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GRAND RAPIDS. MICH .• MAY 21. 1910
NELSON-MATTER
FURNITURE
co.
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
BED-ROOM and DINING-ROOM
COMPLETE SIJITES
in Mahogany, Circassian
,"T alnnt
and Oak.
If you Lave Dot one in your .tore. a simple request will brinli you our :matnifleen" new Cataloaue of 12x16 inch valle 'roup.,
showinll •• ite. to Ulatch. With it, even the most Dloderat. sized furniture _iore can show the best and newest furniture satisfactorily.
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LUCE FURNITURE
GRAND
Manufacturers
RAPIDS,
COMPANY
MICH.
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of COMPLETE lines of MEDIUM PRICED DINING
and CHAMBER FURNITURE.
Catalogues to Dealers Only.
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Luce-Redmond Chair Co., Ltd.
BIG RAPIDS,
MICH.
High
Grade Office Chairs
Dining Chairs
Odd Rockers and Chairs
Desk and Dresser Chairs
Slipper Rockers
Colonial Parlor Suites
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Dark alld Tuna Mahogany
BIrd' J EYf Maplf
BIrth
!Zuarttrtd Oak
alld
Clr(aJJlall Walnut
Our Exhibit you will find on the
fourth
floor, East Section, MANUfACTURERS'BUILDING,North Ionia Street
GRAND RAPIDS,
Exhibit
in charge
of
J.
MICmGAN
C. HAMILTON, C. E. COHOES, J. EDGAR FOSTER.
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30th Year-No.
47
GRAND RAPIDS.
MICH .• MAY 21.1910
Issued Week1)o'
GOING AFTER THE EXPRESS COMPANIES
Movement Started by the New York Merchants· Association
Other Mercantile Organizations.
On May lIon the invitation of The Merchants'
association of New Yark, representatives
of the followmg prominent commerCIal orgamzatlOns
attended a conference m the
association's rooms, to consIder the expeldiency of a Jomt petItion to the Interstate
CommeJ:1ce commISSIOn for an mvestigatlOn of express rates and practices, to the end that faIr and
Just rates and practices may prevaIl'
Merchants'
and Manufacturels'
associatIOn, Baltimorel;
C~amber of Commerce,
Boston,
Cha:nlber of Qommerce,
Cleveland, Bloard of Trade, Grand Rapids, Mlch ; Merchants'
association, Indlanapohs;
Board of Trade, Manche"ter, N H ;
Board of Trade, Newark, N. J.; Bu"iness Men's Association,
New Haven; Chamber of Commerce, New Haven; Board of
Trade, New Otleans;
The MeJ:1chants' assocIatIOn of New
York; Board of Trade, Portland, Me.; Board of Trade, Paterson, N. J ; Chamber of Commerce, Philadelphia,
Merchants'
and Manufacturers'
assocIation,
Pllliadelphla;
Eastern
MIllmery assocIation;
Chambm of Commerce, PIttsburg,
Board
of Trade, ProViidence, R I; Chamber of Commelce,
RIchmond, Va , Chamber of Commerce, Rochester,
New York;
Chamber of Commerce, Syracu~e, New YOlk, Syracuse TraffIC Bureau, Chamber of Commer,e, Watertown,
N. Y ; Board
of Trade
Worcester,
Mass.;
Busmess
Men's
assocIatIOn
Pawtucket,
R. I ; Chamlber of Commerce, Spokane, Wash.,
Board of Trade, Bridgeport,
Conn.
In addItion to the orgamzatlons
actually I epresented by
delegattJs the followlllg bodIes, by letter, favored the propo"ed investigatIon
by the Interstate
Commerce commISSIOn:
Chicago Association
of Commerce,
Chamber of Commerce, Dayton, 0 ; Iowa State Manufacturers'
associatIOn,
Des Moines, Iowa; Merchants'
and Manufacturers'
assocIatIOn, MIlwaukee,
Wis. ; Commercial
Club, Mlllneapolts,
Mllln ; Chamber of Commerce,
El Paso Texas;
Board of
Trade, IndIanapolis;
Chamber of Commerce,
South Bend,
Ind;
Board of Trade, Savannah,
Ga.; Commercial
Club,
LouisvIlle, Ky.; Board of Trade, Spningfie1d, Mass, Chamber
of Commerce, San Francisco,
Cal ; Merchants'
association,
San Francisco Cal ; Chamber of Commerce, Baltimore, Md.
The Conference, whIch was in sessIOn all day, adopted
the followlllg preambles and resolutions:
WHEREAS,
The rates charged by the express companies appear to be excessIve as compared with the service
performed; and
WHEREAS,
The practices of these companies with ref-
Supported by Many
erence to collectIOn and dehvery and to regulations
of various kmds appear to be unjustly
dlscrimmatlve
and otherwIse in VIolatIOn of the Interstate Commerce Law; and
'WHEREAS,
An analysIs of the reports made by the
pnnclpal
express companies
domg business in the United
States to the Interstate
Commerce commISSIon, and on file in
the office of the latter, mdlcates that the net earnings of the
companies are from more than 40 to about 125 per cent per
annum on the value of the property in use for the public
service; and
'WHEREAS,
The Supreme Court of the Umted States,
m ItS deCISIOn in the KnOXVIlle water case", has declared as a
standard for the measurement
of the Just earntngs of pubhc
service corporatIOns that those earnlllgs shall bear due proportion to the fair value of the property actually employed
for the servIce of the pubjlc, and
WHEREAS,
If the earnlllgs indicated by these reports,
on full investIgation
be practically
substantiated,
it is evident that such charges are excessive and extortionate
and
should be reduced, therefore, be it
RESOLVED,
By this Conference, representing
many of
the prlllcipal busllless orgalllzatlOns
throughout
the United
States, that a petttlOn be prepared on behalf of these commerCIal orgamzatlOns
and such others as may, subsequently
join, to be presented to the Interstate
Commerce commission,
praYlllg that body to exercise the authonty
vested in It by
law, by conducting,
forthWIth, an exhausttve
investigation
into the whole question of the rates and practices of the
express companies, to the end that fair and equil'able rates
and practices may be established.
To carry out the program deCIded on by the conference,
a permanent
executive commIttee was created, wIth power
to employ counsel, to prepare and present the petition to
the Interstate
Commerce commission,
and wIth full discretion to determine the breadth and scope of the petition.
The delegates present at the conference, by unanimous
actIOn not only pledged their respective organizations
to join
in the petition to the Interstate
Commerce commiSSIOn, but
to assist in every possible way in the preparation
of supple~
mentary information and argument
The executive committee WIll submit the form of petition
to the leadlllg chambers of commerce, boards of trade and
merchants'
associatIOns throughout
the country,
to secure
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then conCllrrence
m the actIOn and thell co-opel ation as
petitIOners
The executive
commlttee
vv111 !11let l1e"t vveek. ,lHCI
whIch the necessary :oteps to c,u n mto dtect thl de ~l1l ~ I j
the cOl1fel ence WIll be taken at the e,l1!Jlc,t pO~~lb1L d Ite
\Vlth the 1111 ltatlOn to the COI11I11L1
clal OliSanuatlolh
1epl e
"ented at the confe1encc,
the \[elchdnh'
a,,~oerat1(In t1 In,
nlltted a "RepOlt on lxp1es"
CapItal. laIDln~~
and ]\lte,.
vvltll tahlllatee! statement"
"hO\v 111e;the lone!Jtlll11 ut the 1 Illl
pnnopal
expl CS" compall1e" alld u)ml11ent111~ thu (on ,h 1,,1
lows
GentlCll11cn
In accordance \\ Hh ) our 1I1structlOI1:o I have
made an anal} "lS of the a,,,etc, 111C0!11cand e"pell,e~ "I 1 JUI
pnnllpal
expresc, cOl11pal1lec, ot the elunent,
th,lt 111 I~l IIp
the sen Ice' ed lell 1 bv them
d11d ot the 1J,1,1~ upun \\ hll'l
the 1ates cha1gcd Me made
the PRETTIEST,
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FOR FURNITURE.
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1he scheelule of as"et" "hO\v" 'W\ eral la1(;e Item~ \\ hleh
ObvlOlhl} represent
ul,j!ltal not emplo\ ed 111 L"p1l '" opel
a110n These C0111p11<;e' ~tl ck" and Ill)Ild~ 0\\ l1ed
(hhe 1
Permanent
In\ estment<;"
(RLal J "tate not u~ed 111 Up( I
atlOn." and "\101 tga~es .,
Write for sample pads of colors.
DAHM & KIEFER TANNING CO.
TANNERIES
CRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
CHICACO, ILL.
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In Table III the a~gl egate ot these Item:o ha~ been Ieducted flom tl,e aggregate
net a<;"eh remalllm~
aHel p<lV
ment of all current llah1!It1es
The amount 1e111dmlll!.?;h th"
amollnt of capItal osten~lbh
tl"ed 111 C"PIC~~ upelaiJun,
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cOimpn'oec, the Items <;chululed a, ' Real I ~Llte and n1111dll1~'
u"ed m OpelatlOn,"
"EqUIpment.'
"La~h and em I ent \~
seh," ":\1 a tellab and SupplJe",'
I n"l11anCl l'H'J111Ullh
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Cld1111S," "GooJ-\\ 111and Lontlact<'
and
\celJunh
III ~u~pense"
204 lake Street,
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flam express
lh,ll~l"
110m tIllee to 11101eth,w ten ttmes the ordlllary re1. 11l n" ir 0111I e,d L~LIt e 111l e ,tm en t <;
1 n e ]leI cellt net after pdy ment of aLl expenses is the
Olcl111dl\ 1al( ot letl1ln frol11 leal estate investments
The
fi", II celp1t,11 111\ e"tecl ]i} e"1'1e,s compames 111 real estate
~!J()llld !wt be l llltlht'd \\ lth the actIve capItal required
in
l)]llldtHJll, and ~11lJuld not (Itaw f"-.cessrve returns
from intl,l1l d l hell ~c~ 101 cX]lre~~ sen Ice
Of the 1teJ11~1I1cluelerl under the head
-\~<;eh ()~te1hl],j\
used 111 L'<p1e"s Operatllln'
~e\ e1al dre open tll "e11UU' ob
JeetlOn, as follo\\ <;
l{u':,11 d111g-the vallle of the leal estate used III operatlOn
a.., mvest1l1ent capItal and not as operatmg
capItal, a net five
pC! C(:.11t1t tll111 shoul(l be alloweJ
tJhereun, WhICh amount
,h Iltld be chaH!,lll ,1~c11J1st ()pelatll1~ eo"t
Adoptlllg
th1S
\ Ie \\ thl ,l11l0unt oj the Item "Real 1, "tate and Bl1lldmg" used
III ()pelallllll
ha~ 111 ['able rrr been deducted from the osten-
It 1S questlOnahle
vyhether the'e
Item" s111>ul,1not be
regarded as mve',iment
eapltdl ane! not a~ opel atlllg cdpltal
The ownel "Ihlp of the"e holdmgc, h not e""f'niJdl t,) e"pH"
operatIOn", n01 h there any 1e,hon v\ hv "ueh n, In-f"~Ll1tlal
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The C0111p1111C"dl"c'l""ed bel !IV drc l;I1:.;<:h en:.;a~cd 111
add1tlOn to the exple,,, bu"me,,,, m 1I1ve~t!11ent and bank111c; II
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bu:ome""
The pUlpl c,e of the alldh "1~ \\ hlLh 11 JlIu\\ ~ h t
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shoy\ vvhat pOl bon of the a,,~ch ~lheduled I~ t, be 1c~ I led
as m vestm ent or hdnk111g LapHal Wha t pm tlUn 1~ to ]JC I egarded as exprec,s capItal, and the pClcentd!.?;C uj P1OI1t cle- I
nveel bv expl e"" operdl1on"
upon thL L'lpltal ae tnallv and
properly
emplo} eel m e"pl ess opel atlon
The follo\\ 1l1~ ,oheelules dl e ..,U1111lla11e".compIled!1 om 1e
ports made b} the :oeveldl e"ple,~
COI11P,{l1lL~tel the Inler
state Commerce C0111111h::,lun,fOI the h"cal veal lndlnc; 1Ulll
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Pitcairn Varnish Company
Manufacturers
of
Reliable Varnishes of Unifor~ Quality
Our Motto:
"NOT HOW CHEAP-BUT
C. B. Quigley, Manager Manufacturing Trades Dep't.
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Factories:
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ACCURACY, DURABILITY, ECONOMY
Three most important requisites in case construction.
We absolutely guarantee our method of construction
to be stronger and less expensive than all others.
Let us tell you about it.
Ask. for Catalog "J"
No. 181 Multiple Square Chisel Mortlser.
& MILES CO., Cedar St. and Sou. R. R., aREBNSBORO, N. C.
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SIble active expre'3S capItal anJ treated a~ part of the mvestment fund, I athel than as part of the operatnng fund
Unhke a mercantlle
01 manufactunng
busme'3s the express busme"s
doe" not reqUIre, nor e\ en adnllt, a large
amount of ready ca..,h for Ib operatIOn", masmuch a" It .Joes
not reqlure the pUl cha;"e of lar!:;e stocks of matellal or merchandIse, or the gmntl11g 0: large hnes of CIedIt
The '3elVllces are as a rule paId mad, ance and "uch ad, ance cash
receipt" at all tlme'3 sqpply an ample fund from whIch to
pay cun ent expense"
The cash balances
held by the several expre'3s compa11les June 30, 1(0), after deductmg
the amount of all current halbllltie'3, was a, follO\vs
Adams IExpress Co
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$1,410,889.49
Ame1l1can Express
Co
716,00449
U S Express Co
,Yells-I< argo Express
Co
2,4-1-3,90200
A "tudy of "taLments of pI e\ IOUS years "how'3 that the
free cash bdlance" al eat occasIOnal mten ab con, el ted mto
mVLstments and that they are not to any con"lderable
degree
m the nature of wor~ing capItal necessanly
reqUIred for carrymg on the busmess, but are rather accrued profits awaIting mvestments
m stocks, bonds and other securities
11hl'3should be borne m mmd m consldenng
the amount
of the actual capItal reqt11recl for express operatIOn, the amount
of the return upon suah capital, and the fallness of the rates
which Ylel.J such returm
One company mclucles m ItS as;"ets $816,66600 for "GoodV{lll dnd Contracts"
TIll;" probably replesents
a payment to
anothel expl ess company fOl the nght to operate ov er hnes
prevIOusly controlled by the latter
If '30, the cash paid is not
capItal nece'3"ary fOl operatIOn, equipment, or other legItImate
expre;"s purposes,
but b merely capltahLatlOn
of ant1clpated
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profits and should be excluded from the h"t of asset" actually
used in express operatIOn, as It properly belongs m the mvcstment account
If the foregOIng conclUSIons are accepted, It appear'3 that
the greater part of the as'3ets of the express compa11les, mclud111g most of the free cash balances, are de' oted to the 111ve'3tment business and not to the express busmess, and that
the amount of the capItal actually and necessanly
employed
111the latter is but httle more than the value of the eqlupment,
plus a very moderate amount of wOlkmg capItal
Express
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compo"ed
of three
elements,
namely,
Terminal
sen Ice, an.J cal e m tranSIt, performed
by eAcompal1les, and
TranslPortatlOn,
performed
by I allroad"
The relation
whIch the ter'1l1l11al sen Ice bears to the
whole servIce was in 1899 ;"tated a;" follows WIth the exphClt
applOval of the PreSIdent of the '\.dams Express Company
pre""
"The chIef servIce whl1ch the express com pan} performs
IS the temmnal service-a
service entIrely away from the lallways and stations;
the collectIOn, care and dehvery of packages constItutes
tlhe sCIence of the express busl11ess "
The special report of the United States census (1907) on
"Express
Bus111es" 111the UnIted States" state;" the baSIS of
c1iv1.s,ionof charges between the raIlroads and express companies as follows:
"The usual contract made by an express company WIth a
ralJlway company
provide"
that the rall" ay company
shall
fur111sh the necessary
car", heat and hght the111, haul them
ovrr ItS 11l1es, together vvirt:hthe employeee; of the express company necessary
to care for the traffic en route
At statIOns
the rallway company
permIts
It", employees
to act as employees of the express company
also, WIth certam restnc-
IS THE
CHEAPEST"
BARTON'S GARNET PAPER
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 and 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. BARTON & SON CO., 109 South Third St., Philadelphia, Pa.
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Over the World
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Veneer
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dIfferent kin1. and lizel
Hand Feed Glneine Machine (alellt
pend.na.l Many Itylel and lizel.
(ate.ted)
Veneer Presses
Glue Spreaders
Glue Heaters
Trucks, Etc" Etc.
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20 Glue Heater
Wood-Working
Machinery
and Supplies
Power Feed Glue Spreadine Maehine. Single.
Double and CombInation.
(atented)
(Sozea 12 In. to 1I4 In wide.)
LET US KNOW
YOUR WANTS
CHAS. E. FRANCIS COMPANY, Main Office and Works, Rushville, Ind.
No.6 Glue Heater.
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tions, and permIts the use of statIOn faCIlities by the express
company
The express company on Its part assumes all the n'ik for
damage to express matter and all liabIlity for mJury to Its
employees,
and agrees to pay the railway company
a fixed
per cent of its gross earnmgs, wIth a gualanteed
m1111mU111
amount
It was formerly the custom to make the contracts
upon a tonnage basIs, but the gross ear111ng~ plan IS no\\ m
general use. After deductmg
the amounts
paId carner~ f01
express pnvileges,
the remamder
IS a\ a1lable for pay menb of
all ex:penses of operation,
interest,
taxes, dn 1dencl'i, etc"
For transportation
the raIlroads in 1909 recelveJ slightl)
more than 477 per cent of the aggregate
charges collected
upon all express parcels passing
0\ er the
respectn e lmes
The remaining
52-3 per cent represents
the charge for the
terminal serv1ce~that
IS, that portion of the sen Ice \\ hlch IS
dIrectly performed
by the extpress companies
It is self-evident
that the cost of transportation
bv raIl
increases
in proportIOn to distance, and that the element of
dIstance does not enter into the cost of term mal ,;en Ice
It
is equally eVIdent, therefore,
that \\ hlle the charge for transportation
should mcrease wl'th the d1'itance, the char~e for
terminal
serVIce should rem am unchanged,
1rrc,;pectn e of
dIstance by rail, inasmuch as the termmal
sen Ice performed
is the same. whether the rail transportatIOn
IS long or ,;h01 t
It IS nevertheless
the practice of the express CDmpanle-to increase in proportion
to dIstance the charges exacted for
purely termmal
servIces,
whereby
a much higher charge is
1mpo"ed at one pomt than IS imtposed at al1lother for an Identic 11 --en Ice
\s noted abO\ e, the transIJOrtatIon
service,
which is
\\ 11('1/\ performeJ
by raIlroads, IS paId for by an agreed percentage of the total express recclpt,;
ThIS basis of compenqtIOn does not nece~sanly bear any defilllte relation to the
co"t of rendenng
the tran'ipor tatIon sen Ice and is in some
degree arbItrary
An offiCial analYSIS of express rates with a
\ 1C\\ to 1 eadJ ue tment
should therefore
cover the present
charge~ paId by the express compallles
to the railroads
for
transportatIOn,
\\ Ith a VIew to determmmg
whether
those
charges are Ju,;t and reasonaJble
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Furniture Fires.
