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GRAND  RAPIDS,  W EDNESDAY,  NOVEMBER  15,  1893.

NO.  530

TOM  CRUSE  OF  HELENA.

Romantic History of a M ontana Million­

aire.

The lurid tales of  Aladdin’s  caves  in 
the  Western  mining  country  have  at 
times suggested  to  Montana  lawmakers 
the  wisdom  of  punishing  the  authors, 
since  each  year  brings 
thousands  of 
young fellows and old men  with no other 
expectation than that of  finding the yel­
low stuff sticking out of the ground ready 
to exchange for fast  horses,  yachts  and 
women’s smiles.  The dream is, of course, 
soon  wafted  away and  then  it is  the  old 
story of  forged checks,  help  from home, 
and the return of  the prodigal, 
if  he  is 
fortunate enough to have a loving parent. 
The  result  is  an  interesting  society  of 
adventurers and  lambs in  every  mining 
camp.  Others come  to  take  the  places 
of the departed,  and  there  is always  that 
bouyant  atmosphere  which  is  so  mag­
netic to a Western  man  that he  clings to 
it after acquiring  a  fortune.

There  are,  nevertheless,  many 

true 
tales of suddenly grown riches, and many 
characters suited  to that field of Western 
fiction  which Hamlin  Garland assures  us 
will  some  day  grow  chrysanthemums 
instead of sage brush.  Bret Harte gained 
fame by associating oddCalifornia charac­
ters with the balsamic oders of  the woods 
and the echoes of the canons.  Some day 
there  will  come  a  novelist  to  add  the 
color of  the sage  brush  and  the  alkali 
sands of  the plains  to  characters  every 
bit  as  unique  and 
interesting.  Then 
Montanians will tell their tales of a State 
that  is  a  rich  and  varied  garden  for 
the cultivation of both.

They,will point  you  now  to  a  small 
and  unpretentious  brick  building,  in 
Helena and  tell  you  that  within  is  the 
man  who,  during  the  late  panic,  when 
banks were dropping like autumn leaves, 
enjoyed  such  sweet  revenge  as  seldom 
comes 
in  this  world;  that  when  bank 
presidents and alleged  millionaires  were 
chasing up and down  the  old  gulch,  now 
called  Main  street,  and  beating the  wires 
to New York and  Chicago  for help,  this 
man sat  calmly  in  his  banking  parlor, 
unruffled as an August sky.

It was good fun for  him.  He recalled 
the days  when  he  went to the same  men 
and  received  what farce  comedians  call 
the  “ horse  laugh.”  Now  he  had $600,- 
000  in  gold  in  the  vaults  of  his  bank, 
and waited  for them.  They  waited, too, 
until the  last minute,  until  the directors 
of  two  leading Helena banks decided to 
close the next  morning;  and  then  they 
came,  and got  the  same  dose  of  bitter 
disappointment  which  many  years  ago 
he  had  taken  in  allopathic  doses.  He 
gave it to  them  with  fine  humor  and  a 
crisp Scotch-lrish  accent,  and then drove 
to  his  elegant  home  on  Bruton avenue 
behind  a  coachman  and  a  team  of  im­
ported horses.  He did not  forget  to tell 
his cashier to keep an eye  out  for  busi­
ness,  and that night  the sheriff’s officers 
were  kept  busy  attaching  every  bit  of 
property  owned  by  wealthy  men  who 
owed the bank.  The next  morning  two

banks closed,  and  this  man  was  cursed 
from  one end of  the town  to  the  other. 
They  will  tell you  now  that there  would 
have  been  no financial  trouble in Helena 
if  it  hadn’t been  for  that  “ damned  old 
curse.”  Nevertheless  there  was  poetic 
justice  for some of  the  fellows who had 
tried to jump that  fabulously rich mine, 
the Drum Lummon.  Now  they  take off 
their hats to the  discoverer.

Once he was Tom Cruse.
Then old Tommy Cruse,
Then old Tommy,
Then Cruse,
Then Thomas Cruse,
Then Col. Cruse,
Now President and Col. Cruse.

the 

largest 

He is President of  the  Thomas  Cruse 
Savings  Bank, 
individual 
holder of Government  securities  in  the 
West,  and,  with two exceptions, the rich­
est  millionaire 
in  Montana.  He  owns 
mortgages galore,  and could  pinch out or 
save an ordinary  Western  town  as easily 
as  Aladdin  found his  famous cave.  He 
is  withal  as  plain-going  and  indifferent 
to pleasure as  when  he  wandered  about 
the hills  twenty-five  years ago in  search 
of  “ float,”  as  the  first  indication  of  a 
mine is called.

Some people  in  Helena will  point  the 
tourist to Cruse,  and  say  they  remember 
him when he couldn’t get  trusted  for  a 
sack of  flour.  When  these  stories  are 
printed  by  the  Montana  newspaper  gos­
sips,  Cruse  will  write  a  card  of  denial, 
and  say  that he  could  always  get  flour 
when he wanted it.  However  that  may 
be,  all  old  timers  remember  this  man 
when  he lived alone  in  a  little  cabin  in 
the 
the  winter  and 
tramped the  hills  by summer.  “A Rus­
sian  tea!  Well,  I’ll  be  blanked!”  said 
an old-time Helena  man  last year,  when 
he  was overlooked  in  the  invitations  to 
the Cruse  mansion. 
“I  remember  that 
fellow  when  a jack rabbit was  high  liv­
ing for him.”

lower  gulch 

in 

But Cruse stood  it year  by year.  Salt 
pork and  hard  tack  made  up his bill  of 
fare and he did  not complain. 
In  an old 
worn  pair  of  jumpers  he climbed over 
the hills looking for prospects, and when 
bis search  failed was content to work  by 
the day in  placers for  enough  money  for 
grub.  Occasionally  some  one  staked 
him,  but  he  never found anything.  He 
had  no  companions  because  he  had  no 
money,  and  he  was  content to  work and 
live alone.

The prospector is  in  most  instances  a 
romantic and  interesting character.  His 
mind 
is  filled  with  mountain  lore;  he 
catches the spirit  of  solitude  from  long 
association  with  the  hills  and  canons, 
and  in time  becomes as quaint in manner 
and original  in talk  as  the  two Wellers. 
What  a  fathomless  fount  of  stories  is 
found  in  this  harmless  Ulysses  of  the 
hills!  Good  stories, too, if the truth does 
get frayed and  ragged  before the  finish.
Tom Cruse belonged to this field  of  fic­
tion  when  he made such  a  strike  as was 
never known  before or since in Montana. 
He found  it on the lower end  of a moun­
tain  range ending  in  St.  Louis  gulch, 
twenty  miles  north  of  Helena.  This 
gulch,  like the others, had  been a swarm­

ing ground for  gold  hunters  until  the 
diggings  had  been  worked  out and  left 
to reward  the patient  and easily satisfied 
toil of John  Chinaman.  Cruse  was  still 
at  his tireless  search  when  he  stumbled 
one day across a bit of  gold  quartz float. 
This,  as  all  miners  know,  had  been 
washed away  from  the  mother lode  in  a 
journey of centuries.  The thing to do  is 
to follow It  for  other traces.  This Cruse 
did.  His keen eye followed his  footsteps 
until  another  bit  of  shining  quartz  ap­
peared  on  the  washed  down  mountain 
sides.  Day  after  day  he  followed this 
golden  trail  until  his  pick  struck 
the 
long-sought  shoot  of  ore  sticking  out 
from  the  mountain  side. 
It  was  not  a 
foot wide,  but 
the  old  man  knew  that 
there  was something below.

This was  the  discovery of  the  Drum 
Lummon,  the  greatest  gold  producing 
quartz  ever  found  in  this  country,  and 
the first  to be purchased  in  Montana by 
an  English  syndicate. 
It  has  paid  for 
itself over  and  over  again,  and  to-day 
represents the  largest investment for ma­
chinery ever  placed  in  a  gold  mining 
property.  Where Cruse’s pick struck the 
ore stands  the entrance to the Cruse tun­
nel,  1,000 feet  long,  and  running down 
from this is the deepest  mining  shaft  in 
Montana.  Cut from  solid rock at the end 
of the Cruse tunnel is  a  great  chamber 
higher and  wider  than  the  Battery,  and 
herein  is  a  splendid  hoist,  rivalling the 
finest  in  the  world  for speed  and  safety. 
This tunnel  with  its shaft is but  part  of 
the mine.  Two  other  tunnels  quite  as 
long run in from  the  other  side  of  the 
hill,  and two other  hoists  quite as large 
as the giant are whirling the ore  by night 
and  by  day  from 
levels. 
These levels,  running  at  all  angles,  are 
so timbered  and painted  that  under  the 
white rays of the  incandescent lamps  the 
mental impression  left  is that of  a weird 
and gruesome resting  place  for the dead 
to come.  The silence  in  these  depths  is 
broken by the dull  and  heavy click of the 
monster Cornish  pumps  churning  water 
upward  from  the  shaft  bottoms,  and  the 
grind  of 
the  ore  cars coming from  the 
drifts.  Within  this golden  ant  hill  300 
men are delving away  for $3.50  a day.

lower 

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Without the scene is  of  greater  inter­
est.  One  hundred  stamps  in  three great 
mills are making a din  and  a  noise that 
makes  one  think  that  a  boiler  factory 
would  be a haven of  music  boxes.  One 
curious result of long work in these mills 
is that one  workman  can  hear the voice 
of another from  any  part of the  building 
and finds it  most difficult to hear the most 
ordinary  sounds outside.  The treatm ent 
of ores is on  the  broadest and most scien­
tific plans;  not a two-bit  piece is  wasted. 
The tailings or refuse  from  the  mills  are 
worked over again  under  careful  meth­
ods,  so that  the  stockholders  will  have 
every cent of  profit from  an  investment 
of $5,000,000 in  the plant.  Each  morn­
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returned,  so that a value  as  accurate  as 
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labor 

sounds  of  the  stamps,  and clang of  the 
blacksmith  shop  never  cease  to tell the 
tale  of  golden 
to  the  camp  of 
Marysville  which  has  grown  up  since 
Tom Cruse’s  pick  gave  the  talismanic 
touch  to  the  hillside.  Men,  women  and 
children  now  find  livelihood  where  the 
jack  rabbits ran.

public  men in  the  Western  country.  He 
is one of  the smartest of men,  a brilliant 
and  forcible  public  speaker,  and  pos­
sessed of  fine  presence and courtly  man­
ners.  His  inability to  curb  his tongue 
has  cost  him  many  public  honors and 
many  friends.  Nevertheless,  he was just 
the  man  to  talk  to  the foreign  investor.
But to return  to Cruse.  Single-handed  because  he knew the  country  and  could 
and  alone he started in to find  the size o f ! tell  about  it.  Hugh  McQuaid,  editor of 
the  vein.  He bored a tunnel 600 feet into I the  Helena Independent  and  one  of  the 
the mountain,  and  found  the widest  gold  most  popular men  in  the Territory,  was 
lead ever struck  in  this country.  There 
let  into the deal  because he  was  close  to 
were sixty  feet  of  solid  gold-producing  Cruse  and  supposed  to  have  influence 
quartz,  assayiug from $100  to $300 to the  with  him.  Col.  W.  C.  Child,  who  killed 
ton;  it  was  a  find 
that  made  Edmund  himseif  in  Helena  a  few  weeks  ago be- 
Dantes take second  place  in  run  for luck  cause of  financial  troubles,  was  also  let 
and would  have turned  the  head of many I in,  as  were several  others  who  happened 
a man  less fortuuate than  Cruse.  Not so  to  be  friends  of 
the  promoters.  Each
with  him.  He  knew  better than  anyone 
made from $10,000  to $200,000  out of  the 
the value and  future  of  this  property, 
sale.
and he  was  willing  to  wait  until 
the 
golden  floodgates  were  fairly  opened. 
This man’s nerve  was  best  shown  when 
he went to the ground one day and  found 
four tough-looking  prospector 
guard.

When  the  local  pipes  were  laid,  Col. 
Word  brought  the  attention  of  Loudon 
capitalists 
the  mine.  Experts were 
sent  over  by  Mr.  A1  Cbadbourne,  the 
keeping  famous  London  mining  broker,  reports 
! were sent  from  Montana  to  London and
back  again,  and  offers  were  made 
to 
Cruse  aud  refused. 
It  was  a  long  and 
trying puli  to get hold of  the  mine,  the 
value of  which  had  been  well  determined 
by  this time.  Cruse  held off  for a much 
larger sum  than the  mine  with  its  great 
vein  was  really  worth.

to 

“ What  are yez doin’ here?’’ said Cruse. 
“ Locating a  mine,”  said  the  leader,  a 
big fellow now living  near  Helena  and 
known  as Nervous Johnson.
“ An’  who sent  yez  here?”
Johnson  grew  sociable  then,  and  told 
Cruse  in  confidence the  names  of  three 
well-known  Helena  capitalists  who  had 
organized  a syndicate  to  jump  the  prop­
erty.  Mine  jumping 
in  the  West  is  a 
dangerous  business,  but 
there  are  no 
conscientious scruples  attached  provid­
ing the jumper wins 
If  he  loses  he is 
an  object of contempt.

to  Helena, 

Cruse said  nothing  more  to  the  hired 
men,  but  stuck  a  long six-shooter  in  his 
bootleg and  went  over 
lie 
walked  down  Main  street  until  lie met j 
the  leader of  the syndicate.  After  they 
had exchanged  the  time  of  day,  Cruse’s | 
hand dropped slowly down 
the  six- 
shooter and  remained  there. 
“ 1  under-  : 
stand,’’  he  said,  “ that  there  is  a job  to 
jump  me  mine,  an’  1  just 
thought  I’d 
come in  town  to say  that every  man  who 
started  it will  find  crape  on  bis door  be­
fore the job  is  fiuished.”

to 

in 

The end  came at  last when  Cruse came 
into  Helena one  evening  with  a compro­
mise  proposition,  which  was  accepted. 
The  purchase  was  closed 
the  back 
room of  a bank,  and  when  the  meeting 
adjourned  he stuffed  a check for $<'50,000 
in  the  pocket of  his  worn  junipers  with 
the  agreement  that  he  should  receive 
stock  in the new company to the value of 
$1,250,000,  at  the par value of $5 a share. 
The  Drum  Lummon  was  sold,  and Cruse 
has  never  since  ceased  kicking  himself 
for selling it  so cheap.  At  the same  time 
he was  lucky enough  to sell  his  holdings 
when  the stock  reached  the  top  figure— 
$25 a share.

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Cleanest, 
Healthiest, 
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OF  COURSB  IT IS.
l ie is simply stocked up with 
all  kinds  of  uncalled  for,  un­
known  and  unsaleable  goods 
under  the  delusive  idea  of  a 
greater profit;  has recommend­
ed  them  to  customers  in place 
of  tried,  reliable  and  staple 
brands.  Result—questionable 
customers  of  doubtful  credit; 
the  best  trade  is  soon  dissatis­
fied  with 
the  “ Unknown” 
brand  of  goods  and  gives its 
patronage  to  reliable dealers. 
You  will  find  that the

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Now,  then,  we  come 

the  second 
epoch  of  Cruse’s  career—his  transition 
by  the stroke of a pen  from  a miner  to  a 
capitali.-t.  He did  not do the things  that 
most  lucky  strikers  do;  he  did  not get 
drunk  on  wine,  aud  did  not  start  in  to 
break  all  the  faro  banks  in  town.  His 
head  was  not swelled  to  the  point  where 
he  wauted 
to  come  to  New  York  and 
clean out  Wall street  or  cut  a  swath  in 
metropolitan  society.  Yet, after  waiting 
all  these years,  he intended 
that  a  few 
people should  take  their hats  off  to him.

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Nothing  more  was  said,  and  when 1 
Cruse returned  the next day  the jumpers 
had  lifted  their stakes  and  left. 
It  was j 
a long time,  however,  before  Cruse  en- I 
joyed  the  full  fruition  of  his  toil.  He 
was not dazed  by  his  good  fortune,  and ! 
he  well  knew  the value of  his  find.  Va-1 
rious local  syndicates  were  organized  to 
purchase 
the  mine,  wnieh  had  been 
the  Drum  Luuimon,  after  the 
named 
After the  money  was  in  hand he  made | 
county in  Ireland  where Cruse  was born. 
a tour of the residence streets and picked 
Times,  however,  grew easier,  for  Cruse | 
out  the  finest  house  in  town,  which  he 
could  borrow  money on  the  strength  of
purchased  for  $15,000  from 
the  Hon.
his discovery.  He did  not  blow  this  in,  | Tom Carter,  now Chairman of the Repub- 
as  many  a  weary  and  hopeful  miner 
Mean  National  Committee.  Carter,  too, 
would  have done,  but chose to  wait until 
bad  made  a lucky  turn, and  was then “ on 
it came in  a  lump.  He built a small  ten- 
velvet.”  The  house  was  a  plain  two- 
stamp  mill,  which  he  was  working  while 
story  brick,  witff a French  mansard  roof, 
and  was considered  very elegant  for that | Condensed  Milk  is  the leading one ill 
the deal  which culminated  in  the  sale of 
S o .   there  ere  twenty «her reel-  a U   the principal  and successful stores.
the mine was  being planned.
time, 
This sale is still talked about when  old 
dence;
s m  Helena,  but Cruse, with his old I t 
t will  pay you to sell  it if you do not.
mining men  get  together  in  the cosy cor­
thrift, still clings to the first choice.  The 
ners of the  Montana  Club. 
It  was  the 
next sensible  luxury  for  this  old  miner 
first  investment  of  English  capital  in 
was  a  wife,  and,  as  may  be  fancied,  he 
Montana mines,  and  was  brought  about 
had  little difficulty in  finding one.  With 
by  smart  men—smart  enough 
to  make 
a cash capital  of  $750,000  and  twice  as 
themselves  wealthy  on  commissions  of 
much  in  sight,  he was  an  eligible party. 
the sale.  One of the  ablest  was Col. lam  
He  married  a  sister  of  Tom  Carter.  A 
Word, then  living in Virginia City.  Word
few  years  later  she  died,  leaving  a  little
is t.ow a  lawyer in  Helena,  and  if able to j golden-haired daughter,  who  is  now  the 
resist  the temptation  to  roast  people  in j apple  of  the old  man’s  eye.  Some day  I 
public would rank among the  best known | she will  have  a  fortune,  but  the fellow j

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Pasts,  Shirts,  and  Overalls

the  owner’s 

who marries her will  have  to  await the 
old man’s death.

But 

the  Cruse  wedding  was  an  his­
toric event in the  annals of  Last Chance 
gulch,  and  to-day  every  stranger  who 
asks for the romantic  pictures of  mining 
life is told  about it.  Bret Harte described 
many phases of  mining life.  There was 
the birth  of  “The  Luck;” there was the 
death of Mr.  John Oakhurst,  who,  as the 
gentlemanly gambler,  was  Uarte’s great 
creation;  there  was  that  beautiful  com­
ing of Santa Claus to Simpson's Bar,  and 
the death of  Wau  Lee,  the Pagan.  There 
were all these incidents of life in mining 
gulches  and  many  more,  but  curiously 
enough this  author never ventured  on  a 
description of a mining camp wedding.

Cruse’s  wedding  was  not  exactly  of 
the mining camp class,  for  Helena  had 
then  quite  thrown  off  her  swaddling 
clothes of  the gulch  and  was  trying  to 
take on  a civilized garb. 
It  was,  never­
theless,  a  great  event,  for  the old  pio­
neers  were  determined 
that  Tommy 
should have a proper send-off.  Business 
in all parts of  the town  was shut  down, 
while  as motley  a party  as was ever seen 
assembled  at a famous  old  hostlery,  the 
Cosmopolitan  Hotel.  This  was  kept  by 
Sam  Schwab  and  Ed  Zimmerman,  two 
old-time landlords,  known  and  liked  by 
every one.  There  were no blue books of 
the  “400”  to  furnish  invitation 
lists. 
Every  man,  woman,  or  child  who  had 
known  Tom  Cruse  was expected.  Pio­
neers who lived  in the hills were notified, 
and all  came.  Some  rode  horseback  a 
hundred  miles,  others  came  with  their 
wives 
in  canvas-covered  wagons  and 
camped on the  way.  When the  wedding 
morn  arrived the  town  had a circus day 
dress.

ignorance  of 

the  decorations 

Owing  to  Cruse’s 

the 
forms  and  etiquette  of  society  life,  a 
committee  of  well-known  citizens  took 
charge  of 
the  arrangements.  Hugh 
McQuaid,  now a wealthy man-about-towu 
and  the  local  Ward  McAllister,  looked 
after 
and  carriages. 
Charley  Curtis,  the  present  Sheriff  of 
Lewis and Clarke  county,  who won new 
laurels  after  a  romantic  career  in 
the 
vigilante  days  by  capturing  a  band  of 
Northern  Pacific express  robbers in Sep­
tember,  was  there  to  maintain  order. 
Col.  Sanders and  Major  Maginnis,  rival 
politicians,  were present  to respond elo­
quently to the  bride’s  health.  Ex-Gov. 
Hauser,  a millionaire pioneer; Banker L. 
H.  Hershfield,  the  late Col.  Broadwater, 
X.  Beidler,  the  famous  vigilante  hang­
man,  and  a  hundred  more  representa­
tives  of  all classes joined  in the festivi­
ties  and  lent their assistance  in various 
ways.  Hours before  the  ceremony  the 
hotel  parlors and office were packed with 
a squirming mob  of  guests  waiting  for 
the supper and  free bar.  These adjuncts 
were  opened  in  good  season.  Ed Zim­
merman,  who always  acted  as  steward, 
while his partner Schwab, kept the books, 
had staked  his reputation on  the supper, 
and he succeeded  beyond  his  ambition. 
A chef was brought from Chicago for the 
occasiaa,  and  the  edibles were  brought 
from  every  market in the country  with­
out  regard  for  expense.  The  wine,  of 
course,  was  an  important item.  Cruse 
had given orders that  nothing  but  wine 
was  to  go,  and that it should  be free to 
all.  To meet this  demand,  1,600 quarts 
of  champagne  were  shipped  from  Chi­
cago,  but this  went before the  festivities 
were  well  under  way.  The  town  was I 
then  scoured  for  every  drop  of  wine,  I

When  the time  for  the  ceremony  ar­
rived  Cruse  came  forth  in  a  full-dress 
suit,  as  radiant  as  a  “ bridegroom  from 
his chamber.”  In  the little parlor, which 
was filled  with  distinguished  guests,  he 
met  the  blushing  bride,  and  there  the 
knot was tied  by the Catholic  Bishop  of 
Montana.  Then  the  supper  followed, 
and  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Cruse sped  away  in  a 
platform  wagon  down 
the  gulch,  in  a 
shower of  rice  and a trail of old shoes.

The revelry  that  followed  is  best  de­
scribed  by  an  old  pioneer,  who  said  it 
was a scene like the  famous  stampede  to 
Bear Gulch.  The dining  room  was  filled 
with a mass of  hungry  miners,  bankers, 
politicians and lawyers,  all  struggling  in 
away that made poor Zimmerman  almost 
insane.  A  small  army  of  bartenders 
without  were fighting  their way  to run  a 
free bar.  They could  not open  the  wine 
fast enough,  and finally  the pressure be­
came so great that the necks were broken 
from  the bottles,  which  were  passed  into 
the  crowd  and 
thrown  into  the  street 
when empty.  When the night  drew  on 
the landlords  had  to  turn the  lights  out 
and turn the mob into the  street.  Noth­
ing  like  it  was  ever  seen  until  Cleve­
land’s election in  1884,  when  a  Helena 
banker and politician  passed  bottles  of 
champagne to a  great  parade  of  Demo­
crats.

This show, however, ended Tom Cruse’s 
display of wealth for  the  edification  of 
his  neighbors.  The  cost  will  never  be 
accurately  known.  Nobody  paid  a cent 
for  carriages,  flowers,  wine,  or  food, 
except  the  old  man,  and  he never made 
a  kick  when  the  bills  came  in.  Some 
say that the day’s show cost  $30,000,  and 
it is probable that this figure  is  not  too 
large.

When  Cruse  returned  from  his  wed­
ding tour there was no  more  public  rev­
elries at his  expense.  He  settled  right 
down  to the care of  his  money.  A sav­
ings  bank,  which  does  a  good  business, 
was started  under his Presidency and the 
management  of  several  bright  young 
men  from the East.  Tom Carter was  the 
Vice-President  for a  time but  retired  at 
the  President’s  suggestion.  Cruse  said 
that  Carter  was  a  good  fellow,  but  so 
blamed  smart  that  it  was  dangerous  to 
have him  around.  Public-spirited  citi­
zens and  political  managers  with  sub­
scription  lists  have also  learned  to keep 
away from his office.  He  never  loosens 
a dollar except for the  Catholic  Church. 
Then he gives  liberally.  He has also been 
known  to bet heavily  on  elections when 
In  this  way  alone 
his  Irish  was  up. 
does  he  show  his 
love  for  the  Demo­
cratic party.

Last spring,  three days before the city 
election,  a sale of city warrants was held. 
The  Democratic  Administration  was 
standing  for  re-election,  and it was im­
portant  that  these  warrants should sell 
well.  The  discount  had  usually  been 
from  two 
to  three  cents.  Owing  to  a 
smart trick  of the Republican City Treas­
urer,  the hour of the sale  was  changed, 
and  Cruse’s  representative  alone  was 
there to bid.  He bought in  the warrants 
at a discount of 20 per cent.  The Demo­
cratic  managers  went  in  hot  haste  to 
Cruse and asked  him  to  give up the war­
rants  for  another  sale,  so 
that  other 
bidders could  be  present  and  make  the 
their  value.  Cruse 
warrants  sell  for 
consented,  with 
that  the j

the  proviso 
(Continued on page 7.)

8

Shoe  Dressings,

Gilt  Edge,
R aven  Gloss, 
Glycerole,
W h ite’s E gg  Finish, 
Loom er’s  Best,
The  400,
Ideal,
Brown’s  Fr.  & Satin, 
Topsey,
Bixby's  Royal,
C  C,
K eystone,
Loom er’s  Pride, 
Im perial,
Eagle,
Boston,
N  ubian.

We  carry all the above kinds  In  stock, which 
are the  best  and  leading makes in  the  market. 
Get your winter stock before freezing.
HIRTH, K R A U S E  & CO.,

GRANO  RAPIDS,  MICH.

Once and You aie our Customer 

for life.

Stanton  Morey,

DKTHOIT,  MICH.

Gbo. P. Owes, Salesman  for Western  Michigan, 

Residence  50 N.  Union St., Grand  Rapids.

ÄTLÄ8  80AP

Is Manufactured 

only  by

HENRY  PASSOLT, 

Saginaw,  Midi.

For general  laundry and  family 
Only brand of first-class laundry 

washing  purposes.

soap manufactured  in the 

Saginaw  Valley.

Haying  new  and  largely  in­
creased  facilities  for  manu­
facturing  we  are well  prepar­
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at most reasonable prices.
BUY  THE  BEST

Lemon  & Wheeler Company,

A gents,  Grand  Bapids.

The  ßhippewa !

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New  Brunswick,  N.  J.,

Order  while  our  stock  is 
complete,  and  save  annoy­
ance which  will  come when 
the season  opens  and stocks 
are  broken.  Socks,  Felt 
Boots, and all kinds of water­
proof clothing.

Errand Rapids Robber Store,

Stddleyi Bardan

4   M o n ro e   S t.,

GRAND  RAPIDS.

A SPH A LT

FIRE-PROOF ROOFING

This  Roofing  is  guaranteed  to  stand  In  nil 
places where Tin and Iron has failed;  is super­
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The best Roofing for covering over Shingles 
on old roofs of houses, barns, sheds, etc.;  will 
not rot  or  pull  loose, and  when  painted  with 
our

F1RE.-PR00F  ROOF  PfliNT,

Will last longer than  shingles.  Write the un­
dersigned  for  prices  and  circulars, relative  to 
Rooting  and  for  samples  of  Building  Papers, 
etc.

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Practical Hoofers,

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iH E   MIGöIGKAU  TB A riKHMAJN

AMONG  THE  TRADE.
AROUND THE  STATE.

Emtuelt—P.  H.  Ready,  general dealer, 

is dead.

a meat market.

Central  Lake—J.  A.  Cary  has  opened 

Athens—R. J. Moore has sold his hard­

ware stock  to James Osborne.

Tustin—U.  Rainey  succeeds 

George & Son  in general  trade.

J.  H. 

Central  Lake—Gardner  &  Hinkley 

have opened  a new grocery store.

Muskegon—Tillie  Pratt,  jeweler,  has 

given  a bill of sale  to Chas.  W.  Pratt.

East Jordan—J.  C.  Peckham  succeeds 
Beckman & Peckham  in the  meat  busi­
ness.

Harrisville—Caldwell  &  Mitchell  suc­
ceed  B.  F.  Buchanan  in  the  drug  busi­
ness.

Otsego—E.  J.  Rose  &  Co.  succeeds  E.
J.  Rose in  the  grocery  and  bakery  busi­
ness.

Vickeryville—Yern  Arntz  has  pur­
chased  the  boot and shoe stock  of  M.  A. 
De Hart.

Bay City—E.  C.  Roseubury  &  Sons 
succeed C.  E.  liosenbury in  the furniture 
business.

Bay  City—Henry  Kinney 

succeeds 
the  hardware 

Kinney  &  Fitzgerald  in 
business.

Carson  City—Mrs.  L.  O.  Cadwell  has 
purchased the millinery business of  Miss 
Maxwell.

Negaunee—White  &  Peterson  are suc­
ceeded  by  Hans  Peterson  in  the tailoring 
business.

