Michigan Artisan; 1908-04-10

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Issue of a furniture trade magazine published in Grand Rapids, Mich. It was published twice monthly, beginning in 1880. and - , i' / Twenty~EighthYear-No. 19 APRIL 10, 1908 Semi-Monthly THROW" OUT All Disk. Drum and Spindle Sanders are money wasters. - There is not a piece of sanding that our PATENTED SAND BELTS WILL NOT POLISH BETTER AND FASTER. 400 machines already in operation. Why give your competitor an advantage over you in this department? Patented January 12th, 1897 May 17th, 19°4- November 14th, 1905 February 13th, 1906 October 2nd, I 906 No. 171 SAND BELT MACHINE. Will sand and polish FLAT SURFACES, ALL IRREGULAR WORK in your sanding department. Ask for CATALOGUE. E.. WFSONO &' MILES CO., Cedar St. and .sou. R. R., OREENSBORO, 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 loa.d of 3000 pounds whUe 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. ----------~ 'I:M ....... Gillette Roller Bearing Co. ORAND RAPIDS, MICIfIOAN The Lightest Running. Longest Lasting Truck Who Feeds Your Pigs'? Every factory has its pigs-razorbacks, most of them-good feeders but never fat nor marketable. There are steam-eaters, glue-eaters, etc., but the most rapacious of them all is the lumber-eater, commonly known as the "waste bin." In most plants this pig eats from 25 per cent to 50 per cent of all the lumber the overworked manager can buy, and gives in return a very low grade of refuse-fuel. If you will watch this pig for a week you will discover that about all the feed he gets is the result of poorly dried lumber-lumber that is checked, warped, casehardened or honeycombed in the dry kiln-knots that are dried or baked so hard and crooked that a planer wont touch them. When you have decided that a sufficiently large hole has been eaten into your bank account, write the Grand Rapids Veneer Works, Grand Rapids, Mich., and learn how hundreds of wise managers are cheating the pig. New Patterns •In Moohs . Write Us for Prices. ORAND RAPIDS BRASS CO., Qrand Rapids. Mich. • 1 francis' Glue Room Specialties Who Does NOT Use Them? A complete equipmtnt of our Gluing Appliances is not a LUXUR Y, BUT A NECESSITY these days of glued~ up and ~'eneered work. Glue Heaters,. Glue Cook.en;;, Glue Spread-ers. Veneer Presses, Clamps, Truck.s, Etc. Anything and e\'erythlng that you need In this line. Our Catalogue is a handy Book of useful information. CHAS, E, FRANCIS & BROTHER MAIN OFFICEAND WORKS: RU5l-lVILLE, IND. BRANCI-i OFFiCE: CINC.INNATI, O. Power Feed Glue Spreading Machine,:Single. Veneer Presses, all kind8 and sizes. (Patented) Double and Combination. IPatented) W"e mahe ROYAL SURFACER It is a PIGMENT FIRST COATER. In our honest opinion no firm makes a better piece of goods Let us convince you. We also make Polishing Varnishes. The Royal Varnish Company, Toledo, Ohio. Marietta Solvent Marietta Solvent is sure to prove its worth wherever it is given a trial. It is of inestimable benefit in the finishing room as it is one of the most perfect solvents for all kinds of oil stains. ! DON'T BE STUBBORN If your filler works sticky or tough, either from having been left exposed, or from any ocher cause, a little Marietra Solvent will renew it, making it work freely again and helping it to fill, as it will cut the heavy oils. For Golden Oak Stains it is invaluable. With a certain per cent of Mariett ... Solvent in your stain you can use mOTe benzine or terpentme in thinningJ without impairing the color of the stain: or, you can use all solvent for thinning. which will bring out its full beauty and depth of color. It is a perfect solvent for all oil stains, especially those containing either Asphaltum Gums or Anilines. It is also a perfect solvent for varnish. A small quantity in a hard working varnish will cut it perfectly, making it work freely without in the least retarding its drying qualities, while at the same time retaining the neces-sary body of the varnish. If you are using any of our Golden Oak goods let us send you sample. n When it was first claimed that we &hould cross the ocean by steam power many people flatly said it could not be done. DON'T YOU BE STUBBORN THEY WERE STUBBORN II When we w('re toLd that we should· travel in horseless carriages there were many who refused to believe THEY WERE STUB50RN DON'T YOU 5E STUB50RN g: When they tell us that we shall soon be flying through the air in airships DON'T YOU BE STU5BORN JUST WAIT AND SEE g: W hen cell you chac our new Marietta Solvent is one of che besc chings r:;ver used in the finishing room 7She DON'T YOU BE STU5BORN 5UT TRY IT MARIETTA PAINT and COLOR CO. MARIETTA, OHIO I SEND fOR A SAMPLE NOW 2 I Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company Jobbers and Dealers in Plate Glass. Mirrors. Window Glass. Ornamental Figured Glass. WIRE GLASS, the Great Fire Retardant. CARRARA GLASS... New Product Like Polished White Marble. For anything in Builders' Glass, or anything in Paints, Brushes, or Painters' Sundries, address 'any of our branch warehouses1 a list of which is given below: NEW YORK-HudsOD a:nd Varr.dam. Sts. &OSTON-41-49 Sudbury St •• 1-9 Bowker St. CHiCAGO 442-4$2 Wa.bash Ave. CINCINNATI-Broadway and Court St•• ST. LOUIS-Cor. Tenth and ~ruce Sts. MINNEAPOLIS-SOO-SI6 S. Tbtrd St. DETROIT-53459 Larned St .• E. GRA"'O RAPIDS, MICH.-39·41 N. Division St PITTsaURGH-]ol.I03 WoodSt. MILWAUKEE. WIS.-492.494 Market St. ROCHESTER, N. Y·-Wilder Bldg., Main & ExchangeSl •. BALTIMORE-310.12.14 W.Pratt St. CLEVELAND-1430.1434 West Third St. OMAHA ~1608.10.12 Hat"ne7 St. ST. PAUL-461·463 JacKson St. ATLANTA, GA.-30-3Z.34 S. P...,.or St. SAVANNAH. GA.-74S.149 Wheaton St. KA.NSAS CITY-Fifth aod Wy..ndott. Sts. :BIRMINliHAM, ALA.-2nd Ave. and 19th St. :BUFFALO. N. Y.-312.14.16.78 Pearl SI. :BROOKLYN-63S-631 Fl1lton St. PHILADELPHIA-Pitcairn Bldg., Arch and I lth 8ts. DAVI£NPORT-410·416 Scott St. . THE CREDIT BUREAU OF THE FURNITURE TRADE Grand Rapids Office, 41 2·413 Houseman Bldg. GEO. E. GRAVES, Manager CLAPPERTON " OWEN, Counsel The LYON Furniture Agency THE STANDARD REFERENCE BOOK CAPITAL. CREDIT AND PAY RATINGS CLEARING HOUSE OF TRADE EXPERIENCE THE MOST RELIABLE CREDIT REPORTS ROBERT P. LYON, General Manager CREDITS and COLLECTIONS COLLECTIONS MADE EVERYWHERE PROMP'TLY-REUABLY The Universal Automatic CARVINU MACHINE ==== PERFORMS THE WORK OF === 25 HAND CARVERS And does the Work Belter than it can be Done by Hand ------IMADE BY Union [nuosslna MAcnlnr Co. Indianapolis, Indiana Write for Information, Prices Etc • . White Printing Co. HIGH GRADE CATALOGS COMPLETE GRAND RAPIDS. MICH. )l~ANn :r' '1 J( 28th Year-No. 19. $1.00 per Year. Getting the Best Work Out of Employes i~a Furniture Factory. Nothing is mOTe important to the employer of labor, large or small, than that he have the conscientious and undivided service of his workmen. HO\v to g-et this service is a qllc~tion hundreds of employers have attempted to solve; few success-fully; a condition of affairs that can be attributed to the fail-ure of the average employer to remember that his employes are not merely single uuits in an integral machine but individ-uals with individual characteristics, and must be treated 8S such to give satisfaction. There afe many ways in which an employer may gain the loyal allegiance of his workmen. First of all, he must be very careful to make the men's labor as pleasant as possible. and, by ridding it of any semhance of servility, promote a disposition on the part of the men to take more than a passive interest in their work. In his dealings ..v.ith his men be must above all things practice fairness, evincing at the ,same time a ''lillingness to recognize, appreciate, and reward any partic-llbr interest manifested in the work of the factory by an individUal. Fairness is another great c,ssc1Jtial, for nothing will so dcgTIH'Tate the workinR capacity of a large factory as a too easy-going "boss." The comfort of his help should be a vcry import;l11t lTlat-ter to ,\ll employer. and in this conncctioll he should sce that his factory is welt lighted, well ventilated. sufficiently heated in winter. and that its system of sanitation is adelJuate to the demands of the number of men employed. Tn the arrange-ment and decoration of the factory itself, much can be done to promote the health and comfort of the employes. Har- 1110nyof color arrangements should be assured, and a1l ma-chines placed where the workmen call operate them most comfol·tably. Some large employers of labor in the United States have fitted up elaborate bath and wash rooms in con-nection with their factories. These are fitted with tlumbered lockers, "paciolls enollg-h to accommodate a complete change of wardrobe for the: workman, thus enabling him to go to and from his work 'without having to advertise his occupation to the public. A llOon lunch and reading room is another very advan-tageous adjunct to the fadory for by keeping the men within doors at noon time it tends to keep their minds upon their work-an effect which the diversiOlls of the street ,,,,-(mIdren-der impossible. The serving of a cup of hot coffee, cspc-cially in the winter. to men who are unexpededly required to work overtime is a11ot11er little and inexpellsive attention which rmilly employes 1,.vouldreciprocate by a more difigcnt application to duty. During the summer months, ice water might also be placed within easy reach of all the workmen. Tn vcry large factories this innovation would probably be ob-jected to 011 the ground of expense, but the expense, distrib-uted as it really would be. among a large number of employes, w(lJJJd be cOlllpal'atively insignificant. The cll1estion of holidays is an important matter in the relation of employer and employes. \Vorkmen \,.·.h. o had seen a YC:l'- or two years of stt:ady service. might well he rewarded with a week or even ten days holiday at the fin;'l's expense-the holidays extending throughout the summer months OJ1 the prino::-jp1efoJlowed in large clerical offices, the New York offices of the Standard Oil Company, for instance, where thousands are employed. The qucstion of shorter hOUTSand Saturday half-holidays is also ",",ortll considering, for while many employers of labor are unalterably opposed to any such movement, others who have introduced it nccJnim its ll11qlwlified success. Unquestionably the surest way of gaining the allegiance of one's employes is to let them participate in their factory's success. This can be done by allowing them to subscribe to a small percentage of the company's capital stock or by giving them an annual bonus, the amount to depend wholly on the year's returns. This means that each emplOYe he-comes in a sense a vital part of the institution and,. having a direct interest in that institution's success will be only too willi11g to do his level best for it. Of course, there is always a certain element in every factory which regards loaf-ing as its peculiar prerogative, ·This element, however, no up~to-date employer of labor can afford to tolerate. Another ~rcry good way of gaini1lg the workmen's interest is the "idea box" to which all employes are asked to contrih-ute some practical. idea for improving the capacity and effic-iency of the plant. Every good idea is reward in some way and the originators of the best ones are frequently· promoted. Still another plan of promoting the efficiency of the workmen is an informal monthly dinner, to which the heads of all de-p8rtments are invited and at which matters relating to the factorv's ",,-eHare are discussed. In ~any event, however, each employer must settle his particular question for himself. GARNAULT AGASSIZ. Cradle of Henry V. At a recent sale of antiques in London the cradle of Hcnry the Fifth was c8talogued. King Edward was so in:.. terested in this cradle in ..v.hich a former king of England had been rocked to sleep tbat he himself went to Christie's to see it and instructed Guy Laking-, keeper of his majesty's armor, to purchase it for him to add to the national collection, \iVhen Kmg Henry was an infant he was placed in the, care of Lady Montacttte, heir- , ess of Thomas of A[ol1- thermer and grand-daughter of Edward 1., alld the eagles which surmount the posts • from which the cradle is swung probably represent the MOl1- thermer arms. The cradle itself is 36 inches high and 45 inches wide, slightly tapering at the foot; it is of oak and is deeply carved v,,,itb horizontal Autings <ll1d holes at the sides for the rocking straps. 4 Wood Bar Clamp fixtures Per Set 50c. Price $2.80 to $4.00 THE WILEY BURNS. Why Young Hamilton Didn't Succeed in Furnishing His New Home at Jobbers' Prices. Young Dick Hamilton was about getting married when the big furniture exposition opened. He had secured his girl and his house, but he was still shy of furniture. It is some-times eaiser to get a wife than a lot of rich furniture, and Hamilton seems to have worked along the line of least resist-ance. The girl and the house had cost him very little cash, for the girl didn't demand a carriage every time he took her to the play, and the house was only $25 a month, payable in ad-vance, "vith the furnishings legally the landlord's if be moved out without paying Hamilton was going to have that house furnished in style. lIe had a job which caught $125 a month for him, and he had a roll in the hank which didn't look like prunes for breakfast, dinner and supper. Besides, both Dick and l\1amie had such a lot of friends '\\'ho moved in the highbrm ....crowd that they were sure to entertain a lot, and they wanted to show that they were just as much as anyone ,.,.ho was not in on the basement floor ..".i.th some Pittsburg iron company. "You go right on and let the furniture men eat up your mazuma,-'-' said Dick's chum, Howard, "and ;H:(jmre a group of household necessities that you'll be proud of. \Vhen it comes to the first-aid-to-the-mismated proposition, yOll may he able to sa'\" the furniture off on )..T amie in lieu of a cash alimony." But Dick ignored Hmva:d's reference to alimony, for How-ard ,\'as clerk of a comt and saw only the worst side of life. vVhen he went about pricing things he received a shock which seemed to jar the bottom stone of the building where his money was dr<lwing four per cent. Just as soon as he found what he wanted, and what Mamie said she must have, his b;tnk account began to look like a Foraker boom in a national con-vention. It lookecl small ellOugh to put in the back case of his watch and keep for scntimental reasons rather than for any value it had as a horr::e-furnisher. Much to his amazement, Hamilton discovered that one can't buy crotch mahogany furniture at secol~d-hand store pnces. He began to understand that real money has to be paid out to a good many people in order to shape a tree into a fancy parlor suite, and he also found that f~lfniture dealers are not in business for their good looks. Then he thought of the exposition, and "vas glad. Hamilton had a friend who 'was showing a line of samples at the exposition. That is, he had met Burns once or twic.e at a billiard parlor and smoked cigars with him in the lobby of the hotel he frequented whenever he felt like seeing life, Of course, he could make ,it all right with Burns, for Bums was .03. good fellow and liberal with his acquaintances. So he ""ient to Burns. HI am going to get married," he "That's too bad,' 'replied