Weekly Artisan; 1909-08-07

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Issue of a furniture trade magazine published weekly in Grand Rapids, Mich, starting in 1879. and GRAND RAPIDS. MICH.• AUGUST 7. 1909 THROW OUT. ALL Disk, Drum, and Spindle Sanders are money wasters. There IS not a piece 01 sandmg that our Patented Sand Belts will not Polish Better and Faster 400 machmes already m operation. Why ~1Veyour competitor an advantage over you m thIs department? WIll sand and pohsh flat surfaces, all irregular work in your sandmg department. Ask for cat-alog E. PATI<N fED Januar) 12th 1907 '\lay 17th 190~ "0\ ember 14th 19m Febt nary Bth 1906 October 2nd 1906 Best Truch.-- The Strongest TrucK WYSONG & MILES COMPANY, Cedar St. and Sou. R. R., GREENSBORO, N. C. ~~i'cThe ....._------------~/~ No 171 Sand Belt Machme This is the famous Gillette Roller Bearing Factory Truck---the truck on which it is said, "One man can move a load if 3000 pounds while with the other trucks it takes three men." This is the truck that is strong where others are weak---the truck that has an unhreakable malleable iron fork. This is the truck YOU are looking for if you wish to invest in rather than waste money on factory trucks. Gillette Roller Bearing CO. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. I The Lightest Running, I Longest Lasting Truck A BIT OF INDUSTRIAL HISTORY Are You Running an 1860 or a 1910 Plant? In 1860 cottonseed removed from the boIl by gInnIng was gal bage-thrown away. By 1870 gInners managed to conVInce some people that cottonseed was good fertilIzer. By 1880 It was consIdered good cattle food and In 1890 It ""as beIng used as a table food. By not utlhzlllg all tlIe cottonseed 1I1 1900 (one ) ear) twenty-sIx mIllIon dollars that someone could ha\e had, ""as thro""n away The CIty of Gla'go\\. Scotland, gets 9,000 horse-power every day-free - by catchIng and utIi-lZlng furnace gases formerly"" asted The steel corporatIOn will lIght the town of Gary, Ind , and run all street cars wIth energy that would otherwise be \\ asted and belched out of furnace stacks JJetrolt" Keturn 1 rap PATENTED If you use steam for heatlllg and dryIng and you allow any conden~atlon to go to waste-you are losing money. Put all your condensatIOn back Into the boIler ""Ithout pumpIng-and hotter than a pump \\Ith lIft-wIth "DETROIT " Automatic- Return Steam Traps -~~-_.._-~ IItt IIII I II f III I It , I,tt ,IIIIIII I I I I,I f It I Ii I:II :I II II .. Manufactured and Guaranteed by General OffIces AMERICAN BWWlR COMPANY DETROIT, "SIROCCO" MIGH. KADE MARK ------------_._----- -------_._--- SLIDING SHOE FOR USE ON DESK LEGS This shoe does t be work of a casttr 3' et allows tbe desk legs to set close to floor. Fastened wltb flat bead wood screw and furut"hed In tbree sIzes SEND FOR SAMPLES AND PRICES II IIIII .. . .. ... . No 1493 PULL A very fine handle for desks in tbe square effect. Somethmg different from the regular bar pulls. GRAND RAPIDS BRASS CO. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Works' DETROIT, MICH and TROY, N Y ·" PUBLIC LIBRA~y ", ._----_._.._.--_..---._- _.._._. _._-------. A Perfect Case Construction Makes the Strongest Most Economical and Most Accurate It ISentIrely Automatic It Clamps MortIses and Releases, Completing the Post m Less TIme Than the Matenal can be Clamped on Other Machmes Case Construction Write for Calalog J I Possible IIII II •I I&.'---------- Write for Catalog J No. 181 MULTIPLE SQUARE CHISEL MORTISER. Wysong & lliles Co., CedarSt.andSou.R.R., Greensboro, N. C. ! .....I ._-_.._.-_.._- ------------ -------------_. --------------------~II ,t'"---- IIIII I aran~ Ra~i~srurniture Manufadurers'Association "ere are the Exact Shades adopted by the 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 MahoganyStain soluble in water. Send for Samples and Information. WE SUPPLY EVERYTmNGNEEDEDIN THE fiNISHING ROOM. NEW YORK THE AO-EL-ITE PEOPLE 60_. ••••• ••• •• ••••• • • ••• •• ---.--- ..I. THIS IS THE MACHINE That Brinl!s letters Like the Followinl!: ,-- -----------------_._----------, BUSS NEW No.4 CABINET PLANER Holland, Mlcl1. We wish to comrlimen JOe.. on t'1.e WOl".I{lpgor our nail #4 Planer Ju.s If'stall d fer us nis machine does "he bes~ wo"'k of an; pl<.llle'" e have eve'" seen. ana we ure f a lk to sa so mut"h be"t"'l" thall e axpec ad, tnw.t OtL""forelllar solid ile simplJ co.tld not get. along Ithout. it,and wag sU!'e 1'[,woulo paJ he price of 1tself v l1,h '1. a yeoll" 1'1 or'k »a ad on maC'11neSf'ollolV1ng Wishing JOu dElse ved success witn. th1S 'leT pdttern. va relll<..ln. yo....5 va"J truly, Bus M C'l.l.ne Works, GS'l lemen Robtl ns Tabla Co The Buss Maehme \Yorks are havmg marked sue ee~s wlth thiE:>new design of cabinet planer. The new method of beltmg-teed gears machme cut-together wlth the steel spnng sectional front feed roll and the late new sectIOnal chlpbleaker, make a cabmet planel second to none on the market today. The Buss Machme vYorks are old manufacturers of cabmet planel s and other woodwork111g tools, and keep abreast wlth the tlmes wlth machmes of great effiClency Woodworkers of all bnds wlll not make a mistake by wnting dlrect or to then nearest sellmg representatlVe regardmg any pomt on up-to-date cabinet planers. These are the days when the hve \\ood\\orker \\ants to cut the e:Apense of sanding HOLLAND, MICH. BUSS MACHINE WORKS GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. •• • ~_. ..------------------------------------------ HAI\D CIRCULAR RIP SAW MORTISER COVlBINED MACHINE Complete Outfit of HAND and FOOT POWER MACHINERY WHY THEY PAY THE CABINET MAKER He can save a manufacturer" profit as "ell as a dealer s profit He can make more money \\ Ith less capital ltlvested He Cdll hold a better and more satlslactory trade WIth hIS customers He Cdn manufacture 1Il 1..~ good £tyle and finIsh and at as 10v. cost aq the factOlles 1 he local cahme-t maker has been forced mto onh the dealer s trade atld profit because of mad'me manufactured goods of factones An outfit of Barnes Patent Boot and Hand Power MachInery remstates the cabInet maker WIth aCl\ antages equal to hie; competitors If deSired these machme' wl11 be sold on tnal The purcha,er can have ample time to test them III hie;;own shop and on the work he "!shes them to do Descr,pt,u catalogl" and prtce itst f1 ee No .t SAW (read, for cross cuttmg) W f. &. JOHN BARNES CO, 654 Ruby St., Rockford, III. ....., No A SCROLL SAW ~ ._._._._._.~ ~ ~~ . -~----~------------~----- _ _..a FORMER OR MOULDER HAND TENONER •• No 4 SA\v (ready for nppIng) No 7 SCROLL SAW WEEKLY ARTISAN ~. - _ --_.--.-.----_ ----_._ ..- ~ .._---------_ _- These Specialties are used all Over the World ~ Hand Feed Glueing Machine (Palent Veneer Presses, d.fferent kinds and s'zes (Pstented) penchng). Many styles and sizes. Veneer Presses Glue Spreaders Glue Heaters Trucks, Etc., Etc. Wood·Working Machinery and Supplies Power Feed Glue Spreading Machine, Smgle, Double and Combmation. (Pstented) (S.zes 12 In. to 84 In wide.) LET US KNOW I YOUR WANTS I..-._. _.._-----_._._---_._-_. ---_._. _. -_._. _. _ _---._. -- ._.-- -----_.._-------- CHAS. E. FRANCIS COMPANY, Main Office and Works, Rushville, Ind. No 20 Glue Heater. No.6 Glue Heater • ....._- _ .._ ...... ,..,I --_._._------------ --- ...._ .._...---._-------_._. ----_ ...-----" MARIETTA FUMED OAK ACID STAIN To the finisher who has been using the fuming chamber to produce his fumed oak our Fumed Oak Acid Stain is a revelation. This stain is in no wayan experiment but practical working stain, producing a more uniform color, and giving to different grades of oak the same shade. It is a strong, penetrat .. ing stain, going into the wood and yet it can be used without injury to the hands. This is not a substitute for fuming. The stain actually fumes and is permanent, but it fumes in obtained on red as well as a different manner .....s.aving' white oak. The most can .. the cost of a fuming cham.. vincing evidence of the per .. ber and the time required feet working qualities of this in fuming by the old pro- stain will be manifest in a cess. Unlike the Fuming single trial. Write us for a process good results can be sample. THE MARIETTA PAINT & COLOR CO., Marietta, 0, THE MARIETTA PAINT & COLOR CO" Marietta, 0, I II 10 __ • ••••••••• ---- -----------_ ..-------._-_..--._._..------ r--' . ------------.... •• - - •• ••. .. - .• --. •• . --------" I THE LYON FURNITURE AGENCY I II CREDITS AND COLLECTONS New York Grand RapIds Philadelphia Baston Cincinnati Chicago 5t Louis Jamestown High POint ROBERT P LYON Ceneral Manager THE SPECIAL CREDIT BUREAU OF THE FURNITURE, CARPET, UPHOLSTERY, UND~RTAKING, PICTURE FRAME, MIRROR, VENEER, WOOD, CABINET HARDWARE AND HOUSE FURNISHINC TRADES. Capllal Cred.t and Pay Ratings Cleanng House of Trade Expenence The Most Rehable Credit Re porls RAPID COLLECTIONS. IMPROVED METHODS WE ALSO RE'PORTTH£ PRINCIPAL DRY GOODS DEPARTMENT AND Q£NERAL STORES. GRAND RAPIDS OFFICE 412-413 HOUSEMAN BUILDING C C NEVERS, M.ch.gan Manager .. • • ._.~_ • • __• •_•. .._ ..-.- ..__ ..._._-..~/l 1 ._-, fI . .. - - -----------------------. 2 WEEKLY ARTISAN HAND SCREWS THAT STAND THE TEST OF TIME AND SERVICE Good strong, easy working handscrews---the best that it is possible to make. In fact there are none bet-ter made than the "Grand Rapids." Twenty-five per cent greater strength is secured by the special saw cut threads on second growth hickory spindles---more lasting, greater endurance and less strain on the wood than those of any other make. Our spindles show, under actual test, extraordinary twisting resistance; they are tough and practically un-breakable. The pws are sawed from the best of Mich-igan hard maple, sanded smooth and oiled. It's poor economy to use any but the best. Write for our catalog 14. It shows a "full line of benches, clamps, hand screws, etc. Yours for the asking. GRAND RAPIDS HAND SCREW COMPANY 918 Jefferson Ave, Grand Rapids, MICh. BntIsh RepresentatIve Ohver MachIne Co. Ltd. 201 Deansgale \lanchester Eng -------------------~I I IIIII I I II III II It I I• ,, ,I , J. BOYD PANTLlND, Prop. : I J I .-----------------------------------------------~ ~------------------------------ / II ,II I,,I ,II I,IIII ,I I,II I:I II ~-------------------------_ _.- f---···-·------------------ I M orton House I - (Amencan Plan) Rates $2.50 and Up. II Hotel PantJind (European Plan) Rates $1 00 and Up. I GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. I -~II W000 ronnlno (UTTmS I II II I I IIII A~ only the edge outhnes of the Cutler comes IUto contact With the lumber, there ISno fnctlOn or burn- Ing of the mouldIng~ when made \\lth the ShImer ReverSIble or One-Way Cutters These Cutters are careful!) moulded to SUIt your work, and are very complete, mexpenSl\e and time-savIng tools vVe supply specIal Cutters of an) shape deSIred and of any size to SUIt your machme spmdles. Let us haH' your speCifications. For odd work not found In our c<ltalogne send a \\ ood sample or drawlllg. The Noon Dmner Served at Ihe Pantlmd for 50c IS THE FINEST IN THE WORLD SI\MUEL J. SHIMER &. SONS, Milton, Penn. l\lanulacturers ot the Shimer Cutter Heads for Floonng, CeIling SIdIng, Doors, Sa~h, etc ' - ...-.. .... . . --- .----- . - .----- ------ ... --- I .'---"" "THE BEST IS THE CHEAPEST" i BARTON'S GARNET PAPER I Sharp, Very Sharp, Sharper Than Any Other. SUPERIOR TO SAND PAPER. It costs more, BUT It Lasts Longer; Does Faster Work. Order a small lot, make tests, you WIll then know what you are gettmg WE GUARANTEE SATISFACTION. Furniture and ChaIr F actones, Sash and Door Mills, Railroad Compames, Car BUIlders and others WIll consult their own IOterests by using It. Also Barton's Emery Cloth, Emery Paper, and Flint Paper, furnished m rolls or reams. M~Nl ~ <\c I LkI lJ B\: H. H. BARTON & SON CO., 109 South Third St., Philadelphia, Pa. ---_.-. ----.--------- -- .- .. ~ ._ _ 1 , I , I ! The Capaci!L of Your Jointer is Limited : !, to the Cutting Capacity of the Cutters. I• I : •I •• I • I II •: f I I I f I I I I j I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I f I I I I , I I f I I \ II Unle<;s you are usmg the Genuine Morris Wood & I: Sons 20th Century Solid Steel Glue Joint Cutters you are not gettlllg the full value out of your machme. II They are hdrder and reqUire less gnndmg than any other ! make, and when they do need gnndmg the cuttlllg surface IS <;0small that It only takes a few mmutes to put them III II I! order agalll Wnte for catalog No 35A It tell., all about the cutters I and WIll help you to lllcrease your profits. I I II MORRIS WOOD & SONS I 2714·2716 W. LAKE ST, CHICACO, ILL. : I I ~-----------------------------------------------~ WEEKLY ARTISAN CHOICE TOOLS FOR FURNITURE MAKERS If you do not know the "Oliver" wood workmg tools, you had better gIve us your address and have us tell you all about them. We make nothmg but Quality tools, the firSt coSt of which IS consIderable, but whIch Will make more profit for each dollar mveSted than any of the cheap machmes flood· mg the country. UOLIVER" No. 16. Band Saw 36 Inches Made WIth or without motor drive Metal table 36"x30" W,ll take 18" under the gUlde- bIts 45 degree. one way and 7 degrees the other way Car fIes a saw up to I%/I Wide Outside beanng to lower wheel shaft when not motor dnven Weigh. 1800 lb. when ready to shIp Oliver Tools Save Labor Tempers Cost "OlIver" New Variety Saw Table No 11 W>l1 take a saw up to 20" diameter Arbor belt l' 6" WIde Send for Catalog "B" for data on Hand Jomters, Saw Tables, Wood Lathes, Sanders, Tenoners, Mortisers, Trimmers, Grinders, Work Benches, Vises, Clamps, Glue Heaters, etc., etc. OLIVER MACHINERY CO. Works and General OffIces at 1 to 51 Clancy St GRAND RAPIDS, MICH , USA. BRANCH OJ. FICES Oliver Machmery Co Hud'on Termmal 50 Church St New York Ohver Machmery Co F"'ft Nahonal Bank BUlldmg Ch,cago III Oliver Machmery Co PacIfic BUlldmg, Seattle, Wash Oliver Machmery Co 20 I 203 Dean,gate, Manche.ter Eng / 10 SPINDLE MACHINE ALSO MADE WI I H 12 1') 20 AND 25 SPJNDLe <; GEAR MACHINE DODDS' NEW DOVETAI L IN G ThIS ltttle machme ha.s done more to pelfect the drawer work of funl1 ture manufacturers than an)-thmg else 1Il the furnIture trade For fifteen \ears It has made pertect fittIng ,ermm proof dovetaIled stock a pas'Sl bIlfty fhlS has been accomplIshed at reduced co"-t a<; the machme cuts dove taIls In g-angs of from 9 to 24 at one operatIon It s what othe15 see dbout your bUSllleS'5rathel th'1n wh'lt 3- au sa) about 11 that connts In the c~'-,h dr l..\\el It <; the th1111ot enthll~lasm and the true nllg of truth, ou feel and he1.r back of thf' Lold type that makes yOU bu) the thlllr;ach eJ tJ':;ed ALEXANDER DODDS, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHICAN Represented by Schuchart & Schutte at Berlm VIenna Stockholm and St Pf"'krsburg Represented by Alfred H SdlUtk at Cologne. Brussels Ll~ge Pang MIlan and Hllboa Reprelcnt("d m Grt"at Bnttan and Ireland by the OJlve-r MachlOery Co. F :, Thompson. Mgr. 20\ 203 Dean.gatc Manche'ler, r.ng\and 3 - -------------------------. 4 WEEKLY ARTISAN SINGLE CONE ALL STEEL SPRINGS Are very popular with the Furniture Trade. $2~ E.ach Net $2~ E.ach Net No. 46, Single Cone, $2 Each, Net. We manufacture a full line of Single and Double Cane All Wire Springs. SEND us YOUR ORDERS. SMITH &, DAVIS MFG. CO., St. Louis ~.