Sullivan—J.  A.  F.  Dwiggans is closing 
out  his  general  stock  and  will  retire 
from  trade.

Otsego—Mr.  Derhamuier  has  retired 
from  the  grocery  firm  ot  Truesdale  & 
Derhammer.

Manistique — Thompson  &  Putnam, 
druggists,  have  dissolved,  A.  ¡5.  Putnam 
&. Co.  succeeding.

Ithaca—S.  E.  Parish  has  purchased 
the grocery  stocks  of  Herrick  &  Harris 
and E.  O.  Bradley.

Morley—Dodge  & Strope, general deal­
ers,  have dissolved,  Henry  Strope  con­
tinuing the business.

Woodland—Chas. C. Deane has assigned 
his clothing and men’s  furnishing goods 
stock to P.  T.  Colgrove,  of  Hastings.

Menominee—Sears  &  Remington,  fur­
niture dealers and  undertakers, have dis­
solved,  Peter  W.  Sears  continuing  the 
business.

Muskegon— The  Michigan  Washing 
Machine  Co.  has  added  machinery  for 
the manufacture  of  washtubs of  an  im­
proved  pattern.

Meredith—C.  D.  Bartlett  has  pur­
chased  the interest of  his  partner in  the 
grocery  firm  of  Duncan & Bartlett,  and 
will  continue the business  under his own 
name.

Belding—Fred  G.  Higbee  is  now  sole 
proprietor of  the grocery  stock  formerly 
owned  by the Welsh & Belding  Co.,  hav­
ing purchased  the interests  of  the other 
partners.

East Jordan—The  H.  W.  King grocery 
and crockery  stock  has  been  purchased I 
by  John J.  Gage,  manager of the mercan­
tile  department of  the  Antrim  iron Co., 
at Mancelona.

Belding—E.  R.  Spencer & Co.  have  re­

moved  their grocery stock  to the building I 
formerly occupied  by  Wilson  &  Friedly. 
Will  Cobb  and  Thus.  Welsh  are  inter­
ested  in  the  business  with Mr. Spencer.

Bailey—G.  Hirschberg  has moved  into ; 

his  new brick  store building,  which  has

been in process  of  construction  several 
weeks.  The new structure is much more 
commodious than the  building destroyed 
by  fire.

Kalamazoo—Mittenthal  Bros, 

have 
purchased  the  building  now occupied by 
in  harness  and 
T ailor  Bros.,  dealers 
horse  furnishings,  which 
they  will  oc­
cupy  as 
the  wholesale  department  of 
their fruit business.

leased 

Belding—Will  Ricaby  has 

location  Nov.  20,  occupying 

the 
west  half of  E.  R.  Spencer &  Co.’s  store 
and  will  move  his  stock  of jewelry to 
that 
the 
store  in  connection  with  Will  Day  and 
Silas  Cobb,  who  have  formed  a  part­
nership and will  run a drug  store,  with 
stationery and  wall  paper connected.

Central  Lake—Wm.  Zeran  &  Son  re­
cently  uttered  a  chattel  mortgage 
to 
Hawkins & Co.,  securing  the latter for a 
$325 account on their grocery stock.  They 
subsequently  uttered  a second  mortgage 
to  the  Olney  &  Judson  Grocer Co.  and 
the Hannah & Lay Mercantile Co.,  whose 
claims aggregate  about  $800.  The gro­
cery  stock  was then sold  to  H.  C.  McFar- 
lan,  formerly engaged  in  general  trade at 
Manton,  who will continue  the business.
Au  Sable—E.  Rosenthal,  who  has  for 
years  been  condncting a dry  goods and 
clothing house here  and 
in  Oscoda,  has 
filed  mortgages covering the entire  stock 
in  both  stores.  Robert  K.  Gowanlock, 
President  of 
the  Iosco County Savings 
trustee  for  eight  creditors, 
is 
Bank, 
namely: 
Iosco County Savings Bank,  A. 
Krolik  <& Co.,  J.  Moses  &  Co., S.  Simon 
&  Co.,  Pauline  Rosenthal,  Charles R. 
Henry  and  Joel  Switzer.  Thomas  S. 
McGraw  is  trustee  for A.  C.  McGraw  & 
Co.,  Cohn  Bros.,  R.  S.  Dodds,  Samuel 
Newman,  Samuel  Newmark,  Wallace, 
Elliott & Co.,  Bauman  &  Sperling,  Dan­
iel  Rosenthal,  Lacrosse  Knitting  Works, 
Schey & Co.,  L.  Nichols  &  Co.,  Lexing­
ton  Woolen  Works,  A.  Jacobs  & Co.  and 
the Nonpareil Manufacturing Co.  All of 
the above named  firms are amply secured 
by  mortgages aggregating  $12,000.  The 
stock of goods is estimated  at $20,000.

MANUFACTURING  MATTERS.

Saginaw—J.  Ahrens  succeeds  J.  Ahr­
ens &  Co.  iu  the  cigar  manufacturing 
business.

Pontiac—Edward  M. Murphy,  of  C.  V. 
Taylor  &  Co.,  carriage  manufacturers, 
has retired  from  the  business.

Thompsonville—The  shingle  mill  of 
the Thompson  Lumber  Co.,  which  has 
been 
idle  all  summer,  started  up  last 
week  aud  will  probably  run  steadily 
during  the  winter.

Trout Creek—The Trout  Creek  Lum­
ber Co.  has just completed  six  miles of 
narrow gage  logging road  to  a  belt  of 
pine  owned  by  it south of Trout Creek. 
The mill  will  be supplied with  logs over 
this road and will run  all  winter.

O aekam a—M.  A.  F arr,  of Ciiieago,  has 
bought the interest  of  I.  J.  Ramsdell in 
the Onekama Lumber Co.,  and,  with  his 
brother,  A.  W.  Farr,  will  now  have con­
trol  of that  concern.  They  will  buy all 
the farmer logs  that offer  and  will  also 
log  along  the 
line  of  the Manistee & 
Northeastern.

Manistee—At no time iu  the 

last  ten 
years  has salt been as  low  as it is to-day. 
Manistee  blocks,  however, are producing 
as much as ever, aud the  markets of Chi­
cago,  Milwaukee  and  Michigan  City, 
which ordinarily take care of  all  that  is 
made here and at  Ludington,  have  not 
been  able  to handle our output of late,

1 and  we  have  been  compelled 
to  send 
| large  consignments  into the Northwest, 
j Last  month  Manistee  produced  135,000 
j barrels.

Detroit—The  Peerless  Manufacturing 
Co.  has filed  articles  of  association  with 
I a capital stock of  $100,000,  75  per  cent, 
paid  in.  The corporation  will  manufac­
ture men’s  furnishing goods and  deal  in 
general  merchandise 
city. 
William Saulson  holds  5,720  of  the  $10 
shares,  Charles  Scheuer  1,770,  and  Eu­
gene  H. Hill  10.

this 

in 

Ludington—O.  N.  Taylor’s  sawmill 
shut down  for  the season  last week, after 
cutting  13,000,000  feet  on  contract. 
It 
had  been  intended to close down  the mill 
for  good 
this  year  and  move the ma­
chinery to Georgia, where Mr.  Taylor has 
10,000  acres  of  timber near Brunswick, 
but on  account  of  business  depression 
this 
idea  has  been  abandoned and the 
mill  will run  as  usual  next season.

Bay City—Lumbermen  here  are  dis­
posed  to  take a  more hopeful view of the 
outlook for lumber.  Rail  shipments are 
picking up  and some  good sized  lots are 
reported as having  been  sold  recently. 
The weatber  is  fine  for  manufacturing 
lumber,  and nearly  all of 
the  mills  are 
in motion.  The burning of  the  McLean 
mill  was a severe  blow  to  the  manufac­
turing capacity  at  this end  of  the river. 
While the firm  had no lumber of its own, 
other parties calculated  to  furnish stock 
for it for a number of years.

Manistee—The mill of the  State Lum­
ber Co.  is the first one to shut  down  for 
the season.  Two of  the  Canfield  mills 
will  keep  at  work for at least  two weeks 
yet.  The Peters mills  are  both 
in  full 
blast,  and  will  run  as  long as they  can 
move a log.  The McKillip mill  is  saw­
ing  for 
the  most part for Henry  Ward. 
The Union Lumber Co.’s mill  at Stronacb 
will  shut  down 
this  week  probably. 
Filer  & Sons will  run  all  this  month  at 
least.  Buckley  & Douglas will  run  their 
mill  all  winter  as  usual.  Louis  Sands 
has an extra supply of logs on  hand and 
will have to run his mill  as late  as  pos­
sible.  The  Manistee  and Eureka mills 
always run till  the last,  and  will  do  so 
this year.

Bay City—The destruction  of  lumber 
insurance  com- 
property  has  alarmed 
| panics,  and  it  is  a  difficult  matter 
to 
place  insurance  upon  saw  and  planing 
mills.  The rate has  been 
increased  in 
many  instances  from  %  to 3 and 4 per 
cent,  over former  rates.  The  rates  on 
the average planing mill or  box  factory 
is  now from  4  to 7  aud 8 per  cent.,  and 
an order has  been 
issued  directing all 
agents to put a clause in  all  policies re­
quiring the holder  to carry  80  per  cent, 
of  insurance on  bis property,  or  in  case 
of  loss  he  shall  be  the  loser of  the differ­
ence  between  the  amount  of 
insurance 
carried and  80 per cent,  of 
the value  of 
the  property.  Sawm ills are exempt from 
this  clause.  Naturally 
the  property 
owners affected  are  protesting  against 
the clause,  and  assert that  between  taxa­
tion  and  the  increased 
insurance  rates 
they are hustled  to keep in  the swim.

G ripsack B rigade.

John  Cummins  is confined  to his  home 
at Traverse City  by  illness.  His route ¡s 
being covered  in  the  meantime  by  Will 
Canfield.

E.  K.  Bennett, traveling representative 
for C.  F.  Happel &  Co.,  wholesale  jew­
elers  of  Chicago,  was 
in  town  several 
days last week.

M.  J.  Rogan,  for the  past  four  years 
on 
the  road  for Walter Buhl  & Co.,  of 
Detroit,  has  resigned 
that position  and 
accepted  a  more  desirable  connection 
with Bill  &  Caldwell,  m anufacturers of 
stiff,  soft and  straw  hats  at  New York. 
Mr.  Rogan will  cover Michigan  and  some 
of the larger cities  in  the West.  He  is 
interviewing  the  trade  of  Minneapolis 
and St.  Paul  this  week.

The Informal entertainment to be given 
by Post E at Elk’s  Hall  Saturday  even­
ing promises to be one of the most enjoy­
able  events  ever  undertaken  by 
that 
organization.  Messrs.  Van  Leuven, 
Lawton and Dawley,  who  have the mat­
ter in charge,  have  secured Mrs.  Braun’s 
orchestra and arranged  with  Hoffman  to 
furnish 
light  refreshments.  Dancing 
will  begin  promptly  at  8  o’clock  and 
card  tables  and other  enjoyable features 
will  be  provided  for  those  who  do  not 
dance.  Secretary Mills will  be on  hand 
to  receive  Assessment  No.  5  from  any 
who have not  yet  paid it,  and  Secretary 
Blake  will beam on  those  who  have not 
yet paid the annual  dues of  50  cents  to 
Post E.  All  regular  traveling  men  are 
cordially invited  to attend  the entertain­
ment,  whether members of Post E or not, 
as it is believed  that none  will  feel  like 
leaving the  hall  without identifying him­
self  with the work of  the Post.  st

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Grand Rapids, Mich.

Offers to the  trade  special  inducements  for the 

coining  holiday season.

THE  LARGEST  LINE  OF  NEW

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DOLLS,
PLUSH
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Jewelry,  Brie a-brac, 
FANCY 
everything  suitable CROCKERY,
for holiday presents. 
MUSIC
A full line of masks. 
BOXES,
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ALBERT  N.  AVERY,
CARPETS ail WEB,

19  So.  Ionia  St.,

GRA ND  R A PID S,  M ICH.

Special Sale of Lace and Chenille Curtains.

Merchants visiting the  Grand  Rapids market 
are invited to call  and  Inspect  my lines, which 
are complete in every respect.  In placing orders 
with  me  you  deal  directly with  the  manufac­
turer.

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S. J.  Thompson &  Co.  have  opened  a 
meat market in  the  rear of  their grocery 
store on  East street.

F.  A.  Ilice has  opened a grocery  store 
at 69% Pearl  street.  The Ball-Barnhart- 
Pntman Co.  furnished  ttie stock.

Robert Archamboult  has opened  a gro­
cery  store at  Copemish.  The  Lemon  <& 
Wheeler Co.  furnished  the stock.

John  L.  Gale  has embarked  in the gro­
cery business at  Plymouth.  The  stock 
was furnished  by the  Lemon  & Wheeler
Co. 

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The  John  N.  Compton  Furniture  & 
Upholstering Co.  succeeds the  Bell  Fur­
niture & Upholstering  Co.  a t' 523  South 
Division street.

Anton  F.  Worfel  and  wife  have  em­
barked in the fish  and oyster  business in 
the basement of  50 West  Bridge  street, 
under the style of A.  F.  Worfel  & Co.

P.  Wendover has  removed  his  grocery 
stock from  the corner of South Lafayette 
street and Highland  avenue to 
the  cor­
ner of Hall street  and  Euclid  avenue.

The Committee on  Trade  Interests  of 
the  Retail Grocers’ Association  has  pro­
mulgated a new sugar schedule, reducing 
the price of granulated  to  the  following: 
Single pound,  6 cents;  four and one-half 
pounds,  25 cents;  nine  pounds,  50 cents; 
nineteen  pounds, $1.

In addition to the  entertainment  fea­
tures provided  for  the next  meeting  of 
the  Retail  Grocers’  Association,  it  has 
been decided  to  issue a general invitation 
to  every  retail  grocer  in the city  to at­
tend  the meeting and  discuss the present 
industrial  situation  in  the  city,  with  a 
view to reaching a conclusion  as to what 
course the grocery trade should  now pur­
sue with its customers. 
It is  hoped  that 
every retail grocer will  be  present at the 
meeting,  whether a member of the  Asso­
ciation  or not, to  the end  that the discus­
sion may be exhaustive and  the decision 
reached  conclusive.

P u re ly   P erso n al.

Janies  Hanigan, of the firm of  Cantield 
<&  Hanigan,  grocers at Ionia,  spent  Sun­
day  in  the city.  He was  shown  around 
by  Byron Stockbridge Davenport.

Leonard Kipp,  who has  been  very  low 
with  a  pulmonary trouble  for  several 
weeks,  is gaining  strength  so 
that his 
friends  have  hopes of his recovery.

H.  K.  Gleason,  who contemplated  em­
barking in  the drug  business  at  Fenn- 
ville,  has taken  the position of  prescrip 
tion  clerk  for W.  H.  Smith,  the  Grand 
Junction druggist.

G.  Adolph  Krause and Jacob  Wilhelm 
of the firm of  Hirth.  Krause &  Wilhelm, 
sailed  from Southampton  Nov.  8  and  are 
expected to reach  home Saturday.  They 
have  been  spending a couple  of  mouths 
in Germany.

G.  E.  Bursley,  senior  member  of  the 
firm of G.  E.  Bursley  &  Co.,  wholesale 
grocers  at  Fort  Wayne,  was  in  town  a 
few  hours  last  Saturday,  interviewing 
the wholesale grocery  trade of  this mar­
ket on subjects of  mutual  interest.  Mr. 
Bursley  was  well  pleased  with  the trade 
conditions of  this territory and returned 
home with an  exalted  opinion  of  Grand 
Rapids as a jobbing  market.

It is inevitable that,  when  a  thing  is 
left to run  itself,  if  it  runs  at  ail  it  will 
run down hill.

M atte r.

H ow   L ocal

B u siness  Men  R e g ard   th e  
T h e  T radesm an continues  its  inter­
views  with  busiuess  men  on the above 
subject. 
It is  one of absorbing interest, 
and an expression  of  opinion  from men 
who are actively engaged in  business, or 
are in close  touch  with  business,  should 
be  carefully  considered  by readers  of 
T h e  T radesm an.  That there should be 
differences of opinion  in  regard  to  this 
matter 
is  to  be expected,  but  the ques­
tion is in no sense  a  partisan  one  and 
should not be  so  regarded.  Repeal  was 
accomplished  by no  one  party,  but  by 
the votes of members of all parties.  This 
removes  the subject  from  the  arena  of 
party  politics and  leaves  every man,  no 
matter what his  party affiliation,  free to 
discuss the question  on 
It 
was in  this  spirit  that T h e  T radesm an 
approached  the gentleman  named for an 
expression of  opinion,  and  in this spirit 
the opinions w'ere given:

its  merits. 

Chas.  F.  Pike  (Cashier  Michigan  State 
Bank):  “The Sherman act was certainly 
one cause,  though a  minor  one,  of  the 
depression,  but  the cause of the trouble 
is much deeper than  that,  and  is  to  be 
found 
in  the fear,  on the part of manu­
facturers,  of  tariff  tinkering.  But  the 
repeal  of the Sherman  act is a good thing 
because it puts an end  to  the  purchase 
by  the  Government  of  an  article  for 
which it  had no use,  at least  to  the  ex­
tent 
it was  purchasing.  The  Govern­
ment at  Washington is  nothing more nor 
less than  the business  managers  of  the 
nation,  and  there 
is  no  more sense in 
their buying  a  commodity  that  they do 
not want  than  there would  be  for a pri­
vate  corporation  or an  individual  to do 
so.  Any  business man  who did  so would 
soon  find  himself bankrupt,  and 
if  the 
purchase of silver had  been  continued  it 
would be but  a  question  of  time  when 
the United States would  be  in  that con­
dition.  As to the effect of repeal, 1 think 
it will  be so slight as  to  be almost inap­
preciable.  The  foreign  loan  agencies in 
this country, which  have done practically 
no business since  last  spring,  will  now, 
no doubt,  resume  business,  in  fact  some 
of them have already done so,  but the in­
dustrial  and commercial  interests,  which 
are all  but paralyzed,  must  look  to  some 
other source for help.  Repeal won’t help 
them any,  because 
it  cannot help them 
to  find a market for their surplus stocks, 
which must be worked  off  before  they 
can  resume  operations.  Ninety  per 
cent,  of the  buyers  of  the  products  of 
the  factories  are  workingmen,  and,  as 
many of  them  have no work  at all,  and 
those who  are working  have  suffered  a 
heavy reduction  in  their  wages, it is diffi­
cult to see how  relief is to come. 
It will 
come,  however,  though  very  gradually. 
Here and there throughout the land  men 
will find work,  until  all  are  again  em­
ployed,  and so the end  of the  depression 
will  finally  be  reached. 
If  only Con­
gress will  let the tariff alone—”

Mr.  Pike ended  with  a  dubious shake 
of the head,  as though it were  a  matter 
of uncertainty  as  to whether  Congress 
would let the tariff alone or uot.

Wm.  J.  Stuart  (Mayor  of  Grand  Rap­
ids,  attorney):  “If the Sherman  act had 
been  repealed  when  Congres  first assem­
bled in  August,  it would,  without doubt, 
have  proved  of  considerable  benefit  to 
the country.  The people  got the notion 
somehow  that the Sherman  law  was  in­
juring tnem,  and raised  a clamor  for  its

it 

time  at 

the  surface 

repeal,  and  Congress  should  have  re- 
tated the crash,  is blindness.  The abuse 
pealed  it as  soon  as  they  got  together,  of  credit  usually  following  an  era  of 
But even  at this late day  I  think  its  re-  prosperity  greatly  accelerated 
the  de- 
peal  will  help  the  country.  My  views  cline  from  its inception, but  the bringing 
the  real  condition  of 
on  this subject are  hardly  matured  and  to 
so I  will  not venture to  give  an  opinion  things  was  principally 
twofold.  The 
to  how  repeal  will  benefit  us.  But j financial disturbances  in  Europe  during
as 
the past  two years forced  many a bloated 
there is one thing 1  want  to  say,  though 
bondholder to realize  on  his  securities, 
I suppose 1  will  be  called  partisan  for 
none of which were less liable to shrink­
saying  it. 
In  my  judgment  the  chief 
age than American securities.  That was, 
cause of  the trouble  is  the  uncertainty 
of course,  a great compliment  to Ameri­
as  to  what  Congress  will  do  with  the 
can  institutions,  but  it  drained  heavily 
tariff.  Manufactures must  languish un­
upon our circulating  currency,  and mill­
til 
is  definitely  known  under  what 
ions of money that otherwise would have 
conditions they are  to  be  resumed.  At 
found  its  way  through  legitimate  chan­
present nothing is  known  and so nothing 
nels of  trade and  commerce  was  exiled, 
can  be  done.  The  Democratic  party 
for  a 
least,  to the old  world. 
have it in their power,  for the  first  time 
Right  here is where the Sherman  law did 
in their history,  to crystalize  into  legis­
its  deadly  work.  Nearly all  of  the se­
lation the theories they  have  been  pro­
curities so unloaded  were paid  in  gold, 
pounding for  so many  years.  Will  they 
which drew  heavily  on  our  already  fast 
do it?  That  is  the  questsion  that  the 
decreasing reserve,  and the  English  cap­
business interests of the country  impera­
italists,  not being entirely devoid of  that 
tively demand  an answer to.”
selfishness in  which  his Western  cousins 
chooses to be dubbed “ shrewd,” unloaded 
additional  demands.  He  wanted  his 
gold while he thought there was  a chance 
to get  it. 
In  his opinion  the  promise  of 
this government to  buy  4,500,000  ounces 
of  silver per month  and  pay the  gold  for 
it would soon bankrupt the United States, 
as  far as  that  precious  metal  was con­
cerned,  so he  thought 
that  while  Uncle 
Sam  had  it  ‘he’d  jes’ es soon’s not’ pay it. 
These demands drove many of  the East­
ern  banks to the wall, sending consterna­
tion  throughout the entire country.  De­
positors  felt  unsafe  and  withdrew their 
money  from  the  banks,  taxing 
them  to 
their utmost capacity  to  convert  collat­
eral 
the demands. 
Buyers  were  notified  by  their  bankers 
that  they  could  no  longer  accommodate 
them  and that all notes  must  be  paid  as 
fast as  due.  The  merchant  was  com­
pelled  to apply  his sales to  the  payment 
of his paper,  and  he had  no  way  to  pay 
for  his  goods 
just  ordered.  Counter­
mand  after  countermand  went  in  to the 
jobber,  and  then  in  turn  to the manufac­
turer,  who  was  already crippled  by  the 
attitude 
the  banks were  compelled  to 
take,  and  he shut  down  when  his  men 
least  expected 
the  purchase of 
silver could  have  been  suspended  when 
its iniquitous  influence was  first  appre­
hended,  the  result  to-day  would  be  far 
different.”

AmosS. Musselman (President Mussel- 
man  Grocer  Co.):  “To  my  mind  the 
only  good  result  of  the  repeal  of  the 
Sherman  act  will  be to  restore  the  con­
fidence  of  Europeans  in  our  financial 
stability.  General  business will  not  be 
affected  an  iota.  How  can  it?  The evil 
alleged  to  be the result of  the Sherman 
act was entirely  imaginary;  but the hard 
times  are  real  enough; now,  I don’t see 
how the  repeal  of  a law which brought 
about only  a senseless scare in  the minds 
of the people,  could  cause  a  return  of 
prosperity.  The  fact  is  this country is 
rich enough to purchase  4,500,000 ounces 
of silver a month and throw  it  into  the 
ocean  and not  be any  poorer in  the  end.! 
If it  were not  for the effect of the  policy 
on Europeans from whom  we  are  heavy 
buyers,  the free coinage  of  silver  would 
not hurt us a  particle.  But  so  long  as 
we do business with foreign  nations  we 
must  have  a  standard  of  money  which 
will  be  equal  in  all  respects to theirs, 
and our financial  system must be of such 
a character as  will inspire  confidence  in 
our integrity and stability.”

into  cash 

to  meet 

it. 

If 

W.  H.  Kinsey  (Secretary  Board  of 
Trade):  “Whateffect has the repeal of the 
purchasing clause of the Sherman law on 
business?  Very  little  at  this late date, 
further than  to check the growth of  dis­
trust in our large money centers.  Months 
ago,  when everything  depended  on the 
banks,  the  repeal  would  have  been  felt 
Immediately,  but  now the  situation 
is 
different.  No one thing,  however  much 
it may have entered  into the cause of the 
present financial  condition,  can  do very 
much, even  though 
it  be  removed en­
tirely,  toward  restoring  any great  de­
gree of activity  in trade.  The consumers 
of this  country have  been  out  of  em­
ployment  so 
long,  and,  consequently, 
contracted  so  many debts,  that  should 
they be set to work to-morrow it will take 
six months of  paying up  before they can 
again  become purchasers,  save in the ac­
tual  necessities of life,  which  cut  but  a 
small figure in  the industrial world.  The 
fact that  the  manufacturer  must  first 
have  a demand,  and  that  the  demand 
cannot  materially  increase  until 
the 
larger class of consumers  (the 
laborers) 
are supplied  with labor  to  furnish  the 
means  to  buy,  makes  the  progress to­
ward  a complete resumption of  business 
in  all 
its  various  channels very slow. 
No,  the Sherman  law,  in  my opinion,  is 
not the only cause of the present trouble, 
but to deny that it was,  through its pros­
pective continuance,  that which  precipi-

There  is  no  royal  road  to  anything. 
One thing  at  a time,  all  things in succes­
sion.  That  which  grows fast  withers as 
rapidly;  that  which  grows slowly, slowly 
endures.

A  Big Drive
IN ALL  SILK  (SAT.  EDGE)  RIBBONS.

/

Having purchased  a  large  lot of 
All  Silk  Ribbons  at  the  great per­
emptory sale in  New York for cash, 
we are enabled  to offer you the fol­
lowing bargains:
 No.  5.....................................40c
v  | 
No.  7.....................................52c
■   No.  9 .....................................68c
No.  12.................................... 84c
Or we will  assort you a box each
of Nos. 5, 7, 9 and  12, at  52yjc  aver­
age, and  you  can  select  your own 
colors.
We make a  specialty of  Ribbons, 
and you will  find  that we  have the 
largest and  most complete  stock of 
these goods in the State.
We  solicit  your  inspection  or 
mail orders.

CORL, KNOTT & GO.,

20-22  No.  Division  St., 

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

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Dr.  R eed’s C om plim ents  to  P ro f.  H u rd .
Ma n sfield,  Ohio.  Oet.  23—I note that 
W.  E.  Hurd,  State  Dairy  and  Food  In­
spector of  Ohio,  undertakes  to  reply  to 
my  former  article,  published  in  your 
journal,  with  reference 
the  Mabee 
cheese  poisoning.  This  gentleman  has 
evidently  been  laboring  under a series of 
wearisome  hallucinations  and  imagines 
that no one else  knows  anything  about 
cheesemaking  but  himself,  simply  be­
cause he has  been  fortunate enough to be 
an appointee under  the State and worked 
a while in  a cheese  factory.
In  the  first  place,  he  assumes that  I 
have  no practical  knowledge of  cheese­
making,  and that cheese  makers  do  not 
allow their curd to develop acid  in  order 
to  make  their  cheese  porous  and light. 
Now,  Mr.  Editor,  I  desire  simply  to say 
that  this gentleman’s education in cheese­
making  has  been  sadly  neglected  and 
that,  if  he  will  come  to  Mansfield,  we 
will give him  a few  lessons  in  what  he 
calls  “ practical  cheesemaking,”  for  it 
has  been  our  lot  to  have had  some ex­
perience  in  that  direction,  and  to have 
lived  in  the  Western  Reserve in a cheese­
making district and to have practical and 
personal  knowledge  in  regard  to  these 
matters;  and  now  we  wish  to reiterate 
what  we  have already  said,  that  “cheese 
makers do  allow  their curd  to  stand  for 
the purpose of  allowing it  to ferment or 
an  acid  to  raise,”  as they  term  it,  with 
the  intentiou  of  making 
their  cheese 
light.  And  when  we  made  this  asser­
tion,  we did not  make it from guess work 
or  from  hearsay,  but  from  personal 
knowledge,  Mr.  Hurd  to  the contrary.

I do not  pretend  to say  that everybody 
makes cheese alike,  any  more than every 
baker makes  bread  the same  way,  but  I 
do  know 
that  certain  manufacturers 
do  allow  their  cheese  to  ferment,  and 
I do know  that  fermentation,  no  matter 
whether in  the milk or in  the curd, is the 
result of  bacterial  infection and  that,  in 
the presence of certain  bacteria,  tyrotox- 
icon  is formed. 
It  is  not  necessary  for 
Mr.  Hurd  to  undertake  to  protect  the 
cheesemakers in this  nefarious  practice 
of  using either fermented  milk  or allow­
ing  the  cheese  to become acid  and take 
the  chances  of  producing  poisonous 
cheese.  The  very  fact 
that  so  many 
cases  of  cheese  poisoning  occur  every 
summer is the  best evidence  in  the world 
that the cheese in some part of its process 
of  manufacture  has  been  allowed 
to 
ferment,  and  the  suggestion  that  1 made 
in  my  former  letter  that  cheesemakers 
should  be compelled  by  law  to  prevent 
fermenting their  curd,  and,  I  may  add, 
prevent  the use of  fermented  milk,  is in 
point,  Mr.  Ilurd  to the contrary.
This erudite inspector claims  that  he 
has  investigated  every  dairy  separately 
and could  find nothing  wrong  except in 
two instances.  This  is  a very  full  sen­
tence,  with  very  little in  it.  The cheese 
factory may  be in  perfect  order,  every­
thing may  look all  right to the inspector, 
but  unless he  stays  through  the  entire 
process  of  the  manufacture  of  cheese, 
from  the  lime  the  milk  comes  from  the 
cows  until  it  is  placed  as  curd  in  the 
hoop  aud  pressed,  he  is  as  unable  to 
determine  whether they  allow  fermenta­
tion  to take  place in  the process of  man­
ufacture or not  and  his  opinion  is  not 
worth a  bit more on  that subject,  unless 
he has done so,  than  it is  on theology or 
astronomy. 
I  happen  to  know  that  in 
many  instances  this  gentleman has not 
taken  the  time  nor the trouble  to make 
the investigations as  he has stated  above 
and  I  would  suggest to  him  that  before 
he undertakes to criticise  facts  that  he 
learn  a few  facts  himself.
In  my reports I have  given  the  proper 
parties  full  recognition  and  credit  and 
have simply  used  their  findings in estab­
lishing 
the  fact  of  my  assertion,  that 
tyrotoxicon  is the result of  fermentation 
and  I defy the State  Dairy  and  Food  In­
spector to prove to the contrary.

