GRAND RAPIDS,
MICH .• DECEMBER
10. 1910
SLIGH FURNITURE COMPANY
The Largest Manufacturersof CHAMBER FURNITURE
EXCLUSIVELY IN THE WORLD
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
Catalogue to Prospective Customers.
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Write it down
That we will show a long line of Turkish Rockers,
Morris Chairs, Floor Rockers and Mission Patterns on
the 4th floor, 1319 Michigan Ave., Chicago, III.,and on
the 2nd floor, Furniture Exchange, Grand Rapids, Mich.
Then, when you arrive, come in. We will do the restif quality, design, and low price appeal to you.
Our 1911 Catalogue is
ready. If you didn't receive a copy, a postal
will do it.
TRAVERSE
CITY CHAIR CO MP ANY
Traverse City, Michigan
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If you want to make money in the furniture
business, buy quality, brain labor-durable
fin-
ish, artistic designs, prompt (expert) shipments.
Cheap imitations
at a few cents lower price never
pay BECAUSE THEY DON'T SELL. The Northern motto--
"WE SELL ONLY
QUICK SELLERS"
means expert workmanship,
no more cost to you,
and two or three dollars more from your customer, with a quick sale.
OUR NEW DESIGNER
during the past year, has almost entirely made over our line, and we shall show at the winter exhibitions
at
Grand Rapids, New York and Chicago,
SOME STRIKING NOVELTIES
tha t every furni ture buyer will want to see. Half our new catalogue to be issued in January, will show new designs.
These new offerings will only emphasize and develop to a sensational point the fresh and popular styles
shown last summer-such
in imitation
as our white enamel bed with cane head and foot boards, our beautiful colonial bed
mahogany on gum, to which the retail trade has taken very readily.
Our forthcoming
designs are SIMPLE, CLASSIC, ATTRACTIVELY NEW; we shall show finishes never
before offered in medium grades of furniture-in
short, we shall give you BRAINS FOR YOUR MONEY, and
make the NORTHERN the
LEADING BEDROOM
FURNITURE HOUSE
as for years it has been head and shoulders
above all competitors
on dining
room suites.
NORTHERN FURNITURE CO.
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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 Eye Maple
Btrch
ff2...uartered Oak
ana
CtrcaJJtan Walnut
Our Exhibit you will find on the
fourth
floor, East Section, MANUfACTURERS'BUILDING,North Ionia Street
Exhibit in charge of
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GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN
C. HAMILTON, C. E. COHOES,J. EDGAR FOSTER.
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GRAND RAPIDS, MICH., DECEMBER 10, 1910
Issued Weekly
PERIODS OF ACTIVITY FOLLOWED BY RELAX
Morals and Tastes and General Character of Nations Reflected in the Designs. Styles.
Ornamentation. Construction and Finish of Furniture.
By Arthur
Kirkpatrick
Styles in fUlmtnre are plortnced 01 formed m periods of
activ1ty and penods of 1 elax; penods of advancement and peliods of renaissance-a
tUlle when new tl1lng" are formed and
a time when old things are cop1ed. In "vVhat is Beautiful m
Furlllture and Why," I have tl eated of the penods of actlvity,
and I now will endeavor to dep1ct the character, style and development of the relax penods-the
pre\ a1lmg 1deals and philosophy that proceeded LoUls XVI.
Truth seems to be of a prog1 essive character.
A hero in
the feast days of the Roman::, n1lght be con'lidered a dl nnken
the hcentlous 1deal, that the complete works of Byron and
13Ulns a1e not nov\ obtamable, many of their poems being con'lldel ed too vnhia1 01 1mm01al for pubhcatlOll.
,
,Ve quote these lmes from Ohver Goldsm1th's poem, "The
T1 aveler," COnCe1l1111g
the p1evalent character m Italy of this
period'
"Small the bhss that sense alone bestows,
And sensual bhss is all the nation knows."
This does not mean that the style was not beautiful.
It
simpl} means that Louis XV 1e1gned in the hcentious age, and
glutton today, or a hero III the age of cl1lvalry, a murderer.
Thus, w1th the de\ elopment of the human cha1acter, that
which 1S nght, beautlful and tl ue must change in accOldance
w1th the mental att1tude of the age.
The1 e 1S no standa1 d of beauty III des1gn other than the
reflectlOn of human character, and when the reflectlOn of that
characte1 forms a pellod st} Ie, that style should be most appropnate and sUltable for the people of the time it was deI signed
Therefore, the LOU1SXV style and ph1losophy, w1th
I all 1tS gilt
and ghtter, it gayety, CUlves and crookedness, is a
pure style and may be copied and 1ecopied but ne\ er improved
I upon.
It was final and complete III 1tS age, for 1t represents a
cond1tlOn and development III soc1etv tl ue to its time.
The
I most promment deS1&ne1s of th1s style and age had the1r fam1ly scandals, and even the poetlc gelllus, the h1ghest mental
activity of the time, wele so affected by the sensual bhs" or
poets, people, ph1loSLJph}, styles of furlllture and government
\\ e1e m accord.
The Changing of Ideals.
The L0111SXVI was one of those periods that represents
a 1ela'\:, a fallmg back upon the featm es of the classic; a
1ena1ssanle 01 rev1val, a tlme w hen the des1gners, groping
m the dark, we1 e feellllg about for new lllles that would satlsfy the changlllg ::,oc1alcond1tlOns. For the art of every age
1'0mtlmately connected w1th the changmg character and de\ elopment of ideals, and even in these periods of relax, the
style in furmtUl e 1S the reflectlOn of the prevailmg or dominatlllg Sp111tof the nation.
It 1S httle wonder that the d1aughtsmen
received with
open arms suggestlOns f1 om the newly unearthed art treasures of Herculaneum
and Pompeii, and this accidental diseO\ e1y and uncO\ el m~ of these two citles and the growirtg
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Your Continued Success Depend
on the QUALITYof Your GoodsIt's after a bed or chair or table leaves your store that it counts for or against you
future trade. Every Stow & Davis table you sell is a constant advertisemen
of your rehabllity. Our tables resist wear-quality is built in, along with th
style and hand IUbbed finish that make our designs so attractive.
Our new catalog, showmg some of the handsomest Colonial and Flander
dmers ever built, IS in press. You Will just naturally want these t0p-notchers
your own store, for your best trade. Send in your name for an early copy.
STOW & DAVIS FURNITURE COMPANY,
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PERFECTION
TABLE TOPS.
DINERS.
dIscontent for the nevel endmg CUI\ e') of the pI ecedmg I elgn.
fOlced or mVlted a chang e.
i\nother eftectn e ml1ucnce at the time \\ "" .1 ll\lI11beJ oJ
lOmantlc no\ el" \\hlch e>.-tolled the SImple hte (bad" to the
land) ac, the e,a)m~ IS no\\, stOrIes of anCIent breece, "hepherd" and e,hephelde~"es, hIde dad, heated b} the ;,ummel
sun and fanned by the bleeze, vvhlch the (ourt attempted to
ImItate m bllihantly aIrayed, snug fittmg attne ot sIlk, "atm
and lace
It V\ as propel to C011\ebe upon the beautIes of
nature, to admIre rustic SImplICIty and the iSlandeur of domestic vn tue;" and to some extent, play the pal t
ThIS play
at I ural hfe, whIch was so conspICUOUSm decoratIOn and pamtmg, was but a thm veneel upon a tl1\ olou;, and \\ d"tetul hfe
of luxury, an outv\ al d show of modest) upon an 111\\al d de;,Ire for leIsure and extravagance
A glarIng pasteboard mask
would be more approprIate, more fittmg the pohte deceIt that
prevaIled
It can ea'illy be figured then, that a style developed under
e,uch a condItIOn IS lIttle ')hOlt of ImItatIOn and thele I') nothmg that reple"enh
the chalacter of the people e"cept the de,,1\ e to !Set away flam the cm ves and ImmOl al II ookedness
at
the precedmlS" reIgn.
vVhen the beautIful ::\![dlle Antomette was told the people
of Pans wele clym!S for hread, hel leply was to ~et them cake
ThIS was not IgnOlance.
It was d deep cuttmg ;,arcasm
So
blmd wele the Rovalty that dare Joke m the face of levolutlOn
~o accustomed to the gay, frIvolous JOy llde that they
could not heal the complamts of the rIdden
The style seems
to have been a renaIssance, a reVIval m every sense of the
word except m the sohd character that prompted the O1liSmal
Louis XVI Furniture.
In the sty Ie of LoUIS XYI we have carvmg, turl11ng PIOportIOn and con'itructlOn of the Pompel1an
Columns and pIlaster;, WIth Roman capItals appeal ed m both archItecture and
furnltUl e Rectangula1
and oval shaped panel'3 surrounded
by calved mouldmlS";', coveled the SIde wall:-, and cellmgs at
the rooms and the ends and front~ of casegoods
The corners
of these panel" fmmed an Important palt
The) \\ere genelally of a e,eometllc patteln, centeled WIth a Jo~ette
Wreaths
and festoons of delIcately carved and undel cut flowers draped
and adol ned the nchly finished fUImture.
Chan and table
legs tapered toward the feet and were either spIral or fluted
The fiutmgs were often filled with a tri-Ieaf or husk pattern
for some dIstance down from the top or up from the base, and
sometimes from both top and base, leavmg a plain fluted spact<
111 the center.
Very often both the base and cap were richly
ornamented
Much of the furniture was painted in delicate
OFFICE AND BANK TABLES
COIOlSand decmated WIth gIlded carvings and metal mountsl
at ddmt} bO\\ kneJt') at Ilbbon, bows and arrows, torches'l
dustels
ot \\al tlophles, dnd shIelds WIth wreaths of laurel
lea \ e:-,and lo:-,ec, 'J he LOUIS XVI -,cloll took the form of the
0\ al m ellIpse m-,tead of the cncle
as u~ed by the Greeks.
Designers
of the Period.
The leadmg de;,lgner of thIS penod was Jean Henry
Rlesener, who \\ dS bm n m Gladback, Germany, m 1735.
\\ hen qUIte young he went to Pans and became an apprentIce to the ebom'it, Jean FrancOl;, Oeben, and remamed in his
employ until the master's death.
Rlesener's work must have
been an Important part m the busUles~ because m 1767 Oeben's
\\ IdO\\ marrIed the pupIl, Rlesener
It IS not known just
\\ hat pIece;, \\ ere deSIgned by Oeben and what by Riesener
because m many ca'ie'i we find that they both worked on the
same pIece
The "Grand Buredu du ROl" was begun in the
workshop of Oeben m 1760 but was not fimshed until 1769,
a lIttle 0\ el t\\ 0 } ears after the death of Oeben, and was
c,H~ned b} Rle-,ener, \\ ho wa~ noted for hIS fine marquetry
\\ UIk mlald m deep tones on mahogany.
HIS first work
"how~ that he followed the Ideas of Crescent and Cofferi, but
he soon changed hI') mode of ornamentatIOn and constructIOn
to meet the developments
of a new lme of taste which demanded a radIcal change from the rovmg, happy decoration
and cun ed outlmes of the pI evlOus reIgn.
He became so profiCIent that hIS work was notIced and admIred by Marie AntOInette, for whom he worked as chIef deSIgner and cabinet
maker for twenty years.
The Comparison.
The LOUIS XVI style IS consIdered one of the most refined of the penod styles, but a modern style that is almost
a copy of a claSSIC perIod shows an effort on the part of the
people to apply an ancIent deSIgn to a new character or mode
of livmg, but even thIS ImItatIOn IS characteristic
of the time,
for the court and socIety played at farming and the artists
pamted for them playful pas tonal scenes.
They were heartily
ashamed of the prevaIlmg social ideal and tned to cover it
by pretended
admlratlOn for rural vIrtues.
The furniture,
whether ebony or black walnut, was pamted white with gilded
carvmgs, thus CO\ellng the dark reahty WIth a brighter out\\ard show.
However thIS play at purity could not satisfy the progressIve change of socIety, check the coming revolution, nor
save the king his head, and so it was and so it is today.
The
prevailmg character or ideals of the time are portrayed in the
style of furniture.
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"Many retaIler" In these days approachmg the holiday seaon" find themselves out of stock, the result of too much conervatlsm m placmg orders," remarked a leadmg manufacturer
r Grand RapIds
"These merchants have bought but two or
Lree pIeces at a tn11e and expected the manufacturers
to carry
11(' goods they mIght need m stock
Quite a number of these
erchants have learned a lesson on the problem of obtammg
oods for the commg yedr and other will do so I know of an
rder for twenty four post beds that was mcreased to fifty for
tock
Other orders al e m larger volume than m several years A
Ively season of buymg may be antICIpated m January."
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The ArchItectural
\Voodworkmg
company of Philadelphia.
who recently took ovel the old plant of the MIchIgan Barrel
company on upper Canal street. dre no\\< employing about 160
men here
They are stIll operat111g theIr PhIladelphIa plant
A
new engme and bOIlers and consIderable new machinery wIll be
Irstalled 111the plant here dunng the winter, thus incredsing the
capacIty so that the number of employes may be mCI eased to
275 or 300 m the "pnng
The old office bmldmg IS bemg remodeled and an addItIon 3,5 x 70 feet wIll be erected and used
as a show room
The company manufacturers
store fixtures, mcludmg show cases dnd clothe" cabmets
When the new show
room hds been completed and filled wIth samples, It may be
opened '" Ith a receptIOn for the manufacturers
and busmess
men of the CIty
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The annualmeetmg
of the stockholders of the Onel Cabinet
company wIll be held next month, but no change in the dIrectorate except the electIOn of a successor to the late Charles W.
Black IS expected
Manager R S Warren. who was :VIr Black's
assIstant and is now aelI111111stratorof hIS estate. valued at $190,000, nearly all of w'hlch goes to a brother and two sIsters, of
Cmc1l1natI. 0 , 1" expected to contmue as manager of the factory
The company wIll have then usual large and attractIve lme with
mdny new patterns m theIr show room" next month
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The large Leonard bmldmg On Commerce street. WhICh has
been occupIed by the 1\Iacey compdny. for show room and storage purposes. WIll be vacated soon. the stock bemg removed to
th new bmldmg erected as an addItIon to the :\1acey plant out
on South DIvIsIOn street
The Leonard bmldmg IS well located,
aIranged and fitted for the dIsplay of furnIture and Charles H.
