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GRAND RAPIDS, MICH., NOVEMBER 19. 1910
SLIGH FURNITURE COMPANY
The Largest Manufacturersof CHAMBER FURNITURE
EXCLUSIVELY IN THE WORLD
Catalogue to Prospective Customers.
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
DINING FURNITURE THAT IS "RIGHT"
IN DESIGN, CONSTRUCTION, FINISH AND PRICE HAS
BEEN ONE OF THE STRONG FEATURES OF THE
"EFF and EFF" LINE
for a Long Time.
This
Beautiful
Suite
is a money maker.
W rite for price.
ROCKFORD
FRAME and
FIXTURE
COMPANY
ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS
SQUARE POST STEEL BEDS
We manufacture a very
complete line
of Metal Beds
and Cribs, all
steel springs,
woven wIre
mattresses,
Metal Couches
and Davenports, Cots
and Hospital
Furniture.
Order this Bed
in Vernis Martin Satin Brass
Finish (Color
19). No extra
charge.
You will be
convinced of
its selling
qualities.
Stock Color-White.
Vernis Martin to order.
PILLARS and
FILLING
SQUARE TUBING
Buy beds
equipped with
the Standard
Rev. Rail.
They are
strong and
prevent the
bed from
wabbling.
PIllars 2 m. Top and
Boltom Tubes I Y2 m
FIllmg I m Head 60
In
Foot 40 In SIzes,
3 ft 6 In and 4 ft. 6
m.
Shlppmg weight
154 lbs.
Iron beds
wIll be shIpped m
whIte unl .. s otherwIse
ordeled.
Price $15
SEND US YOUR
ORDERS.
No. 984.
If our No. 35 Catalogue has
not been received notify us.
are very popular and should be ready
sellers durinlr the Holiday Trade.
SMITH
&
BRASS CAPS.
DAVIS MFG. CO., S1. Louis, Mo.
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Beautiful Bird's Eye Maple
JUST THE THING TO DELIGHT
THE LADIES AT CHRISTMAS!
There is nothing quite so dainty-so
ing for Christmas,
Light,
feminine-so
charm-
as a Bird's Eye Maple Dressing Table.
airy and cheerful,
it goes to the hearts of the
ladies, and it is the ONLY LIGHT-COLORED
FURNITURE THAT IS ALSO HIGHLY
ARTISTIC.
The NORTHERN
has made Maple a leading line ever
since starting in business.
We
are in the heart of the Maple
country, where the finest Maple in the world grows, and
with our standard lines, using
Maple as a base, we are able to
pick ONLY THE CHOICEST PIECES for N at u r a I
Map I e finishes.
Therefore,
when you buy Natural
No. 1152 Dresser.
Made in Oak, Mahogany and Bird',·eye Maple.
Bird's
Eye Maple from the NORTHERN, you are sure of the
creme de la creme-the
finest In the country.
But you must have artistic shapes too-the airy beauty of Bird's
Eye Maple is completely lost if it is not made up in beautiful designs.
No. 1191 Dressing Table.
Made in Oak. MahoKany ""d Bird',
Eye Maple.
We also give you moderate prices.
That is what will sell with
you-beautiful
wood, designs and workmanship, at moderate prices, coupled with PROMPT
DELIVER Y (and that means everything when you get near Christmas-nobody
beats us at that
part of the game).
Full information given in courteous letters about
anything that interests you. Write us frankly, freely.
Northern Furniture Company
SHEBOYGAN, WISCONSIN
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Manufacturers of COMPLETE lines of MEDIUM PRICED DINING
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Catalogues to Dealers Only.
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Luce-Redmond Chair Co.,Ltd.
BIG RAPIDS,
MICH.
High Grade Office Chairs
Dining Chairs
Odd Rockers and Chairs
Desk and Dresser Chairs
Slipper Rockers
Colonial Parlor Suites
In
Dark and Tuna Mahogany
Bmf J Ey Maple
Btrch
~uartered Oak
and
CtrcaJJtan Wamut
Our Exhibit you will find on the
Fourth Floor, East Section, MANUFACTURERS'BUILDING, North Ionia Street
Exhibit in charge of
J.
GRAND RAPIDS, MICI1IGAN
C. HAMILTON, C. E. COHOES,]. EDGAR FOSTER.
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GRAND RAPIDS. MICH.• NOVEMBER 19.1910
Issued Weekly
RATIO OF SALES TO SALESMEN'S WAGES
Many Things Must Be Considered in Determining What Percentage Would Be Fair to
Employers and Employes.
The PaCIfic Coast l\lerchant, 111ItS November number, tackles
an Important sub] ect, the ratIO of sales to salesmen's wages, on
whIch It says.
The questIOn of V\ hat should be the ratIO of the salesman's
salary to hIS qles IS a th111g that pULZles many merchants, and
few there are who have ever been able tD satIsfactorIly answer
It.
It IS a que;,tIOn whIch, as a rule, every merchant hImself
must answer
The CIrcumstances that govern the sell111g abilItIes of clerks 111retaIl stores throughout the country are so varied
that no outSIder should feel hImself competent to 111StruCt a
merchant as tD the relatIve WOIth of the dIfferent clerks in his
employ
Let us enumerate a few of the contingencIes upon
whIch such matters depend'
Some clerks may be, comparatively
speaking, poor salesmen, yet be ver) valuable in other ways, such as keep111g track
of and tak111g care of stock, unpack111g and shelv111g goods, etc
Others clerks may be lazy and Idle at all times whIle not engaged
111vva1t111gon customers, but may be excellent salesmen.
Agd111, whIle some clerks may sell more goods than others,
the clerks whose sales are small in amount may have a trade "of
theIr own," whIch they have bwught to the store and could take
away WIth them If they went elsewhere.
Also there are clerks whose work may have no especial features to apprecIate or deprecIate its value, and yet their invariable
courtesy, attentIOn to bus111ess and general demeanor are such
as to make them of great serVIce 111bUIldmg and keepmg up the
store's general reputatIOn
What outsider can say Just how
much-111 dollars and cents-these
things are worth to the indIVIdual merchant?
N ow, to come to more speCIfic items
These five thmgs
must also be taken mto account:
(a) Your total weekly and
mDnthly busmess, (b) how many clerks you have; (c) whether
they are men or women; (d) what proportIOn of your business
is done m shoes, dry goods, furniture, etc ; (e) your store hours,
etc.
If you have too many clerks, surely you cannot expect each
to sell as much as If you had Just enough to handle the business
that your store generally does
As to the dIfferent lInes of bus mess : Y DU well know that
we need not enter into detail.
Surely there are some functions
in store work whICh m most cases women never perform, and
VIce versa, and the salarIes are adjusted accordmgly
As to the dIfferent 1111esof busL1ess
You well know that
amounts of "ales are altogether chfferent m dIfferent lInes
An
excellent salesman 111notIOns can rarely, If ever, sell as much durmg a month as the same grade of sdlesman stationed m the cloak
and SUIt department,
for example
All over the country there
are merchants who pay clerks all the way from 1 to 10 per cent,
accordmg to the CIrcumstances.
Kow It IS easy to strIke an average and to say'
"Sell111g
expense 5 per cent, ' but that by no means proves that you can,
should, or would pay your clerks on that baSIS.
On Saturday, October 21, last, m an Ill1110is "country" store,
one of the clerks m the cloak and SUIt department
sold $375
worth of goods, and thIS, we are told, happens frequently.
We do not know what salary thIS clerk receIves
Other
clerks 111the store, who worked Just as hard as he chd on that
day, may have sold only half as much-111 amount-as
he dId.
In some other departments
only one-tenth as much
How can
any Dne but the storekeeper hll11self determ111e accurately whIch
salary each of these clerks deserves?
Some merchants find that the average cost to them for sell111ggoods is 5 per cent
Others find It 6 per cent, and others
find It stIll more
One firm m Georgia, which put theIr sellIng
force on commISSIOn, Dffered theIr saleswomen G per cent and
theIr salesmen 7/'i per cent. At the tll11e they had four women
and three men.
The average weekly earmngs of the women
reached $9 to $18 and of the men $10 to $20.
To sum uP'
Each merchant endeavors as far as possible,
tD do Justice to hIS clerks (and to hImself) by basmg their salaries not solely upon the amount Df theIr total sales
As saId,
a clerk's experIence, courteous bearmg, willingness to render
general serVIce, knowledge of stock, acquaintance
WIth customers, stand111g 111SOCIety, etc, are all taken mtD account by fix111gupon his worth to the store that employs hIm.
Last, but by no means least, the cost of IIvmg and the methods of d0111g busmess are so dIfferent 111some places fwm what
they are in others that there IS no rule whIch can be saId to hold
good ul11versally.
We present hereWIth a lIst WhICh was recently made up by
the deputy office manager of a well-known
large department
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$18.50
PER DOZEN
Full Box Seat.
Otd. Oak.
Genuine
Leather Seat.
No. 702
rj/arlol
lfallufactlJrJllR ra,
Grand Rapjds.1'1ich.
store that caters to the popular trade, glVlllg hIS 0plillOn as to
what percentage
of sales should represent the ~alanes of the
salesmen in various lines:
HosIery.
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Women's and Children's Knit Undemear
Men's Furnishlllgs and ShIrt, .
Men's Knit Underwear.
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SIlks and Velvets
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Colored Dress Goods
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Wash Goods and Flannels
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Black Goods .. ..
Laces........
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Ladles' Neckwear . . .. .
Veilings...
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Handkerchiefs.
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Linens and WhIte Goods..
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Linings....
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Notions .... " . . .. '"
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Perfumery
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Stationery
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Embroideries
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RIbbons
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Flowers and Feathers
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Books.....
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Furs
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Trimmed Hats
Untrimmed Hats
Trimmings
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Jewelry
Leather Goods
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Muslin Underwear and UnderskIrts
Corsets
Infants' Wear
Waists
Misses' Suits
Ladies' Suits
Ladies' Cloaks
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Groceries
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Carpets and Mattings
3
Umbrellas
6
Gloves
5
Upholstery
30
Men's and Boys' Clothing and Hats. .
4
Shoes..........
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House Furnishings
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Silverware
6
Toys
30
Wines and Liquors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 3
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Art Goods
6
Blankets and Comfortables. . . . . . . . . ..
4
Trunks .. .. .
7
Sporting Goods
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Wrappers...............
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Furmture and Beddlllg ..
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3
PIctures
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Rugs
3
China and Glassware
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Sewlllg Machines
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Candy .. ,
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Soda I'ountain .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 5
PIanos
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Sheet ]\1USIC. . . . . . . ..
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Patterns.
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Phonographs
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J\Ieats
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FIsh.
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CIgars .. ,
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It goes wIthout saying that no two men-situated
\\ ould be lIkely to wnte the same figures.
as he IS-
Each store's experience and condItions are totally dIfferent,
and It \\ ould be nothlllg short of folly for any man to fix a percentage \\ hlch should hold good at all times and everywhere
The \\ ay stocks are arranged, the number of sales people
employed III each department,
the standard of wages paid, and
numberless other things, strongly influence the relation between
the payroll of each department and its total sales
Some merchants wIll put Al clerks behllld certalil counters;
another merchant would put four ordinary clerks there.
Surely
the ratIO of sale~ to wages III these two stores will not bear Just
compan son
A.nd so It is all along the line.
I t must be remembered, too, that the figures we furlllsh hel e
are the a\ el age figl1l es-that
IS to say, it by no means follows
that ever} clel k\ sales. even III a bIg store---where
there is
somethll1g dOIng all the tIme-WIll
be uniform throughout
the
} ear. The figures fl1l mshed are based on a year's sales; for example, a gIrl III the chllla department
selbng $6,500 worth of
goods dunng the year would be earnlllg the average per cent
named for that department,
VIZ , 4 per cent, If she were paid
$260 a }ear) or $5 a week.
The clerks in the furniture
department
during an August
sale WIll make such big sales that the percentage of selling expense will then fdll consIderably, but ImmeclJately after the speClet! sale the furl1lture business may be so much less than usual
that the percentage of furnIture selling expense WIll Jump to the
other extreme
The same way with white goods.
During the seasons when
these artIcles are III gl eat demand and their percentage of selling expense falls, busll1ess in other departments
may be practically at a standstlll, and their percentage of selling expense may
rise to the top notch.
As \\e have at dIfferent times stated, the amount of a clerk's
total sales is by no means the only key to his or her value or
efficiency.
Some ordll1ary clerk may be stationed to dIspose of
articles that sell on sight and on which there is absolutely no
profit.
She may sell far more than another clerk of fine appearance and except anal ablbty, etc , stationed in another department,
\\ ho can draw and hold the fine class of trade which a store is
allmng for.
Both are necessary to a store's welfare.
The one girl may
cost a store only 3 per cent, whIle the other girl may cost nearer
10 per cent, yet It WIll require httle figuring to determine which
of the two IS really the more valuable.
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Detrolt, Nov. 17.-DetrOlt
is ~till on the map and very 111uch
on, m fact lf you ask the average Detrolter he wlll be pretty
apt to tell you that lt is about the only town of any 1mportance
that lS on the map
\Vell, the ~ flter ha'o no quan el wlth them
about that, for he wa~ born there, but left very early m hfe, posSibly for hlS own good, and maybe for the Clt} 's, but be that as
it may, he hkes to go thele occasiOnally to see old fnends and
reldtlves.
Detroit 1S :,ure1y a fine Clty dncl 111 'oplte of the slump in
the automoblle busllless there lS a great cleal of bUlld111g going
on, inc1ud111g some new factories
J. C Widman & Co have
had a great season dnd are now prepaling the finest line of goods
to show in Grand Rapids 111 January they have ever attempted
to show. The hne is made up of d111111g
room smtes 111al ts and
crafts, Colomal, and all the popular styles; abo a large hne of
hat racks ~ lth seats and mlrrors, and a large hne of cheval m1r-
Can you think of anytlling more
luxurious or comfortable than this
beautiful
Mission Davenport
It's only a suggestion of the bundreds of splendid pieces we are
showing in our Mission Furniture
Department, and each piece priced
so as to come withiil the moderate
income.
OPEN SATURDAY
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FURNITURE
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EVENIl'ICS
cwo
RAPlllS
MIGHIGAN
:One of Bishop'S Best
rors 1n oak and mahogany, blrd's eye maple and Clrcassian walnut. They also have a fine 1111eof plctures and mlrrors.
The
1111ewlll be shown on the first floor, south half, of the KI111gman
bmldl11g, where they were located m July last.
Max Bath,
formerly with C D. W1dman, lS now w1th J C Wldman & Co,
and IllS terntory
wl11 be from Buffalo east. Of course all the
\Vldman boys amI other salesmen wlll be there, and "J.
wlll be there also to see that the boys are at work and not walking up and clown Monroe street adm1ring the pretty Grand
Rap'ds girls
The full line of Humphrey-Widman
sectional
bookcases ~ 111be shown with thls lllle
The Possel1Us Brothers Fur111ture Manufacturing
company
have made a success of the1r first hne of d111ing room furniture,
and wlll add several new patterns to 1t for January;
also about
a hundred new extension tables.
The elegant catalog of dining
room suites and tables was very much admired by the dealers
and brought them many good orders.
The line will be shown
in January as usual in the1r old space in the Manufacturers'
ExhibitlOn budding, 1319 Mlchigan avenue, Chicago, with all the
old time popular salesmen in charge.
The Detroit Cabinet company will soon move into their
elegant new offices, and will have a good many new patterns of
fancy furniture to show in Grand Rapids in January.
The writer had a nice visit with his old friend, Mr. Standart of the Murphy Chair company.
Mr. Standart has just returned from a SIX months' vacation for the benefit of his health,
which broke down from overwork.
He is looking well now.
He has been roaming horseback in the Ozark mountains of Arkansas, and says he saw many men down there that were typical
Arkansas travelers.
C. H Haberkorn,
who is said to have made a half million
dollars in the table business and other industries he is mterested
in, is going into the auto truck business and is building a large
factory not far from that of the Detroit Cabinet company.
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The Good Old Reliable Work Bench
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The Palmer Manufacturing
company will show their full
lllle on the fourth floor, Furmture
Exchange,
Grand Rap1ds,
111January
They w1ll have many new patterns of hbrary and
parlor tables and pedestals 111 the latest des1gns and finishes and
an entlre new 1l11e of reed goods, lawn and porch furniture.
Their new dry k1lns are finished and President Streng says they
are workmg all right
Their catalog for 1911 is already out
and 1t is a good one. Trade is good and the output of the factory for 1910 blds fair to be double that of any previous year.
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For Many Years Made ExclUSively by
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Also manufacturer of the Chicago Truck for woodworkmg factones.
Send for Catalogue.
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Every Dealer Who Sells
Folding Collapsible Go=Carts
TAKE WARNINO
For your own protectIon aVOIdbuymg any foldmg collapsIble go-carts :lot hcensed under FERRIS and LEITH
PATENTS.
By seemg that the tag shown here IS on every foldmg CollapsIble Go-Cart you handle you wIll
Avoid infringement prosecutions,
Handle only goods made by the most reputable makers,
Handle Go=Carts for which a demand is created by a big
national advertising campaign.
licensed Go-Cart
839230
_Dee
25, 1906
PATENTED
840188
Jan 1,1901
Licensed and protected
by and under the
851911
June 25, 1907
861475
July 30, 1907
863972
AU920,1907
913345
feb
Marc~ 2, 1909
918250
April 13 1909
925151
June IS, 1909
925152
June 15,1909
925141
June 22, 1909
921089.
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Other Patent.
Pendlnl
This Label
Jan 5, 1904
_Oct 4, 1904
May 9, 1905
Sept 26,1905
None Genume Without ThiS label
REDUCED REPRODUCTION
AND BACK OF LICENSE
American Metal Wheel & Auto
Company.