Very  respectfully  yours,

R.  H a r v ey  Re e d .

Health Officer.

Cobble—I  see that  Miss Cablet on,  who 
to  a  traveling  man,  was 

was  engaged 
married the other day.

Stone—Wasn’t it  very sudden?
Cobble—Yes.  She  found  out  he  was 
going to Chicago on his next trip.

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

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UNBLEACHED  COTTONS.Arrow Brand  4K 
Adriatic.................7
Argyle  ...................  6
”  Worldwide.  6
Atlanta A A.............6
11  LL............... 4H
Atlantic  A................6%
Pull Yard Wide......6*4
Georgia  A..............  6%
H ...........   6*4
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Honest Width........  6
D........  ...  6
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Hartford A ............   5
“  LL..............  5
Indian Head...........  3*4
Amory.....................  654
King A  A............... 6*4
Archery  Bunting...  4 
King EC.................  5
Beaver Dam  A A..  434
Lawrence  L L........  4*4
Blackstone O, 32__5
Madras cheese cloth 654
Black Crow............ 6
Newmarket  G........544
Black  Rock  ...........  6
B  ...... 5
N.......  6*4
Boot, AL................  7
Capital  A ............... 51a
DD.  ..  5*4
Cavanat V...... ....... 5*4 
X ...... 6*4
Chapman cheese cl.  3J£ Nolbe R.....................5
Clifton  C R ............   5*4|Our Level  Best...... 6
Comet..................... 6S  Oxford  R................  6
Dwight Star............  644 Pequot.....................  7
CliftonCCC...........  b \ Solar..........................6
¡Top of the  Heap__7
8
Qeo.  Washington
Glen Mills.............   7
Gold Medal............   7*4
Green  Ticket......... 8*4
Great Falls.............  6*4
Hope....................... 7*4
Just  Out........  4*4<& 5
King  Phillip..........   7*4
OP......7*4
Lonsdale Cambric.. 10
Lonsdale...........  @8*4
Middlesex........   @ 5
No Name................   7*4
Oak View....... ....... 6
Our Own.................. 5*4
Pride of the West... 12
Rosalind................. 7*4
Sunlight.................   4*4
Utica  Mills............ 8*4
“  Nonpareil  ..10
V lnyard...i............  8*4
White Horse...........  6
Rock.............. 8*4
8*4

BLEACHED  COTTONS.
A B C ......................  8*4
Amazon —  
__  8
Amsburg.................6*4
Art  Cambric.......... 10
Blackstone A A......  7*4
Beats All................   4*4
Boston.................. 12
Cabot......................   7*4
Cabot,  X .................  6*4
Charter  Oak...........5*4
Conway W 
...........  7*4
Cleveland.............  6*4
Dwight Anchor__   8*4
“ 
shorts  8
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Edwards................. 6
E 
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F 
1...................7*4
Fruit of the  Loom.  8*4
Pitch ville  ............  7
First Prize..............7
Fruit of the Loom X.  7*4
Falrmount..............  4*4
Full Value..............6*4
Cabot........................7*4|Dwight Anchor
Farwell...................  8  I
Unbleached.CANTON  FLANNEL.Bleached.
Housewife  A ... ...... 5* Housewife  Q__ -.6)4
B  ..
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-...5*4
C... __ 6
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D...
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...  6*4
• •8*4
E  .. ...... 7
“ 
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.9*4
F...
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.73,
V......... .10
G  .. — 7*4
“ 
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...... 1*4
H...
X........ .1
“ 
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Y........ .1
I...
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J  ..
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...  8*4
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9*4
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L.  ..
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...11
O.... ....21
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44

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Integrity...........
Hamilton 

44 

colored ...20 White Star

CARPX1 WARP.
...18
.  ..18*4
DRESS GOODS.
....... ....  8 Nameless.
...  9
........ •  -10*4
. ..30
...16
...18

Integrity  colored.. .20
.18
44 colored. .20
.20
.25
• 27*4
.30
.32*4
35

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44

Nameless  ........
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CORSETS.

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Corallne  ............... 89 501Wonderful..........  84  50
Schilling’s ..............  9  00 Brighton.............4 75
Davis  Waists  —   9 00 Bortree’s ..............   9 00
Grand  Rapids......  4  50¡ Abdominal............15  00
Armory..................   6*4
Naumkeagsatteen..  7*4
Androscoggin.........7*4
Rockport................   6*4
Conestoga...............7*4
Biddefom.............  6
Brunswick................6*4
Walworth  .............634
JT8.Berwick fancies —   5*4
FBI!
Allen turkey  reds.. 5*4
robes............ 5*4
Clyde Robes...........
pink a purple 5*4
Charter Oak fancies  4*4 
buffs...........   5*4
DelMarlne cashm’s.  5*4 
pink checks.  5*4
mourn’g  5*4
staples  ........   5
EddyBtone fancy...  5*4
shirtings...  4
chocolat  5*4
American fancy —   5 
rober  ...  5*4
American Indigo  ..  5 
sateens..  5*4 
American shirtings.  1 
Hamilton fancy.  ...  5*4
Argentine  Grays...  6 
staple__  5*4
Anchor Shirtings...  4 
Manchester fancy..  5*4 
Arnold 
“  —   6
new era.  5*4 
Arnold  Merino. . . .   6 
Merrimack D fancy.  5*4 
long cloth B.  9*4 
“ 
Merrlm’ck shirtings.  4 
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c.  7*4
“  Repp furn .  8*4
“ 
century cloth  7
Pacific fan cy __ 5*4
“  gold seal......10*4
“ 
robes............  6
Portsmouth robes...  6*4 
“  green seal TR 10*4 
“  yellow  seal.. 10*4 
Simpson mourning.. 5*4
“ 
serge.............11*4
greys.........534
“  Turkey  red..10*4
solid black.  5)4 
Washington indigo.  6*4 
“ 
“  Turkey robes..  7*4
“  India robes__ 7*4
“  plain Tky X 34  8*4 
“ 
“  X...10
“  Ottoman  Tur­
key red.................   6*4
Martha Washington
Turkey red 54........ 7*4
Martha Washington
Turkey red...........   9*4
Rlverpolnt robes....  5*4
Windsor fancy........  6*4
Indigo  Dine......... 10*4
Harmony.................  4*4
AC A....................13
Pemberton AAA — 16
York....................... 10*4
Swift River............   7*4
Pearl  River  ...........12
Warren................... 18*4
C RiLLOga  ............ 16

Ballo” solid Di&ck..
“  colors.
Bengal blue,  green, 
red and  orange  ..  6
Berlin solids...........  5*4
“  oil bine........ 6
6
“  “  green 
11  Foulards  ...  5*4 
7
red 34 
“ 
“  “  X  ........... 9*4
“ 44 
“ 
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“ 
“  3-4XXXX 12
Cocheco fancy........  5
“  madders...  5 
“  XXtwills..  5
“ 
solids......... 5

Amoskeag AC A  ... 12*4
Hamilton N 
.........   7*4
D............8*4
Awning..11
Fanner  ....................8
FlrBt  Prise............. 10*4
Lenox M ills.............18
COTTON
Atlanta,  D 
Boot................»—   644 No  Name —
Clifton, K.......................  7  ¡Top of  Heap

............  634|Sta‘*  a

gold  ticket

TICKIN88.

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Amoskeag...............  ...
9oz............
brown......
Andover..................11*4
Beaver Creek  AA.. .10 
BB...  9
CC....
Boston MfgCo.  br..  7 

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“  d a  twist  10*4 
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Columbian  brown.. 12
Everett, blue...........12*4
brown....... 12*4
Haymaker blue......   73i
brown...  754
Jeffrey.....................11)4
Lancaster  ...............12*4
Lawrence, 9 os........13*4
No. 220.... 13
No. 250.... 11*4
No. 280... 10*4

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XXX  bl.19

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Lancaster,  staple...  6
fancies__7
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“  Normandie  8
Lancashire.............   6
Manchester............   5*4
Monogram..............  6*4
Normandie............... 7*4
Persian..................... 7
Renfrew Dress........7*4
Rosemont................. 6*4
Slatersville.............. 6
Somerset...................7
Tacoma  ...................7*4
Toll  duNord......... 10*4
Wabash...................  7*4
seersucker..  7*4
Warwick...............   7
Whlttenden............   8
heather dr.  7*4 
Indigo blue  9 
Wamsutta staples...  6*4
Westbrook..............  8
..............10
Wlndermeer........... 5
York  ........................6*4

Amoskeag................ 6*4
“  Persian dress  7 
Canton ..  7
“ 
AFC........10*4
“ 
Teazle.. .10*4 
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Angola..10*4 
“ 
Persian..  7
Arlington staple__6*4
Arasapha  fancy__4*4
Bates Warwick dres  7*4 
staples.  6
Centennial..............  10*4
Criterion................10*4
Cumberland staple.  5*4
Cumberland..............5
Essex........................4*4
Elfin........................  7*4
Everett classics......8*4
Exposition............... 7*4
Glenarie..................  6*4
Glenarven................6*4
Glen wood.................7*4
JIamptOD.................. 6*4
Johnson Chalon cl 
*4 
indigo blue 9*4 
zephyrs__16
Amoskeag................14 
I Georgia
Stark......................  19 
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American.................14*4  .............................

DRAIN  BASS.

14*4

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Clark’s Mile End....45 
¡Barbour's............... £6
Coats’, J. & P ......... 45  Marshall’s............... 81
Holyoke...................22*41

KNITTINS COTTON.

No.

White.  Colored.
38 No.  14... ....37
“  16...
38
...38
“  18... ....39
40
41
“  20... ....40

White.  Colored
42
43
44
45

..33
...34
...35
...36

6  ..
8...
10...
12...

Slater......................  43*
White Star............   4*4
Kid Glove...............  4*4
Newmarket............   4*4

Edwards...............   4*4
Lockwood................ 4*4
Wood’s ..................  4*4
Brunswick...........   4*4

B E D   FLANNEL.

Fireman.................32*4
Creedmore............. 27*4
Talbot XXX........... 30
Nameless................27*4

!T W ............................ 22*4
F T ..........................39*4
J R F , XXX............35
Buckeye................. 32*4

M IXED  FLANNEL.

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Red A Blue,  plaid..40
Grey SR W.............17*4
Union R................. 22*4
Western W  .............18*4
Windsor................. 18*4
DR P ......................18*4
Flushing XXX........23*4
6 oz Western.......... 20
Union  B.................22*4|MaaUoba................ 23*4
......   9  @10*4
Nameless......  8  @9*41 
.......8*4@10  I 
....... 
12*4
Slate.  Brown.  Black.ISlate  Brown.  Black. 
10*4
9*4 
13*4
10*4 
11*4 
12
12*4 
20
Severen, 8 oz..........   9*4 West  Point, 8 oz__10*4
Mayland, 80Z..........10*4 
1001  ...12*4
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Greenwood, 7*4 oz..  9*4 Raven, lOoz............ 13*4
Greenwood, 8 oz__11*4 Stark 
13*4
 
Boston, 8 oz............ 10*4 ¡Boston, 10 oz............12*4

CANVA88  AND  P ADDINO.
9*4 
10*4 
11*4 
12*4 

9*4 10*4 
10*411*4 
11*412 
12*4120 
DUCKS

10*4 
11*4 
12 
20 

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SILESIAS.

White, dos............   25  ¡Per bale, 40 dos__ 83 50
Colored, doz...........20  ¡Colored  “ 
..........7 50
Slater, Iron Cross...  8 
Pawtucket...............10*4
Red Cross....  9
“ 
Dundle...................   9
“  Best............ 10*4
Bedford...................10*4
Valley  City.............10*4
“ 
Best AA......12*4
K K ......................... 10*4
L.................  .........   7*4
G............................. 8*4
Cortlcelll, do*........ 85  [Cortlcelli  knitting,

per *401  ball........30

twist,do*..40 
SO yd,doz..40  1 
HOOKS AND  EYES— P E R  GROSS.
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No  1 Bl’k & Whlte.,10  [No  4 Bl’k & White..15 
..20
..25
No 2-20, M C .........50  INo 4—15  J   3*4........ 40

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8 
..12  I  “  10 
FIN S.

SEWING  SILK.

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S-18.SC.......... 45  I

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No 2.

No  2 White A Bl’k..12  ¡No  8 White A Bl’k.. 20 
.23
..26
.86

COTTON  TAPE.
..15  “  10 
..18  “  12 
SAFETY  P IE S.
|N o8...
....28 
NEEDLES— PER   M.

A.James.................1  40!Steamboat....  ........  «0
Crowely’s...............1  85 Gold Eyed...............1 50
Marshall’s..............1 00|American................ 1 00
|5—4....1  65  6—4...2 80
5—4.  ..  1  75  6—4... 

TABLE  OIL  CLOTH.

OOTTONTWINES.

Cotton Sail Twine. .28
Crown.....................12
Domestic................18*4
Anchor................... 16
Bristol.................... 13
Cherry  Valley........ 15
I X L........................18*4
Alabama...................634
Alamance................. 6*4
Augusta......................7 *4
Ar  sapha..  ...........  6
Georgia.....................6*4
G ranite....................534
Haw  River.............  5
Haw  J ....................   5

Nashua................... 18
Rising Star 4-ply__ 17
3 ply.... 17
North Star.............. 20
Wool Standard 4 plyl7*4 
Powhattan.............18

Mount  Pleasant__ 6*4
Oneida....................  5
Prymont................  5%
Randelman............ 6
Riverside...............   5*4
Sibley  A.................  6*4
Toledo....................

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20  &  22  Monroe  St.,

OUR  FULL  LINE  OF

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Goods

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Now ready, including  a  large  assortment of

A L B U M S ,

TOILET SETS and NOVELTIES.

THE  LARGEST  LINE  OF

DOLUS

SHOWN  IN  THE  STATE.

RATE  REDUCED

FROM  $2  TO  $1.25  PER 

DAY  AT  THE

Kent Hotel,

Directly  opposite  Union Depot, 

GRAND  RAPIDS.

Steam  H eat  and  Electric  Bells.  Every- 

thin g  New  and  Clean.

BEACH  &  BOOTH,  Prop’rs.

G ra n d   R a p id s,  M ich

D. A.  Blodgett, President.

Geo.  W.  Gay. Vice-President.

W m .  H. Anderson,  Cashier. 
J no  A  Seymour, Ass’t Cashier

C apital,  $ 3 0 0 ,0 0 0 .

DIRECTORS.
D. A.  Blodgett.  Geo. W. Gay. 
A. J  Bowne.  G. K. Johnson. 
C  Bertsch. 
Wm. H  Anderson.  Wm  Sears.  A. D. Rathbone 

S. M. Lemon.

John Widdlcomb. 

N. A.  Fletcher.

CROUP 

CROUP  REMEDY
is  the  Chil  ren’s Medicine for 
Cotds,  Coughs,  Whooping-Cough,  Croup, 
Pneum onia,  Hoarseness, 
the  Cough  of 
Measles, and kindred complaints of Childhood. 
Try Peckham’s Croup Remedy for  the  children 
and be convinced of its  merits.  Get a bottle to­
day,  you  may  need  it  tonight 1  Once used  al 
WHOOPING  COUGH
ways used.  Pleasant,
Sa fe,  Certain I
‘•My customers are well  pleased with  that  in­
valuable  medicine—Peckham’s  Croup Remedy. 
I recommend it  above  all  others for children.” 
H. Z. Carpenter,  Druggist, Parksville, Mo.

“Peckham’s Croup  Remedy gives the best sat­
isfaction.  Whenever  a  person buys  a  bottle  I 
will  guarantee  that  customer will  come  again 
for more, and  recommend  it  to  others.”  C. H. 
Phillips, Druggist, Girard, Kansas.

B O O T S ,
S H O E S ,  A N D
R U B B E R S

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

11ÏÏR  MICHIGAN  t r a d e s m a n

Montana  Club’s  annual  receptions  the 
Colonel,  along with  others,  became gen­
ial  under the influence of  what  is  known 
the  Jim  Collins  punch.  Someone 
as 
said  something 
the  old 
man’s sensitive point,  which  is  his  posi­
tion  in  society.  He grew sober in  a flash, 
and  turning  on  one of  the  men,  whose 
names have  been  mentioned,  said:

that  offended 

“ Damn yez,  ye would  ha’ been walkin’ 

on  the range,  but for Tommy Cruse.”

Then  he turned on another and another, 
and  treated  each  with a  sharp touch of 
his Scotch-Irish sarcasm.  Not one had a 
word  to say,  for all appreciated the truth. 
Not one  would  have made a cent  on  the 
sale  of  his  mine if the discoverer knew 
as  much as he knows now.

In direct contradiction of the old adage, 
that  miners  and 
faro  players  never 
know  when  to  quit,  Cruse  has  shown 
hard  sense  by  keeping  what  he  won. 
Other  Montana citizens  have  speculated 
in  mines,  real  estate,  and railway proper­
ties after making a stake.  Cruse  locked 
the greater part of  his  money  in Govern­
ment  bonds  and  placed  the  balance  in 
such safe  investments as  savings  banks 
and  sheep  ranges. 
If  we except  W.  A. 
Clark and  Marcus  Daly  of  Butte,  Cruse 
to-day  draws  a  larger income than  any 
other Montaniau.  The  expenses  of  his 
household  mark  a  very  small  minimum 
of  his income.  He never travels;  in fact, 
aside  from  his wedding tour,  he  has uot 
been outside of the State in tweuty years. 
He never entertains,  except when distin­
guished  officers of  the  Catholic  Church 
come 
town.  His  old  friends  are 
greeted  with  a gruff pleasantry,  but sel­
dom  invited  to  the  house.  His niece,  a 
charming  young  woman, 
is  permitted 
at times  to  reciprocate  entertainments, 
but  the  old  man 
to  see 
that  the  cost  is  within  proper  bounds. 
Whenever  money  is  to  be  blown  in  he 
takes  personal  charge,  und,  as has  been 
said,  these occasions  are  only  when  he 
seeks the aid  of  mediators  to  the  next 
world or gets angry  over an  election.

is  careful 

to 

In these,  as  well as  in  other  respects, 
he is the  most interesting character study 
of  the  many  new-found  millionaires  of 
the  Northwest.  He  arose  very  much 
quicker than Silas Lapham,  and can  best 
be described  by  the one  who told  of that 
paint  king’s  success 
in  business  and 
society.

“Shoe brusches,  ten  cents,”  was  what 
caught the eye of a man passing the shop 
of a  merchant with whom  he  had  had 
some dealings.  The  passer-by  weut  in 
and  said:  “That isn’t  the  way to  spell 
brushes.’'  Of course  it  isn’t,” said  the 
cheerful  merchant.  “That’s  an  adver­
tising  dodge.  You  are 
the tenth  man 
this morning  to come in  and  call  my at­
tention to the supposed  mistake.”

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Democratic City  Committee  should  pay 
him  the difference in  the discount.

“ What!”  said Dan  Hanley,  the  Chair­
man.  “ Do you, a Democrat and a million­
aire,  mean  to cinch  us  for $200 at a time 
like this?”

“ Business  is business,  me good  mon,” 
was Cruse’s only  answer,  and  he got  the 
money.

He is utterly  indifferent  to  the  com­
ments or criticisms of  neighbors.  On the 
day  when  the  Helena  banks  closed  he 
rode  in  an  open  carriage  down  Main 
street  and  passed  a crowd  making a run 
on 
the  Merchant’s  National.  He  was 
dressed  in the  usual  broadcloth  suit,  ex­
pansive  shirt  front,  with  its  guard  of 
a massive gold  watch chain, and silk hat. 
He leaned  back in  the  carriage  wearing 
what one of the boys called a double-bar­
relled grin.  People  shook  their fists  at 
him,  swore in  the oaths reserved  for  ex­
traordinary  occasions  and  even  hinted 
that  he  might  be  forced  to  change  his 
policy of squeezing men out of  business. 
He  was as cool  as a graven  image  to  all 
demands  until  there  was  open  talk  of 
holding  a  public  indignation  meeting. 
Then  he  relented  to the point  of  releas­
ing  some  of  the  attachments  upon  the 
assurance that  his bank  would  be  paid. 
His methods of  banking are  in  line  with 
those  of  Shylock 
and  other  historic 
usurers.  When  the  panic  was  near  to 
its  height  in  Helena a well-known  mer­
chant  who  is  rated  at  from  $300,000  to 
$500,000  wanted  to  borrow $4.000.  He 
could not get it  from  any of  the national 
banks, which  were  refusing  to  lend,  so 
he  went  to  Cruse’s  bank  and stated  his 
business.

“ We are  not  lending,” said  the cashier.
“ All  right,”  said  the  merchant  as  he 

went out of  the door.

He had  not  reached  Broadway when he 
was  called  back  by  a  shout  from  the 
bank.

“ I only  wanted to  say,”  said  the cash­
ier,  “ that Mr.  Cruse  is willing to let  you 
have  that  money on 4  per cent,  month— 
as an accommodation.  He says that you 
have  always  been  one  of  his  best 
friends.”

The offer was declined on  the spot,  for 
the  merchant  said  that  an  assignment 
was  better  suited  to  his  taste  than  au 
obeisance  to old Cruse’s hat.

a 

barren 
treasure, 

that  Col,  Cruse, 

searching 
hidden 

A hundred  stories  are  told  about  his 
eccentricities.  Last  July  Mgr.  Satolli, 
Dr. O’Gorman of  Washington University, 
Archbishop  Ireland,  and  Bishop  Grace 
of St.  Paul  visited  Helena on  a  transcon­
tinental tour.  Whether  Cruse,  the poor 
coun­
miner 
ever 
try 
for 
the  mil­
dreamed 
lionaire  banker,  would  entertain 
the 
Pope’s  ablegate, 
is  not  to  be  known; 
but it is the  words of Satolli himself that 
in  his  experience 
few  entertaiuments 
ever  equalled 
that  oifered  by  Tommy 
Cruse.  Everything not  native  to  Mon­
tana  was  imported  regardless  of  cost, 
and  the  feast,  which  was  presided  over 
by  Cruse’s niece,  was as perfect as money 
could  make it in  Montana.  The  gossips 
of  Helena say that  when  it  was all  over 
Cruse kissed Satolli’s hand, and requested 
the  ablegate  to  send  a  photograph  of 
himself to the  Pope.

On  certain  occasions  he  finds  great 
delight  in  recalling  to  certain  Helena 
people the  fact  that  their financial  pros-  I 
perity dates  back  to  Cruse’s  find  of  the  i 
mysterious  gold  float.  At  one  of 
the |

AUGURS AND BITS. 

These  prices are  for cash,  buyer»,  who 
pay  promptly  and  buy in  full  packages
dls.
60
Snell’s ................................................................  
Cook’s  ............................................................... 
40
Jennings’, genuine..........................................  
25
Jennings’,  Im itation....................................... 50*10
AXES.
First Quality, 8. B. Bronze..  ........................$  7 00
D.  B. Bronze.. 
......................  is  00
1 
S. B. S. Steel.............................  800
■ 
D. B. Steel................................   13 50
.................................................$ 14 00
Hallroao
Garden
........................................   net  30 00
dlS.
.........  
50*10
Stove.
Carriage new list............................................. 75*10
Plow................................................................... 40*10
Sleigh shoe  ...................................................... 
70
Well  plain  ......................................................$ 3 50
Well, swivel 
...................................................  4  id
dls.
Cast Loose Pin, figured...................................70*
Wronght Narrow, bright 5ast joint...............604.

BUTTS, OAST. 

barRows. 

BUCKETS.

BOLTS. 

dls.

 

Finish 10.

1

“ 
“ 

PLANES. 

Clinch! 10..........................................
8.......................................
6.......................................
Barrel! \ ......... ................................ 
Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy................................   ©40
Sciota  Bench............................................. 
B50,
Sandusky Tool Co.’s, fancy....................  •  ©40
Bench, first quality......................................   ©40
Stanley Rule and  Level Co.’s  wood........... 50*10
Fry,  Acme............................................ dls.60—10
70
Common,  polished................................ dls. 
Iron and  Tinned.........................................  
40
Copper Rivets and Burs.............................   50—10

r i v e t s . 

dls.

PA N S.

d ll

PATENT PLAN ISH ED  IRON.

“A” Wood’s patent planished. Nos. 24 to 27  10 JO 
“B” Wood’s  pat. planished, Nos. 25 to 27...  9 20 

Broken packs V4o per pound extra.

dls.

dls.

50
25

“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 

CAPS.

h a m m e r s .

HINGES.

chisels. 

cradi.es.

HANGEBS. 

CROW BARS.

CARTRIDGES.

5
65
60
35
60

HOLLOW WARE.

.......................................... 
BLOCKS.

Grain........................................................... dls. 50*02

Ordinary Tackle, list April  1892..................fO&lO

Him  F ire.................................................  ....... 
Central  Fire 
..........................................dls. 

Socket Firm er.................................................  70*10
Socket Fram ing.................................................70*10
Socket Corner.....................................................70*10
Socket Slicks.....................................................70*10
Butchers’ Tanged Firm er..................  
40

Cast Steel................................................. per lb 
Ely’s 1-10................................................. perm  
Hick’s  C.  F ............................................ 
G .D .........................................................  
M usket.................................................... 

Wrought Loose Pin..............................................................60*10 
Wrought Table.............................................60&10 | Maydole * Co.’s..................................   .dis
25
Bap’S............................................................dls. 
25
Wrought Inside Blind......................................60*10
Yerkes *  Plumb’s .................................... dls. 40*10
Wrought Brass................................................. 
75
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel......................... 30c list 60
Blind,  Clark’s ................................................... 70*10
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast  Steel  H and__ 80e 40*10
Blind,  Parker’s ................................................. 70*10
Blind, Shepard’s 
70
Gate, Clark’s, 1, 2, 3 .................................dls.60&10
State............................................... per dos. net, 2  50
Screw Hook  and  Strap, to 12  In. 4*  14  and
3*
longer............................................................. 
Screw Hook and Eye, * ........................... net 
10
“ 
96...........................net 
8*
%.......*..................net 
“ 
7*
7*
* ...........................net 
“ 
Strap and T ................................................dls. 
50
Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co.. Wood track — 50*10
Champion,  anti friction................................  60*10
Kidder, wood tra c k ......................................... 
40
Pots...................................................................   60*10
Kettles..............................................................  60*10
Spiders  .............................................................. 60*10
Gray enameled...............................................  40*10
Stamped  Tin Ware..................................new list 70
Japanned Tin Ware........................................  
25
Granite Iron W are....................... new list 33**10
Blight........................................................  70*10*10
Screw  Eyes................................................. 70*10*10
Hook’s ..........................................................70*10*10
70*10*10
Gate Hooks and Eyes........................ 
<Hs.7o
Stanley Rule and Level  Co.’s ...............
Sisal, Vi Inch and larger............. ...........
Manilla.............. 
.....................................
SQU A RES.
Steel and  Iron............................................
Try and Bevels...........................................
Mitre.......................................................   .
SH E E T   IRON.Com.  Smooth.
Nos. 10 to  14.....................................$4 05
Nos. 15 to 17.....................................4 05
Nos.  18 to 21...................................   4 05
Nos. 22 to 24.....................................  4 G5
Nos. 25 to 26 .....................................  4 25
No. 27 ...............................................   4 45
wide not less than 2-10 extra
List acct. 19, ’86  ........................................ dls. 
Silver Lake, White  A ................................ list 
Drab A ....................................  “ 
White  B ..................................  1 
Drab B ....................................   “ 
White C ..................................   “ 

Planished, 14 oz cut to size........ per pound 
14x52, 14x56,14x60 .........................  
Cold Rolled, 14x56 and 14x60.........................  
Cold Rolled, 14x48............................................ 
Bottom s............................................................. 
dls.
Morse’s  Bit  Stocks........................................  
Taper and straight Shank................. 
 
Morse’s Taper Shank....................................... 

Com. 
$2 95 
3 05 
3 05 
3  15 
3 25 
3 35
All  sheets No. 18  and  lighter,  over 30  Inches 

Curry,  Lawrence’s .......................................... 
H otchkiss.........................................................  
chalk.
White Crayons, per  gross...
copper.

Com. 4  piece, 8 In............. ................ dos. net 
Corrugated........ .........................................dls 
Adlustable.............................................................dls. 40*10

Small sizes, ser p o u n d ...................................  
Large sizes, per  pound...................................  

40
25
.12012*  dis. 10

SAND PAPER.
SASH CORD.

HOUSE  FURNISHING  GOODS.

28
26
23
23
25
50
50
50

EXPANSIVE BITS. 

