-; mc1 the seu et 11\ Comrmttee on Com el1[1 11 I r tll-r I:f "UU' 11 \f },11 1 'lnd D f' Rlchal d son Commlttee to Settle D Ite ot (on\ enlwl1-0 ::'1111011 GICl1C( Geo Kle1l1 dnd J J \V ollell J t \\ a, clee H\ed to 111 \ke thc lOnl111~ l11ellln~ LO l11tU cLtln~ \11(\ l11struc1l\e tn, t lt \\11\ be ,I hn'l11enl ]o"s 110t to he thul '1nd ~ct the [(ood th111gs \~ hJch wlll be sl\ Ll1 rn 01 du t, ~lt thL beLt pos SIble ddte and the be,t hl1ld oj cl lJlogr 1111 klldh Illl (Ut the -OjI )\\ 1116 blank 'lnd "lnc\ 10 the Slllc! \l} " l ..,\Il(le t) tne \ lnOlh C) Il S'n1\ VIe 111ect the "me \\cek thL lumldl cltrectcJl" meet) An SVIer 2 \V ould you come If \\ e met '1 VICl h 1\tll Ans\,er 3 A1C }OU '1 l11cmbu" ot Loth tlte I1111U 1 c\llLdmo 1 (1 our dssoclatlOn) An,wLr 4 Do yOU applO\( ot onc I,'OU III n , tlll1" c\ te, \\Ith()\ t consldel111g the other' AnsVI er 5 \Vl1'lt subject'> '11e nH)',t 111)l)J t l11t to \ ou \llSVI er 6 Sh,l11 \\ e mcllllt Ull '1 "1111ple I ( 011 ot U III 01 (\e1 'l( I10L leac1el s) Ans\\ er 7 \Voulc\ you jll efel to n II t 111 \h1 lH l)lolh ()1 111 St l' wI 1\ n-wer 8 Wh It snhjeds undu (!J"')lS"Hm \\ onlc\ m 11,c \ (U eo lH to COn\UltlOn 1l you \Jele 110t \Cl) much lltele,tlll' \nC\\ er 9 \Voulc1 a pnctle'll c1emonstr,ll1on ot hO\\ to rejrll b Illl)1 and cxec!slOl 111Irl" 'lnd c1eep 'u Ilche, 011 hnL tlll 1t u, Without Idi111-,\l1ng be of Im)lort l11ll to yOu) '\11SVIer 10 \Vlldt, 111 "\mil 111111cl 10 the 1110"t Import 1l1t tlnllg the aSSOLl,ltwn "\lOu\d do) '\n,\\ er 11II tIe, l'lc I'L do l10t nedect t\llS but fill 1t out 110"1' enc\ send IL \ln1l \()\\ tlUllh 01 It II }OU Vll11le,po11c! plompt1y, we pr01111Se to the hc,l COl1\(lltWll \Je h\\c e\er held 1hl m( -t lmpm t \l t COll"lclel '1tlon C'lmc under the head of C0111 n \111L Itlm- \mo11g \\hleh \\ s '111 OtllU II nol1ce flo111 Vvrn C fhon" \ lLe pll Ide nt l11ll h\1LlleSS l11111agel ot Montgomer} Vi/'lrc1 & CO II (hi el \1' tl1 t VlL \\ele \lOhtl11g the copynght laVl l1v con tl 'tl11~ t(11 11 11 \ lick Vllth the oveldra\\n 11!u"tlatlOns 111 their c~t 11 ~' \\ hI' h Ihe \ ,I 1111 'Ire COP) n[(htec1 1111S plalllly shO\\ s that \11 ,oultlln \\ lh l' effcctnl \\e ha\e refellecJ thIS matter to )\11 1,,,)(1 III Jll eumnllttee \\ I11ch \\ 111 nnke 111\ e~tJgatlOn and finc1 out \\ hUl Ol!1 11S11tS beg1l1 l11d le,l\ e off (01l1111lttec 011 111\ estl&;atlOn-T J (TI IPP SL c-rehl\ II I H'lll1S dnc1 D Buenger, p"hldent, \iV F RlLhardson L Association .Jottings. '1\ ,tun h t) modu n hlh111ess "lnt lnbllcatlOn 15 to ,naCJ1J1len \1111\ 111C\Lh l11h h 1\ e found that the key to success IS graelJL15 1 " " l \ 11 11 1, ulltlue or (, 'lggu Ited sl,lte111ellt In an "ae!" for \ III be blo\\-sht t) 1H;ht "( Ullel or \ ltel \1L \ 0\\ p\\sl11n'2, ) Ol!1 t 11 collectIon" as yO\\ shou1c1' \n edtl~ I 1'\ \ 11 d11 Lelul e lkc n,", e Imp l1[(n lS es'-,entJal to t'\ ery blb1l1ess kno11 \\ hit" (11 I e ~0111g to e!o betOl e you start," IS a bus111es~ 1111,lm th It