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The Michigan ‘Tradesman.
VOL. 6.
GRAND
RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6, 1889.
NO. 285.
SPECIAL OFFER-—rThis style of oval case; best
quality; all glass, heavy double thick; panel or
sliding doors; full length mirrors and spring hinges;
solid cherry or walnut frame. with or without metal
corners, extra heavy base; silvetta trimmings;
6 feet long, 28 inches wide, 15 inches high. Price,
$11, net cash.
I make the same style of
high, from walnut, cherry,
Boxing and cartage free.
Db Db. COOK,
21 Scribner St., Grand Rapids, Mich.
ACTUAL BUSINESS
PRACTICE at the Grand Rapids
Business College. Ed-
neates 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
Valentine Samples
are ready for inspection.
aton, Lyon & Go,
20 and 22 Monroe St.
Voigt, Herpolsheimer & Go,
Importers and Jobbers of
Dry Goods
@TAPLE and FANCY.
ease as above, 17 inches
oak or ash, for $2 per foot.
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
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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
Checks. For saleat50 cents per 100 by F. A.
STOWE & BRO., Grand Rapids.
RISING SUN BUCKWHEAT
Kenge cm =
Guaranteed Absolutely Pure. Orders from Re-
tail Trade solicited,
Newaygo Roller Mills
NEWAYGO, MICH.
FOURTH NATIONAL BANK
Grand Rapids, Mich.
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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.
WALES - GOODYEAR
and Connecticut Rubbers.
Va
THE PARAGON
Misses’ and Children’s, Heels and
Spring Heels.
G. RR. Mayhew,
86 Monroe St., Grand Rapids.
Millers, 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)
than any other machines of
their class.
Send for descriptive cata-
logue with testimonials.
Martin’s Middlings Purifier Co.,
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
RDMUND B. DIKEMAN
THE GREAT
Watch Maker
Jeweler,
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Grand Rapids, - Mich.
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 send
us an original name 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 geta trade-
mark patent.
2nd. The 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) consisting of the editors of
the following papers published in thiscity: The Flint
Evening Journal, The Wolverine Citizen, The Flint
Globe. We shall accept the name _ selected
by this committee, andif upon investigation, we find
it has never been used asa cigar brand, we will for-
ward tothe winner one thousand cigars by express,
charges prepaid.
5th. Should the committee select a name, that had
been sent to us by 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.
A postal card containing the award or selection by
the committee will be mailed to all contestants.
Address,
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
piomptness. Nice Work, Quick Time
Satisfaction Guaranteed.
W. EK. BALL, Jr... - - Manager.
WHIPS AND LASHES—
DELIVERED FREE.
GRAHAM ROYS, - - Grand Rapids,
WANTED!
We want stocks ofgoods 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.
DANIEL LYNG
Successor to FRED D. YALE & CO,,
Manufacturer of
Flavoring Extracts,
in Ladies’,
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Baking Powder,
Bluing, Ete.
Grocers and Drnggists’ Sundries,
Call and inspect our new establishment
when in the city.
19 S. IONIA ST.
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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 o1 Wid-
dicomb Blk.
If you have any
to offer send
samples
dé
and
amount and
willtry to buy them
W. T. LAMOREBAUX,
71 Canal Street.
BUY
Muscatine
ROLLED
OATS
IF_ YOU WANT
THE BEST
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CREOLE STRAIGHY SUT.
To all Merchants Handling Cigarettes:
Anew 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. Thesame 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.
Manufrs of High Grade Cigarettes.
REMOVED.
THE GRAND RAPIDS
PAPER BOX FACTORY,
W. W. HUELSTER, Proprietor,
Formerly located at 11 Pearl St., has been
removed to
81 & 838 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-
mates. Telephone 850.
THE FEMALE DRUMMER.
Have you seen the latest comer
In the field?
When you gaze upon her, know your
Fate is sealed!
it’s no sort of use to throw your
Self before her
And implore her,
In your weakness
And your meekness:
Nor to mutter
You.are but a
Man, and she a female drummer:
She will talk you deaf and dumber
Than a clam;
Tho’ you know the goods she’s selling
Are a sham,
You give in—there’s no repelling
Her invasion!
English, Asian,
White or yellow,
Where’s the fellow
That is human
Born of woman,
Can resist the female drummer:
Be it winter, be it summer
She will drum;
On her tours of devastation
She will come;
And your bump of approbation
Can but dwindle
At the swindle
You submit to;
Wife will wit, too,
Till you wonder
Why in thunder
Heaven e’er made the female drummer!
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THE WIDOW LOCKERY.
I made her acquaintance at an Old Set-
tlers’ reunion. The club, which held its
yearly meetings at Gershom, was com-
posed of the surviving pioneers of 1839.
All persons who, either as adults or
children, had settled in the district cov-
ered by the organization preyious to or
within that year were entitled to enroll-
ment.
Iwas spending the summer with a
friend who ealled herself an old seitler
by marriage. Her husband, Colonel
Hugh Hastings, had come invo the wilds
with his parents at the age of two years,
and so had grown up with the country in
a literal sense. They lived at Barhan
Station, on the line of the one railroad
which traversed the county. Gershom,
the county seat, was six miles distant.
It was arranged on the morning of the
reunion that my friend Marion and I
should drive over early with the chil-
dren and spend the entire day. The
Colonel kept a saddle horse, and would
follow in the afternoon.
We started in the dew, yet when we
reached Gershom the village was all
astir. At 10 o’clock the beautiful picnic
grounds on the banks of Shokobee Lake
were swarming with the population of
many townships. The Old Settlers
proper were not anumerous band, but
their assemblies had come to be gala days
with the entire community.
-assing among the groups gathered
here and there, one caught bits of char-
acteristic talk. A group of men were
discussing wheat prospects. ‘They
seemed to belong to that class in whom
the uncertainty of the farmer’s hope had
bred a condition of chronic foreboding.
One said the wheat was too strong, and
would all be ‘‘lodged’’ before harvest.
Another thought the recent heavy rains
would produce ‘‘rust in the stalk.” A
third predicted a hot, dry time, that
would cause it to ‘fire at the root.”’
‘How does your wheat look, Dave ?”’
The question was asked of a_ tall,
stoop-shouldered fellow, who had been
listening to the rest and saying nothing.
*‘Derned ’f I know,’’? was the reply.
“TI sowed it in good time and good style
last fall, and I hain’t looked at it since.
Lookin’ does no good, nor croakin’,
nuther.’’
Old Seth Householder had been a re-
markably good shot in his time. We
paused in our saunter to hear him tell
about it. He was a grotesque old man,
with yellowish, curling hair hanging
over the collar of his clean calico shirt.
-T presume ther’s a good many old fel-
lers here,’’? said he, ‘‘that minds about
the doggery Hank Sloan kep’ over on the
old State road. He kep’ a little stock of
grocery, too, and about once a fortni’t
he’d hev a shootin’-match. He'd tie up
bundles of tea and terbacker and sugar,
and we’d shoot fer’em. Well. one after-
noon in the beginnin’ of winter—it was
the 31st of November, if I mind right—
Hank hada shoot. Ther’ was just sev-
enty-three of them packages, and when
the match was out and Hank told ’em
over, all but four was marked ‘S. House-
holder.’ Yas, that was rather fair
shootin’. Iwas tol’able handy with a
rifle them days. I tell you, gentlemen,
it?s all in the optic nerve of the eye.
Thar’s whare it lays.”’
The band began playing on the ros-
trum. and the multitude moved toward
the music.
“Should auld acquaintance be forgot
And never called to mind ?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot
And the days of auld lang syne?”
The sweet horns seemed to,speak the
very words!
There was roll-call, answered to in
voices varying from the robust, mellow
tones of middle age to the feeble quaver
of the octogenarian.
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Southwick & Remington,
669 Wealthy avenue, have
Albert Southwick succeeding.
grocers at
dissolved,
Frank Jewell has hung out his shingle
as a dealer in lumber and shingles, mak-
ing his office with I. M. Clark & Son.
Adolph O. Hase has engaged in the
grocery business at 58 Second street.
I. M. Clark & Son furnished the stock.
N. W. Davenport has engaged in the
grocery business at Middlebury, Ind.
The stock was purchased at this market.
F. D. Hopkins, the Alba druggist, has
added a line of groceries. The stock
was furnished by Olney, Shields & Co.
and Hawkins, Perry & Co..
Winchester & Sours, grocers at 241 East
Bridge street, have dissolved, John J.
Sours retiring. The business will be
continued by Edward D. Winchester.
A meeting of the mortgage creditors
of H. J. Fisher, the Hamilton general
dealer, is being held this forenoon to
consider the pereentage offered in com-
promise by Mr. Fisher.
Harvey & Heystek now
store at 76 Ottawa street, as
store adjoining, having connected the
two stores by an archway. They will
maintain their warehouse at the corner
of Louis and Campau streets.
occupy the
well as the
The Grand Rapids Blow Pipe and Dust
Arrester Co. has closed a $5,000 contract
with the United States Rolling Stock Co.,
Decatur, Ala.; a $4,000 contract with the
Duluth Car Works, Duluth, Minn., and a
$3,000 contract with the Richmond Cedar
Works, Richmond, Va.
The replevin suit brought by E. G.
Studley against E. N. Lesperance, of
Hamilton, which was on trial before
Judge Arnold of the Allegan Circuit
Court, resulted in the complete victory of
the plaintiff, the jury finding the $1,500
mortgage given Mrs. Holman to be fraud-
ulent and, consequently, void. The case
was desperately contested on both sides,
and the outcome was somewhat of a sur-
as it seldom that legitimate
creditors are able to get a fraudulent
mortgage set aside.
prise, is
AROUND THE STATE.
South Haven—Madill & Miller
opened a hardware store.
Grand Blanc—Beals & Maxwell sueceed
Beals & Palmer in general trade.
Saginaw tathburn = succeeds
W. H. Harrison in general trade.
Lansing—J. S. Ayers succeeds A.
Hensell in the lumber business.
Constantine—Loupee & Hart succeed
Wm. Loupee in the bakery business.
Cedar Springs—B. Tripp has purchased
the drug stock of Mrs. E. F. Chester.
Kalamazoo — Geo. C. Winslow has
bought the feed mill of Jas. K. Gilbert.
Owosso—Parmelee & Co. will remove
their grocery stock to Lansing on the
15th.
Port Huron—Louis Wampole succeeds
Sigmund Goodman in the clothing busi-
ness.
Bay City—R. P. Gustin, of the whole-
sale grocery firm of R. P. Gustin & Co.,
is dead.
Charlotte—M. J. (Mrs. John) Collins
has assigned her grocery stock to Geo.
Foreman.
Charlotte—A. M. Barber has purchased
a half interest in Frank Merritt’s hard-
ware stock.
Pentwater—S. Andrus is arranging to
engage in the meat the
Haughey building.
Fremont—Perry Odell has bought the
drug stock of Dr. Van N. Miller and will
continue the business.
Sumner—Geo. McCurdy has moved his
drug stock to Alma, leaving Samuel
Bigelow alone in the field.
Summit City—Dr. C. W. Tomlin is
closing out his drug stock, preparatory
to his removal to Bear Lake.
Cheboygan—H. H. Packard has pur-
chased the interest of his partner in the
drug firm of Packard & Crane.
Nashville—Aylesworth & Lusk, deal-
ers in boots and shoes and clothing, have
lately added a line of groceries.
Plainwell—J. H. Wagner & Bro. have
sold their general stock to N. W. Bishop.
They will retain their clothing stock.
Battle Creek—Geo. W. Spoor and fam-
ily have removed to Lansing, where Mr.
Spoor will engage in the wholesale com-
mission business with E. S. Tooker.
Caledonia—C. F. Williams has sold his
drug stock to J. W. Armstrong, who will
move his drug stock from Middleville
and consolidate it with the recent pur-
chase.
Ryerson—The Seandinavian Stock Co.’s
store has been closed on a mortgage for
$2,700, owned jointly by Andrew Wier-
engo, Anderson & Blackstone and C. C.
Moulton. There are a number of unse-
cured creditors, who will probably realize
nothing from the estate.
have
— Geo.
D.
business in
| will be continued
Blissfield—Elon Gauntlett has retired |
from the general merchandising firm of
Jas. Gauntlette & Son. The business
under
J. Gauntlett, Jr.
Bloomingdale—J. C. Speicher’s boot
and shoe and grocery stock and B. C.
night. The loss is about $4,000, well |
covered by insurance.
Ann Arber—Blitz & Langsdorf—com-
monly known as the ‘‘Two Sams’’—have
made an assignment to Evart H. Scott.
Liabilities, $34,000; assets, $27,000.
the liabilities $14,000 are secured.
Coopersville—W. D. Reynolds & Co.,
FE. W. Ives, engaging in busivess first at
Lake Odessa and afterwards at Moorland,
have returned to Coopersville and re-
purchased their former stock.
Baldwin—Daniel McDonald, for
eral years past manager for Foster,
Blackman & Co., has purchased an inter-
est in the grocery stock of S. E. Brad-
ford, and the two will continue the bus-
iness under the style of McDonald &
Bradford. They will also
boots and shoes and gents”
goods.
Battle Creek—The clothing firm of|
Maas & Strauss has been dissolved by}
mutual consent, Mair Maas withdrawing.
Mr. Maas, will, however, continue in the |
clothing business in this city and will
open a store April 1 in the Metcalf block,
in the room formerly occupied by. T. P.
Stebbins & Son, which is now being fitted |
up for him.
Manistee—The of Steketee &
Sons, et al., of Grand Rapids, vs. Albert
C. Barrow. of Cleon, brought under the
fraudulent debtor’s act, was tried before
the Circuit Court Commissioner last Fri-
day. The defense put in no testimony,
and consequently the jury returned a
verdict of guilty. The defendant ap-
pealed the case to the Circuit Court.
A J. Dovel and A. R. Kood, Grand
Rapids, appeared for Steketee & Sons,
and Withey & Glassmire for Albert C.
Barrow.
Sev-
furnishing
case
of
MANUFACTURING MATTERS.
Detroit—Geo. Morley, dealer in lumber,
was attached by creditors and subse-
quently assigned to Edmund Haug.
Luther—Fred I. Nichols and B. T.
Luther have formed acopartnership to
engage in the manufacture of shingles.
East Saginaw —Sibley & Bearinger
have bought the Au Gres Lumber Co.’s
mill at East Tawas. The real estate goes
with it.
Baldwin—Ed. Bradford will move his
shingle mill from White Cloud to this
place. It will be stocked by McDonald
& Bradford.
Pentwater— Bennett & Jeffery have
rented power of the Pentwater Novelty
Iron Works and engaged in the manufac-
ture of wardrobes, book-cases and secre-
taries.
Cadillac—H. R. Towle has moved his
sawmill from Bond’s siding, on the G. R.
& I. Railway, to Millen’s siding, on the
Toledo, Ann Arbor & Northern Railroad,
seven miles from Cadillac.
Nashvyille—H. M. Smith has traded his
one-third interest in the elevator of Wol-
cott, Smith & Co. to Richard Townsend
for the latter’s farm of 99 acres, situated
in the village of Vermontville. Mr.
Townsend will take possession in a short
time.
East Saginaw—D. F. Rose, a widely-
known lumber commission man, goes to
Menominee to take charge of the lumber
operations there of Whitney & Stinch-
field, of Detroit,. who are extensively
operating on the Menominee river and its
branches.
Oscoda—Henry Stephens & Co., of St.
Helen, have bought of Pack, Woods &
Co. all the standing timber they own in
town 22, north range 1, and 23, 1 and 2
west, estimated to cut 16,000,000 feet,
four-fifths white pine. Price paid,
$68,000 cash. The firm are putting in
this winter 65,000,000 feet of pine.
Eaton Rapids—F. A. Montgomery has
traded his stock of general merchandise
in this city and at Springport with I. P.
toberts for the latter’s two grist mills,
sawmill and water privilege, located on
the Grand River at this place. The deal
involves an exchange of property valued
at $25,000.
Sullivan—The Sullivan
has increased its capital stock from
$25,000 to $50,000, C. C. Comstock being
one of the new stockholders. The com-
pany has bought 700 acres of pine and
hemlock timber, situated four miles
south of town, and will bring the timber
to the mill by means of a logging road,
which will be completed by the 1st of
May.
Lumber Co.
the style of|
Stout’s meat market burned last Friday |
Of!
who recently sold their grocery stock to}
add _ lines of |
Somewhat Equivocal.
The National Grocer has this to say of
Tue TRADESMAN in its issue ‘Of last
week :
THe MicotiGAN TRADESMAN is making
rapid progress and is a valuable journal
to the merchants of that State. No live
| merchant should be without it.
It is the live merchant THE TRADES-
| MAN seeks to serve—not the dead indi-
vidual who sleeps on or
i slumbers in the cemetery.
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Cc. F. Williams, who has recently sold
his drug stock at Middleville, proposes
going on the road with a number of drug-
| gists’ specialties.
|
his counter
FOR SALE, WANTED, ETC.
Advertisements will be inserted under this head for
two cents a word the first insertion and one centa
word for each subsequent insertion. No advertise-
ment taken for less than 25 cents. Advance payment.
FOR SALE.
OR SALE—HOUSE AND LOT IN BATTLE CREEK.
Will take stock of dry goods or lots in this city.
Enquire at 666 Wealthy Ave., City. 397
OR SALE—Shoe stock of about $6,000 in good con-
dition with store fixtures and lease; large, well
lighted store and good location on Monroe St., Grand
Rapids, now doing a suecessful cash paying trade;
reason for selling, to retire from trade altogether.