-__.-.------_._.-_._-_._--_._-----'-'-'-'--- ---"-" IIIII II II III I• •I I,• III•• I• II II II r------' ----_. I III •I MUSKEGON •: MICH .... I II •I• I•II II ._------------ -_. . --..-- _ •• 'II •• ~ Palmer's Patent Gluinl! CIamps MUSKEGON VALLEY FURNITURE COMPANY UOlOmOISUlles Tall POSI 8Ms 000 Dressers enlllOn/ers wororones laOIeS' TOlielS DreSSing Tables MonoOOny InlmO GOOOS The above cut is taken dIrect from a photograph, and shows the range of ODe size only, our No 1, 24-inch Clamp. We make sIx other sIzes, takmg In stock up to 60 Inches wIde and 2 Inches thick. Ours Is the most practIcal method of clampIng glued stock In use at the present tIme Hundreds of factories have adopted our way the past year and hundreds more wl1l In the future. Let us show you Let us send you the names of nearly 100 factories (only a fraction of our list) who have ordered and reordered many times. Proof positive our ,va,. is the best. A post card wIll brlug It, catalog Included. Don't delay, but wrIte today. I• I III• I• ,-_._--- _. -------- ---_ ~ ! WRITE FOR CATALOG ---_'II-'ll'll ... __., AI E. PALMER & SONS, Owosso, MICH. ~, .__ .. . . fIIf I I : Crawfordsville, Indiana. Montgomery Hardwood Lumber Company Manufacturers of all kmds of Foreign RepresentatIves: The Projectile Co., London, Eng-land. &chuchardt &; Schutte, Berlm, Germany: Alfred H. Schutte, Cologne, Paris, Brussels, Liege, Milan, Turin, Barcelona, and Bilboa. •..-- .I. ...... . E. S. STERZIK. 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NATIVE FURNITURE LUMBER 30th Year-No.6 GRAND RAPIDS, MICH., AUGUST 7, 1909 Issued Weekly GRAN':' RA:-'I~· PUBLIC LIBRJ RY TRAFFIC BUREAU FOR GRAND RAPIDS An Institution That Should Be of Great Benefit to Merchants, Manufacturers and All Others Affected by Freight Rates The estabh~hment m Grand RapIds of a permanent traffic bureau to be conducted by a traffic managelr of '" Ide. practical expenenco 111 fyelght transportatIOn mattere,. for the bo.nefit of shIppers who do not, Individually, employ a traffic manager and to represent Grand Rapids mterl!sts m cooperatIOn with other commerClal orgamzatlOns m the en-deavor to arnve at "olUtlOtlS of the vanous problems of trans-portatlOn that confront the carners and the shIppers of to-day, will be m accord With actlon taken by the merchant" manufacturers of many cIties that competQ WIth Grand RapId", m the common markE1ts At the la"t meetmg of the National ASSOCIation of l\Ian-ufacturers, the transportatlOn commIttee of that a",soclatlOn strongly recommended the estabhshment of -"uch a bUI eau m New York City In Chicago, St Lams, Pittsburg, 1n-cltanapohs, MemphiS, Dallas, Rockford, Ill, Qumcy, Ill, Evansville, Ind, Des MOlnes, Ia, LIncoln, Nebr. Kansas CIty, :1\10, and numerou,", other CItIes, such bur~atb have long been estabhshed and have proven successful m geittmg satIs factory re,ults for thetr suppQrters The more Important of the transportatlOl1 problems that confront the carner" and shippers may only be solved by cooperatIon The mtere"t" of the carner and the shIpper are mutual FnctIOn and controversy represent total loss of energy IndIVIdual effort IS largely meffectual For the proper handhng of freight matters a speCIal knowledge of freight transportatlQn affaIrs IS essentIal and such knowledge may not be obtamed from text book" but only through actual ratlroad expenen-::e and by close ::Jbser-vatlOn and study of the rapIdly changmg conclItlOns that SU!- round the transportatlOn busmess Such a bureau should not be conSidered as a claim collect l11g or a claIm creat111g agency. In exercismg a general su-pervIsIOn over the transportatlOn affaIrs of ItS membel s, claims of every de"cnptlOl1 would nece"sanly receive their share of attentlOn and an endeavor to secure a more prompt settlement of claims should be one object of the e"tablIshment of the bu-leau, but Its mamtenance should not be dependent upon the number or amount of the claIm" presented and collected The efforts of such a bureau should be directed towards secunng for Grand RapIds shIppers the lowest pOSSIble com-bmatlOn of freIght rates and cla":olficatlOns, WIth especIal atten-tenL'on to carload 1at111gs, 111ll11l1111maSn,d loadmg restnctlOns, il10 best of serVICe, representatlOn at meetmgs of the State RaII-load CommissIOn, the Interstate Commerce COmmlSSlOl1, clasq-ncatlOn cormmttees and legIslatIVe bodies when any actIOn IS contemplated that WIll affect the mterests of ItS members and to aSSt mblmg and dlstnbut111g traffic mformatIon pertment to the bU"l11ess of ItS membel s In cooperatIOn WIth the carner" and SImilar orgamzatlOns of shlppel s Gl and RapIds may accomph",h much towards the ad- Justment of matters of common 111terest such as the proposed 11l1lform code of demurrage rules, the proposed umform classl-ficat! on, the Ul1lform bIll of lad111g, ul1lfornllty and harmony be-tween state and natlOnal laws govermng carners, the "ecunng of carload rates on ltllxed carloads of freIght of the same des-cnptlon, the placmg of re::.ponslblhty upon the carners for er-roneous rate quotatlOns and such other problems as may de- \ elop 111the future as m the past It IS 111thIS dlrectlOn that the efforts of "m11lar orgal11za-tlOns have obtamed results that have 0ufficiently demonstrated theIr value amI effiCIency There IS nothmg of greater Importance to the manufacturer 01 the wholesaler than hIS transportatlOn faCIlItIes and cost" and haphazard, spasmodIC or l1l-advlsed actlOn 111 connectlOn WIth same IS detnmental and lUlJUSt to hUl1self and the carners Ex-pert, practIcal kuowledge of traffic matters is becom111ng recog-tllzed 111 the busmes" world as of great value and many other Cltles of less ul1portance have made greater progress towards the applicatIon of :;uch knowledge to their transpo'rtation prob-lems than has Grand RapIds The prestIge enjoyed by thIS city as the center of fur11lture manufacture and sale demand::. that It gIVe transportatlOn mat-ters attentIOn equal to that of ItS competItors Wlth1l1 the past SlAt) days the Interstate Commerce Commb01On has passed up-on dlmo"t one hundred compla111ts dealing WIth freIght rates and carload mltllmUl11S on furl11ture shIpments from Chicago, Dalton, Ga, Carolina terntory, Decatur, Ill, -Brighton, OhIO, and Keno"ha, '"Vl"COnS1l1 Any actlOn by Grand RapIds manu-factnrers towards obtam111g more favorable transportatIOn con-ditIon- or lesser cost", 111the 111terests of theIr customers WIll certamly be noted and \\>111 matenally strengthen the tIes that bmd the trade to thIS market The Interstate Commerce CommISSIon and a maJonty of the members of the can lers are favorable to the placmg of such matters 111the hands of tra1l1ed experts and to the establishment of such bureaus EXbtIng condltlOn0, pecnbar to the geo-graphical 10-::atlOn of Grand RapIds and to the products of its 111clustnes, are such that the establIshment of such a bureau "hould not be clelayed and in thiS dlrectlOn it should be imme-dIately demonstrated, byond chspute, that ('Grand Rapids Knows How" \ V f' f' K I \ ~--_._.--_. IIII III II• I4 II II II ~------------------------------------------- Allt>gOIl Not(·io.and V(·,,~olluliti(·~. Allegan, \ugust 6-C B Bakel ot lhkel &.. (0 ,lel (JIll pdl1led by IllS fdlml), hds been spend111~ the IMst n\ 0 \\ ceb ,It Crunn lake \Vhl1e thele the) lu\ e been "topp1l1g ,It the Plaimvell-Allegan Gunn Lake Cluh \V J Oln ~I of 011\ ~I 8.- Co 1'0 anothel ot the \\ ell kno\\ 1\ manufacturels of Allegan \\ ho \\ Ith hI" lam11\ IS "pell(hm; t\\ (l \\ eeks at Gunn lake 1'1 easurer F I Chlchestel of the Phoem, COmpall\ b e,- pected to return September 1 hom a n\ 0 mOllth" \ ISlt to the PaCIfic coast Whl1e thel e he \\ 111 \ ISlt the Ala"ka- Yukon- PacIfic exposItIon The Phoell(x Company, IncOl pOl ated 111;(0\ embel 1908 wIth a pdld up capItal of $9,000, h,n mg tdken 0\ el the olel Rowe plant, has not as ) et c0111menced opelatIon" The com-pany I" officered as follo\\" PI eSldent, DI 1oung, \ Ice presIdent, vV E Ro\\e, seCletary, 13 13 Sutphm, tleasurel,} I ChIchester Oltver & Co, manufacturers of combmatIon desks, ltbral \ cases, ch1l1a closets, ladles' desks and buftets ha\ e Just added d l111eof mlSSIQn goods GeOl g e 011\ er I epOl ts a qtbLlCtOl \ tl ade for the past Sl, months, commg pnnclpalh 110m the east and the mIddle \\it" t The film ot 011\ er &.. Co \\ dS e~- tabhshed III 1855 and about tl11ee \ ealS a~o a clMn~ C \\ d~ effected, at whIch tnne George 011\ er, Sr , and "~ndrew Oln el who wel e brothers, retIred, bong succeeded b\ \\ 111 T 011\ el and George Oltvel, Jr Bames, MOSler & Co, manufactul ers 01 blltteb and hU?,h gl ade cab1l1ets, announce that the) \\ 111dl "contlllue the nMnll facture of buffets, and \\ III de\ ote theIr tIme e'Ccltbl\ eh to cdb1l1ets Heretofore they ha \ e made then cablllets 111 bn d -,- eye maple;bllt they w111now add a hne ot oak Bames, ~Io"lel & Co are a MIchIgan corpOl atlOn, \\ Ith a paId up capItal ot $13,000, orgamzed five yeal s ago Then trade comes ldl ~eh h om MIchIgan The company IS officered a" tollo\\ s PI e" Ident, Gustav Stern; vIce pI e"ldent, C R vI, l1kes, seCl etal) . Dr C W Young, tleasmel, J F )'10s1er, manager Hem) Bames One of the be"t known manufactuung concelns of A.llegan IS that of Bakel & Co, e"tdbhshed about eIghteen} eal ~ dgO. and conslst111g of C 13 Bakel and George dnd HIram De Ldno The firm manufactm es a hne 1111eof buffets, chma closet" combmatIon bookcases, ladles' desks and hbral} cases The lIne 111cludes about one hundled pIeces E CRowe, propnetor of the E C Ro\ve Can 111g\ \ Olk" h,l" been vlsltmg hIS brothel Henry of the RO\\ e :VIanufdctl1l-lIlg Company, Newaygo, Mlch, the pa"t \\eek Dml11g hl~ \ l"lt Mr Ro\ve has been tdlong a httle I ecreatlOn dt He"" T ,lkt The I~ CRowe Cal V111g\Vorks ha\ e Ju-,t gotten out d new catalogue, whIch they are nov\ maIlIng to theIr trade The catalogue shows a complete lIne of cal \ 1I1gs fOl furl11tUl e and casket manufacturers 1\11 RO\ve Iepm ts that buslne"" has been very good, espeCIally from the11 ea"tel n tI adc the pa"t SIX months 1) ------------------------------------- Mahogany Circassian Walnut Quartered Oak Walnut Curly Maple Bird's Eye Maple Basswood Ash Elm Birch Maple Poplar Gum Oak The Luxury Chair Company. Under the management of Geo K Mead, the I U"\.Ul\ ChaIr Company of Grand RapIds has made gleat stude" :\11 Mead IS a practical chaIr man and looks closely to evelY detaIl - ---------------------------------. \ I~ T., \ "\ ------------------------------..., II II I I• ---------------------------------------------~ Foreign and Domestic Woods. Rotary, Sliced, Sawed. III till lJtl~lJ1l~" \\ hlll hc tool, dUlgc the compdllY Wd" P,l\- 111~ ;-,.J- ;0 pel thouo.,lml 101 ell} 11llSlumber; now he has a dl) kl1n that dlle" It 101 50 cents TIe has also btuIt a two-e,tCJ1) 1)1lC]" dd(htlOn that 1I1Ueases the f1001 space of the pld11t at ICel:'.t.J-O pel cent .\h l\Ieacl also looks carefully after the wel-tale 01 1110.help, and has plo'lded shower baths, lavatolle", clo"ets and e\ el \ com elllcnce for both the men and wome11 111 hIS employ ~ e\\ machl1l es ha\ e been added, and they make all the11 ft ame", The 11l1e conslst1l1g of the Luxury patent J oc]"el flam I ockel s ell\ ans, stools and chall s, IS one of the beo.t made 111GI and RapIds, and bUSIness glows every seel"on There I:'. not a s1l1g1e old pIece 111 stock, dnd ordel s are on thell books 101 e\ el \ th1l1g that I." made or In course of constl uctlOn \11 :.\Ieeld has ~no u~e t01 accumulatlOns- 'A warehouse IS next th1l10 to a mOl 0 uc Keep the !:\ oods mov1I1g" IS hIS motto, b b " then) ou \\ III not be troubled" Ith close-outs Inyited to Fly lor the Siegel. Cooper Company. 1rem \ SIegel, the pI eSldent at the SIegel-Cooper Company, ha<.. otteled the \Vngltt brothers C:;7,5oo to make three flIghts In el11 aelOplane tlOm the 100f of the ChIcago store l'hI:'. ])IUlect edlp"1I1g, In the 0])11110nof some, the entelpnse of H CT '-,eltlldge" ChICago Idea" dep,lrtment store In London, hel" lKUl undel consldel atlOn for some tIme by the VVnght broth Ch aec01 dIng to 1I1f01matlOn whIch leaked out 111 Wa"h1l1gton [he London mer clunt eAhlblted the Blenot heavler-than-all th 1I1g nuch1l1e 111 hI" "tale, but :.\/[r SIegel, who has become dn enthu"'lelst about denal naVIgatIOn, IS strl\ 1I1g to have the hte "'lzed pa"",engel Cdll) 1I1g aeroplane eAhlblted flam the top ot hi'" "tale \\ Ith the fdmous vvnght brother" themselve:'. to make ha/drdous fJtghts and CIrcle over the cIty streets [: C Tal g ensen has blOught suit aga111st Tull & GIbbs, tht \\ ell kno\\ 11 turmture dealers of Spokane, Wash., and PUHland. 01e He asks Judgment fOl $2,088 on the ground thdt hetore surrendellng possession of the Lenox hotel in POI tldnel Idst T anual \, thev neglected to shut oft the water, \\ hlch fro/e al~d damaged the pIpes, walls and floors ~• ----------------------- II ,I II I,\ ,, •,, •II•• , •••• II• •II~._--_. ----------_ ....II ,I III I,II II ... THE WEATHERLY INDIvmUAL Glue Heater Send yonr address and and recc.ve deSCriptIVe Clrcnlar of Glne Heaters. G1ne Cookers and Hot Boxes Wltl. prICes. The Weatherly Co. Grand RaPid •• Mich. WEEKLY ARTISAN 7 ---------------------------------------------------- .~ Oak, Poplar LET US QUOTE YOU PRICES ON OUR OWN MANUFACTURE OF I Circassian, Mahogany, I I and Ii tI... . Gum The Albro Established IB3B. Would Give Long Hauls Lowe1' Rates. lor many yeal s one of the popellal p1muple" of 1ate 111ak 1I1g-ha~ been that a thlOUe,h rate 111mt not be le,>~ than the J ca1 I ate cOl1lb111ecl The Inter,>telte Commerce C01l1l1l1~"l()n lJ'l'> ,lttempte(l to 1epuchate that pr111c1ple b) authOt J7t11g 1ates ht tween \tJantIc port~ and the we~t Jowel than the cOl1lbtlled 1,ltt '> hetV',een local term1l1ah RaIlroad men cJeclare that th1" \\ ould 1evolut1OI11Ze a methocJ that ha" been In gene1al u"e for more than JO years and they do not propose to accept It Two de CIS1On" of the commISSIOn embodymg th1" pl1nClple, the ;\11'>- soun RIver case and the Kmdel case, mvolvmg rates to Denver, have been temporanly enJOIned, and are now pendll1g befure Judges Grmscup, Baker and Kohhaat of the Ul11ted St2tt" C1rcUlt court fOI adJuchcatwl1'i The ra1lroa(ls ale now pI e-panng to apply for an 111Junct1On agall1st the thl1 (I ~ncl1 de- CISIOnm the case of the Greater Des .Momeo>comrl11ttee a~am,>t the Rock Island and other webtel n roads The roads have repeatedly declared theIr deten111natlOn to cOl1te<;t the pn11c1ple to the last dItch i\s the fil1cImg of the Judges m the cases mvolvmg the rate" to the -:\11ssoun RIver and Denver WIll not be reached untl1 afte1 September 1, when the Des Momes order goes mto effect, the only way m ,vhlch the roads can prevent the reduct10n of theIr revenue" IS by an mJunctwn, unle~" the commISSIOn b prevaIled upon to postpone ItS order The Penusylvania Buying Cars. Official announcement was made at Pltt"burg last Monday that the Pennsylvama Railroad has placed orders for about $8,- 500,000 worth of new car eqmpment This IS saId to be the biggest order for cars ever placed at one time The number of new cars ordered is 8,000, and the cost will be more than $1,000 aplece ·While the entire order has been placed, the apport1Onment only for the lines east of PIttsburg and Elle IS made known There will be 4,845 cars for the hnes east of PIttsburg and Ene, leaving, presumably. 