Weekly Artisan; 1910-03-26

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Issue of a furniture trade magazine published weekly in Grand Rapids, Mich, starting in 1879. and GRAND RAP!I)'") PUBLle LP ~ ~~Wf & UJ.lil.1i.c 1 GRAND RAPIDS, MICH., MARCH 26,1910 / SLIGH FURNITURE CQ,MPANY The Largest Manufacturersof CHAMBER FURNITURE EXCLUSIVELY IN THE WORLD Catalogue to Prospective Customers. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. ~------------ - .------------- - - - - - -- 2 WEEKLY ARTISAN ~"-----------------'_._._._. ----------------------. -----_.-.--- .. LUCE FURNITURE COMPANY I I,I I,I ,I I II f I,I I II,,I ,III , IIIII I IIII I --------~ GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Manufacturers of COMPLETE lines of MEDIUM PRICED DINING and CHAMBER FURNITURE. Catalogues to Dealers Only. Luce..Redmond Chair Co., Ltd. II BIG RAPIDS, MICH. . . . .-- _. ---_._. _. ---_... - -------------- ._-"------ Our Exhibit you will find on the fourth Floor, East Section, MANUfACTURERS' BUILDING, North Ionia Street GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN Exhibit in charge of ]. C. HAMILTON, C. E. COHOES, J. EDGAR FOSTER. .. -- . . High Grade Office Chairs Dining Chairs Odd Rockers and Chairs Desk and Dresser Chairs Slipper Rockers Colonial Parlor Suites tn Dark and Tuna Mahogany BIrd,' s Eve Maple BIrch !0fartered Oak and ClrcasSlan Walnut CtlAND RAP}[)S rt\uhnL1.C.. Lf1 n I~ H)A.~£1._ 30th Year-No. 39 GRAND RAPIDS. MICH.• MARCH 26.1910 Issued Weekly FIRE LOSSES AND FIRE PROTECTION New York Merchants Urge a Change in the Policy of the City's Fire Department. From the :l\Iarch number of the "Proceedings of the Mer-chan ts' aSSOClatIon" of N ew York. In the year 1097, the total CO'3tof fil es and fire protection in the DllIted States amounted to almost one-half the cost of new buIldll1gs con"tructed that year The cost of fires and fire protectIOn in the D11lted States 111 1907 amounted to over $456,485,OOO-a tax on the people exceedll1g the total value of the gold, "lIver, copper and petroleum produced in the lJntted States 111 that year The cost of new bmldmgs dunng the same year IS conservatively estImated at $,000,000,000 The total cost in thIS country is five times as much per capIta as 111any country in Europe In 1907, the actual fire los" due to the destructIOn of b11l1dll1gs and their contents (exc1usn e of the excess of pI emlums paId III addItIon for insmance) was $2 51 for each mhabltant of the UllIted States The per capIta loss m the CItIes of the SIX leadll1g European countnes was but 33 cents, or about one-eIghth of the per capIta loss in thIS countly ThIS startlmg cltfference IS due to the fact that 111Europe the preventIOn of fires IS the object of pnnclpal attention, whIle in Amenca It is 111large degree Ignored Comparisons show that If buildings 111the L llIted States were as nearly fireproof as those 111 Europe, the annual fire cost 111 this country, including premlllms, would be $90,000,000 instead of $456,000,000. Of the Immense annual co'>t entaIled by fires and fire pro-tectIon, over $215,000,000 I epre"ents complete and irretrievable waste due to the actual destructIOn of property by fire; and over $241,000,000 represents excess of 111surance premiums over 10'3"es paid, expense of waterworks chargeable to fire serVIce, expense of fire departments, and expense of private protectIOn The excessIve extent of the loss and the cost of protec-tIOn 111America, a" compared wIth the European figures, are due pnmanly to the fact that fire proof construction of build111gs 111 Europe IS the rule, and in America the ex-ception Nevertheless the amount of loss in America 13 swelleJ by the general and indefensIble negleot of precau-tIOnary measures other than the use of fireproof matenals In the case of New York, whIle there has been constant Improvement in the way of fireproof constructIOn, and lll-creas111gly '3tringent proviSIOns for fire protectIOn in the bUlld111g code, It is nevertheless true that adequate inspec-tlOn for the purpo"e of reducing fire-risk by enforcing laws and ord111ances has been almost wholly omitted It is fur-ther true that no adequate effort has been made to control fire-ri'3k by compelltng the 111stallation of automatic sprinklers for ext111gmshing fires in their 111clpiency In consequence of thIS omISSIOn dangerous risks are per-mitted needleS'll} and very generally to eXIst, whereas they might be lessened, and 111many cases aboltshed, by efficient official 111spectlOn and the compulsory installation of auto-matic devIces which "'ould hold a fire in check or extinguish It at the beginning. At fl equent intervals throughout the business distrcit are buildll1gs, which, by reason of inflammable materials are partIcuharly hable to destructlOn by fire In many of these hazardous occupation'3 are cal ned on Such buildings are a menace to adjacent prel111ses, and the latter are therefore compelled to pay insurance rates based upon this external menace That is to say, occupants of premises which in themselves contain little ri'3k of fire, pay an additional fire tax because their neighbors ma111tain dangerous condItions The point of this article is that those dangerous condi-tions are to a considerable degree controllable, and are per-mitted to exist to an extent greater than is "inherently neces-sary, by reason of the defectIve organization of the New York Fue Department That department as it is now ,and has practically always been, organized, concerns itself almost wholly with extin-guishing fires, and gives almost no attention to their pre-vention The relative Importance which the fire authorities attach to extinguishment and to prevention appears from the fact that out of a total annual outlay of $7,000,000 to $8,000,000 for FIre Department purposes, less than $15,000 per year has been recently devoted to prevention, while the remainder was apphed to extll1gui'3hing fires-and, it may be added, to destroy111g by water what is saved from fire. The assocIation committee on insurance has made a care-ful and expert study of thIS subject and is convinced that measures for fire protectIOn should be given great prominence as part of the work of the Fue Department, instead of being almost wholly neglected, as at present The measures of preventlOn that are urgently needed are: 1 Comprehell'3ive, systematic and continuous official in- --------------------------_._-- - 4 WEEKLY ARTISAN spection of all bu"ine::,::, premIses to 111sure comphance "lth all laws and ordinances for the pul pose 01 fit e pt e\ entlOn 2 The g-eneral compul "Ol} In stallatlOn ot automa tJ~ sprinklers in non-fireproof prellll"e:o of certaIn classes Such measUl es, If adequately planned and thoroughh enforced, would recluce the number of fires, e,t111gutsh many fites m theIr ll1C1plency and thereby le"sen the lo"s, and reduce the cost of ll1surance by lessel1lng the risk ThIS reduction of ll1surance rates would be particularly important to 0\\ nel:o of premIse" ad]Oll1lng extra-lhazardous nsks, ll1 ca"e automatic ~prinklers were compubonl} ll1"talled ll1 the latter Expenence has shO\vn that automatlL spnnklel" al e an extremely efficient means of fit e pI e\ en t10n Recent repO! ts of the fire department "how that \\ here fires occur ll1 sp11nk-lered premIses, ll1 a large maJ Ollty of cases the fires are extm-gLllshed by the spnnkler" befOle the arnval of engllle", that ll1 other cases a chemIcal hand extll1gmshel suffice" to put out the remall1ll1g fires, and that ll1 e\ en case the spll1lkler cftec-tlvely prevented the Spl ead of the fire unttl the fire engmes arrived ::\foreover, the loss from fire and vvater 111all these cases was allllo~t nominal In Vle\\ of thIS gl eat effiue11l \ as a lllean" at hre pre-vention and of hl111tl11£;fne 10"", It IS hlghh de'llable that automatic spnnklers be genelall} ll1"talled e~jleclalh In extra-hazardous nsks whIch 1l1Clea"e the C(I"t (If ll1"mance upon aJ- ]oining premises. The fire comml"SlOner now has legal autho11tv to compel ::,uch installatIOn, but It IS not effectn el) e"el cIsed hecause the department lack::, the machll1elY for nece,,~al \ UJllljJJ e-hen" lve ll1spectton, WIthout \\ hlch he cannot act ll1telhgentl} and WIthout which enforcement of the pUI po"e h chfficult Last year, at the request of the vlerchanb' <1""oclatlOn, hut only after cOllSldelable proddIl1g, the then file Cllllll111"- "loner Issued an Older requ11ll1g the 0\\ ners ot ten ,pcuhed extra-hazarJous premIses to equIp the11 pt elllbe" "nh autf) matlc spnnkIers ThIS was the fil "t occa"lon on \\ hlch am attempt haJ been made to enforce the commISSIoner's powers In thl s respect J n t\\ ° cases the order \\ a" enforced th 1ough the corporation counsel Tn the othel" no senou, attempt at enforcement vvas made The legal 11ght" 01 the «)mmt" sioner to ordel and enfOl ce "uch a mrasure 01 fil e pI otel ttf)n was demonstrated, whICh \\as the end atmed at 11\ the a"llCl ation This point hay mg been e"tahlJsheJ the a"OclatlOn hd' recently taken "tep", throug-h the le£;l'ilattlle, to caU"l the creatIOn \\lthm the fire depa1tment of a btlleau 01 file pIe ventlOl1 adequate 111 all re~pects to the comprehelhl\ e ,\ ,- tematlc and frequent lllSpectlO1l of all premIse", to the en-forcement of all laws and ordlllallces for fire pI e\ entlon, and above all to the general compulsory mstallatlOn 111 all (lan~er-ous premIses of automatic spnnklers It is propo"ed to conso!Jdate m th1S bureau the pr""ent fire marshal'" bureau, the bureau of combthtlhle" and the bureau of VIOlatIOns and auxlhal\ fire app!Jances, to iI ,111"- fer the ll1spectors of these hureaus to the ne\\ bureau to 111 crease the number of tllspectors as may appear nece"al \ an 1 to place the new bureau m charge of an officel de"H~nate<! "chIef of the bureau of fire preventIOn," who shall be mde-pendent of the "chIef of depal tment \ the officer v\ ho no\\ controls the entIre U111formed force) and .,hall I epOl t only to the commIssioner. ThIS plan WIll create an effectl\ e I1hpeCtlon force, and wJ1l utJ117e for fire preventIOn a cons1de1ahle number of offiCIals and fil emen, now scattered among three pal bally llleffectn e bureaus and largely employed 111 work ot much le::,s practIcal Importance The ,bsoclatlOn's plan \\ dS ap '" . .. _ ....... DO YOU WANT the PRETTIEST, BEST and MOST POPU-L- AR LEATHER FOR FURNITURE. ANY COLOR. WILL NOT CRACK. If so buy our GOAT and SHEEP SKINS Write for sample pads of colors, OAHM & KIEFER TANNING CO. II ... ...... 204 lake Street, CHICAGO, ILL. TANNERIES CRAND RAPIDS, MICH. CHICACO, ILL. pro\ ed 1)\ the legIslature',., charter reviSIOn commIttee and Iecommended to the legt:>lature for adoptIOn. \ "ub'itantlal reductIOn 111 the fire fisk and in the aggl e-gate coq of m'iurance 111 this cIty WIll ultimately result fron: thl" or any "ll11tlar measure for fire prevention, If the offiCIal machmen for \\ hlch pro,lslon I" made IS uttllzed In good tclnh ane! tu Ib 1ull pos'ilbJ11t} The man who 'ieh out 111 !Jfe's race expecting to hay e a \\ alk-m er I" !Jkel) to be fUn over before he has proceeded tar npon hIS \Va} ,c.,ome lJt the leal fa1111er" compla1l1 that the average CIty agncu!tur1st <!oesn t kno\\, a corn on the foot from corn 1fI the ear '". ---~ ..-_.------1 I HOFFMAN BROTHERS CO. I, : FT. WAYNE, IND. I I ,I HARDWOOD LUMBER SAWED l QUARTERED OAK { VENEERS , SLiCED fAN D MAHOGANY .I..... --_. ---------_.- .__ .... . .I. WEEKLY ARTISAN Lansing, Mich., Sept., 1908· Grand Rapids Veneer Works, Grand Rapids, Mich. Gentlemen: Referring to the kiln we purchased of you nearly a year ago, wIll say that we have found same very satisfactory to us, and would not consider going back to the old style kiln. Weare able to dry stock much faster and to get better results in the way of having stock flat and free from checks. In our business it is absolutely necessary that our material be bone dry or serious trouble will follow its use, and we are pleased to say that we have had no trouble whatever since installing your kiln. Very truly yours, THE AUTO BODY CO. H. E. Bradner. Steel Office Furniture. The rapidity with which steel office furlllture has come in-to favor In the ea"t Indicates that It filled a want that has been generally felt It IS no longer uncommon to see entIre office eqUlpments maJe of steel-IncludIng the desks-and Its quali-tIes of weanng strength and rigidity, coupled With the fact that it IS fireproof, haye espeCIally recommended It for special uses, where valuable papers and document" are kept, where climatic condition<; are unfa yarable to \\ ood, etc The steel filing cabinets, filllshed in imitatIOn of mahogany and oak, are remarkably true to the original woods. It is necessary for manufacturers \\ ho are displayIng wood and steel cabinets together to label them, for the eye cannot dis-tinguish between the two, judged only by outward appear-ance The grain and color of both the oak and the mahogany are reproduced exactly, and It is thus possible to combine \\ood with steel eqUIpment In an office or institution without there being any lack of harmony in the effect The plain, dal k green finhh, which IS a dht111guishing mark of the 'lteel furniture, IS wlelel} used, and WIll doubtless grow rather than decrea-.e UI populant}, as the use of the steel equipment becomes more common '\ dl~pla} of '3teel ftl1111tllre which attracted conSiderable attentIOn was "hown recently 111the wmdows of a New York manufacturer On the one Side were wood cabinets, badly eaten by mice-large holes showmg in the corners of the drawers-and, to heighten the effect, very natural-looking stuffed mice were shown, apparently crawlmg in and out through the holes On the other hand were the steel cabi-nets, absolutely mouse proof It was an effectIve means of emphaSizing one of the advantages of metal over wood in the manufacture of office filing devices That a number of the leading manufacturers of wood furnIture have taken up the makmg of a steel 1111eI" an l11dICatlOn of their appreCI-atIOn of the fact that there I" a cel tam class of trade to which the ad\ antages of metal 0\ cr \vood \\ III appeal New Factories. CapItalIsts of ]\1t AilY, N. Care establI"h111g a new furniture factory at Galax a "smart lIttle raIlraod town" in Old VirgInia \i\'lllIam, 'vV T, E E, Dora "'IV and Estella Smith, have incorporated the Smith Mattress company to establIsh a fac-tory at Marion, OhIO Capital stock, $25,000 Grand Rapids and Chicago furlllture manufacturers have taken stock in a company capitalIzed at $75,000 which wIll rebUIld the veneer works at Reed CIty, Mich, that was burned about two yeals ago The new factory of the \Yebb-Gordon Furniture com-pany at Greenfield, Ind, was put Into operatIOn on March 15. The same company IS remodelUlg the Comstock-McKee plant in the same town and Will soon have It ready for busines" Contractor "Gus" Holm is reported as making a recorJ 111 rushing work on the neV'. plant of the Supenor Furmture company at Rockford, III The plant IS to be completed in ::\1:ay and the managers expect to put It in operatIOn in time to get out a lIne of goods for the fall season Furniture Fires. The Butler Furlllture company of l'\"asl1\ IlIe, Tenn, lost about $6,000 by fire m their store on March 17. Partially 1l1sured, Fire start1l1g In the shay 1l1gs box damaged the plant of the Rathbone Fireplace .l\Ianufactunng company, Grand Rapids, Mich, to the extent of $3,000 or $4,000 on March 23, Insured The Dobbs FurnIture company of Terre Haute, Ind, lo-.t $25,000 or $30,000 by fire that destro} ed their stock on March 18 Their bUlld1l1g was also damaged to the extent of about $20,000. One of the factones of the E C Paige company, cnbs and cradles, of Antrim, N H, was destroyed by fire on March Made by World Furmture Co., EvanSVIlle, Ind. 19 The clothing of a man who was varnishing cradles was accidentally ignited and the flames spread through the varnish room With a flash. The man saved his life by Jump1l1g mto the river. 