Michigan Artisan; 1909-01-10

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Issue of a furniture trade magazine published in Grand Rapids, Mich. It was published twice monthly, beginning in 1880. and Twenty-Ninth Year-No. 13 JANUARY 10, 1909 Semi-Monthly • I •I ._--_._----- THROW OUT All Disk, Drum and Spindle Sanders are money wasters. There is not a piece of sanding that our PATENTED SAND BELTS WILL NOT POLISH BETTER AND FASTER 400 machinesalready in operation. Why give your competitor an advantage over you in this department? No. 171 SAND BELT MACHINE. PATENTED Jonu"')' 12th, 1897 May 17th, 1904 November 14th. 1905 February 13th. 1906 October 2nd. 1906 Will sand and polish flat surfaces, all irregular work in your sanding department. Ask for catalogue E. WYSONG « MILES CO., Cedar St. and Son. R. R., GREENSBORO, N. C. ~ The Best Truck--The Strongest Truck ..... - E, This is the famous Gillette Roller Bearing Factory Truck-the truck on which it is said, "One man can move a load of 3000 pounds whlle with the other trucks it takes three men," This is the truck that is strong where others are weak-the truck that has an unbreakable malleable iron fork. This is the truck YOU are looking for if you wish to Invest In rather than waste money on factor.r trucks. Gillette Roller Bearing CO. ORAND RAPIDS, MICHIOAN The Lightest Running, Longee. La.ting Truck 11 ~ ·,".1 ..A8c" Vertical Self-Oiling Engines are Arranged for Direct Connection to Any Make of Generator "The highest quality of material, workmanship and finish ever embodied in steam engine con~ .tnJ.ction." "ABC" Questions on Lighting If you need a boiler to run your engine and you use Ex-haust Steam for heating and drying, how in the world can any-one sell you electric current for lighting your mill, factory and yard as cheaply as you can generate your own? Can you afford to belt a generator from your line shaft, or can you direct connect a dynamo to any ordinary steam engine when an "ABC" VERTICAL ENCLOSED SELF-OILING ENGINE WILL PAY FOR ITSELF IN ONE YEAR IN SAVINGS OF OIL AND FUEL? You can afford an "ABC" ENGINE and we can prove it. Write us number of lights or kilo-watts wanted, together with steam pressure carried-for proposition. Get catalog 232 M. A. anyway. AMERICAN BLOWER CaMP ANY, Detroit, Mich. MANUFACTURERS "ABC" ~~Tk~5~~R1Kf9L'rJ~.GENGINES. "DETROIT" ~~pr-x~tYrf~rRAPS. . HEATING AND VENTILATING APPARATUS. AUTOMATIC RETURN TRAPS. • , SLIDING SHOE FOR USE ON DESK LEGS Tbis sboe does tbe work of a caster yet allows tbe desk legs to set close to floor. Fastened with flat head wood screw and furn-ished in three sizes. SEND FOR SAMPLES AND PRICES. No. 1493 PULL A very fine handle for desks in tbe square effect. Something different from tbe regular bar pulls. GRAND RAPIDS BRASS CO. GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN rII I ---------------------------- MICHIGA'i ARTISAN Veneer Prellllel, different kinds and ahe._ (Pa~Dted) .::: Veneer Presses Glup Spreaders Glue Heaters Trucks, Etc., Etc. These Specialties are used all Over the World Power Feed Glue Spreading Machine, Single, Double and Combination. (Patented) (Si2es12 in. to 84 in wide.) ----1 Hand Feed Clueing Machine (Patent pendiull'.) Many styles and sizes. Wood-Working Machinery and Supplies LET us KNOW YOUR WANTS - No. 20 Glue Heater. h. __ CHAS. Eo FRANCIS COMPANY, Main Office and Works, Rushville, Ind. No.• GIu.H ....... -----------_.~ ~ A practica0~ and Perfect Stain ~---- ------------------------------- I D1SGRIMINf\TlNG I FUMED OAK EARLY ENGLIS" Here aga\n we have been able to produce the correct shade and the one most in favor by manufacturers. It is the most perfect stain of this char-act~ r,on the market. III ~----_._---- Mf\NUff\GTUKGRS OUf Fumed Oak Acid Stain pro-duces a perfect match for the color produced by the old-fashioned fum-ing process where the wood is fumed in a fuming chamber. The color is not only correct, but it is more uniform and has more depth. Being an acid stain it is more per-manent while it is also practical and inexpensive in application. THE MARIETTA PAINT and COLOR CO. MARIETTA. 0"'0 ._---~III I ff\VOK Mf\KIETTf\ -----.--- .__ ----0 / / Should ~ Be in Every fiNISHING ROOM MARIETTA SOLVENT A perfect Solvent for Oil Stains, Fillers and Varnishes. Invaluable for Golden Oak Stains. Write for sample and try it out for yourself. WHITE PRINTING CO. I I GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. I I HIGH GRADE CATALOGS COrlPLETE Ii I I~ 2 MICHIGAN ARTISAN aran~Da~i~sDlow Pi~e an~Dust Arrester (om~anl THE LATEST de7!ice for handling shavings and dust from all wood- ''UJorking n'Wchines. Our nineteen years experience in this class of work has bronght it uearer perfection than any other system on the market today. It is no experiment, but a demonstrated scientific fact, as 'we have sez-'eral hun-dred of these systeuls in use, and not a poor one Gl1wng thern. Our Automatic Furnace Feed Systenr, as sho7.f!1Zin this cut, is the most perfect working device of anything in this line. Write for our prices for equipments. WE MAKE PLANS AKD DO ALL DETAIL WORK WITHOUT EX-PENSE TO OUR CUSTOMERS. EXHAUST FANS AND PRES-SURE BI"OWERS ALWAYS IN STOCK. Office and Fa.ctory: 208-210 Canal Street Gl\..AND l\..APIDS, MICH. CUI:zena Phone 121a Bell. M..ln 1804 ._--_.O_UR A-UT-OMATIO FURNACE FEED SYSTEM II •I 29th Year-No. 13. ~~==========-=-----=- GRAND RAPIDS. MICH.. JANUARY 10. 1908. $1.00 per Year. CLASSIFYING VENEEl<. There has been quite a problem before tbe veneer 1l1en and the railway freight departments over the proper classi-fication of veneer products for shipment. Sometimes the ve-neer men have thought the railroads ·were ratl1er arbitrary and unfair, but it is probably not so much inte1l(led unfair-ness as it was confusion and misundersbtnding. \Vhen it comes to examining the matter tboroughly it is easy to see how one may grow confused in trying to fannulate some basis on ..v..hich to classify veneer on the freight list. There is SOIne veneer that undoubtedly belong"s to l;Nhat is termed the morc valuahle wood product and should pay a higher rate of freight than ordinary lumber On the other hand, there is some veneer prOd1.1ct which, though it may be cut up in smaller pieces than standard lumber, is not really any smaller than lath, staves and heading. This is probably en-titled to an equa.l rate of freight The trouble is that neither thickne!:is nor dimension give a true indication of tbe relative value of veneer, nor of the care necessary for transportation companies to exercise to prevent its being damaged in tran-sit. S0111eveneer is nothing more nor less than box shooks and as such it comes under lumber classification. There is other veneer of select quality sometimes put up in bundles with a protecting sheet of inferior veneer on the outside, and other kinds put up in crates for shipment, 'vhich is en-titled to pay a higher rate of freight than the cheaper kinds. because it is more liable to be damaged; and. wht;':n damaged, thcrc is more value lost tha,n if the same damage were done to the clle<lper veneer. Leaky car roofs and dirt and various other things inci-dent to transporting and handling may damage fine {ace ve-neer. The same conditions or mishaps ".'ouldl of course, de-preciate tlk quality of box shooks or of the common veneer for dralver bottoms and things l.ike th8t, but the damage would not he anything ill proporti0l1 to that of face veneer. It seems now that the railroads and the yeneer men are about to get together on the basis of classing all veneer 1-16 of an inch and Oller in thickness as thin lumbcr, and that cut thinner than 1-16 as veneer in a higher classification-i. e., paying a hiKher rate of freight. Tllis, thongh admittedly imperfect, will lTe1pa bit :J.nd is a decided step in clearing IIp the confusion incident to handling veneer. It is probable that quite a large majority of the cheaper veneer is cut thicker than 1-16. The 1-16 thickness used to be the recognized standard for quarter-sawed oak veneer, and und{'r tbis c1a:ssi~ fication it would probably be included under the thin lumber head, whereas oak veneer cut 1-UJ and 1-20 or 1-28 ,,,ould not be classed as thin lumber, but would have to take the higher rate of Vl.'.neer. Quite a lot of the oak veneer too eyen of the sa\ved veneer, is made as thin as 1-18 and 1-20 and the cut veneer, that is, the quartered oak veneer cut with a slicer, rum largely to 1-20 in thickness and frequently as thin a,s 1-28, The 1-20 thickness, however, seems to now be to the veneer trade practicaIly what the 1-16 ,.v~sformerly. so that m1..1chof the fine fa,ce veneer ,,,"'auld come below the 1-16. The majority of mahogany i:o, cut thinner than that, and also most of the fine walnut, though some walnut is cut a." thick as 1-8-and in that case the thick veneer would go in as thill lumber, though it would likely be qualified because of the \vaillut namc and be put into the hig{l pt"iced wood class This ,vould be fair, too. nut here is also something on the other side, n()twithstru-.dil~g. There is quite a lot of rotary cut veneer made as thin as 1-20 in gum and popular, bit"ch and various otber native woods, among them oak, and then there is being developed more or less trade in basket stock and light package material, which would come in this thin class, though it really is not entitled to be classed, at the higher rate. Basket splints are cut as thin as 1-28, and it seems unfair to make basket and light package stock and va,1'ious other kinds of thin veneer from inexpensive ..v..oo<1s pay a higher rate of freight than quarter-sawed oak veneer 1-16 of an inch. It is probable that the specifications may be qualified by naming the wood and the p1..1rposefor which :::ilE: veneer is cut to take care of thcse things; and, anyway, a de-cided step has been made in the right direction by the ve-ne. er men and the railway traffic men working together, and tllls problem of classifying veneer for railway shipment is being reduced to a much more satisfactory basis than it has been in the past.-St. Louis Lumberman. @ * @ Furniture Books in the Ryerson Library. During- the month of January the semi-annual showing of the latest additions to the collection of books on furniture has .been made at the Ryerson Public Library, Grand Rapids~ Beslde.s the books which includc a new volume by Esther Singleton on the subject of Dutch and Flemish furniture, and othe.rs, ther~ is a collection of photographs presented by ::V1. L. Fltch, wlllch "vere used by him for thirty years in his [ravej~ for the ~elson-Matter Furniture Company.:~ is in-terestl1lg to note the evolution of the styles from the first book ca.rried by him in 1876 up to Ole. present time. The \vulls of the historical room of the Ryerson Library were ht/ng with illustrations of interiors, styles of ornamcnt, wood carving, etc .. taken from tbe art llwgazines. The Renais-sance and Colonial styles were g.iven the most prominence. The plates of ""'ood carving are so natural one imagines at -first that they are the original drawings. The illustrations of French and German styles in inter-iors arc interesting for co'mpa.rison. TllOse of the German lean more to heavy substantial furniture, large patterned carpets, draperies and Upl101stery and gaudy colors. Tbe general effect is not restful but "stuffy" wllereas the French is light, graceful, artistic, the colors a.re delicate and the patterns in Hoor coverings a.nd draperies jnconspicuous. Late additions to the collection include books of plates in French and German st:.r1es, the "Art Industry, Upholstery" with 12(10 engravings by G. \Y. Yapp. "Illustratjolls of Furniture from Great Exhibitions of London and Paris with Examples of Similar Articles from Royal Palaces and Noble I\lansiolls,"by J. Bra.und. @ * @ Portland, Oregon, has attained considerable prominence as a furniture manufacturing center and will soon claim the distinction of "the. Grand Rapids of the We st.;' @ * @ Lawn, SUlnmer home and porch furniture form important features in the mid-winter furniture expositions. MICHIGAN Great Progress is Power~Producing Methods. Economic reforms in the developme11t of power keep coming in such rapid succession that One almost treads upon the heets of its predecessor. The chief aim is simple enough, but the accomplishment is by no means easy. Looking bac,~' to the early days of steam, we find that as latc as the beg.inl1illg of the nineteenth century invention had just achieved the return tlue construction in boilers, and the use of a steam jet to quicken the draft. Richard Trevithick, a Cornish engine builder and boiler maker, did this, and he bujlt the first steam tram using smooth~faced wheels on a smooth track. It was a good boiler at that time that would be trusted with a pressure ot 10 pounds of steam, and that weakness decided failure tor John Fitch as a steamhoat in-ventor, and improved bOllers made Robert F\llton's success. Both with the best modern boilers automatically stoked to save the cost of labor, and with quadrupte expansion engiu(',s to utilize the steam until pressure has almost heen ex-hausted, it remained a disheartening fact that the greater part the energy of every pound of coal is still wasted, be-cause it can not be utilized in the best allparatus. Method is now rapidly changing from the combustion of coal in an ordinary firebox, ~here only a portion of the hot gases are hrougth into _contact with the boiler surface and \..,.here lUuch heat goes up the chimney, to a retort sys~ tern where the coal is subjected to destructive distillation and everything but the residual ash and other incombustible elements <Lreconverted into what is known as producer gas. Instead of burning gas in a comparatively -ineffectual process of developing steam in a boiler. the gas is utilized in an ex-ternal combustion engine by compressing it with a proper proportion of air to afford comlepte and insta.ntaneous combustion, and utilizing the explosive force of the mixture. to drive the piston of the engine. Instead of a battcry of b.oilers fed wlth tons of coal ('.very day, there is a small~ FOR SALE-FUlly Equipped Woodworking Pianl I Suitable for pla.ninj; mill, box factory, furniture manu-facturin~ or any kind of woodworking business. Splendidly located m Michigan. Better than a bonus. Investigation solicited. Addre88 L. M. M" care Michigan Artisan. • producer plaut occupying much less space which generates gas pure enough for engine use. There is ItO high pressure except in the engine cylinder::> at the moment of each ex-plosion, and there is <J. great economy of space and machinery as well as of -boiler equipment. In a producer plant the coal is slowly distilled, and such residue CIS may be formed is generally utilized as fuel to keep the generator hot enough to expel the gas from the coal. The a.pparattls is almost automatic when Ollce u11der \'vay. Althoug-h tbis system of power generation may be said to be stilt in its infancy, it is apparent that for most large plants it is bound to supersede the present costly steam equipment. Hardly is this economic reform well under way before imaginative inventors prepare for another exploitation. Their present aim is to eliminate all the cost between the coal 'r,ilH'''- ::lrcl the developed power. The ultimate hope is. to merely raise the coal to the surface, and there. without ex-pensive handling, long railway hauls, payment of' commissions to wholesale and retail dealers and storage in yards~ to con~ . vert it into producer gas, and utilize the g:;:tsfor develop- ARTISAN mcnt of high voltage electric current, which can be delivered over an area of hundreds of square "miles by cOll)parat\vely inexpepsive wiring, and turned on and off at every power plant 'within a radius of 100 miles. This would eliminate the smoke nuisance in cities, relieve manufacturers of the detail of power generation, and reduce the cost of power to a fraction of the best achievement of the present day. It may sound like a dream just now, but it is something that maybe looked for with as sure a hope as the development of the gas engine. @ * @ A HANDY MACHINE. This cut il-lustrates a corn-bimitioll mach-ine that is of unusual merit, viz; an arm swing or radial sander and borer, made by the Cordes-man - Rechtin Co., Pearl and Butler streets, Cincinnati. It is made of the best material, and by thor-ough machin-ists. This ma-chine is sim-ple, easily un-derstood and handled, saves a great deal of labor and is i n e x pensive. yVhere a larg- Cordes.man~Rechtin's Arm Swing Qr Radial er and more Sander and Borer, cxpensive san~ der can not be had, this little machine will be found to fill the requirements, viz; a flat surface polisher, and borer. Nearly every wood-working factory can use this machiue to advantage. A card to the Cordcsman-Rechti.n people will give you full information in regard to it. @ * @: The Greater Profit. An experienced manufacturer of furniture declared re-cently that a larger margin of profit is yielded to the manu-facturer of medi-um than to the manufacturer of high priced goods. He explained that this was owing to the larger out-put. Sales of one hundred high priced bedroom suites in the course of a year were not common, where there were sales of five hundred of medium price. The difference lay in one hundred items of profit in the first instance. and 500 in the latter. @ * @ Some people. couldn't even crac.k a joke without hitting their fingers. MICHIGAN ARTISAN 5 HAND SCREWS Hickory 5pindles~-Genuir.e. Saw r.ut threads-true, smooth, even ones. lI1ichigan l]ard lVfaple J<:1WS. That's the combination of the best, strongest ~l11d mo~t durable Hand Screw on the market. The kind of a Hand Sere, .