Address, 8S. N. Watson & Co. 39
for - SALE—DRUG STORE IN FIFE LAKE DOING
a good business; no competition; stock and fix-
| tures will invoice $2,000; proprietor has other busi-
| ness. Addresss, C.E Blakely, Mancelona, Mich. 379
~ GOOD ‘CHANCE TO GO INTO TRADE—FOR
ie sale, ata bargain, a stock of boots. shoes and
gent’s furnishing goods, and good will of the business,
| at 505 South Division St. Enquire of Rindge, Ber h
& Co., 12, 14 and 16 Pear! St.,Grand Rapids.
| | on CHANCE—FOR SALE—THE ENTIRE STock
X of goods of a well-established business. The store
| to rent, also the house; well adapted for hotel, if
| desired: a creditable custom has been enjoyed by the
owner, who will be pleased to impart further informa-
| tion at the place, 137 West Bridge street, Grand —
| Mich, M. Bootz.
| r= SALE—A GENERAL STOCK OF eee
will invoice $10,000, including fiatures; business of
| 1888 was over $40,000; located in thriving town of 1,500
| in Central Mic higan; buildings for sale or rent; to
| parties purchasing, we will give our trade, which
amounts to from $600 to $1,000 per month; reasons for
selling, other business. Address M, care Michig: aun
Tradesman. 376
OR SALE—GOOD RESIDE NCE LOT ON ONE OF
the most pleasant streets ‘‘on the hill.” Will ex-
change for stock in any good institution. Address 286,
care Mic an Tradesman. 286
Fo, SALE—FULL SET OF TINNERS’ TOOLS, SAFE,
show cases and hardware fixtures—all in good
condition and cheap forcash. Willselloneorall. J.
Vander Veen, 122 Monroe street, Grand Rapids. 3
FOR SALE-STOCGK OF CLOTHING AND
FOR SALE—STOCK OF 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 ‘*C
eare Michigan Tradesman. 357
ee SALE—STOCK OF DRY GOODS, CLOTHING,
boots and shoes, in live town in Central Michigan;
will invoice about $7,500, fixtures included; trade of
1888 about $22,000; will rent or sell building; our trade
will be given to buyer; reasons, too much business.
Address | B, care Michigan Tradesman.
S77
OR SALE—A NEW, WELL-SELECTED STOCK OF
staple general merchandise, in live town and first-
elass farming community on Michigan Central Rail-
way; inventory, $7,000; annual business, $28,000, with
continued increase; fine modern improved double
brick store, newly built for convenience; best location
in town; low rent and insurance; reasons for selling,
poor health. Address No. 384, care Tradesman. 384
OR SALE—BRIGHT, CLEAN STOCK OF GROCERIES,
erockery and glass-ware, in growing town of over
1,200; stock and fixtures will invoice about $2,500;
business averages $1,500 per month; store building is
one of the finest in the State for business and will be
rented or sold; reasons, other business needs our atten-
tion. Address A, care Michigan Tradesman. 378
T,‘OR SALE—GROCERY AND PRODUCE BUSINESS IN
Eaton Rapids, a town of 2,000 inhabitants; two
railroads, electric lights, low rent and good business;
good reason for selling; must be sold soon. Address,
F. A. Osborn, Eaton Rapids, Mich. 39L
OR SALE AT A BARGAIN—ONE STEAM BOILSR
4x12 feet, 43 3-inch flues, fire front, breeching,
smokestack, safety valve, water gauge andinspirator;
was replaced by larger boiler; all ingood order. J.E.
Greilick, Lock Box 18, Traverse City, Mich. $93
l RUG STORE FOR SALE — ESTABLISHED NINE
years; nearest drug store 6 miles; in one of the
best growing towns of 600 in Southern Michigan; a
rare bargain for right man; best of reasons given for
wishing tosell. Ifyou mean business, address, W. R.
Mandigo, Sherwood, Mich. 394
WANTS.
W
ANTED—SALESMEN—TO SELL OUR CHOICE AND
hardy varieties of nursery stock; many new and
valuable varieties. Address, with references, paral
Brothers, Nurserymen, Rochester, | N.
TANTED—A YOUNG MAN OF GooD SuSE
W qualities with $1,500 to $2,000, to take half inter-
est in a retail boot and shoe store. Sales at present
time $16,000 a year. Ararec hance for some one to get
in a good sree business. Address Jno. F. Muffley,
Kalamazoo, 396
\ = EXCHANGE— PRODUCTIVE REAL
estate in the thriving village of Bailey on the C.
& W. M. Railway for house and lot in Grand Rapids,
worth about $1,500, Address, D. B. Galentine. Cas-
novia, Mich. 372
itu ATION WANTED—A COMMERCIAL
is open for engagement.
with grocery trade in Michigan.
care Michigan Tradesman.
Vy ANTED—1,000 MORE MERCHANTS TO ADOPT OUR
Improved Coupon Pass Book System. Send for
TRAVELER
Large acquaintance
Address Jackson,
25
samples. E. A. Stowe & Bro., Grand Rapids. 214
W ANTED—ACTIVE, HONEST YOUNG MAN WHO
has had two years’ experience in the drug busi-
Address No. 388, care Tradesman.
ness.
Vy J ANTED—A REGISTERED OR GOOD REGISTERED
assistant pharmacist. Address, giving particu-
lars, W. D., Carrier 23, City, 386
V ANTED—EVERY STORE-KEEPER WHO READS
this paper to give the Sutliff coupon system a
trial. It will abolish your pass books, do away with
all your book-keeping, in many instances save you the
expense of one clerk, will bring your business down to
a cash basisand save you all the worry and trouble
that usually go with the pass-book plan. Start the Ist
ofthe month with the new system and you will never
regretit. Having two kinds, both kinds will be sent
by ea (mentioning this paper) J. H. —
Albany, N
$1, 90 CASH BUYS MANUFACTURING BUSI-
ness paying 100 per cent. Best of rea-
sons’ for selling. Address Chas. Kynoch, St. i,
e
' HAVE SOME FIRST-CLASS PROPERTY, WELL
improved and nicely located, in South Dakota;
also some other property to exchange for a stock of
goods. J.G. McKee, 23 Fountain St. 392
ALESMAN WISHES TO REPRESENT GRAND RArIDS
manufacturer to the trade in Chicago, or on the
road after April lst. Address 395, care Tradesman.
MISCELLANEOUS.
NEW DEPARTURE.
We take pleasure in announcing to the
trade that we have put in a full line of
SYLPUPS and
Molasses
Which we offer at Bottom Prices.
All Goods Guaranteed to
Give Satisfaction.
No Charge for
Cartage.
TelierSpiceCompany.
P. STEKETEE & SONS,
JOBBERS IN
Dry Goods : Notions,
83 Monroe St. and 10, 12, 14, 16 & 18 Fountain &t.,
Mich.
Spring Line ef Prints, Seersuckers
Toile Du Nord, Ginghams, Hosiery and
White Goods Just Received.
STARK A, | Peerless Warp
Bags
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Grand Rapids,
FRANKLINVILLE
AMERICAN A, pape mehr
GEORGIA & MARSAC, i
Tae Geese Feathers.
C. M. Henderson & Co.
ARE
Superior
Manufacturers,
Product of Our Factory at Fon du Lac, Wis.
You can buy a better $3 Men’s Calf Shoe and other
& CO, near your own than other
Fine Dongola and Goat $2.50 Shoe grades
made at our Dixon Factory, where celebrated “Red School trouse” Shoes are produced.
We have special advantages for manufacturing them and make them all on the theory of merit and
M. HENDERSON
is true of our Ladies’
nd
grades made by (.
manufacturers can offer, 21:1@ th
and our $3 Henderson Fr-«
door
is
neh did, a other
our
style. ‘‘The proof of the pydding is in chewing the string,” and if you will test them we shall
highly appreciate it and are sure it will, prove to your advantage. Our heavier grades of goods
made at our third factory are also acknowledged to be unequaled.
C. M. HENDERSON & CO, ae
Factories: NARs rd H. James,
Fon du Lac, Wis Salesman fur tre in wer & eninsula.
Dixon, TL P.O. adress,
Chicago, 11. Morton Hovse, tiaid Rapids, Mich.
We furnish electrotypes of our Specialties to Customers.
Michigan Business Men's
Fire Insurance Go
CASH CAPITAL, - = -
$100,000
METHODS:
ECONOMY, .
INSPECTION,
PARTICIPATION.
DIVIDEND NOTICE.
Policy holdersin the above named company
are hereby notified that a participating dividend
of 40 per cent. has been declared, payable on oi
before April 1.
N. B.—The above advertisement is a little pre-
mature, but we hope to ‘“‘get there’ before long.
WM.SEARS & CO..
Cracker Manufacturers,
AGENTS FOR AMBOY CHEESE.
37,39 and 41 Kent
St., Grand Rapids.
BLIVEN & ALLYN,
Sole Agents for the
The devil, Jack! We've gota
Shark. He’ll do for ees.
Bliven & Allyn.
Gcikvoied: “BIG #. Brand of a
n Cans and Bulk, and Large Handlers of OCEAN FISH, SHELL CLAMS and OYSTERS.
We make a specialty of fine goods in our line and are prepared to quote prices at any time.
We solicit consignments of all kinds of Wild Game, such as Partridges, Quail, Ducks, Bear, etc.
H. M. BLIVEN, Manager. _ §3 PEARL STREET.
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ASSOCIATION DEPARTMENT.
Michigan Business Men’s Association.
President—Frank Wells, Lansing.
First Vice-President—H. Chambers, Qheboygan.
Second Vice-President—C. Strong, Kalamazoo.
Secretary—E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids.
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;
Secretary.
Calais on Insurance—Geo. B. Caldwell, | Green-
ville; W.S. Powers, Nashville; Oren Stone, Flint.
Committee on Legislation—S. E. Parkill, Owosso; x.
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.
ommittee on Transportation—James Osborn,Owosso;
ae F. Conklin, Grand Rapids; C. F. Bock, Battle
Creek. oe
ittee on Building and Loan Associations—Chaun-
ee Kalamazoo; Will Emmert, Eaton Rapids;
W. E. Crotty, Lansing,
Local Secretary—P. J. Connell, Muskeger.
Official Organ—THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.
The following auxiliary associations are op-
erating 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 8. M.A.
President, N. B. Blain; Secretary, Frank T. King.
No. 3—Sturgis B. M.A.
President, H. S. Church; Secretary, ' Wm Jom
No. 4—Grand Rapids M. A.
President, E. J. Herrick; Secretary, E. A. Stowe.
No. 5—Muskegon B. M.A.
President, John A. Miller; Secretary, C. L. Whitney.
No. G6—Alba &. 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. 8—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.
No. 10—Harbor Springs B. M. A.
President, W. J. Clark; Secretary, A. L. Thompson.
No.11—Kingsley B. M. A.
President, H. P. Whipple; Secretary, D. E. Wynkoop.
~ No. 12—Quincy B. M. A.
President, C. McKay; Secretary, Thos.Lennon,
"No. 13—Sherman B. M. A.
President, H. B. Sturtevant; Secretary, Ww. J. Austin.
No. 14—No. Muskegon B. M. A.
President, 8. A. Howe : Secretary, G. C. Havens. _
No. 15—Boyne City B. M. A.
President, R. R. Perkins; Secretary, =: M. Chase.
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.
No. 18—Owosso B. M, A.
President, Albert Todd; Secretary, S.Lamfrom. _
No, 19—Ada B.M. A.
President, D. F. Watson; Secretary, E. E. Chapel.
No. 20—Saugatuck B. M. A.
President, John F. Henry; Secretary, L. A. Phelps.
7) (Ne. 21 Wayland BM. A.
{. Wharton; Secretary, M. V. Hoyt.
President, C. H. Wharton; § wo
No. 22—Grand Ledge B. M.A. i
President, A. B. Schumacher; oretary, W. R. Clarke.
No. 23—Carson City B. M.A.
President, F. A. Rockafellow: Secretary, Cc. G. Bailey.
No. 24—Morley B. M.A.
President, J. E. Thurkow: Secretary, ww. B. Richmond.
No. 25—Palo B. M. A,
President, H. D. Pew; Secretary, Chas. B. Johnson.
No. 26—Greenville 3. M. A. i l
President, A. C. Satterlee; Secretary, Geo. B. Caldwell.
No 27—Dorr B.M. A.
President, E. S. 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. Cheesebrough.
No. 30—Oceana B. M. A. |
President, A.G. Avery; Secretary, E. 8. Houghtaling.
No. 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 &. M. A. A
President, L. D. Bartholomew; Secretary, R. W. Kane.
No. 34—Saranac B. M.A.
President, H. T. Johnson; Secretary, rt William S.
No. 35—Bellaire B. M. A.
“tresident, H. M. Hemstreet; Secretary,C. E. Densmore.
"Ne. 36—Ithaca B. M.A.
President, 0. F. Jackson; Secretary, John M.gEverden.
No. 37—Battle Creek B. M. A.
President, Chas. F. Bock; Secretary, E.W.Moore. __
No. 38—Scottville B. M.A.
President, H. E. Symons: Secretary, D. W. Higgins.
No. 59 —Burr Oak B. M. A.
President, W. S. Willer; Seeretary, F. W. Sheldon.
No. 40—Eaton Rapids B. x. A.
President. C. T. Hartson; Secretary, Will Emmert.
President, C H. Howd; Secretary, L. Waggoner.
No. 42—Fremont &. M. A.
President. Jos. Gerber; Secretary C. J. Rathbun.
No. 43—Tustin B. M.A.
President, Frank J. Luick; Secretary, J. A. Lindstrom.
No. 44—Reed City B. M. A.
President, E. B. Martin; Secretary, W. H. Smith.
No. 45—Hoytville B. M. A.
President, D. E. Hallenbeck; Secretary, 0. A. Halladay.
No, 46—Leslie B. M. A.
President, Wm. Hutchins; Secretary, B. M. Goat
No. 47—Flint M. U0.
President, W. C. Pierce; Secretary, W. H. Graham.
No. 48—Hubbardston B. M. A.
President, Boyd Redner: Secretary, W. J. Tabor.
No. 49—Leroy 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. Sellers; Secretary, W. C. Congdon.
‘No. 52—Grand Haven B. M. A.
President, A. 8. Kedzie; Secretary, F. D. Vos. |
No, 53—Bellevue B. M. A.
President, Frank Phelps; Secretary, A. E. Fitzgerald. —
a No. 54—Douglas B. M. A.
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.
N. W. Drake; Secretary, Geo. Chapman.
“No. 57—Rockford B. M. A.
Bresident, Wm. G. Tefft; Secretary. E. B. Lapham.
No. 58—Fife Lake BR. M. A.
President, L. S. Walter; Secretar; .C.< Plakely.
No. 59—Fennville B. M. A.
President F. 8S. Raymond: Secretary, A. J. Capen.
No. 60—South Boardman B. M. 4.
President, H. E. Hogan; Secretary, S. E. Neihardt.
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. Mulholand.
No. 63—Evart B. M. A.
President, C. V. Priest; Secretary, C. E. Bell. a
Ne, 64—Merrill B. M. A.
President, C. 7: Robertson; Secretary, Wm. Horton. _
No. 65—Kalkaska B. M. A.
President, Alf. G. Drake; Secretary, C. 8S. Blom.
No. 66—Lansing B. M. A.
President, Frank Wells; Secretary, Chas. Cowles.
Presiden t,
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.S. 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.
No. 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.
President—L. S. Monroe; Secretary, 8. VanOstrand.
No. 78—Caledonia B. M. A.
President, C. F. Williams; Secretary. J. W. Saunders.
Ne. 79—Kast Jordan and So. Arm B. M.A,
President, Chas. F. Dixon; Secretary, L. C. Madison. o
No. 80—Bay City and W. Bay City R. M, A.
President, F. L. Harrison; Secretary, Geo. Craig.
No. 81—Flushing B. M. A.
President. L. A. Vickery; Secretary, A. E. Ransom.
No. 82—Alma B. M. A.
President, B. S. Webb; Secretary, M. E Pollasky.
No 83—Sherwood B. M. A.
President, L. P. Wilcox; Secretary, W. R. Mandigo.
L. M. Mills organized a B. M. A. at Lakeview
last evening and expects to start a B. M. A. at
Blanchard this evening.
;
Association Notes.
Petoskey Independent: A special meeting of
the Business Men’s Association was held
Wednesday evening, to consider a communica-
tion from Mr. Cherrie, in regard to the new rail-
road. Mr. Cherrie stated that the Eastern cap-
italists who were backing the enterprise were
not willing to go to the south of Petoskey, as had
been talked, and that the road would be built
through Petoskey if the right of way could be
secured. The Association instructed the Presi-
dent to assure Mr. Cherrie that Petoskey would
furnish the right of way as soon as the road was
ready for it. bs
Charlotte Republican: Here is just the chance
we have long been looking for! By reason of
the burning of his Jackson factory, our former
townsman, Fred L. Elms, is now foot-loose, and,
if proper inducements are offered, will transfer
his operations to this city. All he asks is that
he be furnished suitable grounds and a build-
ing, which will cost in all not to exceed $5,000,
and he will agree to establish a factory that shall
afford employment for 100 men and turn out
5,000 carriages ayear. This is an offer that will
not keep, as Mr. Elms cannot afford to delay in
re-establishing his shops elsewhere. Half a
dozen towns in the State would jump to accept
the proposition he makes us, but he prefers to
come to Charlotte. What shall we do about it?
There will be a meeting of the Business Men’s
Association at the council rooms, Monday even-
ing, to decide the matter. If Charlotte is not
dead and gone to seed, here is a chance to start a
boom.
