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The Largest Manufacturersof CHAMBER FURNITURE
EXCLUSIVELY IN THE WORLD
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GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
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Luce-Redmond Chair Co., Ltd.
BIG RAPIDS,
MICH.
High Grade Office Chairs
Dining Chairs
Odd Rockers and Chairs
Desk and Dresser Chairs
Slipper Rockers
Colonial Parlor Suites
In
Dark and Tuna Mahogany
BIrd'
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EYf Maplf
BIrch
!Z.u4rurfd Oak
and
Clrc4jjllJn
Walnut
Our Exhibit you will find on the
fourth floor, East Section, MANUfACTURERS' BUILDING, North Ionia Street
Exhibit in charge of
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GRAND RAPIDS, MICUIGAN
C. HAMIL TON, C. E. COHOES,J. EDGAR FOSTER.
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GRAND RAPIDS. MICH.• APRIL 9.1910
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RAILROAD RATE BILL AMENDMENTS
Comluittee Agrees to Impose Additional Restrictions on Traffic AgreeIuents and Also on the Consolidation of Lines.
All manufacturers
and shIppers are more or less interested
m the so-called "aclmI111stration rate bIll" a resume of the
prOVISIOns of whIch was gIven m the \lVeekly Artisan
last
week
During thIS week three Important
amenc1ments have
been offered m the senate and a~ they have the endorsement
of the commIttee
on mter~tate
and foreIgn commerce
they
are expected to be adopted
Indeed they have been accepted
with a view of assullng
the passage of the bdl
All are in
the nature of conceS<;lOns to the opponents of the measure.
One of the amendments
mserts the words "Subject
to
the approval
of the Interstate
Commerce
CommIssion"
m
hne 22, page 13 of sectIOn 7, whIch will have the effect of
requmng
the approval
of the commission
to every traffic
agreement befO! e It WIll be effectIve
The pendl11g bIll only
reqUIred the fillmg of such an agreement
WIth the commIssion
Another
of the proposed
amendments
strikes out the
conc1udmg sentence
of section 12 which sectIon m general
authonzes
the acquistIOn
of one radroad
of another
road,
provlc1ed the acqUIring road owns not less than 50 per cent
of the stock of a road to be acquired subject to the approval
of the court of commerce
The words proposed to be stricken out are 1ll the prOVISOand as follows
In making
the determmation
herein provided
for the
court shall take mto conSIderation
the effect of such proposed acqtu<;ltlOn upon the due observance
and effec tJve enforcement
of all the laws of the U111ted States
and the
relatIve importance
of any benefit to the public interest and
of any effect upon competItIOn resulting
from such acquisItIon
The third amendment
inserts in the same section the
word, "lawfully"
as qua1Jfymg the word "owns" to make It
incumbent
upon the road seekmg to acquire another
road
that it shall "lawfully"
own not less than 50 per cent of the
stock of the roac1 to be acquired
The adml111stratlOn raIlroad bIll WIll be taken up in the
house as <;oon as the naval appropriation
bill is disposed of
Chanman
Mann of the hou~e mterstate
and foreIgn commerce commIttee, has secured the adoptlOn of a resolution
to
thIS effect
It provides that general debate be germane
to
the blll-a
rather unusual propOSItion and that the bill shall
be privdeged
as are appropriation
bills, that is, it remains
the unfinished
business and may be called up at any timfl
there IS nothing else in the way.
The resolution
was adopted
without
much argument
The Democrats
dId not seem dIsposed to interpose
any obJectIOns
Representative
Adamson
of Georgia,
the senior
minority
member of the interstate
and foreign commerce
commIttee, made a bnef talk to the effect that the adITI1l11stratlOn bill, as mtroduced
by Mr Townsend,
was entirely obnixious to the Democrats,
but he said, the minority members
of the committee
had succeeded
in amending
it materially
and they hoped to be able to accomplish
more when the
measure was read in the house for the amendment
under the
five minute rule
As a result of the action by the house, the
bIll probably
will be taken up sometime
during the coming
week.
Senator
Crawford
of South Dakota
spoke in favor of
the admmistration's
bill last Tuesday
He expressed
the
opinion that the court of commerce provision
would not be
Justified unless it has JunsdictlOn
over cases to annul orders
by the boards of raIlway commissioners
of the several states
and offered an amendment
glvmg this increased
jurisdiction
to the court.
This amendment
has not been considered
by
the committee.
Tanning Company Enlarges Their Plant.
The Dahm & KIefer Tannmg company have been making
a specialty of goat and sheep skms for upholstered
furniture
and thIS product of theIr tannery, at Grand RapIds, MichIgan,
has been so well receIved and successful, that It crowded their
capacity and they have found It necessary to gIVe that department of theIr tannery more room.
They have just added
another floor to theIr tannery to accommodate
their growmg
trade, and wJ11 now be able to take better care of trade m this
Ime than ever before
They color the skins m a great variety
of shades and colors, and show a very attractive assortment of
which they furnIsh sample pads, to those interested.
r Dahm and Mr. Keifer are both experienced and well
known leather men, and they are enthUSIastic over the results
they are havmg _n the production of these skins and the manner
m which many of the foremost upholstenng
houses have cometo use them. The salesroom in Chicago IS at 204 Lake street,
where all mail should be addressed
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WANTS 66NEW OLD" FURNITURE
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Cleveland"s Shrewd Millionaire Hotel Proprietor
Displays His Esthetic Taste.
W R Holden IS one of the many wealth,
men of Cleveland, OhIO
Among his most \ aluable po,;;"e":,lOn,,, are the
Hotel Ho11enden and the Cleveland
PlamJealer,
one of the
oldest dai1Jes m the :,tate
The methods by which :\Ir Holden amas<;ed his wealth
and the po!Jcle:, Ihe pur,;;ues 111
mal1iagmg It are frequently
dbcu,;;sed by the gue"b
at his
hotel, particulaJly
by tray el1l1g sale"men
\\ ho heal anJ tell
all k1l1ds of stones
about his cal eer, some of \\ hlch are
based on facts whJ1e others
are more or less imagmary
What they consider his succe<;s 111 hfe IS attnbuted
to quahties 111hiS character
which \ ary with the per<;onal opmlOns
of those who are faml!Jal with hI" method",
Some call It
luck, others pi efer to credIt hun \\ lth "hre\\ dne"s, keennhs.
foresight
or 1I1tUltlOn, \\ hJ1e a few al e kmd enough to declare that It IS nothmg
more or le"s than hard v\ ork and
natural abi1Jty
Years ago HoLlen \\ a" a :\1Jc11H;an peda~ogue.
poor as
most of them are, and not credIted \\lth an} great abIllh as
a teache1
The most generalh
accepted \ el ';;10n at the ,;;t01\
of hiS start in the w01ld of wealth runs about hke thb
He
went down to Cleyeland
m farther east, It cloes not matter
where, and fe11111 WIth men who had put conSIderable money
into a Colm aJo m111111gpro] ect, and were "orely dl,;;satlsfied
With theIr mvestment
He tiled to console them .U1d <;uc
ceeded 111domg so to such an extent that they ",ent llll11 to
Colorado
to mvestlgate
and I epDrt as to the actual l-onl11tlon and prospects
of their property
\\ hen he returned
hIS
reports were not Opt1S1111,;;tIC
at all and the "toLkholc1el';; \\ ere
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discouraged
IIe could not give them any hope for getting
the11 money back, much less, could he promise them anythmg m the way of diVidends
The investors
were in the
Jumps and the matter was allowed to rest for a few montths.
In the meantime
~1r Holden had managed to raise a httle
money and purchased
nearly all the <;hare::. at ten or fifteen
cents on the dollar ?\o sooner had he secured the stock than it
began to lIse 111value but It was not for sale
The mine
"panned out" great-even
much better than Mr Holden expected-and
in the course of a year or two he had become a
nlllllOmare
So much fm hiS start.
Another
story about ';\Ir Holden IS of particular
interest to fur111tUle men
The fur111ture m the Hotel Hollenden
was made by the Phoe111x Furniture
company
of Grand
RapIds t\\Cnty-five
years ago
It IS of the solid substantial
ty pe that \\ as popular
at that tIme and is not much the
\\ ol::.e for hay mg been used for a quarter
of a century
-\bout a yeal alSO tJhe tax a"sessol" deCIded that It was valuable and \'\ as dsses:,ed too low, so they boosted ItS taxable
\ alue to the e,tent
of several thousand
dollars
Mr. Holden prote:,ted
vigorously
agamst
paymg taxes on the old
furmture
declanng
that It was nothmg
less than robbery,
and at hI';; sugge"tlOn
three fur111ture men were asked to
e,amme
the fll1111ture and detel mme ItS actual value.
They
1 eported
that the hlll11ture while m fan cond~tlon was old,
of a sty Ie long "mce discarded
and that It was really worth
httle or nothmg
As a result Mr Holden's
taxes on the
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Send for finished samples, free.
Ad-el-ite Fillers and Stains have long held first place in the estimation
of Furniture Manufacturers and Master Painters. In addition to the regular colors the above shades offer unusually beautiful and novel effects.
The Ad-el-ite People
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WE MAKE REFRIGERATORS
IN ALL SIZES AND STYLES
Zinc Lined.
Porcelain Lined.
White Enamel Lined.
Opal-Glass Lined.
You can increase your Refrigerator Sales by putting
line of the "Alaskas."
Write for our handsome catalogue and price lists.
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hotel
were
furniture,
mc;tead of bClI1g raised 100 or 200 per cent
considerably
reduced
The sequel to the furmture
story IS now belllg 1 elated
III furnIture
cIrcle"
1\1r ITolden h bUlldang a largc addltlOn
to the Hotel Hollenden,
and hc \\ ant<-, furnIture
for the new
room" and department'-,
He doe" not care for Sheraton,
HepplewhIte,
LoUIS XV] or all) of the popular perIod ~tyleb
He wants It Just hke the old furnIture,
III style,
materIal,
con'itructlOn,
fi11lsh and general appearance
He ha" not succeeded m placmg the order, but wIll probably be able to do
so, though the ('new old" furmture
may be qUIte expenSIve
The patterns,
desIgnb, etc, used b) the Phoe11lx company
twenty-five
years ago were long S1l1ce burned, but the deSIgner could copy the old pIeces qUIte eaSIly, hence It IS
qUIte certalll that the addItIon to the Hotel Hollenden
WIll
be supplIed with "new old" furmtUI e that wIll harmolllze
perfectly
with that m the olel part of the house
In that
event what wIll the asse~sors thInk or do about the valu
ation?
What wIll the experts sa} Jf asked to fix the value
of the "new old" furnIture?
WIll they decIde that beIllg out
of fashion It 1S worthless?
Perhaps they may reach the conclus1~n that the reproductIoll'i
m the old ~tyle are not only
valuable but that they have restored the value of the furlllture that has stood the weal, tear and hard knocks of twentyfive years.
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At any rate many furnIture
men WIll be mterested
in
notlllg the effect of Mr Holden's
plan
By c1mgmg to the
old style, whatever be hIS motIve, he may bnng It mto popular favor and cause many manufacturers
to use It for a few
years at least
New Factories.
J S Mc ,1aster & Co
factory at Rutland,
Vt
ha \ e ~tarted
theIr
new
ture
Col Hagan and Mr DlI1gu" dre promotmg
factory at Dungannen,
Tenn
turers
fhe HelD &
ood Carpet company arc new
of carpeL> and rugb III Lowell, Mass
excelsIOr
a new furni-
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manufac-
The manufacture
of mattress
felts IS d new industry
successfully
launched by Joseph R I'racId and Thomas \iV ood
111::Ylanchester, N. H
The Dumeer Pobsh company have esta,bltshed
at South Farms, Conn
They make the Dumeer
pobsh and a dustless duster
a factory
furniture
James H Hooper, Henry I Greenblat and Jacob Maurer
have 111corporatecI the l\Iarblette
Garden Furl11ture company
to establtsh
a factory
In Yonkel s, N
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Capltal
stock,
$10,000
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Order a small lot; make tests; you will then know what you are getting. WE GUARANTEE SATISFACTION.
Furniture
and Chair Factories, Sash and Door Mills, Railroad Companies, Car Builders and other; will consult their own interests by using it. Also
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Clause in the Corporation Income Tux
Law to Be Amended.
The hou"e ot I epl e-,entatl\ e" b} a eleci '-01 \ e \ ate has
adopted an amendment
to the obnOxlOtb publICity clause m
the corporatIon
1I1come tax law. that, If pas'ied by the senate
will go a long way toward correctmg
what 1'-0 cOnSl(lel ed a
glanng defect and VICIOUSprOVl">lOl1111 the la\\
The amendment passed by the hou'-oe was wntten and offered 1)\ Representative
Gillett
of .l\Ia%achu"etts
It \)rO\ Ide" that reL
turns made by corporatIOns
under the terms of the la\\ a'-oIt
now stands shall be made publtc only on the order uf the
PreSident of the Untted State", "111 accordance
\\ Ith rule~ anJ
regulatlOns to be prescnbed
b." the secretar}
of the trea'3ury
and approved
by the President"
The law now prOVides that \\hen the a""essmenb
,hall
have been made on the corporations.
a" directed
the returns together
With any correctIOn thereof
that may have
been made by the commiSSIOner shall be filed in the office
of the commissioner
of internal
revenue
'and shall constitute public records and be open to 1l1SpectlOn a<; such . the
"\el y next paragraph
of the sectIOn. ho\\ e"\er-paraQ,ra ph
seven-reads
as follows
"It "hall be unla\\ ful for am collector, agent. clerk or other officer or emplo} e of the t-11lted
States to divulge or make known 111 an} manner \\ hate\ Cl
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not provided by law to any per'3on 1l1formatlOn obta1l1ed by
hun 111 the dlschalge
of this officIal duty or to divulge OF
make knO\\n 111 an) manner not provided by law any document recel\ cd e\ J(lence taken or report made under this
'3ectlOll eAcept upon the "peclal ,1Irection of the President;
an,l an) offen">e aga1l1~t the foreg01l1g PlovlslOn "hall be a
misdemeanor
and he pU1l1c;hed by a fine not exceed1l1g one
thou"and
dollar,,> or 111lpnSOnment not exceeding one year or
hoth. at the (lI'-oCletlOn of the court"
The two palagraphs,
on their face, appeal to conflict-one
">aY1l1gthat these corporatIon return" shall be open to 1l1"pectlOn 111 the internalre\ enue comml-,c;lonel'"
office "a" publIc document","
and
and the othel fOlblJdmg
"anv officer or employe
of the
l~l1lteel State,,>' to dl\ ulge an) of the 1l1formation "except upon the "peclal clIrectlOn of the Preqdent,"
but the latter
para!.;raph ma111fe"th has reference
to divulging
any of the
111formatlon before It has been filed "a" a pubhc document"
111 \\ ashington-as,
for 1l1stance, disclosures
hy an internal
revenue collector or by any attache of his office, for a report
of this sort cannot at one and the same time be open to inspection a" a regular publIc document
and still he examinable only by the President's
directIon
The Gillett amendment, If finall." enacted will simply repeal the clause that
makes the report,.., "subject
to examinatIOn
as public elocuments"
<\nother amendment
offered by Senator Hale of Maine
and
alread." passed by the senate, pi oVldes that reports of
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Reliable Varnishes of Uniform Quality
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corporatIOns
made under the law shall be made public only
when called for by resolutlOn of the <;enate or house or upon
the order of the Pre<;ldent, that IS, were the President
to refue;;e an appbcatlOn
for glvmg publicity
to a corporatIOn
report, the applIcant might go to Congress
and get authonty
for the pubhClty Jeslred,
Probably
there will have to be
some compromise
amendment
framed by a conference
committee from each chamber, but the "pubhcity
clau"e" will almo"t unCjue~tlOnably be mOchfied at this session of Congress
Meantlme, the Supreme court 111 a Vermont case brought
under the law IS considering
the very pomt of objection
from bhe outset urged by many newspapers-that
where a
firm and a corporatIOn
are m busmess competitIOn the firm
can learn all the company's
trade secrete;; while the latter has
no such pnvllege
as to the firm's busmess
And possibly
the court may declare the "publiCity clause" to be uncon"titutlOnal before Congress
acts on it-especially
as adJournment IS not expected untIl June or July
No Profit in Government Contracts.
