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The Michigan Tradesman.
VOL. 6.
GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1889.
NO. 281.
Voigt, Herpolsheimer & Co,
Importers and Jobbers of
Dry Goods
STAPLE and FANCY.
Overalls, Pants, Etc.,,
OUR OWN MAKE.
A COMPLETE LINE OF
Fancy Grockery and
Fancy Woodenware
OUR OWN IMPORTATION.
Inspection Solicited. Chicago and De-
troit prices guaranteed.
F. J. DETTENTHALER,
JOBBER OF
And Salt Fish.
Mail orders receive prompt attention.
See quotations in another column.
GRAND RAPIDS.
CASH SALE CHECKS.
Encourage your trade to pay cash instead of
running book accounts by using Cash Sale
@hecks. For saleat5% cents per 100 by F. A.
STOWE & BRO.. Grand Rapids.
RISING SUN BUCKWHEAT
Guaranteed Absolutely Pure. Orders from Re-
tail Trade solicited.
Newaygo Roller Mills
NEWAYGO, MICH.
FOURTH NATIONAL BANK
Grand Rapids, Mich.
A. J. Bowne, President.
Geo. C. PIERCE, Vice President.
H. W. Nasu, Cashier.
CAPITAL, - $300,000.
Transacts a general banking business.
Make a Specialty of Collections. Accounts
ef Country Merchants Solicited.
DO YOU WANT A $
—————
SPECIAL OFFER—This style of oval case; best
quality; all glass, heavy double thick; panel or
sliding doors; fulllength mirrors and spring hinges;
solid cherry or walnut frame, with or without metal
eorners, extra heavy base; silvetta trimmings:
6 feet long, 28 inches wide, 15 inches high. Price,
S11, net-cash.
I make the same style of case as above, 17 inches
high, from walnut, cherry, oak or ash, for $2 per foot.
WBoxing and cartage free.
D> DD. COooe.,
21 Scribner St.. Grand Rapids, Mich.
ACTUAL BUSINESS
PRACTICE 2 the Grand Rapids
Business College. Ed-
ucates pupils to transact and record business as
it is done by our best business houses. It pays
to goto the best. Shorthand and Typewriting
also thoroughly taught. Send for circular. Ad
dress A. S. PARISH, successor to C. G. Swens-
berg.
BLANK BOOKS
Stationery,
TABLETS, STEEL PENS,
INKS.
OUR NEW LINE OF
Yalenting Samples
are ready for inspection.
Raton, Lyon & Go,
1000 Cigars Free!
On or about April Ist, 1889, we propose putting a new
brand of cigars on the market which we shall sell to
the trade at $33 00 per thousand. Now we want a NAME
for this cigar, and want it badly. Hence we make the
above offer of 1000 of these cigars (the first thousand
made) to eny wholesale or retail dealer who will rend
us an original nan e that will be acceptable, subject to
the following conditions, viz.:
ist. The NAME must be one that has never been used
for a cigar and one upon which we can get a trade-
nark patent. i
a ae ac name Must to us upon a letter head, bill
head or card of the firm or member of the firm sending
it. The firm must bea bona fide retail or wholesale
dealer in cigars. Names from all others will be re-
jected.
: 8rd. This name must not reach us later than March
15th, 1889, as the award will be made on March 3ist, or
as soon thereafter as possible. |
4th. The award or salection of the name will be left
to a committee of three (3) consistung of the editors of
the following papers published in this. ity: Lhe Flint
Evening Journal, The Wolverine Citizen, The Flint
Globe. We shall accept tne name selected
by this committee, and1f upon investigation, we find
it has never been used asa cigar brand, we will for-
ward to the winner one thousand cigars by exprets,
charges prepaid.
oth Should the committee select a name, that had
been sent to us vy more than one firm or dealer, the
thousand cigars will go to the first firm or dealer
sending it, as all NAMES will be numbered in rotation
as received. No firm or dealer will be allowed to send
more than one NAME. i
A postal card containing the award or selection by
the committee will be mailed to all contestants.
Address, e
GEO T. WARREN & CO.,
Mfrs. High Grade Cigars. Flint, Mich.
G. M. MUNGER & CO.,
GRAND RAPIDS.
Successors to Allen’s Laundry.
Mail and Express orders attended to with
p:omptness. Nice Work, Quick Time
Satisfaction Guaranteed.
W. E. HALL, Jr., - - - Manager.
WHIPS
Rapids, Mich.
J. W. Welton’s Commercial College
This College offers the most extensive course of study
in business college branches at the most reasonable
terms. Do not fail to send for a forty-page catalogue
giving full information in regard to course,tuition,etce.
Address :
Welton’s Commercial College,
23 Eountain St., Grand Rapids, Mich.
DANIEL LYNG
Successor to FRED D. YALE & CO,,
Manufacturer of
Flavoring Extracts,
Try sample order in 14 dozen
packages, Prices, $1, $2, 8, 4,
$6 to $24 per doz. For terms ad-
dress Graham Roys, Grand
Baking Powder,
Biluing, Ete.
And Jobber of
Grocers and Draggists’ Snudries,
Call and inspect our new establishment
when in the city.
19 S. IONIA ST.
WALKS - GOODYEAR
and Connecticut Rubbers.
THE PARAGON
in Ladies’, Misses’ and Children’s, Heels and
Spring Heels.
G. R. Mayhew,
86 Monroe 8t., Grand Rapids.
illers, Attention
We are making a Middlings
Purifier and Flour Dresser that
will save you their cost at least
three times each year.
They are guaranteed to do
more work in less space (with
less power and less waste)
their class.
Send for descriptive cata-
logue with testimonials.
Martin’s Middlings Purifier Co,
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
KDMUND B. DIKEMAN
THE GREAT
Watch Maker
= Jeweler,
Ah GANAL 8Y.,
20 and 22 Monroe St.
Grand Rapids, - Mich.
than any other machines of
BUY
Muscatine
ROLLED
OATS
IF_YOU WANT
THE BEST!
CREOLE STRAIGHT CUT.
To all Merchan's Handling Cigarettes:
A new era has been reached whereby all dealers
selling cigarettes may now make a larger profit
than heretofore on any other brand. The
CREOLE STRAIGHT GUT.
Which has recently been introduced into the
State is becoming very popular. it being the only
straight cut sold for five cents, thus giving the
dealer a cigarette with which he may please all
classes of cigarette smokers. The same are nicely
put up in packages of ten and packed with ac-
tresses’ photos. There is also a variety of other
inducements, a notice of which is contained in
each package.
Give the CREOLE a trial and you will
find it a big seller.
Sold by all Grand Rapids jobbers, and manu-
factured by
S. F. HESS & CO.
ROCHESTER, N. Y.
Manof’rs of High Grade Cigarettes.
REMOVED.
THE GRAND RAPIDS
PAPER BOX FACTORY,
V. W. HUELSTER, Proprietor,
Formerly located at 11 Pearl St., has been
removed to
81 & 88 Campau St.
Cor. Louis, where I shall have more room
and far etter facilities for the manufac-
ture of Paper Boxes.
All work guaranteed first class and at
the lowest rates. Write or call for esti
Telephone 850,
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BEANS
And all dealers are invited to send sam-
ples and write for prices that can be ob-
tained in this market.
We do «a COMMISSION BUSINESS
and our aim is to obtain the highest mar-
ket price for all goods sent us. Not only
BEANS
but also ALL KINDS OF PRODUCE.
We can sell as well as anyone.
We invite correspondence.
BARNETT BROS.,
159 So. Water St., CHICAGO.
SAFES!
Anyone in want of a first-class Fire or
Burglar Proof Safe of the Cincinnati Safe
and Lock Co. manufacture will find it to
his advantage to write or call on us. We
have light expenses, and are able to sell low-
er than any other house representing first-
class work. Second-hand safes always on
hand.
C. M. GOODRICH & CO.,
With Satety Deposit Co., Basement oi Wid-
dicomb Blk.
WER STARS
No Equal in the State.
TO THE TRADE:
Iguarantee “SILVER STARS” to bea long,
straight filler, with Sumatra wrapper, made
by union labor, and to give complete satis-
faction.
A. S. DAVIS,
Sole Manufacturer,
70 Canal $t., GRAND RAPIDS.
THE POETRY OF BUSINESS.
The following poem was read atthe recent
banquet of the Owosso B. M.A. by Dr. E. B.
Ward, of Laingsburg;
Business is Business! that we all know,
But the poetry in it comes mournfully slow
And is very much like the plan, when you
learn it,
Of finding how blood can be got from a turnip,
Still, there’s life there, and music, for friction
makes noise,
And in these days you have to keep up with the
boys,
For if you don’t do so you'll find this thing true,
That the business men ‘round have got through
with you.
*Tis true and ‘tis pity, and pity ‘tis, ’tis true
That you old Salurians, past over-due,
a oo out some morning and find yourselves
eftt—
Left to cold shoulders and of business bereft:
Left to go down like a foundering steamer,
With the record way back that you were a
screamer
And able to travel through business with ease
Like the historic bullet that traveled ‘through
cheese.”
Yes, left to go down into business gangrene—
They are through with you, yes, and it’s plain to
be seen:
Oh, yes; it seems sad for those silver tongued
ies
That you told asweet buyeras you looked in
her eyes,
And remarked that the duties on gauzes and
lace
Were so high that no one could sell them with
grace,
ribbons and ecalicos, gloves, Cashmeres
and silk
You were selling lower than
skimmed milk.
the price of
Yes, you've got through selling rice, apples and
teas,
And sugar and coffee and Limburger cheese,
And-lemons and oranges, figs, spices and soap,
And oysters in which you have lost every hope,
Who with troubles without and ailments within
Get the bulge on you sometimes in spite of the
tin,
And worry yonrself and the customer too,
Till sometimes the atmosphere even turns blue.
Through with cutting off steak from “2-year-old”’
stock
That is tougher than strips from your old chop-
ping block,
And so ancient that reverence due age like that
Should occasion each buyer to take off his hat
And apologize humbly, to the meat not the man
Who is doing, undoubtedly, as wellas he can,
And who tries to keep back the on-creeping
scowl
When your dog comes around and the sausage
links growl.
Through with selling off clothing for less than
it cost,
clothing
host
—But perhaps you've
schnide
Who came from Assyria just for a ride,
Perhaps with a large stock of *‘cloddings”
see
To furnish the people in ancient Judea;
But his trade was way off, his head wasn’t level,
He came like the dew and he went like the d—l.
Soft whieh goes like Sennacherib’s
forgotten about that old
you
Through with ¢lients. divorces. confession and
brief,
Through with trying to clear an outrageous old
thief,
And warping your conscience, ‘round like a
withe
To make a ‘‘factorum” seem just like a myth,
And befuddle the jury and strangle the truth
Which grows wrinkled instead of holding
youth,
While Justice blindfolded, ia utter surprise
Remoyes her old hoodwink to wipe her sad eyes.
its
Through with putting up pills and plaster and
snuff,
And balsam and peppermint, powders and stuff,
And telling your customers old, stiff and blind,
That patent made nostrums are good as they'll
find,
And that doctors now use them right off from
the shelves
When they haven't got brains to think for them-
selves,
But that you can’t advise them for anything
sure
Except taking some manner of cheap kidney
cure.
Through with selling barbed wire. stones, iron
and nails,
And telling just where your opponent fails,
While your customer goes to the down-trodden
man
And places his order as quick as he can,
And leaves you to wonder, regret and repine,
To think that perhaps this ain’t quite in your
line.
And to find that such busiless as sure as you’re
born,
Will pull you out through the small end of the
horn.
Through with selling the Sweet Singing Sewing
Machine,
Which runs without help and always keeps
clean,
And the beautiful organ which alone sings so-
prano,
And always keeps time with the cheapest piano,
Which you can’t recommend as exactly the
thing,
But it helps when company comes in to sing,
Still the thing that they want and you know
what you say
Is a high priced piano quite easy to play.
Through with preaching old sermons—all right
enough,
But they’ve traveled so far that
most off,
And they need revamping or tapping, perhaps,
To fit all the feet of the wandering chaps
Who come to hear gospel truth week after week,
And who know just enough of the thing that
they seek ¢
That the seed must be visible, whether or no,
Or they'd think that no sower had been there to
sow.
their sole is
Through with selling split leather stock for just
half,
And declaring it Dongola kid and French calf,
While with calmest assurance you say that you
think
They will stand if the customers’ feet do not
shrink,
That your goods are so low there is not a cent
there,
And you’ve worried until you've lost your front
hair,
But still if the weather keeps sloppy enough
You hope that your sales will not be so tough.
Through with visiting patients so fretful and
strong,
That they torment your life and hang on so long
That you fain would escape and go off to dwell
On the southwestern shore of the margin of—
well
The margin of any respectable place,
Where you're likely to meet an old townsman’s
face
And talk and be sociable just as you choose,
And feeling you've no reputation to lose.
Ah, yes! there is music in business, and fame
If you come out on top! If you don’t, who’s to
blame?
No one but yourself, and the world’s head is
level
When it counts you a poor, unfortunate d—1;
Because you've no business to be such you
know;
You should play in the grand tent, and not the
side show,
For no matter how smart you are men can be
found
Who think they ean drive you right down in the
ground,
But when we all reach, as reach we all must
The time when our dollars to us are as dust,
When we climb to the mythical gates ajar
Away—out west on the fartherest star—
St. Peter will rise up out of his chair
And say “Did you ever?’ and ‘I declare!
If here ain’t a lot of Owosso men
Chuck full of business and mercantile ken,
But let them come in at the lower gate
And discount their tickets the usual rate.”
MISS HI{LDRETH.
‘TI must have a peacock, John,’’ said
Miss Hildreth, as she met her man-serv-
ant on the lawn. ‘He would look so
finely on the balustrade, with his feath-
ers spread or trailing them over the
green sward.
John.”
“They be an awful nuisance, marm,”’
demurred John. ‘*They’d never stick to
the balustrade. They be as hard to man-
age as children, an’ that’s a fac’.”’
“They keeps up an awful squalling,
miss.”’ put in Jane, the maid, when the
matter reached her ears. “They li be
worse than Miss Noyes’ guinea hens, and
Miss Dunn’s parrot, or them chtldren of
Parson Miller’s—I never did see such
neglected plagues as they be,’’ she added
I really must have one,
irrelevantly. “IT wonder their mother
don’t rise in her grave. 3ut the poor
man—what does he know of the care of
babies, with his sermons and his prayer
meetings, and his parochial visits and his
poor. He’s off to this wedding or that
funeral, or he’s reading the Word to the
sick and blind. It’s a shame there’s no
women folks, but hired help, to look
after ’em. Isee him myself one day a
tidying of them up, and pinning on their
clean collars wrong side out and upside
down. I s’pose he was thinking of free-
will and election, like as not.”’
“f wish him joy of them,’’ said Miss
Prudence. *‘I prefer the peacock.”’
The first night after the peacock’s ar-
rival, however, Miss Prudence never
closed her eyes, or the bird his meuth, so
to speak; but when he pranced across the
lawn in the morning light, Miss Prue
thought she would rather lose her sleep
than the sight of so much beauty.
‘““Miss Dunn says she’]] have to lay ina
stock of chloral and bromide, if you’re
going to keep the peacock,’’ Jane re-
ported; and Mrs. Noyes herself dropped
in to suggest that he could be killed and
stuffed.
‘He'll be quite as decorative,’ said
she, ‘‘without disturbing the neighbors.’’
Every two or three days a small urchin
would appear with the bird in tow, and
remark demurely: ‘‘Your peacock strayed
over to Dickens’, and I’ve fetched him
along home,’’ for which civility sundry
pieces of smal! change would be dis-
bursed.
“And who are you?’’ she asked, when
the same youngster had performed the
same benevolent service some half-dozen
times.
“1? Oh Pm Parson Millers boy.”
“HS Son?’
“Why. yes ’um—I reckon so.”’
“I shall have fo shut him up,’’ satd
Miss Prue. ‘‘His traveling expenses will
ruin me.’
By this time the poor bird had lost
most of his fine tail-feathers in the pro-
cess of being run down by the Miller
brothers and their contemporaries, and
presented a ragged appearance which
went to its owner's heart. So he was
shut up in a temporary pen till he should
learn better ways; but Miss Prudence,
going to look after him one afternoon,
found the two Millers inside the pen,
chasing him about to display his plum-
age, while their little sister stood outside
and clapped her hands, and a crowd of
other children stood peeping betwe nthe
slats.
‘What are you doing, children?’’. she
cried.
“Oh, we’ve been reading about pea-
cocks, and they need exercise,’’ vouch-
safed the eldest Miller.
“Tt seems to me that you need astick,”’
said Miss Prue.
“Father don’t approve of whipping,’’
chirruped the youngest; *‘do you, father?’
And Miss Prue lifted her eyes and met
those of the Rev. Austin Miller, which
wore a startled, perplexed expression,
while the color palpitated across his pale
face.
‘“‘My children have annoyed you,’’ he
said, with the hesitating tone which
begged to be gainsaid.
“They have only annoyed the pea-
cock,’? auswered Miss Prue, dropping her
gaze, and flushing rosy red in her turn.
*‘] came in search of these rogues,’’ he
went on. ‘‘Bridget was sure they were
in some mischief—I did not expect to
find you.”’
‘““No, of course not,’? said Miss Prue, in
a voice studiously matter-of-fact.
“T have read somewhere,’’ the Rev. Mr.
Miller pursued, ‘‘that the only real hap-
piness which ever arrives to us, springs
up quite unexpectedly in our path—it is
not the result of search. 1 dropped the
thread of my sermon, against my will, at
a critical point to pick up these little
folks. Ihave my reward.’’
“You are very easily satisfied,’’ re-
turned Miss Prue, in the same remote
voice. She was hardening her heart
against the persuasive tones which had
once been like the music of the spheres
to her.
‘No, I am not easily satisfied. I have
never been satisfied with myself—with
some hasty actions of my own, I should
say. Miss Prudence, you have never for-
given me?” he spoke half-questioningly,
as if he would fain be contradicted.
“T never thought of it as anything to
forgive, she said, and her voice melted
and broke a little in spite of herself. ‘‘It
was so long ago,’’ a little proudly, as if
she would not let him suppose that it sig-
nified. “TI see now that fate or Provi-
dence was kinder to us than I believed.
I don’t think I was intended for a domes-
tic life,’ as her eyes fell upon the three
harum-searum children in their torn
frocks and mischief—the children who
might have been her own, but for their
mother’s double-dealing.
Austin Miller smiled a little sadly as
his glance followed hers.
“They are torments to the neighbors,
I fear,’? he said; ‘*but they are all the
comfort I have,’’ holding a hand to them.
“Come, children, make your bow to Miss
Hildreth, and tell her you are sorry.”’
“But we are not a bit sorry,’’ said lit-
tle Amy. ‘‘The peacock is so beautiful,
we are glad we comed. Wemean to do
it again.’’
“Truth is no longer at the bottom of a
well,’’? said Miss Prue, with a real smile
dimpling her face as she said good-by.
If Deacon Brickett could have seen the
manuscript of Mr. Miller’s sermon as he
reflected in his study that evening, he
would have supposed that the words,
**“Come again, dear dream,’’ scrawled on
the margin, referred beyond a doubt to
the dream of Jacob when he saw the
angels of God ascending and descending.
‘Them there Miller boys be enough to
drive you to glory, an’ no mistake,’’ de-
clared Jane, a few weeks later. ¢}
wouldn’t be their mother—no, not if
you'd give ’em to me.”’
“They're not mine to give,’’ said Miss
Prue. ‘‘What have they done now?’’
‘Done? They’ve gone and broke the
peahen’s eggs, to see the little peacocks,
sure’s you’re alive. They expected to
find ’em full-fledged, long tail and all.
Amy’s gone home erying.”’
‘“‘And where are the boys?’’
‘**Mr. Miller, he’s going to send ’em to
bed without their supper, and serve ’em
right. Their mother’s shirked all the
bother of ’em sure enough!’
“Without their supper—poor things!”
eried Miss Prue. ‘Why, it’s only three
o’clock of asummer’s day. I remember
when I used to be sent to bed by daylight
when I was little and naughty, and it al-
ways seemed to me a horrible injustice.
Jane, run over to the parsonage, and
tell Mr. Miller he will do me a favor if
he will—’’
‘*Baste ’em soundly,’’ put in Jane.
‘Jane! how inhuman! He will do mea
favor if he will let them off this time.’’
‘‘Now, Miss Prue, if you’d write it
yourself—sure’s you live—excuse me,
miss—but I ain’t got the face to carry
that there message.’’? And it sohappened
that the Rev. Austin Miller found him-
self dreaming over a perfumed note, in
his study, while his sermon on ‘‘The
Mistakes of a Christian’ lay forgotten
before him—dreaming of the first note he
had ever received from Miss Prue, fifteen
years or so ago, the words of which
started out from some hidden corner of
his brain where they had been sleeping
unknown to him; dreaming of the dewy
evenings in the rose garden of the old
parsonage, where he studied Divinity and
she taught the children their A B C’s; of
moonlight nights on the river together,
and spring mornings in the woods hunt-
ing for the first wild flower; of Sundays,
when they sang together in the choir; of
their stroll home through green, sweet-
seented lanes. The thousand and one
dear hours they had spent in each other’s
company passed before his mind’s eye
like some beautiful panorama. He won-
dered if, indeed, he was the hero of those
dreams, if he had ever been so happy.
The first parting, the first estrangement.
wrung his heart anew, as if they had
happened only yesterday. What a fool-
ish thing their little quarrel looked like
to-day, seen by the light of years and
knowledge—such a trifle, but with such
large results! Yet he had been the first
to make an overture toward reconcilia-
tion, thank God! If she accepted his
overture she was to write and say so: but
no word had come to him in reply. What
days and hours of dark snspense lifted
their shadows before him: how the whole
world had seemed bleak and unprofitable
without her! Andinaseason of weak-
ness, when his wounded heart could bear
no more, he had accepted the sympathy
and comfort nearest at hand, and had
finally married Letty Carew, because she
loved him, only to wake up one day to
find that he owed all his unhappiness to
her. Miss Hildreth had indeed answered
him, had given Letty the letter to mail—
they had been intimate friends in those
days, intrusted with each other’s heart-
beats—and Letty had detained the mis-
sive that would have healed the breach.
How did he know this? Years after it
tumbled out of a drawer of old letters,
and confronted him with its familiar ad-
dress. Miss Carew thought she had
secured herself for all time by burning
Prue’s letter, but she had tossed the
wrong envelope into the grate. Austin
Miller had lived his sorrow over again
after this discovery; he had waked with
it and wrestled with it without getting
nearer happiness, and had long ago made
up his mind to do without it. But he had
thought it due to Prudence Hildreth to
send her word that by an accident her
letter had come to hand five years too
late: he said nothing of Letty’s share in
the matter, but Prudence understood all.
These memories had been revived by
Prue’s hasty note asking him to forgive
the children for breaking up the peahen’s
nest! Her children, too! He was at the
point of carrying the note to his lips,
when nis eye fell upon his sermon, ‘The
Mistakes of a Christian,’’? and lest this
should be one of them, he threw it into
the waste basket. He looked at the
clock: he had been idle two whole hours.
“Of what was he thinking?’’ he asked
himself; ‘‘where was he drifting? an an-
nointed priest, the example and coun-
sellor of sinners?’’ At least he could go
and thank Prue with a clear conscience;
as for the children, they were already in
bed, technically speaking, and were hav-
ing such a capital pillow fight that they
agreed to get into mischief every day of
their lives, and be punished.
After that Mr. Miller often found him-
self dropping in, on one pretext or an-
other, at The Elms; to ask Miss Prue to
play over the air of some new psalmody,
that he might join in the congregational
singing; to lend her the latest volume of
religious thought; to beg advice about
the children. Sometimes he came bring-
ing those unruly infants, with their brown
hands full of peacock feathers and their
little hearts full of impenitence. They
and the peacock were now the best of
friends: he ate from their hands and en-
dured their petting, which was much like
punishment, with heroism; if he stayed
away they hunted him out and brought
him home in triumph.
“Those children might as
here,’’ said Jane.
well live
*‘And their father, too,’’ added John.
‘‘Not a bite of sweetbread can I keep in
the larder; and when they tears their
frocks they goes straight to Miss Prue.
and she mends them before Bridget scolds
’em, just as if they’d be her very own.’’
**A fine stepmother she’d be making,’’
observed John. ‘‘They do be saying in
the village that it’s her cap she is setting
for the parson.’’ i
““That’s just the way of the gossips! If
a man takes to a woman it’s always she
that is a-setting of her cap forhim. The
parson ought to ask ’em to pick outa
wife for him and suit theirselves.”’
‘‘And then there’s others who say it’s
her money,’’ persisted John, who, like a
fair historian, was bound to state both
sides; ‘‘an’ that he come here a_ purpose
to marry her.’’
‘‘A great deal they knows about it,’’
cried Jane. ‘I heered him tell her, with
my own blessed ears, that when he was
cali d to this ’ere parish he never
dreamed that she livedhere. They must
hev knowed each other, you see, when
they was young, afore Miss Prue came
into her great-uncle’s property, and came
to live at The Elms; for I hear ’em talk-
ing now and again of folks that don’t be-
long hereabouts. And she says, ‘Do you
remember the day we went hither and
the day we went yon?’ And he says, ‘I
remember, I remember,’ and looks away
from her face. I thinks, myself, he must
have been an old beau of hers. I sees
7em together a heap, you know, bringing
in the tea things, and the lamps, and pot-
tering ’round—’’
**At the keyhole,’’ laughed John.
‘“‘And I’ve never found ’em love-making
onet, though I steps quiet-like, John, as
you know, and it isn’t like opening a
door to push the portiere aside.”’
It true the Miller children were a
great deal at The Elms, and gave their
father frequent excuse to follow them:
and itis true there were few congenial
souls in the parish or village, and what
so natural as that he should see more or
less of his pleasant neighbor, with whom
he could journey back to the past. In-
deed, they never talked of to-day or to-
morrow; it was always yesterday .whose
praises they sang, whose skies they ex-
tolled, whose pleasures they coveted. He
was nothing like a lover, to be sure, ex-
cept in preferring her society, and yet it
was a happiness to Prue to see him there.
to know that he would come to-morrow.
It was toward night, one summer day,
that Miss Prue, looking out on the lawn,
where the shadows of the leaves were
dancing, saw Mr. Miller—no unusual
sight—coming toward her door. He had
been out of town a whole week busi-
ness: Bridget had confided to Jane that
he had ‘*gone away suddin’, after a teie-
graph inayaller wrapper come for him
but he had been at home several day:
without darkening, or, to express het
feelings better, illuminating Miss Prue’s
door. Naturally, she wondered what his
errand had been; if he had had a eall
leave the parish; and at that thought he
heart stood still.
“You have been
the first greetings.
“Yes. I hope you did not suffer from
an invasion of young Millers during my
absence.’’
‘““*We met, but we missed you,’’’ she
admitted. ‘I hope your vacation was a
rest and recreation to you.”’
“My journey was not a pleasure trip,
Prac,’ he said. “My wife died sud-
denly at the asylum on the fifth of the
month—’
is
on
tO
away,’’ she said after
“Your witer’ gasped Miss Prue.