Leonard announces that he would be pleased to rent it as a
whole or m sectIOns for that purpose
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Fredenck E HIll, desIgner of the Impenal FurnIture
company, dunng hIS recent tour of New England, had the pleasure
of inspectmg qmte a number of pnceless pIeces of antIque furniture and "hIpped to hIs home In Grand RapIds a very rare pedestal card table wIth a foldmg top, whIch had been in the posses'sion of members of ::VIr HIlI\ famIly upward of a hundred
yedrs
It I" constructed of crotch mahogany and age has enhanced the beauty of the figure and color
Mr HIll's home
con tams several very chOIce specImens of antIque furniture, incluelIng two mag11lficent beds m mahogany. several colonIal mIrrors. a foot warmer and other meful artIcles used by well-to-do
families m the revolutIOnary penod
:\Ir HIll's studIes of the
r<lre and beautIful thmg, "~en rlurIng hI" tour \\111 he applIed 111
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So simpl., so easy, a
child can operate It.
Has roomy wardrobe
box.
NEW YORK. Norman & Monitor.
CHICAGO. Erie & SedgwIck
a measure
to the new line of the Impenal
Fur11lture
company.
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The Luce I"urlllture company WI\! enlarge its refreshment
serVIce to buyers of fur11lture in January, hav111g acquired the
100m necessary to do so through the enlargement
of their factOl y
The space used 111show111~ the 1111eWIll be greatly increased and a photograph gallery has been provIded for making
pnnts of the company's line on the premises
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M N Peck. who 1epresents the line of the Estey Furniture
company, WIll also have the line of the \Valte-Fuller
Cabinet
C'lmpany of Portsmouth,
0, m the gdllery on the first floor of
th~ Fm11lture ExhIbItIon bmldmg, in January
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1'1ed Gardner, the well known furmture salesman of Chicae-o, represent111g the "Mayhew :\lanufactunng
company of Milwaukee. was 111Grand RapIds last vlonday and Tuesday. visiting
Ceorge Calder and other fnends
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The Luxurv ChaIr company \\ 111IMve d large number of
new pdtterns of the fdmous LUAu1y good" on dIsplay next
month
on the first floor of the FUr11lt111e IExchange, Grand
R:lpids, and 191 \IIchlgan avenue, ChIcago
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The Walter Clark Veneer company has a large and fine
stock of oak, poplar. bIrch and gum veneers. of various thicknesses, m stock, and can fill orders at a moment's notice
Their
large warehome
at the corner of South 10ma and Prescott
street" IS locaterl on the raIlroad, SOthat shIpments may be made
over all raIlroads but one 111GI and RapIds WIthout transfering
th(' cars
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Z Clark Thw111g of the Grand RapIds \ eneer Works. who
went to New Yark recently, IS now In the south-down
in
GeorgIa-for
a "olomn In whIch he will l1lIA pleasure and dry
kIln bm111ess
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Robert R. Robel bon, plopnetor
of the Royal Varmsh
compaDY, Toledo, 0 , spent several days m Grand RapIds thl"
week. through compulSIOn.
LaGnppe
held him m ItS deathly
embrace.
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The Grand RapIds ChaIr company WIll open thell exhibIt
of ne\\ patterns on January 2, 1911
Dinner will be served
The company are clos111g the most successiul year in theIr
hi "tory.
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Roy S. Barnhart of the Nelson-Matter
Furniture
company,
'" ho has gone WIth a pal ty who expect to eclIpse Ex-PresIdent
Roosevelt's expenence m ~fnca, crossed the ocean all nght and
cahled back that he would saIL for Afnca
from 1\1arseilles
FIance, on December 3 It WIll requIre about three week from
1\12,-"el11es to 1each the part) \ final destlllatI'll1
The deSIgner
dC\ el mdlY ldual
who can make
fr('aks
th,lt \\ III ')e11 IS a very
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DURING JANUARY
WE WILL SHOW IN THE SAME
2d FLOOR, KLINGMAN BUILDING,
SPACE AS BEFORE,
A STRONG LINE OF
DINING
SUITES
as well as
OUR
SPECIAL TIES
for the
CHAMBER,
LIBRARY,
PARLOR and
HALL
DO NOT FAIL TO SEE OUR NEW DESIGNS.
Rockford Frame and Fixture Co.
Window Card Suggestions.
If you WIll examIne the II111dlm dl-,plal" oj bl-.!, ~t(Jle~
in larger cIties you wIll note ilom one to thl ee L; ood ~l/ed
cards, neatly lettered, callIng attentIOn to some pal tIulla1
feature of the goods.
These cards alvl d) s sa) "olume" In a
very few words.
They concentIate
the thOlu:;ht of the observer, and, in an unobtt Ubll e II a), dll ect Imll 111
to the stot e,
where he can mOl e ca1 efull) eAam111e the al tIde" dhpla) ed
The obj ect of the WIndow ca1 d IS to tell In II 01 ds some sellIng
point of the merchandIse that m1[;ht escape the eye
Some
very effective ca1 ds have been made by takin£:; the colm ed
supplements of room intellors, found In some of the fm n1ture
trade journals and pastIn£:; them on heel\ I ca1dboald
Lnderneath
the plCtmes
\lllte
111 Ua)Ol1 ot hand-leitel
short, tnte desc11ptive sentences.
101low111g a1e ~ome 111~criptions suggested by "N 01 thell1 1, U111ltme," fm ~uch Cd1ds,
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that may be used to advantage by nearly all fur11lture dealers:
"lhe D1alle1s of thIS Fur11lture wIll sltde as eaSIly ten
) eal s ft om now a~ they do today."
"The RecollectIOn of Qualtty remaInS long after the pnce
IS f01gotten."
"Hal dly a Home 111Dundee but that would look better
\Ilth aLIbI ary Set ltke tl11s."
~Idke YOU1 vV1fe Happy f01 ltfe wIth thIS Dainty Bed
l{oom SUIte, $87.50."
Learned His Lession.
j\ \ elO dn of the local fU111lture industry 1ema1 ked.
"UpII al d~ of tlm ty-sn:
yeal sago
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tIn Lammert,
the great
dealel In fm11ltme 111St Loms, Mo, made hIS appearance at
the office of the Phoe11lx Fur11lture company and met the vice
president, O. L. Howa1 d
Mr. Lammert stated that he had
been engaged in the sale of second hand furniture and auction
bUSIness a number of years, but had decided to enlarge his
store and add a stock of new goods.
Mr. Howard took him
through the lIne, and when he returned to the office announced
that he had sold th1 ee ca1 loads of goods to Mr. Lammert.
Impl es"ed \\ 1th the Idea that hIS customer was a novice in
the tI ade, he sympathetIcally
1emarked'
"Mr. Lammert has
) et a gleat deal to learn In the fur11lture business."
That M1. Lammert learned hIS lesson the mIllions he has
"111ceacqui1 ed and the" ast business he bmlt up amply proves.
l\fr. II 0\\ a1d resigned his office in the Phoenix Fur11lture company 1111883 and went to Knoxville, Tenn., where he engaged
111the lumber manufactunng
business, and was unsuccessful.
later he returned to MIchIgan and for a short time managed
the Converse Manufacturing
company at Newaygo.
He died
at his old home in New York state about twenty years ago .
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GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN
DINING
LIBRARY
BEDROOM
SUITES
HALL CLOCKS
IN
"COLONIAL" STYLE
NEW ADAPTATIONS
READY FOR INSPECTION
JANUARY 2, 1911
SHOWN AT
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The Waddell \Ianutactunng
com pam 1 cpO! t thclr bmmeo,o,
as good
It IS so p1actlc,t11y all the yedl round became they
make the largest and 1l10q vdrled 1ll1e of \\ ooc1 ornament,
In
the world, and VI' hen the ne\\ additIon., ,u c bt1l1t next \ ear their
capacity Will be practllall)
cloubkd
1'hl'i h the onh tacton
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the world makll1g wood knobs and pulls \\ Ith the nO-hum-loo-e
fasteners-"the
kind that won't come oft "
No Doubts as to Its Merits.
The Grand Rapld'i \ eneer vV01 ks "ad" in this isslle of the
Weekly Artisan is vel y mtel esting readmg
Eve 1y manufacturer interested 111 dry m~ lumber <"hould look it up and read It
carefully.
There is a constantly increa'ill1(?, demand for the Grand
Rapids Veneer vVork., loIn and then I eputatlOn I' now so firmly e&tabhshed that very fe\\ manllfaltl1l el s doubt that It IS all
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the vVeekly Artisan that up to October j1, th1S ) eat, their &hlpments were $2,) 000 111 e),.cess ot then ent1re ,ak., t01 the \ C,lr
1909, ancl thet e has been no slump III thcn blbll1eSS Slllce October.
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Main Office, Nu 13 Canal SI, Grand Rapids, Mlch
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Would Protect Mer~hants.
FolloWIng is a digest of a bill that the Iowa Retail Merchants' association
will try to have enacted into law at the
coming session of the legislature
In addition to the new features in the bilI, it would repeal section 4011, of the Iowa code
and substitute the following'
"The earnmgs, Df a debtor who is a resident of the state and
th<:>head of a family fOI his personal service or those of his
famIly, are exempt from liability j or debt to the extent of 90
per cent of such earning~. and 10 per cent shall be subject to
executiDn upon Judgment obtained for per~onal and family necesSIties contracted for after July 4, 1909 "
The bilI wIll not apply to all debts. but includes debts for
personal and family expenses only. which are obligations of the
highest character
It WIll not leglslate against a class, but includ€s everyone from the highest salary person down to the persop whose salary is not so large.
It is aimed at the dead beat, tho~e who can pay but will not.
those who earn enough to suppDrt theIr families and in addition
enough to pay their honest debts.
It will require persons of
moderate income to live within their income and earnings and
thereby teach thrift and economy
It will subject to the payment of debts for family necessities
only so much of tihe earnings OWIng a person as are avaIlable
after exempting sufficient to properly meet the current expenses
of the family.
It will therefore act as an eradicator
of any
tendency of a person to live beyond his means.
I t will compel a certain class of people to earn what they
spend and to pay for the support oj their fal111hes before they use
their earnings for needless purposes.
Iowa is the only state that exempts a full 90 days' earmngs
ano the effects on other states from legislation such as is asked
by the merchant has been. to decrease garmshments
and similar
prvceedings,
a saving of e:hpenSe to both merchants
and consumer; to better the morals of a community by requiring the
dead beat to be partially honest, by protecting
their claims to
enable the merchant tD extend credIt where It is needed and to
help those desel ving it.
The merchants of Iowa Insist that they are entitled to this
protectIOn
They furnIsh the debtor hIS necessities and they are
entitled to have him apply hIe; excess earnings in payment of his
own support.
By leaving 90 per cent of v, ages Dr salary exempt, the bill
protects the man who IS behll1d became of misfortune by putting
ou~ of reach of hIS crec1ltor~ thl~ amount of his wages due. The
merchant has supported the famIly and for this It is claimed he
should be protected as fully as pOSSIble and nothing except a
proviSIOn for present support should be superior to his claim.
NEW DESIGNS IN LOUIS XVI STYLE
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No. 1705-1705
No. 1711
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AND
PRICES.
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GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN
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OCKWELLS MANOR, BERKSHIRE,
ENG.
An Example of the Gothic on the Early English
Style of Architecture.
The history of Acres by the Thames, the land upon \\ hlCh
Ockwells manor in Berkshire is bUIlt. dates back to the t\\ elfth
century.
It was at one time the 'slte of a hunting lodge of
King Henry III.
The land first came into the possession of
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Gothic style had no name until it reached as far south a'S Rome
and Greece.
The Itahans and Greeks used the word as something crude, barbarous or coming from the north.
Few people realize what it was to raise in those days so
glOrIOUS a house as Ockwells.
There was something
in the
operation analogous to the bUllding of a ship-the
same need
for seasoned oak, the same labour with saw and adz, the same
pegging of joint and tenon, and so the structure rose complete
and sohd. There was superadded the fine craft of the carver,
THE GREAT HALL IN OCKWELLS MANOR.
of a Pen and Ink RenderIng by Frank Burton, a Student In Arthur KirkpatrIck's
the family of N orryse or Norris, as a donation or fee from
Elenore of Provence, Queen to Henry III.
One will note that th1S house has stood through a turbulent
period of English history, and the spears, dirks and knives,
implements of human torture, that now appear upon the walls
were then in use, as that was long before gun-powder appeared
in Europe.
The building is also a very good example of the early
Gothic period.
Gothic, you will remember, was first developed
in the northern part of France !in the early part of the twelfth
century.
Therefore, this famous old building has stood as practically the first of its examples appearing in England, and it is
not likely that it was known as Gothic at that time, as the
School of DeSIgnIng, Grand Rapids, Mich
the lovl11g labor of the man who fashioned the cusped window
frames, the magnificent barge-boards
and the finals. Then came
the glass stamer w1th his splendid blazonry, to flood the rooms
with color, and the tapestry, often from distant looms, and the
laches 1n their bower working at fair embroideries for the adornment of the abode.
Mr. Parker of Oxford, that eminent authority on iEnglish
mediaeval architecture,
who descnbed
Ockwells about half a
century ago, found the place then decayed from its former state,
dJ!apidated and reduced to the condition of a farmhouse-now
most happily regenerated-but
he recognized its superb architectural character and illustrated the magnificent detail of the
admirable barge-boards
and the remarkable perpendicular
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FREEDMAN CONVERTIBLE DIVAN BED
A Revolutionlin Parlor Bed Conatruction. An Immediate Succeu.
Full Size Bed in Divan Space.
SIMPLEST IN ACTION.
LEAST SPACE.
STRONGEST BUILT.
The sensation of last season's
furniture exhibition and the "last
word" in parlor bed construction.
Supercedes all other Interchangeable Parlor Beds.
SEND FOR ILLUSTRA nONS
Full line shown during January,
AND PRICES.
1st floor, 1319 Michig .... Ave., Chicago.
FREEDMAN BROTHERS & CO.
M .... ufacturers
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elling of the timber gables, descnbmg its nearly perfect state as
a house of the time of Edward IV , wIth Its grand hall, open
roofed, its splend1d painted glass, and its antique aIr, and the
quaint bU1ldingssurrounding the small courtyard, the hall being
on one SIde, wIth a double wooden clOIster, one range over the
other.
The one feature that is purely English, not appearing in
the French Gothic, is the hIgh wall panellmg. This seems to be
so completely EnglIsh as to affect the nation even to this day,
and the reason for the great export of office desks from this
country, is that that piece originally was always designed in
panel effects.
All of the furniture that appears in Ockwells today is of
comparatIvely modern design, and shows the effect of the
blendmg of Norman, ItalIan, Flemish, Dane and Celtic designs,
1n whIch the effects of Chippendale, Hepplewhite and Sheraton
are especially strong.
Old Items Reprinted.
From the Michigan Artisan for March, 1884-The manufacturers of Grand Rapids WIll exhibit samples of their \\-ork
at the exposition in New Orleans, whIch will open in December next.
A furniture manufacturing company operatlllg a plant located less than one thousand mIles from Grand Rapids, which
boasted that It had earned nineteen per cent profit on the
sales made durlllg Its first six months in business, is now billing goods in the name of a receiver.
