Volume XVI.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER  5,1898.

Number  785

W O R L D ’S   B E S T

S O .  C I G A R .  

A L L   J O B B E R S   A N D

<3. J. JOHNSON CIGAR CO.

G R A N D   R A P I D S .   0 3 1 O H .

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Tiling.  Galvanized  Work  of  Every  Description.  Largest 
Concern  in the State. 

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Who Gets the Oyster Trade?

The man whose ovsters  are  the 
freshest and best flavored.

Who Loses Other Trade?

The man who sells fishy oysters 
diluted  with  ice  to  disgust  his 
customers.
Avoid  such  a  calamity  and  in­
crease your  trvde  by  using  our 
O YSTER  CABINETS,  made 
of  Ash,  insulated  with  mineral 
wool.  (See cut.)  They are lined 
with copper.  All parts easily re­
moved for cleaning without dis­
turbing the ice.  Porcelain-lined 
cans.  Send for circular.

Ask for otr prices on Boll Top Batter Refrigerators.
Grand  Rapids  Refrigerator  Co.,

Grand Rapids, Mich.

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We  manufacture a full line. 

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prices.

Wm.  Brummeier  &  Sons

260 S. Ionia Street,

Grand  Rapids,  Michigan.

A  GOOD  SELLER

The  Economy  Farmer’s 
Boiler  and  Feed  Cooker

The  Kettle  is  of  smooth,  heavy cast- 
iron.  The furnace or jacket is of heavy, 
cold  rolled  steel, and very durable.  We 
guarantee this  Feed  Cooker  never  to 
buckle  or  warp  from  the  heat. 
It  is 
designed  to set on the ground, or stone 
foundation,  and  is  especially  adapted 
for cooking feed, trying out lard,  mak­
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and all work  of  this  nature.  Made  in 
four sizes—40,  60,  70 and  100 gallon.

ADAMS  &  HART,  Jobbers,  Grand  Rapids.

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“MR.  THOMAS”

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Ruhe  Bros. Co.,  Makers. 
Factory 956,1st  Dist.  Pa. 

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the  Anniversary Number
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and can  substantiate  our claim.  We  sell  you  sam­
ples at  about  the  cost  of  material  and  guarantee 
our goods  to  be  better made and better finished  than 
the stock that  goes to  the furniture  dealers.

Our  No.  61  Antique  Oak  Sample  Desk  has  a 
combination  lock  and  center  drawer.  Raised 
panels  all  around,  heavy  pilasters,  round  corners 
and  made of  thoroughly  kiln  dried*  oak.  W riting 
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As  placed  on the  market  in  tin  foil  and  under 
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The  Hinged  Cover  on  this 
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GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  OCTOBER 5,1898.

Number 785

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Boucle  Worsted,  Worambo,  Chin-
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GRAND  RAPID5. 

GENERAL  TRADE  S IT U A T IO N .
The  general  volume  of trade continues 
unabated,  the  exceptions  continuing  as 
noted  last  week.  Wars  and  rumors  t f 
wars  in  the  sugar  and  other  trusts  have 
afforded  opportunity  for  speculators  to 
bear  the  trust  stocks,  so  that  the  falling 
off  of  the  average  has  been  consider­
able.  A  factor  which  has  helped  the 
bear  operators  is  the  increasing  myster­
iousness  on  the  part  of corporation man­
agers  not  only  in  the  industrials,  but  in 
transportation  stocks.  Buyers  are  be­
coming  tired  of  surprises  and  uncer­
tainties  which  are  not  warranted,  and 
so  much  of  recent  anxiety  to  sell  is  at­
tributed  to  the  increasing  spirit  of  mys­
tery.

While there have been such a flurry and 
reaction  in  many  of  the  leading  stocks, 
it  is  significant  that  many  of  the  minor 
ones  are  coming  to  the  front  as  divi­
dend  payers.  For  instance,  the  Amer­
ican  Type  Founding  Company,  known 
as  the  type  trust,  had  never  paid  a  div­
idend  during  the  five  years  of  its  exist­
ence 
just  paid  its  first  returns 
to  stockholders,  and  that  with  a  surplus 
which  warrants  the  promise  of  their 
continuation.  With  increasing  earnings 
of  such  industries  and  of  railways  there 
can  be  no  reaction  in  the  general  stock 
market  of  long  duration.

It  has 

The  other  exception  to  a  prosperous 
condition  is  found  in  the  textile  trade, 
and 
in  this  the  cause  is  more  serious 
and  of  longer  standing.  For - years  the 
overproduction  of  cotton  has  been  in­
creasing  until  prices  are  carried  below 
all  records  and  with  this  overproduction 
there  has  been  an  undue  increase  in  the 
manufacture  until  both  are  far  beyond 
any  hope  of  finding  outlet.  The  cheap­
ness  of  this  textile  seems  to  have  affect­
ed  the  woolen  trade  by  sympathy  until 
both  are  almost  hopelessly  demoralized. 
The  price  of  wool  has  advanced  over 60 
per cent.  ;  but this has little significance, 
as  the  mills  are  well  stocked  at  the  low­
er  basis.

The  strength  noted  in  the  wheat  and 
other  grain  markets  last  week  continued 
two  or  three  days,  to  be  followed  by 
decided  dulness  and  reaction.  Export 
movement  is  only  about  two  thirds  that 
of  the  corresponding  time  last  year. 
A  feature  of  the  situation  is  that  farm­
ers  are  holding  for  better  prices  to  an 
unusual  extent,  to  supply  the  undue 
drain  of 
last  year  and  because  they 
are  financially  able  to  carry  stocks  for  a 
better  market.

Activity  in  the  iron  and  steel  trades 
continues  without  abatement  and  most 
prices  are  reported  as  strengthening, 
although  slowly.  It  is  an  important  and 
promising  feature  of  the  situation  that 
the  scale  of  prices  enables  us  to  find  a 
market 
in-  so  many  parts  of  the  world 
and  the  greatest  danger  which  could 
threaten  would  be  such  an  increase  in 
prices  as  would 
limit  the  foreign,  and 
local,  demand.  The weekly  output  dur­
ing  the  great  industrial  year  preceding 
the  panic,  1F92,  Aras  51,648  tons,  while 
is  213,043.  The  price  of 
the  present 
Bessemer  at  Pittsburg 
in  the  former 
year  was  $13.96,  while  the  present 
is 
$10.50.  But  it  is  important  that  40  per

cent,  more  workmen  are  now  employed 
than  during  that  year  of  the  high  tide 
of  prosperity.

M U S T  PAY  TH E   PENALTY.

latest 

The  four express companies associated 
in  the  Express  Trust  appear  to  have  an 
unfortunate  faculty  of  getting  on  the 
wrong  side  of  things  generally.  The 
disloyal  position  they  assumed  on  the 
war  tax  enraged  the  moral  sense  of  the 
people,  creating  a  sentiment  which  will 
find  expression 
in  future  sessions  of 
Congress  and  the  State  Legislatures. 
The 
instance  of  wrongheaded­
ness  is  the  arbitrary  action  of  the  com­
panies  in  demanding  free  service  from 
the 
independent  telephone  companies 
of  the  country.  The  local  company  hap­
pens  to  be  composed  of  about  400  prom­
inent  business  men—bankers,  wholesale 
and  retail  merchants  and  professional 
men—all  of  whom  have 
joined  hands 
in  a  crusade  against  the  latest  ukase  of 
the  Trust.  Among  the  methods  adopted 
to  curtail  the  business  of  the  compan­
ies  is  the  circulation  of  several hundred 
thousand  circulars  reading  as  follows:

them 

to  furnish 

Grand  Rapids,Oct.  3—The American. 
Adams,  National  and  U.  S.  Express 
Companies, in combination,have issued a 
general  peremptory  order to  the Citizens 
Telephone  Co. 
free 
service  or 
remove  their  telephones. 
This  order  is  not  only  to  the  local  tele­
phone  company,  but  to  the  independent 
telephone 
throughout  the 
country,  and 
is  thoroughly  in  keeping 
with  the  unpatriotic  and  disloyal  stand 
taken  by  the  Express  Companies  in  re 
fusing  to  bear  their  share  of  the  war 
tax.
The  only  way  to  reach  these  gigantic 
corporations  and  compel  them  to  with­
draw 
is 
through  their  business,  by  cutting  down 
their  revenue.

this  unreasonable  demand 

companies 

We  shall,  so  far  as  possible,  have  all 
our  goods  shipped  by  fast  freight,  and 
have  nothing  come  by  express  except 
where  absolutely  necessary.  We  trust 
our 
customers  will  anticipate  their 
wants,  so  far  as  possible,  and  submit  to 
whatever brief  delay  is  incurred.

In  filling  orders  for  out  of  town  cus­
tomers,  we  ask  that  the  manner  of  ship­
ping  be 
left  to  our  discretion.  Small 
packages  will  be  sent  by  U.  S.  mail 
where  possible  and  the  Express  service 
used  only  when  the  urgency  of  the  case 
requires.

There  can  be  but  one  outcome  to  the 
attitude  of  the  companies  in  both  war 
tax  and  telephones—and  that  is  surren­
der.  Nor  will  the  matter  stop  there. 
Spain 
is  paying  a  severe  penalty  for 
running  counter  to  the  moral  sense  of 
America,  and  the  express  companies 
are  destined  to  meet  defeat  none the less 
humiliating  and  pay  a  penalty  none  the 
less  severe. 
Corporations  can  ignore 
the  acts  of  legislative  bodies  and  defy 
the  decisions  of  courts,  but  the  moral 
sense  of  the  people  is  an  element  with 
which  corporations  can  not  long  trifle 
without  paying  the  penalty

H.  J.  Klose,  formerly  on  the  road  for 
Studley  &  Barclay,  but  more  recently 
in  the  employ  of  the  Milwaukee  branch 
of  the  Goodyear  Rubber  Co.  as  Michi­
gan  traveling  representative,  takes  the 
place  of  A.  B.  Hirth  with  Hirtb,Krause 
&  Co.  during  the  former’s  absence  in 
the  West.

TH E VO LUNTEER  SYSTEM .

The  experience  of  the  country  during 
and  since  the  war  with  Spain  with  the 
volunteer  system  of  raising  an  army  has 
taught  several 
lessons  which  the  mili­
tary  authorities  should  not  fail  to  take 
to  heait.

that  volunteers  were 

Some  critics  have  hastened  to  pro­
nounce  the  volunteer  system  a  failure 
owing  to  the  anxiety  of  many  regiments 
to  secure  their  discharge  from  the  serv­
ice  as  soon  as  the  war  terminated.  This 
It  has  always  been 
is  a  great  mistake. 
understood 
re­
quired  for  actual  service  in  fighting  the 
country’s  battles  and  not  for  mere garri­
son  duty  or  for  police  work  after  the 
close  of  hostilities. 
It  can  not  be  de­
nied  that  as  long  as  the  war  lasted  the 
volunteers  were  contented  and  willing 
to  remain 
in  the  service  as  long  as  a 
possible  chance  of  seeing  active  work 
existed. 
If  many  regiments  were  slow 
in  securing  equipments  to  fit  them  for 
the  field,  it  was  no  fault  of  theirs,  but 
of 
to 
keep  a  stock  of  war  material  on  hand. 
Wherever  used  the  volunteers  did equal­
ly  as  good  service  as  did  the  regulars, 
the  testimony  of  General  Shafter  and  a 
few  others  to  the  contrary  notwithstand­
ing.

the  Government,  which 

failed 

It  has,  therefore,  been  conclusively 
shown  that,  in  depending  on  the  volun­
teers  as  a  fighting  force,  the  country 
was  wise.  The  mistake  made  was  to 
enlist  them  for  a  term  of  two  years  with 
a  view  of  using  them  for  garrison  duty 
after  the  termination  of  the  war.  The 
volunteers  consider,  and  very  properly, 
that  all  expected  of  them  was  to  fight. 
The  fighting  over,  they  should  be  per­
mitted  to  return  to  their  homes,  and  the 
Regular  Army  recruited  to  a  sufficient 
strength  to  meet  all  requirements  for 
policing  conquered  territory.

increase 

The  conquest  of  Cuba,  Porto  Rico, 
the  Philippines  and  the  Ladrone Islands 
in  the  size  of 
will  make  an 
the  regular  army 
imperatively  neces­
sary,  and  Congress  should  lose  no  time 
when  it  meets  in  providing  for  a  larger 
regular  force  with  a  view  to  relieving 
the  volunteers  as  soon  as  possible.  The 
old  policy  of  maintaining  no  more  reg­
ular  troops  than  are  actually  required 
is  still  a  good  one,  however,  as  the 
volunteers  can  always  be  counted  on  to 
resist 
invasion  and  fight  the  country's 
battles,  even  in  foreign  countries.  Vol­
unteers  can  not  be  expected,  however, 
to  do  police  duty,  hence  when  the  ad­
ministration  sets  out  to  make  new  con­
quests,  it  would  do  well  to  make  pro­
vision  in  season  for  armies  of  occupa­
tion  over  and  above  the  volunteers  re­
quired  to  fight  the  battles.

It  would  also  be  well  to  educate  the 
regulars  up  to  the  understanding  that  to 
fight  disease  is  quite  as  much  a  part  of 
a  soldier’s  duty  as  to  fight  his  country’s 
enemies.  The  British  government  al­
ways  uses  its  troops  to  protect 
infected 
localities,  and  not  even  the  presence  of 
the  bubonic  plague  in  India was deemed 
a  sufficient  reason  for  removing  gar­
risons.  The  round  robin  of  the  mili­
tary  commanders  at  Santiago  was  a 
novelty 
in  military  ethics,  which  can 
not  be  too  soon  forgotten.

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Dry Goods

The  Dry  Goods  Market.
is  but 

Staple  Cottoas—There 

little 
in 
change  to  note  in  regard  to  business 
bleached  cottons. 
Prices  remain  as 
previously  quoted  and  stocks  are  easy. 
Wide  sheetings,  cotton  flannels,  blan­
kets,  quilts,  denims,  ticks,  plaids  and 
other  coarse  colored  cottons  are  without 
marked  change  in  price,  and  in  limited 
request.

Prints  and  Ginghams—More  popular 
lines  of  fancy  ginghams  are  securing 
fairly  good  business  and  are  steady  and 
firm  in  price. 
Indigo  blues,  mourning 
prints,  Turkey  reds,  etc.,  are  finding  a 
quiet,  moderate  business,  with  prices 
unchanged 
in  the  majority  of  cases. 
Reports  are  coming  to  band  of  a  little 
irregularity  here and  there.  Fine  fan­
cies  for  spring  are  selling  well  in  all 
lines  of  cotton  dress  goods,  and  both 
staples  and  fancy  styles  are  in  steady 
demand,  and  prices  firm.

Dress  Goods— There  is  a  slightly  bet­
ter  feeling  in  the  dress  goods  market 
/  this  week  than  we  have  been  able  to 
report  previously,  and  while  the  buying 
has  been  by  no  means  large,  there  has 
been  more  movement 
in  the  various 
lines.  We  note  the  increased  tendency 
to  add  fancies  to  the  orders,  and  these 
fancies 
include  neat  effects  in  plaids, 
fine  checks  and  stripes.  Jobbers  say, 
however,  it 
impossible  to  make any 
concise  statement  in  regard  to  the  styles 
ordered,  or  rather,  to  designate any  one 
or1  half  dozen,  because  the  whole  line 
has  been  chosen  from.

is 

Cloaks—The  uncertainty  in  the  cloak 
trade  with  reference  to  styles  is  the 
fault  of  the  cloak manufacturers strictly. 
The  majority  of  them  have  not  back­
bone  enough  to  decide  for  themselves 
as  to  what  styles  should  be  the  vogue, 
and  so  they  turn  to  their  customers.  In­
stead  of  setting  the  fashions,  their  prac­
tice  has  been  to  buy  a  sample  piece  of 
goods,  and  cut  out  of  each  five  or  six 
different 
length  garments,  and  show 
them  all  to  the  retailers.  The  retailer 
would  be  nonplussed  to  decide  which 
of  these  five  or  six  styles  would  be  the 
correct  thing,  and  the  result  would  be 
that  he  would  place  an  order  for  one 
garment  of  each  style,  and  await further 
developments. 
In  the  meantime  two  or 
three  progressive  and  aggressive  cloak 
manufacturers  have  decided  this  season 
that  the  22-incb  or  thereabouts  jacket 
would  be  the  proper  thing,  made  of 
roughfaced  fabrics,  and  have  so  told 
their  customers  with  all  the  authority 
which  they  could  command,  and  the  re 
suit 
is  that  these  firms  have  done  a 
very  large business,  and  the  confidence 
which  they  felt  in  their  styles  was  com­
municated  to their  customers  to  the  ex­
tent  that  they  placed  their  orders  with 
a  degree  of  authoritative knowledge that 
they  were  right;  and  the  sooner  the 
cloak  manufacturers  realize  that  they 
must  make  the  styles  for  the  retailers  as 
the  retailers  must  select  the  styles  for 
the  consumers,  the  better  condition  the 
entire  trade  will  be  in.

Carpets— A  meeting  of  the  low  grade 
carpet  filling  yarn  spinners  was  held 
Sept  22,  at  the  Manufacturers’  Club 
rooms,  Philadelphia,  and  a  shutdown  of 
the  mills  was  decided  upon.  This  ac­
tion 
is  taken  because  of  the  overpro­
duction  of  low-grade  yarn,  and  the  con­
sequent  tendency  toward  lower  prices. 
It  is  expected  that  another  meeting  will 
soon  be  held,when  arrangements  will  be 
further  discussed.  The  auction  sales

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

it 

is  very 

held  in  May  and  June  so thoroughly  de­
moralized  the  carpet  trade  that  to-day 
there  is  an  unnatural  price  for both yarn 
and  goods,  and  unless  there  is  a  change 
soon,  there  will  be  a  large number of 
spinners  shut  down.  It  is  claimed  there 
are  2,000.000  pounds  of  gray  yarn  on 
the  market,  which 
largely  in 
excess  of  demand.  This  has  continued 
to  accumulate,  notwithstanding  some 
spinners  have  not  run  over  three  or  four 
days  per  week  for  a  long  period.  The 
ingrain  mills  will  not  stirt  to  run 
on  spring  orders  for  six  weeks,  and  be­
tween  this  time  and  the  opening  of  next 
season 
is  claimed  by  those  well  in­
formed  that  not  over  25  per cent,  of  the 
ingrain 
looms  will  run,  and  that  even 
those  will  be  on  duplicate  orders.  Some 
mills  have  orders  in  hand  that  must  be 
executed  within  a  given  time.  When 
these  are  completed  they  will  shut down 
with  the  rest  of  the  manufacturers. 
Cheap  straw  matting 
is  also affecting 
the  sale  of  cheap  gray  carpets  and  other 
lines.  Manufacturers  claim  that  there 
is  not  enough  protection  against  Orien­
tal  matting,  and  that  this  is  one  of  the 
causes  of  the  present  depression.  It  was 
claimed,  when  the  Philadelphia  manu­
facturers  were 
in  Washington  prior  to 
the  passage  of  the  present  low  tariff  on 
straw  matting,  that  unless  there  was 
sufficient  duty  placed  upon  this  class  of 
goods,  it  would  eventually  shut  up  the 
Kensington  mills.  The  manufacturers 
abroad  have  reduced  prices  on  matting 
since  the  new  tariff  went  into effect,  and 
the  result  has  been  that,  while  the  busi­
ness  has  been  confined  to  a  few  im­
porters,  they  have a  done a  large  busi­
ness. 
It  is  expected  that  2,000  people 
will  be  affected  by  the  shutting  down  of 
the  filling  yarn  mills.

1.  W .  L A M B ,  o rig in a l  in ve n to r 
o f th e  L a m b   K n ittin g   M a c h in e , 
P re s id e n t a nd S u p e rin te n d e n t.

The Lamb Glove & Mitten Go..

of PERRY, MICH.,

controls  a  large  number  of  the  latest 
and  best 
It 
is  making  a  very  desirable  line  of 

inventions  of  Mr.  Lamb. 

KNIT  HAND  WEAR 

The  trade  is  assured  that  its  interests 
will be promoted by handling: these goods.

S e w in g ,  K n ittin g  
an d   E m b ro id ery  S ilk s

A full line  of  “ Corticelli”  in  Filo,  Wash  and  Per­
sian  Floss  Skein  Silks. 
Penny-spool  Embroid­
ery;  5  and  io c  Sewing;  5,  10,  15 and 25c  Knitting 
Also  a  line  of  Braiuard  &  Armstrong’s  Filo  Skein 
Silks.

P  STEKETEE &  SONS, Grand  Rapids.

I  Fleecy  Lined Hosiery

f   Is by far the most popular for cool weather.  You will 
make no mistake to  purchase  liberally.  We  have  a 
£  good article  for  Boys’  and  Misses’  wear,  in  one  and 
one ribbed, sizes  6  to  9%;  retail  at  10  cents.  Better 
^  goods to sell  at  15  and  20  cents.  In  Ladies’  we  are 
t   showing good values to sell at  10,  15, 20  and  25  cents.

Send for sample lot

W hat Is Your 

Husband Doing

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Voigt, Herpolsheimer  &   Co.,

Wholesale  D ry  Goods,  G rand Rapids,  M ich.

about decorating 
those  rooms?

Do  You  Know

our  stock  of  Wall  Paper 
is new, and consists of only 
the 
latest  designs  and 
colorings?

C.  L.  HARVEY  &   CO.

59  MONROE  STREET,
GRAND RAPIDS.  MICH.

Pktirt Framing and Painting of the Highest Art.

THE ONLY  WAY...

To learn the real value of a trade  or class paper 
is to find out how  the  men in whose interest it is 
published value it.  Ask the merchants of Mich­
igan what they think of th e.  .  .

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

We  are  willing  to  abide  by  their  decision.

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Rubber Stamps, Numbering Machines, Rubber Cancelling Daters for Revenue 
Stamps, Sign  Markers,  Advertising  Stickers  and  Price  Marks,  Autographic 
Duplicating Sales-Slip Registers and a full line of up-to-date office supplies.

n n r n i n i   W e  print as  much as appears on  above card on  3,000  gummed  slips  i%x2%  inches  and  de- 
UI  L U ln L   liver to you for $2.00.  “ She’s-good-wan."  Ask  for what you  want and  it shall  be sent.

L .  A .  B L Y .   A L M A .  M IO H .

not  have  suffered  a  particle  on  account 
Decorations  for Home-Coming  of 32d  i 
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of  the  uncertain  showers.

a  Failure. 

Written for the Tbadesman.

There  is  no  nation  which  puts  into  i 

practice  more  utilitarian  theories  than 
the  American  nation.  This  was  shown 
a  few  days  ago  when  the  32d  regiment 
returned  to  Grand  Rapids. 
In  the  re­
cent  Spanish  American War  more  atten­
tion  was  devoted  to  their  doings than  to 
the  successes  of  the  heroes of  Manila 
Bay  and  Santiago.

important  thoroughfare 

With  the  prospect  of  the  boys’  home­
coming  everybody’s  heart  beat  faster 
and  nothing  was  considered too good  for 
them.  There  was  much  talk  about  their 
reception,  the  decorations,  etc.  Yet 
what  was  the  result?  Within  an  hour 
of  their  arrival  could  any  place  look 
more  forlorn  than  Monroe  street,  the 
most 
through 
which  the troops  would  pass?  True,  one 
shoe  firm  decorated  its  windows  with 
red,  white  and  blue  paper;  and  one 
druggist  put  out  a  great gilded  eagle  to 
proclaim the  American  motto,  *’ E  plur- 
ibus  unum. ”   But  the  decorations  were 
limited  for  the  most  part  to  numerous 
small,  cheap,  sleazy  cotton  flags  stuck 
at  all  angles  under the  sun,  and  a  little 
faded  bunting  looped  over  doorways 
in 
anything  but  graceful  folds.

“ But,’ ’  says  some  one,  “ it  rained 

in 
the  morning  and  there  was  little  pros­
pect  of  any  procession 
in  the  after­
noon. ’ ’

The  doubt  ought  to have  come  a  little 
sooner.  And  the  public-spirited  men 
ought  to have  questioned  whether  it  was 
justice to  the  boys  to  get  up  such  a  pa-, 
rade. 
It  is  true  the  boys  had  not  been 
in  a  battle,  nor  even  seen  one,  but

“They also serve  who only stand and wait.”

And  certainly  the  hardships  of  camp 
life  and  the  ravages  of disease are easier 
to  be borne  in  the  midst  of  the  excite­
ment  and  the  glory  of  war.  After seeing 
the  boys one wonders whether the fathers 
had  anything  to  do  with  the  plan  of 
sh'owing  them  off.  Certainly  no  mother 
could  have  wished  to  have  her  son, 
dirty,  tired,  half  sick  and  starved  (most 
of  them  had  bad  no  breakfast  before 
leaving  Island  Lake),  put  on  exhibition 
in  that  condition  before her  friends,  ac­
quaintances  and  neighbors,  or  even 
strangers.  Home  was  the  place  for 
them  and  the  carriages  which  were  so 
kindly  furnished  by 
the  citizens  of 
Grand  Rapids  ought  to  have  carried 
them  and  their  belongings  at  once  to 
their  homes. 
(But  that  is  only  an  in­
dividual  opinion.)

success. 

If a  majority  of  the  citizens  decided 
that  a  procession  was  the  way  to  wel­
come  home  the  troops  then  they  ought 
to  have  done  everything  in  their  power 
to  make  all  the  arrangements,  the  deco­
rations—everything—a 
The 
boys  scarcely  knew  what  to  do  with  the 
flowers  showered  upon  them,  and  as  to 
free  lunches,  they  were  quite  overcome 
by  their  liberal  portions. 
Imagine  liv ­
ing  on  hardtack  anckbacon  for  several 
months  and  then  being  confronted  by 
mountains  of  sandwiches,  pies  by  the 
score  and  fruit galore.  Of  course,  boys 
never  get  dyspepsia;  but  such  treat­
ment  was  a  sure  way  to  develop  the 
malarial  typhoid  germs 
in  the  system 
and  bring  about  a  siege  of  sickness.
Now,  if  the  same  time,  money  and 
thought  had  been  put  on  the  street deco­
rations 
instead  of  the  provisions,  they 
might  have  been  made  a  delight  to  the 
eye 
instead  of  an  eyesore.  Why  were 
not the  shop  windows  utilized  on  such  a 
day  not  only  for  showing  patriotism, 
but  also  for advertising  the  wares?  And 
the  contents of  the  show  windows  need

While  I  was waiting  for the procession 
to  appear,  I  cast  my  eyes  up  and  down 
Monroe  street  and was forcibly reminded 
by  contrast  of  an  experience  I  had  at 
Malmo  just  a  year  ago.

Malmo 

is  a  Ashing  town  in  Southern 
is  just  one- 
Sweden  whose  population 
half  that  of  Grand  Rapids. 
I  reached 
there  on  a  Sunday  morning  and  could 
not  take  a  boat  for  Copenhagen  before 
noon.  With  several  hours  on  my  bands, 
there  was  little  for  me  to  do  but  saunter 
around  the  town  and  see  what  there  was 
to be seen. 
I had feared that time would 
bang  heavily  on  my  bands;  but  the 
shop  windows  on  several  of  the  princi­
pal  streets  were  so  full  of  interest,  and 
my  attention  was  so  fully  diverted,  that 
the  boat  whistled  before  I  took  any  no 
tice  of  the  time,  and  I  had  to  hurriedly 
retrace  my  steps  to  the  dock.

The  day  before,  King  Oscar  had 
visited  Malmo. 
It  was  the  Silver  An­
niversary  of  his  ruling  his  kingdom, 
and  so  he  was  making  triumphal entries 
in  the more important  cities  of  bis  land. 
As  the  Malmo  celebration  had  taken 
place  the  Saturday  evening  before  and 
had  lasted  late  into  the  night,  nothing 
bad  been  touched  early  Sunday morning 
when  I  arrived,  the  candles  being  still 
in  their  sockets and  the  decorations  not 
disturbed.

The  front  windows  of  the  hotel  where 
King  Oscar  had  stopped  were  a  blaze  of 
blue  and  orange,  the  national  colors, 
while  the  numerous  candles  on  each 
windowsill  'took  on  the  same  hues 
Every  shop  window  made  the  national 
colors  the  keynote  of  its  decorations 
In  the  flower  shop  was  a  great  flag  of 
orange  and  blue  stripes,  with  a  bit  of 
red  in  the  corner to  show  Norway’s  al­
legiance  to  Sweden.

In  the 

jewelers’  shops  were  brilliant 
rubies  and  sapphires 
in  pure  gold—arranged  artistically 

gems—garnets, 
set 
on  blue  plush  and  yellow  satin.

In  the  shoe  shops  were  blue  and  or­
ange  satin  evening  slippers,  while  the 
background  for  the black  shoes  was  of 
the  national  colors.

In  the  chemists’  were 

innumerable 
bottles and packages wrapped  in  blue  or 
orange-colored  paper.

In  the  dry  goods  shops  were  ready­
made  dresses. 
I  remember  one  window 
in  particular  which  contained  two  dum­
mies,  one  wearing  a  blue  velvet  recep­
tion  dress,  the  other  a  yellow,  or  rather 
orange-colored,  evening  gown. 
Also 
there  were  numerous  silk  blouses  in  the 
national  colors.  Then  another  window 
contained  nothing  except  ribbons  of  the 
same  colors.

The  milliner  shops  boasted  of  the 
in  the  way 

same  gorgeous  decorations 
of  hats,  ribbons,  flowers  and  plumes.

The  book  stores  had  less  opportunity 
than  some of  the other shops  for display­
ing  the  blue  and  orange,  but  they  used 
their  ingenuity  and  did  not  lag  behind 
the  others  in  results.

This 

Everywhere  were  the  national  flags 
waving  their  silken  folds  in  the  breeze, 
there  were  a  number  of  flower-bedecked 
triumphal  arches,  and  when  the 
innu­
merable  candles  were  lighted  the  city 
must  have  presented  a  brilliant  spec 
tacle.
is  simply  a  suggestion  of  the 
beauties  of  Malmo  that  to  me  memora­
ble  Sunday  morning,  but 
it  may  offer 
i  some  hints  to  the  artistically  inclined 
,  window  dresser,  and  set  him  to  think­
ing  of  the  possibilities  of  the  even more 
1  varied  and  beautiful  American  flag  and 
our  national  colors  used  in  decorating 
I  on  such  an  occasion  as  the  return  of  our 
[  soldiers. 

Quiz.

Display 
Stands

for  Ladies  or  Gen­
tlemen’s  Hats.
Any  height  12.50 
per  dozen.  Bronze 
base  nickle-plated 
support.

Peninsular  Brass Co.,

Erie Street, 

Grand  Rapids.

M’f’g’rs  of  Brass Castings.  Platers  in  Gold,  Silver, Nickle, Copper and Brass. 

Correspondence  solicited.  *

THE GEjU UfflOH  SUIT

Only  combination  suit  that  gives 
perfect  satisfaction. 
Is  double- 
breasted;  elastic in  every  portion; 
affords comfort and convenience to 
wearer that are not obtained in any 
other make.  We,  the  sole  manu­
facturers  and  patentees,  are  pre­
pared  to  supply  the  trade  with 
a great variety of qualities and sizes. 
Special attention given mail orders.

M e   Knitting  «forts,  * * * * * *

GLffill  RUTKn-jEWELL  CO.,

38  &  40  South  Ionia St.

Opposite  Union  Depot.

Complete  stock  of  HARDWARE, 
TINWARE,  CUTLERY  and  every­
thing  usually  kept  in  a  first-class 
hardware  store.

STRICTLY  WHOLESALE 

All orders filled promptly at bottom 
ruling prices.  Mail orders solicited.

CLARK-RUTKA-JEWELL  CO.,  Grand  Rapids, Mich.

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Around  the State
Movements  of  Merchants.

Albion—F.  W.  Briggs,  clothier,  has 

removed  to  Colon.

Sherwood—Wm.  Rider  has  removed 

his  harness  stock  to  Athens.

Holly— A.  W.  Curtis  has  re-engaged 

in  the  boot  and  shoe  business.

Delton — J.  F.  Williams  has  re-en­

gaged  in  the  furniture  business.

Capac— Warren  &  Balden  succeed 

Warren  &  Bro.  in  general  trade.

Detroit— Loree  &  Co.  succeed  Sillers 

&  McRoy  in  the  grocery  business.

Detroit— W.  T.  McRae  succeeds  Mc­

Rae  &  Co.  in  the  grocery  business.

Reading— A.  A.  Dibble  will  shortly 

remove  his  clothing  stock  to  Albion.

Lake  Odessa—C.  G.  Loase,  hardware 
dealer,  has  removed  his  stock  to Sparta.
Central  Lake—Homer  &  Johnson  have 
opened  a  dry  goods  store  at  this  place.
Marcellus— Russell  &  Nash  succeed 
Moon  &  Russeil  in  tthe  hardware  busi­
ness.

Laurium— H.  S.  Ingersoll  has  pur­
chased  the  grocery  stock  of  Grimmer 
Bros.

Bay  City— W.  V.  Prybeski  has  pur­
chased  the  stock  of  the  People's  Supply 
Store.

Caro— H.  S.  Johnson  has  purchased 
the  dry  goods  and  shoe  stock  of  Jas.  C. 
Fuller.

Marshall— A.  V.  Watson  has  pur­
chased  the  grocery  stock  of  Andrew 
Watson

Hastings— Lake  &  Crowell,  wood 
turners,  have  dissolved,  Bert  Lake  suc­
ceeding.

Fifield— Harry  N.  Hammond,  dealer 
in  seeds,  has  removed  from  Decatur  to 
his  place.

Montrose—Marks  &  Frank,  general 
dealers,  have  removed  from  Argyle  to 
this  place.

Mancelona— The  Mancelona  Electric 
Co.,  not  incorporated,  is  succeeded  by 
A.  Emery.

Ithaca— C.  M.  Brown  has  purchased 
stock  of 

implement 

the  agricultural 
Wm.  Dibble.

Bay  City—O. 

(Mrs.  C .)  Ueberroth 
succeeds  Ueberroth  &  Widmer  in  the 
meat  business.

Jackson— J.  W.  Fleming  succeeds  M. 
M.  Johnson  &  Co.  in  the  confectionery 
and fruit  business.

Marshall— E.  G.  Brewer has  sold  his 
stock  of  general  merchandise  to  H.  E. 
Hart,  of  Battle  Creek.

Hillman—Wm.  F.  Devlin  is  succeed­
ed  by  John  Murphy  as  proprietor  of  the 
Hillman  Hardware  Co.

Hillsdale—A.  &  D.  Friedman  have 
opened  a  dry  goods  store,  placing  R. 
Franks  in  charge  thereof.

Jackson— Lewis  A.  Townley  succeeds 
in  the  wholesale 

Townley  &  Simpson 
fruit  and  produce  business.

West  Bay  City— Henry  S.  Ingersoll, 
goods,  groceries  and 

dealer 
shoes,  has  removed  to  Laurium.

in  dry 

Edwardsburg—Sampson  &  Talerday 
formerly 

continue  the  meat  business 
conducted  by  Wm.  H.  Sampson.

Kingston— W.  L.  Baker,  of  Carleton, 
has  purchased  the  furniture  and  under­
taking  business  of  J.  K.  Thomas.

Three  R ivers-The  furniture  store  of 
Geo.  Neidhardt  has  been  closed  by  the 
foreclosing  of  a  chattel  mortgage.

Alma— H.  J.  Vermulen  has  converted 
his  mercantile  establishment  into  a  de­
partment  store,  which  will  be  known  as 
the  Alma  department  store.  His  three 
stores  have  been  connected by archways, 
thus  making  one  iarge  room  occupying 
the  entire  block.

Schoolcraft—Wm.  Roberts  &  Son have 
enlarged  their  furniture  and  hardware 
stock  and  removed  to  more  commodious 
quarters.

Howard  C ity-  B.  Danziger,  of  Man- 
ton,  has  opened  a  branch  store  at  this 
place,  carrying  a 
line  of  general  mer­
chandise.

Lansing—Geo.  W.  Hubbard,  of Ionia, 
has  taken  charge  of  the  dress  goods  and 
silk  department  of  the  Simons  Dry 
Goods  Co.

Owosso—Stephen  Dondero  has  retired 
from  the  confectionery  business.  He 
will  visit  his  native  city,  Genoa,  in  a 
few  weeks.

Hopkins  Station— Furber  &  Kidder 
now  occupy  their  new  bank  building, 
which 
is  a  fine  structure  and  a  credit 
to  the  town.

Cadillac—Anderson  &  Johnson,  meat 
dealers,  have  dissolved,  Cbas.  G.  An­
derson  purchasing  the  interest  of  John 
O.  Anderson.

Lansing—G.  A.  Munyon  has  removed 
his  grocery  stock  from  the  corner  of 
Saginaw  and  Larch  streets  to  409  Mich­
igan  avenue.

Davison—R.  J.  Smith  has  sold  his 
drug  stock  to  C.  S.  Brooks,  who  clerked 
for  C.  E.  Haynes  up  to  the  time he sold 
his  stock  to  Mr.  Smith.

Sherwood— Fenner  Bros,  have  sold 
their  grocery  and  boot  and  shoe  stock 
to  R.  F.  Watkins  &  Son,  who  will  con­
tinue  the  business  at  this  place.

Ludington—H.  G.  Hansen,  who  re­
cently  sold  his  interest  in  the  Busy  Big 
store  to  Dr.  Loppenthein,  has purchased 
the  grocery  stock  of  A.  Rasmussen.

Calumet—John  Grierson  and Geo.  Fax 
have  formed  a  copartnership  under  the 
style  of  Grierson  &  Fax  and  embarked 
in  the  general  merchandise  business.

Charlotte— E.  V.  Abell  has  sold  bis 
shoe  stock  to  Albert  Murray.  The state­
ment  that  the  stock  had  been  purchased 
by  Victor  Roblin  &  Co.  was  incorrect.
Battle  Creek— Hobbs  Bros.  &  Russell, 
grocers  at  231  West  Main  street,  have 
dissolved.  The  business  will  be  contin­
ued  under  the  style  of  Swank  &  Hobbs.
Lansing— W.  E.  Parmelee,  of  Elyria, 
Ohio,  has  formed  a  partnership  in  the 
shoe  business  with  his  brother,  J.  S. 
Parmelee,  formerly  of  Parmelee  &  Jes- 
sop.

Bay  City— Ewell  &  Harper,  undertak­
ers  at  502  Washington  avenue,  have dis­
solved  partnership,  Fred.  A.  Harper 
retiring.  The  business  will  be  con­
tinued  by  Geo.  N.  Ewell.

Maple  Rapids— E.  C.  Bement,  who  is 
retiring  from  the  mercantile  business, 
has  sold  the  remainder  of  his  stock  to 
Scott  Redfern  and  John  Chalmers,  who 
will  continue  the  business.

Alma— The  store  building  vacated  by 
the  Saginaw  store  has  been  leased  for  a 
term  of  years  by  the  New  York  Dry 
Goods  Co.,  which  will  carry  a  line  of 
dry  goods,  carpets  and  cloaks.
Holland—The  undertaking 

firm  of 
Vanderberg  &  Cranston  has  dissolved, 
M.  Notier  purchasing  the 
interest  of 
Mr.  Cronston.  The  firm  will  hereafter 
be  known  as  Vanderberg  &  Notier.