-.. you need in your bU5- luess. The kind that brings satisfaction and repeat orders. The kind that we guarantee to stand the severest tests. OUf stock is up~ah\'ays. 'Ve call ship promptly in any size. Our catalog describes them, and other things we make such as Cabinet ~':Ja.kcrs, Carvers, Chair and Pattern 1\.Jakers Benches, Benedict Clamps, Factory Trucks, etc. It-'s a catalog you should have and .it's a catalog that you'H order from. \Vc'rc anxious to send it-because \ve want your order. Just rip out this ~d., sign your /lame and .address and band to Uncle Sam. He'll bring catalog and particulars return mail. .Putting things off "never done nobody no good." Do it no"v, Ha Address .. GRAND RAPIDS HAND SCREW CO. 918 JEFFERSON AVENUE GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. ..... ---------_. If your DESIGNS are right, people want the Goods. That makes PRICES right. <ClarencelR. bills 163 Madison Avenue-Citizens Phone 1983. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. :• h ~ DOES IT .....-------- lB. WALTER & CO. M.nof"Mm"'o T ABLE SLIDES Exclusively WRITE FOR PRICES AND DISCOUNT WABASH INDIAN.A ~ ---- • • ~ I ~~fI~~~~~r We can help you. Time saved and when done I leavesare boundt Y(lUI- I ",If) and mdexed Hoot. or departments. ! BARLOW BROS.• Grand Rapids, Mich- I Write Right Now. ~.--------_. II I Wesl Side 36 Ineb Band Saw MaChine,l Gleason Palent Sectional Feed Roll, -=---"----MA"lUF/tCTQRED BY=~~~ WEST SIDE IRON WORKS CRAND RAPIDS, MICH., U. S. A. AGENTS: Chicago Machinery Exchange; Eby MachineryCo., 3:'-41 Main St .• SaD Francisco. I Cal.; H. W. Petrie, allffit for Cllllad~-o6icei., I Toronto. Montrealand Vanoollver. ~------------ --~ ---_._--."".--., ~--====-SEE===== West Michigan Machine & Tool Co" ltd. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. for "IG" GRADI: PlJNC"ES and DIES ~------- I...-- ---------~ WANTED I CABINET MAKERS; at least one who can do carving, MACHINE MEN. and CUTTER. STEADY WORK. Write O. W-. U-HR-ICH-,A-lcbi-son-, K-ans-as. I ... , .J h- _ •I , IMPROVED. EASY 'NO EL EVAT 0 RS I QUICK RAISINQ B~lt, Electric alld Hand Power. ! Thl! Best Hand Power for Furnitu. re Stores Selld for Catalogue and Pri~e5. KIMBAll BROS. CO., 1067 Ninth "C. Council Bluffs, la.! Kimball Elevator Co., 323Prosped St., Cleveland,O.; 10811lh St., Omaha, Neb,; l~ Cedar St •• New York City. 10---___ __ _ __ ..... 6 MICHIGAN ARTISAN LANDSCAPE ART INDOORS. Evergreens Now a Part of Decorative Schemes. Landscape gardening in city houes is no longer confinecl to the facade, stoop and vestibule. It has entered the houses and modern decorators rely on the assistance of growing green planb as well as all the colors on the vvaJls or in the hangings. The clusters of living leaves are often the dots on the i's in the decorative scheme of the room. That they are different from the greenery formerly used is apparent at a glanc.e. The day of the sheltering palm is past and the rubber plant, in spite of its immunity from steam heat and lack of air, is 110 longer seen even in that part of Flatbush, Brookl"·' that is in the know. Entrance Hall With a Summer Bower in White and Green. Plants for decoration indoors have followed the fashion of those formerly used only in the open. Closely cropped box, bay and arbor vitae are the varieties that appeal to the taste of the up to date decorator. Be no longer considers the pos-sibility of placi.ng a graceful young palm near a white carved Renaissance mantel even if a crimson tapestry forms a back-ground of complementary color for the plant. His bosom would swell with pride, however, ..v..c.re he to place a drawf laurel in a way that gave the necessary a,ccent to the picture. In a certain great hallway in a certain great house on the Hudson River the central points arc marked by four stand-ard bay trees that catch the eye and give the aspect a char-acter it would otherwise never possess. This hallway, which serves as a specie5 of gigantic living room, is not restful in line or color. It contains many pieces of furniture and they are of varied colors and sizes. This lack of dominating scheme is less noticeable because the four round halls of dark green bay form decorative points that set the eye at rest, at least more at rest tt~an it would otherwise be. This is the purpose of the dwarf bay trees, the box and the arboT vitae that come now in triangular, oval and natural shapes. In a yellow room with no dark tones beyond the furniture coverings and the rugs on the floor stand two massive pots ,painted in the prevaiHng tone of the room and ~ontail1ing ivy trained to grow in a triangular shape, The dark green Icaves flanking the open fireplace, which is never used but contains logs that nobody thinks of lighting, give point and contrast to the light colored room. A hallway in a house done throughout in a sha.de of rather cold gray welcomes the traveller that enters by the invita-tion to rest under a bower of ivy growing from a pot over a circular frame of lattice work, and two trim box plants stand at the ends of this indoor gardcn seat. For the sa,lne color scheme upstairs the gray walls and the white woodwork are relieved by green arbor vitae plants that stand in pots on the landings. A Pompeii<l-n room of too va.ried colors was found to need some sort of toning down. The decorator had so few hangings in the room that they could not be relied on to do that for the overcolored apartment. Four standards of bay, however, accomplished the purpose and the green fitted in well with the red and yellow color scheme. A dining room on Madison avenue w<:!s painted through the combined freakishness of the woman who owned the house and the decorator in a pale shade of green finished with gold. Proud. as she was of it in the beginning the green and goid got as much on the hostess"s nt'-rves after a while as it did on her guests.' That green was too insistent, but it was not possible in the middle of the season to do the room all ove,-. It was then that the decorator placed four pots O'f gl"owing wy about the walls. Each was trained on a heart shaped screen turned upside down. In the corners were f 0 U I" dwarf bay tree~. The effect had just the tone of subdued green that the hostess and the decorator had previous- I ly struggled for in vain. •( The paler green formed a beautiful b~ckground for the tree~ and the ivy drew out the pale green of the walls. F:.:>Ur pointed arbor vitae trees, trimmed so that their triangular shaped dsidhes wer.e1 flat 'Potted Cedars to GI.ve Color to Gray crnove t:- ,gans lness and WhIte Hall. from a dmmg room done in Delft blue, white and yellow. As the ceilillg.3 had painted rafters of the same color it was found that toning down was necessary, The foliage did it. Hallways large enough to have room for the tubs are now deliberately painted in colors that are suitable for the box or bay. One example of this kind of decoration is a hall panelled in white and carpeted in red. The wooden mantel is also painted white that it may SCl·ve a.s a background for the two beautiful grown standard bays that give the can. trasting touch of color. A particularly daring use of growing pbnts for the sake of added color was the work of a. decorator who finished a Pompian Dining Room; Plants In-dispensable Detail. ------------------------------ - 7 ~~_._---------- NIICUIGAN ARTISAN "GOING SOME" But whether going or coming, or staying at home, the young man with brains and ambition may take our course of practical Furniture Designing, that will be of inestimable value to him. Our course (which may be taken at home if desired) is thorough, embracing the the principles as laid down by all of the old masters and best authorities on furniture designing. The Grand Rapids School of Furniture Design ARTHUR KIRKPATRICK, Irntructor and Designer 542-545 Houseman Bldg., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. I I II I II ~----~---_. hallway in ·white and black and a small addition of lavender. It was not until he had put srna.ll arbor vitae trees in the hall that the color scheme had its just '\-'alue, Only the fact that the hall "\vas a flood of sunlight all day excused such a funereal color scheme, >'"hieh was relieved by the grmving green. "The demand for the greens in various geO-metrical [onns, ovals and similar designs, came froLl their suc-cess in beautifying the fronts of houses. De<::- orators saw how well they looked there and etermined to try the aesthetic effect of a transfer to the .interior of the hotlses. "The time was especially well suited to the introduc-tion of the new style, as palms 8.11d rubber plants had gone wholly out of fashiotl. "The dwarf plant!:. had already been grown for the \vindow decora-tiol15.. which are this year composed almost entirely of box, The regular design is a row of low plants with two at ea<:h end rising somewhat higher than the others. This is varied in some cases by having two box phlllts in the middle of the row as .vell as at the ends. "These same plants have been adopted now for indoor Use a,l1din addition to the box "ve have bay and arbor vitae as well as the ivy sta.ndards. "\Vc make them ill the design required by the decorator. In very fe\v cases are fancy pots used. vVe usually paint ordinary pots the required color and do the same \""ith the basins :n which they sit. Entrance Hall in White, Violet and Black, With Only Green Cedar to Vary This Scheme. Write tiS for full particull/rs. II: "vVhile these new greens are hardier than palms or ferns, they are not equal to the rubber plants of other days. Sometimes we rent the plants, gua.ranteeing to keep them in good condition. In any case we keep them under our care that they may not lose their freshness."-SUI1. @ * @ Why the Trust Plan Failed. Roger W. Butterfield, the president of the Grand Rapids Chair Company, has been interested in the furniture manu-iacturing business many years. His first savings acquired shortly after graduating from the law department of the 1lichigan University. amounting to $500.00 was invested in the stock of a furniture manufacturing company, and he has long held stock in the Grand Rapids Chair Company and the \Viddicomb Furniture Company. In a reminiscent mood re-cently he recalled the effort of the late Charles R. Flint to organize a trust to control the manufacture of furniture in the United States. AIr. Flint ca.me to Grand Rapids and tendered Air. Butterfield a retailler after stating briefly the object of his visit. lIT. Butterfield stated that his firm re-presented a number of furniture manufacturing corporations and asked for time in which to consult his clients. A hurried investigation of the affairs of the local manufacturing cor-porations Mr. Flint had proposed to include in the trust showed an aggregate indebtedness of $600,000. Under the trust plan this indebtedness would be increased $l~OOO,OOaOnd upon the: whole it was proposed to provide for the payment of an annual interest of six per cent. The business of the interests illvo1ved was not paying six per cent and Mr. Butterfield was unable to see how it would be able to do so with an addition of $1,000,000 to the indebtedness. E. H. Foote of the Grand Rapids Chair Company de-clared that the trust would kill Grand Rapids as a furniture center; that the business would be conducted in New York and that a considerable number of the factories would be closed for all time. !vlr. Butterfield advised his clients to reject the plan, vl-·bich was [l1lally done through the refusal of the Grand Rapids Chair Company a.nd the ~riddi<:omb Furniture Com-pany to enter the combination. @ * @ The holding of the Yukon exposition in Seattle next sum-mer will call for considerable outlays for furniture to accom-modate the many thousands of visitors who wi-ll attend it. 8 MICHIGAN ARTISAN Table Legs and Pedestals Round. Square. Octagon or any Polygonal Shape •II tI Turned on the Mattison Leg Machine at a fral;:\ioD at what it costs by hand. Every pie<:c COlJles out smooth, true and exac.dyalike in me and shape, no maller how deJicate Ihe pattern. c.n It is sold on the condition that if after it has been lun in yOUI own facIDry. you do not find it to .be'tn every way as repre$ented. we will lake it bade and pay (r~ht chafge3both waY8~ f1/ Belter send for a copy of our large circular and let us tell you what the mac~~~ wil(~o'~ryou. C. Mattison MatIUne Works ________ . . 