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partment, we have had no time to write a
change of advertisement for this issue.
Watch this space next week.
Phelps, Brace & Co.
The largest cigar dealers in the Middle West.
F. E. BUSHMAN, Manager.
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Mica because their customers want the best axle grease they can get for
their money. Mica is the best because it is made especially to reduce
friction, and friction is the greatest destroyer of axles and axle boxes.
Merchants handle 7
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required for satisfactory lubrication as of any other axle grease,” so that @
Miéa is not only the best axle grease on the market but the most eco-
nomical as well.
ILLUMINATING AND
Ask your dealer to show you Mica in the new white
and blue tin packages.
LUBRICATING OILS
WATER WHITE HEADLIGHT OIL IS THE
STANDARD THE WORLD OVER
HIGHEST PRICE PAID FOR EMPTY CARBON AND GASOLINE BARRELS
STANDARD OIL CO.
MONEY IN IT
It pays any dealer to have the reputation of
keeping pure goods.
the Seymour Cracker.
It pays any dealer to keep
There’s a large and growing section of the
public who will have the best, and with whom the
matter of acent or soa pound makes no impression.
It’s not “How cheap” with them; it’s “How good.”
For this class of people the Seymour Cracker is
made.
Discriminating housewives recognize its
superior Flavor, Purity, Deliciousness, and will
have it.
If you, Mr. Dealer, want the trade of particu-
lar people, keep the Seymour Cracker.
NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY,
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
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never fill one book, your pocketbook.
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Register Systems,
by which, through a manifolding system, you can
not forget to charge things sold.
Store and Time-saving Sy stems for store checks,
factory orders, requisitions, shipping bills, or any
business requiring a copy.
attended to by
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Sales Agent, Alma, Mich.
- BOLLES, 39 Monroe Street, 3rd Floor.
Therefore,
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stock, buy Dwight’s. If
Those of you who have been
doing business with us for
years have probably noticed
that we fill your orders a
great deal more promptly
than we used to. Those who
are new customers are
pleased to find that we are
so prompt.
This is not because we are
doing less business than
formerly- we are doing more
and more every year—but
because we realize that when
people order goods they
want them and want them
quickly.
Therefore we are making
a special effort to give every
order, small or large, imme-
diate attention and prompt
shipment.
Let us have yours.
you want cheap trash, don’t
look for it in our pack-
ages. All Grand Rapids
jobbers sell them.
Wolverine Spice Co.,
Grand Rapids.
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GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 12, 1899.
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THE MERCANTILE AGENCY
Established 1841.
R. G. DUN & CO.
Widdicomb Bid’g, Grand Rapids, Mich.
Books arranged with trade classification of names.
Collections made everywhere. Write for particulars.
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Commenced Business Sept. !, 1893.
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Losses Adjusted and Unpaid..... ... None
Total Death Losses Paid to Date...... 51,061 00
Total Guarantee Deposits Paid to Ben-
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Death Losses Paid During the Year..
Death Rate for the Year...............
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IMPORTANT FEATURES.
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« The Dry Goods Market.
3. Representative Retailer.
4. Around the State.
5. Grand Rapids Gossip.
6. Woman’s World.
8. Editorial.
9. Acetylene Lighting.
10. Getting the People.
12. Shoes and Leather.
14. Observations by a Gotham Egg Man.
15. Gotham Gossip.
16. Clerk’s Corner.
17. Commercial Travelers.
18. Drugs and Chemicals.
19. Drug Price Current,
20. Grocery Price Current.
21. Grocery Price Current.
2%. Hardware.
23. Modern Business Men.
Hardware Price Current.
24, Business Conditions,
Business Wants.
Comparative Condition of Local Banks
A consolidated statement of the con-
dition of the banks, as shown by the
statements published under the call of
June 30, makes the loans and discounts
carried by the Nationai banks $6,766, -
627.71, aS against $6, 200,996.77 July 14,
1898. The State banks carried $2,584, -
792.25 and the trust companies $284, -
683.52. The State banks and trust com-
panies were passed July 14, 1898, but
the statistics obtained from the banks
direct at the time made the loans and
discounts $2,190,450.18 in the State
banks and $268,450.45 in the trust com-
panies. The total loans and discounts
June 30. were $9,636,103 48, against
$9,019, 469.22 on February 4, $8,659,-
897.40 July 14, 1898, and $7,366, 433. 10
July 23, 1897.
The stocks, bonds and mortgages
were $417,864.62 by the National banks,
$2, 253,887.66 by the State banks and
$418,731.63 by the trust companies, a
total of $3,090,483.91, compared with
$366, 336.54, $2,073,552.43 and $420,-
765.17, a total of $2,869,654 14 on July
14, 1898, $3,244,632 58 February 4 last
and $2, 321,470.17 July 23, 1897.
The National banks carry $397,705 in
Government bonds and have $244,770 in
circulation, compared with $462,870 and
$239,240 on February 4, $356,930 and
$200, 280 July 14, 1898, and $387,080 and
$200, 100 July 23, 1897,
The real estate and furniture holdings
of the National banks aggregate $291, -
657 92, State banks $126,324.25 and trust
companies $86,519.35, a total of $504,-
501.52. The total December 1 last was
$520,057.25, May 5, 1898, $405,971.93
and July 23, 1897, $379,683 34.
Due from banks the National banks
had $1,201,901.41, State $636,447.24 and
trust companies $184,570 47, a total of
$2,022,919 12. The total February 4 was
$2,819 952.77, which included a special
deposit of about $600,000 in one of the
institution; May 5, 1898, $2,030, 124.23,
and July 23, 1897, $2,614, 478.91.
The cash and cash items in the Na-
tional banks were $620,992 39, _ State
banks $328,055.66, trust companies
$14,554.46, a total of $963,602.11; Feb-
ruary 4 $1,083,541.33, May 5, 1808,
$993 959-51 and July 23, 1897, $955, -
80.71.
Total quick assets June 30 were
$2,986, 521.23, February 4 $3,902, 494. 10,
May 5, 1898, $2,994,083.74 and July 23,
1897, $3,570, 259. 62.
The surplus and undivided profits
accounts, deducting the dividends
declared, show National banks $521,-
065.93, State banks $161,018.85 and
trust companies $120,555.04, a total of
$868,639.82; February 4, $792,132.87;
May 5, 1898, before dividends had been
paid, $849.975 13 and July 23, 1897,
$762,530.85. Since July 23, 1897, the
National banks have increased approx-
imately $43,000, the State banks $27,000
and the trust companies $3,000. The
highest point ever reached by the un-
divided profits account was $883, 338. 39,
May 4, 1893, before the dividends of
that year had been taken out. They
are higher now than in any previous
July.
The commercial deposits in the Na-
tional banks June 30 were $2, 138, 109.77
and State banks $1,498,796 62, a total
of $3,636,906.39; February 4 $3,820,-
798.84; May 5, 1898, $3,510,414.14; July
23, 1897, $2,653,602. 51.
The certificates of deposits in the Na-
tional banks June 30 were $3, 268, 660. 16,
savings deposits in State banks $3, 782, -
084 28, a total of $7,050,853 44; Febru-
ary 4 $6,898,882.79; May 5, 1808,
$6, 360, 782.64; July 23, 1897, $5,504,-
994.78.
The National banks carry $1,151,-
039.10 in bank balances in outside
banks, and the State banks $10,154 81,
a total of $1,161,793.91; February 4,
$1, 237,562.64; May 5, 1898, $1,083,-
264.57; July 23, 1897, $1, 140,223.88.
The total deposits June 30 were Na-
tional banks $6,688, 216.65, State $5, 303, -
532.54, trust companies $602,501.84, a
total of $12,594,251.03; February 4
$13. 286, 722.93; July 14, 1808, as ascer-
tained by private canvass, the State
banks not being called, $11,825,620.06 ;
July 23, 1897, $10, 140,931.02.
The bank statements speak very well
for themselves as indicating an im-
proved condition of affairs in the com-
mercial! world. The loans and discounts
show a gain of $619,000 and since Febru-
ary 4, and at the present time, surpass all
previous records There has been a de-
crease of nearly $700,000 in the total de-
posits since February 4, but large
amounts of money have been withdrawn
for use in business and to move the
crops,
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The election of Amos S. Musselman
to the presidency of the Grand Rapids
Board of Trade is a worthy honor,
woithily bestowed. While Mr. Mussel-
man has never aspired to political office
or public recognition, he has invariably
tbrown the weight of his influence and
cast the power of his example with
every movement having for its object
the improvement of the city—socially,
morally and materially. Fertile in re-
sources, persistent in urging the adop-
tion of his plans and successful in mak-
ing others see things as he sees them,
Mr. Musselman’s administration can
not fail to redound to his credit and
to the permanent benefit and advance-
ment of every interest which the Board
espouses during the term of his general-
ship.
The Grain Market.
Wheat has been rather dull and life-
less the last few days. The speculators
were holding off ior the Government
crop report, which came in yesterday
and was 65.6 against 67.3 for June for
winter wheat, and 91.7 against 91.4 in
June for spring wheat, which is consid-
ered about an even set-off. As the re-
ceipts in the Northwest are still of large
dimensions, our visible showed an in-
crease of 422,000, against a decrease of
2,185,000 bushels the corresponding
week last year, and the visible to-day
is 21,500,000 bushels larger than one
year ago. These are all bear factors,
Wheat harvest is now in full force and
the threshing will soon show what the
harvest will be. The Secretary of State
reports about a 15 000,000 bushel yield.
Think he has it too high, as he claims
an average of 8 bushels peracre. Of
1,906,000 acres of wheat sowed 18 per
cent. was plowed up, which would leave
the actual acreage cut about 1,565,200
acres, which would give us about 12, 500, -
ooo bushels toharvest. We hear farmers
complain about the wet weather we have
had doing damage to wheat, as some
began spreading in the ear. Had this
kind of weather continued for another
day wheat in this section would bave
been ruined.
Exports from the coast have not been
as large as expected and probably will
not be in the near future. It might also
be mentioned that the present wheat
crop will not be in condition for milling
purposes for at least three to four weeks,
while last year it could be used as it
came from the thresher, so the millers
will have to get old wheat yet torun on.
Corn has receded some in price, ow-
ing to the notion of the speculators in
that article, and the weather seems to
be more favorable to corn, which also
has effect on prices.
Oats have been steady, owing to the
rather poor condition of the growing
crop.
Rye keeps up exceedingly well under
the conditions, as our crop and also the
foreign rye crops are in first-class con-
dition.
No change in the milling condition.
The demand for old wheat flour is very
strong and prices are steady. Mill feed
has advanced $1 per ton all around and
the mills not only here but all over the
State are behind in their orders.
Wheat and other grain receipts were
rather small, being 43 cars of wheat, 3
cars of corn and 7 cars of oats.
Millers are paying 7oc for old wheat.
C. G. A. Voter.
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A minute piece of steel was drawn
from the eye of a man in New York the
other day by the use of a puwerfui mag-
net, the newly-invented device for per-
forming such operations. Dr. Parker,
who used the instrument, says the piece
of steel was imbedded in such a way
that its removat by other means would
have been impossible. The sight of
the eye will probably be saved, although
the patient will be in the hospital some
time, owing to the strain on the eye-
ball before the steel began to yield to
the magnet’s attraction.
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
Dry Goods
The Dry Goods Market.
Staple Cottons—There have been a
number of bids recorded for goods at
prices a trifle lower than regular quota-
tions, but these have been rejected with-
out ceremony. The mills are not ina
condition to be obliged to accept any-
thing lower than the market prices. On
the other hand it is often difficult for
the exporters to secure the goods wanted
at any price on account of the well-sold-
up condition of the market. Even where
there has been a sixteenth of a cent
more offered, it has not always brought
about the desired results. There is no
likelihood of any change in the condi-
tions in the staple cotton market until
the last of the month, Ducks are steady,
with a moderate demand. Bleached cot-
tons continue to be ordered in small
quantities for immediate or nearby con-
sumption, with the market still firm
for medium and fine giades, but low
grades are slightly unsteady. The cause
of the unsteadiness noticed in some
cottons is the prospect of a large cotton
crop, which promises to be as large or
larger than the famous crop of '98,
‘which was the largest ever known.
Lower prices on this account would not
be a sign of weakening of the market,
but merely that it costs less to manufac-
ture cotton goods. Denims are rather
irregular, with the demand small. Busi-
ness in other coarse colored cottons is
quiet.
Prints—Printed fabrics have shown a
light business this week, in common
with other textiles, both in spot business
and mail orders. Dark fancy calicoes
have eased up considerably, the largest
buyers having finished their purchases,
Staple lines are suffering a reaction for
the same cause. Next week should see
a much better business than that of the
past two weeks. Prices are firm through-
out and there are a good many enquirers
for staple and fancy prints for their
business. The business in prints for
fall shows larger sales for the large and
bold patterns, wide stripes and figures.
Underwear—The light weights are
now sold up completely, and there are
no more to be had for this season. Mills
will go upon heavy-weights very soon
and many of them are very well sup-
plied with orders for these heavy-
weights now, enough in several cases to
keep them running, they say, for a long
time, and in one or two cases enough to
keep them busy for the entire season.
Whether these are orders that will
‘‘stick’’ or not remains to be seen.
Carpets—The generai condition of the
carpet trade thus far this season has
shown a decided improvement in the
volume of business over the year pre-
ceding for the corresponding period.
Some large mills last year sold a very
large amount of goods on which there
was u0 protit, as they were obliged to
meet the slaughter prices of the South
auctions. This year, however, with
prices higher, some of the mills report
larger sales than last year. This shows
that the situation has very materially
improved, especially in tapestry and
velvet carpets. The outlook for the fu-
ture from ail standpoints is good. The
retailers to-day are more cheerful and
have placed orders earlier and in larger
amounts, as the general prosperity has
warranted them in anticipating require-
ments. In tapestries lots of patterns are
out. Some patterns are sold so far
ahead that it will take some time to
catch up. It usually takes four weeks
to turn out a print of tapestry, as this
includes eighty rolls. The most active
sellers are the different shades of reds,
greens, Persians and Delft effects, in
both velvets and tapestries. Ingrains
are selling more freely. Some agents
who are still on the road are sending in
some nice orders, which, with the ad-
vance on tapestries and velvets, will
place ingrains in a stronger position for
both initial and duplicate orders. The
advance applies on the duplicate orders
mainly, as the trade have placed orders
early this season to insure themselves
very largely. Some mills have already
enough orders to last them for some
time, and are not urging customers to
place orders, as they believe that each
week strengthens the situation on all
lines.
I will be at Sweet’s Hotel Thurs-
day and Friday, July 13 and 14,
with John G. Miller & Co.’s full
sample line of
Men’s and
Boys’
Clothing
including all the latest things in
Overcoatings, Suitings, Etc. All
expenses allowed customers.
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Seat Shades
Large Umbrellas
Lawn Swings
Chas. A. Coye,
11 Pearl Street,
Grand Rapids, Mich.
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Is all you have to ask for those extra
fine jersey ribbed Bathing Trunks we
are now offering. Your choice of col-
ors, Grey or Ecru.
calls for Bathing Suits.
them to retail at the following prices:
VOIGT, HERPOLSHEIMER & CO.,
Wholesale Dry Goods, Grand Rapids, Mich.
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Ladies’ $2.25 to $5.00
Misses’ 1.25 to 2.00
Men’s .50 to 3.00
Boys’ 50 to .75
Now that the sale of summer goods is
about over, it would be well to look up your
stock of Fall and Winter goods.
our sample line open and are in a position
to take your orders for fall delivery. We
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GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
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The Sunlight
We guarantee what we say or no sale.
make you sick. No flicker.
pure, white light like
Gas Lamp
Does the work at all times and all the time.
One quart of gasoliue makes a 100 candle-
power light burn from 15 to 20 hours. Wind
will not blow it out nor make it smoke.
No torches to hold in lighting. Turn it
down and it burns all day, consuming one
tablespoonful of oil; turn it up and your
room is flooded with light.
No escaping gas to scent the room and
No smoke. A
Sunlight
One burner equals four kero-
sene lamps at one-fifth the cost.
Maybe you’ve seen
the other kind—the cheap kind.
Remember, PRICE ALWAYS INDICATES QUALITY.
This Lamp Has Been Approved by the Board of Underwriters.
Specially adapted for Stores, Churches and Residences.
Local agents wanted in every City, Town and Village in
the State.
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REPRESENTATIVE RETAILERS.
Emmet R. White, General Dealer at
Alanson.
Forty-five years ago a farmer’s boy
was born in the State of New York. His
parents were above the ordinary class
by birth and education. They were far
from wealthy, but, with a heritage of
good healih and strength to battle with
life, they pressed forward, confident of
success. With this prenatal heritage,
this example of energy saw the first
light of life.
At the proper age he was given the
education which could be obtained in
the common district schools. At the
age of 24 he began teaching school.
From this time forward, with what lit-
tle assistance his model parents could
give him, he was thrown upon his own
resources ; but, like many of his illus-
trious countrymen since, as he grew in
years if not in stature, he believed in
‘‘expansion,’’ with all its synonyms,
and, accepting Horace Greeley’s advice
o **Go West, young man!’’ early in the
seventies was earning fair wages on a
farm in Illinois. Soon after this date,
his parents having removed to Northern
Michigan, he paid them a visit, and
there secured a position as clerk ina
general store at Paris, then a thriving
village. His parents having settled in
Reed City, where also his eldest broth-
er, a physician and druggist, resided,
he drifted northward with the family,
where we find him about 1884, and,
with the U. S. Dispensatory for his text
book, determined to become a druggist
himself—or die trying. The writer was
with him for a time in that village, and
found him an earnest young man, a
promising student.
Duriag the winter of 1886-87 there
was much excitement about some of the
Government lands north of Big Rapids
claimed by the G. R. & I. Railroad as
grants from the State in consideration of
constructing and operating this railroad
to the Straits of Mackinaw. The lands
in question included some—supposed—
pine lands and were therefore outside
of the grant to the Railway Co. These
lands were, however, offered as home-
steads to actual settlers, subject possibly
to litigation with the company, at the
Reed City Land Office; and those who
wished to do so made application there,
receiving theircertificate fora homestead
of 160 acres or less at Government
price, and took their chances for a
perfect title. My friend White was
promptly on hand with the crowd of
otbers who desired a homestead. He
had previously walked from Petoskey,
the then terminus of the railroad, and
selected his 160 acres adjoining the vil-
lage of Alanson, then a mere settlement
in the woods, but on the west shore of a
navigable stream and ina faiily good
agricultural district. Having some
knowledge of surveying, Mr. White
knew exactly the metes and bounds of
the land he had selected. As he entered
the Reed City Land Office on that
eventful morning, he found it well
packed with claimants, many of whom
had never seen the lands in question,
nor had they any idea of their location ;
but, being anxious fora homestead, they
were taking the first which came to
hand. Pushing his way to the table and
raising himself as high as possible, Mr.
White reached his arm over the heads
of several others and, placing his finger
upon a quarter section around which all
others seemed to be taken, said to the
receiver, ‘‘That piece is mine!’’ and,
notwitkstanding the objections offered,
would not remove his finger, but waited
for his certificate. At that time many
thought he bad purchased blindly, but
later on they changed their opinion.
April, 1887, saw Mr. White on his
farm in Alanson, with ax in hend clear-
ing away a piece of ground for a small
house and garden He found himself the
possessor of a good hard-timbered farm
with perhaps one hundred large white
pines scattered like sentries over it.
These ‘‘sentries’’ he thought might
sometime furnish him lumber for better
buildings; but, being still a bachelor,
he was content in his lonely hut. He
saw that the few settlers were obliged to
go ten or twelve miles to Petoskey for
nearly all their supplies, and that medi-
cines were an urgent necessity; so he
at once rented asmall building near the
ground already selected for the future
railroad depot, invested about $200 in
drugs and fixtures and commenced busi-
ness. ‘‘Tall oaks from little acorns
grow.’’ During the second year of his
hermitage he constructed a larger and
better residence, and his faithful old
mother made that residence look like
home indeed.
It was not long before two timber
dealers visited him ; wandered careless-
ly over his claim, then asked him to set
a price on his pine trees, they to cut
and remove them from his land. Yan-
kee-like, instead of answering them, he
replied, ‘‘Make me an offer.’’ After
some delay they did so, and he said to
me afterward, ‘‘Their generous offer
fairly took my breath away, but I soon
framed a reply, and said I would think
about it and give them an answer the
next day. I was afraid to accept their,
to me, princely offer too suddenly, fear-
ing they would change their minds. Of
course, I accepted their offer, and soon
received my money, with which I was
able to increase my lines of merchan-
dise, enlarge my entire stock and do
business on a larger scale.’’
Mr. White is an all-around worker.
He asks no employe to do what he him-
self would not attempt. He is in all
things one of the most generous of men
—too much so for his own interest. He
is slow to anger or to seem to take
offense, but when once aroused is invin-
cible. He will coolly reach for an ax-
handle to quell a drunken or angry
crowd, and those of them who know
him best will soon quiet the rest while
a few of the more timid retire. For
years, at Alanson, he opened accounts
with many of his customers, allowing
them actually to supply their families
with his goods, having no security ex-
cept good promises, only to find, too
late, ‘‘man’s inhumanity to man.’’ To
the writer’s actual knowledge he has
thus donated a small fortune.
In 1895 Mr. White erected a store for
himself in Alanson. It is built of wood,
25x70 feet on the ground, two stories in
height, witha one-story addition, 20x36,
on one side, which is now used as the
postoffice, Mr. White being the post-
master. The second story of the store
is a well-finished public hall, which has
a fine stage with movable wings and
drop curtains for theaters, exhibitions,
etc. His store is fitted up with every
modern convenience, and has basement
in the rear. Store, dwelling and post-
office are all connected by telephone
with each other, and with Grand Rap-
ids and the outside world. Mr. White
has held the office of postmaster twice
at least—once under President Harrison
and now under President McKinley.
As may be inferred, he is a staunch Re-
publican. He is also Justice of the
Peace and holds several other minor
town offices. He owns two good farms,
both within sight of his stove, anda
steamboat landing, which is within sight
of his dwelling. He is a man univer-
sally liked and has few, if any, ene-
mies. FRANK A. Howie.
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
Around the State
Movements of Merchants.
Coldwater—A. Y. Dalby, meat dealer,
has discontinued business.
Marine City—Smith & Co. have sold
their grocery stock to Geo. Chon.
Hartford—Samuel Avery has removed
his jewelry stock to South Haven.
Kinde—S. B. Rice has removed his
dry goods and grocery stock to Lum.
Moscow— Harold Moore has purchased
the harness stock of Lafayette Sigel.
Fowlervilie—Straws & Vaughn con-
tinue the cigar business of Chas. Straws.
Gaylord—W. J. Russell has purchased
the drug and grocery stock of Jas. P.
Fox.
Ann Arbor—J. B, Gamble succeeds J.
A. Herrick in the confectionery busi-
ness.
Central Lake—Mrs. Laura Hall has
purchased the millinery stock of Miss
Covey.
Menominee——Felix Vincent has
opened a grocery store at 420 Grand
avenue.
Howell—Edwin P. Randall, produce
dealer, has removed from Fowlerville to
this place.
Manistique—Gustafson & Larson have
purchased the meat business of E.
Thompson.
Big Rapids—John Wiseman has sold
an interest in his undertaking business
to Frank Merr1l
Flushing—A. P. Davis & Co. have
sold their hardware and implement
stock to James B. French.
Vermontville—Leroy Snel! has opened
a store tor the sale of baked goods, veg-
etables and confectionery.
Fowlerville—S. Thurlow Blackmer
succeeds Blackmer & Minto in the
clothing, bat and cap business.
Olivet—E. V. Abell & Co., formerly
engaged in the bazaar business at Three
Rivers, have moved to this place.
St. Joseph—L. Lurie has established
a branch of his Boston store at Bridg-
man, with David Jones in charge.
Charlotte—The grocery firm of Mike-
sell & Hageman has been dissolved by
mutual consent, Mr. Hageman retring
from the business.
Detroit—W. C. Clark, A. E. Johnson
and G. H. Harrington have incorpo-
rated the W. E. Clark Coal Co. The
capital stock is $5,000.
Saline—S. H. Maher has sold his
hardware stock to John McKinnon and
Mr. Jerry, who-will continue the busi-
ness at the same location.
Imlay City—Swan & Bohm, dealers
in groceries and notions, have dissolved
partnership. Each will continue in the
same line of trade in his own name.
Negaunee—The store building for-
merly occupied by M. E. Joyce will be
refitted by Steel & Mills, of Niles, who
intend to put in a stock of dry goods.