Charlotte Republican: The business men’s
organization is ina very prosperous condition
throughout this State and in many places the
loeal organizations have accomplished admir-
able results. The main object of the organiza-
tion is to encourage all well-directed enterprises
and thus promote the progress and growth of
the place and the extension and increase of
trade. There are plenty of opportunities for the
business men of Charlotte to do this and they
could make no better investment than to spend
a little time and make this organization one of
the strongest in the State. Owosso has, through
the influence of her B. M. A., almost distanced
us in growth the last four years, and Sturgis,
Battle Creek and many other towns are con-
stantly picking the plums, while we remain in
lethargy. There is no reason why Charlotte
should not be at the front, and a little united
effort on the part of her business men will put
herthere. Do not lie down and cry about your
competitors, about your moneyed men who
invest in mortgages at 8 per cent., etc., instead of
putting their money in business enterprises;
apout Mr. A. or Mr. B. who has money and
should make a metropolis of this city by hisown
individual efforts, but get out and show your
own interest and disposition in the welfare of
the place. Lay aside your petty jealousies and
do something yourself toward keeping your
town alive. You are as much interested as any
ene, What have you ever tried todo? You will
find,if you get out and try to have something
done, the interest in the welfare of the town
will become contagious. Mr. A. and Mr. B. will
interest themselves quite as much as you, and
Charlotte will boom under such contagion. Pay
your dues to your B. M. A. and come out to
every meeting. Submit yourideas for considera-
tion and discussion. This is an organization of
the representative business men of this city and
can be made to bear fruit. Let every business
man in the city come out at the next meeting
with a fixed determination to help turn some-
thing up and we will soon find an opportunity to
get there.
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Should Report More Promptly.
GREENVILLE, March 7, 1889.
E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids:
Dear Srr—I have received a
stock subscribed at Battle Creek. They secured
#2,200 of the $5,030 requested. Greenville has
raised her $2,500. These subscriptions are in
small amounts, among the business men, and
nearly every share of stock will carry with ita
policy—a prestige that no other company ever
enjoyed. Now, if we can get the reports of the
other associations, even though they only aver-
age one-third of the amount requested, we will
have $30,000, and the balance could be easily
secured, Yours truly,
Gro. B. CALDWELL, Chairman.
report of
* The associations should report more promptly
as to the steps being taken tosecure the required
subscriptions, in order that Chairman Caldwell
may be able to note the progress made in differ-
ent parts of the State and replace any assign-
ments which cannot be met by the associations
originally asked to contribute the same.
a Ba
Shall We Hold a Special Meeting?
President Wells is anxious to ascertain the
sentiment among the local associations relative
to the desirability of holding a special meeting
at Lansing during March or April, for the pur-
pose of furthering the insurance project. Itis
not intended to make it a delegated convention,
as such acourse would entail expense on the
local bodies in the payment of the traveling ex-
penses of delegates, but to make it a volunteer
convention, inviting business men interested in
the main subject at issue, whether members of
a B. M. A. or not. Those who approve or disap-
prove of the idea are requested to acquaint
President Wells with their views without delay.
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Sell Consumers
Dealers.
SoutuH Boarpman, Feb. 18, 1889.
E. A. Stewe, Grand Rapids:
Dear Srr—We wish to warn dealers against
buying any flour, feed or grain of F. Van Driele
«& Co., of Grand Rapids, as they will sell their
goods to any one ordering of them, regardless of
their being regular dealers, which results in
demoralizing prices. W. W. Peon, Pres.
S. E. NEIARDT, Sec’y.
3. D. Daciy.
d. H. MURRAY.
PEcK & MURRAY.
B. M. A. Organized at Paw Paw.
The business men of Paw Paw met at the
council room last Thursday evening and listened
toanexposition of the B. M. A. by the State
Organizer. A motion to proceed to organize was
unanimously carried, when the regulation consti-
tution was adopted. The meeting then adjourned
until Wednesday evening of this week, when
the organization will be completed by the elec-
tion of officers,
They as Well as
>>
Bellevue Re-Affiliates with the State.
BELLEVUE, Feb. 26, 1889,
E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids:
DEAR Srr—Enclosed I send you draft for $7.50,
in payment of dues for fifteen members.
At our last meeting, Frank Phelps was re-
elected President and myself. Secretary for the
ensuing year, Yours truly,
A. E. FitzGErRa.p, Sec’y.
~ Wrought Moose Pin ce 60&10
The Saw vs. the Ax. —— pen = acorn ao Pee eee ee en
ee : a Wroug OOS Ein. yapanned 3...) | 0&05
In California the saw has largely sup- Wrought Loose Pin, japanned, silvertipped .60&05
planted the ax in bringing down Red-| Wrought Table... 0.0... eee 60&10
woods, but the change is severe upon the | Wrought Inside Blind.................-..... =
woodmen. After being sawed partly | Blind’ Clark's 20a
through, a tree is forced over by insert-| Blind, Parker’s....................0000 0.00 70&10
ing a number of steel wedges in the Bind Shepard s 7
kerf, which are driven in with steel : : Sees
sledges. They are set in as close to- Ordinary Tackle, list April 17,85. ......_._- 40
gether as possible, and the driving of the
wedges frequently takes three hours or
more. The constant contact of the steel
sledges with the steel wedges results in
chipping off fragments which fly with
great force, and in numerous instances
become imbedded in the flesh of the
workmen, requiring a surgical operation
to remove them.
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The Apple Crop.
The apple crop was a good one last
fall, but during the winter it has turned
out a miserable failure. The weather
has been extremely bad for preserving
the fruit, and growers and dealers who
held on to their stock in the hope of an
advance of prices have been heavy losers.
One case is reported of amanin Maine
to whom an offer of $1,000 for 700 bar-
rels was made in the fall, but he pre-
ferred to wait, and recently thought
himself lucky to get $300 for the 300
barrels that remained on his hands.
———»>4s—
East Saginaw Jottings.
E. E. Draper’s apartments on Washing-
ton avenue will be ready for occupancy
in about three weeks, and his present
quarters will be refitted for J. C. Watts
& Co., jewelers, they being compelled to
vacate their present quarters, as ‘‘Little
Jake’’ intends fixing same up for his bank
and general offices.
ee
The Hardwood Market.
There is practically no demand for
walnut. Gray elm is in good demand.
Whitewood is in poor demand. Red oak
is firm and in good demand, the supply
not being equal to the demand.
CARPET SWEEPERS,
IBtssell NO Oe per doz.
Bissell No: 7, new drop pan ...._... fe
issell Grand 7.) ca
ec
Grand Rapids: 0 .
Me r
CRADLES,
Grain, es dis. 50&02
CROW BARS.
Cast Steet per fb 04
iron, steel Poimts. 00. . 3%
CAPS.
Eeyet e perm 65
mick C.F. o 60
Gp iy 35
MEUGHCE . 60
CARTRIDGES.
Rim Fire, U. M. C. & Winchester new list. . 50
Rim Hire, United States.............../- dis. 50
Central Wire dis. 25
( CHISELS. dis.
meeket Parmer oo 7O&10
BOCKCG MTOMINS 58 -._ 60acdO
POCKCEC@OMMCr ee 70&10
BOCHCG SHICES oo 70&10
Borchers’ Tanged Wimmer .:.0 0)... 40
Barton's Socket Nirmers...... 20
a: net
COMBS. dis.
Gerry, Lawrence's oo 40&10
MIGLGHNIRS 25
i CHALK.
White Crayons, per sross.......... 12@12% dis. 10
cocks.
Brass. HeCkMe a 60
I 60
ee 40&10
CRA ae 69
COPPER.
Planished, 14 oz cut to size...... per pound 33
iene Pixte, $068. 31
Cold Rolled, 14556 and 14x00.... 0... |. 29
Cold Rovied: 14260 29
BOMOMIS 30
DRILLs. dis.
Morse’s Sit Sisexs 08 40
Paper and straight Shank. 00.06)... 2.) 40
Morse's Papersname. ) o.oo 40
DRIPPING PANS.
Simall sizes, ser pound 26) ov
SMES SIDS Per HORNE. ook 6%
ELBOWS.
Com, 4 piece 6 in. 3. ses doz. net %
Comugated (ste dis. 20&10&10
PUBEIRGHIN GS ee dis. 4%&10
Office of
Foster, Stevens & Co.,
WHOLESALE
Grand
HARDWARE.
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.
is ONE CENT ABOVE PHESE
Ww rope called
Our price in Grand Rapids
PRICES. We have in stock a ne
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 of a
reel.
3°8 and larger, and 10 cents for
We keep in stock ‘New Process”
inclusive, and our price to-day is only 9 1-2 cents
from 1-4 up to 5-8
a pound for
1:4. This price, however, will
not hold and must go higher if Sisal and Manilla keep advancing.
A trial coil will convince you the days
FOSTER, STEVENS & CO.
numbered.
10 and 12
of Sisal rope are
Monroe-St., 33, 35, 37 39 and 41 Louis-St.
EXPANSIVE BITS. dis.
Clark's, small, $18; larce, $26..........-._._.
Hyves’, 1 15° 2 24-3 80 0 |. 25
FILESs—New List. dis.
American File Association List.............60&10
PSSEOW SD oe 60410
New American 00 60&10
IIGCHGINON Se 60&10
ee 50
eters! ferse Hcaspe 50
GALVANIZED IRON.
Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and 24: 25 and 26: 27 28
List 12 13 14 15 18
Discount, 60
GAUGES. dis.
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s 5
HAMMERS.
Naydole &@€oe's aig: 25
es dis. 25
Mernes @ Plamps. 0. 6... dis. 40&£10
Masons Solid Cast Steel... 30¢e list 50
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel, Hand... .30¢ 40&10
HINGES,
Gate; Clarks tes dis. 60
POE ee ee per doz. net, 2 50
Screw Hook and Strap, to 12 in. 4%4 14 and
Oe 3%
Serew Bookand Eye % |... net 10
C C Y mee. | See
. o ie Oe net 7%
- mH re Boo net 7%
Stlap a dis, 70
HANGERS. dis.
Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track....50&10
Champion, anti friction. :........../.1 60&10
Kidder, wood traek 40
HOLLOW WARE
Se 60&10
ee 60&10
Spiers 60&10
Gray enameled 50
HOUSE FURNISHING GOODs,
Stamped Tim Ware....... .. |. mew list 70410
SAND PAPER,
iiss ecet (87s ees « clRS 46:
SASH CORD,
Silver bake White AO list 50
a. POD A ' 55
one fe . . Bi
rap ee 55
\ Wane oe 35
Discount, 10.
SASH WEIGHTS.
Reet ee per ton $23
+) gp SAUSAGE SUUFFERS OR PILLERS,
Miles’ ‘‘Challenge”’....per doz. $20, dis. 50C50&05
Perry.............per doz. No. 1, $15; No. 0,
ee $21; dis. 50@50&5
Draw CotNo 4 00 each $20, dis 30
Mnterprase Mie Oo dis. 20410038
Sven se
Is ‘Jamaica G_rger’’ an Intoxicating
Drink?
Men and women of bibulous proclivi-
ties. who are balked of their drink either
iyy the pressure of public opinion or by
the law, are apt to resort to such substi-
tutes as cologne. alcohol, bitters and
‘tonics’? of various kinds. Jamaica
singer “fills a long-felt want’ with such
persons, and the trade in this product
has undoubtedly increased greatly of
late on this account. 1 _—_—_
The Only Thing To Do.
Blobson—You seem to have a very bad
eold.
Cumpsey—Yes.
Blobson—What are you doing for it?
Cumpsey—Coughing.
> +s
it has been estimated that the average
life of 2 watch is five years, and that
during that time 5,000,000 watches are
made and sold. In former years, before
the labor-saving machinery now so ex-
tensively used was invented, the annual
output for each man employed was fifty
watches; now, with ‘the ‘help/ of ma-
chinery, each man employed at the busi-
ness is enabled to turn out one hundred
and fifty watches annually.
LIFE INSURANCE.
Brief History of Co-operative Effort in
Early Times.
From the Chicago News.
Life insurance originated in the age of
romance. It grew into popular favor
during an era of wild speculation: be-
came a prominent feature in financial ad-
ventures on land and sea, in peace and
war, and has led a checkered career of
failure and success for 300 years. Its
legendary history, the excesses and
crimes of its early promotors and patrons,
the strange enterprises in which it en-
gaged and the part it played in the sober-
er relations of life, led an early English
writer to designate it -‘a page from the
romance of mammon.”’
No positive trace of any attempt to
insure lives or provide against death or
accident appears beyond the erude
methods of mutual assistance practiced
by the Saxon tribes. Vague expressions
in the writings of Livy, Cicero and Sue-
tonius have led some investigators to
infer that the Romans were familiar with
some form of life insurance. They
doubtless bought and sold annuities—the
reverse side of life insurance—and made
erude calculations concerning the expec-
taney of life, but most scholars agree
that nothing in the Roman laws or com-
mercial history indicates that any system
of providing for their families after their
death was in operation among that peo-
ple.
Among the Saxons the tribal relations
were highly developed before the inva-
sion of England, but the earliest trace of
money contributions in aid of the mem-
bers of the community or neighborhood
appears about the time William the
Conqueror won the battle of Hastings,
1066. From an early period the govern-
ment of the guilds was of a paternal
nature and each society: attempted to pun-
ish its own eriminals and provide for its
own needy by mutual payments into a
common fund. If a member were sick or
infirm from age he was supported by the
guild. If he died poor he was buried at
the common expense. If any one took
the life of a member he was fined £8—
probably about the equivalent of $150 in
the currency of this country. As this
fine was reparatory and went to the rela-
tives of the deceased, it may be regarded
as the average value of a life 800 years
ago. If the murderer were poor, mem-
bers of his guild made up the sum by
contributing a uniform sum toward the
payment of the fine. In this practice
lay the germ of mutual or co-operative
life insurance. After the conquest still
greater reason for this mutual assistance
existed. Each guild was bound to fur-
nish sureties for its members to keep the
peace, and the neighbors contributed
their sextaria of barley meal or honey to
a common fund to meet the exactions of
the Norman knights.
In Europe. probably in England,
marine insurance was the first form of
purchasable indemnity against loss. At
Barcelona, Spain, in 1525 were ordained
measures providing for losses at sea, and
in England in 1548 marine insurance is
first mentioned, though it is spoken of as
a custom among merchants that had been
observed ‘time out of mind.’’ The dan-
gers of navigation were more perilous to
the masters of the vessels than to their
cargoes, and the loss of a fearless cap-
tain was doubtless a serious calamity
both to the freighters and the owners of
ships. The presumption seems reason-
able that the life of a master, as well as
his cargo and vessel. was insured at an
early period.
During the fifteenth and sixteenth cen-
turies. when pirates made the high seas
dangerous, the masters of vessels paid
the merchants who owned the vessels or
their cargoes certain sums for protection.
The merchants in return agreed to ran-
som the sailor within a specified time
after receiving a certificate of his cap-
tivity. In the later years of the crusades
pilgrims purchased a guaranty against a
long captivity in a similar manner. It
was a practice of travelers starting on
long or hazardous journeys to leave sums
of money with brokers or merchants on
the condition that the deposit be doubled
or tripled, if the trader returned withina
certain period: if not, to become the
property of the bailee.
Leaving the uncertainty of legendary
speculation, the first record evidence of
life insurance in England appears in the
case of Sir Robert Howard, who was in-
sured for one year from Sept. 3, 1697.
He died the same day the following year
and the insurer refused to pay, claiming
that the policy had expired. Sir John
Holt, lord chief justice, ruled that the
policy began to run ‘‘from the day of the
date.’”’ after it, and excluded that day.
This ruling has ever since been the law
in similar eases. For many years prior
to this date insurance was done by bank-
ers. merchants, brokers, and usurers.
The person desiring to be insured went
to some capitalists and bargained for his
insurance. No fixed schedule of charges
or premiums was followed and no medi-
eal examination appears to have been
required. No table of mortality was
known to the insurers. The expectancy
of life for a healthy person between 20
and 40 years of age was estimated at
seven years. and for an aged or sickly
person at five or six years. Figuring on
this basis the premiums probably five
times exceeded the present cost of in-
surance, not taking into account the
added charge of usurious speculation.
Sometimes two or three persons would
undertake to insure a life. The contract
was called a policy and the insurers
underwriters because they signed their
names at the bottom of the paper con-
taining the terms of the agreement.
The first insurance company Was a CO-
operative society, organized on the as-
sessment plan. It was organized by the
Mercers—dealers in silks and woolen
cloths—and was called the Mercers’ com-
pany. It began to grant life annuities
instead of paying a fixed sum at death.
The venture was made as a speculation,
but instead of making money it found
itself at the end of forty-nine years in
debt £100,000 and liable for annuities
exceeding its income £4,500a year. The
company had fixed its rate at 30 per cent.,
and after alittle more than four years
it began to lose money on the insured.
The government was appealed to and the
company was released from its embar-|
rassments. The company changed its |
plan. and became. successful, it is said, |
though little is known of its°operations. |
In 1706 the Bishop of Oxford and Sir}
Thomas Allen obtained from Queen!
Anne acharter for a company to ‘‘pro-
vide for their families in an easy and
beneficial manner.’? The company was
called the Amicable, and is generally re-
garded as the first real life insurance
compiny organized. The charter lim-
ited the number of shares at 2,000. The
age of the shareholders was limited to
twelve and forty-five years and the con-
dition of the applicant’s health was not
considered. An entrance or initiation
fee of £7, or about $35, was charged and
a fixed annual payment of premium of
£5. or $25, was paid by each member.
He might hold three shares. At the end
of each year a portion of the fund was
paid to the heirs of members who had
died during the preceding twelvemonth.
At first onlya small portion of the an-
nual ingome was distributed, as the com-
pany Sought to create a fund for invest-
ment. But later en the net income was
distributed at the end of each year.
The earlier payments were about $150,
but In ten years they ran up to $450.
From 1760 to 1780 the average annual
distribution was $870. In 1734 the Am-
icable began to guarantee that the div
idends should not be less than $500 a
year, and in 1807 it introduced assess-
ments graded by the age of the member.
The company ceased to do business in
1867. when it was absorbed by the Hand-
in-Hand Insurance Company.