3,155 for the Pennsylvama hnes west of PIttsburg Orders on car" for the hne::. ea"t have been apport1Oned as foIIows: Pressed Steel Car Company of PIttsburg, 350 box cars, 350 hoppers, 500 coke cars, American Car & Foundry Company, 500 box cars; Standard Steel Car Company, 750 hopper cars; Cambria Steel Company, 500 coke cars; Penn-sylvania Railroad Altoona shops, 1,895 car" of all kinds In addItion to this order the company announces that in the very near future It wJ11 place ordel s for about 5,000 more freight cars, and, as Its recent orders prey lOUS to today aggre-gate about 5,000 cars, it wJ11be seen that the rallroad i" makl11g Veneers. Veneer Co. II .. CINCINNATI, O. ._-_. ---- --------- ~OOellt<; pron11',e tn get a 11e" ftelg-hi eqUIpment of somethmg lt1-..e20,000 carli \ c;ood part of the mele1s Ju"t placed <lfe of a rush l1atUle, e,lch of the compa11lc'> cIcdH \\ Ith hay me, ,lgl ('<eelto have "ome ne\\ Cdl., on the t1<lck., ll1'-,lde of 10 cIa) '-, Turpentine Trust and Timher Men Alarmt"d. Ownel" of '>outhern hmber land" and manage1 s of the so-called naval .,to! es tru"t, are protestll1g v1gorout>ly agall1st the pa "'>age of a blll now pendl11g 111 the Alabama legIslature The trust, whIch seems to be more mterested than the tlmbe1 owne1", has mduced dealel S m naval stores-turpentme and rosm-to flood the leg1"latl11 e WIth letters askmg that the bIll be defeated OJ that actlOn be po"tponed untIl more thor-ough 1m estlgatlOn ha., been made "\s a result of the PIO-te" b the commIttee hav111g the bIll 111 charge has decIded to hold pubhc heanngs and mV1te all mtere"ted to present the11 \ 1evvs The tlmbel, or forestry bJ1l, as It IS knov\n, plovldes that no tree of less than 12 mche" 111dIameter can be cut, and no tI ess le<;s than 15 111ches m dIameter can be tapped for turpen-tme, and carnes WIth It the creattOn of mspecto1 s for the ::.tate, who shall receIve fees for m"pectmg rOS111and turpen-tme The grade estabh"hed by the 11lspector IS to remain, thus makIng It ImpossIble for the purchaser to buy as one grade and move up to another, as members of the trust have been dccused of doing. The bIll, If It becomes a law, IS expected to prevent waste and to decrease the lumber cut and output of rosm and tur-pent111e 111the state The Coalmga (Cal) hotel IS to be remodeled anel reful- 11lshed. " .- . I FOX --------_..----- - - - - - - - - -- ., I SAW DADO HEADS GREATEST RANGE QUICKEST ADJUSTMENT LEAST TROUBLE PERFECT SAFETY SMOOTHEST GROOVES FASTEST CUT LEAST POWER LONGEST LIFE It II Also Machine Knive.r. Miter MachInes. Etc. We'll gladly tell you all about it. PERMANENT ECONOMY FOX MACHINE. CO. 185 N. Front Street, Grand Rapids. Mich 8 WEEKLY ARTISAN If You Want One Crate or a Carload of Rotary. Cut Plain Oak Veneer Write us. We have it, red or white, crated and ready to ship. Walter Clark Veneer Company 535 Mich. Trust Building GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. II II New York Market Reports. i\ew YOlk, \ugust 6~netter demand t11a1 \\a, noted le"t week IS the onl} teature \\ ortl1\ of 111entlon m market 1ep J1 that are supposed to he ot mteres t to turm tUl e men 1hll e has been no ad, ance 111 pi Ices eAcept on turpe,ltme \\ h1111hel" gone up anothe cent, the II~e bel 19 due entlrel} to leghlatl) 1 pend111g 111 \labama, \\!1l< ..Jl thleaten~ to Ie tnct the output ur the state It IS now quoted here at ")2@")'2Y2 cent- tor (I Ill, dehver} dehvery L111seed 011 IS stlll dull ~ale, thb \\ eek hd\ e been t "- ceedll1gly small at last week s quotatlons-I\ e",tern rel\\ (JO@(d cents, CIty. law, 61@();! , smgle b,)11ed, 62(aJGJ and double lnl]u] 63@GJ, m 110t les", than flVe ball el lots Shellac IS mo\ 1l1f; mOle treelq than last \\ eek, the iran'dl tlOn.., In some grades bemg of seasonable \ o]ul11e bllt pillt .. while firm, ',]lOW no 111atella] cnan~ e T X 111 t ,lSe, h ljuoted 15@15.Yz, bnght 01ange ~Tacle, 1"l((1::91, fane \ ,hade, 20@!! and DIamond I '2 ')((1:2:b cent r1 e~h bleached 1b 12 (it 1: dned. n@21Y;; l enb A bettel dennnc1 t01 COIdafSe IS noted, but It hd' not elt fected pnces B ( tv\ me "0 18 b quoted at IlJ t enh pel pound, Incha l\, o~ J,::,i to () at 1@7.Yz, hfSht, 8@SY;;, fi,le "0 18 at 11@1172 cents Goat Sk111Sare more actlVe and pnces are filmer on the better quaM) of ::\Iex1~ans which an 1\ e 111small lOb Dag-utd' and Haytlens are quoted at 51@'58 cenL, Poytas -i l@-i ~ \Ic",-- lcans, 4,,@±4, MeAlcan frontiers, 33@35 cents Leather of all kll1d~ rema111" 1emarkabl} qmet not\\lth,tand- 111~the tanff ag1tatlOn 111congre~s Good Demand for Lumber. The 1110stplOm111ent featnre at the lumber market at pi cc,- ent IS a marked 111C1ease111the numbel of 111qmne~ \\ hIle an 111qmry does not con:.tltute d demand an unusual number of them 111(11catethat they \\ III 000n be follo\\ eel b} an l11Cred"eel demand, and when they come from large consume! s the} show that the 1I1qUllers expect to place order, soon IIIthout ret-el ence to the future the demand 1s much leuger than at thb time last week I\t 1110StpOints It IS better than IS expected 111 c\u-gust Ma1ked Improvement \,1 the tone of the lumber bUSI-ness IS reported from all p0111tS Hardwood lumer IS 1110V111g111 greater volume than 111 July and much gl eater than 111 Aug u~t last ) ear Pllces at e firm, e"'-ceed111gl) so for the better grades of oak The hlghe1 grades of other vanetles of hardwood are reported scarce 111 first hands and there IS 110 sIgn of weakness at any pomt eAcept 1ll the demand for culls at some of the Southern mIlls ~----------------------------_._ ..._--_ .._- THE NEW GRAND RAPIDS MACHINERY STORE Wood Working Machinery Factory Equipment Machine Knives, Bits, Etc. Everything in Equipment for the Woodworker. McMULLEN MACHINERY CO. GRAND RAPID, MICH ---~ , ••• a ••••• ._ ---_. •• .., j STANDARD UNIFORM COLORS I : Adopted by the Grand Rapids Furniture ASSOCiation are produced With our: II Golden Oak Oil Stain No. 1909, Filler No. 736. I Early English Oil Stain No. 55, Filler No. 36. I Weathered Oak Oil Stain No. 1910. I Mahogany Stain Powder, No.9, Filler No. 14. I Fumed Oak (W) Stain No. 46. II II GRAND RAPIDS WOOD FINISHING CO. 5559 Ellsworth Ave ORAND RAPIDS, MICH '- -~---- .. _..- _.- ..-- . -- " ROLLS THE "RELIABLE" KIND THE FEllWOCK AUTO & MFG. CO. EVANSVILLE, INDIANA. -., \V E E K L Y ART I SAN LUCE~REDMOND CHAIR CO., Ltd. ..- .... ----- - - ---------.._--~--~----------------._.~~_._-------------_._--------- I I I II II II BIG RAPIDS, MICHIGAN MANUFACTURERS OF HIGH GRADE OFFICE CHAIRS, DINING CHAIRS Reception Chairs and Rockers, Slippers Rockers, Colonial Parlor Suites, Desk and Dressing Chairs In Uark and Tuna Mahogany, Buch, B,rd',-eye Maple, Q!!artered Oak and Cuca<Slan Walnut You will find our Exhibit on the Fourth Floor, East Section, Manufacturers' BUlldmg,North Ioma St , Grand Rapids. I\,,,I I, I,,I I,II ._.------------------- ------------~_. ExhIbIt In charge of J C HamIlton C E Cohoes J Edgar Fo'ler Good Demand f01' Ru~s. 9 ----------------------------------------------------~ ~a:>tern manufacturers, 1mporte1s and Jobbe1~ It'port a b11Sk demand for 1ugs - an unusual demand fc)! a pellOcl ~o late 111 the season \\ hat IS known as the cluphcclte demand IS much larger than has been expenenced f01 mallY yeal S :\10re buyer~ al e 111 the market plckIn:S up spot supphe~, vvht{rever the) al c to be found, and 111each Instance are askIng qmck Shlp1l1ellt~ ot the good'> pm-cha'oeCl, In adehtlOn to thb, buyer~ are also askmg for prompt 111)),j, 'lts of all good'i on ordel, a'o then summer trade has heen of larger volume than was expected RetaIlers startec1 the 'ieason vvlth very small ~upphes of old good'i on hand and 'ill1ee that tIme have been purchasll1g "teadlly It was beheved that the heavy bUY111gwll1ch took place Ju:>t hef01e pnces were ,tdvanced, '''ould fully cover all 1eqUlrements f01 the balance of the season, but eVIdently buyels have found theIr purchase'> too ~n1.lll to meet reqUIrements, as they are back 111the market f01 adclttlOnal supphes, vv1th whIch to meet nearby futUl e 1equlre n en is \lanufaLtul er, dedal e that the advance 111 pllces letst month-about 5 pel cent-v. a'i nOl enough 10 cover the lll- Clea-;ed co-;t 111matenal and llltlJl1ate that a further advance mU'it come soon Carpets are lllO'lllg mOle freely than a month ago Bu) er~ arE sald to be duphcat111g thelr ordel s for \XUl111ter'i Brus'ic1s, \\; lltons and tapestI le'i Jngra111~, however, are reported hfele'i~, "lth no hope of 11llprOvel1ent l1l thelr very unsatlsfacloq sea'iO 1 Henry Explains. Llttle Hem), ,I comtant source of JOy 111the hotlSehole1 of a f 11I1l1111l e 111.\11 hVl1lg III Gl a11c1H.,tplC1~ swallo\\ cel ,I bt1l1 \\ !tIC" he had detached from a bolt WIth whIch he wa:> plaY111g He im-mcehatelv 111formed the dot111(2,p"al ents that he had "swallowecl ~Olllethln:s but wa" unable to cles-::nbe the sIze and nature of the tll111g '\ el vou~lv the fatlle1 pulled aSlde a commode III the hope of alchng Henr) to nallle the mls~111g al tIde, when the httle bcn ex,-lalllled IOh papa It wa llot ,t~ lal (2,"Ca~ that Made by Grand RapId, F anc)' rUIDltur~Co, Grand RapId" Mlch " 10 - - ------------------------------. A DEPARTMENT OF HELPS FOR THE ADVERTISER WEEKLY ARTISAN RETAIL FURNI1.'URE ADVERTISING Conducted by Chief of the "-dvertisina Department, Furniture City Enara ...i.na CODJpany MARLIN L. BAKER No, thIs IS no furl1lture ad But why b It the furl1ltnrc No' HIs readers are no dIfferent houses don't put out a furl1lture announcement that IS as 111- one \\111 mIss secmg hIS ad if It Isn't the viting as thIs department store page? mess 111the paper Each sub-dlvlslOn has a dlst111ctlve heacltng of ItS 0\\ n· Just imagme the page of Rothschllds & Company, a fnrl1l- Really now, doesn't It do your heart good to look at an ad so tnre ad, cuts of furmtUl emplace of the figures and dry goods. well displayed, so clean 100kll1g, and so easy to read) :\ote \\'ouldn't "ou rather read that kll1d of a furmture ad than the the lower quarter of thIS ad, nearly all the sectlOns belong to ones) ou usually find m any of the newspapers? I rather thmk the average furniture store It Isn't crowded wIth bIg cuts and \ au would black face type. Good fnrl1ltnre advertlsmg is a mIghty scarce article and Note the clear open appearance, the perfect balance ot 11- It IS the ad \\ nter s O\\n fault He walts 'ttll the last minute lustratlons and the excellent typography, m short It IS an ad- before prepdnng hIS COP), wntl11g "any old thIng" to fill space vertlsement that commands attentlOn \\ hlle thc ne\\ ~papcI soltutor ~tands dt IllS elbow, punchl11g him Why don't the furl1lture advertlser produce copy that com along mands attentlOn? Are his reader~ any dIfferent from those Is it an) \\ ondcr dverage f11ll1lture ads look as they do? who read department store stuff; must he use a conglomera-tion of line etchl11gs, worn out electros and fine screen halftone cuts (when he should use all 1111ecuts 111hIS ads)? Is that any reason why he should use the blackest type 111the pnnter\ case? He only thinks "ome blackest, Jumbled up Advertising Value ::\Ir Theo. Fettl11ger, Adv, .l\1gr for Hahne & Co, Newark, )J J, 111a recent address on advertlsl11g, said: "It IS a posltlve creatIve force, and the world would lose much wIthout It "It multlpltes human \\ants," J\Ir Fettl11ger asserted, "It 111- tenslfies human deSIres, makcs fashlOns, encourages constant change, leads people to dress better. to build better homes, to furnIsh them to bettel taste, and to make them more comfortable and sal1ltary. ".-\dvertlsl11g IS one of the sImplest, yet one of the most complex factors 111 the promotlon of bus111e"s It IS an essence glv111g pubhClty to the object you \\Ish to promote, or the th111gor servIce you have for sale Just how this pubhclty can best be secured IS, and al\\ a) s WIll be, a problem, because of the varY111g condltlons 111whIch man finds hmlself as times change and the people change wIth them" The nnvspaper IS beyond question the best of all adverttsing mecltums, not only became It facilitates the dissemination of in-formation to the pubhc at the least pOSSIble cost and in the speed- Iest manner, but also for many other reasons "Perhaps the most cogent reasons why the newspaper should be patrol1lzed above all other mediums i" the fact that the press IS so helpful in the upbuilding of the city, in the furthering of its enterprises, and became the city is so apt to be judged by its newspapers, and its bllsiness men by the advertising that appears in the ne\\ spapers "\Ve should not count merely the earninlSs that come direct from our advertlsing investments, but the asset consta'ltly being created for every b lsiness instihtion and every property-holder in the cIty thr011gh the newspapers' activities Every dollar P'lt into the ne\\ "paper advertising strengthens the newspapers and enables the publi"hers to gIve to the p~ople, practically witho"t cost to the readers the wonderful purveyors of news and molders of public opinion for which the country is famous" WEEKLY ARTISAN Eight Good Reasons Why Cook Can Serve You Best Everv Une a Convincing Argument. Read Carefully. Then Come and See For Youraelf. [PA~"~,:~:;:::~~ ..~:,_ I \LO:~p~~~:...o:.,~~~R~NI5H1NG- I. ..., IIN CASE OF DElI TH All. PAYMENTS CEASE- I IQUAUTY FIJRNlTURE ADDS TONE TO YOUR HOME-I coo ................ <1 .... ""' ,......Idb fe, It.. It .. ~, III 1M, ~ .~ llad __ d ... W. ITHELARGI!STANDBESTSELECTEDSTOCK GOLD RING FOR THE IlA!lY WITH Mote ........ eotDIeftll ",!Mlred ...,. _ I'0OI 1baa .. ..., EVERY CARRIAGE otbN woouaeUt tvIdla ...._ ::.::=:.~ ~:::a~'":~,=,:,,,CIw -- mat , FRE1l DELlVERY-A~ U.~.~PIa.cnlo!d4I.,....l.-- .. .. <na .. O'W1IU~ or;i6"I"'of...'_-'*'t.1'" ..,...,.... wK1l~Jl8I?Ar AND '.AT\. RPAl': £Vll.IrrIL'1QS. THE FURNITURE STORE A. S. COOK COMPANY. 