Harbor  Springs— H.  H.  Plank  has 
purchased  H.  H.  Chamberlain’s  meat 
market.  W.  W.  Pearl,  who  was  in  the 
employ  of  Mr.  Chamberlain,  is  now 
in 
charge  of  the  market  of  G.  C.  Adams.
Hartford— H.  L.  Gleason  &  Co.  have 
bargained  to sell their general stock to F. 
W.  Hubbard,  of  the  firm  of  M.  Wiggins 
&  Co.,  general  dealers at Bloomingdale. 
In  the  event  of  the  sale  being  consum­
mated,  Mr.  Gleason  will  devote  bis  at­
tention  to  the  handling  of  live  stock, 
fruit and  produce.

Traverse  City—Arthur  Rosenthal,  who 
was  formerly  connected  with  the  Bos­
ton  store,  and  afterwards  removed  to 
South  Lake  Linden,  will  shortly  open  a 
dry  goods,  clothing  and  shoe  store  here.
Sherman— Wm.  F.  Lount,  of  Grand 
Rapids,  has  taken  a  position in the drug 
store  of  M.  Rose.  Mr.  Lount  was  on 
the  Oregon 
in  her  trip  around  Cape 
Horn  and  was  afterwards  transferred  to 
Cuba,  where  he  took  part  in  several  en­
gagements.

Boyne  City—R.  A.  Watson 

is  erect­
ing  a  two-story  building,  24x66  feet  iu 
dimensions,  with  double  glass  front  fac­
ing  both  streets.  He  will  occupy  the 
ground  floor  with  his  drug  stock  and 
the  upper  story  will  be  leased  to  the 
local  Masonic  lodge.

Homer— The  millinery  firm  of  M.  J. 
Armstrong  &  Co.  has  dissolved,  Mrs 
Armstrong  continuing  the  business  at 
the  old  stand.  Miss  Hessmer has formed 
a  copartnership  with  Mrs.  G.  E.  Har- 
tung,  and  the  new  firm  will  be  known 
as  Hartung  &  Hessmer.

Coldwater— The  Quincy  Knitting  Co. 
has  been  organized  with  a  capital  stock 
of  $12,500,  divided  among  thirty-five 
stockholders.  The  officers  of  the  com­
pany  are  as  follows :  President,  C.  H. 
McKay;  Vice-President,  W.  H.  Lock- 
erby;  Secretary,  C.  H.  Kenyon  and 
Treasurer,  C.  H.  Houghtaling.

North  Lansing— The  Hart  milling 
property  has  been  sold  to  Webber  & 
Hughes  by  the  receiver.  A  year  ago  the 
receiver  bargained  to  sell  the  property 
to  A.  D.  Hughes  for  $5,000,  but  the 
deal  has  not  been  consummated  until 
now.  The  property  was  originally  val­
ued  at  over  $20,000,  and  was  turned 
over  to  the  Central  Michigan  Savings 
Bank  before  its  failure.

Detroit— The  Detroit  Malleable  Co., 
successors  to  the  Detroit  Malleable  Iron 
Works,  has  filed  articles  of  incorpora­
tion,  and  will  continue  the  business  up­
on  a  capital  stock  of  $50,000,  of  which 
$43,000  has  been  paid  in.  The  incor­
porators  are  J.  Preston  Rice,  Geo.  H. 
Carver,  Thomas  H.  Simpson,  George 
M.  Black,  Will  H.  Moore,  Benjamin  F. 
Ray,  Douglas  M.  Ray,  and  Thomas  M. 
Simpson,  trustee.

Saginaw—Biesterfeld  Bros.,  who  have 
long  been  engaged  in the hardware busi­
ness  at  213  and  215  North  Harrison 
street,  have  filed  chattel  mortgages  ag­
gregating  $4,500  to  protect  their  credit­
ors.  The  first  mortgage  runs  to the Com­
mercial  National  bank  and  is for $3,000, 
to  secure  paper  discounted  by  the  bank. 
The  second  mortgage  is  for  $1,200 and 
is  given  to  a  relative  to  secure  money 
advanced.  The  third 
is  for  $200 and 
runs  to  Mrs.  Harrison  Kerry  to  secure 
borrowed  money.  A  fourth  mortgage 
for  $108  runs  to  an  employe.  The  as­
sets,  it  is  understood,  are  considerably 
in  excess  of  the  liabilities,  and  it  is 
believed  that  if  the  creditors  are lenient 
the  firm  will  be  able  to  meet  all  its  ob­
ligations  and  continue  its  business.

Burton  Halladay  has  gone 

into  the 
grocery  and  dry  goods  business  at  Ash­
ton.  The  goods  for  the  former  depart­
ment  were  purchased  of  the  Lemon  & 
Wheeler  Co.  and  for  the  latter  of  P. 
Steketee  &  Sons.

John  Cahill  has  engaged  in  the  gro­
cery  business  at Portland.  He purchased 
his  stock  of  the  Musselman  Grocer  Co.

V.  C.  Wolcott  has  engaged 

in  the 
grocery  business  at  Hart.  The  Mussel- 
man  Grocer  Co.  furnished  the  stock.

Frank  Chase  has  engaged  to travel  for 

Wm.  Brummeler  &  Sons.

Status  of  Fruits  and  Produce  at  St.

Louis.

The  demand 

is  very  unsettled. 

SL  Louis,  Mo.,  Oct.  4—The  market 
on  potatoes 
The 
weather  continues  warm  and  prices  are 
lower. 
is  exceedingly 
light  for  the  time  of  year.  The  condi­
tions  of  the  market  are  very  much  more 
favorable  than  at  this  time  last  year. 
There  was  a  heavy  accumulation  of 
stock  on  track  just  at  this  time  last  sea­
son,  with  very  depressed  conditions. 
The  trade  has  bought  more  cautiously 
this  year  and  there  are  no  heavy 
losses 
In  the  last two  weeks  pota­
to  report. 
toes  have  declined  from  50c  per  bushel 
for  the  best  white  stock  and  45c  for  the 
best  red,  down  to  33@35c  for  the  best 
white  and  30@32c  tor  the  best  red. 
There  is  no  accumulation  to  speak of on 
track,and  with  favorable  weather,which 
we  will  no  doubt  have  in  a  day  or  two, 
this  market  will  need  potatoes.

During  the  season  of  1895  and  1896 
this  market  received  a  great  many pota­
toes  from  Michigan  and  several  of  your 
best  varieties,  especially  New  York 
If 
Rurals,  became  very  popular  here. 
the  quality  of  your  crop  this  year 
is 
good,  many  cars  of  Rurals  can  be  sold. 
The  trade  are  now  asking  us:  "When 
do  you  expect  to  have some of those fine, 
bright  Rurals  you  bad  two  years  ago?" 
and  we  are  telling  them  that  Michigan 
stock  is  not  ready  for  shipment  yet; 
that  just  as  soon  as  the  potatoes 
in 
Michigan  are  ready  we  will  have  them. 
Those  Rurals  from  your  State  will  sell 
now  and  command  a  premium,  bring­
ing  from  3@4C  per  bushel  more than the 
stock  coming 
from  Wisconsin.  You 
have  a  potato  called  Empire  State. 
They  are  usually  yellow  and  do  not  sell 
well—Burbanks  are  preferred.  There 
seems  to  be  a  good  crop  of  potatoes 
everywhere,and  you  can  not  expect  that 
prices  will  rule  very  high.  You  had 
better  figure  on  a  market  of  from  20c  to 
25c  at  loading  station.  They  may  pos­
sibly  sell  as  iow  as  15c  to  20c,  because 
there  is  no  particular  locality  with  any 
great  shortage,  and  with  even  one  half 
to  two-thirds  of  a  crop 
in  all  of  the 
growing  districts, it  will make a big crop 
to  market,  and  every  place  reports  a 
very  good  crop.

We  do  not anticipate  as  low  prices  as 
ruled  in  1894  and  1895.  because  there 
are  not  as  many  potatoes  as  there  were 
those  years;  but  in  all  districts  where 
potatoes  are  grown,  from  present  out­
look,  they  will  have  to  look  to  markets 
nearest  at  hand. 
It  does  not  now  ap­
pear  that  the  East  can  take  any  great 
portion  of  the  Michigan  crop.  You 
will,  therefore,  of  necessity  have  tofind 
a  Southern  outlet,  and  will  most 
likely 
find  St.  Louis  a  good  market.  You  are 
but  two  or  three  days'  shipment  from 
us  here,  and  the  railroad  facilities  from 
Michigan  to  East  St.  Louis,  where  the 
potatoes  are  unloaded,  are  of  the  best. 
Several  of  the  best  roads  in  the  country 
can  offer  you  quick  transportation.

The apple  market  has  been  very  dull. 
The  trade  are  waiting  for  winter  varie­
ties.  The  summer  fruit  which  has been 
coming  in  here  in  such  abundance,  es­
pecially  culls  shipped  in  bulk,  has  de­
moralized  the  market,  and  the  trade  are 
anxious  to  have  it  out  of  the  way,  and 
get  to  handling  bard  winter  stock.  St. 
Louis  is  ready  for  some  fine  apples  as 
soon  as  they  are  packed  and  is prepared 
to  pay  good  prices  for them as compared 
with  this  poor  fruit  which  is  now  glut­
ting  the  market.

There  seems  to  be  a  good  crop  of 
onions  everywhere,  and  they  are  selling 
at  low  prices.  We  have  seen  but  few 
really good  onions  on  this  market  this 
season.  We  believe  that  parties  having 
fancy,  well-matured  bright  stock  will 
find  a  good  market  for  it.

Beans  are  selling  for  better  prices 
than  they  have  been.  We  are  anxious 
to  have  reports  on  the  crop 
in  Michi­
gan  and  would  appreciate  letters  from 
parties  who  can  give  us  reliable 
infor­
mation.  M il l e r   &  T e a s d a l e  Co.

The  Bird  Canning  Co.,  of  St.  Louis, 
Mo.,  has  opened  a  canning  factory  in 
one  end  of  the  old  G.  R.  &  I.  freight 
house.  Apples  only  will  be  canned  this 
season.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Grand  Rapids  Gossip
Grand  Rapids  Retail  Grocers’  Asso­

ciation.

The  regular  meeting  of  the  Grand 
Rapids  Retail  Grocers'  Association  was 
held  at  the  Tradesman  office  Tuesday 
evening,  Oct.  4,  at  which  President 
Dyk  read  his  inaugural  address,  as  fol­
lows :

At  our  last  meeting  I  was  elected  as 
President  of  the  Association.  With 
pleasure  I  accept  the  office,  and  appre­
ciate  the  confidence  and  good  will 
which  you  have  shown  me,  realizing 
that  it  is  tendered  by  men  of  sober  and 
ripe  judgment,  and,  for  that  reason,  I 
feel  honored;  nevertheless, 
I  would 
gladly  have  seen  another  member  take 
my  place  more  able  than  1,  but  I  can 
only  say  you  will  have  to  make  the  best 
of  a  poor  bargain.  You  have  made 
it 
easy  for  me  by  your  kind  co-operation.
We  have  again  entered  upon  another 
year  of  our  existence,  consequently have 
to  halt  at  another  milestone  and  there­
fore  can  but  reflect  upon  the  past.  This 
year  has  been  a  fairly  prosperous  one 
for  the  Association.  We  can  not  show 
marked  achievements,  but  have  reason 
to  feel  proud  of  the  strengthening  we 
have  made  along  the  lines.  The  Asso­
ciation  has  taken  a  more  prominent 
place  in  the  business  community;  reso­
lutions  have  been  adopted ;  able  papers 
have  been  presented  full  of  wisdom,  in­
sight  and  a  grasp  upon  the  needs  of  the 
day,showing  that  the  Association  stands 
for  correct  business  principles.  Right­
eousness  exalteth  the  Nation,  conse­
quently  exalteth  the 
individual;  and 
the  humblest  merchant  who  conducts 
his  affairs  on  this  principle  occupies  an 
exalted  station.  Let  us  continue  to  go 
forward,  not  satisfied  with  past achieve­
ments,  so  that this  Association  may  be 
an  educational  school 
for  the  young 
business  man,  and  a  bright  spot  for 
the  experienced  business  man,  as  he 
who  gives  from  his  ripe  experience  will 
find  that  it  is  more blessed  to  give  than 
to  receive;  and  to  testify  to  the  experi­
ence,  “ Seest  thou  a  man  diligent 
in 
business  and  he  shall  stand  before 
kings. ”

On  motion,  the  regular  order  of  busi­
ness  was  dispensed  with 
in  order  that 
the  members  might  listen  to  an  address 
by  Hon.  Robert  Graham  on  the  subject 
of  the  anti-color  oleo  law.  Mr.  Graham 
stated  that  he  had  received  the  letter  of 
enquiry  from  the  Secretary,  and  pre­
ferred  addressing  the  members  on  the 
subject  to  writing  a  letter  because-he 
could  express  himself  much  more  clear­
ly  verbally.  He  favored  the  anti-color 
law  because  he  felt  it  to  be  right  and 
just. 
In  the  first  place,  the  invention 
of  oleo  was  a  death  blow  to  one  of  the 
chief 
industries  of  Michigan.  Until 
two  years  ago,  cattle  were  growing  less 
in  number,  until  butter  cows  became  so 
scarce  that  there  were  not  half  enough 
cows  to  meet  the  requirements  of  local 
markets.  Since  the  enactment  of  the 
oleo  law  the  farmers have  begun to raise 
their  heifer calves,  and  in  a  short  time 
there  will  be  enough  cows  in  the  State 
to  meet  the  local  demand  for  butter. 
The  Michigan  farmer can  not  raise  cat­
tle  for  beef  alone,  because  he  can  not 
compete  with  the  large  ranchmen  of  the 
Western  prairies  He  must  have  a  bi­
product,  such  as  butter,  and,  with  a  rea­
sonably  lucrative  market for  that  staple, 
the  production  of  butter  will  be 
in­
creased  in  a  short  time  and  the  average 
quality  of  the  product  will be improved. 
The  butterine  manufacturers  can  make 
just  as  cheaply  in  winter as  they 
oleo 
can 
in  summer,  yet  they  double  the 
price  for  it  in  the  winter,  showing  con­
clusively  that  they  are  not  actuated  by 
any  ordinary  motive 
in  placing  their 
product  on  the  market.  Why,  then, 
should  people  favor  a  bogus  product 
which  must  be  sold  in  imitation  of  but­
ter,  in  preference  to  the genuine article? 
Is 
it  a  question  of  the  poor  man's 
pocketbook  or  the  anxiety  of  the  dealer 
to  handle  an  article  on  which  a  larger 
margin  of  profit  can  be  made?

B.  S.  Harris asserted  that  40 per cent, 
of  the  country  butter  which  comes  to 
market  is  unfit  for  table  use.

Mr.  Graham  coincided  with  this opin­
ion,  but  insisted  that  time,  study  and an 
increase  in  the  amount  of  stock  will  en­
able  the  farmer  to  make  better  butter. 
The  price  of  veal  tells  the  story  as  to 
whether  the  law  has  been  a  good  one 
for  the  farmer.  A  few  years  ago  veal 
was  so  cheap  that 
it  hardly  paid  to 
bring  the  calves  to  market.  Now  the 
farmers  are  raising  their  heifer  calves 
and  bending  all  their  euergy  to  increase 
the  amount  and  improve  the  quality  of 
their  dairy  products.

J.  Geo.  Lehman  stated 

that  Mr. 
Graham’s  remarks  had  caused  him  to 
look  at  the  matter  in  a  little  different 
light  than  he  had done before.  He spoke 
of  the  satisfaction  in  handling  creamery 
butter,  because  there 
is  no  loss,  where­
as  the  grocer  who  pays  the  farmer  17 
cents  per  pound  for  butter  and  sends  it 
¡out  to  his  customers  quite  likely  gets 
it  back  several  times,  as  a  rule,  before 
he  makes  it  stick.

President  Dyk  enquired  if  it  was  just 
to  prohibit  the  coloring  of  oleo  and  per­
insisted 
mit  it  in  butter.  Mr.  Graham 
that  the  law  was  just,  because  butter 
is 
a  natural  product,  and  that  the  coloring 
of  oleo 
is  a  subterfuge  to  permit  the 
product  to  be  sold  as  a  substitute  for 
butter and,  in  many  cases,  it was actual­
ly  sold  for  butter.

The  subsequent  discussion  brought 
out  a  good  many  interesting  points  on 
both  sides  and,  at  the  conclusion  of  the 
discussion,  a  vote  of  thanks  was  ten­
dered  Mr.  Graham  for  bis  kindness  in 
attending  the  meeting  and  addressing 
the  members  of  the  subject  under  con­
sideration.

President  Dyk  announced  the  follow­

ing  committees:

Trade  Interests— B.  S.  Harris,  Fred 

Fuller,  H.  C.  Wendorf.
Executive—A.  Brink,  F.  L.  Merrill, 
Ed.  Connelly,  J.  F.  Gaskill,  L.  O. 
Dahlem.

The  Grocery  Market.

Sugar—The  American  Sugar  Refining 
Co.  announced  a  decline  of 
last
Saturday,  the  principal  decline  being 
on  the  softs.  The  slump  came  about  a 
month  ahead  of  the  usual  time.

Tea—Tea  is  believed  to  be good prop­
erty  at  present  prices,  even  with  the 
possibility  of  the  removal  of  the  duty. 
Dealers  expect  an  active  business  to 
develop  in  the  course  of  a  month  or  so. 
While  a 
large  number  of  retailers  are 
well  stocked  up,  others’  stocks  are  low 
and  there  must  be  some  buying  sooner 
or  later.  Jobbers’  stocks  are  not  large.
Coffee— Reports  from  Brazilian  coffee 
points  are  to  the  effect  that  the  cool 
weather  has  had  a  damaging  effect  on 
the  growing  crop  near  Rio  and  Santos. 
The  receipts  have  been  rather  lighter 
for  the  past  few  weeks  at  those  two 
points.  As  this  is  a  blossoming  period 
for  the  coffee  plants,  it  is  said  the  dam­
ages  may  have  been  very  serious.  How­
ever,  the  reports  have  not  the  effect  to 
affect  the  market  materially 
this 
country.

in 

Canned  Goods— Prices  are unchanged, 
but  buyers  have  not  taken  bold  for  some 
reason.  Tomatoes  are  unchanged.  Buy­
ers  seem  indifferent  and  prices  are  un­
changed.  Market  conditions on tomatoes 
are  unchanged,  and  the  future  is  bard 
to  predict. 
It  depends  largely  on  pack­
ers’  necessities  and  the  weather.  Corn 
is  unchanged  and  very  little  is  being 
sold.  Buyers  are  holding  off.  Nothing 
is  doing 
in  peas,  which  rule  at  un­
changed  prices.  But  very  few  enquiries 
are  heard  for  peaches,  on  which  the 
prices are  unchanged.

The  Produce  Market.

Apples—Buyers  are  paying  $i @i.5o 
for  fruit  alone,  which  brings  the  selling 
price  up  to  $i.75@2.25  per  bbl.

Beets—25c  per  bu.
Butter— Dairy  is  a  little  more  plenty, 
commanding  17c  for  choice.  Factory 
creamery  is  in  active  demand  at  20c.
for 

Cabbage—$3@4  per 

100  heads 

home  grown.

Carrots—25c  per  bu.
Cauliflower— $1  per  doz.  and  very 

scarce.

bunch.

Celery—White  Plume, 

I2@isc  per 

Crab  Apples—40@6oc  per  bu.  for  Si­

berian  or Transcendent.

Cranberries—Cape  Cods 

$2  50  per  bu.  or $2.25  per  box

command 

Cucumbers— Pickling  stock  is  in  ac­

tive  demand  at  25@3oc  per  100

Eggs— Fresh  are  scarce  and  firm  at 
14c.  Cold  storage  are  in  ample  supply 
and  weak  at  12c.

Egg  Plant—$1  per  doz.
Grapes—Pony (4-lb.) baskets  of  Dela­
wares  command  io@i2c.  Eight  pound 
baskets  of  Concords,  Brigbtons  or 
Niagaras  command  q@ioc.

Green  Peppers—60c  per  bu.
Honey— Fine  new  comb  commands 

I2@I3C.
per  bu.  for  yellow  or  red.

Onions— Home  grown  command  40c 

Peaches—Late  varieties  keep  coming 
in,  to  the  astonishment  of all concerned. 
The  quality 
is  fine,  for  late  fruit,  and 
the  size  and  appearance  are  unusually 
good.  Smocks  .and  Salways  command 
30@4oc  on  the  market  and  dealers  find 
no  difficulty  in  securing  an  outlet  on the 
basis  of  6o@75c.

Pears— So@75c  per bu.
Plums— A  few  Blue  Damsons continue 
in,  finding  ample  demand  on 

to  come 
the  basis  of  $i@i.25  per  bu.

Pop  Corn— 50c  per  bu.
Potatoes—35@4oc  per  bu. 

Indica­
tions  point  to  a 
lively  shipping  de­
mand  at  20@30C  at  point  of  shipment. 
The  principal  demand  appears  to  be 
from  the  South.

Quinces—6o@75c  per  bu.
Sweet  Potatoes—Virginias  fetch  $1.75 
@2  per  bbl.  Jerseys  have  declined  to 
$2.50^2.75.

Tomatoes— 50c  per  bu.

Dried  Fruits— The  crop  of  West Coast 
fruit  will  be  necessarily  light  this  sea­
son  and  prices  are  inclined  to  be  very 
firm.  California  prunes  especially  will 
be  short,  and  of  small  size,  even  60s 
being  reported  scarce.  The  raisin  sit­
uation 
is  unchanged.  There  will  be 
one  of  the  largest,  if  not  the  largest 
crop  ever  raised 
in  California.  The 
Growers’  Association  have  now  per­
fected  their  organization,  and  it  is  be­
lieved  they  will  be able  to get fair prices 
for their  product,  although  it  will be un­
desirable  and 
impossible  to  bold  long 
for  high  prices,  in  the  face  of  so  large  a 
crop. 
It  is  hardly  to  be  expected  that 
the  market  will  be  unreasonably  high. 
Oid  stocks  of  raisins  on  the  coast  are 
said  to  be  well  cleaned  up,  as  are  also 
old  stocks  of  prunes.  All  lines  of  West 
Coast  dried  fruits  are 
inclined  to  be 
strong,  and  holders  more  than  usually 
independent.  The currant  market  is  in­
clined  to  be  firmer,  on  reports  of  a  Gre­
cian  trade  treaty  with  Russia,- which 
country  is  a  large  consumer  of  currants 
under  certain  conditions. 
California 
figs  have  advanced  1 >£c.  They  are  re­
ported  unusually  good  this  year,and  are 
steadily  gaining  in  quality  from  year  to 
year.

Syrups  and  Molasses—There  has  been 
a  good  sale  of  sugar  syrup  from  refiners 
to  first  bands  during  the  week,  but  the 
demand  from  the  general  trade  is  dull. 
Prices  are  unchanged.  There  has  been 
a  fair  demand  for  molasses  during  the 
week.  Stocks  are  scarce,  and  there  is 
practically  none  in  first  hands.  Prices 
are  unchanged,  and  there  is  no  prospect 
of  immediate  fluctuation.

Provisions—There  has  been  practical 
in  the  provision  market 
ly  no  change 
during  the  past  week.  A  good,  steady 
demand  has  ruled,  and  this  is  likely  to 
immediate 
continue  some  time.  No 
change  in  the  price  of  anything 
is  ex­
pected,  unless  it  be  an  advance  in  lard, 
which  the  Western  packers  are  talking

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of.  October  and  November  are  months 
of  large  consumption,  and 
is  very 
probable  that  the  advance  spoken  of 
will  be  made.

it 

The  Morning  Market.

While  the  advancing  season  is  lessen­
ing  the  stir  about  the 
island  market 
there  is  still  enough  of  interest  to  make 
it  worth  attention.  Offerings of  peaches, 
while  appearing  small  in  contrast  with 
those  of  the  middle  season,  are  still  in 
considerable  abundance,  at  the 
last 
seeming  to  be  in  excess  of  the  buying 
interest.  This  is  no  doubt  owing  to  the 
fact  that  the  late  varieties  are  unsuited 
to  distant  shipping.  Prices  have  been 
fairly  well  maintained,  as  the  high 
prices  of  the  earlier  season  seem to have 
spoiled  both  buyer  and  seller  for  handl­
ing  fruit  on  the  niggardly  basis  of  re­
cent  years.  Notwithstanding  the 
less­
ening  of  demand  at  the  last,  the  season 
as  a  whole  has  carried  out  its  promise 
of  far  exceeding  any  other  in  this  mar­
ket.  Plums  are  still  offered  in  small 
quantities,  and  mav  be  said  to  be  prac­
tically  out  of  the  wholesale  market. 
Pears  are  still  in  considerable  quanti­
ties,  and  are  in  good  demand  at  moder­
ate  prices.

As  the  other  fruits  fall  off,  apples 
seem  to  be  gaining 
in  quantity  and 
quality  to  an  extent  which  gives  prom­
ise  of  an  abundance  of  fine  winter fruit. 
Buyers  are  giving  this  staple  fair  atten­
tion  and  prices  are  kept  at a level which 
gives  abundant  returns  to  the  owners  of 
the  well-kept  orchards.

little  attention  either 

Grapes  still  continue  a  good  deal  of  a 
drug  and  it  is  noticeable  that  they  are 
receiving 
from 
buyers  or  sellers.  The  prices  and  mar­
gins  are  so  small  that  other  means  of 
disposal  than  the  open  market  must  he 
found,  and  so  attention  is  given  to  the 
utilization  of  what  can  be  cared  for  and 
the  rest  are  rotting  in  the  vineyards. 
It 
is  to  be  hoped  that  by  another  season 
there  will  be  enough  accomplished 
in 
the  way  of  the  development  of  the  can­
ning  and  preserving  industry  to  change 
this  condition.

The  potato  and  vegetable  market  con­
tinues  an  even  course  of  steady  demand 
at  good  prices.  The  returns  from  the 
potato  crop  come  into the  hands  of  so 
large  a  proportion  of  the  farming  com­
munity,  and  the  producing 
territory 
covers  so  much  of  the  State,  that  there 
is  relatively  much  more  significance 
in 
the  maintenance  of  good  prices  and  a 
steady  market  for  the  tuber  than  any 
other  product.  Now  that  the  perishable 
fruit  season 
is  practically  over,  ship­
ping  attention  will  be  turned  in  this  di­
rection,  and  the  changes  in  expedition 
of  shipments  which  were  of  so  much 
in  the  distribution  of  fruit 
importance 
will  continue  to  affect  the  situation. 
It 
is  being  found  that  the  sending  out  of  a 
single  car  to  the  uncertainties  of  the  or­
dinary  freight  movement,  or  with  a 
costly  agent  to  watch  and  guide 
its  er­
ratic  movements,  is  a  primitive  meth­
od  of  distribution.  Bunching  of  ship­
ments,  so  that  the  same  care  will  suffice 
for  a  trainload,  is  the  coming  method. 
And,  better  than  having  this  care  given 
by  the  shippers,  the  railways  are  find­
ing  that  the  running  of  special  trains 
under  their  own  care  is  warranted  by 
the  quantity  of  the  shipments,  and  so 
they  are  willing  to  take  more  of  the  re­
sponsibility,  as  they  ought  to  do.

S.  I.  Harrison,  dealer  in  notions  and 
fancy  goods  at  29  Crescent  avenue,  will 
shortly  retire  from  trade.

Gillies  New  York  Teas  at  old  prices 
while  they  hold  out.  Phone  Visner,  800.

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Woman’s World

How  Chicago 

Is  Hastening  the  Mil­
lennium.

It  has  long  been  a  settled  conviction 
61  mine  that  all we  lacked of the  millen­
nium  was  knowing  how  to  cook.  Good 
health,  good  temper,  happiness  and
peace  have  their  origin  in  the  kitchen, 
and  not 
in  lofty  moral  pinnacles.  To 
bad  cooking  and  consequent  dyspepsia 
we  owe  the  pessimistic  philosophers 
and  gloomy  religions  that  afflict  the 
world.  Your  well-fed  man,  who  can 
enjoy  a  good  dinner  and  a  midnight 
supper,  is  never  an  anarchist.  Live  and 
let  live  is  his  motto. 
It  is the  lean  and 
hungry  crank  who  steals  upon his victim 
and  stabs  him 
in  the  back.  No  one 
ever heard  of a  husband  applying  to  the 
courts  for  a  divorce  from  a  wife  who 
was  a  good  cook.  No  man  whose  wife 
sets  before  him  toothsome  meals  ever 
debated  the  question,  “ Is  marriage a 
failure?”  
Its  living  refutation  was  sit­
ting  at  the  head  of  the  table pouring  out 
coffee  whose  aroma  was  an  incense  up­
on  the  domestic  altar.

Such  being  the 

importance  of  the 
subject,  I  don’t  know  of  anything  more 
cheering  than  the fact that  the cook book 
is  being  introduced  into  the  curriculum 
of  many  schools  and 
that  hereafter, 
when  a  girl  graduates  in  the  ologiesand 
isms,  her diploma  will  also  certify  that 
she  is  a  good  cook,  capable  of  running 
a  kitchen.  The  theory,  at  least,  of  all 
education  is  that  it  fits one  better for the 
life,  and  whatever  else  a  girl 
battle  of 
may  happen  to  need,  she 
is  dead  cer­
tain  to  need  to  know  how  to  cook.  So 
it  seems  quite  as  important  to  teach  her 
the  cause  of  the  rise  and  fall  of  a  loaf 
of  bread  as  the  rise  and  fall  of  the 
Roman  Empire,  and  a  knowledge of  the 
different  parts  of  a  beef  is  likely  to  be 
just  as  useful  as  a  knowledge  of  the 
differential  calculus.

In  many  of  the  public  schools  of the 
country  the  cooking  department—or  the 
department  of  domestic  science,  as  it 
is  called—has  been 
introduced  with 
great  success,  and  the  other  day  I  had 
the  pleasure  of  seeing  the  scheme  in 
actual  operation  in  one  of  the  big  Chi 
cago  public  schools.  Two  years  ago  the 
Chicago  Kitchen  Garden  Association, 
impressed  with  the  importance of  teach­
ing  girls  the  rudiments  of  cooking,  se­
cured  permission  to  fit  up  a  room  in 
the  Kozminski  School  and  start  a  cook­
ing  class as  an  experiment. 
It  proved 
so  successful  that  this  year  the  school 
board  made  a  sufficient  appropriation 
to  open  eight  other  “  centers, ”   where 
more  than  4,000 girls  will  have  an  op­
portunity  of  studying  the  art of cooking.
The  cooking  department  at  the  Koz­
minski  School  is  under  the  direction  of 
Miss  G.  Allen,  a  charming  young  wom­
an  with a Boston  accent,  and who  looked 
sweet  enough  to  eat,  as  she  sat  the  other 
morning 
in  a  frilled  apron  behind  her 
desk  and  waited  for  her  classes  while 
she  talked  to  me.
“ Wouldn’t  you 

like  to  see  what  a 
she 
public  school  kitchen 
asked;  and  I  felt  free  to  let  my  eyes 
roam  at  will. 
long  room, 
with  the  sun  shining  cheerily  in  at  the 
windows  and  glinting  on  the  rows  of 
glistening  pots  and  pans.  At  one  end 
were  two  big  ranges,  one  a  coal  range 
and  the  other  gas,  flanked  by  a  sink 
with  hot  and  cold  water  faucets.  The 
walls  were  wainscoted  for  about  three 
feet  up,  and  from  the  top  were 
innum­
erable  books,  from  which  hung  bright 
tins.  Above 
suspended

It  was  a  big 

them  were 

is  like?”  

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charts  showing  food  values  by  means 
of  colored  diagrams  and  pictures  of 
beeves  and  muttons,  etc.,  with 
lines 
and  colors  that  showed  the  whereabouts 
of  fine  ribs  and  roast  ribs  and  porter­
house  and  tenderloin  and  round  steaks 
and  other  portions of  the anatomy  of  an 
animal that we never recognize until they 
get  on  the  table.  On  one  side  against 
the  wall  stood  a  cabinet  of  spices,  and 
on  the  other  a  press  full  of  blue and 
white  china.  Down  the  middle  of  the 
room  were  two  long  tables,  in  the  cen­
ter of  which  was  a  row of  gas jets,  over 
which  much  of  the  cooking  is  done.

Below 

In  one  division  of 

Each  pupil  has  one  of  these  minia­
ture  gas  stoves  and  her  own  particular 
place  at  the  table.  Just  in  front  of  her, 
as  she  stands  at  the  table,  is a  bread 
board  that  pulls  out  like  the  slide  of  a 
desk. 
that  are  two  drawers 
which  contain a  kitchen  outfit  in  minia­
ture. 
it  is  a  tea-j 
spoon,  a  table  spoon,  a  salt  spoon,  a 
paring  knife,  a  kitchen  knife,  a  fork,  a 
biscuit  cutter,  and  a  tiny  gem  pan. 
In 
the  next  compartment 
is  a  graduated 
tin  measuring  cup,  salt,  pepper  and 
flour  boxes,  a  rolling pin,  potato masher, 
eggbeater,  mixing  bowl, 
sieve 
and  strainer,  nutmeg  grater,  a  baby­
sized  granite  saucepan,  baking  dish, 
pie tin,  and  a  dish  containing  soap  and 
sapolio, 
cooking 
must  go  band 
In  the  lower 
drawer  is  a  meat  board,  an  asbestos 
pad,  an  omelette  pan,  a  chopping  knife 
and  vegetable  brush,  and  a  plate  for 
serving,  as  each  little  cook  is  permitted 
to  eat  her  own  handiwork.

for  cleanliness  and 

in  band. 

flour 

Just  at  the  entrance of  the  room  is a 
lithe  room  containing  lockers,  in  which 
each  girl  has  a  tiny  compartment,  with 
her  name  on  it,  in  which  are  stored  her 
white  apron,  her  over  sleeves,  and  a 
jaunty 
littie  cap  like  a  French  chef’s. 
The  class  passes  through  this  room  be­
fore  entering  the  kitchen,  and  when 
they  come  filing  in,  rosy-cheeked  and 
lovely  in  their  white aprons  and  caps,  I 
could  think  of  nothing  but  the  chorus 
of  the  French  chefs  in  a  comic  opera.

It 

But  there’s  no  opera  bouffe  business 
is  serious  work.  The 
about  this. 
lessons  begin  with  the  eighth 
cooking 
grade,  with  girls  of  an  average  of  14 
years  of age,  old  enough  to  understand 
the  chemistry  of  cooking,  and  much  of 
the  first  year  is  spent  in  drilling  them 
If,  after  that,  they  go  away  and 
in  it. 
starve  their  families  on 
innutritious 
food  or  ruin  their digestions  on  badly- 
cooked  messes,  it  isn’t  the  fault  of  the 
Chicago  school  board.

“ I  begin,”   said  Miss  Allen,  “ by 
first  teaching  the  children  how  to  con­
trol  their fires  in  both  the  gas  and  coal 
ranges.  We  have  thermometers  and 
they  make actual  tests  to  find  out  what 
is  meant  by  a  ‘ slow  fire’  and  ‘ a  quick 
oven, ’  and  the other  mysteries 
in  bak 
ing  referred  to  by  the  cookery  books. 
Then  we  commence actual  work,  for  I 
use  in  these  schools  the  direct  personal 
method, and  every  girl  must  do the work 
herself.  First,  I 
lecture  to  them  on 
starches— the  foods  into  which  they  en­
ter,  their nutritive  value,  etc.,  and  the 
very  first  thing  they  cook  is  flour  paste. 
The  next  day  we  experiment  on  this 
still  further,  and  they  make  a  corn 
starch  blanc-  mange,  and  I  show  them 
how  it  may  be  varied  by  the addition  of 
a  little  chocolate,  and  so  on.

* ‘ Of course,  I  can  only sketch our plan 
of  work  for  you.  Every  step  the  pupils 
take  I  try  to  make  them  understand  is 
based  on  a  scientific  principle—that 
is  an  exact art,  and  that  it  is 
cooking 
not 
luck,  but  knowledge,  that  makes

it 

bread  heavy  or  light.  One  of  the  early 
lessons  is  on  albumen,  and  I  show  them 
how  heat  hardens  the  white  of  an  egg, 
and  then  we  take 
in  all  the  different 
ways  of  cooking  eggs,  and  we  boil  and 
scramble  and  poach  and  shirr  and make 
omelettes.  Another  day 
is  meats, 
and 
l  explain  to  them  why  it  is,  when 
one  wants  to  extract  the  juice  of  meat 
in  making  soup,  cold  water  must  be 
used,  and  when  one  wants  to  broil  a 
steak  or cook  a  roast,  heat  must  be  used 
to  sear  the  outside  and  keep  the  juices 
in.  Of  course,  each  pupil  can’t  have  a 
roast  to  cook,  but  I  make  each  one  take 
turns 
in  watching,  the  temperature  of 
the  oven  and  basting  the  meat.

“ So  the 

lessons  go  on  from  day  to 
day.  Each  pupil 
is  required  to  take 
notes,  and,  in  addition,  I  have  the  re­
cipes  printed  on  slips,  and  every  day 
each  girl  pastes  into  ‘her  book  the  re­
cipe  for  the  dish  she  has  prepared.  The 
second  year  the  course is  more advanced 
and 
includes  the  sauces  that  should  be 
served  with  different  kinds  offish,  game 
and  meat.  Of  course,  I  confine  myself 
to  just  such  vegetables  and  meats as  are 
ordinarily  found  on  the  table  of  people 
of  moderate  means.  At  Christmas  I 
give  them  a  candy  lesson,  and  just  be­
fore  school  is  out  one  on  ice  cream,  but 
all  the  rest  is  just  what  we  call 
’ plain’ 
cooking.

“ What  are  the  results?  Well,  for  one 
thing,  the  pupils  are  almost  universally 
interested  and  eager  about  it.  For  an­
other,  I  am  told  that  the  girls  who  have 
had  cooking  lessons  at  school  have 
in 
many  cases  reformed  the  domestic  me­
nage  at  home. 
It  doesn’t  seem  to  me 
that  the  question  admits  of  any  argu­
ment  on  the  other  side. 
In  the first 
place,  it  gives  a  girl  a  profession  that 
is  never  overcrowded.  The  world  may 
have  too  many  teachers,  artists,  musi­
cians ;  there  may  be  an  oversupply  of 
typewriters and  stenographers  and book­
keepers,  but  there  is  always  room  and 
pay  for what Octave Thanet  calls a ‘ good 
free  band  cook.’ 
If  the  girl  marries a 
is  an  inestimable  benefit
poor  man,  it 

if  she  knows  how  to  buy-and  prepare 
her  food. 
If  she  is a  rich  woman,  she 
has  no  less  need  to  know,  and  for  her 
is  robbed  of  its 
the  servant  question 
horrors,  for  she 
is  capable  of  training 
green  girls  into  good  maids,  because 
she  knows  how  things ought  to  be  done.
‘ ' The  very  poor  are  the  most  extrava­
gant  as  well  as  the  worst  fed,  and  this 
is  because their  women  know nothing  of 
cooking.  Their one  idea  is  to  fry  some­
thing  in  a  pan,  and  they  have  no  con­
ception  of  the  many  savory and nourish­
ing  stews  that  can  be  made  out of  cheap 
cuts  of  meat  or  of  how  much  cheaper  it 
is  to  make  bread  than  to  buy  it.  We 
in  view,  as  many  children 
have  these 
of  the  very  poor  are 
in  the  public 
schools,  and  we  hope  through  them  to 
send  the  gospel  of  good  cooking  into 
the  slums. ”

“ And  what  does  it  cost,”   I  enquired, 

“ to  run  this  department?”

