Michigan Artisan; 1908-05-10

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Issue of a furniture trade magazine published in Grand Rapids, Mich. It was published twice monthly, beginning in 1880. and ..-,. Twenty-Eighth Year-No. 21 MAY 10, 1908 Semi-Monthly A Specialty with us--not a side issue WILL MAKE TWO TO SEVEN SQUARE MORTISES AT ONE STROKE Fastest and most accurate machine on the market. Entirely automatic, Makes square mortises free from chips. Write for Catalog ] No. 119 Multiple Square Chisel Mortiser. WYSONG &. MILES COMPANY, Cedar5t.and50u.R.R .. GREENSBORO, N. C. ~ The Best Truck--The Strongest Truck This is the famousGillette Roller Bearing Factory Truck-the truck on which it is said, "One man can move a load of 3000 pounds while with the other trucks it takes three men." This is the truck that is strong where others are weak-the truck that has an unbreakable malleable iron fork. This is the truck YOU are looking for if youwish to invest in rather than waste money on factory trucks. Gillette Roller Bearing Co. ORAND RAPIDS, MICHIOAN The Lightest R.unning, Longest Lasting Truck ------------rg -- -- --~- - -~ MAPLE JAWS AND HICKORY SPINDLES SPINDLES WITH SAW-CUT THREADS Compare our Hand Screws, part for· part with competitive makes, our superior quality will readily be seen. Note that Jaws are of Kiln Dried Michigan Hard Maple---N at Beech---have beveled corners and are oiled. Spindles are of best Second Growth Hickory with Saw- Cut Threads, and are tumbled and waxed. There is but one perfected machine for cutting Hand Screw Spindles with saws, we own it. Spindles so threaded last 25 per cent longer than ordinary makes. Write for prices. GRAND RAPIDS HAND SCREW CO. ------- BENOHES. TRUCKS. ElENEOICT OLAMPS ------- 918 JEFFERSON AVENUE GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN Here are a few specimens of our Colonial, Glass No-Kum-Loose Knobs NEW DESIGNS. LOOKS LIKE CUT GLASS. SEND FOR PRICES. No. 194. Diam., 1% inches. No. 195. Diam., 1~ inches. No. 196. Diam .• 1M inches. GRAND RAPIDS BRASS CO. No. 175. Diam., yg inches. GRAND RAPIDS. MICHIGAN 1 Hand Feed G1uei.na Ma.c.h.ine (Pat-ent pending.) Many Ilyles and .izes. Wood-Working Machinery and Supplies CHAS, E. FRANCIS &. BRO. OFFiCE AND WOAKS, RUSHVILLE, IND· CINCINNATI OFFICE, No. t 9 HULBERT BlK. No.6 Glue Heater. Wood Bar Clamp fixtures Per Set 50c. OVER 15,000 Of OUR STEEl RACKVISES IN USE These Specialties are used all Over the World Veneer Presses. different kinds and .ize,!;. (Patented) Veneer Presses GIUf Spreaders Glue Healers Trucks, Etc" Etc. Power Feed Glue Spreading Machine. Single. Double and Combination. (P"tenwd) (Sizlla 12 in. to 84 in wide.) LET US KNOW YOUR WANTS 25 d07.. Clamp Fixtures bought by on~ mill \~st year. \"1e ship on approval to rated tinns, arId guarantee our I!;oods uncondi-tionally. Write fot' list oj Steet Bar Clamps. ViSM, Bsnc!~ Slops, etc. . 1:.". S"ElDON &. CO. 283 Modison St.. Chicago, Price $2.80 to $4.00 SPARTAN VELVET FINISH Spartan Velvet Finish is a new and practical· DULL FINISH which produces a beautiful, soft egg-shell effect. It is made from the highest grade of gums and is suitable for the highest grade of furniture, or for any work where a fiat finish is desired. Write for Barnp[e and Folder' ,d once, .UJith iustrlLCtiaus. for applyi,ng. MARIETTA PAINT and COLOR COMP'y MARIETTA • • OHIO Aurora Stamping Inks~ THESE INKS ARE OF THE VERY HIGHEST QUALITY AND WILL BE FOUND TO GIVE PERFECT RESULTS WHERE IT IS DESIRED TO IMITATE QUARTERED OAK Diamond Paste Filler~ IN ALL SHADES MADE EXPRESSLY TO BE USED WITH OUR SPARTAN STAINS CAN BE. usED FOR ANY KIND OF WORK 2 The Universal Automatic CARVINO MACHINE === PERFORMS THE WORK OF === 25 HAND CARVERS And doss the Work Better titan it can be Dolle by Hand MADEBY--~--- Union [nUOSSlna M,(Hlnt Co. Indianapolis, Indiafta Write lor Inlormation. Prices Etc. THE CREDIT 8UREAU OF THE FURNlTURE TRADE The Grand Rapids Office. 412-413 Houseman Bldg. GOO. E. GRAVES, Manager CLAPPERTON & OWEN, Counsel LYON Furniture Agency THE STANDARD REFERENCE BOOK CAPITAL. CREDIT AND PAY RATINGS CLEARING HOUSE OF TRADE EXPERIENCE ROBERT P. LYON, Genual Manater THE MOST RELIABLE CREDIT REPORTS CREDITS and COLLECTIONS COLLECTIONS MADE EVERYWHERE PROMPTLY- RELIABLY . Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company Jobbers and Dealers in Plate Glass. Mirrors, Window Glass. Ornamental Figured Glass. WIRE GLASS, the Great Fire Retardant. CARRARA GLASS. a New Product Like Polished White Marble. For anything in Builders' Glass1 or anything in PaintsJ Brushes, or Painters' Sundries, address any of our branch warehousesl a list of which is given below: NEW YORK-Hudson and Vandam 8ts. CLltVELAND-1430.1434 West Tblrd St. :BOSTON-41 ..49 Sudbul"J' St •• 1-9 B()w8.erSt. OMAHA-1608 ..10.12 Harney St. CHICAGO-44Z ..4S2 W"ba ..h Ave. ST- PAUL-461-463 Jackson St. CINCINNATI-Broadwa,. and Court Sta. ATLANTA. GA.-30-32·34 S· Pryor St. ST. LOUIS-Cor. Tenth and Spruce Sts. SAVANNAH. GA.-74S.149 Wbeaton St. NfNNEAPOLIS-50i).516 5. Third SI. KANSAS CITY-Fifth and Wy.ndott. Sts. DJt,TROIT-5a.S9 L.arned St ••E. BIR.MINGHAM.AL.A.-2nd Aye. and 29th St. GRANDR.APJDS~MICH.-39.41 N. Dlvt..lon SI BUFFALO. N. Y.-312-74 ..16.7B Pearl St. PITTSPtURGH-1Ul ..103 Wood St. BROOI(LYN-63S-637 Fulton St. M1LWAUKElt. WlS.-492_494 Marhet St. PHILAD£.LPHIA-Pltcalrn Bldg••Arcb aftd 11th St•• ROCHESTER. N. Y.-WUder 8'dg ••MaJn &Ezcbap,eSt.. DAVENPOI'T-410.416 Scott St. BoALTIMOl\£,-310.12-14 W. Pratt St. Sold dl.tributera of PATTON'S SUN PR.OOF PAINTS. White Printing Co. GRAND RAPIDS. MICH. HIGH GRADE CATALOGS COMPLETE GRAND RAPI[,~', I•V, "','!1 ,r T1 t'"i ,"~_I V j nn,/nv ,A ~\ 1 28th Year-No. 21. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH., MAY 10, 1908. The Consumption and Supply of Lumber. A very interesting and eillightenillg discourse by Emerson Hough, on "The Slaughter of the Trees," appears in the l\lay Everybody's. The pwpbecy is made that in fifty years' time our COll1ltry will be desolate of trees unless we 'wake up and buy back the forest lands in addition to treating forcst re- !'.erves in states which are not yet stripped of their trees. A great many statistics are given showing the billio!1s of trees slaughtered yearly for various purposes, such as railroad tics, 100,000.000 tics b(jng the present lltlmber demanded. The telegraph poles Clit t\'vo years agonu111bercd .1.526,875, of which three-fifths were cedar, twenty-cig-ht per cent chest-nut. Ihmdrcds of thol1~;tn(h of sllla1]cr poles arc cut fCl)" other llses. ..A.l1l1ually between thrce and fOllr million acres of lalH[ are dncastated for this purpose. Tnnneries used l,~ 370,OOD cord,.; of hark two years ago. J n the same year 11,- 858,260 shingles and 3,812,80i laths were Cl1t. For timbering mines 16j,OOO.CCO cubic feet. not board measure, much of it hardwood, were tlserL Price'" for hardwoorl used in vehicles, manllhctllred furniture and farm implements have risen from twenty-Jive to sixty-five per cent, since 1899. I1I scvel1 yenrs the pronudio!1 of hardwood has fallen off 11ftcen per cent. and those were the six years of its greatest demand. Tight bar-rel cooperage is a heavy drain on ·white oak. In 1906 we made 267,827,000 hand staves. California bas had to resort to redwood fOf ,vine casks because white oak costs ton much to ship there. "The highest estimate or our renulning hardwood is four hundred billion feet. Twenty-five billion feet are u:'.llally annually used for lumber, tics, posts, manufacturers, fuel, etc. At that rate it \'>'ill take nS sixteen years to use up all the rest of our hardwood if we do not burn it and if the dem.and re-mains the same!" The nelVspapers and magazines Use a gTeat quantity of pulp wood. 1n 19G6 it reached 2,327.844 tons. This meaus that over 4,COO,OUO cords were cut fOl' that purpose-some-thing like a million acres a year for Jlulp. T,cad pencils, 31S,OCO,OCO of them, \verc made last ycar. This required the cutting of 7,300,000 feet of cedar. 111'. 1-lo1..1gh nlakes the statcment that over 100,COO acres of timber arc cnt e\'cry workillg day in the year. in the whole Cnited States. Commcn:i:-d timlw.r to the anlO'Lmt 45G,OOO,COO acrc.'> are stilt standing. All our standing timber is cstinwtc<! at S0111('- ,,,,here between hmrteen hundred and two thousand billi(l11 feet. H we use forty bi\1ions per [lll llt1n1 , ,ve can run thirty-five tll flfty years at the present rate, providillg there i" no waste. Using one hundred billions per annutll. our timber will last fourteen to twenty years on the same basis. If we use one hundred and fifty billions per annUITI O\.\f timber witt all be gone in l1inc to tbirteen year-so Counting natural growth tlllder prcv;lillJlg' conditions, we could add tell years to thesc terms; hut that mel\n~, if the'i~, is 110 w<.\ste in any pri\'ate op-erations <llld \\'c carll10t control the operations on private lands under any laws we no, .., have. $1.00 per Year. Advantage Gained by the Manufacturer of a Large Line. "Rut for Our trade in foreign lands," remarked a manufac-turer of ,vood working machinery, "we would be compelled to -;;hut oown our plant ior an indefinite period. \V cafe sell-ing about sixty per cent of our usual output when in full op-eration, and six-tenths of this amount represents our foreign hl",iness. The manufacturer of a small line of machinery is naturally limited to a small mrtrket. vVitlt a large line one is able to exploit the markets of every country. Overhead charges remain with the matlufacturer of a small line without orders as well as with the manufacturer of a large line, by the size and character of which be is enabled to secure more or less trade in some part of the \'iorld." Engineer License Bill Rejected. The legislature of the stale of New York rdused to pass a bill forbLddillg persons to operat{'. aHy engine. irrcs-spectivc: of motive power, without a certificate of qualification. Under its terms all persons, except licensed steam engineers and their assistants, mechanical engineers and machinists were excluded from operating all engine. To Prevent Theft of Stamps. All order has been issued by Postmaster General :"IIeyer permitting the perforation of postage stamps with initials. signs or numerals, as a meal1'i of idelltihcation so as to pre-vent theft, but not for advertising purposes. The manufacltlfe of wardrobes ror the use of clothiers, tailors, dressll1akers·and other providers of wearing apparel is a growing industry and the introduction of the chiffo-robe enabh:s the h01..1se builder to dispense with the old-fashioned dust t:Jllk and insect hreeder called the dark closet. The people of the ,,,arid are moving steadily forward to better s:-ll1-itary and comfort-giving surroundings. Employes of the federal govettll1lent ill Chicago have es-tablished co-operative stores. They will endeavor to pur-chase olrtic1es needed from the manufacturers, \Vhat will the attitude of the national and local retail associations be to-wards, such c11terprise? \Vill the honDr of legitimacy be con-ferred upon it? A graduate school of business adlllini~.tration has been es-tablish by Harvard University. Especial attention ,,,ill be given to the development of the. work in bLlsiness organiza-tion, from the operation of a factory to the management of a department store. 4 ·~MICHIG7IN &"2 . i New Styles •In Table Legs Is it not a big advantage, not only in the selling of your product. bul in the prices you command. if you are able to keep changing the style and gettinp; out something new right Illon8 and without any extra expen&e in the coat? Our No. 5 Table Leg Machine wilJ turn not only round. but square, oc.tagon. hexagon. oval OJ any poly~ gonal shape. and all with the same cutter-head. Its capacity is equal to eight or len hand tuenen, ,u:d it is guaranteed to do the work 5uc«:ssfI.lJly. Would it Dot interelilt you to know More about thill nulchine? Then drop us ill line. c. Mattison Machine Worlis 863 Fifth Street. Beloit, Wiscobsin THE ABDUCTION OF GERALD. No, !'i Tahle Le.lr M:'IcllillC How a Thoughtful Salesman Secured an Opportunity of Un-loading a Line of Furniture Where it Would Count. All great man have their hobbies. Lincoln packed a fund of funny stories about with him. Grant's long suite was cigars. Kapoleon couldn't do business without roast fowl. Every man who has a faculty of doing <111}' one. thing well has a spot where he ceases to exude greateness and becomes merely human. The Honorable D. Robert Carver~Judson was a great man. He had succeeded in life despite the reckless way he had of hitching two names together with a hyphen. He had been mayor and a member of the state senate, and was often talked of as a possibility for the office of governor. Beside .111 these civic honors which the Honorable D. Rob-ert c.-]. had carved out of fifty years of life, he had also ac-quired a large bank account. He was said to carry around with him a roll that would plug a ten-inch water pipe. But he was a haughty man and no one ever referred to the money he owned~ The theory in Fowler town, where he was IT, was that should be loved for himself alone. The Hon. D. Robert had a hobby, two of them, in fact. One was to perpetuate his name forever and ever in his town by building the largest and most elaborate sanitarium the world ever saw, and the other was to own the nastiest, sneakingest, barkingest, black-and-tan dog that anybody evcr ,",,·entanywhere with. He succ.eeded in both ambitions. The Carver-Judson sanitarium was a corker for size, and Gerald, the black-and-tan that ruled in the man's heart at the time the big health-orillm was ready to filt with furniture, was the meanest little pup that ever boasted a devoted master. But the big sanitarium was to be. furnished. That was all the furniture men of the land cared to know. There was a contract that would make a year's output look like a world record. The news of this need of furniture in trainloads went far and wide, and missionaries traveled to Fowlerton from Grand Rapids, and aU towns wl1ence missionaries go forth to inform the people of earth of the delights of good furniture. They swarmed into town and took the best rooms at the hotels, and asked all about the religion of the Hon. D. Robert, and all about his politics, and the size of his neck, and his taste in cigars, and everything a traveling missionary should know. The initial discovery concerning D. Robert was that he was a man one couldn't run up behind and thump on the back. He was exclusi\'Tc, and hid )Jjmself away in a private suite of rooms back of a National bank, and it was dollars to apples that a man couldn't get to him in a month of Sundays. He was guarded in l1is retreat by a strong-armed Dane dubbed Oleo, by the natives. and by Gerald, who slept on a rug at his master's door and bit the legs of those who ven-tured near elJOugh to argile with the Dane. vVhen the fur-niturc men swooped down upon the town they heard all about the Dane and the dog. They weren't going to lose a COI1- tract for fUTI1ishing a two-hundred room building just because of a man and a canine, so they bO\\'ed before them both. But that didn't get them anything. They never saw the inside of D, Robert's cheerful suite of rooms back of the National bank. One day S. O. C. K. Percival of Grand Rapids struck the town. He wanted that contract. There were manufacturers in town who wanted it. too. Some of these rnak~rs were trying- to do business behind a retail dealer. and same were going right ahead with their business on their own hook. Percival, who rather prided himself on the number of his initials, got illto the suite and back as far as the Dane and the dog. There he stopped, for the very good reason that Oleo locked the door leading into the holy of holies. <llld put his JnJad back against it. "Come out of that,' said Percival, as Gerald took a nip out of his right leg. "I have important busines-s with his gib-lets in there. Have yOl1 got anything in your possession that makes a noise like that?" And Percival flipped a ten-doUaT banknote befo:-:e the large, mild eyes of the Dane. Oleo shook his head dumbly. He didn't seem to nnderstand. Percival rammed the money into the dumb man's ve!".t pocket and set his hand to tllC knob of the dOOT. Gerald remonstrated against this. and Percival gave him a hist that sent him to the end of the re-ception room. "Look here. you." said the njssionary, ;;if you don't let me in there, I'll fix your face over so your own wife won't know you when you get out of the hospital. Do you think I'm here to do my work by wireless?" And he gave Oleo a jolt on the chest, that set him to won-dering how long it would be to dosing time. But this did not open the door. The Dane showed symptoms of being in touch with the hurry~up wagan, and opened the street door of a corridor which brought him in view of a patrol box. Ger-ald gave a series of yowls which sounded like setting off fire-crackers and scurried along after him. Percival, mourning the lack of hospitality in that neck of the timber, moved along in the wake of the pup. When he got out on the sidewalk the black~and-tan was headed for the green hillsl which were not far away, and 01'eo was explaining te a copper with a dub which looked to be a MICHIG7!N yard long, that all anarchist bad atlempted to blm\' LIp the building with a gas pipe stuffed with dynamite and packed ..".,.itb nails for variety. Then an unholy desire for vengeance seized Percival. He picked up Gerald, \..