67-69 MAIN STREET, WOONSOCKET, R I ...... ....",,'C CAR "an08 \ot: TO 01.8 DOOR The above dd\ ertlcement of A S Cook company. Vlooll'iock-et, R I, may be cntlC1seel by a number of ad writers, but there are surely a number of POl11ts descnbed that will not fall to bnng trade to the store It lS eleservl11g of commendation on arrangement, descnptlOn and pnclllg Whlte space is used to good ad, antage Here are some gooel, senslble sales talks, full of reason why COpy Some ad-wnter~ nllght cOll'ilder them rather lengthy, but there lS 110 c10ubtlllg that good results dre more often obtallled from thiS kllld of talk, even 1£ lt l~ lengthy, than the common "hot alr" stuff usually used Successful copy wlltel s do not fill their space wlth \\ orthless "hot air" but tells the reader 111 a plaln, stralghtforwarel, senslble,· . way statlllg facts He gives them a leason for offering goods under value, trnthful descnptlOn talks to his reacler~, as he would to a customer on the floor Read these talks from the pens of real aelvertlsers, study th('m, it wlll be time well spent CARPLTS \ \]) RUGS \ld~Jl1ficent chsplav of Tngll',h Axmln, ter carpets In the range of selectIOn thb :L,ton C8rpet store neve" presented d better chOlce-vVl11l11peg 11ls never ,een Its equal bel ore We h'n e made c1Jscrlmll1atll1\!;se lectlOn among- the world's prettIest patterns and colOrings of the ,,,,orld's most noted Ax-mInster loorrs and rvany patterns have been woven exclusnely for thIS store Fvery style an I period of decoratIOn can be m8teher\ and £01 cuch be lutlful carpets-the values are truly extraordmary In Axmmster rug-s too, there IS a handsome shoWll1g I1lustrat-m~! the run of values we clescrlbe one ,pi en dId lme TIere IS a 101ely green, WIth a rich or ental effect that would look well m h-br lry or den, another IS a hm d~ome effect 111 blue and gold dnd shll another 111 brown and gold These rugs hdve a deep IIch pIle of hnest worsted and all makes of the leadmg- Fng-hsh ancl Scotch AXl1l1111ster mlll,- r etton's, Wm11lpeg, Can MATTI l\f GS Floor coverings for summer u~e Crex Iugs and mattmg-s The C, ex fdbrlc IS a neat attrachve and firmly \\ 01en floor covering-made m a number of very n etty de'ilgns that enables one to obta1l1 a htg-hly artbtlc decora-tIve effect at a very moderate prlce-costmg as It does les~ than an Tngram carpet It may bE hacl m the form of a mattmg, 36 1I1ches- WIde, WIth whIch a room can be covered all over It also comes 111 rugs of all sIzes from lEx36 Il1ches un to 9x12 feet These are used largely for porch rugs Al'd then there are the Crex porch runners whIch can be had 111 all WIdths up to 9 feet ancl any reqUIred leng-th -Schuneman & Evans, St Paul, Mll1n HAMMOCKS Swmg- a hammock and enjoy outdoor summer hfe to Its fullest Buy a Palmel hdmmock r1', the be~t fhe unci a ,hdcly nook somewhe e ,lIId take summer hfe d bIt ea sy when yoU em Nothmg lend, so much to the enjoyment of outdoor comfort as the jU"t rI~ht shdped, just right hammock Hel e's a Palmer hammock WIth a close canvas weave 111 Per~lan stripes concealed snreader at head wood bar 2t foot, WIth patented tlp~ and adlnstable hItch end rings, WIth pIllow ~nd valance a dozen color combmatl011" $1 2S -S P Dunham & Co, Trenton, N J Get one Now IS the tIme Summer hav Il1g now set 111 for good you should put up a hammock, whIch you WIll find enjoyed by all, as a great ple'lsure, and comfort Ham-mocks occupy d very small space, and WIll add to the looks of your lawn, or porch, that IS If "elected from our WIde as,ortment all of whIch dre of the best selected matellal havll1g orlg-ll1ahty m deSIgn and color Our $2 hammocks al e not as hI ge 1'ld hand somely made as our $7 ones, but fOI service and long- wear they VI 111 answer your pur pose Weare ,howll1g numberle." others, between the,e pn cs, \\ hlch WIll appeal to you as rm e selectlO'lS These we-e bought for your mspechon so look them over- Snowr-Tulhs Hardware Co, Montgomery Ala ' New Hammocks 111 attractive colonngs The smal test Iange of attractive hammocks IS Illcluded 111 the new lot offered to the pubhc comJllencm" to day The m,l" c" cent blendll1g, of the gorgeous colors WIll forcefully appeal to all These hammock, are "wll1d, ram and rot proof" and g-Ive the best wear because they are made from the most rehable mdterlals 111 a very superior way PORCH SHADES Porch comfort You WIll never know the real luxu-y, comfort and enjoyment to be had from YOUIporch until you fit It WIth /' / 11 ~ t~ ~ at £!ices ~ ~ ~ ~ ex An odd let 01 CriI>o found on lnvcnlol'Ylnf sto<k. all marked ., savfng Flees to Insure thCU' Soak and .ttra ... t businc.ss mJ:s w«k.. ..I I I I I ~ ,I A THE FURNrTUR.E STORE S COOK COMPANY, 67-69 MaIn St .. Woonsocket. W--e W--an-t -Y-ou-r -C-a-sh-! ~ VudOl pOlch <-h,t<k, Wood h one of the best non concluc101s of heat known, therdore Vuclor porch shdCle, are made of wood flbrc -11l1deli wood Your porch-the part of yOw house whIch IS entirely out of JOOlS, you would utlhze all summer long If It were not for the unendurable summer sun \Vlth Vudor pOlch shades your porch 10 made habItable Vudor shades are of the hIghest g-rade of matel'lals and workman~hlp, are per-fectly made III eve y detaIl and are so I1Icelv stdll'ed thdt they harmom7e WIth the finest homes Colors-brown, green and mottled effects -Kaufmdn's, Trenton, N J RErRIGERATORS Leonard cleanable refrigerator" actu~lly "ave Ice They co~t just about the same as the ordll1ary sort", and only a httle more than the re'llly poor one" The ddference m the Ice bIlls pays for them There are no places III the I eonal d that can not be eaSIly cleaned-no mold, no rhrt accumulation 1\11 the mSlde pdrts e ,slly removable -Crew~- Beg\!;, Co, Pueblo, Colo Some I efng-el, tor facts that are worthy of your thoughtful consIderatIOn Refng-erator we~ther IS WIth us We are prepared WIth a fine, Idl ge stock of really dependable most 'i'ltbfactory food pI esel vers at the lowe"t price, thdt hlghe<-t quahty WIll per-mIt Among- them IS the "Eddy"-and we are the sole Trenton ag-ents In these re frlgerdtors and Ice chests the ust.lal dead aIr space b rel11forced by an effective Insula tlOn of 'Eddy" mventlOn The doors fit perfectly, and dre eqUIpped wlth strlP~ of feltll1g, makl11g a practically mr tight refrigerator The ArtIsan VI 111 be .;;1d9to receIVe "am-ple of ~ood furmture ads and reproduce anv that a-e worthy Addre'iS all matter to '\1ARLI~ A BAKER 423 MUrlay BwIJl11g IllOI11l11~ ot thc fil ~t etlY ot \[ay III c,ILh \ e,l1, until ~ 0 (lock all th( IllotlllJlg 01 thc jtl~t dd) OJ Odohel lIi cdch \Cdl, the ,tdll d<1)(1 tll11C ,hdll h( O!1l hOUI I1l ,lC\\ dille of the ~tandd1(l tltllc nOyl III u~c nl1~I' to hL 'lLL0l1lphshcd by ddv,lllllng the hdl1d, o t 1hc cloc k onL how Oil "IdY 1dnd may Illg thC111 hdCk om hum on Octobel 1. •'\0 l,ullOad \HJl1ld be compelled to change d ~ll1gle ~Lh(' 1- uk tlOI dn) fddOl \ I\-" ham ~ of work People would ,0 (IUlCk h M1Jll~t themsehe, to It th'lt It would be forgotten m a day 01 1\\ 0, fOl the wOlld hves by the clock ~ol11e of the I e,ulh to be attained arc: '1 Health anel ph\ 'lLal \\ elf,ll e al e pro111oteel tf the dL 111111 , ot hte he~m call) III the clay as nature 1l1tends, '! \dchtlOnal tIme dunng ddyhght I~ gamed fat I est and 1II 1, \tlo 1 thL u'c ot pal ks ami playglouncls dunng the hot months \\ auld be mCl cased and d11 fOll11s of I ell eatIon Lould h( plOleltecl on larger hne~ .3 'I hl tal mel, \\ ho I ept e~ents dlmo,t one-half of the pop 1'1(1)( 11 ,111clII ho pi a( tlLalh h,e, b) tll1~ ~ummel schedule, would he LJldhlul to 11am act hl~ bus1Ue~, wIth the (ItIe~ that mULh C,ll her 'VOULD UTIL1ZE ~10REDAYLIGHT Turn the Clock Allead and Start Work an Hour Earlier in the Summer Thue J h( plOpO,ltIOl1 to qc,tl ,l1I houl [10111 thL 11J(~ht III t'llll Illg the clOLb dhead 'CUll', hkeh to h( ddoptul III \mLlI( ,I ,I' It 11.l~ been by nMn\ manllt,ILtl1lel, ,l11(l 1)\ ~0111e lllul1lujJ.\huL' In Eng]'lllcl The pldn h,l' been dhLlls'ul h\ the nCII~]J Ip I' \\ Ilh genel,d applO\ ,d but ,0 [,11 Llllunll,lll I' thL onll \ml! 1(,\ 1 nt) that has fOllnalh e,,"ples,e(1 an Intention to 'Idopt thL ,nc: gestlOll '\ few 111dllufdctl1lel' hay e adopted thL e.ll hu 11111e ~Lhedulc not by t11ll1lllg thell clock, ahead but b\ '1111pll ,t,lI t mg wOIk an hout ealhel~,lt '1'( 1l1steael ot ~ 0 dock tm 111 'tal1ce~anc1 thele ale man) \\ho thmk the IcfOlI11 ,honld k ,'ccol11phshed 111 that \\ d\, but It IS eVident that thl 1110\ ell1enl \\ ollid he mULh mal e ~enel ,d ,md tl1<.'1efm e ldtbL \C," con tU"j<\11 hv tlll mng the cloLk '\he,1(l 1he ol1h II ell fOllndul Oh]lll1otl Lo the pletl1 comes flom the astI onomel ~~thc ,dl11dn,l( llMkll ,- Made by Grand Rapid, Fancy F urmlure Co , Grand RapIds. I\1lch \\ ho have trouble Lnough 111 I edullng 'sun tune to ,t,l1Ida 1 d ttme The 1\atlOnal Ddyhght -'L~o' latlO11 ha, been orga1l1zed to ll1dllCe bus111ess organl/atlOn~ and mumclpahtles to ddopt th I eformed time schedule and has ~ent out mlSSlOnane~ to e "- plam Its advantage~ One at them I C Rose a bU~1I1e'-" Il1dn of C111C1l111ati wa, a guest of the -\~sOC1atlOn ot Commel LC .It , " ,'1(z,n the othel dd\ \\hen he dehvered an adole', \\ hlLh I, lOIn el tcd dll \\ ho heal d hUll 111 the (011 "e ot , t Gl\ e them bettel opp II F\ CI\ thIng el"l I I 1 'I, ,t th " I I II !l , I ' Ii "" 1'"11\1 11' \!.'l(' Ih( <!(),k f"f"d"l It hom betl\eLl' \1(1 I [11 I) 1 oft'lt!1 1(11 lI1dlllt"otl ,]111011of all the \vOlkll~ 11 Ill' II1lltn II 111 1)( 11'1]'1 e e(l 'h<;OCl.ltl011 whIch Wtll ,oon hl\( I' 1\ 11 il' '.I "- , 'I 'l' lh,tt flom A11d ,dlll 2 J elil< I, "I, 'h' I hI) L emplo) ed 111 1111ll" £.tclll! Ie, dlld office', 'l11d c~ 1'(( tdlh IhL t11111I011sof hOl1~e\\ Ive", \\ 111IMve mOl e tUlle ,it thell UIIJI uHllmdl1d dunng dayhght '") ] he people of England and Scotland lnJoy long ",nll 1 l \ l 1111~' b\ I ca~on of then nOl them altltude, and we should h'l\ C \d1dt the} hay e ,IS It can be done Without cost OJ 1l1tcl-j( ll'llLL \\ Ith eXI~tlng condItIOns "Il It dftect~ 1I1tl1l1ately the prIv,tte and pCIsonal hfe ul l \ Cl I mdn, \\ oman dnd c11l1d, and IS thel efore of mOl e p~1 '011.1\ l11ll I c,1 to all the people than tanff or the Panama canet! UI dl1\ of the natIOnal questlOll" now penchng [he change IS as 'Imple a~ turmng yOU! watch fOI Wdl (1 II 1 11 \ au go tlom here to ;\ eVv York A number of fac- 1 " th! oughol1t the (ountl y, 111fiuenced by the welfare of all the \Yorkers have already been lunmng on what they call a "'Il1Il111 "Lhedule Tho~e schedule" amoul1t eiAaetly to what. the plan here proposed advocates Let me quote to you the \\ OIds of Thomas :\[oore, the poet. 'lnL! thL be't ot ,l1l ",[\, 1" Iengthcn alll cld\'- T, t" ,te tl I fc\\ hour, tI am thc 111ght 'II hy the ~avmg of lIght bIlls alone WIll IClompense ovu and 0\ er agd1l1 for the httle tWist of the thumb t\\ Ice a ) edl "hlch IS all the trouble the new scheme mvolves Do vou thlllk II e claUD the plan ongmated m thiS country? It did not. It ome, f1 am England where they have even more twthght than \\ e h'1\ e TInt beLdu,e It I~ EnglIsh I, no reason why \mcII-Lan'- ~hot11d not adopt It, If It can he ,hO\\11 to be et gent11lJC 111pI 0\ ement 1n bllsll1es~ } Oll l,l11 ne\ er tell wlllLh lIttle cOllrte,,) I~ ~011lg to pa~ the highest Idte of ll1terest Those \\ ho "nevel know when they are beaten" don't get l ld ( 11 '" '11<' I'H\l' ("( "(\,, "., II' ~ r ~ 11ouhle, and are not WEEKLY ARTISAN ~-------------------------------------.----------- ,I1 IIII II I "I I I1 III I I II II II III II ----------------------- SLIGH'S SELECT STYLES SELL AND SATISFY 13 ..I II1 I• ! III IIIII• I I• II II II IIIIII II II• -----------------------------------------------~ Many New Features Added for the Fall Season Everything for the Bedroom [ MedIum and Fme QuahlY J Office and Salesroom corner Prescott and Buchanan Streets, Grand RapIds, Mlch WHITE fOR CATALOGl'f SLIGH FURNITURE CO. Grand Rapids, Mich. ~------------------------------------_._--------- Raihoad Traffic Rapidly Gaining. The car efficIency commIttee of the Amencan RaIlway A..,,,oclatlOn reports that Idle freIght cars are L apldly l;0111g 111tOservIce The report fOl the last tv,o weeks 111July show'" a decrease of 16,873, or nearly 7 per cent 1t1 the numbel of ..,utplus car", the la~t report ~hoWIng a total of 2-+3,354 Idle cars Demands for box and coal cars, especIally the latter, reduced the aggregate surplus of the"e 12,292, and flat cal s decreased 756. Local demands caused a shortage of 339 cars, which is 211 less than two weeks ago. Throughout the central states and extendIng up into the northwest, gaIns in freight traffic were most pronounced, whIle on the laIlroads In the southwest steady improvement was manifested. Traffic fell off somewhat In the :'-Jew England states and through the gulf states, largely due to local conditions, but was not pronounced enough to offset the larg e gaIns 111the other sectIOns of the country. The surplus of Idle cars in the far west and 111the Virg111ias and CalO1111aswas unchanged. \Vlth the extension of the grain movement, there should be a matenal reductIOn In the present large surplus of box cars 111the eastel n and central sectIOns The coal car situatIOn contl11ues to Improve 111the ea..,tern, nllddle and northwestern terntoneq, although thel e IS stIll a sub..,tantlal e"{ce"q of cal.., Big Crop and High Prices. The Northwestern MIller figures that the farmer~ of Mlll-nesota and the Dakotas vvill receIve over $300,000,000 fOl then crop of wheat, whIch is the largest In the lllstory of those states, and is now ready fOl haIVestIng ThIS estImate, of course, is based upon current prices The MIller places the total wheat acreage at 15,297,000 in the three states, and the ) Jelel at 23S,OOO,OOOhu",hel..,. the ~re<ltL"t wheat ClOp e\ CI lal:oed by theqe state.., The estImate.., ale based on leporb hom more than 3,000 I e:oldent dgenb of the M111neapoh'i Ele- \ ator Company, CO\enng every nook and cornel of the entn C wheat belt Based upon the pnce of \\ hedt today on the Mlllneapolt-, dumber of commelce, the ClOp IS \\01th $313,750,000, com pared WIth $140,750,000, the value of the 1908 crop, based 011 the pnces of a year dgo ThIS means tlldt the falmels WIll get $165,000,000 mOl e thIS yeal fOl then v\heat than last yeal, OJ an lllcrease at more than 114 per cent Mr. Brown Dl.·ew the Macey ""Kitty". E C Brown, who returned Monday morning from a bUYl1ll:; tllP in the East for French & Bassett, the bIg houseftlf111shll1g store, was pleasantly surpnsed thIS morn111g by the receIpt of a check for $100, payable by the Macey company of Gland Rapids, MICh, says the Duluth (Mllln) Herald of July 28 As a special courtesy to ItS buyel s the company provlded ,1 "kitty" into whIch all vIsItIng buyers dlOpped sIgned cal d" The first card drawn out, whIch was l\Ir BIO\vn's, drew the check The "kItty" contained several hundred cards On Monday mor111ng, July 26, M H Meyers, mandgel of the Henry SIegel Company, Boston, plomised the sellll1g force that if the day's business exceeded the store's record, he would buy a dll1ner for the employes, all of whom are member" of the SIegel Fur111tme Club. The salesmen won the dll1nel and Mr Meyers made good on hIS promIse Immedlately ..lftel the 1e1Urns had been made The Alexandna hotel 111 Los Angeles will be enlarged and Improved at a cost of $1,000,000 - -- --------------------. 14 WEEKLY ARTISAN SUITE No 1233 MADE BY SLIGH FURNITURE CO. GRAND RAPIDS. MICH WEEKLY ARTISAN NEW YORK~S NEW FURNITURE EXCHANGE BUILDINGS Covering the entire blocks from Lexington Avenue to Depew~Place. 