863 5th S-t..,.cB. eloit;Wi.e. -' __ -: . Factory Dining Rooms. During the exposition season the manufacturers outside of the local business center of the city serve meals to the buyers who may be in the warerooms at the noon hour. All of these factories arc located within fifteen minutes ride of the leading hotds, and in other furniture centers would be considered within easy walkh1g distance, but in Grand Rapids the time of the buyer is considered valuable, and by providing carriages, automobiles and dinners the manufacturers enable him to utilize every minute at no expense to himself. A locat newspaper described the factory dining rOoms in detail re-cently. from which the following is condensed: Among the elaborate factory dining rooms of the city is that of the Grand Rapids Chair company, with its massive oak furnishings, which are changed every year, That is to say, the chairs, buffet, china cabinet, etc., a.re changed. The dining room table is 8!1 feet in diameter, its size having re-quired that it be practically built in the dining room. It is a large round oak table, and brings forcibly to memory, as 16 or 18 of the factory's customers congregate around it for the noon, refreshment, the tales of King Arthur's famed round table. Over this ele.gant table. at the Chair company hangs a beautiful large canopy lamp of many colored glass, some three and a half feet square, while the walls are delica.tely tinted as far as the moulding and prettily papered above that. In the room is also a.11exquisitely finished buffet and a china cabinet to match the mission style of the rest of the furniture. On the walls are mugs and steins of various ages and degrees of beauty. Like the other lunch rooms. the cooking in this cosy room is dOlle entirely with electricity in the most up-to-date manner, by a young lady. At the LUl:e Furniture company's plant the lunch room, to put it in the society editor's langua.ge is "a perfect dear of a little room." It combines that so often forgotten ele-ment of extreme coziness that seems to welcome every comer and bids him partake of the refrcshment there offered, both solid and liqUefacient. For it must not be forgotten that each of these lunch rooms also has a modern buffet. The Luce uining room is a small denlike affair, finished in oak. It's very size, however, adds to its charm and makes of it <t' cosy little lounging roOHl as wel( as a mere eating place. ,It has seating capacit.y for about eight hungry buyers at a time, but feeding capacity for all the furniture men in town. The kitchen is larger than some of the others and modern in every respect, while a colored chef presides at chafing dish and oven. The walls arc handsomely oak paneled to within two feet of the ceiling, exquisite china-ware decorating the walls from the top of the paneling to the ceiling. Four beautifully shaded lamps hang from the ·ceiling on heavy chain. pendants, and the furniture is oak and of a most pronounced mission style. making in all a lunch room calculated to delight the heart of a discriminating c1ub-mao. .. Perhaps the most pretentious dining room of all the factories, and that which lays most claim to beillg a dining room as compared to a lunch ro.om, is· the tang dining hall of the Michigan Chair comp;lllY. Here the kitchen ap-proaches that of a hotel in size, and the service is of the best. The long hall will accommodate a large number of customers, and the furniture is picked from the best designs of the factory. A feature of this room is the art work on the walls, which shows rare ta.'He in the selection, and ranges from famous paintings to popular subjects. One piece 011 which the company prides itself is a panoramic view of Niagara Falls taken in one eight-foot photograph, one of the only three extant. The long table when set will accommodate 25 or 30 din-ers, and tbe company keeps a colored chef in tbe kitchen all day, from 8 in the morning until 6 at night, to serve light lunches and drinks. Stickley Brothers' dining room will seat from 15 to 22 around its large round mission table, and is finished in oak and German tiling, with electric lamps hanging from the ceiling. and heavy curtains in the windows .. Two colored chefs are here employed to keep down the hunger of the buyers. The C. S. Paine company feeds its visitors in its office, having a table set apart for that purpose, and hiring a young woman to preside in the kitchen during the noon hour. Here, of course, where the preparations are not so elaborate, mere-ly a light buffet luncheon is served. Berkey & Gay have fitted up their cosy little dining room with one of their own Flemish oak dining suites, the chairs of which are high-backed and elegantly hand carved. The table is a long narrow one seating over a dozen people, and the kitchen, as in all the dining rooms, is operated by elec-tricity and modern in every respect. The Sligh Furniture cornapny conducts its lunch room on a somewhat different plan in combining with it a reading and lounging r00m. The room is paneled in mahogany and oak. and the furniture is massive and after the mission style. In one corner is a large lounging davenport, in another a writ-ing desk and a few easy chairs, and against one wall is a reading table littered with furniture and ~ther magazines, In the center is the large round dining table. The Sligh plant, like most of the others, serves just the noon meal, but the dining room is open to tired buyers for a few min-utes of lounging and smoking at ail hours. - • I- . GRAND RAPIOSc.Oc...•....MICHIGAN MICHIGAN ARTISAN 9 .,;..----------------------------------., I I,,II The mark if ~~o:n:~~! your Engraving and Printing bears the same relation to quality as TiJfan] tojewelry, Rogers on cutlery, or Sterling on silver. Every furniture catalog plannc=d and executed by us last season has been ca.lked about-In a. class by themsehres-Something better-Something new. The finest equipped plant in existf!IlCe doing Engraving, Printing and Binding under one roof and managemmt Write us at once about your requirements, and allow us to suggest improvements~and to quote you. Drop down to our plant when in Grand Rapids. It win be to your, interest, THE CARGILL COMPANY (GRAND RAPIDS ENGRAVING COMPANY) Wealthy Avenue. just west of Division Street, Grand Rapids Michigan. r'"------_--._------------------------~------------ • VVood I I, Forming I' , I I We offer exceptional valne in Rev~~et~n~rs II One-Way Cutters for Single and Double Spin- I' dIe Shapers. Largest lists with lowest prices. Greatest variety to select from. Book free. I I Address I I!SAMUEL J. SHIMER& SONS! MILTON. PENNSYLVANIA, U. S. A. I ~....---------- ------" ..----- i SfiIiIiIiIiIi/iJ I II Spiral Grooved and Bevel Pointe~ DOWEL PINS I ---------------- . Notehow the glue in the SPiral Groove forms Thread like it; Screw. Be... el Pointe". easy to drh'8. Straight 50 will not split the frames. Prices and discounts. on application. ,I --------- STEPHs~~~y~EN~C.~O~.,~.I .._-- ----"'" ROLLS The "RELIABLE" Kind. THE FEllWOCK AUTO & MFG. CO. EVANSVILLE, IND. II I,!! II :, , j 10 MICHIGAN ARTISAN STYLE LOUIS XVI. By A. Kirkpatrick, Director Grand Rapids School of Furniture Designing. The people were so disgusted with the pomp and ex-travagance of the Louis XV period and the shameful misuse of the money that it caused them to revolt, and a new phil-osophy bega.n to make itself felt. It wa.s quiet evident to them that the system of government was WI"Ong and that they should have more power in the af-iairs of statE:, Louis XVI, a nlaTI of good in-tentions, but weak in character, suc-ceeded his grand-father, Louis XV, and was crowned king of France in 1774 under dis-couraging and ominous circum-stances. He was ma.rried shortly before this to the young and beau-tiful Marie An-toinette, Arch-duchess of Aus-tria. He ruled for eighteen years, Arthur Kirkpatrick. and 'in 1792 was tr,ied for conspiracy and beheaded in 1793. The young queen preferred simplicity and truth to polite deceit, and her char-acter was one of the chief influences of the coming style. Gradually under the new rule, the architecture and furni-ture designs became more simple. Straight and geometri-catty curved lines took the place of the excessive curves used in the preceeding reign. In fact all kinds of decoration took a decided turn toward the Classical, which was partly due to the recent discoveries of Herculaneum and Pompeii. Their rich store of long hidden art treasurers offered many suggestions for the new style. Columns and pilasters with Roman capitals reappea,red in both architecture and furniture designs. Instead of the irregular panels of the Louis XV period, we find the rectan-gular and oval shaped panels surrounded by carved mould-ings., The corners of these panels formed an important part, and were generally of a geometric pattern, centered with a rosette, \\lreaths and festoons of delicately carved and undercut flowers draped and adorned the richly finished furn-iture, Chair and table legs tapered toward the feet and were either spiral or fluted. The flutings were often filled with a td-Teaf or husk patterll for some dista.nce down from the top or up from the base and sometimes from both top and base, leaving a plain fluted space in the centet'. Very often both the base and cap were richly ornamented. Much of the furn-iture was painted in delicate colors and decorated with gilded carvings and metal mounts of dainty bowknots of ribbon, bows and arrows, torches, clusters of war trophies and shields with wreaths of laurel leaves and roses. The Louis XVI scroll took thc form of the oval or ettipse instead of the ·circle as used by the Greeks. The decorations on the painted panels and the tapestry coverings seem to have been suggested by both the Grecian and Louis XV styles. The Greeks' used painted panels de-cora. ted with figures from mythoiogy and herding scen-es with half naked, hide clad sheperds as central figures, Th('. de-signers of the Louis XV time Ilsed nymphs. cupids and alle-gorical figures while those of the Louis XVI period retained l the light and dainty treatment of the previous reign, but used the Greek's suggestion as to subject, and placed figures of full dressed shepherds and shepherdesses in their scenes in the little bopeep effect. The leading designer of this period was Jean Henry Ries-ener, who was born in Gladback, Germany in 1735. When quite yOung, he went to Paris, and became an apprentice to the ebonist, Jean Francois OebeIl. and remained in his employ until the master's death. Riesener's work must have been an important part in the business because in 1767, Oeben's widow married the pupil, Riesener. It is not known just what pieces were designed by Gebcn and what by Ries-ener, because in many cases we find that they both worked on the same piece. The "Grand Bureau du Roi" was begun in the workshop of Oebcn in 1760 but was not finished until 1769, a little over two years after the death of Oeben, and was signed by Riesencr, who was noted for his fine mar-quetry work, inlaid in deep tones on mahogany .. His first work shows that he followed the ideas of Crescent and Coffein, but he soon changed his mode of omamentation and construction to meet the developments of a new line of taste which demanded a radical change from the happy rov-ing decoralion and curved outlines of the previous reigns. He became so proficient that his work was noticed and ad-mired by Marie Antoinette for whom he worked as chief designer and cabinet maker for twenty years. The Louis XVI style is considered one of the most refined of the period styles. The student should notice this difference that when a style is almost a copy of a classic period, it is an effort on the part of the people to apply an ancient design to a new character and mode of Jiving, but this ftyle will never be as strong and full of meaning as the style that is an out-growth of the period in which it was invented. The accompanying cut shows a number of examples of the Louis XVI style. Number 1 is a design of a bed, showing the straight, square construction, carved mouldings and fluted columns. The flutings are crosscd by a spiral shaped wreath and the post is crowned with a carved knob. The center-piece on the head of. the bed is a design of a carved torch and quiver with ribbons. On the whole this bed is an ex- ~ . Standard Uniform Colors I We are producing the standard uniform colors recently adopted by the Manufacturers' Association of Grand Rapids. These cQIQrs are produced with our Golden Oak -Oil StaiD No. 1909 and Filler No, 736. Earl,. Euli8h--Qil Stain No. 55 and Filler No. 36. Maholfany-Powder No. 9 and Fillet' No. 14. W~therod Oak-Oil Stain No. 281. Fumed Oak-Acid Stain No. 45- Place your orders with us and get the correct shades. GRAND RAPIDS WOOD FINISHING CO. S5-59 Ell-worth Ave., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. • ccllent example of the Louis XVI style. Example number 2 shows the Louis XVI treatment of the acanthus leaf in combination with mouldings. Figure 3 shows a number of carved mouldings with the finished ends_ and corners. Num-ber 4 is an example of an oval shaped shield in combination with the acanthus leaf and a laurel' festoon. Figure 5 is an example: of a shield with the upper corners terminating in ribbons and combined with mouldings and a wreath of roses and a spray of laurel. All of the effects on this plale are strong Louis. XVI features. @ * @ Revenge is sweet, when it isn't an instance of sour grapes. @ * @ It is better to swallow your pride than to chew the rag. ~1I CHI G A N ART I SAN ---------------_._---- --- 11 .._-----.., l EXAMPLES OF LOUIS XVI STYLE. 12 MICHIGAN ARTISAN T I --- ------------------------ Rotary Cut Drawer Bottoms Write us for Prices on in BASSWOOD, BIRCH, POPLAR or GUM Walter Clarh Veneer Company 535 Michigan Trust Building, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. BllRLAP DEMAND VERY DllLL • Lightweights Show Slight Improvement. Business in the burlap market continues very quiet, with little doi'ng on spot goods or for future delivery. Buyers are not inclined to purchase, as they have seen prices slowly de-cline, and goods purchased early in the week, lower before the week has dosed. No actual price. changes have been made in the open market, but buyers claim that were they willing to place fair-sized orders, concessions could be se-cured from sellers. Lightweight Calcutta goods have shown a slight improvement in the demand. and, as stocks are short, prices are being maintained on a firmer basis, Heavyweight goods are dull, however, and prices are weak. There is little doubt that buyers could pick up some very cheap sup-plies if they cared to operate in the market at the present time. The prices at which heavyweights stand today repre-sent less t)1an the landing cost of the goods, according to importers. Various reports have b~en received from Calcutta during the past few days. In most of the cables received, a better demand is reported for nearby shipments, with more buyers in the market. Some bullish reports have been put out on the slight improvement in Calcutta, but conservative houses in this market are of the opinion that there will not be any large movement in goods, and that prices will not show any marked a,dvances at an early date, South American buyers have been out of the market since last November so that no support is being received from that quarter. Buying for American account is not heavy, and will not, it is -believed, be sufficient to create any advances. The short-time schedule which went into effect last year in the Calcutta mills is still in force, but has not been sutli-dent to keep stock fro'm a,ccumulating. ]\,{any manufacturers wished to make a working schedule for all mills of four days a week, but, as some of the mills had orders booked ahead into June, they were not willing to adopt this schedule. The other mills decided that, as some plants were to rUn on practically a full schedule, they would also continue on the sa.me working time. As a result of this policy, stocks have continued to a.ccumulate in the Calcutta market. Toward the last of the ·week jute dropped sharply, going down as low as £13 175 6d per ton. Prices slowly regained some of the loss, however, and the market closed at £14 per ton. Reports from Cakutta st.:!.Tethat new hltC i" com-ing !n very slowly from th~ ,ariou5 districts, and the re.ceirts have. begun to fall off considerably. Importers here cla.im that if the mills would get together and agree to keep down the burlap production, the market would shortly right itseif. Under present conditions, very little of improvement is ex-pected in the next month or two. Cables from Dundee report the market there as dull at present. as some mills still have orders ahead sufficient to keep their plants in operation. Manufacturers of common goods are badly in need of orders, and efforts to get business are serving to keep prices on an ullcerta.in basis. Weakness in the raw material market has to be contended with, and it is proving a difficult matter for burlap manufacturers to hold prices all anything like a steady basis.