Children's Vehicle Corporation.
Collier-Keyworth
Company.
Ficks Carriage & Reed Go.
Fulton Manufacturing Company.
Gendron Wheel Company.
July 6, 1909
None Cenuln_ WIthout
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111386
189310
800411
23, 1909
914010
FERRIS and LEITH
PATENTS
so completely cover
every VItal feature of foldmg collapsIble go-carts that It IS impossIble for any maker to manufacture them wIthout usmg
some of the features covered by these patents.
The only persons or concerns licensed by us to manufacture collapsible go-carts are the following named compames:
Lloyd Manufacturing Co.
Sidway Mercantile Company.
Streator Metal Stamping Co.
Sturgis Steel Go-Cart Co.
Toledo Metal Wheel Co.
H. N. Thayer Co.
E. R. Wagner Mfg. Co.
All Infnngers WIll be prosecuted
to the full extent of the
law.
Through our advertlSIng the publIc WIll be advised that
go-carts contaInIng the most desirable features are hcensed
under FERRIS and LEITH
PATENTS,
and cautIOned to
look for the Label.
OF FRONT
TAGS.~)oce
We wIll protect both the dealer and the
elImmatmg the unscrupulous
manufacturer
dealer a better profit, put the go-cart business
basIs, create fixed values, and educate the
values. LOOK FOR THE TAG.
pubhc, and by
we msure the
on a legItimate
publIc to these
PERRIS and LEITH
Suite 630 Marquette Building
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NEW YORK'S NEW EXCHANGE
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Wonderful Progress Insures COIupletion of the
Great Building "On Time'"
RapId progres:, IS being made \vlth the con:,tructIOn of
the great structUl e to be occupIed by the N e\\ York Furl11ture
Exchange, a~ a part of the Mlerchant~' and Manufacturers'
Exchange of 1\ew York, In the early Spl111g of next year
ThIS rapId progress must be regarded as a fact of llltereot to
everyone concerned 111 the furmture mdu"try, whether as
manufacturer or buyer, and who looks fOlward wIth due confidence to the further enlargement of the already great eastern
market
The progress made sho\\ s, pla1111yenough, that the
bUIlding wIll be completed 111due time, while so much of It
as IS now VISIble exhIbIts, no less plainly, that the new home
of the Exchange wIll be an nnposlng structUl e, of archItectural beauty and importance, thoroughly well eqUIpped and
altogether worthy an enterpnse of so much consequence
Already, although the constructIon wOlk on the ground
dId not begin until August 9, last, about two-thmls of the
steel frame-work had been erected by the end of October. In
all, SIX thousand seven hundred tons of the massive gIrders
and pillars had been put 111final place
To make all these
gIrders and pillars one homogenous \\ hole forty-five thousand
rivets had been driven and fastened home.
When It is remembered that the girders are the largest ever used In steel
structural work, and that then" el ection and that of the pIllars \\as reqlllred to be performed at mght, this amount of
work wdl be looked upon as gOing some and going satlsfac~n~
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Vv'hlle thIS steel frame-\\ ork \\ a" beUlg erected other
work as important was being conducted
At the last repOl t,
November 5, ten thousand cubIc feet of the gramte for the
outer walls had been dehvered and set, ten thousa11'1 square
feet of ornamented terra cotta had been placed; fifty thousand
square feet of hollow tile fire-proof floor arches had been laId
and eIghty thousand square feet of concrete floor arches The
ornamental and fire-proof material window frames were also
in place up to the seventh story
Meanwhile, and while all
thIS other important work vvas under \\ay, the steam fitters
and plumbers had installed so much of theIr part of the equipment which is to make the budding so comfortable and con-
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vement a place of business as IS pOSSIble dunng the process
of constructIon as cbstlnglll:,hed flom the fim:,hlng
A regIment of over eIght hundred and fifty men are engaged in tIllS successful struggle for pI ogress led by theIr
officers duly selected for theIr known skJ1l and training.
The rapId progress made IS of further 111terest to every
one who is Interested at all In mdustrial and commerCIal development, as it exhIbIts \\ hat can be done by modern methods
when these are pUlsued, after due preparatIOn by competent
contractors carefully chosen because of theIr thorough eqUIpment and known capaCIty to chsl egdl d chfficultles, to overcome all hanchcaps and to achIeve desll ed Iesults
There, to
be sure, was to be no effOl t "to make the desert blossom hke
a rose ," but there I:' be111g\vag ed succe:,sfully a :,tJ uggle to
111creasethe sum of OppOltumty m the \\ oriel anel to promote
man's usefulness to man.
There was a tune when thIS ne\\ bUllc1mg seemed only a
elream, irridescent and as l11tanglble as the ha7e of an Inchan
Summer morn111g; but, as all may now :,ee, the dream IS comlI1g true.
If It was a dream It IS bell1g reahzec1
To other~
wiser, and to Charles E Spratt more particularly, It was no
dream at all. It was rather an Idea and soon the superb
bUIlding wdl stand to mark the development of thIS busl11ess
idea of proven value and consequence
It wJ1l mark, no less,
the happy result of well-ordered enthUSIasm and l11te1hgent
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MISCELLANEOUS NOTES AND NEWS
T. E. Jones, undertaker of ::\IarIon, Ind , ha" sold out to B
M. Lay.
The SImplex Bed company of Seattle, are mO\ mg thel1 tactory to Kent, Wash.
Maddock Bros have ':lucceeded Arnold & Dleboldt, fUrIllturC
dealers of Olpe, Kan.
The Newark (0) Furniture
company are erectmg an addItion to their factory.
R. L. OlIver has sold hIS undertak1l1g bUSIness at LIttle
Sioux, Ia , to B. S. Long
N. E. Ward has purchased the retaIl furmture bus1l1e,,::, of
E. Threlkeld at Tecumseh, Nebr
Albert Thompson has purchased the furmture and harchvare
business of Daugherty & DIlday at OwenSVIlle, Ind
The New Orleans, La, ManufacturIng
company are crecting a five story bUIldIng to be used as a coffin factor)
Raymond Foster has purchased a half mterest In the Doldoser furniture store at Delta, la. The firm IS known as Boldoser
& Foster.
The Boston Furniture company, dd.1ers of 'Waterbury, Ct.
are constructing a two story additIOn to their warehouse on Scoville street.
Neillsville, Wis, has raised $20,000 by popular subSCrIptIOn
to rebuild the furniture factory that was burned recently and the
work has been started
Kaufman Bros' department
store, PIttsburg,
Pa, ha.., <IX
large electric furniture cars, each of WhICh, the) sa) performs
the work of four teams of horses.
The Dodge company of Akron, 0 , manufacturers
of furl1lture and fixtures, have incorporated
"for general manufacturIng
purposes."
Capital stock, $50,000.
Lyons Brothers of Orange, TeX'as, in order to secure larger
quarters, have moved their furniture store from FIfth and :\Iam
streets to the Hewson building on Front street
R. W. Fiske, manager of the Ohio Valle) Fur11lture Exhibition building of CincinnatI, announces that nearly all space
in the buildmg has been leased for the J anuar) season
E. S. Jeanie, Sand
E. M Sonntag, dealers m mantel" and
tile, of Evansville, Ind .. have incorporated
under the name of
the Edward L. Sonntag company
CapItal stock, $10,000
Alfred Bonhard of the Bonhard FurnIture company, dealers,
Cleveland, 0, is defendant in a dIvorce and alImony smt, hIS
wife alleging non-support.
There is another SIde to the story,
Ihowever.
J.
B. Hough, for many years superintendent
of the He)wood chair factory at Orange, Ct., has resigned to accept the
superintendency
of the new chair factory to be established at
Marietta, Ga.
The Seybold Piano and Organ company of Elgin, J1l, are
erecting a three story addition to their plant.
They wIiI install
a new dry kiln, the total expense of the improvements
bemg estl1nated at $30,000.
Adolph Marsh, formerly of Korth Adams, Mass, no" holding a position in the Mechanics and Metals ~atlOnal bank of
New York, has invented and patented a lace curtain holder, whIch
he expects to put on the market soon.
The imports of carpets and rugs for the first mne months
of 1910 amounted to a total of 907,965 square) ards worth $3,342,424. During the same part of 1909 the Imports were hIgher
-930,4170 square yards valued at $3,697,695
The P. E. Kroehler
and dealers in furniture,
ManufactUrIng
company, manufacturers
wood, iron and steel products, of Kan-
kakee, have Incorporated
wIth $10,000 cdpltal stock, held by P.
L Kroehler, E ] T. Moyer and E. R Resentrater
The Amcncan Woodworkl11g J\Ianufactml11g COmpdn), capItalIzed at $10,000, I" beIng orgamzed by Lams H Kramer and
others to take over the plant of the bankrupt New York Dlll1en"lOns Supply company, at Devon and I"londa streets, EvansvIlle,
lnd.
The Bon J\ldrche department
"tOl e of Seattle, Wash, IS to
have the finest home In the PacIfic northwest
The bUlldmg IS
to be eIght stones, coverIng half of a block, WIll have rten acres
of floor space and WIll cost $1,250,000.
It will be completed early
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The Weber, Lmd & Hall company, for thIrty years dealers
1ll furnIture,
carpeh, wall paper, etc, In Cleveland, 0, have
retIred from the busmess, havmg sold theIr stock to the Conrad,
Babch, Kroehle company, ~ ho operate three large stores in the
same cIty
John Cady and IE. C. Cotter, who have been dealIng In furmture in San Antonio, Texas, under the name of the CadyCotter Furniture company Ihave gone into bankruptcy.
LiabIlitIes $6,688, asseb $8.918, mc1udmg $4,000 111 stock and $4,300 in
bIlls receivable
0\\ mg to the store they occupy having been leased to Wool~ orth & Co, who operated a chain of 5 and 10 cent stores, C. H.
Rood & Co, furl1lture and carpet dealers of Ware, Mass, have
deCIded to go out of business, being unable to secure other smtable quarters in that town.
The RetaIi Merchants'
assocIation of Texas, has completed
the orgal1lzatIon of the Retail Merchants "Cnderwnters of Texas,
whIch IS a mutual fire insurance concern.
The new organization
expects to do the fire insurance business of practically all the
retail merchants of the state.
All the woodworking
factories at South Paris, Me, make
ChrIstmas tables, nothmg else
They make them in many kinds
of \\ ood and fil1lshes and of all shapes and sizes, from the doll's
table only three mches m heIght to full sIze card and sew1l1g
table< and sl1lp about 100 car loads dUrIng the fall months.
The Sal1ltary Hammock and Mattress company, mentioned
la::,t week as haVIng been organized at Marshfield, Wis, is in no
sense a re-organiz:atlOn of the defunct Marshfield Beddmg company, though the new company will use the old plant, which was
purchased from the U1ll0n Mortgage Loan and Trust company
of ChIcago.
The meeting of stockholders in the SIegel-Cooper company
and Greenhut & Co, last Saturday resulted in the consolIdatIOn
of the two concerns under the name of the Greenhut-SiegelCooper company, WIth capital stock fixed at $6,000,000.
The
consolIdatIOn makes it one of the largest and most important
mercantIle houses in New York city.
The J. B & J. M Cornell company of New York, manufacturers of metallIc furnIture, have gone into the hands of A Gordon Murray and yIlchael Blake as receIvers.
LIabIlItIes, $ t16,421; assets estImated at $330,000
The receIvers have asked for
authorIty to sell the property and It IS understood
that a new
company 1M" been organized to pm chase It.
The ~IcDougall KItchen Cabinet company of Frdnkfort, near
ImhanapolI"
Ind have purchased the stock, good WIll, patents
dnd ever) thmg else pertdinIng to the "La-fa-et" KItchen CabInet
made by the BIggs lIanufacturing
company of Lafayette, Ind,
\\ hlch has been domg a bUSIness of about $100,000 a year
By
the deal the McDougall company will get about forty experienced
workmen for theIr new factory at Frankfort
WEEKLY
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The Architect and His Authority.
There IS alwa) s dIscussIOn as to whether It 1S nght that the
arc1lltect should have all to say 111the completIOn of a house, that
he should tell the .other art1~ts what to do ll1~tead of 1m Itmg
the1r 111telhgent collaboratIOn.
There are those who have saul
that Loth mural p'l1l1tmg and sculpture have suffered 111th1S country becau,e the archltecb ha, e been 111 command and merel) told
the other art1sts what to do-blzane
tl1Dugh 1t 111lght be as to
the V\ hole-or
left the1r work out of the scheme altogethel
1here 1, an artlc1e m /11 t ct Deem atlOll, VI. ntten w1th every eV1dence of happmes.s, VI hleh tells of a m{)(leln v1lla bmlt for the
manager of a gl eat chamlMgne house at Retm~ 111whIch eve1 yth111g not only the mtenor decoratlOn but even the ftll11lshmg,
wa, left to the arc111tect, and the "nier asks 1t 1t 1S not ventably
a p'ece of good f01 tune for an arc1lltect ' 111love wIth hIS art" to
have the opportu11lty to complete hIS creatlOn by glV111gto 1t the
h fe that IS cal ned by Its ckcoratlO11S and Its funllshln~s
In the RenDS house ('very room was decO! ated, arranged
and furl1lshed b) the archItect, and the wlltel says w1th a perfect
U111tyof style, wluch 1mphes much
ThIs st)le IS very personal
and modern, he says, the result of logIC, reason and ta,te, and
he adds slyly that 111thIs It drfferentlates 1tself from the so-called
"model n style," yet to l.ook at the lllustratlOns 1S to get ihe 1dea
WIth hUD that the house IS very modern mdeed.
It 1S to be noted, howeve1, that at the very end of h1s artlcle
the happy w11ter declares that It 1S eqmtable to accompany the
<lrcllltect s name WIth the names of half a dozen of hIS c.ollabO!at01 -', mc1udmg decorators, fur11lshers, sculptors and even chandeher makel s, and he speaks of the conSC1ence as well as the extreme care, the search for forms best adapted to the demands
and1l1to the nature .of the matellals that go to make-up the complex work
English Furniture ill Boston.
The C01mOlsseur 111fur11lture would have l11s e)es sh111ed
WIth pleasure and he "ould qUlckly 1ecogmze the qUlet beaut)
that may be 1mpal ted by SImple l111esand modesty 111(leCoratlOn,
wel e he to call at the great Fame furl11ttll e company st.ore, 48
LanaI 'treet, and vIew the new lme of household furl1lture UDported from England, says the Doston Globe
Flegance, Sl111phclty,beaut) of deSIgn and excellence of workmanshIp al e apparent m every pIece 111the exhlb1t. There IS a
notlceable absence .of c1umS111essor heavl11es~ 111the constructlOn
.of the dm111g 100m sets, the chaIrs, tables, sldeboal ds, cab111ets
and dress111g cases for other rooms
Consp1cuoUS m the exhIbItIOn 1S a ~leep111g room .outfit done
111 sohd mahogany
and enameled, conceahng all eVIdence of the
nchly gra111ed wood.
It IS only by openmg a drawer of one of
the dressmg ca~es, or a door of a clothes cabmet, that the real
nature of the wood can be detected.
The llvmg ro.om furnIture gIves an Idea of the sohd comfort
the well-to-do Engllshman loves to enJoy
DIg easy chans w1th
deep, 'oft, uphobtery.
and great couches in whIch one smks almost out of SIght, attract the attentlOll .of all callers at the store
The sho'l'l111g of Enghsh made furl11ture 1S an mllovatlOn 111
Boston.
It was opened about a fortl11ght ago, and that Enghsh
made tlungs f.or the household w 111 find favor IS eVHlcnt h om the
111terest alOused by the d1splay
LIttle attentlOn" to customers
and also to the despised
"hoppers and bal ga111 hunters v1111 help 111making the small
store a b1g one
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RARE OLD RUGS ON EXHIBITION
THE
NEW
Great Collection Shown in the Metropolitan ~Iu·
seum of Art, New York.
It was a ve1Y u11Ll',uale.:\.h1b1tlon that was opened at the :\Ietropohtan Museum of Art on Tuesday, the loan e.:\.h1b1tlon ot 011ental rug" whIch for too short a tune \\ 111occupy the gallel \
that last year was called the \\ 111stler 100m m the ne\\ \\ 1l1g f',
say" the Kew York Sun
The museum Itself \\ould not be able
to present such an exll1b1tlOn out ot It:> 0\\ n pOSSeSS10l}';,and
no general loan eXJll1bltlOn under le,s d1gl11fied dud "entre condltlons would be hkel) to be able to obta1l1 sue h ma -terp1ecefrom then owners, who are naturally Ul1\\ llhng to pel!t \\ lth them
even f01 a tIme, to say nothll1g of the ha/at ds 111\ oh ed III han
dhng and t1 ansport1l1g them
There are forty-nme of the rugs, and a rare treat they ofter
to admIrers of the nch beauty m colot and the ta..,c1l1at1l1gmtl1cacy of deSIgn of these anClent fabllcs
\\ 1th the Onent,tl lUgthat m common parlance dre spoken of as antlque, \mLrlCanare faIrly famtlldr.
