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GRAND RAPIDS. MICH •• DECEMBER
17. 1910
Come to the Chicago Market
SOMETHING SPECIAL IN FIJRNITURE
CJf More
sales
than 1000
rooms
CJf These
varieties
of KARPEN
GUARANTEED
FOR YOUR JANUARY VISIT
UPHOLSTERED
up-to-the-minute
designs
this choice selection
we are prepared
to show you the largest
to prove to yon, if you are not
we are prepared to meet all competition
CJf And we want
values
struction
will
be on exhibioll
at our
are now being made up and will comprise
A LARGE NUMBER OF ENTIRELY
CJf In
FURNITURE
in January.;
line
NEW PATTERNS
of high
grade
furniture
to be found
and PRICE.
ASK TO SEE THE KARPEN
SPECIALS
S. KARPEN & BROS.
CHICAGO
anywhere.
already convinced, that dollar for dollar in real comparison
of genuine
in variet)
of st) les, elegance and correctness
of patterns, material,
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BOSTON
NEW YORK
The Berkey & Gay Furniture Compan)T
Announce the Opening of their
Show
ROOlllS
for tIle January
sales season on Monday, January 2nd, 1911.
The line this season will be Illore represent.
ative of Berkey and Gay initiative than ever
before.
Special features
this year
will be just as
striking as ~vas our first display of FI~AN·
DERS two years ago.
It will be a Illistake to visit Grand Rapids
without seeing our display.
Berkey
& Gay Furniture
Company
Grand Rapids, Michigan
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1911
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Michigan's Foremost Chair Company
Visiting Buyers will find our line for the coming
season most complete we have ever offered.
Ready and at their disposal at Factory Ware ...
rooms January 2nd, 191 1.
Representative
EAST
Chas. H. Cox
Robt. E. Walton
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SOUTH
R. Penny
CHAIR
WEST
Chas. B. Parmenter
Robt. G. Calder
H. M. Story
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ROYAL FURNITURE CO.
GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN
DINING
LIBRARY
BEDROOM
SUITES
HALL CLOCKS
IN
"COLONIAL" STYLE
NEW ADAPTATIONS
READY FOR INSPECTION
JANUARY 2, 1911
SHOWN AT
FACTORY
SALESROOM
GRAND RAPIDS
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Nelson-Matter Furniture Co.
Grand Rapids., Mich.
BED-ROOM and DINING-ROOM
FURNITURE
COMPLETE StUTES
in Mahogany. Circassian Walnnt and Oak.
If you have not one in your store~ a simple request will bring you our magnificent
in •• nites to match.
With it, even the most moderate sized furniture
new Catalol1ue of 12x16
inch
store can show the best and newest
page
furni.ure
groupa,
show-
satisfactorily.
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DAVENPORT BEDS and COUCHES
~~~a~ int~r~st la~~e_a~d sm~ll !,uy~r~ _~~'t fail t~s~e_our~x~i!'it
at 1319 Michigan Ave., 6th floor, CHICAGO, ILL, January, 1910.
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Write for Prices
and Cuts.
Write for Prices
and Cuts.
No. 1218 EXCELLO DAVENPORT BED.
Seat revolves and makes bed. Loose mattress is placed
inside. Looks like single davenport.
Thos, Madden, Son & Co,
INDIANAPOLIS,
INDIANA.
D. L. CONREY FURNITURE CO.
SHELBYVILLE,
Makers of
CHINA CLOSETS
LIBRARY CASES
COMBINA TION CASES
Try 12 samples and you
will then buy many more.
INDIANA
Makers of
THE FACTORY
THAT
IS ALWAYS
BUSY
The line that makes
money for the dealer.
MUSIC CABINETS
RECORD
CABINETS
MUSIC BENCHES
Why?
It will pay you to send for Catalog and see the reason.
Line shown on the top Floor of Furniture Exhibition Building, GRAND RAPIDS.
31st Year-No. 25
GRAND RAPIDS.
MICH .• DECEMBER
17.1910
Issued Weekly
'LOCAL MUSEUM OF ANTIQUE FURNITURE
Grand Rapids Manufacturers by Merging Their Possessions
Could Show a Valuable
and Decidedly Interesting Collection.
fhe Deike} [( (:ra) Furl11tt11e company
will hereafter
occupy the Gay bU1ldlll~, recently
\ acated by the Century
I'url11tt11e company
A "u1te of room" w111be ass1gned to the
designer,
;\ Margantm.
and hlS a"slo;tants and one of the
floors wJ11 be devoted to a mu"eum of antJque furmture,
collected 1ll Europe and Amenca
This exhlblt wl11 be of l:;Teat
value to the tlade, a,', lt w111 permlt patrons and emplo)e,', of
the companv to study the WOlk of noted cabmetmakers
and
designer"
of past centulleo;
Man) years hay e pao;"ed since
the company "ect11ed the nuc!eu" of the collectlOn and It no\\
number" many pleCe'i
Plano; of the (ompany in 1e£;<11(1to the
publIc hay e not been 1e\ ealed, hut ao; the management
of the
cOlporation 1" wi"e and hbel al It i" faIr to pi e"ume that in due
tllne the doO! 0; w111 be opened tor all \\ ho w111 v\ l"h to enter,
netmake1 ot the pa"t, the ",upellOnty attamed
mea-,m e of the \ alue of the replOductlon
would
be the
Mexican Custom House Regulation.
American
consul, A Donald"on
Smlth, wntm2,
from
-'\guascahente".
Mex, says very great cal e should be ob",e1\ ed m the mal h.111g and 111\Olung of ..;oods expOl ted to
Mex1co
A desk sh1pped by an Amencan
cornpany and conslgned to a l\Iexlcan uty was subjected to a f nc of ~:; ~Iexlcan ($2 SO U 11lted State" currency)
111 addltlOn to tht' 1eg ulal
dlltJe"
One dollar of thl" fine wa" collected on aClo11nt ot
the address of dn under"tatement
of \\ eH~ht 111the con"u]a1
111\(nce, double dlltJe" be111~ collcl ted on t11e exce"" of welght
abO\ e the 111voice
Cons111 \Vtlliam E Algel of Mantlan
leports that goods
The One1 Cabmet company
o\', n" a hI ge collectton
of
arnv111g
at
Mexlcan
pOl
h,
If
not
accompanIed
by all the
antlque fUlmture and man) \ aluable plece-, are po">"e-,,,ed b}
necessary
docu111ents,
he
111the
c11"tom"
walebou"e
unttl ,;ald
the Royal It11mtule
company. the ~el"on-Mattel
FUl11ltUle
documents
a1 e pl0d11ced
If the LCJl1sl1lal 1m Glce 1" mlss111c;
compan\,
the \\ 111lam \. Bel key I'm mtlll e company, the Imthe
v,oods
may
be
1 e111mcd bv pa\ 111~dOll~)1L d11t1l"> Tf the
pellal, the Phoenn:
dnd othel Imal llMllufalt1111llL; hml"e"
If the-,e piece" could he a-,-,embled 111+1 "Ultahle hall. a nHl"CUl11 hIll of lad1112, 1" lack1112" hO\\e\C1 thlle 1'-, no ltl1Jed) e,-cept
to let the goods hc unttl the document
lS prCJdulec1
In thc
of !2,1 eat artl,',tlc \ altle and hlstonc
mtu e-,t \\ ol1ld hc c"tabca"e
of
pen"hable
goods,
"uch
as
fnut"
or
,egetables
thl'"
lIshed
Prcn l'i1On should he made fOJ the mamtenance
of
often
1esults
111a
total
10""
of
the
"hlp111ent
"uch an exh1blt by the genelOu" and puhhl-'op111terl manufacturel'i of G1and RapIds
The plece" a1e no\', "to! ed 111the
Shippers and Insnrgeuts are Pleased.
fadone",
occupymg
\ aluable "paC( that l111ght he used for
\\
a"h111gton
COlIespondenh
state that pI OL;"l
eS"1\ e Reothe1 PU1po"e", The co"t of keep111~ tI'e piece" 111 a mu"eum
pubhcans
al
e
pleased
wlth
1'1eS1c1ent
Taft'"
app0111tments
to
would be no greater than the \ alue of the "pace thL 1tides
the
Intel
"tate
Com111e1ce
C01111111'iSlOn,
to
fill
\
acanC1es
createc1
fill 111 the fadOlles
Perhaps the pubhc authontles
ml£;ht be
by the chOICe of Mal t111 A Knapp fOl the new commerce
l11duced to pro\ 1de a hall for the use of the collectOl s
court and the prospectl\ e retlrement
of C.;/1111111SS1Oner
CockIt pas been "uggested
that dt11mL; the furmture
sellm£;'
nil
The appomtment
of ]3' H :Meyer, new chalr111an of the
"easons oll~mal pieces and reprorludlOns
of the same be placed
ralhoac1 C0111ml"SlOn of \\ 1,',cons1n, to 'ol1cceed ::\[1 Knapp, has
side-by-s1de 111orde1 that buye1" mi~ht hay e an opportumty
to
been rece1ved wlth acc!allu by the 111surs;ent"
The nam111g
compare the workman"h1p
of the present to that of the pa"t
of C C 1\1cChm d of Kentuck},
at one tJmc a member of the
Reproducers
of the antlques stnve to llUprO\ e on the one,l11al
Kentuckv
ra11road C01111111SS1On,
to succeed
Commissioner
m constructlOn
It lS the only field for lmplO\ ement open to
Cocknll,
al'oo
lS
ha1led
by
the
sh1ppmg
mtere::,h
\\ lth conthem
If a cal \ er of the present day could reproduce a carvsld erable "atJsfactlOn
Profe"sor J\f e} er \', as apP0111tec1 to the
l11g of the pa"t, pUttm~ a llttle more sk111mto the cuttl11g of the
the
\\T1"COn'i111state ral1roac1 commisslOn b\ La Follette when
wood than the ~al \ el ot the on~JIlal \, a" ahle to do, or 1f the
he \\ a" gO\ e1nor of that state
In-,lllgents
111the senate say
Imes of a tape1111L; pede"tal \" e1e rende1 ed mOl e 'ihapel} h} a
the
ne\\
comml%1011
wlll
be
"pro~ressl\
e
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cab111etmaker of today m companson
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AN UNDERTAKER'S
EXPERIENCE
Mystified by a Peculiar Mistake Made by Brooklyn Hospital Authoritie'3.
Last Friday mght when the BU'3hwlck part of Brooklyn
had settled Itself to rest a voice called Undertaker
Rudolph
Stutzmann
by telephone and told him that John Beckel had
died m the Kings County Hospital
and that hIS blOther,
George Becker of 268 Central avenue, Brookl} n would call at
Stutzman's place the next day and make the funeral arrangements.
The funeral would probably be on Sunday afternoon, the vOice said, when the friends of the deceased could
be present.
Undertaker
Stut/mann
left hb ..,tote at 3Y6 K11lckel hoc kel
avenue early yesterday mormng to get the papels I\hlch the
law required undertakers
to get as the pI ehmmar}
tu removal and burial.
He went to the hospital, obtamed the
custody of the body and took It to hiS chapel, II hel e Geot ge
Becker was to call that afternoon
In the houl s before
Becker's appearance the body VI as prepal ed for bUllal
The
certificates of death were despatched to Ge01ge Decker and
he sent them on to an insul ance office for the pay ment of
the claim.
It wasn't until well along in the aftelnoon that George
Becker got to Stutzmann'o,
Hi,., othel plepalations
m \Ie\'
of his brother's death had taken so much time, he '3ald that
he had been delayed
So he and the undel takel '3et themselves immediately to talking 0\ el the bl1'olness m hand The}
deCided it in all ItS details
After a time Stut7mann su~gested that Beckel £;0 in and
look at his brother.
He did so His face had unaccountabl}
changed, he thought, for het e was the body of a man well
along in years
John wa" only 40 years old and George
Becker had papers to prove it
"That isn't my brother,"
said Becker
"It's John Becker," said the undertaker.
and he fi,.,hed m
his pockets for the statement
he got ±tom the ho"'pltal
"Well, John Becker" as m} 1)1othel '" name," o,ald GeoH;e
"and this isn't J ohn Bec1~er"
The undertaker
repeated that It wa", and the} a~leed to
put the matter up to the ho"pltal authorne"
for "ettlement
What happened
then 1'3 thu" told b} the undertakel
and
Becker'
They got the ho"pltal on the telephone
Sure
enough, John Becker had died on Fnday mght and hiS bod}
had been given to Rudolph Stutzmann,
undel takel, on the
order of GeOige Beckel, hiS blOther, and If the mqul1el lIould
call upon either the undeitakel
01 the blOther
he plObablv
could find out all about It
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"But I'm Ge01ge Becker myself," was the reply, "and
I m at Stut/mann'.., place
What can you tell about it now?"
\11 Beckel !Sot was a "Please wait a moment," and he
held the I ecen el to hi" ear for minutes, hearing at the far end
uf the IV 11 e the rustle of somebody turning pages in a book.
PI esentl} the 100ce came back'
"Mr. Becker?"
. Yes"
, Did Y0ul brother In e in Corona?"
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'Did he die of endocarditi,,?"
"1 \Ia"n't there and don't know."
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he 7'1 vealS old?"
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..,ald Decker resolutely.
"He wasn't 75 years
old and" hat he 11dd was "ome sort of nervous trouble."
Oh-h
IVait a mmute"
\ftel aV\hlle another voice came to the telephone.
"Thi"
1.., queel,'
It said
"I don't belteve your brother is dead, Mr.
Becker
1\ on t you come over here and make sure?"
Beckel hung up the receiver and made for the Kings
Count} Hospital
He found his brother in a ward for nervous
patients
The ntll "e "aid he was better and might get well,
and wouldn't l\Ir Becker like to see his brother?
Then John a"ked George what he was wearing those
btlck clothes f01
George didn't explain, neither did he
touch upon the matter of the insurance policy.