That 

“ The  room,”   replied  Miss  Allen, 
“ represents  an  outlay  of  $500  in  fur­
nishing. 
includes  gas  ranges 
and  plumbing  and  everything.  The 
groceries  and  food  supplies  of  every 
kind  used  in  preparing  the  dishes  cost 
on  an  average  only 
cents  for  each 
pupil  for  a  lesson.”

The 

inexorable  school  bell  rang  for 
another  lesson  and  I  had  to  leave,  but  I 
went away  cheered  and  comforted  by  a 
vision  of a  new  woman  who  would know 
how  to  cook  and  who  would  not  wait  in 
trembling  anxiety  on  the  moods  of some 
uppish  Irish  Norah  or  some  stolid  and 
stupid  Dutch  Kaatje.  Then, 
indeed, 
will  our  tables  no  longer groan,  as  they 
may  well  be  excused  for doing,  under 
loads  of 
ill-cooked  and  badly-served 
food.  Speed  the  day  when  the  Grand 
Rapids  public  schools  wheel 
into  the 
line  of  progress and  take  up  the  cook­
ing  question. 

D o r o t hy  D ix .

Two  Times  o f Trial.

He—There are  two  periods  in a man’s 
life  when  he  never  understands  a 
woman.

"Indeed!  And  when  are  they?”  
“ Before  he  is  married  and  after­

wards. ’ ’

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WEDNESDAY,------ OCTOBER 5,1898.

co-operation, 

DANGEROUS  PARTNERSHIP.
As  an  abstract  proposition  it  is  un­
questionably  desirable  that  there  should 
be  the  fullest To-operation  in  the  prose­
cution  of  any  industrial  enterprise  be­
tween  the  management  in  whose  bands 
the  capital  is  entrusted  and  the  work­
men  upon  whose  labor  so  much  of  the 
problem  of  success  is  dependent.  While 
there  may  be  some  plans  for  securing 
such 
through  various 
schemes  of  organization,  profit  sharing, 
etc,,  which  give  more  or  less  assurance 
of  permanence  and  success,  there  are 
industrial  co-operation 
some  forms  of 
which  are  more  than  likely  to  result 
in 
is  the  short­
disaster.  Among  these 
sightedness  of  some  employers 
in  per­
mitting  the  control  of  their  business  to 
pass  into  the bands  of  an organized body 
of  marplots,  managed  by 
irresponsible 
and  unscrupulous  leaders  whose  delib­
erations  and  decisions  are  kept  secret 
from  the  employers.  When  the  man­
agement  of  any  industry  invokes  the aid 
and 
influence  of  such  an  organization 
for  the  extension  of  its  business  or  the 
securing  of  contracts,  it  is  simply  put­
ting  weapons  into venal hands—weapons 
which  are  sooner  or  later  turned  against 
the  employer,  to  his  demoralization  and 
ruin.

in 

A  forcible  illustration  of  the  truth  of 
this  proposition  is  found  in  the  story  of 
the  recent  strikes  of  the  employes  of  the 
State  printing  office  at  Lansing.  For 
years  the  management  of  that  institu­
tion  bad  been  smarting  under  the  re­
strictions  and  annoyances  of alien  man­
agement 
its  business,  but  an  undue 
regard  for  the  economic  and  political 
power  of  the  unions  forced  it  to  submit 
with  what  grace  it  might.  There  is  no 
power  which  seems  so  formidable  as 
that  which  involves  unknown  elements, 
as 
in  secret  organizations,  and,  while 
the  unions  were  sufficiently  detested, 
they  gained 
in  power  and  prestige  in 
the  estimation  of  the  management  to 
such  an  extent  that  when  there  was  a 
contest  for  the  rescuing  of  the  State 
contracts  from  a  communistic  religious 
organization,  the  unions  were  appealed 
to  for assistance.  There was  the  utmost 
alacrity 
in  the  response,  because  there 
is  seldom  an  opportunity  for  such  an 
acknowledgment  of  their  influence. 
In 
the  contest  which  ensued 
the  efforts 
of  the  unions  do  not  appear as  a  sub­
stantial  factor,  as  the  members  of  the 
Board  of  Auditors  testified  in  court  that 
they  were  actuated 
in  their  decision 
solely  by  the  question  of  economy.

Impressed  with  a  sense  of  their 
invincibility,  the  unions  made  publi­
cation  of  their  decision  to  require  a 
9  hour  day  with  io  hours'  pay,  before 
the  awarding  of  the  printing  contracts. 
it  was  found  that  the  Adventists 
When 
were  far  below 
in  their estimates,  the 
State  printers  decided  that  they  must 
ignore  the  demand  of  the  unions  to save 
the  contract  and  their  decision  received 
the  tacit  sanction  of  tbeir  employes. 
When  work  was  begun  on  the  new  con­
tracts,  however,  the  unions,  acting  upon 
their  official  publication,  struck  for  the 
9  hour  day  and  an  increase  in  wages  in 
some  of  the  departments.  After a  con­
test  of  some  days,  during  which  the 
weakness  of  the  union  position  became 
readily  apparent,  the  strike  managers 
fell  back  on  their  usual  tactics  when 
defeat  stares  them  in  the  face  and  pro­
posed  an  arbitration,  which  was  very 
foolishly  agreed  to  The  bearing  lasted 
eight  evenings  and  ended  in  a  compro­
mise  verdict  at  the  bands  of  the  arbi­
trators-^  verdict  entirely  unsatisfac­
tory  to  the  employers,  but  entirely  so  to 
the  strike  leaders,  because  they  realized 
that  they  could  use the advantage gained 
as  a  club  to  extort  further  concessions. 
The  unions  know  no  law  except  that  of 
force  and 
intimidation,  and  have  no 
idea  of  the  binding  force  of  a  contract 
or  the  moral  obligation  of  an  agree- 
njent;  in  fact,  it 
is  a  common  thing 
for  the  adherents  of  unionism  to  openly 
defy  every  law,  human  or  divine,  at  the 
same  time 
insisting  that  the  employer 
shall  be  held  to  strict accountability  for 
any  infraction  of  an  agreement  or  rule, 
no  matter  how  unjust  or  tyrannical.

The  pretext  for  the  next strike was the 
refusal  of  the  printing  house  to  pay 
price  and  a  half  for the half hour worked 
in  excess  of  the  9  hour  limit.  The  man­
agement  offered  to  refer  the  matter  to 
the  same  arbitrators,  but 
the  strike 
leaders  not  only  refused  to  entertain 
this  proposition  but  showed  the  cloven 
hoof  of  unionism  by  ignoring  the  find- 
J ing-of  the  board  of  arbitrators  and  an­
nouncing  that the  whole  controversy  was 
reopened  on  the original  issue.

Nothing  could  have  given 

In  the  opinion  of  the  Tradesman,  the 
management  of  the  State  printing  office 
made  a  serious  mistake  when  it  first ad­
mitted  an  alien  and  secret  organization 
to  participate  in  the  conduct  of  its busi­
ness.  Then  this  error  was  followed  by 
an  undue  recognition  of  the  influence  of 
the  union  in  asking  for  its  assistance.
it  such 
prestige  in  its  own  estimation,  and  this, 
with  the  obligation conferred,  delivered 
the  company  into its bands,  bound  band 
and  foot.  Then  when  the  first  contest 
came,  the  management  was  not  wise  in 
being  caught  by  the  fallacy  of  arbitra­
tion ;  in  fact,  the  only  move  which  can 
be  commended  is  the  one  which  comes 
so  late,  to  conduct  its  own  business  as 
it  should  have  done  all  along,  refusing 
to  admit  the  partnership  of  any  who 
only  share 
in  dictation  and  meddling 
without  assuming  any  risks  or  respon­
sibility. 

,

The  Tradesman  sincerely  hopes  the 
State  printers  will  even  yet  bring  this 
contest  to  a  successful  issue  and  that 
it 
will  succeed  in  demonstrating  in  its  fu­
ture  experience  that 
is 
the  only  true  theory  of  management,  ad­
mitting  only  such  co-operation 
in  the 
regulation  of  the  business  as  is actuated 
by  a  proper  recognition  of the 
interests 
of  all  concerned  therein.

independence 

Some  one  says:  “ Don’t  pick  a  quar­
rel  before  it  is  ripe.’ ’  Better  shake  it 
off  while  it  is  green  and  growing.

IM B EC ILE  M ANAGEM ENT.

in 

The greatest  administrative ability  is 
the  conduct  of  the 
that  required 
affairs  of  the  vast  industrial  organiza­
tions  which  are  known  as  the  great  cor­
porations, such  as  the  railways,  the  great 
iron companies, the sugar trust,the Stand­
ard  Oil  Co.,  the  telegraph,  the  Bell  tel­
ephone,  the  express  companies,  etc.  In 
many  cases  these  are  led  and  officered 
by  men  who  have  demonstrated  tbeir 
ability  and  won  success  by  building  up 
the  enterprise  in  question  and  creating 
the  positions  they  occupy.  Usually  the 
ability  which  enables  a  man  to  lead  in 
the  organization  of  such  an  enterprise 
enables  him  to  successfully  manage 
its 
affairs  until  advancing  years  make  suc­
cessors  necessrry. 
is  well  forth it 
if  care  has  been  taken  to 
enterprise 
find  and  train  the  right  ability  for  the 
continuance  of  the  work.

It 

In  some  cases  these  great  organiza­
tions  are  the  result  of  circumstances 
which  make 
it  necessary  to  look  about 
for  the  best  leadership. 
In  such  cases 
those  are  selected  who  have  demon­
strated  the  greatest  ability  in  similar 
work  and  these  are secured at almost any 
cost,  for  economy  in  this  matter  is  con­
sidered  a  very  false  economy.  With 
such  leadership,  and  with  boards  of  di­
rectors  comprising  the  greatest  obtain­
able  ability,  aided  by  the  best  counsel 
which  money  and  reputation  can  com­
mand,  it  is  strange  if  such  corporations 
are  betrayed 
into  any  very  common  or 
foolish  mistakes.

When,  therefore,  some  years  ago,  in 
the  contest  between  the  Bell  Telephone 
Co.  and  the ' local  organization  which 
sought  to  compete  with 
it,  there  was 
manifested  by  the  great  corporation  a 
petty  spite  and  policy  of  foolish  resent­
ment,  the  observer  looked  for  some  ul­
terior  object  to  be  gained  by  such  a 
disposition. 
In  contests  of  this  kind  it 
had  always  been  recognized  that  when 
the  question  of  success  rested  in  com­
manding  the  support  of  the  public,  no 
in  striving  to 
pains  should  be  spared 
secure  its  good  will. 
In that  contest  the 
Bell  company  took  the  opposite  policy 
of  antagonizing  not  only  those  who 
were  interested  in  the  competing  enter 
prise,  but  all  who  manifested  the  slight 
est  disposition  toward  alienation  of  al­
legiance.  When  the  company  was  noti­
fied  that 
it  should  take  out  any  instru­
ments  the  work  was  accompanied  with 
petty  insolence  and  abuse  which  would 
have  cost  the  beads  of  the  management 
of  any  lesser  enterprise. 
in­
comprehensible  that 
it  was  simply  a 
manifestation  of  spite,  pure  and  sim­
ple ;  and  so  a  deeper  reason  was  looked 
for.  But  the  years  have  passed  and  the 
competing  company  has  rapidly  ad­
vanced  to  a  position  of  unassailable 
strength,  winning  every  contest,  gain­
ing  almost  undivided  support  of  the 
public,  obtaining  every 
legal  verdict, 
and  yet  the  reason  for  the  strange policy 
of  the  great  corporation does not appear. 
That  it  was  a  case  of  silly  foolishness  is 
hard  to  believe,  in  view  of  the  leader­
ship 
its  untold  millions  might  be  pre­
sumed  to  command.

It  seemed 

A  later  manifestation  of  that  which  it 
is  difficult  to  explain  by  ordinary  rules 
is  the  policy  of  the  great  corporations 
coming  to  be  known  as  the  Express 
Trust.  At  times  for  many  years  past, 
there  would  develop  in  some  of  the  d i­
visions  of  this  branch  of our distributive 
service  a  petty  foolishness  of  adminis­
tration  which  would  be  explained  by 
the  accidents  of  succession  or  inherit­
ance  in  the administration,  but  this  was 
soon  corrected  and,  on  the  whole,  the

fact  seemed  to  be  recognized  that  the 
success  of  the  companies  depended  up­
on  the  support  of  the  public.  But  as 
the  companies  have  come  closer  togeth­
er  in  their organization there has seemed 
to  develop  more  and  more  a  spirit  of 
indifference  to  public  sentiment.  The 
first  glaring  manifestation  of  it  was 
in 
the  savage  repudiation  of  the  war  tax 
it  on  the  people. 
and  the  saddling  of 
That  this  cost 
the  companies  many 
times  the  business  that  the  tax  would 
have  amounted  to  can  scarcely  be  ques­
tioned  and  so  the  action  can  only  be 
explained  on  the  theory  of  downright 
foolishness.
Then  a 

later  manifestation  of  the 
same  spirit  comes  in  the  demand  of  the 
companies  for  free  telephone  service. 
That  this  is  another  instance  of 
idiocy 
is  so  difficult  to  believe  that  all  sorts  of 
motives  and  explanations  are 
looked 
for.  An  early  one  to  be  suggested  is 
that  the  move 
is  a  result  of  the  close 
affinity  between  the  Express  Trust  and 
the  Bell  company. 
In  view  of  the  bril­
liant  record  of  the  latter  for  imbecile 
management,this  explanation  would  not 
tend  to  remove  the  cause  from  the  same 
classification.  There  may  be  some sen­
sible  explanation  of  the  present  attitude 
of  the  companies,  but  as  the  public 
is 
becoming  used  to  such  foolishness  on 
the  part  of  these  companies,  it  is  in­
clined  to  accept  this  explanation  with­
out looking  for anything deeper. 
In  the 
meantime,  it 
is  finding  that  there  are 
other  methods  of  transpo’ tation,  and 
if 
this  move  should  be  followed  by  the  de­
velopment  of  some  of  these  through  the 
interest  of  the  people,  as  in  the  one  of 
the  telephone  companies, 
the 
result 
would  not  be  so  very  surprising.

The  decreased  fruit  yield 

in  Califor­
nia  this  year  was  expected  to furnish  an 
opportunity  for  the  fruit  growers  of  Or­
egon  and  Washington  to  gain  a  foot­
hold  in  the  Eastern  markets.  The  green 
fruit  shipped  to  the  East  from  those 
States  this  season  is  only  about  one-balf 
of  the  quantity  shipped  last  year.  The 
experience  of  a  year  ago,  when  many 
Oregon  fruit  growers  paid 
in  freight 
charges  on  Eastern  shipments  more 
than  the  amount  they  received  for  the 
fruit,  was  discouraging,  and  this  year 
much  good  fruit  was  allowed  to  rot  on 
the  ground. 
In  addition,  the  Oregon 
growers  believe  that  there  is  more  profit 
for  them 
and 
canned  products  than  in  sending  fresh 
fruit  to  an  uncertain  market.  Conse­
quently  much  more  fruit  is  being  cured 
this  year than  heretofore.

in  dried,  evaporated 

It 

is  now  said  that  when  Dewey  was 
first  ordered  to  Manila  he  was  directed 
inaugurate  a  pacific  blockade  and 
to 
await  further  orders.  On 
learning  this 
Senator  Proctor  hurried  to  the  White 
House  and  fiercely  protested  against  the 
Commodore being  hampered  by  orders 
from  those  who  could  know  nothing  of 
the  situation 
in  the  Philippines.  The 
result  was  that  Dewey  was  allowed  to 
use  his  own judgment,and made a record 
which  will  place  him  among  the  fore­
most  heroes  of  the  world  as  long  as 
time  lasts._____________

Michigan  pays  a  bounty 

for  dead 
English  sparrows.  They  do  better  than 
that  in  Massachusetts,  where  sparrows 
are  paiDted  and  sold  quick  and  cheap 
for  canary  birds  by  peddlers,  who  claim 
that  they  are  choice  singers  disposed  of 
by  rich  owners  who  are  going  abroad.

.  Now  that  we  have  peace,  it  will  take 
a  greatly 
increased  army  and  navy  to 
keep  it

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

TH E  C O M M E R C IA L  ERA.

labor-saving  machinery, 

Although  they  possess  extraordinary 
ingenuity  in  the  invention  and  exploi­
tation  of 
the 
Americans  are  behind  many  of  the 
European  peoples  in  finding  markets 
for  their  products  and 
the  everyday 
commodities  which  constitute  the  great 
bulk  of  our  exports.

The  American  sits  down  in  confidence 
that  Europeans  must  buy  bis  wheat, 
corn,  cotton  and  other  products and  that 
he  does  not  need  to  take  any  pains  to 
secure  customers  or  to  please  them. 
Anyone  who  sees  the  rough  and  care- 
lessly-gotien-up  packages  shipped  from 
the  United  States  will  realize  this,  par­
ticularly  when  he  has  also  seen the care- 
fully-packed  goods,  usually 
in  water­
that  are  landed  here 
tight  envelopes, 
from  European  vessels.

One  of  the  most  general  complaints 
voiced  by  the  United  States  consuls 
abroad  is  that  Americans,  when  they  re­
ceive  orders  from  abroad  for  merchan­
dise,  do  not  take  sufficient  care  to  fill 
the  orders  exactly.  Patterns,  styles,  di­
mensions  and  other particulars  are  often 
ignored,  with  the  idea  that  almost  any­
thing  will  answer,  so  it  is  in  the  neigh­
borhood.  This  is  very  offensive  to most 
foreigners. 
is  offensive  to  many  of 
It 
our  own  people.

Not  a  few  salesmen  in  this  country 
feel  that  they  have  accomplished  a  most 
satisfactory  feat  in  putting  off  on  a  cus­
tomer,  almost  by  force,  some  article 
entirely  different  from  the  one  enquired 
for,  upon  the  assurance  that  it  is  just 
In  this  way  a  sale 
as  good  or  better. 
is  made;  but  a  customer 
is  sent  off 
offended  and  very  probably  dissatisfied. 
He  thinks  that  bis  own  taste  and 
judg­
ment  are  treated  with  contempt,  al 
though,  having  to  pay,  he  is,  more  than 
anybody  else,  entitled  to  say  what  he 
wants,  and  if  his  judgment  be  at  fault, 
to  suffer  the  consequences.

The  indications are  that,  in  the  mat­
ters  of  foreign  commerce,  American 
merchants  must  make  extensive changes 
if  they  are  going  to  enter  into  the  great 
competitions  that  the  acquirement  of 
large  foreign  possessions  will  enforce 
Right  here  is  opened  a  new  field  for  the 
activities  of  educated  American  young 
men,  to  go  abroad  to  European  and 
Asiatic  countries  as  commercial  trav­
elers.

In  such  cases  men  of  the  once  popu­
lar  hard-drinking,  hard  story-telling, 
free  and-easy  sort  of  kidney  will  not 
sene. 
In  their  places  are  wanted  men 
of  good  habits,  gentlemanly  manners,  of 
education,  and  ability  to  play  a  re­
spectable  part  anywhere. 
If  these  men 
know  the  literature,  history  and  art  of 
the  countries  they  visit,  so  much  the 
better  for  them ;  but  they  must  know  a 
great  deal  about  the  trade  in  which they 
are  engaged.  They  must  talk  directly 
tn  the  people  with  whom  they  deni,  and 
all  their  statements  m'>st  he  reliable.

In  this  conne  t'on  United  States  Con­
sul  General  Goodnnw,  at  Shanghai, 
China,  writes  to  a  furniture  manufac 
turer  in  this  citv :

I  find  there  are  two  great  obstacles  in 
the  wav  of  business  with  America. 
In 
the  tir.-t  pi ice.  American  firms  do  not 
take  care  to  fill  the  orders  exarilv. 
There 
is  somewhat  of  a  feeling  at 
home,  “ Oh,  anything  will  do  for  the 
Chinese  “   As  a  matter  of  fact,  there 
are  no  people  more  particular  than  the 
Chinese.  Their customs  and  their  su­
perstitions  must  he considered,  as  well 
as  the  things  which  come 
into  account 
in  ether  countries. 
It  is  a  great  thing 
to  have  a  lucky  trade  mark.

It  is  above  all  necessary  to  handle  the 
in

goods  through  a  man  on  the  ground 

the  Chinese  have 

whom 
confidence. 
They  do  not  think  anything  about  the 
firm  at  home;  they  think  of  the  man  di­
rectly  with  whom  they  deal.  This man, 
if  he  be  wise,  knows  the  demands  of 
the  trade  and  caters  to  it;  and,  however 
eccentric  some  of  his  directions  may 
seem  in  ordering,  they  should  be  fol­
lowed  to  the  letter

In  the  next  place,  almost  all  English 
and  German  firms  have  an  arrangement 
by  which  all  claims for damages through 
faulty  packing,  etc.,  are  settled  very 
promptly  through  the  arbitration  of 
their  Consul  at  the  place  where  the 
goods  are  delivered.

Most  American  shipments  are  made 
without  any  such  agreement,  and  the 
consequence  is  that  should  the  goods  be 
damaged  through  faulty  packing,  etc., 
the  parties 
interested  are  so  far  ap .rt 
that  the  local  dealer  here  is  torcerl  to 
stand  the  loss,  rather  than  to  go  to  the 
expense  of  suit  or  arbitration  in  Amer­
ica ;  and  the  consequence 
is  that  on 
even  terms,  or  at  some  difference  in 
price,  he  buys  his  goods  from  England 
or  Germany.  He  is  willing  to  pay  the 
higher  price  fur  a  certainty  of  a speedy, 
just  and  inexpensive  settlement  of  any 
damage  there  may  be.

it 

What 

is  desired  to 

is  a  great  mistake.  Here 

impress  on 
American  young  men  is  that  the idea,  if 
they  are  going 
into  commercial  life, 
that  a  college  education  is  worthless  to 
them 
is  a 
place  for  college  men  who  are  not  mere 
smatterers,  but  who  have  been  real 
students.  Let  them  remember  that  the 
present  is,  above  all,  a  commercial  age. 
To-day  all  statesmanship  that  is  worthy 
of  the  name 
is  employed  in  devising 
means  to 
increase  the  commerce,  each 
of  its  own  country.  The  grand  object 
is  to  make  the  labor  of  the  people  as 
profitable  as  possible  by  furnishing  the 
best  markets  possible  for  their products. 
In  order,  then,  to  keep  the  people  em­
ployed  at  good  wages,  it  is  necessary  to 
create  markets  for  their  products  This 
is  what  statesmanship  is  called  on  to  do 
to  day,  and  it  is  all  summed  up 
in  the 
expression,  “ promoting  commerce.’ ’

Here 

is  a  great  field  for American 
statesmanship,  and  who  can  know  it  so 
well  as  he  who  knows  it  not merely from 
principles  and  theory,  but  also  from 
practical  experience?  Let  the  young 
men  of  America  turn  to  this  field  and 
worthily  serve  their  country  while  serv­
ing  themselves.

Spain  can  take  away  her  old  Colum­
bus  bones 
if  she  needs  them.  They 
never  had  any  business  in  Cuba.  They 
ought  to  be  given  rest  in  the  country 
Columbus  discovered,  or  in  the  Italian 
country 
in  which  he  was  born.  His 
tory  has  allowed  Columbus  to  die  in 
poveity  and  neglect  at  Valladolid,  near 
Madrid 
Spaniards  ought  not  to  be 
proud  of  that,  except  as  an  advance 
punishment  for  having  discovered  the 
country  that  has 
licked  Spain  Then 
comes  the awful  thought  that,  as  Colum­
bus  died  near  Madrid, 
the  Havana 
bones  are  not  the  real  thing,  but  only  a 
bo-  e  collection  used  as  a  sentimental 
lake

United  States  Consul  William,  at 
VI  nila,  s tys  that  of  the  footwear  for 
10 000,000  inhabitants  of  the  Philippine 
islands  American  manufacturers  have 
not  furnished  more  than  5  per  cent. 
He  predicts  that 
in  five  years'  time 
American  made  shoes  will  have  sup­
planted  the  Snanish  product  altogether, 
whether  the  Philippines  shall  have  been 
annexed  or  not.

The  United  States  Government  has 
only  had  one  li'tle  short  war  this  year, 
and  the  aftermath  is  three  peace  com­
missions  and  a  committee  to investigate 
the  conduct  of  the  war.

TRANSPORTATION  AT  SEA

The  war  with  Spain  forced  upon  this 
country  the  solution  of  a  new  problem 
in  the  way  of  military  preparation 
which  must  be  carefully  studied  for  the 
future,  namely, 
the  transportation  of 
troops  across  seas.  The  outbreak  of  the 
war  found  the  country  totally  without 
In  order  to  move  the  troops 
transports. 
required  for  operations 
in  Cuba  and 
Potto  Rico,  as  well  as  in  the  Philip­
pines,  it  was  found  necessary  to  charter 
all  manner  of  merchant  steamers,  with 
the  result  that  many  of  these  ships  were 
totally  unsuited  for  the  work  to  be  ac­
complished.

There  was  a  woeful  lack  of  accommo­
dations  for  the  troops  on  board  these 
transports,  and  the  discomforts  suffered 
by  the  enlisted  men,  huddled  together 
on  these  ships  for  many days,  are among 
the  blackest  memories of the war.  While 
no  doubt  no  particular  blame  can  be  at­
tached  to  anv  one  for  these  discomforts, 
owing  to  the  haste  with  which  it  was 
necessary  to 
improvise  transports,  the 
country  should  be  warned  by  the 
lesson 
to  be  better  prepared  for  the  future.

It  will  not  be  sufficient,  however,  to 
provide  properly  equipped  transports, 
as  the  ships  will  be  of  small  value  if 
they  are  not  properly  handled  Trans­
portation  by  sea  should  be  in  the  hands 
of  the  Navy  Department,  as 
it  is  in  all 
other 
countries.  Merchant  marine 
officers,  however  efficient,  have  not  the 
experience  in  berthing  and  maintaining 
large  numbers  of  men  on  board  ship 
which  naval  officers  possess.  Army  of­
ficers,  however,  competent  to  handle 
troops  ashore,  are still  less  capable  than 
merchant  marine  officers  of  properly 
disposing  of  them  on  shipboard  and 
providing  for  their  comfort  and  safety.
While,  therefore,  a  proper  transport 
service  should  be  organized, 
it  should 
by  ail  means  be  pi iced  in  the  hands  of 
the  Navy  Depaitment  as  the department 
best  qualified  to  take charge of the work. 
The  occupation of  Cuba,  Porto Rico,  the 
Pnilippii.es,  the  Ladrones  and  Hawaii 
will  make  it  necessary  for  this  country 
to  frequently transport troops  to  and  fro. 
To  do  this  with  proper  regard  for  the 
comfoit,  health  and  safety  of  the  troops 
there  should  be  suitably  equipped trans­
ports,  with  ample  berthing  space  and 
all  conveniences  necessary.  Some  of 
the  vessels  purchased  during  the  war 
will  make  excellent  transports  if  some­
what  altered.  These  alterations  should 
be  made  under  the  direction  of  the 
Navy  Department,  and  not  of  the  War 
Department

QUEER  DOINGS  IN  CHINA.

The  rumors  and  reports  from  China 
are  of  a  character  to  excite  consider­
able  specul. tiou  among  people  inter 
ested 
in  the  affairs  of  the  Far  East, 
whether  from  trade  motives  or  merely 
as  students  of  pass  ng  events 
The 
Emperor  of  China  nas  b-en  repotted 
deposed  by  a  faction  heade I  bv  the 
Dowager  Empress,  owing  to  his  pro­
gressive  tendencies.  Other  reports  de­
clare  the  Emperor  to  he  dead,  but 
whether  at  the  hands  of  assassins  or 
through  natural  causes  is  not  stated. 
In 
China  all  things  are  possible  hut  prog­
ress;  hence  the  authoritame  anom-n  e- 
ment  that  the  Emperor 
is  murdered 
would  surprise  no  one.

While  the  intrigues  of  Western  powers 
have  no  doubt  had  something  to  doavith 
the  overturning  of  the  Emperor,  the 
main  motive  no  doult  had  no  connec­
tion  whatevtr  with 
foreign  concerns, 
but  was  entirely  of  a  domestic  nature. 
According  to  recent  reprots,  the  Empe­

9

like  himself, 

ror  has  been  for sometime well disposed 
to  adopt  modern  progressive 
ideas, 
and  accordingly  surrounded  himself 
with  men  disposed, 
to 
shake  off  the  old  Chinese  conservatism 
and  adopt  modern  civilized  methods. 
The  men  of  the  old  conservative,  non­
progressive  caste  who  were  displaced 
to  make  room  for  men  favorable  to  the 
Emperor’s  new •  ideas  were  naturally 
deeply 
incensed,  and  they  conspired 
with  the  Dowager  Empress  to  overturn 
the  Emperor  and  his  modern  innova­
tions.

it 

While 

inclined  him 

is  not  probable 

that  the 
coup  d’etat  was  attempted  in  the 
inter­
est  of  Russia  and  against  England,  it 
is  none  the  less  true  the  interests  of  the 
latter  power  will  be  damaged,  and  those 
of  the  former,  per  contra,  advanced. 
The  progressive  ideas  of  the  Emperor 
naturally 
to  the  trade 
methods  of  the  British  and  caused  him 
to  appreciate  the  fact  that  the  integrity 
of  his  empire  was 
less  menaced  by 
England  than  by  any  of  the  other  for­
eign  powers. 
It  was,  therefore,  prob­
able  that  his  influence  would  have  been 
exerted  in  favor  of  England  in  any  con­
troversy  that  might  arise.  His  de­
thronement  is,  therefore,a  blow  to Great 
Britain  and  a  direct  encouragement  for 
Russia.

It 

The  course  of  events  at  Pekin  will 
now  be  watched  more  keenly  by  Euro­
pean  statesmen  than  ever  before. 
is 
generally recognized that the overturning 
of  the  Emperor  has  not  improved  the 
situation 
in  the  Far  East,  but,  on  the 
contrary,  has  added  many  uncertainties 
and  difficulties  to  the  problem.  The 
tension  between  Russia  and  England 
over  the  course  of  events  in  China  is be­
coming  daily  more  acute,  and  unless 
one  or  the  other  of  the  countries  backs 
down,  it 
is  difficult  to  understand  how 
a  conflict  can  be  avoided.

Russia  is  steadily  absorbing  Chinese 
territory,  and  as  steadily  and  remorse­
lessly  preparing  to  lop  off  fuither  slices 
when  the  time  become  propitious  for 
so  doing.  Every  such  dismemberment 
induces  other  powers  to  make  similar 
case  British 
demands,  and 
trade,  at  present  paramount 
in  China, 
suffers  some  diminution.  How 
long 
John  Bull  will  stand  this 
loss  of  busi­
ness  is  a  problem  He  has  more  than 
once  fought  to  preserve  his  trade,  and 
will  do  so  again  no  doubt  when  the 
provocation  becomes  sufficiently 
iqi- 
poit int.

in  each 

The  anarchist  slayer  of  the  Austrian 
Empress  has  met  a  fate  that  is  more 
terrible  than  death  to  him.  He  is  to  be 
imprisoned  for 
to 
speak  to  no  one  but  the  prison  guard. 
Imagine  an  anarchist,  whose  chief  de­
light 
is  to  wag  his  chin  and  agitate 
language,  being  doomed  to  eternal  si­
lence

life,  and  allowed 

Brneor  manufacturers  are 

sending 
ca> oes  of  birch  and  canvas  to Palestii e, 
Japan  and  China.  One  recently  si nt  in 
India  was  made  to  the  order of a  British 
offici-r.  and  the  cost  of  transportation 
was  more  than  $75  A  canoe  just  or­
dered  is  intended  for  a trip up the  River 
Jordan.

A  good  wind  made  a  streak  across 
Onio,  the  other  day,  and  unroofed  a 
hrewery  at  Lima. 
It  also  destroyed  a 
schonlhouse  and  110k  the  top  from  an 
egg-case  fai t-irv

The  Spanish  American  war  must  be 
fought  over  again 
is  plain  to  be 
seen  that  Spain  has  rot  been  sufficiently 
whipped,  and  is  not  satisfied.

It 

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Shoes  and  Leather
Odds  and  Ends  of Shoe Store Gossip.
There  are  a  lot  of  retailers  around  the 
country  who  never  are  able  to  see  the 
bright  side  of  things.  They  are  always 
looking  for  signs  of  trouble,  or  for  a 
poor  fall  business,  or  for  something  to 
happen  in  some  other  quarter.  I  wonder 
sometimes  how  such  people  get  along  in 
this  world 
If  they  only  knew  how 
much  happier  they  would  be.  how  much 
better  they  would  feel,  and  how  much 
more  business  they  could  do 
if  they 
went  about 
it  cheerfully,  they  would 
never  growl  or  grumble  again.  Expect 
success  and  you  will  get  it.  Confidence 
in  yourself  and  your  surroundings  is 
half  the  battle.  Every  retailer  hopes 
for  success,  but  there  is  a  hig difference 
between  hoping  for  it  and  having  con­
fidence  enough  in  vourself  to  compel 
it 
It  is  always  wise 
to  come  your  way. 
enough  to  be  prepared 
for  the  worst, 
too,  but  to  be  continually  thinking  of  it 
is  not  healthy  mental  exercise,  for  to 
think  of  trouble  is  to  merit  misfortune. 

*  *  *

There  have  been  men  and  women who 
have  told  your  fortunes  by  the  lines 
in 
your  hand:  men  who  could  tell  you  lots 
of  things  you  didn’t  know  about  your­
self  by  the  bumps  on  your  head ;  people 
who  profess  to  be  able  to  tell  you  by  the 
shape  and  size  of  the  different  features 
of  your  face  whether  you  are  destined 
to  do  great  things  in  this  world,  but  the 
newest  and  swellest  kind  of  a  fortune 
teller 
is  the  one  who  tells  you  your  past 
and  future  by  the  lines  running  about 
the  bottoms  of  your  feet.  They  are  no 
relation  to  the  race  of  chiropodists,  for 
they  have  nothing  at  all  to  do  with  the 
corns  or  bunions  a  man  may  have  on 
his  feet.

it 

If 

Like  the  palmist  they  use  the  left 
member,  and  the  lines  on  the  bottom  of 
that  foot  tell  the  tale  quite  as  plain­
ly  as  the  lines  on  your  hand.  The  life 
line  starts  at  the  base  of  the  big  toe;  if 
it  curves  along  until 
it  terminates  at 
the  base  of  the  little  toe  it  means  long 
life. 
is  broken  at  the  hollow  it 
denotes  sickness  at  middle  age,  and ter­
minating  there 
it  denotes  a  short  life. 
Only  those  with  great  minds  and  great 
brain  ability  have  lines  sharply  seen  on 
the  heel.  If  there  is  a  network  of  small 
lines  it  means  great  versatility.  A  pro­
nounced  cross-line  on  the  ball  of  the 
foot  denotes a  good  family  man  or a  do 
mestic  woman.  The  small  light  line  in 
the  center  of  the  sole  denotes  great abil­
ity  to  love.  The  deeper  it is the stronger 
and  more  lasting  the  passion.  Those 
love  but  once  and  forever 
who  could 
have  a  dent  here  that  looks  like  a 
line. 
Then  the  shape  and  general  build of  the 
foot,  the  shape  and  position  of  the  toes, 
all  mean  something  to  the  enlightened. 
A 
long  slender  foot,  without  much  in­
step,  means  that  the  owner  is  very  emo­
tional  and  easily  affected.  Short  toed 
men  swear  easily.  Orators  have  long 
If  one’s  feet  are  compact  he  has 
toes 
great  mental  balance,  and 
if  he  is  an 
artist  he  has  pointed  toes.  A long  slen­
der curving  ankle  on  a woman denotes a 
love  of  fun. 
is  longer 
than  the  others  she  has  a  good  deal  of 
self-will;  a  good  high 
instep  means  a 
fair  amount  of  capriciousness,  and  a 
curve  at  the  hollow  of the  foot  expresses 
aristocratic  tastes  such  as  would  require 
a  rich  man  to  keep. 
If  her  toes  sepa­
rate and are square  at  the ends, the  space 
between  the  first  and  second  toes  means 
great  talent  as  well  as  beauty,  while  the 
square  ends  mean  a  lack  of  conven­

If  the  big  toe 

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

tionality,  and  a  thickening  foot  means 
one  who  has  lots  of  vim  and  energy  to 
overcome  obstacles.

*  *  *

Leather  has  been  used  for  shoes,  for 
belts, 
for  trousers,  and  pretty  much 
every  other  article  of  wearing  apparel, 
but  not  until  lately  has  the  leather neck­
tie  been  put  on  the  market.  Although 
they  are  advertised  as  leather  necktits, 
to  tell  the  truth  they  don’t  look  it  at 
all,  for  they  look  mote  like  a  miniature 
belt  than  anything  else.  They  are  in 
fact  miniature  belts  made 
in  exactly 
the  style  of  the  fashionable  ladies’  belt 
with  the  harness  huckle  and  side  straps 
complete.  The  material  is  black  patent 
leather,  with  a  black  patent  leather cov­
ered  buckle,  or  of  white  morocco  finish 
with  the  nickel  harness  buckle.  They 
match  the  waist  belt  in  every  particular 
and  it  seems  as  if  a  ‘ ‘ neck  belt”   would 
be  a  more  appropriate  name  for  them. 
They  are  as  narrow  as  the  narrowest 
of  string  ties,  and  I  must  say  they  are 
extremely  neat 
in  appearance.  They 
have  one  great  advantage  over  the  ordi­
nary  tie,  in  that  they  never  come  un­
tied,  and  do  not  need  to  be  pinned  to 
keep  the  bow  straight.  They  always 
‘ ‘ stay  put  ”   They  remind  one  a  good 
deal  of  a  dog  collar,  and  if  in  the future 
the  fad  should  call  for  wider  collars 
there  will  be  a still  greater likeness,  and 
one  would  have  a  hard  time  guessing 
as  to  whether  my  lady  bad  on  her  own 
or  her  pug’s  collar.

*  *  *

I'd 

‘ ‘ Mr.  H —,  where  are my  shoes?  You 
promised  to  send  them  out  to  me yester­
day  morning  and  I  haven’t  seen  them 
like  to  know  why  they  were 
yet. 
not  sent,”   she  demanded 
She  was  not 
angry,  but  very  much  put  out.  Mr. 
H—,  the  shoe  man,  put  on  his  most 
pleasant  smile  and  rubbed  his  hands 
genially.

“ I  am  very  sorry  it  happened,  Mrs. 
D—, ”   be  said,  “ hut  the  fact  of  the 
matter  is  that  ihe  boy  went  away yester­
day  morning  and  forgot  them.  We  all 
supposed  he  bad  t.iken  them  and  did 
not  find  out  differently  until  this  morn­
ing ;  I  will  send  them  out  right  away.”  
and  he  turned  and  started  to  call  the 
delivery  boy.