Another instance of
small capItal and lack of experience in business.
C. E. Dunks, late of Detroit, has opened a stock of furniture at Flint.
Joseph Skalla is about to commence the manufacture of
furlllture at Niles, Mich.
A fire on the 12th inst., destroyed the factory of the Bissell carpet sweeper company. Loss, $70,000.
Frank L. Bercrey of the Grand RapIds Chair company,
dIed suddenly at CadIllac recently.
John M. Smythe, an lllstallment dealer in furniture in
ChIcago, has been sued by one Kate Jaskllls for $5,000 damages, allegmg that Smythe broke into her house and took her
furniture.
C. S. Black & Son's furniture factory at Buchanan, Mich.,
was destroyed by fire recently.
An extenSIve eAhlblt of furniture will be made at the New
Orleans expositIOn by the manufacturers of Chicago.
The Puget Sound Furmture company succeeds Clark &
Anderson of Seattle.
The gavel to be used by the president of the Republican
National conventIOn is made of pieces of wood cut in every
state of the Union.
A train on the Grand Trunk railroad was speedmg across
Michigan one cold night recently when the curtams parted
and a man called to the porter, who was passing at the moment, and remarked: "Can't you give me another blanket?
It is very cold tonight."
"Can't do it. Ain't got another blanket, boss."
"Well, see what you can do for me," the traveler remarked
while putting a round half dollar in the hand of the negro.
A moment later the curtains of a lower section parted
and a blanket leaped out and lodged in the hands of the colored man.
"I thought I felt some one carrying off a part of my bed
clothes last night," remarked the occupant of the lower section to the porter.
"Dunno 'bout that, boss.
The train run very fast last
night making up time.
Probably it run from under your
blanket."
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SHELDON'S STEEL BAR CLAMPS.
Gual'allte.d IndelJtructlbl ••
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& CO , ChIcago, Ill.
Gentlemen -We are pleased to state that the 25 dozen Clamp Fixtures whIch
we bou&,ht of you a bttle over a year ago are glVlUg excellent servIce
We are
well satIsfied WIth them and shall be pleased to remember you whenever we want
anythIng addItional In thIS hne
Yours truly.
SlollX City, Iowa.
CURTIS SASH & DOOR CO.
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our complete catalogue.
and
E. H. SHELDON & CO.
328 N. May St •• Chicago.
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Rockford
Chair 8 Furniture
Rockford, Illinois
DINING FURNITUR
BUFFETS, CHINA CLOSETS
and TABLES.
LIBRARY FURNITUR
DESKS, TABLES, COMBINATIO
and LIBRARY BOOKCASES.
Our entire line will be on exhibition in
on the third floor of the Blodgett B
Grand Rapids, Mich.
other words are ~e1f fnnged, wIth a fnnge made of the
warp
In all Oriental rugs that have a woollen warp t1
To tell an Oriental rug from a machine rug loo\. at the:is an important and exceedmgly interestmg feature.
T
back and at the fnnge. says a wnter In Country Life m \mellca
of the Cashmere is never heavy
The pattern of Oriental rugs 'iho'o'o distmctly through on the
Especially mterestmg
is the fringe of Belouches
hack. for tht: same knots whose cut ends stand up to form the
hal as
It IS usually accompamed by a WIde band of
pIle cn the faCt of the rug show on the back as tiny loop" alonnd
(commonly called selvage).
ThI' band is often am
the warp th -caGS, almost conceahng both warp and \\ dt
WIth
bnght
colored,
t111Yfigures
111 broche or tapestry
Of cour:oc Oriental rugs can be awl ha\:: been \\ u\ en \\ ith
embrOIdery,
Such
a
band
has
deCIded
usefulness.
It gu
double pile, on back as well as on face, lIke the r10mes' ( Smyrna',
pIle
at
the
tImes
of
gl
eatest
tenderness,
for
the
web
th
bd these 'He as rare as May flO\\ ers In .:\0'0 ( mber
Ihe' back
naturally
at
the
sides
1S
open
at
the
ends
when
specia
of most Oriental rugs is flat and helrd, and thf pattern t11at on
are not taken to close it.
the face is softened by the mynad ways In WhICh the pIle reIn rugs with a woollen warp the ends are more 1
flects the I1ght is stiff as that of a domestic Brussels rug on the
and the whole structure is more fleXIble and more syrr
back
to the touch
But the greater elasticity of woollen wa
By way of companson turn 0\ el a \\'llton or a Bru'osels rLW
duces rugs that pull out of '>hape more eaSIly and that ar,
'"
The back is barren
The wool is too preclOUS to be wasted there.
abcolutely straIght, even when first woven
ThIS IS a pa
The construction
IS such that the woollen pIle loop, gingerly
almost
a
deSIrable
faut
111small
rugs,
but
it ruins lar
into the upper part of the web only. leaVing the cheaper yarns
ThIS IS undoubtedly the reason why the warps of large
to meet the floor
Exceptions to thIS rule among domestIcs are
al'11ost WIthout exceptIOn of the stIffer material.
rag carpets and Smylnas. whose warp IS thIn and tenuous and
Most domestic rug'i have either no frInges or sewed
does not count III the design
Rcig carpets are self fringed, but the fringes al e decid
J us1: as there are domestic rugs without pIle so there are interesting, So the fringes are one of the most importa
Orientals
The two types are Kehms and Ca'ihmeres (also called
In qUIckly dlstmguishing
rugs of Oriental hand weave fr
Soumaks).
Kelims are tapestnes
in weave, hke the more inwoven by machine in OrIental patterns
tncate Gobelin and Aubusson tapestnes or the still coarser N avajo blankets and Mexican serapes
Face and back are exactly
Evidence of Frisco Confidence.
alike, both fla:t and wIthout pIle, except for the loose threads
San
FranCIscans
are prepalmg
to erect a hotel to (
(<;ometimes clipped smooth) that on the hack show where the
:;00,000
The
orde1
for
fUllllture
WIll
not be placed tl
weft has wandered from block to' block of the same color.
ciS It WIll not be needed until the opening of the Panar
Where colors meet palallel wIth the warp Kelims
like
fair, \V hleh the San Franc1scans
are confident w1ll be
most other tapestries, show open slIts left by the ~apestry ;veave
that city of the Golden Gate.
ano often sewed up afterward
Kelims are much thinner than
other rugs and are often used as portieres
\Vhere they are to
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be used on the floor they should be lined. They are comparaATTENTIOPI
tively inexpensive.
How to Verify Oriental Rugs.
A heavier rug wI1:hout pIle is the Cashmere
The weave is
curious.
It consists in the wrappmg or twisting of the weft
over pairs of warp threads in such a V\ ay as to bind them indissolubly together
The loose threads that mark the passage of the
weft from block to block of color can be clearly seen on the
back of the rug.
Cashmeres are exceedingly durable but not
as interesting in texture as pile rugs
The colors are apt 1:0 be
sharp, there being no pile to dull them,
Oriental rugs as a rule wear their own hair or fringe-in
Send lor .amples of ,
Celebrated Nickel
Sword Temperl
BAND SAW BL
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In every par
Best proPosItion
FRANK
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co.
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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Sale of Clark Antiques.
last of the Clarke collection of old English furniture
la'st Saturday
at the American Art Galleries, New
he results of the third day's sale amounted to $41,625,
s larger than that of e1ther of the preceding day~. The
llection brought $89,122.50.
bids were generally considered low The price that
the highest figure was a mahogany table of the Dutch
1ch was b1d in for $1,225 by H. Daniels, acting as agent.
fas square and about the upper edge was a moulding of
lesign.
The lower edge was carved with a design of
I leaves
The legs were cabriole and the knees were
w1th an acanthus design
!\nother mahogany table of
~h style was ~old for $500
The rail was fluted and
Ie fluting was a scroll.
lahogany cabinet of the la~t quarter of th( eighteenth
the upper section fitted with glass doors and the lower
omposed of cupboards and two drawers, went to G W.
lr $650. Mrs 0 H Ohn was the purchaser of a mahog{ca~e and secretarv with glass door~ and three fluted
The pnce was $560
!\ mahogany knee hole book'1 glass door~ of Idttice work design
and a top rail of
form brought $375
Mr~ E Gould paid $550 for a
Iy knee hole bookcase that was recessed in the centre
glass doors w1th lozenge shaped panes
old mahogany bedstead of the Chippendale
styl~ was
)y Koopman & Co, for $400
A beech ~ettee of the
yle, one of the finest pieces offered yesterday. soleI fy
[rs W Payne was the purdhascr
The settee was made
Irm of three chairs and the front rail curved to conform
iea. The back was ca1 ved w1th a shell pattern
highest pnce paid for a chair was $500, offererl by a
Miss Hayes for each of two mahogany arm chairs of the Chippendale style slightly GothIC. Brayton Ives bought two mahogan:" arm chairs of the Chippendale style, one for $350 and the
other for $175 A mahogany arm chair of ra1 e Chippendale d('sign was sold to an agent for $350
Mrs. N. E. Church bid $270 for a mahogany upholstered arm
chairs. The surface of it was fluted and the legs were carved in
guilloches.
A set of six mahogany chairs was sold for $600 to
Alfred D. Guion.
A mahogany double chair of the Dutch style, carved ",ith a
leaf and pendant flower design, brought $675
Doesn"t'Like
Holidays.
"I don't hkc hohdays," said the methodical man, "they interfere with my worl~ I recogni7c fully the fact that days off,
(Ie y s of abst111ence from labor, are necessary for our bodily and
mental welfare, and I take a day off "eekly, my day being Sunclay, but for many years I have worked on every other day in the
weck regardles~ of holidays
i\nything that breaks in on me 111
thi" observance is disturbing.
"To begl11 with, we get up and have breakfast an hour later
thdn usual
There's an hour lost for me. And then on holidays
we have d111ner in the middle of the day, this bemg a further disruption of our usual routine, and then who can work after
a hearty midday holiday clmner?
i\nd then, besides, the whole
atmosphere of the day is changed
"So I am glad to have the day over and to get back to work
m my sy"tematlc, orderly, methocltcal way. It is in work in my
regular, accustomed manner that I find my great pleasure, wlth
n1' regularly recurring day of rest on Sunday.
Even after that
d \y I am glad to tdke up work again, and I have no use at all for
h0hdays."
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"THE
BEST
IS THE
CHEAPEST"
~ARTON'SGARNET PAPER
Sharp, Very Sharp, Sharper Than Any Other.
SUPERIOR TO SAND PAPER. It costs more, BUT It Lasts Longer; Does Faster Work.
Order a small lot; make tests; you WIll then know what you are getting. WE GUARANTEE SATISFACTION.
Furniture
2hair Factories, Sash and Door Mills, Railroad Companies, Car Builders and others will consult their own interests by using it. AI",
on's Emery Cloth, Emery Paper, and Flint Paper, furnished in rolls or reams.
MANUFACTURED
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newly organized Midland
Furniture company", III place their 111lhal l111eon the market
January 1.
Couches and davenports wIll be manufactt11 ed.
The manufacture
of store furmture and fixtures ha" been
commenced by the Evansvllie Store Fl:xture company.
A new catalog l11ustratmg, descnbing
and pncing the
large line of the Karges Furmture
company, w111 soon be
ready for the mails.
The Bockstege Furniture
ders for their tables.
company
are busy in filling or-
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facilities ale so lalge and the shipping advantages
enjoyed by the Globe Furniture
company
are so great that very little time is required to fill orders
Manager Bosse reports an actlVe hade
The company has
sent the copy for a new catalog to the printer.
The Bosse Furniture
company's large line of \\ ardrobes
and kitchen cabinets wlll be illustrated m a new catalog soon
to be issued.
Traveling buyers should bear in mmd the fact that Evan,,ville is one of the best markets for medium and low p1lCed
furniture in the world, and that "amples are on exhl1ntlOn 111
the Evans, ille Furniture
Exchange e\ ery bus111ess day of the
year.
A sale"man's tough luck lS to WItness the consummation
a sale by a "turn over."
I,
of
China Closets
Buffets
Bookcases
We lead in Style, ConfuudJon
and Fmish. See our Catalogue.
Our hne on permanent exlubi.
lion 3rd Floor, New Manufact.
urers' BUildillll.Grand Rapida.
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After notlllg sharp declines in nearly all quotations on the
Ch1cago stock exchange, December 2, a financial editor on
one of the Ch1cago papers added th1S'
Sears, Roebuck & Co., declllled on the whole about a
point.
Of the stock Clement, Curtis & Co. say:
"It has
been our pleasure several hmes to have called attention to the
growth and earnlllg poss1bilities of Seal s, Roebuck & Co. At
the pI esent pe11Od, V\ hen there 1S much complalllt of business
be111g only fall, t111'3corporatlOn shows the effect of its splend1d methods with a gross business m the month of November
of $7,800,000, which is 20 per cent over last year.
The) ear's
bU'lllle"" wlll more than justlfy the llltentlOn of the company
to dlstnbute $10,000,000 of surplus to the shareholders III new
stock."
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IS THE GREATEST LITTLE BIG
MACHINE ON THE MARKET.
It is built with the same
care, accuracy, and features that are embodied
in "The Porter" Hand
Jointers
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.
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.
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of color al e sacrificed.
If it is impracticable
to prevent the
e l1ployment of amline dyes and chemicals, It should be possible
to compel dealers to mark their goods for the information
of
buvers
The principle of pure food legislation is correct, and
It should be extended to all products 1ll the sale of which there
IS poss1blhty of fraud
The purchaser IS entitled to know what
he 1 s gettlllg"
PUaL.ISHEO EVERY
SATURDAY
Suppose a turn 1tt1! e dealer should take the article on
',} urniture for Christmas Gtfts," whtch appears on another page
reproduce It 1ll hts advertisements
or send a copy to a few hundred or a few thousand of hIS patrons, what effect would it
lu\ e on hiS hohday trade?
There are certainly some advertising
lr1ea~ 111 It that are worth using
BY THE
MICHIGAN ARTISAN COMPANY
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.UBlSCRIPTION $1
eo
PER YEAR ANYWHe:RE IN THE UNITED STAT!!:S
OTHER COUNTR,e:S $2 00 PER YJEAR. SINClL!!: COPI!!:S 5 C!!:NTS.
P-uaLICATION
O""'CE,
101-112 NOI'lTH
A. S. WHITE,
&nterell as leeolld clus
DIVISION
ST, GI'lANO
RAI"'OS,
MICH,
MAN ...ClINCl EDITOR
matter, July 5, 1909, at the post office at Grand
under the act of March 3, 1879
Rap.ds,
M.chlcan
CHIC ...GO REPAI!Se:NT"'TIVI!, E. LEVY
In concluding his vcry interesting
series of articles on thc
subject of selling goods at retail, J. H Collins said
"The
typical buyer for a mercantile house is seldom an aggresslVe
salesman."