-N. Y. Commer-cial. @ * @ Gum and Mahogany Dried- in Seven Days. The Hawks Furniture Company of Goshen, Ind., installed one of the Grand Rapids Veneer \\forks' dry kilns a few months ago, and as an experiment dried a lot of gum and a lot of mahogal1y, in seven days. In writing the Cable Piano Company in regard to their experiences with the. kiln:, the Hawks Company said: "Our foreman reports the lumber comes from the kiln in very much better condition than formerly (we have a series • • 1Lou{ebabn DESIGNS AND DETAILS OF FURNITURE 154 Livingston St. GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN Citizens' Telephone l'i02. of common-sense dry kilns, which have been in Use for twenty years and have done good service), it 'is very much softer and easier to work. We are very greatly pleased with the kiln, thus £ar, and certainly would consider no other, if we needed additional kiln capacity. We consider gum among the most difficult of all kinds of lumber to properly kiln-dry, and we cannot ask anything more successful in drying this lumber than the Grand Ra-pids Veneer V-lorks system. After we have become' more accustomed to handling it, we expect better results than the above, Of course you understand that we could have dried 1" in less time, the above figures being on the 2". For our own use we expect to dry all Ottr stock by the use of exha.ust steam only. From our experience, we think this a most remarkable process, and are glad to recommend it:' @ * @ The ideal man only ·exists in the mind of a woman before. she marries him. @ * @ The matt who is long-headed is seldom short-sighted. MICHIGAN ARTISAN RESAWINO BEFORE AND AFTER. 13 it i,:; piled for drying at all. This is, admittedly, the best There afe many interesting problems arising in connection ·way to treat any wood-resaw it while it is fresh. Yet it with the different practices in regard to resawing lumber involves extra handling; tha.t is, the handling of two boards for various pnrposes, To begin \vith, there is a fine theory, instead of one and the piling on the yards and the piling in well supported by good loglc, that the proper time aDd place kilns. And for this reason and other incidental troubles that to 1'e5a\',' lumber is at the saw mill immediately after it is ari"e, milln::en, as a rule, don't look with favor on the making made. That is, to resaw it green and then dry the thin of the thin stock. They prefer to make it thick and then re~ :.;to('k Yet, llotwith:.;b.nding this theory and all the good saw it when it is ready to use. logic supporting it, there is ri10re lumber rcsawed after dry- Not'withstanding- the fa.ults that develop from rcsawing ing it than before. Sometime,:,; there is one reason for this plain oak after it is dry, there is quite a lot of it done in and sometimes another. T 11 the manufacture at bevel siding certain branches of the work, one nota-ble example beillg in it is important to dry the lumber before resawing for the the mallufacture of thin oak flooring, both in regular tongue sake of getting it into condition to dress. It would be rather and groove strips a.nd in parquetry or square-edge strips. difficult to dres:, bevel siding after it has been resa\'"ed, and ?v10st manufacturers of this product which, as is.well,known, it would take twice the time as the regular v·,:ay of manll- requires exeellent material and fine workmanship, dry their facturing, w]:ere <~ board j.s dressed two sides 2nd t}len re- stock before resawing. Then, some resaw it in stock widths sawed, \vhich givb two pieces at weather boarding, wherea"i as it comes through the kiln, others rip it into flooring strips jf the resa wj(:g- were dOilC first the two piece." both have to of a variety of widths from J % up to 2% inches, or possibly be surfaced. 3 inches. and then resaw it on a small circular: or splitting In box factory "'iork, ..v..here th~re is more resawing done saw. In each c:u;e there is seemingly no difficulty of defects than anywhere else. prolnbly, opinions differ materially arising from the stock having been dried before rcsawing. about just when to do the rcsawing. Tt seems that the ma- It is dry, too, thoroughly dry. In fact, is made so dry that jority of box (actory stock is resa.wed after it is dry. S0111e- if, on being tested with samples by baking, a certain amount times a.fter it is dressed, also sometimes before, but generally of moisturc call be found in the lot. it is sent back to the always after it has been tl1rough the dry kiln or stood on the kiln. Of course, there is quite a difference between using yard untll thoroughly dried. There arc some notable ex- oak in narrow strips and in wide panels, and it is very likely ceptiorJs. Some Df tJie Jnost up-to-date box factorjes jn the th(\t if this stuff were so thoroughly dried and then resawed country rcOlaw their stock be (ore it goes to the dry kiln. for panels it would warp and check and develop objec:tion- Sometimes it is rcsawed as it is unloaded from tIle car .)nd ahle [eatllres, while in the'llarrow stt-ips of flooring it docs other times as it is taken from the yard, so there arc realty very well. different stages of dryness \vben it comes to the resav.r. Some Xow, right here develops. a peculia,r problem, and one that may be nearly green and other stock may be practically dry. some of these flooritlg l"l:.amtfacturers are wrestling with and All of it, however, is resawed before going to the dry kiln experimenting on right now. And that is whether stock; that to facilitate the drying. is, half-dry stock that has been air-dried for quite a while In the making of hardwood panel stock for furniture, de., and is ready to go in a kiln, can be resawed before putting recourse is frequently had to resav',lillg dry stock, as in oak. it through the kiln at the factory, or is it better in this case This is not always satisfactory, though, and sometimcs leads to hnish the drying before the resawing? It is admitted tl13t to trouhle thl"ongh warping-And checking. In fact .. ~() much if stock is resawed while it is green it can be put tJlroug-h trouble has developed frolll resawing'plain cak lumber after a dry kiln or dried in any other manner, and it will turu it is dried to get thin stock that the seC1'etary of the I-I<trd~:~,out all right. But some claim that if it has become, say wood Manufacturers' Association One time, after investiga-ting alld exan;ining some stock that had been sent to Eu- hair-seasoned, and is then resawed and put into the kiln. it rope, took trouble to warn all the members against this prac- will \-varp and check considerably. The theory is that the tl.ce and to ac1vI.se that where they wanted to rcsaw standard the outside is dried and there is still moisture OJ} the inside thickness in .oak to get thin panel stock they should do the and \-vhcn it is opened up by resawing there is an unbalanced resawing· while the stuff is green. Realty the bulk of the Cbjl~itiott in each half of the board that causes it to warp and thin oak panel stock, both in plain oak a,nd in quartered, is chcJ.:k in going through the kiln even if it takes longer, and cut to thickness either by resawing or by thin boards ori- thoroughly dry it clear thrOUgh before resawing.-St. Louis gillalJy as the stuff is' nJimtlfaetnred in tbe mills alld before Lumherman. .,.--------_._-- -------------- --_._-----------, The Universal Automatic cARVINa MACHINE l"ERFQRMS THE WORK OF ==== 25 HAND I CARVERS I Anddoes the Work Better than it can DeDone by Hand t MADE BY I Union fnuosslno M,(Hlnt (0. I IndianapoUa. India ..... Write for Inlormation, Price. Etc. - --- ----------- 14 MICHIGAN ARTISAN NO MORE HAND SANDING. sanding and polishing large flat surfaces as well as all ir-regular shaped pieces. The design and equipments of this new machine are such that aIr sanding is done strict1y~with the grain, in a practical and rapid manner, which are most valuable features and are advantages, which no other machine ever pos::;cssed. The upright portion of this machine carries. sand belts any width When This Machir.e Goes in, nor Disks, Drums or Spindles. After once going through the Wysong & ~'i1itesCO.'5 fac-tory where they make nothing but patented sand belt mach-ines, one would naturally think that it had been made possible to sand every piece in the construction of furniture regard-less of shape and with the grain by macuinery, avoiding hand sanding and cleaning, and to a great extent, this it true. The accompanying cut represents a new machine, which they have recently perfected, and in which all furniture, chair, piano and coffin manufacturers will be interested, as it has recently proven the greatest success in the sanding line for up to ten inches in width and can be thrown in any position in order to get at the work and for the convenience of the operator. The horizonaal side carries a sanc1 tJelt up to six inches in width and two men may work on this portion of the machine without conflicting and without interfering with the other half of the machine, on which a third operator may be at work. Sometimes as, many as {our men are found at r THE 6-FINISHES YOU-WANT I THE GRAND RAPIDS STANDARD SHADES , . ,III II ~IIC[lICAN WE HAVE GOLDEN OAK·--No. 1919 Stain and No. 1702 Filler. EARLY ENGUSH··.No. 1652 Stain and No. 506 Filler. WEATHERED OAK---No. 1649 S'.;n. ARTISAN 15 ----_.~ MATCHED THEM FUMED OAK •••No. 547·8 Sta;n. MAHOGANY ••·No. l017-D Stain and No. 29 FilIel". TOONA MAHOGANY -.No. 1658 S,";n and No. 1564 Fill .... NOTE: We will send you working samples with fun instructions for use. Also finished piece&which will show you the correct shades. Write for samples. II ~_._--- The Lawrence-McFadden Company PHILADELPHIA, PA. ._-----_._----------------------.1 work on this machine at one and tJ1C ~ame time without conflicting with each other. It is no longer necessary to do sanding by hand nor to contend with the old disks, drum or spindles; these methods were all right in their time, but their time bas passed, The sanding problem that may be costing manufacturers dollars daily, could be saved by the use of this new machine. One would be astonished in what a short time a manufacturer actually loses the cost of this machine withQut its services, therefore, with this data before your eyes and before laying it aside with good intention to investigate the matter later, do it now by ·writing the manufacturers for their catalog .E. The vVysong & 11ile5 Company, l\'Ianufacturers of patented sand belt machines and mortising machines, Gn"ensboro, N. C. @ * @ Piano Prizes Never Drawn. Y cars ago, it n~atters cot how many, when gift enterprises were more numerous Own temperaTlt:e dn1g stores, a pt·jze was given with every purchase. No cheap goods were car-ried in stock and the manager of the enterprise could \ve11 afford to distribute valuable prizes among the CllstOtnCiS. Envelopes containing $lips, upon which the number of gifts offered were written, were placed in a box, and when a cus-tomer had made a purcha~e he or she was allowed to draw one of the envelopes, open it and give orders for the delivery of tile prize. There were no blanks. Usually the main prize was a piano, but it was never drawn. Owing to this fact many people were impressed with the belief that the box did not contain an envelope ".·.i.th the number of the prize. The lucky number was in the box, but the envelope contain-ing it was laid flat in the hottom of the box., while those con-taining prizes of ordinary value \vere placed in the box in the usual way. The business was broken up by the legal authorities because it was considered a lottery. • Veneer Cutters in Buoyant Spirits. Reports from the veneer cutters indicate a lively season of tra,de. Kot only was the industry characterized by great activity dnring the closing months of the past year, but current demands call for the full operation of the plants. This is especially true of the mahogany branch. The im-port. atlons of mahogany the past year were unusually low causing a reduction in stocks on hand considerably because the demand for mahogany throughout the year was better, comparatively, than the demand for any other veneer. The mahogany people, therefore, feel that with the comparative .--._---------------_._---_.~ ! I i Crawfordsville. India.na. ~------------------:. Montgomery Uardwood Lumber Co. Manufacturers of all kinds of NATIVE FURNITURE LUMBER E. S. STERZIK. Prell. • scarcity of stock and the revival in furniture and cabinet work. which calls for more mahogany as welt as for more veneer, toat the mahogany trade has before it what wnI be the biggest and best year on record. Indeed, some of the mahogany people talked with are more enthusiastic over the outlook now than they cv'er have been over the mahogany business. @ * @ The Brower Studio. The Browers -(they might be called the two Johns. but J oho and "Jack" will answer the purpose)-have fitted up a very comfortable studio in the Shepa.rd building in front of the elevator. The Browers are artists of experience, and wilt be pleased to meet merchants needing designs for special pur-poses or decorations for interiors. A royal welcome awaits callers upOn the two J ohos. 16 MICHIGAN .II!!:STABLISH~P 1880 ,"U.L.lsrtIi:D IlIT MICHIGAN ARTISAN CO. ON THe: IOTIoj AND 25TH OF EACH MONTH OPFICt::-l0B,110.112 NORTH DIVISION ST., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. I!NTERlOD IN THE PDSTOFFICE ...r I3lll<ND RAPIDS, MICH" "8 SECOND CL...SS MATTER. The ever increasing scarcity of figured domestic wood has compelled manufacturers of furniture to use gum wood of the south more extensively year by year. Formerly it was not considered fit for use by cabinet rr.akers, but by thorouf{hly seasoning 3.11d quartering the timber it has been rendered quite tractable. The wood has many names, the states in which it grows contributing to the list. However Tupelo is generally consldered all approprlate and satisfadory name, and its general adoption will follow_ In addition to several latin names it is known as sltin vl"alnut, and Caucasian wal-nut, because it has he en the white man's burden and ever will be unless he has learned how to make it t:ike its proper place and stay there. 