::\llchlgan
ArtIsan,
Grand
Rapids,
Mich,
Gentlemen:
Learnmg that the war department
is about to issue proposals
for sohd mahogany
furmture
for the officers quarters,
it occure;; to us that the furmture
manufacturers
ought to be
warned by the experience of those who handled some of this
contract work in the past
A year ago when business was
quiet a great many manufacturer~
went after this contract
The Luce FurnitUl e company of Grand Rapids and ourselves
wet\:e awarded part, and the Batley-Jones
company of Jame<;towl~~\part, and several other manufacturer~,
the Grand Ledge
ancl some Brooklyn
and Philadelphia
factories,
and we are
not betra) mg any secret when we say that all of them doubtIe"., lo"t money
The feel1l1g exists among those familiar
v\ Ith the c('ncb tlO11S that It is worse than folly for us to go
after such a clas<; of work Without a good margm of profit
We Lad to put up a bond in the American
Surety company of $91,000 to carry out a contract of about $20,000, and
the gover111'1ent had the nght to reject them on the open
market and charge us up with the difference
\Ve beheve
Without an exreptlOn every factory that handled some of this
contract lost money, and it was a Job worth fully 50 per cent
profit, with the 00ther and the danger and the worry.
Everything is higher today than formerly
Would it not be well
for you to comment on the conditIOns editorially?
A quartermaster
captam came to us and said that Uncle
Sam had appropnated
$1,000,000 to buy furniture
and he
bought it at $600,O()o
The way that he expre"sed
It was
that the furniture
manufacturers
were --fools for domg
this
A manager of the contract department
of one of the big
stores I emarked the other day that there wasn't a fur111ture
manufacturer
m the United States that he knew of that wa~
rich
I do not know that thl., \'0111 do any good, but It might,
for j au to comment on It
Your truly,
FUR.:-rlTURE
CO,
THE WHITE
J S White, Treas
Mebane, \T C, Mar. 29, 1910
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the PRETTIEST,
BEST and MOST
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LAR LEATHER FOR FURNITURE.
ANY COLOR. WILL NOT CRACK.
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If so buy our
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GOAT and SHEEP :
SKINS
Write for sample pads of colors.
DAHM & KIEFER TANNING CO.
204 lake Street,
TANNERIES
CRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
CHICACO,ILL.
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The above cut is taken direct from a photograph, and shows
the range of one size only, our No.1,
24-inch Clamp.
We
make six other sizes. taking in stock up to 60 inches wide
and 2 inches thick.
OUrs 1S the most practical
method of
clamping glued stock in use at the present time.
Hundreds of
factories have adopted our way the past year and hundreds more
will in the future.
Let us show you
Let us send you the
names of nearly 100 factories (only a fraction of our llst) who
have ordered and reordered many times.
Proof positive our way
Is the best. A post card will bring It, catalog included.
Don't
delay, but write today.
AI E. PALMER &. SONS, Owosso, MICH.
Foreign Representatives:
The Frojectile
Co., London, England:
bchuchardt
&
Schutte,
Berlm,
Germany;
Alfred
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Schutte, Cologne, Faris, Bl'I1lIsels, Liege, Milan, Turin, Bal'4lelona,
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Dealers Are Urged to Send in Samples of Their Advertisements and to Offer Any SnggestioDflJ
and Helps Which They Believe Will Be of Benefit to Others. This Department
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I know an engraving
house catering
to furnIture
men,
and furnishmg
many wIth good stock cutss, that last :\1ay
doubled theIr business on a "June Bnde Sale" full page border design
Scores of furniture
dealers used effectl\ e full
page "ads" m going after the June bnde busmess
These
"ads" ran anywhere
from May 10 to June 1 and captured a
lot of business
There
are many weddmgs
in June, and these young
folks must have homes eqt1lpped for housekeepmg
The
furniture
man that appeals most allunngly
to these people
will naturally get the bulk of the business
It b "orth gOln!{
after, not only on account of Itself, but because It mal lead
to a life time account
Then there are those who are plannmg on fall" eddmgs
or en a year from June
A !lttle artful persuasIOn and suggestion may deCIde some of them to marr)
no" and ;tart
living at once, and that's Just what you" ant
N OW, I'm gomg to gl\ e you an Idea for a full page ad\ ertisement,
and I hope a large number
of you wIll work It
up and "cash in on it," for T beile\ e It can be made very
effective
Supposmg
we head It, "June Bndes and Groom..,
Will Find Pleasure
and Profit m \Yan,lering
DO\\ n Our
Aisles of Fine Furmture"
Then hay e your engra\ er put
the headmg
mto pIcture
form, sho"l'. mg "everal
ro\\:, of
furniture
of all kmds, dIVIded by ahles, say three, down
which are coming young couples eagerly absorbed
m "hat
they see
I would not try to hay e any particular
pIeces stand out
Make the cut thIS tune what I call an "atmosphenc
pIcture .
Let It breathe the spint of the head1l1g and produce an all
around,
complete
effect, instead
of try1l1g to feature
any
particular
pieces
Throw m all the descnptlOn
and pnces
and talk you want and enumerate
the thmgs they ,,111 be
sure to need.
I thmk a good way to layout
thIS "ad" \\ould be to
have the head set m, say 48 pomt upper and lower case way
across the top
It will make two, maybe three lmes
Then
an mtroductlOn
of seven or eIght !lnes of 18 pomt
Then
reserve a space the width of a newspaper
column on the
extreme nght and left of the page for descnptlOn,
prices and
talk
Confine your pIcture to the space left, of course leavmg room at the bottom for a conspIcuous
name plate and
address
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fairly clear
Anyway,
your engra\ er \\111 understand
the Idea, and the pnnter
wIll catch
too
It might be a good plan to cut thIS column out and
maIl with your order to engraver
so he wIll get the Idea.
The MIchigan
Englavmg
company,
Grand
RapId;;, MICh,
"1'.111take care of ) au mcely on this
I heard a lecture the other mght on "Art in Advertls1I1g" 111u<;trateJ WIth some very pat examples, which lent a
great deal of force to the talk
It was most 1I1terestmg and
ll1'itructive
I have WIshed smce that all my readers mIght
have heard It, for It was a breeder of new ideas
The lecturel "ent on to sa) that the most forceful way to attract
attentIOn to \ OUI plOpositlOn by ll1u..,tratlOn was to center
on some feature and play it up strong
He explamed
the
psychology
of the effect of such an Illustration
on the read~f.
makmg the pomt that It \'vas much eaSIer for the ey~/and
111md to take In one pOInt at a time
Of course he bq.~ed hIS
argument
on ~111g1epropOSItIOns, urging that Irrelevant
matter and pIcture; be kept out
But the idea is applicable
to us
m one partIcular
That IS that it is a mIghty good plan at
tImes to break away from talk111g about furniture
as a whole
and sho\"', ing a dozen or more cuts, and get right down to
brass tacks on some one particular
thing, remembenng
that
there are 365 day; 111a year and plenty of time and space to
talk about other things later
It would be a good plan for some of Y011 to try this
Suppose you cut out runmng bIg space occasKfnally, and run
Instead, some nice clean-cut five inch double columns "ads"
contain1l1g one slick cut and a few pat sales points
Keep
this up for a month or so and see what happens.
I'll hazard
a gue"s that results wouldn't
be so bad but what friends
would say, "Jones feels pretty good lately, doesn't he?"
Some
tIresome
people
are so tlreles<; that
they become
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A Few Moments with W. J. Calder.
One of the great mercantile establishments
of San FranCISCOIS that of the D N & E Walter company
A heavy
Jobbmg, Importing, manufacturing
and retail busIness is carned on An idea of the amount of busmess done i" furnished
in the statement that the sales of carpets, rugs and mattmgs
alone amounts
to $2,000,000 annually
The furmture
department IS under the management
of W. J Calder, formerly
of Grand Rapids, and occupies 120,000 feet of floor space
Leadmg manufactunng
hou.3es are represented
on the floors
and the stock on hand when the writer inspected It demon'3trated the fact that wise discretion and intelligent
apprecIation of the trade of San Francisco had been exercised m
the selectIOn of stock.
The goods dIsplayed were mainly
of medIum and fine quality, although there was a sufficIent
stock of low-priced
stock to meet the requirements
of a
firm not seekmg e.3pecially low-priced trade.
The buildlllg
m which the house furnishing
store is located i'3 a modern
one, it having been erected by the Walter company ."mce the
"tremble"
of three years ago.
All the fine SUItes are dISplayed in rooms constructed
and decorated especially for the
purpose.
If Mr. Calder desires to ",how a mahogany suite m
a green setting a rug in which that color predommates
IS
placed on the floor, and the reversIble and quickly adjustable
panels used in the screens which supply the walls of the
rooms are changed when necessary to produce the effect desired.
A suite requiring
a setting of blue, white or other
colors to bring out its beauties effectively, is quickly provIded by a change in the panels.
"Ninety per cent of the
oak we sell is fumed," Mr Calder remarked
"We keep a
small stock of golden oak on hand, for WhICh there IS a moderate call, but nothing in weathered"
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upon order
An additional
warehouse to contain 100,000 "quare feet of floor space, wIll
be erected soon
The \Valters have been engaged m bU.3iness m San FranCI'3CO over fifty years.
It Brings the People to Their Store.
The John Breuner company of San FrancIsco, have opened
a free hou.3e rentmg agency m their store
Owners of houses,
apartments
or flats are permItted to file lists of their properties'" Ith the agency wherre renters may obtam the keys of
buildings
and such information
in regard to propertIes
as
they desIre
Landlords are saved the exorbItant rentmg fee;,
charged by real estate agents and the Breuner company keeps
111 close touch with the great army of home renter.3
SINGLE CONE ALL STEEL SPRINGS
Are very popular with the Furniture Trade.
$2~
$2~
Each
Each
Net
Net
No. 46, Single Cone, $2 Each, Net.
We manufacture a full line of Single and Double Cane All Wire Springs.
SEND
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SMITH &, DAVIS MFG. CO., St. Louis
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12, 15, 20 AND 25 SPINDLES
DODDS' NEW GEAR
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ThIS lIttle machine has done more to perfect the drawer work of furnl
ture manufacturers than anything else m tbe furniture trade
For fifteen
years It has made perfect fitting, vermm-proof, dovetaded stock a pOSSI
bllIty. This bas been accomplIshed at reduced cost, as the machme cuts
dove-tails m gangs of from 9 to 24 at one operatIOn
It's what others see
about your busmess rather than what you say about It, that counts m the
cash drawer
It's the thnll of enthUSiasm and the true nng of truth you
feel and hear back of the cold type that makes you buy the thmg advertised
ALEXANDER
DODDS
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GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
Representedby Schuchart & Schuue at Berhn. V,enna. Stockholm and St
PetersburR Representedby Alfred H Schuue at CaloRne.Bru-u. ueRe. Pa",.
Mden and Bdboa RepresentedIn Great Bnban and Ir.land by the Ohver Maclunery
Co. F. S Thom_n. Milt., 20).203 Dcalllllate.Manchdter. En,Iand
City, $3,000; S. H. Everett, 10830 Magnolia street, Cleveland,
0., $18,000; Edward Becker, 676 Parkwood avenue, Clevel..wu, $5,000; John KIlroy, 10010 Parkgate street, Cleveland,
$3,500; Charles Lalsy, 7801 Lorain avenue, Cleveland, $5,000;
Mrs. Anna Gregg, 3410 Maple avenue south, Los Angeles,
Cal, $9,800; WIlham J. HIll, 1525 Marcus avenue, St. LotUs,
.:\10, $3,500; Harry Quest, 4221 College avenue, St. LotUs, Mo.,
$3,500; Mrs Bettha Zlegahn, Hewitt street and Snelling avenue, St. Paul, M mn, $4,200; Mrs Marie Basting, Sherburne
and Grotto streeb, St. Paul, $4,500; Fred R. Ross, Gilpm and
ThIrd streets, Denver, Col., $10,000; J. L. Day, Vine and Twenty-mnth streets, Denver, $3,000; J. R. Day, 3455 Shenandoah
avenue, St LotUs, Mo., $4,000; E. C. Clostermeyer, 4124 Connecttcut avenue, St LOUIS, $5,500; Emeha Wis'smann, 4237
Russell avenue, St LotUS, $6,000; Mma MIller, 233'1 Tennessee
avenue, St. LOUIS,$9,000; Kathenne PasqtUer, 5967 Van Versen
avenue, St LoUls, $5,500; Ehzabeth Schneider, 5134 Portland
Place, St. Louts, $21,000; Joe M Walker, PonCe de Leon
avenue, Atlanta, Ga, $9,000; Fred Walter, Krug Park Place,
St Joseph, Mo, $4,500; J J Lahey, 2269 E. Nineteenth street,
Brooklyn, N. Y., $10,000; M. Solomon, 105 Ellery street, Brookl)n, $7,000, F Elermann, 63 Ridgwood avenue, Brooklyn,
$4,500; G. L. Beer, 914 Broadway, Brooklyn, $6,500; Charles
Boeswald, 2030 Alta avenue, LOUlsville, Ky, $3,000; Mrs. Ahce
Elliott, 121 Bayly street, LOlllsvil!e, $4,000; W. E. Seymour,
:!14 West Newell street, Syracuse, N. Y, $5,500; James Mullm,
.f38 East Washmgton street, Syracuse, $5,000; H. H. Benson,
229 West Brighton avenue, Syracuse, $6,000; F. H. Ladendorf,
112 East Cormng avenue, Syracuse, $4,500; George Frey, 981
Island avenue, Milwaukee, WIS, $3,800; George J. Markey,
Texas and Wentworth streets, 1V\ilwaukee, $4,800; Mrs. Marie
'\ HIcks, 1798 W clshmgton ~treet, PIttsburg, Pa, $4,000; Mis~
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Buildings That Will Need Furniture.
Residences-E.
R. Johnson, 1312 Morse avenue, ChIcago,
$5,000; F. M. Walter, 2727 Fletcher street, ChIcago, $3,800,
Albin Peterson, 1730 ·Winona Sheet, ChIcago, $5,000, C H
Radcliff, 5401 Wayne avenue, Chicago, $7,000, }\!~rs. H ::v1
Spraker,
62 West roorty-FIfth
sheet, New York, $JO,OOO,
Gladys E. BruneI, 115 West Forty-Second street, ~ew York,
$6,500; Benjamin Benenson, 407 East 153d street, New York,
$45,000; Fred Wagner, Beaubem street and GratIOt avenue, Detroit, Mich., $4,000; Joseph Buckley, Fourth and Charlotte
streets, Detroit, $5,000; Anthony TheIsen,
CharlevOIX and
Goethe streets, Detroit, $4,250; James Hl. Brown, 211 'Edl'30n
street, Detroit, $7,500; Carroll S. Brown, 219 EdIson street,
Detroit, $4,000; Henry Peabody, Midbury and John R 'Streeh
Detroit, $9,500; C. R. Lambert, 25 Owen street, Detroit, $tl,000; C. S. Gilbert, 104 Clairmount street, Detroit, $4,000; W
L. Blackburn, Boulevard and Second streets, Detroit, $8,000;
C. S. Vaughn, FIscher street and Gratiot avenue, Detroit, $8,500; Matthew B Whittelsey, 109 Rowena street, Detroit, $9,000; L. B. Taylor, 1404 Forest avenue, jEvanston, Ill., $6,000,
Goerge S. Ford, 140-J: Elinor Place, Evanston, $6,000; J. L
Flannery, 822 Judson avenue, Evanston, $6,000; A. P. Cote,
2402 Central Boulevard, Omaha, Nebr., $3,000; E. L. Cain,
1517 South Eighth avenue, Omaha, $2,500; Fred Hamilton, 608
South Thirty-eighth
street, Omaha, $18,000; Frank '.;Y. Bacon
432 North Thirty-eighth
avenue, Omaha, $7,500; Benjamm
Grab, Elm and Forty-sixth
streets, Milwaukee, Wis, $4,500;
B. T. Van Trees, 3927 Cornelius street, Indianapolis, Ind., $11,500; Mrs. C. E Summersett, 1015 Bryan street, Columbia, S
c., $3,000; A. E. Hofer, 1812 East Fifty-eighth street, Kansas
City, Mo, $3,000; Fred Danz, 1637 Kemington stt eet, Kansas
CIty, $3,500; John S. Webber, 3877 Fifty-ninth street, Kansas
City, $3,000; George C. Hall, 6808 Cleveland street, Kansa~
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Mahogany and Quartered Oak Veneers.