'b tor Stut7mann,
he said last night that he didn't know
\\ hat he \\ as g-Olng to do with the body of John Becker of
Lm ona. 7'1 } eal.., old
It had been taken regularly from
the ho",pltal and he was Its legal custodian
Altogether
the
uucl el take! was ,ery much confused.
\t the hospital last night the superintendent
said that
tOt1l 01 fi, e yeal sago thel e was another mi'Cup like that of
} esterda I, and that It wasn't greatly to be wondered at, since
there al e sometimes fi, e or six persons of the same name in
the hospital
1he body Will be taken back if Robert Becker
ot Cm ana, II ho \\ d~ named a'3 nearest km, doesn't fix matters
up \\ lth Stutzmann -~ ew York Sun.
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The New York Exchange Buildings.
For several months the cIty block on Lexinrrton
avenue ,
b
New York,
from Forty-sIxth
to Forty-seventh
'streets,
has been the scene of great building activity.
N ow the
results of thIs actl\ Ity have been so far achieved that it is
possIble to form a very definite notion of the size and character of the bUIldIng to stand on this important sIte and to be
occupIed by the New York Furniture
Exchange after next
spnng
Nearly all of the ten thou'3and tons of steel of which
the frame work IS to consIst IS In place; Indeed, this has been
carned to the roof level. The enclosing walls of granite and
faCIng bnck have been raIsed to nine of the twelve stories.
The impOSIng gramte columns which are to mark and adorn
the center of the LeXIngton avenue front are about ready to
receive their richly decorative and carved capItals. Thousands
of square feet of fire-proof terra cotta and concl ete floor arches
have been laid. Miles upon miles of steam and water pipes
and electrical conduits have been installed
By the time the New York exposition opens on January
16 so much more progress will have been made that the buIlding will be roofed and its exterior practically
completed.
Visitors to that, the last expositIOn to be held in the.building
so long occupied by the Exchange, will be able to see how
appropriate and admirable a home the successful enterprise is
to have in the early future.
Moreover, although the Interior
finishing will not have been carried very far by that time,
viSItors will be able to appreciate how well adapted the building is to its purposes and how well planned and arranged and
equipped it will be to serve the convenience of buyers and of
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manufacturers
WIshing
to participate
In the
great
eastern
market.
The progl ess on the buIlding since the work of constructIon on the sIte Itself began, last August, has been very rapid.
Of course the progress would not have been so rapid if every
pOSSIble tIme-savIng
device had not been employed.
The
plant of the contractors was ample
Great derricks were used
to hOIst the material; half a dozen steam engines and eight
electric hoists were also used day and night to carry up the
various hedvy parts
The number of men employed reached
the ImpressIve total of foUl teen hundred and work of one
kInd has followed closely the finishing of another.
The completIOn of the structure early in the spring in accordance with
promIses WIll show what can be accomplIshed by able builders,
thoroughly equIpped and armed with determinatIOn and strong
wIll. The buildIng will show equally, and perhaps this will
be a more impressive shOWIng, what enthusiasm
in a good
cause can bring about when intelligently
directed.
It was,
Indeed, with enthusiasm as well as with faIth and confidence
that Charles E. Spratt overcame difficulties and dIsregarded
doubts. The dIfficulties he can forget; the doubts he can well
laugh at when the new buIlding stands ready and equipped
for occupancy by the Exchange.
There can be no doubt
that WIth every convenience at command the New York Furniture Exchange will hold a positIOn of even greater consequence than ever In the furniture industIy and that It will be
conducted with even a larger degree of success than it has
known throughout
twenty years of its demonstrated
usefulness.
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Whether
Gland RdPlch \\ III "'enel e,::ll1blt" to thE' 1ntelndtlOndl EXp0..,ltlOn to he hdd III Tl11lll Ital) , next)
eal,
openlllg III 1\plll and dO"'Ill~ 111 Cktobe'
dljlend.., upon the
aLtlOn ot the ftU111tl11e manufdLtl11 el..,
\lbu t l lldn,I"lhl,
repre~ent1l1~ the exposItIon
authOlltle"
II ho I" no\\ III this
country sllhClt1l1g exhlhlt", ha.., heen tJVIll~ to hay e the Crrand
Rapids BOard of Tlade make dnan~ement-,
to Ildl e the lItv s
products repre"ented
111 the ItalIan
"hO\\
1 he boal d ofullab
are not mclmed to take the actlOn desl1 ed h \ :\11 Dana-'lhi
and have done noth1l1g more than I efer the ma ttel to the
Furniture
Manufactl11 ers' assoCIatIOn
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Robert VV. Corson, who ha" been Illth the BeJ1<:e) &
Gay Furniture
company
for ovel thl1 tl 'eal 0" mo~t of the
time as representatile
111 easteln
telntJl I ha~ been promoted to an office pOSitIOn
\Y T \\ all:tee II ho ha" been
covering southern
ternt01 y Will succeed :\11 Cor",on m the
east with the assIstance of C L Harpel
r J T) h\ al d II ho
has been working the middle II est II III take \Ir \Yallace'"
territory
in the south and G L Stone II III cel er the nllddle
west.
E. A \Vallace Will cont1l1ue to look aftel the trade m
the Pacific coast states
J. M. Barth and L B Emsl1, Spa111sh- c\melICan plOmoters, are trying to interest fur111ture manufacturers
in plans
to extend their tI ade m the PhllIppmes
SP,l1l1 and m Spa111~hspeakmg American countnes pal tIculal h m Cuba dnd \Ie'::lco
Mr. Emsil is secretaly
of a ::\IexILan sIll el mmmg company
and Mr. Barth, who has establIshed
an offile 111 the \~hton
building, has a hst of sel eral hundred
de 11e1" 111 Cuba and
MeXICO, who, he deda1e.., Lan handle (r1d hl1Zapld" itllll11U1C
with profit to themseh es and to the mdn11faLtl11 en
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F A SlIanson
w1ll take O..,ldl Hall'.., te111tnJ\ 1m the
Rockf01d
NatlOndl
Fl11111tU1e company
dnd II III be with
"Yohnny Yon son" 111 the Fl11111tme T'xchan~e. GI and Rapid~
Mr Hall Will rep1 esent the Rockf01 d c.,npcllOr f'l11111tme
company and WIll hal e the l1l1e on the fi1st floO! of the Fl11l;lture Exchange
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GeOlge F LaBolll, mana~el
of the Grand RapIds FJ);:tm es company says the11 hns1l1ess IS so ~1eat that they hal e
mcreased the11 fO!ce of cab1l1etmakers
more than fom tImes
s1l1ce they mO\ ed to the Kent \\ orks of the John \Vlddlcomb
FurnitUI e company.
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Jones
8.- Green at Dighton.
2\11,,"', II Lose ha1 chI ood
floonng plant was de..,tIoyed by file 1ecentlv are mstallmg the
Grand Rapids Blow P1pe and Du"t c\11ester company 's system of dust arrestel"
fUI nace feed and plpm~
Th1s company is also fittm~ up the T'alcon 2\Ianufa~tnnnl,;" companl'~
new plant at Big Rapids
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The
Rockford
\-\leekly Artl"an 10, m lecupt
Frame and Fixture company,
of a lette1 110m the
sal m~ they \\ III ddd
to
prospective (Jusfomel's.
Imperial furnifure<2...
or
The MichH;an '\1 t Ca1 I 1I1~ company a Ie clO"I1H'; thc best
year in their history
The stndlO fl11111tUIe and the cal I 1I1~S
for the fur111tl11e nukel"
hal e kept them busl all the I ear
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{J:afalo8ues sent
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
dIme of buffets and china closets that they have never been
dhlt to shO\\ 1\ hllh 1\ III be a ~reat surprise and delight to
thc bm 11'"
I he fnll Ime Will be on exhll)JtlOn on the first
floo1 nOllh I1dlf of the lm111tl11 e 1"xhlbltlOn IJ 1111
dml,;", Gland
RapId" II hel e the) hale shO\\ n fm sel eral seasons.
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Cene" Couch Ilh (el ery body knows hIm I says that the
RocktOl d Chall and Fixture company's
first shipment of Jannal \ pa ttel n.., to the Dlodg ett bUlldl11g has been made and
\\ III be tollO\I eel 1apldl) by the I est of the line
It will be a
11l1eot dl11111~100111and lIbl al y fur111tul e that will not be ex~
celled m GI and RapId", fOl the pnces
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Rapid..,
\11 TIedl has been very successful
in designing
~ood" iOl the rel:;ular tI ade and interiors for clubs and public
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MAY POOL THEIR SHIPMENTS
Railroads Make a Concession to Grand Rapids
Furniture Manufacturers.
Ra1lroad traffic rules 1equi1 e that III order to be carried
at car load rates a ca1 load of frClght must be b1lled from one
con "lgnor to one con "lgnee, thc pal tles to 1eprc"ent the actual
ow ne1 :,h1p of the good:, sh1pped
\Yhen thcre are two or
more "h1ppers 01 two or more cons1gnees the goods must
pay the less-than-car-lot-rate",
V\ hich III many
c1asslficatlOns
are double or more than double the car lot rate".
The ral1loads for a long tlme did not enforce thIS rule
vVhen they
sho",ed a d1SpositlOn to enforce 1t carload1l1g companies were
orgam7ed in the larger c1tles and the rule V\ as evaded by
sh1ppers ass1gn1l1g title 111 the goods to d loading company
and the company, as a single consignor and owner, would
forward the goods to a sllllllar company at the point of destinatlon fOl d1stnbutlOn to the leal consignees
The 1a11roads
tolerated th1:, for several 3' ear", but the 10ad1l1g companies
were sa1d to have abn"ed the pnvl1ege so grossly that about
a year ago the road" determllled to put a stop to the pool car
S) stem ent1rely.
The Grand Rap1d" furmture manufacturClS had their own
car loadlllg serV1ce w1th twenty-e1ght ot the leadmg manufactUl ers as parties to 1t. Th1s sen lee was taken over last
March from the pnvate parties V\ ho had been conducting 1t.
Ernest L. EW1l1g was engaged as trafhc manager and the
work was can led on w1th such an e\ 1dent pul pose to be
honest that nie ra111oads could not PO""11)1) complam that
pnv1lelSes we1 e be1l1g abused.
Early la"t fall, howey er, the ra1lroad managers again an-
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nounced that the rule must be strictly enforced, thus causmg the sh1pper:, cons1derable annoyance, trouble and actual
loss III the western trade, during the fall months.
For the
past three months many shippers have had to pay the lessthan-carload-rates,
where under the former arrangement
the
sh1pments were billed as car lots and paid the lower rate.
The manufacturers
protested and, through Mr. Ewing, used
all aval1able means to induce the railroads to rescind the
order for a stnct enforcement of the rule and they have been
"uccessfu1.
Last Monday it was announced that the railroads reachmg thIS city have notified the Interstate
Commerce Com mis"lOn that they WIll make Grand Rapids ,111 ev,:ception to the
so-called ant1-poohng 1nle, '" 11lch means that the manufactUl ers' car-Ioadlllg methods wdl be resumed.
There is httle probab1hty that the interstate commission
w111 0\ errule the action of the railroads.
At any rate the
conceSSlOn V\ 111stand untl1 the comm1ssion has considered the
matter-for
several month" at least-and
it V\ 111have a good
effect on the wlllter furmtUl e sales season, which would
have been serlOusly hand1capped by a Stl1Ct enforcement of
the ant1-poollllg 1U1e.
Economy
Uraguayans Want to Learn.
The Grand Rap1ds TIoard of Trade has received a letter
from H L Lomba, dnector of the MontevIdeo, Uruguay,
bureau of statistlcs,
askmg lllfOl matlOn concerning
Grand
Rap1d" mdustnes
and methods of organizmg and operating
a boal d of t1ade. The letter 1S III Spamsh and tells of the
adm1ratlOn Montev1dean" hay e £Ol the FUlniture City and its
most famous product.
Two excellent reasons for using the
Excelsior or World's
Fair Polish
on high grade furniture. We claim to sell the best and
most economical polishes, and have proved it by their
being the Standard polishes for 25 years of use in the
furniture manufacturing:trade.
Get our prices and send for sample before placing
your next order.
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Rocl{ford
Chair 8 Furniture Co.
Rockford, Illinois
DINING FURNITURE
BUFFETS, CHINA CLOSETS
and TABLES.
LIBRARY FURNITURE
DESKS, TABLES, COMBINATION
and LIBRARY BOOKCASES.
Our entire line will be on exhibition in January
on the third floor of the Blodgett Building,
Grand Rapids, Mich.
Holiday Time Safeguards.
One factor which invariably beals heai II} upon the mllld
of the progressive and thoughtful
reallel at the approach of
the holiday season IS the possibJ1lty of some "I, er} sell0Lb accident in his store. Of course, at all times such emel ~encies
are contingent.
Around Christmas tIme, hmi ei er, the} are
more insistent than at any other time
One cau:oe ot th1:o IS
the unusually inflammable nature of much of the stuft handled
at this season of the year. The crowded condItIOn of the store.
including the presence of many careless sightseers, 1:0 anothel
source of danger.
And, thirdly, the emplm ees themseh es.
rushed as they al e, are unable to gli e such \i a tchful a tten ilon
as at other times would be possible
Flll thel mOl e, 0\\ mg to
the bulky nature of many of the goods handled, as well as the
unusual extent of stocks, there is a tendency to store merchandise in places where it is conttguous to fire in one form 01
another.
Let us, therefore, not only I emllld our I etall readet" of
these conditions, but also sLH;gest pi ecautions \i hlch though
always in order, are especially desuable dUl1ng the heavy
shopping periods.
Unusually mlllute inspectIOn, then, :ohould
be given to the heating apparatus, especially where steam heat
is not employed.
Flues and ducts should be exammed for
possible defects.