-110 \vas likely to get injured in the rush, anyway, and put him in hi:-;overcoat pocket. This wa,s lar-ceny and abductioil, and numerous other things, but Percival saw a glimmer of light ahead v..·.hich looked like a furniture contract, and marched off with the canine, which, ollee in his room at the hotel, he larrupcd over the head \vith a razor strop and put to bed in a suit case. After thus demonstrating the right of a furniture salesman to resent the loss of a misdirected bribe, Percival lighted a long, black cigar and went down into the lobby to converse with the unresourceful furniture men who hadn't got near enough to the person of D. Robert Carver-Judson to do a thing to his familiar or his pnp. That night the abducted Gerald skpt in a bath room and had sausages for supper. The next morning the newspapers told of the abduction of the pup, and D. Robert, etcetera, offered a reward of ten bones for his safe return. \'Then D. Robert stepped fronI his smoke wagon in front of the l\ational bank, Percival touched him on the shoulder and smiled. The man who \v<lnted to buy furniture for a two-hundred room building looked coldly upon the salesman. "Look here, old man," said Percival, speaking just like he was addressing a common person, "I found a black-and-tan wandering about the streets last night and took him to my room. That dog bas all the bench 3ho\vs that ever were faded to a silly yellow. lie's so line that I thought he might belong to you-might be the one you lost." "Bring him dOW11to the oBice awl get the reward," said D. Robert. "If yon want him," said Percival, "you'll have to come up to the room and identify him before witnesses, and take him away. That pup is so desirable that I'll have him all his way to my palatial- summer residence in about seventeen minutes, if no one claims him. He sure has nestled about my affec~ tions," D. Robert walked away with Percival, and just in time, too, -for the Dane, with his chest in a sling, was coming around the corner. Tile great man was pleased with the salesman because of his love and admiration for Gerald, which shov·...s that Percival was not more than a thousand years in the rear of the procession. \;Vhen they got to the suite occupied by the missionary, Gerald jumped upon the great man and tried to tell him that his imprisonment had not been one unmixed pleasure, but the master didn't under-stand. He looked at Percival and then lookd at the dog. "I believe," he said, in a moment, "that you abducted this dog." "All right," said Percival, "whatever you say goes. But before you call the Batty on the beat, just look over these pictures of furniture, designed especially for sanitariums and hotels. Observe the grace of the styles, note the rich yet simple carving. A man who couldn't be restored to health amidst such surroundings ought to be sent out to the con-tagions disease dump. You'll fllld the prices attached." "If 1 thougbt you had played this trick just to work off this old rubbish, I'd have you arested," said D. Robert. "Ail right," said Percival. ""I've been arrested before. But yOU must remember that 1 did this for your O\vn good. '\"ow you've got a chance to look over pictures which other-wise you might not have had. You've got so many men after you that you might have confused some of their cheap stuff with our high art furniture. Besides, my firm stands back of its salesmen, and if you send me up they will shove a man over here to serve the time for me. 1'\ow, you pick out the furniture you want and I'll wire the house!" "If I had a few men with a nerve like yours," said D. 5 Robert, "I wouldn't have much trouble getting what I ",,·ant. Do you always get what you go after?" "I'm from Grand Rapids," replied Percival, "and I'm apt to catch on somewhere in the game. Just think what you would have lost only for Gerald!" "Corne on over to the office," said D, Robert, "and I'll call up the manager of the sanitarium. He picks out the fur-nishings. I like YOl1rnerve, young man." But Gerald fought shy of Percival all the tIme he was there furnishing that big sanitarium. ALFRED B. TOZER. A New Tilting Saw Table. Alexander Dodds, 181-183 Canal street, Grand Rapids, has brought out a new tilting saw table, ::.\'0. 8, which is one of the best machines of its class ever offered to the trade. The table top is 40 x 44 inches. "The base is similar to what we Manufactured by Alexander Dodds, Grand Rapids, Mich. have been using all our ;..ro. 4 sa' ..·. table, only we have mad~ it larger on the floor. The raising and lowering device is the same as we ha\'e on the No.4 machine, with lever and pitman. The lever is made of ~teel. "The arbor is made of 10-inch steel, running in long ring oiling boxes, and is for I-inch hole in saw, \;Ve furnish one I4-inch saw on each macbine. It will carry a I6-inch saw if desired. "Table is made with a center slide 12 inches wide with a movement of 24 inches. It has a locking device to hold it when you do not wish to use it, and has a detachable mitre gauge to be used when using the sliding table. Can cross-cut with table extended to 24 inches, also rip up to 24 inches wide. Table has a removable throat that can be taken ont when using dado. It also has two mitre gauges for regular ..vork and a two-sided rip gauge that can be used on either side of the saw, more especially when the table is tilted; also :L tilting rip gauge to be used to cut bevel work when you do not wish to tilt the table. The top is 40 x 44 inches. "Countershaft has tight and loose pulleys lOx4 inches, and the drive pulley is 16 x 5 inches, countershaft should run 800. l\,faking in all about as complete a machine as can be found and at a reasonable price." \\Trite for price to above address. Complete Outfits Give Satisfaction. C. B. Atkin, who is largely ellgaged in the manufacture of wood mantels in Knoxville, Tenn., uses complete outfits of gluing machinery, cookers and presses manufactured by Charles E. Francis & Brother of Rushville, Ind., at his two factories and pronounces the same entirely satisfactory. 6 Dainty Bedroom Furnishings. In the drawing shown of a guest room a paper with a half garland of dainty pink blossoms, green leave:~ and a bit of floating blue ribbon in the design is applied to the ceiling, extending to the picture rail. A similar design is shown on the material used at the windows as over cnrtains and in the covering of the winged chair. The side walls are tinted green in a soft pastel shade. The central rug of \Vilton carpet 8hmvs -tones of mossy green. The standing wood- '...o..rk of the room is of ivory white enamel, alld the hui)t-in There is no single jarring note in the entire color scheme. The various shades of rose and of green tone the one into the other, while the exquisite ivory of woodwork and furniture is repeated in the creamy curtains at the windows. The room designated in the illustration as "a man's room" is especially interesting and characteristic. The bold, sturdy lines of the dark oak furniture include the cottage bed, a McKinley armchair, a candle stand and, last but not least, a bachelor's chiffonier. This furniture is not expensive, though it is well built, and as will be seen by the illustration, simple bookcases are treated as part of the standing woodwork. The small taple and several chairs, as well as the screcn frame, have also been enameled. The table and chairs were orig'inally designed for kitchen furnishings. The rug \vas the most expensive part of the furnishing. This cost $30. Next the glass of the will(lows are hung-creamery madras' curtains, which are lightly caught on either side . .The decorative details of this room were composed and evolved by the woman who loved her home and beautiried it. The exquisite lamp shade on the small table and the erlndk screClls 'wen~ the work of her hands. of line. The chiffonier is arranged for the convenient stow-ing of shirts and trousers, as well as the smaller accessories of the toilet. The wall is simply treated, the upper third being covered with a p,lper of dead leaf brown, showing a conventional de-sign in old blue at spaced intervals. This, with the darker brown of the woodwork and the two-toned brown stripe paper used for the lower wall, is relieved by the ecru tone of the tiles about the mantel and the ceiling color, which is re-peated in the plain nct drapery at the windows. The other room ShOVv"11 is complete in its furnishings, and yet in comparison with the neighboring drawings one feels its M.l.,DARRfTl 3 co. Importers Merchants Manufacturers 219 Lake Street, Chicago snmAcaUMS ~MIF.rIG7!N 7 It is a PIGMENT FIRST COATER. no firm makes a better piece of goods In our honest opinion Let us convince you. "Wemahe ROYAL SURFACER We also make Polishing Varnishes. The Royal Varnish Company, Toledo,' Ohio. incompleteness. This room lacks the individual touches. Tt would be impossible. to (\ctexminc in looking at this room the characteristics of its occupant. Such a room. hO\vever, is as often fOi.\nd in tllt'; homes of the well-to-do people who are fond of heautiful things as in a hotel.-1VIargaret Green-leaf. An Incident. A business man, deeply engrossed in the cares of the da}', with a deeply furrowed brow and throbbing temples, bellt over his desk and gloomily contemplated the future. The "honk-honk" of the horn on a '.-Vhite steamer caused the man of business to glance out of a near-by window, when he noticed a big, jolly and happy friend, swinging his arms like a Dutch windmill, beckoning the man of business to ap~ proach the vehicle. Languidly responding to the vigorous invitation, the weary busincss man closed the nfl-ice door and approached the steamer, when the big man whipped off his great overcoat and, ellclosing his fricnd in it:.; ample folds, urged him to "get in," A pair of amused bystanders of the "ncver-say-dic" species, ,,,,itnessing· the incident, were sum-moned by the big mall to enter the "ilutO." and a moment later the party glided over the smooth pavement through the city. The big man cracked his jokes, pointed om many places of surprising· interest that none of the party had no-ticed, led his friends to an auction sale, ·where be joshed the salesman and bought everything that \Araswortb buying, pur-chased skin food and perfumery of it druggist for his lately disconsolate friend, promptly choked of alt remarks that con-tained the slightest suggestion of husiness, joked the police-men on the crossings, advised bo}'s riding bicycles to "hitch on" to the steamer, ;,l1d so made the business tnan "forget I I FOR SALE: I I FURNITURE AND PIANO BUSINESS Profits last year $18701.06. Capital nec-essary to handle ihis business $27000. Reasons for selling, proprietor wants larger opportunities. Address XYZ, Care of Michigan Artisan, himself." After all hour or two of fun the exuberantly spir-ited big man returned his friend to the office he had left a rad-ically changed man. The corrugations no longer marred his hrow; t11('pain:; in his head had ceased, his "veary eyes bright-ened and expressed plcaS111'cand the black future of two hours past took on a radiant hue. The business man was as rested, as happy and as jolly as a healthy child upon awakening Sketch by Charles A. De Land, Student in the Grand Rapids School of Designing. from a long afternoon's sleep. Naturally, the reader would like to learn the names of the motorman and his friends" but the purpose of the ·writer will be served if he shall be able, hy re\at~ng this incident, to exbibit the kindly disposition, the forethought and consideration for the welfare of others ever present ill a man widely known, respected and admired by thousands in the busines ,...o.rld-Ralph P. Tietsort, treasurer of the Royal Furniture C(m1pallY, Grand Rapids. 8 -~~MI9,tIIG7JN THE A~TISTIC ANTIQUE. Is Bought at Auction by the Newly Married and Enthusiasm Hides I ts Defects. "There's no question about it," said" ),hs. Honeymooner wheu her husband came home that night. "The Smiths have a most artistic flat, and they paid very little for the titting of it. "All the furniture is genuine antitlue. Came from old South Carolina plantations and those other places down south. "YOll know those old families send theiJ things up he,"e to be sold. Southerners are so proud that they don't like to sell 'em where they live." Mr.- Honeymooner listened while the waitress brought the dinner provided by the apartment hotel. He was glad to hear about the cheapness of this style of furniture because their own nest was being made ready. "So I'm going to buy everything at auction," 1V1r5,Honey-mooner went on, scarcely noticing in her enthusiasm that she had taken canned corn for three nights in succe:~sion, ".and you'll see what artistic rooms we'll ha\'e." So she haunted the auctions and a varied lot of chairs that creaked ominously whenever they were sat on, bookcases that rdused to shut after they had been submitted to a very mod-erate allowance of the steam heat in the flat, chesls of draw-ers with a most perverse desire to stay shut-these familiar antiques were soon placed about the Honeymooners' new Hat, Then there were tables that would wabble, however the carpenter might work to adjust their legs to a com111on length_ They were more or less accurate reproductions of old models and made a tasteful show in .the little rooms of the apartment. To the captious the veneer might seem a little too brilliant, and the brass knobs and handles certainly shone with a bronze glow that did not suggest antiquity. The visual appeal of the rooms, however, was a success; whatever might be thought of the comfort. "Ridiculous," replied thc happy ~Irs. Honeymooncr, when the less artistic half, of the family grumbled out the desire to sit down just once in a chair that did not creak menacingly. "Real antiques cannot be as strong as a kitchen chair. You must realize that." So the Honc,ymooner continued to dwell os' comfortably as possible among the antiyues which the superior wealth of the North had grasped from the proud families of the South who needed the money_ It would have been heartless to dis-abuse the mind of Mrs. Honeymooner as to their origin. :Kone but a brute could have turned around the chests of drawers and showed her the ne.