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Mary McConegly, 614 Forty-fifth street, Pittsburg, $4,000; IE.
Kreitzburg, 5908 Spruce street, Philadelphia, Pa., $6,000;
John W. Shisler, 2331 Mifflin street, Philadelphia, $19,600;
Robert A. Smythe, 1216 East Fifteenth street, Atlanta, Ga, $8,000; J. H. Jackson, Sixth avenue and Kline street, Abeldeen,
S. Dak., $12,000; A. Eynon, Belmont and Madison avenues,
Youngstown, Ohio, $12,000; Andrew Higgins, 228 Falls avenue, Youngstown, $3,000; Fred R. Moody, 417 FaIrgreen avenue, Youngstown, $4,500; Alis H. Kelsey, Lincoln and Ellsworth
streets, Denver, Co1., $7,000; James Doyle, West Grove and
Twenty-second streets, Denver, $4,500; Mrs. Stelle M. Starr,
Sunset Place, Los Angeles, Ca1.,$8,000; 1. T. Etheridge, W oodland avenue and Third street, 'Winston-Salem, N. c., $3,500;
H. L. Cobbs, 15 Windsor street, Atlanta, Ga, $3,750; A. S.
Merritt, 623 Thirty-seventh avenue, Seattle, Wash., $3,000; O.
J. Johnson, 4714 Eighteenth avenue, Seattle, $3,500; Henry S.
DeForest, 433 State street, Schenectady, N. Y., $4,000; John
Zruszoski, Crane street and Second avenue, Schenectady, $5,500;
Mrs. M. Olmstead, 1155 North Broad street, Knoxville, Tenn.,
$3,000; Fred S. Colebrook, 101 Euclid avenue, Sracuse, N. Y.,
$5,000; G. B. Out, 303 West Ostrander avenue, Syracuse, $3,000; D. L. Court, 400 Walnut avenue, Syracuse, $3,000; O. D.
Baughman, 113 Garden street, Bellingham, Wash., $3,50; Mrs.
Barbara Wuest, Seminole street and University avenue, Cincinnati, 0., $6,000; Mrs. Emma A. Towsley, Ludlow and
Brookline avenues, Cincinnati, $7,500; Mrs. Fred Seeburger,
Seventeenth street and Washington avenue, Terre Haute, Ind,
$5,000; Frank H. Chisholm, 304 Auburn avenue, Buffalo, N.
Y., $3,500; Wellington Salt, 402 East street, Buffalo, $3,600.
Miscellaneous Buildings-The
Swedlsh Baptists of Duluth, Mmn., are bUllding a church at a cost of $20,000. The
Arlmgton hotel of Santa Barbara, the first tOUlist hotel in southern California, which was burned last fall, is to be rebuilt at
a cost of $300,000. A. M. Birkel will erect a fine 150-room
hotel at Bakersfield, Ca1. The first Congregational Soclety
of Riverside, Cal., has adopted plans for a new church to cost
$100,000
"Nat" Goodwin has purchased 1200 acres of orange land near Rlverside, Ca1.,on which he will erect a chateau,
on plans suggested by Mrs. Goodwin, at an estimated cost of
$18,000. The Sisters of St. Joseph are erecting a new school
buildmg in San DIego, Ca1.,at a cost of $125,000. The Methodlsts of San Luis Obispo, Cal, are bUIldmg a new church at
a cost of $36,000, exclusive of seat1l1g. Managers of the Gem
theatre of Albuquerque, N. Mex, will rebUIld their house at a
cost of $30,000. The Beaulah Baptist Society of Atlanta, Ga.,
wIll bmld a new church at a cost of $35,000. The Scottish
Rite Masons are bUIlding a temple in East St. Louis, Ill, to
cost $75,000. The Odd Fellows of East St Louis are to build
a temple at a cost of $45,000.
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We also carry a
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Death of Charles M. Freed.
Charles M. Freed, for many years head of the Freed Furniture and Carpet company of Salt Lake City, Utah, died on March
24, aged 67 years.
He was a natIve of Bohemia, came to
America when 13 years of age and went west in 1889 with
the intention of entering the mining business, but soon abandoned that idea and established a small furniture store in Salt
Lake City, declaring his belief that the town would become
the metropolis of the mountain region.
He was a quiet, and
unassuming man but remarkably enterprising and energetic,
constantly improving his stock and business methods.
His
trade kept pace with the growth of the town and he leaves one
of the most prosperous stores in the country, which passes to
his widow and children-three sons and a daughter.
He was
an Elk and a member of the Knights of Pythias and was highly
honored and esteemed in both orders.
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Yau can always get
IMMEDIATE SHIPMENT
1~20" R. C. PLAIN OAK
1~8", 1~20", 1~24" and 1~28" R. C. BIRCH
1~16", 1~20", 1~24", and 1~28" POPLAR
1~20", 1~24" and 3~ 16" GUM
Direct from our Grand Rapids Warehouses.
We solicit your trade.
WALTER
CLARK VENEER COMPANY
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
SENSIBI~E REVISION OF RULES
"Cars more than 40 feet, SIX l11ches in length, should not
be turl11shed III place of shorter
cars avaIlable
for those
In the e\ ent that shIppers
order cars of specific
Shippers Will Not Be Charged for Large Cars ordered
lengths, \\ hlch are not readIly avaIlable and the only readIly
When Smaller Ones Are Ordered.
d \ allable
cars more than 40 feet, SIX inches in length, shipThe official classification
commIttee
of the Amencan
pers' attentIOn "hould be directed to that provislOn of the rule
Traffic association
have made a reVISIOn of rule )Jo 27 whIch
\\ hlch prescnbes
the mil1lmum car load weights
as applIwill remove the cause of many compla111ts and save annoycable to the cars furl1lshed irre,pectIve
of the length" of the
ance and expense for many .shippers.
The sectIOns of the
cars ordered
revised rules which are of especial mterest
read as follows
"When under the provisions
of section (D).
A longer
cal
than
ordere~l
IS
furnished
the
following
notation
must
(c)
Owing to the limited number of cars mer 36 feet
be
made
by
agent
on
the
bill
of
lading
and
way
bill:
six inches in length, carners cannot undertake
to furm"h such
'Car
feet..
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cars unless they are readily available.
feet
in length furnished
under the pro(d)
If a shipper orrders a car less than 40 feet, ..,IX and car.
inches in length and the carrier is unable to furnIsh such a \ bIOns of sectIOn D Rule 27, Official Classification'
"\iVhen shIppers order cars of speCIfic length and accept
car, and furnishes a longer car than ordered, but not exceed
cars more than 40 feet six inches in length on the basis of
ing 40 feet, SIX inches 111length, the minimum
weIght shall
thereto, the following notabe that fixed for the car ordered, except when the 10ad111g the 111111imumweight applicable
c<lipacity of the car furnished
IS used, the mimmum
weIght
tion must be made by the agent on the bIll of lading and
way bill:
shall be that fixed for the car furnished
(e)
When car.s exceeding 40 feet, SIX mche" in length
are furnished
anJ used, the mlmmum
carload weIght shall
be that fixed for the car furnIshed,
regardless
of the length
of the car ordered by the shipper.
With
committee
ments:
the announcement
of the reviSIOn of the rule the
has issued a CIrcular which makes these state-
"When
shippers
order cars of .speCIfic length theIr at
tention should be called to the prOVISIons of rule 27 111odel
that they may fully understand
the duty and oblIgatIOns of
the carrier, as well as the shippers'
privilege or nghts when
accepted
and loading cars of greater
length than ordered
'ShIpper ordered car
feet..
111ches, 111length and
accepted
car
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. inches in length with under
standmg
that mmi111um of car accepted will apply'
"Agents
shall
pers order cars of
.:1-0 feet, six inches
that the attentIOn
of paragraph
(E)
keep a record of all instances where shipspeCIfic length and accept car longer than
in length, such record to clearly indicate
of shippers was directed to the prOVIsions
of rule 27."
The revision made and the regulations
establIshed
are in
re,ponse
to a long tIme gnevance
of shippers and are ex
pected to obVIate complaints
caused by carners
furnishing
cars longer than \\ere applIed for because of the fact of the
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and the charging
for the minimums
of the
larger car instead of those ordered.
If the instructions
gIven
to agents, yardmasters
and employes upon whom the duty
and responsibility
of placing cars for loadIng are observed
carefully,
there will be no occasion for the claims that the
cars employed were of a dimension or capacity of which the
shipper had no knowledge.
It is understood
that whenever
possible, the carrier'3 Intend to furnish shippers with the particular
cars for whIch
application
is made, but if they are not available,
and cars
of other dimensions
are supplied,
the shipper will be fully
advised as to the charges which will accrue on such cars
A Terrible Night in a Pullman.
The weary, overheated
occupants
of a Pullman
sleepel
running west on the Rock Island railroad had just entered the
snoring stage of a troubled sleep, when the train halted at Bureau Junction and the doors were thrown open.
A chorus of
female voices approached and when the leader entered the car
she called out in loud tones, "Porter, oh Porter, where are you?"
"I say, our berths are lower five and seven," one lovely
loud-spoken damsel declared.
"Why, JulIa, you are mistaken.
The numbers are five and
nIne."
"The agent (lId not mark the numbers on the card," I eJOIned the woman named Julia.
By this time the occupants of the car had awakened and
rubb1l1g their eyes, grumbled about the disturbance.
"Oh Harry 1 Harry'
Bring baby to me. 'Muver's'darling'
"You were very nice Harry, to stay with us untIl 2 o'clock
111 the mornll1g whIle waiting
for this train," remarked 'Muver '
"I thank you very much."
"Yes, Harry, I hope you will visit us when you come out
west again"
"Yes, Harry, come out to Dry Run, Kansas, and see the
warships,"
suggested the furniture
salesman m lower fifteen
"Oh Hal ry, shut up
You are disturbing all the people
in the car," abjured the varnish salesman from between the
curta1l1'3 of lower eight.
"Oh, you," remarked Harry, and subsided.
"Must 'muver's' darlIng go to the baggage car?
Go along with the porter,
dear.
Good night, dear."
"For the sake of the Old Nick, what do you think about
It neighbors?"
remarked the man in lower eleven.
"'Muver's'
darling is a dog."
"Harry went over to Juarez, Mexico, last summer and bought
a lot of genuine Mexican IndIan pottery," remarked the occupant of lower five. "When he opened the stuff in Bureau he
found it decorated with the trade mark of a firm in East Liverpool, Ohio."
Don't Bum Your Moulding.
Blackened edges so often found
in hard-wood Mouldings indicate
the use of inferior tools, which
friction and burn because of their
failure to have proper clearance.
The Shimer Reversible and NonReversible Cutters are made of the
finest tool steel by experienced workmen. In deSIgn and construction they are superior to anythIng on the market. They cut
well and retaIn their shape until worn out. Send us drawings or
wood samples for estimates on special cutters. Many useful de
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"Herause
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upper thirteen.
"Oh, Harry, the tram is moving.
Don't be carried away
with us."
"Oh, you Robinson girls," Harry ventured to utter.
"Embrace the ladies first, Harry," advised lower two
"Do it now," chimed in number four
"Do It right," echoed number fourteen.
"Give our love to 'popper' and 'mommer',
Harry dear,
pleaded Jeannette.
"The man in the moon is winking at you, Hal ry.
Do It
now," number sixteen exclaimed.
"Come out to 'Peblo' next May, Harry.
I will give you
a ticket to witness the balloon ascenSIOn, free," said the Coloradoan.
Harry stood the gaff well and departed amid the roars of
laughter that filled the car. One of the young ladies seemed
sad when Harry waived a farewell salute from the platform.
But on the morning following the handsome and unusually attentive young Pullman conductor seemed to fill the vacancy occasioned by the violent pdrt111g WIth the good natured and patient Harry.
J udgll1g from the pI esent condItIOns
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Chicago, and in the Furniture Exhibition Building, Evansville,
THE KARGES FURNITURE
co.
Manufacturers of Chamber SUItes,Wardrobes, Chiffoniers, Odd Dressers, Chifforobes.
THE BOSSE FURNITURE CO.
Manufacturers of Kitchen Cabinets, K. D. Wardrobes,
golden oak, plain oak and quartered oak.
Cupboards and Safes, in ImItation
THE WORLD FURNITURE CO.
Manufacturers of Mantel and Upright F oldmg Beds, Buffets, Hall Trees, Chma Closets,
Combination Book and Library Cases.
THE GLOBE FURNITURE CO.
Manufacturers of Sideboards in plain oak, imItation quartered oak, and solId quartered oak,
Chamber Suites, Odd Dressers, Beds and Chiffoniers in lInitation quartered oak, imitation
mahogany, and imitation golden oak.
THE BOCKSTEGE FURNITURE CO.
Manufacturers of the "Superior" Line of Parlor, LIbrary, DmIng and Dressing Tables.
THE METAL FURNITURE CO.
Made b~ The Karges FUrtllture Co
Manufacturers of "Hygiene" Guaranteed Brass and Iron Beds, Cnbs, Wire Spnngs and Cots
Evansville is the great mixed car loading center of the
United States, made so by the Big Six Association.
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appears on another
page is probably
right in the conclusion
that there IS little or no profit for furniture
manufacturer"
111 government
contracts.
He is wrong, however, in hIS belief that all the manufacturers
who had such contracts
durIng the past year "lost money on the job."
The Grand
RapIds manufacturers
who had a large share of the busll1e'iS
declare that they worked
out about even.
They dId not
make much profit direct, but the work came in the dull
season and by increase
the volume
of business
helped to
carry the overhead
expenses
of the factory.
The Grand
Rapids manufacturers
had no trouble making the goods to
meet the requirements
of the contract.
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OTHER COUNTRIES SZ 00 PER YEAR.
PUBLICATION
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Entered ... aecond class matter, July 5, 1909, at the post office at Grand
under the act of March 3, 1879
RapId.,
MIchIgan
CHICAGO REPRESENTATIVE E I-EVY
Manufacturers
as well as retadels
of furniture
should
undertake
an educational
campaIgn
at once to check the
growth
in the demand
for "bUIlt-ill'
and "knock-dolWn"
furniture-the
kind that "any woman of fifteen or bov of
ten can set up and finish in his or her home "Ithout
th; aid
of a cabinet maker."
Especially
111 the mIddle
\,('.o,t and on
the Pacific coast has an inCl ease in the demand
for this
stuff been noticed, and that it has seriously
affectecl legItimate trade there is proof in abundance.
"BUllt-m furmture"
originated
with the archItects,
and they are pushll1g the fad
for all it is V\; orth.