5 II I I I 6 ------_._~~_._-- WEEKLY ARTISAN ~---------_._------------ po--- I I NEW YORK CORRESPONDENCE Notes. News and Personal Mention of Funlitllre Manufacturers and Dealers. K ew York, .:\Iarch 24--Bu"111e~" h gOIng ahea I leI \ \\ ell t'he total of order., taken smce the fir"t ot the;. eal ha, e been qUlte satlsfactOl) and the return" 1rom the tlal el111g 111cn contmue to be moderately good The manutactlll er~ ellC pretty busy and all sectIOns of the Ul\\ntl I al t c,dI111e; tOl theIr Ime" The whole"alers feel \ el I much cnlOUl "gee! and have had a very good demand 111 mo"t l111e" The retall traJe IS plo~Te"~Ulg fineh 111 all 1111eS fJ nn and bra"s beJs seem to be sellll1g \\ ell and bcdchng IS 111 aetn e demand A falll) good husme"~ 1'-, looked tOl m all channel., of trade dunng the spnng Fndnel & Eb"te111 ha, e takcn the .,torc thelt II a~ OCCllpH'd by Sperry & Hutchm-,on In Hallem dnd hale Il(l\\ one of the largest furmture stores out that v, a) J & 1\1 Olswang IS a ne" carpet and pIcture 11ame e"- tabhshment at 1056 Broadv.a;. Brookh n The JVIaJestlc FurmtUle compan;. ha", been mUJlpOlated at Mexico, NY, WIth a capItal of :j;40,000 , headed by II H. Osborn, F \\ Flash of .:\1exlco \f Y. and E P (o.,t!- gan of Syracuse, ]\ Y 1 hey \\ 111 Ulan ufacture furmtl11 e Mr Abraham of L\braham & Strau,,~ Brookh n has bought the Clarendon Hotel there Some of the 1m) er" who ha, e been m Gland IZaplch DELAWARE CHAIR CO. DELAWARE OHIO. 1 DOUBLE CANE ~ LEATHER J MISSION CHAIRS, ROCKERS and SETTEES LARGEST llQUAlITY" LINE of CATALOCUE TO THE TRADE ONLY ------------------------------------~ - - -" II ah111 the pa~t month are Robert Cunnmgham, WIth R H \1 aCI &. Co R (T \lnander,,, Ith the f'onrteenth street .,turl Da\)(l I"ahn \\ Ith the Slmp-,on-Crawford, Charles \\ Itnl \\lth Loe"el ~ 'Ill 'IIl!ler, WIth '\braham & Strass, I\; -\ \IcLallghm \11th C-Iegel Cooper Co , "J F Lemmon, with the (JeOJ g c C II111t lompany , John E Stagg, wIth the 0']\ elI-Ae! am" companl an,l HOllald '\1 Cowpelthwalte PIOn BlOthers fur111ture clealer" of fiS ayenue 13, have opened a hcdd111~ qfn e at 83 al eune n BeU]am111 PIOn lOrl11('111 1 au the bU'-,111C"'-, alone \!r '-Jlh erhcIg 1'-, I1he manager for thc new retal! furt1l-ture ~t01 e stdl ted b\ LoUl" Dorfman, at 818 \\ estche",ter a\cnue George \1 TIo:,,\\orth one of the hest known 1I1tellor deu)l at III "- 111the cl1\, ha" left here and Jomed WIth T ~I lohn.,tOJ1l &. (0. or Portlancl, Ore, and wl!l take an actl\ C p,ll t III the 1l1a11a~e1l1Cnt Thc L 11Itccl \Iall Ordel Hon~c lS a new firm m Brookl) n to handle tUrJ1ltnre II Ith a capital of $150,000, headeJ by Max TahIti H100kh n an d \ \ Ilham -\braham and Margal et Sher-l1Ck \lan!1dttan (,ottheb \\ cher Co manufacturers of davenports, couch trames, etc at:; Lagl ange street, Brooklyn. are working fuTI tIme and hU"-111e"s1'-,\ ery .,atlsfactory For the .:.Jew York .:\1etall1c Bedstead Co, Charles P Rog-el-, ha" charge of the ea'itern terntor) and D R Hencler- ,on h the g-eneral representatIve Henn Lnttcman, 127 \\T e"t Twenty-fourth street, manu- ----------~--- ---- - -- -----_._---_._---------_._-~----- --- --- -- - - - - - - - - - - - - -" Pitcairn Varnish Company II Manufacturers of Reliable Varnishes of UniForm Quality Our Motto: "NOT HOW CHEAP-BUT HOW GOOD" ..... C. B. Quigley, Manager Manufacturing Trades Dep't. Factories: Milwaukee, Wis.; Newark, N. J. .I. ._----_.~-----_._-----_.__._~~----- WEEKLY ARTISAN ~----_ .. - .._----_._-- _--- .. - . ------- ------~------- Don't you want the BEST bench that was ever offered for the pnce, $12.00 (SubJect to "• dIscount) This bench 15 34 inches high, 6 feet, : 3 inches lon~-front I5 Inches, made of thoroughly : klln-dned hard maple stnps glued together, 2% II inches thick. The balance-J 3 Inches inches, IS soft wood. Can ship on receipt of order. ! --~-----_._-----_._--------_.- ----_. .... .. . ---~ II 1._----------------- GLOBE VISE and TRUCK CO. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. 7 - -~ opencd a furl11ture store of 111', own at Th1rd street and Second ayenue David J\lasch who has been for year'i in the fU1111ture depal tment of the Slegel-Cooper com pan} has left that firm and now represents sc\ cral hnes on the road 'Ihe C B French Cahmet company of Brooklyn, has been incorporated b} i\ P i\lmour. G P l'lench, \Ydham Kennedy and G T Raymond I Teltelhaum & Co, who 'itarted a few} ears ago hand hng second hand furl11ture haye now tv. 0 newly erected butldlllg" fOJ thell large retad busllle,',s at 446-8 \Vestcheste1 avenue, the TIronx The Flel111sh i\rt company have bought the 'itock of the fa1led concern, the Goldc "N" ovclt} company, 50 Frankhn strect, manufacturer" of bllC a brac, YV ood noveltles ,etc Henry Batterman has reured from the department store DU'i111eSSat Broadway, T'lu"hmg and (;Iaham Ave, BlOoklyn, and \V 111dey ote h1s yvhole tune to the DroadwdY Bank H L Batte1 man h1S son 1<;now pre::;ldent of the H Batterman com-pany Greenhut & Co, depa1 tment 'itore at Slxth avenue and EIghteenth street have enlarged the1r store and now take m a full block The Slegel-Cooper company control tll1S store The busmess of N Hatern, furn1ture 'itore, and the BlOnx Stov e compan}, Thll d ayenue and One H unc1red and Slxty-th1rd street, are bemg closed out The Abdale Eqmpment company 1S a new firm at 53 \Yest Twenty-fourth street, handhng fur11lture only for hotels and steamsh1p lmes ---_. .-.._. _. .- .... ---------_.~---_._--_.---~ ! "THE BEST IS THE CHEAPEST" I I BARTON'S GARNET PAPER I• I IIII, factunng parlor furl11ture 1S 'ia1d to bc 'iellmg mahogany furl11- ture at the same pnces as ml1tat1On good:" and ha'i a ne" lme of Engh"h chairs, upholstered m leather and fabncs Then hne'i are meetmg w1th good success The Pooley Furn1ture company, large ma11ufactu1 er'i of Ph1lac1elph1a, are m theIr new home he1 e, at \Iachson avenue al1d Th1rty-first street, wh1ch h a fiye 'itory palace The exterior 1S all m white, a handsome marble entrancc, hall decorated m clas"lc 'ityle, m hardwoocl'i beautJful uphol-ster111g and nch tapestnes and altogether the} have the mo"t beautlful and artht1c 'iample rooms here The fifth floor 1s furl11shed as a five room hotbe The firm mo, ed from 235 \IVest Twenty-thml street awl haye added to then "ales force Be111g 111onc of the best 10cat1011" here for the sale of h1gh pnced goods, they expect to do a large bU"111e'iS Israel Zal11t'iky, who 1S 111partner'ih1p V\ 1th Kahn, ha\- mg a furl11ture store at 329 Kn1ckerbocker ayenue, Brookl} n, a'i the Kl11ckerbocker Furl11tm e company ha" obta1l1ed per-m1S'i1On from the court to change hh name to Sanit F D G1eenough, manager of the Prame Grass Fml11- ture company, reports good results from then 'ihow111g at Grand Rap1ds, of Crex gra'is furl11ture They are advert1smg a new finish Charles F. Redly, late WIth the J\ldler Cabmet company wdl repre'ient the] ame"town (N Y) Lounge company 111 th1s C1ty, Ph1ladelph1a and BaltllTIore. S Bauman & Co , are in the1r new home at Eighth ave-nue and Forty-sixth street and have now one of the largest stores here. ]. E Roantree ha'i retired from the bus111ess of the Cort-land (N Y) Cab111et company A Caopleman, late w1th Freec1berger & Kos'ck, has There a1 e some men ,,0 lazy that they will not even file thelr hens Sharp, Very Sharp, Sharper Than Any Other . SUPERIOR TO SAND PAPER. It costs more, BUT It Lasts Longer; Does Faster Work. Order a small lot; make tests; you will then know what you are getting. WE GUARANTEE SATISFACTION. Furniture and Chair Factories, Sash llnd Door Mills, Railroad Companies, Car Builders and others will consult their own interests by using it. Also Barton's Emery Cloth, Emery Paper, and Flint Paper, furnished in rolls or reams. MANUFACTURED BY ---H_..-H-_.._B._A.-.R_-T- ON & SON CO., 109 South Third St., Philadelphia, Pa. .. - (-Ialf of them are to be fifty feet long and the othel half £01ty feet MISCELLANEOUS NOTES AND NEWS Frank Floerchmger ha'i purcha"ed Tom ~I01 n'ie) '" fm111 ture store at Oxford, Iowa W A Larwlg "ucceed" Bogel 8..- Lad\\ Ig m the I etaIl furmture busmess at Newport, "a"h The Green Castle (Incl ) Cabmet compan) ha\ e mClea"ed theIr capItal stock from $10,000 to $25000 Kiefer & \;Ylttkopp. succeed KIefer & SIemers In the retaIl furnIture busine"s at Plymouth \\ I" S Bent & Bro, furmture dealer, of (Jardnel \Id"" ha\ e incorporateJ wIth capItal stock fixed at $7=)000 Manor & Rittman, furl1lture dealer" and unclel takel" ( I Genoa JunctIOn \\ h , are "ucceecled b\ J T \1anol \;Y B Anderson, furl1lture dealer" of \ngleton. j e\. has made an a"slgnemnt for the benefit of h1" crel!Jtor, E D Alexander ha" purchasecl the retaIl fUI mture bu "I ness of the Walter" Fur11lture company at 'lay ton, Ore J 0 Beauchamp and C J Cro"hy ha, e purchased the undertakmg busllless of L J :\1Illel at T\\ m 1 all" 1claho The ='\orns Safe and Lock com pan) ot Seattle \\ a"h have solcl theIr furl1lture department to \IIle" P Denson \;Y A. French & Co meorpm ated ft11l1ltul e clealers 01 St Paul, 1\lmn , have mcrea"ecl then capital "tock to S2;0 000 Challe, '1 \Iaynard, furntlUre clealer ot "WI III Lake Io\\a, ha" sold his ,tock and busllless to C;chnlldt ~ \\ lllldm'- The ~Cdell-PloflOck ;\IanufaLtullng compam table". ot St LOttls, 1\10, ha' e mcrea,ed the1r cap1tal ,;tock trom $20,- 000 to $25.000 Bresee Brothers, undertaker" of Lo" \ngele'-. Lal ha\ e opened a branch estabbshment at LanLastel, Cal \\ 1th I (, KIchline as manager Herbert Schofield, furniture deale1 of "e\\ Canaan. Conn, has just completed and mO\ ecl 111to the fine"t hllLk buIlding in the town The PO'itle Fur11ltul e eompan). deale I '-. ot Lolul11hu'-. ( ) have filed a voluntar; petItIOn m bankruptc) J lablbtH.''' $9,4425; asset" $11,815 R J Arthur of the :\rthur Plano compan). lolull1bm, Ga, has purchased the business of the DIXIe Furn1ture com-pany of the same town The Hardy Fur11lture compan) of I mcoln "ebr, ha\\:: made arrangements WIth their landlorcl to add two floor, to their three-story buildl11g John Samuels has sold hI'; fur11lture ,;tore m Spokane. Wash., to W G Thompson of Spokane and \delbel t O' Meara of Missoula, Mont S C. ,;Ynglht & Son, furnIture dealers of Pt1ca. O. are to have a new bttllcll11g reach for occupanc, b' c,entembel I It will be a three story bnck The Utah County Mattress company \\ho hd\ e Lonductld a factory at Pro\ 0, "Gtah. ha\ e mcorporatecl Capltal "tock $25,000, dIvided into shares of $1 each A petition in bankruptcy has been filed agamst I, \Iohr & Co., furniture manufacturers of 507 \;Yest ThIrty-second "treet New York Henry MelvIlle IS the receiter D G. Peoples, propnetor of the Delta Furnltt11 e com-pany at Benzona, MIss, ha" filed a ,oluntar} petJtlOn m bankruptcy. LiabihtJes, $4,628. a""et", $3,547 The Santa Fe RaIlway company has placed an ordel for 1,000 new furniture cars all to be dehvered before Sept 1 C; Il De1shlme of Hazelton, Pa, IS movl11g his stock 110m the old \[ans1On House block to his new furmture "tm e south we"t corner of Droad and Laurel streets S J Barber of Carthage, :\10, "tate" that the company \\ hlch 0\\ n" the Carthage furmture factory WIll probably be 1 e on;-anl7ed "oon and he put in better shape than ever G " \\ 11"on John Carlm and Ora \Vabon have pur-cha,; ed the furl1ltUl e bu"mess of r II Story at Montesano. \ \ a ,-h . and \\ 111trade under the firm name of \\ 11son, Car-lJ" le ~ \\ ahon The bu<;me"" ot Young & :\TcCombs, department store furllltnre clealer,;, etc, of Rock Island Ill, has been 111corpor-ated as the Young & 1\lcCombs Co-operatlve Store company Capltal <.,tock, $200,000 The retad ftulllture firm of Brown 8..- Durham, New Ha\ en Conn ha" been d1SS0!\ ed The 1m,mess wIll bc lont1l1Uec\ h\ lreclellck H Blovvn, w1th \lelh111e S Chance, Lite \\ Ith jrdnk T ellnancl ot Boston. as manager The d1"cn'-"10n of the methods of clatl11g bIlls ahead oc-cupIed much oj the t1me of the St LOUlS, :\10, Furlllture Iloa1d ot [lacle at a lecent meetmg \n add1ess on the sub-ject ,\a'- clell\erecl b, tit D :\Idler of E,anWIIle, Ind [he Chall tactone,- dt (~arclner, J\la"", are cllscardmg '-team for electne pln' el-llldl\ Idual motor, fOI each of the malhllle" The 1-' Derb) lompany put 111elght motors last ,eal and ha\ e 111stalled fifteen more dunng the pa,t "lX \\ eek,; The 111SUlance on the plant of the Valley C1ty Desk compall\. Grand Rapid". vvl11ch ,vas badly damaged by fire t\, a \\ eeks ago has heen "athfaLionly adjusted. a "upply of 101n drIed IUl11bel ha" been secured and the factor} 1" running \\Ith a full fmce \[llIlh ~ J (JOllll". fUln1tule dedler" dt 11(J\\ke1 and Port- Iclnd "t1 eet Tlo"wn \Id''- ha\ e 1 el110deled theIr ~tore 111order to ,-entre el Portland "tl eet front The ma111 entrance and ,)ffice are no\\ at 100 Portland "treet, but the old entrance at 43 Dowker Stl eet IS "tlll used The Klanke Brothers fUflllture factory at New Bremen, Oh1O, wh1ch has heen shut down S111ce the recent death of John Klanke IS to resume busl11e<;s under the name of G. Klanke & Bros. Ge01ge. \Vllitam and Edvvard Klanke ha'l11g purchased the 111terest held by tlhe estate of theIr deceased brother One at the mo"t elegantly fur11lshed bus111ess .,tructures 111 c'an To,-e Cal I" the new home of L Lion & Sons, ",hlch 11d' 1U"\ heen LOl11pleted at the cornel of Second and San f el nando ,-tl eet" ] he blllldmg h a model of Its kllld, large ell1d commodlOU s. \, ell lJgh ted a1hl perfect! y a ppoin ted 111 e\ e1\ \\a, The B II Gal dner furnIture and underta10ng stock of l.;0m}-; of \1 nrph} "lJoro, Ill, whIch has been 111the bankrupt lourt ha" been "old Two-rhirds of the stock was covered b, l11ortl:;al.;e and that part was bid 111by L T HamIlton of (rl and T(m er 1he other th1rd was sold to the Phillips Farm Suppl} compan} of Carbondale, Ill, at about 40 cents on the dollar E\ en the \\ Ise men are occasIOnally otherWIse WEEKLY ARTISAN This is one of our Latest Designs in Drawer Pulls. ,~-------------------------------------- ..... 