In orgamzmg thb e"Xh1b1t10nthe mlheum
authollt1es purposed offellng VlSltor- the Opp01tUl11t) to eXd1111ne
the really old rug '3, proc!t1Lb of the eentl11leS tt om the fourteenth
to the eIghteenth, mc1udmg the pe110cls \\ hen the~e e"p1 eS..,lOnof the gel1111Sof the ::\ e,n ILast appeal ed m theIr 111ghest pe1fectlOn
The e.:\.h1bltlOn sen es at the ~ame tIme to rev eal \\ hat
IS not fully understood, the rema1kable nd1l1ess at the pllVate
co11ect1ons Df thIS country 111the"e \,orks of the patlent 011entals 111 the days when then a1t and theIr a1tl'3ansh1p \\ere at then
best.
rlhere we1e to have been hft) of the lug-, but at the ld-t
mlillute and too late to exclude a cle..,c11ptlOnof It trom thc cat,llog, word came from the ka1..,er llleclnch
\Iuseum
at Berlll1
that perm1SSlOn could not be obta111ed to lend a rug \\ h1ch that
museum had pr0111lsed to send, It:, Ll11lOUSfourteenth
centnn
rug WIth the .l\I1l1g coat of arms, the ancIent Chmese motn e ot
the dragon fightmg the phcel11x Other rugs of thIS class, hO\\ever, ale 111the exhlb1tlon
And though the De1hn museum \\a"
unable to get pel mIssIon to lend Its t1 eds111C, \\ h1eh IS one at
t,he oldest 1 ugs known to e.:\.15t,anothe1 SlStC1 l1lstltutlOn has con
tnbuted to the }J et1 opohtan s e"XhlbltlOn
j he Do"ton \Iu-eum
of F1ne \It<., hd'3 '3ent to \e\\ ') 011, the fincst lUg 111lh po..,se,
SlOn.
ASIde fl0111tll1<.,one the 1u~" a1e all pllv,lte co11ectlOns, those
namely, of Dr Denman \\ Ross of Ld1l1bllClge, Gen Dra, ton
Ives, BenJanlln Altman and :-'enator \\
\ Clark of thl:, Clt)
Mrs. Helbert L Platt of Ihookl)n, John D \Jdlhenn)
ot PhIladelphIa, P i\ 13 \V1dener ot Ukms T'a1k, P \1 ~harple" ot
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The Metropobtan
Museum (l1spIa) s a few rug.., \\<h1ch It owns as a part of thIS exhIbItion, but
the) are placed m an adJ0111mg gallery so that those lent may
have the \\Tl11Stler room to themselves.
The result is plenty of
room tal a sattsfactory placll1g WIthout crowd1l1g
\ "'111gula1beauty pel vades the room
It IS vaned but not
confmed, not\\<lthstanc1111g the great c1lVerslty 111pattern and color and the ll1te1m1ng11l1g of preclOus fragments a few feet m
el1menslOns and carpets more than twenty-sl.:\. feet long
Most
ot them nece~sanl) hang on the walls, or all easels erected for
them \\ hC1e the) can be well seen, but by the use of enlarged
model "taml.., 01 '-ltter" throne, the gal geous Pobsh rugs, as we
hale been accu..,tomed to call them (th1~ nomenclature
IS to be
chdngec1 ncm) a1e shO\\ n pI actlcally as they would appear all the
floor, 1 a1"ed anI) a few 1l1ches above It
\nc1 \\ hat a ~lght they are, hke a tesselated pavement of
gem", gbstemng 111chang111g hues as the VISItor changes his po,,1tlOn hut reta1l11l1g alway s one d01l11l1ant tone. Joyous as a full
lJla,,- 011l111~gal den 1111111cldayb11lbance, bnght as a table of
1e\\ el~, the'e products of what mmt have been a happy day, hft
the '3p1nt,
~lght ot the~e 1ug" are shown and one of them IS of
a qze rarely seen, be111gmore than thIrteen feet long and nearly
E1X teet WIele
It IS one at the largest Polish rugs 111eXIstence.
One of the Pohsh rug, IS woven v,lthout the usual gold or SlIver
threads, 'but bght ) e110w and SlIver gray suggest the preclOus
metals, a" the catalog says truly.
Sombre as compared to these are the other rugs, yet they
pI e"ent d \\ ondel ful \ anety of color
Merely to enumel ate
-ome of the hue~ tells ,1 ~tor) of the weavers' comprehenslVe
\ h10n, f01 here are) ellow, blue, hght blue and da1k blue, and
blue green led, cheny led, deep lOse and scarlet and pll1k, salmon
pl1lk, ta\\ n c111dmouse grdy, peacock blue, green. SlIver, whIte,
cream, orange, emer,tld, v101et, vlOlet brown and claret color.
These \\ e-,te1n ASIatIcs knew a'3 well a" the easterners of theIr
cont111ent, the Ch1l1ese, how to comb111e red and blue into beauty,
J. th1l1~ man) 1\ estet n Em opeans and Americans,
includmg some
a1tl-,ts, fear to do today
And the greater vanety of the ele-
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ments of their design-human
face", ~1uman figures, hunters,
elephants, tigers, lions, leopards, giraffes, gDats, boars, deer, Ch1nese ducks, the rhllloceros, crocodile, bullock, bes1des imaglllary
al11mals, birds, partndges,
bushes, tre~s, the peony and other
flDwers, archa1c dragons, conventiOnal H,af forms, oouquets, geometnc designs, escutcheons, arabesques, fohatiOns; Kora11lc mscnptiOns made decor dtive; the hly an~ Chmese symbols tellmg
of mfluences when the trade relatiOns tletween the Near and the
Far East were llltimate, 111 earher tllnel
DragDn rugs, huntmg rugs, ammtl rugs and compartment
rugs, all present workmansh1p
as mt~restmg to study as 1t is
good to look upon
A fragment of a beaut1ful Ind1an rug from
the 1mpenal factory, 1tS date placed !at about 1580, from Mr.
Altman's collection, with a nch ground of dark claret color, is
made w1th 702 knots to the square mJh, a wonderfully fine texture.
Imag111e a rug such as one of the fifteenth century Armemans "hown, wh1ch exh1b1ts a blue g1een stepped 10Lenge about
a four p0111ted star m wh1te outhneli w1th fawn and stepped
bands m th1S sequence, scarlet, red, v1~let, scarlet, yellow, scarlet
outlmed 111white and blue and repeaTI111gthe lozenge outhnes.
A Turkbh rug from nIr Vhlha~s'
collection, with repetitiOn of three balls 111hght blue and eteam white on a gray field,
and a b01 der w1th the same motive /m violet, brown and red,
separated by tIger stnpes, 1S a unique! p1ece; no other rug of the
type is known.
It 1S about twelve arid a half feet long by e1ght
feet m w1dth
A.nother rug from lithe same collection with a
field of four pointed stars separated I by diamond shapes enc1osmg arabesques 1S the only complet~ rug of that kind that 1S
known.
No clement of the exhib1tion is hlOre worthy of it or of the
museum, however, than the lllterestlng catalog, which will win
the thanks of many vis1tors.
The museum has taken occasion
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to make the exhib1tiOn as serviceable as poss1ble by publishing a
spec1al catalog complIed by Dr. 'N. R. Valentiner,
curator of
decorative arts, a compact and enhghtenl11g volume, of wh1ch
only a thousand cop1es have been pnnted
Dr Valentmer's
work aroused spinted d1Scuss10n, for hb classificatlOns upset
some long accepted trad1tions, and speakmg with the authonty
he does, h1S httle book has set some of the rug lovers to renewed
study.
Some of them so far are frankly unable to abandon the1r
pos1tiOns, wh1le others are endeavonng
to bnng themselves
around to hiS V1ews.
An important element in the charm exerc1sed by the Pohsh
rugs has been the mystery of thei1 origin
Were they Polish,
Persian, Indian, m thei1 inspiratiOn and manufacture?
And
why d1d they appear to have been a spontaneous creation, presently extmgUlished, a short hved race w1thout forebears or progeny? At any rate the name Pohsh stuck to them, a putative paternity which was suffic1ently satisfactory to the few possessors
and the many adm1rers of the chanmng Polonaises.
Now comes
Dr. Valentl11er and brushes all the mystery away.
He says that the date of their manufacture can be almost exactly fixed as a bnef penod in the first half of the seventeenth
century, as many of them were presented to European courts
by Shah Abbas of Persia at that time and were very probably
products of the imperial manufactories.
He goes further and
destroys another charm which they held for many, the idea that
there were very few of them in all the wor1cl.
The devotees
have said that it would be d1fficult to find perhaps fifty of them,
and when they have enlarged the poss1ble number to a hundred
it has been with the idea of carrying refutation by the very exaggeration
of the figure.
Dr. Valentiner,
however, says that
there are at least three hundred of them and that the best ones
are in various royal palaces m IEurope, particularly those at Mos-
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cow, Stockholm, Munich and Copenhagen, althoLH;h he POl11tsout
that tlhere are superb speCImens 111some of the 1'11\ dte collectIon')
of the Ul11ted States
Indeed, some of the~e are hel e to be Set n
Some of the students of 1 ugs among the collectors pIt tol th
in support of theIr recognIzed pos!tlons regardl11g the ongl11 ot
these rugs the statement that 111 theIr Judgment the 'stItch,' If It
may be so called, the method of \\ eavmg emplo} eel 111 the manu
facture of these fabllcs, IS chSt111Ctl) not Pel Slan, the) \\ ,1l1t
more hght from Dr. \ alent1ner
In the present catalog the doc
tor merel} states that "there IS ab-,olutel} no e\ IdeI1Ce th,lt ollk
rugs of the Polonal 'oe t} pes \\ ere ever \\ oven 111 Poland 111the
seventeenth century," and that documents have lately come to
hght "whIch show conclusIvely that these rugs were not m,lcle 111
Poland"
He does not Identify the documents spoken ot to the d ,appomtment of the anxJOus
He does, hO\\ ever o,pla111 the 01Igm of the name PolIsh lUgS, or PolonaI'oe'o, and c1hll1l"1l1g that
deSIgnatIOn, claSSIfies them thereaftel as Pel SIan, \\ lth the parenthe.tIcal explanatIon "so-called PolIsh .,
And the ongin of the name, he sa,", cLltes blLk hltle mOle
than thIrty yeal"
It causes no speCIal "nrprhe
that Lcrtall1
TurkIsh rugs (of \\ hlch there are some m thl" exhlbltlOnl ha\ e
come to be called Holbem rug" OW111gto thc appear awe ot one ot
them 111that pamter's Darmstadt masterpIece. for the lea"on tlMt
most mmds ale rather mIsty legalCl1m; ,1 t111leso long p l"t ho\\ever VIVIdly It may lIve In the annals of art
But tlldt the nd lle
by whIch the world kno\\ s these aIYlent "Poh"h . tabllc" "l1oulcl
be the aCCIdent of an mtelndtlOnal
exhlbltlOn so late a" lKi8
seems a bIt odd.
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Dr Valentmer
says, hO\\ever, that that IS Just \\hat happened
At the Pans expOSItion of 18/K "everal of these rngs
were exh1b1ted
They had been ~ent by the PUllce CZdrtolhl-.1
from vVarsaw, and the} bOle the coat of arm" at IllS t 111l1h
Hence the assumptIon and confUSlOn
The sImple fact \\ a" that
th1S emblazonry had been embrOIdered on them at a later date
than their manufacture.
Muah more wldel) known 111th1S conntr) than the Poll,h
rugs are the Ispahans
Dr. Valentmer gIve5 them to Hel at and
refers to them as "so-called Ispahans"
Those \\ ho contencl tor
the more famlhar designatlOn set forth that the PerSIan COLl!
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traveled and that the royal weavers moved WIth the court, and
that therefore Herat may prove to be no more final as an attllbubon than Ispahan.
Everywhere,
however, Dr Valentmer's
cla~sifications and statements arouse 1 ene" ed mtere:.t
There 1'0 dnother instance of these changes of hIS Some rugs long knu\\ n
as PerSIan he has carried to IndIa, among them the Boston museum's rare contnbutIOn to the exhIbItIon, the seventeenth century huntmg lUg whIch is its cholsest posseSSlOn among Eastel n
carpets.
Dr \ alentmer sa) s that the market for modern Onental
rl1~S m Xe\\ York IS the mo~t e),ten~lVe m the world, o'lly Con"tantlIlOple and PallS beIng compared WIth It, but that pubhc
kno\\ leclge at the supenor old weaves IS lackmg, that IS one
I ea~on tor the pre ent exhlbitlOn
The c11St1l1CtI011
IS seldom
made 01 perhaps ever known, he sa}s "between the fine old rugs
and the seem111gh old types"
;\ 1110St111terestmg catalog to a
dehghttul exhlbltlOn
It h the purpose of the ~Ietropohta11, DIrector Robmso11
sa)~, to organl/e othel e'{h1b1t1011s from tIme to tIme, of rare
\\ ork" ot art 111 pnvate 0\\ 11ershlp whIch would not othel Wl~e
111the ord111ary course of events be access1ble to the pubhc
"BEAVER," "GINDERELLA," "DOCKASH"
STOVE
HEADQUARTERS
""THE LINES THAT SELL"
NoleIMPERIAL
BEAVER-one
ofmany.
13est, 'llzey Stctno the rest,"
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HIS is the IMPERIAL
BEAVER.
It is the finest cooking
range made anywhere in the world.
We think so, and so w111you when you see its advantages:
Study the above picture.
The glass oven door is guarantffd
not to break,
No heat lost when you look at your baking.
This
range holds its heat longest, saves z 5 % in fuel, and has unusual hot
water capacity.
It is the best looking range built-and
wears as well as it looks.
Send for samples and see it-but
we warn you that no other kind will
ever satisty you again, if you ro!
w. D. SAGER,
330-342 No.WaferSf.,CHICA60
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ANOTHER GREAT RUG EXHIBITION
Providence Has One That Rivals That
.Metropolitan Museum of Art.
in the
Out'lcle of the ::\Ietropohtan Museum of I\rt, New York,
the greatest exh1blLon of antique Onental rugs now to be seen
m Amellca, IS shown by the Rhode Island School of DesIgn, at
ProvlClence
The exh1blt, whlCh has been gIven much attentlOn
by rug makers, deollers and collectors m New York and N ev,
England, IS thm descnbed by the Prov1dence J ourml
"The opel1lng of the exh1b1t Dn WolSan event of unusualmterest to the art hfe of the Clt) and brought out many of the
fnends of the I11stltutlOn and member, of the art frolte1111ty The
rugs, \\h1ch "ere collestec1 by Arthm "Gpham Pope were ga<hereel from some of the most Important collectIOn, m the country,
and \\ hereas It ha, been cu,tomary m such exlllb, tlOns to show
t'le male remarkable pleces, m thh the endeolv')r has been to ,ho\\
exampl es of practIcally every Important t) p~ of weavmg olnd the
development and relatIOns of the mam types to each other
"To each rug 1S attached a cord beanng cntlcal comments
of such rug expel ts as J Oh'1 KImberly ::\Iumford and Arthm l:" [bane D llay of :0J ew YO! k, so that anyone mtere-,ted 111 the subJect, though possessed of httle knO\dedge, ought, by a careful
study of thIS collectIOn and the descrlptI\ e cards, to gam an accurate 1dea of the cllfferent types and the1r charactenstlcs
"The colIectlOn numbers about 63 pIeces, se\ eral of whlch
are from the homes of Dr A E Ham, Seeber Edwards and Mrs
Gustav Radeke of thIS CIty, whlle some of the most lmportant
pIeces, acknowledged by rng expert, to be the best of the type 111
th1S country, are from pnvate collectIOns m ?\ ew York and elsewhere
"]\11 i\Iumford, who lS cons1cIered one of the most famous
eA.perts on rugs m thls country, has sent eight, i 1c1uclmg the
plate ongmals WhlCh appear ln hIS well known book on rugs,
but ow ll1g to dela) s 111 translt they had not arrived 111 tlme to be
hunf; for the ope11lng receptlon
They vnlI be placed in the
gallenes later m the week
Among these rare pleces lS an antique Bergamo, remarkable
for 1tS vIgorous des1gn and wealth of color
ThlS rug is centunes old and has a \\ onderful SlIvery sheen
"The most magnificent piece in the colIectlOn lS the slxteenth
centUl y Ispahan, loaned by John H Pray of Boston
1'1115 p1ece
is in a wonderful state of preservation,
httle 1n the way of restoratlOn ha'l11g been attempted.
One of the most 1l1terestmg
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pIeces lS a fragment of a 15th century Ghayan carpet, hterally
1ll rags, but of a wonderful
hue, the hke of whIch has not been
produced.
Another rug WhlCh shows the attntion of time is a magnificent old DJushaghan
from Mr Mumford's
collectlOn, WhICh,
though extJemely old, is in almost perfect condlton except for
the ends, whlch have been worn to frazzles by the bare feet of
centunes
"Then there are wonderful slxteenth century layer rugs from
ASla l\Imor, v,hlch can hardly be matched 111 t,he world, a number of Bokhara rugs w1th their deep nch ins and vlOlet sheen,
and rugs fr0111the Caucasldn reg lOn, from Per~Ja and Turkestan.
"A Kurdlsh Saraband rug, loaned by Seeber IEclwards, lS
one of the best examples of thIS tribe's adaptatlOn of des1gns
from all over ASia, appmpnat1l1g wlth wonderful sklll the most
chverse and different patterns.
"An antlque grave rug of nhe Caucaslan sectlon is a superb
old plece wInch has caused much chsagreement among experts
as to Its ong1l1
Such rugs were woven b) the entire fal11lly of
the deceased, even the chlldren ty1l1g some knots
On this p1ece
the weavers expended the1r supreme efforts
The fineness of
the rug, the deep and sombre colors, the use of green and the
shape all bear eloquent testlll10ny to the solemn event 1t was deslgned to celebrate
"The collectlOn as a whole offers a I are treat to admirers of
beauty and colors, and the fascmating mtncacy of design of these
anC1ent fabncs.