Merchandise
should not, as IS somettmes
the case, be stored in pi oximity to bOIlers or furnaces
If the
establishment
consists of two or more buildmgs, sepalated
by fire doors, some responsible employee should be entl usted
with the responsibJ1lty, not only of closine; these doO! s C\ ery
night, but also of promptly closlllg them at any moment in
case a fire should break out
EspeCially If the fire doors are
of the kind which automatically
close in case of fire cal e
should be taken to avoid blockading them
Again, all emergency eXits, and the passage-vi ay:o leading
thereto, should be kept fJ ee and clear
Indeed, the expel 1ence of some concerns proves that it is i\ ell ei en to suggest
that exits shall not be boarded up, ban ed 01 locked I ~nd
every employee whose post is near such exits should be properly instructed as to the prompt opening of the door or windows leading thereto.
There should also be signs, With
"hands" pointing in the proper direction, so as to indicate
the location of these emergency exits
Broken panes in windows, through which, in case of fire,
a draught would readily be created, should be I eplaced. "\Vhen
gas is used in stockrooms
and other places "behllld the
scenes" each burner should be protected by a wire globe.
Papel boxes, waste paper, excelsior and other highly inflammable rubbibh should be promptly gathered up and disposed of. Out-of-the-way
corners should especially be kept
clear of \i aste-paper, etc. Guard, too, against having such
matter gather under a grating in the sidewalk, through which
a 11ghted match or burning cigar may readily be dropped.
The fire protection equipment should also be frequently
mspected.
This applies especially to water-tanks
on the
100f (and their supports),
automatic
pumps, stand-pipes,
chemical extinguishers,
hose and buckets, and also to the
~PIinkIer system, if such exists.
The StOIe employees, moreover, should be urged to use
ext! a cautIOn, especially in the matter of carrying matches.
And if thel e are other tenants in the building they should be
asked to specially caution their employees.
In the alteration
rooms and other WOIkrooms unusual care should be exerCIsed as to the stoves or gas appliances whereon irons are
heated.
Flevators, too, should be inspected at least once a day,
and elevator men should be instructed
to use not only exceptional care, but also extraordinary
patience.
Have them
clearly realize that accidents may result not only from the condition of the elevator itself, but from the mode of its operatIOn. Young children unaccompanied by adults should not be
permitted on crowded elevators.
In fact, all the employees
should be instructed as to what to do in case of fire or accident; and certain responsible
men should be appointed to
take charge of and manipulate the fire-fighting appliances.
~s the dehvery depal tment will be taxed as at no other
period of the year, the condition of horses and wagons or
motor vehicles should be made as much without flaw as posSible. The equipment should be made extensive enough to
prevent its belllg crippled by the occuJrence of an accident.
And, of course, extra precautIOns against fire should be taken
in stable or garag e, as well as in the store.
Finally, since aCCIdents i\ ill happen at times in spite of
all precautions,
a special inspection
of insurance
policie;
should be made, with a view of seeing that the concern is
adequately protected in all of its risks, including fire, boilers
and flY-i\ heels, elevators and sprinklers, windows and automobiles, ~s ii ell as general liability, employer's liability, teams,
etc.-Ex
The merchant who alms to undersell
usually sold out by the sheriff
all competitors
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Announcement
We beg to announce that
the Companies known as
The Globe Furniture Co.
The Bosse Furniture Co.
The World Furniture Co.
have been succeeded by the GLOBE-BOSSE~WORLD
FURNITURE
change is to bring about the combined efforts of the three Companies.
better goods and render better services to the trade.
CO.
The purpose of this
In doing so we can produce
Since the re~organization,
we have built and
have now ready for operation,lan additional plant which increases our output 25 per cent. We
now have four large factories with which to supply the increased demand made on us by the trade.
Our
1911
catalogue showing the most complete line of Bedroom, Dining Room and Kitchen Furni-
ture, is now in the hands of the printers and will be ready for distribution about January I, 191 I.
If your name is not already on our mailing list, we should be pleased to have your request for a
copy which will be sent to you as soon as completed.
patrons of the Globe, Bosse and World Furniture
We take this opportunity
to thank all the
Companies for the many favors shown us during
the past, and we shall endeavor to merit a continuance
of your liberal patronage,
assuring you that
we will at all times use every possible effort to please you while offering the very best values, and
the best of accommodations,
and convenience in shipping in mixed carloads.
at Chicago market, both at Nos.
ture Building, Evansville, Ind.
1319
Michigan
Ave. and
1411
Michigan
Our lines will be shown
Ave. and in the Furni-
In addition to this, our traveling representatives
ritories and will be pleased to receive your business through anyone
cover all the ter-
of the channels herein named.
Yours very truly,
GLOBE-BOSSE-WORLD
FURNITURE CO.
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OUR NEW PATTERNS
Are the highest achievement of the designer and the skill of the best cabinet makers and finishers.
With an equipment for the special production of
EXTENSION
LIBRARY
RESTAURANT
TABLES
CAFE
BAR
PARLOR
AND
DINING CHAIRS
IN CHEAP AND MEDIUM GRADES
WE OFFER EXCEPTIONAL VALVES.
Shown throughout the year in the Furniture Manufacturers Exchange, Wabash Ave. and 14th St.. Chicago.
in charge of Peck & Hills Furniture Co.
No 90t
SEND FOR OUR NEW CAT ALOe.
NIEMANN TABLE COMPANY
Factory and Office, 77th St. and Cottage Grove Ave., Chicago.
Effects of That Long and Short Law.
The ral1road experts are shll "vieyymg with alarm" the
long and short haul clause of the mterstate
comme1 ce lai\.
One of them says that if the long and shot t haul clau"e shall
be constlued anywhere near the i\a) It read" thete "Ill be at
least 20,000 changes in freight and pa"senger rates tll1 oughout the country. Already the cammct ce cOmmtSSlOn m \Vashington has received applications
fm somethmg
hke 75,000
changes made necessary by the lone, and "hOl t haul features
The applications
for these changes m rates come f10m shippers, of course, and mean that a ll1gher late may not be
charged for a shorter than for a longer haul
Of course a
big percentage of these applications come it om those affected
by transcontmental
or semi-transcontmcntal
shipments
Then there are the cit cuitou'S t oute tal ifh that mu Qt all be
changed.
Railroad men figt11e that i\ 1th 75,000 apphcatlO11S
already in and others comin~ rapidly the national body has
work cut out for it that will consume two ot tll1 ee } car"
Transportation
representatives
say that if any considetable percentage of the"e appltcations are a11o\\ ed b, the commission it will reqUlre two or three} eat s to get out the tantfs.
Thousands of eAtra clerks and late e'<:petis must he employ ed,
and then following this "WIllcome hea1l11f;S on thc tates.
No section of any ra1ltoad law that has been passed in
twenty-fiye years is liable to t esult in so many apphcatlOns a"
the long and short haul features of the amended act, as It
will affect so many districts and cause no enct of protests to
arise from cities and towns that a1e m compet1hon with one
another.
Strictly construed, the long and short hdul clause
would mean distance tariffs-that
IS, tanff" accordmg to the
distance the goods are transported.
All railroads have in the \tV est, and to some extent in
the east, dish icts that are sparsely settled and Wll1Ch they
a1e trYll1g to build up To do this roads must give low rates
on shipments mto those di"tricts, and on goods taken out. It
often happens that the rates are lower than those charged for
lone,et d1"tdnce" hut to mote populated d1stncts.
l:"nde1 the new law, if stllctly construed, the rate to the
sparsely settled d1stnct whet e bul1dll1g IS necessary must be
on a distance scale and 'way above the populated territory.
It may 1eadtly be seen that such a conditIon "auld retard the
development
of the trans-Missouri
country.
Under the law the Commerce Commissioners
are allowed
some leeway, and It is ltkely that they Will modify the long
and "hort haul clause, the fourth section of the statute, in
01 det to prevent
ha1 dsh1ps to the glOwmg west, which hard"hip" m1~ht 1eSlllt in a meHantlle
paille.
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No. 1 Leather, 52.50
No. 2 Leather, 47.50
Pan Plush,
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Ruffled Frant, 1.50 extra.
Exhibited only at our Factory,
1113 West Washington Blvd., Chicago.
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NEW YORK'S GRAFT INVESTIGATIONS
THE
yz"~ndi&1
PARLOR.
NEW"""U
Results in Some Information That Is of Interest
to the Public.
The New York graft im estlgation, so-called, ha" bloue,ht
out some facts that are of interest to the people of other
states.
Recently the investigatmg
commltteee has heen £;1\ing attention
to the great mst11ance compa11le~ and theIr
methods and some of the most important te~timon} on that
subject was given by Wtlham C. Robb, manager of the Xe,'V
York Fire Insurance Exchange, who testified that pI emium
rates abroad are very much lower hecause the lea--e ratIO IS
lower. He declared that thi" was not \\ holl} due to methods
of building construction.
"The most striking phenomenon
in the history of fire
insurance," said Mr. Robb, "has been the increase in the use
of fireproof and slow-burning
matel ial in the last 33 ,ears
Although there has been an immense ImplOYement, the rela tive loss per $100 of property has remained sta tionar} K e\\
hazards have developed.
Electricity,
the products of keroe;ene, the use of chemicals in manufactures,
ha' e offset the
efforts to keep down the fire waste, and so doee; the e,TO\'me,
congestion of business
"Construction
is inferior partly on account of rapid
growth.
Underwriters
feel that there has been an imprm ement since the San Francisco fire and that there has been a
slight but apparently permanent reduction in the fil e \\ aste "
In answer to questions by Alfl ed HUll ell assocIate counsel of the committee, Mr Robb stated that the fire depal tments in this country are vastly more effiuent than tho"e m
Europe, but that this increased efficiency does not offsct the
advantages of better construction.
"Have you anything in mind that you mIght sue,e,cst to
the legislature directly aimed at the fil e '\aste?"
asked "Ir
Hurrell.
"I think that greater stringency in butlding la'\" should
be sought," was the answer.
"Every time a mU11lcipahty
seeks to extend the fire limits in which fl ame bt111dmgs al c
prohibited it provokes loud protest from the hhertY-lm me;
citizens.
I think a fine prm Ided b) la\\, a £;raded fine, for
any loss due to carelessness, would he a u "eful mea "Ule
"Legislatures
throughout the countly ha,e qUlte ie,-nOlcd
the fire waste.
They have passed many laws that ha, chad
the inevitable result of incI easing the fire loss."
In answer to questions by J\1r Lmn Bruce upon the subject of monopoly, Mr. Robb stated that in his opmion only
about 75 per cent of the insUl ance \\ Iltten in the metl opolitan
~t:BEDJ;
Need not be moved
from the wall.
Always
ready
wit h
bedding in place.
So simple, 80 easy, a
child can operate it.
Has roomy wardrobe
box.
CHICAGO,
NEW YORK, Norman
Erie & Sedgwick
& Monitor.
dbtllct way by members of the exchange.
The exchange is
said to be in no way a close combination and any new company is eligIble for membership.
, It is sub"tantially
true," said the witness, "that the exchange controls the rate at which insurance can be sold, but
I do not accept the word necessity as applied to the business.
In the selling of any necessity, however, competition will not
go below the cost of production.
It will not go to a ruinous
rate
The ralhoads and the state and federal governments
ha' e not only found that it is impossible to prevent combinations by the carriers but that efforts looking to such prevention are foolish. Consequently government efforts are directed to preventing
favoritism toward customers.
In the
same way there can never he a revival of competitive ratemakmg m msurance any more than there can be a revival of
the PtolemaIC system of astronomy.
"Assuming that it is the product of the age; assuming
that it contlols the business and maintains and fixes rates in
X e\\ York, do you not think as a necessity, fire insurance
Iate-makmg should be controlled by the state?" was asked.
\Ir Robh answel ed that he had not reached a final concllhlOn 1 ut he said that waiving the question as to whether
the state had any I ight to fix the price of anything not supphed hy a puhhc sel \ ant such as a common carrier, the dlfficultlcs of a state late-making body in ;.Jew York are in"epalable
'If the state could do thc work of regulating
rates as
\\ ell. as fan I} , a" far abm e criticism as does the N ew York
exchange," saId the WItness, "part of the objection would be
lemo, ed "
TIe pOInted out that rates in this, state were very low in
thh Clt) and that m case the state controlled rate-making,
pohtlcs \\ ould ImpaIr the efuciency of any such bureau.
The commIttee has been informed that the fire insurance
pI emltlms paId by pohcy holders in N cw York city amount to
about $25,000,000 per year, whIle the losses paid aggregate
about $10,000,000. The other $15,000,000 of the receipts is
uscd to pay salalles, commissions and the incidental expense
of managmg the companies.
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The sensation of last season's
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Supercedes all other Interchangeable Parlor Beds.
SEND FOR ILLUSTRATIONS
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AND PRICES.
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In addition to the regular colors the above shades offer unusually beallLtifuland novel effects.
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dehbelation
\'Tlth such a service prompt
pos"'lble and the ",en Ice of not much value.
delivery
IS 1m-
A manufactm el of San Francisco has 111vited co-operatIOn
111a plan to eJ ect a bmldmg and establish a permanent
Pauhc coa",t e"posltIon
m San FranCISCO
The people of the
l'aufic coast ha' e been s\1ccessful 111all their expositIOn entel pI hes and \\ ould doubtless
succeed v'\ith an expOSItIOn
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CHICAGO
RAI"IDS,
In the estImatlOn of the publIc cut prices convey a very
h'llmful 0p11110n 01 the merchant offering the same.
Changes
of 0\\ nel ShIp of houses m whIch the cut price pohcy prevaIl c
ale frequent
'G0111g Just a httle better" than one's comp~t1tors ploduces
thIS result or absolute failure
REPRESf:NTATIVI[
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RapIds
MIchIgan
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OfficIals of the factO!, mutual 111-'UI'wce compa111c-, de
clare that there IS no longel an) mOlal hazald to cl11blClel
in the conduct of the busmec,c, ot the compa111e.~
111t11111
the past twenty-five
yeal s," one offiual stated I ecen tl), "I
have only known of two cases V\here there was e, en a question that the plants burned dm\ n had been set on fire
Our
members are large concel ns \\ Ith a g I 0\\ m~ hu llH. -, -, \\ 11n 11a \ e
joined for the purpose of pre' entmg and not tm co11lc tm£!,
losses."