\' wood in the back or called attention to the very obvious newness of the metal work. She was in the first happy stage of the antique fever. Then all mahogany is old, all brasses are the original ornaments and there is no guile in the vender of artistic objects. In the face of such faith, who could have led her by the hand over to Fourth avenue and called her attention' to what her eyes refused to see? ":\Iany times had she passed by the little shops in the side streets and failed to see the piles of gcnuine clawfeet, turned out by machinery until hundreds awaited the arrival of the searcher for this or that antique piece. Perhaps the dealer did not have it, but he knew somebody who did. So any-thing in the clawfoot line \vas certain to be ready by the next day. The supply of antique brass drawer handles, knobs, or or-naments as large as several factories always at work can make them, is another disillusioning detail to which the seek-er after antiques seems equally ·blind. Mrs. Honeymooncr was as lucky as the rest of her kind in escaping interruption to her blissful dream of beautiful antiques, genuine and at a price within the means of a young couple just starting on their way in life. "There is no question about it," said Mrs. Hom',ymooner, when her ln~sband came home on the night she put the fin-ishing touch to their apartment. "Vole have just as artistic a flat as the Smiths did and we paid very little for it. All our furniture is genuine antique-came from old South Caro-lina plantations." During the time intervening between the marriage of the lloneyn:ooners and their acquisition of their own home the Smiths prospered. Smith got an interest in a magazine and tbe amount of advertising he secured for it made his holding much more profitable than he had ever suspected it would be. The Smiths consequently acquired a house and a runabout. Every Pur<:haser Satisfied ..w THE One· half Our Trade MICHIGAN TRUCK There's a Reason Duplicate aod Trlpllca Ie HARD- Orders WOOD FRAMES M.M.a L.CO. MALLE-ABLE IRON CASTINGS HOLLY, MICH. Then they had a small motor car of the same description. Smith of course used to run it himself, but it was not long before he plunged about in a French touring car with, a be-furred ehaffeur at the wheel. It was n.ot consistent to combine such means of transpor-tation with life ill a flat, although Smith got the rigs cheaper through his advertising interests, so he hought a house. They had just moved in when the Honeymooners decided they were ready to entertain, and kept their promise to them-selves that the Smiths should be their first guests. "Perhaps it·s her money that's made her different," sighed J..hs. Honeymooner after the entertainment was over, as she prepared to carry the whiskey and soda glasses out to the pantry, whence issued already the snores of the exhausted maid. "There are mighty few that can stand it." ;'Bosh !" ans\',rered her husband, who was dropping the contents of the ash trays out of the window that the sitting room might not smell of stale smoke in the morning. "I thought she seemed very different. She scarcely said a word about our beautiful furniture. Merely l6okedaround and said,. yes it was pretty. I remember how I raved over hers. It was pretty, too; but 110 prettier'than ours." "Thought you were a copy-cat probably," answered her husband, who had finished his chores by closing up the bridge table and pushing it behind the sofa. "Couldn't help feeling sore because you'd made the place look so nice." "Mrs. Honeymooner was we1l down the shooting gallery hall when she heard this. "\-Vell, we'll see how her new place looks next week," she called back to tl:e faithful Honeymooner, who had just blown out the lamp at the risk of losing an elebrow. "What-ever she has I'm going to be just as snippy about it." The night of the dinner at the Smiths' found their friends on· time. Mrs. Honeymooner swept the hall and drawing room at a glance as the maid took her cloak. They were a ~MIC1-I.IG.7l1't • .., ,. e 9 TUIS MACUINE MAKES TUE MONEY It makes a perfect imitation of any open grain because it uses the wood itself to print from, and one operator and a couple of boys can do more worl{ with it than a dozen men with any other so-called machine or pads on the market. That's why it"s a money maker. It Jmitates perfectly. 50 50 Machines More Sold Satisfied Last Year Manufacturers PLAIN or QUARTERED OAK, MAHOGANY, WALNUT, ELM, ASH or any other wood with open grain. -~--- \VRITE THE Posselius Bros. Furniture Manufacturing Co., Detroit, Mich. FOR PRICES AND FUL.L FARTICUL...AR8. ME:NTION THE: MICHIGAN AflTI .....N minute atone in the drawing' 1'00111 and 1\1rs. Honeymooner had the time to make her ohservation thorough. "Did you ever see any thing- like it?" she ,vhispered dramat-ically to her husband. "There isn't a stick of old furniture ;:l1lywlH;re in the room." Even the eye of a Inan to whom such matters offered little interest could not fnil to mark the brand new appearance of the furniture. There were in tbe room upholstered chairs firm as a mountain, hut soil as a feather mattress to the tired man. There were leather chair::; that did not totter under the weight of the heaviest guest. At dinner they sat on eh<lirs of wood and leather ..\.'.hich wabblcd no more than the firm table, all which one indifferent to the finest points of table etiquette might lean his elbows without danger of shaking the gla:~ses, "Your house is lovely," ).J rs. 1-1oney11looner said wben the two women \il,rcn: together, forgetting her unfriendly decision under the warmth of her friend's hospitality. "But \vhat did yOIl do with all your beautiful old furniture?" "Don't m~ntio11 it," said JJrs. Smith. "YVc count that as a part of our earliest struggles. John and J used always to say that we \",ould get comfortable furniture whenever we werc rich enough. Of course. it didn't mean to be very rich. hut it mean a good deal for us, I-T e 11('.\,el-ceased to quarrel about the rickety stuff, although it all seem cd bc~autifLll enough to me. 11 didn't mind if it did creak and totter, loved it." "But yOIl gave it all up?" "\Vhat thc:re \',7as left of it at thc end of fOllt' years," the hostess went on. "Of course, it didn't wear vvith tiS as it lwei for the century or two it spent on the Southern planta-tion." IVIrs. Honeymooner .vas as fond of her anti<..j,uestllat night as she had ever been, and refused to join her husband in hi,,; cntht.siastic praise of Smith's comfortable chairs, She thought her antiques were much more artistic, Tt happened that the Honeymooners prospered, too, and another home was the natural result. There had to be new fnn iture as vl'cll. The antiques had followed, the way of lIJrs. Sn::itll's and lost the youthful strength of their apocry-phal days on tbe Southern plantation. ~lrs. Honeymooner bought the furniture again, The new followed in its general fashion that of the second Smith period. "For it's 1110re comfortable, really," she explained, "when you're young, Now we're old enough to be comfortable, and \ve can afford it," "Yes," assented her husband. "And we don't have to be s-o darned artistic."'-;.1'" ew York Sun, Lady Montgomery Starts on a Business Career. Lady rvlary Graham l\.Jolltgomery, one of eight sister:, fCIlQ'rl'llCd for their startling beauty, is the latest recruit to the ranks of aristocratic traders, She has elected to start her business career as an artistic hOLlSC decorator, and only quite recently opened premises ill Duke street, Manchester Square, LOlldon. The distinguished ownership of the new shop is concealed under the following- laconic commercial announce-ment: "Rapley. House Decoration, Alterations, Uphol-stery, Sanitatioll." LId}' l\lontgomery is the wife of Sir Thomas Montgom-ery, s('venth baronet of Stanhope, in Peeblesshirc, and the youngest daughter of the late Sir Thomas and Lady Louisa !Vfoncrieffe. Her eldest sister married the present Duke of Atho11, who holds more titles than <Iny other peer in the British 1s1es. Lady il'1ontgol11ery follows the example of many other distinguished shop-keepers.-London Tit-Bits, lOG. 110. 112 norl~Diyision~1. Qr~ndR~~ids lOG. 110.112 nort~Diyision~t. Qr~ndn~~ids OUR BUILDING EN G R A V ERS P R I NT E RS B IN o E RS PRI NT E RS B IN o ERS EN G R A V E RS Erected by White Printing Company. Grand Rapids, 1907. Michigan Engraving Company :: White Printing Company Michigan Artisan Company OFFICES: CINCINNATI--Pleker'lll& Bou.lldlng. NEW YORK--346 Sroadwa.y. BOSTON--18Tremont St. CHICACQ--!34 Van Buren St. GRAND RAPIDS--Housernan Bldg. JAMESTOWN. N. Y.--Ch ..d.koln 8ldg. HIGH POINT. N. C.--Stanton-Weleh Block. The most satisfactory and up-to-date Credit Service covering the FURNITURE, CARPET, COFFIN and ALLIED LINES. The most accul"a.te and relia.ble Reference Book Published. Originators of the "Tracer and Clearing House 5,._tem." Cottection Service Unsurpassed-Send for Book of Red Dra/is. H. J. DANHOF. Michigan Manaiier. 347-348 Houselll20n 8ulldlb •• Grand Rapids. Mleh. PETER COOPER'S GLUE is the best in all kinds of weather. \Vben other manufact-urers or agents tell you their glue is as good as COOPER'S. they admit Cooper's is the BEST. No one extols his pro-duct by comparing it with an inferior article. Cooper's Glue is the world's standard of excellence. With it all experi-ment begins, all comparison continues, and all test ends. Sold continuously since 1820. Its reputation, like itself, STICKS. Peter Cooper's glue is made from selected hide stock, carefully prepared. No hones or pig stock enter into its composition. In strength it is uniform, each barrel containing the same kind of glue that is in every other barrel of the same grade. ORIN A, WARD GRAND RAPIDS.GENT 403 Ashton Bldg. CITIZENS PHONE 9333 A Well Established Manufacturing Business for Sale A modernly eqnipped factory, especially adapted for the manufacture of office desks and furniture is for sale. 'l"he business is in active operation, and an unusually good opportunity is offered to anyone desiring to en!fage in the line of business mentioned. Address P. O. Box 50, RIC"MOIIIO, 11110. Investigate our Line. New 200 page Catalogue for 1907 Free. Saw and Knife Fitting Machinery and Tools ~~',~';.~:i.~~~,:~~' Baldwin. Tuthill ®. Bolton Grand R.a.plds, Mich. Filers. Setters, Sharllenets, Grinders, Swaoes, Stretchers, Brazino and Filing Clamps. Knife Balances. Hammering Tools. Bolton Band Saw Filer for Sawl % inch up. B. T. & B. Shle 0, Knile Grinder. Full Automatic. Wet or dry. l1 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. WriUl UI fo .. Price List 'and discount 31-33 S. FRONT ST., GRAND RAPIDS Morton House ( American Plan) Rates $2.50 and Up. Hotel Pan tJin d (European Plan) Rate. $1.00 and Up. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. The Noon Dinner Served at the Pantlind for 500 is THE FINEST IN THE WORLD. J. BOYD PANTI..IND, Prop. 12 HER OWN BUNGALOW. Miss Chubb Making Use of Her Manual Arts Training. To build her own bungalow is the project which Miss Eva Irene Chubb, a pupil in the manual arts departttJ.ent at Teachers College, is planning to carry' out this summer. :Miss Chubb proposes to be her own architect and to do a good part of the building with her own hands as well as to supervise that part which she isn't able to do herself, such for instance as the excavation for the cellar. So confident is she that her bungalow wil be finished and ready for occu-pancy by August 1 that she has already issued invitations for a housewarming, The bungalow is to be built on acreS, a few miles north of Albany, her father's farm at Schuylerville. of 350 On a Sketch by Otto Jlranek:. Grand Rapids, M1Ch. knoll about half a mile from the house is the site: It is a beautiful stretch of couritry and from the broad veranda of the bungalow one will be able to look out on a pretty and pic-turesque stream, the Saratoga river, which winds in (l,nd out among the hills and valleys thereabouts. On the bank of the river, which is not more than fifty fect from where the bungalow will stand, ·.:vliss Chubb will erect a bathotlse which is to house a slick little Thousand Islands craft which this young woman is now in the process of building. For this addition to the plant she bought lJlans and cut her boat accordingly, making no more ado about it than most women might about a dress or a shirtwaist. Ivliss Chubb expects to leave college about May 1 and re-turn to her home in order to put her project into operation, and much of her time meanwhile is being spent in studying the mysteries of building and construction and in perfecting her plans so that she can proceed with as little delay as pos-sible. When seen at the college reccntly she was at her bench deep in the mysteries of cabinet making. She was just putting the finishing touches to a table done in mission style, one of a number of similar pieces of furni-ture designed for the new bungalow. For everything now is being done with that end in vicw, and up to date there are besides the table, a scttee, a .vood box, a tabourette and a desk, 1liss Chubb, who looks like a girl that can do things, didn't think that her determination to build her own bunga-low was a matter of exciting moment. It just looked to her like a plain every day sort of operation which' anyone might accomplish if her mind happened to be turned in that dirc<> tion. But her friends don't think so; they gaze upon her with profound admiration, and after they have endeavored to drive nails ill their dormitory hedrOilms, with the deepest re-spect. In explaining her plans Miss Chubb pointed out that she was aiming more at comfort and a certain picturesqueness of aspect than a snlution of any deep problem in building con-struction. "I simply mean to have a bungalow where I call entertain my friends," she said. "It will be along the lines of a wood camp with nothing of the elaborate detail that characterizes some of the bungalows one sees pictured in the magazines. "My plans call for a three-roomd welling on one floor, with a fireplace, broad veranda and a few of the accessories of the sort that go to make up the typical summer camp, though as a matter of fact the building could be use(l until snow flies if desired, the way it will be built. "Nothing l1l1uSl1alwill mark the construction as to the frame work. Half logs from which mut:h of the bark has been removed, will cover the outer walls. These will after-ward be stained y;.