The typical buyer's mind is so filled with the various problems involved in his occupatIOn that the wise merchant
should not expect much salesmanship of him.
Retailer Jones
has a mahogany bed that he sells for $21
Buyer Smith has
nothing in stock to match it 111 quality for less than $2300. He
must find a manufacturer
who will supply his house with mahogany beds as good as those that Jones sells for $21, that he can
retail for $2025
J ones has the exclusive sale on a certain pattern of brass bed that cost him $25 delivered
Smith's beds
are shipped f. a b factory.
He must put the hammer at work
upon the makers of beds and obtain the f1 eight concession that
Tones enJoys The buyer must keep shoppc1s blFV 1ll the stores
)f his competitors
purchasing
samples and getting
prices,
that he may be constantly mformed of what they are doing and
be prepared to retain his trade
In a hundred ways he IS ever
)usily employed
He must buy stock at right prices, arrange
for shipments
and freight
tates,
lI1spect the goods when
-eceived; "0. K." or reject bill'i of manufacturers:
carry on ~
Toluminous correspondence;
recelVe traveling salesmen; studvlp 1:pecial designs and engag-e manufacturers
to produce the
,ame; plan the display of stock on the wareroom floor~ ~rl\a11ageously and manalSe c1ose-out and specIal 'iales
To t ec't~ 'lle
I1ultifold dutie'i of his pOSItIOn would be a 1 ,dmo~t endles"
ask. In the consideratIOn of :'.,ir Collms' statement
the mer'hand1sing of ft'~niture alone has been referrpd to
In certam
,ther lines of trade the dutIes of the buyer are evcn Inore
'urclpnsome than are those of the furniture ~uyer.
It Plattei~
lot in what lin? of business a buyer may be employed, if he i~
ble to perfoL I his work successfully, 1J1~ elT'vl8")er shOuld be
atisfied. He should surround hllmelf with a sufficient number
If able salesmen to carryon
his tt ac1e WIthout callmg hIS buyer
o meet Cll~tr)mtrs
Rigid enforcement
of thc new law 111 Pel sla p1ohlblt1l1gne (xport of lUgS dnd carpet~, dYed with ei1111meshould afford
1e retail buyer proteetlOl1 ag-amst fraudulent
practIces
The
bject sought hy Pet Slei-a 1 eputatlOl1 £Ot rehabiht}-h
C0111lendable
Udsclupulouo,
tl aders, ,Iccorclmg to the Jeport of
1C American
consul at Calcutta, do not hesitate to sell rugs
yed with aml111E'and washed In chlonde of lime solutton<; which
ive the pecultar lustre characterIstIc
of antique rug~
They
o not tell their customers that the chemical treatment
is de
ructlVe to wool and rotton anel that durability and permanence
A specral campaign of publictty in the interest of the manufactllrers of furnIture and kindred goods in St. Louis will be
organized preparatory
to the semi-annual trade sale in February
next
The great variety of low and medium priced goods 1m.nufactured In that city makes it an attractive market for a large
number of buyers.
Dont' push } our customer in the direction of the other
feIIow s store by allowmg hIm to think that a bt.ch rocker purchased of you is sohd mahogany or an elm chiffo'lier i" quartered
oak
By the proper orgalllzatlon of his busines,
. mwrchant can
ehmmate fire sales, fake advertising
schemes, ex-:es'live freight
llld l "pH'S" rates long hours and the trade of dead beats.
By treatmg
a caller courteously
and representing
his
goods honestly a merchant can count on future sales to nearly
all of his customers.
.'.,.n employe who can do one thing well is worth more to
an employer than two employes who can do several things
badly.
To cut clown expenses and 1 etam the volume of business one
has acqmrecl is a problem that deserves serious consideration.
1he man of business who leaves a reply paid telegram
ans" ered WIll sooner or later be a man of no business
If a leader does not draw other trade it is a failure.
ers do not produce profits.
un-
Lead-
More Freight Cars Are Idle.
ror the thIrd Successive time the fortnightly bulletin of the
\mellcdn RaIlway aSSOCIatIOn's committee shows an increase in
th nU111belof idle cars
On November 23, the date on which the
data tOl the report" as taken, there were 28,393 freight car's tdle
on the lallwavs of the Pmted States and Canada compared with
1 ) '81 On \' ovember g, an mct Cd se of 101 per cent in two weeks
TI'el e al e now as man} idle cars as there were at thIS time last
veaJ
Llghtel demand fOJ coal dncl fOJ stock cars were among
thc factoh \\ hlch contrIbuted to the inCl ease in the idle hst in
this fortnig-ht
\\ hen the crop mOYeJ1ltnt began, nearly all the
cars "hlCh had heen tdle dunng the 'iummer--at
one time the
Idle llsl leached 112,000 car"~-went
uno service, but since the
m"lc1k of October the demancI for care; h<$ become lighter.
C\inre then there has heen a steady mcrea<;e in the number of
freHiht cars which have not been in demand.
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the Companies known as
The Globe Furniture Co.
The Bosse Furniture Co.
The World Furniture Co.
e been succeeded by the GLOBE-BOSSE. WORLD
FURNITURE
nge is to bring about the combined efforts of the three Companies.
CO.
The purpose of this
In doing so we can produce
ter goods and render better services to the trade.
Since the re.organization, we have built and
e now ready for operation, an additional plant which increases our output 25 per cent. We
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w have
Ir
1911
four large factories with which to supply the increased demand made on us by the trade.
catalogue showing the most complete line of Bedroom, Dining Room and Kitchen Furni-
'e, is now in the hands of the printers and will be ready for distribution about January 1, 1911.
your name is not already on our mailing list, we should be pleased to have your request for a
Dywhich will be sent to you as soon as completed.
We take this opportunity to thank all the
:rons of the Globe, Bosse and World Furniture Companies for the many favors shown us during
~past, and we shall endeavor to merit a continuance of your liberal patronage, assuring you that
will at all times use every possible effort to please you while offering the very best values, and
~best of accommodations, and convenience in shipping in mixed carloads.
Chicago market, both at N 05.11319 Michigan Ave. and
14 I I
Our lines will be shown
Michigan Ave. and in the Furni-
e Building, Evansville, Ind.
In addition to this, our traveling representatives cover all the ter::>riesand will be pleased to receive your business through anyone of the channels herein named.
Yours very truly,
}LOBE-WORLD-BOSSE
FURNITURE CO.
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Most Attractive Inducements for Car Load Buyers
Are Offered by the
THE KARGES FURNITURE CO.
Manufacturers of Chamber Suites. Wardrobes, Chiffoniers, Odd Dressers, Chifforobes.
THE BOSSE FURNITURE CO.
Manufacturers of Kitchen Cabinets, K. D. Wardrobes. Cupboards and Safes, in imitation
golden oak, plain oak and quartered oak.
THE WORLD FURNITURE CO.
Manufacturers of Mantel and Upright Folding Beds, Buffets, Hall Trees, China Closets,
Combination Book and Library Cases.
THE GLOBE FURNITURE co.
Manufacturers of Sideboards in plain oak, imitation quartered oak, and solid quartered oak,
Chamber Suites. Odd Dressers. Beds and Chiffoniers in imitation quartered oak, i"litation
mahogany. and imitation golden oak.
THE BOCKSTEGE FURNITURE co.
Manufacturers of the "Superior" Line of Parlor. Library, Dining and Dressing Tables.
THE METAL FURNITURE CO.
Made by The Karges Furmture
Co.
Manufacturers of "Hygiene" Guaranteed Brass and Iron Beds, Cribs, Wire Springs and Cots
Evansville is the great mixed car loading center of the
United States, made so by the Big Six Association .
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Minnesota
Retail Furniture
Dealers' Association
OFFICERS-PreSIdent,
J R Taylor, Lake Benton Mlnn, Vice Pre<ldent D R Thompson, Rocklonl Mlnn,
Treasurer, B A Schoeneberger
Perham, Mmn Secretary, W L Grapp, Janesvllle MmH
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE-Chamllan,
Geo Klein, Mankato Minn. 0 ">'mons. Glencoe MUIll, W I
Harns MInneapolis Minn C Daruelson Cannon" alls
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MINNESOTA RETAIL FURNITURE DEALERS' ADVERTISING
Bulletin No. 179.
HELPS.
The proper advertising
of the mattress and bedding end of our bUSIness IS puzzlIng most of the dealers, because It is so
hard to get the advertisIng cuts of this line
If you want to advertIse a pillow, \\ here would you get the cut and if you sent
to the factory for a cut, wouldn't they send a half-tone or a cut '-hree tlmes larger than you needed?
Or if you wanted to
advertise blankets, where would you get the cuts; hkewise wi th a qUIlt, and \\ hen It comes to getting cuts for your mattresses
'vheft can you get them?
\11/ e have tried to assemble this kind of adHrtlslllg
umts, which the average dealer cannot get
l-rimsdf, for your use, and we trust that this effort in trYlllg to pur the members III touch with the hne of cuts, which you
could not get very readIly yourself, IS what our members want.
The extension of thIS department
thru the averge lines of
merchandise,
which 15 handled In furniture
stores, will depend upon the support It gets
The advertising
commIttee wants to do everything
withlll It powe1 to help our membel s get just the kind of help they
want, and therefore will appreciate suggestIOns for our advertIsing work.
Yours for a heat ty co-operation
THE i\DVERTISING
COMMITEE.
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GOOD BLANKETS
TUIlSIl SOFT, DOWNY PILLOW~
No
381
In
Beddl11g
find
tment
Just
the
kInd
vou
ma"
nef'd
them
No 501 Our assortment
of pIllows
are filled with down, IIvcl goose and duck
feMhers
These feathers are cleaned hy
a SCIentific process
WhICh remOves all
impurities
so that we guarantee
these
feathers
to be clean, sweet and pure
All feathers cleaned by this process retaIn their natural
buoyancy and are not
hrlttle nor lifeless
The coverings may
be had In all grades of tICking from the
InexpensIve
striped
to the art tickil}g
PrJ,ces lange from
cut
furnIshed
type
to our members
for 40c
"\ou
of
and
\\ III
blankets
and
WIth
at
V\
plaIn
a savlng
No
375
The all around deS11able kind
filled With wlnte cot
ton
vanety
of colors In greens
browns antl blues V\ilth neat attractl\ e colonng In floral 1 eef or
"lC't deSign
,"\! e have them In variOUS
"l17eS
so-ne edged
.straight
S Jnl( \\ Ith fancy edgIng
a»,.d
to you
Pllces
ranging
ut
1Ulll1she(1
type
flam
WIth
rhls
PERFECT COMBINATION
MATTRESS
cut
fUlnlshed
type
to aUI 111 l1IbelS
for 40c
EXCELSIOR COTTON
MATTRESS
1\-lth
f]llS
to our member'"
for 40c
With
REVERsmLE
COTTO~-TOP·AND·
BOTTOM
MATTRESSES
TOP
J 2, '1o)
FI]ILd WIth the best cAccl0' eTI.:lld top and bott
lTn WIt h clL.1n
W Lot+ nl m 11-.. :-5 a r( vcrr..,lbl("
11clt
t s, If"
durable IlMh' r tut , ,IPd 1
(I h l) ...t Itc>lH d
C 111 bp fnrnlS H (t in
\ L I )l1h tl
J
l~'" of..,t
lpe 01 pi MIl de
19'j
I II! t rh flv( pun,]
FXLlll< ut ~,tl, e
l \(1 t Ie. lh..,t lOVel
Iblf' nld..Ltre'\s on tIlO
ma, klt at thl" prill
Calt be bad In all
,
I( S
r ,e "des and cmh are firmly
, It hed '0 that
thl Inattre's
mu,t
K' (P
It .....
l.,!1 tp"
It 1<., d, , 1 Y (lnr t11]e <:tnd "( 1VI ( !1JIG
nl£tttre",,,
c.L1 L t)\V !)lILC
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No 3
ThIS combinatton
matt> ess
IS one of the most
popular
m our
Ime
The center
of thiS mattress
IS
filled WIth the best grade of excels'or
and around
thIS, bottom,
SIdes and
ends, IS a layer of dependable
cotton,
l'he
tickmg
IS securely
bound
of
leather
tufts
and It IS of an extra
strong
weave
and
can be had
m
strtpe
or plam
Come and mvestlgate our 1me
When
you see them
we know
you WIll buy, because
we
have Just what you wane
lis cut
BJ'lnhet
e have
stl1pe
some
WIth
border
pink
or blue
some
With
bound edge
of over locked
stitching
OUf tv,o tone bor cler
blanket<;; are especlallv
fme antl
no matter
Whether "\ou \"\ant a
hl~h
priced blanhet
or a rnpdluHl
pnced blanket
\\ e can supply It
that
hiS
our
lepal
COMFORT ABLE COMFORTERS
furnIshed
type
to our members
for 40c
with
No 2R
Our excelsior
cotton
top
mattress
IS of e;,.cellent
value for a
cheap
mattress
It IS made
ot a
hght
flaky e;,.ce1slOr that
has been
caretully
prepared
We ha~e an assortment
of vartOUS ttckmgs
and can
be bought
m plam or stripe
It IS
leather
tufted,
the tuftmg
bemg accurate
and the same distance
apart
and of the same tensIOn
Buy one and
you WIll be con,meed
ot thc abO\ l
statements
Thl'5 cut
furnl'3hed
type
to
fot
our
mE'mber<;;
40<"
Send all orders to the Secretary's office, Janesville. Minnesota.
V\
Ith
[hi,;;;
cut
fUl nlshed
type
to
fO!
our members,
40,
If units are ordered by :mailsend $.08 with order.
With
Minnesota Retail Furniture Dealer's Association Advertising Helps.
Bulletin No. 178.
No. 42
No. 43
Crown Felt Royal Edge.
Crown Felt Hair Fibre.
QUI celebrated
hall
felt
mattress
haIr and felt wIll labt a lIfe tIme
.splendId selhng talk'"
If want.ed
'\.nythlng
maal'
lVIattress No
43
44
In standard
bUIlt In layers
of curled
somethIng dIfferent,
has
In two parts
25c extra
\-"\eIght
4 6
TICk No
8, hall felt
$0 PT
Royal Art tICk lolled edge
. F T"r
hall felt
3-6
$0 TT
3-0
$R OP
OPT
OTT
The best cotton felt mattress of absolutely pure, natural
cotton will not lump and IS equal to any mattress built of'
its kInd covered In a German art tlck
25c extra. if made
In two parts and $1 less if wanted In 3 inch box
'I1attress No
TiCk No
4-6
3-6
3-0
42
8, extra speclal felt $F.OP $F.OP $O.OP
42%
Imported Art Tick Royal
Edge
• I TT
F.PT
F.TT
No. 49
No. 69
Crown Metal Box Spring.
