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GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 5, 1898.

NINTH ANNUAL.

Partial Report af the Kalamazoo Con-
vention.

The ninth annual convention of the
Michigan Knights of the Grip, which
was held at Kalamazoo last Tuesday
and Wednesday, was a success in every
respect.

The annual address of President
Hammel is printed in full elsewhere in
this week’s paper.

The report of the Secretary showed a
falling off in membership, as compared
with a year ago, when the total active
membership was 1,853. ‘Che new mem-
bers which have been taken in during
the year number 145, and during the
same time eighteen members have died
and 201 have been dropped because of
delinquency, leaving the present mem-
bership 1,779~a loss of seventy-four
during the year. The receipts of the
death fund during the year were $7,064
and the receipts of the general fund
were $852. The expense of the Secre-
tary’s office was $861.15 and _ the ex-
pense incident to the meetings of the
Board was $187.87,

The Treasurer’s report showed the
total receipts of the general fund to be
$1,742.51 and disbursements $1,240.21,
leaving a balance in the fund of $502. 30.
The receipts of the death fund were
$7,485.59 and thirteen disbursements of
$500 each, leaving $985.59 in the fund
and five death claims still unpaid.

The report of the Legislative Com-
mittee will be found in full on another
page of this week’s issue.

The Committee on President’s Ad-
dress reported as follows:

1, That the Association commend
the spirit of economy which we are as-
sured by the President has actuated all
the doings of the Board of Directors
during the past year and that the trans-
mission of the same spirit be recom-
mended to the Board of 1808 and all
future boards of our Association.

2. That this Association ratify the
recommendation of the President in
that the Secretary and Treasurer be re-
quired to furnish a bond for the faith-
ful performance of the duties of their
respective offices from some one of the
most reliable guaranty associations of
the United States.

3.. That we are gratified that the ‘‘dry
subject’’ of the Lampkin souvenir book
has been satisfactorily settled, and we
congratulate the Association that it is
rid of this troublesome matter, and
recommend that the Association in the
future keep aloof from all such enter-
prises and attend strictly to the busi-
ness for which the Association was or-
ganized.

4. That so much of the address as
relates to the subject of interchangeable
mileage be referred to the Committee
on Resolutions.

5. That so much of the address as re-
lates to the subject of the payment of
death claims of the deceased members
of the Association be referred to the
Board of Directors, with the recom-
mendation that we desire all such
claims honorably considered and paid
as speedily as possible; and we pledge
ourselves to honor all assessments made
on us as individual members of this
Association, to carry out and honorably
maintain this grand feature of our organ-
ization.

6. That we approve of the action of
the Board of Directors in filling the

 

office of Secretary for the unexpired
portion of the term of our lamented
brother, Secretary D. C. Slaght, and
in arranging tbat two-thirds of the sal-
ary received for the remainder of the
year be paid over to his widow for her
use and benefit. To do right and mete
out justice should be the desire and_in-
tent of all individuals and associations.
This action was just and right and we
commend it.

7. _As to the subject of amending the
constitution, we express ourselves. in
hearty sympathy with the views. ex-
pressed by the President in his address,
and would advise that all amendments
proposed to the constitution be carefully
considered and scrutinized and the _ re-
sults weighed well before adopting
same. N. B. JONES,

LAWRENCE VERDON,
M. Howarn.

The report was adopted.

The Committee on Resolutions sub-
mitted the following report:

Whereas, It has pleased Almighty
God to summon by death during the
past year our esteemed brothers, A. B.
Hetwood, E. Averill, Ira D. Durgy,
N. B. Clark, W. H. Sheller, T. H.
Baker, J. C. Myers, A. E. Button, Geo.
C. Fletcher, Aviah Sprague, U. Hoff-
master, J. S. Shaub, W. H. Jewett, J.
D. Davis, J. B. Morehouse, Geo. H.
Reiblet, Wm. P. Hutchins and Dell C.
Slaght,

Resolved, That by death there have
been taken from our membership worthy
and esteemed brothers and that we rec-
ognize our great loss and the still greater
loss to their friends and families.

Resolved, The Michigan Knights of
the Grip, in convention assembled at
Kalamazoo, Dec. 29, 1897, do extend to
the families and friends of our deceased
members our sincere and heartfelt sym-
pathy in their bereavement, and be it
further

Resolved, That a copy of these reso-
lutions be spread upon our minutes and
a copy forwarded to each of the families
of our departed brothers.

Resolved, That the thanks of the
Michigan Knights of- the Grip be and
are hereby tendered to our outgoing
officers for the efficient manner in which
they have carried out the duties of their
various offices during the year 1897.

Kesolved, TLat a vote of thanks be
extended to the municipal officers of
Kalamazoo and citizens in general for
the large-hearted hospitality with which
they have received us and for the uni-
versal kindness which they have ex-
tended to the visiting knights and their
ladies during this convention.

Resolved, That a special vote of
thanks be hereby tendered the ladies of
Post K and the ladies of Kalamazoo in
general for the marked kindness and
courtesy shown visiting ladies during
this convention.

Resolved, That a vote of thanks be
tendered Post K for the excellent man-
ner in which they have taken care of the
officers and members of the Michigan
Knights of the Grip during this conven
tion.

Resolved, That a vote of thanks be
extended to the press of Michigan in
general for the efficient manner in which
they have at all times furthered our
interests,

Whereas, Our Committee on Legisla-
tion, through E. P. Waldron, chair-
man, has made to us a most compre-
hensive report, showing in detail its
efforts in our behalf, and also in be-
half of commercial travelers generally,
to remove objectionable features of the
present interchangeable mileage; and

Whereas, The efforts of the Commit-
tee, through hard. work, tact and
diplomacy, born of experience and

 

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good common sense, have accomplished
nearly all we could desire in the way
of a Michigan mileage book, and

Whereas, This new book will not only
be a great convenience to us and the
firms and corporations we represent, but
marks emphatically a praiseworthy
concession on the part of Michigan
railroads to their patrons, and reveals
anew and signalizes the benefits of
united action for us and characterizes
the Michigan Knights of the Grip as a
potent organization for good work and
reform, ‘Therefore,

Resolved, That the hearty thanks of
the Michigan Knights of the Grip are
due and are hereby tendered our effi-
cient Committee who had this matter in
charge.

Resolved, That the thanks of the
Michigan Knights of the Grip are here-
by tendered the Michigan railroads
named in the report of our Committee
on Legislation for concessions made
thus far in reforms they have promised
to incorporate in the forthcoming in-
terchangeable mileage book to be used
on the railways of this State.

The report was adopted.

Election of officers resulted as follows:

President—John A. Hoffman, Kala-
mazoo.

Secretary—John C. Saunders, Lans-
ing.

Treasurer—Chas. McNolty, Jackson.

Members of Board—Eugene Con-
verse, Jackson; J. W. Schram, Detroit ;
C. H. Smith, Saginaw.

Vice-Presidents for the twelve con-

gressional districts were named as fol-
lows:

1 B.C. Stone, Detroit,

2. J. A. Bassett, Ypsilanti.

3. A. I. Lincoln, Hillsdale.

4. Frank M. Whitbeck, Benton
Harbor.

5. Louis J. Koster, Grand Haven.

6. W. F. Sullivan, Lansing.

7) BE Mix, Daneer.

8. Mark Brown, Saginaw.

9. Geo. Amiotte, Muskegon.
Io. Wm. G. Tapert, Bay City.
. Peck, Traverse City.
. J. Houck, Marquette.
|The Tradesman regrets its inability
to present a detailed report of the con-
vention. A full stenographic report of
the proceedings was taken, and it has
been customary heretofore to furnish
the Tradesman a copy of the transcript.
The editor of the Tradesman made the
usual request of Secretary Saunders at
the close of the convention, and was
assured that the precedent established
in previous years would be pursued this
year. For some reason, however, the
arrangement appears to have been re-
voked, greatly to the regret of the
Tradesman—and the same regret will
be shared by the several thousand trav-
eling men who will naturally refer to
this week's issue of the paper for a full

and complete report of the convention. |
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_Dry Goods

The Dry Goods Market.
Staple Cottons—A good aggregate of
business has heen reported from nearly
all houses handling medium and fine
grade bleach cottons,and there was a de-
cided hardening tendency to be noted
at the close of last week’s business.
Low grade bleach cottons have been dull
and without particular feature. The
Situation in brown sheetings and drills
remains practically the same as when
previously reported. Denims have
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and Ginghams—The most
feature of this line 1s the
light fancy calicoes tor
spring, and the demand has been ot
such an encouraging character that
agents feel pleased with the prospects,
This has been particularly tor the stand-
ard and lower grades, and it is gener-
ally admitted that the standard of price
is about right tor the season.

Prints
promising
market tor

Hosiery—New lines of hosiery will be
opened in about two weeks, and prob-
ably very.few, if any, will be shown be-
fore that time. Some handsome things
in the way of fancies will be placed be-
fore the trade tor buyers and a large
amount of business is expected from
this department. Liberal orders have
been placed tor spring i1mportations and
it seems now as if the market would be
very well supplied. There wiil be more
effort this season made by domestic
manufacturers to produce fancy hosiery,
and some of the samples that have been
shown appear to be very Satisfactory.

Dress Goods-—In the dress goods de-
partment of the woolen market, the
spring trade has been quite a disap-
pointment. The trouble is that nearly
all manufacturers expected to sell about
four times as many goods as they did a
year ago; they have had really no foun-
dation, in tact, on which to base any
such expectation. The chief reason
why the spring business has been so
unsatisfactory is that the retail dry
goods merchants had such a very bad
woolen dress goods season last fall and
have carried over such large stocks that
they are not encouraged to buy heavily
for a season which, even under good
conditions, never amounts to very much
in woolen goods; especially when they
are asked to pay 20 or 25 per cent. ad-
vance. Jobbers, of course, have bought
fair stocks of goods; but their travelers
are not meeting with enough business
as yet to warrant their duplicating.
There is no expectation that the dupli-
cate business on woolen dress goods this
spring will amount to very much. It is
expected that the retail dry goods men
will buy very sparingly, or just enough
new things to tone up their ‘‘carried
over’’ stocks with,and will use the spring
season to clean up their stocks as far as
possible and put themselves in shape to
buy fresh goods for next fall. Indica-
tions are that fall dress goods will not
be opened much before the 15th of
March. Many manufacturers say that all
interests would best be served if open-
ings were delayed until April. The im-
pression seems to be current that dress
goods lines are opened entirely too
early each season. They should be
opened only just early enough to give
the manufacturers a chance to make the

goods in time to be marketed by the
jobbers.

Carpets—Large Western jobbers are
offering extra super ingrains at such low
prices tbat they have induced some
buyers to place larger initial orders in
anticipation of higher prices after Jan,
15, when it is expected that the mills
generally will hold for a further advance
of 2%,@5c per yard, according to the
quality of the goods. The stock of
cheap goods in the hands of jobbers will
at that time have been more generally
distributed and, with the outlook in-
clining more towards higher prices for
raw material, as the spinners are forced
to come in and purchase wool at pres-
ent market values, the manufactuiers
are justified in asking more money for
duplicate orders. Some have already
received sufficient orders to last them
until present stocks of cheap yarns have
been consumed. The cheap grades of
cotton chain ingrains have had a larger
call, as they have not advanced so much
as all wool extra supers. Tapestries

continue active, especially with those |
who are running cut order departments. |

[he present prices are very low in com
parison with yarn, and the many at-
tractive designs this season have in-
duced buyers to give them the prefer-
ence. Axmunsters are sold ahead with
some manufacturers for two mouths
Some lines are offered wholesale at gow
g5c per yard. This has been the price

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Furnish Signed Statements.

In discussing the reasons why a mer-

chant should willingly give a stateme:t

of bis condition when requested to do so

by those who have the right to ask, F. |
of Janey, Semple & Co., |

J. Hopkins,
Minneapolis, Minn., presents the tol-
lowing summary:

1. Because it is a fair, reasonable
and equitable business proposition, that
when one man 1s asking credit of an-
other, involving financial obligations
by the one and possible loss to the
other, he should be willing to show
what basis he has tor the credit asked.

2. For the reason that it invariably
works to the mutuai benefit of both par-
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that in a signed statement, taken trom
the books of the applicant, he has be-
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possible to obtain. He is enabled,
trom what he believes to be the facts, to
determine what line of credit the appli-
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fully and willingly and relieved of that
suspicion that so many times accom-
panies the opening of an account where
only guesswork torms the foundation
for the credit. If he desires an exten-
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little longer line of credit, he gets it,
for he has establisbed a confidence by
his signed statement that nothing else
will secure.

3. The questions asked on most state-
ment blanks are of a nature that not
only show the condition of business, but
tend to indicate the character, prudence
and business sagacity of the man. Many
a merchant has Leen saved a loss, with
his condition much improved, by the
thoughtful and observing credit man
suggesting an increase of insurance, or
a decrease in the rate of interest, ora
cutting down ot indebtedness through
the reduction of surplus stock, or urging
work on the collection of large outstand-
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About Some Women and Their Bon-
nets.

There have been two curious little
stories about women and their bonnets
in the papers lately, concerning which
the paragraphists have made merry.
One was an account of a servant girl
who had saved up out of her earnings
enough money to buy her a comfortable
winter wardrobe. She needed every-
thing in the way of clothing. A good
gown, new shoes, warm underwear and
a hat, and she joyfully started out on
that kind of an excursion that women
call shopping. The first place she
stopped was a millinery store, and in it
she espied the loveliest hat imaginable.
It was a French ‘‘creation’’ of incom-
parable beauty, which she looked upon
and coveted and bought, paying for it
the whole of her savings. More than
that, she put it on and flaunted down
the street in it, peering in at the plate
glass show windows to catch a zlimpse
of herseif, and was insanely and idiotic-
ally vain and happy, until she meta
dear girl friend who called attention,
as girl friends will, to the disparity be-
tween her shabby frock and the gorgeous
millinery that topped it. Then the poor,
silly creature went home and attempted
to take her lite ina frenzy of regret over
her folly and her hat.

The other story is another one of
temptation and yielding to the allur-
ments of French millinery, and_ tells
how a man who had _ been out of work
in Chicago for a long time at last got
a position, and at the end of his first
month’s labor brought home his salary
to his wife. The next evening he re-
turned to his fireside, happy and ex-
pectant of the warm welcome he was to
receive. His wife was out, but presently
she came home with a square box and
a radiant smile. She had been shop-
ping, and she had bought a genuine bar-
gain in a pattern hat that had been
marked down from $25 to $18. She
thought her husband would be delight-
ed, but he wasn’t. He thought about the
bills they owed and he got up and
danced a war dance all over the ‘‘con-
fection,’’ and  strewed feathers and
flowers and jet from Dan to Beersheba.
The woman had him arrested for lu-
nacy, believing that only an insane per-
son could take that attitude towards a
love of a hat, and it was in the police
court that these interesting domestic
facts were brought out.

It is inevitable that men and women
should look at these little stories from
an entirely different point of view. To
a man they mean nothing but the grati-
fication of silly vanity, but a woman
knows that buying a bonnet is really one
of the crucial tests of character. In-
deed, so thoroughly is Ethis recognized
that it is almost a feminine axiom,
**Show me your bonnet, and I will tell
you what kind of a woman you are.’’ It
takes Spartan determination and self-
control and infinite tact to buy the right
kind of a bonnet, and when a woman
sees a sister woman wearing just the
proper sort of a thing on her head, she
immediately gives her credit for pos-
sessing all those admirable virtues.

By some strange misuse of terms it
is a custom to describe the woman who
wears any sort of battered old hat, and
goes in for politics and reforms, as
““strong-minded.’’ The real strong-
minded woman is the one who can go
into a store and not let her fancy run’
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is not so easy as it may appear, nor is
the weakness of buying unsuitable
things confined to silly servant girls.
Luxuries are always so much more de-
sirable than necessities, and every
woman who goes into a millinery shop
is confronted with the same tempta-
tions.

She may have made up her mind _ to
purchase a simple, durable, plain little
hat for every-day wear, but the moment
she enters the shop she beholds a gor-
geous creation of feathers and lace
and flowers and general loveliness, and
altogether the last thing in the world
for which she has any use. She knows
that well enough, and she resolutely
puts it aside. Then she relents and
tries it on, just to see how she would
look in it. It is entrancing, and she
turns with disgust to the little hat which
seems suddenly to have grown shabby
and dowdy. She knows she _ possesses
nothing to wear witb that picture struc-
ture; that it is about four times as
much as she ought to pay, and that there
is no place to which she goes where it
would be appropriate. Even so, but it
is such a love of a hat! Such a dear!
In short, to hurry over all the harrowing
details of the logic by which she con-
vinces herself that a picture hat isa
necessity, if she ever gets out of the
store without the confection and with
the sensible little hat, she is a woman
whose calm judgment and unshaken
determination may be relied on in an
emergency ‘in life.

That this amount of character is to
be looked for in every woman is gen-
erally admitted, so we smile with good-
natured toleration and fellow feeling—
for have we not all been there ourselves?
—at our friends’ millinery mistakes.
Nevertheless, we are quite aware that
there is a language of the hat, and _ that
every woman is an adept at reading it.
Our hats are little straws, even in the
winter, that show which way the winds
of character blow, and that often tell
more than we realize.

Of course, no one needs to be told
that.the woman at the theater who
calmly blocks off the view of the stage
with a hat with forty-seven feathers on
it, until the usher makes her take it off,
is unmitigably _ selfish. Everybody
knows that, but that hat is a dead
straight fip to watch out for your own
interests if you have any dealings with
her. She'll never consider anyone’s
pleasure or interests but her own, and
the hat gives it away. The woman who
wears an elaborate hat with a shabby
gown and rusty shoes is shallow minded
and lacking in good judgment. She's
a woman who will spend the money on
a vase for the parlor that ought to have
bought good roast beef for the family.
She is not the woman to tie to, or to
give your affection to, or to depend on
in time of trouble. She is like one of
the little pleasure boats you see on sum-
mer seas ali canvas and show, without
the proper ballast, and the first hint of
a storm sends her careening over. The
woman over 30 who wears a Sailor hat
is the woman who refuses to accept her
age, and clings with desperate deter-
mination to the semblance of youth
after she has lost the substance. The
elderly woman who wears a jaunty hat,
instead of a decent and appropriate
bonnet, is the one who does not know
how to make the best of circumstances.
She lacks a certain fine sympathy and
love of harmony, and her house is gen-
erally a jumble of conflicting and con-
tradictory ornaments. Oftener than
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omist and a person who does things on
hasty impulse and repents them at lei-
sure. The sallow woman who wears a
pale tan or a grass-green hat is her own
worst enemy. The woman whose hat
is always on crooked, and appears to
have been thrown at her, is the woman
who has no system about her, who never
has a meal on time, or keeps an ap-
pointment, or is ready for anything.
She may be amiable, and intelligent,
and charming, but beware of her, for
she is an aggravation to the soul of the
prompt and orderly.

But the woman whose hat is always
appropriate to the occasion, who ap-
pears in the morning ina trim, neat
affair that wind and weather cannot in-
jure, and that is pinned on so that no
storm can budge it; who knows when
and where to wear her gigantic picture
hats, and look like an adorable seraph
in them, and who knows that the theater,
or a lecture, or a concert is no place to
exploit millinery triumphs—that is she
whose hats proclaim her virtues from
afar. You know, as well as if you had
been told, that she is considerate of the
rights of others, that she is neat, orderly
and businesslike, that she has sound
discretion, and, in a word, is the kind

 

    

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costly Paris pattern bonnet without
reading in it the whole pitiful tragedy
of extravagance, and debt, and misery.
The warden of the Illinois penitentiary
said last year that their wives’ demand
for expensive millinery sent more men
to prison than drink.

Any way you look at the bonnet prob-
lem it is an important one, and one
worth studying. It has a moral side and
an aesthetic side, and should not be
treated in the flippant manner of those
women whose bonnets appear to be ac-
cidents. A hat should never be an in-
judicious indulgence, an inappropriate
afterthought or an_ ill-directed ambi-
tion. It should be an expression of one’s
self, with a slight concession to the
rights of the public.

DorotTuy Dix.
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All Honesty.

Little Russell was taken into the
doctor's office while papa was getting
some medicine for grandma’s rheuma-
tism. There happened to be a parrot
in the room that kept up a constant
clatter.

On the way home, Russell remarked,
‘*Papa, did you see that woman chicken
that kept talking all the time?’’

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Around the State

 

Movements of Merchants.

Coleman—F. A. Niggeman has sold
his jewelry stock to Harry Myers.

Newaygo--A. W. Gleason has opened
a new drug store in the Bailey building.

Menominee—Richard Edling has pur-
chased the drug stock of Ad. Paalzow.

Le Roy—Bert Price has sold his confec-
tionery and cigar stock to Charles
Green.

St. Joseph—Capt. Jas. McDonald has
purchased the grocery stock of H. M.
Stevens.

Bay City—C. W. Thornwaite & Co.
succeed Thornwaite Bros. in the harness
business.

Holland—Peter De Boe has purchased
the candy and confectionery stock of
Will Blom.

Saranac—A. S. Densmore has pur-
chased the R. j. Anderson harness shop
on Main street.

Howell—Henry T. Browning has re-
tired from Wm. McPherson & Sons,
general! dealers.

Detroit—The Wills Creek Coal Co.
has notified the County Clerk that it has
gone out of business.

Detroit—Gillett & Halli are succeeded
in the grain and commission business
by Carson, Craig & Co.

Mendon—Sheldon & Bebee have filed
mortgages aggregating $5,000. They
are extensive grain buyers.

Calumet—The Levin Jewelry Co. has
purchased the jewelry and musical in-
strument stock of R. Bervie.

Port Austin—Robt. E. Hawks suc-
ceeds Hawks & Co. in the furniture,
grain and implement business.

Zeeland—G. & J. J. Van Den Bosch
have opened a clothing and men’s fur-
nishing goods store at this place.

Muskegon—H. A. Wolff, piano dealer,
and W. H. Wilson have formed a co-
partnership for the sale of bicycles.

Lakeview —Lee & Blumberg have em-
barked in general trade at Knotmaul,
two and one-half miles south of this
place.

Manton—Morris Kent, of Kalamazoo,
will erect a grain elevator and cold
storage warehouse at this place in the
spring.

St. Johns—Wm. Bond has purchased
the market building of the St. Johns
Land Co. and will embark in the meat
business.

Ludington—Rohn & Weimer have ut-
tered a chattel mortgage on their shoe
and men's furnishing goods stock to H.
V. Huston.

Vassar—Marvil Ogden, whose grocery
Store was recently closed on a chattel
mortgage, has settled with his creditors
and resumed business.

Menominee—W. H. Dunham has re-
tired from the firm of Lawrence & Dun-
ham, grocers. A. W. Lawrence will
continue the business.

Lyons—Wilkins & Bloss, bakers, have
dissolved partnership. Mr. Bloss will
continue the business and Mr. Wilkins
will return to Lansing.

Otsego—Geo. H. Fisher has _pur-
chased the interest of Byron S. Waters
in the grocery firm of Fisher & Waters
and will continue the business.

Big Rapids—Weisman & Wilinsky,
proprietors of the Chicago department
Store, have dissolved partnership, Mr,
Wilinsky continuing the business.

Paris—J. F. Reed has retired from
the firm of J. F. Reed & Co., dealers
in general merchandise. The business
will be continued by the remaining
partner under the style of J. G. Reed,

 

Northville—Yerkes & Harmon and A,
K. Carpenter have consolidated their
hardware stocks and will hereafter do
business under the firm name of Car-
penter, Yerkes & Harmon.

Benton Harbor—Charles A. Jackson
has been buying furs at this place for a
quarter of a century, but not in eleven
years has he bought as many furs as
during the present fall and early winter.

Portland—Geo. R. Smith, a_ local
jeweler, died recently from lockjaw,
caused by his hand having been caught
In a Cutting box. He had been engaged
in business at this place for over thirty
years,

Grand Ledge—C. J. Tucker and Geo.
Stokes have formed a partnership and
embarked in the undertaking business.
Mr. Stokes will also be employed as
salesman in .the bazaar store of Mr.
Tucker.

Ypsilanti—Geo. C. Bardley, Cashier
of the First National Bank, has resigned

and purchased a half interest in C. W.
Rogers’ book and drug store. His suc-
cessor in the bank will be DD. L.

Quirk, Jr.

Chelsea—The private bank of Reuben
Kempf, of Chelsea, is to be merged in-
to a State bank with a capital stock of
$40,000. Articles of incorporation were
fled with the State Banking Depart-
ment Jan. 4.

Ithaca—Peterson & Walker have ut-
tered a trust deed on their shoe stock
to Geo. Reed, receiver of the First
National Bank, to secure their credit-
ors. It is claimed that the stock will
Inventory $4,600,

Coldwater—The firm of Milnes & Mil-
ler, one of the largest grocery and meat
firms here, has dissolved, George D.
Miller withdrawing. Robert Milnes
and son will continue under the name of
the Milnes Supply Co.

Port Huron—Goodman & Co. have ut-
tered seven chattel mortgages on their
clothing stock, aggregating $8, 280.
Four of the mortgages, amounting to
$5,178, run to relatives—probably for
alleged borrowed money.

Grand Ledge—The stockholders of the
State Savings Bank of Grand Ledge
have decided to discontinue business on
account of inability to make money.
The assets are sufficient to protect de-
positors and stockholders.

Menominee—The Kirby, Carpenter
Company's old store has been closed,
after being opened for ever a quarter of
acentury. The remnant of the gen-
eral stock has been purchased by Abe
Simansky, of Peshtigo.

Casnovia—Albert Norris has retired
from the firm of A. Norris & Son, gen-
eral dealers at this place. Jas. L. Nor-
ris will continue the business. The co-
partnership has been in existence since
Nov. 20, 1882, and the fifteen years
since intervening have been years of
prosperity.

Detroit—Rothschild & Bro. are the
only Americans allowed by the Spanish
government to raise tobacco in Cuba
during the rebellion. They have three
plantations near Guira de Melena,
guarded by Spanish soldiers. The firm
pay and feed the soldiers at their own
expense, and own the forts which the
soldiers occupy.

Freiburgers—The Tradesman stated
last week that A. C. Graham had re-
moved his general stock to Port Huron.
Mr. Graham informs the Tradesman
that he is still doing business at the old
stand, although he has removed his most
valuable stock (his family) to Port
Huron for the winter, as has been his
custom for three years past.

 

Manufacturing Matters.

Flint—The Flint P. Smith Lumber
Co, will start its mill next week and
will operate it during the winter.

Bay City—The French Land & Lum-
ber Co. has contracted to turnish the
Michigan Central Railroad 50,000 ties.

Grand Ledge—N. B. Allen, of Lans-
ing, has purchased the woodworking
department of the carriage business of
Robt. Smith.

Saginaw—The Saginaw Basket Co.
has decided to increase its capital stock
from $30,000 to $50,000. The officers of
1897 were re-elected for the coming
year.

Jackson—The Weeks-Colley Manufac-
turing Co. has opened-a branch office at
114 Wooster street, New York. Geo.
H. Colley will have charge of the
branch.

Vassar—Frank Miller is building a
shingle mill here, and the machinery
is now being put into the building. He
has secured a large quantity of shingle
tumber.

Big Rapids—H. H. Herrenden &
Co. and W. D. Osborn have formed a
partuership for the manufacture of a
sheet iron stove under the firm name of
Herrenden & Co.

Lawndale —Robt. McKinney, of South
Saginaw, has organized a stock com-
pany to manufacture cheese at this
place, the coming season, the factory
io ke erected this winter.

Portland—E, Mayette has merged his
basket factory into a stock company,
with a capital stock of $2,000, all paid
n. New machines will be purchased
and the business increased.

Saginaw—W. B. Mershon says the de-
mand for packing box material is un-
precedented, and for sixty days his firm
has been crowded to the utmost limit to
take care of the orders received.

Mayfield—J. L. Gibbs is getting out
logs as fast as they can be procured.
The mill will start soon and the cut this
season will be 2,000,000 feet of hard-
wood and 1,000,000 feet of cedar.

Jackson—A company will be organ-
ized at this place, witha capital stock
of $20,000, for the purpose of manufac-
turing a slack coal-burning furnace un-
der patents held by N. J. Corey, the in-
ventor.

Manton—Seaman Bros. have leased a
portion of the planing mill of A. Green
& Son and put in a shingle mill with a
capacity of from 70,000 to 80,000 per
day. The product is exclusively cedar
shingles.

Douglas—J. E. Devine has sold his
interest in his new machine for making
Climax baskets to E. E. Weed & Co: ,
who are now sole owners of the patent.
The St. Joseph Iron Works is making
thirteen of the machines, which will be
placed in the Weed factory as soon as
completed.

Manistee—The Buckley & Douglas
people are running good sized camps
at different points along their road, the
Manistee & Northeastern. Now that
the snow roads are good again the, Man-
stee & Grand Rapids bas full trains at
work, and is hauling up to the Capacity
of the rolling stock.

Manchester—The Manchester cheese
factory opened just a year ago and since
then has used 1,345,599 pounds of
milk, which made 135,462 pounds of
cheese, which realized $10,474.71. The
old officers were re-elected as follows:
B. G. English, President; Ed. E.
Root, Secretary; Frank Spafard, Treas-
urer; E. S. Hagaman and H. Calhoun,
Managers.

 

Saginaw—The Saginaw Valley Lum-
ber & Salt Co. bas sold and shipped
21,000,000 feet of lumber from its mill
and yard the last season. The company
will bave a tull stock for its mill for
next season’s run.

Detroit—The Sun Vapor Stove Co.
has been incorporated with a paid-up
capital stock of $100,000. The stock-
bolders, all of Detroit, are: Edward G,
Mummery, 7,500 shares; Wm. G. Hastle
and Robert S. Hutton, 1,000 shares
each; N. S. Wright, 500 shares.