-itha good creosote stain in green one that will stand the weather and not fade. "The shack wilt have somewhat the appearance of a log cabin and will be particularly in harmocy with the sur-roundings, for it will be ncstled in the midst of a grove of n~aples. Fortunately there is plenty of maple and birch on the place which are available, so that this will, for me, reduce the cost of construction. "The interior finish and trim will consist prohably oi the maple and the sawing can be done at the mill in tOWIl. An-other product of the farm which will be brought into use is the field stone, which will be used to 'build the fireplace and also for the four stout square pillars which will support the ten foot veranda running across the front of the house. "Besides one large living room covering 16 by 24 feet floo'r space there will be a bed chamber nearly as large except for a small kitchenette. The latter opens, as does the bedroom, from the living room 011 one side of the fireplace. "Panels of birch wil sheathe the walls of the 'rooms, while the ceiling wilt show beams and rafters of maple left in a semi-rough fll1ish. On either side of the flrepla,f:e, which will be big enough to take in six-foot logs ,a settle will be built and in the two corners of the room at either side of the front door low divans will be placed, over which book shelves will be hung or rather built in." Whcn asked if she looked for any difficulty in building, ~{iss Chubb said she didn't cross bridges until she got to them, but as far as she could see she didn!t think she would have any troubles; at any fate she wasn't looking for it. By no means the least attractive part of the furnishings of the bungalow will be the articles which Miss Chubb has made herself in the manual arts course at the college. In fact it might bc safely predicted that nearly all of the furnish-ings wilt be iil the line of handicrafs.-l\ ew York Sun. 10ufs 'lbabn DESIGNS AND DETAILS OF FURNITURE IS. Livingston St. GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN Citl.:R11S' Telephone 1102. ABSOLUTELY NOTHING BETTER THAN OUR GUM and COTTONWOOD DRAWER BOTTOMS 13 Dried by the "Proetor SystemH Machine. (We will describe it to you.) Prompt deliveries of DRY STOCK rain or shine. (Something unheard of before.) WALTER CLARK VENEER CO 535 Michigan Trust Buildiug, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Harmonious Effects. A dining room in whicb the furniture was black ,'\'alnllt, shading to tbe lighter tones, was brought into harmony by llsing a golden brown crepe paper and by painting the wood-work in dull black. Blue was introduced with tan color in the rug and curtains. Black walllut produced the best of effects with a lavender color scheme in a bedroom. The lavender. which seems to be a pet bedroom idea with any number of wotnen, "\\'as put into the walls and rugs and portieres. A little green was in-troduced for relief, <md the woodwork was white and the cur-tains were of white ground, figured strongly in purple clem-atis, with a less amount of green in the stems and leaves. Oak furniture does not go well with red and where it is necessary to retain a red rug if the latter is at all dark a dark yellow will be successful on the walls. The walLs and paper can then be harmonized ,...i.t.h flowered curtains in red and yellow madras. Blue back of oak is alway" a good choice, and there are mallY greens that go with it "vell. ldahogany. for which there are many good settings, is never so welt shown as with green wal1s and white enameled woodwork. The ·white enamel is especially good in throw-ing out the outlines of the l11ahogany. A pretty parlor scheme has {lapel' and portieres of a strong rose, with white enameled woodwork. The mahogany furniture i'l uphols-tered with satin damask, the larger pieces in old rose and the smaller ones in a mixed tapestry of old rose and green. Green overcurtains were used at the windows, which gave the variety of a two~toned effect.-lvlilwaukee Sentinel. Recent Sales of Graining Machines. The Posselius Brothers 1\1anufacturing Company of De-troit. rVIich., have tilled orders for graining machines, by the use of v.:hich pnfect imitations of fine cabillet woods may be produced, to the following: Caye Furniture Company, Stevens Point. \\/is. \Volverine :\:1anufacturing Company, Detroit, ),fieh. Day I\.Jetallic Company, Detroit, .Mich. J. C. \~7jdmall Company, Detroit. .:\-lich. lHurphy Chair Company, Detroit. lvlich. Luger Furniture CompallY (2), rvIinneapolis, :\Jinn. North St. Paul Table Company (2), Xorth St. Paul, }Ji 11 11. Day rdanufacturing Company, Jersey City, 1\. ]. Hager;;town Table Vv' orks, Hagerstown, :Lvld. St. Johns Tahle Company, Cadillac, Mich. General Fireproofing CompallY, Youngstown, O. Otta''',.,<1 Furniture Company. Hol\and, T\lich. Fond du Lac Table Company, Fond du Lac, \Vis. St. Lawrence Furniture Company, Riven': du Loup, Que-bec. Reliable Furniture Company, Baltimore, Md. F. A. Broadbent ::\1alltel Company, Baltimore, Aid. Vv'. J. Scully Ventilator 1\.Ianufacturil1g Company, Detroit, 1Jich. Kelley-Sorenson Furniture Company, Clinton, la. 1.fcrsman Bros. & Brandts, Celina, O. L'. S. Chair Campaily, Corry, Pa. Joseph Peters Furniture Company, St. Louis, -:.\'10, !\Ieicr & Pohlman Furniture Company, St. Louis, Mo. A, P. Bohlinger Table Company, St. Louis, .:\rl0. New York Desk & Dining Room Furniture CompallY, ;-Jew York, K. Y. Humphrey Book Case Company, Elkhart, Ind. Cabinet l\.Jakers Union, Indianapolis, Ind. lVlorganton Furniture Company, 110rganton, N. C. Stout Furniture Compal1y, Salem, Ind. Fox & MasoH, Corunna. Mich. Merriam, Hall & Co., North Leominster, )''1as5. Framke & Sievers, Chicago, Ill. Buffalo Lounge Con~pal1Y, Bu]al0, K. Y. Arcadia Furnjture Company, Arcadia, Mich. Ballman, Cummings Furniture Company. Fort Smith, Arn. Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Company, Buffalo, N. Y. Rockford Cabinet Company, Rockford, Ill. E. }J. Hulse Company, Columbus, O. Quincy Show Case Company, Quincy, []1. California Lumber & Milling Company, 'Vest Berkel.;y, Cal. Dwight Lumber Company, Detroit, Mich. Anderson Furniture Company, New Castle, :.J. B. Petrolene Company, \Vhiting, Ind. Keokl1k Floor Coving Company, Keokuk. fa. Drexel Furniture Company. Drexel. N. C. Specialty Furniture Company. Evansville, Ind. .?\apen,j]le Lounge Company, Xaperyille. Ill. Globe Furniture Con~pany.' Evansville, Il~d. A. G. \Viedman Cigar Box Company, Kans:ls City, 1\10. Cornell Table Company. Earlville, N. Y. Robbins Table Company. Owosso, )'iich. House of Correction, Detroit, "YIich. C. G. Ginter, Company. Columhus, O. Rishel Furniture Company, \Villiamspon, Pa. Upham :"lanufacturing Company, Marshfield, "Vis. Columbus Brass Company, Columbus, O. D. \ViIfson & Sons, Baltimore, )'l d. -:.\1arkdaJe Furniture Company,. Markdalc. Ont. Judkins Company, Chicago, Ill. Deinzer Furniture Company, \1ollroe, Ivlich. A. R. V\'jl1iulns Machinery Company, Toronto, Onto 1Jeaford ·Manufacturing Company, ~leaford, Ont. Fenske Brothers, Chicago, 111. The Acme Company, Chicago, Ill. American 1Ianufacturing Comp,my, Sheboygan, \\Tis. Battle Creek Table Company, Battle Creek, 11ich. 14 ·~~rvr.lf ..HIG?!N, !:STASLlSH&:D 1880 PueL.15HI!:D liT MlCHIGAN ARTISAN CO. ON THE 10TH AND 25TH OP' EACH MONTH O......ICE-108. 110,112 NOATH l:"VISION ST., GRAND 'R....PIDS. MiCH. ~TIiIll!O " IU.TnR OF "Tlol.ElleJ::ON.D Cu.u 1n his addres!'> to the retailer:~ of Vrisconsin,' ~1r. Arwin C. Hahn, the treasurer of the PhOCllix Chair Company, She-boygan, \\Tis" discussed some of the evils to 'which manufac-turers are subjected by the retail merchants throughout the Uttited States. He was justified in his complaint against the unlawful deductlons on invoices of goods, broken goods damaged in transit, due to rough handling on the part of the transportation companies and errors arising through corres-pondence, also to abuses imposed tlpon the Juanufaeturers in the matter of supplying reproductions of parts broken. He claimed justly that the retailers should aid the manufacturers in obtaining redress from the railroad companies for break-ages, in consideration of the practice of the manufacturers in supplying pieces tll replace broken parts gratuitously. Care-lessness in re'turning goods .subjects the manufacturer to many losses and <l.1ll10yarices. Kot -infrequeritly dealers ship to a ll1,-IllUfactllrer gocds IJurchased of another of whom the man-ufacturerreceiving the goods knows nothing, thus creating a coedition it i:.; <J.lmost impossible to rectify. The speaker pleaded for cooperation between the manufacturer alld dealer, It would serve the hest interests of both. "t" "t" Since the opening of the existing season of del;lression in business, a great many "legitimate" retailers bave issued cata-logues and scattered the same broadcast. :.;rot infrequently the title pages, numbers of pieces and the prices printed in the catalogues of rr.anufaeturers have been changed and thousands of catalogues issued in the name o( the retailer, al-though the forms and descriptive mattcr were prepared by the wholesaler. Can such retailers be considered "legiti-mate," or do they deserve censure on account of their efforts to sell goods in the towns of other retailers by the employ-alent of the mails? I. "to °tO A tnanl1facturer, speaking evide,ntly from experience, de-clares that "it is pleasant to do busincs with mail order mer-chants." IVlodcrn methods are employed in all transactions; settlements arc made upon the exact terms of a contract. Broken pieccs are repaired at the expense of tbe purchasers, ,,, ...ho look to the transportation companies to make good such losses. The prC£erence given by many manufacturers for orders from mail order merchants is not surprising. <)t<) <)f' vVise manufacturers rarely attempt to supply goods fin-ished to match in color, goods made by others or by them-selves in years of the past. It is almost impossible to match the colors of goods that have been in use for any considerable time. Besides, when the attempt is made, a cancellation order is likely to come in when the goods have reached a point half way through the fmishi11g. room, "to °t" The secretary of tbe National Case Makers Association, like the boy on the burning deck, sticks to his job. Firmly perched on the safety valve of conservatism, he sounds the slogall of the association: "Hold production to not more than fifty per cent of your capacity and maintain prices," fre- ~---- I 7IR T 1..5'.7£.2\1 t $". quenHy and forcibly. services. He is e.arning the n{nne,y p'O\idfor his 0.0 I The average pay of workmen employed in tlle industries north of the Ohio river and east of the Mississippi is $40 per 111onth. The "pauper labor of Europe," to quote the cam-paign orator, is not paid ([uite so liberally, but his living ex-ipenses are much lo"vcr in sU,ch industrial nations as Germany, France, Italy, Switzerland and England. °t" at" A considerable number of manufacturers have 110t com-menced work on new lines for the fall season of trade, and may not change styles this year. Probably they imagine that old styles will sell as readily as Ilew when the fall sea-son opens. Perhaps they ,,,ill; probably they will not. "t<) Ct" One-third of the cost of coal might be saved if stokers understood the scientific principles of comhustion. That would mean upward of one hundred- million tons a yea! in the United States-an item that should command cOllsidcra-tiotl. °tC CtC The man who spends the first half of his life in accumu-lating a fortune and the second half in paying his savings to thedoetors in the endeavor to regain a few days of health, is considered a financier in the ffi(iney centers of the world. °tO "t" "tC The manufacture of turpentine from the stumps and roots of cut~over pine lands in Louisiana has been commenced at Lake Charles. Machinery designed especially for ~he pur-pose is used. The industry promises to grow 111 importance. "to Ct'" The damage to upholstered furniture in cities in which soft coal is burned is ten per cent per annum.),fanufactur-ers of cover fabrics would find no reason for complaint if the loss were twice as great. °fo "'to Proper firing would do much toward curing the smoke evil in the great cities where soft coal is burned. A good beginning in many cases would be the firing of the smoke in--: spector. CtC "tC Manufacturers would be justified in calling in the ·police when traveling salesmen whose· contracts expire with the spring seaSOll, strike for illcreases in salaries. "to "to Philadelphia and Evansville have av.·.a. kcncd to the import-ance of a furniture exposition and expect to be known as ex-positl0n towns next year. Ct" °tC \Vith twenty-five thousand marriages solemnized in the United States every day, the installment bnsillcss should not continue dull long. "t" "to At the age of 21 most men afe too young to realize that the?, don't ,know all there is to learn in the furniture manu~ac-turmg husmess.1 CtC 0tC I Because he "stood-off" a bill collector sixteen times, young Schadd is recognized as "the most promising young man in Chicago." \Vhile trying to pick up pennies a man not infrequently drops dollars. °t" "to The good listener IS the shrewdest buyer in the furniture trade. Abolish the Easy Chair. You will notice, if you make a tom through any oHLce building, that the men who have tile most businesslike. wide-awake appearance are the men in straight legged, straight backed chairs. The emplo~yC-'; most liable to have an idle thousand miles away look are those nested in swing hack, ball bearing seats of rest. It is not the fault of the employe that he looks lazy, it is 'the fault of the chair. A mistaken idea of comfort has led manufacturers to develop a style of chair which is C0111fort-able in theory, hut which for business ptlrposcs is a mistake. It makes working a hardship. No man can 100ver himself into a device which instantly invites him to loll back, light a good cigar., clasp his hands behind his head, and tell a good story-no average mall can sit in such a chair and work. l\Iental concentratioll is dependent on physical stimulus. The chair ,vhich makes a man sit erect, keeping him pointed at his work, is best-best bath for the employer who hires the man and for the man who uses the chair. There is at least one employer in Chicago who has discov-ered this fact and acted upon hi~ discovery. He owns a large printing bllSillCSS. Not long ago he moved into nc\',,' quarters. His office force he placed in a large room ill full view of the entrance, This room he claboratdy finished in costly wood, furnished it with fine heavy desks and with lux-uriant chairs. He was particularly proud of this office, ~\nd he showed it enthusiastic:aly to every business and social acquaintance who called on him. Oue day he awoke. He had been showing' an out-of-town customer over his plant, and all returning to his private oHlce settled back contentedly ,.,..ith, "ViIell, ,vhat do you think of it?" The reply '''.'as prompt: "Everything is tine except the parlor. You have the laziest looking offlce force I ever saw in my life. I came in here £ronl a small city, expecting to see things done as they should be, and here I fltld only a set of idlers, who do nothing hut lie back and ya"wn. H O\V do they ever work? Take my advice, either get a new set of clerks or put fJrecrackers under those you have." The employer pondered-and watcl1ed. About a ,veek later a furniture van brought to his door a sufficient number of erect, energetic looking chairs to supply his office force. It departed loaded "with an equal number of the indolent kind. Today that employer points with pride to a roomful of what he declares to be the, most alert, wide-awake, interested looking dc~k workers in the city. The change of chairs did it. W. A. FREDI'RIC. A New Plant in Course of Erection. There has just been dosed at 1hrictta. 