"'\0 6J SanltdlY
Metdl
Box
Spnng
Matues"
74
No
ACA Moss top
7 Cotton top
8 Felt top
Royal tlCk, felt top
Imported Art, felt top, 20 lbs
8 Halr top No ~
75
76
77
78
79
8, Hair top No 1
Imported Art Halr Top No 3
Imported Art, Hall Top No 2
Imported Art Hair Top No 1
~pllng
&9
7U
71
7J
,3
~o
lick
No
FOP
rop
I PT
I PT
MMTT
MMOP
MEAP
MAPl'
lVlKOP
MPT'l
Crown Rex Couch Pad.
Rex Couch Pad.
Pad No.
hInge, wool fillmg
49
hInge. wool filllng
50
draped ends, wool filling
hinge,
51
lunge, cotton fillmg
52
hlnge. draped ends
54
49
1ll.IF
M.IK
A.AP
A.KT
A.PT
No. 55
63
Crown ElDp-ress
Empress Pad
Pad No
2 hInge
63
64
2 hInge
65
1 hInge,
66
1 hInge
67
1 hinge,
68
1 hlnge.
\11 SJ7eS
CroW"nDavenport
Pads.
no drape wool fllUng
draped front and end, wool fillmg
no drape cotton felt
drape end and front cotton felt
no drape, felt fillmg
drape front and end, felt filling
$A OP
KTT
K.AP
KPT
ETT
E.AP
Pad No
55
56
57
68
69
60
61
62
2 hinge,
2 hInge,
1 hinge,
1 hinge,
2 hInge
2 hinge,
1 hinge
1 hinge,
Pads.
wool filhng
draped end, wool filUng
draped front
draped front and ends
cotton
draped ends
felt
draped front and ends
$.A..KP
APT
A.OP
A.IT
A.R'I'
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K.AP
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ISN'T IT TOO BADPeople wonder where their profits are going when the trouble usually lies in poor equipment. A little foresight in the beginning would have saved them dollars-a little more money invested at the start in "OLIVER" "QUALITY" equipment.
Some manufacturers of wood working tools slight their output by putting in poor materialsemploying poor workmen-simply to be able to make a httle more profit. "Ohver" tools are bUilt
along machine toollines-careful-accurate-durable-safe.
Some purchasers fall to Investigate thoroughly before placing 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.
"OUVER"
No. 60 Saw Beneh.
OURLINESURFACE PLANERS
HAND JOINTERS
SANDERS
WOOD TRIMMERS
CHAIN MORTISERS
LATHES
ADDRESS
OLIVER
SAW BENCHES
SWING CUT-OFF SAWS
BAND SA WING MACHINES
BORING MACHINES
SAFETY CYLINDERS
VISES, CLAMPS, ETC., ETC.
DEPARTMENT
"D"
MACHINERY
CO.,
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH., U. S. A.
BRANCH
OFFICES-
lot National Bank Bldg , Chicago,lII.
No 50 Church St., New York City.
"OUVER"
1125 Welt Temple St .• LOl Anaelel,
Pae:ific Bid •.• Seattle. Walh.
CaI.
No. 61 Surfaeer.
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325; F. J. vVhitney, 348 Cass avenue, $7,500; Edward De
Buildings That Will Need Furniture.
Coster, Boulevard and Buchanan street, $5,000; Emihe RudResidences-Atlanta,
Ga -So \V. SullIvan, 262 Myrtle
kIewicz,
338 HamIlton street, $4,500; John A. Mohler, Moran
street, $4,000; George P. Moore, 12 Mechanic street, $8,500,
and
FellY
stl eets, $3,800; Edwin Goldberg, 119 Delaware
1. B Eubanks, 18 Sells avenue, $4,000; L C. Townsend, 27
street,
$3,300.
Royston street, $2,000; L. E. Bennett, 188 South GOldon
Dallas, Texas-L.
E. Munzesheimer, Colonial and Lenstreet, $3,750.
Buffalo, N. Y.-Thomas
E. Newman, 2424 Delaware ave- way streets, $9,500; Mrs. D. McKay, M. D., 604 Ervay street,
nue, $3,000; Robert C. Batt, 893 Humboldt street, $4,500, $3,550; J A. Traylor, 227 vVendelken street, $3,250; G. R.
Holloway, 163 LIVe Oak street, $6,000.
Juha A. 'Wall, 238 Humboldt street, $3,300; George E. BogarDuluth, Mmn.-N.
C. Clarke, East Second and Twentydus, 112 Bogardus street, $3,000; Edward W. Lllllck, 13 MontIcello street, $3,400; H. A. Landot, 118 Ashland avenue, $3,- fOUlth street::., $6,000; E. G. Walton, London road, $3,500; J.
A. Johnson, 2084 Vi est Second street, $2,500; O. W. Ander350; Mary Fox, 84 Burgard place, $2,800; Stanislaus Gladys,
son, 204 East FIrst street, $2,500.
26 Bridgeman street, $3,500; \V. H. Hotchk1<;<;, 190 Myrtle
street, $4,500; John R. Jordan, 289 MIddlesex street, $23,500.
Cleveland, O.-Leonard
Mmtz, 1381 Lake View road, $6,H. A. Landot, 118 Ashland avenue, $3,350.
500, J E Hewett, 3028 West bou1evrad, $3,300; Anna Urban,
Cincinnati, O.-A. J. Scott, 2430 Maplewood avenue, $3,- 13809 Dlenhelm road, $3,000; WIlliam Brek, 6225 V\T orIey ave800; Theodore Levy, 304 West Si:xth street, $3,000; Garfield nue, $3,300 ; John Collms, 15415 St. Clair avenue, $2,900; J 0Winbe1er, Morrison and Ludlow avenues, $4,000; W. F. DaVIS, seph Kumtzer, 3916 Riverside avenue, $2,500; L. Behrens,
1444 East 108th street, $3,500; C. W. Hauth, 9406 Woodland
Albany and Dury avenues, $5,000; L. F. Busch, 1342 '(me
avenue,
$2,500.
street, $5,000.
Columbus, Ohio-Abel
Linton, 480 East Thirteenth aveDenver, Col.-Andrew
Englehardt, Elm and Twenty-fifth
nue, $4,000; Florence M. Jones, 1122 Oak street, $2,500; A. M.
streets, $3,800; Charles Satterlee, Birch and Twenty-thud
<;treets, $3,500; WIlliam vVIborg, Steele and Tenth streets, $3,- Hetnck, 749 WIlson avenue, $2,500; E. G. Wilson, 1029 Neil
000; Clyde O. Epperson, 2220 Ivanhoe street, $4,000; S. H. avenue, $2,500; J. W. Wright, 28 Indianola avenue, $3,000; C.
r. Hausberger, 433 Luckhaupt avenue, $4,000.
Mower, Pear and Second streets, $4,000.
Colorado Springs, Col.-Percy
Hagerman, 524 Mesa road,
Detroit, Mich.-George
Tyre, 1546 Vinewood street, $3,200; Mrs. W. D. Busch, 248 Philadelphia street, $3,000; CYIil $2,500; J. C. Allen, 804 East Fontanero street, $4,000; C. B.
Lefevre, 381 GIlbert street, $4,400; John vVagner, 1012 FIeld Cozens, 1224 N 01 th Corona street, $3,400.
street, $3,800; Grant A. Roush, 216 Alger street, $3,100; BerChicago, III , Herman Laurens, 1870 Sheffield avenue, $2,tha Menzies, 28 Butternut street, $4,000, Jacob Hernstein, 110 500, Ida Mertsky, 1620 Ballou street, $5,000; John Gustafson,
East Garfield street, $5,000; W. H. vVl1hams, 2462 West Boul- 902 North Park avenue, $3,000; Charles A. Ruggins, 4458
evard, $14,000; Albert Buelow, Baldwin and Mack streets, $3,- \Vest North avenue, $25,000; M. Seaman, 2636 Windsor ave-
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23
ARTISAN
RICHMOND
TABLET CHAIRS
"SLIP SEATS"
AND
THE
MOST SANITARY
RICHMOND CHAIR CO.
RICHMOND,
No.
too
DOUBLE CANE SEAT
nue, $4,000; Peter Scheimer, 7605 Wabash avenue, $3,000;
Charles Ringer, 7834 Marquette avenue, $3,000; M. J. Thomp'ion, 6408 Langley avenue, $2,500; A. J. Fitzgerald, 7126 Indiana avenue, $2,500; John A. Rippel, 1113 South Sacrament
boulevard, $4,000; G. Person, 7735 Drexel boulevard, $3,000.
EvansvIlle, Ind.-Dr. S. B. Lewis, 911 Upper FIrst street,
$2,500; Mrs. M. Keegan, 1131 Riverside avenue, $3,000.
East EI Paso, Texas-C. F. Holyworth, $3,000.
Grand Rapids, Mich.-John Devello, Cottage Grove and
Vilas avenues, $2,500; Mrs. Nora Hefferan, 347 Paris avenue,
$3,800; Jacob Dykehouse, Garfield avenue and Sibley street,
$2,500; J ames Haven, 262 Robinson road, $2,500; Philip Peterson, 428 vi\!est Bridge street, $3,500.
Houston, Texas-J. H. Woods, $3,500; J. J. Settegast, $7,000.
Hutchinson, Kan.-Mrs. Elizabeth French, 289 Sixth avenue, east, $3,000.
Indianapolts, Ind.-John Gysie,Ritter and Burgess streets,
$2,800; H. A. Wmn, North New Jersey and Twenty-eighth
street, $4,200; W. J. Thisselle, $3,500; Hugh Murdock, 3051
Washington boulevard, $5,000; Robert L. Maize, 810 Woodlawn avenue, $2,800; Fred E. Barrett, 2121 North Alabama
street, $6,000.
J acksonvi11e,Fla.-C. Brinkley, Lemon and Roselle streets,
$7,200; J. W. Hill, Perry near Ninth street, $2,500; W. M.
Archibald, Hubbard and Phelps streets, $4,500.
Milwaukee, Wis.-WIlliam Smith, Clement avenue and
Montana street, $2,800; Henry Dolge, 508 Lloyd street, $5,500; George W. Nelson, Twenty-ninth street and McKinley
boulevard, $6,000; M. Sohr, Bolton and Wright streets, $5,250; Ben Greenwaldt, 749 Forty-fifth street, $4,000; Henry
Kennecke, 760 Forty-first street, $4,000; Alice M. Grab, Fortyfirst street and North avenue, $4,000; Mrs. Mary Zander, Thirteenth avenue and Scott street, $3,400.
Minneapolts, Minn.-F. E. Tallant, 615 University avenue,
$7,500; Aaron Lindquist, 3548 Bryant avenue, $2,500; John
Carlson, 3008 Lyndale avenue, $4,000; Florence A. Pettibone,
1404 Washington avenue, $5,000; Carl E. Hagstrom, 3625
Bloomington avenue, $2,500; Selma Yonker, 2531 Irving avenue, north, $2,500.
Kansas City, Mo.-Josephine Ellis, 3904 Euclid avenue,
$5,000; John Peters, 3 East Fifty-seventh street, $3,000; J. A.
Wilson, 4531 Chestnut street, $2,500.
IND.
No. 100 CENUINE LEATHER
SEAT
Saci amento, Cal.-Lester R. Nichols, $3,500; J. W. Keatmg, $3,000.
Spokane, Wash.-C. T. Steltz, 04114 Stevens street, $3,000.
San Diego, Cal.-viV. M. Crouse, Front and Maple streets,
$3,000; Mrs. O. H Colton, Front and Walnut streets, $2,500.
Los Angeles, Cal.-A. H. Cogswell, 1244 Van Ness avenue, $10,000; R. R. McLaren, W IIton place and Temple street,
$3,000; Dr. E. M. Palletti, 950 South Hoover street, $10,000;
J. M. Berkley, FIfth avenue and Farlando street, $4,000.
Oakland, Cal.-F. F. Harper, Hudson street and Boyd
avenue, $2,850; Emma Vaughn, 1280 Fifty-ninth street, $2,550; A. M. Randall, Calmar avenue, $4.800; L. B. Reiff, 450
Boulevard Way, $3,500.
Omaha, Nebr.-Mrs. D. G. Robb, 3188 Ames avenue, $2,500; A. H. Olmstead, 3321 North Fourteenth avenue, $2,500;
Fred W. Hansen, 1807 Wirt street, $4,000; J. M. Hansen,
Thirty-first and Huntington streets, $3,000; Martha Czerwinski, 3114 Spring street, $2,500.
Washington, D. C.-Edwin C. Dutton, 3719 Livingston
street, Chevy Chase, $6,000; Charles E. Stewart, 305 Sixth
street, northwest, $6,500.
Wichita, Kans.-Mrs. S. A. McClurg, 456 North Topeka
avenue, $3,500.
Youngstown, O.-Henry Roland, 380 Truesdale avenue,
$3,100; Robert Russell, 216 vValdo street, $3,000; Carl Skoag,
446 Glenaven avenue, $2,800.
Miscellaneous Buildings-Cardinal Gibbons has a permit
for the remodeling of a church at 1739 Rhode Island avenue,
Washington, D. c., at a cost of $75,000. T. H. Brook, architect, is remodeling the Epiphany church, 1313 G street, northwest, Washington, D. c., at a cost of $70,000. The Colored
Knights of Pythias association are erecting a lodge building
on Senate and Walnut streets, IndIanapolis, Ind, to cost $35,000. The Grand Avenue Methodists of Kansas City, Mo., are
building a $125,000church. The Fraternal Union of America
are erecting a $10,000 lodge building at 1436 Champa street,
Denver, Col. King & Meisner are building a $60,000 theatre
on Monroe and Farmer streets, Detroit, Mich.
C. Howard,
Crane is building a $75,000 theatre on Monroe street near
Cadillac square, Detroit, Mich. J. Jacobson is building a $20,000 theatre at 2040 Roscoe street, Chicago.
The Hellene
church society are erecting a $50,000 house of worship at
1019 LaSalle avenue, Chicago.
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ARTISAN
IT'S A HANDY
PLACE TO GET
OAK, POPLAR, BIRCH
and GUM VENEER
VARIOUS THICKNESSES.
PLEASE NOTE
ALWAYS READY TO SHIP.
OUR NEW ADDRESS:
WALTER CLARK VENEER
SOUTH IONIA AND PRESCOTT
STREETS,
co.
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
Furniture Fires.
GIlmore & Palm's rug factory In Bloomulgton, II1., was
totdlly destroyed by fire on December 1 Loss, S'6 500; partIally
insured.
Young Brothers' mattress factory In Lawrence, Mass, was
burned on December 2, with a loss of $18,000, and only $5,000
insurance.
L. N. Fowler & Co., furmture dealers at Concord, Mass.,
s11['ered a loss of about $4,500 by fire On December 2. Insurance, $2,000.