‘Your wife—died—on the fifth of the
month! I thought—Austin—Mr. Miller
—I thought she had been dead years ane
years!’
‘“T thought you knew,” he returned.
“IT supposed everybody had heard of it:
it was too sad a story to rehearse often
or needlessly. It was in all tae dailies
at the.time. You must have been abroad
then. Amy was in her cradle when Letty
left me—eloped with her music teacher.
Two years ago she went to the asylum,
mad as Hamlet. Prue, Prue,’’ he cried,
“do you think I have hidden anything
from you? Is not the loss of fifteen years
of happiness enough? Shall her ghost
divide us still?’’
“And I have been loving
woman’s husband all this
said, moving away from him.
only knows how far her Puritan con-
science would have carried her, but
then Jane burst into the room, crying:
“It’s little Tom Miller—the peacock
fell into the river, and Tom jumped in to
save him—and the bird’s safe—but Tom
—the cramp took him—John’s brought
him up the bank—’
And then Jane fainted away. It was
hours before consciousness returned to
Master Tom, and weeks before the roof
of The Elms could be exchanged for that
of the parsonage, owing to a fever which
sueceeded. Mr. Miller and Miss Prue
passed many a watchful night at his bed-
side, and many a day of sickening dread;
but it was a year and better before Miss
Hildreth could forgive herself for having
loved another woman’s husband and be-
fore a wedding which had been belated
fifteen years, took place at The Elms.
HARRIET PRESCOTT SPOFFORD.
anothei
time,’”
Heaven
she
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How to Distinguish Chicory in Coffee.
Chicory can be detected
follows: Put a teaspoonful of coffee to
be tested on the surface of a glass of
cold water. If itis pure coffee, it will
float for some time, scarcely coloring the
water. Chicory, if any is present, will
at once absorb the water and fall to the
bottom of the glass, giving to the water
a reddish-brown tint as it falls.
Another method is to put a tablespoon-
ful of the coffee in a small bottle of cold
water, and, shaking it for a moment, if
the coffee is-pure it will rise and searcely
color the water: if chickory is present it
will act same as above.
—_ A
The National Bank of the Republic,
New York, has been made reserve agent
of the First National Bank of Utica.
in coffee as
Fhe Michigan Tradesman
Official Organ of Michigan Business Men’s Association.
4A WEEKLY JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE
Retail Yrade of the Wolverine State.
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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6,1889.
THE FRENCH SITUATION.
Frenchmen, of course, must be the
best judges of the way in which such an
event as the election of Gen. Boulanger
will affect the future of the French Re-
public. But Americans generally will be
puzzled to account for the overwhel ning
significance which seems to be attached
to it by all parties in France. London
more than once has declared itself out of
harmony with the dominant party in
American-English polities. In America
every great city exzept Philadelphia, St.
Louis and Boston has declared against
the party which has received the approval
of ihe nation. But nobody in England
or in America attaches much importance
to this. London is a bigger city than
Paris, both absolutely and in proportion
to the whole population of the country.
it is just as much—what Paris is, but no
American city can claim to be—the me-
tropolitan center, to whose judgments in
all matters the rest of the nation refers
with deference. Yet it is becoming pro-
verbial that London opinion is only mis-
leading as to the general drift of English
opinion. In1880 London was so Jingoish
that it was not safe for Mr. Gladstone to
walk home from church on a Sunday
morning; yet that very year England
swept the Jingos out of office by over-
whelming majorities. Across the Chan-
nel, however, all France holds its breath
to listen for a verdict from Paris, as
though that carried with ita kind of
finality; and the fact that Gen. Boulan-
ger has 80,000 majority over his Republi-
can competitor is thought fatal for the
existing order of things.
One reason for this is found in the ex-
tinction of local life, both social and
political, in the provices of France by
Louis XIV., and the perpetuation of his
methods of centralization by all the
French governments from that time to
our own. He madehis court the one
piace of social distinction, and Paris the
only possible residence for men of wealth
or of rank. Hé swept away all the old
local liberties and traditions of self-
government, which had _ differentiated
the provinces from each other, and as far
as possible reduced them all to the dead
level of uniformity. From that day to
this Paris has been France, in the sense
in which Rome was once Italy and even
the ancient world; and that is the only
parallel to the situation which history
furnishes. England never has been cen-
tralized to anything like the same extent.
The sturdy Briton of the shires has his
own ideas and stands by them, whatever
the capital may think; and _ he loves out-
door life and country sports far too well
to sacrifice his position in the country to
the demands of the city. It was in France
that the contemptuous sense of the word
“‘provincial’’ was originated, and no
effort of the Londoner or the similar pre-
tender in America has succeeded in quite
naturalizing that sense in our language.
Attention has been called sufficiently
to the very miscellaneous character of
the followers who carried Gen. Boulan-
ger’s election so strongly. It is a huge
Cave of Adullam, into which everyone
who hates the existing government of
France is weleome. He may be a Repub-
lican extremist like Rochefort, or an Im-
perialist like Paul Cassagnac, or a mon-
archist like the younger Veuillot. Of
eourse, such a combination must to
pieces the moment it has the responsi-
bility of power thrust upon it, and would
count for nothing in the presence of a
strong, united and vigorous Republican
party. Its one source of strength is the
fact that there is no such party opposed
to it. M. Carnot is an able manand a
man of high integrity: but his office
amounts to nothing. It is idle to blame
him proved a mere figure-
head, as that is exactly what the French
Constitution condemns him to be. M.
Flouqguet, who is at the head of the min-
istry, is a weak and ineffectual man. who
is where he is because the system brings
such men as he is to the front. Heisa
compromise between the hostile factions
into which the majority of the national
Jegislature is rent, and in addition to his
personal inefficiency he has the added
weakness of an insecure position. It is
the sense of the worthlessness of that
majority which makes it tremble before
what a strong party would treat as an
incident of only temporary significance.
And there seems very little likelihood
go
for haying
of getting a better Republican majority
by any election next October. Franee is
suffering from a political prostration of
energy, Which has many causes. One is
found in that long interruption of self-
government and of responsibility to the
people, which is called the second French
Empire. Everybody recognizes what
that interruption cost France in the de-
velopment of intellectual life, when he
contrasts what French literature, both
politicaland artistic, was in the eighteen
years before 1848, with what it became in
the eighteen which followed the Cowp
@ Etat. And just as much, if not even
more, was lost in practical capacity for
politics. The French Republic has been
weak from the start, because it has had
no thinkers, but only successful man-
agers of majorities like M. Gambetta. It
has failed to impress France with ideas;
and, with all its faults, France has this
greatness that its people cannot live by
bread alone. Clemenceau is the only
man who has the mark of belonging to
the old succession of leaders, who had a
thought beyond the next election and its
possibilities—the only French statesman
since the Revolution who has had the
courage to set his face against the tra-
ditional centralization of the country.
But as his opinions on many points are
extreme, he never has had the chance to
exercise a controlling influence over the
government, or to make France feel his
hand in the reorganization of her polit-
ical methods.
Another source of political debilita-
tion had been the extreme badness of the
French Constitution. It is all sail and
no ballast. It leaves every government
at the mercy of any fresh drift of public
opinion. It thus forees every man in
power to become an opportunist, whether
he will or not. As Sir Henry Sumner
Maine has pointed out, the greatness of
Democracy is in its exercising proper
precautions against its own weaknesses,
and especially against those sudden
shifts of opinion which have been the
ruin of republics. It is just here that
the American Constitution exemplifies
the wisdom not only of the men who
drafted it but of the communities which
adopted it as their fundamental law.
That Constitution establishes an order in
which the executive, the judiciary, and
the higher branch of the legislature are
made more or less independent of public
passions of the moment, and are enabled
to do their duty in the face of outbursts
of popular disfavor. And it also pro-
vides such a method for its own altera-
tion as makes every change a subject for
long discussion and gradual adoption, in
which its merits and demerits are sure to
be thoroughly sifted.
France has nothing of this. The joint
convention of the Senate and the Cham-
bers has the power to make whatever
changes in the Constitution it pleases.
The actual government of the country is
carried on by a ministry, which re-
sponsible to the legislature; and the
President of the Republic is destitute of
any power except that of trying experi-
ments in the organization of new minis-
tries, when, as so often happens, the old
one is outvoted in the Assembly. French
Democracy has not tied its
it has made provision for an
appeal from Demos drunk to Demos
sober. Itis the worst form of Repub-
lican government that has been set up in
modern times, and it certainly is dis-
heartening to find the French people had
profited so little from their own
perience and ours in devising it.
What Boulanger will do is probably as
much of a puzzle to him as the rest of
mankind. That hg has the chance to do
anything is the result not of any marked
abilities in him, but of his skill in seiz-
ing a fortunate moment to attack a sys-
tem already fallen into effeteness. But
this exactly reproduces the situation of
1850-51.
is
hands;
no
ex-
INSURANCE STOCKS.
Something of an idea of the average
profit on the stock of fire insurance com-
panies may be derived from carefully
reading the following figures compiled
from the sworn statements of the com-
panies during the year 1886:
Number paying nodiyidends |. | |.
Number paying 6to1i0 percent. =o. <
Number paying 10 to 40 peréent....... |_| 101
Of the 189 companies whose stock was
on the market in 1886 there are only
seventeen whose stock sold at less than
par. The latest sales of stock of 31 of
these was from 200 to 436 per cent., and
141 from 100 to 190 per cent.
Capital invested in insurance stocks
pays better on the average than national
bank stock.
New York is still considering what she
will do with her idle convicts. The dis-
cussion is interesting only as showing
how firmly the idea of making the pris-
ons a source of revenue rather than of
expense to the State is rooted in the
official mind. The superintendents seem
to be gentlemen of the best intentions,
who obtained office while that was the
leading idea of prison reform, and they
seem never to have entertained a single
objection to its expediency. They de-
cide between different methods of keep-
ing convicts at work with reference sim-
ply to the profits of each to the treasury.
If told that the competition of these slaves
of the State worked to the disadvantage
of the free workman, they probably
would reply in the old fashion that the
working classes cannot afford to keep the
criminal class living off the taxes, as
though the taxes were levied upon the
working classes. The plain issue is
whether the property owners or the wage
earners can best afford to support the
convicts. If the former, then no prison
employment can be tolerated which
brings prison labor or its products into
competition with free labor orits pro-
ducts. That principle once fully admit-
ted, it becomes a question -as to how to
employ convict labor without producing
that competition in any measure. And
to this problem the prison managers and
prtson reformers never have fairly ad-
dressed themselves.
The Legislature has received a long
petition from the ‘‘fruit growers of the
State,’’? as the telegraph reports it, ask-
ing for the establishment of a food com-
mission to guard against adulterations.
The Legislature could go further and do
worse than to create such a commission.
AMONG THE TRADE.
GRAND RAPIDS GOSSIP.
Josiah W. Sherwood has sold his gro-
cery stock to E. H. Manly.
Wisner & Mansfield succeed Wisner &
Wisner in the grocery business at 119
Plainfield avenue.
John De Vries has engaged in the gro-
cery business at Jamestown. I. M. Clark
& Son furnished the stock.
Martin Vander Veen has built an addi-
tion to his store at 550 West Leonard
street and will occupy the same witha
meat market.
J. Vander Veen has sold his lease of
the store at 122 Monroe street to J. C.
Holt, who has leased the store—as well
as the corner store adjoining—to Morse
& Co.
Albert Stonehouse and Gilbert T. Haan
have purchased the Wm. E. White drug
stock, at 126 Canal street, and will con-
tinue the business under the style of
Stonehouse & Haan.
Clark & Morton—which is the new style
of the former firm of Morton & Clark—
have located their cigar factory at 289
South Division street. Chas. J. Clark
will continue on the read for the firm.
C. V. Hane, the Remus general dealer
and mill operator, has begun the erection
of a store building at South Grand Rap-
ids, 22x60 feet in dimensions, which he
will occupy with a general stock about
the middle of May, removing from Remus
at that time.
The complications growing out of the
failure of Fogg & Hightower, of Ferry,
was adjusted by Judge Dickerman, at
Muskegon, one day last week, by return-
ing the property to the custody of Amos
S. Musselman as trustee. The litigation
involved about $3,500.
AROUND THE STATE.
Mio—Hunter Bros. succeed T. Hunter
& Son in general trade.
Grand Ledge—Harry Snow, dealer in
drugs and jewelry, has failed.
Fennville—N. K. Raven succeeds J. H.
Raven in the jewelry business.
Flint—J. E. Bussey & Co. have removed
their hardware stock to Fenton.
Amadore — John Graham
Thomas Lount in general trade.
Davison—L. Gifford & Co.
Moss & Gifford in general trade.
Sault Ste. Marie—Strauss & Hirschfield
have assigned their clothing stock.
Hesperia—H. Carbine & Co. have sold
their drug business to L. E. Norton.
Coldwater—E. D. Chapman has
his lumber business to Moses Smith.
Greenville—O. W. Green is arranging
to retire from the jewelry business.
Millbrook—L. D. Wait has purchased
the meat market of S. H. McDowell.
Rondo—A. N. Partridge has engaged
in the grocery and provision business.
Mason — Walter M. Pratt succeeds
Pratt & Child in the grocery business.
Blissfiel’ — Barrow Bros. have sold
their grocery store to Austin & Strong.
Manton — Krohn & Alvin announce
their intention of dissolving partnership.
Lansing — Frederick Teller succeeds
P. E. Dunham in the hardware business.
Wolverine—C. J. Brooks is considering
the idea of erecting a full roller flouring
mill.
Fife Lake—Chas. H. Kimball, the gro-
cer, was recently married to Miss Ida B.
Codd.
Allegan—A. Hoffmaster succeeds Kohl-
man & Hoffmaster in the grocery bus-
iness.
Lake Odessa—John H. Kessner has en-
gaged in the grocery and crockery bus-
iness.
suceeeds
succeed
sold
Campbell City—Dingman & Bowers
have discontinued their store at this
place.
Charlotte—Z. G. Call has sold his gro-
cery stock to James Andrews, late of
Chester.
Ovid—The Scofield Buggy Co. has been
incorporated with a capital stock of
$50,000.
Nashville—J. L. Weber will engage in
the restaurant business in the Graves
building.
Grand Ledge—G. L. Coryell has sold
his grocery and provision stock to Ed.
Turnbull.
Berlin—Stanley Monroe has purchased
the meat market formerly owned by E.
East Saginaw—O. B. Moore succeeds
Moore & Hassell in the gents’ furnishing
goocs business.
Mulliken—Reed & Doolittle are erect-
ing a building which they will occupy as
a meat market.
Kalamazoo — Baumann & Bulchner
sueceed Evers, Baumann & Co. in the
hardware business.
Morley—Fred C. Beard will remove to
Big Rapids, continuing his business here
the same as before.
Alpena—Albert C. Frost, the agricul-
tural implement dealer, has given a trust
mortgage for $10,000.
Big Rapids—Archie Waters has ar-
ranged to engage in the merchant tailor-
ing business at Clare.
Manistee—Max Baumann and W. S.
Denning will engage in the bazaar bus-
iness about February 10.
Muskegon—H. Haas is sueceeded in
the merchant tailoring business by the
Haas Tailoring Co., incorporated.
Detroit — The corporation known as
M. S. Smith & Co. is sueceeded by F. G.
Smith, Sons & Co., also incorporated.
Randolph—It is O. W. Newell—not
Wheelock, as previously stated—who has
been commissioned postmaster at this
place.
Standish—Clarence L. Judd has pur-
chased the interest of the other stock-
holders in the Standish Manufactur-
ing Co.
Big Rapids—Geo. F Fairman will put
a grocery stock in the store in the Fair-
man block soon to be vacated by J. Frank
Clark.
Cedar Creek—Dr. A. Broughton has
removed his drug stock from this place
to Manton, where he has re-engaged in
business.
Homer—Giles E. Cooper, dealer in gro-
ceries and agricultural implements, has
uttered two chattel mortgages, amount-
ing to $3,410.
Antrim City—Dan Flanagin expects to
remove his sawmill from Kewadin to this
place in the spring. He is getting ina
stock of hemlock here.
Battle Creek—Frank Beach has sold
his interest in the Battle Creek Machin-
ery Co. to Chas. T. Allen, of the road
cart firm of Allen & Lay.
Cheboygan—Louis Pinkons has been
admitted to partnership in the clothing
business of H. Pinkons. The new firm
name is H. Pinkons & Son.
Ithaca — O. H. Heath & Son have
moved into their new store, which is 21x
100 feet in dimensions, and one of the
best arranged in the State.
Paw Paw—Harry Showerman succeeds
Harris Oppenheim in the boot and shoe
and furnishing goods business. H. S.
formerly clerked for E. Smith & Co.
teed City—White & Co. have sold their
drug stock to Sams & Woodruff. Mr.
Sams was for several years prescription
clerk for Osburn & Hammond, at Luther.
Menddn—A. Mapes, who traded his
grocery stock for a farm last December,
has traded back again. Mr. Mapes is by
no means poorer by reason of the trans-
actions.
Adrian—David Metcalf has retired
from the dry goods firm of Metcalf & Co.
The business will be continued by the
remaining partner under the style of
Festus R. Metealf.
Prairieville—John Cairns has with-
drawn from the drug and grocery firm of
Brown & Cairns. The business will be
continued by the remaining partner un-
der the style of W. L. Brown.
Traverse City—J. C. Lardie has sold
his interest in the commission firm of
Perkett, Lardie & Co. to his partners,
L. F. Perkett and E. Lardie, who will
continue the business as_ heretofore.
Mr. Lardie’s health is such that he is
compelled to make this change, having
never fully recovered from a injury re-
sulting in a broken rib, received over a
year ago. He will probably go to Ann
Arbor for treatment.
5 STRAY FACTS.
Ludington—J. G. Ackerville succeeds
Ackerville & Brace in the livery business.
MANUFACTURING MATTERS.
Big Rapids—Mannon & Chenoweth
have engaged in the manufacture of con-
fectionery.
Scottville—Albert Vogle will not re-
build the sawmill burned a short time
ago, but will put up a wooden butter
dish factory.
Muskegon—Torrent, McLaughlin & Co.
have brought suit against eighteen insur-
ance companies to recover insurance on
mill property burned several months ago,
the total of which is $22,000.
Allegan—J. B. Streeter & Son are
placing a new pulp machine in their
paper mill and are also placing a hew
sixty-horse-power boiler in their saw-
mill, and expect to have the latter mill
in shape for sawing lumber in a few
days.
Detroit—The R. C. Mudge paper cloth-
ing company, capital $75,000, of which
$50,000 is paid in, has been incorporated,
and will manufacture clothing, under-
| garments, bedding, ete., by a paper pro-
cess. The stockholders are: Richard C.
Mudge, Edgar M. Wasson, Jane Ballen-
tine, Robert W. Ballentine and Darrell F.
Glidden.
Ludington—The Ludington Wooden-
Kennedy.
ware Co. is the style of a new stock com-
pany, with a capital stock of $35,000,
which proposes to convert the City
Planing Mill property into the plant re-
quired. The officers are as follows:
L. \C. Waldo, President; L. K. Baker,
Vice-President; H. B. Smith, Secretary
and Treasurer. Directors—H. Butters,
Frank Filer, H. B. Smith, L. C. Waldo,
L. K. Baker.
a
Dry Goods Men at War.
From the New York Tribune, Jan. 30.
A war in prices between the New York
and Chicago jobbers caused considerable
commotion in the dry goods district yes-
terday. The strife is warmest around
Amoskeag ginghams, one of the staple
articles of the trade, and it promises to
be a war to the knife to determine
whether New York or Chicago shall con-
trol the Western trade. Marshall Field
& Co., of Chicago, were the first to be-
gin the fight. On January 21 this firm
sent a circular to dealers throughout the
country offering 1,000 cases of Amoskeag
and York ginghams at 61¢ cents net cash.
This price is lower than the manufac-
turers’ prices. New York jobbers were
forced to meet the prices or stop their
trade in ginghams. H. B. Claflin & Co.
were the first to take up the gauntlet,
and they were followed yesterday by
Tefft, Weller & Co. These two firms go
a step further than Marshall Field & Co.,
and offer the ginghams at 61% cents, with
2 per cent. discount.
John Beach, a member of the firm of
Tefft, Weller & Co., said to a Tribune re-
porter yesterday that the trouble orig-
inated solely in Chicago’s jealousy of
New York. ‘I haye been engaged in the
dry goods business in this city for twenty
years,’ said Mr. Beach, “and FE have
never before known a January trade so
large as it has been this year. Much of
the trade has come from the West, and
Chicago has had a dull time. Marshall
Field & Co. are trying to get Chicago’s
trade back. Mr. Field is quoted as say-
ing that the natural channel of dry goods
to the West was through Chicago, and if
this was not the case he proposed to ex-
pend a few millions to find out why. The
cut has affected nothing but ginghams so
far, and all other goods are firm, but, of
course, no one can tell what the next
step will be.’’
Dunham, Buckley & Co. do not deal in
Amoskeag ginghams, but a member of
the firm said that all ginghams had suf-
fered by the strife, and they were making
few sales.
Butler, Clapp, Wentz & Co. said last
night that their price for Amoskeag ging-
hams was nominally 7 cents, but they
had no buyers. The firm was then con-
sidering the advisability of cutting
prices, and a decision would be reached
to-day. Sweetzer, Pembroke & Co. had
not yet determined upon their action,
but they were making nosales. F. B.
Dale, the head of the gingham depart-
ment, said he might even cut the price to
614 cents. The gingham market had
been weak for a month or two, and he
thought it might be some time before set-
tled prices were reached. The fear that
manufacturers might reduee prices was a
factor which added to the uncertainty.
The expression was general among
jobbers that if Marshall Field & Co.
pushed the matter, it would result ina
long struggle in which no one could fore-
see the end.
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Gripsack Brigade.
Wm. Logie is confined to his house by
reason of a badly sprained ankle. He
hopes to get out on the road again about
the middle of next week.
Will L. Morley has ceased selling cigars
for the Massachusetts house to accept a
position as traveling salesman for Reid,
Murdock & Co., of Chicago.
Henry Smith has severed his connec-
tion with Lemon, Hoops & Peters as tea
salesman to take the position of tea
buyer for W. F. McLaughlin & Co., of
Chicago.
Mancelona Herald, Jan. 30: E. O.
Watkins has accepted the position of
traveling salesman for the firm of Pol-
lock, Baird & Co., wholesale milliners, of
Detroit, and left this morning for that
city to enter upon his duties.
Wallace Franklin, for a score of years
in the scale business and for the past
seven of them with Fairbanks. Morse &
Co., has severed his connection with them
and engaged with Westinghouse, Church,
Kerr & Co., contracting and consulting
engineers, New York city, with offices in
Pittsburgh and Chicago.
Frank E. Rogers, a Chicago traveling
man, was taken suddenly ill at Benton
Harbor, and, as his friends live in the
East, his affianced, Miss Zora Daken, of
West Bay City, was communicated with,
and she put in an immediate appearance.
The couple were married and the bride
then took upon herself the duties of
nurse. Mr. Rogers is rapidly convales-
cing.
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Bank Notes.
The Preston National Bank of Detroit
has been approved as the reserve agent
for the Citizens’ National Bank of Niles.
The Controller of the Currency has au-
thorized the First National Bank of
Ironwood to begin business with a cap-
ital of $50,000.
The Second National Bank of Owosso
has purchased the Sharpsteen building
for $8,500 and will occupy it as soon asa
vault and the necessary fixtures can be
put in.
_ 7
The Valley City Cable Car Co. is put-
ting in four Roney stokers and smoke
less furnaces, manufactured by Westing-
house, Church, Kerr & Co., of New York
City. The Alabastine Co. is putting in
two of the same stokers under their
boilers:
Step have been taken toward the or-
ganization of a creamery company at
Orion. Flinn & Durfee, of Detroit, are
interested in the scheme.
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FOR SALE,
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RUG STORE FOR SALE AT A GREAT BARGAIN. |
Addrevs, C. F. Williams, Caledonia, Mich. 355 |
des EXCHANGE—GOOD IMPROVED FARMS IN THE |
beau iful and productive Republican Valley
county in Nebraska for merchandise of any kind. E.
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OR SALE—AT A BARGAIN, THE OLDEST AND
best established meat marke in the city, central-
ly located and doing a good paying business, with
slaughter house, utensils, ete. Also one new and com- ,
plete set of butcher’s tools, cheap, if sold inside of
thirty days. For terms and particulars apply to Wm.
Henry & Son, 8 W Western ave.,Muskegon, Mich. 362
OR SALE—A WELL-SELECTED STOCK OF GRO-
ceries, doing a good business.. One of the best lo-
cations in the city. Owner wishes to retire from trade.
Will lease store for term of years. Address No. 364,
care Michigan Tradesman. 364
OR SALE—AT A BARGAIN, A CLEAN, WELL-AS-
sorted stock of general merchandise which will
inventory about $4,000. The above has been assigned
to the undersigned in trust for creditors and will be
sold atabargain Address, R. Lillie, Assignee, Coop-
ersville, Mich. 367
JOR SALE— DESIRABLE BAKERY AND CONFEC-
tionery establishment, including oven and all
necessary fixtures. Seven years in trade. Good run
of custom. Correspondence solicited. Address | No.
359, care Michigan Tradesman. 350
OR SALE— HOTEL IN GOOD RESORT TOWN, WITH
nineteen beds. House furnished complete. Price
3,500. $2,000 down, balance on time to suit. Poor
health, reason for selling. Barn, 34x60. Sample room
and livery office. 16x24, good livery. Mail and stage
line in barn. House paying $100 per month now. For
particulars, address ‘“‘ Hotel,” care Tradesman. 349
OR SALE—GOOD RESIDENCE LOT ON ONE OF
the most pleasant streets ‘‘on the hill.’’ Will ex-
change for stock in any good institution. Address 286,
care Mich gan Tradesman. 286
; SALE—AT A BARGAIN, FIXTURES FOR A MIL-
linery store. Also small stock, if desired. Good
location. Business well established. Address, Box 24,
Union City, Mich. 365
OR SALE—STOCK OF CLOTHING AND GENTS’
furnishing goods, located in a good town of 1,300
people in southern Michigan. But one other place in
town handles clothing For particulars address re &
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T,” care Michigan Tradesman. 357
R SALE—AT A BARGAIN A PAYING STORE,
hall, postoffice and three acres of iand. Buildings
Must sell. Address, J. C.
Lardie, Traverse City, Mich. 360
re SALE CHEAP—TWO FIRST CLASS MEAT MAR-
kets; one in North Muskegon and one in Muskegon
City. Both in best locations, and
doing good payin
Will sell one or both. £ i
52 Western avenue,
363
WANTS.
[7 ANTED—REGISTERED PHARMACIST. FOR PAR-
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en. 371
J ANTED—TO BUY GOOD GENERAL STOCK OF
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about 1,200 population. Will pay spot cash down, if
offered cheap. Address,Lock Box 20,Sheridan,Mich. 369
4 7 ANTED—TO SELL OR EXCHANGE FOR A HOUSE
and lot in Grand Rapids a clean stock of hard-
ware and tinner’s tools, situated in a live, growing
town of 1,600 inhabitants and doing a good business.
