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WORSE AND WORSE.
Hager’s Creditors Grow in Number
and Amount.
Two classes of dealers cause irrepara-
ble damage in any community—the
man who sells goods too close to cost
and the man who persistently pays more
for a staple commodity than he is war-
ranted in paying on a parity with other
markets. Both men are hailed as bene-
factors by unthinking people who do not
realize that the basis of all business is
profit and that the man who attempts
to carry on a business contrary to the
established laws of trade must necessa-
rily face disaster in the end. The un-
fortunate feature of the matter is that
the disaster is too frequently shared by
a large circle of victims who find, too
late, that things are not what they seem,
that bank recommendations are not al-
Dear Sir:-
GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 25, 1898.
something from the sale of them, the
amount would be so small, in compari-
son with the total amount he owes, that
the creditors would not receive any con-
siderable percentage on their claims,
even although he were disposed to turn
over the total proceeds to them and dis-
tribute it pro rata.
The facsimile letter will bear careful
perusal, especially the confession which
Mr. Hager makes that he has ‘‘been
doing a losing business for the past
year.’’ This was known to everyone
who was at all familiar with the egg
market, because it was universally con-
ceded that he was paying above the
market and that his reckless methods
would, sooner or later, land him or his
financial backer, or both, in bankruptcy.
The Tradesman has repeatedly warned
its readers to beware of dealers who offer
more for goods than the market war-
Lake Odessa, Mich., May 16th, 1898.
[ regret to inform you that I have been compelled, temporarily to stop. busi-
ness. For the past vear IT have been doing a; losing business, but hoped to keep things
moving until I could receive returns from this season’s business, some time next winter.—
But this I have found impossible.
To those to whom Iam indebted let me sey that: the
moment fT receive returns from my eggs which I have placed in the east in cold storage, that
moment will you receive your pay. I cannot do better than that, Iintend ia the near fu-
ture to hand to those interested, a statement. of my financial affairs, in order that they may
know that I am covering up nething. If you will but be patient for a short time you will
get your pay.
Sincerely yours,
ways to be relied upon and that the
dealer who conducts a_ conservative
business is too often forsaken for the
upstart who operates on wind and_ficti-
tious credit.
In announcing the failure of A. C.
Hager, the Lake Odessa egg dealer, last
week, the Tradesman intimated that the
liabilities might reach $20,000. Recent
developments indicate that this estimate
was too small by at least $10,000, and
those who are familiar with the failure
and the circumstances which precip-
itated the liquidation insist that the in-
debtedness is nearer $40,000 than it is
$30,000. So far as the circumstances
surrounding the failure have developed,
it is quite evident that Mr. Hager has
no available assets with which he can
pay any considerable portion of this
amount. Ina circular letter which he
issued to his creditors under date of
May 16—facsimile of which is published
in connection herewith—he stated that
as soon as he received returns from his
eggs in cold storage, that moment his
creditors would receivetheir pay. Asa
matter of fact, the owners of the storage
warehouse at Pottstown, Pa., have tel-
egraphed an attorney in this city that
Mr. Hager has no equity in the goods
stored there; on the contrary, he is in-
debted to the warehouse to a consider-
able amount. While it is possible that
Hager may have shipped several carloads
of eggs direct to market and realized
A. C, HAGER.
rants, and invariably made the caution
so pointed that anyone with half an eye
could see that Hager was the man re-
ferred to; yet, notwithstanding these
warnings frequently and emphatically ut-
tered through the columns of the Trades-
man, hundreds of Michigan merchants
and shippers have been caught in the
meshes of the failure with claims ran-
ging from $16 to $1, 600.
The Tradesman is assured by several
business men of Lake Odessa that they
frequently remonstrated with Mr. Hager
against his policy of bidding above the
market for eggs, assuring him that dis-
aster would surely overtake him unless
he left a convenient margin between the
paying and the selling price. They
were invariably told that Mr. Hager
understood his business and that he did
not care to be burdened with the advice
of men who were less familiar with the
egg business than he claimed to be.
Mr. Hager returned to Lake Odessa
last Saturday evening and remained
there over Sunday and until the after-
noon train Monday, when he left for the
East, ostensibly headed for Buffalo. It
is not thought by some that he will ever
return, as one legal gentleman insists
that he will cause his arrest on a capias
for having issued checks against the
Lake Odessa Savings Bank after having
been notified by the Bank nct to do so.
Whether this is sufficient cause for his
arrest the Tradesman is unable to say,
Number 766
but Mr. Hager's statement that he will!
return to Lake Odessa and re-engage in
business is certainly premature, because
a man who has made such a record as be
has should not be permitted to engage
in trade anywhere, least of all in the
town he has disgraced by one of the
most gigantic swindles which has ever
been perpetrated upon the merchants
of Michigan.
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The Grain Market.
There is nothing new in the wheat
market and prices remain the same.
Mixed and No. 1 white dropped from
$1.27 to $1.20 and No. 2 red advanced
from $1.39 to $1.47, so by taking an
average of the two it will be seen that
prices remain about the same. The re-
ceipts have been enormous during the
past week and the visible increased
1,093,000 bushels, notwithstanding a de-
crease would have been in order, The
same week last year the visible de-
creased 1,446,co0 bushels. The fact is,
any one who had a bushel of wheat on
hand has made haste to sell it before the
market goes lower, as many wanted only
$1 per bushel, and some sold at that,
while others are holding for $2. ‘fhe
Majority, however, are selling. We have
certainly received more wheat in the
Northwest than the most rabid bear
ever thought there was to come in. It
looks now as though the race was over.
In this State the wheat has certainly
been picked up very closely, and the
question arises, Where will the wheat
come from until the new crop is suit-
able for milling purposes?
Corn has held its own remarkably well,
as it has been so wet that seeding has
been retarded. Oats have receded about
3c per bushel. Flour. remains quite
stationary. Mill feed is in good de-
mand, but prices have been dropped $1
per ton on both bran and middlings.
The receipts during the week were
only fair, having been 53 cars of wheat,
g cars of corn and 5 cars of oats. We
would also mention that the growing
crop is looking excellent.
The milis are paying $1.20 for wheat.
C. G. AL Voter.
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Hides, Pelts, Tallow and Wool.
Hides remain high, but not so firm in
price, concessions having been made
to effect sales. The demand is strong,
as all tanners desire leather to supply
the Government demand, which calls for
large amounts, taking every grade.
Pelts are firm ata decline in price,
with few sales made to clean out.
There are few offerings.
Tallow shows a weakness at the late
advance. Fresh stock is, however, in
good demand.
Wool is in better demand. Higher
prices are talked of East,whilethe West
keeps the advance and crowds higher.
As the clip moves,some one West wishes
it at full quotations of sales East. There
will be no low-priced wool the coming
season, as compared with the past four
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The Dry Goods Market.
Staple Cottons—The past week has
witnessed advances in lines of fine
brown and bleached sheetings, and a
general strengthening of the price po-
sition of brown sheetings and drills.
Print cloths have worked up close to 2c
for 64-square extras, but business has
been temporarily blocked by the tenacity
with which sellers hold for advanced
prices. Perhaps the most marked im-
provement in business has been seen in
seasonable goods of all kinds, but espe-
cially in thin cotton fabrics. The duck
market is nearly bare of spot goods of
all kinds, and sales are made at prices
20 per cent. above those ruling two
weeks ago. Many mills are unable to
make deliveries upon regular ounce and
export grades inside of a month, being
employed in full upon Government
contracts. The market has long been
bare of the latter goods. Bleached goods
have shown some improvement during
the week, but this has been largely con-
fined to fine counts of sheetings and
shittings. One line has been advanced
about tc and a few other lines occupy-
ing a similar exceptional position must
soon be marked up. Of other goods
than fine sheetings there are consider-
able stocks accumulated, and early ad-
vances in prices are out of the question.
Colored cottons of heavy weight have
moved fairly well during the last few
days and are firm in price. Low grade
light-weight goods are somewhat irreg-
ular in price, owing to large stocks and
comparatively limited demand. Low
priced fancy domets are very good sell-
ers and advances in prices of some
leading lines do not hinder business.
Prints— Some good sized sales of low
and medium priced sheer prints have
been made in the primary market dur-
ing the week just past, but all sales of
prints of a seasonable character have
been made at very low prices. Wash
prints are hard to move at any price,
and so are lappets. Some of the most
desirable lines of otgandies, lawns and
similar sheer goods have brought close
to full prices, but such instances are
rare, Very little has been accomplished
in the more staple lines of prints, out-
side of staple fancies, cretonnes, dra-
peries, etc. Some new lines of the lat-
ter goods are upon the market and have
attracted some attention.
Woolen Goods—A careful survey of
the men’s wear woolen goods situation
brings to the surface many facts which
are responsible for the present almost
general stagnation. There is no ques-
tion but that’ notwithstanding the aval-
anche of cancellations which the woolen
manufacturers have received, the net
amount of business still standing on
their books is considerably larger than
it was a year ago. The whole trouble
has been that when fall goods were
ready to be shown there seemed to pre-
vail (and with some cause) among the
clothing trade the opinion that goods
would never be so cheap again, not-
withstanding their advanced price, in
which belief they were encouraged by
the manufacturers and their selling
agents themselves. This belief brought
about almost a scramble on the part of
the clothiers to protect themselves
against future advances by buying really
more goods than they could have dis-
posed of had we had no war and con-
ditions continued to be as good as they
promised.
Cloakings—Cloak manufacturers do
‘iect seem to be dispused to make up
stock until the present unsettled condi-
tions are adjusted. The indications
are that the short jacket will be in vogue
next season, and if this turns out to be
the fact, then there will be no great
cloaking business done at all, as short
jackets mean smaller consumption of
woolens. The largest houses (cloak
manufacturers) do not seem to be able
to set the fashions and the pace for
business as in past seasons. The spring
cloak trade has turned out much better,
however, than was anticipated, and has
proven that it is difficult to forecast
correctly how the most discouraging
early symptoms may terminate. The
cloak houses are all making up large
sample lines for fall, and if the retail
trade will only place orders early
enough, a fair cloaking season may yet
result.
Blankets ——Blankets are firm and
strong, thanks to Uncle Sam’s_ necessi-
ties.
Dress Goods—There is quite a de-
mand for all black matalasses and fancy
weaves in woolen dress goods, while
brilliant color combinations are also
well thought of.
Underwear—Linen mesh underwear
has created a favorable impression, and
the original high-priced lines have se-
cured excellent business. There have,
however, been several excellent imita-
tions made which combine all of the
good qualities of the higher priced
lines, and which can be sold at a much
more popular price, say, $2.50 to $3a
garment. Union underwear for men, for
both summer and winter, is growing in
popularity, and in some places is _find-
ing large sales, and some excellent
goods at popular prices are being
shown, in both cotton and wool.
Hosiery—Buyers have turned their at-
tention largely to fancy grades, partial-
ly on account of the better styles which
they can find, and which the public are
demanding. As there seems to be no
let-up as yet in the demand by the con-
sumers for good fancy hosiery, even the
brightest colorings are being worn.
Much of it is decidedly questionable in
taste, but that is not a matter which
concerns the retailer or the manufac-
turer. Sales of more staple lines of fast
black and some colored hosiery retain
their average sales, and have not fallen
behind to any great extent on account of
the popularity of fancy varieties, it
seeming to be necessary to have about
an equal stock of both on hand. It was
predicted, when fancy hosiery began to
be an important factor in the market,
that staple lines would suffer, and re-
tailers besitated about placing orders
for the latter, but they soon after started
ahead, and have now found themselves
with good stocks of both. Prices are
well maintained by them in this coun-
try and abroad, and orders for fancy
styles are well ahead of the supply.
Upholstery—The jobbers continue to
report a very unsatisfactory business, as
buyers purchase in small amounts to
cover pressing requirements, and even
then of the cheaper grades, more espe-
cially the velours and cotton tapestry.
Manufacturers are running only a_ por-
tion of their capacity, as they do not
feel justified in making up stock to
carry. A few mills have done very fairly
of late on cheaper grades of bunting,
made from common and ¥%-blood wool.
Some who have never made this line
before have experimented of late, glad
to find something that will permit them
to run some of their idle machinery.
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Organdy from §c to 20c. Dimity from 4%c to
Lawns, Lappetts, Ducks, White Goods,
Percales and new plaid cotton Dress Goods,
Full standard prints, fancies, blues, madders
and staples, 4c. New lines of Belts, Belt
Buckles, Belt Pins. Write for samples.
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Review of the Present and Proposed
Systems.
A reader asks the question: ‘‘What
will prevent the bankers from contract-
ing the volume of credit n.tes when-
ever they deem it desirable to do so, if
the proposed law is adopted?’’
We might, if so disposed, answer this
question by asking another, ‘‘What pre-
vents them from doing so now?’’
However, at the expense of deviating
a little from the question under consid-
eration, we will give some reasons why
this should not deter our efforts at re-
form. If such fears are based on fact,
they would furnish justification for laws
to probibit all powers to issue credits
whatsoever and the utter abolition of
banks. It seems to us that such ques-
tions originate largely with people who
do not comprehend the nature of bank-
ing, or at least seem to forget that
bankers, like other people, have a great
deal of human nature in their make-ups,
and by reason of this latter quality are
prone to refrain from doing things that
will cause themselves avoidable injury.
What sense would there be in bankers
injuring the banking business by re-
fusing to supply credits to purchasers
willing and able to pay for them and to
secure the debts until they are paid for?
If it pays the shoe dealer to encourage
his customers to purchase all the shoes
they can use and pay for, why will it
not pay the banker to do likewise with
his goods—credits? An answer to the
shoe proposition will fit the credit prop-
osition equally well. Each is supply-
ing a need of civilized society. The
difference between the two seems to be
that shoes are wealth in themselves,
while credits are but certificates of
wealth. The fact that one transaction
involves the physical passing of the
wealth while the other but represents
wealth, alienated from the transaction
for the sake of convenience, does not
change the line of operation necessary
to success in each case. Each desires to
sell all the goods he can dispose of with
a reasonable expectation of payment.
Bankers will not deem it desirable to
contract the volume of credit notes un-
less the securities offered for the use of
such notes become of questionable value
by reason of undue speculation, or other
panic-breeding tendencies. Under such
conditions credits will always be cur-
tailed, in obedience to the demands of
an enlightened self-interest, regardless
of statutory enactments. A speculative
boom is always intensified by unre-
strained credit accommodations, and the
more intense the boom the more ruinous
the inevitable collapse. When such
conditions prevail the interests of soci-
ety at large, bankers included, are best
served by contracting credits as a check
against the over stimulation of specu-
lative transactions, and who can judge
of these tendencies better than the bank-
ers, who are at all times in touch with
industrial activities? Under the oper-
ation of the laws of trade an_ industrial
drunk is-as certain to end in collapse
as an individual drunk is, by reason of
the laws of our physical organism. Giv-
ing more credits in one case would
operate the same as would the giving of
more whisky in the other. It is folly
to think that we can legislate an even
issuance of credits under varying indus-
trial conditions, and when we, as a peo-
ple, recognize the fact that the acts of
borrowing and loaning money, goods or
credits are individual acts and inde-
pendent of governmental interference,
we will have made a large advance in
the way of solving the credit question.
To think that bankers can thrive by
pursuing a policy that will minimize
exchanges is thoroughly unreasonable
and the cheapest sort of cheap campaign
talk, calculated to influence only weak
and unreasoning minds. Every busi-
ness enterprise in Christendom is a suc-
cess only to the degree in which it at-
tracts and supplies man’s wants; and
the banking business succeeds only in
so far as it fosters and encourages the
greatest volume of exchanges consistent
with the actual needs of society. The
acceptibility of the credits offered is de-
pendent upon our confidence in those
offering them having the actual owner-
ship of the wealth they are alleged to
represent. This, coupled with the gen-
eral need for them, by reason of the con-
veniences they bring into play in ex-
changes and production, justifies society
in requiring strict regulations for the
security of every dollar’s worth offered
to the people. So long as it is, by law,
made impossible for bankers to circulate
more credits than their assets wil! jus-
tify there is little to fear under any sys-
tem of banking. The danger to society
is not that bankers would issue too few
credits, as compared with their assets,
if left unfettered by strict regulations,
but -rather that they would, in the ab-
sence of such regulations, be tempted at
times to issue more than their assets
would secure. This danger is amply
guarded against in the provisions of
the proposed law.
During the panic period we have
become accustomed to thoughtless talk
about a contraction of the currency _be-
ing its cause. As a matter of fact, there
was an over-abundance of money prior
to the panic of 1893. Exchanges were
abnormally intense and when the re-
action came, witb its inevitable col-
lapse of values, it needed nothing more
than a little human nature to prompt
those who had loaned money to make
every effort to have it repaid, rather
than take the alternative of the col-
lapsed values represented in the se-
curity. On _ the other hand the prudent
man with money in hand became _ per-
haps overly cautious about loaning it on
the receding values of securities. The
initial collapses of a panic period al-
ways stimulate a hoarding of money by
those who possess it or the wealth with
which to command it, regardless of cur-
rency laws, banking systems or other
statutory enactments. This hoarding,
in turn, intensifies the conditions which
prompt it and, by thus acting and re-
acting on each other, these forces tend
to make things move from bad to worse,
until the bed rock of depression is
reached. We emerge from this condi-
tion only when the natural forces, in
their own sweet time and ways, produce
settled conditions on which to base a
new era of prosperity. Our unscientific
currency system was a great factor in
aggravating panic conditions, the Gov-
ernment being put to the test of maxi-
mum redemption, through the endless
chain operation, in fulfilling its duty of
maintaining all forms of currency ata
parity with gold. Had the proposed
bill for the reform of our banking sys-
tem been in operation, the banks would
have assumed this aggravating duty of
redeeming credit notes and the issuance
of millions of dollars of Government
bonds would have been averted. This
bill is now before Congress and every
business man should write his Con-
gressman, urging him to aid in securing
its passage at the present session. Any-
one desiring a copy of the proposed
bill, or literature bearing on the ques-
tion of banking reform, will be sup-
plied upon application to the under-
signed at Grand Rapids.
ANDREW FYFE.
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Around the State —
Movements of Merchants.
Middleton—C. F. Hardy has sold his
meat business to John Rock.
Escanaba—August Olinger has em-
barked in the meat business.
Melvin—Jas. Regan, of Cuncord, will
shortly open a drug store here.
Cadillac—E. G. Rice & Co. will em-
bark in the shoe business June 1.
Brown City—Ferguson & Thomas
have retired from tne meat business.
Saranac—QO. J. Bretz has removed his
bazaar stock into his new store build-
ing.
Athens—Lynn Doty has purchased an
interest in the hardware stock of Wisner
Bros.
Delray—E. M. Alexander & Son have
sold their hardware stock to A. Har-
shaw.
Dundee—Odell & Son, furniture deal-
ers and undertakers, have removed to
Howell.
Hudson—M. L. Squires, dealer in
notions at this place, has removed to
Toledo.
Durand—Ash & Boyd have sold their
shoe stock to Oscar ©. Ismond, of
Owossv.
Big Rapids—E. G. Hopkins succeeds
H. A. Peters & Co. in the confectionery
business.
Reed City—Homer J. Crocker has
purchased the lumber and coal business
of A. G. Taylor.
Cheboygan—The F. A. Kramer Co.
succeeds F. A. Kramer & Co. in the
clothing business.
Petoskey— A. Dosie has purchased the
interest ot his partner, D. Glazier, in
the shoe business.
Escanaba——Peter Bloomstrom and
Ernest Scherin have opened a jewelry
store at this place.
Detroit—A receiver has been appoint-
ed for the Jas. Graham Co., wholesale
dealer in coal and wood.
Saginaw—J. M. Mertens & Co. have
purchased the clothing stock of the late
firm of Seeley & Parsons.
Keeler—Taylor & Gustine, general
dealers, have dissolved. The business
will be continued by A. W. Gustine.
Durand—A. G. Frey and Amos Jones,
under the style of Frey & Jones, have
purchased ‘the meat market of F. C.
Barlow.
Cadillac__j. &. Gleason, of Lake
City, has formed a copartnership with
Ed. Paquette and embarked in the meat
business.
Boyne City—A. B. Steele is refitting
a store building which he will occupy
with his general stock as soon as the re-
pairs are completed.
Traverse City—-Bert Johnson, formerly
salesman in the grocery store of W. W.
Miller, has purchased the confectionery
stock of George Ash.
Saginaw—The Saginaw Fruit & Prod-
nce Co., of which W. A. O'Denneil
was manager, is succeeded by W. A.
O’ Donnell, Jr., & Co.
East Jordan—Gordon Beall has pur-
chased a store building which he will
occupy with his drug stock as soon as
necessary repairs can be made.
Lansing—O. N. Stone & Co. have
purchased the grocery stock of Wm.
Stoll and removed it to their store
building on Washington avenue.
Traverse City—J. J. Ash & Co. is the
name of a new firm organized to con-
tinue the bakery business of Jacob Cul-
man. Geo, Ash, who recently disposed
of his confectioney stock to Bert John-
son, is a partner in the enterprise.
Alma—Bivens &
moved their drug stock into
building which has been remodeled and
fitted up especially for their use.
Yale—The copartnership existing un-
der the name of Losey & Doelle, jewel-
ers and stationers, has been mutually
dissolved, Herman J. Doelle succeeding.
Mt. Pleasant—Morrison & Davis have
purchased the Peterson &
stock of boots and shoes on chattel
mortgage sale at 52 cents on the dollar.
Vicksburg—Prof. E. Keeler, of Port-
land, has purchased the drug and gro-
cery stock of John Long and will con-
tinue the business at the same location.
Onaway—J. D. Alpern, general deal-
er at Atlanta, will probably remove his
general stock to this place as §00n as a
store building can be erected for his
use.
Ann Arbor—Jas. Quarry will occupy
a new store building now in process of
erection at the corner of North Univer-
sity and State streets with a stock of
drugs Aug. I.
Norwood--The Rittenhouse & Embree
Co., of Chicago, which has conducted
a general store here for several years,
has closed out the stock and discon
tinued business.
Edmore—F. H. Geiger has formed a
partnership with his son, F. W. Geiger,
and purchased a brick store building
which they will occupy with their hard-
ware stock June I.
Coldwater—A. Bidelman_ has _ pur-
chased an interest in the firm of Milnes,
Miller & Moore, and wil! have entire
charge of the carriage and horse fur-
nishings department.
Charlotte--The R. L. Carl Furniture
Co., composed of R. L. Carl and W.
G. Wisner, of Edmore, has been or-
ganized to conduct the furniture and un-
dertaking business at this place.
Hudson—J. E. Walker will open a
new grocery store here about June 1.
Joseph McKenna, for many years a
faithful employe at S. E. Lawrence's
grocery, will have the management of the
new enterprise.
Belding—The Hustler grocery store,
conducted by Johnson & Wheeler, of
Detroit, has been closed, on account of
the failure of the firm a few weeks ago.
The other branch stores of the house
have also been closed.
Escanaba—Thos. Farrell has retired
from the grocery firm of Arnold & Far-
rell. His interest has been purchased
by V. F. Mashek, of Chicago, a former
partner of Mr. Arnold. The firm name
has not yet been decided upon.
Yale—The chattel mortgage on the
Colwell stock of goods has been fore.
closed by Burnham, Stoepel & Co., De-
troit, and the stock will be shipped to
Marine City. The vacated building
will be occupied by the hardware stock
of John Hutton.
Holly—Burt Requa has sold his men’s
furnishing goods and boot and shoe
stock to C. R. Richardson and S. P.
Wilkie, both of Detroit. Mr. Richard-
son also conducts a store at Detroit and
will give only a portion of his time to
the enterprise here. Mr. Wilkie will
devote his entire attention to the busi-
ness.
Ravenna—W. E. Patterson and Frank
E. Thatcher, who have been doing
business under the firm name of Patter-
son & Thatcher, have decided to dis-
solve partnership. Thatcher will con-
duct a general drug business in the store
he has recently purchased of O. F. &
W. P. Conklin, and Patterson will
handle dry goods and groceries at the
old stand.
Rhodes have re-
a store
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Owosso—M. D. Roth and J. B. Sulli-
| van have purchased the tatloring estab-
\Jishment of P. M. Rotb, M. D, Roth
|having been connected with the man-
lagement of the business for several
years. The firm will add a line of men’s
| furnishing goods.
Saginaw—Melze, Smart & Co, have
'added a patent medicine department to
their wholesale grocery business.
Fred. Piessner, who formerly conducted
a drug store on Gratiot Street, and who
has had experience as a manufacturing
druggist, is in charge of the new de-
partment.
Ann Arbor—The Chas. A. Maynard
grocery stock has been purchased by
Fred. Lamb and Louis M. Spencer, who
will continue the business at the same
location under the style of Lamb &
Spencer. Quite a coincidence lies in
the fact that the rm of Lamb & Spen-
cer, grocers at Charlotte, are respective-
ly brothers of the new Ann Arbor firm,
Saginaw—Owing to the illness of J.
