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IM PO R TAN T  FEA TU R ES-

W indow  Trim m ing.
Around  the  State.
Grand  Rapids  Gossip.
W h- re There’s a W ill There’s a  W ay. 
Editorial.
W ork  o f The  Year.
Clothing.
Censor Wanted.
The  Lock  C ity.
The  K ind  ot  Advertising  T hat  Palls. 
Took  Him   A t  His  Word.
The  Tourist  Trade.
Shoes.
Man  W ith  The  M usket.
Woman’s  World.
O riginal  Methods.
B atter and Eggs.
Japanese  In  War.
National  Optimism.
Hardware Price Current.
D ry  G oods
Commercial  Travelers.
Drags—Chemicals.
D rug  Price Current.
G ro ce ry P r ic e   C u rren t.
S p ecia l P r ic e  C u rren t.
New York M arket.

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POPULAR  DELUSIONS.

That  the  only men  who  really  work 
are  those  who  work  with  their hands.
That  all  unmarried  women  above 
30  years  of  age  hail  the  coming  of 
Leap  Year  joyously.

That  only  those  who  began  life by 
working  for  somebody  at  $25  a  year 
win  ultimate  wealth.

That  because  a  man’s  wants  are 
few  there  is  no  reason  why  he  should 
earn  more  than  $1.50  a  day.

That  a  three-hundred  dollar  piano 
looks  well  in  a  room  carpeted  at  a 
cost  of  60  cents  a  yard.

That  only  those  are  bigots  who 
fail  to  see  things  in  the  same  light 
that  you  utilize.

That  a  crush  hat  and  a  cape-coat 
covering  a  spike-tail  coat  and  a  low 
cut  vest  are  worn  only  by  gentlemen.
That  all  plumbers  are  thieves  and 
that  frozen  water  pipes  and  wrecked 
water  backs  are  their  sole  delight.

That  the  only  really  successful po­
litical  workers  are  those  who  occupy 
seats  upon  the  speakers’  platform.

That  Leap  Year  frightens  all  bach­
elors  e’en-a-most  to  death,  good  luck 
to  ’em.

That  all  traveling  salesmen  who are 
successful  would  fail  in  any  other oc­
cupation.

That  any  principle  of  law,  justice 
or  humanity  authorizes  one  man  to 
dictate  as  to  another  man’s  work.

That  the  influence  of  any  one  or

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G r a n d   Ra p i d s ,M ic h ig a n

GRAND  RAPIDS.  WEDNESDAY,  FEBRUARY  17,  1904

Number 1065

all  members  of  any  “Smart  Set”  on 
earth  has  any  force  except  in  the  di­
rection  of  vanity,  selfishness  and  de­
generacy.

That  there  are  any  qualities  more 
helpful  to  the  general  welfare  than 
those  of  rectitude,  kindness,  gener­
osity,  industry  and  thrift.
A  DIVERSION  MOST  TIMELY.
It  will  be  well,  in  the  light  of  East 
Indian  history  of  the  past  century, 
to  bear  in  mind  that  Corea,  Seoul, 
the  Yalu  River,  Port  Arthur  and  so 
on  are  modern  topics  of 
interest, 
compared  to  “The  Ride  to  Khiva” 
and  the  variously  established  bound­
ary  lines  separating  Russia  from  In­
dia,  Afghanistan and  Persia.  Sevasto­
pol  is  not  yet  forgotten  and 
the 
Bosphorus  is  still  a  closed  channel, 
so  far  as  Russia  is  concerned.

Great  Britain  requires  a  concession 
of  time  to  strengthen  her  position in 
Asia  and,  by  the  way,  the  recently 
acquired  United  States  possessions 
in  the  Orient  came  so  unexpectedly, 
so  spontaneously 
that  Uncle 
Sam  will  appreciate  an  opportunity 
to  catch  his  breath.  Accordingly the 
present  little  diversion  at  the  head 
of  the  Yellow  Sea  is  really  opportune 
and  thus  far  the  Mikado’s  men  seem 
to  enjoy  themselves.

like, 

The  present  trouble  means  much 
more  than  is  comprehended  by  the 
frozen-in  port  of  Vladivostock,  much 
more  than  the  “Bear’s”  completion 
of  the  railroad  across  the  Asiatic 
continent,  much  more  than  the  in­
tegrity  of  Corea  and  China,  much 
more  than  the  perpetuity  of  Japan 
as  a  nation.  It  means  that  personal 
liberty,  right  living  and  the  world’s 
welfare  are  at  stake  and  that 
the 
Czar  of  all 
the  Russias  must  be 
brought  to  a  full  appreciation  of  the 
situation.

animated 

Ships  coming  into  New  York  har­
bor  during  the  past  two  weeks  have 
resembled 
icebergs.  So 
much  ice  formed  about  the  super­
structure  that  vessels  were  rendered 
top-heavy,  while  the  hulls  became so 
thickly  encased  that  the  draught  of 
water  was  increased  to  the  extent  of 
several  feet.  Sailors  have  endured 
great  suffering  in  the  performance of 
their  duties.  Passengers  coming from 
the  South  and  emerging  suddenly 
from  the  warmth  of  the  Gulf  Stream 
land  in  New  York  in  a  shivering  con­
dition.

it 

this 

Tea  is  peculiar  in 

respect, 
namely,  that  the  taste  for  it  is  an 
acquired  one,  and  therefore 
is 
dangerous  to  experiment  with  the 
sorts  which  time  has  proved  to  have 
suited  the  dealer’s  patrons.  The  kind 
that  one  has  become  accustomed  to 
is  the  kind  that  one  likes  best,  and 
it  is  difficult  to  wean  one  away  from 
that  sort  of  tea  unless  it  is  done 
very  gradually  and  secretly.

New  Prices  on  Rubber  Shoes.
The  event  of  the  past  week  was 
the  announcement  of  prices  for  the 
coming  year  by  the  United  States 
Rubber  Co.,  which  was  made prompt­
ly  on  February  I  as  promised.  The 
new  discounts  are  30,  5  and  3  per 
cent,  for  first  grades,  30,  10,  5  and  3 
for  second  grades.  This  is  a  change 
of  5  per  cent,  in  the  first  discount, 
which  was  35  per  cent,  last  year,  the 
other  discounts  being  the  same.  The 
change  makes  an  advance  on 
the 
net  prices  of  very  nearly  13^2  per 
cent,  over  the  figures  for  last  year, 
and  a  little  less  than  7l/2  per  cent, 
over  the  prices  ruling  since  June  1.
The  prices  announced  hold  good 
until  June  1,  and  from  June  1  to 
November  30  the  second  5  per  cent, 
discount  is  dropped,  making  the  rate 
30  and  3  per  cent,  for  first  grades 
and  30,  10  and  3  per  cent,  for  sec­
ond  grades.  This  is  practically  the 
same  arrangement  that  was  in  force 
last  year  and  is  the  special  induce­
ment  for  early  orders.  The  usual 
deferential  discount  of  5  per  cent, 
extra  is  allowed  on  the  Woonsocket 
and  the  Meyer  Rubber  Co.  brands.

lining 

jobbers’  selling  prices 

The  only  change  in  the  gross  price 
lists  refers  to  the  goods  packed  in 
cartons,  and  on  these  there  is  an  ad­
vance  of  1  cent  a  pair  all  through. 
There  is  also  an  extra  charge  for 
fleece 
in  men’s  Hurons,  or 
buckled  lumbermen’s  lines,  which  is 
increased  from  5  to  10  cents  per pair. 
The  policy  which  was  adopted  last 
year  of  doing  away  with  the  restric­
tions  on 
is 
continued  for  the  coming  year.  This, 
it  will  be  remembered,  caused  con­
siderable  alarm  last  year,  as  it  was 
predicted  that  there  would  be  a 
campaign  of  disastrous  price  cutting 
if  the  jobbers  were  not  held  to  a 
rigid  account  in  their  contracts  with 
the  companies.  As  it 
turned  out, 
however,  the  complaints  about  price 
cutting  were  less  during  the  past  year 
than  for  the  previous  seasons,  when 
the  companies  undertook  to  control 
the  prices  for  the  jobbers  by  con­
tract  stipulations.

All  parts  of  the  salmon  are  not 
equally  valuable,  and  it  is  very  prob­
able  that  consumers  would  be  willing 
to  pay  a  higher  price  for  select  parts 
of  salmon  canned  under  special  la­
bels.  The  belly  pieces  of  the  fish are 
surely  richer  and  more  tender  and 
better  flavored  than 
scrawnier 
and  drier  parts  near  the  tail,  or  even 
superior  to  the  shoulder  parts,  and 
if  the  belly  parts  were  put  into  cans 
by  themselves  the  average  consumer 
might  be willing to pay a  high enough 
price  for  the  selections  to  warrant 
the  canners  in  packing  them.

the 

Recommend  stewed  canned  toma­
toes  to  consumers  who  are  troubled 
with  indigestion  or  sluggish  liver.

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Window 
T r im m in g

Valentine  Display  Compassable  by 

Any  Country  Merchant.

“Vanity,  vanity,  all  is  vanity!”
Did  the  author  of  the  above  quo­
tation  live  in  this  Year  of  our  Lord, 
nineteen  hundred  and  four,  and  were 
he  to  have  taken  a  meander  up  and 
down  the  principal  streets  of 
the 
Furniture  City  last  Sunday,  he  would 
certainly  have 
the 
aphorism  in  this  wise:

paraphrased 

“Valentines,  valentines,  all  is  val­

entines!”

For,  turn  whichever  way  he  might,  I 
the  pedestrian  was  confronted  with  j 
the  very  evident  fact  that  the  patron j 
saint  of  the  Fourteenth  Day  of  Feb- j 
ruary  was  abroad  in  the  land  with his I 
bow  and  quiver,  his  thousands  of j 
verses  expressive  of  the  most  ardent' 
passion,  the  sincerest,  the  undyingest 
of  love— if  there  be  a  superlative  de-; 
gree  of  the  last-used  adjective!

*  *  *

There  is  a  small  maiden  I  know, 
about  the  age  of 4,  a  quaint,  old-fash­
ioned  little  body,  who,  when  asked 
to  bestow  upon  a  tinier  member  of 
the household  the  remnant  of a tooth­
some  morsel  she  was  causing  rapidly 
to  disappear  down  her  oesophagus 
with  great  apparent  delight,  replied, 
as  soon  as  the  condition  of her mouth j 
would  permit:

“There  ain’t  agoin’  ter  be  any  left 
— there  ain’t  agoin’  ter  be  the  shad- | 
ow  of  a  spot  left!”
♦  

♦  

♦

And  by  analogy  I  am 

reminded 
that  no  one  believes  all  this  extrav­
re­
agantly-expressed  devotion— the 
the 
cipient  well  understands  that 
the 
sentiment  which 
valentines 
breathe  is  not  true  by 
the  merest 
“shadow  of  a  spot”— and  yet— and 
yet— what  heart  is  not  touched,  no 
matter  how  old  or  unused  to  exhibi­
tions  of  tenderness,  by  the  arrival, 
from 
some  mysterious  unknown 
source,  of  exaggerated  verses  deal­
ing  with  the  spark  divine!

And  so,  each  year,  the  store  win­
dows  are  full  to  overflowing  with 
samples  of  the  tender  missives,  in­
tended  to 
the  beholder  to 
part  with  his  money 
in  amounts 
varying  from  “ic  up  to  $3,”  as  a 
large  white  placard  announced 
in 
one  Monroe  street  window.

tempt 

stores  displayed 

Time  was  when  only 

legitimate 
stationery 
these 
wiles  of  Cupid,  but  nowadays,  as the 
memorable  Fourteenth  of Feb. draws 
nigh,  all  sorts  and  conditions  of  es­

tablishments  make  use  of  these  sym­
bols  of  love  for  advertising  purposes. 
But  especially  is  this  true  of  the  dry j 
goods,  candy  and  department  stores. 
Hardly  one  of the three kinds named | 
but  has  a  window  devoted  in  whole 
or  in  part  to  these  machinations  o f ! 
the  jolly  old  saint.
In  place  of  the 

fine  exhibit  of 
books  in  one  of  the  large  windows | 
of  the  Boston  Store,  on  which  I com­
mented  last  week— one  of  the  finest, 
in  some  respects,  that  the  writer  has 
ever  seen  in  Grand  Rapids  establish­
ments,  either  department  or  exclu­
sive  book  stores— was  an  elaborately- I 
arranged  display  of  valentines;  val­
entines  big  and  little,  expensive  and 
otherwise.  Here  it  was  that 
the 
price  card,  “ic  up  to  $3,”  was  ob­
served.  They  were  all  very  pretty, 
but  the  separate  samples  were  not 
priced.

The  writer  saw  many  for  which 
he  might  be  induced  to  drag  up  “ic,” 
but,  as  to  giving  up  three  “plunks” 
for  a  little  bunch  of  embossed  pink 
roses  encircling  the  wicked  little God 
of  Love— nay,  nay!  His  heart  is not 
particularly  callous,  but  it  is  too  in­
durated  by  far  for  that.  However, 
the  assortment  on  the  inside  of  the 
portals  might  have  been  of  such  a 
nature  that  he  could  not  have  with­
stood  temptation  and  he  might,  if he 
had  entered,  have  succumbed  and in­
vested  three  of  his  hard-earned  Al­
mighty  D’s  in  a  bit  of  flummery  to 
send  to  “His  Valentine.”

street. 

One  object  in  this  Middle-of-Feb- 
ruary  window  was  visible  way  across 
Campau  Square,  and,  for  that  matter, 
some  distance  up  Canal 
It 
was  an  immense  heart— to  be  accu­
rate,  a  double  heart. 
I  took  particu- | 
lar  pains  to  notice  its  construction. 
It  looked  complicated,  at  first  glance, 
but  in  reality  could  hardly  be  sim­
pler  to  make,  and  any  dealer  in 
the 
merest  hamlet  by  the  roadside would 
have  no  difficulty  whatever  in  fash­
ioning  such  a  heart-hit— or,  perhaps 
I  should  say  hit-heart,  for  the  cen­
tral  heart  (the 
“heart  within  a 
heart,”  as  you  will  understand  when 
I  describe  it  in  detail)  was  pierced  by 
an  enormous  golden  arrow.  Wheth­
er  the  window  trimmer  had  any  sin­
ister  motive  in  employing  a  golden 
arrow  for  this  sanguinary  act  is  not 
known  to  those  who  gazed  at  the 
product  of  his  hand  and  brain,  but, 
inasmuch  as  “Money  makes  the  mare 
go,”  he  may  have  had  the  deplorable | 
fact  in  mind  that  many  a  heart  is 
winnable  for  a  mercenary  considera­
tion.

But  to  the  description:
The  “innermost  heart,”  about  two 
and  a  half feet  wide,  appeared  to have 
pasteboard  or  thin  wood  for  its  foun­

cotton 

dation,  which  was  padded  and  cover­
ed  with  cream-white 
cloth 
studded  with tiny gilt knobs  (probably 
the  heads  of  stickpins  or  diminutive 
ornaments  from  the  trimming  depart­
ment).  Here  again  the  thought  of 
gold  obtruded  itself  on  your  inner 
consciousness,  and  was  accentuated 
by  the  heavy  gilt  cord  entirely  en­
circling  the  outer  edge  of  the  inner 
heart.

As  if  to  make  amends  for  the  gold

They  Save  Time 

Trouble 
Cash

Qet  oar  Latest  Pricer

Moore«woies

MERCHANDISE  BROKERS

Offic*  and  Warehouse,  8  N. Ionia  8t. 
______ GRAND  RAPIP8. M|OH.______

J A V R I L

The charm of Coffee without the harm

F ull particulars on application

JAVRIL  C0„ LTD.,  Battle Creek, Michigan

W ashington’s  Flour 

Made  in his  mill  at  Alexandria, 
Va., was doubtless good, consider­
ing  the  machinery  used  in  his 
day, but  of  coarse  it  could  not 
compare with the perfect product 
which we are milling today.
Like Washington, our  New  Cen­
tury Flour cannot  tell  a  lie. 
It 
is  true, pure,  wholesome—not  a 
grain  of  deception .¿or  imperfec­
tion in  a barrel  of  it  Write  for 
prices.

Caledonia"  Milling  Co.

Caledonia,  Mich.

Phone No.  9

Confidence

Good  paint  begets  confi­
dence,  both  in  the  dealer 
and  consumer,  w i t h o u t  
which  profitable  results  or 
permanent  success  is  out 
of the  question.

Forest City 

Paint

is  good  paint  because  it’s 
made  right  from  the  best 
adapted  materials. 
It’s 
finely  giound  and  thor­
oughly mixed.  Every gal­
lon  is  guaranteed absolute­
ly  uniform  in  color,  con­
sistency and quality.  Every 
package  is  warranted  full 
measure.

It’s  paint  you  can  rely 
upon  and  offer  your  trade 
with  the  fullest  confidence 
of  its  being  everything  we 
claim.

Assisted  by  the  strong 
local  advertising  and  nu­
merous  personal  helps, 
which  we  furnish  free  to 
our  agents,  it’s  a  proposi­
tion  that’s  sure  to  stir  up 
any  paint  department  and 
increase  a  merchant’s  gen­
eral  business  as  well.

Write 

to-day 

for  our 
Paint Proposition. 
It tells 
all.  A  postal  will bring it.

The Forest City 

Paint  &   Varnish  Co.

K irttond S t.

C leveland,  O h io

Good as Gold Flour is popular because of its  unequaled  qual­

ity. 
It  is  absolutely  pure  and  retains  all  the 
nutritive and  healthful  properties  of  the  finest 
selected wheat.  Costs no more  than  the  price  asked  for  inferior  products.  W e  want  one  good 
dealer in every town to handle it.  W e have a novel advertising scheme for introducing  it  by  which 
we can largely increase your flour trade.  Write us.

PORTLAND  MILLING  CO.,  Portland,  Michigan

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decorations  of  the  smaller  heart,  the 
outer  one  was  composed  entirely  of 
violets,  bringing  to  mind  poor  Ophe­
lia,  where  she  says,
“And  there  is  pansies, 

that’s 

for

thoughts.”

Radiating  from  the  golden  edge of 
the  smaller  heart  to  the  rope  of  vio­
lets  composing  the  larger  one  were 
seventeen  flat  strips  of  white  cloth or 
fine-meshed  canvas  about  two  inches 
wide,  one 
running  to  the  lowest 
point  of  the  violets  heart  and  eight 
on  either  side.  These  were  stretched 
with  mathematical  precision  as  to 
the  spaces.

A  heavy nickel  upright  rod a couple 
of  inches  in  diameter  supported  the 
design  at  the  back,  and  was  unnotice- 
able  unless  one  were  looking  for  the 
means  utilized  to  cause  the  hearts 
to  assume 
the  perpendicular.  The 
whole  design  was  about  eight  feet 
in  height.

Of  all  the  valentine  decorations 
seen  in  the  windows  the  past  week 
this  particular  background  stood  out 
most  prominent  in the memory of the 
window-gazer.

The  lower  part  of 

the  window 
space  was  entirely  filled  with  valen­
tines,  with  the  exception  of  the  cen­
ter  in  front,  where  were  a few  neatly- 
arranged  delicate-covered  small  gift 
books.

One  feature  of  this  attractive  ex­
hibit  I  have  overlooked  mentioning, 
and  that  was  two  naked,  flaxen-hair­
ed,  pretty-faced  little  pink  dummies, 
resting  on  a  high  ebonized  stand  at 
each  side  of  the  window,  and  dress­
ed  (you  might  better  say  undressed) 
to  represent  cupids.  All  the  clothes 
they  had  on  wouldn’t  keep 
them 
from  freezing  this  zero  weather,  for, 
every  stitch  they  could  call  their  own 
was  a  wide  sash  of  white  satin  rib­
bon  and  a  pair  of  good-sized  white 
wings  (real  feathers)  from  the  mil­
linery  department,  poor  dears!  The 
sash  was  continued  up  over 
the 
shoulder  and  back,  where  a  quiver 
filled  with  golden  (again  the  thought 
of  mammon)  arrows  was  deftly  at­
tached.  Each  little  rosy  Edeniteheld 
a  golden  bow  (more  gold)  daintily 
in  one  hand  and  in  the  other  was  a 
beautiful  valentine.  Barring  the  fact 
that  one  felt  almost  sorry  for  them—  
it  was  so  bitterly  cold  outside— they 
were  certainly  a  cute  idea.

*  *  *

Last  week  I  said  I  would  speak  of 
the  contents  of  the  six  small  outside 
upright  glass  display  cases  of 
the 
Boston  Store,  and  also  of  the  unique 
exhibit  of  Edison  phonographs  and 
Columbia  graphophones,  but  I  shall 
have  to  give  all  these  the  go-by— 
and  the  good-bye— as  it  slipped  my 
mind  entirely  that  last  Sunday  was 
Saint  Val.’s  Day  and  it  necessarily 
was  entitled  to  some  consideration. 
For
“Nature  is  fine  in  love;  and,  where 

’tis  fine.

It  sends  some  precious  instance  of 

itself

After  the  thing  it  loves.”
Programme  for  the  State  Conven­

tion  and  Kalamazoo  Banquet
Kalamazoo,  Feb. 

is— I  send  you 
the  following  programme 
the 
State  convention  Feb.  23  and  24,  and

for 

the  local  Association’s  fourth  annual 
banquet.

Tuesday,  Feb.  23.

10  a.  m.— Reception  Committee will 

meet  at  the  Association  hall.

12:30  p.  m.— All  retail  grocers  and 

meat  dealers  will  close  for  the  day.

1:45  p.  m.— First  session  of  sixth 

annual  convention.
1.  Call  to  order.
2.  Announcements  of  committees.
3.  Address  of  welcome  by  Sam. 

Folz,  Mayor.

4.  Annaul  address  of  President.
5.  Annual  report  of  Treasurer.
6.  Annual  report  of  Secretary.
3:15  p.  m.— Reception  Committee
will  meet  Grand  Rapids  and  other 
delegates  at  G.  R.  &  I.  depot.

S  p.  m.— Smoker  under  charge  of 

Homer  Klap.

6:4s  p.  m.— Fourth  annual  banquet 
of  the  Kalamazoo  Retail  Grocers’ 
and  Meat  Dealers’  Association,  under 
the  management  of  John  E.  Steketee, 
as  toastmaster:

Invocation— Rev.  C.  A.  Hemine- 

way,  Kalamazoo.

heim,  Kalamazoo.

Address  of  welcome— C.  Meister- 

Response— Chas.  Wellman,  Port 

Huron.

Kalamazoo— Hon.  Sam.  Folz,  Kal­

amazoo.

Michigan— E.  A.  Stowe,  Grand 

Rapids.

quartette.

Rapids.

Selection— Grand  Rapids  grocers’ 

Address—J.  S.  Smart,  Saginaw. 
Organization— F.  W.  Fuller, Grand 

Poetry  in  Our  Business— H.  R. 

Xylophone  Solo— E.  Desenberg, 

Van  Bochove.

Kalamazoo.

Address— E.  Marks,  Detroit.
The  Modern  Grocer— J.  Geo. 

Lehman,  Grand  Rapids.

Selection— E.  P.  Gros, 

Battle 

Creek.

quartette.

Manufacturers  vs.  Grocers— Walter 

K.  Plumb,  Grand  Rapids.

Address— John  Metzner,  Detroit. 
Grocers’  Cultured  Habits— H. 

J. 

Schaberg,  Kalamazoo.

Piano  Solo— E.  Desenberg,  Kala­

mazoo.

Selection— Ted.  Daken,  Kalamazoo. 
Address— A.  W.  Thatcher,  Toledo. 
Local  Legislation— E.  A.  Connelly, 

Grand  Rapids.

Address— Walter  Baker,  Kalama­

zoo.

quartette.

Selection— Grand  Rapids  grocers’ 

Remarks  by  M.  Desenberg,  Wm. 
Mershon,  Steve  Marsh,  Walter  C. 
Hipp,  Sam.  Hockstra,  Clarence  Mil­
ler  and  Mark  O.  Dover,  all  of  Kala­
mazoo.

America— Sung  by  all.

Wednesday,  Feb.  24.

9:30  a.  m.— Second  session  of State 

convention.

1.  Call  to  order.
2.  Unfinished  business.
3.  New  business.
4.  Election  of  officers.
5.  Selection  of  convention  city  for

1905-

6.  Good  to  the  Association.
7.  Adjournment:
1  p.  m.— All  delegates  and members

Selection— Grand  Rapids  grocers’ 

Printers’ Ink.  Unscrupulous  persons take

of  the  Reception  Committee  will 
meet  at  the  Association  rooms  to 
take  trolley  ride 
the  Michigan 
State  Asylum  and  other  places  of 
interest.

to 

5-6  p.  m.— Farewell  service  under 
charge  of  J.  E.  Van  Bochove,  Kala­
mazoo.

H.  J.  Schaberg,  Sec’y.

Wm.  H.  Owen,  Stanton: 

I  have 
taken  the  Tradesman  ever  since  Mr. 
Stowe  was  a  boy,  and  guess  I  will 
not  drop  it  just  yet.

*500 Given  Away

To  a  certain  number  of  consumers  buying 
ALABA8TINE and sending us before  October 
15,1904, the closest  estimates  on  the  popular 
vote for the next President.  W rite  us  or  ask 
any  dealer  in  Alabastine  for  the  easy  con 
ditions imposed in this contest, which  is  open 
to all.

A L A B A S T I N E

is the only sanitary wall coating-.  Not  a  dis­
ease-breeding,  out-of-date,  hot-water,  glue 
kalsomine.
T Y P H O I D   F E V E R
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The germs o f these deadly diseases  multiply 
In the decaying glue present in all kalaomlnes, 
and the decaying paste under wall paper.

Alabastine  is  a  disinfectant. 

It  destroys 
disease  germs  and  vermin;  is  manufactured 
from  a  stone  cement  base,  hardens on  the 
walls and is as  enduring as the wall itself.
Alabastine  is  mixed  with  cold  water, and 

any one can apply it.

A sk  for  sample card  of  beautiful  tints  and 
information about  decorating.  Take  no cheap 
substrtute

Buy only in 5 lb.  pkgs.  properly labeled.
ALABASTINE CO.Graud Papidg, Mich.

Now York Office,  105 Water 8t.

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agents  soliciting  orders  as  we  rely  on 

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ELLIOT  O.  GROSVENOR
\dvisory  Counsel  to  manufacturers  and 
obbers  whose  interests  are  affected  by 
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We  still  have  a  good  stock  of 
Blankets,  Robes  and  Fur  Coats. 
Send in your orders.
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No  Goods at  Retail

PREPARED  MUSTARD  WITH  HORSERADISH

Just What the  People Want

Good  Profit; Quick Sales.

THOS.  S.  BEAUDOIN.  Manufacturer

5IS-24  Uth St,, Detroit, Mich.

W rite for prices

Alw ays  in  The  Lead

When  reduced  to  the  question  of  quality  at  the  price

V oigt's  Crescent Flour

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Never  fails  to cross  the  line  a winner.  For thirty  years 
it has  thus  led  in  the  race of  competition  and  is  more 
popular  today  than  ever before.

You  Should Never Be  Without It.

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Grand  Rapids,  Michigan

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

A r o u n d

Th e  S t a t e

Movements  of  Merchants. 

Vicksburg— R.  Baker  has  sold  his 

drug  stock  to  C.  Guy  Foster.

Grand  Blanc— A.  0 .  McNeil  &  Son 
are  putting  in  a  line  of  shelf  hard­
ware.

Ovid— Miss Jennie  Rumsey has sold 
her  millinery  stock  to  Mrs.  Lena 
High.

Detroit— Fred  A.  Schneider  has 
to  Ulick 

sold  his  hardware  stock 
Cotey.

Pontiac— George  Nusbaumer,  gro­
cer,  has  sold  out  to  Thos.  H.  Mc­
Connell.

Gladwin— Frank  Leonard  &  Son 
have  engaged  in  the  grocery  and  pro­
vision  business.

Crump— Orren  Carter  has  pur­
general  merchandise 

chased 
stock  of  Jesse  R.  Rhodes.

Hastings— P.  G.  Bennett  succeeds 
Geo.  W.  Hyde  in  the  dry  goods, gro­
cery  and  bakery  business.

the 

Muskegon— The  department  store 
of  J.  O.  Jeannot  &  Co.  has  been  clos­
ed  under  a  chattel  mortgage.

Rochester— H.  L.  Wood  and  son 
Henry,  of  Ithaca,  have  engaged  in the 
hardware  business  at  this  place.

Manchester— Yocum,  Marx  &  Co., 
dealers  in  dry  goods  and  shoes,  have 
put  in  lines  of clothing and  furnishing 
goods.

Richmond— Chas.  Davidson  has 
purchased  the  clothing,  grocery  and 
boot  and  shoe  stock  of  Forrester  & 
Razek.

Mason— Frank  J.  Brown  has  pur­
chased  the  interest  of  his  partner  in 
the  boot  and  shoe  business  of  Brown 
&  Loomis.

Rockford— W.  W.  Forrest  has  sold 
his  drug  stock  and  store  building to 
Claude  G.  Becker,  who  will  continue 
the  business.

Big  Prairie—J.  C.  Springer  has en­
gaged  in  the  grocery  business  at  this 
place,  having  purchased  the  stock of 
Henry  Allers.

Owosso— H.  D.  Miller  has  purchas­
ed  the  grocery  stock  of  his  father, D. 
E.  Miller,  and  will  continue  the  busi­
ness  in  his  own  name.

Eaton  Rapids— Fowler  &  Smalley, 
implement  dealers,  have  dissolved 
partnership.  The  business  is  contin­
ued  by  Fowler  &  Freer.

Zeeland— Timon  VandenBrink and 
Jacob  Boes  have  formed  a  copartner­
ship  under  the  firm  name  of 
the 
Enterprise  and  engaged  in  the  meat 
business.

Pontiac— Isaac  Walters,  who  has 
been  connected  with  W.  A.  Linabury 
&  Co.,  butchers,  for  several  years, has 
purchased  the  meat  market  of  John 
M.  King.

Mason— Brown  &  Loomis,  dealers 
in  boots  and  shoes,  have  dissolved 
partnership,  F.  J.  Brown  having  pur­
chased  the  interest  of  his  partner,  C. 
J.  Loomis.

Port  Huron—James  Fulwood,  who 
recently  purchased  the  grocery  stock 
formerly  owned  by  J.  C.  Price,  has 
sold  the  stock  to  Robert  Taylor.  Mr. 
Taylor will  retain  Mr.  Price  as  mana­
ger  of  the  business.

Wheeler— Adam  Johnstone 

has 
purchased  the  stock  of  the  Buck  Gro­
cery  Co.  Mr.  Buck  expects  to  soon 
leave  for  Washington,  where  he  has 
secured  a  position.

Mason— Brown  &  Loomis,  boot 
and  shoe  dealers,  have  dissolved  part­
nership,  F.  J.  Brown  succeeding.  Mr. 
Brown  has  been  engaged  in  business 
at  this  place  for  the  past  eighteen 
years.

Detroit— Voluntary  assignment has 
been ipade by the  Pinar  Del Rio Cigar 
Co.,  224 Jefferson  avenue,  to  Matthew
H.  Bishop.  The  assets  are  placed  at 
$3,796.73  and  the  liabilities  at  $3,- 
194-95-

Stanton— H.  D.  Johnson,  who  has 
conducted  the  New  York  store  at 
this  place  for  the  past  three  years, 
has  sold  the  stock  to  J.  C.  Shepard, 
of  Middleville,  who has  adready  taken 
possession.

Zeeland— Wm.  D.  VanLoo  has  sev­
ered  his  connection  as  salesman  and 
book-keeper  with  the  Zeeland  Milling 
Co.,  and  purchased  an  interest  in the 
general  merchandise  stock  of  Jacob 
Vanden  Bosch.

Northville— C.  M. Joslin, of the  coal 
firm of Joslin  &  McKahan, has bought 
a  half  interest  in  the  shoe  business 
conducted  here  for  the  past  ten  years 
by  C.  A.  Sessions,  and  the  firm  will 
now  be  Sessions  &  Joslin.

Sault  Ste.  Marie— M.  W.  Shafer 
has  purchased  the  interest  of  his 
partners 
imple­
ment  and  vehicle  business  of  Shafer, 
Ogden  &  Kiefer  and  will  continue 
the  business  in  his  own  name.

in  the  agricultural 

Traverse  City— The  C.  E.  Taylor 
Coal  Co.  has  been  organized  with  a 
capital  stock  of  $10,000,  held  in equal 
amounts  by  C.  B.  Taylor  and  P.  R.
L.  Carl,  with  the  exception  of  two 
shares,  held  by  F.  M.  Taylor  and  N. 
G.  Carl.

Tekonsha— Morse  &  Toland  have 
leased  the  Henry  store  building  and 
will  open  a  clothing  and  men’s  furn­
ishing  goods  stock  about  March 
I. 
Both  gentlemen  have  been  connect­
ed  with  the  clothing  business  in  Bat­
tle  Creek  and  Marshall.

last  week, 

Albion— B.  Julius, 

the  merchant 
who  disappeared 
is 
still  among  the  missing,  in  spite  of 
the  efforts  of  the  local  and  Chicago 
police  to  find  him.  The  missing  man’s 
financial  affairs  are  all  right  and  his 
absence  is  giving  his 
friends  much 
concern.

Adrian— S.  A.  Slack,  for  a  number 
of  years  purchasing  agent for  the re­
tail  grocery  firm  of  Slack  &  Co.,  of 
Chicago,  has  purchased a half interest 
in  the  meat  business  of  W.  Spielman. 
A  line  of  groceries  will  be  added  and 
the  business  conducted  under 
the 
style  of  Spielman  &  Slack.

Battle  Creek— The  Schroeder-Cur- 
tis  Co.  has  been  organized  to  embark 
in  the  general  merchandise  business 
at  this  place.  The  authorized  capital 
stock  is  $40,000,  held  as  follows:  L.
M.  Schroeder,  160  shares;  S.  Schroe- 
der,  n o   shares;  E.  G.  Curtis,  70 
shares,  and  C.  G.  Curtis,  60  shares.

Grand  Haven—W.  J.  Baker,  Louis 
J.  Baker,  H.  Meyer  and  E.  W.  F. 
Moll  have  formed  a  company  to  en­
gage  in  the  general merchandise  busi­
ness  under  the  style  of  the  People’s 
Mercantile  Co.,  Limited.  The  capital

Stock  is  $8,000,  and  is  held  in  equal 
amounts  by  the  members  of  the  com­
pany.

Battle  Creek— W.  A.  Wattles,  of 
this  city,  and  Frank  E.  Strong,  of 
Homer,  have  formed  a  copartnership 
and  engaged  in  the  hardware business 
under  the  style  of  Wattles  &  Strong. 
The  business  will  be  conducted  at 
the  location  of  Mr.  Wattles,  who was 
formerly  engaged  in  the  implement 
and  vehicle  business.

Muskegon— John  Hilt,  who  was 
formerly  in  charge  of  the  wall  paper 
department  of  J.  O.  Jeannot  &  Co., 
has  purchased  an  interest  in  the  wall 
paper  and  paint  business  of  George 
V.  Panyard,  at  18  and  20  South  First 
street,  and  will  hereafter  conduct  the 
sales  department.  The  new  style  is 
Geo.  V.  Panyard  &  Co.

Belding—J.  H.  Henderson,  who 
has  conducted  a  general  merchandise 
business  on  South  Bridge  street  for 
the  past  four  months,  has  consoli­
dated  his  stock  with 
the  grocery 
stock  of  his  former  partner,  L.  D. 
Pierce,  of  Pierce  Bros.,  and  purchas­
ed  the  interest  of  H.  E.  Pierce.  The 
business  is  continued  under  the  old 
style  of  Pierce  &  Henderson.

Lawton— B.  Rice,  who  closed  his 
dry  goods  and  clothing  store  here  a 
few  weeks  ago  and  left  town  sudden­
ly,  left  a  number  of  unpaid  bills,  it 
is  claimed,  and  his  creditors  are  look­
ing for  something  tangible  with which 
to  satisfy  their  claims.  The  stock 
left  behind  inventories  about  $80 and 
claims  against  Mr.  Rice  aggregate 
more  than  $1,200,  due  principally 
Chicago  and  Grand  Rapids  creditors.
West  Bay  City— The  Michigan  &

Ohio  Coal  Co.  has  been  organized 
to  engage  in  the  coal  business,  oper­
ations  to  be  carried  on  at  Jackson 
in  addition  to  this  place.  The  new 
concern  has  an  authorized 
capital 
stock  of  $35,000,  held  as 
follows: 
Alex.  Zagelmeyer,  950  shares;  Jos. 
Bierd,  200  shares;  L.  Eckhorn,  100 
shares,  and  J.  A.  Bird,  50  shares.

Alpena— W.  H.  Wilson,  of  Ha- 
gensville,  and  W.  A.  Van Loon,  of 
Metz,  have  purchased 
the  general 
merchandise  and  implement  stock of 
Robert  McHarg,  at  the 
corner  of 
Third  street  and  Washington  avenue. 
The  store  will  undergo  extensive re­
pairs  and,  as  soon  as  completed, will 
be  stocked  with  farm 
implements, 
vehicles,  harnesses,  sewing  machines, 
hardware  and  groceries.  Mr.  Wilson 
has  been  engaged  in  the  general  mer­
chandise  and  farm  implement  busi­
ness  at  Hagensville  since  1897,  which 
business  will  be  continued  for 
the 
present.  Mr.  VanLoon  owns  a large 
farm  in  Presque  Isle  county.  The 
new  store  will  probably  be  opened 
about  March  15.

Commercial 
Credit  Co.,  Lld

Vnddicom h  Building,  Grand  Rapids
D etroit  Opera  Mouse  B lin k ,   De tro it
Good  1 mt  Gow  debtors  pay 
■ ¡pen  receipt  of  our  direct  de­
mand 
Send  all  other 
accounts  to  our  otlices  for  coder

letters 

Vege-Meato Sells

People 

Like  It 

W ant  It 

Buy  It

The selling qualities of a  food  preparation  is 
If a  food sells  it  pays 

what interests  the dealer. 
to handle it.

You can order a  supply  of  Vege-Meato  and 
rest assured that it will be sold promptly at a good 
profit.  Send for samples  and  introductory  prices.

American  Vegetable  Meat  Co.,  Ltd.

Orand  Rapids,  M idi.

(G r a n d  R A P ID S ;

The  Grocery  Market.

Sugar— (Wm.  H.  Edgar  &  Son)—  
The  raw  situation  remains  substan­
tially  unchanged,  with  refiners  inter­
ested  only  as  their  needs  suggest  un­
til  an  opportunity  offers  to  secure  a 
fair  amount  of  sugar  at  a  concession. 
This  condition  will  doubtless  continue 
until  all  selling  pressure  ceases.  Eu­
rope  varies  slightly  from  day  to  day, 
averaging  to  hold  around  a  parity  of 
about  5- i6c  per  pound  above  our 
market.  Refined  has  developed  no 
new  feature,  the  advance  of  Sc  on 
bulk  bags  granulated  being  the  only 
event  of  the  week.  A  fair  run  of 
new  orders  were  entered  simultane­
ously  with  the  advance  in  the  price 
of  bags.  Daily  withdrawals  on  old 
contracts  are  very  satisfactory  for 
the  season.  A  slight  improvement  is 
noted  in  the  amount  of  freight,  but 
it  will  be  some  time  before  normal 
conditions  obtain.  A  heavy  storm 
would  bring  about  worse  delays  than 
any  yet  experienced.  We  therefore 
advise 
liberal  shipping , orders  well 
in  advance  of  requirements.

Tea— So  far,  there  has  been  no  di­
rect  movement  traceable  to  the  war, 
but unquestionably if the fighting con­
tinues  any  length  of  time  it  will  re­
sult  in  higher  primary  markets.  Ja­
pan  will  undoubtedly  be  compelled to 
levy  an  export  duty  and  the  general 
demoralization  of  the  war  will  make 
the  tea  more  expensive.  Compared 
with  the  low  point  of 
the  season, 
prices  in  primary  markets  are  already 
two  cents  advanced  and  further  rises 
are likely at any time,  especially when 
the  fact  is  remembered  that  there  are 
no  surplus  stocks  of  teas  in  sight any­
way.  Locally  there  is  nothing  new 
in  theh  situation  and  as  far  as  known 
prices  have  not  been  advanced.

Coffee— The  present  price  of  Rio 
No.  7  shows  a  decline  from  the  very 
highest  point  of  about  lVic.  Rio  is 
still  nearly  3c  above  the  price  ruling 
in  September.  Low  grades  are  very 
scarce  and bring a  considerable  prem­
ium.  Medium  and  high  grade  Santos 
are  firm  at  present  prices  and  show 
about  i Me  decline  from  the  highest 
point.  The  Santos  market  is  now 
about 2Mc  above the  September basis. 
The  general  feeling 
that  while 
prices  may  not  go  as  high  as  the 
highest  point  reached,  still 
the  de­
crease  in  the  visible  supply may cause 
further  advances  to 
extent. 
There  is  less  of  uneasy  speculation 
about  the  market  now  than  for  some 
time.

some 

is 

Canned  Goods— Tomatoes  on  spot 
firm. 
are  unchanged  and  quiet,  but 
Holders  are  strong  in  their  ideas and 
seem  to  be  expecting  higher  prices 
when  spring  demand  sets  in.  No  fu­
tures  are  selling.  Spot corn  is  steady, 
but  with  no  special  demand.  There 
would  be  an  active  business  if  prices 
could  be  shaded  2M@5c>  but 
they 
cannot  be.  Future  corn  is  quiet  also, 
and  unchanged.  There  is  a  good  in­
quiry  for  low-priced  peas,  but  not  so 
much  for  higher  grades.  Low  grades 
are  scarce.  Nothing  is  doing  in  fu­

ture  peas  except  in  some  old-estab­
lished  brands.  The  Baltimore  fire has 
not  affected  the  markets  for  Balti­
more  canned  goods  to  any  extent,  as 
it  did  not touch  the  canned  goods  dis­
trict.  The  general  line  of  Baltimore 
varieties  is  unchanged. 
California 
canned  goods  are  quiet,  except  for 
odd  lots  moving  every  day.

Dried  Fruits— Prunes  are  selling 
well  on  spot  at  prices  lower  than  on 
the  coast.  Spot  stocks  are  getting 
reduced,  there  being  none  coming 
forward.  The  coast  market  is  firm 
on  a  2Mc  basis.  Peaches  are  quiet. 
Spot prices  are below the  coast parity. 
Currants  are  dull  and  unchanged. 
Seeded  raisins  have  declined  %c,  so 
far  as  the  association’s  price  is  con­
cerned,  but  as  the  recent  advance  of 
Me  did  not  affect  the  Eastern  market 
the  decline  will  likewise  have  no  ef­
fect.

Provisions— There  have  been  some 
advances  in provisions  during the  past 
week.  Compound  lard  has  advanced 
Me  and  pure  Mc-  The  very  good  de­
mand  is  the  cause.  Barrel  pork  has 
advanced  $i  per  barrel,  both  butt  and 
family,  by  reason  of  the  war  compli­
cations.  Hams  of  all  grades  are  un­
changed  and  the  demand 
is  good. 
Dried  beef  is  unchanged  and  dull. 
Canned  meats  are  also  unchanged.

Syrups  and  Molasses— New  Orleans 
advices  report  a  strong  market 
for 
grocery grades  of molasses, with prac­
tically  no  supplies  coming  to  market 
and  the  small  stocks  that  the  dealers 
are carrying held at  firm prices.  Sugar 
syrup  has  held  firm.  There  is  con­
siderable  strength  to  the  corn  syrup 
situation  on  account  indirectly  of  the 
war,  which  has  had  a  strengthening 
effect  on  cereals.

The  Produce  Market.

Apples— Local  dealers  hold 

their 

stocks  at  $2.50@3  per  bbl.

Bananas— $1.25  for  small  bunches 

and  $2  for  extra  jumbos.

Butter— Factory  creamery  has  ad­
vanced  2c,  owing  to  scarcity,  being 
new  held  at  26c  for  choice  and  27c 
for  fancy.  Receipts  of  dairy  grades 
are  not  so  heavy.  Local  dealers  hold 
the  price  at  12c  for  packing  stock, 
15c  for  choice  and  18c 
fancy. 
Renovated  is  steady  at  i8@ I 9c .

for 

Cabbage— Scarce  and  high,  com­

manding  2Mc  per  lb.
Beets— 50c  per  bu.
Celery— Steady  at  25c  per  bunch. 
Cocoanuts— $3-50@3.7S  per  sack. 
Cranberries— Cape  Cods  and  Jer­
seys  are  steady  at  $7  per  bbl.  and 
$2.50  per  bu.

' 

Dressed  Calves—8@9c  per  lb. 
Dressed  Hogs— $6@6.25  per  cwt. 
Eggs—The  market  continues  high 
and  strong,  due  to  the  continuance 
of  cold  weather.  Dealers  hold  fresh 
at  29@30c  for  case  count  and  3I@32C 
for  candled.  Cold  storage  stock  is 
completely  cleaned  out.

Game— Live  pigeons,  75c@$i  per 
doz.  Drawn  rabbits,  $i@i-50  per doz.
steady  at 

Grapes— Malagas  are 

$6.50  per  keg.

Honey— Dealers  hold  dark  at  9@ 

ioc  and  white  clover  at  I2@ i3c.

Lemons— Messinas  and  Californias 

are  steady  at  $3-25@3 So  per  box.

leaf 

Lettuce— Hot  house 

stock 
fetches  12c  per  lb.  The  price  will  be 
higher  this  season,  owing  to  the  large 
amount  of  stock  lost  by  local  grow­
ers  as  the  result  of  the  cold  weather. 
Frank  M.  Strong  had  the  misfortune 
to  lose  about  $1,000  by  the  explosion 
of  a  boiler.

Maple  Syrup—$1.05  for  fancy,  90c 

for  pure  and  80c  for  imitation.

New  Potatoes— Bermuda,  $2.75  per 

Fish— Mackerel  is  in  light  demand 
and  the  market  is  still  easy.  Lent 
is  expected  to  do  something  for  the 
demand.  Cod,  hake  and  haddock  are 
quiet  and  strong.  No  further  change 
in  price  has  occurred  in  cod  or  had­
dock  by  reason  of  the  extreme  scarci­
ty.  Hake 
is  unchanged  and  dull. 
Sardines  are  unchanged  and  quiet, 
there  having  as  yet  been  no  general 
offering  of  futures.  Salmon  is  dull 
and  unchanged.

New  Lime  Company.

The  Superior  Lime  Co.  has  been 
organized,  with  a  capital  stock  of 
$30,000,  of  which  $15,000  is  paid  in, 
which  amount  is  held  in  $2,500 shares 
by  Geo.  T.  Zipp,  A.  J.  Zipp,  A.  E. 
Copping  and  H.  L.  Zipp,  Thomas  J. 
Scroggie  and  Fred  W.  Zipp.  The  of­
ficers  of  the  corporation  are  as  fol­
lows:

President— Geo.  T.  Zipp.
Vice-President— A.  J.  Zipp.
Secretary— A.  E.  Copping.
Treasurer— H.  L.  Zipp.
The  corporation  has  acquired  a 
tract  of  land  at  Bay  Shore,  adjoining 
the  properties  of  the  Bay  Shore  Lime 
Co.,  on  which  it  will  erect  kilns  and 
an  office  building,  with  a  view  to  be­
ing  in  the  market  with  a  line  of  lime 
by  May  1.  The business will be  under 
the  direct  management  of  A.  E.  Cop­
ping,  of  Edmore,  who  was  on 
the 
road  for  the  Deering  Harvester  Co. 
for  eight  years  and  who  has  been 
district  manager  for  the  Internation­
al  Harvester  Co.  of  America  for  the 
past  two  years.

bu.

Onions— The  market  is  strong  and 
firm.  Local  transactions  are  on  the 
basis  of  $1  per  bu.

Oranges— California  Navels,  $2.50 
for  extra  choice  and  $2.75  for  extra 
fancy;  California  Seedlings,  $2@2.25; 
Floridas,  $2.75.

Parsley— 35c  per  doz.  bunches  for 

hot  house.

small, 

Poultry— Receipts  are 

in 
consequence  of  which  prices  are 
film.  Chickens,  I4@ i5c;  fowls,  I2@ 
13c;  No.  1  turkeys,  i8@ I 9c ;  No.  2 tur­
keys,  I5@i6c;  ducks,  I4@ i5c;  geese, 
I2@ i 3c;  nester  squabs,  $2@2.so  per 
doz.

Pineapples—$5-50  per  crate.
Pop  Corn—90c  for  old  and  50@6oc 

for  new.

Potatoes— The  market 

continues 
strong,  with  an  advancing  tendency. 
Store  lots,  goc@$i;  car  lots,  on track, 
85@88c  per  bu.  in  bulk.

Radishes— 3Sc  per  doz. 

for  hot 

house.

Squash— iMc  per  lb.  for  Hubbard. 
Strawberries— Florida,  4°@45c  per 

quart.

Sweet  Potatoes— Jerseys  are  steady

at  $425  per  bu.

All  Aboard  For  Kalamazoo.

Grand  Rapids,  Feb.  15— The  Grand 
Rapids  Retail  Grocers’  Association, 
through  the  Committee  on  Arrange­
ments,  begs  to  announce  that  the  in­
vitation  extended  by  the  Kalamazoo

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

o

to 

Retail  Grocers’  Association 
the 
State  convention  and  banquet  has 
been  formally  accepted  and  that  ar­
rangements  have  been  made  for  all 
who  desire  to  go.

The  train  leaves  the  union  station 
at  1:5o  p.  m.,  returning  after  the  ban­
quet.  Round  trip,  $1.45.  Tickets can 
be  purchased  from  the  Committee  or 
at  the  depot  the  day  of  departure.

Great  preparations  are  in  progress 
by  our  fraters  in  the  Celery  City,  such 
as  reception  at  depot  with  brass  band 
upon  our  arrival,  parade,  a  visit  to 
the  Asylum,  and  at  8  o’clock  a  ban­
quet  free  of  any  charge.  A  first-class, 
programme  will  be  provided  to  keep 
us  busy  while  there.

Kalamazoo  expects  400  visitors 
from  Grand  Rapids.  Let  us  npt  dis­
appoint  them,  but  turn  out  and  show 
our  loyalty  to  the  best  friends  we 
have  in  the  State.

For  further  particulars  you  may  ad­
dress  any  of  the  Committee. 
But 
whatever  you  do,  turn  out  and  have 
a  good  time,  thereby  making  the 
State  convention  the  success  it merits.

Yours  respectfully,

F.  W.  Fuller, 
F.  L.  Merrill, 
Homer  Klap,

Committee  on  Arrangements.

Will  Make  Loose  Leaf  Ledgers. 
Among  the  new  enterprises  born 
in  the  month  of  February  is  the  Ed- 
wards-Hine  Co.,  which  has  purchased 
the  bindery plant of the  Grand  Rapids 
Lithographing  Co.  and  will  not  only 
carry  on  the  line  of  business  of 
the 
old  company,  but  will  also  make  an 
up-to-date  line  of  loose  leaf  goods 
and  fancy  bank  pass  books.  The new 
company  now  has  more  than  thirty 
hands  at  work  in  the  factory.  W.  H. 
Edwards,  Secretary  and  Manager, has 
been  Superintendent  of  the  old shop 
for  about  ten  years.  He  came  here 
from  Saginaw  to  take  charge  of  this 
shop  and  has  proved  his  efficiency by 
building  the  business  up  from  a  fac­
tory  employing  three  people  to 
its 
present  proportions.  Will  M.  Hine, 
President  of  the  company,  has  been 
in  the  commercial  stationery  business 
for  the  past  nine  years  and  needs  no 
introduction  to  Grand  Rapids  people. 
John  H.  Clay,  Vice-President, 
is 
President  of  the  Grand  Rapids  Litho­
graphing  Co.  and  has  a  wide 
ac­
quaintance. 
Coleman. 
Treasurer,  is  Assistant  Cashier  of  the 
Old  National  Bank  and  his  acquaint­
ance  extends  all  over  Western  Michi­
gan. 

Frank 

S. 

_

Potter  &  Moon,  formerly  engaged 
in  the  grocery  business  at  Otisco, 
have  opened  a  grocery 
store  at 
Belding.  The  Musselman  Grocer Co. 
furnished  the  stock.

Alpena— W.  H.  Wilson  and  W.  A. 
YanLoon,  of  Hagensville,  have  pur­
chased  the  general  merchandise  and 
implement  stock  of  R.  McHarg,  on 
Washington  avenue.

C.  A.  Benedict  has  sold  his  grocery 
stock  at  1255  South  Division  street to 
G.  W.  Collins,  who  will  continue  the 
business  at  the  same  location.

Ingleright  &  Kercher  have  opened 
a  new  drug  store  at  Rose  City.  The 
Hazeltine  &  Perkins  Drug  Co.  furn­
ished  the  stock.

«

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

“Where  There's  a  Will  There’s  a 

W ritten  for  the  Tradesm an.

Way.”

Happy  Hi  Wain  with  his  almost 
Chinese  cognomen  had  settled  down 
into  some  very  comfortable  quarters 
on  Grant  avenue,  and  with  the  spirit 
and  genius  which  had  won  his  place 
for  him  on  the  reportorial  corps  of 
“The  Eastern  Star”  proceeded 
to 
keep  the  readers  of  that  influential 
periodical  posted  upon  the  vital  ques­
tions  of  the  day  in  that  important 
mining  center.  Busy  with  the  ex­
acting  duties  of  his  profession  he 
had  little  to  do  with  the  other  lodg­
ers  of  the  house,  but  as  time  went 
by  he  became  more  or  less  familiar 
with  them  and  as  he  caromed  against 
them  in  the  halls  and  on  the  stair­
way  he  finally  “cut  out”  the 
two 
young  fellows  who  had  quarters 
next  door  as  young  men  whose  ac­
quaintance  he  was  willing 
to  ac­
knowledge  if  not  to  cultivate.

took 

The  unconventional  social  code of 
the  Middle  West  finally 
in 
hand  that  last  idea  and  it  was  not 
long  before  the  look  of  recognition 
became  a  nod,  soon  accompanied  by 
a  hearty  “Hello!”  and 
then,  one 
long  quiet  Sunday  afternoon  when 
the  luxurious  Hi  Wain  was  luxuri­
ously  enjoying  his  cigar  and  an  un­
usually  fine  number  of  the  “Maga­
zine,”  a  gentle  tap  at  the  door,  fol­
lowed  immediately  with  a  doubtful 
“Come  in”  was  succeeded  by 
the 
entrance  of  Don  Dale.

A  single  glance  at  the  tall  and 
slenderly  built  frame  suggested  the 
reason  of  his  coming  to  the  metropo­
lis  of  the  Rockies  and  this  sugges­
tion  was 
confirmed  by  the  promi­
nent  cheek  bones  and  the  too  thin 
face  which  mark  without  question 
the  Colorado  “lunger.”  His  coming 
had  not  been  without  hope  and  the 
wonderful  climate,  seeming  to  take 
an  interest  in  the  case,  had  settled 
down 
to  business  at  once  and 
amendment  was  faintly  perceptible. 
Not  only  had  waste  been  stayed, but 
the  well-fitting  and  comely  garb  he 
wore  showed  signs  of  regaining  its 
old-time  fulness  and  so  an  early  dis­
carding  of  the  old-time  hopelessness 
which  three  months  ago  had  been a 
leading  feature.

“Ah,  Dale,  is  it  you?  You  could­
n’t  have  come  in  a  more  opportune 
time.  You  find  me  every  inch  at 
home  and  more  than  glad  to  see  you. 
Choose  thou  betwixt  the  easy  chair 
and  the  lounge,  only  let  me  urge  up­
on  you  one  of  these  ‘Cuban  testimo­
nials  of  kind  regard’  as  the  good- 
hearted  gift-maker  puts  it  in  the  let­
ter  that  came  with  the  box.  They 
are  not  strong  and  I  think  you’ll  like 
I  have  something  hot  here 
them. 
in  the  way  of  lemonade. 
It’s  the 
only  sign  of  weakness  you  see  about 
me,  if  you  call  it  that. 
It’s  a  home 
relic.  There  are  something  over  a 
half-dozen  of  us  when  we  are  all  at 
home— mostly  boys— and  on  a  Sun­
day  like  this  when  it’s  keen  and  cold 
mother  always^ has  for  us  a  treat  of 
hot  lemonade.  A  fellow  doesn’t  like 
to  give  up  such  things  all  at  once—  
I  don’t,  anyway— and  so  I  try  to 
keep  up  the  home  life  and  the  home 
feeling  as  often  at  least  as  once  a

week. 
Is  your  cigar  drawing  easi - 
ly?  It’s  the  cosy  chair,  is  it?  Good; 
now  I’ll  put  this  stand  between  your 
chair  and  mine  so  the  pitcher  will 
be  handy  and  if  you’re  amenable  to 
a  piece  of  sound  advice  you’ll  make 
lounge.  There, 
a  footrest  of 
the 
now,  here  we  are! 
I  don’t  believe 
that  for  a  quiet  time  this  can  be 
beaten.  Everybody  out  here  comes 
from  somewhere.  You’re  from  the 
East,  aren’t  .you?”

“ From  the  Keystone  State.  Cli­
mate  too  much  for  me.  You  see,  I 
did  my  growing  between  fourteen 
and  fifteen— I’m  twenty  now— and by 
the  time  I  was  sixteen  I  was  as  tall 
as  the  nineteen-year-olds  and  began 
to  go  with  them. 
I  got  to  being out 
too  much  nights  and  before  I  knew 
it  I  took  cold  and  I  wound  up  by 
coming  out  here. 
I  had  then  the 
idea  of  getting  over  it  and  then  go­
ing  back  to  school;  but  it  took  a 
the 
good  while  to  get  started  in 
getting  well  business— for 
three 
years  I  didn’t  know  how  it  was  go­
ing  to  turn  with  me— and  then  fath­
er  was  swamped  in  business  and  I 
was  flat  on  my  back  like  a  turtle. 
I 
have  managed  to  flop  over;  but  here 
I  am  without  a  cent  besides  what  I 
am  getting  from  my  not  much  of  a 
salary  and,  what  is  more,  I  had  to 
cut  school— no,  I  didn’t  have  to,  but 
I  did— so  my  chances  of  going  up 
are  mighty  slim  on  the  ground  of 
ignorance. 
I  don’t  know  what  I’m 
going  to  do.  The  outlook  isn’t  en­
couraging.”

One  of  those 

silences 
can 

comfortable  quarters 

followed 
which  cigars  alone 
improve. 
Dale  made  use  of  it  in  looking over 
the 
around 
him.  Wain  had  been  brought  up in 
the  atmosphere  of  books,  considered 
them  as  companions  and  loved  them 
as  such  and  consequently  depended 
upon  them  for  companionship.  He 
had,  as  a  matter  of  course,  brought 
them  with  him  and  there  they  were, 
a  goodly  array,  confirming  in  the 
young  man’s  daily  life  what  Bacon 
has  so  tersely  and  attractively  said 
of  them.  Their  silent  influence  was 
at  once  brought  to  bear  upon  Don 
Dale,  and  the  good  cigar  and 
the 
comfortable  chair  and  the  old-time 
home  quiet,  unknown  now  for  some 
years,  soon  made  their  presence  felt 
and  at  last  he  spake  with  his  tongue:
“I  wish  I  had  such  a  room  as  this. 
It  makes  me  think  of  home.  Mother 
used  to  get  us  down  by  the  fire  even­
ings  and  Sunday  afternoons  and  read 
to  us.  She  has  a  strain  of  Scotch in 
her  and  so  Walter  Scott  was  what 
we  had  first  to  feed  on.  Ivanhoe  and 
Kenilworth  and  the  whole  lot 
she 
read  to  us  and  long  before  the  Wav- 
erly  novels  were  done  the  habit  was 
fixed  on  every  one  of  us  and  she 
confirmed  it  by  reading  the  best  of 
later  writers.  So  we  had  Dickens 
and  Thackeray  and  the 
rest,  and 
then  I  had  to  make  a  fool  of  myself 
— and  get  sick  and— and— the  whole 
blamed  lot— and  here  I  am  cut  adrift 
and— ”  The  rest  of 
sentence 
floated  skyward  in  curls  of  fragrant 
blue,  gazed  at  by  a  pair  of  tender 
eyes  that  saw  there  the  dear  old 
I  home,  crowded  with  boys  and  girls 
in  the  firelight  and  the 
lamplight 
and  the  mother  reading  to  them.

the 

substantial 

Hi  Wain  took  advantage  of 

the 
quiet  that  followed  by  studying  un­
noticed  the  face  and  the  life-glimpse 
that  chance  and  circumstance  had 
just  presented  and  he  couldn’t  help 
wondering  what  he  had  to  do  with 
it.  This  boy  was  nothing  to  him. 
He,  Hi  Wain,  had  his  own  affairs to 
look  after  and  he  found  in  doing 
that  all  he  had  time  to  do.  He  was 
realizing  all  that  the  paper  expected 
of  him,  more  than  one 
flattering 
comment  had 
reached  him,  and, 
what  was  much  more  to  the  purpose, 
a  much  more 
sign  of 
approval  of  his  work  had  come  from 
the  office  signed  by  the  Treasurer 
of  the  company.  Why  should  he 
care  for  this—well,  outcast  was 
the 
word  gleaned  from  the  fellow’s  own 
story,  and  the  Wains  had  never  had 
anything  to  do  with  that  sort  of 
person,  you  know— and  under 
the 
circumstances— er— and 
and 
yet,  he,  too,  saw  in  the  fragrant  blue 
the  home  and  the  reading  mother 
and  the  listening  boys  and  girls;  and 
the  absent  one  was  here  in  his  room 
pleading  silently  with  his  pale  death- 
threatened  face  for  help  which  he,  a 
Wain,  could  render 
selfishly 
wouldn’t!

yet, 

and 

The  cigars  were  half  gone  and 
simply  alive 
Wain  with  his  kept 
breathed  forth  an  occasional  puff 
and  studied  the  young  fellow  before 
him  and  pondered  the  question  that 
puzzled  him.

“If  you  could  do  exactly  what  you 
want  to  do,  what  would  that  be?” 
asked,  finally,  the  Eastern  blue-blood, 
for  that  is  exactly  what  he  was.

The  spirit  that  was  away  off  under 
came 
the  pale  cheeks 
crimson  and  then  with 

the  old  home-tree  suddenly 
back  and  splashed 
first  with 
white  in  quick  succession.

of 

“Oh,  it  can  make  no  difference 
now.  What  has  been  has  been. 
I 
have  thrown  away  my  birthright 
without  even  a  mess 
pot­
tage  to  console  me  and  I  haven’t 
a  bit  of  the  baby-act  stuff  in  me.  I 
can’t  go  back  and  I  don’t  want  to 
go  back. 
I’ve  lived  it  for  years now 
and  I’m  going  on  living  it  and I shall 
get  used  to  it  in  time  and  sha’n’t 
mind  it.  This  is  a  mighty  good  ci­
gar.  Did  you  say 
from 
Cuba?”

it  came 

If 

“We’ll  have  that  a  little  later. 

you— What  do  you  want  to  do?”

“Go  to  school.”
“Then  take  in  Dick’s  night school.”
“I’ve  no  place  to  study  and  I can’t 
is 
always 

afford  to  room  alone.  Danford 
always 
noisy.  Oh,  it’s  no  use— ”

in  the  room 

and 

“Study  in  here  and  I’ll  give  you  a 
lift  when  I  can.  Now  see  here,  Dale, 
I  haven’t  a  bit  of  the  saint  in  me and 
I’m  not  going  to  open  a  school  of 
philanthropy;  but  I  think  I  know  a 
bit  of  good  stuff  when  I  see  it. 
I 
see  it  now  in  you. 
If  you  are  in 
dead  earnest  I’m  your  man  until  you 
catch  up.  You  won’t  get  any  money 
and  you  won’t  get  anything  but  a 
good  chance.  I  won’t  even  hold  you 
up;  but  if  you  want  to  stagger 
to 
your  feet  I  will  help 
you  do  that. 
Then  if  you  have  brains  enough  and 
will  enough  to  do  the  rest  for  your­
self  I’ll  see  to  it  that  circumstances 
don’t  keep  you  from  putting  up  the

best  fight  you  know  how. 
It’s  going 
to  be  an  illustration  of  the  old  prov­
erb: 
‘Where  there’s  a  will  there’s  a 
way.’  You  furnish  the  will  and  I’ll 
see  that  you  have  the  way. 
Is  it  a 
go?”

necessary 

Don  Dale’s  lips  went  through  the 
movements 
to  express 
“It’s  a  go,”  but  no  voice  was  heard. 
Even  the  lips  were  too  much  a-quiver 
to  make  a  good  job  of  it;  but  Hi 
Wain  didn’t  care  for  that.  He  had 
caught  enough  of  the  spirit  of 
the 
Wyoming  plains  which  he  had  lately 
visited  to  meet  all  present  demands 
and  leaning  forward  with  extended 
hand  and  in  a  voice  that  the  prince 
of  cowboys  might  have  envied  he 
said,  “Put  it  there,  pard!”  and 
the 
thing  was  done.

And  Don  Dale?  He’s  all  right!
Richard  Malcolm  Strong.

When  Nature  Nods.