John
damaged
Insured
P Carlson's furniture
by fire to the extent
snore at Bruce, S Dak, was
of about $1,500 on May 12
John \Yard. fur111ture dealer, was the principal loser in
a fire that destro) ed three bUll dings at Colfax, Ill, on May
1;
HI'; lo~,; e--tlmateJ at $4,500 IS well covered by 1l1surance.
The four story bnck burldl11g occupIed by Koch & Henke
turlllture
dealers on Loram street, Cleveland, 0, was burned
on ::\Iay 13
Koch & Henke's stock was almost completely
de~troyed
The total loss wa'i about $350,000 well oovered
in 1l1'iurance
MOON DESK
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Quarter Sawed Oak Veneer
than we could furnish you right now.
Write us.
CLARK VENEER COMPANY
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SUMMER HOUSE DECORATIONS.
More Hints and Suggestions as to Materials9
Color Schemes Etc.
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Many things should be thought out before redecoratmg
a room As spring is the time when thoughts turn to lighter
styles after having been surrounded by heavier effects all
winter, the force of contrast appeals to the average woman.
Yet there are cautlOns to be borne in mind when a woman is
planning color schemEs to freshen up country or city rooms
For instance If the ceilings are high don't use a striped paper;
if the room is light use a restful color, and If dark reverse it
and the effect will always be good.
Many women nowadays hke a color scheme of different
tints on a floor giving a shading of tones
Although thi'3
may be harmonious it often becomes tIresome, for it seems
as though you could never get away from it, and after a
while you take an inteme dislike to anything approaching
that particular color. A much prettier way is to have differem colors, one blending into the other by force of contrast,
gradually shading off to a lighter tint at the end of a floor,
thu<.,gIving the perspective or shadowy feehng of dIstance.
For bedrooms use only soft neutral tones on the walls.
\Vhatever color you prefer for contrast can be in the frieze
above. For e~ample, take a white m01re paper with a cut
out frieze of hlacs. The hangings can be of white net with
a full valance on which can be sewed a band of hlac material,
WIth the outsIde edges shaped to your fancy and finished
with a lace braid The net bedspread can be made to makh
WIth a full gathered flounce and monogram m the centre of
the same hlac material and similarly treated
A plain hlac
rug completes the scheme.
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If you prefer white alone for bedrooms cut out friezes of
dIfferent flowers can be used which will relieve the monotony The hangmgs can be of simply endless variety, some
WIth the cut out cretonne idea, which many persons like,
others of certonne alone Then again in summer homes silkoline looks cool and doe" not keep out the air.
A hall is always an important factor in the decorative
scheme of a house and should be well considered. not only
for its own sake, to give it a spacious look if it is small, but
also for the color effect on the rooms which open out of it,
for a wrong note here will spall the whole. It sometimes happens that the entrance hall of a small house in the country
has a window or two with an ugly outlook which it is desirable to hide If stained glass IS out of the question on
account of the expense the glass can be covered with one of
the matenals which give the effect of stained glass, cost
little and come in pretty designs.
A very pretty hall in a remodelled country farmhouse
had on the walls a landscalpe paper showing an old mill with
water running from the wheel It was a quaint conceit and
was the right thing in the right place, as the hall was light
and the tones were soft and subdued as though mellowed by
time.
As for woodwork, white enamel is always good and looks
cool if chIldren are romping aibout. Forest green is very
good in summer dining room with a high wainscot and
colored cotton tapestry frieze :vbove it, provided it is a light
room; otherwise it would look sombre.
Dark Flemish or English oak trim is inadvisable except
in good sized rooms, as it looks heavy in small spaces. For
furniture white enamel is servicealble, and is prettier still
when cane is inserted in panels. This is intended principally
for bedrooms and reception rooms, but it looks well too in a
"ummer dining room with the color note, say, of rose. On
the walls, the chair seats and sideboard the same tone can
be used 111 some design, and it may appear in either flowers
or border on the china. With a plain rose rug and white trim
and the glitter of glass and silver and the white n3Jpery such
a dining room would be especially good for the seashore on
dark daJls.
For bedrooms in the country the large white enamel
washstands are good Have the china match the room in
color. The waste paper baskets and laundry bags hung in
closets should also have the prevaihng color note in them.
The note paper on the desks or writing tables should be
stamped with the name given to the house-it gives a certain style to the place-and a guest book is always pleasant
to keep -New York Sun.
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WEEKLY
LUMBER WILL NOT BE CHEAPER.
Mr. Nichols Talks of Conditions as lIe I<'ouud
Them iu the South.
"I can not ~ee any I ea~oll tm c"pect111g d c1ed111t 111 thle
the pnces of halc1\\oc'dlumbel
at j1lc--ent 1101 111 the lntnre,
sald F I :--lchol'3 uf the :--Ichol-- C'\c Lu" Ll11nbu CClIlIpdm,
Grand Rapld'3, la~t 1\ eune'3Ja\
. I have Ju~t letl11ned 11um
a southern tllp.· hc contmuec1 ",mc1 I (!Jd not hncl dm l?,lldt
supply of haldwood
lumbel at am JlC11nt \Io"t ot the 111111~
are bus) and thl" ~ea'3on's cnt \\111 be lan:;e bnt lW! Llll;e
enongh to cause a Jechne m pllce~ on all\ \alllt\
Thtlc I"
a pcssl1b11lty of an 0\ er ~uppl.\ 01 qnartel-"a \\ ul oak a t pIC"
ent, but It WIll all be needed
It IS good quff to hold and
the pnces w11l SUIely be ma111tall1ed
"The most acb\ e "\anet1e~ 01 har.h\ ood at pI C"c n t ,1Il
maple and bIrch
Both are mo\ ln~ 11\eh and the c1Clll,lIHI
for maple, espeCIally, IS remalkabh
--rrong. a" It h,l" bccn
smce the first of the year
In orclel to renu\
.,ome ot clUl
contracts for maple that \\ e had last \ ear. \\ e \\ ere oblIl?,ul tl)
add $6 per thousand to last \ ear'", pnce" and "nce then 'lbont
$2 more has been addeJ
BIrch ha" al"o ach anccd m ])[1(( ,1Ild
the demand, locally at least, IS e"-ceedll1:{h "tlC)I1g"
"In the south gum 1'3 the most act1\ e \ dnlt\
at l)fC "C 11\
The demand IS good and pnee'" hd\ c been ach anelll a hunt
$3 per thou"anJ,
smce the first of the \ eal. an(l I l]lIllk the \
WIll go higher
The pnce of oak, 01 cour"e. depend" Idl!.;ch
on the demand from the fl1ll11ture makel"
I hat c1elll,llLCldt
pn:"ent IS not qUIte so urgent a" It \\ a" d In\ mOllth" a~)
but lt 1'3 stIll good and unless the faetune"
al e tu hc ,hut
daVIn entlre1)
thele IS no plOlbabl1tt.\ that pllee~ \\111 he
10\\ er
TImber has become too '3cal ce to 11bt ltv am l" 1)(C
tatlOn of ]o\', er pnces for harch\ ood lumber dt )1I e--U11 iiI lt1
the future
"Our busmes" has been gooJ "0 fdl thl-- \ ear
It It l,)11
tmues as It ha" been '30 far the \ o]ume \\ III be mCllC than
doU'ble that of an} other year m our e,,"penence
\ \ e dl e
rUl1l1mg our m11ls 0\ ertlme no\\ as \\ e hay e been lur ~ol11e
time"
ARTISAN
ledllll11~ ,dl the other fellem 1'3\\ 11hng to do the senate throvv s
dUI\ n the a~lee11lCnt and nuke" a ne\\ proposal on what It
ha'3 leal neel 1]1I" n1dke~ u" very tll1l1d m our dealmg'3 WIth
\ ou
\ treat \ of I euproClt)
between u" \v 111never be made
d" lOll Q, ,I" \ mil e"ecu t1\ e 1" PO\verle '" to control certam
~pcL1a] ll1tLlC"r-. ut the upper house of your Congle,,:'>"
1 he "']JLdkcr then "aId that PI e"'ldent 'I dft'S recent utteran"e ,lt Hulfa]o 1 tgal c1mg the cont1l1ental Interests
of thl'1
l U,111 tl \
dnd Canada "mtJ oduced a contUtental
dortrme
111
tJ d.le equal ut 11l1pUltance to the }Ionroe
Joctnne"
"Duostyle" Litigation.
01\ nel" of the Duo;,tyle patent claIm that many manutacturel'" and dealCl s are 1I1frmg1l1g on then nghts and hay e
,tal tecl COllIt plOceec11I1g-, to ;,top such mfnngements
as w11l
be "eell ])\ the 10110\\ 1I1l.?,\\ hlCh IS a copy of a letter sent out
to all ll1anUl,lctul er" of e>::ten'3lon tables
Gentlemen
\s there are still a number
of manufactUt el" \\ ho "ee hi to make the "Duostyle"
constructlOn
of
t,t!lle" \\ lthout a hcen,e
the' eby lIlfnn~1I1g upon the Klem
Canadian View of Reciprocity.
\Vallace K esbltt, former JustIce of the "'upreme COutt 01
Canada. saId some \ ery frank th1l1g~ ahemt the pos--lhl1Jt, ut
a recIprocIty treaty between the l llIted ~tate-- and CanacLI dt
a d1l1ner of the Econonllc Club at the Hutcl \ '-to!, \ ell 1irk
the othel llIght
~mong the~e \\ a-- hi" __
tatel11cnt tlHt a, I ,n:.:
as the chIef executl\ e of thIS countJ.\ I" unable to conti 01
certam peclal 1I1tele'-h 111 the "enate, nelthel Canada nOl thc
1:"l11ted States need expect closel tl ade rela tlon -- th f(lU~ h d
lo\\enng
of the tanff \\ all '3 HI'" '3peech follo\\ cd OIlC ])\
Henry M \i\lllItney, formel pre--Ident of the Bu--tOll Chamhel
of Commerce, 111 Whllh noth1l1g hut the mo--t glol\ mg pI ""peets for mutual plo;,penty
\'\ere pIctured on the ('ont1l1£;e'll \
of a reCIproCIty treaty be1l1g made
"There were one or two thIng'" 111 }Ir \ \ llltne\ " ~l'lll h
that were new to me as a Canadian,"
'3ald 1u"'tlce "e,,1 It t
"If hIS hypotheSIS of a leClproClt) treah hem£; d :::;ualal1t\ "t
the peace of the world can be prm en I hope that hc 'IIIII
travel the breadth of Canada and lepeat the "peech thdt he
made this evenmg
I confe'3" that the C,lIlacltan" 111 ~,l1el al
feel that thIS country has been a httk rough 111 Ih tleaill1l lit
of their government
!\s a government,
\\e Cdnadlan"
C 1'-ltke you; as a people, we love you
"One great weakness
m your constltutlOn,
and I "peak
WIth fnendly frankness,
IS that Jour execut1\ e makes a l)3.rgam and then somebody m the senate kIcks It 0\ er
Afl er
T
Made by the Manistee Manufacturmg
ManIstee, MICh.
Co ,
pdtent dated \1'111 ICJ, 1898, \\e have been qUIetly secunng
l\ Ide !lle
101 thL Pdq nme month-As a re;,ult, action was
L!llllmC1leed \plll 11 ag,lln,t J Blumherg,
\Vaukegan,
III J for
"e1l1l1g tl) the pnhltl. tables manufactured
by H C NIemann
&- Co. Chlc,lgo mtJ m~mg upon abo\ e named patent
The
,ltl/Jlne \" trll the dcfenddnt appeared 111 court on May 4 and
fllvl delll1l11 el. 1\111ch goc~ to '3110\'\ that a stubborn
fight IS
on hand
l! l \ lemdnn & Co . have not only been mak1l1g
Dno--t\ le<
but hay e been persl'3tent
111 advertJsmg
tJhe
fact that they furl11"h them
1'le,l..,e note. that tlllS ~tllt doe" not pertam to locks, a"
\he l-dell1 p,ltcnt I" a e()n~tJuctlOn patent "wheleb}
the top
hO'll cl'" al e l1Cll1llttecl to 1110\e 111 hwendcnt,ly
of the legs" al") 1\11u c:1)\ the ()lJter le:{'3 al e permItted
to move mdelpenclln,h ot the Ctntel le~ and the top boards Il1dependently
of
,(11\
III the legs
111 other
woreL, constl uctlOn perl111tt1l1g the
1Il "CIt ton 01 one or 11101 e fillel s hefore
dlvlC1111gthe pedestal
lc~ '"
J hb ~ult 1\111be \lgC)IOusly pu~hecl as well as an} others
\\ e ma \ start In the near futl11 e \Ve arc oblIged to see that
om nght;, arc full} protected ao pl0vlded by law
Yours very truly,
IV I'3COn'3111FurnIture
Company.
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F.
Manufacturer
or
Willow
Furniture
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OF THIRTY YEARS
AGO.
Paraliraphs Copied From the Michilian Artisan
for Narch, 1881.
D Wilfson is about to erect a furniture factory in Baltimore.
James Knox is traveling for Bossom & Cuff of Boston, thIS
year.
J. W. DavIs has purchased the Wrampelmeier
factory in
LOUlsvl!le.
M. Ohmer has retlred from the firm of Ohmer & Son, of
Dayton, O.
The Louisville (Ky)
Furmture
comp3.ny closed out thelf
retaIl business.
L D. Leonard IS representing the Sligh Furmture company
m the eastern states.
E. Hemenway of Boston, V\ 111engage m the manufacture
of ebonized furniture.
Manufacturers
of furniture m Cmcinnati complain of the
~carClty of freight cars.
Charles ShlVenck, a dealer m Omaha, made his first vIsit
to Grand RapIds t1115month.
Oldenburg & Baltes of Ml!waukee, employ 150 men in the
manufacture of parlor frames.
Keck, Wmte1halter
& Co, is the name of a new firm engagmg m the retaIl furniture busines" in Detroit.
F E Warren of Cheyenne, 'vVy, bought a heavy bIll of
goods of Donnelly & Barnes, III ChIcago recently.
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Clark Brother" & Co, of Phl1adelph1a, V\ 111 furmsh the
Kaatersk1ll, a new hotel m the Catskl1l mountams.
George R Somes of F. M. Holmes & Co., Boston, was m
ChIcago recently from whence he Journeyed to St. Loms
lar.
Bbonized pallor and chamber furmture i:o not very popuIts sale IS mainly m the form of cabinets and novelties
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Telephone, Lincoln 796
is the inprotectmg
1534·1544 Greenwood
Terrace
CHICAGO
C. Kmll formerly an employe of the Phoemx Furniture
company, has opened a stock of furmture in Rock !:oland
He
IS the lllventor of a foldmg ohaIr and WIll manufacture the same
Manufacturers of
Parlor Furniture Frames
The stock of the late Marcus Stevens. in DetrOlt, has been
disposed of, C R Mabley purchaslllg the same
Mjr. Brockway, the old manager of the Stevens store, will be wIth Mr
Mabley.
By a fire on Jefferson street m Chicago recently, the followmg firms sustained losses.
H. S Carter & Co, $7,000; L. F.
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Nonnast, $2,000, Johnson & Kramer, $2.000; John B Gavin,
$3,000, Max Tonk, $8,000, Austm & Boynton, $3,000; Otto
N ettleman, $3,000.
These losses were partly msured.
George W Perkms of Pueblo, MIlton S Pnce of Syracuse,
G W Avery of Peona, Mr. Burnll of St. LoUls, Jacob Lucas,
Mamstee, D M.. Bohn, Petersboro,
Ill, A. C Rosenraad, Zeeland, C J Stanford, Atwater, 0 and W P DIlworth, Ft Scott,
Kansas, were among the buyers arriving 111Grand RapIds early
thIS month.
ChIcago correspondence
A rumor that there was a
Brusque and Rick-e-ty firm making parlor furmture III this city
has been venfied.
This IS the firm that perpetrated
an outrage
on art and the finer sens1blbtles of the people by introducing
the horse shoe (an emblem of superstItion,
suggestive of dust
and filth) as as ornament for parlor frames.
ThIS firm can
never hope to gam a foothold in the trade untl! It makes better
stock, whJ1e R1ck-e-ty has yet to learn that it IS more profitable
to be a gentleman than a bully and a loafer.
The agents of nme glue manufactunng
firms were m Grand
RapIds recently to attend a glue test.
They indulged in a
good deal of "Joshmg" dunng theIr stay.
"In the Sag111aw
valley," one remarked
"they make log chains of my glue, because It IS stronger than Iron"
"11y glue was used in constructmg
the bndge across the nver at St. LOUlS," another
modestly declared.
"Do you remember the expenence of the
Mormon farmer?" the agent from Boston inqUlred,
"No, what
was It?" mqUlred the bndge glue man.
"The Mormon farmer
claImed that he drove a herd of cattle mto Salt Lake and they
came out corned beef. HIS claim IS as well grounded as yours
about your bndge glue."
The successful man in the glue test
entered at thIS moment, when the agents proceeded to use hUll
as a pigskm m a game of football. and during the scrimmage
the offiClal report of the test was destroyed ."
H. D. Moore, travelmg salesman for the Berkey & Gay
Furmture company, has returned from a tnp through the mIddle west.
Charles Streit, of Streit & Schmitt, Cincinnati,
ventor of a sofa bed and has received letter::. patent
the same
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TO Reach OUR FACTORY
Take Clybourn Avenue car to Ashland Avenue and walk three
blocks North to Greenwood Terrace, then turn East into Greenwood Terrace. Or, Clybourn Avenue car WIthtransfer on Southport Avenue car, thence over Southport Avenue to Greenwood
Terrace and walk West.
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Robert Blast wIll open an undertaking
establIshment
at
Shelly, Iowa
Mark Dexter of Kenoml, X eb, has seoured a patent on
a tiltalble chair
C D A Fesler & Son, have succeeded vv V Fe\\, furniture dealer of Lone Tree, Ia
R. R. Hill succeeds R J Morton m the furlllture and
hardware
business at Greensrboro, X C
The Frostrburg
(l\Id)
Furlllture
company
ha\ e mo\ ed
into new quarters at 84 East ::\Ia1l1 street
The TaJilor Furlllture
and Hardvvare company of Tifton,
Ga, are bUlld1l1g a large addition to their store
The Rockford
(Ill) Desk company are planlllng an addition which will double the capacity of their plant
J S De VVItt & Co , furlllture dealers of X on'v alk, 0 , \'vIII
double the size of theIr \\ arehouse on "Yest ::\Iam street
The Anderson
Patent
ExtenSIOn
Table
company
of
Camden, N J, have mcorporated
with capItal stock fixed at
$100,000
Stevv art Brothers of Columbus ha\ e been enlarg1l1g nearly all departments
of theIr store which 1:0 no\\ the large"t m
Central OhIO
The Oppel-Spencer
company, furnIture
dealers, of Davenport, la, have changed theIr name to the Spencer Furniture company.