Detroit—The Detroit Meter Co., cap-
ital stock $100,000, all paid in, filed ar-
ticles of association Monday. The stock
is held as follows: Theodore D. Buhl,
2,445 shares; same, as trustee, 50;
Chas. H. Jacobs, 1,936; same, as trus-
tee, 5,010; Jefferson M. Thurber, 299;
Albert P. Jacobs, 60.

Port Huron—C. H. Farman and J. S.
Messacar, proprietors of the Riverside
Canning Co., of Wallaceburg, Ont.,
have spent the past few days in the city
trying to organize a stock company with
a view to starting a factory in North
Port Huron, They ask for $4,000 local
capital, half of which has already been
subscribed.

Bay City—The increased demand for
shingles during the fall has given this
commodity quite a boom, and _ stock is
moving as rapidly as cars can be ob-
tained to ship the stuff away. The local
stocks are exhausted, and the interior
mills are being drawn upon by local
dealers. A large quantity of shingle
timber will be put in during the winter.

Dowagiac —A milling company here
annually furnishes the Russian Jews in
Chicago with flour during the Feast of
the Passover. The Rabbi of Chicago
and A. Harris are now at Dowagiac
Superintending the manufacture of 1,000
barrels, which will have their mark of
approval when shipped. Everything
used in the manufacture is specially
prepared.

Coldwater—A stock company will
shortly be formed for the manufacture
of a rowboat which is the invention of
Levi Monroe, of this place, and it is
expected that 500 boats will be placed
on the market by May 1. The boats will
be made in two sizes, the smaller boat
being capable of carrying from four to
Six persons, and the larger from six to
eight. They will be constructed of
cedar, pine, spruce, cottonwood and
whitewood, and by an arrangement of
air-tight compartments, the capsizing
or sinking of the craft is rendered im-
possible.

Manistee—The question of hardwood
is going to be quite a puzzling one the
coming season. There seems to be an
apathy in that line displayed by our
mill men which has not been present
for several years past. The fact is,
there has been no money in hardwoods,
The price of the logs has been run up
by specialty manufacturers. Bicycles
need rock elm; hoops soft elm—and_ so
it goes until a mill man cannot weil
buy a log and get out whole. Asa
Consequence, there is not going to be
half a crop of hardwood harvested, in
this section at least, and if a like con-
dition prevails at other points the effect
on general trade ought to be beneficial.
Again, the small operators have been
well squeezed the past few years, and
have no money with which to do any
logging or sawing unless somebody fur-
nishes the money, and that somebody else
else does not seem to be forthcoming.

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Gillies N. Y. Clearance Tea Sale now
on. Phone Visner, 1589,

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Grand Rapids Gossip

Sikkema & Mobhrhard have sold their
meat market at 242 East Fulton street
to R. Gifford.

 

 

F. Hendley has opened a _ grocery
store at 360 Ellsworth avenue. The Ball-
Barnhart-Putman Co. furnished the
stock, i

 

A. R. Dravenstadt has engagedin the
grocery business at Eagle. The stock
was furnished by the Ball-Barnhart-Put-
man Co.

Dennis Bros. have established an
office at Central Lake for the purchase
of hardwood logs, which will be sawed
at the mill of Geo. Bradford.

C. E. Kellogg has purchased the drug
stock of Mrs. Laura Oliver at 702 Madi-
son avenue and consolidated it with his
own drug stock at 693 Madison avenue.

W. R. Brice & Co. inform the
Tradesman that they will open their
branch house in Grand Rapids about
March 15, and if the results are as_sat-
isfactory as they expect they will be,
the arrangement will be madea per-
manent one. This would be a great con-
venience to Michigan dealers and ship-
pers, as it would furnish a responsible
outlet for a large quantity of eggs which
now go to other markets.

Sneak tite cane
The Grocery Market.

Tea—Holders are very firm in their
ideas, and are not anxious to sell, even
at full prices. It is impossible to get
concessions from anybody. There is
no reason to change the prophecy that
the coming months ought to show a
good tea trade and considerable ad-
vances.

Coffee—The tone of the New York
market has been somewhat unsettled.
There seems, however, to be a fairly
confident feeling expressed over the im-
mediate prospects for trade and prices,
there having been more of a disposition
shown to place credence in the crop
damage reports from Santos, and with
prices on their present low basis it is
figured thatthe market will be especial-
ly sensitive to adverse developments,
particularly of the nature of crop dam-
age, which naturally means a reduced
yield. The steadily increasing con-
sumption of coffee has been a factor
that has attracted much attention in the
trade.

Dried Fruits—The consuming re-
quirements for the winter so far have
been large. Stocks of all descriptions
in distributors’ hands are reported to
be unusually small for the season, and
holders are looking for a good business
after the turn of the year.

Canned Goods—Tomatoes bave ad-
vanced 5@7' per dozen over last
week’s prices. Further advances seem
likely. Corn is firm, in sympathy with
tomatoes, although no actual advance
has occurred. Peas are not selling, and
won't until late in the spring. There
is no demand for peaches, which rule at
unchanged prices.

Syrups and Molasses—There has been
more or less enquiry for pure sugar
syrup, which is more or less scarce, but
as yet rules at unchanged prices. The
expected advance in glucose, which
would affect the compound-syrup mar-
ket, has not yet occurred, but may dur-
ing the coming week. The demand for
syrup is rather below the normal for
this season, owing to the warm weather.
There has been some little demand for
choice molasses during the ,_week.

 

These are tolerably scarce, but fancy
open kettles are very scarce. Prices are
as yet unchanged, but advances in fine
goods are expected.

Provisions—The market is very firm
and prices are advancing daily. The
principal cause of this is the strong
foreign demand, which is making prices
at present.

Fish—Mackerel is selling right along,
although not in very large lots, and
practically all of the demand is at pres-
ent speculative. An advance of 50c@
$1 per barrel is likely during the next
few days. Cod is selling slowly, but is
firm. Neither herring nor lake fish are
selling. Salmon is quiet, with un-
changed prices. Sardines are looking
up still, although the demand is not
very heavy.

Rice—Business has been quiet, as with
few exceptions trade is waiting until
after inventory before making purchases
beyond immediate wants. Prices of
domestic grades are unchanged.

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The Produce Marketi.

Apples—Michigan grown Northern
Spys are in moderate request at $3.25@
3.50 per bbl. The quality 1s far from
choice. Ozarks and Etrus, from Arkan-
sas, fetch $4.

Bananas—The special holiday demand
cleaned the market up close on fancy
fruit. Values are very frm. The poor
and medium goods are going out to
local peddlers.

Beets—25c per doz.

Butter—The few weeks immediately
succeeding the first of the year usually
witness considerable dulness and some-
what of an accumulation of butter, but
it is hard to predict what will happen
this year. This depends entirely on the
weather and on the demand. At this
writing the market is better cleaned up
than usual. Fancy dairy is firm at 16c,
while factory creamery is stationary at
2IC,

Cabbage—The market is without
change, choice stock commanding only
$2.50 per Ioo.

Carrots—25c per bu.

Celery—1o@12'%c per bunch, accord-
ing to size and quality.

Cheese—Supplies of full cream goods
are rather in excess of the immediate
call. Occasional offers are made to job
under quotations, but the concessions
are not liberal enough to encourage buy-
ing to any extent.

Cranberries—Cape Cods and Jerseys
command $7.50. Quite liberal sup-
plies are in sight, and the movement is
satisfactory.

Eggs—The market is firm. The re-
ceipts of fresh eggs have been about
sufficient to supply the demand at firm
prices. There has been an increase in
the receipts of fresh eggs during the
past week. On account of the grow-
ing scarcity of good held eggs, the de-
mand is being diverted more to the
fresh receipts, which prevents any de-
cline in the fresh-egg market, the mar
ket holding firm at 2I1c, while storage
stock fetches 16c for candled and 11@13c
for case count.

Honey—12c for white comb and ric
for dark.

Lemons—Supplies are fully equa! to
the demand. Values hold to same fig-
ures quoted last week. California stock
is torging rapidly to the front.

Lettuce—12c per lb. for hot house
stock.

Onions—Red and yellow command
85c for No. 1 stock and 75c for com-
mon. Spanish are still in market, com-
manding $1.75 per crate.

Oranges—Country buyers are showing
more confidence in oranges, and proved
it by buying freely for the holiday trade.
Stock so far has given good satisfaction
for early receipts, and with the reason-
able prices promised through the bal-
ance of the season, handlers look for
an extra large consumption.

Potatoes—Local dealers hold their
supplies at 55c. There is no particular
change in the market.

Sweet Potatoes—Kiln dried Illinois
Jerseys have declined to $3.50. Genu-
ine Jerseys are entirely out of market.

 

Proper Province of the National
Savings Banks.

and

The announcement originally made
in the Tradesman last week that two of
the National banks were seriously con-
sidering a reduction in capital,and that
the early expiration of several of the
bank charters was giving rise to rumors
of consolidations, caused much discus-
sion in business and banking circles.
The committee appointed by the Na-
tional City Bank has, since then, re-
ported adversely on the question of re-
duction. In the Old National the ques-
tion has not been under formal consid-
eration by the directorate as yet, and,
of course, no action has been taken. As
explained last week, the proposed re-
ductions and possible consolidations are
based on the large amounts of money
the banks are carrying and the impos-
sibility, in these days of more conserva-
tive business methods and debt-paying,
to keep it profitably employed. The
law requires the National banks to keep
a reserve of 20 per cent. of the deposits
and the savings banks must have a re-
serve cf 15 percent. A consolidated
report of the condition of the banks on
December 15 shows a reserve of about
40 per cent., and in some individual
cases it reaches 50 per cent., and this
large excess over what the law and pru-
dence requires is proving burdensome.
A large proportion of the deposits are
in certificates of deposit or savings ac-
counts and bear interest. After paying
interest on the deposits, the expenses
of running the banks and the taxes, the
margin of profits for the banks is too
narrow to be satisfactory. It is pos-
sible, while this banking question is
under consideration, that suggestions
from the Tradesman may not be in or-
der, but one little one will be offered.
The bank statements show that the four
savings banks are doing a purely com-
mercial husiness, in loans and dis-
counts, to the amount of $2,025,450.76.
If the savings banks would go out of the
commercial business entirely and con-
fine themselves strictly to a savings
business, it would relieve the banking
situation materially. The five
National banks in this city, with a total
capital of $2,200,c00, have ample cap-
ital to do all the purely commercial
business and the National banking law
confines them very closely to this partic-
ular line. The savings hanks, however,
have a wider range and can invest 1p
mortgages, stocks and bois —in fact,
are required to do so to the extent of a

Very

certain per cent. of their deposits. The
commercial business brings a higher
rate of interest and the money turns

more rapidly, but the expenses are
heavier, the losses are more frequent
and it is difficult, even with proper
prudence in making loans, to keep the
money out in times like these, when
general curtailment is the order. If
the savings banks would confine them-
selves as closely as possible to mortgages
and bonds or collateral loans, it would
be safer for them, better for the
National banks and more satisfactory
to the stockholders. The savings banks
are vow all of them in the field for
mortgages, but much private capital is
also in the field for mortgage invest-
ments, and the market is pretty well
stripped of desirable loans of this char-
acter, especially as the tendency now is
to pay, not to contract, mortgages. The
savings banks, however, could very
profitably invest their money in bonds—
municipal, county, state—and high
grade industrials. Municipal bonds
are offered at from 4 to 6 per cent., de-

 

pending upon the size of the munici-
pality and of the loans and the length of
time they have to run. Industrials of
high grade can readily be had at rates
that will net from 4 to 6 per cent., and
will average 5 per cent. or better. The
bonds usually run for long periods and
the only expense in doing a bond busi-
ness is storage and clipping the cou-
pons. An examination of the bank
statements shows that the four savings
banks carry mortgages, bonds and stocks
to the amount of only $1,694,961, while
their loans and discounts, as stated, ex-
ceed $2,000,000. The deposits aggre-
gate $4, 243,461.38, and of these deposits
$3,073,045.03 iS in certificates or sav-
ings accounts and bear interest. The
interest rate is 3 per cent., but as many
of the deposits are withdrawn before
the end of the interest periods, the net
rate will hardly average 2% per cent.
If the savings banks would _ confine
themselves to a purely savings business,
it is not difficult to figure out how they
would fare. Deducting the 15 per cent.
reserve required by law, the banks
would have $3,606,942 available for in-
vestment. If this were invested in 5
per cent. mortgages and bonds, or se-
curities that netted an average of 5 per
cent., the revenue would be $180, 347. Io.
Interest at the rate of 2% per cent. on
the savings deposits and certificates
would amount to $76,826.12, and, de-
ducting this from the revenue would
leave $103,520.98 for expenses and divi-
dends. No account 153 taken in this of
the earnings of the $450,000 capital stock
ot the banks. If confined to mortgages,
bonds and collateral loans, the savings
bank business would be clean and easy
to handle, free from losses and with ex-
penses reduced to a minimum. The
Wayne County Savings Bank of Detroit
is an example of this kind. It was
started in 1872 with $100,000 capital,
and the book value of its stock to-day is
between $450 and $500. Its commercial
business does not average $100,000, but
its capital and deposits are invested in
bonds and mortgages, and the dividends
on the stock run up to something like
25 per cent. a year, with an occasional
extra dividend; and, in addition, it
pays the taxes. Ifthe savings banks in
this city would pursue the same policy
there would be less complaint of an
oversupply of ready money and_ stock-
holders, both state and National, would
be better satisfied with results. This
suggestion to the saving bankers is_ en-
tirely gratuitous, but it is one they might
find itto their interest to consider.
e-em —
Hides, Pelis, Wool and Furs.

The demand for hides is greater than
the supply, but prices are too high for
tanners’ use with the slight advance
they have been able to obtain on
leather. The situation is still a conun-
drum to both dealers and tanners of
light stock, as the supply Is so limited,
and tariff or no tariff cuts little figure.

Pelts are something desired by pull-
ers, but few are to be had at any price.

Furs are in good supply at good
prices, as compared with the past few
years. Exporters are not So anxious as
they were while awaiting the opening
sales in London on Jan. 8, which will
determine future prices.

Wool is firm, with considerable being
sold. There is some enquiry for fleece
in the West. The question of supply is
an important one, which will be deter-
mined by the outside world supply by
the prices ruling at the coming London
sales. Wn. T. Hess.

 

 

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

ANNUAL ADDRESS

Of President Hammel to the Michigan
Knights of the Grip.

Accerding to the custom adopted by
our first President, and followed by all
the Presidents who have preceded me,
I hereby submit my annual address:

We have convened to-day to transact
the business of the ninth annual con-
vention of our grand organization. We
assemble in the beautiful Celery City
in response to an invitation extended
us by Post K and the Mayor of the city
of Kalamazoo. Our mission here to-day
1s to review the work of the past year
and to instruct our officers in carrying
out our wishes for the year to come.

I have striven to show my apprecia-
tion of the honor you conferred upon
me at Detroit last year, when you unan-
imously elected me to fill the respon-
sible position of President, by doing
all in my power to advance the inter-
ests of our organization. I have devoted
much time and attention to the duties
of the office, which is necessary for a
person to do who holds the position of
President.

As chairman of the Board of Direct-
ors, I wish to report that the members
of that body have looked after the inter-
ests of our organization earnestly and
carefully, having at all times in view
the welfare of the members and the pro-
tection of the widows and orphans of
the members who have passed away.
We have conducted the affairs of the
Association on an economical plan, not
expending a cent unless absolutely
necessary, and not even carrying out
some of the instructions given us by the
convention in regard to the sending of
two delegates to attend the convention
of commercial travelers held at Nash-
ville last summer. Your Committee on
President's Address at the convention
last year recommended that the Presi-
dent of 1897 and the President of 1896
be appointed a committee to attend said
convention, which recommendation was
adopted by the convention. Your Board
of Directors, thinking it an expense we
should not incur, notified the Committee
that if they attended the convention they
should go at their own expense, and as
the ‘‘wave of prosperity’’ promised by
President Symons last year bas not yet
struck me, at least one of that Com-
mittee did not attend the convention.
By being economical in all things it has
not been necessary to transfer any
moneys from the death fund to the gen-
eral fund, as provided for in the con-
stitution.

A resolution was adopted by the
Board, requiring the Secretary and
Treasurer to give a guarantee bond, the
provisions of which were enforced, the
Seeretary and Treasurer each giving
such a bond.

I would recommend that the Board of
Directors, in the future, require the
Secretary and Treasurer to give such a
bond, as, in my judgment, that is the
only reliable security against losses
which may occur.

At the first meeting of the Board of
Directors, we had a very pressing invi-
tation from Kalamazoo, also one from
Port Huron, to locate the convention in
the respective cities. It would have
been a pleasure te accept both, but as
we could locate the convention in
but one place, and as Kalamazoo had
extended us an invitation last year, a
majority of the Board voted for Kalama-
zoo, and the convention was located
here in the midst of the great celery
fields of the country.

The much-talked-of and very unpleas-
ant question, the Lampkin souvenir
book, has been closed, ex-Treasurer
Frost having settled the matter up,
realizing $200 from same, which he
turned over to Treasurer McNolty, who
has placed the amount to the credit of
the general fund.

This is the first time in the history of
the. organization we could say that we
have an interchangeable mileage book,
and it has been secured by the earnest
and effective work of your chairman of
the Legislative Committee, E. P. Wal-
dron. He has spent time and money in
his efforts to obtain from the railroads

 

 

a mileage book good on all Michigan
roads, and he has been successful in
having one issued good on all the
principal roads of the State, except the
Grand Trunk system. After many meet-
ings of the Central Passenger Associa-
tion, the mileage book, with all the
objectionable features, such as exchang-
ing mileage for tickets at the ticket
office, rechecking baggage at junction
points, paying $30 for a thousand mile
book and waiting until after the book is
used up and the cover returned when
Sto is refunded, etc., was issued. It is
needless to say that this book was a
great disappointment to the members
of the Michigan Knights of the Grip,
who .had reason to expect better treat-
ment at the hands of the railroads: but
through the vigorous opposition reg-
istered against it by nearly every mem-
ber of our Association and the earnest
efforts of Mr. Waldron, the Michigan
roads have decided to issue a thousand
mile book, with all the objectionable
features eliminated, with the exception
of paying $30, with a $10 rebate. This
book will be issued about January 1 and
will be accepted as fare on the following
roads: Michigan Central; Lake Shore;
Detroit, Grand Rapids & Western:
Chicago & West Michigan; Grand
Rapids & Indiana; Flint & Pere Mar-
quette; Ann Arbor; Detroit & Macki-
naw; Manistee & Northwestern; Pitts-
burg & Lake Erie and the Nickel Plate.
While I do not endorse the principle of
paying $20 in advance for transportation
and depositing $1o for the privilege of
doing so, yet I must say that such a
book will be a great advantage to our
members over the old plan of buying a
thousand mile book on each road
traveled over, thus necessitating an _in-
vestment of from $60 to $100 by each
member. I am cognizant of the fact
that your Legislative Committee and
the Board of Directors have been
severely criticised for not having ob-
tained a book sooner; but let me as-
sure you, the delay has not been caused
by any fault of theirs. You must re-
member that it is slow business getting
several railroad companies to agree to
do business together on a uniform plan,
with each one having its individual
ideas, and it was only brought about by
earnest, hard work. When the first
book was issued, one of the principal
objections, that interchangeable mileage
could not be audited, was at once re-
moved. in the new book we have re-
moved the objection that conductors
cannot be trusted to take out mileage
on the train; and I think, with the
same efforts continued, it will not be
long until the railroads will admit. that
it 1s not necessary fora traveling man
to deposit $10 as a guarantee that he
will not transfer his ticket to some other
person.

While the amendment to the constitu-
tion which draws the line very closely in
regard to applicants has affected the in-
crease of membership quite materially,
yet we have admitted this year about
150 active members and 140 honorary
members; but as times have been hard,
many of our members have been thrown
out of their positions or put on commis-
sion, and have not been able to keep up
their assessments, so that the new mem-
bers have been offset by the numbers
dropped out, leaving our membership
about the same as it was last year.

Eighteen of our members have been
removed by death, which is the largest
number in the history of our organiza-
tion in any one year. However, it has
not been necessary to increase the
number of assessments. We bave made
three assessments—the same number as
last year—and the proceeds of No. 3,
which is being paid very promptly, will
adjust all claims against the organiza-
tion.

November 18, our Secretary, Brother
D. C, Slaght, who was a competent and
faithful officer, was removed by death,
which left a vacancy in the office of
Secretary. Your Board of Directors was
somewhat at a loss to know what course
to pursue, as Brother Slaght had per-
formed the duties of the office for ten
months of the year and had not received
any commission on scarcely any of the
dues. Finally, a resolution was adopted,

 

providing that the Secretary appointed
to fill the vacancy should receive one-
third of the proceeds of the office for
the remainder of the year and that Mrs. |
Slaght, widow of our late Secretary,
should receive two-thirds. This deci
sion was arrived at in compliance with
Article ro, Section 1 of the constitu-
tion, which reads as follows:

The Secretary shall receive an annual
salary of one-fourth of the amount re-
ceived for dues from members and 5 per
cent. of all assessments collected and
placed to the credit of the beneficiary
fund.

This resolution was not adopted in
view of making any donation to Mrs.
Slaght, it being the amount justly due

 

 

her according to services rendered and
by the provisions of the constitution I |
have quoted.

The Board appointed J. C. Saunders |
to fill the vacancy, who accepted on the |
terms provided for in the resolution, |
and I wish to state that we are very for- |
tunate in securing the services of so/|
competent and faithful a man as Brother
Saunders. An assessment was ordered |
issued at once, the printed matter for |
same not having been ordered until he |
assumed charge of the office, but he gave |
the matter his personal attention and |
rushed out the assessments and invita- |
tions and attended to the other duties of |
the office in a businesslike manner.
The thanks of the members are due him
for the interest he has taken in the |
office, and right here I wish to thank
bim, personally, for the earnest and
faithful services rendered in finishing
up the work of the year.

I wish to thank Treasurer McNolty
for the kindness he has shown me and
for his earnest work in the interests of
the organization during the year. He
has been a very careful and painstaking
officer.

I wish to thank each and every mem-
ber of the Board of Directors for the
many courtesies shown me during the
year.

In regard to the amendent to the con-
stitution, I would recommend that you
be very careful in changing the consti-
tution. While some slight changes thay
be necessary, I think the constitution is
about what we need for this Association.
The tacking on of an accident insur-
ance feature or increasing the death
benefit would, in my judgment, result
disastrously. I would recommend that

 

the proposed amendment, which pro-

vides that the Secretary shall be ap-
pointed by the Board of Directors, be
not adopted. I can see no good reason
why the members who are interested
enough to attend conventions are not
as competent to elect the Secretary as
is the Board of Directors. There are
enough safeguards thrown around the
organization, aS in case a man was
elected to the office of Secretary or
Treasurer who was not competent, or for
any other. reason not thought to he the
proper person for the position, the
Board has the power to remove him, as
provided in Article 5, Section IV.,
which reads as follows:

They (meaning the Board of Direct-
ors) shall have power to remove the
Secretary and Treasurer for cause after
due hearing by a majority vwete of the
Board. And they shall also have power
to fill any vacancy thus made until the
annual meeting of the Association.

In conclusion, I wish to thank each
and every member of the Michigan
Knights of the Grip for the kindness
shown me during the year. I fully
realize the honor you have conferred
upon me in electing me to all the hon-
orary positions .in the Association—
Vice President, member of the Board of
Directors and President—from the bot-
tom to the top of the ladder, unsolicited
by me and always without a dissenting
vote. This is an honor of which any
one should feel proud, and I assure you
that no one could appreciate the com-
pliment more than I do; and, as I turn
over the gavel to my successor and _ re-
turn to the ranks, I will still have the
same interest in the welfare of the As-
sociation and shall always be ready to
do anything in my power for the inter-
est and promotion of our grand argani-
zation.

In your deliberations during this con-
vention I ask you to be courteous with
each other. If any of the members wish
to criticise the actions of any of the
officers, do it ina gentlemanly manner
and, I assure you, you will have an op-
portunity to express yourselves on any
and all subjects pertaining to the Asso-
Clation.

The contest for the offices mav be
sharp, but let it be pleasant. Elect
good men, and remember that there can
be but one man elected to each office,
and if your choice is not made, do not
be disappointed or provoked, but accept
gracefully the will of the majority.

 

   
 

    
   

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7

 

Annual Meeting of the Michigan Com-
mercial Travelers’ Association.

Detroit, Dec. 31—The Michigan
Commercial Travelers’ Association held
its annual meeting in the Merrill block
yesterday, electing new officers and dis-
cussing several matters pertaining to the
railroads. It was expected that the
mileage book recently adopted would be
dissected, but attention to it was con-
fined to the report of the Railroad Com-
mittee. The Committee agreed that the
mileage book issued during the past
year did not have a redeeming feature,
and while the members considered that
the book for 1898 will show some im-
provements, they say it has many de-
fects. The $10 rebate scheme was con-
demned as unjust and unconstitutional,
but the Association has no money to
spend on lawsuits and it seemed to be
the general opinion that if the mileage
ticket did not meet the favor of mem-
bers, all they could do would be not to
use it. Several announced that they had
already refused to use a rebate book.

There were about seventy-five mem-
bers present, and some of those residing
outside of Detroit protested vigorously
against the expense of maintaining a
club room. Some caustic remarks were
made, one member claiming that the
Secretary devoted his time to watching
billiard games instead of hunting up
new members. The Detroit members
insisted that this social feature induced
commercial travelers to join and that
private subscriptions entered largely
into the maintenance of the club rooms.
The protests were finally laid on the
table and the billiard tables will not be
removed.

During the afternoon session a com-
mittee from the Ticket Broker’s Asso-
ciation succeeded in bringing up a dis-
cussion of the anti-scalping bill and
urged that the Association place itself
on record as opposed to it. The bill
was declared to be in the line of class
legislation and several warm speeches
were made against it. One or two
speakers wanted to defer action, but
they were sat upon and the President

 

was empowered to appoint a commit-
tee of three to draft resolutions express-
ing the sentiment of the Association
against the bill. He named M. J. Mat-
thews, J. A. Murray and J. W. Ailes.
The committee was instructed to present
their report to the Board of Trustees
not later than January 2. The offer of
the brokers to pay for getting up the
resolutions was refused.

A communication from the National
Convention Legislation Committee, of
Syracuse, N. Y., asking that a commit-
tee of two be appointed to meet with
them tor the purpose of pushing cer-
tain bills, was laid on the table as no
one seemed to know anything about
such an organization.

The report of the Treasurer showed
that the Association is in excellent
financial condition, the receipts for the
year having been $37, 397.24, and the ex-
penditures, $19,297 24. The Association
pays a death benefit of $2,500 and that
amount was placed in the beneficiary
fund to take care of the next death:
$3,500 was placed to the credit of the}
expense account, while the reserve fund |
contains $15,245.24 The membership |
of the Association is 550 |

The election of officers resulted as
follows:

President—Chas. C. Snedeker.

Vice-Presidents—D. C. Barber, De
troit; A. D. Baker, Grand Rapids; R.
P. Bigelow, Owosso; W.’ H. Eldred,
Battle Creek; D. C. Clement, Chicago.

Board of Trustees—S. H. Hart, J. A. |
Murray, G. B. Hutchings.

Trustees of Reserve Fund—G. W.
Edson and J. J. Alley.

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Willard G. Day, of Baltimore, Md.,
claims to have discovered a process of
making butter direct from grass with-
out the usual intervention of the cow.
The butter is claimed to have the odor
of ‘‘grass’’ or ‘‘spring butter,’’ and
retains the garlic flavor when the prod-
uct is secured from pastures containing
wild garlic; it is also claimed that the
butter will keep longer than that made
from milk.

 

 

One Victory Won, Another Struggle
Begun.

St. Johns, Jan. 3—I was looking over
the Tradesman of Dec. 1 to-day and
noted an article which referred to the
resolutions passed by the Board of Di-
rectors of the Michigan Knights of the
Grip and also those passed by the
Posts. I think we did not go too far in
merely thanking the roads for what they
had done and had promised to do. I
have seen the Thrall ticket and, in my
opinion, the scheme of signing a pad on
the train while the conductor is pulling
the mileage is practicable and as the
slips to be signed are numbered con
secutively, it is a check—and as good
as could be expected—on all concerned.
Of course, we know that interchange-
able mileage is the kind of mileage
which must come to us voluntarily, as
no law can force you and me to change
notes; neither can one road be com
pelled to take another’s mileage; but
interchangeable mileage is the most
convenient mileage known to com-
mercial travelers, and it is my predic-
tion that it will be very popular, now
that the main objectionable features are
removed.

Later on I would like to see 250
pounds of excess baggage allowed with
this particular ticket. Of course, I
know that railroads cannot discriminate
between persons, but they can allow
concessions with certain kinds of trans
portation and, if they feel like favoring

| the commercial traveler, they can make

the extra Ioo pounds to be allowable
upon the interchangeable ticket, which

is properly the commercial man’s
ticket. E. P. WALDRON.
7 ——

Detroit Lifts Its Hat to Kalamazoo.

Detroit, Jan. 3—Will you kindly per-
mit the use of your valuable paper to
give expression to the high apprecia-
tion we feel for the magnificent man-
ner in which the members of our Post
and the accompanying ladies were en-
tertained at the ninth annual conven-
tion of Michigan Knights of the Grip,

beld in Kalamazoo by Post K in par-
ticular and citizens of Kalamazoo in
general.

We feel that this card of thanks but
feebly expresses the gratitude we feel
for the innumerable courtesies extended
to us, and we beg tu assure members of
Post K and their ladies that the re-
membrance of their delightful personal-
ities will never be erased from the tab-
lets of our memory.

Should our city at any future time be
honored with another convention of the
Michigan Knights of the Grip, we
pledge ourselves that citizens of Kala-
mazoo can walk right into our hearts
and homes. P. WALSH,

M. HOWARN,
J. W. ScHray,
Jno. McLean,
Committee of Post C.
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Post H Enjoys a Social Session.