Burns. snare you?" "Oh, that's all right," a little home with Cupid said to that gentleman. "How did she happen to said Hamilton. in the· limelight. "I'm the boy for I've got a little QVEi 15,000 QF QUR STEEL RACK VISES IN USE 2.; doz. Clamp Fixtures bought by one mill last year, We ship on approval to rated firms, and guarantee our goods ullcondi-tionaJly, Write for Ust of Bleet Ba'r Olamps, ViBes,Bench Stops, etc. E.". S"ElDON &. CO. 283 Milldlson St., Chicago, girl that has the maple sugar crop soured in the bush, and we're going to live happily ever after." "Of course"" rejoined Burns. "That is one of the symp-toms. Have' you ever tried living with a friend with a red-headed wife and six children as an antidote?" "\Vhat I want you to do"" continued Hamilton, ignoring the question, which was irrelevant and leading, anyway, "is to put me wise as to furniture. I find that it costs about 'steen dollars a niinute to do business with a retail furt1iturc man." "It cost me $32.97 to do business with three buyers for two hOUTSlast night," said Burns, with a sigh. "I'm expect-ing the manager of my company in here with an ax at any mo-ment. My expense account this season is the thing I c.limb up on when I want to get a birdseye view of the city. You are right about retail furniture dealers, my son." "I had an idea" said Hamilton glad that Burns was in a mood hostile to·the retail element, "that -Wemight both make a good thing by working a little deal. \Vhat do you do with your samples when you get ready to go back to the home plant?" "I sell 'em if I can, but sometimes 1 can't," said Burns, with a sigh. "All right," said Hamilton. "That is what I supposed. You can't do bettcr than to sell 'em to me. Judging from the fact that every retail dealer I know has a diamond as large as a doorknob and an alltomib1e with a snout nine feet long, there must be something or a margin between the price:.; you get and the prices I am asked to pay! What!" "The retail men insist on having n:oney enough left to pay rent," said Bllrt1s, "when they get to the end of a deal. But I don't see hov,' I'm to let you have my samples. I can't even get YOLI on the floor of the expo"itioll building. The re: tailers have an odd notio!l that they ,val~t to do all the retail-ing themselves." "That's all right," said Hamilton, whose head felt best in a seven and three-quarters hat, "you leave it to me and 1'11 pack 'em away in cold storage. You like this metropolis, don't you? \\1ell, you're going to· amhlc about the streets, ill plain view of the multitude, with a little pe,ach 'that I'm going to loan you, and you're going to take her fo:- your O\vn, and furnish a home out of yonr stock, and the stocks of your fellow ~an;ple men. It will be just like taking rubies off a blind hotel clerk." "\,Vill it?" asked Burns, innocently. "Of course it will," Vliasthe rfply. "I should think you'd see that yourself. Now, how much h8.ve T got to pay you to sit through this gan,e with me?" "Vi/ell," said Burns, "I'm not getting anything like what salary I ought to have, considering my experience and the size cif my needs, and so I'll see what I can do for you if you'll toss over a little fizz money now and then." "Catch me paying any extortionate rates on furniture," Hamilton said to Mamie, that evelling, as he left her in the hallway at a quarter to twelve. "I've got the thing fixed so that we'll enjoy seeing our stuff, just as an evidence of the power of mind over matter. I want you to stroll down the street with me tomorrow, and we'll run across Burns. Then he can take you up to the, exposition building~ and introduce (Continued on palle 12.) New Styles I•n Table Legs Is it not a big advantage, nol only in the se]l(ng of your product, but in the prices you command, if you are able to keep changing the style and getting out something new right along and without any extra expense in the cost? Our No.5 Table Leg Machine will turn not only round, but square. odago[J, hexagon, oval or any poly- I!;onalshape. and aU with the same cUtler-head. Its capacity is equal to eight or ten hand turners, arA it is guaranteed to do the work successfully. WQuid it not intere6t you to know more about this machine? Then drop U6 a line. c. Mattison Machine Works 863 Fifth Street, Beloit, Wisconsin 5 No. !i Table Leg .:V1:l.chil1e. Glues to Use With Different Woads. "Should different glues be cmploy(;r.\ on different kinds of w·oad?" is a question which, \vith one exception, can be ans-· wered in the negative. This exception is maple, "vhich, o\V-iug to its extreme hardncss and light color, can be joined perfectly only when a gl\l~ of very superior quality is used, a conditiOll of affairs attributable in great part to the invar-iable tendency of the darker and inferior glue to streak \vhen employed on maple, and of the joints to assume an appear-ance of being diTt-lilled-a sign of careless workmanship that every good manufacturer strives above all things to avoid. "\Vhite Glue," as 111allYof the manufacturers term the su-perio;- quality of glue known to the trade as Hide glue, owes its color to the zinc which is one of its important constituents and is responsible for much of its strength and consistency. \Vhen first applied "wbitc" glue is as its name indicates, white, but after drying it darkens to the color of the wood, m.aking it practically impossible for anyone but an expert to detect the join. Except in the single CriSe refened to, Veneering Glue, the name given to the cheaper article is llsed on all classes of \-vork and on all woods, thongh in glueing joints which give promise of heing subjected to severe strain the superior ar-ticle is frequently applied. Hide glue is mal1ULlctured exclusively from the hidcs of cattle; veneering- glue is a by-product of the hoofs anrl other parts. The fonner is about fifty per cent the mOTe expen-sive, so that except in C,lseS of necessity its use is an extrava-gance. The ma:l1utacture of high-grade furniture has 110 rnore im-portant question than the selection of the glue and its proper app1ieation. There a,e so many really excellent glues upQn th(', market at the present time that the selection of a glue well adapted to meet the reql1ireme·llts of thc average mallu-hcturer is a comparatively easy matter. Of course, there are lllal~Y inferior glues for sale, but the manufacturer who has occasion to use glue ill <lily quantity call speedily differelJ-tiate between the genuine and the inferior articles. The pruper applying of the glue, however, is very impor-tant, and should be delegated only to one thoroughly exper-ienced in this particular branch of the work. for a slight crror may do a very great deal of harm, as many furniture manufac-turers know to their SOlTO"",. The first and cardinal neecssity in the glueing of furniture of course, is the p:oper preparation of the wood to be gll1c;d, and in this connection it may he remarked, adequate sand-papering and other prcliminar}~ ,,,"'ork arc of very first im-portance, Thc gh'.e decided on, the next question is in what thick-ness to apply it, [01' it would never do to use glue of the same consistency for all classes of work, the thickness of the glue to be used dCjlcnding very n,uch upon the character of the \\'0;"\( to be dO\1e-a tv,·o alld a half inch table. top naturally re-quiriug a heavier glue than a half-inch veneer. Tlw thicker tile wooel to be joined, the thicker the glue to be used, is an excellent principle to follow. Vcncered work naturally requires a very lig·llt or thin glue, fnr tl1('re is a great tenelency on the part of the glue in this cbss of work to thicken and grow lumpy. In this connection it migbt be said that in all vencer work it is imperative that all wood 511all be properly "toothed" off before the glue is applied, otherwise an unevenness ,,,,ill rcsult that no amount of sandpapering wiII overcome. ~o cast-iron niles call b<: laid down for the adulteration of the glue hence the great lIC'cessity of the gll1eing being done only by a m;lll who thoroughly understands his work. r..luch, as bas been pointed on't, will depevd on the character of tlH' work. but temperature and the general condition of the glue at the time nl\1st also he considered. III the thinning of glue water alone. should be used. GARKAFLT AG,\SSIZ. It's Different Now. "Six months ago when a salesman handling a line of up-holsterer's materials arrived in the city," remarked a ~nanufac-turn of parlor fllrnitu,'e in Granel Rapids, "he opened his samples, called up his customcrs by 'phone and notified them that a hack would bring them to his' hotel when it would suit their convenience. It is different now. One's office is sur-rounded by eager salesmen before the morning's n:ail is dis-posed of. and during their stay they drop in frequently and ring up by 'phone before their departure." 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. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. 6 of flat surfaces, such as table tops, desk tops, oops of dressers, etc., and will not cut through the thinnest veneer, even where New Sanding Machines. Wysong & Miles Company of Greenbsoro, K. C, through their patents, apparently possess the field in impr(wements in this particular branch ')f iDlprOved" ma-chinery. \Vysong & ?diles Com-pany, CJ.reensboro, ::{. c., have placed on the market this new ]\i o. 171 Sande,r, which is worthy of the most careful consideration. It suc-cessIully polishes (111 a(\(lition to the work shown in groups A, H, C, D and E, selected from their cata-logue, and all similar work and shapes) a line of work on pianos, desks, school sUltS, church pews, interior finish, sash, doors and blinds and other classes of work that has never yet been accomplished and which makes it indispensable in factories for this class of work. In fact, Wysong & Miles No. 171 Sander. warped or cupped. It will sand the raised edges of panels of all shapes, ogee, round or beveled edges of table and dresser tops, band scrolls sawed edges, flutes of table legs, columns, in fact, an endless variety of work tha~: it has been considered impossible to sand with the grain per-fectly except by hand. The success of this machine is beyond any question, suf-ficientlyso for the manu-facturers to offer it on trial and stand the freight both ways, if it does not make good their represen-tations 'of a saving over any other process of twice the price of the machine in twelve months where parties have sanding for it to do. A very complete catalogue, Series E, on sanding machinery is is-sued by the manufacturers, \-Vysong & Miles Com-pallY, Cedar street and Southern railroad, Gree-ns-bora, N. c., and whieh may be had by anyone 'interested in wood working plants and up-ta-date wood work-ing machinery. Group A this machine is capable of sanding tbe irregular work in coffin and brush f<lctories and otber wood working plants regarded heretofore impossible to sand other than by hand. The claim that the manufac:'" turers make is that this belt sal~der at once makes all disk, drum and spindle sanders, ma-chines of the past; that should sanders not embodying them be discarded, also that other belt patents accomplish their work at a disadvantage, for instance, belt sanders now in use in chair factories sand across the grain. The No. 171 illustrated sands with the grain alld operates in such a mtl11ller as produces twice as mueh work alld of a better surface, also is suitable for a much greater variety of WO"_-k. The machine is equally advan-tageous on other Hiles of work. It is guaranteed to be quicker and superior to any other ma-chine known for the polishing Group B .!"~ 1'1.1<,BIG 7f-N t 7 Varnish Mixing. There is an ancient injunction \vhich declares that "the varnisher. which simply renders the varnish mixing practice in excLlsa blc.- Exchange. Group C The with cobbler should stick to his last," or words to that effect. application of the adn:ollition is timely in connection the inclination of a prodigious num-her of painters to mix varnishes, both of one make and of various makes. The inclination is more apparent in the autulllll and early winter than at other seasons, and appears to have for its ultimate object the development of a var-nish capable of accomplishing cer-tain results impossible to obtain otherwise. Hm·vevcr, the records of a geller-ation of \',lrnish foom experiments, added to the first-hand data of the varnisb-make;". are all to the effect that, as a rule, the n:ixil:g of var-nish hy the jJaiuru or Vilfllish user is an erroneous practice leading up [0 inevitahL; disaster. At this date uf i11lprO\'elllents ill the making of varnish when, admit-tedly, bettcr and mOI"C reliahle var-nish is made than ever before .. the paintcr can ill afford the attempt to in~prove UWlll the scientific achieven,ents of the varnish-maker. Varnish is 110W made to suit eyery conceivable need of the New Factory at Lowell, Mich. The manufacture of furniture has been earried on without Group D lnnch success at Lowell, 1Iich", in the years of the past, still the enterprising- business men of that place have lIot lost faith in the practicability of such an enterprise and have stocked a new com-pany to engage in the manufacture of furniture. carvings and interior fin-ishes to the amount of $11,000 and promised to put in $9,COO more. The machinery of the Muske-gon Carving and Art Furniture Company will be moved to Lowell ancI converted to the use of the new corporation. F. G. Scydewitz of 11uske-gon is the largest stock- Group E holder. 