From 1720 to 1770 much of the busi-
ness of legitimate insurance companies
was usurped by speculators. The risks
taken by merchants on lives for the pay-
ment of certain sums at death were
placed on every move in the career of
noted men. Sir Robert Walpole was in-
sured for thousands of pounds when his
person seemed endangered by popular
tumults. Admiral Byng, whose inaction
lost Minorca, had thousands staked on
the result of his trial by court-martial
and the execution of his sentence. In
1765 a speculator brought 800 German
immigrants to England and abandoned
them without protection or food in an
open field. Ina few days they began to
die of exposure. The insurers placed
large sums in wagers on the number who
would die within a week. A million
pounds sterling is said to have been
wagered on the sex of the Chevalier
@Eon. The chevalier while minister
plenipotentiary from France to England
occasionally wore a woman’s attire.
Louis XV. suggested and ordered the
disguise for the purpose of obtaining
surreptitiously English state secrets, but
the rumor spread that the minister was a
woman. The rumor was taken up by the
gamblers and the chevalier was said to
have been offered £30,000, more than
$150,000 in to-day’s cash, to disclose his
sex, but refused it.
The speculation led to the formation
of hundreds of companies as wild as that
known as the South Sea bubble. Com-
panies were organized to insure horses
against dying natural deaths, or being
stolen, or disabled, for the insurance of
debts, against thefts by servants, against
house-breakers, highwaymen, and lying.
A marriage insurance company doing
business in Petticoat lane guaranteed
the insured a husband or wife within a
specified time. For 3 pence a weeka
society assured the members against pur-
gatory after death. The chastity of
women was insured and men were guar-
anteed against drinking themselves to
death.
Among the names of the companies
were the ‘‘fland-in-Hand’’—a company
still in existence—the ‘‘Golden Globe,”’
and the ‘‘Lucky Seventy, or the Longest
Laver Takes All.” Of the many com-
panies organized but few lived long. In
1800 only six life-insurance companies
were in existence. But the number soon
rapidly increased and between 1844 and
1867, 240 companies failed.
In 1757 Mr. Dodson, an eminent mathe-
matician, applied for admission to the
Amicable company. but was rejected be-
cause of his age. With another mathe-
matician named Simpson he applied for
a charter for another company, but being
refused it by the crown they organized
under a deed of settlement in 1762 the
famous ‘Equitable Society for the As-
surance of Life and Survivorship.’* The
assessments were graded at 14, 20, 25, 30,
40, and 49 years. Women and youth
were insured. The company had little
suceess until in 1791 the Rev. Dr. Richard
Price. ‘‘the father of modern life insur-
ance,’ took hold of the company. He
gave it a table of mortality, and by a
lucky mistake in his calculations greatly
benefited the company’s financial inter-
ests. The doctor first urged the necessity
of areserve fund to meet death losses
and pointed out the advantages to the
company when payments of premiums
was discontinued. For half a century
the Equitable company was the greatest
life-insurance company in the world, and
is still in existence.
The oldest policy in existence is one
issued in 1721 by the London Assurance
company on the life of Nicholas Bourne
in favor of John Baldwin for £100 for
one year. The premium was £5.
The Rev. Dr. Price was a friend of
Benjamin Franklin and assisted the lat-
ter in organizing the first Amercan life
company. It was chartered in the Prov-
ince of Pennsylvania in 1769 for the
benefit of the Episcopal clergymen of the
colony. It was called the Pennsylvania
insurance company. Mr. Price gave the
company the Equitable’s plan and mor-
tality tables. The Massachusetts Hos-
pital Life insurance company was organ-
ized in 1818. Neither company did much
business. The tna Life insurance
company was incorporated in 1820, but
did no business until 1850. The New
York Life and Trust company was or-
ganized in 1830. In 1843 the New York
Mutual was organized, and in the next
three or four years a half-dozen sprung
into existence. At this time the United
States stands first in the relative import-
ance of her life insurance to other finan-
cial operations. In 1887 the New York
insurance department reports the trans-
actions of twenty-nine regular insurance
companies and 171 co-operative organiz-
ations, showing that their assets aggre-
gated $606.508,946; liabilities, $527,906,
635; disbursements, $117,311,602: insur-
ance in foree, $2,474,507,120. In 1887
were issued 174,675 policies, insuring
$531,170,.783, and 93,303 policies termin-
ated, insuring $279,089,399. English,
Canadian, and American companies carry
i three-fourths of the insurance of the
world—the English exceeding the Ameri-
can’ about 6 per cent. Life -insurance,
from a mutual-aid or gambling venture,
has become one of the lords of finance.
LIOTTOS uddyo 'TVTL
The BEST CRACKER Made
We also manufacture a full line of Sweet
Goods. Write for quotations
and samples.
Jackson Cracker G0," scx.
Alfred J.Brown
——JOBBER IN-——
Foreign, Tropical and California
FRUITS
Oranges,
Lemons,
Bananas.
16 and 18 No. Division St..
GRAND RAPIDS, - MICH.
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Every garment bearing the above ticket is
WARRANTED NOT TO RIP, and, if not as re-
presented, you are requested to return it to the
| Merchant of whom it was purchased and receive
| anew garment.
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\ISTANTON, SAMPSON & CO.,
Manufacturers, Detroit, Mich.
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To THE MERCHANTS OF MicHican — We offer
Marble and Granite
We manufacture a full
ss carry a heavy stock,
and warrant our goods to
be STRICTLY PURE and
B first class.
PUTNAM & BROOKS.
hundred. .........- $2.
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The Tradesman Coupon is the cheapest and most modern in
the market, being sold as follows:
D | SUBJECT TO THE FOLLOWING DISCOUNTS:
Orders for 200 or Over. ..-..-- 5 per cent.
“ ee 10 "
a 20 i.
SEND IN SAMPLE ORDER AND PUT YOUR BUSINESS ON A CASH BASIS.
KA. STOWE & BRO, Grand Rapids.
Monuments
at a closer margin of profit than any concern in
the State. Write for estimates on Building Stone |
or zemetery work. First class material and work-
manship only.
SAM'L MOFPEYY, Manager.
Detroit Soap
DETROIT, MICH.
Manufacturers of the following well-
brands of
QUEEN ANNE,
TRUE BLUE,
MONDAY,
AND OTHERS,
W. G. HAWKINS,
SUPERIOR,
PHENIX,
MOTTLED GERMAN,
For quotations address
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CZAR, MASCOTTE, |
WABASH, CAMEO,
MICHIGAN, ROYAL BAR,
Salesman for Western Michigan,
Lock Box 173, ~ GRAND RAPIDS ,
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HESTER & FOX,
Manufacturers’ Agents for
SAY AND GRIST MILL MACHINERY,
ATLAS Won
INDIANAPOLIS, IND., U. S.A:
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ANUFACTURERS OF
Send for ¢€
Catalogue f
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Planers, Matchers, Moulders and all
Saws, Belting and Oils.
And Dodge’s Patent Wood Split Pulley. Large stock kept on hand. Send for Sample
Pulley and become convinced of their superiority.
44, 46 and 48 So. Division St., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
Write for Prices.
STEAM ENGINES & BOILERS. 2m
oan ¥ Ce:-y Engines and Boilers in Stock py etm,
LENIN for immediate delivery. aml "
kinds of Wood-Working Machinery,
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HEREAVENRICH
BROTHERS
WV holesale Clothiers
MANUFACTURERS OF
Perfect-Fitting Tailor-Made Clothing
AT LOWEST PRICES.
138-140 Jefferson Awe., 34-36 Woodbridge St., Detroit,
MAIL ORDERS sent in care L. W. ATKINS will receive PROMPT ATTENTION
Wecarry a large stock of Foreign
and Domestic Nuts and are at a!)
times prepared to fill orders for
car lots or less at lowest prices.
Putnam & Brooks.
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PEHEREINS & HESS
DEALERS IN
des, Furs, Wool & Tallow,
NOS. 122 and 124 LOUIS STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN.
WE CARRY A STOCK OF CAKE TALLOW FOR MILL USE-
LEMONS:
Our lemons are all bought at
the cargo sales in New Orleans
and are as free from frost or chill
as in June,
PUTNAM & BROOKS.
ATTENTION, RETAIL
Increase your Cigar Trade by selling the
BMA.
Michigan
B.M. A.
Named in Compliment to the
Business
Men’s
WHY BE A SLAVE
' To the Pass Book System
‘With its attendant. losses and annoyances, when you can
supplant it by so inexpensive and labor-saving
a system as the
Tradesman Credit Govpon Book,
Which is now used by over 2,000 Michigan merchants.
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MERCHANTS! *
BMA...
Association,
And especially adapted, both in Quality and Price, to the requirements of the
Abs0
RETAIL GROCERY TRADE.
y THK BRSY 6 Cent Gigar on Kartht
PRICE, $30 PER THOUSAND.
The Telfer Spice Company, -
MANUFACTURERS’ AGENTS, GRAND RAPIDS.
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4 q+ se a | 1an another, it is politics. Let a. sudden
The Michigan Tradesman |." tates: change occur inthe polit Croctery See
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and radical change occur in the political == ' i (J QO 1 B Y C R A IG ns G 0
= = = status of the country, and three-fourths | No. 0Sun........--.---+:seeeeressert -- 50 5 4 5
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6, 1889- of the members of the successful party aos ee =
LEISURE HOUR JOTTINGS. become, temporarily, almost insane in Thpalae.-(.-- 4 epee a MANUFACTURE
ee their delight. A new and golden era of | 6 doz. in box. i ==
a es
i oi ce i rs v San Cee nage 9
eee . |advancement and prosperity is assured. 2 ich z =
sy A COUNTRY MERCHANT. . : : MO. 1 ocean sete s aptens tame retort 2 a :
Ww eee akankon’ Crops will be better, and prices higher. | No. 2 Se ee meee gate ae pe oe 3 00 ' Fs -—
; at a Vas re stry of abortive nopes ‘ ee . irst lity. p_: BP j at
e neat : : geting . ue sth {aber Sal be me eee demand, and | 92 'p's cr crnap top . ee ie Ss ae 4 ree kK | I 78s
; s > . verfiowing. 1é : Bee ert) ee Ge ee eee oe a _ = Sa a el Sen pee beeen fore
o ae " as ae : 1 i % ti wages will advance. Manufactures and aS eee S j 7s oer SaaS ps
‘ saves of grief, and indignation, : ‘ 5 NGS a Pca eee ase cee eas es 25 y o ) a /
oS ae 1 di oo trade will revive, and the land will over-| xxx Flint
é isd i > and disgust Wl : : : ago oak Bo i
ind ein. ge apt n ane - flow with money seeking investment at —— LOD. ee eeeee sees eeee ee cenees 2 = | ,
swee -ey the country during the pres- ! t No. te i
oral To = een hi S t be f a nominal interest. And, better than] No.2 “ . ae 3 80 ee ee oe
ant year. > many gushing patriots 0 :
Je eae eT oy vs 61 , all. the loaves and fishes of a paternal _Pearl top. _ a ! ; at
to-day will be indulging in the Achilles i : ey ee No. 1 Sun, wrapped and labeled). 000). 3 70 Having numerous lines of Glassware. Lamps,
: . “ i i t of 1890 government will be liberally divided |No.2 ‘ - - ee 477
sulking ac fore the aavent 0 S90, : . . No. 2 Hi cs ee 4G Faneyv Goods x rery whie re sire
—— act be ste aca ‘ al be | 2™0RS the faithful, and sinecures will be ves baa 14 | Fancy Goods and Crockery which we desire to \
and what a wonderful decadence wi'' 0° | assiduously seeking out the deserving | No. 1 San, eta e 125 | close out and discontinue those particular styles. : a
observable, before that period, in the and capable No.2) ¢ . ee 1 50 fer th t ys ai tf / fae 7 a ‘ A 4
sys . . non . No. PD ee eS we offer em at 2 special daiscoun rom our - i " bp y } a
present prevailing adoration of promi- oe See 1 40 | a iy . 4 Bb ‘a | ;
But these enthusiasts, surely against NG eG ee ee emcees era a a 1 60 : i oe Se ud
nently successful politicians. ‘i rn : ie STONEWARE—AKRON, ; regular catalogue prices of a ae pe it
re i chirt i their will, are forced to observe, as the | Butter Crocks, pent SE Aa 0614 | SS —_
r twelve n million : Jugs, % gal., ee eee 5
pres —— . eee months and years roll by, that uninter- a a Fifteen per cent., Terms 60 Days
Ame sovereigns, there are proba- : : ! eS “ ; . § Vs '
“a me one pig sit are é rupted prosperity is as far distant as ae La ise Ne eapnereroe sas 1 5 1 = p ’ a9
nS 2a8 ( 7 s re , Or : . Me BS, 20 Cat, COGN ee oe eet ‘ | o
7 irae ever -that tee xracp of menepely ts eli © 2 eee 1 00 Twenty per cent., Cash in 10 Days. ,
openly are candidates for an office of ea i . a Se ae 1 65 | ‘ ‘ wei ET
a : i ~ ~ | pereeptibly loosened; that the inexorable} « cae ee 295 l i
some kind under the incoming adminis-|),. o¢ s ir a" a is still in| Milk Pans, % gal., per doz. (glazed 66¢).... 60 be ! i We Manufacture to Order Hose and Police Patrol Wagons, Peddlers, Bakers, Creamery,
: : i / a " aw of supply and demand Is s ea ean aut ‘ oe | These goods are now displayed m our sample Dairy, Furnitare, Builders, Dry Goods, Laundry, and Undertakers Wagons.
tration, and, of course, something like : i
i lt of tt ill force, and that the banquet a rooms. corner Spring and Fulton streets Grand
S y ey g D . ” S, a
e nine hundred punaagae 0 : ae a fishes was an exclusive affair to which & ; i ue ‘
oventuatly experience Ww aie Ss get! ine vast majority of the faithful were A VW N j N G : Rapids, and will be offered in any quantities Repairing in all its Branches.
left.’ And the simple gullibility and wok Genie AND TENTS. é desired until sold.
innocent credulity of many of these ex-
i oe ! But does this experience tone down the
pectants is astonishing as well as amus-
i Ee i ie / exuberance at the next party victory?
= —_— . =~ eigen There may be instances of this kind, but
before them; with every opportunity of eesti ody. hey ec ae
knowing that machine politics still dom- a
inates the country, and with every reason- The amount of Northern capital in-
able proof that in reaching for Uncle | vested in the South is now very great,
and increasing every day. During 1888, CRAI N BUCKET.
sam’s pap, the assistance of one man is, a 3 Ha Se
Ss Ce sae i 1 of | ee Breat sum of $168,000,000 was invest- | s35recana Wagon Covers, Water Proof Coats, Buggy le poorest acchepnr amie
@ in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, of |eq in Southern industries. Nearly $30,- | Aprons, Wide Cotton Ducks, ete, Send for Sricsisetod . Pee ee
ase
West End Fulton St Bridge. Telephone No. 867.
more service than the petition of an | 000,000 of this was invested in Alabama, Catalogue. : 7.
entire county, there is to-day, and prob- which hia in = sige scsangyeg eat Chas. was Coye, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. oi PERFECTION =
ee i 1 ten ofies |e CRieEptises im Ghat Sector. N- | pelephone 166. overt Peart tt. a 0 il
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would be little complaint at the dearth of
aecommodations. And what under the
canopy these candidates imagine can ben-
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and discomforts inseparable from the No Equal in the State.
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him to observe how completely his pre-
cepts and practices have lost the respect THE LARGEST AND BEST
and approval of his countrymen. The WANTED. CLEAR LONG HAVANA FILLED
once boasted Jeffersonian simplicity of
the early days of the Republic has, for POTATOES, APPLES, DRIED SUMATRA WRAPPED CIGAR
this portion of the planet, it must grieve 127 Louis St, GRAND RAPIDS
GRAND RAPIDS, - MICH.
3 decades. been only a matter of history 1 ra SOLD FOR 5S CENTS OPEN AT THIS en
and tradition. The ostensible features FRUIT, BEANS r
of the government are those laid down and all kinds of Produce. : =
by the founders, but every successive | ,Zf you have any of the above goods to
ol : TG i por 2 or anything in the Produce line, let
year adds to the circumlocation of its |us hear from you. Liberal cash advances
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its offic iat mac — —— n the social K A R L B R O S °9
status of its functionaries and their fe- C
male belongings appears to have inseper- OMMISSION MERCHANTS
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whether Mrs. Secretary A, or Mrs. Sen- MICHIGAN TRADESMAN, Grand Rapid.
ator ©., of Mrs. Gen. ©. Shall enter a
doorway first, seems to awake more in-
terest in government circles than the
useless expenditure of a hundred millions
exacted from the toilers of the country.
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GRAND RAPIDS, - - MICH. SPECIAL PRICES TO JOBBERS.
tHe LANE & BODLEY CO.
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Orders for Potatoes, Cabbage and Apples, iu Car Lots, solicited.
w Butter and Eggs, Oranges Lemons and Bananas a specialty.
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slareand glitter, the ‘‘fuss and feathers,”’ ee Manufactured only by
JOHN E. KENNIN
and the frothy enthusiasm, attending a me eee —— SOLE AGENTS
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e modern presidential inauguration. The
pilgrim in Thibet, who travels a thou- GRAND RAPIDS MICH
sand miles to feast his eyes on the Grand : E
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the gates of paradise to him, but, is it
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possible that there are American pilgrims a -_ & Se ——WHOLESALE
so densely ignorant as to imagine that BALED HAY, : Re
s the sight of anew chief magistrate can MILL FEED —— Sicreoty pers Kd FE ruilts ; Seeds, Oyste PS 3 Pp rod uee.
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any one thing that the : aa eT oe R 2 to 48 JOHN STREET I e om you
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GROCERIES.
following
Agin’ Canned Goods Futures.