The effect of the walls hung with these anClent
Eastern fabriCS, under the artlficial hght of the gallenes was of a
wonderful vanety of gem-hke color, blues and reds, yellow, orange, emerald, VIOlet, rose red and azure, woven in combinations
of which only those old rug weavers knew the secret.
" 'Great rugs do not make a startling appeal,' sald Mr Pope
111 hls comments.
'They must be approached wlth sympathy
and understandmg
vVhen they are thus studied and understood
they are vastly more attractive t,han are the modern rugs which
are cold and unsympathetic
111 comparison'
" 'A map was dl5playedm
the galleries showll1g the rug d1Strlcts in the Caucasian region. Asia Mmor and Pers1a, and Mr
Pope gave an informal talk, in which he treated of the charactenstics of the various types of rugs, and described and analY7ed
some of the ohoicest specimens in detall, to the enhghtenment
of
hiS audience"
It 1" much
pose of them
easier
to take stickelS
m1.o stock than
to diS-
Rockford Chair and
Furniture Co.
ROCKFORD,
ILLINOIS
Dinin~ Room Furniture
BUFFETS, CHINA CLOSETS and TABLES
Library F urniture- Library Desks, Library
Tables, Library Bookcases, Combination Bookcases, Etc.
Our entire line will be on exhibition in January
on the third Iloor of the Blodgett Building,
Grand Rapids, Mich.
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Holiday Suggestions.
The hohdays are approaching and merchants are pI epallng
to make the most of the festive occaSIOn~ A contemp01 al) pub
hcation of recent date CDntamed the follow111g suggestIOn~ of
practlcal value on the :.ub) ect of prepanng and conductmg seasonable sales:
Avoid the employment of mflammable matenals for elecOlative purposes, and see that electnc or other hghtll1g ~) ~tem~ an I
demonstrations
of electrical appltances are kept eaher \\ 1thm the
latitude of 111surance pohcies or that the pohc1e~ are endor~ed
with special permissIOn cover111g any increased hazarel that ma\
be contemplated.
A large pnvate bulletll1 ooard, on "hlch 111btructlOlb and mformation relative to the :.tore's operatIOn and the adoptIOn of
new rules or special hohday methods. can be posted from time to
bme, WIll prove an a1d for the "tore's employes
In the absence of a regular branch post office \\ 1thl11 the
store many concerns pro\ ide a stamp and ma1lmg" sectIOn
Some
stores also provide an expre~s office f01 the shIpment of ~mall
parcels, and 111some 10caht1es It 1S possIble to make an arrange
ment ~ lth the expres~ company \\ hereby reduced I ates can be
offered to customers
An idea for increasing sales of pIanos on the 111-tallment
plan is to make customers a gIft of the first payment, deln enng
the piano on the "no-cash-dO\\ n" plan and thereafter
collectmg
the regular monthly mstallments
Just as soon as the hohelay dehvery schedule has been defimtely elecidedupon pnnted or \HItien ~hp:. gIVl11g the ~tated h0111at which dehvery wagons leave the stOle fOJ chftercnt pal ts of
the CIty should be placed m the hands of eVel) sale~pel -011 and
floorman.
ARTISAN
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Three TODS of
Coal a Week.
A Dry Kiln built of wood, brick
or concrete has billions of small
outlets-pores-whose
combined
area wastes the equivalent of tons
of coal, in heat units, every week.
Seal up these pores with
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Keep the steam and acids from destroying your kiln buildings and
save the heat units. They are dollars in disguise. Tell us the size of
your building and we will quote you.
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GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
During a rush It is 1mportant that a "good orcler and condItion" receIpt be taken fOl all valuable merchanchse deln el eelespecially if it IS fragIle.
Any employe who enters upon the duties of a ru"h sea-on
day WIthout a full complement of workll1g matenals should be
censured.
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Avoid congestion, so far as possible, at every pomt in the
store and keep entrances, aIsles and staircases as clear as possible.
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Quality
RapId change makmg and parcel handlmg mean tIme sa, ed
for the shopper and consequently more sales.
Salespeople should keep 111mmd the fact that there are a
number of "green" men on the delnery wagons, to whom explicit dehvery dIrectIons on address labels are necessary
During a rush sea:.on the "want shps" become more than
doubly important, and salespeople should be strongly cautIOned
against negligence in that respect.
Morning specials for inducing early shoppmg should be of a
widely vaned nature; thIS for the purpose of mtere~tlng the
greatest number of persons
and
Economy
Two excellent reasons for using the
Excelsior or World's
Fair Polish
Throughout
the entire building, arrows pointing to the
nearest stairs, exits and elevators are absolutely necessary during the crowded period.
on high grade furniture. We claim to sell the best and
most economical polishes, and have proved it by their
being the Standard polishes for 25 years of use in the
furniture manufacturing trade.
Get our prices and send for sample before placing
your next order.
If new merchandIse is arnving at the store WIth suffiCIent
rapidIty to make an impression, a dally or weekly pubhshed bulletin of artIcles thus received would undoubtedly help the general
selling.
It should be repeatedly mentIoned 111the store's advertIsement
that items purchased 111advance of the time at whIch they are
wanted WIll be 'Stored free of charge untIl the elate set for delivery.
Regular employes can assist the management to qUIte an extent by reporting
any unusual, yet logIcal, P0111ts not 111 the
store's rule book that may be brought up by the "extra" salespeople.
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COMPANY,
2312 W. Van Buren St., CHICAGO.
WEEKLY
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An Unfair Publisher.
The advertisement produced herewIth shows that sometimes
even pubhshers dIsplay a degree of shortsightedness
m adoptmg
schemes for the promotlOn of theIr subscnptlOn busmess.
No
doubt the pubhsher of the "Drl'-Goods-l1,1 an" has placed an order
of conSIderable SIze WIth the manufacturer
of the desk Illu'Str dted
The chances are also that by thIS means he has secured and l~
glvmg hIS prospectIve subscnbers the benefit of the whole~ale pnce
plus the pnce of the subscriptIon to hIS pubhcatlOn
No doubt
thIS wlll result m savmg all that the pubhsher claIm'S for every
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ESK AND THE DRYGOODSMAN $15 00
A •$25 •~OODFOR
ONE YEAR
PRICE,
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We contracted wltn a large manufaeturer ror a quantl:t)1or th:esedesks, bot they
can't last always
If'tou want the best
ever saw for the money send US' your ellMk for
$1:'00 and we WIll order
detilk slupped at once and date YO\J,fllU~tlOl:l
aheall on THE DRYGOODSMAN
for one year
POSlnyeIy no desks s!upped 'WIth",ut
U1 adYance as we will not
accounts, nelther 'WInwe sell the llesk at
prtce unless you are a sul>S<)rl'!let
or advertlser
You cannot
ImmedIately upon
receIpt ()f your re
buy thiS
IDlttatlce
any other
way for less than
$25 00 and you
would not be paymg
a cent more than it
1$ worth 11 you prod
desk
ltl
do It todaY?
but shipment
c1tn110'
be ptomtsed
sooner
than ten days 'Or two
week-s from time
orJ;ier
The
Dryguodsman
lor $t500 why not
mal<er& to
you the <leak,
$lrnct the
slllP
that prtct' But If
you can get it and
The
We W111 In
He*M
'VegM
260
45 II
awel'
(rQllii<,
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desk
With
recerved
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utmost care
and will pe .ent
F
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"ELI"
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Wnte
ON SALE
INDIANA
for cuts and pnces
IN FURNITURE
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EXCHANCE,
EVANSVILLE.
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THE DRYGOODSMAN
1027 VVashmgton Ave
ST LOUIS
one who becomes a subscnber under the offer.
The questIOn
naturally anses, If thIS publisher can afford to furnish consumers
WIth office fur111ture at manuufacturers'
prices, why should any
furnIture dealer carry office desks?
\~lhI1e the Dry-Goods-M an
no doubt CIrculates to many dealers \V ho handle nothmg but dl y
goods and a few related hnes, It probably also circulates to many
department stores havl11g furmture departments.
If the fnr11lture dealer performs a legItImate functIOn, 111carrymg a stock of
goods, whIch is essentIal to the conve111ence of a commumty, then
the sale of furmture as subscrIptwn premiums must be IllegItimate.
It 'would seem that propnetors of departments stores having furmture departments espeCIally would use theIr 111fluence to
dIscourage a scheme of thIS k111d. No doubt the publIsher of the
Dry-Goods-Man
would be very grateful If the furniture dealers'
aSSOCIation would co-operate 111 the publication of a dry goods
journal.
Chicatio House Not Affected.
SIege1-Cooper'~ 111New York, a~ "uch, pds~ed out of existence yesterday by mergel WIth Greenhut & Co, the comohdated company to be known as "The Greenhut-SIegel-Cooper
Company"
The merger, however, m no way affects the ChIcago house of SIegel-Cooper & Co , accOl d111gto Isaac Kelm, thIrd
vice president, who says that the Chicago company is owned by
other persons and is not connected WIth the New York SlegelCooper's.
The New York store was founded by Henry SIegel
and afterwards purchased by J B Greenhut and hIS associates,
who also bought the old site of B Altman & Co, at EIghteenth
Stl eet and SIxth avenue, and there started the Greenhut store
WIth whIch the New York Siegel-Cooper house is now merged.
10 SPINDLE
WIfH
MACHINE
12, 15 20 AND 25 SPINDLES.
DODDS' NEW GEAR
DOVETAILING
MACHINE
ThiS httle machme has done more 10 perfect the drawer work of furnIture manufacturers
than anything else In the furmture trade
For fifteen
years It has made perfect fitting vermin proof dovetailed stock a pOSSI
bl1Jty ThIS has been accomphshed
at reduced cost, as the machIne cuts
dove-tails In gangs of from 9 to 24 at one operatIOn
It s what others see
about your bus1ness rather than what )0 ou sa-) about It, that counts 1n the
cash drawer
It's the thnll of enthusiasm and the tt ne nng of truth you
feel and hear back ofthe cold type that makes you bny the thmg adverttsed
ALEXANDER
DODDS CO., GRAND RAPIDS,MICH.
Repre.ented by Schuchart & Schutte at BerlIn. V,enna. Stockholm and St
Pelelllbu,g
Rep,esented by Alfred H Schutte at Cologne. Brussel•• Ltege. Pan ••
Muan and Buboa Rep,esented m G'eat Bnuan and Ir.land by the Oliver Machmery
Co. F S Thompson. Mg, •• 201-203 Dean.gate, Manchefte,. England.
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ARTISAN
bet\\ een the "trel\ chng 111an" and the order taker
The travel111g sale"man make, sales; the "travelmg
man" tnes to make
,ale,-to
cut a round, slTOOth hole WIth a locomotIve
\Iel chants 'v ho catel to the cash b lyer ancl keep theIr creel
a, as 10\\ as possIble, al e able to establIsh very c!o,e, 111'lde relatIOn, \\ah the 1l1anUfactul er" ell1d Jobbers fr0111 \\h0111 the) 00tam stuck
'\ dealer who ha~ tlled the experiment SellS It pays
to c11~Cr1ll11nate111makmg pnces 111favor at the md.l who comes
m to the store \\ Ith money m his Dpen palm
PUISl-ISHEO ~VERY
SATURDAY
ay
TH~
MICHIGAN ARTISAN COMPANY
$UBSCRIPTION $1 00 PER YEAR ANYWHP:RE IN THE UNITED STATE:S
OTHER COUNTRIES $200
PUBLICATION
OFFICE,
108-112 NORTH
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Entered
PER YP:AR. SINGL.E COPI"'5 S C"'NTS.
u second class matter
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WHITE,
DIVISION
ST.
G"AND
RA~IDS.
MICH.
MANAGING EOITO"
July 5, 1909. at the post office at Grand
under the act of March 3. 1879
CHICAGO REPR"'S"'NTATIVE E
Rapids
MIchIgan
L.EVY
An enoneous
Impression may and does frequent1l
C"I,t
among the people of the \\ est \n re~ard to the ,o-calleel auctlO11
~ale~ of carpets and lugs conducted b\ the \lc"anclel
"I11Ith 6c
Sons company and other 'ea ,tel n manutactul eh
\lam pcopll
th111k that the sale, al e tor the pm pose ot dbpO'\llSi at aIel or
SUl plus ::.tocks-pattellb
that have proved ulljlojlulal
eLL-but
that Idea IS wrong
The goods offered are ne\\ mo't ot them
of styles, deSIgns 01 pattelns that ha\ e nc\ el been ,h J\\!l bctOlC
the Opell111gof the sale
\s a matte I ot tact the ,ale, al C not
really auctlOlls
The} are conducted \ el \ much lIke the 'U11I
annual fur111twe sede,
The rl1g, and calpeb are ~olelb\ "amplc,
dt fixed pnces and the . ]wlel111£;' b on numbe\ ~ 01 lluantltle,
rather than on pnces
The sales sen e to IndIcate thc V)]U11lC
of bus1l1ess for the facto11e"
01 elers al e tdktn amI ,C'lh to the
factones where the l.:;uod" elle manu1cldul eel dnd shipped 111tune
for the open111g of the follo\\1l1g sea'on
]he -etIe lu"t d()~ul
wlllch I" reported b) the \lexallder S11llth 8c :-OOIhC01l1pam (()
have been the large,t and most sl1Lcessful 111 the11 11l"tOl\ \\ a"
for the spnng season of 1911
1he Selle 111 \la\ h t)1 tlIl led1
"eason of retaIl trade
The row teenth :-,tt eet '-,t01e ot the "Ie~d collcdlon
111
\few YOlk, publIshes a monthly called the BllS) COIIlCI Bll~~( I
It aun~ to lllStl uct anll entertam the store emplo) e"
\mong
the senous subJ ect.., cl\scu~sed are "1 he \ alue at S) ~te!1l 'OJ)
portUl11tles for Advancement
111 Department
C)tOles ' 'Stock
Tclk111g" and (Punctuaht)"
The (Bll~::c]"
I" lead qUIte genelally by the emplDyes, but thel e are some who \\ ould not rLad It
If paId for theIr tIme whIle domg so 1\ Ith theIr departul ~ at
the close of the clay's work the) tr) to dbm1'os thOllght, ot the
store
\Vhat a SVv
lpe 1 A bus1l1e"s sharp of Pllllaclelpllla rkdat eel
the other day that retaIlers of 111erchcll1cbse. as a lule al e not
possessed of "hIgh 1110ral characters"
"The} mll'lt be educated
to hIgher standards, \\ hen the C0111bll1cltlOnof clehnquenues
tIll
I etallers affect to beheve as nght Will be cltscarclecl'
It ha" been
supposed by many that a gl eat number of merchant::, \\ el e dnllch
deacons and supenntendents
of Sunda) schools and thel dore
uncontaminated
by Im1110rabl}
'Th a pIt}, If It 1'0 not trne
The
has
man
and
The "Produce Show" to be glVen next month b} the Hannah &. La) :\Iercantlle
company of Traverse
CIty, :\llch, a,
stated on another page, mlght be repeated WIth profit by melc!Jants III manv sectIOns of the count 1')
ThDse \\ ho thlllk of
tn mg the -Lheme ~lJOuld sencl for a COP\ of the Hannah & Lay
compam s announcement
and preml11m lIst
There is a dlffel ence be1\\ een an ordel taker and a sdlesman
order taker w11te" a memOlanc1a ot the thmg" el (U"tomcI
deCIded to buy
1he salesman l~ a per,uaeler, an ana1l st ,l
\\ho has the ablltty to make one v"ant 'omethmg he need,
to purchase the same. There IS ho\\ e\ el, but lIttle chfferenLl
RepOl b tlom \\ ood\\ orl~111g factOlles ~ho\\ a cOl1Slderabl"
cleu ease 111 the number of aCCIdents to employes S111cethe 111ttOductlOn of safety guard attachments
tD shapero., bU77 planers,
J0111ter, and ~Imllal machmes
In many shops the men object
to the gual d", but \\hen once 1l1stalled manufacturers
should 111,10 t upon thur
u'e
Dealel' 111hard\\ are throughout
the country cDmpla1l1 that
a ~Ieat deal of the trade that ndtlllally belongs to them is gOIng
111tOthe depal tment st01 es
A consIderable number have added
IurmtUl e, IU~S el11d other house furmsh1l1g goods whIch have
,el \ ed to recall a part of the lost trade
] he lm;:se ..t ..tOle IS
the lellgest ..,tock and the
l)J[;:se~t st01 e ma, ha\ e
the Sl/e clnd qua11t y of
ll1ana~e~ It
110t necessdllly the one thett contaInS
gl edtest cll1JOunt of flool space
The
gcllned Jh chstll1ltlOl1 on account of
the hI aIn of the man \\ ho owns or
Retallcl"
~eek I()CatlOn~ 111 the retaIl ~edlons of a Clt)
n,t1lk1l1~ and office bllllcItng dbtI ICtS are llctturall) aVOIded The
hnlk ot tt clele 10 pLlced by the women, amI the retaIl d\stncts att! act then attentIOn and pI esence
House fUl nl'hers fad to produce an artI~ tIc effect when they
place art-, and Claft, fur111ture 111 a room conta1l11l1g a Loub
QU111/e mantel
Ev el) bus111ess man should be a booster
ot the to\\ n 111 \v blLh he ltves
and not a bltghter
The, alue of el de"'Ign I, m the ,U11ount of stocK that :,tIcks
on the floor
Furniture Fires.