Port Huron, Jan. 3—Post H, Michi-
gan Knights of the Grip, held its first
annual social gathering at the Hotel
Harrington on New Year's eve, a large
number of knights and their ladies be-
ing present. A reception was held from
8 until 9:30 o’clock, after which drive
whist was indulged in. At 10 o'clock,
Manager Webster invited the guests to
the elegant dining room, where a splen-
did supper was served. John C. Smith,
President of the Post, présided. At
12:15 o'clock the knights and_ their
ladies again repaired to the parlors and
card playing was continued until near-
ly 2 o’clock.

Post H_ has thirty-six members and
their first party was a complete suc-
cess. D. H. Webster piaced the hotel
at the disposal of the boys and did
everything possible to make the party
a success. He was given a vote of
thanks by the Post.

F. N. MosHEr, Sec’y.
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ERA OF AMERICAN GREATNESS.

There is something animating, if not
inspiring, in the promise of American
supremacy in the twentieth century.
That phrase, as everybody understands,
really means the hegemony, the leader-
ship, of the United States as the most
powerful, or, at all events, as the most
influential, of nations. The people of
the United States are spoken of as ‘‘the
Americans,’’ not only because of their
numerical superiority and the vast. ex-
tent of their territory, but more es-
pecially, perhaps, because their Nation-
al life, more than that of any other
American people, is peculiarly their
own, and their social and political insti-
tutions exhibit the widest departures
from the models furnished by the Old
World. There was a fair field for com-
petitive enterprise here at the outset
from one end of the hemisphere to the
other. The maritime powers of Furope
were naturally attracted to continents of
unascertained limits and unexplored re-
sources. The boldest spirits of Italy,
Spain, France, England and Holland
flocked hither, fascinated by the chances
of fame, fortune or romantic adven-
ture. There was room enough for all,
but between the nations, at least tor
more than one century, there was a strug
gle for the survival of the fittest. If,
after so long a time, the people of the
United States are secure in their lead-
ership of aJl ‘‘the Americas,’’ it must
be admitted that there is some justice
in that award of history which names
them, by eminence, ‘‘the Americans.’’

Moreover, the people of the United
States have constituted themselves the
special champions and exponents of the
democratic idea in the New World.
They have not only established under
the jurisdiction of their own lawsa
refuge for the oppressed of all lands,
but they have extended a general pro-
tection over every American republic,
great or small, against the menace of
interference and coercion from any of
the governments of the Old World.
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open to colonization in North, South, or
Central America, and, further, that all
American peoples must be left entirely
free to determine for themselves the
form of the government under which
they shall live. That undertaking must
impress intelligent students as the most
considerable, and possibly as the most
significant, national, engagement of

 

which history bears record. But it has
been taken, as it has been asserted,
seriously, and it will probably be re-
spected until the time comes when it
will be no longer necessary.

In other respects, the diplomacy of
the Government of the United States
has been for the most part conservative.
Prudently observing the wise counsel of
the first President, it has so far avoided
entangling alliances with European na-
tions. The feeling, now becoming prev-
alent, that for the future the United
States must make its influence more
widely and deeply felt in the great fam-
ily of nations is, probably, mainly at-
tributable to a dawning consciousness
of the fact that the material necessities
of the people of this country, under the
altered conditions of a new economic
era, demand a more rapid commercial
expansion. It was first of all necessary
to conquer the land itself and develop
its resources; but this part of the New
World has grown old at last, and the
people of the United States can no
longer afford to neglect even the most
distant markets. They possess all the
natural resources requisite to the devel-
opment of a magnificent maritime
strength—iron and coal, forests and
men, a grand array of superb harbors.
Then there is the money, and there is
the enterprising spirit ready to take
prompt advantage of opportunity. What
now remains to be done? Is it neces-
sary to wait until a great navy has been
built and some powerful foe has been
driven from the seas? Must the Govern-
ment secure possession of strategic
positions, distant islands, keys to the
Pacific or the South Sea? Not at all;
for commerce little more is really nec-
essary than the possession of commodi-
ties that can be exchanged abroad for
things desired at home. The control of
trade in any other quarter is not a mat-
ter to be referred toa board of mili-
tary or naval experts. It is a question
to be considered by producers of raw
materials, by manufacturers, by mer-
chants and bankers Men of that class
understand that victory in a struggle of
this sort is simply a question of quality
and price. A strong navy might be em-
ployed to interrupt commerce, or to
defend it; but there never was a navy
strong enough to create commerce. War
is an exceptional condition, and pre-
sumably it will become more and more
so with the advance of civilization. The
people of the United States have not
shown a disposition to oppose the policy
of strengthening their navy; but they
would be glad of an opportunity to
build some merchant vessels, too.
Above all, they want a tariff system un-
der which foreign countries will find it
profitable to trade with the United
States, for they know that reciprocity
is the essential condition of commerce.
The Government must be supperted,
and it must be supported mainly by the
collection of customs duties; but a suffi-
cient revenue can be raised without the
imposition of heavy duties, and pro-
hibitive duties, of course, yield no re-
turn at all.

The discovery and declaration of the
fact that this great country must have
more commerce is the surest present
indication of the coming of that happier
future which its friends love to think
awaits it. The growth of its trade re-
lations will solve some of the most diffi-
cult problems with which its statesmen
have now to deal.

 

Make haste slowly in your enterprise
that you do not stumble and fall.

 

BOUNTIES AND RECIPROCITY.

It is becoming evident that the Furo-
pean sugar-bounty question is rapidly
reaching a final solution. As_ stated
several days ago, the German govern-
ment has been sounding the principal
beet-sugar producing countries’ of
Europe with a view to bringing about a
general conference on the question of
entirely abolishing the bounties on
sugar. The constant increases which
have been made in recent years in the
bounties paid have imposed a_ very
heavy burden on the taxpayers of
Europe, but there have been no corres-
ponding benefits secured by the sugar
producers. The Dingley tariff bill, by
shutting the American market against
beet sugars, has still further impaired
the value of the bcunties, so that it is
generally regarded by well-informed
public men in Europe that the present
season will see the last of them.

About the most obstinate adherent of
the export-bounty system is France,
whose present Premier is a_ well-known
agrarian. It is feared that the existing
French Ministry will not favor a with-
drawal of the bounties unless it becomes
apparent that Great Britain will impose
a countervailing duty on beet sugar. It
is reported that the British Cabinet has
already strongly intimated to France
that, unless she enter into the proposed
international arrangement for the aboli-
tion of the bounties, England would be
forced to place a countervailing duty on
beet sugar.

While the abolition of the sugar
bounties would be an advantage to the
cane-sugar producing countries in gen-
eral, it may be very much doubted if
anything but harm can result to the do-
mestic sugar industry. The removal of
the sugar bounties would pave the way
for reciprocity treaties with the various
European countries under the Dingley
bill. As sugar would be the principal
basis of concessions asked for by
Europe, the acceptance of reciprocity
treaties by the beet-producing countries
would deprive American sugar of a por-
tion of its present protection, because
the Dingley act provides fora remission
of 20 per cent. of the sugar duties on
sugar from countries entering into recip
rocal trade relations with us.

Instead of diminishing the sugar duty
in any way, it ought really to be in-
creased. In fact, it is evident that, un-
less the tax on sugar is increased, it
will become necessary to levy a tax on
coffee and tea, and to also increase the
tax on beer. The country is really in no
condition to stand reciprocity treaties
on these particular staples, as the ben-
efits to be derived by us are not in pro-
portion to the sacrifices which would
have to be made.

 

GREATER NEW YORK.

On New Year’s day the cities of New
York and Brooklyn, together with sev-
eral smaller communities in their vicin-
ity, ceased to exist as separate corpora-
tions, and merged into Greater New
York, the second largest city in the
world. The ceremony of inaugurating
the government of the great city was
exceedingly simple, unattended by any
popular demonstration or parade. The
simplicity of the affair may be gauged
by the fact that the total expense attend-
ing the inaugural ceremonies did not
exceed $300.

The experiment of successfully gov-
erning so large a community will be
watched with interest, not only in this
country, but by the whole world, as
there has been much doubt expressed of

 

recent years as to whether judicious
economy and the better protection of
life and property are best served by
consolidating municipal administra-
tions. No less an authority than the
Marquis of Salisbury, the British Prime
Minister, recently expressed the belief
that it would be better to abandon the
effort to consolidate the administration
of the area covered by the metropolitan
district of London, and return to a
method which would insure a more
strictly local government.

It will, of course, take some time to
put the vast machinery of the great city
into good running order, hence it will
not be safe to analyze results until they
shall be developed.

The destruction of the elephant has
caused a scarcity of ivory and a rapid
advance in prices, the cost betng now
more than $4 per pound, which means
a corresponding increase of the cost of
the 85,000 to 115,000 billiard balls
turned out yearly, and of which Eng-
land absorbs about one-half. Balls when
freshly turned are liable to crack through
any sudden change of temperature, and
are seasoned for three months in a warm
room before finishing, to allow them to
shrink gradually and dry true. Steel
billiard balls are a new invention, but
have not yet met with much favor.

 

A South Carolina Legislator, in an
effort to stop the carrying of concealed
weapons, wants to prohibit the ‘‘hip
pocket’’ altogether. The hip pocket
does not always carry the gun, but itisa
dangerous arrangement. It often con-
ceals the fruitful inspiration to the use
of the gun—and particularly so in the

prohibition and ‘‘dispensary’’ states.

Forty-one students bave been dis-
missed from the Leland Stanford, Jr.,
University in California, on account of
idle and dissolute habits. The recently
announced policy of President Jordan to
the effect that a university is for
study, and for study alone, seems to be
taking definite shape.

 

 

A Boston woman has invented a skirt
adjuster, consisting of two pieces of
wire sewed to the skirt, and linked to-
gether to form a hinge, with the outside
ends having transverse interlocking
portions which can be pinched together
and fastened to secure the skirt in its
shortened adjustment.

 

takes place in a room in Windsor Cas-
tle, where samples of every imaginable
novelty brought out for the holiday sea-
son are despatched from the shops, and
from the collection she selects a toy for
each child, grandchild, and all the
members of her household.

 

The newest pattern bottle-washer is
driven by a water motor, and can be
operated by the ordinary pressure avail-
able from the main. The machine itself
is provided with a new grip for grip-
ping the brushes, so that the accidental
slipping off is rendered practically im-
possible.

 

 

 

A New Yorker has invented a device
to prevent the picking of pockets, con-
sisting of a single piece of sheet metal
stamped to form rings or loops for the
watch and chain, with four projecting
points or barbs, bent in different direc-
tions to grip the sides of the pocket.

 

 

It amounts to something to be the
Mayor of Greater New York—Judge
Van Wyck -has already had a cocktail
named after him,

 

MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

9

 

AMERICAN LACK OF ENTERPRISE.

The American people are the most in-
genious and inventive on the face of the
earth. Their genius is distinctly prac:
tical, and it is particularly employed in
producing labor-saving machinery, in
increasing the facilities of commerce,
of travel and of the transmission of  in-
telligence, and in the adaptation of
scientific methods of promoting the
economies, the comforts and conven-
iences of life.

In all these matters the American peo-
ple are pre-eminent. So far as their
country 1s concerned, their enterprise in
developing its resources and in creating
wealth is renowned; but beyond the
limits of their country their energies
and adventurous exertions do not reach.
The Americans abandon their interests
when these extend into foreign countries
and they care so little for their own fel-
low-citizens when these are oppressed,
robbed or murdered abroad, that it is
seldom any persistent and decisive
effort is ever made to give them pro-
tection or to redress their wrongs.

The Americans area most martial and
belligerent people, and when they can
fight each other they will rush to the
combat with zeal and eagerness; but
they are extremely unwilling to engage
in war with foreign nations. It is true
they delight in fiery oratory and fierce
invective against foreigners; but when-
ever a controversy with other nations
comes to an issue that must be settled,
the Americans are always willing to
submit their claims or rights to arbitra-
tion.

The result of this extraordinary lack
of enterprise outside the limits of their
country is that the Americans have few
ships engaged in foreign commerce, and
nearly all of their vast exports and im-
ports is carried by foreign vessels  sail-
ing under foreign flags.

This great republic has no colonies,
no coaling stations for its warships,
and no possessions outside its immedi-
ate territorial limits, and its naval es-
tablishment is so small as to be almost
insignificant and entirely inadequate to
the ordinary requirements of the public
defense.

The state of affairs briefly outlined
above is at all times strikingly strange
and remarkable, but it is more than
ever so at a time when the great nations
of Europe are engaged in dismember-
ing and parceling out the vast conti-
nents of Asia and Africa. As long as
the great powers are occupied with this
work of plunder and spoliation they
are too busy to trouble themselves about
the great republic whose people are too
busy with their own personal affairs to
care about what may be happening any-
where in the world outside their own
domain.

Of course, there is nothing new in all
this. It has long been the history of
affairs in this country. But it might
well be supposed that the Americans,
who are at peace with all the peoples in
the Old World and the New, were and
are utilizing their extraordinary oppor-
tunities to capture the trade of all other
countries. Such, however, is not the
case. Little or no exertion is made to
secure foreign commerce. Foreigners
buy in America only what they are com-
pelled to do; but they make great exer-
tions to sell us their products, and in
this they are very successful.

In this connection it is pertinent to
remark upon a report made to the State
Department at Washington, by United
States Consul Wilburn B. Hall, at Nice,
France. He shows what foreign mer-

 

chants are doing to secure, and the
means by which they do secure, posses-
sion of trade in countries other than
their own. Says Consul Hail:

Commercial travelers are found push-
ing forward in every trade center and
in all provinces. They know their
routes and their clients as we know our
own; they are acquainted with the
needs, conditions, tastes, habits, re-
quirements of their special territories;
they explain the goods as their con-
freres in the United States explain
theirs; they make friends, clients and
customers, and keep them as we do
ours ; they offer the facilities usual and
customary.

If they represent interests foreign to
the special countries where they solicit
trade, they speak the language of their
customers, and give them all details in
that language ; they never offer explana-
tions, either oral or printed, or give
weights, measures or prices in a lan-
guage not read or understood by their
customers; they offer the usual credits
and facilities which prevail, and they
know the commerical status of their
clients, the varying tastes of communi-
ties and the local needs.

They are men of experience and
judgment, having a clear knowledge of
the laws of trade, the customs which
govern it at home and abroad, and such
ability and tact as enable them to seize
every occasion for the advantage of
their special trade.

They are men with pleasant and en-
gaging manners, who are able to meet
social requirements and use the ac-
quaintances thus made for substantial
foundations of intercourse; they do not
permit themselves to rush through a
town ; they explore it, know it and _ its
people, and in turn are known and re-
garded with respect; they are supplied
with such means as will enable them to
return Civflities, and to maintain po-
sitions as gentlemen worthy of the re-
gard of the houses or firms or interests
they represent, and by their various
qualifications they become trade powers
in the various communities within their
territories.

English, French and German repre-
sentatives and commercial agents and
travelers are found exploring the world’s
markets at home and abroad, creating
new ones and holding old ones. They
want trade and they secure it. They
have systematic plans, and pursue them
with definite views, and attain profitable
results.

Very few American houses adopt
these measures, and fewer are willing
to conform to the foreign styles of
goods, or to adopt the methods of trade
and credit common to other countries.
They endeavor to force their customers
to adopt American styles and methods,
and in this the failure of the Ameri-
cans to a large extent is due.

The result is that nearly all the trade
of Mexico, of Central and South Amer-
ican countries at our very doors, is in
the hands of foreigners, and thus an
enormous commerce and its profits are
lost through the utter lack of enterprise
on the part of the people of the United
States. It would be highly becoming
in the American people to cease boast-
ing of their enterprise, when, in fact,
they are so decidedly lacking in that
important quality.

A schoolhouse in Iowa has been burned
down because it became a center of in-
fection for diphtheria. This was the
third season that diphtheria had broken
out in the school. It appeared no place
else in the vicinity, and hence it was
decided to burn the building. Physi-
cians were unanimous in saying that the
disease had been carried to the school
by rabbits, mauy of which burrowed
under the building and made it their
home. Last winter the rabbits were
driven away and the house was
thoroughly renovated, but they came
back, and when five of the children
died of diphtheria it was thought best
to destroy the structure.

 

ELECTING FEDERAL SENATORS.

It is announced from Washington that
the Committee on Election of Presi-
dent, Vice-President and Representa-
tives in Congress has reported a bill
providing for such amendment of the
constitution of the United States as will
permit Senators to be elected by the
people, and that members of the House
of Representatives shall be elected for
four years, instead of two.

The constitution, as it stands, re-
quires that Senators shall be elected by
the Legislatures of states, while Repre-
sentatives are to be chosen by the popu-
lar vote, and for two years only. The
intention of the constitution was to have
the Senate stand for the states, while
the Lower House of Congress directly
represents the people.

In the Senate every state, without re-
gard to population or territorial extent,
is equal. The states have, each and
all, equal privileges, equal rights, equal
powers and equal representation in the
branch of the National Legislature that
stands for them. The Senate was
created expressly to protect and preserve
the rights of the states from Federal ag-
gression. The Senate has a voice in
all legislation, the concurrence of both
houses of Congress being necessary to
the enactment of any law or public
measure ; but it has functions peculiarly
its own, such as _ the exclusive right to
confirm or disapprove all appointments
to public office made by the President,
as well as that of ratifying treaties with
foreign nations. The Senate was in-
tended to be removed as far as possible
from all popular clamor or pressure, its
members being chosen to serve terms
of six years, while the Representatives
in the other house of Congress, coming
directly from the people, are liable to
be changed every two years to meet any
sudden and radical change in popular
feeling.

In view of these premises, it is plain
that the proposed changes in the elec-
tion of Senators and the terms of serv-
ice of Representatives, if consummated,
will work most radical and_ revolution-
ary results. To elect Senators by a pop-
ular vote will make them directly the
creatures of and amenable to the people
themselves. They will no longer repre-
sent the sovereignty and equality of
rights of the states; but being, like the
Representatives, creatures of the peo-
ple, they will cater and truckle and
trim to meet the popular demand, and
the Senate will have no longer any
proper right to a separate existence, or
any existence, apart from the House of
Representatives.

There was a time when the _ proposed
change in the constitution of the Senate
would have been rejected with the ut-
most promptness, and even with horror.
That time has passed, however. The
Senate, from being the constitutional
bulwark and protector of the states
against the aggressions of the Federal
power and the wild and unreasoning
fury of a sectional populace, became
the most violent, radical and ferocious
assailant of the rights of the states and
of constitutional guarantees of their im-
munities.

The Senate, while it retains its func-
tions, has entirely changed its nature,
and it has forfeited all title to conserv-
atism and to be considered the guard-
ian of the states. Thus it is that it
makes little practical difference to what
extent the method of the election of
Senators may be changed, or whether,
indeed, there be any Senators or not.

In order to secure the consent of the

 

Representatives in the popular branch
of Congress to this change, it is pro-
posed to lengthen the term of Represent-
atives to four years. Such a change
will doubtless win favor with the Repre-
sentatives, but it will remove them
farther from the direct influence of the
people. Instead of coming fresh from
the people every two years, and thereby
reflecting every change of public feeling
and sentiment, they will only represent
what may have been the feeling three
and four years previous.

With two houses of Congress whose
members are elected directly by the
people at intervals of four years for
some and six years for others, it 1s diffi-
cult to see any use or benefit in having
two such bodies.

To change the constitution of the
United States requires not only a two-
thirds majority of each house of Con-
gress, but also a ratification of the
amendment by the Legislatures of three-
fourths of the states, an act that ac-
complished with difficulty except under
the influence of some great public feel-
ing o1 excitement.

1s

In considering the question ofa strike
at the cutton mills at Fall River, the
operatives are obliged to face the fact
that there is a very small sum in their
treasury— not much over $!00,0o00—with
which to carry on a strike, and although
they are making a determined stand to
secure an arbitration of the matter of a
sliding scale or a postponement of the
cut until March, the sentiment is strong
that there will be no strike. There is
no doubt that the spinners, loom fixers
and slashers will favor a strike, but the
carders’ and weavers’ unions, the
strongest of the organizations, will op-
pose this, arguing for the operatives to
begin fortifying themselves for a great
strike later on. With these five unions
differing, the balance of power lies with
the smaller and younger organizations,
such as the machinists’ and firemen’s,
and these are not strong enough to carry
any vital question affecting 28,000 oper-
atives.

 

The recurring indisposition of the
Pope has again raised the question of
heating the Vatican, a problem which
so far has never been satisfactorily
solved. There are no fewer than 11,000
rooms in the papal palace, and many
of them never receive a_ ray of sun-
light. Prof. Laponi, the physician to
His Holiness, has tried by all the
means in his power to maintain a nor-
mal temperature in the private apart-
ments, but without effect and they re-
main much too cold for the daily
diminishing vitality of the Pope. An
architect recently submitted a plan for
distributing hot air all through the
Vatican, but when the cost was men-
tioned—s$180,o00o—the Pope dismissed
the subject with a wave of the hand.

Paris papers report that the French
ministers of commerce and finance have
decided to submit to parliament a bill
for the establishment of a national office
of foreign trade, witha view of furnish-
ing merchants with information regard-
ing the best markets for exports. Uncle
Sam’s methods of doing business are
being copied by more than one Euro-
pean state.

One-cent coffee and lunch counters
for newsboys and bootblacks are to be
established in various parts of New
York under the superintendency of
Harry McKnight, who was once a news-
boy himself and who has done much to
ameliorate the condition of the urchins
of the street.

 

 

 

  

10

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

THE NEW MILEAGE.

Detailed History of the
which Resulted in Its Adoption.*

The labor of the Committee this year
has been tollowing up the work which
occupied the attention of the Legisiative
Committee last year—the much talked-
of and the long-looked-for interchange-
able mileage book.

This question of interchangeable
mileage has been a matter of education
and agitation—education on the part of
the railroads and agitation on the part
of the traveling public.

A general manager of one of the larg-
est roads was heard to say, about a
year ago, ‘* The traveling men have ed-
ucated us up to interchangeable mile-
age. The question would probably have
come along in the usual course ot time,
with other improved tickets, but it
would, undoubtedly, have taken several
years but for the energy and earnestness
of purpose of the traveling fraternity.’’

Only as far back as 1894, while I was
President of this organization, I accom-
panied the Committee in several con-
ferences with general passenger agents
on this same subject, and we were as-
sured then by some of the railroad men
that the whole subject was impracti-
cable, as the accounts could not be
audited, and all that kind of talk; but
there were others who were willing to
listen and, judging from the progress
we have made, they were given some
schooling without paying any tuition.

However, it is only fair for me to say
to you in this connection that the
records of the meetings heid at Chicago
during the past four months show that
the roads in Michigan have received a
more thorough education in regard to
the wants and needs of the commercial
traveler than the remainder of the lines
of the Central Passenger Association
down in Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. It
is well for us to bear in mind and im-
press upon others who do not belong to
us that such a state of facts demon-
strates and emphasizes the power of our
organization.

Your Committee could not as_ in-
dividuals have commanded the atten-
tion of or impressed upon the roads with
as much effect as they could as a com-
mittee, with upwards of 2,000 active,
intelligent traveling men behind it. |
will say that your Committee has ever
been mindful of the interests of our
members and did not for one moment
lose sight of the one thing sought for—
an interchangeable mileage book of
convenient size or denomination, good
on the train and good to check baggage
to destination.

There were a great many of our peo-
ple, good and sincere members, who
pursued methods at variance with those
of the Committee, having aims and as-
Ppirations in common with us, in the
endeavor to obtain the same results.
We were all anxious; al) were doing
what, from their point of view, they
thought was the proper thing todo;
every traveling man in Michigan was
talking ‘‘interchangeable mileage’’ from
all sides. The Committee could criti-
cise no one and did not, for each had a
part to perform, and each was doing his
part in his own way. 1! can assure you,
however, that it was far from being
serene on the inside. Roads of one
section were warring with roads of
other sections, as the opportunity was
extremely favorable; and, as 1 have
said before, some roads were better edu-
cated as to our wants than others.

Your Committee presented its case as
fairly and reasonably as it was possible
to do and in as firm and emphatic a
manner as its ability would permit. As
we were a committee of a Michigan as-
sociation, we had to prey upon the
Michigan roads and confine our efforts
to converting them to our way of think-
ing. We were impressed, of course,
with the necessity of meeting those with
whom we were to deal upon common
ground. When we found the Michigan
roads gradually coming, one by one,
to our way of thinking—consulting our
opinions and making us familiar with
their contentions—you can see, J] am
*Report of E. P. Waldron to annual convention

of the Michigan Knights of the Grip at Kal-

amazoo,

Agitation |

|sure, why we confined our information
ito your President and Board of Direct-
ors; in fact, we were a creature of the
administration. There was not a meet-
ing but your Board knew the result
thereof, and there was not a letter writ-
ten but your President and each mem-
ber of your Board of Directors had a
copy.

June 1, your Committee called upon
the Michigan roads and a_ thousand
mile interchangeable book was settled
upon---just the book which is now to be
issued. i

The exchange for ticket at agent's
window was not thought of then nor the
rechecking of baggage at junction
points. At about that time the Central
Passenger Association took up the sub-
ject and matters were delayed, as over
torty different roads had to be consulted
and all had views to be expressed and
respected, and, as I have said before,
the Southern roads in Ohio, Indiana
and Illinois insisted upon the exchange
ticket feature; also the restriction upon
checking baggage, which two features
made the ticket truly objectionable.

The latter part of July, we learned that
the book was to be placed on sale Aug.
15 by the Central Passenger Association,
with the exchange feature and the bag-
gage restrictions contained therein.
July 30 your Committee sent the fol-
lowing letter to the general managers of
every Michigan road that belonged to
the Association:

‘‘Dear Sir—it is with the fullest ap-
preciation of the true feeling that
exists, and being in a position to most
thoroughly know how the traveling pub-
lic will protest against the features of
‘exchanging the interchangeable mile-
age slip for tickets at the agent's win-
dow and baggage restrictions,’ I feel it
is my duty to caution the railroads in
Michigan on these particular points.

‘*The commercial travelers of the
State have had implicit confidence that
they would receive the interchangeable
mileage this year as free from odium
as possible. I am personally convinced
that the Michigan lines are in accord
with these views. The average com-
mercial traveler is ever on the move,
and his routes are constantly changed
by circumstances that arise daily, and
I may say, hourly, for business men go
and come from the market, and the
traveler often learns that his customer
is out of town, or meets him on the
train coming home, or at the station
going away, so that he must change his
route. Again, close connections are
made at some points where there are
many passengers to catch a fast train,
and all must get their tickets changed
and their baggage rechecked by the
agent at the junction.

**This subject is of much greater im-
portance to railroads in Michigan than
in any other state in the Central Passen-
ger’s territory. The present system of
mileage books has not seemed to require
these features, and the Knights ot the
Grip cannot now see the necessity of
hampering the otherwise popular book
with these features.

‘‘T sincerely trust that you will take
into consideration all of the different
phases of this subject. I hope it is not
too late for the Michigan lines to bring
to bear upon the Ohio, Indiana and I]h-
nois lines the necessity of granting this
proposed one thousand mile interchange-
able book, without the particular fea-
tures to which I reter, for | have al
ready heard the rumbiings of hundreds
of those who travel constantly, and it
would have a very decidedly good effect
if the Michigan roads were instrumental
in obviating these features. °’

War continued within, as I said in
my letter, rumblings already having
been heard from those who traveled
constantly. Our position was laid be-
fore the Association by the Michigan
roacs and was championed by them.
The contention was carried to a point
where there was only one of two things
to choose: One was to accept the book
with the provisions just as they were,
with the hope of gradually eliminating
the objectionable features, or not to
have the. interchangeable mileage at all.
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The book was issued Sept. 1, less
than four months ago. We were by no
Means satisfied with the book, so far as
the objectionable features were referred
to. However, we felt that it was one
long and a most important step in the
right direction to have the interchange-
able mileage feature put into practical
operation all over this State, and to
demonstrate to all that interchangeable
mileage is feasible, practical and busi-
nesslike,

We knew that we had ‘‘friends at
court’’ in the Michigan roads, and
were sure that if they failed to convert
the lines of the other states to their way
of thinking, they would issue an_ inde-
pendent interchangeable mileage book,
as they are now doing.

I was in Chicago Oct. 4 on private
business and took occasion to call upon
F. C. Donald, Commissioner, and O.
W. Ruggles, General Passenger Agent
of the Michigan Central, and they in-
formed me that a meeting of the Execu-
tive Committee of the Central Passen-
ger's agents would take place the fol-
lowing. day, and invited me to remain
over and meet them, assuring me that
other representatives of traveling men’s
organizations would also be present. I
therefore took advantage of the favor-
able opportunity of doing what I could,
so far as my ability would permit, in
pointing out the special objectionable
features of exchanging tickets at the
window and rechecking baggage at
junction points. The traveling men
from all of the states were unanimous in
their plea to remove these objectionable
features.

The latter part of November, when
the Michigan lines became ‘‘weary of
well doing,’’ they expressed themselves
to your Committee that they were now
ready to give us the book they original-
ly talked of in June. On Nov. 24, we
wrote the following letter to our Presi-
dent and members of the Board:

*‘We find that the Michigan roads are
unanimously disappointed in their ef-
forts to secure reasonable provisions re-
garding an interchangeable mileage
book now issued by the Central Passen-
ger Association, They have worked in
concert with the Central Passenger As-
sociation for three months, striving and
hoping to secure a book that would be
perfectly satisfactory to themselves, as
well as to their patrons. So far they
have been successful, and they are now
ready to issue an interchangeable mile-
age book for $30, with rebate of $10, if
used by the original purchaser, without
having the objectionable teatures now
contained in the present one; in other
words, use it as the old one was used.
This will be done independently of the
Central Passenger Association.

‘‘We will meet the General Manager
of the roads in Michigan on December
6, and thev will take decisive action
upon the subject. I feel much interested
in this matter and have given more
time and attention to it than J would
have done had I not known it was com-
ing our way for some time; and I feel
and know that we are just on the eve of
securing the interchangeahle mileage
book good over all responsible roads in
Michigan and without the objection-
able conditions and restrictions which
were a part of the Central Passenger
book.