0., a business deed of considerable il11portan(~c between two manufaeturillg C0111- panies of that city which has opened the eyes of Marietta peo-ple to the magnitude of One of the inchtstrics cotlcernd. As a result of the transaction the l\1arietta Paint & Color Com-pany has sold its present larg;e plant at tho:: corner of Fnrt and \Vood streets, \Vest 1.larietta, and will immediately COl1l~ me nee work on .a much larger and more lllodern plant ill K arwood, an eastern suburb of that city. For sever8l years past the Marietta Paint & Color C0111- pany has found its present large plant at the corner of Fort its immen:=;e and constantly growing busil~ess. This com-pany is probably the largest manufacturer of wood fi.nishing materials in the world. It is also a large manufacturer of high grade paints and paint specialties, and it is the expand-ing of business in all these lines that has mndc it necessary for the compauy to seek larger qnarters_ The ne,y plant will be thoroughly modern and will be equipped with every facility for the handling of business of the company. The site selected is an ideal Ol1e and ""vi\[ afford convenient railroad shipping facilities. L. 15 I( your DESIGNS are right, people want the Goods. That ma.kes PRICES right. (tlarence 'JR. bills DOES IT 163Madison Avenue -Citizens Phone 1983, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. ELEVATORS IMPROVED, EASY AND QUJCK RAISINC Belt, Eledric atld H"nd Power. The Best Hand Power for Furniture Stores Send fOJ:" Catalogue and Prices. KIMBAlL BROS. CO., 1067 N;.'h sc. Council Bluffs, la. KI:rnball Elevator Co •• 323PrClspect St., Cleveland, 0.; 10811th St., Omaha, Neb.; I:~OCedar St., New York City. =====-SEE:===== West Michigan Machine & Tool Co" ltd. GRAND RAPIDS. MICH. for mG" GRADE PIJNG"ES and DIES. We can help you. Time saved and when done leavesare bound (by your-self) and indexed by floors or departments. BARLOW BROS., Grand Rapid8. Mich. Write Right Now. West Side 36 Inch Band Saw Machine, Gleason Palenl Sectional ,Feed Roll, "'~~~MAN:UFACTUl<KD BY·===== WEST SIDE IRON WORKS CRANO RAPIDS, MICH., U. s. A. WABASH B. WALTER & CO. INDIANA M""f,,'",,,. of T ABLE SLIDES Exclusively. WRITE FOR PRICES AND DISCOUNT WHITE PRINTING CO., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. PRINTERS OF CATALOGUES and everything needed by business men 16 17 Oran~Da~i~sDlow Pi~e .an~Dust Arrester (om~anJ THE LATEST de"ice for handling shavings and dust from all wood-working l1wchines. Our }linetcen years experience in this class of "uJork has brought it nearer perfection than any other system on the market today. It is no experil'nentJ but a demonstrated scientific fact~ as ',Jut have 'Sc"veral hun-dred of these systcnls in use, and not a poor one am,ong the'J11. OU,Y Aufontatic Furnace Feed System, as shown in this cut) is the most perfect 'lfJorking de~lice of anything in this line. Write for our prices for equipments. WE MAKE PLANS AND DO ALL DETAIL WORK W.ITHOUT EX-PENSE TO OUR CUSTOMERS. EXHAUST FANS AND PRES-SURE BLOWERS ALWAYS IN STOCK. Offioe and Fa.ctory: 20&-210 Canal Street GRAND RAPIDS, MICII. CIUz.D.. Phone 1282 Bell. Millin 1804 OUR AUTOMATIO FURNACE FEED SYSTEM Evansville, Incl., ~ilay 4.-Thc furniture illdustry has 1011g becn the pride of Evansville and it has probably done more to advertise the city at home and abroad than any other one thing. And it is a 11105t gratifying fact that there have been fe,"- or 110 labor tronbles to break ont 1n the local factories. and this speaks well Ior the managcm~l1ts of th(~se huge p]<1nts. The discipline of the employes in all these factories is a thillg often commented upon .JL '" ,~ by strangers who happen to drop in and visit at ~ It:~ the plants. The superjntelldents and men in COll- -~ ~, trol at the factories arc good judges of human ~ ~ ~ d natt1f(~ and kno-w ho ..v.. to so treat the men under -.IJIi! . -..;:~: them that friction is avoided and harmony reigns. ~ - - ~J; One of the well known superintendents at a large c ~ furniture factory in speaking of tbis matter a feV\·' -- -- - Q ~ I --,p_--_--/,,~\~,:I~ _ "" days agO to the correspondeut of the Artisa11. ~5;~~~~f1~" ':..i- "~~ ~ said: "The discipline at the local furniture fac-tories is all that a Il'ianagcT or O\Vl1cr could ask ~ ... ~ ~trlli for. In fact I do not believe the employes of , I~r ffl/"';'·' , ~;II the factories in other cities sho"\v better training ~ -;. ,~" and appreciate more their working condilion than -~~~~~ our men in Evansville do. There is seldom any 4 ~ ~ ,;, disposition to break the futes laid down ill the F#,:" :( ~'~~_ ::~".,. '<", e ~~ y. factories and the JUCll [lrc well behaved a/"H] s!JO\\" the best of demeanor around the factories. The men knO\\' what is expected of them and abide hy all rules. I have' notieed that the superintendents are as a rule kind-hearted men and do not ask anything unreasonable of the o-.,vners. This 011(' reason above all others is why the discipline in the Evansvile factories is what it is." Several superintendents who "vere interviewed. said it wns a matter of great pride that labor disturbances had not broken out in the .local factories. Good wages are paid the me11 and' one sti.perintendent said he has made a full investigation of wages paid ill other furniture cities and found that the Evansville \vage scale was much larger than that paid ill many of the other cities. The men are satisfied with their wages and have never had any cause to complain of thelr working condition. The factories here are larg-e, well ventilated and modern in every n'spect. Another thing that can he said in favor of the furniture plallts in Evansville. There have never been violations of tIre child labor laws. Boys ;tre 110t taken into thc factories and givcn employment until they are of the age specified by law when they can 'lNork in the factorics. ,"'hile the fae-tories are it1Sp(~cted from time to tirr.c tJle skirts of the local furniture malwfacturers havc always been found to he clean. Just now Evansville factories are trying to get along on as little lumber as possible. The best grades of lumber just 111m; are showing no disposition to drop in price. In fact lumber men say there will be no decrease in the price of good lumber during the SLll11mer. Some of the inferior grades are a little cheaper than they were this time last year. Four of the local faetories have been operating on full time for the past several weeks, but most of tbc factories are running on the average of forty hours a week. 'One of the best known and' respected furniture men in tbis city is Vv'illiam Heyns, a self-made mall. Several years ago he was operatjl1~ a slTIall grocery store and undertaking establishment in the little town of St. \Vendcl, Ind., a few miles west of htis dty. By dint of hard work and determina-tion, he saved a little money and came here and started in 18 ·"~Mlf ..HIG7J-N ·ft;· EV~SVILLL the furniture husiness all a small scale. His store is in ,Vest Franklin street, and his business has grown wonder-fully durillg the past ten years. From there he came up town and opened a branch store in Third street, and this store does an enormous business. Mr. Heyns' son, John, who is one of the 1110st progressive young men in the city, has had charge of the furniture end of :Mr. Heyns' business, while Mr. Heyns has devoted most of his time looking after the Evansville Dimension :\dills, of which he is owner.. 1\Jr. Heyns is a heavy stockholder in the NewVendomc hotel, at' the corner of Sycamore and Third streets. This is one of the finest hotels in the state. and since it was opened, a fe ........ 1110nths ago, has cnjoyed a wide and extensive pat-onag-e. • Sketch by George W. Barker, Binghamton, N. Y., in the Grand Rapids School. of Designing. Student .:\Jr. IIeyns is prominent in churCh and lodge work and is kno\'nl as one of the most progressive and public spirited men in this part of the state. His son, John, is the secretary of the hotel company, and. srpnd." a good deal of his time there looking aft~r the business. ' Conrad Haase, Sr., died at his home a few days ago at the age of 81 years. Death was due to old age. l\fr. Haase was horn in Prussia October 26, 1826, and came to America in 1854. He came to Evansville in the same year and resided here up to the time of his death. In 1860 he opened a mat-tress factory at 719 Main street and for about fifteen years conducted the husiness at the same place. He was one of the best know1l business well of t11e city and stood 111gh among bis fe-Bowmen. The building committee of the Commercial Club at Hen-derson, Ky., have let the contract for the construction of the Henderson Chair factory to Harry 1feBridc of Henuerson. The buildillg will be of brick, two stories high and 150x 61 feet. l\Jr. IvlcBride is under contract to complete the build-ing on or hefore June 25, at which time the machinery will be installed. The Ohio Valley Banking and Trust Company of Henderson, trustees of the building fund, made an assessni"ellt of t\'\7enty-five per eent a few days ago, which was responded to promptly. C. F. Kleide,rer, a public spirited eitizen of Henderson, donated the lot for the factory. The machinery will be brought from Hillsboro, 0..and installed in the plant and twelve families will come from Hillsboro and locate in Henderson, the heads being empoyed in the new factory. It has been definitely settkd that a modern six-story strnc- 71.R-'T' I.s' A.l'l 2 7 .. • 19 POWER VENEER PRESS Black Bros. Machinery Co., Mendota, Illinois, U. S. A. PATENT APPLIED FOR. ture, to be known ;\s the EvansvilleFLLfllitl1re Exchange, will be erected at till' corner of Vine and Fourth :.;tl"ccts. Behind the enterprise are the furniture <led stove mallufacturers in the ,Evansville Furniture :V]anufacturers' \s'·;ociatiOlI. The decision to erect the b!lilc1ing was reached ,It a meeting" here a few days ago. The proposed building has heell di;ctlsscd at variolls lI;cetings held dl1ril1g the past six months. The ...trttcttlrc will combinc ,:how rooms with oflicc suite:;. The building wiE cost $lCO.0CO .• There will be $70 ceo ill stock iSSllCd~$5G,CUO of this amount \\'ill be con, mOil. l30llds in the sum of 550,000 \\'ill be put on the market and it is believed they wilt be readily '.wlet owing to the lin'\1H.:\,d standing of the men back of the cllterpri8e. The committee fr0111 the Evallsyille Furniture f',ifanufactttrers' Association is composed of Benjamin Bosse, A. F. Karges, Henry Rllsche, Harry Schu and 'lv'. A. Koch. The structure ",viiI be ~:;ix stories high and fireproof. The primary purpose of the furniture and stove manuiacturers in erecting a big building- is to have a suitable place to show their lines of goods allcl group them for the convenience of buyers. At tl;e present time bttyers have to travel from one factory to another across un-improved streets and sid\:;walks to 'pick out the goods they want. ::vlannfactnrers in other cities have adopted the ex-change huildillg idea 'with success. The new building will have an area of 75 x 140 feet. It is Vropo~,ed to have the building ready for occupancy by next February. The new structure, when completed, will be Ol1e of the largest and fin-est buildings in this part of the state. Herbert :\ilatthews bas obtained i\ judgment against the Hohcllstein-Hartmetz Furniture Tactory of this place. It is charged he 5ustail1ed inj\Jdes while at work in the plant by an unprotected shaft. The case was veuued frorn here to Rockport, Tno., 'where it \vas tried by jury 1. Fortes, well kno\Vl1 to the fUf1liture mcn of Evansville A quick and powerful Veneer Press. strongly buill. heavily geared. equally as well adapted for heavy or light work. All movements made by power except the tightening of rctaining chains. After retaining chains are in place, material can be removed on a truck and the Press is ready to be filled again. No limit to the capacity of press. Made in any length of beam and plates to take in any width of material. Write for pricea and particu-lars, giving length of beam, num-ber and length· of plates wanted. See article on page 30, and southern Indiana, now cngaged in the furniture busi-ness at l\.Tcll1phis. Tenn., is said to be doi11g a fine business. n. H. Cooper, <l well known furniture buyer of Birming-ham, Ala., was in the city a fev.·' days ago calling on the focal trade. lie is one of the most popular men who make this town. V/. C. Smith, representative of the Big Six Carloading' ,\'s30ciatioll, who has been conhl1cd <.\t" St. }lary's hospital for the past sevcril1 weeks, 1vas able to L'ave the hospit<ll it few day:; ago nlld went to :\fcmphis to rccuperate. He ex-pccb to take up his work here again in a short time. B~\.::al\.se of 3. COn1l)r0l1;ise out of conrt, Henry Rohrman11 :lnd the liability company holding- risks on the Bosse Furni-ture CompallY's employes, the suit of Rohrmall11 against the furniture company wa:~ dismissed at Boonville, Ino.\ to which place it bad been vcnucd from this county some time ago. Robrmann lost his left hand while operating a rip saw at the lJ,osse factory, and sued for $5,,000, damages, allegillg that the company failed to properly provide the saw with guards. C. B. W; Bricks Without Straw. Making bricks without straw may have beell the SUpreme test of it workman's ability in Pharaoh's time, but the illus-trations which appear in the advertisement of the Grall~ Rapids Veneer \-\7orks in this issue, i1l(licate that the old-fasl1101iCd dry kilns 1n 115e throughout the country have a task hefore them ';.vhich would calise Pharaoh to unwind several yards of Illummy cloth. The facts, as stated, are almost un-'- believable. hut the samples are to be seen at the Veneer \Vorks office and the marking of the grain provc that results have been attained \vhich woodworkers have heretofore con-sidered impossible, 2& ~MI9JiIG7}-N No. :21. DRAWER KNOe. Drawer Knobs In Maple, Birch. Oak or Mahogany. High. grade. Nicely sanded. Choice of fUlenings. Write for catalogue and samples. "eory Rowe Mfg. Co., Newaygo, Mich. NO. 20. COMMODE BUTTON. A Great Profit Earning Machine. The new multiple mortising machine, shown on this page, was inve,nted by the Wysong & Miles Company of Greens-boro, N. c., for mortising in factories manufacturing chiffoll-ie, rs, bureaus, washstands, desks and sideboards. Tl1is ma-chine ·is automatic in action; the operators lays the P.ost in position and his foot on the trea-dle, whereupon the machine auto-matically damps the material, makes all the mortises accurately and, fre.e from chips and releases the material. It is claimed for it speed and strength over all other processes without e.xception, and not only a saving in time in pro-duc1l1g the post, bqt also by its use an immclls'c amQitnt of "time I; saved in produci:flg;' the drawer rails, drawer guides and in the erecting room in putting the ..ca5e together. The manufacturers of this mul-tiple square chisel mortiser sell the machine'" under a positive guarantee that it is at least twice as fast as any other device for preparing the posts and ten to fifteen times as rapid as man-}' of the constructions heretofore used and ten· to fifteen times as rapid in the, erection de-partmcnt. It is guaranteed by the manufacturers in their sale of the machine to be fifty times faster than the ordinary jig mortiser, also more accurate; to be five or six times as rapid. at grooving the post--and a neater case prQduced, also stronger and more accurate; that it clamps, makes all the mortises and releases a post completed in less time than a .post can be clamped on a single horizontal square chise.1 mortiser, and is therefore ten to fifteen times as rapid: to be three times as rapid as the multiple routing machine and makes a stronger and neater job; to he three times ~s fast as; a dado machine and a much stronger c'tlse produc.ed; to be three times as fast as the round tenon _construction, eve.n where parties are equipped with automatie .double end ten-oning machines for rapid production, al.so makes a stronger and more accurate ease; to be four times as fast as the dowel construction and stronger and more accurate; to be five times as rapid as the pilaster construction, more, accurate and more durable; that three times as many posts may be worked than on a gang dovetailer, and four <to five times as many cases put together in t,he case ej'ection ;department_ It is claimed that this mortiser will prepare the posts fifteen to twenty times. a5 fast as a single spindle dovetailer and in addition save twice to three times t,he entire cost of the machine in the case erection department each year and also enable the manufacturer to prepare the drawer rails in le,% than half 'the time. They compare in detail each of the follmving con-structions. and machines: Jig or pounding mortiser yet in use in some factories; The Wysong & Miles Company Multiple Mortising Machine. single, horizontal square chisel mortiser, now almost gener-ally adopted; d(w~tail construction; grooved construction; pilaster construction; dado machine; multiple router; dowel construction; round tenoner and boring machine. In other words, they claim that there is little to be said in favor of the jig or pounding mortiser. That -it takes longer to make one mortise '"'lith it than to complete all the mortises an entire post on this' new machine, .and; furthe;', . that it leaves the mortise full of ehips; that it takes longer 'to dig the chips out of onc mortise than to completely mor-tise a post all this llew machine with every mortise free from chips and ,absolutely accurate; that it takes longer to clamp the post for each mortise than to completely Inoftise an entire post on this new machine; that it takes longer to layoff the mortise:.; for the single pounding stroke, machine than to com-plete a post on this nev..