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A French mineralogist has discovered
a cobalt mine at Grand Encampment,
Wyo. The mineral is worth about $1.50
a pound, and at one of the mines—the
Doane—in this district there are thou-
sands of tons of the ore already in sight.
The mineral is extensively used in col-
oring porcelain and glass blue, and it
is also the active principle in some
paints. Hitherto the world has depend-
ed for the bulk of the supply on the
mines in Sweden, Norway and Bohemia.
Number 757
Wherein Hoyt Errs in Judgment.
A Central Lake merchant takes ex-
ceptions to the statement in last week’s
Tradesman to the effect that Hoyt has
arrayed himseif in opposition to the re-
tail grocery trade by abandoning equal-
ity, and calls for a bill of particulars.
From the standpoint of the retail
dealer the Tradesman believes that any
house which does anything that has for
its object the overthrow of the equality
plan is an enemy of the retaii trade,
because it 1s universally conceded that
the sale of sugar has been more satis-
factory since equality was introduced
than it ever was before. It is easier to
do business on the equality plan, be-
Cause every retail merchant realizes that
he is getting his goods at the identical
prices his neighbor pays under similar
conditions. The small dealer is not at
the mercy of the large dealer, and the
large dealer has not the same advantage
over the small dealer that he has when
he can lay in his goods 5, 1o or 15 per
cent. less than his more modest com-
petitor, An open market on any ar-
ticle means that the small dealer gets
the worst of it every time, because the
large dealer, with his ready cash and
greater shrewdness, secures concessions
which are necessarily denied the smaller
merchant. In the opinion of the Trades-
man, a City is more prosperous where
there are several hundred thriving stores
than where the lion’s share of the trade
is monopolized by a few department
stores and the little dealers havea hand-
to-mouth struggle for existence. One-
third of the transactions of the whole-
sale and retail grocer confined to
sugar, and any system which compels
him to handle this staple at cost—or
less than cost, which is too often the
case—places him at a decided disadvan-
tage, as compared with the position as-
sumed by his larger and more _prosper-
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A Safe with a History.
Lansing, March 21—Charles C. Long-
Street, the grocer, is the owner of an
old-fashioned safe which has been in
use ever since the war. It was original-
ly the property of a jeweler at Flint,
who failed and went out of business. It
then fell into the hands of the old Pen-
insular Railroad—now the Grand Trunk
-and finally the late John Whiteley pur-
chased it. It was many years in his
possession and eight years ago it came
into the hands of the present owner.
When the inner door of the safe is
closed there are a couple of stationary
iron bars which fit snugly into the back
part of the safe, where they are not
easily reached. Recently the door of
the sate did not close easily and, in or-
der to ascertain the cause, the proprietor
made an_ investigation, which revealed
the presence on the end of one of the
bars of a valuable gold ring witha
handsome topaz setting. The ring was
jammed and bent. How it came to be
there is only a matter of conjecture.
Mr. Longstreet is uf the opinion that it
was dropped in there at the time the
safe was owned by the Flint jeweler,
and it must have remained there un-
disturbed and undetected for at least
twenty-five or thirty years.
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Dry Goods
The Dry Goods Market.
Staple Cottons—Business in brown
and bleached cottons has been some-
what better during this week than in
other lines, and prices, although no
signs of immediate impending ad-
vances are shown, are very stiff. Wide
sheetings, which have been advanced}
several times, have been in excellent
demand, and. sold largely, but no
change in the prices seems imminent
just at present. Ticks and other coarse
colored cottons do not show a great deal
of strength and the call for them is
somewhat faint just at present.
Prints and Ginghams—There has been
some tulk of a general weak tendency
on the printed cotton market, but en-
quiry has failed to elicit any such in-
formation. There is a slight relaxation
of business undoubtedly, but prices are
still firm and no concessions are being
made by sellers in any of this year’s
lines of any consequence. There has
been much printed cotton sold at ex-
tremely low prices from time to lime at
various points, but these consist sim-
ply of carried-over stock of out-of-date
goods—lines which have failed to at-
tract buyers at current prices and have
proven failures. Undesirable goods are
always to be found selling below the
market, but they do not necessarily in-
fluence the trade in general nor affect
the current quotations and it !s not
reasonable to ascribe to such causes a
general weakness.
Shirtings—The shirtings to be worn
during the warmer weather are decided-
ly attractive. Stripes, plaids and
checks are all sure to sell weli, but it 1s
very noticeable that more of this sea-
Sson’s patterns are in stripes than the
others. All colors are used, as are con-
trasts, also, although, taking the lines
as a whole, blue is, to all appearances,
the favored one. The all-fancy shirts
are bound to be more popular than the
shirts having white bodies and colored
bosoms. White shirts, as is well known,
are the regular old stand-bys, but they
do not sell as well as the ccloréd sbirts
during the spring and summer, except
for dress wear.
Shirt Waists —Shirt waists are ex-
pected to meet with a good deal better
enquiry during the coming season than
they did the last one.
ef the shirts are very likely to be of the
Same pattern as was seen last year, but
in this, as in all cases, there are excep-
tions, and a few new styles will be
shown, such as those having a detach-
able collar and yoke, slightly smaller
sleeves, and a beruffled lace affair.
Silk waists are also very sure to be of |
considerable popularity; they will be
pretty generally of one color, and witb-
out any figure or pattern upon them,
and that shade will, in most cases, be
the very brightest and most showy pos-
sibie, as the tendency this season is for
very bright colors. Changeable silks
in waists will not be used so much as
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more and more al] the time, and from
what dealers say, it seems as if a very |
good sale of these articles is to be ex- |
ected.
underskirts are shown
Stores, the very latest style being one
with two or three flounces of accordion
Very dainty creations in these
plaiting, but both the plain and ruffled |
skirts sell equally well. These skirts
will be of rather bright colors this sea- |
son, and of plain goods principally.
Hosiery—Notwithstanding the over-
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| fact that in the retail trade many deal-
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rid of them somehow, will, in itself,
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| Many buyers of fancy hose who have
purchased largely have been wearing
somewhat anxious faces of late. The
reaction and chill that follows an en-
thusiastic act is having its effect on
them, but, as a matter of fact, fancy
bose have come to stay, for some seasons
at least, and no one who has bought
with any judgment need fear that he is
overstocked. The trouble, if any, that
will come in the hosiery department
will lie in lack of care in making selec-
tions and assortments. A stock of fancy
hose must be well backed by a thorough
supply of staples, and the fancies must
be pushed forward and displayed all the
time, as they must be seen to attract
trade. The care displayed in making
selections will perhaps be the most 1m-
portant factor in determining the suc-
cess of a purchase of fancy hosiery, as
the competition in these goods is going
to be so keen that only the choicest will
survive.
Curtains— Domestic manufacturers are
producing at this time finer lines and
bave prepared to supply the trade with
goods formerly made exclusively abroad.
Except on the fine lines, the domestic
manufacturers have enough machinery
already engaged to fill the requirements
of the trade on the coarser lines for sev-
eral years to come, without any in-
crease. Bobbinet has been produced
this season for the first time in Ameri-
can milis, and it is only a question of a
short time when domestic mills will
produce the very choicest goods, as
sone of the proprietors of the Ameri-
can mills have been for years engaged
exclusively on all lines of fancy lace
curtains abroad, and have now estab-
lished in business in America.
Laces—This will be a very good if
not an excellent, season for laces, and
dealers expect to make very profitable
sales during thiscoming mild and warm
weather. Prices are not so very much
higher, in fact not enough to make any
noticeable slacking up in the demand.
Both black and white goods, too, will
be about equally good in demand.
Hats—The spring and summer will
be quite a good season for stiff hats, for
men's wear, and these hats in the light-
jer shades will experience a good call.
Crash hats will sell pretty well, as they
will take the place of the cheaper
straws; for this season only the better
grades of straws will meet with any very
good erquiry. Allsorts of hats and caps
are expected to sell well. Although the
wholesale and jobbing business is not
any better than it was last year, they
are by no means having any great rea-
son to find fault with it; regarding col-
jlections, the jobbers say that just now
they are not coming so very fast, but
with every moderation of the weather
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a few years we find MEN’S MACKINTOSHES
counted among the articles of luxury; to-
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rubber coat—not trashy, good-for-nothing
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the City Grocer.
From the Chicago Post.
‘*T am finding the fortunes of the small
grocer far more entrancing than those
of ‘The Little Minister’ or the ‘ Prisoner
of Zenda,’ ’’ said an observant matron.
‘“The pathos of the situation comes
right home to my own kitchen, and the
chapters in the commonplace tragedy
come fresh and crisp along with my
celery and lettuce, and are served across
the counter with the packages of sugar,
tea and crackers. It’s a thoroughly up-
to-date sociological romance, too full of
problems and local color.
‘“The three principal characters are
Cummings, Marx and Boyle, the pro-
prietors of as many groceries within
almost a stone’s throw of each other in
an excellent residence section of the
North Side. Of course, there’s a wom-
an in it—many women, in fact. But
Mrs. Boyle, the cheery little wife of the
humblest tradesman in the trio, is the
only one that need be considered. The
opening chapter of this everyday story
began when | lived im another neigh-
borhood, and Boyle used to call at my
door with green groceries. He proved
to be an honest, reliable fellow, quiet
and pleasant in bis manners, whose
word was to be depended upon. The
housewives and cooks liked his square
dealings, and he prospered where his
less scrupulous competitors failed.
Finally he dropped out of sight and |
had almost forgotten him until J moved,
Then I was surprised to find him in-
stalled in a small grocery of his own a
few blocks from our flat. After I had
made my first purchases Mrs. Boyle
tucked her plump arms under her apron
and confided to me that the experiment
was a doubtful one and that many con-
ditions were against them. Their capi-
tal was smal! and then there were the
larger and more showy stores of Cum-
mings and Marx at the corner of the
block on the same street. The only ad-
vantage, however, which these competi-
tors held that inspired fear in the heart
of the litthe woman was the fact that
they did business upon the short time
credit system.
‘* *You see,’ she explained to me,
‘we have to buy for cash and we must
sell for cash. We made up our minds
to that at the very start. When a cus-
tomer walks out of our door with a
package of goods that is not paid for he
goes away with just so much of our
money in his pocket. Very likely we'll
get it again all right, but meantime he's
going about with our money, not his.
And so we don't trust. But there’s
another side to it. Therich folks don’t
want to be bothered with paying the
cash for every little thing they buy.
Their way is to wait until a big bill is
run up and then settle by check. If
we only had the capital of Cummings or
Marx we might stand the credit system,
but we haven’t. The only way we can
sell to that class of their custom is to
keep the freshest of everything. But
we're hoping for the best.’
‘*So much for the initial situation in
which the Boyles found themselves. As
Ido my marketing with considerable
care, it did not take me long to discover
that I preferred to buy certain articles
at Cummings’ store, while Marx sold
the best tea and crackers. In this way
f kept in constant touch with each
a of the trio of competitors. One
day I noticed that Marx had dispensed
with two of hisclerks. His face was
constantly careworn, and he was evi-
dently doing the work of two men. A\I-
though I had not found him quite so
frank in his dealings as Boyle, his
troubled looks touched me, and from
day to day I watched his struggle and
became better acquainted with him. A
few days ago he chanced to occupy a
seqgt in the ‘grip’ with me and became
very confidential, It was barely pos-
sible, he confessed, that be might pull
through by moving into smaller quar-
ters, cutting his force of helpers down
to the very lowest possible limit and
doing the work of three men himself.
‘* *But I’m so worn out with the
Struggle that I’m tempted every day of
my life to throw myself into the lake
and be done with it,’ said he. ‘That
sounds like silly talk for a man, but it
wears a man to desperation when he has
been through this grind month after
month, steadily watching the money he
put into the business drifting into the
pockets of his wealthiest customers,
who take their own sweet time to pay
their billsand will quit you the moment
they are pressed for a weekly settlement.
Then it is still worse during the sum-
mer season, when the fashionable peo-
ple are away at the resorts. The ser-
vants trade and the bills wait until fall
for payment.’
‘‘Not long ago when I went to Cum-
mings’ store | found it in the hands of
the sheriff. The proprietor passed me
with his hat drawn over his eyes. His
whole attitude was pitiful. As I en-
tered Boyle’s store to make the pur-
chases which | had intended to make at
Cummings’ Mrs. Boyle greeted me
with: ‘Ain't it too bad! It just scares
me terrible! And did you know that
Marx has moved into a little place in
the middle of the next block? Yes!’
‘‘ “But all this will make your trade
better,’ I suggested.
‘‘ "IT know that,’ she replied. ‘But
it’s awful hard on them, just the same.
We're going to shut off on everything
that leads up to the credit system. Be-
fore this we've been in the habit of
sending our boy out on stormy days to
the doors of our best customers to take
their orders. This will be stopped, for
it’s the first step in the credit line. We'll
lose some trade by it, but we might bet-
ter stand out against the thing that has
ruined Cummings first as last. It takes
some grit to refuse to trust a rich cus-
tomer for a few groceries, but we must
fight it out that way.’
“These are only a few of the ups and
downs in the tragedy of grocery keep-
ing of which I have been an_ interested
witness. The result of my observations
has been that I now pay cash for every-
thing I buy. I do-it on principle and
seldom find it more inconvenient than
the old way of getting things charged.’’
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Diagnosis of the Grocer.
‘*What is a grocer, papa?’’
‘‘What is a grocer, child? Why, he
is a good-natured man who deals in the
necessities of life at the corner, and is
too humble to believe for a minute that
he has any rights. He solicits trade
by marking all bis goods down to cost,
and when the customer doesn’t pay
promptly, he waits. Some grocers stand
and wait until the undertaker gets his
bill in and then they lean over the
graveyard fence and wonder how to get
their money.
‘He is the man that lives by selling
sugar, and makes so much money on it
that he is expected to give lumps of it
to all the children.
‘‘The grocer is also a pious man. He
rarely ever swears, except when he sells
eighteen pounds of raisins out of a
twenty-six pound box, or when he
weighs out a barrel of granulated sugar
and it lacks just six pounds, or when he
hears Mr. Never-Pay say, ‘Charge it,’
or when the summer is so hot he loses a
dozen good cheese, or when the winter
is so cold that his potatoes freeze, or—
but your mother is calling you. Good-
night, child; I'l] tell you the rest about
the grocer another day.’’
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The tobacco business in Francé is a
governmental monopoly. Tobacco may
be grown in only twenty departments’in
France, and in Algeria; the cultivation
of the plant is under the supervision of
the Ministe: of Finance, and is taxed.
The manufacturers occupy governmental
buildings, and themselves and all their
employes are subject to the Minister of
Finance. The manufactured tobacco is
sold by agents appointed by the govern-
ment, who are allowed to sell foreign
tobacco properly taxed, as well as na-
tive tobacco.
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A movement is on foot to organize a
corporation here, with a capital stock
of $100,000, to undertake the beveling
and silvering of mirror plates. The
movement is headed by the local repre-
sentative of the Atlas Works, of Amster-
dam, who is understood to be willing to
subscribe for one-half of the capital
stock of the proposed enterprise.
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Purely Personal.
Geo. D. Sisson, formerly of this city,
will represent the Peters Lumber and
Shingle Co. in Indianapolis.
W. W. Wells, of Penn Yan, N. Y., is
visiting bis brother, Sumner M. Wells,
Secretary and Treasurer of the Clark-
Jewell-Wells Co.
Daniel McCoy, President of the State
Bank of Michigan, who has been in
Cleveland for the past week, is expected
home Friday.
Gaius W. Perkins, President of the
Grand Rapids School Furniture Co., is
putting in a fortnight at Florida resorts.
He is accompanied by his wite.
The resemblance of C. N. Rapp to
Gen. R. A. Alger is so marked that it
is not an unusual thing for Mr. Rapp to
be accosted by some one who mistakes
him for the genial Secretary of War.
B. R. Thompson, the heavyweight
member of the Thompson-Bonnell
Lumber Co., was confined to his bed
during all of last week at Evansville,
Ind. He went for lumber, but com-
promised on the gout.
It will soon be time for Frank Jewell
(Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.) to hie himself
away to some imaginary locality in the
north woods and come back with stories
of big fish which cause his friends’ eyes
to enlarge and glisten. What Mr.
Jewell’s friends can not understand is
that he always eats the big fish while in
camp and brings home the little fish as
trophies of his skill as an angler. It is
suggested that he purchase a camera
and have some one take a snap shot of
him in the presence of the monster spec-
imens ot the finny tribe which he insists
he captures on the occasion of every ex-
cursion to the Little Manistee.
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The Produce Market.
~.Apples—Home grown Northern Spys
and Wine Saps from Missouri fetch
$3.50@4 per bbl.
Asparagus—$2 per doz. bunches.
Bananas—The market is firm at prices
that move stock very rapidly. In the
present condition of fruit supply in this
market the banana is a very popular
fruit, and the weather is such as to en-
courage the best movement. The street
peddler is disposing of large quantities
of this fruit, and the shipments out are
large. Receipts can be made to con-
form to the demand, and the market is
steady at figures that have ruled for
nearly two months.
Beans—Jobbers pay 60@7oc for coun-
try cleaned, holding city picked at go
@g2c in carlots and $1 in small quanti-
ties. Few beans are coming into mar-
ket at this time.
Beets—35c per bu.
Butter—Dairy grades are in plentiful
supply, commanding r4c for fancy and
13c for choice. Factory creamery is
steady at 18@Ioc.
Cabbage—$2.50 per 1!oo.
Carrots—25c per bu.
Celery—Choice stock is held at 20@
25c per bunch.
Cucumbers—$1.50 per doz. for South-
ern grown.
Eggs—Receipts are large and the
quality has so far improved that Eastern
buyers are beginning to take hold. Lo-
cal dealers pay 8c on track, case cuunt,
but insist that the price may go to 7c
before the end of the week. Sorted
stock is readily taken by local grocers
on the basis of 9c. Indications point
to large receipts at all primary markets
for the next two months.
Green Onions—1r5c per doz.
Honey—Dark ranges from g@tloc.
Light stock commands I2c.
Lemons-—-The demand is excellent
for this season of the year. The de-
mand is running heavily to California
stock, with values a little lower on these
than on Messinas. It seems that the
quality of the former is just as good as
that of the latter.
Lettuce—Grand Rapids Forcing has
advanced to I5c.
Onions—Dry stock has declined to
75@ 85c.
Oranges— Mexicans are now well out
of the market. No changes are to be
noted in the quoted prices and the mar-
ket may be counted steady. The move
ment is heavy, but not quite up to what
might have been expected from prices
so low. The quality of fruit now being
received is good, such frosted stock as
was put on the market being now
cleaned out of the way.
Potatoes—The market is stronger and
quotations in most markets are fully 5c
higher than a week ago. Local buyers
have advanced their paying prices to
55@6oc.
Radishes—25c per doz. bunches.
-, seeds—Timothy, prime, $1.40@1.45 ;
Medium clover, tas. 25; Mammoth
clover, $3@3.40; Crimson clover, Sos
Red Top, $1@1.10; Alfalfa, $3. 75@4. 50;
Alsyke, $4.50@4. 65: Orchard grass,
$1.60; Kentucky bluegrass, $1.30@1.50.
Spinach—5soc per bu.
Strawberries—3oc per qt.
Tomatoes—$4 per case of 6 baskets.
V snare —— aa doz.
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Hides, Pelts, Furs, Tallow and Wool.
The hide market is weaker, with '%c
decline, more from manipulation of
dealers than from any change of supply
or demand. The quality is poor, which
cuts a figure. Light stock is more
plentiful and prices hold firm.
Pelts are not plenty and the price is
off,in sympathy with wool.
Furs hold up well, with light catch.
Hudson Bay sales last week did not in-
fluence our market, as they are a higher
class of goods.
Tallow remains slow of sale, with no
kick to the trade, while the demand has
been good for fresh stock.
Wool is extremely quiet, with light
sale and no demand—an_ occasional
weak spot on inferior grades. While
the bulk of holdings is firm, holders ex-
pect much higher prices during the next
half year. London sales are firm at 5
per cent. advance for light offerings.
Prices are higher than our market will
warrant for importation; in fact, it can
not be bought for this side without a
loss. Wm. T. HEss.
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BANK NOTES.
Principle of Promotion Exemplified in
Mr. Anderson’s Elevation
Entirely aside from personal consid-
erations, the election of Wm. H. An-
derson to the presidency of the Fourth
National. Bank is pleasing and gratify-
ing. It is a recognition of the prin-
ciple of promotion, and not only is this
principle applied to him, but the others
have the benefit of it as well. In the
past history of banking in this city, to
eventually be made a teller has been,
practically, the highest ambition held
out for the aspirations of the young man
who goes into the banks as a clerk with
the view of making it a life business.
When a clerk or teller has graduated in-
to a cashiership, it has not been as
cashier of the bank in which he received
his training, but of some other bank or
of some bank which he may have been
instrumental in organizing. Mr. Sey-
mour, it is believed, is the first in the
city to begin in a bank at the lowest
round of the ladder, and by regular
steps win promotions to the cashiership
of the institution in which he started.
Mr. Anderson is the first cashier to be
promoted to the presidency. If the pol-
icy of promotion were more generally
adopted and applied, the humblest and
youngest clerk would have more of an
incentive to hard work than the mere
‘‘holding of his job’’ affords. He
would have something to look forward
to and to work for, and this in itself
would tend to the development of a
higher grade of ability and efficiency.
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Another pleasing feature about the
election of Mr. Anderson is the recog-
nition of the principle that the presi-
dent of the bank should, in fact as well
as in name, be the executive head of
the institution. Too often the presi-
dency is given as an honor to one of
the heavy stockholders or to some man
whose uame is well known in business
circles, and therefore of value to the
bank, but who may know no more about
banking than he does of flying, and lit-
tle more of the bank of which he is
president and the nominal head than
does the average stockholder. ‘To have
an honorary president may be well
enough in a smal! town bank, but Grand
Rapids has become too much of a com-
mercial and financial center to warrant
its continuance here. It is a wise move
on the part of the Fourth National to
make its President the real executive
officer of the institution. George W.
Gay, who for several years has been
Vice-President of the Bank, took this
view of the matter, and, it is under-
stood, suggested Mr. Anderson for the
place.
Several of the other city banks have
presidents who are presidents in fact.
L. H. Withey is one of the hardest
working men in the Michigan Trust
Company and is rarely away from his
desk, except when out of town on _ busi-
ness for the Company. James M. Bar-
nett has his regular desk and office
hours in the Old National and his finger
is always on the business pulse. Dan-
iel McCoy is as prompt in his office
hours at the State Bank of Michigan as
any of the clerks. Thomas Hefferan is
rarely seen elsewhere than at the Peo
ples Savings during banking hours.
Henry Idema, as Vice-President of the
Kent Savings, attends strictly to busi-
ness. Atthe other banks the presidents
give more or less close personal atten-
tion to the business, but do not by any
means devote themselves to it.