Zeeland—Mrs. J. Pruim has taken
charge of the restaurant and confection-
ery business formerly conductd by her
son, E. J. Pruim, and will conduct same
in her own name.
Kalamazoo—A. M. Starr, of Grand
Rapids, has purchased the bazaar stock
of O. A. Fanckboner, at 128 Ezst Main
street, and will continue the business at
the same location.
= Menominee——John Peterson, shoe
dealer at 2311 Broadway, and August
Larson, of this city, have formed a co-
partnership under the style of J. Peter-
son & Co. and opened a men’s furnish-
ing goods store at 2315 Broadway, known
as the Golden Rule store. S. G. Swan-
son is manager of the business.
Hillsdale—The store building in
which was formerly located the drug
stock of C, S. French is being refitted
and will be occupied by the dry goods
stock of A. J. Dingman.
Ann Arbor—The grocery firm of Mil-
ler & Smith has been dissolved. Mr.
Miller has formed a copartnership with
Clarimon L. Pray and the business will
be coutinued under the style of Miller
& Pray.
Cadillac—H. N. Nilson, of Big Rap-
ids, and E. E. Stone, of Bay City,
have formed a copartnership and will
engage in the dry goods business at this
place Sept. 1 in a new brick now in
process of construction.
Muskegon—Paul Ostholm, who for
some time has conducted a grocery store
at 84 Third street, is closing out his
stock, having accepted the position of
State agent of the Commonwealth Provi-
dent Association, of Philadelphia.
Wayland—Geo. H. Henika, who has
been engaged in the furniture trade at
this place since 1861, bas sold his stock
and store building to G. A. Truax &
Son, who will remove their stock to the
building just purchased -and combine
the two.
Mesick—L., J. Tripp has completed
his new store building and bas removed
his stock of general merchandise into
same. He is erecting an addition at
the rear of the building to be used as a
store room, making the total length of
the building 120 feet.
Fremont—W. W. Pearson has _ retired
from the firm of Pearson Bros. & Co.
and engaged in the clothing and men’s
furnishing gvods business in the new
block on the opposite side of the street.
The older establishment will be con-
tinued by Chas. Pearson and Walter
Reber under the style of Pearson &
Reber.
Copemish—C. R. Bunker, who has
been engaged in general trade here for
nearly ten years, has sold his stock to
the Case Mercantile Co., which has re-
moved it to Benzonia and consolidated
it with its general stock at that place.
Mr. Bunker is compelled to retire from
business on account of a threatened at-
tack of tuberculosis and will seek a new
location somewhere on the Pacific coast.
Lansing—Sarah M. Dayton has com-
menced suit by declaration against Jacob
Stabl and W. S. Holmes for $30,000
damages growing out of the seizure and
sale of a wholesale stock of millinery
goods. The disposition of this stock
has kept the Ingham Circuit Court busy
for the past three years, and the Su-
preme Court has also iaken a hand in
it. Mrs. Dayton alleges that no account-
ing was made.
Kalamazoo—-A new clothing and men’s
furnishing goods firm has been formed
to engage in business at 133 South Bur-
dick street, composed of John Gauw,
who has had ten years’ experience as a
clothing clerk in this city, Wm. Van
Peenan, who has been engaged about
the same length of time by a leading
dry goods house, and Marinus Schrier,
who has occupied the position of book-
keeper for the lumber firm of Dewing &
Sons.
Ishpeming—The general store of
Mowick & Hendrickson was closed last
Monday and will continue closed until
the proprietors can get an order from
the United States Court relieving them
from an order commanding them to re-
frain from selling goods. The order
was obtained by the creditors of the
firm and the proprietors are given a
certain time to appear and show why
the goods of the store should not be dis-
posed of to liquidate their debts. Al-
fred Hendrickson has a bill of sale for
the stock. While the claims against
the stock may be settled so that it may
be re-opened, it is most probable that
the firm will cease to do business at the
old stand.
Manufacturing Matters.
Belding—The Belding Shoe Co. has
declared a semi-annual dividend of 3
per cent.
Hartland—The Hartland Milling Co.
succeeds V. Parshall & Son in the flour
and sawmill business.
Woodland— Harter & Rounds, recently
from Ohio, have purchased the grain
elevator of Miner & Houfstater.
North Lansing—The Hart Milling
Co., capitalized at $25,000, was organ-
ized Tuesday to operate the Hart Flour
mills,
Ithaca—W. Nelson, Mary H. Nelson
aod J. M. Everden have organized the
Nelson Grain Co., with a capital stock
of $5,000.
Kalamazoo—The capital stock of the
Star Brass Works has been increased
from $18,000 to $20,000. The capacity
of the factory has also been doubied.
Detroit—The capital stock of the
Ideal Manufacturing Co. has been in-
creased to $400,000. Of the new stock
$50,000 is common und $100,000 pre-
ferred,
Albion—The Albion Wind Mill Co.
has been organized with a_ capital
stock of $10,000 by W. O Donanghue,
T. L. Sibley, W. W. Austin, A. J.
Howell,O. H. Gale, H. M. Dearing and
M. D. Weeks.
Detroit—The Rider Heater Co, has
been organized to engage in the manu-
facture of stoves, with a capital stock
of $60,000. The incorporators are J. B.
Horning, Mary B. Miller, of Detroit,
and E, W. Rider, of Bay City.
Detroit—The Standard Leather Wash-
er & Valve Co. has filed articles of in-
corporation with the County Clerk. The
capital stock is $5,000, equally divided
between David D. Wessels, Richard
C. Major and Donald McDonald.
Saginaw—The Saginaw Woodenware
Co, has been organized for the purchase
and sale of woodenware, with a capital
stock of $28,000. The incorporators are
Josephine Tennant, F. C. Simon, J. S.
Tennant, F. A. Tennant and G. F.
Dice.
West Branch—The West Branch Flour
Manufacturing Co. has been formed for
the purpose of operating a flour mill
and grain elevator, with a capital stock
of $5,000, the incorporators being B.
Bennett, J. B. Rayner, N. A. Richards
and Kittie MacBennett.
Port Huron—The Gutta Percha Rub-
ber & Manufacturing Co., of New
York, has petitioned to have Ezra C.
Carleton and Asa R. Cole adjudicated
bankrupts. They claim that an indebt-
edness of $500 is due them and that
Carleton & Colehave given their prop-
erty over to trustees to avoid payment
of creditors. They specify an item of
$2,000 in this regard.
Ludington—The work of clearing away
the debris of the elevator fire is going
on rapidly. A new elevator will be
erected just as soon as possible. It
will be larger than the old one, with a
Capacity of about 150,000 bushels of
grain. It will be equipped with a leg
that will unload about 18,000 bushels per| F
hour. The company’s loss, not covered
by insurance, it is stated will be about
$20, 000.
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A man may be as honest as the day is
Jong and still do a lot of mischief dur-
ing the night.
The Boys Behind the Counter.
Manton—E. C. Marsh has taken the
position of prescription clerk for Chas,
H. Bostick.
Traverse City—James O’ Neil has sev-
ered his connection with the clothing
establishment of S. Benda & Co. to
take a clerkship in the shoe store of
Frank Friedrich.
Ironwood—Bay & Norlding have a
new drug clerk in the person of Gustave
A, Jahn.
Owosso—J. L. Curtis has taken a po-
sition in C. C. Duff’s grocery.
Homer—Ford Kirby has returned from
Newaygo and taken a position in‘An-
drews, Wells & Co.’s grocery store.
Newberry—Earl Ryan has taken a
clerkship in Dr. F. W. Neal's drug
store.
Marshall—Arthur Wilson, who has
been with Geo. Perrett & Sons’ for the
past year, has taken a position with
Grace Bros. He takes the place of
Wendel Morse, who leaves their employ
soon to engage in the clothing business
with Francis Deuel.
Lake City—W. J. Roche has a new
drug clerk in the person of Mr. Cap,
of Hart
Ann Arbor—Oscar Haarer has taken
a clerkship in the store of the Eberbach
Drug Co.
Ishpeming—The agreement between
the clerks’ union and the merchants is
being observed strictly by oth parties
to it and no complaint can be made on
that score. The union has one more
fight to make: It is going after the
business men who make a practice of
keeping their stores open Sunday morn-
ings and will endeavor to make their
proprietors keep their doors shut all
Sunday. A few men keep open Sunday
mornings, and as the clerks think that
the practice works harm to those dealers
who keep their places closed they will
endeavor to stop it.
Hastings Banner: It will be some
time before Albert Carveth sets up the
cigars again to every man who settles
up his account. Albert clerks for Fred
Heath. - A few days ago a certain busi-
ness man went in to pay up bis account,
remarking that it was customary for the
house to set up the cigars when a man
paid up his account. As the business
man had been a good customer, Albert
complied, treated him toa good cigar
and then commenced to delve through
the books, After a thorough search,
Albert returned and said, ‘‘Why, all I
can find against you is six cents.’’
‘*Well, that’s all I owe you,’’ said the
business man, with a quiet smile, and
Web said he never enjoyed a smoke
more,
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Ironwood and Hurley Merchants Join
Hands.
Ironwood, July 8—At a meeting last -
evening in Nelson’s hall of the local
and Hurley merchants an organization
was formed and the members thereof
agreed to close their stores on Tuesday,
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, every
week, commencing July 11, at 6 o'clock
in the evening. The association is
known as The Twin City Business
Men’s Association. Each member de-
posits $10, and for each violation of the
agreement forfeits $5, if found guilty
after a hearing before an adjusting com-
mittee. The President of the Associa-
tion is Joe Davis; Adolph Skud, Vice-
President ; J. A. Tederstrom, Treasurer ;
- B, Warner, Secretary. The adjusting
committee is composed of L. Davis, M.
L. Downs and W. H. Kitto. The regu-
lar meeting is the first Tuesday of each
month. Invitation is extended to mer-
chants of other lines of trade not now
represented in the Association to attend
the meetings,
ee
\oeskes Beeman ion
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Wanted—Cigarmakers, rollezs, bunch
breakers, strippers and lady packers.
G. J. Johnson Cigar Co., Grand Rapids.
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For Gillies N. Y. tea, all kinds,
grades and prices, phone Visner, 800,
The Drug Market.
Opium—Is firm at the advance.
Morphine—Is unchanged.
Quinine—Is steady, full prices being
maintained by manufacturers, while
outside holders sell 2@3c below their
price.
Quicksilver——Has advanced. All
mercurials have advanced 1@2c per
pound in sympathy.
Cinchonidia—Continues
firm.
Cocoa Butter—On account of higher
prices abroad, has again advanced.
Cuttle Fish Bone—Is very firm at the
advanced prices.
Glycerine—Is in a very firm position.
One leading manufacturer has advanced
price and othe’s will, no doubt, follow,
on account of high price for crude.
Arnica Flowers—On account of short
crop, have advanced and are tending
higher.
Goldenseal Root—Is lower, om account
of new crop coming in.
Linseed Oil—Is steady at our quota-
tions.
scarce and
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Hides, Pelts, Tallow and Wool.
Hides are strong at the price. Scar-
city makes it, and the scarcity comes
from little beef being consumed, the
small number of cattle fit for the mar-
ket and the fact that tanners wish to
keep their vats full.
Pelts are few and wanted at full value.
There is no accumulation,
Tallow is in light demand and ex-
tremely quiet, with nominal prices.
There is little being offered.
Wool remains strong and active.
There is 2 demand for export ard from
manufacturers and speculators. It is
low in value, although much higher
than has ruled for the past year, which
causes dealers to think that it will be
wanted by spinners sometime. The
demand is more for fine, as there is so
little offered. The outiook is good, but
not for an excessive price for some time
to come. The clip of Michigan is
bought up and has largely gone forward,
although many lots are held above the
market. Wm. T. HEss.
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New Book in Press.
The annual publication of the Com-
mercial Credit Co. is now in the hands
of the printers and wil! be ready for dis-
tribution in the course of a week. Any
changes or suggestions for the book
should be reported to the office imme-
diately.
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Martin Van Prooyen, who has been
engaged in the tea and coffee business
at 255 Travis avenue for the past four
years under the style of the Independent
Tea Co., left town last Thursday morn-
ing with his horse and buggy, leaving
no word as to his destination or the rea-
son for his departure. His wife was
left with 34 cents in her possession and
the rent in arrears. The supposition is
that he was accompanied by a woman
not his wife, although information on
this point is not sufficiently definite to
warrant a positive statement. The Ol-
ney & Judson Grocer Co., which is the
largest creditor of the establishment,
seized the stock and fixtures on attach-
ment Saturday and removed them to its
store on Ottawa street, where the sale
will occur 30 days hence. Van Prooyen
was formerly a solicitor for the Grand
Union Tea Co. and was regarded as a
successful salesman in his line. Subse-
quent to his engaging in business here
he established a branch store at Kala-
mazoo in charge of his father.
6
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
Woman’s World
Necessity of Reform in Our Home
Life.
The most beautiful and tender thought
the world has ever had has been of
home—a plzce whose only law is the
law of love, and whose inmates, bound
together by the closest ties of interest
and biood, are in perfect accord and
sympathy with each other. The sad-
dest fact on earth is that this ideal is
generally a dream and that oftener than
not the real home is a place of bicker-
ing and strife, whose inmates, as soon
as they cross the threshold, drop the
mask of agreeability they have worn in
public and only show to each other their
unloveliness of temper, surliness and
bad manners.
No one whose affair takes him much
into other people’s homes can deny the
truth of this statement. When you find
one happy and harmonious home, you
find twenty that are perpetual storm
centers and where the domestic atmos-
phere is always charged with lightning.
The husband and wife ‘‘spat’’ with each
other; the children are insolent to their
mother and gium with their father; the
brothers and sisters quarrel among
themselves. The house is in no sensea
home. It is nothing but a boarding
place filled with kicking guests, whose
sole idea of happiness is to escape at
the earliest possible moment and enjoy
themselves somewhere else.
In all the unreason and quirkiness
aud crankiness of humanity there is
nothing else so strange zs the way we
deal with the members of our own fam-
ily. Why is it that people who are pleas-
ant and agreeable to everyone else so
seldom take the trouble to be even civil
to those of their own household? Why
is it they so often drop even the decen-
cies of social intercourse in dealing with
their own families? Does a woman for-
feit the right to be treated like a lady
because she becomes a man’s wife?
Why does she consider she has the
right, the moment she is married, to
drop every charm she used to win him?
Why should daughters and sons who go
into ecstasies of gratitude over the
bunch of violets or two-bit walking
stick a stranger gives them be base
enough never to show by word or look
that they appreciate the life-long sac-
rifices of their parents?
It is a curiously involved domestic
problem, for these people who frankly
insult and wound each other every day
of their lives are not actuated by active
dislike, as one might suppose. On the
contrary, under the brutality of treat-
ment there generally exists a genuine
affection that manifests itself in un-
availing tears and costly monuments
when those it might have cheered and
made happy have passed beyond their
reach. For my own part, I always
cherish the fond hope that the spirits of
the departed are permitted to come back.
and read on their tombstones that they
were the ‘‘beloved wife and mother’’
of somebody. It is about the only inti-
mation many a woman gets of the es-
teem in which she was held by her fam-
ily.
The pathos of the thing does not al-
ways strike us because we are so famil-
iar with it. We should think a mana
fool if he starved for bread with his
pocket full of money. We should think
him crazy if, going into a beautiful rose
garden, he trampled the flowers under
foot and only piucked the thorns, so he
could prod them into bis flesh. Yet in
effect that is what so many families are
doing. With all the materials for hap-
piness in their hands they still go hun-
gry for it. They throw aside the bloom-
ing roses of companionship and love
and loyalty and devotion and only pluck
the thorns of some little peculiarity of
disposition or taste. And then, long,
long afterward, when the frost has killed
the roses, when the summer of child-
hood is gone and there is nothing but a
row of graves in the cemetery, how the
drifted sweetness of the old days comes
back and one reproaches one’s self that
he did not enjoy it while he might.
Ah me, the joys that might have been
ours, and that we missed !
It is idle to ask whose fault it is
when a home isa failure. It is every-
body’s, because a home is a co-operative
institution. No woman can make a
happy home if a man sits and scowls at
her across the table or if his idea of a
home is 2 place where he can luxuriate
in bad temper and bad manners. No
man can make a happy home if he is
married to a woman who is more in-
terested in Browning than she is in the
cook book and who thinks that any old
thing will do for her husband and chil-
dren, or who is slatternly, wasteful,
querulous or fretful.
Generally speaking, however, the ma-
jority of the blame for the failure of a
home deservediy rests on the woman.
When a man marries, the wife’s part of
the contract is a tacit agreement to
make a comfortable, well-managed and
well-ordered home, and if she fails in
that she has failed in the first duty.
More than that, it is equally a woman's
duty to give the tone to the home—to
formulate its policy—and it rests with
her to determine whether it is to be one
of quiet peace and dignity or as full of
brawls ard riots as a common pothouse.
As to the way a woman is treated by her
husband and children, that, also, is her
own affair. She was a lady before she
was a wife, and if she forgets it and
permits her husband to ignore it and
her children to be impertinent to her,
she deserves everything she gets, It is
a common saying among women that a
woman is accorded the measure of re-
spect she deserves and that a lady may
go from one end of the country to the
other without even hearing a word or
receiving a look to annoy her. This is
just as true of one’s family as it is of
the street masher. The woman of self-
controled dignity, who demands respect-
ful treatment and consideration from
those of her own house, never fails to
receive it, and perhaps the real reason
why so many homes are failures is be-
cause the women at the head of them
lack backbone. They haven't the firm-
ness to instill discipline and order, and
the family gets to be like a weakly offi-
cial’s regiment when the soldiers are
fighting among themselves and in open
mutiny against their commander.
Sometimes the cause of discord is a
discontented son or daughter. They
scorn homely duties, the simple way of
living, they turn up their noses at
father’s opinion and sneer at mother’s
views and are sure the world is wait-
ing ready to bestow on them fame and
fortune. The parents, who know life
better and who know that nothing but
struggle and failure await them, fool-
ishly try to keep these young malcon-
tents safe in the home nest. It isa great
mistake. Fai better to let them go,
and after one round with a cruel world
that will not care one rap whether their
precious feelings are hurt or not they
will be glad enough to come back to
three good mea!s a day and mother. It
is not likely that any woman is going to
have the courage to do it; but if she
would only say to her children: ‘‘This
is your home only so long as you are
pleasant and agreeable in it. If you
don't like it, you are perfectly free to
go somewhere else,’’ she would see a
vast improvement in their manner, and
have to listen to far fewer criticisms on
tbe table. The least return one can
make for free board is good company.
Another thing that would make enor-
mously towards the augmented happi-
ness of family life would be the aban-
donment once and forever of the over-
worked forgive-and-forget theory. We
forgive—or we say we do—but nobody
on earth ever forgot, and there’s no use
in going on the presumption that they
do. Every bitter word, every unjust sus-
picion and accusation is a rankling
wound that never entirely heals. It is
always there in the heart, ready to bleed
afresh ata chance touch of memory.
There are terrible blows that love may
survive. It is the little pin prick stabs,
day after day, that torture it to death. It
is a mistake to believe that we forgive
and forget the unkindness of those of
our own family quicker than those of
strangers. Rather, they are the deadli-
est and the most unforgetable, because
it is a Brutus-thrust from the hand we
love and trust. Surely we should be
more careful of what we say and do if
we realized that there is no more any
such thing as ‘“‘forgiving and forget-
ting’’ in entirety than there is making
a broken flower live again. The im-
patient speeches, the cruel gibes and
criticisms that we unthoughtedly bestow
upon our own families may not land us
in the divorce courts or lead to open
rupture with brothers or sisters, but
there are those who, living side by side,
year after year, are more widely sun-
dered than if oceans and continents
stretched between them.
Finally, there is the lack of congenial-
ity that we attribute to temperament and
every other possible thing but the true
thing, which is politeness. There is
absolutely nothing else on earth so ap-
palling as the cruel candor of our near
relations. They don’t feel called upon
to gloss things over—to smile sweetly at
our threadbare jokes and twice-told
stories and at least to keep civilly si-
lent over our mistakes.
On the contrary, they see our faults
and remind us of them and keep our
defects ever before us, and we cordial-
ly detest them for doing it.
‘‘Just make yourself perfectly at
home,’’ says the hospitable hostess to
her guest, but nobody has ever been
rash enough to attempt it. We know
very well that if we reminded this one
that she was too old to wear hats with
do-funnies all over it and another that her
house was ill-kept and her children un-
bearable and another that she couldn't
sing any more than a frog we sbould
leave a train of enemies behind us. Po-
liteness is the oil that keep the wheels
of society from creaking. It is worth
Joo cents on the dollar everywhere, and
in home intercourse—with people with
whom we must live and from whom we
can not get away—it is always above
par. Every living thing turns to the
sun. We must have warmth and light
and approbation in which to expand,
and if we do not find it at home we
seek it elsewhere. Tradition holds that
we must not express to those near and
dear to us the affection in which we
hold them and the admiration we feel
for them, and that is the reason the
poor, hungry human heart, longing for
love and praise, so often turns from its
own family to lavish its treasures on
strangers.
After all, it seems a simple thing to
suggest that a practical application of
the amenities of civilized society is
all that we need to reform home life,
If it is well, upon occasion, to treat
strangers as if they were members of our
family, it is equally as desirable to
treat our families with the politeness,
the forbearance and the civility we
show to strangers. Dorotuy Dix.
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The Folly of Affectation.
One of the most amusing as well as
the most annoying of feminine vagaries
is affectation. It is a weakness to which
women seem peculiarly addicted, and
so universal is the affliction that if one
wished to call special attention to her-
self it is probable she could hit on no
other more effective or distinctive device
than being perfectly natural.
Nothing is more amusing than the
ways in which the poor pretense of be-
ing what she is not often manifests it-
self. The story of the ostrich, that
covers up its head and fancies itself
concealed, finds a human parallel in
the woman who believes that the world
can not see through the transparent airs
and graces with which she decks her-
self, or is taken in by affectations of
culture, or wealth, or position.
It seems as if one’s sense of humor
ought to be sufficient safeguard against
this kind of thing, seeing that we can all
appreciate how absurd others look in a
false position, but it isn’t. We go on
pretending to like things we hate, and
to enjoy things that bore us to death,
secure that we are deceiving the world
into thinking us wise or learned. Do
you suppose that half the women who
rave over music understand or care for
it? Nota bit. Plenty of the women
who sit in boxes at the opera and mur-
mur ‘‘how divine’’ are stifling a yawn,
and would a thousand times rather be
laughing over the minstrel jokes if they
dared be honest and natural. It is the
same way with books. The great run
on a particular book is always a pre-
tense and affectation. We read it be-
cause others do. The ranks of the Ibsen-
ites and the Browningites and the fad-
ites generally would be decimated if
only those staid in who really under-
stand and enjoy metaphysical problems.
The literary and artistic crazes of the
day are supported by the affectations of
women who don’t really care two but-
tons for them, but who are not brave
enough to come out and say what they
think.
Really, when one thinks of it, it is
more and more wonderful that there
should be so much affectation, because
in reality nothing is so delightful and
refreshing as naturalness. It is like a
breath of fresh air let into an overhot
and crowded room. How we rejoice in
the woman who has the courage of her
convictions; who says frankly that she
wasn’t invited to the Croesus ball in-
stead of telling a fib about the head-
ache; who comes out with the plump
statement that she thinks such and such
a book a bore, and who owns that the
reason she doesn’t refurnish the house
is because she can’t afford it, instead
of telling us some tarradiddle about be-
ing so attached to old things she
can’t bear to part with them.
There is an old story about a cele-
brated diplomat whose cunning was
such it was the marvel of all who came
in contact with him. No one could an-
ticipate or explain it, and finelly, when
he was called upon for an explanation,
he said he ‘‘simply told the truth. ’’-
Pretty much the same thing might be
said in favor of simplicity. In the
shams by which we are surrounded nothb-
ing else seems at once so interesting
and chic as naturalness, It has all the
charm of the unusual.
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WEDNESDAY, - - - JULY 12, 1899.
A FINANCIAL RECORD-BREAKER.
Even the commercial optimist is
opening his eyes with wonder. He
finds, upon looking over the account of
the manufacturing exports for the fiscal
year, not yet complete, that the books
aliea2dy show an increase over last year
whicb will be at least $50,000,000 over
1898, which was itself a record-breaker.
Enough, at all events, appears to war-
rant the estimate of last year’s exports
of manufactured products at $335,000,-
000, an amount averaging something
more than $1,000,000 a day for the
business days of the year.