"You  need  not  trouble  yourself,”   in­
terposed  madam. 
“ I  needed  the  shoes 
yesterdav  afternoon  and,  when  they  did 
not come,  went  out  to a nearby shoe store 
and  got  another  pair.  I  do  not  need  the 
pair  you  have  here,  so  you  may  cancel 
the  order,”   and  she  turned  and  left  the 
store.

The  retailer’s  face  fell  for  an  instant 
and  then  he  got  angry  and  for  an  hour 
swore  at  his  clerks,  at  the  door  boy  and 
the  establishment,
every  one  around 

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while  his  employes  all  stood  around 
and  laughed  at  him.

“ It’s  no  one’s  fault  but  his  own,”  
remarked  one  of  them  to  me. 
“ He 
knew  when  he  promised  to  deliver them 
yesterday  that 
it  cou'd  not  be  done. 
That  tale about  the  k  d  forgetting  them 
was  all  bosh. “

*  *  *

I  wonder  sometimes  how  dealers  like 
this  manage  to  get  along  as  well  as 
they  do.  They  seem  to  think  that  it 
matters not bow much nor how  often they 
lie  to  their customers,  nor  how  long they 
keep  them  waiting.  They  are  seldom 
prompt  themselves  and  think  no  one 
else  is.  People  now  are  too  independ 
ent,  and  there  are  too  many enterprising 
dealers  after  their  patronage,  to  stand 
being  disappointed  and  kept  waiting. 
Merchants  who  expect  to  keep  trade 
must  make  no  promises  they  can  not 
keep. 
It  may  seem  a  small  thing  to 
the  merchant,  but  to the  customers,  who 
probably  lay  their  plans  to  fit  the  deal­
er’s  promises,  it counts  for  a  great  deal. 
— Shoe  and  Leather  Gazette.

How  the  New  Rubber  Deal  Will  Affect 

Prices.

From the New York Commercial.

Recent  events  in  the  rubber boot  and 
shoe  business  have  attracted  attention 
to  the  present  aspect  of  the  industry, 
leading  to  a  good  deal  of  speculation 
regarding  the  ultimate  effect  upon  the 
In  the  first  place,  prices  of  rub­
trade. 
ber  footwear  are  somewhat 
in  advance 
of  last  year’s  quotations,  the  excess  av- 
eraging,  perhaps,  6  per  cent.  This  is 
due, 
in  part  at  least,  to  the  higher 
value  put  upon  crude  rubber  by  reason 
of  the  scarcity  of  that  material.  The 
demand,  however,  does not  seem  to have 
been  affected  by  the  prices,  as  the  man­
ufacturers  are  said  to  have  more  orders 
now  than  was  the  case  a  year ago.  The 
problem  now  is,  what  the  effect  will  be 
of  the  new  relations  between  the  United 
States  Rubber  Co  and  the  Boston  Rub­
ber  Shoe  Co.

A  large  handler of  rubber  shoes  who 
has  kept  in  pretty  close  touch  with what 
has  been  going  on 
in  rubber  circles 
said:  “ While  the  Boston  Rubber  Shoe 
Co  has  been,  to  a  certain  extent,  a 
competitor  of  the  United  States  Rubber 
Co.,  it  has  been  pretty  generally  under­
stood  that  for  some  years  past  there  has 
been  an  understanding  between  the  two 
concerns  regarding  prices.
“ This  knowledge  makes  the  present 
movement  of  less  interest  to  the  buyers 
of  rubber  footwear  than  would  have 
been  the  case  had  there  been  that  sharp 
competition  which  follows  the  struggle 
of  two  rival  concerns  for  business.

“ It  will  be  remembered  that  when, 
two  or  three  years  ago,  the  price-list of 
the  Boston  company  was  issued  a  few 
days 
in  advance  of  that  of  the  United 
States  Co.,  showing  a  cut  from  previous 
lists,  the  trust  was  in  readiness  to  con­
form  to  the  new  prices,  and,  since  then, 
the  market  has  not  been  disturbed  by 
cuts  nor  rumors  of  cuts  on  the  part  of 
either  of  the  concerns.

“ Counting  the  United  States  Co.  and 
the  Boston  Rubber  Shoe  Co.  as  a  unit 
leaves  the  output  of  the  independent 
concerns  about  25,000  pairs  a  day,  or 
one-fifth  that  of  the two concerns named. 
Some,  at  least,  of  the  outside  plants  are 
increasing  their  production  and  all  are 
reported  as  prospering.”

As  Solid  As  a  Rock.

If you  expect to conquer  in  the  battle of  to-day,
You will  have to blow  your  trumpet  in  a  firm  and 

steady way.

all day.

The  man that owns  his acres  is  the  man that plows 

And  the  man  that  keeps  a-humming1  is  the  man 

that’s  here  to stay;

But  the man  who advertises  with a  sort  of  sudden 

jerk

work.

er's ink,

Is tne man  who blames the printer  because it didn’t 

The man  who gets the  business  uses  brainy  print­

Not a clatter nor a sputter, but an ad. that makes you 
And  he  plans  his advertisements  as  he  plans his 
And the future of his business is as solid as a rock*

think;
well-Dought stock,

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

II

The  Blight  of  Politics.

“ A  month  or  so  ago,”   remarked  a 
drummer  who  sells  saddlery  and harness 
goods,  “ I  was  out  in  that  part  of  West 
Virginia  where  Grocer  Cleveland  and 
Joe  Miller  used  to  go  fishing,  and  in  the 
course  of  a  side  trip  I  was  making  in  a 
buckboard,  in  order  to  take  in  some  of 
my  customers  along  the  edge of civiliza­
tion,  I  stopped  one  day  at  a  hillside 
tavern  presided  over  by  Aunt  Susan 
Mullins,  who  is  as  wise  a philosopher as 
she  is  a  superior  in  the  art  of  preparing 
a  fine  mountain  dinner. 
1  was  resting 
after  feed 
in  the  shade,  smoking  a 
stogie,  and  talking  to  Aunt  Susan  on 
the  one  subject  now  of 
interest,  to-wit, 
‘ Any  of  your  folks  at  the 
the  war. 
front,  Aunt  Susan?’ 
I  enquired.  ‘ None 
uv  my  own  kinfolks  is,  but  Sarey  Jack­
son’s  boy  is,  and  Sarey  is  most  a  sister 
to  me.’ 
‘ I  suppose  you  were  worried  a 
good  deal  about  him  during  the  fighting 
before  Santiago,  weren’t  you? 
I  know 
bow  I  felt  about  a  brother  I  bad  with 
the  Rough  Riders.  It  is  a  terrific  strain 
on  people  at  home  to  have  to  sit  still 
and  wait,  every  minute  expecting  to 
bear  that  they  are  killed  or  badly  hurt.' 
‘ Yes,’ she  replied  rather  hesitatingly, 
‘ that's  mighty  bad  and  uncomfortable, 
but 
'twan’t  that  what  worr.es  me  so 
much  about  Sarey’s  boy  as  his  cornin' 
home  after  the  war’s  over. ’ 
’ How  do 
you  mean?’  I  asked,  puzzled  past  un­
derstanding, 
home  coming 
seemed  to  be  the  most  jovous  part  of  it 
‘ Wall,  you  see,  Jeemes 
is  fer  all  the 
world  like  bis  pappy  was-  one  uv  these 
here  good-natered  men  that  everybody 
likes  and 
is  so  all-fired  popular  that 
they  ain’t  got  no  time  to  'tend  to  their 
own  business.  Jeemes’  pappy went  into 
the  last  war  an  fit 
like  a  w ildcat,  and 
when  he  come  home  the  people  run  him 
fer  the 
legislater  an  elected  him,  and 
he  never  wuz  wutb  shucks  frum  that 
day  till  they  buried  him.  Jeemes  has 
fit  just  like  bis  pappy  done,  and  a  con­
stable  told  me  t’other  day  that  they  wuz 
goin’  to  run  Jimmy  fer  the  legislater 
shore  ez  shootin*  and  he’d  sweep  the 
country  like  a  whirlwind,  and  that's 
what  skeers  me  fer  Jeemes.  Politics  is 
a  heap  sight  wuss  on  a  man 
than 
war.’  ”

the 

for 

Unlucky  Friday.

It 

Some  people  think  Friday  is  an  un­
lucky  day. 
is  for  those  who  are 
hanged  on  Friday,  and  it  has  been  for 
those  who  have  got  the  worst  of  any 
event  that  happened  on  Friday.  Any 
other  day  could  be  made  to  appear  un­
lucky.  Sunday  has  been  a  favorite  day 
for  excursionists  to  die  on.  What  is 
lucky  for  one  man  may  be  unlucky  for 
another.  Lee  surrendered  on  Friday; 
but  that  was  a  great  dav  for  Grant. 
Moscow  was  burned  on  Friday  Wash­
ington  was  born  on  Friday.  Shakes­
peare  was  born  on  Friday.  America was 
discovered  on  Friday.  Richmond  was 
evacuated  on  Friday.  The  Bastile  was 
destroyed  on  Friday.  The  Mayflower 
was  landed  on  Friday.  Queen  Victoria 
was  married  on  Friday.  King  Charles 
I.  was  beheaded  on  Friday.  Fort  Sum­
ter  was  bombarded  on  Friday.  Napo 
leon  Bonaparte  was  born  011  Friday. 
Julius  Caesar  was  assassinated  on  Fri 
day  The  battle  of  Marengo  was fought 
on  Friday. 
The  battle  of  Waterloo 
was  fought  on  Friday.  Joan  of  Arc  was 
burned  at  the  stake  on  Friday.  The 
battle  of  New  Orleans  was  fought  on 
Friday.  The  battle  of  Bunker  Hill  was 
fought  on  Friday.  The  Declaration  of 
Independence  was  signed  on  Friday. 
There  are  people  who  never  go  any­
where  who  object  to  starting  on  a 
jour­
ney  on  Friday;  and  there  are  those  who 
never  do  anything  who  would  not  com­
mence  a  job  of  work  on  Friday.  These 
things prove nothing.  Robinson Crusoe's 
Friday  was  lucky  in  being  saved  from 
savages.  Any  old  Friday  is  good enough 
if  people  wish  to  make  it  so.

An  Immediate  Necessi  y.

Mrs.  Watts— What  is  on  that  button?
Watts—“  Remember  the  Maine  ’ ’
Mrs.  Watts— It  would  do  more  imme­
if  you  would  get  a  button 
the  Groceries”  

diate  good 
with  “ Don’t  Forget 
on  it

NO W  OPEN *

Carnival
of t o  
Furnisnings

In   the  Wholesale 
Showrooms  o f

BROWH  &  SEHLER.  w.  Bridge  Si.,  Brand  Rapids.

Prices  right. 

We  manufacture  only  “ H A N D   M A D E "   Harness.

This Showcase only $4 00 per foot.

With  Beveled  Edge  Plate Glass top $5.00 per foot.

BRYAN  SHOW  CASE  WORKS

Display  Cases Specially  Designed  for  Any  Kind  of  Merchandise.

Catalogue and  Prices very Attractive.

BRYAN.  ONIO

When  at  the  Carnival  of  Fun,  October  25,  26, 

27  and  28,  call  on

HENRY  M.  GILLETT

Manufacturers’ Agent for Advertising Specialties.

State Agent  Regent Manufacturing Co.

90 Monroe St.,  Opp.  Morton  House,  Grand  Rapids.

W b   M o p   T h e   W o r l d

We are manufacturing an article that  will 
suggest  itself  to  you  as  most  desirable 
for its salable quality. 

It is  the

Fuller Patented Eccentric Spring  Lever  Mop  Stick

It is adapted  to  your  trade;  in  Neatness 
and Convenience it has no equal;  the price 
is reasonable;  it  is  being extensively  a d ­
vertised ;  it  has  proven  a phenomenal suc­
cess  wherever introduced.

E.  F.  ROWE,  Ludington, Michigan.

Y2

APPLE  TRADE.

Improvement 

in  Handling—Peculiari­

By 

There 

ties  o f  Consumers. *
is  no  apple  crop  of  anv  im 
portance  gathered  before  August  I,  and 
no  part  of  that  which  is to  be  gathered 
after  this  date  will  last  or  be  kept  until 
August  I  of  another  year;  so  that  from 
August  to  August  sharply  defines  an  ap­
ple  year—but  while  we  accumulate  no 
surplus  to  be  carried  over  from  one 
season  to  another,  and  two  succeeding 
seasons 
in  our  business  are  therefore 
wholly  unrelated,  while  we handle  what 
is  classed  among  perishable  products— 
yet  really  the  product  that  we  handle  is 
the  dividing 
line  between  perishable 
and  imperishable.

I  believe  there  are 

the  final  deed  done. 

improved  methods  of  harvesting 
in  the  first  place,  of  transporting  in  the 
second  place,  and  of  bolding 
in  the 
third  place,  we  have  really  taken  the 
apple  out  of  the  list  of perishable fruits. 
The  only  thing  that  is  perishable  new 
about  an  apple 
is  the  element  of  profit 
—and  I  hope  we  will  get  some  method 
of  refrigeration  soon  that  will  preserve 
that  But  much  as  has  b°en  accom­
plished,  he  would  greatly  err who should 
think  that  the  final  word  had  been 
spoken, 
The 
changes  that  have  come  in  our  business 
are  largely  the  result  of  the  application 
of  modern  scientific  ideas  to  the  prac 
tical  arts. 
yet 
changes  to  come  that  will  surpass  any­
thing  we  have  seen. 
I  believe  that, 
when  the  practical  application  of  the 
recent  discovery  of  liquefied  air  comes 
to  be  made,  among 
its  effects  will 
be  an  entire  revolution  in  accepted  re­
frigerating  methods — extending 
the 
horizon  of  the possible  term  for  keeping 
some  fruits  beyond  the  wildest  dreams 
I  believe  the  day  is  not  far  distant when 
the  engine  that  draws  the  train  of  re­
frigerator 
cars  will  also  operate  an 
ammonia  compressor  to  artificially  cool 
the  cars  and  ventilating  apparatus  to 
remove  mephitic  gases. 
I  believe  the 
day  is  not  far  distant  when  we can carry 
from Chicago,  St.  Louis,  Quincy,  or any 
other  great  point  of  storage,  apples  to 
any  great  mart  of  the  world  where  they 
are  wanted,  at  the  same  temperature 
throughout  the  journey,  and  that  the 
temperature  at  which  they  have  been 
kept 
I  believe  that 
these  changes  will  add  so  much  to  the 
area  of  possible  demand,  as  well  as  ex­
tend  the  season  for  profitable  handling, 
that  we  may  regard  ourselves  with  all 
the  stride  we  have  made  and  with  the 
enormous  volume  of  business  attained 
as  still  in  the  kindergarten  stage  of  the 
business.

in  the  coolers. 

What  then 

in  view  of  these  changes 

is  the  function  of  this  Association?

Is  it  not  to assist  and  hasten them and 
prepare  in  every  way  for  them,  by  in­
telligent  discussion  and  by  thoughtful 
action,  to  form  a  body  of  intelligent 
opinion  which  will  accept  these changes 
intelligently  and  not  blindly— which 
will  invite  needed  changes  and  supply 
the  necessary 
links  to  effect  combina­
tions  of  : lready  known  forces  of  already 
approved  principles?

There  is  a  popular  impression  abroad 
that  this  Association  meets  annually  for 
the  purpose  of  fixing  prices  for  the  en­
suing  year.  Such  a  thing  is,  of  course, 
neither  desirable  nor  possible.  Our  only 
function  with  regard  to  prices  is  to 
in­
ject  some  saving  common  sense into  the 
minds  of  operators,  who  are  apt  other­
wise  to  go  off  half-cocked—to save  them 
from  becoming  victims  to a  hyper-sen­
sitive  imagination,  and  that  simply  by 
calling  their  attention  to  the 
largeness 
of  the  apple  world  and  the  exti erne 
smallness  of  the  range  of  vision  of  any 
one  individual,  even  although  he  be  the 
brightest  and  smartest  We  are  here 
to-day  to  save  our  friends,  at  least  those 
who  need  salvation,  from  the  evil  con­
sequences  of  thinking  that  the  apples 
which  thev  know  of  are  pretty  much  all 
the  apples  that  there  are,  or  that  worst 
evil  of  all,  which  consists  of  fancying, 
namely :  That  any  one  man  or  set  of 
men  can  dictate  to  the  whole  American 
people  what  price  they  shall pay  for  any
*  Address by O. H. Williamson  at  >-nnual  con­
vention  National  Apple  Shippers'  Associa­
tion.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

staple  product— even  the  apple.  We 
draw  the  deadly  parallel  on  them,  be­
tween  the  utmost  of  what  they  can  in­
dividually  do  and  the  vast  overlapping 
immensities  of  what 
is  left  after  they 
get  all  through.

We  are  a  school,  gentlemen,  for  the 
propagation  of  sane  ideas  with  regard 
to  the  apple  and  dealings  therein,  and 
the  first  proof  of our  sanity  is  that  we do 
not  begin  to  be  a  bureau  of  prices—and 
the  second  proof  of  our  sanity  is that  we 
accumulate  a  body  of  wisdom,  gleaned 
from  the  years  that  have  been,  to  guide 
us 
into  the  years  that  are  to  be,  the 
highest  type  of  sanity  being  to  make 
use  of  past  experience  in  the  shape  of 
reasoned  deductions  therefrom,  instead 
of  casting  all  experience  to  one  side 
and  going  by  guesswork  as  is  the  man­
ner  of  the  amateur  apple  man,  wild  of 
eye  and  swift  of  foot,  and  this  leads  me 
to  ask  what  truth  of  experiences  has  the 
past  year  brought  to  light  to  guide  fu­
ture  action  and  to  be  put  in  form  of  a 
rough  but  serviceable  generalization?  If 
the  year  of  grace  1807-1898  has  demon­
strated  any  one  thing,  it  has  demon­
strated  the  fact  that  there  is  no  longer 
any  such  thing  as  a  sboit  crop.  The 
railroad,  the  telegraph,  the  cold  storage 
plant,  the  extending  of  the  area  of  pro­
duction 
consequent  thereon, 
have  annihilated  short  crops,  and  the 
term  is  now  a  misnonr er.

largely 

We have  crops  lighter  than  others— we 
have  crops  that  seem  short—but  unless 
a  man  buys  his  apples  in  such  a  year 
much  the  same  as  in  years  that  do  not 
seem  short,  be  is  apt  to  come  out  at  the 
very  small  end  of  the  born.  Manv  of 
us  thought  we  had  a  short  crop  la<T 
year—and  most  huyers  bought  with  a 
view  to  a  possible  seven  and  eight  dol­
lar  market,  but  70  per  cent  of  them  lost 
money,  and  the  remainder  found  much 
scantier  results  than  even 
least 
sanguine  had  expected.

YVe  no  longer  raise  any  crop  of  apples 
so  small  that  we  can  expect  it  to  go 
into  consumption  on  the  tables  of  the 
wealthy.  There 
is  no  crop  that  has 
been  raised  in  recent  years,  or  that  will 
he  raised  for  manv  years  to  come,  the 
largest  part  of  which  has to be consumed 
by  the  middle  classes  and  the  working 
people,  the  people  who 
live  by  small 
salary  or  wages,  or  the  profits  of  small 
shopkeeping,  and 
light  of  the 
experience  of  the  past  ten  years,  I  ven­
ture  the  assertion  that  the  extreme  limit 
of  price  that  they  will  stand  is  35  cents 
per  peck,  nor  do  thev  buy  sufficiently 
freely  to  move  a  moderate  priced  crop 
at  over  25  cents  per  peck,  and  they  are 
likely  to  want  a  taste  of  apples  at  15 
cents  to  20  cei ts  per  peck  before  they 
are  willing  to  come  to  25 cents per peck.
In  other  words,  there is  no  crop of  ap­
ples  grown  a 
large  part  of  which,  per 
haps  the  largest  part,  does  not  have  to 
go  into  consumption  at  a  range of prices 
at  and  below  25  cents  per  peck,  and  of 
large  crops  95  per  cent,  have  to  be  so 
consumed.  The  buyer,  therefore,  who 
consults  the  following  of  prudence  must 
have  regard  to  the  fixed  and 
inexorable 
limits  set  by  popular  retail  prices  A 
supply which  looks verv  small,  absolute­
ly,  may 
loom  up  very  large,  if  started 
at  a  price  which  eliminates  90  per  cent.

in  the 

the 

HARVEY  P.  MILLER.

EVERETT P.  TBASDALE.

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Grapes,  Pears,  Plums,  Apples,  Celery,
Tomatoes,  Spanish  Onions,  Lemons,
Oranges  and  Bananas.

Bunting &  Co., Jobbers,

Grand  Rapids,  Michigan.

EGGS  WANTED

Am  in  the  market  for
any  quantity  of  Fresh
Eggs.  Would be pleased
at  any  time  to  quote
prices  F.  O.  B.  your
station to merchants hav-
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The  best  are  the  cheapest 
and  these  we  can  always 
supply.

ALFRED  J.  BROWN  SEED  CO.

24  and  26  North  Division  Street,

Grand  Rapids, Mich.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Seconds  the  Tradesman’s  Exposure 

of the  Columbus  Gang.

of  the  buyers.  That  supply  may  loom 
larger  still  if  its  quality  is  such  as  not 
to  please  a  large  part  of  the  io  per cent, 
of  buyers  who  remain,  a  consideration 
important,  to  be  borne  in  mind, 
nio,-t 
it,  as  almost 
invariably  happens,  the 
small  supply  is  accompanied  hy  a  low­
ering 
in  quality.  A  light  crop  on  the 
trees  may  mean  a  great  many  apples, 
taken 
is  sure  to 
large,  but  it 
mean  a  poor  crop  in  quality.

is  no  crop  raised  that  we  do 
not  have  to  find  every  possible  outlet 
for  in  a  greater  or  less  degree.

in  the 

There 

importance  of 

In  particular  every crop year increases 
the 
the  export  outlet. 
With  this  in  mind,  I  have  the  following 
recommendation  to  make,  that  this  As­
sociation,  either  directly  or  through  the 
medium  of  the  National  Government, 
secure  the  appointment  cf  competent 
inspectors  at  all  export  points  to  ex­
amine  and  certify  to  the  quality  of  ap­
ples  going  abroad. 
I  believe  that  such 
inspection  and  certification  is  the  only 
means  to  break  up  the  system  of 
indis­
criminate  consignment  so  ruinous  to 
the  interests  of  those  engaged 
in  ex­
porting.  and  to  render  possible  the  only 
legitimate  way  of  handln g  the  export 
business  that  is  straight  sale on a f.  o  b. 
basis.

I  do  not  see  ar y  reason  why,  if  the 
proper  safeguards  are  tnrown  around 
the  business,  apples that  are  packed  and 
graded  according  to  the  rules  ot  the 
National  Apple  Shippers'  Association 
should  not  move  on  the  same  terms  as 
it  can  not  be 
wheat  or corn  or  oil. 
bought  to  be  bandied  in  this  way,  it 
is 
a  good  business  to  stay  out  of 
I  be­
lieve  it  can  be  so  handled  and  that  the 
first  step  is  the  one  that  1  now  urge.

Another  recommendation 

is  that  we 
urge  on  the  various  produce  exchanges 
ot  the  country,  through  the  medium  of 
our  Committee  on  Grades,  the  appoint­
ment  of  committees  who  shall  inspect, 
when  required,  rejected  cars  of  apples, 
and  pass  upon  their  quality  and  decide 
whether  up  to  seller’s  recommendation 
I here  are  enough  holes  that  we 
or  not. 
it  imperatively 
can  not  close  to  make 
necessary  that  we  close all  we  can. 
I 
believe  a  measure  of  this  kind  is  essen- 
t  al  to  the  safety  of  tne  seller,  and  if 
any  countrv  grain  shipper  can  demand 
an  inspection  of  nis  grain,  I  do  not  see 
why  so  large  and  important  and  grow­
ing  an 
inteiert  as  ours  shouid  not  be 
entitled  to  similar  safeguards.

If 

I do not  make  more  recommendations, 
because  I  am  a  great  believer  in  a  little 
at  a  time.  I  think  we  can  do  the  things 
which  I  have  recommended 
if  we  set 
out  in  earnest  to  do  them.

Ouce  accomplished,  we  ran  turn  our 
attention  to  other  things. 
Iu  this  day 
and  age  it  is  concentration  of  attention 
and  concentration  of  effort  that  wins.

One  of  the  points  on  which  our  As­
sociation  in  the past has laid most  stress 
was  on  the  necessity  and  advantage  of 
the  uniform  barrel.  At  the  suggestion 
of  ex-Presideut  Loomis,  in  co-operation 
with  our  Secretary,  I  called  your  atten­
tion  to  the  necessity  of  adopting  and 
causing  to  be  published  a  resolution 
notifying  the  cooperage  trade,  and  the 
producers  of  our  resolution,  not  to  buy 
fruit  in  irregular  packages,  but  only 
in 
the  barrel  of  size  recommended  by  this 
Association.  With  this -action  on  our 
part  we 
invited  the  co-operation  of  all 
other  buyers.  The  resu ts  we  have yet  to 
see,  but  we  have every  reason  to  feel  en­
couraged.  The  feeling  of  unity  and  of 
esprit  de  corps  among  our  members  has 
been  admirable. 
In'many  silent  ways 
in  the  elevation  of  standards  and  prac­
tice  our  influent e  has  been  felt.  Our 
vear-book  with  its  definitions  has  been 
the  means  of  saving  many  an argument. 
It  has  silently  educated  many  growers 
aud  has  prepared  them 
to  see  what 
grades  meant  and  what  the  advantages 
of  grading  were  in  a  way  that  a  million 
verbal  arguments  could  never  have 
effected. 
In  other  words,  a  voice  of 
authority  has  existed  for  the  first  time 
in  the  truth.  Before,  every  man  was  a 
law  and  a  standard  unto himself,and the 
difference 
is  the  difference  between 
light and  darkness.

The  girl  who  wishes  she  bad  been  a 
boy  will  never  make  a  good  wife—she 
will  want  to  wear the trousers.

Lansing,  Oct 

i.— I  read  in  your 

is­
sue  of  Sept.  21  an  article  under the 
heading  of "T w o Produce Houses Which 
Should  Be  Avoided,"  and,  with  your 
permission,  I  would  like  you  to  publish 
a  little  experience  I  had  with  these peo­
ple  while  doing  business  as  the  old  firm 
of  Hodge  &  Hoag land

We  were  anxious  during  the  summer 
to  find  an  outlet  in-  the  different  cities 
in  Ohio  for  our  different  kinds  of  fruit, 
so  we  wrote  several  parties  in  regard  to 
same  Among  the  letters  we  wrote  w; s 
one  to  gentlemen  in  Columbus who were 
at  one  time  a  good  house.  Unknown  to 
us,  they  had  gone  out  of  business,  con­
sequently  our  letter  fell  into the hands of 
a  house  by  the  name  of  P.  H  Dolan  & 
Co.,  purporting  to  be  conducting  a 
produce  business  at  187  East  Chappel 
street.  This  party  gave  us  some  very 
encouraging  quotations  on 
fruit  and 
made  us  a  cash  offer  f  o.  b.  for  stuff 
Although  we  thought  the  prices  men 
tinned  were  erroneous  on account  of  the 
partv  we  had  written  to  originally being 
all  O.  K.  we  naturally  assumed  that 
this  party  was  good  for  one  shipment 
anyway  We  made  a  shipment,  amount­
ing  to  qu'te  a  considerable,  and  on  iis 
arrival  we  received  a  wire  advising  a 
steady  shipment  daily  of  equal  amount 
or  more,  as  the  market  would  be  in  a 
condition  that  they  would  clean up read 
ily  and  the  goods  were  all  O.  K.  ;  also 
asking  us  to  advise  if  we  shipped.  We 
felt  a  little  worried  over  the  deal,  tbere- 
lore  did  not wire.

The  next  day  we  received  a  wire,  also 
a  letter,  from  one  Patrick  Murphy,  of 
553  and  555  West  Town  street,  advis­
ing  us  that  he  bad  several  stores  and 
markets  m  the  city  and  could  use  a 
large  quantity  of  such  goods  as we could 
ship  at  the  highest  possible  price  and 
wanted  shipments  badly  We  suspi- 
cioned  that  it  was  a  combination  work­
ing  the  country  and decided,  in  order  to 
satisfy  ourselves,  that  we  would  make 
Mr  Murphy  a  small  shipment  and  fol­
low  it  to  Columbus,  which  we  did.  The 
writer  went  to  Columbus  and,  on  ar­
rival,  found  that  we  were  correct. 
It 
was  a  combination,  and  a  good one,  too.
I  tried  all  day  to  find  P  H.  Dolan  & 
Co  and,  on  account  of  there  being  sev­
eral  others  there  for  two  or  three  days 
before  hunting  for  him  for  the  same 
purpose,  he  was  not  to  be  found.  On 
making  enquiry,  I found  that  there  were 
several  swindlers 
in  the  combination 
and  that  they had  been working  the  deal 
successfully  for  some  time.  None  of 
them  bad  anything  one  could  get  hold 
of,  as  the  parties  that  had  the  wagons 
were  other than  the  ones  that  bad  their 
names  on 
letter  heads  as  doing  busi­
ness.

On  my  arrival 

I  found  the  office  of  Dolan  &  Co., 
which,  true  to  the  heading,  was  at  the 
place  named.  The  place  was  in  an  alley 
and  the  room  was  over  an  old  stable. 
I 
made  some  enquiry  in  regard  to  the 
lo­
cation  of  Mr.  Murphy  and  was told  that 
bis  several  markets  and  stores  were  a 
fake,  as  the  only  place  that  was  known 
to  be  his  was  some  upstair  rooms  at  the 
number  mentioned-and  that  he  had  no 
place  of  business  whatever.
in  the  city  I  stopped 
the  delivery  of  the  goods  I  shipped  to 
Murphy  and,  after  satisfying  myself 
that  I  could  get  nothing  out  of  the 
parties,  went  home.  We  have  repeat­
edly  written  Mr.  Dolan  and  mailed 
him  statements  of  account,  but  have 
failed  to  even  get  a  reply  from  him  in 
any  way.
We  are  the  fish  in  this  case  and  will 
feel  thoroughly  satisfied  if  we can  in any 
way  be  directly  interested  in  helping  to 
break  up  such  an 
irresponsible  gang 
as  appears  to  infest  the  Columbus  mar­
ket.
The  writer  will  be  greatly  obliged  if 
in the  next  issue of 
you  will  put  this 
the  Tradesman  and  I  cheerfully  tender 
my  name  to  be  used  in  connection  with 
it  to  any  extent  you  may  care  to  use  it 

G eo.  M.  H o d g e.

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J.  WILLARD  LANSINQ,

BURUE  D. CATLIN.

LANSING & GATLIN

44 W. MARKET STREET 
103 MICHIGAN STREET

BUFFALO,  N.  Y.

W H O L E S A L E  

D E A L E R S   IN E G G S

1 here  is a good demand  in our market for fresh  Eggs, those that are  free  from 
heat and that can be guaranteed  strictly fresh selling at  17c.  There  is a distinction 
now between  storage and  fresh and  the  trade  is  calling  for  both,  but  for  the  past 
six  weeks they have been  using storage principally.

N. WOHLFELDER &  CO.

WHOLESALE  GROCERS.

We want your shipments of Butter and Eggs.  Correspondence solicited.

399-401-403  High Street, E„ 

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Branch Store. 353 Russell Street^ 

Correspondence  solicited. 

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Only  Exclusive  Wholesale  BUTTER  and  EGG 
House  in  Detroit.  Have  every  facility  for  han- 
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at your  station  Butter  in  sugar  barrels,  crocks  or
tubs.  Also fresh gathered  Eggs.

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WHOLESALE

P each es  A p p les  P o tato es

54 South  Ionia Street, 

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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Telephone 1348.

C.  N.  RAPP  &  CO.

GENERAL  COMMISSION  MERCHANTS

56  W.  MARKET  ST..  BUFFALO,  N.  Y.

The fruit season  is nearly over and w; are looking forward to the  fall  trade 
for Eggs  and  Poultry.  The  weather  will  be  colder  and  the  loss  usual  in 
warm  weather  will  be  obviated.  Our  location  and  trade  enable  us  to 
promise  the  best  sales  obtainable  upon  this  market.  We  have  the  best 
facilities  for  handling,  also  cold  storage  free  to  our  customers,  and  we 
promise careful attention  to  your  shipments,  prompt  sales  and  quick  re­
turns.  Should you require references shall  take pleasure in  giving you  the 
names  of  Michigan  shippers  who. have  done  business  with  us  the  past 
season.  We are well known in  Michigan,  being  a  branch  of  C.  N.  Rapp 
&  Co., of Grand  Rapids.  Should  be  pleased  to  answer  at  all  times  any 
enquiries relative to shipments for this  market.  We  will  advance  you  lib­
erally or honor  sight draft for any  reasonable amount.

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Special  Blanks  for  Produce  Dealers

The  man  who  will  not  marry  until  he 
finds  a  woman  who  thinks  before  she 
speaks  will  remain  a  bachelor  all  his 
days.

W e make a specialty  of this  class of work and solicit  correspondence 
with  those who need anything  in  this line.

TRADESMAN  COMPANY, 

-  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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F R U IT   FOR  FRANCE.

How  Shipments  from  America Should 

Be  Packed.

From the New York Commercial.

The  French  government  is  making  an 
effort  to  trace  the  origin  of  all 
imports 
into  France  and  give  a  series  of  ques­
tions  relating  to 
fruit.  Briefly  these 
questions  are  to  determine  the  cost  of 
specified  varieties  of  fruit  laid  down  in 
France,  with  particulars  as  to  quality, 
methods  of  packing  and  how  imports 
may  be  preserved  for  winter  use.
This  enquiry  is  due  to  the  going  into 
operation  of  the  new  reciprocity  treaty 
between  this  country  and  France.  As 
a  rule,  France  is  an  exporter  of  fruits. 
This  year,  however,  practically  all  fruit 
crops 
in  France  are  short,  and  under 
the  new  treaty 
imports 
from  this  country  appear  to  be  antici­
pated.

considerable 

The  first  question  refers  to  the  whole­
sale  price  of  apples,  pears,  prunes, 
grapes,  lemons  and  oranges.

No  apples  have  been  exported  direct 
to  France  in  recent  years.  All  Ameri­
can  apples  which  have  reached 
the 
French  market  have  done  so  through 
England;  but  even 
in  that  case  the 
quantity  has  been  small.  The  wholesale 
price,  laid  down 
in  France,  will  vary. 
Speaking  generally,  it  would  be  the  av­
erage  selling  price  here,  with  ocean 
freights  added,  which  would  make  the 
figures  vary  with  the  season,  condition 
of  the  market  and  quality  of  the  fruit. 
Shippers  are  not  disposed  to  undertake 
an  estimate  without  knowing more about 
the  conditions  which  would  surround 
shipments.
Pears  are  a more  perishable  fruit  than 
apples,  and shipment  would  be  attended 
with  more  difficulty.  Unless  the  steam­
ship  companies  adopt  cold 
storage 
methods  none  but  winter  varieties  could 
be  shipped.  The  earlier  sorts  would 
decay 
transit.  Apples  and  pears 
would  ordinarily  be  packed  in  barrels, 
although  if  there  were  prospects  of suffi­
cient business,  shippers would  adopt  any 
style  of  packing  the  trade  might specify 
as  appealing  more  forcibly  to  consum­
ers.

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In  the  case  of  prunes  the  question 
hardly  seems  applicable,  inasmuch  as 
French  exporters  are  reported  to  be 
making  a  determined  effort  to  get 
into 
American  markets  this  year.

Grapes  could  not  he  shipped except in 
cold  storage.  The  experiment  recently 
made  by  Canadian  shippers  in  sending 
pears,  grapes  and  early  fall  apples  to 
England  in  refrigerator  steamships  will 
answer  that  question  better  than  any 
amount  of  theory.  Early  apples  shipped 
to  England  from  Boston  arrived  in  good 
condition  and  it  would  seem  feasible  to 
ship  pears  and  grapes  in  the  same  way.
As  to  packing,  the  grapes  as  put  up 
in  America  are  in  a variety of packages, 
ranging 
from  baskets  holding  two 
pounds  up 
ioo 
pounds  or  more.  The  small  baskets 
hold  nearly  a  kilogram,  and  might  suit 
French  consumers.  Dealers think grapes 
will  hardly  be  shipped  to France,  which 
produces  as  many,  if  not  more,  than  al­
most  any  other  country  on  the  globe.

to  packages  holding 

Oranges  would  not,  in  the  opinion  of 
dealers,  ever  become  a  considerable 
item  of  trade.  Oranges  shipped  to  Eng­
land  have  hardly  ever  paid  expenses. 
Some  commission  men  here  have  tried 
it.  The  last  shipments  of  any 
im­
portance  were made the year of the freeze 
in  Florida.

Lemons  are  not  yet  produced  in  suffi­
cient  quantities  in  this country to satisfy 
domestic  demand,  and  dealers  think 
the  quantity  shipped  abroad  would  be 
too  small,  under  the most  favorable  con­
ditions,  to  be  worth  considering.  The 
packing  of  both  oranges  and  lemons  for 
such  shipment  would  be  according  to 
accepted  methods,  in  boxes,  each  sep­
arate  piece  of  fruit  wrapped  in paper.

As  to  preserving  for  winter  use,  there 
is  a  diversity  of  opinion,  but  the  ordi­
nary  precautions  adopted  for  fruit  and 
vegetables  would  probably  be  sufficient. 
Grapes  must  be  left  out  of  this  part  of 
the  consideration,  because  any  grapes 
that  might  be  shipped  from  this  coun­
try  would  not  keep  much  beyond  the 
voyage.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

The  possibility  of  extensive  exports 
to  France  is  not  considered encouraging 
by  fruit  men.  They  think  that  the  aver­
age  fruit  product  of  France  itself  and 
the  relatively  high  cost  of  most  varie­
ties  of  American  fruits  would  prevent 
rapid  purchases  there,  and  that  would 
render  shipments  unprofitable  by  rea­
son  of 
loss  by  shrinkage  and  decay. 
Under  present  circumstances  it  is  prob­
able  that  no  concerted  attempt  will  be 
made  by  New  York  dealers  to  capture 
the  French  market.
Germany Anxious for American Apples. 
From the New  York  Commercial.

This  is  a  good  year  to  send  American 
fruits,  especially  apples,  to  Germany. 
Europe’s  fruit  crop  is  anything  but 
good. 
If  American  merchants  will  not 
repeat  the  folly  of  former  years,  by 
sending  poor  fruit  that  decays  easily, 
they  can command  the  market  for  years, 
against  all  efforts  to  dislodge  them. 
If 
Baldwins,  Greenings,  Russets 
and 
other  hardy  winter  apples  are  sent,  the 
results  will  not  remain  doubtful.  Other 
apples  will  not  pay  for  transportation. 
Had  our  apple  merchants  made  even  a 
half-hearted  effort  to  enter  the  German 
market  in  1896 they  would  now  be  beset 
with  orders.  So  serious  is  the  situation 
there,  because  of  the  dulness  in  grain 
markets,  and  so  decided 
is  the  down­
ward 
tendency  of  profits  in  the  Em 
pire’s  wheat  production,  that  farmers 
are  turning  to  fruit  to  eke  out  an  exist­
ence.  The  General  Union  of  Agricul­
tural  Societies  has  set  itself  the  task  to 
bring  about  better  methods  of  handling 
fruits.  Germans,  as  a  rule,  have  gone 
in 
for  quantity  rather  than  quality, 
letting  their  fruit  trees  run  to  wood 
rather  than  to  fruit.