The Mernt-Thompson Furniture company of Mt. Airy, N.
c., suffered a loss of $4,000 or $5.000 by fire In their store, recemly. Partially insured.
The plant of the Wiltz Veneering company, a very prOlOperous concern of Norfolk, Va., was completely destr~«i
by
fire recently. It will be rebuilt immediately, new machinery
having been ordered before the ashes were cold. The stock
destroyed a large consignment of finished ven<:>ersready for
c;hipment to Grand Rapids, Mich.
G. H. Heckeroth's chaIr factory on North Randolph street,
Philadelphia, was damaged by fire to the extent of about $25,000 on December 3 Fully insured.
The Lenoir (N C) Chair company's plant was burned recently with a loss estimated at $60,000 to $70,000 and light
insurance. About 100 men are thrown out of employment.
New Furniture Dealers.
M. Clark is a new furniture dealer at Chapman, Kan
Van Allen & Co, are new furniture and piano deal
~ewark, N. J
H C Smith will open a new stock of furniture and
ware at Hagan, Va.
Giddings Bros., general dealers of Colorado Springs
have enlarged their quarters and added a well stocked
ture department.
The A. W. Brown Furniture 'Company incorporated
$3,000 capital stock, are new furniture dealers in New Lc
Conn Aubrey W. and Ethel B. Brown, William D. Harr
George N. Putnam, are the incorporators.
New Factories.
John Bobbitt is organizing a company to establish a new
furniture factory at Allavista, Va.
Business men of Savannah, Ga., have agreed to finance a
new mattress factory to be located in that city.
New Hotels to Furnish.
The Lee Hotel company will invest $75,000 in a new
building at Duluth. Minn.
E. M. Stattler has leased ground in Oeveland anl
erect a sixteen 'Story hotel. It will contain 800 rooms.
The MIdland Fur11lture Co., that will use the plant fe
Iy occupIed by the IndIana Stove 'Works of Evansville, I
to begm operations with a force of 150 men, on January 2.
Blscher IS preSIdent of the company and J C. Stephen's
tal y and manager.
The National Chair company, recently organized
Louis, Mo, by Joseph Yawitz, Edwin V. Glazier and (
has taken a long- lease of property on the corner of Mai
Spruce streets, on which they will locate their factory.
chairs will be their specialty they will also manufactun
goods and other lines of furniture.
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25
ARTISAN
By E. Levy, Representative.
Chicago, Dec 8-There
has been a change recently in the
sale~ department of the Milwaukee Chair company, when J. L.
J saacs took charge of their busmess In this city
Previous to
his new arrangement
with this company he was for many years
with the Simmons Manufacturing
company as theIr sales manag-er in the east, with headquarters
in New York City
Mr.
Kramer, the president of the company, IS dIrecting and managirg the busmess in its entirety
Mr Isaacs will have as an assistant. George De Beer, formerly
with the Criocker Chair
company
The salesroom has been removed to the third floor
of the same building in which the line has been shown for a
number of years, at 192 :\IIchigan avenue, bllt these are only
temporary quarters untIl :\Iay 1, when they will move into the
Karpen bUlldmg, whe1 e they WIll have their line shown in surroundings befittmg its elegance
Your 1 epresentative
had the
pleasure of looking over the line m which there are many new
patterns, inc1udmg a large number of office chairs and, ettees in
mahogany,
oak and walnut, many of which arc designed to
harmonize with the best c1a~s of desks on sanitary lines, and it
is amazing to see the nllmber of styles that have been evolved.
They recently Issued a handsome cataloglle whIch was planned
and arranged by their secretary, Frank H Westlake
It is a
work of art and is a worthy setting for the fine chans shown
therein.
There was a meetmg of the recently formed Northwestern
Furniture
Club, composed of the leading manufacturers
of uphol"tered furniture in thIS section of the country, which took
place on the evening of November 29, at the Great Northern
Hotel.
The most important business transacted
was that of
the executive committee composed of R Denne!. E Fenske and
Maurice Tauber, who were authorized to employ a secretary for
two years, they have engaged A. C Brown of Hastmgs,
l\1Jc11lgan, who has had many years experience
with the National
AssociatIOn of Table Manufacturers.
It was a very enthusiastic meeting and sufficient funds were raIsed to assure the
stability of the association.
J P Adair, for many years WIth the Ford & Johmon company. who, as reported in these columns, recently formed a
new company to manufacture
furniture
m thIS CIty under the
name of the Adair company, has removed the plant from West
Twelfth street to 1418 Wabash avenue, m the buildmg which
\\as known as the News Boys Home for about five years
They
are overhauling the entire building and redecorating
plrt of It.
When it is in shape it will be well adapted f01 theIr requirements and it is their intentIOn to arrange their product 111 an
artI'tie manner and use the parlors as salesrooms
The new
quarters will be known as the "Furniture
Shop"
They will
havt a complete line of furmture speCIaltIes which WIll mc1ude
upholstered
rockers, three piece SUltS, shIrt waIst, skIrt and
utIlity bozes, packmg cases and many other specialtIes
They
havp introduced the hammereel brass effects and many of their
pIeces are decorated In this novel style whJ1e all are unique and
individual
The "Furmture
Shop" wJ1l no doubt prove an attractlOn to those in the trade who are looking for "something
dIfferent"
They expect to be ready for the January market
The many rumors regardmg
the retirement from business
of the Delmelc; impelled your correspondent
to See Rudolph
j.l'YOli %ncy
Baney garllitilre~
fYou will ezyoy;Yelling the -Cine
GRrIl'lD
0/
RRPIDS
FrIN CY FURNITURE C~
GRRND RRPIDS, MICH.
GET TUEC7ITHL OGUE
«~alogZles sent to
prospective (fustomers.
Imperial furnifure@ ..
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
Deimel of the KatlOnal Parlor Furmture company and Mr. Deimel has formally acknowledged
the fact, and stated that they
were hqUldatmg as fast as possible, and would retire from business as soon as theIr holchngs can be disposed of. This however
he thought would not be for some months, as they have a large
stock of raw matellals to work up, whcih, together with the
goods already on hand, would aggregate
upwards of $200,000
111"\alue.
QuestlOned as regards hIS plans in the future, Mr.
Deimel said he was going to take a much needed rest for some
months and would not take up any business venture until after
that tIme, and had not formulated any plans as to the business
he """auld enter
"There has been no sale of any part of the
plant or bus111ess as yet, although
It IS for sale," said Mr.
Deimel "and we wJ11 dlspose of it in its entirety or in part."
They will have a large display of their goods in their salesroorns
In the 1411 bUlldmg on MIchigan avenue, next month, and will
close out theIr stock as early as pOSSIble
The addItion to the factory of C ChristIansen,
cabinet
bench manufacturer
at 2219 Grand avenue, is completed
and
IS now occupied
Mr. Christiamen
is US1l1g it for a store
house for hIS raw materials, and this leaves him considerable
room that was occupied before in the older part of the factory,
by these goods, and thus facilitates the progress of the work
in the shop, which previously
was very much congested.
T J Segel of Jefferson
ture to his lSeneral store
Tex,
has added a stock of furni-
If hard work 1<;the <;ecret of <;uccesc; in sell1l1g goods, it is
not much of a secret.
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WHAT WILL THE CENTURY DEVELOP?
ARTISAN
ture pel iod wlll show seventy-five years of advancement.
It
will be the age of the machine rather than the hand-but
the
Certain principles
Mental Speculation as to Material. Style and De- macll1ne gmded by a hIgher intelhgence
01
de:'lgn
"W hlCh are not
the
property
of
any
period but the
sign of Furniture in the Future.
common hentage of all tImes wIll be set forth in this furni\;\1111 the furmtm e of the Llte twentieth Lentllr) be Colol11- tm e even more than they are today-proportion,
beauty of
aI, mISSIOn or a new style) et to be e\ 01\ ed? \\ 111 It be ba"ed
lme, harmony of color, simplicity and repose.
on histoncal tI adltlOn 01 on purel) stl uLtl11al hnes, of foreIgn
In studying the best furniture of today, we are impressed
or native woods?
vVlll It, m ca:,e OUI "upply of timber I:' by cel tain chal acteristics which were unknown twenty years
nearly exhausted, be of concl ete and If so of GI eek, Roman 01
ago; first, a greater resppct for the 'Surface of the wood, secEgyptian design?
ond, a better hold on hlst01 ic design as applied to practical
If the house of the futU! e be LOncrete, I:' it not 10glLal to
purposes, and third, a greater skill in workmanship.
Modern
believe that chaIrs, tables and bed"tead" WIll be of hke matellfurlllture m its actual making has made a great achievement.
al? It is qmte pOSSIble that the day \\ 111anl\ e \"hen all the
These Improvements were necessary in order to meet new conwooden furniture 111the world" III he 111museum:, and people
dItIOns
The seasoning of wood to prepare It for steam-heated
wlll regard It WIth the same CUllO:,lty and remotene"s that we
houses IS one of the most important phases of plesent day furnow feel toward mummy cases
But that fal dl:,tant day need
lllture makml:[
It is one of the new demand" in cabinet work,
not disturb us.
"ell met by the best furniture makers
The old designers,
The furlllture makel s of the late t\\ entleth centun
,,111
"hoffi "e so greatly hold in esteem, knew nothmg of the kilns,
doubtless take the best that de"lr;net " 01 all tIme" ha\ e handed
the drymg rooms and the months of treatment which are a
down to them
TheIr \\ ork, If thIS IS the case WIll be a mere
part of the best modern methods of work.
continuation
of what IS now be111g-done
If the progress 111
The old cabinet makers prepared their materials with evfurniture IS as marked 111the ne'<t fifty yeal s as 111the past
ery art then known, but they dId not have to take into considfifty, great things may he eApected
POSSIbly by companson
eration steam or furnace heat
The preservation
of a great
our own times will seem as helllg-hted as does the haIrcloth
deal of old furlllture is due quite as much to the fact that it
and black walnut epoch now to us.
has never known the dry heat of a modern house as to good
Will the future attitude tqwald mIssion furlllture be as
work.
Beautiful old pieces of oak furniture when brought
our own toward those ponderous bedsteads. tho'Se unga111ly from England to this country often fall apart, and the fate
sideboards, those chilly marble top tables of the early sevenwhich overtakes the old mahogany of the South is known to
ties?
Is taste merely a matter of fashion, or do we progress
the dIsappointed people who buy furniture in New Orleans
and retrogress?
and other southern cities.
Here is where the maker of faithful copies of old furniture has a powerful argument to adWhen we compare certain periods in decorative history
vance in favor of reproductions.
The latter do not warp,
with those of an earlier day we are forced to believe that at
fall to pieces, or slowly disintegrate.
Particularly
do the sointervals all through the centuries there have been very blank
cdlled "Colomal" articles of furniture. the American Empire
stretches, brief dark ages which have occurred with almost
designs of the early nineteenth century, suffer from a dry atmathematical
regularity.
The MId-Victorian
epoch is one,
mosphere
Glue was used more liberally at that time than
our own haircloth marble another.
Turning back a little, the
in the eighteenth century.
Veneering seems to be especially
aberrations
of the French Regency may be mentioned-also
affected by the "above seventy" temperature
of the average
the baroque period of the Italian Renaissance, the flamboyant
house.
Gothic, and the declining day'S of the Louis XV style
Penods of fine, strong work have been 111\ariahly followed by
It is not the heat so much as the lack of moisture that is
over-ela50ration,
and finally by the gradual hU!ld111g up of trying for old furniture, also for plants, gold fish, birds and
another style, the pendulum swinging as far as pOSSIble in the
human beings
There are radiator appliances now on the
opposite direction.
Usually the new style has turned back to
market to 'supply mOIsture and they are well worth investithe foundations of purity and simplicity-sometimes
on classic
gation
With the best heating arrangements
moisture is supthemes as the Renai"sance, the Adam and the Louis XVI;
plied from the plant itself, and the "high fire" dryness which
sometimes on structural hnes
Of the latter class the mission
is necessary in a pottery but not elsewhere, is unknown in the
development is a notable example.
houses where they are used. But until these better methods
are universal the twentieth
century furniture maker of old
Whether we can ever achieve a natIOnal style in fm niNot only does the reture makmg is an open que~tlOn
Our inhented trachtio11'3 patterns has a great point in his favor.
production stand a high temperature
better than the original,
come from "uch widely ddferent SOUlces-v la England, France,
but It IS less affected by dampness and sudden sold
All these
Germany, Holland and ehewhel e
The "sty les" of the past
conditions WIll be well controlled by the furniture makers of
were created under a g-redt common Impulse. people working
it is more than probable
together, actuated by ideals and ambitions in common
'oN e the late twentieth century-although
that by that time methods of heating and cooling houses will
cannot work ahke became \\ e do not thmk ahke
I t IS doubtha\ e made such progress that the present precautions will be
ful if in the countnes of the olrl "mId
condItions \\ 111 come
again so as to make pOSSible \\ hat has been pOSSIble in unnecessary.
in the past.
In Amenca It would take almost a second flood
The vanety of styles will undoubtedly be greater than toto prepare the way f01 a natIOnal "tyle.
day, although several types which are now with us will be
eliminated
They are dying a long-drawn-out
death and will
The furnIture of the late twentieth century. hke our arbe
decently
buried
long
before
this
century
reaches
the fifty
chitecture. WIll not be natIOnal It \\ 111 be. as It I" tocla) a mIxmark
Machine
pressed
ornament
will
have
disappeared;
ture of the styles of the past, ~ood and bad-the
good predomglued on carving will have met a well merited oblivion.
Misinating.
It will not be all mahogany any more than all oak
sIOn
and
craft
styles
we
shall
have
in
a
perfected
form.
SimThere will be many kmds of wood 111use, pOSSIbly new combiIt will
nations-if
not actually new woods
Inasmuch as methods of pliCIty will not necessarily mean "all straight lines."
merely mean the absence of everything unnecessary.
It is
work are constantly improving, the workmanship
of this fu-
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probable that a period of weak design WIll mterevene,
unles"
history m furmtUl e making does not repeat Itself dunng thIS
century, and no benighted era mar Its record.
It WIll be a remarkable
centur)
if tIllS be the ca"e.
Even the eIghteenth,
wl1lch We thmk of as the hIgh water mark in all the mmor
arts, had a dull, hfeless decade near the hfty mal k.
In fact
the central penod of nearly every century has not been up to
the standard of the earher and later portIOn"
ThIS was particulal1y true of the mneteenth
century WIth It" splendid openmg chapters of arti"tIc aclllevement
m France, England dnd
America-Ib
complete "lump about 1850, and ItS final triumph
between 1890 and 1900
The gaUl has been rapid m thIS country smce the closmg days of the nineteenth
century
If we
dc, not retrograde
about 1935 WIth a decade of dullnes" and
exaggelatIOn
between 1940 and 1950, we shall e"cape the fate
of pI evious tImes
IndustIial
condItIOns are now so dIfferent
from what
they were at the begmnm~ of any othel centm y, and, a" thel e
IS no defimte natIOnal "tyle, m the or1e;mal meanlll£;, anywhere,
It may be that we shall aVOId the dI"astrous
mIddle period.