When the price of iron and steel went
up a few months ago, it was expected
that there would be a decrease in the
exports of manufacturea products in
those lines. It appears, on the con-
trary, that the exports have increased
to a remarkable degree even at the ad-
vanced figures. The reports show an
increase of trade for the past few years.
The iron and steel exports increased
from $21,156,077 in 1898 to $70, 406, 885
in 1899, an increase of something more
than three times. Exports of manufac-
tured copper increased in value from
$2,348,954 in 1889 to $32,180,872 in
1898, or more than thirteen times, Dur-
ing the same period leather manufac-
turers exported nearly double values and
cotton-manufactured exports show an
increase of almost 70 per cent. Agri-
cultural implements more than doubled
in value; paper and its manufactures
more than quadrupled; wood znd its
manufactures show a gain of nearly 50
per cent. ; exports of paraffin and par-
affin wax almost tripled in value, and
the exports of chemicals, drugs and dyes
exhibit 2a gain in value of more than 80
percent There are other accounts of
the same purport, but enough have been
giveo to show that in one line of Na-
tional prosperity, as a recoid-breaker,
the United States holds no mean place.
The feature in which the Tradesman
is especiaily interested lies in the fact
that the American manufacturer is
studying the wants, as weil as the needs,
of the earth and is trying to supply
both. The figures show that he is ap-
plying to bis business the everlasting
gospel truths of ‘‘Get there!'" They
show, what this periodical has always
insisted on, that the American manu-
facturer and the American merchant
have only to bestir themselves to be-
come the commercial! masters of the
world. This couniry has long been the
acknowledged home of inventive genius.
Its industry has become proverbial and
its courage is indomitable, and as a
driver of sharp bargains the Yankee is
fairly well known. It is true that self-
appreciation has at times been a marked
American characteristic; but the time
has yet to be stated when the American
bas aot made his vaunting true. These
are qualities that tell; especially in
commercial lines. The manufacturing
world has so far been carried on too
much upon general principles. The
peoples of the earth have been taken as
a whole, and as a whole their wants
bave been supplied. It has remained
for the American to break up the old
order of things and as a specialist to cater
to individual National want. He was the
first to show that a shoe comely and
comfortable upon the German foot was
a torture and an eyesore to the French-
man, and made for each nationality
what each needed; and this marvelous
increase in the exports of the United
States is due largely to this.
The conclusion of the whoie matter is
inevitable. The record-breaker in
American exports is not a matter of
chance, There are push and intelli-
gence and industry and abundant means
behind them; and they have come to
stay. The tidal wave will ebb back in-
to the ocean bed—it is the inevitable
law; but it will flow again, and the
same forces which have made the ex-
ports of 1899 a record-breaker wi!] ac-
cording to the same law furnish a like
success in the vears to come.
In the manufacturing towns in the
Indiana gas belt the prospective failure
within a few years of the supply of nat-
ural gas is a serious question. The
existence of this cheap fuel has given
an immense impulse to manufacturing
in Indiana, has attracted a large amount
of capital to the State, and has been an
important factor in the building up of
some of the most prosperous manufac-
turing towns. Between 1880 and 1890
the value of manufactured products in
the State increased from $48,000,000 to
over $226,000,000, and the increase since
1890 has been still greater. The effect
on these industries of the failure of nat-
ural gas is being seriously discussed.
Fortunately for Indiana, it has a supply
of good coal near the center of popula-
tion, and sufficient in quantity, accord-
ing to the State geologist, to serve all
expected needs of the State for 1,600
years. New industries may of course
be tempted to other gas fields, but In-
diana hopes to retain all the established
plants, for the reason that moving is ex-
pensive, and because of the doubt, re-
sulting from experience, of the long
continuance anywhere of natural gas.
If some one in no way connected with
the shoe business should call a conven-
tion of genilemen to arbitrate the differ-
ences between Governor Pingree and the
employes of his shoe factory, Mr. Pin-
gree wcvuld very properly inform the
gentlemen that he was capable of con-
ducting his own business. Yet Pingree
put himself in the position of an inter-
loper when he undertook to arbitrate the
differences involved in the Pullman
strike, five years ago. He was then en-
tering upon a political career and was
making grand stand plays for the sup-
port of the fool union men who rush
blindly after every demagogue who
knows how to praie about unionism be-
fore election and then stab the animal
in the back as soon as his term of office
has expired.
Some people preter the rising sun;
others like the setting sun best; but it
is all the same sun.
UNION LABEL A DAMAGE.
The present strike in the factory of
Pingree & Smith furnishes a whole
chapter of commentary on the value of
modern unionism as a factor in the shoe
industry, and, by inference, in other
lines of productive trade. The fact that
the principal in that corporation during
his ten years of political life has posed
as a general philanthropist, giving es-
pecial atiention to the needs and the
grievances of the working man, gives
his personal and business relations a
peculiar significance. It will be recalled
that his interest in these questions led
to his first entrance into public life.
Then a notable instance of his interest
in such matters was indicated by his is-
suing a call to the mayors of other cities
to meet in conference with him in Chi-
cago to undertake the settlement of the
Pullman strike, a move which, while it
seemed only to meet with ridicule,
served to show his interest in the cause
of the oppressed working man, and
really served in no small degree to en-
bance his popularity and further his
political ambitions. Acting along the
same lines, his whole career has been
such as to make him pre eminently the
apostle of the working man and his
success in filling the popular mind with
that idea has been repeatedly demon-
strated by the phenomenal majorities
with which he has carried his elections,
Naturally it is to be expected that in-
dustrial enterprises under his control
would furnish models of excellence in the
relations of employer and employe, and
certainly the merits of unionism would
receive the fullest recognition.
Yet it has been patent for a number
of years that all was not peace and har-
mony. Presuming, doubtless, upon the
vulnerability of the management on ac-
count of political relations, it has been
a difficult matter to keep up evena
semblance of harmony and a strike was
inaugurated several years ago. A peace
was soon arranged by making such con-
cessions as seemed possible and keep
the business running. Of course, none
were to be employed except union oper-
atives and the union label was to be
borne by all products.
The later experience of the enterprise
bas demonstrated that a model union
shop in which the empioyes have all the
power which unionism demands is _ in-
compatible with business success, even
under the most favorable circumstances.
The immense popularity of the senior
name in the corporation afforded an
unique opportunity for advertising the
product and it was improved on a large
scale; but it soon became evident that
even this advantage was more than neu-
tralized by the artificially high cost of
making the goods. Political needs and
ambitions carried the experiment as far
as was possible and when occasion was
taken for another strike it was deter-
mined to put an end to the intolerable
conditions, and, to the consternation of
the union managers, notice was given
that their rule was over, that their
stamp, which had proven a damage to
the trade, was to be discontinued and
the factories were to be opened to non-
union labor.
It would be difficult to make a more
thorough test of the merits and limita-
tions of unionism than has thus been
afforded. With every possible incentive
to meet all their requirements, and with
the most exceptional advantages for ad-
vancing the business interests through
personal prestige and popularity, the
trial has been carried to the utmost. If
under such conditions it is demonstrated
that unionism can not be maintained,
what must be the experience of those
manufacturers who undertake the use of
the labei solely on business grounds, un-
influenced by political expediency.
A writer in the Century, who has
made a study of the tramp, has come to
the conclusion that the free riding on
freight trains has not been the least in
centive to trampism. The custom grew
up after the war, and it was tolerated
so long that tramps came to regard it as
a right and fought to retain it. Thou-
sands pass from one section of the coun-
try to another, thus spreading the evil.
Furthermore, traveling is so aitractive
to many men that it induces them to be-
come tramps. The writer holds that if
tramps were kept off freight
tramping would not be so attractive,
and that if railroad officials would make
a concerted and energetic effort they
might cut off the privilege of free trans-
portation, which would confine the wan-
derers to limited areas, where they
would soon become known to the offi-
cials and the custom be suppressed.
In Morocco at this time entire wagon
loads of locusts are brought to the mar-
ket in Fez, because they form a regular
article of food for the Moors who in-
habit this part of North Africz. The
locusts are eaten in every style, pickled,
salted, simply dried, smoked, or in any
other possible way, except raw. The
negroes on the northern coast of Africa
prefer locusts to pigeons, and they eat
from 200 to 300 ata sitting. They re-
move head, wings and legs, boil them
for half an hour in water, then add salt
and pepper, and fry them in vinegar.
In a similar way locusts are prepared at
other points in Africa and Asia. Pre-
served in salt pickle they form a staple
article of commerce. Locusts in Africa
are also compressed, when fresh, in
barrels, and are then dished out like
butter at meal times.
The model town of Pullman has lost
its identity and will henceforth have no
individual existence. The city of Chi-
cago took possession of it July 1, when
it became part of the Thirty-fourth
ward. Pullman ceased to have a sepa-
rate legal existence some time ago, when
the Supreme Court declared that the
Pullman Palace Car Company exceeded
its charter rights in the holding of lands
and houses for the purposes of maintain-
ing a town. The company has, how-
ever, continued to clean the streets, look
after the sewers, and supply water for
the residents.
In the United States Circuit Court at
Boston the other day Judge Colt de-
cided that ‘‘Wheeling stogies’’ could
only be made in Wheeling,, W. Va. It
is claimed that this decision can be ap-
plied to ‘‘Key West’’ cigars not actually
made in Key West, and that it also may
affect other manufactured articles sold
on the representation that they come
from a certain city which has attained
prominence in the manufacture of such
articles.
The territory of Alaska has yielded
since its purchase more than twenty
times its purchase price. Yet there
were many people who claimed that its
acquirement was unconstitutional.
Give a boy good manners and he is
guarded from half the immoralities that
vulgar young men indulge in.
Talk is cheap over a backyard fence;
but it costs like the mischief over a
long-distance telephone.
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Acetylene Lighting
Relative Strength of Light
Acetylene Gas.
When acetylene is burned in air under
such conditions that the flame does noi
smoke, it has been proved by Grebant
that there is no carbon monoxide among
the combustion products; the acetylene
combines with the oxygen of the air to
foim carbon dioxide and water. One
cubic foot of acetylene requires two and
a half cubic feet of oxygen. Supposing
a room to have an illumination equal to
sixty-four standard candles; this amount
of light from candles would use up 38.5
cubic feet of oxygen from the air and
would give off forty-three cubic feet of
carbon dioxide; petroleum requires, in
cubic feet, twenty-five of oxygen and
gives off forty of carbon dioxide; gas
burned with a flat flame requires about
twenty-five oxygen and gives nineteen
carbon dioxide—with an Argand flamea
little less, while with the Welsbach
burner gas requires only three oxygen,
and gives off 1.8 carbon dioxide; acety-
lene requires five oxygen and yields
four carbon dioxide. So that, light for
light, acetylene fouls the ai: less than
any ordinary illuminant excepting the
Welsbach gas burner. (With incan-
descent electric light there is no com-
bustion and no fouling of the air. )
Under the best conditions five cubic
feet of acetylene give a light of two
hundred and forty candles for one hour,
or we may speak of acetylene as a two-
hundred-and-forty-candle gas. Yet this
Statement, although strictly true, may
be misleading. When ordinary illumi-
nating gas is tested witb the photometer,
it is burned from a standard flat-flame
burner, burning five cubic feet per
hour. Now the amount of light given
by such a gas flame is no greater than
is pleasant to the eye; it is true that, if
we burn five cubic feet of acetylene
from a suitable flat-flame burner, a light
of two hundred and forty candles is
given, but it is unfair to take this ratio
as representing the actual relative illu-
minating value of the two lights, be-
cause we neither need a light of two
hundred and forty candles, nor is such
an amount of light issuing from one
burner endurable to the eye. One-foot
or one-half foot acetylene burners are
used for ‘domestic lighting ; lighi from
the best omne-foot - burners average
thirty-two to thirty-five candles per
cubic foot. With acetylene, as with
every other illuminating gas, the smaller
the burner and consumption, the less
light per cubic foot of gas is obtained.
Another important point is that while
these figures represent the best practical
illumination obtained from acetylene
by the burners hitherto in use, the stand-
ard flat-flame burner does not give the
best gaslight; with a good Welsbach
burner a cubic foot of illuminating gas
will give a seventeen candle light as an
average. The comparison, to be fair,
should be between acetylene and the
Welsbach light.
The reader will ask whether it is not
possible to burn acetylene with other
forms of burner, or to use it with Wels-
bach mantles. Successful acetylene
burners of the Argand or of the regen-
erative type have not yet been intro-
duced; but in Germany a new acetylene
burner with Welsbach mantle promises
good results. Experiments in England
with aa acetylene Bunsen burner and
Welsbach mantle gave a light of ninety
candles per cubic foot of acetylene
used. It remains to be seeu whether it
From
is necessary to modify the composition
of the mantles because of the intense
heat of the acetylene Bunsen flame,
which gives a temperature of 3812 to
4397 degrees Fahrenheit.
It would extend this article to undue
length to speak of the various uses of
acetylene as an enricher of other gases,
but a mixture of acetylene and Pintsch
oil gas now in use on all the Prussian
state railways deserves mention, as it
is a success, and ten thousand tons of
carbide will be used this year for light-
ing cars by this system. Lewes’ new
invention of a very cheap methane
water yas which is enriched by acety-
lene, carried to the consumer through
mains and burned in ordinary burners,
is also promising.
Insurance and police regulations vary
for every country. As a rule, restric-
tions are put on the use of liquid acety-
lene, and on the amount of carbide to
be kept in storage. Generators must
stand in separate buildings, which, in
towns, must be fireproof.
The Willson patents cover the manu-
facture of crystalline carbide in the
United States, Canada and the South
American States; and, as all carbide
made by the electric furnace is crystal-
line, no carbide can be made independ-
ently of these patents in these countries.
In conciusion, it may be predicted
that within the next few years acetylene
will prove a factor in giving us an im-
proved and cheaper light Whether this
wil! be an acetylene-Welsbach light or
whether the acetylene will be chiefly
used as an enricher of cheaper gases
the future will show.—Edward Renouf
in Popular Science Monthly.
2. ___
The Price of ‘‘A Good Liar.”
‘‘If I hire you,’’ said a grocer to a
boy who had applied for work, ‘‘I sup-
pose you will do as I tell you?’’
** Ves, sir |”
‘*If I told you to say the sugar was
high grade when it was low, what would
you say?”’
The boy did not hesitate a moment.
‘I'd say it,’’ he responded promptly.
‘‘TIf I told you to say the coffee was
pure when you knew that it had beans
in it, what would you say?’’
‘*I’d say it.’’
‘‘If I told you to say that the butter
was fresh when you knew it had been
in a store for a month, what would you
**T’d say it.’’
The merchant was nonplussed.
‘*How much will you work for?’’ he
enquired, very seriously.
‘One bundred dollars a week,’’ an-
swered the boy, in a business-like tone,
The grocer came near falling from
his stool.
‘‘One hundred dollars a week?’’ he
repeated, in astonishment.
‘*With a percenatge after the first two
weeks,’’ said the boy, coolly. ‘‘ You
see,’’ he went on,‘‘first-class liars come
high; and, if you need them in your
business you’ve got to pav them the
price. Otherwise I’ll work for $3 per
week ;’’ and the boy caught the grocer
at his own game, and got the job at $3
per week.
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
Getting the People
Good and Bad Advertising and Ex-
amples of Both.
Saginaw, July 1—As I am a diligent
reader of the Tradesman, I take delight
in reading your page on ‘‘Getting the
People’’ and send you one of a few ad-
vertisements we were running in the
paper here. This is just one of half a
dozen we have used, and it might aid
other grocers throughout the State.
GEORGE B. SEXLINGER.
Mr. Sexlinger’s advertisement runs as
follows:
It’s Easy
to Guess
why our business grows as
continuously and as substan-
tially as itdoes. The stock
we Carry, the prices we quote,
the complete service we give.
We never lose a customer,
and the old ones bring new
ones. Seems tous that we
are keeping the sort of store
would.
We don't claim to have the
best store, but we try tomake
a better one impossible.
Yours for trade,
Sexlinger & Winterstein,
1927 N. Michigan Ave.
you ought to trade in. If
you knew all about it you
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cover your loss in that way. If the ad-
vertising brings in new customers, and
you treat them properly, they will stick
to you. So even if you lose a few dol-
lars on a_ special offer, the net results
will show a balance on the credit side of
the ledger.
And these remarks apply not only te
the grocery business, but to almost every
other business as weli.
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Here is a building association adver-
tisement that would make angels
weep. I assume it is an advertise-
ment, because it appeared in the
advertising columns of a newspaper,
and because it contains display type,
otherwise it might easily be taken
for a missing-word or a job printer's
sample sheet:
ARE YOU OUT OF DEBT?
WHY? Beans yor cannot pay it
WE WILL LOAN
YOU THE MONEY
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cents 2 Can you can figure out/ Gillam said im substance-
Display is emphzsis. The effect of
nd even if you black type upon the reader is the same
on the ham, or/ 25 the raising of the voice would be up-
ak : fon a listener.
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to buy the ham will doubtiess | proper points.
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black type only where they are neces-
sary. What would you think of a speak-
er who broke into a shout every three or
four words?
A great many men who write adver-
tisements have just this fault. They
write an advertisement, and when they
are finished they underscore words here
and there and tell the printer to make
the underscored words black. And when
the advertisement is set up it looks
spotted and is hard to read. If the
composition of an advertisement is left
to the average compositor, he will
usually try to see how many kinds of
type be can work into it. This isa
mistake. Two, or at most three, styles
of type are sufficient for any advertise-
ment, and these styles should be chosen
with reference to the ease with which
they can be read. The easier an adver-
tisement is to read, the more people
will read it. The more simple its ar-
rangement and the fewer styles it con-
tains, the easier it will be to read. The
moral is obvious.
* * *
The accompanying advertisement,
clipped from a New Orleans paper,
sbows that big biack type is not neces-
s2ry to the attractiveness of an adver-
tisement. It is neat in appearance and
The best shop in town.
©cdehaux’s
Store
P\ews
Tuesday, July 4.
What are you going to do with
your legs this summer?
Wear old trousers or have your
lezs recovered?
_ itll have to be a queer kind of
vgs and a queer sort of taste that
We can't satisfy—$z2 to $8.
Of course, we cover all the rest
of the body—boys’ bodies, too.
Clothes that fit.
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BD easentiz] to an advertisement. The
ieacing matter is bright and crisp and
Elves the impression that the advertiser
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me gore. In its way I would consider
m2 model of good advertising.
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world like more of the readers of
the Trad
th criticism. I be-
cemmz= to send in samples of
their axtiwertisimg for
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make tbi¢ department of direct personal
Gemett to them. [| would like to receive
|emguiries 2bout advertising plans and
|the Tradesman to do just this.
aay other matters commected with the
subject of advertising. I am paid by
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cism will at all times be as fair and un-
biased 2s human criticisms can be. It
is mot the people who pat us on the
back that do us the most good. In my
own experience, the men who have
places emphasis at the belped me most to the understanding of
The effective advertiser | good advertising and to the production
of good advertising matter are the men
who tore my advertisements to pieces
and showed me where they were wrong
and why they were wrong.
If I had listened only to the friends
who had nothing but applause for my
early efforts, I would not be in charge of
this department to-day.
The doctor who cuts off our leg may
burt us more than the one who gives us
sugar pills, but he also does us more
good in the end.
W. S. HAMBURGER.
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The Evil in the Trust.
From the Outlook.
In disease sound diagnosis is half the
battle. The doctor who has discovered
what is the disease has made long prog-
ress toward discovering the remedv.
Dr. Washington Gladden, in an article
on *‘The Spread of Socialism,’’ points
out very clearly the evil inherent in
trusts. That evil is not combination; it
is Overcapitalization.
Combination brings with it great ad-
vantages. It prevents ruinous competi-
tion, compulsory lowering of wages,
extravagantly low prices, temptation to
adulteration due to the pressure of com-
petition. It adjusts the supply to the
need, pervents oversupply, economizes
in production, and, rightly directed,
should secure fair prices from the con-
sumer and fair prices for the producer.
The attempt to prevent combination,
whether of labor or of capital, is a vain
attempt. It is working against the law
of progress, which is in the direction of
co-operation and combination.
The evil of the trust is overcapitali-
zation, which puts an extravagant value
on property, represents that value iu
stock and bonds, attempts to pay the
interest on that stock and bonds to the
holders, and, as a necessary result,
takes the unearned interest out of either
the wages of the laborer or the prices
paid by the consumer, or botb. his is
not robbery, because robbery takes
property from another man’s pocket by
violence; it is not theft, because theft
takes it from his pockei by stealth; but
it takes the property of another without
giving anv equivalent therefor, and has
this in common with both robbery and
theft.
The remedy is not in legislation made
to prevent combination ; it is in legisla-
tion made to prevent overcapitalization.
We do not here propose a specific for
the disease which Dr. Gladden has so
well described; we only suzgest cer-
tain remedies.
Wherever a trust gives a domestic
monopoly, the tariff should be taken off
and foreign competition introduced.
This will not be a remedy; it may only
produce a large: trust, including foreign
as well as domestic producers; but it
will make monopoly more difficult.
No corporation should be allowed to
put its own valuation on its own prop-
erty, and then sell its stocks and bonds
in the market. As a conditio. of in-
corporation, an official valuation of the
Property might well be required.
The law also might require that the
books of all corporations or of certain
classes of corporations should be open
to inspection. Corporations which are
distinctly servants of the public, like
railroads, migbt well be subject to offi-
cial examination, as are the banks.
It would be possible to levy a tax on
all corporations, based, not upon the
aciual value of their property, real or
personal, but upon the apparent value,
as represented by their stocks and bonds.
This would discourage, although it
would not prevent, overcapitalization.
If every corporation had to pay taxes
on its water, water would be less freely
used than now.
These are simply suggestions of the
direction in which the public might
look ior relief from the real or supposed
operation of trusts. That relief is not
to be found in probibiting or making
difficult combination ; it is to be found
in prohibiting or making difficult over-
capitalization,
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Eggs Better Than Ever Before.
Front the New York Sun.
_ Eggs were probably never before put
into the market at retail in such good
shape as they are nowadays. Mote and
more producers are discovering that
eggs uniformly handsome in appearance
bring more than eggs of al! sizes and
clean and dirty mixed together, and are
packing eggs accordingly; and quick,
modern transportation brings eggs here
iresh even from far distant points.
While eggs, however, come better packed
and fresher than ever they are more
carefully than ever inspected here, the
highest grade eggs being separately
candled, or inspected, every one ina
shipment. The eggs are gathered from
Many points, and the only way to know
about them all with certainty is to ex-
amine them. A nest egg may have got
in by accident. There may be in the
lot some eggs that are dirty; these may
be just as good as any, the dirt marks
having been made perhaps ty a wet
wing trailed over the egg; but one such
egg would spoil the appearance of a
whole layer in a box. Sometimes soiled
eggs are washed, sometimes they are
sold by themselves at a less price. The
cracked eggs may be repacked in solid
packages ; they are sold for considerably
less than the whole eggs, perhaps at
half price. There is some sale for
cracked eggs to retail buyers, but they
are mostly sold to bakers.
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15
GOTHAM GOSSIP.
News from the Metropolis—Index to
the Market.
Special Correspondence.
New York, July 8—The week has
been rather quiet in grocery jobbing
circles here, but there is not so very
much to complain of, afterall. The
coffee market has ruled about the same
as iast week and, while more business
might have ‘been done, there is a fair
degree of activity prevailing. On Thurs-
day a cable from Europe reported that
a well-known authority estimated the
coming crop of Rio (1899-1900) at
3,000,000 bags and tbat ot Santos at
6,750,000 bags. Invoice quotations here
are worth 6%c for Rio No. 7, with the
stock on hand—in store and afloat—ag-
gregating 1,155.343 bags, against 857,153
bags at the same time last year. The
world’s ‘‘visible supply’’ decreased
about 61,000 bags during the month of
June and on July 1 stood at 6,200,000
bags. For mild grades enquiry is light,
but holders seem unwilling to make any
concession if asked to do so in order to
make sales. Good Cucuta is still heid
at 8c. East India growths are dul! and
are attracting only the most ordinary at-
tention.
Invoice trading in teas is almost at a
standstill and, while there is perhaps
rather more stability to the market for
lines than noted a week ago, there is
yet room for improvement. Would-be
buyers seem to be in need of only _ suffi-
cient to last ‘‘over Sunday.’’ Quota-
tions are practically unchanged.
Refined sugar has taken on a new
lease of life and a large amount of busi-
ness has been done. The go days’ guar-
antee has not only been extended, but
the refiners alsa announce that sugar
‘‘purchased under this agreement or
guarantee of 90 days could be with-
drawn as wanted and unshipped sugar
delivered at the lowest rate.’’ Many
buyers are said to have placed orders
sufficient to meet requirements through
until Oct. 1. Save for a couple of the
softer grades, list prices were firmly
maintained and are unchanged, granu-
lated remaining at 5%4c.