DRIPPING PANS.

wire goods. 

so
50
55
50
55
35

ELBOWS.

drills. 

combs. 

 
dls.

LEV ELS.

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

07
8*

R O PES.

75
40

dls.

dls.

“ 

 

 

files—New List. 

Clark’s, small, $l8;  large, $26........................ 
30
25
Ives’, 1, $18:  2, $24;  3,$30............................... 
Disston’s ............................................................60*10
New American  ................................................ 60*10
Nicholson’s .......................................................60*10
Heller’s  ............................................................. 
50
Heller’s Horse Rasps  .....................................  
50 i

dls.

GALVANIZED IRON 

dls.
dls.

Nos.  16  to  20;  22  and  24;  25  and  26;  27 
List 
16 

13 

12 

15 

28
17

Discount, 60

14 
GAUGES. 

 

dls.

mattocks.

locks—door. 

knobs—New List. 

Stanley Rule and  Level Co.’s .......................  
50
55
Door, mineral, jap. trim m ings...................... 
55
Door,  porcelain, jap. trimmings................... 
Door, porcelain, plated trimmings...............  
55
55
Door,  porcelain, trimmings........................... 
Drawer  and  Shutter, porcelain.................... 
70
Russell *  Irwin  Mfg. Co.’s new list  .......... 
55
Mallory, Wheeler  &  Co.’s ..............................  
55
55
Branford’s .......................................................  
55
Norwalk’s ........................................................ 
Adze Eye.............. 
$16.00, dls. 60
Hunt E ye..............................................$15.00, die. 60
Hunt’s  ........................................$18.50, dls. 20*10.
dls.
50
Sperry *  Co.’s, Post,  handled........................ 
die.
40
Coffee, Parkers  Co.’s ....................................... 
40
P. S. *  W. Mfg. Co.’s  Malleables.  .. 
Landers,  Ferry *  Cle rk’s ................... 
40
Enterprise 
......................................... 
30
Stebbln’s  Pattern..............................................60*10
Stebbln’s Genuine............................................ 60*10
Enterprise, self-measuring............................. 
25
Advance over  base,  on  both  Steel  and Wire.
Steel nails, Dase.................................................. 1  50
Wire nails, base........................................ 1  75@1  80
Base 
10

MOLASSES GATES. 

mauls. 
MILLS. 

NA ILS

dlB.

Discount, 10.

SASH WEIGHTS.

dls.

saws. 

traps. 

H and............................................ 

“ 
Silver Steel  Dla. X Cuts, per foot,__ 
“  Special Steel  Dex X Cuts, per foot__  
“  Special Steel Dla.  X Cuts, per foot__  
“  Champion  and  Electric  Tooth  X
Cuts,  per  foot................................................. 

Solid Eyes.................................................per ton $25
20
70
50
30
30
Steel, Game........................................................ 60*10
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s ................. 
35
Oneida  Community, Hawley a Norton’s __  
70
Mouse,  choker....................................... 18c per dos
Mouse, delusion.................................. $1.50 per dos
dls.
Bright Market..................................................   65
Annealed Market............................................. 70—10
Coppered Market.............................................   60
Tinned M arket................................................   62Vi
Coppered  Spring  Steel...................................  
50
Barbed  Fence, galvanised..................................  2 80
painted.......................................   2 40

wire. 

dls.

“ 

HORSE NAILS.

An  Sable  .............................................. dls. 
40*10
dls.  05
Putnam .............................................. 
Northwestern...................................  
dls. 10*10
dls.
WRENCHES. 
Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled...................... 
30
Coe’s  G enuine........................ 
 
50
75
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, w ronght,............ 
Coe’s  Patent, malleable.................................. 75*10
dls.
Bird Cages 
50
Pumps, Cistern............................................ 
75*10
Screws, New List.............................................. 70*10
Casters, Bed  a  d Plate.............................50*10*10
Dampers,  American......................................... 
40
Forks, hoes, rakes  and all steel goods.......65*10

..................................................... 

MISCELLANEOUS. 

 

 

 

 

METALS.

PIG TIN.

“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 

644
7

ZINC.

26c
28c

SOLDER.

Pig  Large.........................................................  
Pig Bars............................................................  
Duty;  Sheet, 2ftc per pound.
680 pound  casks........................................  ... 
Per  pound......................................................... 
V4©V4.........................................................................15
Extra W iping......................................................  U
The  prices  of  the  many  other  qualities  of 
solder in the market Indicated by nrivate brand* 
vary according to composition.
ANTIMONY
Cookson............................................per  pound
Hallett’s .......................................... 
13
TIN—MXLYN GRADE.
10x14 IC, Charcoal..........................................  $  7
 
14x2010, 
10x14 IX, 
14x20 IX, 
 

Each additional X on this grade, $1,75.

10x14 IC,  Charcoal......................................... $ 6  75
14x20 IC, 
10x14 IX, 
14x20 IX, 

TIN—ALLA WAY GRADE.
“ 
“ 
“ 

Each additional X on this grade $1.50.

 
 
 
ROOFING PLATBS
Worcester...................

Allaway  Grade.

6 5*- 
14x20 IC, 
8 50
14x20IX, 
18 50 
20x28 IC, 
14x20 IC, 
6  00
7 50 
14x20 IX, 
12 50 
20x28 IC, 
15 50
20x28 IX,
14x28 IX ............................................................$14  00
14x31  IX........................................   .................  15 00
Ì&60a , f"r N“‘ 9 B0»"*’ }per poand....  10 00

BOILER SIZE TIN  PLATE.

 
 
 

 
 

 

 

 

 

7 0
9 26
9 25

6 75
8 25
9 25

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THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

4   WEEKLY  JOURNAL  DEVOTED  TO  THE

B est  In te r e sts  o f  B u sin e ss  M en.

Published at

lOO  Louis  St., Grand  Rapids,

—  BY  T H E  —

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T h e   M i c h i g a n   T r a d e s m a n .

K.  A.  STOWE,  Editor.

WEDNESDAY,  NOYEMBEK  15, 1893.

A N   IMPROVEMENT  IN  SILVER.
For some  days  past  there  has  been  a 
steady  rise in  the  price of  silver bullion 
in  London.  Coming  so  soon  after  the 
repeal of  the  Sherman  law,  which  was 
expected  to  further  depreciate the value 
of the white  metal,  the rise has attracted 
no  small  amount  of  attention.  Many 
have attributed  it to the  natural  reaction 
from  the extreme  depression  prevailing 
previous to the action of Congress, owing 
to  the general  disposition  to discount the 
effect  of  Congressional  action,  but  the 
improvement  has  been  persistent  and 
considerable,  hence  could  not  be  alto­
gether explained  by the  reaction theory.
Washington  advices  from  London  at­
tribute the improvement  to the prospect 
of a large demand  for silver from Russia. 
It is stated that that country has  decided 
to employ  silver largely  in  its  monetary 
system  as a subsidiary coin,  and  to cover 
the  very  heavy  issue  of  paper  money 
which is now  practically  without  back­
ing  in  coin.  The  dispatch  stated  that | 
the needs of  Russia in silver  bullion  to 
effect  these  purposes  would  amount to 
several  hundred  million  ounces.

Another explanation  of  the  supposed 
desire  of  Russia  to  utilize  silver  as  a 
part of  her  monetary  system  is  the  fact | 
that  Russia  covets  greatly  the  trade  of I 
Persia,  China,  India  and  other  Oriental 
countries,  which  use almost  entirely  sil­
ver.  The  more  extensive  use of  silver 
by  Russia is expected  to aid  that country 
in  competing  for  Asiatic  trade.  The 
whole story,  while  lacking  confirmation, 
is,  nevertheless,  interesting at this time.

H ustling1  D rum m ers.

A  British  sea captain,  who  arrived  at 
San  Francisco  the  other  day.  reported 
that forty  miles  outside  the  Farallones 
islands,  while  the  wind  was  blowing half 
a gale,  he  sighted  a  small  skiff  with  two 
men  in  it,  and thinking  that  they  must 
be in distress,  he changed  his course and 
bore  down  on  them  for the  purpose of 
taking them  aboard.  When  they  came I 
alongside one of  them  ran  up  on  deck | 
and  began  at  once  to  tell  the  captain 
about  the superior quality  of  meat to be 
had  in  a certain shop  in  the  city.  After 
having extorted  a half  promise  from  the 
captain  to  patronize  his  shop  be  went 
back  to his skiff,  saying  that  he must be 
on  the  lookout  for  another vessel.

M EN  OF  MARK.

C harles  P.  F o o te,  M anager  o f  th e   W il­

c o x   H ea t-L ig h t  Co.

j  Chas.  P.  Foote  was  born  in  1860,  in 
i Hobart,  Delaware  county,  N.  Y.  His 
| father,  Wm.  S.  Foote,  was  in  the  hard- 
j ware  business  in  Hobart,  dying  of  heart 
disease  in  1880.  He was a native  of  the 
Empire  State,  although  of  Connecticut 
j ancestry.  Charles  attended  school 
in 
Hobart  about  ten  years,  and  had  been  a 
student  in  the  Normal School at Cortland 
for  two  years,  when 
the  state  of  his 
| father’s  health  compelled  him  to  relin­
quish  his  studies in  order to assist in  the 
management of the  business.  The death 
of  his father  left  him  in  sole control  of 
the  business,  in  which  position  he  con- 
) tinued  until  1888. 
In  that  year  he  re­
moved  to Atchison,  Kansas,  and  became 
a stockholder in  the  Biish,  Mize & Silli- 
man  Hardware Co.,  remaining about two 
years.  He then  sold out his  interest and 
came to Grand  Rapids.  His  first  position 
in this  city  was  with  Foster,  Stevens & 
Co.,  with  whom  he  remained  about 
eighteen  months.  The  Wilcox  Heat- j 
Light  Co.,  of  South  Bend.  Ind.,  which 
was  in  financial  straits,  was  bought out 
by  a  stock  company  composed  of  well- 
known  business  men  of 
this  city  and 
thoroughly  reorganized  and  rehabilitat­
ed,  with J.  C.  More  as  President,  J.  C. 
Rickenbaugh  Vice-President, C.  H.  Ber- 
key  Treasurer,  and  Chas.  P.  Foote  as 
Secretary  and  Manager.  The  business, 
previous  to its  removal  to Grand  Rapids, 
had been  confined 
to  heat  light  goods, 
but  since  locating  here the company  has 
been  manufacturing  oil  stoves  and gas 
radiators on  an extensive scale.  “ Heat- 
light”  means 
large  center 
draught  lamp of  sixteen  candle  power 
generating  heat  sufficient  for  a  room 
fifteen  feet  square.  The  office  and  fac­
tory  of  the  company  are  located  at the 
corner  of  Louis  and  Campau  streets. 
Operations  were  begun  only  last  March, 
but already over 4,000  radiators  and  oil 
stoves  have  been  disposed of.

simply  a 

Mr.  Foote  makes  an  energetic and effi­
cient  Manager,  and  is  held  in  high  es­
teem  by  ail  who  know  him,  either  in 
business or socially.  He  was  married  in' 
1882  to Miss  Alvina A.  Stevens,  of  Har- 
persfield,  N.  Y.  About  a  year  ago  he 
erected  a  pleasant  home  at  154  South 
Union  street,  where he and  his charming 
wife  reside.

T he  S h ort  W e ig h t  P a ck a g e.

From the Boston Commercial Bulletin.

the 

The m atter of  underweight  in  package 
goods is  being agitated  with  vigor  by  the 
retail  grocers  of 
this  vicinity,  and  the 
movement  should  receive  the  co-opera- 
tion of  kindred trades,  though the retail 
grocer  is  most  concerned.  By  the  sys­
tem of putting up short weight packages, 
due to the zeal of manufacturers to outdo 
their  competitors, 
retail  grocers’ 
profits have  been cut down  to a very nar­
row  margin.  Moreover,  it is difficult for 
him  to  judge what  profits  can  be  made 
under the present defective system.
The nature  of  his  business  requires 
him to break  packages  and  sell  by  the 
small  quantity.  For  example,  he  buys 
a pail ostensibly holding  ten  pounds  of 
lard,  but if  it does  not contain  that net, 
his  selling by the pound  will  lead  him  to 
miscalculate his price.  But it is the con­
sumer who is the residuary legatee,  so to 
speak, of all these  “tricks of trade,”  and 
who  foots the bill  eventually.  He is en­
titled  to  the  full  weight  for  which  he 
supposes  he  pays.
So general has the tendency  to  put  up 
underweight  parcels  become,  that  the 
it  for  their  own  interest 
grocers deem 
and  for the  benefit  of 
the  consumer  to 
rectify  the evil 
if  possible.  They pro­

pose to  commence with a few lines  with 
which there  is  general  discontent;  thus 
they  have taken  up  lard  and  cottolene, 
which have  for  years  been  sold  by  the 
package in  advertised  three,  five and  ten 
pound  cans.  Probably no  manufacturer 
puts up  packages of  lard  with such  net 
weights,  each one being compelled  by its 
competitors to scale them.
The Boston Retail Grocers’ Association, 
which  has about  600 members,  taking in 
the larger part of the trade in Boston and 
suburbs,  means to give aid  to  the manu­
facturers and  packers  who  undertake  to 
give full  weight, by purchasing  their line 
exclusively.  The largest local  lard pack­
ers say that if the Association requests it, 
they will put  up  full  weight  packages, 
marked  and  guaranteed  as  such.  The 
cottolene manufacturers  have also made 
a similar  promise.
It  would  be an excellent  thing  for the 
grocery business, and in fact for all  other 
trades  where the undersized  package is a 
feature,  if  the  practice  of  skinning  on 
weight  was  discouraged.  The  method 
cannot be called  dishonest,  as  it  has  be­
come so customary  as  to  be regular,  but 
at the same time it is  illegitimate and  it 
should be  reformed. 
It  would  prove  of 
general  advantage  all  around  to  have 
goods put np  with  the  net weight  as  la­
beled.  The  more  prominent  wholesale 
grocers  in  Boston  are in  sympathy  with 
the movement and  express their  willing­
ness to lend  their aid. 
In  fact,  the indi­
cations  are  that,  unless the tendencies in 
the 
trade  are  checked,  underweighing 
will  be carried  to  excess  where  endless 
trouble  may ensue.

R a ilw ay  E xten sion   F rom   S olon   to 

From the Grand Traverse Herald.

G len  A rbor.

The  Manistee & Northeastern  Railway 
has completed  all  the  arrangements  for 
the extension  of its  road  from  Solon  to 
Glen Arbor.  The right of way has  nearly 
all  been  secured,  and work will  be begun 
at once on  the grade at Solon,  and,  if the 
weather holds good,  will  be completed to 
Cedar or beyond this fall.  The new  line 
runs through  Maple City,  thence  to Bur- 
dickviiie,  thence follows  the south  shore 
of Glen  lake to  the  Narrows,  where the 
lake  will  be  crossed  and  Glen  Arbor 
made the next objective  point.  The road 
will  be completed  as  early  next  season 
as possible.  This is  in  important matter 
for Traverse City and all the  county be­
tween  this place and  the  lake  shore.

From  O ut o f T ow n.

Calls  have  been 

received  at  T he 
T radesm an office during the  past  week 
from  the  following  gentlemen  in  trade:

Foster Bros..  Fountain.
Geo.  J.  Stephenson,  Bangor.
G.  Hirschberg,  Bailey.
Mecosta Lumber Co.,  Mecosta.
S.  H.  Link,  Piainweli.
F.  C.  Sampson,  Boon.
E.  E.  Day,  Amble.
D.  Cleland,  Coopersville.
J.  O.  Packard,  Vogel Center.
C.  K.  Hoyt & Co.,  Hudsonville.
J.  A.  Liebler,  Caledonia.
L.  Cook,  Bauer.
J.  A.  F.  Dwiggans,  Sullivan.
J.  K.  Coffey,  White Cloud.

W h a t’s   in  a   N am e ?

is 

Allegan  Gazette:  VanZwaluwenberg 
&  Michmerschuizen 
the brief way in 
which  a  Holland  City  firm  designate 
themselves.  They  think  of  asking  At­
torney General  Ellis  for  an  opinion  as  to 
the constitutionality of an  extension.
Shelby Herald:  VanZwaluwenberg & 
Michmerschuizen 
the  style of a new 
firm  which  has engaged  in  business  at 
Holland. 
If the concern  is  prosperous 
while carrying the  weight of  that name, 
it  will  be another indication  of  an  im­
provement in the  times.

is 

T he  G rocery  M arket.

Sugar—The market is steady  at the  re­
cent decline.  Purchases  are  made  very 
conservatively,  as the  recent  tumble  in 
the  disposition 
price has demonstrated 
of the T rust to play  with 
trade,  no 
m atter  what  might  be  the  condition  of 
stocks  in dealers’ hands.

the 

T he  D ru g  M ark et.

Opium is  weak and declining.
Morphia is as yet unchanged.
Quinine is firm and an advance is prob­

able.

Balsam  copaiba is  in  a very firm posi­

tion  and  higher prices  are looked  for.

Nitrate silver is  lower.
Turpentine has  advanced.
Gum  assofcetida  is very  firm  for  first 

grades prime Calantha.

lady 

“ Ten 

There are  advertisements  and  adver­
tisements.  The man  who  wrote  an  ad­
typewriters 
vertisement, 
wanted.  State  wages.  Address,  etc.,” 
wondered  why  he  never got a response. 
His  astonishment ceased  when  he found 
the  intelligent  printer had  left the  “ w” 
off the  word  “ wages.”  The  restoration 
of  the  missing letter  put things in quite 
a  different 
and  he  was  fairly 
deluged  with  applications  next  day. 
The absence of responses  does not  prove 
advertising a failure.

light 

FOR  SA LE,  W A N TED .  ETC.

Advertisements  will  be  inserted  under  this 
head for two cents a word the first insertion and 
one  cent a word  for each subsequent  insertion. 
No advertisements  taken for  less  than 25 cents. 
Advance Dayment.

BUSINESS  CHANCES.

8ii

8io

T  WANT TO  PURCHASE  LARGE  GENERAL 
A 
stock,  if  cheap.  Address  lock  box  423, 
Stanton. Mich. 

F or  sa l e- a  clea n  stock  o f  d r u g s,

groceries  paints, oils,  sundries, soda appa 
ratus,  etc., in  a  live,  growing  manufacturing 
town  of 2,000;  will  invoice  about  $4,000;  only 
two  other  drug  stores;  good  business;  can  be 
Increased;  best location;  three  years’ lease;  no 
trade.  Reasons  for  selling wish  to  engage  In 
outdoor pursuits.  Address  Lock  Box 5, North- 
vlile, Mich. 
F OR RENT—BARE  OPPORTUNITY  FOR  A 

live man  for  a  general  stock  in  business 
town  of  Constantine,  Mich.  Population  1,500. 
Possession  given January 1,  1894.  Brick build­
ing  located  in  the  best  business  center, and a 
fine plate glass front, 22 feet frontage and 80 feet 
deep.  Basement suitable for show room.  Wired 
for  electric  light  and  water  works  attached. 
Will rent for 825 to 830  a  month,  with privilege 
for a term of years.  Address P. O. Box 171, Con­
stantine. Mich. 
3i2
F OR  SALE—FIRST-CLASS  BOOK  ANDSTA 
tionery stock in  one  of  the  best towns  in 
Michigan of 3,530 inhabitants.  Good reasons for 
selling.  Addiess No. 802, care Michigan Trades­
802
man. 
F OR  »ALE—CITY  DRUG  STORE.  GOOD 
location on prominent business street.  In­
voice $1,800.  Good  business.  Investigation  so­
licited.  Address Castoria, care of carrier Wells. 
803
Grand Rapids, Mich. 
I lOR  SALE—*3,500  STOCK  OF  GENERAL 
merchandise and two-story building.  Rail 
road,  500 population.  Established  strictly cash 
business.  Center  of  town.  Best  farming  sec­
tion  of  Michigan.  Bargain.  W.  H.  Pardee, 
Freeport. Mich. 
ANTED—TO  EXCHANGE  A  VALUABLE 
farm of 160 acres  for merchandise or per­
sonal  property.  The  farm  is  located  near  a 
thriving town, 45 acres Improved, balance heav­
ily timbered.  Address  No.  805,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman.__________ 
Y17'ANTED—TO  EXCHANGE,  DESIRABLE 
v »  Kalamazoo real  estate  for  merchandise. 
Ca'vin Forbes, Kalamazoo, Mich. 
806
F OR  SALE—FIRST  CLASS  HARDWARE 
business, clean  stock,  in  one  of  the  best 
cities in  southwestern  Michigan.  Other  inter­
ests to look  after.  Address  808,  care  Michigan 
gfjg
Tradesman. 
I lOR  SALE—CLEAN  DRUG  STOCK, ENJOY- 
Ing  profitable  trade,  in  one  of  the  best 
towns in Western Michigan.  Established seven- 
teen years, stock  and  fixtures  inventory $3 500, 
but $3,000  cash  will  buy  it.  Good  reasons for 
selling.  Address No  809, care Michigan Trades
m an-_________________________  
809
pOMPARATIVELY  NEW  GROCERY  STOCK 
Yy  for sale cheap.  Located in  best  manufac- 
turiiig city in Central Michigan.  The purchaser 
will step right into a good paying business.  Ad- 
dress No  801, care Michigan Tradesman.  801
P-OOD  OPENING  FOR  A  DRY  GOODS 
YJ  Store for one wishing to change location or 
start new;  splendid  store, nicely fitted for rent. 
Address P. O. box 69, Mason,  Mich. 
M>R  SALE—THE  THEODORE  KEMINK 
drug stock  and fixtures  on  West  Leonard 
street.  Paying  investment.  Will  sell  at  half 
real value.  For  particulars,  enquire  of  Henry 
Idema, Kent County Savings  Bank, Grand Rap­
id»;_________ _______________________787
XETANTED—A  practical  druggist, with  some 
V V 
capital, to take charge of a first-class drug 
store.  Address  C.  L.  Brundage,  opera  house 
block, Muskegon, Mich. 
________SITUATIONS  WANTED.

756

799

sq4

305

J ANTED—POSITION  BY  A  REGISTERED 
Assistant Pharmacist of four years’ expe­
rience.  References unquestioned.  Address No 
800, care Michigan Tradesman 
800

T T AS BY  HARMAN’S  SCHOOL  OF 
,  AX  Window  Dressing  and  Store  Decorat­
in g ’, . A  monthly  publication.  SEND  FOR 
TRIAL  COPY.  1204 Woman’s Temple, Chisago.

LTfctE  JVUCHIGAJNr  a'HAJDEBMAJNT.

F a rew ell  to   Dr.  H azeltln e.

Dr.  Chas.  S.  Hazeltine,  President  of 
the Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co., started 
for Washington  last  Saturday  afternoon 
to receive his final instructions  from  the 
State Department  before  his  departure 
for Milan,  Italy.  He  had mauy  pleasant 
farewell  dinners and receptions  from  his 
many friends,  but was not  more  pleased 
than  with  the  farewell from the employes 
of all departments of  the Drug Co.,  out­
side  of  the  office,  who invaded  his pri­
vate  office  in  a  body,  when Mr.  M.  W. 
Hall  voiced the sentiments of all  in  the 
following well-chosen words:
never 

pleas­
to 
ure 
true 
friend,  and  your  employes  outside  the 
office,  from 
the  basement 
to  the  top 
that,  as  our  generous 
floor, 
realize 
employer,  you  are  our 
friend,  and, 
to the most of us,  have been a  friend  for

Doctor  —  It 
say 

is 
goodbye 

to 

a 

a 

Men  accustomed 

9
years.  So we do not come  to  say  good­
bye to you  with  smiles  on  our  faces  or 
joy in our hearts.  We are  glad  for  the 
honor that comes to you  in  the  call that 
takes you away,  yet  we still regret your 
Koing.
to  working  around 
steam-driven  machinery,  feel  safer—no 
m atter  how  competent  the  engineer  in 
charge,  and  you  have  a  good  one—in 
knowing  there is  a good  safety  valve on 
the  boiler  and  a  good  governor  on  the 
engine to take care of emergencies.
In our good-bye,  we desire  to  express 
the  earnest  wish  to  you,  and  through 
you  to your family, one and all,  that you 
may  have  a  safe  journey,  a  pleasant 
residence  abroad  and,  when 
time 
shall  come, an eager return to your Grand 
Rapids  home and  to  your  many  friends 
and large business,  without  a single dis­
appointment  or  regret  that  you  were 
away.  And each  in  our  place  will  put 
forth our  best  efforts  with  that  object 
in  view.  And  now  God  bless  you  and 
good-bye.

the 

W E   H A V E   FO U N D   IT. 

WHAT?

That which  we and  the  trade  have  been  looking for.

are being quoted lower than  ever—81.60 
@1-70 from stock  and  81.25@1.30  from 
the mill. 
In many  instances  this  brings 
in  price  than  the 
the  wire  nail 
same  size  of wire.  How much 
longer 
this decline  will  keep  up  is  hard  to tell. 
It does seem as  though  bottom must soon 
be  reached.

lower 

Barbed Wire—For the time of the year 
the demand  is  very good.  No change to 
note 
in  price—82.30  for  painted  and 
82.70 for galvanized—but  the tendency is 
to lower rather than  higher prices.

Ammunition—Demand 

is  very  large 
for  all  kinds  of 
loaded  shells,  paper 
shells,  cartridges,  wads,  caps,  primers, 
etc. 
In many cases  it  is  impossible  to 
get the goods from the factories,  as  they 
are driven  with  business.

than 

Rope—Sisal and  manilla  rope  are  a 
trifle lower 
last  noted—7%c  for 
sisal  and 12c for manilla being regular— 
but 
these  prices  can  be shaded  for de­
sirable orders.

Building Papers—All  kinds  of  build­
ing papers are being used now,  as every­
body is  getting  ready  for winter.  We 
quote:
Plain Board........................................................ $1 15
Tar Board...........................................................  1 40
Tar Felt..............................................................  1 75
W. C. Paper...............................................80c Roll
Window Glass—As  the  National  Win­
dow Glass Co.  has  made an open  market, 
prices  are  pretty  well  demoralized—80 
and  5 to 80  and  10 being  quoted 
in  this 
in  many  instances,  these 
market—but, 
prices  are  shaded.  These 
low  prices 
seem unnecessary,  as  but  few factories 
are  in  operation,  and  it  is  impossible for 
a jobber to get a carload order filled with 
desirable sizes.

MICHIGAN  KNIGHTS  OF  THE  GRIP.

‘4

O F F IC E R S :

President—N. B. Jones, Lansing.
Secretary—L. M. Mills, Grand  Rapids. 
Treasurer—Geo. A. Reynolds, Saginaw.

W e ek ly   R eport  o f  S ecreta ry   M ills.
Grand  Ra pid s,  N ov.  11—Certificates 
have been  issued  to  the  following new 
members since last report:

Ohio.

3337  John T.  Smith,  Kinde.
3338  Fred B.  Evans,  Columbus,  Ohio.
3339  Malcom Troop,  Detroit.
3340  L.  O.  Bagiey,  Saginaw.
3341  E.  T.  Horning,  Grand  Rapids.
3343  Chas.  R.  Baxter, Grand  Rapids.
3344  A.  M.  Henderson,  Osborn,  Ohio.
3345  H.  E.  Gardiner,  Battle Creek.
3346  S.  M.  Kent,  Grand Rapids.
3353  T.  W.  Decker,  Lapeer.
3354  C.  B.  Seymour,  Detroit.
3355  Edward  M.  Dennis, Saginaw.
3356  Geo.  T.  Perry,  Saginaw.
3357  Chas.  M.  Edelmann,  Saginaw.
3358  R.  W.  Cornwell,  Saginaw.
3359  Nathan C.  Hickey,  Pontiac.
3360  W.  W.  Pierce,  Detroit.
3361  John B. Yanderzee, Grand Rapids.
3362  Jas.  B.  Childs,  Jr.,  Perrysville, 
3363  G.  A.  Newhall,  Grand  Rapids.
3364  Fred  I.  Stimson,  Ann  Arbor.
3365  John  Noll,  Cheboygan.
3366  Max  Israel,  Chicago,  111.
3367  Allen R.  Chappell, Grand  Rapids.
3368  Geo. A.  Newberry,  Grand  Rapids.
3369  Wm.  D.  Davis,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 
Notice  of  assessment  No.  5  has  been
mailed  to  each  member  under  date  of 
Nov.  6, expiring  Dec.  6.  for  81,  also  a 
complete report  of  the  receipts and  ex­
penditures of  the  death  fund  from Jan. 
1  to Nov.  1,  as follows:
R E C E IPT S.
Jan.  1.  Balance on hand.................... 
$51  00
Jan  30.  From assessment 2, 1892........  1,049 00
May  31.  From assessment 1 and 2, 1893  2,137 00 
Nov.  1.  From assessment 3 and 4,1893  3,350 00
Total  receipts............................  15,58’ 00
Feb.
6.  Mrs. A. C.  Milne, Detroit......  
$250 03
Mar
6.  Mrs.  J.  A.  Sanborn,  Maple
Ridge  ................................  
500 00
April  17.  Mrs. E. Pike, Grand  Rapids.. 
50) 00 
500 CO 
April 18.  Mrs. Emma C. Smith, Lansiug 
April 18.  Mrs.  Helen Shepard,  Luding-
500 00
to n ....................................... 
May  24.  Mrs.  W.  H.  Burleson, Grand
Rapids................................  
500 00
July  5.  Mrs. E l ward  Menzer,  Grand
500 00
Rapids................................  
July  27.  Mrs. W. J. Russell, Detroit... 
500 00
July  31.  E. A.  Shekell,  Administrator
Detroit................................  
500 00
Sept.  2.  Emma E. Randall,  Detroit... 
500 00 
Sept.  29.  Julia G. Van Buren, Lansing. 
500 00
Total disbursements....................  $5,250 00
Total receipts........................................  $5,587 00
Total disbursements.............................   5,250 00
$337 00
1  desire  to  again call  the attention  of 
our members to the  undesirability of so­
liciting as  new  members such  as  are not 
regular  commercial 
travelers  and  who 
cannot  honestly  subscribe  to  the  state­
ments 
in  our  application  for member­
ship,  as our  work  with  railroads  will  be 
greatly hampered  by such as are not  “ so­
licitors or shippers  of  freight,”  as  they 
are not disposed  to  grant concessions to 
any others,  nor  can 
they  justly  be  ex­
pected  to do  so.