At the last meeting of the Whelesale
Grocers’ Association of New York, the
resolutions were unanimously
adopted :
WueEREAS, The practice in the whole-
sale trade of contracting for large quan-
tities of staple canned goods before the
vegetables or fruits are grown or packed,
has a tendency to encourage manufac-
turers to pack excessive quantities of
such goods, because they are assured of
a profit on a certain amount and are en-
eouraged to take their chances of profit
or loss upon an additional amount, which
is usually in excess of the legitimate de-
mand; and,
WHEREAS, This excessive quantity
must be marketed at some price, and
some packers and brokers do not hesitate
to go into competition with their regular
customers for the retail trade upon which
wholesalers rely to market their contract
purchases:
Resolved, That the members of the
Wholesale Grocers’ Association of New
York and vicinity believe that these
practices are against the best interests
of both dealers and packers; and we
recommend to the wholesale grocers of
the United States that they discourage
said practices by refraining from con-
tracting for large lots of staple goods for
future delivery, and by giving a pref-
erence to those brokers and dealers who
do not load up their principal customers,
the jobbers, and then -go into competi-
tion with them for the trade of their cus-
tomers.
Resolved, That these views do not ap-
ply to contracts for goods of extra qual-
ity, of which there is a limited quantity
packed, and supplies of which cannot
readily be obtained at all seasons: nor
to the many honorable and fair-minded
packers, brokers and dealers who recog-
nize the reasonable equities which exist
in trade, and protect their customers
against the evils above mentioned.
a a
2 To the Business Man.
In any line of business, the man who
uses reasonable economy and has the
ability to give fair management, and the
perseverance to hold on, will, in a great
majority of cases, make a success: while,
on the other hand, the one who rushes
into whatever he has undertaken with a
spasmodic effort to win all at once, as a
rule wastes his energies and often fails
for sheer want of perseverance.
The man who starts into doa day’s
work, and attempts to do as much in one
hour as ought to be done in two, will
usually find it necessary to take a rest;
and while he is resting will lose valuable
time which he evidently feels that he
ought to make up, judging from the spas-
modic efforts he will make when he starts
in to work again. But at night the man
who works steadily and perseveringly,
will be found to have accomplished the
most, while usually he will be found in
a much better condition to commence
again the next year. So itis in business.
One will seem to hustle around and make
a considerable to do over what he is do-
ing, and after wasting his energies in
accomplishing what, by taking a little
more time, could be dene with very little
effort, and then, because, as he thinks,
he fails to meet the success he imagines
he should, he becomes discouraged and is
ready to make a change to something
else. This, in a majority of cases, proves
a loss, and in consequence he does not
succeed as the energy he displays would
seem to warrant. Another man, while
he may not make a great display of his
energies at the start, will goto work
more systematically, and will have better
opportunities to economize and in many
cases to manage better than when he at-
tempts to rush matters. If he will but
observe he will be ready to take advan-
tage of any favorable circumstances that
May arise. It always seems that the
man who is constantly shifting about is
always making a change at the wrong
time, when a little perseverance would
have brought him through all right. In
all lines of business there are fluctua-
tions, ups and downs, and in order to suc-
ceed we must persevere. It is when the
odds seem against us that it seems the
most important to persevere.
tl Al ee
Success of the Orange Trust Dubious.
The recent report thata trust was being
formed to control Florida oranges is still
attracting the attention of the trade. A
report on the subject from Jacksonville
is as follows:
**We have had corners in wheat. sugar.
flour and other products, but no corner
on oranges can be effected at $1 a box.
Every enterprising and intelligent orange
grower in the State gets more year after
year than $1. Only the careless, ignorant
and indifferent classes allow their fruit
to sell below that figure. If the ‘‘trust’’
or orange ‘‘combine’’ will go to $1.25 or
$1.50 a box, it may possibly handle the
orange crop of Florida, or a very large
part of it. Even at such a price the
company can realize from 30 to 80 per
«ent. on their operations. As to dividing
any remaining funds among the fruit
growers, after the expenses of handling
are subtracted, the suggestion is rather
dim and misty. The price mentioned
($1.25 to $1.50) for a box of 200 oranges
would interest the growers and business
men of the State generally, and perhaps
make the project successful. From .a
merchant and orange grower of Putnam
county we learn that certain of his
neighbors, in 1887-8 got $1.70 per box: in
1888-9, $1.63—all sold between Novem-
ber 15 and January 15. Deducting 35
cents a box for delivery to steamer, the
average price was much above $1.25,
though the majority of growers would
much prefer acertainty at the latter
price rather than take any risk of yearly
fluctuations.’’
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The richest men of to-day are the
Rothchilds, whose wealth is estimated at
$200,000.000. According to the best re-
ports Cornelius Vanderbilt has $75,000,
000, Jay Gould has a small bank account
of $130,000,000, William K. Vanderbilt
has $20,000,000, Leland Stanford and
John W. Mackey are tie at $20,000,000
each, D. O. Mills has $12,000,000, August
Belmont $16,000,000, and George William
Ballou $8,000,000 and still gaining.
CREDULITY OF SMOKERS.
Tricks of Tobacco Manufacturers--Ci-
garettes and Chromos.
From the Chicago News,
“The public must not think that cigar
dealers are experts upon whose judgment
they can rely,’’ said a tobacconist yester-
day relative to the credulity of smokers.
‘The majority of the dealers in this city
are just as ignorant of qualities as the
veriest novice in smoking. What is more,
they are as often ‘taken in in their pur-
chases as are the customers who put
down their dimes and get nickel cigars.
It has grown to be a regular feature of
the business for manufacturers and job-
bers to beat the trade. I have even
heard the practice defended on the plea
that competition practically necessitated
it, and I am sure that the struggle for
patronage is responsible for a large share
of the cheap stuff that is foisted upon the
market. A jobber goes into a retail store
and learns that some other jobber has
cut prices. He immediately meets the
cut and on getting an order supplies
goods according to the price received.
Thus, except in the case of some manu-
facturers who have a reputation to main-
tain, the tendency is for cigars to de-
teriorate.
“This is the reason, too, why there is
such a multitude of brands. One brand
loses favor with the publie after a time,
and when retailers begin to hesitate about
purchasing it, the cigars—the same in
size, shape and color—are put up under
another name and palmed off as some-
thing new. Thus the thing goes on, and
boundary of intent in asking this great
favor: but I could only turn to my friends,
as I was almost powerless and single-
handed in my search. I now know that
the members of the Michigan Commercial
Travelers’ Association are associated to-
gether with a strong feeling of brother-
hood, entirely outside of any mere money
attraction. Thank them all for myself
and wife. We both say, ‘Long may it
wave.’ ”’
James A. Massie was born at Granby,
Quebec, on July 22,1851. He lived there
until] 18 years of age, when he removed
with his parents to Wacousta, this State,
remaining there four years. The family
then removed to Burr Oak, where he and
his father carried on the grist mill busi-
ness under the style of Massie & Son.
The same firm subsequently conducted a
grocery store at Cedar Springs for six
years, when the junior member of the
firm went to Fort Carroll, Montana, and
engaged in the Indians trade. The prin-
cipal business was the exchange of tea,
tobacco, whisky, blankets and ammunition
for buffalo robes, skins and furs, such as
elk, moose, deer, antelope, coyote and
mountain lion. The first year he se-
cured 22,000 buffalo skins, but the last
year he was in trade there the buffalo
were so scarce that he managed to obtain
the dealer as often acts in ignorance as
in collusion with the jobber.
works well, for the question of quality
is largely one of imagination,
of name means renewed life.
‘The nicest trade in Chicago is that of
the better class of clubs. We have the
reputation of having the best market for
are the places where this is most observ-
able. The prices paid by clubs vary
from $10 to $30 a hundred.
eutting of prices,
and little or no fault found with goods.
Few seed cigars ever
even the cheapest clubs. Novelties in
the way of assorted goods find ready sale
in upper circles for dinner parties, where
the desire is to afford variety.
cigars, of course, come high, but style,
and especially snobbishness, prompts to
almost any extravagance that wealth can
pay for.
“Box trade, though common
well-to-do people, is much smaller
one would suppose. It seems as though
among
money a nickel, dime, or quarter at a time
rather than to consult economy and per-.
sonal convenience. I'll venture to say
that half the smokers in Chicago would
rather goout of their
stand than buy by the box and carry a
ease. Of course, on box trade we make
less profit than on regular sales, but that
form of sale is much preferable.
‘In the matter of tobacco for smoking
torted notions. The leaf used in the
best chewing tobacco is poorer than that
used in cigars. It is wholly of American
growth, and as such has not the delicate
fiber and aroma possessed by the leaf
used in good grades of cigars. Virginia
probably furnishes our best smoking and
chewing tobacco. The general impres-
sion is that the best grades of tke latter
take the cream of the crop, and the
superior form in which it is placed upon
the market naturally tends to confirm this
belief, wher
ufacturer that supports the fiction.
“I doubt not that every tobacconist in
the city would gladly forego the priv-
ilege of selling the much-condemned but
popular cigarettes. There no money
in them for the retailer,
ufacturers seem to make a good thing out
of the business. Boys and young men
are the chief purchasers.
a middle-aged person is found smoking
is
is the natural precursor of the strongef
smoke I think the abominable
these papered goods would be rapidly on
the wane. As it is,
had to resort to all
eatch the trade.
has proved a great scheme.
sorts of tricks to
The strang-
ers do not stop to think that they pay for
everything they
ers, and fragrant pellets. Ihave even
known old smokers to begin to smoke a
up for months just to get a series of pic-
tures—always for thechildren, of course,
but, as the dealer often shrewdly sus-
pets, for themselves. Manufacturers
have been wise enough
nature and cater to its leanings in getting
up their schemes to effect sales.
out pretty faces from the cigarette boxes
would be to deal a hard blow at the
trade. I make this statement as a sug-
gestion to would-be reformers.”’
oo ae
Gripsack Brigade.
Seott S. Swigart is visiting
trade this week. r
W. H. Gardiner,
the city
formerly of the
for Curtis & Co.
L. M. Van Buren, traveling represent-
ative for McCausland & Co., of East Sag-
inaw, spent Sunday with friends in this
city.
Bb. F. Pashby, State agent for Thomp-
son & Chute, the Toledo soap manufac-
turers, was in town several days last
week.
Ed. A. Smith, formerly on the road for
Amos 8. Musselman & Co., is now selling
tobacco for J. G. Butler & Co., of St.
Louis, opening under the supervision of
General Agent Ford.
J. D. Clement, of Kalamazoo, requests
Tue TRADESMAN to make the following
acknowledgment to the traveling men
for their assistance In helping him find
his lost child: ‘‘My boy is home again—
found him in Chicago. We have many
to thank and we wish you to express onr
thanks to all members of the M. C. T. A.
for the interest shown in finding him, as
hundreds of letters from them show us.
I may, perhaps, have overstepped their
The plan |
Novelty |
Havana cigars in this country, running !
even better than New York, and the clubs |
There is no|
no delay in payment, |
find their way into |
Such |
smokers preferred to peddle out their |
way to a cigar]
and chewing, I think people have dis- |
2as it is the skill of the man- |
though the man- |
It is rare that |
them, and were it not that the cigarette |
use or |
manufacturers have |
The photograph craze}
est thing about the matter is that smok- |
get, box, picture, hold- |
particular kind of cigarettes and keep it |
to read human |
To take |
firm }
of Steele & Gardiner, is now on the road |
only twenty-five skins. During the four
years he was engaged in trade with the
| Indians, did not use $5 cash in all
his transactions. Life on the frontier
was not entirely featureless, as a rifle
ball through his hand and wrist, another
i through the calf of his leg and a sixteen
Tir-
jing of the monotony of Indian trading,
| Mr. Massie returned to Michigan and en-
he
| inch cut in one leg ail bear witness.
| gaged in the grocery business at Green-
| ville. A year ago he turned the business
over to his father and aecepted a position
las traveling salesman for I. M. Clark &
|Son. His territory includes all the avail-
able towns onthe Grand River Valley,
{the Lake Shore, south on the G. R. & I.
|and east and north on the D., L. & N.
He is building up a good trade and mak-
ing many friends.
oe --
Going to Law.
Law has been called a luxury, but
; surely more with a view to its cost than
‘to the pleasure men can derive from re-
eourse to it. Save in very exceptional
cases—such as the settlement of a great
question of principle in which whole
; Classes may be involved, and in which
the parties to the case are really repre-
sentative individuals, through which cir-
cumstance personal bias or animosity is
largely removed from them—law is the
resort of the foolish and imprudent. In
nine cases out of ten of mere litigation,
narrow-mindedness and ill-temper have
much to do with it, and, once in, the
whole machinery seems contrived, by a
hundred little artifices, to fan the flame
|
than |
rather than to allay it. We gratefully
remember, as a relief to the depressing
story of what we may call legal hunger,
the case of Mr. Thomas Brassey, who, in
all his long experience as a contractor,
engaged in most extensive and compli-
eated transactions. only once allowed
himself to be led into a lawsuit, and that,
he tells us, was in the case of a Spanish
railway in which, unfortunately, he had
a partner who would not rest satisfied
without recourse to law on some point in
dispute. Mr. Brassey declared that he
would not enter on another lawsuit to
;}any cireumstances whatever; his con-
| vVietion being that, even if you won your
‘ase, it would not repay you for the loss
of temperand peaceof mind, the strength
taken from your business, and the gen-
eral disarrangement in your affairs con-
| sequent on such a process.
Sir Walter Scott, who knew well what
going to law means, being himself a law-
yer, has embodied for us the passion for
law which grows with what it feeds on
in the person of Peter Peebles: and
Charles Dickens in nothing showed more
| humor and more sympathy than in his
most graphic pictures of the characters
who, like ghosts, haunted the old Chan-
;ecery Courts in London. And George
Eliot in the ‘* Mill on the Floss” well
{illustrates the absorbing power of the
| law mania, even on minds otherwise so
| strong and healthy as that of Mr. Tulli-
| ver,
{
‘**What I want, you know,’ said Mr.
Tulliver; ‘what I want is to give Tom a
good eddication; an eddication as’ll be a
ij bread for him. That was what I was
| thinking of when I gave notice for him
| to leave the academy at Lady-day. I
| meant to put him toa downright good
| school at midsummer. The two years at
th’ academy ’ud ha’ done well enough, if
| Ud mean’t to make a miller and farmer
iof him; for he’s hada fine sight more
| schoolin’ nor I ever got; all the learnin’
my father ever paid for was abito’ birch
{ at one end and the alphabet at the other.
; But I should like tom to be abit of a
| scholard, so as he might be up to the
| tricks o’ these fellows as talk fine and
write with a flourish. It’ud be a help to
me with these lawsuits, and arbitrations,
and things. I wouldn’t make a down-
| right lawyer o’ the lad—I should be sorry
{for him to be a raskil—but a sort o’ en-
gineer or asuryeyor, hr an auctioneer
and vallyer, like Riley; or one o’ them
smartish businesses as are all profits and
no outlay, only for a big watch chain and
a high stool. They’re pretty nigh all
one, and they’re not far off being even
with the law, I believe. For Riley looks
Lawyer Wakem i’ the face as hard as one
cat looks another. He’s none frightened
at him.” 77
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The Grocery Market.
The sugar situation has undergone
something of a transformation, one brand
of granulated being quoted at 7.31, while
another is sold at 7.06. Corn syrups are
slightly firmer. Riceis firm. Spices are
quiet. Canned goods begin to exhibit
signs of life. Dried fruits are selling
fairly well. Coffee continues to grow
firm, the package manufacturers having
advanced their prices a full cent within
the past week.
Oranges are firm and active, at slightly
higher prices. Lemons are in better de-
mand, and with a reduced supply to
come in for the month of March, prices
are almost sure to move up somewhat.
Florida oranges are about all consumed
and Californias are beginning to arrive,
though they are somewhat scarce yet,
and the quality is good, but not in its
prime yet.
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A Victim of the Credit Business.
From the Plainwell Independent.
Ferry Walton came to Plainwell in
1874 with $7,000, and went into the cloth-
ing business. In 1885 he was closed out,
but paid 100 cents on the dollar, and all
he had to show for his money and time
was $4,000 in book accounts. The losses
and brooding over his troubles have
rendered Mr. Walton naturally low
spirited. and his eccentric actions have
caused doubts of his entire sanity.
On Friday evening last he had an al-
tercation with Deputy Postmaster Charles
Rogers over the payment for some post-
age stamps, and he became quite violent
in his action on the street. He was
induced to go home by Marshall Stern-
burg, and on Saturday the report flew
about town that he had threatened and
attempted the lives of his family the pre-
vious evening, displaying a reyolver at
the time.
Citizens who thought Mr. Walton
might commit murder in his excitement.
secured an order for his admission to the
Asylum for the Insane at Kalamazoo,
and on Monday Mrs. Walton induced him
to go to that institution, where it un-
derstood he will remain for a short time.
Hotel tor Sa
Doing a First-Class
Business.
Good Bar Trade.
Good Location.
is
This is agood opportunity for
outside parties wanting an old
Established Busir ess.
FOR FURTHER PARTIC
Pred &. Clark
LARS, ADDRESS
picked and getting M1.
4 Pork—Hogs bring 54@5%
sell for 6@614¢ from jobbers’ hands.
Sweet Potatoes—Kiln-dried
bl
30 and 50 lb.
31 CANAL STREET.
THE BEST
Is that
Furnished
by the
Accident
Insurance
United States Mutual
Accident Association
CHARLES B. PEET,
President.
JAMES R. PITCHER,
Sec’y and Gen. Manager.
320-324 Broadway, New York.
.Gos
APOTHECARY'S BRAND.
10° ooh
less fs
sfree from AR
TIFICIAL FLA-
VORING, is a Ci-
“Los Doctores’ ciate
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
Haveltine & Perkins Drug Co.,
PRODUCE MARKET.
Apples—In poor demand at $1.25@#1.50 per bbl.