The hIgh character
ot the Ilsks lll-,l11cd I~ alu.u'1table for this very sa tIsfacto! y condItIon
In the opinions
of 111Sl11anCe e,pelt"
t11e un-,uentlh,
character of the bmldmg laV\s and the laAlt\ pI e\ atlmg m the.
enforcement
of the same are the causes fm the II -,-, ot PlOp
erty valued at $200,000 000 annua11) hy fil e m the L111ted
States.
Lower 1ates and cheaper admml",tIatlOn
of the selvice need not be expected whtle the pubhc attItude of accepting the fire waste as a necessalY or mherent e'll remalll-, un
changed.
A prominent
retallel
of Chllago
gn ec, a 11ce m(n mg
picture show sevelal tImes each da\, aUlalt1llg tllOu-,ancl~ oj
people to hIS StOl e
ChtlclI en at e eag el tu "ee the PI<.1\11e'and whele the chIld leads the adult £0110\\ -, Se, elal pICtures, used to advertIse the store, al e lllh' "'j)('1 "cd \\ Ith the
scenes presented
The sen Ice IS expen"n e
ThIS IS true
of every form of valuable ad, el tis111g
Salesmen seldom spend too much tIme \\ Ith a c\1stomel
One half of the people thmk of somcthllliS 011 the ,\ a, to the
door. Once on the Stl eet tb cy ma) go el seVYhel e If the c,alcsmen withdraws
too "0011
BeSIdes people hke to legald
those who sel ve them in the sto! es a-, mOl e them melc -,ale-,men. Keep this fact 111mmd
It ,'\ III ",en e ) 0\1 \\ell
A dealer
in furnitm e 111 Kansas CIty e111plO\S a motor
truck in handling goods, domg the W01k of eIght h01 ~e-, and
reducing the cost of deln ery bv h01 ses one-t1m d The tI uck
runs on an a, erage of thIrty-eIght
mIles per dav
Kansas
City is a very hIlly town and deln elY by team 1'0 ,ely slow
Routing dIrectIOn c, of sh1ppel s al e calml) 191101ed 1111ll o..,t
instances
by the exp1 ess compa111es
In O!del to can,
a
package as far as pOSSIble 111the11 0\\ n cal:o, the det0l11111l; of
shipments
O\er a long, 10l111dahout 10ute all planned ''\Ith
::'IIanufacturel s of fur111tm e should cultIvate home trade.
1 he cost of packmg or crating is saved on local orders, and
the busmess of the dealer may be studied with a view to supph mg hb especIal needs.
The salesman who does not hke the Ime of goods he is
handlmg should dn orce hImself f10m it as soon as possible
HIS \\ ork V\III never pI me satIsfactory
to hIS employer nor te
111mself
1he outlook to! tI ade on the Pacific coast IS much imprm ed a condItIon for which the salesmen who travel over
the 1l1uuntam" m seal ch of orders will be truly thankful.
'\'\ h \ do 'iI ev hall s command gl ea ter respect than a bald
head)
13ecau"e haIr makes a good mattress,
whIle a bald
head IS a loke
Pel haps the manufacturer
\\ho seeks a superintendent
IS no more attI actn e than the superintendent
who seeks
po..,ltlOn
::'IIan} a -,ale:oman who thinks
11b loh "lthont
cause In es to learn
a
he was separated
from
that he got his just due.
PI epallll~ ~ood " fO! the m spectlOn of customers is as impm tant as the deln ery of an article that has been sold
Salesmen
call face the W01ld with a brave heart
new Ime has \\ on the approval of the big buyers.
if the
Lot", of salesmen V\III bubble 0' er WIth enthusiasm
the neV\ Imes, but bubbles are not orders.
over
Success
~ood 'altles
can only be won in trade
fOJ his money.
by giving
the customer
Hastings Companies Consolidated.
The Barber
ChaIr company
and Grand Rapids
Bookca",e compan),
both Hastings
concerns,
have consoltdated,
the name of the new company bemg the Grand RapIds Bookcase and ChaIr company
The former companies each had a
capltahzatlOn
of $50,000, whl1e the new one is capitahzed
at
'-200,000 and ~ \ Barber of Gland Rapids, is at the head of
the consoltdated
company.
He says the cap3city of the factOlles vvtll be la1 ~ ely mC1eased.
They WIll exhIbIt their hnes
m the Dlod~eU butlding, Grand Rapids, next month.
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ARTISAN
ROCKFORD SUPERIOR FURNITURE CO.
ROCKFORD,
ILLINOIS
Our New Factory is shown here.
Buffets,
Library
China~cIosets
and
and
Dining~Room
Library
Furniture
Cases
Our full line is shown in Grand Rapids only, first floor, Furniture Exchange Building
o.
HALL, F. CARLSON and E. SAUNDERS in charge.
Three Kinds of Antique Fakes.
Walter Alden D) er in his new book, "The Lure of the
AntIque," says there are three varietIes of fakes in old furniture. These are "the piece made up of bits of old antIque carvmg, panels, etc.; the plam, genuine antique which has been
made to command a hIgher price by means of added carvings,
mlay, etc. ; the piece that IS faked throughout-usually
a copy.
"The first sort IS pel haps the most succes"ful m Europe,
where the cleverest fakes are made ft om old wood.
Old
oaken beams from demohshed windmtlls, for example, have
been converted into the rarest Dutch and Jacobean 'antique'
furniture
This method of deceit has also been employed
successfully in this country.
An old chest may be too dilapidated to sell, but its finely carved panels may be pIeced together to form the cover to another old chest which was originally plain.
"Or an entirely new piece of furlllture may be made up
of remnants of old church pew::, and old bedsteads have been
known to make fine columns for sideboalds, elaborate chma
closets, etc. True, in many cases faulty workmanshIp
may
be dlscovered-a
newly made' peg here, recently dned glue
there-but
often the deception is qUIte complete to the uninitiated.
"The second sort IS often spoken of a'3 'glorified.'
It I"
commonest
m French pieces, where now carvings, veneers
and mlays have been added to "orne genume hut plam piece
to enhance ib value
Here abo gluing can sometImes be
detected, but not often
It is a good rule to examme veneer
and carvmg as well as the plam surfaces for signs of antiquity.
One may be old and the other new.
"A great many of the early Colonial and Enghsh pieces
have also been elaborated
upon in this way.
To
* * *
aVOId being swindled with one of these 'glorified' pieces my
ad, ice is, always buy antiques in their original condition,
first because you WIll then be certain of their authenticity,
and, secondly, an antIque entirely refinished loses its charm
and will never command as hIgh a price as a piece that has
not been 'done over.'
* * *
"ThL thIrd sort-the
thorough fraud-is
more difficult to
make but vastly more profitable.
If you have enough knowledge and sktll there's a chance here for a profit of approximately 1,000 per cent., and not a very great likelihood of
being caught--that
is, if it is a business that appeals to
you.
"You can make new oak look old by the use of permanganate of potash, ammonia and other chemicals, even if the
surface thus treated doesn't feel or look to the expert quite
the same as those treated centunes ago with beeswax, turpentine and elbow grease.
KIck the legs carefully to produce
I eahstlc dents.
"This story is current among the collectors and dealers
of a woman who was brought before a Judge in England.
Upon bemg asked her husband's business she replied.
'He's
a worm eater.'
"'A what!' exclaimed the Judge.
"'A worm eater,' said she. 'He makes worm holes m
an antIque fur111ture factory.' "
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Uniair Discrimination.
A brand of salesmanshIp whIch has l11thel to been neglected by the many experts, self-styled and othel v\ Ise, v\ho talk,
write or lecture upon the subject is what l111ght propetly be
called "negative salesmanship"
smce Its object IS to '-ee not
how much you can sell but how httle you can "ell
Every merchant who ha" any had accounts 01 "Im\ -pel'S
on his books knows something about this bland of salesnMn"hip. When there come mto hIs St01e a man and 111"vvIfe \\ hu
already owe a bill of seventeen dollal s, he IS called upon to
exercise it. He does not want to offend the couple fm hc
knows that if he does they wIll go over to hI" competltOl elnd
pay cash, if they have to, and then he never wIll get hIs money
So he does not dare refuse to sell him whatever they ask f01
within reason.
He bl ings out nothing that is not asked for.
volunteers no interesting information regardm~ the merchandise and generally maintains a gloomy and sphm,,-hke "lIenee
bringing out the things the slmv-pa} and 111S\\ Ife call f01
and nothing else, and breathing a "Igh of I ehef \\ hen they depart.
Ever been there, friend?
ment" get
pal tments
evelY advantage,
to the
detriment
of other
de-
They monopohze the show windows;
they have a preponderance of the adv ertlsmg space; they appropriate the bart;am table~ to theIr exclUSIve use; the most competent salespeople al e a"slgned to them; and in every way their mterests
al e advanced, regardless of the effect upon the other department"
The film'" pet depelrtments mn"t be cared fur- and usnalhare
nnt v\hat of the others?
The chances are (m some
"to! es, at least) that the buyer's attention will be called to
the conti ast m I esnlts so nnfa, orable to their departments.
But whose fault was It? \iV as it wholly the buyers'?
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Soliciting Orders for House Furnishing Goods.
Many retailers of furmture employ solicitors for orders
for house furnishing goods. Going from house to house they
dIspose of many goods in the course of a year. The methods
employed to gain admission and attention
are many and
worthy of the ingenuity of the salesmen.
The New York
Sun in discussing
this subject,
reveals
the plan of a
certain book publishing house.
It is worth reading and the
comments of the editor thereon are very entertaining.
Under
the title:
"The Gentle Art of Canvassing for Orders," the
Sun's article reads as follows:
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UNION FURNITURE
A successful subscription
book house has recently prepared and printed for the private use of its "lady representatives" a treatise on the secrets of the profession.
Some of
these secrets are of interest to the victims, and so deserve
mention.
The firm employs an experienced "trainer," and we may
as well follow her about.
She shall be known as Miss De
Courcy. The trainer, we are told, takes the inexperienced book
agcnt or "pupil" to the home of a lady prominent as a club
member or as a social leader. The pupil having turned in her
treatise tc the caption "How to ask for the lady," call ies out
these instructions:
"N ever say 'Is the lady at home?' but assume that she is
at home. 'Tell Mrs. Brown that Miss De Courcy has called,'
you will say to the maid, and before there is time for her to
close the door you will walk into the parlor."
This advice has been taken, it is safe to say, by every
book agent that ever lived. With our friends inside, the next
absorbing problem is the chair. The pupil is advised to look
for two chairs close together.
Then:
"Do not take a chair near the parlor door, lest the lady
descend the stairs and stop in the doorway to ask your business. Make her come right into the loom, and on no account
tell hcr your business until she sits dovvn. If the lady does
not offer to take a chair you may remark:
'I trust we may
be seated.' "
Now the victim is at bay.
The pupil introduces
the
trainer:
"'Mrs
Brown, this is Miss Dc Courcy.'
The pupil will
then be silent while the trainer tt ies with all the skill at her
command to obtain a subscription.
If she fails the puptl will
make a final effort."
The mentor here adds a rare bit of wisdom:
"If the pupil also fails nothing has been lost, because the
pupil has obtained valuable experience by placticing on dead
wood."
How expressive is this new name of "dead wood" for the
lady that will not succumb to the spell of conversation.
All purchasers of subscription books are to be classed under three heads:
"1. The Butterfly of Fashion
"2. The Placid Housewife.
"3. The Club Lady."
The method of approach is half the battle.
To the
Butterfly the volume is to be introduced as gossiping pages or
ILL.
China Closets
Buffets
Bookcases
We lead
The art of conversation is often classed among those lost
accomplishments
which men believe to have been part of a
golden age. Etruscan glass survives only in museums, but the
art of conversation
still lingers, like a less lustrous glass, in
the calling of the book agent. The shrewd analyzing of character and the weighing of words to measure their effect on
human weakness give to canvassing a place high among the
occupations of the mind.
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Style, CombudJon
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diverting truths fOl Hie tOIlet hour.
The Placid Housewife
WIll be pleased with facts about childl en, plainly prepared.
The Club Lady will be flattered if told that all knowledge is
her field. And thus the chameleon hues of the volume arouse
the canvasser to genuine enthusiasm.
But
must be
beautiful
delicate
lamp."
no brutal attack would be
made "in a social way" by
picture on the wall brings
but flattering reference "to
tolerated.
The approach
recalling a story that the
to mind, or by making a
the centrepiece under the
By this 1ime the victim has learned the nature of the call
and begins to prepare her defence.
Here the pitiless paragraphs begin
Under the heading "Obstacles
to Be Overcome" the first one is' "I want to talk to my husband."
Do you not sympathi7c with this feeble plea for delay?
Not so the cam asser, for she is told that this IS not a true objection:
"It is simply evidence that you have not obtained
mastery over the lady, that the work has not been thoroughly.
done, and it must be begun again with more vigor."
"Too busy to look at books."
Here is a second faint
struggle aga111st the tide. The canvasser must say that this
particular work compresses knowledge like a lemon tablet or
ltkc an extract of beef. The busy lady is thc very person for
whom the WOlk is intended.
"I can't affOl d it," a ldst stdnd
"Ah, madam!
Cdn you
dffOld to be without it? F-,pecially as vve never call upon any
lady who is not reputed able to bear the slight burden of this
invaluable acquisition.
Only two postage stamps a day."
And now in considering the possible endings to the story
we come to the only ray of hope that the victim will find in
tlllS tl eatisc
Suppose Mrs Brown does not subscribe, but in
a kindly manner asks the agent to call again. "Our advice is
hel e a command.
Do not come back." How strangely like
good polittcal advice, and how true! "No work was ever sold
by an agent who came back."
Finally there is the victim who has subscribed:
"Do not run away when the signature has been obtained,
fealing that the lady will gain courage and change her mind.