46th to 48th Streets Each building 200 x 275 feet in size and 12 stories high 1,300,000 Square Feet or Nearly 28 Acres Floor Space THE LARGEST AREA WHOLLY DEVOTED TO WHOLESALE SALESROOMS IN THE WORLD WILL BE READY FOR OCCUPANCY DECEMBER 1st, 1910 Applications for space should be made to CHAS. E. SPRATT, Secretary NEW YORK FURNITURE EXCHANGE 15 16 WEEKLY ARTISAN F-UBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY BY THE MICHIGAN ARTISAN COMPANY SUBSCRIPTION $1 00 PER YEAR IN ALL COUNTRIES OF" THE: POSTAL UNION $1 50 PER YEAR TO OTHER COUNTRIES. SINGLe COPIES 5 CENTS PuBLICATION OFFICE, 108-112 NORTH DIVISION ST GRAND RAPIDS, MICH A S WHITE MANAGING EDITOR Entered a') second class mattel ]ul) ), 1909 at the post office at Gralld RapId", \llcllI~an unnet the act ot March) 18'79 Portldncl, 01 e£;()lJ dltlll~ UpOll the "uggestlOn ot thc \1 tl 'dlJ \\ III hold a ft1111ltt11c expoqtlon It \\ III not he ,lll 1'1 pO~1I1gaffall but of the' httle one tOI a cent ,,01t Onc thOll' ,tIld samples fr om the factor Ie ot the Uregon 1, urmtllrc \till ufactt11llJ£; (ompal1\ thc Olegon (hall Compal1\, the Por tlalJd l'ur11lture lJanufactunng lompdl1\ dnd the Radgear- \Llrle\ • compan\ \\ III be a~sembled and 111\ItatlOn, maIled to dealer~ throughout the Paufic '\orth\\ est to call and m~pect the same The 1111tla1shem \\ III plObabh eXCIte great 1I1terest 11l the tran,- ll1ot111t,11I1tl aell and It dealel' shall I espond 111 con,ldel able llllmbel to thc llT\ItatlOn 111 pel 011 the coopcr dtlOn ot othu 1l1dnuLllt111CIs 111 l1lakJn~ futme CXpo,ltlOn, "mlc",t111 h ,h- "UIccd Thel c " ment III th,lt PlOpo~ltlOn to hun tin L10lk dhldd an hom ,I, must h" deh111ttcd b\ ,lll) m,\I1 \\ ho \\ J11 IhC \\ Ith the ~un ,1l1c1 note thc t1l11e-1 call} the be~t part ot the da\ -tl1.lt Ie wa~ted be±Ole he hcals the tdCtOl) whIstles \nd hc \\hu ~et'i up at ~ 01 b 0 L10ck and sees the sun half \\ a\ up to the l1lelldJan must 1eahzc that he ha~ lch t ,I lal g e pal t ot the dd\ ,111dfeel that he ought to ha\c utJ117cd It, e\en though he kJ1()\\, th,lt 111Snel>;hbOl" al e \\ Ith h1J11-1I1 thh 1atltudc- Jet m1l1utc, heh1l1cl ~un time Thel e IS no good 1ea"on, howe\ u, \\ h) thc llC\\ standard should be observed only bctwcen \pnl and '\0 \ ember WIth the clock an hour taster than current standdrd time most people \\ ou1d use more "unhght dtll1l1£; the \\ IntCl months than they do nO\\ Ot cOtll 'C ther c I' no red~on \\ 11\ the reform cannot be eftectecl \\ Ithout a (hange 111tlmc ~11\ person 01 any factory may start \\ Olk at (, 1I1steacl ot i 0 dock If they WIsh to, but It would be chfficnlt to makc such a mo\ e-ment ~enCl al and to havc It only pal tl crllv adopted would cause ,lI1nOY111gconfnslOn Gelman) 'iCe111'ito ha\c sohed the trelght rate prob1elTl more satisfactonly than am othel conntl \, bv I1S1l1£;someth111~ hke the postage 'itamp S\ stem ( h el thcI c unl \ three elemenh entel 111tOthe calculatIOn of a tl elg-ht I atc, ,md they dl e ,0 SImple that any shlppel can reachl) dscer ta1l1 hh I ate tal hIm ,elf WIthout hav1l1g to ask the a'i,I'itance 01 adVIce ot am ral1 load employe 1 herc c1ement'i al C weu.;ht bulk and ch, tance \11 freight I ates al C figtll ed ft om thesc thrce alone and the result is that It make~ no cbffel ence to the shlppel \\ hether he IS on a through loute, 01 111a legIOn ot dense tJaffic, 01 111a bl~ L1ty 01 a httle one, or e\cn out 111 the open eountJy The rdll-road can only charge h1111for the \\ eIght and bulk and dl"tdncc of his ~hipment Before Germany adopted thIS 51stem that country had al! the troubles and complamts about unfalr rates, rh,L1I111111dt)()l1~lchdtl' etc dBt ha\e plc\allcd III \mencd dnd othel countllc, but "1I1ce Ih adoptIon all ~uch chspute" at c ,aId to ha\ e dl,appeared The acloptlOn of ~uch a system 111 thl'i countl \ \\ ould be expectcd to nece'iSltate an advance 111the 1,ltc, nm\ enloyed by the most favored clt1es It dId thdt m Gellll,l1l\ \\ hcn fil q put 111tOpractIcc, but now all rates are lower them the\ \\ el C11lldel the old ~ystem and the ralh oacb, as a whole, dl e maklllg £;1eatel pI ofit~ [11(" Intel statc Commerce CommIssIOn ha~ e!emed the peU-tlfJll ot the Illdllgan Shlpper'i ~ssoclatlOn, askll1g that thc \lJd1ll~an plan -the average e!el11t1l rage sytem-be adoptce! tIll oughout the countrv c\CCOIdlllg to the ruhng the "~1Ich- I~all plan must be abandoned, though It ha'i provcd Itself al- 1110,t completely ,atIsfactory to both shlpper'i and carners III thb "tate much more so than an} system Jet deVIsed by the l0111ml"lOn Had It been gIven a tnal 111 other states there h httJe douht that It would have been endorsed and adopted 101 the entIre countf), but thc L1ter'itate commerce commlS- ~IOllel'" appdl enth l11t1uenced bv tr dffic manag-ers of some of thl g-redt ral1road (OmblndtJon", hdve ruled otherwlsc and thc aH'I,lge 'i\Stem IS shelvee\ fOl the pI escnt at lea~t \\ hen an emplo\ er fall, labor claims are a fir~t hen on hh a'i'"<et'i lonnelh thIS hen applied only to amounts due tOl manual labor hut III recent years the laws have been amenderl 01 umstrued b\ the courts, to Il1clucle wages or ,alanes due delk- tra\ ehng 'ialesmen and even the officers ot corporatlon'i I hCIe I, one cla~'i of ,alesmen however, who are not plotected b\ the LlbOl hen la\\" They al e the men who sell on a COlll- 1111'3'310b1a1"I" [n case ot as'ilgnment, bank! uptC} , attacbment lJI .111\ kInd ot a tal1t1le, thc COmml'3'3lOnsale oman ha~ to take hh l hance, \\ Ith the general CIcdltors That does not ,cel1l j,lll The COmmhSlOn man \\olks JU'it a'i hard as the man 011 a ~alal) dnd should be cOlLldered <I prefel red credItor The lahOl hen la\\ sneed rCVI'ilOn 1he .,entl111ents III le~ald to Juhus Belkey and George \\ (ren expl e,,,ed 1n \\ Ilha111 VI,"ldchcomb, one of thel'r most fOl-llJ1cldblc lompetltor~, show blOad-m111dedness ancl an absence ot the ;,elfish Jealousy on the part of the wnter, that usually eXI"t bet\\ een bus1l1ess Ilvals They also indicate a measure of mutuaht) and good \\ 111among the furmture manufacturers ot CJI and RapIds that may have had much to do WIth the suc- CC'i, ot an 1I1du~tJ} that has gIven the city a name and spread ItS tame to all parts of the world. The remarkable record made by the Berkey & Gay FUI11l-ture company WIll be more fully apprecIated when It IS known t11dt 111 the past half century nearly four hundred furnittll e manufacturing projects have been launched in Grand Rapid'i and only about forty have survIved Ten per cent, however, h not a bad showmg for the mdustry, when c011'3lderec1in con- !1tLtlon \\ Ith the fact that less than f011l per cent of general ],thmc~s \ entures prm e succes'iful and that less than eIght per cent ot them h\ e 0\ el a year \" early all "capta1l1s' of commerce trade and industry con-fidentl) behe\C that 1Ql0 wJ11 be one of the most prosperous \ eal s m the hIstory of the country Now is the time to launch ne\\ projects and enlarge busmess of all kinds. Kow the tariff chsputes are settled There',; no eXCU'ie fOl further postponement of manufacturing, mercantile build~ iug or transportation projects. The young man was astomshed, and asked the old man if he 1eally meant It The old fellow, a tnfle Ira~clble, as old men are wont to be-- e~peClally If they have been succe~~ful themselve~-' etused t \ explam furtheI, and told the young fellow to thmk over what he had saId and Its meamng would 111tune be clear to hIm The young man had been only a few short weeks 111 the busi-ness, but had managed to let every othel employe undel stand that the Jumor partner was an especIal fnend of his father and had placed hIm there MOl eover, he entertallled the other em-ployees at lunch each day wIth anecdotes he had heard in 1m, own home concernmg the fnendshlps, socIal entertainments, etc , of the Jll11IOrmember of the firm He cOlFhtuted himself a SOlt of ready-reference-manual of the doings of the Junior partner outsIde of the office In a surpnsmgly short tnne hIS own father called the young man aSIde and accmed 111mof tellmg tl11ng~ m the office that dIdn't concern 111m, statmg that hIs fnend, the Jumol partnc!, had complamed to hun about It In concluslOn the boy'~ fathel advised-"be a know-nothing- my son, and," he added, more e:>.- phCltly, "by that I mean keep lour mouth ~hut wIth yom fellow MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS \ gooc1 start, mdeed, on the load to success has the employe who has learned the art of bemg a "know nothmg" Though thIS statement sounds absurd, there IS truth m It One of the fil "t pnnclple" of a successful empl-oye IS to keep hI mouth shut concermng hIS employer's bus111ess \;yhen \\1th other men em-ployed m a sunIlar capacIty m othel films the natural tendancy of the clOwd IS to talk "shop" \ cel tam amount of thIS IS, of course, all nght, andm many m~tances mutually benefiCIal But the trouble is to know when to draw the lIne Though an employe of a big bus mess concern, 01 of a small one for that matter, IS not entrusted WIth all, or pel-haps even any, of the important seCl ets of the firm, there al e many valuable pomts whIch he I" m a posltlOn to pIck up lIere and there, "Imply because he I~ m theu employ It may be merely ~ome method that hIS firm has adopted1ll some branch of its bUSI-ne" s that he tells hIS fnends about-wIth pude, perhaps, or WIth lOndemnatlOn Those fnends may be perfectly good fnends and ~mcere, but If they are "alIve" the chances are they WIll straIght-way mention the matter to theIr own employers It is foolhardy mdeed to tell outSIders of the muer \\ 01 kmgs of one's firm and e'<pect them, WIthout any mcentive, to keep the matter se- Made by W. H. Gunlocke Chair Co., Wayland, N, Y. Cl et, If yOU, yOll! "elf, al c unahle to kecp yoU! own mouth shut about It Young men al e prone to tell each other of the cutting down of eApenses and to complall1 of the vanous "tIght-wad" retrench-ments of their employer~ In many cases these small economies plactIced by every firm that succeeds, are changed by gossip from mole hills of practIcal bus mess acumen into mountains of doubt-ful credIt, questIonable financial standlllg and implied faIlure Sooner or later, the fact that an employe is telllllg bUSlll(,~' secrets, however ul1portant they may be, to outSIders is bOlWd to come back to the ears of the firm. However capahle tl,(' em-ploye may be, no employer is going to stand for a thing of that sort. In self-defense the emplOye must be discharged. A VOLlIlg man, starting out in the bUSllle~s world, once went to an older man, who had been pre-emlllently successful in the same line, and asked hIm for adVIce The old man paused a mmute and looked at the young boy ImpreSSIvely "I've got but one thmg to say to you, young man," he 'Said, "and that is-be a 'know-nothing." employes about the firm and its business, and know absolutely nothing that is gomg on m the office, nor any of the office pohtIcs, except the requirements of your own individual work" As Seen by a Buckeye Dealer. Charles Daehler, a furniture dealer of Portsmouth, OhIO, second vice president of the Ohio Furmture Dealers' Associ-atIOn, seems to have had his ideas greatly enlarged by hi~ VISIt to the markets last month He attended the meeting of the National AssociatIOn m ChIcago, and on hIS return home IS re-ported to have said "Business has been favorable and is growing bettel all over the country and the dealers in general have pronounced their satisfaction There were in Grand Rapids at the time of the furmture market 1500 buyers, repre~enting furniture es-tablishments from every nook and corner of the globe." It' a treat to listen to a !pan when he asks you what you'll have. ARTHUR S WHITE. PreSident ALVAH BROWN. Vice President HARRY C WHITE. 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The two opening chapters of the book are reproduced on another page of this Issue. PRIZE CONTEST The Weekly Artisan wIll give away $32.50 in money each month for the best Window and Floor Displays of Furniture Contest open to both Subscribers and Non-Subscribers. Are you good at arranging window and floor displays? Then here's your opportunity to capture from $1.00 to $10.00 every month. Beginning with this number, the Artisan will conduct a series of prize contests for the best window and floor displays of furniture. The rules are simple. Anyone conducting a furniture store may enter the contests, the only provi-sion being that each contestant must enter a GOOD plate of his exhibit and a brief description of how it was accomplished, especially where technical or mechanical contrivances are used in pI eparing the display. That is all. The decisions will be rendered by a committee selected for the purpose, and all awards will take into full considera-tion the natural difficulties which it was necessary to overcome in order to produce the results shown. For instance, the s:nall or medium sized stores will not have the advantages of the larger ones, and the excellence of the small store work will be judged accordingly. Thus all will have an equal opportunity and an equal chance in the distribution of prizes. 4th Prize 5th Prize Next 5 $2.50 2.50 1.00 each 1st Prize 2nd Prize 3rd Prize $10.00 7.50 5.00 Each month the winning displays will be reproduced in the Weekly Artisan, which will afford an excellent oppor-tunity for readers to study each other's store methods. We aim to make these contests of more than monetary interest; they are designed primarily to stimulate superior effects in display and to offer a source of education along these lines. Good window and floor displays require serious study. The advertising value of welI kept windows and floors cannot be over estimated. If you present to the multitudes who daily pass your windows, an attractive setting, you will arrest their attention and admiration, and while they may not draw every passerby into your store at once, they are nevertheless doing a helpful work, and one which pays in the long run. When space permits, it is a good plan to reproduce room scenes, thus suggesting to the prospectlve purchaser how she may obtain good effects in her home. This plan is carried out very suc-cessfully in large cities. Now, then, brothers, send in your photos, and go after the prize money. All who wish to enter the September con-test must have their photos in by August 25th. Address WEEKLY ARTISAN, Grand Rapids, Mich. J F Bomer, general managel of the Standard Furnitm e Company of Kashv111e, Tenn, reports a buoyant feelmg m the furmture trade, e::.peClally m Alabama, where his company's "ales hay e l11creased rapidly dunng the past three mon1fhs \11 labol claims agam"t the Chippewa Falls (\VIS) Fur- 11lture ( ompan), bankrupt, have been paJd 111 full by the state lOmn1l'3"IOnel ot bankruptcy A payment of 25 per cent on othel claims I::' expected soon, and further dividends later IJ dnk I erdll1dncl, mcOi porated, has bought the stock of 11l~h grade turmture that wa..., a part of the asset;, of the Lott- Lngh"h } ur11lture Company of Boston, recently declared bdnkrupt and \\ Jll mm e Jt to hiS store at 251 Causeway street 1 he toundry men employed by the Simmons Manufactunng Company went on stnke recently and threatened to shut down the entll e plant Imt v\ ent back to v\ ork when the company "l1~~e..,tecl that the\ do "0, and alSreed to settle the dJspute b) dl bltratlOn 1he Comstock- \ \ el) Compan), which has sold furlllture In l'eolla 111 fOi more than forty years, Will go out of busI-l1e".., at the end at thl::' \ eal The company wl1l be dissolved ,111d the htllhhng Iemodeled VI III he occupied by the FIrst \ dtlOnal Dank J Ildndlev, \\ ho ha" been dOing busmess under the name ot the L mon FtlI111ttll e Company at Lancaster, OhIO, £01 dbout a \ eal, ha::, made an assIgnment ~\s"et'3 and habdltle" h,t\ e not heen repOi ted hut the asstgnee was requB ed to gl\ C d bond of $35,000 The ReacbbOio Chan (ompany of Adams, ~Iass, ~ \\01k-ln~ on an Older at 2,228 seats for the new Boston opera hou"e dt Boqon, I 730 al e to he spnng upholstered "edt'3, 294 to he t1dt uphohtered and the Iemamm£; 20-1-"lat "eats, all to be de-hI el ecl he to! e \ u£;u..,t 1::; \d\ Ice.., flOm Gleen BdY, \\ I::', are to the effect that the 1'lldlH lal "ft,lIr" of the TheodOl e