Nature  nods  undoubtedly  at  times, 
as  in  the  case  of  the  child  born  with­
out  a  brain,  whose  case  has  been 
made  public  this  week.  Not 
long 
ago  an  infant  was  born  and  lived for 
three  weeks  with  a  hole  through  its 
heart.  Thousands  of  us  are  color 
blind,  others  have  no  musical  sense. 
And  there  are  many  Laura  Bridg­
mans,  many  Helen  Kellers.  The 
Queen  of  Roumania  has,  or  had,  at 
her  court  in  personal  attendance  up­
on  herself  the  daughter  of  a  blind no­
bleman.  She  could  neither  hear  nor 
speak,  and  had  to  be  taught  to  com­
municate  by  holding  the  throat  of a 
speaker,  and  imitating  the  vibration 
produced  by  the  effort.  But  what  a 
grudge  against  nature  must  such  a 
one  as  Lyon  Playfair  discovered ever 
feel!

Here  was  a  girl  who  was  blind, 
deaf,  dumb  and  could  neither  taste 
nor  smell.  One  might  be  pardoned 
for  asking  if  such  a  life  was  worth 
living.  Yet  there  was  a  beautiful les­
son  in  such  an  existence,  as  the  great 
warm  heart  of  Playfair  discovered. 
He  sent  her  a  pretty  finger  ring, and 
the  poor  mite  replied  in  this  pitifully 
pretty  letter:  “Dear  Sir  Lyon  Play­
fair— Sir  Lyon  Playfair  sent  Edith 
ring  in  box.  Edith  thank  Sir  Lyon 
Playfair  for  ring.  Sir  Lyon  Playfair 
come  to  see  Edith.  Goodby.— Edith.” 
During  his  first  visit  the  child  had 
closely  examined  his  hands,  wrists, 
arms  and  face,  her  touch  being  mar­
velously  accurate.  A  year  later  he 
went  again  to  see  her.  At  first  she 
did  not  recognize  him,  and  no  one 
betrayed  his  identity.  At  length  she 
turned  back  the  cuff  of  his  shirt  and 
touched  his  wrist.  Her  face  lighted 
up  with  intense  joy.  “It  is  the  Eng­
lishman  who  gave  me  the  ring,”  she 
rapidly  spelled  out  on  her 
fingers. 
And  in  a  second  she  had  flung  her 
little  arms  around  his  neck  and  was 
weeping  with  delight  at  the  recogni­
tion.— St.  James  Gazette.

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is  past  the  teas  decay.  Therefore 
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trusting  to  distant  requirements  to 
take  the  invoice  off  one’s  hands.

Salad  dressing  is  a  compound  of 
sugar,  mustard, 

salad  oil,  vinegar, 
eggs  and  salt.

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1 dozen No. 660 Pencils..................................................25
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1 dozen No. 23501 School Bags ...................................... 36
1 dozen No. 180 Pencil Boxes......................................... 38
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No. 2241 Locks...........................................\ \  
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WEDNESDAY  •  •  FEBRUARY  17,1904

A  MERE  MATTER  OF  BULK.
Look  at  it  as  we  may  the  Musco­
vite  is  a  hayseed  and  one  of 
the 
rankest  type.  There  is  no  advance­
ment,  there  has  been  none  and  there 
will  be  none  because  that  is  some­
thing  he  does  not  believe  in 
and 
something,  therefore,  that  he  does 
not  intend  to  have.  The  concrete 
only  has influence  with 
him.  He
can  understand  land  because  he  can 
see  it  and  own  it;  and  so  with  him 
the  bigger  the  farm  and  the  larger 
the  number  of  acres  the  more  impor­
tant,  the  more  powerful  and  the more 
absolute  the  man  and  the  master 
that owns  these. Civilization 
as
such  has  no  charm  or  attraction  for 
him. 
out  in  gorgeous  regalia  it  has  some­
thing  to  please  the  barbaric  eye, but, 
the 
unless  there  is 
glove  that  hints  at  the  iron  hand 
it 
hides,  to  the  Slav it  is  nothing.  There 
may  be  something  in  the  plea  that 
is matter’s  master  but  not
mind 
much. 
It  is  the  big  nation  with  the 
big  territory  that  alone  can  hope  to 
last,  exactly  as  it  is  the  big  human 
giant  that  holds  the  ordinary  man 
with  his  little  fist  in  contempt.  So, 
with  bulk  as  the  standard  of strength, 
the  empire  of  Russia  has 
added 
square  mile  to  square  mile  until  the 
greater  part  of  the  territory  of  two 
continents  is  hers.

It  means  nothing. Tricked

something 

in 

The  getting  of  these  square  miles 
It  hardly 
makes  up  her  history. 
It  is  a  story 
needs  repeating  here. 
last  of  determined, 
from  first  to 
absolute 
courageous  struggle  after 
power,  the  abuse  of  it  and,  in 
the 
face  of  history,  its  continued  abuse 
until  outraged  humanity  calls  for  a 
halt,  which  the  civilized  world  be­
gins  to insist  upon.  It was  the  invinci­
ble  Peter  that  gave  life  to  Russia. 
Then  Archangel  on  the  White  Sea 
was  Russia’s  only  seaport,  a  condi­
tion  that  was  improved  upon  by 
wresting  the  Baltic  shore  from  Swe­
den,  the  Euxine  Sea  from  the  hands 
of  the  Turks  and,  later  on,  by  the 
seizing  of  Azof,  the  key  to  the  Black 
Sea  and  Russia’s  first  harbor  on  the 
south.  With  this  port  in  his  posses­
sion  came  the  hope  of  his  life  and 
the  longing  for  an  empire  worthy of 
the  name  and  the  family  that  he had 
already  determined  to  leave  behind 
him.  Across  the  waters  of  the Black 
Sea  from  his  newly-won  Azof  he 
saw— or  fancied  he  saw— the  city that

the 

Constantine  the  Great  had  made  the 
capital  of  the  Roman  empire,  with 
its  luminous  cross  and 
its  well-re­
membered 
legion,  and,  like  other 
royal  heads  that  the  world  has  call­
ed  Great,  he  dreamed  that  one day 
the  throne  of  the.  Romanoffs  would 
be  set  up  at  Constantinople  and 
that  his  descendant  would  be  seated 
upon  it  and  dictate  as  Caesar  to  his 
kingdom, 
obeisance-baking 
world.  That  is  the  vision  of 
the 
Bear  to-day  and,  whatever  may  have 
been  the  means  of  accomplishment 
in  the  mind  of  Peter,  it  seems  to  be 
the  hope  of 
the  modern  Caesar 
(whose  misspelled  name  gives  us  the 
modern  “Czar”)  by 
limitless  terri­
tory  and  by  mere  masses  of  men  to 
crush  and  trample  down  all  opposi­
tion  and  so  seat  the  Muscovite  upon 
the  old  Roman  throne.  So  territory 
once  Russian  remains  Russian.  So 
Siberia  becomes  Russia  in  Asia.  So 
Poland  disappears  in 
the  eclipsing 
shadow  of  the  Great  Bear  and  so 
Manchuria  is  hidden 
to-day  under 
the  tremendous  foot  that  covers  and 
claims  it.

that 

often 

the  battle 

The  success  which  has  so  far  at­
tended  the  ambitious 
land-grabber- 
of  the  Eastern  Hemisphere  has  set 
afloat  the  question 
asked, 
whether  history  has  ceased  repeat­
ing  herself  or  whether  Russia  is  to 
be  the  exception  that  confirms  the 
rules.  Xerxes  depended  upon  numbers 
and  Thermopylae  was  made  immor­
tal.  Marathon  is  reckoned  as  one of 
the  decisive  battles  of  the  world,  but 
it  was  won  by  the  invincible  few; 
and  was  it  at  Leuctra  that  the  The­
ban  six  thousand  taught  bulky  Spar­
ta 
is  not  always 
to  the  strong?  The  work  of  the  Ro­
man  legion  in  Gaul  carries  with  it  a 
lesson  with  a  moral  to  those  who 
care  to  study  it  and,  since  the  strug­
gle  for  liberty  began,  time  and  place 
and  circumstance  have  shown  again 
and  again  that  bulk  alone  is  bulk 
only,  with  power  to  crush  exactly as 
inanimate  nature  crushes;  and  mere 
bulk  is  Russia’s  greatest  defense. 
The  man  behind  the  hoe 
is  her 
tiuthful  representative.  He  is steep­
ed  in  ignorance  that  belongs  to  the 
Dark  Ages.  Free  thought  and  free 
speech  are  utter  strangers 
to  him 
and  the  American  idea  of  education 
is  unknown  to  him.  Serfdom  was 
abolished  some  forty  years  ago,  but 
the  advance  of  the  people,  as  such, 
has  been  so  slight  that  it  can  hardly 
be  said  to  exist.  Love  of  country  is 
there  unknown  and  the  assertions of 
the  official  press  of  St.  Petersburg 
that  130,000,000  Russian  hearts  are 
beating  with 
the 
course  Japan  is  pursuing  is  as  ridicu­
lous  as  it  is  untrue.  More  than  half 
the  entire  population  of  Russia  can 
be  counted  on  as  opposed  to  the  gov­
ernment  and  are  held  in  subjection 
by  force. 
It  is  simply  bulk  without 
brains  and  leads  safely  to  the  con­
clusion  that  the  old  order  of  things 
has  not  been  reversed— that  history 
does  repeat  itself,  that  mind  still rules 
matter  and  still  asserts 
itself  and 
that  Russia  will  find,  as  the  ignorant 
and  the  overbearing  and  the  abuser 
of  power  always  finds,  that  there  is 
an  end  to  these  things  and  that  that 
end  is  disaster  and  ruin  and  nothing­
ness.

indignation  at 

and 

THE  GENERAL  WELFARE.
Among  the 

comparatively  new 
developments  of  trade 
com­
merce,  as  it  is  practiced  to-day,  is 
the  mutual  association  of  men  rep­
resenting  all  departments  of  busi­
ness  for  the  general  good  of  the 
community  in  which  they  live.  They 
are  called,  variously,  Boards  of  Com­
merce,  Boards  of  Trade,  Business 
Men’s  Associations  and  Citizens’ 
Associations,  and  there  are  very  few 
cities  of  1,000  or  more  inhabitants 
in  America  that  are  without  such an 
association.  And  these  bodies, when 
correctly  organized  and  wisely  con­
ducted,  are  invariably  beneficial  to 
the  cities  they  represent.

through 

There  are  obstacles  in  the  way  of 
each  one  of  them,  however,  to  be 
education. 
removed  only 
One  obstacle— the 
confounding  of 
their  character  with  that  of  a  Stock 
Exchange—is  because  of  the  names 
selected.  Another,  and  an  aggravat­
ing  hindrance,  is  the  offspring  of 
jealousy— one  set  of  men  arraying 
themselves  in  opposition  because  of 
a  belief  that  another  set  of  men  con­
stitute  a  “ring”  and  are  working sole­
ly  for  their  own  personal  interests. 
Yet  another  barrier  to  the  progress 
of  these  institutions  is  born  of  bigo­
try  and  the  narrowest  sort  of  judg­
ment  which  protests  because  such 
organizations  fail  to  entangle  them­
selves  in  local  politics,  governmen­
tal  (municipal  chiefly)  affairs 
and 
doctrinal  propositions.

Your  temperance  advocate 

loses 
his  temper  because  “the  board”  does 
not  take  up  his  hobby;  your  base­
ball  enthusiast  gets  out  of  all  pa­
tience  because  “  the  board”  does not 
invest  in  a  league  team;  another  cit­
izen  waxes  wroth  because  the Board 
of  Public  Works  is  not  “ripped  up 
the  back”  by  the  association  organ­
ized  with  an  eye  single  to  the  gener­
al  welfare.

And  thus  we  reach  the  key  note: 
What  constitutes  the  general  wel­
fare?

No  one  man  nor  no  half  dozen 
men,  however  honest,  however  loyal, 
however  successful  they  may  be,  are 
licensed  to  fairly  answer  that  ques­
tion  except  they  be  developed 
to  a 
splendidly  broad  sense  of  right  and 
fairness.  The  general  welfare  em­
braces  all  creeds,  all  avenues  of  hu­
man  intercourse,  and  invariably  re­
sents  any  interference  by  individuals 
or  organizations  who  fail  to  obliter­
ate  selfishness,  who  do  not  recognize 
the  value  of  harmony  in  their  policy 
and  practice.

No  association  of  citizens  volun­
tarily  organizing  for  the  purpose  of 
promoting  the  general  welfare  is  re­
quired  to  dictate  formally  and  as an 
entity  to  any  legally  elected  or  ap­
pointed  Government  official;  no such 
organization  is  required,  as  a  body, 
to  meddle  in  any  fashion  in  the  af­
fairs  of  any  religious  organization; it 
is  out  of  place  for  any  Board  of 
Commerce  or  other  voluntary  organ­
ization  of  citizens  to  espouse 
any 
proposition  that  is  purely  personal 
or  purely  individual. 
It  is  impossi­
ble  for  the  general  welfare  ever  to 
dwindle  to  the  puny  proportions  of 
the  purely  personal.  There  is  no 
patriotism  worthy  the  name  that  is

not  founded  upon  lines  much  broad­
er  than  the  purely  individual.

Until  these  lessons  are 

learned, 
until  such  an  education  has  been  ac­
quired  by  an  association  for  the good 
of  the  general  welfare,  that  associa­
tion  will  be  unable  to  accomplish the 
benefits  so  fondly  hoped  for.  And 
this  preachment  is  offered 
the 
firm  belief  that  the  Grand  Rapids 
Board  of  Trade  has  learned  its  les­
son  and  that,  after  about  sixteen 
years  of  steady  and  honest  effort, it 
has  reached  a  condition  of  broad 
public  spirit,  perfect  harmony  and 
true  patriotism,  by  virtue  of  which 
it  is  to-day  a  most  potent  factor  in 
the  city’s  progress  and  prosperity.

in 

in 

in 

the 

the  membership  of 

And  what  has  been  and  is  being 
accomplished  in  Grand  Rapids  can 
be  equally  well  attained 
other 
cities,  if,  like  Grand  Rapids,  the truth 
be  recognized  arid  practiced  that  the 
organization  be  made  on  a  broad  ba­
sis;  that  whatever  comes  to  your 
neighboring  city— through  failure to 
secure 
it  yourself— helps  your  city 
and  all  adjacent  cities;  that  the  small 
city  may  help  the  larger  one  just as 
the  larger  one  helps 
lesser. 
Jealousy  and  suspicion  can  have  no 
place 
the 
successful  organization  of  Business 
Men’s  Associations,  and  good,  old- 
fashioned  patriotism  and  loyalty  to 
your  home  town  first  and  to  the  ad­
jacent  territory  afterward  must  be 
basic  factors.  Above  all,  be  fair, 
persistent,  patient 
generous. 
Bear  in  mind  that  your  membership 
for 
in  such  an  organization  counts 
just  as  much  in  the  success  of 
the 
body  as  does  membership  and  the 
holding  of  an  office  in  the  associa­
tion;  so  that  no  one  member  can be 
more  valuable  than  another,  no  one 
member  can  be  more  energetic,  more 
broad  in  his  public  spirit  and  gener­
osity  and  more  earnest  in  his  loyalty, 
than  are  the  other  members.— that  is, 
if  your  association  of  business  men 
is  formed  along  correct  lines  and  is 
conducted  wisely.

and 

Comparatively  few  proportionately 
and  a very large  number in  the  aggre­
gate  are  left-handed. 
It  is  regarded 
as  something  of  an  oddity,  and  pa­
rents  who  see  signs  of  it  in  their 
little  children  try  to  break  them  of 
it  and  make  them  right-handed,  if 
possible,  or  at 
least  ambidextrous. 
They  will  try  to  do  so  all  the  more 
if  they  pay  attention  to  Prof.  Loin- 
broso,  a  celebrated  Italian  alienist, 
who  says  in  an  article  published  in 
that 
the  North  American  Review 
most  left-handed  persons  are 
con­
genital  criminals  and  that  the  per­
centage  of  left-handed  criminals  is 
greater  among  women  than  among 
men.  That  is  a  pretty 
severe  ar­
raignment.  Not  all  left-handed  peo­
ple  are  criminals,  either  men  or  wom­
en,  although  some  of  them  are,  and 
for  that  matter  the  same  may  be 
said 
people. 
Granting  that  it  is  a  misfortune  to 
be  left-handed  and  that  it  is  an  evi­
dence  of  some  queer  quirk,  it  does 
not  follow  that  state  prison  yawns 
for  all  those  so  afflicted.  There  are 
some  very  nice  people  who  are  left- 
handed  and  some  very  good  base 
ball  pitchers.

right-handed 

about 

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and  with  this  knowledge an imperative 
demand  is  upon  Congress  to  go  for­
ward  with  a  system  that  has  brought 
wealth  and  prosperity  to  our  borders.
“The  older  countries  were  over  a 
thousand  years  in  adapting  to  their 
industrial  and  commercial  wants  the 
cheapest  and  best  transportation  to 
markets  at  home  and  abroad,  and  all 
their  dearly-bought  experiences  are 
but  so  many  studies  from  which  we 
may  take  example  and  even  improve 
upon.”

Such  are  the  words  spoken  in  an 
inland  city  where  they  are  striving 
to  secure  the  deepening  of  a  six-foot 
channel  to  eight  feet,  to  provide  for 
increase  of  traffic  beyond  expectation. 
The  great  State  of  New  York  has 
decided  to  expend  $100,000,000  to  im­
prove  and  enlarge  its  system  of  ca­
nals.

Is  it 'not  possible  that  a  water-way 
across  the  State  of  Michigan  will  be 
found  a  commercial  necessity,  and 
may  not  our  little  channel,  but  just 
begun,  form  a  part  of that  water-way?
Now  is  our  time  to  act.  We  have 
endorsed  the  project  and  said  it  was 
feasible;  we  have  backed  up 4he  “Old 
Guard”  who  always  had  faith  in  it; 
we  have  committed  ourselves  to  the 
practicability  of  operating  a  steam­
boat  line.  Now  let  us  prove  our  faith 
by  actual  demonstration,  and  show  to 
the  Government  that  we  are  worthy 
of  the  attention  paid  to  our  appeals, 
!  and  prove  to  the  great  membership 
of  the  Board  of  Trade,  who  have  fol­
lowed  and  endorsed  us  largely  be­
cause  of  faith  in  the  judgment  of 
those  closer  to  the  work,  that  our 
hopes  were  not  unfounded.

Under  the  guidance  of  the  gentle­
man  who  succeeds  to  the  Chairman­
ship  of  the  Committee,  we  have  no 
doubts  as  to  the  continuation  of  the 
work  toward  the  completion  of  the 
project  that  will  so  greatly  benefit  the 
City  of  Grand  Rapids  and  Western 
Michigan.

Chairman  River  Improvement  Com­

Gaius  W.  Perkins,

mittee.

WORK  OF  THE  YEAR.

Annual  Reports  of  the  Grand  Rapids 

Board  of  Trade.

At 

the  annual  banquet  of 

the 
Grand  Rapids  Board  of  Trade,  held 
at  the  Lakeside  Club  last  evening, 
the  following  annual  reports  were 
presented  by  the  officers  and  com­
mittees:

Executive  Committee

As  Chairman  of 

the  Executive 
Committee,  it  gives  me  great  pleasure 
to  report  that  the  members  of  my 
committee  have,  during  the  past  year, 
shown  an  abiding  interest  in  the  wel­
fare  and  efforts  of 
the  Board  of 
Trade  both  by  generous  attendance 
at  the  committee  meetings  and  by 
sincere  and  careful  consideration  of 
all  matters  brought  to  their  attention. 
And  by virtue  of  such  loyalty,  I  deem 
it  my  privilege  to  congratulate  the 
Board  of  Trade  on  the  fact  that  in 
spite  of  various  new  undertakings 
put  on  foot;  in  spite  of  extraordinary 
demands  upon  the  hospitality  of  the 
city  of  Grand  Rapids  and  in  spite  of 
the  unforseen  and  unavoidable  con­
ditions  in  relation  to  the  annual  ex­
cursion  of  the  Board  of  Trade,  the 
expenditures  recommended  by 
the 
various  standing  committees  and  ap­
proved by the  Executive  Committee—  
the  total  expenditures  by  the  Board 
of  Trade  during  the  past  year  have 
been  kept  within  the  annual  income 
of  the  organization.

improvement 

Permit  me,  in  this  connection,  to 
refresh  your  memory  as  to  a  few  of 
the  details  in  the  matter  of  expendi­
tures.  First  among  the  unexpected 
demands  was  the  visit  of  the  delega­
tion  of  German  agriculturists,  an  in­
cident  very  well  worth  all  that  it 
cost.  Next  came 
the  enlargement 
and  re-arrangements  of  this  assembly 
room  and  the  putting  in  of  additional 
furniture;  an 
impera­
tively  demanded  by  the  needs  of  our 
organization.  Then  came  the  effort 
to  add  to  the  achievement  of securing 
the  passage  of the  Normal  School  act, 
by obtaining  for this  city the  presence 
of  that  proposed  institution.  While 
this  effort  was  sincere  and  the  outlay 
considerable,  there  are  no  sore  spots 
remaining  over  the  triumph  of  our 
our  extravagantly  generous  neighbor, 
Kalamazoo.  Coincident  with  the  fore­
going  came  the  preliminary  expenses 
attending  the  organization  of 
the 
Parks  and  Boulevard  Association—  
an  enterprise  well  established  that 
means  much 
the  material  and 
spiritual  advancement  of  our  city;  the 
necessary 
the 
Board’s  long  continued  campaign  for 
the  improvement  of  Grand  River,  a 
campaign  which  has  resulted  in  se­
curing,  beyond  peradventure,  a  chan­
nel  between  this  city  and  Lake  Michi­
gan,  having  a  minimum  depth  all  the 
year  around  of  six  feet.  That  our 
successors,  during 
twenty-five 
years  next  following,  will  obtain  the 
ultimate  back-water-inlet  channel  of 
at  least  ten  feet  depth,  seems  to  me 
to  be  a  foregone  conclusion.

attending 

expense 

the 

to 

Other  special  appropriations  recom­
mended  and  authorized  were fifty  dol- j 
lars  toward  the  expenses  of  the  con­
vention  of 
the j 
World;  of  a  maximum  amount  of  j 
$180  toward  the  rent  of  the  Auditor- j 
ium  for  the  joint  exhibition  under  the |

the  Woodmen  of 

auspices  of  the  Grand  Rapids  Poultry 
Association  and  the  Michigan  State 
Poultry  and  Pet  Stock  Association; 
of  the  cost  of  entertaining  with  a 
street car  tour of the  city for the  dele­
gates  to  the  international  convention 
of  the  Gregg  Short  Hand  Association 
and  of  $75  for  the  hire  of  carriages 
for delegates to the  annual convention 
of  the  Michigan  Federation  of  Wo­
men’s  Clubs.  The  single  application 
to  the  Convention  Committee  that 
was  referred  to  the  Executive  Com­
mittee  without  recommendation,  was 
for  aid  in  behalf  of  the  Trades  and 
Labor  Council  Exposition;  and  the 
rejection  thereof  by  our  committee 
received  ample  approval  by  the  char­
acter  and  results  of 
in 
question.

the  event 

In  behalf  of  my  associates  and  my­
self,  permit  me  to  express  our  sin­
cere  thanks  to 
the  Chairmen  and 
members  of  all  the  standing  com­
mittees  and  to  the  President  of  the 
Board  of  Trade  and  the  members  of 
the  Board  of Directors  for  their  cour­
tesy  to  our  committee  and  for  the 
thorough  and  comprehensive  presen­
tation  of  every  matter  submitted  by 
them  for  our  consideration.

The  only  matter  referred  to  this 
committee  that  has  remained  in  statu 
quo,  came  to  us  from  the  Board  of 
Directors  in  the  form  of  a  motion 
made  by  Mr.  Gilbert  and  supported 
by  Mr.  Shelby,  looking  to  the  erec­
tion  of  a  Board  of  Trade  building.

Our  committee  appointed  a  special 
committee  consisting  of  Messrs.  Stev­
ens,  Hollister,  Musselman,  Idema  and 
Perkins  to  investigate  and  consider as 
to  character  of  building  desired  and 
sites  for  same,  and  to  report  back  to 
our  committee.

For  various  good  reasons  the  mat­
ter  has  been  permitted  to  remain  as 
it  was,  but  in  this  connection 
it 
is  well  to  bear  in  mind  that  the  lease 
of  the  quarters  at  present  occupied 
by  our  organization,  expires  a  year 
from  next  April.  Also  that  our  in­
creased  membership  and  the  increas­
ed  number  of  auxiliary  organizations, 
together  with  the  very  large  demands 
upon  the  rooms  by  outside  organiza­
tions,  renders 
imperative  the  early 
procuring  of  quarters  more  nearly 
adequate  to  present  and  future  needs.

Wm.  H.  Anderson,

Chairman  of  Executive  Committee.

the  improvement,  but  its  value  in  a 
commercial  way  and  for  the  future.

We  have  not  only  reached  the  in- 
trenchments,  but  have 
secured  an 
impregnable  fortress  by  the  decision 
of  the  Engineers  in  our  favor;  we 
have  for  the  first  time  received  the 
endorsement  of  the  Government  of­
ficially.  There  is  no  longer  doubt 
about  the  completion  of  the  work, 
for  nothing  approaches  an  absolute 
certainty  more  nearly  than  the  Gov­
ernment  commitment  to  an  under­
taking. 
If  there  is  a  lingering  doubt 
in  the  mind  of  any  citizen,  let  it  be 
dismissed  at  once,  for  it  is  settled 
that  we  will  have  a  channel  six  feet 
deep  to  the  Lake.  Successful  river 
navigation  is  near  at  hand.  The  new 
dredge  is  nearly  complete;  there 
is 
still  $40,000.00  of  the  last  appropria­
for  continuing  the 
tion  available 
work,  and  the  engineer 
in  charge 
has  no  doubt  as  to  the  rapid  advance­
ment  in  sufficiently  deepening 
the 
channel  the  coming  season,  for  any 
boats  that  may  be  put  on  the  river.

Illustrating  the  importance  of  wa­
ter  transportation,  I  would  like  to 
ifuote  from  an  address  recently  de­
livered  in  the  Chamber  of  Commerce, 
Pittsburg,  before  the  National  River 
and  Harbor  Congress:

“There  should  be  no  rivalry  be­
tween  rail  and  water  transportation. 
One  is  simply  a  powerful  auxiliary 
to  the  other. 
In  Europe,  where  im­
provement  of  water-ways  for  trans­
portation  is  carried  to  an  extent  not 
dreamed  of  in  this  country,  it  has 
been  found  that  where  navigable  wa­
ter-ways  have  been  established  new 
railways  have  been  found  necessary, 
and  older  and  unprofitable  ones  par­
alleling 
these  streams  have  been 
made  prosperous.

“The  London  Chamber  of  Com­
merce,  the  best  authority  on  indus­
trial  ethics,  says  in  its  Journal  of 
March,  editorially,  that  the  enormous 
Sums  expended  in  France,  Germany, 
Austria  and  other  countries  on  the 
Continent  in  construction  of  canals 
and  other  water-way  improvements 
is,  from  the  enlightened  commercial 
policy,  giving  the  easiest  and  most 
economical  transportation  of 
their 
products  to  market,  and  unless  Great 
Britain  adopts  similar  measures,  she 
will  lose  her  pre-eminence  as  a  pro­
ducing  nation.

The  work  of 

Grand  River Improvement Committee
the  Committee  on 
River  Improvement  was  very  promi­
nent  the  past  year  owing  to  the  ap­
proaching  crisis  in  its  history.  The 
agitation  and  discussion  of  the  sub­
ject  and  the  dissemination  of  com­
plete  reports  of the  work  of  the  Com­
mittee  and  the  hearing  before  the 
United  States Engineers have familiar­
ized  the  business  men  with  the  situa­
tion  better  than  ever  before.  We 
feel 
to  the 
strength  of  our  position.

this  must  surely  add 

in 

so 

our  hopes  for 

We  are  justified  in  the  belief  that 
strong  as  at 
we  never  were 
present 
final 
success.  All  previous  efforts  have 
skirmishes  and  prep­
been  only 
aration 
for 
the  real  battle,  which 
came  when  we  had  to  appear  before 
the  representatives  of  the  Govern­
ment,  not  to  prove  the  feasibility  of

“Words  coming  from  such  a source 
are  of  deepest  importance,  and  this 
country  should  not  be  slow  in  giving 
them  the  most  profound  considera­
tion.

“In  our  own  country  the  first  of 
a  proposed  line  of  steamships  from 
the  Great  Lakes  to  Europe  direct 
have  left  Chicago  for  Hamburg  via 
the  Welland  Canal  and  St.  Lawrence 
River;  other  steamers  are  scheduled 
to  follow.

“The  effect  of  carrying  American 
products  from  the  heart  of  our  coun­
try  to  Central  Europe  by  continuous 
water  transportation  can  only  be sur­
mised. 
It  may  result  in  a  revolution 
in  the  carrying  trade  to  markets  in 
the  Old  World.

“It is only through  improved water­
way  systems  that  the  great,  cheap j 
and  heavy  products  of  mine,  forest 
and  field  are  brought  to  tide  water, 
and  thence  to  the  world’s  markets,

Public  Improvement  Committee
Your  Committee  on  Public 

Im­
provements  has  had  three  matters re­
ferred  to  it  of  sufficient  importance, 
it  is  believed,  to  recall  for  considera­
tion  at  the  present  time.

The  first  in  importance  was 

the 
new  Normal  School  authorized  by the 
last  Legislature.

We  believe  it  can  be  truthfully  said 
that  the  influence  exerted  by  a  com­
mittee  sent  to  attend  a  joint  session 
of  the  Legislature,  March  20th,  was 
largely  instrumental  in bringing about 
this  legislation. 
It  is  not  necessary 
to  go  into  the  details  of  the  splendid 
work  that  was  performed  by  a  sub­
committee,  consisting of  Messrs  Chas. 
W.  Garfield,  Harvey  J.  Hollister,  E. 
D.  Conger,  W.  H.  Elson,  John  W. 
Blodgett,  C.  W.  Burch,  Truman  Kel­
logg,  H.  B.  Vander  Cook,  W.  R. 
Shelby,  Maurice  Shanahan,  Daniel 
McCoy,  W.  M.  Palmer,  W.  B.  Wes­
ton,  S.  M.  Lemon,  Mark  Norris, 
Lewis  D.  Hall  and  L.  E.  Knappen.

The  Committee  secured  several 
sites  which  it  believed  were  splendid 
propositions  as  to  location  for  such 
a  school,  and  when  the  State  Board

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

of  Education  visited  our  city 
this 
splendid  Committee  did  everything 
possible  to  impress  upon  this  Board 
the  desirability  of  locating  the  new 
school  within  our  midst. 
It  was well 
known  to  the  Committee  that  other 
towns  were  offering  cash  bonuses 
and  other  inducements  for  the  loca­
tion  of  the  school  at  their  respective 
points,  but  our  Committee  took  the 
position  that  the  advantages  of  our 
beautiful  city  were  of  such  a  nature 
that  its  duty  was  performed  when 
these  many  advantages  were  properly 
presented  to  the  Board. 
It  did  not 
feel  that  the  great  State  of  Michigan | 
should  ask  any  community  to  furnish 
money  to  put  into  the  buildings,  or 
pay  any  part  of  the  operating  ex­
penses  for  a  term  of  years  for  this 
school.  The  community  at  large  has 
very 
the 
amount  of  detail  work  that  was  per­
formed  by  this  Committee  in  the  in­
terests  of  the  city,  and  that  we  failed 
to  secure  the  location  of 
the  new 
school  was  not  due  to  any  lack  of 
energy  or  ability  on  the  part  of  the 
Committee  or  the  Board  of  Trade, 
because  the  membership  at  large  gave 
its  hearty  and  enthusiastic  support  in  j 
every  way  possible  to  the  efforts  of 
the  Committee  especially  appointed 
for  this  work.

little  comprehension  of 

Another  matter  of  very  great  im­
portance  which  was  referred  to  this 
Committee,  and  which 
terminated 
most  successfully,  was  the  proposal 
to  establish  and  maintain  a  Riverside 
Boulevard  between  Grand  Rapids  and 
Grandville. 
It  would  be  difficult  to 
find  a  more  forcible  illustration  of 
the  loyalty,  public  spirit  and  generos­
ity  of  our  business  men  than  the  re­
sults  of  the  efforts  along  this  line 
present.  We  have  to-day  a  well  or­
ganized  Boulevard  Association  and 
about  fifteen  thousand  dollars 
sub­
scribed  for  the  development  of  this 
worthy  undertaking.  The  results of 
this movement abundantly  prove what 
can  be  accomplished  when  there  is 
a  “long  pull,  a  strong  pull,  and  a pull 
altogether”  to  accomplish  a  given ob­
ject.

Another  matter  that  was  referred 
to  this  tZommittee,  which  we  believe 
is  not  generally  known,  was  a  com­
munication  received  from  Prof.  A.
J.  Rooks,  in  relation  to  the  proposed 
change  in  the  literary  department  of 
the  Christian  Reformed  Church  Semi­
nary  into  a  college.

Prof.  Rooks  appeared  before  the 
Committee  and  gave  facts  and  sta­
tistics  which  were  a  complete  sur­
prise  to  every  member  present,  as  to 
the  development  and  present  pros­
pects  of  the  educational  work  carried 
on  by  that  institution.  No  one  had 
any  idea  that  more  than  one  hundred 
pupils  were  in  attendance  upon  the 
instructions  of  this  seminary  from 
outside  the  city.  After  an  exhaustive 
discussion  of  the  matter,  a  report was 
made  to  the  Board  of  Directors,  com­
mending  this  project  as 
entirely 
worthy  the  consideration  of  the  pub­
lic  spirited  and  philanthropic  citizens 
of  our  city.

This  comprises  the  more  important 
work  of  this  Committee  during  the 
year  past. 
It  is  unnecessary,  and 
would  be  impossible  to  present  at I 
such  a  time,  the  details  of  the  work |

of  any  of  the  more  important  com­
mittees  of  the  Board,  but  we  believe 
that  those  who  have  served  on  im­
portant  committees  realize  as  never 
before  how  necessary  and  how  valu­
able  to  the  city  at  large  is  the  work, 
faithfully  performed  and  unselfishly 
given  by  the  great  number  of  our 
members  who  have  never  failed  to 
bestow  in  behalf  of  our  city.

Respectfully  submitted, 

Amos  S.  Musselman, 

Chairman.

Transportation  Committee 

At  the  meeting  of  the  Committee 
on  Transportation,  held  March  3» 
1903,  sixteen  of  twenty-four  members 
of  the  Committee  were  present.  An 
unofficial  report  was  received  that the 
freight 
rate  on  soft  coal  to  Grand 
Rapids  would  be  made  the  same  as 
the  rate  to  Chicago.  This  problem 
was  before  the  Committee  the  previ­
ous  year,  and  the  handicap  of  paying 
a  higher  fuel  cost  as  compared  with 
Chicago  was  removed  April  1st  last, 
when  our  contention  was  recognized 
by the  railroads  making the  same  rate 
to  both  cities.

A  sub-committee  on  Car  Service 
Rules,  consisting  of  Messrs  Geo.  A. 
Davis,  C.  F.  Perkins  and W.  N.  Rowe, 
reported  having  secured  concessions 
to  lumber  and  coal  dealers  and  to 
furniture  manufacturers.

Messrs  E.  O.  Brown,  Geo.  G.  Whit­
worth  and  A.  Himes  were  appointed 
as  a  sub-committee 
investigate 
the  provision  of  a  Car  Service  bill  be­
fore  the  Legislature.

to 

The  Committee  at 

this  meeting 
voted  to  recommend  to  the  Board  of 
Directors  the  payment  of  $50  toward 
the  expenses  of  the  Executive  Com­
mittee  of  the  Inter-State  Commerce 
Law  Convention  in  trying  to  secure 
the  amendment  of 
Inter-State 
Commerce  Law.  This  recommenda­
tion  was  reported  to  and  adopted  by 
the  Board  of  Directors  at  its  meeting 
March  10th.

the 

At  the  meeting  of  the  Board  of 
Directors  September  8th,  a 
report 
was  made  that  the  General  Passenger 
Agents  of  the  Pere  Marquette  and 
G.  R.  &  I.  Railroads  had  agreed  to 
make  a  ten-day  excursion 
to 
Grand  Rapids  from  points  north  and 
wect  of  here  at  the  time  of  their  an­
nual  October  excursion 
to  Detroit 
and  Chicago.  The  low  rate  secured 
brought  to  this  city many  people  who 
would  not  otherwise  have  come  to 
Grand  Rapids,  to  the  great  advantage 
of  the  retail  trade  of  this  city.

rate 

At  the  meeting  of  the  Committee 
held  November  17th,  it  was  voted to 
recommend  to  the  Board  of  Directors 
the  adoption  of  resolutions  memoral- 
izing  Congress  for  an  extention  of 
the  powers  of  the  Interstate  Com­
merce  Commission  and  for  the  en­
actment  of  suitable  legislation  to re­
habilitate 
the  American  Merchant 
Marine.  These  resolutions  were  re­
ported  to  the  Board  of  Directors  at 
the  meeting  of  December  8th  and 
■ adopted.

Representing  the  West  Michigan 
I  State  Fair  Association,  your  Chair- 
I  man  with  the  officers  of  the  Associa­
tion  and  the  officers  of  the  Board  of 
Trade,  appeared  before  the  Michigan 
Passenger  Association  and  obtained

the  concession  of  a  one-fare  round- 
trip  rate  from  all  points  in  Michigan 
to  Grand  Rapids  during  the  holding 
of  our  fair,  thus  placing  the  West 
Michigan  State  Fair  on  an  equal basis 
with  the  State  Agricultural  Society’s 
event  at  Pontiac—as  far  as  the  rail­
ways  are  concerned.

Another  important  result  success­
fully  accomplished  by  the  Transpor­
tation  Committee  was  the  abolition 
of  intolerable  delay  in  handling  the 
early  morning  mails  from  Chicago 
and  the  bringing  about  of  additional 
train  service  between  this  city  and 
St.  Joseph.

the 

It  is  gratifying  to  be  able  to  refer 
to  the  close  and  very  friendly  rela­
tions  existing  between  our  organiza­
tion  and  the  officials  of  the  various 
In  every 
railways  centering  here. 
instance  have 
representations 
made,  the  counter  presentations  and 
the  discussions  following,  been  tem­
perate  but  earnest  and  thorough.  In 
no  case  has  there  been  shown,  on 
either  side,  any  disposition  to  work 
for  any  result  that  was  not  mutually 
fair  and  for  the  general  good. 
In 
this  spirit  have  we  succeeded,  with 
the  aid  of  the  railway  officials,  in  in­
augurating  trade  excursions,  in  se­
curing  additional  train  service,  in  ad­
justing  the  mail,  freight  and  pas­
senger  service  between  this  city  and 
St.  Joseph,  in  securing  a  drawbridge 
where  the  Pere  Marquette 
road 
crosses  our  river  and  in  obtaining  a 
one-fare-round-trip  rate  for  the  West 
Michigan  State  Fair,  thus  placing our 
annual  exhibition  on  an  equal  railway 
basis  with  that  of  the  Michigan  Agri­
cultural  Society  in  Eastern  Michigan.

Very  respectfully  submitted,

Eugene  D.  Conger, 

Chairman.

Industrial  Committee

In  common  with  the  interests  that 
are  assigned  to  your  Committee,  the 
members  of  the  Industrial  Committee 
have,  during  the  past  year,  been  re­
quired  to  strive  against  the  problems 
of  capital,  labor,  fuel  and  location  in 
relation  to  the  question  of  freight 
rates;  and  while  the  tangible  good 
results  obtained  are  meager,  we  feel 
that  it  is  through  no  lack  of  sincere 
and  painstaking  effort  on  the  part  of 
the  members  of  the  Committee.

Eight  formally  assembled  sessions 
of  the  General  Committee  were  held 
during the  year  and  a  score  of  hastily 
summoned  and  semi-informal  meet­
ings  of  various  sub-committees  were 
held  during  that  time. 
In  addition, 
several  thousand  circular  letters  with 
a  statistical  folder  showing  the  value 
of  Grand  Rapids  as  an 
industrial 
center,  were  mailed  to  Chicago  firms, 
while  a  voluminous  correspondence 
has  been  carried  on  through  the  year. 
Mr.  J  .  D.  Case  generously  donated 
his  efforts  and 
in 
Chicago  on  repeated  occasions,  to­
ward  securing  the  removal  here  of 
various  industries  in  that  city,  and 
our  Secretary,  Mr.  Van  Asmus,  spent 
five  days  in  Chicago  on  a  special  mis­
sion  of  the  same  character.

influence  while 

As  an  illustration  of  what  we  have 
had  to  contend  against,  a  Chicago 
manufacturer  stated  to  Mr.  Van  As­
“Our  plant 
mus  when  in  that  city: 
here  represents  an 
investment  of 
$120,000.  We  will  abandon  this  plant

and move  our business to  Grand  Rap­
ids,  we  won’t  ask  for  a  bonus  or  for 
any  subscription  to  our 
stock,  we 
won’t  ask  for  a  thing,  if  your  Board 
will  give  us  a  guarantee  over  the 
signatures  of your  President  and  Sec­
retary  that  for  five  years  we  will  be 
protected  against  labor  troubles.”

Other  members  of  our  Committee, 
both  as  individuals  and  as  sub-com­
mitteemen,  have  given  freely  of  their 
time  and  energy  in  the  effort  to  ad­
vance  our  city’s  industrial  interests.

As  an  evidence  that  we  have  not 
been  wholly  idle,  permit  us  to  state 
that 
individuals  and  organizations 
have  solicited  the  attention  of  your 
Commitee  and  have  been,  either  by 
correspondence  or  otherwise,  investi­
gated  and  reported  upon  as  numeri­
cally  indicated  below:
Chicago  negotiations.........................24
Michigan  negotiations..................... 10
Wisconsin  negotiations.....................4
Negotiations  elsewhere................... 14

Total  negotiations.....................52
Had  the  number  been  double  it 
is  extremely  doubtful  if,  under  the 
conditions  prevailing  last  year  and 
still  prevailing,  that  any  better  re­
sults  would  have  been  obtained.

Net  Tangible  Results 

Climax  Boiler  Co.— Valuable  as­
sistance  rendered  and  for  which  the 
Manager  of  the  Company  was  es­
pecially  grateful. 
The  Company’s 
present  condition  is  reported  as  satis­
factory  and  its  future  very  bright.

The  Gillett  Roller  Bearing  Co., 
from  Benton  Harbor,  have  moved 
here  and  have  purchased  property 
and  are  now  located  on  Grandville 
avenue.  Some  assistance  was  ren­
dered  in  investigations  for  suitable 
site.

American  Paper  Box  Co.— Succes­
sor  to  a  Cleveland  company’s  busi­
ness  which  was  purchased  and  re­
moved  here  nearly  a  year  ago.  No 
direct  assistance  was  asked  of  the 
Industrial  Committee  but  members 
of  the  Board  of  Trade  were  mainly 
instrumental  in  securing  this  business 
for  our  city  and  are  the  present 
main  owners.  The  business  is  in  full 
operation,  claims  to  have 
the  best 
folding  box  made  in  the  country  and 
anticipates  a  successful  career.

The  Board  of  Trade  Monthly  Bul­
letin  was  proposed  by  your  Com­
mittee  and  we  offer  our  thanks  to 
the  Board  of  Directors  for  adopting 
the  recommendation  and  deciding to 
publish  such  a  bulletin.

though 

The  Grand  Rapids  Board  of  Trade 
very  wisely  disapproves  of  the  bonus 
idea, 
to  our  neighboring 
towns  many  industries  have  been  at­
tracted,  we  believe,  largely  through 
the  inducement  of  a  bonus.  Neither 
does  the  Board  as  a  rule,  advocate 
the  purchase  of  industrial  stocks.

Occasionally,  as  in  the  case  of  the 
Climax  Boiler  Co.  it  lends  its  influ­
ence  toward  securing  capital  for  as­
suredly  profitable  enterprises.  But 
it  is  neither  one  or  both  together  of 
these  that  has  so  effectively  erected 
the  barrier  that  is  before  us. 
The 
the 
chief  factors  opposing  us  are 
labor  problem  and 
fact 
that 
Grand  Rapids  does  not  have  water 
transportation  to  Chicago,  Milwaukee 
and  elsewhere  on  the  Great  Lakes.

the 

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

In 

conclusion,  your  Committee 
wishes  to  express 
its  appreciation 
and  gratitude  to  the  esteemed  Presi­
dent  of  the  Board  of  Trade  for  his 
faithful  and  regular  attendance  at 
the  meetings  of  the  Industrial  Com­
mittee  and  for  his  hearty  and  always 
helpful  participation  in  the  delibera­
tions  and  problems  of  the  Committee 
and  tô  Secretary  Van  Asmus,  for  his 
efficient,  patient  and  intelligent  at­
tention  to  the  large  amount  of  detail 
work  and  correspondence  incident  to 
the  work  of  the  Committee,  and  to 
the  individual  members  of  the  Com­
mittee  who  have  so  earnestly  co-op­
erated  in  the  work  of  the  year.
Respectfully  submitted, 

Lewis  T.  Wilmarth, 

Chairman,  Industrial  Committee.

Municipal  Affairs  Committee 

The  Committee  on  Municipal  Af­
fairs  held  several  meetings  during 
the  past  year  for  discussion  of  and 
action  upon  questions  of  public  in­
terest  referred  to  it, 
chief  among 
which  were  the  Charter  Commission 
for  Grand  Rapids,  Good  Roads  and 
Grade  Crossings.  At  an  early  meet­
ing  a  sub-committee  was  appointed 
to  work  on  the  bill  before  the  Legis­
lature  to  create  a  Charter  Commis­
sion  for  Grand  Rapids.  During  the 
latter  part  of  the  year  a  program  was 
arranged  and  carried  out  for  the  dis­
cussion  of  the  subject  of  Good  Roads 
in  Kent  county  before  the  Board  of 
Directors,  the  principal  speaker  upon 
the  program  being  the  Hon.  Horatio 
S.  Earl  of  Detroit.  Subsequently an 
effort  was  made  to  induce  the  Board 
of  Supervisors  of  Kent  county 
to 
take  definite  action  upon  the  subject 
of  Good  Roads.  Thus  far,  however, 
no  definite  action  has  been  taken.
Respectfully  submitted,

Geo.  Clapperton, 

Chairman.

Committee  on  Legislation

The  Committee  on  Legislation  re­
spectfully  presents  the  following  re­
port  for  the  year  now  expiring.

The  details  of  the  work  done  by 
this  Committee  have  been  from  time 
to  time  presented  in  the  monthly  re­
port,  and  do  not  call  for  repetition 
now.

The  first  object  undertaken  by  the 
Committee  after  its  appointment,  was 
to  make  the  personal  acquaintance of 
the  representatives  in  the  Legislature 
from  this  city  and  county,  in  order 
that  whatever  measures  the  Commit­
tee  desired  to  approve  might  have  the 
benefit  resulting  from  such  acquaint­
ance.

In  carrying,  out  this  purpose,  the 
Committee  arranged  an  informal  din­
ner  at  the  Peninsular  Club,  which 
was  held  on  the  evening  of  March 
7th,  and  at  which  there  were  present 
nearly  all  of  the  members  of  the 
Legislature  from  the  city  and  county, 
as  well  as  most  of  the  members  of 
this  Committee  and  the  chairmen  of 
several  other  committees.  So  far  as 
could  be  judged  from  appearances 
and  from  expressions  of  opinion  by 
the  members  of  the  Legislature,  the 
object of the meeting was successfully 
accomplished.

The  State  Legislature  was  in  ses­
sion  from  the  beginning  of  the  year

until  some  time  in  June,  and  this 
Committee  took  a  more  or  less  active 
part  with  reference  to  all  pending 
measures  affecting  the  city.

A  delegation  was  sent  to  Lansing 
and  appeared  jointly  with  the  others 
in  favor  of  the  North  Park  Bridge 
Bonding  Bill,  which  was  finally  pass­
ed  and  later  carried  into  effect  by 
the  election.

The  Committee  also,  either  alone 
or  in  conjunction  with  other  com­
mittees,  appeared  before  the  Legis­
lature  in  support  of 
the  boulevard 
bill  and  the  bill  for  improving  the 
water  supply  by  installing  the  septic 
tank  system  at  the  Soldiers’  Home. 
Both  of  these  bills  became  laws  dur­
ing the  session.  The  Committee  also 
took  part  in  urging  the  passage  of 
the  bill  for  the  new  State  Normal 
School.

Different  members  of  the  Commit­
tee,  in  their  individual  capacities  and 
without  formal  action  by  the  Com­
mittee,  also  took  part  in  discussing 
with  the  members  of  the  Legislature 
and  in  urging  the  passage  of  the  bills 
relating  to  the  Library  Commission, 
the  Sinking  Fund  Commission,  and 
the  St.  Louis  Exposition  Appropria­
tion.

As  a  summary  of  the  matter,  I 
think  it  may  be  said  without  exag­
geration,  that  through  the  action  of 
this  and  other  committees,  the  Board 
made  itself  felt  as  a  factor  in  legisla­
tion  in  a  more  effective  way  than  has 
ever  before  been  done.

Respectfully  submitted,

A.  C.  Denison, 
Chairman.

Wholesale  Dealers'  Committee
On  February  19th  we  had  a  meet­
ing  and  concluded  to  have  a  Trade 
Excursion  to  Grand  Rapids  starting 
March  1st  and  running  to  the  15th, 
and  appointed  a  Committee  on  Rail­
roads  and  printing.  Our  committee 
called  on  the  railroad  people  and  they 
informed  us  that  the  Western  Passen­
ger  Association  would  not  grant  us 
the  rate  required,  so  we  appointed  a 
committee  to  wait  on 
the  General 
Passenger  Agents  who  reside  here, 
asking  them  to  reconsider  it.  We 
succeeded  in  having  them  grant  us 
the  rate,  and  on  July  15th  we  met 
again  and  arranged  for  an  excursion 
running from  August  24th  to  the  29th, 
which  was  well  attended,  over  100 
merchants  taking  advantage  of  the 
rate.  Later  we  were  informed  by 
the  Western  Passenger  Association 
that  on  account  of  so  many  of  the 
smaller  places  asking  for 
the  same 
privilege,  and  Detroit  not  caring  for 
it,  they  concluded  to  discontinue  the 
one  and  a  third  rate,  so  we  had  to 
look  for  other  methods  of  bringing 
people  to  Grand  Rapids.

On  December  1st we held a  meeting 
to  discuss  the  plan  that  Buffalo  and 
Knoxville  were  using  in  place  of what 
we  had.  We  had  a  very  representa­
tive  meeting,  most  every  member  of 
th  committee  being  present  and  we 
entered  into  the  discussion  from  the 
information  we  had  on  hand,  and 
appointed  a  committee  to  still  further 
investigate  and  report  later.

I  want  to  thank  the  committee  for 
the  hearty  support  they  have  given 
the  chairman  and  also  the  Railroad

companies  for  the  kind  way  in  which 
they  have  treated  us  in  regard  to 
penalties.  We  expect  to  hear  from 
our  committee  very  soon,  and  then 
we  will  have  another  meeting  and 
we  hope  we  will  be  able  to  form 
some  plan  that  will  be  satisfactory 
and  profitable  to  the  wholesalers.

Respectfully  submitted,

Chairman  Wholesale  Dealers’  Com­

Wm.  Logie,

mittee.

Retail  Dealers’  Committee.

Your  Committee,  appointed  and 
known  as  the  Retail  Dealers’  Com­
mittee,  held  its  first  meeting  on-  the 
afternoon  of  March  17th,  with  12 
members  of  the  Committee  present, 
also  President  Stevens  and  Secretary 
Van  Asmus.  The  Committee  entered 
into  a  general  discussion  as  to  what 
they  could  do  that  would  promote 
the  interests  of  the  retail  dealers  in 
Grand  Rapids  and  so  prove  a  benefit 
to  the  Board  of  Trade.

First,  was  the  question  of  how 
many  of  the  retail  dealers  of  Grand 
Rapids  belonged  to  the  Board  of 
Trade  and  what  method  to  take  to 
get  those  who  were  not  alredy  mem­
bers,  to  become  members  of 
the 
Board. 
It  was  finally  decided  that 
a  sub-committee  of  five  should  be 
appointed  to  compile  a  list  of  all  the 
retail  dealers  in  the  city  who  were 
not  members  of  the  Board,  and  the 
same  to  be  given  to  the  Membership 
Committee,  to  be  used  in  trying  to 
prevail  upon  them  to  become  mem­
bers,  your  Committee  believing  that 
more  good  could  be  done  for  the  re­
tail  interests  by  having  as  near  a 
complete  membership  of  the  retail 
dealers  as  possible.  This  Committee 
consisted  of  W.  S.  Winegar,  R.  A. 
McWilliams,  Will  Hine,  and  E.  J. 
Herrick  and  T.  E.  Dryden.  As  a  re­
sult  of  the  efforts, 
compiled 
a  list  of  250  retail  dealers  who  were 
not members of the  Board.  The  same 
was  forwarded  to  the  Membership 
Committee  for  their  use.

they 

The  next  matter  of  interest  was 
the  ten  days  excursion,  which  was 
given  by  the  P.  M.  and  G.  R.  &  I. 
Railroads  from  points  north  to  Chi­
cago,  Detroit  and  Toledo— our  ob­
ject  being  to  have  Grand  Rapids  in­
cluded  in  the  itinerary.  A  sub-com­
mittee  consisting  of  Mr.  A.  May,  C. 
L.  Harvey  and  E.  H.  Smith  was  ap­
pointed  to  aid  the  Transportation 
Committee  in  the  matter  of  this  ten 
day  excursion,  believing 
this 
would  be  a  benefit  to  the  retail  in­
terests  of  the  city.

The -next  question  discussed  was 
the  matter  of  the  fair.  The  points 
taken  up  were  the  question  of  ex­
hibits  by  the  retailers  of 
the  city. 
Also,  the  matter  of  the  attendance 
of  the  employes  during  the  fair. 
It 
will  be  the  effort  of  this  Committee 
to  have  the  retailers  take  a  more  gen­
eral  interest,  and  more  concerted  ac­
tion  in  the  exhibits  at  the 
coming 
fair  than  in  years  previous.

that 

All  of which  we  respectfully submit.

Eugene  W.  Jones, 

Chairman.

Real  Estate  Committee

The  Real  Estate  Committee,  realiz­
ing as they  do that  their business wel­
fare  is  more  closely  connected  with

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the  success  of  the  main  object  in 
which  the  Board  of Trade  is  engaged, 
viz.;  the  securing  of  new  and  varied 
manufacturing  interests  for  our  city, 
as  well  as  extending  aid,  when  de­
sired,  to  those  now  with  us— than  al­
most  any  other  body  of  business  men, 
ever  stand  ready  to  give  of 
their 
time  and  knowledge  in  the  further­
ance  of  this  end.

While  the  members  of  the  Commit­
tee,  individually,  have  been  active  in 
the  promoting  and  locating  of  several 
very  desirable  additions  to  our  local 
industries during the year just  passed, 
the  Committee  collectively  has  had 
but  one  subject  brought  before  it, 
viz.  “The  location  of the  West  Michi­
gan  Normal  School,”  and  while  the 
efforts  of  the  Board  of  Trade  and 
our  citizens  in  general,  did  not  meet 
with  success,  we  feel  that  the  Real 
Estate  Committee  did  everything  in 
its  power  in  its  endeavor  to  gain  the 
desired  end.  The  members  of 
the 
Committee  took  the  matter  up  with 
a  great  deal  of  interest,  and  the  re­
sult  shown  in  the  many  different  sites 
which  we  were  able  to  present  to 
the  State  Board  of  Education,  was 
an  evidence  that  their  work  was  well 
done.

I  think  the  offer  made  by  Mr. 
Truman  Kellogg  to  the  Board  of 
Trade,  of  a  site  of  twenty  acres  of 
land,  free  from  expense,  as  one  re­
sult  of  that  work,  was  worth  all  the 
time  and  labor  expended  by 
the 
Committee,  as  it  shows  that  Grand 
Rapids  has  public  spirited  citizens 
who  will  come  to  the 
front  when 
needed,  with  a  liberality  beyond  what 
we  had  dared  hope.

The  real  estate  members  of  the 
Board  of  Trade  will  always  be  ready 
at  your  call,  or  that  of  your  succes­
sors,  to  lend  their  efforts  in  behalf 
of  any  object  which  you  may  present 
to  them,  and  looking  forward  as  they 
do  to  the  most  successful  year,  in 
many,  in  their  private  business,  they 
also  anticipate  and  present  their  best 
wishes  for  the  same  to  the  Board  of 
Trade.

Respectfully,

W.  H.  Gilbert,

Chairman  Real  Estate  Committee.

Entertainment  Committee

The  most  important  matter  con­
sidered  by  this  Committee  was  the 
annual  excursion  down 
the  river. 
Here,  we  felt,  was  an  opportunity  to 
display  the  abilities  which  our  Presi­
dent  believed  we  possessed  when  he 
gave  us  a  place  on  this  Committee. 
But  we  were  doomed  to  disappoint­
ment.  The  first  meeting  of  the  Com­
mittee  was  held  on  August  17th,  at 
which  time  special  committees  were 
appointed  on  boats,  on  catering,  on 
music  and  on  athletics.  Thereafter, 
several  meetings  were  held  and  the 
date  of  the  excursion  was  finally  fixed 
at  October  7th,  1903.

The  committees  immediately  pro­
ceeded  to  work  upon  their  respective 
appointments,  and  at  a  meeting  held 
on  October  2nd,  reports  were  made 
showing  that  every  man  had  done 
his  duty  and  it  seemed  that  the  ex­
cursion  would  prove  to  be  the  best 
that  the  Board  of Trade  had  ever  en­
joyed.

For  several  days  previous  to  the

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day  set,  the  weather  had  been  very 
threatening  and  dismal,  and  if  was  | 
generally  understood  by  the  members  j 
of  the  Board  that  in  case  it  rained  on  | 
the  morning  of  the  chosen  day,  the 
excursion  would  be  declared  off.  j 
October  7th  was  ushered  in  by  a  rain­
storm  which  showed  no  signs  of  ces­
sation  during  the  day.  Everything ' 
being  in 
readiness,  advertisements 
were placed in  the various newspapers  | 
announcing  that  owing  to 
certainty  of  the  weather,  the  excur- ! 
sion  was  declared  off,  and  that  in lieu  j 
thereof,  a  smoker  would  be  tendered  1 
the  members  of  the  Board  at  the  Ar­
mory  on  the  evening  of  October  8.  [ 
This  affair  was  well  attended  and  in  1 
a  measure  atoned  for  the  loss  of  the 
trip  down  the  river.  The  disappoint­
ment  in  not  being  able  to  take  the  j 
annual  boat  ride  down  the  river  was 
very  general,  but  by  nòne  was  it  felt 
so  keenly as  by  your  Committee,  who | 
saw  the  results  of  many  days’  labor j 
come  practically  to  naught.

the  un­

with  the  entire  Committee  through 
the  sub-chairman  and  each  sub-com­
mittee  was  constantly  endeavoring 
to  keep  pace  with  the  others,  which 
maintained  an  active  competition  in 
procuring  new  members.

At  the  first  meeting  of  the  gen­
eral  Committee  a  sub-committee  was 
appointed  to  abstract  from  the  Sec­
retary’s  annual  report  “A  few  reasons 
why  you  should  belong  to  the  Board 
of  Trade,”  the  substance  compiled 
to  be  printed  in  the  little  Board  of 
Trade  Directory  which  was  distribut­
ed  among  the  entire  Board  member­
ship;  the  evidence  obtained 
served 
to  great  advantage  throughout  the 
year  as  the  members  of  my  commit­
tee  employed  the  arguments  so  care­
fully  reasoned  out  by  the  Committee, 
and  it  was  the  means  of  many  men 
joining  who  could  not  have  been  in­
fluenced  to  do  so  had  not  the  wise 
reasoning  been  properly  placed  be­
fore  the  gentlemen  sought  for  mem­
bership.

for 

Your  Committee  sincerely  hopes j 
that  the  coming  year  will  have  no j 
such  hard  knocks  in  store 
the 
Entertainment  Committee  as  the  past 
year  has  yielded  and  that  when  the j 
time  is  ripe  for  the  annual  excursion 
the  occasion  will  be  one  of  sunshine 
only,  with  no  rainstorms  to  mar  our 
pleasure.

Respectfully  submitted, 

Cornelius  L.  Harvey, 

Chairman  Entertainment  Committee.

Membership  Committee

In  making  my  report  of  the  opera­
tions  and  achievements  of  the  Mem­
bership  Committee  covering  the  past 
year,  I  have  to  say  that  I  very  much 
appreciate 
the  compliment  extend­
ed  me  by  the  President  in  granting 
permission  to  assist  in  selecting  the 
members  of  my  Committee  which 
enabled  me  to  procure  men  with 
whom  I  was  acquainted  and  in  touch.
I  consequently  kept  in  mind  the 
first paragraph  on page 6 of the print­
ed  address  of President Stevens, given 
at  the  annual  banquet  one  year  ago, 
in  which  a  hope  was  expressed  that 
he  might  finish  the  ensuing  year  with j
1,000  members  in  good  standing;  I 
was,  at  all  times,  determined  that  this 
result  should  be  brought  about  and 
assure  you  it  was  no  difficult  mat­
ter  to  induce  the  members  of  my 
Committee  to  join  with  me  in  that 
numerical  anticipation.

After  the  appointments  were  made, 
a  meeting  of  the  Membership  Com­
mittee  was  immediately  called  and 
each  man  responded and with a happy 
determination,  agreed  to  unite  his 
efforts  with  those  of  the  other  mem­
bers  and  develop  a  record  for  our 
Committee  that  we  could  at  the  end 
of  our  year,  point  to  with  pride.

We  were  all  the  time  moving  under 
the  wise  guidance  of  President  Stev­
ens  and  Secretary  Van  Asmus  and 
the  first  important  action  was  to  di­
vide  my  men  into  eight  sub-commit- 
tees,  each  having  a  sub-chairman; the 
privilege  was  granted  each  sub-chair­
man  to  select  from  the  Committee 
membership  his  proportion  of 
the 
members,  said  selection  having  been 
made  by  circuitous  choice.

By  this  arrangement,  the  general 
chairman  was  at  all  times  in  touch

Another  move  of  importance  was 
the  appointment  of  five  members  of 
the  Retail  Dealers’  Committee 
to 
compile  a  list  of  retail  dealers  who 
were  not  members  of  the  Board,  the 
result  being  that  250  names  of  men 
who  were  very  desirable  material  for 
membership  were  put  into  a  list;  at 
the  next  general  meeting  of my  Com­
mittee,  these  names  were  read  and 
were  selected  proportionately by  each 
sub-committee with the  understanding 
that  the  prospective  members  were 
to  be  seen  and  from  that  effort  119 
new  members  were  voted  into  the 
organization  at  the  following  meet­
ing  of  the  Board  of  Directors;  I  be­
lieve  the  records  of  the  Secretary will 
show  this  to  be  the  largest  class  of 
members  ever  voted  upon  at  a  di­
rector’s  meeting.

When  the  work  that  was  before 
my  Committee  seemed  to  be  receiv­
ing  insufficient  attention,  I  procured 
permission  from  the  Board  of  Direc­
tors  to  treat  my  Committee  to  an 
evening  dinner for the purpose  of get­
ting  them  all  together  and spicing the 
enthusiasm  of  each  man  to  the  proper 
pitch  for  future  activity;  at  such  a 
feast,  the  experiences  of  different 
committeemen 
to 
procure  membership  was  related  and 
what  interest  was  lacking  in  any  in­
dividual  was  brought  to  a  higher  ten­
sion  by  the  enthusiasm  which  was 
rubbed  off  the  more  active  workers 
by  this  close,  common  contact.

their  efforts 

in 

I  have  been  Chairman  of  the  Mem­
bership  Committee  for  the  past  two 
years,  during  the  incumbency  of  the 
out-going  President,  arid  was  a  mem­
ber  of  the  Committee  previous  to 
that  time;  in  order  to make  the  report 
show  as  favorable  to  my  committee 
as  it  should,  it  is  necessary  for  me  to 
look  back  and  tell  you  the  member­
ship  of  the  Board  increased  by  327 
members  during  the  five  years  pre­
ceding  the  election  of  President  Stev­
ens,  making  a  total  membership  of 
510  at  the  time  of  his  first  inaugural.
The  first  year  of  his  incumbency 
increased  the  membership  323,  to  a 
total  of  833  members  which  was  the 
standing  one  year  ago;  it  seemed  at 
that  time  to  many  interested  Direc­
tors  that  the  growth  could  not  pos­
sibly  increase  materially,  but 
the.

1,000  mark  set  by  the  President  was 
constantly  in  our  view  and  by  the  in­
troduction  of  more  than  300  new 
members  through  the  efforts  of  my 
Committee’s  work  during 
the  past 
year,  we  take  great  pleasure  in  hold­
ing  before  you  a  membership  list  in 
good  standing  at  this  time,  of  1,036.
I  will  not  endeavor  to  tell  you  of 
the  comfort  and  satisfaction  jointly 
enjoyed  by  President  Stevens  and 
the  Membership  Committee  Chair­
man  through  the  existing  conditions 
which  show  the  membership  of  the 
Board  of  Trade  has  more 
than 
doubled  during  the  past  two  years, 
and  gives  to  Grand  Rapids  a  Board 
of Trade  membership  greater, numeri­
cally,  and  more  important  in  quality, 
than  that  of  any  similar  organization 
maintained  in  any  city  of  equal  size 
and  importance  in  the  United  States.

Respectfully  submitted,

Chairman,  Membership  Committee.