A C Hulett, doing busmes as the Hulett "L'nJertakmg
company is a new undertaker
and dealer m coffins, ca::,keb,
etc, at Hattiesburg,
J\1Lss
The gilt room m the Holland house, in X ew York, IS an exact reproduction
of the famous gIlt room famou::, In the hbtory of Holland house, London
J\I L BIggar has been appomted
rece1\ er for the X e\\
Ohio FurnIture
company
of Columbus,
whIch has been m
financial dIstress for some tIme
The business of John Biddle, Undertaker,
ChIcago, ha",
been 1l1corporated by E M vVood, H .\ Brolllllet ancl F 0
Mure10ck
CapItal stock, $2,500
The Jacoby FurnIture
~1anufactunng
company of York,
Pa, have installeJ new mach1l1ery and enlarged the capaclt)
of their plant nearly fifty per cent
IV VV Heisler has sold his cabinet
and upholstering
shop m Tacoma, IV ash , to H. G Clark and A Jorgenson,
::\Ir Hebler
WIll engage in tihe same business in some other
part of the state
FE,
S P and Clara H Templeton,
are the mcorporators of tlhe S P Templeton
company,
funeral Jlrector"
ot
Bloomington,
Ind
CapItal stock, $10,000
The Central LTpholstering 'Company of She1boygan, Wis,
\\ hlch \\ as organized about three montlhs ago, has purchased
a bact of land 80 by 150 feet on the Lyman flats, and WIll
erect a substantIal
factory bUlIJing to care for theIr busmess
\\ hlch has grown rapIdly from the start
Frank Miller, furnIture
clealer, ot 1\ est Pomt, X eb, h
erect1l1g a two-story
bnck bUlld1l1g \vhlch \\ III gIve hIm the
largest and most COIn elllent store m the town
The Norfolk (Va) Furniture
Manufactunng
corporatIOn
have plurchasecl the bul1d1l1g formerly u"ed by the X aval Y
M C A and are remodelmg
It for a furlllture
store
Martin P Johnson, for several years money order clerk
in the postoffice at Rockford,
Ill, has reSIgned to take an
important
p03ltlOn Vvlth the National Furlllture
company
New England chair manufacturers
in ~eepmg workmen,
many of whom
chaIr factones
and find employment
compla1l1 of dIfficult)
are mclmed to qUIt the
m the textl1e mills
George Schmulbach,
propnetor
of the Red Star Supply
company,
retail furniture,
of MemphIs,
Tenn,
has filed a
voluntary
petItIOn m bankruptcy.
LiabilitIes
$8,955, a::,sets,
$6,012.
VV E Haworth
has purchased
an interest m the undertakmg busmess
of H C SmIth of WhItewater,
IY IS The
business IS now conducted
under the firm name of SmIth &
Haworth.
The buildmg occupied by the late H. J Nelson, veteran
furnIture dealer of BurlIngton,
Vt, has been sold to a clothmg com pan)
The Nelson stock will be :sold out and the
bt1:omess dIscontmued
II 11ham A French & Co, furniture
dealers of Minneapobs, ::\1111n, have moved into their new store on First avenue, south, and EIglhtlh streets.
They now have one of the
best eqUlppeJ stores in the city
Ambrose E) on has tradeJ his furnIture store at Stewart,
::\lmn , to F E Russe for store property at Gascogne, Mmn
::\lr Russe \\ 111 take possession
of the furniture
store on
June 1 and \\ III enlarge the stock.
The \\<111of ::\Irs Rosa Fleck of MIlwaukee, whose deat1h
\\ a" noted la::,t \\ eek reqUIres her four sons to continue WIth
then Sister, a::, partner"
m the R Fleck Furniture
company
or lo::,e theIr share m the estate which is valued at $65,000.
II ;\ Flatow, formerly WIth the ~ew York Furniture
Exchange and Henry Seigel & Co , has taken a positIOn WIth
the Clark-Bo\\< chtch company
of New Haven,
Conn., who
no\\ ha\ e one of the finest furlllture
stores m New England.
1he ::\IcGee FurnIture
company
of Fall RIver, Mass,
hay e made an a.,slgnment wIlth lIabIlItIes aggregatmg
$11,000;
assets $2,000
They have offered tJhelr credItors 25 cents on
the dollar 111cash or 33 1-3 cents m notes running six, nine
and t\\ eh e months
Ed", ard T Lennartz
and L H Burger, propnetors
of
the . X ortln\ estern
Furlllture
company,"
who worked
the
popular s\\ mdlIng game in DetrOIt. were arrested and taken
back to DetrOIt for tnal on the 'Charge of obtaining
money
under fabe pretenses
\rthur
and Albert Shannon
and WIllIam Kouns have
pl1l chased tlhe stock of Hlte Brothers
& Co, furniture
dealer", Fourth and RlOh streets,
Columibus, 0, and will cont1l1ue the Dusmess under the partnershIp
name of the Outfit FUll11ture and Rug company.
Ralph S SmIth & Son, furnIture dealers of New London,
Conn, hay e sold out to their competItor
Thomas F Foran,
\\ ho \\ III cont1l1ue the busmess, separate and apart from his
Bank street store, under the name of the Foran Furniture
company
The Smith store was estalbhshed 46 years ago
D VY Cress, pr1l1C1pal of sohools wt Clearwater,
Neb,
\\ ants to engage m t1he furniture
busmess m a town ot 1,500
populatlOn w1hIch does not boast a furl11ture store.
He has
\\ ntten to the Grand RapIds boards of trade asking for the
address of manufacturers
who sell their products on the consignment
plan
Buyers in Grand Rapids.
D ?II Kahn of the SImpson-Crawford
company, New York,
J Baum of the Swgel, Cooper company, Chicago, and R. G.
Alexander of the Henry Siegel company, Boston, were among
the furl1lture buyer::, who visited Grand Rapids during the past
week.
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ARTISAN
VARNISHES
THE L. Mac E.
BLUE RIBBON RUBBING and POLISHING VARNISH,
QUAKER CITY COACH VARNISH-CABINET
FLOWING V ~RNISH,
WHITE MAPLE RUBBING and POLISHING VARNISHES;
WHITE MAPLE GLOSS VARNISHES-WHITE
REED FLOWING VARNISHES,
FLAT ALL VARNISH and ALL DULL FINISH-JAPANS,
Etc.
DIPPING VARNISHES
NOTE-Our
many years of practical experience
with the Furniture,
Plano
and kindred lines of manufacture enable us to know Just the kind and quahty of
varnishes demanded.
Also the fact that our strong corps of salesmen have an
already estabhshed trade with this class of customers
through visiting them with
fillers and stains, makes it possible for us to sell varnishes wIthout additional expense to us, which advantage we are disposed to give to our customers in quahty.
Send us a Trial Order.
THE LAWRENCE-McFADDEN
New Factories.
J.
mission
Westveld
furniture,
&Co., have established a factory, to make
porch and door ~creens, at Holland, J\llch
COMPANY
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Philadelphia
lished by the Salina Rug Manufacturing
company, capitalized
at $10,000, with Fred Hederstedt
& Co, and other business
men of the town as stockholders.
Fred Hedersted
who will
Hans Meyer of Manitowoc,
\V IS, will engage in the
wood-working
business and manufacture
bar fixtures at Two
Rivers, Wis.
The Winchester
Lumber
Manufactunng
company are
purchasing maohlllery for a new furniture factory which they
will estabhsh at \iVinchester, Ky
The Belhngham
Bay Lumber company are bUIlding a
large addition to their plant at Bellmgham,
\N ash, and are
considering the advisaJbIllty of usmg a part of it as a furniture factory.
J L HUgglllS, Mrs N eha Evans, J T Ragan and L A
Whipple, have organized the Automatic Rockmg Chair company, capltahzed
at $5,000 and wIll estalbhsh a factory at
HawkinsvJ1le, Fla.
The Ring Furmture
company, KernersvIlle,
N C, has
been organized with $50,000 capital by \V S LmvIlle, S G
Ring and others
The company wIll erect a plant for the
manufiacture of kitchen cablllets, safes, etc
WIlham
Baim, Joseph Wemlberg
and Samuel Rubin,
have incorporated
the Rollup Mattress company, capitahzed
at $10,000 to estalbhsh a factory and manufacture
and deal
in mattresses,
mattress matenal and machinery, in Chicago
Fort Brothers, MorristOlwn, Tenn, proprietors
of the J.
P. Fort Lumber company, of the same city, wIll erect a factory for the manufacture
of chairs
The proposed buildlllg
will be 40x150 feet, two stones high, and to be equipped With
modern machmery throug'hout
Salma,
Kan,
is to have.a
rug factory
It will be estab-
Made by MamsteelMfg.
Co.• Mamstee,
Mich
be the general manager has gone east to purchase machinery
and expects to have the factory ready to begin operations by
the first of July.
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Rockford Chair and
Furniture Co.
ROCKFORD,
ILLINOIS
Dining Room Furniture
BUFFETS, CHINA CLOSETS and TABLES
Library Furniture-Library
Desks, Library
Tables, Library Bookcases, Combination Bookcases, Etc.
Our entire line will be on exhibition in July
on the thIrd floor of the Blodgett Building,
Grand Rapids, Mich.
Business is Only ··So-So" in New York.
New York, :;Vlay 19-' The furmture trade h onh tall, the
usual penod of dullne% IS on Ib
There l~ 110 "nap OI \ 1m m
the trade.
All ltnes of tl ade feel the same com!Jtlon" and all
parts of the country are more or le~s m the same bcnt
Unqness cannot always be strong and \\ e have to take the l{ood
with the bad
The present conc!JtlOns al e not nnu"uaJ m tdct
occur every year
RetaIlers seem to be pt ett\ \\ ell stocked up
and there IS no heavy buymg apparently
:\IanuLtcturer,
dl e
workmg In a faIrly steady manner, \\ holesaJers are hay mg onh
moderate orders and are takmg th1l1gs eas)
Such ale the
comments made by manufacturers
and dealel ~ on the plt',cnt
busmess condItIons
The firm of F. illohr & Co, \\holesalel'
and retallel~ 01
\\ 111afrol d a 1 al e OppOl tumty to e\:pand trade
It is hoped
that ~\mellcan
manufactm ers \\ 111be as well represented
as
Germany and England
Contracts for Army Furniture.
The Gland Ledge (:\Ilch) ChaIr oOimpany has been awarded the gm ernment
contraot
for makmg dmmg room, arm
and lIbrary chairs for army officers' quarters,
WhICh will
amount to about $25,000, and the Stebbms & WIlhelm company of SturglS, :\l1ch, wl11 makel about $10,000 worth of
lIbt ary desks fat the same purpose
The contracts
were
a \\ Jrdec1 at \\ d "hmgton last Saturday.
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furmture at SIxth avenue and Thlrt) -fom th ~treet ha\ e come
to a settlement WIth thm credltors, ha\Il1g 111ddea 23 pet cent
payment, and the Cambndge
Tradmg
comp'lI1) has as~umed
all assets and habllttles and \\ III LOntIl1Ue the bus1l1e,"
Stahle Bros are handJmg 111 the ten Iton edst ot Pltt,b111 £;
the hne of the ne\\ly org-amzed Cortland
C abl let compam
whIch makes odd chma closets, three-pIece (!JnLlg re Jl11 "l1lte,
of oak and mahogany
The Amencan Lookmg Glas:o company 1Ms been II1COlp )1- ated, to make mlrror~, etc, wlth a capItal of S 10 UOO plomotecl
by Edward Van Pelt Dongla"", Saml1el G1a"er and I rLclCIlck
T DaVIes.
The Mowltz Cabmet company has been 111 '01 pOl atecl \\ lth
a capItal of $10.000, to deal m furmtl1l e by \lbert \10\\ ItL
WIllIam H Pritchal d and JulItb Roevel
The L. McGIllts Furl1lture COl11pan) ha" been IIlcOlj)or.{1tel
to manufacture
and cleal m homeholcl fllr11lture, \\ lth d. C,tpltd]
of $12,000, by AJl11111a11 McGllll", James A \J1cGIlhs and
Charles:--' McGIlhs
1hey wdl do busme,,'i 111Og-dembuIg
1\
Y.
Exposition in British
India.
An agrIcultural
and industrIal
expositlOn IS to be held
at Allahabad,
BrItIsh IndIa, opening In December ne\:t
English manufacturers
wIll be \, ell 1epl esentecI. the Gelman
government
has appoll1ted ItS commetcial
attache at the consulate-general
in Calcutta
as Impel tal speCIal cOmmt~SlOnet
for the exposition,
and It has been resolved to et ect therem a
separate German dIvision so as to more leadl1y plomote German trade interests
As many merchants
ft om China and
other Asiatic countries are expected to VISIt thIS expOSttIon It
Built with double arbors, sliding table and equipped
complete with taper pin guages carefully graduated.
This machine represents the height in saw bench construction. It is designed and built to reduce the cost
of sawing stock.
WrIte us for descriptive information.
CRESCENT
MACHINE WORKS
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Emeraency Income Tax.
The New York legislature,
havmg refused to adopt the
income tax amtlndmant,
is now consIdermg
the advI~abIlIiy
of ask1l1g congress to submIt a substItute to the lelShlatures
of the vanous states, \\~lth the Idea that It would ~urely pI event the adoptlOn of the amenJment
whIch is now awaitmg
aCLlon by the statcls
The substItute
whIch I~ called the
emergency
mcome tax amendment
reads as follows'
"Resolved,
That the senators and representatIves
in congress of the state of Now York are hereby requested
to urge
the congress to submIt to the several states an amendment
to
the federal constitution
empowenng
the federal gOVdfl1ment
to lay and collect an mcome tax in emergencIes
wIthout apportionment
among the states and wIthout reference to any
census or enumeratlOn
in substantIally
the following terms:
"ArtIcle 16. The congress shall have power to declare
that an emergclncy
yXIStS reqUlnng
addItIonal
revenue
to
meet expendItures
penmItteJ by thIS constItutlOn,
and, in connection wIth such declaratlOn,
may lay and collect taxes on
incomes;
except income consIsting
of interest
on bonds or
othclr evidences of indebteJness
issued by the U mted States
Bristol,Ct. ,Aug.16,1907.
G. R. Veneer Works,
Grand Rapids, Mich.
Gentlemen:
In reply to your letter of
Aug. 14th, we beg to call your
attention to the fac~ that our
superintendent wrote you a personal letter a few days ago coverIng the matter of the dry kiln.
By reference thereto, you will
see just what success we have
had, WhICh up to the present time
has been unqualified and we are
absolutely satisfied with its
performance.
Yours very truly,
THE E. INGRAHAM CO.
Wm. S. Ingraham, Treas.
Embossed Mouldmg Mada by Waddell Mfg Co.•
Grand RapIds, MlCh.
or by any of the seve! al states or by any mumcipal government maintained
under the authonty
of one of the Umted
States, Wlithout apportionment
among the several states and
vvIthout regard to any cCi!1SUSor enumeration,
but every act
establIshmg
such a tax shall set forth the purposes for which
the revenue aris1l1g there under shall be avaIlable, such taxes
shall be umform throughout
the United States and no act
authonzod
by these artIcles shall remam in fOJ1ce f01 a longer
period than three years"
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The managers of the Rock Island RaIlroad system '">urely
have faIth m bus mess condlltlOn" and eApelct them to glOW
better m the near future
They have Just placeJ on file in
the various states through
whIch theIr lInes run an equipment agreemCint wIth the Bankers'
Trust company
of New
York, under whIch they WIll get 3,975 freight cars, 50 PaCIfic
type locomotIves,
84 consolidated
locomotives
an,d tenders,
five dmeIs, 25 caboose", four McKeen gasolIne motor oars,
20 steCil compartment
passenger
coaches, four steel postal
cars, six combmatlOn
baggage and passe)nger cars, six steel
combmatlOn
mall and baggage
cars and 20 steel passenger
smokers, at a total cost of about $8,000,000.
K early all of the eqUIpment is to be delIvered before J an
1 next.
The Rock Island IS to pay in cash $970.253 and the
rest of the pa} ments are to be made semI-annually
m sums of
. $225,000, amountmg
to $6,750,000
For the future payments
eqUIpment bonds are to be issued.
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TRUCK TALKS
Might not convince you without evidence.
But compare a wagon to our truck,
note the similarity of construction features--
No box bearings; nothing to easily
break or get out of order; extra large
center wheels, revolving on taper turned
axles; wide treads; special first-class castings.
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 Screw Co.,
618 North Front St.
AUTO TRADE PRESENT AND FUTURE.
Enormous Growth Due to Novelty. Newness and
Extensive Advertisina.
Hugh Chalmers of the Chalmers ::\f otor Car compan)
delivered an addre"s recently, in the DetrOIt College E"ten"lOn
course, 111which he said
"The automobIle
bus111ess has been bUilt up "0 rapldh
and particularly
111DetroIt, that the people of DetrOIt generally do not reahze what the automobl1e 111dustrv means
"It is estimated that there are 150 automobIle compal11es
in the United
St<lltes. There are thlrty-fi\ e compal11es 111
MIchigan,
with a total capaClty of 140,000 cars annuall)
Twenty-five
companies
are in Detroit,
"Ith a total annual
capaClty of 85,000 cars and a total capltahzatlOn
of $30,000,000
"There are 39,000 people employed b) automobl1e manufacturers 111Detroit, and 19,000 employed by accessor)
manufacturers,
mak111g a total of 58,000 altogether
engaged
111
automdbl1e
work 111 Detroit
ThIS means that more than
200,000 people in DetrOIt are dependent
upon the automobile
ibusmess
Nearly $1,000,000 weekI) IS paId out 111\\ ages here
111 Detroit
by automobIle
and accessory
manufacturers
"Nearly
$10,000,000 b mvested
m automobile
factones
111DetrOIt
The total value of DetrOIt-made
cars tll1'- \ eat
w111 be about $200,000,000
DetrOlt manufactures
ahout 00
per cent of the natIOnal output of automdblles
The automobile industry
is now the mo"t stupendous
of all manufactured products
"Detroit
produces
any kind of a car that an) one can
want, from a $500 runabout
to an $8,000 limousme
DetrOit
has more cars per thousand
populatIOn than any other Clty
in the world except Los Angeles
Orand
Rapids, Mich.
"People
naturally
ask, How long \\111 the automobl1e
bus111ess cont111ue, and Isn't It hkely to be overdone?
Now,
I am not a prophet, and cannot tell Just what is gomg to
happen, but I beheye that the automobile
is not sulbject to
any other companeson,
because the automobl1e
IS the first
l111plOvement 111111dlvldual transportatIOn
m centunes.
The
automobl1e
ha" replaced the only tll1ng 111 our civihzation
that has been the same thlOughout
centunes,
and that is the
hor"e, so that I thInk the automobile
WIll he with us as long
as the horse has been \\ lth us. But whether or not the pubhc
can take the output of some 200 automohl1e
companies
is
another question
"1 helle\ e that the automobl1e
business
WIll be the
We are now puttmg out the best Caster Cups WIth cork bases ever
offerea to the trade.
These are fimshed m Golden Oak and WhIte Maple
m a IIght fimsh
These goods are admirable for pohshed floors and furnIture rests
They will not sweat or mar.
PRICES.
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NO OTHER
SANDER
makes it possible to dispense with
hand sanding.