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Space for Others ~-----------------------------------------------~-----------------------------------------------~ STANDARD BILLS OF LADING Now in Use in Nearly All of the Country and Will Be Legalized. ~t the begmnmg of 1909 a ul1Jform b1ll of ladmg wa" adopted by the carners of the so called "offic1a1 cla'i'i1ficatlOn terntor) ," whIch compnses but a mmor part of the el1lted State" (Jthe1 forms 'itIll permissable 111 the western and 111 the "ot1thea"tern cla'i~lficatlOn terlltones Dunng the pa"t week the southern freIght assoc1atlOn has adopted the stand a1d form and 1t 1'i expecteJ the fa1 western a,,'iOnatlOn and the Canad1an road'i IV 111 'ioon fall mto lme It ha" been objected that complete Ul11formlt) th1 Jug-l'~ out the entIre country I'i unde"Irab1e and 1mpract1cab1e, 0,,- 1l1g to d1fference" 111 commercIal customs and the cond1tlOn'i 12,0\Cl nll1g- "lllpment", but thel e IS lIttle If any dIssent from the propo''lt1011 of u111brnllt) 1n the eS'ientlal" that affect 11c g Jt1ab1h t) anJ a "'i1Ue safety 111 bank1l1g, vvarehOll'oe and fi'1:111Cla1tm11sactlOl1s upon the secunty of bdl" of ladl11g InaQmech as the commld1tJes wh1ch undeJ11e 'illch tra11,,- actIOns are ln large part the 'iubJect of Interstate commerce 1t h oln lOll., that effectn e regu1atlOn a'i to bl11'o of 1ad1l1g can only be hall bv fedclal legislat1On, VI hlCh has hlthert'J heen 1eCl'mmencled b) the TntelOltate Commerce C01111111SS1011 rIwrefore a h111 to legah7e the "0 ca11eJ st? ndard hIll uf IddJ11g ha.., been l11trodllced 111 congre'os and 1'0 expected to j'e pa""ed dunng the current 'ieSS10n It 1'i knO\\n as House BIll \[0 17267 and p101 lde" for "uch regulatlOn a" vvl11 pro 1110te eS'oentla1 unJformlty of practlce and of legal effect, IV lth Jut compell111g Ul1lfOlnl1t\ 111m1110r partlclllars d1ctaterl 1)\ lucal cond1tJons Th1" mea'iure defines an "order bdl of ladl11g' as one b) whlch the property de'icnbed may be deln erable llpon the order of any person there1l1 mentJoned, reqmre-. that the ~un ender of the ong1l1al, properly endorsed, shall be re- CJlll1ed before the delnery of the property, forb1d'i the me of the words "n;:l11-negotlable" or \\ ords of 'i11111IarImport, and per1111b the m-.ertlon 111"order bllls of 1admg' of other ter111~ or cond1t1On'i not mCOl1"I~tent WIth the prOVb1Ons of the \ct OJ othe1 WIse contrary to publlc laVl or polley \ "stra1ght bIll of lad1l1g" 1'i defined a'i one 111 VI hlch the plOperty de'icnbed there1n IS stated to be con'i1gned 01 de- In erab1e to a specJfled per'i'll1. vv1thout any 'otatement that sllch property lS cons1gned elr Jellverable to the orde1 of an per..,on Such stralght b111 1111bt ha, e pro111mently "tamped upon 1tS face the worJs "?\ ot 11egot1ab1e" Other not mcon-sl" tent prOV1"1Ons are lIkewlse permltted V1OlatlOns of the prO\ l-'lOn~ as to negot1dblht), and a" to c1eln er} of property ale made pU11lshable by a fine of not more than $1,000 01 lmpn sonment 110t more than one year, or both But notwlthstand111g such 1101at1On, and "order" or a "straIght" bIll of lad111g ..,hall be wlthll1 the pro\ lSlOn~ of the I\ct If earners or theIr agents lssue a b111of la,hng before the \\ hole of the property has ben rece1ved, or lssue a second bIll of ladmg WIthout prom111ently markl11g "dupllcate' a- C10'3" the face, they a1 e "topped from denymg the recelj)t of the property de~cnbed therel11, and are llable for damage" d" to an} pel "on who ha~ acqmred such bdl of lading 111 good falth To knOll mg-h 1s..,ue a bdl of lad1l1g under the cond1- t10ns next abO\ e utecl. or negotiate sllch a bdl, 1'i pU111'ihable by a fine not exceedmg $S,OOO, or 1l11pn"011ment not exceecl-lllg fi\ e year'o, 01 huth Caf11er" or agents who clehver the plOperty de'icnb.ccl m an order ])]11 of lad111g w1thout 1equlll11g ~urrender and mak- 111g cance11at1On of such bdl, or 111 case of partJal cleln er) 1l1dOJS1l1g thereon a ~tatel11ent of the pr Jperty dell\ creel, a1 e e"topped fr0111 assel t111g that the property a, deSCrIbed there- ,n has been dehve1ed 01 pariI§.:.l1y de1n ereJ and are hable tor <111damag-es 'iustamec1 by any pe10l0n because of reltdme. 111 ~ood fa1th upon the b111 FaIlure of the carnel to exact a bond 111double the vallle of the property 111ea"e of deln el y VI 1thout takll1g up and ca11- ce11mg the oUhtandl11g bdl of lad111g 1" made a l111sJe111eaner, pU111'ihable by a fine not exceedlllg $),000, or h) 1l11pn~(Jnment not exceedmg fi\ e ) ears, or both Sec 8 plOVldes "That any mdtellal alteratlOn. add1t1cn. or era~ure ll1 01 to an ordel bdl of ladlllg or a stra1ght b111 of lad1l1g. fraudulent 01 other\\lse, ,hall be \\ ahout efreet, and 111the hanJs of a bona fide holder fOl value, not d party t J the alteratlOn thereof, such bdl :oha11 he vahd and 111a) be enforcecl accOl d1l1g to 1tS onglllal tenor P 0\ 1ded, hoVl-e, er, that an alterat1On, adehtlOn, or era"llre 111 or to all, such bill of lad111g with slgnature thereto endorsed the1 eon by the lS~U1l1g calner, or 111Sofficer, agent Ol senant 111hls behalf and \\ 1th the consent of the holdel thereof, shall be I ahd and effectlVe" Th1s mea"ure 15 adapted not only to aboh"h certall1 If regulantle" 111the l'iSUanCe of bllb of 1ad111g, of whIch com-plalllt hd'o been made, but 111 general lS an effectn e qep toward a "Olunng the safety of financial tJ an'iaet1Ol1'i based upon b111s of ladmg The b111 has ben approved by many boards of trade. :ohippers aSSOelat1Ons and other eommerd1al orga111zat1Ons and there 1-. httle doubt that lt \\ 111be passed when cOllgre,," get'> around to 1t to WEEKLY ARTISAN RETAIL FURNITURE ADVERTISING Conducted by H. H. STALKER. Dealers Are Urged to Send in Samples of Their Advertisements and to Offer Any SugKestion!IJ and Helps Which They Believe Will Be of Benefit to Others. This Department Aims to Be of Practical Set·vice. Help Us to Make It So. Every fUlll1ture dealel who uses lalge space WIll do II ell to study thIS e'Ccellent advel tlsement from Km2, s, Toledo It IS never an easy ta"k to !.SLJUp effectively as many dlffelent Items as are here lepresented, and the "ad" man lesponslble tl\e S~leJlII1oledo IsWo.itil\! for King's Second Anniversary Sale Kmg's Second Anmversary Sale Don t JWlt gla.nce over tlrls IlAivert sement Read everv 'l'b. II We (If QIl ., W1l'. be 1lo ml.l;tn iU'tlke 101""US li.Ild." L tenl OIJIDpa.re other prlces WIth our $llJe pnces Note the prove a gold nun ... of ba.:rgaUlll to our patroll.l We Ilre • ad real actull.l. and extrllOnllna.ry values t!us sale olfers You do of t. We a.re de1J.gb.ted to be ab e to lIlLV... our cwtomeN 'e> :Ot~V:~~P:~:: ::de;=~ Th.,\~~e~~~: milchmO!l~ on thm1uM!ture a.nt\carpe~p" cbue1: In th wont of our ca.re ...r :wd t 15 of" equal mterest and lJllpo1't.moe face of al the talk of lugh po es !or commodlt e:s a d we •• >ed to you T!lJ>:e advll.1ltag'e of 1t Buy for present needs aJ:ld COflt of h"Ulg we know that here rot l'lllSt the neceS! t e. and 5Upply your wante for the Ile'Xt $U mon.hs 01' year to coone l=es ID bort1e furmsbJ.IlglI un be bought &t ower price. tll&n Itwillbethebgge&tllJld!J.estmWlltmentyoueverJllll.de Never Will' before Yes a.t Mtmilly leu than the actual ~CllI.t of UllIld the erow<k. We will b&.'<e plell.ty of :I'IJ.~ p~'Dl& to wa. t lIlllll.u.fa.ctunng It IS up to you to take a.dvantage of the op oIle'veryoneprolllptlya.ndcareful!y rr';1 h.... portuJUtywlllleltlast& All Goods Marked tn Platn FIgUl'es ~nX SUse Your Credtt--Buy on Crecht-·We'n Ar- You See What You Save ~., ••• ••••• • range the Terms to Swt Your Convemenee Our Great Anniversary Sale Starts Monday, March 7th Exten'lOnTable' 3P"" PorI", SW" Center Table I ,....--,--, ~ ~alpep for $27 SO ,• .~ ., "$'2"7.50 "~ ,: ... "' ~98c Go-Carts " ' • $4.95 $1275 $12.75 $l5lJc:l<sb $150 cash 5<low"," roe w~'I;. Iy &emg ly S .. At'tIst1c<l.sn mad.,,! " "'tl~ "'" =, .0 ~ "ak "ge "" ""- hog w. 'mol (:.~~;. $li:75 ta.1l Bb,()W barpmM yo< 5 Piece ParlOf Suit $25 Oak S,d.- board, $1475 "" ahg :.~: • $42.75 $18.50 Ch",a Clo .... $1275 ~. ',-' ~ 51275 I G () C .CI •• "" I E F C eC 11 :31::~:Ch::~nn:> , (J-'bc .. ClO :: a h "' ... $675 ChIffon I e r$ >I ",ad 0"". IWd rn I<'>cl ';;:k_hiUI 00 I .~"; • $4.98 l$Z.50lr~8tIls~~ 5(l1 i~:;~~l~~:1'!·!~ $18 Couche. foY $1050 '\\~ ha e ti.' B o "-lcP Ra ..... !o. , " $.j..98 Carpet Sweepers for thiS layout IS to be congratulated I Vvould advIse you to cut out thIS advertIsement and refer to It ne'Ct tIme you get up a large "aJ" You WIll find It helpful One thing especlally worthy of note IS the uniform good-ness of the cuts, although of course they form part of a de-sIgn and were all made at the same time But had one or hI a of them been black smears, as is so often the case in large , ads·' the entIre effect would have been spoiled Then the items al e !SlOuped under strong, easl1) read headmgs, and boxed in "ll a" to be readIly dlstll1gUlshed from the rest The plOpor-tlOnmg of "lute space abo "hows care The opening para-graph" at eIther SIde of the cut of store at top are to the pomt, and vvell calculated to excIte interest in the bargains 1\ hlch follm, I thmk hem e\ er not wlthstandmg the high chal acter of thh aeh eltlo,ement, that li could l1al e been considerably "tl engthened b) one or tv\ 0 changes They are undoubtedly pomts that occurred to the "ad" man after It wa" too late to make the changes '-\ e 11 begm at the begmmng and analyze thll1gs as we £;0 al mg lust, the headll1g, "The Sale All Toledo IS '-Naltmg I 01, cloe" not tell as much as It should for a headmg Now Kmg s as I undel stand 1t, IS a bIg and popular furmture house Kll1g'" many announcements have lead people to gIve atten- Ion to IV hat he sa) s, and have bmlt up confidence m hIS ,tore Thelefore, I shoulJ have started this "ad" wIth the ,ub-head appea1ll1g some inches below, makmg It read 'Kmg's Great Anniversary Sale Starts Monday, March 7," Here you have, m my Judgement, an attention-compellIng head, and one full of meanmg K1l1g IS gomg to have a sale and a leI) Important time of It" commencement IS pro- (lal111ed L hen, nght underneath, I should have made a sub-lH: a lot the plesent heac1mg, "1he ~ale All Toledo IS Waltmg 101 I bellCl e that I should also have ehmmated the entire h'Jrcler The rOI\ of cuts on eIther SIde, together wlth the '>ollel appearance of the entire "ad" lead" me to believe that 1\ lute "pace mstead of the bordel would have been more effectll e The two panels or border of cuts al e about three quarters of an mch shorter than the four columns of Items including the name plate at bottom It would have been an easy matter to ha, e confined these columns to the same length a, the cub as long as there was such a "light dIfference, 0111, matenall) lmprOl mg the appearance of the whole "ad" I am mc1med to thmk, too, that the rules around the db play Item" m the tv\O mner columns would have appeareJ to hetter acIl antage If set m one point instead of two pomt rule I wIll mentIOn one other Item, whIch though perhaps not of 'ltal Importance, would, m m) opinIOn, along wlth the other suggestIOns, completed a perfectly balanced a~lvertIse-ment It IS thIS The two outer columns of specIals contain each eleven Items enclosed m rules But these are not um-form I should like to haye seen each panel balance WIth the one correspondmg V\ lth It on the other SIde ThIS would haye reqtllred some care m confimng each descnption to so man) V\ orcls, not a dd'ficult task. I ,10 not doubt for a moment that this "ad" produced ex-cellent results a" It stanels, for it IS exceedmgly good. My chIef cntlcbm and what I consIder the most "enous defect, IS the headmg. for upon the headll1g depends so much. The other suggestions are merely techni- WEEKLY ARTISAN 11 •i A SUPERIOR Sand Belt Machine . ..., No. 171iPatented Sand Selt Machine. WYSONG <1l MILES CO., ~.. cal, and yet, aftel all, would, I believe, add much to the strength of the "ad" I have purposely devoted all the space thIS week to thi" subject, feelIng that it mented it ,Vho can beat this layout? vVho ha<; a better one? Let's have your samples and ideas The Age of Financial Delirium. James J HIll, in the Minnesota conservation conven-tIOn, held at St Paul last week, advocated the conservatIOn of capItal, and condemned extravagance as one of the causes of the lllcrease 111 pnces He "aid' "\lVe are lIv lllg III an age of world wide finanCIal delinum," and that "next after the conservation of the land, ItS area, use and fertihty, must come the con"ervatlOn of natIOnal capital III the form of cash and credit" "The immense increase of wealth all over the world has augmented greatly the supply of capItal, and has stImulated the splnt of finanCIal adventure and the love of squandenng The total debt of the states, lllc1udmg all m1110r CIVl1 dIVI-SIOns, lllcreased between 1890 and 1902 $727,778,393, or 64 per cent, an average of $60,000,000 a year. "But I know of noth111g beanng more (hrectly or for- -clbly upon the subject of national waste and the conser- \-atlOn of natIOnal resources than the profhgacy dIsclosed by our pubhc expense ledger It is one of the causes of the mcrease in prices Foodstuff" cost from 10 to 70 per cent more than 10 years ago Something is due to enormous currency inflation The total per capIta 111 the United States in 1896 was $2141 and $3501 in 1909. In these 13 years the per capIta mcrease was more than 60 per cent "The tariff contnbutes, but it can furnIsh only a partIal explanatlOn. COmbl11atlOns which are actually in restraint Flat Surfaces, Irregular Shapes and Mouldings sanded faster and better than by any other method. We guarantee to reduce your sanding costs. Ash for Catalog "E." Cedar St. and G b N C Sou. R. R. reens oro, . · . t .... .. .. of trade are partly responsible. But perhaps the greatest factor of all is the wage rate, which has been rising steadily As cost of production is chiefly labor cost, the price of the finished article must go up If the pnce of labor is raised. Still more of the rise of prices IS due to the ~lecline of agricultural products as compared WIth the increase of population. "Stop graftmg, the offspring of public extravagance and the parent of civic decay. Individual and pubhc econo-my, a check on mcome wasting, debt creation and credit inflation-these are the e<;<;entials of the new and better conserva tron." "Chautauqua."" The Jamestown Lounge company have put out a neat and Jecldedly interestl11g booklet entitled "Chautauqua." By way of l11troductlOn It tells of the romantic beauty, lovehness and charm of Lake Chautauqua and then gets down to the real purpose of teh author in this way Lake Chautauqua IS at the very gateway of the CIty of Jamestown, and its waters, coursing through the wl11dl11gChadakoin river, are mtercepted and made to pay toll by turning the wheels of the great factory of the Jamestown Lounge company, where the Chau-tauqua wordrob couch 1<;made. So that more fitting name could have been chosen for thIS ideal embodIment of beauty, comfort and convenience." Then follows 24 pages descnbing the construction, ma-terial, convenience and utihty of the Chautaqua wardrobe couch with 21 IllustratIOns Showlllg the different styles and the "lllwardness" of an artIcle that IS sure to become popular WIth the people and profitable to furniture dealers. " ..- The Best Square Chisel Mortiser Entirely Automatic. Instantaneous Adjustments. Makes the STRONGEST, most ECONOMICAL and most ACCURATE Case Construction possible. No. 181 Wultlple Mortlser. WYSONG <1l MILES CO., Cs~:~:R~d Greensboro, N. C. Ash for Catalog "J" ... .... ....-- a.a .a. aa ••••.