T Z DIe." tnrl11tnre deale\ of Dallcls, Texas, suffered a
~mall loss by fire on ~ ovember 12 Insured
J D KImball" f UfIJlture store at \Voodbur), Conl1 , was de"boyed by fire on \ovember
10
Lo.,s about $~,OOO, partIally 111~Uled
()ne of the cIt) kIlns of the Duane ChaIr company at Dalton,
(Jel, \\ a" burned on '\ ov ember 11 Lo"s on bUIldIng and content-, $ i,OOO, no 111snrance
1he Preston lUI111tUle company's st01 e and ~tock 111 DlrllJ 111gh
am , AId, \vere damatSec1 by fire to the eAtei1t of $8,000 or
$9,000 on November 11 Fully 111SUlCd
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Your Continued
Success Depends
on the QUALITY of Your GootIsIt's after a bed or chair or table leaves your store that it counts for or against your
future trade. Every Stow & Davis table you sell is a constant advertisement
of your reliability. Our tables resist wear-quahty is bUIlt m, along with the
style and hand rubbed finish that make our designs so attractive.
Our new catalog, showing some of the handsomest Colonial and Flanders
diners ever built, is in press. Y au will just naturally want these top-notchers in
your own store, for your best trade. Send in your name for an early copy.
Grand Rapids, Mich.
STOW & DAVIS FURNITURE COMPANY,
PERFECTION
TABLE TOPS.
OFFICE AND BANK TABLES.
DINERS.
New Factories.
James Redmond of Grand RapIds, Mlch, IS reported as orgamzmg a company to estabhsh a ,,,oodworkmg factory at KnoxVIlle, Tenn
The Modern FlxtUles company, capltahzed at $15,000, has
been organized to e5tabhsh a new plant and manufacture
store
and office fixtures at Alliance, O.
C. D, Gay L. and Zerelda D. Tufts have incorporated
the
Sunhght MetallIC Cloth Curtam compan), capltdhzed at $13,000,
to establish a factory m ChIcago.
The ~ew England Cabmet Works is the name of a corporation whIch is to manufacture
mantels and office fixtures at Cumberland, Me. Capital stock, $25,000.
The new factory of the Felch & PIer ChaIr company at
BrattlebOlo, Vt, WIll begin operatIons on December 15. They
wJ11 manufacture
a cheap grade of kItchen and chning room
chairs.
Tille Buchanan Manufactunng
company, capitahzed at $5,000,. has been 01 gani7ed by E S Gnffith, Joseph A. Rowel, Joel
Phllhps and others, to manufdcture
fur111ture, coffins and hoe
handles at Buchanan, Ga
A large veneer plant whIch has been completed at Okeanskaia,
near VladIvostok, Slbena, IS eql11pped WIth modelll Amencan
woodworkmg
mach1l1ery, and IS the most up-to-date factory 111
the far east.
The new plant of the Scott Manufacturing
company at Helena, Ark, whIch WIll be devoted entIrely to the manufacture
of
furnIture, IS nearing completlOn.
It will be put mto operatIOn
before the end of the year.
ReSIdents of GreenvIlle, Tenn, hav1l1g subscnbed $5,000 of
the $13,000 111 a company plOmoted by J C Moore, of Lenoir,
N. c., Mr. Moore WIll estabhsh a chaIr factor) at GreenvIlle, to
employ at least eighty hands, WIth a pay roll of not less than
$500 per week.
Herbert W. Reynolds, who recently retIred from the firm of
Hall & Reynolds, fur111ture, carpet and wall paper dealers, of
Lynn, Mass, has been ID1SS1l1gS1l1ce Novembel 1 Before leavmg, he wrote a letter to his WIfe stat1l1g that he was gmng away
for the benefit of his health, and sent her a check for $100. Mrs
Lena Pratt, who filled a responsIble pOSItIOn in a Lynn shoe factory, also chsappeared when Mr. Reynolds went away.
New Furniture
Dealers.
Charles Welcome Is a new funllture dealer 111Lowell, l\la5s
A. A. Wolfe & Son are new furmture dealers at Manetta,
The People'" Cash Store I" the name of a new fur111ture and
carpet at Meshopen, Pa.
HockersmIth & Bowen \vl11open a new furmture store at Arcacha, Fla, on December 1
Kees, Beddow & Co, have opened a new furnIture and carpet store at Gallup, N. Mex
R. Kratche will open d new fur111tUle "tore at AntIgo, \VIS,
on December 1, and111ay add undertakl11g later.
A..rthur Green of Detroit is to open a new furniture and undertak111g estabhshment
at Holly, MIch., on December 1.
John Nlesman, a harness dealer of Brodhead, \VIS, is to
open a new furmture store at DaVIS, 111 He \,,111 COllt1l1UehIS
bus111ess at Brodhead .
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W ant Reco~nition.
As an outcome of the awal d of the conh act f01 fUll11~hmg carpets and shades for the new :0.Iame state capItol, the turmture dealers of l\lame are makmg an effort to secure \\ ha t the,
call a better recognitlOn of theIr claIms
The result of the btcldmg was the announcement,
recently, that the contract had been
awarded to the John H Pray company of Boston, they bem!?;
the lowest bIdder.
But there are two constructlOns to the bleb
and some of the Augusta furmture dealers claIm that m realIty
the lowest bIdder was the Jack & Hartley company of LeWIston,
especially as regards carpets.
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mtel est you but there are Mame mel chants who
\\ auld lIke a share of th1S business.
If you w111kmdly wnte a
letter, "lmdar to the one enclosed, (your letter head preferred)
The result of the bIdding has been to stir the ft1l111ture men to petition the incommg governor for the appomtmtnt
as superintendent
of public bmldmgs of "a man who IS 10) al to
the business interests of Maine."
Last week a cIrcular letter was sent to fur111ture and hardware dealers of Maine.
It originated w1th a prominent furmture house and is as follows:
"Gentlemen:
"We wish to call your attentIon to the fact that a greater
part of the supplIes and furnishings
for the state house have
for the last few years, been purchased outside of the state, many
of the same at higher pr1ces than our dealers would be pleased
to furnish
The furniture
and hardware merchants
of Maine
should recelVe the benefit of this business. It w1ll be but a short
11me before Honorable
Fredenck
W. Plaisted WIll recelVe the
oath of office as governor of Maine.
Many appoll1tments w1ll
then be made by him.
If Maine merchants want a "hare of the
state busmess and request of hIm in hIS appomtment of the supermtendent
of publIc bmldmgs, that he be a man \\ ho 1S loyal
to Mame mdustnes,
we feel certam that Mr. PlaIsted WIll appomt a man who w1ll consider our Maine dealers.
This may not
Designed by Frank Burton, a StUdent in the
Grand RapIds School of Deslgnmg.
and
the
hon
"ee
mall to us, we w111see that it 1S presented with others, at
proper time. vVe trust that you WIll gIve this your attenas all Ma111e merchants
are, to some extent, interested to
thIS bus111ess left here in Ma111e."
The fact01y hand \\ho waits for something
better to
turn up usually lacks the confidence necessary to grasp it when
1t comes.
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A.n Unfair Proposition.
Here is another scheme to help make busIness more profitable for furmture dealer"
You wlll notice that the PrufrockLItton company are tryIng to Induce dealers In dry goods and In
fact everythIng except furmture, to keep theIr catalog handy, as
by thlS means they wlll be able to "reap blgger profits."
Of
course, no merchant who knows his bus1l1ess w111think of trying to break into the game by a scheme of thlS kind.
Every
store keeper has a few fnends whom he might be able to sell
goods to by means of tlllS catalog, especially 1£ he sells the goods
at a nommal profit.
Of course, 1£ he tned to get regular retal1
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January 1st, by havmg our wholesale catalog on yourctlest
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You can sell d.rect to your cu.tomers from thl$ catalog, whtclt
contam. more than a thousand hall tone cuts These handsome,
accurate dlustraltons and the complete descnptlons mate selee.
ltons easy and sallslaclton certam One dollar a piece 1S what
these catalogs actually cost us, but .1 vou are a merchant yl>U
can have a cntalog absolutely FREE Your name and address
WIll brIng you your copy
But don't put larger profits offllli
tomorrow
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LITTON
FIJRNITUR~
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418. Nbrth Fourth St.reet" Set Lows Mo
Sm Y l)U will pl~a$e fend Ul« III once a (QPY of )'CUr new W~
Ca1!11(.ii
Firm '\lame
Ow
State
prices for the goods, even his personal friends would rather buy
from a furniture dealer who carnes stocks and pays taxes on lt.
If fur111lture dealers made lt a rule to carry catalogs of other hnes
whIch they sold at a nominal profit, dealers In those other lInes
might feel that It was necessary to retahate In order to protect
themselves,
As a general thIng any merchant who has been In
business very long, does not expect to do bUSIness by substttutIng
a catalog for a stock of goods,
It is very evident that the Prufrock-LItton
company do not care for the trade of the regular
furmture dealers
At least they ought not to expect any whlle
they continue to urge other merchants to sell furmture by theIr
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Chica go, Ills., U.S,A.
Cut OUI OmPOl\ and Mall T OOay
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SELLER
Cut a Mail Order "Melon."'
A ten l111llion dollar "melon" was cut last Saturday by the
chrectors of Sears, Roebuck & Co., when they voted to recommend a stock dIVIdend of 33;Y:3 per cent. on the common stock
($30,000,000)
to holders on record on Apnl 1, 1911. RatificatIOn of tll1s dIVIdend by the stockholders at theIr annual meetIng
on Feb 27, 1911, IS regarded as a mere forma!lty, the maJonty
of the stock ,having been represented at the c!lrectors' meet111g to-
WRITE
FOR THE
PRICE
day.
The extra dIVIdend had been expected in Wall c;treet for
some months.
The company, whIch does a mal! order merchandIse busl11ess, has reported 111creased earnings from tIme to time
111the course of the year, even when other merchants and general busmess were findl11g "hard sleddl11g," and lt was generally
known that the stockholders were to receIve the ImmedIate benefIt of the company's
prosperity.
No 83,
GEO. SPRATT & CO.
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SKILLED MECHANICS ARE NEEDED
Methods for ProducingJThem Discussed
ployers and Educators.
by Em-
noston, :0.Iass, N ov 18 -The
fourth annudl convention of
the NatIOnal Soc1et) for the PromotIOn of Industnal EducatIOn
opened here yesterday mornmg, wIth Dr DavId ~nedden state
commis<;lOner of educatIOn, pres1dmg
After bnef opel11ng remarks by Prof. C. R RIchard:" dIrector of Cooper L mon dnd
presIdent of the sOClety, the convention proceeded to the dbCUSslOn of "Demands ane! Opportumt1es
for Guls In Trae!e, ancI
Stores," dble addres~e, on the cubJert be1l1g gr"en b, Dr ::-'U'd1~_.#. __
1\1 Kmgsbmy of the \\ omen s EducatIOl'al and Indlhtndl
L n on
of Boston, J\1rs L \V Pnnce, chrecto1 of th~ L mon ~C'1( 01 of
Sdlesmamh1p
Boston, :\llSS Ed1th:\1
Em\ es pI eS1dent of the
GIrls TracIe IrducatlOnal League of Bo,ton, and other'
The afte1noon 'e'"IOn \\ as de, oted tJ the d1'CU"1( n of
"Tramlllg of Teache1s for G rls T1ade Sc'1001s ane! la,t e, emng
the delegates v" ere tendered a receptIOn and banquet b, the Do,ton Chamber of Commerce, amon~ thJse pre"ent be ng pro11l1l1ent
educators, manufacturer"
and rep1 esentatlve:o of orgamzec1 labor
flOm all sectIOns of the count1 \
Ila) or Jlt7gerdld deln ereel the
address of welcome and Ex-Go, ern01 CurtI' Gmld acted as toa:ot
master.
The proceedmgs of the m01111ng se,,:olOn toda, \\ e1e ot mterest to manufacturers
becll1se the reports sho\\ ed that eftorh,
earnest and qmte effective, are be1l1g made by great C01pOlatlom
to 1eplel11sh the supply of skIlled mechamc,
The general tOpIC
unde1 dIscussIOn was "~PP1 entlcesh1p and COIpor dtIOn School,
Tracy Lyon of the \\ est1l1~hotl-e E1ectnc and IlanuLlctunng
company, P1ttsbmg, r \\' Thomas, supe1 VISor ot apprentices ot
the Atchmson, Topeka &. Santa Ie ra1lwa) S) stem, Samuel r
Hubbard, supenntendent
of the '\ orth End L 1110n Doston, and
George G Cotton of the ~olva) Ploce,s compan" S, 1dCu,e ch,cussed the app1 entIce"lllp schools of theIr re'peLtn e compal11e:,
and G. 1\1. Dasford, a %lstant to the pI e:01dent ot the \me11can
LocomotIve compan), New Y 01 k, closed the "e"lOn \\ lth a summation and anal) SlS of the papers read
1\1r. L)on 111 descllbl11g the means taken b, the \\ e,t1l1ghouse Electnc and J\Lll1ufactunng
cumlJdn) to educate It'> dpprentices spoke a" an executn e officel of a large manutactunng
concern, and saId that hIS company had a vel y keen dppreClatIOn
of the importance of lIldust11al education
The company gIves
THE WORLD'S BEST SAW BENCH
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BUilt with doublt' arbors, shdlDg table and equipped complete with taper pin
guages carelully graduated.
Th:s machme represents the heIght In saw bench constructIOn. It is desIgned and bUilt to reduce the cost of saWIngstock.
Write us for descriptive Information.
THE TANNEWITZ WORKS, ~rt:.gf;PJDS.
ItS apprentices a certam amount of class room 111struction during
hour" and abo supports m part the Casmo Techl11cal
:\lght School, besIdes prov1d1l1g 111structors who supervIse the
,hop work at the app1 entIces WIth the end in view of 1l1forming
them 111 regard to all parts of the processes of the shop.
The
apprentices are 111 the classrooms four hours per week during the
entIre year and are there taught mechanical draw1l1g and arithmetIc 111 the shape of ~hop problems
The aIm of the mstructlOn
b to make all round mechamcs of the maJ onty of the boys. In
ca se, however, a boy IS capable of attainmg skIll in the operation
of but one tool he IS helped to 11lgher efficiency in that single
\\ 01 kmg
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Others 54 in. top.
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GRAND RAPIDS,
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MICH.
line. The definite aim of all instruction is to correlate manual
dextenty wIth a knowledge of the draw111g and anthmetic that
IS essentIal.
A further ann IS to Imlme the splnt of servIce and
wIllingness, of order, and the applIcation of system and common
sense to dally problems.
Mr. Thomas took an exceptIOnally broad minded and comprehensIve view of the apprentIceshIp
problem, speakmg wIth
true socIal 111S1ghtand sympathy.
He saId that the apprenticeslup sy::,tem of the Santa Fe raIlway system had ItS bIrth when
the road was 111crying need of skIlled mechal1lcs and was onginated for the defil1lte purpose of providmg mechal1lcs, as they
could not be hIred
The same need IS felt at present.
The
company can hIre all the mechamcal engmeers, dra ftsmen and
college men that are wanted, but the greatest lack not only of the
Santa re raIlway system but of raIlroads and manufacturing
plants all over the country IS for first class skIlled mechamcs
The
apprentIce instructIOn mc1udes two branches, the theoretIcal and
the practIcal.
In each shop of the company, a bmldmg IS set
aSIde, known as the apprentIces' school room m whIch the boy is
reqtJJred to spend two hours a day, two days In the week. Here
he IS taught freehand and mechamcal drawll1g, practIcal shop
anthmetIc, the SImpler elements of mechamcs, and certain facts
of geography and hIstory relatmg entIrely to the road
The
school rooms are furnIshed wIth all the pal aphernalIa common to
an academy lecture room, and a techmcally and practically educated man IS m charge.
InstructIOn IS mdlvldual and each boy
progl esses Just as fast as hIS abIlIty and capacIty WIll permIt.
No text books are used but standard lesson sheets, wntten and
pnnted m the office of the supervhor of apprentIces, are sent to
each of the vanous schools
These lessons are prepared wIth the
Idea of teachmg and dnllmg the boy along a certam Ime, givll1g
hIm what he actually needs m the trade that he IS learning and
leavmg out all foreIgn subjects.
On the practIcal side the apprentIces are reqUIred to work
in the shop lIke any Journeyman, but they have the advantage of
first class skIlled mechanics to Instruct and gUIde them. Apprentices are impressed wIth the desirabIlIty of cleaning up before
leavmg theIr work at the shop
They are also encouraged m
athletics.
The Santa Fe system spends from $35,000 to $40,000
a year in traming boys for its future needs; but even in face of
such an expendIture it has been found that the boys who have
passed through the schools are accomplIshing enough more work
to more than pay for the cost of imtructmg
them.
Mr. Thomas
'insisted that apprentices must be paid a lIving wage, sufficient
for them to have nutritious food and to wear comfortable and
sightly clothing if the best that is in the boy is to be brought out.
1\1r. Cotton, representing
school for mechanics, pointed
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the Solvay Process company's
out that as the company is en-
Line
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GRAND RRPIDS
FAN CY FURNITURE C~
GRRND RRPlDS,MICH.
GET THE CRTIlLOGUE
gaged in the manufacture
of chemicals, special training for that
partIcular kind of work IS necessary.
The plan adopted by thIS
company IS known as the "half time plan," accordll1g to whIch
the boys work one week m the shop and one week ll1 the school.
Mr. Basford,
assistant
to the presIdent
of Jihe American
LocomotIve company, in summing up msisted that apprenticeship
offers the only method for thoroughly preparing reCl uits for mechanical work in what are known as the trades
He said that
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RAPIDS
PRESS
SATURDAY
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29
1910)
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modern conchtlons made necessary a nevv kmd of apprentIceship
provldl11g for defimte, systematIc ll1structlOn for competent mstructors who make thIS their first duty, mstead of the apprentIceshIp of the old type, where1l1 boys learn only what the men wIth
whom they were work1l1g were wllll11g that they should learn.