t0111b 1 ~oo I ICC0111pa11lment to the S\ ste111'ltle eff 11[ 1hl cch ILL 01 dl e,pe rh 'lnd lllthontle, 011 puhhut) lS \cl\Lltl'" \l\Utl"C' \d\Clt1sel I I Keep at It cOllt1l1uo11'-,ly nl1el ,top Ole! P111neas T n \l n11m , 1(\ "omethlllf?; \\ hen he sale! tlMt the \melll'ln people 1Jke to be h\\mbugged 1hIS exp1al11s the eXhtellce t 111 J1 01()0 house' 11 \ rm \1 llt t bl111(\ up } 0\\1 bu,111e,s 111st ach ertJsc ,Illd \\se 11e\\ 1 h U tl'ln~ m dIll dl tlle 111' e II vr \\ W'lnt to \dHlW \\ho lS [(01l1g t)pnTO thh (I}l! Llld'cl '\ bl1ol11e,,, 111'ln \\ hell lsked te 1 methods the othel c!l) ,,'l\ l thl" '111 } ou C'ln 111d-"et the money The re tl "cerct of ''l\esm'lJ1s11ljl 10 to know your customel Get ( n lhe Ille11l1l) ",de 01 11111 Be }our most U'lCllal sell dnc\ meet and tll It 111n1 IS 1 11lCI cl 11th th \l1 '1 bU'ol11c"s man J) 1 t \ 111(1 r L 1 ,I n111\1te befole orJcr111g; g;oods bIt Ie mllll),ll th It '1 ~ u ,e! '-( k \\ dl r I ngcel ddds forelbl) to yOUl sell111'S pc \\ el l11d h 1 det'lll of tile \\ 01 k \' ll1ch } 0\\ cdnnot afforc1 to neglect 1\ Ll \ Jum shoule! ha\ e a In e m,1l11l1g hst-not a llrge Iht but \ (I) ,ele etone \\ hit \1 e lTle'lll by a \ ely select hst IS people In 111l1du lte UrCUlTlLt'lnCe" chosen hom the gleat prosperous, lluc1elle ellS, the Il nl11tlOn of moderll b\\s1l1ess Get the best there lS gOl11g, get \ \\J,e n elch mt \\110 seeks sound "nceess w1ll see to lt that he 11 , tjl1'\ht\ f.,ood" bcll1nr\ 1110 ,t<!\eltJ"mg For lt lS "gooc1s of Cjual 11\ th It m \he Tnt the [(ooel 1111 11,tlllg nd111e of a bus1I1ess estab h'l1ucnt Shpk 11L1eles 1 e 11C\ Ll sold 'It bdrga1n COUlltel pnees ami Jf you &;L1 stUll, b) pllLmf?; 11 OlelU ot thiS h1l1el \\lth '1 film outslde the "1 lie Jt n uLt he ,our 10" \\ lth no opportul1lty of lehef by the la\\ s (I the -t \i e Don't drop yOUl ac1, C11l"1I1g 111 the CjUlet "eaSOll, ThlS 15 toe tllTl' \\ IIUl \ ou should S11I\ I to nnke bus1l1ess Yuu wlll not only 11 (11(1 the qUilt t1111(, hut Ihc lush \\111 he better when tl1e seaSOll U 111CC, 'lIe 111 1 r\ U} bU'1l1e " house 110\\ lellYS sLoulc1 hd\ e a thorough up to cl te follow up ,\ ,(cm It IS 111pOI t l11t l1J fact nece-,salY, 111 these WEEKLY ARTISAN 29 of IllS ~tole \\ IS sl11dshee! hy hl11s],ll" dlVI a t[Ul11tJty of gooe!.., t 11,\n Vv ltllln one 110ur dHe1 OPLI1111~ hh stOl e the 11L),t 1ll011l1n\S, the P10- [l11et01 hue! the follo\\lllg slgn plecee! 011 the v,llldO\\ Burgllls dll\ th1' I Om \Sood, al e ,0 nobby me! tempt11lg tInt they ctwld not rec,l,t Llkmg thel11 , Thmh l11cls Of people ,toppld to look ,1t tl1L c,m,t"hul ,\ l1ldm\ d1Hl slgn ,l1ld ,I ldl ge number 01 th1m \\ alked 111 mcl m tIle a [lurch t"C \ftCl \\ cl tIs th\) wonl\u ed how thcy h,lp pl nee! to buy r?7 ,,) G6-ThlS lYlds~l\ Ilblan TcLble IS l'Ylade of genUIne qu 11tOE:d oak goluen O<.1k fInIsh and hIghl, 1:))ll"'lhcd It ha~ top 44 11 x?q In ::Iud a dC'C'p hpa\, nm It 1"- \,,('11 SUPPOlted t'\ \(1"\ lal6'E' legs \\J11(11. dIe