1Tr. Crissey 'of the Sta.r Furniture Company refused to adopt the title Caucasian walnut. "The wood does not grow in the Caucasus, it is oat walnut and the name docs not honestly designate the nature of the tim-ber." It may have occurred to !'vir. Crissey that to call the timber "white ma.n's ,valnut" would retard the sale of his goods in Porto Rico, the Phillippines aod other sections of the United States not inhabited to any considerable extent by white men. Of' Of' The furniture manufacturers of Grand Rapids are con-ducting their business on lines not far removed from that of the hotel keepers. Spacious rooms fitted up especially for the purpose in the factories are used for serving meals to sojourning buyers and a number have i.nc\.ltI"ed the ex-pense of fitting up very elaborate bedrooms. These are not as yet used for sleeping purposes, but as furnished they might be made ready for occupancy with very tittle expense. The manufacturers are noted for their hospitality and in the effort to please their guests it would not be surprising if the factory of the future (not far distant perhaps) were equipped with the necessary conveniences to entertain customers dur-ing their stay in the city without expense. "to "t" John Mowatt, the superintendellt of the Grand Rapids Chair Company, recently recalled the fact that thirty years ago, when furniture wa.'i sold and shipped unfinished, the 111anu{acturers, on account of their ability to turn over their capital every sixty days, realized brger profits than they do today. The delays, annoyances and losses attending the processes of finishing goods were sustained by the retailers. The goods were not well finished, the average retailer not having at his command the shop room and facilities deemed necessary hy the trade of today for finishing furniture as it should be. Mr. Mowatt recalled one firm which em-ployed $50,000' capital, realizing a profit of $85,000 on its out-put, of twelvE'. months, thirty years ago. "Arts and crafts is a. modification of the mission style," remarked a young man \\lho knows all about styles in furn-iture. "But" he added, "the mission cabinet work of today is so superior to that of the monkish workers in wood of past centuries, that they would be ashamed of their lack of skill if given an opportunity. to inspect a twentieth century sample of mission work. ARTISAN Beds of wood are steadily returning to the favor of the public. Brass and iron beds have had a long run, but the tall post and Napoleon styles in wood are stndily crowding the metal bed into the back ground. For hospitals, asylums and houses of detention the metal bed naturally is preferred, but so long as furniture is made of wood the beds of the saqtematerial should be considered the most desirable. "t" Sales of mahogany finished light arc not so strong as in the past. It may have had its day. @ * @ IDLE CARS INCREASE. Railway Association Reports 332,513 Now Out of Use on Various Lines. The largest increase in the number of idle cars which the ra.ilroadshave reported since tJ--:eturn in the tide of traffic which came last May, was revealed in the statement of the Committee on Car Efficiency of the American Railway Assoc-iation for the fortnight ended Jan. 6, made public yesterday, Dming the last week of December and the first week oJ January the number of idle cars increased by over 111,000 cars, bringing the total idle equipment in this country and Canada up to 332,513 cars. This is the largest .number of cars which have been re-ported idle since June 10, last. It is within about 80,000 of the number of cars reported idle on April 29, last, when the maximum was reached, but on that date there was also an ab-normal number of cars undergoing repairs estimated author-itatively at about 200;000 cars, making a total idle list of about 600,000 cars at that time. Kow. on the other hand, the num-her of shop cars is nearer normal, say about 100,000 cars, so that the actual number of idle cars is perhaps 175,000 less than it was at the end of last April. The let-up in traffic due to the holiday season is adva.nced as one of the factors which contributed to the large increase in idle cars at the close of last year and the beginning of this. Railroad men said yesterday that conditions have im-proved somewhat since the da.te of this report and that there are now fewer idle cars than there were on Jan. 6. @ * @ POE'S DESK UNEARTHED. Writing Case Once Used by the Poet Now in a Book Store. A desk that ':ias once owned by Edgar Allen Poe has been on exhibition for several days in the windows of a Wall Street book store. The desk is a small portable affair of a fashion long out of use.. It is neatly made of mahogany, wi.th brass mountings. That the desk was Poe's there is said to be no question, for its history has been carefully traced. The desk ,was for several years, after the poet's death, the property afMr,;. Clemm, Poe's mother-in-law. From her it passed into the hands of Amos Bardwell Bayvl'-ard, who, with his wife. were intimate friends of Mrs. Ctemm, The desk was sold for the first time at auction, with several other ar~ tides and books of Poe's, in this city on April 17, 1906. bringing about $100. In the desk originally was a volume of George P. ).1:orris's poems and ballads, a presentation from the author to Edgar Allan Poe, bearing 1\'lr. 'j,1:orris's autograph. This book was sold separately at the same time with the old desk, and brought $25, and eventually found its way into Henry "'tAr. Poor's library, which is nOw being sold a.t the Anderson book salesrooms. At the sale of the third p<trt of the Poor library last week this identical book was sold, with a few first editions of roe's works, but. following the vagarie& of book auction prices, only brought $6,~N.y, Times. @ * @.l Even the money stringency doesn't seem to interfere with the wages of sin. MICHIGAN ARTISAN 17 ...-- ------.... I I List of BuyersI Do you want it? List of Buyers ..----------------_ ..... IW~~~el 1 Do you want it? I R~,~e~'~a~c;:~f I II Ho::n~~:~~~nning water and long dia-tanee 'phone3 in all roomll. ! " 200 ,~=.100 m>h bath. Single or en suite. R ..tes$I·OO aad upwards I list of BuyersI l~~~~ -1 Do you want it? If so send in your order with 25 cents at once. List of Buyers Michigan Artisan CO. I . II D N. Division SI., Gra_n_d_R_a_pi_ds, Mich. 1I • ..-- ---------_._--_.--.., I WIlBN IN DBTROIT STOP ~T I~~~~~~I;;~~;~~ En the Centerof the Thealre. Shop~ I pini. and Busin&lS District. A Ja Cute Cafe Newest and Fine.t Grill I Roorn in the City. dubBreakfast _ ~ _ 40c up I Luncheon - - • • 50c I Tabk d'hote Dinners - 75c Music flom 6 P. M. 10 12 P. M. I I Every room haa II. privlJ.te bl\th. : EUROPEAN PLAN ! ' Ratell: $1.50 per day and up. .... I L. W. TULLER, Prop. M. A. SHAW, Me:1" ....---------------_._-_. r pai6r'S patRnt ijlUino ()JafflDS~ I - II I I i I I I ! I Mr. Manufacturer: Do yoU ever consider what joint gluing costs1 The separators and wooden wedges. if YOIl use them and man? do, life a large ilem of expense accounts; but this is Wl811oornpared 10 wage account. of workuren who wear !hem out with a hammer, and then a large per cenl <;If the joinb are failures by the irn;eeulity of this means. RESULT, it hll6 10 be doac Oller ae-ain, if posibJe. If you U!Ie independent ~crew clamps the result is better. but slower. allogether too slow. Let us tell you of i<Jmethini' betlec. PALMER'S CLAMPS. All 6ted a'nd iron. No wedges. no separalors~ adjust to any width. damp instantly Yet lIeClirely, rdeaaell even I faster. P06itively ODe-third more work with one·third leSi helP. In seven sizes up to 60 inches. any lhicknes! up to 2 inches, 200 facmes in 1906. Wby nol you in 1908;> Althoullh sold by dealers evel'Ywhere lei us $l!:DdyOU palbculat1. ft. E. Palffi6r & Sons, Owosso. MiGh. FORElGN AGENTS: Proietl& Co., LmJCJon.~, Schuchardt &: Schu\te., Berlin. German)'. ~ . 18 MICHIGAN ARTISAN • [ ROYAL WHITE MAPLE POLISHING VARNISH I White-the Emblem of Purity--our White Maple Polishing Varnish is Pure-and the WHITEST GOODS on the market. It dries to recoat every other day; can be rubbed and polished in four to five days. Ask (or testing sample. VARNISH COMPANY TOLEDO, OHIO • I l Golden Age of Varnish. Varnish may be said to have reached its golden age-its age of finest quality and supreme virtuc-:--whcn, after having been confined in the ageing tank by the maker and finally received by the- fmishcr and shelved for a time sufficient to settle it out and give it the proper degree of mellowness" it goes upon thc"surface rich in the elemental pro-perties that make it at once the most delicate and the most indispensable articles used 'iirf\hc economy of wood finishing. That a great quantity of varnish fmds consumption in the finishing shop 'which in no mentionable degree measures up to the above specifications goes without saying, and this fact contributes directly and substantiaJIy to the inferior re-sults credited in all quarters of the country to the finisher. Varnish should not be used-indeed, need not be used-until it approximates a fairly perfect article, if such a thing be possible,. even· in the advanced science of varnish making. The golden age of varnish, if we rightly understand it, is an age in its life before use when, like the butter from Orange County, it is "prime"-that is to say, of proper age and uniformly balanced throughout. In the matter of giving it age as well as in the science of 'imparting to the varnish all those qualities and functions vitally essential to its com-position, the varnish maker is, of course, responsible. For all of these things together with the cost of the raw mater-ial, the manufacturer is duly and, we may be sure, fairly rewarded. After reteption of the varinsh by the finisher, the golden age of the. preaious material is affected for good or ill, for better or for W;.:>'h5'e, :,t,.y the method of curing, housing and handling it practiced bY'.the user or craftsman in charge of it. If he places, ~tin stora,ge, as he avowedly should, upon shelf room half V\7;\ji'::' or more -between floor and ceiling in an apartment heated; when heat is required, to a standard tem-perature of 70 degrees Fahr., and is used directly from such shelves without chilling, shaking or mixing it, he should, other things. being equal, be able to get satisfactory results. It is scarcely necessary here to state that the most superb varnish-the varnish not only of the golden age, but of the priceless virtues-may, after having been groomed and fitted for the surface with consummate skill, be utterly ruined by rough usage, neglect of necessary precautions, or by mixing with another varnish. Varnish should not, like the unpalata-ble medicine, be' shaken up before use. There is sufficient temper in varnish to "stir' it up"-make it cantankerous, in fact-if gripped with two strong hands and shaken vigor-ously, as, some finishers have a habit of doing. And the mixing of varnish has, been denounced by the most competent authorities-the varnish - makers. It is a practice opposed to the chemical and scientific principles in-volved in the manufacture of varnish, and it introduces an element of uncertainty into the product with which, in this age of competition, no self-respecting finisher can afford to deal. If varnish has rea.ched its golden age, then, vedly, after all the care and coddling lavished Upon it, the surroundings in which it is flowed upon the surface should be of a char~ acter to assist directly in giving it a clean body and an un~ challenged lustre. At best, the v<lrnish room is hardly on a par with the character of the varnish used within it. Readers of this article may travel far and wide without, finding an adequately suitable varnish room-one in which all the conditions an perfected; Ventilation and light and cleanliness and heat are far too often neglected and obsolete factors, whereas the very opposite of all these should prevail, and in good truth must·prevail, if the golden age of varnish would be respec-ted and its highest development made secure. Certainly the· varnish maker has played well his partin the drama of varnish evolution, and the wonderfully fash-ioned material speaks eloquently of his attainments. It remains for the painter to play his part eqnally well, secur-ing so far as possible those conditions of greatest advantage to the development of varnish. Thus will its golden age prOve an imperishable age.-Ex. @ * @ Slow in Posting Tariffs. Some railroads have been unable to comply with an order issued last June by the interstate commission relative to the posting of ta,riffs, owing to their inability to obtain the tariffs of other lines in which they are participants, and to some extent, to complete all their own files owing to their supply of schedules having been exhausted. This matter having been brought to the attention of the commission, it has been ordere.d that any carrier requiring an extension of time, prior to Feb. 15; may file formal app(i-cation, but good cause must be shown for modification of the original order, au·d that it has been complied with in all other respects. The order is not to apply to express or shipping car companies that are amenable to the law, separate orders covering them having been iSStlCd. The commissioner does not favor an extension beyond July 1 next. @ * @ Screw Hole Plugs and Buttons. In addition to several patterns and sizes of spiral grooved and bevel pointed dowel pins, beaded legs and stretchers for chair makers, beaded and rope chair spindles, the Steph-enson l'vIanufacturing company, of South Bend, Ind., manu-facture screw hole plugs and buttons in many sizes and shapes. Thoroughly dry stock is used and the tenons are uniform in size and guaranteed to fit standard bits. Turned drawer stops and drawer pulls are important features of the company's manUfacture. MICHIGAN ENGRAVING CO., Grand Rapids, Mich.; ENCRAVERS BY ALL PROCESSES. MICHIGAN ARTISAN 19 1'\ G U M 0 R I E D F L A T "The Veneer \Vorks Process is the only system in our €x-pedenee that '''ill dry gum box boards without \'larping." JOI-:/N A. BAIN, Pres. Bajn Wagon Co., Dated 9-11-'08. 'Voodstock, Onto "\Ve consider gum among the most difficuIt of all kinds- of lumber to kiln dry, and we cannot ask i'wything more successful in drying this lumber Ulan the Gt-and Rapids Veneer \Vorks Pro-cess." HA,-VKS FCRNITURE CO.. Dated 9-15-'08. Goshen, Ind. By drying gum flat and plump we have given wood-workers an enormous supply of inexpensive raw material. Get your share of the resulting profit by installing a Veneer Works Dry Kiln Grand Rapids Veneer Worh.s GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. WHY THIS FIRM WON. Answered Questions Without Blowing Its Own Horn. Out in ~he middle west there is a huge manufacturing company, the largest in the world in that lilW, it is said, but it 'has numerous enterprising competitors, all of whom ad-vet'tise liberally. But this company advertises too, and for yea.rs its appro-priation has been made on an unusual plan. The rule gen-erally 'with such expenditures is to set aside a stated sUIll each ycar--sometimes all arb.itr<1ry amount, sometimes a per-centage of profits for the last twelvemonth. This concern, however, recognizes that publicity money is to be spent to influence next year's business-not last year's, So the gross amount of next year's trade is estimated as closely as possible, 311d then a certain percentage of that con-stitutes the advertising appropriation. Before the depression of 1907-08 developed, says the critic, this company's business had grown at such a rate that the annual percentage y.ielded more money than could be spent to advantage along the established lines of the hOllse. ,"l\"ow, had we better reduce our percentage;" asked the directors. "Or sball we seek new channels for spending the surplus of the same percentage? T i so, what channels are best?" They wanted information-honest advice. A dozen questions calculated to bring it out were drawn upatid submitted to every advertising tlrm in the country. Si:)lllC did not give any opinion. 1Iost of them replied, how-ever, and usually at considerable lcngth. Among the latter was just one, it is said, that gave fnll replies to the questions and said nothing about itself. Other advertising firms saw an opportunity to get profitable new business. They therefore gave full particulars about them-selves, and in some cases sent salesmen to see the manu-facturing concern's directors. A few were so intent on ex-plaining who they were that they neglected the (luestions. In the end it t\ras decided to spend the surplus, not reduce the percentage. The firm that said nothing about itself got the account. @ * @ Makes the Strong Man Wise. Genius, th;lt power which dnzzles mortal eyes, Is oft but perseverance in disguise. Continuous effort of itself implies, In !'ipite of countless falls, the pm",·er to rise. 