‘*‘To this end I wish, and most re-
spectfully ask, you to write me at once
giving me your opinion as to whether
the book I have above mentioned will
be entirely satisfactory to our members.

“‘T have written each member of the
Board and others for their opinion, and
trust I may be able to represent our
membership by the information I re-
ceive from different quarters. ’’

The following resolution was passed
unanimously by the Board, and similar
resolutions were also expressed from
different parts of the State by letter and
verbal assurances:

Resolved—That we respectfully peti-
tion the railroads to embody the follow-
ing features in the proposed hook :

1. Good on all trains which carry
passengers on presentation to the con-
ductor.

2. Baggage to be checked to destina-

 

tion through junction points
where there is a wagon transfer.
=3. A book sold at $20 flat, witha
photograph of the purchaser or owner.
If this cannot be done, then a book
sold at $30, with a rebate of $10, will be
acceptable.

This meeting referred to in our letter
being a very important meeting, and de-
siring to have a solid front, I requested
S. H. Hart, President of the Michigan
Commercial Travelers’ Association, and
F. L. Day, Grand Counselor of the
Union Commercial Trave'ers of Michi-
gan, to meet us and represent their

except

members, also. Mr. Day sent mea
communication which represented his
views, and Mr. Hart, personally with

your Committee, went over the whole
situation again before a full representa-
tion of both the general managers and
general passenger agents of all the
Michigan roads, and we were fortified
with assurances by letter and resolutions
that such a book would be satisfactory.
Mr. Hart and Mr. Day agreed with
us identically as to doing away with the
exchange feature and the baggage re-
strictions, but were not particular as to
kind—whether it be photograph or re-
bate— but your Committee carried out
their instructions as per resolutions.
The objection to the photograph came
more from business men than from
traveling men, sume cof whom were
averse to having their pictures taken;
others wear their beards differently in
the winter than in summer, and men
look different with their hats off than
when wearing them, especially bald-
headed men. The best reason, in my
judgment, is that they wish to relieve
the conductors from the responsibility
of identifying the owner of the ticket,
believing that his efforts can best be
given to caring for his train and pas-
sengers. The $io feature is not the
most important thing we can now ask
the railroads for. Convenience and
economy are the things sought for in
interchangeable mileage. The ticket
we shall have in a few days will be the
most convenient ticket ever issued to
the traveling public, being interchange-
able on most of the roads of the State,
two outside, and the Detroit and Cleve-
land steamship line. The book is to be
honored by the conductor and can also
be used to check baggage to destination.
Your Committee feels especially grat-
ified over the final outcome, as it has
had an unusually difficult problem to
solve, and I can assure you, had we
been representing ourselves in an in-
dividual capacity, we would have
stopped before we commenced, but this
victory means much for our Associa-
tion, of which we think so much. Ii
means that the traveling men, as a
class, cannot afford to be without such
an association. Our Association has
been strengthened, and it will be re-
spected from the outside for being suc-
cessful; and I will say further that those
from whom we receive this concession
have respect for our persistency and
fairness in our dealing with them, and I
confidently believe it will not detract
from our dignity one iota to show our
appreciation for the consideration we
have received, to the end that we may
be in a position to ask for the next im-
portant thing for our members,
a
Tendency of the Trading Stamp To-
ward Extravagance.
From the New York Evening Sun.

‘‘The trading stamp. system,’’ re-
marks a Richmond dry goods merchant
who disapproves of the scheme, ‘‘is a
great evil. It undoubtedly tends to
make extravagant purchasers. The
presents offered by the trading-stamp
store seem to possess a peculiar attra‘c-
tion for the ladies, and several instances
have come under my knowledge in
which the wives of men of very limited
means have made most extravagant pur-
chases in order to fill their books and
obtain a premium. Besides this, it
has exerted a very strong influence
against cash buying, though the promot-
ers of the system, in introducing it,
claimed that its effect was the opposite.
It is a fact that many people who owe
bills at stores that give checks frequent-
ly make large purchases, pay the cash

 

and demand stamps or checks, paying
little or nothing on the old score. It
is not at all unfair to assume that were
it not for the stamps the purchases
would be less and the liquidation of
standing accounts be much larger."’

It may be doubted whether the trad-
ing-stamp fad makes women extrava-
gant who are not naturally so, but it is
likely that some women would defer
paying an old bill in order to add to
their collection of stamps with the view
of getting a dining-room table or a
rocker when they turn the completed
book in. Now the shopkeeper may
have his grievance, but we should say
that, as human nature is constituted, the
customer probably comes out at the end
ef the procession which the stamp-sell-
ing company leads. He would bea
very upright and conscientious shop-
keeper who would not mark up his
wares or get a little the better of a bar-
gain with those of his customers who
demand trading stamps. If the cus-
tomer pays high-r value for the goods
she buys, how does she profit, even if
she completes her book and gets her
premium? It is notoriously a great un-
dertaking to save enough of the stamps
to obtain a premium worth the having,
and most of the collectors give it up in
despair. Perhaps they are wiser in
giving it up than their sisters who per-
severe. In this business the customer
is apt to be the consumer with a ven-
geance. There is nothing dull about
the wits of the trading-stamp people.

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An attempt is to be made to revive
the drooping cotton industries of the
Philippine Islands. It is sought to in-
troduce modern machinery and_ skilled
workmen and to develop the native
products. Three cotton plants, indig-
enous to the island, are ready to hand
for the manufacturer of goods, and what
is most needed is the displacing of the
primitive methods yet in vogue.

The female pack peddler is becoming
a nuisance in Maine.

Association Matters

Michigan Retail Grocers’ Association

| President, J. Wister, Mancelona: Secretary, E
A. StrowE, Grand Rapids; Treasurer, J. F.

TaTMAN, Clare.

 

Michigan Hardware Association
President, Cuas. F. Bock, Battle Creek: Vice
President, H. W. Wenger, West Bay City;
Treasurer, Henry C. MINNIE, Eaton Rapids.
Detroit Retail Grocers’ Association
President, Jos—ePpH KNiguT; Secretary, E. MaRKs,
221 Greenwood ave: Treasurer, N. L. Koenia.

Grand Rapids Retail Grocers’ Association

President, FRaNK J. Dyk: Secretary, Homer
Kuap; Treasurer, J. Geo. LEHMAN.

 

Saginaw Mercantile Association
President, P. F. Treanor; Vice-President, Joun
McBRATNIE; Secretary, W. H. Lewis: Treas-
urer, LOUIE SCHWERMER
Jackson Retail Grocers’ Association
President, Geo. E. Lewis; Secretary, W. H. Por-
TER; Treasurer, J. L. PETERMANN
Lansing Retail Grocers’ Association
President, F. B. JoHNson: Secretary, A. M
DARLING; Treasurer, L. A. GILKEY.
Adrian Retail Grocers’ Association
President, Martin Gafney; Secretary, EF.
Cleveland; Treasurer, Geo. M. Hoch.
Traverse City Business Men’s Association
President, THos. T. Bates; Secretary, M. B.
Hou.y; Treasurer, C. A. HAMMOND.

Owosso Business Men’s Association
President, A. D. WHIPPLE; Secretary, G. T. Camp-
BELL; Treasurer, W. E. Coins.

 

Alpena Business Men’s Association
President, F. W.

GiLcHRist; Seeretary, C L.
PARTRIDGE.

Grand Rapids Retail Meat Dealers’ Association
President, L. J. Karz: Secretary, Parip Hinser;:
Treasurer, S. J. HvFForp.
St. Johns Business Men’s Association.
President, Tuos Bromiey: Secretary, FRANK A.
PeRcy; Treasurer, CLarK A. PuTt.

 

 

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Shoes and Leather

Past, Present and Future of the Shoe
Jobbing Trade.

In my opinion, a cool head and
sound constitution, coupled with a fair
amount of judgment and a goodly sup-
ply of tact, backed by a sufficient ex-
perience, is a combination that will go
a long way toward making a success in
the shoe jobbing trade. Personal pop-
ularity may be a feature, but it is a fact
that most successes in any line of busi-
ness are made not by the help of friends,
but in spite of them. Then, too, the
matter of advertising is not to be over-
looked. This is an unknown quantity
and just how to measure it 1s a question.
I have frequently seen orders come in
for lines advertised six months before
their receipt. However, the trade jour-
nals need no bolstering, as they are able
to take care of themselves. Probably
the most important factor of all is
square, impartial dealing. That there
are customers who are unreasonable
and hard to get along with goes without
saying, but here is wbere cool judgment
and a tactful handling of the issue in
question comes in and customers of this
kind, when they are once convinced that
they are receiving conscientious treat-
ment, will stay with you longer and
stand closer than many others who ap-
pear to be easily suited. Another thing,
the buyer who finds fault keeps us
awake and up-to-date and gives usa
chance to talk back and cunvince him,
or defend our position, or back down
from it, as the case may be, while your
good-natured buyer is out from under
and has other lines placed before you
miss him. Customers who pay prompt-
ly have the right to dictate, and when
they make themselves heard it is time
to wake up.

 

 

I have never known a season wher
there has not been a scarcity of goods
in the jobbing houses; there is alwaysa
run on some particular grades, and then
there is a disappointment all around
Shortage of material, labor troubles, the
inability of a factory to supply the de-
mand, and many other causes have con
tributed to this end. The trade is be-
coming more and more floating in lis
character and if some one shoe springs
into prominence, it means a scarcity al!
along the line. To meet these condi-
tions and to get the best results to sat
isfy the trade as a whole, and not over-
load, requires attention to detail and
hard work, and there again the sound
constitution and good judgment comes
in.

To realize the changes which have
taken place in this particular line of
business it is necessary to properly ap-
preciate the exact conditions under
which the business was carried ona
quarter of a century ago. In those days
cartons were unknown and varieties so
limited that the retail dealer witha
capital of five thousand dollars could
not only buy all of his goods of the
manufacturer, but, in nine cases out of
ten, he had a little back room wherein
he did more or less of a jobbing busi-
ness. The wholesale house, which either
represented goods of its own manufac-
ture or the product of one or more out-
side factories, sold its goods in straight
dozens or cases, and to them the _ busi-
ness of placing goods, as far as the de-
tail was concerned, was a simple mat-
ter. The four months’ time and long
datings added would cause us in our
day to wonder how a_ successful and
profitable business could be done;

 

nevertheless, many of the wholesale
dealers who did a business of this char-
acter are still living, enjoying fortunes
made on this very basis.

The jobber of to-day is not by any
means an offspring of the wholesale
dealer of twenty-five years ago,of whom
nothing but a memory remains, but he
is an independent creation whose exist-
ence became a_ necessity through the
multiplying of lines, kinds and styles.
The increase in this direction has kept
on steadily, year by year, until now we
have not only distributers of universal
lines, but we have many ‘‘specialty’’
houses, who devote all their energies to
distributing only a limited number of
lines. To-day the jobber goes into the
largest cities, fearlessly demands a
hearing, and, as a matter of fact, is do-
ing business with the brightest and
best clement of the retail shoe business.
Under the conditions existing long ago,
the manufacturer who did a business
direct with the retail trade made but a
limited number of styles, sold his prod-
uct in fair-sized quantities, and the
character of the trade which he sold
meant few loses and satisfactory returns.
To-day, to place the output of a factory
direct with the retail trade he must
largely multiply bis accounts and _ in-
crease his varieties, in order to do the
same amount of business. This means
considerable of an outlay for factory ex-
penses and _ selling force, with the col-
lection expenses attendant, and through
this process of reasoning he has been
forced to the conclusion that he can
make a limited variety and put them
out to the retail trade, through the me-
dium of a jobber, at a saving of an ex-
pense represented by the jobber’s profit,
and thereby give the retail dealer his
legitimate margin, and at the same time,
the privilege of buying bis goods when
ne wants them, and his sizes according
o his needs’ This, when you take into
onsideration that he has to keep on
hand sizes and widths of at least three
hundred shoes, affords an opportunity
to keep his capital active. To do this
he is constantly increasing his demands
upon the jobber for more advanced
ideas, quicker handling of his business,
ind a larger variety from which to se-
lect.

Only a few years ago a jobbing stock
was well equipped when it could show
half a dozen varieties at the same price;
now it is necessary to show more than
double that number, and every width is
demanded from Ato EE. The bring-
ing of a variety of widths into the
cheaper lines has been and is constant
ly on the increase, and as the require-
ments of the corsumer are becoming
more and more understood, there natur-
ally follows a demand for a greater
variety of lasts. At present it is possible
to go into the market and pick from the
floors of the jobbers men’s gocds run-
ning from 80 cents to $1.50, made on
lasts almost identical with the finer
goods sold to the trade for from four to
six dollars.

It would seem that the building of
shoes, from an anatomical standpoint,
as faras men’s goods are concerned,
has reached very nearly a state of per-
fection, and there has really been very
littlke added in this direction for the
last few years, and, while the boys’,
youths’, and little men’s goods have
been improving, it isan unquestionable
tact that the widest field for improve-
ment in sight to-day is in women’s,
misses’ and children’s goods. The
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man, woman or child, and yet for years

there has been very little effort made to}

provide a natural swing and tread to
women’s, misses’ and children’s work.
This is undoubtedly largely due to the
fact that women are slow to accept even
a suggestion of more width of sole in
their footgear, and, as a rule, the guods
made up to the present time on im-
proved lasts have not found a ready
market. Again, it is only a short time
ago that the thinnest stock and the light-
est sole was the only variety in the finest
of women’s wear that would find a ready
sale. There has been considerable
progress made in this direction, for.
now women’s goods with heavy soles
can be found in all of our first-class re-
tail stocks, but the sales of these are
comparatively small, the bulk of the
fine goods being sold in light weights
twelve months in the year.

The character of the retail trade has
changed very much; department houses
have come into the field, whose spe-
cialty has been to distribute misses’,
women’s and children’s goods, while
men’s goods are being very largely dis-
tributed through the medium of specialty
stores offering $3 and $3.50 goods. This
has tended to reduce the volume of
business for the legitimate retail shoe
dealer, but has succeeded in improving
his margins to quite an extent.

It would seem, from a close observa-
tion of the leather market and the man-
ufacturing end of the boot and shve
business, that shoemaking is not even
now down to its finest points. That
there has been a marked advance in
the price of leather within the last two
years will be admitted by all without
question, but the celd hard fact remains
that a better shoe can be bought to-day
for a given sum than ever before, and
when we seek to discover the reason of
this we are told that the improvements
of machinery, together with a good vol
ume of business, are constantly tending
to reduce the manufacturing cost.

The outlook for 1898 is good bevond
all question. Reports from the West,
South and Middle West all point toa
better condition in the near future, and
New England industries, which were
the last to succumb to the hard times,
are one by one blossoming into activ
ity and, with smoking chimneys and a
full complement of orders, preparing
to join the long-heralded procession of

prosperity. —Shoe and Leather Gazette.
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After Forty Years.

An epitaph as curious in its way as
any of the quaint gravestone inscrip-
tions that have been recorded is ona
tombstone in the cemetery of a suburb
of Paris.

The husband died first, and beneath
the record of his name was placed, at
his request, the line:

‘‘T am anxiously awaiting you. July
30, 1527.

When his widow died, forty years
after, the following line completed the
inscription:

‘‘Here 1am. September g, 1867.”’

—____* 0.

Good Wages the Basis of Prosperity.

Low prices do not stimulate trade
when the purchasing power of the peo-
ple is low. Good wages lie at the bot-
tom of a good home market. When
wages are high purchasers are plenti-
ful in all the stores, and when the stores
are busy the factories are crowded with
orders.

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It is something of a surprise to learn
that from Rome, the home of the arts,
the value of the cheese annually export-
ed from that city is only $1,000 less
than the value of the paintings, cheese
being the second article on the list of
exports from Rome.

SUCCESSFUL SALESMEN.

 

A. M. Grieve, Representing Strong,
Lee & Co.

Angus M. Grieve was born on a farm
nine miles from Guelph, Ont., Oct. 3,
1873, his antecedents being Scotch on
both sides. He supplemented the dis-
trict school with four years at the
Guelph public school and then engaged
in a general store as clerk, remaining
two years. He then worked two years
in a dry goods store, when he removed
to North Branch, Mich., and entered
the general store of Geo. Seaman, with
whom he remained four years—two
years of which time as manager of the
branch store at Clifford. He then re-
moved to Detroit and entered the em-

ploy of Strong, Lee & Co. as city sales-
Man, covering the territory once a

 

week. This work he still pursues about
two-thirds of his time, spending the
other third among the trade at Toledo,
Ann Arbor, Ypsilanti, Port Huron and
Mt. Clemens. In August, 1896, the house
sent him to Flint to close out the stock
of S. C. Clark, and while there he met
the only daughter of Chas. C. Pierson,
whom he married March 24, 1897. He
makes his home in Flint with the par-
ents of his wife.

Personally, Mr. Grieve is of very
strong character, and indefatigable in
his efforts. He makes friends wherever
he goes and has the good wishes of all
with whom he comes in contact. Mr.
Grieve attributes his success to untiring
efforts, strict integrity and doing busi-
ness on the square.

To Compete with America in Shoes

A British corporation has arranged to
start a shoe factory at Galashiels, Scot
land, capable of turning out twenty
thousand pairs of shoes weekly. United
States Consul Fleming, at Edinburgh,
says this is the beginning of an attempt
to compete with America in shoemak-
ing, and that a number of these facto
ries are to be established in different
parts of the United Kingdom. More
than 45 per cent. of the total imports of
shoes i
American manutacture.

> 2.

The Keystone of Success.

The manager of a retail] store has any-
thing but a sinecure if he conscien-
tiously attends to business. There are
so many details to be attended to; so
many little odds and ends to bear in
mind and so many points to think out
—all these keep a man busy, and con-
stant watchfulness is the keynote of suc-

 

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Good Things Said by Up-to-Date Shoe
Dealers.

A fine chance to fit out the family in
good rubbers at a very little price. Note
that we say good rubbers. You should
‘“make hay while the sun shines’’--that
is, buy while we sell desirable rubbers
for women, misses and children, regular
cut, round toes, at fifteen cents a_ pair.
—Gimbel Bros., Phila.

Good shoes are health  preservers.
Poor fitting ones not only torture the
feet, but look bad. Think of this
when you start out to buy them. We
show you nothing but what a first-class
store ought to have, and our assortment
of styles comprises everything desir-
able. Our prices are the lowest. We
pick the good things out of the world’s
business library of remunerative facts,
and can view with complacency the
feeble attempts of eager rivals to coun-
teract our successes. George F. Streit,
Altoona, Pa.

Children’s shoes are the cause of con-
siderable home thought, as the young-
sters have a way of getting through up-
pers or soles with surprising celerity.
Maybe it’s the fault of the shoes. We
guard against that here with better sat-

isfaction and
Clothier, Phila.

Nearly every day we notice men and
women on the street wearing shoes that
do not fit. We can see wrinkles in the
instep and under the instep. We note
the heels are too large and that the
vamps are too full. This is altogether
unnecessary if you know where to buy
your shoes right. Would you expect a
fit of this kind ina glove? I hear you
say no. Well, we would tell vou very
frankly that it is just as possible to get
a good fit in a shoe, up-to-date, at any
price from $2 a pair up, as it is to get
a fit in a glove. The only reason why
there are so many fits in gloves is be-
cause the misfits are so readily seen and
noticed. If you are interested in this
kind of a fit in footwear, we guarantee
to suit you in every way.—Davis Shoe
Co., Salt Lake City.

— ->enm. --

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

Fruits

and Produce.
Process for Preserving Butter for an
Indefinite Length of Time.

Mrs. Francis Shaw, of Chicago, has
lately made a discovery which promises
to be of inestimable value to producers
and shippers of butter. Mrs. Shaw was
formerly a resident of Iowa Falls, Iowa,
and during the World’s Fair built up
for herself a lucrative retail butter trade
in Chicago, supplying the Whaleback
and other lake steamers, hotels and
epicurean families with the choicest
product of Iowa dairies. During the
summer of 18096 she made one ship-
ment, amounting to several hundreds in

value, and through the neglect of as--

sistants in Chicago came on to find the
entire consignment rancid and unfit for
delivery to her customers.

The loss plunged her into a deep
melancholy, and she relates an odd
story of the circumstances becoming the
direct cause of placing in her hands a
chemical secret, known to the Floren-
tines three centuries ago, and ever since
lost to science. Her invention is an
indestructible enamel, fire-proof and
electric-proof, and insoluble when ex-
posed to saline moisture. She has no
knowledge whatever of chemistry, and
claims that on the evening of the day
when she became aware of the loss of
the large shipment of butter:she went
into Lincoln Park to be alone with her
trouble. While resting near the Laflin
memorial building she says that a
thought came like a suggestion into her
mind, convincing her that all butter
tubs could be rendered hermetically
perfect by the application of an enamel:
following this conviction came the for-
mula. She found herself impel'ed by a
desire to try the experiment, and went
immediately to a pharmacist and pur-
chased the ingredients. So positive was
she that she had been intrusted with a
great chemical secret and that it had
entered her mind by spiritual suggestion
she took the precaution to purchase
other drugs than those necessary to the
formula, in order to protect the revela-
tion. She went immediately to her
home in Ravenswood, fired up the fur-
nace and set to work, and before the
birds carolled their morning welcome to
the July day she had well in hand a
process which is puzzling the chemists
of Chicago, New York Paris, all
scientists having thus far failed to
analyze the constitutents of the enamel.
The material looks like phallac. Prof,
Milo F. Walker, of Chicago University
and chemical lecturer of Chicago high
schools, asserts that he has submitted the
enamel] to electrical and furnace heat, in
the form of a brick of the material and
sawdust, and _ so perfectly does it repel
heat he was able to pick the brick up in
his bare hands, while the steel plate up-
on which it laid was at white heat,
shriveled at the edge.

A pine soap box was coated without
and within with the enamel and placed
upon the live coals of a great furnace.
In thirty minutes the fire was reduced
to charcoal and ashes, while this in-
ventor of the enamel drew the unwarped
ename! furms, inner and outer coatings,
from the seething furnace and took them
up in her hands. The material resists

and

a degree of electric heat which will
destroy asbestos.

Mrs. Shaw is a slight brunette of
sanguine temperament, about forty years
of age, and the mother of five young
daughters.
yond the standard of

She is not a religionist be-
morality, Shas

 

never investigated nor studied the occult
or spiritualistic theories, but believes
that her triumph in chemical invention
came by spiritual suggestion from the
spirit of her mother, who when living
delighted in chemical investigations
and experiments. Prof. Walker ad-
vances the theory that the human mind
originates nothing after thirty-eight
years of age, but that great agitation
of feeling brings from the mind’s store-
house available remedy or solace in the
hour of emergency. He believes this to
have been the case, a coincident mem-
ory rather than an inspiration given
Mrs. Shaw.

A number of Chicago capitalists
have become interested in the manufac-
ture of the enamel, and after some legal
complications are settled it will be
placed upon the market. The cost of
the material will be merely nominal.
Mrs. Shaw has lately received valuable
testimonials from the agricultural de-
partment at Washington, where the
material has been thoroughly tested by
Secretary Wilson, who used tubs coated
with the enamel for large shipments of
butter to the foreign markets last sum-

mer. Mary F. Rosrnson.
—_—_—_ 2#—-____
Review of the Fruit Trade During
1897.
Chicago, Jan. 1—The year 1807

brought no great improvement in the
fruit business. The apple crop this sea-
son shows the single redeeming excep-
tion from the dealers’ standpoint. The
first four months of the year were
affected by the tremendous supply of
apples remaining from the crop of 1806.
When the returns were all in the sup-
ply was estimated at about 200,000,000
barrels, and they brought practically no
profit to any one engaged in_ the
handling of the crop, except the barrel
manufacturers and transportation com-
panies.

The demoralization caused by the ex-
cessively low price, the lowest on record,
was severely felt in all other lines of
fruit. A backward spring and two sharp
frosts made serious inroads in the early
fruit crop, so that the supply coming
from south of the Ohio River was very
short. Later in the season droughts
affected all small fruits, and trade lost
in the fruit business cannot be regained.
Cold rains at the time of blooming pre-
vented the setting of Southern peaches
This, too, was a loss to the trade, so
that all the early season was one of short
supp'y and light business.

With the marketing of the fruit crops
grown north of the Ohio River there
was a change, and such an abundance
of all small fruits was received on the
market that up to Aug. 1 the season was
exceedingly unprofitable, and prices
were so ruinously low that they scarcely
equalled the cost of marketing after the
fruit was grown.

After July had passed the effect of
the short crop of peaches was felt. The
improved condition of the country at
large was also an important factor, and
at that time a firmer tone was noted.

Grapes were in very large supply and
sold very low, but all other fruits were
in demand and a fair margin of profit
was realized. !

The apple crop of 1897 was_ scarcely
more than 25 per cent. of that of 1806,
and has made a handsome profit to the
grower and left a fair margin to the pur-
chaser. Prices are fully two and one-
half times those of last year, and with
a supply less than the demand the out-
look is bright for holders. The im-
mense orange crop of California will
have the market of this country almost
to itself, and with a disposition to sell
at a fair price the probability is that
the entire crop will move at satisfactory
figures.

As a whole, the year has been some-
what of an improvement over last year,
but with this further factor—that the
improvement that commenced late in
the season still holds, and continues to
the close with a confidence in the future
not known for the last four years, and
that promises well for the trade of 1808.

G. W. BaRNETT.

 

Potatoes -- Beans -- Onions

We are in the market daily; buy and Sell Potatoes and Beans, carlots;
if any to offer, write or wire, stating what you have, how soon can ship.

MOSELEY BROS.,

Established 1876.

26-28-30-32 Ottawa St.,
Grand Rapids, [lich.

Wholesale Seeds, Potatoes, Beans, Fruits.

BUNTING & CO.,

WHOLESALE

Oranges, Cape Cod Cranberries, Honey, Lemons,
Bananas, Sweet Potatoes, Red and Yellow Onions,
Spanish Onions.

GRAND RAPIDS, =

 

MICH.

Harris & Frutchey

Wholesale Commission Merchants

Are a good firm to ship Butter and Eggs to.
60 Woodbridge St., W., Detroit, Mich.

MILLER & TEASDALE CO.

ORANGES “us

NUTS
We have too cars La Barca and Sonora Oranges rolling, which can

PRODUCE
be diverted to any point; wire for prices.

601 NORTH THIRD ST., ST. LOUIS, MO.

 

 

 

We are in the market to buy

PEAS, BEANS, POTATOES

Onions and Onion Sets, Clover Seed, Allsyke, Pop Corn, etc.
If any to offer, Telephone, Wire or Write us, stating quantity.

ALFRED J. BROWN SEED CO.,

24 and 26 North Division St., GRAND RAPIDS.

 

AS

n R. HIRT, Jr.

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mn Produce Commission Merchant

& Market Street, Detroit.

Write for particulars.

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N. WOHLFELDER & CO.,

Wholesale Grocers and
Commission Merchants
CHEESE, BUTTER and EGGS. Consignments Solicited.
399-401-403 High St,, East, DETROIT

 

Cranberries

| All kinds of
Grapes VEGETABLES
Celery

 

 

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Onions ene oS

The Vinkemulder Company,
App les | Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

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GOTHAM GOSSIP.

News from the Metropolis---index to
the Market.
Special Correspondence.

New York, Jan. 1—The coffee market
during the last week of the old year was
dull and uninteresting. Cables positive-
ly announcing that the growing crop is
seriously damaged seemed to have no
effect whatever and matters moved in
the same channel they have occupied for
some time. The amount of Brazil coffee
here and afloat amounts to 1,192,000
bags, against 740,000 bags at the same
time last year. Rio No. 7 1s still quot-
able at 63gc. It is possible that there
is a little firmer feeling than a month
ago, but this is not said with much con-
fidence. More West India grades
changed hands than for some time _pre-
vious. East India sorts move slowly.

The tea market is fairly steady. Some
fairly good orders were received to be
filled atter the turn ot the year, and _al-
together the feeling is one of rather
more encouragement than has character-
ized the market for some time. Little
was done in invoice trading, but deal-
ers did not complain at the manner in
which the old year treated them in its
last week of existence.

Nothing especially interesting has

taken place in sugar. Trading 1s of an
everyday character and there seems to
be no rush of orders that would prevent
immediate delivery. Granulated has
been marked up c and is now listed
at 54c. This year it is likely the
American beet will take a more lively
interest in the sugar market than _here-
tofore.
.. This week is the one that is tc wit-
ness the beginning of a great revival in
rice. However that may be, the situa-
tion is certainly one that offers no oc-
casion for growling over. Prices are
firmly adhered to, and primary points
report a satisfactory outlook. Foreign
sorts are not in abundant supply and the
demand is sufficient to keep the market
well cleaned up.

Spice dealers are holding with more
firmness to their supplies on hand and
the situation is one that seems to war-
rant their action. The demand has not
been sufficient te create any hardening
in prices, but advices from abroad _ re-
port a situation that cannot be altogether
ignored by buyers here. Jobbers had
quite a good trade and many of the or-
ders were to be billed any time during
the first week of this month.

Business in molasses has been rather
quiet among jobbers, but there is an
impending revival, it is generally
thought, and in the meantime transac-
tions have been on a conservative basis.
Syrups are quiet, but sales have been on
a firm basis and show no weakness.

Canned goods brokers, in many cases,
say they have had the best business for
December for many years. Tomatoes
and corn are both firm and advancing.
It is thought by many that we shall see
tomatoes $1.25 before another season’s
supply is available. One dollar was re-
fused on Tuesday for a block of stand-
ard New Jerseys.

In dried fruits the demand has been
of a ‘‘sorting-up’’ nature and no large
transactions have been reported. Hold-
ers view the outlook with a good deal
of complacency and tell us that a boom
is on the way.

Butter is steady, but there has been
comparatively little doing during the
past week. Best Western creamery is
held at 22c, and for other grades there is
a sudden descent.