••• 12 WEEKLY ARTISAN ,------o---------RICH-;~ N0_0 0 --o-------------~·-·l I CHAIR CO. I III• l• I GENUINE LEATHER SEAT Catalogues to the Trade. RICHMOND RICHMOND TABLET ARM CHAIR INDIANA IIIII II ,,• I II III IIII III I _4 DOUBLE CANE LINE "SLIP SEATS" - the latest and best method of double seatmg. No. 70 Tbe Best Value and Greatest Service for .he MOR8'1 HOW TO START AS A DECORATOR ---------------------------------------------------------------------- First Steps in a Vocation or Profession That Is Well Adapted to Women. "Home decOlatJOn I~ a vvoman., ~phcle It she 1'" ]ll'lperh trameJ," saId a v.oman who has made ,1 "'UCle,,, at the \\ork "She knows better than ,I man \vhat a \\ oman \\ anb, and d chent feels les" restramt m tdlkmg to hel ahout b1g' and httle thmg" and glvmt; <;ugge"tn e hmt<; than .,he I\ould \\Ith the eye of the profe"<;londl man clelorat 11 upon hel "Izmg 1;',) her knowledge "There I" a fine field tor women m deloratn e al t, hut they mu"t be up and dOIng, keep pace vvIth the tImes, ::,tud\ everythmg pertammg to theIr prote""JOn and knmv It thlll-oughly, 01 they WIll be pushed to the wall 111 the<;e da\., 01 keen competitIOn "A" tastes are \alled. the} mu"t be \\ell mfOlmec1 on all penod" and st} Ie", and "llOulcl he able to tell at a glance to wluch pellOd a chall 01 plece of f111111ture 01 .,ample ot clelor-atn e matellal belong" \11 the~e thlng~ all \ en 11l1JlOl tant "An addItional advantage 1" to be able to make a ha"t\ penCIl "ketch, whtle gettmg' an Idea from a sugge",tloll made by a chent The qUIck wltted artist v\ 111.,e1/e and turn "nch a hmt to acconnt and frequently c1mch an order 11111"hed water color sketche" are 111\ aluahle aIds to sho\v ho\\ a loon' WIll look completed "Women become vel y ea -,tly dlscouragp,] unles, th e\ ha\ e thorough ).,nov\ ledge and If order., do not lull In at first, but the} must creep before the} can \\ alk It h uphJ1l work startll1g an,] becomll1g knoVln, hut the\ \\ onld "'tll\ to It If they have natural abl1Jty, plnlk and pel ,e\ erance Let them do somethIng' worth whIle, then the\ \\ 111 1 ea1Jn thelr ambItIOns but It lannot be done 111 a \\ eek "month 01 a year "] t l" not enoug'h to knoVl ho\\ to al ral1>;e a loom ta-,te full} They must knov. whIch COlO1" to selelt for an expo-sure faCIng north, .,outh, east or west "SIde v.alls anJ cellll1g<; too must be attended to WIth care Woodwork mu<;t be thoroughly c,m"ldered. for "ome colors enhance, whde other., desha) the tone<; of different kll1ds of \\ood Be careful of detads, a \\rang note m the rug, \\ 111rum the whole scheme ha\ e a leal mter,o<;t 111 her pro- One ""oman once said to me floor cm ellng. he It carpet 01 1hen a decorator mu"t le".,1On It ,he I" to "ucceed VI 1th d shrug , ]'11 gne them whatever the} "'0 l11dn\ cnrtam", portlel es, chal1 s mean", 0 much money' . I., that th e way you look at decoratlOn and fur11lshmg?' I a"ked J" lt onl} the commelC1al SIde that appeaL to hke, Ifs an order for tables, sofas, etc, and )OU' , \\ ell, partly, yes I clon't bothel \\Ith "entlment It'" rlollal'" and cent ... only,' ,;he rephed There ale man) lIke that hut It I'; dIfficult to \\ork "'ulle",,,fnlh 111that \va} \ 1\ oman ahout tu take up the profes"lon of decorat- 1l1~ and furl11shmg should learn all "he can ahont It to begll1 1\ lth, then .,he IS not handIcapped at the "tart, but begll1<; her career \\ lth the feelmg' that she knows "ometh111g about \\ hat "he undel LIke ... ancl It make" her feel more ass11red "She \\ Cluld take a qtJ(lto dccordl11g to her mean" In ,I good locdhty It need not be large at first, that come" a., her bu"me"" mcredSfS, but .,he "hould be "ure that It ha'> g'Clod hght, tor It makes a v a"t dlfference 111shO\\ mg matenal., 'Ha\ e the \\alls papered With a nch maroon, or waln 011\ e, prefe1 ahl) on the } e11O\\ ca"t, for It lIght,; up better Don't ha\ e glanng figures, a plam grounJ or <;elf-toned "l11all pattern I" best for It IS unob"trusn e 1hen a l:;oocl plam fillmg or carpet to tone WIth the walls 01 rug" strewn ahout 0\ fl the fil1Jng IS clecoratn e, prm Ided the1 e h nJ c1d",h \\ 1th the VI alls 'Get some lOll" of papel from twenty cente, up ]]ave () Ie and a half} ards ,;ample" of plam and decorative matellal", lInen taffetas and cretonne." as It I" well to havf dIfferent ..?,lades 1he books of plam v clam s, velvet, ar111UJes, etc, am upholsten hou ,e \\ J11 supply [f she cannot affor,l to hll} some well madf, pretty and arthtlc pIeces of furl1lture she can get same, but not antiques, on memorandum from fur11lture hou::,es Then too "he can hln odd pIece ... at some of the good auctIOn sales On the \vall", hang quamt mIrrors old prmt", water color", engrav-mg'-' and some of hel own sketche<; If she has them, but bv dll mean,; .,he should make her studIO 'ohm\ the ta",te and .. 4 _ WEEKLY ARTISAN ~----~ II,II I I II ,, ,,,,, , I,IIII , I f ••• ,, ! Lentz Table Co. ,,, •• ~----------------------------------------------- .--------------_._-----_.----------- _. ---------------_._-----~~---- Lentz Big Six No. 694, 48 in. lop. No. 687, 60 III lop. Others 54 In. lop. 8 Foot Duosty/es ANY FINISH CHICAGO DELIVERIES NASHVILLE. MICHIGAlIt .._._--_ ....----------~ III I IIII III II• I ••• ••• •I II IIIIIt - - - .- ._~ meh \ lclualIt} of the owner, for that stnkes the cu"tomer' '" eve "\Vhen ready for busmess let her send out cal ds to all her friend'i announcll1g the fact, and If "he can, ha\ e a ve,y Il1formal afternoon tea That will bring them to see the place Then they wIll 'ipeak of It to others--and her first clIent call" '\\Tlth the knowledge "he has gamed she l'i able to talk to her cu~tomer knowmgh, but she must never allow the latter to thll1k that she knows mOle than the decolator She I11U"t be COI1\mC1ng 111 all she say" and does "Often "he cannot have her own way m the loom or hou"e under dlscu'islOn In that ca'ie she "hould not argue, but "hould gl\ e m and lIsten to her clIent's ideas, then Wlttl tact "ork around to her own ",chemes if the} are ~ood th1 ou~h the sugge'itlOn" gl\ en, and the chance::, are that the cu"tomer "Ill adopt the decorat01's wa} m the end, whtle thlllkl11g It hel o"n, but the decorator must use tact, tact, tact 'The decOlatOl mu"t study rale combmatlon", learn popu- Idr and effective decorative medlUI11'i and have a strong color 'iense, and she mtbt put earne"t con~lcleratlOn m e\ el} th1l1g pertall1mg to her order, be It large or small, and alway~ I e-l11ember that a satIsfied CU'itomer b hel best adverttsement " 13 They Trace Second Closs Motter_ The postoffice authontles of Gla",gow, Scotland, are re-ported to have adopted a method of tracmg lost second or third cla"s mall matter that may be of advdntage to tho"e who mail catalogues, pllce lI'its clrcular'i, etc In thIS coun-try and mO'it others when a pIece of second class matter 10'ie., ItS wrapper It l'i u'iually thrown away lIttle or no attempt bemg made to JelIver It at the destmatlOn intended \t Gla"gow, whenever there IS receIved at the postoffice a wrapper or envelope WIthout contents It IS stamped "Found at Gla.,gow \"/Ithout Contents" and delivered to the proper adelIe'i", together WIth a form which the addressee IS re-quested to fill up, and gl\ e as nearly as possible the mf01- matlOn desired and forward It to the "Returned Letter Office," whereupon search WIll be made f01 the missing contents QUIte a large amount of 'iecond-cla'i~ mail matter goes to Glasgow from Amenca, a'i well as dthel countries, and un-le" s the wrapper'i or envelopes are of strong durable paper they are lIkely to be torn or broken open as a result of the handlmg necessary It would be well If all exporter" send- IlIg out CIrcular letters, or publI'iher" forwardmg any kmd If plmted matter m wrappers. vvould "ee to It that such \\ rappers 01 envelopes are sufficiently hea\ y to re'ilst the "tram of bell1g han,lled and dlstnbuted many tImes SEND FOR CATALOGUE. _ as 14 WEEKLY ARTISAN SINGLE CONE ALL STEEL SPRINGS Are very popular with the Furniture Trade. $2~ E.ach Net $2~ E.ach Net No. 46, Single Cone, $2 Each, Net. We manufacture a full line of Single and Double Cane All Wire Springs. SEND US YOUR ORDERS. SMITH &. DAVIS MFG. CO., St. Louis ARKANSAS ADVANTAGES Fort Smith Trying to Become the "Grand Rapids of the Southwest." Forth Smith, Ark, :\Iarch 23~Reflectmg the hea,) ele mand for refrigerators in the western countn the Fort Smith Refrigerator \1Vorks hay e Just completed and eqUlppeel ad dltIOnal factory facIlItIes by the erection of an additIOnal two "tory bUilding 65 x 110 wIth a lean-to 25 x 110 connected with the main bUlldmg by a covered bridgeway I\lso undel one of the big bUildings a cellar was excavated and cement floors laid to further meet the space requirements. The Fort Smith RefrIgeraJtor \\' orks have been runnmg full time and withm the past ten days heavy consHsnments have been made the followmg cItIes Seattle, Spokane. Port land, San FrancIsco, Memphis, Tenn , Little Rock, I\rk , San Antonio, Stamford, Dallas, Tyler, Au~tm, Beaumont and other Texas points, Tulsa, :\;{u"kogee and other Oklahoma pomts The range shown in this marketing mdlcated the countr) which IS controlled m Fort Smith traJe terrItOl y With an authorized capital of $100 000 the T ort Smith RefrIgerator Works is a concern empLn m£; 75 hands and • using about 1,000,000 feet of tImber a ) eal It" as located several years ago by the Fort Smith Commercial League and began its career as a small mstltutlon Year b) ) ear It has grown until now It IS the blgge~t plant of It'3 lond m the west It has, in fact, no competitor Fort Smith IS now the center of the furmture industry of the west In fact It may be said to be the extreme \\ e,tertl point where furniture capital may be succes'ifully emplo) ed Without assuming undue hazards Close to a large and a, all-able timber supply, With cheap coal or natural gas for fuel, sel ved by nme dl'itInct raIlroad" runnmg m all directIOns and reachmg the prIncipal markets m the southwest and western empIre, a large and "teady supply of labor which naturally drIfts to a lalge City, Fort Smith pre'ients unusual induce-ment" to manufactUrIng capital There have been no com-mel clal faIlures m Forth Smith anel every mdustry located here has gro\\ n to assume large proportions in its particular field The \\ arcl Furmture :\1anufacturing company is steadily mcreasing ItS output and extendmg ItS trade territory ThiS company deals only With jobber-; and ships only in car lots It is now shlppmg regularly to Denver and Will push steadily to the \\e~tward, m fact, James A \VarJ, Sr, the preSident of the company, IS now arrangmg for a trIp to the PaCific coast cItIes to establIsh trade relatIOns The success of this com pan) may be best understood when It is stated that the hmmc:-,s dr)11e In 1909 \\ a'i 30 per cent greater than the pre- 'IOUS ) ear" ))Ll'iInCS'i and It l'i the intentIOn of the Wards to make thiS ) ear's busmess an equally large mcrease over la~t Thr:-, company IS Just making its first shipments of clre'i'iers With the mirror lowerIng attachment, mvented by Ja'i 1\ \Yard, Jr, secretary and tIeasurer of the company Thl'-, attachment perrntts the adjustment of the mirror to any deSIred height and makes It aJaptable for many purposes It IS bemg attached to all dres'ier'i Without extra cost and as it ha~ been ,'\ ell ad\ ertI'ied a gooJ demand ha'i already been \\ ell ach erthed a good demand has already been created The Standald Excel'iIOr company h 'iteachly Increasing ItS output h) the InstallatIOn of additional equipment and IS now makmg an avel age of eight tons of 'ituff daily, havmg grown from one ton at the tIme of the change m management. The bU:-'Ine'ic, l'i :-,teadIly gro\\ mg and the trade terrItory is bemg extended Two additional machmes are Just now being WEEKLY ARTISAN 15 .--., IIIII Zinc-Lined, Porcelain Lined, White Enamel Lined and OPAL-GLASS Lined. Write for our beautiful illustrated catalogue and prices. The Alaska Refrigerator Company ExclusIve Refrigerator Manufacturers Muskegon, Michigan ~.N_ew -Yo-rk-O-ffI-ce-, 3-69-B-roa-dw-a-y,_L. .E._Mo-on-, M-a-nage-r ---------- m"talled and four more men wIll be put to work by the first of Apnl The MItchell & Mitchell Manufacturing com pan} , mak-ers of metal bed spnngs exclu"lvely, are enJoymg a steadIly mcreasmg bu"mess and wIll soon begm to enlarge theIr build-mg as addltlOnal machines are to be mstalled. The plant is runnmg to its full capaCIty and readIly dIsposing of Its entIre output. New Refrigerator Trap. There is great need of a better trap for refrigerators than has heretofore been m eXIstence The obJectlOns to the traps, placed on the bottom outslJe of the refngerator are many, \12 First They are supposed to be an extension of the waste pIpe, but If the VI aste pIpe does not happen to reach down mto the bowl, there h no sedl anJ consequently no trap, SectIOnal View. The Trap III Place InSide the Refrigerator Second They hold mOlstm e against the bottom of the refngerator every tIme they clog up, causmg the refngerator to mould and rot. ThIrd They were frequently broken m transportation, Fourth They were hable to get lost off and nobody knew anythmg about It, VI astmg the ice FIfth They were mcom e111ent to get dt and conse-quently hard to clean All the'3e ohJectlOn" are 0\ ercome m the new one piece Leonard trap shown abm e, made of sohd cast aiumlllum and offered as an addltlOnal attractIOn to the purchasers of the Leonard Cleanahle Porcelam-hned Refrigerators made by the Grand RapIds Refngerator company, Grand Rapids, 1\11ch Chicago Factory Additions. Chicago. March 24-J D Fleese & Sons company, 2509 H orner street, ChIcago, WIll commence the latter part of thIS month to erect an add1tlOnai two story and hasement hul1d-mg 75 x 124 feet, whIch WIll be bUIlt on the cornel of Homer street and Campbell a\ enue adJommg the present factOly They WIll put in a foundatlOn for a four story bmldmg so as to be prepared for enlargmg theu plant \\ henever It may be reqUIred The B reeses' are the only manufacturer" m Chi-cago makmg a low pnced hne of ch1ff0111ers and dressers H C Klemann & company are now occupymg the two floors they recently added to theIr mam bmldmg at the cornel of Rockwell street and Bloommgdale road They re-cently purchased add1tlOnai ground aJjo1111l1g theIr factory on WhICh It IS proposed to huIld as soon as they find then present quarters msufficlent for then 1eqmrements, which they have reason to beheve VI ill be m the near future. The Pullman Couch company have almost completed the add1tlOn to theIr factory on \;\T est Km71e street and Ash-land avenue, and are now occupymg offices m the new quarter" The space IS double that of the old bmlding and when com-pleted \\ 111 greatly fac1htate theIr out.put They are now mal1mg out a new catalogue -----------~ r· .•• . •.•. ,III THE FORD & JOHNSON CO. CHICAGO This is one of our popular Hotel chairs. Our chairs are found in all the leading Hotels in the country. The line includes a very complete assort-ment of chairs, rock-ers and settees of all grades; Dining Room furniture, Reed and Rat tan furniture, Special Order furni-ture, etc. A complete hne of sam-ple. are displayed In The Ford 8 Johnson Bnildml!, 1433-37 Wabash Ave., in-dudml! a spemal d,splay of Hotel Furniture. All furmture dealers are cordtally invited to visit our building. I,~_. __._._.----- _- _..