'Twixt failure and success the print's so fine, 11en sometimes know not when they touch the line; Just \vllCtl the pearl is waiting one more pl1tllge. How many a struggler has thrown up the sponge! As the tide goes dear out, it comes clear in; In business 'tis at turns the wisest w.in; And, oh, how true when shades of doubt dismay, "'Tis often darkest just before the day." A little morc pcrsistallce, courage, vim, Success will dawn o'er failure's cloudy rim. Then take this honey ior the bitterest cup; Tllere is no failure save in giving up, 1\0 real fall as long as one still tries, For seeming set-backs make the strong man "\\'Ise, There'" no defeat in truth save from within; Unless you're beaten there, you're bound to ·win. @ * @ Varnish Specialties. The Acme \'Vhite Lead and Color \;Vorks of Detroit, Mich., are offering to the trade "three winners in varnisn." "Paradox rubbing," a high grade, quick rubbing varnish; "Furniture Coach," described as ';thc kind you will buy again," and "Ti-Ki Lac," '·'the best first and second coater," The varnish department of this organi;,:ation will furnish full information regarding these superior goods. 20 MICHIGAN An "Old Saw" -Amended. George Frederic Stratton, a writer for the Saturday Even-ing Post, proposes an amendment to the old saw, "Mon~y makes the mare go," or in language more ornate but seldom used by sensible people, "the coin of the realm induces the equine of the female gender to proceed." Mr. Stratton em-ploys a number of instances in the history of business to sup-port the amendment offered by himself, in which he declares that "man" in these buoyant and better days, "makes the mare go." In his presentation of the proposition Mr, ·Strat-ton recalls a once famous merchant, C. R .i\Jabley, of Detroit, now occupying his final home. th. Stratton discusses Mr. Mabley's venture in the furniture trade a.s follows: Twenty-five years Charles R. Mabley was known as the clothing king of the middle west. He hatf stores in Cleve-land, Toledo, Detroit, and one or two smaller towns. He was' a pioneer in sensational advertising methods, a splen-did business man, a.nd had made a fortune before he was forty. To employ some idle capital he dec.ided to exploit furniture, and stocked up an elaborate store with the finest line ever seen in Detroit. Eighteen months a.ftcrward he stretched a canvas across the front of that store, inscrihed in the following characteristic style: **************** I Know the Clothing Business Up and >I< * Down and Through the Middle, * * BUT * * I Don't Know a-'Blamed Thing About * * Furniture, and I'm Not Going to * * Sink Any More Money in * * Learning. * * This Entire Stock Will be Sold at Auc- * * tion, Commencing Next Monday and >I< * ContinUing Daily Until Even the Pack- * * ing Cascs are Closed Out! * *************** The stock was sold and the key turned in the lock, when a quiet, unassuming man from Kalamazoo came along amI ar-ranged to take the unexpired lease. He brought in a moder-ate stock of furniture, hired one of the fanner clerks and in-stalled his wife at the desk. In three years he was carrying as fine a stock as Mabley had carried, and doing a larJt.':, profitable business-a striking illustration, again, that the money is in the m.an rather than in the business. Mr, Stratton also gives a brief history of the development of the ferry and pleasure boat business in Detroit, one of the best paying enterprises in the middle west. No one paying a visit to Detroit in the summer time fails to take one of the pleasure steamers to Belle Isle Park, Grosse Isle, Sandwich or Walkerville and return. It is a delightful experience. Mr. Stratton proceeds as follows: "At about the same per-iod in the history of Detroit the ferryboats running across to the Canadian town of \Vindsor were owned by an English-man named Horn, who also ran a somewhat noted saloon on the wharf, The boats were tw~ in number, small side-wheelers, unattractive and uncomfortable, with twelve-inch plank seats affixed to the sides and in odd corneTS. As the boats were proving unprofitable, Horn, after trying for two years to sell out, declared that he would take them--off the tun and surrender his franchise. His eldest son who had been a lake tug-captain for two or three years, ca~e home at the close of navigation and persuaded his fa.ther to put in more money and build a new boat. The old man consented only when his son, who was his idol, agreed to stay at home and manage the line. The boat was built from the young captain's plans, and nearly paid for itself in the first season. "The upper deck was absolutely dear from stem to stern with the exception of the cased-in smokestack. On the deck were seats for four hundred people, everyone being a com- ARTISAN fortable rocker or folding armchair. Not a plank scat or campstool -was allowed on that boat. "The regular ferry fare was five cents, and Captain Horn issued ten-cent return tickets which gave the privilege of staying on board as long as one wished. Every :fine after-noon, from early summer tmtil la,te fall, that upper deck was filled with women who brought their sewing or their books, and often their babies in carriages-for which no extra charge was made-and rode back and forth on the mile run across the beautiful river. A man was stationed at the stair-case to run those baby~carriages up and down. In the even-ings the boat was crowded with young people, enjoying, for ten cents, a river ride lasting until eleven o'clock. "Two hundred and fifty passengers was the afternoon av-erage, and twice that number for the evenings. The income, at ten cents each,' was dear profit, for the regular ferry pas-sengers and teams paid the expenses. The young captain had seen what no other man had then seen, that the combina-tion of ferry business with excursions had splendid possibili-ties. "During the five following years four new boats of the same type ,,,ere added, and there was scarcely a day through the summer when one Or two of them were not chartered for all-day picnics. The type of boat which Captain Horn d~- signed a11dhis method of managing them are in USe today by the company which succeeded him, and which owns the finest fleet of local excursion steamers on the Great Lakes," Two brothers, partners in the insurance business in Buf-falo, had advanced some money to a manufacturer of bed-springs. The business went wrong and, in order to pro-tcct themselves, the insurance men had to take it Over and dose it 11p. One of the brothers handled the matter, and, although he knew so little of manufacturing that, as he said, a "line shaff' and a "buzz saw" were synOnomOllS terms to him, before he had proceeded far with the closing-up proce".,; he told his brother that be thought he would try a little build-ing- up. He hired a good shop foreman and devoted himself to the office work, with the result that in a few months he was making some ,veIl-advised changes and improvements in his equipment. And the business was gratifyingly successful from that time on. ' @ * @ Grand Ra.pids will rank hereafter as the leading market in upholstered furniture. In addition to the seven strong local lines, there will be found on sale in January the 'best products of the best upholsterers in New York, Brooklyn, Milwaukee, Toledo, Jamestown and other furniture centers. In the number and the quality of lines exhibited Grand Rap-ids will be pre-eminent hereafter. " ALHOlCOM5&CO@ MANUFACTURERS 1')'10 DEALERS IN HIGH GRADE BAND AND SCROLL SA~S REFAmING-5ATI5fACTION GUARANTEED CITIZE:NSPHONE.1239 27 N MARKE:T Sf ~. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. II MICHTGAN j\RTISAN 21 ------._------_. -------------~ Cabinet Makers In these days of close competition, need the best possible equipment, and this they can have in BARNES' == HAND and FOOT POWER === MACHINERY Send for Our New Catalogue. w. P. & John Barnes Co. -------------,---------- II I ___ , -1 .!.. ---------------~ MANUFACTURERS OF II HARDWOOD VLUENMEBEERRS&. IIIII I• SPECIALTIES: ~1.'Y!fETIQUAR. OAK VENEERS MAHOGANY VENEERS HOFFMAN BROTHERS COMPANY 804 W. MaiR St., FORT WAYNE, INDIANA ....-_. ----'" I I I Morton House: ! (AmericanPlan) Rates $2.50 and Up. ! I ff 0!u~'!Plan)~~n/!d.~!!: I I GRAND RAPIDS. MICH. I : I I J. BOYD PANTLIND, Prop. .--------,--------------~I I....._-----------,-------' OUr'New Hand and Foot Power Circular Saw No.4. The sllOllpest, most powerful, and in every way the best ma~hitle of its Jdn.d ever made, for lipping, cross--cutting, bonng and grOOVlIlg. The Noon Dinner Served at the Pal:1t~ndfor 506 is THE FINEST IN THE WORLD . ------.... These saws are t made from No. 1 I Steel and we war-l rant every blade.! We also carry a full stock of Bev- t eled Back. Scroll I' Saws, any length and gauge. I-----'"I '''rUe us for Price List aud dlHOunt 31-33 S. FRONT ST". GRAND RAPIDS ~~------------------- MACHINE. KNIVES , PROMPT SERVICE I AS,SOLUTE GUARANTEE I I• PERFECT QUALITY RIGHT PRICES Dado or Grooving Heads. Miter Machines. UniVIt'rsa1 :WoodTrimmers. Borlng Machines. Et,.;:. 22 - - -- -- ------------ MICHIGAN ARTISAN • ALL OF THE ABOVE MACHINES ARE IN FINE ORDER. C. C. WORMER MACHINERY CO., 98 Woodbridge St.! Defroif, Mich. "Clement" Double End Tenoning Machine. "Clement" No, 4 ~. 30 Incb Cabinet Planer, "Berlin" Cabinet Makers Double Cut-off Saw. "Royal Invincible" 36 Inch Triple Drum Sander, "Invincible" 36 Inch Triple Drum Sander. "Fay" 24 Incb Drum Sander! mg~f:te'{s,AND "Clement" Double Bell Sand Belt Macbine. "Fay" . Two SpJndle Dowel Borer, LABOR LAW VIOLATIONS ON DECLINE. Employment of Children Falls off 21 Per Cent. Alba.ny, Jan. 19-That he is fair to both sides in the en-forcement of the state labor laws, is the statement made by John 'Villiams, state commissioner of labor, in his annual report to the legislature. During the year ending Sept. 30, 1908, there were 50,396 regular inspections as compared with 46,816 in 1907. Persecutions for violation of the law in5titu-tued during the year numbered 743, showing a greater, ac-tivity in connection with prosecutions than in any other corresponding period in the history of the department. "There is no disposition on our part," says the report, ;;to extend unduly the rigid requirements of our statutes; on the other hand, we are not allowing the question of the money cost of an improvement to outweigh the right of men, women and children whose conditions of employment arc affected by the eviJ of danger to be remedied. In other words we conceive it to be our duty to administer the factory laws so as to ac-complish the end sought in their enactment, namely: to safe-guard the moral and physical welfare of all factory employes. Every other interest must be subordinate to that central thought, \\'here there is room for an honcst diffcrence of opinion we seek the fullest measure of information obtain-able, recognized the right of progressive manufacturers to be heard and. that it would be against public policy to unduly hamper the development of industry." Upon the departments orders 1,633 children found iilegally employed were discharged. In 414 cases employers were prosecnted for such illegal employment. The falling off in child labor generally from the figures of 1907 was 21 pcr cent while illegal child labor fell off 34 pet ceni. The commission reports serions difficulty, however, in en-forcing the law in the canning industry (fruit and vegetables). Prosecutions in this industry for a number of glaring viola-tions of the law relating to "V omen and children proved "al-most a waste of time," says the commissioner, owing either to the local prejudice of court or jury in favor of the canner, or to the effect of the opinion of former Attorney-General Mayer, that the employment of young children in "sheds" connected with canneries is not illegal. The last legislature established a state official known as medical inspector of factories. and, his efforts the past year were mainly devoted to determining conditKllls as to venti-lation in various factories by measurement of the proportion of carbonic acid gas in the air. In" all 430 tests of air in 136 different workrooms were made. Twelve parts of carbonic acid gas in 10,000 volumes of air is regarded as the maxi-mum if air is to be wholesome for breathing. Btlt a ta.bula-tion of the medical inspector's tests shows proportions fre-quently two or three times greater than this, and in some cases five or six times grea.ter. The· commis'sibncr urges the need of a ventilating engineer to supplement the work of the medical inspector. @ * @ Some Generations Hence. "Why are the trees all chopped away?" The little fellow said: "vVhy do the streams go dry "...hiJe sunshine's bea.ting over-head?" His father said: "It is because the 111mbermen sO gay Each had an ax to grind and WelS a cutup in his way!" @ * @ To Manufacture Musical Instruments. The Greene Music company was organized recently at Somerville, N. J., by Arthur H. Greene and others for the' purpose of engaging in the manufacture of pianos and organS: The company's capital is $10.000. IY; y;1 BARRETT'S PRIME SHELLAC VARNISH I y; 1!:Fi y; made from strictly pure Shellac Gum cut in Specially Denatured or y; y; Wood Alcohol. The results of 25 years' experience in the importa- y; tion of gums, in the use of solvents, and in the manufacture of varnish y; embodied in "Barrett's Prime." Ask for samples and prices. !:fi Y; y;1 M. L. BARRETT &. CO., y; !:Fi 219 LAKE ST•• CHICAGO MICHIGAN ARTISAN r,-.-.---------------·-------- II 23 THIS MACHINE MAKES THE MONEY It makes a perfect imitation of any open grain because it uses the wood itself to print from, and one operator and a couple of boys can do more work with it than a dozen men with any other 50-called machine or pads on the market. That's Why It's a Money Maker. It Imitates Perfectly. 50 Machines Sold last Year 50 More Satisfied Manufacturers Plain or Quartered Oak, Mahogany, Walnut. Elm. Aah or any other wood with open grain. Posselius Bros. Furniture Manufacturing Co. For Prices and Full Particulars. Mention the Mic::higanArtisan. Write the Detroit, Mich. Questions of Importance. Is it prolltable ior U1C owner of a [neto!"y "\viLh a capa,city amounting to $150,000 per annum to make a diversil1ed line? \i\,Tbat importance is bis .competition ..v..ith a line of 200 pieces against a ma,llufactueer with a capacity of $500,000 per annum, making a line of 1,000 pieces? If a manufacturer of a divcrsitlccl line offers to the COll-sideration of buyers thirty patterns of dressers, 110W much trade should he reasonn,hly ex.pect \vben a competitor plac:es on the market ninety dressers equally as "\-"ell made and with a greater variety of styles? \Vould it be profitable for the o\vner of a moderate: sized factory to operate the same in the production of a line of dressers of a single style-say sixty patterns of colonial dressers and chiffoniers, or tall post bcdsteads? Kat m(lny years ago "Ed" 1torley gained his 110m de plume. "carload," hy selling the products of a factory locatcd in Rochester, N. Y" making chamber suites in one style. A factory in Memphis, Tenn" earned a Jot of profit for its o"vncr, '.vhen it was operated in the production of a single C,heap dresser. It suited the requiremcnts of a certain c1a~~s of trade, which bought it in carload lots. A few years ago a manufacturer located in Chicago, man-ufactured music cabinets in one pattern and sold them in thousand lots. The profits he gained v,'ere squandered in the wheat pit and caused his r('tircment from tIle furnitun', busi-ness. The above facts suggest that small the manufacturer call-- not operatc profitably in th~ pt'odtlcing of extensive lines, ;wet that, as in other branches of business, the hig fellow has de-cided ndvantagcs when he enters the markets. @ * @ Not Considered Suitable for Crating. Clarence R. Hills, the well known dcsig'llCl" of furniture recalls a trip he made through tltC southern states a few 1 years ago when his attention was called to gum or Tupelo lumber. "It was not considered fit for crating," Mr. Hills ex-plained, "and was sold so cheap tbat it was hardly worth while for any olle to handle it. During the past two years it has been used moderately by the furniture makers of the northern states for drawee work and cheap furniture, but whjje the lumber is very handsome, the trade has not taken it up with confidence. Two years ago I made the design for a fine dining room suite in Tupelo 'for a prominent man-tliadurec, but after it had been made ready for the market he did not have confidence in the wood that would .varrant his offering it to the-trade. ';\\lith a solution of the problem of properly drying the lumber Mr. Hills predicts that there would be a growing demand for Tupelo furniture, @ * @) It Will Always he a Sheraton. Charley \Vcst, of Des 1\1nines, Iowa, ~topped in his tour through one of the big furniture exhibition buildings in GnUlc1 Rapids to admire a chamber suite,. constructed in the style of ShCl'atoll. "\Vhen I move to my new store I shall buy a Sheraton suite. r shall not carc whether I find a buyer for it or not for I admire Sheraton. If it fails to sell T shall have the pleasure of looking at it frequently, It will :dways ha\'e the expressjon of Sheraton and if it should stay in the store ten years it will never become (t, sticker in my mind. It will always please me, because I shall never Jose my love for the art of Sheraton. @ * @ The maturing of plans for the erection of additional furn-iture cxpo,sition buildings iJ1 Gr<lIld Rapids annoy the ma.na-gel's of exposition enterprises in otber furnitttr'e centers, The drift toward Grand Rapids is steadily growing stronger and the prestige gained gives the Michigan city the leading posi-tion in the marketing of furniture. 