Orders for rice have been of the few-
est and for the smallest amounts. Or-
ders coming have chiefly called for
Japan. Foreign grades are in rather
light supply, except Japan, and although
little business has been done prices are
pretty well sustained. Domestic rice
1s quiet within the range of 5%@6c.
Singapore pepper is quotable at 11@
11%c, and this perhaps has been shaded
in some instances. Trading has been
dull during the week and quotations are
nominal,
Grocery grades of New Orleans mo-
lasses have been very quiet and, while
quotations remain the same, the general
tone of the market is hardly satisfactory
to holders. Syrups continue dull and
sluggish, but as stocks have become
somewhat depleted, there may be a
change for the better before many days.
Prime to fancy sugar syrup is quotable
at 20@23Cc.
Canned goods are active. The mar-
ket for canned goods is the most in-
teresting one to be considered. The
demand, which began almost a year
ago, has been increasing almost daily
and new goods coming in are taken with
avidity. The pack of peaches, corn
and tomatoes in the East is still uncer-
tain and the outlook is for higher prices
right along. About 5,000 cases of New
Jersey standards, No. 3, delivered here,
sold at 7234c, although 75c is the pre-
vailing rate among leading brokers, and
even Ioc more is not extremely rare.
Spot New York corn is firm at 70@75c.
Lemons have been in active demand
from out of town and the market is
firm, although prices are not materially
changed. Sicily lemons range from $3
@4 per box, as to size. Oranges are in
fair demand, but orders are mostly for
small amounts. Prices are within a
range of from $4.50@5 per box for
Rodis. Bananas are in slow movement,
as people prefer domestic fruits. Port
Limon, firsts, are worth $1.30@1.35 per
bunch. Other grades, $1.10@!1.20.
Dried fruits are dull, but as stocks are
light the quotations made are well sus-
tained. Orders are for small quantities.
Little is doing for future business.
Fancy Western creamery butter is
firm and the mark is now 18%c. This,
however, is probably the top, and some
jobbers claim that it is too high, as a
general rule. Still, this price is ob-
tained for the best stock, and for firsts
17%@18c; seconds, 16%@17c. A large
part of butter coming to hand wili not
grade strictly up to mark and goas firsts
or even seconds. Imitation creamery
is steady, but the demand is not as _ac-
tive as hoped for. Extras, 15%4@16c;
firsts, 14@15c; finest Western dairy,
14%@l15c; extra factory sells with some
freedom at 14@14%c.
Cheese is duli and without interest.
For the best make of State cheese, large
size, 8c seems to be top rate. Small size
colored will bring %c more.
Receipts of eggs have been more than
sufficient to meet consumptive demands,
and we havea market lacking anima-
tion. Fancy Western are worth from
144%@15c, with some lots fetching %c
more.
Marrow, medium and pea beans all
seem to have rather more call this week,
the former, if choice, bringing $1.52%
@i.55; medium, $1 40@1.42%; pea,
choice, $1.40. Exporters have taken
some Red Kidneys this week. Choice
are quotable at $1.70
—__> 2. __
Increase in Traffic Rate on Live
Poultry.
New York, July 1o—The Trunk Line
Association, which is composed of fifty-
four railroads or thereabout, recently
voted to change the traffic rates on live
poultry in carlots to the actual weight
contained by the car instead of the
present system of charging so much per
carload. The carload rate for live poul-
try has been 16,000 pounds second class,
or 16,000 pounds at 65 cents, which is
equal to $104 per carload from Chicago
to New York. This rate bas been in
operation for some time and has been
perfectly satisfactory to both shippers
and commission men. In making this
change it is proposed to weigh the cars,
including poultry, coops, feed, water,
refuse and other items. The cars now
in use carry as an average load less
than the minimum weight of poultry
alone, but with the added weight of
coops and other items mentioned, there
is usually an excess of several thousand
pounds, which are now to be charged for
and collected by the railioads under the
new rule.
The commission receivers here are
considerably exercised over this addi-
tional burden on the business and claim
it will have a tendency to make shippers
kill or dress their stock and send it in
thet way or seek cther markets than
New York. The receivers say that the
change is a clear discrimination against
New York City and will tend to damage
the live poultry business, especially as
it is a well known fact that the charges
on dressed poultry as now manipulated
by the different dairy lines favor ship-
ments of dressed as against live poultry.
The live poultry carrying roads say
that they do not approve of the new
move of the Trunk Line Association to
re-weigh and charge actual gross
weights, but as they are in the minority
it seems that they have been out voted.
It is hardly thought that this move of
the railroads will continue long in prac-
tice, however, as it is believed some of
the roads most interested will break
away ; in fact, there is already some talk
of that as likely to happen in at least
one or two directions.
The receivers of New York claim that
the Western classification, which is
20.000 pounds third class, is the proper
one and if the Trunk Line Association
would adopt it and make it the same
east of the Mississippi as west of the
River no fault could be found. This
would make the freight from Chicago to
New York, at the present third class
rate of fifty cents per hundied, $100, or
a net reduction of $4 over the rate pre-
vailing. As railroads are generally slow
to take any move calculated to reduce
their revenue it is suggested that the
change be made from 20,000 to 21,000
or 22,000 pounds, which at Soc would
make the rate $105 or $110 per car from
Chicago to New York. This would seem
to exactly fit the case, and we feel war-
ranted in stating that this would be
most satisfactory to both shippers and
receivers,
—___» 20.
One way to prevent hiccough is to ab-
stain from going out between the acts.
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
Clerks’ Corner.
How to Teach a Clerk the Grocery
Business.
Of the numerous conditions desirable
for the successful training of a clerk,
three things are absolutely necessary: a
thorough knowledge of the business to
be taught by the one who does the train-
ing, while a decided inclination for the
business, together with a good charac-
ter, is equally essential for the young
man who is to be trained. I would say
to all grocers: never bother with a
young man who is without these most
necessary qualifications. The clerk as
an employe represents you and your
business; you can not afford to have
anyone acting in this capacity without
character.
From his first day in the store teach
the new clerk the importance of abso-
lute cleanliness in the store and of his
own person, particularly his hands.
The best method of teaching him how
to keep the store and cellar clean is to
make him do the work of keeping ihem
that way. This work, or any other
work, is never done unless it is done
right. If he fails to do his work right,
show him his mistakes and make him
do it over again; be kind to him, but
firm. Let him see you mean what you
say; he will respect you for it.
Insist upon his wearing an apron ail
the time he is working in the store. I
prefer black silesia aprons, as they do
not show the dirt like a soiled white
apron. Teach him how to clean and
keep clean the ice box, that everything
in it may be kept sweet. Explain to
him the necessity for keeping butter
separate from everything else in a re-
frigerator, and the necessity of keeping
it and everything else in the store that
will absorb the taste or odor of things
around them away from those things
that would injure or taint their flavor.
Teach him to never dare touch tea,
coffee, butter, etc., with hands soiled
with oil, grease, mackerel brine, etc.,
because the taste of what ison his hands
will taint what he touches. He should
never be allowed to touch anything with
his hands unless absolutely necessary.
Tea, coffee, dried fruits, rice, spices,
etc., can all be handied with a scoop
without being touched with the hands.
When he hardles butter other than
wrapped print he should be taught to
first put paper on the scales, and if nec-
essary to hold the butter while cutting
it, cover it first with a piece of clean
paper, so that his hands will not touch
it. Customers appreciate these and
similar acts of cleanliness. If a custom-
er has a basket he should be taught to
pack her purchases in the same and to
keep soap, soap powder, matches and
spices away from tea, coffee or butter
in the basket. If the customer has no
basket he must be taught how to make
2 neat package with strong twine, tak-
ing even more care to separate as far as
possible goods that would taint other
goods. The best way to do this is to
wrap an extra paper around those things
which are likely to become tainted be-
fore putting them together in the bundle.
Teach him to wait on trade by letting
im fili orders or weigh up goods that
are kept weighed ahead, such as sugar,
rice, barley, etc., under your own di-
rection or that of a clerk competent to
see he does his work right. By this
means he will learn where the different
articles in the store are kept, their
price, and how to wrap and tie them.
In a short time, with such training, he
will be able to go to the counter and
wait on trade. Instruct him to listen to
you and the older clerks, if there be
any such in the store, as to the manner
in which a customer should be addressed
when coming in the store. Never allow
him to ask a customer, ** What will you
have?’’—a bartender asks the same.
Customers of a grocery store will be
better pleased with a polite, ‘‘Good
morning, what do you wish?’’ or ‘‘Can
I wait on you, please?’’
Instruct him also to pay particular at-
tention to the line of talk you and the
older clerks use in selling goods to cus-
tomers. This is about the most im-
portant part of his training, as it will
help him materially to be what so few
clerks are, but what every clerk should
be—a salesman.
In addition to this, from time to time
give him in as few words as possible
the strong points about any article you
want to push. Occasionally come to
him just the same as a customer and
ask for some article in the questions a
customer would ask about it, and other
articles of its class. You will be able
to fivd out by this what he does know
and to supply what he does not know to
help him sell goods.
After he can wait on trade inside let
him go out on the order route two days
each week. Encourage him to sell in
addition to what is asked for still other
goods if he can, but in a manner that
will not savor of offensiveness to the
customer. This can generally be done
by simply suggesting the goods, with a
few words in their favor. When he has
sufficient general knowledge to warrant
it, he can be taught the more particular
knowledge about such things as tea,
coffee, etc., explaining the actual differ-
ence between the different kinds, where
grown, their different properties for
blending, etc., how to care for them as
stock to prevent their loss of body and
flavor, and how to distinguish not only
one kind from another, but also how to
distinguish different grades of the same
kind of either tea or coffee. Explain
the difference between a wet and dry-
roast coffee, and why the latter is_pref-
erable. Give him such information in
a practical manner gradually, so he can
absorb and use it.
When he has sufficient knowledge of
the goods give him charge of the stock
of teas and coffees, holding him respon-
sible for the proper keeping of such
stock and the keeping of ihe bins ard
caddies well filled with their proper con-
tents. If fruits and vegetables are kept,
teach him how to care for such things,
especially in very warm or very cold
weather, and when he has been well
enough instructed, give him exclusive
charge of such goods and see that they
are properly cared for. The giving in-
to his care at different times of special
portions of the store’s stock encourages
him by the confidence you thus place in
him, and it teaches him as well one of
the most important things an employe
can ever be taught—to !ook after his
employer’s interests the same as if such
interests were his own.
In like manner teach him how to do
all that is to be done about the store by
first explaining not only how to do it,
but why it is done in that particular
way, and then make him do itas it
should be done. If at any time in the
excess of his zeal to sell goods he should
make statements that are untruthful,
correct him and explain the importance
of absolute truthfulness and honesty to
the customers. He owes that to them
as well as to yourself. Never reprimand
him publicly, always do it in the pres-
ence of no one but yourself and him. It
will have a better effect with him, and
as a man and a master you can not
afford to act otherwise.
If the business be one where credit is
given, when he has sufficient familiarity
with the business let him assist the
book-keeper an hour or two each day for
two days in the week. He will thus
be able without inconvenience to any-
one to make himself familiar with an-
other important branch of the business.
Teaching him the business involves
teaching him market values or cost
prices. This knowledge should be
given as a reward for his faithful serv-
ice when he has shown himself com-
petent to keep his mouth shut about
such things outside the store. Begin
with the less important things in this,
and gradually let him know prices as
his knowledge of and skill in the busi-
ness warrant. In an experience covering
a number of years, I have never known
a clerk trained on these lines to be
otherwise than a credit to himself and
his proprietor. Perfection in the gro-
cery business is like perfection in every-
thing else. It consists in knowing per-
fectly not only the important things of
the business, but the many little things
as well, and then doing them perfect-
ly.—Jobhn J. Quinn in Grocery World.
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Commercial Travelers
Michigan Knights of the Grip.
President, Cuas. S. Stevens, Ypsilanti; Secre-
tary, J. C. SaunpErs, Lansing; Treasurer, O. C.
_ GouLD. Saginaw,
Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Association.
President, James E. Day, Detroit; Secretary
and Treasurer, C. W. ALLEN Detroit.
United Commercial Travelers of Michigan.
Grand Counselor, J. J. Evans. Ann Arbor: Grand
Secretary, G. S. VaLmore, Detroit; Grand Treas-
urer, W. S. WEst, Jackson.
Grand Rapids Council No. 131.
Senior Counselor, D. E. Keyes: Secretary-Treas-
urer, Baker. Regular meetings—First
Saturday of each month in Council Chamber in
MeMullen block.
Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Mutual Acci-
dent Association.
President, J. Boyp PanTiinp, Grand Rapids;
—- and Treasurer, Geo. F. OwEN, Grand
pids.
Lake Superior Commercial Travelers’ Club.
President, F. G. Truscott, Marquette; Secretary
and Treasurer, A. F. Wixson, Marquette.
How the Shoe Dealer Flim Flammed
the Salesman.
‘*This business ain't what it used to
be,’’ sighed the shoe salesman, who was
tall and thin and solemn iooking, and
might have been taken for either a min-
ister or an undertaker. ‘‘It’s going to
the dogs.’’
‘‘What’s the matter with it?’’ en-
quired his sympathizing friend.
‘“The matter with it?’’ echoed the
shoe salesman. ‘‘ Matter enough. Look
at ine.”’
**I could look at you with better effect
were we to adjourn to the cafe.’’
_ ‘Ob, bang it all, man, I’m not jok-
ing.’’
‘“‘No more am I. This weather does
not admit of jokes. Spiei on.’’
‘“‘What I was going to say,’’ contin-
ued the shoe salesmen, ‘‘is that no one
would take me for the traditional knight
of the gripsack, 2 representative of the
great commercial interests of this coun-
try.’’
‘'Possibly not,’’ agreed the sympa-
thizing friend. ‘‘But why wouldn’t
they?’’
‘'T’m too thin,’’ answered the sales-
man in a doleful voice.
‘“‘Thin?’’ said the symryathizing
friend, lifting his eyebrows. ‘‘What
in the name of the three witches has
that got to do with it?’’
‘‘Everything,’’ groaned the _ shoe
house salesman. ‘'What’s your ideal of
a commercial traveler?’’
‘‘A rubicund, cheery-faced fellow
with an engaging smile, an infectious
good humor, an explosive joy, a capac-
ity for various vinous, malt and spirit-
uous liquors, controlled onlv by the
limits of the expense account, and a
fondness for Rabelaisian anecdote.’’
*‘Exactly,’’ commented the salesman.
‘*Do I fill the bill?’’
‘*Well, to be frank, old man,’’ laughed
the sympathizing friend, ‘‘you bear
about as much resemblance to the ideal
salesman as Don Quixote does to Jack
Falstaff,’’
‘‘Now that you’re talking,’’ said the
shoe salesman, lighting a mulatto stogie,
‘‘how many of the fellows you know in
this business are fat?’’
‘*Not one that I know of,’’ answered
the sympathizing friend, after he had
reflected for a few moments.
‘‘Right again,’’ asserted the shoe
salesman, with a melancholy smile.
‘*Fat salesmen are as rare as flamingoes
in Florida.’’
‘*What’s the cause of this sudden
melting of all too solid flesh?’’ asked
the sympathizing [riend.
‘‘Oh, the revolution in the methods
of the trade is responsible for it. The
boys of the old school aren't in it now-
adays. It used to be that a salesman
worth his salt had to be an alcohol im-
mune. He had to be ableto drink an
intending purchaser under the table.
No wonder he got fat. But times have
changed. A fellow who makes any
Money in these degenerate days can’t
afford to cultivate an artistic thirst;
and what’s more, he’s got to be a
blooming parlor entertainer. ’’
‘‘A what?’’ gasped the sympathizing
friend.
‘‘A parlor entertainer—a prestidigita-
to1—a conjuring chump—savvy?’’
“IT think I do,’’ said the sympathizing
friend, faintly.
_ ‘Well, that’s why the business is go-
ing to the dogs,’’ continued the shoe
salesman, in a bitter voice. ‘‘A fellow
isn't able to sell a bill of goods in the
country now without hypnotizing the
merchant and reeling off a dozen tricks.
Ob, I’ve been at it a year now, and I'm
a Houdin, Ke.lar and Herrmann all
rolled into one. I make dollar bills
change into tens, I change a queen of
clubs into an ace of hearts, and every-
where | go I give gratis exhibitions of
my skill.’’
‘‘[ should think that there'd be lots
of fun in it,’’ said the sympathizing
friend.
‘*Ob, ves, there’s no end of fun in
it,’’ replied the shoe salesman, wearily.
‘*That’s what I thought at first. All the
boys who were going in for sleight of
hand in order to attract customers told
me that there was more fun in taking
half dollars from a man’s nose than in
taking tbat same man out for a high
ball. But I’ve changed my mind. You
don’t want to believe those boys. They
are willies if they spring that gag on
you. I’ve got enough prestidigitation
in mine.’’
‘*How so?’’
‘‘I was doing the ‘king-pin-of-
necromancy’ act, and thought [ had the
proprietor of one of the big shoe stores
dead to rights. He was dead easy, and
I just put the cold clappers on him for
good. Never saw a man so astonished
in all my lite. I juggled away cards,
coins, handkerchiets and pencils as
easily as an alligator swallows dough-
nuts. He just goggled his eyes on me
and gasped whenever! made anything
disappear or reappear, and I had him
put down in my little book for half a
thousand plunks, But I didn’t rush in
and uppercut him and take chances of
being accidentally put out. No, sir. 1
fiddled around in good old Jim Jeffries
style and kept him oesine. Finally I
saw my opening and sailed in.
‘Here,’ says I, producing a silver dol-
lar, ‘is a genuine specimen of the cur-
rent coin of the realm, vintage of ’92,’
and | tossed it on the counter to prove
that it was all wool and a yard wide.
The proprietor looked at it closely and
said it was all right. ‘Right you are,’
says I, and I put it on the tips of my
fingers.
‘* *You’re certain this is a genuine
spondulix,’ says 1.
‘* ‘Tam,’ says he; ‘do your worst.’
‘* “Now watch me close,’ says I.
‘* "I’m all eyes,’ says he.
‘* “Then put out your band,’ says I,
as solemn as a man who reads the comic
supplements of a yellow journal.
“*He held out his paw, and I tossed
the dollar into his palm, and the old
fellow clutched it like a lobster clawing
gravel. 1 smiled like I fancied Kellar
would smile in a similar situation.
‘You've got the dollar in your band?’ I
asked. ‘I have,’ said he, ‘and I never
let go of a dollar once I get my hand on
it.” ‘Open your fist!’ I commanded.
The old curmudgeon spread his fingers
open slowly, and, presto! there on his
palm was a twenty-dollar gold piece.
‘* “A capital trick,’ he exclaimed ; ‘a
capital trick.’
“* *T think so myself,’ I said com-
placently.
‘* “But what’s become of the dollar?’
he asked.
** ‘Ob,’ I answered jauntily, ‘that was
transmuted into gold by the power of
my art,’
** ‘So?’ said he, slipping the gold
iece into his pocket, ‘that beats
Gcan's game for making money. It’s
a sort of 20 to 1 scheme.’
‘* ‘Here, give me back my money,’ I
gasped.
‘* “Your money?’ he said with an air
of astonishment. ‘Oh, yes, to be sure,
to be sure.’ And the old guy took a
silver dollar from the till and handed it
to me.
‘‘T laughed like a fellow with the
cramps, but I thought the old fellow was
playing a little joke on me, so I didn’t
say anything. I hung around trying to
sell him some goods, but he told me
that he had just stocked up from an-
other concern. I stayed around, how-
ever, but never a word did Mr. Shoe-
man say. After a while he put on his
hat and said: ‘Well, old man, I must
be going home. I enjoyed your little
entertainment immensely. Drop in
when you're around this way again.’
‘*And blank me,”’ said the shoe sales-
man, ‘‘but I was so completely dashed
that I couldn’t say a word.”’
‘*You couldn’t say a word?’’ ex-
claimed the sympathizing friend.
**Not a blank word.’’
The sympathizing friend looked re-
proachfully at the shoe salesman and
sighed,
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Why They Discarded the Union Label.
Pingree & Smith have issued the fol-
lowing statement regarding their aban-
donment of the union label on their
shoes:
The agreement under which we used
the union stamp was subject to cancel-
lation by either side at will. In adopt-
ing it, we agreed to employ during its
use none but union workmen. The
members of the union, on their side,
agreed to promote the sale of our goods
wherever possible. We gave ita fair
trial for three years, and have found
that it is of very little benefit, while pro-
ductive of considerable annoyance and
inconvenience. Dealers who have writ-
ten to us for prices on union goods have
in almost every instance been irrespon-
sible as to credit and have invariably
asked for lower priced shoes than we can
make with union labor, while a large
number of our best customers doing
business on an independent basis bave
criticised our action in adopting the
stamp.
The present stand of our employes
against the introduction of labor-saving
devices and methods would, if we
yielded, prevent us from meeting com-
petition, and would result in driving us
out of the shoe manufacturing business.
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Diabolical Scheme to Kill an Editor.
Kalamazoo, July 1o—We wish through
the medium of your valuable paper to
extend to the Grand Rapids traveling
men and their friends a cordial invita-
tion to be with us on Saturday, July 15,
including the ladies. Wewill endeavor
to give them a good time and a good
game, providing our boys get in shape;
and by the way they have been purchas-
ing liniment 1 guess there will be no
doubt on that point. Editors are not
barred and if Mr. Stowe will favor us
with his presence we will let him um
pire the game and guarantee him all the
police protection necessary while in
performance of that duty.
E. F. ZANDER.
6
The return game of the Grand Rap-
ids vs. the Kalamazoo traveling men
will be played at Kalamazoo Saturday
afternoon. The Grand Rapids delega-
tion will leave on the regular train at
7:10 a m., arriving in Kalamazoo at
8:50 o’clock, when a special train will
take the delegations from both cities to
Long Lake, where the game will be
played and the day spent in social
pleasures. Returning, the Grand Rap-
ids delegation will leave Kalamazoo at
8:10 p. m., arriving home at 9:45 p. m.
Messrs. Pipp and Rysdale, who have
charge of the transportation arrange-
ments, have secured a $2 rate if less
than fifty go and a $1.45 rate if the
party comprises fifty or over. They
therefore request that every one intend-
ing to go be on hand at the Union de-
pot by 6:45 Saturday morning, so that
it may then be decided whether the
party is entitled to the $2 or the $1.45
rate.
if you look at the records you will
discover that most men who die young
are hustlers.
Grand Rapids Retail Grocers’ Associa-
tion.
At a special meeting of the Grand
Rapids Retail Grocers’ Association,
held at the office of the Michigan
Tradesman Tuesday evening, July 11,
President Dyk presided.
The various picnic committees pre-
sented their reports, all of which were
accepted.
The Committee on Sports recom-
mended that the special features of the
day be observed in the foliowing order:
12 :30—Bicycle Race.
1 :00— Balloon Ascension.
1:30- Baseball between
Visiting Grocers.
1:45—Boys’ Race Under 16.
2:00—Girls’ Race Under 16.
2:15—Sack Race.
2 :30—Three-Legged Race.
2:45—Banana Race.
3 :00—Pie Eating Contest.
3:15—Tug of War between Local and
Visiting Grocers
4 :00—Greased Pig Contest.
5 :00— Boat Race.
5 :30—Ballicon Ascension.
8 :00—Grand Display of Fireworks.
The report was adopted.
The Committee on Oil reported that
it had been unable to secure any agree-
ment with the local managers of the two
oil companies and recommended that
the managers be requested to attend the
next meeting of the Association, which
recommendation was adopted by the
Association
There being no further business, the
meeting adjourned.
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Establishing a Trade.
Some retailers run away with the idea
that all they have to do to be successful
is to lay in a stock and advertise. By
bright advertising methods comparative
success may be reaped for a while, but
if the advertising is not backed up with
honest goods, right prices and fair
dealing, it will soon be found that
money spent in advertising was so much
money wasted. Anyone desirous of es-
tablishing a trade must never forget
these essentials, as by no other means can
trade be held. Printers’ ink, judicious-
ly used, is a powerful factor to draw
trade and if that is supplemented by
new and attractive displays in the win-
dows and store, custom will assuredly
come, but nobody’s custom will ever be
retained that has been fooled once or
possibly twice.
Sn aati Si ee
Good at Heart.
Clerk—I am only waiting for you to
raise my salary, sir, to get married.