Rather more activity has been dis-
played in cheese, both among exporters
and the home trade. Small size, full
cream are worth 9@9 Kc.

While there is a fairly liberal supply,
the demand for eggs is sufficient to take
it nearly all.

All varieties of beans are
Choice pea, $1.124%4@1.15.
@1.15.

0. --—
Suggests a System of Licenses to
Prevent Fraud.

From the New York Produce Review.
We have every reason to believe that

swindlers are again plying their nefari-
ous trade in this city under the guise ot

quiet.
Medium, $1

 

commission merchants. We called atten-
tion to the matter in our last week’s
issue but wish to give further warning
for the benetit of our readers. To some
it May seem strange that we do not
boldly publish the name under which
these frauds crop up from time to time.
It must be remembered that while cer-
tain evidences are very convincing of
traud, legal proof of guilt in this di-
rection is difficult to secure until the
damage has been done and some of the
most gullible have been defrauded.
Even then, under the existing laws, it
is not often easy to secure conviction
when the rogues know enough to keep
within the forms of the law.

Any man who has produce to ship
has ample means for ascertaining the
reliability of those to whom he may wish
to consign. He should simply refuse to
send goods to an unknown house, no
matter how attractive the plea, without
getting satisfactory recommendation
trom some one whom he knows, either

personally or by reputation. ‘The fact
that apparently good references are
given 1s not any guarantee. The peo-

ple whom we alluded to last week give
references, but those to whom they re-
fer know nothing at all about them.
Some other swindlers here have referred
to mythical tirms whose mail would be
opened by confederates, and the most
encouraging replies sent to enquirers.
Testimony as to reliability should be
accepted only from some one in whom
the shipper has reason to feel perfect
confidence.

This precaution is so manifestly
necessary that many of our readers may
consider it foolish for us to be so often
pointing it out; but it is a remarkable
tact that any kind of a rascal can get
up an attractive letter, stating that he
has exceptional opportunities for the
sale of produce of one kind or another,
send it broadcast over the country and
procure consignments. Although we
cannot always mention names, we feel
satisfied that readers of this paper are
not likely to be caught in the wiles of
these scoundrels.

We think it very unfortunate that
frauds committed under the cloak of
commission merchants are so difficult
of conviction; in nine cases out of ten
the snides are able to realize on their
goods, shut up shop and leave the state
before the red tape of the law unwinds
enough to entrap them. Perhaps this
curse to the trade might be removed or
lessened if a law could be enacted mak-
ing it illegal for any one to engage in
a commission business without a li-
cense, to be procurable only upon satis-
factory evidence being furnished as to
character and responsibility.

+> oo

The Fleeting Trade.

Most merchants agree that it is much
easier to make new customers than it is
to keep old ones.

But why?

Well, sometimes the old friends die
or move away. Then, no woman limits
herself to one place to do her trading.
Some ‘‘shop’’ all the time, even for
needles and thread. At one time they
may be your customers, next week some
other store owns them. It is human
nature to change, and the last change is
always the best—until we change again.
The latest discovery is always the one
we enthuse over.

Then, again, some real or fancied
slight or wrong may drive your ‘‘old
reliable’’ to a competitor, and likewise
bring his customer to you.

Still, there must be something rad-
ically wrong with the store that cannot
boast of its regular clients. If cus-
tomers are always changing, and the
merchant never sees the same _ face
twice, a change in his methods is very
necessary. Treat a man or woman
right, and they will surely come again.

The up-to-date merchant is bound to
prosper, because he is sure to hold most
of his trade, and equally certain to at-
tract new customers.

Oe

The West Milwaukee shops of the
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Rail-
way are busier with work than they have
been since 1893. About 2,400 men are
engaged in the various shops.

 

Used His Undertaking Wagon.
|

Queer things happen in suburban |
towns, where the residents have a way |
of utilizing means at hand utterly re- |
gradless of the consequences. Mrs. |
Stimpson, a notable housewife who |
lives in one of these terrestrial para- |
dises, recently replenished her stock of |
household furniture at the only depart- |
ment store in the place and ordered the |
purchases sent home that afternoon, |
when she would be there to receive|
them.

She was in a particularly happy |
frame of mind as she sat at her front |
windows watching for their arrival, re- |
marking with satisfaction the vacant|
places the new furniture would adorn, |
when an undertaker’s wagon drove up |
and stopped in front of her door and a|
solemn-looking driver in rusty black |
descended from the front seat and rang
her bell. She did not lose a moment in
raising the window and calling to him
in a frightened voice:

‘‘Go away!
wrong house!
here!’’

‘‘I don’t want a body, ma’am; I ve |
got some things 1 was to leave here,’’
called the man. |

‘Take them back !"’ she commanded |
‘I tell you I won’t have them! You]
ought to be ashamed to stop here! What
do you suppose the neighbors will
think !’’

‘‘Well, ma’am,’’ said the man as he|
climbed on his wagon again, ‘‘if you |

You've stopped at the
There isn’t any body

don’t want your new furniture, all
right, but I’ve got it inside.’’

‘‘And | wouldn't take it as a gift,’’
said the distressed woman. ‘‘The idea
of bringing my goods in an undertak-
er’s wagon !’’

‘‘We hadn’t another vehicle in the
barn, and you said you wanted it right

| off,’ responded the man as he drove

away.
But the man of many callings who
had utilized the last conveyance in his

| establishment lost the sale of the furni-

ture and the good will of a customer who
did not appreciate such mortuary enter-
prise.
> o> —
A Hoodooed Grocery Store.

Kansas City has a ‘‘hoodooed’’ store.
When Charles H. Warner started a gro-
cery store on the northeast corner of
Thirteenth and Cherry streets the wise

jones of the neighborhood revived the

superstition that has for a long time at-
tached to the place and predicted short
life for Mr. Warner’s enterprise. All
sorts of purchasable goods have been
handled in the ill-fated room, and the
proprietor of every business that has
settled there has either failed or moved
away. A few days ago, after three

;}months of the grocery business, Mr.

Warner, like the rest, closed up his
doors and the stock and fixtures were

| carted away.

Seine ati cee ca

A heart without love is like a violin
without strings.

 

    
   

Who gets the...

a Oyster Trade?

The man whose oysters are the
freshest and best flavored.

- | Who loses other trade?

The man who sells fishy oysters
diluted with ice to disgust his
customers.

Avoid such a calamity by
using our Oyster
(See cut.) They are lined with
copper so you can use salt with

Cabinets.

the ice. They have porcelain
lined cans. Send for circular.

Grand Rapids Refrigerator Co.
Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

ANCHOR BRAND

OYSTERS

Will please your customers and make you money.

Popular prices prevail.

F. J. DET TENTHALER,
117-119 MONROE STREET,
BORORROTORS HORORSCTOROROC ROTORS HOROCTOLORCHOROHOHOEOH

Ask for quotations.

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

  

Mnfrs of Foot and

will give satisfaction.

Bean Picking Machinery.

E will send our Machine on 10 days’ trial
to interested parties, as we know that it

A card will bring Cir-

culars, Prices and a Machine if you wish.

MILLER BROS.,

Power

ROCHESTER, MICH.

 

Carloads of
Fancy California
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Oranges

Be sure to get our price before buying.

Hermann C.

Naumann & Co.,
33 Woodbridge St., W., Detroit

 

 

 

  

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

THE MILLTOWN STORE.

 

Jane Huxley’s Encounter with the
Burglars.
Written for the TRapDEsMAN.

When Jane Cragin upon her marriage
resigned her place as book-keeper in
the store at Milltown,and it seemed best
on all accounts to promote Jim Hank-
son, the clerk in the back store, to the
place, the change was made with some
misgivings on the part of both Jane and
Huxley. The fellow wasn't ‘quick at
figgers,’’ his penmanship was bad and,
what was worse, he didn't seem to care
anything about either deficiency; but
they both liked the boy, he had been a
Jong time with them and, finally, when
Jane said she would work with him and
teach him until he got the hang of the
thing, Jim took his place in the office
behind the books and the promotion
was confirmed. The fellow, however,
did not seem to learn easily; and what
troubled Jane more than she was will-
ing to admit was the utrer indifference
which the new book-keeper manifested
in the daily balancing of his accounts.

‘What if it didn’t come out toa
cent? What earthly use was there in
beginning back and going over page
after page just for the sake of hunting
up one cent, or a nickel, or even a
quarter?’’ No argument seemed to move
him; and, so long as he was willing to
put his hand in his pocket and make
up any deficiency, he ‘‘didn’t see why
that wasn't a good way out of the diffi-
culty—if it was a difficulty. ”’

Finally, when Jane had had enough
of this nonsense, and could plainly see
that he proposed to do what he had a
mind to in regard to it, she said:
‘Now, Jim, stop talking and listen to
me. It doesn’t make any difference
what you think about it, these books
are going to balance, and you are going
to do it; and don’t you leave the office
a single night without having these ac-
counts straight. Do you understand?
Yes or no, do you?’’

Of course he said he did and that
ended it for all practical purposes for
the time; but by and by it was easy to
see that the wrinkles between Jim’s eye-
brows were becoming alarmingly pro-
nounced, and one day when Cy was in
the office the unhappy accountant un-
burdened himself: ‘‘I’m as sorry as I
c’n b;, Cy, but the fact of the matter is
these books don’t balance, and they
hain’t balanced for weeks. I don’t
know what in thnnder the trouble is nor
where it is, but if the blamed thing goes
on so much longer, I shall start for the
insane asylum. Don’t look like that
more’n you can help it—I know it means
that Jane’s got to come down here and
worry over the books the Lord knows
how long; but break it to her gentle
like, so't she won’t be hard on me, and
do for pity’s sake hurry up and have it
over with. This dreadin’ of it is awful

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wearin’.

The spirit of fun and mischief took
possession of the proprietor of the Mill-
town emporium and ‘‘as soon as ever
he could,’’ he hastened home to break
the tidings ‘‘gentle like’’ to ‘‘she ‘twas
Jane Cragin.’’

‘*T hate to tell ye awfully, Jane,’’ he
said, as he rushed into the house, ‘‘but
that blamed Jim has got the books into
such an everlasting snarl that nobody
on the face of the earth but you can
straighten ’em. You'd better go right
down and tackle ’em. I’ve an idea that

they are worse than anybody thinks of,
and I guess you'd better give that Jim
the hot end of the poker to start with,

 

and give him to understand that we
can’t have and won't have any more of
such goin’s on. It won’t hurt him any
and will give him an idea that the
ground isn’t any too sure under his feet
anyway ;'’ and, with his errand thus
broken ‘‘gentle like,’’ Cy hurried back
to the store to see the fun.

It didn’t help Jim's trouble a bit to
have Jane interrupted in the very mid-
dle of some cakemaking which was go-
ing on in the Huxley kitchen. At the
very minute when Cy came in, she was
watching the clock and the cake that
the last should be out ot the oven just
the time that the first dictated. When
Cy came in with his story of her pre-
cious books, cake and clock were alike
forgotten and remembered only when
the burnt cake announced its own
scorching story. Too provoked to say
a word, she hastened down to the store.
Jim was there to explain, but when he
heard Jane’s little heels coming down
upon the floor clean and sharp, as if she
were walking on stilts, the spirit of
prudence, fostered by years of experi-
ence, settled down upon him, and
whispered ‘‘how sublime a thing it is
to suffer and be strong !’’

Without deigning to look at him, and
not venturing a word, Jane went straight
to the desk and opened the books. She
glanced down page after page, the scowl
between her brows growing deeper and
deeper and a smothered exclamation
escaping her from time to time. Final-
ly, when the little red spot began to
gather in the center of each white
cheek, discretion seemed to Jim to be
‘the better part of valor’’ and he ‘‘lit
out.’’ He did not go a moment too
soon. Not with a bang, as too many
men would have done, did Jane close
those books, but with a sigh very much
like the echo of despair she shut them,
looked around for the vanished Jim
and went out into the store.

1 Shey might be worse, Cy,’ she
said, as she stopped in front of her
husband at the counter, ‘‘but not much.
It’s a snarl that I can’t begin to un-
tangle with a tea party on my hands,
and I can’t do it with the noise that is
going on during the day. Let Jim keep
his accounts on loose paper until I bal-
ance the books, and then I shall come
over and work evenings, when every-
thing’s quiet, and straighten ’em out,
and then come in occasionally and see
that they are kept straight. All there is
about it, Jim’s undertaken to keep those
books, and he’s going to do it;’’ and,
when Jane Cragin said anything in that
tone of voice, there was no one around
the Milltown store bold enough to dis-
pute her.

At last, when the anxiety of the cake
and the tea party was over—Mrs. Bettis
said that ‘‘’twas just the nicest, hob-
nobbiest affair that Milltown had ever
seen !’’—Jane began her ‘‘battle with
the books’’ one evening after ‘‘shuttin’
up’’ time. Fer nearly a week she was
at work, and on the last night, some-
thing after twelve, she laid down her
pen, opened the drawer and exultingly
exclaimed, ‘‘There! $65.03, to a dot.
Let that Jim do that thing again if he
dares to! Now for a handful of cara-
mels and then I’m through.’’

Suiting the action to the word, she
left the office and groped her way in
the dark to the candy case in the front
part of the store. Slipping one of the
sticky sweets in her mouth, she was
feeling for a paper bag when she was
startled by a noise in the office. Think-
ing that it could not be Cy, she
dropped her candy and hurried back to

 

the office, to find three men taking the
money from the cash drawer!

Jane's entrance startled them and they
made a rush for the door; but she shut
it with a slam and determinedly placed
her back against it. Freeing her mouth
of the caramel, she demanded that
they return the money they had taken,
and the burglars’ cashier, cowed by
her fearless manner, took out the $65
and gave it to the plucky little woman.
As luck would have it, Jane was wear-
ing a new gown that day and, not hav-
ing had time to locate the pocket—she
had ordered a_ pocket—was obliged to
turn her attention from the thieves to
her garment, when one of the men,
while she was thus off her guard, sud-
denly opened the door and all three
rushed past her into the street.

Any one else, man or woman, would
have rejoiced to be rid of the visitors.
But not Jane Cragin. With a scream
that awakened more than one sleeper in
Milltown—Cy declared that the dead in
the graveyard turned over—and despite
her clinging garments, she rushed after
the robbers in hot pursuit, overtook
them at the turn in the road to the sta-
tion and grabbed hold of the man who
had the money, just as Cy and Jim and
several other startled Milltowners came
up to render assistance, among them
the sheriff, whom chance had brought to
the village for the night, who promptly
took the burglars into custody.

Search of the trio revealed the posses-
sion of three cents, which Mrs. Huxley
promptly claimed, Then, walking along
with Jim and her husband, she said:
‘‘Jim, I want you to come with Cy and
me to the office. The books are straight-
ened now, and if I show you to-night
where you have blundered, I shan’t
have to come to the store in the morn-

 

ing to do it.—There!’’ she exclaimed
some time after, ‘‘the $65.03 makes it
exactly right. I knew there was just
that in that drawer. And now I’ll tell
you again what I told you a long time
ago: These books are going to bal-
ance, and, what’s more, you are going
to do it—even if you have to chase a
gang of thieves for three cents, as I
have to-night, all over Milltown. My!
but I’m glad I got it;’’ and, while all
Milltown was busy in praising Mrs.
Huxley’s pluck with the burglars, that
worthy woman was exulting over the
balance that ‘‘came out to a dot!’’
RICHARD MALCOLM STRONG.
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Commercial Travelers

Michigan Knights of the Grip.
President, Joun A. Horrman, Kalamazoo; Secre-
tary, J. C. SaunpERs, Lansing; Treasurer, Cuas.
McNotury, Jackson.

 

 

Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Association.

President, 8S. H. Hart, Detroit; Secretary and
Treasurer, D. Morris, Detroit.

United Commercial Travelers of Michigan.
Grand Counselor, F. L. Day, Jackson: Grand
Secretary, G. S. Vatmorg, Detroit; Grand Treas-
urer, GEO. A. REYNOLDS, Saginaw.

 

Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Mutual Acci-
dent Association.

President, A. F. PEaKE, Jackson: Secretary and
Treasurer, Gro. F. OwEN, Grand Rapids.
Board of Directors—F. M. Tyter, H. B. Fair-
CHILD,Jas. N. BRADFORD, J. HENRY DAWLEY,GEO.

J. HEINZELMAN, CHas. S. RoBrnson.

Lake Superior Commercial Travelers’ Club.

President, W. C. Brown, Marquette; Secretary
and Treasurer, A. F. Wrxson, Marquette.

 

 

Gripsack Brigade.

Charles Brodhagen, of Lansing, has
taken a position with Lonn Bros., of La
Porte, Ind., as traveling salesman.

F. L. Nixon, Secretary of Post K,
sprung a surprise on the Kalamazoo
boys by getting married last Thursday
night. Someone wished him success and
his troubles little ones.

Hub Baker has effected a life-time
arrangement with the Clark-]Jewell-Wells
Co. to travel in his old territory, all of
which tends to confirm the statement
that Hub is a spellbinder of no small
degree.

D. B. Saltsman, traveling salesman
for the Giddings & Lewis Manufactur-
ing Co., of Fond du Lac, Wis., has ac-
cepted a position with the C. H. Dut-
ton Co., at Kalamazoo, as mechanical
engineer.

Nicholas -Popma, for the past nine
years behind the counter for Cornelius
Stryker, has engaged to cover a portion
of the city trade for the Ball-Barnhart-
Putman Co. He has already entered up-
on the duties of his new position.

At a meeting of Post K (Kalamazoo),
held at the Burdick House last Satur-
day, L. Verdon was elected Chairman,
E. F. Zander Secretary and Treasurer,
and Sig Folz, A. S. Cowing, G. M.
Logan, Will Davis and F. L. Nixon
members of the Board of Directors.

The next social party of Post E
(Grand Rapids) will be held at Imper-
ial Hall, on Wealthy avenue, Saturday
evening, Jan. 22. A meeting of the En-
tertainment Committee, to make ar-
rangements for the event, will be held
at the Tradesman office at 3 o’clock
Saturday afternoon.

Coldwater Republican: Anson R.
Brown, who has for many years been in
the employ of J. B. Branch & Co., has
closed his labors with that firm and
gone to Chicago, where he will enter
the employ of Carson, Pirie, Scott &
Co. as a traveling salesman, with Mich-
igan as his territory.

Kalamazoo Telegraph: Sig Folz won
the suit offered by Charles Friedman,
the tailor, to be given to the most pop-
ular traveling man in the city, the same
to be decided by vote. Mr. Folz’ ma-
jority was a decisive one, and ought to
be satisfactory proof that he hasa friend
or two in Kalamazoo. The vote of the
winner was 2,153, and the nearest to it
was 861, cast for L. Verdon. Ed. F.
Zander came next, with 762 votes.

The manner in which the Kalamazoo
traveling men entertained their guests
on the occasion of the ninth annual con-
vention of the Michigan Knights of the
Grip plainly demonstrated their ability
as entertainers of a high order. Node-
tail that would conduce to the pleasure

 

of the occasion was overlooked. The
hotel facilities were, in the main, ex-
cellent; the banquet and the accom-
panying program were superb, and the
ball on the last evening of the conven-
tion was by no means the least enjoy-
able part of the occasion. The recep-
tion at the Kalamazoo Club, at the close
of the final session, was in keeping
with the other features provided for the
purpose of creating a pleasant impres-
sion in the minds and hearts of all
present. Amos S. Musselman, who has
attended a great many banquets and
participated in many after dinner pro-
grams, insists that the speeches made
at Kalamazoo were, as a whole, head
and shoulders above the average
speeches delivered on an occcasion of
that kind.

Ca
Pleasant Words from Celery City
Travelers.

Kalamazoo, Jan. 3—The members of
Post K wish to express to you our grat-
itude for the many kindnesses you have
shown us in connection with our enter-
tainment of the State convention of the
Knights of the Grip. We feel that the
large attendance and enthusiasm shown
were, in great measure, due to your
many references to it, for you have
kindly published our notices and com-
munications, besides referring to us in
various ways.

We also feel especially grateful to you
for the able manner in which you sup-
ported the candidacy of our beloved
brother and fellow knight, John A.
Hoffman, for the honorable and _ re-
sponsible office of President of the State
organization, and feel that his final
election by acclamation, amidst a storm
of applause, was largely brought about
by your wise and energetic support.

Therefore, we ask you to accept, as a
slight recognition of your kindness, our
heartfelt thanks, as the voice of one
man, and assure you that we thoroughly
appreciate your efforts in our behalf,
and wish you a happy and prosperous
New Year.

E. STARBUCK,
BF. Lk. Nexon,
&. F. ZANDER,
Committee on Resolutions.
SS

Grand Rapids Retail Grocers’ Asso-
ciation.

At the regular meeting of the Grand
Rapids Retail Grocers’ Association,
held at Retail Grocers’ Hall, Tuesday
evening, Jan. 4, Vice-President Wag-
ner presided.

A communication was received from
Claude Buchanan, Secretary of the
Peninsular Building and Loan Associa-
tion, calling attention to the trading
stamp scheme he contemplated pro-
mulgating in connection with his or-
genization. The communication precip-
itated a very lively discussion along the
lines of trading stamp and _ allied
schemes, culminating in the adoption
of the following resolutions:

Whereas, Many of us have discovered
by bitter experience that the system
known as the trade stamping scheme
possesses no qualities worthy of any
patronage ; therefore,

Resolved, That this Association dis-
courage the practice of the same; also
any similar scheme; be it further

Resolved, That we indorse the ac
tion of the retail dealers of Ypsilant
in discarding the same as a step in the
right direction; be it further

Resolved, That a copy of these reso-
lutions be sent them, supporting their
action.

There being no further business, te
meeting adjourned.

The water famine in Kansas has _ as-
sumed a serious aspect. Dozens of towns
are hauling water by rail for thirty
miles. Emporia’s water supply has
been exhausted. The Santa Fe and
Missouri, Kansas and Texas railroads
can get no water there for their en-
gines,

 

 

Retaliate for Having to Close Their
Butterine Plants.

Chicago, Jan 3 — Chicago packers
who manufactured butterine asa side
line are now in the butter and egg
business on a big scale. This is be-
cause the law prohibiting the coloring
of butterine struck a fatal blow to that
business and caused stockyards men _ to
shut down their plants. Now they are
offering for sale ‘‘to the trade’’ real but-
ter and eggs ‘‘in quantities to suit and
5 off for cash.’’

Butter merchants in South Water
street and dairymen think that they can
distinguish blood and fire in the eyes of
the packers. Some of them think the
stockyards men have started out ona
campaign of extermination in retalia-
tion for the enactment of the law, which
is generally credited to the country leg-
islator and the butter merchant.

The packers insist there is not a
semblance of justice in the new law,
and are determined not to accept it un-
til every means to disqualify it has
been exercised. There are butter mer-
chants who regard the butterine fit to
associate with the ordinary palate, but
draw the line at coloring.

They declare that the substitute can,
by aid of the coloring—most of which
is made in the State of New York—be
made to imitate butter beyond the de-
tection of the consumer. They want the
law to stand merely as a protection for
the genuine butter,

Armour & Co. seem to be the great-
est source of fear to the butter people
The packers are advertising their bu-t
ter, egg and poultry department in
produce journals and emphasize their
intention to pay cash and make liberal
advances on shipments. They solicit
sample lots of butter and promise an
arrangement to buy their product regu-
larly. They specify that their cold-
storage system is a perfect one.

It is thought that Armour & Co. will
arrange facilities for the handling of
butter on a large scale in their 300 or
more branches throughout the country.
If such a step is taken butter men think
that the Eastern butter merchants would
suffer more than those in Chicago and
its vicinity. The packers would have
the advantage in securing lower freights,
by which they could afford to undersell
the commission men.

Swift & Co handle butter, eggs and
poultry, but claim not to doso ona
large scale—merely as an accommoda-
tion to customers now and then. They
eagerly await the decision of the courts
in deciding whether the law holds good
or not. Two or three test cases have
been made, but with little hope for the
packers.

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Flour and Feed.

At the opening of the new year con-
siderable enquiry is being made for
flour, but on account of the halting and
unsteady condition of the wheat mar-
kets, buyers and sellers differ so much
in their views that the volume of trad-
ing is restricted. Exports continue on a
large scale, as the result of a steady
foreign demand, and a large amount is
now going forward as flour, instead of
wheat, which is a healthy sign. * Re-
ceipts of wheat at some grain centers
in this country continue to be large be-
cause of the high prices which pre-
vailed in December; but the sections
from which most of this grain has been
attracted are known to have harvested a
short crop, and the final result of an
abnormally light movement later on is
awaited with interest. The city mills
have lost but very little time on ac-
count of the annual inventory, and as
good orders have been booked for the
past ten days, they will jog along at the
usual rate. The prospect for a good
volume of business for the next six
months is excellent, and all that will be
likely to hinder and interfere with a
good trade will be an unusual manip-
ulation of the price of wheat. Steady

 

markets and a good demand would be

welcomed by both buyer and selier.
Millstuffs are in good demand, with

prices well sustained and a shade high-

er. Feed and meal are moving rather

more freely, with prices unchanged for

the week. Wm. N. Rowe.

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Report of the Pickle Crop.

The pickle crop reports from New
England, New York, Ohio and the
Mississippi River sections show a
shortage of 120,000 barrels. The Chi-
cago district, including Northern In-
diana and Western Michigan, had a
guod yield. The pickle packers in the
Chicago district have as much stock as
in 1896. The salters put in the smallest
acreage known for seven years, and all
the old stock carried for several years
was sold out early in the fall. McHenry
county, Ill., the chief salting district,
has not been so thoroughly cleaned out
in twenty years. The Chicago district
is the only one that can be drawn on to
supply the enormous deficiency, and
this section cannot supply one-fourth the
quantity needed.

a
The Apple Situation.

The exports of apples to date have
been 597,560 barrels, as against 2, 122,-
400 barrels to same date last year, while
the likelihood is that the total exports
for the season will be kept within 800,-
ooo barrels, as against nearly 3,000,000
barrels last year. While there is an im-
portant exportable surplus in Ontario,
and a small one in Nova Scotia, the
Eastern States will have few of their
own to send away.

——_—~> 2.
It is barely possible that China may
feel the pins after a while which the
Europeans are sticking in her extrem-
ities and arouse herself for a big kick.
Her 400,000,000 cowards could make an
ugly fight under British and Japanese
officers, if cornered.
NL
F. L. Woolston has severed his con-
nection with White & White (Grand
Rapids), to take the position of pre-
scription clerk for B. Tripp, at Alle-
gan.

 

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Henry Heim, of Saginaw, succeeds

Stanley E. Parkill as member of the
State Board of Pharmacy, whose term

expired Dec. 31.
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MICHIGAN STATE BOARD OF PHARMACY.

Term expires

 

F. W. R. Perry, Detroit - - Dec. 31, 1898
A. C. SchUMacHER, Ann Arbor Dec. 31, 1899
Gro. GunpRumM, Ionia - - - Dee. 31, 1900
L. E. Reynoups, St. Joseph - - Dec. 31, 1901
HENRY HEIM, Saginaw - - - Dec. 31, 1902

President, F. W. R. Perry, Detroit.

Secretary, Gro. GuNpRUM, Ionia,

Treasurer, A. C. ScHUMACHER, Ann Arbor.

Examination Sessions.
Grand Rapids—March 1 and 2.
Star Island—June 27 and 28.
Marquette—A bout Sept. 1.
Lansing— Nov. 1 and 2.

All meetings will begin at 9 o’clock a. m. ex-
cept the Star Island meeting, which begins at8
o’clock p. m.

MICHIGAN STATE PHARMACEUTICAL
ASSOCIATION.

 

President—A. H. WEBBER, Cadillac.
Secretary—CuHas. Mann, Detroit. :
Treasurer—Joun D. Muir, Grand Rapids.

 

 

Lessons To Be Learned from the
Yearly Inventory.
Written for the TRADESMAN.

At the beginning of the new year al-
most every merchant who makes any
claim to businesslike methods takes an
inventory of his stock. To make and
price up a correct invoice of any con-
siderable amount of goods isa laborious
task and one to which no one who has
been often through the mill looks for-
ward with eagerness. And yet it is
dictated by all the canons of prudence
and experience that at least once a year
everyone engaged in a mercantile pur-
suit should take this necessary measure
to find out exactly how he stands with
the world, what his real income is and
how it compares with his expenditures.

But a thorough and careful inventory
ought to be something more than sim-
ply a means of coming at the total
amount of stock so as to find whether
the business is or is not on a_ profitable
footing, or to furnish a basis for insur-
ance adjustment in case of fire. When
the inventory has been written out and
focted it will pay to make a careful
study of it. By referring to the bills of
goods and the amount on hand it will
be easy to determine what one is doing
in any particular line. It is often the
case that the business as a whole may
be fairly profitable, and yet that certain
portions of it are either yielding noth-
ing or running at a positive loss. And
there is no better time than the annual
round-up to determine which branches
shall be pushed more vigorously and
which shall be pruned out entirely.

There is another thing which every
merchant, big or little, ought to do and
cannot afford to leave undone. That is
to go over the inventory carefully and
make a list of everything that can
rightfully be termed ‘‘dead stock.’’ If
there has been judicious buying and
constant effort to work off all odds and
ends, the ‘‘dead stock’’ ought not to
constitute a large proportion of the
whole amount of goods; but, if such
care has not been taken nor such special
effort made, the sum total of goods that
are not moving at all, or not selling as
they should sell, will be surprisingly
large.

Barring the giving of indiscriminate
credit, there is hardly any other ‘‘loose
screw’’ that is likely to cause so much
ultimate loss to the average merchant as
the accumulation on his shelves of old,
dirty, out-of-date, soiled or otherwise
damaged goods. It may be well to re-
mark right here that if proper care be
taken of stock, and general tidiness and
cleanliness are maintained, most goods
will retain their original freshness and
beauty until sold. There are many

 

things in regard to which your custom-
er will neither know nor care whether
you have held them in stock a weék ora
year so long as they are all right and
have the ‘‘new_ look,’’ while goods that
have been tumbled about and soiled will
be rejected by the fastidious buyer, al-
though they may have been in the hands
of the retailer but a few days.