8 -~MI9rIG7fN Dried by lhe "Proc1orSyslem" Machine. (We will describe ;110 you.) (Something unheard of before.) ABSOLUTELY NOTHING BETTER THAN OUR GUM and COTTONWOOD DRAWER BOTTOMS Prompt deliveries of DRY STOCK rain or shine. WALTER CLARK VENEER CO 535 Michigan Trust Building, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Periods of Decorating. :\'ow that the professional decorator is to the fore there is much talk, more 01- less intelligent, 3S to diffe.ent periods of decoT;:ttioll. Perhaps some of my readers will fmd a brief mention of the distinguishing features of the different styles helpful. For practical purposcs we may leave out the distinctly classic styles, the Gothic and RomancsCjue, as belonging to architecture, rather than to decoration. For domestic art 1,-ve seldom get back to the renaissance, with its adaptation of classic forms to modern use. vVe must remember that each European country was influenced i-n this adaptation by its pc-culiarities of circumstance <~lld artistic temperament. But whether Flemish, Italian or F:-ellcll, thc decorative art of tile renaissance is distinguished b)' its wea1'th of ornamellt whose central idea is always borrowed from the Greek. _i\canthus scrolls ill high relief, fluted columns, swags or festoons of fruit and flowers and lion's claws for feet are all cha 'acteristic Italy gives us the dolphin and the elaborated flenr-ll~-bs, the lily or Florence, and makes large use of human and animal grotesques. The French renaissance is distinguished by simpler forms, giving the impressioll of greater SJlidity of construction. The salamander is its distinguishing animal form. In the Ketherlands we find the enrgy of the crafts-men displayed in most elaborate carvings of fruit and H.)w('.ls. Here <lnd in France the spiral or tumed chair leg \vas charac-teristic, but Fleming carried the Cllr\'t~still further and applied it to first the fool, later to the entire leg of chairs and couches. He made uS,e, of incised and elaborately carved piecc orna_ 11:cnt. The typical piece of [l1rnitureof tht Italian Renais-sance is the m<1rriage chest; of the French, the. square chair, with turned legs amI a sCJuare back with an oblong Vinel con-necting the two uprights: In ordinary use today the styles of the renaissallce arc chiefly applied to dining room and hall furniture, in oak They demand leather or tapestry up-holstery, in rich colorings and a good deal of space. Thc Jacobean period comprises practically the whole of the seventeenth century and, in England, is contemporaneolls with that of Louis Quatorze ill France. [t is of special in-terest to Americalls as all our oldest coloniai fumiture be-longs to it. It is distinguished by' extreme simplicity of COI1- stntction. ).J ost of it might have been made by the joiner. It is uncol11promising[y right-allg1cd and the_ decoration is generally, carving in lOW relief applied to panels. The com-monest designs are arrangements of repeating circles and of double scrolls, also of rather cruele and angular acanthus leaves. The oak chests, the gate leg tables and the high backed chairs with panels of cane work inserted in the backs framed ill caning are Jacobean. I noted lately the very last thing in dining chairs, a high~hacked Jacobean with a cane back and a tapestry seat. Queen Anne names the next period in English furniture. \Vhat were familiarly known as bandy legs characterize cLairs, tahles and cabinets. The highboy and the lowboy belong to this period, likewise mirrors and bookcases 'with hroken pediments. If the Jacobean is the period of oak, the Queen Anne is that of mahogany. The intimate rela-tions of England and Holland at that time led to the intro-duction of marq1.1etry more or less elaborate, an art of vvhich the Dutch were past masters. Tile Queen Anne succeeded the Chipendale period. As Chippendale arid his Sllccessors, Heppelwhite and 5hcrato11, have heen treated in a recent article in Keith's magazine, it . is unnecessary to allude to them in detail here. The bulk of antique, mahogany furniture, here in America, deriYesits tlesign from one or other of the three. Contemporaneous with the work of Chippendale is that of Adam. Adam's style is the English Louis Seize, and is distinguished by great delicacy of outline and a close adher-ence to classic models. He was the first of all an architect, aud designed furniture to snit his rooms. He generally em-ployed satin wood, painting it in delicate colors. He mad.e use of cane .......ark panels of exquisite fineness. The Adams broth.rs are responsible for the best features of our colonial architecture, the quaint leaded oval windows and the delicate carvings of festoons, done on white wood, so often found fn the house of the eighteenth c;;ntury. It may be remarked in passing, that there has been a recent revival of interest in the Adams style and that fashionable decorators nre applying it to drawing rooms in houses of more or less pretension. H.oughly speaking, the three French styles may be dis-tinguished on the basis of the straight line and the curve. Tn the Louis Ql1atroze, the outlillCS of the pieces combine straight lines and curves. In the Louis Quinzc, the whole outline is practically a combination 'of curves. III the Louis Seize, although some use is made of curves, the general ont-line is a combination of straight lines. Other distinctions will snggest themselves. In the first period there W:J.S a lay-ish use of applied metal ornament, buhl and ormolu. In the seco1Hl, the wood of furniture waS almost universally gilded. In the third the frames were usually painted in white, ivory or gray. French Empire, the remaining style, is di::tinguished by a recurrence to classic forms and by a profusion of applied brass ornament. In Ellgland, the form was copied, minus the n,etal decorations. Its ty·pical piece is the swan neck sofa, the parent of most afour long mahogany sofas. Its distinguishing decorative feature especially in America, is the pitleapple.-Exchange, Disbursed Millions. Since the Sligh Furnhure Company was organizetl in 1880, when about twenty men were employed, the company has paid out for wages $3,000,0.00. Six of the original working force are still in the employ of the company. 9 Qran~Ua~i~sDlow Pi~e an~Dust Arrester (om~an~ THE LATEST de7Jice for halldliui! slul"uings alld dust from all 'l£iood- 7.f;wrking machrnes, Our nineteen }'cars experience in this class of '((lork has brought it nearer perfcclion than ml},I other systenI on the market today. It is no experilnent) but a de-Inollstrated scientific fact) as 7.fJC have se~leral hun-dred of these syste1ns in use, and not a poor one anwl1g them. Our AutOtftatic Furnace Feed Systenl, as shOT.'1.min this cut) is the most perfect [(.Iorking device of anything in this line. l/Vrite for our prices for equipments. WE MAKE PLANS AND DO ALL DETAIL WORK WITHOUT EX-PENSE TO OUR CCSTOMERS. EXHAUST FANS AND PRE~ SURE BLOWERS ALWAYS IN STOCK. Office and Fa.ctory: 20&-210 Canal Street GR.AND RAPIDS, MICH. Cltl:zene Phone 1282 Belt. M.In 1804 OUR AUTOMATIC FURNACE FEED SYSTEM 10 PAINTED FURNITURE. A Revival Following the Vogue of the Adam Period. The demand for furniture of the style designed by the Adam brothers continues as great as it was twelve months ago and preposterous prices are still paid for furniture of that })e,riod imported from England. That little of this furniture is really the work of either of the two better known Adams or of their disciples is well known apparently to all but the purchasers. Three facts about the Adam period in English dcco:atiotl should be tolerably familiar to all by this time. 011('.is that the narre of these decorators does not end in an "5", Yd half the purchasers of this high priced furniture refer to the slyle as "Adams." Fact No.2 is that the period was a very debased one in interior decoration, although in architecture it achieved better results. Fact Ko. 3 is the absolute falsity of nearly alt the so-called Adam pieces. Most self-repect-ing dealers who offer a piece of Adam will on a repetition of the question as to its source say "Period of Adam" if they are not anxious to mislead the purchaser. It seems, however, that very few collectors with moncy enough to buy furniture of this fashionable period care wheth-er or not it is genuine. So soon as they see' bird's-eye maple painted with t1gures or conventional decorative designs they murmur "Adam" ecstatically and let it go at that. Thus the dealer is able to save his conscience and be merely passively a party to the great Adam invasion. The great majority of the stuff that passes now for furni-tU:' e done under the direction of the two great brothers is in-deed in their malmer. It follows in detail many of their own designs. It is not of course painted by such artists as Angelica Kaufman and others ,'vho gave to this furniture most of the artistic diginity that it possessed. Its decoration came from the painters employed by the English furniture manufacturers that have continued without interruption to turn out so-called Adam furniture as a stand-ani pattern. Some of this output is naturaIly older than other specimens. That produced half a century ago has claims to antiquity in comparison with a piece finished last v,reek. But it is said to be doubtful if there is ill the market a single specimen that came under the eye of either of the two decorators who have suddenly acquired a vogue, "Once a fashion not founded on the highest ideals of taste,""said a salesman in one of the shops on Fifth avenUe, "gets a hold on people who are able to indulge it there'is no telling where it will lead to. "Of course, my business is merely to sell our customers what they want. I'm not here to try to educate taste. Al-ready I note the bad effects of this Adam craze on the taste of our customers. "Do you observe how fashionable painted furniture is again becoming? And do you remember how short a time ago it was that people arose in their wrath and threw out all they had of the old cottage furniture? • "Until twenty years ago cottage furniture was accounted 011e of the most artistic blcssorr:s of mirl-Victorian house-hold art. You must have seen it in the spare room of some country house to which it has been relegated. "It was usually in some damp aed musty shade of gray with flowers or sn~all landscapes as a decorative scheme at the top of the bed, on the doors of the washstar:d and ward-robe, and on the top rung of the chair backs. It was made of icexpensive wooct, aEd the cost of cottage fLlrniture was not great. "That made it popular with young married couples going to housekeeping. They gradually moved it along '\.mbl it passed from their own to the guests' rooms, if they had any, or to the nursery. "It wasn't bad. Of course the highest standards of art .7'lRTISA.!'J \~. e 2e ~ were not met by it, but it had some beauty and it was more appropriate to its use than any kind of Adam is in nme cases OLltof ten. But what happened? "The aesthetic craze brought ill the taste'for antiques, and t11en came tl,c reheilion again;st black walnut by persons who talked a great deal about it without knowing that some of the 1110stbeautiful furniture in the world was n~ade in that WOOI1. SU cottage furniture v"as declared hopelessly against good tast.e and it went. So decided was the revulsion against it that some of it even went to the fireplace. ;;.:\ow painted furniture is rapidly becoming-the rage. It i.i lr.ore costly than it used to be! largely because everything costs more. Perhaps it is more carefully doile than the old painted furniture and 1 have no doubt it is Inade up in more graceful shapes in some cases. "But it is not in its general character very different from the cottage furniture that was put out of sight with the ex-pressed wonder that one could have stood anything so taste-less for such a long bme." The painted furniture which is likely to be much in de-mand before many months have passed, comes in various forms. Some of the sets have ornaments of bowers all a white ground. Others have porcelain patterns, and a fav-orite style copies the colors and designs of the Delft porce-lains. Other ,manufacturers of china are not missing. D:-esden in its flowered patterns and the reddish brown of the royal Berlin factory with its accompanying landscap'es or cupids are to be had. and there are exquisite Japanese effects. This painted furniture need not be made of the finest woods, but the enamel is so thick and firm and the painting of so much more elaborate character than that on the so-called cottage furnitme that- it is not bought, ;is that style used to be, for the sake of economy. "One charm of the paint.~d furniture to many women," said OUR CLAMPS RECEIVED GOLD MEDAl .u WORLD'S fl\IR ST. LOUIS. PJLING CLAMP. CHAIN CLAMP (Patented June~, 1003) Write for prices and particulars. BLACK BROS. MACHINERY CO. MfNDOTA. ILLINOIS • --------------------------------------- the Fifth avenue authority, "is that it may be had to m<ltch exactly the color of the other decorations in the bedroom or boudoir. and you must understand painted furniture bas not as yet traveled to allY other apartments, 'T[ there is a pink wall, for instance, anLl it is intended to have hangings of tbe same color, the furniture may bt of that tender shade so far as its back:;rollncl is CO\1ccT..:ed, The S,lll:C is true of pale blue and ye11ovv. "1 ll;lve St'.CJl beautiful. pale pink furniture fo;' a lnudior and hedroom painted ·with an eX(jllisit(: pattef:l of p:lle green, da.rk browll and gold and l)eacoek blue lwtterHics P::\Y:ilg about great blossoms of blue hydrange:l. /\ beautifu"J Y21'.OW set had the bronze, reddisb tones of the Berlin \):)rchill:; ;;nd the figures wcre cupids <Inti butterflies. "The only dining room set of this painL'd fur;~itt·.rC' tlut we ever had ,vas intended for a breakfast rOO>1, , ,led there were the regTllar Delft scenes of H'ater hfe painted i:, Delft blue on ivory. A bedroom set which ha.d ;1 h~~d-:::r:·ot'.r<l of Sketched by Otto Jiranek, Grand Rapids., Mich. very pale cafe au lait ",'as painted only in deep toned fiuers de lys of purple and blue. One pale green background has bunches of vivdi crimson geraniums as the. "only ornament for the various pieces of furniture, "Of course this is all much more artistic than the simple old fashioned cottage furniture used to be. Btlt it is of the same school and all of its bad qualities are the bad Cjualities of the Adam school which would have disappeared forever from houschold decoration had not this period been revived to take the thought of people away from the use of the old models that our furniture makers ate now usin;.::-,to their D\VI.1 glory 8net the improvement of their customers' taMc." Persons ,\'ho are anxious to have unifoncity benveen the furniture and the decorations of their rooms h<\\'e teen kn.own to paint the wood work the &ame shade as the background of their furniture and ornament it with the painted IHtterns. 111 such cases the hangings should 'be of the sallIe sbade as the backgrounds, bnt without pattern~, or if there i~~a pattern it follows the design of the furniture amI the wood work. Tn some cases there arC' cretonnes and chint2es which mateh exactly, .] n t.hese rather overdone instances the lamp slHldes are mack of tl!e same materja1.~~e ..v. York Sun. Furniture for Hotel at Alexandria, La. Claudius Jones of the Jones FtlrniLUrC Comp<tll}", Little Rock, Ark., arrived in Graml R:lpids 011 .:\Jarc1l 2, accompanied by ]. A. Bel1tley, owner, and r F. LeHan, ll"I:I1lag'cr, of a new hotd, erected at Alexandria, La. The hotel c01ltains 150 rOO!l1S and cOSt $500,000. High grade furniture ,,\-'as pur-chased for the house. , I L- __ West Side 36 Inch Band Saw Machine, GleasDn Palent SecUonal Feed Roll, WEST SIDE IRON WORKS CRAND RAP1DS, MICH., U. $. A. IMPROVED, EASY AND ELEVATORS QUICK RAISINC Belt, Electric: and Hand Power. The Best Hand Pl)werfor Furniture Stl)res Send for Catalogue and Prices. KIMBAll BROS. CO., 1067 Ninth St" Council Bluffs, la. Klmball Elevator Co •• 313 Prospect St., Clevelaud,O.; 10811th St., Omaha, Neb.; 12DCedar St" New York City, We can help you. Time saved and when done leaves are bound (by YQur~ sill) and indexed by 800t$ or deparlments. BARLOW BROS,. Grand Rapidt. Mieh. ·Write Right No'w. ====-SEE:===== West Michigan Machine & Tool Co., ltd. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. for "11m GRADE PlJNG"ES and DIU. If your DESIGNS are right, people want the Gaods. That makes PRICES right. '!larence lR. bills DOES IT 163 Madison Avenue-Citizens Phone 1983. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. A. L. HOLCOMB Cl CO. Manufacturers of HIGH GRADE OROOVINO SA WS ---- up to 5-16 thick. ---- Repairlni .....Satisfac.tlon guaranteed. Citlzens' Phone 1239. 21 N. Mat"ketSt .