Balance on hand..........................  

R E C A PITU LA TIO N .

D ISB U R SEM EN TS.

It  is hoped  that the  officers of the dif­
ferent posts  will call  meetings and  make 
earnest efforts to  have  every post  in  the 
State well  represented  at  the convention 
in  Saginaw,  as 
the  exceptionally  low 
rates given us by the railroads warrant a 
large and successful  meeting.

L. M. Mills, Sec’y.

T he  H ard w are  M arket.

to 

Trade for November is fairly good, but 
not  equal 
that  of  a year ago.  All 
dealers,  both  wholesale and  retail,  seem 
to be buying from  hand  to  mouth  and 
only try to  keep 
their  stocks well  as­
sorted.  No great revival  is  looked  for 
this year,  as  it  is  too late for it to com­
mence.

Wire Nails—Still  continue  weak  and

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A  FANCY'  BUTCHER'S

L A K 1X

80-pound  Tubs...........................................................................
Tier

11

Will  H.  Pipp,  formerly engaged in the 
hardware  business  at  Kalkaska,  but now 
on  the road  in  this State  for the  Bellaire 
Stamping  Co.,  of  Harvey,  111.,  will  re­
move  his  family  from  Chicago  to  this 
place March  1,  after  which  Grand  Rap­
ids  will  be  his headquarters.

PRODUCE  MARKET.

Beans — Dry  stock 

Apples—Carefully  selected  Greenings,  Spys 
and Baldwins command $3  per bbl.  No. 2 stock 
is  held  at  $2@3.25 per bbl.
is  coming  In  freely. 
Handlers  pay $1.40 for country cleaned and $1.50 
for country picked.
Bu' ter—Oleo and  butterlne  are  usurping  the 
place of the genuine article, In  consequence  of 
which butter is week and the demand very much 
lessened.  Dealers  pa_r i1‘J@23c for choice dairy, 
holding at 24@25c.  Creamery Is slow sale  at  30 
@31c.

Cabbage—Home grown, $2@3 per 100.
Carrots—20c per bushel.
Cranberries—Cape Cods are weak at $2 per bu. 
crate and $6 per bbl.  Cape Cod  growers are dis­
couraged over  the  low  price  of  their  product, 
one grower on the Cape who  recently  received 
returns from his first shipment  of  200  bbls.  fig­
uring out a net price of 30c per bbl. after paying 
for picking and other expenses.

Celery—Home  grown  commands  15c  per  doz.
Eggs—The  market  is  about  the  same  as  a 
week ago.  Handlers  pay  18c, holding at 20c per 
doz.

Grapes—New York Concords command 22c per 
8-lb. basket.  Catawbas bring 25c, while Malagas 
in 55-lb. kegs bring $5.

Honey—White  clover  commands  16c  per  lb, 

dark buckwheat brings 13@14c.

Onions—Home  grown  are  weak  and  slow of 
sale, owing to the large amount of stock thrown 
on the market.  Handlers pay 40c, holding at 50c 
per bu.  Spanish  are  in  small  demand  at $1.40 
per crate.

Potatoes—The  market  is  still  weaker  and 
lower than  a  week  ago, dealers paying 42c here 
and  35@40c  at  the  principal  outside  buying 
points.  Buyers claim that  they  are  getting  all 
the stock  they  can  handle  at  these  prices,  as 
most  growers  are  not  in a  position to hold for 
higher prices, which may not be realized.

Squash—Hubbard, lV4c per lb.
Sweet Potatoes—Jerseys  command  $3.75  and 
Turnips—25c per bu.

Baltimores $2.50 per bbl.

6. e.

WESTERN  MICHIGAN  AGENTS  FOR

INE.

W H O L E S A L E

Dry  Goods,  Carpets and Cloaks

V e  Make a Specialty of  Blankets, Quilts and  Live 

G eese  Feathers.

V la ek in a w   S h irts  a n d   L u m b e r m e n ’s  S o c k s. 

OVERALLS  OF  OUR  OWN  MANUFACTURE.

Uii HemoMeier & Go., 

G rand  R ap id s.

IO
Drugs #  Medicines*

State Board  of Pharm acy.

O n e   T e a r —J a m e s  V e r n o r , D e tr o it.
T w o   Y e a r s —O t t m a r  E b e r b a e h , A n n   A r b o r  
T h r e e   T e a r s — G e o rg e  G u n d r o m , Io n ia .
F o u r   Y e a rs —C . A.  B u trb e e .  C h e b o y g a n .
F iv e  T e a r s —S. E . P a r k i l l ,  O w o sso .
P r e s id e n t—O t t m a r  E b e r b a e h , A n n   A rb o r.
S e c r e ta r y —S ta n le y  E .  P a r k ill, O w o sso .
T r e a s u r e r —G eo . G u n d r u m , I o n ia .

Michigan  State  Pharm aceutical  Ass’n. 
P r e s id e n t— A. B. S te v e n s . A n n  A rb o r. 
V ic e -P re s id e n t—A.  F . P a r k e r ,  D e tr o it.
T r e a s u r e r —W .  D u p o n t,  D e tr o it.
S e c r e ta r y —S. A . T h o m p s o n , D e tr o it.
Grand  Rapids  Pharm aceutical Society. 
P r e s id e n t, J o h n  D. M u ir;  S ec’y , F r a n k   H . E s c o tt.

three-gross 

It  has  been 

To  P re v e n t  C u ttin g   on  P a te n ts.
The  National  Wholesale  Druggists’ 
Association,  at its  recent  meeting  held 
in  Detroit,  adopted  a plan  by which it  is 
hoped 
to  put  an end  to cutting on pro­
prietary  remedies by department  stores, 
and  also make it 
impossible  for  retail 
druggists 
to  obtain  that  class of  reme­
dies from  any source  but  the regular job­
bing houses. 
the  custom 
for  a number of retailers to club together 
and  buy in  sufficient quantities  so  as  to 
secure the  highest  discount,  proprietors 
giving  10  per  cent,  on 
lots 
and 5 per cent,  on  one-gross  lots.  This, 
the  Association  claims,  is  an  injury  to 
and  a direct  interference with their legit­
imate business.  They  are determined  to 
put a stop to  it  at  all  hazards.  Then 
there is  the selling,  by  many  department 
stores,  of  certain  proprietary  remedies 
at a heavy  discount  from  the  regular re 
tail  price,  the goods  being  obtained,  in 
many  instances,  direct from  the  proprie- 
tors,  at  least so the jobbers  claim.  This 
affects  the  retailer  as  well  as  the  whole­
saler.  Under the plan proposed proprie 
tors are to sell only  to  legitimate whole­
sale dealers,  the  wholesalers themselves, 
through  a  committee  appointed  by  the 
Association,  deciding who is  a legitimate 
dealer.  A  list of jobbers is  to  be  pre­
pared  for  proprietors  and  no  dealer 
whose name  is not on  the list will he sold 
by the  proprietors.  No  retailer will  be 
sold  a quantity exceeding  325,  and  at  a 
discount  not  larger than 3 per cent. 
It 
that  many  retailers 
cannot  he  denied 
have,  in  the  past,  secured 
the  highest 
discount,  by clubbing together  and  buy­
ing in gross  and  three-gross  lots.  They 
cannot be blamed  for so  doing,  however, 
and  especially  does 
the  “ kick”  come 
with  poor grace  from  the jobbers.  They 
have  persistently  sold 
to  department 
stores in the face  of  continued protests 
from retailers,  to which  they  have  paid 
no attention.  Many of 
the  department 
stores are as  heavy buyers of proprietary 
remedies as are  the druggists themselves, 
and,  as 
they  usually  sell  at  a  large re­
duction  below  the  regular  price,  the re­
tailers are  heavy losers.  The  only  way 
the retailer  could  get  even  was  to buy 
direct  from 
the manufacturer and  thus 
secure 
the  extra  discount.  This  was 
touching the wholesaler in a tender spot 
and he soon  awoke to  the fact that if he 
would protect his own  interest  he  mu 
abate the department  store  nuisance for 
then  be  dealt 
the retailer,  who  might 
with  in  regard  to  his  direct 
trade  with 
the  manufacturer,  and  be compelled  to 
buy  from the jobber.  Perhaps  the  job­
ber 
is  not  more  selfish  in this matter 
than  the  retailer,  hut  anyway it 
looks 
worse.  He never makes an effort  to sell 
the  goods  consigned to him,  all  the ad­
vertising  being  don^  by the  manufac 
turer and the  “pushing” by  the  retailer. 
He  won’t  even 
the  goods on  con­
signment  until a demand has  been  ere

take 

_

to 

The following  letter  from 

THE  M I C T Ï T O ^ L l S r   TRADESMAN.
and  report 
the  result at the next meet­
ing- 
, 
the  Secre­
tary of the Jackson  Retail  Grocers’ Asso­
ciation  was read by  the  Secretary: 
J ackson,  Nov.  6—I  have  been  think­
ing for some time that it would be a good 
idea to send  a  “ roving” letter  around  to 
the different Retail  Grocers’ Associations 
and get an expression  of  opinion  as  to 
results that have been  obtained,  matters 
now under consideration, and action  that 
may  be,  or should  be.  attained,  for 
the 
good of  the  retail 
in  groceries. 
trade 
Your  organization  being 
the  oldest, 
strongest and  with  the most  experience, 
would suggest that you  write  the  first 
letter;  then send it to the  next  associa 
the  Secretary 
tion,  with  a request  that 
write and attach  his  letter,  and  forward 
from one Secretary to another; 
then,  af­
ter it has been the  rounds,  it  might  be 
returned  to T h e  T radesm an for  publi­
cation.  1  think there  is  not  friendship 
enough among the Associations.  As the 
object of our Association is financial ben­
efit,  it seems to me that  we  ought  to ex­
change ideas,  and  thereby help  one  an­
other.  Our experience is—and 1 believe it 
is the same with every other Association— 
that while 
there  are  very  many  things 
that might and should  be  accomplished, 
the diffidence and  lack  of  energy of  the 
members in  regard  to attending the meet­
ings  prevents 
the  accomplishment  of 
many things that would make  many dol­
lars  for 
the  grocers if  they  would  put 
their shoulders 
the wheel,  and  not 
stay away and growl  at the few  faithful 
ones because they have  not accomplished 
more. 

ated  for them.  But when,  by the  co-op­
eration of the m anufacturer and  retailer, 
the  goods  are “ in  active demand,”  then 
he is willing to handle  them,  and  kicks 
the  retailer is supplied by  the  manu­
if 
facturer and not by the jobber. 
It would 
be  better  for  the manufacturer to deal 
directly with the retailer,  giving him  the 
difference  between 
the  manufacturer’s 
and jobber’s  price,  as  the  retailer would 
then have a stronger  incentive  to  push 
the sale of the goods.  But,  as  it Is now, 
he consigns the goods 
the  wholesale 
houses,  giving 
them  a  good  profit  for 
acting  merely  as distributing  agencies, 
when  he might just as well give the extra 
profit  to  the  retailer,  who  must  in  the 
end  sell 
the  goods.  The  department 
stores have the best end of  the business, 
however,  as  with them it  is not so  much 
a matter of profit as it is  of  advertising. 
The man who sells a dollar bottle of  med­
icine for 75 cents,  and  keeps  it  up,  will 
gain  a  notoriety which  he  could,  per­
haps,  secure in  no other  way. 
It  is  the 
cheapest  and  most  effective  way of ad 
vertising his business, while  still making 
a profit on the  goods.  Ketailers  have  a 
perfect  right 
to  buy these goods direct 
from  the  manufacturer,  and 
to  secure 
the best terms possible,  and  if  this right 
is 
them  by  any  ar­
rangement between the  jobbers  and  pro­
prietors,  they should  be  secured  agaiusi 
the disastrous competition  of the depart 
ment stores and other  cutters.  This can 
only  be  accomplished  by 
jobber: 
themselves,  who have  been  in  the  habit 
of selling to any  one  who had the  money 
to  pay  for  the  goods,  regardless  of 
the 
consequences 
If 
the 
wholesalers  want the sole  right  to  sup­
ply the  retail 
these  good 
they  must sell  to retail  druggists,  and  to 
no  others.  They have  practically  com­
mitted  themselves to this in “ the Detroit 
It remains to be  seen  how  long 
plan.” 
they  will  keep 
letter  of  their 
agreement.  The outcome will  be awaited 
with  interest.
G rand R apids  R etail  G ro cers’  A ssocia­

in­
structed  to start the  ball  rolling  by  pre­
paring such  a  communication  as  Mr. 
Porter  suggested.
A  communication  was  received  from 
the  Newark,  New Jersey, Retail Grocers’ 
the 
Association,  requesting  a  copy  of 
peddling ordinance now  in vogue  in this 
city,  the validity of  which  has  been  sus 
tained  by the  Superior Court.  The Sec­
retary was instructed  to comply  with the 
request.
A  considerable discussion  followed on 
the desirability  and necessity of still fur­
ther curtailing credits,  but  no  definite 
action  was  taken  on  the subject.
Interesting reports were received  from 
the three localities in the city  where  the 
grocers  have reduced  the  closing  hour 
from 7 o’clock  to 6:30 o’clock,  and  a sug 
gest'on  was  made  that T he  T radesman 
print a list  of 
those  grocers  who  have 
lately adopted 
the  early  closing  move 
ment.
Chairman  Brink, of  the  Committee on 
Oil,  reported 
the  complaint made 
against Scofield,  Shurmer  &  Teagle was 
investigation,  to  be without 
found,  on 
foundation.
the Association 
which  will  be  held  on 
the evening of 
Nov.  20,  will  be  a social  session and  the 
entertainment features  will  be  arranged 
and supervised  by  a  committee  consist 
ing of  B.  S.  Harris, Daniel Yiergiver and 
J.  J.  Wagner.
There  being no  further  business,  the 
meeting adjourned.

W.  H.  P o rter,  Sec’y.
the  Secretary  was 

The next  meeting  of 

taken  away  from 

Yours respectfully,

the  retailer. 

Ou  motion, 

trade  with 

that 

tion.

the 

the 

to 

to 

to 

the 

limited  price 

At  the regular meeting  of  the  Grand 
Rapids  Retail  Grocers’ Association,  held 
at Protective  Brotherhood  Hall,  Monday 
evening, Nov. 6,President Smits presided.
The Committee on Trade  Interests re­
ported  the change in  the  schedule price 
of sugars,  which  provoked  considerable 
discussion,  some of  the grocers  thinking 
the 
too  low for a single 
pound.
Julius J.  Wagner stated  that  the  city 
millers were  not  pleased at  the manner 
in  which  some of  their  brands  were be­
ing  handled  by  local  merchants.  He 
that  an  arrangement  be en­
suggested 
tered  into with the millers establishing a 
uniform  price  on 
leading  brands 
made by  the Grand  Rapids mills,  provid­
ing the millers would  agree to cutoif any 
dealers who do not  maintain  the price.
A.  J.  Elliott heartily  favored  such  an 
arrangement, providing the millers would 
agree to maintain the price on  a  recipro­
cal  basis.
J.  F.  Ferris stated that he believed the 
millers desired  to see their  brands  sold 
close to cost,  for  the purpose  of  stimu­
lating the demand.
Mr.  Wagner said he did not agree with 
Mr.  Ferris,  his  experience  being 
that 
cutting the price kills the sale  of  an  ar­
ticle.  For  instance,  he  formerly  sold 
“Lily White”  at 50  cents  a  sack,  when 
some other dealers in  his vicinity put  the 
price down  to  45  cents.  As a result of 
that 
such  cutting,  very little  flour  of 
brand is now  sold  in  his  neighborhood, 
the 
the trade  having  worked  off  onto 
Crescent grades,  which  are not cut.
to 
the 
Committee on Trade  Interests,  with  in­
interview the  city  millers
structions to 

The m atter was then  referred 

SEND  US  YOUR

B E A N S ,
WillAlways Give Full MarketValne

WE  WANT  THEM  ALL,
NO  MATTER  HOW  MANY.

Buildings,  Portraits,  Cards,  Letter 

and  Note  Headings,  Patented 

Articles, Maps and Plans.
TRADESMAN  COITPANY,

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.
P E C K ’S HEADACHE

P O W D E R S
Pay the best profit.  Order from your jobber.

KÄLÄMÄZOO PÄNT

OVERALL GO.

221  K. Main  St., Kalamazoo, Mich.

Our entire  line  of  Cotton  Worsted  Pants on 
hand to be sold at  cost  for  cash.  If  interested 
write for samples.
Milwaukee Office:  Room  502  Matthew  Build 
ing. 
Our fall line of Pants from $9 to $42 per  dozen 
are  now  ready.  An immense  line  of  Kersey 
Pants, every pair warranted not  to  rip.  Bound 
swatches of  entire line sent  on  approval to the 
trade.

__

, 1 t£ £

Catarrh, 
Hay Fever, 
Headache,
Nenraliia,  Colds.  Sore  Throat.

The first  inhalations  stop  sneezing,  snuffing 
coughing  and  headache.  This  relief  is  worth 
the  price  of  an  Inhaler.  Continued  use  will 
complete the cure.

Prevents and cures

Sea  Sickness.
The  cool  exhilerating  sensation 

follow­
ing its use is a luxury to  travelers.  Convenient 
to carry in the pocket;  no liquid to drop or spill; 
lasts a year, and costs  50c  at  druggists.  Regis­
tered mail 60c, from

On cars or boat.

H.  » .  CP'H JIA N ,  M anufacturer.

Three  Rivera,  Mich.

( ^ ’Guaranteed  satisfactory.

M oney  In  Coffee  G row ing.

A  Mexican  paper,  telling  about  the 
wonderful profits to  be made in  the  cut 
ture of coffee in Mexico, says that Raphael 
Ortega,  who,  ten years ago,  was  doing  a 
small carrying business  with  some eight 
or ten  mules as his stock  in  trade,  con 
eluded to invest the profits  of  his  busi 
Just  now  he  is 
ness in coffee planting. 
gathering  a  crop  which  will  not  fall 
short  of  5,000  quintals,  which 
the 
nearest  market  brings  335  the quintal 
His  receipts  this  year  will  amount  to 
3175,000,  and  in  four years more his crop 
will  be  double  as  much,  barring acci 
dents.  This statement  comes  through  a 
Mr.  Carlos Gris,  a German  who is  inter­
ested 
in  building  np  a  coffee-raising 
colony in the department of the Palenque, 
and  probably  needs  to  be taken  with  a 
grain  or  two  of  salt,  but making  most 
liberal 
for  exaggeration, 
there  seems  to  be  a  good  profit in  the 
business.

allowances 

in 

Use Tradesman or Superior Coupons.

THE  MICHIOAlSr  TRADESMAN,

1 1

Wholesale Price  Current,

Advanced—Balsam Copaiba.  Turpentine. 

Declined—Nitrate Silver.

ACIDUM.

8®  10
Aceticum................... 
Benzolcum  German..  65®  75
....................  
30
Boradc 
Carbollcum.............. 
35®  35
Cltrlcam...................  53®  55
Hydroehlor................  3®  5
Nltroeum 
.................   10®  12
Oxalicum...................  10®  12
Phosphorlum dll........ 
20
Sallcylicum................ 1 30® 1 70
Sulphurlcum.............. 
Tannlcum....................1 
Tartarlcum................  30®  33

IX®

40@1 60

AMMONIA.

a 

Aqua, 16  deg..............  3)4 @
20  deg..............  5H@
Carbonae  ...................  13®  14
Chlorldum.................   13®  14

ANILINE.

Black........................... 2 
Brown.........................  80®1  00
Red.............................   45®  50
Yellow.........................2 

00@2 25

50@3 00

i*

Cubebae......................  @300
Exechthltos..............  2 50@2 75
Erlgeron................... 2 00@2  10
Gaultherla................2 oo@2  10
Geranium,  ounce......  @
Gosslpll,  Sem. gal......  70® 
...
Hedeoma  .................. 1  25@l  40
Jumperl......................  50®2 00
Lavendula.................  90@2 00
Llmonls....................2 40®2 60
Mentha Piper............ 2 75@3 50
Mentha  Verid...........2 20@2 30
Morrhuae, gal...........l  oo@l  10
Myrda, ounce............   @  50
Olive..........................  85@2 75
Plcls Liquida, (gal. 35)  10®  12
Ricini.......................  1  22@1  28
Rosmarini............  
75@1  00
Rosae, ounce............. 6 50@8 50
Succlnl.......................   40®  45
Sabina.......................  90@1  00
Santal  .......................3 50@7 00
Sassafras.  .................  50®  55
Sinapls, ess, ounce__  @  65
TIglli..........................  @  90
Thyme.......................  40®  50
™ 
.  opt  ...............   @ 60
Theobromas...............   15®  20
POTASSIUM.
BiCarb....................... 
is®  is
is®  14
bichromate...............  
Bromide.................... 
40®  43
Carb............................ 
la®  15
Chlorate  (po  23@25)..  24®  26
Cyanide......................  50®  551
Iodide........................ 2  90®3 00
27®  30
Potassa, Bitart, pure.. 
Potassa, Bitart, com...  @ 15
Potass  NI tras, opt...... 
8®  10
Potass Nltras..............  7®  9
Prusslate....................  28®  30
Sulphate  po................  15®  18

B A D IX .

 

(po. 35).........  

Aconitum...................  20®  25
Althae.........................  22®  25
Anchusa....................  12®  15
Arum,  po....................  @  25
Calamus......................  20®  40
Gentiana  (po. 12)......   8®  10
Glychrrhlza, (pv. 15)..  16®  18
Hydrastis  Canaden,
  @  30
Hellebore,  Ala,  po  ...  15®  20
Inula,  po....................  15®  20
Ipecac,  po...................1  60@i  75
Iris ploz (po. 35@38)..  35®  40
Jalapa,  pr..................   40®  45
Maranta.  Ms..............  @  35
Podophyllum, po........  15®  18
Rhel............................  75@1  00
'■  Cut......................  @1  75
PV.......................   75@1  35
Splgella......................  35®  38
Sanguinarla, (po  25)..  @ 20
Serpentaria.................  30®  32
Senega.......................  55®  60
Slmllax, Officinalis,  H  @ 40
M  @ 25
Scillae, (po. 85)...........  10®  12
Symplocarpus,  Fosti-
düs,  po....................  @  35
Valeriana, Eng.  (po.30)  @  25
German...  15®  20
inglber a ................. 
18®  2u
18®  20
Zingiber  J...............  

“ 

“ 

Anlsum,  (po.  20)..
@  15 
Aplum  (graveleons)
15®  18 
Bird, I s ..................
4®  6
Carni, (po. 18)..............  1ÓS 1:
Cardamon..................1  00®1  %
Corlandrum.................   10® 12
Cannabis Satlva.........   4® 
5
Cydonlum....................   75®1 00
Cnenopodlum 
...........  10® 12
Dlpterlz Odorate......  2 25®2 50
Foenlculum...............  @  15
Foenugreek,  po.........   6®  8
L ini..........................   4  @ 4X
Lini, grd,  (bbl. 3) 
..  3M@  4
Lobelia..................... 
 
Fharlarls Canarian__  3  @ 4
Rapa............................. 
Sinapls  Albu............7  @8

  35® 40
6®  7
Nigra...........  11®  12

f 

“ 

8PIK ITU 8.
2 00®2 50 
Frumenti, W., D.  Co. 
1  7502 00 
D. F. R  ...
1  25@1  50 
1  65@2 00 
Junlperls  Co. Ó. T ...
1  75@3 50
Saacharum  N.  S .........1  75®2 00
Spt.  Vini  Galli............1  75@6 50
Vini Oporto.................1  25@2 00
ini  Alba.................. 1  25@2 00

Florida  sheeps’  wool
carriage.................. 2 50@2 75
Nassau  sheeps’  wool
carriage  ................. 
2 00
Velvet  extra  sheeps’
wool  carriage.........  
1  10
Extra  yellow  sheeps’
carriage................... 
85
Grass sheeps’ wool car­
riage  ....................... 
65
75
Hard for  slate  use__ 
Yellow Reef, for  slate 
u se.......................... 
1  40

BACCAB.

Cnbeae (po  36)........  25®  30
Junlnerus..................   8®  10
Xantnoxylum.............  25®  30

BAL8AMUM.

Copaiba......................  45®  50
Peru............................  @1  90
Terabln, C anada__  
60®  65
Tolutan......................  35®

Abies,  Canadian.................  18
Casslae  ...............................  11
Cinchona F lav a.................   18
Euonymus  atropurp...........  30
Myrlca  Cerlfera, po.............  20
Prunus Vlrglnl....................  12
Qulllala,  grd.......................   10
Sassafras  ............................  12
Ulmus Po (Ground  15)........  15

EXTRACTUM.

Glycyrrhlza  Glabra...  24®  25
“ 
po...........  33®  35
Haematoz, 15 lb. box..  11®  1?
“ 
Is...............   13®  14
“  Hs..............  14®  15
“  Ms..............  16®  17

Carbonate Preclp........
Citrate and Quinta—
Citrate  Soluble...........
Ferrocyanldum Sol —
Solut  Chloride...........
Sulphate,  com’l .........
pure............

®  15 
@3 50 
®  SO 
®  50 
®  15 
.9®  2
®  7

Arnica.................  18® 
Anthemls............  30® 
Matricaria 

20
35
.......  50®  65

roj.iA.

Barosma 
Cassia  Acutifol,  Tin
«  Alz. 

nlvelly.............   25® 

...................  18®  50
28
35®  50
25
8®   10

Salvia  officinalis,  Ms
Vra Ursl

and  Ms..............  15® 

“ 

OUMMl.

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 
" 
11 

Acacia, 1st  picked—   ®  60
2d 
....  @ 40
3d 
....  @  30
sifted sorts...  @  20
po.................  60®  80
50®  60 
Aloe,  Barb, (po. 60)...
@  12 
“  Cape, (po.  20)...
@  60
Socotrl. (po.  60).
Catechu, Is, (Hs, 14 X*,
@  1
16)...........................
MUHU111BO  .................
33® 36
Assafetida,  (po. 35)..
Bensolnum................. .  50® 55
Cam phors................... .  50® 55
.  35® 10@2 50
Euphorbium  po  .......
Galbanum..................
Gamboge,  po.............. .  70® 7b
@ 3li
Gualacum,  (po  35)...
Kino,  (po  1  10).........
@1 15
M astic........................
@ 80
40
Myrrh, (po. 45)..........
@
75
.2 70@2
Opll  (po  3  75)..........
45® 42
Shellac  ......................
bleached.......
33® 35
40® 1  00
T ragacanth........ —

“ 
Herba—In ounce packages.

A bsinthium ...............
Eupatorlum ...............
Lobelia........................
Major u m ....................
Mentha  Piperita......
“  V ir...............
Rue..............................
Tanaoetnm, V ............
Thymus,  V .................
MAGNESIA.
Calcined, P at.............
Carbonate,  P at..........
Carbonate, K. A  M...
Carbonate, Jennings.

25
20
26
28
23
25
30
22
25

55® 60
20® 2»
20® 25
35® 36

50®4 00

70@1 8»
25@3 50

Absinthium................ 3 
Amygdalae, Dulc  ..  ..  45®  75
Amyaalae, Amarae___8 00@8 25
Anlsl...... .................... 1 
Aurantl  Cortez...........2 30@2 40
Bergamll  ...................3 
Cajlputl................... 
60®  65
Caryophylli...............   75®  80
Cedar.........................  35®  65
Chenopodii...............  @1  60
Clnnamonll................. l 
Cltronella...................  @  45
Conlum  Mac..............  35®  65
Copaiba  ....................  80©  90

io@i 15

ST B U PS.