Alvah  Brown,

Secretary’s  Report

The  rules  of  the  Grand  Rapids 
Board  of  Trade  impose  upon  the  of­
ficers  and  directors  the  duty  of  pre­
senting  to  the  Association,  at  its  an­
nual  meeting,  a  report  of  the  work 
for  the  preceding  calender  year.  The 
present  is  the  sixteenth  annual  and, 
besides  the  reports  of 
several 
committees,  contains  a  summary  by 
the  Secretary,  together  with  his  ob­
servations  and  suggestions.

the 

The  year  just  passed  has  been  the 
most  prosperous 
in  Grand  Rapids’ 
commercial  history.  The  statistical 
report  appended,  gives  in  detail,  facts 
and  figures  ascertained  from  official 
sources,  and  is  worth  examination. 
As will be  noted, the three  barometers 
of  trade— bank  clearing  house,  post- 
office,  freight  tonnage— show  a  de­
cided  gain.  And  the  year  1904  aug­
urs  well  for  an  equally  successful 
period  of  business  activity.

The  charter  of  the  Grand  Rapids 
Board  of  Trade  recites  that  it  is  or­
ganized  to  foster,  protect  and  ad­
vance  the  commercial,  manufacturing 
and  business  interests  of  the  city  and 
surrounding territory and we have not 
shirked  our  duty  to  extend  our  in­
fluence  throughout  that  part  of Michi­
gan  which  has  Grand  Rapids  as  its 
commercial  center.  This  work  it  has 
been  doing  for  many years.  We  have 
taken  up  a  work  which 
is  given 
neither  to  politics  nor  religion  to  do.
There  runs  through  the  arteries  of 
our  business  world  a  great  stream, 
the  pulsations  of  which  can  only  be 
felt  and  diagnosed  at  a  few  points or 
stations  in  the  country,  and  Grand 
Rapids  is  one  of  the  principal  watch 
tower  stations, and through her Board 
of  Trade,  she  keeps  herself  in  touch 
with  all  the  other  stations. 
In  no 
way  is  it  possible  to  inject  into  the 
national  tide  of  commerce  any  stimu­
lus  when the “patient” is weak or dur­
ing  a depression in kite times of infla­
tion,  so well as through organizations 
which  reflect not  only the  state of fin­
ances,  but  the  commercial,  the  manu­
facturing  and  the  transportation  in­
terests  as  well.  These  four  great 
fields  of  activity,  while  generally  at 
peace  with  each  other,  sometimes 
get  at loggerheads,  which,  if  not  soon 
abated,  result 
times  all 
around.  On  the  floor  of  our  Board

in  hard 

interest  and  far  reaching 

these  interests  have  equal  opportunity 
to  be  heard  and  to  urge  their  claims 
for  the  general  approval  of  the  body.
Resolutions  are  being  constantly 
received  by  the  Board  from  other 
similar  bodies,  some  of  which  are  of 
vital 
in 
their  object.  In  general  they  call  for 
our  opinions  in  regard  to  new  nation­
al  legislation,  or  to  the  modifications 
of  the 
laws  affecting  agriculture, 
commerce,  mining,  finances,  transpor­
tation,  river  improvements,  etc.  Oc­
casionally something originates  in  our 
own  meetings  of  intense  vital  local 
interest,  such  as  the  pollution  of  our 
river  water,  the  improvement  of  our 
waterway  to  the  Lake,  the  increase 
or  betterment  of  railway  service;  or 
industrial  enterprises  with  their  vari­
able  and  mose  perplexing  situations 
are  submitted  for  our  action.  Often 
have  I  sat  in  my  chair  listening  to 
the  speakers  at  our  Board  or  Com­
mittee  meetings,  and  have  thought—  
What?  Are these ten, twenty or thirty 
business  men  assembled  here  to  pass 
upon  the  merits  of  matters  which 
concern  the 
entire  population  of 
Grand  Rapids,  and  the  surrounding 
country? 
Is  there  no  other  voice  to 
be  heard  on  this  question,  and  is  the 
action  to  be  heralded  in  Lansing,  in 
Washington,  throughout  the  country, 
as 
the  voice  of  Grand  Rapids? 
Whether  for  good,  or  for  ill,  such  is 
the  case.  The  voices  of  the  commit­
tees,  of  the  directors,  speaking  for 
the  thousand  members,  are 
taken 
abroad  as  representative  of  the  in­
terest  of  this  commonwealth.  The 
great  mass  of  our  citizens  hear  little 
of  the  agency  which  does  so  much 
of  their  thinking  and  works  so  con­
scientiously  for  their 
interest,  and 
hence  the  ignorance  on  the  part  of 
many  excellent  men,  of 
the  good 
work  which  the  Board  has  done  and 
is  doing.

It  stands  to  reason,  however,  that 
we  can  not have mass  meetings  of our 
people  every  month  to  pass  upon 
the  merits  of  measures  brought  be­
fore  us.  We  have  tried  it  and  it  has 
not  proven  a  success.

I  have  watched  the  active  directors 
and  committee  men  for  many  years, 
and  I  do  not  know  of  any  of  them 
who  would  not  gladly  give  his  place 
to  any  new  comer  with  good  inten­
tions  and  desirous  of  working  pro 
bono  publico.

In  view  of  these  reflections,  it  is 
most  gratifying  to  record  the »attend­
ance  at  our  meetings,  the  unity  of  ef­
fort  and  the  earnestness  of  desire  on 
the  part  of  these  committee  men,  to 
lend  a  hand  to  the  upbuilding  of  our 
city  and  place  it  on  a  solid  founda­
tion  commercially  and 
industrially, 
the  good  feeling  and  harmony  with 
which  they  are  working  together  to 
make  our  Board  a  broad-guage,  pro­
gressive  institution;  and  the  effective 
work  that  has  brought  our  member­
ship  to  over  1,000,  has  given  us  a 
moral  and  financial  support  whereby 
we  are  enabled  to  make  good  use 
of  our  opportunities  to  do  a  great 
good  for  all.

Important  Business  Transactions 
It is  with  much  pride  that  reference 
is  here  made  to  two  organizations 
created,  fostered  and  launched  upon 
their  careers  under  our  direction.

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13

While  they  have  organized  independ­
ently,  they  remain  under  our  direc­
tion  and  guidance,  being  officered  by 
men  most  prominent  in  the  Board 
of  Trade  and  conducted  along  our 
usual  systematic 
lines  which  puts 
the  cost  of  maintenance  at  a  mini­
mum. 
If  our  plans  do  not  fail— and 
they  will  not— a  third  enterprise  will 
be  added  to  our  constellation  of  af­
filiated  organizations  this  year.

The  West  Michigan  State  Fair,  our 
elder  offspring,  is  a  lusty  one,  which, 
under  adverse  circumstances  and  in 
spite  of  battling  with  the  elements 
for  two  seasons,  is  now  recognized 
by  exhibitors,  stock  breeders,  farm­
ers,  manufacturers  and  citizens  gen­
erally,  as  a  permanent 
institution 
admirably  adapted  and  conducted  as 
a  place  for  the  exhibition  of products; 
as  a  powerful  educational  factor  and 
as  a  mighty  force  in  the  promotion 
of  trade.  Superior  in  its  variety,  it 
is  clean  and  wholesome  and  as  an 
annual  rallying  point  for  the  people 
of  Western  Michigan  it  is  without 
a  rival.

Next  in  order  is  the  Grand  Rapids 
Park 
and  Boulevard  Association 
which,  at  six  months  of  age,  has  to 
her  credit  in  the  bank,  about  $15,000 
and  enough  more  cash  in  sight  to  as­
sure  to  our  city  and  surrounding  ter­
ritory  one  of  the  most  picturesque 
system  of  parks  and  boulevards  in 
the  United  States.  For  its  officers 
this  Association  has  men  who  love 
the  work,  who  worship  God  in  nature 
and  who,  without  pecuniary  recom­
pense,  willingly  bestow 
time 
and  best  efforts  in  order  to  make 
Grand  Rapids  a  good  place  in  which 
to  live.  And  these  are  the  same  men 
who  stand  at  the  head  of  the  Board 
of  Trade,  whose  hands  are  at  the | 
helm  at  Comstock  Park  and  who,  at I 
present,  are  busy  with  the  plans  for 
bringing  into  existence  the  third  im­
portant  organization  already  prom-1 
ised  and  referred  to  above.

their 

Had  the  Board  of  Trade  accom­
plished  nothing  else  during  the  past 
year,  beyond  the  creation  of  the  Park 
and  Boulevard  Association,  would  it 
not  be  well  entitled  to  your  cheerful 
support  morally  as  well  as  finan­
cially?

But  other  things  have  been  attend­
ed  to.  The  law  appropriating  funds 
sufficient  to  cover  the  cost  of  an  ade­
quate  representation  of  the  resuorces 
and  interests  of  Michigan  at 
the 
T ouisiana  Purchase  Exposition 
in 
St.  Louis,  originated  with  the  Board 
of  Trade  and  it  was  largely  through 
the  efforts  of  our  organization  that 
it  was  given  a  place  among  the  Stat­
utes  of  our  State.

No  influence  more  potent  in  secur­
ing  the  enactment  of  the  law  provid­
ing  for  a  State  Normal  School  for 
Western  Michigan,  was  exercised 
than  was  put  forth  by  our  Board  of 
Trade.

And  another  achievement  to  our 
credit  was  the  enactment  of  a  law 
prohibiting  the  Soldiers’  Home  au­
thorities  or  any  other  person,  from 
pgrmitting  pollution  of  the  waters of 
Grand  River  by  the  discharge  of  sew­
age  into  the  river  within  a  distance 
of  ten  miles  north  of  the  city,  thus 
securing  at  a  very  small  cost,  a  sup­
ply  of  pure  water  for  our  city.

Our  Board  of  Trade  has  been  the 
means  of  establishing  several  new 
industries  in  our  city;  has  secured 
an  appropriation 
from  the  general 
government  sufficient  to  thoroughly 
repair  and  put  in  first-class  condition, 
the  dipper  dredge,  scows  and  other 
equipment  for  the  improvement  of 
Grand  River  and  to  build  a  new  up- 
to-date  hydraulic  suction  dredge—  
which  is  nearly  ready  for  business—  
thus perfecting our river  improvement 
plant.

Through  the  efforts  of  the  Board 
of  Trade,  the  necessary 
legislation 
was  obtained  for  the  building  of  the 
new  free  bridge  at  North  Park,  which ! 
will  be  ready  for  business  by  the 
first  of  May.  We  have  entertained 
a  group  of  distinguished  farmers  and 
scientists  representing  the  German 
Government  and  through  those  gen­
tlemen  have  sent  back  to  the  official 
records  of that country, a vast amount 
of  information  pertaining  to  this  city 
and  her  interests,  that  was  obtained 
at  first  hands  and  so,  accurately  and 
thoroughly.  And  such  advertising, 
distributed  personally  and  being  con­
tinually  repeated  among  individuals 
and  in  localities  where  it  will  do  the 
most  good,  is  worth  double  the  cost 
of  entertaining.

While  the  Board  of  Trade  may 
not,  directly,  claim  any  of  the  credit 
for  the  organization  of  our  new  Com­
mercial  Savings  Bank,  still  it  is  a 
pleasure  to  refer  to  an  institution  so 
well  founded  and 
remarkably 
prosperous,  because  Mr.  C.  B.  Kelsey 
who  organized  the  bank,  Mr.  H.  N. 
Morrill,  the  cashier  and  all  of 
the 
members  of  the  Board  of  Directors, 
are  earnest,  liberal  and valuable  mem­
bers  of  our  organization.

so 

New  Government  Building

To  any  person  who  is  at  all  inti­
mately  acquainted  with  the  volume 
of  business  taken  care  of  daily  in  our 
present  United  States  Government 
I  building,  it  is  patent  that  that  struc­
ture  and  its  equipment  are  entirely 
inadequate  for  the  service  they  are 
called  upon  to  perform.  This  fact 
was  so  well  appreciated  by  the  Board 
of  Trade  that  our  organized  influence 
was  called  into  play  nearly  two  years 
ago  with  a  view  to  bettering  condi­
tions.  So  successful  was  this  action 
that  favorable  consideration  was.  be­
stowed  upon  the  matter  by  Congress 
and  at  the  close  of  the  last  session, 
a  report  favorable  to  the  appropria­
tion  of  $750,000  for  a  new  Govern­
ment  building  at  Grand  Rapids,  was 
made  by  the  Committee  on  Public 
Buildings.  Such  matters move  slowly 
at  Washington  but  a  begining  has 
been  made  and  it  is  the  purpose  of 
the  Board  of  Trade  to  see  the  propo­
sition  through  to  a  finish.

May  Music  Festival

As  will  be  well  remembered,  the 
Board  of  Trade,  by  formal  action  last 
spring,  endorsed  the  May  Music  Fes­
tival  given  under  the  auspices  of  the 
Schubert  Club  and  followed  this  up 
by  issuing  a  printed  appeal  to  the 
people  of  Grand  Rapids  and  adjacent 
neighborhoods. 
this  way  was 
practical  assistance  bestowed  upon  a 
most  worthy  object  with  the  result 
that  the  Grand  Rapids  May  Music 
Festival  for  1903,  was  the  most  suc­
cessful  event  of  the  kind— as  to  the

In 

character  of music presented, ability of 
musicians  who  took  part  and,  best 
of  all,  attendance  by  our  citizens  and 
neighbors— ever  given  in  the  State 
of  Michigan. 
In  this  action,  too,  en­
couragement  was  given  to  an  art  and 
a  well  developed  public  taste,  which, 
steadily  advancing,  cannot  fail  to  be 
of  inestimable  value  to  the  whole  of 
Western  Michigan  as  an  entity  and 
to  the  city  of  Grand  Rapids  in  par­
ticular.  Moreover,  it  is  entirely  safe 
to  announce  that  similar  action  will 
be  taken  by the  Board  this  spring  and 
that  the  coming  May  Music  Festival 
will  be  another  record  breaker.

Miscellaneous  Matters

Material  assistance  has  also  been 
given  by  our  organization  the  past 
year  to  the  annual  convention  of  the 
Michigan  Federation  of  Women’s 
Clubs,  the  Gregg  Short  Hand  Inter­
national  Association, 
the  Michigan 
State  Poultry  Association  and  the 
Grand  Rapids  Poultry  Association 
and  the  National  Benefit  Association.
And,  as  another  illustration  of  the 
immediate  local  value  of  our  organi­
zation  may  be  given  the  fact  that 
our  association  rooms  are  available, 
gratis,  for  meeting  purposes  and  are 
occupied  in  this  way  nearly  every 
evening  each  month.  During  the  past 
year  26  separate  organizations  have 
held  their  regular  meetings— weekly, 
monthly,  semi-annually  or  specially, 
as  the  occasion  required.

Another  achievement,  in  the  reflect­
ed  brilliancy  of  which  our  Board  is 
licensed  to  take  pleasure,  is  the  re­
cent  revolution  made  by  the  Citizens 
Telephone  Co.  when  over  5>°°°  tele­
phones  were  changed  from  the  out- 
of-date  “hello” system,  to the  wonder­
ful  automatic  call  system,  within  a 
space  of  a  very  few  minutes.  Con­
gratulations  and  all  hail  to  the  most 
extensive  and  best  conducted  inde­
pendent  telephone 
the 
country.

system 

in 

There  is,  in  this  city,  one  of  the 
largest  best  equipped  museums  of 
natural  history  and  the  sciences  in 
the  land.  We  also  have,  nearly  com­
pleted  and  to  be  opened  soon,  the 
finest  public  library building  in  Michi­
gan.  Both  of  these  institutions  are 
under  the  direction  of  able  citizens 
who  are  prominent  in  the  affairs  of 
the  Board  of  Trade.

Any  citizen  who  enjoys  pleasurable 
revelations  may  bestow  such  a  treat 
upon  himself  by  visiting  the  West 
Michigan  State  Fair  grounds.  Under 
the  efficient  direction  of  President 
Wm.  H.  Andrews  and  the  officers  of 
the  Fair Association  the grounds  have 
been  thoroughly  drained,  the  road­
ways  entirely  rebuilt  and  buildings 
improved  and  before  the  time  for  our 
next  fair  there  will  be  no  danger  of 
a  repetition  of  the  conditions  precipi­
tated  during  the  past  two  years— and 
I  use  the  word  “precipitated”  ad­
visedly.

As  a  Fruit  Center

there  was, 

While  Grand  Rapids  has  a 

long 
time  lead  as  the  chief  market  in  this 
country  for  peaches  and  still  retains 
the  lead, 
for  various 
causes,  a  considerable  falling  off  in 
the  crop for  1903-  On  the  other hand, 
we  had  a  tremendous  crop  of  apples 
with  other  fruits  coming  in  in  fair 
i  quantities.  The  aggregate 
income

shows  a  gratifying  increase,  that  to­
tal  being  $2,052,350,  an  increase  of 
over  half  a  million  dollars  above  the
in 1902.
revenue  from this  source 
hollowing  is  a report  in  detail as  to
our  fruit  market  last  year:

Fruit

Peaches,
Pears,
Plums,
Apples,
Crabapples,
Quinces,
Cherries,
Pie  plant,
Grapes,
Strawberries,
Raspberries,
Blackberries,
Gooseberries,
Currants,

6,800  bbl.
44,000  bu.
552,000  bu.
2,200  bu.
1,600  bu.
44,000  bu.
9,200  bu.

Quantity  Av Price
700,000  bu. $  1.50
2.00
i.00
1.10
i. 00
1.00
2.50
125
128  tons 20.00
2.00
2.00
2.00
2.00
2.00

196,000  crt.
93,500  crt.
94,000  crt.
1,800  crt.
4,200  crt.
As  A Produce  Center

It  is  not  alone  as  a  fruit  market 
that  Grand  Rapids  is  famous,  for  it 
ranks  as  one  of the  important  produce 
markets  of the  land.  It is  a headquar­
ters  for  potatoes,  celery, 
cabbage, 
cucumbers,  lettuce,  radishes,  aspara­
gus,  tomatoes  and  onions.  With 
more  than  a  score  of  produce  and 
commission  houses  here  doing  busi­
ness  with  the  chief  business  centers 
north,  northwest,  west,  south,  and 
southwest,  and  east  and  having  ware- 
houces  and  storage  depots  all  over 
Michigan,  the  total  amount  of  pro­
duce  bought  and  sold  and  shipped 
at  this  point  is  enormous,  telling  in 
terms  unmistakable,  of 
the  great 
value  of  Grand  Rapids  and  its  ad­
jacent  territory  as  a  market  garden­
ing  section.

As  An  Excursion  Center

Situated  as  she  is,  with  Lake  Michi­

gan  but  a  very  short  distance  away  ■ 
on  the  west  and  with  dozens  of  beau­
tiful  inland  lake  resorts  within  from 
three  to  twenty-five  miles  distant, 
Grand  Rapids  is  especially well  equip­
ped  as  to  the  variety  of  its  midsum­
mer  attractions. 
In  itself  a  parklike 
city  with  riverside  drives  and  pic­
turesque  hills  and  valleys,  she  com­
bines  the  excellences  of  rural 
life 
with  the  conveniences  and  luxuries 
of  city  life  so  that  as  a  summer  home 
city,  she  is  attracting  wide-spread  at­
tention.  During  the  past  year  the 
Grand  Rapids  Railway  Company,  by 
arrangement  with 
the  church  or­
ganizations  and  Sunday  schools  and 
through  co-operation  by  the  Board 
of  Trade,  attracted  nearly  20,000  ex­
cursionists  to  the  city  while 
the 
steam  railways,  by 
effort, 
brought  30,000  additional  excursion­
ists  here.  And,  in  this  connection 
must not be forgotten  the  semi-annual 
furniture  fairs  which  are  regularly 
attended  by  ten  or  twelve  hundred 
people  from  other  cities.  Thus  it  will 
be  seen,  there  are  not  many  days 
when  we  lack  “the  stranger  within 
our  gates”  being  represented  numer­
ously.

similar 

Suburban  Railway  Development
While  Grand  Rapids  is  naturally 
recognized  and  has  long  been  in  the 
minds  of  men  interested  in  the  build­
ing  and  operation  of  suburban  elec­
tric  railways  as  a  central  objective 
point,  the  influence  of 
the  Grand 
Rapids  Board  of  Trade  has  been 
given  and  has  been  of  much  value 
in  aiding  the  development  of 
the

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Grand  Rapids  and  Ionia  Railway  and 
the  line  from  this  city  to  Kalamazoo 
by  way  of  Gunn  Lake,  Gull  Lake  and 
the  dozen  other  delightful 
inland 
lakes  to  the  south  of  us.  And  there 
is  another  project  well  under  way— 
the  Grand  Rapids,  Lowell,  Belding 
and  Greenville  route— which  will  give 
our  people  an  opportunity  to  become 
acquainted  with  a  tract  of  hills,  val­
leys  and  lakes,  right  here  in  Kent 
county,  that  is  the  peer  of  any  simi­
lar  area  in  Michigan.

In  this  connection  I  cannot  re­
frain  from  calling  attention  to  the 
fact  that  during  the  past  year  the 
Grand  Rapids  Street  Railway  Co. has 
installed  a  1,500  horse  power  gen­
erator  and  two 350 horse  power  water 
boilers  with  automatic  stokers,  have 
laid  many  miles  of  new  track  and 
have  increased  by  25  per  cent,  the 
rolling  stock  capacity.

Good  Roads

There  are  upward  of  35.°°°  voters 
in  Kent county who, in  the  estimation 
of  a  majority  of  the  forty-eight  gen­
tlemen  comprising  the  County  Board 
of  Supervisors,  are  not  competent  to 
consider  and  vote  upon  the  propo­
sition  to  adopt  the  county  system  of 
building 
roads 
throughout  the  county.

and  maintaining 

For the second time the  Supervisors 
have  refused  to  submit  the  question 
to  the  voters  of  Kent  county  and  it 
is  interesting,  possibly  suggestive,  to 
know  that  but  two  city  members  of 
the  Board  voted  against  the  propo­
sition.

With  our  county  enjoying  the  de­
velopment  that  has  been  made  dur­
ing  the  past  sixty-eight  years,  with 
beautiful  individual  pleasure  resorts 
and  busy,  thriving  business  centers 
scattered  all  over  the  county,  with 
the  territory  traversed  by  steam  and 
electric  railways,  with  free  mail  de­
livery  routes'  touching  every  neigh­
borhood  and  with  her  half  million 
acres  blossoming  with  the  fruits  of 
industry,  energy  and  good  jugment, 
still  her  people  are  not  to  be  trusted 
(in  the  opinion  of  the  Supervisors) 
with  passing  upon  a  matter  vital  to 
the  general  welfare.

No  other  construction  can  be  put 
upon  the  action  of  this  Board,  ex­
cept  it  be  that  the  people  of  Kent 
county  are  so  bedded  and  rooted  in 
the  ruts  of  shiftlessness  and  penury, 
that  they  are  indifferent  to  their  own 
interests.  It  is  one  conclusion  or  the 
other  that  has  influenced  the  action 
of  the  Board  of  Supervisors  and,  de­
clining  to  accept  either  theory  as  at 
all  approaching  the  correct  situation, 
the  Board  of  Trade  would  like  to 
know  as  to  the  authority  bestowed 
upon  the  members  of  the  Board  of 
Supervisors  to  decide,  arbitrarily,  up­
on  the  right  to  vote  that  belongs  to 
their  respective  constituents.

Great  Reforms  Supported

Our  Association  has  been  called 
upon  to  throw  its  weight  in  the  great 
national  movements  such  as  the  ir­
rigation  of  the  arid  lands  of 
the 
West,  the  Isthmain  Canal  project, the 
reform  in  the  consular  service,  the 
extension  of  the  powers  of  the  Inter- 
State  Commerce  Commission, 
the 
national  movement  to  improve  our 
waterways,  the  general  measure  for 
the  protection  of  the  American  Mer-

chant  Marine.  Nearer  home  we 
have  offered  our  influence  and  ser­
vices  in  assisting  the  city  of  Holland 
to  obtain  from  the  general  govern­
ment  adequate  appropriations  for the 
improvement  of  their  harbor,  and  in 
expressing  to  the  Board  of  Supervis­
ors  the  sentiment  of  our  Board  that 
it  should  adopt  for  Kent  county  what 
is  known  as  the  County  System  of 
road  making.

Acknowledgements

A  most  valuable  source  of  assist­
ance  to the  Secretary and to the  work 
of  our  organization  is  in  the  experi­
ence  and  wisdom  of  the  men  who 
have  been  our  Presidents  and  who, 
with  the  directors  who  have  served 
in  that  capacity  ten  years,  now  con­
stitute  the  Executive  Committee,  a 
body  of  men  to  whom  we  are  in­
debted  for  a  conservative  policy  in 
the  direction  of  our  affairs.  It  was  a 
happy  thought  to  institute  this  token 
of  reward  in  appreciation  of  the  ser­
vices  of  men,  who  frequently  at  per­
sonal  sacrifice,  have  done  so  much 
for  the  good  of  the  organization  with 
which  they  have  for  so  many  years 
been  so  prominently  affiliated.

The  reports  of  the  various  com­
mittees,  together  with  the  observa­
tions  of  your  Secretary,  tell  the  story 
of  the  Board’s  activity  during 
the 
past  year. 
It  shows  that  close  at­
tention  has  been  given  to  subjects  of 
public  interest  and  importance,  giving 
expression  to  their  best  judgment, 
after 
and  mature 
thought,  of  what  was  deemed  for  the 
greatest  good  of  this  community.

investigation 

influence  on 

While  we  have  not  accomplished 
all  we  have  wished  for  and  have  met 
with  some  disappointments,  still  we 
show  great  results. 
In  one  object 
which  we  have  aimed  at,  we  have 
made  marked  progress  and  that  is  in 
the  uniting  of  forces  which  has  had 
such  a  marked 
the 
growth  and  prosperity  of  the  city. 
We  have  in  our  Board  worked  to­
gether  in  perfect  harmony  and  good 
will  and  it  is  gratifying  to  know  and 
feel  that  we  merit  and  have  received 
the  approbation  of  all  well  thinking 
citizens  and  have  received  their  moral 
and  financial  support.  Recognizing 
the  fact  that  the  benefit  which  our 
Board  of  Trade  is  to  our  city,  is  the 
sum  total  of  what  the  combined  ef­
forts  of  its  members  have  made  it, 
and  that  the  larger  the  membership, 
the  more  force  there  will  be  behind 
our  committees  in  any  project  they 
may  take  up,  we  are  greatly  encour­
aged  as  to  the  future.

Grand  Rapids  is  to be congratulated 
that  it  has  a  Board  of  Trade,  consti­
tuted  of  public  spirited  citizens  who 
seek  no  other  reward  than  the  con­
sciousness  of duty well  done, and who 
are  willing  and  do  give  of  their  valu­
able  time  and  their  talents  to  the 
public  service.

The  best  results  in  human  inter­
course  come  through  generous,  har­
monious  and  sincere  co-operation and 
all  good  work  is  for  the  future  rather 
than  the  past.  And  so,  with  Grand 
Rapids  as  our  pride  and  purpose  and 
with  the  coming  year  as  our  oppor­
tunity,  let  us  tighten  the  grip  of  fel­
lowship  we  have  so  long  maintained 
and  go  on  in  unity  and  strength,  that 
our  new  year  may  prove  better  than

the  old  one;  that  our  beautiful  and 
prosperous  city  may  become  more 
beautiful  and  more  prosperous  and 
that  our  State  of  Michigan  and  the 
entire  country  may  rejoice  that  there 
is  a  Grand  Rapids  in  Michigan  and 
that  there  is  a  Board  of  Trade  in 
Grand  Rapids.

The  Municipality

 

Area  of  city  in  miles.....................*7M
Streets  paved  and 

improved,

miles 

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

2^7
Sewers,  miles................................   *43
Water  mains,  miles......................  *49
Fifty-seven  miles  of  stone  and  tar 
sidewalk  were  laid  during  I9°3  at  an 
estimated  cost  of  $170,000.
Valuation  of  Real  Estate  Exempt 

From  Taxation

................................. ^3,866,650  00
350,000  00
325,000  00
........................ 1,477,600  00

City 
Kent  county  ..................
L^nited  States  ................
Churches 
Benevolent  homes  and
hospitals  ......................
Benevolent  societies  —
Railroads 
Private  cemeteries  .......
Individual  ........................

320,000  00
145,200  00
........................ 1,765,000  00
4,000  00
44,050  00

Total 

.................... $8,297,500  00

Bonded  indebtedness  of

the  city  ........................ $2,212,000  00

Amount  in  sinking  fund
to  apply  on  above....
of

valuation 

Assessed 

228,934  00

brary 

real  estate  .................. 72,376,811  00
14  92

Average  rate  of  taxation
Volumes 
in  Public  Li-
....................... • •
Volumes  in  Law  Library
Real  Estate
Deeds  recorded  .............
5,065
Total  consideration  ---- $3,169,483  00

62,234
7,227

87,565

98,522

19,464

409

The  bank  clearings  show  a  total  of 
$97,704,458.01  for  1903,  against  $83,- 
004,537.34  for  1902, an  increase  of  17.7 
per  cent.

The . savings  deposits  are  $7,180,- 
316.07,  against  $6,162,817  for  1902, an 
increase  of  $1,017,49907  during  the 
year.

1903  are 
The  school  savings  for 
$30,439.18,  against  $26,805 
the  ¡  year 
before,  an  increase  of  $3,634.18  dur­
ing  the  ypar.

The  postal  receipts  for  1903  were 
$314,200.44,  against  $281,826.46 
the 
year  before,  an  increase  of  $32,373-98 
during  the  year.

The  internal  revenue  receipts  were 
$668,462.17  in  1903,  against  $889,141.96 
in  1902,  a  decrease  of  $220,679-79  dur­
ing  the  year.

The  custom  house  receipts  in  1903 
were  $93,022.95,  against  $61,786.81  in 
1902,  an  increase  of  $31,236.14  during 
the  year.

community-—bank 

The  three  barometers  of  a  prosper­
ous 
statements,
postal  receipts,  railroad  freight  ton­
nage.

88 951

1903

1901 
23,359 

1902 
28,559 

Total  tonnage, 

Bank C learings:.. .169,788,292 *83,004,537  $97,704,458 
Saving  A ccounts.. 
Saving Deposits  ..  $4,388,133  $6,182,817  $7,180,316
30,439
26,805
School  S avings___ 
21,518
$314,200
$281.826
Pnstoffice Receipts  $256,531 
159,035
138,210
Postoffice net earn’gs  122,738 
989,941
635,073
F rg t forw ard'd, tons  457,162 
1,973,481
1,815,054
F rg t received, tons  1,008,889
-------------
1,950,127  2,963,422
out and i n ....  1,466,051
There  can  be  no  question  as  to  the 
rapid  development  of  Grand  Rapids 
as  a  center  of  business  in  the  light  of 
the  fact,  shown 
in  our  exhibit  of 
statistics,  that  during  the  past  year 
there was  an increase  of  1,013,295 tons 
in  the  total  tonnage  of  freight  in  arid 
out  of  our  city,  over  the  total  for 
1902.

There  are  532  factories  in  the  city, 
employing  20,474  persons,  the  total 
of  daily wages  being $43,957— an aver~ 
age  of  $2.34  per  day  per  each  indi­
vidual.

New  Enterprises

Kent  Medical  Institute..$  500,000  00 
10,000  00
Burnett  &  Oeveren  Co. 
Beers  Mfg.  Co..............  
20,000  00
Valley  City  Brick  C o ... .  
9°,000  00
Granger  Lock  &  Hinge
Co...................................  
James  LaMore  &  Co.,
 
Van  Mannen-Buys  Co.,

Ltd................  

iio,opo  00

15,000  00

 

 

10,000  00

Ltd....................  

 
Differential  Ore  Crush-
Co.,  Ltd........................  

ment  Co.,  Ltd 

1,500  00
100,000  00 

10,000  00
10,00000

500,000  00
Germol  Chemical  Co....  600,000  00
West  Mich.  Machine  &
Tool  Co.,  Ltd..............  
Federal  Auditing  C o .... 
Medical  College  Equip­
 
Household  Furniture  Co. 
Holson  Motor  Patents
Co...................................  
Reliable  Tea  Co.,  L td .. 
Grand  Rapids  Paving
.......................... 
Shingley  &  Paxton  Mul­
.. 
Grand  Rapids  Metallic
Egg  Crate  Co............. 
Grand  Rapids  Specialty
Co...................................  
Grand  Rapids  Machinery
Co........... ............ .'.. I'.. 
Lindgren  Chemical  C o .. 

ti-Phonograph  Co. 

500,000  00
6,000  00

5,00000
10,000  00

125,000  00

50,000  00

50,000  00

1,000  00

Co. 

.. 

Population  of  city 

Population  of  city 

Miscellaneous 
for 
1900  according  to  U.  S.
..........................
census 
for
1903  (estimated)  .......
Number  of  residences  re­
ported  for  1902  ...........
erected
during  1903  .................
resi­
dences  ..........................

Total  number  of 

New  dwellings 

Fire  losses 
Business  failures  ...........  
Liabilities 
Number  of  telephones  in
............................... 
Street  Railway  passen­
gers  carried................. 
Street  Railway  passen­
........ 

use 

19.873
................... $  146,294  30
11
..................... $  179,100  00

8,150

15,141,898

gers  transferred 
4,196,567
Number  of  trains  in  and  out  the 
than 

LTnion  station,  20,017;  320  more 
in  1902.

Tickets  sold  at  the  station,  301,620; 
19,904  more  than  were  sold  the  year 
previous.

A  conservative  estimate  based  on 
these  figures  places  the  number  of 
travelers  arriving  at  and  departing 
from  the  Union  station  during  1903 
at  1,005,400  persons.

The  grain  receipts  show  2,863  cars 
of  wheat,  696  cars  of  corn,  389  cars 
of  oats,  76  cars  of  rye,  294  cars  of 
flour,  48  cars  of  beans,  59  cars  of 
malt,  82  cars  of  hay,  34  cars  of straw 
and  714  cars  of  potatoes.

The  jobbing  and  wholesale  busi­
ness  is  represented  by  124  firms  and 
is  credited  with  over  $21,000,000 sales.

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15

Breén  &  Halliday...........
American  School  Furn.
Co...................................
John  Widdicomb  Furn.
Co...................................

2,500  oo

5,000  oo

4,000  oo

Other  Buildings

Majestic  Theater.............$ 100,000  00
50,000  00
Judson  Grocer  Co.........
40,000  00
C.  B.  Judd  Bldg.............
100,000  00
Herpolsheimer  B ld g ....
30,000  00
Citizens  Telephone  Co..
10,000  00
Pere  Marquette  Ry.  Co.
25,000  00
U.  B.  A.  Nurses’  Lodge.
8,000  00
Beth  Israel  Synagogue..
10,000  00
Lithuanian  Society  Chr.
Alpine  Ave.  Christian
Reformed  Church.......
Holland  American  Aid
........................
First  Church  of  Christ,
......................
Lakeside  Club  House..
Brown  &  Sehler  Co........
A.  N.  A lb e e .................
N.  Fred  Avery.................

40,000  00
30,000  00
6,000  00
6,000  00
8,000  00

16,000  00

Scientist 

8,000  00

Society 

Additions  to  Other  Buildings

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The  Buyers’  Book  C o ...
Battjes  Fuel  &  Building
Material  Co.................
Balke  Mfg.  Co.................
Longfellow  &  Shellman
Lumber  Co...................
Grand  Rapids  Garbage
Co.................................

Mich.  Ginseng  Farm  Co.
Edward  M.  Deane  &  Co.
Cummings  Gear  Co........
Natn’l.  Electric  Supply &
Mfg.  Co........................
Heath-Morley  Co...........

10,000  00

20,000  00
100,000  00

10,000  00

10,000  00
1,000  00
100,000  00
5,000  00

10,000  00
25,000  00

Reorganized—Capital  Increased. 

Matheson  Motor  Car Co.$  600,000  00 
Wagemaker 

Furniture
Co...................................
Mich.  Elm  Hoop  & Lum­
ber  Co............................
W.  Millard  Palmer  C o ..
Gillette  Roller  Bearing
...............................  
Grand  Rapids  Show  Case
................................ 
Wolverine  Brass  C o ... .  
Corl,  Knott  &  Co...........  
Valley  City  Pharmacal Co. 
Grand  Rapids 

Co. 

Co. 

40.000  00

10.000  00
80.000  00

100,000  00

120,000  00
75>°°° 00
197,000  00
50,000 00

Piano
95,000  00
Case  C o........................ 
35,000  00
Miles  Hardware  Co........ 
Stickley  Bros..................  
225,000  00
Globe  Knitting  W orks.. 
60,000  00 
Voigt  Cereal  Food  C o ...  200,000  00
50,000  00
Tanners’  Supply  Co........
Grand  Rapids  Cabinet

Co............................ .

Aldine  Grate  &  Mantel
Co...................................
Furniture  City  Vise  Co.
Grand  Rapids  Electrical

100,000  00

20.000  00
25.000  00

Railway  Co.....................2,000,000  00

Durfee  Embalming  Fluid

Co...................................   200,000  00
50,000  00

Butler  &  W ray............... 
Grand  Rapids  Froebel
Institute  Co.................. 

10,000  00

Building  Operations 

During  the  past  year  building  per­

mits  were  issued  as  follows:

new  adds.  & alterations

..  11
....... 35

Factories 
Stores 
Dwellings  . .409
Other  bdgs.112

46
86
423
31

586

567

Total  permits----
Total  investment  rep­

i,i53

resented 

.................. $1,308,813  00
Following  is  a  showing  as  to  the 
more  important  of  the  building  oper­
ations :

New  Factory  Buildings

Grand  Rapids  Piano Case
Co................................... $
Globe  Knitting  W orks..
Y ork  &  Sons...................
Grand  Rapids  Stone  & 
Gravel  C o....................
Pere  Marquette  Round 
..........................
Petersen  Brewing  C o ...
G.  R.  Engraving  Co----
Wormnest  Bros...............
Retting  &  Sweet.............
G.  R.  Wood  Carving  Co.

House 

30,000  00
10,000  00
10,000  00

5,000  00

40,000  00
6,000  00
25,000  00
10,000  00
7,500  00
2,000  00

Additions  to  Factory  Buildings

National  Candy  Co........$
Gunn  Furniture  Co........
W.  J.  Perkins  Foundry..
G.  R.  Gas  Light  Co.........
Stow  &  Davis  Furn.  Co.
Sligh  Furn.  Co............

5,000  00
3,000  00
2,500  00
4,500  00
1,200  00
4,000  00

State  Bank,  West  Side
Branch  .........................
D.  H.  Waters  &  Son----
Claren don  Hotel.............
Foster,  Stevens  &  Co..
Commer’l.  Savings  Bank

3,000  00
22,000  00
5,000  00
6,000  00
2,000  00

If  so,  better  write  us,  or  shall  we 
have our salesman call ?
Complete catalogue  on  application

Department  of  Statistics

Membership

Number  of  members  last re-
__  

a.

Loss  by  death.................. . . . .   4
By  resignation....... — 29
By  removal............. — 23
By  non-payment  dues..30

Grand Rapids  Fixtures  Co.

Bartlett  and  South  Ionia  Streets 

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

833

86

747
Gain  new  members................ —  • 276

Total  Feb.  1,  I 9°4..........................1,023

Necrology

John  E.  Boylon,  Jan.  15,  I9°3- 
Edwin  N.  Carrier,  Feb.  21,  1903. 
Wm.  Sears,  May  I I ,   1903- 
G.  Stewart Johnson,  Jan.  30,  1904.
H.  D.  C.  Van  Asmus, 
Secretary

A  Country  Barter.

From  one  of  the  smaller  cottages 
at  the  end  of  the  street  came  a  bare­
footed  child  in  colorless  calico dress 
and  slat  sunbonnet.  With  the  impor­
tant  air  of  a  heavy  buyer,  she  enter­
ed  the village  store  and handed  across 
the  counter  a  blue  teacup.  The  pro 
prietor  took  the  teacup  and  said  in 
brisk  tones:

“Well,  Emmy,  what  does  your  ma 

want  to-day?”

“Please,  sir,  ma  wants  an  egg’s 
worth  of  molasses,”  and  she  carefully 
placed  a  large white egg on the coun­
ter.

The  storekeeper  poured  out  a  lit­
tle  molasses  into  the  cup 
from  a 
stone  jug  and  set  the  cup  before  his 
customer.

“Mr.  Smith,”  she  said,  as  she  took 
the  purchase,  “I’ll  be  back  in  a  little 
while  for  some  ginger.  Ma  said  to 
tell  you  the  black  hen  was  on.”

If  a  clerk  thinks  that  the  store 
would  have  to  close  its  doors  if  he 
leaves,  he  should  remember  that  it 
got  along  after  a  fashion  before  he 
came.

Foster,  Stevens  &  Co.

Grand  Rapids,  M ich ig a n

Buckeye  P ain t  &  V arn ish   Co.

Paint,  Color and  Varnish  Makers
Mixed  Paint,  White  Lead,  Shingle  Stains,  Wood  Fillers 

Sole  Manufacturers CRYSTAL-ROCK FINISH for  Interior and Exterior  Us 

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

with  the  hopeful  feeling  of merchants 
regarding  spring, # explains  why  this 
department  of  knit  goods  is  so  much 
better  off  than  others.

In  underwear  the  styles  and  de­
scription  of  the  goods 
for 
spring  differ  little  from  that  of  last 
year,  except  that  orders  for  lisles  and 
balbriggans  are  heavier.

selling 

Plaited  half-hose  is  modish  for  the 
season,  and  the  variety  includes  solid 
colors  and  fancies  in  the  choicest 
new  shades.  Good  taste,  however, 
dictates  that  the  darker  ones  will 
be  preferred  by  careful  dressers.  Of 
these  there  is  dark  Toledo,  a  very 
deep  steel  or  Damascus, 
tobacco 
browns,  very  rich  in  color  and 
in 
much  better  taste  than  the  browns 
of  former  seasons,  steel  grays,  with 
a  predominance  of  black— entirely 
new  grays  designed  in  an  admirable 
mixture  of  black  and  white  to  meet 
the  approbation  of  the  most  conserv­
ative  dressers.  Next  to  the  plain 
plaited  are  the  Richelieu  ribs.  Both 
the  plain  and  ribbed  insteps  are  also 
fancied  with  vertical 
in 
brilliant  colors,  clockings  and 
self 
and  colored  embroideries.  Some  de­
signs  of  vertical  jacquarding  alter­
nate  with  self  stripes  and  look  natty.
Gauzes  in  ptain  dark  colors,  with 
double-stitch  heel  and  toe,  have  dis­
placed 
insteps  with 
double-stitch  boots  are  liked.  The 
gauze  socks  are  a  decided  improve­
ment,  in  a  practical  sense,  over 
the 
laces  of  last  year,  and  will  be  worn 
by  men  who  thought  laces  too  effem­
inate  for  masculine  wear.

laces.  Gauze 

jacquards 

Shooting  hose  in  solid  colors,  fancy 
effects  and  plaids  have  had  a  re­
markable  run  this  season,  and  were 
worn  for  their  warmth  and  comfort 
as  much  by  the  devotees  of  golf, 
skating  and  tobogganing  as  by  the 
skillful  huntsman  in  pursuit  of  his 
quarry.— Apparel  Gazette.

The  clerk  who  wishes  for  promo­
tion  will  find  that  promoting, the busi­
ness  in  which  he  is  employed  is  the 
best  way  to  obtain  the  desired  re­
sult.

M. I. SCHLOSS

MANUFACTURER  OF

M E N 'S   A N D   B O Y S 1  C L O T H I N G

143  JEFFERSON  AVE.

D E T R O IT .  M IC H IG A N

I

Is offering  to the  trade  a line of spring suits for sea­
son  of  1904.  Perfect  fitting  garments— beautiful 
effects— all  the  novelties  of  the  season.  Look  at 
the  line  when  our representative  calls  on you.

T hose  N ew   B row n  O veralls  an d  
C o ats  are  S un  an d   P erspiration 
P ro o f------  

■■■ 

=

They  ar«  new  and  the  “ boss”  for 
spring  and  summer  wear.  Every 
Garment  Guaranteed—   They  Fit.

Clapp Clothing Company

Manufacturera of Qladiator Clothing

Grand  Rapids, Mich.

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substantial packages— that 
is  a   good  w ay  to draw good 
trade— and to hold  it.

Use  our  W R A P P I N G  

P A P E R  and  T W IN E .

If  your  bundles  are  untidy, 
cheap-looking and insecure your 
business w ill suffer,  particularly 
w ith women.

O u r  wrapping  paper is much 
better than an y other at the same 
price  stronger,  wraps better.

T h e  colors are bright  and at­
tractive— M o ttle d   Red,  Pin k . 
Blue  and  Faw n Color.

It's  thin enough to fold easily 
and quickly and makes the neat­
est  kind of a   package.

S o   very  tough  that  It stands 
a  whole  lot o f handling  without 
breaking through.

Suppose w e send you samples 

and  prices?

T H E   W IL L IA M   C O N N O R   CO.

WHOLESALE  READY-MADE  CLOTHING 

MANUFACTURERS

28 and 30 South Ionia  Street, Grand  Rapids, Michigan

For Spring and  Summer  1904 our line  is  complete, 
including one of the finest  lines  “ Union  Made”   in 
Men’s, Youths’,  Boys’  and  Children’s.  Our  Men’s 
“ Union  Made”  all  wool  $6.00  Suit  recommends 
itself.  Our Pants line is immense.  We  still  have 
for  immediate delivery  nice  line  Winter  Overcoats 
and Suits.  Remember  we  manufacture  from  very 
finest  to  very  lowest  priced  clothing  that’s  made.

Mail Orders Shipped Quick.

Phones, Bell,  1282; Citz. 1957

W H IT T IE R  
Grand 
Rapids
B R O O M   CEL
u!s! A.  SUPPLY CO.

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Status of the  Underwear and  Hosiery 

Market.

Southern  buyers  represent  the  ad­
vance  guard  of  market  arrivals  and 
have  been  accompanied  by  a  scatter­
ing  of  the  far-away  trade.  They  are 
few  in  number  as  yet,  but  are  ex­
pected  to  show  greater  increase  with 
the  closing  week  of  the  month.  Re­
ports  made  by  road  representatives 
are  to  the  effect  that  most  of  the  re­
tailers  are  yet  busy  in  their  own 
stocks,  effecting  as  thorough  a  clean­
up  as  they  possibly  can  before  leav­
ing  for  the  wholesale  centers.

Those  who  are  in  market  are  shop­
ping  and  inspecting  new  lines  very 
critically.  All  kinds  of knit goods this 
season  possess  greater  interest  for 
buyers  in  view  of  advancing  prices. 
Grades  of  underwear  to  retail  at  a 
dollar  and  above,  and  hosiery  to  sell 
from  half  a  dollar  upward,  have  im­
proved  in  quality  and  style,  so  that 
even  if  a  little  more  money  is  asked 
the  merchandise  shows  better  value. 
Buyers  have  commented  on 
these 
is  so 
changes  and  say  that  there 
much  difference  in  stocks 
it 
pays  them  to  visit  around  before  fin­
ally  placing  orders.

that 

succeeding 

The  buyer  for  the  fashionable  shop 
finds  that  each 
season 
calls  for  the  exercise  of  more  and 
more  taste  on  his  part  in  making up 
assortments.  The  styles,  colors and 
grades  must  possess  individuality.  It 
is  essential  that  the  stock  should  be 
totally  different  from  the  character 
of  the  underwear  and  hosiery  shown 
by  the  best  department  stores.  Strict­
ly  speaking,  the 
furnishers  would 
suffer  if  it  smacked  of  dry  goods.  By 
having  a  stock  unlike  the  dry  goods 
store  the  furnisher  imparts  to  his 
merchandise  a  tone  of  exclusiveness 
appreciated  by  his  customers,  who 
come  to  him  because  they  expect 
to  get  that  which  is  unquestionably 
different.  Hence  the 
for 
good  taste  in  making  purchases  and 
ferreting  out  that  class  of  merchan­
dise  sure  to  distinguish  the  furnisher’s 
stock  from  that  of  the  dry  goods 
store. 
It  is  on  this  account  that  the 
shrewd  and  intelligent  buyer  values 
his  knowledge  of  where  and  what to 
buy  and  knows  the  importance  of 
shopping  when  in  market.

requisite 

Underwear  and  hosiery  for  spring 
are  faring  much  better  than  other 
lines  of  furnishings,  for  the  reason 
that  retail  stocks  of  lightweights  are 
light,  and  retailers  have  had  a  very 
good  heavyweight  season.  Yet,  not­
withstanding 
to-day 
own  their merchandise  at lower prices 
than  they  are  likely  to  get  it  for 
for  some  time  to  come,  January  re­
duced-price  sales  are  significant  of a 
desire  to  turn  all  the  merchandise 
possible  into  cash  rather  than  carry 
it  over.

retailers 

that 

Retailers  are  in  need  of 

spring 
merchandise,  and  in  half-hose  espe­
cially  the  styles  have  undergone  as 
much  change  as  the  qualities,  and  the 
desire  to  lay  in  new  goods,  together

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CENSOR  WANTED.

Need  of  Checking  Flood  of  New 

Books.

We  are  a  writing  people. 

The 
American  child  in  the  cradle  clutches 
at  the  lead pencil.  It is a monomania, 
a  disease  that  has  its  roots  deep  in 
history.  The  ancients  gave  it  a  re­
scribendi, 
sounding  title,  cacoethes 
which,  being 
translated, 
means  an  itch  for  writing,  a  diseased 
propensity  for  authorship. 
It  is  be­
cause  we  have  not  yet  had  courage 
to  diagnose  and  proclaim  the  ailment 
correctly  that  we  still  persist  in  say­
ing  very  pretty  and  complimentary 
things  to  those  who  have  the  malady 
in  its  most  malignant  form.

literally 

even 

from 

drawn 

sometimes 

The  most  serious  menace  to  educa­
tion,  in  that  broad  and  popular  sense 
which  comprehends  the  learning  and 
mental  discipline  derived  from  print­
ed  matter  other  han  text  books  is 
the  enormous  influx  of  publications 
flooding  all  the  book  stores  and  li­
braries,  burying  works  of  solid  value, 
and 
smothering 
them  out  of  existence.  Does  a  man 
dip  superficially  into  some  branch  of 
science,  at  once  he  begins  to  evolve 
theories  of  his  own,  and  the  chances 
are  that  he  will  proceed  to  put  them 
into  print  for  the  benefit  of  his  fel­
low-men. 
If  he  have  a  knack  for 
plausible  explanation  and  argument, 
these  views,  however  erroneous,  may 
gain  credence,  retarding  a  knowl­
edge  of  the  truth.  False  philosophy, 
false  religions,  jumbles  of  the  occult, 
transcendentalism  rehashed  and  not 
improved  by  the  process,  inaccurate 
history, 
unreliable 
sources,  unskillfully  and  recklessly 
compiled  and  tossed  overboard  as 
ballast  to  float  all  manner  of  absurd 
conclusions,  are  but  a  few  of  the 
forms  assumed  by  this  swelling  mass 
of 
rhyme 
that  catches  the  ear  by  virtue  of  its 
jingle  alone,  and  verse  that  does  not 
condescend  to  jingle  but  depends 
solely  upon  imperfect  measure  and 
a  vague  mysticism  of  sentiment  for 
its  claims  to  a  place  in  poetry,  cap­
tivate  the  vulgar  and  puzzle  the  cul­
tured  until  the  poets  of all  ages  slum­
ber  on  the  book  shelves  and  the  dust 
accumulates  upon  them.  Freak  liter­
ature  is  triumphantly  coming  to  the 
front,  panoplied  in  brazen  slang,  its 
helmet  bright  and  polished  and 
tightly  locked,  to  conceal  the  absence 
of  brains  beneath.  Worst  of  all  is 
the  division  of  fiction,  good,  bad,  in­
different,  inane,  vicious,  each  and 
every  volume  flaunting  the  favorable 
notice  of  some  critic  or  critics,  luring 
readers  by  dint  of  attractive  titles 
and  illustrations  or  artistic  bindings, 
romance  without  end,  dealing  with 
the  past,  the  present,  the  future,  the 
world  that  is  not,  and  the  world  that 
is  to  come,  much  of  it  entertaining, 
some  of  the  most  worthless  even  fas­
cinating  to  the  average  reader.

literature.  Unmeaning 

When  this  monomania  first  seized 
upon  the  English-speaking  and  Eng­
lish-writing  nations,  it  was  possible, 
by  diligent  effort,  to  pick  most  of the 
grain  from  the  chaff,  although  even 
then  genuine  work  was  often  over­
looked. 
In  these  days  even  the  pro­
fessional  critic,  single-handed,  finds 
the  bulk  of  new  books  beyond  his

capacity  to  handle,  much  less  to read 
and  criticise. 
In  order  to  halfway 
discharge  his  task  he  must  depend 
first  of  all  upon  the  reputable  pub­
lisher  to  send  him  only  such  books 
as  there  seems  a 
reasonable  hope 
may  be  worth  looking  through,  and 
afterwards  he  must  look  to  the  as­
sistance  of  reading  friends.  Yet  the 
day  for  this  process  of  selection  and 
valuation  is  swiftly  passing,  for  if 
the  production of books  shall  increase 
during  the  next  quarter  century  at 
the  rate  of  geometrical  progression 
that  has  marked  its  increase  during 
the  past  twenty-five  years  the  critic 
will  go  down  under  the  avalanche 
and  the  public  be  at  the  mercy  of  the 
modern  presses,  compelled  to  snatch 
at  random  for  chance  volumes  turned 
out  by  the  million  each  year.

these, 

Some  thirteen  centuries  ago  van­
dal  Arabs  completed  the  destruction 
by  fire  of  the  famous  Alexandrian 
library.  This  great  collection,  ac­
cording  to  Eusebius,  at  one  time  con­
tained  no  less  than  700,000  volumes. 
It  was  the  repository  of  the  world’s 
history  up  to  that  epoch.  Priceless 
volumes  were 
laboriously 
wrought  out  by  hand  upon  vellum 
and  papyrus, 
records  unique  and 
never  to  be  replaced,  never  to  be  du­
plicated.  Scholars  of  all  times  have 
regarded  this  loss  as  one  of 
the 
world’s  greatest  tragedies.  Regarded 
in  the  light  of  the  publishing  influx 
which  is  overwhelming  us  to-day,  as 
well  as  that  of  some  sorry  fragments 
which  have  been  preserved  from  an­
cient  days,  the  holocaust  may  not 
have  been  without  its  blessings.  Who 
knows  from  what  inanity,  vulgarity 
and  false  philosophy  it  may  have pre­
served  us?

A  hundred  and  fifty  years  ago  a 
witty  Frenchman,  taking  a  long  look 
ahead,  predicted  that  in  the  year  2,000 
the  world  would  have  grown  so  en­
lightened  and  so  discriminating  that 
a  commission  would  be  appointed  to 
separate  the  good  literature  from  the 
worthless,  and  that  with  appropriate 
rites  and  ceremonies  the  latter,  in 
vast  bulk,  would  be  burned  in  the 
public  squares  of  great  citieis,  leav­
ing  for  public  benefit  only  about  a 
hundred  or  so  books  which  were  real­
ly  worth  keeping.  As  true  common 
sense  always  counsels  swallowing the 
ounce  of prevention  rather  than  gulp­
ing  down  the  pound  of  cure,  in  this 
progressive  age  it  would  seem  as 
if  we  might  be  doing  better  than  is­
suing  from  our  presses  an  enormous 
tonnage  of  expensive  printed  mat­
ter  that  can  serve  no  better  purpose 
than  to  kindle  a  beacon  as  a  warning 
to  future  ages.  We  are  a  generation 
of  economists,  and  there  is  something 
painful  in  the  thought  of  permitting 
uncounted  thousands  to 
toil  with 
hand  and  brain  to  futile  purpose,  that 
a  wise  administration  may  some  day 
put  to  the 
their  vaporings. 
Better  far  a  bureau  of  literary  cen­
sorship,  sitting  in  state  at  the  Copy­
right  Office and condemning all  books 
which  can  show  no  reasonable  excuse 
for  their  existence.

flames 

Recent  Business  Changes  Among 

Indiana  Merchants.

Warsaw—The  Warsaw  Glove  Co.

has  merged  its  business  into  a  cor­
poration.

Elkhart— The  Consolidated  Paper j 
in  i 

&  Bag  Co.  has  filed  a  petition 
bankruptcy.

Huntington— Jacob  Bailer,  dealer j 
in  clothing  and  furniture,  has  taken 
advantage  of  the  bankruptcy  law.

Indianapolis— The  B.  D.  Miner 

Drug  Co.  has  made  an  assignment.

Indianapolis— M.  Horowitz 

has 
purchased  the  boot  and  shoe  stock  of
J.  C.  Karle.

Indianapolis— The  Silver  Drug  Co. 
has  sold  its  stock  to  Carl  J.  Sennette.
Logansport— Schmitt,  Heinly  & 
Barr,  dry  goods  dealers,  have  dis­
solved  partnership.  The  business  is 
continued  under 
the 
Schmitt-Heinly-Leachman  Co.

the  style  of 

Noblesville— Meisse  &  Given,  gro­
cers  and  meat  dealers,  have  sold  out 
to  J.  K.  Smith.

North  Manchester— D.  Ginther has 
retired  from  the  implement  business 
of  A.  J.  Lautzenhiser  &  Co.

Columbia  City— Wm.  Shriner  has 
taken  a  partner  in  his  grocery  busi­
ness  under  the  style  of  Shriner  & 
Feaster.

Elkhart— The  Crowl  Clothing  Co. 

has  been  closed  by  its  creditors.

Fremont— A.  A.  Brown  has  retired 
from  the  mercantile  firm  of  E.  C. 
Duguid  &  Co.

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Made to Fit

and

Fit to Wear

Buy  Direct  from  the  Maker

TRADE MARK.

t e r n

We  want  one  dealer  as  an 
agent  in  every  town  in  Michi­
gan  to  sell  the  Great  Western 
Fur  and  Fur  Lined  Cloth 
Coats. 
full 
Catalogue  and 
particulars  on  application.

Ellsworth  &  Thayer  Mnfg.  Co.

Greensburg— W.  S. Woodfill’s Sons, 
dry  goods  dealers,  have  dissolved 
partnership.  The  business 
is  con­
tinued  by  W.  W.  Woodfill.

Indianapolis— The  Indiana  Woolen 
Manufacturing  Co.  has  incorporated 
its  business  under  the  same  style.

1^04— Spring  Season—1904

MILWAUKEE.  WIS.

B.  B.  DOWNARD.  General  i i l w i u

Our Garments Are Made 

To  Sell

Our trade-mark is a  guarantee  that our 
garments  fit, wear, and  please  the pur­
chaser and the seller.
A postal will bring  samples  prepaid by 
express,  or  any  other 
information 
desired.

A  Complete  Spring  Line  Ready  For  Inspection

If  desired,  we  advertise  direct  to  consumer  and 
create  a  demand  for our clothing which  will  need 
the  duplication  of  your order  to  supply.

ttlik  Bros. «   Skill

makers of Pas American guaranteed Clothing

Buffalo, n. V.

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THE  LOCK  CITY.

Its  Future  as  a  Location  for  Jobbing 

Houses.

a 

It 

the 

is  announced 

Some  weeks  ago,  in  an  article  in 
the  Tradesman,  I  said  that 
I  be­
lieved  the  wholesalers  of  Michigan 
were  not  cultivating  the  Upper  Pen­
insula  field  to  such  an  extent  as  was 
justified  by  the  existing  conditions. 
The  argument  set  forth  in  the  article 
seems  to  have  been  sound  from  the 
fact  that  after  several  months’  trial 
the  Musselman  Grocer  Company 
has  decided  to  remain  in  Sault  Ste. 
Marie  permanently  with  their  branch 
establishment. 
in 
the  Soo  that  the  company  has  pur­
corner  of 
chased  property  at 
Portage  avenue  and  Brady 
terrace 
and  will  erect  thereon  in  the  spring 
a  handsome 
three-story  wholesale 
house  with  a  floor  space  of  38,000 
square  feet,  together  with 
cold 
storage  plant  of  the  most  modern 
kind.  This  is  one  of  the  choice  lo­
cations  in  the  Lock  City,  fronting 
Brady  Field,  the  ground  on  which 
old  Fort  Brady  stood  before  it  was 
moved  to  the  present 
location,  on 
the  hill  back  of  town,  and  overlook­
ing  the  eastern  section  of  the  Gov­
ernment  Park  and  the  St.  Mary’s 
River.  From  the  windows  of 
the 
building,  when  completed,  it  will  be 
possible  to  look  out  across  the  Ca­
nadian  Soo  manufacturing  district 
and  over  the  rolling  hills  that  stretch 
away  in  the  direction  of  James  Bay 
as  far  as  the  eye  can  reach.  And in 
years  to  come  when  Uncle  Sam 
erects  on  Brady  Field  a  postoffice 
and  customs  building  this  wholesale 
house  will  face  one  of  the  most 
handsome  squares  in  the  Northwest. 
It  seems  as  if  the  company  has  been 
especially  fortunate  in  securing  such 
a  location,  as  it  will,  in  years  to 
come,  be  near  the  freight  center  of 
town,  as  it  is  a  question  of  but  a 
few  months  when 
commercial 
docks  will  be  moved  farther  down 
the  river.

the 

The  real  significance  of  this  propo­
sition  lies  in  the  fact  that  the  terri­
tory  in  this  part  of  the  State  must 
be  full  of  promise  for  the  wholesal­
er  or  the  Musselman  people  would 
not  plan  to  build  on  such  an  exten­
sive  scale.  They  have  conducted  a 
branch  establishment 
long 
enough  to  know  where  they  are  at, 
and  were  the  future  not  bright  they 
would  scarcely  care  to  make  any 
further  investments  in  this  part  of 
the  country.

here 

evidence  at  the  present 

In  considering  the  Upper  Penin­
sula  as  a  market  for  the  wholesaler 
one  instantly  realizes  that  the  future 
will  bring  into  play  no  keener  com­
petition  from  the  wholesalers  of  the 
big  cities  of  the  Northwest  than  is 
in 
time. 
They  can  not  get  any  nearer  the 
Upper  Peninsula  than  they  are  now, 
unless  they  come  here  and  open 
branch 
establishments.  The  man 
who  has  a  wholesale  establishment 
in  the  Upper  Peninsula  is  on  the 
ground  floor,  as  it  were.  He  is  in 
close  touch  with  the  merchants  of 
the  various  cities,  while  Chicago, 
Milwaukee,  Buffalo  and  other  places 
are  so  far  away  that  wholesalers  in 
those  cities  can  not  possibly  hope to 
retain  the  hold  on  Lake  Superior

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point  of great vantage.  With  a  coun­
try  rich  in  minerals  and  industry  at 
its  very  feet,  a  city  of  goodly  size 
just  across  the  river,  it  will  be  possi­
ble  for  the  Michigan  Soo  to  become 
a  wholesale  center  of  no  small  pro­
portions.  Even  now  the  shipments 
of  perishable  goods  across  the  bor­
der  at  this  point  amount  to  consid­
erable  and  the  future 
indeed, 
promising.  When  one  realizes  that 
the  country  is  for  the  most  part  in 
its  infancy,  although  old  in  many  lo­
calities,  it  is  at  once  seen  that  there 
is  much  to  look  forward  to.

is, 

Raymond  H.  Merrill.

A  salesman’s  anxiety  to  sell  should 
never  make  him  forget  that  custom­
ers  have  the  best  right  to  decide 
what  they  want  to  buy.

merchants  that  is  enjoyed  by  a  firm 
close  by.  St.  Paul  and  Minneapolis 
are  the  towns  that  will  put  up  the 
hottest  fight  for  this  territory,  from 
the  fact  that  they  are  nearer  to  the 
scene  of  action.

It  is  possible  that  the  question  of 
reciprocity  will  have  something 
to 
do  with  shaping  thé  future  of  Sault 
Ste.  Marie  as  a  wholesale  center.  At 
this  point  international  traffic  is very 
heavy.  Persons  not  conversant  with 
the  situation  would  be  surprised  to 
see  the  number  of  cars  of  freight 
that  cross  the  international  bridge. 
Goods  from  across  the  ocean  des­
tined  for  the  Middle  Western  States 
come  in  here  in  great  volume.  The 
Canadian  Pacific,  running  as  it  does 
from  ocean  to  ocean,  controls  a  vast 
traffic,  and  importations  handled  by 
the  company  are  carried  from  here 
¡ar  into  the  interior  over  the  lines 
controlled  by  the  organization.  Thus 
it  will  be  seen  that  a  merchant  deal- 
ng  in  imported  goods  is  nearer  the 
supply  here  than  he  would  be 
in 
towns  farther  south.  There  would 
be  a  good  market  on  the  Canadian 
two 
side  if  reciprocity  between  the 
countries  were 
along 
such  lines  as  a  great many  people  de­
sire.  With 
reciprocity  the  Upper 
Peninsula  wholesaler,  and  particular­
ly  he  who  is  located  at  the  Soo,  will 
be  able  to  go  into  the  Dominion  and 
market  a  lot  of  goods  at  a  handsome 
profit.  The  building  of  railroads and 
the  development  of  the  mining  dis­
tricts  are  causing  prosperous  towns 
to  spring  up  in  Northern  Ontario, 
and  a  good  many  of  the  people  mov­
ing  from  this  side  of  the border are 
inclined  to  favor  goods  that 
come 
“from  home.”

established 

it 

Reciprocity  with  Canada,  however, 
is  some  distance  away,  and  it  may 
be  some  years  yet  before 
is 
brought  into  being.  But  the  people 
of  the  Northwest  are  clamoring  for 
it.  Newspapers  are  demanding  it  in 
all  the  leading  cities.  The  business 
element  of  the  states  close  to  the 
border  wants  a  chance  to  get  over 
the  line  with  its  sample  trunk,  as 
Canada  and  the  Northwest  are 
a ! 
most  promising  field.  Business  men 
of  the  Northwest  are  shrewd.  They 
know  that  if  they  can  bring  about 
such  relations  between  the  two  coun­
tries  as  will  permit  them  to  market 
their  goods  over  the  line  they  will 
have  a  cinch.  They  will  be  hundreds 
of  miles  nearer  the  market  than  the 
men  who  now  dominate  the  whole­
sale  world.  They  will  be  on 
the 
ground  floor  and  thus  able  to  scoop 
their  rivals. 
It  is  believed  by  many 
that  the  coming  of  reciprocity  will 
mean  the  rapid  upbuilding  of  numer­
ous  of  the  now  small  cities  of  the 
Northwest. 
It  is  easily  seen,  then, 
why  newspapers  in  this  part  of  the 
country  are  clamoring  for  it.