24 MICHIGAN A TAME LION. An Experience of the New Man. Whew! \-Vhat do you know about this? Left Abbington late last night, and say I was scared stiff when I hit that town-so stiff my hair broke when I took my hat off. I won't need a haircut for six weeks. They all told me what a terrible man that big merchant was, and I was some ·worried when I found myself on the depot platform. Right ahead pf me I could see a big store and across the front of that store I could see the sign: *********** * * JAMES Q. PEERS. ********* ** I looked about for some other store to tackle first, but didn't see any. I wanted to get limbered up before I went into action with a terror, But there was nothing to do but buck Up. trust in providence and shut my eyes. \rVhen I got to the door I set my grips down and wiped my perspiring forehead. I was cold and clammy, all right. Finally I mustered up what I have always referred to as my courage and walked inside. It was a big store and no mis· take, and there were not very many people in just then. Fact is, I was hoping there'd be a few, so I could have a dis-traction for the old gentleman if he should get too much enraged and try to chew my ear off. I looked around cau-tiously. There he stood talking to a farmer's wife. He was not very tall, but qf good heft-had shoulders like the circus strong man. His hair was grizzled; his beard was heavy and unkempt. His eyes looked out from under his shaggy brows, and it seetnedto me that they shot fire and that his nostrils dilated as he got a scent that reminded him of a sales-man. The evening before, some of the choice spirits on the roa,d, that I met on the train, had regaled me with tales of what this particular town held in store for me. They had told me of one fellow that had been thrown out bodily, another that had been kicked out and of still another who had run for his life. I took it all with a little salt, of course, because I thought they'd try to get me scared. In spite of the sodium chloride they had succe.eded very well, though. After a while the farmeress moved on and I felt those cold, sharp eyes hit me like a dipperful of icy water. I of-fered up four silent but earnest prayers, and faltered for-ward. "What'll ye have?"- he growled, sizing me up, I thought, ferociously, picking out the places where a crack with a wagon spoke would hurt worst; I managed to stammer out that I was traveling for The House, and that I thought maybe he'd be in line for some goods. Before I could say any more, he snapped his teeth and told me gruffly to come baek again at 1 o'clock, when there wouldn't be anybody around. I thanked him and told him I'd be there. But, honest, I didn't intend to show up. I thought, what's the use of tempt-ing fate. Pm out and still sound in wind and limb. Will I go back? Not on your tintype! I found two more stores in town and got one for a,n order, but not a very big one. As noon passed I got more and more anxious. Should I at' should I not? At last, I worked myself up to hero size and went back atld walked in just as the clock struck one, He looked up from the paper he was reading, and grunted. "Thought you wasn't eomin' back," he said, "Why, I said I would, didn't I?" "Yes, you said it, but you didn't look it." That seemed so mild that I started in about some of thr. goods, and to keep my upper lip stiff, I opened Up, keeping l ARTISAN up a shower of gab all the time for fear I'd lose my nerve and bolt for it. He sat still, eyeing me and never said .a word till I ran down, Then he shrugged his shoulders and said: "Set down." There was a chair there and I sat down, waiting for the torture to commence. i<Got yer pencil an' paper ready?" he snarled. In a daze I produced 'em. Then he reeled off one of the best orders I've taken yet. I wrote and wrote and wrote, and finally he snapped out that that was all. I scrambled to my feet, packed my grips and started out. He called out to me before I got to the door. "Come back here, you," and back I went, «Hev a seegar," he said, producing a black one about :) foot long. I took it and poked it into the corner of my mouth. "What's the matter with ye?" he queried. i<Takill' down with grip? You look sorter peekish. Got any quinine:" I found my tongue again after a while and told him I was all right and thanked him for the order.' He showed all his teeth and he had two httndred, it looked bke. "Some of the fresh guys must a been stttffin' ye about me," he hazarded. I acknowledged that he was correct. "Come on back on' set awhile an' I'll ten ye how about," he volunteered, so we squatted by the side of the stove and he told me. He said that about four years before a real sassy drummer marched into his store when it was full of customers. It was a busy time and he had just stocked up pretty heavily. Be-sides which he had the toothache combined with a dose of cramps and one of his feet had chilblains. A smooth chap had worked a bogus dollar on him the day before, and the house this man traveled for had loaded him up with goods he could not sell. The j'drummcr" stayed by him and would not take no for an answer, and at last, in desperation, he had ordered him out of the store, emphasizing what he said with violent gestures. And that story had grown and grown until it was the side of the mountain back of us. That and his surly appearanc~. He felt sort of bad about it, he said. Said his neighbors knew he was good at heart and that he wouldn't hurt a living soul. Declared that, while his looks were fierce, he wasn't altogether to blame, but he said that, while he didn't minJ cutting the wing feathers of a few of the real sassy boys, he felt it wasn't hardly right to have that kind of a reptttatiol1, and when he saw I was ready to dodge every time he moved he decided to set himself right for once. The old man had a streak of humor in him somewhere, or he remarked that the situation was not without his compensation sometimes Why, before I got through there, he was calling me Bob and I was calling him Jim. Went out for supperl "supper," mind you. this time, and We had a regular love feast. He is all right, is Jim, and he told me never to pass him out. W-~ cottoned to each other from the word go. On the train out I met up with another traveler. He grinned when he saw me and asked me what I got. I told him offhand that I 'got a good order out of Jim. He grinnect and said I was a cheerful one, but he was glad to see me still ut1crippled. I had an impulse to show him the order, but on second thoughts I didn't. It isn't good policy and besides why not have Jim keep his reputation? Won't the boys at The House open their peepers when they see that order, though I Well, I've learned one lesson, and thafs not to believ~ everything I hear. Also, I l1ave discovered that retail mer-chants <'Iregood hearted folk:s down at the bottom. Further_ more, I am convinced that freshness does not pay a knight of the grip. Two more towns and then I'm headed for home and, it seems to me, a few words of commendation from the Big Noise of The House.-The Oregon Tradesman. MICHIGAN ARTISAN 25 .- ------ ---., ...------------- -----., ~~!~;;}!¥!.1~~:~~\!I;~lc~~S. They cut a clean perfect joint always. Never burn ow-ing to the gradual clearance (made this way only by us), require little grinding, saving time and cutters. No time wasted setting up and cost no more than other makes. Try a pair anrl be CQnBinced. Catalogue 1',To.10 and ]J'rices on aplJliration. I I M02~~~~w~2eq.?Ch~g~8NS, ! .._------ ------- ---_... 1,1,-----~ 10 SPINDLE MACHINE ALSO MADE \VlTH 12, 15,20 AND 2ii SPINDLES. DODDS' NEW DOVETAILING GEAR MACIiINE This little machine has clone more to perfect the nrawer work of furniture manufacturers than anything else in the funliture trade. For fifteen years it hllS made perfect-filting-, vermin-proof, dove-tailed stock a possibility. This has been accomplished at reduced cost, as the machill~ cuts dove-tails in gangs or from 9 to 24 at one operation. ALEXANDER DODDS. Grand Rapids. Michigan. Reprelented by Scbuchart & Scbulte, at Berlin, Vienna .....Stockholm and St. Petersbu~. Representative by Alfred H. Schutte at Cologne, I:5russels,Liege, Paris, Milan /lnd Bilboa. Represented in Great Bntian and Ireland by the Oliver Machinery Ca" F. S. TbompsOD, Mil'" 201.203 DeallSi3te. Maneld:er, Endand. B0YNT0N ex. C0. Manufadurenof Embosl~d and I Turned Mould- ;.g., Embo.~ I ed and Spindle Carvinh, and Automatic Turnina-I. We also manu-fadure a latlle line I of Emboued f Ot._me.'. £ot I Couch Work. ,• 419-421 W. fifteenth St., C"ICAGO.ILL "Rotary Style" lor Drop Ca.rvlngs. Embossed Mouldlnp. Panels. l\lacblnes for aU purpose~. aud at prices within the reach of 1111. Every machine has OQI' guarantee p.galnst breakage lor one year. "LRteral Style" for large eupaclty heavy Carvlo&"s and Deep Emt...osslngs. We have the Machine YOU ''lillot at II satisfactory prl~e. Write for deiWriptive circulars. Al80 make dles fof' all makes 01 Ma.- ('bloes. UNION EMBOSSING M4C"INE CO.. Indianapolis. Ind. 26 MICHIGAN ARTISAN U you do not know the "Oliver" wood working ·Iools, you ·had' beller give us your address and have us tell you all ahouttheQl. We make nothing but Quality tools, the first coSt 01 which is considerable, but which will make more profit lor each dollar invested than any 01 the cheap machines flood. ing the counlry. Oliver Tools "OLIVER" No. 16. Band Saw 36 1nclJe•• Made with oJ without IJlOIor drive Meta I !able 36"x 3{)'1. 'Will take 18" uDder t be aeride- tilb 45 delUees one way and 7 ~ ,he oIher way. Car. Res a saw up tQ 1Mil w .... O....,. ...... to Iowel whed dNJi: w~ bOt motor dmren. Weidm 1600lb- wRen ready 10 ship. II!II•• "Oliver' New Variety Saw Table No. 11. Will lake a saw up to 20' diameter. Arbor belt 'is 0' wide. Send for Catalog "8" fordata on Hand Jointera. Saw Tables, Wood Lathes, Sanders. Tenoners. Martisers, Trimmers, Grindera. Work Benchea, Vises, Ciampa, Glue Heater ... etc., etc. OLIVER MACHINERY CO. Worn and GeDel'alOffice. at 1 to 51 Clancy St. GRAND RAPIDS. MICH., U. S. A. BRANCH OFFICES -Oliver Mllcrunery Co'l Hudson Terminal. 50 ChurehSt .• New York. Oli"eF Machinery Co .• Finll: NaliQUai Banlt Building. Chicago, 111.;OIM Machiery Co.' , Pacific Building. Seat11e. Wuh.; Olive!" Machinery Co .201-203 Deanqate, Manchester. En~: The Grand ~apids Shades. Since the adoption by the 'Grand Rapids Furniture Manu-facturers' Association of certain fixed standa.rds of shades it has becn developed that this action did not bring out any new shade. It simply fixed upon one shade in each of the various finishes which are in popular use and demand today. vVhen the adopted shades had been given out the ~arietta Paint & Color company, of Madetta, Ohio, who daim sUIHcm-aey in the making of wood stains, found that it was not necessary to change its sh;ldcs to meet the new order. This company's shades have been correct at all times. Two of the most popular of the Marietta stains arc the Fumed Oak and Early English. The Fumed Oak is an acid stain, and contrary to other stains of this character it will stain red oak as well as white oak, making it possible for the manu-facturer to produce a finish on a piece of furniture, such as a chair, for illustration, where sometimes both red and white oak is used in the same piece, and still get a perfectly uni-form color. This stain raises the grain so little, and pene-trates so deepl).., that the work can be sanded perfectly smooth without. cutting through the stain. It is made to produce the gre~nish brown tint adopted at Grand Rapids, while it is allO,\lla.de to match any special shade desired. To the manufacturers using a fuming chamber this stain will be a revelation. Another stain made by the Marietta Paint & Color com-pany that meets the requirements of the discriminating man-ufacturer is its Early English, and those who have not yet been in touch with the adopted shade can put themselves right by securing a small sample from this house. vVith the :\1arietta Early EngliSh stain you can get results without the nece!isity of glazing_ @ * @ Death of Jacob Van Putten. Early io January the furniture trade suffered an HTe-paT-able loss by the death of Hon. Jacob Van Putten, president Save Labor Time of Tempers .. Cost of the Holland (Mkh.,) Furniture company. Mr. Van Putten had been engaged in the business of manufacturing furniture more tha,n ten years and was noted for his strict integrity, his enterprise and a kindly disposition exercised toward all. During his life he served the people of Holland a!i ppstmaster, mayor, police commissioner and school trustee, and in all his public acts he was ever guided by lofty principles. Possessed of excellent judgment, fairness and kindly consideration for men not so menta.lly strong as himself, he was ever a leader in his community and a tower of strength in civic righteous-ness. His funeral was largely attended. @ * @ His Thirteenth Year. William S. Findlatcx, a pra.ctical wood finisher, but lor many years engaged in selling supplies for the finishing room, has renewed his contract with the Adams & Elting company for the thirteenth time. Me Findl~ter is widely and favor-ably known but his acquaint,ances are'·m.ost intimate in the states of Michigal1. and vVisconsin., JJe has aided materially in developing the business of the Adab1's & Elting company by the employment of legitimate practices in salesmanship. @ * @ Why Does a Hen Cross the Street? In answer to· the CJuery: "How can you tell a female chicken from a. male when newly hatched?" a farmer says: "Place a lighted lamp on a table, also some bread crumbs, and if he eats it it is a male; -if she eats it, it is a female." The same farmer being asked how to tell a bad egg says: "\\Then you want to tell a bad egg, break it gently_" @ * @ Finance. "1 have some money, but 1 don't know whether to buy a home or an automobile." "1 na,,'e itl Buy the home and mort-gage it to get the machine. Then you will have both. MICHIGAN ARTISAN 27 fII III.uTWO WINNERS IN VARNISH This is the verdict of the furniture manufacturer who KNOWS THE EMBLEM OF SUPERIORITY Paradox Rubbing Is the best high-grade, quick-rubbing varnish ever produced. every day and last coat rubbed safely in three days. Can be re-coated Ti- Ki- Lac Is our high-grade first or second coat varnish. Dries hard night. Last coat can be rubbed in twenty-four hours. to sandpaper over The man who KNOWS is the man who WINS II I VARNISH DEPARTMENT, Acme White Lead and DETROIT, MICHIGAN Color Works a.