The  Soldier’s  Wife.

He offered  himself for the  land  he  loved,

But what  shall  we  say of her?

He gave to  his country a'soldier’s life;
*Twas dearer by far to the soldier’s wife;

A ll honor to-day  to  her!

He went  to the  war while his blood  was  hot, 

But what shall  we say of her?

He saw  for himself through  the  battle’s flame 
A  hero’s reward on  the scroll of fame;

W hat honor is due to her ?

He offered  himself,  but  his  wife did  more.

A ll  honor to-day to her!

For dearer than  life was the g ift she gave 
In giving the life she  would  die to save;

W hat honor  is  due  to  her?

He gave up his life at his country’s  call,

But what  shall  we say of  her?

He offered  himself as a sacrifice,
But  she is the one who  pays the  price;

A ll honor we owe  to  her!

E l l io t t   F l o w e r .

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BROKERAGE, 
COMMISSION 
AND STORAGE

FORT WAYNE,  INDIANA.

Have ten  cars  Mason  Fruit  Jars 
in  our  warehouse  for  immediate 
shipment; 
jars  packed  in  dozen 
If you  want  any,  wire  me 
boxes. 

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Ship Ui Your

BUTTER,  EGGS, POULTRY, 
VEAL, GAME, FUR, HIDES, 
BEANS,  POTATOES,
GREEN AND DRIED  FRUIT

Or anything you  may  have.  W e have a  No.  I  lo­
cation  and  a large  trade and  are  fully  prepared  to 
place all  shipments  promptly  at  full  market  price 
and  make  prompt returns.  If you  have  any  ap­
ples do not dispose  of  them  before  corresponding 
with  us.  The crop  is  very  short  this  season  and 
there  will  be  no  low  prices.  Please  let  us  hear 
from you on  whatever you may have to ship or sell.
COYNE BROS., Commission Merchants

161 South Water St., Chicago.

R E F E R E N C E S :

Wm.  M.  Hoyt  Co.,  Wholesale  Grocers,  Chicago. 
W . J.  Quan &  Co.,  Wholesale Grocers,  Chicago. 
“ Chicago  Produce,”   Chicago.
Bradstreet’s  and  Dun’s Agencies.
Hibernian Banking Association,  Chicago. 
B a n k e r s :  Merchants'  National Bank,  Chicago.

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Lansing, Mich.

O  The finest sweet cider, prepared to  keep sweet. 
^   Furnished October to  riarch,  inclusive.

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Every Qrocer should sell It.

G u a r a n t e e

Our brand of Vinegar to be an ABSOLUTELY  PURE  APPLE- 
JUICE VINEGAR.  To any person who will analyze it  and  find 
any  deleterious  acids  or  anything  that  is  not  produced  from 
the  apple,  we  will  forfeit

ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS

We also guarantee it to be  of  not  less  than  4o  grains  strength. 
We will prosecute any  person found  using our packages for cider 
or vinegar without first removing all traces of our brands therefrom.

Robinson Cider and  Vinegar Co.,  Benton Harbor,  Mich.

J. ROBINSON, Manager.

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This is the guarantee we give  with every barrel of our  vinegar.  Do  you  know  of  any  other 
manufacturer  who  has  sufficient  confidence  in  his output  to stand  back of his  product  with a 
similar guarantee? 
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R O B IN S O N   C ID E R   A N D   V I N E G A R   CO.

R.  Brice &  Co.
Produce
Commission
Merchants

Butter,  Eggs  and Poultry

23  South  Water St. 

Philadelphia,  Pa.

REFERENCES

Corn  Exchange  National  Bank,  Philadelphia,  Pa.
W .  D.  Hayes,  Cashier Hastings  National  Bank, Hastings,  Mich. 
Fourth  National  Bank,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.
D.  C.  Oakes,  Banker,  Coopersville, Mich.

“ 1  GO  A-FISHING.”

This is the time of the year when houses and stores and workshops 
become distasteful, and  when the great world of  Nature—of  field  and 
wood and sea and sky—beckons with its compelling  power. 
Indoors 
repels,  while  outdoors  allures;  and  few there be who fail to yield to 
the charm, at least for a  brief  period  While  a  fish  diet  is  highly 
agreeable  for  a  change,  no  doubt, yet there is a very large and con­
stantly  increasing  sale  for  high-grade  Blitter,  Eggs  and  Poultry. 
Thus it is that we are compelled, in  order  to  supply  the  demand  of 
our customers, to  steadily  seek  for  new  consignments  of  the  latter 
articles of food from  those  who  have  not  hitherto  shipped  us.  We 
very much desire  y o l  r   consignments, and  we offer  these  three  guar­
antees to you:  Highest  Market  Prices,  Full  Weights,  Prompt  Pay­
ments.  Let  us add  you  to our list on this understanding. 
Is it not 
sufficient?  We think so. 

W.  R.  BRICE  &  CO.

GOTHAM   GOSSIP.

News  from  the  Metropolis— Index  to 

the  Market.

Special Correspondence.

New  York,  Oct.  I—We  enter  upon 
the  last  quarter of  the  year  with  an  ex­
cellent  trade  being  done  here  by grocery 
jobbers  and  with  prospects  that  for  the 
rest  of  the  year  there  will  be  very 
little 
to  complain  of 
in  the  volume  of  busi­
ness.  Old-time  profits  are  not  ex­
pected,  but goods  enough  will  be  sold  to 
make  good  the  deficiency.  Prices  are 
firmly  held  and  no  weakness  is  percep­
tible  anywhere.

Coffee  jobbers  generally  report a quiet 
market,  orders  from  city  trade  as  well 
as  from  out  of  town  being rather limited 
as  t )  number  and  quantity  taken.  They 
are  not  inclined,  however,  to make much 
if  any  concession  to  effect  sales,  and 
seem  to  be  united  in  the  opinion  that 
in  firmly 
the  situation  warrants  them 
maintaining  the  present  status. 
In­
voice  lots  of  Rio  No.  7  are  quotable  at 
6j^c  spot,  with  few  transactions.  On 
the  Street  there  have  been  only  limited 
transactions  in  futures;  in  fact,  this  has 
been  the  case  for  a 
long  time.  The 
stock  of  coffee  here  and  afloat  aggre­
gates  955,530  bags,  against  854  962  bags 
at  the  same  time  last  year.  Mild  sorts 
are quiet  and  buyers seem to be indiffer­
ent  as  to  whether  the  market  goes  up  or 
down.  Good  Cucuta,  8X@8j^c.

There  may  be  said  to  be  a  slightly 
better  tone  to  the  tea  market,  but  the 
amount  of  business  is  still  small.  The 
sale  next  week  will  be  of  rather  small 
proportions,  so  it  has  cut  no  figure 
in 
the  situation  on  the  street  this  week. 
An  invoice  of  Amoys  was  reported  sold 
at  i6j£c,  which  was  the  only  item  of in­
terest.

the 

There 

In  fact, 

is  room  for 

improvement  in 
rice,  but  dealers  are  pretty  well  satis­
fied  with  the  outlook.  Would-be  buy­
ers  have  left  orders  for  quite  liberal 
supplies  if  they  might  obtain  the  same 
at  their  own  figure,  which,  however, 
was  too  much  of  a  concession  for  the 
holders. 
latter  will  not 
budge  from  their  recent  position  and 
thus  matters  for  the  moment  seem  to  be 
in  somewhat  of  a  deadlock.  Foreign 
sorts  are  steady,  with  most  of  the  call 
for  Japan  grades.  Southern,  prime  to 
choice,

The  spice  market  is  continually  gain­
ing  strength  and,  while  no  great  ad­
vance  is  made  at  once,  the  outlook  is 
for  better  rates  all  around  before  the 
close  of  the  year.  Pepper  and  cloves 
are  especially  interesting.  Jobbers  have 
bad  a  good  trade  and  seem  to  think  that 
steady  improvement  will  be  made.

For  the  better  sorts  of  open  kettle  and 
centrifugal  molasses  there  has  been  a 
pretty  fair  enquiry.  The  market  is  very 
closely  sold  up  and  full  rates  are  paid 
for  purchases.  Cheaper  sorts  have  lan 
guished  and  have  accumulated.  Good 
to  prime  centrifugal,  i6@25c ;  good  to 
prime  open-kettle,  2q@32c.  Syrups  are 
firm,  although  there 
is  room  for  im­
provement  in  the  condition  of  the  mar­
ket.  Sales  have  been  of  small  lots  for 
sorting-up  purposes.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

15

Johbers  have  had  a  good  enquiry  all 
the  week  for 
lemons  and  at  auction 
more  strength  was  shown  than  for  a 
week  previous.  The  range  for  Sicily 
is  from  $4.75@6.  Sorrentos  are  some­
thing  of  a  luxury  and  run  from  $7-75@9 
per  box.  Oranges  are  without  any  par­
ticular  change.  California,  $3@4  per 
box.

As  time  passes 

it  becomes  evident 
that  with  many  articles  the shortage will 
be  very  observable,  and  the  chances  of 
a  firm  market  Gn  almost  all  canned 
goods  from  now  on  are  good.  Peaches, 
tomatoes,  desirable  grades  of  corn  and 
peas  are  certain  to  be  well  held  and 
it 
seems  sure  that  there  could  be  no  more 
favorable  time  to  buy  than  now.  New 
York  State  corn  is  selling  from 70@ooc ; 
Maine,  8o@85c,  and  Maryland  from  55@ 
85c,  as  to  brand  and  quality.  The 
offering  of  tomatoes  is  not  large,  with 
desirable  New  Jersey  goods  from  85c  to 
$1  05.

is  a  constantly  increasing  de­
mand  for  raisins  and  prunes,  the  offer­
ings  of  which  are  somewhat  limited. 
Domestic 
fruits,  evaporated  apples, 
etc.,  are  moving  slowly  at  low  rates.

The  supply  of fancy Western creamery 
is  smaller  than  a  week  ago  and 
butter 
the  demand,  too, 
is  lighter;  in  fact, 
there  is  some  accumulation  notwith­
standing  the  smaller  supply.  Sales  of 
best  grades  are  generally  on  the basis  of 
2ic,  but  this  seems  to  be  top,  and  if 
there  exists  the  least  "offness, 
there  is 
a  drop  at  once.  Firsts  and  seconds  are 
in  free  supply  aud  are  offered  at  about 
i8@I9C  for  the  former  and  ic  less  for 
the  latter.  Extra  Western  Junes,  20c. 
i 6@ I7c ; 
Finest 
firsts, 
136U3KC; 
Western  factory,  June,  extras,  I4@ i4^c; 
current  make,  I3@i3í¿c.

imitation  creamery, 
I4@i5c; 

seconds, 

There 

The  demand  lor  cheese  has been slow, 
and  as  there 
is  quite  an  accumulation 
of  stock  here  that  holders  would  like  to 
dispose  of,  prices  have  become  rather 
shaky.  Large  size,  full  cream.  State, 
fancy  cheese  is  worth  about  8j£c;  small 
size,  fancy,  9c.  Exporters  have  done  a 
little  business,  but  they  are  not  inclined 
to  pay  over 8j£c  for  what  they  want.
Arrivals  of  eggs  have  not  been  large 
enough  to  overcrowd  the  market,  and, 
indeed,  the  most  desirable  goods  are 
rather  hard  to  find.  There  seems  to  be 
considerable  buying  for  future  use  and 
the  quantity  put 
is 
considerable.  Fresh  gathered  are  held 
at  \JlA c,  and  from  this  the  decline  is 
rapid  to  nominal  prices.

into  cold  storage 

Beans  are  rather quiet.  Choice  mar­
rows,  $160;  medium,  $i.22j£@i.25; 
pea,  $i@l  10;  red  kidney,  $1.80.

A  Distinction.

“ Isn't  that  new  neighbor  of  yours 
rather  eccentric?”   enquired  the  com- 
mercisl  travel-r.

“ No,”   answered  one  of  the  village’s 
“ He  ain't  rich 
‘ eccentric.’  He’s 

prominent  citizens. 
enough  to  be  called 
just  a  plain  crank. ”

Some  people  marry  in  haste  and  then 
pause  to  think  it  over.  Others  think  it 
over  first,  and  then—don’t  marry.

5

Medals

Awarded these goods 
at  World’s Columbian 
Exposition.
Purity  is  ancient  his­
tory  with  us. 
It  is 
Purity  and  quality  to 
which we call attention
Testing is proving
First-class grocers will 

tell you  so.

5

Diplomas

Awarded these goods 
at  World’s Columbian 
Exposition.

A Trade Mark 

is

a  Badge 

of  Honor

Try MILLAR’S  PEARLED  PEPPER, Granulated.
B.  Millar  &  Co., Importers and Grinders,

CHICAGO,  ILL.

Best Quality. 

Northrop Spices.

One  and  Inseparable.

To  think  of  the  one  is  to suggest  the  other.

It  takes  the  best  to  make  the  best.

NORTHROP, ROBERTSON & CARRIER

LANSING, MICHIGAN.

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Crackers  and  Sweet  Goods,
Candy,  Cough  Drops,  Tobacco  Clippings,  Condition  Powders,  Etc.  Bottle 
and Box Labels and Cigar Box Labels our specialties.  Ask or write us for  prices

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I r r T T i r n r r r i r r r n r r n

We  Realize

That  in  competition  more  or  less  strong

O ur  C offees  and  T e a s

Must excel  in  Flavor  and  Strength  and  be 
constant  Trade  Winners.  All  our  coffees 
roasted  on  day  of shipment.

The J.  M.  Bour Co.,

Jefferson Avenue, Detroit,  Mich. 
Ontario St., Toledo, Ohio.

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C A C IU M   CARBIDE.

Process  of  Manufacture  and  Methods 

of Sale.

Carbide 

toey  are 

is  made  from  a  mixture  of 
is  preferable 
lime  and  coke  (charcoal 
when 
it  can  be  obtained),  the  propor­
tion  being  too  pounds  of  lime  to  an 
average  of  68  pounds  of  coke,  the  lat­
ter  varying  from  65  to  70  pounds,  ac­
cording  to  circumstances.  After  being 
crushed  and  ground  the  materials  are 
in  rotary  screens,  and 
screened  off 
that  which 
is  not  already  reduced  to 
powder  is  conveyed  to  a  set  of  stones 
like  those  used 
in  the  old  stone  flour 
mills,  where  it  is  ground un.  The  lime 
having  been  treated  the  same  as  the 
coke,  they  are  both  carried  in  a  rotary 
mixer,  where 
thoroughly 
mixed,  and  then  taken  by  couvevors  to 
the  furnace  room.  There  the  crucial 
and  most  interesting  part  of  the  process 
of  manufacture  is  carried  on.  Each fur­
nace 
fed  by  nearly  200  electrical 
h irse  power,  which,  being  transformed 
into  heat,  produces  about  10,000 degree? 
Fahrenheit,  and,  in  a day of twenty  four 
hours,  makes  four  pigs  of  caroide  ot 
500  pounds  each.  The  unit  of  electro­
motive  force  used  is  75  volts,  the  cur­
rent vary ing from  1,600 to 2,000 amperes.
From  the  foot  of  each  furnace  runs  a 
track  upon  which  the material  ist  ucked 
aw tv.  Toe  carbide  pigs,  after  heme 
taken  out  of  the  furnace,  are  allowed 
to  cooi  off,  and  are  then  broken  up  in 
lumps  about  the  size  of  furnace  coal. 
These 
like  chunks  of  iron 
ore,  and  are,  roughly  speaking,  about 
the  same  weight.

lumps  look 

is 

The  carbide,  after  being  broken  up, 
is  put 
into  airtight  tanks  or  drums 
which  hold  1,000  pounds  each.  This  is 
done  in  order  to  prevent  the  erosion  ot 
the  carbide  that  would  result  if  it  were 
exposed  to  the  air,  and  the  saturation 
of 
the  carbide  with  petroleum  is  a 
further  preventive  of  erosion,  which 
is  caused  by  the  moisture  in  the  air

The  only  practical  question  now  to 
dispose  of  is  the  cost  of  the carbide. 
It 
is  now  being  so’d  for  export  by  the Wil­
son  Co.  at  from  S70  to  $80  per  ton.  At 
that  price  we  can  not  supply  one-tenth 
of  the  demand,  and  while  this  is  so  we 
ste  no  reason  for  placing  it  upon  the 
market  at  a  lower  price.  Each  pound 
of  calcium  carbide  produces  a  quantity 
of  acetylene  gas  equaling  75  feet  ot 
coal  gas  m  illuminating  power.  At  $80 
per  ton  the  cost  ( f  a  pound  of  carbide 
is  4  cents;  therefore,  at  this  price 
acetylene  gas 
is  equal  to  coal  gas  at  4 
cents  per  1,000  feet.

With  improved  appliances  it  will,  no 
it  re­

doubt,  he  produced  rheaper,  hut 

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

quires  but  a  little  intuition  to  realize 
that  even  at  $70  per  ton  a  vast  field  is 
opened  up  to  the  sciences and  aits  and 
to  commercial  communities  as  well 
It 
is  impossible  at  present  to  estimate  the 
value  of  the  industries  that  would  be 
created  by  the  introduction  of  carbide 
and  acetylene  gas 
into  the  realm  of 
commerce.

The  discovery  was  made  bv  a  Cana­
dian,  Thomas  L.  Wilson,  at  Spray,  N. 
C.,  in  1888,  while  experimenting  on  the 
reduction  of  refractory  metallic  oxides 
by  carbon  in  an  electric  furnace.  While 
trying  to  obtain  the  metal  calcium  by 
reducing  lime  with  pulverized  charcoal 
the  temperature  of  the  arc  fused  the 
mass  and  it  sol  dified  into  an  extremely 
hard  gray  crystalline  rock. 
It  was 
thrown  into  a  stream  near  by  and  there 
was  an  instant  evolution  of  large  quan 
tities  of  gas,  which,  when 
lighted, 
burned  with  a  smokv,  luminous  Home. 
Chemical  analyses  showed  the  rock  to 
be  carbide  of  calcium,  containing  60 
parts  by  weight  of  calcium  and  40  parts 
of  carbon,  and 
its  gaseous  offspring  to 
be  acetylene. 
is  produced 
The  gas 
commercially  by  the  action  of  water 
upon  carbide,  and  the  prospect  of  such 
gas  becoming  the  illuminant  ot  the  fu­
ture  is  now  a  certainty.

Regarding  the  output  at  present,  1 
can  say  that  the  works  at  Sault  Ste. 
Marie  turn  out  two  and  one-half  tons 
per  day ;  at  St.  Catharines  the  output  is 
25  tons  and  the  works  at  Niagara  Falls 
have  a  capacity  of  20  tons  per  day  The 
works  at  Sault  Ste.  Marie  are  being 
enlarged.  A  contract  has  been  closed 
with  the  Walker-Westinghouse  Electric 
Co.  for  an  electric  generator  of  20 000 
horse-power.  When  this is  installed  the 
capacity  of  the  works  will  be 
increased 
to  70  tons  per  day.  A  corresponding 
increase  of  power  and  capacity  is  con­
templated,  and  there  is  every  reason  to 
believe  that  the  price  will  drop  to $40 
per  ton.  This,  however,  will  depend 
upon  the  rate  of  development  and  use of 
improved  machinery.  At  present  the 
high  cost  of  electrical  machinery  pre­
cludes  the  p issibility  of  any  material 
reduction  in  price.

The  use  of  acetylene  gas  is  fuither 
advanced  in  Europe  than  it  is  here.  We 
are  shipping  to  Germany,  France  and 
Italy,  and  we  have  made  shipments  to 
China,  Japan  and  Bombay.  The  proc­
ess 
is  covered  by  patents,  and  there  is 
little  fear of  competition  since  the  Wil­
son  Works  and  the  Union  Carbide  Co. 
control  all  the  patents  on  this  continei t, 
and  no  one  else  can  produce  the gas  un­
licensees  of  these  com­
less  as  lawful 
limit  to  the  pro 
panies.  There  is  no 
duction  so 
long  as  lime  and  coke  hold 
out. 

Jo h n   N e r e s h e i m e r .

THE  BWEH
ACETYLENE  BBS  GEHERBTOB

Greenville, June  17»  1898. 

Geo.  F.  Owen &  Co  ,

Gentlemen— In  answer  to  yours  of 
the  15th,  would  say  that the gas  plant 
put  in  our county  house by you is work­
ing to our entire satisfaction.  The light 
is soft  and  abundant.  Our  Keeper  is 
more than  pleased  with  it.  We think it 
just  the thing for buildings of this kind.

J. P. SHOEMAKER,

Supt.  Poor.

Michigan.

fieo.  F. Owen  &  Go. Grand  Rapids 
ACETYLENE  GAS

WHAT IT IS AND HOW TO dET IT

It is  the  finest  and  best-known  illumi- 
nant  m  the  world  to-day,  and to get it 
buy the celebrated

BUFFINGTON 
GAS  MACHINE

We do not claim  to  have  the  cheapest 
machine, but we do claim that we have 
the  best,  as  thousands  who  are  using 
it  will  say.  We  carry  a large supply 
of CALCIUM  CARBIDE  in  stock  and  can 
fill all  orders promptly.  Write us if you 
want  to  improve  your  light  and  we 
will furnish you estimates.

MICHIGAN  &  OHIO  ACETYLENE  GAS  CO.,  L td , Jackson,  Mich.

THE  “ KOPF” 

ACETYLENE  GAS 
GENERATOR

C O S T S   N O   M O R E   T O   G E T   T H E   B E S T

S E N D   F O R   D E S C R I P T I V E   C A T A L O G U E .

P R I C E   L I S T   A N D   D I S C O U N T   S H E E T  

Y O U   W IL L  S E E   WHY

THE  "KOPF”   IS  THE  BEST

M A N U F A C T U R E D   B Y

M.  B.  WHEELER  ELECTRIC  CO..

9 9   O T T A W A   8 T .,   G R A N D   R A P ID 8 ,  M IC H .

To introduce new brands of cigars the quality of which 
will  insure your continued orders we give

T h is   H an d so m e  S h o w   C ase 
W i t h   500  Good  C ig a r s  for

500 “ Navy  Pride”  or 500  “ New  Cuba” 
or 250 of each  brand  if desired.

The cigni s alone  retailed  at  five cents  will  make  $¿5.00.  This gives you  a  handsome  profit  of  $1-? 00  on  a 
small  investment  and  you  have  the show case entirely free.  < >rder at once,  as this oiler is limited to So da vs.
In  waiting  on  a customer let down  back  and  the  boxes are right  In-fore  you.  Every  label ami eacn Cig ,r in 
the case are  in  plain  sig h t  The case  takes  up less room  than am  olher  case  that  holds  the  same  number  of 
boxes.  Cases  are  made of Oak or  Ash  and  the  back  is  hung  on  hinges,  and  lifts  up  and  down,  with  spring 
beneath,  to  prevent  shelves  from  dropping and  to lift  them  back  in  place.

H.  H.  DRIQGS CIGAR CO.,  Palmyra,  Mich.

Case is thirty-six  inches long, twenty-seven inches wide, twenty inches 

high and will hold any 50 box.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

17

Commercial Travelers

Michigan Knights of the Grip.

President, J ohn A. H offm an, Kalamazoo; Secre­
tary, J  C. Sa u n d e r s,  Lansing;  Treasurer, C hab. 
McN o l ty, Jackson.
Michigan  Commercial  Travelers’  Association. 
President,  C.  C.  Sn e d e k e r ,  Detroit;  Secretary 

and Treasurer, C. W.  A llen  Detroit.

United  Commercial  Travelers of Michigan.

Grand Counselor, J. J.  E v a n s. Ann Arbor; Grand 
Secretary, G. S. V alm o r e, Detroit;  Grand Treas­
urer, W. S. W e s t, Jackson.
Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Mutual  Acci­
President,  J.  B oyd  P a n tlin d ,  Grand  Rapids; 
Secretary and Treasurer, G eo.  F.  Ow en,  Grand 
Rapids.

dent Association.

Lake  Superior Commercial Travelers’ Clnb. 
President, F. G. T r usco tt, Marquette; Secretary 
and Treasurer, A . F .  W izso n ,  Marquette.

Annual  Meeting  of the  Lake  Superior 

Commercial  Travelers’  Club.

Marquette,  Oct.  3—The  annual  meet­
ing  of  the  Lake  Superior  Commercial 
Travelers’  Club  was  held  at  Hotel  Mar­
quette,  Saturday  evening,  Oct.  1.  The 
following  officers  were  elected  for  the 
ensuing  year:

President— F.  G.  Trusc<tt,  Marquette.
First  Vice-President— W.  C.  Monroe, 

Flint.

Milwaukee.

De  Pere,  Wis.

Escanaba.

Second  Vice-President  -P.  M.  White, 

Third  Vice-President—A.  M.  Baex, 

Fourth  Vice-President - H.  E.  Biel, 

Fifth  Vice-President—A.  H.  Mont­

gomery,  Grand  Rapids

Sixth  Vice-President—C.  V.  Seeber, 

Houghton.

Secretary  and  Treasurer— Albion  F. 

Wixson,  Marquette

Directors—].  McCulley,  Menasba, 
Wis.  ;  E.  L.  Griggs,  Saginaw;  R.  G. 
Quinn,  Negaunee;  H.  C.  Work,  Escan 
aba.

A  vote  of  thanks  was  extended  to  tba 
Michigan  Tradesman  for  the  donation 
of  programs  used  at  the  party  given  at 
Hotel  Superior on  Aug.  19

tilty-two  pages 

The  membership  at  present  is  212.
The  new  vestpocket  directorv  for  1899 
wiil  contain  the  names  and  addresses  of 
members  and  the  addresses  of  houses 
represented, 
in  diary 
form,  one  week  on  a  page,  and  thirty 
pages  blank  memoranda.  The  official 
and  Western  merchandise  classification, 
in  tabulated  form,  will  be  given,  the 
distances  between  all  railroad  stations 
in  the  Upper  Peninsula,  as  well  as  sev­
eral  pages  devoted  to  miscellaneous  in­
formation.  A  limited  amount  of  adver­
tising  space  has  been  sold,  which  helps 
to  pay  for  the  books.  Extra  copies  of 
the  directory  may  be  purchased  from 
the  Secretary  at  50  cents  each.  Special 
rates  to  members  or  for quantities.

All  members  should  at  once  notify 
the  Secretary  of  the extra copies wanted.
Advance  orders  will  have  the  mem­
ber’s  name  or any  other  name  embossed 
in  gold  upon  the  outside  of  front  cover 
at  no  extra  expense.

The  Grain  Market.

Wheat  has  been  working  downward 
since 
last  week,  notwithstanding  the 
large  exports.  The  receipts  at  primary 
points  were  large.  The  visible  was  ex­
pected  to  show  an 
increase  of  about 
1,000,000  bushels,  instead  of  which  it 
showed  an  increase  of  1,965,000—rather 
large—which  leaves  the  visible  at  11,- 
263,000 bushels,  against 21,404,000 bush­
els  at  the  same  time  last  year,  50,000,- 
000  in  1896,  42,000,000  in  1895  and  73»- 
000,000  in  1894.  Still  the  price  is  low.
long  can  the 
bears  keep  pounding  prices  down,  sim­
ply  by  claiming  that  we  have  a  750,- 
000,000 bushel  crop,  when 
it  seems  to 
us  they  are  claiming  100,000,000 bushels 
more  than  was  actually  raised?  When 
it  is  considered  that  the  granaries  were 
empty,  as they  certainly  were  when  the 
new  harvest  came  in,  we  think  the  short 
side  rather dangerous.

The  question 

is,  How 

SUC CESSFUL  SALESMEN.

F.  H.  Spurrier,  Representing  Williams 

Bros.,  Indianapolis.

Frank  H.  Spurrier  was  born  in Shelby 
county,  Ind.,  March  23,  1855.  His  an­
tecedents  were  Irish,  his  grandparents 
on  both  sides  having  been  natives  of the 
North  of  Ireland.  Mr.  Spurrier  lived 
on  the  farm  on  which  he  was  born  until 
17  years  of  age,  following  the  plow sum­
mers  and  walking  a  mile  and  a  half  to 
school  three  months  each  winter,  when 
he  went  to  Shelbyville  and  attended  a 
business  school  for  a  year.  The  family 
then  removed  to  Indianapolis,  where 
Mr.  Spurrier  found  employment  as  the 
driver  of  a  delivery  wagon  for  a grocery 
store,  where  he  received  the  munificent 
salary  of  $3  per  week.  At  the  end  of 
one  year  he  was  promoted  to  a clerkship 
in  the  same  store,  where  he  remained 
one  year.  He  then  went  behind  the 
counter  for  Becker  &  Schwinge,  at  that 
time  the  largest  tea  merchants  in  In-

Our  exports  since  July  1  have  been 
44,500,000  bushels,  against  56,000,000 
bushels  at  the  same  time 
last  year. 
Still  we  must  expect  large  receipts  and 
we  need  them  to  get  our  visible  up  to 
normal  conditions.  Report  says  that 
Russia  expects  to  have  to  come  to 
America  for  40,000,000  bushels  of  seed 
wheat.  The  English  harvest  falls  short 
of  what  was  expected  at  an  earlier  date. 
Winter  wheat  is  used  up  as  fast  as  it  is 
marketed  and  stocks  are  not 
increasing 
in  the  winter  wheat  belt,  and  stocks  in 
Detroit,  Toledo,  Indianapolis  and  all 
points  are  low.  Mills  are  not  over­
stocked,  nor  are  the  elevators  at  the 
principal  railroad  stations,  and  where 
they  have  a  good  supply  they  are  hold­
ing  firm  and  are  asking  a  good  price. 
Michigan  wheat 
is  sought  after  by 
other  states,  owing  to  the  fine  quality 
we have,  and  it  looks  to  us  that  present 
prices  certainly  will  have  to  be  ad­
vanced  before  iong,  especially  as  we 
may  expect  heavy  roads  very soon,  when 
wheat  marketing  will  be  burden­
some  at  primary  points.  The  North­
west 
in  not  more  than  she 
did  last  year.

is  sending 

Corn  has  been  easy.  The  visible  also 
showed  an  increase  of  1,764,000 bushels, 
but  that  must  be  expected,  as  farmers 
are 
likely  at  present  to  make  room  for 
the  new  crop,  which  is  hy  no  means  as 
large  as  was  counted  on  earlier  in  the 
season.  The  crop  will  show  a  falling 
off  of  300,000,000  bushels  and,  with  all 
the  pounding  of  prices  downward,  the 
bears  are  not  very  successful,  as  prices 
remain  very  steady.

Oats  had  a  fair  increase,  but  prices 

held  firm.

Receipts  for  September  in  this  mar­
ket  were  as  follows:  wheat,  225  cars; 
corn,  50  cars;  oats,  49  cars.  For  the 
week  ending  Oct.  1,  the  receipts  were 
92  cars  of  wheat.  11  cars  of  corn  and  18 
cars  of  oats.  This 
is  rather  large  for 
wheat,  but  the  mills  use  it  up  about  as 
fast  as 
it  comes  along.  All  the  mills 
are  running  full  time  and  produced 
nearly  10,000  barrels  of  flour during  the 
past  week,  which  is  probably  about  the 
banner  week  for  Grand  Rapids  mills.

Mills are  paying  58  cents  per  bushel 

for  wheat  to  day. 

C.  G.  A.  V oigt.

Saginaw  Squaring  Herself  For 

Ordeal.

the

Saginaw,  Oct.  2—Your  favor  of  Sept 
29,  written  to  Director  Smith,  together 
with  your  article  in  the  Tradesman,  was 
read at  the  meeting  of  Post  F  last  even­
ing  and  a  vote  of  thanks  was  tendered 
the  Tradesman  for  the  interest  taken  in 
the  coming  annual  meeting. 
I  was  in­
structed  to  write  you  each  week  of  the 
progress  we  are  making  with  the  ar­
rangements. 
Last  evening  we  had  a 
very  enthusiastic  meeting  and  arranged 
for the  appointment  of  the  various  com­
mittees,  whose  names  we  will  furnish 
you  for  next  week’s  issue.  We aim  to 
give a  good  entertainment  to  our  visit- 
tors  without  being  extravagant,  as  we 
have  been  requested  by  the  members  of 
the  Board  to  keep  the  expenses  within 
such  a  limit  that  the  smaller  Posts  will 
feel  able  to 
invite  the  Association  to 
hold  future  conventions  in  their  towns.

O.  C.  Gould,  Sec’y.

A.  S.  Doak  (Worden  Grocer  Co.)  had 
the  misfortune  to  slip  on  a  pebble  while 
getting  on  a  street  car  Sept.  26,  sprain­
ing  the  ankle  of  his  crippled 
leg.  He 
insisted  on  making  his  trip 
last  week, 
although  he  had  to  call  into  service  a 
pair  of  crutches.  This  week  be  is  exer­
cising  more  discretion and taking things 
easy  at  his  home,  in  the  expectation 
that  he  will  be  able to  resume  his  cails 
to  his trade  next  week.

two 
dianapolis,  where  he  remained 
years.  Forming  a 
liking  for  the  job­
bing  trade,  he  gladly  accepted  a  posi­
tion  as  shipping  clerk  for  A.  B.  Gates 
&  Co.,  wholesale  grocers,  remaining  in 
that  position  one  year,  when  he  was 
offered  a  position  on  the  road  for  the 
same  house,  which  he  retained  thirteen 
years,  covering  the  same  territory 
in 
Western  Indiana.  In  1891  he  transferred 
his  allegiance  to  Williams  Bros.,  and 
for  three  years  covered  the  western 
portion  of  Western  Pennsylvania.  He 
was  then  transferred  to  Michigan  and 
given  charge  of  the  entire  trade  of  the 
State,  both  wholesale  and  retail.  This 
he  has  done  so  successfully  that  be  took 
up  his  residence  here  in  April,  1897, 
and  confidently  expects  to  make  the city 
his  headquarters 
for  many  years  to 
In  July  of  this  year,  he  took  a 
come. 
side 
in  the  shape  of  the  Concave 
washboard,  manufactured  by  the  Stand­
ard  Washboard  Co  ,  of  Eaton,  Ind.  He 
has  already  built  up a considerable trade 
on  this  staple  in  all  parts  of  the  State.
Mr.  Spurrier  was  married  May  6, 
1876,  to  Miss  Emma  J.  Bly,  of  In­
dianapolis,  by whom he has one  daughter 
11  years  old  and  a  boy  17  years  of  age. 
His wife  died  April 25,1888.  On  Oct.  4, 
1895,  he  married  Miss  Lizzie  Brandon, 
of  Greencastle,  Ind.,  by  whom  be  is  the 
father  of  one  boy,  2  years  of  age.  The 
family  reside  at  193  Buckeye  street.

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Mr.  Spurrier  is a  member of Excelsior 
Lodge  No.  25,  K  of  P.,  of Indianapolis, 
the  Commercial  Travelers'  Association 
of  Indiana  and  the  Michigan  Commer­
cial  Travelers'  Mutual  Accident  Asso­
ciation.  He  attributes  his  success  to

persistence  and  hard  work,  believing 
that  this  is  the  only  way  to  win  success 
in  the  present  race  for  recognition  in 
the  business  world.
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Drugs—Chemicals

MICHIdAN  STATE  BOARD  OP  PHARMACY.
Term expiles
Dec. 31,1898
•  Dec. 31,1899 
Dec. 31,1900
-  Dec. 31,1901
Dec. 31,1902

P. W. R. Pi u t , Detroit 
A. C.  Sc h u m a ch e r,  Ann  Arbor 
Gao. Gu n d r u m ,  Ionia  - 
L. E .  R it k o l s s , St.  Joseph 
- 
Hxxbt H u m ,  Saginaw  - 

.. 

President, Gao.  G u n d r u m ,  lonla.
Secretary, A. C. Sch u m ach er, Ann Arbor. 
Treasurer, H e n r y  He im ,  Saginaw.
Examination  Sessions.

Lansing—N o t.  la n d 2.

STATE PHARMACEUTICAL  ASSOCIATION.
President—J. J. So c r w in e, Escanaba. 
Secretary, C h a s.  F .  Man n, Detroit.
Treasurer-J o h n  D.  M u i r ,  Grand Rapids.

The Care and Control of Prescriptions.
Should  the  druggist  be  required  by 
law  to  retain  the  original  of  every  pre­
scription  compounded  by  him,  and  to 
furnish  a  copy  only  on  request  of  the 
patient  or  of  the  physician?

The  following  is  a  section  in  the Mis­

souri  pharmacy  law :

“ Every  druggist,  proprietor  of  a  drug 
store  or  pharmacist  shall  carefully  pre­
serve  all  prescriptions  compounded  by 
him  or those  in  his  employ,  numbering, 
dating  and  filing  them  in  the  order  in 
which  they  are  compounded,  and  shall 
produce  the  same  in  court  or before  any 
grand 
jury  whenever  thereto  lawfully 
required,  and  on  failing,  neglecting  or 
refusing  to  do  so 
shall  be  deemed 
guilty  of  a  misdemeanor,  and  on  con­
viction  shall  be  punished  by  a  fine  of 
not  less  than  fifty  nor  more  than  one 
hundred  dollars. ”

By  the  enactment  of  this  section  the 
lawmakers  were 
inspired  not  so  much 
with  a  desire  to  protect  the  physician 
and  the  druggist  as  to  provide  a  means 
of  detecting  the  unlawful  selling  of 
in­
toxicating  liquors  by  colluson  among 
the  three  parties  primarily  interested, 
the  consumer  completing  the  triangular 
arrangement; but  while the disreputable 
doctor and  druggist  may  be punished by 
this  provision  of  the  law,  others  may 
utilize  it  as  a  shield  and  a  defense. 
That  all  prescriptions  should  be  care­
fully  filed  and 
in  such  manner  as  will 
insure  them  from  damage  while  render­
ing  them  readily  accessible,  druggists 
generally  are  agreed;  but  the thoughtful 
care  exercised  in  this  important  branch 
of  the  business  is  not  uniform.

It  is  not the  purpose  of  this  paper  to 

discuss  methods.

law  quoted, 

By  the  wording  of  the  section  of  the 
Missouri  pharmacy 
the 
druggist  is  directed  to  file the  prescrip­
tion  handed  him  to  be  compounded. 
This  means  the  original,  not  a  copy,  yet 
the  primary  object  of  this  section  was 
not  to  decide  who,  in  the  State  of  Mis­
souri,  shall  be  considered  the  legal own­
er  of this  interesting  scrap  of  paper.

The  command  to  the  druggist,  in  the 
words  of  the  law,  leaves  no  doubt  as  to 
the  proper  custodian  of  the  prescrip­
tion,  and,  as  a 
logical  deduction,  de­
cides  the  ownership.  The  model  law 
which  this  Association  hopes  ultimately 
to  frame  might  appropriately  contain 
such  a  section.

Druggists  may  be  made  defendants  in 
damage  suits.  For  a  successful  defense, 
if  the  fact  to  be  established  is  the  cor­
rect  compounding  of  a  prescription, 
the  presentation 
in  evidence  of  the 
original 
is  quite  essential.  The  ques­
tion  as  to  the ownership  of  the prescrip­
it  is 
tion  is  an  old  one,  but  so  long  as 
an  open  and  vital  one  the  discussion 
is 
in  order.