Address, Lon. A. Pelton, Luther, Mich. 361
TLUATION WANTED—A COMMERCIAL TRAVELER
is open for engagem:-nt. Large acquaintance
with grocery trade in Michigan. Address Jackson,
care Michigan Tradesman. 32.
ANTED—EVERY STORE-KEEPER WHO READS
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by addressing (mentioning this paper) J. H. Sutliff,
Albany, N. Y. 213
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ASSOCIATION DEPARTMENT.
Michigan Business Men’s Association.
President—Frank Wells, Lansing.
VPerat Vice-President—H. Chambers, Cheboygan.
Seeond Vice-President—C. Strong, Kalamazoo.
Seeretary—kB. A. Stowe, —— ——
Treasurer—L. W. Sprague. Greenville.
Executive Board—President; C. L. Whitney, Muskegon;
Frank Hamilton, Traverse City; N. B. Blain, Lowell;
Chas. T. Bridgman, Flint; Hiram DeLano, Allegan;
Seeretary.
etter on Insurance—Geo. B. Caldwell, Green-
ville; W.S. Powers, Nashville; Oren Stone, Flint.
Committee on Legislation—S. E. Parkill, Owosso; H.
A. Hydorn, Grand Rapids;. H. H. Pope, Allegan.
Committee on Trade Interests—Smith Barnes, Traverse
City: Geo. R. Hoyt, East Saginaw; H. B. Fargo, Mus-
kegon. : :
Transportation—James Osborn,OWwoss0;
on 5. Cokie, an Rapids; C. F. Bock, Battle
Creek. ae
Building and Loan Associations—Chaun-
Com Strone, Kalamazoo; Will Emmert, Eaton Rapids;
. tty, Lansing.
ee = J. Connell, Muskeger.
Official Organ—THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.
e following auxiliary associations are Op-
ooiien under charters granted by the Michi-
gan Business Men’s Association:
No. 1—Traverse City B. M. A._
President, J. W. Milliken; Secretary, E. W. Hastings.
No. 2—Lowell &. M.A.
President, N. B. Blain; Secretary, Frank T. King.
— | (No. 3“ Sturgis BM A.
§. Church; Secretary, Wm.Jorn. _
No. 4—Grand Rapids M. A.
President, E. J. Herrick; Secretary, E. A. Stowe.
No. 5—Muskegon B. M.A. _ i
President, John A. Miller; Secretary, C. L. Whitney.
No. 6—Alba B. M. A.
President. F. W. Sloat; Secretary, P. T. Baldwin.
No. 7—Dimondale B. M. A.
President, T. M. Sloan; Secretary, N. H. Widger.
No. S—Eastport B. M. A.
President, F.H. Thursten; Secretary, Geo. L. Thurston.
No. 9—Lawrence B. M. A.
President, H. M. Marshall; Secretary, J. H. Kelly.
EE ———————— i
Vo. 10—Harbor springs B. M. A.
President, W. J. Clark; Seeretary, A. L. Thompson.
so.11—Kingsley B. M. A.
President, H. P. Whipple: Secretary, G. W. Chanfty.
eee ee
No. 12—Quincy B. M. A.
President, C. McKay; Secretary, Thos. Lennon.
No. 13—Sherman B. M. A. i
President, i. B. Sturtevant; Secretary, Ww. Jj. Austin.
No. 14—No. Muskegon B. M. A.
President, S. A. Howey: Secretary, G. C. Havens.
No. 15— Boyne City B. M.A.
President, R. R. Perkins; Secretary, F. M. Chase.
oe
No. 16—Sand Lake B. M.A.
President, J. V- Crandall: Secretary, W- Rasco.
No. 17—Plainwell B. M.A.
President, E. A. Owen, Secretary, J. A. Sidle.
o B. M.A.
eT S. Lamfrom.
President, Albert Todd; Secretary, x
Nod. 19—Ada B. M. A.
ie -, E. E. Chapel.
President, D. F. Watson; Secretary,
No. 20—Saugatuck B. M. - at
President, John F. Henry; Secretary, L. A. Phelps.
No. 21—Wayland B. M. A. :
President, C. H. Wharton; Secretary, M. V. Hoyt.
¥ A
No. 22—Grand Ledge B. M.A.
President, A. B. Schumacher; Secretary, Ww. R. Clarke.
eer here a
No. 23—Carson City B. M. A.
President, F. A. Rockafellow; Secretary, C. G. Bailey.
No. 24—Merley B. M. A.
President, J. E. Thurkow; Secretary, WwW. Richmond.
No. 25—Palo B. M. A.
President, Chas. B. Johnson; Secretary, H. D. Pew.
No. 26—Greenville !4. M. A.
President. S. R. Stevens; Secretary, Geo. B. Caldwell.
No 27—Dorr B.M. A.
President, E. 8S. Botsford; Secretary, L. N. Fisher.
No. 28—Cheboygan B. M.A
President, A. J. Paddock; Secretary, H. G. Dozer.
No. 29—Freeport B.M. A.
President, Wm. Moore; Secretary, A.J. Che
No. 30—Oceana B. M. A. i
President, A.G. Avery ; Secretary, E. 8. Houghtaling.
— New. 31—Charlotte B. M. A.
President, Thos. J. Green; Secretary, A. G. Fleury.
No. 32—Coopersville B. M. A.
President, W. G. Barnes; Secretary, J. B. Watson.
No. 33—Charlevoix t. M. a.
President, L. D. Bartholomew; Secretary, R. W. Kane.
No. 34—Saranac B. M.A.
H. T. Johnson; Secretary, P. T. Williams. _
7 ONG Ss Beliare BMA
President, H. M. Hemstreet; Secretary, C. E. Densmore.
President. H.
esebrough.
No. 36—Ithaca B. M.A
President, O. F. Jackson; Secretary, John
No. 37—Battie Creek B. M. A.
President, Chas. F. Bock; Secretary, E. W. Moore.
iris et lem
No. 38—Scottville B. M.A.
President, H. E. Symons: Secretary, D. W. Higgins.
No. 39 -Burr Oak B. M.A.
President, W. S. Willer; Secretary, F. W. Sheldon.
No. 40—Katon Rapids B. M, A.
President, C. T. Hartson; Secretary, Will Emmert.
No. 41—Breckenridge B, M. A.
President, C H. Howd; Secretary, L. Waggoner.
No. 2—Fremont B. M. A.
President. Be Gerber; Secretary C.J. Rathbun.
rntnarsscnen actos dno shail al tart
No. 43—Tustin B. M.A. __
fresident, Frank J. Luick; Secretary, J. A. Lindstrom:
No. 44—Reed City B. M. A.
E. B. Martin; Secretary, W. H. Smith.
No. 45—Hoytville B. M. A.
President, D. E. Hallenbeck; Secretary, O. A. Halladay.
No. 46—Leslie B. M. A.
President, Wm. Hutchins; Secretary, B. M. Gould.
i M. Everden.
President,
“No. 47—Flint M. U.
President, W. C. Pierce; Secretary, W.H. Graham.
No. 48—Hubbariuston B. M. A.
President, Boyd Redner; Secretary, W. J. Tabor.
No. 49—teroy B M. A. |
President, A. Wenzell; Secretary, Frank Smith.
No. 50—Manistee B. M. A. _
President, A. O. Wheeler; Secretary,C. Grannis.
No. 51—Cedar Springs B. M. A.
President, L. M. SeHers; Secretary, W. C. Congdon.
No. 52—Grand Haven B. M. A.
President, A. 8. Kedzie; Secretary, F. D. Vos.
No, 53—Bellevue Bb. M. A. iL
President, Frank Phelps; Secretary, John H. York.
~ No. 54— Douglas B. M. A. i
President, Thomas B. Dutcher; Secretary, C. B. Waller.
No. 55—Peteskey B. M. A.
President, C. F. Hankey; Secretary, A. C. Bowman.
No. 56—Bangor B. M. A.
President, N. W. Drake; Secretary, Geo. Chapman.
No. 57—Roekford B. M. A.
President, Wm. G. Tefft; Secretary. E. B. Lapham.
No. 58—Fife Lake R. M. A.
President, L. S. Walter; Secretar; ,C.% Plakely.
No. 59—Fennville B. M. A.
President F. 8. Raymond: Secretary, P. S. Swarts.
No. 60—South Boardman B. M. A.
President, H. E. Hogan; Secretary, S. E. Neiharat.
No. 61—Hartford B. M. A.
President, V. E. Manley; Secretary, I. B. Barnes.
No. 62—East Saginaw M. A.
President, Jas. H. Moore; Secretary, C. W. Mutholand.
No. 63—Evart B. M. A.
President, C. V. Priest; Secretary, C. E. Bell.
No, 64—Merrill B, M. A.
President, C. W. Robertson; Secretary, Wm. Horton.
No. 65—Kaikaska B. M. A.
President, Alf. G. Drake; Secretary, C. S. Blom.
No. 66—Lansing B. M. A.
President, Frank Wells; Secretary, Chas. Cowles.
No. 67—Watervliet B. M. A.
President, Geo. Parsons; Secretary, J. M. Hall.
No. 68—Allegan B. M.A.
President, H. H. Pope; Secretary, E. T. VanOstrand.
No. 69—Scotts and Climax B. M. A.
President, Lyman Clark; Secretary, F. 8. Willison.
No. 70—Nashville B. M. A,
President, H. M. Lee; Secretary, W. 8. Powers.
No. 71—Ashley B. M. A,
President, M. Netzorg; Secretary, Geo. E. Clutterbuck.
No. 72—Edmore B. M. A.
No, 73—Belding B. M. A.
President, A. L. Spencer; Secretary, O. F. Webster.
o. 74—Davison M. U.
President, J. F. Cartwright; Secretary. L. Gifford.
No. 75—Tecumseh B. M. A.
President, Oscar P. Bills; Secretary, F. Rosacraus.
No. 76—Kalamazoo B. M. A.
President, 8. S. McCamly; Secretary, Chauncey Strong.
No. 77—South Haven B. M. A.
Presitient—C. J. Monroe; Secretary, 8S. VanOstrand.
No. 78—Caledonia B. M. A.
President, C. F. Williams; Secretary, J. W. Saunders.
Ne. 79—Ha-t Jordan and So Arm B. M.A,
President, Chas. F. Dixon; Secretary, L. C. Madison.
No. 80—Bay City and W. Bay City R. M, A.
President, F. L. Harrison; Secretary, Geo. Craig.
No. 8t—Flushing B. M. A.
President. L. A. Vickery; Secretary, A. E. Ransom.
No. 82—Alma B M. A.
President, B. 8S. Webb; Secretary, M. E Pollasky.
No 83—Sherwood B. ", A.
President, L. P. Wilcox; Secretary. W. R. Mandigo.
Shelby Herald: The time seems to be ripe for
the organization of a Business Men’s Association
in thistown. Some of our representative mer-
chants have expressed themselves in favor of
such a move.
A YEAR’S WORK
As Set Forth by the Officers of the Allegan
B. M. A.
From the Allegan Gazette.
The second annual meeting of the Allegan
Business Men’s Association called out a fair
attendance, but matters were there discussed
which deeply concern every member.
Secretary Van Ostrand presented two letters
which caused both talk and action. The first
was from a party desiring to establish here a
factory for making overalls, blouses, light
trowsers, etc., if #8,000 of capital stock can be
procured, the party himself taking #2.000 of it.
He is already in the business, running twenty
sewing machines, but needs more capital to do
the business to advantage. M. C. Sherwood
Wspoke highly of the gentleman making the pro-
posal, and of the business itself which he said is
profitable and must be permanent. Mr. Sher-
wood moved for the appointment of a committee
to investigate the project and secure the stock,
or make an effort to that end. if they deem best.
Messrs. M. C. Sherwood, A. E. Calkins and 8. D.
Pond were made the committee.
The other letter concerned the formation of a
Michigan Business Men’s Fire Insurance Com-
pany. The taking by Allegan people of eighty
shares of #25 each wus desired, and considera-
tion of it was postponed until later in the eve-
ning.
The Secretary’s report showed the disburse-
ment of $114.60 during the year, a balance of
$19.04 remaining unpaid, while there are $51.17
of unpaid but collectable dues. The total mem-
bership at present is 61.
President Calkins read the following annual
address which was accepted and its publication
by the village papers requested : !
In accordance with the rules of your Associa-
tion, [submit this my annual report:
The work accomplished during the past year
renders any further reason for its continued ex-
istence unnecessary. In fact, it has demon-
strated that its influence is indispensable to the
growth, prosperity, and material interests of the
village. Combined effort is necessary in the
accomplishment of public enterprises. System
and organization can achieve where individua
effort fails. It aims not only to encourage ad
visable enterprises, but to conceive them—not
only to foster business ventures that are already
established here, but, by a judicious representa-
tion of Allegan, endeavor to secure the location
of others that are likely to goelsewhere. In
this organization, projects, when first conceived
or considered, when brought to its notice, are
first discussed and_ criticised, objectionable
features removed. and then, if found desirable,
brought to the attention of the public for such
action as may be recommended; and thus far in
its history the judgment of this Association has
been sus‘ained. The responsibility resting upon
us is therefore increased, and great care should
be exercised in determining meritorious pro-
jects.
; The first business before the Association, one
year ago to-night, was the appointment of a
committee to aid the effort being made for a
new court-house. We now find the project ac-
complished. The record of the next meeting
shows the appointment of a committee to assist
in securing the meeting of the soldiers’ reunion
of Southwestern Michigan, at this place, which
was successful. At the next meeting, in March,
the electric light question was brought up and
referred. Subsequently action was taken en-
dorsing that project and to-night we can see the
result of our labor in that direction in the beauti-
ful lights adorning our streets, business houses,
and dwellings. Under the direction of an effi-
cient committee, the Fourth of July celebration
was made one of the features of the year. The
meetings in June, July and August were taken
up in discussion of the C., J. & M. Railroad ex-
tension to Saugatuck. The company failed to
build the road, after our part of the work was
done in raising $60,000 in subscription notes in
aid of the project. The result was the surrender
of the notes to individuals and an abandonment
of that enterprise. In September the C., L. & N.
Railway matter came up. Our committee have
done heroic work in getting annother #60.000 in
notes, and we are now waiting the action of the
company in locating its line, when all that re-
mains is to attain the right of way, for which
the money needed is nearly, if not entirely.
raised,
Manufacturing opportunities have not been
presented, requiring extra effort in that direc-
tion, but we believe the coming year will give
occasion for it—not to mention benefits accruing
to its membership through an increase of trade
and growth of the place: through a_ better
acquaintanceship and more social feeling;
through a nearer approach to the cash system in
the various lines of business, and through its
influense in protecting its members against un-
just discriminations by railway companies. This,
in a brief statement, is the record of the past
year. Itinspires us to go ahead and take cour-
age.
While it is, perhaps, not best to claim the credit
for all the beneficent public measures of the past
year, our Association has aided by its votes, its
members have contributed liberal cash subscrip-
tions, in aid of better roads leading from the vil-
lage. The policy of the township officers has
been to expend the moneys voted at the annual
township meeting exclusively in preparing the
highway for the road-bed of clay and gravel,
according to the grade first established, and on
such roads only when a guarantee can be ob-
tained from the citizens, that when the grade is
made the gravel will be put on without expense
to the township. No improvements of equal im-
portance, not only to the business interests, but
to the farmers, can be secured with the same out-
lay of money. In fact, no tax can be less bur-
densome, because it is paid out to those who con-
tribute it. If not directly, all share indirectly in
its circulation, besides in the direct benefit of
the improvement. It is to be hoped thata liberal
policy will prevail during the coming year, in
the same direction, and that this association will
aid by its influence the carrying on of the work
thus begun, until all roads leading from the vil-
lage to the borders of the township shall be so
constructed. Adjoining towns will then extend
them.
We have been ably represented in the State
convention, and the Secretury’s report will show
all dues paid.
I would recommend a change in section 2
article 9 of the constitution, so that regular meet,
ings shall be held on the first Tuesday of each
month, and that the President be authorized tc-
call special meetings whenever he may deem it
expedient; also that section 3, article 11, of by-
laws, be repealed.
We are without printed copies of our constitu-
tion and by-laws, and suggest that 100 copies be
printed in pamphlet form. The Eexecutive
Committee should meet at least once in each
month and should provide a room for that pur-
se.
; While we have lost several active members by
removal, death has claimed but one. Our rec-
ords show the esteem justly rendered to one
who was suddenly called in the midst of his use-
fulness to a better life, yet we shall long miss
the counsel and good judgment of Augustus
Lilly.
Thanking the officers for so ably assisting me,
and the members of committees it has been my
lot to appoint, for the many hard days’ work in
behalf, not only of this organization, but in the
interests of the Community as well, I close this
my term of office and the second year of your
Association.
Messrs. &. H. Fope, W-
Griswold were appointed
sider and report upon the
this address,
After a unanimous vote of thanks, by rising,
to the retiring officers, the annual election was
held, with this result, Mr. Calkins declining re-
election:
President—Horace H. Pope.
Vice-Presidents—A. E. Calkins and M. C. Sher-
wood.
Secretary—E. T. Van Ostrand.
Treasurer—W. J. Garrod.
Actuary—Fidus E. Fish.
Executive Committee—I. F. Clapp, I. P. Gris-
wold, C. G. Messinger. ;
Mr. Pope briefly expressed his thanks and
promised his best endeavors for a successful
year’s work.
Mr. E. A. Stowe, Secretary of the State Associ-
ation, being present, was asked to explain the
plan for an insurance company above referred
to. He said that it was to raise $100,000 of cap-
ital stock; and to secure co-operation of all the
associations this has been apportioned among
them throughout the State. Atthe end of each
year, after paying expenses and 10 percent. upon
the stock, a rebate of the profits would be made
pro rata to the stockholders. Companies man-
aged on this plan are successfully doing business
in New York, Baltimore and Chicago. In one
of these a Grand Rapids firm took a policy for
$30,000, paying 144 per cent. premium. At the
end of the year their dividend amounted to 45
per cent. of that premium, reducing the cost of
their insurance much below what it could be ob-
tained for in any other way. Mr. Stowe quoted
from the State insurance report for 1887 to show
that in that year nearly a million and a half dol-
lars more were paid for insurance, in this State,
than were received back for losses. Under the
new plan a portion of this, at least, could be
saved to Michigan business men.
A committee to report upon this matter, at the
next meeting, was comprised of Messrs. H. H.
Pope, I. F. Clapp, and I. P. Griswold.
Jd. Pollard and I. P.
a committee to con-
recommendations of
The next meeting will be held in G. A. R. hall
next Tuesday evening, when the standing com-
mittees will be announced, reports received as
provided for in these proceedings, and other
matters of interest presented
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Association Notes.
Manistee B. M. A. and South Boardman B. M.
A. have paid the dues for the current fiscal year
during the past week.
Pp. A. Montgomery, Secretary of the Western
Manufacturers’ Mutual Insurance Co., and C. E.
Worthington, Secretary of the Protection Mutual
Fire Insurance Co., were callers at THE TRADES-
MAN office last week. Both pronounced the in-
surance plan put forth by the Insurance Com-
mittee as the only practical method open to the
business men of the State, although both are
representatives of premium note companies.
Tney say the premium note plan would not work
advantageously with a miscellaneous company.
Referring to the abandonment of the Oceana
B. M. A., in order to enable the towns of Pent
water, Hart and Shelby to organize assoeiations
of their own, the Shelby Herald remarks: ‘‘Now is
the itme and let us improve it. Shelby needs and
has needed for some time a Business Men’s Asso-
ciation. These organizations have been the
means of great good in nearly all places where
they have been inaugurated, and there is no rea-
son why one should not be here. A systematic
and continuous booming this town and section
will redound to the advantage of all concerned.’
D. B. Ainger, ex-Congressman Lacey and Geo.
Huggett make the following appeal to the busi-
ness men of Charlotte through the local papers
of that place: The undersigned, having been
appointed a committee for that purpose, invite
all who are interested in the welfare and pros-
perity of Charlotte to meet in the council rooms
at the court house next Wednesday evening for
the purpose of assisting and aiding the Business
Men’s Association in efforts to advance the inter-
est of the city. Itis of the greatest importance,
as affecting the future of the Business Men’s
Association and the prosperity of the city, that
this meeting be largely attended.
Sault Ste. Marie Herald: The business men of
this place have started a B. M. A., thirty-two of
them having met last night and started the ball
rolling. J. E. Wirt, the Secretary, was instruct-
ed to prepare for publication such information
as itis desirable the public should have. The
leading merchantsin all lines of business are
evidently hungry for this movement as was en-
vineed by the spirit manifested last night. Co-
operation in regard to freight, the blacklisting
of dead-beats, ete., will be considered at the
next meeting. It is predicted that inside of six
weeks practically all our business men will be
connected with the Association. The initiation
fee will probably be one dollar with monthly
dues of 50 cents.
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Think Their Rates Too High.
The Insurance Committee of the Merchants
and Manufacturers’ Association of Jackson has
issued the following circular to the fire insur-
ance companies doing business in that city:
The Merchants and Manufacturers’ Associa-
tion of Jackson, consisting of 130 members, com-
prising the largest business firms of this city,
have instructed the undersigned, Committee on
insurance, toinform your local agents that, in
their judgement, the rates of insurance charged
in this city are too high, for the following rea-
sons:
1. We have a fire department second to none in
the State. | a
2. We have the Holly water system, furnishing
abundant water through about thirty miles of
water pipes.
3. 267 hydrants have been placed all through
the city for fire protection.
4, Within the last four years we have added,
at a considerable cost, two large chemicals to
our fire department.
5. The electric fire alarm system has been
added to our fire department within the same
period.
6. The losses by fire in this city, since the ac-
quirement of the chemicals and the electric fire
alarm system, for the last four years has not
averaged over $10,000 per annum, while the pre-
miums paid in this city have at least been $58,-
000 per annum.
On our invitations your agents met with us,
and although they showed that the losses by fire
in Jackson previous to the last few years have
been higher, the fact that the losses in Jackson
during the last four years had not exceeded an
average of $10,000 per annum remained undis-
puted.
On our invitations your agents were then pres-
ent at a test of our fire department,
Although your agents expressed their opinion
that the rates paid in this city for fire insurance
were not too high, we believe they can only sub-
stantiate the facts which we have laid before
you in this communication, and we believe that
you could justly and safely make a reduction on
the rates paid in our city of about 25 per cent. all
along the line.
Recommending this to your early considera-
tion, we remain,
Yours Very Respectfully,
MARTIN G. LOENNECKER, Mayor.
SAMUEL W. PHILLIPs,
JOHN J. TUOMEY,
Committee on Insurance.
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No Electric Lights at Public Expense.
From the Grand Traverse Herald.
There was a large attendance at the adjourned
meeting of the Traverse City Business Men’s
Association, on Tuesday evening. Dr. J. D.
Munson, J. A. Wilson, dr., C. M. Prall Wm.
Bauld and G. H. Lathrop were admitted to mem-
bership. Prof. Grawn reported for the com-
mittee appointed to attend the convention held
at Cadillac, last week, in the interest of a college
for Northern Michigan. Aftersome discussion
F. Hamilton, C. T. Grawn and W. L. Hammond
were appointed a committee to canvass the mat-
ter of making a proposition for the location of
the college at this place.
The main discussion of the evening was then
taken up—that of electric lights, and after
strong arguments had been presented for and
against the village bonding itself for a plant for
street and domestic lighting, a test vote was
taken, as the sense of the meeting, that the vil-
lage should put in a plant. The vote stood:
Yes, 11; No: 27.
The following resolution was then introduced:
WHEREAS, from our expression heretofore sub-
mitted, this Association has decided that they
wanted an electric light system introduced into
this village for general use, and
WHEREAS, from an expression recently sub-
mitted, you have decided thatin your opinion
it is not a part of wise economy that electricity
be introduced at the expense of the taxpapers
of this village, therefore
Resolved. That inasmuch as in our opinion it
is not expedient to bond the village for the pur-
pose of introducing an electric light and power
plant, that it is the sense of this Association that
a franchise be granted in the near future to
some person, persons or stock company for the
purpose of installing such a plant in this village,
And we recommend and ask the council of
this village to give this matter due considera-
tion and grant a franchise in accordance with
this resolution, as in their wisdom they see fit.
Some further discussion was held and an
amendment or two were voted down, and the
resolution as introduced was adopted.
M. E. Haskell, C. J. Kneeland and D. E. Car-
ter were appointed committee to convey to the
common council the wish of this Association, as
expressed by the above resolution.
In the course of the discussion the needs of
new school buildings were forcibly put by Prof.
Grawn and Dr. Kneeland. This is a matter that
should receive the attention of the Association
in the near future.
_—— oe
Standing Committees of the
B. M, A.
Tustin, Jan. 31, 1889.
Tustin
E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids:
DEAR Sir—At our meeting last Monday even-
ing, the President appointed the following com-
mittees:
On Manufacturing—D. 8S. Liddle, M. M. Holmes
and A. A. Lovene.
On Transportation—Walter Kennedy, A.
Thomson and H. Cole.
On Insurance—G. A. Estes, J.
and G. D. DeGoit.
On Trade Interests—R. H. Jones, J. S. Rich
and D. S. Liddle.
On Entertainment—G. A. Estes, J. S. Rich and
A. J, Thomson. Yours truly,
J. A, LinpsTRoM, Sec’y.
J.
A. Lindstrom
THE GOLD FEVE?.
Experience of a Michigan Merchant Who
Is Sejourning in the West.
The following graphic description of
the excitement incident to the recent re-
ported discovery of gold in Arizona will
be appreciated by the readers of THE
TRADESMAN:
Since I left Grand Rapids I have putin
a solid month hunting. You will say I
must be wild to break in upon a pleasure
trip to go hunting. But thereby hangs a
tale, which I will proceed to unfold.
I was not bear hunting, nor deer hunt-
ing, nor dear hunting, although it has
proved to be rather dear forme. It was
gold hunting. This tale has no relation
to the ‘“‘Gold Hunters of Australia,’’ by
Capt. Marryatt. I wishit did, for then
there might possibly be something in it
for me. I was in Jerez, old Mexico,
when I first heard of the new gold find
up in the Harqua Hala mountains of
Western Arizona. I went. Everybody
went. Of course I got left. Every one
can’t be lucky in finding gold, in placer
or pocket mining. Before I got within a
hundred miles of the place, I found doz-
ens of miners on their way to the new
‘diggings’? from New Mexico, Old Mex-
ico, Arizona, Nevada, California, Idaho
and Montana. It seemed to me that the
scenes of ’°49 were to be repeated. The
new mines lay way up in the northeast
part of Yumacounty. The réute from
Yuma lay up the Colorado river, 123
miles by boat, to a place called Ehren-
berg. From there it was-119 miles over-
land. The trouble commenced after we
reached the mountains. I knew absolutely
nothing about mines or mining, so I lost
no time in forming a partnership with an
old prospector who was out of funds, he
furnishing the experience and I the grub
for the two of us, and we worked to-
gether. Talk about ‘‘roughing it!’ I
thought I had seen some tough times, but
that experience lays away over any-
thing I’ve ever seen in my time. Not
even a tent to sleep under, and while the
days were exceedingly warm, the nights
were just as exceedingly cold—a peculi-
arity of the entire section of the United
States lying south of the 36th degree of
latitude. Awfully tough grub, atawfully
high prices, but a man is glad to get any-
thing to eat under some circumstances.