ThIS IS the age of the mrhvldual m all tihe arts
The old
bandmg together
of the craft", of men tI amed to work ahke
and to t111nk alIke, ha:o no part m the present scheme of thmg"
And for thIS reason, not bemg able to reach any great height
together, we may mISS the declme whIch ha" hItherto mal ked
the work of men acting under a united impulse
If the present clay IS one of mchvldualism in the arts, It
is reasonable
to think that the latter portion of the centurv
will be even more so. Craftsmen
will contmue on lines no~
fairly well established,
elImmating
the weak points, developing the strong ones and handmg down the best traditions
to
the next generatIOn.
If we believe Mr Ashbee and other
English craft writers, we should predict a long period of good
work both here and abroad.
Craft furniture in America has been built up on structural
lines-in
the main it is refined mission, hand made and consequently
expensive.
In England
the arts and crafts movement in furniture has been developed on rather dIfferent motifs. It has turned back to the age of oak in England,
presenting
the simplest
of sixteenth
and seventeenth
century
motifs and adapting
these to modern requirements.
These
old motifs are an inheritance
of the English designer.
He
loves them and has a feeling for them that is unknown to us.
Our inherited
traditions
as far as furmture
is concerned lies
along mahogany
motIfs.
Our arts and crafts movement
in
the beginnmg wa" to a large extent a protest against the exce~sive use of mahogany.
It was also a protest against the
debasement
of oak as used in the cheap machine made furniture of the department
stores
Fifteen years ago it was hard
to find anythmg
really good in furnIture
out'>Ide of mahogany and Flemish oak.
At that time good furniture wa:o very
expensive.
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THE WORLD'S BEST SAW BENCH
BUIlt With doublf> arbors. shdmg table and equipped complete with taper pin
guages carefully graduated.
ThIS machme represents the height m saw bench construction
It IS deSigned and bUilt to reduce the cost of sawmg stock.
Write os for descriptIve
information.
THE TANNEWITZ WORKS, ~ftJmMPIDS.
the house bUIlders of 1980 WIll not be less fortunate.
If furnIture makers contmue to revIve the designs of the
past and go back to the fourteenth
and fifteenth centuries as
they are now turnmg to the sIxteenth and seventeenth,
there
will be some interesting
Gothic revivals in the future.
The
Gothic centuries
wIll open up a mine of beautiful
things to
the furnIture
designers
who can make distinctions
between
pIeces made for cathedrals
and abbeys and those for homes.
The cupboards,
pre"ses, armoil es, buffets. etc., of the early
fourteenth
century hold much for our designers, and the wonder IS they have gone so long neglected.
With the exception
of the "Gothic Revival" in England, not particularly
happy in
its mid-VIctorian
interpretation,
and the earlier "Gothic craze"
which led Chippendale
and his contemporaries
into such freakIsh lengths, the great Gothic period as far as furniture
is concerned has been allowed to grow dusty in oblivion.
We can
hardly take into account the clever forgeries
111 old Gothic
chests and cupboards which appear from time to time in collections and have been known to find their way to our big
In spite of the mcreased cost of hvmg, the home maker
museums.
These, lIke bogus Renaissance
marriage
coffers
of moderate means can do far better now than fifteen years
and inlaid Spanish cabinets, belong to spurious works of art
ago.
She has been greatly aided m thIS matter by the misrather than to the ranks of furniture making.
SIOn movement, by the development
of the cottage theme, and
If we were to prophesy jihe furniture of a much later day
by furniture
making in general.
If one wel e to have eel tam
than the one under consideration,
a composite style might be
pieces made to order the cost would be greater today than fifpredicted
combining
the grace of Colonial, the simplicity
of
teen years ago.
The companson
made is with the fini:ohed
Mission, the repose of Shelaton,
the dIgnity of Jacobean,
the
product dIsplayed m the :ohops. There are a number of st) le:o
refinement of Adam, the enduring qualIties of Gothic, and the
now on the market '" hich are far more expensive
than the
splendid workmanship
of our own day.-Virginia
Robie, in
"Flemish
oak" or the "mahogany"
mentIOned-the
latter not
"The HOUSE- Beautiful"
wry exact as to design and fearfully and wonderfully
polished-the
bright French polish now happily gomg out even
Lots of designers who aim high break the ends of their
for pianos.
But the gain in simple designs has been so great
crayons.
that the choice today is more extensive than it ever was, and
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AND BE PREPARED TO FILL THE WANTS OF YOUR TRADE FOR
Standard Quality
Solid Comfort
Honest Values
Durability
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Spring Beds, Steel Folding Couches, Davenports, Cots,
Cribs, Cradles, Mattresses, Couch Pads, Etc.
MANUF ACTURED BY
HENRY SCHOMER COMPANY,
Furniture for Christmas Gifts.
Utlhty presents at Chnstmas tIme may not to many people
conl aIn the percentage
of sentiment that they seek to Infuse
into their gIfts, but, nevertheless, they are Imghty mce presents
to glVe and to receIve
Flowers, confectIOnery, perfumes, stationery, and ephemeral tokens of remembrance
plea"e for the
nonce, but the sohdness of the furmtUl e gIft and Ih durablht,
keep in mmds f01 years the thoughtful
kmclness of some good
heart at Christmas
Take the extremely
handsome Itbrary tables of oak and
mahogany that are dIsplayed m furmture warerooms Just now
Not only are they a thing of beauty, but every tIme the recIpIent
SIts at the table to read he WIll hkely think of the donor
The
:.vIlssion hbrary table is especially timely as a present
They
are generally of oak fimshed m early Engltsh style Other kInds
artistically deSIgned are on sale at very moderate pnces everywhere,
Then there IS our old fnend the Morns chaIr
How many
times will father, mother or fnend rise up and call you blessed
for such a gift? No, they will not be hkely to rise Up-It WIll
be too comfortable SItting down
The chaIrs are generally m
oak or mahogany finish, WIth reverSIble cushIOns of a hIgh grade
of velour.
There's a china closet of golden quarter-sawed
oak that
would make many a housewife's heart beat \\ Ith the 10y of posseSSIOn Or a bride's, eIther, for that matter
~Iatched WIth
It en sUlte are made WIth buffet boards, polished so that their
resplendent surfaces are all but practtcal mirrors
Chiffoniers of oak and other woods are seen everywhere
that are the acme of dainty design and ready service
Very
styhsh dressmg cases of quarter-sawed
oak and other hIghly
treated woods are on dIsplay
MaSSive dIning tables, the hand-
533-534 So. Canal St.,
CHICAGO, ILL.
....omest of CIrcular patterns and capable of extension from four
to eIght feet are beautifully suggestive of the ideal substantial
Chnstmas gIft
\nd what a comfort-breathing
array of bedsteads on exhibitIOn 111 ,111 of the furmtul e shops
High cla'ss brass beds of
'111 pa"l11C; c!e:'lgn are selltng
from $30 to $50 and some of the
cun L' ot hedd and foot pIece are poems 111bed architecture.
A
RIp \ an WInkle sleep threaten:, all those who use these slumber enhancel s, for when spread WIth all theIr accessories they
dre an mVltatlOn to bId dull care begone and take to the "imploved hay Inclosure" for eIght hours of sweet oblivion
::\ot forgett111g that Important Item of chaIrs, whose posses~lOn Il1d\ bnng J 0) to the Il1lstress of the dm111g room and the
parlor
Some are very fine, upholstered 111leather
Others of
de~lgn separate from any sUIte are beautiful pIeces of workmanshIp
Couches In all sorts of new upholstered designs are 111Vltl11gly dIsplayed everywhere
There are handsome ones of leather and others of costly velour
~1usic cabinets of quartered
oak and mahogany finish are other temptIng Christmas presents
.\Iso parlor and den rockers that fairly invite the singing
ot the "Cradle of the Deep" WIth swingmg motion m strict time.
\\ hlle not counted stnctly articles of home furniture, rolllop \\ ntmg desks are so akin that they suggest purchase at the
YuletIde f01 the man who has to do a great deal of systematic
work of a clencal fashIOn at home now and then
They are
made m several kl11ds of hIghly treated woods, and range m
pnce from $23 to several hundred dollars
Women's writing
c!e"k- arc of many dainty vanetles,--Chicago
Examiner
rhc charter of the :\Ianetta
(Ga)
Chair company, bemg
abollt to expire. has been renewed for a term of twenty years
MISCELLANEOUS NOTES AND NEWS
John RIchcreek, furniture dealer of ::\1t Blanchard, 0, has
sold out to Albert Locher.
Hensel & Fastman succeed Louis Hensel in the furniture
and carpet busmess at Chfton Heights, Pa
The iEureka 1\1anufacturlng
company, tables, have decided
to move then plant from ~ ewcastle to Liberty, Ind.
The Globe-Wermcke
company of Cincinnati, are now occupymg theIr new retaIl store at 128 Fourth street.
The Bates- Wtlkinson company, retaIl furniture
dealers, of
Fort Williams, Ont., have made an a%ignment
for the benefit
of creditors.
Irvin Jones & Co., have purchased the furniture, hardware
and undertaking
business of A B Cadwallader & Co of Galesburg, Mich
The Central Manufacturing
company of Roanoke, Va., are
bU5y filling a contract for furnIture for the capitol building at
Richmond
D D Lincoln, furnIture and hardware dealer of Quinlan,
Okla, has sold hIS stock of hardware but will continue the furniture business
R S Sloan has purchased Edwin C Stewart's interest in
the Atlanta (Ga)
Casket company and has become president
and general manager of the business
W. G Barry & Son have purchased the retail furniture
business of A. L Mincer, at Sterling, Kan. The Barrys were
formel'1y m the business at Council Grove, Kan.
The Kennedy
Furniture
company of Birmingham,
Ala.,
have decIded to close out theIr furniture
business and devote
theIr time exclUSIvely to the undertaking busine·ss.
Paul Mattox has purchased Mr Russell's interest in the
retml furniture
bUSiness of Dunkerton
& Russell at Bronson,
Kan
The new firm name is Dunkerton & Mattox.
Owing to ill health C. W Fuller, furniture,
carpet and
stove dealer at West Dennis, Mass., has retired from bUSiness.
He settled WIth hIS credItors at 60 cents on the dollar.
The paymaster-general,
~avy Department,
Washington,
D.
C , IS advertising
sealed proposals to be opened on December
20, under ~chedule 3096, for furnishing
10,000 mattresses.
\\1 S Jones, a pIOneer undertaker
of Manchester,
Iowa,
dIed on December 2, at the home of his daughter
in Cedar
RapIds, where he had gone to spend the \"inter
He was 78
years old
Max Stemman, furmture dealer, of Korfolk, Va, has made
arrangements
for the erectIOn of a two story brick and stone
building WIth plate glass front, adJoimng the Kootz block on
High street
Louis M Richards,
a well-known
furlnture
salesman of
Keene, N. H, has been engaged by Sprague & Carleton, ~hair
manufacturers
of Beaver Mills, same state, as their traveling
represen ta ti, e.
Aaron and Becky Burdick, who have been doing business
as the American Furniture
company at Lawrence. Mass., have
filed a voluntary petitIOn in bankruptcy.
Liabilities, $2,246; assets estimated at $1,300.
J. Pusey Chapman,
furnIture
dealer of Aurora,
IlL, is
building a large pressed brick addItIOn to his store on Thirteenth
stl"eet. WIth the addition completed he will have the largest
store building in the city
The liabilities of Harris Bartelstone & Sons, manufacturers
of mIrrors, etc, at 750 Broadway
New York, who recently
made an assignment,
are scheduled at $16,656.
The assets
have been scaled down to $4,100.
Simon L. Warren and Louis Goldblatt, doing busines'S in
Chelsea, ~lass , under the name of the First Furniture company,
have gone into voluntary bankruptcy.
Liabilities scheduled at
$12,506; assets estimated at $6,740.
J. H. Martin has purchased the furniture
and hardware
department in Henry Tandy's general store at Bartow, Fla., and
turned it over to his son, Lawrence Martin, who wiH increase
the stock of furniture and add rugs and carpets.
N egotiatiom
are reported as pending for the establishment
of a large veneer plant at Beverly, a suburb of Grand Rapids,
Mich
The promoters promise to make a patented product that
is expected to "revolutionize
the veneer industry."
The Crown Table and Specialty company of Argos, Ind.,
as been changed from a firm to a corporation,
capitalized at
$10,000
B. C Schoonover, M. L. Corey, E. R, Taber. Jacob
Martin and G E Ellingwood,
are the incorporators.
James O'Brien, alIas H. YIiller, a bogus check operator, is
in jail at Albion, :\f Y. charged with swindling merchants of
various towns In the northern part of the state, among his victims being A D Dally, a Brockport furniture dealer.
The firm of A. & J Blanchette, furniture dealer'S, who have
several stores in New England and use the Maple Leaf trading
stamps, WIth headquarters
in Norwich, Conn., have added another link to their chain by opening a branch store in Worcester, Mass.
H. J. WJ1liamson, for many years the leading furniture dealer of Norfolk, Va, wtll retire from the bu'Siness on January 1.
turning
the store at 563 Church street, over to C. Gordon
Meyers and Walter F. Jenkins, who have been with him for the
past ten or twelve years.
The assets of the T. De Long Furniture
company of Boyerstown, Pa., who recently went through bankruptcy have been
sold to the Boyerstown Casket company, who will remodel and
improve the plant and put it in operation soon, making coffins,
caskets and a small line of furlllture.
G. S. Combs. for several years with the Little Rock, (Ark.)
Furniture Manufacturing
company, has bought an interest in the
Adair FurnIture
company of that city. of which he has been
elected president and will be general manager of the factory.
L C AdaIr IS treasurer of the company.
Sedersky & Rapport, furniture dealers of Connellsville, Pa.
have purchased the business, stock and fixtures of their competitors, Mace & Co. They will consolidate the two stores in the
bUIlding now occupIed by Mace & Co., and will enlarge their
stock of furmture,
carpets and general house furnishings.
Chandler's Carpet and Furniture
House of Redlands, CaI.,
have purcha'Sed the Dunlay building which they will remodel
and move into about the mIddle of January.
The second floor
IS dIVIded into about thirty rooms but the partitions
will be
taken out and the whole floor made into one room for the carpet department.
Orrin McCarrison, furniture and carpet dealer of Oshkosh,
Wis., has filed a voluntary petitIOn in bankruptcy.
He schedules
hIS ltabllttles ot $7,712 and estimates his as'Sets at $15,256.