A decision by  one  of the  higher courts 
would  be  welcome.  The  inferior courts,

in  passing  upon 
one  another.

No  final  decision 

is  possible  until 
there  shall  be  a  law  for  interpretation. 
Each  state 
is  at  the  mercy  of  its  law­
makers.  For  a  set  of  men  in  conven­
tion  assembled  to  agree  that  certain 
matters  should  be  controlled  by  law  is 
simple  enough.  To  secure  the  enact­
ment  of such a  law  by  a  state  legislature 
is  usually  a  very  different matter.  Leg­
islation  asked  for  by  druggists  is  often 
regarded  with  suspicion. 
It  is  thought 
to  be  for  the  benefit  of  a  class,  the  gen­
eral  welfare  character  of  it  not  being 
usually  recognized.  After  all  of  our 
gratuitous  service  to  the  public,  our 
altruism  may  still  be  doubted.

is  a  mistake  to  suppose  that all  of 
It 
ills  of  which  we  complain  can  be 
the 
remedied  by  legislation,  but this thought 
need  not  deter  us  from  effort  in  what 
we  conceive  to be the  direction  of 
im­
provement. 
It  ought  not  to  be  difficult 
to  convince  physicians  and  patients 
that  druggists  are  the  proper  custodians 
of  prescriptions;  but  what  stand  shall 
the  druggist  take  if  there  be  no  law  be­
hind  which  he  can  retreat? 
It  is  not 
unusual  for a  customer  to  say:  * * Please 
return  that  prescription  with  the  medi­
cine.  You  may  make  and  keep  a  copy 
of  it  if  you  wish  to  do  so.”

The  druggist complies  and  takes  his 
chances  on  any  future  complications. 
To  do  otherwise  would  be  to  invite  a 
contention,  which a  politic  businessman 
studies  to  avoid.  The  practice  of  re­
questing  copies  of  prescriptions,  the 
in  the  possession 
originals  remaining 
of  the  druggist, 
is  a  growing  one. 
From  his  standpoint  the  practice  of  re­
filling  prescriptions,unless  so authorized 
by  the  physician,  must  be  considered  in 
this  connection. 
If  we  concede  it  to  be 
the  patient's  privilege  to  demand  and 
receive  a  copy  of  a  prescription  pre­
pared  for  him,  then 
it  is  not  possible 
for  the  physician  to  control  the  matter 
of  its  repetition,  unless  there  be  an  un­
derstanding  on  this  point  at  the  time  it 
is  written.  The  druggist,  if  requested 
by  the  doctor not  to  give  a  copy  of  the 
prescription,  will  certainly 
see  his 
wishes  are  respected. 
It  is  the  duty  of 
the  druggist,  furthermore,  to firmly  de 
cline  to  give  a  copy  of  a  prescription 
except  upon  the  request  of  the  physi­
cian, 
it  should  contain  morphine, 
cocaine,  or  any  other potent and danger­
ous  drug.  By  the  exercise  of  tact  and 
politeness,  he  can  prevent  the  precipi­
tation  of  an  unpleasant  scene.  With 
these  exceptions  the  patient 
is  likely 
to  receive  a  copy  of  his  prescription 
when  he  asks  for  it,  and  he  is  at  liberty 
to  carry 
it  from  store  to  store  and  get 
“ bids”   on  the  cost  of  compounding  it. 
Physicians  very  properly  object to  the 
frequent  repetition  of their prescriptions 
without  consultation  with  them,  but  yet 
an  illiberal  policy  on  their  part  is  apt 
to  estrange  patients, and  result  in  dam­
age  to  their  practice  in  the  end.  The 
doctor,  above  all  others,  must  be a  man 
of good  judgment.  He usually  is politic, 
discreet  and  tactful.

Evil  consequences  do  undoubtedly 
often  follow  indiscriminate self-medica­
tion.  By  a  mutual  understanding  be­
tween  the two  professions,either  with  or 
without 
legal  enactment,  physician, 
pharmacist  and  patient  would  all  be 
benefited. 

J.  M.  Good.

if 

Good  Taste.

Elder  Brother:  Freddy,  I'm  surprised 
to  see  you  soak  your  bread  in  the  gravy 
in  the  dish.  It's  exceedingly  bad  form.
Freddy:  Well,  it’s  awfully  good  taste.

There  are  very  few  changes  of  im­

portance  to  note  in  the  drug  market.

Opium— Has  declined  in  this  market, 
although  the  primary markets are quoted 
firm  and  speculators  are  buying heavily.
Morphine— Is  unchanged  at  the  de­

cline  of  15c  noted  last  week.

Quinine— Is  in  good  demand  at  un­

changed  prices.

Cinchonidia— The  good  demand,  and 
is  getting 
the  fact  that  this  article 
scarce,  has  advanced  the  price about  2c 
per  ounce.

Alcohol—Price  is  firm  and an advance 

by  the  Spirits  Co.  is  expected  daily.

Tonka  Beans—On  account  of  very 
heavy  stocks and  competition,  price has 
declined  50  per  cent.

Flowers—Belgium  calomel  have  been 
advanced,  on  account  of  damage  to 
crop.  German  are  firm. 
Insect  have 
advanced  abroad  and  the powder is like­
ly  to  be higher  next  year.

Oils—Anise  has  declined,  owing  to 

competition  among  holders.

Roots—Jalap 

is 

in  small  supply  and 
Ipecac  has  advanced,  on  ac­

higher. 
count  of  scarcity.
Seeds—Anise 

is 

tending  higher.
Canary  has  been  advanced,  on  account 
of short  crop.  Celery  is  unchanged.  The 
active  season  for  mustard 
is  at  hand 
and  prices  are  firm.

Spices—Cloves  are  firm  and  likely  to 

be  higher.  Gingers  are  lower.
Some  Queer  Orders.

A  Jersey  City  druggist  is  making  a 
collection  of  the  queer  orders  be  re­
ceives  from  people  who  send  children to 
the  store  for  things  they  need.  Here 
are a  few  of  them :

“ This  child  is  my  little  girl. 

I  sent 
you  five  cents  to buy  two  sitless powders 
for a  groan  up  adult  who  is  sike. ”

Another  reads  “ Five  sense  worse  of 
Aunty  Toxvn  for  to gargle  babi ’s  tbrote 
and  obleage.' ’

An  anxious  mother  writes  “ You  will 
please give  the leetle boi five cents worth 
of  epaca 
for  to  throw  up  in  a  five 
months’-old  babe  N.  B.— The  babe 
has a  sore  stummick.’ ’

This  one  puzzled  the  druggist:  “ I 
have  a  cute  pane 
in  my  child’s dia­
gram.  Please  give  my  son  something  to 
release  it.”

Another  anxious  mother  wrote:  “ My 
little babey  has  eat  up  its  father’s  par­
ish  plaster.  Send  an  anecdote  quick  as 
possible  by  the  enclosed  little  girl  ’ ’

The  writer  of  this  one  was  evidently 
in  pain:  “ I  haf  a  hot  time  in  my  in­
sides  and  wicb  I  wood 
like  to  be  ex­
tinguished.  What  is good  for  to  extin­
guish 
it?  The  enclosed  quarter  is  for 
the  price  of  the  extinguisher.  Hurry, 
pleas. ’ *

The  youthful graduate  is  the  only  per­
son  who  knows  exactly  how  this  country 
should  be  run  successfully.

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45
35
88
80
14
1830
60
38
55
13
14 
16 
42 
10
1  00 
70 
30 
3 00 
60 
40 
3 85 
35 
45 
80

¡3

Acidnm
Acetlcum.................
Benzolcum, German
Boracic...............
Carbollcum........
Cltrlcum............
Hvdrochlor...... .
Nitrocum...........
Oxalleum...........
Phosphor!um,  dll
Salicyllcum.............  
en@
IK®
Sulphur! cum........... 
Tannlcnm...............   1 25®
Tartar! cum...... ....... 
38®
Ammonia
Aqua, 18 deg........... 
Aqua, 80 deg........... 
Carbonas................. 
Chlorldum.............. 
Aniline

4®
6®
19®
18®

13®
fl®
85®

Black........................  2 00®
'B row n....................   80®
B ed......................... 
45®
Tellow.....................   2 50®
Baccm.
Cubesee...........po. 18 
Juniperus................ 
Xantnoxylum.........  
BaUamam
Copaiba...................   52®
Pern......................... 
®
Terabln, Canada__ 
45®
Tolutan.................... 
50®
Cortex
Abies, Canadian__
C assia....................
Cinchona Flava......
Euonymus atropurp 
Myrlca Cerifera, po.
Primus Virgin!........
Quill ala,  gr’d .........
Sassafras........po. 18
tJlmus.. .po. 15, gr’d 
Bxtractnm 

240

Qlycyrrhlsa Glabra.
Glycyrahiza, po......
Hamatox, 15 lb box.
Hamatox, I s ...........
Hamatox, Ms.........
Hamatox, Ms.........
Ferro
Carbonate Precip...
Citrate and Qulrua..
Citrate Soluble.__
Ferrocyanldum Sol.
Solut.  Chloride......
Sulphate, com’l......
Sulphate,  com’l,  by
bbl, per cwt.........
Sulphate, p u re ......
P la n
Arnica....................
Anthemis................
Matricaria______
Folia
Barosma..................
Cassia Acutifol, Tin-
nevelly.................
Cassia Acutifol,Alx.
Salvia officinalis, Ms
and Vis................. 
lira Ural................... 
Qumml 
Acacia,  1st picked..
Acacia, 8d  picked..
Acacia, 8d  picked..
Acacia, sifted sorts.
Aoacla, po...............
Aloe, Bub. po.l8®80
Aloe, Cape__ po. 15
Aloe, Socotrl.. po. 40
Ammoniac..............
Asaaf<Btida....po. 80
Beniolnum......   ...
Catechu, Is.............
Catechu, Ms............
Catechu, Ms-...........
Camphor»  ............
Euphorblum.po.  85
Galbanum...............
Gamboge  po...........
Gualacum.....po. 85
Kino...........po. 83. uO
Mastic....................
Myrrh........... po.  45
0^11...po. 6S.20®5.40 3
Shellac, bleached..
Tragacanth ...........
Herba
Absinthium..oz. pkg 
Eupatorlum .oz. pkg
Lobelia........os. pkg
Majorum__ oz. pkg
Mentha Pip..as. pkg 
Mentha Vir..os. pkg
Rue.............. os. pkg
TanacetumV os. pkg 
Thymus,  V..os. pkg 
rtagnesla.
Calcined, P a t____
Carbonate, Pat........
Carbonate, K. A M.. 
Carbonate, Jennings
Oleum
Absinthium............   8
Amygdala, Dulc.... 
Amygdala, Amane.  8
Aurantl  Cortex.!!!.  2
Bergamil................... 3
Cajlputl...................
Caryophylll.............  A*
Chenopadll..
Clnnamonli.............   l
Ciironella 

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

1 00® l 
1 50® l

10®

1

Conlum Mac...........
Copaiba...................
Cube bee....................
Exechthitos...........
Erigeron.................
Gaultheria..............
Geranium,  ounce...
Gosslppii, Sem. gal..
Hedeoma.................  l
Junlpera..................  l
Lavendula..............
Llmonis...................  l
Mentha Piper.........  l
Mentha Verid..........1
Morrhua,  gal..........  l  i
Myrcla,....................4
Olive.......................
Plcls  Liquida.........  
li
Plots Llqulda, gal...
B ld n a ..................   k
Rosmarlni...............
Rosa,  ounce...........  6
S ucdni...................
Sabina...................
Santal......................2
Sassafras.................
Slnapls, ess., ounce.
Tiglfl.........   ...........  1
Thyme....................
Thyme,  opt.............
Theobromas........... 
Potassium
Bi-Cub................
Bichromate  ...........
Bromide..................
Carb.......................
Chlorate..po. 17®19c
Cyanide...................
Iodide......................2
Potassa, Bitart, pure 
Potassa. Bitart,  com 
Potass Nitras, opt...
Potass Nitras...........
Prussiate.................
Sulphate p o ...........
Radix
Aoonitvm...............
A ltha.....................
Anchusa.................
Arum po..................
Calamus....................
Gent! ana....... po  15
Glychrrhlza... pv. 15 
Hydrastis Canaden.
Hydrastis Can., po..
Hellebore, Alba, po..  18
Inula, po................. 
ig
Ipecac, po........... 
2 80
Iris plox— po35®38  36
Jalapa, pr...............  
25
Maranta,  Ms...........
Podophyllum, po... 
22
Rhei  ..:....... . . . . . .  
75
Rhel, cut.................
Rhei.pv.................."   75
S pi gel la ................. ;;  35
Sanguinaria.. .po. 15
Serpen tari a .........  
35
Senega...... . 
45
Slmllax,officinalis H
Smilax, M............
Scillffi........... . po.35  10
Symplocarpus, Foeti- 
dus,  po.................
Valeriana,Bng.poiao 
Valeriana,  German. 
15
Zingiber a...............  
12
Zingiber j ...............   25
Semen
Anlsum.........po.  15
Ajjlum  (graveleons)  13
Carol......... !!!po.‘i8 
10®
Cardamon...............   1  —
Coriandrum......
Cannabis  Satlva!!!!
Cydonium...............  
Cnenopodium  ........ 
Dipterix  Odorate...
Foenlculum.........
Fcsnugreek, po........
L lnl.........................
Llnl,  grd —  bbl. 3w
Lobelia.................
Pharlarls  Canarian.
Rapa.....................
Slnapls Albu........
Slnapls Nigra.........  
Spirit us

71
i<

|J®

Frumenti, W. D. Co.  2 
2 50
Frumentl,  D. F. R ..  8 00® 2 25
Frum enti................  1  25®  l  50
Juniperis Co. O. T..  1  66® 8 00
Jnnl peris Co...........  1 75® 3 50
Saacharum N. E __   1  go® 2  10
|P t. Vini Galll........  1  75® 6 50
Vini Oporto............   1 85® 2 00
Vini Alba...............   1  25® 2 00

Sponges 
Florida sheeps’ wool
carriage................. 2 50® 2 75
Nassau sheeps  wool
carriage................
® 2 00 
Velvet extra sheeps’
wool, carriage.__
®  1  25
Extra yellow sheeps’
wool,  carriage__
®  1  00
Grass  sheeps’  wool,
carriage................
® 1 00 
Hard, for slate use..
®  75
Yellow  R e ef,  for 
slate  use..............
®  1  40
Syrups
Acaoia....................
Aurantl Cortes........
Zingiber..................
Ipecac.
Feral Iod.................
Rhel Arom..............
Smilax Officinalis...
Senega....................
Soill»........

601  !

MICHIGAN  7RADLSMAN

Ib

®
®
®

....... 

rilscellaneoas 

50  SdllaC o................. 
1  85  Tolutan..................  
1 00  Prunus vlrg............ 
1  10 
Tinctures
10  AconltumNapellisB 
2?  Aconltum Napellls F
75  Aloes...........7/!7T...
60  Aloes and Myrrh__
1  1$  Arnica....................
2 00  As8afostida............
f 00  At rope  Belladonna.
J 50  Aurantl  Cortex......
8 20  Benzoin...................
1  60  Benzoin Co..............
1  25  Barosma.................
4 50  Cantharides...........
3 00  Capsicum..............
12  Cardamon...............
35  Cardamon Co.........
1 10  Castor......................
1 00  Catechu...................
8 50  Cinchona......... .
45  Cinchona (Jo...........
00  Columba 
.............
7 00  Cubeba. 
........... .
60  Cassia L cutlfol__
®  C issr  »cutifolCo  .
1  80  isjg]  a.1,8 
. . . .
50  Ergot.......................
1  60  Feral Chloridn  '
20  Gentian...................
Gentian Co.........
Guiaca...................
Guiaca ammon........
Hyoscyamus...........
Iodine......................
Iodine, colorless....
Kino.........................
Lobelia..................’
Myrrh......................
Nux Vomica...........
Opii.........................
Opil, camphorated.
Opii, deodorized....
Quassia...................
RhelTT;...................
Sanguinaria...........
Serpen taria............
Stramonium...........
Tolutan..................‘
Valerian.................
Veratrum Veride..
Zingiber..................
_  
-‘Ether, Spts. NIL 3 F  30® 
¿Ether, Spts. NIL 4 F  34®
Alumen...................  2H&
3®
Alumen, gro’d. .po. 7 
A nnatto................ 
40®
Antimoni,  po......  
4®
Antimoni et PotassT  40®
Antipyrin.............. 
®
Antlfebrin 
<rh
Argent! Nitras, o z!!
Arsenicum...............
Balm Gilead  Bud  ! ’
Bismuth  S. N......... 1
Calcium Chlor.,  is 
Calcium Chlor., Ms 
Calcium Chlor., Ms. 
Cantharides, Rns.po 
Capsid  Fructus, af.
Capsid Fructus, po.
Capsid FructusB^po 
Caryophyllus..po. 15
Carmine, No. 40......
Cera Alba...........
Cera Flava.........
Coccus..............
Cassia Fructus..."
Centraria...............
Cetaceum............. ”
Chloroform.........1
Chloroform, squibbs
Chloral Hyd Cret 
Chondrus.............
Cinchonldine.P.A w 
Cinchonldine, Germ
Cocaine..................   3 30® 3 50
Corks, list, dls.pr.ct.
Creosotum....... 
®
®
Greta.............bbl. 75 
®
Creta, p re p ............  
Creta, precip__ 
9®
®
Creta, Rubra.........  
is®
Crocus.................... 
Cudbear.............. 
©
5®
Cupri Sulph.........  
10®
Dextrine................. 
Ether Sulph............  
75®
Emery, all  numbers 
®
®
Emery, po............  
Ergota...........po. 40  30®
Flake  White...V... 
2 ®
Galla........................  @
Gambler.  ................ 
8®
Gelatin, Cooper......  
®
Gelatin, French......  
35®
Glassware, flint, box 
Less  than box....
Glue,  brown........... 
Glue, white............  
Glycerine................ 
Grana  Paradis!  .... 
Humulus.................  
Hydraag Chlor  Mite 
Hydraag Chlor Cor. 
Hydraag Ox Rub’m.
Hydraag Ammonlati 
HydraagUnguentum
Hydrargyrum.........
IchthyoboUa, Am...
Indigo.  ...................
Iodine, Resubi........3
Iodoform................
Lupulln.  ................
50  Lycopodium...........
50  Mads 
50  Liquor Arsen et &y
60 
drarglod.............
50  LiqnorPotassArslnit 
50  Magnesia, Sulph....
60  Magnesia, Sulph,bU 
60  Mannia, 8. F . . . . . . . .
SO  Mm u HaI,

9®
13®
15®
®
25®
®
®

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

  1  1

Morphia, S.P.A W ...  8 40® 8 65 
Morphia,  8.N.Y.Q.A
C. Co....................  2 30® 2 55
Moschus Canton__ 
®  40
66®  80
Myrlstlca, No. 1...... 
Nux Vomica...po.80 
® 
10
Os  Sepia................. 
15®  18
Pepsin Saac, H. A P.
®  1  00
D. Co...................; 
Plcls LIq. N.N.Mgal.
doz........................ 
® 2 00
PlcisLlq.,quart8__ 
®  1  00
Plcls LIq., pints..... 
®  85
Pll Hydrarg...po.  80 
®  50
®  18
Piper Nigra...po.  22 
®  30
Piper Alba....po. 35 
Pllx  Burgun........... 
® 
7
Plumb!  Acet........... 
10®  12
Pulvis Ipecac etOpll  1  io@  1  20 
Pyre thrum, boxes H.
®  1 25
A P. D. Co.,doz... 
Pyrethrum,  pv........  25®  30
Quassi»................... 
8®  10
Quinla, S. P. A W .. 
29®  31
22®  32
Quinta, S.German.. 
JtUnla, N.Y............   20®  34
Rubia Tinctorum... 
12®  14
SaccharumLactis pv  18®  20
Salacin.................... 3 00® 3  10
Sanguis Draconl8... 
40®  50
Sapo,  W................... 
12®  H
Sapo, M.................... 
10®  12
Sapo. G.................... 
15
Siedlltz  Mixture__  20  ®  22

® 

Slnapls.................... 
® 
18
Slnapls, opt............  
®  30
Snuff, Maccaboy, De
Voes...................... 
®  34
Snuff, Scotch. DeVo’s 
®  34
Soda Boras..............  9  ®  11
Soda Boras, po........  9  ©  11
26®  28
Soda et Potass Tart. 
Soda,  Carb.............. 
2
im® 
Soda, Bl-Carb.........  
5
3® 
4
Soda, Ash...............   SH® 
Soda, Sulphas.........  
® 
2
Spts. Cologne........... 
® 2 60
Spts. Ether Co........  50®  55
®  9 00 
Spt  Myrcla Dom... 
® 2 55 
Spts. Vlnl Rect. bbl. 
Spts. ViniRecLMbbl 
® 2 60 
Spts. Vlnl Rect. lOgal 
© 2  63 
Spts. Vini Rect.  5gal  ® 2  65
Less 5c gal. cash 10 days. 
Strychnia, Crystal...  1  40®  1  45
Sulphur,  subl.........   2K@  4
Sulphur,  Roll........ 
2M©3H
Tamarinds.................  
8®  10
Terebenth Venice...  28®  30
TheobromtB............  
46®  48
Vanilla...................  9 00®16 00
Zind  Sulph............  
7© 
8

Oils

BBL.  SAL.
Whale, winter......... 
70
70 
60
Lard,  extra.............  50 
Lard, No. 1..............  40 
45

38
39
70
40

Linseed, pure  raw.. 
35 
Linseed, boiled......   36 
Neatsfoot, winter str  65 
Spirits Turpentine.. 
34 
Paints  bbl. 

lb
Red Venetian.........   1M  2  @8
Ochre, yellow Mars, 
IK  2  ©4 
Ochre, yellow  Ber.."  IK  2  @3 
Putty, commercial..  2M 2M@3 
Putty, strictly  pure.  2M  2K@3 
Vermilion,  P rim e
American.............  
13® 
15
70®  75
Vermilion, English. 
Green, Paris...........  18M®  22
13®  16
Green,  Peninsular.. 
Lead, Red................  5M@  6m
Lead, white........... 
5K©  6M
®  70
Whiting, white Span 
Whiting,  gilders ... 
©  70
White, Pails Amer.. 
®  1  00 
Whiting, Paris  Eng.
®  1  40
cliff...................... 
Universal Prepared.  1  00®  1  15

Varnishes

No. 1 Turp Coach...  1  10®  1  20
Extra  Turp............   1  60®  1  70
Coach Body............   2 75® 3 00
No. 1 Turp Furn....  1  00©  1  10 
Extra Turk Damar..  1  55®  1  80 
Jap. Dryer, No. lTurp  70©  75

Our
New 1
Cigars
Imperiales

Clear Havana

$60

Lord  Cardigan
-  $60
-  $70

Regiments 
Brigades 

Best  Domestic Cigar on  the  Market

- 

- 

- 

- 

- 

Order a  Sample  Box.

H azeltin e 
&   P e rk in s 
D ru g   Co.,

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

IW W W

20

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

GROCERY PRICE CURRENT.

Eijces  Qu°ted  in  this  list  are  for the trade only,  in such  quantities as are usually purchased  by retail
j  
dealers, 
ln ey  are prepared just before going to press and  are an  accurate index of the local  market. 
It  is im­
possible to give quotations suitable for all  conditions of purchase,  and those below are given as representing av- 
erage prices for average conditions of purchase.  Cash buyers or those of strong credit usually buy closer  than 
tnose  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.

AXLE  GREASE.
Aurora....................... 55 
Ca8torOU.................. 60 
Diamond....................50 
Frazer’s ......................75 
IXL Golden, tin boxes 75 
Mica, tin boxes.......... 75 
Paragon......................55 

doz.  gross
6 00
7 00
4 00
9 00
9 00
9 00
6 00

Acsm.

Absolute.

BAKINQ  POWDER.
*  ’b cans doz................... 
Vi Id jans doz................... 

45
85
lb can  doz...................1  50
w lb cans 8 doz................. 
45
75
Vi lb cans 3 doz.  .............. 
lb cans I doz.................   i 00
1 
io
Bulk.................................... 
6 oz. Eng. Tumblers........... 
85
H lb cans per doz............  
75
Vi lb cans per doz  ...........  1  80
lb cans per doz............ 2  00
I 
M lb cans 4 doz case........ 
35
Vi lb cans 4 doz case........ 
55
90
lb cans 2 doz case  ......  

Arctic.
Bl Purity.

Home.

JAXON

Peerless.

Our Leader.

Jersey Cream.

H lb cans, 4 doz case......  
Vi lb cans, 4 doz case........ 

45
85
lb cans, 2 doz case........1 60
I lb. cans, per doz.............   2 00
9 oz. cans, per doz.............  1  25
6 oz. cans, per doz.............  
85
54 lb cans..........................   45
Vi lb cans..........................  
75
lb cans..........................   150
I 
I lb. cans  ......................... 
85
3 oz., 6 doz. case.....................  2 70
6 oz., 4 doz. case  .................3  20
9 oz., 4 doz. case....................... 4 80
1 lb., 2 doz. case....................... 4 00
,5 lb., 1 doz. case.....................   9 00
Amerloan................................70
English....................................80
C O N fiK s m

BATH  BRICK.

Queen Flake.

BLUINO.

BROOMS.

Small, 3 doz.......................  40
Large, 2 doz.......................  
75
So. 1 Carpet............................  1 so
Ho. 2 Carpet............................  1 75
No. 3 Carpet...................  ..  1  50
Ho. 4 Carpet......................  1  15
Parlor Gem 
...................  2 00
Common Whisk.................  
70
Fancy Whisk......................  80
Warehouse.........................2 25
8s ..........................................7
18s.........................................8
Paraffine................................ 8
Wlcking...............................20

CANDLBS.

CANNBD goods. 
rianltowoc  Peas.

. 

Lakeside Marrowfat.........   95
Lakeside E.  J ....................  1  15
Lakeside, Cham, of Eng....  l  20 
Lakeside. Gem. Ex. Sifted.  I  45 
Extra Sifted Early June....l  75 
CATSUP.
pints  ...........  2 00
Columbia, 
Colnmbla^Vi g u ts 
.........  1  25
Acme...........
Amboy.........
Careon City. 
E m b le m ..
Gem............
Ideal...........
Jersey  ........
Lenawee.... 
Riverside....
Springdale..............
B rick .........................
Edam.......................
Leiden....................
Limburger..............
Pineapple.................
Sap  Sago.................
Chicory.
Bulk 
Red

© 10
© 10
© 10
© 10
© 10
@ 10H
© 10
© 11
© 8
© 10
©
©
© 11
© 70
© 17
© 12
50  © 85
© 17

......
CHOCOLATB.  ' 
Walter Baker A Co.’s.
German Sweet............... 
.
Premium.
Breakfast Cocoa...................46

CLOTHES LINES.

Cotton, 40 ft, per  doz........1  00
Cotton, 50 ft, per  doz........1  20
Cotton, 60 ft, per  doz........1  40
Cotton, 70 ft, per  doz........1  60
Cotton, 80 ft, per  doz........1  80
Jute, 60 ft,  per  dos.............  80
Jute. 7* ft.  in '  <ins..............  96
COCOA SHELLS.
201b  bags.......................  
2Vi
Less quantity.................  
3
Pound  packages............  
4
CRBAfl TARTAR.
5 and 10 lb. wooden boxes......30
Bulk in sacks......................... 29

COFFEE.

Green.
Rio.

Santos.

Mexican  and  Ouatamala.

F air........................................ 9
Good.......................................10
Prim e....'............................... 11
Golden  .................................. 12
Peaberry  ............................... 13
Fair  .......................................12
Good  ..................................... 13
Prim e..................................... 14
Peaberry  ............................... 15
Fair  .......................................15
Good  ..................................... 16
Fancy 
.................................. 17
Maracaibo.
Prime........  ...........................19
Milled..................................... 20
Interior.................................. 19
Private  Growth......................20
Mandehling............................21
Im itation...............................20
Arabian  .................................22
Roasted.
Clark-Jewell-Wells Co. ’s Brands
Fifth  Avenue......  
29
Jewell’s Arabian Mocha__ 29
Wells’ Mocha and Java.......24
Wells’ Perfection Java.......24
Sancalbo.................. 
21
Breakfast Blend................  18
Valley City Maracaibo.  ....18Vi
Ideal  Blend..........................14
Leader Blend..............   ....18

Mocha.

Java.

 

Package.

Below  are  given  New  York 
prices  on  package  coffees,  to 
which 
the  wholesale  dealer 
adds  the  local  freight  from 
New  York  to  your  shipping 
point, giving you credit  on  the 
Invoice  for  the  amount  of 
freight  buyer  pays  from  the 
market  in  which  he purchases 
to his shipping point, including 
weight  of  package,  also He  a 
pound.  In  60 lb.  cases the list 
is  10c  per  100  lbs.  above  the 
price in full cases.
Arbuckle.......................   10 50
Jersey.............................   10 50
riel KUghlln’«  XXXV 
McLaughlin's XXXX  sold  to 
retailers only.  Mail  all  orders 
direct  to  W.  F.  McLaughlin  ¿k 
Co., Chicago.
Valley City Vi gross...... 
Felix Vi gross................. 
Hummel’s foil Vi gross... 
Hummel’s tin %  gross 
CLOTHES  PINS.
6 gross boxes...................... 
CONDENSED  MILK.

76
t  if
81
1  4?
40
4 doz in case.
Gall Borden  Eagle...........  6 75
Crown.................................6 25
Daisy...................................5 75
Champion...........................4 50
Magnolia 
............   —  
4 25
Challenge............... 
3 35
 
Dime 
............................ 8 85

Extract.

COUPON  BOOKS.

Tradesman Grade.

Superior Grade.

Economic Grade.

50 books, any denom__  1  50
100 books, any denom__  2 50
500 books, any denom__ 11  50
1.000 books, any denom....20 00
50 books, any denom....  1  50
100 books, any denom__  2 50
500 books  any denom__11  50
,000 books, anv denom__20 00
50 books, any denom....  1  50 
100 books, any denom....  2 50 
500 books, any denom__ 11 50
1.000 books, any denom__20 00
Can be made to represent any 
20 books  .......................   1  00
SObooks............................ 2 00
100 books  .........................  3 00
250 books..........................   c 25
500 books...........................10 00
1000 books...........................17 60

denomination from 310 down.

Coupon Pass Books,

___

Universal Grade.

Apples.

Credit Checks.

California Fruits.

50 books, any denom....  150
100 books, any denom__  2 50
500 books, any denom....11  50
1,000 books, any denom__20 00
500, any one denom’n ...... 3 00
1000, any one denom’n ...... 5 00
2000, any one denom’n ...... 8 00
Steel punch.......................   76
DRIBD  FRUITS—DOriBSTIC 
Sundried.......................   ©
Evaporated 50 lb boxes.  © 
Apricots.....................   ©8Vi
Blackberries..__ .....
Nectarines.............. 
© 7)4
Peaches.......................  6V4© 1V\
Pears......   .................   8  © ?H
Pitted Cherries...........
Prunnelles..................
Raspberries................
100-120 25 lb boxes.........   ©
90-100 25 lb boxes.
80-90 25 lb boxes.
70 - 80 25 lb boxes.
60-70 25 lb boxes.
50 - 60 25 lb boxes 
40-50 25 lb boxes 
30 - 40 25 lb boxes.
H cent less in 50 lb cases 

California Pranas.

Raisins.

1  40

London Layers 3 Crown.
London Layers 4 Crown.
Dehesias.......................
Loose Muscatels 2 Crown 
3V4 
Loose Muscatels 3 Crown  4Vi
Loose Muscatels 4 Crown 

FOREIGN.
Currants.

Peel.

Raisins.

Patras bbls...................... © ft Vi
Vostizzas 50 lb cases.......@  8*4
Cleaned, bulk  ................. © 7Vi
Cleaned, packages.......... © 7£
Citron American 101b bx  ©13 
Lemon American 10 lb bx ©12 
Orange American 10 lb bx ©12 
Ondnra 28 lb boxes......  ©
Saltana  1 Crown.........   ©
Sultana 2 Crow n........  ©
Sultana 3 Crown..........  ©
Sultana 4 Crown..........  ©
Sultans 5 Crown.........   ©
Sultana 6 Crown.........  ©
Snltana package.........   ©
FARINACEOUS GOODS.
24 1 lb.  packages.............1  50
Balk, per 100 lbs..............3 60
Walsh-DeRoo  Co.’s Brand.

Farina.

Grits.

Peas.

Beans.

Hominy.

Pearl Barley.

24 2 lb. packages................1  80
1001b. kegs........................2 70
2001b. barrels........................5 10
Barrels  ............................ 2 50
Flake, 501b.  drums..........1  00
Dried Lima  .....................
Medium Hand Picked__
Maccaront end Vermicelli.
Domestic,  10 lb. box........  60
Imported,  25 lb. box........ 2 50
Common....  ....................  190
Chester............................  2 25
E m pire............................  3 00
Green,  bn.........................  95
Split,  per lb...................... 
Rolled Avena,  bbl.........4 00
Monarch,  bbl........................3 50
Monarch,  Vi  bbl................... 1 88
Monarch, 90 lb sacks........ 1  75
Quaker, cases........................3 20
Huron, cases..........................1 75
German............................   4
East  India.......................  
3Vi
Flake..............................  
3V4
Pearl................................ 
3%
5
Anchor, 40 1 lb. pkges__ 
Cracked, bulk................... 
3M
24 21b packages................ ...g 50

Rolled  Oats.

Tapioca.

Wheat.

3ago.

2Vi

Salt  Fish.

Cod.

Georges cured............  © 4
Georges genuine........  © 6
Georges selected........  ©  5Vi
Strips or bricks.........   6  © 9

Herring.

Holland white boops, bbl.  7 75 
Holland white hoop Vi bbl  4 25
Holland,  x   bbl................  2 25
Holland white hoop, keg. 
64
Holland white hoop mebs  70
Norwegian.......................
Round 100 lbs...................  2 75
Round  40 lbs...................  1  30
Scaled...............................  
14

riackerel.

Mess 100 lbs.................. 
15 00
40 lbs...................  6 80
Mess 
Mess 
10 lbs...................   1  65
Mess 
8 lbs...................  1  35
Ho. 1100 lbs......................  13  25
Ho. 1  40 lbs......................  5 60
Ho. 1  10 lbs......................  1 48
No. 1 
8 lbs...................  120
No. 2 100 lbs......................  8 50
No. 2  40 lbs......................  3 70
No. 2  10 lbs......................  1 00
No. 2 
88

8 lbs................... 

Trout.

No. 1100 lbs....................  
5 25
No. 1  40 lbz....................   2 40
No. 1  10lbz...  .............. 
68
8 lbs..................  
No. 1 
57
WhltsfUh.

No. 1  No. 2  Fam
too lbs...........  6 65 
2 00
40 lbs  .........   3 00 
1  10
10 lbs........... 
81 
35
8 lbs........... 
68 
31
FLAVORING  EXTRACTS.

Jennings*.

D.C. Vanilla 
2 oz.......1 20
3oz........1  50
4 oz.......2 00
6 oz........3  00
No.  8  4 00
No. 10.  .6 00 
No.  2 T.l 25 
No.  3T.2 00 
No  4 T.2 40

D. C. Lemon
2 oz.......  75
8 oz........1  00
4 oz........ 1  40
6 oz........2  00
No.  8.. .2 40 
No. 10...4 00 
No.  2T.  80 
No.  3 T.l  25 
No.  4 T.l  50

Northrop Brand.
2 oz. Taper Panel..  75 
2 oz. Oval................  75 
3 oz. Taper Panel.. 1  35 
4 oz. Taper Panel..1  60 

Lem.  Van. 
120
1  *0
2 00
2 25

Sonders*.

Oval bottle,  with  corkscrew. 
the 

in  the  world 

for 

Best 
money.

Regular 
Grade 
Lemon, 

dos
2 os........  75
4 oz.......1  50
Regular 
Vanilla.

doz
2oz...... 1 20
4 oz.......2 40

GUNPOWDER.
Rifle—Dupont’s.
.................................. 4 00

Kegs 
Half Kegs.................................2 25
Quarter Kegs............................ 1 25
1 lb. cabs.............................   30
Vi lb. cans............................  18

Choke Bore—Dupont’s. 

KegsI  1J

.4 25
Half Kegs............................2 40
Quarter Kegs.......................1 35
1 lb. cans..............................  34

Eagle Dock—Dupont’s.

...........8  00

........4 25
...... 2 25
........  45

Kegs..............
Half Kegs......
Quarter Kegs. 
1lb. cans........

JBLLY.

15 lb  palls............................   35
301b  pails..........................  
65

LYB.
Condensed, 2 dos  .............1  20
Condensed. 4 dos 
............2 25

UCORI0B.

Pure.....................................  30
Calabria.............................   25
Sicily....................................  M
Root.....................................   10

MINCE MEAT.

Ideal, 3 dos. in case............2 25

MATCHES.

Diamond Match Co.’s brands.
No. 9 sulphur.................... 1 65
Anchor Parlor...................1  70
No. 2  Home....................... 1  10
Export  Parlor...................4 00

nOLASSES.
New Orleans.

Black................................   H
Fair 
14
......................... :... 
Good................................. 
20
Fancy  ............................ 
24
Open Kettle...................... 25@35

Half-barrels 2c extra.
MUSTARD.

Horse Radish, 1 doz........... 1  75
Horse Radish, 2 doz...........3 50
Bayle’s Celery, 1 doz......... 1 75

PIPES.

Clay, No. 216......................  1  70
Clay, T. D. full count........ 
66
Cob, No. 8..........................  
85

POTASH.

48 cans in case.

Babbitt’s............................4 00
PennaSalt  Co.’s ............  
8 00

PICKLES.
Medium.

Barrels, 1,200 count...........  4  50
Half bbls, 600 count...........  2 75

Small.

Barrels, 2,400 count.........   5 50
Half bbls  1,200 count........  3 25

RICE.

Domestic.

Carolina head....................   6Vi
Carolina  No. 1  .................   5
Carolina  No. 2...................  4
Broken...............................   35f

Imported.
Japan,  No. 1........... 
5V4© 6
Japan,  No. 2 
4*,@ 5
Java, fancy  head........5  © 5Vi
Java, No. 1.................  6  ©
T ab le..........................   ©

Scotch, In bladders............   37
Maecaboy, in jars................  3t
French Rappee, In jars......   43

SNUPF.

SBBDS.

Anise
9
Canary, Smyrna...............  
3Vi
Caraway..........................  
8
Cardamon,  Malabar  ____  60
Celery.................................  11
Hemp,  Rn8sian. 
Mixed  Bird. 
Mustard,  white.
Poppy  .............................   10
Rape
4Vi
Catti
tie Bone......................  20

3vi4»5

SALT.

Diamond  Crystal.

Table, cases, 24 3-lb boxes. .1 50 
Table, barrels, 100 3 lb bags.2 75 
Table, barrels,  40 7 lb bags.2 40 
Bntter, barrels, 280lb. bnlk.2 25 
Batter, barrels, 2014 lbbags.2 50
Batter, sacks, 28 lbs.............  25
Butter, sacks, 56 lbs............   55

Common Grades.

100 3-lb sacks......  
.............1  90
60 5-lb sacks...................... 1  75
2810-lb sacks.....................1  60

Worcester.