M. Drysdale, J. M. Drysdale & Co.
have dissolved partnership and Mr.
| Drysdale will seek another climate in
ithe hope of regaining his heaith. He
has been engaged in the commission
business here for twelve years, having
formerly been a member of the firm of
Borden, Drysdale & Co. The business
may be continued by his partners, F.
J. Crowley, ©. A. Swartz, with J. &.
Winkler, Jr., who has been employed as
traveling salesman for the tirm,
Manufacturing Matters.
Buchanan—The Sprague Cutlery Co.
| succeeds the Michigan Cutlery Co.
Millerburg—The Dowel Pin Manufac-
turing Co., of Norwalk, Ohio, will re-
move its plant to this place.
Hart—A large addition has just been
completed to the canning factory ware-
house here and preparations are being
made for a large business this season.
Hart—The creamery at this place will
shortly begin operations under the man-
agement of H. Anderson, of Wisconsin.
He intends to manufacture cheese the
fore part of the season.
Brown City— Jas. Todd has purchased
the interest of E. Hewett in the Eureka
tlouring mills. Mr. Hewett has removed
to Milwaukee, where he has secured a
position as clerk in Hotel Phistee.
Gooding-—-The True Dairy Supply Co.
has contracted to erect and equip a
$3,650 butter factory for the Gooding
Creamery Co. The contract calls for
the completion of the plant by July 1.
Faton Rapids—W. Vaughan & Son
have leased the Michigan Central eleva-
tor for ten years. The capacity of the
building will be imlarged, a grain
cleaner added to the equipment and
other improvements made.
Barryton—Geo. Belcher, of South
Orient, who has been running his shin-
gle mill to its fullest capacity, has sold
the output to Dr. Barry. He is deliver-
ing his shingles at this place at the rate
of 30,000 to 40,000 per day.
Byron Center—Mrs. Alice Green has
sold her grist mill to M. M. Robson, the
veteran Berlin merchant, who will take
possession of the property at once and
begin grinding grain under the personal
supervision of his son, Jay J. Robson.
The senior Robson will also take up his
residence at this place, removing his
general stock to this place unless he
finds a purchaser for it at Berlin.
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SUCCESSFUL SALESMEN.
Fred. L. Grote, Representing the J. M.
Bour Co.
Frederick L. Grote was born at
Wyandotte, Mich., Nov. 6, 1862, his
father and mother both being Germans,
natives of Prussia. His parents died
soon after his birth and he was con-
signed to the care of his paternal grand-
parents, who resided on a farm near
Wyandotte. He attended the public
school at Wyandotte and at the age of
14 sought and was given employment in
the store of Wm. Farnsworth, at that
time the leading groceryman of that
place. He began as delivery boy, but
was promoted from time to time until
he reached the position of head clerk,
in which capacity he served his em-
ployer faithfully for six or seven years.
Yearning for larger opportunities and
a wider field of usefulness, he secured
a position as clerk with J. A. & J. Q.
Williams, wholesale and _ retail grocers
at 42 Michigan avenue, Detroit. At the
end of four or five years he engaged
with Feilback & Co,, jobbers of gro-
ceries at Toledo, to visit the city trade,
which he covered for two years, when
he accepted a position with Armstrong
& Clark, retail grocers of Toledo, whom
he served as clerk and fruit and veg-
etable buyer. He also had charge of
their liquor department. He remained
with this firm four years, when he de-
cided to make a change and secured a
position as traveling representative for
the Dunham Manufacturing Co., of St.
Louis, covering the retail trade of Mich-
igan, Ohio and Indiana three times a
year. Four years’ steady employment
with this house, during which time he
came to know every retail dealer in the
three States nanred, caused him to reach
the conclusion that he could do better
work where he could see his customers
more frequently, so as to get thoroughly
acquainted with them and come to know
them more intimately. An opportunity
was afforded him to fill a vacancy with
the well-known coffee and spice house
of the J. M. Bour Co., of Toledo, and
he embraced the opportunity and now
has the satisfaction of shaking his cus-
tomers by the hand every five weeks.
His territory embraces Southern and
Western Michigan and a few desirable
towns in Northern Indiana.
Mr. Grote is a member of Nasby
Council, No. 41, National Union, and
the Toledo Traveling Men’s Associa-
tion. Unlike most of the Toledo trav-
elers, he is not much of a ‘‘jiner,”’
and it is a matter of common knowledge
among his associates that his mind is
centered on a pleasant home at 535
Acklen avenue (Toledo), which he has
only recently purchased, and which is
occupied by a happy wife whom he
married eleven years ago, and by a
bright and interesting daughter, who
came to grace the family circle seven
years ago.
Mr. Grote attributes his success as a
salesman to hard work, fidelity to his
employer and in never misrepresenting
his goods to the trade, so that he is al-
ways a welcome visitor, no matter how
often he comes or how long he stays.
When he left the staff of the Durham
Manufacturing Co., he was informed
that he held the record of having sold
the most cocoanut in one week of any
man who had ever traveled in his ter-
ritory and that a place with the house
was always open to him. Surely no or-
dinary salesman could make such a
record or have a standing offer of tbis
character.
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
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Grand Rapids Gossip
Tiefentha! & Nicolai have opened a
grocery store at Hopkins Station. The
Worden Grocer Co. furnished the stock.
Van Liew & Vivian have opened a
grocery store at Belding. The stock was
furnished by the Lemon & Wheeler Co.
Eli Lyons, general dealer at Borland,
has added a line of hardware. The
Clark Rutka-Jewell Co. furnished the
stock.
A. E. Curtis, general dealer at Ed-
more, has added a line of hardware.
The Clark-Rutka-Jewell Co. furnished
the stock.
Geo. E. Edwards has opened a hard-
ware store at South Frankfort. The
stock was furnished by the Clark-Rutka-
Jewell Co.
Beers Bros., general dealers at
Moorland, have added a line of hard-
ware. The stock was furnished by the
Clark-Rutka-Jewell Co.
A. Ekkens has opened a grocery store
at the corner of West Bridge and Fre-
mont streets. The Olney & Judson
Grocer Co. furnished the stock.
Thomasma Bros., who conduct one
meat market at the corner of Broadway
and Leonard streets, and another at the
corner of Sixth and Scribner streets, have
opened a market in the old Bleak build-
ing, at the corner of East Fulton and
Lagrave streets.
Grand Rapids affords an_ excellent
opening for an exclusive wholesale but-
ter and egg house, and a man who has
$10,000 in cash, necessary experience,
good business qualifications and a fair
degree of honesty could work up a large
and lucrative business in these lines in
a short time.
E. L. Boyd, formerly engaged in the
grocery business on Wealthy avenue,
has opened a grocery store at Bruns-
wick, a new postoffice on the Big Rap-
ids division of the C. & W. M. Rail-
way, formerly known as County Line.
The stock was furnished by the Lemon
& Wheeler Co.
The Vinkemulder Company has leased
the double store at 14 and 16 Ottawa
street, formerly occupied by the Grand
Rapids Packing and Provision Co.,
and will occupy it as a warehouse and
shipping headquarters for its fruit and
vegetable business. The baking powder
and grocers’ sundries departments will
also be removed to that location.
M. C.° Goossen, who has been iden-
tified with the retail grocery business
of this city for nearly twenty years, has
finally succumbed to the inevitable, hav-
ing uttered chattel mortgages on his
stock and fixtures at Ig and 21 South
Division street to the amount of
$10,732.64. C. O. Smedley is made
trustee of the mortgage, which is com-
posed of two classes of creditors—Class
A and Class B. It is thought that, with
skillful handling, the creditors in the
first class ought to get 75 or 80 per cent.
of their claims, but those creditors who
are so unfortunate as to be ‘‘secured’’
in class B will probably never realize a
penny on their claims. The failure
may be attributed to a number of
causes, but the’ primary cause of the
collapse is the attempt to do too large a
business on too small a capital. Lack
in buying goods, extending credits and
selecting a location may also be men-
tioned in the same connection.
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The Produce Market.
Asparagus—2o0c per
grown.
Bananas—$1.25@1.50 per bunch. In
spite of the expectation that the war
would cut short the supply of bananas,
there seems to be but little advance in
the price or shortage in the supply. The
price is now about as high as will per-
mit of free movement, and there is a
steady demand.
Beans—The market is weaker and
lower than a week ago; local dealers
bold city picked at $1.10 per bu. in
carlots and $1.15 in smaller quantity,
including bags.
Beet Greens—4ce per bu.
Beets—New, 30c per doz. bunches.
Butter—Dairy commands 5@Ioc, ran-
ging from fair to fancy, and factory
creamery is in moderate request at
14%4c.
Cabbage—75c per doz.
Carrots—25c per doz. bunches.
Cocoanuts—4@5c.
Cucumbers—4o@6oc per doz,
Eggs--The market 1s lower, due to
the depreciation in quality and the
withdrawal of cold storage buyers.
Local dealers pay 7%4c on track case
count, but as the proportion of poor
eggs ranges from one to two a dozen
per case, it is probable that this is the
last week that case count transactions
will rule.
Green ‘Onions—-8c per doz.
Green Peas—$1! per bu.
Honey—Dark ranges from
Light stock commands I2c.
Lemons—The market is advanced a
little on California and Messina stock,
and the movement is growing gradually.
The coo! weather thus far has hada
tendency to check trade.
Lettuce—-S@loc per Ib.
Onions—Dry stock from Mississippi
commands $1.50 per bu. Bermudas fetch
$2.50 per crate.
Oranges—The market has advanced
on some lines this week 25c per box.
There is a good demand for all! varie-
ties, although navels are now growing
scarce, The Mediterranean sweets are
of especially fine flavor, and the keep-
ing qualities of the fruit are reasonably
good.
Parsley—25c per doz. bunches.
Pieplant—ic per lb. for home grown.
Pineapples--Medium Bermudas com-
mand $1.50 per doz. Floridas are in
good demand at $2.
Pop Corn--5oc per bu.
Potatoes—Old stock is lower and
weaker, commanding 55@6oc per bu.
New stock commands $1.25 for red and
$1.35 for white.
Radishes—toc per doz. bunches.
Seeds— Timothy, prime, $1.45@1.50;
Medium clover, $3@3.25; Mammoth
clover, $3.15@3.40; Crimson clover,
$2.35; Red Top, $1@1.10; Alfalfa,
$3.75 @450; Alsyke, $4.50@4.65;
Orchard grass, $1.60; Kentucky blue-
grass, $1.30@1.50.
Spinach—25c per bu.
Strawberries— Tennessee stock is about
played out. Ulinois fruit commands
$2@2.50 per crate and Ohio fetches
$2. 50@3.
Tomatoes—$3 per 6 basket crate.
Vegetable Oysters—25c per doz.
Wax Beans—$1.25 per *4 bu. crate.
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Politics or Pure Food?
From the Owosso Press.
Hon. E. O, Grosvenor, State Dairy
and Food Commissioner, spent a few
bours in the city on Friday last. Mr.
Grosvenor is credited with being the
finest worker in Gov. Pingree’s cabinet,
and is making an active canvass for his
re-nomination.
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A man in Georgia lost a gold collar-
button two years ago, and recently the
missing jewelry was found in the fat of
the digestive organs of a slaughtered
cow. How the cow got under the bureau
in the bedroom, where a detached col-
lar-button always rolls, isan inexplicable
Local Banks to Introduce the Saturday
Half Holiday.
Three years ago, following the enact-
ment by the State Legislature of a law
making Saturday afternoon an optional |
ha!f holiday, a movement was started to
take advantage of the law during the
summer months by the banks. Two of
the banks refused to come into it, bow-
ever, and this blocked the movement.
In the two succeeding summers, with
the business depression bearing down
hard, the Saturday half holiday was not
even mentioned, but this spring interest
in it revived, and last week, by a unan-
imous vote, it was decided to close the
banks at 1 o’clock Saturday afternoons
from June 4 to September 3, inclusive.
This will give the bank officers and
clerks opportunities for recreation,
which they will undoubtedly thoroughly
appreciate, especially those who are
fond of outdoor sports.
Bisa oe
A. G. Hodenpyl, Henry Idema and
L. H. Withey are fond of wheeling and
the half holiday will give them the op-
portunity to take spins into the country.
Mr. Hodenpyl also plays golf. Mr.
Idema fishes and Mr. Withey knows
something about base ball.
Wm. H. Anderson rides a bicycle,
but prefers to do his spinning behind a
2:40 horse.
Charles B. Kelsey is one of the crack
shots in town and his half holidays will
be spent on the range, shooting at clay
birds.
Charles W. Garfield is an enthusiastic
wheelman and the country roads have
great charms for him.
Clay H. Hollister is a bicyclist, a
golfer and a fan, and his Saturday half
holidays will not hang heavily on his
hands—-unless it rains.
Marsh H. Sorrick will revel in picnics
and short excursions to the resorts.
Frank Davis admires the National
game and music and also has a predi-
lection for Lake Michigan breezes.
George E. Hardy visited every town-
ship in Kent county on his wheel last
summer and, with more time in which
to do it, will this summer seek new
fields to explore.
Dan’l McCoy thinks a good horse as
good a companion for a good man as
anything on earth and will jog into the
country, with an occasional stop-off at
the base ball park.
William J. Shinkman will visit the
city parks and nearby resorts for his
half holidays.
J. R. Wylie rides a ‘‘bike,
and roots, |
John Seymour will engage a reserved
Saturday seat for the season at Recrea-
tion Park.
The others will find amusement, recre-
ation and renewed health in various
ways—some wheeling, some watching
the base ball games, some golfing, some
resorting and some in the quiet of their
homes—and all will enjoy the half boli-
day.
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The action of the banks in closing
Saturday afternoons will have a tendency
to lead others to do likewise, but the
half holiday will hardly become general
this summer, although it may in time.
Most of the professional men will take
the half day off. The jobbing houses,
as a rule, will suspend at 3 o'clock or
earlier. The retail houses will probably
all keep open, as usual. In New York
and Chicago nobody pretends to do
business Saturday afternoons during the
summer, but Grand Rapids has not yet
reached the metropolitan standard.
of business capacity and poor judgment
mystery.
Much has been done in late years to
curtail the hours of those who toil at
the desks and behind the counters. Many
who are still young can remember when
retail stores kept open every night un-
til ro o’clock except Saturday and on
Saturday night it was midnight before
the lights were put out. The agitation
for 6 o'clock closing was long and not
without some bitterness, but it was ac-
complished at last and nobody
would have it otherwise if he could.
The early closing was an inconvenience
to the shoppers at first, but they got
the hang of the thing in time and no
trouble is experienced now and the
amount of business done Is just as great
as It was when the late hours were kept.
It would, doubtless, be the same with
the Saturday half holiday, but it will
take time and agitation to make the re-
tail merchants see it.
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Flour and Feed.
Following a period of great activity
and several sharp advances in price,
the past fortnight has been quiet and
rather depressed, as compared with the
fancy prices which could be vbtained
for grade wheat in Chicago, Toledo or
New York. So great a disparity between
the relative price of wheat and flour can
not exist very long. The situation is
unique and different in many respects
from anything on record.
As to the trend of prices for the next
sixty or ninety days, there are good
arguments on both sides. It is a very
dangerous market to be on either side
of toany extent, and the judicious, con-
servative miller or flour buyer will pur-
chase only for his immediate needs un-
til after the new crop has been secured
and the market is again in a normal
condition.
Feed and meal have kept up remark-
ably well for this season of the year; in
fact, the demand has been unusual. The
same may be said regarding millstuffs,
which are always influenced more or
less by the price of corn and oats. Dur-
ing the past week, however, the de-
mand for millstuffs has not been so
great and the local price has declined
about $1 per ton. Wa. N. ROwE.
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The St. Louis Potato Market.
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St. Louis, May 23—-The market for
old stock opened last week with fair
demand and closed very weak. We
think this was due, in a great measure,
to the heavy arrivals of new _ potatoes
from the South. The arrivals of old
have been light, but still there has been
more than enough to supply the de-
mand. It seems to us, taking into con-
sideration the light arrivals and the
small amount of old potatoes on hand,
that the demand ought to be better and
we think that when the outside local
shipping demand commences for new
potatoes, the old wil] recover some of
their lost strength, as we generally have
a demand for old potatoes up to July 15.
The market on new potatoes is also
unsatisfactory. The prices have been
so fluctuating that you could not assure
yourself a profit at night on what you
bought in the morning. Summing up
the conditions generally, we can not
express ourselves better than by saying
unsettled market at present, but with an
outlook for more favorable conditions
in the near future for both old and new
potatoes. Prices ranged last week from
50 to 75 cents per bushel, as to quality
and condition; new potatoes from 85
to $1.15 per bushel for Peerless and $1
to $1.30 for Turnips. Stock generally
is in good condition and fair in quality.
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Woman’ 's World
Advantages of a ‘Teaches coches:
It is a truism with which we are all
perfectly familiar that worry kills more
people than work, and a scientist has
recently been explaining, in language
that the unscientific mind can compre-
hend, how it is that fretting is able to
get in its deadly work. He says that
people who worry become possessed of
one idea; that they brood on one train
of thought and that the continual use of
the same set of brain cells finally breaks
them down and wears them out. Every-
one who worries is more or less of a
monomaniac, and the only way to keep
from going crazy or killing yourself is
to quit worrying, or get a new worry,
and put another set of brain cells to
work.
Everybody's experience will furnish
abundant proof of the truth of this
theory. We all know how small and in-
Significant a worry can become in the
presence of a great sorrow and how
quickly we can lose sight of an annoy-
ance when we confront some_heart-
breaking catastrophe. We may have
let a child’s peculiarities, a servant's
carelessness, the very appearance of the
house next door fret us until it spoiled
all the sweetness of life, and then some-
thing happened that dwarfed it into the
nothingness it really was and we won-
dered how we could have been so fool-
ish as to let such a trifle mar our peace.
It is part of the egotism of life that
we all believe our troubles to be the
greatest on earth and that fate deliber-
ately singled us out as a receptacle for
all the job-lot of afflictions she hap-
pened to have on hand at the time we
were born. We are convinced that we
could bear our neighbor's troubles with
a fortitude and Christian grace that
would make us an example to the com-
munity-—it is only our own worries that
are unendurable. We can't understand,
for the life of us, why other people
should make such a fuss about every
little thing that goes wrong when they
have so much to be grateful for. We
can see the silver lining to every cloud
except our own.
Such being the case, it is evident that
the difficulty is not so much that there
are too many troubles, or even an over-
supply of afilictions, but that the wrong
people have gotten hold of them and
that humanity is suffering from a bad
case of misfit worries. I was thinking
of this the other day and wondering
how it could be remedied, when I fell
asleep and had a curious dream.
I dreamed that I had gone into busi-
ness and established a trouble exchange,
where people could come and trade off
the worry or grief they found so hard to
bear for somebody else’s afiliction. It
was rather a largish place, much like
any other broker's office, with a few
sample boxes of assorted woes set around
to give a businesslike air. I was read-
ing over, with a complacent smile, the
eloquent circular with which I adver-
tised the project, when I heard a step at
the door and my first patron arrived,
She was trim and neat and altogether
prepossessing looking, in spite of the
cross and fretful lines about her mouth,
that came, I theught, from perpetual
scolding.
‘Is this the Trouble Exchange?’’ she
asked.
‘“Yes,’’ I responded. ‘‘Have you a
worry you would like to dispose of?’’
‘Have I a worry?’’ she snapped.
‘I should say Ihave. Iam worried half
out of my life. Anybody may say what
_| they like, but it is lots easier to bear a
great big sorrow than the little things
that just aggravate you day after day.”’
‘What is your particular trouble?’’ I
enquired, with a business air.
‘It’s the way my children clutter up
the house,’’ she returned. ‘‘ You never
saw anything like it. I sweep and sweep
and pick up and pick up after them
and yet it always looks like we had just
passed through a cyclone. You can’t
walk through the hall without stepping
on a ball or top, or sit in a chair without
danger of encountering a piece of bread
and butter. Only yesterday Georgie
ruined my best table cover pasting a
kite, and Tommy split open the music-
box to see where the tunes came from.
I have just been worried to that degree
that I can't stand it any longer, and _ if
you've got anything that’s nice and
quiet and easy you could let me have
in place of it I—”’
‘
1 should like to exchange with the
lady’’ said a quiet voice that made us
start. We looked around and saw a sad-
faced, gentle little woman, who went
on: ‘‘I’ve got a treuble, too, and I
think we should both be happier and
better off for the trade. I should like
to «xchange my loneliness for her wor-
ries with her children. I never had but
one child and be died. My house isa
pattern of orderliness. A book is never
moved, an ornament is never broken,
there 1s never a scratch on the stair rail
or a gay patter of feet across the hall! or
a childish voice breaking the stillness.
Often and often I think I would give
everything | possess for just sucha clut-
ter and litter as worries this other wom-
an. Quick, make out the papers, and
give me her worries, for my_ heart
aches. ""
‘It is a fair offer,’’ I said judicially,
turning to the first woman. ‘‘ You'd bet-
ter take it.’’
‘“But—but—J didn't think—the stilil-
ness—-the lonely house—the children all
gone—'’ she began.
‘*Quick, quick, make out the papers, ’’
cried the litthe woman, but the other one
turned without a word and went swiftly
out the door. The next two customers
entered at the same moment. One was
a working woman, the other the finely-
dressed wife of a rich man.
‘Lam tired of the grind of my life,’’
cried the working woman discontented-
ly. ‘‘It's a shame for any woman to
have to work. They ought to be sup-
ported. It was never intended for
women to work. Here I have to be at
my desk at 8 o'clock in the morning,
and pound away all day on a typewriter,
and what do I get out of it?
‘“You have your wages?’’ asked the
rich woman.
‘Assuredly.’’
‘‘And you can do just as you please
with what you earn?’’ she enquired.
‘You never have to give an account of
what you do with every penny? If you
were to spend some money foolishly no
one would reproach you? If you had
somebody—a sister or a brother—who—
who had been unfortunate, and you
wanted to deny yourself and send them
some money to tide over a bad place
you could do it, and no one would make
cruel remarks that would cut you to the
heart about them?’’
‘‘Well,I’d just like to see anybody try
it!’’ returned the working woman sav-
agely.
“Tl trade your trouble for mine,
then,’’ said the rich woman eagerly.
The working woman stared.
‘‘Oh, you needn't look like that,’’ re
sponded the other; ‘I tell you many a
woman whom the shop girl envies is
envying her. There’s many a rich
man’s wife who has never a penny to
bless herself with. She can buy fine
clothes, because that reflects credit on
her husband. She belongs to him and
he wants to dress her up and show her
off, but he never gives her a cent to do
as she likes with, and she envies the
girl who earns her own living and knows
the joys of independence.’’
‘Now's your chance,’’ | said insinu-
atingly to the working girl. ‘‘ You'll
be supported, you'll have luxuries, and
you won't have to work, and—”’
‘And beg somebody for every cent I
have? Not much!’’ cried the working
woman. ‘‘I wouldn’t do it if she gave
me a million to boot ;’’ and so that trade
fell through, too.
Hardly had the door closed upon her
when a woman with glasses on anda
roll of manuscript in her hand entered
with a brisk and determined step.
‘*You are the manager of the Trouble
Exchange?’’ she enquired.
I bowed.
‘‘Well,’’ she said, ‘‘I should like to
see what sort of arrangement I could
make for disposing of some very serious
domestic grievances. I find that I have
made a mistake in marrying. My bus-
band is a thoroughly good man, but he
is not er—er—well, not exactly my
ideal, you know. The fact is, I am not
fitted for domestic life. My soul soars
far above the petty details of seeing
about a house and providing the neces-
sary food and clothing for my family. I
should have kept myself free to follow
some glorious career, where I could hear
the plaudits of the world, instead of an
eternal cry for ‘Mother.’ I should have
written books, painted great pictures,
wedded art, instead of a man who loves
me, to be sure, but what is love to one
who sighs for fame? I have a good
home, and plenty, but what is home to
a woman who yearns for the ineffable?
No, I am quite sure I am wasted in my
present environment, and I want to be
free to follow my aspirations after the—
er—er, well, after whatever itis. Come,
I'll give you a good trade. I'll take any
kind of a trouble in place of mine, just
so it leaves me free from these sordid
domestic cares.’
A woman who had been twirling a
key, and listening, looked up. ‘‘I have
all that you crave,’’ she said, ‘‘and |
will be glad to cacksinge with you.
am one of the emancipated women wh,
have achieved the _latchkey. Lice.
take it, but remember that even freedom
has its price. There is the joy of be-
ing able to do absolutely as you please
and of being able tu go when and where
you will, and there is the desolation
knowing that no human being cares
whether you ever come back or not, no
eye watches for your coming, and grows
brighter when you’ come, no
grieves over your absence. Here,
me your foolish little dreams and take
my loneliness instead, and be content.’’