Remain ten minutes to go over every detail as to paper, bindmg and price. Tell her that the contract is irrevocable and
that therE: is no retreat.
"Do not ask when the work may be scnt, but say: 'Mrs.
Brown, WIll you be in before 10 tomorrow morning?
Yes?
Then the book will arrive by special messenger to-morrow before 10 o'clock.'"
Partmg wisdom from the publisher to the canvasser: "Be
sure to remember that we insist on immedate delivery."
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"WORMHOLERS" HAVE A HARVEST
Well-Baited
Traps Set for Antique Furniture
Hunters in England.
Some AmerIcan toUrI"t who \ I:>Ib England next "ummel
and 1" bent upon "eemg the eotmtI y m a way no fellow countryman has e\ er done may hnd m "ome "pot \\ hleh seems to
have been for centUlIes 1 emote from the rest of the \\ orld an
old moss covered cottage
In a corner of one room he may
be em aptured to behold a fine old Sheraton SIdeboard, \', hlLh
though well preserved
bears the marks of generatlOns
of
usage
There, perhaps, 1" a bIt of ChIppendale or a pIece of
furmture that looks exactly as If It had been fashioned by the
brothers
Adam
"Ho\', much ," the vISItor may say tlym~ not to look as
If he were after a bargam
The tenant of the cottage ma\
heslt'ltc, for one does not lIke to part eaSIly 11am a bIt of
furniture that has been in the famtly smce long before the
gran'ther's
time, StIli. one IS poor, and tImes al e hard
The
American may gulp down hI" satIsfactlOn at \\ hat seems a
ridiculously low prIce for an antIque, the money may be paId
over, WIth enough to pay for its delIvery by "goods \ an" at
the office of an express company m London f01 sillpment
over here, and then dUrIng the remamder of hIS European
tour the AmerIcan may brag to e\ ery compatrIot he meet"
about the wonderfully
fine antIque he pIcked up for a mel e
song in an out of the way place m DevonshIre
"X othmg
like finding these things for yourself," and so on
In the day of our fathers It used to be po"sIble to pIck
up antiques in this way.
Here is some mformatlOn on the
subj ect as it stands from John L Griffiths, the AmerIcan Consul-General in London, who has been at the "\Volcott. ~Ir
Griffiths was Consul-General
in Liverpool up to the tIme, a
year ago last August, he was appointed to the London post
In speaking about antique furmture, so called, 1Ir Gllffith"
was not referring particularly
to England
He \\ as only
making some remarks about the manufacture
m EUlope at
"antique" furmture, an industry that is not unknown m 1'\ e\\
York and New England, which followed some comment" upon the results of takmg the tarIff off works of art of cel tam
kinds.
"As a result of the placing of pICtures twenty years old
or more on the free lIst, with al tistic antiques \\ hlch have an
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age of 100 years or more, the experts from London to this
country last year of works of art of these two grades showed
an increase over the pI eceding year of about $8,000,000," sairl
~Ir Griffiths
"-\s to paintmgs It is not difficult to establish their age,
but concernmg artIstic antiquitIes the situation is very dIfferent, for the rea"on that an article may be antIque and still
may lack al tIstic quahty
Age alone j" not sufficient to entItle an antique to free entry.
On the other hand, the manutacture of antiques may be described as a glowing industry
m Europe
So sktlfully is the reproduction done that the utmo"t care must be exercIsed in differentiating
between the
real and the sham antIque.
"To such an extent is this W01k of 1eproduction carried
that a ne\', piofesslOn has lately come into being on the other
"Ide, whose members are known as worm holers.
It is their
busme"" to make first class worm holes in new furniture.
I
call theIr bu:>mess a profession and not a tI ade, because it reqUIre:> 1 eal artIstIc skIll to make a worm hole. This carries
out the IlluslOn of age produced by treating new furniture by
eel tam processe" whIch are in a large measure a trade secret.
Of COulse the questlOn of free entry on works of art IS
determmed at the port of entry in this country, but an affiday It must be made by the seller before a consular officer of
the l:'mted States, gIvmg the hIstory of the article sold and
all d.ata \\ hleh \\ ould tend to estabhsh its age. The fact that
thIS gO\ ernment has experts to pass upon the antiquity
of
drtldes shIpped m this fashion protects the American buyer
0\ er here, but It does not protect
the American who while in
EUl ope buy s antIques over there.
, In some places I am told that modern furniture which
ha" been 'rIpened' by the process to \'V hich I have referred is
planted about m old, out of the way cottages, to which the
footsteps of the interested traveller are dIrected ingeniously,
Just the sort of places where the untravelled
and even the
tray elled mIght expect to stumble on a bIt of valuable Chippendale, or Sheraton 01 Adam
Everythmg
in the cottage is
allan~ed as a settmg to this 'pIece de resistance.'
The dust
undetneath,
perhaps, may appear not to have been removed
tur a generatlOn
In the back, industrious weavers may have
been encoUl aged to weave a lUXUrIOUScobweb between the
"Ideboal d and the wall
The illuslOn IS so complete, and the
comedy connected wIth it has been all so carefully staged,
that e\ en the American wIth all his natIve shrewdness might
be qUlte easIly deceived."
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The statement is made in a story from vVashington, D.
C, that the New York Central was the prime mover in the
effort to advance freIght rates and to detal1 the necessity for
It, which was the motive of induclllg hnes of the east and
middle west to particIpate.
In this connection it is stated
that the Interstate
CommIssion has complIed the returns of
the revenue and expense accounts of more than 20 roads.
Due regald was gIven for a comprehensive
presentation
of
facts thus ascertallled, by selecting such roads as are of great
vanation
in size, earning power, equipment
and physical
lllternal and external condItions.
These reports show that III the lO-year period just ended, all the roads in the group in question, except the New
York Central and the Boston & Maine, have been constantly
gaining in the ratio of profit between the cost of transportation and their total revenues.
In response to a request from the commission the New
York Central has furnished an array of figures showing how
its vast capital has been used. The money made by the Central itself and by its subsidiary companies at all times was
suffiCIent for the needs under ordinary CIrcumstances of that
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Brains vs. Skill.
It is difficult for most workmen, especially in small
places, to convince themselves that artists can possIbly know
what they want in the matter of the artists' own houses, how
they should be built or how any particular detail should be
accomplished,
says aNew
York paper.
In the end they
usually find, and always to their surpnse, that the artist has
mastered them in their own trade, although using their technical or manual dexterity, and has got the kind of house or
part of it he wanted after all.
Edward A. Bell, in remodelling his summer home at Peconic, N. J., and making it a handsome and unusual looking
house, had his greatest dIfficulty in getting the carpenters,
bricklayers and others to do as he WIshed. Either it couldn't
be done at all that way or they knew a better way, or if it
should be done that way he would only have to laugh at it
himself when finished.
It would look so funny and wrong.
But Bell won out, and his workmen were the surprised ones;
also they knew more-and
the value of art as an educator
had a new vindication!
Glenn Newell has just had the same tussle over again in
moving his portable house to Dover Plains, where he has
converted it into quite an establishment.
After wrestling
WIth carpenters, masons and the rest to the point of exasperation he heard of one man who, the people said, didn't know
anything, but "could bul1d a fireplace and chimney:'
"If he
can build a fireplace and a chimney," said Newell, "I want
him, and you can tell him that I can tell him how to build
mIne."
It surprised the natives, but it worked. Furniture designers, also, frequently have dIfficulty in convincing the workmen that their ideas are practicable.
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That makes PRICES right.
the
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KAUffMAN
MfG. CO.
ASHLAND,
Or Northwestern "L" to
It was testified that the funded indebtedness
of the New
York Central was $208,317,426.54. But the Central bought
the Lake Shore by a $90,000,000 bond issue, and, altogether,
it has acquired properties amountlllg to more than $77,000,000, of which $23,575,000 was dIrectly out of surplus earnings.
Meanwhile the Lake Shore has been paying tremendous
dIvidends, and it is declared that the earnings of the New
York Central would seem to be ample for all its needs.
Sena for Catalogue
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Contains No Gasoline, No Benzine, No Headlight Oil.
For use in reducing Varnish.
For Use in CUTTING DOWN EXPENSES.
TRY IT.
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THE LAWRENCE·McFADDEN CO.
PHILADELPHIA
Buildings That Will Need Furniture.
Residences-Atlanta,
Ga-C
Shehelton
231 \\ alelh
way, $3,800; R S. Mont", 66 Stelltng stleet, S3,000
Chicago, Ill-Paul
Lindsttom, 4731 Ebetl) a\ enue, S6,000; Elizabeth Haskel, 6107 ~10m oe a\ enue, $16,000, '\ If l;:,bol, 3918 Houston a\ enue, $8,SOO; 11rs C 7immerman, 1203
North Hamlin avenue, $4,000; ZelIa MellIck, 710 \Vest Sixt)third street, $10,000; Oscar \Vestle), 5621 Lafltn street, S8,000; E. P. Williams, 7409 Dlexel alel1tle, $4,SOO; '\ebon
Nielson, 6943 Anthony stl eet, $9,000; 0 Dll~g s, 1416 East
Sixty-second place, $4,500; n L Llppencott, 4127 \\T est Forty
fifth street, $3,000; Eha H. Mamclle, 9300 South Robe) sheet,
$8,000; James GriffithS', 4710 Alban) a\enue, $4S00. \lbelt
J. Lotan 4712 North Fortv-slxth "tt eet, S3,300, "j11s J 0
Shaughnessey, 8929 Gladys a\ enue, S8,000
Cincinnati, 0 -M. Y Cooper, 460 Outlook a\ enue, S6,000; John Pohls, 3498 Boud1110t avenue, $3,500, J N. Thompson, Frome avenue and Doberer stteet, $3,000.
Columbus, 0 -H.
Rechter, 262 Deshler street, $3,500;
G. M. Donley, 107 West Sixth avenue, $2,800, Alfl ed Linton,
124 Fourteenth avenue, $4,000; MalY Jones, 69 South Pllnce
ton avenue, $3,000; H. VV. Snyder, 2157 Tuller Stl eet, $2,500,
E. M. Christman,
125 Chittenden
street, $4, SOO, Damel
Krumm, 332 South Fourth street, $3,000
Dallas, Tex.- T. N. Collier, 189 James stt eet, ~4,000, L
W. Campbell, 121 Cora stt eet, $3,000, 111s lL n HIll, 321
Jefferson street, $3,000.
Denver, Co1.- J. H. Maunder, South Gl ant and '\1 kamas
streets, $2,500; A. S Kennedy, Newton and TIm t \ -second
streets, $2,500; MISS Richardson, Hay\\ald place and T O\\Cll
boulevard, $2,500; Ml s. J. P. Eipps, South Sherman and \1 kansas streets, $2,500; Dr. Clyde Taylor, ITarllson ;,tt eet and
r le\
PA.
enth a\ enue, S3,000, Fllnbeth
L\\ cnt- -ftth a\ enue. $2,900
Beatty,
Dahlia street and
Duluth. "j1111n
-"\11 s H emy Rathke, East Fifth street
and Se\ enteenth a\ enue, $4,000, John MIller, Central avenue
and EH;11th stteet, $2,500
Dett Olt, Mlch - \V l11iam F. Busse, 479 Belvidere street,
$3,000, Kathel ine B Kirchner, 129 Palmer avenue, $8,500;
'\Ul:; \' en ack, 642 Baldwin stt eet, $2,500; Chatles Happe, 135
T osephme stt eet, $5,500; M rs J. Adams, 181 Canton street,
S3 875, Cathenne Tapert, 1084 Boulevard, $6,000; A. E. Wea\ er, Longfellow and Third streets, $4,500; George W. Barrus,
\-lrgmla and Third stt eets, $7,000; Anna M. Peterson, Moran
dnd FOI est st1eets S4 000, E S Bennett, Seminole and St.
Paul sueets. $12000
Gl and RapIds. \rich -A.
Schlichtig, ButterVvorth and
Rn el a\ enues, $S 000, Art Kooimann, Eastern avenue and
South Fuller street, $2,500; Mrs. John Jones, Fifth avenue,
near South Ionia street, $2,500.
IndIanapolis, Ind -Gem ge J. Hamel, Kappes and Morris
Stl eets, $3,000, \iV. D Ritter, Denny and Washington streets,
$)000 Salah Yalgel, Radel and Thilty-thild
stteets, $3,500;
Y\!. S (losby, Ruckle and Thirty-third streets, $4,500; Mrs
J D Km/et. S17 South New Jersey stt eet, $5,500; J. H. Diehl,
317 Fast 1'hil teenth sheet, $12,000; 1\1 K. Foxworthy, Drexel
a\ enue and Michigan stt eet, $3,300.
Jacksomllle,
I·la-vi\!
13. Myels, Jefferson and V/ard
Stl eet", $6, SOO; Charles V Crosby, Barrs and King streets,
$3,000; A F. Bames, Date and Grape streets, $3,000.
Los Angeles, Cal-\V.
C Elderton, 947 Flancisco street,
S22,000; \V. F. Breithalel, Gramercy place, $5,628; R. F. Mc
Laren, Temple stteet and \VIlton place, $3,000; J. J. Walker,
334 South Vine street, Hollywood, $3,750; E. M. Herr, 5017
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Monte Vista street, $3,000; O. P. Dennis, Hawthorne and
Sycamore streets, Hollywood, $6,500.
Louisville, Ky.-Mrs. Rosa Manderbeck, 329 East Market
street, $5,500; J. E Dawkins, 208 West Ormsby street, $2,500;
Dr. F. A. Neder, 1839 Lee street, $2,500
Mlllneapolis, Mllln -Edger S FIsher, 3433 Thirty-fourth
avenue, $2,600; H L. Stonc, 1103 Twenty-third avenue, S.
E, $3,500; Lee M. Derby, 108 ·West Rustic Lodge a, enue,
THE WORLD'S BEST SAW BENCH
$2,900; Michael J Tompkllls, 212 East Thirty-eighth street,
$2,500; Nels Lindqtmt, 2416 East Twenty-second street, $2,500; P. M Palmer. 115 East ThIrty-foUl th street, $2,800.