-- ~--_- .......----------.-----------------..1. Siberian Timber Supply. The aCCOllllt of the foresb of the A1TlltTregion and the prospects of their commerc.i.al devC'1opment is of, substantial interest. as the 'world isnow beginning to realize the threat-ened inadequacy of its' timber supply, and to take careful stock of the chief productive areas remaining. C0l11parati\,'c1r little attention has so far been paid to the utiliztltioll oi the forests in lhc Russian far east, though concessions lwve been sporadically worked, and· an Australian and a Briti:,sh com-pany have lately b~cn included .1l11011g those which have ac-quired concessions from the Russian Goverllrnent. Accord-ing to the estimate of the forest department, the Amur and maritime provinces contain 509,000,000 acres of forest land: It lS by ]10 means so densely timbered, however, as the for-ests of ),Jotth America, Both hard and soft woods arc founel in considerable variety; the latter include ,,,,hite cedar, pine, larch, nr, and spruce, a.nd the fonner walnut. ash, and oak. The right to cut timber on a large scale may he obtained either by 'way of conee:,ssion for a ter111 of years or by con-tract. Recent concessiol1s have been granted for a term of four years only (this being the maximum that the governor-genera! can accord), with all extra year for taking a·way the timber felled. Though this period ean be extended on appli-catioo, yet it .is gCllel'ally recogniz('d that it is too short, and efforts, ,,,,hieh appear likely to prove successfuL arc llfnV being made to have the regulations on the subject altered and a longer term allmvcd. Areas whieh the (;'ov<.:rnme111 de-sires to sell aTe from time to time put up to auction either at Vladivostok or at Khabaro"sk, the terms and conditions heing published beforehand. They are adjudged to the highe!it bidder, who is reqnired to pay down the equivalent of the royalty tOT one year on the number of trees put up 10 ;1l1ctioll. a certain portion of the forest being a.llotted for each year of the cuneney of the tigreement. J\iforeover. in the c.ase of felling rights obtuinecl by al1l~tioll as well as those obtained in the form of a concession. some money deposit 'will gener· ally be insisted upon, Felling tickets may also be obtained from tl,C loc;1I officials: giving the right to cut small quanti-ties of tjmber on payment of the GovernmQ:nt royalty, At present the Russian authorities insert a clause in all contracts stipulating that Russian labor shall alone be em~ ployed. As they are actively encoura.ging immigration, how-' ever, the resultant hindrance to industry may be expected to <liminish. The report includes full schedules of the rov-alty levied on timber of different classes and ill the differe;1t areas. It also describes the existing facilities for transport and :,sbipping, \-vhich are still in a predominantly undeveloped state, Other miscellaneolls information includes the terms of the forest regulations and the scale of export duty, There is also an outline 1ll<lp, @ * @ Sure. His proper place. Ts on the shelf \i\Tho only lives To doubt himself. @ * @ A Unique Work Record. A mannfacturing concern in which only one-half of the employes ,\"ork in the day time ba,s a 24-hour clock in the timeke~pcrs' office, hy ·which the work record is noted. The business day begins at 1 o'clock in the morning,' and when other clocks indicate midnight this factory timepiece shows that it is 24 o'clock. The men who go to work at the time ordinarily known as 6 p. In., arc recorded as having started at 18 o'clock. The people in charge of the work say that this chang0. in the timekeeping method has prevented many e1rots, an<l although it took the men a little while to become accus-tomed to it they now sveak of 14 o'clock and 16 o'clock in a matter of fact way and without the smile which this at fjr~t provoked. 28 • MICHIGAN ARTISAN ------_._--------------_._--~ l-._:.-. • ~ •II ~nCHIGAl\ ARTISAN II I~_._-_._-----_. ..----~---------_._--_._-----------....,• PITTSBURGH PLATE GLASS COMPANY LARGEST .JOBeERS ANO MANUFACTURERS OF GLASS IN THE WORLD· Mirrors, Bent Glass, leaded Arl 6lass, Ornamental Figured Glass, Polished and Rough Plale Glass, Window Glass WIRE GLASS Plale Glass for Shelyes, Desks and Tables Tops, Carrara Glass more beaulifulthan white marble. CENERAL DiSTRIBUTORS OF PATTON'S SUN PROO-=-PAINTS. fJ For anything in Builders' Glass. or anything in Paints, Varnishes, Brushes or Painters' Sundries, addre55 any of our branch warehouses, a list of which is given below: NEW YORK-Hudson a.DdVandam Sts. BOSTON-41-49 Sudbury St •• 1.9 Bowker St. CHICAGO - 442 ..452 Wabaah Ave. CINCINNATI-Broadway and Court 8ts. ST. LOUIS-Cor'. Tenth and Spruce 8ts. MINNEAPOLIS-SOO~S16 S. Third St. D&TROrr-53.S9 Larned St., E. GRAND RAPIDS, M]CH.-39~41 N. Division St. I PITTSaURGH-lOt-I03 Wood St. MILWAUKEE, WIS.-492·494 Market St. ROCH E.STER.. N. y. -Wilder Bldli.•Ma.inGlExchange Sta. BALTIMORE-310-12~14 w. Pratt -St.----------------------------- CL~VELAND-1430-1434 West Third St. OWAHA-IIOI-]IO"l Howard St. ST· PAUL-4S9-461 Jackson St. ATLANTA. GA.-30-32-34 S. Pr~or St. SAVANNAH. GA·-"I45~749 Wheaton .st. KANSAS CITY -P'lfth and Wy ..ndott. 51s. BIRMINGHAM. ALA.-2nd Ave. and 19th St. BUFFALO, N. Y.-372-74-16.78 Pearl St. BROOKLYN-63S-631 Fulton St. PHILADE.LPHIA-Pltcalrn Bldg•• Arch and 11th St•. DAVENPORT-410-416 Scott St. rII --_._------ --~ I OFFICES: CINCINNATI-Piekel'ina Building. NEW YORK--346 Broadwa.y. BOSTON-~I8 Tremont St. CIUCAGG)~-134Van Buren St. GRAND RAPIDS--Houseman Bldg. JAMESTOWN. N. Y.--Cha.d ..koln Bldg. HIGH POINT. N. C.--Stanton~Weh;:h Block. The most satisfactory and up-to-date Credit Service covering the FURNITURE, CARPET, COFFIN and ALLIED LINES. The most accurate and reliable Reference Book Published. Originators of the "'Tracer and Clearing House S)'siem:' --- ----- ---- ------------- CollectionService Unsurpassed-Send for Book of Red Drafts. H. J. DANHOF. Michigan Manager. 347-348 Houeetnal:l SuUdin,. Grand Rapids, Mich. ~_._---_._-------------- r-------------·-----------------· ---..,. I THE CREDIT BUREAU OF THE FURNITURE TRADE Grand Rapids Office, 412-413 Houseman c. C. NEVERS, Manager CLAPPERTON &: OWEN, Counsel •I Bldg. The LYON Agency THE STANDARD REFERENCE BOOK CAPITAL, CREDIT AND PAY RATINGS CLEARING HOUSE OF TRADE EXPERIENCE THE MOST RELIABLE CREDIT REPORTS COLLECTIONS MADE EVERYWHERE PROMPTLY-REUABLY Furniture ROBERT P. LYON, General Manager CREDITS and COLLECTIONS 29 30 MICHIGAN ARTISAN "ere are the Exact Shades Adopted by the Qran~ Rapi~s furniture Manufacturers' Ass'n II III !I IIIIIII I IIL.~_. ~-,--____ Their "Golden Oak Oil Stain" is our No. 3424. Their "Early English Stain" is our No. 3425 Oil Stain. Their "Weathered Oak Stain" is our No. 3426 Oil Stain. Their "fumed Oak" is our No. 3427 New Process fuming Liquid. Their "Light Mahogany Stain" is our No. 3428 Dry Mahogany Stain soluble in water. Their" Dark Mahogany Stain" is our No. 3429 Dry Mahogany Stain soluble in water. Send for Samples and Information. WE SUPPLY EVERYTtllNG NEEDED IN Ttlf fll\llStlll\lG ROOM. NEW YORK THE AC-EL..-ITE F'EOF'L.E HE BUYS A NEW CLOCK. And Shows what False Economy It Was to Keep the Old One. "At last," said Mr. Quillback) "we have bought a new clock, and goodness knows we needed it. "The old clock was a small, round, nickel plated time-keeper that we had had for some years, and in the course of time-as alas! all clock owners do too---it began to show signs of wear. But we hated to go to the expense of a new clock as long as we could make that one do, so we kept it, shaking her up 'most every day for something like a year until finally it got to be so tiresome that we mustered up courage and bought a new clock. Then I did a little figuring. In the course of a year T had spent an average of five minutes a day shaking up that old clock on, say, 300 days, ma.king, to save the cost of a· new clock, a gross total of time spent amounting to 1,500 minutes. You divide th·s by 60 and you find that I had spent in shaking that blessed old clock a little matter of twenty-five hoursl "Kow, in the way of income, you know, I don't pretend to class up with the Rockefellers and Carnegies and that sort of folks, but figuring my earning capacity on the modest basis of 50 cents an hour I find that I have spent in shaking up that miserable old ticker time worth $12.50. The new dock cost 69 cents! "Of course buying the new. clock when we did instead of a year sooner we !>avcd the wear on it during tha.t period, and if we count the life of such a clock at say ten years we find that we have thus saved about seven cents worth of wear on the new clock, amI this, properly. of course, should be deducted from the $12.50, but even at that on the best sho ..v-ing possible we find that to save 69 cents we have met with a. net loss of $12.43, to say llOthing of the wear and tear on us caused by the aggravation of having to shake the old clock up every day to make it go! "VIle had been, as in so many ways we are prone to be, penny wise and pound foolish, but we arc learning wisdom and we haven't got to shake the old clock up any more, any-way. -"-Sun. @) * @) Six Indispensable Finishes. The Lawrence-McFadden Company, of Philadelphia, ad-dresses the trade on another page of this issue, calling at-tention to the following stains: Go!den oak, Early English, weathered aRk, fumed oak, mahogany and toona mahogany. The company sends working samples, with full instructions for use, also finished pieces which show the correct shades. Samples will be J)romptly furnished on application. It may be superfluous to remark that the Lawrence-McFadden com-pany is one of the best known and most popular manufactur-ers of wood finishing goods in the whole country. and whose superb product is backed uP, by a corps of most capable and energetic, salesmen. The effect, quality and prices of the Lawrence-::\lcFadden goods should enter into the calculations of furniture manufacturers generally in settling their finishing room problems; @ * @ Glassware Smashin g at Funerals. A custom which would improve the condition of the glass industry if it were more widely adopted prevails among the natives of a certain district in \VestAfrica. When a chief dies, his neighbors meet at his palace and partake of a fun-eral feast served in the deceased monarch's bowls and dishes. At the end of the meal the presiding chief rises and, raising his stick high above his head, with one gre<tt stroke smashes to fragments the glass bowl and other dishes before him. This is the 5ignal. The chiefs a11 rise, and with their sticks destroy all that remains of the dead man's glass and crock-ery. • MICHIGAN ARTISAN 31 r USEfUL TOOLS fORWOODWORKINGPUNTS :::::::::.~.:::::: •.:::':::: -----l I Black Bros. Single Chzt.inClamp. Black Bros. Double Chain Clamp or Ven~er Pre ... Black Brol. Column Clamp. BlkCk Bros. Power Veneer Pren. Ih . _ Up·to.Date Cabinet Clamp. -------..--_.. ------_ ... New and Practical Methods. There is a general current of unrest among woodworkers who are keenly watchful for new and practical methods to take them <:\'\vayfrom the beaten paths of their forefathers. The demand for better machines~bettcr tools or applia.llces is greater tOd4}' than it has ever been. Desiring to assist any worthy ambition. it has ahv<tys been the practice o[ this paper to sbO\v neVI' ideas, from tirne to time, in the hope of being of greater service to its readers. To this end we herewith illustratc and describe the Shimer Blac.k BrQa. Piline: Clamp •. Full information can be had regarding the ab01.'eand o[ltermoney making tools. AddreM BLACK BROS. MACHINERY CO, Ninth Ave. and Fourth St .• MENDOTA. ILL. Illustrations and prices furnished. ers, which fit s11ugly 111 grooves made in the cylinder, enab-ling the blades to withstand th~ strains to which they are subject during operation. The knife holders are made of tool steel and form part of the chip-break, which when worn or injmed may be replaced without discarding the cutter head or causing delay and inconvenience. These blade's cylinders have superior advantages in point of simplicity, durability and efficiency. The blades may be kept in good working shape ··with less grinding, less trouble in -setting .a.net fastening to the hea.d, They are also less It I,I II1 I blade's cylinder, ;'L practical tool for surfacing, heading and ~icling, lately put on the market by Samuel J. Shimcr & Sons, iHiltOll, Penllsylvania. This ne\",· cylinder provides for the use of tllin blades of high specd steel, which when properly temperee! and treated serve for one or two days of work on hard maple, oak or hickory. Knives made of this material in tbe old, heavy slotted fashion w01l1d be too costly to use owing to the tlrst cost of the steel a,nd the trouble in working it, yet the ex-pense for the thill blades docs not exceed that of thc ordin-ary machine knife. By rderence to the illustration it will he noticed that the thin blades of this head are rc-inforced by special knife hold-liable to get oHt of balance, owing to the lighter weight of the knives used. The ease by which the chip-breakers can be renewed, and the absolute securit.y of the thin blades when re-inforced with the holding clamps, ,together with the many other advantages vdlich will be apparent to the wide awake woodworker, makes it seem certain that this is going to be a favorite tool wher-ever good work is desired. Further information can be secured from the makers, who \vill gladly rnail their latest book of cylinders to anyone making the request. Address Samuel J Sbimer & Sons, Mil, tOll, Pellllsylv<:lnia. - - -- --------------- 32 MICHIGAN ARTISAN ARTISTIC andINEXPENSIVE CATALOGUE COVERS LET US FIGURE ON YOUR PHOTOGRAPHING ENGRAVING and PRINTING at Right Prices PROMPT DELIVERIES COMPLETE CATALOGS PERFECT-WORK MICHIGAN ENGRAVING CO. GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN MICHIGAl\' ARTISAN 33 r------'-- IBIRD'lri{YELMAPLE ( Made and dried right, and white. Samples furnished on application.) 500,000 ft. 1-20 inch Quarter Sawed Oak carried in stock, Come in and see it. Birch and Poplar cross banding and rotary cut Oak. Birch, Maple. Basswood. Poplar and Gnm Drawer Bottoms, PROMPT DELIVERY. ALL PRIME STOCK. FIGURED WOODS. MAHOGANY. WALNUT. QTR. SAWED OAK. BIRCH. I IHEN R~__l!!SCllNg.!T..I?~o~'P,y'.~,E!:E:IRe 0J MAY CUT DUTY ON FILES, S. M. Nicholson, Head of Largest File Company, Reluctant Witness, Admits Goods Sell Cheaper Abroad-Imports $80,000, Consumption $7,000,000. Material reduction in the duty 011 files seems certain if the trend of sentiment of the ''''ays and means committee of the house really was displayed ill \Vashington 011 J~lIl. 15. Only one "\vitness was examined Samuel 1\1. KicholsOll, president of the Nicholson File Co., of Providence, R 1. This concern is creditpd with $4,000,- 000 of the $7,000,00

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