·machine, a-nd ev.en then the work is not mortised with tlie absolutely accuracy that this new mor,- tiser does it, even though it has taken fifty time~ as long to get out the work. Tt is claimed that this new mortiser will complete 400 posts in an hour. Grooved construction: It is claimed that it takes as long to make the groove as to mortise the post complete on this new mortiser. That it takes as long to make and cut the filling in sticks that fill in the grooves between the drawer rails as it does to complete a post on our machine.. Again it takes as long to glue them in. The work, even then, is not as strong nor as accurate and yet has taken four or five times as lOllg to produce same. This ne,w mortiser com-pletes 400 posts an hour with absolute accuracy and a strong suhstanti.al tenon on the drawer ral\. Single, horizontal square chisel mortiser: ' It is claimed . that it takes as long to make Ol1emortise on this machine as to make all of them on this new mortiser. That it takes longer to clamp the material for one mortise, than to com~ plete a post on the ne"" machine. That the work accomp-lished by this new mortiser is ahsolutGJy accurate, which is not the case ,",,'here the mortises are made one at a time, and the post clamped and undamped each time. ldultiple router: 1t is said that the multiple router routes one post while. this new square chisel mortiser is completing three. That the mortise thus made by the router has round-ed ends, which show above and below the rail, and are there~ fore not as neat alld the mortises and tenon are llarrow and frail and have not near the body a1id strength of the larger square ones used in this new construction. '. Dado construction: It is claimed that the <iado machine produccs only nbout llalf a~ many posts as may be, produced on this new square chisel mortiser in the same timc. That about three times as many drawer rails may be made to fit posts mortised by this new machine, and a more accurate and better fit made and a stronger case. It is also claimed that a better dado can be cut if desired and more qUlckly"\vith thi.s new square chisel machine than a dado machine (see hrM tone No.5) but a dado construction is not the best constn,lction, even with this im-provement in speed and shape of dado. Pilaster constructi011: A very expensive construction, 110t as ne<J.t llOr as strong as either of the other constrltctions, due to the llailing and glueiug llccessary, all of \I\lhieh takes much time, and i:; not as cheap nor as neat nor as strong as the solid post, and when time alld material are all figured, the cost, alsO appear-ance, also durabibty is such as to declare ~tgainst it for all of these reasons. Tbis new construction is cl~imed to be fully five times as fast. Dovetail construction: Some people using the dovetail have <torguedthat their construction is \he strollgest, hut as this is an nrgumellt that canlIot be well proven, the manufac- ,.turers of this square chisel machiue say for the. sake of ar-gument that if a six-inch girder is 111.0rethan am_ply !'.trong to hold a bridge, is there· ally need of paying the extra price for a hvclve-inch girder, evcn thoug-h it is stronger, or, ill other words, if their constructiOll -is more than strong enough to suit all demands, \",hy usc a construction that requires you to pay four and eve~n five men where oue is sufficient? They claim their construction is the strongest a11(1the); arc willing to guarantee it and put it to the test '"any time. They say it takes twice as long to do\'etail the posts, twice as long to prepare the drawer rails, as the double end tClHmcr must be set up with special beads or bits, and fivc times as long to erect the eases, as by investigation 'in several factories this fact was brought out in each, that it took five men to set up the same Humber of cases that on('. man and a revolving clamp can erect '.vhere using the ~quare chisel cOl1struction. Half-Tone No.5. 21 Olle man with a revolving damp can, on the multiple square chisel mortiser, erect 125 cases in a day of ten hours. One of the great advantages of this case construction is that a double end tenoner will accurately prepare to a perfect tight fit for the square mortise thousands of draw-er rails in a few minutes without any change of heads or bits, using the l'egular heads and bits that are in use for other purposes, and this is not the case where the dovetail is used. They claim it takes longer merely to change a tenoner to dovetailed work and back again than to accomplish the work. Dowel construction: 1lany factories still adhere to the dowel e011structiol1. The man-ufacturers of this new mortiser claim dowel construction is very much slower, as merely the boring of the postS and the cutting off of the rails to length covers as much time as is consumed by their construction elltire -by the multiple mortise process and there still remains the further loss of time of boring bo(h ends of the drawer rails, and making of 'the dowels, glueing them and driving them in. Also the dowel is a weaker con-struction and less accurate, together with the tendency to split the rails when boring and doweling them. Round tenons: Some are boring ..the post and. cutting round tenons on the ends of the rails~ but it is plain that square holes t1l~ly.be- .11l<ide with, the multiple mortiser quicker, ?ue to \he automatic clamp than a round on~ can be made 9n a _boring machine. and rails' '.\·ith square t~ons inade twice as quick as round ones, .a\ld, the square tenon will not iurn ahd get out of true or twist loose. ~ , It is claimed that there is 110 construction The Chisel. that is stronger, neater, more economical, nor more aC'cl1,l:;ate. These machine.s -have sqnare chisels with bits revolving within the chisel and the chisel and hit both conveniently a-djustable. The chisels are ea$ily removed, arid the machine then becomes a very efficient multiple boring milchine, automatically clamping and auto-matically releasing the material. . For fllrtlier 'information in regard to this mortiser the manufacturers, tbe \Vysnng & Miles Company, Cedar street and Southern railroad, Greensboro, N. c., may be ~dd.ressed.> " Deception ill merchandising i:s a short sighte.d policy. The dealer who misreprqents the qu~,1ity of his goods is short sighted and':disllOnest: The man who buys a stained birch dresscr upon the statement of the dealer that it was solid mahogal1)~ will learn of the deception sooner or later, and 'will buy no more of the man who s~d it: WOOQ F.INISHING MATERIALS FILLERS, STAINS, POLISHES, ETC. g If in trouble 'with finishing materials, now.is the time to let us put you right. tj v'ge match ~lsaltrtple~ submitted and fill aU orders promptly. GRAND RAPIDS WOOD FINISHING CO ... 55·59 Ellsworth~ve .• GRAND RAPlDS. MICH. . --, .. - ", 2! ·"~.M·ICHIG7lN l' 7 - i Dr. Henry S. Pritchett on Industrial Education. Nothing has excited mOTe interest in the gchool world than the proposition recently made in Chicago at the meeting of the l\ational Society for the Promotion of Industrial Edu-cation by the president of Harvard University, Dr. Eliot. He said: "\Ve have come upon a new fuuclion for the teach-ers il1 our elem~l1tary schools, and in my judgment they have. 1-.0 function Hiore in-,rortant. The teachers of the ele-mentary schools ought to sort the pupils, and sort them by their evident, or probable, destini(~s." The question thus raised by Dr. Eliot has since been act-ively debated ill various teachers' associations .yh~~rea general discussion is now g-oing 011 rcg-arding industrial education. The Xatio 181 Society for tJle Prom()tjon of Indllstri::Jl Edt1c~~ tion, of w ieh the first president ..v.as Dr. Henry S. Pritchett, V'csidcnt (f the Carnegie Foundation for tll;: Advancement of Teaching, as org'anized to stimnlate this very interest. \\Then uestioned in regard to the fnnction of this society, It is equally to the interest of the workingmail, of the. manu-facturer, of the teacher, of the c.itizcll, that the boys and girls may find an open door to opportunity by \vhich they rr:a) '1t tberr.selvc:3 to be effective n:en and won ..e..n in ll~e industrial life of 'our nation. "During- the first year of. our work, our attention has been focused on the first of the two purposes named, that of call-ing the attention of the public to the cOEditions which exist loday in our own country. '0le have been largely occupied in trying to emphasize the fact that these conditions must be dealt with, in trying to make it clear to those who are inter~ estcd that here confronting us, are problems which must be solved; and that the interests of all citizens of our country are to be served by dealing; with them as directly, as efficient-ly, and as quickly as possible. "A second part of our work dl1ri:'ng the year has been that ,vhich has dealt with the publication of information concern-ing the work of education in industrial lir:es in foreign coun- Sketched by Edward Wuenn of Michtgan City, Ind. Dr. Pritchett said: "The underlying purpose \vhich gave birth to the National Society for the Promotion of Industrial Education is the thought that we <Ire 110 longer fitting our youths for thclr opportunities in the way in which they must be fitted. In this day, every nation must make of each cit-izen an effective, ecnnollJic unit, and then must bring the units into efticiellt organization. VI/oe in America are today 110t doing this. \Ve are behind, and as the old :Methodist be-lief .vhich bolds that the first step to in: prov(:ment is a con-viction of sin, so the first purpose of this society is to make it clear to the Amcrican people that the hcts show that we are. behind; tl18t we arc not preparing our men and our wo-men as they must be prepared to be effective, economic units. ;;The 'iecond purpose ,.".hieh led to tbe inauguration of the society was to hring togeth(T the various persons in our citi-un hody, who arc most directly intere3ted in this problem; first, those who have to do directly with industrial calings, next ~..t~:g'ieat maIluf~ctllrers who depend on skill in these tr-ades,' • :'~fnd the schoolmasters ..v.ho are to train .the h;lyS and th~ girls, <ll)d lastly the grea,t American public itself, which afUr all, in all'such questions is as directly concerned as allY other' party, hut which is the one the most of teL left unconsulted. "This soden:'., belieiles that this problem, vital as it is, is to be worked O\it by co-operation; that it is to be dealt with in a spirit.6f illdttstrial peace, not in a spirit of industrial war. t,ies, particularly ill the work which is. being done in France, in certain places in England.' and above all in Germany. In the environs of Berlin there is an institution, covering many acres, known as the Natioual Testing Laboratory. It is an institution to which any engineer, any manufacturing fIrm, any commcrcial firm or anyone in industry or industrial life, may go with a difficult problem. The experts in that el'.tab-lishment wilt take up this problem and study it. A paper manufacturer told 111ein 'this connection the following story: 'Some months ago,' said he, 'we b~gan to buy our wood from <:l new region, but the formula by which we had made our wood pulp no longer worked. The process we had used proved a failul'e and om business seemed to be about to go to the wall. 'Ve took 0111' problem to the testing laboratory. Two of our own men were set to work ohit and two men from the laboratory. In six months they changed our business from a losing one into the n:ost profitable one we ever had.' It docs' not take a very g-reat intelligence to see that you can set that· kind of an institution down outside of New York or Chicago withOl~t any modification, and have it do a lot of good. "And now a word as to the future work of this society. It is not enough to say, that we a.re going to co~perate. It is not enough. merely to po'int out what foreign nations are doing. The.-r:e must be also constructive work. We mgst 23 Some Very Desirable Space Still to Be Had If You Act Quichly ~.. In the original Big Furniture Exhibition Building, containing over 9 ac(es of exhibition space, comer of Pearl. Ottawa and Lyon Sls" Grand Rapids, Mich. Apply for information as to rates, list of,tenants, etc., to FURNITURE EXHIBITION BUILDING CO. THE KLINGMAN BUILDING. GRAND RAPIDS. MICH. have definite, practical trade schools; schools that a1"(: going to train these boys and these girls illto definite skilled work-ers. J us1 which of the various types of schools this society will he able to recommcl1d we hope may be made clear within the next year or two. This society by a cOIlltnittee of its men most familiar 'with the subject, ,vill be able to recommend to a municipality Of to it city a model type of trade school; the kind of school that it, in its judgment. helieves \voultl be equal to the industry which that particular city or that par-ticular cmnnn:lllity may well promote. It hopes to bc able to show ho\',,' to deal dire-etly. practically, specifically, with the problems of a given region, of a given city, and of a given state. "Secondly, it is the expectation that 1,.vithin the next year there may he brought out of this society a committee similar to that famous committee of ten, of which President Eliot was a member, \vhich some years ago dealt in so successful a way with certain standards of college and secondary edl1ca-tiOI], This committee, it is hopcd, ",,-ill tell us how thcse continuation school, these schools for industrial training should articulate thelnselves with the gTeat public school sys-tem of our country and of our various states, because after all, this study by \vhich a boyar girl is to be started into a trade, in which skill shall hc one of the great agents for the moral and intellectual uplifting, must ill some way be intelli-gently, practically and efficiently articulated witb our public school system." Russian Exposition of Furnitu~~. An exposition of furniture, under tbt auspices of the dowager empress, will be opened in St. Petersburg, Russia. early in the month of Angust. The prol1'loters are endeav-oring to induce manufacturers of the United States to contrib-ute samples of their work. Shipments should be madf'. as early as possihle. Especial care should be taken iri packing the goods. (The German Inanufacturers use corrugated card-board.) Detailed instructions should be furnished for use ill setting up the g"oods. Every piece used in construction should be numbered ill the order in which they are to be put together, when unpacked. Sketch by George W. Barker, Binghamton, N. Y., Student in the Grand Rapids School of Designing. 