• Grand Rapids. Mich. WAllASH B. WALTER & CO. INDIANA M,nu'~,,",,no~T ABLE SLIDES Exclusively WR.ITE FOR PRICES AND DISCOUNT WHITE PRINTING CO., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. PRINTERS OF CATALOGUES <a.ndeverything needed by business men H 12 STA.E D-EI: (TRACE: MAFtK REGiII!9TEREC) PAINT AND VARNISH REMOVER Things don't grow without nourishment. Manufacturers do not increase their facilities unless there is a growing demand to supply. In point of sales, Ad-el-ite Paint and Varnish Remover is far ahead of any similar preparation on the market and our new, thoroughly equipped plant enables us to give better service than ever before. You will find that Ad-el-ite contains more energy to the gallon, has fewer dis-agreeable features and brings better results than anything you can get. Eats down through any number of old coats of hard paint, varnish, wax, shellac or enamel leaving the surface in perfect condition for refinishing. Send for Free Sa.mple. (Continued fcom page 4.) you to t1,(;: coarse buyers and the free-for-all sample mCli who make our city look like a tbree-ring circus twice a yedr. YO,u-'ll have a fine time, al1 right.'·' "'The ve,ry ideal" said .lI.famie. "vVhat am I going to the exposition buildil1g for?" "To select OUf furniture, ligIlt of the earth," revlied Ham-ilton, whose right cuff-button was at that moment caught in Mamie's back hair. "\Tou're engaged to Burns, and you're picking out sticks to set up a wigwaml \Vhen you get 1t all ~ele.cted, I'll fly down on Burns with my \var bag open and s(',ttle. You don't care if the sampte men think you're going to marry Burns, do you,' sweetheart~" ;'Oh, it is just a trick to ge,t the furniture cheap!'f ~rniletl Mnmie. "I don't se(', why you're not at the head of a bond cOll1pallY i.n LaSalle street. Of course I don't care. Hmv did you ever come to think of such a thing?" Haml1ton tapped his brow and declared that he often had thoughts in the silence which he t1lOught he, could cash in at the proper time. It took 11amie a long time to select that funittltc. Burns couldn't talk much about it 011 the floor of the building, ;lI~doften had to call all the girl at her home to s::c nbol1t something or other. Dick began to feel sorry for himself, he was alone so much. He consoled himself, how- '::,ver, \ViCl the notion that he was going to save a couple of llUl~dred all the furnishing; of the house. Besides, l\farnic seetrul to be having the time of hel'life! Onc'day he handed Bums a check for a thousand and told him to move the fumi~ ture right illto the bouse on Forrest avenue. "I'll not show up," be said, "until the furniture is hought amI paid for. You']] be up to the reception, of course?" Burlls looked at the check and put it in his pocket. Then he took i"t out again and secxned abO\lt to hand it back Tllen he buried it again and walked away. That night Hamilton was called to the long distance 'phone. "It's Burns," came the voice. "I've sel1t your check by CHICAGO maiL ~tfamie thinks we can get along without it, althougb I've a notion that you owe me a couple of centurie,s for show-ing the girl a good time!" "\Vhat are you. talking about," asked Hamilton. "Do you feel anything bl1zdlng 111your attic? Where are you?" "\rVe're in Detroit;' was· the reply. ;'lVlamie and I are at at the pre:u:::her's house. Say, I wish you'd go to the freight ofl.1cetomorrow and see what's the matter with that furniture. 1 reckon some of it needs repacking." Han::ilton felt like falling off the earth. "vVhat do you mean?" he gasped. "\Vhy, old man, l'm going to get married." l-hmilton gasped. Then a serene smile came to his face. ;'That's too bad," he said. <;11ow did she. come to snare you? Have you ever tried an antidote in the shape of a' red-headed wife and six children?" "YOLl don't seem to take it much to heart?" asked Burn.s. ;'1 don't feel any moistt1re dripping off the wire. Mamie will be glad to hear that." Hamilton bung up tIle r:ecei"er and wondered when he would get, his cl~eck back. "Any,vay," he said, "Burns is a handsome 11'lan, and, be~ sides, any chap who will sell out his firtn and the re.tailers, also, will steal another man's girL'! ' Hamilton gave up the house next day. ALFRED B. TOZER. Quartered Oak Veneers, The "Valter Clark Veneer Company have a very choice supply of quarter-sa\""cd oak \'eneers stored in their warehouse in Grand Rapids. It is not necessary to visit Grand Rapids to procure high grade stock, as Mr. Clark will take the ut~ most care in filing orders. Address him at his city office, 535 Michigan Trust building, and 'he wiJl take care of aU or-ders with care and promptness. 10~.110.112 nort~ Division~l. Orand Rapids IO~. 110. 112 norl~ Division~l. Orand Rapids OUR BUILDING EN GR A V ER 5 PRINT ER5 B INDE R5 PRINTER5 B IN D ER5 EN G R A V E R5 Erected by White Printing Company. Grand Rapids, 1907. I I I Il _ Michigan Engraving Company :: Michigan Artisan White Printing Company Company 14 WOMAN RUNS VARNISH PLANT. Miss Liszka Has Revived Her Father's Business. "':VIanufacturing varnish is an inherited taste with me, as well as inherited business," declared Miss Florence K. Liszka of Glendale, L. 1., who is said to be the only woman in the United States owning and managing a varnish factory. "My father had the ffilsfortunc of having three girls in-stead of three boys, and while I ,vas always around his var-nish factory as a child I was not old enough at the time of his death to show any decided taste for any work or profes-sion. ¥lith the hope of making things as easy as possible for his family,. he left the business to be managed by outsiders. They managed it in such a way that after a few years the factory had to be closed. Three years after this happened I ca.me of age and found tha.t a good bit of my little fortune was tied up in that closed f;:lctory. I held the mortgage on the building and a good part of the visible assets. As I also had all my father's formulas I decided to open the fac-tory and try to get back his old customers. "That happened just ten years ago. The work has been hard, both mental and physical, but it has made us a good living. I now employ twelve hands besldes myself. Don't I devote myself to the office work? Oh, no, indeed. There is nothing to be done abollt a varnish factory that I can't do in a pinch. I have learned it alt by actual experience. ,"Vhilc my factory is a very small one compared with the majority of varnish making plants, I manage the business with such strict economy that I am able to compete with them in the prices and quality of my goods. ,Vhenever I employ a new man 1 am particular to see that he learns to turn his hand to any and everything that is to be done in the factory. T tell them that it is only by o\Jr working together in harmony, each doing whatever is necessary, that our little plant can hold its owr.. and compete with the giants. "As I ,'vas entirely ignorant of the business when I first undertook it 1 contented myself with making dryers, chiefly tcribine, a preparation that my father had a patent on. He had Quite a wide reputation on that particular dryer, so when I opened up and put it on the market again people were will_ ing to give me a trial. As my teribine proved up to his standard they were willing to try varnish of my mallufacture. That is the way I secured my first customers. From mak1.l1g dryers I began to manufacture the cheaper grades of varnish, ;:I.ndfrom that switched off to spar varnish. After this suc-cess I began to manufacture fine finishing varnishes. «Every varnish factory has its Own formul<Lsand to a cer-tain extents those formulas are secrets known only to a few trusted workmen. .As I had not the money to pay a high priced man when I started in I had to do all the weighing and mixing with my own hands. The s.ecret as a gelleral thing lies in the preparation of the oils. While many of my ways of preparing these oils came to me through my father's for-mulas 1 have discovered others for myself. Besides pre-paring the oils T have passed on all varnish to decide when it reaches the required ripeness. After a varnish is made it must lie from eight months to a year to be properly ripened. "2'Tew York is the gum market of this country, as all var-nish gums are shipped here before being distributed to other points, That is another part of the bnsiness that I have not as yet trusted to another person. I select all the gums used in my factory. There are do:zells Of firms in New York who do nothing but handle gums. They ·keep samples of the different varieties and grades and all orders are taken from these samples. Much of the ~,uccess Df varnish making de-pcnds on the buying of gums. The price of gums fluctuate as much as that of cotton, so of course 1 have to keep posted and try to buy whcn the varieties I t~eed are at bottom prices. Kauri gum is the gum most generally used in varnish making. It is imported from New Zealand and South America. There are many grades. The lighter grades are the most costly and are used in making the very light varnishes. "Of course, oils like gums, must be bought when they are cheapest to make the greatest profits.. Linseed oil is the foundation of ne<lrly all varnish. Quite recently, however, we have been using wood oil. This is· a new oil and is .made from a nut grown in China. It is more expensive than lin-seed, but many varnish makers believe that it has many more valuable qualities. It is more durable and has much more elasticity, especially under water. "Of course, each season sees several new preparations in the way of varnish on the market. While the prices of the raw materials are steadily climbing upward the prices for made varnishes seem to be going as steadily downward. This is caused chiefly by the sharp competition in the business. In my father's time he got $1.50 a gallon for the same grade of teribine that today 1 am glad to sell for $1. Yet the raw materials cost me almost a third more than he had to pay. "The prices of both turpentine and benzine are continually on the rise. To make both ends meet I have to be on the lookout and lay ln a sufficiently large supply when they arc at bottom prices to keep my fadory busy when the price soars. Turpentine is used in making all the better grades of varnish, while benzine is for the cheaper. It is much more dangerous to make a cheap varnish than the finer grades. The danger of the business is one of the chief reasons why it will never appeal to many women. Just nOw there are two puzzles that the varnish manu-facturer is trying to solve. We are all trying to get an am-monia proof varnish with a dull finish likc the wax fll1ish. The v~rnish maker that perfects either of these will make a fortune. We want the ammonia proof varnish for carriages and wagons that are kept in or near stables. "I have recently put out what I call semi-ammonia proof varnish. \Vhile I say that it is the best that is on the mar-ket, I ari.l entirely honest in stating that it is only semi, not entirely, proof. "We are experimenting in the hope of getting a perfect dull finish varnish for the pupose of saving labor.. As mat-ters now stand the only known way to gain what is known as the wax finish· is hy rubhing. This take:;; both time and labor both costly commodities just now. Yes, there is it Yami~h on the market, several, that profess to ·give this mtlch desired finish. Vnfortunately none of them are perfect. The foundation is wax, and wax always settles. What we ·are looking for is a varnish made of something that wilt not set-tle. Now, I believe, and my headman agrees with me, that '\"e havc about perfected such a varnish. "1 have been asked to become a member of the Varnish Manufacturers Association, but as I would be the only woman 1 don't think I ever shall. It would bring a certain amount of notoriety which I would not enjoy. I am not the least bit afraid of work, and am wi111ng to do any amount of it, but I want to slip out of the way when people come a1'Ound to stare at me as bcin·g unusual. I am a varnish maker from preference, just as other women are lawyers or doctor5_"- New York Sun. Ten to One. Ten hand turners could not turn out in a day as many table legs· as one table leg machine manufactured by the C. Mattison Machine Company, nor do the work so well. 15 -~. igl\apio.s.f\ic~ Clamp and Vise Economy. There .is probobly no problem that ha~ to be solved and revolveJ Inore frequently than that of clamping work in a modern 'wood "vorking slwp. This is p<lrticularly true in a factory where. quantities of work of various kinds, requiring gluing and clamping arc being turned Out from day to day. Vilhile the avcrage shop's supply of dalqyS to sun with seerns ample. the gluing operations come to an untimely end \"cry soon after it begins owing to their scarcity. This ',vill be more readily appreciated by those experienced in the making of Ulble tOllS, desk tops aed dresser tops, where five to eight clan~ps ;LTe necessary on each top and should be al-lowed to remain Oil the work at least hventy-fol1r hours he-fore removing the pressure. \Vhen we stop to think tl1e top of a desk is by no means a whole desk, which has many Ot1iC! parts to he cl:lmped during their r:onstruction. Further, that dQsk to bQ more economically manufac-tured, must not Ollly he made in lots of bundrc(ls. but thous-ands, and these operations to be done economically must so far as possible be continuous, we hegin to rcalize olle factor of the lrallll(acturcr's clamp problem. The I:ext 'll'd eql.1<dly as discouraging is the constant brc;lkage., unless th~ clamps arc prohibitively htl1vy or ex-pensi\ re. Tire a\'(Tage gluer in his excitement and llaste to get the pressure all his work hefore his glue chills, is a clamp ,,\'reeker. The illventor of the Sheldon line of clamps and vises began his career in tbe machine shop, then into the wood shop, .\vbere he was confronte{l with the 11sual clamp problem. He was asked to get up a quantity of wood bar clalrps with iron heads and screws for a piano manufacturer tb,lt would not split al1C] bre,1k loosc from the bars under excessive pressure. tl]at wOldel not Jet the scre\.v get out of line wit11 the bars. that would provide again:=;t uneven or angular strains, bending the scr('~'-. th<ll ',vnuJ<! provide against the lIe<ld turnlJ)O" by the friction of the screv,,' under heavy pi'c~_stn~ thereby th~ow-ing the clan~p out of position, or sliding off SHELDON'S the work at the critical moment. \Vitb the ma-chinist's anxiety for strength, the wood worker's ambition for serviceableness, rapid-ity and economy, by much hard '\\'o:'k, expenSe and experience. he solved the problem. not only on the wood bar clamp, but steel bar elamps. His \\Toed \Vorker's Rapid Acting Vises were developed in a similar maTIlJer, with the conviction that a \""ood worker's vise should not be built on the principles that would make a machinist's vist': an uUer failure so far as rigidity and positive action \verc conc(;,nlcd, that the slide and outer jaw must l1ecess~lrily be of one s-lid piece of metal to accomplish this, that the pressure must be applied as .uear as possible to the resistano::e, that the wearing parts must be adjustable and either of steel forgings or malleable iron to stand the excessive strains that they were continually subject to, that they must not cost from $5.00 to $10.00, when a \.".ood worker can buy a vise screw for 50 cents and make him-self a vise, which, while inefficient and inconvenient, can be made to do. The Sheldon Company ask no better proof of the correct-lless of these convictions than the records of their sales. The wood working trade has appreciated their efforts, their guar-antees, i111d tbeir values to thE'_ extent of 25 ..000 elamps and l5.0CO vises since their introduction. They are now installed in their new plant at 86 North :\1a)' street, Chicago, and have some literature on these subjects that will he interesting to any \voad worker. Mohair Plush Made Here. An investigation by the Bureau of Manufactures of the department of commerce and labor shows that in the last few years the manufacture of mohair plush,:which until re-cently 'vas not sufficiently large in this country to be reck-oned <l11l0ng the industries, has grc:atly increased on account of the successful breeding here of Angora goats, which sup-ply the hair for the n:;anufadure of mohair plush. During the years between 1901 alld 1905 the nWlltlfa~ture of plush grew much more rapidly than the production of goat hair and for that reaBon the importation of mohair increased from 739,419 pounels to 2,625,000 poun.ds; but in the last t\'1,'O years there has been a supply of Angora hair which came nearer to supplying the demands. Heretofore Bradford. England, has been one of the largest centers for tlle manufactttre of mohair dress goods, but a few months ago one of the leading manufacturE'xs there erected and equipped a large mill at Providence R. L which will supply tbe finn's American tr<lde and increase the demand for American Angora hair. Through Pensacola, /\ timber importing firm of Louisville. K)i" has contracted for a large llumberof mahogany logs to be shipped from South Africa and Spanish-Americ<tl1 parts to Pensacola, Fla .. Evidently the Grm expects the panic to close during the cur-rent year. From flve to six thousand logs will be received each m01lth. ------------------- - - 16 lnve~tigat(:: our LiIJe. 