Mr. Anderson came to Grand Rapids
fresh from a Sparta township farm. He
was born and brought up in the country
and as a young man was thrifty and
shrewd. About fifteen years ago, while
still a young man, he sold his farm, moved
into the city and engaged in the real
estate and loan business, with an_ office
under the Fourth National Bank, oper-
ating chiefly upon his own capital. He
was modest and unassuming, but in time
the success of some of his transactions
became known and attracted attention
in financial circles, and in 1891 he was
invited to become a director of the
Bank. He accepted the place, and _ in
the fall of the same year was elected
Cashier to succeed Homer W, Nash. He
entered upon his duties November 17,
1891, and at that time the loans and
discounts were $872, 436 and the deposits
$792,843. The loans and discounts now
are $1,470,742, an increase of about 75
per cent., and the deposits are $1,740,-
693, an increase of about 150 per cent.
Six years ago the surplus account was
given as $35,000, and this surplus sub-
sequently suffered severely when bad
loans, long carried, were written off.
The surplus now is $47,000, and it is
all surplus. The Bank then carried
$66,000 worth of real estate, while its
real estate holdings now are about
g1o,ooo. Under Mr. Anderson's man-
agement, the Bank has made rapid
strides forward, in spite of the fact that
four of tne six years he has been Cash-
ier have been years of depression, dis-
tress and business uncertainty.
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A question that is beginning to agi-
tate the bankers is whether or not the
Saturday half holiday will be observed
during the coming summer. The Leg-
islature of ‘93 made a law naming the
legal holidays, and to the list was added
‘tevery Saturday from 12 0'clock noon to
12 o'clock at night."' This law, which
is still on the statute books, has a_ pro-
viso, however, that upon the vote of the
directors the banks may keep open for
business Saturday afternoons. Soon
after the enactment of the law a move-
ment was started to take advantage of
, but two or three banks held out
a closing Saturdays, even during
the summer months,and the subject was
dropped. The agitation which Mayor
Stow has started for the closing of the
factories Saturday during
July and August is leading to a hope
among the bank clerks that the question
of closing the banks may be revived.
The subject has hardly been discussed
as yet, but when the birds begin sing-
ing a little louder, and when the sun
grows warmer and the base ball games
begin and the bicycles are taken from
the store rooms, a committee of clerks
will start out with an agreement for all
the banks to Sign. There is a strong
sentiment among the business men
against the Saturday half holiday, even
during the summer, but if the manu-
facturers set the pace, the merchants
may have to fall into line and the banks
wiil certainly not be behind the others
in taking a weekly half day off.
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It may interest investors to know that
Charlevoix has voted $9,000 bonds to
move the water works. Boyne City has
voted $4,000 for water works, and Har-
bor Springs has voted $6,000 bonds for
a municipal lighting plant. Muskegon
county will on April 4 vote on issuing
$25,000 bends to build a highway from
Muskegon to North Muskegon. Jackson
will vote April 4 on issuing $22,340
street improvement bonds. Grand
Ledge will vote on $25,000 refunding
water works bonds. Petoskey will vote
on $15,000 to build a combined city
hall, engine house and jail.
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TRADESMAN
PRO AND CON.
Views of the Gate System from Both
Sides.
With a view to ascertaining what ob-
jections there are to the gate system, a
representative of the Tradesman rode
last week from Grand Rapids to Hart-
ford and return, going both ways on the
local trains which stop at every town.
At every stop the train made the writer
sauntered out to the car platform for
the purpose of inspecting the methods
used to handle the people. In each
case the gate-keeper appeared to be a
man of excellent judgment, throwing
his gate open promptly as soon as the
train stopped at the station, assisting the
people to alight and then passing those
into the cars who possessed tickets or
transportation of any kind. Ticket
holders handed their tickets to the gate-
keeper, who scrutinized them quickly
and punched them as the passengers
passed up the steps of the car. Travel-
ing men and others who carried mileage
books were only required to hold the
book in their hands, no attempt being
made to inspect the book, even to the
extent of looking at the name inscribed
on the cover. Although fully twenty
passengers alighted from the southbound
train at Holland, and as many boarded
it, the transfer was made in good time,
without delay and apparently without
any friction. Several traveling men on
the train who were interviewed on the
subject stated that the objections to the
system are largely sentimental and
that there are no valid reasons why the
gates should be removed, in case the
management finds it more profitable to
keep them on the train.
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The average traveling man, how-
ever, does rot regard the gate system in
any other light than that of a nuisance,
and an unmitigated nuisance at that.
Even the most conservative members of
the fraternity turn up their noses in dis-
gust when asked to explain what objec-
tion they have to the gate system. They
insist that they have to stand out in the
rain at country stations, waiting the ac-
tion of the gate-keeper in inspecting
the tickets and mileage books of those
in waiting; that it is not an easy thing
for a traveling man with two heavy
grips to carry his mileage book in his
hand, and that the only logical outcome
of the situation is for the boys to have
coats made witha glass front in one
pocket, so that the gate-keeper can see
the mileage book through the glass and
pass the salesman without further cere-
mony. ae
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‘‘T began to travel out of Grand Rap-
ids fourteen years ago,’’ said a well-
known salesman, ‘‘and it was common
talk at that time among the traveling
men that some of the conductors on the
~ Northern division of the C. & W. M.
were knocking down. The traveling
men talked it around the station houses
and it became a matter of common
knowledge with station agents, telegraph
operators and section hands, yet for
some reason which I am unable to fathom
these men were permitted to continue in
charge of trains until their stealings be-
came so flagrant that the company could
not stand it any longer. Of course, the
gate system is aimed at the traveling
man, the intention being that it will
prevent collusion between the traveling
man and the conductor.
that it is unfair for any railroad to dis-
criminate against certain classes of trav-
elers in this manner, and the time will
come when Mr. Heald will see that, if
he persists in keeping the gates on the
trains, the road will not earn enough to
pay for greasing the wheels.’’
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‘“The gates do not keep the passen-
gers off the trains,’’ said a veteran
salesman who has been traveling north
of Grand Rapids for the past fourteen
years; ‘‘but they keep the freight off
the freight trains,’’ he remarked, with
a sly wink. ‘‘It is not so much the gate
system the boys complain of as it is the
frequent changes and unnecessary in-
novations that are continually being
made by the Heald lines, and the gate
matter is simply the culmination of
annoyances which the traveling men
have been compelled to put up with
ever since Mr. De Haven was placed
in charge of the passenger department.
Why he should harbor such a dislike to-
ward the traveling man is more than |
can understand, especially when we
come to think how much that road de-
pends on the traveling men for sup-
port. |”
‘“The C. & W. M. was the most pop-
ular line in Michigan,’’ said another
salesman, ‘‘until it put gates on its
trains, and J should say that it is now
the most unpopular road in the United
States, and it will remain so until the
gates are taken off and every vestige of
the gate system is abolished. Of course,
the boys have to travel over the Heald
lines, but so long as the gates remain,
they will travel just as little as they can
over these lines, and when it comes to
the shipment of freight—well, that is
where the boys can get in their work.’’
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A visit to the various jobbing houses
of the city discloses the fact that nearly
every shipping clerk in town has spe-
cific orders to ship goods in every way
possible except over the Heald lines.
For instance, a representative grocery
salesman who was always partial to the
C. & W. M., in making shipments to
Baldwin, Ludington and Manistee now
has a notice pasted in the shipping de-
partment of the house for which he
travels, requesting that all shipments
for these towns be sent via G. R. & I.
ana FP. & P. M. Fhe resalt is that
Baldwin has ceased to cut much figure
as a transfer station except on through
business,
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The above interviews serve to present
the gate question as it appears to the
unprejudiced observer—to one who took
the trouble to investigate the matter on
his own account and who is unable to
determine wherein the system should
meet such determined opposition.
Rightly or wrongly, however, there is
no disputing the fact that there exists a
deep-seated antagonism against the sys-
tem, which time will never soften, and,
judging by the manner in which freight
shipments are being diverted, the writer
has no hesitation in asserting that, in
his opinion, it is a mistake to continue
to keep the gates on the trains, because
every dollar that is saved by the use of
the gates is costing the railroad Stoo in
the loss of freight which is diverted to
other lines’ How long the management
can afford to hold out against this opfo-
sition is, of course, problematical, but
it would appear to the writer that no
road or series of roads can afford to
suffer such a loss of its revenues as
must be the case under existing condi-
tions, when the matter at stake is so
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A man always puts his best foot for-
ward ; a mule puts his hackward.
Bicycle Shoe Clerk Loses a Customer.
From the Denver Times.
A Denver shoe store recently em-
ployed a young man for clerk who had
been in the bicycle business so long
that he was an enthusiast. A young
lady called at the store for a pair of
shoes. i
“1 ‘want a. pair of
marked demurely.
‘*What gear?’’ he enquired, bowing.
one
‘*[ meant what size."’
** About two and a half.’’
‘What model—er, what last?’’
TA last, § think,”
‘*Do you like the bigh sad—the high
heels?’’
*‘Just medium.’’
He got the shoe she seemed to want,
and, after fitting it carefully, remarked
absent mindedly:
**You can wear loose bloomers with
that frame and it will never puncture.
Keep it well greased and—"'
The lady called fer another clerk.
shoes, ’’ she re-
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Woman’s World
Women’s False Ideas of Economy.
I am more and more convinced every
day that with the majority of women
economy is the root of all extravagance.
When one runs up a bill that simply
paralyzes her or goes dead broke a week
before her allowance is due, nine times
out of ten it may be safely set down to
some conscientious and heartfelt effort
to economize. That it proves a boomer-
ang does not discourage or disconcert
her. She simply wraps the mantle of
conscious self-righteousness about her
and wonders what on earth her poor
family would have done without such
a financier to manage for them.
Economy has always been woman’s
pet virtue on which she prided _ herself,
and each and every one of us is fully
convinced that we havea close monopoly
on it. We are willing to admit we don’t
know it all in other directions, that we
make mistakes and failures, but I have
yet tomeet the woman who did not con-
sider herself a shining exponent of the
art of judicious saving. The one thing
a woman can never understand is the
coolness with which a man buys what
he wants, when he wants it, or by what
miracle her husband kept out of the
poorhouse before she took charge of his
pocketbook.
In pursuance of the theory of economy
we stumble into many pitfalls. One of
these is the bargain counter. Never was
there a greater mistake than to imagine
a woman loves a bargain because she
thinks it is cheap. We hate cheapness.
We would far rather have a high-priced,
exclusive article, but we are victims to
the economy idea, and feel that the un-
pardonable sin is in passing by some-
thing that has been marked down. Mrs.
Jones paid 50 cents apiece for some
towels she needed. We get the very
same towels on bargain Monday for 48
cents, and we feel a triumphant thrill
at the achievement, and reflect that Mary
Jones never did know the first princi-
ples of economy,anyway. It is only aft-
er our towels come home that we remem-
ber that we were already oversupplied
and haven’t the slightest use for them—
that there isn’t a shelf ina closet or
armoire where it is safe to movea thing
suddenly for fear of an avalanche of
previous bargains falling on our heads
—it is only then that we begin to enter-
tain suspicious thoughts of economy
and to wonder when a bargain is a_bar-
gain.
Every now and then some prophet in
Israel arises and sets forth the advan-
tages of buying your organdies in Nvo-
vember and your winter things about
the middle of July. It sounds alluring.
Most of us have tried it, and that no
woman has yet committed suicide when
she got her bargains out of season is a
signal proof of feminine heroism and
fortitude under affliction. There is
one, just one, infallible rule about this
—whatever you get will be exactly the
thing you should not have gotten, and
you will loathe and despise it. If you
buy a stripe in the summer, when win-
ter comes every living soul will be
wearing plaids. If you get a dark,
quiet, non-committal color, fashion will
inevitably demand a color that pro-
claims its glories from afar. You can
never know how absolutely necessary the
latest thing is to your happiness until
you load yourself up with last year’s
goods, and feel like a perambulating
back number.
There isn’t any use in speaking of
the economy that prompts a woman to
do the spring housecleaning to save a
scrub-woman or to put carpets
herself instead of hiring a professional.
Doctors and trained nurses have to live,
down
and these are their perquisites. Be-
sides, no woman ever admitted she
made herself sick. She may have
brought on a spell that necessitates her
spending the summer at the seaside, or
in the mountains, to recuperate from
having painted a set of cottage furni-
ture, but she always believes it was a
great saving in the long run, and points
to it with pride, as an evidence of her
ability to economize. Neither is it nec-
essary to say a word of those who make |
home-made furniture, where a cracker
box is converted into a divan and a
flour barrel into an empire chair, by
means of springs and curled hair and
brocade and Turkish rugs, at about
three times what a decent article would
cost from the store. When a woman
contracts the home-made-furniture-econ-
omizing mania she is simply hopeless,
and there’s no use in arguing with her.
I suppose there has never been a
woman who was a housekeeper who has
not felt herself thrill with the possibili-
ties of getting rich off what she could
save from the table, as she read the in-
spiring words of some of the apostles of
household economics. Never throw
away a scrap, cry they. Utilize every-
thing. Then follow directions for con-
verting the cold potatoes left from din-
ner into croquettes, transforming scraps
of meat into entrancing entrees,and stale
bread into ravishing puddings. Also,
and likewise, every woman is conjured
to keep a stock kettle, where the ma-
terials for soup gather themselves to-
gether as if by magic and without price.
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
Now, far be it from
things are impossible. I am persuaded
that nothing is secret or hidden from
these oracles, but I do say that a stock
kettle and nervous prostration are synon-
ymous terms. Nothing short of eternal
vigilance will get the right things into
it and keep the wrong things out.
Furthermore, to reduce cold potatoes
into fancy dishes and turn scraps of
meat into things a la maitre d’hotel and
a la Hollandaise is going to keepa
woman standing continually over the
cooking stove. It is an achievement
entirely beyond the average plain cook,
and the game simply isn’t worth the
candle. It is using up $5 worth of time
and $10 worth of seule to save 15
cents’ worth of cold victuals.
me to say these
After all,aren't we victims to the idea
of saving up things? ‘‘Keep every-
thing. Sometime you may need it,’’
runs the old adage, and so we go on
piling up useless rubbish in our attics,
until they will hold no more. And if, by
chance, in the process of time, you do
happen to need the thing the moths
have always eaten it, or it has gotten
rusted and it isn’t any use after all. It
is a distorted idea of economy that
makes women burden themselves with
things they would be glad to be rid of.
| They simply haven’t the courage to
, throw rubbish away. The idea of giv-
ing things away while they are good
doesn’t seem to occur to any, yet it
is one of the most practica! forms of
philanthropy in the world.
At the end of the season every woman
and hats and gloves and flowers
frills that she is reasonably sure of
never wearing again. Suppose, instead
of packing them up and _ storing them
away, she sent them to some girls out
in the country with a word or two about
how they could be freshened
used. Wouldn't it be a veritable treas-
ure-trove? Once I spent a summer in
a little village that had its great lady.
his country as a cabinet minister, and
both in Washington
New York she was a brilliant and
spicuous figure in society. As
her wealth and position, she
with great richness, but she never
got the old friends left behind in the
little town, and thither three
times a year she sent great hampers of
fine clothing—gowns, wraps and hats—
that were divided, at her suggestion,
among a number of poor girls, whose
cunning fingers adapted them to their
new owners’ needs. The gift was made
cOn-
or four
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false shame. ‘‘Oh, do you know Mrs.
B. sent me the hat she wore to the Brit-
ish Minister’s garden party?’’ Or, ‘‘I
have the loveliest ball frock—it’s the
one Mrs. B. had made for the Patri-
archs’ Ball,’’ were the explanations
often given of some unusual finery and
which were accepted in an equally un-
critical spirit, and it seemed to me that
no act of a life that was fragrant with
good deeds was sweeter or better than
the generous remembrance of a young
girl’s love of pretty clothing that these
boxes expressed.
Sometimes it is not alone the mania
for economy that makes women put
away everything that they bave ever
had—it is a sentimental fancy of asso-
ciation. I remember that once I lived
neighbor to such a woman as this, who
used to say that she had in an immense
packing chest all the clothing and play-
things her son—now a middle-aged and
prosperous banker—-had had until he
was nearly grown, and that once or
twice a year she would overhaul the
| things and weep over them, because he
enough and fashionable enough to use}
who goes about much has a lot of dresses |
and
up and |
She bad married a rich man who served |
hadn't staid a baby but had persisted
in growing up. QOne cold and bitter
night I was called to see a family in
the direst poverty. A little new-born
baby wailed on the breast of a_ starving
mother and a half dozen half-naked
children cowered about a handful of fire
in the stove. I went direct from them
to my rich neighbor.
Look here, Mrs. Blank,’’ I said
abruptly, ‘‘didn’t you tell me you had
all the baby clothes, and clothes your
son wore when a child, in a chest inthe
attic?”
‘Yes,’’ she said,
most precious possessions. Ah, you
have no idea how many times I have
wept over them—’’
‘‘Precious fiddlesticks!’’ I cried;
‘‘and are you going to let that box of
clothes rot upstairs while those children
‘‘and they are my
at your very door are freezing for
|clothes? Why, I think your heart must
be encased in boiler iron.’’
Do you think it’s wrong?’’ she
asked.
and afterwards in|
befitted |
dressed |
for- |
| things.
ido it herself, and when we got
‘Wrong !*’ said I,
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a wickeder
seeing I was gain-
I don’t think you could do
thing, if you hunted a
week. "”
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sent me
last she gave me the key and
and a servant up to get the
She said she couldn’t bear to
through
| with that trunk there wasn’t enough left
without patronage and accepted without |
in it to shed a tear on in the future.
Economy is good, but generosity is
better. It is a good thing sometimes to
take care of things. And sometimes it
is better to just pass on our blessings
aud give others a chance at them.
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WEDNESDAY, = = = MARCH 23, 1898.
TRAVELING MEN VS.TRAIN GATES
The discussion between the traveling
men on one side and the Heald railway
system on the other, relative to the gate
system now in use on a portion of the
trains of that system, has reached the
acute stage, and the outcome is not at
all difficult to foresee. Both sides are
arrayed in invincible phalanx—and one
side or the other must, of necessity,
yield. The Tradesman has given the
matter thorough investigation and care-
ful consideration and is inclined to the
opinion that the objections to the in-
novation are more sentimental than
real. Notwithstanding this fact, how-
ever, the traveling men have taken
Strong grounds against the gates and
insist that they must go or their freight
will go over other lines, so far as it is
possible for them to divert it. They
have not only registered this fiat, but
they are putting it into execution with
a vigor and a determination character-
istic of the fraternity. How long the
Heald system can stand up under such
a determination and continue its pres-
ent policy of opposition and defiance
is, of course, problematical; but, as it
is impossible to restore the friendship
of the traveling men and still keep the
gates, and as the friendship of the
traveling men is a commodity quite as
valuable in its way as any commodi-
ties which can be weighed and meas-
ured, the Tradesman believes that Gen-
eral Manager Heald—who enjoys the
reputation of being one of the shrewdest
and most diplomatic railway managers
in the country—will wisely conclude that
the traveling men have opinions and
prejudices which even a railway official is
bound to respect, and that he will forth-
with issue an order abolishing the gate
system on the few trains on which it is
now used.
Had the system been put into opera-
tion by concert of action with other
Michigan roads, or had it been adopted
at a time when the traveling men were
not already keyed up to intense excite-
ment by reason of the adoption and
abandonment of the Central Passenger
Association mileage book, the gate sys-
tem would probably provoke little com-
ment and excite little opposition. Its
adoption at such a time, however, was
premature and unfortunate, and for the
best interests of all concerned, and in
order that harmony and _ good feeling
may be restored, the Tradesman sincere-
ly hopes that Mr. Heald will conclude
to withdraw the obnoxious feature and
‘hold out the olive branch of peace,
realizing, as he must, that he is deal-
ing with a class of men who can make
and unmake railroads—who can precip-
itate defaults on bonds as well as_ earn
dividends on stocks.
GENERAL TRADE SITUATION.
With the exception of a perceptible
checking of wholesale demand at cer-
tain Eastern points the tide of trade
flows without abatement over all parts
of the country. Many large transac-
tions are deferred in the seaboard cities
on account of the feeling of uncertainty
caused by war possibilities. In the
stock market the effect is shown in con-
tinued dulness, and as the probability
of matters being brought toa crisis by
the report of the Maine enquiry be-
comes more imminent there is a cor-
responding increase in the dulness, and
tbis week shows a decline in most lines.
That these unfavorable indications
are the result of the political situation
alone is indicated by the fact that
throughout the country trade movement
is very heavy, the central and western
portions leading. Perhaps the most fa-
vorable reports come from Kansas City,
where the demand for hardware and
building materials, as_ well as agricul-
tural implements, is greater than the
supply, and difficulty is found in filling
orders. Another favorable feature of
the situation is that export trade con-
tinues larger than the most sanguine
expectatious. The excess of these over
imports is rapidly increasing the trade
balance in our favor, until there isa
rapid inflow of gold from every direc-
tion.
The wheat market scored a small ad-
vance for last week, but this week shows
a tendency to reaction, although as yet
with little change in values. The situa-
tion seems to be under the control of
speculators in the Western markets and
the small fluctuations in values are
made to suit their convenience. Prices
of the other cereals have been weaker.
The iron situation continues the fa-
vorable features of the past few weeks
in nearly all lines. Indeed, the im-
provement has been emphasized by the
political agitation, not only in the pros-
pect of future demands, but there have
been enough substantial orders given
by the Government to have a material
influence.
Bank clearings continue very heavy,
breaking records for the corresponding
weeks in any past years. The amount
was $1,288,951,000. Failures were 233,
as against 247 last week.
Spring poetry is coming in briskly
enough, full of roses and posies, and
love, from above, and shine of the sun
and dearest one, dewdrops of pearl,
sweetest girl,and the borrowed perfume
of a honeysuckle-scented June; all of
which is nice.
It is reported that the peach crop has
been nearly ruined in some of our Texas
counties. The public’s long experience
with Michigan and Maryland necessi-
tates something like an affidavit to se-
cure full credence for reports as to the
peach crop.
Senator Proctor’s cold facts have
rather taken the wind out of the Madrid
press, but the latter may be confidently
expected to come up smiling for an-
other round or two. Facts only tem-
porarily embarrass the Spanish editor.
Spain can never sell her honor nor
pawn her pride.
AN UNFORTUNATE DECISION.
The Supreme Court of the United
States has recently rendered a decision
setting aside as unconstitutional a
statute of the State of Nebraska which
undertook to regulate railroad freight
charges.
This statute fixed a maximum sum
which might be charged for freights
within the State and conferred on the
Railroad Commissioners of Nebraska
power to reduce the rates whenever, to
a majority of the number, it seemed just
and reasonable so to do.
A railroad company operating in Ne-
braska complained that the reductions
of freight rates made under this law
were so great that each of the roads in-
volved would have been compelled to
do its business at a loss, and that thus
the effect of the law was to deprive the
railroad companies of their property
without compensation, in violation of
the constitution.
The United States Supreme Court
sustained the contention of the railrcad
company and held that the authorities
of a State have no right, under the con-
stitution, to fix an unreasonable rate to
be charged by railroads even within the
State. But the Court did not stop there.