Employer—Then don’t expect it. I
think too much of you.
—__—_> 2. —____
Edward Smith, a traveling man
claiming Milford, Mich., as his home,
took an overdose of laudanum at a hotel
at Laporte, Ind., Monday night and
he is in a precarious condition. Whether
the taking of the arug was accidental or
intentional is not known.
—__»> 2.
Mrs. E, S. Miller bas embarked in
the grocery business at Petoskey. The
Olney & Judson Grocer Co. furnished
the stock.
Local and
Taggart, Knappen & Denison,
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
Drugs--Chemicals
MICHIGAN STATE BOARD OF PHARMACY.
Term expires
A.C. ScoumacHER, Ann Arbor - Dec. 31, 1899
Gro. GunpRoumM, Ionia - - - Dec. 31, 1900
L. E. REYNOLDS, St. Joseph - Dec. 31, 1901
HENRY HEm™, Saginaw -- - - Dec. 31, 1902
Wirt P. Dory, Detroit - Dec. 31, 1803
President, Gko. GuNpRovM, Ionia.
Secretary, A. C. ScoumMacHER, Ann Arbor.
Treasurer, HENRY Herm, Saginaw.
Examination Sessions.
Houghton—Aug. 29 and 30.
Lansing—Nov. 7 and 8.
STATE PHARMACEUTICAL ASSOCIATION.
President—J. J. Sourwinz, Escanaba.
Secretary, Cuas. F. Mann, Detroit.
Treasurer JoHN D. Murr, Grand Rapids.
Some of the Things Druggists Com-
plain Of.
Written for the TRADESMAN.
When I went into a city drug store,
the other day, I noticed the proprietor
of a suburban pharmacy waiting at the
prescription case while the clerk busied
himself with an order.
‘*What’s the cost?’’ asked the rural-
ist, as the clerk finally handed hima
two ounce prescription.
‘Twenty cents, to the trade,’’ was
the reply.
The customer sat down on the edge
of the counter and laughed heartily.
‘*That’s a good one,’’ he said.
‘Anything the matter with the
price?’’ asked the clerk, with a sur-
prised look on his face.
**The price is all right,’’ replied the
other. ‘‘It would cost forty cents at
my place.’’
‘‘We expect you to make a profit on
it,’’ said the clerk.
‘*But I’li lose money on it,’’ said the
druggist, ‘‘and all through a fool doc-
tor."’
“*It strikes me,’’ said the clerk, ‘‘that
the difference between twenty cents
and forty cents is hardly a loss.’’
‘‘But I've got to sell it for five
cents,’’ said the owner of the suburban
store.
‘For five cents!’
‘Exactly. It’s just this way: This
morning a regular customer came into
my store with that prescriptior and
asked how much I would charge to put
it up. I answered that the price would
be forty cents, and he nearly fainted
away.
‘““ ‘Why,’ he said, ‘Dr. New told me
that I could get it at Blank & Blank’s,
down town, for five cents.’
‘‘Well, as I said before, the man is a
regular customer, and I didn’t want to
offend him, so I told him that the in-
gredients would cost about five times
the sum named by the doctor.
‘“ “But,’ I added, ‘I’ve got to go
down town this morning anyway and
I'll take the prescription to Blank &
Blank’s and let them put it up. It will
Save me some money and help you out,
too.’ ’’
‘‘That doctor must be crazy,’’ said
the clerk.
‘‘Oh, he just wanted to air his knowl-
edge or lack of knowledge,’’ said the
other. ‘‘He was trying to make him-
self solid with his patient by pretend-
ing to protect him from overcharges, ’’
‘“‘Are you really going to sell that
prescription for five cents?’’ asked the
clerk, as he handed back the change,
‘“Of course,’’ was the reply. ‘‘I’ve
spent an hour’s time, paid ten cents car
fare, and will lose fifteen cents on the
deal. But don’t you think the customer
won’t pay for it all in time.’’
‘‘People have great ideas regarding
the drug business,’’ said the clerk,
walking out from behind the case and
passing over a cigar. ‘‘The other day
a lady came in here and wanted five
cents’ worth of jockey club, white rose
and musk, mixed.’’
‘*Five cents’ worth of each?’’
‘*No, she wanted the three perfumes
and a bottle all for five cents. And she
didn't like it because I wouldn’t fill the
order! It was no use trying to explain
that musk is worth about a dollar an
ounce, and that she wouldn’t get enough
of it for the whole five cents to put in a
fly’s eye.’’
**If you imagine you have troubles,’’
said the rural dealer, ‘‘you come out
and run my place a spell. I don’t think
you'd last more than a week. And the
beauty of it all is that the customers in-
variably declare that they can come here
and get their orders filled as they want
them. Not long agoa lady came into
the store and asked for a cent’s worth of
Paris green and a cent's worth of mor-
phine and wanted them delivered.
How's that for an order?"’
‘‘That’s a queer combination,’’ said
the clerk. ‘‘Of course, you delivered
the order. ’’
‘‘In a pig’s wrist,’’ was the reply. ‘‘I
suppose she wanted to destroy an acre
or two of potato bugs with the Paris
green and she might have had a notion
of mercifully putting them to sleep be-
fore administering the poison. You can
never guess the notions customers have
in their heads. For instance, what can
any human being want of a combination
of flax seed and sugar of lead, mixed?
I received such an order, not long ago—
an order for two cents’ worth of each.’’
“The customer probably made a mis-
take,’’ said the clerk.
‘‘Of course, it was a mistake, ’’ said the
rural dealer, ‘‘just as it was when a
man wanted compound fluid extract of
buchu and tincture of arnica mixed.
That would be a healing remedy for the
kidneys, I don’t think,’’
Both men laughed at the novelty of
the thing, and then the rural dealer
went on:
‘‘Another nuisance in the suburban
drug store,’’ he said, ‘‘is the change
nuisance. Unless you refuse to change
notes of large denomination, the people
come in with ten and twenty dollar
notes and buy two cent stamps. I'd like
to run the old notion of curing smal!pox
in on such people. ’’
“‘T guess that’s new,’’ said the clerk.
‘*What is it?’’
‘‘Ob, they used to immerse the pa-
tient in the river up to bis neck and
duck his head under seven times an
hour for seven days—that is, if the sick
man lasted seven days.”’
*“Which he never did?"
‘*T have never come across any record
of such a cure,’’ laughed the suburban-
ite, ‘‘and that is why I'd like to have
some of my customers submitted to the
operation. I can stand pulling fly-paper
apart at a cent a pull, and having peo-
ple ask for samples in order to get the
remedy they want free of charge, for
this all means economy, but this postage
stamp business means pure gall.’’
‘‘There’s another class of customers
I'd like you to include in your list,’’
said the clerk, ‘‘and that is the bashful
young girl who wants rubber goods of
some kind and is afraid to ask for whit
she wants. She'll come into the store,
take half an hour of my time, look over
everything in the showcases until she
sees what she wants and will then ask
for ‘that.’ They make me weary,’
The clerk went back to his prescrip-
tions and the suburbanite went back to
his store to sell a forty cent prescription
for five cents. ALFREDTB, TozER,
How to Make a Soda Fountain Pay.
Keep in mind that the dispensing of
soda water is a business—a - business
that rightly conducted will return large
profits and give your store an extended
reputation. Your fountain in place,
have every working part of it of service
to you at all times. Empty mineral
and soda draft tubes are as dead _ stock,
and empty syrup cans plain detractors
of your ability to make the most of
money invested. Have the draft tubes
give out their contents in a way to do
credit to the name of fountain—in clear,
sparkling, full streams. Care in charg-
ing fountains and in keeping the soda
cold will insure this result. Keep the
coolers packed with ice, clean ice; dirty
ice leaves a refuse banked against cool-
ers and syrup cans that keeps the cold
out. Count ice half your stock in trade
and you scarcely exaggerate the neces-
sity of having plenty of it. Your foun-
tain in itself advertises cold drinks—
therefore serve cold drinks.
In making syrups, have them as_per-
fect as possible in color, consistency,
and flavor; and in using them exercise
a judgment as to quantity that shall
supplement the care and expense of
making them. A chance for true econ-
omy occurs in the use of syrups. Don’t
use too much—but just as emphatically,
don’t use too little. Make your choco-
late as good as you can. It is one of
the most expensive syrups, but good
chocolate is a good advertisement. That
is an object to attain—make each drink
to advertise itself. The palate has a
good memory. A good specialty syrup
—something that you make yourself and
that no one else has—is a fine drawing
card. Try it.
Serve your soda in thin, clean glasses,
and have clean holders forthem. Have
mineral glasses for mineral water. The
man that wants a long drink generally
finds the twelve-or-fourteen-ounce glass
too long. Have a ten-ounce glass for
him if he wants a solid drink. Catch
the fancy of the man who ‘‘doesn’t
care.’ He is a good soda buyer, asa
rule, and his ‘‘dor’t care’? comes from
a Satiated taste.. Make bim care, and
he will remember your location. Cream
will add to the permanency, flavor, and
appearance of soda; milk adds nothing.
It is economy to use cream.
The patron at your fountain is your
guest. The price of a glass of soda is
nothing if the drink is satisfying, and
a pleased patron of your fountain feels
cordial towards you. Treat him as your
guest, then. Give him good service,
be courteous, please his fancy. ‘‘Serve
a smile with every drink’’ is a good
rule. The question of what drinks to
serve comes here. Serve all drinks that
your trace requires, and that your facil-
ities afford opportunity toserve. As an
entertainer, in which light you certainly
stand, strive to have something to please
each fancy. You must serve ice cream
soda. Serve it right, it is easier; and
a good ice cream soda appeals to the
ladies. Clean, quick, courteous dis-
pensers are remembered.
Cleanliness everywhere—in your foun
tain, about your fountain, in your serv-
ice; have cleanliness conspicuous, but
have its agents absent—no soiled linen
or polishing cloths, no smear-fingered
boy. Advertise your soda by display
cards that are attractively neat. Change
them often. Depend on volume of busi-
ness, not on the minimizing of cost of
essentials.
Thousands of soda fountains are fur-
nishing practical answers to the ques-
tion, ‘‘How to make a soda fountain
pay,’’ by turning into the coffers of their
owners large returns for money invested.
Start right, observe and answer the de-
mands that arise, and your fountain will
pay. JAMES BERRY.
—_—__>0»__
Code of Ethics Adopted by Connecti-
cut Pharmacists.
The members of the Connecticut
Pharmaceutical Association, consider-
ing it necessary that some mutual under-
standing should exist in regard to the
moral principles which should guide
them in their profess.on, do hereby
agree upon the following Code of
Ethics:
1. We accept the U. S. Pharmaco-
poeia as our standard and guide for all
official preparations, and recognize a
variance from its rules only in excep-
tional cases, where sufficient authority
has proved some other process more
reliable to attain the same end. We
would, however, recognize the authority
to dispense medicines where they are
especially ordered to be compounded in
accordance with foreign Pharmaco-
poeias.
2. We discountenance all secret for-
mulas between physician and pbarma-
cist, and consider it our duty to com-
municate such to each other when re-
quested, unless otherwise directed by
the physician who originated the same.
3. We distinctly repudiate the prac-
tice of allowing physicians a percentage,
in any form, on their prescriptions o:
patronage, as being derogatory to both
professions,
4. We will endeavor, as far as pos-
sible, to refrain from compromising the
professional reputation of any physi-
cian, and expect, in return, the same
courtesy from him.
5. Believing that the professional
training of the pharmacist does not in-
clude those branches which enable the
physician to diagnose and treat disease,
we should, in all practical cases, de-
cline to give medical advice, and refer
the applicant to an educated pkysician.
6. The growing demands ot the age
require that those who follow the pro-
fession of pharmacy should be educated
up to a higher standard ; therefore we
consider it our duty, individually and
collectively, to encourage the advance-
ment of knowledge in our profession
generally, and more particularly by
stimulating our assistants in every way
possible to become proficient in their
business.
7. While we duly recognize the value
of alcohol, and such liquors of which it
is an active ingredient, as a therapeutic
agent, and believe it proper to be dis-
pensed or sold as such by pharmacists,
we would deplore the wide-spread evil
resulting from its intemperate use, and
we condemn any attempt to make it a
prominent feature of our business, or its
sale in any form to be drunk on our
premises, as unprofessional and con-
trary to public policy and good morals.
Believing that some means should
be adopted to enforce the provisions of
this code, a member may report to any
annual meeting of this Association any
member whom he finds violating the
same; at which time the accused may
be heard in his own defense, and if the
member accused should be found guilty,
be may be expelled by a vote of two-
thirds present.
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and a few cocktails will sometimes mix
an artist. -
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Gatecht, 48........- BO) | Lint, grd... boi aig 4 44 | Qtetm Prep.......... @ 5 chants are respectfully .
Euphorbium..po. 35 @_ 10|Lobelia............. 35@ 40] Greta’ Rutre teen eees 9%@ 11 :
Galbanum.....-.-.. oo 109 | Phariaris Gana. g5@ 4° | Groots es. 2 2 “aa Cy Uy requested to defer making (
amboge po..... a Sb ain 4 a a. eee @ wz : a
& 3 00| Sinapis Nigra... HO j2| SuPriSulph.....-... 64@ 8 their purchases until they
60 Dextrine. 10@_ 12
40 Spiritus ee es RQ 9 have ins ected our line
- | Frumenti, W. D. Co. 2 mery, all numbers 8
Gp catht so poem Te tepselcr al | 1] Ree RCE RG Cee &
Shellac, bleached... 40@ 45|FTrumenti-.... wy++ 1 25@ 150) pS P0480 90@ 3 which is the finest we
aa th 50@ 80 Juniperis Co. 0. T.. 1 65@ 2 00 fe 12@ 15
Facantn ........- . Juniperis Co........ 1 %@ 3 50 2 @ 2 "
Herba Saacharum N.E.... 190@ 2 10| Gambier. 000.01. a@ 9 have ever displayed.
Absinthium..oz. pkg 25 | Spt. Vini Galli...... 1 %@ 6 50 Gelatin, Cooper..... @ 6
Eupatorium .oz. pkg 20 | Vini Oporto......... 1 25@ 2 00 | Gelatin, French..... 35@ 60
Lobelia...... oz. pkg 95 | Vini Alba. .......... 1 25@ 2 00 Glassware, flint, box % & 1
Majorum ....oz. pkg 28 Sponges _ than box.... 70
Mentha Pip..oz. pkg 23 5 Glue, brown. 9 12
Mentha Vir..oz. pk 95 | Florida sheeps’ wool Glue, white. . 13@ 25
Rue ae — 39 | .carriage........... 2 50@ 2 75 | Glycerina.... 144@
poet ar » PES Nassau sheeps wool Grana Paradisi.._..
TanacetumV oz. pkg 22 on @
Thymus, V..oz. pkg o5 | _Carriage........... 2 00@ 2 25| Humulus............ 3@ 55
Pe Velvet extra sheeps’ Hydraag Chlor Mite @ 99
Magnesia. wool, carriage..... @ 150 | Hydraag Chlor Cor. @ 80
Calcined, Pat..... .. 55@ 60] Extra yellow sheeps’ Hydraag Ox Rub’m. @ 100
Carbonate, Pat...... 20@ 22] wool. carriage.... @ 1 2} Hydraag Ammoniati @1 15 D RU (; CO
Carbonate, K.&M.. 20@ 25/| Grass sheeps’ wool, HydraagUnguentum 45@ 55 oe
Carbonate, Jennings 3@ 36 ee eee @1 S = a eo ee @
ard, for slate use.. 5 | Ic. obolla, —- G6
Oleum ii Yellow Reef, for : i >. ae — %@ 1 oD GRAND
Absinthium......... 45 4%| slate use.......... 1 40 | Iodine, Resubi...... 3 60@ 3 70 ~
Amygdale, Dulc.... 30@ 50 Iodoform....... ....
hgmcdaie, Kanan . 8 00@ 8 25 Syrups — oes \ RAPIDS,
Wee 1 8@ 2 00| Acacia............ : 2 50 | Lycopodium ........ 5 50 M ICH
Auranti Cortex..... 2 40@ 2 50} AurantiCortes...... Soi Macs. s,s... ee % .
Be Recess cack 2 80@ 2 90 | Zingiber....... ..... @ 50| Liquor Arsen et Hy-
Casputt..<.-:....... 75@ 0|Ipecac........... @ 60]. drargiod.......... a B&
Caryophylli......... 90@ 80} Ferrilod............ @ 50/ LiquorPotassArsinit 10@ 12
po eet 35@ 65} Rhei Arom.... ..... @ 50} Magnesia, Sulph.... 2@ =O (
Chenopadii.......... @ 2 7% | Smilax Officinalis... 50@ 60} Magnesia, Sulph,bbl @ 1%
Cinnamonii. ........ 1 25@ 1 35} Senega...........- @™ 650] Mannia,S.F........ 50@ 60
C.tronells. oe 30 40 | Scili= 50 | Menthol. @300
20
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
GROCERY PRICE CURRENT.
The prices quoted in this list are for the trade only, in such quantities as are usually purchased by retail
dealers.
They are prepared just before
oing to press and are an accurate index of the local market.
It is im-
possible to give quotations suitable for all conditions of purchase, and those below are given as representing av-
erage prices for average conditions of purchase. Cash buyers or those of strong credit usually buy closer than
those who have poor credit. Subscribers are earnestly requested to point out any errors or omissions, as it is
our aim to make this feature of the greatest possible use to dealers.
AXLE GREASE.
doz.
TOSS
oe «DD 6 00
Caster Offi ............. 60 700
Diamond... ........... 50 4400
ee a v6) 9 00
IXL Golden, tin boxes 75 9 00
[lica, tin boxes........75 9 00
Parapen... ....... __ 55 6 00
BAKING POWDER.
Absolute.
34 ‘b Cans doz...... ...... 45
i i> SARS GOs............. 85
1 Ibecan dos...... seco 5 Oe
Acme.
44 lb Cans 8 dos...... poccce ae
lb Cans 8 dog............ 7%
1 ib cans 1 dos............ 10
a
Arctic.
oz. Eng. Tumblers........ 85
6 oz. cans, 4 doz case....... 80
9 oz. cans, 4 doz Case....... 1 20
1 1b. cans, 2 doz case..... 2 00
2% lb. cans, 1 doz case..... 475
5 Ib. cans, 1 doz case..... 9 00
El Parity.
44 lb cans per dos......... 6
¥% lb cans per doz ........ 1 20
1 1d cans per dos......... 2 00
Home.
3¢ 1b cans 4 dos case...... 35
% lb cans 4 dos case...... 55
1 Jb cans 2 doz case ..... 90
JA XON
1b cans, 4 doz case..... 45
lb cans, 4 doz case...... 8
1 1b cans, 2 doz case...... 1 60
Jersey Cream.
1 1b. cans, per doz.......... 2 00
9 oz. cans, per doz.......... 1 3
6 oz. Cans, per doz.......... 85
Our Leader.
eee 45
ORME. ke 6
a 1 50
eerless.
oe 85
ueen Flake,
3 oz., 6 doz. case............ 270
6 oz., 4 doz. case ooceees Se
9 os., 4 doz. Cas@.........00. 4 80
1 lb., 2 dos. Case.........06. 4 00
5 lb., 1 dos. Case............ 9 00
BATH BRICK.
Reema
eee
CANNED GOODS.
Tomatoes ............. 90
Corn ~-unscoscee, | CL aD
a 80
Beans, Limas 70@1 30
Beans, Wax.. 90
Beans, String . &
Beans, Baked......... 75@1 00
Beans, Red Kidney... 75@ 45
Succotash............. 95@1 20
Pe 85
Peas, French.......... 22
Pape %
Mushroom ...... ....- 15@ 22
Peaches, Pie .......... 100
Peaches, Fancy....... 1 40
Apples. gallons....... @3 23
ee 90
Pee 70
Pineapple, grated..... 1% 240
Pineapple, sliced...... 13) 22
Strawberries ......
Blackberries ..........
Pineapple, Farren....1 70
1
Raspberries ........... 85
Oysters, 1-lb........... 85
Oysters, 2-lb........... 150
Salmon, flats, key..... 1 70
Salmon, % Ib. flats....
Salmon, Red Alaska..1
Salmon, Pink Alaska..
Lobsters, 1-lb. Star....3
Lobsters, 2-lb. Star....3
Mackerel,! lb Mustard
Mackerel, 1-lb. Soused.1
Mackerel,1-lb Tomato.1 7
Shrimps... ............2 00
Sardines, {4s domestic 3%@
Sardines, mstrd,dom.5%@ 7%
Sardines, French &§ @ 2
RASES
BLUING. CLOTHES LINES.
Cotton, 40 ft, per doz....... 1 00
NDEN: Cotton, 50 ft, per dosz....... 1 20
7 Cotton, 60 ft, per dos.......1 40
eee Cotton, 70 ft, per dos....... 1 60
— ~*~ : Cotton, 80 ft, per dosz....... 1 80
rite, Pa, | Jute, 60 ft. per doz......... 80
: a Jute. 72 ft per @os,,........ %
UI James Epps & Co.’s.
Omen, FOB. 40
sa eee 2 Cases, 16 boxes.. ............ 38
oe, 2 en... COCOA SHELLS.
_— 20 Ib bags...... y
Se. 1 Carpe 2 3) | Tess uantity 3
No. 2 Carpet........0 2.0... 215 ese Seaan 4
No. 8 Carpet................ 185 ee aera
No. 4 Carpet... 5... 145 CRBAM TARTAR.
Parlor Gam ..-. 22... 2... 2 50 | 5 and 10 1b. wooden boxes... . .30
Common Whisk............ 65 | Bulk In geeks... .... 29
Ranoy Week... ........... 10 CONDENSED MILK.
Ware = eee ence ae 2 70 4 dos in case.
Gail Borden Eagle......... 6%
Crewe 6 25
ee 56
eee 8 ee 450
Magnolia ........ =
Jolumbis, a pints Ce 2 00 — ee : >
Columbia, ae oe Lae
CHEESE COUPON BOOKS.
femelle Tradesman Grade.
| @ 9% 50 books, any denom.... 1 50
Buttern-s........._. @ 9 100 books, any denom.... 2 50
Carson City......... @ 9 500 books, any denom....11 50
mee @ 10 | 1,000 books, any denom....20 00
Emblem....-......... @ 10 momic Grade.
ee @ 10 50 books, any denom.... 1 50
Gold Medal........ @ 100 books, any denom.... 2 50
BA ee cece sl: @ 10 500 books any denom....11 50
Jersey .... .-» @ 10 | 1,000 books. any denom....20 00
Riverside... 2 @ 9% Superior Grade.
ee @ 12 50 books, any denom.... 1 50
Edam. 70 100 books, any denom.... 2 50
Leiden ............+¢ $ 17 500 books, any denom....11 50
Limburger .......... @ 18 | 1.000 books, any denom....20 00
Pineaprle Eccccmceniod 00 @ = a se sere — ve
wee = 100 books, any denom.... 2 50
ax 5 500 books, any denom....11 50
Red... 7 1,000 books. any denom. ...20 00
CHOCOLATE. Credit Checks.
Walter Baker & Co.’s. 500, any one denom’n ace 8 00
German Sweet... .... ..28/] 1000, any one denom’n..... 5 00
—..,... 35 | 2000, any one denom’n..... 8 00
Sreakfast Corrs 46 | Steel punch. .............. 6
FFEE. Coupon Pass Books,
Roasted Can be made to represent any
“Rio i denomination from $10 down.
EEE eM a
RO cic ew ew cssceeas 10 ane 3 00
Pee eee 12 book ee 6B
eeeem 13 hooker 10 00
re ee 14| 1000 books...... ......----- 17 50
ee 14] DRIED FRUITS—DONMESTIC
Be 15 Apples.
ee 16 | Sundried............... @m%
Poaberry ..0.000 0.00 ol, 18 | Evaporated 50 lb boxes. @10%
Maracaibe. California Fruits.
Prime eee ae 15
—— lL 17
Java.
ROT eee sees 26
Private Growth............... 39
Mandonting..................2 3
a.
eitation —.-- 22
Aeebian .. 28
‘oasted.
Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s Brands
Pitth Ayenme..... -....... 29
Jewell’s Arabian Mocha. ...29
Wells’ Mocha and Java.....24
Wells’ Perfection Java..... 24
Sancaibo ........... Pobeel oc 21
Breakfast Blend........... 18
Valley City Maracaibo. .....18%
Ideal Blend......... Stace 14 Raisins.
Leader Blend....... .. .... 12% | London Layers 2 Crown.
Package. London Layers 3 Crown.