Our No. 171 Sander produces a
finish on flat surfaces, irregular
shapes and mouldings that would
be spoiled by hand retouching.
Ask for Catalog liE"
No. 171 Patented Sand Belt Machine.
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leading industry of Detroit for more years yet than any of
us will live, and I am not so fearful of reaction in the present
situation,
because the1 e are so many companies
that are
building good cars located here
Of course, many people
figure that where money has been made, it still can be made,
and the danger ahead of us is that too many people wIll get
to thmking that way.
Personally,
I would not take much
stock in any new company that was Just starting, because I
belteve the competition
in the future is going to be keener
by far than it has been in the past, and competItIOn, of course
means the elimination of those who are unalble to withstand
it.
"The automobile
business requires more capital in the
conduct of it than most people realize, and, while the profits
to successful
automdbilq
manufacturers
haNe been quite
large in some instances, yet it must be remembered that the
risks have been great in the automobile business, and where
large sums have been made it must also be remembered
that large sums have been lost.
"The automobile
is the best advertised
product in the
world, largely for six reasons.
"(1) It is a new business.
New things advertise themselves
Millions buy newspapers
daily, looking for news
Everyone remembers
the first automobile
The first automobile made in this country was made by George B Selden,
whose name has become famous as a result thereof, because
of the vast amount of expensive litigation
that has taken
place over what is known as the so-called Selden patent
Automobile
manufacturers
who produce over 85 per cent of
the automdbiles
used in this country recognize the validity
of the Selden patent.
Judge Hough, of the southern
district of the United States circuit court, of New York, sustained the validity of the Selden patent, and since that time
a great many of the going concern" who fought the patent
theretofore
have come into what 1S known as the licensed
association.
Selden was the first man to build a self-propelled vehicle, and naturally secured a very broad patent for
his invention, and scarcely any other patent has been litigated over so much, and so much money spent over it, and so
much time given to its careful thought and study as the
Selden patent.
"(2)
There is a mystery about the automobile
It i" a
wonderful piece of mechanism-the
most wonderful yet invented.
It is still a curiosity in many sections
"(3)
AutomdbiLing is a sport
Automobile
racing appeals to spol1ting instinct
American people are sport-loving
people
"( 4) Automobiles
appeal to all classes of people-those
who cannot own one as well as those who can. Everyone
hopes to own an automobile some day.
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A question everyone 1S interested in. Automobiles solve the problem of mdiV'idual transportatlOn.
Multiplies the time of the business man.
"(6)
The adverttsing wh1ch the manufacturers
do themselves; that is, through
the national weekly and monthly
magazines, the newspapers,
b1Uboards and other advertising
mediums
Th1s is only one reason in SlX, and is not more important than some others in explainmg why automobiles
are
the best advertised products
Trade Between the United States and Panama_
Trade between the United States and the Repubhc of Panama will exceed $22,000,000 in the fiscal year which ends next
month, and for the seven years since the Republic of Panama
came into existence w1ll approximate $100,000,000
About ninetenths of th1s total, speaking m very round terms, is merchand1se exported from the United States to Panama and about onetenth merchand1se 1mported mto this country from that Republic.
Even these figures do not show the grand total of merchandise
sent from the United States to Panama during this period, since
such portion of the supplies for the Panama canal and those engaged in 1ts construction as were sent from time to time upon
government vessels are not mc1uded in the figures, by which
this statement of trade with Panama is reported
Just what
proportion of the merchand1se sent to Panama has been for use
in the construction of the canal cannot be definitely determined,
though the BntIsh minister at Panama recently esttmated that
about one-fifth of the total imports of the Republic were for the
commissaries of the canal zone, approximately
two-fifths for
canal supplies, and the remaining two-fifths for general use
New Furniture Dealers.
S. H
Cull will open a new furniture
store at St. Cloud,
Fla.
The H. F A. Lange company has opened a new furniture
store at 371-3 Main street, Worcester, Mass.
R. E. Lowery has opened his new furniture store in Tuscaloosa, Ala., in the building formerly occupied by the old City
Furniture company.
Andrew Peterson, who recently sold his furniture store at
Ros5eau, Mmn, will open a new furniture and carpet store at
Pelican Falls, same state.
F. H Brockway and H S. Stedman of Minneapolis, are
erectmg a blulding at P~llbrook, M\Jnt, in which they will open
a furniture store on July 1.
Tanner & Kent-B.
B. Tanner and T. V. Kent-popular
grocers of Wrightsville, Ga, have decided to go into the retail
furniture busines::,. They will open a new stock in July.
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ARTISAN
sta1 t the FurnitUl e ,IV orker.
Holbrook
gave it a good start
and then turned 1t oyer to the present
owners
N ow its
degenerate
ellttor u"e'i 1tS columns
to pubhsh
fal'iehoods
about the .\rtt'ian
The supporters
of the \Vorker livmg in
Cmcmnat1 'ihould not bCIcharged w1th ingratttude
on account
of the Jealou<;y and unfa1rness of the man who now raJutles
around m the seat, formerly filled by Holbrook,
Brown and
:\Iondschm.
"'UWL.laHIEO EVERT
MICHIGAN
SATURDAY
ARTISAN
WY THE
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SINGLE CO~IE.
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DIVISION
5 CENTS.
G,.AND
RAI"IDS.
MICH.
MANAGINQ EDITOA
Entered as lecond class matter, July 5. 1909, at the post office at Grand RapIds, MIchIgan
under the act of March 3, 1879
CHICAGO REPRESENTATIVEE LEVY.
Ever since Austraha gave us the ballot system that 1S nO\\
used in all the states and C1tles, that country ha" been generally
cons1dered as a sort of 11110delfor ad\ anced leg1slat1On
The
laws of the Austrahan
states relatlve to the ~ettlement of labor
d1sputes have frequently been commended and approved, e"peClally by so-called labor leaders, \\ ho haye declared them lIberal,
progressive,
fair and just, but there may be a change m such
sentiment soon
New South \Vales has recently enacted a la\\
that would not be pleasmg to :\..mencan labor l1111On" It em
powers any pohce officer aboye the rank of sergeant
\\ hen he
has any reasonable ground to behe\ e that an) bmldmg or place
is being used for a meetmg for mStlgatmg or a1dmg m the continuance of a stnke, or lockout, to enter such bmldmg b) breaking open doors, etc, and se1ze any documenh
\\ l11ch he may
reasonably
suspect relate to such lockout, etc
:\.. meetmg of
two or more persons assembled for the foregomg purposes. etc ,
1S declared unlawful
Any per~on takmg part m such meetmg,
who has reason to belIeve that the probable consequences of "uch
strike or lockout w1II be to depnve the publIc eIther \\ holh or
to a great extent, of the supply of a neCeSbar) com1110dlt\, shall
be lIable to Impnsonment
for 1'.\ elve months
The- purpose of
the law is evidently to protect the thIrd party-the
publIc-from
loss, injury and mconvemence dunng labor troubles a matter 111
which Americans surely need enlIghtenment
Perhaps the) may
learn from the expenence of New South \Vales
The consular
repm t;, ~hO\\ that Canada h g-ettll1g the
be<;t of the Enghsh
emIgrant;, thl~ year
Ch er 30000 ha\ e
left England for the Amencan
dommlon thb ~pnng and the
num ber is clXpectell to reach 50,000 befm e tll e end of the
summer,
while the number
commg
from England
to the
U11Ited States WIll not C1xceed 10,000
Among those ~omg to
Canada are many ..,kllled workmen
and not a fe\\ \\ lith considerable
capItal
Germany,
hO\\ e\ er, contmue..,
to send
most of her emIgrants
to the U11Ited States
Dunng
the
past Y'ear about 260,000 left that country
'Ia
Bremen and
Hamburg,
more than 70 per cent commg to thIS country and
most of the others g;mng to Argentma
anll Branl
Tho great
bulk of the German emlg1 ants are cdmmon laborer" and fc\\ of
them have any capItal
Years ago (the exact number 1S 1mmatenal)
the publl"her
of the M1ch1gan Artl"an recog11lzmg the need of a furnIture
Journal
to promote
the mterest
of the fUl11lture trade of
Cmomnatt,
despatched
"Q D" one of It;, staff (Holbrook)
to
that city w1th the ondorsements
and backmg
nece~"ary
to
The Art1"an has never neglected
the shghtCist opportunIb to expres'" 1tS v10lent antipathy
for anythmg
and e1verythmg connectecl w1th or emanatmg
from the C1ty of Cincinatl -Fur11lture
\IV orker
The author of the above is a malicious liar. He knows
the above charge against
the Artisan
is untrue,
but a lie
sel ves his purposes as well as the truth.
He hes at all timesawake or asleep
By re-electmg A F. Karges of Evansville
to the office
of pre'ildent,
the National
Furmture
Manufacturers'
assooiation recogmzed
the fa1thful servvce of a tried and true
offic1al and reta111ed the cont111uance of a 'iervant who would
"<l.cnfice porsonal 111terest to promote the welfare of the trade.
E\ ans\ l11e \Vas strongly
represented
at the meeting
of
the Kat10nal Furmture
assoc1ation in Ch1cago.
With Benja111111Bosse, Harry Schu, "Ed" Ploeger,
A. F Karges
and
other:, of the1r class present, Evansville
exercised a salutary
111fluence 111the deliberat10ns
of the assoClation.
'\ resolut1On has been introduced
in Congress calling for
the appointment
of a comm1ttee to investigate
the express
oompames
"Yhen the committee
shall bel app0111ted and the
spade~ are put into the companies'
affiairs, let every business
ma'l prepare to hold h1s nose
It i" whbpered
by delegates
who attended
the meel1ing
of the 1\atlOnal Furmture
Manufacturers'
association
at Chi~
cago, that the CO'it of manufacturing
goods is still an un--01'.ed problem
Thelre are a considerable
number of guesser:, still 111the busmess
The 1110st effectlve rt:lgulatIon of the business
of transportmg
small packages
would follow the passage
of the
parcels post bill, now pIgeonholed
in the rooms of the house
COml11lttee on postal affairs, at Washington.
To 11\e do\'. n the regrets of not having engaged in the
furniture
manufBctunng
business
1S beooming
morel difficult for the people of the world
Property
owners expect that Gary, Ind, will become a
great cIty
All 1t needs to attam and retain greatness
is ten
or twelve furmture
factories
RetaIler.., of Grand Rapids will partIcIpate
largely
fes1Jlvltles of h0111e coming week in August next
Ltfe 1S not e2Gactly "one
mg salesmen 111the furniture
One 1110nth hence
be m b10ss0111
the
grand,
trade.
furmture
,",weet song,"
for travel-
eXpO'iirt:1On season
SpeCla1 sales 111porch and lawn furmture
soon
111the
will
\\111 be in order
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GRAND
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MICH.
Don't you want the BEST bench that was
ever offered for the price, $12.00 (Subject to
discount) This bench is 34 inches high, 6 feet,
3 inches long-front 15 inches; made of thoroughly
kiln-dried hard maple strips glued together, 2 %
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Can ship on receipt of order.
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Orientals Originated the Cabinet.
The rage for cablllets 111 France onginated during the reign
of Henry III, althoough the Onentals were the first to make them.
However, It was the Itahan artIsts who chiefly excelled in the constructlOn and still more, In the decoratIOn of cabinets, wIth the
result that from the end of the sIxteenth century the demand for
those exported from the peninsula became immense.
The ItalIan manufacturers
used for them costly exotic
woods, whIch they used wIth colored marquetene, Ivory, shells
and mother of pearl, ennched WIth je~ elry, glvlllg a new impulse
to artIsans and craftsmen
The use of bronze In the ornamentatlOn of French furmture, of whlCh ,,0 many examples eXIst,
was WIthout doubt "uggested by the delightful comblllatiom of
gold and sdver designed by cabInet makers beyond the Alps.
The use of tortoise shell plaques, In which the Boulles excelled,
w.as also eVIdently suggested by the mosaics which Florentine
artists began 111 the Imddle of the sixteenth century, to work into
theIr cabmets and table tops.
At the beglll11lng of the century an incomprehemlble
and
melancholy whIm led northern craftsmen to use ebony, originally a mere accessory of marquetene, as a material for the whole
of the cabmets made by them, WIthout anythlllg to relIeve It, and
it was to study thIS kind of work that Henry IV sent a corps
of carefully selected workmen to Holland, assigning them quarters in the Louvre, on their return and dubbing them "menuisiers
en ebene,'; whIch I'; the ongin of the name "ebenists," given to
makers of furniture.
A great many Itahan cabinets have been pre"erved in
France, one of whl':.:h in the Cluny museum, may be mentlOl1ed
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as a typical example
It is of very complicated structure, so
overladen with all manner of ornamentation that it is really less
hke a work of art than a masterpIece of tncks of vanous trades.
From It the French got the Idea of using bronze, inlaying with
gold and silver in iron.
A Valuable Little Book.
The Amencan Blower company of DetrOlt, will have ready
for distributlOn at the Foundrymen's
convention, at Detroit,
June 6 to 10, a handsome book, the title of which will be embossed upon the cover as follows:
"Blower Equipment
for the
Modern Foundry."
The work embodies a treatise on foundry heating and ventilation by F. R. StilI. A section is devoted to driving of cupola blowers by dIrect connected electric motors
Several applications of exhaust fans and ventilating apparatus are illustrated.
An interesting comparison of the generating of electric current by isolated electric light and power plants, with the purchase of current statIOns, is worked out, giving Just the information the average manufacturer
needs to consider.
The book wiII be mal1ed gratis to 1l1telested parties.
The fatiher of tW1l1Scan't be blamed 1£ he has a deuce of a
tIme over them
SEND FOR CATALOGUE.
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EASTERN WOOL MARKETS.
Prices
for New Clip Will Be Lower Than a
Year Alio.
New York, May 19 -Importers
of carpet \\ ools \\ ho expected to see the demand
for raw matenal
qUIcken thIs
week have been dlsappolllted
It IS e\ Ident that the miii<:
have been so busy wIth the fall openlllgs that \ ery lIttle tIme
could be gn en to the \\ 001 market
The bustle attenchng the
onening of a new season, howey er, \\ 111<:ttbslde \ en <:hortly
anJ It is reasonable to suppose that ra\\ matenal \\ 111reLen e a
greater degree of attention
Carpet wool buyers hay e been out of the market for so
long a tIme that dealers hay e been consIderably
perple"xed
regarding
the matter
Some tnne ago It \\ a" concluded that
all of the mills have had a larger store of \\ 001 than mo"t
market factors would concede \\ as the fact
As the factone"
were well under order, and WIth rare exceptIons
con<:umln~
enormous amounts of \\ 001, the ..,ource of supph \\ as rather
puzzhng, even if the manufacturers
har! a surplth III eAces_ of
normal III hand
DUring the past \" eek <:tathtlclan"
In the
trade began to compIle the figures \\ hlch sho\\ the \\ Ithdrawals from bonded warehouse
from week to week and the
results arrived at went far 111solving thIS \"001 nddle
The
WIthdrawals
slllce the first of last December,
hay e not onh
been steady, but they have been on a pretty large <:cale During the twenty-two
weeks that hay e passed S111ce December
1, 1909, the average
weekly WIthdrawals
of Chllla" alone
amounted
to 450 bales, each conta111111g about 500 pouncls of
wool
It can be seen readIly by these figures that near"
5,000,000 pounds of Chllla wool has gone 111tOconsumptIOn.
while the market remained practically
dormant
In adci!tlon
there was a huge volume of Class III \"001 of othel descnptions wlthdra\\ n also
\iVhile the cost of Chllla wool appears very high to some
buyers, it is interesting
to note that OW111gto an advance III
the rate of exchange the cost of these wools on thIS market
is about 7 per cent lower than the pnces buyers would be
compelled to pay on the primary market
It may be stated,
however, that no large quantities
of Chll1a \\ 001 are at present procurable
on the prodUCing centers
The arnval of addItional
;,ample'3 of ne\\ clip \\ 001 from
the territOries
is being awaIted by the leadlllg handlers,
and
it is expected that WIth larger consIgnments
than those obtainable last season the local market w11l be more of a factor
III these
wools than It was during the recent past
That the
basis of value WIll be more reasonaJble IS a foregone
conclusion, as the co"t of Imtial shIpments
sho\\ s a declllle of
about 20 per cent compared
WIth the figures named at the
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beginning
of the last season
The latest advices from Texas
'3tate that sheanng
IS gOlllg on in all sections of the State,
but \\ 001 gro\\ ers are not quotlllg pnces to dealers or mills
as yet
Classification Committee in Grand Rapids.
The railroad freight claso,ification commIttee,
consIsting
of R '\ Call} er, chaIrman,
E H Dulaney, R C Fyfe, G H
Kelland, F II ::\leadows, R. N Powe, F W SmIth, J N
Stead\\ ell anJ Elmer H ·Wood, visited Grand Rapids this
\\eek and put III two days investigating
WIth a vIew of framIng claSSIficatIOn rnles that may be used III all section'3 of the
countn
II hlle III the city the gentlemen
were the guests of
the local FurnIture
::\lanufacturers'
aSSOCIation
On Thursday
the commIttee dl\ Ided Illto gronps each accompamed
by a local
freIght man and an escort of furmture manufacturers
selected
by Presdent
AddIson S Goodman, viSIted and ins,pected local
furl1lture
factOries.
givlllg packlllg
and shipping
methods
.,peClal attentIOn
In the evening the committee
was entertamed at an mformal dlllner Iby the transportation
commIttee
of the hoard of trade, E K Prichett,
chairman.
The work on Fmday was in the same line as on Thursday, considerable
time was given to consultation
with local
raIlroad agents
In the evening the furniture
manufacturers'
aSSOCiatIOn enterta1l1ed the committee wit ha d1l1ner served in
the GUIld rooms
ChaIrman
Collyel and other members of the committee
express themselves
as confident
that their "Work will result
III the adoption
of Ulllform classification
rules ,by the western
and <:outhern as"oclatlOns and hope to be alble to induce the
ea<:tern and PaCIfic coast associatIOns to adopt them
\t the dllll1er Thursday
night, Mr Collyer repeated the
hI" tOr) of cla s'3ificatlOns, '3ubstantially
as given in his New
York and ChIcago addresses,
whIch have he en pubhshed
III
the II'eekly Artisan
He also (hscussed
the Importance
of
proper packlllg, and complimented
Grand RapIds furl1lture
"hlppers
on high standard
maintallled
here
"The freight
los"es and damage in this country,"
he said, "IS e;,timated at
$20,000,000 a year and thl" with the fire loss represents
a
tremendous
draw upon the national resources and should be
regarded as one item in the higher CO'3t of living
Before the
question of ratll1g can be considered, the conditIOns precedent
to the receIpt of freIght mllSt be determllled
and thIS is what
the committee
is now trying- to arrive at.
"An adjustment
of classification
would not be immediately accompanied
[by a readjustment
of tariff scales to a
common basis per ton mile in all parts of the country, although that might come in time, ,but it would make the condItIon" of shIpment the same in all sections, and make it pos-
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It's not dIfficultto produce the popular effects required for
MISSION FINISHED PORCH FURNITURE
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But Porch Furniture demands more than the mere effects.
It demands durability under outdoor conditions.