Beans—Handlers are PL about $1.25 for un-
6XD
Butter—Creamery is in fair supply
1.75 for ages -picked.
R6C,
Dairy is in good demand at 18@2ic, Abo ae to
quality.
Cabbages—Home gtewn command #3@ 45 per 100
Celery—Scarce and hard to get.
Cider—8@10c per gal.
eee barrels, $1.25;
3 produce barrels
Cranberries_6, 50 for Bell and Cherry and $7.25
for Bell and Bugle.
Dried Apples—Commission men hold sun-dried
at 444@5c and evaporated at 6@6%c.
Eggs—Jobbers pay 12¢ for all offerings, but
are loath to accumulate much stock, as the
staple is weak at all available markets.
Honey—More plenty, being easy at 15c@17¢
per Ib.
wOnions—Buyers pay 18@20c for good stock, and
hold at 25@3v0c’
per bu
Pop Corn—2%c per Ib.
con the streets
and
Potatoes—Buyers pay 15¢ per bu., and are not
anxious to purchase, even = that price.
Squash—Hubbard, 2¢ per Ib
Turnips—25ce per bu.
PROVISIONS
Jerseys,
$3 per
The Grand Rapids Packing and Provision Co,
quotes as follows:
PORK IN BARRELS.
inacase .........
Pails, 4in a case.
BEEF IN BARRELS.
ape
re
5 Ib. Pails, ?
10 Ib. Pails, 6 in a case... .
20 Ib.
MO Ib Oens. 0.06.
MiCse NOW. 5 ee 12 06
HOU Cink MOrPRR I 75
Extra Clear pis, Snorh Cub...) 14 25
extra Clean Heavy. 00 be 14 25
Clear quel shorent. 0 14 25
Boston clear, short cut.. De So cic ceo oe NE Oe
Cicer back, soci cuu..-. 6 ee. 8 14 25
Standard lear, shorticut, best.... 252. ... .. 14 2
SMOKED MEATS—Canyassed or Plain.
Hams, average 20 lbs... ote OS
16S “1014
wtih... 10%
PiCHIC foe Bis
@CRt DOMEICSS 10
Shoulders ee ec ee 73,
bomelegs::.:. 0 es &
Breakfast Bacon, boneless.........-..--..--. 10
Dried Beef extrat 0 7
. "7 SE pPrIGes... ‘eo ot
Loue Clears Heavy 8 ee. c
Srismets. mcdinm Thy
ag Hoag a
LARD—Kettle Rendered
CT ee 8
ID 81,
COIR, Tins Se
LARD—Compound,
WACTOCGR 7
‘
‘
xtra Mess, warranted 20) Ibs.....:. 2... 6 75
Hixtra Mess, Chicago packing. .o.: 1.0.0.0... 7 00
ge ae 72
Bier 1®
Bone less, rump butts Be 9 2%
OO a
SAUSAGE _Fresh and Smoked,
Pork Sausage. . . er
Ham Sausage ee i
Tongue Sausage. Bee eee eset wee cee 9
Frankfort Sausage. . oo 8
Blood Sausage.. eset ae 5%
Bologna, straight.. 5%
Bologna, thick. |
Her@ichesse 6 ae 34
PIGS’ FEET.
fn ale barrels 3 50
In quarter barrels 2005.00) 00) 2 00
TRIPE.
In half Dbarmeis. 0 3 00
in Quarter Parrels (ee
ee ee 85
FRESH MEATS.
Swift aud Company quote as follows:
; Beef, carcass. ee , Qs
' hind quarters... 4@ 6%
fore .. 3146@ 4
ics... 6@ 64
| Pork loins... 128. @8
shouiders,...... @ 6%
Bologna . ee @ 5
| Frankfort ‘sausage @ &
Blood, liver and head sausage @ 5
Muten. se. i, @
OYSTERS and FISH.
F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows:
OYSTERS IN CANS,
Seandards. ee @16
AmCnOTS (20s @AB
Selects. . 2: Qi
Fairhaven Counts.) 0) 0 @35
OYSTERS IN BULK.
SCARS 1 00
SCICCIR a
Clam. ee ee 1 25
FRESH FISH.
Whteien . @i%
ie ee @i%
Ciscoes. : Ss @ 4
Hinnan Baddies 00 @ T%
Pigtibae. se ee @A5
Serve ne @ 4
Perch, skinned: 2.000000... ss @d
CANDIES, FRUITS and NUTS.
Putnam & Brooks quote as follows:
STICK,
Standard, 25 Ib. boxes.. 9
Twist, a Dee eee oe 9%
Cuvboat ea = oe 10
MIXED.
Royal, Se ee 9
Roe tb. Bbiss 6s . 8%
Hira, 2th Pals 10
- 200 Ib. bbls... Se 9
French Cream, 25 Ib. pails. eee 1%
Cut Loaf, 25 Ib. cases. See
Broken, 4010. Bask: oe 91
POU ID De 9
FANCY—In 5 Ib. boxes.
Hemon Drops... : 13
NOUE DEODS oo 14
Peppermint Drops... 14
Wholesale Agts.,Grand Rapids
Chopcotate Props 2 15
HM: Cheeotnte Drops.) 2. 18
Cm Ope ee ee
BACOMCE DIGDR 18
A. B. Ligorice eis ec 12
Lozenges, plain.. Sees ae _ 48
- printed. io
Imperials.. ee 14
MORO 15
Cream Par 13
MGlnsses Bar oe i
Caramels . le
Hand Made Creame 0000 a 19
Plain Ceem@ipe. _- 56
Decorated Creams ee. 20
Sirms Boerne 14
Burnt Almonds. 22
Wanterercen Berries. 14
FANC¥Y—In bulk.
Lozenges, plain, = Pa 2
m BIR eS: sod
printed, ~ wd eo ee 12%
r i 11%
Chocolate Drops, in ane eee eee 12
Gum Drops, in pails Deg 6
. SS
Moss Drops, TE POMS 160
i mbps
SOur DEOpS Bt pals 11
steperinin, to Palls ——
- 2 DS ieee
FRUITS.
Oranges, Pioridds: 3. @
Messina 200s... @3 00
220s. . @3 00
ae @3 00
Oc. @3 00
Lemons, suede eee eee cee ce 2 75@3 00
- POC es 3 00@3 50
Figs, Bes Ore MEW ee 10@15
S, 50 ee @6
Dates, fraits, Be oe @ 4%
\, frails, pe we @ 5%
ce Fard, 10-1b, box ecco: @
ee OT oe a a sc aa oe
Qe Persian, Sob, box 6 @i%
NUTS.
Almonds, St Sane @17
vee @15
c California. 14016
BONA @ 7%
Siberes, MCI @i1
WwW alnuts, Grenabie. 03.2605. ys: @12\%
Weewene ee ae @10%
Pecans, Texas, H. P.. Ghee cuceaecees Gale
Cocoaniis, per te. ela 4 25@4 50
CHGHUNIE cs ea @2 50
PEANUTS.
WCHCOGIS oe @S8
ROS ee @i%
MRCMEO si ede eee ek ee @6
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.
Arctic, % Ib. cans, 6 doz...
4 b. se oe
¥% lb.
be 1 lb.
“6 5 lb. 6 1 «
a
J ao
"12 00
45
@
Absolute, 3 4 Ib. cans, 100s..11 75
e lb. 50s..10 00
“cs i lb. oe 50s.
Telfer’s, %4 -” cans, eras
a i Ib, “sc 3 ae i
Acme, M% Ib, ears, 3 doz... .
pb tay ee
14 Pe ~ eee
ce " f
b ulk ee ee coe
e ] D. 6
Lib
BATH BRICK.
English, 2 doz. in case.....
Bristol, 2
American. 2 doz. in case...
BLUING.
Are tie Li iq, SOA. .....
1
18 15
Gross
3 60
Hoe oT 10 80
a 8-oz paper bot
Pepper Box No. 2
o
BROOMS,
Ne.
No. 1
No. 2C
No. 1
Parlor Gem.
‘ 20
3 00
4 00
9 00
ere oe
JATPEL.-.. 2... eee
Common W hisk. 90
Fancy Se 1 00
a... oe
Warebouse....... |. 3 00
BUCKWHEAT.
Kings 100 Ib. cases 5 00
" eo cases... 4 25
BUTTERINE
Dairy, solid packed... _. i
rois.... 14
Crez umery, solid pae ked. 1D
: Felis) |. 16
CANDLES.
Hotel, 40 lb. boxes oe. . 10%
Star, 40 Te
Paraene 12
Wicking: 20
CANNED Goops—Fish.
Clams. 1 Ib, Little Neck. .... 1 2
Clam Chowder, 3 Ib.........2 50
Cc ove Oysters, d lb. stand....1 00
: 2 Ib -..-1 OO
Lobsters, 1 Ib. picnic. . 1 oo
2 Ib. Bee 3 65
1 1b. Star. 1 30
: 2 Ib. Star. 2 90
Mac kerel, in Tomato Sauce
Eib. stand Lo. 4 (B)
i> | 2s 3 10
3 lb. in Mustard.. 3 50
ia Sib. soused.......: 3 00
Salmon, 1 1b. ‘Columbia Lee 2 00
eel US 2 10
1 Ib, Sacramento. 1
2 ib. a +2 (6)
Sardines, domestic “48. i... oO
los. ie 8
Mustard = . @s
imported 14 va
spiced, 1 5S. . -10@12
Prout, 3 1b. Grodk! 1.14 |
CANNED GooDS—Fruits.
Apples, gallons, stand...... 1 90
Blackberries, stand........ i
Cherries, red standard...... 1 00
pate 1
POREGGONS oe 1 00
ioe Elums, stand ........... 12
a eee ee 110
Grapes. 90
Green Gares.... wees k OO
Peaches, all yellow, “stand. 1 45
Beennes 12
' ee 1 00
Pears... 8. 130
Pinecammes..... 2)... 1@t 2a
Quinces .... , 1 00
Raspberries, exera 00 £10
in reds .. 2 00
SeEAWDCIEICR... |. 8
Whorticherrties, - 90
CANNED VEGETABLES.
Asparagus, Oyster Bay...... 1 80
Beans, Lima, stand. ... |. . 1 00
Green Limas.... _ @1 ie
Sere... @ %
’ Stringiess, Wrie. ..__ 99
‘* Lewis’ Boston Baked..1 45
Corn, Are ‘her’ S frophy..._..
Morn’g Glory.1 10
. _ Early Gold...1 10
Peas, Wreneh |. || _-1 25
extra marrofat. . ‘@1 lo
SORMCA (0
June, stand......1 40@1 50
SH60@ 1 55
French, extra fine... 14 U0
Mushrooms, extra fine..... 18 00
Pumpkin, 3 lb. Golden...... 85
Succotash, standard.... @ 85
IAS i 10
Tomatoes, Red Coat.. S 10
; Goud Enough.. 1 10
C Ben Har... .. |... ‘110
stand br....1 05@1 10
CHEESE,
Michigan Full Cream 124@13
Hap SAee 2
CHOCOLATE,
16@17
Runkel Bros.’ Vienna sweet 22
'c Premimn. ...
- ‘| Hom-Cocoa. . 7
. “ SBreakfast.... 48
CHEWING GUM.
Rubber, oo pee 25
oe 3D
Spruce. eee 30
CHICORY.
ee 6
Bea 7%
COFFEE—Green.
io, fare. 17 G18
Soe 18'4@19
prime y
fancy, washed...19
[ golden 1... 20
Po ee i
Mexican & Guatemala 19
Big ce | ou y. eae OU 20
Java, Haterior: 000). =
re Mandheling..
Mocha, genuine.. “ 26
To ascertain cost of roasted
coffee, add %c. per lb. for roast-
ing and 15 per cent. for shrink-
age,
COFFEES—Package.
100 Ibs
NO ae
| im €apinets .... a
Ditwerth ss, 2334
MAynOnA 23%
30 Ibs 60 lbs
AGme.....-_ |. Seog | Some 2S
German cs 23%
i 24
23:
COFFEE EXTRACT.
Walley City 0 75
Wen ols 110
CLOTHES LINES.
Cotton, an coos per doz. 12S
fo fe eo. 1 50
ee Po ft eee C 1 60
. MOIS. 2: ' 2 00
Se SOLE... . . 2 25
Jute COTE ic... i 1 00
e Gate... . i
CONDENSED MILK.
Mage 7 60
AMGIO SWISS: 520s 6 00
CRACKERS.
Menosha Butter. -........-.. £
BOVINOHE 70 feos oes ll. 6%
Batten 6%
re REN 6%
DISC E 7
BOR 8
Cy SOG ok, 8
ee 6%
BS. Oyeter 6%
City Oy ao te bo Ae EE a 6%
PIGnte ee 6%
CREAM TARTAR,
Dirie@tty Hire, 3). 38
OCCre rte 24
DRIED FRUITS—Domestic.
Apples, sun-dried..... 4 4%
ae
evaporated....6 @
Apricots, " Lie @eo'*
BiscMBeMICn tog) 6
Nee 14
Peaches a eee eG 14
Plums Ce . 10
Raspoerrice “ = se a
DRIED FRUITs—Foreign.
Citron, im drum....... @23
DOOR. 5). @25
Currants 200 |. @5
Lemon, Feeh... ...... 13
Orange Feel. i. 14
Pranes, Turkey....._. @ 4%
"3 Imperial . 3... @6
Raisins, Valencias....71%4 @ 8%
i Ongarag,..... :
Domestic Layers. is
Loose Californias. .1
FARINACEOUS GOODS,
Parina, 100 Ib. kegs: \.;-.... 04
Hominy, per bol... 4 00
Macaroni, dom 12 1b box.. 60
: imported... ... @ 10
Peart Barley... ... @ 3
Peas, Sreen 5... 2.3 @1 40
el phe @ 3
MOLASSES,
Black Strap
Kitchen, 3 doz.
in box.
Hand, 3 -
SAUERKRAUT.
Silver Thread, 30 gal........3 50
< a 4 50
SEEDS
Mxea bird 414
Cae ee
CARAGG 4
ewe ae
ST Gig
Fe 415
Mustard.. 7s
“SNUFF. i
cotch, in bladders..... 3T
Maccaboy, in Saree oy
French Rappee, in Jars.... .43
SOAP.
Singman, 100 bars......_._. 4 00
Don’t Anti-Washboard..... 4 % |
Jaxon
9 a A hh anh CA o wo
Queen Anne... 1... 3 85]
German family. ...... 2 40}
Bip Gareain..... 1 87 |
SODA,
BOxeg 514
Meow, Unetish. 434
SPICES—W hole.
AUSMCC 10
Cassia, China in mats. ...... 7%
. Batavia in bund....11
Saigon in rolls...... oe)
Cloves, Ambeyns.......... 30
iy Vexwabar. 12... |. 24
Mace Batavia.
{ SYRUPS,
Cor, barrelei so) 02. oe. @20
* one-half barrels. . @22
rure Sager, O04, 00.0... 2536
- half barrel.. | 27@38
SWEET GooDs,
; : Xxx
Ginger Smaps... ....... 9 914
| Sugar Cress... =... 9 9%
Frosted Créazms....... 9%
Graham Crackers..... 9
Oatmeal Crackers.. 9
TOBAccos—Plug.
Ciiga 39@41
CORNET PO is cc. cl 39
Doume Fer... 40
Peaen, Pie 4
Wedeme Cake bik... 40
Something Good. oa cel
ESOC ea, 40
TEAS.
JAPAN— Teena”
ee @15
CONG @16
CAG 24 @28
Choteests 00 30 @33
SUN CURED,
Hair... |. 12 @15
Good . 8 -16 @20
Choice ne 24 @28
Choieest! bt es @33
meeo, Germans 2)... @ 6% | BASKET FIRED,
Tapioca, fk or pri... Methane @20
Wheat, cracked -.. .:. @ Gs! Chore. @25
Vermicelli, import.. @10 Chpieesy @35
domestic. @60 | Extrachoice,wireleaf @40
FLAVORING EXTRACTS. GUNPOWDER. i
Jennings’ Lemon Vanills. Common to fair.......25 @35
202. Panel, doz. 90 35 | Extra fine to finest. _| 150 @65
402. rt 225, Choicest fancy. es G&D
6 Oz. 2» 3 20 IMPE rR 1 AL, .
No. 3g, 1 1 60! Common to fair. +-.20° Qo
No. 6; aid 4 OO Superior tofine...... @50
No.10, + 450 6 06 YOUNG HYSON.
No, 4, Taper, “* .1 60 2 50; Common to fair.......18 @2%
% pt, Round,“ 4 25 i<- oO | Superior to fing... 30 @40
ee = “. § oe 15 00 | COLONG, 7
FISH—SALT. | Common to fair.......25 @30
Cod, whole -... @5 | Superiorto fine: .. |. 90 @so
“| Domeless....:....... @ 74 | Wine to choicest...... 55 @es
Halibut . Eo 11% ENGLISH BREAKFAST,
ijerring, round, 44 Dbl. ie eae i el ease
4 bbl. 158 Choices 0 @35
. Holland, “bis. 10 08 Heat. Ls an aN ~ po
Holland, kegs.. @ 30; Tea Dust Bee ecg: @10
a Se wed... | 28 TOBACCos—Fine C ut,
Mack. sh’ *s, No. ry > bbl....9 bo; Sweet Pippin... ... 50
_ - a Ib kit..1 45; Five and Seven. 5O
. 1 too Eee 68
Trout, 1g “bb Is: oa @4 50: Sweet Cuba.... 45
10 Ib. kits. Le ule 78
WwW hite, No, i, 6 DIS... 6 00
2 Ib. kits L
10 Ib oe
Family, % bbis.... .2 50
eo 55
GUN POWDER.
Kegs .. Se o 25
Half kegs..... 2 88
LAMP WICKS.