It undertook to fix the basis upon which
the reasonableness of railroad charges
may be ascertained. Said the Court:
We hold that the basis of all calcu-
lations as to reasonableness of rates to
be charged by a corporation maintain-
ing a highway under legislative sanc-
tion must be the fair value of the prop-
erty being used by it for the conven-
ience of the public. And in order to
ascertain that value, the original cost of
consiruction, the amount expended in
improvements, the amount and market
value of its bonds and stock, the present
as compared with the original cost of
construction, the probable earning ca-
pacity of the property under any rates
prescribed by statute, and the sum re-
quired to meet operating expenses are
all matters for consideration, and to be
given such weight as may be just and
rigbt in any particular case.
This decision virtually empowers
every railroad in the United States to
make such charges for its services as
will enable it to do business at a profit.
This involves principles that are at
variance with the rules governing the
prices of all other services and products
in the markets. A_ thing is worth what
it will bring, and the market price is
commonly fixed by competition. As the
result of competition, prices may be so
low that somebody ioses money; but
that is only one of the contingencies of
business. If some can produce an ar-
ticle of consumption at lower cost than
can be secured by others, then the com-
petition may force one producer to lose
money, while another works at a _ profit.
Everything depends on facilities and
advantages of production.
But railroads, save in rare instances,
do not compete. At least each has a
certain territory, the carrying trade of
which it controls. Under the operation
of the decision above noted it would
seem that a railroad badly constructed
and worse managed would have the
right in fixing its charges for transpor-
tation to insure itself a profit, despite
its disadvantage, and this profit is to be
made out of the persons who are forced,
for lack of other facilities, to use its
services, because the original cost of
construction, the amount expended in
improvements, the amount and market
value of its bonds and stock, the prob-
able earning capacity of the property
under any rates prescribed by the state,
and the sum required to meet to oper-
ating expenses are all matters for con-
sideration in making up a reasonable
freight tariff.
In equity the matter of reasonableness
should not operate whoily to the advan-
tage of the railways. It .would seem
that those persons whose necessities
force them to patronize the railways
sheuld also be considered. They might
be required to pay for the transportation
of their products such prices as would in-
sure that their property would not be mar-
keted at a loss. Certainly, ail the rea-
sonableness should not work to the ad-
vantage of the railways and against the
shippers; but it appears that there is no
ground upon which sbippers can stand
in court and fight for the rights. They
cannot ship their goods without signing
a contract to pay their freights, what-
ever they may be, and that ends the
matter. Neither the Interstate Com-
merce Commission nor State railway
commissions can aid shippers in the
face of such a decision. The railroad
would only have to show that it must
charge a certain sum in order to keep
up its dividends on its watered, or
otherwise overvalued, stock and bonds,
to secure the judgment of the court that
this was a ‘‘reasonable rate.’’
The market value of any property is
just what it will sell for. Many of the
railroads that were built at high costs
in times of inflation could be duplicated
to-day at vastly smaller outlays. They
are put up and sold at sheriff's sale for
a tithe of what they cost; but if, in
making rates, the original cost must be
considered, the shippers will be placed
at a hopeless disadvantage. it is this
sort of thing done in the courts that has
aroused so much hostility against the
railroads and has given rise to the wild
and radical socialistic demands that
they shall be operated by the Govern-
ment.
The State of Indiana, which is con-
sidered one of the severest on the rail-
roads, only taxes them to the amount of
their selling value. Suppose it adopted
the rule laid down above for ascertain-
ing reasonable freight charges and taxed
them at their original cost, etc., whata
how] there would be.
The State of Indiana, which taxes the
railroads on their selling value, secures
from them nearly 20 per cent. of the
State’s revenues. The Indiana system
is to assess against the railroads the
total value of all their property within
the borders of the commonwealth, no
matter where the owners may reside. If
a railroad lies two-thirds in Ohio and
one-third in Indiana, it assumes that
Indiana should receive the tax on one-
third of its total value. In short, it ap-
plies to railroad property the same rules
as are applied to the taxation of real
estate, and taxes the roads at the gen-
eral rate. As a result, the railroads of
Indiana pay as large a proportion of the
taxes as its real estate pays.
One can easily see why Englishmen
wish success to plans for the liberation
of Cuba. Their losses through the dev-
astation of the island are only less
grievous than our own. Scores of cot-
ton and tobacco estates are owned or
mortgaged in England, and almost all
the money invested in the insular rail-
ways came from London. It was with
English capital that public works were
undertaken in a number of Cuban cities
between 1878 and 1894. No interest or
dividend will be forthcoming on any of
these securities until peace has been
restored 1n the island.
General Fitzhugh Lee is the most
pictured man in America to-day.
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FREE VS. PRISON COMPETITION.
A curious feature of the prison labor
problem in this locality is that the man-
agement of one of the prisons finds it-
self compelled to give up a line of work
because outside competition makes the
convict labor in such work unprofitable.
In a communication to the press on the
subject the warden of the
of Correction asserts that that institu-
tion is compelled to discontinue the
manufacture of cheap chamber suites for
the reason that outside ‘‘cutthroat’’
competition has made it impossible for
the prison to continue the work; and
he further takes occasion to score such
competition and to intimate that it is a
more pertinent subject for the attention
of organized labor than is the question
of prison competition.
There is little doubt that in the strug-
gle to keep factories in operation dur-
ing the depression of recent years there
was too great competition in some lines,
work being continued when there was
actual loss to the manufacturers and
wages were reduced to the minimum.
In these cases the workmen accepted the
situation on the theory that a small loaf
was better than none; but when the
revival of business began both employ-
ers and workmen were prompt to regain
a suitable business basis for their opera-
tions. But in this line, as in many
others, the regaining of such a basis did
not necessarily mean a_ very radical
change in the schedule of values, for
other causes had operated to change the
Situation, and in many lines of trade in
which there are now the greatest activity
and prosperity for all concerned there
has been’ scarcely any advance in
prices.
Ionia House
From this it may be suggested that
the reason for the warden’s discontent
and discouragement may be the result
of other causes—that for some reason he
has possibly failed to meet changing
conditions of manufacture and so is left
behind in the industrial race. The
fact of lessened values during the de-
pression, instead of hindering the ad-
vance of inventive improvement, oper-
ated to accelerate it by supplying the
spur of necessity. Take the iron and
steel trades, for instance. ‘Those years
marked so great a revolution in appar-
atus and methods of production that
the resumption of the greatest activity
ever known is characterized by a less-
ening of prices, which enables this
country to compete in the markets of
the world to a degree far beyond the
most sanguine expectation, and that
without creating dissatisfaction on the
part of the wage earners.
To a certain extent the same causes
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
have operated to affect the situation in
other lines, including that of furniture;
and, unfortunately for the continued
prosperity of prison industries, which
-involve various mechanical appliances
and processes, the management is not
so situated as to keep in a_ sufficiently
advanced position in the march of im-
provement, and those among prison
wardens who find themselves hopelessly
in the rear are prone to attribute to the
undue competition of free labor that
which is owing to their own limitations
as intruders in the industrial army.
The deplorable situation in the Ionia
prison factory is the natural result of
the establishment of a prison industry
requiring an extensive and varied me-
chanical plant. Every private manu-
facturer knows that one of the greatest
causes of deterioration of his mechani-
cal outfit is the changing of styles caused
by improvement. Thus from year to
year machines are losing their effic-
lency, because newer patterns are doing
more and better work, and in many
cases are supplanting the older so that
they are thrown aside entirely. In
carrying on such an enterprise in a
prison it is impossible for the manage-
ment to meet these changing conditions.
The investment in plant of such enter-
prises means the greater waste of the
state funds, in that they soon become
obsolete and worthless. The extent to
which this is the case is in proportion
to the variety in the machines and proc-
esses. On this account this class of en-
terprises in prisons are transient in
their prosperity and soon cease to be dis-
turbing factors in the general industrial
field.
But, unfortunately, there are some
lines of work involving the use of a
single machine or process which are not
subject to such limitations, and these
are constant and serious disturbers in
the industries concerned. Thus for
many years the manufacture of cheap
chairs has been made almost impossible
to free labor on account of this intru-
sion, and so in varying degree witha
long list of other manufactures.
It is unfortunate for the interests of
free labor that, while the management
of lonia seems to fail to grasp the sad
difficulty with the furniture industry, it
is changing to those lines in which the
prospects of success are more favorable.
The warden, in his anxiety to keep the
good will of the labor element, pro-
tests that the new shirt contract does
not come into competition with free
labor; but his explanation that they are
sold where there has been no market
is hardly sufficient. Free enterprise is
probably as successful in finding markets
as prison wardens, and, whatever may
be the temporary conditions, the manu-
facture of shirts in the Ionia prison will
result, if continued, in serious competi-
tion with the free industry outside.
AVERSION TO SANITATION.
It is singular, but nevertheless true,
that people resent all attempts at en-
forcing upon them sanitary measures.
This appears to be a trait inherent in
human nature, and no amount of civili-
zation or education has been entirely
able to eradicate it. This reflection is
provoked by the account of the riots
which took place, a few days ago, in
Bombay, in which numbers of people
were killed and wounded.
The trouble in Bombay grew out of
the efforts of the authorities to sanitate
the plague-infected quarter of the city.
The people keenly resented the interfer-
ence with their habits and privacy re-
sulting trom house-to-house inspections
and the disinfecting processes. They
attacked the doctors engaged in hos-
pital work and killed one of them.
They also attacked the soldiers engaged
in the Sanitary Corps and stoned three
to death. So serious was the riot that
a large detacument of troops had to be
called out to suppress the mobs, and the
people had to be fired on, and some
were kilied.
This Bombay riot is but a_ repetition
of the scenes which were enacted in
various parts of India some years ago,
when the plague assumed serious pro-
portions. The semi-civilized Hindoos
and Mohammedans resented keenly the
action of the authorities in sanitating
their homes and
of persuasion or explanation sufficed to
reconcile them to the measure which
it was thought necessary to adopt to
check the disease.
This same opposition to sanitation is
witnessed, although, of course, in a
smaller degree, at every place where a
serious infectious or contagious disease
develops. People in even the most en-
lightened communities will revolt at
any interference with their domestic
arrangements or any close house-to-
house supervision. Human nature re-
bels at sanitary methods from the very
cradle, as all fond parents have doubt-
less discovered, and on this point, un-
fortunately, men do not appear to im-
prove with age. No doubt human _ na-
ture will never change in this respect ;
but, for all that, rebellious humanity
must be disciplined in its own interest.
It is this plan that the British are pur-
suing in India.
interruptedly in spite of the riots, and, |
when persuasion fails, force
without scruple. It
the English soldiers that they keep up |
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the work of cleansing and disinfecting
the homes of the ignorant natives of the
plague-stricken districts despite
disinfecting the}
lague-stricken quarter, and no amount | i
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Sanitation goes on un- |
is used | | be.
is to the credit of | | gineers are equal to all demands in the
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danger of contagion and the imminent
risk of serious injury or death at the
hands of infuriated fanatics.
DEADLY FIRE ‘TRAPS.
The terrible conflagration which oc-
curred in Chicago last week, during
working hours, when many persons lost
their lives by inability to escape from
the building, is another one of the ob-
ject lessons which teach that a most rad-
ical reform is needed in the construc-
tion of the lofty buildings that are in
vogue to-day.
These buildings, supposed to be _fire-
proof, are commonly furnished with ex-
tremely limited stairway facilities. The
height of such structures makes the
climbing of stairways extremely la-
borious, and therefore most attention is
given to supplying elevators, while even
for a large building a single stairway is
all that is provided.
This was the case with the structure
which burned in Chicago. It was used
for business purposes, and hundreds of
people were employed in it. While they
were all at work the house was found to
be on fire. The elevator became un-
manageable, the stairway was
impassable, and many were unabie to
get out. Those who jumped from the
windows were either killed outright by
the fall or were badly bruised and
maimed, while others were burned to
death in the building.
There have been
single
other such catas-
the past few years, and they furnish les-
sons that ought to impress themselves
in the most forcible way upon the ar-
chitects and engineers who make the
plans for such buildings. They should
remember that a house which, when
empty, may be perfectly fireproof, can,
when filled with combustible merchan-
dise, become a veritable furnace, gen-
erating such heat as to burst the outer
and partition walls.
The fact that such a building is con-
structed of fireproof material induces
neglect of provisions for the escape of
the inmates in case of fire, or, at least,
an undue economy in the amount of
space given to stairways. The facilities
and conveniences afforded by the ele-
vators for the rapid transportation of
persons and merchandise have caused
the general use of the upper floors for
factories and warehouses, where large
numbers of employes are engaged.
The benefits arising from the use of
| lofty buildings should not have charged
against them increased risks to the
lives of the employes. These dangers
|can be provided for, and they ought to
Certainly the architects and en-
premises. Indeed, the dangers that
been »mphasized by horrors like
that at Chicago demand the immediate
attention of constructors and planners
the | of buildings.
EVERY MAN LIKES
“MR. THOMAS”
The Best Nickel Cigar in the State.
F. E. Bushman, Representative,
Kalamazoo, Mich.
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Clerks’ Corner.
From Counter to College.
Written for the TRADESMAN.
Things have been winding up with
a bang, as it were. Will Morris has
concluded that the world is hollow; that
friendship is only a name, and an
empty one at that, and that life is made
up of strenuous efforts to get something
for nothing, by fair means or foul, out
of .the .world at large, and especially
out of your friends, if you can find any-
body who wants to sustain that doubtful
relation to you.
For some reason, which I do not think
it needful to give, there are two clerks
in the Bostwick establishment who have
concluded that Will Morris is suffering
acutely from a sudden and violent en-
largment of the hat-band. His sudden
rise in the opinion of *‘the old man’’ is
too much for him; and, because he
lives there, he has begun to think him-
self an essential part of the establish-
ment and is getting to be too high and
mighty to endure. ‘‘Ye’d think, to see
‘im going ‘round with one of the old
man's cigars stuck into his mouth, that
he’d earned it; and to hear one of his
condescending ‘Hellos’ nowdays fairly
lifts your hair. Strange, folks can’t
have a little prosperity without its mak-
ing a fool of ’em, ain’t it?’’
This last condition of things is due,
doubtless, to a certain conclusion which
Mr. and Mrs. Bostwick have reached
in regard to Will. Mr. Bostwick has
been having a warm spot in his heart
for the boy for a good while and long
ago would have done something hand-
some for him if Will had been willing
to give now and then a glimpse of the
good that was in him. Mrs. Bostwick,
on general—female—principles, didn’t
take kindly to Will at first. A woman
seems to go on the principle, in such
matters, that her husband’s friends are
drawn to him by the bad that is in him
—similia similibus—as she was drawn
to him and clings to him for the good
that she only can see in him! So, when
Bostwick came home with only praises
for the boy, at once she scented mis-
chief, not afar off, and proceeded to
hate the youngster with all her might
and main. When, however, she became
convinced that her prejudice had run
away with her judgment—is that an-
other womanly characteristic?—the door
of her affection swung open with a bang
and Will was taken in without farther
question and his fate fixed. Even then
it is doubtful whether the future would
have become so suddenly bright had he
not turned the tables on his employer
by showing him that if the one could
take pleasure in playing the part of ‘‘a
parent,’’ the other could extract some
few drops of enjoyment in going through
“‘the son racket.’’ I know from what
Bostwick said to me _ that the clever
turning of the tables is what brought
him to his sudden decision; and I
know, too—and so do the rest of Mrs.
Kostwick'’s friends by this time—that
the moment Bostwick, at the request of
Will, gave up his pipe, long the de-
testation of his worthy wife, there
wasn't anything in this world too good
tor him, and certainly nothing she
wouldn’t do for him.
When, then, it became known that the
clerk had made up his mind to be an
educated man first, and a tradesman
afterwards, unless in the meantime
something better should beckon to him,
there was no halfway work about tbe
result. They made up their minds what
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they were going to do—if the boy would
let them. I was asked to come over and
offer any suggestions which seemed
good to me, and when I| came away this
was the program: From now to the first
of September there is to be a general
getting ready for a first-class prepara-
tory school in the East. The West is
well enough in certain lines of life, but
in mental training ‘‘the old familiar
places’’ are the better. This shall bea
matter of choice with the boy. Then,
if he wants a college course, he is to
have it; aud then, if he wants to go in-
to business, there is to be a place for
him right here with Mr. Bostwick ; or,
if be wants a profession and shows apt-
ness for it, he shall have that!
It took us old heads far into the night | 35
to fix things just as it seemed for the
best; and tke chief anxiety now is
whether Will will carry out the present
arrangement, or, young-fellow-like,
think it best to make out one for him-
self.
I couldn't help thinking, as 1 walked
slowly home in the starlight that night,
how strange it was for all these things} S84
to have taken place as they have. It
reads more like a bit of fiction than it
does like anything real. I might have
tried from week to week to ‘‘make up’’
what has taken place, but I am glad
now that I didn't ‘‘toucb up’’ certain
parts of these incidents, as I freely ad-
mit I was strongly tempted to do. Still,
who could have guessed that my drop-
ping in to see the boy that night when
Mr. Bostwick ‘‘went for’’ him so sav-
agely should have led to such results ;
and who could have believed that so
much could have centered in a chance
meeting as did in that one at the cor-
ner of the street when Will and I found
ourselves wheeling side by side that
summer morning to and from the park.
Well, after all, boys, you have this to
think of, as I have in watching what
has been here recorded, that everyday
life is full of just such things, and that
our lives, could they be watched and
followed, would show matters just as
far-reaching and just as important as
what has been written of Will Morris.
There is no doubt about it; it is the lit-
tle everyday affairs, the likes and the
dislikes, the quarrels and the make-ups,
that settle the life-questions fur us; and
as we, like Will Morris, look at these
questions to-day squarely and answer
them wisely, so we settle for ourselves
the to-morrow and all that the to-mor-
row holds. It isn’t of any use to tell
me that every fellow doesn’t run into
such ‘‘a snap’’ as Morris has. I know
what I'm talking about, and I say that
it may not be in that particular form,
but in some shape it comes to every
clerk, as to everyone in any other vo-
cation, when he himself decides the
question of his own advancement. As
he decides so he suffers or rejoices.
Morris has proved it, others have proved
it; and every one of you boys knows
already, in that private corner of his
heart where he is true to himself, that
the statement is true—a bit of wisdom
for which there is no extra charge.
I do not know as it is worth stating ;
but, if any of you fellows remember a
certain Sid. Benton who clerked it for
Cy Huxley at Militown until he went
away to school, it may please you to
know that Morris has decided to go to
that same school ; and, with two such good
fellows together, we shall probably hear
from them later,
RICHARD MALCOLM STRONG.
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Small Towns and Railways.
Written for the TRADESMAN.
The idea largely obtains that no town
can be considered prosperous while
lacking railway conveniences, and so
there are few such towns which are not
hoping and striving for the attainment
of this requisite to substantial and _per-
manent growth. In some cases the real-
ization of this ambition inaugurates the
era of development hoped for, while in
many others it proves a sad disappoint-
ment. The question whether a railway
will prove the blessing anticipated usu-
ally depends upon the character of the
tributary trade and upon whether the
railway will not serve the unexpected
purpose of diverting more trade to some
large center made accessible than it
brings, and so make the small town
tributary to its more fortunate neighbor.
The subject of the relation of the rail-
way to the small town is an interesting
one. In the early days, as the railways
came to feel their greatness and impor-
tance the disposition was manifested to
afford little consideration for the con-
venience of any except as it accorded
with their regular routine. The writer
recalls an incident in the recollection of
his early boyhood which may _ illustrate
this characteristic. The New York &
Erie had recently been opened through
the southwestern counties of the Empire
State and the road was run as though
most of the region belonged to it. It
happened at one of the stations, the
hamlet of Baker’s Bridge, that the
stream through the town had carried
away the bridge which gave it its name
and a new one was in process of build-
ing. Mr. Lewis, the contractor, was
engaged in transporting, by the aid of
half a dozen ox teams and a consider-
able force of men, one of the largest
forest trees found in the locality, to
serve as a ‘‘stringer’’ for the new struc-
ture, when he found his way blocked
by a freight train which had taken the
‘blind siding’’ to wait for the passen-
ger. The polite request that the train
be cut and the way opened met a curt
refusal, and its urging only provoked
jeers and ridicule, while the relative
positions were maintained until the ar-
rival of the expected train a quarter of
an hour later. Then the freight backed
to take its place on the main track and
as soon as the way was clear the bridge
builders, with the usual vociferation
of ox driving, resumed their journey.
As the timber had reached half its
length across the track Mr. Lewis
stopped his teams and awaited the per-
emptory request that he should clear the
way. With the nasal twang for which
he was noted, he replied,‘* Walk right
up and bunt it—I'll risk the tree;’’ and
the occasional repetition of this obser-
vation was the only response to the most
energetic expostulations and threaten-
ings which followed. He remained
quietly sitting upon the object of inter-
est until he thought the reckoning about
settled, when the cavalcade resumed its
way and the belated train was soon
speeding to make up its lost time.
But it was not long before the devel-
opment of the new systems of transpor-
tation brought the need of a remedy for
such arrogance to the attention of the
legislatures and laws were’enacted reg-
ulating the behavior on both sides. But
in spite of these there have always been
abuses in some localities, and many
towns, while acknowledging the need of
the railway, accept it as an unpleas-
ant, although necessary, evil.
Recent tendencies in the centraliza-
tion of trade in the larger towns have
served to lessen the value of the rail-
way to the smaller towns still more, and
to increase the evil to others by the
lessening to the utmost limit of the
service and by indifference and antag-
onisms. It is natural that through
trade and the trade of the more im-
portant towns should receive the more
attention and in accordance with this
tendency the service in the smaller ones
is reduced to the utmost limit compat-
ible with maintaining charters. One
train each way per day and the most
irregular and uncertain freight service
is grudgingly accorded, and even this
is often an expense instead of profit.
But, when there is added to thisa
positive antagonism, the town in ques-
tion is doomed to suffer. Such antago-
nisms are often the result of some dis-
agreement as to the observance of mu-
nicipal regulations, or the payment of
local taxes, damage litigation, etc.
The station on the Wabash railroad at
Fairmount, Ill., is an illustration of the
effects of such antagonism when carried
to its length. In this case it is claimed
by the railway people that many of the
villagers testified against the company
in a damage suit, which it lost, and so
it sought to be revenged on the town.
All service was reduced to the mini-
mum. Telegraph wires were taken away
from the station building and the doors
and windows boarded up, as shown.
One passenger train per weekday each
way is all the service given and the
agent faces the surly townsmen at his
window only long enough to meet re-
quirements. In the fight the town has
tried to retaliate by stringent taxation,
which the company refuses to pay.
Then it will allow no wire fencing on
the right of way, and the speed ordin-
ance of ten miles per hour is rigidly en-
forced. The corporation limits are
widely extended and so train after train
of the heavy traffic of this through line
creeps slowly through the town; but,
with the exception noted, none of them
stop.
The railway people assert that, if the
fight continues, they will ruin the town;
and it looks almost as though they were
right. Trade is almost paralyzed and
the shipments for the country around
are taken to other points. Of course,
when a town has its trade based upon a
railway service the loss leaves it in
much worse condition than if it never
had a road.