Looking  at  the  future  in  this  light 
the  Soo  seems  to  be  a  good  point 
for  wholesale  houses.  By  no  means 
can  it  be  said  to  be  centrally  located, 
as  far  as  Michigan  is  concerned, but 
it  has  good  railroad  connections with 
all  Upper  Peninsula  towns,  and  in 
case  of  trade  relations  of  a  nature 
that  will  make  it  possible  for  the 
American  dealer  to  go  after  Cana­
dian  business  the  Soo  will  prove  a

W e can  save  any  merchant  from  12  to 

15  per cent,  on

Suspenders

for  Spring  delivery.  A ll  goods  guar­

anteed  first-class.

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The  Kind  of  Advertising  That  Pulls.
Advertising  returns  may  be  divided 
into  two  kin^ls— direct  and  indirect. 
If  you  are  looking  for  direct  returns 
you  must  anticipate  the  public  wants 
and  say  all  you  can  a  week  or  two 
ahead  of  time.  For  example:  Pre­
pare  an  advertisement  of  sweet  pea 
seed;  tell  why  the  kind  you  sell 
is 
worth  cultivating;  mention  the  dif­
ferent  names  of  the  plant;  say  a 
word  about  the  size  of  the  flowers, 
their  fragrance,  color,  etc.,  and  final­
ly  add  k word  tto  the  effect  that  your 
seed  is  stocked  fresh  once  a  pear 
and  give  the  price.  The  advertise­
ment  should  appear  a  week  ahead 
of planting  time.  It will  sell  the  seed 
and  evidence  of  direct  returns  will 
not  be  wanting.

The  reason  many  druggists  have 
lost  faith  in  advertising  is  because 
the  nature  of  their  line  will  not  per­
mit  of  direct  returns.  The  grocer  al­
ways ^ets  quick  returns  because  there 
is a  constant  demand  for  goods  in  his 
line.  The  druggist  often  has  to  cre­
ate  the  demand,  but,  on  the  other 
hand,  his  profits  are  larger  as  com­
pared  with  the  grocer’s.

This  brings  us  to  consider  indirect 
returns.  The  druggist  frequently  ad­
vertises  his  own  remedies,  and  be­
cause  he  does  not  get  immediate  re­
turns  gives  up 
If  in­
stead,  he  would  put  on  more  steam, 
increase  his  advertising,  add  other 
mediums,  the  result  might  be  dif­
ferent.

in  disgust 

After  many  days  some  fellow  may 
drift  in  who  remembered  reading  so 
and  so  concerning  a  corn  cure.  Hav­
ing  contracted  a  corn  in  the  mean­
time  he  is  now  looking  for  the  cure. 
You  actually  may  have  to  wait  for 
the  corn  to  grow,  but  as  sure  as  the 
sun  rises,  if you  are  persistent enough 
you  will  win  if  you  keep  at  it.  That 
is  indirect  returns.

The  writer  remembers  very  well 
his  experience  in  selling  a  sarsaparil­
la.  It  was  advertised  in  the  local  pa­
pers  and by means  of a booklet, coun­
ter  slips  and  window  display.  So 
much  was  said  that  it  seemed  impos­
sible  for  the  public  to  get  away  from 
buying,  it,  sick  or  well.  For  a  long 
time  there  were  no  returns.  A  five- 
gallon  lot  seemed  to  be  all  we  would 
need  for  a  couple  of  decades.  By 
and  by,  after  we  were  all  discouraged 
about  getting  results,  we  had  a  call. 
Then  came  another,  and  gradually we 
worked  up  a  sale,  not 
large  but 
steady,  and  before  we  knew  it  our 
five  gallons  were  gone  and  we  began 
to  realize  that  we  had  another  staple 
added  to  our  stock: 
It  was  slow  in 
comings  but  was  more  profitable  in 
the  end  than  quick  returns.  We  sell 
two  bottles  of  our  sarsaparilla  to one 
of  any  other  make  now,  all  due  to 
persistent  advertising.

For  direct  returns  use  the  medium 
taken  by  most  of  your customers. For 
indirect  returns  use  the  medium  ¡pe­
rused  by  all  classes,  your  customers 
and  the  other fellows’.  Also  use coun­
ter  slips,  booklets,  store  paper,  win­
dow— anything  and  everything 
to 
hammer  it  into  the  public  that  you 
have  something  they  ought  to  have.
There  is  an  angle  in  a  street  of 
Pompeii  where  the  people  took 
a 
short  cut  around  the  corner.  The

story  is  written  in  the  solid  granite, 
where  the  hurrying  multitude  have 
worn  stones  deep  and  smooth,  and 
after  twenty  centuries  the  workman’s 
spade  reveals  a  lesson  for  the  adver­
tiser  of  to-day.  One  man  walking 
over  the  stones  left  about  as  much 
impression  as  the  first  advertisement 
does  in  an  obscure  weekly. 
It  took 
many  footsteps  to  wear  away  the 
granite  of  the  ancient  city,  and 
it 
takes  a  vast  amount  of  advertising to 
wear  away  modern  prejudice  and  fix 
a  thought,  but,  once  accomplished, 
the  impression  will  be  as  indelible  as 
the  granite  walk.  Find  a  man  or 
woman  who  has  not  heard  of  Men- 
nen  or  Lydia  Pinkham,  or  others  that 
might  be  mentioned.

The  lesson  to  be  learned  by  many 
a  retail  druggist  is  that  it  does pay to 
advertise and  that it is more profitable 
to  advertise  preparations  of  his  own, 
even  if  it  takes  time  to  bring  returns. 
The  things  that  bring  quick  results 
are  often  goods  that  yield  small  prof­
it,  while  the  things  that  bring  results 
indirectly  will  in  time  show  direct 
returns,  with  larger  profits.  It  would 
be  better  to  advertise  a  good  liniment 
and  wait  until  some  one  had 
the 
rheumatism  before  making a  sale than 
to  sell  Hires’  root  beer  at  two  for  a 
quarter  and  hire  a  clerk  to  take  care 
of  the  rush. 
In  the  former  case  you 
would  in  time  have  a  staple  article 
selling  regularly  at  a  good  profit,  and 
in  the  latter  you  would  be  doing  a 
lot of business  for a  little money.  The 
slow  horse  often  brings  you  safest 
home,  and  the  same  may  be  said  of 
.the  slow  trade-pulling  advertisement, 
providing  it  is  boosting 
right 
thing. 

Lou  D.  McWethy.

the 

It  Isn't  Yours.

facts, 

To-morrow  does  not  belong  to you. 
Keep  your  hands  off  it.  The  only 
time  you  have  any  business  with  is 
to-day. 
If  all  the  good  things  that 
should  have  come  with  to-morrow 
had  been  accomplished 
this 
world  long  ago  would  have  become 
once  more  a  garden  of  Eden. 
It  is 
not  a  good  thing  to  brood,  but  it  is 
well  for  a  man  to  sit  down  and  take 
a  good  square  look  at  the  situation. 
You  haven’t  to  go  outside  your  lit­
tle  circle,  nor  back  further  than  this 
winter,  to  realize  that  you  had. better 
not  count  too  much  on  to-morrow. 
People  who  had  as  good  chances  for 
a  long  life  as  you,  a  few  weeks  ago, 
are  forever  done  with  the  things  of 
time. 
It  is  wise  to  look  ahead  a 
bit,  but  it  is  more  than  foolish  to 
forget  that  your  little  plan  may  not 
fit  in  with  the  general  design  of  the 
Master  Architect.  Put  your  brain 
and  muscle  into  to-day;  to-morrow 
will  have  its  own  problems  and  re­
sponsibilities.  Get  all  you  can  into 
the  present;  the  future  is  in  other 
hands.  What  if  with  the  next  week 
your 
end? 
“Boast  not  thyself  of  to-morrow:  for 
thou  knowest  not  what  a  day  may 
bring  forth.”

opportunities 

should 

The  clerk  who  treats  customers as 
he  would  like  to  be  treated  if  condi­
tions  were  reversed  is  not  likely  to 
make  many  enemies  and  is  in  a  fair 
way  to  become  a  very  efficient  sales­
man.

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

TOOK  HIM  AT  HIS  WORD.

How  the  Family  Outwitted  the  Head 

of  the  House.
Written  for  the  Tradesman.

Mrs.  Briggs  and  her  daughter  Jane 
had  “done  up  the  dinner  things”  and 
seating  themselves  in  the  shade  of 
the  big  maple  that  shielded  the  side 
porch  from  the  brightness  and  heat 
of  the  afternoon  sun,  were  busy  stick­
ing  cloves  into  great  luscious  peaches 
destined  for  the  pickle 
jar  when 
Philetus  Briggs,  the  husband  and 
father,  laid  aside  his  pipe  and  paper 
and  observed: 
“Seems  to  me  that 
Dave  is  making  an  all  day  trip  to 
town.”

Neither  Mrs.  Briggs  nor  her daugh­
ter  commented  on  the  proposition 
and  so  Mr.  Briggs  continued: 
“I’ve 
been  thinking  this  thing  all  over  ’n’ 
have  ’bout  made  up  my  mind  that 
this  fall’s  work’ll  ’bout  finish  things 
up  for  us.”

“I’m  willin’,”  meekly 

responded 
Jane  and  her  mother  answered  the 
kindly  smile  that  lighted  up  her  hus­
band’s  face  as  he  directed  his  gaze 
toward  her,  with:  “I  thought  you’d 
come  to  it  if  I  left  you  to  make  up 
your  own  mind.”  And 
then  her 
plump  and  healthy  face,  rich  in  its 
matronly  glory,  sent  such  a  volley 
of  genuine  wifely  affection  from  her 
eyes  to  the  eyes  of  the  man,  that  he 
stepped  over  to  her  and,  kissing  her 
forehead,  added:  “An’  we’ll  just take 
comfort  here  where  for  so  many 
years  we  have  together  worked  for 
the  right  to  rest;  the  right  which  is 
ours  legitimately  and  completely.”

When  Mrs.  Briggs  pulled  her  hus­
band’s  bearded  face  down  toward  her 
own  and  kissed  him  fairly  on  his 
lips,  the  daughter  exclaimed: 
“My!
I  just  hope  you  two’ll  never  get  too 
old  to be  spooney,”  at which  the  fath­
er  retaliated  with:  “You  don’t  want 
us  to  live  much  longer,  eh?”

later 

triumphs. 

The  daughter  quickly  declared  that 
she  wanted  both  father  and  mother 
to  live  as  long  as  she  did  and  not 
only  that,  but  that  her  sister  and 
brother  had  repeatedly  and  most 
emphatically  declared  the  same  de­
sire;  and  so,  with  the  two  old  people 
and  their  comfort  and  happiness  as 
her  text,  the  girl  pictured  the  beauty 
of  a  calm  and  robust  old  age  in  the 
very midst of the  scenes  of their  early 
struggles  and 
In 
terms  that  were  homely,  perhaps, but 
forceful,  she  reminded  her  parents 
of  their  high  and  honorable  standing 
throughout  the  countryside  and  then 
told  of  the  great  pride  and  joy  ex­
perienced  by  her  brother  and  sister 
as  well  as  herself,  in  their  contem­
plation  of  the  pattern  lives  that  had 
been 
It  was 
plain  that  she  had  a  purpose  in view 
and  to  no  one  was  it  more  apparent 
than  to  the  father,  who  had,  in  his 
discomfort  and  embarrassment  over 
the  daughter’s  sincere  admiration and 
perfect  frankness,  again 
filled  and 
lighted  his  pipe,  upon  which  he  was 
puffing  furiously.

led  by  the  parents. 

Philetus  Briggs  was  a  good  man 
and  a  kindly  husband  and  father,  but 
he  was  notoriously  exacting  and 
dreadfully  old  fashioned.  He  was 
very  near  in  money  matters  and  yet 
he  was  a  generous  provider  so  long

as  he  was  not  called  upon  to  in­
dulge  in  what  he  called  new  fangled 
notions.  His  latest  and  most  em­
phatic  resentment  was  in  regard  to 
prepared  foods,  which  he  designated 
as  mere  devices 
invented  to  help 
lazy  women-folks.  Thus  it  was  that 
Jane  struck  a  most  unhappy  note 
when  she  suggested:

“An’,  of  course,  if  you’re  goin’  to 
spend  your  old  age  in  this  house—  
an’  goodness  knows  it  is  big  enough 
and  fine  enough— you  ought  to  have 
some  things  put  in  we  haven’t  got.”
Mrs.  Briggs  made  a  feeble  attempt 
to  check  the  subject,  but  was  too  late 
because,  when  the  father  asked  as  to 
what  was  needed,  and  when  the  girl 
suggested  a  bath  room  and  closet, 
Instantly  Mr. 
the  storm  was  on. 
Briggs  derided  the  weakness 
that 
would  permit 
introduction  of 
such  a  feature  in  a  dwelling house;  he 
spoke  with  emphasis  and  seeming 
authority  upon  the  danger  of  such 
an 
innovation  and  finally,  with  no 
little  show  of  bitterness,  declared: 
“This  house  is  the  best  one  in.  the 
township  and 
it  has  been  good 
enough  for  us  to  now  and  will  have 
to  do  to  the  end.”

the 

And  the  girl,  very  like  her  father, 
temperamentally,  did  not  heed  her 
mother’s  anxious 
look  of  warning, 
but  responded  with  equal  vigor  and 
authority: 
“And  I  want  to  tell  you, 
Father,  right  here  and  now,  that  car­
rying  water  from  far  distant  wells 
to  kitchens  and  stables  and  gardens; 
lugging mops,  slops and pails  of water 
up  stairs  and  down  stairs,  an’  being 
forced  to  go  out  of  doors  at  all  hours, 
day  or  night,  and  in  all  kinds  of 
weather,  have  done  more  to  drive 
boys  and  girls  from  the  farms  to  the 
cities  than  all  the  noise  and  bustle 
and  gew-gaws  of  city  life  can  ever 
accomplish.”

“Jane,  please  stop!”  pleaded  the 
mother  as  the  father  enquired  con­
“Have  you  had  your 
temptuously: 
say?”  and  the  daughter  had 
re­
sponded,  “No,  I’m  not  half  through,” 
when  the  tempest  was  stilled  by  the 
sudden  appearance  of  Dave,  who  rode 
around  the  corner  of  the  house  and 
leaping  from  his  horse  handed  his 
father  a letter of  imposing appearance 
and  bearing  the  seal  of  the  U.  S.  Dis­
trict  Court.  Clearly  an  unexpected 
distinction  had  come  upon  the  Briggs 
household  and  in  the -glory  of  such  a 
crisis  all  merely  domestic  topics were 
forgotten.  And  when,  upon  opening 
the  envelope  and  carefully  reading 
the  contents  of  the  enclosure,  Mr. 
Briggs, 
fairly  gasping,  announced: 
“I’ve  been  drawn  to  serve  on 
the 
Grand  Jury  an’  must  report  at  the 
Court  House  to-morrow  morning,” 
there  was  a  moment  of  absolute  si­
lence  born  of  the  amazement  that 
was  dominant.

Such  a  furore  of  domestic  excite­
ment  as  followed.  Mother  undertook 
the  preparation  of  the  proper  white 
and  bosomed  shirts,  the  collars  and 
neckties,  Jane  assigned  herself 
to 
the  sponging  and  pressing  of 
the 
Sunday  suit  and  the  father  and  son 
repaired  to  the  stables  to  exchange 
a  few  last  words  in  relation  to 
the 
stock  and  crops.  And  there  were 
some  steers  to  be  sold  and  various 
repairs  to  machines  to  be  looked  af­

ter,  until  at  last,  with  everything  re­
viewed  and  directions  all  given,  Mr. 
Briggs  resumed:

“And— oh,  yes,  Dave.  You 

just 
I 
remember  at  all  times,  even  if 
never  come  back, 
that  everything | 
about  the  whole  place  belongs  as 
much  to  Mother  as  it  does  to  me.  | 
She’s  earned  more’n  her  half  of  it 
and  it’s  hers,  whole  kit  ’n’  boodle, 
when  I’m  not  here.”

Next  morning  parting  injunctions 
had  been  exchanged,  farewells  had 
been  said  and  Mr.  Briggs,  neat  and 
looking  extremely  well  in  his  good­
fitting  suit  of  black,  waved  an  adieu 
in  answer  to  the  fluttering  handker­
chiefs  at  the  front  porch  as  Dave 
turned  the  horse  north  on  the  Line 
Road  en  route  to  the  station.  Mrs. 
Briggs  and  Jane  turned  and  looked 
at  each  other  in  silence  as  the  horse 
and  wagon  disappeared,  but  almost 
instantly  Mrs.  Briggs  sighed  and  re­
“He’ll  be  gone  two  weeks 
marked: 
at  least  and  maybe 
longer.  An’ 
Dave’s  got  his  orders.”

“An’  we’ve  got  a  heap  to  do  in  two 
weeks,”  continued  Jane,  as  she  fol­
lowed  her  mother  into  the  house.

The  stately  Briggs  Place  was  con­
fessedly  the  best  establishment 
in 
the  township.  The  barns  were  large 
and  well  built;  the  house,  about  200 
feet  away,  was  also  large  and  conve­
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it  was,  after  ten  years  of  service, 
in  excellent  condition.  There  were 
warm,  dry  and  well  lighted  stables, 
a  spacious  building  devoted  to  the 
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oven  accessory,  poultry  house  and 
park,  cattle  sheds  and  pig  sty  and  a 
shop  and  tool  house  combined  which 
was  surmQunted  by  a  windmill  and 
water  tank.

The  morning’s  work,  including  the 
finishing  up  of 
the  peach  pick­
ling  job,  was  quickly  attended  to  and 
then  Mrs.  Briggs  busied  herself 
measuring  a  clothes  line  with  her 
yard  stick,  marking  each  succeeding 
ten  feet  by  tying  a  bit  of  white  cloth 
at  the  spot.  Meanwhile,  out  in  the 
shop,  Jane  had,  by  utilizing  her  fath­
er’s  spirit  level  and  two  pieces  of 
two-by-four,  constructed  a  T-square 
level.  And  the  two  women  very 
soon,  by  means  of  their  clothes  line 
“chain,”  discovered  that  the  water 
tank  was  exactly  212  feet  from 
the 
house  and  165  feet  from  the  stables; 
that  from  the  house  to  the  center  of 
the  half  acre  lawn  the  distance  was 
45  feet  and  that  it  was  120  feet  from 
the  water  tank  to  the  center  of  the 
one  acre  farm  and  kitchen  garden.

realized  that 

It  was  at  this  point  that  the  two 
they  had 
women 
leveling  rod,  but 
overlooked  their 
one  of  the  long  strips  from  the  quilt­
ing  frame  was  measured  off 
into 
inches  and  feet  and  before  dinner 
time  they  had  “taken  the  levels” with 
“stations”  ten  feet  apart  and  knew, 
with  reasonable  exactness,  the  sur­
face  lines  or  profiles  of  each  survey—  
to  the  house,  the  stables,  the  lawn 
and  the  garden— and  with  much  pride 
and  no  little  laughter  were  telling 
Dave  all  about  it  as  together  they 
were  enjoying  the  dinner.

“It's  great!”  said  Dave  at 

last

when  he  had  an  opportunity  to  speak, 
“and  as  soon  as  I  told  Lill  and  Jim 
(the  sister  and  her  husband)  they 
promised  to  come  over  to-morrow 
and  every  day  until  we  get  through. 
And  I  saw  Ben  Barker— who  owes 
me  two  days’  work— an’  he’ll  be  over 
and  Mr.  Webster,  the  plumber, 
is 
cornin’  out  to-morrow  with  pipes  and 
traps  and  bath  tub  and  closet— the 
whole  outfit.  He  says  he’ll  charge 
us  only  for  what  we  use  and  will 
rush  the  job.”

“But  where  will  we  put  the  bath 
room?” 
enquired  Mrs. 
Briggs,  having  thought  of  that  detail 
for  the  first  time.

suddenly 

like,  he  went  on  just 

“That’s  just  what  Webster  asked 
me  when  I  talked  with  him,”  replied 
Dave,  “and  when  I  hesitated,  sort  of 
puzzled 
as 
though  we  had  talked  it  all  over  and 
explained  that  he  had  often  noticed 
our  place  and  wondered  why  we 
didn’t  have  water  works;  that  the 
bottom  of  our  water  tank  was  at 
least  eight  feet  above  our 
second 
floor  and  that  if  he  were  in  our  place 
he’d  put  the  bath  room  in  the  little 
store  room  over  the  pantry.”

It  was  a  regular  water  works  bee 
that  followed.  Lill  and  Jim,  Ben 
Barker  and  Dave,  Mrs.  Briggs  and 
Jane,  under  the  direction  of 
the 
plumber,  who  had  entered  heartily 
into  the  scheme,  dug  the  trenches be­
low  the  frost  line  for  water  pipes and 
traps  and  sewer  pipes,  laid  the  pipes 
and  covered  them,  put  in  the  bath 
tub,  bowls  and  flushing  tank,  and 
I  within  a  week  water  from  the  wind­

mill  and  tank  had  been  led  to  sta­
bles,  house,  lawn  and  garden.

“Pshaw!”  said  Mrs.  Briggs  as  she j 
was  settling  with  the  plumber,  “I’ve j 
always  heard  you  plumbers  were  rob- | 
bers,  but  I  wouldn’t  be  without what | 
you  have  put  in  for  ten  times  what 
you  charge.”

“That’s  all  right,  Mrs.  Briggs,”  an­
swered  Webster,  “but  I’m  well  paid 
for  what  little  I  have  done.  You  and 
your  family  did  all  the  work.”

“Well,  it’s  fine  we’re  both  satis­
fied,”  was  Mrs.  Briggs  comment  as 
she  took  the  receipted  bill.

“Ye-e-s.”  mused  Webster  as  he 
placed  the  money  in  his  pocket,  “but 
I’m  not  wholly  satisfied.  What  you 
need  and  what  you  ought  to  have, 
now  that  you  have  the  water  in  your 
house,  is  a  new  range  with  a  water- 
back,  and  then  you  could  have  hot 
water  on  tap  in  your  kitchen,  your 
bath  room  and  your  stables.”

“Put  her  in  an’  I’ll  pay  for  it!” 
fairly  shouted  Dave  as  he  gave  his 
mother  a  regular  bear  hug.

And  so  the  second  week  saw  the 
as  Mrs. 
new  range  installed  and 
Briggs  walked  around  it  or  tested 
the  hot  water  at  the  sink  she  thought, 
and  once  exclaimed,  “my!  what’ll Leet 
say  when  he  finds  out  what  it  cost?” 
“Say,”  echoed  Jane,  as  she  wiped 
her  hands,  “what’ll  he  say  when  he 
finds  we’ve  no  cess-pool  just  outside 
the  kitchen  door?”

“Yes,  an’  what’ll  he  say  when  he 
sees  our  posies  and  our  lawn  blos­
soming  right  along  through  the  sum­
mer  drouth?  What’ll  he  say  when he 
sees  the  horses  and  cattle  and  things

2 1

slobbering  in  water  to  their  hearts’ 
content  an’  no  one  luggin’  a  pailful 
to  them?”

“What  can  he  say?”  finally  observ­
ed  the  proud  housewife  and  mother.
“ I’ll  tell  you,  now,  what  he  did 
say,”  said  Dave.  “He  told  me  to  re- 
j  member,  at  all  times,  that  this whole 
place 
is  yours— the  whole  kit  and 
boodle;  that  you  had  earned  more’n 
your  half  of  it  and  that  when  he’s 
I  not  here,  it’s  all  yours.”

“Did  your  father  say  that?”  asked 
|  Mrs.  Briggs,  as  a  glistening,  swim- 
I  ming  flood  filled  her  eyes  •

“That’s  what  he  said,  Mother,”  an­
swered  Dave  as  he  placed  an  arm 
across  her  shoulder  and  with  the 
other  led  her  toward  the  sitting room 
with  his  own  eyes  filled  to  brimming. 

*  *  *

The  labors  bf  the  Grand  Jury  were 
ended  many  weeks  before  Philetus 
Briggs  returned  to  his  home  because 
of  a  railway  disaster  which  brought 
l  great  grief  and  irreparable  loss  into 
many  households, but  sent  Mr. Briggs 
to  an  Emergency  Hospital 
the 
city  with  a  broken  arm  and  many 
cuts  and  bruises.  And  when  Mrs. 
j  Briggs  and  Jane,  answering  a  tele­
graphic  announcement  of  the  acci- 
I  dent,  put  in  an  appearance  at  the  hos­
pital,  thrilled  with  anxiety  and  fear,
I  they  found  the  old  gentleman  done 
up  in  splints  and  plaster  and  band­
ages,  but  very  much  alive  and  de­
lighted  by  their  presence.

in 

“The  doctor  says  I’ll  come  out 
as  good  as  new,”  said  the  patient 
cheerily  in  answer  to  his  wife’s  en-

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In the face of this competition we  did  a  larger 
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22
quiry,  “but  I  guess  I’m  laid  up  here j 
for  the  winter  all  right.”

And  to  say  truly,  it  must  be  con­
fessed  that  the  mother  and  daughter j 
experienced  a  sense  of  relief  when j 
they  heard  the  news.  Relief  over the j 
promise  that  he  would  recover,  of i 
course;  but  relief,  also,  over  the  pos­
sibility  that  they  would  be  given  a 
few  weeks’  leeway  in  which  to  pre- 
pare  the  old  gentleman  for  the  sur­
prise  in  store  for  him  at  home.

“Of  course  it  isn’t  that  we’re afraid | 
of  his  anger  when  he  finds  out what 
we’ve  done,”  suggested  Jane,  “but  it I 
would  be  dangerous  to  Pa  to  permit 
him  to  undergo  the  excitement  in 
his  present  condition.”

And  Mrs.  Briggs  looked  a  world 
of  admiration  and  thanks  into  the 
eyes  of  the  daughter  as  she  answer­
ed: 
“Why,  I  wouldn’t  think  of  it—  
under  the  circumstances.”  Thus  it 
was,  after  a  day  of  visiting  with  the 
hospital  attaches  and  Mr.  Briggs, 
and  after  reaching  a  detailed  under­
standing  as  to  the  mutual  use  of  the 
telephones  and  the  mails,  that  the 
wife  and  daughter,  buoyed  by  most 
hopeful  reports  on  the  part  of  sur­
geon  and  nurses  and  by  the  seeming 
comfort  and  contentment  of 
the  in­
jured  man,  started  on  their  return 
homeward.  Daily  reports  followed 
them  for  a  week  thereafter  and while 
everything  was  reported  favorable, 
there  was  no  especial  message  from 
the  patient.  True  he  sent  messages 
of  love  and  remembrance,  but  there 
wasn’t  a  hint  about  an  early  return 
home.

said  Dave  one  evening  at  the  table, 
“he  seems  to  be  blame  well  satis­
fied.”

And  then  Mrs.  Briggs 

suggested 
that  there  was  a  possibility  that  he 
had  already  heard  of  the  water  works 
improvement  and  was  purposely  de­
laying  his  return  until  he  had  his 
temper  well  in  hand.  And  so,  for 
two  weeks  more  the  uncertainty  and 
curiosity  and  doubt  that  oppressed 
the  household  continued  without  a 
single  word  from  Mr.  Briggs  that 
was  calculated  to  relieve  the  strain.
Then  it  was,  one  morning  just  af­
ter  breakfast,  that  Mrs.  Briggs  an­
nounced: 
“I’m  going  in  to  the  city 
to-day  and  when  I  come  back  your 
father’ll  be  with  me. 
I’m  going  to 
put  an  end  to  this  suspense.”

It  was  then,  too,  that  there  came 
a  call  over  the  telephone,  which was 
answered  by Dave.  The  young man’s 
face  beamed  as  he  listened  and  the 
“It’s  Pa 
next  instant  he  reported: 
talking— and  he  says: 
‘Tell  Ma  I’m 
coming  home  to-day.  Tell  her  I’ve 
been  taking  baths  in  a  bath  tub,  hot 
and  cold  water,  every  day 
for  a 
!  week— all  except  my  broken  arm—
I  and  that  I’m  feeling  like  a  four-year- 
old— all  except  my  arm.’ ”

*  *  *

And  one  afternoon  in  the  June  fol- 
j  lowing,  when  the  fields  were  rich 
|  with  promise  and  the  air  was  warm 
|  under  the  benediction  of  a  glorious 
j  sunlight  and  a  clear 
sky,  Philetus 
j  Briggs  and  his  wife  were  chatting 
|  cosily  together  on  the  side  porch 
j  and  the  husband  was  heard  to  say: 
I  “Yes,  that  hospital  bath  tub  opened

my  eyes  wider’n  they’d  ever  been  be­
fore;  but  it  wasn’t  nothing  to  the 
heatin’  apparatus  ’n’  if  I  live  there’ll 
be  a  furnace  in  this  house  inside  of 
sixty  days,  if  I  have  anything  to  say 
about  it.”

“Yes,”  replied  Mrs.  Briggs,  “that’s 
what  I’ve  been  thinking,  too.  An’  I 
made  a  contract  with  Webster  day 
before  yesterday  for  one— a  hot  wat­
er  heater.  You  know  you  told  Dave 
the  place  is  mine  and  I  can  do  what 
I Jike  with  my  own  property,  I  con­
cluded.” 

Charles  S.  Hathaway.

Shoe  Departments  in  General  Stores.
The  shoe  departments  in many gen­

eral  stores  are  sadly  neglected.

Many  merchants  will  say  this  does 

not  fit  them.

It  probably  does.
When  a  lady  calls  for  a  pair  of 
store, 
shoes,  can  everyone  in  the 
from  yourself  to  the  newest  clerk, go 
to  the  stock  which  is  most  likely  to 
suit  her  and  at  once  select  all  of  the 
different  styles?

In  other  words,  do  they  know  the 

stock  thoroughly?

Not  long  ago  you  may  have  had 
a  new  shipment  of  children’s  shoes. 
Have  all  of  the  clerks  been  instruct­
ed  about  them  so  they  can  pick  them 
out  and  talk  them  readily?
Or  when  they  go  from 

the  dry 
goods  or  grocery  departments  into 
the  shoe  section  will  it  be  a  case  of 
guess with  them  most of the  time?

With  one-half the  clerks  in  one-half 
the  general  stores  selling  a  pair  of 
shoes  of  any  kind  is  a  clumsily  done 
job.

They  do  not  know  the  stock.

They  fail  to  size  up  the  customer, 

what  will  suit,  what  will  fit,  etc.

About  the  time  they  find  a  shoe 
that  suits  they  find  they  can  not  get 
a  fit.

Which  fact  they  should  have known 

before  they  pulled  the  shoe  down.

They  know  nothing  of  the  values 
the  strong  points  in  the  goods 

or 
they  are  selling.

The  shoes  are  brought  in  from  the 
warehouse  on  a  truck  and  given  a 
place  in  stock.  Some  of  them  may 
be  looked  at  and  no  more.  The  mer­
chant  does  not  take  enough  interest 
in  them  to  tell  his  clerks  why  they 
will  be  good  sellers.

This  is  one  of  the  features  of  gen­
eral  merchandising  which  shows  that 
the  merchant  has  not  worked  his  op­
portunities  to  within  gunshot  of  the 
limit.

It  shows  the  necessity  of  wide­
awake  merchants  and  wideawake 
clerks.— Commercial  Bulletin.

hours, 

A  wonderful  clock  has  just  been 
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It  tells  the 
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seconds,  minutes, 
days, 
weeks,  months,  years  and  Christian 
festivals.  The  course  of 
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moon  and-constellations  is  given  and 
eclipses  shown.  The  clock  has  been 
regulated  to  keep  all 
things 
until  2899.  The  clock  consists  of 
2,200  parts  and  has  142  wheels,  while 
it  is  worth  $8,750.

these 

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cious  dentist  would  be  something  of 
a  nuisance,  but  doubtless  he  of 
the 
forceps  only  meant 
that  he  was 
prompt  in  his  methods.

It  is  impossible  not  to  be  awed  by 
this  Japanese  official  notice: 
“The 
trees-cutting,  birds’  and  beasts’  kill­
ing,  and  cows  and  horses  setting on 
free  at  the  ground  belonging  to  gov­
ernment  are  strictly  prohibited.”

Very  often  a  mistake  is  made  by 
misinterpreting  a  foreign  word  which 
has  two  English  meanings.  Thus,  a 
British  tourist  in  Holland  was  puz­
zled  to  know  what  “Upright  ginger 
beer”  might  mean,  until  he  found out 
that  “opreght”  in  Dutch  stands  for 
both 
“genuine.”—  
Stray  Stories.
The  Prospects  of  the  Young  Men  of 

“upright” 

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to  the 

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the labor and  expense, make  pota­
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T hey  are  known  everywhere  to 
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THE  TOURIST  TRADE.

Amusing  Attempts  of  Shopkeepers 

to  Attract  Attention. 

Holiday-makers  on  the  continent 
have  from  time  to  time  sent  home 
amusing  instances  of  foreign  efforts 
to  address  the  tourist  in  his  own  bar­
barous  tongue.  Here  are  a  few,  cull­
ed  in  continental  shops,  hotels,  and 
other  places  of  public  resort.

Even  cultivated  Paris  supplies  a 
few  amusing  blunders  in  her  strug­
gles  with  our  uncouth  lingo.  A  res­
taurateur  in 
the  Gay  City  wished 
to 
impress  on  the  hungry  tourist 
that  at  his  establishment  food  could 
be  obtained  at  any  hour.  After much 
labor  he  evolved  the  following:

“Meals  at  every  o’clock!”
A  hair  dresser  in  the  Rue  St.  Ho­
noré  sought  to  attract  visitors  with 
the  weird  announcement,  “Hear  to 
cut  off  hare;”  while  a  Palais  Royal 
baker  appealed  to  those  who  liked 
their  macaroni  fresh  with  “Macaroni 
not  baked  sooner  ready.”

Switzerland  supplies 

a  plentiful 
crop  of  quaintly  worded  notices. 
Concluding  an  enthusiastic  account 
of  his  hotel,  a  Swiss  boniface  gives 
the  candid  information  that  “Wines 
at  this  hotel  give  the  visitor  nothing 
to  hope 
for.”  Another  advertises 
“Plain  and  artful  baths.”  Desirous of 
vaunting  the  maturity  of  his  cheese, 
a  Swiss 
tradesman  says: 
“Thees 
chees  are  not  too  childish.”

It  is  well  known  as  the  thing  to do 
when  visiting  the  Rigl  to  watch  the 
sunrise;  wherefore  a  hotel  there  gives 
out  that  “When  the  sun  him  rise  a 
horn  will  be  blowed.”  This  kind  of 
English 
seems  considerably  more 
childish  than  the  extolled  cheese  of 
the  worthy  Switzer  tradesman.

Having  made  the  usual  distinction 
between  casual  visitors  and 
those 
who  pay  by  the  month,  having  re­
solved  on  a  lengthened  stay,  a  Swiss 
hotel  proprietor  exhorts  the 
latter 
thus:  “Monthly  gentlemen  will  have 
to  pay  fixed  rate  made  with  them 
at  the  time,  and  should  they  absent 
day  in  month  they  will  not  be  al­
lowed  anything  out  of  it,  because  I 
take  from  them  less  rate.”

After  this  one  does  not  flinch from 
such  minor  eccentricities  as  “Back­
ed  apples”  and 
“Strewed  prunes,” 
which  fearful  and  wonderful  dishes 
have been  known  to  figure  on  a  Swiss 
menu.

In  Italy,  near  Pompeii,  the  follow­
ing  curious  announcement  appears in 
the  circulars  of  a  large  hotel:

“People  will  find  equally  thither  a 
complete  sortiment  of  stranger wines 
and  of  the  kingdom,  hot  and  cold 
baths,  stables  and  coach  houses,  the 
whole  with  very  moderate  price. 
Now,  all  the  endeavors  of  the  host 
will  tend  always  to  correspond  with 
the  tastes  of  their  customers,  which 
wilf  acquire  without  doubt  to  him 
in  that 
of 
which  he  is  desirous.”

reputation 

town  the 

In  a  French  town  a  dentist  con­
cludes  an  advertisement  in  the  local 
papers  thus:  “M.  X.  renders  himself 
to  the  inhabitants  of 
town 
wich  honour  him  with  their  confi­
dence,  and  executes  with  skill  and 
vivacity.”

these 

One  would  imagine  that  a  viva­

To-day.

The  young  lads  of  to-day, between 
the  ages  of  io  to  17  years,  are  of  a 
much  brighter  nature  than  those  of a 
century  past— young  boys  say  at  the 
age  of  15  years.  You  can  depend 
upon  them  in  many  different  ways. 
They  can  do  business  transactions 
and  do  business.  They  seem  so  in­
dependent  because  they  can 
jingle j 
the  coin  in  their  pockets,  which 
makes  them  feel  like  big  men.

youthful 

customer 

long  pants  on?” 

Not  long  ago  a  young  lad  about  13 
came  into  a  clothing  store.  The  clerk 
enquired,  “Something,  young  man?” 
“Yes,”  replied  the  youthful  customer,
“I  want  to  look  at  a  pair  of  pants for 
myself.”  After  a  moment’s  hesita­
tion  the 
said, 
“Long  pants.”  This  was  going  to 
be  his  first  pair  of  long  pants  and 
he  felt  awfully  big.  He  kept  his 
right  hand  in  his  pocket  jingling  the | 
coin  that  he  had  to  pay  for  the  long 
pants.  He  said  to  the  clerk,  “Don’t 
you  think  I  will  look  much  bigger 
with 
“ Certainly,” 
replied  the  clerk;  “you  will  look  like 
a  big  man.”  The  little  lad  replied | 
with  a  broad  smile  on  his  face,  “Gee! 
I’ll  look  almost  as  big  as  my  father, 
because  he  is  a  very  short  man.”  The 
clerk  had  the  pants  wrapped  up  for 
him  and  the  little  fellow  took  his 
money  out  of  his  pocket  with  an 
expression  on  his  face  as  though he 
was  glad  to  get  rid  of  his  money  as 
long  as  he  got  his  long  pants.  After 
he  had  paid  for  the  pants  he  flew  out 
of  the  store  in  a  hurry,  tickled  to 
death  over  his  long  purchase.  The 
clerk  was  amazed  at  the  manner  in 
which  the  youthful  customer  select­
ed  his  pants,  being  careful  in  his  se­
lection  and  kicking  about  the  price. 
He  tried  to  Jew  him  down.  The 
clerk  thought  he  was  dealing  with  a 
man  instead  of  a  lad  of  13-  About 
an  hour  later  the  clerk  was  out  on 
the  street  and  saw  the  lad,  whom  he 
hardly  recognized  in  his  new  pants.
I  think  nobody  will  dispute  me 
when  I  say  that  75  per  cent,  of 
the 
boys  at  the  ages  mentioned  are 
bright  and  intelligent,  and  some  fu­
ture  day  some  of  them  may  be  at 
the  head  of  the  nation.

Meyer  M.  Cohen.

Charlevoix,  Mich.
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cle  on  arrangement  of  stock  which 
I  believe  would  be  of  benefit  to  a 
host  of  shoe  men.  That  is  one  of 
the  'first  points  to  be  considered.  Is 
your  arrangement  of  stock  and  fix­
tures  as  it  should  be  or  does  it  re­
semble  a  junk  shop  more  than  a  met­
ropolitan  shoe  store?  I  have  noticed 
a  number  of  shoe  stocks  and  espe­
cially  those  handled 
in  connection 
with  other  lines  of  merchandise  that, 
to  use  a  slang  phrase,  were  “a  holy 
fright.”  The  main  stock  in  trade 
seems  to  be  composed  of  soiled  and 
broken  cartons  placed  promiscuously 
here,  there  and  everywhere  on 
the 
shelves  without  regard  to  location  or 
appearance.  Not  only  that,  but  the 
arrangement  of  fixtures,  settees,  etc., 
is  generally  bad.  Just  place  yourself 
in  the  customer’s  position  a  few  mo­
ments,  Mr.  Shoeman,  and  suppose 
that  you  had  entered  the  store  for 
the  purpose  of  purchasing.  Your 
first  impression  is  far  from  favorable 
when  you  come 
in  and  notice  a 
group  of  clerks  who  are  apparently 
engrossed  in  everything  except  that 
is  a  customer  to  be  waited 
there 
upon.  Finally,  one  of 
the  clerks 
ambles  up  to  you  and,  in  a  tone  more 
calculated  to  discourage  you  than  to 
persuade  you  to  buy,  asks  after your 
wants.  You  seat  yourself  on  the  set­
tee  after  it  has  been  cleared  of  news­
papers,  shoe  cartons,  etc.,  and  pro­
ceed  to  inspect  the  stock  before  you.
Your  attention  is  attracted  by  a 
carton  that  has  no  lid  and  the  front 
is  hanging  down,  covering  the  .front 
of  carton  beneath  and  exposing  a 
pair  of  dirty  looking  shoes.  You 
next  note  a  large  carton  projecting 
from  a  row  of  smaller  ones,  with 
holes  here  and  improper  spaces there 
and  so  on  through  the  stock.  What 
would  be  your  own  conclusion,  Mr. 
Shoedealer?  Would  it  not  be  natural 
for  you  to  feel  that  the  goods  were 
not  up  to  the  standard,  although they 
may  be?

You  may  consider  this  case  over­
drawn,  but  I  assure  you  I  have  seen 
instances  as  bad  as  above  portrayed.
I  I  trust,  however,  that  these  examples 
are  much  in  the  minority.  The  point 
is,  have  a  house-cleaning.  Get  all 
those  cobwebs  out  of  the  corners. 
Rearrange  your  stock  with  some eye 
to  system.  Have  all  of  one  line  of 
shoes  together,  i.  e.,  one  section  for 
ladies  and  one  each  for  men,  boys, 
misses  and  children,  or  at  least,  have 
them  separated  so  you  will  know 
i  where  they  are  at.  Replace  all  those 
|  broken  cartons  with  new  ones  or 
I  get  them  out  of 
sight.  Compact 
your  stock.  Better  to  have  a  whole 
vacant  shelf  at  the  top  than  to  have 
I  the  stock  full  of  holes.  Next  see 
that  your  display  cases  and  all  glass 
and  metals  are  kept  bright  and  shin­
ing.  Arrange  your  store  artistically 
in  the  interior  at  least,  for  there  is 
where  you  do  business. 
It  will  be 
much  pleasanter  for  you  and  for your 
clerks  and  also  for  your  customers.
An  annual  or  semi-annual  sale  for 
clearance  of  dead  or  out  of  date stock 
has  become  one  of  the  necessary  at­
tributes  to  every  well  conducted  re­
tail  business  and  the  shoe  business 
is  no  exception.  No  matter  how 
carefully  or  conservatively  the  buyer 
may  place  his  order  I  have  yet  to  see

How  To  Conduct  a  Successful  Shoe

Business  During  1904.

to 

The  annual  invoice  having  been 
completed  in  the  majority  of  shoe 
loss  having 
stores  and  profit  and 
been  credited  and  debited 
the 
business  of  1903,  the  shoe  retailer 
now  prepares  to  face  and  cope  with 
the  problems  of  1904.  This,  or  pos­
sibly  a  little  later  in  some  localities, 
is  one  of  the  dullest  periods  of  the 
year.  With  the  fall  and  winter  sea­
son  just  closing  and  the  spring  trade 
not  having  commenced,  the  progres­
sive  dealer  should  have  a  little  time 
to  formulate  and  put 
into  action 
schemes  and  methods  for  the  ad­
development  of 
vancement 
business  in  his  locality. 
I  trust  that 
with  the  large  majority  of  dealers 
the  year’s  business  just  closed  has 
been  highly  successful  and  profitable 1 
and  as  compared  with  the  year  pre­
vious  has  shown  considerable  ad­
vancement. 
In  all  lines  this  is surely 
an  age  of  advancement  and  I  firmly 
believe  that  the  twelve  months  of 
1904  will  develop  many  new  methods 
and  more  systematic  arrangement of 
business  than  has  marked  the  same 
period  of  time  in  the  past.

and 

Therefore,  it  is  “up”  to  the  pro­
gressive  shoe  man  to  keep  in  touch 
with  these  up-to-date  methods  and 
ideas  and  right  now  is  the  time  to 
commence.  No  business  can  stand 
still  at  this  day  and  age.  We  can 
not  depend  upon  any  particular  class 
of  trade  staying  with  us  regardless 
of  our  attitude  toward  their  interests. 
If  a  progressive  merchant  opens  up 
in  your  town  or  locality  and  takes 
some  of  your  trade,  who  is  to  blame? 
Have  you  not  had  possession  of  this 
business— and  you  know  possession 
is  considered  nine  points,  etc.?  Do 
not  get  angry  because  some  of  your 
customers  are  leaving  you.  Examine 
the  cause.  You  will  no  doubt  find 
that  they  have  every  respect  for  you 
and  have  confidence  in  you  as  a  deal­
er. 
It  is  not  that  they  do  not  like 
you,  it  is  prices  and  new  ideas  that 
“fetch 
’em.”  Start  the  new  year 
aright.  Fight  your  competition  with 
their  own  weapons  and  go  them  one 
better  if  possible.

There  is  no  doubt  that  this  is  a 
hard  proposition  to  a  number  of 
smaller  dealers  especially,  and  they 
no  doubt  feel  that  with  the  means 
and  help  available  they  are  wholly 
unable  to-cope  with  the  situation. 
Our  first  advice  would  be: 
“Sub­
scribe  for  a  live,  progressive  trade 
journal  and  read  it.” 
It  will  keep 
you  abreast  of  the  times  and  you  will 
be  surprised  at  the  many  helpful  sug­
gestions  you  will  obtain  that  will  be 
adaptable  to  your 
own  business. 
With  it  as  a  guide  strive  to  eclipse 
all  former  efforts  in  going  after  busi­
ness.  Commence  at  the  bottom  and 
thoroughly  study  out  your  plan  of 
action.

As  an  example  of  the  helpfulness 
of  a  trade  journal,  in  a  recent  issue 
of  this  paper  there  appeared  an  arti­

the  stock  that  did  not  accumulate 
unsalable  stuff  which  gradually  gets 
for  new 
pushed  out  of  the  way 
goods.  This  portion  of  the 
stock 
should  receive  very  careful  attention 
and  when  it  is  seen  that  any  particu­
lar  line  bids  fair  to  be  “stickers,” 
then  is  the  time  to  dispose  of  them. 
It  would  be  impossible  to  outline  a 
method  of riddance  for  these  business 
“breakers”  that  would  be  adaptable 
to  all  localities,  but  get  rid  of  them 
you  must,  and  that  is  one  of  the 
problems  that  will  confront  you  in 
carrying  out  your  system,  but  be 
sure  you  are  right,  and  where  there 
is  a  will  there  is  always  a  way.  With 
some  houses  and  in  some  cities  and 
towns  the  clearance  sale  has  been 
worked  to  death,  and  does  not  at­
tract  the  attention  any  more  than 
it  should,  therefore,  there  must  be 
other  methods  used.  A  good  manner 
to  dispose  of  “stickers”  in  the  course 
of  regular  business  is  to  have  a  space 
in  each  department  on  the  base  shelf 
devoted  to the odds and ends you wish 
to  dispose  of.  When  you  are  serving

The  Old 

National Bank

G R A N D   R A P ID S ,  M ICH IGAN

Our  certificates  of  deposit 
are  payable  on  demand  and 
draw interest  at

3%

Our financial responsibility is 
almost  two  million  dollars—  
a  solid  institution  to  intrust 
with your funds.

The  Largest  Bank in Western 

Michigan

Assets,  $ 6 ,6 4 6 ,3 3 3 .4 0 .

The Boston 
Rubber Shoe Co.’s 
Discounts for  1904

Are  30,  5  and  3  per cent,  on  Bostons  and  30,  10,  5  and 

3  per cent,  on  Bay States until June first.

After  that  date  the discount on  Bostons  will  be 30 and  3 

per cent,  and on  Bay States 30,  10 and  3  per cent.

By  placing  your  order  now  you  save  $3.40  on  every 
hundred dollars’  worth of Bostons  and  $3.06  on  every  hun­
dred dollars’  worth  of Bay States  that you buy.

When you consider the  quantity  of  rubbers  needed  to 
supply your trade this  saving is  an item  you  can’t  afford  to

I overlook.

Rindge,  Kalmbach, Logie  &   C o., Ltd.

Grand  Rapids, Mich.

When  Looking

over our spring line of  samples  which  our  men 
are  now carrying

Don’t  Forget

to ask  about our  KANGAROO  KIP  Line for  men,  and 
what  goes  with  them  as  advertising  matter.  Prices 
from  $1.20 to $2.50.  Strictly  solid.  Best  on  earth  at 
the price.

GEO.  H.  REEDER  &  CO.,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

a  customer  and  have  found  the  size 
and  style  desired  cast  your  eye  over 
this  stock  and  see  if  there  is  not 
something  that  will  do  and 
if  so 
show  it.  State  exactly  the  truth  of 
the  matter  and  cut  the  price  accord­
ingly.  Another  good  idea,  providing 
you  have  a  sale  record  and  list  of 
customers,  giving  sizes  worn,  is  to 
mail  each  one  a  personal  letter,  call­
ing attention  to the  fact that  you  have 
so  many  pairs  of  such  and  such  shoes 
which  will  fit  them  and  which  you 
will  sell  at  a  bargain,  giving  your 
reason  for  so  doing.  This  may  be  a 
little  trouble  and  expense,  but  not 
more  so  than  a  full  page  advertise­
ment,  which  probably  would  not  do 
as  much  good.

Spring  openings  are  no  longer  an 
experiment,  but  with  the  successful 
merchant,  are  one  of  the  most  impor­
tant  points  to  be  considered  in  his 
solicitation  of  business.  Wè 
are 
nearing  the  time  when  these  openings 
will  be  seasonable  and  we  have  ample 
time  to  prépare  a  line  of  action.  To 
those  shoe  dealers  who  have  made 
a  practice  of  holding  openings  it  is 
unnecessary  to  make  the  above state­
ment,  for  they  are  undoubtedly  now 
formulating  plans  whereby  they  may 
eclipse  all'  former  efforts.  But 
to 
those  who  have  never  held  a  spring 
opening  we  say,  “Get  busy.”  Not 
only  can  we  cite  you  to  those  of 
your  own  profession,  but  also  to the 
dry  goods  and  furnishings  dealers, 
and  especially  is  it  the  chief-factor 
in  the  business  of  our 
sister-in­
trade,  the  milliner.  No  matter  how 
small  a  business,  nor  how  limited 
her  stock,  she  would  no  more  think 
of  endeavoring  to  sell  hats  without 
a  seasonable  opening  than  she  would 
of  using  her  needle  minus  the  thread. 
Is  there,  then,  any  reason  why  a 
stock  of  shoes  should  not  be  intro­
duced  to  the  public  at  the  beginning 
of their  season  in the  same manner?

a 

in 

The  spring  goods  will  undoubtedly 
be  all  delivered  and  marked  and  in 
stock  by  the  last  of  this  month,  so 
that  they  will  be  ready  for  display 
as  soon  as  signs  of  spring  become 
manifest.  ^Vhy  not  use 
little 
“Printers’  Ink” 
announcing  a 
spring  opening  and  inviting  the  pub­
lic  to  attend?  This  can  be  done  in 
various  ways  and  with  different  de­
grees  of  expense,  but,  of  course,  the 
elaborateness  of  the  invitations  and 
other  preparations  must  be  regulated 
by  the  size  of  the  business  and  the 
capital  thereof.  Whatever  you  do, 
you  can  at  least  have  the  interior  of 
your  place  of  business  clean  and  at­
tractive  even  if  not  profusely  deco­
rated,  and  it  is  within  the  power  of 
even  the  smallest  merchant  to  deco­
rate  the  interior  and  exterior  of  his 
store  in  some  attractive  manner.

Another  valuable  help  to  the  suc­
cessful  shoe  man  is  his  method  of 
window  display.  This  is  a  very  valu­
able  means  of  advertising  and  one 
that  must  be  thoroughly  and  artisti­
cally  done. 
the 
means  by  which  the  majority  of 
shoppers  will  “size  up”  your  business 
and  it  is  unnecessary  to  state  that  a 
large  amount  of  transient  trade,  es­
pecially,  comes  your  way  because of 
an  attractive  display. 
I  do  not  con­
sider  it  necessary  to  put  the  greater

Remember  it  is 

part  of  your  stock  in  the  window  by 
any  means,  but  a  well  balanced  dis­
play  of  a  few  attractive  samples  will 
arrest  more  attention  and  appear 
much  neater  than  an  indiscriminate 
mass  of  merchandise.  The  window 
display  is  not  the  “whole  thing”  by 
any  means,  and  I  have  always  con­
sidered  a  neat,  attractive  interior  to 
be  of  equal  importance.  These  dis­
plays,  both  interior  and  exterior, are 
a  great  help  to  the  dealer  during  his 
opening  days  especially,  although  I 
would  not  let  a  display  lag  at  any 
season  of  the  year,  but  would  keep 
my  business  always  before  the  public 
by  striving  to  be  the  first  to  recog­
nize  any  important  event  of  local  or 
national  interest  by  arranging  a  dis­
play  in  keeping. 
I  believe  that  1904 
will  show  a  great  advancement  in the 
art  of  window  dressing  and  interior 
arrangements,  and  those  who  do  not 
keep  abreast  of  this  movement  are 
the  ones  who  will  lose  out eventually.
This  is  the  branch  of  your  business 
which  is  exchanged  for  dollars  and 
cents  and  should  be  one  of  your  most 
profitable  expenditures.  The  year 
before  us  promises  to  be  one 
in 
which  many  merchants  who  have  not 
before  realized  the 
of 
this  economical  business  expense  will 
awake  to  the  situation  and  will  be 
compelled  to  either  “Do  or  die”  so 
far  as  their  business 
interests  are 
concerned.  We  have  but  to  look  to 
the  amount  and  quality  of  the  adver­
tising  that  is  used  by  those  firms 
who  are  taking  business  from  our 
territory  to  realize  its  potent  force. 
The  question  is,  “Are  you  going  to 
sit  at  your  desk  and  read  these  ad­
vertisements  in  your  local  papers  and 
magazines  of  general  circulation  and 
say,  ‘no  use?’  or  are  you  going  to 
strive  to  get  in  the  ring  and  profit 
by  their  example?  There  is  no  rea­
son  why,  with  the  many  advertising 
propositions  available,  you  should be 
content  to  live  a  hand-to-mouth  ex­
istence,  but  put  your  shoulder  to the 
wheel  and  push.  Convince 
your 
trade  by  persistent,  truthful  advertis­
ing  that  you  can  sell  shoes  in  com­
petition  with  those  with  whom  they 
are  doing  business.  Here  is  where 
your  trade  journals  will  be  of  bene­
fit,  as  well  as  in  every  other  branch 
of  your  business.  You  can  obtain 
points  in  every  issue  which  will  be 
of  incalculable  benefit  to  you.

importance 

I  do  not  mean  by  this  that  you 
should  turn  peddler  or  make  a  house 
to  house  canvass  in  order  to  get busi­
ness.  Not  by  any  means,  but  I  have 
reference  to  your  treatment  of  cus­
tomers  who  trade  with  you.  Do  you 
ever  ask  them  to  call  again?  Do  you 
allow  your  customers  to  stand  unno­
ticed  for  any  length  of  time,  or  do 
you  escort  your  customers  to 
the 
door,  after  dealing  with  them,  and 
opening  same  ask  them  to  call  again? 
And  do  you  make  it  a  point  with 
yourself  and  among  your  clerks  to 
see  that  every  possible  customer re­
ceives  every  possible  attention  from 
the  time  he  comes 
in  until  he' 
leaves?  All  these  and  many  other 
personal  attentions  have  a  good  ef­
fect and are methods  of making a per­
sonal  solicitation  of  business.  As  a 
sum  and  substance  of  what  this  arti­
cle  is  intended  to  express  I  feelthat

I  can  give  no  better  advice  or  plan | 
a  better  idea  than  that  adopted  by 
Marshall  Field  &  Co.,  of  Chicago, 
who  express  it  in  this  wise: 
“The 
Marshall  Field  &  Co.  Idea.— To  do I 
the  right  thing,  at  the  right  time,  in j 
the  right  way;  to  do  some  things  bet- j 
ter  than  they  were  ever  done  before; 
to  eliminate  errors;  to  know  both  ; 
sides  of  the  question;  to  be  courte­
ous;  to  be  an  example;  to  work  for  1 
love  of  the  work;  to  anticipate  re -1 
quirements;  to  develop  resources; to j 
recognize  no  impediments;  to  mas­
ter  circumstances;  to  act  from  reason  j 
rather  than  rule;  to  be  satisfied  with 
nothing  short  of  perfection.”— A.  B.  | 
Cowley  in  Shoe  Trade  Journal.

Marine  insurance  is  very  old.  The 
earliest)  voyagers,  the  Phoenicians,  | 
practiced  a  kind  of  insurance.  The j 
master,  before  sending  his  small  bark  j 
to  the  edge  of  the  earth,  mortgaged  j 
If  she  came j 
her  against  her  return. 
back  he  returned  the  loan  with  a j 
heavy  premium.

The  clerk  who  always  waits  to  be j 
told  what  to  do  will  probably  have j 
to  wait  a 
is | 
told  to  take  a  higher  position.

long  time  before  he 

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to  pain.

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Balance  and  kept by 
Up-to-Date Methods?

Do  they  give you  the  infor­
mation  necessary 
to  run 
your  business  successfully  ? 
Let  us  send  an  expert  from 
our  accounting and auditing 
department  to  install  a  new 
system  and  instruct  your 
book-keeper 
in  the  lates' 
time-saving,  f a c t - g i v i n g  
methods.  Write  for  par­
ticulars.

The  Michigan  Trust Co.

Grand Rapids, Michigan 

Established  1889

p r r r r r r v T r r i r r s T V T S T T i r r r r r

A  RECORD

Since  moving into our  new  and  commodious  quar­
ters  on  August  1,  1903,  all  previous  records  as  to 
our sales  have  been  broken.  We  sold  more  goods 
during the last five months of the fa st year  than  in 
a whole year less  than  five  years  ago.

W ALDRON,  A L D E R T O N   &  M E LZE

Wholesale Boots,  Shoes and Rubbers 

No.  131-133 N. Franklin St.

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JU U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U L JU U L JU /

SAGINAW,  MICH. 

W rite  for  Prices

Where  we  make  them.

Equipped with  electricity,  run  by  water  power.  Our 
minimum  cost of production  gives our  customers  max­
imum  values  in  Men’s,  Boys’  and  Youths  Shoes.

Hirth,  Krause &  Co.,

Shoe Manufacturers 

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

they 

this  as  they  tramp  along. 
“With 
arms  at  will,”  with  rumors  of  war, 
with  song  and  story,  the  hours pass. 
Coming  to  a  stream 
“shuck 
themselves”  of  trousers,  shoes  and 
socks,  and  take  to  the  water,  holding 
high  all  their  earthly  possessions. 
And  what  a  sight  they  present!  You 
wonder  how  some  of  these  crooked, 
spavined  and  ring-boned  legs  were 
passed  by  the  mustering  officers,  and 
are  firmly  convinced  that  a  pair  of 
baggy  army  trousers  cover  a  multi­
tude  of  defects.

Going  back  to  the  spring  of  the 
year  before,  while  the 
army  was 
camped  along  the  banks  of  Stone 
River,  on  warm  days  there  would  be 
at  times  a  thousand  men  in  undress 
uniform  bathing.  Upon  the  opposite 
bank  was  the  mule  corral— an  army 
recruiting  station  and  not  immortal­
ized  in  history.  These  mules  came 
in  from  the  country,  unhonored  and 
unmarked.  The  Quartermaster  De­
partment  had  fires  burning  in  which 
were  red-hot  iron  brands  U.  S.  An 
expert  would  lasso  a  mule,  rope  his 
legs  and  throw  him  down  upon  the 
ground,  then  brand  him  with  the  hot I 
iron.  Of  course  the  animal  objected, 
but  that  made  no  difference  with  the 
Quartermaster  Department. 
One | 
day  a  lot  of  men  in  swimming  cross­
ed  the  stream  and  stood  on  the  banks 
watching  the  operations. 
the 
party  was  one  man  who  was  always 
kicking,  and  he  kicked  now.  He said 
Uncle  Sam  thought  more  of  a  mule 
than  a  man.  No  sooner  said  than 
was  the  idea  put  into  force.  That 
man  was  lassoed, 
the 
ground,  and  with  two  or  three  men 
holding  each  leg  and  arm,  another 
man  applied  the  brand  to  the  “bulge” 
of  him.  The  smoke  of  broiling  ham 
filled  the  air,  mingled  with  howls of 
pain  from  the  kicker.  Then  followed 
a  stampede  for  the  water.  And  now, 
four  months  later,  in  wading  the  riv­
ers  of  the  mountain  country,  the  fact 
was  disclosed  that  this  man’s  hide 
had  no  market  value.  And  although 
he  carried  a  musket  to  the  end  of 
the  war  he  was  never  known 
to 
make  a  kick  against  the  lot  of  soldier 
in  the  ranks,  but  rather  felt  proud

cast  upon 

In 

of  the  fact  that  he  was  the  only 
soldier  in  the  army  bearing  the  hon­
ored  insignia  of  this  great  country 
upon  his  person.  He  can  now,  if  so 
disposed,  show  to  his  descendants the 
scars  of  war.

But  again,  to  the  rock-lined  trails 
of  the  mountain  sides,  with  the  rains 
and  mud  of  the  valleys.  The  men’s 
shoes  were  soon  worn  out  and  many 
of  them  were  barefooted;  pieces  of 
rawhide  and  coffee  sacks  were  bound 
about  their  feet;  trousers  were  worn 
and  mud-soaked  coats  were  button­

less  and  out  at  the  elbows,  but  the 
cartridge  boxes  were  always 
full. 
Coming  to  the  wide  and  rapid  Ten­
nessee  River,  there  were  no  bridges 
for  hundreds  of  miles  up  or  down 
the  stream.  The  Confederates  plac­
ed  themselves  on  the  south  side  be­
hind  the  mountains, burning the only 
bridge  that  was  at  Bridgeport,  Ala­
bama.  They  thought  the  river  an 
impassable  barrier,  and  they  thought 
the  barren  wilderness,  the  wooded 
mountains  of  Northern  Georgia,  a 
barrier  to  farther  advance.  But Gen-

Wales Gooduear RuDber§

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MAN  WITH  THE  MUSKET.

His  Relation  to  the  Army  of 

the 

Cumberland.

(Continued  next  week)

By  this  time  the  corn  growing  in 
the  valleys  had  become  fit  for  roast­
ing.  The  blackberries  on  the  moun­
tain  sides  were  ripening  in  abundance 
and,  with  the  swine  that  roamed  the 
woods  and  were  familiarly  known to 
the  soldiers  as  “Alabama  sunfish,” 
the  men  in  the  ranks  fared  well,  de­
pending  on  the  trains  for  little  else 
than  coffee,  salt  and  sugar.

them 

Just  here  came  a  time  that  brought 
out  the  temper  and  patriotism  of the 
American  soldier.  The  Army  of  the 
Cumberland  had  arrived  at  the  base 
of  the  great  mountain  range  that  di­
vided  the  East  from  the  West. 
In 
front  there  was  an  army  equally 
strong  in  numbers,  fully  as  well  arm­
ed  and  better  supplied  with 
food 
than  they,  but  there  were  also  be­
fore 
formidable  mountain 
ranges;  mountains  whose  sides  were 
traversed  only  by  mere  trails;  moun­
tains  that  were  densely  wooded,  af­
fording  concealment  to  the  foe;  val­
leys  that  were  but  sparsely  inhabit­
ed,  and  away  from  the  single  line 
of  railway  that  traversed  the  region 
were  impenetrable  jungles  of  brush 
and  vines.  Then  there  were  moun­
tain  streams  through  every  valley, 
and  the  grand  Tennessee  River,  be­
hind  which  a  regiment  of  men, right­
ly  placed,  could  have  held  back  an 
army  corps. 
In  the  face  of  all  these 
obstacles  the  soldiers,  with 
confi­
dence  in  their  commanders  and  in 
themselves,  moved  forward  to  battle 
with  the  enemy  wherever  he  selected 
to  stand.