Nos ll
No. 1. a 40)
NOs 50
LICORICE,
Mure ee
as... ltl vai a0
Sicily: | .c 18
MINCE MEAT
Bucket gi
Ce Be ey
Petoskey Chief.....___ 55
sweet Huaset. 001). 40
Waele 42
Pieraa 65
Hose teat 3. 66
Red Domine... | 38
Swamp Angel. L. 40
TRADESMAN CREDIT OUPONS.
§ 2, per hun dred. ‘ .. ooo
ee ee 3 00
$10, : 4 00
#20, ‘ i oO
Subbheet:to the following dis-
counts:
200 or over. - 5 per cent.
500 ‘* 1 de -
leeo es so ee
VINEGAR,
ee 9
ae ee 10
OO gr... eee dee, oe
a #1 for barrel
Cuba Baking |. ..... 0: MISCELLANEOUS,
Porto Rico... : Cocoa Shells, bulk......... 3%
New Orleans, ‘good. lo Serv, Oe tO. DAMS ||| gag
choice...._. Sado | SAGE... |: 15
faney. 4(D48
One- it aces 3e extra, PAPER, WOODENW ARE.
OATMEAL. PAPER,
wanes a veae eee 6 00 Curtiss & Co. quote as
3215 follows:
ed Ce 134
Museéatine. paeeae a 6 00 te Light Weight. oe ae
‘: Half barrels. ....3 15 ay See
Cas iS O54 > 35 Mie KUkee Cw.
ae : i~ ©) Wardware
Michigan Test.............. 91g | Bakers........ nicer fe ate
Water White tee noi poe sass i
PICKLES. e é ee 8
Medium ee __.....6 50 ted Express, abe a ,
7 0Ol Sa i 0. 2. 4
Small, oe 5 50 Ae Gotten Tae >
a ee ‘305 4 i
shia : Cotton, Mpg ieee ae
Clay, _No. 216... 1 60 a ae 18
se D. full count. “5 — Island, assorted....... 40
Gon Nala en ay 5 Hemp ...... tee
ee 7
aay aes gag pean na 8
i es 5 + ah Tihs
No, a BKe A, Tubs, = 1 aces =
Oo. : ‘5 Se Saat a a Sl alle gal gd vo
JADA 115y see : ie i
Sie ieaey 2 Pails, No. 1. two-hoop.. 1 60
DeLan4d’s, sg ge No. 1, three-hoop.... 1 7
Clarch's, Cap Sheaf ....._ 5 Bowls 11 in 5 gr. boxes... ©
vides Ce Sow ary Se 1 06
Taics ie Sie (a i 25
pa ee 2 00
Common Fine per bbl....... x9 Ve tad’ VR it 2%
Solar Rock, 56 1b, sac a. 25 eee = —_ a _o
lo Oo 5s, 17s an S275
1 Baskets, i 40
HG Tes a Bushes 1 60
Ashton bu. bags oe | ae ie ee owere 1. ae
oan Ea "5 willow cl’ths, No.1 5 50
Wares: << | 37 “ “ ‘“ a 2 2
SAL SODA . oS
Bere 114 splint ° No.1 3 Se
Granulated, boxes.....____. 1% “ ‘ “ No.2 22
SAPOLIO. i No.3 5
(wate
- | GRAINS and FEEDSTUFFS
WHEAT.
98
cee 98
i FL ou R.
| Straight, Im saeks. > 5 oo
| * barrel, 5 40
i Patent SAenR:........ 6 oo
. barrels........ 6 40
MEAI
EFolted 2 50
Granulated.. i to. oOo
MILLSTUF PS.
won 14 00
Se 15 50
Derccumies: 14 00
Mitdines =. ae ie
maxed Weed. 2... 7
IRN.
pein Idte . 36
| Car ee See ee ac oo
OA ATS,
eames Iota. 3
Car eee ccc ee 29
RYyi.
Ne. dt per IG ibs... oe
a BARLEY.
eS Te e
NO 2 i 1°
) HAY
NO 14 00
NO gl. 13 00
Nutmegs, fancy
hes No. ft 70
. No. 2.. ++. oo
Pepper, Singapore, black.. ..18%
white..... 28
eg Shes... 21
sPiIcEs—Ground-—-In Bulk.
ICE Ds
Cassia, Batavia... 20
= and Saigon.25
. Aaron... 42
Cloves, Amboyia.. |. 35
ey Zanzipae |: 28 -
Ginger, oe eee 12%
Coehta 15
ie Jamaica . oo
Mace: Batayig. 0.0. 80
Mustard, English peewee 22
and Trie. .25
Trieste 27
Nutness No 2. 70
Pepper, Singapore, black... 33
white. .... :
. Gayemne. oo... 25
STARCH.
Mystic, : lb. eae Hl %
Darrin. =. 6
SUGARS,
Cus boat... @ 8%
Cubes 0. ‘ @ 73%
Powdered . : @ 7%
Granulated, H. &Evs.. @7 31
Knight’s.. G7 06
Confectionery A...... 64@ .
piandara A... j.... @ 6%
No. 1, White Extra C.. @ 6%
No, 2 9 Bere (0. @ 6%
No, 3C, golden... ._. @ 6,
oO: 4C. dark....... +. @ 6
NOG Goce: @ 5%
HIDES, PELTS and FURS.
Perkins & Hess pay as fol-
lows:
" HIDES,
oon... 4@4%
Part Cared...... .. @ om
Fon 44@ 5%
a 5 @6
Dry Mips .... 5 @6
Calfskins, green...._. 3 @4
ee cured. ||| 4144@ 5%
Deacon skins......... 10"Gap”
14 off for No. 2.
PELTS.
Shearlings |... 0 2
Estimated wool, per b 20 @28
FURs,
Add 15 per cent. up to March 10.
Mee 5@1 00
ern. 5@i 10
i. ............. 5@1 20
MeE 1@ 2%
De 5@1 50
Gross. 50@5 00
Rey 5@1 00
Cat, ene Bes See ee auc 5@ 2%
Wit 5@ 5O
ee a 1 00@6 00
Wee: 50@5 00
Martin, Care 25@4 0D
. Pee 10@1 5
icc. 50@9 75
Wee 50@4 00
Ce 50@30 00
Peaver es 00
RCN aL 1@1 00
Deerskins, per lb...... 5@ 40
MISCELLANEOUS,
OM 4 @ 4%
Grease butter.........5 @ 814
BWascues oc... o @ 2%
GUNSCHE oi. 2 00@2 10
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Drugs & Medicines.
State Beard of Pharmacy.
One Year—Ottmar Eberbach, Ann Arbor.
Two Years—Geo. McDonald, Kalamazoo.
Three Years—Stanley E. Parkill, Owosso.
Four Years—Jacob Jesson, Muskegon.
Five Years—James Vernor, Detroit.
President—Geo. McDonald
Secretary—Jacob Jesson.
Treasurer—Jas. Vernor.
Next Meeting—At the lecture room of Hartman’s Hall,
Grand Rapids, Tuesday and Wednesday, March 5 and 6.
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Michigan State Pharmaceutical Ass’n.
President—Geo. Gundrum, Ionia. :
First Vice-President—F. M. Alsdorf, Lansing.
Second Vice-President—H. M. Dean, Niles.
Third Vice-President—O. Eberbach, Ann Arbor.
Secretary—H. J. Brown, ao —
reasurer—Wm Dupont, Detroit.
fates came H. Lyman, Manistee; A. Bas
sett, Detroit; F. J. Wurzburg, Grand Rapids; iW A.
Hali, Greenville; E. T. Webb, Jackson,
Local Secretary—A. Bassett, Detroit.
Grand Rapids Pharmaceutical Society.
President. J. W. Hayward, Secretary, Frank H. Escott.
Detroit Pharmaceutical Society
President, J. W. Caldwell. Secretary, B. W. Patterson.
Muskegon Drug Clerks’ Association.
President, Geo. L, LeFevre. Secretary, J. W. Hoyt.
Patent Law vs. Patent Medicines.
The Constitution of the United States
gives Congress the power ‘‘to promote the
progress of science and the useful arts,
by securing, for limited times, to authors
and inventors, the exclusive right to
their respective writings and discover-
ies.’ ‘‘A patent is a contract between
the inventor and the government repre-
senting the public at large. The con-
sideration moving from the inventor is
the production of a new and useful
thing, and the giving to the public of a
full knowledge thereof by means of a
proper application for a patent, whereby
the public is enabled to practice the in-
vention when the patent expires. The
consideration moving from the govern-
ment is the grant of an exclusive right
for a limited time, and this grant the
government protects and enforces
through its courts.”’
It is apparent, therefore, that if the
patent law were properly applied to med-
icine, no medicinal article could be pat-
ented unless it were proved to be a new |
and useful invention—and it would be}
impossible for the inventor to secure a
patent without publishing full knowledge
of the invention, whereby the public is
enabled to practice the invention when
the patent expired—and the exclusive
eontrol of the invention could belong to
the inventor only for a limited time, after |
which the right to manufacture the are |
ticle would become common property. |
As the so-called ‘‘patent’’ medicines |
are secret or semi-secret compounds; as |
the formule are nowhere published so
that the public can manufacture the al-
jeged inventions when the patent ex-
pires} as the alleged inventors of these
compounds are not required to prove
their articles new and useful inventions;
as in many cases the articles themselves
are only compounds of old and well-
known drugs, some of them physicians’
prescriptions used for the purpose, it is
very evident that the patent law is not
properly applied to medicine if these so-
called patent medicines are really pat-
ented,
But “patent’’ medicines are not pat-|
ented at allasarule. They are called
patent medicines because the word
“patent”? is a popular word, and well
deceives the public in regard to the true
facts of the case.
And what are the true facts of the
ease? The truth is that it is only the
name of the medicine that is patented,
and not the medicine itself. By patent-
ing the name*the manufacturers control
the medicine without conforming to the
scientific and beneficent intent of the
patentlaw. In other words, they ‘‘whip
the devil around the stump.”’
How this remarkable scheme
svorked 2 In a very simple way. The
manufacturer registers the name of the
article as a trade-mark; and, as the use
of atrademark is unlimited as to time,
and no publication of the method of
manufacturing the article on which it is
used is demanded by the government, the
owner secures an unlimited monopoly of
the article, and keeps the method of
manufacture to himself.
And what harm does that do? The
secresy and the monopoly permit the
owner to make an immense fortune by
advertising a lie. He gets the credit of
being a great inventor when he is no in-
ventor at all. He obtains the reward
designed by the government for the
scientific man and the inventor. He
throws the patent law into disrepute
with those who see the fraud and do not
understand how the government’s pro-
tection is secured: and there are enough
objections to the scheme to fill a page.
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How does this interest the medical
profession? Seeing how readily the
rank and fileof the profession all over
the land are duped, the ‘‘patent’’? med-
icine houses have entered the field of
pharmacy. and are now reaping immense
fortunes by marketing ‘‘patent’’ med-
icines through the medium of physicians’
prescriptions. After obtaining the in-
dorsement of the profession in the form
-of certificates, ete., the owners turn
around and advertise the articles to the
public in the papers. Each ‘‘patent’’
medicine becomes in this way a rival to
the physician: and as claims are made
for them far in excess of their value, the
profession is helping along a dangerous
species of quackery.
What remedy would you suggest for
this abuse? I would suggest that the
patent law be strictly enforced, so that
no one can obtain an exclusive monop-
oly for a medicinal article, unless it is
proved to be a new and useful invention.
Then its true or working formula should
be published so that the public can man-
ufacture the article when the patent ex-
pires; and the monopoly should be lim-
ited in time so that the invention may
finally become common property.
What would you expect to gain by
this? I would expect to use the patent
law to kill the ‘‘patent’’ medicine bus-
iness, purge out fraud from medieine by
«lestroying the secret medicine business,
and throw open the manufacture of med-
icine to a legitimate competition.
FE; EC. Srewarr, MB.
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A Meritorious Clerk.
‘‘T wish to speak to you about raising
my salary,’’ said the clerk. ‘‘Jones does
the same work as I do and you have just
increased his pay.’’
“That's a reward of merit,’’. replied
the boss.
‘*‘What for, may I ask ?”’
“For never coming here and asking for
a raise.”’
Coca and Cocaine.
From the Pharmaceutical Journal.
The original home of the coca plant in
South America has not, according to De
Candolle, been very clearly defined; he
states that most of the authors who ex-
amined it had only seen cultivated spec-
imens, and there is some doubt about
those supposed to be wild by Peppig and
Andre, while Triana does not admit the
species is wild in New Grenada. At
present coca is cultivated to a large ex-
tent in the Andes of the Argentine Re-
public, of Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador and
New Granada. It is also cultivated in
the mountainous parts of Brazil. The
largest plantations, called locally coeals,
are said to be in the province of La Paz,
in Bolivia. Ina good harvest the yield
of coca leaves is estimated by Weddell
to be about 900 pounds per acre. The
total production is stated to amount
to something like 40,000,000 pounds.
There are many points of difference be-
tween the coca plants grown in different
parts of South America, resulting, no
doubt from seminal variation and the in-
fluences of soil and climate. Similar
differences appear to obtain in regard to
the amount of cocaine in the leaves.
Thus, for instance, it is suggested that
the plant yielding small, pointed, pale
green leaves is the best to eultivate at
high elevations and if the object be to
obtain a large yield of crystallizable
cocaine. On the contrary, the variety
yielding leaves rounded at the apex
thrives at the sea level in the tropics, but
a large proportion of the alkaloid they
contain is unerystallizable.
In the Andes the coca plant sueceeds
best in the mild but very moist climate
of the lower mountains, at an eleva ion
of from 2,000 to 5,000 feet. Like coffee,
it thrives best on slopes where the soil is
rich in humus and the drainage good.
Shade is said to be unfavorable to the
development of alkaloid in the leaves.
In Peru the plants yield the first crop
of leaves three years after planting, but
in poor soils they are often left until the
fifth year. The full-grown shrub yields}
a harvest every thirteen or fourteen)
months, but in many plantations the col-|
lection of leaves goes on throughout the |
year, since the ripeness of the leaf de-}
pends much upon the soil and situation
as well as the age of the plant. In some
localities two or three good crops are}
gathered in the year. The ripeness of
the leaf is proved by its breaking when
bent in the hand, and the largest as well
las most mature leaves are sought for as
containing most of the alkaloid which
renders coca leaves a marketable pro-
duct. The leaves are usually dried in
the sun and then allowed to undergo a
slight sweatingin heaps. When the dry-
ing is rapid the leaves have a beautiful,
bright green color and are quite smooth.
Such leaves fetch a high price in South
America, while the brown leaves that are
more slowly dried are cheaper. But it
is important to bear in mind that the es-
timate of value formed by the South
American Indians may be based upon
facts very different from those which
would influence the manufacturing chem-
ist. Thus, Dr. Rusby points out that the
amount of cocaine probably forms no
element of the Indian’s estimate of the
quality of coca, any inore than the per-
centage of nicotine would establish the
quality of tobacco. Itis probable, there-
fore, that sufficient attention has not yet
been given to ascertaining the conditions
of drying that would be most favorable
to the production of a good raw material
for the manufacturer of cocaine. This
is a point that is eminently deserving of
eareful inquiry, and the very irregular
quarity of the crude cocaine imported
from South America proves that there is
a great need of better knowledge of this
matter. Some of the best samples of
this crude product will yield as much as
seventy per cent. of true cocaine, but
others yield very much less and some
searcely any. Since the manufacture of
this crude product in South America the
demand for coca leaves has fallen off so
much that it is doubtful whether there is
any inducement to cultivate coca in any
of the tropical colonies for export to this
country, but the question is one that can
searcely be decided in the present state
of knowledge as to the means by which
a good yield of cocaine of good quality
is best to be insured.
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Drug Selling by Bar Keepers.
A barkeeper at the Richelieu, one of
the leading Chicagu hotels, said ina re-
cent interview in reply to the question
whether there was much drug-selling by
barkeepers:
‘‘Honestly, I think not. This talk
abont drug-selling at the bar is an ex-
aggeration. If a man has been on a
spree or overtaxed his physical strength
he will often ask-for a little absinthe to
quiet his nerves, but the use of this drug
is not heavy. Most bars have to keep
both green and white absinthe, but there
is little demand now for the green article.
The white is milder. Quinine is often
asked for—it is at the soda-water foun-
tains, for that matter. But, then, most
people want to ward off a cold, and some
quinine in one’s bitters is better than a
pocket-handkerchief.’’
Quinine, under a recent decision of the
Illinois Supreme Court, is not a ‘‘domes-
tic remedy’’ and cannot be sold except
by a registered pharmacist. An Illiono-
lis barkeeper has been recently fined for
selling it. In view of the late crusade
of saloon-keepers against alleged dram-
selling druggists, the compliment should
be returned by prosecuting quinine-sell-
ing liquor dealers. Absinthe is also a
drug and an attempt might be made to
suppress its sale also.
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The Ideal Pharmacist.
In a paper read at the banquet of the
Pindus School of Pharmacy, and reported
by the Indiana Pharmacist, it is sug-
gested that compliance with the follow-
ing requirements would make the phar-
macist progress toward the ideal.
A successful pharmacist must be con-
scientious. This has been realized from
time immemorial. In earlier times the
rules were that an apothecary must serve
God first, pity the poor, and neither
increase nor diminish the physician’s
prescription. While all this was true
then, it is important now, and part of it
is absolutely necessary to make the ideal
pharmacist. The progress of pharmacy
is one of evolution. As the people become
more refined and educated, just in that
ratio is the pharmacist compelled to make
his preparations more elegant, effective,
and less repugnant to the taste. Not
many years ago crude drugs were given
in large and unpleasant doses. By the
advance of pharmacy and chemistry the
active principles have become separated
from the inert material, and a propor-
tionate dose of the alkaloid answers quite
as well, much to the satisfaction of the
patient and better feeling in the digestive
organs.