Mobile, Ala -Ml s. Ann S Young, Maple and Pecan
streets, $3,000; M Jacoby, 418 Jackson street, $2,SOO; J. J.
Thomas, 382 Herndon avenue, $3,000
Omaha, Neb --Can Ie KincaId, 3812 Marcy street, $2,500;
J. F. Sturgeon, 815 South TIlIIty-seventh street, $2,SOO , Joseph
Kettnacher, 2432 South EIghteenth street, $3,000; A. L. Patrick, 1411 North Thirty-second street, $2,500.
Phl1adelphia, Pa -c. J \V. Platt, 116 NO!th Eleventh
street, $2,500; D. Roland, 1732 North Eighth street, $2,500;
B. L. Carroll, Columbia avenue and vVest Sixty-first street,
$8,000; E G. Burmell, Botanic avenue and Eighty-second
street, $2,500; R. S. Pen y, Queen's lane and Stokey street,
$6,000; John Palkinson, Kingsley avenue and Pechin street,
$4,300; Jacob May, 2204 West Cambria street, $6,680; Calvin
W. Rogers, Fiftieth and Locust streets, $20,000.
Pittsburg, Pa -c. J. Keller, 986 Solway street, $14,000;
Miss Caroline Neessner, Alpine avenue and Lindsey alley,
BUilt with double arbors, shdmg table and equipped complete with taper pin
$6,500.
guages carefully graduated.
Th,s machme represents the heIght in saw bench conRichmond, Va -Joseph "\iV einstein, Monument avenue and
struction. It is designed and bwlt to reduce the cost of sawmg stock.
Cedar street, $8,500; David Connell, Main and Meadow streets
Write us for descriptive information.
$11,000.
Salt Lake City, Utah-Louis
Battey, 140 West ApJicot
stJ eet, $2,500; A. O. \Vhitmore, 430 East South Temple street,
Mrs M. E. Trundall, 814 Twenty-fourth avenue, $3,000.
$6,000; Joseph A. Hall, 1157 East Laird avenue, $2,500.
Miscellaneous Buildings.-J oseph Ashbey has a permit
Sioux City, la -Rev. A. J Lothian, St Aubin's place,
to
remodel
the Ryers MethodIst church, corner of Second
$3,500; Dr. P. E. Sawyer, $2,500.
street
pIke
and
Cottman street, Philadelphia, at a cost of $25,Spokane, Wash -Thomas
Maloney, 221 Pacific avenue,
000.
The
Royal
Theatre company are building a $15,000
$3,000; C. H. Westler, 1024 Thirteenth avenue, $5,000; F. M.
Aumoch, 4214 Washington street, $3,600; Louis Searle, 437 theatre at 1809 West Broadway, Louisville, Ky. James G.
Shoshone avenue, $4,000; Samuel A. Babcock, E2007 Illinois Doak & Co., are expendmg $15,000 III remodellllg the ColIonavenue, $3,500; Mrs Rose Brennan, N4917 Wall street, $2,- ade Hotel, FIfteenth and Chestnut streets, Philadelphia. A
permit has been issued for the erection of the Burns Opera
500.
Sulphur Springs, Tex -W. D Patrick, $4,000; Mrs. Zol House at Colorado Springs, Col., at a cost of $150,000. The
Masons of Des Moines, la., w111expend $200,000 in erecting a
Askew, $2,500.
Syracuse, N Y.-c. D. Palmer, 308 Bryant avenue, $2,- Temple on Locust and \Vest Tenth streets. The Metropole
company are buildmg an $18,000 hotel at Broadway and
500; Eugene 13 Howell, 302 Melrose street, $2,500; Patrick
Gannon, 135 Rockland street, $4,200; Peter Picotte, 280 Court Eighteenth streets, Denver, Col WIlliam Klatt is building a
street, $4,000; A.. "\iV yan, Ontario and vVest Fayette streets, $10,000 theatre at 885 Grand River avenue, Detroit, Mich.
$3,500; Domemco Falcone, 557 North Salina street, $5,500; vVilham Burbndge has a permit for the erection of a $100,000
hotel on Clay and Forsyth streets, Jacksonville, Fla. A $24,Chester J. Fuess, Quackenbush street, $3,800; Ella M. Tuppen,
000
Methodist church is being built at 5201 South Main
224 Dwight street, $3,000; Joel Trautman, 125 Swaneola street
street, San Francisco, Cal. The West Broadway Theatre
$3,800.
company are building a $20,000 theatre at 1736 West BroadWichita, Kan -PI of Reno B. Mc}el '0, 952 Faulkner aveway, Loul<.,yille,Ky.
nue, $4,000; Dr GeOlge E. Wandbelg, $4,000; S. W. Barton,
$3,000; Alfred Thompson, $2,500; Bishop J 01111
J. Hennessey,
$30,000; M E Eshelman, 911 Faulkner avenue, $3,000.
Leather Escutcheons.
Washington, D. C.-Allen W. Mallery, 4403 Ord street,
J dy \Vhite, American consul at Santos, Brazil, has fornorthwest, $4,000; Lucas \V. Gibbon, 312 Kennedy street, $4,- warded to the bureau of manufactures at \iV ashington samples
800; John L Knopp, 3021 Twenty-second street, northeast,
of leather escutcheons for furniture made of scrap leather
$5,000; Miss Laura V. French, 3714 McKinley street, Chevy and leather cuttmgs, impOlted into Branl from Europe, which
Chase, $8,600.
if not already made in the United States would be suggestive
Seattle, "\Vash-Erminic
McFarland, 6343 Fiftieth ave- to American leather manufacturers of a new and profitable
nue, southwest, $2,500; A. A. Roupt, 4124 Gleenwood avenue, use for their waste matenals. These escutcheons retail in
$2,500; L. B. FI aser, 1607 North FIfty-fourth street, $2,500; Brazil from 5 to 15 cents, according to size.
THE TANNEWITZ WORKS, ~Wt~g:~PIDS.
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DRVLUN\SER
you MJant it-WHEN
LIKE
you MJant it.
We teach our customers to systematically prove the condition
of every truck of lumber that comes from our kiln. If it's not right,
there's a quick remedy.
If more lumber is required, we increase
the speed. In dull seasons, run on exhaust steam, day time only, and
save fuel.
Such perfect control makes you complete master of the
dry lumber situation,
Old kilns easily and cheaply remode/led.
OUT
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Grand
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The Hartman
Company's Methods.
It would seem that the road of the small fur111ture dealer
IS contmuously becommg more dIfficult to travel
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tlII.t IhouJd be n the posses",-o,;.
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away fur111ture, the premIum stamp schemes and last but not
lea"t the active competItI.on of legItImate furniture dealers who
al e opel at1l1g on a very large scale and who through catalogues
1 each out f01 bus111es" 111 all parts
of the country.
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concern" that h contllbl1tlllg
to the small dealers' discomfort
1" the Hal tman rUllllture
& Carpet company of Chicago, who
ha"\ C' '22 ot01e, 111clIffel ent parts of the country and whose bus inecs IS so extensIVe that the) operate a number .of factones in
the ploductlOn of lInes they handle
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0\ erhead
costs of factory .operation, by concentratlllg their energle, on d comparatn ely few cleslgns, they are able to retaIl their
goocls at pnces II hlch leave httle or no margm for a small furnitUl e dealer who IS trYll1g to sell goods of comparatIve
merit
ThIS IS a perfectly legItImate competltlDn and one WhICh undoubtedly IS benefical to the great mass of consumers although
It mal be de"tructn e of prospenty
and success of small retail
tU111lture dealer,
The) seem to have offset every advantage
\\ hlch b popularh
supposerl to be enjoyed by the matI order
people and even go them one better thlough the ownershIp of
then WIdely scattered
sy~tem of stDres
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home dealer hdS advantages
and he will undoubtedly
c-ontinue
for ~0l11e tlme to sell the bulk of goods consumed in hIS town
I Ie ,hould, h.owever, expect to sell a larger number of the
staples he carnes at httle or no profit if he wants to retain all
the trade III his town.
He should also gradually endeavor to improve opportunities
for bu) mg
It IV ould seem that this could be best accomplished
b\ co-operatIon and ma,,~ bUylllg, especIally of staples.
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DQ'!1 t uy to yout'sclf thf,t you I! wnte us to-morrow---or next we~
UO IT NOW I Bear m mmd Ul.t m aendmg for tml>-' grea.t catalog
you are under noobhgatlons to buy
We ask the pnvU~e of lltndmg yeu
th1sFunuture
Book at Our own expense and w I! do 10 g.ladlY wbether)"P1.II
send ua an otd~ gr DOt
The Book will bI! &eDt to :rou As soon as pnnted.
has to contend WIth the manufacturers
\\ho are retaIlIng dIrect,
the large mall order firms, who do not carry stock but fill 01 clers
from theIr own factories, the soap manufacturers,
who are able
dmg
"\alues"
are not
always
values
percept-
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For Bed Caps, Case Goods, Table Legs
and many other purposes; in Gum,
Mahogany and Quartered Oak Veneers.
The Fellwock Auto & MfJ!. CO.
EVANSVILLE, INDIANA
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The Good Old Reliable Work Bench
THAT ~NEVER GETS OUT OF STYLE.
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By E. Levy, Representative.
Chicago, Dec 16--A dlsastrou<" fIle oecml~d hele on the
13th m<"t. when the "tructure
at 311 \\ aba"h avenue was
destI oyed
The flames wel e fir-;t discovered m the basement
of the bUlldlllg, which, togethel with the fJrst floor, was occupied by the Derby Desk company.
There \\ ere a few other
furniture firms m the bmldlllg, among them hemg the N ewton & HOlt company and the Pedect \Vall Bed company,
while the Cha-;e Brm
Plano company WdlplCJ the tl'il d
floor
In the adjommg bUilding to the no] th the Kennedy
Furmture
company have alai ge and fine stc'ck of furmtm e,
part of which wa-; damaged by smoke anu wate] and on the
south the Richardson
Casket company al-;o suJ{elCd "omewhat of a loss m a <"m11larway
\ lo;ymnd-;lUm for women
was on the Sixth flOOl and the] e were a large number of attendants at the time m the hall, m their "g~'lJ!"('ostUl1le" and
these had to make their escape m that attire, leavmg their
other weanng apparel m their lockers
They \vere assisted
to safety by gomg to the roof and C] ossmg to the nelghborlllg bUlldmg by means of a ladder, whIle other;, were as-;isted
down the slendel fire escape and by means of ladders hoi-;ted
by the hook and ladder ¥,ompallles, the members of which
aided many in the escape
The 10-;-; is e-;timated at $=)00,000
The Green Manufacturing
company, parlor frame makers
of this city, who have been among the most successful in
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C. CHRISTIANSEN, 2219 Grand Ave., CHICAGO
Also manufacturer of the Chicago Truck for woodworkmg factorIes
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their Ime m thiS countl y announce on another page of this
Issue the exhibit of their new hne of parlor frames, which
they al e now showmg at their factory, 1500 North Halsted
-;treet
The Greens have done much towards making this the
leadmg market for parlor frames, and have just closed the
record-makmg
season of their experience.
They expect to
make a new record the coming year, and believe their new
lme which they are now showmg will aid toward that end.
G A Weatherly, \\ho for a number of years has been travelmg east with their lme, has just returned after the most successful -;ea-;on he has ever had, and wi:1I be in Chicago during
the midwinter sellmg sea-;on to see hi" many business friends
and acquamtances
who come to the market.
Bettmg
IS a fool argument---wlll
or lose
A. PETERSEN & COMPANY
Manufacturers of the BEST MADE and LEADING LINE of
Office Desks
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the Country,
Large number of new patterns now being added, ready January 1st, will be shown in our
new catalogue.
FULL LINE.
RIGHT PRICES.
SEND FOR CATALOGUE.
430 ArlTI.ourSt" CHICAGO, ILL,
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COMPLETE
LINES Of
REfRIGERATORS
AT RIG"T PRICES
SEND FOR NEW CATALOGUE
AND LET US NAME YOU PRICE.
CHALLENGE
GRAND
REFRIGERATOR
HAVEN,
MICH.,
CO.
U. S. A.
A Service That Serves.
Baby's Traveling Cot.
The Lyon Furmture
!\gency recently sent manutacturel
s
of the trade an umque booklet-Its
cO'. el s belllg an e"act
reproduction
of that of theIr standard 1eference book-settmg
forth in detaIl the full scope of theIr sel vIce and contallling several facsimile letters from some of the lal gest manufacturers of the counby te;,ttfYlllg as to Its effiClenC\
This Agency wtll go lllto the New Year \\lth a much
larger subscnptlOn
Itst than at any pre\ lOU" bme III It'i hbtory, and owes Its VClY lalge mca'iure of success to the fact
A resIdent of Pa"adena,
Cal, IS saId to have helped to
,,01\ e the problcm of \\ hat to do wIth the baby when on a long
rallro,ld tnp
He Ins deVIsed a collapslhle cot. which can be
hn11t:;011the lnck o± the seat m fro11t, and III WhICh the child can
'Jeep 111peace and comfortfOl hImself. hIS parents and the
othel pas"engers
[hIS cot or berth consIsts of a bottom to
"upport a t111\ mattre"" and h1l1ged SIdes, which fold down upon
It \\ he 11not 1ll u"c and open up fOl supports
when the cot is in
the
\round the \\ hole affau goes a metal hanger frame, from
\\ hlch anse t\\O U-shapec1 hooks, whIch hook over the back of
the seat ahead and support the Itttle berth WIthout 1ll any way
mterfenn~
\\ lth the occupants of the forward seat.
As this
'lrtIde takes up httle room when folded, it IS expected to be a
hlesoll1g by mothel" who have to take infants on long trips, as it
can be adjusted 111 a few moments and the little one allowed to
take hIS rest \\ Ithout encumbenng his parent.
that for nearly thIrty-five years It has watched zealously and
dtligently
over the interests
of Its subscnbers.