Keml1lt7 Furl1lttlle (ompam II III "oon be acl]tl"ted and the Ltct01Y w1111e"ume operatIOn" \ 11ldJont) ut the (J e<lltol" hd I e ,l~ I eed to accept 50 cenh "n the dollctt a" ...,ettkment at thell claims \. lem1l1del of the liadll1g "tamp cra7e comes from De'3- ,fumes, J a \\ here a cal d I eadmg "'vVe Give TI admg Stamp"" \\ a" tacked to the slg"n on the dOO1 of the coroner''3 office It I..., supposed to hd\ e been placed there by somebody who \\ hhed to llchctlle the tradl11g stamp busme% C T Ellcksen at La\\! ence, Kan, on returning from the (TIdnd Rapid::, and Clllc<igo furmtme markets, reported that the bu) l11g \\ dS heal ler than It had been for years, especIally h\ dealel::' 111ts.e middle west, nearly all of whom left larger 01del" than m an) season smce the summer of 1907 rhe Venty-Caswell Table Company of Portland, MICh, has been placed 111the hands of \'\ \\ Ternft as receIver. The company has been m financial straIts for some tIme, and 111 rnne gave ~lr Ternff a chattel mortgage on some stock and machll1ery The liabIlitIes are about $20,000, asset'3, esti-mated at $30,000. That bus111ess IS good with the furniture factories of Rock-ford, Ill, is indicated by additions to the plants The Rock-fOi d FurnIture Company and the Co-operatIve Company have I ecenth completed new hUlldll1g'3, and now the Excel Manu-factUring Company IS bmldll1g an addItion, 40x60 feet, one story and basement \; egotIatlOns are pencl111g whIch may result in the removal of the Mal vel Manufactunng Company from Ionia, Mich, to some other town 111the state, probably Augusta, on the Mlch- I~an Central raIlroad between Battle Creek and Kalamazoo -\" \\ as stated last week the Man el Compan) suffered a heavv loss b) fire on July 25 Reports pi esented at the annual meeting of the Waterloo (Ia) Casket Company on July 28, showed a steady growth 111 the bus111ess during the past year Officers for the ensuing yea1 were elected as follows President, Theodore Meyers; \ Ice preSIdent, Ernest Kehe; secretary, Fred L. Eickelberg; treasurer, Charles Hollnagel; manager, Morris Wilson. A company has been orgal1lzed at Charleston, S. C , with a capItal stock of $200,000 to manufacture imitation mahogany, maple, oak and other woods used in the making of furniture and office and cabinet fi'Ctures The company will use a new process of staining the log, so that when sawed or cut the gram of the desired wood will be shown through the sections. ~IISCELLANEOUS NOTES AND NEWS W F MIIlel succeed::. the )Jew L111e Furmture Company, dealel s, at Tarban, .0few :vI:exlco J D Sturg eon has pm chased the stock ot tml11ture carned by the Notion Store of \orfolk, '\ eb Chas H Randall, the pIOn eel tur11ltl11e dealer at ~Lhon Clt), Ja, died of tuberculosl" on Jul) 29 The DIXie Cotton Felt ~lattres" Compam ot ChIcago 11<\" ll1Clea"ed the capItal "tock f10m :';2500 to S;O 000 The ftll11lture and undertak111g film of \cldm" &. DIl~dl d Albion, Ind , has heen dts"o!v ed. ~It \dam'3 retllll1g Chas Vander Ploeg has purchased the fUrJ1ltule andundel tak111g bus111ess of R C J ongevv aard, at SlOU~ (It\ J0\\ ,1 The Peck, Dahlberg & Shaw Company, tur1l1ttll e manutdct-m el '3 of Mll1neapolIs, has been ll1corporated Capital 'itock, $50,000 'vVlchman &. KlOnsel, fm11lture deale", ot \ppleton \\ '" ,t! e bulldll1g an additIOn to then store, 2-h-1-0 teet t\\ 0 "tOIle" and ba'3ement The Orchal d & \VIlhelm Com pam ot Omaha :\ eb, \\ III establIsh a branch 111 Desl\loll1es, ] a, '3UCceedl11g the (ollin" & HeaslIp Company F P Vorhls, formed\ of the fil m of SIl\ el & \ 01111",undu-takers of Eaton, OhIO, ha" pUlcha"ed an 111tele..,t 111 ,1 tUl111tUIC ..,tore at Jackson, 111the '3,lme state The CheshIre Chall Comp<im at Keene '\ 11 II l11eh be~dn to make office and vel amlct chairs eady 111 the '3pll11g, h,h ,t! I e,tdy found It neces"ar) to enlan.;-e the plant The Long Deach (Cal) Immtme Compam h 1epm ted ,1" makl11!S a great '3ULce..,'i111..,elling ml'3"IOn tur11ltulc On the e,hl pay ment plan, "hlpPl11g good'3 to man\ I11tenOl to\\ lh Knau'3 1310'3 & Anl/l11e of SYI acu'ie,:\ Y, are IepOi ted tll ha\ e bOlH;-ht the old Seymom chall plant 111 'L 10\ :\ Y II It h a \ lew of convertIng It I11tO a mlS::'lOn fUIllltUI e Lletol \ \Vlllar<l J:<.-Fletchel, 'iupellntendent of the Fall1e lUlllltUH ( ol11pany, 1'3 spencl!n2; 111'3\ aeatlOn b) \ 1"llJ1H~ ht" old h'lmt nedl S1 Tohn", Ne\\ I1lun"wlck, fOl the 1ll"t tll11e 111 tllcllL \ eals . The well known n"D at Smith, \clam.., tIC GIbbs fm111ttlll dealel", of noston, l\la'i'i, ha,e heen InL01pnlated d" the Smith, Adams & Glbb'3 Compan) Capital "tack <:;50,000, all paid 111 \Vithout SOltCltl11g the hon01, He111y Kohlel ftu111tm c dealer, has been named <i'ione of the candIdate" tOl the Repnb hean nom111atlon fOl alcle1man 111 the Sixteenth \\ ,ll cl ot TIuh d- 10, N Y The Fostel TI10'3 :vI:anut,tctmlng Com pam ot c,t LOIn" Mo, makers of bed '3pll11g'i, 1'3bmldl11g a neVI bllck and qone factory, 100 X 125 feet, tll1 ee stolles dnd hasement, at an e,,- timated cost of $40,000 AI thur c.;chumachel ot the Leiehel rurnlttll e Compam Green Bay, Wis, must ha\ e been one of the late al rI\ al" 111 the Chicago and Grand RapIds markeb He did not leal c home for the trip untIl July 28 The Herzog Art Fnrnitm e Company of Sag 111a IV, "\llch WIll hereafter show their products in the GI and Rapids market They have taken a lease of the entIre top flool of the Leonal cl huilding for a term of five years The Snyder Chair Com pan) of GI and RapJds, Mlch, has leeently changed ItS name to the Sll11plex Furnitme Company, A. J Snyder having retired The Snllplex Furl11ture Company i'i now located at 984 Hall street Manager Oscar Whybark of the Pittsburg (~10) FU1111- ture Company is taking a vacatIOn on account of hl'3 health, leavl11g the store in charge of Raj mond ~larsh of J opll11, "\10 Mr Whybark is not dangerously III James T. Hargrove, furniture manufacturel and lumbel-man of Gainesville, Ga, died suddenly on July 29 He had been superintending some repairs in a saw mill, drank a cup of water, and expired a few minutes later The Sternshein furniture store, Waterloo Iowa IS beina enlarged to accommodate a rapidly increasing tr~de Th~ proprietor, S Sternshein, placed heavy orders in the Grand Rapids and Chicago markets during the past month The Stork Folding Crib Company, wltose factory at Vel-mi! li~n, S Dak., was destroyed by fire recently, has leased a buIldmg formerly used as a starch factory in a suburb of Sioux CIty, la, and will abandon the Vermillion plant 'WEEKLY ARTISAN 21 TI KI THE EMBLEM OF SUPERIORITY Two Winners • Varnish In This is the verdict of the manufacturer who knows. Paradox Rubbing Is the best high-grade, quick-rubbing varnish ever pro-duced. Can be fe-coated every day and last coat rubbed safely in three days. Ti-ki Lac Is our high-grade first or second coat varmsh. Dne~ hard to sandpaper over night. Last coat can be ruble:! in twenty-four hours. The man who knows is the man who wins. VARNISH DEPARTMENT Acme White Lead and Color Works DETROIT, MICHIGAN ~IISSION LIBRARY SUITES aloe 01'1(' of the attractions ('ontaiued in the new line of the II,• I I• I• ,I,, I -- - - - ------------------------------. Hotels That Will Need Furniture. The Stratton e~tate IS to llwest $200,000 m improving the Brov,n Palace hotel. Denver, Cola ::\llllel & Pay ne have purchased the Lmdell hotel m Lm-coIn "\ ebr , and will make extensive improvements The house now has lGD rooms The Turkish Bath Hotel company has hun orgamzed to buIld a hotel \\ Ith 100 rooms m Spokane, Wash N P NIchols h p! e'ldent of the company Re\ Ised plans fOl the new DavenpOl t Hotel at Spokdne, \\ 'hh \\ III bl11lg the co~t up to $2,~100,000 ntstead of $1,700,000 1 he 'trndm e \\ III he b\ elve stories high and each of the 300 ~lIest rooms "\\III ha"\e a pnvate hath Work on the foundatIOns \\ III be started next week The rarest CIb Hotel company of Savannah, Ga, IS to build a t\\ eh e story fire-proof hotel on the site of the old WEEKLY ARTISAN Evolution of the Martha Washington Rug. Among the coolest summer floor covermgs are the wash able home made rag-carpet rugs that make their way throm;h the world under an assumed name, borrowed from the mothel of our country, says the vVashington Star. Martha Wash1l1~ ton may have made rugs or may not have (she probably clId tOll and spm, bemg a dame of the olden tune), but whether she did or not, they bear her name Annually they take on ne\\ colors and patterns 111 a shamele~~lv model n fashIOn and some of them are now so gay as to be be1ter fitted for the n 'bClI than the serious and full-grown d01111clle The gray-mixed rugs are borde! ed \\ Ith a whole "\Illd~ C scene, showing an array of houses, fence" and \\ eep1l1g WI1!O\\ trees Thirty-SIx inches of scampellng rabbIts 111 dull color, are woven across the ends of red rug~, and a pageant of squa\\ k Made by Grand RapIds Fancy F urmlure Co ing white geese, the bordel of a dehcate blue one, \Vould d11M7e any bdby ~eated suddenly 111 the center of thb bal ny ard scene A quaint blue pa1l1ted pump by the waySide, \\ Ith a httle land-scape, has made Its appearance on one of the ne\\ cst The rag-carpet rug IS qUIte apparently 111a state at e"\0- lutlOn It also has been noted that differences 111the \\ ea"\e are now beginmng to crop out, but the mventn e powers of \\ o-man are not on the wane, and we probably shall hdve stIll others to amuse us and, 111cidentally, the chIldren 111 the nursery Special Hotel Orders. The John D Raab Chair company, Grand Rapids booked orders m July far ahead of any former season They have con-tracts for furmshing chairs for a new hotel at San ~ntol11o Texas, the new Lee Huck111~ hotel at Oklahoma City, the Hotel Plaza, Chicago, and for a new sanitarium at Waukesha, \VI \lade by Warren Table WOIks, Warren Pa <""UC\Ul liuc1 ~ 111 thdt city 1, II DurlLn I~ IJle~ldent of the company Dr De~Il"\ el 11d~ purchased the Harper House 111 Roek I,land, ] 11 and \\ III spend $50 000 111 rem a Id1l1g and refur-l11shl! 1g the bmld1l1g \V L Brown, les"ee and managel of the Colu'11blan hotel of De~ Ilomes, 1a, IS to bUlld a ten story hotel on the slte in the real of the Columbian \\ dlttl eLn ton IS to convel t the l'el el a bmldmg, PassaiC, '\ J Into d 1110cleln hotel and call it the Hotel Capitol J meph PKkelll1g IS makll1g arrangements to build a mocl-clem hotel on \llegheny street 111Jersey Shore, Pa An Important Insurance Ruling. Supenntendent of 1n~urance HotchkJ~~ of 'Jew Ycnk has ruled tl1dt an 111~11rancepohn IS not IS'i11erl untIl the books of the compan), or of one of Its dgents, show that the prem- Ium has I-een paid The rullng "as made 111 the case of the "ell York Life 1nsl11anre company "hich IS Inmted by law to $15 oon 000 111 nell 111smance per year and has had chfficulty 111 detenmlllng IIhen that lnmt has been reached, but insurance men generally declare that It Will apply to fire as wel1 as hfe pohCles and that unless the ruhng shal1 be annulled by the courts, no polle\ wJ!1 be in force until the premium has been paid m cash or m someth111g that the company accepts as an eqUIvalent Heretofore the slgnll1g and dehvery of a pohcy has been considered all that was necessdry to put it in farce WEEKLY ARTISAN ,.. . _--------_._.--_. _. _ -._._-_.- --_. --..---_._._.------------_._.--., 23 OUR LINE OF CHINA CLOSETS, BUFFETS AND BOOKCASES IS MORE COMPLETE I ROCKFORD STAZ:!£~~F8UsRNITURE CO. I • .. a_a all .. _.... ... • II ..... all _ ......... __ "Il .... --- .... ~r AND THAN EVER BEFORE. SAMPLES SHOWN IN CHICAGO ONLY, 1319 MICHIGAN AVENUE, MANUFACT. URERS' EXHIBITION BUILDING, IN CHARGE OF F. P. FISHER, N. P. NELSON, AND FRED LUGER. THE Wellin~ton notel Cor. Wabash Ave & Jackson Boulevard CHICAGO Remodeled at a cost of $150,000 Hot and cold running water and long dis-tance 'phones In an rooms. ZOO room, 100 With bath Smgle or en sUIte. Rate, $1 00 and upward, One of the most umque dmmg lOoms In the country Our famou, ludlan Cafe NOTED FOR SERVICE AND CUIS NE McClintock and Bayfield PROPS. j..- •••••••••• • •••• - '" _ . ....._.. . ... ~ These saws are made from No. 1 Steel and we war-rant every blade. We also carry a full stock of Bev-eled Back Scroll Saws, any length and gauge. WrIte us tor Price Ll.ot aud dlscount 31-33 S. Front St., ORAND RAPIDS, MICH. a._a •. .. 'lit. .... • _ .... IIIt II • BOYNTON & CO Manufacturers of Embossed and Turned Mould- ]ngs~ Emboss. ed and Spindle Carvings, and Automatic Turnings. We also manu facture a large lme 01 Embossed Ornaments for Couch Work. 4'9-42' W. Fifteenth St., CHICAGO, ILL. f .... ~~B; ~N·DETROIT STOP AT Hotel Tuller New and Ablolutely Fireproof Cor. Adams Ave. and Park St. In the Center 01 the Thestre, Shop- PlOK, and Busmess Dlstnct. A la Carte Cafe Newest and Fmest Gnll Room 10 the City Club Breakfast - - - 40c up Luncbeon - - - - 50c Table d'hote Dmners - 75c MUSlcfrom 6P M to IZ P M I..... Every room has a private bath. EUROPEAN PLAN Rates' $1 50 per day and up. L W. TULLER, Prop M. A. SHAW, Mgr I . _-. . --.~ I . II Ii ... to conn tel telt the "'Ide of a dl awe1, the top of a tdble, the hot-tom of d d1d1l , 01 pel hdp" ~ome other pdl t of the IHece 1 he l hal aLiel abIlity dnd method" of the founder'i and fOl mam yed1S controllers of the Berkey & Gay Company 11CIe \\ ell desCllhed bl \\ Ilham \Vlddlcomb, One of thell dble",t, mo",t !Jromment ~nd most succes..,ful competitors, m dn Mtlde on G1and Rdplds F111l1lture," 1ecently publ1~hed, III \\ 11lch he \\ rate It IS one of m 1 theolle'i thd tit I" not 'iO mnch 10catIOtl UI natural acll antage that "ecure" exceptional bU"lness suc- LL"'''' but I athel, tl~e per'iOnd1lty of the men who happell to u11~lnate and del elop It and to thiS very feature do I ascnbe the lmportdnce \\ hlch Grand RapIds has achIeved III furl11tm e l11anutactunng Fortunately for Grand Rapids, ItS plOneel tUllllture lllan ufactUl ers 1\ ere the happy po'i'ies'ior'i of those Important charactenstlc" reqmred for "uccess III thel1' own 1l1dustr), and among them no one man clisplayed such pi e-e111111ence111energ) , llldu~try, ongllla1lty and busllless pI ud-cnce- all the factors that a1e demanded for our bus1l1ess-a" 1u1lus Hel kel ::\11 Berkey had all of these to a marked degl ee, <ll1d J doubt IV hether he knew the meamng of th~ word 'd1S-couragement' George \\ Gay \\a::> eqnally capable \,yhlle Mr Gay mal hal e had at first but ll1ddttrent techmcal knowledge 1n manufactunng, he d1d possess the talents which make men promll1ent among the1r fellows He had shown energy ann ealnest zeal III busll1ess affalr'i up to the tlme he entered the Berkey & Gay Company, and the years ImmedIately followlllg ::\ill Gay''i entry were epoch mak1l1g for the 1I1dustry which was to rendel Gl and RapIds so famous Wlth1l1 a short tlme, tram 1866 to 1873, Bel key BlOthers & Gay developed 1I1to an ll1"tltutlOn of such mdgl1ltude as to warrant capltal1zatlOn ,lt a \ ery large fig Ule \\ hen r glance back 0\ er those days-day" that covel the earl) 'it! uggle" of OUI ll1du~try-1 can not refra1l1 fro111 am<17ement that <"lll h \\ ork could be accompl1shed so rapidly I "'ee them OClUPl 111Q, the ol1gl11al factory on the canal, then IllllljJ\ mg the UppCI floor" of the blllld1l1gs now used bv (Jdrelnel ~ ]:d \.ter tlom the'oe to "e\ eral bmldl11gs on Canal ",tl eet OJlpChlte ] (Ion"'on. 1ecell Ing ill "t pI em111m at the ~tate r,lll npel11n£; <l bl d11lh III '\ e\\ York CIty, takmg a high POSI-tlO11In the Ed"tell1 bdde, dnd dll thl" pnol to 1875 ~I I Berke) posses"ed the 111St111Ct"of the manufacturer to d maIl,ed degree, and Mr Gay gave el1dence of equally keen 1I1sIght Into the mel cdntIle portIOn of the bU'i111eSS,whtle I apldh aCCjulll11g sbll and exceptlOnal Judgment 111the artistic cle"l~n" for \\ hlch the) \\ el e wlelely known They also had that qualIty of humdn natUle whIch enabled them to employ men successfully, 'iecUlll1g theIr good Vvlll, theIr earnest co-uperatlOn 111 fact the) \\ ere mdefatlgable 111 theIr attentlOn to all the eletdIl" 01 the hU'ilne'i"', noth1l1£, too large to grasp, nOlh111g '00 "mdll hut Jt 1ecel\ eel dttentlon for tho')e eaIll <.,tage" both ::\Ir f\erkey dnel ]\Ir Gay de \ eloped eXl eptlondl on£,111alit\ <lnd entel pnse They were the hI ",t to mtroduce e"pen"l \ e lmpl 0\ ements 111 machll1ery, the 111 ",t to dl<.,pla) on£,111dht) 111de~lgn, the fir'it to employ ~klllecl de"l~ner' anel the fil ",t to bllng "kIlled mechal11c'i from othel "'ec11011"ot om countl \ <lllrl e\ en from foreIgn ldnd" no dJfh-ll1ln el el dete11 ed them "hen the} had once deCided thel1 hU"1I1es') I ellUll eel 11l1prm eme11t and ..,kIll beyond Vv l11ch 011 01\ n \\ orkmen could furl11sh 1he1r dbllity and progres'i we1 t <\ "tl111ulu" to el er) othel manufactunng concern In Glan(1 !