For the small town and the railway to
be a mutual benefit, it behooves both,
and especially the former, to show the
utmost consideration in dealing with the
questions involved. At the best the
business of such towns is of relatively
less value than the through business,
and if one point does not ship fora
given locality adjacent points will.
The town then is the more susceptible
to injury and care should be exercised
that good judgment and conservatism
shall control in dealing with the rela-
tions to the less vulnerable corporation.
ROSENSTEIN.
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The man who attends strictly to his
own business has a good steady job.
Honest Methods Pay.
From the Dry Goods Economist.
It is always safest and best to judge
a finished work ; premature judgment is
ever liable to error.
An unscrupulous competitor may be
filling the newspapers with ‘‘fairy
tales,’’ and setting the town wild by
questionable merchandising methods.
Will he last?
Are such
to build a business upon?
Dare you trust to such methods?
Do you know of any merchant who
was able to build up a large or perma-
nent business by such methods?
They don't wear well.
The public sooner or later discovers
all the bogus spots, and then great is
the fall of unjust, unscrupulous compe-
tition.
It cannot be denied that such compe-
tition hurts legitimate business for
a while kut in the end strengthens
the honest dealer.
The fly by-night
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merchant caused
much uneasiness a few years ago, but}
we hear little or nothing of such com-
petition now. It has virtually ceased to
exist.
It killed itself.
Honest merchants sometimes fail, but
don't think that honesty had all to do
with it.
Honesty will not cover other business
sins and shortcomings.
—~~> 2. -
Origin of the Word Trust.
In 1882 the directors and controllers
of a large number of corporations in-
terested in the production, refining, and
carrying of coal oi] made an agreement
by which they placed their stock in
those corporations in the hands of nine
persons as trustees, who thus obtained
complete control of these corporations.
This is the first recorded instance of a
commercial trust; as it was precisely
like an ordinary equitable trust, it re-
ceived the name of trust. Other trusts
have been formed on similar lines; so
the name has come into common use.
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Association Matters
Michigan Retail Grocers’ Association
President, J. WisLER, Mancelona; Secretary, E
A. Stowg, Grand Rapids; Treasurer, J. F
TATMAN, Clare.
Michigan Hardware Association
President, Cuas. F. Bock, Battle Creek: Vice
President, H. W. WrenBer, West Bay City;
Treasurer, Henry C. MINNIE, Eaton Rapids.
Detroit Retail Grocers’ Association
President, JoserpH Knieut; Secretary. E. Marks,
221 Greenwood ave; Treasurer,C.H FRnk.
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, LoulE SCHWERMER
Jackson Retail Grocers’ Association
President, Gzo. E. Lewis; Secretary, W. H. Por
TER; Treasurer, L. PELTON.
Lansing Retail Grocers’ Association
President, F. B. Jounson; Secretary, A. M
DaR.ine: Treasurer, L. A. GILKEY.
Adrian Retail Grocers’ Association
President, A. C. CLark; Secretary, E. F. CLeve
LaNvD: Treasurer, Wm. C. KorHn.
Traverse City Business Men’s Association
President, Tuos. T. Batrss; Secretary, M. B
Hotty; Treasurer, C. A. HAMMOND.
Owosso Business Men’s Association
President, A. D. WHIPPLE; Secretary, G. T. Camp
BELL; Treasurer, W. E. CoLuins.
Alpena Business Men’s Association
President, F. W. Gitcurist; Secretary, C L
PARTRIDGE.
Grand Rapids Retail Meat Dealers’ Association
President, L. J. Katz; Secretary, Pyiuip HILBER
Treasurer, S. J. HUFFORD.
St. Johns Business Men’s Association.
President, Taos. Bromuiey; Secretary, Frank A.
PERcy; Treasurer, CLARK A. PUTT.
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Shoes and Leather
Why Some Shoe Dealers Fail To Suc-
ceed.
I saw a lot of shoes the other day that
were made by a well-known maker and
the stock was cut from the now-long-for-
gotten French kid. They cost the re-
tailer $3.85 a pair and he owned up to
the fact that the goods were just ten
years old and he now offers them at 35
certs a pair. Here is a_ shrinkage in
merchandise values that cannot be dis-
counted by any deal in the country. It
will be noticed that the price is not
even io cents on the dollar. Now I
want to ask what would have been the
result if this retailer had sold these
goods nine years ago at $3 a pair or 85
cents a pair less than cost? One thing
is absolutely certain and that is that he
would not have had to pay insurance,
storage room and clerk hire to care for
them for the last nine years, and as the
interest on $3 for ten years at 7 per
cent., without compounding it, would
amount to $2.10, the loss apparent on
this method of doing a shoe business is
so plain that it seems to mea child
wotld see it.
In figuring out the mere interest
charges, I am only discussing one
portion of the loss. If that retailer had
had the use of that $3 every season for
the past nine years, he would have been
able to make on it at least twenty-five
per cent. each season, or every six
months, which is a modest way of tig-
uring the thing on the basis that a man
turns his stock only twice a year, which
all retailers will admit is decidedly
slow in the year 1898. On this basis,
what do we have? We have fifty per
cent. a year profit lost through the lack
of the use of the $3 which in ten years
would amount to $15, adding to which
we have the interest at 7 per cent.,
$2 10, making a total of $17.10 which it
has cost this man a pair to carry these
goods, and the gain in the end to him
is seen in the selling of the goods at
less than ten cents on the dollar.
I see these things frequently in the
shoe business and am more than sur-
prised that they exist. There is no man
in the shoe business to-day, no matter
who he is, where he is or how much
business he is doing, that can do busi-
ness on this basis and expect to keep
out of the sheriff's hands. I have talked
this thing before to retailers in these
columns, | have given them plain fig-
ures which show a frightful loss to them
in actual doilars and cents, and I hope
that any retailer who reads this and
finds himself in this pusition will make
a move without delay to convert any
goods of this kind into cash at what he
can get, so that he may have the use of
the money in his business.
STANLEY STANTON.
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Good Advice and Its Results.
From the Wichita Eagle.
A Wichita traveling man about a year
ago was asked by a clerk in a shoe store
to get him a job traveling. The young
man was told to write in to the ‘house. *’
He did and the proprietor asked the
traveling man about the young fellow
and was told that he might make a good
man. The house told the young man to
begin. The young man came to the
old traveling salesman and asked him
how he should begin and received this
advice: ‘‘Know nothing but shoes.
Talk nothing but shoes. Never go into
a store without having your pockets full
of shoes. Take an old boot and carry
it under your arm. Set it up on the
‘wash-stand and when you go to bed fall
asleep studying that boot. Look at the
boot the minute you wake up in the
morning. When you go into a store
never ask a merchant if he will buy.
Never induce him to say ‘No’ at the
start. Show him your goods and talk
shoes.’’ Well, the young fellow started
out. Pretty soon a friend of the old
traveling man said: ‘‘Your house has
got the biggest knock-kneed idiot on
the road that ever struck the state. Why,
the darn fool lugs an old boot around
with him and you can’t get anything
but shoes out of him. He is a ninety-
eight chainless idiot, that fellow 1s.
Why don’t you get the house to call him
in.’’ Butat the end of the first year the
young man’s work was sized up by _ the
house and they wanted to give hima
banquet. He had not only earned his
salary but $2,200 in commissions in ad-
dition. :
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Minor Shoe Notes.
J. G. Triberg, retailer, Buffalo,
Minn., is reported to have applied for
a patent on a birch bark sole for shoes
for which is claimed wear equal to
cork or leather.
It is said that the loss through the
branding of cattle in South Australia
amounts to about $1,500,000 a year.
With this staring them in the face, it
seems remarkable that some _ other
method less expensive should not be
employed to indicate ownership.
Two ingenious shoemakers of Collogne
have invented a ventilated shoe. By
means of a bellows and a _ spring, situ-
ated between the heel and sole, and
working when the foot is raised, streams
of fresh air are sent through holes in
the inner sole to every part of the foot.
Some years ago a mechanical genius
of Waterville, Me., invented a machine
simplifying the manufacture of shoes
A New England shoe manufacturing
company purchased his invention, pay-
ing him $100,000 and agreed to pay him
$2,500 every year of his life providing
he would do nothing. He accepted the
proposition. The object of the shoe
manufacturers in buying his time was
to prevent him from inventing some
other machine that would be_ better
than the one bought by them and which
he might sell to a competing firm.
We are drifting again toward the soft
toe, without any box, for men’s wear,
another step in the direction of the
plain French toe.
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Good Things Said by Up-to-Date Shoe
Dealers.
Sincerity pays. Your confidence in
the ‘‘Old Corner’’ was gained by in-
tegrity and business wit together. We
truly give you makers’ prices. Otbers
claim to; but—do they?—P. J. Halla-
han, Phila.
Saving half as much as you spend is
pleasant, surely. Well, a chance for
it—and ten cents more than half as
much, which seems to stand for carfare
—$4 shoes at $2.60. We could put them
with the other $4 shoes and make the
profit we now share. But we saved the
difference by plauting orders when the
business world was barest. It was good
the fame of this greatest retail shoe
store keeps spreading.—John Wana-
maker, Phila.
War seems imminent and it is just
as well that we all prepare for it while
we have opportunity. The head of this
house is now ‘‘diving’’ into the depths
of the great shoe centers of the East.
Upon his discoveries depends our fu-
ture conduct. If we find that the shoe
business of our competitors has been
‘blown-up’’—as we stiongly suspect—
from ‘“‘within’’ there wll be war.
Everybody has been claiming to sell the
best footwear at the lowest prices. Some
one is wrong. We are anxious that the
public should know the truth, and to
that end we hereby appoint the public
as a board of enquiry to investigate in-
to these many claims. Upon their
judgment we rest our case.—Johnson’s
Shoe Palace, Altoona, Pa.
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Remarkable Career of the Truthful
Drummer.
M. Quad in American Druggist.
I bappened to be in the wholesale
house of Brush & Co., druggists’ sun-
dries, when Truthful James Ross ap-
plied for a position as traveler. I liked
the looks of him. He was frank-faced,
had an honest eye, and his smile was
magnetic. Mr. Brusb also liked his
appearance. Mr. Ross was modest and
retiring, but not too much so. In reply
to certain questions he said:
‘‘T am Truthful James Ross. I am
called Truthful because I cannot tell a
lie. I will go on the road with your
goods, tell the truth under all circum-
stances, and if I cannot do 50 per cent.
more business than the liars I will glad-
ly resign.’’
Mr. Brush had never met with a
truthful drummer before, and although
a little doubtful as to the experiment he
agreed to give Truthful James a show.
In a few days the young man was ready
to start out, and- trom one source and
another I have gleaned his adventures
as a drummer. He was given a route
which extended as far west as Toledo,
but his first objective point was Buffalo.
The train which bore him and his sam-
ple cases had scarcely rolled out of the
Central depot when ‘Truthful James
opened his career of virtue and integ-
rity. He discovered that his fellow-
passenger was a man who loved the
truth above all else, and he gave it to
him at wholesale rates. He was the
‘*Co.’’ of Brush & Co. He had put in
a million dollars against Mr. Brush’s
experience and certain discoveries. He
was making a trip in order to havea
personal talk with druggists. One of
the discoveries was an ointment which
would grow hair on a bald head in two
weeks, There was a case of it right
before the man’s eyes. The luxuriant
growth of hair on Mr. Ross’ head had
all grown in seventeen days. Another
discovery was a disinfectant, so cheap
and yet so powerful that for the trifling
sum of three-quarters of a cent the air
surrounding half a dozen dead horses
could be made to smell like a field of
roses. A third one would warm up cold
feet or cool off hot ones, just as de-
sired, and a fourth was a_ troche war-
ranted to destroy the germs of consump-
tion within two hours. When Syracuse
was reached the stranger grasped Mr.
Ross’ hand in a hearty way and said:
‘*You are well named Truthful James.
I had given up all hopes of finding a
truthful man in this world, and I can’t
tell you how rejoiced I am. Keep on in
the way you have begun and your re-
ward will be certain and great.’’
Mr. Ross was encouraged to_ per-
severe. At Buffalo he discovered that
his figures on toothbrushes were Io
per cent. above those of rival houses.
He was not ready to meet the cut, but
he was ready with a reason why he
could not. Every separate bristle in
his toothbrushes had been picked up
by itself with a pair of tweezers and
dropped into a glass of solution and de-
odorized, disinfected and rendered per-
fectly harmless to the human system be-
fore being secured to the handle. There }
were no germs, bacteria or microbes ly-
ing in ambush in his brushes, and he
must have his price.
Rival houses had been cutting the
price of soaps, but Truthful James was
not in the cut. His house had its own
- factory. It was not situated in the midst
of a marsh, where every cake of soap
imbibed a certain amount of malaria,
nor did it make use of the fat of cats,
dogs, coons, possums and polecats. His
factory was built on a hilltop kissed
by the rising sun and braced by the
ozone of the Atlantic. The fat used
was all taken from gazelles, raised on
the firm’s own ranches in Montana, and
every cake was submitted to a pressure
of 100 pounds to the square inch before
being sent forth into the world. Crowned
heads used it, and every American aris-
tecrat cried for it.
Truthful James went over his route
speaking the truth on all occasions and
never forgetting that integrity is the
stepping stone to success, and although
he didn’t do so wel! as he hoped for,
he laid the foundations of his career on
a sure and certain basis. Very few of
the retail druggists had ever met with
a truthful drummer. They were in-
clined to believe that Truthful James
was no better than the rest. Some even
did not hesitate to call him a prevari-
cator, and at the western terminus of
his route he was thrown out of a drug
store, body and boots, tor what was
thought to be cheek, but he was not
discouraged. On his second trip he
found things better, and on his third
he was welcomed as an old friend and
found orders al! made out for him in
advance. I have treasured up some of
the truths told by Truthful James dur-
ing his career as a traveler, and will
give them here as an incentive to be-
ginners of a career:
He claimed that the hot-water bags
sold by his house had cured bundreds
of cases of enlarged liver, even when
only applied to the feet of a patient.
His porous plasters had drawn needles
and pins out of patients without caus-
ing the slightest pain, and thereby re-
moved chronic ailments.
His firm always kept at least 1,000
cords of Peruvian bark on hand in
their sheds, and their quinine was
ground fresh to order. The grinding
mills were kept open until 10 o’clock
Saturday evenings to fill Sunday orders.
His chest-protectors were not made
in sweat-shops and out of material
taken from the rag-bag, but by Quaker-
esses, each of whom took a cold bath
every morning, and of material manu-
factured expressly for the purpose in an
exclusive factory owned by a religious
woman.
Every nursing-bottle sent out by his
house was first inspected by three emi-
nent physicians as a sanitary precau-
tion, and then by a committee from the
Comstock Society, to see that nothing
affecting the morality of the infants of
America should break loose.
His firm raised its own sponges, on
its own ocean bed, and from seed care-
fully selected two years in advance.
The mora! character of each and every
one was carefully looked after from _ its
birth, and no druggist need fear to
handle these goods.
The above are only a few specimens
of the handiwork of Truthful James.
He hadn't fairly got started when the
end came. That is, he got a better
thing and quit the road. The manager
of a truthful New York daily newspaper
heard of Mr. Ross and his strict integ-
rity, and, arranging for an interview,
he said:
‘*T want a correspondent to go to Cuba
—one who will tell the truth although
the heavens fall. The salary will be
$200 per week. Will you take the
place?’
‘*Won’t I have to lie at all?’’ asked
Truthful James.
TiNot a fie."
‘‘Nor even exaggerate?’’
‘*Not in the slightest. I want plain
facts, without the slightest gloss. I
could have got a liar for $100 per
week, but I am after a truthful man.’’
Mr. Ross took the position and sailed
away, and I am happy to announce that
he has made a great success of it. In
his very first dispatch he was two
months ahead of all rival newspapers
in announcing war. He has interviewed
a dozen different men whom nobody
ever heard of ; located submarine mines
all by himself; unearthed conspiracies
by the aid of the kodak and ear-trump-
et, and originated some fifty different
theories regarding fifty different things.
His jealous rivals sneer at bim and talk
about fakes, but Truthful James goes
his way undisturbed and serene, and
only yesterday telegraphed the fact that
thus far he was the only newspaper cor-
respondent who had been permitted .to
interview the street car drivers of
Havana and learn that the battle-ship
Maine was blown up by the explosion
of a kerosene lamp.
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Window Trims in Small Towns.
From the Shoe and Leather Gazette.
The shoe dealer in the small town
which only boasts of weekly newspapers
bas really more need of paying strict
and careful attention to the matter of
window displays than the larger said |
more pretentious towns and even, per- |
haps, the large cities.
This remark was made by ashoe man |
this week, and furnishes much food for
reflection, especially as it is opposed to
the views on the subject apparently held |
by many. |
Taking the stand that the dealer in
the small town has just as much need
to advertise his wares as those in the
larger marts of trade, it becomes clear |
that he is under obligations to himself
to develop such facilities as he pos-
sesses to give publicity to his goods, to
the point where results will be as great
proportionately as in places where the
advertising resources are more varied. |
No town liveth unto itself. The deal- |
ers in it come in competition with those |
of the larger towns and cities. People
may be attracted by the more aggressive
advertising of the merchants in the
larger places to buy their merchandise
there, although the dealers at home may
be able to satisfy their wants just as|
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Fruits and Produce.
How Bananas Are Grown in Costa
Rica.
Although bananas are raised to some
extent in Southern Florida, the cultiva-
tion of the fruit is an industry which
can not grow to any importance in this
country, owing to the unsuitability of
the climate. Consequently few Amer-
icans are familiar with the methods of
banana growers in running their plan-
tations, and have little idea of the cap-
ital which must be invested or the
profits which can be derived from the
business.
A man who has just returned to this
city from an extended trip through parts
of Central America had, while in that
country, excellent opportunities to be-
come acquainted with the banana in-
dustry, especially as it is carried on in
Costa Rica, the southernmost of the
Central American States. In his opin-
ion it is the most lucrative pursuit of
the State, which has been well known
for many years for its older and more
widespread industry of coffee-raising.
‘‘The cultivation of bananas,’’ he
says, ‘‘was begun in Costa Rica about
the year 1883, and is carried on almost
entirely in the region along the Matina
River, in the neighborhood back of
Limon, on the East Coast. There are
plenty of other districts where it would
flourish as well, except for the lack of
railroad facilities for transportation. The
owners of the banana plantations are for
the most part Costa Ricans and Eng-
lishmen. They are making a great deal
of money out of the business, and I
think that if more Americans knew how
little capital it takes and how large in
proportion the profits are they would go
down to Costa Rica and engage in it
for themselves. As to the chances of
success, I think there is "no question.
Bananas are hardy, require very little
attention, and there are no_ sudden
changes of climate there to injure them.
‘Tt is this very matter of the climate,
though, which constitutes the greatest
drawback that I can see to the occupa-
tion. In the banana region the weather
the year around is not only hot, but so
damp that it is like being in the inte-
rior of a greenhouse all the time. The
perspiration pours off one continually,
which is naturally weakening to the sys-
tem. There is a good deal of fever in
the country, to which Northerners are
particularly susceptible. But many of
the banana-raisers arrange their affairs
so that they can live in San Jose, the
capital, and come down to the lowlands
only about once a_ week to visit their
plantations. You see, the nature of the
country there is like this: San Jose is
situated somewhat over one hundred
miles from the Atlantic Coast, in a line
about due west from Port Limon, and
is on a tableland in the great mountain
range which runs through the country
in a northwesterly and southeasterly di-
rection. This range is a part of the
great Andes and Rocky Mountain chain.
Tbe plateau in which San Jose lies is
about six thousand feet above the sea,
and mountains and volcanic peaks
tower up another six thousand feet on
the east and west sides of the plateau.
The climate of this tableland is tem-
perate and delightful, so that the city is
finely situated. A railroad, owned by
an English syndicate, runs from Port
Limon to San Jose. The banana re-
gion begins at the coast and extends for
about forty miles back toward the
mountains, which leaves a distance of
over sixty miles to be traversed by the
planter who lives in the capital and
pays visits to his banana field in the low
country. The chief banana region up
to the present time is along the course
of the Matina River and some of its
tributary streams, nowhere’ very far
from the railroad. These rivers fre-
quently overflow their banks, fed as they
are from many mountain streams, and
in doing so they make the surrounding
land extremely fertile.
‘‘All the work on the plantations is
done by Jamaica negroes, who work by
contract. That is, a foreman or super-
intendent will agree to run a plantation
for a certain sum per manzana—a man-
zana is equal to one and _ three-quarters
acres. The usual terms, per manzana,
are $40 a year in gold, or its equivalent
of one hundred Costa Rican silver dol-
lars. The hot, moist climate does not
seem to affect the negroes at all, and
they are probably, considering that fact,
the best people for the work. It is true,
though, that the most successful plan-
tations, from a business point of view,
are those which are most carefully
watched by their white owners. It Is
not well to place too great reliance up-
on the Jamaica negroes, who, if left to
themselves, are frequently lacking in
both industry and strict honesty.
‘*A plantation is started in this way:
The ground having been selected—a
tract of forest land along some stream—
the workmen proceed at once to set out
the young banana plants, or ‘suckers,’
as they are called. Plenty of room is al-
lowed them, one sucker being planted
at each corner of a_ twenty-two-foot
square. Not a particle of clearing is
done to the ground before setting out
the plants, only at the corners of the
squares in the particular spots where
the suckers are put the men dig holes
and clear a little round space just big
enough to give the plants, which are
about a foot high, breathing room. The
planting can be done at any season, so
little change is there in the climate the
year around. After the suckers are set
out the negroes begin to do some gen-
eral cutting; you can scarcely call it
clearing. With their machetes—the
knives which they use for every imag-
inable purpose—they cut down the dense
tropical growth of trees and vines and
underbrush, leaving it just where it
falls. If a big tree happens to land on
top of a banana plant, that makes no
difference. It does not kill the plant, as
you would suppose; if the main stalk is
crushed down a_ new sucker starts out
from it, crawls round under the tree and
starts its career afresh, quite undiscour-
aged.
‘“‘As a peneral rule, although the
quantity of the forest growth in that
country is far more abundant than it is
here in the North, it is lighter in its
nature. There are few large hardwood
trees, and the vegetation of palms and
vines is more easily cut down than our
forest trees would be, and decays more
readily. As I said, it is left as it falls,
and it soon begins to rot in the damp
atmosphere. Instead of harming, it
helps to fertilize the banana plants.
‘‘In thirteen or fourteen months the
trees have gained their full growth and
begin to bear fruit. After that time the
ground around them is cleared four
times a year. After the bearing period
is once reached, bananas may be cut for
shipment every week in the year. The
trees grow to a height of ten to twelve
feet. They look somewhat like palms,
with their sheathlike trunks and spread-
ing bunches of huge leaves at the top.
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CASES, EGG CASE FILLERS
ODORLESS FILLERS
AND EXCELSIOR.
Capacity one carload a day. Prompt shipment on
short notice. Will make any case desired. Write for
price list. We compete with all other manufacturers.
EATON RAPIDS, [ICH.