But the other woman drew back with
sudden alarm. ‘‘I will come again,
and see about it another day,’’ she
said, as women do when they equivo-
cate, and then she left. The bachelor
woman smiled drearily. ‘‘No woman
would make the exchange if she knew
what she was getting beforehand,'’ she
said.
So, all day, the crowd = streamed
through the Trouble Exchange, and
when a woman looked upon the face of
another woman’s affliction she hugged
her own to her bosom and went out
without making an exchange, and at last
night came and the doors were shut.
And then it seemed to me that the walls
of the Exchange broadened out until it
was as big as the wide, wide world and
one had only to go and _ see their neigh-
bor’s burden to learn’ patience and
courage and fortitude.
DorotHy Dix.
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The Fashion in Lamps.
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The new lamps of the season of 1808
are darker in metal and background,
heavier in decoration and more solid in
construction than in any previous year.
The bases are heavier and more squat
in metal construction, and so far as
glass lamps are concerned this season's
fashion is decidedly against them, since
the broad bases require such a large
gathering of glass that there must of
necessity be light shoulders and conse-
quent weak spots in glass base lamps.
This year’s styles are decidedly in fa
vor of all metal lamps, and their broad
surfaces will give decorators a fine
chance to swing themselves.
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List of Creditors of the Cedarine
Manufacturing Co.
P. T. Colgrove, assignee of the Cedar-
ine Manufacturing Co., of Hastings, fa-
vors the Tradesman with a list of the
creditors of that institution, as follows:
NOTES.
Geo. Hi. Allen, Hastings... ..~. oso) ee 2eS ec
Milwaukee Sander Co., Green Bay, Wis 300 00
Columbus ta Co., Columbus, Ohio. 500 00
Moore Carving Mach. Co., Minne apolis, :
OE 550 00
Johnson & Anderson, Cc adilla ic . 25236 70
‘Hood & Wright, Big: R: apids... i . 193 13
_ Jas. Bayne Co., “uaa R: upids.... oi os Of
I. T. Williams & Sons, New York...) Joa ae
7. bayner, New York... ol. |) ee a
lenac I. Cole Son, New York............ 388 86
Hastings Eng. & Iron Works, Hastinys... 116 72
Westmorel: und Mal. Iron Co., Westmore
nen N. os 50 42
Wm. Barre if & Co. , Gran nd. R: apids oe. 607 32
Grand R: apids Veneer Wks., Grand R: ipids 1,000 00
Dean Printing & Pub. Co., Grand R: ipids 415 15
22 wae of Co., Detroit. so 92 90
Hollis & Dune: an, Chitago.... 2... cs 55 ol
Harris Paper Co., Grand Rapids 00010) 54 20
Armour Glue Works, Cc a Oe 182 7S
Switt & Co., Chicago... .. 147 14
Viscosity Oil Co., Chicago. a6 62
Herkimer Manfe. Co., Herkime Tr, N. 7... is Sc
Alfred M. Butz, Philadelphia, a. os 34 02
Goshen Veneer Works, Goshen, Ind. i. 107 28
Am. Wood Working Mach. Co., New Y ork 379 25
Green & King, Elastines ..-....-:-..._.- 117 39
OPEN ACCOUNTS.
Gen. i. Aven, Factines 2... | 20g 26
Geo. H. Allen, Hastings. .... aco | 2G a
Foster, Stevens & Co., Gri and R: ipids.
Will Montgomery, Hastings. Ao te
Watson Drug Co., C linton, ee
pas. oay, Pease ees
L. Patton, Hastings.
W. Ream, Ha&tings.. oe cee ee
Frank Coilins, Hastings ow , I
W. M Stebbins, Hastings....
J. M, Taylor, Hastings... . boty do ece ee 3
Miss E. D. Hunter, C nton, Naw)
Henry Thomas, Clinton, N.Y... ..... 66
me. NW. fainbere, Hastews.. ...... .:.- 45
The assets have been appraised
$17,000, and as the liabilities are only a
little in excess of $20,000,
it would seem
as though the creditors ought to receive
50 cents on the dollar.
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The Pedigree of the Dollars.
I.
Ten good one-dollar bills one day
Within a good man’s wallet lay.
And he resolved (so good was he)
To trace each dollar's pedigree;
And not to spend a single bill
That bore a stain of wrong or ill.
So like a sleuth he followed back
Each dollar bill upon its track.
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Bill Number One he found was made
In a dishonest jockey trade;
And Two a grocer made of late
By overcharge and underweight;
And Three was made through wz a red milk,
And Four by selling damaged sil
And Number Five a sweater made
Through starving women underpaid;
And Six was made in dens of shame,
And Seven in a gambling game,
And Number Eight he found to be
The price of wretched perjury;
And Nine was from a robber’s clan;
Ten stolen from a murdered man.
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Our good man would not spend again
This money dark with many a stain,
And so he yielded up his breath
And with his money starved to death.
Ten good one-dollar bills that day
Within that dead man’s wailet lay.
They’d never found a man, ah me
Who’d used them half as ill as he.
Sam WALTER Foss.
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WEDNESDAY, - = - MAY 25, 1898.
NAPOLEONS OF FINANCE.
There are elements in the recent fail-
ure at Lake Odessa which seem to re-
move it from the class of undertakings
to defraud creditors projected and car-
ried on by deliberate intention into the
less numerous one in which the enter-
prise is the manifestation of the vaga-
ries of a monomaniac or of one lacking
in intellectual strength. Not that there
are hard and fast lines making the di-
vision into such classes, for character-
istics of the latter are always to be found
in the former, but there seems to be
sufficient distinction to warrant the
classification.
It is owing to a peculiarity of the hu-
man mind that unceasing application
in one direction will eventually create
what is termed monomania; that is, a
loss of mental balance in the direction
in question, Sometimes this tendency
may be kept within bounds and even
serve a good purpose in securing a
proper degree of application for the ac-
complishment of a special object. But
in greater degree there is a loss of judg-
ment and other restraining qualities un-
til there is the development of the
maniac’s persistency and iteration. It
is not strange that in the great aggre-
gate of the world of business there
should be frequent manifestations of this
tendency, even in its more serious forms.
To those who have given the matter
observation there will recur numerous
examples of those who seem to have thus
lost reason in the pursuit of some busi-
ness hobby, or else have manifested nat-
ural tendencies in places of business re-
sponsibility which make them no better
than maniacs. A prominent example
may be recalled in the career of the
partner of General Grant and his son
Fred in the firm of Grant & Ward. In
that instance Ward was the managing
partner and the other members of the
firm trusted the business, of which they
understood nothing, entirely to him. It
was found, upon the ccllapse, that Ward
had not profited by his apparent rascal-
ity. Even his extravagant personal ex-
penditures were without method—he
would buy costly presents and never
know where he had given them. In the
examination of the accounts of the firm
it was found that he had several mys-
terious auxiliary books in which the en-
tries were made in cabslistic signs,
which, it transpired, neither he nor any
one else could decipher. There was
sufficient evidence to have shown, in or-
dinary cases, that the man was not
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mentally responsible, yet his standing
and the peculiar circumstances led to
his incarceration as acriminal. ‘The
matter for regret is that intelligent men
should entrust such interests to persons
of this character and let their vagaries
run until the result is disaster.
It is perhaps a more frequent occur-
rence that the enterprises which, after
phenomenal growth, are wrecked by
mania or fovlishness are carried on by
individuals alone. Often these will
manifest a remarkable ability in the
building up of the enterprise. From
small beginnings the growth will be
rapid and apparently substantial. ee >
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Colored Leather.
One of the most annoying things in
shoemaking is grease spots on colored
leather, and the numerous enquiries as
to how to remove them show that they
occur only too often. We, therefore,
believe the trade will learn with interest
that, after innumerable experiments,
costing much time and money, a means
has been found for removing grease
spots from leather without changing its
color.
Anyone who has tried to clean spotted
leather by known processes wil! have
become convinced that they are all de-
fective. The use of chalk is compli-
cated, and requires a great deal of
time. Spirits of wine injures the color:
benzine does the same, with the addi-
tion that it attacks at the same time the
fatty substance necessary to preserve
the fibre of the leather, thus being
Gonbly injurious. Applying hot iron
over the grease spot, after covering it
with blotting paper, offers no sure result.
So other means had to be sought for.
Thus it was that finally a solution of
gutta percha was tried, with results sur-
prising.
It is true that at first some failures
were recorded, but these were due to the
employment of benzine as a solvent.
There was no doubt that the solution of
gutta percha in benzine would remove
the grease, bat all around the place
where the mixture had been applied a
dark circle still remained to show the
spot.
Finally, a solution of gutta percha
was prepared by pouring carbon bi-
sulphide into a bottle of suitable size,
containing the non-vulcanized gum, and
allowing it to stand about twenty-four
hours. The solution is moderately
liquid, and, after shaking it actively
several times more rubber is gradually
added, until tue solution becomes of
gelatinous consistency. The mixture
was applied in suitable quantity to
colored leather which had been smeared
in fish oil, and allowed to dry two or
three hours. The subsequent operation
consists merely in removing the coat of
gum from the surface of the leather—
that is, rubbing it with the fingers and
rolling it off the surface.
The color is not injured in the least
by the sulphuret of carbon; only those
leathers on which a dressing containing
starch has been used look a little lighter
in color, but the better class of leathers
are not so dressed. As to the dried
gum, it can be redissolved in sulphuret
of carbon and used oves again.
‘The new process consists, then,simply
the application of a very stiff solu-
tion of gutta percha in carbon bisul-
phide, forming a coating of from one-
fourth to one-half centimetre thick over
the grease spot, leaving it to dry, and
afterward removing it. As the gum can
be used over and over again, and only
the carbon bisulphide has to be sup-
plied, the process is very economical.
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Treating Patent Leather.
Charles M. Johnson, of London, Eng.,
has patented an_ invention relating
firstly, to a method of treating patent
leather and other impervious materials
in such manner that the material shall
have a certain and desirable amount of
porosity, and, secondly, in relation to
means for effecting same.
The invention consists in producing
in patent leather and other impervious
materials a number of minute holes or
pores, which the inventor claims do not
detract in any way from the appear-
ance of the leather or the like. The
holes may be made from either side of
the material or from both sides, and
further they may go right through or
only partly through. They may be made
previous to the finishing of the patent
leather or the like, or they may be made
after the manufacture thereof.
A suitable means for effecting the in-
vention consists in providing a roller or
plate with a number of fine points, and
the leather or other material is either
passed under the roller, or the plate
with the points is caused to descend on
the material to be treated, thereby mak-
ing the artificial pores.
Mr. Johnson says his invention is of
special utility for treating, for instance,
patent leather for boots and shoes and
the like, because such articles being
generally practically impervious to air
do not allow of proper ventilation. The
result is that the leather in time be-
comes perished, whereas if a number of
minute holes be made in the boot or
shoe there is sufficient ventilation to
prevent the rapid destruction of the
leather.
By his invention, the leather being
provided with minute holes or pores, it
is practicable, the inventor claims, to
keep the leather soft and pliable by
applying a dressing which is absorbed
through the holes aforesaid.
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G. R. & I. trains are now running be-
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every Sunday. Leave Union Station 9
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Wm. A. McGraw, President of the
Michigan Shoe Co.
Wm. A. McGraw, President of the
Michigan Shoe Co., died at his home
at Grosse Isle last Monday as the result
of an operation for appendicitus. The
funeral was held Thursday, the inter-
ment being made in Detroit, in| which
city the deceased was born and lived
all his life.
BIOGRAPHICAL.
When, on January 12, 1857, Wm. A
McGraw was placed in the father’s
arms, a resolve was made that all that
abundant means and worthiness of pur-
pose could accomplish should be done
to make—not a protessional man, but a
broad-gauged, well-educated merchant,
to rest upon the foundation the father
had then begun to lay with so much
care.
It was training indeed. The best in
the line of instruction was not thought
too good ; and when the educational ad-
vantages of the New World were ex-
hausted, the doors of learning in the
Old World swung open and let him in.
Germany enrolled him as a student, un-
til the difficult speech of the Teuton
was as familiar as his mother tongue.
With this preparation for a ground-
work, Mr. McGraw returned to America
and began his life work, entering the
employ of the old-established shoe house
of A. C. McGraw & Co., which had
been founded and was still managed by
his father. The house was then located
at the corner of Woodward averue and
Larned street, where Swan's restaurant
now stands. While engaged in master-
ing the rudiments ef the business, Mr.
McGraw conceived a strong liking for
the rubber department and he deter-
mined to know the business ‘‘from_ the
cellar up,’’ and, with a zeal worthy of
his Scotch ancestry, he bent to the task
he had set himself. Choosing the work
because he loved it, the enthusiast be-
gan with the gum. He made it a study.
He familiarized himself with the facts
concerning it, from the time it is taken
from the tree in South America, together
with the methods of obtaining it, until
it is manufactured into boots and shoes.
The fact is, his determination ‘‘to
know all about it’’ made him an expert
in whatever pertains to rubber. He
was, without doubt, one of the best
posted men in his line of business to be
found ; and these who know what they
are talking about concede that Mr. Mc-
Graw was a hustler on general principles
and a King in the rubber business, with
a capital K.
Noting his partiality for the rubber
business, his partners naturally insisted
that he take entire charge of that de-
partment, which became, under his en-
ergetic management, the banner depart-
ment of the establishment. His famil-
iarity with the business and his intimate
knowledge of details caused him to be
consulted by the manufacturers on mat-
ters of moment to the trade, such as the
probable selling quality of new patterns
and the prices which new styles would
bear. No one connected with the trade
enjoyed the confidence of the manufac-
turers to a greater extent than Mr. Mc-
Graw.
Devotion to duty soon rewarded Mr.
McGraw with a partnership interest in
the business, which was continued until
Sept. 1, 1895, when the old firm of A.
C. McGraw & Co. was dissolved by
mutual consent, W. A. McGraw taking
the rubber portion of the business,
which he continued at 80, 82 and 84
Jefferson avenue under the style of W.
A. McGraw & Co. He subsequently ad-
mitted a number of valued associates to
partnership in the business, at which
time the style of the house was changed
to the Michigan Shoe Co., after which
a more commodious location was taken
across the street, 81 and 83 Jefferson
avenue.
At intervals during his busy business
career Mr. McGraw took time to see
more of the world and its people than
can be viewed from the narrow confines
of a counting room. The German songs
the boy had learned in the schools of
Berlin had a deeper meaning as the man
of business hummed them on his jour-
ney down the castle-guarded Rhine. He
learned by experience the pleasures and
dangers of Alpinetravel. His own eyes
saw the magnificence of the Austrian
capital, looked at the wonders which
Iltay had been gathering for centuries.
He rode along the Champs Elysee and
ransacked the British Isles to learn some-
thing of the home of his Scotch ances-
tors. Nor was this foreign travel to
take the place of journeying at home.
He learned its geography by seeing it
from the woods of Maine to Cuba and
the Gulf, over the Rockies to the Golden
Gate. Across the Pacific sea, twice
traversed, Mr. McGraw journeyed and,
with an interest not common, he made
himself familiar with Japan, her people
and her history, and was one of the best
posted men on Japan—her history, her
resources and her future—an authority,
in fact, on whatever pertains to the
Flowery Kingdom. Indeed, what. study
and intelligent travel could do to widen
a man’s world was made the most of in
this instance.
At a meeting of the Merchants and
Manufacturers’ Exchange, held Wed-
nesday, the following resolutions were
adopted on the death of W. A. McGraw:
We,the members of the Merchants and
Manufacturers’ Exchange of Detroit,
meeting together to take action on the
death of our brother member, the late
Mr. W. A. McGraw, President of the
Michigan Shoe Co., do adopt the fol-
lowing resolutions :
That we greatly deplore the loss of so
active, enterprising and valuable a cit-
izen °and business man, whose entire
life has been spent in this city of his
birth, His high standard of integrity
and moral worth have been constantly
recognized and appreciated by all his
business associates.
That we tender our sincere sympathy
to his family and relatives in their great
bereavement.
That these resolutions be placed on
our records and a copy signed by our
President and actuary be forwarded to
his family.
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The Gumi examination of fooas
according to scientific rule is one of
the municipal regulations in the city of
Berlin. This examination in the month
of September last included 202 samples
of edibles and drinkables, and of these
57 were rejected as not up to the legal
requirements. There were among the
articles thus proving unfit, milk, but-
ter, lard, flour, fresh eggs, sweet oil,
lemon oil, chocolate, green tea, ‘‘me-
dicinal’’ Hungarian wines, and denat-
uralized alcohol. Remarkable in par-
ticular was the large number of the
butter samples which were found to be
objectionable; that is, among twenty
five of these, two were pure margarine,
twelve were mixed butter containing
from 25 to 75 per centum of margarine,
and two were doubtful. The milk con-
trol extended over nearly 1,500 stores
and led to the detection of 89 cases of
adulteration, etc.
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long there. Don’t carry them out to the
world, for you will be only laughed at
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Fruits and Produce.
Needed Change in the Rules Covern-
ing Egg Sales.
From the New York Produce Review.
According to the usual custom when
a considerable part of the receipts of
eggs begins to show more or less loss,
the rule of sales has now been changed
to a ‘‘loss off’’ basis in this market ex-
cept where special agreement is made
to the contrarv. As a matter of fact,
judging from previous experience, sales
will be made upon. various terms.
Goods which are closely selected before
shipment and which obtain a deserved
reputation for fine quality will often, if
not usually, be salable at mark or with
a fixed average loss, which amounts to
the same thing as far as the principle is
concerned ; goods which are so poor as
to be unsuitable to the uses of the better
class of trade will generally be sold to
cheap customers by the case; goods
which contain enough fine eggs to at-
tract the better class of trade under their
own assortment, but which are not
graded closely and contain an irregular
amoutt of inferior or bad eggs, will be
sold loss off. Probably this latter class
will, during most of the summer and
fall season, be found to include the ma-
jority of our receipts.
The season of change from case count
sales to loss off affords a good oppor-
tunity to contrast the two systems. Of
course, the quality of stock arriving this
week is not materially different from
that received last week ; now variations
in quality are partly compensated by
loss allowances; then they were adjusted
by differences in price. The question
is, which method is better.
We hold, and have contended for some
time, that differences in quality may be
fully and fairly adjusted by differences
in price and that the result of doing all
business in eggs case count would be
greatly favorable in the end to all classes
of egg trade. We find also that this view
is gradually gaining headwav among re-
ceivers of eggs in New York ; some who
were formerly of opinion that loss off
sales were inevitable are now outspoken
in the belief that case count sales would
be more advantageous and that it would
be entirely practical to change our sys-
tem to that basis
The effects of an. insistence upon case
count sales from first hands would un-
doubtedly be to force a closer grading
of eggs at primary points, give us bet-
ter and more reliable eggs, and elimi-
nate an enormous loss now sustained by
the shipment of worthless goods.
Under a loss off system a very large
part of the stock now usually received
during the summer is accepted by the
better class of egg dealers only because
they can, by close grading before their
own candles, get a reasonable amount of
good, useful eggs out of them. They
can even make them better than goods
which are graded before shipment.
The system places honesty at a dis-
count. Many of our egg dealers aré
undoubtedly as honorable and reliable
as any Class of merchants, but where the
selection of stock to be paid for is
thrown entirely in the hands of the
buyer the opportunity for dishonest
dealing ciearly exists, and the scrupulous
dealer who candles with an eye which
sees his own interest no more than his
neighbor's is certainly at a disadvan-
tage in competition with those who grab
all they can get.
Therefore, we believe the honest deal-
er would be benefited by a case count
system because his skill in judging of
qualities, his knowledge of brands and
his general ability in purchasing would
be the basis of his competition with
other dealers. If case count were the
rule these dealers who serve a good and
fine class of trade would, under ordi-
hary circumstances of supply and de-
mand, refuse to buy the mixed and ir-
regular qualities which they now accept.
The demand would be for selected eggs,
comparatively free from loss, and the
premium paid for these would induce
shippers to send such and keep the
worthless eggs at home. This was clear-
ly shown last week, when I1c was easily
obtained for fancy selected eggs, while
poor, mixed Southwestern were a drug
at toc, and many shippers were writing
to their agents here to know ‘‘ what they
must do’’ to get the higher quotations.
Had case count sales continued, this
difference would undoubtedly have in-
creased to a point which would have
compelled a grading.
Under the loss off system there is lit-
tle incentive to grading in the interior
and freight is paid on thousands upon
thousands of cases of worthless eggs.
Case count selling would create a de-
mand for selection which could not be
resisted and within a month we would
be getting eggs worthy of the system.
How much better would it be for re-
ceivers if they could thus work the egg
trade into a condition which would re-
move the continued wrangle with buy-
ers and shippers alike. How much bet-
ter for the shipper, who could operate
with some certainty of knowledge as to
the actual value of bis goods.
The matter should be taken up by our
Exchange and united effort would un-
doubtedly suffice to make successful
this change, which, we believe, would
be the most important advance ever ac-
complished for the egg industry.
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New Rule for Case Count Sales.
New York, May 21—At last the Egg
Rules of the New York Mercantile Ex-
change describe definitely a quality of
eggs which shall be sold ‘‘case count’’
notwithstanding the general rules pro-
vide for loss allowance.
It happened rather by accident, how-
ever. Last winter when the committee
were working over the rules to improve
them, suggestions were called for and
among others was a proposition to create
a superlative grade to be called extras,
which should be sold at mark at all sea-
sons. This proposition was voted down
on the ground that the quality deserving
of mark sales could not be produced
here. But anew grade was instituted
called ‘‘ Western firsts packed for stor-
age,’’ which described a quality such as
buyers for cold storage would be willing
to bid for. Now when the rule was
changed to ‘‘loss off’’ it was seen at
once that it would not do to sell loss off
such eggs as were described under the
rule for ‘‘storage packed,’’ and that
goods not deserving to be sold at mark
would not do for storage buyers. Con-
sequently a rule was passed last Monday
that all eggs sold under the rule as
‘* packed for storage’’ shall be of such
quality as will grade firsts at mark.
Therefore, there is now a definite de-
scription in our Exchange rules which,
if complied with, will enable a seller to
place goods at mark if they conform to
it. The requirements are as follows:
All small and dirties must be culled
out
Eighty-five per cent. must be prime,
full sweet eggs.
White wood cases.
No. 1 or medium fillers.
Excelsior or cork packing under the
bottom flat and over the top flat.
No more than one dozen cracked eggs,
and loss must not exceed 15 eggs to 36
dozen, or 12 eggs to 30 dozen case.
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The Truth, and Nothing But the Truth.
Two rival commercial travelers were
trying to sell a merchant a fire-proof
safe.
The first said to the merchant:
‘‘A cat was put in one of our safes,
and the safe was put in the middle of a
fire for twenty-four hours,and afterwards
the cat came out alive.’’
Said the second:
‘*We put a cat in one of our safes and
piled a fire around it for a week and
when we opened it the cat was. dead.’’
‘*Ah, I thought so,’’ said the rival
traveler.
‘*Yes,’’ replied the traveler, ‘‘he was
frozen to death!’
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$1.90 to Jackson and Return.
The Michigan Central will on Mon-
day, May 30, sell excursion tickets to
Jackson at $1.90 for the round trip, good
going only on the morning train leav-
ing the Union station at 7 a. m. and re-
turning on the evening train same day.
W. C. BLAKE,
City Ticket Agent.
Butter and Eggs
Any quantity at any station gets
highest cash prices from me.
R. Hirt, Jr., 36 Market St., Detroit, Mich.
Promptness is the essence of our success.
We will buy your
Butter and Eggs for Cash
Correspond with us,
We do not claim to be the oldest and largest commission
house in the country, but in many respects one of the best.
HARRIS & FRUTCHEY, Detroit
J. WILLARD LANSING
BURGE D. CATLIN
Lansing & Catlin
Wholesale Dealers in
Butter and Eggs
Cold Storage season is nearly over.
yet of fancy eggs, so can use liberal shipments for the next two weeks.
44 W. Market St.
103 Michigan St.
Buffalo, N. Y.
However, we have orders for several cars
Ship us
your eggs and we will guarantee you satisfaction.
ESTABLISHED 1893
T. L. BRUNDAGE,
WHOLESALE COMMISSION MERCHANT
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 VECETABLES
Popular prices prevail.
Will please your customers and make you money.
F. J. DET TENTHALER,
117-119 MONROE STREET,
HORORTOROROCHOROHOTOROHOROROROHOHOHOHOHOC HOROCHOHOEOE
Ask for quotations.
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
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Eggs Bring High
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Prices in Buffalo
been established eleven years.
be made in regard to them.