The boys should also be taught the fundamental
scientific and
mathematical principles that underll11e the processes which they
are called on to perform.
It takes
cotnmgs.
a wIse
supellntendent
to lucle hIS own
short-
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SUPERIOR TO SAND PAPER.
It costs more, BUT It Lasts Longer; Does Faster Work.
Order a small lot; make tests; you will then know what you are getting.
WE GUARANTEE
Ra~road Companies, Car Builders and others will
Barton'. Emery Cloth, Emery Paper, and Flint Paper, furnished in rolls or reams.
and Chair Factories, Sash and Door MIlls,
MANUFACTURED
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Buildings That Will Need Furniture.
Residences-Brooklyn,
K Y - \Iax Dehnsk), 117 Kent a\ enue, $7,000, H Glassman, 73 :!\IcDonough shect $9,000, P J
Carley, 417 Slxty-sccond street, $G 000 J Rlh 1 errace a\ enue
and Culver road, Holhs, $10,000, S \\ Itt (JO South ;,Iaclbon
avenue, Flushmg, $5,100, H R Leno,-, 3G" Jetter~on avcnue,
$9,500; B. Baum, 47 Rockawa) road, JamaIca, $3000. P Stelr
139 Foxhall street, $3,000, H. -\neler,on -\shburton a\ cnue and
Chambers street, Bay SIde, $G 300, Cord lIe) el, ~1l11hubt, S.,SOO.
$2,500, James GIlchnst, FortIeth street and Wash1l1gton boulevarel, $9,000, E 11 Jones, Chfton and Udell streets, $3,000;
'\nna \Vatts, Tii cnty-fourth street and CapItol avenue, $1,000,
\\ T Turnel T\Vent} -SIxth and Pennsy lvania strcets, $3,500.
Los -\ngeles Cal--Dana
Burks, 152 Garfield place, HollyiiOOel, S3 300, ;,Ib Della Patteln, 745 South Figueroa stIcet,
$+,126, H E Rhodenhouse, 213 North Hartford street, $3,950;
H e Bl11kle), 923 \\ est Twelfth street, $2,500; Bessie Brad-
A Bed Room Suite
Cincinnati, 0 -John
Oker, J ul1lata a\ enue and ~tath(m
street, $5,000; Duelley C Outcalt, StlllglS aiCnue and DIxon
street, $4,000; Ella B Sayel s, Hershel and Red Bank avenue,
$4,000; R S Fox, Symmes and \\'Ilhamson ~treets, S3,000, H
C. YeIser, 1005 Burton aiCnue, $+ 000, ;,Iro ;,Ieta ;,Ie)cr, 3210
Red Bank avenue, $3,500
Cleveland, 0 -H
G Dettelbach, 1430 -\nsel a\ enue, S-1,OOO
H. G. Slalmyer, Lane avenue and \V est 110th street, 8S,000, S
S. Burr, 3855 \Vest SIxteenth street, $3,000. L H \ an Dame,
38G7 W. SIxteenth street, $2,500, W T ;,Iallo 3859 \\ e,t SI'teenth street, $3,000; F. '\ Emmerton, IG19 Ea,t 113th otrect
$12,000; F. E. Drury, SG1;) Euchd avenue, $30000, -\ E Hope
2121 Abington road, $3,000.
Detroit, MICh -Frank
Hadden, Harl1llton street, anel Kelcheval avenue, $3,500; J olm lIIott, V meii ood and Scovel sit eeb,
$S,OOO;W. W. Robmson, Taylor and Second streets, $3,000, T
M. Worden, Blame and ThIrd streets, $G,500, \tV. J. f\ann, 12G
Hubbard street, $7,500; "\ lCtor Denemeth, 2S0 Bali\ m street, 83,100; John Owen, 422 Semmole street, $3,000, N F Carpenter,
1053 Warren street, west, $2,800, S J Blomfield, 39± Klrb)
street, $7,000; vVllliam F Mmster, Seward and GI eenfield ,tl ect',
$3,500 ; Jacob J. Lutz, J\1Jlwaukee avenue and John R ,tl eet, S1,000; Clara B. Kmg, 33 Palmer avenue, $8,300, rred Kuster,
FaIrVIew street, and Kercheval avenue, $9,000
Dallas, Texas -R. S. Green, J acmto and MatIlda streets,
$3,500; J. H Cravens, 319 Colomal avenue, $3,000, C I Jackson,
Allen and Flora stI eets, $5,000; Nell G Grub, 40G ColumbIa a,enue, $2,700; J. R Eldredge, 301 Fay street, $3,000
Duluth, Mlinn -A
K Love, 186 Twenty-sixth
avenue
west, $4,500; W. F. Kmg, S18 Jefferson street, $3,300; C S
MIller, VIsta street and Fay avenue, $6,000; H ~ Moore, 9S+
East FIfth street, $4,000
Denver, Col.-Peter A Burns, Twenty-sIxth stleet and BIrch
street, $5,000; F A. Thompson, Race street and SIxth avenue,
$4,000, H. \iV. WIesner, OhIO and South Lmcoln streets, $3,000,
W. S. Brenner, ThIrty-eighth
and Kmg stI eets, $2,500; A R
McKelvie, Ogden and Fourth streets, $3,000.
Indlanapohs, Ind.-James].
Curley, 1716 Kenwood avenue,
Period
William
and Mary
KLING MAN'S
SAMPL~ fURNITUR[
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Division Streets
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A Good Grand RapIds AdvertIsement
bury, \321 Grammercy place, $5,000; Emil Overweg, 207 North
Coronado street, $2,DOO.
Toledo. 0 -Graf
Acklm, 630 Central avenue, $3,500; C.
L. Pame, 2304 Cherry street, $2,500
Houston, Texa~-\V
S Wall, 576 Main street, $6,500: H.
B Helman, 290 Colorado stIeet, $2,500; M. D. George, 618 McKl11ney avenue, $2,500
POItland, Ore -Carl
Walters, Virginia and Ml1ls streets,
82300, G W. Cox, 1754 Seventy-mnth street, $3,000; E. J.
;,Iautz, East FIfteenth street and Knott avenue, $6,500; H. E.
ChIpman, 1232 East Twenty-second street, $4,000; H. W. Heizenretter, East Twenty-mnth street and Emerson avenue, $3,000.
~ewark, N. J -David
Grotta, 148 Hunterdon street, $7,000;
R. A. Heller, 527 Parker street, $5,000; Isaac Steinitz, Irving
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street and Lincoln avenue, $10,000; IEdmund Weyer, 371 Bloomfield avenue, $4,500; Rev. Thomas Walsh, Peshine and Custer
avenues, $5,000; A Prelson Carter, 173 North Flfth street, $5,-
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000.
Oklahoma City, Okla -E.
C. Ross, 1127 West Fourteenth
street, $3,000; Lloyd Smith, H16 West Seventeenth street, $2,500; D. A Hunsicker, 912 West Twenty-fifth street, $2,500.
Topeka, Kan.-Mrs
J S Bell, 835 Fillmore street, $4,000;
vVIlham A. Fleger, 1231 Fillmore street, $3,000; R. L. Gamble,
1415 Fillmore street, $3,500; W. C. Stern, 357 Lane street, $2,600; A. C. Patch, 602 Fl1lmore street, $2,500.
Savannah, Ga -Capt.
C. A. Taylor, 620 Union street, $12,000.
Toronto, Ont -Mrs.
J. D. Wright, Highland avenue and
Glen road, $9,500; E C. SWitzer, Garden street, Sunnyside, $9,000; Wl1ham Dunseath, Bloor and Shaw streets, $8,000; A D.
Morrow, 480 Balmoral avenue, $6,000; Frank Taylor, 184 Hepbourne street, $5,000.
Utica, N Y -Julius
Spoen, 235 Ml1ler street, $3,400, David
MulVIhill, 237 Miller street, $3,500.
LOUlsvl1le, Ky -George
Schwarz, 943 East Market street,
$5,000; John A. Schad, 847 South Thirty-second street, $2,500,
W. E Hutchmgs, 1083 Cherokee road, $2,500; MIss Belle Bennett, 1913 Dunker street, $3,000.
Supenor, WIS - J. J. Murphy, 1901 John avenue, $5,000;
James Borte, 793 West Fourth street, $2,500.
Washmgton, D C -VV. A. Bevard, 11158 P street, N. W., $7,500; H R. Howenstein, 431 Eleventh street, N. E., $7,500.
Omaha, N ebr -1. T. Peterson, 2912 Lake street, $3,000; S
L Lallrd, 3204 North Forty-fifth street, $2,500; H. 1. Wilber, 6003
Florence boulevard, $3,000; George Sprague, 43i).f Frankhn
street, $3,000.
Chicago, Ill-A
C Meyering, 11457 Sheridan road, $8,000 ;
D. Shumacher, 3641 South Robey street, $4,000; Thomas McCall,
1370 East Fifty-fourth street, $9,000; John Garson, 6108 Lmcoln
street, $2,500; Charles Canfield, 221 Comella street, $7,000.
M1l1neapohs, Mmn -F. E Hardenberg, 1025 Logan avenue,
north, $6 500; Ehas Gaalaas, 3429 Park avenue, $4,000; J. H
Damson, 2520 Harnet
avenue, $4,000; Axel K. Lund, 3144
Twentieth avenue, south, $3,000; B W. Smith, 1001 Queen avenue, north, $4,500; Mrs. E J. Stillwell, 2480 Pl1lsbury avenue,
$7,500; Jacob Stone, 2637 Second avenue, south, $3,500; A. H
Schaper, 2810 \Emerson avenue, $3,600.
Atlanta, Ga -Roland
Ransom, 85 Juniper street, $5,500;
Austell Thornton, Decatur and Pryor streets, $10,000; L. H.
Hl1l, 229 Pteers street, $6,000.
San Diego, Cal-Frank
Eychner,
eighth streets, $3,000; Mary Cassitt,
streets, $7,400.
Franklin and TwentyEighth and Robmson
STAINS WORK
They don't raIse
the grain. They reproduce exactly the
finish desired. They
are the products of
practical men.
Modern facilities
and expert knowledge
go hand In
hand here.
all
Above
our stains are
practical.
Put this statement to the test by
putting our stains to
the test. You 'IIfind
they ALL
work
ALWAYS.
MiscellaneOtts Bu~ld~ngs-Tihe
board of education of Toronto, Ont, has m course of construction four school buildings
that Will cost m the aggregate $350,000. Joel Hurt is buildmg
a theatre on Exchange place, Atlanta, Ga., at an estimated cost
of $100,000. Muskegon, l\1~ch., IS to have a new $50,000 theatre, to be erected next summer.
The Evangelical Lutheran
sOCIety of Toledo, 0., are bmld1l1g a $30,000 church on Nevada
and SIX!th streets.
The Umted Order of Druids are buildi<1g a
temple on Dante and Dubll11 streets, New Orleans, La, to cost
$60,000
Tlhe First Umtarian society of Duluth, Minn., are
bmld1l1g a church on First and Eighteeth streets.
The regents
of Victoria U11lVerslty, Toronto, Ont, are buildmg a d1l1ing hall
and sJtudents' reSidence at a cost of $350,000.
A permit has
been Issued for the erection of the Peery Hotel on West Temple
and Third South streets, Salt Lake City, Utah, at a cost of
$120,000.
Write for sample
panel to desk No.3.
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MANUFACTURERS
OF THE
BEST MADE and LEADING LINE of
OFFICE DESKS
IN THE COUNTRY.
Our attention to every detail from carefully selected and matched lumber
to the finished product has given the Petersen Desk its Leadership.
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at Auction.
Thomas B Cldrk, the at t collector at ~ e\\ \ ork, a \\ oke nne
day a few yeal s ago to the fact that he had a mOl e ex.ienslve and
I emarkable co11ectlOn of IE.hghsh furl11ture of the seventeenth
and eighteenth centunes than he had I eahzed \\ as accumulat1l1£i
while he was collect1l1g It Some of hiS fal11ll) and tnendo \\ ere
fully as much surpllsed
Loms C Tlftan) and Luke \ 1I1Le11t
Lockwood became 1l1terested 111 stud) 1l1g the pieces 11l the collectIOn and 1\1'r. Clarke agreed to Ib exhlbltlOn
The upshot ot
1t all was the eventual sale of the collectlOn b) ~Ir Clarke to the
T1ffany StudlOS, where the furl11ture has been ~111ce190:
In the years 1l1tervemng a few of the ob]ect~ have been ,old
to the Metropohtan
l\Iuseum at -\rt and collector~ \\ ho de~lred
to ennch the1r coIlectlOn~, but the Clarke collectlOn rema1l1 s
otherw1se intact and is so nch that It IS dlfhcuIt to reah7e thdt It
ever had other pieces.
It IS now to be thrown upon the market for pubhc competItion, the T1ffany StUdlOS requlnng
the space gn en to 1t for
other departments,
and It IS announced that It \\ III be sold at
auctIOn by the Amencan Art AssoclatlOn next month
1hel e
are so many pieces that the sale Will occupy thl ee atternoon',
December 1, 2 and 3.
The collectlOn \\ III be exhibIted at the
Amencan gallenes from Fnday, \"0\ embel ?3, to the date ot
sale.
The Tiffany StnclIos, 111 a lettel signed by \ Ice President
r B Conover, say.
"The Tiffany Stuchos Will therefore guarantee every pleec
offered at the unrestncted
pubhc sale as be1l1g authentiC and of
the penod stated and that 1t has not been restored, although 111
a few cases some slIght [(:,palrs have been made
"We are also 1I1fluenred 111 proposmg the dbposltlOn of thb
notable coIIectlOn by the fact that It \\ III be the largest and mo~t
Important sale ever held 111 thiS countn or 111England '
Produce Show in a Big Store.
The Hannah & Lay \Iercantlle
company, successor" to the
firm of Hannah, L'ty & Co, ot '1 raver"e Clt) , \IILh, plO11eel
merchant::, and lumbermen and for many ) ears the large'it mercantIle concern 111 the Grand Traverse reglOn, ale runmng an advertIsmg scheme that "Ill undoubtedly prove profitable, not only
to them but to the entIre reglOn 111 wh Lh they are located
1he
Western ;\llchlgan Development
Bureau and the Travel se C1t)
Board of Trade have been advertl "1I1g the 1esoUl ceo, and ad, antages of the Grand Tra\ er"e reglOn con"lderabl) of late and the
plan of the Hannah & Lay company l'i to dS"ISt the boosters b\
prov111g that the claims made 111 the aclvertIs1l1g hay e a substantIal baSIS. With that end m view they Will have what the) call
a "Produce Show" from December 12 to 17 1I1cIuslve, and have
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Ited all the farmers, fI Ult glowers, gal deners, etc, in the
(,I and 1'1 avel 'ie I eglOn to bnng 111 the best of the1r products for
e'Ch1b1t10n
111\
The Hannah & Lay bmldmg, which is known as the "B1g
Store, ' \\111 be used for ex.hlb1tIon purposes and the show ,,111 be
~ometh1l1g lIke a country fa1r
The "B1g Store" ,,111 pay sub~tantIal cash premIUms on co11ectlOns and l11dlvldual exhibits of
grams seeds, vegetables, fI mts, canned goods, JellIes, preserves,
bread, pies, cake" plLkles jams, marmalades, tobacco, nuts, daIry
products etc, and there Will be ]uve11lle departments
w1th speClal pi emlUms for products made by boys and glrls.
The ~hO\, \\ 111lead thousands of people to the "BIg Store,"
and tho"e \\ ho know anythmg about the productIveness
of the
Grand 11aver"e reglOn WIll endorse the pred1ctlOn that the exhibits Wlll be of a high class
It vv111undoubtedly be a strong
,tch el tl ~111gcard
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Henry ScItmit 8,( Co·
HOPKINS AND HARRIET STS.
Cincinnati,
Ohio
makers of
UpItolstered Furniture
for
LODGE and PULPIT, PARLOR,
LIBRARY, HOTEL and
CLUB ROOM
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We ha\e 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 1.Snecessary to move a plcce supported
by cups With cellulOid bases It can be doue 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 ihushed In GOlden Oak and
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PRICES: Size 2U Inches
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GRAND.RAPIDS "OTELS
"OTEL PANTLIND
MORTON "OUSE
(AMERICAN
A bUllclmg permIt taken out by the Wagemaker
company
"how~ that at least $10,000 is to be expended 111 the constructIOn
of the addItlOn to theIr factory mentIOned by the Weekly Artisan
recently.
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Charles 0. Sk111ner has a~ked the buddmg 1l1spector to allow the foundatIOn on the Lyon street side of the propo~ed new
fUrtuture exhIbItIOn building to project over the SIdewalk lme
20 mches The bmlc1mg IS to be called the Furmture Temple.
It IS stated that arrangements for financ1l1g the pro) ect have been
satlsfactonly
arranged and that the company orgamzed by Mr
Skinner WIll be mcorporated
~oon.
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The Diamond Steel Truck company have put a new ~tyle of
furmture casters on the market
They are colored to harmonIze with the wood of the furmture on which they are used or
WIth the tnmmmgs.
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The condItion of Maurice Shanahan, formerly of the Bissell
Bissell Carpet Sweeper company, who has been 111 poor health
for a year or more, has grown worse recently and is now such
as to gIve hIs fnends httle hope for his final recovery.
* * * *
The Grand Rapids Furmture
company, formerly the New
England, wIll have several new patterns In their well known line
for exhIbitIOn in the wmter sales season.
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Chas F. Retting, accompanied by Mrs Rettmg and daughter, LOUlse, left on November 11 for Pasadena, Cal, where they
WIll spend the winter.