5aw and Kn"fl e FI"tt"mg Mach"Inery and T00IS TLhinee BMigagn"u,faca'nud"d.Best Baldwin. Tuthill a;}. Bolton Grand R.aplds. Mich. Filera, Setters, Sharpeners. Grinders. SwaGes, stretchers. BrazinG and FilinG Clamps. Knite Balances. Hammerina Tools. Bolton Band Saw Filer for Saws % inch up. New 200 page CataloglJe for 1907 Free. S, T, & B. Strle D, Knife Grinder. Full Automatic. Wet or dry. 17 Morton House (AmericanPlan) Rates $2.50 and Up. Hotel PantJind (European Plan) Rates $1.00 and Up. GRAND RAPIDS. MICH. The Noon Dinner Served at the Pantlind for 50c IS THE FINEST IN THE WORLD. J. BOYD PANTUND. Prop. [ L Wood Forming Cutters We offer exceptional value in Reversible and One-Way Cutters for Single and Double Spin~ dIe Shapers. Largest lists with lowest prices. Greatest variety to select from. Book free. Address SAMUEL J. SHIMER & SONS MIL TON. PENNSYLVANIA, U. S. A. 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SEND FOR \,. -- - ~ ~ -<.~ - ~. /. - .... . .....;;. - - - CATALOGUE 419-421W. fifteenth St .. CmCAGO, ILL. 18 I!STA.SLISHEC 1880 /"UIIlLISHIlD BY MICHIGAN ARTISAN CO. ON THE IO"H A.ND 2&TH OF EA.CH MONTH OFPICE-1Q8,110. 112 NORTH DIViSiON ST •• GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. ENTeRED "'S M...TT!R OF' THE SECOND CLASS Three men el1gaged in the business of manufacturing furni-ture were candidates for the office of mayor at the late election. The last oue in "tl1e game" came out first. 1Jayor Ellis purchased a bloc!>: of stock in the new Dolphin Desk Company two days preceding the election and won the coveted position and the $2,000 "per" s<L1ary. The order for 18,000 dozen chairs to be supplied for the use of the general government by the Crawford Chair Com-pany of Grand Ledge, Miell., will keep 1Janager Crawford and llis assistatlts' out of politics dt1ring the coming campaign. T11eir time will be more profitably employed. A New York paper (quoted 011 another page) observes a revival of painted furniture. Let us hope the revival will not extend to the horrid examples of cottage work that held the favor of the buyers of cheap aud nasty stuff twenty-five years ago. Through his efforts to open the factories by the distri-bution of contracts for furniture and other articles needed at present and during many years to come, Mr. Roosevelt has proven himself to be a timety and vigorous booster. Evidently 11r. Foote is of the opinioi1 that Mexico will not be a good market for furniture. until the 15,000,000 pc.ons shall have been supplanted by a class of people who do not sit on their thumbs and sleep on the ground. There will be 110 withdrawals from the expositions of con-sequence, on account of the past dull season. in trade. Lease managers report that the greater part of the space in all the exposition buildings is under contract. i\tanufaeturexs of wood workir,g machinery take a more hopeful view of the future. \Vood workers are not only buy-ing machines, but rebuilding worn ones, which indicates ;i. re-vival in the manufacturing trades: A marked .revival in trade might prevent an active. partici-pation by manufacturers in the quadrenial political movement to save the government from destruction. Such a contin-gency would be deplorable. A gentleman largely engaged in the lumber business, 10- .~ated near St. Louis, Mo., states that he is abic to dispose .rIR..T I.s ..7L"J d • 2 r of wal~ut lumber -as fast as he can cut it. "Something doing" somcv,,·here. \\i ood carving is the latest fad taken np by the ladies of the eastern cities. The heroine of Charles Reade's story, "Put Yourself in His Place," may have suggested the move~ ment. Reports from leading hardwood lumber markets-Cin-cinnati, Louisville, St. Louis, Chicago, Memphis-report a moderate amount of buying and an improved outlook. Reprcscntati\'cs of the l11anufacturers of brass t:inunings who are touring thc manufacturing centers, report having taken liberal orders. Care of Injured Workmen. An agent of an accident insurance company spent a week in Grand Rapids recently in an effort to secure business on aCCOl1nt of the low charge for premiums. \-Vhen asked to explain the scheme he replied: ,.\\re furnish tirst aid only. An injured tn<lll must pay for subsequent treatments. Our physician makes but one call on account of the company.'" A leading manufacturer denounced the scheme in strong terms. "vVe deem it our duty to take care of men injured while in our employ so long as they need care. That is the kind of insurance we pay for and would not accept any other. Not infrequently an injured man is without means or so burdened with the care of a family that his earnings are absorbed. He may be a very competent workman and deserving of consid-eration in every W'ly. To cut off relief from such a Ulan would he inhuman. The conscientious manufacturer cannot feel that he has fulfilled every obligation due to a faithful workman when he places a pay envelope in his hand. There are other duties that count for much." The man who uttered the above 'remarks is one of the most successful manufactur-ers in the furniture business. He is very highly esteemed by his melt and in the transaction of his business he receives their loyal support. A fcw months ago a stranger entered his fac-tory and asked for employment in the machine roon,. He was an expert machine operator, but a few days after com-mencing work one of his hands was caught in the knives of a fast running machine and horribly mangled. A physician was called in, and the tIlan received, not only first aid, but n";:\I,y subseqttent treatn~ents at the expense of the employer and v"hen he was able to travel to his former home in another sHlte an envelope containing $40.00 was placed in his haml. ?\ atttre's richest blood Rows in the veins of that manufacturer Anxious for Trade. A manufacturer of furniture, returning from San Francisco recently, stated that he was informed that the representatives of forty manufacturing hOtlSes located in the east arrived in that city during the third week of February. All were so anxious to take orders that the manufacturer quoted above was reminded of the folowillK story: A Parisian shop-keeper, writing to one of his customers, offered a table likc the photo enclosed for twenty francs. "In case I do not hear from you," he added, "I shall conclude that you wish to pay only eighteen francs. In order to lose no time I accept the price last mentioned." Perhaps the manufacturer quoted was impressed with the idea that prices were not so well maintained as they should be. FURNITURE IN OLD MEXICO. E. H. Foote Spent a Few Weeks in Greaserland. E. H. Foote, the trea~uret' of the Grand Rapids Chair Com-pany and president of the Imperial Furniture Company, re-turned recently from <t tour of old !I.fexico and the P,lci/lc coast. )raturally the furniture trade claimed his attention. "The l\Iexicans import practically all the furniture they lIse. A few kitcJH'!l tables, cheap chairs and kindred articles arc made by hand, but the Jack of skilled workmen is such a handicap that the manufacture of furniture to supply the local markets is not to be considered. There is an abundance of timber in the country, but it is used for other pmposes or sold to exporters. 1Judl of the {urnitllre sold by retailers is imported from France and the Gnited States. Gold and Vernis IvI<l":tinfinishes are preferred. The 11exicans love gaudy coloring and showy work. Of the lines imported from the United States a considerable quantity is in mission and arts and crafts styles. Ten thou"and former residents of the United State.s, who live in Mexico City, maintain a club and the American section, which tbey occupy, is a very attrac-tive spot. The city sit~ on all elevation 7,500 feet above the sea. and is very healthy. The hotels, conducted on the Eu-ropean plan, are clean and comfortable." :\0 registers are llsed in several of thc hotels ~'lr. Foote v·isited. \Vhen a guest arrives his or her !lame and the number of the room taken is written upOn a large black board hntlg upon the wall. Mexico colltains 16,ODO,000 people. One milLion constitute tbe rich or ·welt-to-do class and live mainly in the cities. This ebss is the only one that uses furniture. The Peons sit and S1cCD on the ground, ;md in their mode of living their necessi-ties are few. l..l..exico City has a population of 500.000. The hotels and restaurants wcre crowdecl with sojourners from the States. Los Angeles ,vas filled '''lith sojourners when l\'ll'. Foote arrived in that city and trade in furniture '¥as active. The immense stocks accumulated during the era of consolidation and the opening of new stores were moving. and buyers rep-resenting the mallY dealers in that city would probably visit the eastern expositions in July. Building enterprises occupy the attention of the San Franciscans. Probably one hundred great business stmctures arc in course of erection in the center of th~ city. 'vVork on the Palace Hotel is well ad-vanced, hut it will not be ready for occupancy during· the cur-rei1t year. \Ir. f.'oote visited Portland. Seattk. Tacoma. Spokane and Salt Lake and reports that business was active in all Jines in those cities. Trade and Personal Notes. I I I I L_ Myers & p',rartin are starting a large furniture store at Sumas, \\Tash. Manufactttrers are wn king the foreign markets for orders quite sllccessfully. Day & Henderson h~l\·e sold the-ir furniture f:Lctory at Eugellc, Ore., to Ray f\.for~pll. Lignine carvings, unb:'e:lkable. are manufactured by the OrnanH:lltal Products Company, Detroit, !lJieh. D. H. Brown of the Century Furnitue Company has re-tl1n~ ed after a flying tour nf the furniture markets. Ad-d-itC'. a "cry nseful removcr nf paint and varnish, is manufactured by the Adams & Elting Company. Station E. Chicago, Ill. Solid steel glue joint cutters, \vhich never burn. are man-ufactured by :\'Iorris \Voo(l & S01lS, of 2714 \:V est Lake strC'ct. Chicago. O. L. Dunbar has leased a large :wu will open ,a furniture stock. storeroom at Joseph, Ore., Later it is expected he J9 ·will put in a stock of ladies' and men's furnishings in part of the building. The Crescent .Furniture Company h~s succeeded rihe Owen Furniture & Upholstering Company at Spokane, Wa£h. The Buss 1lachine \Vorks of T1011and, ~'Iich., have taken a number cf good orders recently for planers, shapers and double cnt-off saws. Baldwin, Tuthill & Bolton of Grand Rapids has just is-sued a large descriptive catalogne of saw filing outfits and v.."ood working machinery_ EeL \\'are and v.,.'illiam Hoggard have purchased the furni-ture business of C. S. 1lt1dge, Sr., at Echo, Ore. Mr. \Vare ,,,,,ill n'::lve charge of the bushless. \iVillard Barnhart, the president of the Nelson-Matter Fur-niture Company, Grand Rapids, has returned from Pasadena, Cal.. where he spent the winter with llis family. The Universal automatic carving machine manufactured by th(~Cnion Embossing Machine Company of Indianapolis, turns out in ft day more work than twenty-five hand carvers. Paul F. Markoff. the farmer of Spring Lake, who sells furniture for recreation when his live stock, fruit and field crop interests will permit, has returned from the Pacific coast. Clarence IVlarkoff, the youngest son of the widely known and popular Paul F., has engaged to travel on the road with the line of the Berkey & Gay .Furniture Company. Having been graduated by· a school of designing and spent a year in a furniture factory, the young man, with the experience of a few seasons as a tr:ule solicitor, is destined to become an ac-complishcd 'Salesman. His brother, "Bert," has carried a photo case during the past three years and made good. George C. ""Vhit,vorth, treasurer of the Berkey & Gay Fur-niture Company, was elected a member of the public library commission of Grand Rapids recently. The position is im-portant. The board has the managing of the Ryerson library and its branches, containing in all 100,000 books, and a large museum. :Mr. \Vhitworth is .weU qualified to perform the work the people have entrusted to him. A great deal of his time will be required and the office is not a salaried onc. E. M. Hulse and Family Suffer an Affliction. £. M. Hulse, manufacturer of upholstered furliiture in Co-lumbus, 0., suffered an irreparable. loss recently by the death of his only daughter, Louise. the joy of the household. :VIiss Hulse was born in Chicago in 1884 and finished her edu-cation at the National Park Seminary, Washington, D. C. She was always cheerful. hopeful and helpful. a favorite in the social life of Columbus, and her untimely death greatly shocked her large circle of frielids. Besides her father" and mother, two brothers, E. C. Hulse of San Francisco and J. G. HulSE:of Columbus, are the immediate mourners of her loss. PETER COOPER~ GLUE is the best in all kinds of weather. When otber 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 aU 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 bones or pig stock enter into its composluon. 