Accacla...............................  50
Zingiber  .............................  50
Ipecac..................................  60
Ferrl  Iod.............................   60
Aurantl  Cortes....................  50
Rhel  Arom...................  
50
Slmllax  Officinalis..............  60
Co........  50
Senega................................   50
SdUae..................................   50
“  Co.............................   50
Tolutan...............................  50
Prunas  vlrg.........................  60

“ 

“ 

 

“ 

“ 

8.  N. Y. Q.  &

Morphia, S.  P. & W.  2 20@2 45 
C.  Co....................  2 1002 35
Moschus Canton........  @ 40
Myrlstlca, No  1 ........  65®  70
Nux Vomica, (po 20)..  @ 10
Os.  Sepia....................  20®  22
Pepsin Saac, H. & P. D.
Co...  ......................  @2 00
Plcls Llq, N.-C., M gal
doz  .........................  @2 00
Plcls Llq., q uarts......  @1 00
pints.........   @  85
Pll Hydrarg,  (po. 80)..  @ 50
Piper  Nigra,  (po. 22)..  @ 1
Piper Alba, (po g5)__  @  3
Pix  Burgun...............   @  7
Plumbi A cet..............  14®  15
Pulvis Ipecac et opli. .1  10@1  20 
Pyre thrum,  boxes  H
& P. D.  Co., doz......  @1  25
Pyrethrum,  pv...........  20®  30
Quassiae.................... 
8®  10
Qulnla, S. P. & W......  29®  34
S.  German__  21®  30
Rubla  Tlnctorum......   12®  14
Saccharum Lactls pv. 
20®  22
Salacin.......................1  75@1  80
Sanguis  Draconls......  40®  50
Sapo,  W......................  12®  14
*’  M.......................  10®  12
“  G.......................  @  15

“ 

Seldllts  Mixture........  @  20
Sinapls.......................   @  18
opt..................   @  30
Snuff,  Maccaboy,  De
Voes.......................  @  35
Snuff, Scotch, De. Voes  @  35
Soda Boras, (po. 11).  .  10®  11 
Soda  et Potass Tart...  27®  30
Soda Carb.................  1M@  2
Soda,  Bl-Carb............   @  5
Soda,  Ash..................   3M@  4
Soda, Sulphas............   @  2
Spts. Ether C o...........  50®  55
“  Myrcla  Dom......  @2  25
“  Myrda Imp........  @3 00
*'  Vini  Rect.  bbl.
...7........................2 25@2 35
Less 5c gal., cash ten days.
Strychnia Crystal..... 1  4(>@1  45
Sulphur, Subl............ 2Q® 3
“  Roll..............  2  @ 2M
Tamarinds................. 
8®  10
Terebenth Venice......  28®  30
Theobromae..............45  @  48
Vanilla..................... 9 00016 00
Zlncl  Sulph...............  
7®  8

OILS.

Whale, winter...........  70 
Lard,  extra...............   75 
Lard, No.  1...............   42 
LlnBeed, pure raw  ...  39 

Bbl.  Gal
70
SO
45
42

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paints. 

Linseed,  boiled.........  42 
Neat’s  Foot,  winter
strained...............  
75 
Spirits Turpentine__  37 

45
80
40
bbl.  lb.
Red  Venetian..............ix   2@8
Ochre, yellow  Mars__ IX  2@4
Ber........1%  2©3
“ 
Putty,  commercial__2X  2M®3
“  sUietly  pure......2M  2X@8
VermHlon Prime Amer­
ican ..........................  
13®16
Vermilion,  English.... 
65@70
70@75
Green,  Peninsular...... 
Lead,  red....................  ex@7
“  w hite............... 6X@7
Whiting, white Span...  @70
Whiting,  Gliders’? .__   @90
White, Paris  American 
1  0 
Whiting.  Paris  Eng.
cliff......................  .. 
140
Pioneer Prepared Paintl  20@1  4 
Swiss  Villa  Prepared
Paints......................1 00@1  20

VARNISHBS.

No. 1 Turp  Coach.... 1  10@1  20
Extra Turp................. 160@1  70
Coach  Body............... 2 75@3 00
No. 1 Turp Furn........1  00@1  10
Eutra Turk Damar__1  55@l  60
Japan  Dryer,  No.  1 
70@7

Tumrp.

Importers  mid  Jobbers  of

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  co............................... 60

Aconltum  Napellls R......  
60
F .........   50
..  “ 
Aloes...................................   go
“ 
60
and myrrh...............  
A rnica................................   50
Asafcetlda......................... 
0
Atrope Belladonna..............  60
Benzoin...............................  60
“  Co..........................   50
Sangulnarla.........................  50
Barosma.............................   50
Cantharides....................... 
75
Capsicum............................  50
Ca damon............................  75
_ 
Co.........................  75
Castor..................................1 00
Catechu...............................  50
Cinchona......................  ’ 
50
_
Conlum...............  
50
Cubeba...................................... ’ 50
Digitalis.............................   50
Ergot...................................   50
Gentian..........................  
50
co ...........................  60
ammon....................  60
Zingiber.............................   50
Hyoscyamus.......................  50
Iodine................................ 75
Colorless...................  75
Ferrl  Chlorldum.................  35
K ino...................................   50
Lobelia............................ 
50
Myrrh................................[  50
Nux  Vomica..................  
50
OpII.......................................  85
“  Camphorated...............   50
“  Deodor.........................2 00
Aurantl Cortex....................  50
Quassia...............................  50
Rhatany.............................   50
Rhel.....................................  50
Cassia  Acutifol...................  50
Co..............  50
Serpen tarl a .........................  50
Stromonlum.........................  60
Tolutan...............................  60
ValerlaD.............................   50
Veratrum Verlde.................  50

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3®
4®

ASther, Spts  Nit, 3 F..  28®  30 
“ 
“  4 F ..  32®  34
Alumen....................... 2X@ 3
ground,  (po.
. D .............................  
Annatto......................  55®  (
Antlmonl, po.............. 
et Potass T.  55®  60
Antipyrln..................   @1 40
Antlrebrln..................  @  25
Argentl  Nltras, ounce  @  52
Arsenicum................. 
s®  7
Balm Gilead  Bud  ...  38®  40
Bismuth  S.  N ............ 2 20@2 25
Calcium Chlor, Is, (Ms
12;  Ms,  14)..............  @  11
Cantharides  Russian,
PO............................  @1  00
Capsid  Fructus,af...  ®  26
So....  @  28
po.  @  20 
Caryophyllus, (po.  15)  10®  12
Carmine,  No. 40.........   @3 75
Cera  Alba, S. & F ......   50®  55
Cera Flava.................  88®  40
Coccus  ......................  @  40
Cassia Fructus...........  @  25
Centrarla....................  @  io
Cetaceum...................  @  40
Chloroform................  60®  63
sqnlbbs ..  ®1  25
Chloral Hyd Crst........1  85®1  60
Chondrus...................  20®  25
Clnchonldlne, P.  A  W  15®  20 
German 8  ®  12 
Corks,  list,  dls.  per
cent  ......................
60
Creasotum..............
35
4
Creta, (bbl. 75)........
@ 2
5® 5
“  prep..................
“  preclp..............
9® 11@ 8
“  Rubra...............
Crocus......................
40® 50
Cudbear......................
® 24
Cnprl S ulph..............
5 @ 6
Dextrine....................
10® 12
Ether Sulph...............
70® 75
Emery,  all  numbers..
O
_   “ 
po...................
@ 6
70S 75
12® 15
@ 23
Gambler.....................   7  @8
Gelatin,  Cooper.........   ®  70
“  French...........  40®  60
Glassware  flint, by box 70 & 10.
Less than box  66X
Glue,  Brown..............  9®  15
“  White...............   13®  25
Gly cerina.................. 14 M®
@  22
Grana Paradisi.
Humulus....................   25®  55
Hydraag Chlor  Mite.
@  85 
“  Cor 
®  80 
Ox Rubrum
@  90 
Ammonisti.. 
@1  00 
45®  56 
Unguentum.
Hydrargyrum.. 
@  64
Icnthyobolla, A
.1  25®1 50
Indigo........................   75@1 00
lodlne,  Resubl...........3 80®3 90
Iodoform....................  @4 70
Lupulin......................  @2 25
Lycopodlum..............  70®  ■’’5
Macis.........................  70®  75
Liquor  Arsen  et  Hy-
.........   @  27
Liquor Potass Arslnltls  10®  12 
Magnesia,  Sulph  (bbl
Mannla,  8. F  ...........  6O0U6S

IX );.........................2M®04

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CHEMICALS  AND

PATENT MEDICINES
Paints, Oils % Varnishes.

DEALERS  IN

Sole Ageats for the  Celebrate»

SWISS  VILLA  PREPARED  PAINTS.
Lúe of Staple Drnts' Sid»

We are Sole Proprietors of

Weatherly's  Michigan  Catarrh  Remedy.

We Have m  Stock and Oiler a F ull Line of

WHISKIES,  BRA.NDIE S,

GINS,  WINES,  RUMSt

We sell Liquors for medicinal purposes only.
We give our personal attention to mail orders and guarantee satisfaction.
All orders shipped and invoiced the same day we receive them.  Send a trial order

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

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THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

G RO CERY   PR IC E   CU RREN T.

The prices quoted in  this list  are  for the  trade only,  in  such quantities as are usually purchased by  retail  dealers.  They are prepared just before 
going to press  and  are an  accurate  index of  the  local  market. 
It is  impossible to give  quotations  suitable  for  all conditions of  purchase,  and those 
below  are given  as  representing  average  prices  for average  conditions of  purchase.  Cash  buyers or those of  strong credit  usually  buy closer than 
those who  have poor  credit.  Subscribers  are  earnestly requested  to  point  out  any  errors or omissions, as it is our  aim to make  this feature of  the 
greatest possible  use to dealers.

Manilla, white.

XX  wood, white.

GUNPOWDER. 
Rifle—Dupont’s.

No. 1,6.............................  165
1  50
No. 2, 6......
Kegs................................... 3 25
No. 1, 634..........................  T So Half  kegs  ......................... 1 90
.................  1 25 Quarter  kegs.................... 1 10
No. 2,634 
30
1  lb cans............................
18
34 lb  cans.  .......................
>34  ...................................  1 00
Choke Bore—Dupont’s.
95
Kegs................................... 4 4(5
.  1 00 Half  kegs.......................... 2 10
1 35
Quarter kegs......................
1 l b  cans............................
34
Eagle Duck—Dupont’s.
............................. 11  00
Kegs 
Half  kegs  .........................  5 75
Quarter kegs............................ 3 00
60

Coin.
Mill  No. 4........... 
Farina.
Hominy.
 

lb  cans.

HERBS.

AXLE GREASE.
doz 
........  55
Castor Oil...... ......  60
Diamond....... ........  50
75
Frazer's.........
Mica  ............. ........  65
..  .. .......   55
Paragon 

gross 
6 00
7 CO
5 50
8 OO
7 50
6 00

BAKING  POWDER. 

Acme.
34 lb. cans, 3  doz..............
$4 lb.  “ 
3  “  ...............
1  “  ...................
lib .  “ 
Bulk...................................
Arctic.
)4 lb cans 6 doz  case........
34 lb  “  4 doz  “ 
.........
2 doz  “ 
1  lb  “ 
........
5  lb  “  1 doz  “ 
.........
Fosfon.
5 oz. cans, 4 doz. in case... 
“ 
16 “ 
... 
Red Star, 34 fl> cans.......
...........
“ 
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“ 
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85 
1  60
10
55 
1  10 
2  00 
9 00
80
“  2  “ 
.2 00 
40 
75 
34 a  “ 
1  40 
i #>  “ 
45
Teller’s,  34 lb. 
86 
Hlb.  “ 
1  50
lib.
Our Leader, 34 lb cans...... 
45
34 lb   cans......... 
75
1 lb cans  —   .  1  50
per doz
-4 Dime cans..  95
..1  40 
.  2 00 
..2 60 
..3 90 
..5 00 
12 00 
18 25 
22 75 
lb 
41  80

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CREAK
b a k in g
Bowden
.saumimePp.

4- OZ 
6-OZi-oz 
12 oz 
10-oz 
234-lb
41b
5- 
10-lb

cans, doz.

BATH  BRICK.
2 dozen in case.
English...............................  90
Bristol.............................
Domestic.............................   70
Gross

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Arctic, 4 oz  ovals.................... 3 69

** 
“  pints,  round  ...........   9 00
“  No. 2, sifting box  ..  2 75
“  No. 3, 
. . . 4 00
“  No. 5, 
... 8 00
“  1 oz ball  ..  .............. 4  50
Mexican Liquid, 4 oz........  3 60
8 oz.........   6 80
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80
.................  100

No. 2 Hurl...............................  1 75
No. 1  “ 
No. 2 Carpet...............   .  ..  2 25
No. 1 
“ 
Parlor Gem...............................2 75
Common Whisk................. 
Fancy 
Warehouse...............................3 00
BRUSHES.
Stove, No.  1.......................  1 25
10.....................  1 50
15.....................  1 75
Rice Root Scrub,  2 row—   85
Rice Root  Scrub.  3 row ..  1  25
Palmetto, goose......................  1 50

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BUTTER  PLATES 

Oval—250 in crate.
No.  1...................................   60
No.  2 
................................   TO
No.  3 ..................................  80
No.  5...................................1 00
Hotel, 40 lb. boxes............   10
Star,  40 
..............  9
Paraffine  .........: ...............10
Wicklng 
..........................  24

CANDLES.

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CANNED  GOODS.

Fish.
Clams.

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Little Neck,  lib .......................1 20

“  2  1b..........  
Clam Chowder.
Cove Oysters.

.190
Standard, 3  lb....................2 25
Standard,  1 lb....................   85
21b....................  1 60
Lobsters.

Star,  1  l b ..............................2 45
2  lb  ......................... 3 50
Picnic, 1 lb.......................... 2  00
21b...............................2 90
Mackerel.
Standard, 1 lb...........................1 25
2  lb.........................2 10
Mustard.  2 lb  ................... 2 25
Tomato Sauce,  2 lb............2  25
Soused, 2 lb........................2  25
Salmon.
Columbia River, Sat...........1  80
“  tails........... 1  65
Alaska, Red........................1  25
pink........................1  10
Kinney’s,  Bats................... 1  95
American  34s.................   @  5
Imported  34B....................   @10
34s..................... 150*16
Mustard  Ms  ..................  @7
Boneless__  ..  ...'.........  
21
Brook, 3 lb.........................2 50

Sardines.
As................634®

Trout.

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1  75

1  00 
2 90

Gages.

Frnlts.
Apples.
3 lb. standard...........
York State, gallons  .
Hamburgh
Apricots.
1  75 
Live oak....................
1  75 
Santa Crus...............
1 75 
Lusk’s.......................
1  75
Overland..................
Blackberries
90
B. A  W.....................
Cherries.
Red............................
1  10@1  20 
1  75 
Pitted Hamburgh 
..
W hite.................. .
1  50‘ 
Brie..........................
1  25
Damsons, Bgg Plums and Green 
E rie............................ 
1  10
California..................  
1  60
Gooseberries.
1  25 
Common...................
Peaches.
1 CO
P ie............................
Maxwell....................
Shepard’s ..................
California..................
Monitor 
...............
Oxford....  ......... .......
Domestic.................... 
1  20
Riverside.................... 
2 10
Pineapples.
Common.....................1  00@1 30
2 50
Johnson’s  sliced 
grated
Booth’s sliced............  @2 5)
grated...........  @2 M
1  10
1  30
1 50

Quinces.
Common.................... 
Raspberries.
Red............................. 
Black  Hamburg......... 
Erie,  black 
Strawberries.
Lawrence..................  
Hamburgh  ...............  
Erie.........................  . 
Terrapin....................... 
Whortleberries,
Blueberries....................  
6 75
Corned  beef  Libby’s..........1  9!
Roast beef  Armour’s..........1  80
Potted  ham, 34 lh............... 1  40
tongue, 34 lb..............135
34 lb............  85
chicken. 34 lb.........  
95

“  34 lb
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Vegetables.

1  25
1  2!
1  20
1  10

Meats.

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Beans.

Sap Sago....................
Schweitzer, imported, 

domestic 

@21
@24
@14

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Blue Label Brand,
.
......
Triumph Brand.

CATSUP.
2 75 
Half  pint, 25 bottles 
4 50
Pint 
3 50
Quart 1 doz bottles
Half pint, per  doz  ............1  35
Pint, 25 bottles  ..................4 50
Quart, per  doz  .................3 75
gross boxes 
.............. 40@45
351b  bags.....................   @3
Less quantity 
ounn  packages 
6*@7

CLOTHES  PINS.
COCOA  SHELLS.

......   @3*4

COFFEE.
Green.
RiO.

Santos.

Fair......................................17
Good  .....................  
18
Prime.................................. 20
Golden.................................20
Peaberry  ............................22
Fair................................... .18
Good.................................... 20
Prime.................................. 21
Peaberry  .............................22
Mexican and Guaiamala.
Fair......................................21
Good.................................... 22
Fancy...................................24
Maracaibo.
Prime...................................23
M illed.......................  
  24
Interior................................25
Private Growth...................27
Mandehling........................28
Imitation.............................25
Arabian............................... 28

Mocha.

Java.

Roasted.

24  95 
24  45 
21  95

Package.

To  ascertain  cost  of  roasted 
coffee, add 34c. per lb. for roast 
Ing and 15 per  cent,  for shrink 
age.
McLaughlin's  XXXX
B unola.........................
Lion, 60 or 100 lb.  case 
Valley City 34 gross.. . .
Felix
Hummel’s, foil,  gross........  1  50
2 50

tin
CHICORV.
Bulk..............................
Red......................................
CLOTHES  LINES.
Cotton.  40 f t.........per dos.

Extract.

1 25

1 00

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Peas.

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Corn.

2 00
“ 
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2 50
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CONDENSED  MILK 

50ft.........  
60 ft.........  
70 ft......... 
80 ft.........  
60 ft......... 
72 ft  . 
4 doz. In case.

Hambnrgh  stringless..........1  25
French style...... 2 25
Limas  ................1  35
Lima, green......... ............... 1  40
soaked......................   65
Lewis Boston Baked........... 1 85
Bay State  Baked...................... 1 35
World’s  Pair  Baked........... 1  35
Picnic Baked.............................1 00
Hambnrgh.........   .............  1 40
Livingston  Eden.....................1 20
Purity
Honey  Dew..............................1 40
Morning Glory
Soaked............................... 
75
Hamburgh marrofat........... 1 35
early June
Champion Eng. .1  50
petit  pols............1 75
fancy  sifted. 
.. 1 90
Soaked................................  75
Harris standard
VanOamp’s  marrofat..........1  10
early June.......1 3C
N. Y.Cond’ns’d Milk Co’s brand
Archer’s  Early Blossom__1  35
Gail Borden Eagle............   7  40
French..................................... 2 15
Crown................................   6 25
Daisy....................................5
French..............................16@2l
Champion..........................  4 50
Magnolia 
...........................4  2?
Brie.................................... 
85
Dime....................................3 35
Hubbard.............................1  15
fg
Hamburg...................................1 40
Soaked.................................  85
Honey  Dew.............................. 1 50
E rie.......................................... 1 35
Hancock...................................1 10
Excelsior  .  ..
Eclipse.........
Hamburg......
Gallon  .  .  ...........................8 50

Mushrooms,
Pumpkin,
Squash.
Succotash.

COUPON  BOOKS

Tomatoea

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Baker’s.

CHEESE.

German Sweet............
Premium  ......................
Breakfast  Cocoa...........
@i3*
Amboy
Acme..........................  1234@13
Lenawee..
@12 
Riverside 
13
Gold  Medal
@ 12!
6@10
Brick.
11 1  on 
Edam  ......
Leiden
23 
Limburger
@10 @25 @35
Pineapple. 
Roquefort.

7 i Skim......... ................  

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I 3 
8 5
$10 
820 
3  1 books, per hundred 
8 2 
S3 
*5 
810
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$  1  books, per hundred 
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*2 
3 50
S3 
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4 00
8 5 
....  5 00
#10 
6 00
$20 
7 00
Above prices on coupon books 
are  subject  to  the  following 
quantity discounts:
200 books or over..  5  per  cent 
.10
50u  “ 
1000  “ 
.30
COUPON  PASS  BOOKS. 
(Can  be  made to represent any 
denomination  from 810  down. |
20 books......................  #100
50  “ 
........................  2 00
......................... 6 25
250  “ 
...........  ........... 10 00
500  “ 
........................ 17 SO
1000  “ 
500, any one denom’n — 83 00
5 00
1000,  “ 
8 00
2000,  « 
75
Steel  punch......................

CREDIT  CHECKS.

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Butter.

.  6
Seymour XXX..................
.  6V4
Seymour XXX, cartoon...
6
Family  XXX....................
Family XXX,  cartoon — .  634
.  6
Salted XXX.................  ..
Salted XXX,  cartoon  — ■  634
Kenosha
734
Boston............................... ..  8
Butter  biscuit.................
634
Soda, XXX.....................
Soda. City........................ ..  734
Soda,  Duchess................. ..  834
Crystal Wafer.................. . .10
Lone  Island Wafers  --- ..11
..  6
S. Oyster  XXX..............
..  6
City Oyster. XXX............
..  6
Farina  Oyster................

Ovster.

Soda.

.  6

CREAM  TARTAR.
Strictly  pure.....................
Telfer’s Absolute.
Grocers’...............

DRIED  FRUITS. 

15@2

6S
11

11

Domestic.
Apples.

“ 

quartered  “ 

Sundried, sliced in  bbls.
Evaporated, 50 lb. boxes 
Apricots.
California In  bags........
Evaporated In boxes.
Blackberries.
In  boxes.....................
Nectarines.  •
70 lb. bags...............
251b. boxes..............
Peaches.
Peeled, In  boxes.........
“ 
Cal. evap. 
 
In bags....  1034
“ 
Pears.
California In bags 
10 
Pitted Cherries
Barrels..........................
50 lb. boxes...................
25 “ 

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Prunelles.
30 lb.  boxes.........   ......
Raspberries.
In  barrels......................
501b. boxes....................
......................
25 lb.  “ 
Raisins.

Loose Muscatels In  Boxes

.............................  1  60

2 crown.............................
3 
“ 
Loose Muscatels In Bags
2  crown..............................
“ 
3 

............................... 634

Foreign.
Currants.

“ 

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Peel.

Patras,  in barrels............   8

‘ 
25 “ 
Raisins.

In  34-bbls...............   3*4
334
In less quantity —  
cleaned,  bulk........ 
6
cleaned,  package.. 
634
Citron, Leghorn. 25 lb. boxes  20
Lemon
1
Orange
Ondnre, 29 lb. boxes.  @  8
Sultana, 20 
@9
“ 
Valencia, 30  “
California,  100-120..............  !
.8
.  9

Prunes.
90x10025 lb. bxs.  734
80x90 
70x80 
834
60x70 

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Turkey  .......................
Silver..........................
Sultana.................  ...........
French,  60-70......................
70-80......................
80-90......................
90-10....................
ENVELOPES.
XX rag,  white.

No. 1, 634..........................  81  75
No. 2, 634..........................   1  60

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FARINACEOUS GOODS.
100 lb. kegs................... 
3*
Barrels.................................800
G rits..... 
8  50
Lima  Beans.
3*@4
Dried........... 
 
Maccaronl and Vermicelli.
Domestic, 12 lb. box__ 
55
Imported.....................1034@i 1
Barrels  200 .......................  4 60
Half barrels 100 ...............   2  40

Oatmeal.

 

Pearl Barley.

Kegs................................  2X

Peas.

Rolled  Oats.

Green,  bu.............................  1 45
Spilt  per l b .................2*@3
Barrels  180.................  @4  60
Half  bbls 90..............  @2  40
German.............................  434
East India..........................   5
Cracked.............................. 

Wheat.

Sago.

5

FISH—Salt.

Bloaters.

Cod.

Yarmouth....................
Pollock.......................
Whole, Grand  Bank......  5@534
Boneless,  bricks.............. 6@S
Boneless, strips................6@8

Halibut.

Smoked......................... ll@1234
Herring.
Holland, white hoops keg
“ “ 
bbl  9
Norwegian 
....................
Round, 34 bbl 100 lb s ......  2 65
*4  “  40 “  ........ 
1  25
17
Scaled............................. 

Mackerel.

“ 

No. 1,  100 lbs...........................11 00
No. 1,40 lbs......................... 4
No. 1,  10 lbs............................  1 30
No. 2,100 lbs............... 
No. 2, 40 lbs............................  3 70
No. 2,10 lbs............................  1 05
Family, 90 lbs......... ............ 6 00

  8 50

Russian,  kegs.................... 

10  lbs .......
Sardines.
Trout.
No. 1, 34 bbls., lOOlbs...........6 00
No. 1 34 bbl, 40  lbs
No. 1, kits, 10 lbs.................  80
No. 1, 8 lb  k its ......  .........   68

65

Whltefish.

Family 
No. 1
34 bbls, 100lbs..
.87 00 $2 75
. 3 10  1 30
34  “  40  “  ..
10 lb.  kits.........
90  45
81b.  “
75  40
FLAVORING  EXTRACTS, 

Bonders’.

Oval Bottle, with corkscrew. 
Best In the world for the money

Regular
Grade
Lemon.

doz
2 oz  ...  8  7! 
4 oz......  1  50

Regular
Vanilla.

doz
2 oz  ....81  2u 
4 oz......2 40
XX Grade 
Lemon.
2 oz.......81  50
4 oz......  3 00
XX Grade 
Vanilla.
2 oz.......$1  7
4.0Z.............3 50

Jennings.
Lemon. Vanilla
2 oz regular panel.  75 
1  20 
4 os 
...150
2  00 
6 oz 
.. .2 00
3 00 
No. 3  taper...........1 %
2 00 
No. 4  taper...........1  50
2 50

“ 
“ 

Sage.
Hops.

Madras,  5 lb. boxes.........  
i. F., 2,3 and 5 lb. boxes.. 

55
50

17  lb. pallB. 
30  “ 

“
LICORICE.

Pure.....................................   80
Calabria...............................  25
Sicily....................................  12

L IE .
Condensed, 2 doz.....................1 25
4 doz.................... 2 25

“ 

MATCHES.

No. 9  sulphur...........................1 65
Anchor parlor.......................... 1 70
No. 2 home  ......................... 1  10
Export  parlor...........................4 00

MINCE  MEAT.

3 doz. case.
6 doz. case................. .
12 doz. case...................
MEASURES. 
Tin, per dozen.
1  gallon 
....................
Half  gallon...................
Q uait............................
Pint.............................
Half  pint
Wooden, for vinegar, per doz.
.  7 00 
1 gallon..........................
.  4  75 
Half gallon....................
.  3 75
Pint................................. .  2 25

Sugar house.................... . 
Ordinary.........................

MOLASSES.
Blackstrap.
Cuba Baking.
Porto Rico.

Prim e.............................
Fancy.............................

New Orleans.
F air...............................
Good...............................
Extra good....................
Choice..........................
Fancy.............................

14

20
30

18
22
27
32
40

One-half barrels, 3c extra.

PICKLES.
Medium.
Barrels. 1,200 count... @5 00
@3 00
Half bbls. 600  count.

Small.
Barrels, 2.400  connt.
Half bbls. 1,200 count
PIPES.

Clay, No.  216....   .........
“  T. D. full count
Cob. No. 3.................
POTASH.

48 cans In case.
Babbitt’s  . 
Penna Salt  Co.’s .........

............

RICE
Domestic.

6 00
3 50

.  1  T6
75
1  25

4 00
3 25

Carolina head...............
“  No. 1............... —  534
“  No. 2...............
Broken  .........................

...6
...  5
.  4

* 

-re­imported.

Japan, No. 1..................
~   No. 2..................
J a v a ..
Patna.

6

...534
....5

534

X

THE  MICHIGAN  TE A HERAT A 1ST.

13

Root  Beer  Extract.
“ 

Williams’, 1 doz......................  l 75
3 doz.....................   5 00
Hires’, 1  doz...........................  l 75
“  3 doz............................   s 00

SPICES.

Whole Sifted.

“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 

Allspice................................10
Cassia, China In mats........  7
Batavia In band__ 15
Saigon in rolls......... 32
Cloves,  Amboyna................22
Zanzibar..................12
Mace  Batavia......................80
Nutmegs, fancy...................75
“  No.  1...................... 70
“  No.  2...................... 60
Pepper, Singapore, black__ 10
“ 
“  white...  .20
shot....................... 16
“ 
Pure Ground In Bulk.
Allspice................................15
Cassia,  Batavia................... 18
and Saigon.25
“ 
“  Saigon.....................35
Cloves,  Amboyna................22
Zanzibar................ 18
Ginger, African................... 16
n  Cochin...................   20
Jam aica..................22
“ 
Mace  Batavia......................65
Mustard,  Eng. and Trieste..22
“  Trieste.....................25
Nutmegs, No. 2 ...................75
Pepper, Singapore, black__ 16
“   white......24
“ 
“  Cayenne..................20
Sage......................................20
•‘Absolute” in Packages.
fts
fts 
Allspice......................  84
1  55 
Cinnamon...................  84
1  55 
Cloves.........................  84
1  55 
Ginger,  Jamaica  ......  84
1  55 
“  African...........  84
1  55 
Mustard......................  84
1  55 
Pepper.......................   84
1  55
Sage....................  
84
Kegs...................................
lft
Granulated,  boxes..............  1M
SEEDS.
Anise......................
Canary, Smyrna......
Caraway.................
Cardamon, Malabar.
Hemp,  Russian......
Mixed  Bird  ...........
Mustard,  white  ___
Poppy ......................
....................
Rape 
Cuttle  bone  .........
STARCH.
Corn

 
SAL  SODA.

90
4íí
4@6

3*6

@15

 

 

 
 

“ 

“ 
“ 

SNUFF.

Gloss.
 
 

20-lb  boxes.......................
5ft
40-lb 
 
1-lb packages  ................ 
3-lb 
5ft
6-lb 
5ft
40 and 50 lb. boxes..............  3ft
Barrels.................................   3ft
Scotch, In  bladders............37
Maccaboy, in jars...............35
french Rappee, In Jars......43
Boxes....................................5ft
Kegs, English........................4ft
100 3-lb. sacks......................... 12 25
2 00
60 5-lb.  “ 
28 10-lb. sacks...................  1  85
2014-lb.  “ 
2 25
24 3-lb  cases...........................  l 50
56 lb. dairy in linen  bags.. 
32
drill  “  16  18
281b.  “ 

SALT.
 
 

SODA.

 
 

Warsaw.

32
56 lb. dairy in drill  bags.. 
28 lb.  “ 
18
.. 
56 lb. dairy in linen sacks..  75

Ashton.

“ 

“ 

56 lb. dairy In lluen  sacks 

75

Higgins.