Mr. Rett1l1g cannot reSIst his natural
desire to take an order whenever and wherever It looks easy and
the result IS that he has sent in three special orders for hotel,
lodge and club furniture.
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A. S. Goodman, formerly secretary of the Luce Furl11ture
company, was in the cIty dunng the week
It is reported that
he sold his Grand RapIds home to Harry WIddlcomb, manager
of the John Widdicomb company.
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The Retting Furniture
company have recently mailed theIr
catalog for 1911, conSIsting of about 150 pages, averaging about
four cuts to the page, 'So that the company's entire l1l1e IS shown
The book IS artistically deSIgned and executed and cannot faIl
to prove a great help to every furmture dealer who IS fortunate
enough to recelVe it.
As the catalogs cost between two and
three dollars apIece the chstnbutlOn is limited.
The company
began mallmg the catalogs out t",o or three weeks ago and are
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Wood Bar Clamp Fixture •• Per Set SOc.
(EUROPEAN
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Rates:
Rates:
$2.50 a day and up.
$1.00 a day and up.
The Noon Dinner served at the Pantlind for
50 cents is the finest in the world.
J. BOYD PANTLIND, Proprietor.
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receiving orders almo~t dally chrect from them
Commentmg on
the subject, C B. Rettmg Said'
"There are a lot o;1small furniture dealers in the country who cannot carry very
any pieces
from our l111ein stock.
However, many of these
ealers use
our catalog
We were surpnsed
the other day to receive an
order from a dealer in a small town 111 WbCOnS1l1 alling for
one of the most expensive chaIrs we make.
Aside fr m the advantages to the small dealer, our catalog is a great
elp to the
larger dealers, as It enables them to keep track of th stock better and very often enables them to substItute."
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J.
'IV Oltver, president, states that the plant of the Oliver
Machme Works IS fully employed on orders for w odworking
machinery.
A large line of hIgh grade machmes 1 manufactured.
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During hIS recent trip abroad Ralph Tietsort, 0 the Royal
Furmture
company, took a large number of views 'n England,
Germany, France and other countries traveled by automobile,
with a camera, and of the number of plates develope
over seven
hundred were perfect.
Pnnts of many beautiful
cenes have
been made, whIch testify to the skIll of the artist.
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The Grand Rapids Fancy Furmture company re arts an active demand for ladles' desks, mm1C cabmets, wr ting tables,
bookcases and other goods of theIr manufacture,
SUI able for the
holiday trade.
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Traveltng salesmen, representmg
local houses,
short flymg trips to special customers and closing
ness of the year
are makmg
p the bUSI-
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The Grand Rapids manufacturers
of upholster
have, as yet, taken no action toward the organizatlo
of the National f\ssociatlOn of Upholsterers,
that
launched by the Karpens and others of ChIcago, b
able that a meetmg WIll be held soon to consider
d furniture
of a branch
was recently
It It is probhe matter,
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30 000
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Sheldoll
Steel Rack
Vise.
Sold on approval
and an un con·
dltlOnal money back guarantee
SHELDON'S STEEL BA
CLAMPS.
Guaranteed Illde.tr cUble.
Patent Malleable Clamp Fixture •.
E H SHELDON
& CO , Chicago, Ill.
Gentlemen -We are pleased to state that the 25 dozen Clamp FIxtures which
we boull:ht of you a htUe over a year ago are glvmg excellent serVIce
We are
well satlstied With them and shall be pleased to remember you whenever we want
anythmg addltlonalm
thiS hne.
Yours truly,
SIOUXCIty. Iowa.
CURTIS SASH & DOOR CO.
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We soliCit pnvllege of sendl
our complete catalogue
E.H.SHELDO
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Think They Have the Ruby Ru~.
A bundle of four rugs consigned to Duveen Brothers,
\\ ho are charged v'lth defraud111g the government by undervaluatIOn of Imports, was openedm the Nev, York appI alsers'
office last Saturday
The four rugs had been InvOIced at
$1,000-$250
each.
\Vhen the burIap "rappmgs had been 1 emoved and the
rugs were rolled out on the floor a cry of dehght came fr am
the expel t 1'\a rugs of su.:h beauty and delrcacy of texture
as the second one exposed had come mto the stores so far as
he knew, and he had been years 111the gOvernment serVIce awl
had appraIsed thousands upon thousands of rugs
The nearest example he could recall to mmd was" hat is known as the
"Yerkes rug," wInch that mIllIonaIre 1 all way man bought
for $25,000, and the expert felt that even the Yerkes treasure
could not compare wIth the SIlken mass before him
AfraId that hIS judgment mIght have erred the expert
deCIded that he needed outsIde counsel and adVIce He called
111one of the lalgest rug dealers m the CIty, a Turk, who began a" a boy to work at a crude hand 100m, and vvho knows
every celebrated rug 111the" arId, the hlStOIv of ItS manufacture, the tImes It has been sold, the pI Ices paId and Its present
locatIOn.
ThIS Turk actually dlopped on hIS knees almost as If in
worshIp, whIle he rattled out a torrent of verbal admiration.
\Vhen asked how much It "as worth he thre" up hIS hands as
If to say he dared not estImate
F111ally he saId reluctantly
that lt was worth much more than $100000
StIll the appI alser "as not satisfied
So an Amencan
expel t was called 11l He "as qUlck to confirm the TUlk's
Judgment
Among art dealerio It \\ as generally beheved that the
rug IS the famous ruby rug of the fifteenth century
For years
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IDEAL STAMPING AND TOO
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Also special sta pings
In steel and bass,
NO-KUM.OUT
TABLE SOCKET
Patent applied for
Write for
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and p ices
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also con tamed the famous PolonaIse rug, bought se eral years
ago by BenjamIn Altman for $40,000
It has been known 111England and Kew Yo k that the
Duveens have been tryIng to get the 1 uby rug
The rug
meaioures about 12X1S feet
Its general tone IS a deep ruby
red Other colors are" oven 111a subdued way in 0 a deSIgn
that IS intricate yet harmonious.
TURPS-NO.
The Only Perfect substitute for Turpentine.
Contains No Gasoline, No Benzine, No Headlight
il.
For use in reducing Varnish.
For Use in CUTTING DOWN EXPENSES.
TRY IT.
The results speak for themselves. Barrel sent on appro al.
THE LAWRENCE·McFADDEN C
PHILADELPHIA,
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MANUFACTURERS
IN CONVENTION
Some Important .l\'[atters Considered at the St.
Louis Meetiug This Week.
St Louis, 1\10, K ov 17 -'1he seml-annudl meetl11g ot the
1'\atlonal Assoc1atlOn of } Ur11ltllle .i\[anufacturer~
\\ d, held at
the Jefferson hotel here on Tuesday and Wedne"da)
8f tIllS
week. The dttendance, about '(::; member", wa" not so larl.;"e as
usual;but there was no lack of mterest 111 the proceedmg" \\ hleh,
though of a routme order, were of more than u,ual Importance
1898
It reqUlres no matenal changes in the methoJs now used
by practically all of the Grand Rap1ds manufacturers
of case
goods
The aSSOCJatlOn was unable to reach an agreement on the
mlll1mUl1l weight for car loads and that matter was finally refe! recl back to the C0111Jmttee for further consideratlOn
The
chfficulty 111 settling thIs matter arises over the dIfference in the
we1ght of the products of dIfferent factones.
Those who make
heavy furmture
favor a h1gh minlmum because, as a rule, the'
rate l11ueases as the ml11imum decreases, while those who make
lIght weIght pIeces want a low minimum.
The cost schedule as recommended by the committee havI11g that subject 111 charge was cons1dered fair and about nght.
The report was accepted WIth the recommendatlOn
that 1t be
adopted by all manufacturers.
Copies of the report will be
fllrnbhed to all members.
Secretary Ll11ton, as the result of thorough investigation
and I11quiry, reported that the total capacity of case goods factones sl11ce 1906 has been I11creased $2,140,000 in the value of
output
The present total capacIty 1S $42,221.000.
The est1mated production
for th1s year is $30,000,000, compared w1th
$27 000,000 last year and $24,000,000 in 1308.
W HEN
you were a
!ltde gIrl you sat
down to make mud pIes
wlth your tIn dIshes all
around you
~t noon yesterday a banquet was served at the Jefferson hotel
"hen Mr. Wl1lIams of Boston debvered an address on "Glue,"
111 wh1ch he gave the manufacturers
'some valuable information
on the subject.
The address may be printed an~ distributed
dmong the members of the association.
Y Oll dldn t even have to get up
to find the mud
What a wise lIttle gIrl you were
Take a lesson from your mud
ple days hAve everythmg
Just
as convement now as n was then
You can do It WIth a HOOSIer
K tchen Cablnet whjch has every
thmg at yOUT finger sends
Yes, yOll can sJt down, sav('
yourself tWO ml1es of walking
a
day, two bours of drudgery.
and
$5 00 to $f S 00 on the CabInet
Itself. tf you buy a Hoosler
A comm1ttee, of which R. W. Irwin of Grand Rapids is
chdlpnan, was appointed to take such action as may be deemed
nece~sary to protect the I11terests of the association in the matter of freight rates.
The members are unanimously opposed
to any advance in freight rates at present.
Our club term, of II 00 ill week are
ma.de to everyone _11 s ou answer to the
question of whether
you can afford It.
~nother committee was named to represent the association
the X atlOnal Tanff CommIssion convention
to be held in
\\ ashl11gton, January 11 and 12, 1911.
All members of the
a~soclatlOn, so far as known, favor the tariff commission propo~ltlOn
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The Hoolier Mfg Co.
...d Facto,.,
NEWCASTLE,IND
MaJ" OffIce •
300 Adam. Str"t
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A Neat One From Hoosierdom
The C0l11l11ltteeon plans for establishing an association c1earThere was no electlOl1 of officers at th1s meet1l1g
The next
I11ghouse
for credIts and collections was contmued with instrucelection WIll be at the meet1l1g next 1\ lay 111 ChIcago.
tions
to
report
at the next meeting to be held in Chicago next
The most important as well as the most chfficult problem
~Iay
considered at thIS meetIng \IV as that of umfonn classlficatlOn and
Grand Rapicls was well represented at this meeting, among
it was not completely solved
The C0l11l111tteehad several matters to cons1der.
The first was the descnptlOn of artlcle" 111 those present being John Hoult, of the Luce Furniture company,
George G WhItworth
of the Berkey & Gay company E. H
class1fication, on whlch thelr recommendahons
were qUlte satFoote
and
John
Mowat
of the Grand Rapids Chair company, E.
isfactory and were adopted by the assoc1ahon
The second,
K. Pnchett of the Macey FurnIture company, Norman McLave
methods of packing "a~ eas11y d1sposed of, the comm1ttee recomof the Sligh Furmture
company and A. B. Hathaway
of the
mendmg and the aSsoClatlOn adoptmg the method prescnbed by
John Hoult of the Luce Fur11lture company, Grand RapIds, 111 John W1dchcomb company.
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SOSTON--18 Tremont St.
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GRAND RAPIDS--Hou.eman Blda.
JAMESTOWN. N. Y.--Chadakoln Blda.
HIGH POINT. N. C.--N. C. Sa..,lng. Bank Bldg.
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Economy in Advertising Space.
The accompanying
reproduction
of advertIsements
used by
well known dealers are good subjects for study by those mterested m the wnting, arrangement
and constructIOn of "ads"
In the Ch1cago "ads" econom1zing m the matter of space seems
to have been carned to the lim1t-not
an mch is "wasted"
It
will be notIced that space is saved by having the cuts overlap
each other and in mortIsing and utIlizing the space under the
tables, between the legs of the chairs and between the feet of
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at the postoffice across the street, w1ll be rushed into
and your order-if
for merely a yard of nbbon -will
fied and made ready to turn over to the early day force
ping and forwardll1g.
Twelve hours' t1me w1ll be
many tramactIOns-yes,
a full day III the rece1pt of
many cbstant pOllltS.
We send goods prepaid by n
countnes 111the lllternatJonal
postal umon-where
t
isn't over two pounds to the five dollars' worth of g
prepay fre1ght on $5 orders to any ra1lroad statIOn
Gimbel's
be classifor shopsaved on
goods at
all to all
e we1ght
d s. We
ithin 500
Wheneur Yw Ha»e to
1m,"
funlltlu·p-a
alI\
mJall
tfflDg
~QQlplt>t("
onJl'
f'Q!ltltlg
cOlU'lldt'r IOOff' TnI' quaJitv
111 yOU p.a
8.JU()
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ptl'ba'\)6
(l'flrhat
\,rnmdas
I\.
aM.lcle lOOn the
thl:' .av WI' Bell fur
'Tl>us
slDll;J('..hair"'"
anv
OT
bundreds-
of tal'
~"'~
'r'p
a table
If>.... doJlarP.,
slDjI;le ehalr
l'08rlng
0 \tnl
ll('1I1A jU$'l afl 1mJl6tta!l1
tneplaOOrlll('!ilnmg
room
or
me tbp small
tfhmg of n'lftm,. COl'lt. has 10 llustaUl tlw Kling
1ll3f1 ",putatlon lIud mallltalu the 'KlIngman
l'tandard
of pl:cellem'l":
If l\ 8U I JUIlT fight
fll' tl lose nwr(>
lhaD roo.w
~ra
D.L room
ell1 lplXll:'lJl---l.w"ea
moft than tbE'adTantage& of tD~
lIU1te or IIll1l::-]r piMP If' olfered
l"1"l"Y f''lf'IU81Ve dIsplay
Low
prlCe:: ma.ke »... ~
a&ua.cu.va.
"}.I'
folio mg I l'l set" fortll Ih \qdt' pl'lee
'wr'llf'thlDg
llliliM
detilre-d
Ul OR'
pt'Hf'nl
1'll.1Ill:l'tlIS
salf.'offel'f>
Ou F,,~n
'!.nO",,"Il
Oa~ r
on r"blua.r"so.$UOO
Sla~o
sun
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fl~ s '1251)
"1.$ "J.. .st.I/I~
Oat <;~
d
13150and
p .....<4
Oak Chlna Cabnes
112250S2500atldupa"0 .. ,.. "'d~ Ch"
5
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11050.
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bin
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b6.5o.
11550
119.00.
S2.Z5 l>p,..ar<l
'>lpSeal.S!.M.$3.1$SUIOS450"ndup"",r<1
w,alIopI>y
D"'ftlt
l6O:OOa • .."wa <I
5tahogall
....labogan)
"J>~:h~pnl
Mat.ocan~
-'"
"'de"'"
'\rn
en
TUlle ..
a
Chaos
S!150.
16.50
55Z-OO
10
and up ....ard
lIa Cal> 1Ij>t 121,08.
"wic ("liar>
$04500
In SO an<l uJ>"",a
W.GlI
nther slp._
$H SO a""
141$
aJld
K/mgman'. Sample F_Co.
IONIA. FOUNTAIN AJIID ......
1'1'1.
the stoves.
From these samples it appears that neither Straus
& Schram nor Sanberg's beheve 111 the theory of the advert1s1ng
experts that "wh1te space 1S valuable" 111 an advertIsement.
On
the contrary they appear to beheve that space IS valuable only
when filled with well arranged cuts and "catchy" read111g matter
IThe Klingman "ad," to a layman, appears to be a neat, wellwarder appeal for the trade of wealthy or well-to-do people.
A cnt1cI~m of these samples by some of the renowned advertIS111g experts would undoubtedly
be qll1te lllterestlllg,
though
1t would probably be qt11te d1fferent from these comments
All Night Work in Department Stores.
Strawbndge
& Cloth1er, of Ph1ladelphla, have extended theIr
free dehvery serV1ce and now have a continuous day and mght
serVIce. They say:
"The greater part of our mall arrives at
the postoffice during the night-and
we have a speCIal mght force
to rece1ve, classify and prepare for sh1pment mal! and telephone
orders.
Th1s department 1s never closed, except from lTIldmght
on Saturday to midnight on Sunday."
G1mbel Brothers
(Ph1ladelph1a)
in their announcement
of
night serV1ce, say:
"Our letter order servcie 1S far d1fferent
from the usual mall order busll1ess, because we put your order
111the hands of a tra111ed shopper who becomes your representative. It isn't unusual to recelVe 3,000 letters and postals m a
sll1gle dehvery, and, as it takes quite a httle time for our force
to read and classify the mail, there has been, in the past, some
delay in the delivery of goods ordered.
N ow the mall order
service will never sleep. All night long the mails, as they arrive
miles, except On a few bulky, heavy goods~and
we w1ll arrange ra1lroad dehvery anywhere"
on la ge orders
Under the captIOn ,"Some facts about all-mght
all order
service," the Wanamaker
store (Plllladelph1a)
says'
"It began
on the 10th of th1~ month, but no pubhc mentlOn was made of
1t, as it was Just another of the l1llprOVements we are constantly
addmg to our sel v ice.
We ,Ire glad to see that 0 her stores
have followed the idea, for 1t b all for the good of he pubhc.
Some years ago we maugurated
the all l11ght te1epho le serVIce,
by means of wh1ch orders receIved dunng the l11gh are filled
the folloWlllg day.
In tIllS new allmght
mall order serV1ce we
gather the mail constantly from the postoffice dunng the mght,
put the orders into work, and are thus able to dehver the goods
on the first mormng dellvery."
~-.-IIlIlllThIS
$6 95
Beautiful Massive Snowy~
White. Guaranteed
Sanitaire Bed
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We make 150 styles the finest
and best beds In the World We
eU thema t low FactoryPrlCes.
You can trythem30days
before
you buy ~Wrlte
for Factory
Prices and Bed Catalog FREE.
ICarion Iron & Brass Bed Co., 101 Main St.,lIIarlOn.ItId.