Below are given New York | Cluster 4 Crown.. ......
prices on package coffees, to} Loose Muscatels 2 Crown
which the wholesale dealer} Loose Muscatels 3 Crown
adds the local freight from| Loose Muscatels 4 Crown
New York to your shipping | L. M., Seeded, choice..... ™M%
int, giving you credit on the | L. M , Seeded, fancy...... 9%
nvoice for the amount of FOREIGN.
freight buyer pays from the Citron.
market in which he purchases tcchormn @l1
to his oe point, including Condean oe ee @12
weight hy package, also xe en
pound. In 60 1b. cases the list Currants.
s 10c per 100 lbs. above the | Patras bbis........ ....... @ 6%
price in full cases. Cleaned, bulk ............ @ 6%
Arbuckle ...... . ...._.. 10 50 | Cleaned, packages........ @t_
Oey. 10 50 Peel.
MicLaughiin’s XXXX. Citron American 10]lb bx @13
McLaughlin’s XXXX sold to | Lemon American 10 1b bx @10%
retailers only. Mail all orders | Orange American 10lb bx @10%
direct to W. F. McLaughlin & Raisins.
Co., Chicago. Ondura 28 ib boxes..... @
Extract. Sultana 1 Crown....... @
Valley City % gros3 ..... 75 | Sultana 2 Crown S@
Felix % gross......... .-- 1 15] Sultana 3Crown.... $
Hummel’s foil % gross... Sultana 4 Crown...... :
Hummel’s tin % gross .. 1 43] Sultana § Crown....... @
CLOTHES PINS. Sultana 6 Crown....... @
Sgrossboxes.... ... ... ...40' Sultana package....... @
FARINACEOUS GOODS. FLAVORING EXTRACTS. Imported.
Farina. Japan, No.1......... 5%@ 6
241 1b. —— aes 123 Japan, No. 4n@ 5
Bulk, per 100 Ibs..... .--3 00 — = head 5 : 5%
ava, No.7...
Wabis: ......... oe - Se
SALERATUS.
Packed 60 lbs. in box.
oe Arm and Hammer. ; >
eland’s a é
Dwight’s Cow.. 3 15
= aoe ; =
Be ee 3 15
Jennings’. Wyandotte, 1(0 %s.......... 3 00
D.C. Vanilla D. C. Lemon SAL SODA.
i SOx... ..: 1 20 20z.. .... 7%] Granulated, bbis.......... #0
3 oz. 1 50 30z. ....1 00| Granulated, 100 1b cases.. 8)
242 Ib. packuges........... 180 |4oz.. ...2 00 4oz......140] Lump, bbls. .... ......... 70
100 Ib. Kegs-....---..-..-.. 270 | 6oz......3 00 6 oz......2 00) Lump, 1451b kegs.......... £0
200 lb. barrels.. ......... 5 10 No. 8 400 No. 8...2 40 SALT
Hominy. No. 10. .6 00 No. 10...4 00 ;
Bermels 2 No. 21.13 No. 27T. 80 Diamond Crystal.
Flake, 50 lb. drums....... 100 |No. 37200 No. 37.1 25| Table, cases, 24 3-lb boxes. .1 50
Beans. No 47.2 40 No. 41 50| Table, barrels, 100 3 1b bags.2 75
Dried Lime - .........:... AE Table, barrels, 407 1b 4 40
Medium Hand Pickee 1 20@1 25 FLY PAPER. Butter, barrels, 2801b. bnik.2 25
Maccaroni and Vermicelli. Tanglefoot, per box........ 36 | Butter, barrels, 2014 Ibbags.2 50
Domestic, 10 lb. box...... 60 Tanglefoot, per case ....... 3 20 Butter, sacks, 28lbs......... 95
mported. 25 Ib. box.. ... 250 | Holders. per box of 50....-- 75] Butter, sacks, 56 lbs......... 55
Pear! Barley. Perrigo’s Lightning, gro... .2 50 Co! on G
Coen 1 %] Petrolatum, per doz......... % 100 3-1b 5 aa sa irades. 1 95
Chester .. ..........--...+ 225 HERBS. 605-lb sacks................1 £0
ee i SEBO ooo. veevsssseeeenneess 15] 28 10 eacks 000 1 65
Green, Wisconsin, bu. ....1 00 Vee emacs eran o
Green, Scotch, bu. ...... 110 INDIGO. : ; = —" Sc comepicte 8 25
Spit, bu............ erseee 2 50 dadras, 5 lb boxes......... 55 15 oe pena seeee weeeees ; :
aaa a — gq) |B Fe 2 B.and 5 1b boxes... 50) 544 ip’ a ;
vena. Le al * DAUBB esses se eeseeue
Monarch, bbl’........-.- 3°75 GUNPOWDER. 3010 Ib. sacks......0...... 8 50
Monarch, & bbl.......... 2 00 Rifle—Dupont’s. 28 Ib. linen sacks............ 32
Monarch, 90 1b sacks...... 180 | Kegs . ...........-...-----4 00 | 561b. linen sacks............ 60
Quaker. cases. ........... 320 | Half Kegs..............00008 9 95 | Bulk in barrels.............. 2 50
Huron, cases.............. 200 | Quarter Kegs...... Ce Se 1 25 Warsaw.
. Poh cane... wc 30 | 56-Ib dairy in drill bags..... 30
a. ste eeee ee ceeeees 3 ith came... lee 18 | 28-Ib dairy in drill bags..... 15
Las’ MC ie ccc oe ’
Eesley’s Self Rising Flours. Choke Bore—Dupont’s. os | 56-Ib dairy aia: ae
a Pastry. ae Halt Kegs one eee kee eee ] Higgins.
2 1b. cartons, z. in case..
6 1b. sacks, 1 dz. in case.... 2 40 a. g8 = 56-Ib dairy in a 60
9 1b. sacks, 1 dz. in jute.... 3 35 i era gen ib ane oo 21
Entire Wheat. Eagie Duck—Dupont’s. a
2 1b. cartons. 2 dz. in case.. 1 80 00 | Granulated Fine... : ee 60
Graham. 25 | Medium Fine............... 7
21b. cartons, 2 dz. in case.. 1 80 25 SCALES
T f° oe ones. 45 ° Per d
Wieke | JELLY er doz.
elias nae 4% \ :
Pearl, 24 1 ib. pkges....-. Ou | ID palls..........---+--0-- 5 | Pelouze Household... 12 00
Wheat. 36 lb pails Cans - are aeies Weigh 94 th b
Cracked, DUK.» eee cesses s 4 LYB. alg aoe ounces.
=e eee Condensed, 2 doz ..........1 20 .
SALT FISH. ne eee ees cceee 9
Cod. Ces. + ee. - =. 3m Canary, Smyrna........... 3%
Georges cured......... @5 LICORICB. a ae 8
Georges genuine...... @ 5% ee rac cela 30 | Cardamon, Malabar ..... 60
Georges selected...... OG calabria... ol: Celery 1
Strips or bricks....... 6 Oe Siti... 14| Hemp, Russian........... 4%
Herring. Root ae . 30] Mixoe Bire.....:........- 4%
Holland white hoops, bbl. 9 25 TCHES Mustard, white........... 5
Holland white hoop %bb) 5 25 nA : Pape 10
Holland white hoop, keg. 70 Diamond Matcn Co.’s brands. are See eee ene sceue cenu 4%
Holland white hoop mechs 80] No.9 sulphur............ .--1 6 | Cuttle Bone...............
Morwaeran... ............ Anchor Parlor..... ..1 70 SNUFP.
Round 100 lbs.... 8 10 No.2 Home...... ..110 Scotch, in bladders......... 87
Round 40 lbs 1 = a gi : 7 = Maccaboy, in jars........... 35
Cees erine...... os
eam fe eek. q | French — anaes *
— = tes a ccs sees e . S MOLASSES. °
een We ies. co
New Orieans.
Ge i Ele | PEN
ce ee Sele DOL... te ae
$3 | GCG etc, Bal 5 pox lots, delivered...12/1/2 50
20 | Open Kettle............... 25@35 | 10 box lots, delivered........ 2%
50 alf-barrels 2c extra. ’
: =e 4AS. 8. KIRK & G0.’S BRANDS.
30 : 1a...
07 | Horse Radish, 1 doz......... isi eee
Horse Radish, 2 doz......... 3 50] Cabinet........--c-s0ccc0ss0 2 20
Bayle’s Celery, 1 doz.. .....1 75] Savon. oo. oo... cccccec cesses 2 50
PIPES. wae ee as
oud, lau Reece
0.1 Siee............... Clay, WO. S10... ...... <5... 1% | white Cloud, toilet o ae 3 50
hitefish. Clay, T. D. fullcount...... 6: Dusky Diamond, 50 6 oz....2 10
No.1 N:2 Fam | Cob, No.38............ .----. 85} pusk Diamond, 50 8 oz....3 00
100 lbs........ 700 650 2% POTASH Blue India, 100 % 1b......... 3 00
40 lbs.. -3810 290 10 " MIPmOune.......<. << 0+- ..3 50
10 1bs.. - 80 43] 48 cans in case. Sees 2 50
Sie:......0 a 66 37.1 BADBIES.... 5.00... 00555. 4 Scouring.
FLAVORING EXTRACTS. | Penna Sait Co..s........... 3 0 | sapolio, kitchen, 8floz .....2 40
er si PICKLBS. Sapolio, hand, 3 doz ........ 2 40
ss — doz. Medium. ee SODA. -
XXX, 2 oz. obert..... Barrels, 1 count........ 40 cds ee eden y
XXX, 4 oz. taper....225 1 25| Half pels 600 count........ 566 sees 4%
XX, 2 oz. obert..... 1 00 SYRUPS.
’ Small
No. 2.2 0z. obert .... 75 . Corn
XXX DD ptchr. 6 oz 2 25 | Barrels, 2,400 count....... 5 0° | Barrels
XXX D D ptchr, 4 0z 1 7% | Half bbis 1,200 count . 300
K. P. pitcher, 6 oz... 2 2 RICE.
Northrop oe vou: Deanestic.
20z. Taper Panel.. 7% 1 20 | Carolina head.............. 6% re %
2 07. Oval. pieces %5 1 20] Carolina No.1 ............. me Per oe a eee atosacac ae
3 oz. Taper Panel..1 35 2007) Gavotte Bo. 8... 3S Pe gs oo ee
4 oz. Taper Panel..1 60 St et ee
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
21
SPICES.
Whole Sifted.
Avepiee 10
Cassia, Chiua in mats....... 12
Cassia, Batavia in bund....25
Cassia, Saigon in rolls...... 32
Cloves, Amboyna........... 14
Cloves, Zanzibar............ R
Mace, Batavia.............. 55
Nutmegs, fancy........... . 60
Nutmoos, No. 1............. 50
Nutmegs, Ne. 2............. 5
Pepper, Singapore, black...33
Pepper, Singapore, white. . .16
Popper, HOG. °c: 15
Pure Ground in Bulk.
Aliepges ... .... .14
Cassia, Batavia .. a
Cassia, Saigon.......... ...
Cloves, Zanzibar............ 14
Ginger, African.. ......... 15
Ginger, Cochin.... 18
Ginger, Jamaica
Mace, Batavia
Mustard......
Nutmegs, ........
Pepper, Sing , biac : F
Pepper, Sing., white. :
Pepper, Cayenne....... 20
ae 15
STARCH.
Kingsford’s Corn.
40 1-lb packages............. 6
20 1 lb packages....
Kingsford’s Silver Gloss.
10 1-lb packages.... ........ 6%
Gib bexes |... 7
Diamond.
64 10¢ packages ........... 5 00
i28 Sc packages......... .. 5 00
32 10c and 64 5c packages...5 00
Common Corn.
20 1 lb. packages... ....... .. 5
40 1lb. packages . .........
—— Gloss. ‘al
t-lb Meee... ;
3-lb Sonus Pee oleae 414
6-lb packages...............5
40 and 50 1b boxes........... 3
Berrels 3
} ae a G tg
SS) isa
No. 4, 3-doz in case, gross.. 4 50
No. 6, 3 doz in case, gross.. 7 20
SUGAR.
Below are given New York
prices on sugars, to which the
wholesale dealer adds the local
freight from New York to your
shipping int, giving you
credit on the invoice for the
amount of freight buyer pays
from the market in which he
urchases to his shipping point,
freiuding 20 pounds for the
weight of the barrel.
OPI oe cs 5 75
Cue Teme os. 5 88
rmemee. -- eke 6 00
Pomecsea ................5 5 63
XXXX Powdered........... 5 a
Granulated in bbls... ...... 5 #9
Granulated in bags.........5 50
Fine Granulated....... .-5 50
Extra Fine Granulated.....5 63
Extra Coarse Granulated... .5 63
Wee A F 7
Diamond Confec. A........ 5 50
Confec. Standard A... ..5 25
No. 1. 5 Ou
No 2. 5 00
No. 3. 5 00
No. 4. 49:
No. 5. 4 88
No. 6. 4 8i
No. 7. 475
No. 8. 4€9
No. 9. 4 63
No, 10 450
No. la. 4 38
No. 12. 4 31
No, 138. 4 31
No. 14. +4 25
ee < 25
No. 16 42
TABLE SAUCES.
LEA &
PERRINS’
SAUCE
The Original and
Genuine
Worcestershire.
Lea & Perrin’s, large... 3 7
Lea & Perrin’s, small... 250
Halford, large........... 3 75
ee Ape aie [=
Sa! 8S: arge.....
Salad Dressing: small.....2 75
Cigars.
Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s brand.
New Bree | 33 00
H. & P. Drug Co.’s brands.
Fortune Teller............. 35 00
Our Manager.............. 35 00
Gmmtetie 35 00
G. J. Johnson Cigar Co.’s brand.
Cc
oN
cw... eee 35 00
Phelps, Brace & Co.’s Brands.
Vincente Portuondo. -35@ 7 09
Ruhe Bros. Co ....... 25@ “0 00
The Hilson Co......... 35@110 00
T. J. Dunn & Co......35@ 70 00
McCoy & Co.... ...... 35@ 70 00
The Collins Cigar Co..10@ 35 00
Brown Bros..... ..... 15@ 70 00
Banner Cigar Co...... 30@ 70 00
Bernard Stahl Co..... 35@ 90 00
Banner Cigar Co......1.@ 35 00
Seidenberg & Co...... 55@125 00
G. P. Sprague CigarCo.10@ 35 0)
The Fulton Cigar Co. .10@ 35 00
A.B Ballard & Co....37@1 5 00
E. M. Schwarz & Co .%@I110 00
Nan Telmo...........- 35@ 70 0)
Havana Cigar Co...... 18@ 35 00
VINEGAR.
Malt White Wine, 40 grain.. §
Malt White Wine, 80 grain..11
Pure Cider, Red Star........ 12
Pure Cider. Robinson....... 13
Pure Cider, Silver...... ....12%
WICKING.
No. 0, pergross..............
No. 1, pergross..............
No. 2, per ZTOss..............
No. 3, pergross..............
WOODENWARE.
Baskets.
Bmshe's.
Bushels, wide band
ee
Willow Clothes, large...... 6 25
Willow Clothes, medium... 5 50
Willow Clothes, smail..... 5 0J
20
2
35
55
Pails.
2-hoop Standard ............ 1 35
3-hoop Standard ............ 1 50
oware, Cable. 135
a wire, Cable... | 8S
Cedar, all red, brass bound.1 25
Paper, Eureka .............. 2 25
a 2 2
Tubs.
2 -inch, Standard, No. 1....5 80
18-inch, Standaid. No. 2....4 85
16-inch, Standard, No. 3....3 &
20-inch. Dowell, No 1 .....6 25
18-in-h, Dowel, No. 2. .....5 25
16-inch, Dowell, No. 3. £25
Ne. (Fite 90)
Me] fipre 7 50
No S#ibre 6 7%
Crackers.
The National Biscuit Co.
quotes as follows:
Butter.
Seymourxay |... 5%
Seymour XXX, 3 lb. carton 6
Pamily Sex 2... 5%
Salted XXX... 5%
New York XxXX.... «so OMG
Wolverine. oo... 6
OM 7%
Soda
BOGGS. 6
Soda XXX, 3 lb carton.... 6%
BOGS, (Cie. 8
Long Island Wafers....... ll
L. I. Wafers, 1 lb carton .. 12
aod ects ae
Zephyrette....
Oyster.
Saltine Wafer.............. 5%
Saltine Wafer, 1lb. carton. 6%
Farina Oyster.............. 5%
Extra Farina Oyster....... 6
SWEET GOODS—Boxes.
Animals 23... 10M
Bent's Water............... 15
Cocoanut Taffy............ 10
Coffee Cake, Java.......... 10
Coffee Cake, Iced...... ... 10
CROCEROME So 15%
ee 11%
Frosted Cream............. 8
Ginger Gems............... 8
Ginger Snaps, XXX........ %
Graham Crackers.......... 8
Graham Wafers............ 10
Grand Ma Cakes............ 9
Saypetiais 2. 8
Jumbles, Honey.... ...... 12%
Marshmallow ............. 15
Marshmallow Creams..... 16
Marshmallow Walnuts...
. 16
Mich. Frosted Honey.... 1%
Molasses Cakes............
NOweom 0.0.0... ....5.....
WG M@Ge os 8
ANTEC GOMB. .....c00. o00- 8
Penny Assorted Cakes..... 8%
Pretzels, hand made ..... T™%
Sears’ Lunch............... 7
Surar Cake................ 8
Sugar Squares............ 9
Vanilla Wafers........... 14
POMRICOIS oe ics 12%
Candies. Grains and Feedstuffs
Stick Candy. “a Wheat. i.
bbls. pails OSG... ... - ee ou a ones
Standard............ 7 1% Winter Wheat Flour.
Standard H. H...... 7 @%%|, Local Brands. an
Standard Twist - ™%O8 —— ‘a ee eee cues aa)
Cut Loaf @ &% Secon: Mee 50
cases —— ee : =
lean
se == Graham 000000000 0200001 8 60
mewness
eS oo. nas oni oe Se
x andy. uu 8-
count.
oo @ &,| . Flour in bbls.,25¢ per bbl. ad-
Competition......... @ 6%
Standard...0.2.77.7! @7 | ditional.
Conserve...... ..... @ 7% | Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand
yal . @ 24) Datsy, Hs... 3 85
ee ee = 8% rac Er eee : =
OMOR co ee Pe Ge 3
Cut Loaf... .. |. @ 8% ’
English Rock. ...._. oie 1 ee
foo eee totes g os Quaker, 4s........... |) 3 60
ream......
Dendy Pan. @ 8% maker ie... 3 60
Hand Made Cream mxd @13 i jae Wheat Flour.
Nobby.............. @ 8% oo -Jewell-Wells Co.’s Brand.
Fancy—In Bulk Pillepusys ae i a 4 23
San Blas Goodies... @ll Pillsbury’s Best %s........ 425
Lozenges, plain @ 8% Pillsbury’s Best %s paper.. 4 25
Lozenges, printed... @ 8% | Pillsbury’s Best ‘4s paper.. 4 5
Choc. Drops........ 11 Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand.
Choc. Monumentals @12% | Duluth Imperial, %s....... 4 5
_ tens ttteeeeee é on — ——- 48. .....440
Seatac et chalet wal uluth Imperial, %s....... 4 30
Sour Drops.......... @ 8% =
Imperials .......... g\, | uemon & Wheeler Co.’s Brand.
Ital. Cream Bnbns, 35 lb = li Gold Medal \%s............. 4 40
Gold Medal is............, 4 40
Molasses Chews, 15 Ib. pails 13 Gold Medal %s 450
Jelly Date Squares. = Parisian, %s.......... . 4 4y
Fancy—In 5 Ib. Boxes. oo ae i. -4e
Lemon Drops....... @50 MEtSIan, 568..... 2... 8. -. 420
Olney & Judson’s Brand.
tan ee Gop | Ceresota, 48... en 45
Chocolate Drops.... @65 Ceresota, —_—........, :
Ceresera 8.
= = —_ rgome @% Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand
: oc. Lt.an :
Dk. No. 12......... @90 | Laurel, %s........ -- 450
Gum Drops......._. @30 | Laurel, 4s .. 4 4u
Licorice aaa a 7 | Laurel, %s...... 4 30
A. B. Licorice Drops ge Meal.
Lozenges, plain.... @55 Bo 1 90
i printed.. @55 | Granulated ................ 2 10
mperials ...........
Mottoes ........ ; oo St a 16 00
Cream Bar.......... @55 0.1 : ne:
No. 1 Corn and Oats..... 15 50
Molasses Bar oud ena @55 Uubolted Corn Meal 14:0
Hand Made Creams. 8 @ 9| Winter Wheat Bran...” 11 00
— — Pep. . | Winter Wheat Middlings. 15 70
String soe tate eens @6& | Screenings. . oo ...- 14 00
es @60 rn.
Burnt Almonds..... 13 @ New corn, lots. sa
—— Berries @55 | Less than’ car — io”
ramels, Oats.
Car lots. oC ge
eS Carlots, clipped... .../71). 32
No. 1 wrapped, 3 ib. Less than — ee 34
casaaca | let, ne
boxes ee No. 1 Timothy. ton lots 13 03
oo
eee Fish and Oysters
e ene
Fresh Fish.
Oranges. i Per lb
Medt Sweet.......... —<...CU!CUS CS
Lemons. ne EMSS... 8 @ lu
Strictly choice 360s. ‘eo . 2 *
Strictly choice 300s.. a yy | Giscoesor Herring. @ 4
Fancy 3008 .... ... @i %5 venga. @ il
Live Lobster....... @ 18
Ex.Fancy 300s.... . @5 tu Boil b =
Ex.Fancy 360s...... @5 56 | Boiled Lobster. ... .. . =
Bananas. Haddock. 2.202.001) @ 7
Medium bunches...1 00 @1 25| No. 1 Pickerel...... @ 8
Large bunches...... 1% @23 aaa eaters e ences ano @
Ce
Foreign a Fruits. Smoked White." =:
° ed Snapper........ 9
Californias Fancy.. @13 | Col River Salmon $ 12
Choice, 101b boxes.. @i2 | Mackerel ......... @ 18
Extra choice, 10 1b Shell Goods
boxes new......... @16 | Oysters, per 100 1 @1 50
Fancy, 12 lb boxes.. @2 ae (meee ees r0
= — Mikados, 18
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Pulled, 6 1b boxes... g Oils.
Naturals, in bags... @7 Barrels
Dates. Eocene .. ......... "| @NK
Fards in 10 lb boxes @10 Perfection ........... @10
Fards in 60 lb cases @é6 XX W.W.Mich.Hdlt @lu
Persians, PH V..... @é6 W W Michigan........ @ 9%
lb cases, new...... @é6 Diamond White....... @ 8%
Sairs, 601b cases.... @5 oa ee @13
0. Naptha .......... 213
G@yinder oe 29 @ae
Nuts. Engine ..... a il Bri
= :
Almonds, Tarragona. . @16 Lees SCSCSCTCUtSOCTES
Almonds, Ivaca....... 14
Almonds "alto, : Hides and Pelts.
soft shelled......... 15 | The Cappon & Bertsch Leather
oe ste eceeees $5 Co., 100 Canal Street, quotes as
Walnuts, Gronobies.. @iz |" OWS! ia
Walnuts, Calif No. 1. @l1! | Green No.1........ @7%
Walnuts, soft shelled ' :
Calif eu pag Oe. g 6%
see oe oe RE eve eee a 6
Table Nuts, fancy.... @il G
Table Nuts, choice... @i0 | Gured No 1...-.---.-. gx
Pecans, Med....... .. - @7% | Calfskins, green No.1 @9
Pecans, Ex. Large @ 2 | Calfskins, green No.2 @ 7%
Pecans, Jumbos....... @l2 | Calfskins, cured No.1 @lu
ae per bu. @1 60 | ©#fskins, cured Ry 0.2 @8%
i Tn elts.
Cocoanuts, full sacks @2 50
Chestnuts per bu...... co _ -- “e
Peanuts. OS @ 3%
Fancy, H. P., Suns. Gz |Noas....... ae ice ce @ 2%
Yancy, H. P., Flags Wool.
Roasted............. @7 | Washed, fine ......... @15
Choice, H. P., Extras. @5 Washed, medium...... @20
Choice, H. P., Fxtras, Unwashed, fine.... ... 9 @I2
Roaried 6 | Unwashed. medium ..!4 @16
Provisions.
Swift & Company quote as
follows:
Barreled Pork.
ee 10 00
ee We
Clear back.......... @10 2
Serene 9 75
Ca 14 40
eee 9.0
ame 11 00
ry Salt Meats
Bees ee 5%
ll. | ake
Extra shorts............. 544
Smoked feats.