Sotar Rock.

56 It.,  sacks..........................  27

Common Fine.

Saginaw.............................  
Manistee............................. 

70
70

SALEKATUS.

Packed 60 lbs. in box.

Church’s ...........................  5ft
DeLand's............................  5ft
Dwight’s ....................... —   5ft
Taylor’s ..............................   5

SOAP.
Laundry.

“ 

Dingman Brands.

Old Country,  80  l-lb  ....
.3  2'
Good Cheer, 60 1 lb........... ..3 90
White Borax, 100  5!£ lb ...
..3 65
Proctor & Gamble.
Concord..........................
3 45
Ivory, 10  oz..................... .  6 75
6  oz....................... .  4 00
Lenox 
............................ 3 65
Mottled  German.............. .  3  15
Town Talk....................... .  3 25
Single box....................... .  3 95
5 box lots, delivered........ .  3 85
10 box lots, delivered...... .  3 75
American  Family, wrp d . 
$4 00
plain.
.  3 94
N. K.  Falrbank & Co.’s Brands.
Santa Claus.......................  4  00
Brown. 60 bars.................... 2 40
80  b a rs...................3 25
Acme.................  
4  0o
Cotton Oil............................ 6 00
Marseilles..........................  3 95
Matter  .................................4 35

“ 
Lautz Bros. & Co.’s Brands.

Jas. S. Kirk & Co.’s  Brands.

“ 

“ 

 

 

TEAS.

japan—Regular.

B A SK ET  F IR E D .

SUN cured.

F air............................  @17
Good..........................   @20
Choice..........................24  @26
Choicest...................... 32  @34
Dust............................10  @12
F air............................  @17
Good..........................   @20
Choice..........................24  @26
Choicest.......................32  @34
Dust.............................10  @12
F air.............................18  @20
Choice.........................  @25
Choicest....................   @35
Extra choice, wire leal  @40
Common to  fall...........25  @35
Extra fine to Snest___50  @65
Choicest fancy............ 75  @85
@26
Common to fair...........23  @30
Common to  fair...........23  @26
Superiortofine............30  @35
Common to  fair...........18  @26
Superior to  fine...........30  @40
F air............................. 18  @22
Choice.......................... 24  @28
Best............................. 40  @50

oolong. 
IM PE R IA L .

EN G LISH   B R EA K FA ST.

TOUNG  HYSON.

6  U N PO W D ER.

TOBACCOS.

Fine Cut.

Pails unless otherwise noted
@30
Bazoo.
Can  Can......................
@27
Nellie  Bly................. 27
@24
Uncle ben..................21
@2260
Hiawatha.................
34
Sweet  Cuba...............
McGinty....................
ft bbls.........
Dandy Jim.................
Torpedo.....................
In  drums —
Yum  Yum  ...............
1892............................
“  drums.................

“ 

“ 

Plug.

Sorg’s Brands.

Spearhead .................
Joker.......................
Nobby Twist.................
Scotteu’s Brands.
Kylo..............  ...........
Hiawatha...................
Valley City...............
Old  Honesty..............
Jolly Tar....................

Finzer’s  Brands.

85@95

M IX ED   CANDY. Bbls.

Standard........................................6
Leader........................................... 6
Royal............................................. 7
Nobby............................................7
English  Rock.............................. ’7
Conserves..................................... 7
Broken Taffy....................baskets
Peanut Squares................. 
“  8
French Creams.............................
Valley  Creams.............................
Midget, 30 lb. baskets..........................
............................
Modern, SO lb. 

“ 
fancy—In bulk

8
888

9

9ft13

 

 

 

“ 

fancy—In 5 lb. boxes. 

Pails.
Lozenges, plain............................................   9jk
printed............................................10ft
Chocolate Drops............................................   jg
Chocolate Monumentals......................  
13
Gum Drops....................................................   5ft
Moss Drops....................................................   8
Sour Drops....................................................    8ft
Imperials.......................................................   10
Per Box
Lemon Drops...................................................65
Sour Drops......   ..................................... ” ."55
Peppermint Drops.........................................  ^60
Chocolate Drops...............................................75
H. M. Chocolate Drops...................  
90
Gum Drops................................................40@50
Licorice Drops...............................................1 00
A. B. Licorice  Drops.......................................80
Lozenges, plain................................................60
printed..........................................’.65
Imperials......................................................... 60
Mottoes..................................................]].’  [70
Cream Bar........................................................’55
Molasses  Bar................................................... 55
Hand Made  Creams......................... 
Plain Creams.............................................80@90
Decorated Creams.........................................1  00
String  Rock.....................................................65
Burnt Almonds............................................. 1  00
Wlntergreeu  Berries.......................................60
No. 1, wrapped, 2 lb.  boxes.........................  34
No.l, 
51
No. 2, 
28
2 50
128, 138.................................................... 
150........................................................... 
2  75
176, 200, 216............................................. 
3  (,0
Small...................................................... j  50@1  75
Large....................................................   @2 00
LEM ONS.
Messina, extra fancy Maiorias, 360__
fancy £60  .......... 
fancy 300  .............................
choice 360............................ 
choice 300.............................
O TH ER   FO REIG N   FR U IT S .
“  101b......................
.........
“  141b  ...... 
.......................
Persian, 50-lb.  box..................
NUTS.

“ 
“  extra 
“ 
“ 

CARAM ELS.
 
“ 
 
“ 
ORANGES.

Dates, Fard, 10-lb.  box.................

Figs, fancy  layers, 61b.................

@ 8 

“  50-lb.  “ 

4  CO
3 50

BANANAS.

” 
“ 
“ 
“ 

3 
2 

“ 
“ 

“ 

 
 

. 

 

 

“ 
“ 

Almonds, Tarragona....................
Ivaca..........................
California....................
Brazils, new..............................  .
Filberts  ......................................
Walnuts, Grenoble.......................
French...........  ..............
Calif..............................
Table  Nuts,  fancy  ....................
choice......................
Pecans. Texas, H.  P . , .................
Chestnuts............ .............................
Hickory Nuts........................................
Cocoanuts, full sacks...........................   @4 0i)

“ 
“ 

“ 

@u
@13 
@15 
@ 7 
@  5ft
@16 ft
© left
@17
© l if t
© l if t@14
@12 ft
@12ft@13
@12
11@13

P E A N U T S.
Fancy, H.  P.,8uns  ............... 
@  6-
“  Roasted....................  @  7ft
Fancy, H.  P., Flags...............................  @  6
“  Roasted.......... ........   ©  7ft
Choice, H. P.,  Extras............................  @  5
“  Roasted.................  @ 6ft

“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 

CROCKERY  AND  GLASSWARE.

LA M P  B U R N E R S.

No. 0 Sun.........................................................  45
No. 1  “  .........................................................   50
No. 2  “  .........................................................  75
Tubular..........................................................   75

lamp  chimneys.  Per box.

6 doz. In box.

 

“ 
“   

“   
“   

Pearl top.

First quality.
“ 
“ 
XXX Flint.
“ 
“ 

No. 0 Sun.......................................................   1  75
No.l  “  ......................................................... 1  88
No.2  “  ......................................................... 2 70
No. 0 Sun, crimp  top........................................2 10
No. 1  “ 
2 25
No. 2  “ 
3 25
No. 0 Sun, crimp top................................   ...2 60
No. 1  “ 
2 80
No.2  “ 
3 80
No. 1 Sun, wrapped and labeled....................3 70
“ 
No.2  “ 
....................4 70
No. 2 Hinge,  “ 
....................4 88
No. 1 Sun, plalu bulb,  per doz.......................1  25
No.2  “ 
....................... 150
No. 1 crimp, per doz......................................... 1 35
No.2 
“ 
....................................... 160
No. 0, per  gross..............................................  23
No. 1, 
28
No. 2, 
38
No.3, 
75
Mammoth, per doz.........................................   75

La Bastle.

LAM P  W ICKS.

“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

 
 
 

 
 

 

 

“ 

STONEW ARE— AK RO N .
Butter Crocks,  1 to 6 gal.............................   06
“ 
ft gal. per doz......................  60
Jags, ft gal., per doz...................................   70
•‘  1 to 4 gal., per gal................................   07
Milk Pans, ft gal., per  doz..........................   60
“ 
.........................  72
Butter Crocks, 1  and 2 gal..........................  07
Milk Pans, ft gal..........................................  66
........................................   78

1  “ 
STONEW ARE— BLACK  GLA ZED .

1  “ 

“ 

“ 

*• 

“ 

3 05

 

“ 

Thompson & Chute Brands.

SUGAR.

Silver.................................   3 lu
Mono.................................. 3 35
Savon Improved....... ......... 2 50
Sunflower..................... 
Golden  ............................... 3 25
Economical  ........................2 25
Scouring.
Sapolio, kitchen, 3  doz...  2 50
hand, 3 doz......... 2 50
The  following  prices  repre­
sent the actual selling prices in 
Grand Rapids, based on the act­
ual cost in New  York,  with  38 
cents per 100 pounds added  for 
freight.  The  same  quotations 
will not apply toauy townwhere 
the freight rate from New York 
is  not  36  cents,  but  the  local 
quotations will, perhaps, afford 
a better criterion of the  market 
than to quote New York  prices 
exclusively.
Cut  Loaf.................................|5 67
Powdered.................................5 48
Granulated............................  5 05
Extra Fine Granulated...  5  17
Cubes.....................................  5 48
XXXX  Powdered..................   5 so
Confec. Standard  A........... 4  98
No. 1  Columbia A..............  4 86
No. 5 Empire  A ................. 4  73
No.  6  .................................   4 67
No.  7....................................4  61
No.  8....................................4 54
No.  9....................................4  48
No.  10.................................   4 42
No.  11.................................   4 36
No.  12................................   4 21
No.  13.................................   4 11
No 14..................................  3 80

S m o k in g , 

ratlin's  Brands.

Kiln  dried..............
......... 17
Golden  Shower......
.........19
Huntress  ...............
......... 26
Meerschaum...........
......... 29
American Eagle Co.’s Brands.
Myrtle Navy...........
.........40
Stork  ......................
. ,.30@32
German  .................
F ro e.......................
........  33
Java, fts foil...........
....... 32
Banner Tobacco Co. s Brands.
Banner..................... ......... 16
Banner Cavendish..
......... 38
Gold  Cut.................
.........28
Warpath................... ......... 15
-©ft
Honey  Dew..............
Gold  Block.............. ......... 30
F. F. Adams Tobacco Co.’s
Peerless.................... ......... 26
Old  Tom.................. ......... 18
Globe Tobacco Co.’s Brands.
Handmade...........................41

Scotteli*» Brands.

Brands.

Leidersdorf’s Brands.

Rob  Roy..............................26
Uncle Sam..........  .........28@32
Red Clover...........................32

Spaulding & Merrick.

Tom and Jerry.....................25
Traveler  Cavendish.......... .38
Buck Horn...........................3o
Plow  Boy...................... 30@32
Corn  Cake...........................16

SYRUPS.

Corn.

Barrels............................   21
Half bbls..............................23
F air.....................................  19
Good....................................  25
Choice  ................................   30

Pure Cane.

SWEET  GOODS
Ginger Snaps...................  
Sugar Creams...........
Frosted Creams........
Graham Crackers__
Oatmeal Crackers__
VINEGAR.

40 gr...........................  7
50 gr............................8
31 for barrel. 

W E T   M U S T A R D .
Bulk, per gal  ..................
Beer mug, 2 doz in case... 
5ft
Magic,...............................
Warner’s 
.........
Yeast Foam 
....................
Diamond...........................
Royal................................

Y E A S T .
..... 

8

898ft

8ft

30 
1  75

.1  00 
.1  00 
.1  00

H ID ES.

HIDES  PELTS  aud  FURS
Perkins  &  Hess  pay  as  fol­

lows:
Green......  ...................  232
Part Cured.
@  3 
Full 
@  3ft 
Dry.........
@ 5 
Kips, green 
@  3 
“  cured.
@ 4 
Calfskins,  green  ......  3
@  4
cured.......   5  @ 6ft
Deacon skins.
.10  @25

“

No. 2 hides ft off.

Shearlings.........  ...... 5  @  20
Lambs 
......................15  @  40

Washed.....................12  @18
Unwashed  ................... 8  @14

MISCELLANEOUS.

Tallow............... 
3  @  4ft
Grease  butter  ...........  1  @2
Switches  ..................  lft@ 2
Ginseng 

............... 1  75@2 GO

 

  7ft

P R O V IS IO N S

The Grand Rapids  Packing  and Provision Co. 

13 00 
20 00
19 00 
19 on
19 00
20 00

PO R K   IN   B A R B E L S.

quotes as follows:
Mess,..........................................................
Short c u t...........................................
Extra clear pig, short cut.................
Extra clear,  heavy......................
dear, fat  back..................................
Boston clear, short cut......................
Clear back, short cut.........................
Standard clear, short cut. best.........
Pork, links........................................
Bologna............................  ..............
Liver.................................................
Tongue  .............................................
Blood ................................................
Head cheese..................................... .
Summer.............................................
Frankfurts.......................................
Liver.................................................
Kettle  Rendered.............................
.11
Granger...........................................................loft
Family............................................................  g
Compound..................................................  
Cottoliue.........................................................   s?I
5o lb. Tins, ftc advance.
20 lb.  pails, 
10 lb.  “ 
51b.  “  %c
3 lb. 
" 
l c

ftc  “
ftc  “

LA R D .

 

B E E F   IN   BA RB ELS.

„ 

“ 
“ 

Extra Mess, warranted 200  lbs..................
Extra Mess, Chicago packing.....................
Boneless, rump butts..................................
smoked  meats—Canvassed or Plain.
Hams, average 20 lbs..................................

.  8  00 
7 Se­
ll  00
101.
“ 
16 lbs...................................... 11
12 to 14 lbs.............................   lift
“  Picnic...................................................  8ft
best boneless.......................................   10
" 
Shoulders........................................................  »ft
Breakfast Bacon  boneless..............................15
Dried beef, ham prices....................................10
Long Clears, heavy.........................................
Briskets,  medium...........................................

DRY  SALT  MEATS.

P1CK EED   P IG S ’  F E E T .

light......................................... . 
 

lift
Butts............................................... 
9
D.  S. Bellies............ .'.....................................  12ft
Fat B acks...!...............................................   10
Barrels...............................................................   8 00
Kegs...................................................................  1 90
Kits, honeycomb  ..........................................  65
Kits, premium........................ 
55
B E E P   TONGUES.
Barrels................................................................22 00
Half barrels........................................................ 11 00
Per pound...................................................... 
Dairy, sold packed........................................  15
Dairy, rolls....................................................  15ft
Creamery, solid packed................................   18
Creamery, rolls......................................  
isu

B U T T E R IN E .

T R IP E .

11

 

 

 

 

All butterine Is delivered.

GRAINS and  FEEDSTUFFS

No. 1 White (58 lb. test) 
No. 2 Red (60 lb. test)

Bolted........
Granulated.

1 40 
1  65

Straight, In  sacks
Patent
Graham
Rye

barrels...........  3 75
sacks............   4 50
barrels..........   4 75

M ILLSTU FFS.

Bran............... *13 50
Screenings__  13 00
Middlings......  14 50
Mixed Feed...  17 50 
Coarse meal  .  17 03

Less
Car lots  quantity
$14 00 
13 00 
15 00 
18 00 
17 50

CORN.

Car  lots............................... 43
Less than  car  lots..............45

OATS.

Car  lots  ..................  
32
Less than car lots................36

No. 1 Timothy, car lots. 
No. 1 

H AY.
ton lots

“ 

WOODENWAKE.

1 30

“ 

21 

Palls, No. 1, two-hoop.. 
Bowls, 11 Inch....................
13  “  ....................  
15  “ 
17  “ 
19  “ 

Tubs, No. 1........................   6 00
“  No. 2...........................5  50
“  No. 3.........................  4 50
“  No. 1,  three-hoop__  1  50
90
“ 
“ 
....................  1  25
“ 
....................  1  80
“ 
 
2 40
Baskets, market.................   35
shipping  bushel..  1  15
“ 
..  1  25
full  hoop  “ 
“ 
“  willow cl’ths, No.l  5 25
“  No.2 6 25
“ 
“  No.3 7 25
“  No.l  3 25
1  No.2 4 00
‘  No.3 4 75 Standard,  per  lb......

.........................................

“  H.H.........
Palls.............. 
“ 
Twist  ...
Tubs,  No.  1.........
.......... 13 5c Boston  Cream  ...
Tubs, No. 2........... ............12 HO Cut  Loaf.................
Tubs, No. 3..........
...........10 50 Extra H.  H..............

I N I )D HATED W A K E .

.  . ..  ......  3  15

splint 

“ 
“ 
«
II

“ 
Il 

 

@  5 
© 4 
@ 5ft 
@10
6 @ 1
@ 4ft

F R E S H   B E E F .
Carcass...................................  
4
 
Fore quarters........................................
Hind quarters.....................................    5
Loins No. 3.............................................. 8
Ribs 
Rounds
Chucks...................................................   4
Plates ....................................................
Dressed.................................................
Loins......................................................
Shoulders  .............................................
Leaf Lard..............................................
11
Carcass................................................   4  @5
Lambs...................................................... 5  @6
Carcass.................................................   5  @6

FRESH  PORK.

MUTTON.

VEAL.

FISH  AND  OYSTERS.

FR E SH   F IS H .

@ 8 

@  0
@ 9 
12 ft @15 
@  5 
©12ft 
20 
10 @ 9 
@   8 
12 
12ft 
20@25
@35
@30
@25
@23
@20
@18
@16

F.  J.  Dettenthaler  quotes as  follows
Whiteflsh 
............................................
T ro u t.......................  ..........................
Black Bass........ 
..........................
Halibut...............................................
Ciscoes or Herring................................
Blueflsh..................................  ............
Fresh lobster, per lb.............................
Cod.........................................................
No. 1 Pickerel........................................
Pike........................................... ...........
Smoked  White......................................
Red  Snappers........................................
Columbia River  Salmon.......................
Mackerel......................  .......................
Fairhaven  Counts................................
F. J. D.  Selects.....................................
Selects...................................................
F. J. D....................................................
Anchors...... .........................................
Standards..............................................
Favorite.................................................
oysters—Bulk.
Extra Selects. 
.......................per gal..
1  75
Selects...................................................
1  50 
Standards..............................................
1  00
Counts...................................................
2 20 
2 to 
Scallops.................  .............................
Shrimps  ................................................
1  25 1  25
Clams....................................................
SH E L L   GOODS.
Oysters, per  100  ................................... 1  25@1  50
Clams. 
....................................  @1 00

oysters—Cans.

“ 

CANDIES, FRUITS and  NUTS. 
The Putnam Candy Co. quotes as follows: 

s t i c k   c a n d y .
Cases

...  3ft

Bbls. Pails.
6ft
7ft
7ft
OHft1*
7ft
8ft

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THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

D A W S O N ’S 

Pearl  Wheat  Plaices,

T H E   F IN E S T   B R E A K F A S T   D ISH

C B B A 2 V ,   W H O B B S O M B ,  

Free  from  DM  and  Broken  Particles,

Put  up in  neat Cartons of  2 pounds each,  36 Cartons  per  Case.  Price  83.50  per 

Case.  Sells at 15 cents per package,  two packages for  25 cents.

T r y It!  B u y   It!  U se  It!

Sold by  all jobbers in Ohio,  Indiana and Michigan. 

MANUFACTURED  BY

DAWSON  BROTHERS,  Pontiac,  Mich.

The Following_  —

Is  the best line of Coffees in  the State.  All roasted by CHASE 
A  SANBORN.

IF  YOU  WANT  THE  BEST

THESE  ARE  THE  COFFEES  FOR  YOU  TO  BUY.

J e w e ll’s  A r a b ia n   M och a,
J e w e ll’s  O ld  G o v e rn m e n t  J a v a , 
J e w e ll’s  O ld  G o v ern m en t  J a v a   an d  

M och a,

W e lls ’  P erfectio n   Java,
W e lls ’  J a v a   an d   M och a,
W e a v e r ’s  B len d ,
S a n to ra ,
Ideal  G olden  R io,
C om p ou n d   C ru sh ed   Java.

Above are all in 50-pound cans.
Ideal Java and Mocha in one and  two pound cans.

NEEDED  CURRENCY  LEGISLATION.  |
The Silver  Purchase  Repeal  bill hav­
ing finally become  a  law,  all  danger  of 
the  displacement  in  this country of  the 
gold standard  by  that of silver, as the re­
sult of the Government purchases of  the 
metal,  has  been  averted.  Free  silver 
coinage,  too,  has  been  so  decisively  re­
jected  by the  nation,  through  its  repre­
sentatives,  that  further  efforts in  its be­
half are  hopeless,  and  although  the Re­
peal  bill  has  tacked  on  to 
it  a  stump 
speech in favor  of  bimetallism it enacts 
nothing practical  toward establishing it. 
The business of  the  country  will,  there­
fore, continue to  be conducted,  as  it  has 
been  since  1834,  on 
the  basis  of  gold 
alone.

The single gold  standard  having  been 
thus  permanently  adopted,  the  m atter 
next  in  order  for  consideration  is  the 
maintenance at par with gold  of  our sil­
ver and  paper money.  We  have  now in 
circulation  in the  country silver dollars, 
silver  fractional  coins and silver certifi­
cates representing dollars, amounting al­
together to §448,750,000,  and  850.000,000 
more are soon  to be coined.  We have of 
paper money 8346,000,000 old greenbacks, 
8153,000,000  Treasury  notes,  and  8209,- 
000,000 national  bank notes.  The  silver 
coins and  silver  certificates  derive  one- 
half  of 
their  currency  value  from  the 
fact that  they  are  received  by  the Gov­
ernment  and  by  the  people as  the equiv­
alent of  gold,  and  the  greenbacks,  the 
Treasury notes,  and  the  national  bank 
notes get the whole of theirs from  public 
confidence in  their redeemability  in  gold 
on  presentation.  The  maintenance  of 
the gold  standard  for  our  currency de­
pends,  therefore,  entirely  upon  popular 
faith,  and 
this  faith  from 
being impaired,  as it was last  spring,  by 
the export of  gold  from  the  country,  is 
of the  highest  importance.  Practically, 
the duty of  fortifying  it  devolves  upon 
the  Government  alone.  The  banks are 
not required  to  pay these depositors,  nor 
debtors 
their  creditors,  in  actual  gold 
coin.  The silver dollars, the greenbacks, 
and the Treasury notes  are by law a legal 
tender;  the silver certificates are convert­
ible only  into  silver  dollars,  and  bank 
notes  are  payable  in  anything  that  is 
legal tender.  The  greenbacks  and  the 
Treasury notes, if the Government should 
fail to redeem them  in gold  on  demand, 
immediately  fall  below  par  in 
would 
gold,  and 
they  would  drag  down  with 
them  not  only  the  national  bank  notes, 
but the silver coin  and  the silver certifi­
cates.

to  prevent 

It is  hardly credible,  but it  is  the fact, 
that Congress  has  never  yet  made pro­
vision  for preventing the depreciation of 
our currency  below  par  in  gold. 
It  has 
put on record  numerous  declarations  in 
favor  of  keeping  every dollar  equal  to 
every other dollar,  and,  by  implication, 
equal to the gold  dollar,  but  it  has  not | 
clothed  the  Secretary  of  the  Treasury 
with  the power  necessary to  make these 
declarations good.  The  Resumption  act I 
does not  mention  “ gold”  at all,  but pro­
vides only  for redemption  in  “coin,”  and I 
it applies to none  but  the  old  legal ten­
ders.  The Sherman  act,  indeed,  author­
izes the Secretary to redeem the Treasury 
notes issued  for  the  purchase of  silver 
bullion  “ in gold or silver coin  at his  dis­
it  does  not  instruct  him j 
cretion,” but 
how to procure gold,  if  he should desire 
to exercise his discretion  in favor of that 
metal.  The silver coin  and silver certifi­
cates are not exchangeable for gold;  and,  •

to  meet 

i
as 1 have said, the national bank notes are I 
redeemable  in  silver  dollars or  in  any 
kind of legal  tender  paper  money.  At 
this moment,  therefore,  the  whole mass 
of our currency other than gold  and gold 
certificates, amounting in round  numbers 
to 81,200,000,000, remains at par with gold I 
merely  because nobody demands gold  for 
it. 
If  the demand  should  be  made, the 
Government  has  only about  885,000,000 
it,  and  it has  no 
with  which 
power to  procure  more. 
It  might,  in­
deed,  get a little,  as  a  matter of  favor, 
from the  holders  of  it  here  and  in Eu­
rope,  by selling them bonds in pursuance 
of a strained construction of the Resump­
tion  act,  but it could  apply even what it 
thus obtained  only  to  the redemption of 
the old legal tenders and to nothing else.
Senator  Sherman,  in  the  last  speech 
which  he made in the Senate,  just before 
the passage  of  the  Silver  Purchase Re­
peal  act,  called  attention  to 
the  small 
and  diminishing  stock  of  gold  in  the 
Treasury,  and read  a  bill  which  he pro­
posed  to  offer when  the opportunity  ar­
rived  for it authorizing the issue of three 
per cent,  three-year “ coin”  bonds to  the 
amount  of  8200,000,000,  “ to  enable  the 
Secretary of 
the  Treasury  to  maintain 
the  parity of all  forms  of  money coined 
or issued  by  the  United  States,  and  to 
strengthen  and  maintain  the .reserve  in 
the  Treasury  authorized  and  required” 
by the Resumption act.  Even  this  pro­
posed  act  says  nothing  about  “ gold,” 
and,  although  it  speaks of  the “ reserve 
in the Treasury authorized and required” 
by  the  Resumption  act,  it does not estab­
lish such a reserve nor require it  to be  in 
gold.

It has,  indeed,  frequently  been  said, 
and  by  nobody  more frequently  than  by 
Senator  Sherman  himself,  that  the  Re­
sumption  act  provides  not  only  for  the 
redemption  in gold  of  the  old legal ten­
ders,  but  for keeping them  at  par  with 
gold,  and  for 
the  establishment  and 
maintenance  in  the  Treasury  of  a  gold 
reserve  for  the  purpose  of  redeeming 
them  in  gold,  or  at  least  S100,000,000. 
A  belief  that  such  a  provision  of  law 
exists  led  to  the  alarm  felt  last  spring 
when  the  gold  in  the  Treasury  fell  to 
near 8100.000,000,  and to the clamor then 
made for the sale of  bonds  to  replenish 
it.  Senator Sherman, in  the speech just 
mentioned, also denounced  as  a  breach 
or  faith  the  paying  out  for  other  pur­
poses than  the redemption  of  the green­
backs  of  the  gold now remaining in  the 
Treasury,  on 
that  it  was 
originally  provided  for redemption  pur­
poses only.  The truth  is that the accum­
ulation  of  gold  to  which he refers was 
made by himself,  in  1877  and 1878,  when 
he  was  Secretary of the Treasury,  upon 
his own  responsibility  and  without  any 
warrant  of  law.  The  Resumption  act 
plainly  provided  for the retirement and 
legal  tenders,  and 
cancellation  of  the 
for  nothing  else,  and  when, 
in  1878, 
Congress  forbade  their  retirem ent  and 
cancellation  it  practically  forbade their 
redemption.  Secretary  Sherman,  how­
ever,  ingeniously  devised  a  scheme  to 
give  the act  some  kind of  efficacy.  He 
said  in  a  speech  delivered  at  Toledo, 
Aug. 26,  1878:

the  ground 

My  predecessors  had  taken  no  steps 
under the provisions of  the  Resumption 
act.  When I  assumed  the  duties  of  my 
present  office  I   determined  it  would  be 
necessary to accumulate,  in  addition  to 
the surplus revenue, the sum of $100,000,- 
000 o f  gold coin,  and  that it ought to be 
accumulated  at  the  rate  of  85,000,000

THE  MICTHGjUNT  t r a d e s m a n

a  month  from 
to  the date of resumption.

the  1st  of  May,  1877, 

REPRESENTATIVE  RETAILERS.

It  is,  therefore,  to  Mr.  Sherman  and 
not to Congress that  the  credit  is due of 
contriving  the  means  of  establishing 
gold payments in  1879,  and  to  say  that 
his device,  although  adopted  and carried 
out  by his successors,  has  the  force  of 
an  act of Congress,  is to say  that  which 
is  not true.  A clause in  the act  for  ex­
tending  the  charters  of 
the  national 
banks,  passed  in  1S82,  and  misdescribed 
by  Mr.  Sherman  as  “one  of  the  appro­
priation  bills,”  did, 
indeed,  recognize 
the  existence  of  the  $100,000,000  gold 
reserve,  but 
it  provided  no  means  for 
keeping  it  up  to the $100,000,000  limit. 
This  act  is  the  only  one  in  the  whole 
body of  the acts of  Congress  which  men­
tions  the  reserve  fund at  all,  and  when 
it  was  under consideration  in  the Senate, 
in  1882,  several Senators  expressed  their 
regret  that  no  law  for  the creation  or 
maintenance  of  the  fund  existed.  The 
fund  was  referred  to as  existing in  fact, 
however,  and  this,  they  hoped,  would 
suffice.  Senator  Sherman  himself  said 
in  his  speech  in  the Senate,  heretofore 
mentioned:

There is no law whatever that has any 
reference to this fund in  any of the vari­
ous acts that have been  passed  upon  the 
subject.