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Correspond with your old friend,
C. N. RAPP & CO., Buffalo, N. Y.
56 West Market Street.
Buffalo Produce Exchange quotations sent free daily to all who request
them. They solicit consignments of Butter, Eggs, Poultry, Beans and
Produce generally, assuring prompt sales and immediate ret .rns. They
are a branch of the Grand Rapids house of the same name, which has
They refer Michigan shippers to the
Fourth National Bank, Grand Rapids Savings Bank and Michigan
Tradesman, all of which are familiar with their standing and acquainted
with their methods and will cheerfully answer any enquiries which may
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Why Lard and Other Hog Products
are High.
The rapid advance in prices of lard
and cottonseed oil recently has surprised
and confounded some speculators who
are not close watchers of current events;
but the advance is easily explained.
Lard rose in company with other hog
products under the influence of Euro-
pean demands about the beginning of
the year. A great deficiency existed
abroad and at Christmas pork cost twice
as much as the year before. Then came
the prospect of trouble with Spain, and
as the unanimous opinion of Europe
was that Spain was much stronger on the
water than we were and reverses for us
were to be expected at first, Europe
bought largely to guard against possible
scarcity. Then followed large pur-
chases by the Government and prices
went so high that the European demand
ceased almost completely, although the
Hamburg market was a buyer to some
extent, against its will, on account of
the failure of a large operator.
Owing to the enormous receipts at a
time of the year when the demand is
not over heavy, I scarcely think that the
present market will be sustained unless
through speculation. Farmers are get-
ting big prices for hogs, but the present
price of lard seems high enough. With
the autumn demand usually the heavi-
est, I shall not be surprised to see prices
then fully as high as now on legitimate
grounds. Ifthe general public continues
to buy for speculation as frantically as
during the last few weeks we may see
still higher prices,
Substitutes for lard, such as lard com-
pound, composed chiefly of cottonseed
oil, can now be sold 2c per pound
cheaper than lard, and they preve at-
tractive to many consumers. Prices of
these substitutes are strengthening in
consequence, and at the same time
acting as a check on the lard market.
Cottonseed oil would seem to havea
good future. It started the season with
a bare market, as last year’s crop was
small, with poor prices. This year’s
crop is large, with good prices. Stocks,
I think, are fair, and large quantities
bave been marketed, owing toa bona
fide demand of extraordinary propor-
tions. At this season of the year stocks
are in the hands of people abundantly
able to carry them, and there can be no
anxiety about the future. It seems to
me that there is still plenty of room at
the top until the new oil comes to mar-
ket in October.
The statistical position of cotton oil is
stronger than at any time since 1891,
While the United States can use all of
the cottonseed oil produced here, there
is a large and growing European de-
mand. The English manufactures are
go per cent. soap oils and scarcely any
edible oils.—Carl Dreier in N. Y. Com-
mercial.
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Plain Living the Basis of Health and
Strength.
The processes of evolution in nature
are hardly slower than the length of time
it takes us to shake off old ideas. For
generations we have been taught that it
was a weakness to pay any particular
attention to what we ate. ‘Plain living
and high thinking have been inculcated
as the highest philosophical ideal, and
to eat what is set before you and ask no
questions the very quintessence of ami-
ability and desirability in one’s family.
Time spent in preparing toothsome
dainties has been universally regarded
as sinful waste of opportunities.
The result of all this unthinking and
fein bere en
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN I3
indiscriminating eating has been a race
of dyspeptics, and we are only now
slowly struggling up into the light,
where we find out that it is a matter
of the utmost importance, here and here-
after, that we should know what, and
when, and how to eat. On the state of
one’s digestion, and not the condition
of one’s heart, as we romantically sup-
pose, depends one’s physical, mental
and moral welfare. Soggy bread for
breakfast would sour the temper of an
angel, gloomy theologies have had their
origin in dyspepsia and not divine
revelation, and workers in the slums
tell us that it is the poor cooking and
the consequent lack of nourishment that
drives the very poor to drink.
Considering the importance of the
subject, it is wonderful how little
thought we give to this matter of what
we eat, and how careless the average
woman is about what she sets before her
family. The recent deaths of Henry
George and Anton Seidl, both of whom
died suddenly a few hours after inju-
dicious eating, are an example of how
reckless even the most intelligent can
be; but we do not have to go so far for
examples of people who are victims to
their own ignorance in the matter. It
is not a question of over-eating by any
means, either. Just as many people
die from being under nourished as do
from gormandizing. '
It is hardly too much to say that the
succcss and happiness of life depend
on what one eats. Aside from the _hor-
rors of dyspepsia, there is the ability
or inability to work that means success
or failure in our undertakings. A_ suc-
cessful speculator, a king of finance,
is on record as saying that when he was
going to engineer a_ big deal that re-
quired clear judgment, iron nerve and
enormous physical endurance he went
into training for it almost as a pugil-
ist does for a fight. He cut his food
down to rare beef and a few simple
vegetables, just such things as would
give him the most nourishment and
were the easiest digested. He further-
more said that {he had known a single
spell of indigestion and consequent de-
pression and blues make a man lose
courage and break down when another
day would have tided him into success
and fortune.
When one remembers that beauty is
simply a question of health, it is amaz-
ing to see how reckless mothers are
about the food of their little daughters.
Who does not see, every day, thin,
scrawny, Sallow little girls drinking
strong coffee, eating indigestible pastry
and cakes and nibbling candy between
meals—foredestined to grow up _ into
ugly women, when they might as well
be pretty? In its real essence, beauty
is a matter of clear skin, of gracious
curves, of strength and vitality, “and
they must all spring from the good
digestion that waits on good food prop-
erly prepared. To the woman who has
the interests of her family really at
heart there is no other subject of such
vital importance as what they eat.
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% 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 5,000 cases finely candled eggs for April
and May deliveries; also several cars creamery
butter; correspondence solicited. Address Hyge-
ia Crystal lce & Cold Storage Co., Uniontown, Pa.
BEANS ano POTATOE
CARLOTS ONLY.
MILLER & TEASDALE Co.,
ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.
835 N. THIRD ST. - 830 N. FOURTH ST.
N. WOHLFELDER & Co..,
COMMISSION MERCHANTS
399-403 HIGH ST., EAST SIDE,
DETROIT, MICH.
Ship to us your Butter, Eggs, Cheese and Potatoes and get
Full Market Prices.
Ripe Strawberries
at consumers’ prices. Pineapples, Bananas, Oranges,
Tomatoes, Radishes, Cu-
NUN cumbers, Spinach, Asparagus, Pie Plant, New Pota-
toes, New Cabbage, Beets, Peas, New Dry Onions,
Green Onions,
i Lemons,
Turnips, Carrots, Squash.
BUNTING & CO., Jobbers, Grand Rapids, [ich.
To represent a first- Ria Roller and
Rye Flour Mills in our market, or
will buy the same on the basis of cash-
Detroit Cumiiien & Nencaiietaiiien Co.,
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27 Farmer Street, Detroit, Mich.
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W.R. Brice. Est. 1852.
W.R. Brice & Co.
Philadelphia’s
Leading Hustling
Commission Merchants
Cc. M. Drake.
REFERENCES:
W. D. Hayes, Cashier Hastings National Bank, Hastings, Mich.
Corn Exchange National Bank, Philadelphia.
Western National Bank, Philadelphia.
Fourth National Bank, Grand Rapids, Mich.
D. C. Oakes, Coopersville, Mich.
E. A. Stowe, Michigan Tradesman.
We have closed our branch house in Grand Rapids and
will not buy any more eggs this season. but want your Butter
and Eggs now at our main house in Philadelphia on commis-
sion and you can rest assured that we will watch your inter-
ests carefully, make you prompt sales and prompt returns,
and you can be assured of the best service to be had in our
city. W. R. BRICE & CO.
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
Diversion of the Grain Trade From
New York.
The Interstate Commerce Commission
has recently rendered a decision which
is of great interest to all the ports of the
country. The case before the commis-
sion was the complaint of the New
York Produce Exchange versus the Bal-
timore &{Ohio Railroad. The Exchange,
representing the commercial interests
of the port of New York, maintained
that the railroad company prevented the
metropolis from securing her rightful
share of the country’s foreign trade by
unfair differentials in favor of other
Atlantic ports, and particularly Balti-
more, Boston and Philadelphia.
New York has for some time been
greatly worried at the steady loss she
has suffered in her grain trade. Her
merchants, instead of admitting that
this diversion of trade was due to
changed conditions, claimed that it re-
sulted solely from the action of the rail-
roads in discriminating against her in
favor of other ports. The argument
made before the Interstate Commerce
Commission sought, to show that New
York, by virtue of her facilities and
long custom, was entitled naturally to
the lion’s share of the business.
The Interstate Commerce Commis-
sion, after a careful and thorough re-
view of the case, dismissed the com-
plaint. The Commission held that it
had not been proven that the railroad
had discriminated against New York.
It also held that New York, by virtue of
its position, had no special claim on
the grain trade, and that the gradual
loss of this trade was due, not to dis-
crimination, but to the legitimate and
natural competition of other ports. The
contention that New York had a special
claim on the foreign trade was_ brushed
aside. In this connection the Commis-
sion says:
It would be in accordance neither
with the theory of our institutions nor
witb the history of the development of
our nation to permit any ove port upon
our vast extent of seacoast to monopolize
the trade with foreign nations.
Within recent years the United States
Government has expended in improving
navigation to and at the port of Phila-
delphia about $9,500,000; at Baltimore,
$3,600,000; at Galveston, $8,500,000,
and at New Orleans or upon the Mis-
sissippi River, of which New Orleans
takes the benefit, about $8,000,000.
These vast sums have not been ap-
propriated and expended certainly upon
the theory that it was desirable for the
foreign trade of this country to flow
through the port of New York alone.
Rather does this recognize it as the pol-
icy of our Government that its foreign
commerce should be distributed between
various ports.
The claim of New York to being the
natural outlet for the grain trade is
disposed of with equal clearness. The
Commission points out that geographical
position and competition from rival
Carriers control the movement of grain
and every other commodity. The Com-
mission, in its decision, says:
The distance from Chicago to New
York is about the same as to New
Orleans, and the water communication
between Chicago and New York will,
during certain seasons of the year at
least, give New York an advantage as to
traffic which fairly originates at Chi-
cago. But a glance at the map of the
United States shows that the grain-pro-
ducing territory, much of it, lies be-
tween New Orleans upon the South and
Chicago upon the North, and is most of
it nearer New Orleans than New York.
When this export corn moves to Chi-
cago it moves away from New Orleans,
or at least not towards it, and the same
thing is true of much of the export
wheat. The distance from Kansas City
and St. Louis to New Orleans is less
than two-thirds that to New York. The
Mississippi River and its tributaries
give access to all this region.
As an evidence of the facility with
which the grain trade has been diverted
from New York, and as exemplifying
the cause for this diversion, the Com-
mission devotes the following paragraph
to the facilities of New Orleans:
A year ago the Commission inspected
the terminal and harbor facilities of
New Orleans. Its docks are already ex-
tensive and are capable of almost un-
limited extension. There is no place
in the United States, with possibly one
exception, where grain can be trans-
ferred from the car to the vessel more
cheaply than here. The grade from the
grain fields to these «levators is an easy
one. The corporations which operate
these lines of railway leading to them
are strong and aggressive. They will
undoubtedly demand a larger portion of
that traffic which is tributary to them,
and will gradually acquire more and
more of it, and this in its turn will
bring to New Orleans a certain amount
of those importations which now reach
New York. The same thing is and will
be true of Galveston and other ports.
New York can not expect, therefore, to
occupy the same relative position of
Supremacy with reference to our foreign
commerce in the future that it has in
the past.
It is evident from this decision of the
Interstate Commerce Commission that
New York can not hope to regain her
lost trade by bringing pressure on the
railroads, except it can be done through
the manipulations of Wall street. There
are many railroads now operating to
Southern and South Atlantic ports
which are powerful enough to be inde-
pendent of Wall street pressure, and it
is this fact that is so seriously troubling
our New York friends.
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Decoration Day Excursion.
On Monday, May 30, the Michigan
Central will sell excursion tickets to
Jackson and return at the very low rate
of $1.90 for the round trip, good going
only on the morning train leaving the
Union station at 7 a. m. and returning
on the evening train same day.
W. C. BLAKE,
City Ticket Agent.
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Has a Chance.
‘*The boy King of Spain has _thirty-
seven titles,’’
‘‘Is that so? If he can hang on fora
few years he may be able to pay off
Spain's debts by marrying an American
heiress. ’’
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Sure Test.
‘How do you tell the age of a tur-
key?’’
‘By the teeth. *’
‘*A turkey hasn't teeth.’’
“Ne: but I have. *’
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It will pay you to investi- 7
gate our plans and visit our
factories if you are contem-
plating building a Creamery
or Cheese factory. All sup-
plies furnished at lowest
prices.
Correspondence so-
licited.
R. E. Sturgis, Allegan, Mich.
Contractor and Builder of Butter
and Cheese Factories, and Dealer
in Supplies.
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WM. SMITH
Manufscturer of
EGG CASES, FARMERS’
CASES, EGG CASE FILLERS
ODORLESS FILLERS
AND EXCELSIOR.
| ? Capacity one carload a day. Prompt shipment on
I ig short notice. Will make any case desired. Write for
I iy price list. We compete with all other manufacturers.
St eae EATON RAPIDS, [ICH.
Jobbers-Seed-Beans-Potatoes-Produce
WE ARE IN POSITION TO FILL YOUR OR-
DERS FOR FIELD SEEDS BOTH IN QUAL-
ITY AND PRICE THAT SHOULD WARRANT
YOU IN DEALING WITH US.
MOSELEY BROS.
26-28-30-32 OTTAWA ST.
SEEDS
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
The best are the cheapest
and these we can always
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ALFRED J. BROWN SEED CO.
24 and 26 North Division Street,
Grand Rapids, Mich.
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where you know your goods will
be properly cared for.
Low Insurance.
Liberal Advances.
How to Succeed in Groceries.
My theme this week is the dishonest
grocer. If I could dip my pen in sul-
phuric acid and write on asbestos paper,
I could not then express half the con-
tempt and hatred which I cherish for
the grocer who gives short weights and
measures, makes low prices to attract
trade, and steals customers away from
a rival in business. Some people may
think that I have suffered directly by
such methods as these, which makes
me so bitter against them, but this is
not true. However, I sympathize with
the honest grocer who is forced to meet
such competition as this, and sees his
trade gradually going toward the dis-
honest grocer.
The dishonest grocer does not exist,
you say? He does, beyond a doubt.
He will never win out in the jong
run, because honesty will succeed as
sure as the sun rises and sets. Why,
then, are grocers dishonest? The most
patent cause in making grocers dishon-
est is selling goods at too close a mar-
gin, or at no margin at all. The temp-
tation to make both ends meet by giv-
ing short count and short measure is
too great in times of close competition,
and the man who is at all weak will
finally fall. ‘*Honor and fame from no
conditions rise; act well your part—
there ail the honor lies.’’
Is it honorable for a merchant to ad-
vertise twenty pounds of sugar fora
dollar, anc give only eighteen? Is it
honorable for him to sell thirteen ounces
for a pound, and forty-five pounds of
flour for a quarter barrel, which should
be forty-nine pounds? Is it honorable to
overcharge on one article and under-
charge on another? Is it honorable to
go to your neighbor's customers and
quote prices far below what you would
to your own trade? What man who sells
sixteen ounces to the pound and twelve
to the dozen can compete with these
sharks and pirates? They degrade the
profession, and make all classes of
customers suspicious of all dealers.
It is a blessing to feel that they will
sometimes overstep themselves and
perish through their own dishonesty.
Shakespeare says: ‘‘Who steals my
purse steals trash, but he that filches from
me my good name robs me of that which
not enriches him, and makes me poor in-
deed.’’ The pirates who are engaged
in these reprehensible practices will
find some day that they are known in
their true light, and all the perfumes
of Araby will not suffice to make their
name sweet to the public again. They
will be shunned like a pestilence, de-
spite their air of respectability. Unfor-
tunately this class of grocers is far too
numerous. They advertise largely in the
daily papers, and hide behind the
shield of a great name. Once in a
while an extraordinarily clever shark will
succeed, but for the most part failure
is their portion. Let all young grocers
take the advice of one who has seen gro-
cers rise and fall, and who has studied
the causes of success and failure, and
shun all dishonest and crooked practices.
—Store-keeper.
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Changed Conditions of the Century.
The map of trade is changing faster
than most of us appreciate, and in di-
plomacy or commerce the statesman or
the merchant must be no laggard who
keeps step to the music of the times.
No country in the world has such a com-
mand of the forces that now control the
world—steam, electricity and machin-
ery—as the United States. No country
has such resources in raw material or
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN I5
in the facilities for converting that ma-
terial into finished products; no country
has such an ingenious and energetic
population. With 76,000,000 of popula-
tion we can produce more than 150,000, -
000 can consume, and hence the _ neces-
sity for widening our markets.
The great field for future development
is with the countries bordering on the
Pacific ocean which contain two-thirds
of the population of the globe. The
events, therefore, which have recently
taken place in the Far East are of the
utmost significance to American trade
and commerce.
For many years I believed that the
United States should confine itseif to the
development of our own unequaled re-
sources and home market; but my ob-
servations in a trip around the world,
and my experience when Chairman of
the Committee on Foreign Commerce of
the New York Chamber of Commerce,
widened my _ views, and I now believe
that far-sighted statesmanship demands
the careful consideration of a broader
policy. The logic of recent events
points to the acquirement or control of
Spanish colonial possessions in both the
Pacific and the Atlantic, together with
the acquirement of the Hawaiian Islands
and the construction lof the Nicaragua
Canal.
I believe we have at the head of our
Government men who appreciate the
changed and changing conditions of the
century, and that the United States,
whether it will or no, is obliged to be
one of the leading nations in the march
of progress which steam, electricity
and machinery have forced upon the hu-
man race. The time has gone by when
a statesman can ask, ‘‘What have we to
do with Europe?’’ or,‘ Why do we need
a navy, or a commercial marine, or an
improved consular service, or a depart-
ment of commerce and manufactures?’’
We can not stand still if we would, and
the United States ought to be at the head
of the procession.
FRANK B. THURBER.
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New Route to Chicago.
Commencing May 15, 1898, a through
car line will be established between
Chicago and Grand Rapids, operated by
the Grand Trunk Railway system and
the Grand Rapids & Indiana Railway,
via Vicksburg.
Trains will arrive at and depart from
Dearborn station, Chicago. This sta-
tion is on Polk street, between State and
Clark streets, is only three blocks south
of the postoffice,and near the down town
business and hotel districts. Other
railroads using this staticn are the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, Wabash,
Chicago & Eastern Illinois, Chicago,
Indianapolis & Louisville, and Erie.
No transfer will, therefore, be neces-
sary for passengers to or from the above
mentioned lines.
Important stations on this through car
line between Chicago and Grand Rap-
ids are Valparaiso, South Bend, Mish-
awaka, Ind., Cassopolis, Macellus,
Schoolcraft, Vicksburg, Kalamazoo and
Plainwell, Mich.
The equipment used in providing this
service will consist of new standard
vestibuled day coaches. Pullman buffet
parlor cars and the latest designs of
Pullman wide vestibuled, gaslighted,
twelve section drawing room sleeping
cars. It is believed that the character
of this equipment and the convenience
of the schedules will be such as to merit
a liberal patronage by the traveling pub-
lic.
The following is a condensed schedule :
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6:30am
Lav Grand iapids.:.°....- 7:10am 2:10pm
Ax Chicago .... -....-..2:00pm Oiropm
Dy Cicero e 3:02pm) s11:45pm
Ax Grand Rapids... ...: 9.30pm 7:25am
C. L. Lockwoopn,
General Passenger and Ticket Agent.
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It is as bad to be a hypocrite as it is
to be a highwayman.
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Jn New Quarters
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We take pleasure in informing the trade
that we have leased the two-story and _ base-
ment building at 14 and 16 Ottawa street
(corner Ferry), formerly occupied by the
Grand Rapids Packing & Provision Co.,
which we will take possession of at once with
our lines of Fruits, Vegetables, Spices, Bak-
ing Powder and Grocers’ and Meat Dealers’
Sundries. With a more central location
convenient to the depot and jobbing houses,
ample room in all departments, and _ side-
tracks in the rear of our store, we shall be in
better shape than ever to fill your orders
promptly and meet the requirements of our
customers. Thanking you for past patron-
age and assuring you that we shall endeavor
to merit a continuance of same, we are,
Yours truly,
Vinkemulder Company
If you are not receiving our weekly mar-
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ket review, drop usa line and we will put
you on our mailing list.
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The Food Commissioner :
has begun an aggressive crusade against cheap vinegars which
are not up to the legal standard. It will be well for the retail
i oods of
trade to prepare for the wrath to come by putting in ¢
pref yi]
recognized purity and strength, and we beg leave to call the
attention of the trade to the fact that
Robinson’s Cider Vinegar
is always up to the standard established by the i +g
is]
ure and
that it is guaranteed not to contain any deleterious acids orany-
thing that is not produced from theapple. One hundred dollars
in cash stands back of this guaranty. Ask your jobber for
Robinson’s vinegar and insist on having no other. If your job
ber will not get it for you, order direct from the manufacturer,
ROBINSON CIDER & VINEGAR CO., Benton Harbor, Mich.
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
GOTHAM GOSSIP.
News from the Metropolis---Index to
the Market.
Special Correspondence.
New York, May 21—The general situ-
ation in the grocery trade is encoura-
ging. Jobbers almost without exception
are doing an excellent summer trade
and the future seems very bright in-
deed, unless Congress yields to the elo-
quence of such men as Turpie, who seek
to place the financial rating of the
United States far below that of Spain.
Orders for goods have come from every
quarter and frequently for very respect-
able amounts. Prices are steady and,
with very few exceptions, there is no
weakness.
The week has hardly been up to the
standard of its predecessors, so far as
coffee is concerned, and interior deal-
ers are apparently pretty well supplied
for the present. Stocks are not exces-
sive in the hands of jobbers and the
general appearance is. steady. The
quotation on Rio No. 7 1s 6%c. Little
has been done in invoice trading. In
store and afloat there are 1,053,516 bags,
against 712,058 bags at the same time
last year. Mild sorts of ccffee have
been in very light request and what
orders have been sent in have called for
the lower grades.
The tea market might be called steady,
but there has been very little business
going forward—hardly enough, in fact,
to give an indication of the true condi-
tion of affairs. Sales made were at
practically unchanged rates, but some
shading might be made, if necessary.
In invoice trade, nothing was done.
In sugar, the week started in with
very light trading. Later, matters be-
gan to mend and at the close are quite
satisfactory. With warmer weather the
trade will be sure to pick up and a rush
demand may ensue. Granulated was
reduced on Thursday 1-16c, making it
53sec. A lot of sugar was on a pier
which collapsed at one of the refineries
and, of course, was a tota! loss. It was
raw sugar in bags, some 4oo of these
having gone to mix with the water of
East River.
Supplies of rice are light and, in fact,
hardly sufficient to make a market.
Quotations are very tirm and this is true
both for foreign and domestic. For
prime to choice domestic the range is
from 6!;@634c. Orders for foreign
were in many cases for future delivery,
as they could not be filled {from spot
stock.
Spices are steady. Jobbers have
been doing a satisfactory trade and,
while they might do more if they had
orders, they are quite well pleased.
Prices are steady, especially for pep-
per and cloves. Invoice trading was
nil, buyers seemingly waiting to see
what the future has in store.
Grocery grades of molasses are firm,
with supplies none too large to over-
stock the market. In fact, the latter is
well cleaned up and at the moment one
seeking to fill a good-sized order might
have to do considerable shopping.
Good te prime centrifugal, 16@25c;
open-kettle, 29@31c. Syrups are in
light supply and quotations are firmly
adhered to.
In canned goods, some large transac-
tions have been reported in futures, es
pecially in corn, tomatoes and peas.
Prices are firm for spot goods and al-
together the situation is encouraging.
It is said that the pack of peas will be
smaller than usual in Maryland this
year, aS so many were packed last sea-
son that there are yet a gcod many left,
and profits in the pack now will be nil.
But you can’t always tell by what
‘“someone says,’’ and it is likely that
the usual supply will be forthcoming.
Corn New York spot standard, 65@7oc.
Dried fruits are well held and the
market situation has improved, espe-
cially for evaporated apples of really
desirable stock. Small fruits are in
about the usual request.
Lemons are lower, but the hot weather
will soon cause another turn. Oranges
are in about the usual request. Bananas
are steady. Pineapples are quiet.
The bean market presents to if any
new features and the situation is pretty
Choice
are worth $1.75; choice pea,
much as reported last week.
marrow
$1.40.
Bermuda potatoes are worth $2.75@
4.25, the former for seconds. Western
alds, $2. 50@2.87.
For desirable sorts of butter there is a
steady demand, but nothing to brag of.