It is bUIlt by carpenters,
and IS .-ery inferior to the work of trallled cabll1etmakel rs
The people
need only to be shown the difference between factory bUIlt
furniture
and the illy-designed
loosely jOlllted and mconvenient stuff of the archItect
and the carpenter
to gIve the
preference
to the former
HIdeous
looking budt III beds,
tables that may be hinged to the wall as III a Pullman car,
bookcases,
chma cabinets,
buffets, wall cabmets,
cupboards
and many other articles may be seen bUIlt mto apartment
houses and bungalows,
in many cities of the we"t and the
fad is spreading
to smaller places
The apartment
house
owner tries to make his propel ty mOl e I entable than the
ordinary house by building in much of the furl1lture needed
by a tenant, going to the extreme of fUlnishmg
rugs for the
floors, curtams
for the windows and mirrors
for the walls
Knock-down
stuff IS advertised
very largely 111 the magazmes and a heavy trade established
The stuff IS of little, if
any value
LegItimate
manufactm ers and
etallel s should
not silently permit the growth
of thi" trade to undermine
theIr mdustly
and render their stocks and plants
practically worthless.
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Nowadays,
to man} people, an advel tlsement IS hke the
mdex to a book.
They can look thlough the mdex and find
what they want.
If Jour advertisement
IS of the same kmd
It WIll be of such a convemence to people that they WIll use It:
and you need never say that advertismg
IS worthle"s to VOll
If you went to a man and said to him: "My name is John SI;llth,
and I keep staple and fancy groceries," that would be advertising, we presume.
Then he would say, "Have you any soap,
and if so, what kind and how much do you charge for it'
Your reply is, "My name IS John SmIth and I keep staple and
fancy groceries."
He would grow dIsgusted before long.
It
is the same way with advertiSing
in a newspaper
or trade
journal.
AdvertIsements
should not be confined to routll1e
matters or everyday topics
They should talk to readers 111
an entertaining
manner.
The idea of a school for the teaching of merchandIsmg
excites a considerable amount of derision today.
There was a
tIme when scientific farming was sneered at by farmers, who
thought agricultural schools were a waste of money of the state
Today SCIentific farming is recognized by almost everybody as
\V lse
and advantageous.
The day will come when scientific
merchandIsing
wJlI be taught in full, possibly in schools devoted exclusively with that subject.
Why not?
We must
have merchants and salesmen as well as bankers, bookkeepers
and craftemen.
Schools for teaching merchandising
will fol~
10>\ the manual
training schools.
One of the greatest failings of the average man is lack
of patience
He is in a hurry and if he does not get results
1l1stantly he is ready to give up. This IS not so much because
he is famt-hearted
as it is because he is Impatient.
Patience
l'i one of the finest quahtles a man may possess.
It is not to
be confounded with laziness.
The greatest successes have been
dttall1ed by men who possessed a patience which was suffiClent to stand for dIscouragement
and apparent lack of intere<;t and dullness.
PreSIdent Taft says railroad and traffic managers should
be consulted m regard to laws affectll1g their business, the
same as bankers
are consulted when financial legislation
is
bemg conSIdered.
The same rule should be applied to manutacturers,
merchants
and workingmen,
but no class of men
hould be allowed to dictate or control legislation
affecting
theIr trade busll1ess or vocation.
The foreign trade in automobiles
now amounts to more
than a milhon dollars a month and that is little when compared
with the domestic trade
The enormous, rapid growth of the
auto business must have a telling effect on nearly all lines of
trade
Many a man has Il1vested money in a "benzine wagon"
that but for the popular craze would have been used m buying
furniture
The raIlroad paS'ienger assoCIatIOns are trying to get to~ether on rates fOI com entlOns, reUllIons, faIrs, home-coming
gatherings,
etc. WhIle they are at it they should try to arrange some praCtlcal way to gIant reduced rates to Grand
RapIds, New York and Chicago during the furniture
sales
seasons
,\ Ith the Steel Trust, the Sugar trust and
"} 'items advancing wages, the pessimists must
I f congress would fix up that rate bill and the
la\V and adjourn the entire country would be
perous summer.
the big railroad
take back seats.
corporation tax
assured a pros-
It 1'3 pleasll1g to note that no furniture
dealers are mixed
up In the graft and corruption that has been exposed at Alhan} Washmgton,
PIttsburg
and other cities.
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New Y OJ k, Apnl 7 -Manufacturers
here are falrly busy
with bl15l11esswell up to the average. Parlor furniture is in
very good demand as well as all spring and summer lines for
porches and outdoors.
Wholesalers are doing enough to keep
busy and the retaIleI s are doing d moderate amount of bUSIness.
The H Acltman Company has been incorporated to manufacture and deal in furniture, with a capital of $6,000. The
company is headed by Louis C. Neuberger, Henry Jackson and
Herman Altman.
The Moller & Schumann company of Brooklyn, making
furniture and finishing materials, has built a large new warehouse and new brick chimney and will have 16 fires going.
They are putting on the market a new product, a white enamel for the interior of refrigerators, which has no odor and appears like opalite glass. It dries very hard and has a fine gloss.
S. Baumann & Co, have opened their new furniture store
at Eighth avenue and Forty-sixth street, which is a five story
buildmg, 50 x 100 feet in size. The first floor is done in white,
with a white metal ceiling, massive white pillars and handsome
show windows to take in the entire first and second story.
The first floor will be devoted to mission furniture and novelties and for the office. The third floor will be used for parlor
furniture; the fourth floor for bed room furniture and the fifth
floor for dImng room and library furniture.
It is one of the
largest and finest retail furniture stores here.
Jacob Kraft of Brooklyn, who was recently discharged from
bankruptcy, has opened a new retail furniture store at 1580
Broadway, Manhattan, and another at 551 Court 'Street, Brooklyn.
Antonio Monaco, doing business as the Madison Furniture
House, in Hoboken, N. J., is to retire from business soon.
Van Dalfsen & Stone of Newberg, N. Y., have taken another floor and enlarged their business at 17 Water street.
The Cahoon Furniture & Novelty company, which moved
from Charliet street, Brooklyn, to West Hoboken, N. J, has
had some financial trouble, but has secured extensions and is
expected to pull through all right.
The Liberty Furniture company is working a full force.
It has added new machinery to its plant.
A ,Veston Smith is not representing the Wolverine Manufacturing company in the New York district any more.
H. K. T. Wright will take out the line of the Hardesty
MfLl1ufactunng company of Canal Dover, Ohio, which makes
mission furniture, opera chairs, etc.
H. Franken has left Price & Rosenbaum's upholstery department of Brooklyn, and is now with Cohen Bros, of J acksonVIlle, Fla
J F. Phelps, late with the Goerke company of
Newark, N. J, has succeeded Mr. Franklin.
The H. B. Drake company, manufacturers of office furniture, of this city, has leased property on East Forty-mnth street,
Bayonne, N J, and will build a one story factory 160 x 160
feet in size and will keep fifty hands employed. Their business has shown a great improvement recently.
Louis Gottesman of 86 Forsyth street, making spring beds,
has incorporated his business.
T. J. Venable, late with the R. II. White company of Boston, has joined the contracting and interior decorating staff of
the Simpson-Crawford company of this city, on Sixth avenue
The Western Chair company, jobbers at 513 Hudson street,
Manhattan, has moved to 160 Grand street, Brooklyn.
Gluck Bros, manufacturing drop leaf kitchen and card
tables, are very busy at their factory on Manjer street, and are
also operating a branch factory in Philadelphia.
Selig Voit will sell Voit Bros.' upholstered furniture line
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Muskegon, Mich., May 28, '07.
Mr. Geo. T. Hancock,
116 West 84th St., New York, N. Y.
Dear Sir: Referring to our conversation with you while you
were in our city looking over the dry kilns installed by us under
the Grand Rapids Veneer Works system and plans, we wish to
confirm our statements to you, that the first lumber through the
kiln when it was green, having just been completed in winter
weather, was 4-4 white oak, which came out thoroughly dry
in seven days, and in better condition than what we had been
getting out of a hot blast kiln where we had been allowing
three weeks and over for kiln drying, and since then we have
been taking out all kinds of lumber, 4-4 maple and 4-4 plain
and quartered oak in seven days, and the stock is softer and
works easier than any we ever had in our factory.
Weare pleased to state further that the kiln has fulfilled
every representation made by the Grand Rapids Veneer
Works and is entirely satisfactory in every respect. If we were
to install another kiln, or half a dozen, at [he _present writing,
they would all be of the Grand Rapids Veneer Works system.
If we can be of further service to you, command us.
Yours truly, MOON DESK CO.
in New York and Mayer VOlt will take Pennsylvania and New
England.
The Hale & Kilburn company has been showing some up
to date lines at the warehouse, 33 Union Square West, of davenports, sofas, couch beds, commodes, etc. They will move
the warerooms to larger quarters at 39 Union Square.
J. B. Greenhut of the Siegel-Cooper company, presented
a G. A. R. hall to Peoria, Ill., his old home.
The N ew York Sample Furniture company has enlarged
ib quarters by taking half of an adjoining floor and have now
30,000 square feet of space. Freman Fraim, who was with
Colie & Son, is now with the New York Sample Furniture
company.
R. R. Mitchell & Co., manufacturers of bedding supplies
and dealers in curled hair, has moved its factory to 608 East
Eighteenth street and 609 East Seventeenth street and put in
the latest machinery. This is the plant vacated by the Kindel
Bed company. The warerooms of the Mitchell company have
been moved to 38 East Twentieth street.
Mr. Siegel, late with the National Parlor Suite company,
has gone into the retail business at 126 Clinton street, under
the firm name of Siegel & Rubenstein.
The Wickes-Hoskins company, wholesale dealers in office
furniture at 354 Broadway, is in financial trouble, owing 700
creditors $160,772, with assets estimated at $133,592.
An Effective Advertising Device.
The Eastern Outfitting company, dealers in house furnishing goods in San Francisco recently purchased a large
number of electric clocks and placed the same on walls of
buildings in all sections of the city, where they may be 3een
by pedestnans
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We solICIt pnvllege of sendmg
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Gentlemen -We are pleased to ,tate that the /') dozen Clamp FIxtures whIch
we bought of you a httle over a year ago are glVlnR' excellent se"VlCt>
"Ve are
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anythmg addItIOnal III thIS Ime
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The locatIOn of the den is really the prImal condItion.
It
must be removed
from that part of the house where the
There are times in the lIfe of every man when he deSIres
work of the day is carrried on and where the children ramp
a quiet spot where, undisturbed
by the household
rout111e,
and play, for if it is not qui~t and peaceful, it is not a den,
he may concentrate
his thoughts
upon some perplexing
subbut a mere apology for one.
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all thoughts
aside, dream day dreams 111
It falls to the housewife's
lot ofttimes to select the room
company with his pipe and his open fire
The fulfillment
of
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shall
be
used
as
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as well as to aid in choosing
these desires is found in the den, the popularIty
of whIch
the
furnish111gs,
and
it
is
then
that
her tact will have its best
among the masculine
sex is limited to no single class or
opportunity
for Llisplaying Itself
If she but pauses to think
caste.
what this WIll mean, she will forget the absolute
necessity
Theoretically
speaking,
these dens may be dIVIded 111to
of using that little back room with its fireplace, for a second
two classes, those of the rich, which are fine in archItectural
spare bedroom,
or a sewing room, and will cheerfully
relinpoints, are finished productions
of the decorator,
and tho"e
quish it for the den
The result nine times out of ten will
which represent
careful thought and economy guided b} the
mean that John stays away from the club seven nights out
111dividual tastes of the owner.
\iVhile we all delIght 111the
of the week, and his morn111g gruffness will lose itself inside
luxury and magnificence
of the first, the second appeals to
of a week.
us personally,
carrying with it not the thoughts
of nnlImIted
Once the room is selected, and a fireplace added if it be
wealth, but of real comfort and enjo} ment
To the Idtter
not in possession
of one already,
the furniture
should be
also we look for the touch of OrIginalIty, of redl gel1llb \\ hlCh
selected mo"t carefully
Better the parlor have one treasure
limited means so often serves to call forth
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We have adopted cellulOid as a base for our Caster Cups, making the
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CellulOid IS a great Improvement over bases
made of other matenal
When It ISnecessary to move a piece supported
by cups wIth cellulOid bases It can be done wIth ease, as the bases are perfectly smooth CellulOid does not sweat and by the use of these cups
tables are never marred
These cups are fimshed In Golden Oak and
WhIte Maple; finished light
If you wtll t1'1la samp!t ordtr of thtlt
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less, than the den lack any of that cozy atmosphere whIch and kicks! It up, or tumbles over it, and he is apt to use som~
makes it dear to its owner's heart.
"trong e:A
preSSlOns to rellei e hI!:>feell11gs, so I am fastening
There is no neeiJ for elaborate decorations or color
it down for him."
schemes; indeed the plainer and more serviceable the furniIt is for this very reason that the small rugs lying
ture used and the less obtrusive the colors, the better the promiscuously about the room are objectionable, for "Wilden will be liked by its owner. Beauty appeals to a man as liam" is not the only man who kicks up or stumbles over the
to a woman, though in a different way, and the room which rugs.
would be to the good housewife a perfect bower, would be
A good easy chair 1'3an indispenslble part of the furnutterly condemned by her hU'3band There is no place in his ishings of the den, and the table of medium size, as well a13
den for the rockers, little tables and bric-a-brac which Je- the bookc'age, may well be counted another.
The table
llght a woman's heart, and she must remember this when should occupy the center of the room, and should be large
"electing the furniture for the den
enough to hold a goodly number of books and papers wIth
To begin with, the floor and wall are the first considerwriting materials also Even then, a smaller table will not
ations. Hardwood floors and plain dark hangings are the be founJ amiss, for the tables in a den have a way of berule in any den, but the rugs are of course a matter of taste
coming piled up and running over with a ma'3S of literature
In one Jen, which was that of a huntsman, the rugs were of and papers, that wIll fill the soul of the neat housewife with
fur, while the settees had robes of fur flung over them;
horror.
trophies of the chase were everywhere, and the three really
good pictures in the room were of the hunt.
Passing of a Word.
In a unique little den which was in the upper story, or
In certain quarters there seems to be a tendency to drop
loft of the barn, the rug was an arts and crafts and occupied
the center of the floor, which was oiled The remainder of the word "solicitor," and use either "representative" or "salesman"
To many persons, perhaps, the difference in terms
the room contained artist's matt:!rials and some furniture
does not seem of much Importance, but who ever has a due
which was the work of the owner.
For the orJinary den, the housewife will find one large regard for exactness and the suggestive effect of a word, and
rug better than several small ones, and the darker colors will consider the etymological and accumulated meaning of
are always preferable. The oriental rugs look well in such the words in question, will wonder why astute sales-managers
a room, and wear well. One little woman tacked down the have not long ago relegated the word "solicitor" to that linguistic cemetery where now reposes that other age-worn
rug in the center of the room very carefully, explaining
apologetically to a friend'
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Supposing the woodworking
of one's house to be sound
and clean, as things go, the ordinary maid's idea of cleaning
is to "give a good rub up" or to use some kind of pohshmg
paste or liquid.
After this treatment
the furniture
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look bright for awhile unless one should peer into the corners
and find the white dust hiding in crevices and portiom
of
molding or carved work.
All rubbing and polishing are labor in the wrong place
unless the first process of cleaning has been thoroughly
carried out. There are many ways of doing this
Some hou ,ekeepers use cold tea, vinegar and water in equal parts.
Either
application is good, although my preference is for the cold
tea, which seems to cleanse more effectually than anythmg
else. Whatever is used, it must not be swabbed all over the
piece of furniture as if a ship's deck were being treated to
its morning bath, but with soft, clean cloths, dampened \\ Ith
the tea or whatever is used, and then rubbed all 0\ er the
surface and dried carefully at once. The crevices and crannies are best reached by a tiny pad of cotton on the end of
an orange stick or an old penholder.