The fruit of each tree grows in a single
dense bunch just at the base of the
leaves. The bananas are in a thick clus-
ter along the stem of the bunch, and the
bunches grow with each banana pointing
up, not down, as people usually sup-
pose until they see them. A bunch con-
tains one hundred bananas or more, and
weighs about that number of pounds.
«Lhe way in which they are cut is
curious. When the bananas have
reached their full size and are still
green the negroes go up to the trees with
their machetes, and, reaching as high
as they can, make a deep cut into the
trunk, just below the bunch of fruit.
This leaves the entire top of the tree
suspended on a sort of hinge. They do
not cut quite deep enough to let the
trunk break at once, for that would let
the bananas fall to the ground and
bruise them. A man stands ready to
gather the fruit, and when the cut has
been made and the top of the tree sways
down on its hinge he gets hold of the
bunch and cuts it off. Then another
deeper cut is made in the trunk near its
base, and the entire tree is felled to the
ground. Thus each plant produces only
one bunch of bananas and then dies, for
if it were left standing no more fruit
would appear. But in the meantime the
tree has sent out several. suckers along
the ground, and these, taking root, be-
come new trees. Some planters believe
in transplanting all the new suckers in
squares, as I described the setting out
of the plantation, but others think the
trees do just as well if the suckers are
allowed to run on and root and grow in
their natural way.
‘*By timing the planting, you see, a
banana plantation may be made to yield
fruit constantly throughout the entire
year. The average yield is thirty
bunches a month from each manzana,
which would be at the rate of from _ fif-
teen to eighteen bunches a month from
an acre. There is no expense for trans-
portation, for the men carry them to the
railroad nearby, and the present mar-
ket price for each bunch, at the rail
road, is from 20 to 30 cents, gold. At
the rate, say, of 25 cents gold a bunch,
and a yield of thirty bunches a month
from each manzana, the amount re-
ceived annually for the product of each
manzana would be $90. The contract-
or’s usual charge for running the plan-
tation, covering all expenses, being $40
a manzana, it leaves a pretty good profit.
Stories are often told of the number of
bunches of bananas which have to be
thrown overboard because they spoil
while the ships are on their way to
Northern ports, but as a matter of fact
these are usually much exaggerated.
The vessel on which I left Central
America three or four weeks ago had a
cargo of sixteen thousand bunches of
bananas, and of this number only two
bunches were ripe enough to be eaten
when we reached New Orleans.
‘‘It has been found that the bananas
will last about twelve days after being
picked without becoming fully ripe and
beginning to rot. Their transportation
is hastened as much as possible by the
railroads and steamers. The planter’s
responsibility ceases when the fruit
reaches the railroad and is put into the
cars. From there it is run down to the
coast and loaded on shipboard the same
day that it is picked. There is a ma-
chine for putting it into the vessel’s
hold, which saves the expense of hav-
ing all the loading done by hand. This
machine consists of an endless belt
passing around two drums, one of
which is placed in the car to be un-
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
loaded and the other on the steamer at
the wharf nearby. The bunches of
bananas are placed in this belt and
transferred from the car to the ship at
the rate of two thousand five hundred a
minute. Menon the vessel receive them
and stow them away, and they are
packed with a view to securing good
ventilation during the trip. It takes
the banana-laden steamers five days to
reach New Orleans and seven to reach
New York. Upon their arrival at either
port the bananas are unloaded at once
into special trains which are waitng to
take them to all parts of the country.
These trains are very fast, sometimes
being run with the passenger express
trains and sometimes even ahead of
these, at a greater rate of speed. It
does not injure the bananas to be picked
while green. They ripen just as well
off the trees. The ripe fruit which |
ate in Costa Rica was not a bit better
than the bananas we get here; in fact,
some of it was not so good. All the
choicest fruit is sent North.
‘*When you consider the industry on
all its sides—the small capital required
at the outset, the ease and cheapness
with which competent laborers may be
obtained, the conditions of climate,
which permit the gathering and ship-
ping of fruit every week in all seasons,
the hardiness of the plant, the fact that
no expensive machinery whatever is
needed on the plantations (everything is
done with the machete), and the ready,
constant market for bananas in the
North—it is easy to see why the raising
of the fruit is proving lucrative in Costa
Rica. When railroad facilities there
are better it will doubtless increase very
rapidly throughout all the low-lying
parts of the country. It is an oppor-
tunity for the American who wants to
try his hand at a new pursuit-—-always
remembering, of course, that he must
incur a certain amount of risk if he
makes his home or stays much in the
tropical fever breeding climate of the
coast.
‘*Among the few dangers which beset
the banana plants there is one which
often gives trouble while the suckers are
young. This is a strong vine which
twines itself tightly around the green
banana shoot. It grows at just the same
rate as the latter, and if not removed
will soon choke out its vitality. The
plantations have to be watched for this
and other weeds which grow up too
rapidly around them while they are stil]
small. After they have developed so
far that the large leaves of the different
plants meet overhead, thereby shading
the ground, there is no longer need of
much weeding, for the lack of sunlight
puts a check upon the rank under-
growth. It has been given as another
disadvantage of banana-raising that the
ground is likely to become exhausted
after a time. I think this is never
true of the lands which are overflowed
by the rivers, and, as I told you, the
largest and best plantations are always
located in such places. One of the fin-
est banana plantations in that country is
now seventeen years old and shows no
sign of deterioration. ’
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Adin i What He Wasned.
Sturgis Democrat.
Two little tots of Hudson were kneel-
ing at their mother's knee saying the
Lord's Prayer. The older one was re-
peating it after his mother, and when
he reached the passage that reads,
‘*Give us this day our daily bread,’
what was the mother’s astonishment
when the little tot exclaimed: ‘‘Hit
him for a pie, Johnny; hit him fora
pie.
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C. N. Rapp & Co.,
Commission Merchants
56 West Market St., Buffalo, N. Y.
We solicit consignments of Butter, Eggs, Poultry, Beans
and Produce generally, assuring prompt sales and immediate
returns. We are a branch of the Grand Rapids house of the
Same name, which has been established eleven years. We
refer Michigan shippers to the Fourth National Bank, Grand
Rapids Savings Bank and Michigan Tradesman, all of which
are familiar with our standing and acquainted with our methods
and will cheerfully answer any sa saees which may be made
in regard to us.
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54 and 56 Central Ave., Cleveland, Ohio.
Only Exclusive Butter and Egg House in the City
Want to correspond with those who have butter and
eggs to ship. Can handle large quantities.
EARLY FRUITS
AND VEGETABLES
Wil please your customers and make you money.
Popular prices prevail. Ask for quotations.
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They are white, crisp, solid and will surely
please you. We wrap each head in paper
to guard against frost. Prices reasonable.
MAIL US YOUR ORDERS. We guaran-
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News from the Metropolis---Index to |
the Market.
Special Correspondence.
New York, Mar. 19—We have perfect
summer weather and buyers who come
here dressed in suits made to agree
with the climate of Vermont, or per-
chance of Michigan,
brought their dusters. Of course, 1t may |
all end in a frost that will kill all the|
peaches in Maryland ; but that’s another
story. Business is good, and the
thing that interrupts the general gaiety |
of nations 1s the war spirit. Senator
Proctor’s speech made a profound im- |
pression, and go into what store you
will, you hear talk of fight. It per-j}
only |
of
meates all classes and nothing else has}
so occupied men’s thoughts for many |
years.
The markets have held their own, and
save for the usual declines in the butter
and egg trade to be expected at this sea-
son, everything seems to remain steady,
unless we except coffee, which
troubled by another cut. Rio No.
now held at 53 This decline has
made interior roasters fearful of an-
other slash in package goods and a rate
of 7!4c on such will cause no surprise.
A little more has been done in invoices
and news from Brazil indicates a de- |
cided falling off in the movement of the
crop. This led to a little more enquiry
on the part of jobbers and some of them |
have made material additions to their |
stocks. In store and afioat the amount
of coffee reaches 1,161,537 bags, against |
732,126 bags at the same time last year.
In mild sorts there is jittle to note of
interest. Of the better grades the sup-
ply is not excessive and good Cucuta is
worth oc if the quality is all it should |
be. East Indias are quiet and prices |
are weil sustained.
Teas have held their own, but the vol-
ume of trade during the week has not
been up to the average, either among
country or city dealers. The better sorts |
move with some degree of freedom, but
as a whole the market is uninteresting.
The week bas been very quiet, so far
as sugar is concerned ; indeed, not since |
the year opened bas the market shown
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less animation. Stocks are large and |
it is thought a fractional reduction in
granulated may take place. It is still
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Real Receipts.
From the New York Produce Review.
Reports Represent
There is now a very general belief
among receivers of eggs in New York
that the receipts as collected by the
New York Mercartile Exchange are
short of the fact, and that the failure to
report correct figures by some of the
transportation lines is at the instance of
certain Western shippers who make
their patronage of these lines condi-
|tional upon the withholding of a> report
iof the quantity
|day last week we received information
delivered here. One
from a number of houses that they had
received in the aggregate over 2,500
/cases from a certain railroad line, while
the report of the deliveries given by
that line to the Exchange collectors was
only 625 cases.
The knowledge that the scale of re-
ceipts has an important bearing upon
of the market is sufficient to
tistics. But as soon as the fact becomes
known it 1s sure to prove
of a boomerang. Dealers
is a disposition to exaggerate the short-
Thus
were posted something over 15,000
cases, most of the trade were basing
their judgment of the position upon a
supposition that the actual receipts were
25,000 Cases.
It is certainly most unfortunate if the
correct collection of trade statistics in
| this city is to be interrupted and thwarted
by the whim of a few operators. The
fact that the deception cannot possibly
produce the desired result is not sufh-
cient to guard the integrity of the re-
ports. The collection of accurate sta-
tistics of supply is one cf the chief
the New York Mercantile
Exchange and is so important that any
assault upon its natural sources of in-
should be resisted and re-
pelled with every resource at command.
If other means fail efforts should be
made to secure the enactment of a State
compelling transportation com-
organizations, on the ground of public
| necessity.
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A’ counterfeiting plant was recently
| discovered in the State Prison at Fol-
The work was done in the
only nickels were
metal, taken from the engines in the
prison.
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Some men seem to have been made
out of dust that had gravel in it.
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ESMAN
False Economy on the Part of Egg
Shippers.
From the New York Produce Review.
We find that some egg shippers, no-
tably those doing business at nearby
Western points, are making an effort at
economy by using second-hand egg
cases. It is a false economy. These
second-hand cases are very objection-
able to buyers in this market and _ seri-
ously interfere with the sale of the
goods. Sometimes when offerings are
short of requirements and buyers can’t
afford to be too particular, they sell
without serious disadvantage, but when
eggs are plenty for all needs buyers
pass them by, and unless the price is
shaded they remain unsold just at a
time when prompt sale means money
gained.
New No. 2 cases are comparatively
cheap and the saving by using second-
hand rattletraps is trifling in compari-
son with the losses often occasioned by
dull sale or increased breakage.
Eg Shippers Attention
The best packing for eggs is
excelsior. Order direct from
the manufactarers,
Bay City Excelsior Co., Bay City, Mich.
WANTED
To furnish Western dealersfor their Eastern
trade for season of 1898; cold storage in quantit-
ies to suit up to 15,000 cases of eggs and 30 Cars
butter; moderate rates and liberal advances to
reliable parties; modernly equipped plant; me-
chanical refrigeration, with an improved system
of perfectly dry circulation and change of air in
rooms; intermittent and continuous circulation,
also gravity system; these systems are the latest
and best known in cold storage practices; our
eggs are said to be the finest on the Philadelphia
market this past season; fine distributing point:
only 2!4 hours to Pittsburg, and quick transit by
both Penn Central and B. & O. to New York,
Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington; we
are authorized to purchase for our local cus
tomers 5,090 cases finely candled eggs for April
and May deliveries; also several cars creamery
butter;correspondence solicited. Address Hyge-
ia Crystal lee & Cold Storage Co.,Uniontown, Pa.
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afraid of a sore throat.
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long, and still do a lot of mischief dur-
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Shallow men are generally despised,
but they don’t require as un watching
as deep ones,
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The more a man _ has the more he
wants—unless it happens to be twins.
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ST. JOSEPH, MICH.
A. VINCENT, Prop.
THE WHITNEY HOUSE
Rates $1.00 to $1.25 per day. Complete Sanitary
Improvements. Electric Lights. Good Livery
in connection. State Line Telephone.
Chas. E. Whitney, Prop., Plainwell, Mich.
Hoskins & Company
COMMISSION BROKERS.
GRAIN, PROVISIONS and STOCK
176 Griswold Street, Detroit, Mich.
Hodges Building.
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A REMARKABLE CASE
Having suffered with rheumatism and constipa-
tion for over twenty-five years, and my case having
been pronounced hopeless last summer by the best
medical skill, when I was given upt e, Imiracu-
lously had my attention cailed to Frye’s Quickstep,
which saved my life, and lam now a well man. I
have since recommended this remedy to my friends
and so many have ordered itthrough me that I keep
it on hand for humanity’s sake. Price, $1.00 per
bottle. Nearly all Michigan peopleknow me. My
home address is 5406 Kimb: irk Ave., Chicago,
Grand Rapids peo ple can obtain this remedy from
my customer, John Benson, the clothier,,26 Monroe
St., upstairs.
Stephen T. Bowen.
I will be in Chicago at the clothing factory of
John G. Miller & Co., 276 and 278 Franklin St., from
Feb. zo to April 1, and hope my trade will make
that establishment headquarters while in the city,
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
MICHIGAN STATE BOARD OF PHARMACY.
Term expires
F. W. R. Perry, Detroit . Dec. 31, 1898
A. C. ScoUMACHER, Ann Arbor - Dec. 31, 1899
Gro. GuNDRUM, Ionia - - - Dec. 31, 1900
L. E. REYNO.Lps, St. Joseph Dec. 31, 1901
Henry Hem,'Saginaw -— - : Dec. 31, 1902
President, F. W. R. Perry, Detroit.
Secretary, GEo. GuNDRUM, Ionia,
Treasurer, A. C. ScHUMACHER, Ann Arbor.
Examination Sessions.
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--CHas. Mann, Detroit. i
Treasurer—JoHN D. Mure, Grand Rapids.
“We Can Get It for You.”
How often does a druggist offer to
procure for an applicant an article that
he does not carry in stock? How often
after the usual statement, ‘‘No, we
haven't it,’’ does he add, ‘‘But we can
get it for you?’’
To answer this question by a practical
experiment, I visited stores to the num-
ber of a score in a certain metropolis
not a thousand miles from Greater New
York, and in each enquired for a prep-
aration for which I felt sure they had
had no previous demand, but which I
knew was in the hands of the local job-
bers to accommodate the trade in ad-
jacent towns where the product had a
moderate sale. Among those twenty
druggists there were but two whose
sagacity prompted them to enquire if
they might get the desired article for
me. The preparation chosen for this
experiment was ene of the few on which
the druggist can realize a fair profit—a
particular brand ot a much-used prod-
uct.
When the diversity of the stock car-
ried by my preceptor proved inadequate
to fill some demand, he invariably taxed
every resource to remedy the deficiency
in this way: When a call was received
for something we did not have, the
customer was told that while we were
without the article in question, if it
could be had in the neighborhood we
would get it for him in a few minutes
and send it to his home, and thus save
him the trouble of further search. This
offer usually met with an affirmative
reply, and I was detailed to find the
article. If my efforts in this line proved
futile, the failure was communicated to
the applicant with a request to permit
us to order from our local jobber, and
permission was most eagerly given. And
the article was ordered and delivered
on arrival.
By this means the store not only won
favor with the neighboring residents,
but its fame for supplying one with
what he wanted spread past the stores
of competitors, that felt the effect, but
apparently knew not the cause. People
would come into the store, and after
asking for something foreign to our
stock and being told of our willingness
to accommodate them at the earliest
moment with what we did not then
have, they would say, ‘‘Well, if you
didn’t have it I intended asking you to
get it for me, as I have tried in several
stores to do so without success,’’ or
some words to the same effect.
This ‘‘system’’ proved an effectual
advertisement and brought to the store
many a patron that might otherwise
have continued dealing where they were
less observant of the wants of those who
supported them. This, then, is the
profit my preceptor won and prized by a
simple method that we so seldom see
observed—strictly observed.
But a short time ago I[ did finda
druggist who was shrewd in this re-
spect, which this incident will illus-
trate: A lady enquired for a certain
cough remedy which he did not have
and promptly admitted it. His fair
customer as quickly responded that she
could get it trom Mr. Brown, who was
his nearest competitor. The druggist
pondered a moment and then ventured
to remark that if she would sit but a
minute be would look over his stock,
as it was just possible that he had been
a little hasty in his reply and had mis-
judged the extent of same. Then to
the time of clinking bottles he charged
his clerk to hasten to Brown’s by the
rear way and buy a bottle of ‘‘that
stuff."’ Five minutes later he was
handing it over the counter to the un-
suspecting and thoroughly contented
patron. JosePH F. HOSTELLEY.
On
Regarding the Admission of Doses
into the Pharmacopoeia.
Much has been and is being said and
written concerning the admission of
doses as a part of the text of the Phar-
macopoeia. In the writer’s opinion this}
should immediately be done, not only
under each article, but in a separate
table as well. The doses of many reme-
dies are variously stated by different
authorities, and the ranges of dose
given by them differ widely also. A
physician may often be at a loss to
know what the proper dose of a sub-
stance is, and the pharmacist, too, has
no absolute standard upon which to rely
as to what constitutes a proper dose of
many of the remedies he may be called
upon any moment to dispense. There
is no valid reason why the Pharma-
copoeia should not be made such a
standard. Since it is always the legal
standard of what its drugs ought to be,
so far as purity and fitness are con-
cerned, it should state how much of
such pure and fit drugs, whose standard
it fixes, should be the proper dose
Both single and daily maximum doses
should also be given.
The introduction of doses would tend
to prevent overdosing, yet need not
prevent a physician from prescribing a
large dose should such, in his judgment,
be desirable or necessary. He need but
indicate his intentionally large dose by
a sign (!) placed after the dose, to be
thoroughly understood by the dispenser,
and he would thereby relieve the phar-
macist of a very grave responsibility at
a time when minutes may cost a life—
when the delay caused by a search for
the physician in order to verify the
dose might have most serious conse-
quences.
It would be well, also, to state the
therapeutic properties of each sub-
stance, as well as the affections, so far
as possible, in which it is usually
given. Those additions would make
the Pharmacopoeia much more popular
among physicians, the great majority
of whom, as we all know, rarely, if
ever possess a copy of it. Their lack
of interest in the volume as it exists at
present is easily accounted for: there is
nothing of direct interest in it to them;
they do not care very much for dry
working formulas or descriptions of
crude drugs; nor do the lists of reagents
or tables of the various specific gravi-
ties attract them much. These things
bave absolutely no practical value for
them, and this being so, they believe it
neneemitnaintenibniitnine tnt ynncine pean
to be a waste of good money to buy
such a book, put it on their shelves, and
then never look at it. Were the sug-
gestions as above made carried out,
however, the work would havea distinct
value for them, and the majority would
buy it, tothe everlasting benefit of phar-
macy, because then they would be much
more likely to prescribe the official
compounds instead of the numberless
proprietary preparations that are gotten
up ‘‘for physicians to prescribe,’’ and
with samples of which their offices are
deluged. ALBERT I. COHN.
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The Drug Market.
Opium—Has advanced in Eastern
markets, but is still 1o@2o0c below the
cost of importation. The damage to
the growing crop has been confirmed
and higher prices will no doubt rule,
Morphine—Is as yet unchanged, but
an advance is expected daily.
Quinine—The market is quiet at the
decline at unchanged prices.
Insect Powder—On account of large
stocks of flowers and also on account of
strong competition, the price has de-
clined.
Essential Oils—A further advance has
taken place in bergamot. Cajiput is
slightly lower. Croton has advanced,
with higher prices looked for.
Gums—Arabic and tragacanth, as pre-
dicted in a former issue, have advanced,
on account of new classification under
the tariff.
Sulphur and Brimstone—Are tending
higher, on account of an advance in
crude.
Camphor—Is in active demand and
the price is firm.
Linseed Oil—Is steady.
Turpentine—Has declined.
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Taking the Chances.
From Harper’s Round Table.
He walked into the apothecary shop
with a hesitating step, and glanced
scared look in his pale blue eyes, After
fidgeting about uncertainly for some
time, he at last caught the eye of the
clerk, and, beckoning mysteriously, led
nervously at the rows of bottles with a/|
FOLDING PAPER BOXE
the way to a secluded corner by the
cigar case, where the clerk was sur-
prised by finding a trembling forefinger
hooked tenaciously into one of his but-
tonholes and an eager face thrust sud-
denly almost against his.
‘‘What’s the matter?’’
clerk.
‘*T s’pose you can lay your hand right
on the mophine bottle, can’t you?’’ said
the stranger, in an anxious whisper.
‘*Yes, sir. Certainly,’’ replied the
astonished salesman,
‘*An’ I reckon if you was pushed you
could find the strychnine in a minute
or two?”’
‘OF course.””
‘‘Mebbe the arsenic hasn’t got lost or
mislaid clear beyond findin’, if you just
had to have it?’’
‘* Assuredly not.’’
‘*An’ the sugar-of-lead bottle couldn't
get away from you if it tried?’’
‘‘No, indeed.’’
‘‘An’ chasin’ up the vitriol to its lair
would be just play for you?’’
‘*My dear sir, of course Iam familiar
with all the drugs here.’’
‘*But s’posin’ some of the other fel-
lers had been changin’ them around,
just as a joke, you know?’”’
* **What do you mean?’’
= ‘‘Suppose the bottles got mixed?’’
‘‘Impossible. Besides, everything is
plainly labeled.’
‘‘And there ain't no chance of your
palmin’ off prussic acid for pepper-
mint?"
‘‘Not the slightest.’’
‘Well, I’ ve—half—a—notion—to—risk
—it. Yes, you may give me two ounces
of peppermint, young man.”’
> 0.
asked the
Men are like chickens: they always
want to get on the highest roost.
Carbolate
Cutler's creas Pocket lonaler
IS GUARANTEED TO CURE
Ail druggists $1.
W.H. SMITH & CO., Props.,
Buffalo, N. Y
blackheads, boils, blotches, freck-
' PIMPLES les, eruptions caused by ingrow-
9
9
ing hair, skin that is soft and wrinkly, or rough or
swarthy, in fact, all complexion difficulties should
be treated with SCHROUDER’S LOTION,
a scientific preparation for keeping the skin
smooth, firm and clear—it produces and preserves
a healthy glow to the complexion ; perfectly harm- 4
less. At drug stores 25c per bottle; by mail 3&c. 4
¢ 8. Schrouder, Pharmacist, Grand Rapids, Mich. §
1S ecco eo coc erosorocoesocoeceoet
9
Printed and plain for Patent
Medicines, Extracts, Cereals,
Crackers and Sweet Goods,
PHONE 850.
Candy, Cough Drops, Tobacco Clippings, Condition Powders, Etc.
and Box Labels and Cigar Box Labels our specialties.