Toften wondered what my Eastern friends
would think if they could see me after a
hard forenoon’s work, sitting on a rock
or a stunted sage bush, gnawing a piece
of ‘‘jerked’’ beef or venison, and a soda
biscuit as hard as the nubs of h—l, and
washing it down with a drink of water
from a canteen that had dangled in the
sun all the forenoon. And to think, when
Christmas and New Year’s came, and I
sat and punched my dry lunch down my
throat, that perhaps my Eastern friends
were eating roast turkey or duck, and
chicken pie! Ican’t give you a detailed
account of the life there, but you can
judge for yourself when I tell you that I
could not get a shave: nor a bath; nor a
postage stamp, if I had been able to pay
$10,000 for it. And only one well of
water within a radius of over a hundred
miles.
I had sense enough to get out before I
got entirely dead broke, but there are
hundreds of poor devils up there holding
on to their claims, hoping against hope
that they may yet ‘‘pan out’? well, and
the last account that came to-day was
that many were on the verge of starva-
tion. I left there day before yesterday,
and there were about forty came when I
did.
It is all over now and I am in God’s
country again. I have not gotas much
money as I had a month ago, but I have
added to my experience, and that is al-
ways what costs us themost. And when
I go gold hunting again, it will be when
I come on earth again.
Perhaps you would like to hear some-
thing about the town I have chosen to
stop at forafew days. Riverside, the
second town in size in San Bernardino
county, is six miles south from San Ber-
nardino and sixty east from Los Angeles,
on the California Southern Railway. The
town has long been noted for its oranges
and still more famous for its raisins. Out
of 283,000 boxes of raisins shipped from
this county in 1888, more than 206,000
were put up and shipped from Riverside.
In addition to this, there were over 3,000,-
000 pounds of dried fruit shipped from
here, and large quantities of other fruits,
while the picking, packing and shipping
of oranges is an industry in itself. Al-
most as far as the eye can reach, in any
direction, one can see the rich green of
the orange groves, loaded with the yellow
fruit; and I can step out on the porch at
either side of the house and pick the
golden spheres, cool and delicious from
the heavy laden branches. Perhaps I
am not making up for the hardships of
last month! The climate of Riverside is
is cooler in winter and warmer in summer
than on the coast. The valley in which
the town lies contains about 20,000 acres,
but this is not included within the limits
of the town proper. Besides being con-
nected by rail with San Bernardino, Los
Angeles and San Diego, Riverside is the
eastern terminus of that branch of the
California Central connecting Santa Ana
with the California Southern. Eventu-
ally the through everland trains of the
Santa Fe will be run through the town.
West Riverside, lying across ths valley
‘from the older town, is a very fertile
stretch of country, the soil and climate
being of the same general characteristics.
Southern California, as you will re-
member from your study of history in
your ‘‘school days,’’ was settled by the
Spaniards, and by -them turned over to
the Jesuits. This order, in founding
their missions, nearly always gave them
the name of some patron saint, and the
flourishing towns that have sprung up
nearly two hundred years later on the
sites of the old missions still retain their
names, ‘‘San’’ or ‘‘Santa’’ always meaning
‘“Saint,’? as Santa Paula (Saint Paul);
San Jose (pronounced Ho-zay and mean-
ing St. Joseph); Santa Ana, Santa Clara,
San Diego, San Bernardino, San Pedro,
San Buenaventura, San Marcos, Santa
Barbara, Santa Monica, and at least fifty
more that I could string together for
your amusement. Just one more instance
of a Spanish name for a town, and I will
let you off for this time. Itis Los Ange-
les. The original Spanish name given to
the place was La Puebla de la Regina de
Los Angeles. Literally, the town of the
queen of the angels. How is that for
poetry of motion, eh? You may think
my simile is not very apt, but the poetry
is in your imagination, and the motion is
in your jaws when you try to say it.
Sabe?
I could write by the yard about this
beautiful country, but I don’t want to
make you homesick, nor weary of your
home, so will call it quits.
ROWELL.
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East Saginaw Jottings.
Business is looking up.
A. Hoyt, of the Hoyt Dry Goods Co.,
has returned from New York, where he
has been buying goods.
The Saginaw Dry Goods & Carpet Co.
has purchased the Hopkins stock of
fancy goods, as Mr. H. desires to close
out that business and go into something
else.
There has been quite a scandal going
the rounds of the papers about our well-
known furniture man,, Fay Wyckoff, of
Wyckoff, Eddy & Co. Mr. W. has proven
that he was not the man at all, but, nev-
ertheless, it leaves a stain and people
seem to be only too willing to spread re-
ports, without first knowing whether
they are true or not.
oh)
Purely Personal.
Frank E. Leonard returned Saturday
from Pittsburg, where he spent a week
among the glass factories.
E. E. Hewitt, the Rockford grocer, was
in town Friday on his way to Cincinnati
with several carloads of potatoes.
Wm. H. Hoops and wife sail from New
York on Thursday for Bermuda, where
they will spend a month in hope of bene-
fiting Mr. Hoops’ health.
HARDWARE.
The Hardware Market.
Bar iron is a little weak. Steel nails
have advanced 5 cents per keg at the
factory, but jobbers have made no change
as yet. The demoralization of the wire
nail market still continues and there is
no telling where prices will go. The
glass manufacturers, at their meeting at
Washington, found it impossible to make
a combination, owmg to the great
amount of stock in the country and the
large quantities constantly imported.
Rope is still firm, with no indication of
an advance.
Prices Current.
These prices are for cash buyers, who
pay promptly and buy in full packages.
AUGURS AND BITs. dis.
Ives’, old style .......-...-.:..:_-_... 60
Sees. ee 60
COOms 40
Jennings, senuine....0 2... 25
Jennings’, imitation .......... pec ee oe. 50&10
AXES.
First Quality, S. B. Bronze.............._._. $ 7 60
. a) GE Bronze... 11 00
ai S. BS Steel... 8 50
e » EB Steel .......-... 13 00
BALANCES. dis.
SPPIG 40
BARROWS. dis.
Maron $ 14 00
Gorden: net 33 00
BELLS, dis.
Hand .. 6010410
Cow
Ca 30&15
One ee 25
oor Sarcemt 2 60&10
BOLTS. dis.
SOE 8
Carnage new Het. 70&10
BPIGW. -:. 02. 24.852. eee le cee cee 50
Sleight shoe... 70
Wrought Barrel Bolts. ..... See 60
Cast Barret Belts. 3... 40
@ast Barrell Drass Eneps.-................. 40
GCeat Souanre Sprims. es 60
Cast Claim.) ts... 40
Wrougat Barrel, brass knop..........:....- 60
Wirouseccausre 60
Wroueht Sank Wlush 60
Wrought Bronze and Plated Knob Flush.. .60&10
ives Deore 60210
BRACES, dis.
Beever: 40
Baeuee 5010
Oe 50
ee net
BUCKETS,
Well, plain... $ 3 50
Wen swivel 4 00
BUTTS, CAST. dis.
Cast heose Pin, fieured........ -...,.....2.. W&
Cast Loose Pin, Berlin bronzed............. 70
Cast Loose Joint, genuine bronzed.......... 60&
Wrought Narrow, bright 5ast joint.......... 60&10
Wrouenht Loose Pim. ct 60&10
Wrought Loose Pin, acorn tip..............- 60&05
Wrought Loose Pin, japanned .............. 60&05
Wrought Loose Pin, japanned, silvertipped .60&05
Wrought table. 6010
Wrougnt Inside Blind... ...... weet eeeeceas 60410
Wroeeks Bears 75
Bind: Clarks 70&10
ane, Parkers = 70&10
bind, Sheper@s 3. 7
BLOCKS.
Ordinary Tacide, list April 17, 85..........- 40
CARPET SWEEPERS,
Bisset No.5... per doz.$17 00
Bissell No. 7, new drop pan ........ ie 19 60
Bissell Grand . 36 00
Gaenea Wands: = 24 00
MG - 15 00
CRADLES,
Girlie. ee ee dis. 50&02
CROW BARS.
Office of
Foster, Stevens & Co.,
WHOLESALE
HARDWARE.
Grand Rapids, Mich., Jan. 29, 1889.
The fiber from which Sisal and Manilla Rope is made is now
**cornered’”’ and very high. The price of rope in New York to-
day is,
Sisal, 12 1-2 cents per pound.
Manilla, 15 cents per pound.
Our price in Grand Rapids
is ONE CENT ABOVE THESE
PRICES. We have in stock a new rope called
NEW PROCESS.
Its superiority te Sisal in every respect is now universally ad-
mitted, and where it has been substituted for Manilla, favorably
impresses the purchaser with confidence in its utility and sue-
cess. It is manufactured in all sizes, the smaller coils being
made up in a ball cord shape, thus avoiding the necessity ofa
reel. We keep in stock ‘‘ New Process” from 1-4 up toe 5-8
inclusive, and our price to-day is only 9 1-2 cents a pound for
3-8 and larger, and 10 cents for 1:4. This price, however, will
not hold and must go higher if Sisal and Manilla keep adyaneing.
A trial coil will convince you the days of Sisal rope are
numbered.
FOSTER, STEVENS & CO.
10 and 12 Monroe-St., 33, 35, 37 39 and 41 Louis-St.
EXPANSIVE BITS. dis.
Clark's, small, $18; farce: @6............_... 30
ives, (, Sis; 2 Ot: 3 foe 25
FILEs—New List. dis.
American File Association List............. 60&10
Se 60&10
ew Amerew oe. 60&10
PMICHOISOMS 6010
ee 50
etier s Horse! aspen 50
GALVANIZED IRON.
Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and 24; 2 and 26; 27 28
List 12 13 14 15 18
Discount, 60
GAUGES, dis.
Stanley Rule and evel €o7s............_.- 50
HAMMERS.
MNaveagie & ors. dis. 25
MA _ Oe. 25
Werkes & Plumb s.............. . dis, 40&10
Mason's Solid Cast Steel........ 2.22... 30c list 50
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel, Hand. ...30¢ 40410
HINGES.
iGase, Clarks, 1,23...) 8k. dis. 60
PREG ce per doz. net, 2 50
Screw Hook and Strap, to 12 in. 4% 14 and
io oe 38%
merew Hook and yet... ......0.. 0. met || 10
a - i ee net 8%
a ee ° eo net 7%
. “ ’ s....... net 7%
Strapane fo dis. 70
HANGERS. dis.
Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track....50&10
Champion, anti-friction.........._......__. 60&10
Madde: wood Gack 40
HOLLOW WARE
a 60&10
Meties 60&10
Ee 60£10
Gray cuemetce 50
HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS.
Stamped Tim Ware............_..__ new list 70&10
egapannod Pin Ware... 6 oe 2
Grnie From Ware...
25
HOES.
Grup te $11, dis. 60
Grmibe $11.50, dis. 60
Grog. $12, dis. 60
HORSE NAILS.
Au Semie 8 ot dis. 25410@25&10£10
PUB dis. 5&10&21%4 &214
INOrth Western. oe dis. 10&10&5
KNOBsS—New List. dis.
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings ........__.... 55
Door, poreelain, jap. trimmings........____ 55
Door, porcelain, plated trimmings.......... 55
Door, porecigin, trimmings... ... ao
Drawer and Shutter, porcelain............- 70
Ficsure, Hb. Judd & Cos. 3...) 2.2... 40&1
PICWARCIES 45
LOCKS—DOOR,. dis.
Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s new list ....... 55:
Mallory, Wheeler & Cos...) 55
Erntates 55
INOPWOEES 5
LEVELS. dis.
Stanley Hule and Bevel €o.s............... 70
MATTOCKS.
Boze Bye $16.00, dis. 60
Mums Hye $15.00, dis. 60
a $18.50, dis. 20410.
MAULS. dis.
Sperry & Co.'s, Post, handled. ..........__. 50
MILLS. dis.
Cofice, Parkers Cova 40
~ P.S. & W. Mie Co.'s Malleables.._. 40
‘ Landers, Herry & Clark's... 40
ro) ACE PEESe (ooo 5)
MOLASSES GATES, dis.
Stebpr’s Palterm 6010
Secepin s Cemiine.. 60&10
HMuterprise, seit measuring.............. | 25
NAILS
Advance above 12d nails.
FENCE AND BRADS.
bee Gee ee pas
ee... 10
mane oe, 25
Paaudy 40
TT 60
ae ew. .e ee... 1 00
EE 1 50
FINE BLUED.
ee. 1 00
a 150
ae. 200
CASTING AND BOX.
Pate we 50
10d 60
%
90
1”
1 SO
COMMON BARREL,
Oe 25
a 2
CLINCH.
eo ane acc teh 135
2 and 24% _ 1
2% and2% ‘ 1 00
Sinee es. 85
BAO a 7
Each half keg 10 cents extra.
OILERS. dis.
Aine or tin, Chase's Patent.................- 60&i0
Zine, with brass botiom.................._.. 50
IBEAROPOGMer 50
CAPO per gross, $12 net
OMRMCON Ss 5010
PLANES. dis.
Ohio Tool Co.'s. faney .-........-........ 40@10
Selots Bence @60
Sandusky Tool Co.'s, faney....... 2... 8. 40@10
ieneh, firs @ualioy: 60
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s, wood... .... 20&10
PANS.
ry. Cre dis. 50410
@omanen, polished = dis. 60&10
RIVETS, dis.
iron and. Timed 50
Copper Hivets and Burs...) 50
PATENT FLANISHED IRON.
20
‘*A’? Wood's patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27 10
§
“BY? Wood’s pat. planished, Nos. 25 to 27... 20
Cast Steel... per ib 04
Tren Stecl Pons = - 3%
CAPs.
Higsfi0 perm 65
Hiekis CF... _ ce a 60
ED... .... i 2 a . 35
Muskee. ... . 60
CARTRIDGES.
Rim Fire, U. M. C. & Winchester new list.. 50
Him Fire, Gnited States:...............- dis. 50
Central Fire dis. 25
CHISELS. dis.
Seecken irmGe ee: 70&10
Socket Framing....
Socket Corner......
Becmee ces:
Butchers Tanced Wimmer. 40
Barton's Socket Firmers..............<:.... 20
Oe net
COMBs. dis.
Curry, lawrence s ..0 0. 3 40&10
Hiotenmass 5 se. 25
CHALK.
White Crayons, per gross.......... 12@12% dis. 10
cocks.
Brags, HUCKINE S 3. 60°
BIOS oe 60
Beer 40&10
oo as 68
COPPER.
Planished, 14 oz cut tosize...... per pound 33
a Sieh tox 14560 31
Cold Rolled, 14x56 and 14x00.:.. .......<_.. 29
me heed xi 29
BCLOMS 30
DRILLS. dis.
Morsc's Bit Stoeus.. 40
Paper and straight Shank. 2.2)... so... 40
Morse’s Taper snake 40
DRIPPING PANS.
mall sizes: ser pound 9k... 07
Piatee RIVER. Per POUNG. 2062. 4... . 64
ELBOWS.
Com. 4 piece 6) 2.60. doz. net vin
Com Ue Nee dis. 20&10&10
AOMORI ee dis. 44&10
Broken packs 44¢ per pound extra.
ROPES,
misal, 36 meh and larper ..--.... 2... 13
ee 16
SQUARES. dis.
Meee and rom 70&1
‘ivy and: Bevery... 60
WEEE ee, 20
SHEET IRON.
Com. Smooth. Com.
Med. @010 4 #4 20 $8 00
en fece We 4 20 3 00
MON AM Gteet 2c ec 4 2 3 10
OE eee 4 20 315
Le 4 40 3 35
UO ee 4 60 3 35
All sheets No. 18 and lighter, over 30 inches
wide not less than 2-10 extra
SAND PAPER,
eee eee 1 dis. 40
SASH CORD.
Civer fake While A list 50
c mas: o 55
. Vac eS 50
e La. e 55
wee : 35
Discount, 10.
! SASH WEIGHTS.
Se per ton $25
.,__, , SAUSAGE SUUFFERS OR FILLERS.
Miles’ ‘“‘Challenge’’....per doz. $20, dis. 50@350&05
Remy... per doz. No. oor No. 0,
See 21; dis, P50&5
Pray ¢nuiNe. 4.00.00. cui. Sie cee
Enterprise Mfg. Co.................. dis. 20&10@30
SHIVER dis. 40&10
SAWs. dis.
Bisstow’s Circgler. 45@ABKS
Crocs Cue &5
te Pee ZH@RAS
*Extras sometimes given by jobbers.
Aine, Crema dis. 9
‘Silver Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foot,..... 70
‘* Special Steel Dex X Cuts, per foot.... 50
‘Special Steel Dia. X Cuts, perfoot.... 30
‘* Champion and Electric Tooth X
Cuts, per fogs. 28
TACKS. dis,
American, all kinds......_. 60
cel all hinds 60
Swedes, all kinds. SS 60
Gupdmeteee 68
Creer rexr Nae 50
Himishing Naiis.............. 5)
Common and Patent Brads...... 50
Hungarian Fails and Miners’ Tac 50
avunk and Clout Nailg.... =. 50
Timned Trunk and Clout Nails.......... 45
Leathered Carpet Tacks.... 35
TRAPS, dis.
mee Gane 60410
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s........... 35
Oneida Community, Hawley « Norton’s.... 0
Maes tt CO . 70
70
Pow ae ees LLLDhLhLUmLmLULmULLULULLC
Mouse, Choker... ...................18e per doz.
Mouse, delusion........ ..#1.50 per doz.
WIRE. dis.
Peeet Maes ll ee
Annemed Market 00) eee
Coppered Market. ........... 4... foe
le oe
med Skee §2%
Pinned Broem............ |... ner pound 62
Tinned Mattress.................... per pound §i%
Coppered Spring Steel........ 5
iinned Spree steel... 40&10
ee OCS per pound 03
Barbed Hence, gaivanized................. 33 %
“ Pe) ee
Cane new list net
i WIRE GOODS. dis.
LE 7OK10K10
merew Eves... 70&10&10
Heges ..... |... ee
Gate Hooks and Eyes................... MEMEO
WRENCHES. dis.
Baxter's Adjustable, nickeled.............. 30
Cocs Genuine oe 50
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought,........ 15
Coes Patent, malieable.............._.. 75&10
MISCELLANEOUS, dis.
Beaten ae 50
Pusaps, Caster... .-. ek. 75
merown, New Eis TO0&05
(asters, bed and Plate.................. 50410410
Dampers, American. ............. ey
Forks, hoes, rakes and all steel goods...... 66%
Copper Bottoms = De
METALS,
PIG TIN.
a_i .lhmlr,Cr,:C”C,.C:CiC‘C:;é‘C(CQC...W:«Ci«sai(‘C(#SCOCOCCSS
Pig Bare..........-...... 1... . Oe
COPPER.
Duty: Pig, Bar and Ingot, 4c; Old Copper, 3e
Manufactured (including all articles of which
Copper is a component of chief value), 45 per
cent ad valorem. For large lots the following
quotations are shaded:
INGOT.
ae 1844
coaueaoe ae. tidi‘Céi, Q 2
Be Fos
5 13Sgcro
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QUEEN ANNE
TRUE BLUE,
MONDA
Detroit Soap Co.,
DETROIT, MICH.
Manufacturers of the following well-known
AND OTHERS,
W.G. HAWKINS, x...
COAL!--COKE!—WOOD!
W holesale
(fficg under Nat’
Telephone Call 490-2,
SUAP
brands of
MOTTLED GERMAN, MICHIGAN, ROYAL BAR
SUPERIOR, MASCOTTE, *
PHENIX, WABASH, CAMEO,
For quotations address
Salesman for Western Michigan,
Box 173, GRAND RAPIDS
and Retail
A. HIMES.
| City Bank. = Yans, sora"
CAR LOTS A SPECIALTY,
FIGS, 3 x 1, 14 to lb.,
Send for
Catalogue
and
Prices.
>
| And Dodge’s Patent Wood Split Pulley.
|
Write for Prices.
LORILLARD’S
STANDARD FIRST GRADE PLUG TOBACCO
CLIMAX
Can now be bought at the following exceptionally
LOW FIGURES:
Ass’t’d lot
Packages. Less than 56 lbs. 56lbs.orover. any quanti
POUNDS, 12 x 3, 16 0z., 6 cuts, 40, 28 & 12 Ibs. “—
CLUBS, 12 x 2,16 ox.,6 cuts, 42,300&12 * 2 8 8
cruEs, 13 x2, 8 oz., 6 cuts, 42, 30 & 12 “
FOURS, 6 x 2,40z.. 42, 30 & 12 *
FIVES, 6 x 1%. 31-5 02. 45, 25% & 16 ** 43 4] 4]
TWIN FOURS, 3 x 2, 7 to lb, 41, 2 >. be (sig + i i 4
1& it
THESE Beat iot LOOK TOO GOOD TO LAST.
BEaS TSH & Ox,
Manufacturers’ Agents for
SAW AND GRIST MILI MACHINERY,
ATLA
ENGINE
WORKS
INDIANAPOLIS, IND., U. S. A.
MANUFACTURERS OF
STEAM ENGINES & BOILERS.
@ Ca:7y Engines and Boilers in Stock
for immediate delivery.
=e
Pins: tix Moulders and all kinds of Wood-Working sasienuae
Saws, Belting and Oils.
Large stock kept on hand.
Pulley and become convinced of their superiority.
44, 46 and 48 So. Division St.,. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
Send for Sampie
ATTENTION, RETAIL
MERCHANTS!
inerease your Cigar Trade by selling the
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Named in Compliment to the
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Abs0
RETAIL GROCERY TRADE.
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PRICE, $30 PER THOUSAND.
The ‘Telfer Spice Company
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MANUFACTURERS’ AGENTS, GRAND RAPIDS.
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The Michigan Tradesman
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6,1889.
LEISURE HOUR JOTTINGS
Written for THE TRADESMAN.
BY A COUNTRY MERCHANT.
The looking over of my somewhat vol-
uminous compilation of dead-beat, played
out and outlawed notes and accounts is
very far from being an enticing and en-
joyable occupation, but I have made it a
sort of melancholy duty to occasionally
run over the depressing record in the,
perhaps unfounded, hope that the costly
and exasperating experiences of the past
will guard me against material additions
to the list in the future.
Ihave just completed my semi-periodi-
eal investigation of the long array of
names, with the result of developing a
new, or rather a hitherto unnoticed, fea-
ture of the dead-beat annex to the mer-
eantile business. I find that no incon-
siderable proportion of the aggregate
robberies of the tribe are due to the raids
of individuals who are financially and
legally responsible for their indebted-
ness. This, at first glance, would indi-
eate gross and unexeusable negligence,
and a lamentable want of business meth-
ods on the part of the dealer; but let us
see. Here is a long list of accounts
against responsible dead-beats, ranging
in amount from fifteen to seventy-five
cents. When I call to mind the multi-
tudinous times I have hinted, suggested
and demanded the adjustment of these
little matters, and then recall the vast
number of excuses, evasions, postpone-
ments and denials which my efforts called
forth. I can easily account for so many
of them sifting in among the records of
the irresponsible d.-b.’s rascality. The
accounts are all too small to interest the
or for reasonable legal pro-
and after they had become an
of long standing, they were
collector,
ceedings,
‘‘eye sore’’
naturally interred in the tomb of defunct
indebtedness. There are, perhaps, indi-
viduals who might have infused a little
life into them, but the operation, to the
party of average patience and endur-
ance. would have been too hopeless and
depressing.
But I have an entry which proves that
the responsible dead-beat doesn’t always
confine himself to petty swindling. Some
years ago a wealthy resident of my sec-
tion came into my place of business, one
morning, accompanied by his grown-up
son. Lhad had some few transactions
with the old man, and supposed him to
be ‘‘gilt edge’’ in all matters of deal.
“Say!’? he remarked, ‘‘my boy’s going
up North, and wants to take up some
goods with him. Let him have what he
wants and I'll see that he pays you in-
side of six weeks?’
I put up some thirty-odd dollars’ worth
of articles as cheerfully as Lever sold a
life.
weeks passed and the account was still
Then I informed the father
eash bill in my Six, nine, twelve
unsettled.
that 1 was badly in need of money and
suggested a settlement, but my only con-
Jim’ll pay you! He’ll
But Jim never
solation was, ‘‘Oh,
pay you, don’t worry!’
paid me, and over a year afterward |
brought suit against the ‘‘security,’’? and
was beaten on the ground that verbal
promises. in such cases, were void.
x x * % x x*
A responsible agricultural d.-b. once
swindled me out of eighteen or twenty
dollars very ingeniously. He owed me on
a long over-due note and a recently made
account, the amount on each being about
equal. Shortly after the receipt of a let-
ter, calling his attention to the note, he
put in an appearance, accompanied by an
Leaving
his companion in the front part of the
he
handed me the amount due on the paper.
After placing the note carefully in his
pocket, he started toward the door, and
His voice had, dur-
honest and reputable neighbor.
store. came back to the desk, and
then turned around.
ing the transaction, been very subdued,
but now he spoke up very loudly:
‘See! How much was that I paid you?
Yes, that’s so!) That makes it all square
and satisfactory, eh?’’
A few months after this I sent the man
a statement of his account, with a request
for an early settlement. Shortly there-
after he came in, inan, apparently, very
indignant state of mind, and wanted my
opinion on collecting debts twice, re-
marking that in dealings with a certain
class of people it was mighty lucky to
have a witness; that Gregory had heard
me acknowledge the receipt of the amount
in full, and was ready to swearto it. He
had never given me a note; hadn’t hada
note out ina year. Would law away a
hundred dollars before he’d pay the mat-
ter over again.
Gregory was positive that I had ad-
mitted the payment of an indebtedness to
date, and was sure that if there’d been a
note in the transaction
ticed it.
The circumstances and testimony were
all against me, and my first impulse to
bring suit gradually evaporated, and the
account eventually found its
place in the dead-beat book.
* *
he’d have no-
natural |
* *
I believe the responsible d.-b.,on the ay-
erage, to be as equally heartless and consci-
enceless as the average irresponsible dit-
to. Many years ago, while the prohibition
law was in force in this State, and liquor
debts were non-collectable, a crippled old
man, in a Western Michigan town, imag-
ined himself reduced to two alternatives,
to go to the county poorhouse, or open a
small groggery, and chose the latter one.
Probably from both the eare with which
he dispensed his little stock, and the sym-
pathy felt for his poverty and debility,
he was unmolested for a long time by the
authorities, and managed, in his small
way, to keep even with the world. His
most important customer was one J—,
a well-to-do business man of the town,
who liked his “‘nips’’ himself, and imag-
ined it an important lever to success to
‘set °em up’ for the boys frequently and
liberally. At first J—— paid for his bev-
erages, but finally began to let the bills
accumulate “the slate,’? until, one
day, the old saloonist, whose jugs were
getting alarmingly empty, and whose cap-
ital had gradually drifted into the stom-
achs of J and sundry other credit
customers, humbly importuned that indi-
vidual for a settlement.