If there is much dirt
to vanquish, it means very hard work, much rubbing, much
renewing of the tea water.
Thus free the article from dirt
and greasiness
and subsequent
polishing will be an easier
task and the final result a very great satisfaction
Sltght
scratches
may be removed by being anointed with linseed
oil (boiled) at night and then rubbed next day with linseed
oil and turpentine
in equal proportions
If they are very
deep they require professional
treatment.
When the surface has not been scratched, but bruised or
indented, the bruised part can be dampened with warm water
first, and then a pad of brown paper folded many times, so
that it conducts heat only slowly to the wood below, is laid
on the part to be restored, the paper being soaked thoroughl)
in warm water before application
Now comes the critical
part of the operation, for an iron, warm, but decidedly not hot,
must be held over the damp paper
The pressure must not
be hard, but the iron should be kept in position until all
moisture has been evaporated
If this is done directly a
bruise is observed, one application is almost sure to I aise the
surface of the wood up again, but old bruises require sev el al
treatments.
Immediate removal of ink stains is the obvious filst aid
to the injured wood, but there are stains of this natUle that
are never detected until they have attained a good old age,
and then they need careful management
A small quantlt)
of niter applied With a camel's hair brush will remove very
obstinate and hardened ink stains
Six drops of the lllter to
a teaspoonful of water is suffiCIent, apphed until the ink has
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dlssolv ed and disappeared.
Then rub the place With a damp
cloth and pohsh with a soft duster.
vVhen time for housecleaning
IS at hand and the housewife finds her leather chairs, for example, in need of renovation and yet does not feel that she can afford to spend much
money, she may make them look ever so much better by using
the whites of eggs.
Beat them well, remove all the dirt and dust possible
from the chairs and rub the egg in good; when it dries go
over the whole with soft, clean cloths, and the change will
be very e\ ident
To clean Japanese matting and 11110leums use bran water
which is made by taking two handfuls of bran and boiling it
in a gallon of water.
After this has boiled twenty minutes
strain and cleanse the matting or lmoleum with a flannel cloth
wet \Vlth the bran water
yiVipe immediately
With a dry
cloth.
011 alone does not really clean anything, it polishes for
a short whl1e, but in the end it makes matters worse; but a
mixture of one part of turpentine
to two parts of oil really
makes a \\ onderfully good pohsh, It removes scratches and
even dents \\ III many times disappear;
it may be mixed and
kept in a bottle to be used as occasion requires
Vlllegar-just
hot vinegar-applied
to paint spots on
window glass will usually take them off without any trouble
or scraping
Painted
WOOdWOlk should never be cleaned
with ammonia; It eats off the polish of the paint; but make
a mixture of three quarts of hot water, with soap enough to
make a good lather; add three tablespoonfuls
of turpentine
and two of ml1k, and you will find the wood look as If it were
freshly pamted instead of the dull, hfeless appearance usually
noted after soap and water.
\A.'hen \ er) much soiled, all wickel furniture
may be
I enovated by first taking off every pal ticle of the pamt With
soap and water in which a little soda has been dissolved; then
the piece may be stained or just revarnished
to good effect
Oxahc acid is a Virulent pOlson, but a solutIOn is very
useful to the housewife
Four ounces 111half a pint of watel
will remove stains and dark spots, only the place must be
\\ ashed at once in warm \\ atel to remove the acid
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PhIladelphIa,
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trade here is moving along at
a very good pace
All the manufacturers
and wholesalers
'ieem busy and are not complaming
much
With few exceptIOns this year WIll be as big as any in the past, with the
profits probably smaller, yet on the whole satisfactory
The
hIgh price of materials has of course cut into the profits considerably
Some advances have been made in furniture,
more
on the higher grades, than on the cheaper goods, but the
increase noted IS much less than the advanced cost of manufacturing.
Smith Bros. & Pierce, 310 Spruce street, are quite busy
on "orco" elastic felt mattresses.
The Manufacturers'
club have taken the old Bellevue
Hotel bUIlding at Broad and ,1\1 alnut streets,
and will remodel It for a club house
William
Koehle, an old furniture
dealer, has taken a
position with the Van SClver company of Camden, N J.
B Levin, formerly proprietor
of the Greater New York
Metallic Bedstead
company has been dIscharged
from bankruptcy.
Thompson
the manufacturer
of Wood
finIshes.
has
opened a down town office in the Bulletin buIldmg and has
a very large sale for his products
Porclltte IS made for refngerators.
It is claimed it wIll not cnack or peel and comes
m all colors.
The American
Sal11tary Mattress
company,
SIxteenth
and Huntmgton
streets have moved to a larger plant at 209
Thirty-second
street.
The bus111ess had grown beyond the
capaCIty of the old quarters.
T. Steinmitz,
receIver
for Boris Levin,
Bons
Lev111
& Co, Woodstown
'Metallic
Bedstead
.company
and the
Greater New York ~Ietalltc Bedstead
company
WIll practically have nothmg to dlstnbute
for the credItors
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The EmpIre Door and Tnm company,
wood workers,
has been incorporated
with a capital of $40,000, by WIlliam
Biggart of Bloomfield, N. J, and John Biggart of the Bronx,
New York City.
The firm will do business
in New York
William H. Gosnell has been on a selling trip to New
York and through
New Jersey.
His daughter
Miss Gosnell
travels
to Baltimore,
Washington
and South New Jersey
points, handling parlor suites and couches.
Stone & Moffat have moved from Sixteenth
and Federal
streets, to larger quarters
at Fifteenth
streets.
"Sandy"
Blanton
has taken the Hall & Lyon 1111efor
PhIladelphia
and Trenton.
He is assisted by Peter C Lee
who also sells for the Southern
Furniture
company.
The Lyon Furniture
Agency
will move from Walnut
place to 608 Chestnut
street.
Jackson Bros store at 38 South Eighth street was sold
sometime ago to Snellenburg
Bros.
The Jackson's
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the future devote their time to their Washington
store
Philip Gazon as the Michigan
Furniture
company is 111
financial trouble.
His assets are reported at $38,400 and habIlities at $18,000, with 105 creditors.
Emil Cohn, formerly buyer for George Kelly, has agam
taken that position, succeeding
Jack Talleman.
H D Dougherty
& Co, is a new furniture
manufacturmg concern in North Philadelphia.
Harry Sanderson
has succeeded John H Sanderson
and
wIll locate the furnIture
business farther uptown.
The Bernstein
Manufacturing
company
of Third street
and Alleghany
avenue, making metal beds, are adding another story to the factory and to the foundry and putting up
a new finishmg bUIld1l1g to cost $40,000. This firm's growth
has been very rapid.
They have been consistent
advertisers.
L D. Shreve of Union City, Pa, will build a large table
plant, covel ing several acres of glOund near his chail factory
The new buIldin~
wIll be of concrete
construction,
cost
$300,000, and employ 500 men
William Rogers of the J R Bunting Beddmg company
has taken the third floor of the MIller buIlding at 254 South
American street, for a wareroom.
Edward
Duncan is now with William Wright
at Nineteenth and South streets.
Herman
Silverstein
has moved
from Hammond
and
Orthodox
streets to 4258 Frankford
avenue and is carrying
a large line of furniture
S Bowman, furniture
dealer of 336 North Second street,
has opened up a new store at 621 South street in charge of
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In addItion to these, one of the most refined and graceful styles now popular i.s that of the classic "Adam" period,
a style which, for quiet elegance,
refinement
of form and
n:quislte
rendering
of detail is surpassed
by no other.
To
A mellrans
It i" doubly interesting
and attractive
because
To an ever-widening
circle of wealthy
citl7ens, \\ ho-,e
thoughts
and aspirations
are largely
centered
upon "oeial
functions
and the endless round of 1 eceptions,
entel td1l1ments and soirees thereby
entailed,
the decoration
of the
home is a subj ect of perennial interest
No matter what the
cost may be, those who are ambitious
to retain promment
positions among the leaders of fashIOnable slclety mtl~t not
lag behind the times in things pertaming
to the adornment
of the home.
To do so would be almost as reprehensible
a..,
to appear at a funtion in apparel of an antiquated
type
As a result, the professional
decorator
IS commIssIOned
at intervals
to bring the interior arrangements
of the home
into line with the latest development
of ornamental
art
Really fine furniture
is bamshed
to the garret or otherWIse
disposed of, rich damask is stripped
from the walls, elaborate draperies
and portieres
are displaced,
elegant frescomg
is obliterated.
But the idea of replacing
the furmture
and
decorations
thus removed
with others
of greater
artistic
value, plays little or no part m the proceedings
The \\ ark
of renovation
is usually ordered
on the pI inciple that one
may as well be out of the world as out of fashion
The
owner of the mansion may take his famJly for,a European
trip while the alterations
are m progress
Later they return and admire,
also congratulate
themselves
upon the
modish, up-to-date
interior
of the residence
Unfortunately
it often happens that the work of mterior
decoration
does not require,
for the dIsplacement
of ornament that is good, something
that is more refined and artistic as well as newer.
Too often it merely represents
change
for the sake of change and under such condItIOns, the evanescent fad of the hour is sure of consideration,
and, most
likely, adoption.
The whole field of decorative
art, from
Rameses to Roosevelt,
or from ancient Assyrian
to modern
mission, with every conceivable
variatIOn and recomposition
has, in this way, been exploited
as a passmg
fancy ever
since the days when designers
and decorators
di"covered
that it was easier and cheaper to pJlfer the ideas and work
of predecessors
than to Cleate equally meritorious
ornament
of their own.
At present the trend of fashion is in the direction of the
historic styles of the seventeenth,
eighteenth
and early nineteenth
centuries.
The beautiful
ornament
of Louis
the
XIVth, that of Louis XVIth and the Empire period are also
much used.
Adam Style as Used m Wall Paper
of the mfluence which, along with the Georgian,
it exerted
on the Colonial architecture
and ornament
of our forefathers.
The creators of this style, Robert and James Adam, were
the sons of a talented
Scottish architect,
WiIIiam Adam, of
Maryburgh,
officially known as the "King's
Mason."
With
Robert and James were associated
two other brothers,
William and J ahn.
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associated in business with his brother James
In a few
years they became famous as the architects and decorators
of numerous public buildings and private residences. Highly
as their work was esteemed. it has not escaped criticism
J ames Ferguson, author or "History of Architecture" writes:
'Their great merit, if merit it be, is that they stamped their
work with a certain amount of originality, which, had it been
of a better quality might have done something to emancipate
art from its trammels."
In spite of criticism, the fact remains that their buildings, notably the interiors, are generally beautifully proportioned, while the decorative features
and the furniture, which they also designed to insure the
unity of the whole, are the acme of delicate grace and refinement. As such, the work of Robert and James Adam is
appreciated more highly today than ever before,
While easily outclassing
contemporaries,
the Adam
brothers were alive to the importance of securing the most
talented assistants obtainable. We find among the employes
of the firm such names as Angelira Kauffman, Pergolosi,
Zucci, and others. The work of these men, however, consi"ted in the execution of detail. The broad, comprehensive
plan of building, interior decoration and furnishing was conceived by Rand
J. Adams and they alone are entitled to
the honor of results.
About 1773 they published the first of three famous
volume"> on "Architecture,
Interior Decoration and Furniture " These books cover practically every phase of the
subject-building
plans, wall and ceiling decoration, all kinds
of furniture, mantelpieces, mirrors, clocks, carpets, draperies,
upholstery fabrics, etc. It is worthy of note that in the preface to this work they do not claim originality for their
style, as that word is often interpreted.
They say: "We
have been able to seize with some degree of success the
beautiful spirit of antiquity and transfer it with novelty and
vanety through all our numerous works." A modest claim,
indeed, but the results obtained were original, even though
the makers derived their inspiration from the work of men
whose bones had been mingling with the dust of mother
earth for nigh two thousand years.
The Adam style has often been described as English
Empire
Its relationship to Louis the XVlth ornament has
also been spoken of. It is true that the influences which
broua-ht about the Empire style in France and the Adam
style in Great Britain were at work during the same penod
yet, while each derived its inspiration from the same source,
the Empire style is more massive and pretentious in formation than the Adam, as might be expected from a style
which was created for the purpose of adding luster to the
name of the Little Corporal
Compared with the beautiful
designs of the Louis XVlth period, the influence of which
on the work of R. and J. Adam is apparent, the Adam style
is more distinctly classical and is almost devoid of the dainty
floral forms so charactenstic
of the elegant French style.
In surface decoration, ceiling, wall or panel, the central
figure in an Adam design is generally a circle, oval, medallion, octagon, hexagon, parallelogram, lozenge, sunburst or
fan shape.
The surroundings
details consist of scrolls,
wreaths, festoons, garlands, ribbons, chains, rosettes, urns,
husk, paterae, etc. The ovals, hexagons and geometrical
centerpieces are often embellished with mythological figures
and groups, such as are found in Pompeiian wall decoration.
To recapitulate, the leading characteristics of the Adam
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refinement of form, exquisite symmetry of design and perfectly rendered details.
The accompanying original design illustrates one phase
of the Adam style
A senes of patterns would be required
to demonstrate the various ornamental details made use of
by the Adam brothers
Designs like the illustration are used
for the fashionable, one color, silk wall covering, known as
taffeta damask. During the past four or five years hotels
and residences have adopted this form of interior decoration.
The pattern is formed by weaving the bnllIant silk warp
threads loosely over a dull background of the same color.
These two effects in combination, produce a soft but rich
contrast, pleasing in the extreme
The width of the pattern
1 epeat is twelve
and a half inches
The design is equally
suitable for the better class of wall paper.
Western Imagination.
Oregon Tradesman-The
Gunn Sectional Bookcase company of Grand Rapids, Mich., is preparing to locate a factory here, and has made preliminary arrangements for the
purchase of a large tract on the Portland peninsula.
The
plans call for an expenditure of something like $250,000. The
company is anxious to have a factory in the timber country
and has selected Portland as the one best fitted for its purposes in every respect.
When the foregoing
P. Homiler, manager of
declared it was news to
said. "It's the product
paragraph was mentioned to John
the Gunn Furniture company, he
him. "There's nothing 111 it," he
of some westerner's imagination."
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Between Manufacturer
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Retailer"-S.
L. Davis, Secretary
and Treasurer
Southern
SOUTH CAROLINA RETAILERS
Chair
company.
Report of Secretary and Treasurer.
"What Benefits are to be Derived from Membersll1p
in the Association."-E.
G Cook, Columbia, S C.
10 (Announcement
as to Question Box) Report of Exe-
Proliram for Their Fourth Annual Convention to
Be Held Next Week.
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The fourth
annual
convention
of the South
Carolllla
RetaIl Furmture
Dealers' association
IS to be held at Spartanburg, next week Wednesday
and Thursday-Apnl
13 and 14
The call for the convention is in the form of a greetlllg sIgned
by 0 M. Heard as president
and A 'vV. Lltschgi,
secretary
and treasurer,
which reads as follows'
"Our annual convention
meets at Spartanburg
on \pnl
13th and 14th, we want you to come. We expect to have the
largest attendance
and the best meeting we have e, er had.
there IS nothing that you can do that wl1l aid you as much
in building up your business
as your attendance
upon thh
meeting.
We want you to come, for if you come once } ou
will always attend.
The meetings
are interesting
and lllstructive,
we have arranged
a programme
for this meetl11g
with a list of speakers that any body of men would be .le-
cutive Committee
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A.pplication
Adjournment
SECOND
APRIL
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2.
3.
Point,
THURSDAY.
APRIL
concert
musical
DAY
FOURTEENTH
Communications
and Testimonials
received
Opening
of Question
Box.
Discussions
Travelmg
Men's Hour:
Talk-C.
A. Smith, High
N C, G F Jenkins, Winston-Salem,
N C. and S G
can do for the
Furniture
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Unfinished
Business.