24 Hardwood Interiors. The use of hard woods in house-finishing and other lines has been constantly growing until now nearly every section of our country is contributing some wood of a hard or tough nature for this purpose. The fact that these woods take a handsome natural finish, are more serviceable, especially for flooring, has rooted them so firmly in the popular demand that we doubt if they will ever go out of use. Ho'" to work them economi-cally with the 1001s at hand has, however, been a serious prob-lem with the wood-worker who desires to tllrn out good work at a fair margin of profit. To meet this demand a Shimer cutter head has bc~n brought out, which in the most severe trials .J1as "made good," both as to the quality a 11 d the amount turned out .....l'le refer to the Shimer inter-mediate cutter head. In its general make-up it resembles the regular Shimer heads and it is provided with the same reliable expansion feature, but in regard to the cutters and their fixtures it is entirely new. By means of this tool straight and circular bits arc used in combination. The straight bits used for cutting the verti-cal edge of the board are made from flat steel usually ,of easy access. The square offsets aboye and below the tongue are formed- by grooving out the end of the knife and projecting it to the proper distance. The neat finish is accomplished by means of the intermediate circular bits, working in pairs in upper and lower series, in combination with the straight ones to complete the full outline. This setting of the bits in pairs, all oppo~ite sides of the head, and the symmetrical C:'lnstru('~ tion of this new tool, insures a perfect run-ning balance, a feat-ure of much impor-tance and one appre-ciated by the wood-worker who is accus-tomed to fast running tools. As all the good points of a tool like this cannot be mentioned in a short reading notice, we would suggest that our readers send for descriplive circular of the intermediate head at once. Like all the other Shimer beads, these tools are sent on trial to responsible lumbermeil anywhere. For further information, prices, etc., address Samuel J. Shimer & Sons, sole manufacturers, J\:1ilton, Pa. E.mployes Amply Provided. For. Throughout the length and breadth of East Anglia there is, perhaps, no name so well known as that of J. & J. Colman, Ltd. Carro,\-' works, so aptlydescribe<1 as the "self-contained town of ceaseless acrtivity," with its one mill-ion square feet area of floors, its ten million cubic feet conten'ts of buildings, and its battalions of busy workers, has a world-wide reputa-tion, and there is no wonder that the wheels runs 50 smoothly in this busy hive of industry, for between employers and em-ployed the most harmonious relations have ever existed. An English paper deals at considerable length with the business activity of the numerous departments at Carrow, and having described the processes of manufacture in the great 111ustard milts, the starch rooms, the blue mills, and the numerous other branches of industry to be seen in full swing at Car-row. it devotes some attention to the great social scheme re-recently inaugurated. The late Mr. ]. ]. Colman, who for nearly a quarter of a century represented Norwich in parlia-ment, made the welfare of his employes as much a considera-tion as the extension of the colossal business. The benefi-cent social' and domestic side to the business introduced by him in his early career has, year by year, been developed until now aU that human fOfethought can devise is done fOf the benefit of the thousands of "Carrowites." There are the dispensary, the elothing club, the Carrow schools, the recrea-tion grounds, the kitchens, the pension fund and savings fund, the common trust. The CaImans never do anything by halves and meagreness is a trait which has never found a place in the G.0unsels of the directorate. Having onee decided upon a social scheme on a scale never before attempted in the history. of commerce, the directors wi!'icly determined to place at its head, in an ad-visory and managerial capacity, a gentleman whose life work emincntly fitted him for the position. 1\0 Icss than thirty-two acres of ground were placed at the sale disposal of Mr. Wellington, the manager of-the department, and the entire site is contiguous to the works. At the far end-near the club hot1se~there is located NO! NO TROUBLE HERE! Simply wanted to get you to give this something better thaD a passing glance and since we have caught your eye let·s catch YOUl· orders for Veneered Rolls. We huild the famous IIRELIAJJLE" ROLLS. WRlTE FOR PRICES. The Fellwock Auto. & Mfg. CO. EVANSVlLLE. INDIANA Oun'sis the largest Roll Plant in tke United Stales. fLY W"EEL EXPLOSIONS H THE "LOCKE" AUTOMATIC ENGINE STOP AND SPEED LIMIT SYSTEM. By means of the "Locke" system your engine can be immediately stopped from any part of the plant; the apparatus furnished includes an independent speed limit which automatically slows down and stops the engine when it starts to race. Read "When Fly Wheels Explode" in the February number of the "Michigan Artisan." 25 PREVENTED BY C. C. WORMER MACHINERY CO" a spaciotls boathouse. lmmediately adjoining is a sixtecn-acre field, known as the playground, and during the break-fast bour, in the winter months, the Carrow footballentl1us-lasts- and they are to be numbered by the hundred-are to be seen cultivating prowess in the game. At the rear of the clubhouse arc two excellent bowling greens, for the men of Carrow-aye, and lads, too-are great devotees of the popular game, and here, amidst picturesque surroundings, it is a common sight during the coveted break-fast hour to see scores of interested spectators watching the prowess of the players. There is ample accommodation, too, and one longs to take a pair of bowls and join in the excitement. The clubhouse is a revelation. It is conveniently divided into sections, and the first visited is the boys' club room. The youngster of Carrow who could flOd no amusemellt in the attractive building for hours at a stretch wonld be past pray-ing for. But, as is only to be expected, the lads most thor-oughly appreciate the privileges accorded them, alld quite 250 of the rising generation can hc seen enjnying themselves in this spacious room. III the men's club room are two excellent billiard tables, and here no one grumbles at the modest sum of one penny charged the cutist for a thirty minutes' exhibition, for the small fee helps to preserve order, and afterwards finds its way back to the club members. The concert room is admirably adapted for all kinds of gatherings and will seat from HOO to 1000 people. Here, at frequent intervals, concerts are arranged. The arranging of a program causes no anxiety, for there, is, curious to rclate, plenty of talent at Carrow . .A hreakfast room is also used as a library. Then there is a smoking room and an office for 1Ir. \Vel1ington. On the opposite side, and facing the clubhouse, arc two quoit beds and another bowling green. Cricket. net-ball, and hockey devotees arc liberally provided for. But the limit of the social scheme has not yet l)een reached; there arc two nHl"reJields for football enthusiasts, and seeing that there <Lretwelve Carrow teams actually in training, and a similar number of cricketing tea111s,the grounds do not lie idle. There is little wonder, bearing' in mind the thoughtful and almost paternal care bestowed by the principals upon their employes, that Carrow employes generally are imbued with all enthnsiastic COllcern for the great 111'11w1hich flllds them employment. ·without ignoring their social conditions. The same enthusiasm, the same lightheal·tedness is manifested in the lad \vho has just left school and is learuing the rudiments of the trade of l11ust-ard manufacture, milling, or starch making, as the case may be, as in the grey-beard who in the evelling of his days is still \vorking merrily among the mus- •~ 97 Woodbridge St" Detroit, Mich. tard seed, happy in the kllo\vledge that his well-earned retire-ment, thanks to the beneficent Carrow pension fund, will not be darkened by dread of pauperism. East Anglia has reason to be proud of the colossal business at Carrow, which has been built up by successive, generations of industrial genius of sterling integrity, and humane consideration for the great army of workers \\'ho have cheerfully taken their share in making the name of Colman known and respected all the world over. Supplying Mail-Order Houses. "Ill the past we supplied a considerable quantity of goods to the mail-order houses. Designs especially for such houses were prepared, none of the patterns were exhibited during the openings of the seasons; no photographs of the same were made-in fact it was a special order business. No one had questioned the right of any merchant to contract for the manufacture' of such goods as he might require in the transaction of business; we have filled many orders for special articles for dealers whose legitimacy in trade has never been questioned, and could not see any impropriety in filting the demands of mail order houses. Regular dealers should remember that hundreds of factories located in var-ious parts of the United States are operated exclusively on special orders and mail-order merchants will never experience difficulty in obtaining goods so long as such factories exist. That the mail-order merchant encroaches Upon the trade rights of the regular dealer is admitted, but he can be com-batted effectively ..v.ithout bringing the manufacturers into the game." A MANUFACTURER. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. THE WEATHERLY INDIVIDUAL GLUE HEATER Send your address and receive descriptive cir-cular of Glue Heaters, Glue Cookers and Hot Boxes and prices. WEATHERLY CO. 26 -----_._---------------------~ OUR SPECIALTV BIRD'S EYE MAPLE ( Made and dried right, and white. Samples furnished on application.) 500,000ft. 1-20inch Quarter Sawed Oak carried in stock. Come in and see it. Birch and Poplar crossbanding and rotary cut Oak. Birch, Maple, Basswood, Poplar and Gum Drawer Bottoms. PROMPT DELIVERY. ALL PRIME STOCK. FIGURED WOODS. MAHOGANY. WALNUT. QTR. SAWED OAK. BIRCH. HENRY s. 23 SCRIBNER ST., HOLDEN VENEER CO. ________G_RANO RAPIDS, MICH.. -l Renting a "Furnished Flat." I always knc\v it wasn't what is was cracked up to be, be-ing a landlord. ,"Vhen my brother put his money in apart-ment houses and the women used to come along and take the dining room for a back parlor and then ask scornfully where the dining room was. But you really don't know what it is to have your feelings hurt until you rent your flat furnished. I carried down an ad for the boss the other day to the newspape.r office: ******* *' ****** '" TO RENT~For the summer-Eight * >i' room furnished flat, thoroughly * '" modcrn. * ******* * ****** The boss lives on the top floor of one of the high, modern apartment buildings, and the, flat looks Ollt over the lake. I wrote out the ad carefully and thought at the time that it was a pity to make it so conservative, and 1 wished I could think of something better than "thoroughly modern," some-thing to suggest \\i]ut a gem it really was. The truth is we are' all as intereste.d in the flat as if it were our own, and the boss was so happy over it when they got settled that they couldn't help talking about it. They have hardly been married a year and they are adding new things to it all the time. The boss is a good deal of a connoisseur himself and he has been busy picking up odd pieces of mahogany ever since there was any prospe.ct of an engagement. The resltlt is that the whole flat is furnished in mahogany eomplete from end to end, not another piece of wood in it, and most of the things are rcal antiques. There is an Italian walnut chair that would bring $80 or $100, and one of the beds is a four-poster which Mrs. Tapfloor bought in the south and which cost $175 even to buy it from the 'old house she. found it ill. It has a value of five times that much, and even for a. reproduction like it onc would have to pull out at least $27"5. It is this way all through the flat. It isn't money only that they put in it, but the selections are good. The dining room chairs are Chippendale, and the sideboard is Sheraton. There is a high inlaid mahogany spoon box that is price-less- it is a family heirloom, and this stands on the middle of thc sideboaru. There is an Adam sofa, and I don't know whose name belongs to the old fashioned mahogany secre-taries, but they.all were good, and the boss and his wife have been like two children about adding every little thing the)~ could to make it complete. Even when they were on their honeymoon they lived in curio sho'ps, and onc day they found a man with part of an old carved four poster bedstead which he was going to work over into something. "\;\,That will you take for one of the posts:" the boss had said. suddenly with a briliiallt inspiration. He had thought of adding the hooks to it and making a rack for the bedroom to go with the rest of the mahogany thing:" and 1\'1rs. Top~ floor was so tickled that she told us about that herself. So "\Ie were all personalty inte,ested when they had de-cided to rent their Hat for a fe\v months. ~{onclay, after the Sunday the ad was to be il1, the bo:;s said to me, "Miss Christie, did yon notic~ that ad? They got it 'fairly mod· ern' instead of 'thoroughly modern.' There hasn't been any-body here yet; don't know whether that has kapt anybody away or not." It was about 1 o'clock that IHrs. Topfloor camc in. She often came in to go out to luncheon with Topfloor, but this time you c.ould see that something out of the ordinary was the matter. She was flushed and excited. "I thought you were going to stay home and receive the renters," said Topfloor. "Receive renters! I should think I had been doing it!" said 1l.frs.Topfloor. "Two awful people have been there, and they went through and looked at everything; and what do you think they said?" ","Vhy, what did they say:" ';They said that the advertisement was misleading," gasped ~frs. TopfiooT. ';V>.!'e had said that it was 'fairly modern,' and it wasn't modern at all. The mcdest one, the one that said she wanted it for her brother, said there wasn't a piece of furniture in it that didn't look as if it had been made before her grandmother was born. She said she was surprised that we should put in such an ad, that it had brought her clear in from Chicago Grove, and made her waste all that time coming to the north side. ., 'And now I've got to go way out on Lake avenuc to answer another one,' she said. 