Western extra creamery, 15c; firsts,
14%4c; seconds, 14c; thirds, 13@13'%c;
imitation creamery extras, 13'4c; firsts,
12'4c; best factory, 12%c.
The demand for cheese is not very
active, and yet the supply is not ex-
cessive. For really fancy goods the en-
quiry has been rather more active than
the preceding week. ‘This for new
cheese. Old stock seems somewhat un-
settled and prices show quite a varia-
tion. Large new full cream, choice,
74 @7%2c; full cream fancy, large, 8%
@ogc; small size, 834 @oc.
In eggs the supply ot really desirable
stock 1s not large and a good deal of
stock arriving is being consigned to
cold storage. Prices are about the same
as last week—near-by fancy stock, 12c;
Western selected for storage, at mark,
11c; fresh ungraded, 10's@1o%c. The
hot wave will probably cause a large
portion of arrivals during the next few
days to show deterioration.
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A fakir in New York has hit on a
scheme for drawing money from sympa-
thetic people that he worked more than
once to good advantage. He has a
smart dog for a confederate, and the
only other ‘‘properties’’ are a few bits
of stale bread. The fakir will go along
a crowded street, and will all at once
make a dive for a piece of bread that
he has himself thrown in the gutter.
The next minute he and the canine will
be roliing in the dirt, fighting savagely
for possession of the bread. The crowd
that is attracted will shell out small] coin
generously to a supposed starving man,
who sheds copious tears of gratitude.
The dog is lost in the shuffle, but he
rejoins his owner ere long, and the two
go off to another quarter to repeat their
game.
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Serious trouble is noted in the lacing
hooks in silk vesting top footwear for
men finished with lace stays, owing to the
fact that there is not enough leather
used as a stay into which to insert the
lacing hooks. These come out in some
cases in short order. It shows that no
shoe should be made on this style with-
out the leather lace stay down the front,
to give the necessary strength, or when
the shoe is finished all silk vesting tops
without stays, only plain eyelets should
be used, as there is not enough body to
sustain the lacing hooks.
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17
Commercial Travel
Michigan Knights of the Grip.
President, JoHNn A. Horrman, Kalamazoo: Secre-
tary, J. C. SaunpErs, Lansing; Treasurer, Cas.
McNotry, Jackson.
Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Association.
President, C. C. SNEDEKER, Detroit: Secretary
and Treasurer, C. W. ALLEN Detroit.
United Commercial Travelers of Michigan.
Grand Counselor, J. J. Evans, Bay City: Grand
Secretary, G. S. VALMORE, Detroit; Grand Treas
urer, W. S. Wsst, Jackson.
Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Mutual Acci-
dent Association.
President, J. Boyp Pantuinp, Grand Rapids;
Secretary and Treasurer, Gro. F. OWEN, Grand
Rapids.
Lake Superior Commercial Travelers’ Club.
President, W. C. Brown, Marquette; Secretary
and Treasurer, A. F. Wrxson, Marquette.
Annual Meeting of Michigan Grand
Council, U. C.F.
Jackson, May 21—The annual conven-
tion of the Grand Council, United Com-
mercial Travelers, which was held here
yesterday and to-day, was well attended.
= lhe first on the programme was the
grand parade, which took place at 1
o'clock yesterday. The delegates were
all in line, each carrying a white um-
brella and a United States flag. The
Jackson members were all dressed in
white and presented a handsome appear-
ance as they brought up the rear. The
members of the Detroit Council were at
the head of the procession Each wore,
besides the badge presented by the Jack-
son Council, a handsome badge bearing
the inscription, ‘‘Detroit, 1898. Detroit
Council No. 9.’’ Ladies in carriages
followed the marchers. As the parade
passed under the large flag in front of
the courthouse the men removed their
hats and saluted it, and after passing it
halted and gave three cheers and a tiger
for the Stars and Stripes.
= On returning to the hall the business
meeting was called to order by Grand
Counsellor F. L. Day, of Jackson, who
read his annual address, as follows
Another year in the history of our fra-
ternal association is now closing, and
we are again in session at the fifth an-
nual meeting of the Grand Council of
Michigan, to review the records of the
past year and to submit to the members
of the order, through their representa-
tives, the condition of affairs through-
out this grand jurisdiction, and as far
as we can throughout the jurisdiction of
the Supreme Council, which is the
United States of America, the members
of which are an indispensable factor in
the population of our Nation, for they
are the representatives of the commerce,
internal and international. They are
the recognized representatives at the
commercial courts of all nations.
At last annual meeting you appointed a
committee with instructions to report at
this session some plan and by-laws for
the conduct and preservation of the in-
terésts of this Grand Council and its sub-
ordinates. When your committee reports
give it careful consideration, always
bearing in mind that quality in law and
legislation is preferable to quantity.
As your chief executive officer you
are entitled to an accounting of my
stewardship, and it is with a degree of
pleasure that I can present for your
consideration the following facts and
figures that will show the numerical and
financial strength of the order, and I
recommend that each subordinate coun-
cil put the same in convenient form for
distribution among our commercial as-
sociates, in order that they may be in-
duced to become members of our grand
commercial army, and thereby be en-
titled to receive the benefits of fraternal
protection at a minimum Cost. _
Peace, harmony and prosperity have
prevailed in this grand jurisdiction dur-
ing the year now closing. We have
added to our roll of councils one, Hills-
dale Council No, 116, which was organ-
ized December 16, 1897, with thirteen
charter members. a
The membership of the grand juris-
diction one year ago was 270. There
have been added during the year as fol-
lows: To Detroit Council No. 9, 40;
Flint No. 29, 7; Saginaw? No.%43, 5;
Bay No. 51, 6; Jackson No. 7, 20:
Hillsdale No. 113, 20. There have been
eight deaths, three have removed and
seventeen have been suspended, making
the total membership to-day 340. This
jurisdiction has contributed to the in-
demnity fund of the order during the
year $2,560, and has received in pay-
ment of indemnity claims of members
$2,414.25, which was distributed among
the councils as follows: Detroit,
$646.41; Flint, $471.42; Saginaw, $I, 100;
Bay, $128.57; Jackson, $67.85, leaving
a balance to the credit of this jurisdic-
tion of $145.75.
A year ago there were g grand and 06
subordinate councils with a total mem-
bership of 6,577. There have been added
during the year 1 grand and 30 subordi-
nate councils, with an additional mem-
bership of 2,000, making a grand total
of 126 subordinate councils, with a mem-
bership of 8,557, and these contribute
annually about $68,000 for the protection
and benefit of their needy and unfor-
tunate brothers, their widows and
orphans,
In conclusion, Mr. Day congratulated
the members upon the prosperity of the
order and urged the utmost care and
fidelity in the conduct of its business.
He closed by returning thanks to his
official associates and the members of
the order for their uniform kindness and
assistance and urged for his successor
the same favorable consideration.
During the business meeting of the
Grand Council the ladies were taken for
a drive about the city and a visit to the
prison, and the underwear and corset
factories, following which they were
given a reception at the Jackson City
club rooms,
At 6:30 the guests were conducted to
Company D armory, where an elaborate
banquet had been prepared by the ladies
of the Jackson Associated Charities.
The hall was elaborately decorated with
white and yellow bunting, National
colors and flowers and presented a beau-
tiful appearance. Plates were laid for
550, and every seat was occupied. Fol-
lowing the banquet came an interesting
programme of toasts and responses, as
fellows, Dr. O. J. R. Hanna officiating
as master of ceremonies: Music, or-
chestra. Address of welcome, Charles
EK. Townsend. Response, F. L. Day,
Grand Counselor. Solo, Master Fred
Daley, Michigan’s boy soprano. ‘‘The
Ladies,’’ George H. Randall, Bay City.
Music, orchestra. ‘‘The Baby Coun-
cil,’’ F. M. Thompson, Hillsdale.
*'Why Are We Traveling Men?’’ O. C.
Gould, Saginaw. Cornet solo, Mrs.
Anna Berger-Lynch, Jackson. ‘‘The
Employer,’’ H. S. Griggs, Jackson.
Music, orchestra. ‘‘The Order,’’ H.
M. Sperry, Flint. Music, orchestra.
‘“The Traveling Man as a Citizen,’ P.
Walch, Detroit. ‘‘The Star Spangled
Banner. ’’
At the conclusion of this feature the
hall was cleared and dancing was in-
dulged in until a late hour.
Detroit was selected as the next place
of meeting.
This morning the work of considering
the new by-laws presented yesterday
was taken up, and after some discussion
the by-laws were adopted, as were also
the rules of the Supreme Council.
Considerable interest was manifested
in the election of officers, which resulted
as follews: Grand Counselor, J. J.
Evans, of Bay City ; Grand Junior Coun-
selor, John. A. Murray, Detroit; Past
Grand Counselor, F. L. Day, Jackson ;
secretary, G. S. Valmore, Detroit:
treasurer, W. S. West, Jackson; con-
ductor, M. Jay Moore, Jackson; page,
H. E. Bartlett, Flint: sentinel, F.. A.
Sault, Bay City; alternate delegates to
the Supreme Council, George A. Rey-
nolds, Saginaw; M. J. Matthews, De-
troit; executive committee, two years,
EB. D. Page, Jackson, €. J. Lewis,
Flint.
The secretary was instructed to pro-
cure a suitable diamond to be presented
to Geo. A. Reynolds, of Saginaw, in
appreciation of his work as grand
treasurer for the past five yeazs, and the
usual resolutions of thanks to Jackson
Council and the people for their hospi-
tality were passed,
Gripsack Brigade.
E. M. Vosberg, who has been serious-
ly ill at the Downey House (Lansing)
for several days, is considerably im-
proved.
Edward D. Hutchinson, from Fargo,
Dakota, is now covering Michigan for
Edward R. Rice, jobber of the Banigan
rubber shoe line at Buffalo. This is his
twelfth year with the same house.
E. A. McDougal is spending several
months in Michigan cities in behalf of
the O’Donohue Coffee Co., of New
York. He and his wife make their
home at the Hotel Butler, Lansing.
Charles A. Caldwell, formerly mana-
ger of the Donnelly House ( Mason), has
opened the Charleston, one of the model
hotels of Michigan. The commercial
travelers particularly enjoy his hos-
pitality.
J. D. Busse, for several months Sec-
retary of the Farmers’ Handy Wagon
Co. (Saginaw), has severed his connec-
tion with that concern to accept a posi-
tion on the road with Aultman, Miller
& Co., of Akron, Ohio.
Geo. H. Mitchell, the well-known
traveling salesman of Hillsdale, died
last Thursday and was buried Saturday.
He was a member of Hillsdale Council,
UL 2) C), and was universaily respected
by all who enjoyed his acquaintance.
The Jackson Citizen, in noting the
presence of Ed P. Waldron in that
city, states that he is prominently men-
tioned in connection with the Republi-
can nomination for Congressman in the
Eighth district. Mr. Waldron denies
the charge, insisting that he is not seek-
ing political preferment at this time and
is quite well satisfied to hold onto his
present job.
Kalamazoo Telegraph : George Ayling,
of Lacota, a traveling man, stopped at
the Downey House Thursday night.
He hung his trousers, in a pocket of
which was carefully kept $35 in money,
on a hook quite near the transom. This
morning he awoke to find the money
gone, but the pocketbook had been left
behind. He reported the matter to
Chief Rasor.
Lansing Republican: MG Peek
who for the past six months has repre-
sented E. Bement’s Sons in New York,
has resigned his position to accept a po-
sition as traveling salesman for the
Michigan Stove Co., with New York,
Massachusetts and Pennsylvania as his
territory. He will start on his first trip
June 1. Mrs. Peck will reside here un-
til fall, when they will make their home
in New York City.
Director Tyler, of the Michigan
Knights of the Grip, approves of Presi-
dent Hoffman's suggestion relative to
the creation of a surplus fund, but would
recommend making the extra assess-
ment levied for that purpose $1, in-
stead of 50 cents, as suggested by Mr.
Hoffman. It is not impossible that the
matter may come up for discussion at
the regular meeting of the Board of Di-
rectors, which will be beld at Kalamazoo
on June 4.
Eleven salesmen in the employ of the
N. K. Fairbank Co. have formed a co-
partnership with H. C. Bannard ona
profit-sharing basis and engaged in the
manufacture of washing powder at Cbi-
cago under the style of the Liberty Man-
ufacturing Co. Mr. Bannard will be
remembere? as the former manager of
the Fairbank Co., having been mainly
responsible for the marvelous growth
of that corporation up toa few years
ago, Among the gentlemen associated
with Mr. Bannard is Fred H. Ball, of
this city, who has been assigned the
jobbing trade of Michigan, Indiana and
Kentucky. Robt. Hanna has also re-
signed with the Fairbank Co. and will
cover the trade of Wisconsin and the
Upper Peninsula for the new house,
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Movements of Lake Superior Travelers
Marquette, May 22—Selden F. White
(H. W. King & Co.) will make Ish-
peming headquarters part of the sum-
mer. It was the former home of Mrs.
White.
Will C. Brown (Lake Superior Knit-
ting Co.) is in Appleton, Wis., this
week inspecting the work at the factory.
C. A. Laurier (F. C. Glockie) will
manage the wholesale and retail busi-
ness at Calumet. Mr. Laurier has the
distinction of being the brotber of
Canada's Premier.
Five Comanche Indians, alias com-
mercial travelers, gave a warwhoop last
Wednesday night upon entering the new
Iroquois Hotel at the Soo. The hotel
was thrown open for dinner Wednesday.
The boys were not full, merely elated.
Alex Stevenson (Buhl, Sons & Co, )
visited the Soo last week.
T. G. Truscott (Burnham, Stoepel &
Co.) is in the copper country this week.
M. S. Brown (Hazeltine & Perkins
Drug Co.) gave instructions in the
game of Smear to willing novices and
sold a few pills on the side last week.
Non-professionals will steer clear of
him.
Chas. Doty (Edson, Moore & Co.) has
returned to his territory. Paid Detroit
a visit last week.
W. C. Mannes will represent Pem-
berthy, Cook & Co. in the Lake Su-
perior territory. Mr. Mannes is an old
traveler. He represented Roundy, Peck-
bam & Co. several years ago.
E. L. Griggs (Peerless Manufacturing
Co.) is with us.
W. C. Monroe has taken up his
‘steenth annual residence at Marquette.
Nobody really knows where his perma-
nent residence is, but when the landlady
at Marquette tries to collect rent he
moves to Flint, and vice versa.
W. M. Porter (Atwood & Steele) is
with us and gives hygienic lectures on
the side.
W. R. Smith sells a lot of baby car-
riages to his trade. Don’t sell ’em all,
Billy.
The following committees have been
named by President Brown to act at the
annual party and reception to be given
for the Lake Superior Commercial
Travelers’ Club, Aug. 12, at Hotel Su-
perior, Marquette:
Arrangement—T. G. Gregory, D. P.
Baldwin, J. J. Bogue, M. R. Manhard,
J. D. Mangum, HO, MecMain, EB, RR,
Morrison.
Reception—Alex Stevenson, W. J,
Crane, Harry Brilling, F. C, Comstock,
Chas. Doty, H. E. Gilmore, Thos.
Ryan, Willis Peake, John Power, W. G.
Carah.
Floor—R. G. Quinn, W. R. Smith,
H. C. Work, A. P. Simpson, H. IL
Telling, S. F, White, J. W. Gray, W.
C. Monroe. OuUrIx,
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MICHIGAN STATE BOARD OF PHARMACY.
F. W. R. Perry, Detroit -
A. C. ScHUMACHER, Ann Arbor -
Gro. GunpRvUm, Ionia - - -
L. E. REYNOLDs, St. Joseph Dec. 31, 1901
HENRY HEIM,Saginaw - - - Dec. 31, 1902
President, F. W. R. Perry, Detroit.
Secretary, Gro. GunpDRuM, Ionia.
- Treasurer, A. C. ScoUMACHER, Ann Arbor.
Term expires
Dec. 31, 1898
Dec. 31, 1899
Dec. 31, 1900
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 at 8
o'clock p. m.
MICHIGAN STATE PHARMACEUTICAL
ASSOCIATION.
President—A. H. WEBBER, Cadillac.
Secretary—CuHas. Mann, Detroit.
Treasurer—Joun D. Murr, Grand Rapids.
Unjust Features of the Proposed War
Tax.
The proprietary medicine business is
not in a particularly healthy condition.
It estimated that 60 per cent. of a
druggist’s sales are in proprietary ar-
ticles, and the retailer’s profit on these
goods has been very materially reduced
in late years, many of the staple goods
being sold on less than 5 per cent. mar-
gin. The manufacturers have also
suffered severely from competition, and
it is a recognized fact that a very large
number of proprietary manufacturers
are not advertising their goods to the
public because they find such invest-
ments unprofitable. While the original
cost of the goods may be small, the ex-
pense of introduction is exceedingly
heavy,and where one is a success dozens
of these remedies are financial failures.
15
There is no good reason why medi-
cines and those who prepare them should
be specially singled out to pay the pro-
posed war tax. Medicines are in no
sense a luxury. As a rule they are
largely bought by those who can not
afford to pay doctors’ bills, and with
nearly equal justice a tax might be
placed upon hospitals and charitable in-
stitutions.
We object to Schedule B because it
is neither flesh nor fowl and is capable
of three distinct interpretations, accord-
ing to the wisdom of the presiding judge
and the eloquence of the pleaders. It
is possible to interpret it as applying
only to proprietary medicines and toilet
preparations. In a broader sense ‘‘and
all preparations or compcsitions what-
soever’’ could be interpreted to cover
all package goods scold by retailers. Un-
der stilt more liberal interpretation,
““which are prepared, uttered, vended
or exposed for sale under letters patent,
or trademark,’’ could be made to cover
everything manufactured from armor
plate to pins, from a hogshead of sugar
to a yeast cake, from a locomotive to a
toy top, from a case of sheeting toa
spool of thread; in fact, it would be
difficult to find any manufactured goods
in the production of which no _ patented
machine or tool or process is not em-
ployed.
As this schedule now stands it is a
patched up measure, and it would be
the cause for endless litigation.
The rate of the proposed tax is alto-
gether too high. Four per cent. on the
retail price of articles is fully equal to
6 per cent. on the manufacturer’s job-
bing prices. A manufacturer who sells
$100,000 worth of goods would have to
pay a tax of $6,000, which, in many
cases, is equal to his entire profit. Man-
ufacturers must raise their, jobbing
rates, and the expense would largely fall
upon the small retail dealers,
There are other commercial streams
which can be tapped for this revenue
with much less interference to estab-
lished business customs than by putting
a tax on proprietary goods. If, how-
ever, we are going to tax any proprietary
goods we should tax them all, and not
single out one or two branches of trade
to carry this burden. The measure as
it now stands is a distinct bid for cheap
goods, and, if enacted, will seriously re-
flect upon the high quality which Amer-
ican goods have attained. Competition
in many lines would soon prohibit a
manufacturer from paying 6 per cent.
for the privilege of stamping his trade-
mark or his name upon his goods.
These marks of identification would be
omitted, and the quality of the goods
would rapidly degenerate. This is an
extremely dangerous and vicious legis-
lation, and would be a biow at the qual-
ity of American goods which it would
take many years to recover.
Some few manufacturers are inciined
to the opinion that a revenue stamp
would be a protection to their goods, for
which they could afford to pay. If the
Government is to require a stamp on
proprietary goods, reduce the tax to!
per cent., issue to each manufacturer
who so desires a private design stamp,
and issue these stamps on the decimal
system, so that the tax can be easily ad-
justed to the retail value of the goods.
Such a law as this would afford an im-
mense revenue, but the law should dis-
tinctly state what goods are tu be taxed,
and it should not be confined to a few
lines, but extended to all lines of pro-
prietary goods.—New York Commercial.
—_—_-_—_~>2~____
The Sulphur Scare Has Run its Course.
From the New York Commercial.
In view of the general newspaper ex-
ploitation of the sulphur situation,
knowledge that the great bulk of this
article is imported from Sicily has be-
come common property. What little is
produced in Louisiana and Utah forms
too small a part of the entire supply to
receive any great attention. The addi-
tional intelligence that sulphur is large-
ly used in the manufacture of paper has
also been somewhat widely dissemi-
nated. The paper mills take more than
50 per cent. of the total imports.
The ‘‘sulphur scare,’’ as the recent
agitation on this subject has been called,
appears to have run its course. One of
the best posted men in the paper busi-
ness said on Saturday that the whole sit-
uation had been much exaggerated. If
worst Came to worst, and it was impos-
sible for sulphur shipments from Sicily
to continue, pyrites, which is found in
abundance in the United States, could
be used as a substitute. Carefui stu-
dents of the situation were of the opin-
ion, however, that there would be no
interruption in the Sicilian traffic.
Spain could not afford to antagonize
Italy by raising a fuss over a purely
technical point; while England was not
likely to pay much attention to Spain’s
protest regarding the bringing of
sulphur through Canada. Furthermore,
it was hinted that the supplies in the
country to-day are of fairly good quan-
tity, in spite of all reports to the con-
trary.
The demand for sulphur on the part
of manufacturers of paper is found in
the requirement of sulphuric acid for
producing sulphite pulp. There are
three kinds of wood pulp used: Sulph-
ite, soda, and ground wood. The
sulphite pulp is made from spruce wood,
which is cut up into chips by a special
machine. These chips are put into a
digestor—a__ boiler-like arrangement
about 1o feet or more in diameter and
30 or more feet high. The solvent, called
sulphite of lime, is then added—sulphite
of lime being the component requiring
the use of sulphuric acid obtained from
crude brimstone.
Time was when the wood pulps were
entirely made by special plants, which
sold their products to the paper mills.
To-day most of the paper mills have
their own sulphite mills, thus combining
all the different processes of manufac-
ture under one roof. At the present
time the price situation of sulphur is
badly muddled. Consumers have re-
covered from the scare, and with the
knowledge that supplies are not likely
to be materially reduced, are a little
backward in paying advanced quota-
tions for goods. If the importer goes
out looking for business he finds that he
is obliged to come down on prices in
order to make sales, while if a consum-
4¢r wants sulphur and starts out to buy
a lot he is confronted by stiff rates from
the importer, who feels that the buyer
is badly in need of supplies and will,
therefore, be willing to pay a good
price. Buta short time more and the
entire situation is expected to be
cleared from the clouds of uncertainty
now hanging over it.
—_—_—___e 02.>____
The Drug Market.
There are few changes to note this
week.
Opium and Morphine—Unchanged but
firm.
Quinine—Is a trifle weaker and for-
eign bulk has declined. American
brands are unchanged.
Glycerine—An active demand _ has
caused an advance. The present cost
from manufacturers is above the job-
bers’ selling price. The outlook is
strong and a further advance is quite
possible.
Sulphur and Brimstone—On account
of receipts of crude, the market is easier
and the price lower.
Aicohol—Has advanced
last issue.
Linseed Oil— On account of the high
price for flaxseed, oil has advanced
and authorities in Chicago say that the
price will probably reach Goc.
2c since our
Groceries in South Africa.
With the exception of the large towns
in Cape Colony, the Orange Free State
and Rhodesia there are no retail grocers
such aS we are accustomed to see at
home. The trade of the retail grocers
is absorbed in what are called stores, in
which anything and everything is ob-
tained, and even in the large towns the
grocers are not tradesinen of very con-
siderable importance. Scotchmen are
the principal grocery traders. As to
grocers’ associations, they are compara-
tively unknown, although in Cape Town
some of the grocers are seriously think-
ing of combining together for trade pur-
pose.
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A father scolded his son for his nu-
merous youthful errors: ‘‘ Really, father,
you were once young. Did you never
frolic?’’ ‘*‘Never,’’ said the father
with a melancholy sigh; ‘‘when I was
young I had no money, and when | be-
came rich it was too late.’’
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Rover Playing Cards are the cheapest enameled
card on the market, and at the price are without
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Advanced— Citric Acid, Alooh
al, ‘Mes arcury, pcacy, Beiuinionc,
Declined—Antipyrine, Oil C Cajipat.
Acidum
ASeioum............ 8
Benzoicum, German
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Carbolicom .........
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Hydrochior .........
Memocem. .........
Oxalicum .
Phosphorium, “dil.
Salicyiicum. ........
Sulphuricum........
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Tennmicum .......... 1 2a
Warcaricum..........
Ammonia
Aone, 1% Geg........
Aqua, 2 deg.:......
Carbonas............
Chloridum ..........
Aniline
ek.
Brown ......
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Cubewe........ po. 18
suniperus...........
Xanthoxylum.. ....
Balsamum
Coparpa: ..:.........
Pere 2...
Terabin, ‘Canada..
(i
Cortex
Abies, Canadian....
Ee
Cinchona Flava.....
Euonymus atropurp
Myrica Cerifera, po.
Prunus Virgini Peele
Quillais, erd.......