50  4 
lb. cartons............... 8 25
115  2Vilb. sacks....................4 00
60  5  lb. sacks..................375
2214 
lb. sacks...............  .3 50
3010 
lb. sacks...................3 50
28 lb. linen sacks.................  32
56 lb. linen sacks.................  60
Bulk In barrels................... 2  50

Warsaw.

56-lb dairy In drlU bags......   30
28-lb dairy In drill bags  __   15

Ashton.

56-lb dairy In linen sacks...  6C

Higgins.

56-lb dairy In linen sacks. 

ft

Solar Rock.

56-lb  sacks................................0

Granulated Fine...................  70
Medium  Fine........................  70

Common.

SOAP.

JAXON

Single box............................ 2 75
5 box lots, delivered_____ 2 70
10 box lots, delivered.........2 65
<MS.  8.  KIRK  S CO.'S BRANDS.
American Family, wrp’d....2 66
Dome.................................... 2 75
Cabinet.................................2  20
Savon....................................2 50
White Russian.....................2 35
White Cloud,  laundry...  ..6  25
White Cloud,  toilet.............3 50
Dnsky Diamond, 50 6  oz__2  10
Dusky Diamond, 50 8 oz__3 00
Bine India, 100 X lb............ 3 00
Kirkoline...... .................. ...3 50
Bos.......................................2 50
SCHULfE  SOAP CO.’S  BRANDS
Clydesdale, 100 cakes, 75 l b s ___ 2  75
No-Tai, 100cakes, 62 1-2 lb s .. .   .2  00
Family,  75 cakes,  75 lbs............2  50
German Mottled, 60 cakes, 60 lbs. .  1  75 
Cocoa Castile, 1$ lbs., cot 1-4 & 1-2..1  80 

Chipped  Soap  for Laundries.

Allen B. Wrlsley’s Brands.

Old Country, 801-lb. bars  . .2 75 
Good Cheer, 601-lb. bars... .3 75
Uno, 100 £-lb. bars.............. 2 50
DoU, 100 10k>z.  bars.............2 05

Sapolio, kitchen, 3 do z...... 2 40
Sapolio, hand, 3 doz...........2 40

Sconring.

SODA.

Boxes  .................................5 Vi
Kegs, English....................  44{

SALBRATUS.

Packed 60 lbs. In  box.

Church’s ............................ 8 SC
Deland’s ............................ 8  15
Dwight’s ............................ 3 30
Taylor’s.............................. 8 00
60 lb. 
case 
* 3- i 5

SAL SODA.

Granulated, bbls.........   75
Granulated,  100 lb cases..  9J
Lamp, bbls..................   75
Lamp, 1461b kegs.........   86

HBRBS.

Sage......................................  15
Hops....................................   15

INDIGO.
lb boxes.............  66
Madias, 5 
S. F., 2,3 and 5 lb boxes....  50

SPICES.
Whole Sifted.

Pare Ground la Balk.

Allspice  ..........................   13
Cassia, China in mats..........13
Cassia, Batavia In band__ 25
Cassia, Saigon in rolls........32
Cloves, Amboyna................14
Cloves, Zanslbar..................12
Mace,  Batavia....................55
Nutmegs, fancy...................60
Nutmegs, No.  1...................50
Nutmegs, No.  2.........  
  45
Pepper, Singapore, black.. .11 
Pepper, Singapore, white.. .12
Pepper,  shot........................12
Allspice  ...............................15
Cassia, Batavia 
...............3u
Cassia,  Saigon 
................40
Cloves, Zanzibar...................4
Ginger,  African 
............. i&
Ginger,  Cociilu  ..................13
Ginger, Jamaica  ................23
Mace,  Batavia.................... 05
Mustard  ........................12@18
Nutmegs,...................... 40©;0
Pepper, Sing , biack............12
Pepper, Sing., white........... 20
Pepper, Cayenne................. ao
Sage......................................is

SYRUPS

Barrels__
Half  bbls.
Pair  ... 
Good... 
Choice

STARCH.

Klngsferd’s  Cora.

40 1-lb packages.................... 6
20 1 lb packages...................  6h

Klngsferd’s Silver Gloss.

401-lb packages.....................6%
6-lb boxes.......................... 7

Diamond.

64 10c  packages  ............... 5 00
128  5c  packages.................5 00
32 lOo and 64 5c packages.. .5 00

TOBACCOS.

Cigars.

Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s brand 
New Brick........................ 33 00

H. A P. Drug Co.’s brand. 

Quintette..........................35 00

G. J. Johnson Cigar Co.’s brand

S. C. W......

.33 00

Rube Bros. Co. ’s Brands.

Double Eag’es. 6 sizes.*55^70 00
Gen. Maceo, 5 sizes__  55@7u 00
Mr. Thomas...............  
35 00
Cuban Hand Made.... 
35 00
Crown  Five...............  
35 00
35 00
Sir  William................ 
35 00
Club Five................... 
35 00
Gens. Grant and Lee.. 
Little Peggy.............. 
35  00
Signal  Five...............  
35
Knights of Pythias__  
35  00
Key West Perfects. 2 sz 55@60 00

TABLB  SAUCES.

Lea A Perrin’s,  large...  4  75 
Lea A Perrin’s, small...  2 75
Halford,  large...............   3  75
Halford small...................2 25
Salad Dressing, large...... 4 55
Salad Dressing, small...... 2 75

VINEGAR.

Malt White Wine, 40 grain.  ..  7 
Malt White Wine, 80 grain.. ..10
Pure Cider, Genesee...........   11
Pure Cider, Red Star..........,\i2
Pure Cider, Robinson............ u

WICKING.

No. 0, per gross....................  20
No. 1, per gross................. 
25
No.2,pergross.............. 
33
No. 3, per gross................. 
55

Crackers.

..  5
..  4M

Common Corn.
quotes as follows:
201 lb. packages.............
401 lb. packages.............
Batter.
Seymour XXX.  ... 
Common Gloss. 
Seymour XXX, 3 lb.  carton 
1-lb  packages.................
Family X X X .........
S-lb  packages................... ..  4H Salted XXX  ......
6-lb  packages.................. .-  4H New  York XXX...
40 and 50 lb boxes............ ..  3H Wolverine............
B arrels............

Boston..........

••  4%

3

STOVE POLISH.

7H

Soda.

Soda  XXX  ......................
Soda  XXX, 31b carton....  „
Soda,  City................. 
g
Long Island W a f e r s . n  
L. I. Wafers,  1 lb carton  ..  12 
Zephyrette...........................10
„  .  _  Oyster.
Sal tine Wafer....................
5%
SallineWafer, 1 lb  carton.  6%.
Farina Oyi-ter....................   53?
Extra Farina Oyster.........   6J4

jou

SWEET  GOODS—Boxes.
Animals............................  
Bent’s Water........................15
Cocoanut Taffy  ......... " "   10
Coffee Cake, Java..............  lu
Coffee Cake, Iced............  10
Cubans................................m ?
Frosted  Cream....................   9
Ginger Gem s............ ...''  g
Ginger Snaps, XXX...........  714
Graham Crackers  ..............   g
Graham Wafers.................  10
Grand Ma Cakes.................  9
Imperials............................  8
JumDles,  Honey.................  h h
Marshmallow  ...................  15
Marshmallow  Creams......   16
Marshmallow  Walnuts...  16
Mich. Frosted Honey__  12%
Molasses Cakes................. 
  §
Newton.............................   12
Nic Nacs..............................  8
Orange Gems.......................  8
Penny Assorted Cakes......  8%
Pretzels,  hand  m ad e......   8
Sears’ Lunch.............. 
  7%
Sugar  Cake.........................  8
Sugar  Squares....................  9
Vanilla  Wafers................  14
Sultanas.............................  12H

 

Oils.
Barrels.

Eocene  ......................  @1154
XXX W.W.Mich.Hdlt  @ 9}<
W W Michigan...........  @854
Diamond White.........  © 71£
D., S. Gas....................  © 9
Deo. N aptha..............  © 7
Cylinder....................25  ©34
Engine.......................11  ©21
B^cv, winter. 
. . . .   ©8

No. 4, 3 doz in case, gross..  4  50 
No. 6,3 doz in case, gross..  7 20

SUGAR.

Below  are given  New  York 
prices on sugars,  to  which  the 
wholesale dealer adds the local 
fretght from New York to your 
shipping  point,  giving  you 
credit  on  the  invoice  for  the 
amount  of  freight  buyer  pays 
from  the  market  in  which  he 
purchases to his shipping point, 
including  20  pounds  for  the 
weight of the barrel.
Domino............................... 5 38
Cut  Loaf............................. 5 50
Crushed.... .......................... 5 50
Powdered  .......................... 5 25
XXXX  Powdered................5 38
Cubes.................................. 5 25
Granulated in bbls..............5  IS
Granulated in bags............ 6  13
Fine Granulated.................5  13
Bxtra Fine Granulated...... 5 25
Extra Coarse Granulated.. .5 25
Mould  A............................. 5 38
Diamond Confec.  A...........5  13
Confec. Standard A............ 5 00
No.  1........................................4 75
No  2.......................................4 7*
No.  3....................................... 4 75
No.  4....................................... 4 09
No.  5....................................... 4 63
No.  6........................................4 56
No.  7.......................................4 44
No.  8....................................... 4 38
No.  9.......................................4 81
No.  10....................................... 4 25
No.  11.............................    .4  19
No.  12.................................  113
No.  13....................................... 4 06
No.  14....................................... 4 OJ
No.  15....................................... 8 94
No.  16........................................3 94

Swift  A 

follows:

Provisions.

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

Barreled Pork.
.....................U  00©

10 00

Company  quote  as

"  

Book 
Clear back...............11  ou©n  25
Shortcut................... 
1075
£*8..................................   14 50
Bean  .................  
9  75
Family  ..............................10 50
Dry Salt Meats.
Bellies
6H
Briskets  ............ ....." . 
6
Extra shorts...............   ’ 
g
Smoked  neats.
Hams, 12 lb average  __ 
8H
Hams, 14 lb  average 
... 
gL
Hams, 161b  average...... 
8H
Hams, 20 lb  average. 
8
Ham dried b e e f......  
12
Shoulders  (N: Y. cut) 
6
®acon  clear................. 7H@8H
California hams__ 
514
Boneless hams.........., **' 
9
Cooked  ham............ ..!io@12H
Lards.  In Tierces. 
Compound
3«
Kettle...........................;;; 
g
j®1? Tubs..........advance
80 lb Tubs..........advance
551L T ins..........advance
?0 lb Pails..........advance
10 Jb Pails..........advance
5 Jb Pails..........advance
3 lb Palls..........advance
Sausages.
Bologna................ 
514
Liver.........................  " "   «2
Frankfort.............. 
7U
P o rk ......................... ..."   6V4
Blood  ..................J.. 
jj*
Tongue...................... " "   9
Head  cheese................... '
Extra  Mess.....................1025
Boneless  .....................!13 50
«»m P..............................14 50
__ 
Kits, 15 lb s........ 
70
H  bbls, 40lbs...........1  *
H  bbls, 80 lbs.................  2 50
Kits, 15 lbs... 
....  
70
H  bbls, 40 lbs.............. 
1  05
H  bbls, 80 lbs................   2 25
_ 
Casings.
Pork................. “
....... 
13
Beef  rounds......... . 
*li
Beef  middles................  
ia™
Sheep.......................... .’ 
go
_   „ 
Butterine.
in
Rolls, dairy............  
Solid,  dairy...........................9*
Roils,  creamery............  
14
Solid,  creamery........ 
13)4
Canned Meats.
Corned beef,  2 lb  .. 
2 25
Corned  beef, 14 I b ....." l4 50
Roast  beef,  2 lb......... 2  15
Potted  ham,  He.........   50
Potted  ham,  Hs__ 
90
Beviledham,  H8...............  50
Deviled ham,  Hs.........   90
Potted  tongue He...... . 
50
Potted  tongue Hs.........   90
Fresh  Meats.

Pigs’ Feet.

Tripe.

Beef.

Beef.

gar®®88......................6H@  8
Forequarters............ 5  ©  6%
Hind  quarters...........  7  ©  9
Loins  No.  3................  9  ©12
5 lb8  v ....................... 7  @12
Rounds......................iWBh
gbueks........4..........!  6  © 6H

Perk.

Dressed......................  © 5
*"ln8-....................   © 7%
Shoulders...................  @ 6
Leaf Lard...................  6  ©

Carcass...........  ........  g  © 7
Spring Lambs............ 7H@ 8H

Mutton

Veal.

Carcass 
7  © 8H
Hides  and  Pelts.
The Cappon A Bertscb Leather 
Co., 100 Canal  Street, quotes as 
follows:

Hides.

Green No. 1................  @  8H
Green No. 2................   © 7H
Cured No. 1................   ©  9H
Cured No. 2................  © 8H
Calfskins,  green No. 1  © 9
Calfskins, green No. 2  © 7H
Calfskins, cured No. 1  ©10H
Calfskins, cured No. 2  ©  9

Pelts,  each.................  50@1  00

Pelts.

Tallow.

Wool.

No. 1...........................  © 3
No. 2...........................  © 2

Washed, fine  ............   ©18
Washed, medium.......  ©23
Unwashed, fine..........11  ©13
Unwashed, medium.. 16  ©18

2 1

Crockery  and

Glassware.

AKRON STONBWARB. 

Batters.

514

5%

Jugs.

Churns.

Common

Mllkpnns.

Stewpans.

Fruit Jars.

Sealing Wax.

Tomato Jags.

First  Quality.

Fine Glazed Milkpans.

H gal., perdos.................  40
1 to 6 gal., per gal........... 
5
8 gal., each......................  40
10 gal., each.....................  50
12 gal.,  each......................  60
15gal. meat-tubs, each....l  10 
20gal. meat-tubs,each.... 1  50
25 gal. meat-tubs, each__ 2 25
30 gal. meat-tubs, each.... 2 70 
2 to 6 gal., per gal...... . 
5
Churn Dashers, per doz...  85 
Pint......   ...........................   4 50
Quart................................   4 75
H  gal  ................................  e 50
Covers...............................   2 00
Rubbers............................. 
25
H gal- flat or rd. bot., doz.  45 
1 gal. flat or rd. bot., each  5 
H gal. flat or rd. bot., doz.  60 
1 gal. flat or rd. bot, each  5H 
H gal. fireproof, bail, doz.  85 
1 gal. fireproof, bail, doz.l  10 
H gal., per doz..................  40
H gal., per doz..................  42
1 to 5 gal., per gal............. 
H gal., per dos.................  42
1 gal., each...................... 
Corks for H gal.,-per dos..  20 
Corks for  1 gal., per dos..  30 
Preserve Jars and Covers.
H gal., stone cover, dos...  75 
1 gal., stone cover, doz...l  00 
5 lbs. in package, per lb...  2
LAMP  BURNBRS.
No. 0 Sun....................... 
  36
No.  1  Sun.............................  40
No.  2  Sun.............................  68
No. 3 Sun...........................  1 00
Tabular................................  60
Security, No. 1.....................    60
Security, No. 2.....................   80
Nutmeg  ............................... 
50
LAMP CHIMNBYS—Seconds.
Per box of 6 doz.
No.  0 Sun.........................  1 32
No.  1  Sun..........................   1 45
No.  2 Sun...........................2  18
No. OSun...........................   1 50
No. 1 Sun...........................  1 60
No. 2 Sun........................... 2  45
No.  0  Sun,  crimp 
No. 
1  Snn,  crimp 
No.  2  Sun,  crimp 
XXX Flint.
No.  0  Sun,  crimp 
No. 
1  Snn,  crimp 
No.  2  Sun,  crimp 

wrapped and  labeled....  2  10 
wrapped and  labeled....  2  15 
wrapped and  labeled__  3  15

top,
wrapped and  labeled....  2 55 
top,
wrapped and  labeled.  ..  2 75 
top,
wrapped and  labeled__  8 76
CHIMNEYS—Pearl  Top.
No. 1  Sun,  wrapped  ana
labeled............................3 70
No. 2  Sun,  wrapped  and
labeled............................4  70
No. 2 Hinge, wrapped  and
labeled............................  4  gj
No. 2  Sun,  “Small  Bulb,”
for Globe Lamos............ 
80
No. 1 Snn. plain  bulb,  per
doz  ................................  
9
No. 2 Snn,  plain  bulb,  per
doz  ................................   1  15
No. 1 Crimp, per doz..........  1  36
No. 2 Crimp, per doz..........1  80
No. 1, Lime  (65c  doz)...... 8 50
No. 2, Lime  (70c  do*).. 
No. 2, Flint (80c  doz)...... 4 70
No. 2, Lime  (70c dos)  ...... 4 00
No. 2, Flint  (80c doz)........4 40
Dos.
1 gal tin cans with  spout..  1  25
1 gal galv Iron with spout.  1  48
2 gal galv iron with spout.  2 48
3 gal galv iron with spout.  3  32 
5 gal galv Iron with  spout.  4 28 
3 gal galv iron-with faucet 4  17 
5 gal galv Iron with  faucet 4  67
5 gal Tilting cans..............  7  25
5 gal galv iron Nacefas__ 9 00
5 gal Rapid steady stream.  7  80 
5 gal Eureka non overflow 10 50
3 gal Home Rule................10 50
5 gal Home Rule............... 12 00
5 gal  Pirate  King..............  9 60
No.  0Tubular side lift....  4 00
No.  X B  Tubular..............6 25
No. 13 Tubular Dash......... 6 60
No.  lTub.,glassfouut....  7 00 
No. 12 Tubular, side lamp. 14  0C
No.  3 Street  Lamp__ ....  8 75
LANTERN  GLOBES.
No.  0 Tubular,  cases 1 doz.
each, box 10 cents...........  45
No. 0 Tubular,  cases2doz.
45
each, box 15 cents.........  
No. 0 Tubular,  bbls 5 doz.
each, bbl 35................ 
  33
No. 0 Tubular,  bull’s  eye, 
1 26
cases 1 doz. each.

top,
top,
top,

Pomp  Cana.

LANTERNS.

OIL CANE. 

La  Bastle.

Rochester.

Electric.

..  4  00

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN
Grains and Feedstuffs
.... 
Wheat................................ 
Winter Wheat Flonr. 

Candies.
Stick Candy.

Wheat.

gg

8

bbls. pails
Standard.................  6H@ 7
Standard H.  H........ 
6H@ 7
Standard Twist......   6
Cut Loaf.................
Jumbo, 321b  ...
Extra H. H......
Boston  Cream.

© 8% 
cases 
© 6V4 
© 8* 
©10

Mixed Candy.

Grocers...................
Competition............
Standard.................
Conserve..............
Royal......................
Ribbon....................
Broken.................
Cut Loaf.................
English Rock.........
Kindergarten.........
French  Cream........
Dandy Pan.............
Valley Cream.........

Fancy—In Bulk.

Lozenges, plain......
Lozenges,  printed..
Choc.  Drops...........
Choc.  Monumentals
Gum  Drops............
Moss  Drops............
Sour Drops............ .
Imperials............ .

©  6 
© 614 
©  7 
© 7V4 
©   7% 
© 8% 
© 8* 

©  8*4 © 8 

© 8H 
© 8*4 
©10 
©12

© 8 

© 8% 
© 9 
©14 
©11 
©  6 
© 9 
© 9

Fancy—In  5  lb.  Boxes.

Local Brands.

Patents.................................... 4 00
Second  Patent......................  3 50
Straight  ..........................   3 30
Clear.......................................  3 00
Graham 
............................ 3 30
Buckwheat................. 
4  00
Bye  ..................................   3 25
Subject  to  usual  cash  dis­
count.
Flour in bbls., 25c per bbl. ad­
ditional.
Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand
Diamond, Hs............................ 3 50
Diamond, 54s............................ 3 go
Diamond, Hs..................!” Ì3  50
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand.
Quaker,  Hs.............................  3 50
Quaker, Hs............................   3 50
Quaker, Hs.............................   3 50

Spring Wheat Flour. 

Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s Brand.
Pillsbury’s Best Ha...........  4 25
Pillsbury’s Best Hs...........  4  15
Pillsbury’s Best Hs...........  4 05
Pillsbury’s Best Hs paper..  4 05 
Pillsbury’s Best Hs paper..  4 05 
Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand.

Lemon  Drops.........
Sour  Drops.........!
Peppermint Drops..
Chocolate Drops__
H. M. Choc. Drops..
Gum  Drops............
Licorice Drops........
A. B. Licorice Drops 
Lozenges,  plain.... 
Lozenges,  printed..
Imperials...............
Mottoes............... ’’
Cream Bar..........
Molasses Bar
Hand Made Creams.  80
Plain  Creams.........   60
Decorated Creams
String Rock............
Burnt Almonds__!l  25
Wintergreen Berries
Caramels. 
No. 1 wrapped, 2  lb.
boxes...................
No. 1 wrapped, 3  ii>.
boxes ...................
No. 2 wrapped, 2  lb', 
boxes  ............

F r u i t s .
Oranges. 
Late Valencias.......
Lemons. 
Strictly choice 360s.. 
Strictly choice 300s.. 
Fancy 360s or 300s...
Ex.Faney 300s........
Ex.Fancy 360s........
Bananas.

Figs.
Californias.............
Choice, 10lb boxes..
Extra  choice,  10  lb
boxes new............
Fancy, 12 lb  boxes..
Imperial Mikados, 18
lb boxes...............
Pulled, 61b boxes...
Naturals,  in  bags...
Dates. 
Fards in 10 lb  boxes 
Fards  in  60 lb cases
Persians, G. M’s......
lb cases, new........
Sairs,  601b cases....

©50 
©50 
©60 
©60 
©75 
©30 
©75 
©50 
@50 
©50 
©50 
©55 
©50 
©50 
@1  00 
@90 
@90 
©60 
© ©60

©35
©50

@3 50

@6  00 
©@7  00 
©

©11H
©

© 7

© 8 
© 6
© 6 
© 4*4

Medium bunches... 1  00 
Large bunches........1  50 @1  25 
@1  75

Foreign Dried  Fruits. 

Almonds, Tarragona..  @15
Almonds, Ivaca.........   ©
Almonds,  California,
soft shelled............   @13
Brazils new...............   © 8*4
Filberts  ....................  @11
Walnuts, Grenobles..  @14
Walnuts,  Calif No.  1.  ©12
Walnuts,  soft  shelled
Table Nuts,  fancy__  @11
Table Nuts,  choice...  @10
Pecans, Med.......... 
© 8
Pecans, Ex. Large....  @10
Pecans, Jumbos........   @12
Hickory  Nuts per bu.,
Ohio, new...............   @1  60
Cocoanuts,  full  sacks  ©3 50

Calif.......................  ©

Peanuts.

Fancy,  H.  P.,  Suns.  © 7
Fancy,  H.  P.,  Flags
Roasted...................  © 7
Choice, H. P., Extras.  © 414
Choice. H. P..  Extras,
.........  
5)4

Ross ted   

4 05

Meal.

Olney A Judson’s Brand.

Lemon & Wheeler Co.’s  Brand.
Gold Medal Hs.......................  4 25
Gold Medal 14a.........................4 15
Gold Medal Hs.........................4 05
Parisian,  Ha...........................  4 25
Parisian, Hs............................. 4 15
Parisian. Hs..................... i  4 ¿5
Ceresota, Ha.......................  4 25
Ceresota, h s.......................  4 15
Ceresota, Ha....................  4 05
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand.
Laurel, Ha..............................  4 15
Laurel, Ha................. 
Laurel, Ha..............................  3 95
Bolted....................................  j  go
Granulated............ ’."  ’ ‘ ]  2  10
St. Car Feed, screened__ 16  00
No. 1 Corn and  Oats......   .15 50
Unbolted Corn Meal  ......  14 50
Winter Wheat  Bran.........1  00
Winter Wheat Middlings. .13 00
Screenings.............................. 14 00
„ 
Car  lots.................... 
.....33
Less than  car lots............   35
Car  lots....................... 25
Carlot8, clipped...........’ ’ ’,  27
Less than  car lots. . . . .  
29
No. 1 Timothy carlots......   8 50
No. 1 Timothy, ton lots  .  .  9 00
Fish and  Oysters

Feed and Mlllstuffs.

Corn.

Oats.

Hay;

Fresh Fish.

Whiteflsh................  @e r *k‘
T rout......................  ©
Black Bass..............  8  ©
Halibut...................  ©
Ciscoes or Herring..  ©
Bluefish..................   ©
Live Lobster  ___
Boiled Lobster........  ©
Cod 
......................  ©
Haddock.................  ©
No.  1  Pickerel........  ©
Pike.........................  ©
Perch.......................  ©
Smoked White........  ©
Red Snapper...........  ©
Col  River Salmon..  ©
Mackerel 
..............  ©
F. H. Counts...........  @  35
F. J. D.  Selects........  @ 28
Selects................... 
©  25
F. J. D. Standards.  . 
22
A nchors.................   @  20
Standards...............   © 
ig
gal.
Counts...................................   1 75
X Selects................................  1 65
Selects.....................................  1 35
Anchor Standards..................  1 15
Standards..........................  110
Clams......................... 
1  25
Shell Goode.
Oysters, per 100......... 1  25@1 50
Clams,  per  100.........   ©1  25

Oysters In Cans.

Bulk. 

 

22

Hardware

Making  Room  For Stock.

From the Stoves and Hardware Reporter.

When  merchants  are  buying  new 
goods  they  must  bear  something  else  in 
mind,  and  that  is  how  to get  rid  of  old 
stock  and  thus  make  room  for  the  new 
This 
is  sometimes  a  puzzling  problem 
to  the  merchant  and  bis  clerks,  for  in 
every  stock,  no  matter  bow  well  se­
lected,  there  are alwaiys  more  or  less  ar 
tides  or  lines of goods  which  are termed 
“ stickers."  If  these  were  all  out  of  the 
way  there  would  be  no  difficulty  what 
ever  nor  any  necessity  to  discuss  the 
matter,  but  they  generally  are  not,  as  it 
is  almost  impossible  to  close  out  all  old 
lines  before the  season  ends.  Accord 
ingly.mucb  necessary  space  in  the  store 
is  occupied  when  the  new  goods  arrive. 
It  frequently  happens  that  the  mer­
chant's  mind 
is  so  filled  with  thoughts 
and  plans  in  regard  to  the  future  season 
that  be  has  neglected  to  push 
last  sea­
son’s  goods,  and  of  course  the  clerks 
would  never  think  of 
it.  Consequently 
the  old  goods  are  relegated  to  the  back­
ground  without  considering  bow  much 
money  is  tied  up  in  them.  Now  if  this 
practice  of  forgetting  and  overlooking 
is  continued  very  long  there  will  be a 
heterogeneous  accumulation  of  new  and 
old  goods 
in  mixed  strata  which  will 
prove  a  hopeless  task  to  straighten  out
is  a  good  plan  to  bring  this old 
stock  to  the  front,  that  is,  where  pos­
sible and  necessary;  take  last  season’s 
broken  lines,  odd  pieces,  etc.,  from  the 
shelves  and  racks  and  substitute  the 
new  goods  for them.  Then  it  would  he 
beneficial  to  their  sale  to  choose  some 
of  them  for  a  prominent  place  in  the 
store.  Take  the  rest  of  them,  and  put 
them  on  a  counter  or  fixtures  by  them­
selves.  The  price  should  be  plainly 
marked  on  them,  so  that  customers  may 
see  the  figures  as  they  pass  by. 
If  they 
do  not  notice  them,  although  it  is  ad­
visable  to  have  them  in  a  conspicuous 
place,  it  should  be  the  salesman’s  duty 
to  call  customers'  attention  to  them. 
It 
frequently  happens  that  there  are  cus­
tomers  who  are  only  too  glad  to  take 
advantage  of  some  reduction  in  price 
and  who  are  not  so  fastidious  that  they 
take  exceptions  to 
the  goods  being 
slightly  shopworn.  A  bird  in  the  hand 
is  worth  two  in  the  bush,  and  a  reduced 
price  which  still 
leaves  a  slight  profit 
is  better  than  none  at  all.

It 

Often,  too,  there  are  sudden  changes 
in  the  season  which  will  cause  a  de­
mand  for  such  goods  and  the  merchant 
and  clerks  should 
leave  no  stone  un­
turned  to  sell  them.  What  is  possible 
now  will  not  be  so  after  a  while,  and 
the  time  to  make  bay  is  when  the  sun 
is  shining.  The  son  of  the  soil  does  not 
leave  the  fruit  of  his  labors  to  rot  on the 
ground,  but  carefully  garners  it  into  a 
place  of  shelter.  Thus  the  merchant 
may  work  on  the  same  principle  and 
make  the  most  of  his  opportunities 
while  there  is  yet  time.

Knew  What  He  Wanted.

Customer—I  want  some  kind  of a door 
spring;  one  that  won’t  get  out  of  order.

Hardware  Dealer—A  door  spring?
Customer—Yes.  And  one  that  won’t 
require  the  strength  of  an  elephant  to 
open.

Dealer— Hem !
Customer—And  yet  it  must  be  strong 
enough  to  bring  the door  all  the  way  to, 
and  not  leave  it  swing mg  a  couple  of 
inches.

Dealer— I  see!
Customer—And  when  the  door closes 
I  don’t  want  it  to  ram  shut  like  a  cat­
apult,  with  a  jar  that  shakes  the  house 
from  its  foundations.

Dealer—Yes.  You  want  one  that  will 
bring  the  door  all  the  way  to,  and  yet 
do  it gently.

Customer—That’s  the 

idea.  But  I 
don’t  want  any  complicated  arrange­
ment  that  requires  a skilled mechanic  to 
attend  to  it.

Dealer— No,  of  course  not.  You want 
something  simple,  yet  strong  and effect­
ive.

Customer—That’s  the talk.  Something 
that  can  be  put  on  or  taken  off  easily—

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

WILLIAM  REID

Importer and Jobber of

PO LISH E D   PLA TE 

W INDOW  
ORN A M EN TA L

PA IN T

G LASS

O IL.  W HITE  LEAD. 

V A R N ISH E S 
B R U SH ES

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

something  that  will  do  its  work  quietly, 
yet  thoroughly,  and  won’t  be  eternally 
getting  out  of  order.

Dealer— I  see. 

I  know  exactly  what 

you  want,  sir;  just  exactly.

Customer—Well,  show  me  one.
Dealer— We  don’t  keep  do6r  springs.
Good Location for a  Harness Shop.
Pentwater,  Oct. 

i—The  Pentwater 
business  men  would  be  pleased  to  see a 
notice  in  the  Tradesman  calling  atten­
tion  to  the  fact  that  this  is  a  good  loca­
tion  for  a  harness  shop.  AH  of  the 
stores  here  would  favor a  good  shop  of 
this  kind.  I  have  just  talked  the  matter 
over  with  the  Sands  &  Maxwell  Lum­
ber  Co.  and  they  speak  very  favorably 
and  state  that  they  would  cease  buying 
harnesses  of  outside  manufacturers  if 
we  would  do  the  same.

S.  E.  R u s s e l l  &  Co.

When  a  young  man  is  sowing  his wild 
oats,  he  hopes  that  something  will  hap­
pen  to  destroy  the  crop.

W e  have the  largest  and  most  complete stock of Glass and Paint Goods 
in  Western  Michigan.  Estimates  furnished.  All orders filled promptly. 
Distributing  agents  for  Michigan of  Harrison  Bros.  & Co.’s Oil Colors, 
Dry Colors, Mixed  Paints,  Etc.

Air=Tight Stoves

¿Mm

The greatest line  made.  W e are  exclusive agents  for W est­
ern  Michigan.  Write  for  descriptive  circular  and  prices,

FOSTER, STEVENS & CO., Grand Rapids, Mich

V

good  comradeship  and  equal  rights  that 
has  in  it a  thousand  fold  more  promises 
of  real  happiness.  There  must  have 
come  a  day  when  every  goddess  had  to 
climb  down  from  her  pedestal;  but  the 
woman  who  makes  no  pretenses  and  is 
always  just  franky  human  offers  no 
possibilities  of  disenchantment  and 
is  safe  to  keep  the  love  she  wins.
It  is  doubtless  true  that  the  old 

ideal 
that  made  a  woman  merely an  ornament 
in  life  was  the  more  picturesque,  but we 
live  in  a  practical  world,  and  it  was 
bound  sooner  or 
later  to  change,  to 
meet  new  conditions.  For  woman  has 
not  lagged  behind.  She  has  kept  step 
with  progress,  and  after  all  it  is  not  a 
new  womanhood  she  shows  us,  but  a 
new  phase  of  the  old.

Sound  Talk  to  Young  Men.

The  old  man  scorcher  who  philoso­
phizes  for  the  Boston  Transcript  says: 
My  son,  almost  any  man  can  ride  a 
wheel  on  a  level,  and  to  coast  down  hill 
is  as  easy  as  going  to destruction,  but  it 
takes  grit  and  energy  to  push  your  bike 
up  Hill  Difficulty  or  through  the  Slough 
of  Despond.  Better  men  than  you  have 
gone  pellmell  down  the  slope  that  ends 
in  the  gutter  or  the  grave.  When  you 
find  yourself  headed  that  way,  put  on 
the  brake  and  back-pedal  for all  you 
are  worth. 
If  you  find  you  have  lost 
control  of  your  wheel,  swing  off  or tum­
ble  off.  Let  the  wheel  take  care  of  it­
self.  Better  it  should  go  to  smash,  bet­
ter  that  you  bark  your  shin  or break  a 
leg,  than  you  go  to  ruin  altogether.  Be 
moderate.  Don’t  try  to  make  a  century 
run  every  day,  and  end  up  in  the  un­
dertaker’s  squad.  Temper  your  zeal 
with  judgment.  If  the  tires  of  your  life- 
wheels  are  pumped  up  too  tight,  you 
will  find  you have  a  rough road to travel, 
and  will  get  shaken  up tremendously;  if 
-they  are  flabby,  you  will  make  poor 
headway  and  spoil  your  tires.  Keep 
your  bearings  well  lubricated  with  the 
oil  of  diligence  and  perseverance,  and 
see  that  every  nut  is  screwed  home  by 
the  wrench  of  determination.  Always 
keep  to  the  right,  and  so  avoid  collision 
with  the  wrong-doer  and  the  evil-dis 
posed,  and  keep  your  eyes  open  to  see 
danger  and  avoid 
it.  Ring  your bell 
vigorously  when  the  Prince  of  Darkness 
appears  before  you,  that  he  may  flee  be­
fore  you  and  leave  you  a  clear  road  to  a 
correct  living.  Keep  yourself  erect, 
that  men  may  see  that  you  possess  the 
full  stature  of  a  man.  Don’t  run  amuck 
through  temptations,  with  your back  in 
the air  and  your  eyes  between  your feet, 
or  you  will  surely  be  lost.

FOLDING TABLE

Old  Ideals  and  New.
The  process  of  evolution 

is  a  slow 
one,  even  in  these  rapidly  moving  days 
at  the  end  of  the  century,  and  the 
changes  in  our  ideals  are  so  gradual  we 
hardly  realize  them  until  we  have  some 
contrast  that  shows  how  far  we  have 
gone. 
is  this  true  of 
women.  We  have  become  so  used  to  the 
modern  woman,  alert,  capable, 
inde­
pendent,  that  it  is  a  little  surprising  to 
even  the  closest  observer  when  one 
comes  to  realize  how  completely  we 
have  substituted  a  new  ideal  of  woman­
hood  for  the  old.

In  particular 

the 

favorite  giftbooks 

Nothing  brings  this  more 

forcibly 
home  to  us  than  to  contrast  the  pictures 
of  to-day  with  the  pictures  of  yesterday. 
In  the  old  "Albums  of  Beauty’ :  that 
were 
in  our 
mothers’  young 
ladyhood,  the  women 
are  all  represented  as  languishing  be­
ings  with  ox-like  eyes  and  sloping 
shoulders  and  lily-white  hands  that  are 
never  by  any  chance  engaged  in  a  more 
fatiguing  occupation  than  holding  a 
rose  or  straying  over  the  strings  of  a 
guitar.  Helplessness,  weakness  and 
delicacy  are  written  in  every  line,  and 
even  the  most sanguine could never hope 
that  such  a  woman  could  do  anything  in 
an  emergency  but  swoon.

The  artist  of  to-day  pictures  a  woman 
with  bead  erect,  with  square  shoulders 
and  upright  carriage  that  shows  health 
and  strength,  and  with  eyes  that  look 
the  world  squarely 
in  the  face.  Most 
significant  of  all,  she 
is  always  doing 
something. 
Short-skirted,  she  stands 
beside  her  wheel,  or  with  gun  or  rod  or 
mountain  stock  is  ready for exercise that 
would  have  slain  her 
fragile  grand­
mother;  shirt-waisted,  she  sits  beside 
her type  writer  earning  her  daily  bread 
and  butter;  with  sleeves  turned  back 
above  her  elbows  and  faithful  caddie  in 
her  wake,  she  is  making  the  rounds  of 
the  golf 
links,  or  wearing  on  her  arm 
the  red  cross  of  a  ministering angel,  she 
walks  the  hospital  wards  in  the  wake 
of  battle.

The  pictures  tell  their  own 

interest­
ing  story  of  changing  times  and  man­
ners,  but  not  the  least  important  phase 
of  the  subject  is  the  fact  that  we  seem 
to have  founded  new  standards  of  taste, 
all  along  the  line,  by  which  to  judge 
women.  Even  the  question  of  beauty 
has  not  escaped  the  general  evolution ; 
as  a  matter  of  truth,  the  old 
ideal 
of  feminine  comeliness  and  the  new 
ideal  of  feminine  strength  and  helpful­
ness  are  incompatible.  The  woman  of 
the  past  prided  herself  on  an  18-inch' 
waist,  on  fairy-like  feet  and  hands,  and 
kept  her  skin  like  milk  and  roses  by 
means  of  veils  and  complexion  masks. 
It  did  not  take  the  modern  woman 
long 
to  find  out  she  couldn't  have  her  cake 
and  eat  it,  too— that  walking  spread her 
feet;  that  wheeling^ and  golfing  and  ten­
nis  broadened  her  bands,  and  that  she 
couldn't  have  health  and  a  spidery 
waist  at  the  same  time. 
It  was  she 
who  established  a  new  standard  of 
beauty,  and  so  readily  have  we  ac­
cepted  it  that,  could  the  frail  and 
lan 
guisbing  beauty  of  the  past  visit  once 
more  the  scenes  of  her earthly triumphs, 
the  chances  are  she  would  find  herself 
forsaken  for  some  one  whom  she  would 
probably  think  as  vulgarly  robust as  a 
washerwoman.
The  change 

is  equally 
noticeable,  and  there are  those  who  de­
clare  that  chivalry  is  dead.  Probably  no 
woman 
is  a  goddess  now  to  her  lover, 
and  no  man  approaches  her  and  pays 
court  to her as to  some  superior  being, 
but  he  meets  her  on  a frank basis of

in  manners 

Hardware  Price  Current.

~ 

_  „  
AUGURS AND BITS 
Snell’s.........................
Jennings’, genuine  ........................
Jennings’, imitation........
—, 
First Quality, S. B. Bronze...........
First Quality, D. B. Bronze..............
Firat Quality, S. B. S. Steel..............
First Quality, D. B. Steel...........
_   „ 
Railroad.......................