\dPlel'o thell competItIOn of that "tralghtforwdrel bUSIPC', dldl acter el el \ fall mlncled man 1" vvIllmg to meet ] gl\ t t "'pcCldl ue(ht to th<lt fil m f()l 0111 de' elopment m tho"e earl \ lIen" ' '10cld) the "'tand111g 01 the UeJ1<ey & Gay Company IS bettt'l 1111 an Clally , better 111 the ,olume of busmes'i, better m tl e Lhdl dctel of Its ploducts, dnd better In It'i general Chd1 al tel ,111dleput<ltlon thdn at an, other time In the fifty yedrs t111.1 hdl L eJajJ",ecl "'lnu' It 1\ a'i 10unded And every mdicatlOn pOlnh to ,l lU11tl111l,ll1le of Its 'iUplemaCy, as d leadcl III the fUlllltme 111duslt) 101 dnother half century or more BERKEY & GAY'S GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY Outline History of an Institution That Has Stood AInong Leaders of the Furniture World for Half a Century. '1 he C1111ellt 1 eal IOl1IH!'" put ,111 e\ en half centull III thc hlstor) of the 13~1key ~ Gd \ hll mtl11 e Comp<111), one ot t hc largc"t <111clmo"t Imp01 tant mdnufactullng 111",tltutlon" ot C-:;rancl Rapld<., The company has had a lemarkllble Cdleel \1 \\ dy" a leadel In It<.,ll11c, It 1~ saId to be the onll 1111l11t1c11 111"'tltutlOn In /\menCd that ha::. eXl"ted tor fifty ) cal ') "ltholl1 dny 111atenal change 111 0\\ nershlp, WIthout dnl chdnge I1l pohcy, and Without fatllllg to meet pay lOlls and othel 111debt edne~::. promptly The bU"ll1es~ now conducted by the Belke' &.. Gd\ Com- Jldny was estabhshed bv ] Uhlh Bel kn ldte 111 1859 Lall1 111the follow111g year ]\11 Belkey took In Alphon"o Hdl11111d'" d pal tner, but the latter" a <.,too slo\\ to match the energetic chdracter of the 10lmer. and the partnershIp dId not la'it mOl e than a few months The fUll11ture facton \\ as then located on the top flOO1 of a frame huddl11g erec"ted by \VJ11Jam A Bel key, who used the lower floor a~ a plamng lmll, and al"'o made sash, doors and bhnds The bmldl11g, long Sl11ce gone ..,tooel on a part of the sIte now occupIed by the Berke) &.. Gd\ fdctory The fir'it plOduct of ]uhu::, Berkey''i factor) \\ a" a tdble, whIch was so well made that It gal11ed an em lable 1eputatlOn and was WIdely known a'i the "Berkel table" After \11 Hamm'", retllcment '.[1 Berke- l0l1t1l1nt'(1 thc lJl1::.l11essalone f01 a yeal or more, and then fOlmed <U1othel partnershIp WIth Eha'i Matter, IV ho later becdme <tmembel ot the firm of Nelson, Matter & Co and dId much to build up the busl1less now owned by the '{ elson-::\Iattel Company another of the concern'i that hay e made Grand Rapids famou'i Mr Matter retired from the firm of Bel kev &.. ;yll:atter 111 1864 and was succeeded by \V Ilham A Berkey, who put In the hmldl1lg and the mach111er) med 111hiS plal1lng mill and the name of the firm Vv as changed to Berkey Bro'" &.. Co t \\ 0 ) ear'i later, 111 1866. George V\T Gay entered the firm <U1elthe name was changed to Berkey Bro'i &.. Gay Early 111 1870, Wilham A Berkey ha'111g been mdde a",- "Ignee for Atkins, Soule & Co. a firm that made chambel tm- 11lture, found that the affalr'i of the bankrupt concern reqUIred all his attentlOn and somethl11g mOl e He therefore \\ Ith(1I e\\ from the firm of Del ke' BIOs & Ga) thoul;h the name 1\ a", not changed untd 1873, \\ hen the Berkey & Gal Fl1l11ltnlc lOI11 pany was I11corporated '-,l11le the 111COpIor dtHlll thel t hel" been no change 111 name, dnd no matellal chdn~e In the pel- 'oonnel of the management, eAcept Vv hen made neCe'i"'dl \ b, death Juhus Berkey was ples1dent, Geor~e \V (.:rdYtrea"Ulel dnd A J. Holt secretary John"" Covode bought an I11tele",t m the compdny in 1882 He became ')ecretal) 111 J nnc of thdt year, and has filled the pOSItIon fOJ 27 years He took thc posItion from \\ II Beal, II ho had succeeded .:'IIr Holt In 1879 Geo \V Gay ched abont ten years ago, and 11<1')'iucceedecl b) Geon;e G \\I11b\orth a'i tlea<.,urer. "ho ",till hold'i the ])()"ltlOn Juhu'i Berkel dIed about a ) eal a~o and IS "uc ceeded a'i preSident by \Vl1hdm H Ga), 'ion ot the fOlmel tl ea~m er There IS d hoal d of d1reLt01 s of cour"e, but thel al e rarely called upon to act, the affalr'i of the comp<ll1 \ bel11g controlled and harmomou'ilv mandged hl '.Ie'iSl" Gay, COl ode dnd \Vhlh\ orth, wlthont any £;eneral managel The pohcy of the Berke) & Gal Compam ha" alII d' '" helll to make only hIgh cla'is goods Thot1l.~h otten tempted to do so, thIS pohcy ha-; nel el been ahandoned Thel e have been times when the company ml~ht h<t, e nude mOl e mone\ <U1c! worked thlough pelloel" 01 hal c1 t1111e" h\ pntt111~ ont l heap products, but the succe% would l1d' e been onh tempol dl \ and would hal e tended to I11Jure the company''i leputatlOn which hds become one of ItS mo",t \ aln<lble dS'ich For se\ eral years e, ery pIece of fur111tme ",ent ont tJOlJ1 the factory has carlled the company'" 'ihop mdd>c dnd an db",o lute gual antee, COlenng matellal, con~tructJOl1 and fil11"h The "hop mark IS not a card or pIece of papel tacked or pa')ted on nor l'i It made l\;lth a stencil or bland1l1g 11on, but IS of \\ood 1l1lald 111 <.,ueh a \\ a, that It cannot he 1emo\ ed, e\ en h, (h e,,"111~ down, 'v Ithout le<n I11g eVidence of the <lHempt ] u conceal the Iemoval of the shop mark It would be nece,,'ial y WEEKLY ARTISAN 25 ------~~~---------~-----~-----_.__---._-.---------_. ----~~---------- ""••• a.a • _ ••• PLATE L-ARGiEST .JOBBERS AND MANUFACTURERS OF GLASS COMPANY GLASS IN THE WORLD Mirrors, Bent Glass, leaded Art Glass, Ornamental Figured Glass, Polished and Rough Plate Glass, Window Glass WIRE GLASS Plate Glass for Shelves, Desks and Table Tops, Carrara Glass more beautiful than white marble. CENERAL DISTRIBUTORS OF PATTON'S SUN PROOF PAINTS AND OF PITCAIRN ACED VARNISHES. (j[ For anythmg m BUilders' Glass, or anythmg m Pamts, Varmshes, Brushes or Pamters' Sundnes, address any of our branch warehouses, a list of which IS gIVen below' NEW YO:BK-Hudson and Vandam Sts. BOSTON-41-49 Sudbury st., 1-9 Bowker St. CHICAG0-442-452 Wabash Ave. CINCINNATI-Broadway and Court sts. ST. LOUIS-Cor. Tenth and Spruce Sts. MINNEAPOLI8-500-5l6 S. Third st. DET:BOIT-53-59 Larned st, E. G:BAlII'D:BAPIDS,MICH-39-41 N. Division st. PITTSBU:BGH-lOl-103 Wood St. MILWAUKEE,WIS.-492-494 Market st. :BOCHESTE:B,N.Y.-WllderBldg., Main &; Exchange sts. BALTIMO:BE-310-l2-14 W. Pratt st. CLEVELAND-1430-1434 West Third st. OMAHA-ll01-1107 Howard St. ST. PAUL-459-461 Jackson st. ATLANTA, GA.-30-32-34 S. pryor St. SAVANNAH,GA.-745-749 Wheaton St. KANSAS CITY-Fifth and Wyandotte sts. BI:BMINGHAM,ALA.-2nd Ave. and 29th st. BUFFALO,N. Y.-372-74-76-78 Pearl St. BBOOKLYN-635-637 Fulton St. PHILADELPHIA-Pitcairn Bldg., Arch and 11th DAVENPO:BT-410-416Scott St. sts. ---- ... ... -- •• • • • r •••• _ • • ----------.-- _ ••••••• - ••••••••• -.... • •• Furniture Losses hy Fire. C E \"rells of Doon, Iowa, lost about $4,000 by fire III h1S furlllture .store on July 26 He carned $2,000 lllsurance, cov-enng the bmlcltng and contents J L R1ppeton, furmture dealer of vVaterford, Texas, "uf-fered a lo:-,s of about $3,500 by fire on July 24 Half lllsmed Sm1th & Moore, furmture manufacturers of Ntles, M1ch, wffe1 ed a lo:-,s of about $4,000 by fire III the1r factOl y recently The loss 1S pal hall) cOvered by lllsurance S A Fltppen, undertaker of Gordonsvtlle, Tenn , lost $1,- :;00 by fire on J ul) 29 Insurance, $1,000 Inlllg & Casson, furmture dealer" of Camblldge, Mass, suffered a small los'> by fire on July 31. New Furniture Factories. Mr Bnlmeyer of Ch1cago, who establt"hed the Phtlltps Manufactunng Company and the Altar Company at Dubuque, la, both hav111g been succes:-,ful, p10poses to establtsh a fac-tory to make church furmture 1n or near Omaha, Neb The Cleveland (OhlO) Swmg Cha1r Company has been 111corporated to manufacture a patented sW111gcha1r Cap1tal stock, $20,000 The Peoples Funeral Company, cap1taltzed at $25,000, has been 111corporated to manufacture coffins, caskets and other undertakers' suppltes 111Newark, N J George We1ssel, Otto Harmch and Joseph F Retlly are the 111corpordtors, and the office w1ll be at 374 Broad street, Newa1 k c\ new furmtm e factory w1ll probably be located III Oro- \ tlle, Cal Orpha II Stucki, Robel t J Kemp and Janet D Puls1fer have 111corporated the Damel K Stucki Company to manu-facture and sell furmtme, hardware and tools 111Buffalo, N Y Cap1tal stock, $2,000 Residences to he Furnished. Southern Cahformans cont111ue the mak111g of hberal ex-pend1tures for fine re"ldences Among those engaged 111or about to commence the erectlOn of home bU1ld111gsare the fol- 10w111g. At San Bernard1110, Mrs J G E1ckelman; at Los Angeles, F L Bradshaw, C A Le1ghton, Henr) \\'tldey, Mrs E A Covell, I A Burton, Ahce S McKevitt, Clara W Gnes, J Clyde Powers, at Pasadena, J Hoyt Sm1th, Vv M Shaw, at Redlands, Fredenck Dunham, at R1vers1de, H Neills Fraser, at Pomona, D D Schlatter All w1ll need furlllture Lake Traffic Shows Large Increase. Notw1thstand111g the seamen's stnke, which has been on S111ceearly III May, traffic on the Great Lakes shows an lll-crease of over 40 per cent, as compared w1th last year Re-ports for the month of June, Just pubhshed, show that the do-mestIc sh1pments from lake ports of the lead111g classes of commoditIes were 10,179,633 net tons, compared w1th 7,427,616 net tons sh1pped III June, 1908, and 10,690,632 net tons sh1pped III June, 1907 As the lllfluence of the stnke was felt much less 111July than 111June, the sh1pments dunng that month are be-heved to have been fully equal to those of July, 1907 A large first class hotel w1ll be erected III Santa MOl11ca, Cal The E L Sm1th Cha1r Company, Evansv1lle, Ind, has prepared plans for an add1tIon to the factory to be used as a warehouse and varmsh room ~, --- --- ..- . ..~ ~------------------ - - - ..-- - .- - .- .I 26 p,. -.-.-._. -_._-'.-- -_._._------ WEEKLY ARTISAN of ExcelIent WorkmanshIp and FInIsh, consIstIng or Parlor Cal>inets, Music Cal>inets, Hall Trees, Hat Racks, Shaving Stands, Buffets, China Closets, Gilt Mirrors, Dressing Tal>les, Chairs, and AdjuSlal>le Fixturus DISPLAYS GRAND RAPIDS-Second Floor, Fum Iture ExhIbitIOn BUIlding CHICAGO-All the year round, Chlca go FurnIture Exchange, 14th and Wabash Ale. and In the New York Furmture Exchange - .- .... The Celellrated EFFand EFF Line j ••! • ROCKfORD fRAME AND fiXTURE co., Rockford, III. I .. • •• __ - • _. _. __ • _ ••••• - - • - - _ - _... -01 N ? - --- - _- ......~. .tlllill ..-:- : .:-~ ~~~ ~~_~_l~lllU' -~r~r~ _. /r -:...-:__ r~/"'-:: , \ll'f...., - -- ,~ 'I Uill - . liili! f3~ , r Y_~~) l .... ,1\,--:"'/)7 ) ~~r'~: ) oJ .... \, " FILLER The PILLER that FILLS. The L. Mac. E. Fillers are noted for their Uniformity. They work properly, packing well under the pad. They dry hard over night They will not Shrink as we use a water floated Silex. WE CAN MATCH ANYTHING. The Lawrence-McFadden Company PHILADELPHIA, PA. WEEKLY ARTISAN EVERY FURNITURE MANUFACTURER should have the Weekly Artisan List of Dealers and Buyers. It contains the names of all dealers in furniture rated from $1 ,000 up, satisfactory pay. Approximately 15,000 DEALERS are listed. The list is revised semi..annually. Costs $ 1.00 for the two editions. We are sending it as a premium for subscriptionsto the Week'y Artisan, the only Weekly Furniture Journal at $1.00 a year. Think of it! 52 COPIES OF THE ARTISAN AND 2 REVISED LISTS ALL FOR $1.00 Can you afford to pass up this opportunity? Send in your Dollar. You'll not regret it. WEEKLY ARTISAN GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. 27 28 - - --- -- ------------------------. -_._. _. -_._---_._._._------~-------------~-._----- ••••• ·11 I WEEKLY ARTISAN I WKITE FOK IT ~---------- - ---------------------_. - .. . riE-Nfz .TASLE COMPANY A Few Patterns from our last Catalogue. FIRE INSURANCE DIVIDENDS The Figures Suggest That a Reduction in Right!'> Might Be in Order Soon. The book and mal ket ,alues of the "tock ot Harttord fil e 111surance compal11e" S111cethe '--an 1ranclsco tn e 111 1 (JOG h pro, ok111g dlscus"lOn among 111"t11 ance men 1t h cd "0 I ecen - 111gattentIOn from pohcyholders many at \\ ham th1111-that a" the compa111es ha,e reco\ eled from the ettect" ot the ~Ieat dIsaster, a reductIOn In I ates should come "oon In January of the yeal of the great file ,\ll1ch nCllllled In A.pnl, the Aetna e"tahh"hed a dn Idend I ate OJ 1G pel cent III quarterly lllstallmenh and \\ a:o not att-ected b\ the hl~ hI e The stock earl) In 190b \\as quoted at flam -1-1; ,:; to -1-20 The stock h held now at ftom 317 to 325 tor ",hale.., ot S100 each The ConnectIcut 111e, at the t1111eof the dl sa "ter 1ed uced Its capItal of 3'1 000.000 to $500000 and then I ahed It d~dlll by IbSU111g$.:;00,000 of ne\\ "tack at S200 a "hare Ih dn Hlend late of 12 pel cent annually In seml-annudl lll:otallmenb \\ a" contlllued, but for a tlme It paId anI) on a capltdludJlOn at $500,000, together wIth 111telest on bUb"CllptlOlh tal ne\\ "tad. At the tlme of the fire the stock \\ a" quoted at 370 1111" \\ eek the figures are from 293 to 305 The Hal tford hre had a capItal at Sl 2;0000 palrl In dt the beg111111ng of 1906, and at that tlllle paId a "enu annudl dn Idend of 10 per cent and an addItional 15 per cent II hen the fire came the capltdl was 111creased to S2,000 000 by I"smng $7:;0,000 of new stock at :1;500 a shale [he quotatIOn d week hefOle the fire \\dS 1,100 bId, and It sold alouncl 1200 I he pI esent quotatIOn" are 550 to 560 The NatIOnal FIre "tarted the pavment of 7 pel cent "0111- dnnual dIvIdend" 111January, 1906, on $1.000,000 at capltdl '\t the time of the dl"a"tel It "u"penc1ec1 c1n Idenc1 pa\ ment tm the rema111der of the year In 1907 It paId; pel cent dnd then 6, mak111g 11 per cent fOl the yeal The 6 pel (ellt "enll-dllIJUdl rate was cont111ued untIl thIS month, \\ hen 7 pel lent \\ a" paId The stock was valued a week before the contldglatlOn at -J..?; bId The latest quotatIOn IS 380 bId The Phoel11A was pay 111g 12 per cent on Ib $2,000000 III 1906, and the stock was quoted at 342 to 348 After the fil e It suspended the payment of one quarterly dn Idend and then resumed at the late of 2}i per cent quarterly It Ib no\\ pa\- 111gat the rate of 14 per cent annually, and the latest quotatIon IS 265 to 275 I • ~ ._.