Sassafras..... po. 18
Ulmus...po. 15, gr’d
Extractum
Glycyrrhiza Glabra.
Glycyrrhiza, po.....
Hematox, 15 lb box.
Heorentox, is ........
Hematox, es
Heematox, 458.......
Ferru
Carbonate Precip...
Citrate and Quinia..
Citrate Soluble......
Ferrocyanidum Sol.
Solut. Chloride.....
Sulphate, com’l.....
Sulphate, com’l, by
DDL per cwt.......
Sulphate, pure .....
Flora
Arnica ....-.........
Anthemis...........
Matricaria ..........
Folia
Barosma.............
Cassia Acutifol, Tin-
MeVelly...... .....
Cassia Acutifol,Alx.
Salvia officinalis, 4s
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Ura ee. .:.
Gummi
Acacia, Ist picked..
Acacia, 2d picked...
Acacia, 3d picked..
Acacia, sifted sorts.
Acacia, po..
Aloe, Barb. po. 18@20
Aloe, Cape ....po. 15
Aloe, Socotri. -po. 40
Ammoniac..........
Assafoetida....po. 30
Bensoinnm ....:.....
Catcenn, ts,........-
Catechu, 8.........
Catechu, %8.........
Camphore ae
Euphorbium. -po. "35
Gerpanum. .........
Gamboge po........
Guaiacum..... po. 25
Bing... ...-. po. 83.00
ion poets cee cele
ees po. 45 3
oon -po. 85.00@5.20 3 75@ 3
Spetiac. ... 63... . 2
Shellac, bleached..
Tragacanth Benes eee
Herba
Absinthium..oz. pkg
Eupatorium .oz. pkg
Lobelia...... oz. pkg
Majorum ....0z. pkg
Mentha Pip..oz. pkg
Mentha Vir..oz. pkg
eae, oz. pkg
TanacetumV oz. pkg
Thymus, V..oz. pkg
Tlagnesia.
Calotned, Pat. =...
Carbonate, ig Seale
Carbonate, K. & M.
Carbonate, Jennings
Oleum
Absinthium........ |
Amygdale, Dulc..
Amygdala, Amare . 8 00@
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Choncpadil cp
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Gaultheria ...
Geranium, ounce.
Gossippii, Sem. gal. :
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Junipera.
Lavendula .
Limonis..
Mentha Piper...
Mentha Verid
Morrhue, gal..
Myrcia,
Ove
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Picis Liquida, gal...
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Sinapia, ¢ ess., ounce.
Tem oe
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Bi-Carb..
Bichromate .
Chlorate. ae —
Cyanide..
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Potassa, Bitart, pure
Potassa, Bitart, com
Potass Nitras, opt..
Potass Nitras........
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ACemitym: 6...
Pee
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Glychrrhiza... py. 15
Hydrastis amen.
Hydrastis Can.,
Hellebore, Alba, a
Innis, po... ,
Ipecac, eee
Iris plox.. pes
Sapa or
Maranta, \s..
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Sanguinaria.. “po. it
Serpentaria
Senega..
Similax officinalis H
Smilax, }
Bee po. 35
Symplocarpus, Feeti-
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Valeriana, Eng. po.30
Valeriana, a
Zingiber a.
Zingiber j. a
Semen
AMIR... po. 15
A yg (graveleons)
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Cannabis Sativa
Cydonium a
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Dismte Odorate. .
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Lini, ‘grd_. bbl. 314
Lobelia ae
Pharlaris Canarian.
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Snapis Alba... |
Sinapis Nigra.......
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Frumenti, W. D. Co.
Frumenti, D. F. R..
Frumenti ..... .
Juniperis Co. O. T.
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Saacharum N. E....
Spt. Vini Galli......
Nint Oporto...
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Nassau sheeps ‘wool
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Velvet extra sheeps’
wool, carriage.....
Extra yellow sheeps’
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Grass sheeps’ wool,
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Hard, for slate use..
Yellow Reef, for
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Calcium Chlor., %s.
Calcium Chlor., 4s.
Cantharides, Rus. po
Capsici Fructus, af.
Capsici Fructus, po.
Capsici FructusB, po
Caryophyllus..po. 15
Carmine, No. 40..
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Cocaine oe 3 30@ 3 50
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Creosotum
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Creta, prep.......,
Creta, recip
Creta, Rubra
Crocus .
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Hydraag Chlor Mite
Hydraag Chlor Cor.
Hydraag Ox Rub’m.
Hydraag Ammoniati
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They are prepared just before going to press and are an accurate index of the local market.
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. Deans per doz......... 2 00
Home.
lq lb cans 4 doz case...... 35
% lb cans 4 doz case...... =
on cans 2 doz Case......
14 1b cans, 4 doz case.....
\¥% lb cans, 4 doz case......
1 Tb cans, 3 doz case...... 1 60
Jersey Cream.
1 1b. Cans, per doz.......... 2 00
» Ox. Cams, per doz.......... 1s
6 Os. Cams, per doz.......... 85
Our Leader.
een. 45
neo 7
a. oes. 1 50
Peeriess.
tib. came .... 85
Queen Flake.
SOs. 008. Cane............ 2 70
6 0z., 4 doz. case oo
Pee. 2 eon (nse. ......_.__. 4 80
hon | 2 ioe. Case............ 4 00
5 Ib., 1 doz. ease... _.-...
6ATH BRICK.
ocr... 7
ae 80
BLUING.
Pn SOR... 40
Large, 2 doz. a
BROONS.
ae tee... i 96
NO. 3 Carpet........ -_i
ee .
a oe... 1 15
Parlor Gem . eo. ee
Common Whisk............ 70
Fancy Whisk.. Sas 80
Warehouse. . 2%
_ CANDLES.
so. oo ce
ee 8
ee 8
CANNED GOODS.
Manitowoc Peas.
Lakeside Marrowfat....... 95
Beers ee £15
Lakeside, Cham. of Eng.... 1 20
Lakeside. Gem, Ex. Sifted. 1 45
Extra Sifted Early June....1 75
Calumbia, pints.......... 2 00
Columbia, % pints..........1 25
CHEESE
Ree ne @ 8%
ey kg @ 8%
ae... @ 9
ee @ 10
— @ 2
Se a im 4
Gold Medal... @
Ideal . eo a
Jersey ee @ 8%
Lenawee... oa 8
Riverside... @ 8%
Springdale. . @
en ae @ il
oe @ 7
eee @ 17
Eembercer........ @ 2B
Pasoapme........ 50 @ &
ie Clee... . @ i7
Chicory
i 5
Red 7
CHOCOLATE.
Walter ee 8.
a —- ‘
Breakfast pc ce
CLOTHES LINES.
Cotton, 40 ft, per doz...... i 00
Cotton, 50 ft, per doz - -1 20
Cotton, 60 ft, per doz ......1 46
Cotton, 70 ft, per doz.......1 60
Cotton, 80 ft, per doz ...... 1 80
Juse, G)Tt. por dos.........
Jute. 72 ft. ver dos... . o5
COCOA a
20 lb bags.. 2%
Less quantity... ie 3
Pound packages Oe 4
CREAM TARTAR.
5 and 10 1b. wooden boxes..30-35
COFFEE.
Green.
Rio.
mr...
Goon... -:.
eee 11
faeces... 12
Peapery .... 13
Santos.
, _-
——....... ... ne
a ............ -14
aay 15
Mexican and a
Fair . 5
mead oo . 16
as 17
Maracaibo.
ae. 19
ee. 20
Java.
ae 19
Private Growin.....-........- 20
Mandehling.. Peace ees. ee
Mocha.
Eeipation =...
See 22
Roasted.
Clark-Jewell- Wells Co. “‘sBrands
Fifth Avenue.....
Jewell’s Arabian aaa
Wells’ Mocha and Java..... 24
Wells’ Perfection Java..... 24
et 71
Breaktast Blend........... 18
Valley City Maracaibo. 184%
Hgee) Bleue... 14
eencr Bicone. ...... << .... 12
Package.
Below are given New York
prices on package coffees, to
which the wholesale dealer
adds the local freight from
New York to your. shipping
point, giving you credit on the
invoice for the amount of
freight buyer pays from the
market in which he purchases
to his shipping point, including
weight of package, also %c a
pound. In 60]b. cases the list
is 10c per 100 lbs. above the
price in full cases.
Arbuckle . 10 50
Jersey... ... SO oO
Tcl_aughlin’ s XXxX.. a
McLaughlin’s XXXX sold to
retailers only. Mail all orders
direct to W. F. McLaughlin &
Co., Chicago.
@xtract.
Valley City % gross . 7
Felix % gross.. 1 15
Hummel’s foil % gross... 85
Hummel’s tin & gross 1 42
CLOTHES PINS.
Geroes DOKGE.... .......... 40
COUGH DROPS.
C. B. Brand.
405 cent packages ........ 1 00
CONDENSED MILK.
4dozin —
Gail — Eagle i
Pere.
mes
Champion...
Magnolia
Challenge...
Dime —..
COUPON BOOKS.
Tradesman egg
50 books, any denom.... 1 50
100 books, any denom.. | 250
500 books, any denom.. 1.11 50
1,000 books, any denom....20 00
Economic ——
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
= Sans]
anes —
50 books, any denom..
100 books, any denom....
500 books, any denom....
1,000 books, any,denom....
Superior Grade.
50 books, any denom....
100 books, any denom....
500 books, any denom....
1,000 bouks, any denom....
Coupon Pass Books,
Can be made to represent any
denomination from 810 down.
_eheers.
50 books..
100 books . eee
ooo boees, 8...
wre peens..........
Ree pooks...... .........
Credit Checks.
500, any one denom’n.....
1000, any one denom’n.....
2000, any one denom’n.....
Steel punch.
DRIED FRUITS—DONMESTIC
Apples.
ye
SSS SsSS
Jeter)
ION
AZSS SSR
DOI w
Sendriog.....-... 2... @5
Evaporated 50 lb boxes. @ 8
California Fruits.
a @s%
Blackberries...........
Necearmmoen............ @ 74
ga aE 64Q 7%
Pears... @7%
Pitted (Cherries........
Pronmeree.............
Raspbermics............
California Prunes.
100-120 25 lb boxes.......
90-100 25 lb boxes....... @ 5%
80 - 90 25 1b boxes....... @ 5%
70 - 80 25 1b boxes....... @ °%
60 470 25 lb boxes @ 7%
50 - 60 25 Ib boxes....... @ 8
40 - 50 25 Ib boxes....... @ 9
30 - 40 2 1b boxes.......
lg cent less in 50 1b cases
Raisins.
Lendon Layers 3 Crown. 1 45
London Layers 4 Crown. 2 00
Dee .............,,.
Loose Muscatels 2 Crown 33%
Loose Muscatels 3 Crown 4%
Loose Muscatels 4 Crown 5%
REIGN.
ee
Patras bbls.. «ee
Vostizzas 50 Ib cases... .. @it%*
Cicamed balk ........:..: @ 8%
Cleaned, ; Packages. oe oe @ 8%
eel.
Citron American 101lb bx @13
Lemon American 10 1b bx @12
Orange American 10lb bx @12
aisins.
Ondura 28 ib boxes.....8 @ 8%
Sultana 1Crown....... @
Sultana 2Crown.......
Sultana 3 Crown...
Sultana 4 Crown
Snitana 5 Crown.......
Sultana 6 Crown
Sultana package...
FARINACEOUS GOODs.
Parina.
Ziiib. packares..........1 6%
Bulk, per #69 Ts.:.-. . |. 4 00
Grits.
Walsh-DeRoo Co.'s.
242 1b. PACKABES........... 2%
100 fo. Reps... 4 13
Hominy.
Darrow... . 2 50
Flake, 501b. drums....... 1 00
Beans.
riod ijn . oS:
3
Medium Hand Picked....1 30
Maccaroni and Vermicelli.
Domestic, 10 lb. box...... 60
Imported, 25 lb. box.. ... 2 50
Pear! Barley.
Commie 2 00
—. | 225
Meee 3 00
Peas.
on oe 95
Panis, Wee 2
Rolled Oats.
Rolled Avena, bbl.......4 60
Monarcn: bbl... . .4 40
Monarch. om... 2 35
Monarch, 90 1b sacks...... 210
Gueker. CASES: ........5..: 3 20
Eiron, CRSOR. 1%
Sago.
Geren. 4
Hast India... se
since
PO eis ey a 314
Pearl.. fae 35
Anchor, ‘40 11b. pkges. ce 5
Wheat.
Cracked, bulk............. 314
242 1b packages ce cppawuae 2 50
Fish.
Cod.
Georges cured... .... @5
Georges genuine...... @ 5%
Georges selected..... @ 6
Strips or bricks...... 6 @9
ferring.
Holland white hoops, bbl.
Holland white hoop % bbi
Holland white hoop, keg. 35
Holland white ne mchs 80
Norwegian... .... ll 00
Round 100 lbs............ 23
Bound S)tce............. 1 30
Scaled.. 13
Tlackeret.
Mess 100 Ibs...... --. oo
mens 20108. ............. 698
Meere 10 10K....... ....... 1 oe
Mens 5 ims.....--.... 1 48
Ne. 1 ep is.......... .... Se
No.1 40 1bs. 6 10
No.1 101bs. 1 60
het Glee... ........: 1 30
No.2 100lIbs... . . wo
No.2 ibe... .. 4 30
No.2 Wibs...... 16
Ne:> sibs... . 95
Trout
No. 1 100 ibe 5 AO
No.1 4t: ws 2 50
mo.t i 1: ee Aare 70
No. ! —.. lL 59
W niteftsh.
No.1 No.2 Fam
eo 1Ds om 573 22
i lbs eee 2a) ta
~ lbs 78 WZ 38
8 lbs.. 85 61 33
er. i.
D. C. Vanilla LC. Lm
7... 1 2 :, oe.
Sor. 4 50 Soe. 00
fos... ...2 68 £o2....-.1
Soz.-....3 60 Sos... 2 00
No. 8 4 00 No. 8.240
No. 10__.6 00 No. 10. ._.4 60
No. 27.1 2 No. 27, oo
No. 37:2 00 No. 37.1 &
No i728 No. 47.1 50
Northrop Denne.
Le em Van.
2 oz. Taper Panel 7D 1 20
2 oz. Oval. %5 1 90
Taper Panel_1 35
Taper Panel..1 60 2 25
Souders’.
Oval bottle, with corkscrew.
Best in the world for the
money.
3 OZ.
4 Oz.
Regular
Grade
Lemon.
doz
Son... 7
me . 1 50
Regular
Vanilla.
doz
_~<......=
o...... 2 40
XX Grade
Lemon.
a =
He LAVORING
Ss een
S208... 1 7%
Oe os 3 50
FLY PAPER.
Tanglefoot, per box........ 30
Tanglefoot, c’se of 10 b’x’s 2 55
Tanglefoot, 5 case lots. .... 2 50
Tanglefoot, 10 case lots.... 2 40
GUNPOWDER.
Rifle—Dupont’s.
Pee 4 00
Det Bere. oe.
Chereer Beee...........-....1
1 Cee 30
a i CORR. 18
Choke Bore—Dupont’s.
Ree 4%
bat Bees ee
RUeer Pee te 1 35
Pie Cees |... ...t.. 34
Sage Duck—Dupont’s.
Bere i, 8 00
Half Kegs. . .&% 2D
Quarter Kegs. 2 oo
tid. cans. .... i 45
HERBS.
peee. ..- ce ee
eps... ; 6
INDIGO.
—, ® ID bomes....... 5b
-, 2,3 and 5 lb boxes 50
JELLY.
5 Ib palls.. 35
30 Ib pails.... 65
LYE.
Condensed, 2 dos ....:.....1 8
Condensed. 4 doz 2 2
LICORICE.
Calabria ..... ee
ee 14
ON 10
MINCE MBAT.
| Ideal, 3 doz. in case.........2
4 MATCHES.
Diamond Match Co.’s —
Noo suimher. 1 65
Anchor Farior.............: 1 70
MO, 2 OMe 1 10
Bepor Paro... |. 4 00
MOLASSES.
New Orleans.
Bisek. .. a 1]
Fay .... ee ee i4
OO ec: 20
Pee 24
Open Rettio a 25@35
Half-barrels 2c extra.
MUSTARD.
Horee Radish, 1 doz......... 1%
Horee Radish, 2? dog.........3 50
Bayle’s Celery, 1 doz.. 1%
wa
Clay. Ne. 26... ke
Clay, T. ip full count. 65
eos... 85
POTASH.
48 Cans in Case.
Bape k............. 40
Penna Salt Co.’s.... 3 9%
PICKLES.
Medium.
Barrels, 1,200 count..... 5 25
Half bbls, 600 count....... 3 13}
Small.
Barrels, 2,400 count...... 6 35
Half bbls 1,200 count... 37
RICE.
Domestic.
Carolina head.... oe.
Carona No.t .......
Carolina No. 2.. oe
Broken.. : 38%
imported.
Japan, No.1. 6%
Japan, No. 2. . 6
Java, fancy end) cs 6
Java. Wet i 5%
Tae...
SALERATUS.
Packed 60 Ibs. in box.
Church’s . i 3 we
Deland’s . ee
Peienee oe
POOP os: 3 00
SAL SODA.
Granulated, bbis........ 7
ere 100 lb cases.. 9)
Lump, bbls. : 75
Lump, 145) kegs . 85
SEEDS.
Anise .. .. nee 9
Canary, Smyrna.. le 3%
Caraway .......:.... : 8
a Malabar .. 6
Coiere 11
Heme, mieHIaR 3%
Mesog Bird... 3-:5).. 2
Mustard, white....... .. 5
PORE ee 0
Be s%
Cuttie Bone...) 03... 20
SNUFF,
Scotch, in bladders......... 3
Maccaboy, injars........... 36
French Rappee, in Jars..... 48
SALT.
Diamond Crystal.
Table, cases, 24 3-lb boxes. .1
tye barrels, 100 3 1b bags.2
Cable, barrels, 407 1b bags.2 4
Butter, barrels, 2801b. buik.2 §
Butter, barrels, 20 14 —_— 2%
Butter, sacks, 28lbs..... 25
Butter, sacks, 56 lbs......... 55
Common seinen
100 3. Ib sacks. .... te
60 5-lb sacks... i as
SS i0ineacks 0) 1 60
Worcester.
nO £ Id, carions.|...... |. 3 25
tio ele. SOCES. 5... 4 00
Oe S ib seeks... ..... 2
fae 1 seeks... . |: 3 50
eo 20, SO: BROKER 5... 3 50
25 ib. linen sacks............ 32
oe iD, linen SAGES... :... 60
Batk In barges... ...... 2. 2 50
Warsa
56-lb dairy in drill» bags..... 30
28-lb dairy in drill bags..... 15
Ashton.
56-lb dairy = — sacks. 60
Higg gins.
56-lb dairy in linen sacks 60
Solar Rock.
S610 snore. 21
Common.
Granulated Fine. . 75
Medium Fine.. @
SOAP.
JAXO a
See DOK es ris)
5 box lots, delivered........ 2 ee
10 box lots, delivered....... 2 65
JAS. 8. KIRK & 60.’S BRANDS:
American Family, wrp’d....2 66
ee a 75
CADRE icc 2 20
Se a 2 50
White Russian.. oo
White Cloud, laundry. Seas 6 x5
White Cloud, toilet. -+.-0 00
Dusky Diamond. 50 6 '02..--2 10
Dusky Diamond, 50 8 oz....3 00
Bine India, 100 ¥ Ib......... 3 00
Bimeene. 3 50
—.... 2 50
Schulte Soap Co.’ 8 an
100 cakes, 75 lbs.
Single box. i‘ ete oe
SOM We 2%
i box lo... be tle chess ae
> hex tO. 2 60
Allen B. Wrisley’s Brands.
Old Country, 80 1-Ib. bars ..2
Good Cheer, 60 1-lb. bars....3 75
Uno, 100.4 -1b. bars. ... ......2
Doll, 100 10-or. bars.........3 6
Scouring. |
Sapolio, kitchen, 3 doz .... 2
Sapolio, hand, 3 doz . 2
~~
~
ws
SODA.
Boxes .. 5%
Kegs. English 4%
SPICES.
Whole Sifted.
ATIROIOG .. 8... 13
Cassia, China in mats. 12
Cassia, Batavia in bund... 25
Cassia, Saigon in rolls..... 32
Cloves, Amboyna.......... 14
Cloves, Zanzibar........ 12
Mace, Batayia............. 55
Nutmegs, a i
Nutmegs, No. 1. -
Nutmegs, No. 2.. .. ©
Pepper, Singapore, black... i1
Pepper, Singapore, white... iz
go 12
Pure Ground in Bulk.
Aepiee 2. | i 15
Cassia, Batavia .
Cassia, Saigon...
Cloves, Zanzibar.
Ginger, African.. ag
Ginger, Cocuim. |... -...
Ginger, Jamaica............23
Mace, Batavia.. ons 65
Mastard R@I18
Nutmegs, ..... . 40@: 0
Pepper, Sing , black ........ 12
Pepper, Sing., white........ 20
Pepper, Cayenne oo 20
Sage.... ome,
SYRUPS.
i
ene. 18
Half’ ae. . ae 20
Pure Cane.
Pee cS i6
Good 20
Choice ........ ite
a 5
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 2|
tical
STARCH. TABLE SAUCES. _ Candies. Grains and Feedstuffs Provisions. Crockery and
pea Permnis, large. ago bo Lit Tt nn Glass are.
Lea & Perrin’s,small... 2 75 Swift & Company quote as Ww ia
Halford, larse... | 3% Stick Candy. oo Wheat. follawme: ee
Halford smait...... oS bbls. pails Oo ee 20 AKRON STONEWARE.
Salad Dressing, large.....4 55 Standavd bu q Ne ee 1 20 Mess Barreled Pork. se Biutenen|
or § = J Ss ~ JU
Salad Dressing, small.....2 65 es wisi. cus 8 Winter Wheat Plour. Back iS 00 | 4 eal. perdos........... 40
VINEGAR. Cut Loaf.. @ 8% Locai Brands. ao fin = a oe gal., , berg Oa 4G
cases a ; face ae
i . a ;| Jumbo, 321b ........ Pei Patents Je a 16 00} 10 gal., each... 4s
Malt White Wine, 40 grain.... 6 on H ° rth 6 8% | Second Patent.........11." ee 11 00 | 12 gal., each i
Malt White Wine, 80 grain.... 9 . ts /2 az 7 05 | Famil 12 00 | 15 gal. k : o
’ Pure Cider 10} Boston Cream...... @ Straight... cca. | Oe aoe... me 5 gal. meat-tubs, each
Kingsford’s Corn. Pure © id wg pone la oo A eae 6 50 Dry Salt Meats. 20 gal. meat-tubs, each....1 20
40 1-Ib packages............. 6 ee Mixed Candy. Graham ................... 6 0 | Bellies 7 = = meat-tubs, eae
20 1 1b packages............. 614 i ie i Bememmeng 000) ou 400 aaa ee aa gal. meat-tubs, each... .2 7
Washing Powder. Competition......... @ 6% | Rye . a30 ee 6ig Charns.
Kingsford’s Silver Gloss. > fonction ee. @it Subject ‘to usual cash dis Suliaed Mets 2 to 6 gal., per gal. 5
OSCE. TY . np, My : s
40 1-Ib packages............. 8% Royal 1s g 7% aes in bbls.,25¢ per bbl. ad- | Hams, 12 1b average .... g | Churn Dashers, per doz...
Oa Peres 7 Ribbon ee @ 8% | ditional. — - = - omer 8% Milkpans.
SOREH |... » 3 ams Werage..... By 4) es wah P 5
Diamond. i Cut oat ¢ 8% Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand Hams, 20 lb average..... 814 4 = a . = ay = yt
64 10¢ . So. i . English Rock....... @S | Diamond, ts........00 2. 7 00 | Ham dried beef ... 14 en a : psy 4
= = Saat a ckay "8 00 | Kindergarten....... @ 8% Diamond a. 7 00| Shoulders (N. Y. cut). 6% ne Ulaze pans.
| rench Cream. 8% y Ne & @ 2 gal. ad. DOG.,doz. ¢
aLonnos nL ee S| ee kecemrcnmeen | eee ame” ae Set nese tae,
| Sey Pan OF woe ok ee) «6 CalferniA hams a : - DOt., Cf :
vee eso iy Corn. Valley wa = Ww seg Grocer Co.’s Brand. Boneless hams....._ |” 9 Shc,
2 >. eKABES.....--.6. 2. | Clamer 5. ‘ ov | Cooked ham... . 10@1244 =
W Lib packages... 434 | Fancy—In Bulk. Giaker we 7 50 Cis ke Wie % gal. fireproof, bail, doz. 85
iiaiiidsians hina ; : @ | Quaker, is : 7 50 Cues Ss. in Tierces. 4x, | 1 8al- fireproof, bail, doz.1 10
oO . ozenges, plain..... 9 col eompeunea. 43%
Pit} pACKeweR.. 2.1... Ate : Lozenges, printed.. @ 9 Spring Wheat Flour. Kettle. ca. 13% Jugs.