BARROWS 

AXES

BOLTS

 

CAPS

BUCKETS 

CROW  BARS

BUTTS, CAST

Stove ............................
Carriage new list.............................
Plow...............................
„   „ 
Well,  plain............................
n  T 
Cast Loose  Pin, figured......
Wrought Narrow....................
_
BLOCKS 
Ordinary Tackle..................
Cast Steel.
Ely’s  l-io.... 
Hick’s C. F..
G.  D ..............
Musket........
Rim Fire__
Central  Fire.
Socket Firmer... 
Socket Framing. 
Socket Comer... 
Socket Slicks....
DRILLS
„  
Morse’s Bit Stocks..............
Taper and Straight Shank.... 
Morse’s Taper Shank............ .
ELBOWS
Com. 4 piece, 6 in....................
Corrugated..............................
Adjustable...............................

CARTRIDGES

CHISELS

......... 25610
......... 60610
.........   5 00
.........   9 50
.........   5 50
.........   10 50

..  70 to 75

......... $ 3 25
......... 70610
......... 70610
........ 
70
..per lb 
4
66 
..perm  
65 
..perm  
..perm  
35 
..perm  
60
............. 506  6
............ 256 5
80
.........  
80
........... 
............. 
80
80
............. 
............. 
60
.............506 5
..............506  5
doz. net 
50
........ 
1 25
........ dis 40610

EXPANSIVE  BITS
Clark’s small, $18;  large, $26........
Ives’, 1, $18; 2, $24; 3, $30................
FILBS—New  List
New American...............................
Nicholson’s.....................................
Heller’s Horse Rasps......................
GALVANIZED  IRON

Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and 24; 25 and 26;  27. 
List  12 

14 

13 

Discount, 75 to 75-10

15 
GAUGES

16........' 

.30610
25
.70610 
70 
■ 6C610
28
I?

NAILS

KNOBS—New List

Stanley Rule and Level  Ca’s......................60&10
Door, mineral, jap. trim m ings.................. 
70
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings................. 
so
Adze Bye............................. .......$16 00, die  60610
Hunt Eye.....................................$15 00, dis  60610
Hunt’s..........................................$18 50, dis  20610

MATTOCKS

Advance over base, on  both  Steel  and  Wire.

Steel nails, base............................... 
........  1 55
i  go
Wire nails, base......... ................................. 
20to 60advance.........................................  Base
10 to 16 advance.......................................... 
06
8 advance.................................. .'...............  
jo
6 advance.................................................... 
20
4 advance................................. 
 
30
3 advance...................................................  
45
2 advance...................................................  
70
Fine 3 advance..................................... 
go
Casing 10 advance.......................................  
15
Casing  8 advance.......................................  
25
Casing  8 advance.......................................  
36
Finish 10 advance..................................... 
85
Finish  8 advance...................................... 
  35
Finish  6 advance......................................  
45
Barrel % advance....................................... 
85

 

MILLS

PLANES

MOLASSES  OATES

Coffee, Parkers C a’s.................................... 
40
40
Coffee, P. S. 6  W. Mfg. Co.'s  Malleables... 
40
Coffee, Landers, Ferry 6  Clark’s................ 
Coffee, Enterprise........................................  
so
Stebbin’s Pattern.......................................... 60610
Stebbin’s Genuine........................................ 60610
Enterprise, self-measuring......................... 
30
Ohio Tool Co. ’s.  fancy.................................  @50
Sclota Bench................................................ 
60
Sandusky Tool Co.’s,  fancy........................   @50
Bench, first quality.......................................  @50
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s wood............  
60
Fry, Acme...............................................60610610
706 5
Common, polished............................«... 
Iron and Tinned  ........................................ 
60
Copper Rivets and Burs.............................. 
60
“A” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27  10 20 
“B” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 25 to 27  9 20 

PATENT PLANISHBD IRON 

Broken packages He per pound  extra. 

RIVETS

PANS

HAMMBRS

Maydole 6  Co.’s, new  list................................dis as*
Kip’s  ...................................................... dl& 
Terkes 6  Plumb’s............................................. di« 40610
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel................. 30c list 
aisrVn'l*''’« 

on»
HOUSE PURNISHINO GOODS

r>*m* QW 

25
70

HOLLOW  WARE 

Stamped Tin Ware.........................new list 75610
Japanned Tin Ware.....................................20610
Granite Iron Ware........................ new list 40610
Pots..............................................................  6061
K ettles......................................................... 60610
Spiders......................................... 
60610
Gate, Clark’s, 1,2, S................................ dis 60610
State............   .........................per dos. net  2 50

HINGES

'

 

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

23

WIRE  GOODS

WIRE

ROPES

TRAPS

LEVELS

SQUARES

SHBBT IRON

SAND  PAPER
SASH WBIGHTS

$2 40
2 40
2 45
2 65
2 65
2 75
All sheets  No. 18  and  lighter,  over  30  inches 

Bright..........................................................  
so
80
Screw Eyes................................................... 
80
Hook’s........................................................... 
Gate Hooks and Byes.................................. 
80
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s.................dis 
70
Sisal, H Inch and  larger.............................  
ou
i02
Manilla......................................................... 
Steel and Iron.............................................  70610
Try and Bevels  .......................................... 
go
M itre............................................................ 
50
_ 
com. smooth,  com.
Nos. 10 to 14...................................$2 70 
Nos. 15 to 17...................................  2 70 
Nos. 18 to 21...................................  2 80 
Nos. 22 to 24...................................  8 00 
Nos. 25 to 26..................................   3 10 
No.  27.........................................   3 20 
wide not less than 2-10 extra.
List  acct 19, ’86...................................... dis 
50
Solid Eyes........................................per ton 20 00
Steel, Game.............................................. 
60610
Oneida Community, Newhonse’s ......... 
50
Oneida Community, Hawley 6 Norton’s 70610
Mouse, choker........................... per doz 
15
1  25
Mouse, delusion........................ per doz 
Bright Market...............................  
75
Annealed  Market........................................  
75
Coppered  Market........................................ .70610
Tinned Market...........................................   62H
Coppered Spring Steel................................  
50
Barbed  Fence, galvanized.........................  2 05
Barbed  Fence,  painted............................ 
1 75
An Sable..................................................dis 4061C
Putnam..................................................dis 
5
Northwestern..........................................dis 10610
Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled.................... 
30
Coe’s Genuine..............................................  
50
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, w rought...................  80
Coe’s Patent, malleable............................... 
80
Bird  Cages............................................  
50
Pumps, Cistern......................................  
80
Screws, New List...................................  
85
Casters, Bed and  Plate........................... 50610610
Dampers, American............................... 
50
800 pound casks...........................................   gv
Per pound....................................................  
aw
H@H............................................................  12H
The prices of the many other qualities of solder 
in the market indicated by  private  brands  vary 
according to composition.
10x14 IC, Charcoal........................................$ 5 75
14x20 IC, Charcoal......................................   5  Hi
20x14 IX, Charcoal...................... 
7 00

10x14 IC, Charcoal..........7.........................  4  50

Each additional X on this grade, $1.25.

TIN—Allaway Grade

MISCELLANEOUS

14x20 IC, Charcoal.................. 
4  60
10x14 IX, Charcoal.......................................  5  50
14x20 IX, Charcoal......................................   6  50

TIN—Melyn Grade

METALS—Zinc

HORSB NAILS

WRENCHES

Each additional X on this grade, $1.50. 

SOLDER

 

 

 

 

ROOFINO  PLATBS

14x20 IC, Charcoal, Dean.............................   4 50
14x20 IX, Charcoal, D ean............................  5 50
20x28 IC, Charcoal, Dean.............................  9 00
14x20 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade............   4 00
14x20 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade............   5 00
20x281C, Charcoal, Allaway Grade............   8 00
20x28 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade............   10 00
0
14x56 IX, for  No.  8  Boilers, I 
14x56 IX, for No.  9 Boilers, ( *** P°nnd- • • 
8

BOILER  SIZB TIN  PLATB 

,  

TII“

99

SCRUNO RlPNITUrt.

ORANO HAVEN.MICH.

SAVES  THE  WASH. 
SAVES  THE  WASHER.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

24

How

GRADUAL  GROW TH, 
the Banking  Resources  Have 

Been  Increased.

is  making 

The  bank  statements  just  rendered 
showing  the  condition  of  the  banks 
Sept.  20,  are  of  more  than  usual 
inter 
est,  as  they  disclose  the  progress  this 
city 
in  getting  out  of  the 
slough  of  despond.  The  total  loans  and 
discounts carried by the five National and 
four  State  banks  and  the  two  trust  com 
panies  show  a  decrease  of  $435,591,  i 
comparison  with  the  May  5  statements, 
but  they  exceed  all  previous  records 
for  this  season  of  the  year. 
In  round 
numbers  the 
loans  and  discounts  are 
$879,600  ahead  of  one  year  ago  and 
$2,290.000  ahead  of  five  years  ago.  The 
following  will  show  how  they  have 
grown :
National  banks........................................*6,369,581.2.,
State  banks..  ...................................  
2,196,547.90
Trust companies.....................................  
257,688.33

6,843,715.7'

T o ta l..............................................  8,823,817.46
OcL  5,  1S97.....................................  7,944,176.00
Oct.  6,  1S96. 
................................   7,659,163.14
Sept.  2S,  1895..................................  7,787,448.8
Oct.  2,  1S94................................. 
Oct. 3,  1S93........................................6.539,932.2;
The  stocks,  bonds and mortgages show 
an  increase  of  $597,000  over  a  year  ago, 
and  of  this  $567,000  has  been  in  the 
State  banks  and  trust  companies.  As 
compared  with  1893,  these holdings have 
increased  $1,728,000,  or  more  than  100 
per  cent.,and  this  gain  has been almost 
entirely  with  the  State  banks. 
In  five 
years,  for  instance,  the  Kent  bank  has 
increased 
from 
$290,508  and  the  Peoples  from  $109,296 
to  $790,518  and  $692,758,  respectively. 
The  record  is  as  follows :
National  banks 
....................................$  375,230.67
State  banks................................................2,218,794.69
Trust  companies.....................................  
445,260.98

its  security  holdings 

Tot»1- • -  .........................................  3,039,286.34
O c t  5,  1S97.....................................   2,441,829.24
O c t  6,  1S96.....................................  2,054,217.83
Sept.  28,  1S95..................................  2,006,349.26
Oct.  2,  1894.....................................  1,701,466.46
Oct. 3,  1S93.....................................  1,3'»,595-37
The  National  banks  have  increased 
their  Government  bond  holdings  $121,- 
167  since  the  July  14  report,  probably 
the  new  3  per cent.  The  Old  National 
has  added  $58,883  t°  its  holdings and 
the  Fourth  National  $62,283.  The  total 
holdings  are  now $478,097.

The  balances  carried  by  the  banks  in 
other  banks  show  an  increase  of  nearly 
$600,000  over  May  5,  but  the  total  is 
less  than  any  report  except  May  5  since 
May  14,  1897.  The  increase  over  May 
last  is  chiefly  in  the  State  banks.  The 
figures  are:
National  banks....................................... $1,434,670.80
State  banks.............................................   863,640.04
Trust companies.............................  .... 
317,720 00

T o ta l.............................................   2,616,0 io.S4
Oct.  5,  1S97....................................2,S 18-867,50
Oct.  6,  1896....................................   1,S67,S33.61
Sept.  28,  1895..................................  2,483,747-48
Oct.  2,  1894.  ..................................  1 »873,830,54
Oct.  3,  1893.....................................   1,191,796.54
The  cash  on  hand,  or  idle  funds  in 
the  bank  vaults,  is  less  than  at  anytime 
in  the  last  five  years.  There  has  been, 
a  decrease  of  $105,000 since  May  and 
the  showing 
is  still  more  favorable  as 
compared  with  July,  and  $60,600  as 
compared  with  a year ago.  The decrease 
has-been  mostly  in  the  National  banks:
National banks........................................ $  570,827.44
259,393.52
State  banks.............................................. 
Trust  companies.....................................  
27,869.87

 

 

Total  .................................. i .........  
Oct  5,  1897.....................................  

Sept.  28,  1895..................................  
Oct.  2,  1S94.................................... 
Oct. 3,  1893..............  

858,090.84
918,714.98
8S.3.392.94
  872,110.23
1,063,395.36
The  surplus  and  undivided  profits 
accounts  show  how  the  hard  times  hit 
the  banks.  The  banks  are  a  little  bet­
ter  off  now  than  they  were  five  years 
ago,  but  in  that  time  they  have  written 
off  an  immense  amount  in bad debts and 
are  now 
in  pretty  good  condition  for 
future  growth.  The  records  show  that 
the National banks, particularly,  suffered

during  the  depression. 
In  October, 
1893,  they  had  a  surplus  of  $561,186  58 
and  five  years  of  toil  finds  them  with 
less  now  than  they  had  then.  The  sur 
plus  now  is  about  $6,000  less  than  it was 
one  year  ago,  indicating  that  they  are 
still  writing  off,  but  it  is  believed  they 
have  now  struck  bottom.  The  State 
banks  reached  bed  rock 
in  1896,  drop 
ping  from  $166,722.39  in  1893  to  $139. 
567.97,  and  since  then  they  have  been 
steadily  growing  to  the  p.esent  figures 
The  trust  companies  l.ave  not suffered 
anv  setbacks  and 
surplus  has 
grown  from  $84,254  17  in  1894  to  the 
present  figure:
National  banks....................................... $  533,449.24
State  b a n k s .......... . ................................ 
157,498.56
Trust  companies...................................... 
126,875.80

tbrsr 

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

Tributary  hanks 

Total................................................  817,823.60
Oct.  5,  1897...................... ..............   813,483 08
Oct.  6,  1896..................................... 
Sept.  28,  1895..................................  
Oct.  2,  1894..................................... 
P ct-  3,  »S93.....................................  

796,138.
Si2,787.33
74S,654.23
783,75«-»3
in  Western  and 
Northern  Michigan  are  carrying  sub 
stantially 
increased  deposits  here,  a: 
the  following  comparisons  of  bank  de­
posits  will  show:
Sept.  20,  1S9S.............................................*1,303,573.0:
».»73.443-30
R CM *  
Oct.  6,  1S96............................................... 
945,016.59
979.337-57
Sept  28,  1895............................................. 
721,257.42
Oct.  2,  1894................................................ 
410,310.01
O c t  3,  1893................................................ 
The  commercial  deposits  carried  by 
the  National  banks  are  not  as  high  as in 
May or February, while the savings banks 
show  an  increase,  but  the  total  is  high 
er  than  at  any  time  in  October  in  the 
last  four years,  showing more  than a  mil- 
ion  increase  over  October 2.  1894.  The 
record  is :
National  banks......................................... $1,869,051.44
State  banks..............................................   1,401,80446

 

 

 

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

It  has  been 

T o ta l................................................ 3,270,855.90
  2,759,063.59
Oct. 6,  1896....................................  2,293,6S7 28
Sept.  28,  1895................................   2,326,759.23
Oct.  2,  1894.....................................   2,233,088.25
in  the  savings deposits 
and  interest  bearing  certificates  that  the 
greatest  gain  has  been  made,  in  spite 
of  the  hard  times and  the  reduction 
in 
the  interest  rates. 
In  the  four  savings 
banks  the  purely  savings  deposits  have 
ncreased 
in  five  years  from  $1,034,- 
96.54  to  $3,26879211.  Of  this  gain 
$488,016.55  was  made  the  past  year. 
Tbe  certificates  in  the  National  banks 
have  grown  from  $2,055,569.50  to  the 
present  figures  and  in  the  savings banks 
the  certificates 
from 
The  present  figures  are:
National  ban ks........................................$3,239,845.68
State ban ks..............................................  3,622,711.76

savings 

and 

 

r w * 1,-' ’ c .................... 
6,862,557.44
Oct. 6,  1896......................................  5,450,412.23
Sept.  28,  1895.................................... 5.6S5.753-39
2 c* - a>l894- ..................................   4>3'3>»79-'9
Oct  3,1893...................................  3.S3»,874.70
The  total  deposits  show  a  wonderful 
in  five  years  and  the  increase 
growth 
has  been 
in  all  departments—commer­
cial,  savings  and  certificates  and  bank 
deposits.  The  total  deposits  now  are 
greater  than  ever  before  in  the  history 
f  the  city. 
They  show  a  gain  of 
1,500,000  over  one  year  ago,  and 
$5,700,000  in  five  years.  The  total  de­
posits  carried  by  the  National  banks 
lone  now  are  within  $46,000  of  the 
total  deposits  in  all  the  banks  five  years 
aB°.  The 
increase  has  been  by  tbe 
National  and  savings  banks  alike and 
the 
companies  have  nearly 
doubled.  Five  years  ago  the  National 
banks  had  $3,986,871.06  in  deposits  and 
the  savings  banks  and  trust  companies 
together  had  $2,613,473.37.  The  record 
now  is  as  follows :
National  banks....................................  $  6,554,461.08
State  banks............................................  
- 031  925 41
Trust companies................. ....... 732,Ï3C43

trust 

Total   
831' 

......................................  12,318,531.92
lo.Wo.5*S^8

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

8 3 . Î l a : : : ; ; : : ; ; : : : :   - : ; ; . ; .

Hides,  Pelts,  fallow, and  Wool.
Hides  show  no  change  in  supply  or 
demand.  Packers  control  the  situation. 
There  is  not  enough  country  take  off  to 
cut  any  figure.  Calf  and  kip  are  a shade 
easier but  are  still  at  high  values.

Pelts  are  sought  after,  but  are  gen­

erally  scarce.
is 

Tallow 

slight  advance.

in  more  demand,  with  a 

Wool  is  firm  at  old  prices,  with  more 
enquiry,  but  sales  do ¡not  show  up  any 
greater.  Old  stocks  are  well  used  up 
and  new  orders  come  from  the  Govern­
ment  and  more  are  advertised.  The 
manufacturer  who  takes  an  order  must 
buy  wool  to  fill 
it  with.  Tbe  heavy 
weight  season  is  close  at  band  and  the 
patient  waiting  of  holders  is  likely  to 
be  rewarded 
in  the  near  future,  but 
prices  are  not  likely  to  change  immedi­
ately.  Large  blocks  of  foreign  are  be­
ing  returned  to  London.

Wm.  T.  Hess.

The  trouble  with  a  great  many  young 
men  is  they  don't  like to  work  between 
meals.

WANTS  COLUMN.

Advertisements  will  be  inserted  under this 
bend for two cents a word  the  first  insertion 
and one cent a word  for  each  subsequent in­
sertion.  No advertisements taken for less than 
>5 cents.  Advance payment.

BUSINESS  CHANCES.

75

Cobbs. Rome City,  Ind 

in  notes  and  judgments  Address  H.  G. 

i pOB  SALE OR EXCHANGE—$5,000 TO $10,000 
Ir»OR  SALE  FOR  OAi-H  ON  ACCOUNT  OF 

111 Heal'h—$4,500 stock of general merchan 
dise;  new  stock;  ca«h  trade  last  year  $18,500 
will bear  inspection.  Address  Box  231,  Swaz- 
zee, Ind. 
7 4
A  SPLENDID  FARM  OF  240 ACRES TO EX 
change  for  stock  of  goods.  Address  Box
13  , Custer. M>cb
723
■ O RENT IN MENDON,  ST.  JOSEPH  COUN 
ty, Mich —One  or  two  large  brick  stores ir 
Ij'OK SALE—HALF INTEREST IN A WHOLE 
sale  butter «nd  egg  business.  Enquire  01 
write  to  E  N.  Pettet,  98  Sou’h  Division  St. 
Graod Rapids. 
Drug stork f o r   sa le  a t  a  b a rg a in
Address  No. 
’20, care to ichigan T  adesman.
720
TO  HOTEL  MEN—BUY  THE  FURNITURE 
and secure the lease of a good h.tel in North­
ern  Michigan.  A  splendid  chance;  will  bear 
investigation.  Address Baxter,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman. 

Opera  HouceBto> k.  Write to Levi Cole. 

or  will  consi 1er good  deal.

722

721

7^

^ 

717

718

_____  

I  HAVE  SMALL  STOCK  OF  DRUGS  AND 

fixtures in  Ionia,  taken  on  mortgage.  Will 
sell cheap for cash or trade  for  productive  Teal 
estate.  Answer  immediately.  Will  sell  soon 
W. W. Hunt, Under  National City  Bank, Grand 
Rapid-. 
707
H o tel  fo r  s a l e  o r  r e n t —t h r e e -
su»ry  building.  For  particulars  address 
Jonn Lenhard. Clarksville. Mich. 
Fo r sa l e o r r e n t- _______________
STORE AND DWRLL-
ing combined, at McCo-d Stationen  b"
- • ------- '° rd Station, on  D ,  G.
i n f r . ,  
& w. Ra lroad;  good well  in  house,  ci  tern, 
new horse barn,  etc.  Store  finished  ready  for 
goods.
An excellent point for business.  Price, 
$500—a  bargain.
Address  Dr.  L.  E.  Haskin,
McCord. Mich
714
W R 8ALE OR KENT
COMFORTABLE NINE
room house and barn at 44 Pleasant avenue 
oppos t* beautiful »¿rove.  Good  cellar.  Filter 
cistern.  Will sell cheap on  easy  terms or  rent 
for $10 per mouth until spring.  N. G. Ri' hards, 
24 Kellogg S t, Grand Rapids. 
8ALE—CLEAN STOCK OF DRY GOODS, 
clothing,  boo s  and  shoes,  hats  and  caps 
and men’s furnishing goods and gr< cerles, well- 
adapted  frame  store  building  and  convenient 
residence, well located  in  a  thriving  Northern 
Michigan  town.  Sales  aggregate  $10,000  per 
year, practically all cash  transactions.  No  old 
stock.  No book  accounts.  Reason  for eel ing 
__ =_________
ill  health. 
Investigation  solicited.  Address 
No 709, care Michigan Tradesman.
709
W
— 8HUR8,  CLO TH IN G .  DRY
goods. Address R. B., Box 351, Montagne, 
Mich.
699
FOR SALE—CLEAN GENERAL STOCK AND 
store bu lding in small town surrounded  by 
excellent farming and  fruit  country  less  than 
fifty miles  from  Grand  Rapid'.  Go^d  reasons 
for selling.  Inspection soli  ited.  Tt*rm*reason- 
aWe.  Address  for  particulars  No.  691  care 
Michigan Tradesman. 
J j^ R ,  SALK—NEW  GENERAL  STOCK.  A
splendid farming country.  No trad, s.  Ad- 
dress No. 6*0, care Michigan Tradesman 

fjV)R SALE—A  FINE  SELECTED  STOCK OF 

shoes, rubbers, etc.;  best town in the  State; 
stock Al;  lew rent;  splendid opening.  Reason 
for  selling,  other  business.  Address  Box  96, 
Fenton  Mich. 
’
P B N  I’RALLY  LOCATED DRUG  STORE,  DO- 
ing a  good  business  in  the  city,  for  sale. 
9   a  £r,ason8  for  selling.  Address  I.  Frank- 
  Rjre  Insurance  and  Real  Estate  Agent, 
»
Phone  1236,  53  West  Bridge  Street,  Grand
Rapids.
676

680

59

FOR  SALE—DRUG,  BOOK  AND  STATION- 
ery  stock,  invoicing  $4.500,  and  fixtures 
invoicing $390,  which include show cases, shelv­
ing  and  bottles.  Dailv  cash  sales  in  1891,  *2  ; 
>92. $30;  1893. *31;  1894, *31.65;  1895,  *45;  1896, 
$21.20, and 1897, *24.13  Located In manufactur­
ing town.  No cut prices.  Rent reasonable, $29 
per mouth.  Living rooms in connection.  Ad- 
dress N*>. 668, care Michigan Tradesman.  668
FOR SALE—FURNITURE AND UNDERTAK- 
ing business  in the  most enterprising  town 
in Southwestern Michigan,  Best location in the 
city.  Address No. 673,  care  Michigan  Trades­
673
man, for particulars. 
Best  location  in  Mic h ig a n  f o r   a
cold  storage  and  general  produce  dealer. 
Write to the  Secretary  of the  Otsego  Improve­
631
ment Association, Otsego, Mich. 
Mer c h a n ts—do you w ish cash  q u ic k
TO 
1X>  EXCHANGE —FARMS  AND  OTHER 

n Tradesman. 
.  property for dry  goods, clothing and  shoes. 
Address P.  Meda.ie.  Mancelona. Mich. 
553

EXCHANGE—FOR  CLOTHING,  DRY 
goods or shoes, very nice  well rented Graud 
gi
Rapids property.  Address No.  553, care  Mi. hi- 

of it?  Address John A. Wade, Cadillac, Mien.
628

for your stock of merchandise,  or any  part 

552

COUNTRY  PRODUCE

try;  any  quantities.  Write  me.  Orrln  J.

W ANTED—BUTTER,  EGGS  AND  POÜL- 
Stone, Kalamazoo, Mich.
W ANTED — FIRST-CLASS
Canlkett & Co., Traverse City, Mich. 
WANTED—1.000  CASES 
daily.  Write  for  prices. 
Ithaca,  Mich.

BUTTER  FOR
retail trade.  Cash paid.  Correspond with
381

FRESH  EGGS, 
F.  W.  Brown, 

___ , ___   ____spond

556

FIREPROOF  SAFES

Geo. m. sm it h ,  n ew   a n d  seco n d h a n d 

safes,  wood  and  brick  building mover, 157 
Ottawa street. Grand Rapids. 
«13
HAY AND OATS

For s a l e—w e w ish y o u r o r d e r s  and 
are in  a position  to  make  you  satisfactory 
prices  Please write us.  Michigan Produce Co., 
shippers and wholesale  dealers,  Lansing.  Mich. 
716
____________ 

MISCELLANEOUS.

W a n te d—situ a tio n 
in   a  c lo th in g
or general  store  by  an  A No.  I  salesman. 
Add-ess No. 685, care Michigan Tradesman.  685
WANTED  -ITUATION  AS  MANAGER  OF 
a general store by a competent and  exper 
ienced man.  Best of  references  Address  J., 
694
care Michigan Tradesman. 

“Tl)e  Floor  fíje  §est 

Coofyi  Use”

And U)e kind ^on oagfyt to £ett.

J t

Piade ontg 

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V a l l e y   Q t%  
Ailling Co.

Grand Rapid1}, Plici).

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Travelers’  Time  Tables.

M   A  M K T F F   4  Northeaster« Ry.
* * " i t *  ^  ^   »  Jw I-d  Best route to Manistee.

CHICAGO

Chicago.

Lv.  Q. Rapids............   7:30am  12:00am *11:45pm
Ar  Chicago...............   2:10pm  9:15pm  7:2>am
Lv. Chicago. •  11:15am  6:50am  4:15pm *ll:50pm 
Ar. G’d Rapids 5:00pm  1:25pm  10:30pm * 6:20am 
Traverse  City,  Charlevoix and  Petoskey.
Lv. G’d  Rapids.............7:30am  8:05am  5:30pm
Parlor cars on day trains and sleeping cars on 
night trains to and from Chicago

♦Every  day. 

Others week days only.

n F T D H l T   0rand Rapids & Western. 
" C   I  K U *   I  % 

Sept.25, 1898.

Detroit.

Lv. Grand  Rapids........7:00am  1:35pm  5:35pc
Ar  Detroit..................   11:40am  5:45pm  10:05pir
Lv  Detroit....................8:00am  1:10pm  6:10pm
ir.  Grand  Rapids.......12:55pm  5:20pm  10:55pm

Saginaw, Alma and  Greenville.

Lv. «  R 7:00am 5:10pm  Ar. G B 11:45am  9:30r>" 
Parlor cars on all trains  to  and  from  Detroit 
and Saginaw.  Trains run week days only.

Gbo.  D e Ha v e n .  General Pass. Agent

GRAND Trask Railway System

Detroit and Milwaukee Dlv

Via  C.  &   W.  M.  Railway.

Lv Grand Rapids............................... 7:00am ............
A r  Manistee......................................12:05pm ............
Lv  Manistee.....................................  8:30am 4:10pm
A r Grand  Rapids  .........................   1:00pm  9:55pm

TRAVEL

VIA

F.  A  P.  M.  R.  R.

A N D   S T E A M S H IP   L IN g S  

T O   A L L   P O IN T S   IN   M IO H IG A N  

.

H.  F.  MOELLER,  a .  g .  p .  a .

®®®®®@®®®®®®®®@®GO®®®®®®

Fall  W eddings^

Are now on tap.  We  make 
a specialty of wedding invita­
tions,  both  printed  and  en­
graved on copper, and cheer­
fully  submit  samples  and 
quote prices  on  application.
TRADESMAN  COMPANY

GRAND RAPIDS.

H oliday  G oods

afford  BIG  PRO FITS 
if you  buy from  us.

“T

FRANKE  BROS.,  Muskegon,  Michigan.

Jobbers in Druggists’  and  Grocers’Sundries,  Pishing 
Tackle,  Sporting Goods, Notions, Toys, Etc.

I.  A .  M URPH Y, General Manager.

Die  n a o   jnercaqllle  ta c a

FLO W ERS,  M A Y   &  M O LO N EY, Counsel.

Special  Reports.

Law  and  Collections.

Represented in every city and county in the United States and Canada.

Main  Office:  Room  noa  Majestic  Building,  Detroit,  Mich.

Personal service given all claims.  Judgments obtained  without expense to subscribers

©S®®©®®©®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®:»®®®®®®®:

I  Four  Kinds of Coupon  Books

are manufactured by us and all  sold on the same hasis, irrespective 
of  size,  shape  or  denomination.  Free  samples  on  application.

TRADESMAN  COMPANY,  Grand  Rapids,  flich.

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ROWLAND  COX,

Complainants  Solicitor

S.  D.  OLIPHANT,

C leri

(In effect May 15,1898 )

EAST. 

Leave. 
Arrive,
t  6:45am  Sag.,  Detroit, Buffalo i N Y . t  9:55pm
tl0:10am......... Detroit  and  East......... t 5:27pm
t  3:20pm.-Sag.,  Dei., N.  Y.  &  Boston..tl2:45pm
* 8:00pm...Detroit. East and Canada...* 6:35am
tl0:45am........  Mixed to Durand..........13:15pm
* 8:35am....Gd. Haven  and  lu t Pts....* 7:05om 
tl2:53pm.Gd. Haven  and Intermediate.t 3:12pm 
t  5:32pm..Gd. Haven and Intermediate.tlO:05am
* 7:40pm...Gd. Haven and Chicago.....   8:15am
tl0:00pm........Gd. Haven  and MU..........  6:40am
Eastward-^No. 16 has Wagner parlor car.  Ho. 
22  parlor  car.  Westward—No  11  parlor  car. 
Ho. 17 Wagner parlor car.
^♦Daily. 
tExcept Sunday.

WEST

E. H. Hu«hbb, A. G. P. A T. A.
Bkn. Flbtchbb, Trav. Pass. Agt., 
C. A.  J u stin,  City  Pass.  Agent.
97 Monroe St.  Morton House.

f i n   A  |L J |\  Rapids  k   Indiana Railway
v l l v / a l  V1 /  

Sept. 35. 1898.

Northern Dlv.  Leave  Arrive 
Trav.C’y,Petoskey & Mack...* 7:45am t 5:15pm 
Trav. C’y, Petoskey A Har. S ..t 2:15pm *10:00pm
Cadillac accommodation........+ 6:25pm tlO :55am
Petoskey & Mackinaw City— tl':00pm  t  6:25pm 
7:45am and 2:15pm  trains  have  parlor  cars; 
11:03pm train has sleeping car.
Southern  Dlv.  Leave  Arrive
Cineinnatl......   ......................17:10am t  9:45pm
Richmond 
............................t  2:10pm t  2:00pm
Cincinnati............................................*10:15pm * 7:10am
For Vicksburg and Chicago..*11:00pm *  9:10am 
7:10  am  train  has  parlor  oar  to  Cincinnati 
and  parlor  car  to  Chicago;  2:10pm  train  has 
parlor  car  to  Richmond;  10:15pm  train  has 
sleeping cars to Cincinnati,  and  on  Sept.  27-29, 
Oct. 2, 5, 9,12 and 16 to Indianapolis, Louisville, 
and St.  Louis.  11:00pm train has sleeping car to 
Chicago.

Chicago Trains.

TO CHICAGO.

TO O K  CHICAGO.

Lv. Grand Rapids...  7 10am  2  10pm  *11 00pm
Ar. Chicago......... -..  2 00pm  9  10pm 
6 25am
Lv. Chicago............................   3 02pm  *11 45pm
Ar. Grand Rapids...................   9 45pm 
7 10am
Train leaving Grand Rapids 7:10am has parlor 
car;  11:00pm, coach and sleeping car.
Train leaving Chicago 3:02pm has  parlor car; 
11:45pm, sleeping car.

Muskegon Trains.

GOING W E ST.

CKHHO B A ST.

tExcept Sunday.  *DaUy.

LvG’d Rapids.............*7:35am  *1:00pm  *5:40pm
Ar Muskegon..............  9:00am  2:10pm  7:06pm
Lv Muskegon............. *8:10am *11:45am  *4:00pm
Ar G’d Rapids.............9:30am  12:55pm  5:20pm
Sunday trains leave  Grand  Rapids  9.00  a.  m. 
and 7.00 p. m.  Leave  Muskegon  8.35  a.  m.  and 
7.15 p. m.

DULUTH 5011111 Sk0K aadAttentic

C.  L.  LOCKWOOD, 
W. C. BLAKE, 

Gen’l Passr. and Ticket Agent. 
Ticket Agent Union Station.

W EST  BOU N D.

Lv. Grand Rapids (G. R. A I.)til:10pm  t7:45am
Lv. Mackinaw City.................  7:35am  4:20pm
Ar. St. Ignace.........................   9:00am  5:20pm
Ar. Sault Ste. Marie................  19:90pm  9:50pm
Ar. Marquette......................     2:50pm  10:40pm
Ar. Nestorla............................  5:20pm  12:45am
Ar. Duluth.............................................   8:30am

BAST  BOUND.

Lv. Duluth............................................. 
t6:30pm
Ar. Nestorla...........................til :15am  2:45am
Ar. Marquette.......................   1:30pm  4:30am
Lv. Sault Ste. Marie..............  
Ar. Mackinaw City...............  8:40pm  11:00am
G. W. Hib babd, Gen. Pass. Agt. Marquette. 
E. C. Oviatt, Trav. Pass. Agt., Grand Rapids

3:30pm

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jof  tl)f  tin ta   ótales  of Omerico,

Greeting ;

To

H E N R Y   K O C H ,   your  o l e f f k s ,   attorneys,  ager „ j, 
s a l e s m e n   and  workmen,  and  all  claiming  or 
holding  through  or  nnder  you.

to le te a s , it  has  been  represented  to  us  in  our  Circuit  Court  of  the  United  States  for  the  District  of

New  Jersey,  in  the  Third  Circuit,  on  the  part  of  the  ENOCH  MORGAN’S  SONS  COMPANY,  Complainant,  that 
it  has  lately  exhibited  its  said  Bill  of  Complaint  in  our  said  Circuit  Court  of  the  United  States  for  the  District 
of  New  Jersey,  against  you,  the  said  HENRY  KOCH,  Defendant,  to  be  relieved  touching  the  matters  therein 
complained  of,  and  that  the  said

ENOCH  MORGAN’S  SONS  COMPANY,

Complainant,  is  entitled  to  the  exclusive  use  of  the  designation  “ SAPOLIO”  as  a  trade-mark  for  scouring  soap,

we  do  strictly  command  and  perpetually  enjoin  you,  the  said  HENRY
KOCH,  your  clerks,  attorneys,  agents,  salesmen  and  workmen,  and  all  claiming  or  holding  through  or  under  you, 
¡J^J^^J^^h^jpain^^an^jjenalties^jvhich^jnaj^^al^^go^jrou^jirid^eacl^^f^^ou 
case  of  disobedience,  that  you  do 
absolutely  desist  and  refrain  from  in  any  manner  unlawfully  using  the  word  “ SAPOLIO,”  or  any  word  or  words 
substantially  similar  thereto  in  sound  or  appearance,  in  connection  with  the  manufacture  or  sale  of  any  scouring 
soap  not  made  or  produced  by  or  for  the  Complainant,  and  from  directly,  or  indirectly,

By  word  of  month  or  otherwise,  selling  or  delivering  as 

“ SAPOLIO,”  or  when  “SAPOLIO”  is  asked  for,

that  which  is  not  Complainant’s  said  manufacture,  and  from 
false  or  misleading  manner.

:n  any  way  using  the  word  “ SAPOLIO"  in  any 

SKfflwss,

[seal]

The  honorable  Melville  W.  F uller,  Chief  Justice  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  the 
United  States  of  America,  at  the  City  of  Trenton, 
in  said  District  of  New 
Jersey,  this  16th  day  of  December, 
in  the  year  of  our  Lord,  one  thousand, 
eight  hundred  and  ninety-two.

[signed]

Would  our  customers  abandon  the 
Money  Weight System  and  go  back, to 
old pound  and  ounce  methods.

There  Must  be  Some  Good  Reasons for 

This.  W hat  Are  They?
i st.  Our Government’s standard 
of weights  and  standard  of  money 
conflict.

2nd.  Our  Money Weight System has 

united  the two systems.

3rd.  They avoid  mistakes in cal­

culation.

4th.  They  prevent  overweight.
5th.  They insure you a profit  on 
every ounce  of goods  retailed  from 
your store.

6th.  They are pronounced a suc­
cess  by  nearly  50,000  merchants  in 
.  the  United  States and  Canada.
For full  informatiori  address

The  Computing  Scale  Co.,

Dayton.  Ohio.

Sepoili

An  Announcement

T T T

* 3

The  manufacturers  of  Enameline,  the  Modern 
Stove  Polish,  inform  the  retail  grocers  of  the 
United  States  that  on  and  after  Sept.  1,  1898, 
they  will  manufacture  Enameline  in  paste, 
cake  and  liquid.

iSULSULSLSULSLASUiSULSiSLSLSLSiSlJiSLSUiSLSlJtJi5L3LAIlSLiLSLJLSLSLA.SLA.kAA SL iSLSJL,

Enameline stovepoush
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PASTE» CAKE or LIQUID

» T m n m n n n n n n n m n n n n n m n n r^ ^

W e  want  A L L   your  Stove  Polish  trade. 
In 
our  new  “ Enameline  Cake”  and  “ Enameline 
Liquid”   we  give  the  largest  quantities,  best 
quality  and  lowest  prices  ever  offered. 
If 
you  are  doing  business  for  profit  it  will  pay 
you  to  handle  our  whole  line.

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J.  L.  PRESCOTT  &  CO.,  New  York.  5  
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should  commend  them  to  the  up-to-date  grocer. 
They  never  become  stale,  for  even  the  very  old­
est  of  them,  by  a  little  warming up,  become  as 
crisp  as  at  first.  This  isn’t  possible  in  ordinary 
crackers,  and  it’s  by using  none  but  the choicest 
selected  ingredients,  and  being  mixed  and baked 
in  the  improved  way, 
that  the  SEYM OU R 
Cracker  retains  its  hold  upon  the  buyers  of pure 
Always  FRESH,  WHOLESOME, 
food  products. 
NUTRITIVE.  Has absorbing qualities far in excess 
of  all  other crackers. 
Is  asked  for  most  by  par­
ticular  people,  and hence brings the most accept­
able  class of customers  to  whoever  sells  it.

Can you afford  to  be  without  it?

Made only  by

National  Biscuit Company

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