r'i In ",qUlle dt U 8 bottom '1 he CUl\ftl fe t a,lE' 1 Inches atlOS'::; '.Olp the lcug( tllcL,,\E:'l TIlt' pllC'(,- of thIS t':\.ble- l1as a h anC\ d QOID0 bnt It 1~ btll1 cL bis bargd n \\ L can fUl111Sh thlb to aUI me1'1l~LlS f n ~13 2") pI ogJ e"c;n e tlmL, that pl0v1:o1On be mae!e f01 1efell1l1\!; tc) pI evlOU.., C011lspone!UJce \\ tthout ,1 moment, dc1dy Up to date the merchant.., take ihClr loss cady TIns keeps the stock free from stIckers dnd here 1S \\ hel e many country 111ercllclnts fall dm~n They dre afr'lld tn cut pnc1S bdo\\ U),t ~11l1 so h \112, onto thl11 "Clods untl\ they dl e h H11v shop \I orn Some of lJe lllClcJldnts flll to uppreLtdte tl1<\t youn" An'Cl1Cl I' I, l)\,111" tOl thc ,( 1 Y \test The 111er1ha11t \\ ho £'lliS ,0 'P])1 eU,ltc thl> slLLniJ{Jn ,ncl tJ\C ch'\1H!,es th \t ,ire tdk1l1~ phce ,long- till, 11nc, llld 1 dtu t kc ( 1'( \\ l1tch 111hh trouser, ancl c;et next fhel e dre some store.., thdt Just ..,t11ke your LWLy dthoulSh t 11 pl1ces ,11e not ,ppedl1l1,s 'we! the ;:;ooc!s nothlnc; CAU J It 1, the t n oophel e oj the pIlLe The rc '''011 f01 thl" IS tl'dt the f,11ow In C l 1M", hI'> f'llce of c1ur,lcter llltlltne .,'111jJ thy dde! perh,p.., Juct AOC'c\ 0\ 1- h"lllol1ec! Abe L1I1coln 10\ e of hU11ld111tv The 11101to of the m 1\ 01 cle.r n1<1n dS apphecl tu poht '" 1" P "lbly "orne v\ III be angl y but \\ c \\ 111 sLl11d b} tile I \\\ of 1\ el, r.;~" In bU,111es, It h Po<;slbly "ome merchd11h V,I1! bc mg1 y hut 'A c \\ 111 ..,tlnd by the 1 \\ that thuL 1, a '-uckel born eve"\ m1l1ute Jnd If vIe c;et the .,uckel' , the 1uerch 1.nts can ha, e the rest" A. hUSl1lcc" 111,111"ys \ve IfC clrcul111L111g lAtUl'lvdv In 1 finu 1t exU c111d} I e..,ultfu] On, n 1.\ l1 g' ot ev el \ thl ce months we gct 111 touLh \\1th OUl patlon5 \\lth ,( 1>11t111n,; 5e ,on,ble e'1ouc;h to \\ alfant our ,Idclt e',Smg them nd lln 111(\1112,them that vie ,rL up to date and \\ ant the11 fm thcr f ,01 s The [JeonIe hke to lle C) ,- sldeled and appeuled to a, rq,ulll !Jel110jlS of I 1el1,bk "tOll n ,t!\\dVS respond genel0usly to 1ts speCIal o[fellng;s" 1he\e ale some men 'AnOSe 1nhl1e to ,uc1ccd 111 hte 1" '111job lcm to others dS ,",ell a, to thcm,eh1s They \1e 1l1clc1,tIIOUS, p u dent ,md economIcal, yet alter ,l \011(( Ide of sttn111g old ,((e 1'11 C!' them "ttll poor They s, y Llt1 15 a4am,t them hut the f ICt 13 thn 11'1\ e n11stdken actn It) fOl energy Re t! enCl g} 10 persev erm.f, "teady dl"clplme \ It ne\ e\ looses SIght of the object to be accorn plhhec1 110r stops t01 a11} t\lln\!; \\ hl1e thcle IS a posslbllth of success \11S£01 tnne5 m ly .,omcttmcc, be tUl ned l11to ,I prohtable arI, el ll5cment as ,ho\\n by, 1'\ew YOlt mLrchant The sho\\ \\l11c100. -£'111"\ 111~e libl'1l ttt1L l,:v~, a top JLx3( 11\ hes It IS nn.dC' Qut )f bf'lu h d oak stock an 1 JS \ 021).