AURORA PORCH STAINS
have been perfected after much study and experiment. They meet the NEW need. They resist
the weather lIke first class paint, yet retain the transparentbeauty of high grade stain.
WEATHERED OAK, MISSION BROWNS, MOSS GREENS,
DULL BLACKS, SOFT REDS, AND OTHER POPULAR EFFECTS.
Write for sample panel.
To facilitateprompt attention,address Desk No.3.
MARIETTA PAINT 8 COLOR CO.,
sible to properly
e~press the relation which each article
should bear to the whole classification
scheme throughout
the country
It is no part of the present work to put ratmg
.on the classification, yet a near wpproach to this is m hav1l1g
to decide what articles shall Ibe recognized
as entitled to
carload rating, as this determines minimum carload weight
The furniture shippers of Grand RapIds are much intere'ited in the plan for minmum carload weight of larger size
than standard.
I am famtliar with the competItIve
forces
that you face in putting your goods into western markets and
m the growing burden of decreasmg
supplies of raw material.
The same condItion faces the New England manufacturers.
The solutIon
is an increasingly
high standard
of output
as compared
with
competitIve
manufacturers.
I take
It you will be satIsfied
to adjust
your shipping condItIOns to whatever rule may 1:le adopted
provided your competitors are made to work under the same
rule"
A general dIscussion of shIpping problems followed Mr
Collyer's address, dunng which the fact was brought out that
glass front furlllture traveled more safely if crated than If
boxed, handler bse1l1g more careful when they see the glass
and also 1:lecause the crates are easIer to handle. ThIS seemed
to be news fOI Mr Colyer, but several of those who jomed in
the dIscussion confirmed It
A Crisp Criticism.
EdItor Weekly Artisan
Dear SIr
In a recent ISSue of your paper, the resolutIOns
of the executIve committee of the National RetaIl Furniture
Dealers' association adopted m Chicago, was published.
The
points covered m the resolutions are well taken, and doubtless
Marietta, Ohio.
represent the Ideas of the entire retail trade, but, how effective are the Ideas of the retail trade with some of the factone'i
when a test occurs?
How generally do the factories adhere
to their avowed purpose when an opportulllty
occurs to get
a good sized order mdirectly?
How would the trade look at an instance of an order being
accepted for a small hotel from a dry goods firm who have
not a single article of furniture on sale
The dry goods firm
in question have made an announcement
that later in the year
they would add a furlllture department
to their store, but at
present time, when an order was sent factory, the buildmg for
furniture department
was m actual use as an office buildmg
The hotel order was a side issue
How does this instance impress trade, represented
by
the dealers' associations?
A patron desired to match out a
sectional bokcase by adding three sections
As natural m
these days, the lady wrote the factory for pnce, and at same
time placed her order WIth local firm, but in the course of
three days called to say that she had received a reply from a
factory offenng to deliver the parts at one-third off the manufacturers' ltst, plus $100 for freight?
How largely do the factories protect the dealer described
in the resolution that reads.
"The associatIOn recognizes no
one as a legitimate and bonafide furniture dealer except such
as carry at all tImes a full stock of furniture, commensurate
with the localtty in which they are doing business"
We all know high class factories that advertIse largely
who never send out good'i dIrect.
But the exceptions, how
about them?
If these inCIdents occur in one place doubtless
they do in others
A Retatler
Colorado
Springs,
\iVho Reads The Artisan.
May 17, 1910.
THE PENDING FEDERAL RAILROAD BILL
Some of the Important Fe'atures That Are Now Expected to Be Approved
by Congress.
That Congrcs:o will pa"s the pending I aill odd hill I" no\\
genenally conceded
That 1t \\ III dlfter \\ 1del) m mam part1culars from the bill drawn and apprm ed b) Prc"ldent Taft
1S equally apparent
The bill ha:o been amendeJ so radically
and so frequently that 1t has been difficult to keep posted on
the charges, but the followmg synopsh \\ 111em er the mo~t
,important of them
Both hou"e and "enate ha\ e taken ~Tcat
hberties w1th the ongmal measure, making changes \Hthout regard to the PreSident's recommendatIOns,
and as the)
are yet at variance, more amendments
are hkely to be made
before the bill becomes a law
The merger clause, wh1ch \\ as m effect an attack on the
Sherman law, has been elimmateJ,
as was abo the sectIOn
rUl1horizing traffic agreements among the ra1lroads.
Sections 13, 14 and 15, providmg a plan for the regulation of the
capitalization
of railroad corporatIOns, ma) also be dropped
from the senate bill, but the house has adhered to them, and
has, besides, incorporated
mto 1b bill a number ot equallY
Jrastic and far-reachmg
assertIOns of gOYern mental authority
One of these makes 1t obhgator)
on the ra1hoacb to
quote rates correctly to sh1ppers; another gives the Interstate
Commerce (ommblOn
power to m1tJate 111\e<;tJgatlOn on 1h
own complaints;
a third prOVides for a Slxt) -da\ su<;pen~lOn
of t ates pend111g an investigatIOn
b\ the comml s"lOn m to
their reasonableness,
and a fourth extends the scope of the
act, with very doubtlful con"tJtutlOnal \\ arrant, to tele~raDh
and telephone compallles domg an mterstate
bU:'lmes"
The "long and short haul clause" lS another feature of
the proposed leg1slatlOn \",hleh, 1f mcorporated
therelll a"
something more than a "Jokel," \\111 mark anotht:r departure
from the admm1stratlOn's
program
'3till another, and of
greater 1mportance, 1S the clause prov1c!lng for the ph) ~Ical
valuation
of ratlraods-wh1ch
the mter:otate
comm1:O"lon
might today undertake 1f 1t had the funJ", a<; It ha<; thc pm\ er
~or
any of a numlber of other matter" appeanng
m the
origmal measure or grafted on 1t as amendment,
Not only 1S the \\ hole "cherne of rate" \ Itall) m\ oh ed
in 1he issue presented by the long and short haul quc:'ltliJn,
No 9-Porch
Large size.
Chair
Oak Seat
Green or MISSIOn Finish.
Weight, 20 pounds
RICHMOND
No to-Porch
Large size
hut the pl"'lpellty
of sechon:o and commulllties
and the
mo\ ement:'l of trade dl e ahke conce~neJ
On the theory that
the\ mlbt meet \\ ater cOlmpetltlOn to advantge wherever it
eX1sts, or has e:X1sted and 1Shkely to eX1st agam, the ra1lroads
ha\ r b111lt up a sy:otem of late" under wh1ch intenor points
are flagrantl)
0\ ercharged
m order to recoup losses resultmg
from e'Ctraordmar)
la\" rates to coast pomts and places along
the larger rl\ ers
Fre1ght tanffs are replete wttth instances
m \\ hlch an even much htgher rate is charged for the short
haul than for the long haul over the same route
For instance, as has been explameJ by senator Smoat of Utah, the
rate on \\ ood from Sdlt Lake C1ty to Boston is $2.13 per hundred \\ e1ght, hut 1f the shtpment of wool origmating at Salt
Lake mO\ ed 'louthwest
to Los Angeles, Cal, a sea coast
center, and trans pOl ted thence to Boston through Salt Lake,
the fre1ght charlSe 1S only $192 per hundred weight.
In
other \\ ords the t ailroads carry the wool sh1pment destmed
to l~o:oton to Los Angeles and hack to Salt Lake C1ty for
21 cenb less than nothmg, as compared with the Salt Laketo-Bo"ton charge
Slmllarly the transcontinental
rates to Seattle, Tacoma
and other ~ orthwest PaClfic c1ties are cons1derably less than
those to such an 1l1lportant intermediate
pomt as Spokane.
Thh "ort of Jugghng enables the Seattle Jobber to Sh1p his
good, mto Spokane m competJtlOn WJth the jobber at that
pomt catellng
to local trade, as the sum of the through
rate to Seattle and the local to Spokane 1S less than the direct
rate from the east to tJhe latter
Prett)
much the same rate SituatIOn obtains with respect to the terntory of the l'ower l\IbSlsslpp1 river
To dnve
the boats off the stream the ra11 carriers adjusted their tar1ff<; to a \ er} low level for all long hauls
On first class
fre1ght a ulllform rate of 40 cents from Memphis to every
rl\ CI pomt south was prov1ded, the schedule applymg nTIpartlall)
to Helena, Greenvtlle, Natches, Vlcksburg,
Baton
Range nd ~e\\ Orleans
The re"ult was, wnth rates on other
cla"~e" of fre1ght slmilarl) reduced, the boats had to abandon
the long hauls and ha\ e practtcally
disappearcd
from the
Rocker
Oak Seat
Green or MISSIOn FIUlsh
Weight 2tYz pound.
CHAIR
COMPANY,
No. l1-Porch
Settee.
Seat 40 Inches long, 17% Inches deep
Oak Seat.
MISSIOnfimsh
Weight, 32 pounds.
RICHMOND, INDIANA
Green or
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aClflCBUllmng, Scatde, Wash, Ohver Mac/unery Co ,20)·203 Dean.gale, Manchester, Ena
lower lIver, the few remainmg
clUSIvely m local serVIce
steamer'S
being
engaged
ex-
at <:11hazards, in the new raIlroad legIslation in congress.
It
IS not pOSSIble, to be sure, to adopt a mIleage baSIS for rate
Senator
Bnstow
of Kansas,
in dIscussing
these facts
makmg, nor yet a zone basIS, but thIS thmg of overchargmg
from the hIstory of raJ1road and steamboat
competItIon
111 Spokane for the benefit of Seattle, and of laying a heavy rate
the south, l11troduced several l11terest111g IllustratIOns
on hIS burden on BIrmingham,
Ala, to compel15ate for unreasonably
low ra tes made to V teks burg or New Orleans-in
other
words, of makmg the 111tenor cities pay for the unprofitable
handlmg of the bUSIness of sea ports or certam nver pointsshould be brought to an abrnpt and defimte end. A clause
prohlbltmg
the charging of a le'SS rate for the long than for
the short haul over the same road should not only be 111corporated m and made an enforceable
feature of federal law,
but, m addItIon, the Interstate
Commerce commISSIon should
be gIven the authonty
to oven ule a rate vvlhICh 111 itself IS
unprofitalbl1e, or I~ even unreasaiJ:>ly low 111 the matter of earnmg power
Five Hundred Houses at Carey.
No. 1730-1730 Pull.
Made by Grand RapIds Brass Co, Grand Rapids, MICh.
own account
One of thebe reldted to cotton shipments
flam
MemphIS to New Orlean,
The dIstance between these two
CItIes IS 396 mJ1e:", and the rate on cotton over that distance
is 20 cents per hundred weIght
On the other hand, the rate
from Jackson, MIss, to New Orleans, a distance of 183 mJ1es
over the same raIlroad, IS 33 cents per hundred weIght, or 13
cents hIgher than the ]\1<::mphi'S-New Orleans tanff schedule
All shlprpers, except those dJrectly benefitted,
agree that
such VIcious absurdItIes
111rate-making
should be inhi1bited,
Plans have been submitted
to BUIlding Commissioner
VV. H Kltver of Gary, Ind, by offiCIals of the Amencan
I3ndge company, for the constructIon
of 200 houses for its
employes, to cost from $1,500 to $3,500.
Plans are also being
prepal ed for the American
Sheet & Tm Plate company for
the constructlOn
of 300 dwellll1gs, rang111g from $2,500 to $5,0
5 0 Both compa11les are Sub<'lcllary plants of the U11ltec1
States Steel corporatlOn,
and are now erecting large plants
near the sites of the IndIana Steel company.
The plant of the
Amencan
Sheet & 1'm Plate company vv ill be one of the largest of Its kmd m tJhe world.
Rtehes take unto them'Selves
market often proves It.
wings
A filer in the stock
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Minnesota
Retail Furniture
Association
Dealers'
OFFICERS-PreSIdent
J R. Taylor, Lake Benton, Mlnn , Vice· President, D. R Thompson, Rockford, Mlnn ,
Treasurer, B A Schoeneberger,
Perham, MInn Secretary, W L. Grapp, Janesvdle, Minn
EXECUTIVE
COMMITTEE-Chairman,
Geo Klein, Mankato, Minn., 0 Simons, Glencoe, Mlnn; W. L
Harns, Mmneapolls, Mtnn , C. DanIelson, Cannon Fans.
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BULLETIN
Housefurnishing Store Advertising.
The advertIsmg manager of the Rhodes-Burford
Furniture company, St. Loms, dehvered the fo11o\\ mg address to
the company's employes recently, and It b \\ orth perusal by
salesmen as well as dealers m furnIture'
"N ewspaper pubhClty IS but a part of the great ach ertIsing force of thIs store-those
wmdo\\ dlspla\ s, our dell' er}
serVIce, our office force, our collectIOn department,
the condItion of our store, our sales force-are
the parts that make
up the whole great force, advertI"mg,
upon \\ hlch depends
the ultimate success of thIS great store
"Upon the part of each, then, there must be a perfect
harmonIOus workmg WIth the other-the
closest co-operatIOn
If our newspaper pubhcity, our \\ Indo\\ dIsplay s, bnng peo-
No.
140.
tour of inspectIOn
She asks to be shown a ladies' writing
de"k
Salesman shows her the line
Never stops to ask her
'o'o
hat filllSh she prefers, nor to ascertain albout what priced
pIece she deSIred to purchase, but pIcks up the first tag, says,
"Quartered
oak, $77S"-the
ne'<:t, "the same finish, $97S,"
and so on down the hne
Salesmen, that isn't selling voods,
that Isn't backll1g up your store's publiCIty-that's
just simply
calling pnces
IVhat this store wants-what
it must haveare \\ holesouled,
heart-in-their-work,
painstaking,
attentIve
salesmen
\\ e have no room for order takers
" \mong "alesmen personal appearance counts for a whole
lot
IV e aren't all able to affO! d $60 taIlor made suits and
patent leather shoe", but we can all wear clean linen, keep
what clothes \\ e do possess neat and clean, our hands and
Are you partll~lly responSIble for the addItion to thIS week's cartoon by not using the
a68oClatlOn helps WhIChthe aSSOCIation brmg6110 you to meet this competlOn WhIChIndIVIdually. you could not? Think It over and watch this picture grow next week.
pIe mto our store, both have done their duty, they have
created the deSIre, and that IS all that we can expect ut them
"We shall endeavor to Impress upon the mll1cb ot the
people of St Loms a dIfferent store, a better "tore, a thoroughly dependable store, a store where theIr satbfactlOn 'o'o
III
be glVen first attentlOn
\Ve can accompll"h thIS onh through
a better antI dIfferent SOlt of pubhClty
But bear m mmd
that this pubhcIty, no matter how much better, how dIfferent
In every way, IS but a small factor of the greater force upon
\\ hiCh thIS store depends for ultImate succes"
"Can you conceIve of anything mOl e dIsastrous to thIS
store's welfare than a splendId publICIty campaIgn, not backed
up? Here's a woman, for instance, who has read our opening announcement
She comes to the store filled \\ Ith e,,pectancy
ThIS IS a new store to her
The ad'o ertI~ement
she has Just read speaks m glowmg terms of ne\', goodssplendId assortments
of them-an
unexcelled sen Ice \Vhen
she reaches the store, behold-the
store's wllldows, poorly
arranged goods dusy and dIrty
Instead of addmg to her
expectancy It has retarded It and now she wonders
"On the other hand, had those wllldows been artlstlcalh
trimmed, as attractive as store wllldows can po",,1bly he made
-what
an Impetus her already created expectancv
would
have received
Take it for granted they are such
She enters
the store, a salesman approaches her-and
they start on a
tingel naIls clean
I tell you, salesmen, the part you play
ha~ a 111Ight} Important
beanng upon the success of thIS
store, and \ our o\\n future success as well
How well are
\ ou gOlllg to play your part?
E'oen thOlough salesman knows hIS goods
He mU3t
kno\\ them to be able to present them to his customers as
they should be presented
It's thorough
knowledge
that
enables you to make "ales
And upon every branch of the
store's produclllg force devolves the same task, and to that
end all :ohould pull WIth every pos"lble effort-the
customer's
entire satisfactIOn
A sharp reply over the te1ephone-dehvelles promIsed and not fulfilled-impudent
collectors-a
d1scourteous carpet layer or delIvery man-may
result in a
lo"t cu"tomer
. I :oav to "au, III all faIrness, If you can't put forth your
"\ ery be"t eft art, If your heart isn't III your work-Ill
the name
ot falfne"s to the management,
to whom the success of this
"tore means so much-hand
your reSIgnation to the manager
no\\ and let h1l11fill your place with someone who will do
for Rhodes-Burford
what he would expect them to do for
h1m 'ol,ere he the employer and they the employed.
"The sort of publlClty that w1ll be given this store if properly and Illtelhgentlv backed up WIll mean unquallfied succe"" for thIS great store, and this store's success means your
success"
Minnesota Retail Furniture Dealers' Association.
BULLETIN No. 141.
One of our members
abked
'Why don't we 0\ erdraw
our
we feel that If we cannot
get busllless
on the ment
of the goo
our advertlsmg
umts
a lIttle
underdrawn
than overdrawn
Yo
and sees that the real artICle IS even mOl e pleasmg
than the de
meet our customers
personally
and we would a great
deal rath
and then have hIm find that the article
does not look as well as
you must conduct
your busllless
along truthful
lines
We feel
A High Grade Kitchen Cabinet.
F3G No
o - 0 1
T hIs
h and
y,
dur a bile
kItchen
cab In et
I s made
of har d
wood
1ll
golden
oa k or
natural
fimsh
The top IS 26 x 42
lllches
and It has a large
flour blll
a drawer
whICh can be used for cutlery and a kneadmg
board
ThIS
cablllet
IS made by one of the most
modern
and best eqUIpped
factorIes
It IS very well constructed
and only
the best matenal
IS used
It IS an
e"ceptlOnally
good value for the pnce
ad,ertlsmg
UnIts the same "'S some of the catalog
houses
do?"
Our reply IS that
ds as they really are, we are not entItled
to It
Therefore,
we would rather
have
u use these advertlsmg
units to brmg the customer
to your store
When he comes
se rJptlOn led hIm to beheve
the sale IS made a great
deal eaSier
We have to
er have hIs full confidence
than to coax hIm mto our store wIth overdrawn
pICtures
he was led to believe
it would
If you wIsh to bUIld up a permanent
bUSllless,
that we can follow thIS po!Jcy 1ll preparmg
our advertlslllg
umts
and Wlll out
A Special Value in a Kitchen
CabiJ1et.
F
N
3 6
0
o
07
T hIs
s e 1
VI
C
-
A Durable Kitchen Cabinet.