“Owe you $38, eh?’ said J , Well
that’s all right! When the matter reaches
around and [Pll give you a
on
$50 come
check!’
The impecunious vender succeeded in
partly replenishing his stock by giving a
chattel mortgage on his fixtures. J *S
account rapidly rose to $49, and then that
estimable gentleman transferred his cus-
tom to a new and more pretentious grog-
gery, and the almost tearful supplications
of the old man invariably brought forth
the same reply:
“T’m aman of my word, sir, to the let-
ter! When
pay itl’
But it never did.
edly individuals who would paraphrase
my account reaches $50 Pll
There are undoubt-
Judge Taney’s famous decision, and de-
clare that illegal liquor sellers have no
rights that other-people are bound to re-
spect. but I have never thought, fora
moment, that J
by a desire to vindicate the offended maj-
*s action was dictated
esty of the law.
———————. 2 ____
Filling the Typewriter
Tommy—What is that thing
window, mamma?
Mamma—That is a typewriter, Tommy.
Tommy—Where does the champagne
go in?
Mamma—Why. what are you thinking
of, Tommy? No one puts champagne
in it.
Tommy—Oh, yes, they do. Papa told
Mr. Goitt last night that 1t often cost
him $10 to fill his typewriter with cham-
pagne. 50 now.
Mamma—lI will ask your papa about
that, Tommy.
in the
HARDWOOD LUMBER.
The furniture factories here pay as follows for
dry stock, measured merchantabje, mill culls
out:
Basewood joe 71m ..-........._-.__.. 13 00@15 00
eee 15 00@16 00
Bick Nés tand2 ...... 8. @22 00
Black Ash loprum..-.......:.....__._ 14 GOq@i6 00
Cherry, lore run_...- ..25 00@35 00
Chery Nos i and 2... 58 Ghee Oe
Che Cais @12 00
Maple log tum |...) . | ae a
Maple sof, loz tun... 11 00@13 00
Maple, Nos. tanmd2 @20 00
B elear oer oo es. @25 00
le, white, selected. ...........-__. @25 00
Rea Ga lecrun.. 18 00@20 00
aed Oak Nos Jang? 24 0025 00
zed Oak, 14 sawed, 8 inch and upw’d.40 00@45 00
ned Oak, 4 sawed,regular............30 O0@35 00
Red Oak, Ne 1 step plank. ......._._. @25 00
Mainnt IOS rn @55 06
Waluut. Nos,dand?.....-._. @T5 00
Walnuts, cull @2%5 00
Grey Elm, log-run. ees eae de S
White Aso, log-run.... 14 00@16 00
Whitewood, loz-run...............___ 20 Ofaiz2
White Oak joe vun.... st 17 00@18 0)
Notice of Limited Partnership.
Notice is hereby given that Frederic A. Wurz-
burg, William M. Wurzburg and William F.
Wurzburg, as general partners, and Zachary T.
Aldrich, as special partner, all of Grand Rapids,
Michigan, have this day formed a limited part-
nership in pursuance of chapter 78 Howell's
Annotated Statutes, for the purpose of carrying
on the business of jobbers of dry goods, notions
and similar articles, at Grand Rapids, Michigan,
under the firm name and style of “F. W. Wurz-
burg’s Sons & Co.,”’ and that the amount of Cap-
ital stock which said special partner has con-
tribted to the common stock, is twenty-seven
hundred and fifty dollars. and that said partner-
ship isto commence January 28, 1889, and ter
minate January 28, 1891
FREDERIC A. WURZBURG.
WILLIAM M. WURZBURG.
WILLIAM F. WURZBURG,
General Partners.
ALDRICH.
Special Partner.
Dated, Grand Rapids, Jan. 28, 1889.
$1,000 REWARD!!
THE LARGEST AND BEST
CLEAR LONG HAVANA FILLED
SUMATRA WRAPPED CIGAR
SOLD FOR & CENTS.
ZACHARY T.
We agree to forfeit One Thousand Dollars to any person
proving the Filler of these Cigars to contain anything
but Havana Tobacco. DILWORTH BROTHERS.
‘AmosS, Musselman & Go.
SOLE AGENTS,
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
Industrial School of Business
Is noted for THOROUGHNESS,
Its graduates succeed. Write
W.N. FERRIS,
Big Rapids, Mich.
J. S. WALKER,
MANUFACTURER OF
PICKLES ss» CATSUPS,
And Jobber of
VINEGAR, PRESERVES and JELLIES.
I quote the trade the following rock bottom
prices on Pickles;
Medimes im bbls... 4 00
eweet Gnerdn in DbIS.... 6.0 20s ae
Mixed appls.. -. 4-5... 6 50
Large, in casks 45 gals.........--.---++-- +++ 4 50
Siti am bps... 5 00
Gherkin im bbIs....:......5...--. 2 6 00
Medium. in halt pbis..... -.-.-.----- 2 50
Sweet Gherkin, im half-bbis........-......... 4%
Mixed ig ee see 306
Small C a 3 00
Gherkin “ ee 3 50
Ghow Onow .........0..0 0 5 00
These goods are sold on 30 days time and war-
ranted to be pure, home-made pickles. Satisfac-
tion guaranteed or no sale.
J. S. WALKER,
P. O. Box 471. Grand Rapids, Mich.
_ A. BAGH,
WHOLESALE DEALER IN
GRAIN,
SEEDS,
BALED HAY,
MILL FEED
and PRODUCE.
BALED HAY A SPECIALTY.
HOLLAND, - MICH.
AWNINGS
AND TENTS.
Horse and Wagon Covers, Water Proof Coats, Buggy
Aprons, Wide Cotton Ducks, ete, Send for Illustrated
Catalogue.
Chas. A. Coye,
Telephone 106. Over 73 Canal St.
MAGIC COFFEE ROASTER
The most practica!
hand Roaster in the
world. Thousands in
use—givinig satisfre
tion. They are sim;.:«
durable and econom
ical. Go groce’
should be without
one. Roasts coffee
and pea-nuts to per
fection.
A
Address for Cata-
logue and prices,
» Robt. §. West,
48-50 Long St.,
Cleveland, Ohio,
ARRANTED TO BE Tai
Ww E
1 ‘ ‘
FINEST and LARGEST SMOKE
For the money in the U. S. (Put up 50ina box. Ask
Manufactured only by
KENNING & CO., Grand Rapids.
Send for prices.
your dealer for them.
JOHN E.
Suse
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Photox Zing Engray,t
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TIME TABLES.
Grand Rapids & Indiana.
GOING NORTH.
Arrives. Leaves.
Traverse City & Mackinaw.......... 7:00am
Traverse City & Mackinaw....... 9:05am 11:30am
From Cimemnati.. <0... 0.3... 30 pm
For Petoskey & Mackinaw City 5 pm 5:00 pm
Saginaw Express..........--+2+-+-- 1:30am 7:20am
S at le a lea le rte lel 10:30 p m. 4:10pm
Saginaw express runs through solid.
7:00 a. m. train has chair car to Traverse City.
11:30 a. m. train has chair car for Petoskey and Mack-
inaw City.
5:00 p. m, train has sleeping car for Petoskey and
Mackinaw City.
GOING SOUTH.
Cincinnati Express...:...........- 7:15am
Fort Wayne Express. -10:30 am 11:45am
Cincinnati Express.. -.. £420 pm 5:00 pm
From Traverse City.. ...10:40 pm
7:15amtrain has parlor chair car for Cincinnati.
5:00 p m train has Woodruff sleeper for Cincinnati.
5:00 p. m. train connects with M.C. R. R. at Kalama-
zoo for Battle Creek, Jackson, Detroit and Canadian
points, arriving in Detroit at 10:45 p. m.
Sleeping car rates—$1.50 to Petoskey or Mackinaw
City; $2 to Cincinnati.
All Trains daily except Sunday.
Muskegon, Grand Rapids & Eatione.,
Leave. Arrive.
D6 MR eee ke ccc cewcieceessasainnsmce seine 10:45am
11:15am 4:45 pm
4:20 PM... cece eccccccccccecccecccsesceeccceces :
Leaving time at Bridge street depot 7 minutes later.
C. L. Lockwoop, Gen’! Pass. Agent.
Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee.
GOING WEST.
Arrives. Leaves.
+Morning Express..............2+- 1:05 pm 1:19pm
{Through Mail........... .-- 4:55 pm 5:10pm
+Grand Rapids Express
*Night Express........ 7:00am
Jmeroe. 0... —. : 7:45am
GOING EAST.
+Detroit Express..............-+2- 6:50am
+Througe Mail... ..... 2... ce ween 10:20 am 10:30 am
tEvening EXpress..........+s0.ee- 3:40 pm 3:50 pm
*Limited Express. ..........2...00- 10:30 pm 10:55 pm
+Daily, Sundays exeepted. *Daily.
Detroit Express has parlor car to Detroit, making
direet connections for all points East, arriving in New
York 10:10 a. m. nextday. Limited Express, East, has
through sleeper Grand Rapids to Niagara Falls,
eonnecting at Milwaukee Junction with through
sleeper to Toronto.
Through tickets and sleeping car berths secured at
D., G. H. & M.R’y offices, 2* Monroe St., and at the depot.
Jas, CAMPBELL, City Passenger Agent.
WANTED!
We want stocks of goods in exchange
for $100,000 worth of productive real
estate in Lansing city property and im-
proved farms.
R. A. CLARK & CO.
Real Estate Brokers Lansing Mich.
Crockery & Glassware
LAMP BURNERS.
Wo: OSan 65). ee 50
Moot Se ee ee oe. 55
eS 5
Yebular coos 28 a 75
LAMP CHIMNEYS.
6 doz. in box.
ING Oe Se 1 90
Ee 2 00
aS lL. 3 00
First quality.
No Osun. Crimp t0p...5 707) 0 es 215
Noi > . ee Se NS uA Cl i ES Na pa ah 2 25!
No. 2 ee 3 2
XXX FHnt.
No: O San. érimp topo... 8 2 58
Not = . ee 2 80
NG 3 80
Pearl top.
No dt Sun: wrapped and labeled. 920.002... .-
“ef ee se sc se
No. 2
No. 2 Hinge, <‘ c 7
La Bastic.
Wo 1 Sun, pam pelp 0s 1 25
Ne.2 . ee 1 50
NOG. VCrUND: fect ee 1 40
No @ =~ 2 1 60
STONEWARE—AKRON.
Butter Crocus, pereal....-. 06%
Jugs, 4 eal. per doz...........: 65
fr : se 2 20
eee CT ee ee ¥ 80
Meat Pubs, 10 cal: eseh....... 005... 5
cc oe oe ee 1 00
ua a D> Sie 1 65
c 7 a ee 2 2
Milk Pans, % gal., per doz. (glazed 66c).... 60
6c 6 1 ee 6c ( 6c 906)... .. q
BEST BAG TRUCK
STRONG AND DURABLE FOR
BAG OR BARREL.
alone when not in use.
and I will send you one, charges paid.
Warranted to suit.
W. T. LAMOREAUX,
71 Canal Street,
Grand Rapids, Mich.
Weighs only 16 lbs,; always stands up
WHaVaL HAL
OL LNOOOSIC TVET V
Send $3.50
H.LKONARD SUNS
Sole Agents for Western Michigan
for the
‘Quickmealr
GASOLINE STOVE.
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Has eight separate and important improvements for 1889.
Now is the time to arrange for the selling agency for your
town, and we invite correspondence from previous agents
and from those who would like the agency for the coming
season. Discount, terms of delivery and dating of invoice
given on application. Catalogue for 1889 now ready.
H. Leonard & Sons,
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
Jobbers of Crockery, Tinware and Lamp Goods,
MADE ONLY BY
ta
N. K. FAIRBANK & CO.,Chicago. Il.
eo It don’t pay to run after other
é S. brands, for in the end wise house-
ea ee — keepers settle down to the use
eae at ee Se mme.of SANTA CLAUS SOAP.
a ONL ~—__If your grocer hasn’t Santa Claus
Soap, he’ll get it for you.
ce FRO
sufficient Shoul
of fresh milk (pret
PEN AT TF
We have cooked the cornin this can
Warmed ‘uot cooked) adding piece of
Goo butter (size of hen’s egg) aud gill
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WAGON & SLEIGH GO.
Manufacturers of
BRLKNAPS PAT. SLEIGHS
Business and Pleasure Sleighs,
Farm Sleighs, Logging Sleighs,
Lumbermen’s and River Tools.
We carry a large stock of material and have ey-
ery facility for making first-class Sleighs of all
kinds. sii
ad Grand Rapids.
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GHO.E HOWES & 60,
Grand Rapids.
The BEST CRACKER Made.
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MICH.
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brated Alligator Brand, direct
from Florida in car lots by
Oranges
Repairing in all its Branches.
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West End Fulton St Bridge.
Telephone No. 867.
COLBY, CRAIG & CO.
MANUFACTURE
We Manufacture to Order Hose and Police Patrol Wagons, Peddlers, Bakers, Creamery,
Dairy, Furniture, Builders, Dry Goods, Laundry, and Undertakers Wagons.
GRAND RAPIDS,
MICH.
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Wholesale
Grocers
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Grand Rapids.
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only ask the trade to keep the goods in
stock so as to supply the orders sent to them. Without effort
on the grocer’s part the goods sell themselves, bring purchas-
ers to the store, and help sell less known goods.
ANY JOBBER WILL BE GLAD TO FILL YOUR ORDERS.
We carry the Largest Line
Lemons
and make Special Prices on
Round Lots.
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Telephone 269,
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WHOLESALE
Produce Commission Merchant,
BROKER IN LUMBER.
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SOME POINTS MADE CLEAR.
Communication from the Chairman of
the Insurance Committee.
GREENVILLE, Feb. 2.
E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids:
DEAR Srr—The freedom with which you open
your columns to the discussion of the insurance
subject appears to me a fair illustration of the
value of such an organ as THE TRADESMAN to
our Association. The present condition of the
dnsurance question reminds me very much of an
old-time revival meeting wherein every one’s
experience is offered, prayers are asked for, all
having at heart one desire—‘‘To be saved.”
Referring to the Muskegon letter and that of
friend Hankey, of Petoskey, recently published
in your paper, and the proposed insurance plan,
but one idea seems to prevail, that is a desire to
get good insurance at cost. We differ only in
method, and it is to overcome this difference and
bring about harmonious action that this letter is
requested published.
Mr. Hankey has, no doubt, found out by ex
perience that the Millers’ National has cost
about one-half as much as stock fire insurance
and for this reason urges that itis what Michi-
gati business men want. The Muskegon people
point with pride to the Millers’ Mutual of Lans-
ing and Citizens’ Mutual of Kent, Ottawa and
Allegan counties, and for similar reasons say it
is just what we want These are all good insur-
ance companies—for insuring what they are in-
tended for. Itis true, also, that the resolution
passed at the Cheboygan convention favored
this plan. It will be remembered by those pres-
ent, however, that the questions so vital to the
operation of a business men’s insurance com-
pany, after it was organized, were not considered
—that we hadin mind but three things, ‘‘That
we were paying too much for the fire protection
we have;” “That the stock companies were
hound to possess a Combination against us to
‘keep up their rates,’ and, as was expressed by
the venerable Conklin from Grand Rapids, that
at would be necessary for us, if we gain anything
in this direction, ‘“‘To stop talking and telling
what other companies are doing and organize an
insurance company of our own.” A resolution
was passed to do so andan Insurance Committee
was appointed to take charge of the work. Let
me say here, for this Committee, that they have
spar neither time nor money in giving this
question a thorough investigation—that they
realize that it isa greatand grand undertaking
—greatin amount of responsibility and grand
oniy in success. They have examined the re-
ports of the insurance commissioners of dif-
erént states. They have examined theinsurance
business of this State, going back for a period of
ten years. They have met officers of mutual
companies, particularly those of the Millers’
Mutual of Kansing and the Manufacturers’ Mu-
tual of Grand Rapids, and have had in their
hands the charters and by-laws of all kinds of
fir8 insurance companies, including the three
manufacturers’ mutuals in Michigan, the West-
ern Manufacturers’ Mutual of Chicago, the
Mutual Fire of New York and the Millers’
National. From all of this information and
from the practical experience of your Insurance
Cammittee, we offered you the plan proposed,
thinking it the most practical, the simplest, the
safest, the cheapest and, consequently, the best.
Desiring to carry out your resolution, as near as
possible, ‘‘that we have a similar company to the
Millers’ Mutual,’’ we took their plan and rea-
soned upon it thusly: Does this plan take into
consideration the amount of insurance our com-
pany would be expected to write, and the location
andl numerous concerns with which we must
deal? No. Isit not true that while manufactur-
ing risks are scattered, that while few Cities
and towns centain more than two or three
filouring mills, a standing detached,
that we are expected to go into a town and write
insurance on adjacent stocks and stores? Is it
not also true that our policies must vary from
$500 to £10,000, according to the value of the prop-
erty insured and the material and moral hazard?
Is it not also true that while it is possible
and practical for manufacturers’ mutuals to
write large policies of $10,000 and upward, taking
the premium note of responsible parties, thata
Business Men's Insurance Co. would have to do
with many of small means and questionable re-
sponsibilities? Then, having to do with more
people and onasmaller scale, there would be
more business changes, so that the membership
of any mutual company would be continually
changing and avery uncertain quantity, while
the premium notes held as security might to-day
be worth all they represent and to-morrow be-
come impaired and worthless. feasoning as
best we could, your Insurance Committee failed
to formulate a premium note mutual that we
could conscientiously recommend for a Business
Men's Fire Insurance Co. In every case we had
to meet the objections named and the additional
fact that in soliciting insurance we must ask a
cash premium and a premium note. We further
found we would have to have special legislation
granting us @ charter to do_ business throughout
the State. Considering all these things, and
after examining the law explaining how we
must proceed te organize, we concluded it was
not what the business men of Michigan would
want. Wechanged our course of reasoning, as-
suming thatas the business men of Michigan
¢ind no fault with the security of the present
stock companies—in fact, prefer it—it is only the
fhiigh rate, the amount we are annually paying
for it, they object to—and, even as it is, many
prefer to pay the higher rate for stock fire insur-
ance than for mutual insurance. This settled
the question of security for us—that astock com-
pany, wherein the capital stock was liable for
twice its amount in case of necessity, was better
fer security for Michigan business men than
any premium note mutual we could recommend.
Saving determined this, we racked our brain
for a means of making the result represent the
actual cost only. We found, by applying to the
fmsurance Commissioner, that any stock com-
pany can do what it pleases with its profits.
Phere is no law compelling any company to pay
all it earns to the stockholders, to pass any
amount to a surplus fund, or to prevent its giv-
ing it to any Charitable institution or to its policy
holders. So we concluded to make it a charter
regulation of our company that the capital stock
should draw only 10 per cent. per annum, and
that the remaining profits, if any, should be re-
turned pro rata to the policy holders.
But many say: ‘“Fewif any stock fire insur-
ance companies pay more than 10 per cent., and
many less. How will the policy holders save
anything in this casey’ We examined this ques-
tion and found that under the present methods
stock fire insurance Companies pay on an aver-
age of 40 per cent. for expenses of doing busi-
ness. This, with 50 1055 per cent. loss, leaves
oniy from 5 to 10 per cent. profit. We also dis-
covered that the Mutual Fire of New York and
other similar Companies were issuing a partici-
pating policy and by economy in management
by dropping the local agent, by doing the busi-
mess from one office, and by means of frequent
inspections, they are able to reduce both the ex
pense of management and the fire losses about
one-half, Supposing we reduce them only one-
third. If the fire losses and expenses under the
oid method are 60 per cent. of the premium re-
ceipts, then we would save 30 percent. The
stock in both cases gets its 10 per cent., the sav-
ing, if any, being the dividend the policy holder
will get.
The fact that we will be successful, that we
wiil be as able to do this, holds as good in this
case as it does that your assessments in amutual
company will be no more than one-half what the
stock companies charge you. The practical ap-
plication of the plan has proven it, as well by
this plan as the other. A member of your Insur-
ance Committee has a policy on this plan, re-
turning him this year 45 per cent. of the pre-
amium he paid one year ago. Is it not safer for
the insurance company to collect for insurance
the premium for a certain length of time, which
years of experience of other companies has
proven yok cored to pay losses, expenses and a
“margin, and return to the assured, at the end of
each year, any saving that may be affected, than
to.deal with Tom, Dick and Harry on the pre-
mium note and assessment plan? Is it not better
for the assured to know a company is responsi-
die, that they have got the money to pay? Do
you, as business men, want a premium note
anutual, cheaply officered, with everybody con-
cerned, or astock company with a participating
policy, or are you satisfied with things as they
aré? Isit not true that what we want in fire in-
surance to-day is to bring the company and the
assured nearer together on a more friendly rela-
aionship? A mutual company aims to do this,
but no more than the stock-mutual plan pro-
posed. In nocase are the members concerned
only in the results,
As a Committee, we claim for our plan that
these results will be a source of greater profit to
all concerned by having the $100,000 stock at
stake than any other way, and by competition
with similar companies the strife will be, not to
seg who can pay the largest dividend to the
stockholders—for 10 per cent. is a limit—not to
see who has the largest surplus, but who can
pay the largest dividends to its policy holders.
if your Insurance Committee could prevail
upon the stock fire insurance companies in
Michigan to issue these participating policies
and reform their methods, it would not recom-
mend our going into the insurance business, but
this cannot be done. The existence of such
companies, with the results as they have been,
hice alone force others to do this or quit the
field.
What we now want is to place this stock. It
draws but 10 percent. We offer it to each asso-
ciation in hopes they would feel glad of the in-
vestment, and as both policy holders and stock-
holders have a voice in the affairs of the com-
pany and all the profit there is in the business,
So far as the management being outside of the
Association, itis as it should be. A public body
like the M. B. M. A. will be most successful
where it only seeks the general good and pro-
motes it, and remains free from other responsi-
bilities. Let the stock be taken by members of
the Association, and let the stockholders elect
their directors and the directors the officers. The
Business Men’s Association would thus be re-
lieved of the responsibility of its management,
but have its benefits. In the mind of your In-
surance Committee, there will be enough work
for the Michigan Business Men’s Association
each year without its quarreling over the affairs
and the election of the officers of an insurance
company. Itis intended that this company is
for you, that its success will bespeak praise for
our Association and honor for all concerned;
and your Insurance Committee, for these rea-
sons, feel confident that the Michigan Business
Men’s Association can in no safer way reach
good results than by the plan proposed. Your
Executive Board have approved the plan. ‘Do
you want it’ If so, help raise the stock re-
quired. Take stock yourself and persuade your
neighbor to take hold with you. Attend the
meetings of the stockholders and elect the
officers you want. Become identified with the
company and interested in its success. Other-
wise, let us drop the insurance business and de-
vote our time and money to other things.
Gero. B. CALDWELL,
Chairman Insurance Committee.
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No Restriction on Commercial Travelers.
At last there seems to be some definite
opinion on the long mooted subject, the
right of astate or local government to
impose any restrictions upon the sale of
merchandise by traveling salesmen; and
the result hag been announced that there
is no right to place any tax or restriction
on such traffic. Such has been the com-
mon sense judgment of merchants fora
long period, but the antique jealousy, in
some of the less populous cities and
states, that they should not have their
local trade interfered with by represent-
atives from more enterprising compet-
itors, has heretofore defeated every ef-
fort to have this whole question properly
and authoritatively settled. But it has
come at last, and the Supreme Court of
the United States announces that all
state laws which impose license taxes
upon commercial travelers who are not
residents of the state are unconstitu-
tional. The laws may remain for some
time longer on the statute books of the
states, but they are inoperative and can-
not be enforced. Should it be attempted
hereafter, it would render those who at-
tempted to enforce it subject to action
for damages.
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Gobleville Starts a B. M. A.
Sixteen business men of Gobleville assembled
at the hotel parlor at that place last Tuesday
evening for the purpose of organizing a B. M. A.
J. H. Darling was elected chairman of the meet-
ing and Arthur B. Clark, who was chiefly instru-
mental in bringing about the meeting, was
elected to act assecretary protem. The State
Organizer was present and explained the aims
and objects of the B. M. A., citing numerous in-
stances of work accomplished by different asso-
ciations. At the close of his remarks, a resolu-
tion to proceed to organize was carried, the regu-
lation constitution was adopted, and the organ-
ization was completed by the election of the fol-
lowing officers:
President—A. W. Myers.
Vice-President—J. H. Darling.
Secretary—A. B. Clark.
Treasurer—W. S. Crosby.
executive Board—Geo. A. Bush, J. H. Darling
and E, David Wise.
The Blue Letter collection system was adopted
for the use of the Association, when the insur-
ance subject was discussed for a short time,
after which the meeting adjourned.
The Gobleville B. M. A. is composed of a lively
set of men. and, being well officered, cannot fail
to accomplish much good for the members.
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Get Incorporated and Fix the Fee.
FENNVILLE, Feb. 1, 1889.
E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids:
DeEaR SrR—Our meeting, held on Jan. 31, re-
quests me to write you in regard to the peddling
license. Now, we wish to raise this license to
such a figure that it willdo away with the thing
entirely, and, as the Legislature is now in ses-
sion, we thought now would be the time to
strike. Weare annoyed very much in this way
and no doubt there are many others who are. ~
In regard to the State dues, will say that we
will attend to them at the next meeting. Please
let us hear from you soon.
Respectfully,
A. J. CapEn, Sec’y.
The full bench of the Supreme Court has held
that a municipality has a right to enact ordi-
nances prescribing a reasonable license for ped-
dlers—that the payment of such fee on the part
of the peddler is an evidence of good faith. THE
TRADESMAN notes that Fennville is taking steps
to secure incorporation, and, as soon as the work
is completed, it will be comparatively easy to
secure relief from itinerant merchants.
A tax as high as to be prohibitive would not be
sustained by the Supreme Court, that tribunal
holding that regulation— not prohibition—is
justifiable.
ee
The Grocery Market.
The local sugar market is just now an
object of interest, owing to the struggle
for supremacy between a New York
member of the trust and a Philadelphia
refiner who is not in the trust, in conse-
quence of which Michigan jobbers are
able tolay down sugar here at New York
quotations. How long the fight will last
is wholly a matter of speculation. The
Supreme Court of New York decides
that Charles Arbuckle must pay his
‘‘Bunnie’’? the $45,000 lower court
awarded her for breach of promise of
marriage, so that another advance in cof-
fee may be expected shortly. Tobacco
men assert that the tobacco market is
sure to rule strong during the coming
year, on account of the manufacturers
concentrating their efforts.
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From the Morley Advance.
As will be seen by a notice published
in this issue of the Advance, the bus-
iness men of Morley have been forced to
adopt a new rule respecting credits.
This they have done not from choice but
from necessity. But while this is a new
thing for our merchants, it is exactly
what is in vogue in nearly every other
town in the State. Goto Grand Rapids,
or Big Rapids, or any point where cor-
rect business principles are maintained,
and you will find that settlements are re-
quired to be made on the first of every
month. Wholesale houses enforce this
rule, and it is only just that it should be
made to apply to customers of retail
dealers. ‘‘Short settlements make long
friends.”’