•...... ,I• . ... WEEKLY ARTISAN "UBL-ISHED EV~RY SATURDAY BY THE MICHIGAN ARTISAN COMPANY SUBSCRII"TION $1 00 I"ER YEAR ANYWHERE IN THE UNITEO STATES OTHER COUNTRIES $2 00 PER YEAR. SINGLE COPIES SCENTS. PUBLICATION OFFICE, 108-112 NORTH DIVISION ST, GRAND RAP OS, MICH A. S WHITE, MANAGING EOITOR Ffltered as second clalOs maUer, July 5, 1909, at the post office at Grand Rapids Mlchlg..iIl under the act of March 3 1879 CHICAGO REPRESENTATIVE E LEVY B) 1eadIng the artIcle heatled "Flfe Los"cs and} Ire Pro-tectIon,' 111thl" numher of the \\ eekh \1 tban many me11 "'111 be surpn~ec1 to learn that 111the mattcl'i of m"pectlOn and preventlOn, the "J e\\ York hI c deral tment 1'0 much le~" effiClent than those of mU'it \\ e'otel n c!tle~ 1\ e\\ YOlk l'i ~enerally "upposed to hay c the mo"t effiuent fire depal t ment In the world, but the artIcle referred to "hems that ",hIle the department may be ven efficIent 111fi~htln~ fil e~ It is 'iurpnsmgly weak 111the matte I of prey entlOn, e\ en m- "pectlon beIng neglected If the \ anou'i bUI eau'i \\ ere effec-tn e-If they would do \\ hat the) arc L "pected to do-the cIty would be \Vell 11Igh fire proof but It appears the mel-chant'> have dl'icovered they ale 111efficlent If not entlleh uselcs'i, therefole they urge reorga11l7atlOn and con"ohdatlOn There IS a lot of common "en'ie a" \\ ell a'i ",me startlmg o,tatements 111the artIcle and the Iecommendatlon" made b\ the ;\Ierchants' a",'iOClatlOn 'ihould 11e cal efull) con'ilClcre 1 and adopted b) man) Amencan cltle" [he old adage abOll1 an ounce of preventlOn and pound of cure 10, applIcahle to file a'i \\ell a'i to dlsea"e or dl"astel The plO'ipects for the ajoptlOn o± the ~enelal mcome taA dmcndment to the constltutlOn b) thl ee fOUlth'i of the state~ are not "0 hrIght as they \\ ere a few month'o ago c:.e\ el al state'i mclud111g IllInOIS have adopted It, hut the le~I"lature of Kentucky, one of the states that ha" been counted a'o 'iUIe of fay orable actlOn has refu'ied to adopt It-It \\a~ defedted 111 the Kentuck) 'ienate b) a \ ote of 17 to 17 Thc \ ote \\ a" not "qual el) on the amendment hut on a m ltlOll to take It up uut of the legular order that lequllecl a ty\O thIrd" \ ote 1 he countl \ l'i not lIkely to 'iuffer from dela, ed actlOn to the amendment It may be bettel to \valt untIl the cm pm-dtJon 111come ta'C has been trIed out If that \\ 01 k'i ~atl" factm II; there \\ 111be le,,'i ohJectlOn to thc genel al InUJ111 ta'C pr 0p0'31tlOn Advlce,; from Plthburg Inchcate that I allroad manage!" are expectIng a larg e 111Crca'ie 111the present v oll1me of bu ", nes,; In the nedr future Dunng the past week the Pfnn", r \ ania l111es ha \ c placed an order wlth the \mcllcan Loco motn e Co, fOl lllnet) locomotIves to cost $1.800,000 \\ l11lc the \ e", York Cent! dl has ordered six and the no~ ton 8c ]'lIame ten Announcement al"o H made that th", C'hcsapeake & Ohio ha'i placed ordel" for 2 000 ~teel cal ~ and that the mana~er" of the Harnman hne" al e SOhClt111g ploposal" fOl 224 locomotn e'i and 8000 01 10,000 fl eIght cars ~ecldalJ of the \a\), 11eyer. I" 111 P')"ltlOn to ad\I'oe peopl e ho\\ to a, Old the 111gh cost of In 111~ He Ild" I eporh on the co,t of 'iuppl)ln~ the nay y \' Ith meat hutter. egg" eh \\ hlch "ho\v that \\ hen beef co"t'i 14 to IG ccnts a pound 111Brookh n, '\ Y It I" hought at Chet 0, l h1l1a at -'1 c~nh fhc nay \ pay " 30 to 34 cent'i pel del/en f()] e~g" it \me can po t" anc! () to 8 cent'> at ChefeJCJ anJ thel e I" a "1l11l1al JdtJO !'] ]Jlke" ±m o±hel PIO\!"IOn, Hence thJ"e \\110 \\I"h ±o h \ e cheaph ~houlc! cmWI dtt to Ch1l1a 101 the gooc! of the mdnufactunng 111tele"h )f thc c un-tn It 1'0to be hoped that I're"lclent I aft w1ll he dble to a\ Old a tanft \\ ar \\ Ith Canada '\n 111Cl ea'oe 'lf 2'i IJel cent In thc (( ,t of lumber Importee! from the Dom1l11On woule! certa111ly be had fOI manufactul el 'i of furl11ture and more 'iO fOI tho'ie 111~0l11e otl1"l hne" 1 url11tl11e men Jo not u"e much Cana chan lumber, hut 1f 1t \\ e1e "hut out pnce'o un the elomestle PIOe!Uct \\ ould "UIelv he ach anced FlIlll1tlll e clealel ", no matter \\ here located, who are bothel ed h) mad ordel com petJtlOn wdl find 'iomething of 1I1tele"t to them 111the IJ111ne"ota department of thl" num her of the \\ eekh \1 tIsan If they WIll keep a copy on hane! and 1I1duce those of theIr customers who are 111c1111edto patronl/e mad order hou"e'i to read It, they WIll ha \ e httle I eason to fear mad order competitlOn '\ otJh1l1g doe,; more than ad\ eriI~mg to mcrea,e the \ aille of the good \v 111'111an) bU'i111e,;S Thel efore advertJ'i- ]n~ mu"t he consldereJ an 111ve~tment rather than a mere ltcm of eApen'ie It is a pnmary element a most Important clement 111 the make up of neall) all bU'i111eSS 111st1tutions :t\0\\ that "Cannon and Cannom,;m' ha'i been "do", ned" It I" to he hoped that LOJ1~re,o, '" III do someth111g and ad-journ '\n earl) adJ'111n111ent \\ ould be of more benefit to the bu S111es~mtere')h of the c0l111tn than an) thmg that i'i hkeh to be done b, the cun ent congre",s The man \\ ho makes $10 a day and spenJs $950 may not he -,0 \\I'ie a'i he \\ho make,; $3 and ,;a\ es half of It, but he enJoy" hfe to a gTeater extent and he lS of much more bene-fit to the to\\ n 01 commu111ty in whIch he In es It I" generally conceJed that ~Ia'i" wldO\\ 'i kno\\ enou~h to 'make hay \\hde the 'iun 'ih111e" , In that re"pect they ma\ be ,\I')er than "ome hU"111e,," men who ale constantly neglect111~ golden opportullltle'i Hecall::,e thel e\ no fool ICJ\\ that all fool'i are a~ed \\ 110 dl e Cjlllte \ outhful I1ke an old fool It ,loe" n ,t fol- Most of us th111k v\ e know some It leCjlllre'i httle mOle hla111" to do bus1l1e"s on a large ~cdle than 111a small \va, but It leCjlllres con'lderable more CnelZ\ and courage Il C\\ al e of the dch el th111~ managel 01 ag ency that pre-lcnd" 10 hay e a ' pull' on the neW'ipdpelS, magazmes or trade 10111 nal" rll,lllhlc 111 'imall doses may he a good tomc, but 1t can not he I ecommended a" a bey era~e WEEKLY ARTISAN 17 ---_.-----------------_ . -...., II , III• II I IIII II I I I I,I I,• I ..-------_ ... ----------- --- . - I I II II I II I II I,f I I,,II I II I I,• I I, III I I,,I II, I,IIf , I.~-----------------_._-------------------------_._-----------------------------------------------~ No. 1711 No. 1705-1705 New designs In the Louis XVI Style. WRITE FOR SAMPLES AND PRICES. GRAND RAPIDS BRASS CO. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. or 111eluclIllg the marble mantel dnd look1l1g glas'S, 8,000 francs It lS shown that the purpose of the ImportatJOn was that these ~everal parts were dehberately purchased abroad by ~he ultlmate consignee wlth a ,lew to ha\ mg them placed III as nearly the ong1l1al form and st} Ie as posslble III her own house 111 the Clt} of ~ew York" Elsie de Wolfe"s Old Furnitun·. The board of Ulllted State;;, genelal appralsers at New YOlk refused to re,er"e Collector Loeb's asses~ment of furn-ish111gs fCJ! a room modeled after the style of LotHS XVI, lm-ported b} ~IlSS Elsle ,Ie \\T olfe, the former actres<" who b cle<'cnbed 111the cLhtom house paper" as an '1l1tenor deco-ratO!" The furnishlllgs, which Ml:OS de \\ olfe 111formed Col-lector Loeb and Appraher \N anamaker were mtended fO! her house at 1\0 1S9 \\T est Eigthy elghth street, '\ e\\ York, III elude panels, moldlllg", corlllces and wllldo\\" \1l sect1On'S, marble mantels and mlrrors llltended to be framed bet\\ een panels The appralser III hls repO! t to Collector Loeb stat od "that the artlcles are appalently of consldelable a::;e and are m a more or less dJIapldate,l conchtlOll" The collector cla'3sl-fied the lmpOl tatJOn as "manufacture of wood," and Imposed a tax of 3S pel cent \1l'3S de \\T olfe filed a PlOt est \\ lth the board III WhlCh she tooh eAceptJOn to the collcctOJ \ a~sess-ment, alleglllg that she was entJtled tu a rate of 20 per c(Cnt under the tanff ac;; "\\ ood unmanufactured" ~t the heanng befOl e the board, '"e\ era! \\ltnesses \\ ere heard III behalf of ),11SS de \\ olfe, but thelr testJmon} \\ a" not convlllclllg to General \ppralser "\fcC!elland who preSided It was brought out that the value of tht' fU11l1'3h1l1g, f01 the room were pllrcha~ed m France for $1 ::;44 and wJ11 be set up 111 MISS Je "Volfe's residence In oven u1111g the protest, Genera! :;\I cClelland sald "It h chfficult to appreclate upon whdt theol v the elaJ111 \\a~ ba'3ed, fOl there IS not a scmtJ11a of eVIdence to "up port lt On the contrar}, each ,tatement tends to show that every piece of the \'Vood had been de"lg nedly manufactured for a partIcular u"e, all of the pal h togethel ha\ 111\;been fll! md.ny years in the intellOl of a 100m 111 France after the st\ Ie of Louis XVI, and pUlchased 111 France at a cost of 7,000 flancs Office Furniture Wunted in Italy. '\ report from an Amencan con;;,ul m Italy state, he 1" 1 elJabl} mformec1 tihat the better classes of }.mencan office furl11ture can be ~o!d 111hI" rllst11ct If the quahty and other ach zlltages al e brought to the attentJOn of mtend111S; pur-chasel" To do thIS an office c;;upply house 111that 1 e~1fm "ho111d he glVen the agenc}. and a hne of samples of "uch "ufphe" as are m current demand placed \\ lth thLo al?,el1C} to CAl11blt to tho<,e lntere':>ted \ local firm, dea11l1g lalgely m office furniture and applJance", states It would he glad to handle Amencan make" upon thIS baSIS, an,! requests cat<t-logues pnces, term" and other pert111ent mformatlOn 1 e-gard111::; thls class of good" It b ImpOltant that pnces should he quoted c I f certa111 Clt} so as to enable the firm to make an e"act calculatlOn of the net cost mcludmg duty, at then place of busme"s, and compare such pnces with those )f the German and Hallan manufactul ers whose goods they are at present hanJlmg \mong the numerOLh appliance;;, de;;'lred bv thls firm IS an !ffice phonograph adapted for record- 1112:lette s the record bel'H? placed u!)('n another mach111e after\\ard" by the t, pewnter operator and \\!fltten by hllTI from the same The film statb that It IS 111 a posltlOn to fllrlll"h the best of refel em es as tJ It;;, 1;::spon"lbihty Parties wlshmg to mv e~tJgate :ohould addl es~ the Bureau of Manu-factures', Depaptment of Commerce and LabOl, \Vashing-on, I efernng to file "\0 4686 18 WEEKLY ARTISAN TRUCK TALKS Might not convince you without evidence. But compare a wagon to our truck, note the similarity of construction fea-tures-- No box bearings; nothing to easily break or get ou t of order; extra large center wheels, revolving on taper turned axles; wide treads; special first-class cast-ings. Grand Rapids Trucks are first, last and all the time the safest in construction, and positively the best. No. 15 Catalog Shows Them. Grand Rapids Hand 61B North Front St. CHICAGO REMINISCENCES Recollections of Furniture Men and Factories of Twenty-Five Years Aao. It is sometIme" intere..,tmg to the "riter, If not to the reader, to get mto a remllllscent mood C:\1 II ell remem-bers when he made hIS first tnp to ChIcago to ,bIt the furlll-ture manufacturers for the l\I1chlgan ArtIsan, m the fall of 1882 Chicago ",as a new city to him then, for in the mtel"\ al of fourteen ye3irs since he left there the cIty had bUl ned dawn and been rebmlt At that tIme the E 11 Hulse com pany, now of Columbus, Ohio. had a mattress factOly d W,;11 on Twenty-sIxth <;treet and Stc\' art a,enue and the ",outh CIty hne was at ThlrtY-ll1nth street. That was before the cable roads were bUllt '\s f01 electnc and elevated road.., they were not dreame,l of E \1 Hulse had a down town office, and F ShIpman had a mattre<;s factory near by Frank \Venter, once pI eSldent of the Dral11- age Board, and who came very near bem>:; \fay or of Chlca£;o had a furll1ture factory on Van Buren ~treet, a short dIstance ea..,t of the bndge Schultz & HIrsh were on \Vest Van Buren street between Jefferson and Desplame", ancl If anyone would ha, e tolJ them that in twenty-five years they would have been m the mammoth place they are now OCCUpy111g they would probably have thought him a fit subject for the 111- ::,ane asylum Canal street wa" the great furnitm e "treet 25 yeal.., a~o and Frank Seng wa" bookkeeper for the Sug & Blersd Jf com-pany Frank ?Ieyer, long "ince passed to hIS rest, was one ot the lead111g manufacturel s of chamber fUl111ture on that street, and Col "Joe" :\1urray was representmg C SIdney Screw Co., Grand Rapids, M.ich. '\ on IS, of Dalt11110re dealers 111 furll1ture supplIes Wll1le the WIIter wa<; walt111g to get a chance to sell Mr. Myer an ad' 111the ::\Ilchlgan '\rthan, Col "Joe" saileJ m, opened up IllS samples, t )ok a bIg order and was gone 111Just no tIme That \\ a~ long before the Colonel thought of making l0 '\ 01th loma "tl eet, Grand RapIds one of the famous places t 1 sho\\ furnIture Stadfelt & \Yo1£ were making d111111gtables on Canal street and Seng & Shoen ( now the Hafner Furll1ture C;) anJ S G \Vl1k111S & Co, (afterwards \"hlkim & Esmay) were on the same street, both in the parlor furniture line The Cold Bla"t Father company has a small factory on ,,\ ("t Lake <;treet and theIr office" and salesrooms were Itr the ba"ement of the Farwell bmld111g on Market street-l thmk that at the tIme the Farrell bUlldmg was the largest hmlding in the city, \1 D Talcott \\ a.., runnmg the '\mencan Furlllture Ga- /ettc and a f111nlture lefelence book Mr De Berard, the edlt01 of the paper "as a power, none more so even at this cla, ::\latusky, Cral£; & Co, Olbrcik & Goldbeck, and Obel-heck Bras, the latter now at Grand RapIds, \Vis, and many other.., \\ ere on Canal street, wh1le BIlly Glffert and R E Pohle \\ ere on Clmton stl eet, the next "treet vvest of Canal "Jm1my" Pugh \\ho WIth "Joe" Myer, and C G \iVhite, started the fur111tm e e"hlbltlOn bulldlllg at 1319 MIchigan al enue, 1\ a.., unknown III ChIcago, but a few years later" el1t there a" a "\all11"h ,',ale~man for a Cinclllnati house, if my memon sel"\ es me lIght That was before Robert P Lyon opened up hIS fur111ture agency in Chicago, but I think it II a s ill e following year he opened up, with offices III the P ort- Ianc1 hloch un the corner of \Vashlllgton and Dearborn <;treet He dId not succeed very well until he sent Charles Sherre from Cmcmnati to take charge, "Charles" was a WEEKLY ARTISAN 19 big fat, jolly, whole-souled German who made fnends with e, erybody and soon he was a sharp competItor of 1\1 D Ta1cot, and they made thmg" lIvely Watts De Gol} er had a varnish factory at the foot of IllmOls street, on the north sIde, and De Golyer's rock fimsh wa" one of the mo')t famou" of the furmture fimshes of that day Mr De Golyer has a great trade in Grand RapIds at that time, and owned con"lderable stock m at least one of the lcadmg furmture compames of that cIty John E Turne} was then one of the chief c;alesmen, and many of the reader') of thIs wIll remember hIm He went up to Sheboygan, VVIS, and made a deal WIth some of the bIg chaIr factones there that set the whole furnIture vvorId to talking Sky scraper" were unknown m ChIcago at that time, and when the Pullman bUlldmg was erected at the cornel of Adam" street and l\Ilchlgan avenue, It was looked upon as a vvonder The wnter dlstmctly remembers meetmg a gentle-man from New York and takmg him to c;ee the Pullman bUlld-mg He looked up at It for c;ome tune, and all he saId vvas that it reminded hIm of the MIll" bUlldmg in N ew York The Grand PacIfic and the Palmer Hou')e were the tv\ 0 great hotels at that time, and the old Sherman and the Tremont V\ el e the next m ImpOl tance Lyon & Healy's musIc ~tOIe was m the old Crawford House. That was a long time before the Great .:-\orthern and the Audltorltlm were built. Twenty-five years ago there were two furniture papers in the west, the lV11chigan Artisan and the American Furm-ture Gazette, and two m the east, the Amencan Cabinet Maker and Uphobterer m Boston and the Trade BUleau m New York VV E Holbrook, who had his first experience in journalism on the l\1Jchlgan Artl'ian, went to Cmcmnati and started the Furniture \Vorker, and later \\ E Osgood, long a representative of the American Cabmet :\laker, went to St LoUl') and started the St Louis FurnIture New'i Later J Kewton ~ind started the MmneajYllIs FurnIture K ews, and still later there was the Rockford FurnIture Journal establIshed, both of whIch were merged mto the Furniture Journal of Chicago It would be a sad task to recall many of the furnIture men who have gone over the Great Divide It would make a long lIst, and would mclude many of the bnghtest and mo"t enterprismg men m furmture circles m Chicago, Rockford, Grand Rapids, Cmcmnatl, DetrOIt, Owosso, Toledo and many other CIties But when one falls out of the ranks another steps mto hIs place, and so wIll they contmue to do as long as CIvilIzation lasts and men and women want furmture for theIr homes C 1\1 Low Priced Cabinet Bench. The Globe VIse and Truck company, Grand Rapid~, are placing a low priced cabmet bench on the market that IS claimed to be the be,:,t ever offered the trade for the money ThIs bench I" thoroughly made of best matenals has two VIses, and WIll commend Itself to anyone Wdnt1l1g a low-pnceJ bench Thl') company IS able to shIp these benches on receIpt of order They also manufacture a large vanety of benches and truck:'>, and It WIll pay every manufacturer to get in touch with them I t's the way a man "tick" to a thing that marks hun as a succes~ or a faIlure :\Iany a fellow has won out at the eleventh hour, just because he wouldn't let go Don't be a qUItter Keep hItting the hne hard and result" are bound to come ~,-------------------------------------------~ I IIIIII , •Io ,, •I I, •I III ,II II , I II I "ELI" BEDS ARE BREAD AND TIlE FOLDING PROfIT WINNERS No Stock complete wlthout the Elt Beds xn Mantel and Upnght ELI D. MILLER &, CO. I.._- _._-_. EVANSVILLE. INDIANA Wnte for cuts and pnces I4 ON SALE IN FURNITURE EXCHANCE, EVANSVILLE. • 0U :c (J 'Of) i ..r.:.: r..:. ~ s,.. 