F 3 6
N 0
0-0 3
.r hIS
n eat
kltcr, -
e n
e-
a b I e
hlg
h
grade
kltch -
en ca...
bIn et
I~ made of hard wood m the natural
or golden oak fimsh
It has a 26x46
mch top
two large
bms whIch
can
be used for flour, sugar
or meal
two
good
sIzed
drawers
whIch
can
be
used
for
cutlery
and
a kneadmg
board
ThIS cablllet
IS hIgh grade
1ll every
respect
and WIll be a ,aluable
addItIon
to any
kItchen
It
IS very
convemently
arranged
and
cannot
fall to gIVe satisfactIOn
cabInet IS
made
o f
11 ar d
wood m natural
or golden oak fimsh
The top IS 26 x 46 lllches and It has
a large
flour
bm,
tw 0 good
sIzed
drawers
whIch can be used for cut
lery
a
spacIOus
cupboard
and
a
kneadmg
board
The constructIOn
IS of the best
and only first
class
matenal
IS used
ThIS cabInet
IS
very convenIently
arranged
and can
not fail to gIVe satisfactIOn
It WIll
add a neat
finIshing
touch
to any
kItchen
___
WIth type, 40c
WIthout
type, 25c
PrICe of kItchen
cab met
bels
$2.47.
to our
mem-
A Neat Kitchen Cabinet.
WIth type
40c
WIthout
type
25c
PrICe of kitchen
cab met
bers, $3.33.
to OUI mem-
.:A Popular Kitchen Cabinet.
F36
No
1 - 9 1
ThIs well
co nstruct e d
kitchen
ca b Inet
I s made
of hard
wood
In
the
natural
or
golden
oak
finIsh
The
top IS 26
'{42 mche s an d
the base
has a large
flour bin, a good sIzed
drawer
and a kneadmg
board
The
top has a very neat and convenIent
arrangement
of two
medIUm
large
cupboards
and four drawers
ThIS
cabmet
makes
a very
pleasmg
receptacle
for
the
varIOus
kl tchen
utenSIls
and cannot
fall to appeal
to
every housekeeper
kItchen
cabInet
IS made
of ha rd
wood
m
the
natural
or
golden
oak fimsh
The top IS 27 x
44 lllches
and It has an e"tra
large
flour
bm,
a spauous
cupboard
for
pans,
etc,
a lalge
drawer
and
a
kneadmg
board
It IS made by e'{penenced
cabmet
makers
and
only
the best matenal
I~ used
The arrangement
of thIS cablllet
IS some
thmg
that
those
havmg
small
kItchens
WIll apPI ecmte
Vllth type, 40c
WIthout
type, 25c
Price of kItchen
cabmet
to our
bers,
$4.38. Price
of base,
Pnce
of top
$1 90
WIth type
40c
WIthout
type
25c
Price of kItchen
cabmet
bers, $5.46.
mem$247
F36
No
o - 0 2
T hIs
hand-
s
0
m e
to OUr mem-
WIth type
40c
Without
type, 25c
Price of kItchen
cabmet
bel s, $3.66.
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to our
mem-
A Handsome Kitchen Cabinet.
F36 No
5 - 9 3
T hIs
neatly
arranged kl tc hen
cabmet
IS made
of hard
woo
d
In
the
natural
or gold
en oak
finIsh
The top
IS 26x4b
mches
and It has a large
flour bm
two
good
sIzed
drawers,
a roomy
cupboard
for
pans,
etc ,
and
,l
kneadmg
board
The
top
has
a
very pleasmg
arrangement
of se, en
drawers
the one m the center
bemg
shghtly
larger
than the otherb
Just
what you need for your kItchen
WIth type, 40c
WIthout
type, 25c
Price of kItchen
cabmet
to our
ber~, $5.56
Price
of base
Pnce
of top, $1 90
mem$3 66
A Roomy Kitchen Cabinet.
I A Very Popular Kitchen Cabinet
F36 No
2 - 4 1
't' hIs
pleasm g
In tchen
cabInet
IS made
of har d
wood In
the natural or golden oak
fIn 1 s h
.rhe top
IS 26x42
Inches
and
the
base has
a large
flour bm
a go 0 d
s I zed
drawer
and a kneadlllg
board
The top has
a roomy chma closet fitted WIth glass
doors
Thel e IS a shelf
extendmg
the full WIdth of the cabmet
ThIS
handsome
cabmet
WIll be an Orna
ment to ~ our kItchen
F36 No
4 - 9 7
T hIs
h I g h
grade
kltche n
cabme t
IS made
of hard
wood m
the natural
or
gol d en
oak fin
Ish The
top
IS
26 x 46
mches
and the
bas
e
hab two large bms WhICh can be used
for flour
meal
or sugar
two good
sIzed
drawers
and
two
kneadlllg
boards
The
top has
a very
neat
and convement
arrangement
of three
medIUm
sIzed
drawers
and
three
small
ones
ThIS cabmet
WIll make
a most
pleaslllg
addItIOn
to your
kItchen
--------A Very Substa';tial Kitchen Cabinet.
F36 No
'i - 5 3
ThIS attractIve
kl t chen
ca blnet
IS made
of ha rd
wood In
natural
01
golden
oa k
fm I sh
The
top
I ~ 2 6 x
46 mches
an d
the base
has
a
1 a 1" g e
flour bIn,
a spaClouschlna
close
t
tor pans
etc
two good sIzed drawers
and a
kneadlllg
board
The
top has a
roomy
chma closet
fitted WIth glass
doon
and a shelf
extendmg
the en
tire WIdth of the cablllet
You WIll
find one of these
cabmets
a great
convemence
m your kItchen
WIth type, 40c
WIthout
type
25c
PrIce of kItchen
cabmet
to our
bel'S, $5.80.
PrIce
of base,
Price of top $3 33
WltlJ type, 40c
WIthout
tvoe
25c
Price of thIS cabmet
to our members
$5.80.
Price
of base, $333
PrICe
of top $247
WIth type
40c
,;Vlthout type 25c
Price oj' kItchen
cabmet
to our membel'S $6.99.
Price
of base
$3 66
Price
of top, $3 33
'
mem
$2 47
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MINN.
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SIGNIFICANT
ARTISAN
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LUMBER STATISTICS
An Average Increase of Fifty Per Cent in Prices
in the Past Ten Years.
( American Plan)
Hotel
The followmg statistics and statements compIled and sent
out by COm1TI1SSlOner\VU1p1 of the N atlOna1 IIa1 d\\ ooel Lumber
dssoclatlOn WIll have great slgmficance and meamng to all \\ ho
a1e m any way mteresteel m the furn1ture trdele Dr 1I1du.,tl\
Total lumbel productlOn ~mce It! -;0, l.~()O bllhon teet
The cut was as follo\\s m the penod, mentlOned
18305 bl1110n feet
18608 bl1110n feet
1870-13
b11l1Onfeet
1908-33
1K'30-18
1890-'H
1900-33
bl1llOn feet
(European Plan)
Rates $2.50
Pantlind
Rates $1.00
The Noon Dmner Served at the Pantlmd for 50c is
THE FINEST IN THE WORLD.
J. BOYD PANTLIND, Prop.
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m 1900
$Ue OJ
15 8-k
1'3 78
846
1269
1337
190'3
$'23')0
2331
21 5,)
1266
1811
1627
Increa"e
800',
C1r;;
31ll,
-±9'7r
ci ')c,~
'2F~
and Up_
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
bl111011feet
b1lllOn feet
bl1llOn feet
Total cut m 8 ) ears, 1900 to 1908, j'29 bIllIon teet
Yellow pme leads all \\ 1th a cut of 100 b11110nfeet
Wh1te pme sceond wIth a cut of
49 b11lIon feet
Oak 15 fourth wIth a cut of
31 bl1llOn feet
M11l Value
Yellow Poplar
Ash
Oak
Yellow pme
Wh1te pme
Chestnut
and Up.
Produced
H ciC'C less
16 .~ Ie"
3, 6l{; Ie".,
16 7c more
,-;C()c~~le,,~
III F( Ie,s
d,h
_._._
w._
._ ....
Manufaduren of
Embo.. ed and
Turned Mould.
~
inas,
Embo....
cd and Spindle
Carvinp. and
Automatic
SEND FOR
Turnin ••.
We 0110manuladule a Iarac hnc
of Embo ... d
LouiSIana ranks first m ) ellm\ pme cut
Texa::, ,econd
Total oak cut m 1900 was 4cl38 m1llIon teet
In 190t!, d
tnfle over three-fifths as much
Kentucky ranks first m oak cut, \\ est \ Irgl11la second
The general mcrea,e m the pnce level for the past 10 \ ear5
IS 50 per cent.
The maxImum output of wh1te pme, oak, ) ellm\ poplar
and elm 1S Said to have been passed
.•.•
Ornament. for
Couch Work.
1256-1258 W. Fifteenth St., CHICAGO, ILL.
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Grand Trunk Orders Auto Cars.
The Grand Trunk and Grand Trunk PaCIfic ra1h\ a\ CO 111pames have placed order5 WIth the vVestern Steel Car anel I oundry company of ChIcago, for 2,000 steel-frame box cars of (JO 000 pound" capacIty each, or about the Oldmary "lze bo,- Lar,
These steel frame cal s cost about $1,000 each, so that thh one
order represents more than $2 000,000
] he Importance ot the
automobl1e trade to the ra1lwa) ~ 1S shO\\ n 111the t,lCt that the
Grand Trunk has ordered JOO spe~ldl automobIle Cdrs 1 he"e
are lal ge box cars, WIth specIally deSIgned doO! s at the ends,
whIch WIll allow a large tounng car to be run m or our \\ Ithout
d1ffiLuity
The Grand Trunk touches DetrOIt, I lmt, Lan,mg
and other CItIes 111 the we~t whlLh have large automobtlc tdCtOlles, and the cars have been found nCCeS~dr) to handle thl"
trade.
ThIs system has also been consldenng
the purchase of a
number of steel frame box cars of 100,000 pounds capaclt) each,
for the wheat handlIng trade
A t1 am of iW st1ch car" could
carry 1,OeO tons-3,3,000
bushels-of
wheat each tnp, WIth a
mmlmum of handl111g However, It hac bee 1 deuded not to
ordel the5e cars at present
Slam·tand to the Point.
Grand
Rapld~ Veneer
Works,
Grand
Rap1ds, :\IICh,
Gentlemen-Your
favor of the 27th mst. dt hand
In repl)
would say that our kIlns are work111g finely
Yours respectfully,
Henry H Shelp l\!~fg Co -R. C PIckett
PhIladelphIa, July 10, 1909
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SAWING
MACHINE
WRITE
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NEW CATALOG
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BROTH ERS CO.
FT. WAYNE, IND.
I HARDWOOD LUMBER
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OAK
AND MAHOGANY
SLICED
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WEEKLY
TABLE MAKERS IN CONVENTION
They Oppose Senator Smith's Amendment to the
Railroad Bill.
The meeting of the NatIOnal Ao,,,oclatlOn of Table Makers, at IndIanapolIs
on Wednesday
was marked by large attendance and better reports of the condItion of busmess than
had been expected
The assocIation
IS now much stronger
than a year ago
The membership
includes 66 per cent of
the table manufacturers
of the country and over 80 per cent
of the product.
The proceedings
which were mamly of mterest only to the members were I emarkably harmonIOus
N early all who participated
m the dlscusslOns
expressed
OptImIstic sentiments
as to present condltlOns and the outlook
for the near future
The convention
went on record as opposmg the amendment to the pendmg raIlroad bIll offered by Senator Smith
of MIchIgan, intended to lllcrease the power and authOrIty of
the attorney-general
in cases of shIppers
agamst
raIlroads
before the interstate
commerce
commission,
by WIring the
followmg protest to Senator BeverIdge'
"The manufacturers
of extension
dining tables in conventIOn here assembleJ
from all parts of the Umted State",
and representmg
practically
84 per cent of the t3Jble product
of the United States, would respectfully
enter vigorous protest against the Smith railroad bill now under conslderatlOn
by congress
"We respectfully
urge the defeat of saId amendment,
and that It gIve the shIpper due plivIlege before the mterstate
commerce
commlSSlOn, where cases and complamts
may be
adjudged
finally"
To Oppose Higher Freight Rates.
Chicago, May 18 ~A nation wide campaign to force the
raIlroads
to reduce freight rates or to hold them at theIr
present
level was launched
in ChIcago yesterday.
Permanent organization
to carry out the campaIgn was effected by
400 manufacturers
and representatives
of com~erclal
clubs
in a conference,
which started in the Gold room, Congress
Hotel
A steady campaign of publicity against the raIlroads,
bringmg politIcal influence to bear to cut off "favors" which
they now receive and fosterIng of water traffic were the three
remedies repeatedly
advanced to force the raIlroads to time
The sItuation IS made particularly
acute by the increa:oe
whIch is to go mto effect on certam classlficatlOn on June 1
next and a general advance whIch IS antiCIpated in all parts
of the country before autumn
Practlcall
yevery bIg shIpper in ChIcago v. as represented
at the conference
Organizations
m many smaller cIties and
particularly
trades
mterested
only in the tariffs affectlllg
theIr lineo" were represented
by secretarIes
or chaIrmen and
many large shIppers m other cities were personally
represented
The conference was brought about by the I1l1l101s Manufacturers
assoclatlOn
and the ChIcago AssoclatlOn
of commerce
The permanent
officen, as o,elected by a nominatmg
commIttee and elected by acclamation,
are : John E \iV Ilder,
president,
vice president
of vVIlder & Co, ChIcago,
R E
Spencer, vice president,
Peter" Shoe Co, St LOLli", E E
\V IllIamson,
secretary,
commissioner
of the Recel\ ers' and
ShIppers' aSSOCIation of Clllclllnati
The nomlllatmg
committee
recommended
that a treasurer and a name for the permanent
body be selected later
ResolutIOns
and other commIttees
also were deferred.
The
nom1l1atmg committee
consisted of P. M. Hanson, chairman
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of the Mi"si:osippi Manufacturing
aSSOCIation, St Louis; W
B Moore, o,ecretary chamber
of commerce,
Dayton,
Ohio;
E J. McVann, manager traffic department,
Commercial
Club,
Omaha,
W. B Trickett,
executive
manager
of Mmnesota
Traffic as"oclatlOn, MmneapolIs,
and J E Huntley,
commlssi01ler of the UtIca traffic bureau, Utica, N Y
Talks Encouragingly.
New York, May 19-Concernmg
the rals1l1g of freight
rates 111 the terntory
of the Trunk Lme and Central FreIght
associations,
George D DIxon, freight traffic manager of the
PennsylvanIa,
confirm1l1g rumors of such intention,
is quoted
as saying:
"RaIlroads
are readJustmg
their freight
rates all the
tllne
There WIll not be any such extraord1l1ary advances as
has been presistently
forcasted and there is nothing unusual
or anythmg
to get eXCIted about in a contemplated
increa<;e.
"At
and are
creasmg
various
the present time the carriers are m need of money
compelled
to raise certain rates because of the 111cost of lalbor and the general advance 111 the cost of
materials.
"In some cases the freight
others they WIll be advanced
that will not be changed"
rates WIll be lowered, while in
Then again, there are some
It is understood
that by work1l1g mght and day, the
checking m new rates on commodltleb
has been completed
sooner than at one time seemed possIble, by the roads m the
Trunk Line AssoCIation,
and the rate clerks al e now WIth
lIke remitting
labor, domg the bame WIth the various cla<;ses,
after whIch the schedules ""ill be passed upon by the traffic
executives
Correspond1l1g
progre"s
has been made by the
Central FreIght AssociatlOn
lInes, except as to dre"sed beef
and like high class freIght
concermng
whIch dIfferences
of
opmlOn as to what the rates o,hould be have served to cause
delay.
It is possIble, however, that the roads 111 both associations WIll be ready to file their new tarIffs by July 1 Some
further officIal announcement
may be made in a few days
Might Better Cut Dividends.
"The repol t of the commIttee
on interstate
commerce
submitted
to the N atlOnal AssociatlOn
of Manufacturers
at
the annual meet1l1g in New York, stated that for the year
ended June 30, 1909, dIvIdends
of about 8 per cent were
earned by 66 per cent of the raIlroad stocks of the Umted
States-"a
considerably
larger net income than the average
realIzed flOm most investments"
So It is argued by the
commIttee
that if to all the burdens
now re'it1l1g upon the
manufacturers
of the country
must be added the proposed
20 per cent increase in freIght rates, they WIll find It a very
senous tax
The commlttee'o, Intimation
IS that most of the
raIlroads
mIght better
cut down their dIvIdend
disbursements than advance freight rates, and In this connectlOn the
commIttee
bald
"Under the present c011301IdatlOn of ownership
m Wall
street, the officers of the road<; arc powerless,
whIle those 111
complete
control of the sltuatlOn, seem interested
only in
gettIng larger dIvIdends
\Ve have heard a ratlroad superIntendent complaIn that hIS lIfe was anythmg but a happy one.
Laborers
wanted more wage,,; he had not been allowed to
spend the amount needed to improve hIS road, there were
consequently
more accIdents and more complaints
from shippers, whose bItter oppOSItion to advancing
freIght rates was
overpowered
by the mappeasable
demand of the Wall street
owners for more dIvidends"
MANUFACTURERS' NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
Synopsis
of the Fourteenth Annual Convention Held in New
Topics Considered and Discussed.
New York, May 20 -The
fourteenth annual conventIOn of
the 1'\ational aSSocIatIOn of :Vrannufacturer~ ,,11l'::h opened at the
\\J aldorf-I\~tna
on :'Ionday "as the most lan;-eh attenclul and
in every way the mo~t successful meet1l1g e\ er held by the organizatIOn
The conventIOn opened 111 the shadow of the death
of the assoClatlOn's former presIdent, James \Y Yan Clea\ e,
and it adopted a resolutIOn express1l1lS the as~oclatlOns admIration of M,r Van Cleave, and ItS sense of loss 111 Ius death
The first sessIon was devoted ma1l11y to reports, addresses
and discussions on fire preventIOn, 1I1terstdte commerce and Iml111gratlOn, the latter tOpIC being apparently
of most 1I1terest to
the assemblage.
On the subject of fire preventIon there" as an address b}
Charles L. Case, who spoke from the standp01l1t of 11lsurance
underwriters
HIS address folio" ed a report of the a ~soclatlOn' ~
committee on fire prevention.
"It IS ~ufficient to sa} that as
one effective means of fire pre\ ention, the natIonal board has
assisted at an expense of $80,000 111 send1l1g 38. 1I1cendlanes
to the penItentIanes
of cllffelent states," sald :'Ir Ca~e
'\\ e
believe we are rendenng the publIc a valuable serVIce, not \\ holly
on the 'pro bono publIco' order but because by reduc11lg the fire
loss we 1I1surance companies can make more money for our stockholders, who require good dlVldends to leave their money in our
risky business.
"Our loss is stIli several times hIgher per person than that
of any other country
\Ve desire to deal fairh "ith the publIc,
to do all we can to safeguard property and thereIn, 1l1cldentall}.
against this awful, ever present, enormous, but largely preventable fire penl, and we thank you for the present opportunitv of
co-operating with you."
The committee
on imnllgratlOn.
speak111g of the country
as a whole, reported
among other o]J3en atlOns the~e
"In the past our economIc strength
has been largel} due
to our pre-eminence
as producers
and manufacturers
of foodstuffs.