MUTUAL INSURANCE
From the Standpoint of a Factory Murual.
The following paper was read at the conven-
tion of the National Furniture Manufacturers’
Association, held in this city last week, by P. A.
Montgomery, Secretary of the Western Manufac-
turers’ Mutual Insurance Co.:
I have been requested by your President to de-
liver an address on the best known method of
constructing slow-burning factories, on the best
known methods of extinguishing fires in said
factories, and on mutual fire insurance. On
my informing him that my time would be too ful-
ly occupied during this month to aidin making
drawings, or making any other preparation to do
the subject justice, I was then invited by him to
give a short talk on mutual fire insurance. :
All insurance is mutual. The premiums paid
to an insurance company, whether it be known
as a stock company ora mutual company, con,
stitute the only fund from which losses are to be
aid if such insurance company is expected to
ace any stability. The moment you touch the
capital stock of a company for the payment of
losses, that moment the company becomes unsafe
to contract with. The relative distinction be-
tween the capital of a stock company and that
of a mutual company is that the capital of a
stock Company serves as a sort of guarantee
that the policies issued by the company will be
paid in case of loss; the liability of assessment
on the deposit notes, premium notes, or other
obligations assumed by the members of a mu-
tual company, which constitute its capital,
serves as such a guarantee. ;
The oldest insurance company doing a fire in-
surance business is a mutual company. The
oldest company in the United States is a mutual
company, the Philadelphia Contributionship, of
Philadeiphia, which commenced business in 1742
and whose assets amount to about three and a
half million dollars.
In buying insurance you want, first of all, in-
demnity—the best is usually the cheapest.
Butlamto talk on mutual insurance. The
successful mutualinsurance company, in addi-
tion to being well managed, should associate
together, as members of said company, men who
are in every way reliable and, in addition, suc-
cessful in their own business. Their risks
should be well built with a view of being slow-
burning. There should should be no concealed
spaces, or hollow walls or floors, for the best of
fire appliances rarely ever can extinguish a fire
when it is concealed. Buildings and yards
should be kept clean. Everything should be
kept picked up andin order. How many men
are disgusted with their homes, simply because
of the careless way in which the house is kept!
And the inspector of a conservative mutual in-
surance company has the same disgust for a
dirty and uneared for risk. In factories, machi-
nery should be kept in order, and when not in
operation a man of some ability should be em-
ployed as watchman, and should be provided
with a good watch clock, in order that the as-
sured and underwriter may both have proof
that he is performing his work as instructed.
Lastly, they should be provided with reliable
facilities for extinguishing fire—an abundant
number of casks with fire buckets; and where
oils, naptha, turpentine or alcohol are used, a
good supply of buckets of dry sand, woolen
blankets, and chemical fire extinguishers: stand
nipes, with constant water pressure, and light
no with small nozzles already attached for in-
stant use; not less than one good duplex fire
pump (two would be better) located in a good
fire proof pump house, or fire proof boiler house,
and should take suction from a body of water
that would give an ample supply; and an ad-
ditional improvement would be to equip with
approved automatic sprinklers, with two reliable
sources of water supply.
There were 6,087 furniture factories in the
United States when the census was taken in 1880,
and 1,404 fires were reported on this class of risks
from 1875 to 1886, twelve years, 23 per cent., or
ten a month of the total number burned. Dur-
ing 1884-5-6-7, or four years, there were 602 fires
reported, with a loss on property amounting to
$6,099,877; loss paid by insurance companies 33,
(55,553: or a loss to manufacturers above insur-
ance of $2,324,324; 61 per cent of the amount of
loss being covered by insurance. Owners of
cotton and other textile factories are more pru-
dent, insuring for 80 to 90 per cent. of the value
of their property. The following are the report-
ed origins of fires for the four years named:
PEOSUTC 194
PCenGIy 3
Stoves... ee
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Sparks from Eocemotve 9... 5... 18 |
Ionition Gf SUlpNEr ke
ignition of Chemicals. 3°...
Bricwion 3s ee
Cigar Stubs. eee.
GmoueSiack........-.....
Detective Meatmis Apparatis.---. =...
Matenes,
Chemicals... 8
Bonures. ce
Unkeowm ......... rg
MUgHACES. 6. 8 3
BASHCS oo 1
aps. ee 8
Spontancous Combusitom...-..-..---..-- | | 3
Teninon ef Benzme (90... 2
icmalom 6F Gas... 3
lenitton Gf Varnish... .-. ...0.0) 2
Detective Hiwes.. 6...
Hxgiosion OF BOMer.. 0) 8 2-50 1
On Stoves. 2
Open Mire Pisces. (0... 1
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The following is the best known method of
constructing slow burning factories from one to
five stories in height:
The timbers are 10 x 12, or 12 x 14 or 16: 8 feet
9 feet or 10 feet bays, 4 inches on centers.
may be solid or in two parts bolted together, not
exceeding 25 feet span. The floor plank are
laid flat on these timbers, grooved and splined
three inches thick on the narrower bays; fourin- !
ches thick on the wide bays. Over this a top
floor is laid one inch thick, but the work will be
better and safer if mortar or asphaltum paper is
placed between the plank and the top floor. No
sheating is permitted upon the under side of the |
timbers so as to make a hollow floor; but when
sheating is required, it is nailed solid tothe un-.
der side of the plank, between the timbers. In
dangerous apartments the wood work is covered
first with asbestos paper, then with tin laid to
follow the wood work, without a hollow space,
or plastering is laid on wire lathing following
the line of plank and timbers. Square posts un-
tapered are stronger than round posts tapered.
In some of the more recent mills the main
belts are carried upina separate belt tower of
brick, from which the shafts are carried. The
stairways are usually in a brick tower, in which
the stand pipes and hydrants are placed. Out-
side stand pipes which can only be worked from
narrow platforms are not of much use. Stand
pipes are carried out from the porch upon the
roof with a dydrant thereon. Exposed windows
and doorways are protected with wooden doors
of two thicknesses of one inch pine nailed to-
gether, and fully incased in tin. The main
point is that the wood shall not twist or crack
under ‘heat. ' The theory is this: ‘The wood,
being completely incased in tin well locked, the
surface only is carbonized; Then the oxygen is
exhausted and combustion ceases, or proceeds
slowly, while the surface or charcoal being an
excellent non-conductor of heat, keeps the heart
of the wood cool, strong and sound.
For the purpose of reducing expenses the
Western Manufacturers’ Mutual Insurance Com-
any of Chicago, Central Manufacturers’ Mutual
nsurance Company of Vanwert, Ohio, Manu-
facturers and Merchants’ Mutual Insurance
Company of Roekford, Ills., jointly meet all ex-
penses of employees, experimenting etc.,the bus-
iness being directed from the office of the West-
ern Marufacturers’ Mutual Insurance Company.
From this office is furnished sample irons by
which a sliding or swinging fire door or shutter
becomes automatic and will close itself. It
would be easy to rig shutters to windows which
are exposed to dangerous buildings so that the
aoe of a fire 60 feet off would cause them to
close.
The hazard should be divided as much as pos-
sible; the manufacturing being donein one part:
putting together and finishing in another, and
storing in still another building.
The average rate on furniture factories in the
Western Manufacturers’ Mutual Insurance Com-
pany for eight years was 2.8 percent. The aver-
age rate at the close of 1888 was 2.3 per cent. and
the company has returned on the average for
nine years 22 percent. of the premiums to the
members. The cost of policies expiring this
month on arate of 2.3 per cent. is but 1.6 per
cent., the present rate of dividend being 30 per
cent. A factory strictly standard on construc-
tion, with the hazards well separated and build-
ings fully equipped with approved automatic
sprinklers, with two reliable sources of water
supply, can be written at a rate of 1.5 per cent.,
and after deducting the present dividends de-
clared would make the actual cost about 1 per
cent. If our entire profit was divided, the cost
on such a factory would be about 75 cents.
A mutual company should make its rates suffi-
ciently high to be reasonably certain that it can
meetall of its obligations from the premiums
collected, without being obliged to levy an as-
sessment, in which case it makes but little differ-
ence what the rate is in a mutual company, pro-
vided that each risk pays a rate commensurate
to the hazard, as the unearned portion of the
premium paid is returned to the assured each
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year in the shape of adividend. Theexpense of
cenducting the business by the New England
factory mutuals is less than that the Western
mutuals for the following reasons:
First—The members of the New England mu-
tuals do the bulk of their soliciting by persuad-
ing others who have similar risks to insure in
the companies of which they are members.
Second—There are only half the number of
mutual companies in the East that there are in
the West competing for the same class of busi-
ness; and still more mutual companies are being
organized in the West.
If you will improve your risk to the proper
standard, half of the number of mutual com-
panies now doing business in the West can
easily carry all of your insurance, and the cost
of doing the business will be reduced fully 40
ercent. Many of you carry insurance in not
ess than ten mutual companies. You furnish
all the premiums and additional security these
companies have with which to pay the losses
andexpenses. This being the case, is it nota
fact that your indemnity is not increased by
multiplying the number of mutual companies?
Is it not also a fact that you have also materially
increased the expense of doing the business by
having the large number of sets of officers and
employees instead of a few?
The laws of Michigan require an insurance
company to pay 3 per cent. tax on their premium
receipts. This is practically a direct taxation on
the property of the party who carries insurance
and dees not equally tax the property not in-
sured. In a mutual company this 3 per cent. tax
means 3 per cent. less dividend to the policy
holder, because the company must collect this
from the assured. Only asufficient amount of
money should be collected of insurance com-
panies as is required to properly maintain the
insurance department.
——
HIS PASSPORT.
“Who's there! that knocks,” St. Peter cried.
“On Heaven’s pearly gate?’
“Tis I, a merchant, I’m outside—
How long, St. Peter, must I wait?”
“Tell who thou art and whence thou cane,
What be thine deeds for good and sin,
We here weight all for good or shame
And then decide who may come in.”
“Aye, Aye, St. Peter, a merchant I,’
Of honor great, ’mongst brother man—”*
“A raseal?” “Well, I don’t deny,
They’re honored, sir, in Michigan.
Town, St. Peter, my ways are dark
With all the catalogue of sin.
But I Tue TRADESMAN read—” “Hark!
Come in, God’s chosen kind, come in.”
M. J. WRISLEY.
i 2 _-__-—-—
Sherwood Takes Charter No. 83.
SHERWOOD, Jan. 29, 1889.
E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids:
DeEaAR Sin—Herein find application for charter,
| Constitution and by-laws, as adopted by the Sher-
|W s Association, and New
: York draft for $7.50 to pay for charter and 50
| cents per capita on our nine charter members.
| Our regular meetings will occur on the first
| Tuesday of each month. Yours truly,
| W. R. MANDIGO, Sec’y.
| or -1- <
Trustful.
Mrs. Della Creme (wearily)—I know
everything we eat is adulterated; but
what can we do, Reginald? We must
trust our grocer.
Mr. Reginald Creme (drearily)—Ah,
yes, Della, very true: and if—oh, if—our
grocer would only trust us!
!
|
i
; wood Business Men's
2
VISITING BUYERS.
AM Chamberlain,Fennvile E E Hewitt, Rockford
Hessler Bros, Rockford Cole & Chapel, Ada
RA Hastings, Sparta A Seymour, Portland
Henry Sarr, Grand Haven Carrington & North, Trent
S T McLellan, Denison Geo Lentz, Croton
JC Benbow, Cannonsburg D W Shattuck. Wayland
W CWinchester,ByronCutr Chas Darling, Sparta
Wm Riley, Dickinson C S Comstock, Pierson
Smallegan & Pickaard, John Homrich, No Dorr
Forest Grove C M Woodard, Kalamo
S Stark, Cedar Springs Wood -rd & Polland,Ashind
C K Hoyt & Co,Hudsonville W E Hinman, Sparta
CS Comstock, Pierson red Herrick, Custer
H Meijering, Jamestown S Cooper Jamestown
M Heyboer & Bro, Drenthe E Roberts, Sparta
DenHerder & Tanis John H Welch & Co, lonia
| Vriesland Stevens & Winnie,Traverse
| H Van Noord, Jamestown City
G Ten Hoor, Forest Grove Jay Marlatt. Berlin
A J White, Bass River McAuley & Co, Edgerton
W H Bartholomew,Holland J M Reid, Grattan
Gus Begman, Bauer y Ives, Coopersville
Eli Runnels, Corning Johnson & Seibert,
| E Hagadorn, Fife Lake Caledonia
F Narregang,Byron Center Spring & Lindley. Bailey
Dissolution Notice,
Notice is hereby given that the copartnership
formerly existing bétween F. J. Immenand L. E.
Best under the style of the Champion Baking Co.
was dissolved on Sept. 24, 1888, by the withdrawal
of L. E. Best. The business is continued under
the same style by the remaining partner.
F. J. IMMEN,
L. E. Best.
TO MONTANA, OREGON AND
WASHINGTON.
If you are going west bear in mind the follow-
ing facts: The Northern Pacific Railroad owns
and operates 987 miles, or 57 per cent of the en-
tire railroad mileage of Montana; spans the ter-
ritory with its main line from east to west; is the
short line to Helena; the only Pullman and din
ing car line to Butte, and is the only line that
reaches Miles City, Billings, Bozeman, Missoula,
the Yellowstone National Park, and, in fact,
nine tenths of the cities and points of interest in
the territory.
The Northern Pacific owns and operates 621
miles, or 56 per cent of the railroad mileage of
Washington, its main line extending from the
Idaho line via Spokane Falls, Cheney, Sprague,
Yakima and Ellensburg, through the center of
the Territory to Tacoma and Seattle, and from
Tacoma to Portland. No other trans-continental
through rail line reaches any portion of Wash-
ington Territory. Ten days stop over privileges
are given on Northern Pacific second class tickets
at Spokane Falls and all points West, thus afford-
ing intending settlers an excellent opportunity
to see the entire Territory without incurring the
expense of paying local fares from point to point.
The Northern Pacific is the shortest route from
St. Paul to Tacoma by 207 miles; to Seattle by 177
miles, and to Portland by 324 miles—time corres-
pondingly shorter, varying from one to two days,
according to destination. No other line from St.
Paul or Minneapolis runs through passenger
ears of any kind into Idaho, Oregon or Washing-
ton.
In addition to being the only rail line to Spo-
Kane Falls, Tacoma and Seattle, the Northern
Pacific reaches all the principal points in North-
ern Minnesota and Dakota, Montana, Idaho,
Oregon and Washington. Bear in mind that the
Northern Pacific and Shasta line is the famous
scenic route to all points in California.
Send for illustrated pamphlets, maps and books
giving you valuable information in reference to
the country traversed by this great line from St.
Paul, Minneapolis, Duluth and Ashland to Port-
land, Oregon, and Tacoma and Seattle, Wash-
ington Territory, and enclose stamps for the new
1889 Rand McNally County Map of Washington
Territory, printed in colors.
Address your nearest ticket agent, or Cuas. S.
FreE, General Passenger and Ticket Agent, St.
Paul, Minn.
PRODUCE MARKET.
Apples—In poor demand at $1.25@$1.50 per bbl.
Beans—Handlers are paying about $1.25 for un-
picked and getting $1. .75 for hand-picked.
Butter—Creamery isin fair supply at 23@25c.
— is in good demand at 14@18c, according to
quality.
Cabbages—Home giown command %@% per 100
Celery—18@20c per doz.
Cider—8@10c per gal.
Cooperage—Pork barrels, $1.25; produce barrels
25¢.
Cranberries—$7 for Bell and Cherry and % for
Bell and Bugle.
Dried Apples—Commission men hold sun-dried
at 444@5c and evaporated at 6@6%c.
Eggs—There is no fixed price on which to base
predictions, buyers not being anxious to take
shipments at much above 12% c.
emer plenty, being easy at lic.@i7c.
per Ib.
Onions—Buyers pay 20@25c for good stock, and
hold at 30@35c per bu.
Pop Corn—2\%c per Ib.
Potatoes—The market is remarkably quiet, few
shipments being made—and those at no particu-
lar profit.
Squash—Hubbard, ic per Ib.
ae Potatoes—Kiln-dried Jerseys, 98.59 per
Turnips—25¢ per bu.
PROVISIONS
The Grand Rapids Packing and Provi-
sion Co. quotes as follows:
PORK IN BARRELS.
Mess new. ee 13 00
Bore Cut Morran. = ee 13 75
xtra clear pie, short cut......-......,..-.- 15 25
Weetra clear Heavy... 15 3
Clear qaili, short emt. 8s 15 25
iBOston Clear, Shore Cub 22.2 i> 25
(Clear baek, short ui :--:.. 5.2... - eee 15 25
Standard clear, short cut, best..-.:...:..... 15 2
SMOKED MEATS—Canvassed or Plain.
Hams, average 20 tpg. 8 10%
ai . ce... 10%
re ra ie to s40bs) 11
- picnic ee ae 8%
ff eOet POREGICSS. oo ee
Shoniders eg 844
. DOnMCICSS ©... 834
Breakfast Bacon, bonelesss....-.............. 10
Dried Beef Gxtra. ss 8
= . (We prices. 9
our Cleurm beavy... 9... .. a4
Briskets medeim 0 6. T%
i He ee 7%
LARD—Kettle Rendered.
Miccees ee R55
as... 8%
a tas... el
LARD—Compound.
Tierces. _... oe rors
SO and 501b WMDs... 714
Sib. Pails, 20) & Case..............-- 7%
5 ib. Eads. 121 & GHse 7%
101). Pats Gin aease.. |...
20 tb. Pails 440 8 Case... 5. 2. 7%
O01 CANS 1%
BEEF IN BARRELS.
‘xtra Mess warranted 200 Ibs. .............- &
iixtra Mess, Chicaso packing... ...-........ 750
ee el 72
Pe esta oe io
Boneless, rump butts....-...--...-.--.- 9 25
. Oe. 5 50
SAUSAGE—Fresh and Smoked.
POU SQURACE T%
diam Sauseee 12
Tongue Sausage.........-. eee ee oe 9
Mranicfor, Sauisapee..- 9... 8
Bleed Sayssee 5
BOIOSNA ktraiemt.. 3
Bologna thick.
Head (heese 22 5%
PIGs’ FEET.
Im ball barrels...) 0) _ 2.03) o0
im quarter barreis. ...0..-5-./).. ee
TRIPE,
kn Halt Darreis.:.....-..........
In quarter barrels. 63 1G
FRESH MEATS.
Beet cireass. =. 444@, 515
Hind quarters. =... 5 @7
fore by Ee 34@ 4
Hess) @ 5%
rors ioiac........,....... @ 7%
— SHOERNO@CES...- 60, 3s @ 6%
Bales @ 5
Bratgrert sausage...) @ 8%
Blood, liver and head sausage.......... @5
Matton @ 5%
OYSTERS and FISH.
F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows:
OYSTERS IN CANS,
Sandero. ll... @16
Ameners 8.5 se @18
NeIbGtS 21 @27
Mairhayen Counts... ... 22.02... @35
OYSTERS IN BULK.
Seamagards ook 1 00
Selects. ee 1 40
Clams ee 13
FRESH FISH,
Binek Bass @12%
TOG @ 8%
WnMeCGAD @, 8%
. SIMOMCM. (6. ee @10
i @ 6
CANDIES, FRUITS and NUTS.
Putnam & Brooks quote as foll ws:
STICK.
Se 9
SR 914
GCutteat 2% = (2h 10
MIXED.
ROyaL cole. PANG
- Selb Bbig. 84
xtra 2o1p paulis 3: 10
. AOib bbls 9
HWreneb Cream, 25 1b. paiig:. ..0-... 2... 1144
Cut Heat 2am eases <0
Broken, 40ib Bask. 95
me moo re BRIS 9
FANCY—In 5 Ib. boxes.
Lemon Drops... .-.._- eee 13
SOUr DTOPS 14
Peppermint Props. 0b. a
Choceinte Proms. his
Ee Mt Ciecetate Drops... sd 18
Gam Prope. 10
iteerice Prope... ee 18
A.B ficorice Drops... 12
Dazenees plain: se. 14
- preted. 3-5 es 15
CT 14
MiOuOes. .... 8. es 15
Croam Bar ee 13
Momsses Bar 13
Caramels...) 3. ee 19
Hond Made Creams... ..-- 2. 19
Pisin @Peggs ee 16
Deeernved Creams... 00) 20
mieten HOCK 14
Bat Atmos 3. 22
Winterereen Germes 1 14
FAaNcY—In bulk.
Dozenges, plain, im pals... 12
t : > _ ee 11
printed, fm patie. 8 12%
+ oe in Pols ee 1114
Chocolate Drops, in patie: 2 12
Gum Props, if patie 6
. - 1 OP 5
Moss Drops, ta pals... ee 10
- es mppIS.. 9
Sour Drops, i pals.) 8.8. 11
Hmpermis. Mi pails. 114%
- Pea ees ee i 10%
FRUITS.
‘Bananas....... fe a. ee ce @3 00
Oranges, Wioridas, 0... .. 0. 2 50@3 00
Demons @heice. 3, 2 75@3 00
a a @3 50
ign layers new... st, 10@15
] Biee oF ip @6
ates, featis 50 1D... 2.22 @ 4%
ie fraiin, OO 1D... 6st @ 5%
. Hard 10th. box... 2. s @
- ee 8 @
. Persian, 60-10. bow: . 5.22 c-... 6 @T%
NUTS.;
Almonds, Tarracons. ................... @17
0 VAG ee. @i5
. California... 06... 0s. 14@16
Gop) ee 7 @T%
iitberts, Sieity oo ee 11 @11%
Watts, Grenoble... ee @12%4
be MreRGR ote ae @101%4
ecans, Pexas, BoP 8 @i2
(Cocenniie, per Mo. 4 25@4 50
(CRONIES C682: @2 50
: PEANUTS.
Netcetric Pipe es @814
Peacoees ee, i... @e
RES @74
ee @5%
Ce es @5%
Wholesale Price Current.
The quotations given below are such as are ordinarily offered cash buyers who
pay promptly and buy in full packages.
BAKING POWDER.
Trout, 3 i. brook........-
CANNED GOODS—Fruits.
Apples, gallons, stand...... 2
Bisekberries, stand......... i
Cherries, red standard.... .. 2
prea 40... 2
Pommsens .- 2 1
Bee Plams, stand..-........ i
GOOSEDEEFICS ...
os...
Green Gages... 00.020... q
Peaches, all yellow, stand..1
seconds 2.0... 1
re
Pears. se
Picapples ...0. 1... 1 10@
Curnecs
“c
1
1
A
1
red z
Strawberries .......... 1 10@1
Whortieberries......._.... a
CANNED VEGETABLES.
Asparagus, Oyster Bay..... \
Beans, Linia, stand... .... 4
* Green Limas.... @
«String G@
Stringiesg, Erie. ......
Lewis’ Boston Baked. .1
Corn, Areher’s Trophy......
. - Morn’g Glory.1
Early Gold...1
reas, Prenen.-.. 1
re @xéra marrofat. .. @1
SosmeG
i
a
1
“cc
6c “
““é
o ‘< sifted
French, extra fine... 14
Mushrooms, extra fine..... 18
Pumpkin, 3 lb. Golden......
Succotesh, standard....
Squash ...._. ee t
Tomatoes, Red Coat.. (
' Good Enough....
: Ben Ber... ..
stand br....1 05@
CHEESE.
Michigan Full Cream 124%@13
Sap Sae0........ __ 16@i7
CHOCOLATE.
Runkel Bros.’ Vienna sweet
in © Prenvium.__.
_ . Hom-Cocoa...
“ Breakfast... ..
CHEWING GUM.
iubper, 100 lumps......._... ro)
i ao
Spree 30
CHICORY.
Bae 6
~
6
®
COFFEE—Green.
6
DEene 18
** fancy, washed...19
“ eoiderm 360.5... 20
Samtes: 15 @18
Mexican & Guatemalal7 @19
(Peaperry ....... |. -..-ki @I9
Java, Witerior...:..... 20 @22
. fauey. .... | 23 @3
‘| Mandheling ....26
Mocha, genuine....... 25
Hasppermes, #extra......._.. 13
* June, stand...... 1 w0@I —
Hed (%
95
2 ao
se
./ 2
.. 380
.. 4%
it 38
_ he 5
ke
- 22 20
Arctic, % Ib. cans, 6 doz. 45
a ee
. 325. © 2 2
“ce 1 Tb: a7 3 oe 3 g 40
si Sib: £ = oe ee
Absolute, 44 Ib. cans, 100s..11 75
< ib. 50s..10 00
es tt * Sts 18 @
Telfer’s, 144 1b. cans,6doz. 2 70
' wih * 3 2 oD
. tip © ¥ *. 158
Acme, 4 Ib. cans,3doz.... %
i “1b. “ =. to
ee ee 30
- Dales 20
Red Star, 144 lb. cans,12doz 45
ee iy lb. “é 5 “ 85
tip = 4" 150
BATH BRICK.
English, 2 doz. im case..... 80
Bristor, 2 “ So (5
American. 2 doz. in case... 65
BLUING, Gross
Arctic Lig, 4-02... ....._.. 3 60
“ Oe. 7 00
- Pps. 10 80
a 8-oz paper bot 7 20
Pepper Box No. 2 3 00
ae “ce oe 4 4 00
ea > 90
BROOMS.
Ne 2H... 8. 2 00
NO Ee 225
Ne. 2 Carpet... 5... 2 50
eee 27%
Peper Gem: 3 00
Common Whisk... ...._... 90
Fancy ee. 1 00
Me 3 50
Warehouse... .¢.- | 3 60
BUCKWHEAT.
Kings 100 Ib. Cases... 5 00
- S0 lb Cases... 42%
BUTTERINE
Dairy, solid packed...._..- Ps!
relies 14
Creamery, solid packed.... 15
' fous... sl US
CANDLES.
Hotel, 40 Ib. boxes..... 10%
Star, 40 -_ |... 3%
Perea 8. 12
NOieKing. 25
CANNED GOODS—Fish.
Clams, 1 Ib, Little Neck..... Dr
Clam Chowder, 3 Ib......... 3 00
Cove Oysters, 1 lb. stand....1 00
° - 21> - |. 1
Lobsters, 1 Ib. prenie.... .. _ 1 50
ai 21) 6.2...
ue 1 ib Stade... 1 90
zi 2 tb, Star... 2 90
Mackerel, in Tomato Sauce.
re 11>. stand. ..._... 125
ee 2D fo: 2 00
ai 31b.in Mustard...3 00
S Ib. soused. .... .: 3 00
Salmon, 1 1b. Columbia..... 2.00
. 2 Ib. oo. 8 25
. 1 1b. Sacramento...1 70
a 2 Ib. c -_- a io
; D
b 8
imported 4s.....10@11
spieed, '46....... 10@12
v0
00
85
85
25
10
10
10
oo»
ne
37
48
1
@26
To ascertain cost of roasted
coffee, add ec. per Ib. for roast-
ing and 15 per cent. for shrink-
age.
COFFEES—Package.