> a Bee tes, i 4} — Monte: a @is Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s Brand. | 55 1b Tubs....... advance 14 4 : = - eee ae =
5 meneres ; 10c. Monumentals 1 -. advance % | Y pete for scsde | Se
40 and 50 1b boxes. -_- a6 00 12 oz pkgs : i 3 59) Gum Drops)... 7. g 6 Eaobery? s — a. - arene %|1tod a Hergal.. dK
Berra 3 SU eerste ss 2 OY aes) Bee >8 -illsbury’s Best 14s... .-advance 5% Jugs.
Sour Drops. eel, g 9 Pillsbury’s Best %s advance % ao 7 42
WICKING. Enepertala.- 01)” @ 9 | Pillsbury’s Best 3s paper. advance 1 | % Sat» por dos 5%
No. 0, per gross 25 Pillsbury’s Best 34s paper. advance L14g @orke tas % gal., ‘per doz.. 20 7
y e a ee a Rump.. ----4400 | Tubal 50
No. 4, 3 doz in case, gross.. 4 50| _ Fer Ib. | Mottoes @55 hte ee a0
No. 6, 3 doz in case, gross.. 7 20} Whitefish . Se) Grea Bae) 5() Pigs’ Feet. Security, No.1............. 65
Trout. @ °& Molasses Bar ...... oo Kit Gia pee 70 Security, me. 2... 85
SUGAR. Black Bass... -8 @ 10 | Hand Made Creams. 80 @! 00 % bbls, 40lbs........ ... 150 | Nutmeg 50
Below are given New York | Halibut.......... : @ 12 Plain Creams..... 60 @90 % bbls, 80 Ibs. 200 | Cae 5)
prices on sugars, to which the | Ciscoesor Herring.. @ 4 Decorated Creams.. @ ripe. LAMP CHIMNBYS—Common.
wholesale dealer adds the local | Bluefish............. @ = String Rock 0 | Go Kits, 15 lbs i | 90 Per box of 6 doz.
freight from New York to your | Live Lobster....... @ 16 Burnt Almonds... 1235 @ 4 bbls, ihe 150 Ne OS 1 32
shipping eos, giving _ — Lobster. = = Wintergreen Berries @éu % bbls, 80 lbs... 2 60 em ;: Sun...... 1 a
credit on the invoice for the settee eee } C “ No. 2 Sun. 2 18
amount of freight buyer pays Haddock... @ 8 Caramels. asi ings. i ; met
from the market in which he| No. 1 Pickerel...._ @ 7 |No. A wreneed. 2 Ib. no i teense ae No. 0 First Quality. top,
purchases to his shipping point, | Pike................. @ 6 Re @35 eef rounds. a wrapped and labeled.... 2 10
: : a de fos the Pern 2. Qa 2% ct Beef middles........ |. 10 Pr
including 20 pounds fo 4 White 57 | No. wrapped, 3 Ib ~ sq | Sheep 60|No. 1 Sun, crimp top,
weight of the barrel. a. ¢ 10 a iy ii @i0 Duluth Imperial, 16S.. 8 - o. uterine oo _wrapped and ae ed. 2 25
DOMINO 5 88 i 9 | No.2 2 wrippe 2 Ib. Dulutb Imperial, 4s. ..... a4 ' No. Sun, crimp top,
Cit Beat 5 88 a aeadeny Silo eg e boxes .. i Duluth Imperial, %s....... 7 30 ae = — = .. wrapped and labeled ! 8 95
Crushed Ce ; = oe == ———————= | Lemon & Wheeler Co.’s Brand. Rolls, Creamery ......... 14 , XXX Flint.
ENGR ce cee 5 6: i ee ie | Se s
POWGerCe 5 63 Oysters in Cans. ‘Fruits Gold Medal \s.. 7 59 | Solid, creamery . | 18 ge ed
No. 4........... Fancy 360s or 300 @4 00 ir for Globe Lamvs 80
No. 5.. ..4 94 Shell Goods. aa ae Gi sy | Laurel, igs a Solna Tc ta tear mean an nt
Me 6 ee 4 88 ll -» | Fa fae Soe — 39 | Laurel, 4s... % 45 T ie National Biscuit Co. La Bastie.
ea 4 SI | Oysters, per i 1 25@1 50 ancy eee. eo | quotes as — No. 1 Sun. plain bulb, per
MO 8 47%|'sms_ per i [ Bananas. Butter. doz 1
Mo. 9.. --4 63 : Medium bunches...1 25 7oo\ tenes ............. . 2 29 | Seymour XXX . ey No. 2 Sun, plain bulb, ‘per iV
No 10 ee : = i Large bunches. si oe 3 @ 00 | Granulated . ae 2 50 —— XXX, 31b. carton 7% uel jinn ; =
io: th... - 4 6 X) 7 | Ne. | Crimp, per dos...:... 5
pe ; o Hides and Pelts. Foreign Dried Fruits. Feed and 1 Millstutts. Family xRx, 31b carton.. 7%| No.2 Gime per doz.. 1 60
NO, 18............ ee... eee. Figs St. Car Feed. screened ....18 50| Salted XXX 7 Rochester
ae 4 38 gs. oo .2 oo hester. ;
— 14 31 Choice, 101b boxes.. e BS wats. ------17 50 | Salted XXX, 3 Ib earton.-) 7% | No. 1, Lime (@5¢ doz). .... 3 50
nee: 4 25! The Cappon & Bertsch Leather | Extra choice, 14 1b iw inter W heat Ran .14 0 Soda. No. 2, Lime (706 dos).._... 4 00
oe Co., 100 Canal Street, quotes as! boxes... l @ Winter wheat # Middlings.. 45 SOdaA RAN 7% | No. 2, Flint (80¢ doz)...... 4 70
TOBACCOS follows: Fancy, 12 Ib. boxes. @ 14 Screenings. . 15 09 | Soda XXX, 3 1b earton. 8 Electric.
F Hides. Imperial Mikados, 18 i Soda, City ae --- 3% | No. 2, Lime (70¢ doz) ..... 4 00
Cigars. - No. 1 @ BI Pe on @ ‘“ New Corn. Zephyretie. ges ----. Il | No, 2, Flint (80e doz)...... 4 49
Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s brand. ahi el a @ © 2 | Pulled, 6 1b boxes. @ 13) car lots... il 40 ong Island Wafers... 12
ee eae ae es pin co are He o os, | Naturals, as ie @ 6% | Less than ‘car ‘lots... 43 L. 1. Wafers, 1 1b carton 13 ' gal a samen iia 7
‘ Yo.” Cured N62 @ 8% inti Oyster. 1 gal galv iron with spout. 1 65
H. & P. Drug Co.’s —— Calfskins, green No. 1 @ Big Fards in 10 lb boxes @B8 Oats. ' Square Oyster, XXX. ...... 7 2 I See iron with spout. 2 87
Quintette ....-......-...... 35 00 | Calfskins, green No.2 @v7Z | Fards in 60 lb cases @6 | Car lots. . -.- 34 Sq. Oys. XXX.1 1b carton. 8 |3 gal galy iron with spout, 3 50
Calfskins, cured No.1 @10 | Persians, G. M’s.... @5 —— clipped ... ii 7 Farina Oyster, XXX....... 7 |5galgalv iron with spout. 4 7%
G. J. Johnson Cigar Co.'s brand. | Calfskins, cured No.2 @ $34 | ED cases, new...... @6- ess than car lots. ' SWEET GOODS—Bores. | 3 gal galv iron with faucet 4 %5
| Sairs, 601b cases.... @ 4% Hay. Animals ... : 11% 5 gal gis iron with faucet 5 za
Pelts. Sa cee Bent’s Cold Water... o gal Tilting cang.......... 8 00
as a a eee Timothy arlots...... 9 00 Saris Base es ane 5 gal galv iron Nacefas.... 9 00
>elts. each 50@1 00 | No. 1 Timothy, ton lots 10 00
Pelts, each............ 50@ Nuts. a Cocoanut Taffy........ |... is. Pump Cans,
Ec — | Coffee Cakes........ 11 | 5 gal Rapid steady stream. 9 00
Tallow. aa 4 h ~ | Frosted yer 13% | 5 gal Eureka non-overtiow 10 56
J aa T ee | Graham Crackers |... 1... 8% | 3 gal Home Rule.. -10 50
ae @2 iAuooeae i git Fres Meats. Ginger Snaps, XXX round. 8 | 5 gal Home Rule.........712 00
| Almonds, California, io Ce oas gai aa | Ginger Snaps, XXX city. 8 5 gal Pirate King...... . 950
Wool. | soft shelled. . Q@13z | Beef. Gin. Sups,XXX home made 8 LANTERNS,
s.c.W 33 00 | Brazils new Qa | Gin. Sups, XXX —— 8 No. 0Tubular 4 25
ck sar Govebrand. | Washed, fing ......... @18 | Bion et. Qi | Carenss oceans anaes. 64@ 7H | SEEESBPEREX seal S| No. 1B Tubular..." 27. 6 50
Michigan Cigar Co.'s br Washed, medium...... “3 | Walnuts, Grenobles .. @i3 | Fore quarters......... 5&@ 614 Imperials «--..-.. 2... 2.2... 5% | No. 13 Tubular Dash. .... 6 30
Unwashed, me | eee Celi ee 2 Ott | a. quarters aces 9 ats ae aoe a - tee “e No. 1Tub.,glassfount.... 7 00
Unwashed, medium ..16 @I18 : | Leis No. S.......:... Olusses Cakes... Y, | NO. -
re Un fl k le Walnuts, See ae + en joe 15° | No. ——- lamp. 14 OC
inne) ee a vt ttte seen eee wen 7 Marshmallow Creams... ee LANTERN GLOBES,
n . 9 Chucks... ....... % i Pretzels, hand made ..... 9% . -2 > ___
Be Specific in Billing.
Written for the TRapESMAN.
The tendency to terseness and brevity
in business transactions and phraseoloy
is doubtless a commendable one. The
careful study of a habit of concise
clearness !s a most essential part of the
training of the successful business man.
But that this quality shall be of value,
it is necessary that it be genuine—it is
a quality whose affectation is a sham.
Genuine business brevity is acquired
only by the most careful and painstaking
study; and in this study clearness and
completeness must be constantly con-
sidered. The brevity which omits that
which is necessary to a complete and
ready comprehension of the entire mat-
ter under consideration is worse than
the opposite error—too much _ verbiage.
Perhaps as forcible an iliustration of
the injurious effects of the carrying of
this tendency to an undue degree may
be found in the specifications in mak-
ing invoices of sales or manufacture
Often the habit, or affectation, of brev-
ity leads not only to the use of the
smallest possible number of words in
the description, but to the employment
of so many arbitrary abbreviations, that
only the most carefully and fully initia-
ted can make out the complete mean-
ing. There may be something of com-
pliment to the intelligence of the recip-
ients of such bills, but this is not worth
the annoyance and uncertainty likely to
result from the lack of complete speci-
fication, especially where all degrees of
intelligence—-or time for solving puz-
zles—are to be dealt with.
The prime object to be considered in
the making of an invoice is the put-
ting of the account concerned into
shape for the earliest possible collection.
Thus the rendering of such invoice is
not a matter simply for the convenience
of the customer. Any lack of clear-
ness, even if it does not lead to corres-
pondence for its elucidation, and conse-
quent waste of time, is likely io hinder
in the checking up and preparation fo
settlement.
As a rule, no abbreviations or obscure
terms should be employed in itemizing
which will not be clear and complete to
any one reasonably familiar with the
line of trade, whether it be known that
the recipient will understand it or not.
Circumstances may make it necessary
for those less familiar to audit the
items. It is not well to let any business
matier depend exclusively upon the
technical knowledge of any one—some-
time it will be apt to cause confusion
and loss.
Then, in billing, care should be taken
that all variations in charges should be
made perfectly clear. Any unusual cir-
cumstance which increases the price
should be explained in sufficient detail
to be fully comprehended, and should
be put in terms to gain favorable con-
sideration. It should be constantly kept
in mind that the object of the invoice is
to do all possible to prepare the way for
the collection. To do this it is as de-
sirable to explain a variation which
lessens a price as well as one which in-
creases it, for it is as bad to cause sus-
picion in regard to the previous in-
voices as to create distrust as to the
current one, ROSENSTEIN.
a a aman ennai et icertispirnshncsteenoceiptietiin ininlencmeanrssiiy
Clark-Rutka- Jewell Co.
— Jonia Street,
Grand Rapids, Mich.
Opposite Union Depot.
New Wholesale
Hardware House
New House, New Goods, oss Prices.
Call and see us when in the city.
Write us for prices.
Clark-Rutka-Jewell Co.
|
FISHING TACKLE
To regular dealers in this class of goods we are al-
ways glad to send our catalogue and discount sheet.
Foster, Stevens & Co., Grand 0 Mich.
Sole Mfgrs CRYSTAL ROCK FINISH, for sie and Exterior Use
Corner 15th and Lucas Streets, Toledo, Ohio.
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Enforced Curtailment of Bicycle Ad-
vertising.
Written for the TrRapEsMAN.
In the days when the margin between
the cost of manufacturing bicycles and
their selling price was much greater
than it is now it was possible to spend
money with considerable lavishness in
the work of securing sales. Thus not
only were the columns of the large list
of wheel papers well filled with wheel
announcements, but large space was
taken in the daily press and in all sorts
of magazines and general publications,
In the same spirit the expenditures in
the preparation of catalogues and other
advertising matter were almost without
limit, the different manufacturers vying
in costly productions, if not in those
showing the finest art and taste, At
that time the harvest for the advertising
periodicals was a consideration of ma-
terial importance, giving great promise
for the future, and the work of making
hne wheel catalogues was made a spe-
cialty by many firms, who fancied that
they had found in it their El Dorado.
- But, while the making of wheels has
gone on apace, until the number in use
is coming to fully meet the most san-
guine expectations, the advance in pros-
perity has not been shared by the ma-
chinery of publicity. The reason for
this change in the situation is owing to
several causes, prominent among which
is the great reduction in margin. On
account of the exacting requirements in
wheel manufacture, caused by the con-
tinual raising of the standard of me-
chanical precision, the cost of manufac-
ture has not decreased in the better
grades of wheels, while the selling price
is greatly lessened. The bringing of
margins to a more natural business basis
has so greatly lessened the allowances
for advertising purposes that great havoc
has been wrought in the ranks of wheel
publications and there are found to be
very positive limits to the expenditures
for printed matter.
The unwarranted stimulation in the
manufacture, especialiy as to the num-
ber of factories, which resulted from
theoretically large profits, has been fol-
lowed by a reaction, which has had a
serious effect upon bicycle advertising.
The more reckless of the new concerns
were naturally the most lavish in adver-
tising expenditure, and it is among these
that there has been the greatest business
mortality. For this reason the losses in
advertising accounts have been tremen-
dous and have had a material influence
in lessening the number of bicycle
periodicals, either by failure or by con-
solidation.
The mania for lavish expenditure in
wheel catalogues had a material influ-
ence in the great departure in artistic
catalogue work which has characterized
the productions of recent years. But in
this branch of wheel publicity the day
of unlimited lavishness is past. Even
the great houses are contenting them-
selves with more modest productions
and the many failures among the rest
have materially lessened the number of
catalogues produced.
During the halcyon days of the wheel
trade a number of printing houses, act-
ing on the supposition that the favorable
conditions must be permanent, made
special preparations for that particular
work, put agents into the field and
built up a large and expensive business.
These have suffered, not only on ac-
count of the lessening in the demand for
such work—on account of building up
a large trade on a failing foundation—
but the business catastrophies which
have lessened the number of wheel-
makers have necessarily caused heavy
losses in unpaid bills.
The changes that have marked the
last year or two in the wheel trade do
not mean the discontinuance of bicycle
advertising—they only mean the cutting
off of unwarranted and unprofitable ex-
penditure and a reduction to the correct
business basis. Many of the papers
which helped to absorb the lavish out-
lay of former years were fakes pure and
simple and their failure was the natural
outcome of such enterprises. Many of
them lived long enough to serve the
purpose of the owners. There is no
significance in their careers as to the
value of advertising in the wheel trade.
The leading houses, which are main-
taining their places with ever-increasing
output, are those which are advertising
most judiciously and extensively. The
number of advertisers is less and the
expenditure is more carefully regulated,
but it is a recognized necessity in all
bicycle trade, whether in manufacture
or dealing. In the latter especially the
main dependence must continue to be
upon printers’ ink rather than in direct
canvassing or other means of effecting
sales. NATE,
—__—_—_®9<.___
Wherein Train Gates are an Advan-
tage.
Detroit, May 16-—I recently picked
up an old issue of the Tradesman in
which i read several interesting articles
on train gates. When I first saw these
gates, I thought they were an unneces-
Sary nuisance, but I changed my mind
after seeing a lady step offa D., L. &
N. train at Lyons, about a month ago,
after it had started and just as the
brakeman had finished helping on a_ lot
of passengers. She stepped across from
one platform to the other and off the
train before anyone could stop her. She
fell and seemed to hurt herself. If the
train gates had been on that train this
would not have happened. She was a
passenger on that train and intended to
get off at Lyons, but did not leave her
seat to get off until the passengers start-
ed to get on. Again, about a week later,
I was on the train going from Grand
Ledge to Howell when a man got on the
train at Lansing to say good-bye toa
lady friend and did not get off until the
train had passed Michigan avenue,
when he jumped off and fell. I asked
the conductor if he had many people
to get on and off the trains when going
and he said he did at nearly every sta-
tion and brakemen could not stop them.
Sometimes they fell and hurt them-
selves, but mostly got off without fall-
ing. I really think the gates are good
protection to keep careless people from
hurting themselves and I don’t believe
any reasonable traveling man would find
fault with them. The agent told me that
the woman who fell off at Lyons put im
a claim against the road and was paid
something.. | am sure you want to be
fair and will print this in your next
paper, for, although | am a traveling
man, | believe in being fair and show-
ing up both sides. EDWARD TRAVIS.
>3o>
The Omaha Exposition of 1898.
Beats the Centennial Exposition which
occurred in Philadelphia in 1876 away
out of sight and is next to the World’s
Fair at Chicago in importance to the
whole country. All of the states in the
Trans-Mississippi region are interested,
and our Eastern friends will enjoy a
visit to Omaha during the continuance
oi the Exposition, from June to October,
inclusive.
Buy your excursion tickets over the
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Rail-
way. An illustrated folder descriptive
of the Exposition will be sent you on
receipt of 2-cent stamp for postage.
Address Harry Mercer, Michigan Passen-
ger Agent, Detroit, Mich.
——_>
Concede to others all that you ask for
yourself,
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
Hardware Price Current.
AUGURS AND BITS
Se 70
Jennings’, genuine is...
Jennings’, imitation ‘ - « OUGIO
AXES
Hirst Quality, SB. Bronge........... 5 00
Hirst Quality, D.B. Bronze............ |... 9 50
Bites Guahty 8 BOS Steel) sg 50
Hirst Quahiv, DB Steet 10 50
BARROWS
TO ...-812 00 14 00
Garden........ We oe ook Le eo net 30 00
BOLT:
Se 60&10
Verape new lige 70 to 75
Te 50
BUCKETS
NN $32
BUTTS, CAST
Cast Loose Fin, figured...) 70&10
WieRehe Marve 70&10
BLOCKS
Oedinaty Pacha 70
CROW BARS
Cast Steer per lb 4
CAPS
Kiva £10...... a 65
Oe per m 5d
ee per m 35
Musket.. SAR eee ee eee hee tae es soos 5. Oe Te 60
CARTRIDGES
men Se - 00& 5
Central Fire... 2c& 5
CHISELS
ee 80
Se 80
DOCKE COr 80
ROCRCL Se 80
DRILLS
Mores DicSieeks 60
Taper and Straight Shank...... ...... i. oe oo
Morse’s Taper Shank |... . 0d 5
ELBOWS
Com. 4 piece, Gin... ........... des, net 50
ities i: 2
Se die aan
EXPANSIVE BITS
Clark’s small, $18; large, #26......... . -30&10
Hyves, 1.016, 2,00: 280 25
FILES—New List
New American .... (ee ee ee og
DOCRORON Re 70
Meters TOrse MASpe | een
GALVANIZED IRON
Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and 24; 25 and 26; 27. ..... 28
List 12 13 14 15 ~ .... 17
Discount, 75 to 75-10
GAUGES
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s..............’ 60410
KNOBS—New List
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings.... ......_.. 70
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings............ 80
MATTOCKS
Bewo ve... Le 08 dis 6oeta
UDO ENG. $15 00, dis 60410
Pee es $18 50, dis 20&10
NAILS
Advance over base, on both Steel and Wire.
reccl Mae BGG 2 1 60
Wire nails, base..... i
POCO GO AGVatee ol Bede
MOS TORGVONOO. 0S
COA 10
te 20
ee 30
AO a 45
ORC 70
Mine Seguance _ 50
ste 1G Meee wk. 8. 15
Cosme Sa0yeanece... a
Cece OC Oevaiee, ww, ok... 35
Pome MO AVANOS, 5
Peman GMGvemOG, ol. 35
Dims Gaevanee 45
monte: & Sevanee eo. 85
MILLS
Collen, Vertom Cas... )..-.....:,. .... 40
Coffee, P. S. & W. Mfg. Co.’s Malleables... 40
Coffee, Landers, Ferry & Clark’s........... 40
Oomee, Huterriee. 30
MOLASSES GATES
PeCUDEIEs PAIGE 8. eee
CUMin Ss GOMMING 60&10
Enterprise, self measuring ............ .... 30
PLANES
Cme Poen tas, faney @50
PERN SRT 60
pabdusny SoerGa s faiey @50
Bovier, REACGUANEY 6.0)... aoe
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s wood......... 60
PANS
Pee, OMe i Oar
Common, polished. .............. otcen.s FO& 5
RIVETS
iemmaned Tinted... |. Lt ., 60
Copper Hiveta and Burs.......00...: 2... .... 60
PATENT PLANISHED IRON
“A”? Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27 10
““B” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 25 to 27 9
Broken packages 4c per pound extra.
HAMMERS
20
20
Maydole & Co.'s, new Hst........ ...... dis 235,
Ns ee dis 25
Yerkes & Plumb’s... A ... dis wW&10
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel.......... ..30e lis, 70
Biscksmith’s Solid Cast Steel Hand 30¢ lis :40&10
2a
HOUSE PURNISHING GOODS
Stamped Tin Ware....... ......... new list 7510
wOrenneG fh Ware. 20&10
Granite Iron Ware.................new list 40&10
HOLLOW WARE
saan EE |
Lea OT ee 60&10
Pee ... 60&10
HINGES
Gate, Clarks, 1,22... -... dis 60410
weee.... --+++e--per doz. net 2 50
WIRE GOODS
Latta ee 80
ee ee 80
Ct . 80
Gaie Moeksand Hven 80
LEVELS
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s........ . - ie 70
ROPES
BINGE, 4 ineh and Igigee. R14
\ moi ns 9%
SQUARES
pece! and Iron. ................ 70&10
Pena Mevele 60
Mitre ...... al 50
SHEET IRON
com. smooth. com.
Neon tte M 82 70 82 40
Nes tol. ....... |. cece. oa 2 40
iol ee 2 45
men 2ttoet.... 3 00 2 55
| 3 10 2 6
mo. 27 .. 2 2%
All sheets No. 18 and lighter, over 30 inches
wide not less than 2-10 extra.
SAND PAPER
come ace 1 ee dis 50
SASH WEIGHTS
Ore ee per ton 20 00
TRAPS
Steel, Game...... 60410
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s i 50
Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton’s 70410
Mouse Chole... |... per doz
Mouse, delusion................. per doz i 2E
WIRE
renee Maske. bl ee 75
Anncwed Mase 5
Copyerca Marmee i le
OG 62%
Coppered Spring Steel......... 50
Baroed Fence, galvanized ............ ... 265
Barbed Pente, palated,.........:...., 6 4 ae
HORSE NAILS
sueee.............. rete eeee seer ee ese Gis 40G1C
eee 5
IOEGHWOREORM. 0... ate eae
WRENCHES
Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled.............; 30
Cmglawthiien.. 50
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought ..,.... 80
Coes Patent, malleable. .............. 80
MISCELLANEOUS
ere Cae 50
Pemape Cee 80
ences. New Lage... 85
Casters, Bed and Plate..... Heucae ones DOMED
Pampers, Ameren 50
METALS—Zinc
Oe pound casks 644
Per pouma............. 6%
SOLDER
ee eee 88 12%
The prices of the many other qualities of solder
in the market indicated by private brands vary
according to composition.