While we should be jmtly proud of our 111crea,,111g
exports of manufactures,
we cannot afford to lose our p0'iltlOn
as CXiporters of the products of the SOlI :'luch has been 'iald
and written about the 1l1crease in the cost of food
In the
eastern and the southern states as \\ ell a'i 111the II est, there
IS much untilled ground
In the face of thIS conditIOn we are
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met by the fact that only a very small proportIOn
of even
falm laborers
who come I11to this country
engage here 111
agnculture
I\lthough
producel s 111 bhelr own lands, they
become consumers
here without
doing theIr part in producI11g toward our store of food"
The commIttee
also turning ItS attention
to the contract
labor la\\ sa} '3 that both through its prOVIsions and its abuses
It has become "one of the most powerful
weapons
of the
labor unions for the oppression
of the manufacturers,"
and
the commIttee
adds'
"The chief abuses of the law are the uses made of it by
labor unions in stnke cases, both in inconveniencing
the employer and 111 intImidating
the employes by threats of deportation
epon tnal before the board of special inquiry the
alIen IS presumed guilty until he has proved himself innocent
He IS first subjected
to an examinatIOn
by the board and
com pelled to acquIt himself before his accusers are compelled
to sl'bstantIate
their accusatIOns
It will readIly be seen what
an opportUnIty
such a practice gives to those who invoke it
\\ Ith malIcIOUS motIves"
The report declares that in no case is the law invoked
by the labor unIOn officials from a desire to see it enforced,
but 111 ever} case from ulterior motives of self interest
The
commIttee
recommends
that no restrictions
be placed on immllSra tlOn except those necessary
to keep out the morally,
mentalh
or ph} slcall} unfit and tho'ie whose racial origin
makes them 1I1capable of assl1uilatlOn 111 the !body polItIc;
that It shall be lawful to Import skIlled labor when the person Import111g cannot obta1l1 laborers of the like kind in thIS
country \\ ho WIll work for him at the rate of wages prevail1I1g generally
111 thIS country
for such labor; and that warrants of arrest and deportatIOn of aliens who have landed be
Issued only. by a UnIted States commIssioner
or United States
Judge on such warrant
compla111ts as now are necessary
111
cnml11al cases
Let Them Come.
Ormsby ::\IcHarg in an address
migrants
a NecessIty,"
said:
"There IS consldera1ble popular
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fear
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of ImIf 1m-
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migratIOn
remams
unchecked
The present
naturahzation
laws are strict enough
It now remams with the states to
Impose stricter suffrage laws
The citizenshIp
of the country
gu:trded m this manner would make it safe to let in every
sane, healthy, moral man and woman in the civilized world
without
fear and Without danger.
Tlhe congestions
of immigrants in the Cities where they are consumers
is one of the
fir~t causes of hIgh pnces
"Gentlemen,
your orgamzation
should sU1lport a plan
for increasing
the supply of raw materials
produced
in the
country,
and at tihe same time reduce the competition
for
13lbor in your manufactones.
Accordmg
to the statistics
of
the natural
mcrease in our population
the time wJII never
come when our unculltivated
lands WIll be all settled.
Immigrant'> are our only source of bupply for this punpose. Spend
the pnce of a battleshIp
a year m placing our Immigrants
around, and we reap a natIOnal profit of untold millIOns. This
IS a popular
busmess
argument
to be considered
in this
connection
"We want the matenals
of our citizenship
to be as pure
as the gold m our standard
dollar.
We must not, however,
Ideallze and ask for somethmg
better than ourselves
When
the problem of congestIOn is solved the countly is bound to
face an era of marvelous
growth"
The followmg recommendatIOns
made by the commIttee
were approved and adopted'
1 That no restnctions
be placed on immIgration
other
than those whIch arc necessary
to keep out the morally,
mentally
or physically
unfit, and those whose racial origin
makes them mcapable o{ assimJIation
in our body politic
2 That special prOVISIOn should be made to dIrect and
urge ImmIgrants
who have been engaged m agncultural
purSluts toward farmmg communities,
and that agricultural
commUnities be inVlteJ to maintam duly accredIted agents at, and
provide transportation
from, the various ports of entry
3. That immigration
offiCials, and all others havmg to
do WIth the enfoJ1cement of the laws, be selected with speCial
reference to theIr JudICIal and sociological
attamments
4 That the present law be amended so as to prOVIde as
follows:
(a)
That it shall be lawful to import skilled labor when
the person Importing
cannot obtam laborers of hke kind In
this country who wJlI work fOI hIm at the rate of wages prevaJ1ing generally in tl11s country for such lalbor
(ib) That
the sflcre;tary
of commerce
and labor be
authorized
and dIrected upon the application
of any employer,
and upon hiS showmg the facts set forth under (a) above, to
grant to such person the permIssion
to import such labor,
such permISSIOn to be conclusive upon hIS right so to do" and
upon the right of the ahens to land
(c) That warrants
for the arrest and deportation
of
aliens who have landed be issued only by a United States
commissioner
or United States Judge, and then only upon such
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as are now necessary in criminal cases.
(d)
That upon the arrest of any allen upon such warrant, that he be brought before a United States commissioner
or judge and there permitted
to give ball as in criminal cases,
such bail to be fixed by the commiSSIOner or judge
(e)
That such allen be tned as soon as pOSSible before
the United States commissioner
or judge, and that in case of
a trial before a commissioner
the right of appeal be given to
him to the United States dIstrict court as in case of Chinese,
and that such trial, eXlcept with respect to a Jury, be conducted in all reSipects as cnmmal trials
(f)
That the decision of any United
States judge be
subject to review on behalf of the alien by any of the higher
United States courts as in criminal cases.
TueSday's
Proceedings.
On TuesJay
the convention
considered
uniform
state
laws, banking and currency, the merchant
marine, the matter
of making export business profita'ble and listened to a talk
on facts and tendencies
in legislatIOn; all this in the morinng,
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besides 1Istening to the reports of the officer" of the a:,,,ocIation
In the afternoon
they dl-;cus",ed patent'3, fore"-t;; and
waterways,
and more partlculaJ1y,
the lanse que~tl\1n of 111dustnal
Illdemnity
Illsurance,
on \\"hlch It~ COlllllllttee made
an exhaustve report, be'3ldes "ll1ch tll1 ee ~peaker~ dealt \\ Ith
phases of the general tOpIC, one \\ Ith the pre\ entlon ot 111dustrial accldent-;, one \\ Ith co-operatIOn
and compelhdtlCln,
and the other wIth economy 111compen,atlllg
tal I11du-,tnal
accIdents
All busllless of the com en tlOn \\ a ~ halted at -l- 0 cIe 'ck 111
the afternoon, the hour at \\hlch the hod.' of Jame~ \\
\-an
Cleave was buneJ at hIS we"tern home, and the com entwn
was turned into a memorial
meetlllg
The :"ervlces began
WIth the S111g1l11g
of "Alblde \\ Ith ~1e," aftel \\ hlch there \\ a;;
a prayer and a bllef memonal
addre," 1)\ the Re\ el end ..:.;
Edward Young of the Bedford :\[emondl Church of nlookhn
who saId that :\11 Van Clea\ e ha,l not (hed and "hould not
dIe so long as people 11\ ed to \\lhom he had done a k111(lne;;~
and so long as the pnnclple-; eXIsted to \\ hICh he had 1:;1\en
his life
The sen Ices \\ ere held III the ~ ;;tor (JdUel \ ot the
Waldorf,
vvhere the ",e'3"lOn-; of the com entlOn al c h cl,l
After the servIces the bu"ines:" of the a ~~Ol1atlOn II a, rc
sumed
New Party Needed,
Pre"ident
Klfby,
111 his
repol t "ugge-;tcd
the (JI ga111zatlOn of a new polItical party \\1hen he "aIel
"The l'3sues that brought
Illto eXI"ience thc l~epublIcan
party have practIcally
passed a\\a.' and ne\\ COn(htl(ln~ confront us, condItIOns \\hlch unlIke tho~e that thleatenul
the
disruption
of the '\mencan
Ul11on, threaten
thc Je~tl uc tlon
of the very pnnclple-;
upon \\ hlch the \melllcln
tdthel ~
founded thIS government
and \\ hlch, rhroul:;h the ddeci~ In
our polItical sY'3tem and the deSIre for polItIcal POl\ I, both
RepUibhcan and DemocratIc
polItIcIan, ~eem to \ Ie 1\ Ith edch
other in theIr willlllgness to sacnfIce III the 1I1terest of 'polItIcal ex.pediency'
"But what has become of the "pInt of patriot1~11l 1\ 111eh
prompted
the formation
of the Repubhcan
pal t.' In l8~6)
Does It sleep the slum1ber of the deaJ)
I cannot behe\ e "0
Then has not the day da\\ ned for the formatIOn of a ne\\
polItIcal party that shall give \Olce to the ~ame "entlJJ1ent;;
that created the part) of Fremont and Ll11coln, a put \ \\ 111ch
shall sen e the same hIgh purpo"e and be P(1\\ el ful enough
to hold the natIOn III balance agalll"-t the demagogue~
()f e"\.isting partIes?
"As evidence IllJlcatlllg
the dllft of contempOrdf\
1cl:;h
lation the baleful influence of cla-;..,-con:"clOu'3 labor-ul11ol11'3m,
look for example to the supposedly
cons en atl\ e qate of
Massachusetts
authori71ng
'peaceful
pICketlllg'
\ \ ho can
Imagine 'peaceful plcketlllg?'"
Mr. KIrby called PreSIdent Taft'", COIporatlOn taA la" a
sop, a sop thrown to the people to placate a grouch \ constituency,
who "by a common la\\ of human nature mu~t
have eIther a Sa v lOur or a Barabba,
for occa "lOnal "au Ihce
He said also:
"We aibominate any legIslatIOn that contem pIa te~ nothing higher than palItIcal expedlenc.'
\\ e helIc\ em the !)J(),CcutlOn of all illegally managed tI ust", whether conducted
111
the interest
of rich monopolIe"
01 m the 111terest of trade;;
unIOnism"
l\Ir KIrby got great applause when he :"ald that \\ e haJ
too many men who \\ ould rather fall back and com plam
about unequal
distnibutlOn
of wealth than make an hone-;t
effort to earn that whIch they so badly needed
He declared
that one of the needs of the hour wa:, men \\ Ith com Ictlon"
and the courage to declare them
\\ e had too many Jobbers,
ARTISAN
he "aId, addmg that wabbler:" lIke demagogues,
were a menace to "oclety
"They held," :"ald he, "to make up a crooked
and perverse nation"
J ame;; ~ Emer), general COUlbe! for the NatIonal Counul tor Indu-;tnal
Defen'3e, 111 talk1l1g of "Legl'3latIve
Facts
and TenJenCles,"
saId that in the la:"t year there had been
plopo"ed
111 tll1" country
one law for every 7,000 of popula tlOn \\ hCI ed" 111 England there had been reported only one
tor e\ er.' 177,000 populatIOn
Of the 1\loon bIll 111 the house
of lepre'entatl\
e;;, he saId that It \\as an 1I1sldlOU:, attempt
to 'a\ that the Issue of an InJ1.l11ction should be upon term:"
to be prescnbed
111 advance
by the legIslature
instead of by
a ju,!iclal deCISIOn
The commIttee
on banking and currency
made various
recommendatIon"
for the passage of laws enabl1l1g an "as,et currenc.' " and after saymg that the central banks and
a ""et currencIes of France and Gel many were good, and that
the 1I1depenclent banks and asset currencIes
of Canada and
~cotlancl \\ ere good, It declared that a bank1l1g system for
am countr} '3hould alway'3 be an evolution, never a revolutIon, and recommended
further that a commIssion
compo"eJ
C)f banker;;, bu ,mess men and farmers "hould be named to
~tud.' the subject further
Wednesday's
Proceedings.
On \\ ednesday
the officer-; of the assocIatIOn were reelected
Pre"Jc!ent Ku'by 111 ackno\\ ledg1l1g the honor of
belllg ~l\ en another
tel m congratulated
the assocIation
on
It~ u~efulne% dnd saId
"\\ hen 1\ e conSIder thdt the Amencan
Federation
of
LdhOl \\ Ith the Cn IC FederatIOn beh1l1d It ha", all It can do to
huld It" ()\I n, \\ e ought to feel that we have accomphshed
~uJl1cth1l1g 111 leach1l1g d P01l1t \\hele
we can at lea:"t have
~UIllC lIbert\
111the management
of our affaIrs"
,Ir Klr1)\ 'oahl that he dId not want to hurt the feel1l1gs of
an, memhel of the CIVIC FederatIOn
who mIght be present,
that hI" \\end" must ,tand, as they expressed what he belIeved
He told of a man to \\ hom he had been oblIged to write in
-,ome"hat
1I1ten~e language who at first did not want him to
~peak so ~tr(1n~I.', but who finally wound up one of his letters
1\ Ith the remal k that he \\ a" grateful
that he could no longer
~er\ e on the eAecutl\ e board of the CiVIC Federation
The
el\ IC ['ederatlOn, ,Ir KlI by saId, \\ as the chief asset of the
l'eelel,1tlOn ot LabOl
Tn 11lle \\ Ith Ih cu"tom of glVlllg dttention
to questions
1I1tel e~t1l1~ the countIy
frolll the manufacturers'
side, the
d..,,,oudtlon adopted I e"olutlOn" I ecommend1l1g the e;-,tablishment of permanent
re'lclences
for American
am!bassadors
ablOaJ and applO\ 111gof the peace -;ociety
Accidents
and Indemnities.
In a lUllg "ene~ of resolutions
on 1I1dustnal 1I1demlllty 111"urdllce \lll1ch \\ as adopted were the"e'
"1 hat an ulultdble,
voluntary,
mutually
contnbutory
indemmt\
".' ~tCln, automatically
pI 0\ Id1l1g indemmty
for VICtllll" ot lIhlthtndl
aCCIdents and theIr dependents,
I" requIred
to I educe \\ aqe, lItIgatIOn and fnctlOn and to meet other
I equll cmenh
of dn enlIghtened
1I1dustnal natIOn
That \\ e I ecommend
to our mem1ber'3 the 1I1auguration
\\Ith the least pOSSIble delay of a :,y-;tem of voluntary,
mutnall.' contnbutory
1I1du"tnal aCCIdent 1I1clel11nity Illsurance,
thIS ".' ~tem t() be ela"tlc enough to plovl,le for voluntary
contnbutor)
~Ickne";-,, old age and death 1I1surance, if later deemed
aclvlsable"
The re"olutions
also authon7Cd
the president
and directors to an ange for the e'3tabhshment
of a department
for the
pre\ entlOl1 of 1I1dustnal aCCIdents
They further authonzed
the preSIdent of the association
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"to offer "ub"tantial
money prize" for the safest plants, or
the Ibest "afety devIces brought
to hI" dttentlOn, each year"
and urg ed manufacturel
s to offer other pI izes through
the
medlUm of the association
"to stimulate
mventlOn of safety
devices and the broad study of the subj ect "
In a supplementary
resolutIOn the association
recorded
m it'S preamble that "complu,",ory provI'Sion of state or federal
leghlatlOn
for "ickness and old age rehef (occupational
dIsease" excepted)
of wage workers, by other employer or employes or by co-opel atlOn of the two, would be a depal ture
from accepted
doctrine",
contJ ary to American
Ideas and
detnmental
to thrift and economy"
National
Corporation
Law.
The association's
commIttee had thl" to "ay on the ,",ubJect of natJonal incorporation
"Our plea I" for the ehm111ation of unnece""ary
legal
barner"
m the operation
and development
of legItimate
American bu "111e"" enterpn"e
In f111th erance of that reasonalble and "ane Je"lre, we offer the opmion that a natIOnal
mcorporatingact even if certam con"tJtutional
objectIOns are
nece,sanly
im olved, i", neverthele,,'S,
po""ible and feasIble,
and that its 0pclatlOn
and applIcdtJon
can be :oucce,>sfully
carried on concurrently
with, or at least not m opposition
to
the inherent powers of the 'Sevelal "tates"
rI he commIttee
on mdu"tnal
education
reportee1 thl<1t
great progre"s had been made throughout
the country in approachmg a general agreement
on a number of pomts, among
them not111g these'
"That such half-tune
trade school" can be so organizeCl
and conducted
that a 'Supenor "loll and a broader shop C'(penence can be secured than the average manufacturing
shop
can give in Its "peciah7Cd modern factors, because there the
object is to make money and not to make skilled, intelhgent,
tramed workmen
"That whel e such a trade school can be establi"hed
with
nodern buddings and equipment and a moderate workmg captal, well managed,
it wdl be an efficient educational
instiutlOn "
The I eport then sa),,·
"It i" believed that there is but
ne square, honest way to meet organized
labor in its unea"onable
and unjust
dbjectlOn regardmg
industrial
eduation
We educator" and all who advocate a new education
or the good of the skilled workman
"hould look organized
abor or wholesome
unionism
honestly
in the face and say
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(1) We take no second place to you in our desire to help the
skilled workman.
(2) As to methods
,,/Ve cannot admIt that
you know 1t all and we know nothing
(3) \Ve propose thIS
method, which is as good for you as any and probably better,
VIZ ; vVe intend to take boys at 14 years of age and gIve
them four years of trainmg corresponJmg
to the high school
penod-half
skilled work time and half suitable schoohng"
Bankruptcy,
consular reform, the tariff commisslOn and
advertismg
were al"o considered, and the convention
came to
a close WIth an address by Repre:oentatJve
E B Vreeland of
K ew York, an "How Shall We Reform our Banking
anJ
Currency
System?"
Mr. Vreeland
"aid among other thmgs
that "so long as time and rivers run speculatJve bankers will
alway" get into banks," and that we ought to have the best
bankmg law attainable
"/Ve had the largest gold supply of
any country on the globe, and it was of very little use to us,
and was at the mercy of everybody else in tJme of pa111C
II e "aId that he would not consent to instItute
m thiS
countJ y the "ystem of branch bank", which olbtained elsewhEre, for It was un-Acmerican; An Amencan
wanted to go to
headquarter"
and talk With the man who had the say, m hIS
horne town, a" today, and not to walt for somebody
to be
consulted
hundred of mile" away
Chicago Notes.
C A Keen, J r, travels in the south
Vehicle Corporation
He "pent the week
lhe local trade
for the Children's
Chicago visiting
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E J Whdon
for some time past advertising
manager
for the Peck & Hdl Furniture
company, has accepted a clerical
position ,"ith the International
Harvester
compnay, and has
been succeeded by N K Benedict, who ha'S been associated
with the Peck & Htlls Fur111ture company
the past twelve
years
Mr Benedict is familiar with the duties of hiS position,
having been advert1'i1ng manager With the same company at
a former period.
E H. Dal1berg, travehng
repre"entative
for the Skandia
Fur111ture company and the Rockford Table company in Ohio,
Indiana and Michigan was in Chicago on ,,/Vednesday of this
week
}\Ir Dallberg "ay, the Rockford Table company is a
new concern, and will manufacture
a line of hbrary tables
and will occupy the faotory of the Rockford De:ok company.
Acn addltJon to be btult \1 III give the entire plant a floor space
of one hundred thousand
feet
The Rockford table line will
exhIbit the coming July at 1319 Michigan avenue.
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ARTISAN
UPHAM MANUFACTURING CO.
MARSHFIELD, WIS.
Dressers
Chiffoniers
Dressina Tables
Suites
Wardrol>es
Sideboards
Buffets
Etc.