The above is a reproduction of an advertisement
running in
a prol111l1ent magazine.
It w1ll be mterestmg
to al fur11lture
dealers, mainly be< ause the advertIsers are apparent!
trymg to
deal d1rectly w1th consumers and do not, apparentl , care for
the trade of the retallers.
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ISN'T IT TOO BADPeople wonder where their profits are going when the trouble usually lies in poor equipment. A little foresight in the begmmng would have saved them dollars-a little more money 10vested at the start in "OLIVER" "QUALITY" eqUipment.
Some manufacturersof wood workmg tools slight theIr output by putting m poor materialsemployingpoor workmen-simply to be able to make a little more profit. "Ohver" tools are bUIlt
along machme toollmes-careful-accurate-durable-safe.
Some purchasers fail to mvestIgatethoroughly before placmg their order. Some unscrupulous
salesman tells them to purchase something-they go ahead -find out too late they are wrong-lose
money, whereas a letter addressed to us would have procured our catalogs- set them thmkingsaved them money.
ISN'T THAT TOO BAD.
"OLIVER"
No. 60 Saw Bench.
OURLINESAW BENCHES
SWING CUT.OFF SAWS
BAND SAWING MACHINES
BORING MACHINES
SAFETY CYLINDERS
VISES, CLAMPS, ETC., ETC.
SURFACE PLANERS
HAND JOINTERS
SANDERS
WOOD TRIMMERS
CHAIN MORTISERS
LATHES
ADDRESS
OLIVER
DEPARTMENT
"D"
MACHINERY
CO.,
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH., U. S. A.
BRANCH
OFFICES-
ht National Bank Bldg , Chieago. 1II.
No. 50 Church St, New York City.
"OUVER"
1125 Weat Temple St., Los Angeles.
Pacific Bldg .• Seattle, Wash.
CaI.
No. 61 Surfacer.
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The propnetor of a store 111 a small cIty IS given to tak1l1£;
lIttle thought of the phYSIcal comforts and che.,comfort:, and con
chtlOns of hiS clerks.
He reads and occaSIOnally ob"en es the
crowded condItions 111 the great cIty department
StOie, \\ hel e
there IS scant ventIlatIOn for so many people and \\ here the constant contact With so many hundreds of clhtomel' ha' a cIepl e-,
ll1g 1I1fluence on the mmd and body of the people \\ ho al c com
pelled to be behll1d the counters amI on the floO!" con"tantl\
He declles the unhealthful
prospects for these StOie \\ 01 kers
and contrasts hIS own store and locatIOn With much pIeasureand that IS as far as he th1l1ks of hiS own employes
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than a faI1Ule to comprehend the really vItal busll1ess worth of
a \\ ell ventIlated ~tore-ventilated
sel1'ilbly and On a comfortable
pl<111- The Dl,) ~OOd-l11wnJ St LOUIS, Mo.
Advantage of Careful Crating.
".ot 10n£?;ago there was a man 111 DetrOIt who wanted a che\ al mlrrOI and he preferred one from Grand RapIds.
He had a
blend 111 Grand Rd.plds who wa~ fal111IJar WIth the furnIture
made 111 thIS CIty, who lecommended the r\e1~on-Matter FurnIture
company
\Vell, when the cheval reached hIS home (of course,
the reader knows that thIS company as well as all the rest, only
sell thlOUgh the dealer) it was CIated so well that the man had
There is not one store 111 five hundred in small cIties or \ 11- quIte a Job to uncrate It He wrote to hIs fnend that there was
lage<; that has any provIsIon made for ventIlatIOn beyond the
\\ ood enough 111 that crate to last hIm two or three weeks
Rut
opening of transom~ and doors.
DUling the summer month",
the chevdl \\as all nght
Such care 111 packmg IS a credIt to thIS
WIth these opel1lngs always Spl ead, the air cannot become \ en
house and frequently saves a lot of trouble, expense and explafoul and there IS lIttle thought of headache, la 19110r eye-ache
natIOn
slow circulatIOn and sl1111lar dIfficultIes, but so sureh a, cold
weather compels the closll1g of doors and the clo,mg ot tl an-\ competent ~alesman IS any young man wantll1g a job
soms for the greater part of the time the store people beS(1l1to
get pale, fall to move about very bnskly after they hay e been
FURNITURE
MANUFACTURERS
in the store an hour and the frequency of headaches and IJstle-sATTENTION!
ness has effect on failure to hustle about and care for stock and
Send lor samples of OUt
make qUIck sales
The manager becomes more or less Irntable
Celebrated Nickel Steel
and thmgs don't go well generally untIl there comes a 11111ddav
Sword Tempered
and the doors are opened and a supply of fresh aIr IS on hand for
BAND SAW BLADES
all.
The lack of ventIlatIOn 111 a bIg cIty department store Ie.,not
worse 111 effect on the employes than IS the dead au of five hundred countly stores on the employes therel11, and the shame of It
all IS that the counby stores have all out of-doors to dla", fIom
for freshness
It IS less a thought of economy 111 expendItures
Warranted In every particular.
Best proPosition on the market.
FRANK
W. SWETT & SON
Mfn. of band saw blades and tools
1717 1719 W. Adams 5t • Chlcage
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In addition to the regular colors the above shades offer unusually beautiful and novel effects.
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Upper Berths Will Be Lower in Price.
Canadian Timher Insured.
Directors of the Pullman Car company are saId to have deCIded not to oppose the order of the Interstate
Commerce Comm1sslO11,tix111g a lower rate for upper than for lower berths 111
sleepmg ca1 s
The c1ec1slOn by the COml111SSlOnwas made in
what IS known as the Loftus case and applled only to rates between ChIcago and St Paul.
The Pullman company appealed
the ca"e to the courts, but the dJrectors are said to have decIded
to drop the htlgatlOn and It IS now expected that the rule w1II be
applled to sleepmg car charges 111all parts of the country.
John
S Runnells, vice presIdent and general counsel of the PuIIman
company, 111cbscussmg the decIslOn of the board of dIrectors,
saId'
A news dIspatch from Ottawa, Ont, says the ins Irance of
6,000 square mIles of ttmber lands agalllst loss by fore t tires by
Lloyds of London, the tirst lllsurance of the knnd ever e ected on
thIS contlllent, has been taken out by the largest ti berland
owner" II1 the ProVlllce of Quebec, Pnce Bros. & Co, Ltd., of
the CIty of Quebec
ThIS new form of insurance I'; s brought
to the attentIOn of tinancial clrcIes 1ll Montreal and Tor nto when
Pnce Bros announced the Issue of $5,000,000 of 5 per ent bonds
on theIr properties cOIncldent wlth the expansion of theIr lumber
bU~lI1ess Into a great paper makIng company, wIth a 15 ton newspaper mlll now belllg bUllt at J onquere, ProvlI1ce of
uebec, in
the ProvInce of Quebec, in the Lake St. John reglOn,
here they
are developll1g 15,000 horsepower.
"If the commissIon m the case no,," pendmg reaffirms its
pnnciple of a d1fferentJal m rates for tlpper berths, as compared
wIth lower berths, It IS the sentIment of the board that reductions
'Should be made voluntanly throughout
the country wIthout waItIng for any further complaInts or orders from the commlSSlOn.
"The amount of the reductIOn and the tIme it goes mto effect therefore depends on the commisslOn
The case will be set
for heanng at Its convemence, and I have no doubt the matter
WIll be settled amicably.
This sentiment was expressed at the
meetIng of the dIrectors, but no action was taken."
From Washmgton
it IS reported that assurances have been
gIven to the Interstate
Commerce CommIssion by attorneys for
the Pullman company that within a :ohort time that concern WIll
tile nel'; tanffs whIch w1II provide for materiaIIy lower rates
for upper berths
It IS regarded as probable that the charge will
/be tixed at $1.50 per night.
The present rate IS $2, the same as
that for a lower berth.
There
can be but one best furnIture
store
Is it yours?
The feature of insuring their enormous holding
lands agalllst tire, as addltlOnal security to bondholder
of 30 years, IS a startllllg innovatlOn 11l Canadian tina
attract1l1g wlCle attention
The cost of the poltcy h
announced but it is said to be reasonable and it is pr
the 1l1nOvatIon 1l1troduced by the Price company will
by other lumbermen in Canada and in the States.
ceo It is
s not been
dicted that
be adopted
Cut in Cahle Rates.
The Postal Telegraph-Cable
company has decid d to reduce
its cable rates in the future to about one-half.
It i stated that
as It WIll reqture the co-operation
of the govern ent lines in
Europe,the plan lllvolves a reduction in the Iand1ine l' tes charged
there, and hence co-operatlOn there will be necessar.
At present the cable rate is 25 cents a word.
The propos d plan is to
charge 12;1z cents for every tive letters in that cI ss of cablegrams, as 11l plam language words average five lette s.
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ra\\ 011is quoted at 97 @ 98 cents, to which a cent is added
fOl single-bOlled and another for double-boiled . Even small
lots may be had at these figures. Business is dull, consumers
having "withheld their orders since the advance of last Monday.
An unusually large advance in the price of jute has caused
a sharp advance in prices ancl some eXCitement in the burlap
mal ket clUJing the week. Jute went up neary $10 per ton
and though a pal t of the advance has been lost, burlaps have
advanced to 3.80 for 7,%-ounce, 390 for eight-ounce and 490
for 1O,%-ounce goods, makmg p1ices now higher than at any
other tm1e dUJing the current year. The rise in jute is due
to the behef that the new crop has been largely over-estimated.
The goatskin business is steady at unchanged prices Rece1pts are considered light, but the same is true of the demand . Ho" ever, all arriVals are promptly absorbed and
Jobbe1s ale p1ed1ct111g a change in condltions in the near
future
Conditions 111the turpentine trade are much the same as
last vveek Pnces were advanced to 80Y;; cents on Monday
but have dropped about a cent Today's quotations are 79'%
hele and 7614 at Savannah.
The demand for shellac is good and prices are film at
la~t 'Hek's figures, langmg from 14 @ IS cents for Kala
button lac up to 27 @; 28 for the D C. brands
Though p1lCes are well held and the volume of business is
qUJte fall' the bade m va1111sh gums is dull, consumers appal entl: takl11g htt1e 111terest 111the market.
Miscellaneous Advertisements.
WANTED
A position as superintendent of small furniture
goods preferred, or foremanship m machine or
of medIUm sized plant. Small city preferred.
erenceS. Address E. V., care Weekly Artisan.
POSITION
WANTED
By experienced travelmg salesman With large
Have sold both case goods and fancy chairs
Address "3 days," care Artisan.
factory, case
cabmet rooms
Best of Ref11 19-26 12-3'
acquaintance.
and rockers.
11-19tf
WANTED COMMISSION
MEN
To handle line of low and medium pnced chairs and rockers
in territory east of Buffalo.
Address "Mack," care Weekly
Artisan.
11·19tf
WANTED.
Furniture men to learn furniture designing, rod making and
stock billing by mail. Our course of instruction is just the
thing for superintendents.
foremen and factory men who
wish to increase their knowledge and salary, Grand Rapids
School of Designing, Dept. L., Grand Rapids, Mich. Arthur
Kirkpatrick, Instructor and Designer.
4-9 e.o.w. tf
SITUATION
WANTED
Man age 39 wants posItIon with large concern as factory
manager or assistant to general manager.
Intelhgent, educated, honest.
High grade executive, good address and correspondent.
Systematizer,
cost accounting, piece work.
Good mechaniC-Iron
and wood.
Many years charge large
chair and furniture plant. A "live wire."
Best references.
Box No.2, care Artisan.
11 2-19
WANTED
Position as traveling salesman.
Salary or commiSSIOn.
Thoroughly understand furniture business. Best of reference.
Address Y, care Weekly Artisan.
11 12-19-26
POSITION
WANTED.
A successful salesman with 25 years established trade in
Central Territory is open for a position January 1, 1911, with
a good case goods or chair house. Have the very highest
recommendations.
Will go into any territory.
Address
W. H. J. care Weekly Artisan.
11 5-12-19.
Index to Advertisements.
WANTED
Supenntendent.
One who thoroughly
understands
bank,
office and store fixtures, and special order work. To the right
man this is a rare opportunIty.
Address, (stating expenence
and where you have worked), "Supermtendent,"
Care of
Weekly Artisan, Grand Rapids, Mich.
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WANTED.
Commercial salesman for Indiana and Illinois to sell Parlor
and Library Tables.
State territory covered and hnes carried. Address "Map". care Weekly ArtIsan.
9-3tf
WANTED.
Travehnl?: salesman to carry a line of Reed Rockers and
Chairs in Indiana and Illinois.
State territory covered and
lines carried. Address "Near". care WeeklY ArtIsan.
9-3tf
POSITION
WANTED.
A salesman of ability furnishing best of references and at
present engaged, desires a change. Thoroughly acquainted
with the trade of New England and New York states and can
guarantee results.
Address C. A. Ro. Weekly Artisan:. ..-".=-23tf
FOR SALE.
A nice clean stock of Crockery in a live West Michigan
town of 10,000 population.
Would also rent store if desired.
Address "See" care Weekly Artisan.
5-28tf.
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New York Markets.
New York, Nov. I8-Reports
flam l\Iemph1s, Kash\ dIe.
Cincinnat1, St Lams and othe1 \\ estel nand southel n p01l1h
state that "a general plck111g up" 111the hdrch\ (Jod lumbc1
business is noticed
Chlcag 0 1epOlts a notable mC1 ea"e m
demand smce the fil st of the month and d bettelment III umditlOns from week to "eek
It 1S e'ldent. hm\ evel, that the
demand is much below nOlmal and the busmess jS unsatisfactory from the ~ellel~' pomt of vie"
Pnces for the hlgher
grades ale steady and slight advances m the figures on 1m, e1
grades have been repOl ted fl 0111 some POl11tsthiS ,\ eek \\ l111e
at others weakness 1Snoted.
Card rates on 1mseed all we1e raised ab mt a cent pel
gallon on Monday and the markeet "as firm until 1hm "cla\
when weakness developed here, though cru:;he1s mfluenced b,
a firm seed market, refused to shade their figures
r[ ocla:
Adams & Fltmg" Company
Alaska Refngera tor Company
Barnes, \V t & John Company
Barton, H H & Son
Bu,s \Iach1l1e \VOlks
Centur) I urmtUl e Company
Challenge Refn"eralor
Company
Chlugo \Iulor and "'rt Gla,s Company
Chn,tl.l1lsen, C
Dodds, \lexander
Company
raney 1Ulmtnre Company
rerrb
& 1elth
lurl11turL CommercIal "'gency
Freedm.l1l Brother, & Co
Grand R.lplds Bra', Company
Grand RapIds Refngel ator Company
Grand RapIds Veneer Works
Hahn LoUIS
Hotel Pantl1l1d
Ideal Stamp1l1g & Tool Company
KImball Brothel s Comp.l11)
Kmdel Parlor Bed Company
Lavvl Lnce \IeI adden Company
Lentz 1dble Com pan)
LIght, George \\ ;'Ianufacturmg
Company
Luce Furmture Company
I uce Redmond Chall Company
\Ianetta
Pamt .nd Color Company
\1 In el \LnufaLtunng
lompan)
\Idler
I h D & Co
\f hcdlaneous
\[orton Hou,e
"\ urthel n Fnrmture Company
011\ er \LILh1l1ery Company
P dmer \l,nut.lctunn~
Company
Pettr,on
\ & Co
Porter C 0 \1achlllery Company
Richmond Chair Company
Rocktord ChaIr and rnrl11ture Company
Royal Ch.l1r Company
Sa~er W D
SLhmlt IT emy & Co
C;belc1on :c H & Co
ShQh lurl11ture Comp 1l1)
C;mlth e" 0,\\ IS \Ianufacturmg" Company
C;pntt (Jeon~e & Co
St,t C"tcr Cup Company
Stow & D.w\>' Furl1ltnre Com pan)
C;wett, Frank \V & Son
Tonnew1t7 Works
UnIOn Furniture Company (Rockford)
v\'ac1dell ManufactUring Com pan}
Wlrd,O
A
WhIte Pnnt1l1g Company
31
17
Coyer
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Cover
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Weight Net, 1200 Ibs.
Carries Saws up to 18
inches in diameter.
Self-oiling bearings for
counters haft and loose
pulley--tight and loose
pulleys 9 Yz and lOin.
diam.--drive pulley 20
in. diam., 6 in. face.
Pat e n t e d device for
locking the table.
Made so that the boring
atlachment
may be
added later without
any machine work or
expense whatever to
user.
The
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Our New Hand and Foot Power Circular Saw No.4
rhe strongest most powerful, and III every way the best
machIne of its kwd ever made for nppIng, cross~cutt1ng,
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654 Ruby Street. Rockford. Illinois
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MACHINE ON THE MARKET.
It is built with the same
care, accuracy, and features that are embodied
in "The Porter" Hand
Join ters which
are
known the world over.
The steel
lipped
ground tables which
can be withdrawn from
the cylinder; traversing
inclines for guaging the
cut; the tilting guage for
beveling, mitering, etc.;
and the Round Safety
Cylinder are all identical features of the larger machines.
When furnished upon the iron bed (shown in cut), any style
of motor can be attached. The style of current, cycle or
phaze is immaterial. The machine is furnished with or without the countershaft, or stand, just as is desired.
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IT IS THE IDEAL MACHINE
for the cabinet room, pattern shop, manual training school
or any place where small or narrow jointing or buzz planing
is done. It requires but little power, small space and runs at
high speed; and say-don't you know that
50% OF YOUR WORK
is within the range of this machine. You ought to be interested in this machine and our catalog T. will tell you all
about them.
C. O. PORTER MACHINERY CO.
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
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