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 AGENT 403 Ashton Bldg. OITIZENS PHONE sass ~------------------------- ---- ---- 20 PROTEST OF ANTIQUES AGAINST UP-TO-DATE WAYS. The Woman was New, and the Furniture Very, Very Old. An old house stood at the crossroads. It \vas a homely old house with heavy wooden shutters, a deep roof and two enormous chimneys; but, as it was fond of saying, "Hand-some is a handsome docs," and it had come through 150 years of hard usage and neglect with sound timbers and straight sides, even though its venerable clapboards were bare of paint and its shingles moss grown and decayed. The old house boasted that Gen. \~iashillgton had once spent a night under its roof, and as it was far and away the oldest huilding in that part of the State, there was none who could justly challenge the boast; and indeed its truth had never been questioncd- by the gothic cottages, the mansard roofed houses or even the silly gingerbread villas which in catttse. of years came to reside in the neighborhood. They always listeneu with doors and windows wide open while the old house told the story of Washington's visit, and were much shocked when a cynical imitation Colonial house, which had been knocked together in a precariously short time across the street, rec.eived the honored talc with a rude "Huh! every old rattletrap in Jersey tells the salTIe story!" At any rate it is certain that the old house had enter-tained a great variety of persons in the course of its many changes of fortune. From respectable farmhouse to road-side tavern, to humble tenement, it had finally passed into the hands of a -new woman. This new woman, it seems, though very new and with all the modern improvements, yet loved to distraction every-' thing old-the older the better. She had for years been collecting old furniture, old· china, old carpets a~d quilts, old utensils of many kinds, for which the old house seemed a Jitting receptacle. She rejoiced in its remnants of box bordered flower beds and brick walks because she was all for an ancient atmosphere, though the newness of her de-manded a few concessiolls to modern comfort and sanitation. The old house did not at first know what manner of person a new woman migh t be, for in all its life befo~e it had never encountered one, but it was quick to make some discoveries. "Lord-a-massy Jonathan!" it groaned to the gnarled apple tree which had kept it company for some seventy • • years, "the horrid things that are going on in my interior woulJ split you straight in two. "Never cmnplain of bluebirds nesting in your hollows again, when here am I with evil spirits buried in my walls and floors. 1 believe they call them pipes and wires, but I'm bedevilled sure enough, for the pipes end in brazen serpents that hiss and gurgle and throw off a terrific heat that makes even my well seasoned joints part company, and the wires end in will 0' the wisp lights, which lIO man strikes, as bright as a hundred candles. "'As for the furniture folk who inhabit me there are at least twice as many as I have ever harhoredbefore, and between you and me society is a trifle mixed. Articles that should be in the kitchen are in the parlor, and things of no consequence are set in prominent places. Through no fault of their own, mind you! "In fact the furnitl-lre folk feel very uneasy about this and other matte.rs, and to-night we hold a meeting to see what if anything can be done. Myself, I think we might as well rebel against Gen. vVashington and all his troops as against this new woman, but the furniture folk are anxious to make a stand. I will try to manage that the west window is left open, Jonathan, so that you can hear some of the goings. on." It was long past midnight before the new owners of the old- house were in bed and asleep and the atmosphere had attained that breathless, expectan.t quiet of the night which is so necessary to the proceedings of what humans are pleased to can inanimate objects. The tall dock in the hall struck one with a resounding oath that would scarcely have been expected f-rom one so staid, and at once broke into re.:. vilings of the manners of modern human kind. "The tickety-tock idiots r Don't know enough to go to bed!" it stormed. "At '{ I say, 'Time for sensible folks co be in bed!' Kobody stirs: I don't expect it. At 9 I say scornfully, 'Time for fools to be in bed.' It doesn't move 'em. At 11 I thunder, 'Time for roysterers to be in bed,' and that usually routs 'em." "La! ma'am!" simpered one prim, straight, high backed chair to another. "Did you see how this new woman con-ducted herself au me this evening, and in presence of gentle-men too? She seems to know nothing of genteel deport-ment, erect figure, feet together and hands folded in the lap, but sits lounging forward, with elbows on knees, chin on hands, and, I vow, ma'am! I scarce like to mention it, but with one limb actually crossed over the other swinging her foot to and fro!" "You were speaking of decorum, ladies," whispered the settle. "Things have indeed come to a pretty pass." "You know, I've. a wide experience. in sweethearts . 1,1any's the time the qutstion has been popped on me, and always did the man and the maid keep a proper distaJlec from each other, sitting modestly; one in either of my capacious corners. ;'But last night the sweethearts, who arc visitors, sat so close together that the two scarce took up room enough for 011e; and though I tried not to see, I'm almos;t sure he haJ his arm around her waist and kissed her.'! "l'm well aware that this is na place far a warming pan," quavered an apologetic voice from the parlor wall, "but she spent a \vhole day polishing me and she says~I'm only telting you what the new woman said," it hastily added, at ;\ contemptuous hiss from the statdy brass alldirons. These andirons were tall, brilliant and. very aristocratic and felt themselves deeply humiliated at their enforced as-sociation with humble utensils. They were particularly exasperated by the nearness of an ancient black kettle which hung from a crane in the fireplace. "And as if it were 110t enough," said they, "to have a black kitchen wench swinging in idleness right under our noses, we must look up and see an impudent chambermaid disporting herself upon the parlor wall and claiming kinship witl1 usl" The ancient kettle was too solid and prosaic to be much moved by this unkind speech of the andirons, but the warm-ing pan, being of a most sensitive nature, was 50 hurt and shamed that she fell with a lOUd clatter to the floor. ;;The eat's foot [" sharply exclaimed the spinning wheel. "You ought to have a real trial like mine to fret over." "Here mouths of precious time have been wasted, letting me stand motionless by the fire, my spindle wrapped with flax and never a thread spun. This new woman is a thrift-less housewife, or else-I hate to suspedany ,,,"oman of such a scandalous thing, but sometimes I almost fear that she doesn't know how to spin." "I half believe you're right," mused a charming little work table with claw feet and glass knobs. "And "..·bat's more, I don't belic,ve she knows a bodkin from an emery ball, or knitting from needlework. At any rate there'~ nothing in my drav,iers that ought to be there, such as thim~ blc, thread and needles. Instead, there is qUClrtered there a regiment of little paper cylinders who roll impudently about and caU themselves cigarettes, though they sTllell very much like tobacco," "Speaking of tobacco makes my bowl burn," said a long, slim day pipe. "\Vbat T want to know is, where':; the master of this house? The pipe tongs <tnd myself have beel] waiting patiently on the mantel shelf for him to come and use us 50 long that I am ready to drop ,,,,ith hunger." "By the great horn spoon!" quoth the big dining table. "You might know this ",;as a l11asterkss house by the feeding." "I anI still the groaning board, but I groan \;",ith wc;ight of service, Bol of victuals. No morc great joints of mcat nOr mammoth pudding~, no more delicious pies (111(1dougb-nuts." "The new woman says they're not wliOlcso1l1c, and she seems to live exclusively on fruit, nuts, porridge and gn~ell leaves, for she can't get <lny nourishment from th'e IOllR rows of knives and forks and spoons which arc set out each side of her plate." "011, dearl Vv'hat will become of me?" piped a quaint little high chair. "I'm so unhappy." "I used never to be empty, for as fast as too big for me there was another to take now-I'm not empty." "No 1 But I hold an ugly smug faced dog whose mistrcss talks to him'like this, 'Vlon't Jerry have anqzzer tecny weeny one baby its place. grew But 2/ piece of chicken? Take it to please muzzer, pitty. even if you aren't hungry.''' An agonized ",,"ail floated down from the four post bed in the guest chamber. "Db, please don't el1lybody look at me!" it cried. "No tester, no valance, 110 curtains, only four pitiful, undraped sticks of wood stretched upward to the ceiling in silent protest. The new lvoman 5ayS that draperies afe not sani-tary, but though the patchwork quilt does all it can to cover me 1 feel disgraced forever." l\.futters and groans, creaks and rU5tlings came from all parts of the hOllse. There were threats of great undertakings and dire happenings. The tall clock struck twenty-four times all at once, the prim chairs turned thejT faces to the wall, the settle tipped over, the andirons beat the black kettle and got badly dented, the spinning wheel actually succeeded in spinning a tbread, the work table spilled the cigarettes upon the floor, and the little high chair oozed tears of new varnish. ·'\A/hat a silly set of old fogies you are!" said the water pipe.'; and electric light wires, Hto think that what you can do will mnke any difference! Kmv, we could make some gClluinc troubl~ if we felt inclined. VVe could burst and flood the homc or set it afire, and the ne,,\, woman biows it! She fears tiS, but you she will very S0011 set 1n your proper places again." Sure enough, when morning came the new woman, though much amazed at the disol·der which she found throughout the house, gently but firmly arranged her antique furniture just as it was the day before, but the warming pan eould nowhere be found. After a long search it was dis-covered wit]] its head btlficd in the guest room bed, whieh stretched its four posts upward to the ceiling in silent protest. -Sun. NO! NO TROUBLE HERE! Simply wanted, to get you to give this somethi~g bel;ler than a passing glance and since We have CItU~t your eye Jet s catch your ordet"$ for Veneered Rolls.· We build the famous"RELIABLE" ROU.5. WRITE FOR PRICES. The Fellwock Auto. & Mfg. Co. EVANSVILLE. INDiANA OUTSi8 the largest Roll Plant in tke United state,. ----------------------------- ---- -- 22 .7IR-TI.s'~ e 7 e. Henry Rowe Mfg. Company Newaygo. Mich. MANUFACTURERS OF Wood workers' Benches. Factory Trucks. Turnings. Dowels. etc. .II .II .II No.1 Factory Truck. Just liS good as the)' look. OUR NEW CATALOG TELLS ALL ABOUT THEM. No.1 Cabinet Mak-an.' BeRcn Keeping Track of Orders and Work in a Furnitute Factory. Modern machinery, skiIled workmen, and plenty of orders are important factors in making a furniture factory a success. but unless behind -these there lie an efficient office fmce and executive ability of the first order, regular dividends will be a matter of doubt and it will probably not be long before the establishment is ill the hands of a receiver. "Leaks" may occur in the stock room, in the turning room, the scroll room, or in the finishing foam, bnt these will be sm<\.l1as compared with the waste of money that may be caused by mismanagement in the business end. A certain small town, famed in the surrounding country for the number of furniture factories it possessed, was the subject of discussion by two business men. ;;Blankville is becoming quite a town for the manufacture of furniture isn't it?" said one. "Well, it has been," said the other, "but there isn't one of those factories that hasn't either gone into a receiver's hand or been entirely reorganized at some time during its existence. And aU of them getting more orders than they can handle, too. All the profits seem to be eaten right up in the business management somehow or other." It was lack of proper "system" in the business departments of these factories that eventually "killed" the town in ques-tion and many another otherwise promising business has met an untimely death from the .same cause. Of course, too complicated a system in the business uc- .partment Gf a furniture factory is as bad as one in which there is no method for keeping track of the cost of material, labor and the progress of the work, but a happy medium should be attained by the use of a combination of the various card indexe3., time slips, time docks, and other office devices now on the market. Different methods must of necessity apply to different furniture factories, those establishments supplying large quantities in but a few styles requiring a much simpler system of book and time keeping than those shops which make a specialty of single orders of unique or rare design, and yet in both cases it is importallt that the cost of the raw material, the amount of labor required, the individual workmen employed on each part of the job, alHI the progress of the "lOrk, can all be easily ascertained. The. tenuem'y in some of the factories making large quan-tities in but fe",' styles seems to be to 'minimize the <lmOtlllt of bookkeeping required, and to leave much of the responsi-bility as to the present progress of the work entirely with the superintendent; who is supposed to keep a private record of the work which is being done i.n his department. This applies to stock or.clers where large quantities are being turned Ollt, and where the same design has been made hun-dreds of times before. When a large order is received for some new design, a sample must first be made up, and pro-vided this does not require special tools or machinery, the superintendent nlay keep a record of the amount of material and labor required to produce this sample, and this cost will be used as a basis in making the price for the order, allowing, of course, for the desired profit and for the increased rapidity \vith which a workman can handle <l job with which he h"s become familiar. It is to be lmderstood that an order of this kind would not be accepted unless it was sufficiently large to pay for making the sample and for the personal at-tention required from the superintendent. Since the cost of each regular order is already known, a detailed record of the work that each workman accomplishes for every hour in the day is not important, and time keeping for the employe is only necessary to insure his conscientious work for the required number of hours per week. If the workman is paid by the hour, the time clock is a valuable ad-junct to the bookkeeping department of a well-managed fac-tory. With this system each workman has a card for the week, ruled with vertical and horizontal lines, The horizon-tal columns may be_used for the different days of the week, and the vertical columns should be headed "started," ;'stopped," "overtime," etc., so that the time when the day's work started, the amount taken out for the luncheon hour, and the amount of overtime, may a11 be accurately recorded. On entering and leaving the shop the workman places the card in the stamping compartment of the clock so that the proper column will be marked with the exact time at which ~Hl employe ·starts and quits the job. At the end of the week it is an easy matter to add up the total number of hours worked by each employe, and the wages may then be paid on that basis. An elaboration of this syStem may be llsed to keep track of each work:illan's time on each order, amI in .this manner the actual cost of a certain 'piece may be accurately obtained and the amount to be charged for the job quickly deter-mined. In this case the workman uses a different card for each job v...hieh is assigned to him, and should he be employed on ~his certain order for a week or more, the same card would be used Oll. the stlccessive days, and thus an accurate check made on the workman's time and on the labor expend-ed 011 any particular job, . The above system is particularly adapted for use in fac-tories where