Hams, 12lb average .... 10%
Hams, 14 lb average - eG
Hams, 16 1b average..... 1t
Hams, 20 lb average..... 9%
Ham dried beef ......... 1544
Shoulders (N. Y. cut) 6%
Bacon, clear...... .... 7 @i%
California hams. 7
Boneless hams.......... 8%
Cooked ham........... 10@15
Lards. In Tierces.
Compound............... 4%
Ce 6
55 lb Tubs....... advance %
801b Tubs....... advance 1
50lb Tins. .....advance 3
20 Ib Pails....... advance 56
10 lb Pails....... advance %
6 1b Pails... .., advance 1
31} Patis....... advance 1%
Sausages.
Bologna 5%
Ever oo. 6%
Frankfort. .........._.. 7%
i, 6%
eee 6
Toure 9
Head cheese. 6%
Beef.
xtra Mess.............. 10 25
Benes 12 50
Be 12 06
Pigs’ Feet.
Mit Gibe 70
%{ bbls, 40 Ibs. | .! 92211! 1 35
% bbls, 80 Ibs...... . 250
Tripe.
Kits, 15 lbs... ., @
iq bbls, 40 lbs _ 1s
\% bbls, 80 lbs............ 2 25
Casings.
a 20
Beef rounds............. 3
Beef middles............ 10
Sheep 60
Butterine.
Rolls, dairy............. 11
Solid, dairy —<- 104
Rolis, creamery ... iby
Solid, creamery 14,
Canned Meats.
Corned beef, 2lb.... . 215
Corned beef, 14 Ib.......14
Roast beef, 2 lb 2
Potted ham, 4s
Potted ham, Ms.
Deviledham, ‘4s.
Deviledham, Xs.
Potted tongue 4s.
Potted tongne %s.
Fresh Meats.
Beef.
Caxreasa -7em
Fore quarters......... 6 @ 6%
Wind quarters........ 84@10
Loins Ne, 3........... 12 @l4
Ribs .9 @l4
@8
@ 6%
@5
@ 5%
@i7
SHOOIGGTS ............ @ 6
Leat bard... ... 64Q
Mutton
Caressn 8%@10
Spring Lambs... .... 12 G@i2%
Veal.
Carcass ..............8 @&%
Crockery aid
Glassware.
AKRON STONEWARE.
Gal. borden... 40
1 to 6 gal . per gal........ 5
S gal... cach....... 49
I@gal.ecaen,..... ....... 60
ee
15 gal. meat-tubs, each....1 05
20 gal. meat-tubs, each....1 40
25 gal. meat-tubs, each ...2 00
30 gal. meat-tubs. each....2 40
Churns.
2 to 6 gal., per gal..... ——. oo
Churn Dashers, per doz... 84
Milkpans.
\% gal. flat or rd. bot.,doz. 40
1 gal. flatorrd. bot.,each 4%
Fine Glazed Milkpans.
% gal. flatorrd. bot.,doz. 60
1 gal. flat orrd. bot.,each 5%
Ste Ss.
“fl, dos.
% gal. fireproof 8
! gal. fireproor, bail, dosz.1 10
Jugs.
gal., per dos............. 40
gal.. per dos.... 50
1 to 5 gal., per gal....... a ©
Tomato Jugs.
56 gal, per Gos............
igal.caeh ...... . 8%
Corks for % gal.. per dos.. 20
Corks for 1 gal., perdosz.. 30
Preserve Jars and Covers.
% gal., stone cover, doz... 75
1 gal., stone cover, doz...1 00
Sealing Wax.
5 lbs. in package, perilb... 2
FRUIT JARS.
Panee 7 4 00
Ce 425
Half Gallons............... 6 60
Ceyere. 2 00
TOUCH 25
LAMP BURNERS.
Me Geen,
ne teen... 35
me 2 Sng... 20
Ne SS, 1 00
Oe. 45
pecurity, Ne. t............. 60
Security, No.2 .......... 80
Nutmeg ie
LAMP CHIMNEYS—Seconds.
Per box of 6 dcez.
Ne. GSen ae
CO 1 42
eT 212
Common
NO OSam. 150
CO 1 60
No. 2Sun... ‘i 2 ae
Pirst Quality.
No. 0 Sun, crimp top,
ee and labeied.... 2 10
No. Sun, crimp top,
wrapped and iabeled.... 2 15
No. 2 Sun, crimp top,
wrapped and labeled.... 3 15
XXX Flint.
No. 0 Sun, crimp top,
wrapped and labeled.... 2 55
No. i Sun, crimp top,
ae and labeled. .. 2 75
No. Sun, crimp top,
wrapped and labeled ... 8 75
CHIMNEYS—Pear!l —_
No.1 Sun, wrapped an
labeleg. 3 70
No 2 Sun, wrapped and
1gneiee
No. 2 Hinge, wrapped and
epee
No.2 Sun, “Small Bulb,”
for Globe Lamos......... 80
La Bastie.
No. 1 Sun. plain bulb, per
Coe
No. 2 Sun, plain bulb, per
Ch i pl 1 6
No. 1 Crimp, per dos....... 1 35
No. 2 Crimp, per dos.. - 160
Rochester.
No. 1, Lime (65¢ doz) . 350
No. 2, Lime (70¢ doz) -- 400
No. 2, Flint (80e dos)..... 47%
Electric.
No. 2, Lime (70c dos) ..... 4 00
No. 2, Flint (80e dox)...... 4 49
OIL CANS. Dos.
i gal tin cans with spout.. 1 +2
1 gal galv iron with spout. 1 52
2 gal galv iron with spout. 255
3 gal galv iron with spout. 3 45
5 gal galv iron with spout. 4 58
3 gal galv iron with faucet 4 50
5 gal galv fron with faucet 4 85
5 gal Tilting cans.......... 7 25
5 gal gaiv iron Nacefag,... 9 09
Pump Cans.
5 gal Rapid steady stream. 7 80
5 gal Eureka non-overfiow 10 56
3 gal Home Rule..... .....10 50
5 gal Home Rule...........12 00
5 gal Pirate King...... ... 9 @
LANTERNS.
No. 0 Tubular side lift.... 4 00
No. 1B Vubuiar.. |... 6 2
No. 13 Tubular Dash.. ...
No. 1Tub., glassfount....
No. 12 Tubular, side lamn.1
No. 3Street Lamp, each.. 2 7
LANTERN GLOBES.
No. 0 Tubular, cases 1 doz,
each, box 10 cents.. ..... 45
No. 0 Tubular, cases 2 dos.
each, box 15 cents....... 4h
No. 0 Tubular, bhie 5 dos.
each, per bbl, bbl. 00.... 1 78
No.0 Tubonlar, ba:i's sya,
sooce § 2ow aaa? 25
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
Hardware
How A Kicker Explained Things to a
Dealer.
Written for the TRapEsMAN.
‘*There’s a man,’’ said a ——
dealer to me the other day, as a farmer-
looking man halted in front of his store,
“‘who has the art of kicking down fine
He buys a good many dollars’ worth of
goods of me in the course of the year,
but, for all that, I dislike to see him |‘:
come into the store. I guess he’s com-
ing in now. Wait and see.’’
‘* Always kicks, eh?’’ I asked.
‘* Always,’’ was the reply. ‘‘ Now,some
men kick because they think it adds to
their personal dignity, some because
they think they can make better bar-
gains by kicking and some because they
are built that way, but this man kicks
because he just can’t help it. Oh, he’s
a peach. Yes, here he comes,”’
At this point in the conversation tke
farmer-looking man entered the store
and asked for some nails. He was
dressed in a linen suit and a chip hat,
the rim of which was tipped straight up
behind and almost straight down in
front.
‘‘What kind of nails do you want?"’
asked the dealer.
‘Oh, some like the last I bought
here,’’ was the reply. ‘‘ You see, we've
got sort o’ used to that kind out at my
house. There’s something about the
way they’re built that splits everything
they’re driven into, and I’m goin’ to
take these out to the wood lot. Thought
they might help the boys split up them
knotty logs we're cuttin’ into fence
rails.’’
‘*They’ll do the business all right,’’
said the merchant, witha sly wink in
my direction. ‘‘By accident, a friend
of mine had some of these nails in his
pocket when he went to a political con-
vention last spring, and there was a
split in the party before the first session
was over. Yes, I bought these just be-
cause they are splitters.’’
*‘Yas,1 heard about that,’’ grinned the
customer. ‘‘Got any nice, large bakin’
tins?’’
‘““What size?’’ asked the dealer, with
a quick glance at me. I gathered from
his look that another kick was coming,
probably to make up for the last one’s
peculiar reception, and, sure enough,
there was.
“‘T must have some rather big ones,’’
was the reply, ‘‘an’ may have to get
‘em made to order. I want ’em big
enough to fit that refrigerator I bought
of you last spring. We've got right to
a place where we can’t get along with-
out them.’’
‘*What's the matter of the refrigera-
tor?’’ asked the dealer, with an amused
smile on his face.
‘‘It’s all right,’’ said the customer,
“‘just what we need in our big family.
My wife says she couldn’t keep house
without it. You see, she does all her
bakin’ in it. It’s the hottest place
about the house, is the inside of that
refrigerator, when we get it properly
loaded with ice and let ’er go.’’
‘“‘We handle that kind,’’ said tbe
merchant, ‘‘but I was under the im-
pression that you bought another
brand.’’
The farmer ran his fingers through the
nails as the merchant weighed them
out, threw out several with the remark
that he ‘‘didn’t care to draw a lot of
old iron home,’’ and went on.
‘*T dunno the brand of the thing,’’ he
said, ‘‘but we call it the Iceman’s
Friend ; or, the Ready Oven. We use |
hundred pounds of ice a day, aad some-
times more when we want things red
hot. Ob, it’s a dandy, that =e
tor. When it comes winter we're goin’ |p
to move it down cellar and pipe the heat
up into the house.’’
‘““You ought to pay extra for a refrig-
erator of that kind,’’ said the merchant.
‘*Did I let you have it at the regular
price?’’
‘*IT guess you did,’’ was the reply.
I’m always lucky about gettin’ the
best in the market at the lowest price.
Remember them winder screens I
bought here?’’
**Certainly,’’ was the reply. ‘‘I hope
they’re all right.’’
‘*The neighbors like ’em,’’ was the
reply. ‘‘They’ve called all the flies in
the neighborhood over to my house. Do
you furnish stop watches with them
screens?’’
‘‘Stop watches?’’ echoed the mer-
chant. ‘‘What are you talking about
now?’’
‘Bein’ as the flies use 'em for race
courses and ‘toboggan slides,’’ said the
farmer, ‘‘I didn’t know but you'd throw
in a couple of stop watches. Some of
the flies make good time through them
screens, and I’m thinkin’ of offerin’ a
purse to the season’s winner."’
‘*Do the flies get through the
screens?’’ asked the dealer. ‘‘What
kind did you buy?’’
‘‘The ones that pull out like a tele-
scope and shut up in the middle,’’ was
the reply. ‘‘The flies come over from
the next county to exercise in ’em, and
they won't go through an open door no-
how. They’re just in love with them
screens, ”’
By this time half a dozen friends and
customers had gathered in the store,
and the farmer’s eyes brightened as he
heard them iaughing. The merchant
began to get a little red in the face.
‘“If ihe screens are not all right,’’ he
said, ‘‘bring them back and get sume
more. Of all the kickers—’’
The farmer laid down the pay for the
nails and tucked the package under his
arm.
‘*Who’s
calmly.
‘‘A man over on the other side of the
street,’’ replied the merchant, seeing
that he was making a mistake. ‘‘When
you get up another fly race, invite me
over. I'll have the boys mark those
screens up a dollar or two. We don’t
contract to furnish amusement with fly
screens, ”’
“Oh, I'll let you know,’’ was the
solemn reply. ‘‘Last night an owl got
half through one of the screens, and
talked real hard about his troubles be-
fore we could release him. I guess them
screens wasn’t made for owls, was they?’’
‘*I can’t tell until I see them,’’ was
the repiy. ‘‘You may have taken one of
the elephant screens by mistake. We
have all kinds, you know.”’
“Well, I don’t care to change ’em,’’
said the farmer. ‘‘I'’ve got used to the
flies now, and it’s rather funny the way
they hop off the barn and whisk through
the wires without losin’ a flop of the
wing.’’
He tucked the package of nails closer
under his arm and walked out of the
store with a perfectly sober face.
**There,’’ said the merchant, with a
dreary smile, ‘‘what do you think of
that for a kicker?"’
ALFRED B. Tozer.
kickin’?’’ he demanded,
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The man with the handsome silk
bandkerchief is the one who is most
afraid of a sore throat.
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Asphalt Paints, Tarred Felt, Roofing Pitch. 2 and 3
ply and Torpedo Gravel Ready Roofing. Galvanized
Iron Cornice. Sky Lights. Sheet Metal Workers
and Contract Roofers.
Grand Rap‘ds, Mich.
Office, 82 Campau st.
Factory, 1st av. and M. C. Ry.
ESTABLISHED 1868
Detroit, Mich.
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
MODERN BUSINESS MAN.
Tribute to His Honesty and Good
Faith.
Let us admit that there are scamps in
the mercantile profession. There are
storekeepers who have too cluse an ac-
quaintance with kerosene cans as ap-
plied to insurance policies. There are
men who have recurrent seasons of fail-
ing, the same zs other men have fits,
There are shysters of finance who ex-
haust all the resources of knavery for
the money there is in it. There are
dead-beats who systematically establish
a credit for the purpose of a grand
smash and premeditated spoliation. But
were you to assemble all these—the
scamps, the firebugs, the intentional
bazkrupts, the knaves and the dead-
beats—the sum of their operations, as
compared with the general volume of
business, would be so small as to scarce-
ly merit mention.
It is a spiendid commentary upon the
average honesty of commercial life that
there are so many whom one can safely
trust. In this I make no restriction in
favor of your partners, your heads of de-
partments, your cashiers and chief
clerks. It takes in the $10 clerk, the
girl who writes your letteis and never
gives away their contents (that is if you
stick to business affairs and bar per-
sonal information), the porter, the truck-
man end tbe office boy. Of the men
who employ help by tbe hundreds, I
don't believe that one of them can think
of two people out of each hundred of
whose honesty they have the slightest
doubt. There are many of them who
could steal them blind at a moment's
notice—but they don’t.
I was in an office in Wall Street some
days ago, when an express messenger
waiked in, dumped down a package of
$140,000 ia currency, took a receipt,
and walked away. He was probably in
receipt of a salary of from $15 to $20
per week, and from one end of the year
to the other was handling packages of
great value and easy negotiation—and
every package went straight upon its
appointed course.
There never passes a day in that great
center of cash and its equivalent that
millions are not passed along by the
bands ef messenger boys to whom the
tip of a dime assumes a financial opera-
tion of some importance. Think of the
things you trust to your office boys, and
the trouble and loss to which they could
put you, were the prevailing sense of
the day one of dishonesty, rather than
the reverse. These cases are so usual as
to become commonplace or trivial, but
are never trivial whea used to illustrate
the one great fact that is the grandest
possession of the commercial world of
to-day.
Don’t take it so much for granted as
to belittie this sterling honesty of busi-
ness life. Teach the boys who look up
to you as the sum total of business suc
cess, and as their surest guide to a like
success, that indeed a good name is to
be chosen even above riches.
Put it on the lowest plane of business
morals, if you will. Honesty is the best
policy. It pays, in the long run, in dol-
lars and cents. It is the richest asset
with which the young man can start in
business life; it is the surest reliance of
the business man with which to face the
wearing trials of daily life; it is the
best heritage be can leave behind him.
Put the taint of recognized commer-
cial dishonesty upon a man, and one
will meet him with 2 bow; one will say
‘‘Good Morning ;’’ all may greet. bim
—and yet there lies an atmosphere about
him that he will feel; that intangible
something which shows that he is with
you but not of vou; that narrow line of
demarcation across which you may send
the friendly word, but that your soul
will not pass!
What amount of money is there that
will requite a man for this separation
from his kind?
It is not to be supposed, however, that
a man shall be so guileless as to be
transparent to all eyes. There are some
things in which an average amount of
diplomacy is needed, in almost any
business. If you have a few cards up
your sleeves, it is not necessary to throw
them all down on the first call. There
was a dear old mother out on an Ohio
farm, and when the drover came along
and asked her, ‘‘How much for the old
cow?’’ she simply responded: ‘‘Pa said
that I was to ask $40 for her, but to take
$30 rather thaa miss a sale!’’
In fact, the highest form of honesty—
the widest power of shrewdness—make
seemly and powerful yoke-fellows in
this steady pull of business. They are
seen combined in their highest form, in
some of the greatest and most successful
commercial enterprises, It is the right
of each to use to the best of his ability
all the powers that have been bestowed
upon him. No one should be afraid to
use all the appliances and methods of
moderii experience and thought as aids
for the accomplishment of success.
Were this addressed to a body of
young men, I would say: Beas sharp,
as shrewd, as hustling as you can. If
you don’t push on your own account,
the Lord won’t send a tornado to lift
you along. Muscles, brain power, will
power, heart power, the seeing eye, the
calculating mind, the business instinct
—all these were given you tu use. You
wiil have to think for yourself, to act for
yourself. Each line of business must,
by the law of self-preservation. look after
its own fortunes. The jobber and the
manufacturer are not lying awake at
night in order to preserve the interests
of the retailer. Make all the money you
honestly can; get all the business that
is within your legitimate reach; make
it yield all the profit it will. You will
have to do your own work, your own
thinking. Despite Mrs. Hemans’ opin-
ion, the greatest fool in song or story
was the boy who stood on the burning
deck, whence ali but him had fled.
There he stood until he was blown up,
simply because he did not know that the
time had come when he should get a
move on and do a little thinking for
himself. He was too good to be suc-
cessful. Like some of our sons, he de-
pended too much on the ojd man.
Yet, with all that can be so strongly
urged in favor of legitimete enterprise,
of mercantile power, organization and
push, let it be remembered that the
right of one man ceases where that of
another begins. I don’t know whether
there are more or less temptations in
business life than in other forms of en-
terprise. I do know, however, that Sol-
omon said something about sin lying
between buying and selling, even as the
mortar holds between the stones in the
wall—and Solomon belonged toa people
who can give us all points as to the
buying and selling of goods.
Perhaps if Solomon had been discuss-
ing some of the professions, bis remarks
might have been even more emphatic.
Summing up the business man, I am
led to the conclusion that, with the ex-
ception of a black sheep here and there,
he is an honest, honorable, hospitable,
enterprising and patriotic member of
society. He does more than the states-
man and lawmaker to keep the world
Moving in an upward groove. He is
political economy reduced to a tangible
form. He is the channel of intercom-
munication between men and men. He
is the medium by which the maker of
things finds his market, by which the
user of things is supplied his daily
needs. He came into being when Adam
began to look about for agricultural im-
plements with which to earn his bread
by the sweat of his brow; his profession
was established when the first grower of
fig leaves used his neighbor as a medi-
um through which to find 2 ladies’ tail-
oring establishment in need of mate-
rial. He loaded those caravans of
Chaldea and Ur in those early days of
Abraham. His were the fleets. that
sailed over the unknown seas; his have
been the wagons that have toiled over
the hills; he has loaded the railroad
trains that traverse the continent. His
commercial ventures have opened new
lands, and blazed the way for civiliza-
tion. He has been, and is, the mission-
ary of practical things, in a world that
may do without ideals and _ theories,
but that must have ploughshares and
axes, clothing and bread. He came in-
to being because the world could not do
without him; he will be a moving fac-
tor in affairs so long as the world shall
endure. JAMES H. KENNEDY.
——_> 2. ___
When a man tinds his clothes are too
loose, he should either change his tail-
or or boarding house.
Hardware Price Current.
AUGURS —_ =
MMGIE., 2...
Jenning: genuine..
Jennings’ imitation . .
AXES
First Quality, S. B. Bronze .........
First Quality, D. B. Bronze.. ew i"
First Quality, S. B. S. Steel. - 6
First Quality, D. B. Steel .................. 11 50
BOLTS
a 60&10
Carriage n new -_ eee ees lo . ub
on 50
‘ BUCKETS
Well, plata ee $350
BUTTS, CAST
Cast Loose Pin, figured......... ee 70&10
Vo 70&10
BLOCKS
Ordinary Tackle.... ........ es 70
CROW BARS
Cast Meer -- per ib 5
CAPS
Higeti.. per m 65
Pome perm 55
ee ee per m 45
ee perm %5
—
Steel and Ir-> 70% 1¢
— eee ee Me eee, 60
ST SE a a) a ea es 5
CHISELS i
Bocece Diemer 70
Soemee Praning.: -. . 70
HoGmcs Comer wo . 7
Ce SC 70
DRILLS
Moamos BitStecks ot ... .. 60
Taper and Straight Shank................... 50& 5
Morse’s Taper Shank...... ................. 50k 5
ELBOWS
Com £piece, Gin... .... doz. net 65
GCamdettee 1
Mogeatemie. dis 40&10
EXPANSIVE BITS
oa small, $18; large, 826................ —
Ives’, 1, 818; 2, Seo
FILES—New List
Now American... oc... 70&10
Nicholson’s. ... ace
Heller’s Horse Rasps... -60&10
GALVANIZED ‘IRON |
Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and 24; 25 and 26; 27. ... 28
List 12 13 14 15 = .. 17
Discount, 65
GAUGES
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s............... 60&10
KNOBS—New List
Door, mineral, = trimmings.............. 70
Door, porcelain, jap. _ trimmings. aS 80
Roe Wren 817 00, dis 60&10
CS ee $15 00, dis 60&10
Hunt’s.... . . 818 50, dis 20&10
MILLS |
Coffee, a Coe. se
Coffee, P. S. & W. Mfg. Co.’s Malleables. . 40
Coffee, Landers, Ferry & Clark’s........... 40
Coffee, Meeereeee | 30
MOLASSES —
Siephiw ns Patiors 60&10
Beepeins Gemmine. ts =
Enterprise. self-measuring .................
40 | 20x28 IC, Charcoal, Dean.
er
a
PRO oo eee,
penepesensapgal
fom PG. 8.
Contral Fire.................
PANS
ee 60610410
tana, aaa fo peeice saad : 70& 5
RIVETS
Brom aed Tinned ... jl. ows co 60
Copper Rivets and Bu ae Dees eee ences 45
Advance over base, on both Steel and —
Peel nane GGG 8 ll 2 65
Wire nails, WOM, ce
2%
Misdadvanee Base
co WG amvetee. 8 05
EO, 10
Coo ee 20
8 30
EE 45
Oe — 70
lm SOOO 8, 50
Canmag Miaewonee. 15
Cente 3 Sevance. .............. 64... eee. 25
Casme Gagvanee..... 1... 1.1L... 35
Bindall 00 Scivanes....... .................. 5
ames SGGvatee.......................... 35
Wem GO advarce ..............2........,,. 45
Dorcel & Savance...._...................... 85
PLANES
Ome Tool Co.'s, fancy...................... os
Semeee omem ol.
Sandusky Tool Co.’s, fancy....... :
Bench, firatquality................
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s woo
ATENT PLANISHED iRON
‘*A” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27 10 20
“*B”? Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 25 to 27 9 20
Broken packages ec per pound extra.
HAMMERS
Mavdole & Co.’s, new list........ ...... dis 233
Bipe ................... dis 25
Yerkes & Plumb’s. a dis W&id
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel Ze Vis "0
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel Hand 30c list 50&10
MYLO FPUKNICMmiiNU GUULDS
Stamped Tin Ware....... ........ new - 70
Japanned Tin Ware....... . 20810
HOLLOW WARE
(oe. |. eo
eee ... 60850
MONON ll aa
HINGES
Gate. Clark's, 1.2,3............. dis 60.81)
State... ... . pe> dos. net 2 8
—
-soo ugaamaa larger. Lecce | oe
aniila.... 12
_ WIRE ‘Goops
Bright. eee. “0
Screw Byes. a 80
Book s.... ae 4 Lee, 80
Gat< Hooke and Eyes. oe 80
LEVELS
Stanley Rule ané Level Co.’s a. 70
SHEET IRON
com. smooth. e-m,
ee tem &3 2) $3 93
moe i727. ........... .......... 9 3 00
Mos. to 2... . 8 30 2 20
Nos. 32 to 24........ beueccaucua, a ae 3 3)
Moe Biter 2... 3 50 oo
No. 27
. @@)
All seets No. 18 and lighter, ‘over 30 sua
wide not less ~~; —_ extra.