0cc:: E-c ~ III U Q • ~ ai rf) ;. ::s <t 0 " l() ~ r:: II e l() 0 ~ ~"' ~C') Z • 0 s.. .~.. Q,) 0 .... .. $.c e .II.I. ~ ~ ,.... ... P-"4' .--------------------------- 20 WEEKLY ARTISAN ~-----------------_._-------_. _. _. .. . j I,, ,,,,,I ,I I• I •I II I!I ,I,, II III ..------------------------------ ------ --- ------- -_._- ----=- Jl.J.-=-- Veneer Pre.ses, different kinds and .izes (Patented) Veneer Presses Glup Spreaders Glue Heaters Trucks, Etc" Etc. These Specialties are used all Over the World Power Feed Glue Spreading Machine, 5mgle. Double and CombInatlon. (Patented) (Sizes 12 In to 84 In wIde.) Buildings That Will Need Furniture. Residences-I f· '> l1elen Ddl. \coma street and Fltth a, enue, Dem er Col, $8 000, Caroll11e L Coffee Dunke1d p1dce ancl Ro,~ court, Dem el, $4,000, F ~f \dam' 612 Rugb) road SchenectdCI}, '\ Y, $12,000 H \ Ifottlel Cle, eland a, enue and Twenty-fifth 'itreet, Ten e Haute Inc1 $32S0, Frank R Ha}, 92S South rlfth ,>treet Telle Haute. $3000 Edwl11 R Yeakle, ]20h South I'lfth -,tJeet Telfe Haute, $4,000, 1\ Llwood Jone'i \I vnnewoocl Phllac1elp111a, Pa. $16,000, G II Tlgar, 322 South Te10n 'it! eet Collll adu Spnng'>, Col $3,000. L l' SmIth, Rn el '>hle a\ enuc and Chern street Jack'>om 111e, ria, $3,000 R \\ Dlcklll'>on 4109 :0TOIth rIft) filst a\Cnue, ChIcago, $9,000 \nna Hen-necke 5624 \Yl11d'i0l avenue ChIcago, $3,000 J o'ieph Habb. 6147 Langley avenue, Chicago $5,900. J 1\ Schlmmen, 1507 Birchwood a\Cnue Chlcago $4,~00 f'd'>on TIll!:;!:;" h,-\'-h South Carolina a, enue, '>outh,\ e,t 1\ a'i11llH;ton, DC, 88- 000, ]\Iargaret ]\IcGee, 33~2 "e\\ark ,tleet, CleHlancl park \\ a'ihl11gton, $11,000. Thoma'i \ \Im'itron~, \\ e'ile\ a, e-nue and Twelfth street, Ocean Clh " T 87.000 \mellcn, R Underdown, \\ e'iley a, enue and I'ourteenth 'itl eet, Ocean Grm e, (bungalow) $6,000 \Vllham E IIassey, II e'iln a, e-nue and Tenth 'itl eet, Ocean GIO\ e, $8,000, :\II'i Ehnbeth Buckley, vVe'ile} a\ enue and SIxteenth 'itreet, Ocean GI 0\ e, $7,000, MIS" Mary Shore, Centl al avenue, ,\T esle\ avenue and rlfteenth "treet, Ocean Grm e, $~,OOO J S II1l1dman I'ourth a\ enue and Libert} park, Spokane, II a'ih S~ SOO, Edward J O'Shea, Sharp a, enue and Dakota -,treet Spokane $3,000, DI J B Long, Vermont and \IT est streets Indlan-apohs, Ind, $4,000, John K Byran, 2827 ~Ol th Penm} 1- vallla 'itreet, Indianapohs, $3,500, E l' Duck IIld1l!~an and RItter 'itreet~, Indlanapoh'i. $4.500, J C IIack'> 218 \\ a'ih ll1gton street, ~tlanta, Ga, $5,000 H C Hlgbee, 1971 (0\\ den avenue, II emphl'i, Tenn ,$4,000 R H \ ance. neh <.tlere boulevard and Harbert a\ enue IIemphl'i ~12 000 Ifl.., Ella N :\Jatthew", 333 Korth \\ 11lett street, IIemphls, $4,400 '- D Remley, 3117 Central 'itreet, Kan'ia:" CIty, ]\10, $3,OvJ I' E Reed 3126 Harn'ion 'itreet, Kan'ia'i Clt\ $6,000 \\ 11- ham f' Bal r \\ oodward a, enue and SmIth 'itl eet, DetroIt, IItch $4800 Robert G Hlll, Dal7elle and lourteenth 'itrects DetrOIt, $3,500 l,eorge Condo, GratIOt a, enUe dnd S) Iv ester street, DetrOIt, $4,000, \V dham lIalcl\\ Doule\ al d and \Iack 'itreet, DetrOIt, $12.000, Han let Kl!1kald, 10200 Gal field d\ e-nue, Cle, eland () $3, SOO, H J Dlllmghur"t, 8016 :\f edma a\ enne, Cle\ eland, $3,000, J \ ogel, 10105 Parkgate avenue ._--------._----_.-, I I H..nd Feed Gluelng Machine (P..t.nt pendIn8) Many styles and sizes. Wood·Working Machinery and Supplies LET US KNOW YOUR WANTS No 20 Glue Heater. CHiS, E. FRANCIS COMPANY, Main Office and Works, Rushville, Indl No.6 Glue Heater. -~~-,------~~----~~._._-------~ C Ie \ eland $4,000 ( T Ohl en,>tell1, 198 \ckerman avenue, '-" la, u-,e," \ , $~ 800 III~ J \\ emhelmer, 348 Oak street, ~, I a, n ~e S3 ~OO l R TIr,)\\ n, 248 Leon street, Syracuse, So ~Oo Cathellne L Dlack'itone, 607 Orange 'itreet, Syracu'ie, 9),000 llank K11ch, I'ranklm and ThIrteenth street", Dem er, (01 $18,000, J C \'mel g, Franklll1 a\ enue near FIfth 'itl eel Dem el, S3 000, ] aLoh :\1 Sche11ner, Alameda and Emer"on ~t!eet'i Demel, $3,~00 \ ~ IIawkm.." EIghth avenue and ] "ent, -tourth ,treet, DIl mll1gham, Ala, $3,000, Harlod Rob-lIhOn, 731'l flr'it a, enue, Dlrml11gham, $3,000,] B Albertson, )().2~ Troo'>t "treet Kansas CIty, \10, $S,OOO, F E Reeel, 3~26 HaJrI'>on ,tJeet, Kan'ia,> CIty, $6,000, 1\ H MItchell, Beechmont and Illtchell a\ enue'i, Cmcll1natl, 0, $7,000, U L IIonce Montieth a, enue and ZeIgler "treet, ClI1cmnati, $7,- SOO, F '\ \ilT leland, 4224 Ar'ienal :"tI eet, St Loul'i, \10, $4000, C F Starck 4001 Bota11lcal a\ enue, St LoUl'i. $10, ROO \ \f n Heal n, 42.21 Carter aHnue, St LoUls, $4,000, R ( l'ld!:;e l\U1 t "treet and Tv. entv-elghth avenue, Omaha, "eb $S,OOO. \ E S" amen, 3325 Seward street, Omaha, S) 200, Ida -\ 1101 n'i, South HIgh and IV elch street'i, Colum-bu'i, n, $4,400, v\ ~ Lll1coln, Kossuth and ~l11th street'i, Columblh, $3,000, Rose Rumar, II d'>on "treet near Madl'io 1 a, enue, Columhu'>. $8,000, L P Allbnght, 307 \Vest Srxth a, enue, Columbu'i, $4, 'l00, Joseph Schhtz, 262 J\Idler avenue, Colul11bu'i, $3,000, Ro~s Clal ke, 59 Frambe" a\ enue, Colum-bu'i, $3,000, Florence D Braden, 2003 Pll1kne} street, Omaha, "eh $4,000. F H Gu1Jck, 2856 Spanldl11g a, enue, Omaha $3000, J B LouA 1427 South Topeka avenue, \\ Ichlta, Kau . $3000 Jame'i l' Talt, 2315 RhllSe a\ enue, E\ anston. Ill. $4200 H S Shedd. 1618 ~\shland avenue, Evanston. $7,00:), T \\ Fnll1 S30 ]ud"on avenue, LHmton, $3,000,J F Tdl-mdn 1328 ColOlado a\ enue Colorado Spnng", Col, $6,000 If I'> Kathellne Cragm, 171 S \Vood .1, enue, Colorado Spnngs, $3,000, George L Bm;ardlh, 1188 Batle) street Buffalo '\ \ $3,000. II a, Jane Dye, 1991 Seneca 'itreet, Buffalo. $3,000 1 If Bndge'i, 411 GIant street, i\tlanta, Ga, $4,500, C F l nhol/, 106 Beard :"treet, Buffalo, X Y, $7,000, \\ S Ber- !:;en Oak anJ Kl11~ 'it!eeb, Jack'iomllle, }la, $3,800; John J '--herman C:;lhel and Se, enth 'itreets, ]ack'>onvtlle, $3. SOO n I L11I~ Tenth and Pendleton 'itreet'i, St ]o'ieph, If a , $3- 800 l' D -\rmbtead ~114 Klmbury place, Spnngfield, ~Io, $12000 \ Ifdtenbelger, 3842 South Ctah 'itreet, Spnngfield, $'l,000 C T II ala\, 4847 :\[affJtt avenue, Spnngfield, $4,100, i\ \ I l'>her. 6121 \\ e'ltml11"ter place, Spll11gfield, $10,000, H \1' Hal111lton, 4441 De'isle a, enue, Springfield, $5,500' WEEKLY ARTISAN 21 John 1 Yeagel, 3518 Cnttenden "tl eet, $8,600, "" 111lam A England, 30') BellefontaIne avenue, Kansas CIty, :\10, $4,000 Elmer Bodlet, 920 ,Vest 1hlrty-fourth street. Kamas CIty, $4,000, ,Valter P SmIth, Maryland court, LOlllSvdle, Ky, $3,000, John SchmIdt, Second avenue and Lapham street l'dllwallkee, V'hs, $5.080, Frank KInes, Pabst avenue and lorty-elghth street, Mdwaukee, $4,500, J II, L\lford, 3112 \ \ est Twelfth street, LIttle Rock, Ark, $3, SOO, R A PIerce. Made by Upham Manufacturmg Co • Marshfield, WIS. Grant and Ninth streets, Denver, Col, $12,000, E J Bo} 1e. Short and Plum streets, ?\ ew Orlean", La, $3,000, ILlS" Eva C Emmerson, 3804 Le"ter street, RIchmond, Va, $4,000, B H Crawford, 208 LOUlsana street, Little Rock, Ark, $12,000, ::VT L Neeley, Franklm and Lakewood avenue, LIma, 0, $4,500 Miscellaneous Buildings-The 1'111 Delta SOCIety h build-ll1g a fraterl11ty hou"e at a cost of $22,000 on the Hllhboro road, Na"hvdle, Tenn H V I'nsble and E B Barstmv wdJ bUlld a $50,000 hotel In San DIego, Cal The CatholIcs \', III erect a church to co"t $30,000 at McGdl, Nev, San Jacmto. Cal IS el ect1l1g a hIgh school bUlld1l1g at a co"t of $40,000 exclu"ive of seatmg and furnIture Los Angeles, Cal, has voted to I""ue $85000 111 bonds for a polytechl11c bUl1dmg on Rockford Chair and Furniture Co. ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS Dinina Room Furniture BUFF£ T::i. CHI \j A CLOSE rs and TABLES Library Furniture Library De.ks. LIbrary Tables, LIbrary Bookcasf's. CombInatIOn Book-cases, Etc Our entire Ime WIll be on exhIbition in July on the thIrd flnor of the Blodgett Building, Grand Rapids, Mich. the HIgh School campus C E \v hltney and local capltalI,',L:, al e to budd a theatre at a co"t of $50,000 or $60,000 111 COd~ IPg-'l, Cal Pmgham, Utah, has accepted plan ....for a new hIgh ~d1001 hl1lLl1l1g that \',111 cost $65,000 The Bapt1sts w1ll bt1lld a $25,000 church at "i[onrov1a, Cal \\' J Godley 1" bt1lldmg a theatre 111 Parten dIe, Cal , at a co"t of $35,000 Hastt'o 1here 1'0an old sav mg that' ha"tc makes wa"te,' and as a general pnposltlOn It IS tlue StIll there IS another vvay of lookmg at It In Ch1l1a they do th111gs a,', they dId foUl thousand veal., dgO, and ChIna b probably the m'l"t bach-- ward country 111 the world In Englancl the] e are many melchants that hdve the same ~tore" that the r f;reat grand father" hacl, and are content to "ell the "ame l111C at goods, and It they sell as much, they are "absfied In the "l'l1lteJ State" evelY bU"1I1es" man wants to do marc than hI" fathel dId and do It better Ha"te 1~ only anothe name for succe"" The man who 1S 111a rut and does not trv to get out, "oon finds h1111"e1fdIstanced by hIS competltOJ" and v"ll1 soon be out of bU"111ess altogether 1'hl" naturdll) leads up to the drY111g of lumber \ fe'A day" ago the wnter \Va" talk111Q WIth the managel of one of the ledd111g charnbel furmturc factones of ~fJlhlgan TIe saId that hls (hy111g capacIty "a" not up to his needs, that he needed the present kIlns fOJ storage and that he was gomg to buJ!d nevv and ldrger kIln, He IS a successful bll ..1..11e.,s man, and \\111 not he beh111d h1" compebtors It IS an 111terestmg fact that the Cl and RaplCj,', Veneer II ark" new process kIlns are so much supenor to all other proce"ses than then dry kIln department h ru"hed dll the tnne 111 gettmg out clehI1ed draw111g" an,l puttlllg up the kIln" \\ atch theIr ad" from week to "eek 111 the ,\ eckly ArtIsan and see what many of the leadmg manufac-ttHer" say about theIr porce"s of dry111l?;lumber Show me a tra v el111g man Who I" a belIever m acl" ertlS-mg and who keep~ m touch WIth the work of trade papers, and I WIll ..h..ow yOU a succes"ful ,',ale"man, IS the way a WIde a \V a~e 'Ae,',tel n man puts 1t 50m e travelers are more pro- ~I esslve than the men who are over them-over them 111 every-thInk but hrall1s and abl1Jty ~n'l that's no "yndlcate Joke, eIther The busll1e"s of a promoter 1" to pert:>uade your money ll1to hIS pocket r---- - 22 WEEKLY ARTISAN .-- .---- _ •• - - -------- ~ 4 _ MUSKEGON, MICH. MOON DESK COMPANY DESKS OF MERIT --------- .... _.- .--------~ ~-----------~~--_. ---_. ----------- FURNITURE AND PAINTINGS Famous Pieces and Collections in the New Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, March 22--\t the :\1etlOpolItan I[u~eum at Art a new W111gdedIcated to the decorat1\ e al t" \\ as openeJ wIth a receptlOn on March 17 The nevv vv111gh at the north end of the mu"eum and parallel to the FIfth avenue extensIOn I t IS of the RenaIssance sty Ie of arc111tectUl e and v\ as de-sIgned by the firm of 11cKlm, :\1ead & \\ hIte It \\as planned when It became known that J PeIrpont ,Iorgan vva" to en-rich the museum wIth the famous Hentschel collectlOn of French decorati\ e art of the MIddle Ages and the eIghteenth century The collectlOn has been installed in the new w111g, whIch 1s devoted exclu ,1\ el} to the decorat1\ e arts The ma111 or centIal hall of the new \V1l1g h dev oted to European sculpture f1am the h\ eHth to the seventtenth cen tury Here 111the maUl gallery al e many I111pO! tant e"a111plc-., of French medIaeval sculpture, ItalIan RenaI""ance, Spcwbh and Netherland and Gelman sculptUl es One of the notable pieces Ul tIllS hall IS a Spal1l"h altaI pIece oi the fifteenth century ThIS altar pIece occupies a conspILlOlh place on the east slJe of the ma111 hall It \Vas pIll chased III Pans, but formerly was in a cathedl al III the land of Spain At the n01 th end of the hall an ItalIan tabel nac1e has been erected ThIS tabernacle of the t\\ elfth century was originally in a church III Rome I was formedy pIll chased, some year" ago, by Stanford \VhIte 111 PallS for the Poor collectIOn, and later 1epUl chased by the mibeum at the Poor sale Other ob] ects in the ma111 hall 1I1clucle t\\ a cases of ItalIan Renaissance bronze" of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, purchases from the Rogers fund, a GothIC \\ mclO\v of the fifteenth century, a gIft from Jacques SelIgman, and a V 11g1l1 and ChIld in terra cotta, by Andna VeIrOCChIO, \\ hIch IS said to be a rare example The decoratlOl1S of the halls are in keep1l1g with the general plan of rearrang ement On the \\ all '-,to the lIght are hung a senes of FlemIsh tapestnes of the seventeenth cen-tury, whIle the \\alls on the left side of the hall arc dec01ated WIth a number of the Barbenl1l tapestnes of the "eventeenth century. At the north end of the hall, whIch 111 alrangement re-sembles the nave of a chul'ch, are hung three French tapestnes of the fifteenth century, wlllch were purchased by the late WIllIam M. Laffan for the museum .. The eleven gaIleIIes on the fir"t floor of the new V\ ing Inclnde the GotlllC blne room of the iourteenth and fifteenth centnnes dnd the CothIc room WIth the BIron monument In the GothIC blue rc 0111 are hung the Burgundian tapestnes g1\ en by ,Ir :\Iorgan Then there are rooms devoted to the decoratIve arts ot the German and French sIxteenth century, the French RenaIssance of the sIxteenth century, the Baroque penod of the seveneenth century, WIth examples from Netherland, Ger-man} and England, the penod of Louis XIV (French) and the French regency of Lams XV WIth a French salon A teatme of the 100m devoted to the German, French and rle111bh al ts of the sIxteenth century (RenaIssance) is the cIecorat1\ e FlemI"h Mazar1l1 tapestry, a loan from J -------_.---- ------- _.._-----_._----- ---.--P-ier-~ - ..., Here is a Rocker That's a seller. Write for the price. GBO. SPRATT 8 CO. SHEBOYGAN. WIS. ~----.-._..-._---.-..No. 592. .I. ..._--_ ...-.