'My brother is coming fro111 Goldfield with his wife, and he has got to have something that really is fashionable. That is the last thing hc s:lid in his letter that he wanted something up to date.' ;'And then they coiled the chairs rush-bottomed, think of that," went on 1Irs. Topflaor, almost weeping. "And the one that came with the other went up to the sideboard ~nd said that the silver box looked like a box that her mother used to have for wood. She said that they always kept theirs down on the floor down by the parlor grate. That was back in l\laine, she said, but whe.n the house came to her she got rid of them long ago. "But I haven't told you the worst," continued ~hs. Top-flooT. ';You know the little Sheffield piece, the- one your mother gave us-well, what did that woman do but say that she was surc that her brother never could star;d for a house where they were old fashioned enough to use a caster." \Ve were all interested in the Sheffiield plate casters-there were two of them, one with a standa~-d only-it was 160 years old, al,d the bottles had been broken. The other was 27 III III -----_._-_. Rip saw table. with l'.Duntershaft and iRW. Rounder, two_spindle with countermaft. Rod. pin aud dowel machille No.2, Smith. with head~ Rod and dowel machine No.2, Elir1D power feed. Shaper. single spind, Colladay with frie-tion c. s. Swinl:/sll.w. colllplele widl saw and rei. equip Sand",T, two.spindle with oountenhaft. Sander, 36 in. Columbia triple-drum. Sander. 42 in. Columbia triple-drum. Stick~. 14n Hermance with regulal equip. Siliider. 3D in fb~rtJm Egan. Saw table, 38x63 in. wo<>dtop. Saw table, 29l<30in, cut-off, np and 8 in saw. &roll S<lW. iron II. wood top, Cord'SIn'n & Egan. Saw table, 30x48 in. with .Jiding guage: Shapero mDlIle-llpindle. table 3h42 in. £lIan. Sander. Younll's new edie. iron frame and lop. Stave boll equalizer with two 30" saws. T ruch. 38 miscelianeoul factolY trucks. T enoner, American double end. TelKlner, gjnf/lehead Col'desman & &aD with cut-off attachment. TenOD~r, self-feed blind a1at, J. A, Fay. Tenoner.6" dCluble head. H. B. Smitb. Tenoner. hand-feed blind slat, J A. Fay. Tenoner. self·feed adiwtahe hlindslat. TwiSt: machine, Shawyer.l 28 in. cent., 10 in, sWi, Woodworker. Patucombined lathe. rip and cut-off law, shaper, elc. WOOD-WORKING MACHINERY AT BARGAIN PRICES. Havina- purchased the entire Elkhart, Ind., plant of the Hl1mphrey Bookell.se,Co., we are offering at bara-ain price_ the followin8'A~l woodworkingtool_: Band saw. 32 in. Crescent. Band saw, 36 in. Cre>/cenl. Band saw. 26 in. Silver, iron tilting table. Back-knife lathe. Whitney. BoriDii machine. 72' 8-spindle Andrews. Boring machine, 3-spindle horizontal. Borer. No. 21 bench. Slater & Marsden. Boring machine, No.2>f Gernent hori-lontal. Carver, 3-spjndle. with countersbaft. Cahinetma~rs' saw, double cut_ofL Chair bending pre". Swartz. Chamfer cutler with iron frame, table 48 x30 Latison. Edging ~w. 3611'xl81 with saw arOOr. Cut-off laW machine. Clement double Glue jointer, Myen. with counteuhalt Jig saw, complete with rel;rlllarequipment. Joinler, MY~r8"Iue. Jointer, 20 in. Porter hand. Joinler, 8 in, hand with 4-sid"d head. Knife grim!er. 32 in. BuJfalo automatic. Lathe. Whitney back-knife with counter-ih", ft. Lathe. Trevor automatic 4' 211 between centers Lathe, 14in. cabinetmaker's Egan. Moulder, 14in. Herm~nce. 4_~id~. Molder, ~ng. hd. Smith F-6 with 4 in. 4_al'td lid. Moulder, style F-6 Smith. one side wilh cap sash. head. Mortiser and borer, double-end llutom1l,tic. Mortiser and borer, Co,burn imp. blind style. Planer. 30 in. Clement ~ingle cylinder. Planet and matcher, 2"n sinll:le cylinder 4-roll, matches 141 J. A. Fay, Planer, sinll'. cyl, surface 20xO 10 6 in. Con'l & D. Cortesp<>nclencesolicited. Price and description OEl applicati"n. C. C. WORMER MACHINERY CO., 98Wesl Woodbridge 51"Detro". Mich. -----_._------- near]:y <t,; old rtt-,d \\":1,; cOlrplcte with ,;ix lJott1c;;;, al~d it was considered a w()ndcrful thing that the)' had 110t been broken. vVell, anyhow, they arc so rare and the designs so old that rh('y were written up in the TTouseBeautiful "dtll S0111e other old sih7cr piece::; that belong to )Ji-s, TopAoo!". A.llel imaginc the man from Gol(]l!eld ,vouldn't \V<:\llt to li\"{~ ill a hOllse whe:-e they ;;;till llsed a casler. \Ve Iven' getting to the point whcn we were ,;;;traillillg Ollr ens to hcar what \r rs. Topl1Qor would say 1lext about this, when :\]1'. Toplloor hegan to roar. lle laug-htel until ~lrs. T(jptlOOI· finally gave up trying to remember lHlw' her beau-tiful mahogan,y fiat had bccn scor!,e<l, and :,hc 11xfd hcr veil and they went out to lunch. ;'YOtl ca11 phone over and tell them to take out that ad," he calleu back, and we heard ;"IL~. Top!loor :,ay as she wcnt: "Tlldced, 1 \-vill never let anybody into my hou.:.;e a;;·ain to SC(' whether they want to rcnt it Or not. r will slay where I am this surl11l1er, thank yOll. anti if we want to go away \-ve Cfln shut it up." CHRJSTIE SAC:-JDERS. Veneer Trade Improving. The veneer trade. though dragging considerably in sym-pathy with slow business an:ong the fttrnitul·c· manufacturers, is picking np 8 little, especially in the jiller face woocls. The importations of mahogany stock have been decidedly light during the past two months, but well informed people in thc mahogany business say that this is really 1)(' sign of ,Illythillg except tbat the entries have been sTllall for the per-iodnamed, but they Itl<\}' be made up for in the next few wonths. ilbhogany is not a wood that comes In re.gularly, but requi. es quite a lot of time to accumulate and tra11S- 1)Ort, and as a conseyuence the de-liveries are at til11cs rather erratic. So to take a month or tWO at any time during the year, doe;;;n't Rive any gauge or clew as to what the busioess during the yc,ir rnav be 0:· Sketch by Otto Jiranek y.,·hat is coming in the near- fmurc. The demand for quartered oak has been excellent in lumber and fairly gocd in V<;11(:cr, too, but there is not ,IS much cail, for plain veneer made of native wood as the trade would like to see. There is an excellent outlook ahead for the ba"ket factories and tll()se venee:- industries making light packages and this should relieve; the situation son~ewhflt. .:\150 the furniture business is reviving son~e and the ve11cer business should steadily improve from now on, --------- Hapgood Assailed. The Chicago Tlibune devotes much space in its columns to exposures of Hapgood, the employn:ent agent. If the charges against Hapgood arc true. tbe system employed by the "intelligence" bureaus, and conlidenCe men generally are mere play for childn:n in comparison. Hapgood is a hig "grafter" if the Tribunc is worthy of confidence. l\-Ianagcr J. S. ?--1eycr of the ~Janufacturers' Exhibition Company, Chicago, will soon commenCe an extensive adver-tising campaign, for the purpose of attracting a larger nUm-ber of buyers to that city. T .ast year Mr. :Meyer interested a large number of dealers in the Chicago market who had never visited that market for the purpose of buying furniture. Hi); publicity bureau will soon be in fun operation. I .~ltl'~ / 10 SPINDLE MACHINE ALSO MADE WITH 12, 15, 20 AND 25 SPINDLES. DODDS' NE.W GE.AR DOVE.T AILING MACHINE. This little ma('hine has done more to perfect the drawtr work of fUrnllure manufacturers than anything else in the furniture trade. For fifteen years it has made perfect-titting, vermin.prool, dove· tailed stock a possibility. This bas been accompJisbeo at reduced cost, as the machine cuts dove-tails in gangs of from 9 to 24 at one operation. ALEXANDER DODDS, Grand Rapids, Mlcblgan. Represented by Schu.chart & Schutte al Berlin, Vienna, StoeI:holm and St. Peter\lbllnt. Representatlve by Alfred H. Schulle at Colot!:ne. Brutsels. Liege, Parils Milan and B~boa Repre!ented in Great BRtian and Ireland by the Oliver MachinerY Co .• F. S. Thompson. Mgr .• 201·2<l3 Dtal18lCate, Maneheftet, England. - - --- ------ Sfe~~en50nnf~(.0. BOYNTON & CO. South Bend. Ind. Manuiac.tu'rers of Em bossed and " Turned Mouldings, Emboned and Spindle Carvinp., andAutomatie Taming .. We also manu-facture a large line of Embo.ed Orna-menu for Couch Work~ SEND FOR Wood Turninll'. T umed Moulding. Dowels and Dowel PIUS. CATALOGUE Catalogue to Manufac· t~rers on .Application. 419·421 W. flAeentb St .• CIlICAGO. ILL. MANUFACTURERS OF Wood Forming Cutters SPECIALTIES: ~1.~'1!'EogQUAR. OAK VEN EERS MAHOGANY VENEERS We offer exceptional value in Reversible and One·Way Cutters fOT Single and Double Spin~ . dIe Shapers. Largest lists with lowest prices. Greatest variety to select from. Book free. Address ' HOFFMAN BROTHERS COMPANY 304 W. Main Sl., FORTWAYNE,IHDIANA SAMUEL J. SHIMER &' SONS MILTON. PENNSYlVI\NII\. U. 8.1\. MANUFACTURERS OF FURNITURE: Have yOU.ever used the Mercantile Editions. of the Michigan Artisan? IF NOT, WHY NOT ? . 1./ .' These Editions would serve you well. Why noL try them? Mailed to Retailers Only. Mr. Manufacturer-Do you ever consider what joint gluing coSts? The separators and wooden wedges, if you use them and many do. are a Jarge item of expense accounts: but this is smOlllcompared to wage ac-counts of workmen who wear them out with a hammer, and then a large per cent of the joints are failures by the insecurity of this means. RESULT, it has to -be done over again, if possible. If you use inde-pendent screw clamps the result is betfer, hut slewer, altogether 100 slow. Let us lell you of something better, PALMER'S CLAMPS. All ~eeJ and iron. No wed~es. no separators, adjUst to any width, damp instantly yel securely, releases even faster. Posilively ODe~lhird more work will, one·lhird less belp. In seven siz.es up to cO inches. any lhieknes~ up to 2 inches. 200fadories convinced in 1906. Why not you ill 1907? Although sold by dealers everywhere let us send you paTlicuh",. II. E. Palmer « Sons. Owosso, Mi6h. FOREIGN AGENTS: Proiedile Ca" London. Enllland. SebuchaMt & Schutte. Berlin, Cennany. WOOD'S PATENT LOOSE CENTER COUNTERSINKS --~------AND BORINBCITS------ STYLE 7 BORING BIT STl'lE B TAPER COUNT~RSltlK Carried in dock in all ~I. CenleTe ar~ adjustable. and caD be replaced 11.( very small cost when broken or worn out. Wri~ today for complete Catalogue. MpRRIS WOo.D & SONS, 2114 L.AKEST" CHICACO.ILL. "R<Jtary Style" lor Drop CarvJDg1I, Embo88N1 MonIdiiJa's. PfUlels. Machtne8 lor all PUrp08ell, aDd a·t p:rlccs within the resell of all. Every mMhine hlUl our guarantee against bftlakaa:e fo:r one year. "Lateral Style" for laqre. ca~clty heavy Carvings Rod Deep '~8tIiDgll. We have the Machine you, want at a 88tlsfaetory prlee. Write fo1' descriptive c1rcolW's. Also make dies for all makes of Ha-chlnea. UNION EMBOSSING MACmNE CO., Indianapolis, Ind. MACHINE. fiNIVES PERFECT QUALITY RIGHT P'JUC,ES PR.OMPT SERVICE ABSOLUTE GUARANTltE Dado or Ol"Oo...ln.· H6ads. Miter "'achilles. Universal Wood Trhnmel'S. Soring Maohlnes. E1c. FOX MACHINE CO 185·N. F•• ", St. . • Grand R.apld_. Mich. 29 30 A New Power Veneer Press. The Black Brothers JHachinery Compariy of .:\.Jendot<t, IlL who are the patentees and manufacturers of the well known "Pioneer" moulding sander, an extensive line of clamps of various styles and other special wood working machinery, have just brought out a powerful power veneer press almost equal to the hydraulic and much cheap-cL This press we arc pleased to bring to the atlentlon of OUT readers at this time. The preSA is strongly-built throughout and heavily geared, Beams arc made of six pieces % x 6-illCh steel set 011 edge, 011e inch apart and strongly trussed; The toV beam is ,raised and lowered by a 3}-j-inch screw, with threads three to the inch, passing through a -deep nut on each cl~d of the beam, the bottom end of these screws arc run on roller bearings which overcomes the friction on the thrust of the sere,,,", mak-ing it vcry easy to operate. The loose belts arc used to operate HIe press, one to raise and the other to kl\vet the top beam. Thc~e belt:'> are 1.:011- ~ I I I I block of materia} and it is then 100:vered onto this truck. The plates are released from the upper beam and beam raised, leaving the material on the truck ready to be removed. The bottom beam is then placed in position, anothcr set of platcs put in place and the p:'ess is ready to receive another lot of material. These preS3es are made with any length of beam and with plates to take in any-..vidth of material. The ca~ pacity of the press depends on the number of plates you have. l:his company has seen the demand for such a press as this for some time, but were t1l1able to develop it in their old plant on account of a lack of space, having all they could take care of in their regular wOik. They arc now located in their large new and modern equipped plant and arc in good shape to take l:3Te Df their rapidly grmving business. It would not be surprising if Henry Siegel should be com~ pelted to advertise for buyers ere long. By the organization trolled by a lever and idler in the bal:d~ of the operator and can be applied to either belt to make the beam travel in the desired direction. This gives the operator full control of the press at all times.' It has ample belt power for th(', largest and heaviest work and is as \vell adapted fOT light work. AU movements are made by power except the tightening of the retaining chains. Any number of plates desired can be placed 011 the lower heam with plates opposite them ou the upper beam. After the material to be damped is in position in thc press the operator takes the lever in his hand alld lowers the he am until he has the desired preSSUH~, then the retaining chains are put in place and tightened. A fter this the oper-ator raises the beaUl and with it the block of material in the clamp. The bottom beam is then puslled to t11e hack of the press. \Vhen this is done a truck is placed under the of the Henry Siegel \Vholesalc Company, which will practi-call relieve the buyers of the Siegel houscs of responsibility as well as privileges, resignations of the buyers nowemployetl may be looked for. The -plan under which the wholesale company will" work is outlined as follows: Joseph SiegeL a nephew of Henry, will receive from the buyers of the fOUf Siegel stores requisitions for such goods as they may need: Joseph will take up "his hammer and pound 'the manufacturer::; of the goods needed for extra discounts "in consideration of the large orders placed." No self-respecting buyer would ac-cept a job under the conditions imposed. He would not care to become a mere inspector of lines, with no authority to "tie his bundles." Delays in the delivery of goods and loss of sales will be inevitable while nephew "Joe" is fruitlessly swinging his hammer. ~JVLI9""HIG7JN , CONCERNING HAND TRUCKS. Simple Thing They Might Seem, but They are Made in Great Variety. TJle familiar 10\,\,'\vheeled band tmck seems like a simple thing, but as a rnatter of fact hand trucks are made in vcry grc"t variety and for all ~~(Jrtsof trades and speci;11 uses. One illustrated clta!()gll(~of trucks that jncludes as well carts. cars and barrows, is a book of about 200 pages. This Ciltaloguc is lilled wjth descriptions of trucks and kindred yt'hicles desigJled for the use of raikoads. steamship and other tr;lllsllortatioll COllll),ll1ies, and for store and :;idl'- walk Ilse. antI for w,HchollSCS, factories, foundries, mills. offlces, banks. lJoteb. briekyards and stoncyanls. {t contains al-together up\"'ard of 500 111l11lh{'rs and for each Ol'o.? of these llllIl1- bel'S there is .a llan:c jn a tele-graphic cipher code. seeming like it cOlJsidc;'ahle dignity for <t hand truck to ;lttain; bt1t the code is a great c.ollycllienc:c fOl' cu;,;tOl11('rs, who in nrdCrlt1R arc thus enabled tel ii.dicatc IJI"C-eisci} the trllck wHllted dowll to the minutest fkuil by the nse of a .~i1Jgle word. Among the live lWl'flred "nr! udd I1ttmbers there were found alrnost a hUll-dred g-iven to lWlld trucks of tlH' kind 1110:;t tamili;l1' to the general public, the kind that one :-:.;:esin us,::,on sidewalks and in stores and on wharves "nd railroad stations handliiIg mcr-chalJ< 1i50:a.n' d freight. There <trc, fo!" t'\:Rl1lplc, various styles of handles and varion:

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