D PAPER u
List acct. 19, ’86.. oo 50
SASH WEIGHTS
Solid Hyen per ton 20 00
TRAPS
Mice Game T5&10
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s....... 50
Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton’s 70&10
Monae, ChOmor.. per doz 15
Mouse, delusion................. per doz 1 25
WIRE
OE °
Promo Maem...
Comperc® Memeo, 6d&10
pe ee €0
Coppered Spring Steel.......... ........ H 45
meres Fence, galvanized ............ 3 20
Barbed Fence, ee ice os 2 80
ORSE NAILS ~
Au ae. ee eee ee * 40&1C
ee 5
So ee net list
WRENCHES
Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled.............. “0
Cue es Gentine 40
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, — eee eces 7
Coe’s Patent, een ie. eee ee. 75
ISCELLANEOUS |
Bird Cages............ 4)
Pumps, sCiatern esos ceca sae, 6. 70
erows Wow Pam... 0. x5
Casters, Bed and Plate. " 504810610
Dampers, American eee 50
METALS—Zinc
600 pound casks..... ecw 9
Perpeund.......-.. ee oo 9%
SHOT |
oe... 1 45
hand Gack 3. 8. 1 70
SOLDER
SN a 17
The prices of the many other qualities of solder
in the market indicated by private brands vary
according to composition.
TIN—Melyn Grade
meets ve. Charcoal 8
&
« ee
14x20 IC, ee 7 ‘oc
20x14 'N Ghaveaal . 2
Each additional X on this grade, 81.25.
TIN—Allaway Grade
pe Oe a 6 25
Maou fe Cemreees...... 2... 11... 8... 6 25
10x14 Ix, Ce 7 50
14x20 Ix, mre 7 50
Each additional X on this grade, $1.50.
ROOFING PLATES
14x20 IC, Charcoal, Dean...
14x20 IX, Charcoal, Dean
RBSanman
SS8ssess
14x20 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grad:
14x20 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade.
20x28 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade... i
20x28 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade.........
sailaiss a. = TIN PLATE
4x! , for No. oilers,
14x56 IX’ for No 9 Boilers, ¢ Pet Pound...
_
a
o
24
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
BUSINESS CONDITIONS.
The closing of the half year with its
reports and settlements seemed to have
considerable effect in financial centers,
and the disturbance, which was only
that necessarily attending the semi-
annual adjustments, created enough
uneasiness to cause a slight decline in
the stock market during the last three
days, following a week of active busi-
ness with steadily advancing prices all
along the line. That the later decline
is owing to such temporary causes is in-
dicated by the fact that the factors
which usually govern are all favorable
to increased values. Thus the export of
gold, which had lasted a month, has
been stopped by a fall in sterling ex-
change. Railway earnings continue at
the same steadily increasing ratio and
the general volume of business as in-
dicated by clearing house reports is
Maintained in an unusual degree for the
midsummer season.
Wheat exports are increasing and for
the first week of the new crop year were
about a million bushels larger than last
year. The increase in corn export,
nearly 1,700,000 bushels, is still more
suggestive, and both yielded slightly in
price last week, while Western receipts
of wheat were 3,851,523 bushels, against
618.402 last year, and corn receipts
5,603,112, against 2,516,962 last year.
The price of cotton remains 6%c for
spot, and 45,327 bales have come into
sight this month, against 25,847 -last
year, while 68 265 bales were exported,
against 20,656 last year. Spinners’ tak-
ings were also unusually large for the
season, 28155 bales at the North,
against 3,951 last year, and the demand
for goods continues sufficient to sustain
the expectations of manufacturers in
spite of seasonable dulness in some
lines. Woolen manufacture is gaining
and. in several classes of goods prices
have been advanced 2% to 5 per cent.,
with prospects that the opening of spring
weights will show a general improve-
ment. The wool market continues
Strong, with sales at three Eastern cities
of 9,828,700 pounds last week. Interior
holders are confident, and are asking
several cents more than can be realized
in seaboard markets at the current
prices, notwithstanding the fact that the
manufacturers are not generally buying
with freedom, although some appear to
have made fair purchases during the
past two weeks. The boot and shoe
business is usually dull at this time in
the year, but shipments last week were
not 1,000 cases smaller thaa in 1898 or
1897, while larger than in any pievious
year. Many manufacturers are yet in-
different to further orders, having enough
to keep their works busy, in some cases,
until November, and it is said that spot
supplies have rarely been so closely
sold,
The season of annual adjustment in
the iron trade is having little effect on
the volume of business, while the un-
certainty as to ability to meet the con-
stantly-increasing demand is acting as a
stimulus to prices. The last advance
of pig iron makes the rise nearly 80 per
cent, this year in anthracite No. 1, go
per cent. in Besseme: at Pittsburg and
almost as much in Grey Forge.
>> > —____
The Produce Market.
Apples—Home grown Red Astrachans
are beginning to come, although the re-
Ceipts are not large and the stock is still
small in size. The price ranges from
75C@$I per bu.
Beets—soc per bu.
Blackberries—75c@$1 per 16 qt. case.
The receipts of home grown thus far
have been large in size and fine in
quality.
Butter—Fancy table stock readily
fetches 15c. There are a dearth of fancy
stock and a surplus of sour and mottled
stock, as usual at this season of the
year. Factory creamery has moved up
a notch, local dealers meeting no diffi-
culty in getting 18c.
Cabbage—40@6oc per doz., according
to size.
Carrots—ioc per doz.
Celery—18c per doz.
Cherries—English Murrillas are now
in market, commanding $1.50@1.75 per
bu. As the crop is short and the de-
mand large, prices will not go any
lower.
Cucumbers—25c per doz.
Currants—Black command $1.50 per
16 qt. crate. Red and White fetch 60
@75c. For the first time in the his-
tory ot this market, a full carload of
currants was shipped from here this
week. It went to New York to be used
in the manufacture of jelly.
Eggs—Candled stock fetches 13c,
while case count stock is handled on the
basis of 11c. Not nearly enough eggs
are coming in to meet the- consumptive
demands of the market.
Gooseberries—75@85c per 16 qt. crate.
Green Onions—1o@15c- for Silver
Skins.
Honey—New white clover is now in
market, commanding 12%c. Dark am-
ber fetches 8@1Ioc. :
Lettuce—25c per bu. for curly; 4oc
per bu. for head.
Muskmelons—Cantaloupes in barrels
command $1.25@! 75 per doz. Little
Gems have declined to 75c¢ per doz.
Onions—Illinois and Louisiana fetch
$1.50@1.60 per bu. Bermudas, $1.25
per crate.
Peas—Marrowfats command 6oc per
bu. The crop is about at an end.
Pieplant—6oc for basket of 50 Ibs.
Potatoes—Early Ohios are coming in
so slowly: that the price has advanced
to 7oc per bu. Home grown are be-
ginniug to come in, but the receipts are
not large and the size of the stock is
small. Both will increase to that ex-
tent that the price will probably drop to
50c before the end of the week.
Pouitry—Broilers are in active de-
mand at 13@14c. Fat hens are in fair
demand at 6@7c, while medium hens
are in strong demand at 8c. Spring
ducks are in fair demand at toc, while
old ducks are slow sale at 7@8c. Hen
turkeys find ready sale at 10@1I!Cc.
Large turkeys are slow sale at 7@8c.
Squabs are in good demand at $1 50
per doz. Pigeons are in fair demand at
6oc per doz.-
Radisbes—roc per doz. buncies.
Raspberries—Black command 75@85c
per 16 qt. crate. Red command same
prices for 12 qt. crate. The quality is
keeping up good and the crop will last
a coupie of weeks yet.
Squash—7sc per bu. box.
Tomatces—8c per 4 basket crate.
Turnips—4oc per bu.
Watermelons—Receipts are liberal
and the weather is favorable for large
trade. Long Texas command 12@15c
and Fancy Georgia range from 18@25¢.
Wax Beans—75@8s5c per bu. Re-
ceipts are heavy and the demand is
large. The quality is fine.
Whortleberries——Consignments from
Northern Michigan are coming in in bad
shape, the berries being small in size
and liberally mixed with leaves and
twigs, which give them a bad appear-
ance. Such lots bring $1.50 per bu.,
while clean berries of good size, in
shipping condition, fetch $1.50@z2. 50.
—_>2.—___
Meindert J. Seven has retired from
the firm of J. Seven & Sons, grocers at
151 West Leonard street. The business
will be continued by J. Seven and Cor-
nelius J. Seven under the style of j.
Seven & Son.
——_>22>__
The Grand Rapids Gas Light Co. re-
ports an increase in net earnings for
June of 18.01 per cent., as compared
with the net earnings for June of last
year.
Programme Prepared for the Jackson
Convention.
Detroit, July 1o—The following pro-
gramme has been arranged for the sev-
enteenth annual meeting of the Michi-
gan State Pharmaceutical Association,
which will be held at Jackson Aug. 15,
16 and 17:
TUESDAY AFTERNOON.
Prayer—Rev. Robert S. Inglis.
Address of .Welcome—Mayor M. G.
Loennecker.
Response—Arthur S. Parker, Detroit.
President’s Address—John J. Sour-
wine, Escanaba.
Secretary’s Report—Charles F, Mann,
Detroit.
Treasurer’s Report—John S, Bennett,
Lansing.
Report Secretary Board of Pharmacy
--A. C. Schumacher, Ann Arbor.
Receiving of delegates.
TUESDAY EVENING.
Reception at City Club, General good
time to give the members a chance to
get acquainted,
WEDNESDAY FORENOON.
Report of Executive Committee—E.
F. Pnillips, Armada, Chairman.
Report of Trade Interests Committee—
C. N. Anderson, Detroit, Chairman.
Repoit of Pharmacy and Queries
Committee—Prof. A. B. Prescott, Ann
Arbor, Chairman.
Report of Legislation Committee—
Arthur H. Webber, Cadillac, Chairman.
Report of Adulteration Committee—
Prof. A. B. Stevens, Ann Arbor, Chair-
man.
Report of Special Committee on Re
vision of Pharmacy Law—O. Eber-
bach, Ann Arbor, Chairman.
Report of Special Committee on Mu-
tual Manufacturing—A. L. Walker, De-
troit, Chairman.
‘Generai business,
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON.
Visiting State Prison and other points
of interest.
WEDNESDAY EVENING.
Reports of delegates.
Reading of papers.
General business.
Election of cfficers.
Selecting place of next meeting.
THURSDAY FORENOON.
Unfinished business.
Installation of officers.
THURSDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING.
Trip to Clark’s Lake, a_ beautiful
summer resort, situated about twelve
miles from Jackson, affording splendid
opportunity for base ball game and other
athletic sports, boating, etc. Lunch
will be served before returning in the
evening. Good music for dancing.
Meetings wiil be held in Council
Chamber, corner of Mechanics and South
Cortland streets.
Application blanks will be furnished
by the Secretary upon request. All
members are urged to secure as many
new members as possible.
Local associations are urged to send
delegates.
Members are requested to prepare and
read papers on topics of general interest
to the retail druggist.
Don’t forget to bring the ladies.
CuHas. F. MANN.
BusinasHans
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 than
2g cents. Advance payment.
BUSINESS CHANCES.
r. SALE OR EXCHANGE FOR GENERAL
Stock of Merchandise—60 acre farm, pari
clear. architect house and barn; well watered.
T also have two 40 acre farms and one 390 acre
farm to exchange. Address No. 12, care Michi.
gan Tradesman 12
E,:UTIFUL LItTLE FRUIT FARM FOR}
sale in Petoskey. Address No. 9, care Mich-
igan Tradesman. 9
AKGAIN — NEW %5 SPRING-BALANCE,
automatic, self-computing butcher's scale
and two show cases. S. M. Vinton, 1163 S. Divi-
sion St., Grand Rapids. Mich. 996
| SALE—LARGE GRAIN ELEVATOR,
conveniently located for shipment; com-
piete outfit; twelve bean pickers; s x-power
gasoline engine, etc.; $1,800; $1.000 down. Ad
dress Mrs. Philo B eon, Laingsburg, Mich. 3
OR ~ALE—CON FECTIONERY STOCK AND
fixtures, including soda fountain, ete. Ad-
dress No. 5, care Michigan Tradesman. 5
6 ig SHAFTING, HANGERS AND PULLEYS
formerly used to drive the Presses of the
Tradesman are for sale at a nominal price.
Power users making additions or changes will
do well to investigate. Tradesman Company,
Grand Rapids, Mich. 983
OR SALE—PAYING DRUG STORE; GOOD
location. Invoices 1,500. Address No.
995, care Michigan Tradesman. 995
OR SALE OR EXCHANGE—A 50 BARREL
full roller mill with sawmill attached.
Best water power in Southern Michigan. Ad-
Gress Mil'er, care Michigan Tradesman. 961
ye ss ORDEK FOR A RUBBER
stamp. Best stamps on earth at prices
one are right. Will J. Weller,
ich.
A= ONE WISHING TO ENGAGE IN THE
grain and produce and other lines of busi-
ness can learn of good locstions by communi-
cating with H. H. Howe, Land and Industrial
Agent C. & W. M. and D.,G. R. & W. Railways,
Grand Rapids, Mich. 919
ges SALE—A RARE OPPORTUNITY —A
flourishing business; clean stock of shoes
and furnishing goods; established cash trade;
best store and location in city; located among
the best iron mines inthecountry. The coming
spring will open up with a boom for this city
and prosperous times for years to come a cer-
tainty. Rent free for six months, also a dis-
count on stock; use of fixtures free. Store and
location admirably :dapted for any line of
business and conducted at small expense. Get
in line before too late. Failing health reason
for selling. Address P. O. Box 204, Negau-
nee, Mich. 913
re SALE—NEW GENERAL STOCK. A
splendid farming country. Notrad-s. Ad-
dress No. 680. care Michigan Tradesman 680
Muskegon,
9538
MISCELLANEOUS.
ANTED—PHARMACIST OR ASSIST NT.
Allan Little, Rapid « ity Mich. 11
ANTED—A LINE F GOOvus ON COM-
mission or salary to Michigau r. tail trade,
— man. J F. Haliiday, ——
Mic
W \NTEv—rtOsITION 48S REGISTERED
pharmacist by a young, singe man Ad-
dress Acouite, care Michigan Tradesman 8
ANTED—POSITION AS CL: RK IN GEN-
erai store by merchant of long experience
who is capable of managing the business,
Would not object to position as city or traveling
salesman. Address No. 7, care Michigan —
man.
WANTED - POSITION AS MANAGER OR
head clerk in ‘country store. Have had
valuable experience as manager of a lumber
store having annual sales of 850,000. Salary
moderate. Can speak Holland. Address No.
6, care Michigan Tradesman. 6
Ss AS TRAVELING -
salesman, commission or salary, clothing,
boots and shoes, men’s furnishing goods or gro-
ceries. Good references given. Address 998,
care Michigan Tradesman. 998
ANTED—POSITION IN A GENERAL
store; twenty years’ experience; good ref-
erences. Address No, 997, care Michigan
Tradesman. 997
—e- A FIRST-CLASS TINSMITH.
Must be capable of clerking in store.
Single man preferred. Must give good refer-
ences. No drinkers need apply. Address No.
992, care Michigan Tradesman. 992
ANTED — CIGARMAKERS, ROLLERS,
bunch breakers, strippers and lady pack-
ers. G. J, Johnson Cigar Co., Grand Rapids. 989
AUTOMATIC
CHECK |
PERFORATOR
Protect Your Checks.
Perforates any part of
the check, top, bottom
ee or center, and fills per-
forations with Acid Proof Ink. Positive Protec-
tion. Full nickeled. Price $5. For cash with
order it will be delivered free. Guaranteed 5 years.
SCHOOL & OFFICE SUPPLY CO.
Jobbers in Stationery and School Supplies
Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Aluminum Money
Will Increase Your Business.
meet
Cheap and Effective.
Send for samples and prices.
C. H. HANSON,
‘44 S. Clark St., Chicago, Ill.
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Travelers’ Time Tables.
CHICAGO 177 ext Mectieas By
Chicago.
Ly. G. Rapids..7:10am 12:00nn 5:05pm *2.15am
Ar. Chicago....1:30pm 5:00pm 11:15pm *7:25am
Ly. Chicago.. 7:15am 12:00nn 4:15pm *8:45pm
Ar. G’d Rapids 1:25pm 5:05pm 10:15pm = *1:50am
Traverse City, Charlevoix and Petoskey.
Ly. G@’d Ranids. 7:30am 2:05am 1:45pm 5:30pm
Ar. Tray City..12:40pm 6:10am 5:35pm 10:55p
Ar. Charlevoix... 3:15pm 7:58am 7:38pm..........
Ar. Petoskey.... 3:45pm 8:15am 8:15pm........ ae
Ar. Bay View... 3:55pm 8:20am 8:20pm..........
Ottawa Beach.
Lv. G. Rapids..9:C0am 12:00nn 5:39pm..........
Ar. G. Rapids..8:00am 1:25pm 5:05pm 10:15pm
Extra train on Saturday leaves at 2:15pm for
Ottawa Beach.
Sunday train leaves Bridge street 8:40am,
— depot 9:00am; leaves Ottawa Beach
:00pm.
Trains arrive from north at 2:00am, 11:15am,
4:45pm, and 10:05pm.
Parlor cars on day trains and sleeping cars on
night trains to and from Chicago
Parlor cars for Bay View.
*Every day. Others week days only.
DET ROIT,°"" wi —
Detroit.
Lv. Grand Rapids...... 7:00am 12 05pm 5:23pm
Ar. Detroit. ............ 11:40am 4:05pm 10:05pm
Ly. Detroit... . 8... 8:40am 1:10pm 6:10pm
4r. Grand Rapids..... 1:30pm 5:1)pm 10:55pm
Saginaw, Almaand Greenville.
Lv. G R7:00am 5:10pm Ar. GR11:45am 9:49pm
Parlor cars on all trains to and from Detroit
and Saginaw. Trains run week days only.
Gro. DEHAVEN, General Pass. Agent.
GRAN
(In effect May 1, 1899.)
Leave
Trank Railway System
Detroit and Milwaukee Div
Arrive
GOING EAST
Saginaw, Detroit & N Y....... + 6:45am + 9:55pm
Detroit and East............. +10:16am + 5:07pm
Saginaw, Detroit & East...... + 3:27pm 12:50pm
Buffalo, N Y, Toronto, Mon-
treal & Boston, L’t’d Ex....* 7:20pm *10:16am
GOING WEST
Gd. Haven and Int Pts.... * 8:30am *10:00pm
Gd. Haven Express........... *10:2lam * 7:15.m
Gd. Haven and Int Pts....... +12:58pm + 3:19pm
Gd. Haven and Milwaukee...t 5:12pm +10:1lam
Gd. Haven and Milwaukee ..+19:00pm + 6:40am
Gd. Haven and Chicago......* 7:30pm * 8:05am
Eastbound 6:45am train has Wagner parlor car
to Detroit, eastbound 3:20pm train has parlor car
to Detroit.
*Daily. +tExcept Sunday.
C. A. Justin, City Pass. Ticket Agent,
97 Monroe St., Morton House.
Northern Div. Leave Arrive
Tray. C’y, Petoskey & Mack...* 4;10am *10:‘0pm
Tray. C’y, Petoskey & Mack...t 7:45am t 5:15pm
Trav. City & Petuskey......... + 1:40pm + 1:10pm
Cadillac accommodation...... + 5:25pm +10 55am
Petoskey & Mackinaw City....t1':00pm + 6:3.am
4:10am train, The Northland Express, sleeping
and dining cars; 7:45am and 1:40pm trains,
parlor cars; 11:00pm train sleeping car.
Southern Div. Leave Arrive
Cineinnati...........+-- ....e¢ 7:10am + 9 45pm
Ft. Wayne ..... . -+--4 2°0)pm + 1°30 -4
Kalamazoo and V'cksburg... * 7:00pm * 7:20 m
Chicago and Cincinnati....... *10:15pm * 3:5:am
+7:10 am train has parior car to Cincius»:
and parlor car to Chicago; 2:00pm train has
parlor car to Ft. Wayne; 10:15pm train has
sleeping cars to Chicago, Cincinnati, Indian-
apolis, Louisville and St. Louis.
Rapids & {ndiana Railway
June 18, 1899.
Chicago Trains.
TO CHICAGO. i
Ly. Grand Rapids... 7 10am 20pm *10 15pm
Ar. Chicago......... 23Upm 8 45pm 6 2am
FROM CHICAGO.
Lv. Chicago......... 3 02pm * 8.15pm *11 32pm
Ar Grand Rapids... 9 45pm = 3:55pm 6 30am
Train leaving Grand Rapids 7:10am has parlor
car; 10:15pm, coach and sleeping car.
Train leaving Chicago 3:02pm has Pullman
parlor car; 8:15pm sleep ng car; 11:32pm sleep-
ing car for Grand Rapids.
Muskegon Trains.
soe yi san tl 15pm +)°40pz
Q@’d Rapids... ...... ¢7:35am 40pn
La 9:00am 225m 7:05nm
Sunday train leaves Grand Rapids 9:15am;
arrives Muskegon 10:40am.
oS: ldam +11:45am +4 O)p
Lv Muskegon....... .. +8 :10am :45am r
ArG@’d Rapids... --- 9:30am 12:55pm > 2!pr
Sunday train leaves Muskegon 7:15pm; ar-
rives Grand Rapids —
Sunday. *De'
ee ee en LOCKWOOD,
Gen’! Passr. and Ticket Agent.
. C. BLAKE,
Ticket Agent Union Station.
MANISTEE to rsuen
Via C. & W.M. Railway.
Lv Grand Rapids...........-....++ 7:00am
Ar Manistee... .....-..-.-..+ 5-2. Ea-Osmin .. 5.
Ly Manisiee............°.... 2... 8:30am 4:10pm
Ar Grand Rapids ....... ........ 1:0opm = 9:§spm
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MERCANTILE ASSOCIATIONS
Michigan Business Men’s Association
President, C. L. WHITNEY, Traverse City; Sec-
retary, E A. Stowe, Grand Rapids.
Michigan Retail Grocers’ Association
President, J. WisLER, Mancelona; Secretary, E.
A. Stow, Grand Rapids.
Michigan Hardware Association
President, C. G. Jewett, Howell; Secretary
Henry C. Minniz, Eaton Rapids.
Detroit Retail Grocers’ Association
President, Joszpa Knieut; Secretary, E. MaARKs,
221 Greenwood ave: Treasurer, C. H. FRINK.
Grand Rapids Retail Grocers’ Association
President, Frank J. DyK; Secretary, HomER
Kuap; Treasurer, J. GEo. LEHMAN.
Saginaw Mercantile Association
President, P. F. TREANOR; Vice-President, JoHN
McBrRatTNIE; Secretary, W. H. LEwI1s.
Jackson Retail Grocers’ Association
President, J. FRaNK HELMER; Secretary, W. H-
PorTER; Treasurer, L. PELTON.
Adrian Retail Grocers’ Association
President, A. C. CLarK; Secretary, E. F. CLeve-
LAND; Treasurer, Wm. C. KoEHN.
Bay Cities Retail Grocers’ Association
President, M. L. DEBats; Sec’y, S. W. WaTERs.
Kalamazoo Retail Grocers’ Association
President, W. H. JoHNson; Secretary, Cuas.
HYMAN.
Traverse City Business Men’s Association
President, THos. T. Bates; Secretary, M. B.
Houty; Treasurer, C. A. HAMMOND.
Owosso Business Men’s Association
President, A. D. WHrrPze; Secretary, G. T. Camp
BELL; Treasurer, W. E. CoLiins.
Alpena Business Men’s Association
President, F. W. Gincurist; Secretary, C. L.
PARTRIDGE.
Grand Rapids Retaii Meat Dealers’ Association
President, L. M. Witson; Secretary, Pomp Hin-
BER: Treasurer, S. J. HUFFORD.
St. Johns Business Men’s Association.
President, Toos. BRomLEY; Secretary, FRANK A.
PERcy; Treasurer, CLARK A. Putt.
Perry Business Men’s Association
President, H.W. Wactuace; Sec’y, T. E, HEDDLE.
Grand Haven Retail Merchants’ Association
President, F. D. Vos; Secretary, J. W. VERHOEKs.
Yale Bnsiuess Men’s Association
President, Coas. Rounps; Sec’y, FRANK PUTNEY.
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Manufacture
Solid Boxes for Shoes, Gloves, Shirts and Caps, Pigeon Hole Files for
Desks, plain and fancy Candy Boxes, and Shelf Boxes of every de-
scription We also make Folding Boxes for Patent Medicine, Cigar
Clippings, Powders, etc., etc. Gold and Silver Leaf work and Special
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