When the list we have advised mak-
ing is completed, it will occur to the
thoughtful dealer that there are different
kinds of ‘‘dead stock.’’ He will find he
is not selling some lines because they
are out of season. ‘‘Leaves have their
time to fall,’’ and some goods have
their time to sell and it is practically
useless to try to sell them at any other
time. The famous woman who pur-
chased the doorplate with Thompson
spelled with a p on it is not a numerous
type of humanity. Most people buy to
supply immediate needs. You cannot
sell them sticky flypaper in the winter
nor fur overcoats in the summer. Dur-
ing the latter part of the selling season
of any line of goods it is well to make
special effort to close them out as low
as possible; but, when the season is
once past, the wise merchant will put

these goods carefully away, making
them as secure as possible against
moth, rust, mice, or whatever other

destructive agency by which they are
particularly liable to be attacked, and
hold them over.

In sharp distinction from the goods
just mentioned stand fruits, vegetables
and whatever other articles can be cor-
rectly termed perishable. And it will
not do to wait until inventory time to
dispose of such. Whoever handles must
exercise eternal vigilance that this or
that does not go down on his hands;
better sacrifice in season than lose en-
tirely. But even here tact and judgment
play their ever-necessary part. Per-
haps a groceryman, on looking over his
stock of green goods, finds some cab-
bage a little past the very prime of life.
Shall he offer these to each and every
customer who visits his store? By no
means. Let him wait until the right
one appears. Perhaps it will be that
worthy yet frugal lady who keeps a
boarding-house down by the depot. In
disposing of all wares that are not quite
up to the mark in every way there is
everything in offering to the right per
son. Such an one will not be offended
but, on the contrary, rather pleased with
the bargain. Of course, it is understood
tbat all such things are to he sold for
exactly what they are, with not the
slightest attempt to misrepresent or
conceal defects.

Some goods will be found on the list
that have not sold simply because they
have not had a fair chance tosell. They
have not been properly displayed, at-
tention has not been directed to them,
they have been forgotten and neglected.
All such must, as far as possible, be
gotten into prominence. Whether or
not to cut the price depends on the ar-
ticle and on the trade. A cut in price
below a fair and legitimate margin
should usually be for one of two things
—either as an advertisement or to get
what one can out of goods that will not
move at regular prices. It is well to
bear in mind that, while cutting prices
is sometimes a necessary measure, it is
for the sake of selling goods at a mar-
gin, not at cost or below, that you in-
vest your money, pay rent and clerk
hire and the thousand and one expenses
of business. So it will be well to know
that a given article will not sell ata
profit before reducing the price, unless

 

you wish to make a leader of it. Then

on all ‘‘stickers and hangers’’—every-
thing that you cannot sell for even what
it has cost you—put a price that will
move them, display conspicuously and
keep at it until they are gone. Then
don’t buy a lot more stuff that won't
sell, and next inventory time you will
have less ‘‘dead stock’’ to harass you.
QUILLO.
a
Experiments with Sugar Beets.

The Government spends money freely
in distributing seeds and plants among
the people. The policy of the Depart-
ment of Agriculture in the future will
be to encourage the introduction of
what will enable our people to diversify
their crops and keep at home money
that is now sent abroad to buy what the
United States should produce.

Seven tons of imported sugar-beet
seeds were distributed last spring in
twenty-seven states, among 22,000 farm-
ers, through the experiment stations of
those states, to ascertain where the
sweetest beets can be produced. Sam-
ples are now being analyzed at the éx-
periment stations and where they are
not prepared to do the work the beets
are forwarded to the laboratory of the
Department at Washington. There is
abundant encouragement to lead us to
conclude that our country will within a
few years produce what sugar it re-
quires. The Department will collect all
the facts regarding the work of this sea-
son and publish them for general dis-
tribution. The pioneer work will be
pushed energetically during the next
year.

To Advertise California Fruit Abroad.

At the meeting of the California State
Fruit-Growers’ Convention held in Sac-
ramento last month, a committee of fifty
was appointed to solicit subscriptions
to a fund of $10,000 for the purpose of
advertising California fruit products in
European markets. The necessity for
opening up new markets can be better
understood and appreciated when the
fact is taken into consideration that
the maximum amount of French prunes
produced in the State in any one year
up to 1897 was about 65,000,000 pounds,
and that this year, in the first three
months of the season, there had been
over 68,000,000 pounds sent out of the
State; and there is yet on hand from 30
to 40 per cent. of the crop. This shows
the increase in one variety only, and
does not include the dried and canned
fruits of all other varieties, such as
peaches, plums, pears, apricots, etc.,
which, it is reasonable to suppose, have
increased in like proportion. .

+--+ -9 ~<

Sam Jones has been looking over boys.
He says: ‘‘I doubt if the old men keep
close enough to the boys. If men of ex-
perience would be more companionable
with the boys and manifest more sym-
pathy with them in their troubles and
follies, perhaps there would be fewer
boys going astray, and more boys who
have gone astray would be rescued. Not
only the welfare of the home, but the
future of our country rests upon the
character of the boys growing up. A
good boy is worth his weight in gold to
any community; but the devil never put
a worse thing off on a community than
a bad boy.’”’

SS

Half of the self-denial and hardship
practiced to reach and test the gold
fields of the Klondike, if put into prac-
tice in your daily business life, will
assure you a grateful measure of suc-
cess.

 

The Drug Mar«et. .

There are several changes to note in
proprietary goods the first of the year.

Sen Sen—This article has been ad-
vanced to $1.20 per box; 5 boxes, $1.10
per box; 10 boxes, $1.05 per box.

Kickapoo Indian Sagwa—Has been
reduced to $8 per doz.

Kickapoo Indian Cough Cure—-Has
been reduced to $2 per doz.
Steamboat Cards—The

advanced $2 per gross.

Tiger Cards—The list has been ad-
vanced $2 per gross.

Capsules—The United States Capsule
Co. has reduced its price of empty cap-
sules to 60c per doz. boxes; % gross
lots, $7.10 per gross; I gross, $7; in
1,000S, 47C per 1,000.

Malt Nutrine—Has been reduced to
$2 per doz.

Opium, Quinine, Morphine—All are
steady at unchanged prices.

Gum Camphor—This article has de-
clined.

Cocaine—Has advanced 25c per oz.
and the market is firm.

Castor Oil—This article has declined
4c per gal.

Linseed Oil—Has advanced and is
very firm, on account of higher seed
market.

A quiet market is reported from trade
centers, but there are a good many ar-
ticles likely to advance soon.

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Advanced—Cocaine, Castor Oil, Linseed Oil,

Declined —Guin C amphor.

Turpentine.

 

 

 

Acidum
Aceticum,........... 8 6@8 38
Benzoicum, German 70@ 7%
aoeore.............. @ i
Carpoticam ......... 229@ 41
Circum ............ 40 2
Hydrochlor . : 3@ 5
Nitrocum. . 8s@ 10
Oxaticum ........... 1@ 14
Phosphorium, dil... @ 15
Salieyiicum. ........ OG 6
Sulphuricum........ 1%¥@ 5
Wanicam .......... 1 25@ 1 40
Tartaricum.......... 38@ 40

Ammonia
Aqua, 16 deg........ 4@ 6
Agua, 20 deg........ 6@ 8
CONPOnGE 2c... cds. 12@_—Ssi14
Chloridum .......... 12@ 14

Aniline
Diaok... ............. 2 Oe 2 oo
Powe 3. 80@ 1 00
Mee 45@ 50
WOUOW <2... 2 @ 3 00

Baccez.
Cubese........ po.18 183@ 15
Juniperus... ....... 6m 8
Xanthoxylum.. .... 5@ 3

Balsamum
Caparpe. ............. 60
Pe. @ 2 40
Terabin, Canada.... 45@ 50
Woman... its 80

Cortex
Abies, Canadian.... 18
Case ....-- -....- 12
Cinchona Flava..... 18
Euonymus atropurp 30
Myrica Cerifera, po. 20
Prunus Virgini...... 12
Quillaia, gr’d....... 14
Sassafras...... po. 18 12
Ulmus...po. 15, gr’d 15

Extractum
Glycyrrhiza Glabra. U@ 2%
Glycyrrhiza, po..... 23q@ 30
Hematox,15lbbox. l11@ 12
Heematox,is........ 13@ 14
Hematox, %s....... 14@ «15
Heematox, 4s....... 16@ 17

Ferru
Carbonate Precip... 15

_Citrate and Quinia.. 2 2
Citrate Soluble...... 7
Ferrocyanidum Sol. 40
Solut. Chioride..... 15
pas coe com)... 2
hate, com’l, by
Supe per ows....... 50
Sulphate, pure ..... 7
Flora
Area .:. a
Anthemis.. 20.5... .. 18@ 25
Matricaria .......... HQ 35
Polia
Barosma.......... --- B@ 2B
Cassia Acutifol, Tin-
ge ES sal 18@ 2%
Cassia Acutifol, ‘> 3@ 30
Salvia officinalis, 4s
and a i 122@ 2
Ura Ursi.. oe 8@ 10

"Gummi
Acacia, Ist picked.. @ 6
Acacia, 2d picked... @ 6
Acacia, 3d picked.. @ 3
Acacia, sifted sorts. @ 2
Acacia, po....... ... 60@ 80
Aloe, Barb. po.18@20 12@ 14
Aloe, Cape ....po. 15 So &
Aloe, Socotri. -po. 40 @ 8
Ammoniac.......... 55@ 60
Assafotida....po.30 2@ 28
Benzoinum ......... 50@ 55
Gatechu, is.......... @ 13
Catechu, %s......... @ 14
Catechu, 3¢8......... @ 16
— hore... 4@ 43

Buphorbium. “po. "35 @ 10
Dann... @10
Sunes pe... s.. 6@ 70
Guaiacum..... po. 25 @ 30
Kine... .....: po. 83.v0 @ 3 00
— ee eee ee $ 60
Meyrwh... 40
on” -po. 6114.30 3 00 3 10
Speuwae.... 2.2 oo. B@ 35
Shellac, bleached... 40@ 45
Tragacanth Oe oe 50@ 80

Herba
Absinthium..oz. pkg 25
Eupatorium .oz. pkg 20
Lobelia...... oz. pkg 25
Majorum ....oz. pkg 28
Mentha Pip..oz. pkg 23
Mentha Vir..oz. pkg 25
Bee... oz. pkg 39
TanacetumV oz. pkg 22
Thymus, V..oz. pkg 5
oe

Calcined, Pat.. 55@ C6
Carbonate, Pat... ‘ 20@ 22
Carbonate, K. & M.. 0@ 2
Cc arbonate, Jennings 3@ 36

Oleum
Absinthium..... 3 50
os Dule.. 50

— dale, Amare . 8 00@ 8 25
SUM CL 2 2@ 23:
Auranti Cortex..... 2 00@ 2 20
Bergamii............ 2 40@ 2 50
CeO... 8@ 90
Caryophylli......... 6@Q tu
OGRE 1. o., )
Chenopadii.......... @2%
Cinnamonii. ........ 1 = 1 90
Oftronella seer 50

 

 

 
 

Conium Mac........ 35@ 50
— oo i, i 10@ 1 20
Cubete... .. 90@ 1 00
Hxeehthitos _....... 1 00@ 1 10
Mmrinergm:. ..... 1 00@ 1 10
Geultheria,..... _... 1 50@ 1 60
Geranium, ounce. @ v6)
Gossippii, ‘Sem. gal. - SB 60
Hedeoms..... |... |. 1 00@ 1 10
Junipera. - 150@ 2 00
Lavendula . 9@ 2 00
Limonis.. - 1mei
Mentha Piper... - OQ 2 BD
Mentha Verid....... 1 50@ 1 60
Morrhue, gal....... 1 0U@ 1 10
MeyeCie sl 4 00@ 4 50
Olive. 2 75@ 3 00
Picis Liquida....... 10@ 12
Picis Liquida, gal... @ &
PCH 9%@ 1 10
Resmarm: 1... @100
Rose, ounce........ 6 re 8 50
Suecme 45
PO 0 100
mo 2 50@ 7 00
POSSAITAS 55@ 60
Sinapis, ess., ounce. @ &
en 1 40@ 1 50
Ciwee. ... 40@ 50
Thyme, opt..:..... @ 1 60
Theobromas........ b@ 2
Potassium
MCarb be oS
Bichromate ......... 13@ 15
— Boe eee 50@ 55
Dees cee. ta 6
Chlorate. -po.17@19e  16@ 18
Cyanide 33@ 40
2 60@ 2 65
Potassa, Bitart, pure 28@ 30
Potassa, Bitart, com @ &
Potass Nitras, opt.. 8@ 10
Potass Nitras........ 7@ 9
Preesiate 3... |: D@® BD
Sulphate po . 15@ 18
Radix
AConItvm...... ._. 20@
: 2@ 23
Anenees co 10@_ 12
AT PO... |. @ B®
Calamns 2... 20@ 40
Gentiana...... p.6b ho 6
Glychrrhiza...pv.15 16@ 18
Hydrastis Canaden . @ &
Hydrastis Can., po.. @ 7
Hellebore, Alba, Pp... ha Bw
[nwa po 15@ 20
Ipecac, pe... 2 10@ 2 25
Iris plox....p035@38 35@ 40
Jalna, pe 35@ 30
Maranta, \%s........ @ sx
Podophyllum, po.. 2Q@ 6
Roa 73@ 1 00
moet, Ge. @135
net py... =| wom t 3
Spireia, 2. 35@ 38
Sanguinaria...po. 15 @ 8
Serpentaria ....._.. . 30@ «35
ROnera 0@ 45
Similax “egmee H @ #
Smilax, M... @
Deis. 0.35 10@ 12
Symplocarpus, a
aan po... |. @ B®
Valeriana, Eng.po.30 @ &
Valeriana, German. 1@ 2
Zingiber a. i. ms
Zangeeper sy 3@ 27
Benue
Anisum....... po. @ #8
Apium (graveleons) 13@ = 15
Bird, 1s.. 41@ 6
Carn .po.. i8 10@_ 12
Cardamon......__._. 13@ 1%
Coriandrim......__. 8@ 10
Cannabis Sativa.... 41@ 4%
Cydenium =... 75@ 1 00
Chenopodium ...... i
Dipterix Odorate... 2 00@ 2 2
Fontculum ...... | @ 10
$a pe... .. 7@ 9
ee oleic lc. 3@ 4
Lint, re... bbl. 3 4@ 4%
Lobel lia 35@ 40
Pharlaris| Canarian. 4Q@ 1%
ee 44@ 5
Sinapis Albu........ I@ 8
Sinapis Nigra....... ie 8
Spiritus
Frumenti, W. D. Co. 2 00@ 2 50
Frumenti, D. F. R.. 2 00@ 2 25
Frumenti..... 1 25@ 1 50
Juniperis Co. 0. T_! 1 65@ 2 00
Juniperis Co........ 1 75@ 3 50
Saacharum N. E.... 1 90@ 2 10
Spt. Vini Galli...... 1 75@ 6 50
Vini Oporto......... 1 2@ 2 00
Vini Ams... 1 25@ 2 00
Sponges
Florida sheeps’ wool
Gaeriame.. 2 50@ 2 75
Nassau sheeps wool
Carmege..-).c 3. @ 2 00
velvet extra sheeps’
wool, carriage. .... @13
Extra yellows eeps’
wool. carriage. . @ 1 00
Grass sheeps’ wool,
rece .......... @ 1 00
— for slate use. ee
Yellow Reef, for
Siete Use. @ 140
an
Acacia . ce @ 50
Auranti Cortes...... @
pier. @ »
rorree | a 60
err iOg. @ 50
Bnei Arom ... _:... @
Smilax reat. —_— =
Senega.... ...
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Bete Ce... 1...
Poragae :-... .
Prunus virg.........

Tinctures
Aconitum Napellis R
Aconitum 7 F
Aloes..
Aloes and Myrrh..
Bree...
Assafostida .........
Atrope Belladonna.
Auranti Cortex.....
Benzo...

Baroema
Cantharides........
Capsicum |...

Cardamon......._. <

Camor ......
Catechu....
Cinchens. |...
Cinehona Co... ....
Cofamiba .... 6...

  

Cassia Acutifol.....
Cassia AcutifolCo .
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say Chloridum..
Geman

Gumee
Guiacaammon......
Hyoscyamus
foming.... .. ..
Iodine, colorless.

MOVER, oo
Nox Vomiea........
1

Opii, cam oe:
Opii, deodorized..

 

Sanguinaria . ......
Serpentaria: .........
Stromonium ........
Tolutan.........
Valerian...
Veratrum Veride...
WABetber.

Miscellaneous
Ether, Spts. Nit.3F
‘ither, Spts. Nit.4F
Alumen .
Alumen, gro’d. po. 7
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Bismuth SN. .
Calcium Chlor., 1s..
Calcium Chlor., %s.
Caicium Chlor., 4s.
Cantharides, Rus.
Capsici Fructus, af.
Capsici Fructus, po.
Capsici FructusB,po
Caryophyllus 3
Carmine, No. 2
Cera Alba, S&F.
Cera Flava
Cocens
Cassia —
Centraria. .
Cetaceum..
Chloroform.......17’
Chloroform, a
Chloral Hyd Crst.
Chondras,
Cinchonidine,P.& W
Cinchonidine, Germ
Cocsme 0
Corks, list, dis. pr.ct.
Creosotum...... ._.
Cress. : bbl. 75
Creta, prep..........
Creta} weer...
Creta, mp.
Greens

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Emery, po.. Cees

Ergot...

Gelatin, Cooper. .
Gelatin. Frenech.....
Glassware, flint, box
Less than box....
Glue, brown..
Glue, white.
Ciyoerms
Grana Paradisi ...
urns 0s .
Hydraag Chlor Mite
Hydraag Chlor Cor.
Hydraag Ox Rub’m.
Hydraag Ammoniati
HydraagUnguentum
Hydrarcsyvrum.
— Am. .
Tame
jamie, HResubi......
Iodoform....... ....
Bepue.
Lycopodium ........
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Liquor Arsex et By-
Grats 10d... .......
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Magnesia, Sulph..
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ct Canton.. 40
Myristica, No. 1..... 5

6@ 80
- po.20 @ 10

Nux Vomica..
Gs tesa... 15@ 18
— Saac, H. & P.
ee. @ 1 00
Pieis Lia. N N.% gal
Se @ 2 00
Piels Liq., quarts.. @ 1 00
Picis Liq., pints..... @ &
Pir Hydrarg.. -po. 80 @
Piper Nigra...po. 22 @ 2
Piper Alba....po. 35 @
Pitx Burgun. ieeee @ *
Finompi Aeet........ ie FF
Pulvis Ipecac et Opii 1 10@ 1 20
Pyrethrum, boxes H.
& P. D. Co., dos... @12%
Pyrethrum, PV a: 30@ 33
GCussere.......... 83m 10
Quinia, S. P. & W.. 3@ 40
Quinia,S.German.. 28@ 38
Quinia, N.Y. - oa 38
Rubia Tinctorum.. 14
SaccharumLactis pv 20
Saige. 3 oe 3 10
Sanguis Draconis... 40@ 50
see 2@ 14
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Sapo, G.. @ &
Siedlitz Mixture..._ 20 @ 2

Seiagee
Sinapis, opt.........
Snu , Maceaboy, De
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snuff, nama: DeVo’s
Soda Boras..........

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Soda et Potass Tart.
Soda, Carb..........
Soda, Bi-Carp.......
Soaa, Ase ..........
Soda, Sulphas.......
| Spts. Cologne. .
| Spts. Ether Co......
| Spt Myrcia Dom...
| Spts. Vini Rect. bbl.
Spts. Vini Rect.4bbl
Spts. Vini Rect. 10gal
Spts. Vini Rect. 5gal
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Strychnia, rystal... 1 rine 14
Sulphur, Sabl....... 2%4@ 3
Sulphur, Holl.... . 2@ 2%
Tamarinds.......... Ss 0
Terenventh ‘engin 232Q@ 8
Theobrome.. . ££ 6
Youll... 9 00@16 09
@inet Sulph......... 7@ 8
Oils

BBL. GAL
Whale, winter....... 70 70
hard, extra......... 40 45
Tara. Woe. t.......... 35 40

 

Linseed, pure raw.. 41 44
Linseed, boiled..... 43 46
Neatsfoot,winterstr 65 70
Spirits Turpentine.. 37 42
Paints BBL. LB
Red Venetian... ... 1% 2 @&
Ochre, yellow Mars. 1% 2 @4
Ochre, yellow Ber.. 1% 2 @3
Putty, commercial.. 24% 2%@3
Putty, strictly pure. 2% 24%@3
Vermilion, rime
Ameericam.......... 13@ 15
Vermilion, English. 7 vi)
Green, Parte ........ %@ 19
Green, Peninsular. 13@ 16
toe, Ged ......... 54 6
Lead, white........ 5K@ 6
Whiting, white i @ 7
Whiting, gilders’. 1@ &
White, Paris Amer.. -“1@100
= Paris Eng.
=... "@1 40
U saoeéial Prepared. 1 00@ 1 15
Varnishes)’
No. 1°Turp Coach... 1 10@ 1 2@
Extra TFurp.. - 1@@in
Coaen Bedy......... 2 T@ 3 00
No. 1 Turp Furn.... 1 00@ 1 10
Extra Turk Damar.. 1 55@ 1 60
Jap. Dryer,No.1Turp 70@ 7%

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BRUSHES

We shall display Sample Lines
of a complete assortment of Brushes
January 1, 1898, consisting of

Whitewash Heads,
Kalsomine, Wall,
Oval and Round

Paint and Varnish.

Flat, square and
Chiseled Varnish,
Sash Tools,

Painters’ Dusters,

Artists’ Materials.

and invite your inspection and or-
Quality and Prices are right.

HAZELTINE

& PERKINS
DRUG CO.
Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

   

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

GROCERY PRICE CURRENT.

The prices quoted in this list are for the trade only, in such quantities as are usually purchased by retail

dealers.

possible to give quotations suitable for a
erage prices for average conditions of purchase.
those who have poor credit.

our aim to make this feature of the greatest possible use to dealers.

They are prepared just before going to press and are an accurate index of the local market.

1 conditions of purchase, and those below are given as representing av-
Cash buyers or those of strong credit usually buy closer than
Subscribers are earnestly requested to point out any errors or omissions, as it is

It is im-

 

 

AXLE GREASE.
doz.

 

gross
Aureek. -.55 6 00
Camere: .... 7 00
eee 50 4 00
Premers.......-......, 2 9@
IXL Golden, tin boxes 75 9 00
Thee, tin boxes........ % 9 00
Parra. 5 600
BAKING POWDER.
Absolute.
i. i Goan Gon... 45
: cans dec............. 85
. came des. ........... 150
Acme.
ag Ih CaMES Gos............ 45
Smecanssaee.......... @&
1 lb cans 1 doz.. 1
lk. .
El Parity.
44 lb cans per doz........- 75
6 Ip cans per Gor ........ 1 20
1 lbcans per doz..... 2 ee
Home.
lq lb cans 4dozcase...... 35
% lb cans 4 doz case...... =
Ps cans 2 doz case .....

14 1b cans, 4 doz case..... 45
44 1b cans, 4 doz case...... 85
1 cans, 2 doz case...... 1 60
Jersey Cream.

f ib. Gans, per doz. ......... 2 00
9 os. Cans, per doz.......... 1s
6 Ox Cams, perdex.......... 85
Our pe.
.So..-- oe 5
cee 6
: means. ................ 1 oe
Peerless.
imc 85
BATH BRICK.
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j doz. pasteboard Boxes.. 40
3 doz. wooden boxes....... 1 20
BROOrIS.

No i Gare. ............. 1
No. 2 Carpet. a a is
No. 3 Carpet..... we
a eee... 1 15
Parlor Gem . oe eees Se
Common ae ql
Perey Week... .... 80
Warehouse. ..... JS
CANDLES.

— ......... 2
Se 8

Paraffine 5

CANNED GOODS.
Manitowoc Peas.
Lakeside Marrowfat....... 95

Lakeside E. J.. 115

Lakeside, Cham. of Eng... +120

Lakeside. Gem. Ex. Sifted. 1 45

Extra Sifted Early June....1 75
CATSUP.

Columbia, pints.......... 2 09
Columbia, % pints.......... 1
CHEESE
aoe... db 11%
ee se @ 11%
ee @ 11%
Mage @ 12%
aa... @ 12%
Gold a @ i

Merkimer........ ae @ ti

Riga. @
Some @
Pewee ............ @
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Springdalc..........
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Limourrer ..........
Prmceprre......-.. 2.3 43
Sap Uage............ 18
Chicory
Bulk i a 5
Red 2. 7
CHOCOLATE.

Walter Baker & sua s.
German Sweet........ |
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Package.

Below are given New York
prices on package coffees, to
which the wholesale dealer
adds the local freight from
New York to your shipping
point, giving you credit on the
invoice for the amount of
freight buyer pays from the
market in which he purchases
to his shipping point, including
weight of package, also ic a

pound. In 601b. cases the list
is 10c per 100 lbs. above the
price in full cases.

Arbuckle . a
Jersey . ww
McLaughlin’ a eK 10.50

Extract.

Valley City % gross ..... 5
Pore % Srece.. 3... 115
Hummel’s foil \ gross... 85
Hummel’s tin 4 gross... 142

CLOTHES PINS.

Sarossteonse 8 8=—_—i‘éiéC#:U 40
COUGH DROPS.
Cc. B. Brand.
405 cent packages ........ 1 00

CONDENSED MILE.

4 doz in case.

Gail Borden _—- Lee ces 6 7%
— coos se oe
Daisy . Es
Champion . eee > + oO
Magnolia oe oo
ee ee Se Re SE 3 35
ee. 3 35

 

Tradesman Grade.

50 books, any denom.... 1
100 books, any denom.... 2
500 books, any denom....11

1,000 books, any denom....20
Economic —

50 books, any denom.... 1
100 books, any denom.... 25
500 books any denom.. lint

1,000 books, any denom. $2120

 

CLOTHES LINES.
Cotton, 40 ft, per doz.......1 00
Cotton, 50 ft, per doz....... 1 20
Cotton, 60 ft, per doz....... 1 40
Cotton, 70 ft, per dos....... 1 60
Cotton, 80 ft, per doz....... 1 80}
Jute, Ot. por Jos........- 80 |
Jute. 72 ft. per dos,, O65

COCOA SHELLS.
ib bars... ... 2%
Less quantity eee 3
Pound packages......... 4

CREAM TARTAR.

5 and 10 1b. wooden boxes..30-35
COFFEE.
Green.

Rio.
ae 10
Cee 12
Pye oc ee: 13
Goigen .........- jcae ee
aes 15

Santos.
— .......
Boon
Pome.
reacers ... 17
Mexican and Guatamala.
—. 16
Good Z
aay |... 18
Maracaibo.
rome ....- Soe eee teas oo ee
Mebies. .....--.._.--... oe 21
Java.
a... 20
Prigete Growth...............22
Mantcorne |...
Moche.
imation :_... 4... a
Aven
Roasted.
Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s Brands
Vitth Avenae..... ....... 28
| Jewell’s Arabian Mocha....28
| Wells’ Mocha and Java..... 24
| Wells’ Perfection = a
| Saneaioho ... oc.
| Breakfast Blend.. oo
Valtey City Mararaibo. ..18%
facet Biche 14
Leader Glend.....-. .. ....

 

 

Universal Grade.
50 books, any denom....

150

100 books, any denom.... 2 50

500 books, any denom....11 50

1,000 books, any denom....20 00
Superior Grade.

50 books, any denom.... 1 50

100 books, any denom.... 2 50

; 500 books, any denom....11 50

5 | 1,000 books, any denom....20 00

Coupon Pass Books,
Can be made to represent any
denomination from #10 down.

pease 1 00

Seeks... eee
eo e................. oe
re a
Sep OOGES.................. 2 oe
1000 books... i oo

Credit ‘Checks.
500, any one denom’n..... 3 00
1000, any one denom’n..... 5 00
2009, any one denom’n.. 8 00
Steel punch. sl — v6)
DRIED — _DOMESTIC
pples.

Sundried. @ 5%
Evaporated 50. Ib. boxes. @ 84
California Fruits.
Assteom.......-....... Soeeoen

Bisckberries.......:...
Noctarimes......_..... @ 7%
Peaches.. neues & OR Oe
eee 8 @7%
Pitted Cherries..
Pram neres.............
Raspherrics............
California Prunes.
100-120 25 1b boxes....... @ 3%
90-100 25 Ib boxes....... 4
80-90 3 ib boxes....... @ 4¥
70 - 80 25 1b boxes....... @ 5
60-70 25 Ib boxes.. .... @5
50 - 60 25 lb boxes....... @7
40-50 % ib boxes....... @ 8%
30 - 40 25 1b boxes.... @

i¢ cent less in 50 1b cases

Raisins.
Lendon Layers 3 Crown.
London Layers 4 Crown.
Dehesias
Loose Muscatels 2 2 Crown
Loose Muscatels 3 Crown
Loose Muscatels 4 Crown

FOREIGN.
ee
Patras bbis..... ..@ 6%
Vostizzas 50 lb cases......@ 6%
Cleaned, palk ........._.- @&
Cleaned, packages........ @ 8%

Peel.
Citron American 101b bx @i3
Lemon American 10 1b bx @i2
Orange American 101b bx @12

Raisins.

Ondura 28 ib boxes.....8 @ 8%
Sultana 1 Crown....... @
Sultans 2Crown....... @
Sultana SCrown....... @il
Sultana 4Crown....... @

Snitans 5 Crown oe
Sultana 6 Crown....... @i2
Sultana package @14

FARINACEOUS GOODS.