__ •••• I ... Carpet Maker's View of the Tariff. DhCU"s111g the tallft bl1l, Fred A Booth, secretary and manalSel of the FIrth Carpet Company of Flrthchffe, N J, Ib I eported a" declanng that the wool schedule IS not at all sat- 1Stacton to the carpet manufacturers Speak111g of what are kno\\ n as carpet wools, he saId Of course there are no wools of thIS character grown 111 thl:O country, and the carpet trade IS open for some rehef 111 the ne"t tallft measure But we are belIevers In protectIOn; \\ e belIe\ e 111bUppOI t111g, or rather help111g the government to Pd\ Ih e"pen"e". and so forth, but thIS class of wool does not enter lllto competItion Vv Ith dnyth111g grown 111thIS country rl he I efm e. \\ c are open tor some reduction The house meas-ure a" ple:oented \\ a<ofdlrly satisfactory to us, but when the l)lll got to the "enate the) put back the old rates aga111 II hat \\ e compla111 about IS that when wool gets up to 12 cent-, carpet" ools pay 4 cents per pound duty; but Imme-chatel.' It geb dbO\ e 12, they charge us 7 That is what we dl e compla1l11l1g about a" unfaIr, as one-eIghth of a cent more \\ auld compel us to pay the three cents addItIOnal duty." 1'he :'IolIne (Ill) Furl11ture Company has been awarded the contract tor 1ur11lshlllg de:ok", chaIrs and other eqUlpment tor the lectul e room and lavatones 111the new HIgh School hl11ld111e,at Da, enport, Ia TheIr bId was $11,035 ~_ --- . - . _ _.~ I Grand2P~:~J~~.•£~~~~!M~C.UO.PI We are now puttmg out the best Caster Cups WIth cork bases ever ollereG to the trade. These are fimshed m Golden Oak and WhIte Maple 111 a lIght fimsh These goods are adnurable for pohshed floors and furn- Iture rests They will not sweat or mar. PRICES: Size 2)( mches ..... $400 per hundred SIze 2}.imches .. 5 00 per hundred Try a Sample Order FOB. Grand Rapids. ........ -- ....-.-. • ._._ ••••• _4 .. WEEKLY ARTISAN 29 ~ ..... ----~~~--_. __. -.-_ ..... - ----------- .. MOON SANITARY TYPEWRITER AND OffiCE DESK ALL IN ONE 1-- .. .. ---------- MOON DESK -·-~--1 COMP'Y I---!--------------..!.-----~ t .. .__ ~___ ••• ...a MUSKEGON, MIC". Variety Bench Saw. . .4____________ . '1he abO' e machmQ IS bUIlt by the Crescent :\lachme \ \ 01k s, (Irand Rapids, \llch It IS the \ el y latest thmg 111 thiS type The table alway~ remams the ~ame height from the floor The arbor yoke ral~es and lowers, tray ehng In an arc conc~ntnc with counter shaft Thus the belt Ie-always tight, regardless of the posItion of the saw blade with respect to the table The table tJ1ts eaSily on hea\ y h1l1ges and I" pro\ Ided with gl aduatlOn and l1ucrometer ad- Ju~tment for accuracy The beanngs are full SIX mche, 111 kngth, hned with ge11Lllne babblt and self m11l1g ThiS machine complete With two ~a""s, four gauge~, counter shaft, etc , sells for a very 1110de:t-, pnce New Dealers in Furniture. The Reichenbach-Deming Company ha" been orga111Led With H J Dem111g as preSident, and Albert Reichenbach sec-retary, to deal 111fur111ture at McKeesport, Pa The Opel Fur111ture Company, 111corporated by James A Brud111a, Albert and J E Chlmene, wJ1l sell fur111tUle 111Gal-veston, Texas Capital stock, $10,000 GJ1lette, Eark & Co have opened a new fur111ture store at Good111g, Idaho The Anchor Fur11lture Company wJ1l open a new store about the first of September In P1I1e Bluff, Ark The Empire Home Fur111ture Company, capital stock $5,000, Will open a new store at Yonkers, N Y The Meagher Company, 111corporated With capital stock fixed at $20,000, Will sell furniture at retaJ1 111:\ ew York city. The Spencer-Hunter Company, With capital stock amount- 111g to $20,000, wIll engage in the fur111ture and undertaking bus111ess 111Tiffin, OhIO DoVi-ney & Jamieson are new fur111ture dealers at X ewport, Vt :\Ir Jamieson IS pnnClpal of the graded schools of Lyndon- \ Ille, Vt , and Mr Down owns a fur111ture store m LyndonvIlle Crocker & Owens hay e erected a handsome, commodIOUS bUlldmg m Aberdeen, S D, 111which they Will soon open a new fur11lture store .Furniture Dealers at Law. The Lester Fur11ltUle Company of Napa, Cal, ha:-, brought SUIt aga111st the D C Treadway Company, clalm111g damages to the amount of 9;20,000, on account of an advel tlsement pub-h~ hed 111a newspaper offenng "Leggatt" Spnng Beds for sale. Pla111t1ff claims to hay e the sole agency 111Napa county for the 'Leggatt" beds, and that defendant ha~ falsely represented to customer~ a bed known a~ the "Simmons' as a genu111e Leggatt" bed Should pla111t1ff reco\ er the amount of dam-ages claimed, no argument wIll he nece~sary to pro\e that It pays to advertl"e The Colorado Furniture Company, a cOlporatlon that con-ti ols several fur11lture stores 111that state, has hought the fur11l-ture departUlent of the CreVi-s-Eeggs DiY Goods company, the fur11lture store of the C \\1 Da11lels Company and the stock of the \Vhlte nro~ Fur111ture Company, all of Pueblo The three ~tore~ wJ1l be con:-,ohdated ..~ I In the UOIled States, SUItable for Sun day Schools, Halls, Steam-ers and all publIc resorts We also manufacture Brass TrImmed I r 0 n Beds, SprIng Beds, Cots and CrIbs In a large varIety Send for Catalogue and Przces to KAUffMAN MfG. CO. ASHLAND, OHIO It '"--------- ---_ -- .....~ 30 \ \ EEL,," L Y A R 'lIS A N ,. ----- - ------ ---------- ---------.., I I I THE BIG WHITE SHOP i I I I._________________________________________________________________________________ 4I II III I II III II ,,,II II •,If f,•• Iff•I I,,,, ,,II I III ,If I •Ift IIIIf II ,I II,,IIf f III II I IIt ttIII II , I IIIf If ,IIIII I Ifff f,I ,IIIIII III III•I II,II• ~----------------------------------------------------1 I THE BIG WHITE SHOP III ------oIl We Furnish Every Article of Printing Needed by Business Men WHITE PRINTING COMPANY 108, 110, and 112 North Division Street, Grand Rapids, Mich. ._--_..-- ----- II .I-.- ------------_._..---_.----------- -_.---- ... WEEKLY ARTISAN 31 .....--- I,I, ,III , III ----------.--..---- ... -- -_. - ----------_ -.- . ., I I ---_.~..,---------_.--._.~--.----_.--._--------- -- ... ~ -" - -- - ------------------------ How to Make Your Ads Attract Attention Good Cub dl e 80% of the pulhng po\'. el of dny dd, ertIsement You wouldn't care to enter d fur111 tUle store, for 111;,tance, that displayed old, bdck-style fur111ture 111their w111dows would you? No, you v. ould pa~~ It by and pick out d store that had an attractIve display of New Styles Just so with the woman who reads your ddlly announcements She IS attracted by the Illu,tra-tlOllS of pretty fur111ture She IS 111terested m fur 111ture, and reads the descnptlOns, which bhould be followed by the prIce If you are unable to give proper care and thought to your advertIs111g, let lib do It for you We will produce copy that will pull, We employ the best copy experb to be had-pay them high salalles You can have their per-sonal service at a hgure so low you really can't afford to neglect the opportunity Wnte us about this serVice, telhng about your desIres, the class of goods you carry and the amount of advertIsmg you do We will send you some mighty mterestmg mformatlOn FURNITURE CITY ENGRAVING CO. 403 Murray Bldg. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. OCTAGON PEDESTALS AND TABLE LEGS That IS the questIon and a big one. too How do you rnake them? How much do they cost you" How good are they and are they unlfOl m? Just take a llttIe tIme and let these questIOns soak In Because you ma)- be wastIng on the manufacture of the Pedestals ann. Legs what you sa"\e by eco-nomIcal Manufacture on the Tops Your profits are then cut down M'lke the cost of the different parts balance One man '\ lth our LEG AND PEDESTAL MACHINE WIll make Octagon and Polygonal shaped turnings at one-tenth to one t\\ entleth of what It costs by hand round ones at one sIxth to one· tenth The saVIng In time and labor IS what makes that bal-ance ,\e \,ere~ust talkIng about Now, don't say that sounds pretty good and let It slip your mInd Just wnte us to-day C. MATTISON MACHINE WORKS 863 FIfth St, BELOIT, WISCONSIN. ~-_._-~.-------------_.~.~.----~-_._--~---"' •II 1 III I I I II II I ! ~ MUSKEGONEX,clMUSlivceHR.efrigerator~anEuf::~:,e::w York M.D~ger. t 35 Warren 5t, New York CIty. IF IT'S THE BEST REFRIGERATOR IT'S AN ALASKA Over 850,000 Alaska refngerators sold sin c e I 878 DeSIrable features of an Alaska Refngerator: Small consumption of Ice. Maximum amount of cold, dry air. Absolutely sanitary pro-vision chamber. Simphcity of operation. Perfect preservation of food. We sell to dealers only. WRITE FOR CATALOG. The Alaska Refrigerator Co. . ------- ~-----_.~------- -------------- ._~--~------_.~~--~---------., OFFICES: CINCINNATI--Seoond National Bank Building. NEW YORK--346 Broadway. BOSTON--18 Tremont St. CHICAGt)--14 St. and Wabash Ave. GRAND RAPIDS--Houseman Bldg. JAMESTOWN. N. Y.--Chadakoln Bldg. HIGH POINT. N. C.--Stanton.Weloh Blook. 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 System:' CollectIOnServzce Unsurpassed-Send for Book of Red Drafts. .....-._---_._~---- I,,I II II I,, I I I I~ I,I I .. .-. .- .. 32 WEEKLY ",...-.----~.~.~._._.__.-_._-._._.---_._----..., Miscellaneous Advertisements. ,I IIIIII II I,II , I• ,I IIII II III II IIII ,I ...... WANTED WANTED. CommissIOn man for Misssoun and Kansas representmg five furmture factones. Splendid fixed carload hnes. Address, Ballman-Cummmgs Furmture Company, Fort Smith, Arkan-sas. Aug 7, '09 WANTED COMMISSION MEN. I "iFor Indiana and Illinois to sell our SUites, Dressers, Chlffon-lits, Stands, Beds and Wardrobes. McKim & Cochran Fur-niture Co., Madison, Ind. 7-3-4t WANTED-WOOD SEAT CHAIR FACTORY To locate on our property at Columbus, MissIssippi; unlImit-ed supply of red and white oak; red and sap gum and beech at extremely low cost; plenty cheap labor; fine factory site, un-excelled shipping faCIlIties and low freight rates to good mar-ket. Might take some stock In well managed company. Ad-dress Interstate Lumber Company, DOWllmg BUilding, Ene, Pa. WANTED-TRA VELING SALESMEN. To handle a lme of Extension Tables, Pedestal Tables, Ward-robes and Kitchen Cupboards, on commission. State what other lmes you handle and Terntory deSired. Address Koenig Furmture Co., 2620 N. 15th St., St. LOUIS,Mo. WANTED A good cabmet maker; one who can detail and make clothing cabinets. Address B. S., care Michigan Artisan. 6-10-2t. WANTED-POSITION AS MANAGER. A practical busmess man, familiar with the manufacturing of bed room furmture and who has a few thousand dollars to invest; can assume charge of one of the best furmture plants m the South. If interested, address "Busmess," Box 853, Greensboro, N. C. 6-10-4t Chas. E. Spratfn.An Acrostic. Care untroubled, jO\ unbounded. Have a me1f\ toa:,t v\lth me All your ffIe;1d'3 b) ) ou surrounded See your W01k 1,\Ith greatest glee Exchange I Esto perpetua Sunsh1l1e days of JO) and plea:,ure. Pay you well for time eApended R1l1g the" elkIn f01 full measure. As the scheme progresses splenchd Take the lam el "on so ra1 eh, Till Jour ffIends can pral<,e :You falll) -Bes:01e Richard, bOlD Feb :J, 1899 ,..----_.. .. ---------------~-----_._., III •,,, ,II ,I ,,I ,I •III It •,I III ,,,I II .. STAR CASTER CUP COMPANY NORTH UNION STR .... T "" a"" RAPIDS MICH. (PATENT APPLIED FOR) We have adopted cellulOid as a base for our Caster Cups maklllg the best cup on the market. CellulOId IS a great Improvement o\er bases made of other matenal When It ISnecessary to move a pIece supported by cups wIth cellulOId bases It can be done wIth ease, as the bases are per fectly smooth CellulOId does not sweat and by the use of these cups I tables are never marred These cups are finIshed In Golden Oak and White Maple, finIshed light If you w,ll try a 8ample order 0. these I f O gOoOda8rYaOPnRUIdCWERS'l:alpSdt,oIezdeh8a82n,r%deteIncthheems tn qu$a5n.t5,t0u8 per hundred. SIZe 2)( Inches 4.50 per hundred. TRY A SAMPLE ORlJER h ••••••••• _._. .... ARTISAN INDEX TO ADVERTISERS. Acme WhIte Lead Works Adams & Eltmg Co. Alaska Refrlgator Co Albro Veneer Ccmpany Amencan Blower Co Barnes, W. F. & John Co. Bartcn, H. K. & SOll, Co. Boynton & Co Buss Machine Works Dodds, Alerander Edge, Frank & Co. Fellwook Auto and Mfg Co Fox Machllle Company Furnlture CommerClal Agency Co. FrancIs, Chas. E Company Furnlture C,ty Engravmg Co. Glllette Roller Bearlllg Co. Grand RapIds Brass Co. Grand RaPlds Caster Cup Co Grand Rapds Electrotype Co Grand Raplds Hand Screw Co. Grand Raplds Wood Fmlshlllg Co. Ho den Veneer Company Hotel Pantlllld Hotel Tuller, Detrolt Kauffman Mfg. Co. Lawrenoe-McFadden Co. Lentz Table Co. Luce-Redmond Chalr Co. Lyon Furnlture Agency Marletta Pamt and Color Co. !4athlson Machlne Works MoMullen Machlllery Co. !41chlgan Engravlllg Co· !4Icellaneous !4ontgomery Hardwood Lumber Co. !4oon Desk Company Morton House !4uskegon Valley Fur. Co New York Furnltura Exchange 011ver Machmery Co Palmer, A. E. & Sons Plttsburg Plate Glass Co. Rockford Chau and Furnlture Co. Rookford Frame and FIxture Co Rockford Standard Furnlture Co. Schmlt Henry & Co. Shlmer, Samu.el, J. & Sons S11gh Funllture Co Smlth & Davls Mfg. Co Star Caster Cup Company Ward, 0 A. Walter Clark Veneer Co Weatherly Company Weekly Artlsan Weillno-ton Hotel, Chlcago. Whlte Pnntmg Co. Wood, MorrlS & SOllS Wysong & :M1les Co. (<I) 21 Cover 31 7 Cover Cover 2 23 Cover 3 23 8 7 31 1 31 Cover Cover 28 25 :0 86 :0 23 29 26 28 9 1 1 31 8 18 32 4 29 2 4 15 3 4 25 21 26 23 32 2 13 4 32 25 86 19-27 23 30 3 Cover A Few from Holland. Holland. ,Itch \ugu"t 6 -The Bay VIew Furlllture Com- )1dll\ ha'l a "ttOIl~ 1111efor the fall trade, the hne be111g made up at olle hundred pattern"" of "hleh forty are enttrely ne" dnd at the fine"t cla"" ot goods VIce Pre<,ldent H G Pelgnm h at the op1111OntIut the tall trade Will be very good The Ba\ VIe", 1Ine I" made up of J acobeans, Colomd]", L1bertte<, dnd :\Iodern Lng1l"h R H Ruppel, manufacturer of maeh111e and sp111dle carv111g tool" report" d '3dtl"factor) \ olume of busme:,s, and m response to the demand" at hI" hade 1,\,111probably get out a catalogue ,,0111e tIme clUl1l1~ the early fall 1h01 nton I'l Co, manufacturer" of furlllture, are puttmg out a 11l1eof chall s III the knock do"" 11, the ~oods bemg 111sohd oak of "tlon::; dnd substantial constructIOn, and made In m1s- "Ion and \\ eathered oak 1'he lJolland \ enee1 \\ Olk:o have orders to keep them gomg 011 \ ellee1.., tOI ChIcago manufacturer'3 up to next January <"'euetary-:\Iana~el Par:oon" sa) '3 the Company 1" also gett111g out \ eneers for automobtle manufacturers ]t"" all \\ ell enough to take the bull by the horn:o, If the bu1l "Ill stand for It ,..------_.--_. --_._._._._- --- ,,II -~~-----~-._..-- I ,I ., .... Henry Schmit (5 Co. HOPKINS AND HARRIET STS CinoInnatl, Ol.io makers of Upholstered Furniture for LODGE and PULPIT, PARLOR, LIBRARY, HOTEL and CLUB ROOM 6--•• -------_._-------------- ....

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