Made in
Oak, Bird'II-Eye Maple,
Mahogany, etc.,
and
All Popular
Finishes
No. 2228 Toilet Table.
SEND
FOR
OUR
COMPLETE
Buildings That Will Need Furniture.
Residences--Annie
Pittman,
First avenue and Oregon
street, Evansville, Ind, $3,000; George L J\IllIer, 1120 Chandler avenue, EvansvIlle, $3,500, George E Cockmon. 1521
West Twenty-first
street, Little Rock, Ark, $3,000, GeoH;e B
Ha:,ke1, 808 Day street, Houston, Tex, $7,500, VV R DO\\ ling, 29 Tennyson place, Toledo, OhIO, $5,000, vVIllIam Kuehl,
704 CalIforma avenue, South Bend, Ind, $3000, Frank YarsJarfer, 939 RJlverslde avenue, South Bend. $5.500. C Fmck,
Jr., 112 Indian Church road, Buffalo, ~ Y. $4,000, I:mma
Augemiller 94 Sixteenth street, Buffalo, $3,000, \V H Scott,
49 Dorchester
road, Buffalo, $5,500, Damel ~ CI\ mger, 46
HIllSide street, Buffalo, $3,500, ::\I1s" LIZZie Slane, 416 East
Seventh street, Oklahoma elt}, $3,750. \\
P CoughlIn. S17
West Fourth street, Oklahoma CIt}, $3.000, PaulIne C"ueclelhofer, 305 W Clst Maryland street. IncllanapolIs, Incl, $4,800,
Frank BRoss,
Nmeteenth
and Illmol:O strcets, IndianapolIs,
$3,500, WillIam H Roll, 1924 EJdy ,treet, Chicago, $4,000,
LillIan Kmgswood,
3029 Eastwood avenue, Chicago, $3,500
G F., Fe'athersone, 4519 :\orth Forty-slXlth street, Chicago,
$8,000; W D Moxley, HillIard and Thirteenth
streets, Eugene, Ore, $3,500, J \V Evans, Fourteenth
and Patterson
streets, Eugene, $3,000, John Blssmger, 237 South Ele\ enth
street, 1\ewark, N J, $5,080, Charle:o E II cKcon, 800 South
Sixteenth street, Newark, $4,500. H C Schmder. 454 '-,outh
Thirteenth
street, Newark, $S:OJ.
1\ 11han C 1\ olt, 20
Voorhees streets, Newark,
4,000. Theodore C II Irt? 846
South Twelfth street, Newark, $5,000, George c\ c\ll~opp. 26
Leo place, Newark, $5,COO, Tyler Has'>' ell, Galveston, Tex,
$10,000, T T Campbell, ~02 Mistletoe avenue, San '\ntomo,
Tex, $3,500, T M Halbedl, 378 Roseborough
street, San
Antonio, $3,000, George D C Myers, Polo, III . $8000, Harry
E. Howell, Shendan
avenue and 164.th street, :\ew York,
J
No. 2240 Toilet Table
CATALOGUE
$8,000, Damel Hal dy, 3248 01mville avenue, N elW York, $6,000, Cathenne A Dnscoll, 73 East Eighty-fifth
street, New
York, $7,000. £ .\ Faust, 5015 Portlancl place, St. Louis,
110. $100,000, G H Gibson, 3656 McKee avenue, St Louis,
$4,::'00; F D Kanstel11er, 3660 McRee avenUCI, St Louis, $4,500, E G Scudder, 5609 Kl11gsburg place, St. LOlus, $17,000, J osephl11e \Vaterman,
2728 Gravois avenue, St. Louis,
$5,800, Emma LOlllse Hayden, 3647 Charlotte street, Kansas
CltV, ::\10, $S.OOO, \1" J Dawson, 1212 East Thirty-nl11th
street, Kan"as Clt}, $4,500, H B. LCinnan, 3424 Kansas street,
St LOlli", $3,000, Anna C Relpsmder,
5245 Lindell boule\ ard, St LOl1l'3,$16,000, Peter Gordon, 319 Tryon street, Buffalo, ~ Y, $3,500, Lucy Van Hoomlsen, Ash and East Fourteenth streets l)ortland, Ore, $4,000, D. A. Dunsmore, East
T\\ ent} -thlr~1 and ::\Iarket streiets, Portland,
$4,000, Fred
Trenkamp,
:\Iaryland avenue and Newberry uoulevard, Ml1\\aukee, \\ b, $4,500, John 'vVl11kel, 1006 Windlake
avenue,
1\1Ilwaukee, $5,000, Mrs Emma Brettm, 906 Richards street,
1111\\ aukee, $5,000, George B Bosco, Green Court, West
Fort} -fourth a venue, Denver, Col, $4,800; Mrs. Gertrude
Sibley, hanhoe
street and Twenty-mnth
avenue, Denver,
$3.000, -:\1rs Charles Baer, York street and Thlrty-thil'd
avCinue, Dem er, $3,500. E B Hendne, OlIve Sitreet and Twelfth
a\ enue, Dem er, $30,000, Sidney Moritz, Clermont street and
IIont\ le\\ boulevard, Denver, $8,500; R M. Handy, Monaco
and Colfax streets, Denver, $5,000, WtllIam Hawse, Trumbull
a\ enue and \Yarren
streC't, DetrOIt, Mlch, $6,500; Reuben
0\ enshlre, J osephme and Oakland streets, DetrOIt, $4,000;
Robert Perkms, Boulevard anJ La Salle streets, Detro]t, $5,500, Albert Limberg, Agnes and Shipperd streets, Detroit,
$4,500, Alexander Hay, Hastmgs and Harper streets, Detroit,
$4000, Lucretia F Stevens, Woodward
avenue and Sproat
street, DetrOit, $8,000, C B Tuttle, Boulevard and Charleviox
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street Detroit, $12,000; Fred Wheaton 2232 Lage of the
Isles boulevard, MinneapoI1s, MU1ll, $14,000, Edmund Pennmgton, 1784 Colfax avenue, M1l1neapolls, $11,000, Charles G
Anderson, 3700 Mmneihaha avenue, Mml1e)apo1Js, $13,000,
G. B Bicklehauft, 4421 Dupont avenue, MmneapoI1s, $6,000,
W. H. Bovey, Frankl1l1 and PIllsbury avenue', Mmneapolis,
$15,000; J S. Butler, 15 Bargan street, Atlnata, Ga, $3,000,
P. W. Key, 712 HIghland avenue, Atlanta, $3,500, C S.
Robertson 158 Eltzabeth street, Atlanta, $4,000, E M Yaw,
64 West Twelfth street, Atlanta, $3,500, Mrs Louise Toesman, 621 WoodlaV\!n avenue, Me1mphis, Tenn, $4,500, ohn
Gavin, 1037 South Third street, MemphIs, $3,000, ,,y. C. Burdette, TaLbott and Eighteenth streetts, Indlanapoltsl, Ind,
$5,000; V. B Fuller, 188 Ruckle street, IndIanapolls, $3,000;
J. C HIatt, Rivera, Cal, $4,000; 'N. B. Allen Alhambra, Cal,
$4,500, Albert Atkinson Hollywood, Cal, $15,000, Warren
Smitley, 1202 PontIac street, Fort vVayne, Ind, $4,000; A.
H. Gratholtman, 602 Moyer avenue, Fort Wayne, $4,500, M
J Summers, Elgm, Ill, $3000, L. N. Seaman, Elgin, $3,800;
C E Rahn, SIxty-sixth and Upland streets, P hrladelpll1a,
Pa , $12,000, Mrs C Saunders, East Twenty""thlrd and Knott
streets, Portland, Ore, $5,000; Fred E BaIley, 168 Ford
street drive, Portland, $4,850; J\1rs S P. Lcster, East EIgth
amI Carl streets, Portland, $4,000; E. WeIl, 301 Colomal avenue, Dallas, Tex, $3,500, A C Pepple, 227 Benett avenue,
Dallas, $4,800, Malgmet Shirley, 421 North F1lfth street,
Readmg Pa, $3,000, Mary B. Van Orsdell, 316 VVoodward
avenue, Youtligstown, 0, $3,000; Mrs. Arrna vVelsh, 298
Poland avenue, Youngstown, $3,000; F. M, Seymour, 2954
East Third street, Kansas City, Mo, $4,000; Homer L,
Davidson, 2915 VIctor avenue, Kansals City, $5,500, T B
Stringfelliow, Hogan and State streets, JacksonvIlle, Fla,
$5,000,J C Halsema, Seventh and Pear1 street", JacksonvIlle,
$6,000; Mrs Henry Mayo, SIxth and Cherry streets, Ene,
Pa , $6,800; J H Glominger, Beech avenue and Sirae street,
PIttsburg, Pa, $18,000, Robert A. Getty, BellaIre and Flatbush avc'l1ues, PIttsburg, $10,000; Cltfford G Lang, TropIcal
avenue and Country road, Pltt"burg, $6,000, Harry J Lang,
same address, $6,000, John Ryan, 94 Jefferson street, UtIca,
N. Y, $4,000; Margaret M Haggerty, 1137 Sunset avenue,
Utica, $4,500; Dr C M. RIchards, San Diego, Cal, $7,000,
D. A. Worden, 4204 North Thirty-eIghth
street, Tacoma,
Wash, $5,000; Cella L Spicer, 246 West Bnghton avenue,
Syracuse, N. Y., $3,500; Markle A. Hans, 380 Teall avenue,
Syracuse, $3,000; Henry Fee, East Supenor and TV\!entleth
streets, Duluth, M1l1n ; $8,500, J. E L1l1dmark, Woodland
avenue and Hardy street, Duluth, $8,000; Howard vVhitford,
41 Linden street, Schenectady, NY,
$4,800, Charles De
Hart Brower, 4 Lowell road, Schenectady, $9,475
Miscellaneous Buildings.-The
BaptIst Home Society ()If
, NeV\!ark, N. J, are erectll1g a home for the aged at a cost of
$54,000 . The Phoenix Amusemeillt company IS buIlding a
$225,000 theatre at Amsterdam avenue anJ 149th street, K ew
York The Masons of Bryan, Tex, have let the contract for
th e erectIOn of a thi ee story bnck veneered temple to cOSit
$36,000. Springfield, OhIO, 15 erecting a high school bUlld1l1g
to cost $75,000 Permits for five government bUIldings to
cost, in the aggregate, $48,000, at Fort Omaha, Neb, were
issued on May 14 Santa Paula, Cal is erect1l1g a grammar
school build1l1g to cost $40,000 The Orpheum theatre in Salt
Lake CIty is to be remodeled and enlarged at a cost of $50000 Pasadena, Cal. WIll erect a SIx-story class A buIldmg
{or the Y M C A at a cost of $175,000 Los NIetos Cal, WIll
erect a concrete grammar school builclmg at a cost of $20,000
ARTISAN
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LEXINGTON HOTEL
500 Rooms.
Michigan Boulevard and 22nd Street.
EVERY MODERN
CONVENIENCE.
r
New Cafes. New Grill Room.
Offices and Rooms Redecorated.
Absolutely Fire Proof.
"YOU
WILL LIKE THE LEXINGTON."
J. E MONTROSE
l
.
CHARLES McHUGH f ProprIetors.
HORACE WIGGINS,
Assistant Mllr.
Also operating
Hotel Montrose, Cedar Rapids, la.; Rock Island House, Rock Island, Ill.
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No Stock complete WIthout the Eit Beds
III
Mantd
and Uprtltht.
ELI D. MILLER & CO.
EVANSVILLE.
INDIANA
Wnte for cuts aud pnces
Don't kick
Even the butchers are not all beefers
~.
ON SALE
IN FURNITURE
EXCHANCE,
EVANSVILLE.
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Miscellaneous
Advertisements.
b1uS"ht orange 17 to 18, T N in cases, 15.0 @ 16.0; bleached,
fre"h, 17 @ 18, kIln dned, 22 @ 23
There 1:>a bette1 demand for val nish gums but busine:>s
..,tlll un.,atlsfactOl}
to sellers
Kauri, No 1 is quoted at
38 ((t -1-~ cente" \;"0 2, 24 @ 32; No 3, 15 @ 18
Malllla,
pale, 13 ~u 18. am\m,
13 @ 15, Damar-BataVia,
13 @ 14,
SmgapOle, 7 @ 120
'
Burlap'" al e stIll dull WIth actual transactIOns
at figures
,ome\\ hat 10\\ er than quotatIOns
which rem am unchanged
at 3:2::; tor eIght-ounce
and 425 for 100-ounce
Calcutta
~oud~
JJU} t'r~ :>ho\\ httle
mterest 1D the market
Decrea~c
m the demand
for ha1dwood
lumber
IS repOl ted trom neally all sectIOns of the country
with here
and thu e a "lH;ht dechne m pnce:>
I o\\U\\ 1I1g are current quotatIOns for New York dehvery'
'\,11, \\ hlte, 1,h and 2d", per 1,000 feet
5600 @ 60 00
HIO\\n ::hh
4600 (a) 4800
EI111
25 00 @ 30 50
Oak, plam hb and 2,ls, 4-4
5800 @ 6500
Quartel
..,a\\ed bh and 2ds
., .7800 @ 8200
-1- -1-, common
4200 @ 4500
Cu\b
... 2000 @ 2100
\\ hIte\\ oocl. 1I1eh, 1~ts and 2ds
.. 4500 @ 4800
" mch, hh and 2ds
3600 (a) 4000
1 [0 to 20, ht::, and 2ds .,
4750 @ 5500
Xo 1, common.
.3200 @ 3400
Cedar. Cuban, pel 100 tt
700 @ 800
\Ialwgan},
Cuban
700 @ 900
Cedar, \In.lean
500 @ 10 00
\Idhogal1},
\lexlcan
600 (@ 10 00
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WANTED.
Furniture men to learn furniture designing, rod making and
stock billing by maIL Our course of instructIon IS Just the
thing for superintendents,
foremen and factory men who
wish to increase their knowledge and salary. Grand RapIds
School of Designing, Dept. L., Grand Rapids, Mich. Arthur
Kirkpatrick, Instructor and Designer.
4-9 e.o.w. tf
WANTED.
An up-to-date cost man to take charge of a table factory.
Must thoroughly understand machmery, lumber and cost of
fimshing. GIve reference, state whether employed at present,
and salary demanded.
Address A. L. M., care Weekly Artisan Co.
4-14tf
WANTED
HIgh grade salesman experIenced m sellmg upholstered furmture.
GIve particulars as to experIence, terrItory covered,
expenses and salary or commission expected. Address, Box
30, care of MIchIgan ArtIsan, Grand RapIds, MIch. 5-7-14-21
WANTED
A manufacturers agent in BaltImore and Washmgton, sellIng
all the largest and best trade In Upholstery and FurnIture,
desIres to add one or two good lines, best of reference
Address, B. & W., care of Weekly ArtIsan.
4 14 T F
FOR SALE.
One 36 inch blower, one cyclone dust collector to match, in
first class condition and cheap. Address Fellwock Auto &
Mfg. Co, EvanSVIlle Ind.
4-7-4-14-4-21
WANTED
On salary or commission a line to sell in Ohio, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland and Washington, D. C, by a
salesman with established trade of more than 20 years. Address "L. G.", care Weekly Artisan.
4-23tf.
Index to Advertisements
.'\.la.,ka Refngerator
Company
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18
Barne." \\ I & John Company
Cover
WANTED.
Barton, H H & Son Company
5
Salesman. If you are not making $10 daily sell our lme of
Boynton & Co
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Rocking Chairs and Novelties to Fl1rniture Department
Bus~ \lachl11e \Yorks
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Cover
Stores.
15 per cent commission.
Address Box 291 CasGrand Rapids Blow Pipe and Dust Arrester Company
Cover
torland, N. Y.
4-16tf
Crescent :\lachme \Vorks
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12
Doetc11 & Helder Company
. . . . . .. .
9
WANTED.
Dahm &. l\.lefer Tanl11ng Company . .
4
Position as commercial photographer of furniture by a pracFox :\Iaehme Company.
. . ..
24
tical, competent man. Ten years' experience.
Best of referlord & Johlbon Company.
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27
ence. Address J. H. Packer, care Times Union, Jacksonville,
rrancls, Charle~ E Company
.,
6
Fla.
1-22tf
(rrand Rapids laster Cup Company.....
14
lrrand Rapid" Hand Screw Company. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
14
l)raml Rapld~ \ eneer \Vorks
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13
Globe \ l~e ,me! rl ruck Company
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17
New York Markets
Hoffman Brother~ Company
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24
New York, May 20-Turpentme
ha., gone up 210 (ii 3
La\\ rence- \lcFadden
Company ..
.
,. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
11
cents pel gallon dm mg the week
It reached 66 cenb on
Lentz Table Company
. . ..
29
Lexll1g ton Hotel (Chicago)
31
Tuesday,
then dropped back to 64 and I.., quoted toda\
at
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2
64.0 @ 65. The ma1gm between here and Savannah
I" a Luee Furl11ture Company.
Luce-Redmonel
ChaIr
Company
2
httle wider than u"ual, the latter figure" bemg 61 @ 61 IS
\\ 111te Pllnt111g Company
., . . . . ..
1
today.
Trade i" mOl e actl, e than last \\ eek but It h "tIll
:\Ianetta Pamt and Color Company. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
19
dull for the "'pI ing season
\llchlg-an Engravmg Company. . .
Cover
MIller, Ell D. & Co .,.
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31
Linseed 011 IS :>tI1l firm at last week's figures
Conces. . ..
6
sions are not obtainable
on any quahty or quanilty
BUSI- :\loon Desk Company
Morton House
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24
ness IS confined to small lots, no large tl ansactlons
bemg
\e\son-")Jatter
rurmture
Company
Cover
reported.
Ohver Machinery Company
·
21
Palmer :\lanl1facturing Company. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
13
Sharper
competition
IS the mam feature
noted m the
J'arthler,
F
.
9
goat skin market thIS week, though It ha" not been "bong
Pltcann Yarnish Company. . . ..
4
enough to affect pllces except on \:V est I nehes
H aytlen S
PIttsburgh Plate Glass Company
26
and JamaIca" are up a cent, now :>ellmg at 42 and 43 cents,
RIchmond ChaIr Company
20
re:>pectlvely
QuotatIOns
on other vanetles
,t! e practlcall}
RockfOld Chair and Furniture Company. . . . . . . . . . .. . . . .
12
Shebo} gan Chair Company...........................
17
unchanged
The demand IS :oufficlent to absorb all receIpt"
Sheldon, E H & Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
211
There has been a shght mcreaoe m the movement
of
l'pl1<lm :\lanl1facturmg
Company......................
30
shellacs
thIS week, though
few round lots ha\ e changed
\\' alter Clark Veneer Company. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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hand".
Price" are firm, D C is quoted at 23 @ 24 cenb,
15
V. S. 0 and DIamond
T, 20 @ 21; fine orange, 19 @ 20, \\'y:oong & :rvItles Company............................
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Latest Improved Wood Working Machinery.
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Our New Hand and Foot Power Circular Saw No.4
The strongest most powerful, and In every way the best
machine of Its kmd ever made for nppmg, cross-cuttIng
bonng and groovmg
w.
Send for Our New Catalogue.
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654 RUby Street. Rockford, Illinois
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It
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