It occupIes today an undisputed
pO'iltion of leadershIp because in all that time it has labored unceaslllgly
to make Its
service more useful, more effeLtl\ e and more acceptable.
The
chief capItal of the Lyon agency has always been the appl eclation, co-operatlOn,
confidence
and SUppOl t of the FUllllture and kllldred trades, but for whIch It would have dIed III
its infancy
Today It IS a 'itrong mstltutlon
\\ lth a cham of
offices stretching
m el nine of the leadlllg trade cen tel::, and
covenng, by means of Its small army of trained m\ estIgators
and reporters,
the entire country.
It is the largest specIal agency III the world today.
MANUF ACTURERS
INDICTED.
Messrs, Bloch and Eisenberger of the Mutual Mfg. Co.,
Dayton, Ohio, have been indicted by the jury of retail furniture dealers on the charge of making un-heard of values in
Library Tables.
As the evidence is very strong against them, it appears
a certainty that the charge will be confirmed by the supreme
court of the furniture buyers, who will assemble at Grand
Rapids in January.
The case will be tried in the Second
Floor of the Furniture Exchange Building, Grand Rapids.
The st')re that gn es the customer
handles the best goods obtalllable
the most for hIS money
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Cost of Trucking by Horse and JHotor.
A wnter for System ha::-,mvestigated thc cost of trucking
hy h01::-,Cand motor and prepared the followmg table showing
the comparative cost and efficiency, per umt, m a five months'
test of SIX douhle wagons and fifteen horses agamst three
three-ton gasolme trucks, over pal allel routes hut under condItions-heavy
loads, long distances and few stops-ideal
for
economical operatIOn of power wagons:
Costs
One Wagon and Team
(Share of three extra horses and two extra men included.)
Ollginal Cost Team, Wagon, Harness
$ 900.00
Interest, five months, 5 per cent...
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1875
Depreciation,
20 per cent per annum..............
7500
Repair
. . . . . ..
41 66
Insurance
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500
License
. . .. .. .. .
4.15
Feed . . .
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116666
Shoeing
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1600
Miscellaneous
Expense-water,
veterinary,
hauling
n1anure, hrOOITIS, cOlTIhs, etc
.
46.52
\Yages
. 41666
5000
Rent
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Total Expense, five months
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Expense per day
.
Average loads per day
Average deliveries per load
. . . . . .. .
Total average deliveries per day
Average cost per delivery
.
.$ 84040
6.46
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3;Yz
3;Yz
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$
1.84
One Three-Ton Truck
Original Co::-,t.
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$3,50000
Interest
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. . . . . . . . . . ..
7292
Depreciation, 20 per cent per annum .
291 66
Repairs .. .
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1990
Insurance
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1500
License
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12 50
TIres (for year, $619)
. . . . . ..
25792
Gasoline (938 gals)
.
9400
Oil
. . ..
.. ..
. ..
2800
\Vages (opel ators I epair and wash own t1 ucks) .. .. 45000
Rent
5000
Total Expense, five months
.
$1291 70
Expense per day. ..
.
994
Avelage loads per day. " ..
2
Average deliveries per load
6;Yz
Total average dehvelles per day. .. . . . .
. .. . .. . .
13
A vel age cost per delivery
$
.76
The test shows that motor trucks with original inve::-,tment fOUl times a::-,great as wagon outfit and with operating
expense (includmg intere"t) 54 per cent higher, almost quadrupled the performances of the horse vehIcles and cut the cost
per delivelY 58 per cent.
Forceful
facts may be marshalled
m the show windows
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MARIETTA SOLVENT
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For many years ~
we have made it, used it,
sold it-·with unvarying satisfaction to our customers
and ourselves. Marietta Solvent WORKS
EQUAL ..
LY
IN
WELL
STAINS,
LERS
PASTE
OIL
FIL-
and VARNISH.
Especially effective in oil
stains containing asphaltum,
gums, etc. A perfect solvent for varnish, making it
work freely and still retain
the necessary body and dry..
ing qualities.
It means money to you
to keep it in your finishing
room.
W rite for sample
to
desk No.3.
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Marietta, Ohio.
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ny carrying-rhe
If
YOli :Yancy
ONE~PI[CEPORCELlIIN{INED
WONRRD
CLERNRDLE
WRITE
FOR
CATALOGUE
GRAND RAP/DS REFRiGERATOR CQ
GRAND RAPIDS.
Robel t L J oyne of \V J1m111gton, '\ C, IS plomotmg
a
company to e",tabhsh a shmHa",e factory at Columbia, S. C
The Moore YI:anufactul111g compan},
Spnngfield,
Mo"
are reported to be contemplat111g estabh"hmg
a furllltul e factory at Mammoth
Spnng, r\rk
David and Jacob Le\l and George E De\ve\ ha\ e incorporated
the Dewey-Le\ I J\lanufactunn::;
company,
to engage in the manufactul e of furlllture
in ChIcago
Capital
stock, $10,000
E. H. Cameron,
0 R Muentel
and Hugh CamelOn have
orgalllzed
the Muenter
Manufactunng
(ompan,),
Fond du
Lac, \VI" , to manufactule
chall"
The plant of the ,VI"con"in
Art Cabmet company has been leased
The new factory of the
pany of East Jamestown,
~
bUlldmg IS thl ee stone". ;7 x
hou"e and \\;111be pI aLtlLall,}
Interior
Metal Furlllture
Y, I" nearing ccmpletlOn
1;2 teet. e'Cclusl\ e of the
fire plOof
comTha
PO\\ er
The Bellingham
(,Yash)
Manufactll1111g company
has
purchased
the propel t} of the \ V e"tel n \Yuod- VV orkmg compan} of that CIty, and \\111 enga£;e 111a general WOOd-W01king
busmess mdudmg
a 1111eof 10\\ pnced Ch,ll'"
Lloyd F. CUI ner and}
H Pal ks ha\ e t01 med a partner",hIp "tyled the MIS"OUlI Valley Fl11mttll e company and will
engage m the manufacttll e of office, bank ,ll1d "t01 e fixtures at
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GRAND RRPIDS
GRR~D RRPlDS,MICH.
GET THE CRTRLOGUE
Yate" Center, Kan
A new building is being erected,
eqUIpped WIth modern machinery,
electncally
driven.
Furniture
to be
Fires.
[he ChIcago Furmture
company, dealers,
\\ el e burned out completely
on December
pal tlallv msured
7.
of Monroe, Ia.,
Loss $2,500;
J ack"on HIO'i, furmture
dealers of Washington,
who"e St01 e \\ as burned last week, recently effected
ment \v Ith thell CIedItors at 30 cents on the dollar
D. c.,
a settle-
1 he plant-., of the Lawrence
Cabmet company and the J.
lalel
Planmg
:\1111 company
of Lawrence,
Kan., were
bm ned I ecently \\ lth a loss of about $10,000, only partially msured
1)
-\ blue
',llppo"ed
to ha\ e stal ted from spontaneous
combU<,!lOn on the top floor of the ChadoL,)in Furniture
compam"
j,lCtOl \
r ame"town, ~ Y, on Deumber 10, caused a
lo'os of $8,000 or $10,000, mamly ft om water
Fully insured
1<11 e de" tl 0\ ed the plant of the \i\T estern Parlor Frame
lUmpan\
of Plymouth,
,Vi",
on Decem1)er
12. Insurance
\\a" call1ed to the amount of $15,000
P. M. vVoIf, owner
ut the taLtal} \\ a", negotlatmg
WIth ::vl:llwaukee parties for
the "ale oj the property
for $23,000, It is understood
The
plan t \\ III be rebUIlt
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is a blot upon the ability of every furniture worker
to lack a knowledge of the fundamental principles of
~ketching, detailing and ornamental drawing, and we have
a course of instructions that works wonders as an eraser.
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is a blot upon the ability of every furniture salesman
to lack a correct knowledge of the period styles, and
we have a course of instructions that erases this blot to
perfection.
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The Grand Rapids School of Designing
The Best Institution of its Kind in the World.
A. Kirkpatrick, Instructor and Designer.
542-545 Houseman Building, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
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New Factories.
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MISCELLANEOUS NOTES AND NEWS
The New York furmture exposition season will open on
January 16.
WIlham T. HIght succeeds Hight & Merrill, furniture
dealer:, of Boston, Mass.
Van Pelt & \;V eber, furniture dealer", of Rahway, N. J.,
have gone out of business.
George F. BIcknell has purchased the furniture of Wilham B Spooner at Brookfield, Mass.
Rembs & Sturm, furmture dealers of TunctlOn City. WIS.,
have :,old out to F and J \Vasloff.
John H Harp has purchased the I etaIl fl1rnitm e busine"s of C B & H S Keer of La Glam;e, [nd
Georg e F Stevens, fm niture and camet dealer of San
Angelo, Tex, has filed a voluntary petltlOn in bankruptcy.
Adams & Alhson, StatesvJ1le, N C, are said to be preparing to convert theIr lumber plant mto a furniture factory.
Jame" Allen Au-,tm, president of the Austin Furniture
company of FItchburg, Ma-,,, , dIed on DC'cel1Jber 9, aged 77
years.
The National Spring. Bed company of New Britain, Conn.
has opened branch salesrooms at 105 Richmond street, Boston.
The Maple Cabinet Manufacturing
company, Des Moines
la., manufacturers
of bookcases, cabinets, etc., are enlarging
their plant.
Samuel Altman, who has two furmture stores in Clinton, Mas:" has opened another in the neighlooring town of
Leominster
Frank Durham, formerly with Hahne & Co , of Newark,
N J, is to succeed Arthur Block as buyer for Snellenben;'s,
PhJ1adelphia, on J anual y 2.
Petit & Co, furniture and carpet dealers of Harrisburg!
Pa, will close out their stock, or sell it in bulk, and retire
from business on January 31, 1911.
The chair factories at Union CIty, Pa, are reported as
very busy at pre"ent
The Shreve Chair company have just
mstalled a large new Corliss engine.
The plant of the Falcon Manufactul mg company, Big
Rapids, Mich., which was damaged by fire recently, is being
rebuilt on an enlarged and improved scale
The Anderson-Thorsell
Furmture
company, dealers of
Duluth, Minn., are erecting a new building, 50 x 140, and two
stories m heIght, which they wIll occupy m January.
The Johnson Brothers Furniture
company of Mitchell,
S. D., having moved into larger quarter" will add largely to
their stock, givmg mOl e attention to the lligher grades
The Specialty Manufacturing
company, Melrose, Mass.,
manufacturer
of chail s, tables, couches, etc., are said to be
considering the removal of their plant to Savannah, Ga.
On petition of J. A Johnson, a contlactor who built a
part of their plant, the Osage School Desk company of Oklahoma City, Okla , has been placed in the hands of a receiver.
The plant of the Oregon City (Ore.) Furniture
Manufacturing company has been seized on attachment
by the
Oregon City Bank, in order to enforce payment of a claim of
$900.
Henry Hoffman, upholsterer and furniture dealer, of 766
Madison avenue, New York, has been adjudged bankrupt.
Liabilities, $6,000; assets, $2,500. Arthur L. Cohen is the
receiver.
The Buffalo Lounge company, who now have three plants
in operation, will have another after May 1, having purchased
a five-story buildmg for that purpose at 588-94 Louisiana
street, Buffalo.
Samuel K. Felton, J. Sibley Felton and Walter G. SIbley, will incorporate the firm of Felton, SIbley & Co., to engage m the manufacture
and sale of paints, varnishes, etc.,
m PhJ1adelphia, Pa.
Owing to the poor health of George Lavenson, president and pnnClpal proprietor, the Lavenson-Schlueter
company, furmttll e dealers of 227-33 Post street, San Francisco,
Cal , wJ1l go out of busmess.
The Eagle Fl1rmttlle company, manufacturers
of Athol,
~la"s, who hay e I etlred flom the bl1sine"s, have a valuable
plant that I" now Idle. The company was i, unded 37 year"
ago and has alway" been prosperom
To encourage early Christmas shopping the Siegel-Cooper corr pany of New York annol1nced that all purchases made
from Decembel 1 to December 10, mclusive, would be charged
on bJ1ls rendered to customels on FebrualY 1, 1911.
Herman WItt of 100 East Nmety-fifth street New York,
who made a business of conducting furniture sales in private
houses, has been granted a discharge in nankrnptcy.
His
liablhties were $4,252; assets, above exemptions, $178.
The \Vhite Mountain Freezer company of Nashua, N. H.,
have purchased a tract of hardwood timber in Maine which
IS estimated at 2,000,000 feet. They will build a mill to saw
the timber which will be cut during the coming two years.
W. D. BenedIct has decided to close out his retail furniture businet>s in Massillon, 0
He was formerly a successful travelmg salesman and it is announced that "on January
2, he will return to the road as the representative
of the
largest furniture factory in the world."
G W. FarreIl & Co., of Montreal have organi7Cd the
Brinton Carp<,t company capitalized at $150,000, and purchased from the Brinton's of Kidderminster,
Eng the carpet
mJ1ls established by them at Peterborough,
Que
The plant
I" to be enlarged to more than double it;;; present capacity.
J A. Hadwiger, Chic~o representative
of Jacob & Joseph Kohn, manufacturers
of bent wood furniture, is now in
Vienna, Austria, visiting the home office. He is expected
to return about the middle of January, and th<' employees of
the Chicago branch are arranging to give him a royal reception
S L. Rust, vice president of the Pasadena Furniture and
Carpet company, Pasadena, Cal, has retired from that firm,
having disposed of his interests in the concern to Leo Williams, who is an experienced furniture man, having gone there
from St. Joseph, Mo, where he had been in business for
twenty-eight
years.
The report of the Canadian Department
of Trade and
Commerce for August, just issued, shows imports of furniture for home consumption valued at $104,559, of which $84,385 came from the United States
The total imports of
furniture in August, 1909, were valued at $80,804 of which
$61,853 came from "the states"
Something About Dry Kilns.