At  night  the  pickets  tramped  their 
silent  beats  along  the  mountain  trail 
and  through  the  valley  corn  field. 
The  camp  guards  paced  the  inner 
lines  in  the  quiet  hours  until  dawn. 
All  is  quiet  as 
the  grass-grown 
streets  of  a  deserted  village,  when 
far  from  down  the  valley  comes  the 
first  bugle  call  of  reveille.  As  if  by 
magic,  come  countless  echoes,  count­
less  other  reveilles  from  regimental 
camps  along  the  mountain  sides  and 
far  down  the  valleys.  The  echoes 
the 
have  but  faintly  died  away  in 
little 
distance  before  myriads 
of 
camp-fires  flash  their  light  in 
the 
mountain's  dawn.  As  if  in  pleading 
mockery,  comes  the  call  from  those 
patient  friends,  the  army mules.  Then 
follows  a  pandemonium  of  sounds 
that  puts  life  into  the  heels  of  the 
most  sluggish  of  mule  whackers: 
then  filling  the  air  come  the  aroma 
of  the  coffee  and  the  fragrance  of 
the  bacon  in  the  pan.  Soldiers  of 
our  grand  old  army,  can  you  ever 
forget  it?  Again,  the  bugle  call,  and 
the  lines  of  blue  coats  and  gleaming 
muskets  file  out  of  camping  places 
and  disappear  down  the  road.  It may 
be  a  march  of  ten  miles,  it  may  be 
thirty;  it  may be  only  a  skirmish, and 
it  may  be  a  battle  before  another 
camp  is  made;  it  may  be  that  some 
of  these  same  men  will  be  going 
back  over  the  same  road  before night, 
in  an 
their  lifeless  bodies 
army  wagon,  or  with 
gun-shot 
wounds  seeking  a  hospital  for  treat­
ment.  Yet  there  is  not  a  thought of

jolting 

A  Barber

Who  had  worked  in  a  shop  where  the  F.  P.  System  of  lighting  was 
used  moved  to  a  town  in  Michigan  and  started  a little  shop  of  his 
own,  and  at  once  ordered  a  plant  for  himself.  He  told  the  people 
that  he  was  going  to  have  a  light  that  would  make  their  lights  look 
like  (<tallow dips.”  They  laughed  at  him.

H e  installed  his  plant  and  since  that  time  (three  months  ago)  we 

have sold  six  plants  in  that  town,  one  of  which  was  a  63  light  plant  in  a  large  factory. 

*

Now  he  is  laughing  at  them.

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27

In 

the 

eral  Bragg  did  not  know  the  men  of 
the  Northwest  Going into  the  forest 
for  a  brief  time,  the  guns  were stack­
ed,  the  trees  were  felled,  both  mules 
and  men  were  harnessed  to  the  logs, 
and  they  were  hauled  by  the  hun­
dreds  to  the  bank  of 
stream. 
Canoes  were  shaped  out  of  the  sweet 
gum,  trestles  were  hewed  out  of  the 
oak  and  hickory,  planks  were  split 
out  of  the  pine.  For  miles  about  the 
buildings  were  torn  down  and  boards 
and  joists  brought  in  from  which to 
build  pontoons  and  skiffs. 
the 
mouths  of  creeks  and  out-of-the-way 
places,  out  of  sight  and  range  of  the, 
enemy’s  sharpshooters,  rafts  of  rails 
and  other  light  material. were  con­
structed,  upon  which  the'me'n  were 
to  place  their  clothing  and  equip­
ments  when  the  time  came  to  ad­
vance.  Upon  the  far  side  could  be 
seen  the  white  tents  of’-the  Confeder­
ates  like  chips  on  the  shoulders  of 
great  ippuntain . sides,  daring  the; en­
tire  army  to  knock  them  off*"  From 
behind  the  trees  that  lined  tiPe-banks 
came  a  constant  spatter  of  spiteful 
miiinie  balls.  Then,  on  an 
early 
morning,  when  all  was  ready,  the  ar­
tillery  of  Sheridan’s  division  lined up 
along  the  banks  and  began  a  target 
practice.  The  sweet  gum 
canoes 
came  out  of  their  hiding  places  in 
the  woods  and  were  launched  in  the 
streams  with  three  men  in  each,  one 
to  sit  in  the  stern  and  paddle,  the 
others  to  shoot  if  a  mark  offered. 
The  rafts  were  floated  out  of 
the 
swimming  and 
creeks,  with  men 
fast  running 
pushing  behind 
in  the 
current.  Landing  upon 
the  other 
side  these  swimmers,  without  waiting 
to  clothe  themselves, 
their 
guns  and  rushed  up  the  bank.  Be­
fore  the  enemy  realized  it  we  had 
effected  a  crossing  and  held  it  with 
our  lives.  The  canoes  became  ferry 
boats,  adding  fresh  men  constantly, 
every  man  going  at  once  to  the  fir­
ing  line.  At  this  time  there  was  not 
an  untrained  man  in  the  army,  all 
being  tried  and  true.  The  men  from 
Michigan,  Illinois,  Ohio  and  Wiscon­
sin,  standing  shoulder  to  shoulder 
with  Indiana,  Kentucky  and  Missouri, 
brushed  the  common  enemy  away 
and  then  the  building  of  the  trestle 
bridge  began.

seized 

The  picture  of  that  bridge  recalls 
pioneer  days.  There  was  no  time  to 
select  proper  length  material  and, 
consequently,  the  roadway  followed 
the  ups  and  downs  of  the  river  bot­
tom. 
It  had  swells  and  depressions. 
Coming  to  the  deep  water  pontoons 
were  anchored;  then  again  trestles, 
then  pontoons,  and  in  this  way  the 
main  stream  was  bridged,  and  on 
this  structure  the  great  trains  of  the 
Army  of  the  Cumberland  advanced 
to  Chickamauga.

The 

Then  began  the  advance  over  the 
heavily-ladened 
mountains. 
army  wagons,  in  which  were  loaded 
all  of  our  supplies  of  food,  clothing 
and  ammunition,  each  being  drawn 
by  six  mules,  formed  a  train  many 
miles  in  length,  and  a  tempting  bait 
to  the  enemy’s  cavalry.  To  protect 
the  train  required  a  small  army  of 
flankers  and  a  strong 
rear  guard, 
calling  for  constant  vigilance  on  the 
part  of  .all,  from 
to 
privates.  ■.

commanders 

Many  a  day  and  night  did  the  sold­
ier  lift  at  the  wheels  and  pull  at  the 
ropes,  helping  up  the  mountain  sides, 
and,  going  down  the  other  side,  hold 
back  the  wheels  and  steady  the  wag­
ons  over  cliffs  and  ledges.  Covered 
with  dust,  suffering  untold  agonies 
from  thirst  and  heat,  chilled  at  night 
by  the  mountain  rains  and  fogs,  liv­
ing  on  scant  rations  of  the  plainest 
food,  the  army  passed  on  to  the 
valley  of  Chickamauga.

the 

into 

Here,  in  the  foothills  of  the  moun­
tains,  in  dense,  almost  trailless  for­
ests,  the  two  armies  came  together 
in  a  struggle  that,  for  its  intensity 
and  casualties,  has  no  parallel  in  the 
history  of  the  great  rebellion.  His­
torians  tell  us  of  the  plans;  com­
manders  tell  us  of 
route  of 
march,  the  .movements  of  corps,  di­
vision  and  brigade,  of  the  charges 
over  fields  swept  by  shell, 
grape, 
cannister  and  minnie  balls;  but  it  is 
left  for  the  reunion  and  camp-fire  to 
tell  of  the  individuals  who  did  the 
marching,  the  charging  and  the  dy­
ing.  Time  prevents  more  than 
a 
brief  mention. 
I  see  but  one  regi­
ment,  less  than three hundred strong. 
They  have  been  in  several  positions 
before  I  see  them,  advancing  in 
the 
double-quick,  guns  loaded  and  cap­
ped.  Out  of  the  fields 
the 
woods  they  go  led  by  a  beloved  com­
mander.  Instantly  the  guns  are join­
ing  their  din  with  hundreds  of  others 
to  the  right  and  left.  These  men 
know  where  they  are  going  and what 
they  may  expect,  but  there  is  not 
a  faltering  step.  The  colonel  goes 
down  grievously  wounded;  the  lieu­
tenant-colonel  is  lying  dead  on  the 
left.  Captains  and  lieutenants 
are 
down  with  the  sergeants  and  pri­
vates.  There  is  no  rank  when  once 
you  are  hit.  The  color-bearer  drops 
to  the  ground,  but  not  the  flag.  That 
is  grasped  before  it 
the 
leaves. 
It  floats  but  a  moment  be­
fore  a  third  man  grasps  it,  then  the 
fourth  in  quick  succession. 
It  is  a 
whirlwind  of  death,  and  half  the  men 
of  that  regiment  are  out  of  the  fight 
and  the  lines  are  shortened  as  the 
survivors  guide  to  the  center  and 
keep  within  comrade’s  touch.  The 
old  flag  still  waves  defiance  to  all 
foes.  On  the  other  side  the  enemy’s 
dead  and  wounded  are  thick  under 
the  trees,  and  there  is  a  lull  in 
the 
strife. 

Chas.  E.  Belknap.

touches 

(Continued  fr o m la s t  week)

Dr.  D’Arsonval,  lecturing  in  Paris 
last  week  on  the  effects  of  electricity 
upon  human  beings,  expressed  the 
belief  that  the  world  is  on  the  eve 
of  a  therapeutical  revolution,  elec­
tricity  being  the  medicine  of  the  fu­
ture.  He  demonstrated  the  utility of 
electrical  treatment  in  skin  diseases 
and  said  that  under  anesthesia  pro­
duced  by  electricity  a  patient  could 
be  subjected  to  light  surgical  opera­
tions  without  narcotics.

“This,”  smiled  the  fond  young wife 
as  she  passed  a  plate  of  dessert  to 
her  husband,  “is  cottage  pudding.  I 
made  it  myself.”  The  man  tasted  of 
“I’d  have  known  it  was  cottage 
it. 
pudding,”  he  asserted. 
“Yes,  I  can 
taste  the  plaster  and  the  wall  paper. 
What  did  you  do  with  the  shingles 
and  the  bricks  of  the  chimney?”

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These  women  are 

The  real  reason  that  women  fail in 
business  is  because  they  are  ashamed 
of  their  work,  and  because  nobody 
has  ever  yet  succeeded  in  anything 
in  which  they  did  not  put  pride-  and 
heart  and  enthusiasm.  Here  and 
there,  of  course,  there  is  a  woman 
who  glories  in  her  occupation,  and 
she  is  the  woman  we  are  writing  up 
in  the  newspapers  as  that  rara  avis, 
a  hen  who  has  scratched  up  the  nug­
get  of  fame  and  fortune  in  the  barn­
yard  instead  of  the  poor  worm  that 
is  all  that  the  balance  of  the  pullets 
get.  She  succeeds  as  a  man  succeeds, 
because  her  ambitions,  her  aspira­
tions  and  her  hopes  are  all  centered 
in  her  labor,  and  this  forms  a  resist­
less  force  and  energy  that  carry  her 
inevitably  to  the  goal  of  her  desires.
the  exceptions. 
The  majority  of  working  women  hate 
their  work.  They  are  ashamed  of  it.
!  They  do it  as  much  as  possible  behind 
I  their  backs.  They  spend  their  time 
trying  to  keep  their  right  hand  from 
knowing  that  their  left  hand  has  to 
toil  for  a  living,  and  their  one  ab- 
I  sorbing  ambition  is  not  to win  fortune 
by  succeeding  in  their  occupation, but 
for  some  miracle  to  happen  so  that 
they won’t  have  to have  an  occupation 
at  all.  This  isn’t  because  they  are 
lazy.  The  women  who  are  not com­
pelled  to  support  themselves  are  not 
I  idle.  They  slave  like  coal  heavers 
I  over  clubs  and  society  and  fashion 
|  and  philanthropies.  Woman’s 
ob­
jection  to  work  lies  solely  in  the  fact 
that  she  thinks  that  some  stigma  is 
attached  to  honest  labor  for  money,
I  and  that  it  is  a  reflection  upon  her  to 
be  profitably  employed.
the 

Here  you  have 

fundamental 
difference  between  the  status  of  the 
two  sexes  in  the  working  world.  A 
man  is  proud  of  his  occupation.  A 
woman  is  ashamed  of  hers.  Meet  a 
well  dressed  man  in  the  train  who  is 
a  tailor  by  calling  and  fail  into  con­
versation  with  him  and in  ten  minutes 
he  will  have  told  you  about  his  shop, 
but  you  might  travel  from  Maine  to 
California  with  a  woman  who  was  a 
dressmaker  without  getting  an  ink­
ling  of  her  profession.  Wild  horses 
could  not  drag  the  fatal  admission 
from  her  that  at  home  she  makes 
dresses  for  the  rich  society  women 
with  whom  she  is  so  intimately  ac­
quainted,  and  whose  names  she  reels 
off  so  glibly  in  her  conversation.  No 
man  resents  being  called  a  business 
man,  but  upon  the  haughty  brow  of 
the  shop  girl  it  is  a  brand  of  disgrace. 
John  Wanamaker  and  Marshall  Field 
have  attended  with  pleasure  innumer­
able  business  men’s  banquets  and 
dinners,  but  you  mustn’t  insult 
the 
proud  $3  a  week  female  who  stands 
behind  their  ribbon  counters  by  in­
viting  her  to  a  business  women’s  tea. 
She  would  scorn  to  demean  herself 
by thus  tacitly admitting that she  was 
inconsistency 
in 
and  idiocy  can  go  no  further. 
It  is 
the  limit,  and  the  pity  of  it  is  that 
it  is  also  the  financial  limit  to  wo­
man’s  earning  capacity.

Feminine 

trade. 

This  shame  that  women  have  of 
work  runs  from  the  highest  to  the 
lowest  grade  of  society. 
It  is  con­
tended,  in  all  seriousness,  that  one 
of the  chief reasons  that  girls  will  not 
go  into  domestic  service  is  because

they rebel  at being known as  servants, 
and  that  the  great  problem  of  getting 
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our  floors  and  mind  our  children  will 
never  be  solved  until  every  cook  is 
called  a  Demonstrator  of  Culinary

Science;  every  housemaid,  an  As­
sistant  Household  Manager, 
and 
every  nurse  girl  rejoices  in  the  eu­
phonious  appellation  of  Kindergart- 
ner.  Some  color  of  truth  is  given 
to  these  theories  from  the  advertise­
ments  in  the  daily  papers  in  which 
those  who  desire  the  services  of  fe­
male  clerks  invariably  throw  a  sop 
to  their  pride  by  calling  them  “sales­
ladies.”  Probably  if  they  advertised 
for shop  girls not a mother’s  daughter 
would  apply  for  work,  yet  no  man 
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Business.

W ritten  for  the  Tradesm an.

the 

back-woods 

The  other  day  a  woman’s  club,  not | 
from  here,  and  j 
a  thousand  miles 
which,  to  quote  the  inspired  words  i 
of 
statesman, 
“doesn’t  know  what  it  is  here  for,’’ 
had  a  gleam  of  sanity. 
It  proposed 
to  inaugurate  a  series  of  business 
women’s  teas,  to  which  the  girls  who 
clerk  in  stores  and  live  in  hall  bed-1 
rooms  were  to  be  invited  to  enjoy  a 
pleasant  evening  full  of  tea  and  sand­
wiches,  and  music,  and  heart-to-heart 
talks  with  their  sister  women.

It  was  a  lovely  idea,  instinct  with 
the  philanthropy  that  is  not  patron- j 
age,  and  had  it  been  carried  out  un­
doubtedly  it  would  have  proven  an 
oasis  in  the  life  of many a  hard  work­
ed  little  shop  girl,  but,  unfortunately, 
-it  died  a-borning.  The  project  was 
bitterly opposed  and  killed by a work­
ing  woman  who  declared,  in  the  first 
place,  that  no  self 
respecting  girl 
would  go  to  a  tea  or  anything  else 
that  was  labeled  “business  women’s,”

A  Demonstrator  of  Culinary  Science.

and,  in  the  second  place,  that  she  re­
sented  nothing  so  much  as  having 
her  occupation  thrown  in  her  face, 
and  then  she  sat  down  with  a  so- 
there-now  air  that  was  fatal.

The  incident,  pitiful  in 

its  petty 
vanity  as  it  was,  would  be  of  little 
moment  except  that  it  turns  a  whole 
search  light  of  reason  on  why  women 
in  business.  A 
so  seldom  succeed 
thousand 
fallacious 
theories  have 
been  advanced  to  account  for  the  fact 
that  women  rarely  prosper  in  their 
commercial  undertakings.  Lack  of 
business  training,  lack  of  intelligence, 
lack  of  industry,  the  feminine  tem­
perament,  the  feminine  constitution 
have  all  been  offered  as  reasons  for 
their  failures,  but  all  of  these  excuses 
are  wide  of  the  mark.  Women  do 
not  lack  intelligence.  They  are  quick­
er than  men  to  pick  up  anything  they 
want  to  learn.  They  have  health 
enough  to  do  anything  they  desire. 
It  is  no  more  difficult  to  learn  to 
keep  books  than  it  is  to  play  bridge, 
and  clerking  in  a  store  isn’t  half  as 
wearing  on  the  constitution  as  a  so­
cial  season.

tion.  You  never  hear  of  a 
gentleman,”  or  a 
tleman,”  or  a 
man.”

“sales 
“typewriter  gen­
“floorwalker  gentle­

Plain  clerk  is  a  good  enough  title 
for  him.  He  is  proud  of  his  job  and 
proud  of  his  work.  He  doesn’t  have 
to  waste  any  time  on  the  sales  gen­
tleman  assumption  that  he  is  a  per­
son  of  elegant  leisure  who  has  taken 
to  the  dry  goods  counter  for  amuse­
ment.  He  is  a  salesman  first,  last 
and  always,  which  accounts  for  the 
fact  that  he  so  often  ceases  to  be  a 
clerk  and  becomes  a  proprietor,  while 
a  woman  so  seldom  does.  She  has 
to  put  in  so  much  energy  maintaining 
the  spurious  elegance  of  the  “lady” 
part  of  her  title  she  has  none  left  to 
devote  to  the  “sales”  end  of  it.

It  is  impossible  to  lay  too  much 
stress  upon  the  truth  that  it  is  be­
cause  a  woman  is  ashamed  of  her

Can’t  criticise  her  spelling  because 

of  her  family.

that 

work  that  she  fails  in  it.  Take  the 
keeping  of  boarding  houses,  for  in­
stance,  the  one  profession 
is 
virtually  monopolized  by  women,  and 
which  is,  without  a  doubt,  the  most 
generally  shiftlessly,  wastefully  and 
unintelligently  carried  on  business  on 
earth.  Almost  without  exception  the 
woman  who  is  at  the  head  of  such  an 
establishment  is  as  much  ashamed  of 
her  occupation  as  if  she  were  a  chick­
en  thief or  a  sheep killing dog.  When 
you  apply  for  board  she  sizes  you  up 
and  if  you  have  an  innocent  and  in­
credulous  look  she  will  fib  to  you 
about  taking  boarders  for  company. 
If  you  appear  old  and  worldly  wise, 
she  will  content  herself  with  a  long 
apology  for  engaging  in  the  business, 
the  gist  of  which  is  that  she  wasn’t 
born to it and never  expected  to come 
to  it  and  so  on.  Not  once  in  a  mil­
lion  times  does  she  have  any  pride 
in  her  work,  any  desire  to  keep  the 
best  boarding  house  in  town,  and  she 
would  be  simply  mortified  to  death 
if  she  thought  that  anybody  pointed 
her  out  as  a  boarding  house  keeper.
Yet  consider  the  real  facts  of  the 
case.  To  make  a  home  for  her  own 
family  is  the  noblest  occupation  in 
which  any  woman  can  engage.  To 
make  a  home  for  strangers  is  cer­
tainly  a  work  of  supererogation  that 
would  entitle  a  woman  to  a  reserved 
seat  among  the  cherubim  and  seraph- 
pliim.  Moreover  it  is  a  lucrative  busi­
ness  when  carried  on  properly,  and 
the  only  reason  that  women  come  to

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

disaster  in  it,  and 
the  auctioneer’s 
flag  floats  so  often  in  front  of  the 
boarding  house  is  because  the  woman  | 
who  tried  to  run  it  was  ashamed  of j 
it.  There  isn’t  a  hotel  proprietor  in 
the  land  who  wouldn’t  come  to  bank­
ruptcy  in  a  year  if  he  attempted  to 
do  business  under  cover  of  taking  a 
few  paying  guests  for  company  or 
who  would  rather  be  accused  of  mur­
der  and  bigamy  than  of  being  a  land­
lord.

Nor  is  there  any  reason  to  hold  up 
the  mortified  boarding  house  keeper 
alone  as  an  example  of  the  woman 
who  is  ashamed  of  her  work.  There 
are  her  sisters  and  her  cousins  and 
her  aunts.  You  may  see  an  army  of 
them  any  morning  on  the  cars  going 
down  to  work,  carrying  their  poor 
lunches  in  expensive  music  rolls  or 
golf bags,  in  the  vain  hope  that  some­
body  will  mistake  them  for  conserva­
tory  pupils  or  athletic  maids  on  the 
way  to  the  links  instead  of  working 
girls.  You  will  encounter  them  in 
offices  doing  miserable 
typewriting 
because  they  had  the  misfortune  to 
have  a  great  grandfather,  and  they 
can’t  bear  to  think  of  their  illustri­
ous  ancestor’s  descendant  having  to 
work.  They  bungle  your  clothes  as 
dressmakers, but you  mustn’t  mention 
it,  because  they  are  so  deadly  asham­
ed  of  working  anyway,  poor  things, 
that  it  would  simply  be  rubbing  it  in 
to  tell  them  how  badly  they  do  it. 
They  do  all  manner  of  work,  but  the 
polite  attitude  toward 
the  working 
woman  is  precisely  as  that  toward  a 
deformed  person  or  a  pardoned  con­
vict.  You  must  ignore  their  affliction 
and  pretend  you  don’t  know  it.

Isn’t  that  idiotic? 

Isn’t  it  funny? 
Isn’t  it  sad?  For  the  joy  of  life  is 
work  and  the  glory  of  life  is  doing 
good  work.  Few  wbmen  have  found 
this  out.  The  great  mass  of  them, 
instead  of  being  glad  that  they  have

skill  and  intelligence  enough  to  d o ; 
something  that  the  world  is  willing I 
to  pay  for,  are  ashamed  of  doing  it j 
at  all.  Like  an  ostrich,  they  hide 
their  heads  in  the  sand,  hoping  no j 
one  will  discover  them,  and  over  the 
hump  this  makes  man  mounts  to  the ! 
high  places.

A  great  many  things  are  said  about j 
competition  between  the  sexes,  but. 
so  long as  man  puts  pride  in  his  work | 
and  woman  puts  mortification  in  hers, 
there  can  be  no  real  competition.  The 
man  will  have  everything  worth  tak­
ing.  Just  as  long  as  working  women  ' 
are  ashamed  of  their  calling,  just  as 
long  as  you  can’t  invite  business  wo­
men  to  a  business  women’s  tea  with­
out  offence,  just  so  long  will  women 
have  to  go  way  back  and  sit  down  at 
the  tail  end  of  the  salary  list.

Dorothy  Dix.

Doctors  Know  a  Good  Thing.
Congressman  John  Sharp  Williams 
tells  of  a  man  in  Mississippi.  He  is 
a  hypochondriac  of  the 
first  order. 
This  individual’s  failing is a source of 
never-ending  amusement  to  his  fel­
low  townsmen. 
It  was  of  this  man 
that  some  one  humorously  remarked, 
in  answer  to  a  question  as  to  how  the 
sick  man  was  getting  on,  that  “he 
complained  that  he  was  feeling  some­
what  better.”

Mr.  Williams  says  that  the  hypo­
chondriac  was  one day  telling a  friend 
of  his  efforts  to  regain  his  old-time 
health.  He  ran  over  the  list  of  doc­
tors  whom  he  had  consulted.  Where­
upon  the  friend  remarked:

“Well,  old  man,  I  must  say  that 
you  appear  to  have  lots  of  faith  in 
doctors.”

“Certainly  I  have,”  replied  the  sick 
man. 
“Don’t  you  think  the  doctors 
would  be  foolish  to  let  a  good  cus­
tomer  like  me  die?”

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

ORIGINAL  METHODS

Of  Practical  Adaptability  for  Coun­

try  Dealers.
W ritten  for  the  Tradesm an.

The  man  I  wrote  about  last  week—  
the  country  storekeeper  who  sells  a 
little  of  almost  everything  under  the 
sun  and  finds  catchy  foreign  phrases 
in  the  back  end  of  the  dictionary  and 
trims  his  show  windows  to  illustrate 
the  meaning  of  them— was  telling  me 
some  more  about  these  original  dis­
plays  of  his.

Of  course,  he  sells  clothing  among 
the  rest,  and  he  is  up  to  date  enough 
to  possess  quite  a  presentable  man 
dummy  and  also  a  stylish  little  boy 
dummy.  They  both  have  very  good 
joints,  so  that  they  may  be  placed 
in  any  desired  position.  For  one 
window  trim,  he  dressed  up  the  man 
in  a  good  business  suit,  with  all  the 
zero-weather  accompaniments— long 
overcoat,  muffler,  cap  with  adjustable 
piece  that  came  all  down  around  the 
throat  and  ears  and  left  the  face  free 
to  talk  through  and  be  talked 
to, 
warm  gloves  fur-trimmed,  feet  encas­
ed  in  comfort-giving  overshoes.

The  kid  dummy  looked  as  near like 
his  daddy  as  two  peas  in  a  pod.  He 
was  his  counterpart  in  miniature.

secret 

After  the  dealer  had  the  twain  all 
in  readiness  for  advertising  purposes 
he 
left  them  carefully  reposing  in 
the  little  room  he  utilizes  for  arrang­
ing  the  details  of  his  window  decora­
tions.  Here,  in  this  sanctum,  as  you 
might  call  it,  for  there  is  a  “Please 
keep  out!”  on  the  always-closed  por­
tal.  some  of  his  schemes  have  flashed 
in  the  pan,  but  generally  satisfaction 
beams  in  the  dealer’s  eye  when  he 
emerges  from  the 
recesses 
dragging  the  separate  parts  of  his 
designs  to  the  store  front.  He  takes 
genuine  delight  in  this  part  of  his 
trade-bringing— “rackets,”  he 
calls 
them.  At  stated  intervals  in  the  week 
he  delegates,  absolutely,  all  over-the- 
counter  transactions  to  his  clerks, 
Jim  and  Jehoshaphat 
the 
long and  the  short  of names  for  you), 
and  revels  in  his  pet  ideas  to  his 
heart’s  content.  Nobody  begrudges 
him  this  enjoyment.  Jim  and  Jehosh­
aphat  may  criticise  the  storekeeper’s 
trims  as  much  as  they  please— after 
they  are  an  accomplished  fact— but 
they  must  keep  their  fingers  out  of 
the  pie  while  it  is  in  process  of  con­
struction.

(there’s 

finish 

the  other 

But,  revenons  a  nos  moutons,  as 
they  phrase  it,  and  by  the  way  one 
display,  if  not  actually  “mouton,” was 
the  next  thing  to  it.  This  whole  win­
dow  space  was  devoted  to  meats—  
but  let  me 
trim 
first— Dummy  Senior  and  Dummy 
Junior  will  get  tired  standing  around 
waiting  their  turn  to  be  useful  in 
this  vale  of  tears— or  land  of  sun­
shine— it’s  simply  the  way  you  look 
at  it! 
It’s  just  as  the  immortal  Ella 
avers:
“Laugh,  and  the  world  laughs  with 

you;

Weep,  and  you  weep  alone.”

For the  dummies’  window the store­
keeper  got  little  and  big  trees  from 
the  woods  back  of  the  town  and 
set  them  in  the  -yvindow  at  about  the 
distances  “the  real  thing”  would grow 
jn  the  natural  element.  All  over

these  was  scattered  white  cotton  bat­
ting,  to  imitate  snow,  and  on  this 
was  sprinkled  some  stuff  from 
the 
drug  store  around  the  corner,  to  imi­
tate  the  “sparkles.”  The  addition  of 
a  mirror  in  one  corner  of  the  floor 
lent  an  idea  of  water, and when these 
accessories  were  in  place  the  daddy 
and  his  young  hopeful  were  introduc­
ed  into  the  wintry  scene.  The  man 
was  placed  as  if  he  were  walking and 
the  boy  dummy  was  made  to  have 
exactly  the  same  attitude  behind him.
When  this  was  done,  the  item  that 
was  to  clinch  matters— the  piece  de 
resistance,  so  to  speak— was  brought 
and  glued  at  the  corners  neatly  onto 
the  inside  of  the  window  pane.  It was 
merely  a  little  bright  red  card— the 
storekeeper’s  favorite color,  but  that’s 
neither  here  nor  there  in  this  review 
of  his  work. 
It  had  been  raggedly 
notched  all  around  in  startling points 
that  stood  out  like  fingers  pointing 
the  way  to  the  next  station  in  a  bi­
cycler’s  path.  On  this  sanguinary 
card,  in  clear  white  letters,  was  the 
sentence:

“Sequiturque  patrem,  haud  passibus 

aequis.”

(“He  follows  his  father,  but  not 

with  equal  steps.” )

Jim  and  Jehoshaphat  said  that the 
usual  comment  of  the  bucolic  speci­
mens  anent  this  red  card’s  inscrip­
tion  was:

“What  the  Devil!”
But,  as  that  will  hardly  do  for  the 
polite  ears  of  the  Tradesman’s  sub­
scribers,  I  omit 
farming 
trade  should  have  ejaculated:

it.  The 

“What  the  Mephistopheles!” 
(Possibly  they  are  intimately  ac­
the  one  gentleman 
quainted  with 
from  the  Nether  Regions  and  hadn’t 
yet  been  presented  to  the  other,  so 
could  not  speak  his  name!)

The  farmer  contingent  haven’t  got 
through  yet  talking  about  that  “haw­
ed  passy-bus  winder.”
*  *  *

The  reader  might  wonder  at  the 
use  of  the  small  red  card  glued  onto 
the  window  pane  instead  of  the  em­
ployment  of  a  large  white  placard 
in  some  other  part  of  the  enclosure. 
This  dealer  has  found, in conjunction 
with  many  others  in  mercantile  life, 
that  people  will  go  out  of  their  way 
to  read  a  tiny  thing  glued  onto 
the 
window,  be  it  card  or  newspaper 
clipping,  when  they  will  pass  hur­
riedly  by  a  big  sign  placed  among 
is  an 
the  goods  on  display. 
It 
anomaly  of  human  nature 
it 
values  the  thing  most  that  is  hardest 
to  get,  and  it  is  on  this  principle  that 
a  person  will  stop— although  he  be 
in  a  great  rush— and  read  a  small 
card,  circular  or  letter  pasted  onto a 
show  window.  And  red,  being  one 
of  the  bright  colors,  is  more  eye-at­
tracting  than  any  other  color 
or 
white  would  be.

that 

In  this  connection  I  am  reminded 
of  a  letter,  yellow  with  age,  which a 
few  weeks  ago  was  stuck  onto  the 
window  at  the  left of the  Giant  Cloth­
ing  Co.’s  Canal  street  entrance,  in 
this  city.  It  was  a  letter  sent  to  that 
firm  by  a  man  who  had  gone  West, 
and  he  wrote  that  he  was  still  wear­
ing  a  suit  of  guaranteed  clothing pur­
chased  of  the  firm  in  question  fifteen

years  ago,  and  that  it  was  yet  in  a 
good  state  of  preservation!

emphatic  “Well, 

I’ll  warrant  that  not  one  of 

the 
hundreds  who  waited  on  that  cold 
corner  for  the  Lyon  street  car  that 
day  but  what  read  that  letter!  And 
invariably  accom­
the  perusal  was 
panied  by  an 
I 
never!” 
or  something  equally  ex­
pressive,  and  each  turned  away  with 
an  interested  smile  on  the  face  to 
make  way  for  the  several  crowding 
around  to  see  who  would  be  “next.” 
The  scheme  worked  like  magic,  and 
was  of  a  nature  that  made  it  impos­
sible  to  forget,  and  likely  to  be men­
tioned  at  the  following  table  or  other 
family  gathering. 
It  was  a  wonder­
fully  effective  little  piece  of  advertis­
ings—of  more  good  as  to  results  than 
a  bulletin  board  would  have  been  be­
side  the  door.

*  *  *

To  go  back  to  my  country  dealer 

and  his  eatables  window:

The  other  window  was  as  dissimi­
lar  to  clothing  as  black and white.  It 
was  all  meats— meats  of  the  cheaper 
sort,  but  all  capable,  with  proper  ma­
nipulation  of  the  cook,  of  forming 
toothsome  pieces  to  tickle  the  pal­
ate,  be  the  partaker  clad  in  corduroy 
or  broadcloth.

With  these  gastronomic  articles—  
articles  boviney,  chickeny,  piggy—  
was  the  Latin  card— black  lettering 
on  a  white  background—

But,  come  to  think  of  it,  a  cloth­
ing  exhibit  and  a  meat  exhibit  in the 
same  breath  seem too incongruous  to 
associate  together, 
second 
thoughts  are  best,  I  shall  leave  a  de­
scription  of  the  last  named  until next 
week,  and  combine  with  it  one  or 
two  other  displays  more  in  keeping 
with  “What  to  eat.”

so  as 

Jennie  Alcott.

Storekeepers  Should  Carry  Out  Ad­

vertising  Promises.

Written' for  the  Tradesman.

There  is  but  one  way  to  succeed 
in  the  commercial  world,  and  that  is 
to  have  your  backbone,  your  nerve 
and  your  business  energy  with  you, 
in  which  case  you  are  sure  to  succeed 
every  time.

I  know  a  young  man  who  is  to-day 
the 
mingling  with  the  business  of 
commercial  world.  He 
his 
put 
shoulder  to  the  wheel  and  pushed 
hard  for  success  in  the  business when 
he  was  only  13  years  old.  Of  course, 
he  was  rather  young  to  have  the 
worries  and  responsibilities  of  every­
day  business  life,  but  he was  compell­
ed  to  do  it,  owing  to  the  death  of 
his  father,  who 
left  him  in^  entire 
charge  of  the  business.  His  mother 
was  with  him  in  the  store  but  he  was 
the  main  head.  He  pushed  hard  for 
business  and  he  got  it.  He  was  a 
firm  believer  in  advertising  and  ad­
vertised  heavily,  calling  the  attention 
of  the  people  to  the  great  values  he 
was  giving.  He  did  business  because 
he  sold  his  goods  for  the  same  prices 
at  which  he  advertised  to  sell  them.

Every  merchant  can  not  vouch  for 
doing  this.  Hundreds  and  hundreds 
of  merchants  advertise  goods  low  in 
order  to  get  the  people  into  their 
stores;  but  when  they  come  to  pur­
chase  they  find  the  goods  are  mark­
ed  at  a  higher  value  than  advertised.

follow 

If  you 

People  very  soon  find  this  out,  and 
when  they  can  prove  it  to  be  a  fact 
they  couldn’t  be  induced  to  visit  the 
store  again  if  the  goods  were  given 
away. 
“You  can  fool  some  of  the 
people  some  of  the  time,  but  you  can 
not  fool  all  of  the  people  all 
the 
time.”  The best way is to do business 
in  a  straight,  honest,  businesslike 
way.  Sell  goods  to  your  customers 
at  the  same  price  at  which  you  ad­
vertise  them. 
this 
course  you  will  find  your  business 
growing  better  and  your  bank  ac­
count  increasing. 
If  your  competitor 
fools  his  customers  that  is  no  reason 
you  should  do  the  same.  Let  him 
do  this.  His  customers  will  soon 
leave  him  and  if  they  find  that  you 
sell  your  goods  as  advertised  you will 
probably  get  nine-tenths  of  them.  If 
so  your  brother  merchant  will  be 
forced  to  retire  from  the  commercial 
world— he  lacked  business  principles.
I  call  it  a  lack  of  business  princi­
ples  if  a  merchant  tries  to  fool  his 
customers.  No  intelligent  business 
man  would  do  it.  A  merchant  who 
gives  his  customers  the  value  of  his 
advertisements  ought  to  get  the  busi­
ness,  for  he  is  worthy  of  it. 
If  he 
succeeds  in  so  doing  I  call  him  a 
smart  business  man.  He  gains  the 
confidence  of  his  customers.  When 
they  see  a  statement  in  the  newspa­
pers  about  Mr.  Blank’s  bargains  they 
can  rely  on  it  because  they  know  the 
man  to  be  truthful.

This  article  is  based  upon  the  boy 
merchant  I  spoke  of.  I  will  now  fin­
ish  about  him:  To-day  he  is  a  young 
man  just  at  voting  age.  During  all 
these  long  intervening  years  since he 
was  13  years  of  age 
this  hustling 
young  merchant  has  pushed  hard  for 
success,  and  he  has  won  success  be­
yond  his  wildest  dreams.  The  only 
reason  I  can  account  for  his  achiev­
ing  such  a  degree  of  success  is  be­
cause  he  won  the  confidence  of  the 
people  and  they  knew  that  when 
they  were  buying  goods  of  him  they 
were  not  being 
they 
were  securing  the  merchandise  at the 
right  advertised  prices. 
I  am  safe  in 
stating  that  he  is  the  youngest  busi­
ness  man  of  his  kind  to-day  in 
the 
LTnited  States.  Very  few  young  men 
have  the  worry  and  business  cares 
of  this  young  merchant,  but  he  has 
had  the  backbone,  the  nerve,  the self- 
assurance  and  the  business  energy 
which  win  for  the  young  a  success­
ful  commercial  career.

fooled— that 

Meyer  M.  Cohen.

Charlevoix,  Mich.

A  woman  lost  a  suit  for  damages 
against  the  City of New York because 
the  city  attorney  called  attention  to 
the  fact  that  the  woman’s  alleged  in­
jury  had  not  prevented  her  from  ac­
quiring  a  desirable  husband.  While 
going  along  the  street  she  had  fallen 
into  a  hole  which  it  was  the  duty 
of  the  city  to  have  guarded.  The 
woman  broke  her  arm  and  was  badly 
bruised,  but  inasmuch  as  the  acci­
dent  excited  the  sympathy  and  later 
the  love  of  the  man  who  became  her 
husband,  the  jury  decided  that  the 
city  owed  her  nothing.  The  case 
seems  to  establish  that  a  good  hus­
band is worth more than  a  good  claim 
for  damages.

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ARE  YOUR  CASH  SALES

S A T I S F A C T O R Y ?

YOU, AS A RETAIL  MERCHANT, have no doubt  given serious  thought  to  the  problem  of  changing  your 

business from  a credit  to a cash  basis.  We have originated a plan which 
renders  it  possible  for  the  smallest  retailer  to  develop  a  large  volume of cash business,  and  place  a  lasting  adver­
tisement in every home in his locality;  one which  will give him  supremacy  in  his  line  of  business,  and  bring  him  cash 
trade— not temporarily,  but permanently.

OUR  PORCELAIN  PREMIUM  PLAN  is  not  a  theory,  but  a  practical  plan  which has been  thoroughly  tested 
It not only draws  cash customers from your competitors  and  holds  all  of  your 
and proven successful in every instance. 
own,  but it clearly demonstrates the liberality and adds to the popularity of your store. 
It costs less  than  any other  man­
ner of successful advertising  and can be used on a basis of less  than $20 00 for each  $1,000 cash  it  brings  to  your  store. 
Our plan brings cash for every sale you  make,  as well  as certain satisfaction and pleasure  to yourself and customers.

GENERAL MERCHANDISE.

LACE  CURTAINS,
CARPETS.  RUGS.
CROCKERY. Etc. 

F.  A.  SUNDERLIN.

DEALER  IN

. 

. 

.

CASNOVI0. MICH

MAYBE  YOU  HAVE  TRIED  some 
inferior  trading  stamp  or  premium  scheme 
and found  it unsatisfactory owing to the cost, 
and in this  way you  have to  a  certain  extent 
lost  faith  in  the  majority  of  premiums,  but 
the mere fact that  one dog has  received  a  bad 
name  should  not  summarily  dispose  of 
all  dogs  without  reflecting  that  the  canine 
thief  before  met  was  a  yellow  cur,  and 
the  objectionable  propensities  which  caused 
his  unpopularity  may  possibly  be  absent  in 
an  Irish  Setter or  a  Newfoundland.

O U R   P L A N   IS  V E R Y   S I M P L E

With each purchase you  issue  a coupon for 
a  corresponding  amount.  Coupons  are  re­
tained  by  the  purchaser  and  redeemed  in 
chinaware at  your store.

The ware is  the  very  finest  grade  French 
designs and is decorated  in  the  most  artistic 
style in delicate  apple  blossoms,  violets,  etc. 
It is  gold traced  and  A  No.  1  in  every  sense 
of the word and is  not  to  be  compared  with 
the cheap  and  inferior  qualities  being  given 
away by tea,  coffee  and  baking  powder con­
cerns.

We furnish,  free of  charge,  coupons  of  all 
denominations  from  5  cents  to  $5.00,  type­
written  letters  which  are  mailed  to your own 
and  competitors’  customers,  electrotype  for 
newspaper  advertising and  rubber stamp  and 
pad  with your name  and  address.

If you want  to  thoroughly  advertise  you 
business and place your sales on a strictly cash 
basis at a cost of 20 cents on each $10.00 worth 
of goods  you  sell,  write  us,  mentioning  the 
fact that you  read  our  advertisement  in  this 
journal,  and  we will  be  pleased  to  send  you 
sample  of  the  ware, together  with  full  par­
ticulars.

A S K   F O R   S A M P L E   N U M B E R   81

R O B E R T   J O H N S

200  MONROE  STREET,  CHICAGO

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

last  week’s  receipts  went  to  markets 
North  and  East. 
It  may  be  remem­
bered  that  our  January  consumption 
was  estimated as averaging something 
less  than  30,000  cases  a  week;  it  is 
not  likely  that  it  is  now  much  more 
than  that,  possibly  having  gained 
two  or  three  thousand  cases.

The  chances  of  future  supplies  are 
now  being  weighed  and  guessed  at 
with  the  greatest  of  interest. 
It  will 
be  remembered  that  from about Janu­
ary  5th  to  23d  the  weather  in 
the 
big  Southwestern  producing  sections 
was  mild  and  favorable  to  produc­
tion;  the  effects  of this  were  not much 
felt  in  increased  collections  until  near 
the  middle  of  January  and  it  was 
doubtless  the  result  of  this  warm 
spell  that  brought  fairly  liberal  sup­
plies  into  the  Southwestern  markets 
after  the  cold  weather  set  in  during 
the  last  week  of  January;  these  are 
doubtless  the  eggs  that  have  lately 
been  swelling  our  receipts.  Of  late 
collections  at  Southwestern  primary 
points  have  been 
falling  to  much 
smaller  figures  because  the  bulk  of 
stock  produced  during 
the  milder 
weather  of  January  has  been  mostly 
cleaned  up  and  shippers  are  feeling 
the  effects  of  the  later  cold. 
It  is 
therefore  altogether  probable  that our 
receipts  from  that  section  will  run 
much  lighter  after  the  middle  of  this 
week. 
In  the  nearer-by  Southern 
sections— Kentucky,  Tennessee  and 
the  Atlantic  Coast  States— there  ap­
pears  to  have  been  less  interference 
with  production  by  bad  weather. 
From  those  sections  we  may  expect 
fairly  constant  supplies,  but 
is 
doubtful  that  the  total  can  hold  up 
to  the  present  scale  after  this  week, 
and  there  is  a  wide  territory  to  be 
supplied.  Only  small  shipments  can 
be  expected  from  Ohio,  Indiana  and 
Illinois.

it 

As  all  the  Eastern  markets  are 
now  absolutely  dependent  upon  cur­
rent  production  and  as  the  demand  at 
present  prices  seems  to  be  sufficient 
to  absorb  the  fairly  liberal  quanti­
ties  lately  arriving,  it  would  seem  like 
a  pretty  strong  outlook  for  the  near 
future,  but  the  situation  is  so  sensi­
tive  that 
in 
prices  must  be  expected  according  to 
the  whim  of  the  moment.—-N.  Y. 
Produce  Review.

fluctuations 

constant 

The  Man  Who  Waits.

Everything  comes  to  the  man  who 
goes  after  the  things  some  other  fel­
low  is  waiting  for.

Everything  may  be  coming  to  the 
man  who  waits,  but  it’s  seldom  that 
anything  arrives.

Everything  comes 

to  him  who 

waits  the  least.

Nothing  that  comes  to 

the  man 

who  waits  is  worth  waiting  for.

Something  that  should  come  to  the 
man  who  waits  is  a  good  strong push.
Some  men  seem  to  think  that  a 
chance  in  life is  a  capital  prize  destiny 
will  award  them  for  being  patient 
waiters.

The  fellow  who  always  waits  for 
to 

something  to  happen  happens 
have  to  wait  always.

Everything  comes  to  him  who  lets 

the  other  fellow  do  the  waiting.

A  New  England  old  home week as­
sociation  has  been  organized,  embrac­

Observations  of  a  Gotham  Egg  Man.
Some  surprise  has  been  expressed 
that  our  market  could  absorb  so  large 
an  increase  of  receipts  as  we  experi­
enced  last  week  without  accumulation 
in  first  hands.  For  the  two  previous 
weeks  we  had  been  getting  fresh 
goods  at  the  rate  of  only  about  20,000 
cases  a  week  and  there  seemed  to  be 
plenty  most of the time; last week our 
arrivals  ran  up to nearly 40,000 cases 
and yet nearly all  were  absorbed from 
the  wholesale  market.  This  anomaly 
is,  however,  not  difficult  to  under­
stand,  although  it  is  not  to  be  sup­
posed  that  the  actual  consumption of 
eggs  in  this  immediate  vicinity  has 
made  any  such  radical  gain.  Under 
a  comparatively  even  rate  of 
con­
sumption  the  demand  in  the  whole­
sale  market  is  liable  to  material  va­
riation  from  time  to  time,  partly  ow­
ing  to  the  varying  extent  of  out-of 
town  orders,  and  partly  because  of 
the  varying disposition  of jobbing and 
retail  disturbutors  to  buy  freely  or 
sparingly  as  influenced  by  the  gener­
al  sentiment  of  strength  or  weakness. 
There  is  always  more  or  less  “work­
ing  stock”  lying  between  wholesale 
receivers  and  consumers,  comprising 
the  eggs  in  the  hands  of  jobbers  and 
retailers,  and  the  quantity  of  eggs  so 
situated  varies  enormously  according 
to  general  market  conditions.  There 
are  more  than  twelve  thousand stores 
in  Greater  New  York  where  eggs 
are  sold  at  retail,  besides  a 
large 
number  of  jobbing  houses. 
In  the 
flush  of  the  spring  egg  season  when 
our  consumptive  demand  is  using  up
75.000  or  80,000  Cases  of  eggs  a  week, 
the  “working  stock”  lying  in  these 
distributing  channels  may  amount  to
75.000  cases;  in  periods  of  great  scar­
city  during  the  winter  it  may  be  re­
duced  to  a  few  thousand  cases,  but 
there  is  almost  always  enough  stock 
in  the  hands  of  retailers  and  jobbers 
to  permit  a  reduction  of  buying  when 
the  general  sentiment  is  weak.  Prior 
to  last  week  the  shadow  of  increasing 
egg  supplies  made  a  very  cautious 
feeling  on  the  part  of  all  classes  of 
buyers  and  there  was  a  general  dis­
position  to  sell  out  very  closely;  the 
“working  stock”  was  reduced  to  al­
most  the  lowest  possible  point  and 
at  the  beginning  of  last  week  our 
distributing  channels  were  unusually 
bare.  The  expected  increase  of  sup­
ply  came,  but  at  the  same  time  the 
belief  spread  that  it  could  not  con­
tinue  very  long  and  the  changed  tem­
per  of  the  market  induced  a  general­
ly  freer  buying.  There  may  have 
been  some  improvement  in  the  actual 
consumption— probably  was,  on  ac­
count  of  the  finer  quality  of  the  eggs 
going  into  consumptive  channels— but 
there  is  little  doubt  that  the  increas­
ed  activity  was  more  largely  due  to 
a  greater  confidence  in  the  buying 
and  to  an  enlargement  of  the  “work­
ing  stock”  between  receivers  and  con­
sumers.  Moreover,  we  had 
larger 
out-of-town  demands  than  previously 
and  several  thousand  cases  of  our

from 

ing  representatives 
the  old 
home  week  associations  in  the  sev­
eral  New  England  States,  in  order 
that  they  may  make  harmonious  ar­
rangements  and  not  conflict  as 
to 
It  is  predicted  that  the 
dates,  etc. 
time  will  come  when  the  old  home 
week  idea  will  become  a  permanent 
institution  in  each  of 
the  original 
thirteen  states  of  the  union.

The  advertiser  whose  lines 

fall 
in  pleasant  places  puts  them  in  the 
right  mediums.

WE  NEED  YOUR

Fresh  Eggs

Prices WiU Be Right 

L.O.SNEDECOR  &  SON

Egg Receivers

36 Harrison Street, New York 

Reference:  N . Y . National Exchange Bank

R .  H  I R T V   J R .
WHOLESALE  AND  COMMISSION

Butter, Eggs, Fruits and  Produce

34 AND  36  MARKET  STREET,  DETROIT,  MICH.

If you ship goods to Detroit keep us in mind, as we  are  reliable  and  pay  the 

highest market price.

Fresh  Eggs  Wanted

Will pay highest cash price  F.  O.  B.  your  station.  Wire, write  or  telephone 

C.  D.  CRITTENDEN,  3  N.  Ionia  St.,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Wholesale Dealer la Batter, Egg«, Fruits end Produce 

Both Phones 1300

Egg Cases and  Egg Case  Fillers

Constantly  on  hand, a large supply of Egg Cases and Fillers.  Sawed  whitewood 
ind veneer basswood cases.  Carload lots, mixed  car lots or quantities to snit  pur- 
' fillers known to the trade, and sell same in 
haser.  We manufacture every kind 
nixed cars or lesser quantities to suit purchaser.  Also Excelsior, Nails  and  Flats 
constantly m stock.  Prompt shipment and courteous treatment.  Warehouses and 
factory on Grand River, Eaton Rapids, Michigan.  Address

L. J. SMITH ft CO., Eaton  Rapids, Mich. 

Write or telephone us if you can offer

POTATOES 

BEANS 

CLOVER  SEED 

APPLES 

ONIONS

We are in  the  market to buy.

Office and Warehouse and Avenue and Hilton Street, 

GRAND RAPIDS. MICHIGAN

M O S E L E Y   B R O S .

Butter
I  always 
want  it.

E. F.  Dudley

Owosso,  Mich.

German  Tribute  to  American  Meats.
That  the  people  of  Germany  have 
a  decided  preference  for  American 
food  products,  particularly  bacon and 
prepared  meats,  has  been  repeatedly 
affirmed  by  our  consular  representa­
tives  and  constantly  attested  by  the 
German  demand  for  these  products.
We  have  made  some  allowances, 
of  course,  for  the  official  zeal  of  our 
consular  representatives  whose  busi­
ness  it  is  to  promote  our  commercial 
interests  abroad.  But  when  it  comes 
to  American  meats  we  need  not  de­
pend  upon  consular  testimony  alone. 
So  high  an  authority  as  the  Berlin 
Chamber  of  Commerce,  in  its  annual 
report,  has  just  paid  a  high  tribute 
tc  American  bacon  and  to  American 
canned  meats. 
In  commenting  up­
on  the  hardships  that  will  be  imposed 
upon  the  German  people  by  import 
tariff  duties  that  exclude  American 
canned  meats  the  report  says:

“Nothing  can  take  the  place  of 
American  bacon  as  a  cheap  and  nu­
tritious  article  of  food  for  the  masses 
of  our  population.  Therefore 
it 
would  be  a  matter  of  deep  regret  if 
the  new 
the  high  import  duties  of 
tariff  law  were  not  reduced  to 
a 
reasonable  degree.  The  year  1903 
will  test  the  ability  of  German  meat 
packers  to  supply  the  country  with 
canned  beef,  which 
formerly  was 
supplied  by  the  United  States  and 
Australia,  excellent  in  quality  and 
cheap  in  price.”

The  report  goes  on  to  say  that 
German  canned  meats  have  never 
come  up  to  the  American  product, 
either  in  quality  or  appearance,  and 
that  much  of  the  injury  that  will  be 
.done  by the  new meat inspection  laws 
will  be  obviated 
if  foreign  canned 
meat  is  again  allowed  to  come  into 
Germany.  The  German  Empire  has 
a  population  of  58,549,000. 
It  is  not 
possible  for  Germany,  with  her  208,- 
830  square  miles  of  area,  to  produce 
from  her  own  soil  enough  food  prod­
ucts  to  feed  this  population.  She  is 
largely,  dependent,  therefore,  upon 
outside  sources  of  supply.

The  reason  why  our  canned  meats 
are  vastly  superior  to  anything  in 
this  line  that  Germany  can  produce 
and  why  our  American,  bacon  is  the 
ideal  nutritious  food  for  the  masses 
of  the  .German  population  will  be 
found  in  our  unparalleled  facilities 
for  feeding  and  raising  stock  and  in 
the  superior  abilities  of  our  great 
packing  establishments  for  preparing 
and  preserving  meat  products.

No  CQuntry  in  the  world  can  sup­
ply  such  nutritious  food  for  cattle, 
hogs  and  other 
live  stock  and  in 
such  quantities  as  can 
the  United 
States.  And  in  no  country  in  the 
world  have  the  preparation,  packing 
and  preservation  of  wholesome meat 
products  been  brought  to  such  scien­
tific  perfection.

Effect  of  Fruit  on  the  Human  Sys­

tem.

Fruit  alone  will  not  sustain  life  for 
any  gre^t  length  of  time,  but  helps 
to  furnish  a  variety  in  the  diet.

It  stithulates  and  improves  appe­
tite  and - digestion,  relieves  thirst, and 
introduces  water  into 
system, 
acts  as  a; laxative  or  astringent,  stim­
ulates  the  kidneys,  and  supplies  the

the 

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organic  salts  necessary  to  proper  nu­
triment.

If  the  medicinal  uses  of  fruit  were 
understood  and  care  taken  to  use  the 
appropriate  kinds,  much  less  medical 
treatment  would  be  needed.

Among 

the 

laxatives  are 

prunes,  dates,  nectarines, 
and  mulberries.

figs, 
oranges, 

The  astringents  are  blackberries, 
dewberries,  raspberries,  pomegran­
ates,  quinces,  pears,  wild 
cherries, 
cranberries,  and  medlars.

The  kinds  used  for  diuretics  are I 

grapes,  black  currants,  peaches, whor­
tleberries  and  prickly  pears.

The  refrigerants  are  red  and  white 1 
currants,  gooseberries,  lemons, limes 
and  apples.

Apples  are  useful  as  a  stomach sed-  | 
ative,  and  will  relieve  nausea,  and j 
even  sea-sickness.

Grapes  and  raisins  are  nutritive and 
them  excellent 

demulcent,  making 
for  the  sick-room.

It  is  sometimes  difficult 

to  keep 
raisins,  figs  and  dates  away  from the 
inquisitive  little  ants  and  roaches, but 
this  is  easily  accomplished  by  put­
ting  them  in  paper  bags  that  have 
been  well  brushed  over  with  strong 
borax  water,  and  dried  before  the 
fruit  is  put  in.  The  little  pests  do 
not  like  the  borax,  and  will  not  gnaw i 
through  the  sack  when  thus  prepared, j

FLOUR. That  is  made  by  the  most 

improved  methods,  by  ex­
p e rie n ce d   millers, 
that 
brings  you  a good  profit  and  satisfies  your  customers  is 
the  kind  you  should sell.  Such is the  S E L E C T   FLO U R  
manufactured  by  the

ST.  LOUIS MILLING C O ., St. Louis, Mich.

B E A N S

We  want  beans  and  will  buy  all  grades. 
mail  good  sized  sample.

If  any  to  offer 

B R O W N   S E E D   C O .

Q R A N D   R A P ID «*,  M IO H .

THE  VINKEMULDER  COMPANY

Car  Lot  Receivers  and  Distributors

Sweet  Potatoes,  Spanish  Onions,  Cranberries,  Figs, 

Nuts and  Dates.

14.16  Ottawa  Street,  Oread  Rapids,  Michigan

Write or ’phone us what you have to offer tn Apples, Onions and  Potatoes in ear 

lots or less.

To  Fatten  Cattle  Without  Com.
The  Agricultural  College  authori­
ties  are  rejoicing  over  the  certainty 
of  getting  an  appropriation  of  $50,000 
from  Congress  in  payments  of  $10,- 
000  annually  for  five  years,  for  the 
purpose  of  demonstrating  that  beeves 
can  be  fattened  without  corn.  Pro­
fessor  W.  L.  Carlyle  and  Eugene 
Grubb,  the  noted  Carbondale  stock- j 
men,  are  in  Washington  working  for 
the  appropriation,  and  the  bill  has 
been  brought  through  the  Commit­
tee,  the  place  where  the  Agricul­
tural  College  has  heretofore  lost  its 
appropriations.

Experiments  in  Live  Stock.

Senator  Teller,  of  Colorado,  has 
introduced  a  bill  in  the  Senate  appro- I 
!  priating  $50,000  to  enable  the  Secre­
tary  of  Agriculture  to  conduct  ex­
periments  in  the  non-corn  growing 
states  tind  territories  in  the  breeding 
and  feeding  of  the  various  classes  of 
live-  stock  for  market  and  in  growing 
crops  and  forage  plants  adapted  to 
these  purposes.

h a y   a n d   s t r a w

WANTED
Highest c u h  prices paid 

MICHIGAN  AND  OHIO  HAY  OO. 

Headquarters, Allegan, Mich. 

B R A N C H   O F F IC E  
tad st.. New  Y ork(n:Y.C.Ry.) 

Hay Exchange, 

R E F E R E N C E S
R . G.  Dun & Co.
Bradstreet’s.

1 

We  will  be  in  the  market  for

100 Calroads of 
April and May Eggs

Send  us your  name  if you have  eggs  to  sell  either  in  small  or 
large lots.  We  pay  cash  F.  O.  B.  your  track.

L ansing  C old  S to ra g e   C o.,  Lansing, Mich.

Buyers  and  Shippers of

Smith Young, President 

S. S. Olds. Vice-President 

B-  F. Davis, Treasurer

B.  F . Hall, Secretary  H.  L. Williams, General  Manager

P O T   A T   O   E   S

in carlots.  Write or telephone us.
H.  ELMER MOSELEY A   G O .

SWAMP  RAPIDS,  MIOH.

JOHN  G.  DOAN  COMPANY

WHOLESALE  OYSTERS

IN   C A N   O R   B U L K  

A ll mail orders given prompt attention.

Main office  127  Louis  Street,  GRAND  RAPIDS

Citizens* Phone 1881

Fresh  Eggs  Wanted

Will  pay  top  market  price  f.  o.  b.  your station.

S.   O R  W A N T   &  S O N .  g r a n d   r a p i d s ,   m i o h .

Wholesale dealers in Butter, Eggs, Fruits and Produce.

Wire, write or telephone.

Reference, Fourth  National Bank o f Grand Rapid».

Citizens Phone 2654*

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JAPANESE  IN  WAR.

Will  Give  a  Good  Account  of  Them-1 

selves.

inferior 

The  common  idea  is  that  Japan  is ; 
a  small  country  with  a  considerable 
population,  but  that  the  people  a re! 
small  in  stature  and  are  beset  by  the 
ordinary  characteristics  of  Orientals 
who  in  all  matters  of  modern  prog-1 
ress  and  enterprise  are 
to 
the  white  races  of 
the  Western | 
World.  A  little  information  on  the 
subject  will  hot  be  out  of  place. 

|
The  fact  remains  that  Japan  is not j 
a  small  country  and  the  Japanese  are 
not  an  • inferior  or  weak  people  in | 
spirit,  courage  and  intelligence.  Ja- j 
pan  is  an  island  empire,  and  there 
are,  in  the  main  islands  that  consti-  I 
tute  the  country,  some  42,000,000 Jap- j 
anese.  The  empire  of  Japan  contains 
about  150,000  square  miles,  or  about | 
than  Eng- j 
one-quarter  more  area 
land,  Scotland  and  Wales. 
In  other 
words,  the  Japanese  empire  is  con­
siderably  larger  than  Great  Britain 
and  contains  about  10,000,000  more 
people.  -The  empire  is  fortunate  in 
being  an  island  realm,  so  that  it  can 
not  be  attacked  except  from  the  sea. 
This,  in  view  of  its  powerful  navy—  
probably  superior  to  that  of  Russia—  
gives  it  a  tremendous  advantage  in 
a  war  with  the  Northern'  empire. 
Again,  it  is  so  close  to  the  Asiatic 
continent  that  it  could  land  its  troops 
in  Corea  or  Siberia  much  more  rap­
idly  than  Russia  could  march  them 
over  land  or  transport  them  on 
the 
Siberian  Railway.  Again,  the  42,000,- 
000  Japanese  are  more  closely  knit 
by  national  ties,  by  loyalty  and  pa­

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triotism  and  zeal,  than  any  equal 
number  of  people  on  the  face  of  the 
globe.  In  this  respect  they  resemble 
ancient  Sparta,  the  Dutch  in  Europe 
and  the  magnificently  heroic  Boers.
The  Japanese  have  never  before 
been  engaged  in  a  war  with  Euro­
peans,  but  it  is  well  known  that  the 
Japanese  army  is  not  only  of  consid­
erable  size,  but  that  its  discipline and 
equipment  are  fully  equal  to  those of 
the  French  or  German  forces.  The 
present  standing  army  of  Japan 
is 
something  like  650,000  troops,  or  ap­
proaching  in  size  the  army  of  either 
France  or  Germany. 
In  addition to 
this, 
the  available  forces  of  Japan 
would  be  many  times  this  number, as 
every  male  Japanese  afcove  fourteen 
would  eagerly  rush  to  war  either  to 
defend  the  empire  or  to  attack  its 
j  assailants,  for the  people  are  extreme­
ly  patriotic.  The  only  time  the  Jap­
anese  were  ever  in  the  field  with 
European  troops  was  in  the  march 
I  on  Pekin  during  the  Boxer  war 
in 
China,  an«?  then  they  made  a  first- 
class  record. 
In  modern  warfare 
great  masses  or  solid  columns  of 
troops  moving  to  attack  are  no  long­
er  the  rule.  The  far-reaching  fire­
arms  have  greatly  changed  the  posi­
tions  of  troops  in  action.

The  solid  masses  would  be  cut  to 
pieces  with  artillery  miles  away,  and 
if  they  showed  themselves  in  column 
or  line  in  close  order,  by  the  time 
they  should  get  in  range  of the  small 
arms  in  the  hands  of  men  lying  down 
in  the  grass  or  behind  any  sort  of 
I  cover  that  might  be  available, 
the

old-style  column  or  line  of  battle 
would  be  decimated.

readily  adapt 

Troops  to-day  fight  in  open  or 
skirmish  order  and  under  cover  as 
much  as  possible,  and  each  man  is 
more  dependent  upon  himself  than 
formerly.  The  Japanese  are  of  me­
dium  size,  wiry  and  tough,  agile, ener­
getic,  alert,  and  full  of  initiative,  and 
they 
to 
modern  warfare  where  the  individual 
soldier  is  everything,  and  an  army, 
in  mass,  is  nothing.  The  latest  war 
in  which  modern  tactics  were  used 
was  that  waged  by  the  Boers  against 
the  English  in  Africa,  and  it  is  be­
lieved  that  the  Japanese  will  give  as 
good  an  account  of  themselves  as 
did  the  Boers.

themselves 

The  Russians  have  been  known  as 
stubborn  and  steady 
fighters,  but 
they  are  slow  and  dull.  It  is  claimed 
that  they  were  never  the  equals  of 
the  Finns  and  the  Poles,  whom  they 
conquered  only  by  force  of  numbers, 
and  they  were  never  the  equals  of 
the  Turks  in  fighting  prowess.  They 
were  always  defeated  by  the 
little 
Frenchmen  under  Napoleon,  and but 
for  their  most  efficient  ally,  a  Rus­
sian  winter,  the  history  of  France 
and  Bonaparte  might  have  been  writ­
ten  differently  from  what  it  is. 
In 
the  Crimea  the  Russians  were  de­
feated  by  the  English  and  French. 
Nevertheless, 
the  Russians  have 
proved  themselves  stubborn  fighters 
under  good  officers.

The  Japanese,  like  the  Chinese, are 
an  ancient  people.  Their  historical 
records  go  back  to  660  years  before 
the  Christian  era,  and  before  that

they  have  a  legendary  epoch 
that 
goes  back  a  thousand  years.  The 
Japanese  are  of  a  kindred  race  with 
the  Chinese.  At  an  early  period  they 
adopted  Chinese  civilization  and  the 
Buddhistic  religion,  and  jealously  of 
and  finally  the  exclusion  of  foreigners 
from  the  country  became  the  rule.

touching 

But  Japan,  being  an  island  empire, 
was  more  exposed  to  outside  influ­
ences  than  was  China,  which  is  a 
vast  interior  region, 
the 
sea  only  on  one  side  and  being  fenc­
ed  in  by  mountain  ranges  or  deserts 
on  every  other,  and  the  result  was 
that  the  Japanese  broke  away  from 
their  ancient  restraints  in  a  revolu­
tion  in  1866-68  and  entered  on  a  new 
course  of  progress  in  accordance with 
the  demands  of  modern  European 
civilization.  Japan  is  an  empire  with 
an  hereditary  ruler  and  nobility,  but 
there  is  no  slavery,  and  careers  of 
distinction  are  open  to  the  poorest.