Bottle
Ask or write us for prices.
GRAND RAPIDS PAPER BOX CO.
81,83 ano 85 CAMPAU ST., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
= =D
| COFFEE
! COMPOUND.
wholesome
i & ¢ e
_ Manufactured by
| Woodbury Ap.
Charlotte. Mich. | |
package.
RARE COMPOUND
market for the money.
gross.
wants in every —
ples and prices before
RICH DRINK
of choice coffee with palatable cereals and other
ingredients.
“cereal” drinks. 12 prizes in each and every pound
Retails for 13c a package, affording re-
tailer big profit.
case and see how quickly it sells.
WOODBURY & CO., mrers.
CHARLOTTE, MICH.
The Cheapest Enameled Playing Card
ON‘ THE MARKET IS THE
NO. 20 ROVERS
Has a_handsome assortment of set designs printed in different colors—Red,
Blue, Green and Brown; highly finished, enameled, and is the best card in the
Each pack in a handsome enameled tuck box.
in one dozen assorted designs and colors. |
Far superior to all
Pleases customers. Order trial
Put up
A good seller. List price $20 per
We make a full line from cheapest to highest grades, and can meet your
If you are handling playing cards for profit get our sam-
placing your order. They may help you.
THE AMERICAN PLAYING CARD CoO.,
KALAMAZOO, MICH.
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
WHOLESALE PRICE CURRENT.
Advanced—Turpentine.
Declined—Linseed Oil.
Acidum
mceticum.......... .. 8 6@8 8
Benzoicum, German 70@ 7%
a @ 6
Carpolticum ......... 2@ 41
Citricum .... ; 0@ 42
Hydrochlor ... 30 «66
Nitrocum . 8@ 10
Oxalicum........... R@ 14
Phosphorium, dil... a
Salicylieum. .....,.. 60@ 65
Sulphuricum........ 1%@ 5
Torsieum ......-.... 1 25@ 1 40
Tarcarcum......-°... 38@ 40
Ammonia
Anne, 16 deg........ 4@ 6
Agua, 2) der........ 6@ 8
Carbonas............ 123@ 14
Ciloridum .......... nq@ 14
Aniline
Diack... ............ 2 0O0@ 225
oes... 80@, 1 00
WOO 5 ee ce cs 4@ 50
a 2 50@ 3 00
Baccez.
Cubesee........p0.18 8a 15
a ogee coec. 6 8
Xanthoxylum.. .... 3@ 30
Balsamum
Oopaibe............... Sa
Pare @ 2 40
Terabin, Canada.... 15@ 50
Torsten... ....-... 50@_~—SsC«#G#O
Cortex
Abies, Canadian.... 18
Lo 12
Cinchona Flava..... 18
Euonymus atropurp 30
Myrica Cerifera, po. 20
Prunus Virgin... ... 12
Quitiaia, gr’d_...... 14
Sassafras......po. 18 12
Ulmus...po. 15, gr’d 15
Extractum
Glycyrrhiza Glabra. U4@ 2%
Glycyrrhiza, po..... 28a 30
Hematox,15lb box. lW@ 12
Hematox,i6......... LB@ 14
Heematox, 4%s....... 14@ 15
Heematox, 48....... 16@ 7
Ferru
Carbonate Precip... 15
Citrate and Quinia.. 2 25
Citrate Soluble...... rb)
Ferrocyanidum Sol. 40
Solut. Chloride..... 15
Sulphate, com’l..... 2
Sulphate, com’l, by
Dbl, per Cw. .... .. 50
Sulphate, pure ..... q
Flora
Pu) Ge ee 12@ 14
Attoemis........... 18@ 2%
Matricaria ........:. 30@ 35
Folia
Barosma............. 23@ 28
Cassia Acutifol, Tin- i: ]
MOGI. 1 25
Cassia Acutifol,Alx. 2 30
Salvia officinalis, 4s
met 368... 2 1 20
Ure Urs.........-.-
Gummi
Acacia, ist picked..
Acacia, 2d picked..
Acacia, 3d picked..
eeee 88 85
Acacia, sifted sorts. 28
Acacia, po... 60@ 80
Aloe, Barb. po. 18@20 2@ 4
Aloe, Cape .... po. 15 Co kL
Aloe, Socotri. -po. 40 @ 30
AwAMonies. <........ dQ 6
Assafotida....po.30 23@ 28
Bengoinum ......... 55
Cetechn, Is: :........ 13
Catechu, eee. as 14
Catechu, J¢s......... 16
Camphore ie 3
Euphorbium. _po. 35 10
(Gaipamime. ....... cs. 1 00
Gamboge po........
ScssoBistocoll
Guaiacum.....po. 25 30
King: . 52.2, po. 83.00 3 00
Maer. 60
eee 40
Opii...po. #4. 104. 30 3 20 3 35
Shetae 23@ 35
Shellac, bleached... 40@ 45
Tragacanth a 50@ ~=80
Herba
Absinthium..oz. pkg 25
Eupatorium .oz. pkg 20
Lobelia...... oz. pkg 25
Majorum ....0z. pkg 28
Mentha Pip..oz. pkg 23
Mentha Vir..oz. pkg 2
eae... oz. pkg 39
TanacetumV - pkg 22
Thymus, V..oz. pkg @
Magnesia
Calcined, Pat.. 55@ «60
Carbonate, Pat... 0@ 2
Carbonate, K. & M.. 20@ 2
Carbonate, Jennings 3@ 36
Oleum
Absinthium......... 3 25@ 3 50
Amygdals, Dule.. 30@ 50
Amy: gdale, Amare . 8 00@ 8 25
Co eS 2 15@ 2 2
Auranti Cortex..... 2 25@ 2 40
Berges. 2 40@ 2 50
63 — ae 4 =
mevomayi..:...... 7
edar Meeiws ete. 3@ (65
uaninadie Cy arte @2%
el el ee oc 1 6@ 1 7
Citronella. ......... 45@ 50
Conium Mac........ 3@
Coperha. i 10@
Cubens. =. 90@
Exechthiton .....__. 00@
Briveron 8) | 1 00@
Gaultheria ..... 1 50@
Geranium, ounce... @
Gossippii,Sem. gal.. 50@
Hedcama 0 | 1 0@
SUMIDORA, 3). 1 0@
Lavyendula .... |. 9
Limonis.. --- 2 Som)
Mentha Piper... ee! 1 60@
Mentha Verid....... 1 50@
Morrhus, gal... .. 1 00@
Myréia. Le eae cl 4 00@
Ove TQ
Picis Liguida. |... 10@
Picis Liquida, gal.. iu @
Rina IQ
HOnmaring,. @
Hose, ounee........ 6 50@
Bece 40@
peu: |... 9
Santa... 2 0@
Sassatras ... .... | 55@
Sinapis, ess., ounce. @
os 1 40@
Tyme. .. 40@
Thyme, opt. a
Theobromas 156@
Potassium
Bi-Carb.. cas) Io
Bichromate . \ 13@
Bromide. . Looe Se
Care 12¢
Chlorate..po. 17@19¢ 16@
yeaa | 35,
fodide. . 2 60@
Potassa, ‘Bitar:, pure 28Q@
Potassa, Bitart, com @
Potass Nitras, opt.. 8@
Potass Nitras........ 1@
Erieuiate | 208
Sulphate po ...... 15@
Radix
RGONIVM...... . 5. 20@
Ale. 22@
PBCHUSA 10@
Aven pO... @
Calais 2.0. 20@
Gentiana.. po 5 12@
Glyehrrhiza. | -pv.15 16@
Hydrastis Canaden . @
Hydrastis Can., po.. @
Hellebore, Alba, po. the
Inamla pO. 15@
Ipecac, Poe. 2 50@
Iris plox.. ae 35@
Jalapa, pr.. 23Q
Maranta, Ws. peo. @
Podophyilum, po. . 2@
Beer TH@
Rhei, cus. @
Rhei. pv. TQ
Spigelia. 3@
Sanguinaria.. “PO. cs @
Serpentaria . 30@
ReeeeA 40Q
Similax, oo H e
Smilax, M.
Serie 0. 35 108
Symplocarpus, Feeti-
Gus, po-:,..
@
Valeriana, Eng. ‘po. 30 @
Valeriana, — 1b@
Zingibera.. oo La
Cineier sy. 2%5@
Semen
Aisa |... po. 15 @
—- nn) 3Q
Bird, Is. IQ
Cae. | po. 18 10@
Caraamon .. 1 3@
Coriandrum..__.. 8@
eon Sativa... 4I@
MOOnINe..... |. 5@
C enopodium ...... 10@.
Dipterix Odorate... 2 00@
Ponieuinm ...... |. @
ee Po oe ooe. 7@
Lini . “ 34@
Lini, grd. ee ee “bbl. § I@
Lobelial 0 3@
Pharlaris Canarian. 4Q
ee 44@Q@
Binspis Alba... |... 1@
Sinapis Nigra....... 1N@
Spiritus
Frumenti, W. D. Co. 2 00@,
Frumenti, D. F. R.. 2 00@
Frumenti . - 135@
Juniperis Co. 0. T_! 1 65@
euniperis Co... . |. 75
Saacharum N. E.... 1 90@,
Spt. Vini Galli...... 1 HQ
Vini Oporto... |... 1 23@
Vint Aiba 1 23@
Sponges
Florida sheeps’ wool
carriage. 2 0@
Nassau sheeps ‘wool
Carriage... .... |.
Velvet extra sheeps’
wool, carriage. .... @
Extra yellow sheeps’
wool. carriage... @
Grass sheeps’ wool,
carriage... | @
Hard, for slate use. @
Yellow Reef, for
slate ase... . |. @
—
Acacia . @
Auranti Cortes. Pee. @
S2OSIDeR |... @
een @
Or ton. 6). @
hel Arvom..:. ..,.. @
Smilax Officinalis... 50@
cen, @
SOHis....2.... @
—. -.
Ie ee
wo
BDO MOO WW 1909
w
SSSSFSsss
Selle Co... 88... @ 50
TOmian 1... @ 50
Pros virg........: @ 8
Tinctures
Aconitum NapellisR 60
Aconitum Napellis F 50
MIOCS. eS. 60
Aloes and Myrrh.. 60
Brien... 50
Assafostida ......... 50
Atrope Belladonna. 60
Auranti Cortex..... 50
Benzo 0... 60
Bensgin Co... . |... 50
BOTGsIae 50
Cantharides........ 75
Capsicum .......... 50
Cardanmion .......). |. 75
Cardamon Co... ... vi)
CASE 1 00
Catechu. 50
Cinchona....... 50
Crmehona Co... . 60
Commpa 7... 50
Cubeba.... 50
Cassia Acutifol..... 50
Cassia Acutifol Co 50
Bo 50
MreOe 50
Ferri exieum.. 35
Gentan |... 50
Gentian Ce. . 60
Guisen re 50
Guiacaammon...... 60
Hyoscyamus........ 50
toate. D
Iodine, oe v6)
Ce 50
LOD 50
Myrrh. 50
Nux Vomica......7! 50
Cp... 7
Opii, cam = 50
= deo orized.. 1 50
50
50
50
50
50
60
ToMtan a 60
Malerign 50
Veratrum Veride. 50
Aiport... 20
Miscellaneous
“ther, Spts. Nit.3F 30@ 35
“Ether, Spts. Nit.4F 34@ 38
Aimer 24Q@ = =3
Alumen,gro’d..po.? 3@ 4
Aniatio | 40@_ 50
Antimoni, po. _..._. 4g 5
Antimoni et PotassT 40@ 50
Antipyrin. ..0. 0. @ 1 40
Antichrin .. |. @ 15
Argenti Nitras, oz . @ 50
Arsenicim 0!) 10@ 12
Balm Gilead rene 38@ 40
a Ss. 1 40@ 1 50
Calcium Cc at ‘Is. @ 3
Calcium Chlor., %s. @ 0
: alcium Chlor., 4s. @
Cantharides, Rus.po @ %%
Capsici Fructus, af. @ ib
wee Fructus, po. @ 15
Capsici FructusB, po @
Tepe Tas. pO.i> tg 14
Carmine, No. 40... @ 3 00
Cera Alba, S. & F 0@ 55
Cera Wlaga, 0@ 42
Coceds @ 40
Cassia Fructus...... @ 33
Centraria, @ 0
Cetaceum.. coy @ 4%
Chloroform... 17777” HG 63
Chloroform, saith @ib
Chloral Hyd Crst.... 1 25@ 1 50
Chondrus. ... aa |S
Cinchonidine,P.&W 2%5@ 3
Cinchonidine,Germ 2@ 30
Cocame 3 55@ 3 75
Corks, list, dis. pr.ct. 70
Creosotum. . 6 &
Crota 2 ... “bbl. 7 @ 2
Crota, prdp. @ >
Creta, precip......__ 9@ 11
Creta, Rubra......_. @ s
erectus 18@ 20
Cambeae @ w#
Copri Sulph...., || 5@ 6
Dextrine. | 10@_ 12
Ether Sulph......... HQ
Emery, all numbers @ 8&8
Emery, po. @ 6
Erect.) po.40 30Q 35
Hiake White... |. R@ 15
Gallia... .. am 2
Gambier.. i 8@ 9
Gelatin, Cooper... @ 60
Gelatin; French. |.” 35@ 60
Glassware, flint. box 70
Less than box.... 60
Glue, brown... 9@ 12
Glue, white... |. 1@ 25
Glycerina ee, W3%@ 2
Grana Paradisi @ bb
PAGING 2@ 55
Hydraag Chlor Mite @ 80
Hydraag Chlor Cor. GF
Hydraag Ox Rub’m. @ 9%
Hydraag Ammoniati @ 1 00
HydraagUnguentum 45@ 55
Hydrarpsyrom.._.... @Q 6
Ichthyobolla, Am.. 6@ 7D
eee 75@ 1 00
Iodine, Besuni...... 2 60@ 3 7
lodoform....... 1.1” @ 4 20
Lupulin. Vaud @ 2
Lycopodium ........ ee 45
acm gs. 65 5
Liquor Arse= et y-
Grare Tod.......... @ 2%
LiquorPotassArsinit 10@ 12
Magnesia, Sulph.. 2@ 3
Magnesia, Sulph,bbl @ 1%
Mannia 8 F. sseeee 50@_ 60
Menth SS eegee O2%
40
Morphia,S.P.&W... 2 15@ 2 eae. @ 18] Linseed, pure raw 40 43
—- S.N.Y.Q.& Sinapis, opt....._... @ 30/ Linseed, boiled.... 42 45
Ce 2 15@ 2 40 | Snuff, Maccaboy, De Neatsfoot, winterstr 65 ?
ican. Canton.. | Vees..:.. @ 34| Spirits Turpentine. 42 47
Myristica, No. 1..... 65@ 80/ Snuff,Scotch,DeVo’s . 34 |
Nux Vomica...po.20 @ | Soda Boras.......... 9 iH}
Os Sepla.....-..:..- 1K@ 18| Soda Boras, po... 9@ Iil| Paints =. i
Pepsin Saac, H. & | Soda et Potass Tart. 26@ 28] peg Venetian... ... 1% 2
sete eesceeeees @ 1 00! Soda, Carb ce eee 1yHA@ 2 Ochre, yellow Mars. iz 2 =
Picis Liq. N.N.% gal. | Soda, Bi-Carb.... ||. 3@ 51 Ochre. yellow Ber.. 1% 2 @3
ee @ 2 00 oo. A. 344Q@ 4) Putty, Commercial. 24% 2%@3
Picis Liq., quarts.... @ 1 00| Soda, Sulphas....... @ | 2| Putty, strictly pure. 2% 2%@3
Picis Liq., pints..... @ 85 | Spts. ‘Cologne........ @ 2 60} Vermilion, Prime i
Pil Hydrarg...po. 80 @ 50/Spts. Ether Co...... SOG) 56/1 Weema.| | 13@ 15
Piper Nigra. . = 22 @ 18) Spt. Myrcia Dom. @ ° 00! Vermilion, English. 00@ %
Piper Alba.. | 35 @ 30/ Spts. Vini Reet. bbi. @ 2 42| Green. Paris ... ... ie 19
Piix Burgun........ @ 7) Spts. Vini Rect.%bb! @ 2 47 | Green, Peninsular 13@ 16
Erumpt Acet.....__. 10@ 12) Spts. Vini Rect. 10gal @ 2 50} Lead. Red.... 540 6
Pulvis Ipecac et Opii 1 10@ 1 20/ Spts. Vini Rect. 5gal @ 2 52/ be ad, white........ 5,4@
——— boxes H. Less 5¢ gal. e¢ash 10 days. Whiting, white Span Q 2
D. Co., doz... @ 1 25 | Strychnia, Crystal... 1 40@ 1 45 | Whi iting, gilders’... @ wv
setae. o...... 30@ 33) Sulphur, Subl....... 24@ 31 White, Paris Amer... @ 100
Cuasnig. oo... 8@ 10/ Sulphur, Roll.... . 2Q 2%4|w hiting, Paris Eng.
Quinia, S. P. & W.. — os | TAMArinds ......... 8@ 10) oli @1 #0
Quinia,S.German.. 2 30 | Terebenth Venice... 23 ) | Universal Prepared. 1 00@ 1 15
Quinia, N.Y.. -- 29@ 34| Theobroma... | BQ 45/
Rubia Tinctorum... om «| Vania... 9 00@16 09 eid
SaccharumLactis py 18@ 20) Zinci yoipe......... 7@ 8 | '
Salacin.............. 3 0@ 3 10| | No. ’'Turp Coach... 1 10@ 1 2@
Sanguis Draconis... 40@ 50 | Oils | Extra Purp......... 160@ 1 70
apo, W........... 0. R@ 14| BBL. @aL. | Coach Body......... 2 T@ 3 00
Sapo: M 10@ = 12) Whale, winter....... 70 70| No.1 Turp Furn.... 1 00@ 1 10
te etee eee e oe @ | Lard, extra. oe 45 | Extra Turk Damar.. 1 55@ 1 60
Siediits Mixture.... 20 @ 22} | Lard, Woe 35 40| Jap.Dryer,No.1Turp 70@ %5
oe
i ceceanneall
Conchas
Perfecto
each 500.
The best 5
of 250.
of 250.
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wie
CIGAR
We have added
A handsome cigar lighter
cent cigar on the
One | of 2
[)EPARMENT
OAS,
The Dollar
market at
Send us a sample order.
Grand Rapids, Mich.
the following
Cigars and solicit a trial order
Wedding Boquet
A superb ten cent cigar in three sizes
and advertising with
25 cigars free with each purchase
The Challenge
A good 5 cent cigar .
One box of 25 c
The Fumado
Equal to any cigar on the market for
igars free with each piviaiace
ee i el.
Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co.
Se be De De De Se Se be De he De De De
at $55.00
at 60.00
at 65.00
$35.00
at $30.00
CRULU LURE EU EURULERERERERER IER
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VICHIGAN
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.
They are prepared just before going to press and are an accurate index of the local market.
It is im-
possible to give quotations suitable for all conditions of purchase, and those below are given as representing av-
erage prices for average conditions of purchase.
those who have poor credit.
our aim to make this feature of the greatest possible use to dealers.
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
AXLE GREASE.
doz.
gross
cre 55 6 00
comero::........-...- 60 7 00
ee... 50 4 00
eg 7D 9 00
TXL Golden, tin — vis) 9 00
[lica, tin boxes.. 13 9 00
Paragon.. -- _ 6 00
BAKING POWDER.
Absolute.
ac ip came Gon.............. 45
ib eane Ggon............. 85
. Means doe............. 1 50
Acme.
44 Ib cans 3 doz...........- 45
i> Camssdos............ 7
1” Gane i Goz...........- 1 00
ee 10
El Purity.
44 lb cans per doz......... v6)
% lb cans per doz ........ 1 20
1 i> cans per doz......... 2 00
: Home.
lq 1b cans 4 doz case...... 35
¥% lb cans 4 doz case...... 55
Ib cans 2 doz case ..... 90
EZY<, NI
14 1b cans, 4 doz case.
\% lb cans, 4 doz case......
1 lbcans, 3 doz case...... 1 60
Jersey Cream.
i ib. Gans, per@oz.......... 2 00
9 oz. Cans, per dox.......... 1 25
6 os. Cans, per doz..........
Our Leader.
pene... 45
came 75
[ bee... 1 50
Peerless.
i fame ................. 85
BATH BRICK.
Soe 70
ee 80
BLUING.
1 doz. pasteboard Boxes. 40
3 doz. wooden boxes...... 1 20
BROOrIS.
we. t Cormpot,.......... 1 90
ee eS 1%
Me, S carmme:................ 2 Sp
oe 2 carsos.....-..--.. 1 15
Peer oom... 2 00
Common Whisk 7
ence Woexk...............- 80
Warehouse. ....... 22
CANDLES.
eS 7
a ee a 8
Penne 8
CANNED GOODS.
Tanitowoc Peas.
Lakeside Marrowfat....... 95
Eekowao mo... .......... 115
Lakeside, Cham. of Eng.... 1 20
Lakeside, Gem, Ex. Sifted. 1 45
Extra Sifted Early June....1 75
CATSUP.
Columbia, pints.......... 2 00
Columbia, % pints.......... 1S
CHEESE
eee @ il
@
@ 11%
S
Gem @
Gold ae @ il
ce @ il
ae @ il
Lenawee ............ a i
nawcriac;........... @
Springdaie:......... @ 11%
Brick @ 12%
@ %
@ 18
lumburper <......... @ 10
Pimeappis............ 438 @ 8
Sap Sago............ @ 18
Chicory
an 5
Red . ed 7
CHOCOLATE.
Walter Baker & Co.’s.
German Sweet ................ 23
a 34
Breakfast Cocoa.........1... 45
cite i Tie
CLOTHES LINES.
Cotton, 40 ft, per doz.......1
Cotton, 50 ft, per doz....... :3
Cotton, 60 ft, per doz.......1
Cotton, 80 ft, per doz....... 1
Jute, Tt, per dos.........
Jute, 72 ft. per dos.,.
COCOA SHELLS.
20 1b bags.. ! 2
Less quantity. ae 3
Pound packages. oe ce 4
CREAM TARTAR.
5 and 10 1b. wooden boxes..30-35
00
20
40
Cotton, 70 ft, per dos....... 1 60
80
80
95
COFFEE.
Green.
Rio.
Fair 10
Gost. 12
oe... 3
——. lL.
Pease 15
Santos
Pair ..... .. eee cena cae
ee 15
Prime. ny
Peaberry . _. 17
Mexican a cial.
ae... ..-16
eee a
Rancy ..... a. 18
Maracaibo.
Pimas ...
ee
Java.
iebecer.. 20
Prva Growen............_.. 22
Mendcnting. ....--... ae
Mocha.
ieeieation .........._._._.. 5.
Avabian ..... ae 24
Roasted.
Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s Brands
Fifth Avenue..... 22
Jewell’s Arabian Mocha... .28
Wells’ Mocha and Java..... 24
Wells’ Perfection Java..... 24
Bemeeieo... 22
Breaktect Biend........... 13
Valley City Maracaibo. .-18%
Ee 14
header Blend... .. ... a8
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, alsol¥%ca
pound. In 601b. cases the list
is 10c per 100 lbs. above the
price in full cases.