- WEEKLY ARTISAN pont Morgan and brought over from his London collection for the museum At the extreme north end of the nevv wing on the first floOl IS a SWlS'l loom from Zurich, furnished vvlth a curious SWlS'l stm e, wood carvmgs and furnIture, mcluJmg chaIrs and table:::" chesh, spmnmg wheels and e\ en a cradle. The stalrca..,e leadmg to the 'lecond flo)r IS ornamented WIth ItalIan furnIture from the se\ enteenth and eIghteenth centunes The second floor contam'l fourteen gallenes in-cludmg three rooms of the LOUIS XV penod and two rooms of the tIme of Louis XVI, one of these conta1l1mg a 111lnIature theatre, 'laId to ha\ e been buIlt by LoUIS XVI In the south corndor are se\ eral ca'les WIth vaned collectIOns of fans of the eIghteenth century. On the west sIde of the second floor are two rooms con-iammg examples of Jacobean, Queen Anne and English Chip-pendale fur111ture of the eIghteenth century and four rooms 23 The Whistlen loaneJ from the Freer collection in \Vash-ington mclude' "The Golden Screen", the nocturne, "V'tl-paralso;" the nocturne, "Blue and SIlver ," a portrait sketch of Whistler, portrait of F R Leyland, "The GIrlS," a whIte 'lymphony, nocturne, "Blue and SlIver, Battersea Beach;" "~nnabel Lee," "The I'lles of Ve111ce," "Venus Astarte," "A Study m Bed," "The Open Fan," "The LIttle Pmk Cap," "Le Raconteur," "LIttle Green Cap" and "The LIttle Faustma," all from the ~ atIOnal Gallery "The LIttle \Vhlte GIrl," lent by Arthur Studd of London, and 'Gray and SIh er; the Thames," lent by Miss Bernic- PhIlIps, are two examples sent from England. In the exhIbItion are also ten pIctures from the collection of Richard A Canfield, includmg "The Ocean," "Symphony m Gray and Green" and "Rosa CorJer," arrangement In black and brown The Lange Lelzem (purple and rose), IS lent by John Made by Palmer Manufacturmg Company, Detrolt, MlCh. with Amencan fur111ture of the se\ enteenth and eight-eenth centunes, showmg foreIgn mfluences In one of the rooms devoted to AmerIcan fur11lture 13 a part of the Bolle'l collectIOn, a gIft to the museum from :\![rs Russell Sage In the nOl th corn,lor of the wmg on thIS floor are specimens of TIffany glass and modern examples of nmeteenth century de-coratIve art. A loan exhIbItion of fOIty-'llX oIl pam tmgs and pastels by J ame.., A J\T cN elll \Vhlstler were be opened at the museum yesterday and wIll contmue there untIl May 31 The exhI-bition was arrang ed with the co-operatIOn of MISS RosalmJ BlrnJe-l'hIlIps of London, executrix of Mr \Vhlstler, and Charles L Freer of DetrOIt, Vi ho has contnbuted a number of Important \v histlers from the Freer collectIOn in the l\atlOnal Gallery, \Vashington, D C. Among the notable V/histlers m the exhIbItIOn are "The l\Iu"Ic Room," harmony in green and ro"e, lent by Frank J Hecker of DetrOIt, "The \iVhlte GIrl," a symphony m whIte, loaned by John H. \A,Thittemore of Naugatuck, Conn, and "The Fallmg Rocket," lent by Mrs Samuel Untermyer of New York. G Johnson of PhIladelphia, and a loan from the Carnegie InstItute IS the portrait of Senor Pablo Sarasarte "The LIttle Rose of Lyme RegIS" and "The Master SmIth of Lyme Regis" are from the BO'lton Museum of Fme Arts The portraIt of Florence Leyland is lent by the Brooklyn Instltute of I\rts and SCIences. Other examples include . "The Blue vYave," lent by Alfred A Pope of Farmmgton, Conn.; "The Japanese Dre"s," lent by Howard Mansfield of N ew York, "L' Andaluslenne," lent by John H. \Vhlttemore, and "The Little Blue Bonnet," lent by Herbert L Pratt of Brooklyn The \Vhlstler exhlbltlOn ha" been arranged in the large galleI) m the new north wmg, where were formerly hung the more Important Dutch pictures m the Hudson-Fulton Mem-anal ExhIbItion A httle vanity keeps a man keyed up to his best, whIle too much renders him obnoxious to his fellows. The nIght-key IS not usually the key to success. 24 WEEKLY ARTISAN FLANDERS OAK As Its name denotes, a repro-duction of the Flanders period, finished In a deep nut brown shade, givmg a soft, velvety dull effect. It IS a wmner with the women NOTE: To facilitate prompt reply address Desk No.3. OUR FUMED OAK FLANDERS AND EARLY ENGLISH STAINS EARLY ENGLISH An aCId stam of proved practlcablhty. Gives a correct, uni-form and permanent color without Ihe use of a fummg chamber. Should be used whether you have a fummg chamber or not Ap-phed 10 the fumed product .t adds tone and nchness, enhancmg its beauty as well as Its commercial value. Manufacturers now usmg It are one vOice m ItS praise Correct m color, durable, practi-cal. Has won the approval of the leadmg furmture men by sheer merit. A sample panel is yours for the askmg. have unmistakably hit the Bull's Eye of public demand. We have proved that our aIm was true. We have again justified our policy of forever fingering the public pulse. Mr. Furniture Manufacturer, are YOU taking advantage of this poiicy? You WILL, If you see sample panels of these beautiful finishes. FUMED OAK ACID STAIN MARIETTA PAINT & COLOR CO., Marietta, Ohio. National Forest Fire Statistics. 1"11 e pIa} ed le'i'i hay oc Il1 the \\ oodland '0 of the '\ at 1011<11 r 01 est Stateo la'it \ ear than It (hd111 1908 cdthough the llU1ll hcr of fire" \va'i ..no g-reater The Department of \gnculture ha'i Just c011lpleted the 'itatlc,tlcs The plOtectl\ e \ alue ut the work ot the depal tment b "hO\\ n 111that al11llJ~t eu:;ht \ pel cent of the fires \\ ere extll1gulohed before a" much a~ h \ e au e" had been dama~ ed le'i'i than one and one-halt aCi e, to the 'iCjuare nllle of '\atlonal 1 ore 'it lanel \\ as burned 0\ er and the amount 'If damage done to the hurneJ 0\ el area a\ el-dged but $126 per acre Durll1g the year 1909 thele \Vere 3,138 files on the foreoh, 1 18fi caused by locomotIVes, 431 by campers, 294 by lJg-htll1g-, 181 by brush burnll1g, 97 by 111cendlanes, 38 by sawmJ1l'i and donkey eng-ll1es, 153 by miscellaneous and 758 b\ unkno\\ n agenCie 0 The area burned over \\ as, 111 round fig-tll e'i, 360, 000 acres, of which about 62,000 wel e pnvate lands 111 natIOnal forests, as agall1st some 400,000 aCi es Il1 1908 Some 170,000,000 board feet of Umber II as consumed, ot which 33,000,000 fet \Vas prl\ ately O\vned, as agmn"t 230,000000 111 the prevIOus year The loss 111 \ alue of timber de.,tro} ed II a" les" than $300,000, of which dose to $50,000 \\ a., prl\ atel} owned The loss of the year before was about $450,000 Damage done to repnoJucton and forage sho\\.., a remarkable decrea'ie, less than $160,000 be1l1g the record fOl 190J anc the great Il1crea"e over 1908 111 that state, namely 573, In . n-over $700,000 that for 1908 The larg-est numbel of fires occlllred 111 Idaho 991 but entirely attnbutable to fires 111 the Coeur d \Iene, which v\ ere ext1l1gtllshed Without matenal damage Locnm tl\ e .,park c, ",ere accountable for 611 of the bla/e'i 111 tIll" fore,t lac,t year fhe explanatIOn of the 111creac,e 111 the tola] for all forests IS to be foun,l 111 thiS Coeur d' \Iene 1l1CleaSe 1 he 1epO! t of the fOl seter for 1909 said of the fire record of F)08 fhat year was one of prolong-ed d1'011ght dunng the "ummer and fall, and of dl"aotrous forest fires throul:;"hout the coun tl} fhe natIOnal forests suffered relatively httle \1J ut 2).2,]9] 000 board feet of timber, or 006 per cent of the stancl IV as destroyed A total of 2,728 fires was reported (}t II hlch 2 089 were small fil e'i confined as a rule to an area of fi\ e acres or less The CO'it of fire fightlllg, exL!u'ilve .)f the "alane" of forest officers, wa" $7328333 ThiS sum, clClded to the proportIOn of the total salane'i of J an~erc, and guards properly chalgedble to patrol and fire fig hUng VI ac, le'ic, than one-twentieth of one pel cent of the \ alue of the timber protected, e<.,tlmated at an a\ erag-e 'itumpage value of ~2 pel thou sand" The Largest Rug. ::,ome tllne ago the firm of R J Smith & Co, furniture Jealeb of Pre<.,C]ue Isle, 1\1e, were authOrized tel furnish a big rug for the \Ia somc hall 111their town The order vva, placed With the Read Carpet company of Bndgeport, Conn It has been completed and has been shipped to Pre'3Cjue Isle It" dllnenslOns are 27 x 27 feet, and the COmpdn} states that It l'i the larg-e'it rug- ever made 111 Bridgeport, be111g too lar£; e to be packell 111the packing- room of the facto!} It II ac, rolled around a four 111ch tImber for "hlpp111g The la l:;"e'it rug-" orc1Jnal1ly made are 14 feet by 15 feet The \\ eH.;ht of lhl~ rug 10 300 pound'i, it'i cost l'i about $500 In de.,ll:;"n It h e"acth copied after the on ental Khlva Bokhara lUg- rL he com pan v ha'i 01 ders for four 'imaller rug-s of the same pdtteln tor the ,ame room 111wInch the large one WIll ])c u"ed The cro\\ 'itlcko c,teaclfa"tly to 111., caws WEEKLY ARTISAN BAD FIRE IN CHICAGO Fish Furniture Building Destroyed With Terri-ble Loss of Life. The SIX story bmldmg owned by L Fish & Co furniture dealers, on the corner of Nineteenth "treet and 'lA/abash avenue, Chicago, was completely destroyed by fire on Friday, March 25, and no less than tweh e of the employe" penshed m the flames Among the dea<l are 1\1 H Mitchell, brother-m- law of 1\1r Fish and l\1} ron Bell, ach ertlsing manager for the firm The property 10"" IS estimated at $150,000 an<l l'i supposed to be well coy ered by insurance L Fish & Co. are one of the olde"t and large"t retail furniture firms m Chicago The home wa" founded by the "emor member of the firm more than thlrt} } ear~ a~o and tlle bU"lne'is ha" grown "teadil} from the start until It redched enormou" proportiOn, California's Grent Lumber Port. San Pedro, a name unknown ea"t of the :\1Is,,\sslpPI. I" today one of the biggest if not the biggest lumher-recelv111g" port of the country. accord111g to the figures of her collector of custom" The gazetteers of eJght years ago assigned less than four l111es of de..,cnpbon to San Pedro It was descnbed as "a hay anJ mlet of the PaCific Ocean. in Californlia, 105 1111le" "outhea"t of Santa Barbara, 33 degre,,", 48 m111ute" north' That was all Today It J'i known as the ocean port for the Immense horticultm al and commercial actiVity thd< center" about Los Angeles San Pedro's cu"tom house figllles "how leceJpb last year of 0\ er 500 milhon board feet of lumber ThIs" as largely redwood, Dougla, fir, and} ellow pme, brought 111by coast \ e""el" from the forests of the northwe'it Accord111g to the Department of Commerce and Labor, New York's coastwise receipts of southern pane, for the year end111g December 25, "ere a little under 490 million feet Chicago recei, cd by water, for the full calendar year 1909, not qlllte 340 million feet of all k111ds of lumber exclUSive of logs. North Tona-wanda, X Y, recen ed over 170 million; Ludi111gton, Mlch, nearly 80 million, Cleveland, about 72 l111llion, and DetrOit, a little 0' er 66 million The arrivals of redwood, pine, and fir, at all the ports of San Francisco bay totaled 900 million feet The lumber arnval" at San Pedro are sugge"tJive of the remarkably rapId development not only of southern California but al'io of the 111land 'iouthwest The fruit grow111g secbon of southern California consumes much lumber, most of whwh l'i cut a full thousand mIles to the north, but Washmgton, Idaho, and Oregon lumber IS also distributed by rail from southern Cabfornia to many 111land p0111ts Despite the cost of the long shIp transit added to the rail freight charges, the competitiOn of lumber shlpper'i who use the all-rail route" from the northwest coast ~tate", or from the east, can be suc-ce'isfully met at "everal of those points by the ocean-and-rail loute ,hlppers The lumber hus111e"" of the matchless forest'i of the north"e"t has been fightmg agamst great odds in the l\riSSI" "Ippl valley an<l eastern mark~ts because of the cost of tran"portatiOn "In the PaCific coast states, which conta111 "0 large a part of the total stand of natIOnal forest bmber," says the forester of the Lmted States Department of Agn-culture. m hiS annual report for 1909," sales are made only when a faJr pnce IS offered and only under restrictions which "afeguard the future welfare of the forest Both these condi-tions tend to restnct sales 111 a regIOn where bmber is at present so abundant and so cheap The opening of the Pana-ma Canal will of citself almost revolutiomze the situation. 2S Luttmg'i which can not no\\ be made m the best \\ a} fOI the welfare of the forest, becau~e only the relatn ely high grade" of timber can be ~old, will then be practicable under much more favorable conditIOns" Mr. Dodds Home From the South. Alexandel Dodds of the Alexander Dodd'i I com pan} , Grand Rapids, has returned home from a two month" tnp m the south He spent most of the bme 111Mobile anJ New Orleans now claims about 400,000 111babltant'i and IS grow111g saloons m that city and It IS very rare to "ee an} one mtoxI-cated The ma111 bus111ess of the city 1~ fOlelgn commerce- Made by World Furmture Co , EvanSVIlle, Ind. recelvmg and shlppmg gooch to all parts of the world New Orlean~ now claims about 400,000 mhabltants and groW111g very rapidly. The south IS prospenng, he says The weather has been very backward but IS now well on towards spnng There are many "aloons 111K ew Orleans but very few 111toxlcated men on the streets, m fact he said that he did not see 111 all hiS travels as many 111toxlcated men as he would see 111 Grand Rapids 111 the same length of bme, although Grand Rapids IS not espeCially known for the number of Its 111ebriate~ Wedding Bells. Carl Gusta, Johnson, pre-'ldent and generdl managel of the Johnson Furniture company of Grand Rapids, ,,,as mal-ned on l\larch 24 to \1lss Emogene Van \\ Iltenburg, at the home of the bnde's parent~ on CI escent avenue, 111the pres-ence of thirty relatives and fnend'i The bndal couple left for ChIcago for a short tnp and will be at home after Apnl first at 61 Bnggs Court, Grand Rapids. The Grand Rapids Blow Pipe and Dlbt Arrester com-pany are filling a large order m X ashVIlle, Tenn They have many other orders on their books and are d0111g a large bUSI-ness. r------~------------------ -- 26 WEEKLY ARTISAN Minnesota Retail Furniture Dealers' Association OFFICERS-PreSIdent J R Taylor, Lake Benton MInn VIce President, D R Thompson Rockford, Mllln , Treasurer, B A Schoeneberger, Perham, MInn Secretary, W L Grapp, Janesville, Mmn EXECUTIVE CO\1\lITTEE-Chalrman Geo KleIn, Mankato Minn., 0 SImons, Glencoe, Mllln, W L' HarrIs l\1mneapohs, Mllln C DanIelson, Cannon Falls BULLETIN No. 104. FRAUDULENT MAIL ORDER PICTURES IN THE IRON BED GAME. In thIs second sene" of ell tlcle, exposln~ the me th()(h u,ul b\ thc maIl order house to tempt thc 11One,t eon'U111cr to P11 t \\ Ith 111' money we Illustrdte three more I11St Inces \\ hlch sho\\ 1]0\\ dc\ U h thIS I, done They are shov.n 111 the Llrge 'Ize Jlbt d" tllthtldtul 111 the catalog so as to be sure that the true proportIOn" arc gn en You wtll notice thdt the half tone Illustlatlon In black I" t Iken lrom the photo Everyone knows that It IS Impo"slble to mIke '1 c ,m era he, whtle pen drav.l11£; can be nn111pulated to the \\ III 01 the de sIgner Then we show two small Sl7C IllustratIon, ot cuh pI ep Irul t I our membcls whIch may be used In the11 ach el tlol11g c tl11p11"n t) plotect theIr I11terests These show the C1\ erdraw111g 111 propOl tlOn the same as the large cuts ThIS 0\ erdra\\ 111g ot Iron bed, h IS been practIced so generally thdt \\ e have become used to It The de Ilel S hd\e qUIetly sat by and a11o\\ed It to go unchecked \t '1n\ 1'1'e thcy have not e>-po"ed the'e methods as the} dtserve to be e,po,u\ \[0 doubt the reason for thl' he" 111 tne g;re It 011l.';111tl Ul't oj 111 dUClng a selles of these cuts B} the t1111e p11c1to' lIt t ILcn Ind IUt, made, It eosh consIderable mOI1L\ Yet \\ e behn e th It It h thc busl11ess of ,\I1y as'wuatlOn to do co operatl\ eI} th,lt \\ hleh l11elJ\ lel nally \\ould be out of the questIOn TherefOle \\e hdlC jJlcpIlld thIS second senes ","ote the e"tent of the U\ erdr \\1 111~ of the dle IjJ II 1\ h el },n t It hanc\"omL? Is It ,my wonder that \\hln d el\thtl111cl Ilho hd" heen ~tUdY1116 the mat! order LIt tloQ,' Lomc, IlIt< \ IUI -r II your bec\" appeal to hl111 hke pIpe ,tern aftan s mel hI '1\' I 1 11 get a bn WIth fi11mg; t\\ICL 1S I H~e ,IS that tOI the' Il11l pIlle L\ true deSCrIptIOn I' gnell bene1th thc hell, but \lhcll t Il IU' tomer once "ees the 0\ erelra\\ n pIcture, hI JuelQ,c, h\ thl111 tl 11l ft IS Ilot the lhffcrellcc In pnLe that IS so h,ll d to 0\ el10111l 1l I" the dIfference between our beds "nd the ones of the mall ordel IWlhc- ,IS l11u"trated m theu catalo6, The consequence of thIS IS that n1dny I tlmHI customer L0111e., mto your st()1 ( alld after look1l1g; 