If you want to know someth1l1g about dry kilns, just
turn to the "ad" of the GI and Rapids Veneer \\lorks on another page of this issue of the ~Weekly Artisan.
It is instructive as weIl as entertammg
The fact IS that the fame of
the ,bIn department
of this company has glown to be not
only nation wide but almost world wide.
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ISN'T IT TOO BADPeople wonder where their profits are going when the trouble usually lies in poor equipment. A little foresight in the beginning would have saved them dollars--a httle more money invested at the start in "OLIVER" "QUALITY" equipment.
Some manufacturers of wood working tools slight their output by putting in poor materialsemploymg poor workmen-simply to be able to make a little more profit. "Olrver" tools are bUlle
along machine toollmes-careful-accurate-durable-safe.
Some purchasers fall to Investigatethoroughly before placmg theIr order. Some unscrupulous
salesman tells them to purchase something-they go ahead-find out too late they are wrong-lose
money, whereas a letler addressed to us would have procured our catalogs-set them thmkingsaved them money.
ISN'T THAT TOO BAD.
"OUVER" No. 60 Saw Bench.
OURLINESURFACE PLANERS
HAND JOINTERS
SANDERS
WOOD TRIMMERS
CHAIN MORTISERS
LATHES
ADDRESS
OLIVER
SAW BENCHES
SWING CUT. OFF SAWS
BAND SA WING MACHINES
BORING MACHINES
SAFETY CYLINDERS
VISES, CLAMPS, ETC., ETC.
DEPARTMENT
"D"
MACHINERY
CO.,
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH., U. S. A.
BRANCH OFFICESlat National Bank Bldg., Chicall'o. Ill.
No 50 Church St., New York City.
"OUVER" No. 61 Surfacer
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An Old Chippendale
1125 West Temple St .• Los An ... I••• Cal
Pacific Bldll'.• Seattle, Wash.
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Design.
A rare old chaIr "IV
as dIscovered the othel day 1ll the hand~
of a collector of antIque furnIture who was found hteralh Slttlllg
tIght on hIS new possessIOn and suggested the tl a\ eller 1ll Europe
who is told to SIt on his trunk to make sure that nobody get- It
a"IVayfrom hIm
He also looked very, very happy
This was a CUrIOUS and qualllt ChIppendale reac1m>; chaIr
of mahogany, wIth the seat upholstered
m the origmal leather
attached by brass tacks.
The seat is III the shape of the lower
boJy of a 'cello, wIth ItS narro" pal t at the back-that
io to sa),
what would be the back of an 01 dmary chall , in thIS chal1 the
sItter faces the back, \\ hlch rIses between hIs knees as he straddleo the seat ltke a boy straddlIng a hobby horse
This back, 01 splat. branches at the heIght of a man's almplb IlltO a hOrIzontal bow shaped top \\ hlch un \ es tOl \\ al d and
spreads mto upholstered
pads III agreement \\Ith the seat
If
the man astride the seat clasps hIS hands at the top button of
his waistcoat and raIses hIS dboVv~ to the hOrIzontal he finds
himself comfortably restmg on tl11S horizontal bow top \ovlth Its
spreading pads under his biceps.
Behmd the back-therefore
1Jl flont
of the man--and
attached to the back I~ a drop leaf \\ Ith a lnngecl pI OJ), \\ hlch can
be I alsld to eX<1ctly the pO~ltlOn conve111ent for holc111lg a book,
ane the slttel, though deprIved of ,l b,tck SUppOlt, can read at
his ease.-N ew York Sun
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Connects Store with Wireless.
John \Vanamakel
IS to connect hIS New York and PhiladelphIa stOles by WIreless telegraphy.
Two steel and wood
towers are to be erected at once on the store at the southeast
COInel of Broadway
and Ninth street, New York, 125 feet
hIgh
The ~ystem '\\'111 be for use of the public as well as the
StOIes
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HENRY SCHMIT 8 CO.
HOPKINS AND HAR.R.IET STS.
ClDcinnati,
Ohio
of
Upholstered Furniture
Salesmen"s Club.
]ame..,town, NY., Dec 12.-The
fifth annual mcetll1" .., ,1l1d
banquet of the ]ame~tO\\n
FUl111tUle Salesmen's
Club. at the
Hotel Frederick
last Thursday
111ght \\ as, ltke Its pI edecessors, a complete success In evel y sense.
There was no formal
I
progl am of addl esses, but Glenn K. Brown, as toastmaster,
mana~ed to draV\ out Impromptu
responses
that were quite
appropnate
tOl the occasIOn and deCIdedly
enjoyable
to the
members
ThIS salesmen's
club is a live organization
or,
rathel, an OIga11lzatlOn of ltve men, and the interest in the
annual meetings and banquets is exceeded only by the interest In then annual summer outings in which their employers
and othel guests are glad to participate.
The election of
officers, for the ensuing year, resulted
as follows:
PreSIdent-David
Goldstein.
Secretary-Frank
E Shearman.
Trea'iUler-Edward
McGee.
makers
Jamestown
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If you place the order
with us by December 20th
W"ITE
PRINTING COMPANY
GRAND RAPIDS, MICU.
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Miscellaneous
AdvertiseIllents.
·WANTED
CombmatlOn salesman, manager and estimator for bank fixtures and cabmet work plant m Mmneapolls
State experience, salary and reference
Address M. A. T, care Weekly
Artisan Co.
l2-l7tf
EACH
Quarter .awed
veneer back and
FOR SALE
We have a fully equipped Boat Factory situated m the heart
of the lake reglOn of Wlsconsm and sUitable for the manufacture of large pleasure crafts. Also sUitable for any light
manufactUring busmess
Good shlppmg faCilities and well located.
Will sell cheap
Here IS your chance If you mean
business, address for full particulars the Rhinelander Boat
Company, Rhinelander, WIS
12 17-24-31 1 7
seat HeIght of
back 25 Inches
WIdth of seat, 20
Inches FIDlShed
Golden Oak
HIgh Gloss
No. 240 Oak Rocker
ShlppecI K 0
flat WeIght, 23
pounds
r.ftrl8/Grand
lfalJukctUrilJR
Ca,
Rapjds.l1ich.
WANTED.
Superintendent In furniture factory wants position; middle
aged man of varied experience, good mechanic, draftsman and
machine man.
Conversant with all kinds of cabmet work
Address "Craftsman," care Weekly Artisan.
12-10tf
A No. 1 men
beds as Side
Ohio.
Must
dress "Spring
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WANTED.
to handle strong and complete line of spring
line, for Iowa, WiSCOnSin, IllinOIS, Michigan,
have acquamtance with furniture trade.
AdBeds," care Weekly Artisan.
12-1Otf
I.75Caximum
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Superintendent.
One who thoroughly understands bank,
office and store fixtures, and special order work. To the right
man this is a rare opportunity.
Address, (stating experience
and where you have worked), "Supenntendent,"
Care of
Weekly Artisan, Grand Rapids, Mich.
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Old Enghsh, Colomal,
and MISSionDeSign restaurants. CUlsme and service
of
marked
excellence.
Moderate
prices,-everything right. You
can pay double our rates
for your accommodahons,
but you can't get anythmg
beUer.
European plan-$I
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and more. Every modern
comfort and eqUIpment.
ThIs hostelry has created
a new standard 10 Grand
Rapids
It has been aptly
called .. the
somewhat
dIfferent hotel ..
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POSITION WANTED.
A salesman of ability furnishin~ best of references and at
present engaged, desires a change. Thoroughly acquainted
with the trade of New England and New York states and can
~arantee results. Address C. A. R•• Weekly Artisan. 7-23tf
Co
.75[inimum
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH
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Travelin~ salesman to carry a line of Reed Rockers and
Chairs in Indiana and Illinois. State territory covered and
lines carried. Address "Near". care Weekly Artisan.
9-3tf
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WANTED.
Commercial salesman for Indiana and Illinois to sell Parlor
and Library Tables.
State territory covered and lines carried. Address "Map". care Weekly Artisan.
9-3tf
FOR SALE.
A nice clean stock of Crockery in a live W est Michi~an
town of 10,000 population. Would also rent store if desired.
Address "See" care Weekly Artisan.
5-28tf.
Comfort
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• Convement to Umon StatIOn, shops, theatresl
malO car Imes to all parts of the cIty pass our door
furmture bUlldmgs, etc.
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l'a \ Ll~ -+2 ,Ic'(lLan fJ on tIel s, 32, San LUIS, Zacatecas, etc.,
-+2~ 43, -:\Iontele) , Tamplco'l, etc, 41 @ 41}i. Buenos Ayres,
38 @ 39 DI d/l1s, 62 @ 65
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New York Markets.
New York, Dec. 16-As
predicted 1a"t Fllday, eastem
crusters cut the pnce of 1mseed 011 on Saull dd) to meet the
reduction on western raw and smce then CIl) Iaw and western h<lve been quoted at the same figUlc'l-93
@ 94 cents
Single bolled has been reduced to 94 @ 95 and doub1e-bolled
to 96 @ 97. The demand is descnbed as "flat," "'Ith buyer~
ho1dmg off in antIcIpatIOn of a furthel dedme.
Calcutta O1L
is now quoted at $1.03.
Burlaps are slightly lowel, 7,Y;;-ounce goods now bemg
quoted at 3.65; 8-ounce at 375 and lO}i-ntincc at 475
Bag
manufacturers
are said to ha\ e secured sOUle faIr sized lots of
the light weights at less than the card lales
The Cdlcl1tta
jute market is reported as firm, but decided1} mactlve.
Turpentine
has been I emarkab1} steady through
the
week, prices having varied not more than halt a cent from
today's quotations, which al e 78 cents hel e and 74}i at Savannah.
Shellac and varnish l:;l1ms are m fall- demand without
material change m price'l
Busmes'l, hovyever, IS stll1 confined to jobbing parcels, no 1alge transactions
having been
reported since early in the fall
Further weakness has developed m the goa tskm market,
mainly owing to more liberal arnva1s of HaytJens and LatinAmericans.
Haytiens, today, are quoted at 40 @ 41 cents.
Index to Advertisments.
\ 1111'\. rltIn,..,
( )111pall \
Ed! t)11 H H ...
\.. l O1npan~
Bt.ll....t-'"\ '-- Ga, I Ull1ltUl(
Company
Bo\ nion
&., Co
Cel\turs
rUI
TIltUl c
Company
Challenge R( fllgel ator C'0111pal1J.
ChIcago
"\iUIOI and
\..rt Glass
Companj.
Chllstlansen
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C'ODll"\
D T
FUll1ltule
C'ompany
T'nt81pnse
Parlol
rUll1ltule
Company
l' aDe,
FUll1ltule
COlnpan\
~elh\ock
Auto
and
Manufactullng Campau)
Francl':;
('halles
.B.. C'ompan"
FI penn1an
BratheJ S & Co
Gl and RapIds
BI aqs Company
Gl and
RapIds
EIC'ctlot} pc Companj.
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Grand
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28
24
21
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6
21
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RapIds
Rpfllgerator
Company
Grand
Rapuls
School
of DeSIgnIng
Grand
RapIds
"\ eneer
,"'. arks
G-Ieen \'IanufactuIIng
Company
Globe
Bosse
WOlld
rurniture
Company
Hahn
LOUIS
HIlls
Clarence
R
Hotel
HerkImer
ImpC'nal
FUIniture
Company
Karpen
S & BIOS
Kauffman
ManufactuIIng
CompanY
KInllel
PaiIOl
B~d Company
La" 1 (nee
McFadden
Cornpany
LIght
GeOlge
\\
Manufactunng
('ompan)
Madden
'Thomas
Sons & Co
"raIl ( tta
PaInt
and
Color
Compan\
"\.fal \ (1 llIanufaetuIlng
Company
"\11SCf'llan('ous
MIchIgan
Chall
Lompanv
\1:Ichigan
:engravIng
Company
:0[elson l\1:atter
FLllnltUl e Company
"Iemann
Table
Company
~Ol theln
Furnitule
Company
GIn el MachInery
Company
Pt. t( I spn
A
K Co
RIchrr and
Chan
(ompany
RockfOld
Chan
and rurnltulC
Compan\
Rockfol
d SupeIlOl
rurniture
Company
Ro\ al FUI llitUlf'
C'Olnpan)
Roval
Chan
Company
SchmIt
Henry
& Co
Schomer
Henry
Compan}
Tannp\\
Itz vVorks
UnIOn
FurnIture
Company
(Rockford)
Waddell
Manufactullng
Company
Walter B & Co
WhIte
Pnntrng
Company
Swett, Frank W. & Son ••••..
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No. 1711
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GRAND RAPIDS BRASS COMPANY
GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN
:Sp.eciaJists f.Q theFurniture Trade.,
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BIG PROFIT IN ATTRACTIVE
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If you want to make money in the furniture
business, buy quality, brain labor-durable
fin·
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pay BECAUSE THEY DON'T SELL. The Northern motto-
"WE SELL ONLY
QUICK SELLERS"
means expert workmanship, no more cost to you,
and two or three dollars more from your customer, with a quick sale.
OUR NEW DESIGNER
during the past year, has almost entirely made over our line, and we shall show at the winter exhibitions at
Grand Rapids, New York and Chicago,
SOME STRIKING NOVELTIES
that every furniture buyer will want to see. Half our new catalogue to be issued in January, will show new designs.
These new offerings will only emphasize and develop to a sensational point the fresh and popular styles
shown last summer-such
in imitation
as our white enamel bed with cane head and foot boards, our beautiful colonial bed
mahogany on gum, to which the retail trade has taken very readily.
Our forthcoming
designs are SIMPLE, CLASSIC, ATTRACTIVELY NEW, we shall show finishes never
before offered in medium grades of furniture-in
short, we shall give you BRAINS FOR YOUR MONEY, and
make the NORTHERN the
LEADING BEDROOM
FURNITURE HOUSE
as for years it has been head and shoulders
above all competitors
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SHEBOYGAN, "'ISCONSIN
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