ADDRESS-O.
H.
L. Wernicke,
President
The
:YIacey company, Grand Rapids, Mich.
8 New Business.
9 "Freight
Rates and Claims."-C.
J Field, Secretary
Case Workers'
association
of North Carolina
10 PAPER-J.
M. Van Metre, Columbia, S C.
11 OffiCial Photograph
Afternoon Session.
1 ADDRESS-"Manufacturers
ation "-Fred
N Tate, President
North
er,;' association.
2. PAPER-"How
we Regard
Should
vs. Retailers'
assocICarolina Case Work-
tax "-A. W. Litschgi, Jr.
Informal Talks by Visiting Members
lina Retail Dealers' association.
3. Election of Officers
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Selection of Place of Meeting
5 Installation
of Officers.
6 Adjournment.
THIRTEENTH
the Corporation
of the North
Caro-
Evening Session.
Grand Banquet, 11 P. M, Spartan Inn
11 F Ansell, Governor of South Carolina.
Howard B Carhsle, state senator from Spartanburg
r' (\ Truesdale,
etc , ,;peakers
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Recess FIfteen ~11l1utes
Reading of the Mlllute"
PresIdent's
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Report of Special Committees.
5 ADDRESS-"What
the Trade Paper
Dealer"-A.
T. Thoits, Editor Grand Rapids
Openlllg of the ConventIOn by 0 }I Heard. PreSl(In Chamber
of Commerce.)
of Welcome-A
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2 Addrerss
Tlmminsvl1le,
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3 D. H. Traxler,
P Hammond,
Spal tan bUH;,
4. We1coming Address-C
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Afternoon Session.
dent
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Morning Session, 9 o'clock.
THE PROGRAM
\\ EDKESDAY,
of Dues
festival
you."
DAY,
and Payment
Evening Session.
lIghted to have address them.
"If you will come to this meeting you '" III lea' e It \\ Ith
higher ideals, a stronger
determination
and better fitted to
make your business a success.
You will always be glad} ou
came, for in addition
to all the good things you '" 111 get
from the association,
you will have the opportulllty
of attending the Concerts of the "South Atlantic Music FestIval"
So meet with us on April 13th and 14th
\Ve want to make
this the best meeting we have ever held, we want you to see
what the furniture
dealers can do by co-operatIOn
Come
to the convention,
bring your competItors
and yOU ,"Ill go
back home better fitted, and thereby better prepared to make
more money out of your business
"Look thiS programme
over and you WIll beglll to ap1)rcciate what is in store for every Jealer in thiS state
The time
and money spent III attending
this com entlOn wl1l be the
best investment
you can possibly make
\Ye are look1l1g tor
FIRST
for Membership
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CREDITS
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ROBERT P LYON, Ceneral Manager
THE SPECIAL CREDIT BUREAU
OF
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FURNITURE,
CARPET,
UPHOLSTERY,
UNDERTAKING,
PICTURE
FRAME,
MIRROR
VENEER,
WOOD, CABINET
HARDWARE
AND HOUSE FURNISHINC
TRADES.
IMPROVED METHODS
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Knew It W8S 16Madein Grand Rapids:'
A lady livIng in Los Angeles, after havIng planned, erected and furni"hed
a handsome bungalow,
on one of the hIll",
overlookIng
the sea In the Hollywood
dIstnct, h"tened wIth
pleasure to the utterances
of a party of fnends, praIsing her
skill, taste and Judgement
in the creation of a heautIful home
A fine buffet, m the dmmg room deserved and receIved especial attentIOn and the o~ ner prouJly
remarked It wa'i "made
m Grand RapIds"
One of the party pretended
to doubt
the truth of the <,tatement, when the lady pulled the pIece
away from the wall and 1 e\ ealed on the back of the case thb
m"cnptlOn
MADE BY THE LUCE FURXITUR£
GRASD RAPIDS, MICH
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Cabll1et Work by P Peter'ion
Stammg by Robert Owen
FIllmg by John Fopma.
Varmshmg
by Albert Tllumer
Poh <,hl11gby Isaac Crane.
The proof wa", consIdered
sufficient anJ the party congratulated
the owner on account of her possession
of a piece
of Grand RapIds furnIture
of uncommon
merit.
In thIS connection
when the fact IS considered
that much
poor furnIture
is sold under mIsrepresentation
as to its origl11, why would it not pay manufacturers
of establtshed
reputatIOn to authenticate
theIr gooJ', by some such mean" as
the foregomg
suggests
Built WIth double arbors, sliding table and equipped
complete with taper pin guages carefully graduated.
This machine represents the height in saw bench construction. It is designed and built to reduce the cost
of sawing stock.
Write uS for descriptive
CRESCENT
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We have notIced that when some of the trade magazme
Writers ~ ant to ",ay a partIcularly
wlthenng
and bhstenng
thmg about certain class of customers, they call them "chronic
bargam hunters" says the Merchants' Journal.
A man who IS
<.,uppo"ed to watch the papers for low pnces, to go where
he can buy a hat or an overcoat cheapest, or a woman who
attends the specIal sales and stocks up when she has a chance,
at low prices, IS classed a'i a "chromc bargam hunter.·'
The way some of the merchants
talk about them, one
would thmk that a chromc bargal11 hunter was a sort of a
thIef or 'ihopbfter
Don't be too hand on the bargam hunter
Don't call hIm names
There are a great many of them.
He
COni>tltute<.,a very large proportiOn of humamty
The chances
are that you are one yourself.
The man who Isn't a chronic
bargain hunter IS generally
comldered
as afflicted with an
ingrowing surplus of money whIch he needs to have extracted,
or else he is mentally defiCIent.
Every man of sense tries to get as much as possIble for
hIS money
The merchant '" ho can "buy close" is a chronic
bargal11 hunter
The man who pIcks up real estate when he
can find somethl11g that looks as though It was worth more
than the price is a chromc bargal11 hunter.
Every body to
Informallon.
MACHINE WORKS
OF GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
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whom money means anythl11g IS a chromc bargam hunter.
Some men'", abIlIty to find bargams may run In the hne
of buying hats and SUltS when they are offered cheap, and some
other man's abilIty a'i a chromc bargam hunter may be manifested m hIS skill m buymg lO-story busl11ess blocks, but they
are all bargal11 hunters
If the merchant offers goods at speCIal pnces, he expects
the public to come and buy
He would be bItterly disappol11ted If they didn't
The chromc bargall1 hunter, If he comes
with h1s money in hIS hand, ought to be Just a~ welcome as any
one else.
To the abo, e 111lgJhtbe added a rem111der that the bargam
hunter or the man WIll IS keenly mterested
111 making
the
weekly or monthly salary go a~ far as possible, generally pays
hIS bIlls. The one who IS careless about his purchases, buys
what he needs regardless of the pnce, often eIther mtends beating hIS debts or unwIttIngly
gets 111to a financial hole from
""111Chhe IS unable to extncate
hl111'ielf "
never
It WIll
Trouble l'i the 1110Stobbg111g th111g 111the world
dodge the people w\ho are looking for it
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of pen ent1l)n IS a good
antIdote
for remorse
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HOLCOMB
Manufacturers
of HIGH
&
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GRADE
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ARTISAN
FOREIGN TRADE IN AUTOMOBILES
Develops to a Million Dollars Per Month in
Five Years.
Drying Furniture Stock
If the information contained
in this book would save you a
carload of oak a year, would it
not be worth reading through?
Not a common
catalog, but a book of
information, containing practical suggestions
really valuable to men interested in lumber
drying.
A complete treatise on Forced and Natur..l Circulation
Kilns
(progressive
and
apartment types) with details of equipment.
A book you ought to have. Sent postpaid to
any address. Where shall we mail your copy?
AMERICAN
BLO')/ER CoMPANY
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Manufacturers
"ABC" low speed;
low power exhaust
fans.
L
of
"ABC' 'roller bearing trucks, transfer cars and flexible doors.
"Detroit" Return Steam Traps.
Thc forclgn tradc of the UnIted States 111 automobIles now
amounts to a 11111lIondolars a month, or twelve 1111lllOndollar~
per annum, of whIch sum about four mIllIOn are Imports and
eIght mIllIon, exports
Ten year~ ago the trade m automobIles
\\a~ not of suffiCIent value to JustIfy the Bureau of StatIstIcs of
the Depdrtment of Commerce and Labor m mak1l1g a separate
rccord of elthel the Imporh or exports, the few automobile,
entermg or leavll1g the country be1l1g lI1cludecl under the mIscellaneous da"s of "All other artIcles"
In July 1901, however,
the Bureau began to record the exports, whIch m the fiscal
) ear 1902 amounted to about one mIllIon dollal s, and smce that
tune the ,alue of automobIles and parts thereof exported to
foreIgn countnes has been m round terms thIrty mIllIon dollars,
of whIch total about twenty-five mIllIons has developed 111 the
hve years endmg WIth December 1909, V\lth a prospect that
the fiscal year 1910 WIll show an export record of fully eIght
mIllIOn dollars
In Imports the record was not established untIl July 1905,
\\ hen the total of automobIles
and parts thereof Imported
amounted to four mlilron dollar~, 111the fiscal years 1906 and rn
1907 over five mIllIOn, but fallmg below that figure m succeedmg yeal s, makmg the total ImportatIOn for the five years endll1g
December 1 ()Ol) for whIch a record eXIsts about eIghteen 11111lIon dollal s of automobIles and parts thereof. . The shIpments
of automobIles ,rnd pal ts thereof to Alaska, HawaII and Porto
RICO are not II1cluded m the figures quoted dbove, but amount,
111the past fi, e years, to doout tv\ 0 mIllIOn dollars, makmg the
totdl \ alue of the automobrle pa'osll1g 111and out of porb of the
ll11ted States 111 the past fi\ e year", about forty-five mIllIOn
c!ollar..,
O[ he Import~ ale cIuefly flom ['rance,
Haly, Germany, and
the Cl11ted KIngdom, and the exports to practIcally every eountf) 111the world, though the largest number go to Canada, the
C111ted Kll1gdom, :;\lexlOo and Australra
1he number sent to
Canadd 111 the fiscal year 1909 was 1,230, valued at $1,457,121,
to England 590 machmes, valued at $1,693.914, to France 209
macIl1nes, valud
at $643,692, to :Ylexlco 200 :Ylachmes, valued
at $282,462, and to Austraha 127 machmes, valued at $81,426
The prices of those sent to iGuropean countnes are, as a rule,
hIgher than that of the machmes sent to Canada, MeXICO and
-\.ustralIa. the average pnce of those sent to France bel11g over
$'1,000 each, accordmg to the pnces and numbers of machines
reported to the Bureau of StatIstIcs, tho~e to England average
nearly $3,000 a pIece, those to Canada about $1,200 and MexICO about $1.400 each, and those to Australra less than $650
each.
The total number of automobIles expO! ted m the fiscal
year 1909 wa~, according to the Bureau of StatIstIcs' figures,
3,184, valued at $5,387,021, an average value of about $1,700
for a machme, and the number imported 1,624, valued at $2,')05,191, shov\l11g dlso an average of about $1,700 for each
machl11e The dlstnbutIon
of automobIles extends to all parts
of the world, the number of countnes named by the Bureau of
StatIstIcs as destll1atlon of automobiles exported m the fiscal
\ ear 1909 bel11g not less than 50, and l11cIudrng IndIa, Chl11a,
Dutch East IndIes, Japan, Canary Islands, Egypt, French and
Ijntl'oh -\.fnca. South -\.mencan countne'l
Central
Amencan
::,tate~, ,\ est IndIa Island'l, GIbraltar, and Portugal
The figures for the calender year are larger and "how aha
hIgher pnces, the number of machl11es exported in the calendar
year 19CfJ bel11g 3,686, and the stated value be1l1g $6,889,031. an
average of nearly $1,900, these figures mcludmg only the shlp-
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ments of machmes to fOI elgn countnes, and not mcludmg the
shipments to our noncontiguous
tern tory, or the parts of ma.
chines whIch are included m the grand total stated below in
comparing our own exports of automobIles with those of othel
countries.
France lead<; the wodd a" an exporter oj automobIles, WIth
the United States "econd m rank. StatIstics compiled from the
offiCIal publicatIOn of the countne<; named show that the exports of vehIcles of thl<; cla"s m the latest yea r for whIch detaIls
are at hand were
from l'rance,
in 1908, $25,5(;9,000; the
L'mted States, in the calendar }eal 1909, $8,6GI,397, the Umted
Kmgdom,
in 1909, $7,610,2fi7, Italy, m 1908, 15,533,000, and
Germany, 111 1908, $,1,031,000
Cost of Living.
From "Good FIxtures,"
publibhe~1 by the Seng company,
ChlCago-"When
the farmer gets enough for hIS produce to
enable hIm to mdulge in some of the luxunes of modern Ii\mg, when wage-earners
and salaried people get paId enough,
so that they can afford to eat the farm products
wlthont
stintmg themselves,
and to mdulge m some of the luxuries
of modern Irving-buying
good furnIture,
for example, when
the masters
of finance capItalize
theIr propertIes
at two or
three tIme<; theIr real value, and force dIVIdends on the mflated valuations
by ehmmatmg
the competitIve
element,
and when general business
has to support
this scheme of
thmg<;-then
we have a government
commission
to "investIgate" the hIgh co"t of hvmg and we have to II"ten to the
explanation<; of a lot of speCIal pleaders who are chiefly concerned in mamtaming
theIr own position at the apex of the
indu<;trial pyramid.
JIm HIlI of the Great ~01thern
call<; it rightly enough,
the "co<;t of l11gh hving" and advI<.,e" frugalIty-on
the part
of "the people," mmd you
BIll Brown of the VanderbIlt
system echoes that sentIment and would have the farmer produce more, so that the
prIce of food would be les<;, <;0 that labor could exist without
increased wages, presumably
~othing
much was <;aid about the cost of hvmg until
the farmer began to prosper and capltahze
hIS business and
people WIth fixed mcomcs began to clamor for more of the
proceeds
of theIr labor m order that they might mamtam
theil accustomed
scale of hVIng
~ ot an unreasonable
ambition conSIderIng
the prospenty
of the country
General
Busmess
wants
the farmers
to prosper,
and
workIngmen
of all degrees to have steady Jobs at good wages
They are the spenders
And there IS enough prosperity
for
all 1£ it is equitably
dlstnbuted
Possibly high finance will have to get along with-a
reduced percentage
of profit-with
less "graft," not to Ibe the
har"her word
In thi<; great country and 111 thl<; day and age, StraIght
BusIne<;<; and "ll1gh hving" are not IncompatIble
\'Ve can all h\ e If we all hve nght
The accent IS on the
all, Mr Aldnch
Drying Hemlock.
Here IS an InterestIng testlmomal regardIng the drYIng of
hemlock.
It's worth reaelmg, as hemlock IS one of the most
cltfficult woodb to elry:
Amher<;t, Nova ScotIa, Nov 2, 1908.
Granel RapIds Veneer Works,
Granel Rapids, MICh
Dear SIr .-In
further reference
to the hemlock lumber
that we kIln dried in our kIlns
The hemlock was I" thIck
and green when we got It, and then was stuck on sticks in
our yard for about three months, and put In our kIln for 48
hours, comIng out a" mce and dryas could be WIshed for. The
stock was mce and straIght and none of It showed any checks
In the dryIng
We never were able to kIln dry hemlock in
any of our old style kilm.
Gum-wood IS another wood that
we always have trouble WIth to kIln dry, but WIth your new
process we can take gum-wood out of the kIln In 120 hours
and every boarJ straight and true and WIthout an) checking
Vve might also say that the kilns SInce bell1g fitted up with
your process are giving us entIre sah<;faction
They have fulfilled every repre<;entation made by you.