E.
T. Cole has been appointed receiver and a meeting of the creditors is to be held December 15. Too much credit business is
said to have caused the failure.
After advertismg for bids and readvertising
three times, the
Chicago council committee on city hall, have awarded the contract for metallic furniture and fixtures to be installed in the
new city hall, to the Van Dorn Iron Works of Cleveland, 0., at
$101,997
Among the hIgher bidders were the Metal Construction company $109,918 and the General Fireproofing
company,
$114,900.
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Handling Store Complaints.
Problems which must be solved by every retall merchant
be he m a small hamlet or in a large CIty, are those dealIng wilh
complamts.
No retaIl store is in exi~tence today which does not
have complaints of all kinds to adJUSt. fw:) 0£ the gl-:al thlllg:o
wl'ich the pubhc demands are good vall'e~ and good S\'I' Ice
CompetItIon is keen and merchants
are makin~ every 'lldl'cement for the pubhc to buy When an artIcle whlrh helS lwcn
represented to be of excellent quallty does not stand up and faJl~
to do the work for whIch It IS mtended, the purchaser dop" 1l0~
heSItate to return the article to the store even if It has been
u~fd for some length of time
In order that the ~tore may
ma111tain Its high standard, all compla111ts both large and small
should be carefull} and courteously adjusted.
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Dodds' Tilting Saw Table No.8
Perhaps the one thmg which the average 1l1dlvidual lacks
IS the ablhty to clearly state the facts in a few \'yords. The
business man wants the story in digestIble form
He ha~ 110
pdIence WIth long drawn-out dIssertations and unnecessary eilu"IOns
What he wants is facts-just
plain straight-from-theshoulder talk, about the business concerning which the customer
h:cs come to see him.
There are hundreds of people throughout
the country who
arE' unreasonable
111their demanc1~, but who must sometIme in
thE' fulure purchase more merchandise.
~II of these people
"llOuld be carefully handled.
Here is the de"criptlOn of a case which happened recently
a'1d an explanation of the manner in which it was adjusted
A
111an built a house and in furnishing
it desired to purchase a
kitchen cabinet, which was to be of a certain size. so that It might
be installed between two walls. He went to a prominent store
of his town and found exactly the style of cabinet, but not the
SIze, that he wanted.
The salesman told him that they had just
the size he desired in the warehouse.
He hesitated in placing the
order, but was assured by both the floorwalker and the manager
that he would get the proper size
Thereupon
he placed the
order and left the store. This man lived in a suburb nine miles
from the store and the cabinet was to be delivered to his home.
Two days later the cabinet reached the purchaser and was
found to be of the large size such as he had seen. He asked the
driver to take it back and was met with the remark that it wa~
against the rules.
"Well, what do you think I am going to do with it)
It
WII1 not fit the kitchen and I cannot afford to throw it away,"
saId the customer.
"SeMch me," exclaimed the driver. "You will have to notify
the store If you want it taken back."
So it was taken out in the yard and allowed to remain
there until the customer could reach the store.
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'P"
The Good Old Reliable Work Bench
THAT NEVER GETS OUT OF STYLE.
We take pleaaure m mtrodUCllli to you our new Saw Table
The base is Similar to wha
we have been using on our No 4 Saw Table, only we have made ,t larger on the floor The
falUDg and lowenDIr devJce IS the same as we have on the No
4 Machme. With lever and
pitman The lever IS made of steel
The arbor" made of I ~ -mch .teel. runnmg m long nng oumg boxe., and" for I-inch hole
m saw. We furnISh one 14-iach saw on each mochtne
11w,lI corry a 16-mch saw .f demed.
Table ISmade With a cenlerohde 12 mche, w,de WIth a movemenl of 21 mche..
It has a
lockmg deYlce 10 hold 'I when you do nol Wl.h 10 use 'I, and has a delachable m,lre guage to be
u,ed wben u,mg the shdmg-table.
Can cross-cuI wllh lable extended to 24 mches, .Iso np up
to 24 mches WIde Table h •• a removable throatlhal can be taken out when usmg dado
It
.Iso has two mitre guages for reaular work and a two Sided np quage that can be used on ttther
stde of the s.w, more e.peetally when the table is bile<!. also a bltmg rtp gauge 10 be u,ed 10 eut
bevel work when you do nol WIShto tIlt the table The top IS 40x44 mche,
Countenhaft h .. T & L. puller.' lOx 14 mche •• and the dnve pulley 16,,5 inches, counter,haft should run 800
Makmg ,n aU aboul a. complele a machme as can be found and at •
reasonable pnco
Wnle u. and we w,ll be plea.ed to quote you prtces Address,
ALEXANDER DODDS, CO.,
~1.183 CanalSt., G.... d Rapid., Mid,'
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A few days afterward he found time to calI at the store
where he had pUI chased the cab1l1et. He went up to the furniture department,
looked up the clerk from whom he had made
thf' purchase, only to find that this man had left upon his vacation
Then he told his story to the floorman, who assured him
that it would be properly adjusted at the office on the main floor.
When he reached the office he again told hIS story, and the man
ill charge asked him If he had the slip with hIm
He informed
him that he had and when he handed It to the adjuster, was told
It would take from fifteen to twenty minutes to look the matter
up.
He sat down and waited fully forty-five minutes and then
he again inquired at the desk if his matter had been heard from.
The adjuster told him that they were havlllg some trouble in
tracing it, but to wait a while longer.
"But," said the purchaser,
"can't you adj ust this simple
matter for me quickly, so that I can look after other urgent
business matters)"
To this he was answered that he could not,
as it was agalllst the rules. Then he sat down and waited a while
longer only to hear that he would have to see the manager.
He
went to the manager and stated the case to him
The manager
then took up another hour of hi" valuable time .and finally adju~ted the claim.
All told, fully three hours were consumed in straightening
Ol1t this matter which could easIly have been ad] l1sted in fifteen
minutes.
For
Many
Years
Made
ExclUSively
A week later the driver called for the cabinet which he had
r(fused to take back
by
C. CHRISTIANSEN, 2219 Grand Ave., CHICAGO
Also manufacturer
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Send for Catalogue.
factories.
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This case cost the store the trade of a well-to-do family and
the sale of a $15 kItchen cabinet.
This is plainly a case of
unfairness toward the cmtomer.-Dry
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Rochester, N. Y.
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aged man of vaned expenence, good mechamc, draftsman and
machine man.
Conversant With all kmds of cabInet work.
Address "Craftsman," care Weekly Artisan.
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beds as Side
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State
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Address
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As superintendent for chair factory covermg all departments
from dnving-up to the fimshmg department In detail.
NIne
years spent With one of the largest chair manufacturers In
Umted States.
Address E. H. H., 21 Milton-Manor, Buffalo,
N. Y.
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bank,
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and where you have worked), "SuperIntendent,"
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present engaged. deSIres a change. Thoroughly acquamted
with the trade of New England and New York stat,es and can
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Would also rent store if des1red.
Address "See" care Weekly Artisan.
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Damar-Batavia,
12;1z
@14 ccnh
ZanzIbar, pUt e whIte, 75@85; sorts, 55@60;
thumb SIze, 42@45. Mamla, pale, 16@18; amber, 14@15;
nubs, 7@7;/2; ChIpS, 5@6
Smgapore, 7@7;/2.
Cordage I'; m good demand and actual pnces on the bettel ~rades uf t\\ me:" are nearer to the pub11shed quotations
than dt any tune smce September.
'1 he burlap busmess IS dull owmg to the uncertainty
as
to the condItIOns at Calcutta
Lack of faIth in the Indian
Government's
estimate on the Jute crop is a material factor
m thIS market
It IS generally believed that the yield will be
neal el 8,000,000 than 7,300,000 bales as estImated by the government offiClals
QuotatIOns stand at 380 for 7;/2-ounce,
3 90 to! 8-ounce and 4.90 for lO;/2-ounce Calcutta
goods,
though buyers are :"aid to have secured some 100-ounce
weIghts at 4 80 thl~ week
Stocks of the light weights are
saId to be 11ght
Condltlun" m the hal dwood lumbel business are still uneer tam, and unsatIsfactory
to producers and sellers.
Firmer
pllces are reported at some pomts whIle weakness prevails at
(,thel s
PrICes al e much firmer on the higher than on the
10\\ er grade,;, but the demand
is merely nominal and there is
httle expectatIOn of lmplOvement until after the opening of
the ne\\ yeal
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New York, Dee. 9.-0wmg
to the break m flaAseed pI Ices
lmseed 011 IS weak and lower, though no change 1-, noted m
the card rates.
Raw 011, both CIty and western, IS quoted 9S
@96 cents, smgle balled 97@98 and double bOlled 99@$1.00.
TransactlOns,
however, are made at lower figure,,-three
or
four cents lower m some m"tanee:,,-and
a change m the' offiCIal" quotatlOn:" IS expected
to be announced
tomouow.
Business IS exceedmgly dull, buyel s apparently
holdmg off,
expecting a further decltne m pnces.
Turpentme
is also weak and sltghtly lowel, havmg declined about a cent per gallon dunng the week.
Today's
quotations are 78 cents here and 740 at Savannah.
The
demand is light.
The goatskm busmess IS deCIdedly qUlet WIth a tendency
to weakness and lower pnces, though no matenal reductlOns
have been reported.
ReceIpts are ltght and sellel s generally
are hoping for a stIffenmg of the busmess.
Shellac continues steady, only small fractlOnal changes
being noted in quotatIOns
TI ade IS of faIr volume, the bulk
of it bemg of a routine ]obbmg nature.
. Varnish gums ale s11ghtly hIgher, the firmness bemg attributed more to Singapore mfluences than to the \\ eakness
of linseed oil.
The advances are mamly on the ~Ianlla and
lower grades.
Todays's quotations:
Kauri No.1,
38@40
Jackson
Brothers Burned Out.
" ashmgton, DC,
Dec. 9.-The
furniture store of Jackson Bros was completely destroyed by fire that started from
an unknown ollgin at an early hour this morning, and raged
for over four hours.
An adjoining building was damaged to
a considerable extent but most of the loss, which is now estllnated at $100,000, falls on Jacbon
Bros., who are supposed
to be \\ ell protected by insurance.
fhe busme~s of Potter & Co, the oldest dealers in furnitnre, c1rapenes and other house furnishings in Providence, R.
r ha, been pnrchased bv the TIlden-Thurber company of thaJt:
llt)
Chal1e-, and ,Valter Potter, sons of the founder of the
hou~e \\ 111 Icmam \\ lth the new propnetors
who heretofore
lMve dealt only 111 sllvel\\ are, Jewelry and interior decorations.
Index to Advertisements.
Bal nes
8arton
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F & John (0111pany
H J-I & ::,on Company
Big
Sn.. CaI
Loatbng
--\s~oclat1on
Bock"ltege rUI nltul
Compun\
Bu-.s ~achlne
\Volks
C'f'ntul'\
T"UInltul
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Covel
13
18-19
18
Covel
8
6
31
31
25
Cover
11
('ompany
(hlcago ,furor and ~Jt G-Jass Compan\
(hiistianson
C
Dodds AlexandPI Compau,
Fancj
FurnIture
Compau,}
(.-l and
RapIds Blo\\ PIpe and Dust Arrester
1 reedluan
Blothers
C"ompau)
G-lobe vVorld Bosse FUlniture
Company
Grand RapIds Brass Compau)'
Gland RapIds
RefrIgerator
Company
Grand RapIds Veneer WOlk9
Ilupenal
rurnIture
Company
!(arg-p.:; FurnIture
C"ompany
K111del Parlm Bed Company
r lice T'urnltul e Companv
I lice Redmond
ChaIr Company
Mal vel :Manufactunug
Compal1j.
1\ietal FU1Dlture Company
Th'Ilclugan EngraVIng Company
1\1:lscellaneous
"'\01 tl1ern
FurnIture
Company
01lver MachIne! y Company
Petersen
A & Co
Portel
C 0 Machinel J.' COlnpany
RIchmond Chair Company
ROLkfoul ChaIr and Furnltua'
Company
Rockford
Frame and FIxture
Compau"
Royal ChalT Company
Royal rurnlture
Company
Schomer
Henl y Company
C,heldon E H & Co
~Ilgh r'urnlturp
Company
Stow & Da\.IS FurnIture
Company
Swett Frank
& Son
Tannewitz Works
TIa\erse
CIty Charr Company
"LnlOn
Furultule
Company
'Rockford)
Walter Clark Veneer Company
Ward, 0 A ..
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White Printing
Company...
Company
17
9
8
8
25
18
5
2
2
8
18
14
32
1
22
13
15
23
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Bench
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f"rmshed with or w,thout
Sorln!! Attachment.
Weight Net, )200 Ibs.
Carries Saws up to ) 8
inches in diameter
Self-oiling bearings for
countershaft and loose
pulley--tight and loose
pulleys 9 Yz and ) 0 in.
diam.--drive pulley 20
in. diam., 6 in. face.
rat e n t e d device for
locking lhe table.
Made so that the boring
attachment
may be
added later without
any machine work or
expense whatever to
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Complete Outfit of HAND and FOOT POWER MACHINERY
WHY THEY
PAY THE
CABINET
MAKER
He can save a manufacturer s profit as well as a dealer's profit.
He can ma.ke more money wlth less capltal lnvested
He can hold a better and more satlstactory
trade wIth hIs
customers.
He can manufacture m as good .tyle and fimsh and at as low
cost as the fdctones
The local cabmet maker has been forced mto only the dealer's
trade and profit, because 01 machme manulactured goods 01 factones
An outfit of Barnes Patent Foot and Hand-Power
Machmery,
reInstates the cabmet maker wIthadvantag-es equal to hIS competItors
If desired, these machInes Will be sold on frtal
The purchaser
can have ample tIme to test them m h,. own shop and on the work he
Wishes them to do. Deaer,pt,v. eatalogu. and pr,e8 llat free
No 4 SAW (ready lor cross cuttIng)
w. f. &. JOHN
BI\RNES CO. 654 Ruby St .. Rockford,
III.
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THE
LATEST
device for handling
shavings and dust from all woodworking machines. Our nineteen years
experience in this class of work has
brought it nearer perfection than any
other system on the market today.
It
is no experiment, but a demonstrated
scientific fact, as we have several hundred of these systems in use, and not a
;oor one among them. Our Automatic
Furnace Feed System, as shown in this
cut, is the most perfect working device
of anything in this line. Write for our
prices for equipments.
WE MAKE PLANS AND DO ALL
DETAIL WORK WITHOUT EXPENSE TO OUR CUSTOMERS.
EXHAUST
FANS
SURE
BLOWERS
STOCK.
AND
PRESALWAYS
IN
Office and Factory:
208-210
Canal Street
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
Cltlsen. Phone 1282
Bell. M.ln 1804
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