Farina.
24 1 tb. puckascs..........7
Baik, per 100 ibs..... ..._ 3 50
Grits.
Walsh-DeRoo Co.’s.......2 1
Bulk in 100 1b. bags.......3 0)
Hominy.
aoe... 2 50
Fiake, 50 lb. drums........ 1 00
Beans.
Deiediima . ... 3
Medium Hand Picked.. 90
Maccaroni and Vermicelli.
Domestic, 101b. box...... 60
Imported, 25 Ib. box. 2 50
Pearl Barley.
Common... ....:.. - = ae
Chester oie
ere ss 2%
Peas.
ree Bi 85
Bete Here... 2
Rolled Oats.
Rolled Avena, bbl.......3 %
Monarch, bbl. . ewe
Monarch. % Chi 1 9%
Private brands, bbl.....
Private brands, Cop...
(Quaker, Canes.|...........: 3 20
cinron, CABGS......:.......- 16
Sago.
German... 3%
East tgia......-.--- ae
Wheat.
GCreekod, balk... ... 23). =. 314
242 1b packages........... 250

 

 

Fish.

 

Cod.
Georges cured......... @4%
Georges genuine...... @ 5%
Georges selected...... @ 6%
Stripe or bricks....... 5 @7%
Halibut.

CRMER. |... - 10
Bie... . 9
Herring.

Holland white hoops, bbl. 10 25
Holland white hoop 3 % bbi 5 50

Holiand white hoop, keg. ie
Holland white ee mchs 80
Rorweres... .... |.

 

    

Round 100 lbs 40
Round 40 lbs.. -_ 1
BReelee 15
ee
Mess 100 lbs... se. oe
Mees 20 ee 6 70
Mess 10 lbs oe
Mees Glee... 1 43
mo. tts. sc 14 50
7o.t Sie............... om
Ho.t 10 lps... 1 60
mot Sie... 1 30
No. 2 Peete... en, 16 60
No.8 Dive... ..... ... 2
No.2 10 lbs 16
Ho. 2 sie... .. 95
Ss
Bye wees... ............ 55
Trout
mo. 1 Oe... 5.5... SF S8
mo.t @1pe..:......,.._. 3 ap
Moe. 1 We... 3: 6)
Wot See... 51
Whitefish.
No.1.No.2 Fam
0 iee........60 50 2a
40 lbs so 2a io
ive... 83 65 40
Site........ 69 55 35

 

ie
-On...... 1 20 2 oz. 75
Big......1 i Se
4on.. ...c @ ht a 1 40
c“.....2 0 cx.....2 0
No. &§ 1200 xo. 8..3 0
No. 10. .6 00 No. 10...4 00
No. 2715 yO. 2r. &
No, 37.2 00 No. 37.1%
No 4T.2 40 No. 4T.1 59
Souders’.

Oval bottle, with corkscrew.
Best in the world for the
ax

Regular
Grade
Lemon.
doz
Zo...... 75
206. ooo 1 58
Regular
Vanilla.
doz
<1. ee
CLEGANT fi) 4.0Z-.---- 2 40
S FE XX Grade
i Lemon.
Of... 1 50
on. ....8 08
XX Grade
Vanilla.
Sax... .. 1%
m t i! 3 50
GUNPOWDER.
Rifle—Dupont’s.
Rees ee
Wait Bers 2. 22
Quarter Kogs......;......:...1 35
ee 30
a 18
= an eee
OG oe ee cu ue. 4%
Half ere se 2 40
ROadeer Peers oo 1 35
Pip: cane
Eagie Duck—Dupont’s.

Oe ee 8
inet Miers wough 2S
ype Ree 2

eae Sasa icg sie ae

 

 

HERBS.
Sage. 15
id

INDIGO.

Madras, 5 lb boxes......... 55
S. F.,2,3 and 5 ib boxes.... 50
JELLY.

610 DOs... 40
SO lb atis.... .- tdagocc, oe
Kraut.

Barrels.. Le oe
Half barrela. 0 2 2

LYE.

Condensed, 2 doz ..........1 B
ConGoosed. ¢ den..........- 22
LICORICE.
ie 30
eee ec, 25

eee ce
ee. 10
MINCE MBAT.
Ideal, 3 doz. in case.........2 25
MATCHES.

Diamond =r Co.’s ——
No. 9 sulphur.. as 1 6

 

Anchor Parior.. ‘1 70
0.2 Home... 10
Hxpon Parior..........-...4 0

MOLASSES.

New Orieans.
meee 11
Pee. 14
eee ee 20
es 24
Open Ketile.......:....... 25@35

Half-barrels 2e extra.
MUSTARD.
Horse Radish, 1 doz......... 1%
Horse Radish, 2 doz......... 3 50
Bayle’s Celery, 1 doz........1 %
oo
Clay. Mo. 216... 1 70
Clay, T. b. niacin eae 65
oe woe... 1... 85
POTASH.
48 a in case.

Babbitt . 400
Penna Sait ‘Co.’s. . 300
PICKLES.
lMedium.

Barrels, 1,200 count........ 5 50
Half bbls, 600 count........ 3 30
Small.

Sarrels, 2,400 count....... 6 7%
Half bbis, 1,200 count...... 4 00
RICE.
=
Carolina head.. ae
Corot Bet ....... 6S
Cearounmsa Me 2.........-:. 4%
oe 3%
penne.

Japan, No. 1. oc. eae
Japan, No cis saee | Se
Java, fancy 2 Sa coe eee 6
Java, et. 5
ome. ..__.. 5%

SALERATUS.
Packed 60 lbs. in box.

 

  
   

ORtree ss. 3 3C

Deisnes.... 2... ..3 15

Pyieees --3 30

(weyler 6.22. 03... .-3 00
SALT.

Diamond Crystal.
Cases, 24 3-lb boxes......... 150
Barrels, 100 31lbbags......2 75
Barrels, 40 7% 1bbags -2 40
Butter, 28 lb. bags... ae,
Butter, 56 1b bags.. so =
Butter, 20 14 1b bags. cee 3 00
Butter, 200 1D Dele... 2 50

Common Grades.

OS IDRAeKS. cole 1 70
OOS40 GRCER. se 1 55
Se 1S Saeee. 1 45

Worcester.
be 4 iD. Caxsone........-.. 3 25

iis 25G1D SROER.. 3. 2. 4 00
Or 5 1D: eaees........... 2 3%
2214 Th Gacks...-. ....- 3
200. 1B, here. 35

28 Ib: linen waeks............ =

56 lb. linen sacks.. rs

aie in barrels... ss "2 20

Warsaw.
56-lb dairy in Grill bags... :- 30
28-Ib dairy in drill bags..... 15

Ashton.

56-lb dairy in iinen sacks... 60
Higgins.

56-lb dairy in linen sacks 60

Solar Rock.

S61) cacks.. 8... cs ee
Common.
Granulated Fine............ 7
Medium Fine.....,.........

 

  

SAL SODA.
Granulated, bbis.......... 7
Granulated, 100 lb cases.. 90
SUMP, ODIS...... .. 1
Lump, 145]b kegs.......... 85

SEEDS.
POS ie a 9
Canary. Smyine..........: ¢
Cormeen. 8
Cardamon, Malabar ..... 69
Reem. il
Hemp, Russian........-. 344
i e............... 4%
Mustard, white.. ee.
Pom 8... es. ae
OM i 4%
OE EE

SNUFP.
Scotch, in bladders.. oe
Maccaboy, In jars.. oo
French Rappee, in jars. tous 43

SOAP.

PAIS DOM ee ec, 2%
5 box lots, delivered. 2 oe
10 box lots, delivered....... 2 65

’
JAS. 8. KIRK & GO.’S BRANDS.
American Family, wrp’d....3 33

American Family, unwrp’d.3 27

 
 

ee 3
COReS. . . oe. 22
MOWOR ee 2 50

Dusky Diamond, 50 6 oz....2 10
Dusky Diamond, 50 8 oz....3 00

Bine india, 100 < ib....:..... 3 00
Birkoune......--...... 3%
ioe co, 3 65

One box American ‘Family
free with five.

Brand.

Schulte Soap Co.’s

 

100 cakes, 75 Ibs.

Bree bOk. ..... 1... 2 80
» OOx 19%... 6 2%
0) box Tots... |... ee
@o bOx 1OtS..44.5..... 2 60

Allen B. Wrisley’s Brands.

Old Country, 80 1-lb. bars ..2 %5

Good Cheer, 60 1-lb. bars....3 rb)

Uno, 100 % ib. Bars. 06) 2 50

Doll, 100 10- oz. bars.. .-2 06
Scouring.

Sapolio, kitchen, 3doz..... 2 40
Sapolio, hand, 3 doz........ 2 40
SODA.

Me, tee ce, 5%
Kegs, "Rhslish : 4%
SPICES.

Whole Sifted.

Rie oo. 10
Cassia, China in mats...... 12
Cassia, Batavia in bund...

Cassia, Saigon in rolls...... 39
Cloves, AMpOvnS.... 2.40): 10
Cloves, Zanzibar............ 9
Mace, Batavia 00) 55
Nutmegs, fancy........... 60
margmmers, NO. 1... 2... 50
Mutmers. No. 2............; 45

Pepper, Singapore, black...10

Pepper, Singapore, white. ..12

Pepper, Wot... 6. sc: 12
Pure Ground in Bulk.

AISNOOR 6 ose

Cassia, Batavia. .:... 014 22
Cassia, Saleen 40
Cloves, Amboyna...........18
Cloves, Zansiber...........* 13
Ginger; African. .:--. 2: :... 15
Ginger, Cochise... ........: 18
Ginger, Jamaica............ 23
Mace, Batavia.....:........ 70
Mustard, Eng. and Trieste..18
Mustard, Trieste...........: 20
Muieeee. .. 3. 8 —<—
omer Sing . bleck;......:

Pepper, Sing., white........ 5
Pepper, Cayenne koe ose wae 20
PO oe eee ad 15

RONAN eie ahaa tO BIE con

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RONAN eie ahaa tO BIE con

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

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STARCH.

 

Kingsford’s Corn.

40 1-ib packages -.. o.... 6
20 1 1D packages... : Cig
Kingsford’s Silver Gloss.

40 1-lb packages.. tose Oe
Cl bores...
Diamond.

G4 10¢ packages ...........5
128 5c packages.. .5 00
32 10c and 64 5¢ pae -kages.. 5 00

Common Corn.

   

2 Lib. packages,......... .. 41,
40 1 1D, paeieages.... 5.2... 44
ain, bowel.
4015 bOxes. 5 33
Common Gloss.

Lib packages........ 414
3-lb packages. . 414
6-lb packages...... 43,
40 and 50 tp boxes........... 3
Barrels .. ‘ _ oa

STOVE POLISH.

IC
Enameltine }

J.L.PRESCOT Vy
BYR Asta ives

 

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

SUGAR.

Below are given New York
prices on sugars, to which the
wholesale dealer adds the local
freight from New York to your
shipping point, giving you
credit on the invoice for the
amount of freight buyer pays
from the market in which he
purchases to his shipping point,

including 20 pounds for the
weight of the barrel.
Cus Teer... se 5 88
Domine... 5 75
CiRee ee 5 44
Popdered «ooo 5 44
mae Powdered........... 5 50
EO Be 50
Gienioas mob... .. ..:. 20
Granulated in bags......... 25

Hime Granulated ............
Extra Fine Granulated.....
Extra Coarse Granulated...
Diamond Confec. A........
Confec. Standard A.........

SYRUPS.

Corn.
Hare. 16
mete Os. is

Pure Cane.
vane eee 16
OO 20
Ghotce See 25
TABLE SAUCES.
Lea & Perrin’s, large..... 475
Lea & Perrin’s, small.....2 75
Halford, large. cles cues 3 75
Halford'small............ 2
Salad Dressing, large.....4 55
Salad Dressing, suiai).... 2 8
TOBACCOS.

Cigars.
Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s brand.
Mew Been. 33 00

H. & P. Drug Co.’s brand.
Quinsote 8 35 00

G. J. Johnson Cigar Co.’s brand.

ag (l

oN

ew .. . 83 00
H. Van Tongeren’s Brand.
Star Gteen 35 00

 

 

VINEGAR.
Malt W hite Wine.... ..... 7
Pure Cider.. i. 8

Washing Sete:

A Mew Discovery _

A Most Pleasant, but Most EMective

wea OMY aF
THE SUMMIT CITY SOAP WORKS.
ONT weet mame =

 

OO ex gees 3 50
WICKING.

NO. 0, Derarons. 60.13... 3.

NOt pereroas, 0000). Sp

NO. 2 peEPrORR. .. 1... 40

Ne. persross. 0... 75

  

Fish and Pchoie

Fresh Fish.

Per lb.
Weitedsh @ 8
Treug. @ &8&
Peoce eee... @ 2
a... @ b
Ciscoes or Herring.. @ 4
Bigeice =... @ 10
lave Lobster....... @ 18
—— LObater...... @ 20
ee @ Ww
Haddock : @ 8
No. 1 Pickerel...._ @ 8
Pike = 7
Smoked White... 7. @ 9g
red Snapper.. : @ &

Col River Salmon.. @ 12%
Maeckore: |. @ 18

Oysters in Cans.

  

Hw. Counts... .. @ x
EF. J. D. Seleets...... a 2
ere @ 2
F. J. D. Standards... @ 2
BeChnOrS.... .....__.. @ 18
Standards.. @ 16
Mavorites ........... @ 14
Oysters in Bulk
BE. EH Conta... _. @1 75
Extra Selects....... @l 50
DOMCGIS @l 3
Anchor Standards.. 6 1 10
Gr eGards........... @1 v0
Class... @I1 25
Shell Goods.
Oysters, per 100.......1 25@1 50
ye on oe ae | ONT OF

 

 

 

Hides and Pelts.

 

Perkins & Hess pay as fol-

  

ows:
Hides.
Green 7 @s
Part cured @ 8%
Wee Cured... ...... | Saggy 94g
Pea 9 @il
ig erect... : @8
ae eurea. @ 9%
fskins, green...... ia 9
Calfsking cured...... 4@10
Deaconskins ......... = @30
Pelts.
She@arlings............ 5@ 30
LS ae co. £0 1 10
Gie Woel............ 60@ 1 25
Fars.
Mink |... 15. Bog 1 30
COO 20@ 90
Sia 50@ 1 00
Muskrats, fall........ 5@ 12
Muskrats, spring. .... @
Muskrats, Winter.... Ba i¢
oo a iG 2G 1 50
Gray Vox... 3... 0@ 7
PerOee POX... . 8... 2 5'@ 5 00
Sateen... 200@ ~=«60
et Wee 1@ 40
Cat, MOMAG 10@ 2
Pier ee 3 50@ 7 00
Cee 1 0@ 2 00
Martin, Dark. ......_. 1 50@ 3 00
Martin, Yellow...... 7G 150
ee 5 00@ 9 00
Wee 75@ 1 50
a a 7 00@15 00
DOSVGR 2 00@ 6 00
Beaver Castors....... @ 8 00
Opersum......-.. .... am
Deerskin, dry, perlb. 15@ 2
Deerskin, gr’n,perlb. 10@ 15
Wool.
Wearied ... 2... 14 @23
Unwashed ........ :.. 17 @l7
Miscellaneous.
OO 72@ a4
Grease Butter......... @ 2
SW mCr iKe 2
Gingene 8. @3 2%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

cy e . ° e
Candies. Grains and Feedstufis Provisions.
Stick Candy. He
ie oe fa Wheat. / Swift _& Company quote as
bbis. paiis Vacs... 86 | follows
Standard. os 64G@ 7 | = i
Standard H. H..7)])) 6%@7 ea rade Barreled Pork.
Standard Twist. 6 @8 Canes MCS i 8 ae
Cat Loaf..... a @ 8% | Patents .... Cee 11 00
ne cases | Sec ond oe 5 UO | Clear back.. clit. 60
a CO PSA SOUP SHOPCGHE OI KB
Sxtra HOB. EE Ne 14 U0
Boston Cream...... @ inher ee SO Bea 8 OU
os RWRete Scot Ren 9 50
Mixed Candv. 3 50
oe ve L Subanek ‘to ‘usual cash dis- Dry Salt Meats.
Competition.......__ @6 count, “4
Standard............ Gi Flour in bbls., 25¢ per bbl. ad- — me ag ee 5%
Conserve, @ 7% | ditional. eee 54
Reva @ 7% 4 Extra shorts. . +
Ribbon @ 8% Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand.
@ 8Y.
Broken @ ee Quaker we, 4 6 Smoked | Meats.
Cut Loaf @ &% Quaker, 1 Me es cc. 4 65 Hams, 12 lb average .... 9
— Rock GS Quaker, ‘s.. see - 4 6) | Hams, 14 lb average ... 83%

Kindergarten cs G 8% | Guard, F airfield & Co.’s Brand. Hams, 16 lb average..... 344
fein ad aga Cee @ bx Whole Wheat 1-16s......... 20 Hams, 20 lb average..... i”

é aE :

Valley Crean. |.) oi3 ___ Spring Wheat Flour. Soa (Se ai" "6%
Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.'s Brand. Bacon, clear.. T4@sy
Fancy —In Bulk. Pp ie ee
ilisbury’s Best %s........ 5 5D California hams. eeu, o%
Lozenges, pinta... @ &% Pilisbury’ s Best os... .... 5 45 Boneless So , y
Lozenges, printed.. @ 8% ee S best 4s. . 5 35) COGmed ham............. 12%
Choe, Drove... |. @i4 ilsbury’s Best 4s paper.. 5 35 i oesice
Choc. Monumentals @il Pillsbury’s Best 343 paper.. 5 35 Lards. In Tierces.
} ca a el @6 | Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand. | Compound................ 4
SS ) $ eee bY,
icc. S nll Grand Republic, Yes. - 5 55 apap eee Ep reson 7
Imperials ....... 777” @ gi, | Grand Republic, 348... . 1. 5 45 80 lb Tut a ATR 9 ice or
pare ria Ce... oS ae eee
Fancy—In 5 Ib. Boxes. Lemon & Wheeler Co.’s | Saitaidl: SU Page) aaa
Lemon Drops.. @oo | Gold Medal ys S 55 | 20 1b Paris... . |. advance
Sour Drops......._! @50 | Gold Medal ys. 545] 51bPails.......advance 1
P eppermint Drops.. @b6u age Medal —..... dD 35 oto Fabs. 2.) / advance 1g
Chocolate Drops... 7,60 Pariah a 5 55
H. M. Choe. — ov Parisian, 1 e..... O taeae cae 5 45 Sausages.
Gum Drops.. a @30 Parisian. MO oe Bole 5
Licorice Drops. ou Gis Olney & Judson’s Brand. Liver. 6%
A. Be, — @0 | Ceresot Frankfort... ee. 7
Lozenges, plain. @au | oresOta, 74s te 6%
Lozenges, printed... Gv |G ham “ai ee 6
Imperials .... ul @5u nana aa Tongue . 9
Mateo @ds Worden Grocer Co.’ s Brand. | Head ee... 6%
Cream Bar... || @a0d Laurel, tgs
Molasses Bar ....... @50 Laurel, -_ Nee aoe oe
ea a 80 ." Laurel, les. Extra Mess a 9 Ou
Decorated Creams.. @w -peecnasagag a ee ae =
Ssring Rock... @60 Soe |e: liane iain stn ainsi 12 50
Burnt Almonds..... 1 25 @ CIamiiatea 2 00 Pigs’ Feet.
Wintergreen Berries @bu Feed and Millstufis. Kits, 15 lbs 80
Carameis. St. Car Feed. a oned ....14 00/34 bbis, 0 Ibe... =.=...) 2 60
0. 1 Corn and Oats.....__ 13 00} y y
No. I _ wrapped, 2 Ib. Unbolted Corn Meal....._. 12 90 | ee —

DOxes @30 Winter Wheat Bran.. .12 06 Tripe.

No. rm I wrapped, 3 Ib. a Winter Wheat ; Middlings. -13 00 Kits, 15 lb oe

Sees cc el. @45 Screenings..... “11 00 its, 15 lbs. See eee. ia

No. 2 wrapped, 3 Ib. The O. E. Brown Mill Co. | # oe 40 Ibe... 7

dD 2 75

KES eee ee quotes as follows Y% yO EO 2%
can New Cate, Casings.

: Car iots.. 34 (Form 16

Fruits. Less than car lots......... 3 4

Oats. va
Oranges. CRE Lee 25 i

ae 150 176-200 @3 50 | Carlots, clipped.... 1.2777! 28 Butterine.

al, Seedlings ...... @2 Less than car Pots.

Fancy Navels a S 2 7 | Rolie, dairy... 10
126 to 216... @3 23 Hay. mou Giigy 9%
ea ~ | No. 1 Timothy carlots...... 9 09 | Rolls, creamery |... 117" 14
Lemons. No. 1 Timothy, ton lots....10 00 Solid, ee: -- 18%
Strictly choice 360s.. @3 25 ; ; Canned Meats.
Faney = Sts Crackers. | Corned beef, 2 1b ...... 2 10
Ex.Fancy 3008..." @4 v0 a : i Corned beef, 1 ih... 14 00
iota Y. Bi Biscuit Co. quotes a beef, a 2 10
as follows: Potte ham, aan... 60
Bananas, Pp , )
‘otted ham, ET 1 00
Medium bunches...1 25 @1 50 Seymour — g | Deviled ham, i. - @&
arge bunches...... 7% @ Seymour XXX, 31b. carton 6% | Deviledham, Ys. 1 00
Sea wase Family Vx | 6 Potted tongue 148. 60
oreign Dried Fruits. Family XXX,31b carton.. 6% | Potted tongue ¥s or
Figs. Saled ee @ |. :
Choice, 101b boxes. @ 10| Salted XXX, 3 lb carton oat: 1
Extra choice, 14 Ib Soda.

DONC Q 2) Seda See 2 |
Fancy, 12 1b boxes.. @ 13| Soda XXX, 31b carton.... 7% |
Fancy, 50 lb boxes... @ 14| Soda, ¢ ity. ee Po a
Imperial Mikados, 18 Ze phyrette.. oo | Beef

Th HOkeg @ 14| Long Island Wafers... ||’ Ww r
Pulled, 6 1b boxes.. @ 18| L. 1. Wafers, 1lbecarton. .. 12 a - 54@ 7%
Naturals, in bags.. @ 6 Oyster. | Fore quarters......... 5 @6

bakes, Square Oy ster, a e | aon .—:. aa : s* |
Fards in 10 1b boxes @ 8 $4. Oys. XXX.1 Ib carton. 7 | Loins No. 3........... a3
Fards in 60 ib cases @ 6| Farina Oyster, XXX....... 6 “ace oe 7%
ee ee a ee ee y 4
Persians, H. M. B., 60 SWEET GOODS—Boxes. Chueks. 4 @5

Ib cases, NeW....... oF mak... 10 | Plates @ 3

Sairs, 60 lb cases @ 4% | Bent’s Cold Water... 11)! 13
—— ——— | Belle Rose........ .. &
Cocoanut Taffy. ........... 9 o" -
Nuts Comes Cakes, 8% Se seen @ e
° Mrosted Honey. 12 Suauadens ee ag ae a @ i%
| Graham Crackers .......... Saar ae tite: cae 7
Almonds, Tarragona... @12 | GingerSnaps,XXXround. 7 | “C4! Lard............. 9*@ |<
Almonds, Ivaca.. @il1_ | Ginger Snaps, XXX city... 7 Mutton. |
Almonds, California, | Gin. Snps,X XX home made z |
soft shelled......... @13 | Gin. Snps,XXX scalloped.. 7 Caress... 11... 6 @7 |
Brazils new........... @9 | Ginger Vanilla... 8 |Spring Lambs... .....8 @9 |
Fibers 0 @10 | Deeperialn 8. 8% Veal |
Walnuts, Grenobles .. @i3 | Jumoles, a fete ewes il r
Walnuts, Calif No. 1. @10 | Molasses Cakes. 8 | Carcass 6 @8
Ww alnuts, soft shelled | Marsnmaliow 0886... 15

ee @io | Marshmallow Creams..... 16 ea —
Table Nuts, fancy.. @i2 | Pretzels, hand made ..... 8%

Table Nuts, choice. @10_ | Pretzelettes, Little German 6% il
Pecans. Mea oe @ 8 Sugar Cake Lee, Oi S.
Pecans, Ex. Large.. @i0 | Sultanas . eee, 12

Pecans, Jumbos....... @L2 oor eset See: oY

Hickory Nuts per bu., si ht a 72

Cision. nies @i 6o| Vanilla Wafers........_.. Barrels.

Cocoanuts, full sacks @4 50| Pecan Wafers.............. 1544 | Eocene .. @i1%
P. | Miwed Piente 1014 | XXX W.W.Mich, Hdlt. @ 8%
eanuts. | Cream Jumbles ...... 1114 | W W Michigan........ @ 8
Fancy, H. P., Suna. @ 6% | Boston Ginger Nuts.. ne OM a oe Wite....... @i
Fancy, H. P., Flags | Chimmie Fadden . ae Ga @8 |

SOGHCE oc... @ 6% | Pineapple Glace...... ..... 16 Deo. Naptha Sui done ae @™%
Choice, H. P., Extras. @4 Feuny Cages... et Cyumd@er.... 23 @36
Choice, H, P., Extras, Marshmallow Walnuts 16 Bugg... il @2l

Boamed 2.0.00... @ 5% | Belle Isle Pienic........... Black, winter......... @°:

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
  
  

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Crockery and

Glassware.
AKRON STONEWARE.
Butters,
6 Sal, per deu.......... 50
1 to 6 gal., por gal........ 5%
Geel pergal |... 6%
FG Ral. Der Pa 6%
> gal., ted fal,..... : - of
gal. meat-tubs, per gal. 8
= aad meat-tubs, per gal.. 8
25 gal. meat-tubs, per gal.. 10
30 gal. meat-tubs, per gal.. 10
Churns.
2 to 6 gal., per gal.. - on
Churn Dashers, per ‘doz.. 85
Milkpans.

% gal. flat or rd. bot., doz. 60
i gal. fatorrd. bot.,each 5

Fine Glazed Miikpans.
% gal. flatorrd. bot.,doz. 65
1 gal. flatorrd. bot.,each 5

Stewpans.

% gal. fireproof, bail, doz. 85
1 gal. fireproof, bail, doz.1 10

Jugs.
34 Sal., per dos............. 40
% gal.. per doz.. 1 Oe
1 to 5 gal., per gal. eo. 6%
Tomato Jugs.
4% gal, per doxg...... ose 7
Pagal cach... ........ 7

Corks for} % gal., perdoz.. 20
Corks for i gal., perdoz.. 30

Preserve Jars and Covers.

 
  

4% gal., stone cover, doz... 75
1 gal., stone cover, doz...1 00
Sealing Wax.
5 lbs. in package, per lb.. 2
LAMP BURNERS.

Ne. OSan. 45
NO tks... 50
NO 2 oun... 16)
Pepe 50
POcUriCn, Nc ft... 65
pecuriy, Ma. 2... ...... 85
Nutmer ...... . 50
Cite. 1 50

LAMP CHIMNEYS—Common.
Per box of 6 doz.

NO. C800... 75

Rotem... 8

No. 2500... 27%

First Quality.

No. 0 Sun, crimp top,
wrapped and labeled.... 2 10

No. 1 Sun, crimp top,
wrapped and labeled.... 2 25

No. 2 Sun, crimp top,
wrapped and labeled.... 3 2

XXX Plint.

No. 0 Sun, crimp
wrapped and labeled. 2 55

No. 1 Sun, crimp top,
wrapped and labeled. 2%

No. 2 Sun, crimp top,
wrapped and labeled.... 3 75

Crs - Pena Top.
wrapped ws

‘wrapped. aw

2 ag
wiabel led

ia 3 aa, ‘Small Bulb,”
for Globe Lampa.........

La Bastie.
No. 1 Sun. plain bulb, per
doz

1 23
No. 2 Sun, plain bulb, ‘per
ace... 1 50
No. 1 Crimp, per dos....... 1 35
No. 2 Crimp, per doz....... 1 60
Rochester.
No “41, Lime (65¢ doz)...... 3 50
No. 2 » Lime (70c doz).. ... 4 00
No. 2) Flint (806 dox)...... 470
Electric.
No. 2, Lime (70¢ doz) ..... 4 00
No. 2, Flint (80c doz)...... 4 40
OIL CANS. Doz.
1 gal tin cans with spout.. 1 25
1 gal galv iron with spout. 1 65
2 gal galv iron with spout. 2 87
3 gal galv iron with spout. 3 50
5 gal galv iron with spout. 4 75
3 gal galv iron with faucet 4 75
5 gal galy iron with faucet 5 25
& gal Tilting cans.......... 8 00
5 gal galv iron Nacefas ... 9 00
Pump Cans,
5 gal Rapid stendy stream. 9 00
5 gal Eureka non niceasaneed 10 56
gal Home Rule.. 10 50
5S gal Home Kule.... ...... 12 00
gal Pirate King...... toe 2 OO
LANTERNS.
Ne. OTubular.. ...... 4 25
NO. 1 Tonos... .. ... € 60
No, 13 Tubular Dash.. .... 6 30
No. 1Tub., glass fount... 1a
No. 12 Tubular, side lamp. 14 0C
No. 3Street Lamp........ 3 75

LANTERN GLOBES.

No. 0 Tubular, cases 1 doz.
each, box 10 cents.. .... 45

No. 0 Tubular, cases 2 doz.

each, box 15 cents....... 45
No. 0 Tubular, bbls 5 doz.
each, bbl 35). ...... 40

No. 0 Tubular, bull’ 3 ‘eye,
cases 1 doz. each......... 125

LAMP _—

INGO. O per eroes............. 20
No. 1 per £roes. ............ 25
Be. y per erone' gc... 38
NG. 2 per @rOes........ ... _ =
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

Hardware

The Display and Care of Goods.
Written for the TRADESMAN.

In previous articles I have described
arrangements for keeping files suited
to comparatively small assortments, but
the pian illustrated here provides for a
large variety and for a correspondingly
large assortment of hand saws. The

 

 

 

 

FILE AND SAW CASE.