We dry all kmels of lumber and thicknes<; up to 3" and
we have no trouble now WIth the "tock checkmg or ''<arpmg,
thus makmg a savmg m lumber as well as the tIme In clJymg
Yours truly,
RHODES,
CURRY & CO, LImIted,
C L Suess man, Secy
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We can help you.
Time
saved and when done
leaves are bound (by yourself) and mdexed by Roors
or departments.
BARLOW BROS .•
Grand Rapid •• Mich.
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Retail Furniture
Minnesota
Dealers' Association
OFFICERS-PreSIdent,
J R. Taylor, Lake Benton Mtnn, Vice President, D R Thompson, Rockford, Mmn ,
Treasurer, B A Schoeneberger, Perham, Mlnn , Secretary, W L Grapp, Janesville Mlnn
EXECUTIVE
COMMITTEE-ChaIrman
Geo Kletn, Mankato Mmn
a SImons, Glencoe, Mmn, W. L
HarrIs \1mneapohs, Mmn C Daluelson, Cannon Falls.
BULLETIN
No.
105.
J he "llltc"
(,rdel eel dt com cntlOn \\ 111 be 1 eaJ) for dehvery 111 a
da\"
\\ e hdd thl" "urte made e"peclall)
f01 OUI purpo:oe:o
One
hunch ed at thcm al e made up for u:oe and V\ e want every membcr to
put thl" ~ulte on the flOO1 :00 a:o to protect
themselves
aga111"t thl"
p11d"e of l Ol11petltlon
Thl:o :OUIte IS ..,oLl by l\Iontgomery
W drd fOI
SlO<);
1\\ the tlme \OU pal the heIght, a httle o;;ettll1g-up and a httle
tor dell\ el111g, \ ou \\ III "trll be able to meet the hardest
proP0:Oltlon
iu\
that the assocatlOn has to deal wIth and "tIll make d "modI pl0fit
So
do your ~hare and help us make good 1y\ U,,111g up the llumbel
ot
suites that are llOW com111g thru f01 us
1'h1'->"lute wIll be turllbheel
to our members for $1885
ThIS 1" a httle more than vve \\ ere furnlo;;h111gthem for as glass and lumber hay each ancerJ 111 co"t
Do not lay
thb bulletm aSIde, thmk111g yOU \\ III order "ome a httle later but "end
us your order now so that we can "hO\\ thIS factorv that our bUS111ess
is worrth \\ hIle
Send all orders to the secretary,
JanesvIlle,
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AN ADVERSE
VIEW OF CO-OPERATION
A Paper Read at the Annual Convention
.in Minneapolis February 7 and 8.
Held
Mr PresIdent and Brother r'urmture Dealers
We have
assembled here from all parts of thl" grand state of ours for
the purpose I may say of touchmg elbow"" exchangmg vIews
anJ dlscus"mg the vanous methods, and to try If pos",ible
to Improve our conJltlOn as retaIl furnIture dealers
Now,
m the first place, I wIsh to say that as I am only a country
dealer, the same no doubt as a great many of you who are
here today, I shall confine my remarks to you who are furl1lture dealers m the ",maller towns
As I am not a pubhc
speaker and have not the faculty of expressmg my thoughts
m an oratoncal
manner, I have Jotted down a few Ideas
as they occur to me m regard to thIs co-operatIve
buying
plan
I do not wbh to go on record as bell1g a kIcker or a
knocker, but I wIsh to sImply state before thIS conventIOn
my VIews on thIS questIOn a3 It OCCUI"to me from a general
busmess
stand pomt
As there are always two sides to
every que"tlOn to be con"ldered,
I deem It adVIsable to
thoroughly study and weIgh both "Ides and look for a place
to hght before we Jump too far
In the fir",t place, as I
understand
It, we are attempting
to fight the catalog house
eVIl by combmmg or rather co-operatmg
m the matter of
buymg.
\Ve employ a set of them, or a commIttee as we
term them, to go down south m some other state to negotIate for and buy m carload lots a lot of the cheapest, trashIest
goods that can be found on the market-good"
that are made
of cheap matenal
and by cheap, unskIlled Idbor
They are
;,hlpped to our state and dlstllbuted among the vanou.;; dealers
to be palmed off onto our customers and fnend".
Why do
we do thIs? SImply to try to impress upon the mmds of our
customers, who are our best fnends, that we can sell goods
as cheap a3 the catalog houses
;\Jaw, gentlemen, I want to
ask you, a" a body of intelhgent
busmess men, IS It nght
that we should tIy to educate our customer" to buy cheap
artIcles Just because It IS made cheap and I" not worth
the money that they pay for It" Should we not rather try
to educate the trade to buy good" that wIll not only gIve
them value receIved but WIll ;,atbfy and please them
I am
"ure that I would rather have one satIsfied customer than a
dozen who are dIssatIsfied wIth the goods that I sold them
Gentlemen, I want to aJmlt that I am opposed to this
present plan of co-operatIve Imymg for vanous rea;,ons, a few
of whICh I WIll state for the purpose of your consIderatIOn
In the first place It IS assumed that we are all domg busmess
wIth the de",lre of makmg a legItImate profit on our good3
Now our success depends entIrely I mIght sayan our ablhty
to command the trade In our re~pectlve commumtles,
and 111
order to accomplIsh thIS enel we must put forth every effort
to please and to command the respect of the people upon
whom our busmess Jepends
In order to do thIS It appear3
to me that we should at all tIme", sell them a good <;ubstantIal class of goods, m the second place we should endeavor
to persuade or educate the people, espeCIally those hvmg m
the farmmg commumtIe""
to buy a better class of goods,
where there IS a better profit for the dealer and satIsfactIOn
for the purchaser-goods
that we can recommend and stand
back of and make goo;} on-good",
that have the guarantee
of the factory behmd them
The largest portlOn of my
patrons al e farmers wh.o as a cla.;;s are the greatest catalog
house buyers.
I have been workmg along the hnes suggested and find that It IS bnngmg good results
Our farmers today are prosperous
and theIr surroundmgs
demand a
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better class of goods, and we have only to get him into our
store and show hIm the latest, most up-ta-date
;,tyles to
mduce hIm to buy a pIece or two
Once they buy a pIece of
good stuff they wIll return for more to match It, and will
keep on coming untIl they have theIr homes cosIly furnIshed.
Of course we stIll have a few of the ",a-called catalog house
fiends m every commumty,
but that c1as", as a rule are not
a deSIrable clas" of customers
to deal with
As a general
thmg we finJ that theIr credIt is not any too good and they
are always lookmg for bargams, and If you don't throw off
the profit on the goods they want thev WIll not take them,
unless you sell them on tIme.
Now, the most Important reason why I am opposed to
the co-openatIve buymg plan 1.0 thIS
I am heartIly opp.)sed
to boycottmg
our home mdustnes
Weare
CItIzens of the
best state m the unIOn and should be proud of our home
mdustnes and help 111 every way 111 our power to encourage
and buIld up and mamtam them, and never seek to cnpple
or destroy them
I w1.oh to ;,ay nght here that our home
manufacturer",
are Our be'lt friends and we should go hand
m hanJ wIth them
I have always found them ready and
wl1l1l1g to lend me a helpmg hand and why should I go back
on them?
Weare
today hvmg m the grandest
and most
prosperous ;,tate 111 the umon and I am proud of It \lYe have
"ome of the most up-to-date factones m the world m our own
state and m our own CItIes that are capable of manufactunng
all of the good", that we need and If we all patrol1lzed them
as we should they no doubt could furnIsh us our good.,
cheaper than they Jo now
TheIr busmes'l IS conducted
along the "ame 11l1es as ours, they have got to have the
patronage that belongs to them 111 order to make theIr bUSIness pay.
Now, gentlemen, I am at a los., to see why I should buy
my goods a thousand mIles from home when we can buy
better goods nght here at home for the same money that It
costs us to lay those southern goods down 111 our stores
Another rea"on why I am not 111 favor of thIS co-operatIve buymg busmes, 1.0 thIS, I do not thmk It adVIsable to
tax thIS as;,oCIatIOn or It;, members for the purpose of defl aYl11g the expenses of thIS buymg commIttee or for rnamtaml11g a d1;,play room
I prefer to do my own bUYl11g and
when I find that I am not capable of so dOl11g I shall quit
the busl11ess I have tned both plan" and I find that the old
way SUlts me be"t
\;\Ie talk about the catalogue house evIl
Are we not dOl11g our country a greater harm by not patromzmg our home factones
than the catalogue
house;, are
dOIng? I am heartIly m favor of co-operatlOn but we should
co-operate WIth our own manufacturers
who are domg more
toward the up-buIldmg
of the country and cIty than any
other class of people m our gland state
Furthermore,
I do not thmk It a credIt to our association
at large to be advocatmg
and advertbmg
this co-operative
buymg plan m our trade papers under the head of the Minne"ota RetaIl Furniture
Dealers' associatIOn.
If there are
those who WIsh to co-operate for the purpose of buymg a
lot of that cheap T ohn stuff they should co-operate under a
dIfferent name.
The object of our aSSOCIatIOn, as I understand
it, is for
the purpose of meetll1g together once or twice a year to get
acquall1ted, talk shop and to obtall1 from one another all
the knowledge,
lllformatlOn and pOlllters we can get as to
the best methods of handllllg the busmess at a profit, and
for the upbUlldll1g and protectIOn of the busmess in which
we are engaged, and not for the purpose of retardmg
the
progress of the commu11lty m whIch we llve but rather to
use our influence for Its upbul1dmg.
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Discussion.
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A 0 Moen-"I
am no speaker but I have listened
to the paper read by Mr French WIth a great deal of interest
I can not help but feel that Mr. French has not stopped
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inform himself as to the eXlstmg condltlOns m connectlOn
with the bUYlllg comlttee because he has made statements
which I, as treasurer,
know are not true
As your trea'iurer.
I have never paid out one cent of expen'ie caused b) the bu)1I1g committee
I also take exception
to the reterence
he
makes to buying
trash
"It Ishould not take much of a fur11lture man to "ee a" he
goe:> over these samples that the maJonty of the lllles represented here are standard
hnes such as tho'ie made 111 Rockford, Grand Rapids and III fact, some of the be"t lllle" 111 the
market
As to the members
not bemg 10) al to our home
manufacturer'i,
wlll say that I happen
to kno"
that OUI
buymg committee
has tned and tned to get \\ hat the) need
m this market but have always found that the' could not get
1t Now that we are gettlllg v,hat "e neerl to meet a pha"e
of compehtlOn which I'> not at all of om l11aklll~. \\ e are "omctimes accused of gettmg plunder
I \\oulJ hke to a"k \Ir
French where he can buy that smte over there m the mall
order corner, made a" good and fi11lshed as good as that h,
for what the assoclatlOn l'i furmshmg
It
So I could go on
but I feel that the sample'i here wlll 'ipeak for thenheh e"
I would hke to hear some one el"e e"pl es" an 0p11110n along
DO
these
lines'
Da11lelson of Gannon
Falls, "\fmn _li\\ e tllerl to
make terms with our home manufacturer"
time dl1(1 tIme
again I have been on the floor e, er "mce can, entlOn opened
and I find that our fnend .:\1r French ha:" )U"t come
l'rom
the tone of hiS paper, I am afraid that he ha" not taken tIme
to see the hnes repl esented here or he "ould not call the"e
sample& plunder of cheap goods
I \\Pould hke tu hdve the
pleasure
of showmg
1\1r French
the vanou.., line" repl esented upon thiS floor
"In regard to the eApenses of the buy mg commIttee. \\ III
say that I have been one of them and hay e been gl\ mg m)
services Without any pay beSIdes standlllg m) ov, n eApen,e"
but I do not know whether I am gomg to do It am more It
this IS the thanb
we are gettmg ,.
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ANTIQUES
FOR THE CHILDREN
Great Demand for Miniature Furniture Made by
a Pair of Veteran Toy Makers.
Of the numerous toymakers who once" orked m lImghanl,
"Ma% , only two-George
\V Feanng, aged 72, and Lonng .:\1
Cushmg, aged 70-are
still engaged 111 the busmess
.:\111 } earmg ha'i been thus employed
for about 25 year", dnd "\11
Cushmg's
record IS not far behmd
Long ago an endles~
vanety of toys was produced, SdyS the 13o~ton Globe. but dunng
recent years both these makers have confined themseh e:" largely to the constructIOn of hand-made dntlque to) furmture
A minature
old-tnne
bucket. for whIch Hmgham
"a"
famou'i, IS fa'ihlOned "tlll to some extent by l\1r Feanng,
tal
It IS very
populaJr
With
the
chlldren
Mr.
Feanng
was
an expert
bucketmaker
and
follo,,", ed thiS v, ark
for thirty years.
In fact, It was while employed at \VIlder's
bucket shop that he first began to try hiS hand at toy bmldmg
dunng hiS spare moments.
.:\1r Cushmg 'vas also a bucketmaker and the two men were often employ ed at the same
bench.
"In those days," said Mr Feanng, "It seemed a~ If every
other house was a bucket shop, but as 111 the case of other 111dustnes, ""'hen machllles came III to use and the bucket.., could
be made more quickly and cheaply b) them, hand"ork
was
dnven out.
Mr Fearmg owns sevel al sets of the old tools
which cannot now be duphcated.
ARTISAN
Mr Feanng and Mr Cushmg are members of the Hmgham !\rts and Crafts sOCIety Their work IS always on exhibitIOn and throughout
the summer months I" the center of an
admmng
throng
of out-of-town
'Isltor..,
Very frequently
stranger" go to the homes of the two toy makers, where each
has hiS workloom
Little c1111dren are among their most enthusiastiC admirers,
anJ ,ery often the "ame httle 'Isltors
Will seek them out yeal
dfter yeal
The demand for the toy furlllture
IS far greater
than
eIther Cdll ..,upph
Each man works entlrely without assistance,
and e\ en to) plOduced IS noted for the unvalying
accuracy as
to detenl of constluctlOn
.:\11 Cushmg.., furmture
i.., alway" made m imitation of
mahogan),
"hde \tr ] eal1l1g ..,ometlmes Lhe" the Flemish oak,
chern
and other "tams, althongh hiS fourpost bedsteads, bureau". lowboy sand
desb al e of the mahogany type
The tiny
desks are copied elfter pattern.., m me from the middle of the
seventeenth centnry.
The bureaus With their quamt brass handles are always
fa, antes" Ith the children, and are modeled after vanous styles
One IS a very fine speclman of the furmtllle m the heavy style
fd..,hlOnable dw 1l1£; the fir..,t qndrtel of the mneteenth century.
If there h an) mtncate carV1l1g on the old-time furniture
med d~ models It I" duplicated In Its mmutest cletall by these
two clever to) makers
The settle I" always of mterest, as lt
was the fir"t form of the long sedt "hlch IS found m the earhest
1l1ventone" m thiS country, and still earher m England
It I'> "aId that the ..,ettle ofteneslt "een m Amenca
is of
"Imple comtructlOn, usually of pme and pamtecl
It was made
to stand by the great fireplace to keep the drafts out and the
hea t m "I th ItS tall back
In keepmg ,\ Ith hiS settles, Mr. Feanng also makes wandel tull) constructed
fireplace, With pot, cane and andirons
Each tmy bnck I.., cut out With a kmfe.
There are mahogany tables of vanous patterns, mcluding
a tea table of l'no and a Dutch "tand of the same period.
DUrIll£; the elghteellth centnry tables were a coman article
of turmture "Ith top" of square, oval and round and feet of the
cLm -elml-ball type
(hllthen
dre always dehghted with the cradles of 1687,
\\ Ith open top, which these toymakers produce to fit the tiniest
doll, 01 the v can be had measunng sixteen inches on the inside
The chairs are numerou" and begm With the duphcates of
the old Gov Carver chair, the Wmdsor and the Dutch, followed by the Ch1ppenddle, Hepplewhite
and Sheraton
styles.