0\ er ) our ,tock sa} s I \ ell 1 \1 III see ,bout It" 1n ,Ibotlt t\\ 0 or three 1\ eek, tl111e \ Oil 110tILL I bcd dt the depot WIth theIr IMme Oil It The} h,\\ e oent then monl} e!lc! feel gutlty so they take the hed home all(1 '\\ l10thmg to lilY one db out It Pel haps the} \\ III nn er order \11} th111g Iga11l but that sale IS lost to you fore\ cr '] 111~ "ould IlC\ er hay e happl md If the mall order houses \\ ere nudc to l11u"tl Ite thell ooc!, 111 thcll true proportlOlls ThereforL \\ e cav that If ,111} cOllcern the, elouhttul 1111thoel- to get busl11cSS \\ hlch nghtfu11} belongs to \ ou It hce Imc, \ 1lI11 elun dnd prntlege to n:pose those method, Ind <,110\\ up thell ,chell]( You all kno\\ that If a man or hrm decen cs \ oU ollce \ oU nev Cl Cheap Montgomery Ward Bed. tJ ust hIm agtan Our worthy presIdent sdld sometlung at our last C011\ entlOn banCjuet when he saId IVe may h,lVe d11 these articles 111 OUl store and be thoroughly prepal ec! to meet cat dog competItIOn \ et thel e are hundreds of possIble customers who are gettl11g mall order hterature regularly and who NEVER or very RARELY re cene anyth111g from YOU' If you WIll studv the mat! order cat'1log you must reahze the PO\\ er of sug;gestlOl1 They arc ,1lways h1l1t1l1g that certa111 articles coulll not be boug;ht ft om the home dealer for the same pnce Just IS ,O)J1 '1' \\ e can ,set the consumer to be SUSPICIOUS of these meth od, tIle blttlc IS \\ on fOI If they WIll dehber"tely overdraw pIC-tures \\ hat eonhdence c 111 anyone have 111 anyth111g they say or do? 1'\ e mastered thL oltU'1tlllll 111 our commu11lty by meetmg the prop o"ltJOn lalrly and square I} \\Ith the exact goods The Inlorm ItlOn 1nd help tInt \\ e brIllg to you dre d" vaIueIes'- md theles, de, \ Q,lgantlC Jocomotl\ e WIthout steam If they are not used '1, the} should be IIany trdde papers and dealers SdY "We do n It lIke to -.,1\ e tl1el11 trel ,1c1\ertlsmg" But the day hds come \1 hen people I Lspect d hg;hter \\ ho IS not afraId to come out squarely mel boldh 1nd <,'Iv \1h It he me lib L\ repute tlOIl for domg thIS very th111~ I' the be,t p,ly111g Isset thM \\e h ne Do you reahze wDat It \\ oulc! be worth to you It every customer m your commu111ty be hev cd tInt) ou aJ\\ ,IVS fUl11lsh 111m WIth Ju,t ,IS good or better mer lh l11ch,e th21l thdt tUluI"hed bv the m,lll oldel house and at the <;,lme pIlle? Ot C0111se It IS no bo} , play to accompltsh thIS but any '\1111"; 1101 \h \\ htll IlljUUe" \\ ork It ah, ays LIkes strenuous efforts t Illll0l111 '111 llli Il1llclI I~ powerful el10ugh to thleaten the hfe j IIUI bU'll1C" e,htellLC \\ e \\ ,mt to say llght here that thIS as , lllt1<l1l IS 110 phle tOI the r don t CHe c\!ld It Lan't be done' pe lpk \\ e pIU\lde you I'>lth the weapons to plotect yourself but II e c'Innot go mto each mc1n IduaJ L0111mu111ty and conduct your bu,111es' for} ou ThIS as"oeldtlOn WIll only CI} stalhze mto some thllH.'. useful \\ hen It h utlltzec\ as It can and should be Brother De,J!er", ev el ywhere wake up to the posslbllttJe, that he m thh l'i',OCn'lOl1 Put In a stock of a gl\ en number of these bcds spr'nk Ie the11' ar,mnd 111 the \ dnous LOm111U11ltles hdve a sale \\ hen It I., tll 0\ el you WIll wonder \\ hy you (hd not thmK of It long a~o It h ,11 o"ht je I some of our trade p,lper, to tell us to talk 'Iu \ltt\ use, tlc,m In"lllp elL fhat I" ,tll nght 111 It, place but It elr es no\ shOll the e,tent of the frwd prolctlced by the 111,\1] order hmhC ,h thh methoc\ of 0\ erc1rdv. n tlJustratlons does ThIs Cdn ml) bl IceompIhhed In the \\ay we are c10mg It It gIves leverage to the t Ilk on qlnhtv etc Remember tl1dt we usually ~et what we 11 e lookmg tor If \\ e are \\ Illmg to pay the pnce Half-Tone of Same. Advertisnll Cut in Exact Proportion .. (SIngle column size) ThIS cut furmshed to our members for 25(' r-~(,~ ~\ I - r]\f\(\ ~~~~J \-1 ~~I~) ~II tf~~l \ I ~"..~ (Slllgle colnmn size) 'I IllS cut furmshed to our members tor 2')c rhI~ bed furmshed to our members for $1 19 S ngle column SILe ) 1111<;, Cllt ±Ulll.l<....lHd to OUI membel~ fur _Lll The Best Mont"OJRery Ward Bed. Overdrawn. Halt Tone of Same. Advertising Cut in Its True Proportion. (Slllgle column size) ThIS cut furmshed to our members for 25c Smgle column sIze) '1 hIS cut furnIshed to our members for 20c (SlllgIe column size) 'lhIS cut furnIshed to our members for 25c WEEKLY ARTISAN 27 This cut shows bed as illustrated in Sears Roebucks Catalog. This cut shows bed as it really is. You can't IUake the caIUera lie. This bed is furnished to our IueIUbers for $2.95 without the spring. S. R. special. This is the advertising cut showing the bed as it really is. COIUpare this with the upper one and note the extent of the overdrawing. ADVERTISING HELPS FURNISHED BY THE ASSOCIATION By gett1l1g these Ul11ts \\ lth the typc attached m} member ( 111 arrange almost an 1l1defi11lte sIze ad 111 a fev. mInutes Ii) ou adopt thIs U11lt system, all ) au have to do 1" to ~e1ect th e PdltCI n of bed you \\ Ish to ad, ertl,e, 1l1sertmg the pnce ) au \\ dnt to sell It for and you are sure that your "ad" IS properly "et up and ul11form By the use of these cuts yOU wIll save the first ongmal cost m thc savmg of spdLe usudlly used m these descnptlOns fhese cub ,He dll morthcd dt the bottom so that pnces Cdn be changed at wIll and the U11lt 1', always sUItable for all occasIOns If you tned to get these out yourself for mdn ldual use they would cost you $2 for thc hand dra\\ mg, 60c for makmg the LUt, 25c for sett1l1g up the type and sett111g the rule ,Hound dnd 35c for electJotYPlng Thus you can see that \\ e are fur11l,11111gyou a $320 value for only 40c, to say nothmg of the tIme and Lue It takes to prepare such U11lts A Good Cheap Straight Rod Bed ThIS F 2 No 9-041 straIght rod I Iron bed IS made m the best whIte enameled flmsh or m any other plam color deSIred "e adVIse the whIte fim sh as It IS the most lastmg ThIS IS m every way a good 11 on be and one that anyone could be pr,,"l of ha vmg m theIr horne at a ,ery cheap prlce SIzes d 4 or 4% ft WIdths PRICE '10 MEl\IBERC; V\ hlte or anyone (olor C'ombmatIOn ,erms Maltm Unlts-,Vlth l'vpe V\'Ithout '1':, pe 'J'hIS F 2 No 0 392 Iron bed can be had m erther whIte green or blue enamel fimsh or m Golden Verms Martm It has a lIS mch po~t and % Inch crosq rodb and I'" In ever y r e-spect a well constructed bed at a ,ery reasonable prlce, can be had m 2 SIzes 3 6 or 4 ft WIde PRICE TO MEMBIJRS WhIte or anyone color CombmatIOn Verms Martm Mahogany or Oak Units-WIth '1') pe W,thout Type ThIS F 2 No 9-472 Iron bed, a very plam Ieflned deSIgn m qUIte a heavy tubIng Castlngs are extra heavy and are made m gIlt trlmmmgs We have had great success WIth thIS de",gn and nevel had a complamt regaldmg ItS constructIOn and finIsh We furnIsh thIS m whIte enamel or m Golden Verms Martm SIze 4 ft Wide PRICE TO MEMBERS WhIte or anyone color CombmatIOn Verms Martm Mahogany or Oak Units-WIth Type WIthout Type ..... 40c 25c $231 257 284 I 40c ..,5c $3.68 394 420 4.73 40c 25c $5.25 551 5.78 6.30 A Pretty 5 FjlJer Bed at a Low Price I IllS I' 2 ,0 1 112 fly e filler Iron bed 111ake<., a fine ornament In any helll GOIn the 11lalll pIllar", at e 1 YR 111(h8<;; In dIdDletel and ('on~tructed m tl1e best pOSSIble manner It IS fimshed \\ Ith a rIch enamel or an, other pI am color WIth hrass top rod and heans SIze of thIS hed 4 ft 6 In PR1Cr 10 ,[L;\lB~~R" \Vll1te Ol dn\ one ( 1101 COmbll1 1.tlon "ernlb ,rat tln Unlts- \\ ltll f\ pe \\lthout T)pe A Good Camel Back Bed 'llllS F 2 ~o 0 241 Camel Back hE'd can be harl In "\arIon,;;; COIOl S Note the 4 hea\ \ flllel s at head and foot, and the hea. \ v CIO';;;<;;'; bat s on saIne and ~et "lth good hea\ v CdS tOI S <:lnd In e\ 81'\ \\ a.... d.. g'ood hIgh classed hed at a \ el v 10\\ pnce SIze 4 b 1" 6 2 PRICE TO MIJNIBERS \Vhlte or anyone color CombmatlOn Yerms Martm UnIts-WIth '1') pe V\ 1thou t '1'\ pe ----------~------ Thl" r K0 0 035 IS the greatest hal gaIn P\ 81 offered In a 2 Inch post 11 on bed The maIn pIllars are 2 m m d,amete, and IS a plam artIstic deSIgn In <:111"\bedroon1 FInIshed \\ Ith one co it of anti 1u"t filler and t"o loats of enamel SIzes 3 01 4 ft PRICE TO ME\IBER:" \\ 111te or an:, one color COmhInatlon ,7 eI nIb ,IartIl1 Mallogan) or Oak UnIts-WIth Type W,thout Type $ 278 1 305 331 40c 23c $3.26 352 378 400 25c $5.42 567 5.93 6.46 I 40c 25c A Good Heavy Flush Jointed Iron Bed ThIS F No 1-282 flush Jomted I Iron bed IS the most artistIC that can be had m thIS lIne, made In 8 I good whIte enameled fimsll and easy to keep clean WIth a good strong post and by all means If ) ou want a good durable bed I \\ ould adVIse you to order thIS one PRICE TO MEMBERS \Yhlte or anyone color COmhInatIOn \erms MartIn Mahogany or Oak Unlts- "Vlth '1'\ pe ,Vlthout Type 'i'hIS F 2 No 5-092 large Iron bed hea\lly con'ltructed and made up In a hIgh class finIsh of eIther whIte or Golden VernIS MartIn The posts are 1% mche" m dIameter WIth % mch cross rods, and set WIth heavy cast-ors trImmed WIth gIlt A hIgh class bed at a \ ery moderate pnce SIze 4 ft 6 In PRICE TO MEMBERS WhIte or anyone color COmbInatIOn VernIs MartIn Mahogany or Oak Units-WIth Type WIthout Type TIllS F 2 No 0 223 hIgh classed 11 on bed mam post and top tubIng 1% inch dIameter other fillIng 1 16 Inch FInIshed In enamel whIte or cOmbInatIOn colors and IS In every respect a bed that would make a pretty decoratIOn In an) bedroom SIzes 3 or 4 ft WIde PRICE TO MEMBERS ,Vhlte or anyone color . CombInation VernIs MartIn Mahogany or Oak Units-WIth Type....... . .. 40c WIthout Type . " .• 25c $294 320 347 6.97 40c 25c $4.73 5.00 5.25 . 5.78 40c 25c $593 620 646 6.97 To the member who has not had very much expenence m pre-panng ddverhsmg matter of this kmd, we want to ask you to SIt down and try to prepare an advertIsement the sIze of thIs sheet, go-mg mto your ~tock, plckmg out the vanous Itcms you wIsh to ad-verh~ e, wntmg up the descnptlOn~ whIch, of course, must be ac-curate, arrangmg them and see how long It takes you to get a copy of nme umts ready Then take your sCIssors and chp out the cost ThIS F 2 No 6 155 non bed, strong and made of heavy tubmg i'hze of postg 2 mches m dIameter heIght of head 60 lnches and can be had m 31h or 4 ft wIdths Flmshed and baked m the best whlte enamel or any plam color desired All chills are gilded PRICE TO MEMBERS 1Vlllte or anyone color CombmatlOn Verms Martm Mahogany or Oak '--------------- Units-WIth Type Without TYPE> ADVERTISING UNITS CONTINUED. $5.93 620 6.46 6.98 of the beds you want to run m an "ad", paste on a sheet of paper to act as gUIde or dummy for the pnnter, puttmg In the pnce you want to advertIse them for and you WIll readIly see the great savmg of tIme and care you get by usmg the assoClatlOn advertIsmg umt system vVe use these 111ustratlOns to bnng forcIbly to your milld the fact that we are bnngmg yoU the best possIble help the assocI-atIOn can by these prepared U111tS A Beautiful 5 Spindle Decorated Panel Iron Bed. . 40c .25c This F 2 No 2-051 five spmdle decorated panel non bed well con-structed and can be had m white enamel or anv other one color or m Golden Verms Martm The posts are 1'1s mches m dIameter wIth % inch cross lods which renders the bed perfectly mdestructlblr< 31.le 4'1" ft Wide Good Low Priced Bed. A Good Decorated Panel Bed. This F 2 No 2 121 Iron bed can be had m White, combmatlon color or Golden Vernis Martm This bed IS made m % Illch post and % mch cross rods and set wIth extra heavy castors ThIs bed is made ln clean and smooth Chlll work and III every way a good substantIal bed Sizes 3-6, 4-6 ft Widths A Pretty Decorated Panel Bed. This F 2 No 3-051 Decorated Panel bed IS made entIrely of lron, with steel SIde ralls and % Illch pIllars It lS 52 mches hIgh, and decorated with pretty fioral deSigns and the effect IS new and attractIve This bed lS fimshed m white enamel or In combmatlOn or Golden Verms Martm colors SIze 4 ft 6 m This F 2 No 9-492 Iron bed with decorated panel and % mch posts III dIamE>ter,and wIth % mch cross rods, makes a very neat deSIgn m a low prIced bed The bed IS 4 ft WIde, and makes a very fine deco-ratlOn for any home m either whItE! enamel, or Golden Verms Martm I I---- - ------- ------- 'i'hls F 2 No 5 392 beautIful deco-rated panel bed, IS made up m a \ ery floral deSign and a very good constructed bed m every way The post~ are 1'1s mch m diameter, and the cros~ rods are of heavy tubme-and In every respect a bed that would be apprecIated m every home This F 2 No 4-492 decorated panel bed, IS made entnely of Iron wIth solId steel ralls and heavy set cas-tors The mam pIllars are 1!jg mch m diameter with % mch cross rods ThlS bed can be had m whIte or m any other plam color, or m Golden Verms Martm It IS a very artIstic bed m every respect ThIs F 2 No 0-051 Iron bed IS made of the \ ery best material and IS beautifully decorated with floral deSigns Note the heavy post~ and tubmg, and everythmg to make up a flrst class bed Fmlshed with one coat of antI-rust and two coats of enamel, Or In GoldE>nVernIs Martm Size 4-6 or 3-6 Unlts-Wlth Type WIthout Type 40c 25c ,- I 30 WEEKLY ARTISAN j I II IIt I II ,II -- .---_._----_._.-------------------- .------- - -- -- -- _. . - .- -- ..- - _._-_._---_. ---_._--_. FOUR NEW TRADE MARK REGISTERED BARONIAL OAK STAIN FLANDERS OAK STAIN S M 0 K ED 0 A K S T A I N EARLY ENGLISH OAK STAIN in acid and oil, in aGid and oil. in acid and oil. in acid and oil. PRODUCTIONS Send for finished samples, free. Ad-el-ite Fillers and Stains have long held first place 10 the estimation of Furniture Manufacturers and Master Painters. In addition to the reg-ular colors the above shades offer unusually beautiful and novel effects. Tbe Ad-el-ite People CHICAGO-NEW YORK Everythmg m Pamt SpeclaltIes and Wood F1U1shmg matenals Flllers that £111. Stams that satIsfy. --~-_._------------_._.--_._-----_. --_.-~ _. - - - ~_. _ •• - __ a' PHILADELPHIA LETTER H_ H. Hirsch Trying to Revive the Furniture Exposition Project. PhIladelphia, .:\Jatch 22-The U'ie 01 the auto dell' en wagon'i is becol111l1g more genetal even \car \t the ptee.,- ent time, most of the large fitnb ha\ e se\ elal large auto-mobtles wh1ch the) clan11 can do much more than hor'ies and wagons w1th a less expense on the \\ hole 1hey make de- Evenes out as fa1 a, fift) 1111lesand can carn an 1111111enSe load of goods '1 he horse 1., gradualh hemg 1eplaceel but tt 1t doubtful that he w111go out of use altogether The b1g stnke b sttIl on w1th no real .,ettlement m 'iight The Ul110n labor hands hay e gone out m 1110St all lmes of trade 0\ er 100,000 hay e been out and hay e done un-told damage to the bus1l1ess lllterests of the city Some have returned to work this week George V.,r Brenn of 1306 ~ orth l\1a1 shaIl street cloe., a large bus1l1ess in canmg chan" for the trade and se1l1l1g cane suppl1es through the west and south Burt Bros, say that furmture should have made more than a 10 per cent raise m pnces a., plate gla'is, lumber, hard-ware fitt1l1g:;, cotton and sIlk goods have all made c0ll'31der-ablt~ advances Their furl11tule anJ beddlllg plant 1S busy, workmg fuIl ttme Order'i are C01l1111gm \ e1y "" eIl and md1- c,lte a good season The Canton (Pa) Couch com pan) hay e gl' en up the couch lme and are maklllg dumb \\ alters .:\11 HaIlet \\ ho was .,alesman for the Canton Couch compan) ha., tahen up the l1l1e of the Easteln Lounge com pan) , fot Penns) h al11a and New Jersey Thomas P Lawler & BlOS, of 136 North Second street, ___ -4 \\111 plOhably go out of busllless, as the firm is in the hands of thetr C1 ed1

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