 

base upon which all is built is of 1-inch
stuff, 11x33 inches in size, which is the
counter space the rack occupies. The
rack proper is 9 inches at the base and
53 inches at the top. The side pieces
are 7% inch thick, and the divisions %
inch thick, Its tui] height on the base
is 52 inches, so that when standing on a
34-inch counter a man 5% feet tall can
easily reach the saws in the top row of
holes. There are 130 pigeonholes on
each side for files and 27 compartments
for saws. The rack will hold on one
side all sizes of files from 2 to 14 inches,
as follows: Mill bastard, half-round
bastard, second cut and smooth; hand
bastard, second cut and smooth; flat
bastard, second cut and smooth. On
the other side 1t will accommodate taper
files, three-square bastard, second cut
and smooth; round bastard, second cut
and smooth; square bastard, second cut
and smooth. The pigeonholes for files
are uniform in size, except the three
lower rows, which are used for small
files. Most of these will hold one dozen
files in their original boxes. The cen-
ter division, running up and down, is
painted white, with the length of files
in the various rows designated by black
figures. The top pigeonholes will ac-
commodate all saws from 18 to 28
inches in the regular sizes, leaving
plenty of room for meat, back and com-
pass saws. The top of the rack is util-
ized for keeping unbroken boxes of
saws and files. The rack is firmly put
together, being nailed and glued, and
the base is bolted to the counter. The
rack, being larger at the top than at the
bottom, saves counter space and allows
but little dust to settle on the goods.
The suggestions which this rack offers
as a convenient and compact method of
arranging goods will be appreciated.

A good arrangement for keeping a
considerable stock of window glass con-
sists of a case, the frame made of inch
stuff, the partitions being of thinner ma-
terial. The various openings, of which
there are 30, are of widths to accommo-
date a full box of glass of each size,
and so arranged that the smaller sizes
are at the top. The front of the parti-
tions is cut back so that the glass may
be taken out conveniently, even al-

 

though’the opening had recently been
filled. In front of the rack is a cutting
table, fastened to the wall with strap

 

 

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GLASS RACK.

hinges, so that when not in use it can
be raised out of the way.

One of the best arrangements for the
care of forks, shovels, etc., consists of
brackets as in cut herewith: This

 

 

vey

FORK AND SHOVEL BRACKET.

 

shows a single bracket, a number of
which are arranged for the accommoda-
tion of different kinds of goods for which
they are adapted. The space in which
they are placed is 8% feet wide, accom-
modating I9 brackets, on which can be
displayed 152 different articles, such as
forks,scoops and shovels, both long and
D handled, also rakes, spading forks,
hay knives, etc. The brackets are
made of malleable iron in two parts,
fastened together on a back plate with
lugs to keep them from spreading.
They are attached to the wall by four
screws. The size of the brackets is 11%
x12%inches. The arms are 12% inches
long, with notches on the top to keep
the goods from turning sideways and

 

dropping to the floor.
J. MESSERSCHMIDT.

 

The Boston Dog and the Meat.

A dog with a piece of meat in his
mouth was crossing a bridge over a
placid stream. On looking down he saw
another dog with a precisely similar
piece of meat in the water below him.

‘“‘That’s a singular incident,’’ he
thought to himself, as he’ prepared to
jump in. ‘‘But, hold a minute. The
angle of incidence is always equal to
the angle of reflection. Upon reflection
I find that the other dog and the meat
are only optical phenomena.’’ And he
trotted on his way to Boston, without
further thought about the matter.

——_->
Use Sound Sense.

Dealing properly with your help re-
quires the exercise of much sound sense.
By *‘properly’’ is meant the method to
be pursued in handling your help so as
to secure maximum good results from
their work. Some employers get a great
deal more in this direction out of their
clerks than others do, because they

 

possess better judgment in the matter,
it is said. However this may be, it is
certain that he proprietor who keeps
his clerks on the move all the time and
does net permit them to select any par-
ticular work in the store so that they
may loaf around after it is finished will
have no cause to complain of their not
earning their salt.

—_—__> 0. ___

The Wet Blanket.

Bear in mind that what impresses the
customer most in connection with his
purchase is the general appearance of
yourself and your manner of extending
courtesies to him. Courtesies are never
lost on the dullest or gruffest mind.
Thoughttulness on the part of the clerk
is the talisman that attracts the custom-
er to the store the second time. Churl-
ishness, unattentiveness, is a wet blan-
ket to a customer everywhere.

———_~—>_2.__

Hope points before and shows the
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Wm. Brummeler & Sons,

Manufacturers and Jobbers of

TINWARE,
ENAMELED WARE and
NICKEL PLATED WARE.

Factory and Salesrooms, 260 South Ionia Street.

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

  

samples on application.

POOQOSCE DOOQOOOEve @

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are manufactured by us and all sold on the same basis,
irrespective of size, shape or denomination.

TRADESMAN COMPANY, Grand Rapids.
DOOQOQOQOOE BOOOQOOOSDOOOQOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOS

 
  
 

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PRAIA DOR eens

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

23

 

Eccentricities of Hardware
Salesmen.

Sidney Arnold in American Artisan.

The stove salesman looked decidedly
disgusted as he threw himself into the
chair in the hotel lobby, and his chum,
the cigar salesman, asked him what
ailed him. ‘‘It’s that confounded
school. Our sales manager has an idea
that men who have sold stoves for years
should be pointed out the difference
between a stove and a rocking horse.
Our house have patented an ash recep-
tacle and some patent lawyer has writ-
ten a complicated torture of the English
language after this fashion: ‘For a
combination of an upper flange X X
with radically extending slots parallel
to same substantially as described,
etcetera etceterum.’ Now our sales
manager is stuck on these hieroglyphics,
and is making us poor devils pass a
written examination in the patent
shark’s gibberish. It’s all internal
nonsense, anyway. When | visit my
trade next year I will say to them: ‘We
have done more in improving our ash
receptacle than any other stove house on
earth, and we've got the latest and
most up-to-date ash receptacle you ever
saw. Pretty smooth, isn’t it? It it isn’t
a winner | lose my bet.’ There's no
need of boring the retailers with all that
fandango rot about ‘radically extending
slots,’ and if Mr. Sales Manager ever
took the trouble to visit the trade he
would realize how nonsensical his ‘ pat-
ent English’ is.’’

Some

‘“ By the way,’”’ said the metal broker,
‘*’98 1s going to be a record breaker in
iron and steel, and no mistake. The
big guns here in Chicago are already
filled to the brim with orders, and there
are more coming. The Illinois Steel
Co. has on hand orders for delivery dur-
ing the coming year of over 8,000,000
tons of iron and steel, nearly all in the
form of finished products. The amount
iS 300,000 tons in excess of the com-
pany's advance orders for any previous
season. ’’

i + oe x

“‘Some of you gentlemen know Brown,
the well-known retailer on the West
Side,’’ said the hardware salesman.
‘‘Well, an itinerant sign painter visited
him the other day and urged on bim
the advantage of some gilt lettering in
his window calling attention to his
business. Mr. Brown looked favorably
on the proposition and gave the painter
his order. On his return from a busi-
ness visit to Lake street, he was rather
surprised to read in front of his store
the legend:

 

 

J BROWN

HARDWEAR [RREN & METTLES

Tinshep in Rere

t
‘

 

As Mr. Brown’s” assistant had already
paid the bill, that gentleman pretty
nearly had a conniption fit at this
murder of the English language."’
ae ae ae

‘Talking of murdering the English
language, ’’ said the stove salesman, ‘‘it
can't be denied that some rural hard-
ware dealers have been as guilty in this
matter as anybody. Did you ever meet
Henry Guy, who travels through Wis
consin in the interests of the Simmons
Hardware Co., of St. Louis? Well, if
you ever do, you want to coax him into
showing you his scrap books. This
gentleman has made a collection of
comically worded orders, naive explana-
tions for not making remittances and
meeting notes, and fiercely indignant
‘roasts’ on account of the misinterpreta-
tion of orders. These volumes of his,
gathered during years of labor in the
hardware vineyard, are a curiosity in
the literature ot the trade. In fact, they
make pretty nearly as striking a collec-

tion as would the various circular post-'

als and other trade literature sent out
during the past decade by a Cleveland
firm of patternmakers who have de-
cidedly original ideas on the subject of
advertising. ’’

 

=. By the way,’’ said the roofing man,
‘*do you want to know how to get a col-
lection of copies of the finest paintings
free of cost? All you have to do is to
write various houses in the trade for
their calendars, as a number of these
use exquisite reductions of celebrated
paintings on their calendars—at least
they did last year. It is a little early
for them as yet, aud the only picture
calendar | have yet seen is the one is-
sued by a Chicago roofing concern, show-
ing Hasselbusch’s A Florentine Girl,’
but you can bank on it that there will
be plenty of others to be had before an-
other month slips away."’
——_—_~_2~__
Rule Which Does Not Work
Both Ways.

In most cities the banks charge a fee
for collecting checks drawn on local
banks. This is a tair measure, as it
costs the banks postage, time and labor
to keep track ot and collect such checks
and they should be remunerated.

However, the imposition ot this rule
has worked hardship on the wholesale
traders of the country and they are made
losers to quite a considerable percentage
by the persistence of country merchants
In paying bills by means ot checks on
their own banks.

In some cities the wholesalers are
sending out the following statement ot
the case, which will appeal to every
merchant:

POOR RULE

Poor

WHICH DOES NOT WORK
BOTH WAYS.

If the jobber or manufacturer whom
you buy goods of should happen to _ bill
you 35 inches to the yard, 15 ounces to
the pound, or II pieces to the dozen,
you would be pertectiy justitied in doing
what is called ‘‘registering a kick, ’ and
insisting upon such shortage being
made good.

No fault can be found with that. You
are entitled to what you pay for.

Now turn the tables!

Is the wholesaler entitled to get all you
owe him?

As an honest merchant who always
paid too cents on the dollar, you surely
do not hesitate in saying ‘* Yes,’’

Did it ever occur to you whether or
not = are really paying your debts in
tull?

Did you ever consider that when you
send the jobber a check drawn on your
home bank you were not paying in tull,
but that you were putting the firm re-
ceiving this check to a considerable
expense paying collection charges?
«.Y0u probably never knew that job-
bers have to pay out large sums of
money annually to get their country re-
mittances collected if they are not made
to them in the shape of bank drafts or
express money orders. :

Just read the banking rules on the
other side and convince yourself that all
the banks in every jobbing center ac-
tually make such charges, which, par-
ticularly on small checks, sometimes
run up as high as 2% per cent. of the
amount of the check.

Why not do as you agree to do and
see that the jobber actually gets what is
due him—the amount of his bill less the
discounts?

Nothing easier for you, as your bank
keeps an account either in the very city
from which your supplies come, or else
in some Eastern city, and will gladly
furnish you with a bank draft for a pit-
tance.

No cost to you and a considerable
Saving to the man you buy goods of, who
will feel all the kindlier to you for sav-
ing him unnecessary expense.

Do you see the point?

- > 0 -
Cater to Their Vanity.

It requires some knowledge of human
nature to become a first-class clerk. All
customers are more or less ‘‘dignified’’
and they like to have their dignity re-
spected by those who wait upon them.
He is a first-class clerk, therefore, who
recognizes this point and gratifies his
customers with an exhibition of suffi-
cient humility to satisfy their emotions
in this direction. He may feel com-
forted in this connection by recalling
the allegory of the humming-bid and the
butterfly.

 

Hardware Price Current.

 

 

 

AUGURS AND BITS

 

SECEES oc. Oe 70
JcnHiigs Sonning a
vCmMINGn HMMiadOn 6010
AXES
First Quality, S. B. Bronze ................. 5 00
Hirst Gualty, D. B Bronze... 0... |. 9 50
Bites Quality. S. BOS! Steel... 8...) | 6 Se
Mires Quctity DB. Steel 10 50
BARROWS
OR $12 00 14 00
ii aE net 30 00
BOLTS
I 60410
Ceretige new Mee eee
a 50
BUCKETS
ee ee $32
BUTTS, CAST
Cast Loose Pin, figured...... eee ee. ce 70&10
Wroneis Nastow 70&10
BLOCKS
Ordinary Tackle... ... 1.0... Dee aacues 70
CROW BARS
Osse Steah --per lb 4
CAPS
EIS tie perm 65
Mice sC per m dd
ee perm 35
Ce a perm 60
CARTRIDGES
ee ee ee 5
Comrie 2& 5
CHISELS
DOCKCE Hitmier 80
ecmce Wr 80
BOGee COM 80
BOCHCE Cee 80
DRILLS
Mores Di MOCKS 60
Taper and Straight Shank 6... | Sek
mores VaperStiank SV 5
ELBOWS
Com 4 icee Gin... |. doz. net 50
Cormiugated....... ee. 2
POPUSERG dis 40&10
EXPANSIVE BITS
Clark's small, $19; larze,@6........... 3010
Nee Ls 2 ete 25
FILES—New List
New Amercen 7O&10
PO 70
Heller s Home Raspes -60&10
GALVANIZED IRON
Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and 24; 25 and 26; 27. ..... 28
List 12 13 14 15 3... 17
Discount, 75_to 75-10
GAUGES
stanley Rule and Level Co.’s_.............. 60&10
KNOBS—New List
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings a 70
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings............ 80
MATTOCKS
nae Wve. $16 00, dis 60410
a 815 00, dis 60&10
PP --..-818 50, dis 20&10
NAILS

Advance over base, on both Steel and Wire.

pace ate Ose 1 65
Wich tee. 1
move Geadvanee 2... Base
ieee to Sevenee U5
SOG Cae se es 10
OG Oreanee 20
SMe ee 30
Oe 45
re 7
Pine a SONANCO 50
Cerne Te aevenee. 15
Cosme advance... 25
Canine Gatvance oo oc 35
Witt to devarce, 25
Nimish @S8@yance . - 35
Mitten Gagdyauee. © Wes ce 45
Borre: % Advyanee. a. 85
MILLS
Coton, Parkers Cae 40
Coffee, P. S. & W. Mfg. Co.’s Malleables... 40
Coffee, Landers, Ferry & Clark’s........... 40
Comee, Enteric 30
MOLASSES GATES
een Ss POO 60&10
PROCBUEN  Geteie 60&10
Hnterprise, selfmeasuring ............ ....
PLANES .
Obie Poel Cas, taney. @50
PeCROm TRC ee ee 60
Sandusky Tool Oo.’s, faney................. @5o0
a. @50
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s wood......... 60
PANS
Ery, femme 8 60&10&10
Common, pelshod W& 5
RIVETS
Prem and Pineed ow ce. 60
Copper Rivetnand Bursa... 60

PATENT PLANISHED IRON
‘A’ Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27 10 20
‘**B” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 25 to 27 9 20

Broken packages 4c per pound extra.
HAMMERS
Maydole & Co.’s, new list........ ......dis 3354
ee an
WOrkee WON cee cw dis 1W&10
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel. 30c lis, 70

Biacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel Hand 30c lini 40&10

 

HOUSE FURNISHING GOODs.
Stamped Tin Ware....... .........new list 75&10
oapanned Tin Ware. 2

Granite on Ware............ ||.

HOLLOW WARE

    
 

a, Lote d eee ed cue. 60&1
Seen . .60&10
Spiders ee 60&10
HINGES
Ge Cams tee dis 60&10
ee per doz. net 250
WIRE GOODS
re 80
pero Oyen 80
at 80
Cate Hocus and Hyée..... 80
LEVELS
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s............ dis 70
ROPES
disal 44 neh and lacscy == 5%
Le
SQUARES

meee! and tram. .......... Ss
Mey ane Govere

   

a a ie
SHEET IRON

com. smooth. com.
NOL Mia 82 70 82 40
Noe ttety........ .. Saas < 2-40
Nos. 18 to 21 2 45
Nos. 22 to 24 2 55
i 2 6
ae 275

All sheets No. 18 and lighter, over 30 inches
wide not less than 2-10 extra.

  

  
  

SAND PAPER
List acet. 10, °S6...... ee ee, dis
SASH WEIGHTS
Sole Hee per ton 20 00
TRAPS
peeel Came — 60&10
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s....... 50
Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton’s 70&10
Moise, Choker... per doz 15
Mouse, delusion... per doz 1 2
WIRE
Pret Maree v6)
anhesiogd Markee 75
Woppercs Matece 70&10
Pe OR 62%
Coppered Spring Steel... : 50
Barbed Fence, galvanized ............ . oa
Barbed Venee, painted... 80
: HORSE NAILS
Ausaee 8 dis 40&1C
Pee is 5
NOrnwOnkewe dis 10&10
WRENCHES
Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled.............. 30
Cee SGChwme 50
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought ....... 80
Coes Patent, malleable... 6. 80
MISCELLANEOUS
mare Cages 50
Pumps Citern......... 80
Serews, Now ist... . 85
Casters, Bed and Plate....... ---. 50&10&10
Dampers, American 60. 50
METALS—Zinc
CO Dane Can 614
Ne 6%
SOLDER
ee. 12%

The prices of the many other qualities of solde
in the market indicated by private brands vary
according to composition.

TIN—Melyn Grade
Mis IC, Charcoal.

  

 

-.85 %
Pee i Careoat . 2
mecee tx. Choreoal. |, . 7 00

Each additional X on this grade, 81.
TIN—Allaway Grade
arate Cuerceae 5 00
eee I Cuaron 5 00
MGus TX Coates 6 00
Pee Charcoal 6 00
Each additional X on this grade, 81.50.
ROOFING PLATES
erie iC, Charcoal ean... 5 00
Bixee 1X Charcoal Dean... 6 00
eee IC, Ciareenl, Dean 10 00
14x20 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade......... 4 50
14x20 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade......... 5 50
20x28 1C, Charcoal, Allaway Grade......... 9 00
20x28 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade......... 11 00
BOILER SIZE TIN PLATE

14x56 IX, for No. 8 Boilers, )
14x56 IX, for No. 9 Boilers, ¢ P€T pound... 9

 

 

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*Phone 1357.
THOMAS DUNN & SONS,

WHOLESALE

HARDWARE SPECIALTIES, BELTING,

Engineers, Machinists and
Factory Supplies.
93 PEARL STREET. GRAND RAPIDS.

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Genres, 490 Varese +++ 4.00

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MICHIGAN

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Clerks’ Corner

Mrs. Bostwick’s Proposition in Re-
gard to Her Husband’s Clerk.
Written for the TRapDESMAN.

‘‘There ain’t any use in saying a
word,’’ remarked Mr. Bostwick the
next day, as he elbowed me into a cor-
ner of his office, ‘‘but luck is just as
surely taking up the cudgel in Will’s
behalf as you stand right there. Mahala
—that’s Mrs. Bostwick—is an awful
woman with her prejudices, and when
she came in with her knitting and sat
down I knew she'd come to stay and I
felt that the boy was going to geta
combing. I was satisfied, anyway, that
any idea I had o’ doing a guod turn to
the boy was smashed and I’d started in
all over again with my plans when she
began.

‘“That’s just the way with ’em. When
she turned the corner and came sailing
down on the letter that wasn’t signed,
but didn’t even mention about the
cloudy carryings on, I breathed easier.
That wasn't the part of the letter that
stirred me up, though; and when |
thought she was bearing down on that, I
shuddered, for I was sure that in that
case Will’s goose would be all burned
up!"’

‘*What was it?
thing about it?’’

‘*Why, you see, the blamed letter said
that Will was just—well, I won't tell
you what it said, but it was the meanest
thing that could be said about a young
fellow that somebody was interested in
and trying to do a good turn to. It made
me so mad clear through that I felt as
if I couldn't treat the fellow decently,
and I’m afraid I did sour on him for a
day ortwo. After that I put this and
that together and things looked different.
Then I remembered that there isn’t any-
thing underhanded about the boy, and
that the idea the letter brought out
couldn't be true, that’s all there is to
it. I’ve watched him ever since with
that idea in my mind and the whole
thing is a low, scandalous lie. That
settled, I’ve been trying to make up to
the boy for my injustice to himand I’m
determined he shan’t lose anything on
my account.

**What do you think my wife said to
me at breakfast this morning? ‘I’ve
been thinking,’ says she, ‘about Morris,
and the more | think of him the more
it seems to me that it’s your case right
over again. You’ve been awfully hard
on him—you know you have—and I
guess he’s only done just as you used to
do, and if 1 hadn’t stood up for you
then, I don’t know what would have be-
come of you. And now if we don't do
something for Will it’s going to hurt
him. I’ve "bout made up my mind to
offer him the chamber over the dining-
room, if he wants it. There's a good,
big closet, the room is good size, and
if he’s anything as you used to be he 1]
think the world and all of that open fire-
place. There ain’t no use talking, if
the boy’s going to be anything, or if
you think he has the right stuff in him
which you like and want to bring out,
you mustn't expect to stand off and find
fault or just let him alone. That ain’t
the way you ought to be interested in
him; and you’ve got to do something
for him that costs you something, too.
This standing off and never lifting a
finger is what I can’t abide. You're
convinced—and so am I—that the time
has come to do something. Do it, and
don’t, for pity’s sake, do it as if you
were having your eye teeth pulled.

 

 

I didn’t know any-

 

** “Yes, I’m going to let him have that
room, and I’m going to have him take
his meals here. If he will, he shall be
one of the family and he sha'n't pay a
cent more than it costs him now for
room rent and board. Then there’s an-
other thing: I sha’n’t have you plaguing
the fellow’s life out of him by hanging
around him all the time. He shall have
his room all by himself as you have
your new quarters on the third floor.
He is to come and go just when he
pleases and you must make up your
mind that he isn’t to feel bound to tell
you where he’s going every time he
goes out after supper.

‘* “Then there’s another thing: You
needn't think, because Will Morris is in
the house, that I’m going to sit down
Stairs alone all the evening. For a
while, as long as the newness lasts, I’m
willing to bide my time. You and Will
may play billiards and enjoy your
cigars and have your little snug talks up
there by the fire until it gets to be an
old story, and I'll keep away. After
that, you may talk all you’ve a mind to
about ‘‘three being a crowd,’’ and I
shall think so, too—only you mustn’t
look surprised if I make up my mind
that you are the third one, and ask you
to go downstairs! I know I’m not so
young as I used to be, nor you either;
but I shall want to have a little of the
boy's company, as his mother would if
he were at home. That’s what I’m go-
ing to try to make-the house seem to
him—home, and if there’s anything in
the shape of a show which I want to go
to and you don’t, I’m going to take
Will along and leave you to your paper
or your billiard table. Do you under-
stand?’

““Now, then! what do you think of
that? You could have knocked me
down with a feather. The best of it is
she means every blessed word of it.
Now, the next thing to attend to is how
this is going to affect the boy. I don't
know as he'll want to come to the house.
At his age you couldn’t have got me
into that house for love nor money; the
fact is I left home because I didn’t like
to have the folks all the time wonder-
ing and asking where I was the night
before. But, about Morris, while my
wife is determined | sha’n't ask any
questions, you may make up your mind
that she will! Don’t it beat all what
women will do? You can’t even bet on
‘em.

‘‘Well, as I said, the unexpected al-
ways happens, and allI have to do is to
step back and let the affair take care of
itself. With the boy under my roof and
sitting at my table, I shall have a good
chance to study him and find out if
he’s the young feller I’ve been lvoking

for.’’ RICHARD MALCOLM STRONG.
+20 >
Bank Notes.
Ernest N. Smith succeeds Major

Seymour Howell as Cashier of the Com-
mercial Savings Bank of Adrian.

The banks of Bay City have signed
an agreement to reduce the rate of in-
terest on savings deposits from 4 to 3
per cent., beginning January 1. This
has been bruught about by the prevail-
ing low rate of discounts.

The banks of Saginaw have held a
meeting for the purpose of coming to
an agreement on the question of redu-
cing the rate of interest paid on savings
deposits. A conclusion will probably
be reached at a meeting which is to be
held Jan. 14.

——_~>0.____

It is not the trade but the mistakes
of the traders that mar the plans for
success.

 

The Grain Market.

The past week has been a holiday
time, but was more spirited than usual
on account of the closing of the Decem-
ber deal, which ended about as was ex-
pected—rather tame. The question now
arises, What is the Leiter crowd going
to do with their holdings? No one
needs to borrow any trouble on that
score, as their wheat was bought low
enough so they can stand a shrinkage of
15c per bushel and still leave a margin
for them. If our exports continue as
large as they have been, for the next two
weeks, it will take all of this wheat, as
it is of a high grade and not ‘‘stuff,’’
as it has usually been. Our visible in-
creased 2,200,000 bushels, which could
be expected, owing to the extraordinary
efforts of all the grain dealers to get
wheat that would grade in Chicago, in
order to get that abnormal advance, as
wheat was higher there than elsewhere.
However things have quieted down and
are running in their usual channel. The
market shows a little easier feeling, on
account of the large increase. From
now on we shall iook for the natural
decrease. Winter wheat 1s moving very
slowly and dealers are very firm in their
views and are holding the wheat at
high prices. As before stated, the move
ment is very moderate and the dealers
are not at all anxious to sell. The re-
ceipts of spring wheat at initial points
are also very moderate.

The demand for flour will pick up
now, as the trade has more confidence
in the stability of prices.

Mill feed still continues to be in
good demand and we must again re-
port a firmness in prices.

Corn remained stationary, although
the trading in this cereal was large.
The same is true of oats.

The receipts were about ordinary, be-
ing 47 cars of wheat, 8 cars of corn and
9 cars of oats.

Local millers are paying 86c_ for
wheat. C. G. A. Voier.

Within a day or two carloads of bro-
ken resolutions can be picked up.

 

 

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BUSINESS CHANCES.
POR SALE PLANING MILL TN TE LIVE.

liest, town in Michigan; also hot blast
heater. Address Osborne, care Michigan
Tra jesman 466

 

\ YANTED—LOCATION FOR DRUG STOCK
in town of 700 to 5,000 Adress Geo. W.
Kern. Prair evi.le, Mich. 459

 

 

V YANTED—TO BUY SMALL STOCK DRUGS
iu paying location. s: all town preferred
Address No 461, care Michigan Tradesman. 461 |

‘sale man of eight years’ experience.

EST LOCATION FOR GRIST MILL IN THE
State. Good grain region. Location and
building will be given outright to man with
$4.00 capita’. Address for particulars, J. C.
Neuman, Dorr, Mich. 763
Fee SALE OR EXCHANGE—STOCK GEN-
! eral Merchandise, value about $9,000, in
manufacturing city 12,000 population. Will
trade $1,500, long time payments, baiance in
good unincumbered city or farm property. No
traders need apply. Address No. 460, care
Michigan Tradesman. 360
NOR sALE— ULD-ESTABLISHED MEat
business, located at 253 Jefferson avenue.
Smoke house and all modern conveniences.
Present owner soon leaves city. Enquire on
premises. 464
YOR SALE—DRUG STOCK AND FIXTURES;
good stock in good town; sma/l cash pay-
ment. Address No. 465, care Michigan Trades-
man. 465

NOR SALE OR RENT—STORE BUILDING,
30x70 feet, fixtures on ground floor, good-
paying opera house above, dwelling rooms,
barns and ice house in rear, adapted to any
kind of business. Store fitted with electric
lights. G. K Coffey, White Cloud. Mich. 457
OR SALE—FURNITURE AND UNDER-
taking business; an excellent opportunity
to secure an old established business. Reason
for selling, rheumatism. Small capital re-
quired; terms easy. Address C. E. Singer,
Hillsdale, Mich. 458
YRATERNAL INSURANCE ORGANIZERS
attent.on— An opportunity to organize
‘Fraternal insurance without the lodge’’ The
New Era Life Association of Grand Rapids,
Mich., has accomplished this, and practical or-
ganizers now in the field are having splendid
success. Two district organizers and locai rep-
reseutatives wanted. Apply C. D. Sharrow,
General Manager. 455
\ JANTED --EVERY YOUNG MAN AND
young woman desiring improvement in
Business Arithmetic to send for circular of the
School of Correspondence and Business Arith-
metic, Address A. S. Parrish, 109 Ottawa St.,
Grand Rapids, Mich. 453
GOOD DRUG BUS:NESS FOR SALE;
$3,000 in stock and fixtures. Must change
Climate on account of health. Address Dollars,
eaie Michigan Tradesman. 5
\ JANTED—A GOOv FLOURING MILL,
best location in the State; also good plan
Address Middleton,
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ing mill.
Mich.
OR SALE—DRUG STUCK FOR CASH, ONE-
third its real value. Address Copperas, care
Michigan Tradesman. 450
] OUSE AND LOT, WELL RENTED, 40
acre farm. land contract; first mortgage
well secured and $2,000 to $5,000 cash for a good
exclusive or general stock. Investigate. Wm.
Fagan, Manistee, Mich. 451
HAVE A PARTY WANTING GROCERY OR

F. Salisbury,

 

 

 

general stock. Must be a bargain. I have
buyers for any line of merchandise. W. H. Gil-
bert, 109 Ottawa St., Grand Rapids. 440

 

— SALE—IN ONE OF THE BEST BUSI-
ness towns in Northern Michigan, my entire
stock cf groceries; only grocery store in Petos-
key doing a strictly cash business. Good reasons
for selling. For particulars write to J. Welling
& Co., Pe:oskey, Mich. 441
\ ANTED—BUTTER AND EGGs. IF YOU
want good prices and quick returns w ite
us. Lunn & Strong, Toledo, Ohio. 402
V 7ANTED — FIRST-CLASS BUTTER FOR
retail trade. Cash paid. Correspond with
Caulkett & Co.. Traverse City, Mich. 381
1 pend EXCHANGE—TWO FINE IMPROVED
farms for stock of merchandise; splendid
Address No. 73, care Michigan Trades-
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location.
man.

 

 

PATENT SOLICITORS.

= NEW HANDBOOK ON PAT-
ents. Cilley & Allgier, Patent Attorneys,
rand Rapids, Mich. 339

MISCELLANEOUS.

y JANTED—POSITION BY REGISTERED
pharmacist as traveling salesman or in
store; eight years’ experience. Address No.

162. care Michigan Tradesman. 462
_ IN WHOLESALE OR
retail grocery or crockery business by
Address

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