Arbuckle . 9 50
Jersey 9 50
TicLaughiin’s XXXX...... 9 50
Extract.
Valley City % gross . 43)
Felix % gross...... 1 15
Hummel’s foil 4 gross.. 85
Hummei’s tin 4 gross. i 48
CLOTHES PINS.
5 gross boxes i 7
COUGH DROPS.
Cc. B. Brand.
405 cent packages ........ 1 00
CONDENSED MILK.
4 doz in case.
Gail Borden Eagle.. _ot
Oe se 6 25
es. 5 %
Cures 4 50
er 425
OU 3 35
ae 8 35
COUPON BOOKS.
Tradesman Grade. i
50 books, any denom.... 1 50
100 books, any denom.... 2 50
500 books, any denom....11 50
1,000 books, any denom....20 00
Economic Grade.
50 books, any denom.... 1 50
100 books, any denom.... 2 50
500 books. any denom....11 50
1,000 books, any denom....20 00
'
Universal Grade.
50 books, any denom....
100 books, any denom.... 2 50
500 books, any denom....1
1,000 books, any denom....:
Superior Grade.
50 books, any denom.... 1
100 books, any denom.... 2 50
500 books, any denom.
1,000 books, any denom....20 00
Coupon Pass Books,
Can be made to represent any
denomination from 810 eee
peers. ........-.....-
50 books. a 00
ee ooaee |... 4... 3 00
eee CB
Ge noeEe. 0. 10 00
ee 17 50
Credit Checks.
500, any one denom’n..... 3 00
1000, any one denom’n..... 5 00
2000, any one denom’n..... 8 00
Steel punch. %
DRIED FRUITS—DONESTIC
Apples.
Sundried. @5
Evaporated 50 lb boxes. @s
California Fruits.
Apres... 8, a, T4@8%
Blackberries..
—- eee @ 7%
— a... Se Se
Pea —_ ee eee 3 50
1 | OO ic ae 3 50
GUNPOWDER. Ps ih: lines egeee....... 2 32
sia Rina eiceadns 56 lb. linen sacks............ 60
ee eee Bulk in barréla.......:....5- 250
Half Kegs eee ini
arter Ke .
ee 30 | 56-Ib dairy in drill bags... 30
RC eave ie 1g | 28-Ib dairy in drill bags..... 15
Choke Bore—Dupont’s. Ashton.
Reoe | is 4 25 | 56-lb dairy in iinen sacks... 60
AAAS Me 2 40 Higgins.
Quarter Kegs.. Cougs eee eee 1 35 | 5¢-1p —_s in oon sacks... 60
Banat esc as a lar Rock.
cage Oe OES, lait eat i
Piet Bee. i es 4 25 Com mmon.
Quarter, aeeen cy tuctes seme 2 25 | Granulated Fine............ 79
ID COMB. ec xk cee 45 | Medium Fine............... 85
SAL SODA.
Granulated, bbls....:..... vi
Granulated, 100 lb cases.. 90
Lump, bbls. : 75
Lump, 1451b kegs... eo 85
SEEDS.
PEs SOUS ag Aen oe 9
aoery, Ceeyena........... 3
at a 8
Cardamon, Malabar ..... 69
eter ce, 1
Homp, Russian.....-..... 334
Mizoa Bird............... 4%
Mustard, white........... 5
ee ... yo
Me
Cussie Bone. ......... ....- 20
SNUFF.
Scotch, in bladders. . oe
Maccaboy, Sy eare.. i... 35
French Rappee, in jars..... 43
SOAP.
RESIS DOK eee ee 2 7
5 box lots, delivered........ 7
10 box lots, delivered....... 3 65
JAS. 8. KIRK & GO.’S BRANDS.
American Family, wrp’d....2 66
ee ee 2 to
nee 2 20
RO ec ee 2 50
Dusky Diamond, 50 6 oz....2 10
Dusky Diamond, 50 8 oz. 3 00
Blue India, 100 % Ib......... 3 00
Misiceline. 3 50
oe 2 50
Schulte Soap Co.’s Brand.
100 cakes, 75 lbs.
Sinele bet 2... i. 2 80
Spex tote. (00 Sigs
- bex tots... 2 7
oe NOx fete... 2 60
Allen B. Wrisley’s Brands.
Old Country, 80 1-lb. bars ..2 75
Good Cheer, 60 1-lb. bars....3 75
Uno, 100 4-10. bars.... ...... 2 50
Doll, 0 10 -ce. Dare......... 2 05
Scouring.
Sapolio, kitchen, 3 doz .....2 40
Sapolio, hand, 3 doz........ 240
SODA.
MOOS 5%
Megs, Maeiian 4%
SPICES.
Whole Sifted.
Allspice ..............-.... 12%
Cassia, China in mats....... ll
Cassia, Batavia in bund....25
Cassia, Saigon in rolls...... 32
Cloves, Amboyna........... 15
Cloves, Zanzibar............ 11
Mace, Batavia.............. 55
Nutmeps, fancy. .-...--... -60
Nutmegs, No. : bce ee coe 50
Nogners, No. 2....-.......-
45
Pepper, conse: black...11
Pepper, Singapore, white...12
Panger, M6... . 2... 6.5... 12
Pure Ground in Bulk.
Aiineee ... 5: .s.,s 15
Cassia, Batavia .......-....; 30
Cassia; Saigon....:......... 40
Cloves, Zanzibar............ 14
Ginger, African............ 15
Ginger, Cochin.......:..<.. 18
Ginger, Jamaica............ 23
Mace, Batavia.............. 65
Wier ... 12@18
ee ese 40@50
Pepper, Sing. , black ........ 12
Pepper, Sing., white........ 20
Pepper, Cayenne Re oes ees 20
GR ee ce 15
SYRUPS.
Corn.
sc 15
Half OE ec 17
Pure Cane.
eee 16
OO 20
Coe tee 2
TABLE SAUCES.
Lea & Perrin’s, large..... 47%
Lea & Perrin’s, small..... 2%
Halford, large............ 3 75
Halford small....... ..... 2 25
Salad Dressing, large..... 4 55
Salad Dressing, small..... 2 6
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4 Bea Nt ie SNE IN
aaNet telnet eee rmrcsauy te Seer
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
2\
STARCH.
Kingsford’s Corn.
40 1-1b packages............. 6
m0 11> packages. ........... 614
Kingsford’s Silver Gloss.
0 1-3 packages. .......... 6%
Gib bores ....... tee ae
Diamond.
64106 packages ...........5 00
128 5c packages. ..o 0
32 10c and 64 5c pac ‘kages.. » ©
Common Corn.
TID. packages ........ .. 5
401%). packares. ....... 4%
Common Gloss.
tip packaves............... 4
Sib paekages............. 4
Gib packages. .............. 416
40 and 50 lb boxes.......... 256
ee... 246
STOVE POLISH.
Cao Sa tt ae ad
El as)
4 50
20
No. 4, 3 doz in case, gross..
No. 6, 3 doz in case, gross. .! 7
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.
DOMINGO. oe eo 5 63
a Sh 5 63
Cyrashed:.......... _..... . 6 eS
OUBOR ooo, 5 3l
Poma@erea: 2. 5 31
ZEN Powdered....-......5 38
Granulated in bbls... ...... 5 13
Granulated in bags..-...... 5 1
Fine Granulated............ 5 1k
Extra Fine Granulated..... 5
Extra Coarse Granulated...
Mould A
TOBACCOS.
Cigars.
Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s brand.
New Breck st 83 00
H. & P. Drug Co.’s brand.
Guintette .....5............ 35 00
G. J. Johnson Cigar Co.’s brand.
SOM:
a ee
Michigan Cigar Co.’s brand.
Ure Unkle
ere Unile 85 00
Ruhe Bros Co.'s
Brands.
1 Sy a 35 00
mer era. 35 00
Wo ee ec: 35 00
Generals Grant and Lee... .35 00
Spanish Hand Made........ 35 00
NR i co cas ws oe 35 00
VINEGAR.
Malt White Wine, 40 grain.... 6
Malt White Wine, 80 grain.... 9
Pove Cider. 9
Pure Cider, Leroux:........ |. 11
Washing Powder.
<<
| Most Prensont, but Mont e:
Maite Gude
Ob T2 On pres 4... 3 5
WICKING.
No - 0, per gross eee cae.
Fish and Oysters
Fresh Fish.
Per lb.
Wortensh .......... 9
Ons ge. a 9
Black Bass. . os @ 2
Halibut . @
Ciscoe sor Herring. @ 4
BiInegse. |. @ 10
Live Lobster. ...... @ 2
Boiled Lobster...... @ 2
Cog @ Ww
MAGGoeK Ls, @ 8
No. t ee oe. @ 8
Pine... a Go 7
ia. @ 3%
Smoked White...... @ 9g
Red Snapper........ @ 10
Col River Salmon.. @ 10
Mackerel ....5...... @ 2%
Oysters in Cans.
EP. Counts. ....... @ %
FP. J. D. Selects... :. a 2
pelcets 1... ke @ 2
F. J. D. Standards.. @ 20
HONOMNGS ...... 22.’ @
Oysters in Bulk
Py. 1. Counts........ @1 75
Extra Selects. ...... @1 50
ee... @1 2
Anchor Standards... @1 10
PRAMS oo @
Shell Goods.
Oysters, per 100.... ... 1 25@1 50
Sams, per 100 _ oe
Hides and Pelts.
sag Cappon & Bertsch Leather
100 Canal Street, quotes as
cae
Hides.
Green No. t.3. 8... @8
Green NO. 2.45... . @iTt
Cured No, 1... .. ea. @9
Curca No 2)... @8
Calfskins, green No. 1 @Y
Calfskins, green No, 2 @ 4
Calfskins, cured No. 1 @10'4
Calfskins, cured No. 2 @9
i Furs.
barge Hear...) 1 00@15 (0
BOVE. i. 50@ 6 00
Cat Wild ......2..... 5@ 2a
Hisper................) Og 7 66
Red Wor. :.......: 2... 25@ 1 50
Gray Wor... 2@ 70
Cross Fox 5@ 5 00
yee... 1. a 2 ee
Muskrats.. 2@ 15
oo
Martin... .... beecees 25@ 3 00
Otee 1 00@ 9 00
MOGOCM osc. 10@_—s 80
per % Skink. ..:. .... 10@ 1 00
a 2U@ 1 50
Pelts.
Potts. each. ........... 5O0Q@I1 00
Ta'low.
Oe Be @ 2%
ee @ 2
Wool.
Wasbed, fine ......... @20
Washed, medium ..... @25
Unwashed, fine.... ...13 @l5
Unwashed, medium ..18 @20
Oils.
Barrels
MOCGHE ......5....:..- @i1%
XXX W.W.Mich.Hdlt @ 83%
W W Michigan........ @ 834
Diamond White... . @ 74
IE as oc rece oo @8
Deo. Naptha eee eyes i @7
Cyimder..., 2... 2 @i4
Engine oh ea
B'ack, winter.. @
Candies.
Stick Candy.
bbls. pails
64@ 7
64@ 7
6 @8
Seamer...
Standard H. H.....
Standard Twist.....
Omit Egat... @ 8%
eases
gumbo, 32 1b ..... @ 6%
etre
@ 8%
Boston Cream...... }
Mixed Candv.
Competition........ @ 6
Peeeie........... @i
Conserve...... @i%
beogne. . @i%
Se @ 8%
Broken ............ G 8%
Cut Boat... @ 8%
English Rock....... @8
Kindergarten...... @ &%
French Cream...... @ 8%
Dandy Pan... ... @i0
Valley Cream.. @l2
Fancy —In Bulk.
Lozenges, plain..... @ 8%
Lozenges, printed.. @ 8%
Ghoe! Drops... 10 @l4
Choc. Monumentals @il
Gaim Drops......-. @ 6
Moss Drops...... @s8
sour Drops..... @ 8%
Tmperiais |... @ 8%
Fancy—In 5 tb. Boxes.
Lemon Drops...... @5v
Sour Drops. . . @5v
Peppermint Drops. @bu
Chocolate Drops ... @bv
H. M. Choc. —_ @i5
Gum Drops. a G30
Licorice Drops... _. @ia
A. B. Licoric e Drops @a0
Lozenges, plain. @5u
Lozenges, printed. @av
Tmiperiais ..... @av
Mottoes . @is
Cream Bar @av
Molasses Bar ... @do
Hand Made Creams. 80 @i 03
Plain Creams.. . 60 @9
Decorated Creams... @W
Bering Rock... .._.. @ov
Burnt Almonds.....1 25 @
Wintergreen Berries @6U
Carameis.
No. 1 en = 1b:
boxes @30
No. I wrapped, 3 1b,
box @45
=. 2 wrapped, 2 2 Ib
Fruits.
Oranges.
Cal, Seedlings ...... @2 23 |
Fancy Navels 112 ..
te ee @3 00 |
Choice. 7... @ |
Lemons.
Strictly choice 360s.. @3 00 |}
Strictly choice 300s. . @3 25 |
Fancy Sule...) |. @3 25 |
Ex. Maney 300s.... . @3 50 |
Ex. Faney 360s. ..... @3 7 |
Bananas.
Medium bunches...1 25 @I1 50
Large bunches...... 1% @2 00
Foreign Dried Fruits.
Figs,
Choice, 101b boxes.. @ 13
Extra choice, 14 1b
BORES. @ |
Fancy, 12 1b boxes.. @ 14}
Imperial Mikados, 18
1D DOME6. oo... @ &
Pulled, 6 lb boxes... @ ts
Naturals, in bags.. @ 6%
Dates.
Fards in 10 lb boxes @s8
Fards in 60 ib cases @ 6
Persians, G. M’s..... @ 5%
1b cases, new...... @ 6
Sairs, 60 Ib cases 4}
ee
Almonds, Tarragona. . @13
Almonds, Ivaca...... @il
Almonds, California,
SOft shelied.......-. @13
Bractis view... 0)... @9
| Bitherts 2... @l10
Walnuts, Grenobles .. @12
Walnuts, Calif No. 1. @10
Walnuts, soft shelled
2 @ ¥
| Table Nuts, fancy.. @i0
Table Nuts, choice. @ 9
Pecans, Med.. @ 8
Pecans, Ex. Large... @Ii0
Pecans, Jumbos....... @12
Hickory Nuts per bu.,
Onio, new... ... 2... @1 60
Cocoanuts, full sacks @4 50
Peanuts.
Pancy, H. P., Sana. @7
Fancy, H, P., Flags
leet
Roasted......
Choice, H. P., Extras.
Choice, H. P., Extras,
Reasted
/ Urains é and Feedstuiis | Provisions.
Wheat. | Swit. & ‘Company quote as
Thes ( |
Whea........ - Barreled Pork.
Winter Wheat Flour. | —. 10 75 |
| Bae ' 11 00
Local Brands. | Clear back. 10 5U
Patents... ............... 5 50 | Shortent. oe
Second Patent.......... 200] 5.”
| Bean 8 To
Straight.. 4 80) Pamily 10 50 |
Clear.. , . 440) y i ia Nal a '
Graber eT a ae Dry Salt Meats.
Dbucewhest ......... _.. 3 50 | Bellies .... .. 6
ey ce oO einen 534
Subject to usual cash dis- | Extra shorts / 514
count, |
: et Smoked eats.
di mou bbls., 25¢ per bbl. ad- | Hams, 12 lb average 9
copay Hams, 14 lb average 83;
, ol a | Hams, 16 lb average. Bl4
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand. | Hams, 20 lb average 7%
Quaker ics. _. 4% | Ham dried beef...... 14
Quaker, 8...) |... 47 | Seoulders CN. ¥. eut). 6
Quaker so. 4%} Bacon, clear... _. 4 @e
i California hams.. .
Spring Wheat Flour. Boneless hams. . .
Cooked ham...... . ‘s@u1’
Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s Brand. Lards. In Ti ierces
Compound.. os
Kettle.. . 6%
| 55 lb T abs) 0 1) “advane e 14
80 1b Tubs.......advance é
501lb Tins .......advance 8
20 1b Pails.......advance % |
IO Ip Patis....._. advance %
5 1b Pails.......advance i
3 1b Pails.......advance 14 |
| Sausages.
| Bologna ....._. ' 5
Liver... 8 6%
Frankfort a
ou 8%
ieee |. 6
Tongue ... 9
| Head cheese. 6%
Beef.
; xtra Mess....._. . 900
| Boneless 12 25
| Rump. --.- 42 OO
Pillsbury’s Best 738. > 65 | Kits, 15 pPigs’ F Peet.
Pilisbury’s Best } Bl, 6 Se aa eae ae
Pillsbury’s Best a 5 15 | 74 DIS, 40108)... 1... 2 Bb
ii iia gh eal is, 80 Ibs 2
Piilsbury’s Best \%s paper.. 5 45 | @ bbls, 80 Ibs ay 80
Pillsbury’s Best ss paper.. 5 45 | ers Tripe.
[aes fates. 7d
Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand. | fy rT a sesh settee 1 40
1% bbls, ee 2%
Duluth Imperial, %s....... 5 |
Duluth Imperial, _ | Pork . Casings. 16
Duluth Imperial, ---- 539! Beef rounds... 11/7! 4
: | of le Sete i
Lemon & Wheeler Co.’s Brand. | a er: : y
Gold Medal %s............. 5 +4 Butverine,
Gold Medal \4s..... | Rolls, dairy.. : 10
Gold Medal sa.) |... a | Solid, Cay. 94
PAQIAIGN, 48................ 5 45) Rolls, Crcaimery ......... 14
Parisian, t48 See eel i | Solid, creamery . 13%
Parisian, $66.....0.. | Canned eats
. a | Corned beef, 2 1b 2 15
Olney & Judson’s Brand. | Corned beef, 14 ae 25
Ceresona, fea. ul) 0 5 | Roast beef, 2 lb....... 2 is
Ceresota, 14s Ll Soa cole — 48 es 50
Ceresota, %8.. ............. 5 45 | [otted ham, 8
: | Deviled ham, i.
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand, | Deviledham, s....... 1 00
| Petted tongue \s.... 60
oe Pe es Ba Potted tongue %s....... 1 00
| Peearee, S,.......... cess Oo OO
Eevrel 45... 40 |
| Crackers. —
Meal . —
eo I National Biscuit Co.
Bolted . | ee
| uotes as foliows:
| Granulated . 2 ov | 4
° | Butter.
| Seyinour XXX.
| Feed and Millstuffs. — mily SX 3 1b. carton 6%
St. Car Feed. screened ....15 25 | Family : 6
No. 1 Corn and Oats.......14 25 | Family } >. 3 1b carton. 6%
Unbolted Corn Meal.......13 75 | Salted XXX 3
Winter Wheat Bran... . .14 00 | Salted XXX. 3 Ib carton. 6%
Winter Wheat Mi a. 15 00 Soda.
Sereenings.... 13 00! Soda XXX. 7
Soda XXX, 3 1b carton. 7%
New Corn. | Soda, City. ee 8
%¢ . io Zephyrette. iu... 20
Laon fo Long isi and Wafers....... il
i oe Nafers, 1 lbearton .. 12
Oats. Oyster.
| | Square Oyster, XXX. “a 6
| Car lots. .. -+ s++++ 30% | Sq. Oys. XXX,11b carton. 7
Carlots, eli pped.. 1c. oe Farina Oyster, XXX.... 6
Less than car lots. toes oe SWEET aoops- Boxes.
Hay. Animals ... 10%
Bent’s Cold Water...._.... 14
No. 1 Timothy arlots...... 9 00 | Belle Rose. 8
; No. 1 Timothy, ton lots....10 00 | Cocoanut Taffy .. i 9%
Coffee Cakes.... g
| Progted Eloney........._.. 12%
Graham Crackers |... 11.) 8
Fresh ‘Meats. | Ginger Snaps, XXX round. 7
a 1 | Ginger Snaps, XXX city. q
| Gin. Snps,X XX home made 7
Beef. | Gin. Snps,X XX scalloped... 7
| ‘ma 1,1G Wanita. 8
Carcass ............... 64@ 7% | Ginger
| = . rele ... . Bs
| Fore quarters......... 5%@ 6 | imperia : 2
Hind quarters........ THGI | i ote Honey... —
a eee os | Meolisecs Cakes....,,......
ibe loca : = } Marshmallow ............. b
Rounds ........ | 6%@ 7% | Marshmallow Creams..... 16
(Giger ae aie: | Pretaels, hand msde) |.) 9
Peis @ 4 | Pretzelettes, LittlkeGerman 7
ee i | Ouear Cane................ 8
Pork. Sultanas . 1%
| Sears’ ee
Pressed. (0) 0 J: |. lea @5 | Vanilla Square. 844
POMON oles @ $% | Vanilla ters 000 14
BNOUIGERS .: @ 9% | Pecan Wafers.............. 15%
Leak lard. ...... 54@ ' Mixed Picnic... ..._..... 16
| Cream Jumbles a
Mutton. Boston Ginger Nuts........ 8%
| Carcass Le cae 2 @8s Chimmie Fadden.......... 10
| Spring Lambs... ..... 8 @9 Fineappie Glace...... ..... 16
Fenny €akee... ......... 8%
Veal Marshmallow Walnuts.... 16
Carease .............. 64%@ 8 Belle Isle Pieni¢........... i
Crockery and
|
|
Glassware.
Pc AKRON STONEWARE.
| Butters,
14 eal, perdos........... 50
btoGeal.pergal........ Si
Seal pergay. 6%
| 10 gal., per gal.. : 6%
i122 gal., | ler aal...... 6%
| 15 gal. anar tubs, per gal. 8
20 gal. meat-tubs, per gal.. 8
| 25 gal. meat tubs, pergal.. W
| 30 gal. meat-tubs, per gal.. 10
Churns.
| 2 to 6 gal., per gal.. 5%
| Churn Dashers, per doz... 8
| Milkpans.
% gal. flat or rd. bot., doz. 60
| 1 gal. flatorrd. bot.,each 5%
| Fine Glazed Milkpans.
% gal. flat orrd. bot.,doz. 65
= 1 gal. flatorrd. bot.,each 5%
= Stewpans.
| % gal. fireproof, bail, doz. 85
| 1 gal. fireproof, bail, doz.1 10
| Jugs.
| 3 Sal... per Gog........... 40
[4 gal. perdoz.... ........ Ser}
| tO 5 gal, pergal......... 6%
Tomato Jugs.
1 onl perdas........ |. 70
eT 7
| Corks for % gal., per doz.. 20
| Corks for 1 gal., perdoz.. 30
| Preserve Jars and Covers.
| 4% gal., stone cover, doz... %5
1 gal., stone cover, doz...1 00
Sealing Wax.
5 lbs. in package, perlb... 2
LAMP BURNERS,
OO eee 45
NOt Ba, 50
| No. 2 Sun 75
| Tubular 50
| Security, No. 1 65
| Security, No. 2......... -.