From  1868  to  1904  is  a  period  of 
less  than  forty  years. 
In  that  time 
Japan  has  made  enormous  advances 
in  material  development  and  in 
the 
adoption  of modern  progress  in  every 
branch  of  science,  statesmanship and 
industrial  and  commercial  activity.
The  ambition  of  Japan  is  so  to 
operate  upon  the  Chinese  as  to  bring 
them  up  to  an  equal  degree  of  mod­
ern  development  and 
improvement 
and  progress  and  to  establish  be­
tween  the  two  nations  a  firm  union 
to  resist  and  withstand  European  ag­
gression 
in  Asia.  Could  the  vast 
population  of  China  be  organized for 
material,  political  and  military  work 
like  the  Japanese  to-day,  the  Rus-

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marily  out  of  Manchuria,  but  also 
out  of  Asia.

If  the  Russians  could  be  expelled 
from  China  and  Chinese  Tartary,  the 
uprising  against  the  Russians  might 
kindle  a  warlike  flame  throughout 
Asia  against  the  English,  the  French, 
the  Germans,  the  Dutch  and 
the 
Americans.  It  would  not  be  the  first 
time  Europe  was  pited 
in  battle 
against  Asia,  or  that  Asia  was  vic­
torious  in  the  conflict.  The  Hunga­
rians  and  all  the  Slavic  peoples  now 
in  Europe,  the  Turks  and  the  Rus­
sians  themselves,  are  all  the  remains 
of  the  Asiatic  hordes  that  successful­
ly  invaded  Europe  in  earlier  times, 
but  they  were  all  of  the  white  races.
There  has  never  in  the  historic 
period  been  any  serious  irruption  of 
the  yellow,  brown  or  black  races in­
to  Europe,  and  it  has  always  been 
dominated  by  the  whites,  and  they 
have  always  been  able  to  exert  a 
controlling  influence  upon  every dark 
race  among  whom  the  whites  have 
gained  any  permanent  fo'othold.

This  has  been  attributed  to  an  in­
nate  superiority  of  the  race,  but  pos­
sibly  it  was  largely  due  to  the  pecu­
liar  civilization  of  the  whites.  Arm 
the  dark  races  with  European  sci­
ence,  and  all  the  resources  of  mod­
ern  progress  and  the  result  might be 
different.  There  is  little  doubt  that 
the  great  weight  of  popular  sympathy 
in  the  present  conflict  is  on  the  side 
of  Japan,  because  the  fight  is  com­
monly  caricatured  as  one  between a 
giant  and  a  pygmy,  but  it  is  worth 
while  to  note  that  it  is  not  merely a 
conflict  between  two  nations,  but 
between  two  races  of  the  human  fam­
ily  in  which  the  one  that  is  common­
ly  supposed  to  be  superior  in  innate 
and  inspired  qualities  is  being,  at 
least  in 
seriously 
worsted.
The  Slings  and  Arrows  of  Fortune.
It  is  one  of  the  commonest  re­
marks  of  the  day  that  great  success 
is  not  worth  the  penalties  that  at­
tend  it.  The  timid  citizen  looks  at 
the  front  page  cartoon  picturing  the 
statesman  as  a  monkey,  or  reads  the 
morning  editorial  calling  the  finan­
cier  a  wrecker,  or  solemnly  peruses 
the  letter  from  Old  Subscriber  con­
demning  the  vigorous  preacher  as  a 
mountebank,  and  then  concludes that 
it  is  far  better  to  shun  the  dangers 
by  never  doing  anything  that  calls 
for  criticism.

the  beginning, 

There  are  even  faint-hearted  wives 
who  prefer  that  their  husbands  and 
sons  keep  out  of  the  strenuous  ac­
tivities  of  life  for  fear  that  they  may 
be  ridiculed  or  caricatured.  It  is use­
less  to  quote  to  them  old  Doctor 
Johnson’s  remark  that  his  book would 
not  be  a  success  because  it  was  not 
being  abused  enough,  or  add  the  very 
familiar  metaphor  of  the  kite  and the 
wind,  for  such  truths  have  little  ef­
fect  upon  the  “go  easies”  who  would 
measure  the  span  of  years  by  crea­
ture  comforts  and  mild  mental  satis­
factions.

It  is  a  question  as  to  whether  or 
not  the  timid  people  do  not  really 
suffer  more  than  those  who  get  the 
hard  knocks. 
their 
swarms  of  little  worries— and  some

They  have 

strong  men  would  rather  be  stung 
occasionally  by  a  hornet  than  har­
assed  continually  by  mosquitoes.

Indeed,  to  the  big  workers  the 
great  difficulties  are  the  best  en­
couragements.  All  men  come  to  the 
point  of  choosing  between  the  little 
obstacles  with  the  little  life  or  the 
big  obstacles  with  the  big  possibili­
ties.  After  that  those  who  make  the 
larger  choice  prefer  mountains 
to 
ant  hills,  good  stout  blows  to  insect 
bites.

Disraeli  called  success  the  child  of 
audacity.  The  man  who  seeks  the 
prizes  becomes  by  his  boldness  auda­
cious,  and  when  he  gets  well  into  the 
game  the  very  perils  he  runs  and  the 
rebuffs  that  hit  him  hammer  into  his 
consciousness  the  necessity  of  striv­
ing  further,  doing  better  and  reach­
ing a  higher  mark.  He  cannot  climb 
down  without  failure,  or  stand  still 
with  credit,  for  audacity  needs  a  new 
and  better  climax  to  each  act  of  the 
play.

So  the  slings  and  arrows  of  for­
tune  are  in  their  way  good  and  use­
ful.  They  may  hurt,  but  they  stimu­
late;  they  may  goad,  but  they  drive—  
drive  onward  and  upward.  And  each 
new  elevation  has  a  joy  that  is  worth 
the  pains.— Saturday  Evening  Post.

A  Limit  to  the  Division.
During  a  recent  session  of 

the 
House  of  Representatives  Mr.  Gros- 
venor,  of  Ohio,  arose  in  his  place  and 
intimated  that  the  gentleman  who 
had  the  floor  was  transgressing  the 
limit  of  debate.

“I  thought  it  was  understood,” 
said  the  offending  member,  “that  the 
gentleman 
from  Ohio  divided  his 
time  with  me.”

“True,”  responded  Mr.  Grosvenor, 
grimly,  “but  I  did  not  divide  eternity 
with  you!”

Appropriate.

“He  named  his  motor  car  after  his 

wife.”

“How  funny!”
“Not  at  all  funny.  After  he  got  it 

he  found  he  couldn’t  control  it.”

Ability  to  sell  goods  by  no  means 
comprises  the  whole  art  of 
legiti­
mate  salesmanship. 
It  is  undoubted­
ly  the  one  essential  to  the  dealer  in 
gold  bricks  or  green  goods,  but  is 
of  less  importance  where  the  object 
is  to  secure  friends  and  retain  cus­
tomers,  as  well  as  to  make  sales.  The 
art  of  salesmanship  includes  the  fac­
ulty  of  making  patrons  satisfied  with 
their  purchases.  To  induce  custom­
ers  to  buy  goods  against  their  judg­
ment  and  inclination  is  at  best  a 
doubtful  gain,  and  in  some  cases pro­
duces  dissatisfaction,  which  results 
in  the  withdrawal  of  patronage.

A  Boston  professor who  is  engaged 
in  rewriting  history,  declares 
that 
Columbus  was  a  highly  respectable 
and  fairly  wealthy  gentleman,  who 
paid  a  large  part  of  the  cost  of  his 
voyage;  that  he  was  tall  and 
red- 
haired,  utterly  unlike  his  portraits, 
and  that  Isabella  had  no  jewels  to 
pawn,  having  put  them  all  “in  hock” 
several  years  before  1492.

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NATIONAL  OPTIMISM.

Americans  Are  Hopeful  and  Believe 

in  the  People.

Foreigners  say  of  us  that  we  Am­
ericans  are  a  decidedly  optimistic 
people;  as a nation we  show  the  buoy­
ancy  and  hopefulness  of  youth. 
In 
spite  of  great  evils  which  we  have 
learned  by  bitter  experience  even  a 
democracy  is  not altogether free from; 
in  spite  of  certain  special  evils  which 
seem  to  be  the  peculiar  produce  of 
democracy;  in  spite  of  mighty  prob­
lems  looming  up  before  us to  be  con­
fronted  in  the  near  future,  still  we  are 
as  a  people  cheerful,  hopeful,  expect­
ant.  We  look  forward  to  a  great 
future,  in  which  the  part  we  shall 
play 
in  the  history  of  civilization 
shall  be  second  to  that  of  no  other 
nation.  Sometimes  it  is  said  of  us 
that  we  are  foolishly,  sentimentally 
optimistic;  that  we  do  not  take  things 
seriously  enough;  that  we  are  care­
less  of  the  teachings  of  history.  We 
are  reminded  that  democracy  has not 
done  for  this  country  all  that  was 
expected  of  it;  that  our  legislators 
are  at  least  no  better  nor  no  wiser 
than  those  of  other  lands;  that  our 
cities  are  worse  governed  than  any 
in  Europe;  that  corruption  and  fraud, 
bribery  and  graft 
apparently 
more  at  home  in  our  cities  and  high 
places 
than  anywhere  else  among 
civilized  people.  And  at  all  this  we 
are  expected 
dismayed. 
Strangers  in  our  land  cannot  under­
stand  why  these  things  do  not  damp­
en  our  spirits,  chill  our  ardor,  cool 
our  enthusiasm  and  infect  us  with 
the  taint  of  pessimism.

look 

are 

to 

to  know 

But  they  don’t.  We  are  still  undis­
mayed,  buoyant,  hopeful,  optimistic. 
And  if  anyone  cares 
the 
reason,  it  is  this:  That,  in  the  first 
place,  we  can  better  afford  to  try new 
experiments and risk making mistakes, 
on  account  of  our  surplus  energy and 
unworked  resources,  than  can  other 
nations:  and,  in  the  second  place,  be­
cause  we  understand  what  the  foreign 
critic  almost  always  fails  to  take  into 
account,  namely,  that  we  are  only  in 
process; we  are  in  the  making;  we  are 
not  alreadv  made;  we  have  not  yet 
arrived.  We  are  making  an  experi­
ment  in  government  that  has  never 
been  made  on  any  such  scale,  under 
any  such  conditions  before. 
In  the 
process  we  expect  to  make  some  mis­
takes,  but  we  are  sure  the  end  will 
more  than  justify  the  means.  The 
average  observer  from 
the  outside 
sees  only what  we  are  now:  the  aver­
age  American  sees  always  an  ideal 
America,  toward  which,  little  bv  lit­
tle.  with  some  delays,  we  are. work­
ing.  And  he  is  just  as  sure,  this  na­
tive  son,  that  we  shall  arrive  there, 
and  that this  ideal  is  the  real  America, 
as  he  is  that  the  sun  will  rise  to-mor­
row  morning.

So  this  foreign  critic  almost  al­
ways  misses  or  fails  to  comorehend 
the  American  point  of  view  in  these 
matters.  He  points  out  our  failings, 
our  shortcomings:  tells  us  that  Ber- 
lin'and  Glasgow  and Vienna  and  Lon­
don  and  St.  Petersburg  are  better 
governed  than  most  of our  cities; that 
in  this  “land  of  tlje  free”  abuses  are 
tolerated  that  would  not  be  permitted 
in  Europe;  that  large  numbers  of  our

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

citizens  are  anything  but  free  men; 
that  demagogues 
flourish  here  as 
elsewhere,  and,  in  short,  that  to judge 
by  its  fruits  the  democratic  form  of 
government  has  not  been  altogether 
a  success.

And  to  all  this  we  reply  confidently 
that  even  if  we  admit  that  certain  of 
these  allegations  have  some  basis  in 
fact,  still  that  does  not  touch  the 
main  point.  Whether  our  govern­
ment,  either  of  cities  or  of  states,  or 
of  the  United  States,  is  the  best  ex­
isting  government;  whether  it  gov­
erns  best  or  not,  of  one  thing,  and 
that  the  main  thing,  we  are  unshak- 
ably  certain,  and  that  is  that  in  the 
process  of  governing  we  are  making 
men.  By  putting  the  reins  of  govern­
ment  into  the  hands  of  the  people we 
may  not  at  once  or  for  a  long  time 
have  the  best  government,  but  what 
is  far  more  important,  we  shall  teach 
the  people  by  the  hard  lessons  of  ex­
perience  how  to  govern  themselves, 
and  that  is  worth  infinitely  more  in 
the  long  run  than  to  govern  from  the 
outside,  no  matter  how  well  the  gov­
erning  be  done. 
It  may  very  well  be 
true  that  the  best  government,  so 
far  as  governing  is  concerned,  would 
be  that  of  an  enlightened  despotism, 
but  it  is  not  less  true  that  the  highest 
grade  of  citizenship  and  political  ef­
ficiency  will  be  reached  finally  by 
that  nation  which  trains  its  people 
in  the  duties  of  citizenship  and  sets 
them  to  work  to  govern  themselves. 
That  is  the  best  rule  for  the  making 
of  nations  no  less  than  for  the  mak­
ing  of  men.

And  there  is  plenty  of  time;  let 
us  not  forget  that.  These  modern 
days  ?re  marked  not  only  by  a  ner­
vous  hurry  of  life,  but  also  by  a  sort 
of  spiritual  impatience  of  delay.  The 
most  marked  illustration  of  it  is  in 
our  dealings  with  the  social  move­
ments  of  the  time. 
It  is  the  impa­
tience  of  the  reformer.  He  wants 
to  redeem  the  world  all  at  once.  As 
Theodore  Parker  said  of 
the  anti­
slavery  cause,  “The  trouble  seems 
to  be  that  God  is  not  in  a  hurry,  and 
T  am.”  So  we  are  beset  by  panaceas 
which  are  to  regenerate  society  in 
some  wholesale,  external,  mechanical 
way.  The  humanitarians  and 
re­
formers,  looking  at  the  facts  of  life, 
find  enough  that  is  sad  and  unpromis­
ing.  They  invent  new  theories  of 
property,  distorting  rights  and  per­
petuating  injustice,  as  anyone  is  sure 
to  do who sets  about the  readjustment 
of  social  relations,  fixing  his  eyes  on 
one  class  and  forgetting  all  others. 
These  would-be 
reformers  would 
bring  about  the  ideal  condition  of  af­
fairs  by  some  great  upheaval,  over­
turning  all  established 
institutions 
and  rights,  and  they  verilv  believe 
that 
thereafter  peace  and  plenty 
would  abound.

But  the  fact  is  the  world  is  not  to' 
be  changed  in  a  day;  it  is  not  likely 
to  be  improved  in  anv wholesale  way. 
We  must  begin  where  we  are  and 
take  one  step  at  a  time.  The  chances 
and  rules  and  conditions  of  life  oh 
earth  have  been  ordained  once  for 
all,  and  the  case  cannot  be  reopened. 
We  cannot  get  a  revision  of  the  laws 
cf  human 
So  we  must  plod 
along,  learning  bv  experience,  inves­
tigating  the  laws,  and  deducing  the

life. 

rules  of  right  living  in  the  world  as 
|  it  is.  This  is  not  picturesque;  it  is 
wearisome  and  commonplace,  but  it 
appears  to  be  the  only  way.

It  is  no  disparagement  of  civiliza­
tion  that  we  have  even down to to-day 
lynchings,  murders,  municipal  cor­
ruption,  rumors  of  war.  It  has  taken 
hundreds  of  thousands  of  years  to 
make  a violet;  it has  taken  millions  of 
years  to  make  a  man,  and  the  man 
is  not  finished  yet.  We  need  not 
fear  that  there  will  not  be 
time 
enough  to  make  a  better  man  and  a 
higher  civilization.

We  live  in  an  age  marked  above 
all  ages  by  the  development  of  sym­
pathy,  by  the  efforts  made  by  man 
to  better  the  condition  of  his  brother 
man.  We  live  at  a  time  when  the 
men  of  right  thought  and  feeling  are 
called  to  meet  the  problems  of  po­
litical,  social  and  religious  progress 
with  faith,  hope  and  courage.  No 
creed  but  that  of  a  rational  optimism 
carefully  thought  out  and  applied  to 
the  necessities  of  mankind  can  furn­
ish  permanent  stimulus,  the  counsel 
and  strength  which  the  worker  needs, i
We  are  of  those  who  believe  in 
democracy,  who  believe  in  the  people, 
who  believe  that  this  nation  is  es­
sentially  a  nation  of  good  people. 
Like  every  other  nation,  it  is  very 
full  of  sinners,  and  many  of  the  sin­
ners  are  in  high  places,  where  they 
can  blow  loud  blasts  and  pull  strong 
ropes  and  make  themselves  greatly 
seen  and  heard  and 
But 
nothing  shall  shake  us  from  the  con­
viction  that  “the  great  majority  of 
men  in  this  Republic  desire  to  know 
the  truth  and  to  do  the  right,  and 
that  if  they  do  not  do  the  right  thing 
it  is  because  they  do  not  know  the 
truth  or  see  clearly  what  is  the  most 
important  question.”

feared. 

Frank  Stowell.

Bill  Against  Boycotting.

War  against  the  union  labor  boy­
cott  has  been  declared  in  the  thir­
teenth  Iowa  General  Assembly  in  a 
bill  introduced  last  week  by  Senator 
Young.  By  this  it  is  made  unlawful 
for  two  or  more  persons  to  conspire 
to  drive  away  trade  from  any  place 
of  business.  The  stationing  of  one 
or  more  pickets  at  or  near  the  place 
against  which  the  boycott  is  directed, 
to  distribute  cards  or  printed  matter 
requesting  a  withdrawal  of patronage, 
or  orally  soliciting  such  withdrawals, 
is  strictly  prohibited.  Such  offense 
is  made  a  misdemeanor  punishable 
by  a  fine  of  from  $50  to  $500  or  im­
prisonment  up  to  sixty  days,  at  the 
discretion  of  the  court.

“Come,  gentlemen,”  said  the  police­
man  to  the  crowd,  “you  can’t  stand 
here.  Move  on,  please,  gentlemen. 
Will  you  kindly  move  on,  sir?”  “I 
have  a  right  to  stand  here. 
I  am  a 
United  States  Senator.”  “Oh,  excuse 
me.  Come,  gentlemen,  move  on, 
please.”  He  was  an  old  policeman 
and  knew  the  difference  between  a 
gentleman  and  a  United  States  Sen­
ator.

“In  the  wardrobe  of  the  smart 
woman,”  says  a  fashion  writer,  “hos­
iery  occupies  a  prominent  place.” 
That  depends  something  on  the  con­
dition  of  the  sidewalks.

WHAT  WE  EAT.

Enormous  Amount  of  Food  Consum­

ed  by  a  Man.

The  most modest eater in the world, 
even  the  man  who  complains  that  he 
“never  has  an  appetite,”  would  be 
appalled  if  he  could  see  passing  in 
imposing  procession  before  him  the 
solids  and  liquids  he  will  consume 
in  his  lifetime.

Assume  that  he  enjoys  his  meals, 

and  that  he  will  live  70  years.

Such  a  man  will  make  light  of  dis­
posing  of  100  4-pound  loaves  every 
twelve  months,  so  that  he  must  have
7.000  substantial  loaves,  a  weight  of 
bread  sufficient  to  raise  a  couple  of 
hundred  men  and  women  off  their 
feet.  If  he  is  not  sufficiently  impress­
ed  by  this  spectacle,  engage  seventy- 
seven  herculean  carmen  and  make 
them  file  past  him  in  procession,  each 
carrying  a  sack  of  flour  280  pounds 
in  weight,  every  one  of  which  will 
be  required  to  supply  him  with  bread 
for  life.

Of  meat  he  will  eat  on  an  average 
a  pound  a  day;  and  if  limited 
to 
beef  will  require  nearly  forty  bul­
locks;  or  if  he  prefers  mutton  he 
will  sacrifice  about  forty  sheep  on 
the  altar  of  his  not  immoderate  ap­
petite  every  ten  years.  Of  potatoes, 
200  pounds  should  last  him  a  year. 
This  means  that  his  aggregate  con­
sumption  of  tubers  will  weigh  seven 
tons,  representing  ninety-three  sacks, 
each  weighing  168  pounds,  or  approx­
imately  the  entire  product  of  several 
acres  of  land. 
It  would  require  half 
a  dozen  strong  horses  to  draw  his 
potato  supply,  and  each  year’s  con­
sumption  will  weigh 
considerably 
more  than  the  subject  himself.

Of  fish  he  must  be  allowed  fifty 
pounds  a  year,  so  that  his  “aggregate 
fish,”  if  not  so  large  as  a  whale,  will 
yet  turn  the  scale  at  3,500  pounds, 
and  will  tax  the  strength  of  thirty 
strong  men  to  carry  it  to  his  larder.
The  purchase  of  eggs  will  be  on a 
formidable  scale,  even  limiting 
the 
man  to  an  average  of fewer  than  two 
In  all  he  shall  want
eggs  a  week. 
7.000  eggs,  weighing  at 
least  700 
pounds,  and  representing  a  year’s 
industry  of  about  eighty  hens.

Assuming  that  he  needs  only  sev­
en-tenths  of  a  glass  of  milk  a  day—  
a  very  modest  quantity  for  all  pur­
poses— it  will  be  necessary  to  monop­
olize  the  services  of  a  cow  for  two 
years  and  a  quarter,  and  the  result­
ant  milk  will  measure  1,120  gallons, 
and  will  weigh  more  than  five  tons. 
To  contain  the  milk  one  would  be 
obliged  to  provide  a  can  five  feet  in 
diameter  at  the  base,  three  feet  at  the 
top,  and  more  than  fourteen  feet 
high,  or  something  like  two  and  a 
half  times  as  high  as  the  man.

Nothing  less  than  eighteen  pounds 
of  butter  can  be  considered  suffi­
cient  for  a  year’s  supply;  and 
the 
contents  of  more  than  a  dozen  bar­
rels,  each  containing  100  pounds  of 
butter,  are  needed 
life­
time,  while, 
to  one 
pound  of  cheese  a  month,  an  aggre­
gate  of  840  pounds  is  reached.

limiting  him 

for  his 

Of  tea  and  coffee  he  will  require 
no  more  than  a  pint  a  day,  and  yet 
he  will  drink  during  the  life  no  few­
er  than  3,220  gallons.  A  coffee  pot 
large  enough  to  contain  thetwobev-

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

erages  would  stand  eighteen 
feet 
high,  with  a  base  seven  feet,  and  a 
top  five  feet  across.  The  pot,  with 
its  contents,  would  outweigh  three 
companies  of  soldiers,  and  fifty  peo­
ple  could  be  stowed  away  inside  it 
if  they  did  not  object  to  a 
little 
temporary  discomfort.

Suppose  that  this  man  is  content 
with  a  pint  of  beer  every  day— two 
glasses— and  that  he  does  not  touch 
it  until  he  has  reached  his  20th  birth­
day.  Then,  in  spite  of  his  modera­
tion,  he  will  require  for  the  balance 
of his  days  more  than  255  nine-gallon 
casks,  which  would  prove  a  sufficient 
burden  for  eight  powerful  horses.— 
New  York  World.

Suits  Following  Overcoats.

There  is  an  increasing  demand for 
the  product  of  clothing  factories be­
cause  of  the  satisfaction  which  the 
ready-made  is  giving  even  the  most 
fastidious  wearers.  You  can  hardly 
find  a  man  to-day  who  has  his  over­
coat  made  to  order. 
In  suits  also 
this  tendency  is  fast  being  followed.
Hardly  a  day  passes  but  what  we 
hear  of  someone  who  has  previously 
bought  his  clothing  from  a  tailor 
and  who  is  now  getting  his  suits 
from  some  one  of  the  best  retailers 
of  ready-made  clothing.  This  is go­
ing  on  throughout  the  entire  country, 
and  must  have  a  great  effect  on  the 
consumption  of  the  product  of 
the 
clothing  factories.  There  is  really 
not  one  phase  of  the  situation which 
points  to  a  curtailment  in  consump­
tion  of  ready-made  clothing.  Every­
thing  indicates  a  greater  consumption 
of  clothing  during  this  year,  greater 
than  we  have  had  in  any  year  in  the 
past.  The  winter  weather  has  been 
perfection.

Hardware Price  Current

AM M UNITION

Capa

G.  D.,  full  count,  per  m .......................   40
Hicks'  Waterproof,  per  m ....................  BO
Musket,  per  m .........................................  76
Ely's  Waterproof,  per  m ....... ...............  <0

Cartridges

No.  22  short,  per  m ................................2 60
No.  22  long, per m ....................................6 00
No. 32  short, 
per m ..................6 00
No.  32  long, per  m ....................................6 75

Primers

Gun  Wads

N o.  2  U .  M.  C.,  boxes  250,  per  'n . . . . t   60 
No.  2  Winchester,  boxes  250,  per  m ..l  60 

Black  edge.  Nos.  11  ft  12  U.  M.  C.. . . .   60
Black  edge.  Nos.  9  ft  10,  per  m .........   70
Black  edge.  No.  7,  per m .......................   80

Loaded  Shells 

New Rival—For  Shotguns
Size
Shot Gai
10
10
10
9
10
8
10
6
10
5
10
4
10
12
13
8
12
6
12
5
4
12
Discount  40  per  cent.

Drs. of oz. of
No. Powder Shot
4
120
IVA
4
129
IVA
4
128
iVi
4
126
ivi
135
4 VA IVA
154
«VA 1V4
1
200
3
1
208
3
236
3 VA IVA
265
3Vi
IVA
264
3 Vi
IVA
Paper Snells—Not  Loaded 

Per 
100 
<2  90 
2  90 
2  90 
2  90
2  95
3  00 
2  60 
2  60 
2  65 
2  70 
2  70

No.  10,  pasteboard boxes 100,  per 100..  72 
No.  12. pasteboard boxes 100, per 100..  64

Gunpowder

Kegs,  25  tbs.,  per  keg...........................  4  90
2  90 
V&  Kegs.  12$   lbs.,  per  Vi  keg 
----
1  60
V4  Kegs,  6?4  lbs.,  per  Vi  keg.

Shot

Drop

In sacks containing 25  lbs. 
all  sizes  smaller  than  B ...

1  75

Augurs  and  Bits

Snell’s .....................................................  
60
Jennings’  genuine  ................................ 
25
Jennings’  imitation  ............................. 
60
First  Quality,  S.  B.  Bronze  ...............6 60
First  Quality,  D.  B.  Bronze  ...............9  00
First  Quality,  S.  B.  S.  S te a l................7 00
First  Quality,  D. 
B.  S te e l..............10 60

Axes

Railroad 
Garden  .......... 

...............................................13  50
.32  00

 

Stove  ....................................................... 
Carriage,  new  list  ..............................  
Plow 

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

 

70
70
60

Barrows

 
Bolts

 
Buckets

Whether  retailers  are  justified  or 
not  in  their  complaints  about  poor 
business  since  December  1  remains 
to  be  seen,  yet  no  one  will  say  that 
it  has  not  been  splendid  weather  to 
wear  out  winter  clothes. 
If  the  re­
tailers  have  not  done  as  large  and 
satisfactory  a  business  since  then, it 
only  proves  that  many  men  have  not 
this  winter  bought  two  suits  or  two 
overcoats,  and  that  next  winter  they 
will  have  to  buy  new  clothes.

If  the  retailers  had  done  a  remark­
able  business  it might  be  questionable 
if  wearers  had  not  bought  too  many 
garments  and  might  possibly  next 
winter  not  need  new  clothing.

At  present  this  does  not  appear to 
be  the  fact.  There  are  certainly  no 
surplus  stocks  of  goods  of  the  huge 
proportions  which  a  few  years  ago 
used  to  be  common  in  the  clothing 
trade.

Thus  at  neither  end  of the  business 
is  there  anything  unhealthy.  There 
is  no  questioning,  however,  that  com­
petition  is  keener,  and  yet  that  will 
always  be  true  because  we  learn  so 
much  every  year.  The  business  men 
in  every 
line  are  each  succeeding 
year  becoming better  business  men.

The  trade  is  still  full  of  abuses, 
and  yet  the  individual  houses,  our 
leaders,  so  to  speak,  are  developing 
more  backbone  than  ever  before,  and 
backbone  is  about  the  only  thing that 
the  clothing  trade  needs  to  remedy 
most  of  its  troubles.— Apparel  Ga­
zette.

Well,  plain 

...........................  4  60

Butts,  Cast

Cast  Loose  Pin,  figured  ....................  70
60
Wrought  Narrow  ....... .
Chain
Vi in.  6-16 in.  % in.  Min. 
7  0...6  0...6  c.. .4Vic.
1C...6V4C...6  c. 
.6Ä0. . . 6V6C.
8 * c ...7 « c
Crowbars

Common 
BB.
BBB

Cast Steel,  per Ib ...r-,-.......................  

Chisels
Socket  Firmer  ......................................   66
Socket  Framing  .......... 
65
Socket  Corner  ......................................   65
Socket  S licks.........................................  65

6

 

 

Elbows

Com.  4  piece.  6  in.,  per d o z ........ net 
75
Corrugated,  per  doz...............................1  25
Adjustable  .................................. dis.  40&10

Expansive  Bits

Clark’s  small,  $18;  large,  826  .............  40
Ives’  1.  $18;  2.  $24;  8,  880  ................   25
Files—New  List
New  American  .................................... 70&10
.............................................  70
Nicholson's 
Heller’s  Horse  Rasps  ...........................   70
Galvanized  Iron
12 
Discount,  70.

Nos.  16  to 20;  22 and 24;  25 and  26;  27,  28 
List  12 
16.  17

14 

16 

Stanley  Rule  and  Level  Co.’s  . . . .   60&10 

Single  Strength,  by  box  ................ dis.  90
Double  Strength,  by  box  ........d is .  90
By  the  Light  ...........................dis.  90

Maydole  ft  Co.’a.  new  l i s t ......... d la  33 Vi
Terkes  A  I^umb’s  ....................dis.  40A10
Mason's  Solid  Cast  S te e l.........30c list  70

Gauges

Glass

Hammers

Hinges

Gate.  Clark's  1.  2.  2................... dis.  60A10

Hollow  Ware
 

Pots 
...................................................   50410
Kettles 
......60410
Spiders  .................................................. 60410

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

HoraeNalls
House  Fumichinoci

▲u  S a b le .....................................dis.  40410
Tt
Stamped  Tinware,  now

f
Bar  Iron  ..................................J   26  e  rates I
Light  Band  ..............................  
3  0  rates

Iron 

Nobs—New  List

Door,  mineral,  jap.  trimmings  .........   75
Door,  porcelain,  jap.  trimmings  . . . .   85 1

Stanley  Rule  and  Level  Co.’s  ----dis

Levels

Metals—Zinc

600  pound  casks  ......................................7V4
Per  pound  ..............................................   8

Miscellaneous
Bird  Cages 
............................................   40
Pumps,  Cistern  .....................................   75
..............................   85!
Screws,  New  List 
Casters,  Bed  and  Plate  ............. 60&10&10
Dampers,  American 
...........................  60

Molasses  Gates

Stebbin's  Pattern  .............................. 60&10
Enterprise,  self-m easuring..................  30

Pans

Fry.  Acme  .....................   .............60&10410
Common,  polished 
............................. 70&10

Patent  Planished  Iron 

"A”  Wood's  pat.  plan'd.  No. 24-27.. 10  80 
“B”  Wood's  pat.  plan’d.  No.  25-27..  9  80 

Broken  packages  Vic  per  lb.  extra.. 

Ohio  Tool  Co.’a  fancy  .......................   40
Sciota  Bench 
.........................................   60
Sandusky  Tool  Co.’s  fancy  ................   40
Bench,  first  quality  ..............................   45

Planes

Nalls

 

 

Advance  over  base,  on  both  Steel  ft  Wire
Steel  nails,  base  ...................................   2 75
Wire nails,  b a s e .........................................  2 30
to  60  advance  .................................Base
20 
to  16  advance  .................................  6
10 
............................................  10
8  advance 
6  advance 
............................. 
20
4  advance 
.............................................  30
.............................................  45
3  advance 
2  advance  ..............................................   70
Fine  3  advance 
....................................  50
Casing  10 advance..................................   15
Casing  8  advance  ..................................   25
Casing  6  advance  ..................................  36
Finish  10  advance  ................................   25
Finish  8  advance  ....................................  35
Finish  6  advance 
................................   45
Barrel  Vi  advance 
..............................   85

Rivets
Iron  and  Tinned 
..................................  60
Copper  Rivets and B u rs .......................   45

Roofing  Plates

14x20  IC.  Charcoal,  D e a n .........................   7 50
14x20 IX,  Charcoal,  D e a n .........................  9 00
20x28  IC,  Charcoal,  D e a n ..........................15 00
14x20  IC,  Charcoal,  Allaway Grade  ..  7  50 
14x20 IX,  Charcoal,  Allaway Grade  ..  9  00 
20x28  IC,  Charcoal,  Alla way  Grade  ..15  00 
20x28 IX,  Charcoal,  Allaway Grade  ..18  00 

Sisal,  Vi  inch  and  larger  .................. 

List  acct.  19,  '86  .............................dis 

10

50

Solid  Eyes,  per  ton  ........................... 30  00

Ropes

Sand  Paper

Sash  Weights

Sheet  Iron

Nos.  10  to  14  .........................................IS  60
Nos.  15  to  17  ....................................... 3  70
Nos.  18  to  21  .........................................  3  90
Nos.  22  to  24  ........................... 4  10 
3 00
Nos.  25  to  26 
4 00
........................ 4  20 
No.  27  .......................................4  30 
4 10
All  sheets  No.  18  and  lighter,  over  30
inches  wide,  not  less  than  2-10  extra.

Shovels  and  Spades

Solder

Squares

Tin—Allaway  Grade

Boiler  Size  Tin  Plate 

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

First  Grade.  D o z .......................................   6 00
Second  Grade.  Doz...................................... 5 50
V4@Vi 
21
The  prices  of  the  many  other  qualities 
of solder  In  the  market  Indicated  by  priv­
ate  brands  vary  according to  composition. 
Steel  and 
Iron  .................................60-10-6
Tin—Melyn  Grade
10x14  IC,  Charcoal  ..........................810  60
14x20  IC.  Charcoal  ..............................  10 60
10x14  IX,  Charcoal  ............................  12 00
Each  additional  X  on  this  grade.  31.26. 
10x14  IC.  Charcoal  .............................3  9  00
14x20  IC.  Charcoal  ...........................  9  00
10x14  IX.  Charcoal  ...........................  10 60
14x20  IX   Charcoal  ...........................  10 60
Each  additional  X  on  this  grade,  31.60. 
13 
14x56 IX, for No.  8 ft 9 boilers,  per lb. 
75
Steel.  Game  ........................................... 
. .40410 
Oneida  Community,  Newhouse’s 
Oneida  Com’y,  Hawley ft Norton's.. 
65
Mouse,  choker,  per  doz.......................  
15
Mouse,  delusion,  per doz.  ....................  1  25
Bright  Market  .....................................  
60
Annealed  Market  .............................. . 
60
Coppered  Market 
...............................60410
Tinned  Market  ....................................60&10
Coppered  Spring  Steel  .......................  
40
Barbed  Fence,  Galvanized  ................ 3  00
Barbed  Fence,  Painted  .......................   2  70
Wire  Goods
Bright 
.................................................... 80-10
Screw  Eyes 
..........................................80-10
Hooks 
....................................................80-10
Gate  Hooks  and  Eyes  ........................>0-10
Wrenches
Baxter’s  Adjustable,  Nickeled  .........  
*°
Coe’s  Genuine 
...................................... 
4*>
Coe’s  M o d   Agricultural,  W rought.7041«

Traps

Wire

37
Crockery and  Glassware

STONEWARE

Butters

to  6 

84
48

Churns

Mllkpans

Stewpans

Fine  Glazed  Mllkpans 

V4  gal. per  doz.......................................  
48
gal.  per  doz......................  
1 
6
.......................................... 
62
8  gal. each 
10  gal. each 
.......................................... 
66
12  gal. each 
78
..........................................  
15  gal.  meat  tubs,  each  ....................  1  20
20 gal.  meat  tubs,  e a c h .......................   1  60
25  gal.  meat  tubs,  each  ....................  3  35
30  gal.  meat  tubs,  e a c h .......................   2  70
2  to  6  gal.,  per  gal  ..............................
Churn  Dashers,  per  doz  ....................
V9  gal.  flat or  round  bottom,  per  doz.
1  gal.  fiat  or  round  bottom,  each  —
Vi  gal.  flat  or  round  bottom,  per  doz.
1  gal.  flat  or  round  bottom,  each  ... 
85
Vi  gal.  fireproof,  ball,  per doz..............
1  gal.  fireproof,  bail  per  doz............ 1  10
Vi  gal.  per  doz..................................... 
60
14  gal.  per  doz..................................... 
46
1  to  5  gal.,  per gal  ...........................  7V4
5  lbs.  in  package, per  lb......................  
2
No.  0  Sun  ......................  
36
No.  1  Sun  ..............................................  
36
No.  2  Sun 
48
........................................  
No.  3  Sun  ..............................................  
35
60
Tubular  .................................................. 
Nutmeg  .................................................. 
60
With  Porcelain  Lined  CapsPer  Gross.
Pints 
......................................................   4  25
..................................... 
4  50
Quarts 
Vi  Gallon  ................................................  6  60

LAMP  BURNERS
 

MASON  FRUIT  JARS 

Fruit  Jars  packed  1  dozen  In  box. 

Sealing  Wax

LAMP  CHIMNEYS—Seconds

Per  box  of  6 doz.
No.  0  Sun  ............................................   1  60
...........................................  1  71
No.  1  Sun 
No.  2  Sun  ..............................................   3  64

Jugs

 

 

Anchor  Carton  Chimneys 

Electric

Rochester

La  Bastle

Pearl  Top

XXX  Flint

Each  chimney  in  corrugated  carton

No.  0  Crimp  .........................................  1  80
No.  1  Crimp  .........................................  1  78
No.  2  Crimp 
.......................................   3  78
First  Quality
No.  0  Sun,  crimp  top,  wrapped  &  lab.
No.  1  Sun.  crimp  top.  wrapped  &  lab.
No.  2  Sun,  crimp  top.  wrapped  &  lab.
No.  1  Sun.  crimp  top.  wrapped  ft  lab.
No.  2  Sun,  crimp  top.  wrapped  ft  lab.
No.  2  Sun,  hinge,  wrapped  ft  labeled.
No.  1  Sun.  wrapped  and  labeled  ..
No.  2  Sun.  wrapped  and  labeled  ..
No.  2  hinge,  wrapped  and  labeled 
No.  2  Sun.  “small  bulb." globe  lamps.
No.  1  Sun.  plain  bulb,  per  d o s .........  1  00
No.  2  Sun.  plain  bulb,  per  doz......... 1  86
No.  1  Crimp,  per d o z ............................1  86
No.  2  Crimp,  per  doz...........................1  60
No.  1  Lime  (65c  doz.)  .........................  2  60
No.  2  Lime  (75c  doz.)  .......................   4  00
No.  2  Flint  (80c  doz.)  .......................   4  60
No.  2.  Lime  (70c  doz.)  .......................   4  00
No.  2  Flint  (80c doz.)  ...........................  4  60
1  35
1  gal.  tin  cans  with  spout  per  doz..
1  40
1  gad.  galv.  iron  with  spout,  per  doz.
2  30
>  gal.  galv.  iron  with  spout,  per  doz.
3  25
3  gal.  galv.  iron  with  spout,  per  dos.
4  20
5  gal.  galv.  iron  with  spout,  per  doz.
3  70
3  gal.  galv.  Iron  with  faucet,  per  doz.
4  60
5  gal.  galv.  iron  with  fauceL  per  dos.
5  gal.  Tilting  cans  .............................. 7  00
5  gal.  galv.  iron  N acefas....................0  00
No.  0  Tubular,  side l i f t ........................  4  65
No.  1  B  Tubular  ..................................  7  25
No.  15  Tubular,  dash  .........................  6  50
No.  2  Cold  Blast  lantern  ....................  7  75
No.  12  Tubular,  side  lamp  .................13  60
3  Street  lamp,  each  ....................  3  60
No.
0  Tub., cases 1 dos. eacb.bx, 10c. 
50
0  Tub., cases 2 dos. each. bx. 15c. 
60
0  Tub., bbls. 5 dos. each, per bbl.  2  25
No.  0  Tub.. Bull’s eye. cases 1 dz. e’ch  1  25
BEST  WHITE  COTTON  WICKS 
R oll  contains  32  yards  in  one  piece. 
No.  0.  %  In.  wide,  per  gross  or  roll. 
No.  1,  %  In.  wide,  per  gross  or  roll. 
No.  2,  1  in.  wide,  per  gross  or  roll.. 
No.  3.  lVi  in.  wide,  per  gross  or  roll. 

LANTERN  GLOBES 

LANTERNS

OIL  CANS

24
33
46 
75

COUPON  BOOKS

50  books,  any  denomination  .........1  50
100  books,  any  denomination  ......... 2  50
500  books,  any  denom ination...........11  50
1000  books,  any  denomination  .........20  00
Above  quotations are  for  either  Trades­
man,  Superior.  Economic  or  Universal 
grades.  Where  1.000  books  are  ordered 
at  a  time 
specially 
printed  cover  without  extra  charge. 

.customers 
receive 
Coupon  Pass  Books

Can  be  made  to  represent  any  denomi­
nation  from  $10  down.
50  books  .............................................I*®
100  books  ...............................................3  60
500  books  .............................................U   60
1000  books  .............................................00  00
600.  any  one  denomination  ...............0  00
1000,  any  one  denom ination......................§ 9
2000,  any  one  denomination  ................S  JO
4teel  punch  ...........................................  W

Credit  Cheeks

38

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

promise  for  the  coming  season,  and 
goods  on  the  line  of  men’s  wear  fab­
rics  wfith  pin  check  effects  in  dark 
invisible  over­
tones,  and  soft  or 
plaid  effects,  are  looked  upon 
as 
good  purchases.  There  has  been 
considerable  favoring  comment  also 
on  broken  narrow  stripes  in  white or 
light  shades  on  dark  grounds.  Both 
the  jobber  and  the  cutting-up  man 
are  taking  considerable 
interest  in 
semi-fancy  effects  in  woolen  goods 
as  low  as  32j^c  and  35c,  and  the  lat­
ter  has  picked  up  a  good  many  lines 
at  around  these  prices.  Since  our 
last  report  but  little  change  has  tak­
en  place. 
In  regard  to  broadcloths, 
buyers  feel  pretty  sure  of  them,  and 
Venetians  are  looked  upon  with  fav­
or.  These  lines  are  to  be  found  at 
very  near  last  year’s  prices,  but  on 
certain  low-priced 
as 
sackings,  tricots,  etc.,  there  have been 
some  reductions;  the  agents,  how­
ever,  state  that  the  actual  conditions 
in  the  market  for  raw  material  do not 
w'arrant  them  in  holding  these  prices, 
and  that  buyers  had  better  speak 
quickly.  Present  prices 
too 
small  a  margin  for  the  manufactur­
ers  to  guarantee  their  continuance 
after  a  fair  number  of  orders  have 
been  booked,  and 
is  suggested 
rather  strongly  that  advances  are 
likely.  There  has  been  a  considera^ 
ble  duplicate  business  from  the  cut­
ting-up  trade,  and  this  end  can  be 
said  to  be  quite  satisfactory.  As  a 
matter  of  fact,  in  some  cases  there 
has  been  a  bigger  demand  from  day 
to  day  than  manufacturers  could con-: 
veniently  meet.

show 

lines, 

such 

it 

fairly 

taking 

foreign  houses 

Foreign  Dress  Goods— Agents  rep­
express 
resenting 
themselves  as  well  satisfied  with 
the 
duplicate  business  which  they  have 
received,  considerable  of  which  has 
developed  during  the  last  week.  The 
buyers  for  retail  stores,  they  state, 
have  come  to  a  clearer  understand­
ing  as  to  their  needs,  and  are,  as  a' 
consequence, 
liberal 
quantities.  Their  requirements seem 
to  be  steadily  growing,  and  the  job­
bers  are  also  buying  in  quite  a  satis­
factory  manner.  The  orders  sent  in 
from  men  who  have  been  on  the 
road  have  been  of  fair  size  and house 
business  shows  an  improvement  from 
day  to  day.  As  far  as  the  develop­
ment  of  styles  goes  there  is  a  con-: 
tinued  demand  for  sheer  goods.  The 
importers  naturally  have  considerable 
competition  from  the  domestic  man­
is  particularly 
ufacturers,  and  this 
true  of  goods  made  in  France. 
In 
many  lines  the  domestic  manufactur­
ers  have  made  such  rapid  progress 
that  it  is  to-day  a-  hard  matter 
to 
convince  the  buyer  that  he  wants im­
ported  lines;  particularly  is  this true 
of  crepes,  grenadines 
similar 
goods,  even  in  the  finest  grades  of 
goods.  Challies,  both  plain  -and with 
silk  stripe  effects,  also  floral  designs, 
have  gained 
in  strength  since  the 
season  opened.

and 

Silk  Mixtures— Elegant  goods  arfe 
shown  this  year  and  as  a  whole  come 
nearer  perfection  than  has  ever  been 
the  case  before.  Beautiful  effects in 
one  and  two  or  even  more  colors are 
produced  with  silks  and 
some  of 
those  seen  can  not  help  but  be  ready- 
sellers,  the  increased  cost  of the cloth

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Grand  Rapids 

Dry  Goods  Company

Exclusively  Wholesale

Grand  Rapids, Mich.

S

Ssss
ssssss

Hie Best is 
none too good

A good  merchant buys  the 
best.  The  “Lowell”  wrap­
pers  and  night  robes  are 
the  best  in  style,  pattern 
and fit.  Write  for samples 
or call and see  us  when  in 
town.

Lowell Manufacturing Co.

5 ? .  89.  91 Camp■» .L  
Grand Rapids, Midi.

We are now ready to  show  you  one  of  the 
best 
lines  of  Summer  Underwear  ever 
shown

Gen,ts’  Underwear  in  plain  and  fancy 
colors and stripes
Ladies’  Underwear  in  plain  and  fancy 
stitch, with long  sleeves, short  sleeves  and 
sleeveless-
Children’s Underwear in  long  and  short 
sleeves.
Prices ranging from 45c to $4 50 the dozen.
P.  S T E K E T E E   &  SON S

Wholesale Dry Goods 

Grand Rapids,  Michigan

Weekly  Market  Review  of  the  Prin­

cipal  Staples.

in 

yarns 

Wool  Dress  Goods— The  dress 
goods  section  of  the  market  is  now 
fairly  well  open,  although  there  are 
still  lines  that  buyers  are  waiting  to 
see,  and  which  will  be  opened  from 
day  to  day,  and  perhaps  it  will  be 
another  week  or  two  before  every­
thing 
is  shown.  Nevertheless,  the 
number  of  lines  on  the  market  are 
enough  to  indicate  pretty  thorough­
ly  what  is  advocated  for  the  season, 
although  this  does  not  indicate  by 
any  manner  of  means  what  is  going 
to  be  bought,  and  still  less  what  is 
going  to  be  worn.  As  a  matter  of 
fact,  the  exhibits  of  dress  goods  cover 
practically  everything 
conceivable, 
and  when  talking  with  buyers  it  is 
evident  that  this  great  variety 
is 
causing  them  great  uncertainty  as to 
their  proper  course.  There  is  every­
thing  to  be  seen  from  the  plainest 
fabric  to  the  most  spectacular  ef­
fect  with  tinseled 
the 
weave.  Yet  with  all  this,  it  is  be^, 
lieved  that  the  tendency  will  be  to­
wards  a  plain  season,  not  a  strictly 
plain  season  in  the  fullest  sense  of 
the  word,  but  a  season  in  which  plain 
goods  will  predominate.  There 
is 
a  tendency  towards  certain  fancy  ef­
fects,  but  not  towards  the  pronounc­
ed  lines  of  other  seasons;  those,  for 
instance,  which  obtained  this  past 
winter  and  last  summer.  There  are in­
stances  where  manufacturers  have 
gone  ahead  and  made  up  stocks  of 
these  goods,  but  unless  the  ideas  of 
the  buyers  change  materially, 
they 
will  have  hard  work  in  disposing  of 
them,  unless,  indeed,  at a considerable 
sacrifice.  Among  these  that  were 
made  up  are  Scotch  tweeds,  but  it  is 
believed  or  said  to  be  believed  that 
the  Scotch  effects  have  been  over­
done,  for  a  number  of  mills  which 
never  planned  to  make  such  goods 
have  been  tempted,  by  the  past  de­
mand  and  the  comparative  ease  with 
which  thev  were  made,  to  engage  in 
the  manufacture  of  such  lines.  When, 
however,  the  same  patterns  were 
quickly  and  copiously 
in 
chaep  stock  mixtures  containing  but 
little  pure  wool  and  much  shoddv, 
and  even  in  simple  coarse  cotton fab­
rics,  it  hit  the  wool  fabric  business 
pretty  hard  in  this  direction.  Frohi 
conversations  with  the  various  buyers 
now'  in  the  market,  and  there  are 
many  of  them,  it  seems  that  they are 
becoming  more  and  more  convinced 
that  plain  goods  should  form  the 
bulk  of  their  purcha=es,  and  they are 
sizing  up  the  market  with  that  end 
in  view.  As  stated  above,  however, 
we  do  not  think  that  fancies  will  be 
altogether  out  of it.  On  the  contrary, 
mild,  neat  effects  will  assuredly  find 
a  good  market,  but  the  present  indi­
cations  are  that  the  demand  will  be 
for  subdued  effects.

imitated 

Dress  Worsteds— Several  promi­
nent  men  in  the  market  have  ex­
pressed  the  opinion  that  worsteds of 
medium  and  hard  finish  give  much

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

39

lengthwise  of 

caused  by  the  considerable  amount 
of  silk  used  notwithstanding. 
It  is 
interesting  to  note  the  development 
of  silk  mixtures  during  the  past few 
years. 
It  was  not  so  long  ago  that 
the  use  of  silk  in  fancy  worsteds  was 
confined  to  the  introduction  of  single 
silk  threads  forming  either  lines  or 
narrow  stripes 
the 
cloth  or  else  they  were  used  moder­
ately  to  form  overplaid  effects.  The 
next  step  was  the  formation  of  broad 
stripes  or  the  setting  off  of  a  fancy 
worsted  thread  or  figure  by  the  in­
troduction  of  silk.  This  season  we 
are  shown  fabrics  that  depend  entire­
ly  upon  the  silk  used  for  the  pattern 
and  character,  and  the  colors  used 
have  developed 
the 
amount  used.  Some  of  these  fabrics 
with  several  colors  of  silk  used  in 
both  the  warp  and  filling  are  certain­
ly  far  in  advance  of  anything  that 
has  been  shown  before  this.

along  with 

Zibelines— Are  among  the  strong­
est  factors  in  the  dress  goods  market 
to-day,  both  foreign  and  domestic. 
Scotch  tweed  effects  have  sold  fairly 
«veil,  but  there  is  a  continued  feeling 
that  this  style  has  been  somewhat 
overdone,  although  it  is  not  alto­
gether  proven  yet.  Zibelines,  in par­
ticular,  are  looked  upon  as  an  excel­
lent  line  for  the  fall.  For  the  pres­
ent  time  agents  are  turning  their  at­
tention  almost  entirely 
to  autumn 
dress  goods.  Many  lines  are  now 
open  and  zibelines  lead  in  sales  ac­
cording  to  the  reports  of  many;  be­
yond  this,  however,  it  is  hard  to  state 
just  what  will  have  preference. 
In 
plain  goods  broadcloths  are  looked 
upon  by  many  as  more  than  ordi­
narily  promising 
in  black,  blue, 
cream,  white  and  some  other  shades. 
In  regard  to  prices,  advances  have 
been  made  on  many  of  those  lines 
which  are  now  open,  although  the 
agents  are  reticent  in  regard  to  what 
prices  actually  are,  or  what  the  ad­
vances  named  have  been.

they 

Underwear— High  prices  are,  of 
course,  still  a  most  important  factor 
in  all  transactions  where  knit  goods 
are  concerned.  Nor  has  the  limit yet 
been  reached,  apparently,  for  in many 
lines  the  advance  movement  which 
has  been  on  the  increase  for  many 
weeks  past  shows  little  sign  of  dim­
inution.  In  the  opinion  of  those  qual­
ified  to  know  whereof 
speak 
more  than  one  class  of  goods  has 
even  now  failed  to  reach  the  price 
level  which  seems  justified  in  the face 
of  existing  conditions,  and  still  high­
er  figures  are  confidently  looked  for 
by  these  authorities.  Buyers,  how­
ever,  have  in  many  instances  been 
unable  to  make  up  their  minds  defi­
nitely  as  to  what  the  future  is  like­
ly  to  hold  in  store  for  them,  having 
given  up  their  attempts  to  place  fur­
ther  orders  until  the  situation  begins 
to  show  more  evident  signs  of  clear­
ing  in  one  direction  or  another.  Al­
though  they  admit  the  possibility  of 
higher  prices,  these. men  have  come 
to  believe  that  the  future  is  a  most 
uncertain  factor  to  reckon  with,  and 
have  decided  to  content  themselves 
with  such  goods  as  they  have  al­
ready  been  able  to  obtain  from  man­
ufacturers,  intending  to  re-enter  the 
market  as  necessity  may  require.  It 
is  quite  generally  believed  that  the

several 

majority  of  buyers  have  met  with 
very  fair  success  in  filling  their  re­
quirements,  and  that  supplies  now on 
hand  are  likely  to  last  throughout 
the  better  part  of  the  season.  On 
the  other  hand,  there  is  another class 
of  buyers  who  seem  determined  to 
do  away  with  the  probability  of  hav­
ing  operations  hampered  near 
the 
close  of  the  season  by  the  difficulty 
of  filling  supplementary  orders. 
It 
must  be  confessed,  however,  that  this 
last  class is  having no easy time, since 
manufacturers  can  well  afford 
to 
maintain  a  spirit  of  independence and 
are  decidedly  particular  in  entering 
into  any  deals,  even  where  orders 
are  to  be  filled  at  once.  In  fact,  it  is 
acknowledged  that  in 
in­
stances  manufacturers  have  shown a 
disinclination  to  accept  further  or­
ders  on  certain  lines  of  goods. 
It  is 
probable  that  the  latter  part  of  the 
spring  season  will  show  conditions 
calculated  to  arouse  grave  concern on 
the  part  of  many  retailers,  who, 
in 
their  haste  to  fill  orders  on  classes of 
goods  needed  for  more 
immediate 
use,  have  shown  more  or  less  indif­
ference  towards  other  lines  which are 
likely  to  come  to  the  front  a  little 
later  on.  High  prices  are,  of  course, 
responsible  for  such  conditions,  and 
unless  there  is  a  more  decided  change 
in  the  situation  than  present  indica­
tions  would  warrant  one  in  expect­
ing,  considerable  confusion  is  likely 
to  result 
indifference. 
The  market  for  fleeced  goods  is  still 
in  a  position  which  is  puzzling  to 
buyer  and  seller  alike,  and  many 
manufacturers  are  showing  a  tenden­
cy  to  hold  off  altogether  until  some­
thing  occurs  to  forecast  the  future in 
some  degree  at  least.  Their  supplies 
of  yarn  are  admittedly  light,  and they 
are  naturally  unwilling  to  take  over 
large  supplies  from  the  spinners, pre­
ferring  to  limit  their  purchases  to 
present  requirements.  The  margin 
of  profit  under  such  conditions 
is 
not  sufficient  to  afford  the  manufac­
turer  much  encouragement  in  book­
ing  orders,  and  as  there  has  been  a 
great  deal  of  talk  about  higher  prices, 
he  is  quite  willing  to  let  matters  re­
main  as  they  are  for  the  present 
while  awaiting  developments.

from 

such 

the 

Carpets— All 

three-quarter 
manufacturers  report  business  as  ac­
tive  with  them,  and  they  are  making 
some  money.  Worsted  yarn  has  not 
advanced  in  proportion  to  the  ad­
vance  in  three-quarter  carpets.  Not 
only  were  they  advanced  at 
the 
opening  over  last  year,  but  there  has 
alco  been  a  further  advance,  Jan.  ir, 
of  2?/$  to  Sc,  according  to  grade  and 
quality.  Those  who  held  off  from 
advancing  on  above  date  have  since 
that  time  raised  the  price.  Some  in 
the  trade  will  not  receive  much  bene­
fit  from  the  last  advance,  as  it  ap­
plied  more  generally  to  patterns  of 
tapectries.  which  had  previously  been 
oversold  for  this  season.  Occasional 
patterns,  when  further  orders 
ar<* 
booked,  will  be  subject  to  this  ad­
vance.  The  difficultly  to-day  with 
the  best  mills  is  to  fill  orders  for  old 
customers  on  certain  grades  of  tap­
estry  and  velvet  carpets.  Brussels 
and  Wilton  carpets  are  also  receiving 
a  large  share  of  attention.

Two of  Over  One  Hun­
dred  Great  B argain s 
VVe  Are  Offering

No.  9309— $9.00  Per  Dozen. 
Ladies’  Dress  Turban,  hand­
somest  trimmed  hat  offered  for 
the m  ney.  Write for catalogue.

Damon—>$5.50  Per  D ozen . 
Ladies’  Split  Jap  Braid  Hat. 
A  special  bargain.  Write  for 
catalogue.

DAMON

THE  B R ILLIA N T   GAS  LA M P

Stands for Good Light, Economy and 

Satisfaction

It  is  the  one  gasoline  lamp  that  never  falls.
A lw ays right and ready, are in dally use  in  thou­
sands  of  homes,  stores  and  business  places  all 
over the world, taking the  place  of  gas, kerosene 
and electric lights, as they can be run for less than 
the expense and don't cost  much  to  start with.
100  C. P. Light for Less Than 15c a Month 

They are ao simple anyone  can  use  them, 
are aafer and lesa trouble  than  a  kerosene 
lamp, and give ten t<mes the  light.  Every 
lamp  guaranteed.  One  In  nse  in  yonr 
office  or  home  would  sell  a  lot  more  at 
good  profits.  W rite  for  new  catalogue 
and agency.

hJ 2 £ L . > „ p,  b r il l ia n t o a s l a m p CO.
Combination  gravity  and 
______________

43 State St.,  CHICAGO.

pressure. 

JAR  SALT

The  Sanitary  Salt

Slo  e Salt Is necessary  in  the seasoning of almost 

everything we eat. it should be sanitary

chemical analysis

, \R  SALT  is  pure,  unadulterated,  proven  by 
IAR  SALT  is sanitary, encased in  glass; a  quart 
fAR  SALT  is  perfectly  dry; does  not  harden  in 
AR  SALT  is the  strongest, because  it  is  pure; 
JAR  SALT  being pare, is  the best  salt  for  med­

of  it in a Mason Fruit Jar.
the jar nor lump  in the shakers.
the finest table salt on earth.
icinal  purposes

All Orocers Have It—-Price 10 Cents.

Manufactured only by the

Detroit Salt Company.  Detroit. Michigan

Use  Tradesman  Coupon

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

i r  Co m m er cial^  
7  
T r a v e l e r s   ^

Michigan  Knlghta  of  the  Grip 

President.  Michael  Howarn.  Detroit; 
Secretary.  Chaa.  J.  Lewis,  Flint;  Treas­
urer.  H.  E.  Bradner.  Lansing.

United  Commercial  Traveler«  of  Michigan 
Grand Councelor, J.  C.  Emery. Grand Rap­
ids;  Grand  Secretary,  W.  F.  Tracy. 
Flint.
Grand  Rapid«  Council  No.  131,  U.  C.  T. 
Senior  Councelor.  W.  B.  Holden;  Secre­

tary-Treasurer,  Oscar  F.  Jackson.

Forget  the  Disagreeable  Things  in 

Life.

If  you  have  had  an  unfortunate  ex­
perience  this  last  year,  forget  it.  If 
you  have  made  a  failure 
in  your 
speech,  your  song,  your  book  or  your 
article;  if  you  have  been  placed  in  an 
embarrassing  position, 
if  you  have 
fallen  and  hurt  yourself  by  a  false 
step,  or  if  you  have  been  slandered 
and  abused,  do  not  dwell  upon  it,  for­
get  it.  There  is  not  a  single  redeem­
ing  feature  in  these  memories,  and 
1  the  presence  of  their  ghosts  will  rob 
you  of  many  a  happy  hour.  There  is 
nothing  valuable  in  them.  Wipe  them 
out  of  your  mind 
forever.  Drop 
them.  Forget  them.

If  you  have  been  indiscreet  or  im­
prudent,  if  you  have  been 
talked 
about,  or  if  your  reputation  has  been 
injured  so  that  you  fear  you  can 
never  outgrow  it  or  redeem  it,  do  not 
drag  the  hideous  shadows  or  the 
rattling  skeletons  about  with  you. 
Pub  them  from  the  slate  of  memory. 
Wipe  them  out.  Forget  them.  Start 
with  a  clean  slate  and  spend  your 
energies  in  keeping  it  clean  for  the 
future.

Resolve  that,  whatever  you  do  or 
do  not  do,  you  will  not  be  haunted 
by  skeletons  nor  cherish  shadows. 
They  must  get  out  and  give  place  to 
the  sunshine.  Determine  that  you 
will  have  nothing to  do  with  discords, 
but  that  every  one  of  them  must  get 
out  of  your  mind.  No  matter  how 
formidable  or  persistent,  wipe  them 
out.  Forget  them,  have  nothing  to 
do  with  them.  Do  not  let  the  little 
enemies— worrying  and 
foreboding, 
anxiety  and  regrets— sap  your  en­
ergy.  for  this  is  your  success  and 
happiness  capital.

I dency,  if  you  are  subject  to  it.  Drive 
the  blues  out  of  your  mind  as  you 
would  a  thief  out  of  the  house.  Shut 
the  door  in  the  face  of  all  your  ene- 
I  mies,  and  keep  it  shut.  Do  not  wait 
for  cheerfulness  to  come  to  you.  Go 
after  it;  entertain  it;  never  let  it  go.
A  despondent  young  writer  says 
that  while  he  was  in  the  west  he  used 
to  watch  the  cows  on  the  prairies  and 
could  not  help  envying  them. 
“I 
used  often  to  heave  a  sigh  and  wish 
I  were  a  cow.” 
“What  keeps  them 
so  contented?”  he  asked  a  farmer, 
“Oh  they  are  enjoying  themselves 
chewing  their  cuds,”  was  the  reply.
The  trouble  with  many  of  us  is 
that  we  do  not  enjoy  chewing  our 
cuds— letting  go  of  our  aches,  pains 
and  anxieties,  and  just  enjoying  our­
selves.  We  can  not  bear  to  let  go 
We  cling to  them  like  a  thrifty house­
wife  who  can  not  bear  to  throw  away 
a  rag  or  a  scrap  of  anything,  but 
piles  useless  rubbish  in  the  attic.  We 
can  not  bear  to  let  our  enemies  go. 
We  cannot  seem  to  kick  out  of  doors 
the  things  that  worry  and  fret  and 
chafe,  and  yet  never  do  us  any  good.

O.  S.  Marden.

The  nickel  supply  of  the  world  at 
the  present  time  is  derived  from  two 
sources.  The  most  important  is  the 
Sudbury  district  of  Ontario;  the other 
is  New  Caledonia,  a  French  penal 
colony,  situated  in  the  Southern  Pa­
cific  ocean.  Consequently,  among  the 
great  powers,  France  and  Great  Brit­
ain  are  at  present  the  only  ones  pos­
sessing  nickel  for  use  in  their  arma­
ments,  and 
in  modern  armament 
nickel  is  now  increasingly  indispen­
sable  for  armor  and  guns.  There  is 
reason  to  believe  that  if  the  British 
imperial  authorities  fall  in  with  Can­
ada’s  desire  to  conserve  the  nickel of 
Ontario  for  imperial  uses,  France 
will  at  once  take  similar  steps  in  re­
gard  to  the  nickel  supply  of  New  Cal­
edonia.

Every  salesman  should  cultivate  a 
habit  of  observation.  Without  it he 
will  never  achieve  success 
the 
study  of  human  nature.  By  its  use 
he  will  be  able  to  note  the  effect  of 
his  conversation  on  customers  and 
can  adapt  himself  to  the  requirements 
of  the  occasion.

in 

A  gloomy  face,  a  sour  expression, 
a  worrying  mind,  or  a  fretting  dis­
position  is  a  proof  of  your  failure 
to  control  yourself.  It  is  an  earmark 
of  your  weakness,  a  confession  of 
your  inability  to  cope  with  your  en­
vironment.  Drive  it  away.  Dominate 
yourself.  Do  not  let  your  enemies  sit 
on  the  throne.  Do  your  own  govern­
ing.

Dismiss  from  your  mind  every  sug­
gestion  that  has  to  do  with  illness. 
If  you  have  had  an  operation— it  is 
over;  let  it  glide  into  the  shadows—  
the  background  of  memory.  Do  not 
dwell  upon  it.  Do  not  talk  about  it.
Whatever  is  disagreeable  or  what­

ever  irritates,  nags  or  destroys  your | 
balance  of  mind— forget  it.  Thrust 
it  out. 
It  has  nothing  to  do  with 
you  now.  You  have  better  use  for 
your  time  than  to  waste  it  in  regrets, 
in  worry  or  on  useless  trifles.  Let the 
rubbish  go.  Make  war  upon  despon-

The steady improvement of the  Livingston  with 
its  new  and  unique  writing  room  unequaled  in 
Mich ,  its  large  and  beautiful  lobby, its  elegant 
rooms and excellent table c. impends it to the trav­
eling public and accounts for its wonderful growth 
in  popularity and  patronage. 
Cor. Fulton & Division Sts.. Grand Rapids, Mich

6

Wlien in  Detr-dt, and  need  a  M E SSE N G E R   boy 

send  for

The EAGLE  M essengers

Office 47 Washington Ave.