The GovernOl Can er chalf IS ten mche" high whl1e others
measure nIne mche'i
One piece of furmture which a cl111d invanably insists on
hav1I1g once she sees It 1S a beautifully constructed mahogany
grandfather s clock. \\ hlch IS conSidered one of Mr Fearing's
best e'(amples
It stands twelve inches high and is patterned
after a clock of 1770.
Furniture Fires.
Otto Hll'lt's furmture
store at Mamto, Ill, was burneJ
on March 29
Lo'iS $5,500, msurance,
$2,800
Geiger Bras furniture
store at Ashley, Ill, wa'i burned
on March 30 vvlvh a loss of $3,500, partially insured.
The Bra" n FUlnltUle company of Syracuse, NY,
lost
$-!-,OOO or $5,000 by fire 111 their warehouse.
Fully lllsureJ
A Bradfield, furniture
dealer and undertaker
of Mecca,
Tnd, was burned out recently
Loss $1,500; lllsurance
$1,-
000
The furniture
and undertakmg
estabhshment
of B F.
Burke at Carnegie,
Okla. was destroyed
by fire on March
9 X a lllsurance
MISCELLANEOUS NOTES AND NEWS
Phlltp
Auger
of Grreenfield,
Mass,
has patented
a motor
chaIr
A B Zybell has purchased
the Ivesdale furniture
store,
m BloomIngton,
Ill.
Reuben S Stone of Gardner, Mass, has secured a patent on a convertible
go-cart
Graham B Elltott of Barton, Vt, has been granted
a
patent on a bed spnng fastener.
George Herrmann,
the pIOneer furniture dealer of Helena,
~lont , died on March 28, aged 78 years
A E Roach has succeeded E N. Allen in the furnIture
and harclwale busmess at Arapahoe,
Neb
The :Yletallic Ftll nIture company of Corry, Pa, ha\ e incorporated
With capital stock fixed at $50,000.
Alclblade A Braduer of \Vorcester,
Mass, has been granted a patent on a fan attachment
for racklllg chairs
The Perfection
Mattress
company of Blrm1l1gham, Ala,
ha\ e 1l1corporated WIth capital stock limited to $25,000
The McGIllt3 FurnIture
company,
dealers
of Ogdensburg, NY,
has been incorporated
Capital stock $12,000
Tucker & Sanborn,
furl11ture dealers of San FrancIsco,
Cal, have moved ft om their old location to 366 D street
Cosgrove
& Stough, furl11ture dealers and undertakers
of Grand Junction,
Col, are succeeded
by W. P. Stough
The Wickes
Refngerator
company.
manufacturers
of
Elkhart,
I nd, have 1l1corporated with $50,000 capital stock
B F. Naylor of Marshall,
Mo, has sold 111S stock of
furl11ture and discontinued
that part of 111Sgeneral mercantile business.
The Hub Furniture
company of Fort vVorth, Tex, are
rebuild1l1g the part of their plant that was destroyed
by fire
on March 15.
The ninth annual convention
of the National
AssociatIOn of Plano Dealels, Will be held in Richmond,
Va., May
16, 17 and 18
The house furnIshing
firm of Rud1l1 & Warren,
Springfield, ::\lass, has ben dissolved, l\1r Ruchn retmng
to engage
111 other bus1l1ess.
The Paul E Wolf Bedding company,
manufacturers
of
Fort Wayne,
Ind, have incorporated
their hus1l1ess.
Capital stock, $25,000
Robert Brown of Somerville,
Mass,
for many yean a
well known manufacturer
and dealer 111 antique furniture
IS
dead, aged 79 years
W S Seaman, sel110r member of the firm of Seaman &
Co, furnIture
manufacturers
of MIlwaukee,
vVis, died on
Apnl 1, aged 60 years
Carney J N esbl tt of the firm of Nesbitt
& Stopper,
furnIture
dealers and undertakers
of Oshkosh, Wis, died on
March 30, aged 54 years
W Buschman
& Co, one of the oldest furnIture firm3 in
Cleveland,
0, have just moved into new quarters
at East
Ninth street on the Huron road
The Galtfornia Furniture
company of Los Angele." have
taken possession
of a large btllldlllg erected for the accommodatIOn of their furmture
bus1l1ess
The Glo be- Wernicke
com pan yare
building a two-story
addition,
75 x 250 feet, to the central W1l1g of their factory
at Norwood, a suburb of CInc1l1nati
J ame.:; H QUInn ,furnIture
dealer
::\1ass, has moved from Crafts avenue,
Dewey block on lower MaIn street
of ~ orthhampton,
to a store in the
Newberry
Bros & Cowell who shut down their furniture
factory at Charlotte,
N. c., about a year ago have resumed
operations,
making
a lme of medIUm pnced
dinmg room
fllI11ltllre
Fred A \/Vright, furniture
manufacturer
and dealer of
157 Fulton street, Boston, has filed a voluntary
petitIOn In
bankruptcy.
LiabIltties,
$13,000, assets, $3,300
N Schoen & Son, wholesale and retaIl furnIture
dealers
at OrtonvIlle,
Mmn, have incorporated
under the name of
the N Sohoen & Son company
CapItal stock, $100,000.
::\1 Kroos & Son have succeeded
A W. Ramm in the
furnIture and undertakmg
busmess at Sheboygan,
WIS
Mr.
Ramm WIll engage in the undertaking
business m Milwaukee.
Ash & Lynch who recently
purchased
the stock and
good wIll of Wheeldon
& \VIlltams, furniture
and hardware
clealers of Auburn,
Neb, have sold the busmess
to M J
Shafer.
The Schilllllg Mercantile
company of ~ew Orleans, La,
are in financial dIfficulty
Their stock has been seized on
wnts of attachment
by five furniture
manufacturing
compal11es of EvansvIlle,
Ind, who are among the largest creditors
The George B Lupfer
company
of Columbus,
Ohio,
manufacturers
of beds, bed springs and mattresses,
have relllcorporated
With capital stock increased to $100,000
George
B. Lupfer, RIley H. Beam, Mabel M Carpenter,
H. C. and
Charles J Sherman
are the stockholders.
A. L. Miller of the Red Star Furniture
store, Goshen,
Ind, has purchased
the F A Osborn interest In the Farmers HardWiare company "WIth C S Stutsman.
C S Stutsman also becomes Interested
in the Red Star Furniture
company and the stores may be consolidated
later.
The entire stock, fixtures, accounts and good will of the
Wachenheim
& Mengel'
Furnllture
company
"way down"
WashIngton
3treet, Vicksburg,
Mis3, has been sold to W. O.
Menger
Mr. Menger
has owned the business
smce 1902,
but for reasons of his own did not change the name until
A.pnl 2, 1910
New Furniture Dealers.
J
F. Tournat
has opened a new furniture
store at Red
Lake Falls, Minn.
Lowry & Whitfield
is the name of a new furniture
firm
at Big Timber, Mont.
Levy, House & Hurton,
incorporated
with $10,000 111
capital stock, are new furnIture
dealers in Oklahoma
City
The Massey Hill Furniture
company,
limited, are new
dealers at Holt-Morgan
N C, J. A Bynum and L. M Culhnth are the propnet1ors
The Daniels Furniture
company, a Delaware corporation
capitalized
at $100,000 Will engage in the wholesale
and retail furniture
business In Brooklyn,
N. Y.
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DESIGNS AND DETAILS
OF FURNITURE
154 Livmgston St.
GRAND RAPIDS,
MICHIGAN
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Miscellaneous
Advertisements.
WANTED.
Furniture men to learn furniture desigmng, rod makmg and
stock billing by mall. Our course of instruction IS just the
thing for superintendents,
foremen and factory men who
wish to increase theIr knowledge and salary. Grand Rapids
School of Designing, Dept. L., Grand Rapids, Mich. Arthur
Kirkpatrick, Instructor and DesIgner.
4-9 e.o.w. tf
WANTED.
Position as commercial photographer of furniture by a practical, competent man. Ten years' experience.
Best of reference. Address J. H. Packer, care Times Union, Jacksonville,
Fla.
1-22tf
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after the deal has
existing
contracts
There i" no '3uch thmg as the bi~gest
the fact that most of uS want it.
half,
In spite
of
Index to Advertisements
SITUATION WANTED.
A first class chair and furniture factory superintendent wants
position with good concern. Over 15 years in last posItion.
Under 40. HIgh class executive. Understands cost systems,
piece work and can produce results.
Best reference.
Address XX, care Weekly Artisan.
4-9 4-16
FOR SALE, AT A BARGAIN
A plant equipped for the manufacture of case goods. Located
m prosperous city of central WIsconsin.
For particulars address Wisconsin, care Weekly Artisan, Grand Rapids, MIch.
4-2 4-9
latter's obligatIOns in full within 30 days
been legally effected, and al"o to adjust
for matenal
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New York Markets
New York, Aplll 8-LInseed
011 IS now "elhng at figures
higher than at any time SInce 1868
It ha" ad\ anced t\\ 0
cents per gallon during the past week
Toda)'"
quotatIons
are baseJ on 81 @ 82 for western law and run up to 8j cents
for double boded In les" than fi\ e barrel lots
TurpentIne
is quiet and :,teddy at pnce" olIghtly 10\\er
than a week ago
The demand IS I emarkabh
lIght for the
sprIng season
Today's
quotatIOIb are 62 @ 620 here and
59 @ 590 at Savannah
Shellac IS not mOVIng In round lots, though there b a
fair demand for JobbIng parcels
QuotatIOns
dl e steaJy at
these figures
DC,
22 @ 23 cents, DIamond I, 20 @ 21,
fine orange, 19 @ 20, lbleached, fre'3h, 160 @ 17 kIln drIed,
21 @ 22
Manufacturers
are buymg \ ar11lsh gums qUIte treel) and
the market
"ho\\;s more actIVIty than for "e\ el al montl15
KaUrI, pale, I:' quoted at 40 @ 75 cents, Ko 1, -1-1@ 48, \0
2, 20 @ 25, Manda, pale, 1-1-@ 18 ambel
13 @ IS, ,ldrk,
hard, 12 @ 14
An implOved <iemand I" noted m the goat .,kIn trade hut
liberal receIpt"
ha\ e pre\ ented an) betterment
m pI Ice"
M eXlCan frontiers
al e seIlIng at 33 @ 34 cents. Haytlans"
40 @ 41; Paytas,
42 @ 43; Monterey,
Tamplcos,
etc, 44
@ 45, San LUl", ZacatIca", etc ,45 @ 46, Vera CnI?, 48 @ 50
Burlaps are stIlI weak and quotatIOns are beIng ohaded
more than usual
The current figures are 3 2j @ 3 30 for
eight-ounce
and 420 @ 425 for 100-ounce
Calcutta good"
The lumber bUSIness lacks the actiVIty that usually prevails dunng the sprIng months
AdvIces from western and
southern
pomt'3 are to the effeat that the cut of hardwoods
for the current season wIll be larger than last year
Nearly
all mIlls were idle
However, there IS a .,carcIty of dr) stock
at many pomts and there IS no expectation
of lower prices at
present
Consolidation at Jamestown.
AdvIces from J amesiown,
NY,
state that arrangement,.,
are being made whereby
the Atlas Furniture
company
\\111
take over all of the property
and franchIses
of the LIberty
Fur11lture company
The Atlas company have made a propOSItIOn to credItors
of the Ljberty
company
to settle the
\dams & EltIng Company...
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4
Alaska Refngerator
Company
. .
5
Amencan
Blower Company
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26
Barlo\\; Bros
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27
Barne". \J\T F & John, Company
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Barton, H H & Son, Company.
5
BIg SIX Car Loadmg A"soclatlOn
14-15
110cbtege
Fur11ltnre Company.
14
DO'3"e FurnIture
Company
14
Bovnton & Co
1
Bu'3" \fachme
\\ ork"
... ' ·Cover
Cre.,cent ~Iach111e \\ ork.,
25
Dahm & KIefer Tdnnmg Company
7
Dodel-,. ~Iexander
Company
10
Edg e. Frank & Co
1
I ellwock Auto and Manufactunng
Company
10
27
Franch,
Charle" E, Company
Fur11lture CommerCIal Agenc)
Company
21
(Tlobe FUr11ltUl e Company.
14
18
Grand RapIds Bras" Company
CTrand RapId'3 Electlotype
Company
25
Grand RapIds Blow PIpe ancl Dmt Arre'3ter Company
Cover
17
Grand RapId" \ eneer \\ orks
31
Hahn, LOlliS
HIlI", Clarence R
20
Hoffman BIO" Company
19
Holcomb, !\ L & Co
25
Karge" lur11lture
Company
14
Kauffman \fanutacturIng
Company
13
KImball Bro'3 Company
7
Lentz Table Company
6
Luce FurnIture
Company
2
Luce-Reelmond
ChaIr Company
2
24
Lvon IUr11ltlll e Agency
14
\1 etal FurnIture
Company
\1Jchlgan
EngI a\ 1l1g Company
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\1Iscellaneous
32
Palmer, A f: & Son:,
7
PItcaIrn Varl11"h Company
6
Rowe, E P Carvmg \V ork'3
19
SchmIt, IIem) & Co
21
Sheldon, E H & Co.
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18
ShImer, Samuel J & Sons
13
Shgh Fur11lture Company
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SmIth & DaVIS Manufactunng
Company
9
Spratt, George & Company
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11
Star Caster Cup Company
.
19
U11lon FurnIture
Company (Rockforel)
13
vVaddell Manufactunng
Company.
8
\Valter, B & CO
4
\\T alter Clark Veneer (ompany
12
\\ arel, 0 \
9
\\ hIte Pnntmg
Company
1
23
\\ ooel, ~Iorn" & Sons ..
\\ orlel FurnIture
Company.
14
19
\iVeatherly
Company
20-22
vVysong & ~IIles Company.
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WHY
THEY
PAY THE
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MAKER
He can save a manufacturer s profit as well as a dealer s profit.
He can make more money WIth less capItal Invested
He can hold a better and more satIslactory
trade WIth hIs
customers
He can manufacture 111 as good style and finIsh and at as low
cost as the factones
The loc"l cahlllet maker has been forced mto only the dealer's
trade and profit, because of machIne manufactured goods of factones
An outfit of Barnes Patent Foot and Hand Power Machmery,
remstates the cabmet maker WIth adv"nta2'es equal to hIs competItors
If desIred, these machwes wIll be sold on t"tal
The purcha,er
can have ample tIme to test them m hI< own shop and on the work he
WIshes them to do J),scnpf,v# cataloqu, and p"ta hst f1 "
No 4 SAW (read,
for cross cuttmg)
W. f. &. JOHN BARNES CO, 654 Ruby St .. Rockford,
III.
No 4 SAW (ready for nppmcl
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No :l SCROLL SAW
FORMER
OR \1:0ULDER
HAND TENONER
Nill 7 SCROLL
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SAW
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GRAND RAPU)
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PU1JA-4A
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Qrdn~Dd~MsDlow Pi~e
dn~Dust Arrester (om~dn~
THE
LATEST
device for handhng
shavings and dust from all woodworking machines. Our nineteen years
experience in this class of work has
brought it nearer perfection than any
other system on the market today.
It
is no experiment, but a demonstrated
scientific fact) as we have several hundred of these systems in use) and not a
poor one among them. Our Automatic
Furnace Feed System) as shown in this
cut) is the most perfect working device
of anything in this line. Write for our
prices for equipments.
WE MAKE PLANS AND DO ALL
DET AIL WORK WITHOUT EXPENSE TO OUR CUSTOMERS.
EXHAUST
FANS
SURE
BLOWERS
STOCK.
AND
PRESALWAYS
IN
Office and Factory:
206-210
Canal Street
GRAND RAPIDS. MICH.
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Phon. 1212
&ell. Main 1804
OUR AUTOMATIC FURNACE FEED SYSTEM
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