100 lbs
Pigg 2234
7 fh Cabinets 0000... 2314
WMIWOEE Ss). 8. 22%
MaAPNOMA | 60... 2216
30 Ibs 60 Ibs
Aeme.: 0s): 215g 21% 22
German 2020 se 2244
eo WA 23
MeLanghlin’s XXXX....... 223%
Honey Bee... 244,
INGx A 231%
CO Be 221%
Wiser 22%
COFFEE EXTRACT.
Walley Citys... 7
i a 110
CLOTHES LINES,
Cotton, 40 ft. .._... per doz. 1 25
a pete. :..... . 150
“cc ee 1 60
oc “ce 2 00
““ “ec 2 25
Jute Me 1 00
“ “ce 7 15
CONDENSED MILK.
MAM 7 60
PANPIO SWISS. os 6 00
CRACKERS,
Kenosha Butier.........._-: 8
SevMOUE es 6%
gee 6%
PM 6%
WESOUTE 222 oo es 7
Beeston 202 8
_ OM
rrels, 3¢ extra.
_ OATMEAL,
Muscatine,
Barrels 6 00 |
CREAM TARTAR. | SYRUPS,
merieely pure) 2: 38.) Cor, berrélg 0: 24@25
GrgeCere 2 ‘* one-half barrels... .26@27
DRIED FRUITsS—Domestic. oe — . oe
Apples, sun-dried..... 54G@ 6 Pure Sugar, bni....7 |. 25@32
“. Gvaporated....7 @ 7% : half barrel....27@34
Apricots, Pe ae 6 SWEET GOODs,
EIREMNCITICR 0 ooo. z x
eeecctawsnen 14 Ginger Snaps...........9 9%
Peaches ee 14 Sugar Creames......._. 9 9%
Se Frosted Creams....... 9%
Raspoermes “ __... nee Graham Crackers..... 9
_ DRIED FRUITS—Foreign. Oatmeal Crackers..... 9
Citron, in drum....... @23 TOoBAccos—Plug.
‘int Bewes.... @25 CHIMES 0 39@41
Currents... @ a6 | Commer Mone... .. 2. 39
Lemon Peel... ....._. 14 Doubie Pedro.......2........ 46
Orange Feel... 14 Peae Pte 40
Prunes, Turkey....... @ 5 Wedding Cake, bik. |... 2... 40
To Seperia’ |. @ G@% | Something Good..........._.. 40
Raising, Valencias. _..734 @ 84 | “Tobacco”... 40
- Onidarag 0, 8% ia
. Domestic Layers...2 45 TEAS.
. Loose Californias. .2 05 JAPAN—Regular.
_ FARINACEOUS GOODs. A 12 @15
Farina, 100 Ib. kegs......... Of G68 @16
Hominy, per Dbl... el 24 @2
Macaroni, dom 12 1b box.... 60] Choicest.......0..0..1 30 @33
. imported... . @10 SUN CURED,
Pearl Barley... @ 3 ae 12 @15
eas) ereen. |) 00011. @i 40) Good ae aon
go @ 2 Choie..... 24 @B
Sago, German... . @ 64 | Choices. 30 @33
‘Tapioca, fk or p’ri... @ 6% } BASKET FIRED,
Wheat, cracked... ... 6 bee @2
Vermicelli, import.... @a0 | Chotee jo, @25
tr domestic... @ee | Cholecst @35
FLAVORING EXTRACTS, ; Extra choice, wire leaf @40
Jennings’ Lemon Vanills | GUNPOWDER. a
202. Panel,doz. 90 1 35 | Common to fair....... 25 @35
407. = <1 40 2 25| Extra fine to finest....50 @65-
Gen!) | “| 225 3 25 | Choicest faney........7%5 G85
No. 3, 1 00 1 60} IMPERIAL,
No. 8, “ “« 3% 4 00| Common to fair....... 20 @35
NO.1O) 0 | 450 6 00 | Superior tofine........ 40 @50
No. 4, Taper, “ 1 60 2 50} YOUNG HYSON, '
4% pt, Round,‘ 4 25 % 50} Common to fair....... 18 @26
1 “ “* 8 50 15 00| Superior to fine....... 30 @40
FISH—SALT. | OOLONG.
Cod, whole..... @5'% | Common to fair.......25 @30
fy pomeless io @i14 | Superior to fine....... 30 @50
BAe 1214 | Fine to choicest.......55 @65
Herring, round, 4 bbl.. 2% | ENGLISH BREAKFAST. _
" "6 Dbl. 160) ee 25 @30
- Holand, bbls. 1600! Choice. |. 30 @35
7 EOlUahd kegs) (gen Best 55 @65
a Seale) 01) oO) Bes Pusey 8 @10
Maek. sh’s, No. 1, 14 bbl....9 50 } TOBAccOos—Fine Cut.
22 Ib bt. 1 45 | Sweet Pigpm.... 50
- - — 10 “ ..135)| Biveand Seven... SO
Wrout, 46 Obis._.__... @5 00 | Hiawatha ......... 68
oF Oy tes 80| Sweet Cuba....1.2/1)! 45
White, No. 1, 4 Dbis........6 60] Petoskey Chicf. 55:
= 12 ib. kite... 1 15| Sweet Russet... 40
. 10 1 kits... 1 OG) Whistle... 42
. Hamily, 4 bois... 3 00) Florida... .. 65
- " . Mats: ... So@joo | Mose Heat... 66
ll GUN POWDER. Red Domino........_.. 38
Hees eo wee Aneel. 40
ale kees 2 88 TRADESMAN CREDIT COUPONS,
i LAMP WICKS. ® 2, per hundred... 2 59
ety EC STE ale AeA soe EES BE 3 00
Ee ee 4 00
NOS 50; 20, “ a 5 00
LICORICE, Subject to the following dis-
ric ee ee 30 |; counts:
Rae | weer over......... 5
SS Te BS ee _.
MINCE MEAT a lhl. 20 '
Bueckeia 644 VINEGAR.
Hear obs... 6 ee eee
MOLASSES, ae
Bisek Strap... 16a, Seer 12
Cuba Baking......... _ ..22@25| 1 for barrel.
Be 24@35 | MISCELLANEOUS,
New Orleans, good........ 25@30 | Cocoa Shells, bulk ........ 3%
. choice |... 33@40 , Jelly, 30-Ib. pails........... 4i¢
: faney. | 4yeatiaage 15
One-half ba
PAPER, WOODENWARE.
PAPER,
Halt harrels..-. 3 15 Curtiss & C + :
Cases......2 25@2 35 sollow = 1 aeele a
ROLLED OATS | ie
Muscatine, Barrels..........6 00} S8W_.---.-.- emt nese ae 134
. Half barrels.....3 15! Light Weight.... ..... 2
Cases......2 25@2 35} ae cae ll 2
OIL, [oe eee
Michigan Test.............. 93; ; Hardware................ 000. 244
Water wine 11% amg ae eae cael aaa 2%
PICKLES. y woe... 8, 3
Medium..... anna 4 50 Jute ian.
Se 2 75| Red Express, No.1..........5
Smale ome 0 ay NO. 2.0.0... 00. 4
es 3 25] TWINES.
a PIPES aay | 48 Ce. 22
Claw Note 1 69 | Cotton, No. : Seat ee ete aie alae 20
of i} Sea Island, assorted. .177°1°40
wen i; No. 5 Hemp ee ce eee cca re.. 16
Carolina hea 0). 614 | a Bees. eee eee eee, 17
eRe a ee WM,
a ; WOODENWARE, bug
L i Se (oo
I ee 5% | L ao tttt et eeee eee eeee : =
oad oon anes? Pails, No. 1, two-hoop.. 1 6
‘chia ean S - |. No. 1, three hdep.... 1 %5
Dwight's op ct" 7777773 | Clothespins, 5 gr. boxes.... | 60
Taylor's... ....... ‘'5 | Bowls, 11 ineh.............. 1 06
aoe ee a 1 2%
Common Fine per bbl....... ee 5 de TTT a eee ee 2 .
“ “ ‘“ earlots.. 980} i 7 si tettee eee. 2 7%
Solar Rock, 56 1b. sacks..... 23! a = — = : =
: Cee : Ss, 1/s an 7
60 Tt : = Baskets, market... 10... || 40
te 2 20 e bushet 1 ©
Ashton bu. bars |. %5 | a .., With covers 1 90
mene. 6 , _ Willow cl’ths, No.1 5 50
TT iL : ag : =
‘ S i "No.
Kegs........ ee “splint “ No.1 3.50
Granulated, boxes.......... Hi Tl i. No.2 4 25
SAPOLIO. , “No.3 5 00
Kitchen, 3 doz. in box. 2 351 .. Se
Hand, 93 “ “ i Sse GRAINS and FEEDSTUFFS
i SAUERKRAUT. ‘ Whi WHEAT.
Silver Thread, 30 gal........3 50° — aes ee ete melt a ene 96
“a eer aan ee cy Fe Ta 95
SEEDS. i J ou
Miaedtad 41, | Straight, in cpa 5 00
‘g ae | @errela........ 5 z
ee ee ee 8 00
Hemp..e0.00 0 2002 eS. 6 20
Re aug | “
ae eee ka
Vo TH | ieyuaa eto -- 300
SNUFF. ne e
: i iy Se . 14 00
Scotch, in bladders......... 37 Ships... 15 50
Maccaboy, in jars.......... 35 Screenings ....... Ce 14 00
French Rappee, in Jars.....43 | Middlings................. 17 00
SOAP. | Mixed Feed... ....... 17%
Dingman, 100 bars..........4 00} _ «ou.
Don’t Anti-Washboard..... 4 75 | Small lots................. 36
an ae 3 75 | Car ee 34
meen Anne. |... 3 85 | co
German family. ..|..) 2 40} Small lots eee 30
Bie Barca 1 87 Car strettre sees eres 28
SODA, RYE.
Bowes 54 No. 1, per 100 Ibs .......... 2 00
Hees, Hnghen 4% | No.1 a a
SPICES—W hole. No. sD 10
AMSPICG 10 HAY
Cassia, China in mats....... 41No.1 :
“ee Batavia in bund. mh a XN * 2 1 sh Sah 14 00
“cc Saigon in rolls...... 42 CO ee ee 13 00
Cloves, Amboyna.....-.----30 | HIDES, PELTS and FURS,
Mace Batavia oo 7 Perkins & Hess pay as
Nutmegs) fancy............. 7 follows:
BONO. Deere 65 si
ie Mie, Ss 60 his
Pepper, Singapore, — . = — wus ae ’ S 14
oé a Ww ite ee © a ee ae
fe 21 | Dee nrntesssece S4@ 5%
sPices—Ground—-In Bulk. ie eee 5 @
avisciee a5 t a @6
4 pice ...... site e eres e cess i) Ca fskins, green... .. 3 @4
Cassia, Batavia............. 20 se Cured... | 44@ 5
i: ‘“« and Saigon.25 | Deaconskins.......... 10 G2
S Saieem........ 2... 42 14 off for No. 2
Cloves, —_ eee 35 ‘ilies
. PaMeeeE 28 ty
Ginger, Africam))) 000000001 | 124 | Shearlings .........._. 10 @30
“| (Qeenim 15 | Estimated wool, per b 20 @28
7 SRRAREGR 18 FU ks
Mace Bitavia............... 80 Mink ey
Mustard, English........... ine ‘ =
“cc “ a o a ll ls
ie ia ee Skunk eee 5@1 20
Wutmegs, No.2 .........0... 7 co egeese ae 1@ 2%
Pepper, Singapore, black....22 rie pe ao fi =
a” tS oe
aa Cat, houses...) 20.0. | Ban Sm
STARCH. ET 5@ 50
Mystic, 1 1b. oe... Ce 1 00@6 00
re DOr 26 6. loo... 6 Eee 50@5 00
ta Martin, dark Su 25@4 00
“ Ee D1 5
Cut Loaf.............. @ 8% | Otter Me ee 508 oo
Capes 2 @ Oe 50@4 00
Powdered ............. @ (| Bese 50@30 00
Granulated, Stand.... 706@ 71 | Beaver ........ 11.121) “3e@8 00
eae a reeees : i eee ULL 5@1 00
e es... ‘ xj Ka
Mek. ian. =”
No. 1, White Extra C.. @ 6%¢ MISCELLANEOUS.
2 exten ©... @ Gs | fallew . ........ 4@4%
. aC, S0lden........ @ 64 | Grease butter.........5 @ 8%
- 40, aerk 1... @ 6 Dyrenhes .-. 2. 8... 2 @ 2%
oS oo. @ 5% | Ginseng... ....... . .2 00@2 10
Drugs & Medicines.
Staite Board of Pharmacy.
One Year—Ottmar Eberbach, Ann Arbor.
Two Years—Geo. McDonald, Kalamazoo.
Three Years—Stanley E. Parkill, Owosso.
Four Years—Jacob Jesson, Muskegun.
Five Years—James Vernor, Detroit.
President—Geo. McDonald
Secretary—Jacob Jesson.
Treasurer—Jas. Vernor.
Next Meeting—At the lecture room of Hartman’s Hall,
And there were sixty-fous per
cent. of medical representatives ap-
pointed for the convention of 1870, the
body that ordered ‘‘that measures of ca-
pacity be abandoned in the pharma-
copeeia, and that the quantities in all
formulas be expressed both in weights
and parts by weight,’’? an order which
the revising committee afterward sub-
mitted that they had not time to carry
out. In 1880 the constituent pharma-
ceutical bodies sending delegates consti-
tuted only one-fourth of all the bodies
represented. It is of highest importance
that medical sentiment should be so well
defined and represented in the conven-
tion that the medical public shall be
suited in the result.
———_—___—>- << —__—
The Future Role of Germicides in Phar-
macy.
The investigation of bacteriologists
have shown that many diseases are de-
pendent for their propagation and contin-
uation cn germs, and modern researches
claim to have determined the identity of
the germs producing certain diseases.
It follows from these discoveries that
germicides are likely to play an import-
and role in the pharmacy of the future.
Indeed, they are largely used at the pres-
ent day, and their utility is only limited
by the fact that it has been found diffi-
cult as yet to find efficient germicides
which when administered internally do
not affect the vitality of normal tissue as
well as that of disease germs. This dif-
ficulty will no doubt in time be evercome,
and in this there is a promising field of
work for progressive pharmacists.
Dr. Austin Flint, of New York, has
recently published an article on bacteria
and their relation to disease, in which he
expresses the very hopeful view of the
possibility of curing all diseases by a
mere perfect knowledge of bacteria. The
Scientific American, in commenting on
Dr. Flint’s views, under the title of ‘‘A
Possible Revolution in Medicine,’’ says:
Most people have read of the bacteria
and of the discoveries concerning them
made by Pasteur and Koch. The subject
seems generally to be regarded as belong-
ing to the doctors—an interesting phase
of the progress of our time and some-
thing for students to sit up late over, but
not directly interesting to lay minds.
This seems to be a grave error, for, ina
recent paper on ‘‘A Possible Revolution,”’
Dr. Austin Flint says that by a knowl-
edge of bacteria nearly all human ills of
a physical nature may be cured or pre-
vented. Hence there is no secular sub-
ject that may fairly be looked upon as
more engaging and timely. Slowly but
surely there is working a revolution in
the science and practice of surgery. He
thinks the time will come when the
cause will be known of every infectious
disease; when they will be preventable,
or, having broken out, will be easily
curable; and, best of all, when it will
be possible for the intelligent physician
to afford protection against all such dis-
eases as scarlet fever, measles, yellow
fever, whooping cough, ete.
Indeed, there need not be any epidem-
ies, and even constitutional diseases will
be curable if only the progress in the
science of bactesiology should go on at
the present rate, because, in a figure
which tke doctor borrows from. the
French, ‘‘The higher one ascends, the
further off seems the horizon.’’ That is
to say, the further we go in bacteriology,
the greater appears the promise.
In the last few years there has been a
really remarkable advance, ‘‘an evolu-
tion of knowledge,’’ the author calls it.
There is ‘‘Pasteur’s work with the fer-
mentations, his discovery of the microbe
which breeds in the silkworm a peculiar | th
i the
disease, and especially the isolation of
the microbe of the carbuneular disease
of sheep—which sometimes attack man.
These give a powerful impulse to the
study of bacteriology.’’ Koch’s part in
the bacteriological era would seem, from
what our author says, to be somewhat
similar to that of Amperc in electro-
magnetism; he supplemented Pasteur’s
discovery, as Ampere did Oersted’s.
Bacteria, which are now known to be
vegetable and not animal growths, are to
be found in large numbers in the intes-
tines even of the most healthy, and it is
in knowing the nature and habit of these
that will enable the student to prevent
their inroads when the condition of the
system leave it disarmed. Even now, so
we are told, consumption can no longer
be called incurable, fermentive indi-
gestions are successfully treated by
means of disinfectants. In many of the
skin diseases is found an organism at
work; in diphtheria the germs are at
work in the mucous membrane. In both
-ases the physician now addresses him-
to dealing with these
germs. Among the diseases in which,
our author says, the presence of bacteria
has already been surely traced, and their
influence been distressed or destroyed, to
the relief or cure of the patient, are:
tuberculosis, diphtheria, typhoid fever,
yellow fever, relapsing fever, the ma-
larial fevers, certain catarrhs, tetanus
and many contagious and skin diseases.
—_—_—< +4
A Simple Test for Some Impurities of
Balsam of Tolu.
Balsam of tolu is one of those pro-
ducts which, on account of its price and
resinous nature, is very liable to adulter-
ation. Such obvious adulterations as
sand, earth, chalk, ete., can readily be
detected, but this is not the direction in
which most adulterated samples are so-
phisticated, other resins being naturally
selected for the purpose. Ido not claim
any originality for the reaction which
constitutes the test I now propose, but |
have seen no communication recommend-
ing its use in testing balsam tolu, which
is sufficient reason for bringing it before
your notice this evening. About thirty
grams of the sample are digested in
bisulphide of carbon for about fifteen
minutes, keeping it gently warm by oc-
easional immersion in hot water. The
clear liquid is poured off, evaporated to
dryness, and, when cold, sulphuric acid
added to dissolve the resinous extract.
A bright red-rose carnation is produced,
which, in the case of genuine tolu, re-
mains of a distinctly rose hue for some
considerable time. If, however, the
sample be adulterated with either storax
or ordinary resin, the rose color rapidly
becomes more brown intint. The best
way to apply the test is by performing
the operation upon a genuine sample by
the side of the suspected one. In this
way a distinct difference in tint can be
observed if only one per cent. of the
adulterant be present; with four per
cent. of resin, or rather more of storax,
the difference in tint can be readily dis-
tinguished without the blank experi-
ment. If to the sulphuric acid solution
a fluid ounce of water be rapidly added,
the color of the resulting liquid is much
duller and paler when ordinary resin is
present than with the pure balsam.
—- <2 | Rapa... .......-..-.,. a@ 6) lodeform: =|... @5 15
Sulphate, com'l.....-- 14@ 2 Simapis — ee oe 9) bapedin 85@1 00
“ pure. |... -- @ ¢ “ Nigra........ 1@ 12; Eyeepodium ....._ 55@ 60
Mage 80@ 85
FLORA. SPIRITUS. Liquor Arsen et Hy-
Armies (0 144@ 16 Frumenti, W...D. Co..2 0@2 50) drarziod....-.... |. @ 2i
Amgnemis ....-.--.-- .- 30@ 35 Dwi @2 00} Liquor Potass Arsinitis 10@ 12
Matricaria ......----.- 30@ 35 u ee @1 50| Magnesia, Sulph (bbl
duniperis Co. 0. T....1 %3@1 Bc. 2 3s
nN : . kom Mannia, i 90@1 00
Barosme | 60000044. :-- 10@ 12] gaacharum N. E...... 1 75@2 ..2 55@2 80
Cassia Acutifol, Tin- | Spt. Vini Galli........ 1 %5 :
naively oi... 25@ 28) Vini Oporto........... 1 e300) | Cleo 0 in 2 552 7
7 Aix. 3o@ 50) vant Alia! 1 25@2 00' Moschus Canton...... @
Salvia officinalis, 148 a Myristiea, No. 1....__. @ 7
aad Ves 10@ a SPONGES. Nux Vomica, (po 20)... @ 10
or ©
te ec 8@ Florida sheeps’ wool wai snr sa . — : ea ee Tis 29
GUMMIL. carriage.. .2 25@2 50 as aa aoe
Acacia, = rere = = Nassau sheeps’ _ Wool 9 Picts Liq, N. C., % gal me
d @, 80} Velvet extra sheeps’ els | Ge
sifted sorts.. @ 65} wool conringe — en 1 10; Picis Lia., = vote = |
— pe... 75@1 00| Extra yellow sheeps’ i: ; Peat @
Aloe, Barb b, (po. 60)... 50@ 60] carriage............. a ES ag say ae 2) - 2
-” Cape, (po. 20). @ 12] Grass sheeps’ wool car- P Eee Ale Tega ae =
Socotri, (po. 60). Ge SO ape UO TT 65 Pie Ba — €5) - oes
Catechu, 1s, (148, 14 4s, Hard for slate use. 5 Plamt gy pea we Me
7 @ 131 Yellow Reef, for slate P I a! CEL ss + a ee ae
Fi ocolttna os 39 a nl ce 1 40 es - —- opii..1 10@1 20
Assafcetida, (po. say! @ 15 a ans ad =" H aos
Benzoinum.. Lo 0@ | 56 ae Pera GE AUDIT KGa 6D
Camphore._._..._----- a50) oo, Acexcia |. 50 eae oa hae ie aes 10
Euphorbium, po.....-- Sg) 10 | Zimerber (0) 50 ps ae Shaw. |. 45@ 50
Ce eel ee re ee eT oe ee 390, 40
Gamboge, po.-..------ 80@ 95) Ferri Iod.................... = Rubia Th ae , 2@ 14
Guaiacum, (po. 45).... @ 40) Aucanti Cortes. 0060... 50 Se ae Ta SHeIe 3 85
Ming, (pe. |25) 20. @ 2 —— go gees ae a wa ln gas 7
G1 00 | aia Cae Tes ec D2 F
oo a BAUS Gori gp | Samguis Draconis..." 40 50
Opii, (po. 4 75)........3 25@3 35) Senega ..........---- +--+ --- 501 2 Apo, We ra
Shelae 1... 25, a 59 Pee ee a 10
‘ bleached...... 25 30) * Goo _ Qo ee
‘Tragacanth ....-..-..- @ % es ee a Seidlite Mixture...... @ WB
HERBA—In ounce packages. a 2 Sings... .......... @ 18
eg iE 25 TINCTURES, Cm. --.- @ 30
peer ae 20 ' | __| Snuff, waeoaee. De
iF Pain Ses Aconittim > Napellis R. Wee
| Majorum 28 F...... ®) | Snuff, Scotch, De. Voes
Mentha Piperita............ 38 Aloes... srstcsssss+ 00) Soda Boras, (po. 12)...
[ST 25 a and. my een 60} Soda et Potass Tart.
ee ay tee ae
ACL eo ‘1) gp | Asafoetida.. 50] Soda, Bi-Carb.........
co. ae a 25 | Atrope Belladonna. 60| Seda. Ash
Penne Neopet est ™ | Benzoin.. -----.:.---.- OO} Soda Sulphas 3.1...
MAGNESIA. : Co. ee 00] Spis Hther Co i... |.
Gatemed: Fat... -- 5@ Sanguinaria.....-........... 50 Myrcia Dom.....
: arbonate, Pat .. 20, Barewalls 50 Myrcia imp. ee
Carbonate, K. & M. 2a, a eee i Vini Rect. bbl.
Carbonate, Jennings. >. sae Capsicum ................... 50 233) ;
C — ee iS Less 3 be gal., cash ten days. :
. ; Co oe aaa a : Strychnia Crysta Le. @1
| pas oe a 5 0 > = ioe oa : 1 2 ae ae 24@ 314
q - i calpain ~” IBY 5 vatechu Se ee 5 se on... |... Sea Ss
— pues | a ee = Cinehona .................... 50] Tamarinds ............ ‘8@ 10
Auranti ¢ vortex ae Te Beye Co.........--.-.-.. @) Terebenth Venice..... 2a a
Bergamii a 50@3 00 Columba ee a0 Theobpromae _...._.... 50@
ajiputi cs ee 1 00 Conium ......-...5..-25 +++: oy Wanaka .9 00@16 =
| ee gg 2S G@2 og | Cubeba.... ees) 50] Zined Salphoi 200, W@8
Cedar en See hes eS > OILS,
Ghenonodm 0000/0170 @1 %5 Gentian ae eee aaa ns Bbl. Gai
Cinnamonh .....--..- 95@1 00 | 7 Co Coe ae 60 Whale, winter........ 70 70
Curoneha 3 @ Sees 50) Rae Cxted 0. 90
Contum Mag .......- 35@ 6: Ce peel ea 60 [oro fo tt. 50 55
Copaiba .-: 3... 90@1 OC Zinviber ees Linseed, pure raw.... 58 61
Cubebae.. ie 250@16 00 H ats ee 50 Lindseed, boiled..... 61 64
Exechthitos........... 90@1 00 =o atid ce nanan 75 Neat’s Foot, winter
oe ee 20@1 § ‘ Gales oe Secareg oo 69
Gauliheria ..........-) 2225@2 35} Perri C ae tons es 35 Spirits Turpentine.... 51% 57
ee ee ieee ee PAINTs, bbl. _Ib.
oe Sem. gal....- 1 =. STOR 50} Red Venetian. ----1% 2@3
ee a 502 oO Myrrh. 5} Ochre, wetlow Mars....1% 2@4
pcan ae Le a a 90@2 oo | NUX V omen iin 50], Ber..... ee 2@3
ee a 2 DE g5| Putty, commercial....214 24@3
ee ceed —— Camphorated........... 50] __‘‘ strictly pure.....214 2%@3
_ ee wea 3 0003 95), Deodor................. 2 00| Vermilion Prime Amer-
ae ee ae so@1 oo | AUranti Cortex. ....- BO, dean .................. 13@16
oe 50 | Quassia ............-.....-.., 50] Vermilion, English... =
——— cn 1 00@2 7 ay a 50 oS aa a oe
a L2 7 ees Mesa ae SLO ga aang
Picis Liquida, (gal. 35) oi = Cassia Acutifol............. 50; _° white ........... 6%4@T4
aie a ai ool. eS 50| Whiting, white Span... @70
ae amen Se an Oe oe Oreeemias 50| Whiting, Gilders’...... @90
—— ounce.......... ‘i @ . Canoe 60}; White, Paris American 1 00
aaa ea pene 60| Whiting, Paris Eng.
ae 3 5007 001». Mee BO} Cliff... ss es 1 40
Sera ee eae : 3 0 | Veratrum Veride............ 50| Pioneer Prepared Paint 2G 4
assafras. .... oe Oy Swiss Villa Prepared
ne ess, ounce. = 2 MISCELLANEOUS, a 1 00@1 20
7 Se ee aS Ether, Spts Nits... 26@ 28 VARNISHES.
Thyme a ee a 2 ey i : | No. 1 Tarp aan 10a 20
“hrm”: <> on} e cote oe GES ED @1 %0
Pheopromas........... 15@ 2 ground, (po. jit 2 5@3 00
POTASSIUM. TT 3@- 4| No.1 Turp Furn...... 1 00@1 10
Bi Carb... te a 1K@ 18 Ammatte 55x, . Eutra Turk Damar....1 ot 60
| Bichromate .. a . 1G 16 Antimoni, pe... 4@ Japan Dryer, No. 1
Bromide. =... 5. 37@ 40 et Potass T. 55@ 60 Sp @ %
Michigan Board of Pharmacy.