F.  H.  VAUGHN,  Proprietor  and  Manager

Kx-Clerk Griswold

GOLD IS WHERE YOU FIND IT

The  “IDEAL”  has  it

(In the Rainy River District, Ontario)

It is up to you  to investigate  this  mining  proposition. 
I  have 
personally inspected  this property,  in company  with  the  presi­
dent  of  the  company and  Captain  Williams,  mining  engineer. 
I  can furnish yon his  report;  that  tells  the  story.  This  is  as 
safe a mining proposition  as has ever  been  offered  the  public. 
For price  of  stock,  prospectus  and  Mining  Engineer’s  report, 
address

J.  A .  Z A H N
1318  MAJESTIC  BUILDING 

DETROIT. MICH.

Bossen berger’s High  Grade

Assorted  Unwrapped

Caramels

Put  up  in 
20 pound  pails.

Will  make your stock  of 
confections  more  com­
plete.

If your jobber does not han­
dle them drop a line to

F.  BOSSEN BERGER,  249 and  351  Gratiot Avenue,  Detroit,  Mich.

J O H N   T .  B E A D L E W H O L E S A L E  

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The  Boys  Behind  the  Counter. 
Grand  Rapids— Henry  C.  Lane, 
formerly  in  charge  of  the  ladies’  shoe 
department  of  Collat  Bros.,  but  for 
the  past  two  years  connected  with 
the  Clark  Shoe  Co.,  Ltd.,  at  Petoskey, 
has  returned  to  this  city 
take 
charge  of  the  shoe  department  of 
Collat  Bros.

to 

Ann  Arbor— Luther  L.  James  has 
closed  out  the  Ryan  &  Reule  clothing 
stock  at  Manchester  and  returned  to 
this  city.

Ludington—John  Gavan,  clerk 

in 
the  clothing  and  shoe  department  in 
the  M.  C.  M.  store,  will  sever  his 
connection  with  that  establishment 
March  i  to  accept  a  position  with 
Adam  Drach.  Mr.  Gavan  has  been 
a  trusted  employe  in  the  Double Brick 
store  for  ten  years.

Kalkaska— Geo.  Doyle,  for  a  num­
ber  of  years  with  the  Hannah  &  Lay 
Mercantile  Co.,  at  Traverse  City, has 
taken  a  position  as  salesman  with 
Louis  Glazer.

Bellaire— Chas.  Burtch 

is  now  a 
salesman  in  Chas.  Weiffenbach’s  gro­
cery  and  hardware  store.  J.  F.  Tick- 
ner,  who  has  been  employed  there, 
has  resigned  to  take  a  position  in 
Fred  D.  Flye’s  hardware  store.

Charlotte— Harmon  &  Pennington’s 
store  will  see  several  changes  within 
the  next  few  weeks.  Albert  Gault 
has  resigned  his  position,  to  take  ef­
fect  March  I,  and  is  planning  to  go 
West.  Fred  McKane,  who 
at 
Ferris  Industrial  School,  Big  Rapids, 
will  resume  work  April  t.  Miss  Kel­
logg  has  been  employed  as  book­
keeper  and  cashier.

is 

Ithaca— Sidney  Hass,  who  has been 
engaged  in  the  hardware  business  for 
the  past  two  years  at  Maple  Rapids, 
has  returned  to  Ithaca  and  is  em­
ployed  at  the  store  of  Pinney  & Horr.
Caledonia— Mosey  Near  is  clerking 

in  C.  F.  Beeler’s  drug  store.

Niles— H.  Arthur  has  resigned  his 
clerkship  in  the  drug  store  of  Edwin
C.  Griffin  to  take  a  similar  position 
in  the  drug  store  of  E.  W.  Pendleton, 
at  Sturgis.

Manchester— Myron  W.  Silkworth, 
of  Jackson,  has  taken  charge  of  the 
clothing  stock  opened  here  by  Yo- 
kum,  Marx  &  Co.

Detroit— Harry  Edwards,  for years 
connected  with  J.  Sparling  &  Co., has 
resigned  and  accepted  a  position  with 
Dillon,  150-152  Woodward  avenue. 
He  has  the  reputation  of  being  one 
of  the  most  experienced  dress  goods 
men  in  the  city. 
John  Campbell, 
formerly with  Marr & Taylor,  Dillon s 
predecessors,  is  again  at  his  old  stand 
in  charge  of  Dillon’s  ribbon  depart­
ment.

Owosso— Foster  Bilbimer  has  tak­
en  a  position  with  Hartshorn  &  Son. 
He  will  have  charge  of  the  Deering 
Harvester  Co.’s  branch  of  the  busi­
ness.

Bessemer— War  has  been  declared 
between  the  local  clerks  union  and 
half the  business  men  of  the  city, who 
refuse  to  close  up  their  places  of 
business  at  6  p.  m.  Enforcement  of 
a  boycott  against  the  offending  non- 
i  closers  has  been  decided  on  and  all 
the  nasty  underhanded  methods  pe­
culiar  to  trades  unions  are  being  re­
sorted  to  to  coerce  the  merchants  in­
to  submission  to  the  dictates  of  the

venal  and  unscrupulous  walking  del­
egate.

North  Star— Leo  M.  Hicks,  who has  I 
been  employed  in  the  general  store 
of  Homer  H.  Snider  for  the  past 
fourteen  months,  has  resigned  and 
gone  to  Burk,  Idaho,  on  account  of 
poor  health.

-----------------

Hides,  Pelts,  Furs  and  Wool.
The  hide  market  is  firm  and  quiet. 
Some 
large  sales  of  packers  have 
been  made.  Dealers  have  previous 
orders 
on 
hand.  Country  hides  are  scarce and 
accumulate  slowly.  Prices  are  like­
ly  to  hold  firm,  while  tanners  ham­
mer  down.

light  stocks 

filled  and 

Pelts  are  becoming  an  unknown 
quantity.  Prices  are  high  and  the 
demand  is  good.

Furs  are  still  low  and  depressed. 
The  decline  at  London  sales  created 
a  marked  difference  on  prices  here. 
The  home  demand  is  not  sufficient 
to  sustain  values.  Fear  as  to  the con­
dition  of  the  Russian  market  deter­
mines  prices  for  export.

Wool  remains  strong  and  of  good 
value.  There  are  no  weak  spots  and 
sales  at  Eastern  points  are  of  fair 
volume. 

Wm.  T.  Hess.

Flint  Daily  News: 

Frank  R. 
Streat,  of  this  city,  has  an  enviable 
j  reputation  as  an  after  dinner  speaker, 
but  none  of  his  many  friends  and ac­
quaintances  suspected  that  he  could 
sing.  He  expected  to  be  snowbound 
and  laid  in  a  stock  of  “grub” 
in  a 
basket  when  he  went  into  the  Thumb 
and  of  his  experiences,  except  that 
part  relating  to  dividing  the  food with 
the  Sebewaing  Review 
the  ladies, 
says: 
Frank
Streat,  of  Flint,  was  the  only  male 
occupant  of  a  coach  load  of  ladies in 
an  all-night  snow  blockade  near  Pig­
eon  last  week,  and  he  kept  the  party 
from  freezing  to  death  by  singing hot 
songs,  so  says  one  of 
ladies. 
Frank  has  always  maintained  to  his 
Sebewaing  friends  that  he  is  no  ca­
nary,  but  now  the  truth  is  out  he 
will  have  to  sing  the  next  time  he 
visits  this  burg.”

irrepressible 

“The 

the 

Detroit  Free  Press:  After  being ill 
but  nine  days  with  pneumonia,  con­
tracted  while  traveling  from  Bay  City 
to  Detroit,  Robert  Schlesinger, 
a 
well-known  traveling  salesman,  died 
at  his  home,  84  Hancock  avenue east, 
Tuesday  morning.  Deceased  was 
born  in  Detroit  forty-seven  years ago 
and  had lived here all his life, although 
on  the  road  a  great  deal  of  the  time 
in  connection  with  his  work  as  repre­
sentative  for  H.  Rosenthal  &  Sons, 
of  Cincinnati.  A  widow  and  three 
the  Uni­
children,  Arthur  W.,  of 
versity  of  Michigan,  Harold 
E., 
and  Etta,  survive  him.  The  funeral 
will  be  held  Thursday  afternoon from 
the  residence,  Rabbi  Leo  M.  Frank­
lin,  of  the  Temple  Bethel,  of  which
church  Mr.  Schlesinger  was  a  mem­
ber,  officiating.

Petoskey— Beese  &  Porter  have 
.purchased  the  dry  goods  stock  of  C. 
Z.  Pote.  Henry  F.  Beese was  former­
ly  a  resident  of  Columbus,  Ohio,  and 
O.  A.  Porter  is  from  Lorain,  Ohio. 
Both  gentlemen  have  been  engaged 
in  the  dry  goods  business  for  a num­
ber  of years.

Manufacturing  Matters.

Lansing— The  Lansing  Veneered 
its  capital 

Door  Co.  has  increased 
stock  from  $50,000  to  $100,000.

East  Tawas— The  capital  stock  of 
the  Tawas  Sugar  Co.  has  been  in­
creased  from  $500,000  to  $750,000.

Detroit— The  Kelsey-Herbert  Co., 
manufacturer  of  umbrellas,  handles 
and  novelties,  has  increased  its  capi­
tal  stock  from  $50,000  to  $100,000.

Petoskey— Tindle  &  Jackson  have 
sold  2,000  acres  of  hardwood  timber 
land  in  Center  and  Pleasant  View 
townships  to  Cobb  &  Mitchell  for 
$30,000.

Adrian— Chas.  Delano,  of  Jasper, 
has  purchased  the  creamery  at  this 
place  of  H.  M.  Higby,  the  considera­
tion  being  $671,  subject  to  mortgages 
to  the  amount  of  $2,300.

Detroit— The Valpey Shoe  C o , Ltd.^ 
has  filed  articles  of  association.  The 
capital  stock  is  $40,000,  most  of  which 
is  held  by  Joseph  H.  Valpey,  Lewis 
N.  Valpey and  the  estate  of  Henry  H. 
Valpey.

Albion— F.  L.  D.  Groff,  F.  J.  Her­
rick  and  Wm.  H.  Barney  have  en­
gaged  in  the  lumber  business  under 
the  style  of  the  Albion  Lumber 'Co. 
The  capital  stock  is  $20,000,  held  in 
equal  amounts  by  the  members  of 
the  company.

Detroit— The  Sibley  Brick  Co.,  with 
a  paid-up  capital  stock  of  $50,000,  has 
filed  articles  of  association.  The  in­
corporators  are  E.  Dwight  Church, 
Jr.,  New  York  City;  Austin  Church, 
Trenton,  Mich.,  and  Karl  J.  Sund- 
strum,  Trenton.

Benton  Harbor— The  Benton  Har­
bor  Brick  &  Tile  Co.  has  been  formed 
to  manufacture  brick,  tile,  etc.,  and 
engage  in  the  hay,  grain,  wood  and 
fuel  business.  The  authorized  capi­
tal  stock is $25,000,  held  in  the  follow­
ing  amounts:  Seeley  McCord,  1,250 
shares;  J.  J.  Miller,  1,248  shares,  and 
J.  M.  Miller,  2  shares.

Saginaw— The  United  States  Plan­
tóse  Co.  has  incorporated  its  busi­
ness  under  the  same  style.  The  cap­
ital  stock  is  $150,000,  owned  by  T.
E.  Dorr,  1,900  shares;  F.  W.  Gaert- 
ner,  1,500  shares;  H.  L.  Wickes,  600 
shares,  and  W.  J.  ^Vickes,  600  shares. 
The  company  is  engaged  in  the  man­
ufacture  and  sale  of  foods.

Greenville— The  Skinner  &  Steen- 
man  Co.  has  been  formed  to  engage 
in  the  manufacture  of  furniture  and 
to  conduct  a  general  mercantile  busi­
ness.  The  company  has  an  author­
ized  capital  stock  of  $75,000,  owned 
by  the  following  persons: 
C.  H.
Gibson,  400  shares;  R.  G.  Tower,  400 
shares;  W.  C.  Johnson,  200  shares, 
and  R.  S.  Corwin,  100  shares.

Ypsilanti— The  Comstock  Sash,
Lock  &  Novelty  Co.  has  given  a  deed 
of  trust  to  Attorney  D.  C.  Griffin,  of 
this  city.  The  company  became  in­
volved  by  the  failure  of  Bert  Com­
stock,  the  dry  goods  dealer.  It is con­
ceded  that  there  is  considerable  stock 
finished  and  in  process  of  manufac­
ture,  enough  to  pay  all  claims,  but 
to  save  a  sacrifice  the  deed  of  trust 
was  given.

Ann  Arbor— A  temporary  receiver 
has  been  appointed  for  the  Peninsular 
Manufacturing  Co.,  Ltd.,  manufactur­
er  of  sectional  bookcases.  The  com­
pany  is  capitalized  at  $100,000,  and 
the  petitioner  is  ChjtrJes  Hurd, Treas- j

urer  of  the  company.  Hurd  holds 
$12,500  worth  of  the  common  stock, 
and  states  in  his  petition  that  the  lia­
bilities  of  the  concern  are  $30,000, and 
the  assets  $26,000.  Tie  indorsed  the 
company’s  paper  to  the  amount  of 
$17,000.  Hurd  wants  the  receiver ap­
pointed  for  the  purpose  of  running 
the  business  and  would  like  him  giv­
en  power  to  mortgage  the  plant  in 
order to  raise  money  to carry  it along. 
The  company  has  spent  a  large  sum 
in  establishing  agencies,  and  Hurd  is 
of  the  opinion  that  the  business  can 
be  made  to  pay  handsomely  if  prop­
erly  managed.
Failure  of the  Henry  A.  Newland  Co.
Detroit,  Feb.  16— The  Henry  A. 
Newland  Co.  has  uttered  a  mortgage 
for  $122,395.90  to  Charles  C.  Jenks 
and  F.  W.  Dennis,  as  trustees,  for the 
benefit  of  the  creditors,  without  pref­
erence.  This  action  is  the  result  of 
the  bankruptcy  proceedings  last  sum­
mer  against  Charles  Montague,  Pres­
ident  of  the  company  and  a 
large 
stockholder.  At  the  time  of  his  fail­
ure  a  large  amount  of  his  paper  was 
in  possession  of  the  Michigan  Savings 
Bank,  which  then  became  the  princi­
pal  stockholder.  Jan.  30  the  company 
was  reorganized,  with  a  new  board of 
directors,  and  Charles  C.  Jenks,  Vice- 
President  of  the  bank,  was  made 
President.  The  other  members  of 
’ the  board  are  George  Peck,  W.  C. 
Stoepel,  Richard  P.  Joy  and  F.  W. 
Dennis.

to  $60,000.  There 

The  statement  sent 

to  creditors 
contains  the  following: 
“According 
to  the  inventory  of  Jan.  I  there  was a 
surplus  of  assets  over  liabilities  of 
is 
from  $50,000 
now  a  large  stock  of  goods  in 
the 
store,  and  also  large  amounts  sold to 
customers  for  shipment  during  the 
next  30  or  60  days. 
is  our  inten­
tion  to  continue  the  business  without 
interruption.”

It 

The  creditors  number  115,  of whom 
George  Peck  is  a  creditor 
to  * the 
amount  of  $4,112.51;  Old  Detroit  Na­
tional  Bank,  twelve  notes,  aggregat­
ing  $21,500;  Michigan  Savings  Bank, 
five  notes,  $13,500;  Fox,  Lederer  & 
Co.,  New  York,  $2,000,  note;  Schuyl­
kill  Manufacturing  Co.,  $3,800, 
two 
notes.  This  makes  a  total  of  $44,- 
922-5r.  The  other  creditors  are  those 
to  whom  bills  are  due  for  merchan­
dise,  aggregating  $77-473-39- 
The 
principal  stockholders  at  present  are 
the  Janies  F.  Joy  estate,  Old  Detroit 
National  Bank,  Michigan  Savings 
Bank,  George  Peck,  C.  C.  Jenks,  A. 
M.  Seymour  and  F.  L.  Hyde,  Secre­
tary  and  Treasurer.

Kalamazoo— Benj.  Alpert,  of  Buffa­
lo,  N.  Y.,  and  Mr.  Berg,  of  Saginaw, 
have  formed  a  partnership  and  engag­
ed  in  the  clothing  business  at  143 
South  Burdick  street,  under  the  style 
of  B.  Alpert  &  Co.  Mr.  Berg  will 
have  charge  of  the  business  and  Mr. 
Alpert  will  continue  his  regular  trips 
on  the  road  in  the  interest  of  the 
clothing  firm  of  Cohn,  Frank  &  Co., 
of  Buffalo.

Lake  Linden— Albert  Gale  has pur­
chased  the  bankrupt  grocery  stock of 
Wm.  Trewartha  and  will  reopen 
the 
store.

Just  because  he  sells  the  necessa­

ries  of  life!

42

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

tained  therein.”  He  states  further 
that  he  has  found  such  fluid  extracts 
to  be  practically  the  same  as  the  U. 
S.  P.  preparations 
to
amount  of  extractive  strength  of
active  principle,  etc.

regard 

in 

found 

Now  the  idea  was  entertained  by 
many  that  an  absolutely  pure  wood 
alcohol  would  be 
to  differ 
from  the  commercial  form,  not  only 
in  taste  and  odor,  but  in  toxicity  as 
well;  in  other  words,  it  was  thought 
that  by  purification 
its  poisonous 
properties  would  be  eliminated  along 
with  the  aldehyde,  acetone,  furfurol, 
etc.,  which  constitute  its  impurities.

If,  then,  the  purification  of  wood 
alcohol  could  be  carried  to  a  point 
at  which  it  would  be  therapeutically 
unobjectionable,  physically  perfect 
and  commercially  cheaper  than  grain 
alcohol,  it  would  indeed  fill  a  long 
felt  want,  as  the  alcohol  used  in  the 
manufacture  of  galenicals  forms  no 
«mall  proportion  of  the  “cost  to  pro­
duce”  of  this  class  of  preparations.

As  time  passed,  however,  and  in­
vestigation  went  on,  these  hopes were 
proved  to  be  vain,  and  it  was  found 
that  while  wood  alcohol  could  be 
rendered  practically  odorless  and 
tasteless,  its  toxicity  remained  an in­
herent  property  of  the  substance  it­
self;  so  that,  if  it  were  possible 
to 
produce  an  absolute  methylic  alco­
hol,  this  would  still  possess  poison­
ous  properties.

This  inherent  toxicity  of  methyl 
alcohol  is  now  a  well-establshed  fact, 
as  witness  the  testimony  of  so  emi­
nent  an  authority  as  Professor  A.  B. 
Prescott,  who,  in  a  paper  read  before 
the  Michigan  State  Pharmaceutical 
Association,  declared  that  methyl al­
cohol  had  unquestionably  been  found 
to  be  far  more  toxic  than  any  of  the 
other  alcohols  of  the  parrafine  series 
— more  toxic  even  than  amyl  alco­
hol—which  is  the  main  ingredient in 
fusel  oil.  Professor 
the  poisonous 
Prescott  ascribes  its  toxicity  to 
the 
formaldehyde  which  results  from the 
oxidation  of  the  methyl  alcohol  in 
the  human  body.

This  view  of  its  toxic  action  is  al­
so  taken  by  Dr.  Reed  Hunt,  of  Jonhs 
Hopkins  University,  who  conducted 
a  series  of  experiments  with  methyl 
alcohol  on  dogs  and 
rabbits.  He 
states  that  where  the  administration 
of  small  doses  was  continued  for 
some  time  the  animals  became  ema­
ciated,  the  power  of  locomotion  was 
lost,  and  the  vision  was  bleared;  this 
was  followed  sometimes  by  blindness 
and,  finally,  death,  even  although  the 
alcohol  had  been  discontinued.

It  is  worthy  of  note  that  Dr.  Hunt 
found  the  chemically  pure  article  to 
act  as  energetically  as  the  impure. 
As  regards  its  action  on  man,  I  quote 
from  an article by H. A. B. Dunning, of 
Baltimore,  published  in  the  Ameri­
can  Druggist  of  August,  1903:

“In  some  twenty  authentic  cases 
collected  the  symptoms  of  methyl 
alcohol  poisoning  were  essentially the 
same  in  man  as  in  animals,  with  the 
difference  of  the  more  decided  action 
on  the  higher  nerve  structures,  nota­
bly  the  optic  nerve. 
In  most  of  the 
cases  total  blindness  was  produced 
before  death,  but  in  some  cases  blind­
ness  alone.”

Something  of  the  present  attitude 1

Michigan  Board  of  Pharmacy. 
President—Henry  Heim,  Saginaw. 
Secretary—John  D.  Muir,  Grand  Rap­
ids.Treasurer—Arthur  H.  Webber,  Cadillac. 
C.  B.  Stoddard,  Monroe.
Sid  A.  Erwin,  Battle  Creek.
Sessions  for  1904.
Ann  Arbor—March  1  and  2.
Star  Island—June  20  and  21.
Houghton—Aug.  23  and  24.
Lansing—Nov.  1  and  2.

beck,  Ann  Arbor.
Battle  Creek.
Freeport.

Mich.  State  Pharmaceutical  Association. 
President—A.  L.  Walker,  Detroit.
First  Vice-President—J.  O.  Schlotter- 
Second  Vice-President—J.  E.  Weeks. 
Third  Vice-President—H.  C.  Peckham, 
Secretary«—W.  H.  Burke,  Detroit. 
Treasurer—J.  Major  Lemen,  Shepard. 
Executive  Committee—D.  A.  Hagans. 
Monroe;  J.  D.  Muir,  Grand  Rapids;  W. 
A.  Hall.  Detroit;  Dr.  Ward,  St.  Clair;  H. 
J.  Brown,  Ann  Arbor.
Trade  Interest—W.  C.  Kirchgessner, 
Grand  Rapids;  Stanley  Parkill.  Owosso.

Why  Wood  Alcohol  Is  Unfit  for 

Pharmaceutical  Use.

W ritten  for  the  Tradesman.

the 

Within 

comparatively 

few 
years  which  have  elapsed  since  the 
introduction 
into  commerce  of  the 
article  known  technically  as  purified 
methyl  alcohol,  and  commercially as 
purified  wood  alcohol,  wood-spirit, 
Columbian  spirits,  etc.,  a  great change 
of  sentiment  has  been  experienced 
with  regard  to  its  use  in  pharmacy.

Regarded  at  first  with  toleration 
by many,  with  absolute favor by some 
whose  names  are  a power in  the  phar­
maceutical  world,  its  use  in  galeni­
cals  has  within  the  past  year  or  two 
been  condemned  in  the  most  explicit 
and  emphatic  language.  The 
rea­
sons  for  this  change  of  sentiment 
may  be  analyzed  briefly  as  follows: 
In  the  manufacture  of  chemicals  the 
fact  has  been  often  noted  that  cer­
tain  substances  will  exhibit  physical 
etc.—  
properties— taste, 
which  will  be  found  lacking  in 
the 
same  article  when  further  purified; 
this  is  true,  for  instance,  of  carbon 
di-sulphide,  which,  in  its  commercial 
form,  is  malodorous  to  the  last  de­
gree,  while  the  chemically  pure  arti­
cle  is  practically  odorless.

smell, 

Commercial  wood  alcohol  was 
known  to  be  poisonous,  while 
its 
marked  taste  and  odor  rendered  it 
manifestly  unfit  for  use  in  pharmacy; 
at  the  same  time  it  was  known  that 
its  solvent  power,  antizymotic 
ac­
tion,  etc.,  closely  resembled  that  of 
Its  use  as  a  solvent 
grain  alcohol. 
some 
was,  in  fact,  advocated  by 
pharmaceutical  writers. 
Professor 
Caspari,  in  his  treatise  on  pharmacy, 
speaking  of  methyl  alcohol,  declares 
that  “it  seems  well  adapted  for  the 
manufacture  of  liniments  and  tinc­
tures  intended  for  external  use  onlv, 
but  should  not  be  used  for  internal 
remedies.”

F.  T.  Gordon,  in  a  paper  read  be­
fore  the  Pennsylvania  Pharmaceuti­
cal  Association  at  its  1901  meeting, 
while  laying  due  stress  on  its  pois­
onous  properties,  is  nevertheless  of 
the  opinion 
alcohol 
“might be  allowed  in  the  manufacture 
of  fluid  extracts  of  those  powerful 
drugs  in  which  the  dose  would  be 
too  small  to  allow  of  any  effect  be­
ing  produced  from  the  alcohol  con­

that  methyl 

of  the  pharmaceutical  press  may  be 
gathered  from  the  Bulletin  of  Phar­
macy  of  October,  1903,  which  gives 
its  opinion  of  methyl  alcohol  as  fol­
lows:

“The  substance  is  distinctly  toxic, 
and  experts  are  now  agreed  that  its 
employment  in  any  preparation,  even 
in  a  preparation  intended  for  exter­
nal  use,  is  absolutely  inexcusable and 
unsafe.”

In  addition  to  its  proved  toxicity, it 
should  be  borne  in  mind  that  the  use 
of  wood  alcohol,  however  purified, 
has  never  received  the  sanction  of 
the  Pharmacopoeia,  which  fact  ought 
in  itself  to  be  sufficient  to  preclude 
any  thought  of  its  use  in  pharmaceu­
tical  preparations.

J.  B.  Timmer,

Chemist  Hazeltine  &  Perkins  Drug

Co.

The  Drug  Market.

Opium— Is  dull  and  unchanged.
Morphine— Is  steady.
Quinine— Advanced 

ic  per  ounce 
on  account  of  large  demand  and  the 
fact  that  it  was  being  sold  for  less 
than  cost  of  production.

Russian 

Cantharides— Are 

firm  at  the  advance  and 
higher.

very 
tending 

Lycopodium— Supplies  are  being 
withheld  in  Russia  and  the  article  is 
in  a  very  firm  position  and  tending 
higher.

Menthol— Has  touched  bottom  and 

is  tending  higher.

scarce  and  high.

Select  Elm  Bark— Continues  very 

Oil  Anise  and  Oil  Cassia— On  ac­
count  of  war  in  the  East  are  very 
firm  and  advancing.

Oil  Wintergreen— Stocks  are  very 
small  and  prices  are  tending  higher.
Gum  Camphor— Has  advanced  6c, 
3c  on  Saturday  last  and  3c  on  Mon­
day,  and  is  still  tending  higher.

Goldenseal  Root— Price  is  higher 
than  ever  before.  There  is  very  lit­
tle  stock  to  be  had  and  the  price  is 
still  advancing.

Flax  Seed,  Ground  Flax  Seed  and 

Oil  Cake— Have  all  advanced.

Linseed  Oil— Is  very  firm  on  ac­

count  of  higher  price  for  the  seed.

Carbolic  Acid— Is  very  firm  on  ac­
count  of  the  war,  as  large  quantities 
will  be  used  in  the  manufacture  of 
powder.

Blue  Vitriol— Is  a  trifle  lower  on 
account  of  import  of  foreign  brand.
Cream  Tartar  and  Tartaric  Acid—  

Are  both  tending  higher.

Gum  Shellac— Has  declined.

^ rothtI/ernoii

Perfume

The

Distinctively New  Odor

Prices Reduced
Wholesale Price
per pint 
Retail Price 

/

$4 .0 0  Net

per ounce 

- 

5 0  Cents

On account of  the  large  vol­
ume  of  this  very  popular  per­
fume sold  in  1903,  we now make 
the  flat  price  which  meets  the 
popular demand.

Sales  on  D orothy  V krnon 
for  1904  are  placed  at  10,000 
pounds.

16Jennings Perfumery Co.

Grand Rapid«, Mich.

P I L E S   C U R E D
DR.  WILLARD  M.  BURLESON 

Rectal  Specialist

|03 Monroe Street 

Grand Rapids, Mich.

B oh n er’s  P a te n t 

C ru sh ed   F ru it  (Bowls

on your counter are a guarantee 
that  your  fruit  is  pure  and 
clean, as they are

Fly  Proof 
Dust Proof 
Tight  Cover 
No  Notches

To  Render  Cod  Liver  Oil  Tasteless.
Prof.  Gautrelet  states  that  a  ferru­
ginous  water  prepared  by  keeping  a 
few  bits  of  iron  in  contact  with  water 
for  a  few  days  serves  to  fully  pre­
vent  the  odor  and  taste  of  cod  liver 
oil  from  being  noticed, 
the  mouth 
to  be  rinsed  with  the  water  both  be­
fore  and  after  taking  the  oil.

He  whom  a  child  takes  by 

hand  lives  close  to  God.

the 

F R E D   BR U N D A G E

Wholesale  Drugs  and  Stationery,

Fishing:  Tackle,  Sporting  Goods, 

Fireworks and Flags.

32-34 Western A ve .,  M U SK E G O N , Mich.

Ladle  inside  under  cover.  Handle  always 

clean and ready for use.

Sold by nearly all wholesale druggists, 
confectioners and soda  fountain  sup­
ply houses.  If yours does not we will 
direct you to the nearest one who does.

?f. 

Old Style 
Notched Bowl.
W h o   w a n ts  
fr'un  it? 
fruit 
Better  throw  it 
a w a y  
t h a n  
drive aw ay your 
customers.

Bohner  Manufacturing  Co.

43 State St., Chicago, 111.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

43

WHOLESALE  DRUG  PRICE  CURRENT

Advanc'd— 
Declined—

p 

.............6 0006 25

Mannta.  S  F
75®  80  Sapo.  M
Sapo,  G 
Memthol 
Seidlltz  M ixture..
Morphia.  S P  4fc W.2 350 2 00 ; sinaDis 
Morphia.  S N Y Q .8 3 6 * * “   -  
Slnapls,  opt  .......  
0
Morphia,  Mai  ....S86i 
Snuff,  Maccaboy,
Moschus  Canton  ,
De  Voes  ...........  ©
Myristlca,  No.  1.
0
Snuff,  S’h De Vo's 
Nux  Vomica.po  15
Soda,  B o ra s.........  
9®
Os  Sepia  .............
90
Soda,  Boras,  p o .. 
Pepsin  Saac, H &
Soda  et  Pot's Tart  28©
P   D  C o .............  ©1 00
Soda.  Carb  ...........1%®
Plcis  Liq  N N 14
Soda,  Bi-Carb  ... 
3©
gal  doz  .............
Soda,  Ash  .............3V4®
Plcis  Liq,  q ts ....
Soda,  Sulphas  ...  @
Plcis  Liq,  pints..
Spts.  Cologne 
...  ©:
Pil  Hydrarg  . po 80 
Spts.  Ether  C o...  50© 
Piper  Nigra  . po 22 
Spts.  Myrcla Dom  ©2 00 
Piper  Alba  . .po 85
Spts.  Vinl Rect bbl 
Plix  B urgun.........
Spts.  Vl’l Rect V4 b 
Plumb!  Acet  .......
Spts.  Vl’t R’t 10 gl 
Pulvis  Ip’c et Opii.l 30 
Spts.  VI’l R’t  5 gal 
Pyrethrum,  bxs  H 
Strychnia,  Crystal  90 ©115 
&  P  D Co.  doz..
Sulphur,  Subl 
Pyrethrum,  pv 
..  25
Sulphur,  Roll  . . . .   2''
Quassiae 
............. 
8
Tamarinds 
Q uinta,  S  P   &  W .  25 
Terebenth  Venice  284'  30
Q ulnia,  S  G e r ...  25
Theobromae 
Q uinia,  N Y .........  25
Vanilla 
Rubla  Tinctorum.  12 
Zlncl  Sulph 
Saccharum  La’s ..  20'
Salacin 
................ 4 60
Sanguis  Drac’s ...  40'
Sapo,  W 

.........
.......  44®
.......  

.............  120  14

Whale,  winter

...  2V44 ' 

. . . .   70©
Lard,  extra 
Lard,  No.  1.........   600
Linseed,  pure  raw  43® 
Linseed,  boiled  ..  440 
Neats foot,  w s tr ..  060 
Spts.  Turpentine.  72© 
bbl 

Paints 

American 

Red  V enetian....1%  2 
Ochre,  yel  Mars  1%  2 
Ochre,  yel  Ber  .. 1%  2 
Putty,  commerT.2V4  2V4 
Putty,  strictly  pr.2V4  2% 
Vermillion,  Prime
........   13
Vermillion.  Eng..  70' 
Green,  Paris 
. . . .   14 
Green,  Peninsular  13
Lead,  red  .............. 1%
Lead,  white  .........6%
Whiting,  white  S’n 
Whiting.  Gilders.’
White,  Paris, Am'r 
Whlt'g,  Parts, Eng
...................   ©1 40
Universal  Prep’d.l 10® 1 20

cliff 

Varnishes

No.  1  Turp  Coach.l 106
................ 9 00
Extra  Turp  .........1 60«
7
Coach  Body  ....... 2 75«
No.  1  Turo  F u m .l 004 
bbl  gal  Extra  T  Damar. .1554 
70©  70 | Jap  Dryer  No  1 T  70«

Ferru

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

Acldum
Aeaticum 
................  _•
Bensoicum,  G ar..  7#
Boracic 
Carbollcum 
...........  u
Cltrlcum  ................  38
............  3
Hydrochlor 
Nitrocum 
................  8
Oxalicum 
.............  12'
Phosphorium,  dll.
Salicylicum  ...........  42'
. . . . .   I l l 1
Sulphuricum 
Tannicum 
...........11001 20
...........  38®  40
Tartaricum 
Ammonia
Aqua.  IS  de*........ 
40 
$
6® 
Aqua,  20  deg.......  
8
..............   13®  15
Carbonas 
Chlorldum  ...........  
  12® 14
Anllino
Black 
...................2 0002 25
Brown  ..................  M 0 1 00
Red  „......................  46®  50
Tellow  ................. 2 5008 00
Baccae
• . -po. 25  220  24
Cubebae 
Junlperus  ............. 
5®  6
Xanthoxylum 
. . . .   20®  35 
Balsamum
Cubebae  ....p o .  20  12®  15
Peru  .......................   @1 SO
Terabin.  Canada..  60®  05
Tolutan 
.................   46® 50
Cortex
18
Abiea,  Canadian.. 
Casslae 
J*
................  
18
Cinchona  F lava.. 
30
Euonymus  a tro .. 
Myrlca  Cerifera.. 
20
Primus Vlrglnl. . . .  
12
Qulllaia.  gr’d .......  
12
14
Sassafras 
. .po. 18 
Ulmus  -.25,  gr’d. 
45
Extractum
Glycyrrhiaa  Gla...  24( 
Glycyrrhiza,  p o ...  88<
Haematox 
.............  Ill
Haematox, 
l a ....  184 
Haematox,  V&s....  141 
Haematox,  V&s....  16( 
Carbonate  Preclp.
Citrate and  Quinta 
Citrate  Soluble  .. 
Ferrocyanldum  S.
Solut.  Chloride....
Sulphate,  com 'l...
Sulphate,  com’l, by 
bbl,  per  c w t....
Sulphate,  pure 
..
Flora
Arnica  ....................  10
Anthemis  ...............  22i
Matricaria 
............   80'
Folia
Barosma  ...............  80®  83
Acutlfol,
Cassia 
TlnneveUy  .......   20n>  25
Cassia,  Acutlfol..  25®  80 
Salvia  officinalis,
Uva  TJrsl............  
Gumml
Acacia,  1st  pkd..
Acacia,  2d  pkd..
Acacia,  3d  pkd...
Acacia,  sifted  sts.
Acacia,  po..............   45
Aloe,  Barb...........  12
Aloe,  Cape............
Aloe,  Socotri  . . . .
Ammoniac 
............   55
Assafoetida 
.........  35
Benzoinum  ........  50
Catechu,  Is ...........
Catechu,  H e.........
Catechu,  He.
Camphorae 
.
Euphorblum
Galbanum  ---------
Gamboge  ... -P©., -1 25 
Gualacum 
. .po. 35
.......... po. 76c
Kino 
Mastic  ................ .
Myrrh 
....... po. 45
Opil 
......................8 26
Shellac 
..................  60
Shellac,  bleached  651
Tragacanth 
.........   70
Absinthium,  es  pk 
Eupatorium  os  pk 
Lobelia 
....o s   pk 
Majorum 
..o s  pk.
Mentha  Pip os pk ~
Mentha  Vlr  os pk
Rue  .............os  pk
Tanacetum  V .......
Thymus  V  . .os pk 
Magnesia
Calcined,  P a t.......   56
Carbonate,  Pat.  ..  18 
Carbonate  K-M.
Carbonate 
.............  18®
Oleum 
_____
Absinthium 
........2 00®8 25
Amygdalae,  Dulc.  50®  60 
Amygdalae  Am a . . 8 00| 18 26
Anisl 
.................... 1 60« >1 65
Auranti  Cortex.. .2 104 (2 20
Bergamil 
.............2 8503 25
Cajlputl 
.............. 110® 115
....... 1 600170
CaryophyDl 
Cedar  ....................  851 •  70
.........  
Chenopadil 
0 2  00
Cinnamonli 
......... 1 00® 110
Cltronella 
.............  40® 46
Conium  Mac.......   80®  80
.............. 1160125
Copaiba 
Cubebae 
................1 80®1 86

8®  10
65
46
35
28
65
14
25 
SO 
60 
40 
55
15 
14
16 
100

126
26 
76 
60 
40
3 SO 
65 
70 
100

%s  and  H e ....  12®

40100

m

Herbs

...

....... 4 2604 50
Exechthltos 
Erigeron  ...............1000110
Gaultheria 
......... 2 S0®2 60
Geranium  ....... os. 
75
Gossippii,  Sem  gal  60®  60
Hedeoma 
............ 1 40i
Junlpera  ...............150
Lavendula  ...........  90
imonis 
.............. 115
Mentha Piper  ....3  50' 
Mentha  verld... .5 00 
Morrhuae,  g al... .5 00
Myrcla 
................4 00'
Olive 
....................  76
Plcis  Liquids  . . . .   10 
Pids  Liquids  gal.
Ricina 
..................  90
Rosmarinl 
Rosae,  os  .............6 00'
Succlnl 
............ 
40
Sabina 
................   80'
Santal 
..................2 75
Sassafras  .............  85'
Sinapis,  ess,  o s... 
i
TigllT 
....................150'
Thyme 
................  40i
Thyme,  opt  .........  
i
Theobromas 
.......   15
Potassium
Bl-Carb 
..............  16
Bichromate  .........  13
Bromide 
..............   40
Carb 
....................  18
Chlorate  pol7®18  16
C yanide................   84
Iodide 
..................2 80
Potassa,  Bitart  pr  30< 
Potass  Nltras  opt  7 
Potass  Nltras  ... 
6
Prusslate 
.............  23
Sulphate  p o .........  15
Radix
Aconltum  .............  20
Althae 
................  3i
Anchusa  ..............   10
....
Arum  po 
Calamus 
.............  20
Gentlana 
..po  16  12 
Glychrrhlza  pv  15  16 
Hydrastis  C ana..
Hydrastis  Can  po 
Hellebore.  A lba..  121  '
Inula,  po  .............  18'
Ipecac,  p o ............2 7502 80
Iris  plox 
.............  86“
Jalapa,  pr 
.........   25<
Maranta.  Vis  . . . .  
1
Podophyllum  po..  224
Rhei 
......................  751
Rhel,  cut  ............. 
I
Rhel,  pv 
.............  751
Splgella 
..............   261
Sanguinarl,  po  24
Serpentarta  .........   651
Senega 
................   761
Smilax.  offl’s  H
Smllax.  M  ----
Scillae  .........po  85  10(
Symplocarpus 
....
Valeriana  E n g ... 
Valeriana,  Ger  ..  151
Zingiber a 
...........  14l
Zingiber J ............   161
Semen
Anisum  ....p o .  20 
Aplum  (gravel’s ).  134
Bird,  Is  ..............  
44
Carul 
.........po  15  104
...........  704
Cardamon 
Coriandrum 
84
Cannabis  Satlva  .  6V44
Cydonium 
...........  754
....  254 
Chenopodium 
Dlptertx  Odorate.  804
Foeniculum 
.......
Foenugreek,  po  ..  74
.....................  
Llni 
44
Llni,  grd  .. .bbl  4  3@
Lobelia 
................   75®
Pharlarls  Cana’n  6V4@
6®
Rapa 
.................... 
Slnapls  Alba 
. . . .   7®
Sinapis  Nigra  . . . .  
9®
Splrltus
Frumentl  WD....2OO01
Frumentl 
.............1 2501
Juniperls  Co O T .16501 
Juniperls  Co 
....17603 
Saccharum N E   ..1 9001 
Spt  Vinl  Galli  ...175®«
Vlni  Oporto  ....... 1 2501
Vinl  A i l » ............ 1 25® 1
Sponges 
Florida  sheeps' wl
carriage 
Nassau  sheeps’ w l ___
carriage 
Velvet  extra  shps’ 
wool,  carriage  .. 
Extra  yellow  shps’ 
wool,  carriage  . 
Grass  sheeps’  wl,
carriage 
...........
Hard,  slate  use...
Yellow  Reef,  for 
shite  use  ......... 

.......  

...........2 6002 75
...........2 50@2 75

Syrups
Acacia 
................
Auranti  Cortex
Zingiber 
..............
Ipecac 
..................
Ferri  Iod  ............
Rhel  Arom 
. . ....
Smilax  Offl’s  ....
Senega 
................
..................
Scillae 
Scillae  Co  ...........
..............
Tolutan 
Prunm   vlrg  .......

504

Tinctures 
Aconitum  Nap's  R 
Aconitum  Nap's  F  
Aloes 
.................... 
Aloes  &  Myrrh  .. 
Arnica 
.................. 
Assafoetida  .........  
Atrope  Belladonna 
Auranti  Cortex  .. 
Benzoin 
............... 
Benzoin  Co  .........  
Barosma  ............... 
Cantharides 
.......  
Capsicum 
........... 
........... 
Cardamon 
Cardamon  Co  . . . .  
.................. 
Castor 
Catechu 
..............  
Cinchona 
............. 
. . . .  
Cinchona  Co 
Columba 
............. 
Cubebae 
............... 
Cassia  Acutlfol  .. 
Cassia  Acutlfol  Co 
Digitalis 
.............. 
Ergot  .................... 
Ferri  Chlorldum.. 
Gentian 
..............  
Gentian  Co  .........  
Gulaca 
................  
Guiaca  ammon 
.. 
Hyoscyamus  .......  
Iodine 
.................. 
Iodine,  colorless.. 
Kino  ..................... 
Lobelia 
................  
.................. 
Myrrh 
Nux  Vomica  ....... 
Opil 
.....................  
Opil,  compborated 
Opil,  deodorized  .. 
Quassia  ................  
Rhatany  ..............  
Rhel 
..................... 
S angulnaria......... 
Serpentarta  ......... 
Stram onium .........  
Tolutan 
............... 
Valerian 
............... 
Veratrum Veride.. 
Zingiber 
..............  

60
50
60
60
60
50
60
50
60
60
50
75
50
76
76
100
60
50
60
50
60
50
50
50
50
86
50
00
50
60
50
75
76
50
50
60
50
76
60
160
50
50
50
50
50
60
60
60
50
20

Miscellaneous

Aether,  8 p tsN lt2  SO®  26 
Aether,  Spts N it 4  24©  18 
Alumen,  gr’d po 7  84 I  4
..............   404•  60
Annatto 
Antlmoni,  po  __  
4®  5
Antlmoni  et Po T  404 I  60
Antipyrin  ............  
0   25
0   20
Antlrebrin 
........... 
Argentl  Nltras,  oz  @ 48
Arsenicum  ...........  100  12
Balm  Gilead  buds  4541  60 
Bismuth  S  N  ... .2 204 IS 80 
Calcium  Chlor, Is 
4 >  8
Calcium  Chlor, Vis 
0   10 
Calcium  Chlor,  V4s 
0   12 
4 >  05 
Cantharides,  Rus. 
ei  20 
Capsid  Fruc's af.. 
22 
Capsicl  Fruc’s po.. 
Cap’l  Fruc’s B po. 
4 I  15 
Caryophyllus 
. . . .   25®  28 
Carmine.  No  40...  ©2 00
Cera  Alba.............  60®  65
Cera  Flava  .........   400  42
Coccus  .................. 
I  I  40
Cassia  Fructus  .. 
I  I  25
Centrarla 
II  10
............. 
Cetaceum 
45
........... 
Chloroform 
.........   550  60
Chloro’m,  Squlbbs 
4 >110 
Chloral  Hyd  Crst.1 2501 00
Chondrus 
.............  204 >  25
Cinchonidine  P-W   38« >  48 
Clnchonid’e  Germ  380  48
Cocaine 
.............. 3 80®4  00
Corks  list  d  p  ct. 
76
CreoBotum  ........... 
0   46
C r e ta .........bbl  75
Creta,  prep  ......... 
0   5
Creta,  preclp  . . . .   0 0   11
Creta,  Rubra  . . . .  
0   8
Crocus 
................   58®  60
C udbear................   @  24
Cupri  Sulph  .......  
8
6@ 
7©  10
Dextrine 
............. 
Bther S u lp h .........   78®  92
Emery,  all  N os.. 
i
.........  
'
Emery,  po 
Ergota  ....... po  00  8541  80
Flake  White 
. . . .   1241  15
Galla 
....................  ®  23
Gambler 
Gelatin,  Cooper  ..  ©  60
Gelatin,  French  ..  850  60 
Glassware,  lit  box  76  _ 
Less  than  box  .. 
70
Glue,  brown  .........   11©  IS
Glue,  white  .........   15®  25
........... 17140  25
Glycerina 
Grana  Pa radial  ..  @ 25
Humulus 
.............  25©  55
Hydrarg  Ch  Mt.  ©  96 
Hydrarg  Ch  Cor  . 
0   90
Hydrarg  Ox  Ru'm  ®1 05 
0115 
Hydrarg  Ammo'l. 
Hydrarg  Ungue’m  500  60 
Hydrargyrum  .... 
0   86
Ichthyobolla,  Am.  9001 00
Indigo 
..................  750100
Iodine,  Resubl  .. .8 4008 60
Iodoform 
.............2 60@3 85
Lupulin 
0   50
..............  
Lycopodium 
........  70®  75
Macis 
..................  65©  75
Liquor  Arsen  et 
Hydrarg  Iod  ...  ©  25
Liq  Potass  Arslnit  10©  12 
2©  3
Magnesia.  Sulph.. 
Magnesia,  Bulk DM 
•  1*

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

8

®1 50
©1 25

®1 40

44

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

GROCERY  PRICE  CURRENT

These  quotations  are  carefully  corrected weekly, within  six  hours  of  mailing, 
and are intended to be correct at time  of going  to  press.-  Prices, however, are  lia­
ble to change at any  time,  and  country  merchants  will  have  their  orders  filled  at 
market prices at date of purchase.

ADVANCED

Spring  W heat  Flour 
Crackers

DECLINED

W hite fish 
Codfish

I n d e x   t o   M a r k e t s

1

2

B y  C olum ns

Pumpkin
.....................
...........55 6 00 Good  .....................
.......... 55 7 00 Fancy  ....................
...........50 425 G allon....................
Raspberries
...........76 900
Axle  G rease................ ..  1 IXL  Golden ...........76 9 00 Standard  ..............

....
Coi Aurora 
Castor  Oil
..
Diamond 
Frazer's 
...

AXLE OREASE

dz gre Fair 

A

Galvanized  Wire 

Cotton  Braided
40  ft................................   95
50  f t  
............................ 1  35
60  f t   .............................. 1  65
No.  20,  each  100  ft long.l 90 
No.  19,  each  100  ft long.210 
COCOA
Baker’s 
.........................  38
Cleveland 
.....................   41
Colonial,  Me  ................   *5
Colonial,  Ms  ..............    33
Epps 
«
Huyler 
...........................  *2
Van  Houten,  Ms  . . . . . .   12
Van  Houten.  Ms  .........   20
Van  Houten,  Ms  .......   40
Van  Houten,  Is  ...........  72
.............................  31
Webb 
Wilbur,  Ms  ....................  41
Wilbur.  Ms 
..................  42

......  

 

COCOANUT

Dunham’s  Ms 
........  26
Dunham’s  M s& M s..  26M
........  27
Dunham’s  Ms 
Dunham’s  Ms 
........  28
Bulk  ...........................  12
20  lb.  bags  .................... 2M
Less  quantity 
.............2
Pound  packages  ......... 4

COCOA  SHELLS

COFFEE

Rio

....................... 11%

Common 
Fair  ...............................13
Choice 
.......................... 15
...........................18
Fancy 
Santos
Common 
.......................12
...............................12M
Fhir 
Choice......................... 13 1-3
Fancy 
...........................16M
Peaberry  ......................
Maracaibo
Fair 
...............................13M
........................16%
Choice 
Mexican
Choice 
....................   ...16M
Fancy  ............................19
Guatemala
Choice 
......................... 15
Java
African 
.........................12
Fancy  African 
...........17
O.  G............................... 25
P.  G................................31
Mocha
Arabian 
....................... 21
Package

New  York  Basis.

Arbuckle  .....................12  50
..................... 12  50
Dilworth 
Jersey 
......................... 12  50
.............................12  50
Lion 
McLaughlin’s  XXXX 
McLaughlin's  XXXX sold 
to  retailers  only.  Mail  all 
orders  direct 
to  W.  F. 
McLaughlin  &  Co..  Chi­
cago.

Extract 

Holland,  M  gro  boxes.  95
Felix,  M  gross  .............115
Hummel's  foil,  M gro.  *5 
Hummel’s  tin,  M  gro .l 43

CRACKERS

National  Biscuit Company’s 

Oyster
.............................•%
........................... 6%
...........................  7M
................................•%
.............  7M
Sweet  Goode

Brands 
Butter
Seymour 
.........................7
New  York  ......................7
............................. 7
Salted 
Family 
...........................7
Wolverine 
....................  7
Soda
N.  B.  C...........................7
Select 
...........................  8
Saratoga  F la k e s...........13
Round 
Square 
Faust 
Argo 
Extra  F’arina 
Animals  ...................... 10
Assorted  Cake  ...........10
Bagley  Gems 
.............  8
Belle  Rose  ....................  8
Bent’s  W ater  .............16
Butter  Thin  ................ 13
Coco  Bar 
...................  10
Cococanut  T a ffy ......... 12
Cinnamon  B a r .............  *
Coffee  Cake,  N.  B.  C..10 
Coffee  Cake,  Iced  . . . .  10 
Cocoanut Macaroons  .. 18
Cracknels 
.....................1$
Currant  FVuit  .............. 10
Chocolate  Dainty  . . . .   16
Cartwheels 
..................   0
Dixie  S u g a r.................. g%
Frosted  Creams 
. . . . .   8
Ginger G em s......... . 
.
8 
Ginger  Snaps,  N B C ..  6M 
Grandma  Sandwich  ..  10 
Graham  Cracker 
. . . .   8
Hazelnut 
......................10
Honey  Fingers, Iced..  12
Honey  Jumbles  ........   12
Iced  Happy  Family  .. .11 
Iced  Honey  Crumpet  . 10
Imperials 
....................  8
Indiana  Belle  ...............15
Jerico 
...........................  *
Jersey  Lunch  .............  7M
Lady  Fingers  . . . . . . . .  U
Lady Fingers,  band md 2s 
Lemon  Biscuit  Square  8 
Lemon  Wafer  . . . . . . . .   18

Lemon  Snaps  .............. 11
Lemon  Gems  . . . . . . . . .   10
Lem  Yen 
......................10
Maple  Cake 
................ 10
Marshmallow  ................IS
Marshmallow  Cream..  16 
Marshmallow 
toainut. 16
Mary  Ann 
..................   8
Malaga 
.........................10
Mich  Coco  Fs’d honey 12M
Milk  Biscuit  ................   7M
Mich  Frosted Honey  .. 12
Mixed  Picnic  ............'. 11M
Molasses  Cakes, Sclo’d  8
Moss  Jelly  Bar  ......... 12M
Muskegon  Branch, Iced 10
Newton 
.........................12
Newsboy  Assorted  . ...  10
Nic  Nacs  ... T...............  8
Oatmeal  Cracker 
. . . .   8
Orange  Slice  ................ 10
Orange  Gem 
.............  8
Orange  & Lemon Ice  .. 10 
Penny  Assorted  Cakes  8
Pilot  Bread  ................   7M
Ping  Pong  ..................  9
Pretzels,  hand made  ..  8 
Pretzelettes,  hand  m’d  8 
Pretzelettes,  mch.  m’d  7
Rube  Sears 
................   8
Scotch  Cookies 
...........10
Snowdrops 
....................10
Spiced  Sugar  Tops  ...  8 
Sugar  Cakes,  scalloped  8
Sugar  Squares  ...........   8
Sultanas 
....................... 18
Spiced  Gingers  ...........   8
Urchins 
...................   10
Vienna  Crimp  .............  8
Vanilla  Wafer  .............. 18
Waverly 
..........................8
Zanzibar 
......................  9

DRIED  FRUITS 

Apples

Sundried  ................   @5
Evaporated 
...........6  @7
California  Prunes 
100-125  251b.  boxes.  €
0 
90-100  25 Ib.bxs.. 
80-90 
25 lb. bxs..  C
70-80 
25 lb. bxs. 
8
60-70  251b.  boxes.  €
50-60 
25 lb. bxs.  C
40-50 
1
25 lb. bxs. 
25 lb. bX8. 
30-40 
1
Me  less  In  bu  w.  cai

4«I3

a

8%
4M

Peel

Beans

Raisins

Hominy

Pearl  Barley

Citron
@14%
Corsican  ..............
Currants
Imp’d,  lib.  pkg.  .  7M 0  _ 
Imported  bulk  . ..6%@  7 
Lemon  A m erican......... 12
Orange  American  ........12
1  90 
London  Layers  3  cr 
1  96 
Tx>ndon  Layers  3  cr 
8  60 
Cluster  4  crown. 
.
Loose  Musca’s  2  cr.
6%
Loose  Musca’s  3  cr.  ..7 
Loose  Musca’s  4  cr. 
..8 
L.  M.  Seeded,  1  lb.  0@  9% 
L.  M.  Seeded.  %lb.7%@7% 
Sultanas,  bulk  ... 
9
Sultanas,  package.  @  9M 
FARINACEOUS  GOODS 
Dried  Lima  .................... 5
Med.  Hd.  Pk’d.  .2  00@2  10
Brown  Holland 
..........2  25
Farina
24  1  lb.  pkgs  ...............1  50
Bulk,  per  106  T b s......2  60
Flake,  50  lb.  sack  ---- 1  00
Pearl,  200  lb.  sack  ...4   00 
Pearl.  100  lb.  sack  ...2   00 
Maccaronl  and  Vermicelli 
Domestic.  10  lb.  box  .  60
Imported.  25  lb.  box  ..2  BO 
Common 
......................2  50
Chester  ..........................2  65
Empire 
......................... 3  50
Green,  Wisconsin,  b u .l  35
Green,  Scotch,  bu......... 1  40
Split,  lb........................... 
4
Rolled  Avenna,  bbl.  . .5  75 
Steel  Cut,  100th.  sacks.2  85
Monarch,  bbl.................5  60
Monarch,  901b.  sacks..2  60
Quaker,  cases 
.............2  10
Sago
East  India 
.................. »%
German,  sacks  .............3%
German,  broken  pkg  .  4 
Flake,  1101b.  s a c k s ---- 4%
Pearl,  1301b.  sacks 
..  S 
Pearl.  24  1  lb.  pkgs  ..  CM 
Cracked,  bulk 
24  2  lb.  packages  ....2   50 
FISHING  TACKLE
%  to  1  in  ....................  
f
7
1M  to  2  in  ..................  
1%  to  2  In  .......... 
 
9
1  2-3  to  2  I n ................. 
|1
2  in  ................................   «
3  In 
...............................  *®
Cotton  Lines
No.  1,  10  feet  ............. 
g
No.  2,  15  feet  ............. 
7
No.  3.  16  feet  ............. 
9
No.  4.  15  f e e t ...............  10
No.  5,  15  f e e t ...............  11
No.  6,  15  feet  ............. 
If
No.  7,  15  feet  ...............  1»
No.  8,  16  f e e t ...............  18
No.  9,  16  feet  .............  *•

Rolled  Oats

.............3M

Tapioca

W heat

Peas

 

Linen  Lines
Small 
...................... . . . .   80
Medium 
................. . . . .   18
Large 
.................... . . . .   84
Poles
Bamboo,  14  ft.,  p r  da..  50
Bamboo,  16  ft.,  pr da.  65
Bamboo,  18  f t ,  pr ds.  80

FRESH  MEATS 

Beef

................ 6  @ 8

Carcass 
Forequarters  . . . .   5 
. . .  .7V4i
Hindquarters 
Loins  .................... 9%j
Ribs 
.....................9  :
Rounds 
.................6%<
C h u ck s...................4%(
Plates  .................
Pork
Dressed  ...........
Loins 
..................
..
Boston  Butts 
S h o u ld ers..........
Leaf  Lard  __ 
.
Mutton
..............
Carcass 
....................11  @12
Lambs 
Veal
Carcass 
...............6  @  8%
Knox's  Sparkling, ds.  1  20 
Knox’s  Sparkling, gro.14  00 
Knox’s  Addu’d.,  doz.  1  20 
Knox’s  Addu’d,  gro  .14  00
Oxford 
7«
Plymouth  Bode 
....... 1  20
..................... 1  60
Nelson’s 
Cox’s,  2  qt.  size  ....... 1  61
Cox’s,  1  qt.  size  ......... 1  10
Amoskeag,  100  In  b'e.  1«% 
Amoskeag,  less  thanb.  16% 

GRAIN  BAG8 

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

GELATINE

W heat

GRAINS  AND  FLOUR 
Wheat  .........................   88
No.  2  red  wheat  ........92
No.  3  red  wheat  ........89
No.  1  white  wheat  ... 91 
’W inter  Wheat  Flour 

Local  Brands

Meal

Brand

Brand

to  usual 

Feed  and  Minstuffs 

Spring  W heat  Flour 

Patents  ..........................5  15
Second  P a te n ts ............. 4  75
Straight  .........................4  55
Second  Straight  ..........4  25
Clear  .............................. 3  75
Graham 
.........................2  35
Buckwheat  ....................4  70
Rye  .................................3  25
Subject 
cash 
discount.
Flour  In  bbls.,  25c  per 
bbl.  additional.
Worden  Grocer  Co.’s Brand
Quaker  %s  ...................4  20
Quaker  Ms  ...................4  21
Quaker  %s 
.................4  20
Clark-Jewell-Wells  Co.’s 
Pillsbury’s  Best  Ms. 
Plllsbury s Best Ms  • • * 
Pillsbury’s  Best  % s.. 
Lemon  &   Wheeler  Co.’s 
Wingold  %s  .................5  50
Wingold  Ms  .................5  40
Wingold  Ms  .................5  30
Jndson  Grocer  Co.’s Brand
Ceresota  %s 
...............5  70
Ceresota  Ms  .................5  60
Ceresota  %s  ........  
  1  50
Worden  Grocer  Co.’s Brand
...................5  20
Laurel  %s 
Laurel  Ms 
...................6  10
Laurel  %s 
...................5  00
Laurel  %s & Ms paper.5  on 
Bolted 
............................2  50
G ranulated..........................2 60
St.  Car  Feed  screened22  20 
No.  1  Corn  ad  Oats  . .22  50 
Corn  Meal,  coarse  ...19  50
w neat  rsra.ii  .............
W heat  Middlings  ... 20  00
Cow  Feed  ................ 19  50
Screenings  ................ 19  00
Oats
.45
Car  lots 
....................
Com
.61
Com,  old  ..................
Com,  new  ................
.47%
No.  1  timothy car lots. 10  50
No.  1  timothy ton lots. 12  50
........................... ..  16
Sage 
Hops  ........................... ..  15
....... ..  16
Laurel  Leaves 
Senna  Leaves  ......... ..  »
Madras.  6  lb.  boxes ..  56
8.  F..  2. 8. 6 Rv. boxes ..  86
..1  70
5lb.  palls,  per  dos
............... ..  38
15Tb.  palls 
30Tb.  p a ils .................. ..  85
........................... ..  SO
Pure 
.................... ..  88
Calabria 
......................... ..  14
Sicily 
........................... ..  11
Root 
Condensed,  8  ds  .... ..1  60
Condensed,  4  ds  . . . . ..8  00
Armour’s,  2  o s ............. 4  45
Armour’s  4  os  ............. 8  20
Liebig’s,  Chicago.  2 oz.2  75 
Liebig’s,  Chicago.  4 oz.5  50 
Liebig’s,  imported.  2 os.4  65 
Liebig’s.  Imported.  4os.8  50

MEAT  EXTRACTS

LICORICE

INDIGO

HERBS

JELLY

LYE

Hay

Strawberries

CARBON  OILS 

70
80
1 00
2 25
116
3 76
7 00 
.12 00
©1 65 
©1  85 
©1  65 
©  90
2%
5
6©  9 
11© 14 
17024
7014
18©28
.............1 20©1 40

Russian  Cavler
.  75 M  lb-  c a n s ..................
.  95 M  Tb.  cans  ................
1  lb  ca n  ......................
Col’a  River,  tails.. 
Col’a River,  flats.
Red  Alaska  .......
Pink  Alaska  .......
Sardines 
Domestic,  Ms  .... 
Domestic,  %s 
lust’d..
Domestic.  Mu
California,  Ms  ...
California,  Ms  ...
FTench,  Ms  ...........  
French,  Ms  .........  
Shrimps
Standard 
Succotash
F a i r .......................
140
Good  ......................
150
Fancy  ....................
110
.............
Standard 
140
Fancy  ....................
Tomatoes
Fair 
....................  85©  95
Good 
.................... 
115
Ffency  ................. 1  15@1  40
.............. 2  75@3  00
Gallons 
Barrels
@13
Perfection 
..........
W ater  White  ...
@11%
D.  S.  Gasoline  ..
©15M
Deodor’d  Nap’a...
@13%@34
Cylinder 
Engine 
..  9  @10% 
Black,  winter 
Columbia,  25  pts......... 4 50
Columbia,  25  M pts....2 60
Snider’s  quarts 
...........3 25
Snider’s  pints 
.............2 25
Snider’s  M  pints 
........130
CHEESE
Acme 
..................
Amboy 
..............
Carson  City 
....
@13
Elsie  ....................
Emblem  ..............
@12%
...................
Gem 
@12M
Gold  Medal 
.......
11
..................
Ideal 
@12
@12M
<3>iz
Riverside 
........... 
Brick 
..................12%@13
..................  @1  00
Edam 
Leiden 
................  @17
Limburger  ...........12%@18
Pineapple 
...........  50075
Sap  Sago 
.........   @20
American  Flag  Spruce.  55
Beeman’s  Pepsin 
.......   60
Black  Jack 
..................   55
Largest  Gum  Made 
..  60
Sen  Sen  .........................  56
Sen  Sen  Breath  Per’e .l 00
Sugar  Loaf 
..................  55
.......................   65
Yucatan 
6
............................... 
Bulk 
Red 
................................   7
4
............................. 
Eagle 
Franck’s 
7
.......................  
Schener’s 
...................... 
6
Walter  Baker  &  Co.’s

............ 29
............... 16  @22
CATSUP

CHEWING  GUM 

@12@12@12

CHOCOLATE 

CHICORY

Sisal

German  Sweet 
Premium 
Vanilla 
Caracas 
Eagle 

...........  23
.......................   21
...........................  41
.........................   35
.............................  28

CLOTHES  LINES 

 

Jute

60  ft,  3  thread,  extra. .100 
72  ft,  3  thread,  extra  . .1 40 
90  ft,  3  thread,  extra 
..1 7 0
..129
60  ft,  6  thread,  extra 
72  ft,  6  thread,  extra 
60  ft.  ...............................  75
72  f t  
.................  
90
.............................1 •$
90  ft. 
120  ft.  ............................. 150
. . . .   Cotton  Victor
50  ft.  .............................1  10
60  ft................................ 1  35
70  ft  .............................. 1  60
50 f t .............................. 1*0
60  ft. 
.............................1  44
........................1   80
70  f t  
10 ft.  ............................. *  oo

Cotton  Windsor

 

BATH BRICK
American
English  .........................

BROOMS

No.  2  C a rp e t................ 2  25
No.  3  Carpet  ................ 2 16
No.  4  Carpet  ................ 1 75
Parlor  Gem  ..................2 46
Common  Whisk 
.........   25
Fancy  W h isk ...............1 20
Warehouse  ...................2  00

BRUSHES

Scrub

Shoe

Stove

Solid  Back,  8  in  .........   75
Solid  Back.  11  in  ........  95
Pointed  E n d s ................   85
.............................  75
No.  3 
No.  2 
.............................110
No.  1 
.............................175
No.  8 
.............................100
No.  7 
.............................120
No.  4  .............................170
No.  3 
.............................190
W.,  R.  & Co.’s,  15c 8lse.l 25 
W.,  R.  &  Co.’s.  25c sixe.2 00 
Electric  Light,  Ss  . . . .   9% 
Electric  Light,  16s  ....10
Paraffine,  6s  .................. 9%
Paraffine,  12s 
.............10
W icking.........................19

BUTTER  COLOR 

CANDLES

CANNED  GOODS 

B

..  1 
Bath  Brick  ................
..  1
Brooms 
.......................
Brushes  ...........................  1
Butter  Color 
................   1

....................  11
Confections 
Candles 
...........................  1
Canned  Goods 
.............  1
..................   2
Carbon  Oils 
Catsup  .............................  2
Cheese  .............................  2
Chewing  Gum 
.............  2
Chicory 
...........................  2
Chocolate 
.......................   2
Clothes  Lines  ................   2
Cocoa  ..............................   2
Cocoanut  .........................  2
Cocoa  Shells  ..................  2
Coffee  ..............................   2
Crackers  .........................   2

Dried  Fruits  ..................  4

Farinaceous  Goods 
. . . .   4
Fish  and  Oysters  ............10
Fishing  Tackle  .............  4
Flavoring  extracts  ........  5
Fly  P a p e r.......................
Fresh  Meats  ..................   5
Fruits  ................................  11

Gelatine  ...........................  2
Grain  Bags  ....................  5
Grains  and  Flour  .........   5

Hides and Pelts 

1

J

L

M

N

Meat Extracts  ----
Molasses
Mustard

Indigo

Jelly

Licorice  ..
Lye 

.