TIN—Melyn Grade
10x14 IC, Charcoal...... 05 %
fexee I, Carees! 5 75
Soxls IX. Charcoal .............. a 2
Each additional X on this grade, 81.25.
TIN—Allaway Grade
Wore uC, Cuareoas 4 50
[azo IC, Chareaal...... ..... bedice eae, oe
Pome ee CHMtOee
Murr Chante... ok. ee
Each additional X on this grade, 81.50.
ROOFING PLATES
Sixt IC, Charcoal, Deam.................... 480
saxo TX, Charcoal, Dean ................... & 58
axes IC, Charcoal, Dean........ ........... 9 Ge
14x20 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade......... 4 00
14x20 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade......... 5 00
20x28 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade........ 8 00
20x28 IX, Charcoal, Aliaway Grade.....°... 10 00
BOILER SIZE TIN PLATE
14x56 LX, for No. 8 Boilers, }
14x56 IX, for No. 9 Boilers, ;PeT Pound... 9
THE FORGOTTEN PAST
Which we read about can never be
forgotten by the merchant who be
comes familiar with our coupon
system. The past to such is always
a ‘‘nightmare.’’ The present is an
era of pleasure and profit.
TRADESMAN COMPANY,
GRAND RAPIDS.
SOnCROROROROROHOROZORORE
24
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
GENERAL TRADE SITUATION.
While some lines are complaining of
dulness and there is considerable talk
of the evil effects of the war in busi-
ness, a careful canvass of the situation
brings the conviction that, even with
the distraction of public attention, there
is not so much dulness as would natural-
ly be the case at this season of the year.
Combined with the unprecedented crop
movement at high values, the prospects
of even greater yields in nearly all lines
stimulate railroad equjpment and, agri-
cultural implement trade to an extent
which keeps up an activity beyond an-
ticipation, The effect of this upon
railway stock values is apparent in ad-
vanced quotations and greater strength.
The only crops which have been reported
unfavorably are corn, in some locali-
ties, and cotton. In the case of the
former there has been too much cold wet
weather for good planting and the same
conditions have affected the cotton re-
ports. The acreage of corn, on account
of the high price, will be very large
and the fact that its value as a food
product is coming to be more appre-
ciated promises well for its standing at
a higher average than for years past.
Wheat receipts at the West do not fall
off, in three weeks amounting to 14,-
581,002 bushels, against 5,952,602 for the
same weeks last year, and the increase
is even larger than the great increase
in exports, which for the same three
weeks for both coasts were 10,661,150
bushels, flour included, against 6,639, -
059 last year. Including the final offi-
cial report for nine months, and the
preliminary report for April, with these
current returns for three weeks of May,
the exports for the crop year have been
192,168,612 bushels wheat, flour in-
cluded, against 135,553,313 last year,
and 183,890,357 bushels corn, against
150 last year, when the outgo of
corn ran beyond all precedent. Appar-
ently, the wheat exports will fall a little
below the maximum, but of both grains
taken together the exports since July 1
have aiready far exceeded those of any
previous full year. In spite of the heavy
227
166, Fs
receipts, wheat again advanced 21%
cents in New York, to $1.66%, after
falling 15 cents the week before, and
rising 4114 cents the preceding week,
Another reaction is in evidence this
week which has cost a considerable part
of the last advance. Corn remains more
steady, but has advanced another cent.
Activity in the iron trade continues
without abatement. The only tendency
to reaction in prices seems to be in steel
billets, while there has been a_ positive
advance in Bessemer pig iron. Nortb-
ern pig iron furnaces are reported to be
sold ahead to the end of the year.
Textiles show better feeling all
around, although a few shut-downs are
reported in the wool trade. These,
however, are much more than offset by
the Government demands, which are
crowding a number of factories to the
utmost. The price of cotton prints has
advanced from the low point at which it
has remained for several weeks, and
although the change is slight, it is
enough to indicate a_ healthier tone.
The boot and shoe trade still continues
to exceed all expectation and prices of
hides and leather are still advancing.
Locally, there has been a degree of
dulness in some of the furniture facto-
ries which has caused many comments
on the ill effects of the war, but others
with more push in sales departments are
crowded to full capacity. The dulness
may be somewhat increased by the war
Situation, but it but little exceeds what
might be expected at the season, after
so long a period of unusual activity.
Comparatively small imports with un-
precedentedly heavy exports continue to
keep the balance in favor of this coun-
try so heavy that there is still a con-
siderable inflow of gold under conditions
which would ordinarily preclude such a
movement. Bank clearings—of $1, 325,-
691,000—are unusually heavy for this
season of the year. Failures have fallen
off 39 from preceding week, to 211.
- +> +>
The Grocery Market.
Sugar—-The market is strong, so far
as the refineries are concerned, but the
jobbers are still at sea in some parts
of the country, owing to the cutting in
prices persisted in by some represen-
tatives of the trade.
Tea—Samples of new Japans are due
the latter part of this week or the fore
part of next week. Trading in old teas
is slow, although the tone of the mar-
ket shows steadiness.
Canned Goods—The most sensational
advance which has overtaken the tomato
market for a jong time occurred last
week, when spot canned tomatoes at
Baltimore jumped from 92% cents in a
large way to $1.12% per dozen. The
direct cause of this is the large contracts
which the United States Government is
placing for canned goods, and espe-
cially tomatoes. Already 100,000 cases
have been ordered, and this is intended
to last only about one month. Orders
are being placed at Baltimore, Chi-
cago, New York and St. Louis. It is
estimated that, if the war lasts from two
to three months longer, canned tomatoes
will go to $1.50 to $1.75. These figures
are based on first hands’ sales in a large
way. Retailers would probably have to
pay $2 per dozen at least for three-pound
goods. This is a wholesale cost of 16%
cents per can, which would mean from
20 to 22 cents to the consumer for toma-
toes he could purchase for to cents a
few months ago. It is doubtful if even
at the high prices the supply will last
until the new pack will be available.
Before the Government took a case the
supply was considered small, and unless
some holders have stock up their sleeves
there can hardly fail to be a shortage.
The phenomenal advance of canned
meats, which are packed every day and
can hardly be exhausted, would seem to
imply even heavier advances for toma-
toes, which depend entirely on seasons.
If tomatoes reach the point indicated,
the consumption will be interfered with
very greatly, as they will be out of many
people's reach. The Government, how-
ever, will buy them, no matter what the
price. Corn is receiving more attention
on account of the high price of toma-
toes, and values of this articie are also
inclining to an advance. California
canned fruits are strong, under the influ-
ence of light supplies. Latest advices
from the coast state that the growers are
demanding from $40 to $50 per ton for
apricots for canning purposes. Lemon
cling peaches will be very scarce this
season, according to all the recent ad-
vices from California. Buyers are be-
ginning to enquire more freely for
canned salmon, owing to the high price
of corned beef, and salmon is enjoying
a fair jobbing demand.
Dried Fruits—Prunes are stronger
and higher. The consumption of this
fruit seems to continue in spite of the
advent of green fruit, and the foreign
demand continues to be larger than ever
known at this season of the year. Large
fruit is scarce in the East, while the
reports from the coast show that the
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stock in holders’ hands there is unusual-
ly light, being not over half the amount
on hand a year ago. The prospects are
for a light crop of larger sizes the com-
ing year because of the dry weather in
California. it will be June 1 before a
very intelligent estimate of the coming
prune crop can be made. The raisin
situation on the coast is reported to be
more promising. The low grade rai-
sins, that could not be handled by the
trade, are being disposed of to the win-
eries and are being fed to stock, so that
it is believed tbe market will be well
cleaned up by the time new raisins are
on the market. There is a little better
enquiry for sound stock.
Rice—The rice market is very strong,
with spot stock very scarce, and it is
difficult to get goods from the other
side. Buyers continue to take stock
liberally, and the market at all points
and in all positions is an exceedingly
strong one,
Tobacco—The proposed combination
of the plug factories, under the style of
the Continental Tobacco Co., has been
declared off, owing to the refusal of
some of the large manufacturers to go
into the deal.
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An Interesting Discovery.
A young man who has an office in the
Trust building has just made the de
lightful discovery that his fiancee is also
a financier. The young man’s sweet-
beart resides on the West Side and tor
several months past he bas called upon
ber regularly thrice a week. When he
first met the girl, two years ago, he
was, of course, extremely anxious to
make a good impression and he lavished
many presents upon her,
The girl's parents are quite well to
do, but she disapproves of an of
display or prodigality, and when, in the
natural course of events, the young man
proposed and was accepted, she felt it
to be her privilege and her duty to read
bim a little lecture on ‘*Economy.’’
She called his attention to the fact. that
every time he called he had been in the
habit of bringing flowers and candy to
the value of a dollar or two. She sug-
gested that in the future he should dis-
continue the presents, handing over a
silver doilar instead whenever he came
to see her. He laughed, for he thought
she was joking, but she speedily assured
him that she was very much in earnest.
So he paid his dollar regularly and
sort
finally came to the conclusion that the
money was being devoted to charity.
The wedding day was set for next
month, and an extended trip was con-
templated. Unfortunately, the young
man recently met a loss as the result of
an unexpected failure and dropped so
much money that he had to notify his
fiancee that their wedding trip must be
dispensed with. The dear girl laughed
at him, and, leaving the room fora mo-
ment, presently’ returned with a satchel
containing 256 stiver dollars Their
plans will not be changed.
WANTS COLUMN.
Advertisements will be inserted under this
head for two cents a word the first insertion
and one cent a word for each subsequent in-
sertion. No advertisements taken for less than
25 cents. Advance payment.
_ BUSINESS CHANCES.
OR SALE—DRUG AND GROCERY STOCK
in best town in Southern Michigan: good
trade. good reasons for selling. Address No. *i0,
care Michigan Tradesman #10
pINE OPPORTUNITY FOR EXPERIENCED
man with means to engage in the grist mill
business in Leelanau county. Fine wheat coun-
try. Acreage of wheat this year in easy access
to milil,8 09 acres. No opposition within twen
ty-s x mil*s. Mill site furnished free. Best of
shipping facilities either by rail or water. For
further particulars address Empire Lumber Co.,
Empire, Leelanau Co., Mich. i
OR RENT—LARGE DESIRABLE STORE
on best street. Address Mrs. B. Brewer,
Owosso, Mich. 571
POR SALE—)VRUG STOCK IN GOOD RAIL-
road town of 800 inhabitants. Only drug
and wall paper stock in town; part cash, re-
mainder on easy terms. Good reasous for sell-
ing. Address Otis Jones, New Buffalo, ae
60
— BEST OPENING IN MICHIGAN FOR
#n active business man with $'0,000 cy ¢ me
Ov0 to step into a well-established, paying whole-
sale business. For particulars, address Business
care Michigan Tradesman. 606”
JQUR SALE—DRUG STOCK; OR WILL TAKE
partner with small capital. Address No 609,
care Michigan Tradesman. 609
E AY, HAY HAY! FOR SALE AT RIGHT
prices. Correspond with Michigan ! roduce
Co., Lansing, Mich. 607
OR SALE—A DESIRABLE CORNER “EUG
store, hardwood m: dern fixtures. Price low,
terms easy. Address Opportunity, care Mich-
igan Tradesman. 612
YOUD 60 ACRE FARM IN WEXFORD
county, 35 acres improved, to trade for
small stock of hardware. Address Box 149,
Charlevoix, Mich. 611
HAVE SMALL STOCK OF DRUGS AND
fixtures in Ionia, taken on mortgage. Will
sell cueap for cash or trade for productive real
estate. Answer immediately. Will sell soon.
W. W. Hunt, Under National City Bank, Grand
Rapids. 596
I KICK STORE FUR RENT—BEST LOCA-
tion in city; will be let for any business ex-
cept dry gocds and cloth'ng. J. H. Levinson,
Petoskey, Mich: 600
OR SALE—GENERAL STOCK; STORE TO
rent; good location, good trade. Will sell
cheap for cash. Royce & Rolison, Hamburg,
Mich. 599
— SALE—I have two complete drug stocks
in Middleville. Will sell one and move other
away, or w.ll sell one-haif interest in either
stock— one to be moved into an other location—
toreliableman. Dr. Nelson Abbott, Middleville,
Mich. 591
OR RENT—DOUBLE STORE BUILDING
in Opera House block, Mancelona, Mich.,
be-t location in town; best town in State. Ad-
dress Julius H. Levinson, Petoskey, Mich. 580
Sige SALE, EXCHANGE OR REN 1—LARGE
two-story store and residence building in
town of 1,000 population in Northern Indiana;
stoue basement, 120 feet in dimensions. Inves-
tigate. Aduress No. 575, care Michigan Trades
man. 575
PUR REN't—THE FIRST AND SECOND
floors and basernents of the brick building
numbered 12 and 14 Lyon street, recently occu-
pied by Hirth, Krause & Co.; suitable for mer-
cantile or manufacturing purposes. Also the
large hall on the third floor over 8 and 10 Lyon
street, especially arranged for fraternal socie-
ties. Apply to Wm. McBain, Agent Estate of
Jas. W. Converse, 433 Michigan Trust Building,
Grand Rapids. 578
Tages SALE—FIRST-CLASS GROCERY, MEAT
market and crockery stock, located in one
of the best towis in Michigan: best location in
the city. Gcod reasons for selling; a bargain
for the right person. Will sell for cash only.
Address No. 568, care Michigan Tradesman. 568
nc SALE— BUILDING AND NERAL
stock; best farming section in Michigan.
No trades. W _ H. Pardee, Freeport, Mich. 500
NOR EXCHAEGE FUR GROCERY OR MER-
chandise stock—Choice section land near
Jamestown, North Dakota. Dakota lands in
great demand for farming or stock raising.
Carl Dice, Monroe, Mich. 534
7 EXCHANGE—FORK CLOTHING, DRY
goods or shoes, very nice well rented Grand
Rapids property.
gan Tradesman.
T EXCHANGE =~ FARMS AND OTHER
property for dry goods, clothing and shoes.
Address P. Medaiie, Mancelona. Mich bos
\ JANTED—A PRACTICAL MILL MAN,
with $1,000 capital, to take a one-half or
full interest in a stave, heading and planing
Address No. 552, care Michi-
552
mill. 3,00) contract, with stock to fillit. All
goes. Five years’ cut in sight. Side track to
mill. Good reasons for selling. Address Stave
Mill, care Michigan Tradesman.
oa BROOMS
A BOMERS, MANUFACTURER OF HIGH-
4X. grade brooms at all prices, for retailers
only. Grand Rapids, Mich. 605
| ite SALE--MODERN, WELL-ESTABLISHED
and equipped broom factory and good aya
Ad-
584
546
Other business commands our attention.
dress No. 584, care Michigan Tradesman.
COUNTRY PRODUCE
W ANTED—BUTTER, EGGS AND POUL-
try; any quantities. Write me. Orrin J.
Stone, Kalamazoo, Mich. : ! eee
ANTED — FIRST-CLASS BUTTER FOR
retail trade. Cash paid. Correspond with
Caulkett & Co., Traverse City, Mich. 381
y ANTED—1,000 CASES FRESH EGGS,
daily. Write for prices. F. W. Brown,
556
Ithaca, Mich.
‘PATENT SOLICITORS. _
)REE—OUR NEW HANDBOOK ON PAT-
ents. Ciiley & Allgier, Patent Attorneys,
Grand Rapids, Mich. 339
FIREPROOF SAFES
‘YEO. M. SMITH, NEW AND SECONDHAND
safes, wood and brick building mover, 157
Ottawa street, Grand Rapids. _ 613
MISCELLANEOUS. >
R EGISTERED PHARMACIS® WISHES SIT-
uation in Michigan; twelve years’ experi-
ence; best references. Address L. J. Shafer,
31 Calkins Ave , Grand Rapids, Mich. 608
ANTED—POSITION IN GROCERY. 1
make a specialty of teas and coffees; age,
27. Frank Bentley, Ludington, Mich. 598
Beers
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Travelers’ Time Tables.
CHICAGO ™ "se eumer®»
Chicago.
Ly. G. Rapids........... 8:45am 1:25pm *11:30pm
At. Chicago.:..:....:... 3:10pm 6:50pm 6:40ar
Ly. Chioago..:.....-... 7:20am 5:15pm *11:30pm
Ar. @’d Rapids....... . 1:25pm 10:35pm * 6:20am
Traverse City, Charlevoix and Petoskey.
iv. Gd Rapids:.....0 So . 7:30am 5:30pm
Parlor and Sleeping Cars on afternoon and
night trains to and from Chicago. :
*Every day. Others week days only.
DETROIT ne
Detroit.
Lv. Grand Rapids...... 7:00am 1:35pm 5:35pm
Ar. Detroig...: 0. 3... 11:40am 5:45pm 10:20pm
Lv. Detroit........ ..... 8:00am 1:10pm 6:10pm
Ar. Grand Rapids..... 12:55pm 5:20pm 10:55pm
Saginaw, Alma and Greenville.
Lv. @R7:10am 4:20pm Ar.GR 12:20pm 9:30pm
Parlor cars on all trains to and from Detroit
and-Saginaw. Trains run week days only.
Gro. DeHaven, General Pass. Agent.
Osborn, Charlevoix-the-Beautiful, Mich.; and bear in mind that the Chicago
& West Michigan and Detroit, Grand Rapids & Western Railways are the
only direct lines to Charlevoix, the prettiest place in Northern Michigan.
Estanlished 1780.
Walter Baker & Co, i10.
Dorchester, Mass.
The Oldest and
Largest Manufacturers o1
sf» PURE, HIGH GRADE
~ COCOAS
AND
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on this Continent.
= No Chemicals are used in
Trade-Mark. their manufactures.
Their Breakfast Cocoa is absolutely pure,
delicious, nutritious, and costs less than one
cent a cup.
Their Premium No. 1 Chocolate, put up in
Blue Wrappers and Yellow Labels, is the best
| plain chocolate in the market for family use.
Their German Sweet Chocolate is good te
eat and good to drink. It is palatable, nutri
| tious,and healthful; a great favorite with
children.
Buyers should ask for and be aure that the
Everything new and strictly first-class. For terms, address Egbert T.
GEO. DEHAVEN, Gen’l Passenger Agent.
BAN ecersaca mieentse
(In effect May 15, 1898 )
Leave. E : Arrive,
+ 6:45am Sag., Detroit, Buffalo & N Y .+ 9:55pm
+10:10am... ...Detroit and East.... .. + 5:27pin
+ 3:20pm..Sag., Det., N. Y. & Boston..+12:45pm
* 8:00pm... Detroit, East and Canada...* 6:35am
+10:45am...... Mixed to Durand........ + 3:15pm
WEST
* 8:?5am....Gd. Haven and Int. Pts....* 7:050m
t12:53pm.Gd, Haven and Intermediate.+ 3:12pm
+t 5:32pm..Gd. Haven and Intermediate.+10:0tam
* 7:40pm...Gd. Haven and Chicago..... 8:15am
+10:00pm...... Gd. Haven and Mil....... 6:40am
Eastward—No. 16 has Wagner parlor car. No.
22 parlor car. Westward—No. 11 parlor car.
No. 17 Wagner parlor car.
*Daily. tExcept Sunday. ~
E. H. Huewss, A.G. P. & T. A.
BEN. FLETCHER, Trav. Pass. Agt.,
C. A. Justin, City Pass. Agent.
97 Monroe St. Morton House.
GRAND Rapids & Indiana Railway
Northern Div. Leave Arrive
Trav. C’y, Petoskey & Mack...* 7:45am + 5:15pm
Tray. C’y, Petoskey & Mack.. .¢ 2:15pm + 6:35am
Trav. C’y, Petoskey & Mack... $10:50pm
PEIAO oe ole oe i + 5:25pm t11:l5am
Train leaving at 7:45 a.m. has parior car, and
train leaving at 2:15 p. m. has sleeping car to
Mackinaw.
Southern Div. Leave Arrive
CUMOUNAAR. coc + 7:10am + 8:25pm
WE Wee sos. cee t+ 2:10pm + 2:00pm
COMBINES. oe fae * 7:00pm * 7:25am
1:10am. train has parlor car to Cincinnati
2:10 p.m. train has parlor car to Fort Wayne.
7:00 p.m train has sleeping car to Cincinnati.
Chicago Trains.
TO CHICAGO.
Ly. Grand Rapids...t7 10am +2 1%m #11 35pm
At Chickpe. 6. 20pm _ 9 10pm 6 30am
FROM CHICAGO
Ly. Chicago...... fc lees ecu oe +3 02pm *11 45pm
Ay Grant Revise... cL. 9 20pm 7 2am
Train leaving Grand Rapids 7.10 a. m. has
buffet parlor car to Chicago. Train leaving
Grand Rapids 11 35 p. m. has coach and Pullman
sleeping car to Chicago.
Train leaving Chicago 3.02 p. m. has buffet
parlor car to Grand Rapids. Train leaving
Chicago 11.45 p. m. has coach and Pullman
sleeping car to Grand Rapids.
Muskegon Trains.
GOING WEST.
Ly G’d Rapids......... 47:35am +1:00pm +5:49pr
Ar Muskegon........... 9:00am 2:10pm 7:059m
GOING EAST.
Lv Muskegon....... .. +8:10am til:45am +4:00pm
Ar@’d Rapids... ..... 9:30am 12:55pm 5:20pm
Sunday trains leave Grand Rapids 9.00 a. m.
and 7.00 p.m. Leave Muskegon 8.35 a. m. and
Oe ixcept 8 di *Daily. jtSaturday onl
tExce unday. aily. tSaturday only.
. Cc. L. LOCKWOOD,
Gen’! Passr. and Ticket Agent.
W. C. BLAKE,
Ticket Agent Union Station.
DULUT ; — — Atlantic
WEST BOUND.
Ly. Grand Rapids (G. R. & 1.)+11:10pm = +7:45am
Ly. Mackinaw City..... -. 7:35am 4:20pm
Ar. St. Ignace..... 5:20pm
Ar. Sault Ste. Marie 9:50pm
Ar. Marquette .... 10:40pm
Ar. Nestoria. .. 12:45am
Ar. Duluth 8:30am
EAST BOUND.
RiP TI os i Foss Fie heaton cee eee
BY, THOMUOTIE Ss oo cin, ewecsc ess +11 21am
+6:30pm
2:45am
Ar. Marquette................ 1:30pm 4:30am
Ly. Sault Ste. Marie.......... 3:30pm...
Ar. Mackinaw City........... 8:40pm 11:00am
G. W. Hrssargp, Gen. Pass. Agt. Marquette.
E, C. Oviatt, Trav. Pass. Agt., Grand Rapids
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get the genuine goods. The above trade-mar'
is on every package.
Walter Baker & Co. Ltd.
Dorchester, Mass.
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Is carried by the merchant when
he undertakes to handle the credit
transactions of his establishment
A HEAVY LOAD
by means of pass books or other
We Can Give You
A Lift In Business
with our FREIGHT ELEVATORS. Another great
thing in Store or Warehouse is our SCALE TRUCK:
an 8oo-lb. Scale in connection with the regular ware-
house truck. We also make Engines, Boilers, Smoke-
stacks, Iron and Brass Castings, Steel Culvert Pipe
and General Machine Work.
+
Repair work done in any part of the State. You
can reach us any hour, day or night, by long distance
phone.
Lansing Boiler & Engine Works, Lansing, Mich.
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J. A. MURPHY, Genera! Manager.
The Michigan Mercantile Agene
Special Reports.
equally antiquated methods. The
strain is immediately lessened,
however, when he adopts the Cou-
pon Book System and places his
credit transactions on a cash basis.
We make four kinds of Coupon
Books and cheerfully send samples
free on application.
TRADESMAN COMPANY,
GRAND RAPIDS.
FLOWERS, MAY & MOLONEY, Counsel |
Law and Collections.
Represented in every city and county in the United States and Canada. |
Main Office: Room 1102 Majestic Building, Detroit, Mich.
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This is why the sale of Tanglefoot increases yearly.
TANGLEFOOT
Sealed Stioky Fly Paper
ONE OF THE MOST PROFITABLE THINGS YOU SELL.
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Bour’s Blended Coffees
know no competition. Their growth in
consumption has been simply marvelous,
which only demonstrates their extremely
fine quality over and above all others.
Our Coffees not alone increase your sales
instantly, but pay you a profit.
Give them a thirty day trial now. Don’t
wait—mnow is the opportune time.
The J. M. Bour Co.,
113-115-117 Ontario St., Toledo, Ohio.
129 Jefferson Avenue, Detroit, Mich.
Come into the ranks while the opportunity
offers. Nearly 50,000 United States Merchants
are on our list as users of The Famous Money
Weight System. Our Money Weight Com-
puting Scales will save you more money than
anything you can possibly invest in.
the Ranks. Address
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Dayton, Ohio, U. S. A.
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