special orders are execut~d which require a con-siderable amount of work ill a variety of departments, and which in consequence have occasion to be handled by a great number of men. III many of the factories catering to the special design furniture trade, however, the old system of cmploying brass checks is still in vogue, and offers a simple method for keeping track of the individual workman's time. Tn this system each workman has a number and a bra;;s cheek corresponding to that number. When a workman enters the shop in the morning he obtains his check from the time-keeper and hangs -it on its proper hook in a wall case. At n certain time. the case is lock.ed, and any workman coming late must first apvly to the foreman before he can pla.ce his MICHIGAN Fe 'i'Hf -., 1 7IR'T' IS JI...N i 9 firs- CABINET Cabinet, Pattern, Chair, Carvers' BENCHES PATTERN FACTORY FURNISHINGS Hand Screws Trucks Saw Tables Benedict Clamps check on the hook and receive credit for his tin'c. On leaving the shop the brass checks arc <lgain deposited with OARVERS' Grand Rapids Hand Screw Company 9t8 JEFFERSON AVE., GRAND RAPIDS. MICH. LARGEST BENCH MANUFACTURERS IN THE WORLD Sketched by Otto Jiranek, Grand Rapids, Mich. the timekeeper, whose duty it is to record each \vorkman's time at the close of the day. In these factories making special designs, it is absolutely necessary to keep an account of the amount of labor spent on each operation in filling the individual orders. The loose leaf system of bookkeeping has greatly simplified the methods for keeping track of the progress of work on orders, and it is well adapted for use in fumiture factories. The opera-tion of this system in keeping track of special orders may be somewhat as follows: The order is received and e,ntered under a certain number on an individual card. This is filed according to its numher, in the order book, and at the end of each day the amount· of material used, together with the labor put upon it by the various workmen is entered on this card and charged to that particular order. This forms a ready reference for determining the amount of work already done 011 the o.rdcr, and by entering the number or name of the 'H"orkman WllO has had a hand in any particular operation conllected 'vith its manufacture, responsibility for a poorly performed job may be laid at the proper door, - Special forms of these cards may be printed h) suit the needs of the manufacturer. A similar system on a smaller scale may be installed in each of the shop departments and rderence to these noted on the main order card so that more detailed in-formation may be obtained as to material and work expended no the job without unnecessarily filling the original card. The above methods of keeping track of orders and the progress of work in a furniture factory offer many variations which cannot be treated in a short article, but they will probably serve to show the general system employed by the leading factories of that class in thriving towns where there is no danger of a concern with plenty of orders going into a receiver's hands through lack of good business management. H,\ROLD W. SLAUSON. Returned to His "Old Job." D. S. Oakley, formerly of the' Oakley & Jansen Machine Company, Parkersburg, W. Va., has again connected himself ""-tth the \Vysong & lHiles Company of Greensboro, N. C. 23 24 ~MJPrIG7!N, C. C. WORMER MACHINERY CO., 97 Woodbridge St., Detroit, Mich. fLY W"EEL EXPLOSIONS PREVENTfD BY THE "LOCKE" AUTOMATIC ENOINE 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." A NOVEL ENTERPRISE FOR ST. LOUIS. Twenty Thousand Buyers to be Brought to the City Annually Free of Cost to Themselves. St. Louis capitalists have engaged in a colossal enterprise for extending the trade of the manufacturers and jobbers of that city. It is of such magnitude as to cause the business men of Chicago, Kansas City, Cincinnati and Denver to polish up their glasses and read the proposition the second time. The Artisan has received a view of the club building, anJ a description of the same, which reads as follows: "A new type of business building is under way in St. Louis which presents features never before attempted on such a large scale, and others of perhaps equal value whidl have never been utilized. It is to be called the "Buyers' Club Building" and its cost, it is estimated, will be fully $4,000,000. The building was promoted and will be finance.:! by H. A. Vrooman, president of the State Trust Company, of St. Louis. The Buyers' Club Building will occupy the entire block hounded by 17th, 18th, Chestnut and Pine streets. a location within one block of the Union Station. Its ground area is 234 by 324 feet, and it will he eighteen stories high, with a tower extending ten stories above the building. It will be given up entirely to the display of merchandise with the exception of the top floor, which is to be sumptuously furnished for elub purposes exclusively for vi~iting buyers and convention delegates. The tower will contain offices. The Club Hoar will contain a convention hall with com-mittee rooms, the use of which will be given free, together with all the club privileges to all visiting buyers and to con-ventions where the delegates are in a position to buy goods or influence tl1{~\rpurchase. The first floor win be devoted to a general display, demonstration and advertising purposes. The basement to demonstrating machinery, engines and toah, with provision for power of every nature. Sixteen floors ",,'ill be used for sample rooms. The most important feature'the Buyers' Club presents is the plan for bringing the buyer to the seller. The fare of 10,000 buyers will be paid to Saint Louis twice annually by the building company, and the exhibitors will choose the buyers w'ho are to be brot.l~ht. Special trains will be hired by the company and run from distant points where dealers frOrll a considerable radius can be gathered. The building is designed to extend the terri-tory St. Louis supplies, so that exhibitors will enjoy not only the immense trade of the southwest which now centers in St. Louis, but that of all the central west and northwest as well. Only a limited amount of space will be leased to each exhibitor, so that the exhibits may be sufficiently com-prehensive to attract the best classes of buyers from great distances. A club bulletin 'will be published monthly and sent to over 100,000 retail buyers. A close organization of all the retailers in the central and southern states \vill be pro-mated by the club management and extensive plans for the benefit of the various retailers are under way." St Louis is provided with furniture exhibition buildings of sufficient capacity for her present purposes, and ,it evident-ly is not the intention of the buyers club to disturb the ex~ hibitors occupying space in the s<\me, although furniture wilt be shown on the third floor. "Only a limited amount of space will be leased to each exhibitor," the promoters announce. "'Only a "limited space" will not meet the requirements of the average manufacturer of furniture. VVithout space to exhibit lines completely from 5,000 square feet upward, it would be useless to try to induce manufacturers of furniture and kindred goods to take. leases. The Salesmanship Pr?blem. According to welt-nigh universal experience, it is practical-ly impossible to secure salesmen who can be depended upon to aet in strict accordance with the principles of good salesman-ship at alt times and under all conditions. Yet the observ· ance of these principles is essential to the achievement of suc-cess in any business, and the problem is therefore one of the most important with which large merchan'ts must contend. The salesman, as a matter of fact, is more potent than the ad~ vertisement. For while the latter will bring people to a store, their continued patronage, de.pends almost wholly 01, the treatment received from and the service rendered by the salesmen to whose tende.r mercies they are consigned. And very frequently both treatment and service are of a very in-ferior bralld. It is a matter of common knowledge that salesmen are ·prone to look upon every custonler as being merely one in a thousand, giving the impression tb;:tt no par-ticular individual's patronage is essential to the success of the business, and that they are really doing a favor to conde-scend to attend to anybody's wants. Most houses try to Citizens' Telephone l'iW. 10uls 1babn DESIGNS AND DETAILS OF FURNITURE 15~Livingston St. GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN 25 It makes a perfet:t imitation of any open grain because it uses the wood itself to print from, and one operator and a couple of boys can do more work with it than a dozen men with any other so-called machine or pads on the market. Tbat's why it's a money maker. It imitates perfectly. 50 Machines Sold Last Year 50 More Satisfied Manufacturers PLAIN or QUARTERED OAj{, MAHOGANY,WALNUT, ELM. ASH or any other WGod with open grain, WRITE THE Posselius Bros. Furniture Manufacturing Co., Detroit, Mich. FOA PR;IOES AND FUL-L.PART'CU~AAe. MENTION THE MleHIGAI'f ARTISolI" overcome this condition, but only a compuiutivcly small measure of success eyer attends their efforts. Recently a large firm made an attempt to secure hetter scn,jce from its salesmen by issuing a manual of instruction for their guidance. It has always tried to impress upon ib employes the bt1siness value of good s('.Tvice; but hundreds who have gone into its storeS in variotl.'i parts of the country ha';rc been known to leave ·with a feeling of dissatisfaction at the treatment received. Of course, this is not the company's fault; but people alrvays blame a concern for the actions of its salesmen. \Vhat effect the new manual ·will have is a question. It 1:'-icertainly strong eno\\gh and specific enough to make an im-pression upon the most indifferent salesmalL It makes clear the fact that "effective organization is dependent on co-opera-tion.." that ev"ery employe t'cprescnts the per:,;onahty of tlll: company, and that loyalty and abilit.v witt ahvays be substan tially recognized. It declares that tv.o things arc ~,ital to the St1CCCf;S of [lny husilless~g()()d goods and good service. The manual on the ·whole, dO(:5 not present alJytllillg new on the subject of good salesmanship_ 1t simply ernphasizes the fact that '''''hat has be{'n said bcJoro;: has not been said merely to fill :;pacc, but because it was worth saying. 1ts main con-tentions .7lre: That "good salesmen are students of character." ·which means that they mtlst kno~v llOW to "size np" a customer ac-curately. Tbat an establishe,d reputation for courtesy is one of the most desirahle assets any sto"C, can have. That every custom.er should have personal attention the minute he enters t.he store. That no customer should be kept wait.ing, hut receive prompt attention. That the first minute \\lith a customer gives hin1 a lasting impression of the srrlesman and of the whole organization. One subject whit::h is forcibly pre.sented is that of "double sales." Salesmen are urged rthrays to try to sell a customer two floor rockers instead of one. This, of course, is good business, and the possibilities should be studied by progres-' sive salesmen. Several injunctions are e.specially c:onullend-able, One is: "Do not :run down n competing house!' Another: "Never address a customer as 'lady'; madam is the proper term lnattention to simple rules has often made a bad impressiol1 on a prospective patron. In conclusion it i!-i pointed out that "there is no more im~ portant feature. of personality than enthusiasm," and that every salesman ShOllld remember that he is a part of 'a great conce.rn that is worthy of his enthusiasm, How to Stuff a Mattress. Any \,>'oman who can stuff a chicken can stuff a mattress. First get your mattress, alld be sure that it has been carefully picked. Spray it with chloroform, if you like, and then you \",ill not notice the C011.'>to111t ticking. I-leat your curlers, and curl the hair for the mattress. This wm be a pleasant way to spend your idle evenings, \Vhen you have curled all the hair you are going to us<:- unless yon conclude that you ..v..ould rather have a hairless mattress, a bald on~, so to speak-take the mattress on your knee and administer th(~ curled hair with a spoon until its nppetite is satisfied. Some people have a fad of fIlling a mattress with bricks, corn cobs, sUcks and cinders. This may do for the guest room, but for sleeping purposes the curle.d hair is m/?re satis-factory. If it bothers you to know which is head and which is foot of the mattress, put a hat on one end and a shoe on the other. -Ex. -------------------~------~------ -- -- -- 26 LlGNINE CARVINGS, UNBREAKABLE Increase your business. Increase your profits. Increase your bl1siness friends by adopting LIGNINE CARVINGS. Send for sample and new catalogue showing Drawer Pulls, Capi-tals. Pilasters, Drops, Shields, Heads, Rosettes, Scrolls, etc. ORNAMENTAL PRODUCTS CO., 556 Fort St., Detroit, Mich. TOO MANY LINES OF BUSINESS. Original Plan of a Co~Operative Corporation at Bristol, Tenn. The Artisan has re~eived letters from the Koreshan Unity Company of Bristol, Tenn., revealing an original plan for conducting various kinds of business on the pr(Jfit~sharillg basis. The promoters claim that it is their purpose: tn give to labor its just share of the products of their several indus-tries, The business of the company is so diversified a5 to create a dotlbt in the minds of experienced men in business as to its practicability. An exten5ive wood working plant at Bristol, Tenn.} a iactory and large farming interests at Esters, Fla" stores <tnd warehouses in various parts of the United States, land in Cuba and Honduras, steamboats on the navigable watc.rs of Florida, a ship yard and fanning are the most important of their undertakings. The company issues three kinds of stock, namely: COtl1ll1011 for control only; preferred for inve5tment only; co-operative for workers only. The Unity claims to have demonstrated the fact that skitled workers in the wood ;:wd iron working industries are anxious to avail themselves of the' bel1efits to be derived under the system; where no wages or salaries are paid, but wherc_ each worker gets such a share of the total profits of the in-dustry as his efficiency would entitle him to. Each person who is in ally way actively engaged in the industry holds such an amount of co-operative. stock as will entitle him to a just share of the profits, according to his skill and worth. The company claim they can secure the tools of p:'oduc~ tion, employ and furnish aU the necessities of life, tog·ether with a 'home permanently, for an average family of fouf per-sons, for every $100.00 of investment stock that is sold, and sec.ure to the industrial workers every dollar of the profits outside of the interest on the $100.00. Under this plan every idle plant should be started up and run its fun ql\ota of work-men. BIG OPPORTUNITY FOR A MANUFACTURER A furniture lI1anufacturing Plant All Equipped, Ready f"r Use, Awaits the Right lI1an. The plant has 50,000 sq. feet of floor space well equip-ped with upwto-date machinery having superior motive power, switch tracks to three trunk lines of R. R.t Dry Kiln, suitable out buildings an .of brick, detached office building .with vault, and large wouuds on street car Hne. The above described property can be secured free qf debt by a manufacturer havin~ an established paying busi-ness- capable of increase-which has outgrown his present manufacturing facilities and who can brinK $25,000 in money for working capita1. . Investigation offered and required. Address, HENRY G. LOW, P. O. Box 299, Owensboro, Ky. :\ 0 wages nre paid to anyone. No salary is paid to <\ny-one. No pe_rsoll can hold co-operative stock unless he be-comes actively engaged in the industry, alld gives his ....h..o. le time, business hoUTS, to the business. No person call hold more of the co-operative stock than !lis efficiency .vill entitle him to.: each man being put on the SketCh by Frank Van Domelon. formally & Stud.ent in the Grand Rapids School of Designing but Now One of t;he Local Furniture Designers. basis of his worth to the company. For instance, a man who can earn $1.00 per day may hold $IGO.OOof this stock; a man who can earn $2.00 per day may hold $200,00 of stock; a man who can earn $3.00 per day may hold $300.00 of stock, and so on. The profits arc paid -in cash every three months to the holders of the co-operative stock only; but before this divigiol1 is made, there l!'