In  any event  the  Resumption  act,  it is 
admitted on  all  sides,  needs  an  amend­
ment  providing  for  the  issue  of  bonds 
payable expressly in  gold,  principal  and 
interest,  and  at a lower  rate  of  iuterest 
and  for a shorter  term  than  those  which 
are  authorized  by  it  as  it  now  stands. 
Conceding  that  under the act the Secre­
tary  might now  sell  bonds  to  maintain 
gold  payments,  the  only  bonds  he  could 
offer would  be 4  per cent,  bonds  having 
thirty years to run.,  4>£  per  cent,  bonds 
having fifteen years  to  run,  or 5 percent, 
bonds having ten years  to  run,  and  all 
payable  in  “coin.”  To 
issue  any  of 
these three classes of  bonds now  would 
be so extravagantly  wasteful  that, as Mr. 
Sherman  well  said 
in  advocating  his 
proposition  for a short  term  3  per  ceut. 
bond,  no  Secretary  of 
the  Treasury 
would dare  to doit.  Besides amendment 
in  this  respect there  should be a legaliza­
tion of  the gold  fund  arbitrarily created 
by  Mr.  Sherman  in  1877  and  1878  and 
maintained  by  his  successors,  and  power 
should  be  vested  in  the Secretary  of  the 
Treasury  to replenish it  whenever it  was 
necessary  by  the sale of  bonds  for gold, 
not  only  for the benefit of  the old  legal 
tenders,  but  for  that  of  the  Treasury 
notes  issued  for  purchases  of  silver. 
Even 
the  silver  certificates  should  be 
made  redeemable  in gold,  as  well  as  in 
silver,  if we  are  to  make  effectual  the 
declaration of the  Repeal bill  In favor of 
“ such  safeguards of  legislation  as  will 
insure  the maintenance of  the  parity  of 
the coins of  the two metals.”

M a t t h e w   M a r s h a l l .

W ou ld   H a v e  C reated   a  S en sation . 

From the Albany Express.

Last  Sunday  a  Catskiil  groceryuian, 
who is prominent in  one  of  the  village 
churches,  handed  his  pastor  a  notice  to 
read  from  the pulpit,  and  was somewhat 
surprised  and  indignant  when  service 
was  concluded,  without  his  announce­
ment  being  read.  The  minister  was 
equally surprised  when about  to read  the 
notice to find  the following on  the paper:
“Dear Sir—Please  find  enclosed $2  for 
which  send  me  a  basket of peaches,  if 
they are good,  also two  pounds of cheese 
and  four pounds of good codfish.”
The groceryman  had  been  a little care­
less and got his  papers  mixed  up.

“ T ony”  V idro, 

th e   S to ck in g   S treet 

G eneral  D ealer.

in 

in 

the 

fact, 

is  done 

Anthony  Vidro  was  born  in  Senete, 
Bohemia,  Empire  of  Austria,  in  1859. 
His  father was a farmer and so  was  not 
in a  position  to give  his  children  many 
educational  advantages; 
the 
country  did  not  afford such  advantages, 
except to  the  rich.  “ Tony”  began  his 
school  life at 6 years of  age in  a country 
school  which,  so  far  as 
the  subjects 
taught  are  concerned,  was  about  on  a 
par with American  country schools,  but 
as all schools  there  are  sectarian,  much 
of the time is taken  up  with the study of 
and  examination 
in  the  catechism,  so 
that  they  are  far  behind  American 
schools of  a similar  grade  and  nothing 
like  as  good  work 
them. 
Tony’s school  days  ended  when  he  was 
11  years of age,  as in that year the family 
emigrated  to America,  going  first  to the 
city  of  Chicago,  where  they  remained 
about two  months.  Mr.  Vidro  has  the 
distinction  of  being  personally  ac­
quainted  with  Mrs.  O’Leary,  who  owned 
the  cow  which  kicked  over 
lamp 
which  started  the  Chicago  conflagration 
in 1871,  having been  for seven  weeks her 
“ next door neighbor.”  The family came 
to Grand  Rapids  in  1870,  residing first on 
Davis street.  Tony  went  to work  when 
but  12  years  of  age  in  the Widdicomb 
furniture  factory.  He  was  a  “ machine 
hand”  in  this  factory  for  eight  years, 
with  the exception of six months,  during 
which  time  he  tried  hard  to learn shoe- 
making.  Tony says it is the “ last” thing 
on earth he  wants  to work  at.  When 20 
years  of  age  he  rented  a  building  on 
Fourth  street and  put  in  a stock  of  gro­
ceries,  and  began  a career  as a merchant 
which  has been  satisfactory and  success­
ful  to  an  unusual  degree.  Two  years 
later  he added  a small  line of  dry  goods 
to his  business,  and  in  this  connection, 
too,  he has been successful. 
In  the  fall 
of  1890  he began  the erection  of  a  two- 
story brick  block on  Stocking street, into 
which  he moved  his  business the  follow­
ing  summer.  The  ground  plan  of  this 
building measures 50x64  feet,  and  is one 
of  the most commodious  places of  busi­
ness in  the city, outside of  Monroe street. 
Since  locating  on  Stocking  street  Mr. 
Vidro  has added clothing  and  men’s fur­
nishings  to  his  stock  and  now  carries 
nearly everything to  be found in  a  first- 
class dry goods store. 
In  the  meantime 
he  has by  no  means  neglected  his  gro­
cery  business,  but has  pushed  it  as  he 
has the other departments,  until  it  out­
grew  its quarters in  his  own  block  and 
he  was  compelled  to rent  the adjoining 
building,  28x04  feet,  for its  accommoda­
tion.

Mr.  Vidro  is a member of  the I.  O.  O. 
F.,  Knights  of  the  Golden  Eagle  and 
Royal  Arcanum,  He  was married in 1887 
to Miss Josephine  Roth,  who  has  been  a 
most  efficient  helper  in 
the  business. 
Mrs.  Vidro is a lady of more  than  aver­
age  business  ability  and  to her  he owes 
a large  share of his success.  They  have 
one child,  a manly little boy  of  5  years.
About two years ago Mr.  Vidro  began 
doing  business for cash and now his best 
friend  cannot  get  credit 
in  his  store. 
He  was  the  first  grocer  in  the  city  to 
abolish  credit.  “When  I  began  doing 
business for cash,”  said  Mr.  Vidro,  “I 
was afraid 1 should lose  my  trade; but 1 
talked with my customers  and explained 
everything to them—took them  into  my

this  1 

In  addition  to 

confidence. 
let 
them have  what they  needed  for the  last 
week in  1891,  so that  they  might  begin 
I don’t 
the  new  year  by  paying cash. 
think  I  lost  a  single  customer  by 
the 
change,  or,  if I did  lose  any,  they  were 
of so  little account  that I have forgotten 
all abont  them.  Since Jan. 1,1892, when 
I  closed  my  books,  my  business  has 
grown  steadily  and  substantially,  and  is 
in every  way  more  satisfactory. 
I  have 
made more  money  and  am  much  better 
off  than 
if  I  had  continued  the  credit 
business.  When  1  close  my  store  at 
night,  I can  go home  and  rest  in  peace. 
I have no bad  accounts  to  worry  over, 
aud  no dead-beats to  wrestle  with,  and, 
what  is  better  than  all,  1 don’t have to 
wear myself out  trying  to collect money 
enough  to  pay  my  bills.  As  I  said  in 
the circular  I  issued  to  my  customers 
two years  ago,  ‘Cash  is  King,’  and  he 
will  rule  so  long  as  I  am  engaged  in 
business.  Nothing could  induce  me  to 
go  oack to the old  way of doing business. 
It is a delusion and  a  snare,  without  a 
single redeeming feature.”

Coming to this country at  11  years  of 
age,  without a dollar,  a  stranger  to  the 
customs and institutions of  the country, 
and  unable to speak a  word  of  English. 
Mr.  Vidro  has  not  only  mastered 
the 
language,  which  he now  speaks  readily 
and  fluently,  but he has  built  up  a busi­
ness and  made a place  for himself in  the 
business  world of  which any  man  would 
have  good  reason  to  be  proud;  and  this, 
too,  in the  face of  obstacles which might 
well  have daunted  the heart of  one  bet­
ter equipped  than  he  to  face them.  His 
success is a notable example of  what  may 
be  accomplished  by  determination  and 
intelligent perseverence  in  this  “ land  of
the free.”

T ak es  Issu e   w ith   Mr.  V oigt.

Grand  Ra pid s,  N ov.  10—I  note  that 
C.  G.  A.  Voigt,  in your issue  of  Nov.  8, 
says  that  the  repeal  of  the  purchasing 
clause of  the  Sherman  act  “ will  show 
the  world that  the United  States  is  not 
committed  to a dual  standard  of money.”
How  is  it  possible for  any  country  to 
“have  a  dual 
standard  of  money?” 
There has never been  a time  or  country 
where this  has  been  the  fact,  although 
a number of countries  have attempted  to 
make it so  by  law.  For many years pre­
vious  to  1873  both gold  and silver were 
legal  tender and  legal  standards  in  this 
country,  but  gold  was  the only standard 
of  value,  although  at one time the differ­
ence  between  the two metals was only 3 
per cent.
Mr.  Voigt  also  says  that  the  repeal 
“ will  stop the  purchase of silver  by  the 
Government,  which  demanded  an  enor­
mous  outlay  of  money  every  month. 
This money will  now stay  in  the  treas­
ury.”  He  evidently  loses  sight  of  the 
fact that the silver  purchased  was  paid 
for  with  new  treasury  notes  issued  for 
that  special  purpose and  increasing the 
available currency of the country to that 
extent.
This is not written  in  criticism of  Mr. 
Voigt,  personally,  except  as  he  repre­
sents  the carelessness of  a large number 
of  business men  in  thinking  and  speak­
ing of  financial  matters. 
If representa­
tive  business  men  like  Mr.  Voigt  can 
make such  mistakes,  what can  we expect 
from  the average citizen?

their  knowledge, 

A number of  leading newspapers have 
used the  same  argument  against  silver 
which  Mr.  Voigt  used,  of  which  the 
Grand  Rapids  Democrat  was  one.  As 
most people look to the  press  for  much 
of 
such  statements 
lead  the people astray  and  should be cor­
rected.  Our country can never settle on 
a stable and right  financial  policy  until 
the average citizen  knows much more on 
the subject than he  seems to now,  and it 
will  be  imposssble for apparently intelli­
gent people to ask,  “ what  does  sixteen

to  one  mean?”  as  was  asked  so  often 
during  the  discussion  of  the  Sherman 
law.
The long discussion  in the Senate had 
one good effect in  teaching  many  some­
thing of finance which they did not know 
before. 

H.

P O U L T R Y .
Local dealers pay  as follows:

D RESSED.
Fowl......................................  
Turkeys................................................12H@13
Ducks  ................................................... io  @12
Chickens................................................   7 @ 3

 

8

LIV E.

doz 
per doz 

Live broilers 1% lbs. to 2  lbs.  each, per
................................................
Live broilers  less than  1-114 lbs.  each,
.............................................
Spring Chickens...................................   6  @7
Fowls.....................................................bh@ ay,
Spring turkeys.......................................  8  @10
Spring  Ducks........................................  8  @  9

O ILS .

The  Standard Oil  Co.  quotes  as  follows:

BARRELS.

Eocene...................................................
XXX  W.  W. Mich.  Headlight..............
Naptha  .................................................
Stove Gasoline.................................. .'
Cylinder............................................... 27
Engine................................................. 13
Black, 15 cold  test 
..........................
FROM   TANK  WAGON.
Eocene 
.......................................... 
XXX  W. W.  Mich.  Headlight.............. 

8* 
714 @ t>H 
@ 75k 
@36 
@21 
@ 814
7
554

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GENUINE  :  VICI  :  SHOE,

Plain toe in opera and  opera  toe and O. S. heel. 
D and E and E E widths, at $1.50.  Patent leather 
tip,  $1.55.  Try them,  they are  beauties.  Stock 
soft and fine, flexible and elegant  fitters.  Send 
for sample dozen.

R E E D E R   B R O S .  S H O E   CO ,

Grand Rapids, Mich.

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J.  A.  S.  V e r d i e r ,  Cashier.

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Jno. A. Covode, D. A  Blodgett,  E. Crofton Fox. 
T. J. O’Brien,  A. J. Bowne,  Henry Idema, 
Jno.W.Biodgett.J. A. McKee, 
J. A. S. Verdier.

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T H E   MICHIGAN  T K A  D E R M A  IN

I V eg etab le  S coop  F o rk s .

H.  Heffleblower,  Detroit;  J.  H.  Joyce, 
Detroit;  M.  E.  Keyes,  Morenci;  F.  K. 
Kincaid,  Hersey;  J.  S.' Kerchner,  De­
troit;  F.  M.  Klussman,  Ada,  O.;  W.  B. 
Knapp, Grand Rapids; W. H. Lamb, Ada, 
O.;  F.  J.  Lane,  Detroit;  J.  D.  Lober, 
Jerusalem,  O.;  N.  T.  McLean,  Chatham, 
Ont.; G.  Martin,  Litchfield; D. C. Mohler, 
Carleton,  O.;  H.  A.  McKenna,  Yale;  H. 
J.  Neville,  Green  Bay,  Wis.;  H.  W. 
Packert,  Detroit; B. J.  Palver, Ypsilanti; 
T.  M.  Richardson,  Windsor,  Out.;  E.  J. 
Riordan,  Sault Ste.  Marie; R. D.  Rowley, 
Ypsilanti;  W.  A.  Rudell,  Sault  Ste.  Ma­
rie;  C.  E.  Shindler,  New Corydon,  O.;  C. 
Schriben,  Moravia,  0.;  E.  D.  Taylor, 
Ozark,  O.;  H.  J.  Thompson, Manchester, 
O.;  J.  H. Void,  Pigeon Falls, Wis.;  E. A. 
Webb,  Casnovia;  C.  E.  Woolloy,  Brown 
City.
Assistant Pharmacists—H.  Agnes,  Ot­
tawa,  O.;  R.  S.  Armstrong,  Chelsea;  E. 
Bassett,  Grand  Rapids;  J.  C.  Belcher, 
Windsor,  Ont.;  H.  C. Blair,  Leslie;  Flor­
ence Burch,  Adair;  George  J.  Buss,  De­
troit;  H.  W.  Cadwell,  Detroit;  F.  B. 
Chadwell,  Detroit; E. M. Clapp, Oshtemo; 
M.  E.  Cooper,  Jackson;  P.  J.  De  Pree, 
Grand Rapids.  E.  Eastman,  Detroit;  B. 
C.  Fish,  Edwardsburg;  C.  E.  Foster, 
Webberville; J.  M.  Freeman,  St. Charles; 
A. E. Fuller,  Richmond; Sama Gallagher, 
Saginaw;  G.  G.  Gardner,  North Star;  G. 
W.  Gankell,  Bay  City;  M.  E.  Gibson, 
Lansing;  R.  Goodfellow,  Clio;  F.  J. 
Greene,  Detroit;  F.  W.  Hamilton,  St. 
Charles;  J.  M.  Hines,  Ada,  O.;  C.  O. 
Hubbell, Jackson;  N. E.  Leighton,  Kala­
mazoo;  W.  F.  Launt,  Kalkaska;  L.  O. 
Loveland, Charlotte;  G.  J.  Menold,  Lu­
ther;  E.  L.  Moore,  Melvin;  J.  Murray, 
Merrill;  F.  L.  Melelintic,  Charlotte; G. 
H.  McGillivray,  Muir;  J.  M.  McGregor, 
Ann Arbor;  J.  A.  McOmber,  Hastings; 
A.  McWain,  Fenton; C.  Niendorf,  Colon; 
E.  E.  Ormsby,  Clio;  C.  H.  Patterson,  St. 
John's;  W.  J.  Reid,  Port  Huron;  J.  H. 
Scott,  Garland,  0.;  L.  C.  Smith,  West 
Branch;  V.  Homar,  Fowlerville;  L.  P. 
Vogel,  Chelsea; E.  Wallace,  Detroit;  F. 
W.  Withelm,  Bay  City;  B.  Whitmore, 
South Haven; W. D. Hammond, Au Sable; 
R.  H.  Leece,  Munith;  W.  B.  Winthrow, 
Oscoda; F.  G.  Thatcher,  Nashville.
The next  meeting of  the Board  for the 
examination of candidates will  be held at 
Saginaw on the second Tuesday of Janu­
ary, 1894.
The Board adopted a resolution requir­
ing all applicants for examination in the 
fut ure, as  registered  pharmacists, 
to 
have had at least  three years’  actual ex­
perience  in  a  drug  store  where  physi­
cians’  prescriptions are compounded;  and 
applicants  for  certificates  as  registered 
assistants  must  have had  two years’  ac­
tual experience.  One month  in a college 
two 
of  pharmacy  will  be  counted  as 
months’ experience in a  store,  provided 
the  applicants  have  had  at 
least  four 
months’ actual experience in  a drugstore 
under  the  supervision  of  a  registered 
pharmacist. 
This  resolutiou  will  not 
affect applications  now on  file  with  the 
Board,  upon  which  applicants  are  still 
entitled  to examinations.

W h at  C o n stitu tes  a T ran sient  M er­

ch a n t.

F ro m   t h e  M a n e e lo n a  H e ra ld .

It 

Considerable interest has  been  mani­
fested in  the case  against  Moses Yolem- 
stein,  a clothier from  Traverse City, who 
is  here with  a bankrupt  stock  of  goods 
and  who was arrested  Monday by the  vil­
lage  authorities,  charged  with  being  a 
transient dealer and  selling  goods  with­
out a  license. 
is  claimed  by many 
that the ordinance  under  which  he was 
tried  is  unconstitutional,  but we  under­
stand  that the same ordinance is  now in 
effect  in  Kalamazoo and  that it has  been 
tested in  the courts.  The case  was tried 
before Justice Kimball,  and  resulted  in a 
disagreement of  the  jury.  On  Tuesday 
the case  was again  brought to trial, when 
the defendant  was  acquitted.  The main 
question  involved was as  to whether the 
defendant  was a transient dealer  or not. 
He pleaded his own  case and proved that 
be  had rented the  store  building  for  a 
month in advance,  which was for as  long 
a time as  most permanent  dealers  paid 
their rent.  The burden of  proof  rested 
with 
is  one 
thing to be a transient dealer, it is some­
times quite another thing  to prove it.

the  village,  and while 

it 

GOTHAM GOSSIP.

N e w s  from   th e   M etrop olis— In d ex  o f 

S p e c ia l C o rre s p o n d e n c e .

th e   M ark ets.

N ew  York,  N ov. 11—During the  past 
week  trade  in  this  city  has  been  very 
fair,  as  regards  the  volume  done. 
It 
certainly is a fact that there  is  a  better 
feeling  in  the  grocery  trade  since  elec­
tion,  as the result leads  many  to  believe 
that  the  administration  will take it as a 
warning that  no  change  in  the  present 
tariff will be tolerated at this time. 
Job­
bers  are  encouraged,  and  are  going  to 
work  with  renewed  hope.  Retail  gro­
cers are selling as  many  goods as usual, 
but  this  rule  is  not  true  in  all  retail 
branches,  for many of  the  big stores up­
town are getting  along  with  much  less 
help  than  usual.  Collections  from  the 
interior  are  slow,  and  not  as  good,  in 
fact,  as a fortnight ago. 
In  this  respect 
we  are  hoping  for 
something  better 
further on.
The  demand  for  sugar  has  greatly 
lessened lately and those  who  made  lib­
eral purchases,  thinking  there would  be 
another dearth,  are  now  kicking  them­
selves.  Some large dealers  are  said  to 
have lost considerable  money  by  the re­
cent  decline.  Granulated  is  now  sell­
ing  at  4%c.  Coffee  is  selling  slowly.^ 
Purchasers are not buying large amounts* 
and the market is  a waiting one.  Brazil 
No.  7 is worth  ISJ^c.
Canned goods are  on  a decline and  the 
rush after tomatoes  has come to an  end. 
Maryland  goods  are  offered  at  97^c 
and New Jerseys at SI  per  dozen  here. 
Peaches. S1.25@1.40  for  standard  yel­
lows.  Gallon pie peaches can  be  called 
scarce.  They fetch §2.20@2.50 per case. 
Com,  dull  and  unchanged  at  $1.10@1.20 
for Maine.
Lemons  are  meeting  with  very  little 
inquiry.  They are  selling  for  $1.75@ 
4.25 per box,  the latter for fruit which is 
strictly fancy.  Oranges  are  worth §5.25 
for repacked  Jamaicas  and  §1.25@2.50 
for Floridas.  Many  Florida  oranges ar­
riving  are 
in  very poor  condition  and 
must  be disposed of at once.  Apples are 
selling at prices  ranging  from  $2.75@3 
for Greenings to S4.25  for  Kings.  Cran­
berries  are 
in  liberal supply  and  fancy 
sorts can  be purchased  at  84.75.  Other 
fresh  fruits  are  selling  slowly and  at 
nominal  prices.
In domestic dried fruits there has been 
a slump and  prices  are  unsteady.  For 
evaporated  apples 10c is almost  the out­
side price.  Dried Delaware  peaches,  16 
@18c: cherries,  9@ llc; apricots,  ll@13e; 
California unpeeled peaches,  9@10c.

Foreign dried  fruits  are not selling at 
all,  in comparison with  other years,  and 
dealers are  “down  in  the  mouth.”  Cur­
rants can  be purchased for  l%c,  or even 
less,  in  barrels;  Valencia  raisins,  to  ar­
rive,  6c;  French  prunes,  6}^c,  to  arrive.
The arrivals of molasses  are  not alto­
gether satisfactory  as  to quality  and  this 
suspicion affects the  price  accordingly. 
New crop New Orleans,  36@37c  for  fair 
and  up  to  42c  for  choice.  Syrups are 
selling slowly  at  12@25c.
Butter is dull  and  weak.  The  market 
is  very  unsteady.  Best State  and  West­
ern creamery,  27@28c, and  so on down to 
20c for a third-rare  Western.  Cheese,  in 
sympathy with  butter,  is also dull and  in 
very  light demand,  selling  at  10@12J£c. 
Western eggs,  if good quality, 25@26%c. 
Receipts of eggs quite  liberal,  but  there 
is always ready  sale  for  first-class  stock.
The latest thing out seems to  be maple 
sugar from California—a genuine article.

J ay.

E igh ty-N in e  O ut  o f  One  H undred  and 

T w en ty.

At an  examination  session of  the State 
Board of Pharmacy,  held  at Lansing  last 
week, there were 120 applicants, of whom 
27 passed  the required  examination  and 
will receive  pharmacists’  certificates;  52 
will  receive  assistants’  certificates,  and 
31  failed to pass.  The  following named 
persons  received  certificates  as  regis­
tered pharmacists:
H.  Biddlecomb,  Detroit;  J.  C.  Brock­
man,  Bettsville,  O.;  H.  V.  Buell,  Mal­
vern, O.;  S.  D.  Collins,  Hart;  J.  J.  Fitz­
gerald,  Hart;  F.  W.  Gallagher,  Racine, 
O.;  C.  S. Gibson,  Batesville,  O.;  J.  H. 
Goodhue,  Detroit;  T.  D.  Harris,  Owosso;

In shoveling potatoes or other vegetables from  wagon  box  or  floor with 
the forks as  they  have been made,  either  the  load  on  the  fork  must  be 
forced up  hill  sharply,  or  the  head  of  the  fork  lowered as the push con­
tinues. 
If the head of the fork  is  lowered  the  points will  be  raised  and 
run into the potatoes.  The sharp edge of oval-tined forks will  bruise  pota­
toes and  beets,  and the ordinary  points  will  stick into them.

These difficulties are entirely  overcome  by  our  SCOOP  FORK. 

It  has 
IT WILL LOAD TO THE HEAD WITH­
It also  holds  its  load  and  hangs  easy  to 

round  tines and flattened  points. 
OUT RAISING THE POINTS. 
work.

The superiority of  our SCOOP FORK over  the wire  scoop is in its much 
It is  all made  from one piece of steel 

greater  durability  and  handiness. 
and  will last for years.

The  utility  of  this  fork  is not limited to vegetables. 

It will  be found 
excellent for handling coal,  lime,  sawdust,  fine manure  and  a great  variety 
of  uses.

It will pay merchants  to  see our samples  and 
learn our reduced prices  of  the  balance of our 

stock ofREADY  MADE  CLOTHING.

Having been  established  for  thirty-six  years 
is,  we  trust  sufficient  proof  of  our  stability. 
MAIL  ORDERS  PROMPTLY  ATTENDED  TO, 
or you  can write  our  Michigan  representative, 
MR.  WILLIAM  CONNOR,  Box  346,  Marshall, 
Mich., to call upon you, and  buy or not buy, we 
will thank you for the compliment.

MIGUEL  KOLB 

i   SON,
Wholesale  doming  «anuiociurers,

ROCHESTER,  N.  Y.

WILLIAM  CONNOR  will  be at Sweet’s  Hotel, Grand  Rapids,  Mich.,  on  THURSDAY,  NOV.  30’ 

and  FRIDAY, DEC.  1.  Customers’ expenses allowed who meet him there.

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If Yon  Wait  Good,  Lilli,  Sweet  Bread  and  Biscuits,
FERMENTUM
COMPRESSED YEAST
TheFermentilm Company

SOLD  BY  ALL  FIRST-CLASS  GROCERS.

MANUFACTURED  BY

QUALITY  WINS!

And you  can depend on  the best quah 

ity when  you  buy this  Brand.

MAIN  OFFICE:

CHICAGO,  270  KINZIE  STREET.

MICHIGAN  AGENCY:

GRAND  RAPIDS,  106  KENT  STREET.

Address  all  communications  to  THE  FERMENTUM  CO.

Glass  Covers  for  Biscuits.

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pay for themselves  in  the 

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Royal  Patent,  Orescent,  White  Rose,

THE  ABOVE  BRANDS,

Are sold with our personal  guarantee.

If you are not now handling any of our brands, we  solicit  a  trial order, confident that the ex 
cellent quality of our goods ana the satisfaction  of  your  customers will  impel  you  to  become a 
regular customer.

breakage they avoid.  Price $4. 

trade.  They  are  made  to  fit  any
of  our  boxes  and can  be  changed  from 
one  box  to  another in a moment.  They 
will  save  enough  good*  from  flies,  dirt  and  prying  fingers in  a short  time to pay 
for themselves.  Try them and be  convinced.  Price,  50 cents each.

N E W   N O V E L T IE S .

We call the attention of the trade to the following new novelties:

CINNAMON  BAR. 

ORANGE  BAR.

the best selling cakes we ever made.

CREAM  CRISP. 

MOSS  HONEY  JUMBLES.
NEWTON,  a rich  finger with  fig  filling.  This  is  bound  to  be  one  of 
THE  NEW  YORK  BISCUIT  CO.,

Correspondence  solicited. 

VQIGT  MILLING  CO.

S. A. Sears, Mgr. 

GRAND  RAPIDS.

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LIBRARY  LAMPS,

WHOLESALE  CROCKERY,  LAMPS  AND  HOLIDAY  GOODS,
SEE CI ABSA.BE  O F  
! 

GREAT 
WEDDING

NO. 7 -D

NO.  3§

GOLDEN 

ASSORTMENT.

ASSORTMENT.

Assorted  Packages  Decorated 

Tase  Lamps.

The  Cheapest  Center  Draft 

Lamp  on. the  Market.

ASSORTMENT

¡T H E   BEST  SE L L E R S.  T H E   MOST  S U B ­

ST A N T IA L   8TOCK.

Contains  Six  Beautiful  Deco­

rated  Vase  Lamps,  three 

Colors,  Assorted 

Decorations.

Each  Lamp  has  a  different  decoration 
on  delicate  tinted  Bisque  ground.  All 
have  Royal  Center  Draft  Burners,  re­
movable  brass founts,  and  10  in.  dome 
shades to match.
6 only  Lamps  as  above  (complete
except chimneys) list each, $5.70.$34  20 
Less discount 50  per cent................  17  10
17  10
Less special  discount  10 per cent..  1  71
15  39
cent...................................................  1  53
13  86
50
14  36

Less extra special  discount  10  per 

P ackage..............................................  

Contains  six  Decorated  Bisque  finish 
Lamps,  with  No.  1  Royal  Center  Draft 
Burners,  removable  brass  founts,  10  in. 
Dome  Shades.
6 only,  Lamps  as  above  (complete 

except  chimneys),  list  each $3. .$18  00 
Less discount 50  per cent................  9  00

Less special discount  10 per cent.

9  00 
9<J

Package

10 in.  Ring Dome  Shades.

Removable  Brass  Founts.

No.  :{ Arctic  Burners and Tri­

pods.

The best and  finest Lamp ever 

offered.

LOOK  AT  THE  PRICE.
0  only,  as  above,  (com­
plete  except  chimneys) 
net  each  $1, 

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$6  00

/ / .   EBON ARO  &  SONS,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich,

Write for  our  Special  Catalogues  on  Lamps,  Crockery  and  Holiday  Goods•

NO  DISCOUNT.

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Six  beautiful  lamps,  all  spring  extensions, 
rich gold,  beautifully decorated,  bisque  finish, 
shades and founts to match,  trimmed  complete 
(except chimnets).  five of the lamps have 30 cut 
glass prisms each.

NO.  30  ASSORTMENT.

One No. 079, list each..................................  $7 00
One No  080!,, list each....................... 
8 00
One No. 081(4, list each...............................  8 50
One No. 082(4, list each...............................  9 50
One No. 083*4, list each...............................  10 00
One No. 084*., list each...............................  it  00
54 00
Discount, 50 per  cent..................................   27 00
27 00
Special 10 per cent.......................................  2 70
24 30
Special 10 per cent.......................................  2 43
21  87
to
22 57

Package........................................................ 

P.  &.  B.

O Y STER S.

PU T N A M  

C A N D Y  

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