Feb. 1,
A meeting of the Michigan
| Board of Pharmacy, for the purpose of
registration,
will be held at Grand Rapids,
and Wednesday, March 5 and 6, 1889.
MUSKEGON,
DEAR Str—
examining candidates for
of both
assistants
The examination
pharmacists and
mence on Tuesday at 9 o’clock, at which
hour all candidates will please report at
the lecture room of Hartman’s Hall. Ovi oe
The examination for registration as reg- nies o —
istered pharmacists will oceupy two| Quinine is weak.
days, that for assistants one day only. lower. Cream tartar
Special railroad rate of one and one-
third regular fare for the round trip has
been secured for this meeting. Reduced
rate certificates will be mailed by me to
Have your cer-
tificate properly filled up and signed by
the agent at starting point, if you wish
the benefit of the reduced fare
all who apply for them.
Yours respectfully,
JACOB JESSON, Sec’y.
Ne
Chas. F. Nevin,
Nevin & Co.,
facturers,
Nevin’s
President
the Pittsburg paint manu-
was in town Monday.
s annual visits to this market have
come to be a feature of the year.
1889, Written for Taz TRADESMAN
The tramp burns down his barn,
The ague all his labor stops
Then forthwith goes he intotrade
rT’ ~~
sday
Tue day Foresworn on gaining riches,
registered He busts—
will com-
The Drug Market.
fight is still on.
rapidly and will
tending higher.
be higher.
And the mortgage takes his farm.
Buys on credit—his fortune’s made—
-with sheckels in his br ite hes.
dé. WRistey.
Se a te
COMMERCIAL EVOLUTION.
The grasshopper eats the farmer's ¢ rops.
Morphia is steady.
Chlorate potash
is unchanged; the
Shellaes have advanced
is
Ipecac is
returning
oF TT. HB.
Should send $1 to
mE. A. Stowe & Bro.
A.S
for one of their Improved
LIQUOR & POISON RECORDS
Mr.
PECK BROS.,
CINSENG ROOT.
We pay the highest price forit. Address
Wholesale Dru
GRAND RAP
ists,
Ss.
& COs
APOTHE CARYS BRAND.
Blades
CUBAN,HAND oo penenogag
| DIAMOND ThA
CURES
Liver and
Kidney Troubles
Blood Diseases
oe Constipatio
“Los Doctores esc iia
gar that will hold
fire, contains one-third more pure Havana tobac-
co than any ten-cent Key West or two for 25 cents
imported cigar you can get.
FREE SMOKING, MILD AND RICH.
—— Sale by 20,000 Druggists throughout the
Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co.,
Female
Complaints
Being composed entirely of HERBS, it
is the only perfectly harmless remedy on
the market and is recommended by alt
. who use it.
Wholesale Agts.,Grand Rapids
Retail Druggists will find it to
aaa 4 _— — send us your orders. We handle i their interest to keep the DIA-
but BEST and CHOICEST BRANDS; | a inal Sg ae
at Nee a a OTE es | MOND T EA, as it fulfills all that
po Ship st ONE DAY cuca cmos | isclaimed, making it one of the
Fill orders for ALL KINDS of | very best selling articles handled.
G LAS 58, | Place your order with our Wholesale
VIZ:
“aa
House.
Diamond Medicine Go.,
PROPRIETORS,
DETROIT, MICH,
Imported
and American
Polished PLATE,
Rough and _ Ribbed
French Window, Amerle
can Window, English 26 02.
Enamelled, Cut and Em
Rolled Cathedral, Venetian, St cited
Frosted Bohemian, German p=
Glass Plates, French Mirror Plates.
The quality, variety and quantity of our stock
is exceeded by no housein the United States.
WM. REID
73 &75 Larned Street West, DETROIT, MICH,
61 Waterloo Street,| Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co,,
u WHOLESALE AGENTS,
POLISHINA
Grand Rapids Store,
MICH,
WHITE LEAD
[TRADE MARK REGISTERED. |
& COLOR WORKS
The Best Furniture Finish in the Mar- |
| ket. Specially adapted for Pianos, | DETROIT,
Organs and Hard Woods. | MANUFACTURERS OF
.
POLISHIN = pgs — gar incy and LATEST
will ac & Tuster which for|
POLI Sul durability cannot be excelled. ARTISTIC
is clean and easy to use, as
full directions accompany each
SHADES
QF
SHINA
POLI
POIEINA weld ar ine meterme satee ct |
Twenty-five cents.
POLIS SHIN is the best Furniture Finish in |
the market. Try it, and make
FOR
your old furniture look fresh and new. | ¢ i
POLISHINA is for — 7 all Druggists, Fur- | Interior
niture Dealers, Grocery and
Hardware Stores. ' aut | 3 AND
(= Beware of imitations. ‘|
TRADE SUPPLIED BY THE EXTERIOR
d DECORATION
sf. J. WURZBURG, Wholesale Agent,
GRAND RAPIDS.
Haxeltine & Perkins Drug Co.,
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
HAZELTINE
& PERKINS
DRUG CO.
Importers and Jobbers of
_ -DRUGS~
Chemicals and Druggists’ Sundries.
Dealers in
PatentgMedicines, Paints, Oils, Varnishes.
We are Sole Proprietors of
WEATHERLY’S MICHIGAN CATARKH REMEDY.
We have in stock and offer a full line of
Whiskies, Brandies,
Gins, Wines, Rumse.
Weare Sole Agents in Michigan for W. D. & Co.,
_ Henderson County, Hand Made Sour Mash
Whisky and Druggists’ Favorite
| Rye Whisky.
We sell Liquors for Medicinal Purposes only.
We give our Personal Attention to Mail Orders and Guar-
antee Satisfaction.
All orders are Shipped and Invoiced the same day we re-
ceive them. Send in a trial order.
Hazelting & Perkins Drvg 60,
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
é
The Michigan Tradesman
HE DRINKS NO MORE.
Written for THE TRADESMAN.
“Ever been in a lumber camp?” asked
Jim Purdy the other day, after helping
himself to a liberal chew of finecut.
‘Well, hardly ever. I have been in
one or two; but don’t know anything
about them from personal experience. I
don’t understand the inner workings of
them.”’
“Well”? said Jim, “I wisht I'd never
got acquainted with ’em. Uve worked
into nigh onto a hundred different ones
in my time, and taking the thing right
through, it ain’t no fun. See that scar
back o’ my ear? Well, that’s where a
dog pine limb struck me five years ago.
A fallin’ tree struck another old dead
un and knocked it off. It lacerated my
skull pretty bad. The boys carried me
to the camp for dead: but I’m tough and
come out all right. See that front tooth?’’
“NO.””
‘“‘Well, I mean d’ye see where it uster
be? Well, that’s where Dutch Bill hit
me. He knocked me pretty near two
rod before I ever touched ground. But
Bill paid for it though. He was laid up
nigh three weeks after I got through
with him, and he haint never be’n so
good a man sence.
‘Whisky? Well, I’ve drinked
more whisky ’n ’d float Hannah & Lay’s
brick block down to Traverse. I’ve seen
the time when water didn’t taste nateral.
ve got a pretty constitootion,
pard, er I’d’a’ be’n dead long ago. But
ve swore off on whisky now, and don’t
touch it under circumstances.
agin the grain, too, sometimes; but I
ean’t help that. How’d I come to do it ?
Well, Pll tell ye how it was. It ain’t
every duffer that comes along that I'd
fell it to, but I don’t mind, you, pard,
only I don’t want you to tell every one
you come acrost.
“Four year ago we hada pretty snug
winter, if I remember anything about it,
and, though wages wasn’t ter’ble high,
they was fair. I was working in Bill
High’s camp on the Manistique, and we
had a pretty good gang there too. We
had good luck that winter. The’ wasn’t
no losttime. I went into camp early in
October and went to swampin’ roads and
building camp and chorin’ around and
worked right along ’till the fifteenth of
April. When I settled up with the com-
pany I had a hundred and forty dollars
some.
good
no Goes
comin’ to me an’ they paid it all down
in brand new bank notes.
“That was about noon of a Thursday.
of
good
in
feelin’ to
LT hadn’t drunk no licker to speak
all winter, and
think I had so much dust. I thought ld
zo down to the the first thing I
done and leave all but twenty dollars,
and then have a little fun with the boys.
As Iwas going down street I come up to
Alec McCloud and Bill Peters and two or
three more of the lads, and of course I
had to goin and take something.
“So I treated, and two or three more
treated and I started to go out when Alee
said:
‘*‘Hold on, Jim, let’s have a game of
Tunk.’
“T wanted to go and get my business
done but I begun to feel kinder good, so
after a minit I said I didn’t care.
‘We played for the hard drinks of
course and it wasn’t long before I got so
that I didn’t want that money deposited
in no bank in St. Ignace.
I was
bank
I don’t remem-
ber very much, more that took place only
that I got red roarin’ full and put a head
on the bartender for lettin’ somebody
pay for the drinks instead o° chargin’ it
up to me.
‘Next mornin’ I woke up in bed. I
didn’t know how I got there an’ I didn’t
eare. My hair pulled and my head was
big enough for five men. My mouth an’
throat was all dried up an’ the first thing
{ thought of was getting a drink.
down to the and
I went
barroom called for a
whisky straight.
“When I
eouldn’t find
after a dime |]
couldn't find the
buckskin sack I carry my bills in either.
went down
one. I
i went through every pocket I had and
then I went up stairs and hunted my
room all over. But the’ wa’n’t nothin’
there that I wanted. There was the
remains of what dinner I'd e’t the day
before, that ’d thrown up, an’ that was
all. A hundred and forty dollars out!
“Well, 1 way around town
till I got sobered up a bit, an’ then I
went back and worked onthe river. I
thought the thingcall over and when I
got it all figgered down fine I ses to my-
self, I ses, “““Jim Purdy, you’re a d—d
fool.’
**T swore off drinkin’ an’ playin’ cards,
an’ I’ve stuck to it four years an’ I cal-
kulate [’'m good to hang on’s long ’s I
live. D’ve saved up nigh five hundred
dollars since then, an’ ’m goin’ to buy
a farm
week or
piled.
‘“You’re a young man yit an’ if you'll
beat my
over in Balsam
if
township this
next my calkulations haint
take a fool’s advice an’ let whisky alone.
ye’ll never regret it.’’ CG. Oo: D:
>. <-
The First Maxim of the Railroader.
Written for THE TRADESMAN.
In THE TRADESMAN of last week I
noticed an article headed ‘‘The Railroad
.
Liar,’’ in which the writer, after sum-
ming upthe numerous liars in the em-
ploy and under the instructions of the
railroad companies, telling their various
manners and commending their profi-
ciency in the art, asks:
Now what good did all this deceit and
misrepresentation do the railroad com-
pany? It didn’t make a pound of steam;
it didn’t clear away a snow-drift; it
didn’t deceive the public, who have come
to disbelieve almost anything a station
employee tells them about delayed trains.
It would be some comfort to a man wait-
ing for atrain to know about how long
he has to wait. If itis going to be ten
hours, he will go home and start next
day. And when a train is ten hours late
surely somebody in the employ of the
company must know something about it.
It is true the employees are pestered and
bothered by the endless questioning of
the waiting, impatient, restless crowd,
but if they can’t stand questioning they
should leave the railroad and go to work
in a powder-mill, where people will not
erowd around them and ask questions.
There is need of a great reform here, and
the people who wait for trains will rise
up and call that railway company blessed
that gives its employees opportunity and
permission to tell the truth about delayed
trains.
The writer of this became pos-
sessed of the spirit of ambition to bea
railroad magnate, and entered the office
once
at the station of S——, then managed by
the now prominent railway official, Mr.
M——. to learn the rudiments of the bus-
iness, as all suecessful men must do in
any calling. Sometime during the first
day of service a heated discussion oc-
curred between the agent and the train
dispatcher relative to the time a certain
train left that place, and through it all
my friend with not asmile on his face
and a firm hand on the key, positively
declared that he was right and that some
other operator had made amistake. At
last he triumphed and the other fellow—
poor innocent—was compelled to take a
cussing. Then, turning to me, Mr. M
remarked: ‘‘My boy, in the railroad bus-
mess, when you tell a lie, stick to w.”’
This was the first lesson, and, coming
from a man whose rapid promotions since
that time have placed him in the envia-
ble position he now holds, I have always
treasured it.
Perhaps here is an explanation of why
the premiere liar did not change his story
from one hour, even if the train was ten
hours late.
All business calling have their maxims.
The first maxim of the
“When youu lic, Sick co th."
railroader
> -
NOYAL.
iS.
THE
—->> oS
OFFICIAL PLAN
Now Before the Business
Men.
Of Insurance
The foliowing is the official draft of the insur-
ance plan now before the business men of this
state:
To the........ Business Men's Association:
The plans for a Michigan Business Men’s Fire
Insurance Company, as directed by a resolution
passed at the Cheboygan convention, are now
ready tobe put into operation. The plan pro-
posed has been set forth in THe Muicuican
TRADESMAN andin the monthly sheets issued in
October, and sent to all secretaries for distribu-
tion to the members. We hope this has been
done, but up to date we have heard from only a
few associations on this question. It has been
intimated that the plan was not fully understood
and that this circular should give in detail the
plan proposed.
he first conclusion reached by your Insur-
ance Committee was that a Mutual Fire Insur-
ance Company for business men on the assess-
ment plan was not practical and somewhat be-
neath our dignity—that our organization, if we
have one, should rank with anything in the field
in question of security. To do this, and to or-
ganize under the present law, we must be pos-
sessed of $100,000 paid-up capital. We ask that
this be secured by the local associations as far
as possible. That the stock bein shares of $25,
and that for each $25 stock subscribed a certifi-
cate of stock shall be issued participating in the
_ at10 per cent. Organized under the same
aw asthe Detroit Fire and Marine. Michigan
Fire and Marine and Grand Rapids Fire, we pos-
sess equal security and a financial standing
equal to the best fire insurance companies.
This small investment on your part, which
Will earm you 26 least 10 per ¢ént. im
terest, should bring us at the hands of ey-
ery association its proportionate share of
the capital stock, with applications for insurance
that would warrant the company a profitable
business the first year, and our participating pol-
icies should reduce the fire loss to a minimum.
As proposed, we can write policies of from $500
to $10,000, according to the class of building,
kind of stock, fire protection and the moral and
material hazard. We write stores merchandise,
dwellings and furniture, barring the special haz-
ards—shingle and saw mills, planing mills, flour-
ing mills, lumber and other manufacturing es-
tablishments on which the stock companies now
lose money and charge the merchants enough to
make good their losses. To enable the company
to do a safe business and secure equitable profits
the insurance is to be written at the current rates
of other responsible stock companies which prof-
its are returned, not entirely to the stock hold-
ers, but to both stock holders and policy holders,
first declaring the dividend on the stock, then
declaring dividends pro rata alike on the amount
of premiums received,
As an illustration, supposing our premium re-
ceipts per year are $50,000, that $25,000 pays our
losses and expenses and dividend on Capital
stock, leaving $25,000 net earnings, to be distrib-
uted to the policy holders, amounting to 50 per
cent. of the premiums received. Other
mutual companies do_ better than _ this,
and why should we not expect to do
well? For these dividends, except those on the
capital stock, it is proposed to issue interest-bear-
ing scrip, redeemable at the option of the Com-
pany for cash.
All business is to be done from one office and
confined to the State of Michigan. By this, we
expect to save 40 per cent. that the other stock
companies pay for conducting their business in
the way of printing and advertising, commission
and brokerage and local and general agency ex-
pense. The prominent features of this Company
shall be frequent inspections of its risks by a
competent inspector, the encouragement of all
means for reducing the danger from fire, the co-
operation of the Company and an insurance
committee chosen by each local association, to
the end that a lessening of fire losses may in-
crease the profits of the Company, which, under
this plan, means an increase in the amount of
dividends to each policy holder. Summing up
the claims this company possesses for your con-
sideration, we have: i
1. An organization for business men, the mer-
chant, wherein you insure yourselves and pay
only what it costs. i
2. It assists to educate the people and lessen
the destruction by fire.
3. Its affairs are conducted upon an economi-
cal basis.
4, Its officers and Board of Directors consist of
business men familiar with their needs.
5. The benefits of the Company are mutual,
while the policy holders are exempt from any
assessments.
6. None but good moral and material risks are
accepted,
7. The Insurance Commissioner’s report for
1887 shows 33,312,000 paid out for premiums for
fire insurance alone in this State, while only #1,-
892,000 are returned in payment for losses. By
this plan $1,500,000, now sent out of the State,
can be kept in the State and returned to the
policy holders. Will we do it?
as
Now that this plan is detailed, the In-
surance Committee hope to hear from you
and, if possible, find out how well this
plan meets your wants for an insurance com-
any, to what extent you will patronize it and
coe far you will co-operate with us to complete
the organization and make the company a suc-
cess. Articles of incorporation are already pre-
pared and, providing the organization is imme-
diately taken up, we will be able to secure the
services of practical insurance men and members
of our association for its officers. You can readi-
ly understand that it is imperative for the Insur
ance Committee to hear from you that they may
convey to the Executive Board, at their meeting
to be held January 16, 1889, the facts in the case.
If we find the majority of the associations ap-
prove this plan and will give us their organized
support, your association will be canvassed, at
which time subscriptions to stock will be solicit-
ed, payable when the $100,000 is secured and
your application for insurance taken and risk in-
spected.
It is expected this year will see some insurance
measure that will bring us practical and bene-
ficial results as the result of the combined ef-
fort of our associations. To do this, we must de-
mand the co-operation of the officers and insur-
ance committee of each association. If this plan
does not satisfy you, and you can amend or offer
a substitute, let us hearfromyou. The questions,
‘“‘Willit pay?” ‘‘Is it safe?” ‘Is the management
correct?” are questions you must settle in this
ease as you do for any or all business invest-
ments.
Your Executite Board and Insurance Com-
mittee cannot guarantee this and_ they
have considered your interest, and offer you
this plan in preference to others because it seem-
ed safest a most practical. We will do what
we can to carry out what we have recommended
or what you may desire, and await your answer
to this circular, which will be final to us, in au-
thorizing the expenditure of more time or money
in this direction. Address
GEO. B. CALDWELL, Chairman,
Greenville.
OREN STONE, Flint,
W.S. Powers, Nashville,
Insurance Committee.
—- —_>—_o—.—
A Misapprehension.
‘George,’ said Mrs: Simms, “did [
hear you say just now to Walter that
you had bought a horse ?’’
“Yes, darling: I bought a horse to-day
for—’’
“No matter what you bought it for,
you had no right to indulge in such ex-
travagance. You know we cannot afford
to keep a herse upon your salary, and it
was not just to your family to purchase
one anyhow without consulting me,*for
you know thateI am constantly going
without things that I actually need in
order to make both ends meet, and—’’
‘But, darling,” said Mr. Simms, "you
don’t understand that it—’’
‘“T gave up the idea of getting a seal-
skin sacque for the sake of economy.
Harry wants a new overceat this very
minute, and Jennie is hardly fit to go to
ehurech in that old bonnet; and yet,
while we are denying ourselves, you, ut-
terly indifferent to the feelings of your
family, go out and waste money reck-
lessly purchasing fast horses.”’
“It is not so very fast, dearest, because
it—
‘‘Wast or slow, it will conSume your
means too rapidly. You know you can’t
keep the horse at a livery stable for less
than S5a week, and I should like to know
where the money is going to come from
unless we discharge our servant girl, so
that all the work will come upon me. I
should think you would enjoy riding out
behind a fast horse very little when you
know your poor wife is at home toiling
like a galley-slave among the pots, ket-
tles and pans !’’
‘Tf you will permit me to explain,
Emma, you will see that you are—
‘“Hxplain! explain! I wish you could
explain how our bills are going to be
met while that horse is eating his head
off in a livery stable, and the coal in the
cellar is still unpaid for and the gas bill
comes in on Thursday, and the sitting-
room carpet is nearly in rags. You need
never ask me to ride out with you!
Never! I will not give my countenance
to such folly by having anything to do
with that miserable beast. I will wilk
if it kills me—yes, if it kills me! And
sometimes I half believe you wish it
would kill me!’
‘“Jast listen to me for a moment,
Emma, and I will remove—”’
‘It seems too hard that our love should
be interfered with by a horse! I never
thought when I married you that a vile
horse would win your affections from
me and that I should have to suffer the
bitter shame of having my husband pre-
fera miserable creature on four legs to
me. But that is whatit is coming to, and
I don’t see that there is anything for me
todo but to pack up my things and go
back with a broken heart to poor moth-
er’s, Where—”’
‘*“Emma !?
“What 27?
“Stop for a moment!’
“Wiel 7
“Do you know what kind of a horse it
was that I bought ?’’
“No, but 1 know—’’
“Wait! wait!’
‘Well, what kind of a horse was it ?’’
‘‘Emnta! it was a clothes-horse !”’
i 0
The Many-Sided Drummer.
You have seen him, seen him often,
On the steamboat, stage and train,
With his jaunty air and gripsack,
Full of business, fun and Cain,
Seen him often in the smoker,
Playing euchre or old sledge,
Smoking ‘till the air around him
You could split it with a wedge.
Is his customer a deacon?
Mark the drummer’s serious phiz,
As he glibly talks of churches,
And gets in a stroke of biz.
Is his customer a lady?
Mark his gallantry, his smiles,
Very hard a lady’s heart is,
That can stand a drummer’s wiles.
Is his customer a ‘‘statesman ?”’
Either party, take your choice,
Of “our party,’’ talks the drummer,
In a confidential voice.
Thus he swings around the circle,
Learning lessons ever new
From the book of human nature,
And his errors are but few.
Yes, a nuisance he may be,
Sometimes, but. in spite of that,
He’s more oft a right good fellow,
Ready for a joke or chat.
Then here’s to the jolly drummer,
Full of business, wind and sand,
Wonder if in heaven we’ll meet him
With his gripsack in his hand?
The Montreal Carnival.
The Chicago & Grand Trunk, Detroit,
Grand Haven & Milwaukee and Toledo,
Saginaw & Muskegon Railways will sell
cheap excursion tickets from all of their
stations in Michigan to Montreal and _ re-
turn February 2 to 8 inclusive, good for
return passage until February 13 inclus-
ive. The rate from Grand Rapids will
be $20.90 for the round trip.
Expediency is man’s wisdom; doing
right is God’s.
MICHIGAN CIGAR CO.,
Big Rapids, Mich.
MANUFACTURERS OF THE JUSTLY CELEBRATED
“AT. CoC.” YY oa) oi
The Most Popular Cigar. The Best Selling Cigar on the Market.
SEND FOR TRIAL ORDER.
RINDGE, BE RTSCH & Co.,
Manufacturers and Wholesale Dealers in
BOOTS and SHOES
AGENTS FOR THE
Boston Rubber Shoe Co.,
12,14 &16 Pearl Street, Grand Rapids, Mich.
W. STEELE
Packing: and Provision Co.
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
WHOLESALE
DEALERS IN
Fresh and Salt Beef, Fresh and Salt Pork, Pork Loins, Dry Salt
Pork, Hams, Shoulders, Bacon, Boneless Ham, Sausage
of all Kinds, Dried Beef for Slicing.
LARD
Strictly Pure and Warranted, in tierces, barrels, half-bbls., 50 1b. cans, 201b. cans, 3, 5 and 101b. pails
Pickled Pigs’ Feet, Tripe, Etc.
Our prices for first-class goods are very low and all goods are warranted first-class in every in-
stance. When in Grand Rapids, give usa call and look over our establishment. Write us for
prices.
J. H. THOMPSON & CO.,
IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS
TEAS,
COFFEES
SPICES
SPECIALTIES:
Honey Bee Coffee
Our Bunkum Coffee
Princess Bkg. Powder
Early Riser Bkg. Pdr.
KK MILLS
BEE Mills Gd. Spices
BEE Mills Extracts.
BEE Mills Bird Seed.
SPICH GRINDERS
and manufacturers of
BEE Mills Starch.
BAKING POWDERS, BEE Chop Japan Tea.
59 Jefferson Ave., DETROIT, MICH.
. SWIFT'S
Choice Chicago
Dressed Beet
-AND MUTTON-=--
Can be found at all times in full supply and at
popular prices at the branch houses in all the larg-
ger cities and is retailes by all first-class butchers.
The trade ofall marke'men and meat dealers is
solicited. Our Wholesale Brasch House, L. F. Swift
& Co., located at,Grand Rapid-, always has on hand
a full supply of our Beef, Muttonand Provisions,and
the public may rest assured that in purchasing our
meats from dealers they will alwaysreceive the best.
Swirt and Company,
Union Stock Yards,
CHICAGO.
W. C. DENTSON,
GENERAL DEALER IN
Stationary and Portable Kngines and Boilers,
2 7.
Vertical, Horizontal, Hoisting and Marine Engines. Steam Pumps, Blowers and Ex
haust Fans. SAW MILLS, any Size or Capacity Wanted.
Estimates Given on Complete Outfits.
88,90 and 92 SOUTH DIVISION ST., - GRAND RAPIDS, MICH
MOSELEY BROS.
——_WHOLESALE——
Fruits, Seeds, Oysters: Produce.
All kinds of Field Seeds a Specialty.
If you are in market to buy or sell Clover Seed, Beans or Potatoes, will be
pleased to hear from you.
26, 28, 30 and 32 Ottawa St., - -
=
GRAND RAPIDS.
W™M.SEARS & CO.
Cracker Manufacturers,
AGENTS FOR AMBOY CHEESE.
37,39 and 41 Kent St., Grand Rapids.
Arctic Manufacturing Go
Arctic Baking Powder,
Arctic Bluings,
Arctic Inks and Mucilage,
RED STAR BAKING POWDER,
English Standard Extracts
When making Orders, Mention the Above Well Known Brands.
SEE QUOTATIONS.
O. FE. BROWN
MILLING CO.
2ueYyOIO
STOTT
Our Baker's.
Vienna Straight
Grand Rapids, Mich.
Brown’s Patent
Brown’s Standard
Every Barrel and Sack guaranteed.
Correspondence Solicited.
CURTISS & Co.
Successors to CURTISS & DUNTON.
Our Leading Brands,
WHOLESALE
Paper Warehouse,
Houseman Building, Cor. Pearl & Ottawa Sts.,
GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN.
_M. GLARK & SUN,
If our Travelers
do not see you reg-
ularly, send for our
WE ARK HEADQUARTERS
— —FOR
Teas
yrups
Molasses
Samples and Prices
before purchasing
elsewhere. Wewill
surprise you.
Mail Orders al-
ways receive
prompt attention
and lowest possible
prices.
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