Oe ee
a 1 50
LAMP CHIMNEYS—Common.
| Per box of 6 —
(Ne OS...
| No. 1 San. ae
(ae. 2 Sag 27
| First -.
| No. 0 Sun, crimp top,
wrapped and ae . 210
[No I San, erin top,
| wrapped and label ea.... 225
| No. 2 Sun, crimp top,
wrapped and heed. . 8%
XXX Flint,
No. 0 Sun, crimp top,
wrapped and labeled.... 2 55
No. 1 Sun, crimp top,
wrapped and labeled. 2%
No. 2 Sun, crimp top,
| wrapped and labeled. 8 75
CHIMNEYS—Pearl Top.
No.1 Sun, wrapped and
Iabeleg,.
No. 2 Sun, wrapped and
labeled...
No, 2 Hinge, wrapped ‘and
labe ee.
No.2 Sun, “Small Bulb,”
| for Globe Rapes... ... ..
| La Bastie.
No. 1 Sun. plain bulb, per
doz
No. 2 Sun, _— bulb, a
doz 1 50
No. t Cc ‘rimp, per doz... 1 35
No. 2 Crimp, per doz... ... 1 60
Rochester,
No. 1, Lime (65¢ doz). .... 3 50
| No. 2 ” Lime (We dos)...... 400
No. 2 ’ Flint (80e dos)...... 470
Electric.
| No. 2, Lime (70c doz) ..... 4 00
| No. 2, Flint (80e doz)...... 4 40
OIL CANS, Doz.
| 1 gal tin cans with spout.. 1 25
| 1 gal galy 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 cane iron with faucet 5 25
o Gal Tilting cams.......... 8 00
| 5 gal galv iron Nacefas.... 9 00
Pump Cans,
5 gal Rapid steady stream. 9 00
5 gal Eureka non —, 10 56
3 gal Home Rule.. - «10 50
15 > eemee Tie. 12 00
| ogal Pirate King ......... 9 50
| LANTERNS.
| No. OVahuiar 0 1... 4 25
[No. 1B Tabular..... 6 50
| No. 13 Tubular Dash.. .... 6 30
| No. 1Tub., glassfount.... 7 00
| No. 2 Tubular, side lamp. 14 .
| No. 3Street Lamp....... =e
LANTERN GLOBES.
No. 0 Tubular, cases 1 doz.
each, box 10 cents.. ..... 45
No. 0 Tubular, cases 2 doz.
each, box 15 cents
No. 0 Tubular,
bbis 5 doz.
oe 40
No. 0 Tubular, bull’s eye,
| cases 1 doz. Caen ou
| LAMP WICKS,
Pept cnk or mneghenee : 20
| NO. P PGE SPOR, cane... cc .ae 25
| No. @ Or gross ............ oe
[NGL Shee erase =
| Rane, 8... a
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN .
Hardware_
the Hardware
Silent Salesmen of
Dealer.
Silent Salesmen! Those inanimate
aids to business which yet speak louder
than the men who make use of them,
and make or mar the merchant's pros-
perity, according as they are controlled ;
that work night and day, week days,
Sundays and holidays, rain or shine;
that don't go to funerals in the baseball
season, don’t throw business to the
winds every time a brass band comes
up the street, nor try to flirt with lady
customers; exacting in their require-
ments as a tax gatherer, yet yielding
faithfully good returns for fair treatment.
The name of the first is the store
front. It stands to an establishment as
the face to a man, and the wayfarer is
attracted or repelled by the first impres-
sion of the outside of a place just as he
is by the first sight of a person’s coun-
tenance. One does not associate thrift
with an unpainted building any more
than with an unwashed face, nor does
he expect courteous, intelligent, satis-
factory service when he enters a store
the very outside of which proclaims a
man indifferent toappearance. A dingy,
weather-beaten sign, second story win-
dows rendered light-proof with dirt, a
broken step or badly arranged entrance,
old worthless samples displayed outside,
ashes dumped into the road before the
door—each and all betoken a_ laxity
that will in all probability find further
expression within, and cause a_ pro-
spective purchaser to seek further.
Nor should the merchant go to the
other extreme. A door front can be
made to assume a too smart appearance
that is as fatal to confidence as_ sloven-
liness. A book could be written on in-
dividuality in store fronts. The dude,
the smark aleck, the sluggard, the solid
citizen and the pretentious humbug find
their exponents in the fronts of differ-
ent hardware stores, just as certain
types of femininity are exhibited in
others in other lines of trade. The store
front should be made inviting in ap-
pearance, and in general effect set forth
the character and magnitude of the
business done within—or perhaps carry
an impression a little in advance of the
real truth, just as the proprietor’s ideal
is above the reality.
Next in order, and equal in 1mpor-
tance, come the show windows, the eyes
in the store’s face, through which the
business looks forth at the buyer, ogling
and cajoling him, captivating his er-
rant fancy and creating hot desire, or
repulsing by indifference to his opinion,
even as is the way of a maid witha
man. ‘There is a general recognition of
the importance of having the show
windows well and frequently dressed,
and yet one does see lamentabie cases
of neglect and ill judgment in this re-
gard—where the goods from a dozen
different lines are arranged in a jumble
that fails to make any impression what-
ever upon the casual observer, or where
the same articles are displayed week
after week without change. The aver-
age hardware dealer has a consuming
desire for dollars, and is not wont to be
sparing of exertion where anything is to
be gained. So it is pretty safe to say
that when his show windows are not all
they ought to be it is through lack of
proper knowledge or taste. The former
be can remedy when he discovers his
need, but if the fault lie in the latter
he will do well to cast among his clerks
for latent talent or call in outsiders to
help him, for the show windows, com-
manding the attention of the people
more surely and constantly than any
other one thing he can devise, can be
made his very best salesman.
Window trimming. Bottles of ink
have been spilled and reams of paper
wasted in the endeavor to tell the mer-
chant how his windows’ should’ be
trimmed, but there is one thing that the
self-styled experts all seem to miss, and
that is, that the window should show
forth the merchant's personality. Give
Jones, Brown and Smith the same as-
sortment of cutlery for the windows and
the three displays will be widely differ-
ent—and they should be, with a differ-
ence founded in the peculiar quirks of
the make-up of each, although to get
the best results all must observe a_ very
few—two or three—plain rules that form
about all there is to three-fourths of the
articles that are written concerning
window display:
Cleanliness, neatness and light.
But one line of goods at a time.
Frequent changes.
The third of the silent salesmen is
the advertisement, whose work lies out-
side the store, going to the homes and
business places of the purchasing pub-
lic and soliciting favors for the mer-
chant, with accounts of bargain sales,
dear to the heart of the good housewife,
tools for the artisan, implements for
the farmer, hammocks and bicycles for
the summer girl, sporting goods for the
swaggering youth and all sorts of things
for the head of the family. It catches
its victims when they are in a receptive
mood, seeking for new impressions and
devouring what is set before them in
their paper. It silently tells its tale,
and if it fails to interest the first time, it
retires with honors and comes again and
again with new temptations until it
makes a customer for its sender.
This is the age of printers’ ink. Great
are the ‘‘advertisement,’’ the ‘‘ write
up,’’ the ‘“‘free puff,’’ the ‘‘reading
notice’’ and the ‘‘fake’’ scheme, and
thrice blessec is that ironmonger who
knows how to employ them to get the
maximum of results with the minimum
of expense. The advertising manager
of one of the great monthlies says in a
burst of confidence that only about ro
per cent. of his patrons make it pay to
advertise, but of the purely local adver-
tisers it is probable that less than to
per cent. find that it does not pay. A
merchant must advertise, or spiders will
spread their nets across his doorway.
The public expects it of him and goes
to buy at stores the proprietors of which
pronounce them as the best and largest,
with finest stocks and lowest prices—and
if the proprietor doesn’t know, who
does?
If a fellow will tell us a thing often
enough and forcibly enough, we will in
time accept it as truth and finally an-
nounce it as a fact we ourselves evolved,
with additions and enlargements accord-
ing to the scope of our imagination. In
this fact lies the power of the press to
mould public opinion, and it also fur-
nishes the wise advertiser a powerful
lever for advancement if he wil! claim
for himself and his business every ad-
vantage he truthfully can (truthfully,
mind!), do it persistently and forcibly,
and see to it that the people whom his
advertisements draw to his store do not
go away disappointed. ‘‘He that blow-
eth not his own horn the same shall not
be blowed,’’ and it behooves the wise
blower to see that his neighbor’s trom-
bone does not drown the sound of his
own penny whistle.
SACRIFICE SALE
PLANT OF THE
LANSING LUMBER CO.
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ails property is one of the finest equipped plants
of its kind in the State. It is fitted with the
latest improved and best kinds of woodworking machinery,
centrally located on one of the principal avenues of the city
and everything is complete for any first-class business adapted
to such a plant. The property must be sold to settle an
estate. For further particulars address,
Horace Lapham, or Chas. C. Longstreet,
Lansing, Michigan.
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The Very We quote
Best Factory
NOVELTY GLUE FLAMES 7
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Blue Flame Prices.
Oil Send for
Stove Circular
on the and
Market. Discount.
SYRUP CANS
Round and Square
Sap Pails and Sap Pans
Write for prices,
Wm. Brummeler & Sons, Manufacturers,
Grand Rapids, Mich.
Factory and Salesrooms 260 S. lonia St.
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Fourth comes good stationery, and it
is surprising how little value isZoften
placed upon this valuable assistant to
a good impression. It is recognized that
the largest firms in the country all use
good stationery, and the appearance of
the letter alone will generally determine
the commercial importance of the writ-
er. It costs very little if any more tor
good, well-arranged letter heads, bill
heads, statement blanks and envelopes
than for poor ones, and the increased
effect produced upon a prospective cus-
tomer is tremendously cheap at the
price, and will at times alone suffice to
turn the scale of a wavering buyer's
favor.
Fifth is punctuality, promptness in
delivering goods, sending bills and
collecting accounts. The customer who
gets his goods quickly is pleased. He
wants his bill at once, to see that all is
right regarding the price, and if pay-
ment is exacted when due he is apt to
remain the merchant’s friend. It is the
fellow to whom extended credit is
given, and who let his bills stand until
they are long past due, who falls out
with the merchant, leaves him fora
competitor and repays his kindness by
making slurring comments to his in-
jury.
And still the force of silent salesmen
increases. The dodger, labor savers,
full stocks, convenient stores, all deserve
due credit for the good work they do in
aiding the merchant to increase his
sales. His ‘‘silent salesmen’’ form a
longer list than that which is found up-
on his pay-roll, and the wise hardware-
man will see that they are all employed
and doing their best to help him in his
race for supremacy in his field of en-
deavor. JoHN HABERMAN.
——+_~>-9 2
The Hardware Market.
Trade for March is very satisfactory,
as dealers in the surrounding towns are
finding quite a revival in business.
There is but little change to note in
prices and of what the future will bring
forth it is hard to form an idea.
Wire Nails—Wire nails are quiet and
it is now believed there is no prospect
of the large consolidation of all the wire
and nail mills going into effect. Prices,
however, remain firm and it is not be-
lieved there will be any material ad-
vances just for the present. We quote
$1.50 at mill, but if a carload buyer was
in the market, this price could probably
be shaded.
Barbed Wire—Conditions controlling
the prices of nails are those governing
the wire and prices remain as quoted in
our last report. The demand continues
good and it is believed there will be a
large trade on wire the coming spring.
Window Glass—All indications point
to an advance in window glass, which,
if it takes place, will undoubtedly put
a stop to the excessive cutting that has
been going on of late between various
jobbers of window glass.
Rope—Prices are firm and with an
advancing tendency on all kinds of
cordage. This is caused by great scar-
city of the fiber which goes into the
manufacture of rope and which has
been steadily advancing during the
past sixty days. Those who are con-
versant with the inside facts prophesy
that prices will be fully maintained
during the spring months,
Reports from other markets are as
follows:
St. Louis: Hardware trade continues
to show daily improvement,
Chicago: Jobbers report trade de-
cidedly active.
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
Omaha: The movement of all kinds
of hardware from this point has been
very heavy and very satisfactory to the
jobbing fraternity.
Louisville: There is active demand
for most articles of hardware, particu-
larly those pertaining to agricultural
use,
San Francisco: Trade continues to
show encouraging improvement and
prospects point to a very good year.
St. Paul: Trade in the Northwest has
begun a month earlier this year than
usual and is starting in with a great
deal of vigor.
New Orleans: Business
fairly active in this section.
Cleveland: The movement in
continues
hard-
ware has been excellent since our last
writing.
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Electricity Necessary to Keep the
Human Dynamo Vigorous.
Next to the welfare of the human soul
one of the most important things in life
is the sole of the foot. ‘[o this gener-
ally overlooked and disregarded part of
human anatomy may be attributed a
large number of the ills which flesh is
beir to.
Physicians will tell us that the sole
of the foot is a network of nerves that
radiate like telegraph wires to different
portions of the body. A disturbance of
the nerves of the feet will therefore
cause hygienic troubles that may be-
come serious.
Who knows but that Napoleon might
have conquered Russia if he had kept
the soles of his feet and the feet of his
soldiers warm?
Up to recent years physicians have
never given a thought to the possibility
of hygienic connection ‘ between the
soles a the feet and the eyes.
Yet it is often the case that where a
man with perspiring feet uses a powder
to stop the trouble he is at once attacked
by a wondertul running of water from
the eyes and loss of sight.
Rubbers constantly worn will often
cause a similar trouble. The latest ad-
vances of science concede the fact that
the nervous system is to all intents and
purposes the electrical system of the!
body.
It is necessary, physicians say, that
this system should have direct connec-
tion with the earth, more especially
through the soles of the feet, as this is
the most highly organized nerve surface
of any in our bodies.
This is why we cannot bear tickling
on our feet with a straw or feather.
Disturb the natural currents between
the feet and the earth in any way and
the consequences are inevitable. One
person will be stricken with blindness,
another deafness, another baldness, or
cancer or consumption or heart failure,
decayed teeth, rheumatism, neuralgia,
or indeed any other unnatural or dis-
eased state of the body.
Diseases caused by neglected soles
affect different subjects in divers ways
simply because some are weak in one
place and some in another, the partic-
ular location being determined entirely
by the idiosyncrasies of constitution.
From certain physiological causes the
eyes are perhaps in all cases the first
organs plainly damaged by the insula-
tion of the feet. But although they
are more directly injured they are not
more damaged than other organs are in
time from the same cause.
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FOR SALE
Broom Factory complete, with
capacity of 60 to 75 dozen brooms
per day. Steam sewers and all
necessary machinery for operating
same. Factory now in operation
with established trade. Best rea-
sons for selling. Address “Broom
Factory,” care of Michigan Trades-
man.
Hardware Price Current.
AUGURS AND BITS
. 70
CCUMMIRE SOARING | 25410
Jennings’, imitation a . .60&10
AXES
First aaety S. B. Bronze . 5 00
Pacet Quality, DE. Browse. 9 50
First Quality, S. B. S. Steel. bit etecess OO
ares Chrite. PB Steet 10 50
BARROWS
Pere aa an £4 on
Cee net 30 00
Stove aa Ace at aah wl ia 604£10
Carriage new list.. ........ «+ os face
Se 50
BUCKETS
Well, plain... ee ee 8 3 25
BUTTS, CAST
Cast Loose Pin, figured... _ .......... ee
Wrought Narrow eee 70&10
BLOCKS
Oeetiiney Teele 70
CROW BARS
Cast Steel... ..... per lb 4
CAPS
Riy 6 11d... ee per m 65
ee pen ay 5d
ee eh 35
CE er i 60
CARTRIDGES
Oe ee, eS
Central Fire... a
CHISELS
pocnes Pimentel 80
ores Pia... 80
mocret Cee 80
et ee So
DRILLS
Morse’s Bit Stocks . oe 60
Taper and Straight Shank, <2. ee Ss
Morse’s ‘laper Shank.. 1-2. ....... see o
ELBOWS
Com. 4 piece, Gin... |. doz. net 30
ee 13
BOOMER dis 40610
EXPANSIVE BiTS
Clark's small, $18; a ee
Ives’, 1, $18; 2, $24; oe 25
je a List
New American . -. 7&10
PICHON A 70
Heller’s Horse Rasps.. ...-. a
GALVANIZED IRON
Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and 24; 25 and 26; 27. 28
List 12 13 14 15 i, .... 17
Discount, 75 to 75-10
GAUGES
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s...............60&10
KNOBS—New List
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings... Sa 70
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings... ee ea cua,
MATTOCKS
Be ve $16 00, dis 60&10
PORE NG $15 00, dis 60410
ee $18 50, dis 20&10
NAILS
Advance over base, on both Steel and Wire.
pace Hae Gane. 8 | 65
Wire nalis, base..... . Lt
meee G@ladvanee. 8. s.... 8, Bese
i te tGSauanoe cs...
Bamvweee, te... et... 10
Coe... 2
SOGVAMO 30
eee ee 45
waOveee 70
Mnesuivance 50
Casing 10 advance.. ec, 15
Cree GUase le 25
a 30
OH WAV ARCO occ sec ecu 5
Baie SOGvenee 35
Puen GC aawenee. 45
earree & Sdvanee 85
MILLS
Coffee, Parkers Co.’s..... 40
Coffee, P. S. & W. Mfg. Co os Malleables.. 40
Coffee, Landers, eT & & Clark’ S. . 40
Coffee, Enterprise. . " i 30
MOLASSES GATES
Stebbin’s Pattern. _ oo .. 60410
Stbbbens Gennine 60&10
Enterprise, self-measuring . oe ae 30
PLANES
ete to Cee, Eaew. tt... @50
CMe Oe
Sandusky Tool Co.’s, — ee las ea @50
Bench, first quality... a. oe
Stanley Rule and Level Co.'s wood......... 60
PANS
Fry, Acme. ae. . -60&10&10
Common, polished. Nee te ae weal
Chicago.
ly. G. Rapids... ....°..: 8:45am 1:25pm *11:30pr
Ar Caicago,.........-.- 3:10pm 6:50pm 6:40an
iy. Cnieago..:.. 1... .. 7:20am 5:15pm *11:30pn
Ar. G@’d Rapids....... . 1:25pm 10:35pm * 6:2)an
Traverse City, Charlevoix and Petoskey.
iy. Gid Rapids... 7°. |...) 7:30am 5:30pm
Parlor and Sleering Cars on afternoon and
night trains to and from Chicago.
*Every day. Others week days only.
DETROIT,“ snes
Detroit.
Ly. Grand Rapids...... 7:00am 1:35pm 5:35pm
Ar. Detroit........ --.11:40am 5:45pm 19:20pr
Ly. Detroit........ .... 8:00am 1:10pm 6:10pm
Ar. Grand Rapids..... 12:55pm 5:20pm 10:55pr
Saginaw, Alma and Greenville.
Lv. G R7:10am 4:20pm Ar. G R 12:20pm 9:30pr
Parlor cars on all trains to and from Detroit
and Saginaw. Trains run week days only.
Gro. DEHAvEN, General Pass. Agent.
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GERAND rrerts aca xiieenee ni
(In effect January 19, 1898 )
EAST.
Leave. Arrive.
+ 6:45am Sag., Detroit, Buffalo & N Y .+ 9:55pm
+10:10am... ...Detroit and East.... ..+ 5:07pm
+ 3:30pm..Sag., Det., N. Y. & Boston..+12:45pm
*10:45pm... Detroit, East and Canada...* 6:35ain
+ii: 10am: |... Mixed to Dureand........ + 3:15pm
WEST
* 7:00am....Gd. Haven and Int. Pts....#10:15pm
+12:53pm.Gd. Haven and Intermediate.+ 3:22pm
+ 5:12pm....Gd. Haven Mil. and Chi....+10:05am
+10:00pm...... Gd. Haven and Mil... 5...
Eastward—No. 14 has Wagner parlor car. No.
18 parlor car. Westward—No. 11 parlor car.
No. 15 Wagner parlor car.
*Daily. rr Sunday.
E. H. Huewss, A. G. P. & T. A.
BEn. FLETCHER, Trav. Pass. Agt.,
C. A. Justin, City Pass. Agent.
No. 23 Monroe St
Rapids & Indiana Railway
Dec. 5, 1897.
Northern Div. Leave Arrive
Tray. C’y, Petoskey & Mack...+ 7:45am + 5:15pm
Tray. C’y, Petoskey & Mack...t 2:15pm + 6:35am
Wrav. C’y, Petoskey & Mack... ........ $10:50pm
Camiiae 2. + 5:25pm til:15am
Train leaving at 7:45 a. m. has parlor car, and
train leaving at 2:15 p. m. has sleeping car to
Mackinaw.
Southern Diy. Leave Arriv:
Cincinnatl..........: .-t 7:10am +t 8:25pr-
Ft. Wayne..... -+ 2:10pm + 2:00prn
Cincinnati..... -* 7:09pm * 7:25ar
7:10 a.m. train has parlor car to Cincinnati
210 p.m. train has psrlor car to Fort Wayne.
7:00 p.m train has sleeping car to Cincinnati.
Muskegon Trains.
GOING WEST.
Ly @’d Rapids......... +7:35am +1:00pm +5:49p:
Ar Muskegon.......... 9:00am 2:10pm 7:(5-m
GOING EAST.
Ly Muskegon....... .. +8:10am +t11:45am +4:0)pr
ArG’d Rapids... ..... 9:30am 12:55ypm 4 2)pr
tExcept Sunday. *Daily {Saturday only.
Cc. L. LOCKWOOD,
Gen’! Passr. and Ticket Agent.
DULUT ; South prea Atlantic
It is poor economy to
handle cheap flour. It
is never reliable. You
cannot guarantee it. You
de not know whether it
will make good bread or
not. If it should not
make good bread —and
poor flour never does—
your customer will be
displeased and avoid you
afterwards. You can
guarantee...
“Lily White” Flour
We authorize you to do
so. It makes good bread
One sack
sold to-day will bring
every time.
customers for two sacks
later on. Order some
NOW.
Valley City Mitling Co.
Grand Rapids, Mich.
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527 and 528
Widdicomb Building,
Grand Rapids, Mich.
CU. CLARE:
President.
W. D. WADE,
Vice-President.
M. M. Crark,
Pie ee hb se | Sec’y and Treas.
We are now ready to make
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WEN R season of 1898. Correspond-
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WEST BOUND.
Ly. Grand Rapids (G. R. & L.)+11:10pm = +7:45am
Ly. Mackinaw City............ 7:35am 4:20pm
Ap Se lenges... oo... 2s. 9:00am 5:20pm
Ar. Sault Ste. Marie. 12:20pm 9:50pm
2:50pm 10:40pm
5:20pm 12:45am
Ar. Marquette eu
At, Nestoria. ......
Ae: Daluth......... ee 8:30am
EAST BOUND.
LP ee +6 :30pm
es PICHUOE coed +l1:l5am 2:45am
AY. Marquette. 9.0.6)... 1:30pm = 4:30am
Ly. Sauit Ste, Marie... ...):.: | Sate oS
Ar. Mackinaw City. ......... 8:40pm 11:00am
G. W. Hipparp, Gen. Pass. Agt. Marquette.
E. C. Oviatt, Trav. Pass. Agt., Grand Rapids
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