. set aside enongh money to pay the pro-rate of taxes, insurance, reserve fund for the conduct of the busi-ness for the next three months, and also DIll" and three-fourths per cent to pay the seven per cent cumulative stock its yearly dividend. For all the holders of t1]e co-operative stock aI1d familcs. the living expenses, such ~s· house rent, fud, light, food. clothing, medical attclldance! ami ill fact, all .theneces-sitles of life, ate paid out of the treasury of the company. Every person old enough to perform some use in the con-duct of the industry, or -in the gardens, lawns, kitchen, laundry or otl]cr light work, is expected to do 50 to the extent of at least paying for his food, etc. If a chil.d is old enough, under the law, to work ill the factory, and his parents want him to give his time to the industry, then enough of the co-operative stock will be issued him in his father's name, to secure to him what he earns. Anyone can withdraw from the company at any time by - - - - -- -- -- ------ -- -- -- ---- -- -- -- --------- turning in his co-operative stock and taking in exch;11lge the seven per cent stock. The company lllay get rid of an undesir-able man on thirty days' notice, and his stock ceases to draw dividends" and mnst be exchanged for the seven per l':ent stock. All sto<:k lllust be pajc] for ill full, at par, in cash, labor or property. Xo stock i."i held by any person in the COlllp<lny, unless he has tbus paid for it. If a man pays cash for his co-operative stock, be gets the dividends on the whole amount from the start, but in case he pays in labor, he can draw Oll only the number of shares that have been paid for in full at the end of the dividend periods. METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART. William Holt Considers the Furniture Department Interesting But Not Very Important. A Splendid COllection of Musical Instruments, Pianos Enclosed in Beautiful Cases. \Villiam Holt. the designer employed by the Grand Rapid" Chair Company, spent a part of a day in the Ivletropolitan 1luscum of .Art, during a short sojourn in New York recently. The furniture department was naturally \risited j,r,~t and a brief hour spent in an ('xamillation of the exhibits. It COlJ-sists mainly of gooc1 specimens of tIw pcriod styles, tbe French ,'lnd English predominating. There was a scarcity of novelties, but a fair number of pieces valuable on accoUnt of thc historical interest t:lttaclJcd to the same, :Vlr. Holt \vas very much pleased with the exhibit of mus1cal instruments, Owing to a new post~ office ruling that all subscriptionsmust be paid m advance and that all subscribers who become nmety days m arrears must be dropped, we urge you to send in $ 1.00 today to extend your subscription and t h us make sure that you will continue to get this paper. 27 THE One-hall O"r Trade oow Duplicate an' Triplicate Ord&r. Every Purchaser Satisfied There's a Reason MICHIGAN TRUCK HARD· WOOD FRAMES M.M.A L. CO. MAllE-ABLE HOll Y, MICH. IRON CASTINGS Vlihich is large and of great value artistically. Many of the cases were as harmonious in lines, color and ornament as the music they ·were planned to produce. Afr. Holt is the posses-sor 'of a collection of designs of piano and other musical cases of much value, and states that marc attention j" given to style il1 the construction of "ueh cases than formerly. The grand is susceptible to artistic treatment, but the problem is more difficult with upright and square forms. Mr, Holt's collec-tion contains a number of beautiful cast's in whic.h the "boxy," illy-proportioned appearance is wholly eliminated. The lines of Sheraton, the several Louis of France and other noted per-iod work are used effectively. Things That Please, The Hoosier l\Ianufac:.turing Company of New Castle, Ind., are disposed to le.t the people with whom they deal know when the company are pleased and to kick vigorously when they have been imposed upon. A short time ago the com~ pan)' concluded that it would be but fair and right to address Sketch by Frank Van DomeloD. Form.erly Student in the Grand Rapids SChool of Designing, But Now One of the Local Furniture Designers, a letter to Charles E. Francis & Brother Qf Rushville, Ind., from which the following is taken: "Dtlring the past four or five years, we have bought quite a. large amount of equipment from you and it is a pleasure to us to say that in every instance, this equip-ment has given U$ the very hest of satisfaction, It gives us especial pleasure to say a good word with ref-erence to the six. Ko. 36 preSses purchased from you for our veneer room, These are most excellent ma.chines ~ll1d h,1"v(, given us perfect satisfaction. It pays to make good, honest goods." ---------------------------------- -- -- 28 7fR.T I.s ..7U'I 1 $ e. s. HOLDEN 23 SCRIBNER ST., VENEER CO. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. OUR SPECIALTV BIRD'S EYE MAPLE { Made and dried right, and white. Samples furnished on application, ) 500,000ft. 1-20 inch 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 STOOK. FIGURED WOODS. MAHOGANY. WALNUT. QTR. SAWED OAK. BIRCH, HENRY WALNUT PRIZED AGAIN. Civil War Furniture Ripped Apart to Supply the New Demand· It isn't alone Santo Domillgo mahogany that's getting so raTe that a decent piece of it will make an old furniture sharp's eyes sparkle. The humble black walnut has come in-to its own ;tt last and furniture builders who arc making sin-gle reproductions of old Italian and Spanish antiques aTC buying up sonIe of the heavy and artistically atrocious ward-robes and tables and sideboards of thirty or forty years ago just for the wood. They tear the things apart, and when the walnut re-appears it is in a design worthy of its quality. Some of the handsomest and purest furniture now produced is made up from lumbering arks which, just after the civil war, were installed to give the final.touch of grand and dismal unsight-l1ncss to houses which commemorate the worst stage of American taste. "Good walilUt," said a Fifth Avenue furniture maker, "is worth more to me than mahogany. \,Ve can fake the mahogany but not the walnut. HAnd the walnut trees about the country, that used to be chopped down and converted into wood for the kitchen stove, fetch all kinds of money. I know a man who has a little hillside farm over in northern Jersey who for years staggered along trylng to feed a big family and a small mortgage at the same time. rfThe family grew steadily tllinner and more poorly clad, but the mortgage seemed to gain in health with every suc-ceeding year, By a'nd by I noticed that conditions were changing, and one day 1 met the man on the road. He was whistling as he jogged along in his cutter. "'You seem pretty good natured today, Rowley,' says T. "'Good reasoll,' says he. He unbuttoned his overeot'lt and fished a paper out of his inside pocket. '''That. damn thing,' he said,· sbaking it at me, 'has been taking the sleep off my eyes and the hair off my head and the clothes off my back and the victuals out of my mouth for )'cars, but now it won't do it ally longer, for I'm gain' to burn it up in my kitchen stove tonight and celebrate with a square meal for the hull family. That's a mortgage, that is, an' I hope you'll never have one.' "'Well, your farm has done pretty.well by you,' says I. "'Farm nothing,' says he, spitting contemptuously over the dashboard and ramming the paper down in hls pocket. 'Farm nothing. I paid that mortgage. with black walnut.' "'Why,' says I, 'I didn't know, there was any timber to speak of on your place.' "'They hain't,' says he. 'I wish they was. If it was all black walnut I'd own Bergen county by this time.' "N ope. It was a piece 0' luck, this was, an' it only shows how easy it is to make a suc.ces?>if a man's only got gumption enough to take a holt of a chanst when it's put right ullder his nose, I buitt a little chicken house out there, and had to buy part new lumh(',r for ·it. ;; '\\fell, when I went into the lumber office to pay up, I heard the clerk talkin' to his boss over the telephone. The old man was sick an' the young feller was tellin' him what was in the mail.. "Here's a letter from So-and-So," says he, "and they want to know about black walnut. \iVhat? No, they want to buy. They want black walnut trees standing an'll pay any kind of a fair price for 'em and do the c\1ttin' them-selves, provided the trees is blg enough to saw upgoOd." "That was ~nough for me. I paid m):'"bill an' got out. I put up my hoss in Samson's stable an' took the lust train I could catch for the city just as I was. 1 hunted up that lumber firm over on the \Vest Side, an' sa'ntered in an' says; "Is they any market for black walnut?" <'1guess so," the feller says. . "I kin git you all y011 want, mostly," says I, "but you'll have to cut it." "We want to cut it," says hc. "Before I quit I'd signed an agreement to give them first chance on all the walnut I could fmd, an' the figure suited WOOD FINISHING MATERIALS FILLERS, STAINS, POLISHES, ETC. tI If in trOllble with finishing materials, now is the time to let us put you right. CJI We match all sample~ submitted and fill all orders promptly. GRAND RAPIDS WOOD FINISHING CO. 55-59 £iI-worth Av~., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. me, for r knew where there was a lot of old trees !'>cattered around the country." ;'~ext day I hitched up an' started. Sell 'em? Of course, all the fartn('.rs 'd sell 'em, and glad to git the money, All r had to do was to pay down a dollar to bind the bar~ gain and git a bill of sale and then spend two cents now and then for a stamp. "I tell you J kept 'em busy, an' I didn't care whether I got my corn an' potatoes in or not. The. boys can look after the farm now. I've got a better hoss an' a little spare money, an' I'm gain' prospectin' fer black walnut. By the time I git through they won't be a walnut tree left standin' his side of the Great Lakes. Gidap!" "Rotary Style" for Drop CarvIngs, Embossed Mouldings, Panels. Machines fo.. all purposes, and at prIces within the reach (If all. Every machine has (lur guarantee against b.-ellkllge for oue year. "Latel'1l1 Style" for large capucity heavy Carvings and Veep Embosslop. We ba-ve the Machine you want at a sattsfactory price. Write for descriptive circulars. Also make dies for all makes of Mn~ chines. UNION EMBOSSINGMAC"INE CO., Indianapolis. Ind. MANUFACTURERS OF HARDWOOD LUMBER &. VENEERS SPECIAL TIES: ~lv.;'i!'E'i'JQUAR.OAK VENEERS MAHOGANY VENEERS HOFFMAN BROTHERS COMPANY 804 W. MaiD SI., FORT WAYNE, INDIANA - ---------------------------- WOOD'S PATENT LOOSE CENTER COUNTERSINKS ---ANDBORINeBITS------ STI'LE 7 BORING OIT ST'YLE a '-J.I'ER COUNTERSINK Carried in slack in ell sizes. Cenlers are adjustable. and can be replaced at very lIllaU cool when broken or worn out. Write today for complete Catalogue MORRIS WOOD a. SONS, 2714 L"K£ ST" CHICAQO.IL.L· ralm6r'S rat6nt 61UlnU GlamDS Mr. Manufacturer-Do you ever consider what joint gluing coAs } The separators and wooden wedges, if you use them and many do. are a large item of expense accoun~ b11l: this is small compared 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 sc.rew clamps the result is better, but slower, altogether too slow. LeI us tell you of somelhing beller, PALMER'S CLAMPS. All :Reeland iron. No wedges, no separators, adjust to any width, clamp instantly yel securely, releases even fasler. Positively oDe-lhirdmore work 'With one·third less help. In seven sizes up to CO inches. any thickness up to 2 inches. 200 fadories convinced in 1906. Why not you in 1907? Although sold by dealers everywhere let us send you po<",ul"". 1\. E. Palmer 8. Som;. Owo~o. MiGIl. FOREIGN AGENTS: Pro;ediIe Co., Loodon. England. Schuchardt & Schutte. Berlin. Germany. 29 30 WOMEN TAKE UP WOOD CARVING. A New Element Introduced Into Country Hom<::s. To carve a sixteenth century chair, a mantelpiece in an intricate and benutiful Norse design, a cabinet in Celtic style, or as one New York woman, Miss Emily Slade, has done, to copy in her Vermont coulltry home a staircase in the Cluny Museum in Paris, is the aim of many a woman who has joined the number of those that have taken up the craft of wood carving. It (:a11never become a fad, say its devotees, one reason being that women who have not a real love for it are wholly unwilling to expend the time and physical strength it takes to become moderately projicient. Trousseau chests arc other favorite articles which women carve. English oak with its ril:::h coloring and handsome grain is frequently used, though mallOgany is perhaps the best liked. Curiously enough, pine, while generally supposed to he the easiest wood to carve becanse it is soft, requires sharp-er tools and more skill for that very reason. Wood boxes for the country home arc very popular. Tables, chairs, cabincts and even wainscoting and dadoes, wooden freizes and doors are being executed by women who probably never before did anything more difficult with their hands than to widd a mashie and racquet. "N at every woman can be a success at wood carving;· Professor Karl van Rydingsvard asserts, "and for that reason I am very glad, for if they could rush into the work as they did into pyrography then the coulltry would be Hooded with it lot of inferior work that holds no p.articular value either ar-tistically -or practically. "Invariably the first thing a woman asks me is, 'HoW"long will it take me to learn?' To this I invariably reply, 'I ,;vill tell you in two lessons.' For it is quite possibe to decide ill that time whether a woman has the gift for it or not, simply by the way she handles the tools. "1£ she picks up the tool in a dainty way and goes at the work a~ though doing embroidery the chances are she will never make a good craftswoman. But if she attacks the wood energetically and with an innate sC)Jse of the proper position of the tool, then I have hopes of her. "\V"0I11Cl1 who are working with me are by no means spending their time on insignifiant trifles, but are putting their time into really substantial pieces of construction for their own homes which not only satisfy a passing whim but have enduring qualities as well. "A bridal chest.

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