Corn

...  6

...  5

Clams

Clam  Bouillon

...  5 2  lb.  cans, Spiced.

Apples
3  !b.  Standards 
Gals,  Standards 
Standards 

.. 
80
..2 00@2 25
Blackberries
........... 
85
Beans
85 @  90
... ...1 0 Red  Kidney  .......
String  ..................... 70@1  15
75@1 25
Wax  .....................
Blueberries
@  1  40
Standard  ...........
Brook  Trout
190
Little  Neck,  1  lb.l00@ l  25
Little  Neck,  2  lb.
150
Burnham’s,  M  Pt. ....... 1 92
.. ....... 3 60
Burnham's,  pts 
.. ....... 7 20
Burnham’s,  qts 
Cherries
Red  Standards.. .1 30@1 50
White  .................... 
160
Fair  : ...............................120
...............................125
Good 
Fancy  .............................1 50
French  Peas
Sur  Extra  Fine.............  22
Extra  Fine  ....................  19
..............................   15
Fine 
Moyen 
...........................  11
Gooseberries
Standard 
.......................   90
Hominy
.......................   85
Standard 
Lobster
Star,  %  lb .................... 2  15
Star,  1  lb ........................3 76
Picnl  Tails  ....................2 40
Mustard.  1  lb 
.............180
Mustard.  2  lb................2  80
Soused,  1  lb................... 1  80
Soused,  2  l b . . . . ............ 2  80
Tomato,  1  lb..................1  80
Tomato.  2  lb..................2  80
Mushrooms
Hotels 
..................  18@  20
Buttons  ................   22@  25
Cove,  lib ..............  @  90
Cove,  2  lb  ........... 
1 65
Cove,  1  lb.  Oval  . 
1  00
Peaches
Pie 
......................1  10@1  15
Yellow 
................ 1 45@1 86
Pears
Standard 
100
............. 
Fancy 
125
..................  
Peas
Marrowfat 
.........   90 @1 00
Early  J u n e ............. 90© 1  60
1  65 
Early  June  Sifted.. 
P lu m s.................... 
85
Pineapple
Grated  ......... " ...1 2 5 0 2  75
Sliced  ..................1 8 6 0 2  55

Mackerel

Oysters

Plums

Nuts  ................................ U

dives  ..............................   0

Pipes  ................................  0
Pickles  .............................  6
Playing  C a rd s................   6
.............................  6
Potash 
Provisions 
......................  6

tice
Salad  Dressing  .............  7
........................  7
Saleratus 
7
..................  
Sal  Soda 
Salt  ..................................   7
Salt  Fish 
.......................   7
Seeds 
..............................   7
Shoe  Blacking  ...............  7
Snuff  ................................  7
Soap 
................................  7
Soda 
.................................  8
Spices  ..............................   8
Starch 
.............................  8
.............................  8
Sugar 
Syrups 
...........................  8
Tea 
..................................  8
Tobacco 
.........................   9
Twine 
.............................  9
Vinegar
Washing  Powder  .........   9
Wicking 
.........................   9
Wooden ware  ..................   9
Wrapping  Paper  ............. 10
Toast  Cake

10

W

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

45

6

...1  75

OLIVES

SALERATUS 

SALAD  DRESSING 

Packed  60  lbs.  in  box 

Half  barrels  2c  extra  •

„ 
3  »0  Dwight’s  Cow 

Durkee’s,  large,  1  doz.4  50 
Durkee’s  small, 2doz..5  25 
Snider’s,  large,  1  doz..2  35 
small,  2doz..lS5

MOLASSES 
New Orleans
Fancy  Open  Kettle  ...  40
Choice 
.............................  35
p%lr  ..................................   26 | Snider 8,
...............................  22
Good 
MUSTARD 
Horse  Radish,  1  dx 
Horse Radish,  2 dz  .
Bayle’s  Celery,  1  dz  .
Bulk,  1 gal.  kegs  ----
Bulk,  3  gal.  kegs  . . . .
Bulk,  5  gal.  kegs  . . . .
Manzanilla,  7  o z .........

Arm  and  Hammer  ...3   15
........................3  00
, Deland’s 
.............3  15
....................... 2  10
Emblem 
I..  P................................3  00
. .3  00
or.
85 
an  Granulated,  bbls  ..........   85
...Granulated, 
1001b cases.l  00
...............4  50  Lump,  bbls...............  75
f f i S :  2I  oz 
1   oo I Lump.  i45n>:  k e g s . . . .   os
.
Stuffed,  5  oz 
.............  90
Stuffed,  8  oz  .................1  45
............. 2  30
Stuffed,  10  oz 
Clay.  No.  216 
............. 1  70
Clay,  T.  D..  full  count  65
Cob,  No.  3  ....................  85

Cases,  24 31b. boxes  ...1 4 0  
Barrels,  100 31b. bags  . .3  00 
Barrels,  50 61b. bags  . .3  00 
Barrels,  40 71b. bags  ..2  75

1  00  Wyandotte,  100  %s 
SAL  SODA

Lump,  145tb.‘  kegs 

Diamond  Crystal 

SALT
Table

PIPES

?9 

PICKLES
Medium

Small

PLAYING  CARDS 

Barrels,  1,200  count  ..7  75 
Half  bbls,  600  count  ..4  50 
Half bbls,  1,200 count  . .5  50 
Barrels,  2,400  count  ..9  50 
No.  90,  Steamboat  ...  85
No.  15,  Rival,  assortedl  20 
No.  20,  Rover  enameledl  60
No.  572,  Special  ..........1  75
No.  98,  Golf,  satin flnlsh2  00
No.  808,  Bicycle  ..........2  00
No.  632,  Tournm’t whist2  25 

POTASH 

48  cans  in  case

Babbitt’s 
......................4  00
Penna  Salt  Co.’s  ..........3  0»

...............................................15 25

PROVISIONS 
Barreled  Pork

Mess 

.. I 

Sausages

Dry  Salt  Meats

Back,  fat 
...................16  00
Clear  back 
.................16  50
Short  cut  .................... 15  00
pig  ................................20  00
Bean 
............................ 13  00
Family  Mess  Loin 
-
Clear  Family  ............. 13  50
.............................9%
Bellies 
S  P  Bellies  ...................10%
Extra  shorts 
.................9%
Smoked  Meats 
121b.  average. 12 
Hams,
141b.  average. 11% 
Hams,
16  tt>.  average. 11% 
Hams,
201b.  average. 11%
Hams,
Skinned  H a m s ............ 11%
Ham,  dried  beef  sets.13 
Shoulders,  (N.  Y.  cut, 
Bacon,  clear 
...10  @13
California  hams  .........  8
Boiled  Hams  ...............17
Picnic  Boiled  Hams  ..  12% 
Berlin  Ham  pr's'd 
..  9
Mince  Hams 
.............  9%
Lard
Compound 
......................7%
Pure  ................................ 8%
60  lb.  tubs, .advance.  % 
SO  lb.  tubs, .advance.  Vi 
50  lb. 
tins, .advance.  % 
20  lb.  pails, .advance.  % 
10  lb.  pails, .advance.  % 
5  lb.  pails, .advance.  1 
•  lb.  pails, .advance.  1 
Bologna  .......................   5%
...........................   6%
Liver 
Frankfort  ....................  7%
Pork 
...........................   8
V eal...............................  7 V4
..................... ..  9
Tongue 
Headcheese  .............. .  6%
Extra  Mess 
Boneless  .................... .12  00
.11  00
Rump,  New 
%  bbls.  ..................... ..  1  20
......2  00
%  bbls.,  40  lbs. 
.................. ..  4  00
%  bbls. 
1  bids.......................... ..  8  00
Tripe
70
Kits.  15  lbs  .............
%  bbls..  40  l b s ....... .  1  25
%bbls„  80  lbs  ........ .  2  60
Hogs,  per  lb............. ...  26
Beef  rounds,  set  ...
Beef  middles,  set  .. ...  45
Sheep,  per bundle  .. ...  70
Uneolored’  Butterlne
Solid,  dairy  ....... 10  @10%
Rolls,  dairy  ....... 10%@13
14
BoDs,  purity  . . . .  
Solid,  purity  ----  
12%
_
Corned  beef,  2  ...........2  40
Corned  beef,  14  ......... 17  50
Roast beef,  2  @  ......... 2  40
45
Potted  ham,  %s  ¡ ... 
85
Potted  ham,  %s  .......  
46
Deviled  ham,  %s  . . . .  
85
Deviled  ham.  %s  . . . .  
Potted  tongue,  %s  ... 
45
Potted  tongue,  %s  .. 
85

...........
............
Pig’s  Feet

Canned  Meats 

Casings

RICE 
Domestic
Carolina  head 
..........6@6%
Carolina  No.  1 
........... 5%
Carolina  No.  2 
......5   ,
Broken 
..............2  @3%
Japan,  No.  1  ....... 5  @5%
Japan,  No.  2  ....... 4%@5
05%
Java,  fancy  head  . 
Java,  No.  1  ......... 
#*%

Beef

Butter

Barrels,  320  lb.  bulk  ..2  65 
Barrels,  20 141b. bags  ..2  85
Sacks,  28  lbs 
.............  27
Sacks.  56  tbs.................  67

Butter

Cheese

.............1  50

Boxes,  24  21b 

Shaker
Buckeye
Table
Brls,  120  bags.  2%  lbs  3  25 
lbs  3  00 
Brls,  100  bags,  3 
lbs  3  00 
Brls,  60  bags,  6 
lbs  3  00 
Brls,  50  bags,  6 
Brls,  30  bags,  10 
lbs  2  75 
Brls,  22  bags,  14 
lbs  2  85 
Brls,  320  tbs,  bulk  ...  2  25 
Cases,  24 cts,  3  lb s ....  1  25 
Brls,  280  lbs,  bulk----2  25
Linen  bags,  5-56  lbs  3  00 
Linen  bags,  10-28  lbs  3  00 
Cotton  bags,  10-28  lbs  2  75 
5  barrel  lots,  5  per  cent.
!  discount.
10  barrel  lots,  7%  per 
cent,  discount.
I  Above  prices  are  F.  O.  B. 
|  too  31b.  sacks  ........... 1  90
r,o  51b.  sacks  ............1  80
28  101b.  sa c k s ........... 1  70
56  lb.  sacks  ................   30
28  lb.  sacks  ................   15
56  lb. dairy bfdriD bags  40 
28  lb. dairy  in drill bags  20 
56  lb.  sacks  ................   22
Granulated  F in e .........   80
Medium  Fine  ...............  85

Solar  Rock
Common

Common  Grades

SALT  FISH 

Cod

Large W hole.......   @6%
Small  W h o le.......   @6
Strips  or  bricks  . .7  @9
Pollock  ....................  @3%
Halibut
Strips  ............................ 14
Chunks 
.........................19
Herring
Holland

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

White  hoops,  bbl...........8 60
White  hoops,  %bbl.  ...4   50
White  hoops  keg...60@65 
White  hoops  mchs  .. 
75
Norwegian  ...................._  „
Round,  100  lbs  .............3  60
Round,  50  lbs  .............2  10
Scaled 
Bloaters 
........................l   60
No.  1,  100  l b s ................6 60
No.  1,  40  lbs  ...............2  50
No.  1,  10 l b s ................  
JO
No.  1,  8  lbs................. 
59
Mackerel
Mess  100  lbs................. 14 60
Mess  50 
lbs................... 7 75
Mess  10 
lbs................... 1 75
Mess  8  lbs.......................1 45
No.  1,  100  lbs.............. 18 00
No.  1,  50  lbs...................7 00
No.  1,  10  lbs...................1 «0
No.  1,  8  lbs................... 1 35
No 1  No. 2  Fam
3  50
2  10
50
43

Whlteflsh 
100  lbs..............7  50 
50  &s............. 3  60 
10  lbs..............   90 
8  lbs..............   75 

Trout

SEEDS

........  

. .1  00

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

Anise 
.............................I®
Canary,  S m yrna............. 6
Caraway 
 
•
Cardamon,  Malabar 
........................... *6
Celery 
Hemp,  Russian  ............. 4
Mixed  Bird 
.................. *
Mustard,  white 
........... 8
Poppy 
Rape  .............................. 0%
Cuttle  Bone 
.................35
Handy  Box.  large, 8 dx.2  50 
Handy  Box.  small  ....1   25 
Bixby’s  Royal  Polish  ..  85 
Miller’s  Crown  Polish.  86 
M
Scotch,  In  bladders  . . .   87 
Maccaboy,  in  Jam  . . . .   »  
Freneh  Rspgte.  k j M .   «•

SHOE  BLACKING 

SNUFF 

8
80A P

Central  City  Soap  Co's

TOBACCO
Fine  Cut

Plug

.... brand'

................ 3  66  Telegram 

Jaxon 
....... 3  10  j Cadillac  ..........................64
.. .3  Oo  • Sweet  Loma  ..........3 3
Jaxon,  5  box,  del. 
Jaxon,  10  box,  del  ...3   00  , Hiawatha,  51b.  palls  ..55 
Johnson  Soap  Co.  brands i Hiawatha,  101b. pails  ..53
Silver  King 
...................... 22
..........2  75 ; Pay  9alV,’........................?i
Calumet  Family 
...........2  85 Prairie  Rose  ................. 49
Scotch  Family 
Cuba  ...............................2  35  Protection 
.................... 37
J.  S.  Kirk  &   Co.  brands  Sweet  B urley................ 42
American  Family  ........4  06  Tiger 
............................. 38
Dusky  Diamond, 50 8oz.2  3d 
Dusky  D’nd.,  100 6oz..3  80 > Red  cross  .....................
Jap  Rose  ......................3  7 6 iPalo  ................................32
Imperial 
Savon 
34
.........3  10 K ylo...................  
White  Russian 
.........3  19 Hiawatha 
......................41
Dome,  oval  bars 
.......3  10 Battle  Axe  .....................33
Satinet,  Ovid  ................ 2  15 j American  Eagle  .......... 32
White  Cloud  . . . . . . . . . . 4   00  standard  Navy  ...........36
Lautz  Bros.  &   Co.  brands  gpear  Head,  16  oz.........42
. . . . . . . ....... 4  00  gpear  Head,  8  oz.........44
Big  Acme 
Acme,  100-%ib. b a rs...3  10  Nobby  Twist  ..............43
Big  Master  . . . . . . . . .  • .4  00 
j o]ly  Tar  .......................36
Snow  Boy  Pd r. 100 pk.4  00  —   - -
Old  Honesty  .................42
Marselles 
......................4  OU
Toddy 
........................... 33
Proctor  &  Gamble brands
J.  T.................................. 36
Lenox  ............................ 3  Id
............63
Piper  Heidsiek 
ivory,  6  oz  .................... 4  00
Boot  Jack  .................... 78
ivory,  10  oz  .................6  75
Honey  Dip  Twist 
....39
...............................3  25
¿tar 
Black  S tan d ard .............38
Cadillac  ..........................38
Good  Cheer 
.................4  00
Forge 
............................. 30
Old  Country  .................3  40
Nickel  T w is t.................50

A.  B.  Wrisley  brands

 

Scouring

Enoch  Morgan's  Sons.

Smoking

SODA

Whole  Spices

.............2  25 W arpath 

SPICES
.........................  12  Chips 

.Sapolio,  gross  lots ....9   00 Sweet Core  ......................34
Sapolio,  half  gross lots.4  50 | Flat C a r .......................... 32
Sapolio,  single  boxes  ..2  25 Great Navy  .....................84
Sapolio.  hand 
........................26
Bamboo.  16  oz.
25 
27
Boxes  ............................   5%
I  X  L,  16  os.,  palls  ..81
Wegs,  English 
.............4%
Honey  Dew 
.................37
.................37
Gold  Block 
Flagman 
........................40
Allspice 
............................ 33
Cassia,  China in mats.
12  Kiln  Dried  .................... 21
Cassia,  Batavia, bund.
28  Duke’s M ixture............. 39
Cassia,  Saigon,  broken.
4u  Duke's  Cameo  ............. 43
Cassia.  Saigon, in rolls.
55 | Myrtle  Navy  .................40
Cloves,  Amboyna
25 i Yum  Yum,  1  2-3 oz. 
..39
Cloves,  Zanzibar  .......   25  i Yum  Yum.  lib.  pails  ..37
Mace  ..............................   55  j Cream  .............................36
Nutmegs.  75-80  ...........  50  Corn  Cake,  2%  oz.  ...24
Nutmegs,  105-10  .........   40  Corn  Cake,  lib................22
Nutmegs,  115-20  .........  35  j Plow Boy,  1  2-3  oz. 
..39
Pepper,  Singapore,  blk.
15 | Plow  Boy,  3%  oz..........39
Pepper,  Singp. white  .  25
Peerless,  3%  oz.............35
Pepper, 
.........   17
Peerless,  1  2-3  oz.
Air  Brake  ......................36
Cant  Hook  .................... 30
Allspice 
...................   16
Cassia,  Batavia  ...........  28
Country  Club  ..........32-34
Cassia,  Saigon 
...........  48
Forex-XXXX 
...............28
Cloves,  Zanzibar  .......   23
Good  Indian 
.................23
Ginger,  African 
.........   15
Self B in d er...............20-22
Ginger,  Cochin  .............  18
Silver  Foam  .................34
Ginger,  Jamaica  .........   25
Mace 
Mustard  .........................  18  Cotton, 3  ply  ................ 26
Pepper,  Singapore,  blk. 
17 Cotton. 4  ply  ............... 26
Pepper,  Singp.  white  .  28 I Jute,  2 ply  ....................14
Pepper,  C ayeune..........  20  Hemp,  6  ply  ................13
Sage 
.............20
j  Wool,  lib.  balls  ...........  6

..............................   20 |  Flax,  medium 
Common  Gloss 

.............................  65  TWINE

Pure  Ground  in  Bulk

VINEGAR

g^ARCH 

shot 

lib.  packages  .............. 5
31b.  packages  .............. 4%
61b.  packages  .................6%
40  and  50  lb. boxes 
Barrels 
................ 3@3%
20  lib.  packages  ......... 5
40  lib.  packages  ....4%@7 

Common  Com

.303%

Malt  White  Wine, 40 gr. 8 
Malt White Wine, 80 g r.ll 
Pure  Cider,  B & B  
..11 
Pure  Cider,  Red  Star. 11 
Pure  Cider,  Robinson.il 
Pure  Cider,  Silver  ....11
WASHING  POWDER

SYRUPS

Com

Diamond  Flake  ........... 2  75
I Gold  Brick 
.................. 3  25
Gold  Dust,  regular  ....4   60
Barrels  ...........................21
Gold  Dust,  5c  ............. 4  00
Half  b a rre ls..................23
[ Kirkoline,  24  4th..........3  90
201b.  cans,  %dz.  In easel  5b 
Pearline 
........................3  75
10R>.  cans,  %dz. in easel  55
51b.  cans,  1  dz. in easel  75  Soapine 
......................... 4  10
.............3  75
8%th.  cans,  2 dz. case...l  75  Babbitt’s  1776 
......................... 3  50
1 Roseine 
Armour’s 
......................3  70
Fair  ................................   16
Nine  O’clock 
...............3  35
Good 
..............................  20
Wisdom 
................. ....3   8®
Choice 
...........................  25
Scourlne 
........................8  50
Rub-No-More  ...............3  75

Pure  Cano

TEA
Japan

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

....24
Sundried,  medium 
Sundried,  choice  ..........82
Sundried,  fancy 
..........86
Regular,  medium  ....... 24
Regular,  choice............. 32
Regular,  fancy  ............. 36
Basket-fired,  medium  .81 
Basket-fired,  choice  .. 38 
Basket-fired,  fancy 
..43
Nibs 
22@24
.................... 9011
Siftings 
F an n in g s.................12@14
Gunpowder
. •. ,30
Moyune,  medium 
Moyune,  choice  ........... 32
Moyune,  fancy 
........... 40
Pingsuey,  medium  ....80
Pingsuey,  choice 
........30
Pingsuey,  fancy  ..........40
Choice............................. J®

Young  Hyson 

Oolong

English  Breakfast

Formosa,  fancy  ........... 42
Amoy,  medium  .............25
Amoy,  choice  ...............82
Medium 
........................$0
Choice 
........................... JJ
Fancy  ............................. 0*
Ceylon,  ehotee  ..............

India

WICKIN6

No.  0 per  g ro s s ...........30
No.  1 per  gross 
..........40
No.  2 per  gross  ...........50
No.  3 per  gross  ...........75

WOODENWARE

Baskets

Bradley  Butter  Boxes 

Bushels  ..........................1  00
Bushels,  wide band  ....1   25
| M a rk e t..........................  85
Splint,  large  .................6  00
Splint,  medium  ........... 5  00
Splint,  small  .................4  00
Willow,  Clothes,  large.7  25 
Willow  Clothes, med’m . 6  00 
Willow  Clothes,  small.6  60 
2Ib.  size,  24  in  case  ..  72 
31b.  size,  16  in  case  ..  68 
6tb.  size.  12  in  ease  ..  63 
10Ib.  size,  6  In  case  ..  60 
No.  1 Oval.  260 In crate.  40 
No.  2 Oval,  260 In crate.  45 
No. 3 Oval.  25P  In crate.  60 
No.  5  Oval.  290 in  crate.  <0 
Barrel,  5  gal.,  each  ..2  40 
Barrel,  10  gal.,  each  ..2  66 
Barrel,  15  gal.,  each  . .2  70 
Round bead. 6 gross bx.  66 
Round  head,  eartona  ..  76

B utter: Plates

Clothes  Pina

Chums

IO

Egg  Crates
Humpty  Dumpty 
....2   40
No.  1,  com plete...........  32
No.  2.  com plete.............  18
Cork lined,  8  i n ............  <5
Cork lined,  9  I n ............  75
Cork lined,  10 i n ...........  85
Cedar,  8  in.....................   65

Faucets

Mop Sticks

Pelts

II
................8%
Cured  No.  1 
Cured  No.  2 
................7%
Calfskins,  green  No.  1  10 
Calfskins,  green  No.  2  8% 
Calfskins,  cured  No.  1  11 
Calfskins,  cured  No.  2  9% 
Steer  Hides  60Ibs.  overt 
Cow  hides  60lbs.  over. .8% 
Old  Wool  ................
.....................S0@1  40
Lamb 
Shearlings 
.............50@1  25
Tallow
No.  1  ....................
No.  2 
..................
Washed,  fin e .......
Washed,  medium  . 
Unwashed,  fine 
Unwashed,  medium 
Stick  Candy

..144 
CONFECTIONS 

Wool

, 

_

_ 

“  

Palla

Traps

_ 

Wash  Boards

Mixed  Candy

_ 

Fancy—In  Palla 

Á11L1.................. J 

 
Toothpicks

_
.......................... 8

Standard  ....................... 7
Standard  H.  H...........7
Standard  Twist 
.........  8
Cut  Loaf  .......................   9
cases
Jumbo,  32!b...................7%
Extra  H.  H....................9
Boston  Cream  .............10
Grocers 
.........................  6
Competition 
............. 7
Special 
....................... 7%
7%
. .   , Conserve 
.......................... ....
............................  8%

Trojan  spring 
.............  90
Eclipse patent spring  ..  85
No.  1  common  .............  75
No.  2  pat.  brush holder.  85 
12lb.  cotton  mop  heads. 1  25
Ideal  No.  7 ....................  90
Palls
hoop  S tan d ard ............1 60
2- 
hoop  S tan d ard ............1 75
3- 
2- 
wire,  Cable  .1 70
3- 
wire,  Cable  .1 90
Cedar,  all  red,  brass  ..1  26
Paper,  Eureka  ............. 2  25
F ib re .............  
2  70
Hardwood  ..................... 2  60
Softwood  ........................2  75
B an q u et...........................1 50
Ideal  ...............................1  50
Mouse,  wood,  2  holes  ..  22 
Mouse,  wood,  4  holes  ..  45 
Mouse,  wood,  6  holes  ..  70 
Mouse,  tin,  5  holes  ...  66
R at
....................  *2  Royal 
Rat,  sp rin g ....................  76
Ribbon  ...........................  9
Broken 
Tubs
20-in.,  Standard,  No.  1.7  00 
Cut  Loaf......................... 8
18-in.,  Standard,  No.  2.6  00 
English  Rock 
.............9
16-in.,  Standard,  No.  3.5  00 
K indergarten................ 8%
20-in.,  Cable,  No.  1  ..7  50 I Bon  Ton  Cream 
18-in.,  Cable,  No.  2  ..6  50 
French  Cream  ...............0
14-in.,  Cable.  No.  3  ..5  60
Star 
...............................11
Hand  made  C ream ...,14% 
No.  1  F ib re .................. 10  80
Premio  Cream  mixed. .12% 
No.  2  Fibre  .................. 9  45
No.  3  Fibre  .................. 8  55
O  F  Horehound  Drop..10
_ 
Gypsy  Hearts  .............14
Bronze G lobe.................2  50  c " 0  Bon  B o n a.............13
«  I Fudge  S q u ares.........12
Double A cm e.................. 2 75
Peanut  Squares 
...........  9
Single  Acme  ................ 2  26 
_____
Sugared  P ean u ts..........10
......... 8  25 | S a l t e d 'Peanuts  . '. '. . . '. '.10
Double  Peerless 
50  starlight  Kisses  
Single  P eerless...............2 
Northern  Q ueen.............2 50
San  Bias  G oodies....... 12
Double  Duplex  ............. 3  00
Lozenges,  plain  ...........9
Good  Luck  .................... 2  75
Lozenges,  printed 
....10 
Universal 
......................2  25
Champion  Choeolate  ..11 
Eclipse  Chocolates  ...13 
Quintette  Chocolates... 12 
12  in.................................. 1 65
Champion  Gum  Drops.  8
14  in...................................1 85
Moss  Drops  ..................  9
16  in...................................2 30
Lemon  Sours  .................9
Imperials 
......................  9
Ital.  Cream  Opera 
...12 
Ital.  Cream  Bon  Bons.
20  lb.  pails  ................12
Molasses  Chews,  151b.
cases 
..........................12
Golden  Waffles  ........... 12
Fancy—In  Stb.  Boxes
Lemon  S o u rs.................50
Peppermint  Drops  ....60
Chocolate  Drops  ......... 60
H.  M.  Choc.  Drops  ...85 
H.  M.  Choc.  Lt.  and
Gum  D ro p s....................26
O.  F.  Licorice  Drops  ..80
Lozenges,  p la in .............56
Lozenges,  printed 
....60
Imperials 
..................... 65
Mottoes  .........................60
Cream  Bar  ....................65
Molasses  Bar  .............. 56
Hand  Made  Cr’ms.,80090 
Cream  Buttons,  Pep. 
...66
String  Rock 
............... 60
Wintergreen  Berries  ..55 
F.  Bossenberger’s  brands.
...................... 12
Caramels 
Nut  caramels  ............. 14
........................   .12
Kisses 
Chocolates  ...............11-20
Pop  Com
Maple  Jake,  per  case..3 00
Cracker  Jack  ...............8  00
Pop  Cora  Balls 
1 30
NUTS
Whole

Common  Straw  .. ..........1%
Fibre  Manila,  white  ..  2% 
Fibre  Manila,  colored  .  4
No.  1  Manila  ...............4
Cream  Manila  .............8
Butcher’s  Manila 
Wax  Butter,  short  c'nt.13 
Wax  Butter,  full  count.20 
Wax  Butter,  rolls  ....16 
Magic,  3  doz......................... 1 15
Sunlight,  3  doz...................1 00
Sunlight,  1%  doz..........  60
Yeast  Foam,  3  doz.  ...1   15 
Yeast  Cream,  3  doz  ..1  00 
Yeast  Foam,  1%  doz.  ..  63
Per  R>.

11  In.  B u tte r................   76
13  in.  Butter  ....... .'...1  15
15  in.  Butter 
..............2  00
17  In.  Butter 
..............3  26
19  in.  Butter  .............. 4  75
Assorted  13-15-17........2  25
Assorted  16-17-19  ........3  25

Dark  No.  12  ........ ...1   00

WRAPPING  PAPER

and  Wintergreen 

Window  Cleaners

YEAST CAKE

FRESH  FISH

White  fish  ............. 10011
Trout 
.......................  @ 9
Black  B a s s ............. 11012
H a lib u t.................... 10011
Ciscoes  or  Herring.
Cluefish  ..................Ill
Live  L o b ster.......
Boiled Lobster  ....
Cod  .......................
Haddock  ..............
No.  1  Pickerel  . . . .   0   2%
Pike  ..........................   0  
Perch,  dressed  . . . .   0   7 
Smoked  White  ....  012%
Red  S n ap p er.........   O
Col.  River Salmonl2%012 
Mackerel  .................19020

Wood  Bowls

. . . .   2% 

 

7

Ohio  new 

Almonds.  Tarragona... 16 
Almonds,  Ivica  . . . . . . .
Almonds.  California  aft 
shelled,  new  ..14  016
Brazils 
..........................10
Filberts  ................. 
11
Walnuts,  French  ........12
Walnuts,  soft  shelled.
Cal.  No.  1 ..................16016
Table  Nuts,  faney  ....13
Pecans.  Med.................... 9
Pecans,  Ex.  Large  ...10
Pecans,  Jumbos  ..........11
Hickory  Nuts  per  bu.
...............1  76
Cocoanuts  ......................  4
Chestnuts,  per  bu.........
Spanish  Peanuts.  7%@8
Pecan  Halves  ............. 88
Walnut H alv es...........82
filbert  Meats  ............... 25
Alicante  Almonds  .....38
Jordan  Almonds  ..........47
Fancy,  H  P,  Suns  6%06% 
Fancy.  H.  F ,  Suns.
Roasted  .......  
...........@7%
Choice,  H  P,  J ’be. 
0   8% 
Choice  H.  P  Jum 
bo.  Roasted  ....9

Peanuts

Shelled

OYSTERS

Cans
Per  can
F.  H.  Counts 
.............  25
Extra  Selects  ...............  28
Selects  ...........................  23
Perfection  Standards...  22
Anchors  ........................   20
Standards 
.....................  18
Bulk
Standard,  gal  ...............1  40
Selects,  gal.....................1  60
Extra  Selects,  gal. 
... 1  75 
Fairhaven  Counts,  gal. 2  00 
Shell  Oysters,  per  100.1  00 
Shell  Clams,  per  100.1  00 
dam s,  gal  ....................1  26

HIDES  AND  PELT8 
Green  No.  1  ..................7
Green  No.  2  ..................6

Hides

10

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SPECIAL PRICE CURRENT

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

AXLE  GREASE

COFFEE
Roasted

Dwineil-Wrlght  Co.'s  Bds.

Mica,  tin  boxes  ..75  9  00 
Paragon 
................ 55  6  00

BAKING  POWDER 

Jaxon  Brand

J A X O N
%rb.  cans,  4  dec.  case  45 
Vfclb.  cans.  4  doz.  case  85 
1 
tb.  cans,  2  doz.  easel  80

Royal

10c  size.  90 
^4R>cans  135 
6  ozcans  190 
^4tbcans  250 
%Ibcans  375 
1  Ibcans  4 80 
3  lb cans 13 00 
5  lb cans 2150

BLUING

Arctic  4 oz ovals, p gro 4 09 
Arctic  8 oz ovals, p gro 6 00 
Arctic  16 oz ro’d. p gro 9 00

BREAKFAST  FOOD

Oxford  Flakes

No.  1 J3,  per  case...........3 60

No.  1  A.  per  c a s e ....3  60
No.  2  B,  per  case...........3 60
No.  3  C,  epr  case...........3 60
No.  1  D,  per  case.........3 60
No.  2  D,  per  case......... 3 60
No.  3  D.  per  case...........3 60
No.  2  E,  per  case...........3 60
No.  1  F,  per  case...........3 60
No.  3  F,  per  case...........8 60

Grits

Walsh-DeRoo  Co.’s  Brands

Cases.  24  2  lb  pack's. .2  00

CIGARS

G.  J. Johnson Cigar CO-’sbd.
Less  than  5u0........... 33 00
500  or  more...................32 00
*.000  or  more............... 31 00

COCOANUT

Baker's  Brazil  Shredded

White  House,  1  lb.........
White  House,  2  lb...........
Excelsior,  M  &  J,  1  lb.. 
Excelsior.  M  &  J,  2  lb ..
’i ip  Top,  M  &  J,  1  lb . ...
Royal  Java  ......................
Royal  Java  and  Mocha.. 
Java  and  Mocha  Blend.. 
Boston  Combination  . . . .
Judson 
Grocer  Co.,  Grand  Rapids; 
National  Grocer  Co.,  De­
troit  and  Jackson;  B.  Des­
en berg  &  Co.,  Kalamazoo; 
Symons  Bros.  &  Co.,  Sagi­
naw;  Meisel  &   Goeschel. 
Bay  City;  Fielbach  Co., 
Toledo.
COFFEE  SUBSTITUTE 

Distnouted  by 

Javril

2  doz.  In  case  ...........4  80
CONDENSED  MILK 

4  doz  In  case

Van. Lem.

Gall  Borden  Eagle  ... .6  40
Crown 
........................... 5  90
Champion 
.................... 4  25
Daisy  ................... 
4  70
M agnolia.........................4 00
Challenge  ............... ....4   40
Dime 
................ %......... 3  85
Peerless Evap’d Cream.4  00
FLAVORING  EXTRACTS 
Coleman’s 
2oz.  P a n e l......................1  20 75
3oz.  T a p e r............. 2  00  1  50
No.  4  Rich.  Blake.2  00  1  50 

Foote  A  Jenks 

Jennings

Terpenoless  Lemon

No. 2  D.  C. pr dz  ...
76
No. 4  D.  C. pr dz  ... .i 50
No. 6  D.  C. pr  id z ---- .2  00
Taper  D.  C. pr dz  ... .1 50
No. 2  D.  C. pr dz  ... .i 20
No. 4  D.  C. pr dz  ... .2 00
No. 6  D.  C. pr dz  ... .3 00
Taper  D.  C. pr dz  ... .2 00

Mexican  Vanilla

SAFES

SALT

Ja r-Sa It 
O n e   dozen 
Ball’s  quart 
Mason 
Jars 
(3  p o u n d s  
e a c h )...........85

SOAP

Beaver  Soap  Co.’s  Brands

100  cakes,  large  size..6  60 
50  cakes,  large  size. .3  25 
100  cakes,  small  size. .3  85 
60  cakes,  small  size. .1  95
Tradesman  Co.’s  Brand

Black  Hawk,  one box..2  50 
Black  Hawk,  five  bxs.2  40 
Black  Hawk,  ten  bxs.2  25

TABLE  SAUCES

Halford,  large  ............ 3  75
Halford,  small  ............ 2  25

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j t  M a r k et

Special  Features  of  the  Grocery  and 

Produce  Trade.

Special  Correspondence.

New,  York,  Feb.  13— We  have  a 
firm  and  apparently  advancing  coffee 
market this  week  and  from  all advices 
we  judge  that  rates  in  Brazil  are 
even  above  those  here.  At  the  close 
Rio  No.  7  is  firm  at  7$&c. 
In  store 
and  afloat  there  are  3,286,791  bags, 
against  2,671,096  bags  at  the  same 
time  last  year.  West  India  growths 
have  been  in  fair  demand  and prices 
show  a  fractional  advance,  Good  Cu- 
cuta  being  held  at  9J4@9?4c.

Very  little  new  business  has  been 
done  in  refined  sugar  and  not 
a 
great  amount  under  withdrawals  on 
old  account.  The  best  that  can  be 
said  is  that  quotations  are  firm  and, 
with  more  moderate  weather,  it  is 
thought  immediate  improvement will 
be  seen  in  this  staple.

There  is  a  very  firm  feeling  all 
through  the  tea  district  and  holders 
are  not  seemingly  anxious  to  part 
with  holdings,  arguing  that  the  fu­
ture  is  seemingly  full  of  possibilities 
for  increasing  profits.  Buyers  have 
been  taking  hold  with  greater  free­
dom  and  seem  to  realize  that  it  might 
pay  to  take  fair-sized  lots.  The  de­
mand  for  lots  to  “repair  broken  as­
sortments”  has  been  very  good  from 
Baltimore  this  week,  and  this  has 
been  one  factor  which  has  added  to 
the  activity.

Except  a  firmer  feeling  in  “domes­
tic”  Japan  rice,  there  is  little  to  be 
said.  Buyers  take  small  quantities 
and  little  change  is  looked  for  so 
long  as  we  have  such  extremely  cold 
weather.  Business  South  seems  to 
be  more  active  than  here.

Spices  have  ruled  firm  and  a  fair 
distributive  trade  has  been  reported 
this  week,  although  quotations  are 
not  noticeably  advanced.  Stocks are 
light  and  it  is  probably  a  good  time 
to  buy.  Amboyna  cloves  are  worth 
i 8K @ I9 c.

The  demand  for  grocery  grades  of 
molasses  has  been  fairly  active  and 
prices  are  well  held.  Orders,  how­
ever,  have  usually  been  for  small 
lots  and  trade  is  likely  to  show  some 
falling  off  now,  as  the 
season  ad­
vances.

There  is  said  to  be  a  stronger  tone 
in  the  canned  goods  market  toward 
the  one  article  of  tomatoes;  but  just 
what  justification  there  is  for  such 
feeling  it  is  hard  to  say  unless  it  is 
by  reason  of  the  Baltimore  fire;  and 
if  such  be  the  case  there  is  certainly 
little  room  for  a  hardening  tendency, 
as  very  few  canned  goods,  compara­
tively,  were  consumed.  Aside  from 
this  the  situation  is  about  unchanged 
and matters will  probably move  along 
for  a  month  on  an  “unruffled  sea.” 
Perhaps  the  canned  goods  convention 
at  Columbus  has  paved  the  way  for 
spring  and  summer  trade.  There  is 
said  to  be  a  little  better  feeling  in 
salmon  and  no  large  lots  could  be 
picked up here  at much less  than $1.35 
for  red  Alaska.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

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Gas or GosoOne  Monties at 

50c on the Dollar

Ka x u v a ctu r k bs,  Im po r te r s an d Jo bbe rs 

GLOVER’S  WHOLESALE  MDSE. GO. 
Of GAS AND GASOLINE SUNDRIES 

Grand  Rapids.  Mlah.

A U T O M O B I L E S

W e have the largest line In Western Mich- 
igan and il you are thinking of buying  you 
w ill serve your  best  interests  by  consult- 
Jng.ua.

Michigan  Automobile  Co.

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

GRAND  RAPIDS 
INSURANCE  AGENCY

FIRE 

W. FRED  McBAIN, President

Orand Rapids, Mich. 

The Leading  Agency

T H E   “ OLDSMOBILE”

Of  Interest  to  Hardware  and 
Agricultural  Implement Dealers

. 

A ny  potato  planter  w ill  plant 
potatoes.  But  tome  plant  better 
than  others,  and 
The PINQREB  thus sell better and
“ tu-
Potato 
faction.
Planter 
T o  be  Vigorous,
g r o w   uniformly 
and  yield 
abunaant- 
1 y, 
t h e  
seed must 
be  depos­
i t e d  
In 
moist  soli 
at the pro­
per depth.
It is evi­
dent  that 
to deposit 
5 potato 
m o i s t  
s o i l   t h e
jaw s must remain tightly closed until sunk  the 
desired distance in the ground.
It is equally obvious tuat to  plant  at  a  uni 
form depth there must be a positive depth gauge.
the soil, the 
climate and the method to be  pursued  in  dig­
ging, and  therefore  varies,  the  depth  gauge 
must be adjustable
From the foregoing it w ill be  seen  that  the 
ideal  potato planter has self  locking  jaws  and 
an adjustable,  positive depth gauge.

Finally, as the depth depends 

Our  Eureka  and  Pingrce  planters  are  the 
only potato  planters  made  having  these  fea­
tures, fhe Eureka being a tube  planter  and the 
Pingree a stick planter.
W e also manufacture the  old fashioned non­
locking stick handle planter.  This we make in 
two styles—the Dewey, which  has  an  adjust­
able depth gauge, and  the  Swan, which has a 
stationary depth gauge.  Both of  these  plant­
ers  are  provided  with  very  heavy  pivotal 
rivets, which are guaranteed  to  last as long as 
the rest o f the planter.
Do not forget that  we  also  manufacture  the 
celebrated  Segment  Corn  and  Bean  Planter, 
the lightest  and  most  accurate corn  and  bean 
planter  made.

Delivery  Wagon,  $850.00

It delivers the goods cheaper, quicker and  bet* 
ter  than  any  horse-drawn  vehicle  W ill  do 
the work of 3 horses, 3 men, 3  wagons.

If interested, write for special circular.

ADAfTS  &   HART

is and  14  W. Bridge St.,  Orand Rapids

Ask your Jobber for the 

foregoing

Greenville Planter Co.

Greenville,  Midi.

Do You Want a Safe?

IF  SO  W E  INVITE YOU  TO  INSPECT  OUR  LINE

o f   f i r e   a n d   b u r g l a r   p r o o f
D IE B O L D   S A F E S

The  demand  for  strictly  gile-edge 
butter  is  sufficiently  active  to  keep 
the  market  well  cleaned  up  and  quo­
tations  have  advanced  to  26c.  From 
this  the  range  is  suddenly  lower  and 
the  quality  shows  wide  variation.  Im­
itation  creamery,  I 4 @ i 8c ,  the  latter 
for  held  stock;  factory,  I3j4@ i4i4c; 
renovated,  I4@i7c;  rolls,  from  I4@ 
i4 ^ c .

There  is  hardly  a  bit  of  change  in 
the  market  for  cheese.  The  offering's 
are  not excessive,  but  there  is  enough 
to  go  around  and  quotations  remain 
at  the  same  level  as  has  prevailed 
for  months.  Exporters  are  doing  a 
little  business  in low grade stock, but 
there  is  no  real  activity  anywhere.

The  egg  market  is  still  strongly 
maintained  and  fresh-gathered  West­
ern  readily  bring  33c;  seconds,  32c 
and  inferior  stock,  down  to  26@27c. 
The  outlook  seems  to  be  in  doubt. 
Some  claim  to  have  advices  of  large 
supplies  about  to  be  sent  and  on  the 
way  hither,  while  others 
the 
“visible  supply”  of  the  whole  coun­
try  is  very  light  and  firm  quotations 
will  be  likely  to  prevail  for  some 
little  time.

say 

Boy  Play  at  Battle  Creek.

Ann  Arbor,  Feb. 

15— The  City 
Bank  of  Battle  Creek  is  suing  the 
Peninsular  Manufacturing  Co.,  Ltd., 
here  on  a  $1,123.73  check. 
It  is  a 
peculiar  case,  involving  the  question 
as  to whether  the  company,  as  a  com­
pany,  is  responsible  for  the  same.

It  seems  that  L.  A.  Pratt,  Secre­
tary,  inveigled  Charles  Hurd, 
the 
Treasurer,  to  loan  him  the  company’s 
check  and  sign  it  in  blank  for  him. 
Young  Pratt  went  to  Battle  Creek 
and,  in  a  deal  with  A.  C.  Wisner, 
filled  out  the  check  for  the  above 
amount.  Mr.  Wisner 
it 
and  the  City  Bank  cashed  it.  When 
it  was  sent  here  for  collection  pay­
ment  was  refused.  Mr.  Wisner  fail­
ed  and  the  Battle  Creek  bank  now 
seeks  to  hold  the  Peninsular  com­
pany.

indorsed 

In  defense  it  is  claimed  that  Mr. 
Hurd,  the  Treasurer,  could  not  give, 
or  rather  had  no  authority  to  give, 
a  check  for  over  $500  and  that it was 
without  consideration  to  the  com­
pany  and  only  a  personal  matter  be­
tween  two  of  its  officers.

Pot  Union  Before  Cupid.

St.  Louis,  Mo.,  Feb.  4— Love 
should  bear  the  union  trade-mark  or 
there  should  be  no  courtship  is  the 
idea  of  Miss  Angelina  Mauro,  busi­
ness  agent  of  the  Garment  Workers’ 
Union.  Miss  Mauro  says  every union 
girl  should  pay  more  attention  to 
the  question  of  unions  and  union  la­
bor.  To  this  end  non-union  men 
should  not  be  considered  as  suitors, 
and  unless  one  who  wished  to  pay 
his  respects  to  a  union  girl  could 
show  a  union  card  he  should  not  be 
received.  Miss  Mauro  made  her 
talk  at  the  labor  mass  meeting  at 
Druids’  Hall.

The  basis  of  Worcestershire  sauce 
is  said  to  be  soy,  but  fruit  juices  and 
spices  are  also  used  in  its  manufac­
ture.  The  finer  the  quality  of  the 
ingredients,  the  finer  the  prepared 
sauce.

WHICH  WE  CONSIDER  THE  BEST  SAFES  MADE

If not  convenient  to call  at our store,  we shall  be pleased 
to  have  you  acquaint  us  with  your  requirements  and 
we will  quote  you  prices  by  mail.

TRADESMAN  COMPANY, Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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.  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

BUSINESS-WANTS  DEPARTMENT

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two 

floors; 

location 

A  Bargain 

three-station 

For  Sale—$3,300 

For  Sale—Davis 

. _____________ 162

For  Rent—Established 

Wanted—Store  building  with 

stock  general  mer­
chandise,  including  team  and  wagon  for 
road  work.  Stock  clean,  double  store­
building,  house  and  barn,  post  office  and 
telephone,  pay  station  in  store;  will  sell 
or  let  real  estate;  have  other  business 
interests.  Earle  R.  Williams,  Collins, 
Mich. 
Drug  Store  for  sale  in  Northern  In­
diana  at  a  bargain.  Address  No.  181,
care  Michigan  Tradesman.______ 181
For  Sale—Good  stock  drugs,  dry  goods 
and  groceries.  Poor  health.  Good  chance. 
Address  No.  179,  care  Michigan  Trades­
119
man 
cash 
carrier  in  good  condition.  Will  sell  cheap. 
Address  J.  L.  Curry.  Mariette,  Mich.  180
Wanted-^A  dry  goods,  hardware  and 
good  grocery  store.  Apply  L.  A.  Watel- 
s k v .  1 os  Buhl  Block.  Detroit,  Mich.  16<>
in  Paint—Moyer  Bros., 
Bloomsburg,  Pa.,  offer 
thousand 
dollars’  worth  of  New  Era  Paint,  fresh 
stock,  on  basis  of  $1.10  for  one  gallon 
cans.  W rite  for -stock  list.  First  come,
first  served.____________ _________ 105
Wanted—Partner  in  established  large 
paying  general  store  who  can 
furnish 
from  $2,000  to  $5,000  cash  or  that  amount 
in  staple  merchandise,  and'give  his  time 
to  the  business.  Address  Lock  Box  616,
Howell.  Mich.____________________ 178
Attention,  Merchants!—Do  you  -want 
If  so,  try  my.  new  sys­
money  quick? 
tem  of  quick  money  raising  sale.  Old 
and  surplus  stocks  disposed  of 
in  a 
hurry.  My  new  method  of  advertising 
never  fails  to  attract  the  largest  pur­
chasing  crpwds.  Profit  realized  above 
all  expenses. 
I  conduct  sale  personally 
and  leave  catchy  ads  with  you  that  in­
sure  you  good  trade  in  future.  Highest 
J.  New­
of  references.  Write  at  once. 
man,  391  E.  40th  St.,  Chicago,  111.  163
living 
rooms  attached;  also  stock  of  general 
. merchandise.  -  country 
town,  not  over 
$4,000.  Address  L.  P.  Mosher,  Box  965,
Chicago,  i
for 
bazaar,  department  or  dry  goods  store 
In  a  hustling  town  of  3,000;  store  brick, 
modern  conveniences,  two 
im­
mediate  possession.  Box  492,  Howell, 
Mich. 
For  Sale—Acme  Spring  Throw  and 
Push  Carriers.  Cheap  to  introduce.  Acme 
Cash  Railway.  New  Haven.  Conn.  176 
f or  Rent—One-half  of  store;  fine  open- 
ing  for  ladies’  furnishings,  fancy  goods 
and  notions  in  Fond  du  Lac,  Wis.,  477
Main  St.  ______________________ 175
For  Sale—Restaurant  and  bakery;  no 
competition;  town  1,500;  must  be 
sola 
at  once;  easy  terms.  Address  Box  135, 
174
Grand  Rapids,  Mich. 
For  Sale—In  the  best  city  of  30,000  in 
Michigan—clothing, 
gpods 
and  shoes.  Address  173,  care  Michigan
Tradesman. 
fo r  Sale—Self-retaining  lace  and  por- 
tiere  curtain  pole  in  new  and  original de­
sign;  patented.  No  pins,  rings  or  clamps 
needed.  Always  in  place,  quickly  adjust­
ed,  ornamental.  Will  sell,  trade  or  lease 
on  royalty.  C.  G.  Foster,  Patentee,  North
English.  Iowa. 
_________________ 19°_._
For  Trade  or  Merchandise—Farm  of 107 
acres  in  Douglas  Co..-HI.,  for  trade  or 
merchandise.  J.  C.  Gilbert,  Tuscola,  111.
Three  Store  Rooms  for  Sale  or  Rent— 
One  has  been  occupied  with  dry  goods 
and  groceries  for  years.  One  building 
suitable  for  bakery  and  restaurant,  all 
complete.  Address  L.  A.  Melcher,  Con­
stantine,  Mich 
Investigate—An  excellent  opening  for 
someone  who  wishes  to  step  into  a  good­
paying.  well-established  dry  goods  busi­
ness.  Write  for  particulars.  A.  T.
Burnett  &  Co.,  Charlevoix,  Mich.  172 
For  Sale—Furniture,  crockery  and  ba­
zaar.  Located  in  best  agricultural  dis­
trict  in  I>ower  Michigan.  No  competi­
tion.  Reason,  other  business.  Address 
No.  187,  care Michigan  Tradesman. _ 187  _ 
'  For- Sale^Drug  store  doing  good  busi­
ness;  well  stocked;  purchaser  can  buy 
or  lease  building.  Lock  Box  13.  Coral,
Mich. 
For Rent—Fine opening for a dry goods, 
clothing  or  general  store;  corner  build­
ing;  two  story  brick;  25  by  90  feet;  best 
business  corner  in  the  city;  population, 
5.000;  paved  streets,  electric  lights;  rent 
very  reasonable.  Address  Geo.  W.  Herd-
man,  Jerseyville.  His._____ ________ 185
For  Sale—Clean  new  stock  of  staple 
dry  goods,  furnishing  goods  and  shoes  in 
goodfarm ing  and 
lumbering  district. 
Only  stock  in  town.  Reason  for  selling, 
poor  health.  Address  Box  224.  Elmira, 
Mich. 

_______ _________________

__________________

furnishing 

1*9

161

184

159

143

144

1“8

town 

fixtures; 
expenses 

and  maxing 

survey  connecting 

For  Sale—Large  fire  proof  safe  at  a 
bargain.  Address  L.  A.  Melcher,  Con-
stantine,  Mich.  __________________ 188
_  For  Sale—Small  general  stock  of  mer­
chandise;  will  invoice  about  $2,500;  lo­
cated  in  the  best 
in  Northern 
Michigan  and  doing  a  splendid  business. 
If  you  want  something  good,  look  us  up. 
Address  E„  care  Michigan  Tradesman.
Free  information  about  life  insurance 
of  all  kinds;  also  cash  paid  for  policies. 
Send  your  age  and  full  address  to  Lock 
169
Box  166,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich. 
For  Sale—Jewelry,  stationery  and  op- 
tical  business;  good 
small 
light, 
stock;  good  location; 
good  reason  for  selling;  must  be  sold  at 
'Address  J.  S.  T„  care  Michigan
once. 
Tradesman.  ___________ ________ ____
For  Sale  or  Exchange  for  Merchandise 
—733  acres  of  land  in  Missaukee bounty, 
Mich.,  on  the  line  of  the  new  Pere  Mar­
quette  R.  R. 
the 
“Klondike  Branch,” 
a 
through  line  from  Toledo  and  Detroit  to 
the  Straits.  Heavy  soil,  very  desirable 
for  farming  or  stock  raising;  rapidly  in­
creasing  in  value.  Address  Packard  & 
Schepers,  McBain,  Mich. 
For  Sale  or  Trade  for  M erchandise- 
Drugs  preferred,  or  Michigan  land,  25 
acres  California  fruit  lands  eight  miles 
from  Pasadena,  one  mile  from  station. 
Address  No.  144,  care  Michigan  Trades­
m a n  
•  For  Sale—Exclusive  ice  business  in  a 
town  of  1,600. 
Ice  houses  filled  for  this 
season.  Terms  easy.  Enquire  of  G.  M. 
Peet,  Chesaning,  Mich. 
For  Sale  or  Trade—About  $2.500  stock 
general  merchandise;  good  location;  busi­
ness  net  profit,  in  DeKolb  county,  Ind. 
Exceptionally  clean 
stock.  A  money­
maker.  Address  No.  158,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman, 
Opportunity  taken  advantage  of  means 
I  have  the  opportunity  and  am 
profit. 
giving  you  the  chance  to  grasp  it.  Buy 
Western  timber  lands.  Get 
together. 
Talk  it  over.  Do  it  now.  Don’t  wait.  I 
have  tracts  of  various  sizes.  They  are 
all  good  tracts.  They  will  be  worth  at 
least  double  the  money  in  three  years. 
Good  timber  carefully  bought  is  better 
than  cash  in  the  bank.  Let  me  hear 
from  you  and  I  will  submit  a  proposition 
to  meet  your  demands.  However,  don t  
expect  to  buy  good  timber  a  year  hence 
at  the  same  price  you  can  get  it  now. 
Timber  is  going  up.  Keep  that  in  mind. 
W.  L.  Keate,  333  Lumber  Exchange, 
Seattle,  Wash. 
For  Sale—Long  and  well-established 
furniture  business  doing  both  cash  and 
installment  trade.  Stock  invoices  $10,000 
to'  $15.000.  Splendid  location.  Box  466, 
New  Orleans,  La. 
For  Sale—One  of  the  best  50  barrel 
water  power  roller  mills  In  the  State 
Owing  to  ill health,  will  sell  at  a bargain 
Address  Geo.  Carrington,  Trent,  Mich. 148
For  Sale—Grocery and  bakery doing the 
largest  and  safest  business  in  thriving 
city  of  50,000  inhabitants.  .  Excellent  lo­
cation,  double  room,  well  equipped  with 
modem  fixtures.  An  opportunity  worth 
investigating.  Address  P.  O.  Box  187 
South  Bend,  Indiana. 
For  Sale—Small  stock  of  general  mer­
chandise  in  a  live  town  of  2,000  inhabi­
tants.  Will  sell  a t  a  bargain  and  rent 
building;  good  brick,  two  story  building 
on  main  street;  good  reason  for  Belling. 
Address  Box  387.  Portland.  Mich. 
For  Sale—Thirteen  acres  patented min- 
ing  ground.  Mineral  in  sight.  Address 
P.  O.  Box  1064.  Cripple  Creek.  Colo.  132 
We  are  offering  for  sale  a  well-estab­
lished  notion  store  that  is  a  bargain 
Good  reasons  for  wanting  to  sell.  City 
is  prosperous  and  growing.  Population 
12.000.  Address  M.  V.  Kesler  &  Co., 
Huntingdon.  Ind. 
For  Sale—Stock  of  general  merchan­
dise  nine  months  old.  mostly  staple  dry 
goods,  groceries,  shoes,  etc.;  good  town; 
cash  only,  no  trades.  Address  No.  140,
care  Michigan  Tradesman.________ 140_
$127000  Stock  General  Merchandise For 
Sale—Have  had  a  30  days’  sale  and  sold 
all  my  old  stock.  Make  me  an  offer.  W. 
W.  Townsend.  Hubbardston.  Mich.  141
For  Sale—One  Buffalo  chopper  No.  0, 
hand  or  power,  in  first-class  condition; 
price  reasonable.  Address  No.  119.  care 
Michigan  Tradesman. 
For  Sale—Three  tracts  mixed  timber; 
convenient  to  railroad:  heavily  timbered; 
tracts  6.600.  2.300  and  640  acres.  Price. 
$10;  estimates  furnished.  Chocolay Land 
Co..  Ltd..  Marquette.  Mich. 
Wanted—To  buy  stock  of  general  mer­
chandise  from  $5,000  to  $25.000  for  cash. 
Address  No.  89.  care  Michigan  Trades­
man. 

118

119

163

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131

145

88

89

I ll

109

crockery 

inventory 

hardware, 

For  Sale—Farm 

____________   11”

town;  city  water 

For  Rent—A  good 

A  Business  Opportunity.  A  general 
store  (located  in  a  thriving  manufactur­
ing  town,  with  a  future  before  it)  to  be 
departmentized.  The  entire  business  has 
an  annual  output  of  $100,000  to  $115,000 
groceries, 
shoes, 
clothing,  dry  goods  and  notions,  five’de­
partments ;  two  rooms  40x120  in  brick 
store;  well-located;  stocks  clean  and  up- 
to-date;  each stock will'be sold separately 
or  together;  splendid  opportunity  to  se­
cure a  well-established business  on favor­
able  terms.  Address  at  once,  H.  M._ 
care  Michigan  Tradesman. 
127
For  Sale—Harness  shop;  great  oppor­
tunity  to  buy  an  old-established  business 
of  twenty-nine  years'  a t  a  bargain;  fine 
location  and  good  trade;  will  sell  the 
whole  or  part  of  stock  to  suit  customer. 
Address  No.  116,  care  Michigan  Trades­
man. 
two-story  brick 
store  on  a  good  business  corner,  in  a 
and 
good  business 
electric  lights.  Address  P.  O.  Box  No. 
298,  Decatur,  Mich. 
115
Wanted—General  or  exclusive  stock of 
merchandise.  Price  must  be  an  object. 
Give  full  particulars  and  price  first  let­
ter  if  you  mean  business.  Address  X. 
Y.  Z..  care  Michigan  Tradesman. 
For  Sale  or  Exchange—A  good  drug 
stock  and  fixtures,  located  on  good  busi­
ness  street  in  Grand  Rapids.  Good  lo­
cation.  Good  reasons  for  selling.  Ad­
dress  No.  109.  care  Michigan  Tradesman.
Implement  business, 
established  fifteen  years.  First-class  lo­
cation  at  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.  Will  sell 
or  lease  four-story  and  basement  brick 
about 
building.  Stock  will 
$10,000.  Good  reason  for  selling.  No 
care 
trades  desired.  Address  No.  67, 
Michigan  Tradesman. 
67
120  acre  farm  two  and  a  half  miles 
from  railroad.  Wish  to  trade  for  stock 
of  hardware.  Lock  Box  491,  Shelby, 
Mich 
For  Rent—Large  store  building  and 
basement.  Good  town,  fine  location.  Ad­
dress  No.  971,  care  Michigan  Tradesman.
Cash  for  Your  Stock—Or  we  will  close 
out  for  you  a t  your  own  place  of  busi­
ness,  or  make  sale  to  reduce  your  stock. 
W rite  for  Information.  C.  L.  Tost  &  Co., 
677  Forest  Ave..  West.  Detroit.  Mich.  2
Geo.  M.  Smith  Safe  Co.,  agents  for  one 
of  the  strongest,  heaviest  and  best  fire 
iroof  safes  made.  All  kinds  of  second- 
„and  safes  in  stock.  Safes  opened  and 
repaired.  376  South  Ionia  street.  Both 
phones.  Grand  Rapids. 
For  Sale—Rare  chance.  One  of  only 
two  general  stores 
in 
Genesee  county.  W rite  for  description 
Address  No.  881,  care  Michigan  Trades 
man. 
881
Good  opening  for  dry  goods;  first-class 
store  to  rent in  good  location.  H.  M.  Wil 
Hams.  Mason.  Mich. 
868
For  Sale—480  acres  of  cut-over  hard 
wood  land,  three  miles  north  of  Thomp- 
sonville.  House  and  bam   on  premises. 
Pere  Marquette  railroad  runs  across  one 
corner  of  land.  Very  desirable  for  stock 
raising  or  potato  growing.  Will  ex­
change  for  stock  of  merchandise  ef  any 
kind.  C.  C.  Tuxbury,  301  Jefferson  St 
Grand  Rapids. 
835
trial  will  prove  how  quick  and 
well  we  fill  orders  and  how  much  money 
we  can  save  you.  Tradesman  Company. 
Printers.  Grand  Rapids
We  want  a  dealer  in  every  town  In 
Michigan  to  handle  our  own  make  of  fur 
for 
coats,  gloves  and  mittens. 
catalogues  and  full  particulars,  Ellsworth 
ft  Thayer Mfg.  Co..  Milwaukee.  Wis.  617
For  Sale  Cheap—General  stock  and  fix 
tures.  Will  sell  store  building  or 
sell 
stock  to  be  removed.  Address  No.  51 
care  Michigan  Tradesman._________ 61

926
in  best  village 

Send 

One 

971

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PO SITIO N S  W A N TE D .

Experienced  shoe  clerk,  young  man 
with  best  of  references,  wants  position. 
Address  M.  F.  Beamer,  Ovid,  Mich.  164
Position  W anted  as  dry  goods  clerk, 
young  man;  best  of  references.  Address 
Box  24.  Ovid,  Mich. 
Position  W anted  by  experienced  clerk 
and  book-keeper;  four  years  with  last 
John  S 
fcompany  in  general 
Ames.  Torch  Lake,  Mich.__________171

store. 

177

SA LE SM E N   W A N T E D .

Wanted—Show  case  salesman  on  com­
mission  in  every  country  in  the  United 
States.  Makes  good  side  Une.  W rite 
with  reference, 
etc.,  The 
Reid  Manufacturing  Co.,  Detroit,  Mich. 
Mention  this  paper. 

experience, 

167

Wanted—Clothing  salesman 

take 
orders  by  sample  for  the  finest  merchant 
tailoring  produced;  good  opportunity  to 
grow  into  a  splendid  business  and  be 
your  own  “boss.”  W rite  for  full  infor­
mation.  E.  L>.  Moon,  Gen’l  Manager, 
Station  A.  Columbus.  O.___________ *68

to 

A U C T IO N E E R S  A N D   T R A D E R S

The  Hoosier  Hustler—The  noted  mer­
chandise  auctioneer,  now  selling  a  stock 
of  clothing  and  shoes  a t  Afton, 
Iowa. 
For  book  of  references  and  term s  aa- 
dress  Box  17.  __________________ 100
Exceptional—The  Vawter  plan  of  sales 
is  not  only  exceptional,  but  unique.  As 
a  drawer  of  crowds  th at  buy.  It  cer­
tainly  has  no  equal. 
If  you  desire  a 
quick  reduction  sale  th at  will  dose  out 
your  odds  and  ends,  still  leaving  a  profit, 
write  a t  once.  No  better 
time  than 
right  now.  Success  guaranteed.  Best 
of 
references.  L.  E.  Vawter  &  Co., 
Macomb,  HI. 
H.  C.  Ferry  &  Co.,  the  bustling  auc­
tioneers.  Stocks  closed  out  or  reduced 
the  United  States.  New 
anywhere 
methods,  original  ideas,  long  experience, 
hundreds  of  merchants  to  refer  to.  We 
have  never  failed  to  please.  Write  for 
terms,  particulars  and  dates.  1414-16  W a­
(Reference,  Dun s 
bash  ave.,  Chicago. 
___________ 872
Mercantile  Agency.) 

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in 

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155

Wanted—Traveling  position  with  reli­
able  house;  five  years’  success  on  road 
and a hustler.  References the  best.  Shoes 
preferred.  Address  No.  155,  care  Michi- 
gan  Tradesman. 
Wanted—A  young  man  who  has  had 
experience  in  selling  hardwood  In  this 
market  and  has  an  established  trade  and 
from  $1,000  to  $5,000 to invest in the busi­
ness,  to  join  forces  with  a  competent 
book-keeper  and  credit  man,  who  has 
the  same  amount  to  put  into  the  busi­
ness.  Address  Hardwood,  care  Michi­
gan  Tradesman. 
Wanted—Clerks  of  all  kinds  apply  at 
once.  Enclose  self-addressed  envelope 
and  $1  covering  necessary  expense.  The 
Globe  Employment  ft  Agency  Co.,  Cadil­
lac.  Mich. 
Are  you  satisfied  with  your  present  po­
sition  and  salary? 
If  not  write  us  for 
plan  and  booklet.  We  have  openings for 
Managers,  Secretaries,  Advertising  Men. 
Salesmen.  Book-keepers, 
paying 
from  $1,000 
to  $10,000  a  year.  High 
grade .exclusively.  Hapgoods  (Inc.),  Suite 
511,  309  Broadway,  New  York,  _ _ 3 7 _
Agents

etc., 

126

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WHITE today for
o a r  liberal  terms.  H  e 
w ant  a  h ustler  In  your 
tow n to   ta k e  orders for
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