- "l It finlsh<:d 1 he s11 1£ IS 1&1....,( '"1ll\1 100 111Y 'rIlel€, 1<" a nIce SIzed dld\\el 111 the top ana It 1<., In e,€ly "'i\a'\ a good piece of fUl111tUl( F)~-~O F2J-'J"o F'J)-No rz 2-1'. \1 'G L(lnal \ TcLOh qual t.en d oak top plc1111 o3.k shelf and 11m ~3 70 quarllled oak top and shelf plcLll1 oak urn -r-1.20 ,) all qual t;:::.rec1 oak 11ke cut ~4-.60. 27 all pl~ln odk ~~.50 1 10-1\ 0 B) ) Tll1~ al tl".,tlC lune-ebb DiE "'''81 112b a ""enUlllf' qu ...l1 t< u'l oak fl )nt '11 \.1 up 'T'he tcp IS 11 x) and It has a 3u x 1\) ~la<;'" lhe canIng- IS \el\ ta~tefulls elOl t' Jncl dOlls a l1all1tJ. finl"",hlr2; touch It l1as one Ial ~f' ura\\ er a 1(1 bi 0 "nlallel oneb Note tll( Si\ ell front T1ub <'heSSl 1 furUl<..,!1ec1 to OUi HI mbers for $1190 30 WEEKLY ARTISAN '~ Am-tx-l:('utt 1itlow-cr Q!.lfurpaug fl. ., SJJ:?O~~O GENERAL OffICES DetrOIt '1Kh WORKS Detroit MICh [, Tr~ N Y ~ This plant runnlno In IQUITOS, PERU ATLANTA Progress in New York. The archItects of the great hvm Imtlchngs to be elec-ted for the 1'\ew Y 01 k Jur11lture Fxchange ha \ e no\\ made theIr final dra wmgs repre"entmg the extenor" of these 'Ottuc-ture" The"e dra\ovmg" 1J1chcate plamlv enOlH:;h that the hUlld1l1gs WIll be more ornate and e\ en more c,uperh than first mtended It hac: heen found poc,"lhle to add archltec tural features of stnklng- beauh \\ htle e\ en po""lhlc con v enlence WIll be mtroduced 111ac cordance \vIth the O1I~lIlal plan s \\'hlle the a1chltect" dre complet1l1~ their pal t a1Jc1 perfectm~ then plan" and whtle the \ a"t amount of ,tructur-al WOIk IS gomg on, the managers of the Exchange and the11 a",sl"tants al e no lc,," bus\ m prepaJ mg t01 the VI ar- 1anted expanslOn of the ente1]1n"e I'helr labol lIlclucles the a"slgnment of "pdce" a" manufacture" make knc)\\ n the1r reqmrements and the cltaV\111gof lea"e" f01 tl10"e \\ Ish mg" to parttclpate and forehanded cnou£;h not to "alt hut to act before some othel concern hd" "ecured the space ])e"t meetlllg then w1she" \\ hde for man} rea~CJ11Sone locatlOn wlthm the bmldllll; mdY be con"ldered as deSIrable dS an other, man} manufacturel" ha\ e thClr md1\ 1dual preferences These preference" ale met and satJ"fied 111 the case of earh apphcat1C'n<., \nother and Ver} 1mpOl tant part of the ldbor of the man-cl£; ement IS the prejJdl atlOn of data COllcernm" the ]n1\ cr" 111 the \CW YOlk market The compdatlOn of h'Ots of the",e bu} er" 1l1clude" not onl} theIr name, but a tabulatIOn at their need" and of the l1Ouse" they repre"ent "ith c,tate-ments of the ascertdmecl caplt,d "tc'ck latlllg of these \s th1S compl1atJon plOceech, the l111p01tance of the purcha"1l1g po'" er eAerClsed 111 Xew York becomes more and more ap parent The comp1latlOn 1l1cludes not only buyer" of ftuDI-ANY EFFICIENT GENERATOR direct connected to an " ABC" SELF OILING ENGINE will electric Nght your plant, run fans, etc, and if you are now bu~ing current, will pay you in saving 25% PER ANNUM ( Write for proof of above.) 'ABC" SELF OILING ENGINES are generating thousands of kilo-watts al

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