Do not be penurious; five cents given
away may bring dollars. Make your
small sales as pleasant as your large ones.
The six-year-old child may feel prouder
in making a penny purchase than the
banker in purchasing a bottle of your
choicest perfume.
Teeth are not good cork presses, neither
is the tongue a good chemical reagent,
especially in the presence of your cus-
tomers.
Keep out of polities, unless you expect
to run for councilman, marshal or mayor.
What Democrat would be willing to buy
his purgatives from a Republican, or
what Republican would be willing to buy
his emetic from a radical Democrat?
We should not encourage too much
familiarity: keep your own secrets:
neither run a small exchange bank, loan-
ing money until pay-day, or until the
bank opens. It is a dangerous practice.
Keep busy; there is plenty todo. New
remedies are flooding the market. It is
the pharmacist’s duty to become familiar
with them, their medicinal properties,
chemical behavior, doses, ete.
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A Commission to Regulate Weights
and Measures.
From the Druggists’ Bulletin.
t is proposed in England to place the
regulation of weights and measures under
the control of the Board of Trade.
For the working of such a system it is
suggested thata permanent commission
should be appointed, consisting of per-
sons of scientific attainments who are
officers of the Board of Trade, together
with one or two unofficial experts, as
may be found desirable. Sucha tribunal
it is considered would merit the confi-
dence of the public as well as of the
makers of weighing and measuring ap-
pliances.
For insuring the proper qualification
of inspectors, it is proposed that they
should undergo an examination, which
need not be of an exhaustive or over-
stringent character, though sufficient for
testing the technical knowledge of can-
didates. Such examinations should be
condueted under the auspices of the
Commission.
Another necessity arising out of the
adoption of asystem like that now re-
ferred to would be the apointment of
traveling inspectors, who wauld oxereise
a general superintendence ayer the work
done in particular distriets, and it is con-
sidered that the fees arising from the
contemplated certification and stamping
of weighing machines, scales, ete., would
amply suffice to cover the expenses inci-
dental to these appointments.
Lastly, itis urged that the reform of
the law relating to weights and measures
is tobe regarded not merely as a local
matter, but one of imperial importance;
that is is an obligation of the State to
see that exactly sixteen ounces shall be
given by a vendor to a purchaser of a
pound weight avoirdupois of any com-
modity, just as much as it is to guarantee
for the gold coin of the realm its due
equivalent in the silver currency.
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The Drug Market.
Opium, morphia and quinine are steady.
The latter is very cheap. Cream tartar,
tartaric acid, Rochelle salts and sedlitz
mixture are very low. Anupward move-
ment is likely to take place at any time.
Calomel, corrosive sublimate, red precip-
itate and white precipitate have de-
clined. Sassafras bark is scarce and ad-
vancing. Golden seal root and powdered
are easier. Chlorate potash is weak and
tending lower. Wonduras sarsaparilla
root is higher. Oils anise and cloves are
Nutmegs
‘Turpen-
Cloves have declined.
and mace are tending higher.
tine is higher.
lower.
The Result of Experience.
‘When I hear or read of a merchant
failing in business, and know it is for the
first time,’’? remarked a veteran jebber,
‘“T know that that man’s creditors, as a
general rule, will get at least a fair divi-
dend, because the debtor is apt to turn
over his assets with little regard of his
own interests. But when he fails for
the second time he has seen where he
might just as well have had a few thous-
and dollars, instead of turning them over
to the creditors, and he generally con-
vinees himself that if he doesn’t look
after his own interests, no one will do it
for him. So when I know of a man’s
failing for the second or third time, I
generally say tomyself, ‘Heaven help the
creditors, for dividends are likely to be
mighty light!’ °’
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Muskegon Drug Clerk’s Association.
MUSKEGON, March 2, 1889.
E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids:
DEAR SrR—The Muskegon D. C. A.
held a regular meeting on February 26
with the usual large attendance, which
shows the great interest taken by the
members.
J. A. Tinholt and S. Van Arcle have
accepted positions with Geo. G. Steketee,
of Grand Rapids.
The next meeting will be held
Mareh 12, at our new headquarters.
Jd. W. HOwD, Sec’ ¥.
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For Sale--Soda Water Fountain.
The elegant soda water fountain used
in our retail department. This fountain
is the finest in the State and is offered
for sale at less than half cost, including
counter and silver ware complete for use.
Full description will be given with price
and terms on application.
ARTHUR MEIGS & Co.,
77 South Division st., Grand Rapids.
He Had a Reason.
Shoe dealer (to clerk)—William, why
did you insist upon selling to that old
gentleman who just went outa pair of
small soft shoes, when he called for
large, cowhide boots?”’
‘“*Well—er— ”’
‘“T insist upon knowing.’’
“The fact is, I call on his daughter
quite frequently in the evening.”’
on
Wholesale Price Current.
Advanced—Turpentine.
Cc
Jorrosive
Declined—Oil Anise, Oil Cloves, Cloves, Golden Seal Pt, Calomel,
Sublimate, Red Precipitate, White Precipitate.
ACIDUM. Carb } ib] Antipyrm: .-- ee 1 35@1 40
Seat s@ 10 | Chlorate, (po. 20)...... 18@ 20] Argenti Nitras, ounce @ 68
onaeinas German go@1 oo | Cyanide ........-...--- 50@ 55} Arsenicum............ nm: 7
Boracic ? si Te ga SOdae el a 2 85@3 00| Balm Gilead Bud..... 38@ 40
Carbolicum Le (,, 4@ 45 Potassa, Bitart, pure.. 28@ 36] Bismuth S. N.........2 15@2 2
eee ats a0 == e | Potassa, Bitart, com... @, 15] Calcium Chlor, 1s, (44s
vedeem ¢.- 2... 55@ 60 +t
Hydrochlor " “3@_ 5 | Potass Nitras, opt..... 8@ 10 1: 468, 1)... aioe @ 9
ota oe 10@ 12 Potass Nitras. 00... 5. 7@ 9| Cantharides Russian,
Oxalicum oe. 13@ 14 Praseeie _............. 25@ 28 PO @1 %5
= ee ey 99 | Sulphate po..-.......- 15@ 18} Capsici Fructus, af... @ 18
Phosphorium dil.....- aaah ae “ “6 a, @ 16
sauepione + ieee rapes a eo
— iS pee eae 1 40@1 60 | Aconitum ............. 20@ 25} Caryophyllus, (po. 28) %@_ 2%
eotaicunn cere ach so | ene 25@ 30} Carmine, No. 40....... @3 75
SS aah Rnehnsa oo ae 15@ 20| Cera Alba, 8. &F..... 5O@ 55
AMMONIA. a, BO 20 ae ot 25 - Eigge 2... 28@ 30
. ae 9@, »5| Calamus..............- 20@ 50} Coccus................ @ 4
Aqua, - ae 7 @ | Gentiana, (po. 15)..... 10@, 12| Cassia Fructus........ @ 15
Carbonas ' 41@ 13| Glychrrhiza, (pv. 15) .. jo@ 18; Cemurnra:...-..-..-. @ 10
Chic Re i2@, 14] Hydrastis Canaden, Cetaceum ............. @ 33
SE ee sic (po. oe @ | Chloroform): «1... 5O@ 55
ANILINE. Hellebore, Ala, po.... 15@ 20 . squibbs .. @1 00
Black 2 00@2 25 | Inula, po........-..-.- 15@ 20] Chloral Hyd Crst......1 50@1 75
B See an s0@i1 00 | Ipecac, po.........---- 2 40@2 50| Chondrus............. 10@ 12
oe 80@1 0 | Tris plox (po. 20@22).. 1%@ 2| Cinchonidine, P. & W 15@ :
ee ' 19 50@3 00 | Jalapa, pr.....-------- wi German 5@ 12
eeON a ae an Maranta, ts). ...... Corks, list, dis. per
: BACCAE. etait pO... ek a @ .
‘ x 2 52 ee SOtUM .-....-...-. GG +
Cubeae (po. 1 60...---- ’ — . eat: oe Créta; (DBE Wy. 60.5... @ 2
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BALSAMUM. Sanguinaria, (po 25).. @ iG aps a ca @ 8
Copaiba .....---------- 70@ | Serpentaria...........- S0@ 35) Crocus -20500.0 4): 30@ 32
So @i 30 Seneen i 7H@ 80| Cudbear............... @ #4
Terabin, Canada ....- 50@ 55 |Similax, Officinalis, H @ 40| CupriSulph........... "@ 8
rata 45@), 50 “ ee X @ 2} Dextrine.............. 10@ 12
Seillae, (po. 3p) ......:- 10@ 12} Ether Sulph........... 8@ 70
CORTEX. _| Symplocarpus, Feti- Sus Emery, all numbers.. @ 8
Abies, Canadian. ...--.---- 18 Ge po... @, 35 i po. .... betes a 6
ream ae 11 | Valeriana, Eng. (po.30) a 2 Ergota, (pe) 4)... |. 40@, 45
Ginchona Flava .....------- 18 - German... 15@ 20| Flake White.......... 12@ 15
Euonymus atropurp....---- 30 F Mamoeiber &.... -...--.. | 10@ 15| Gallia. @ 2
rica Cerifera, po...-.---- oo} winpiper jo ..2 6... om 2a Gampier. (4 fT 7 8
eS 2 7 i Gelatin, Cooper @ K
a a a vt SEMEN a ‘Prenah oe 40. 60
Hiaia. Sed... 2.) +. . ets 2 SEMEN. ' ch... .... h,
— Cl 12} Anisum, (po. 20)........ @ 15; Glassware flint, 75 per cent.
Ulmus Po (Ground 12)....-- 10} Apium (graveleons).. 10@ 12 by box 6623, less
na ] Bird ig 4@ 6) Glue, Brown. |)... 9@ 15
EXTRACTUM. @arat, (po) 15)_.......- 12@ 15 = White. 7s. 1I3@ 2
a ie ioe Yabra.. Mo Ii Cardamon.....:....-.4 00@1 25 i ycerina ee eed 22@, 25
pecchie aE ings : : _ Sa 2 Corlandrum oe: 10@ 12} Grana Paradisi...._... m 15
Haematox, 15 1b. box.. 11@ 12} Cannabis Sativa...) 3i44@- (4) Bamutus oe Oe | ae
= ts. _ tl do@ 44) Cydonium.........-...- %5@1 00! Hydraag Chlor Mite.. @ 80
Las 14@ 15] Chenopodium ........ 10@ 12 . © COF ... @ 70
ae es 17 | Dipterix Odorate...... 1 V5@1 85 Ox Rubrum @ 85
' : Hoenieulum..-....-.-. @ 15 Ammoniati.. @1 05
FERRUM. Foenugreek, po..----- 6@ oy aa Unguentum. a 55
sect Dietie. -
Results of Cash Payments.
Alarmed Mother—**Why, my daughter, |
weeping? What's the matter?’
Daughter (a bride of a month)—*‘‘l-l
have been shopping, or trying to.*’
Alarmed Mother—*-Well?’’
Daughter—‘‘I find my husband has}
always paid cash and hasn’t any credit
anywhere.” |
oe |
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A firm makes a great mistake when,
puffed up with success, it starts out with
the idea that it is going to do all the
business in the world. It always results
the same way—a desperate effort to sell |
everybody, trusting right and left, and a |
grand smash up on the tail end. Occa-
sionally a firm honestly deceive them-
selves in the idea that they have a big-
ger head than any other house, and con-
sequently they are going to revolutionize
the business. The idea gets knocked
out sooner or later, and business assumes
its normal condition again. But these
erapks hurt business and unsettle the
trade just the same.
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A Blighted Romance.
A fair cashier at the desk did stand,
And wrote out a bill for a man near by:
He watched the pen in her snow white hand,
And saw the amount with a great, big sigh.
“A fine business hand; how I wish ’twere mine!”
The man with the writing like Greeley’s said;
“If this is a serious offer, ‘tis thine;”
He looked up surprised, and tumbled and fied.
ithe luxuriant green foliage.
| of
| streets in great numbers.
| gaiety of the place.
AMONG THE BERMUDAS.
Interesting Letter from a Grand Rap-
ids Grocery Jobber.
Hamittron, Bermuda Islands, |
Feb. 18, 1889. §
E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids:
DEAR Str—I was very agreeably sur-
prised this morning, when my mail was
handed me, to find THe TRADESMAN of
February 6 issue. Thanks for your kind
thoughtfulness in sending it to me.
"Twas a most welcome visitor, I assure
you.
Iam going to give you a brief outline
of our trip since we left our charming
city. We took the train Sunday evening,
February 3, reaching Detroit in time to
take the sleeper for Buffalo, arriving
there at 7:30 a.m., whence we took the
“Flyer on the New York Central, ar-
riving at New York at 7:30 p.m. Quick
traveling, was it not? We remained in
New York until Thursday, when we
boarded the stanch steamer Oronoco for
these justly famous Islands. What a
wonderful change we experienced! When
we left New York, snow covered the
ground, the weather was very cold and
altogether dreary and disagreeable. On
our arrival here, in less than three days’
sail (and it should be accomplished in
two days), we found the birds singing,
the trees as rich in foliage as with us in
July, and beautiful roses of every hue
and color and all other flowers in full
bloom and in great quantities. Here the
oleander grows wild—no matter which
way one turns, he sees it in immense
trees. They are in bloom now and look
very beautiful. The cactus also grows
wild and of remarkable size. There are
several large cactus trees on the island
that are always a great curiosity to the
strangers; itis not unusual to see 200
blossoms on one plant. The Easter lilies
are grown here in great quantities. It is
avery common thing to see a field of
several acres in almost any direction you
go, entirely covered with these rare gems.
They are much larger and more beauti-
ful than the calla, and are now just com-
mencing to bloom. We will take a case
of them home with us, and will take
pleasure in sending some to THE
TRADESMAN Office. Palm trees in great
variety grow here, and some of them are
very beautiful. The most beautiful
species is the Royal Palm. There are
several calabash trees on the islands.
Some fine specimens of the India rubber
tree and groves of palmetto are here and
there to be seen. Among the more
striking flowering and ornamental trees
and shrubs cultivated in the gardens may
be noted the poinsettia, the Bouganvilla,
the Pride of India, Night Blooming
Cereus, the red and white hibiscus, the
bamboo, the Christmas bush, castor oil
tree, the singular shell plant, the aloe,
the Spanish bayonet and the graceful
pigeon berry tree. The maiden hair
fern grows everywhere and are very
beautiful. Oranges, lemons, bananas,
grapes, loquats, papaw, figs, pomegran-
ates and melons grow here, but not as
plentifully as they would if more care
was given them. Potatoes and onions
are the staple vegetables grown here for
export, although peas, French beans, car-
rots, turnips, radishes, cabbage and par-
snips are now in the market. The islands
are much more extensive than I had sup-
posed, the combined superficial area
being about nineteen square miles, the
population about 15,000—60 per cent. of
which are colored. The separate islands
forming the group have been variously
estimated at from 150t0500. They are
mostly mere rocks, a few only being
more or less verdured and not more than
twenty are inhabited. Only five of the
islands, Bermuda mainland,Saint George,
Darcils, Somerset and Ireland are of any
considerable size. As one approaches,
the view of the land is exceedingly pic-
turesque. The light-house on Gibb’s Hill
is 245 feet above high water level, while
the light-house proper is 130 feet high
and can be seen at a distance of thirty to
thirty-five miles. It is seven miles from
Hamilton and is a very beautiful drive.
There are about 100 miles of splendid
roads on the island. The basis being
coral, they are necessarily hard and
white, in many instances cut through
solid rock ten to twenty feet deep. This
work was done by the convicts stationed
here several years ago, and indi-
eates an immense amount of work ac-
complished by them. The water on the
reefs and coasts is of an exceptional
brillianey, its matchless clearness and
limpid transparency striking the new-
comer at once. The coloring is inde-
scribable. One of the attractive features
of the place as seen from any point are
the white houses, made from the coral
stone obtained on the island. Roofs,
chimneys and all are immaculately white
and look very beautiful surrounded by
There is
no fresh water on the island eqcept as
obtained by the storage of rain in tanks.
Every house of any pretensions has one
or more such tanks. Indeed, the law
obliges provision to be made when houses
are built for this essential reservoir.
The British government keeps a regiment
soldiers stationed here constantly.
The red coats are ever pres nt on the
The fortifica-
extensive and formidable.
tions are
i Three or four men-of-war, including the
| flag-ship of the North American Fleet,
| rendezvous
here for several months
every winter and add materially to the
Exclusive of these
iis a captain, superintendent and astaff
of naval employes, including 200 seamen,
150 marines and nearly 800 dock-yard
laborers. The largest floating dock in
the world is here (Ireland Island). It
weighs 8,200 tons, draws when light
eleven feet of water, and when sunk for
docking a large iron-clad, fifty feet. It
took over two years to build it, and eost
a quarter of a million sterling. A visit
to the dock-yard is one of the standard
attractions and amply repays one for the
trouble. The climate is mild but essen-
tially damp and variable. The business
man will certainly find this a haven of
rest, as it is entirely isolated from the
outer world—no telegraphic or cable
communication, and mail only once a
week. The islands represent the coral-
reared summit of an isolated submarine
mountain rising abrubtly on the bed of
the Attantic froma depth of 2,000 fath-
oms and to a height about equal to that
of Mont Blane. Cape Hatteras, which
is the nearest land, is distant 625 English
miles, and726 miles from New York.
The hotel accommodations are good. we
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There are several very large and well-
kept hotels on the island, the two largest,
the Hamilton and Princess, being kept
open only from December 20 to April 1.
There are, however, several really good
hotels open the year round and quite a
number of good boarding houses. The
Searaborough House is beautifully 1lo-
cated and is undoubtedly the nicest place
to stop, but the difficulty is they can
accommodate only a very limited num-
ber. Livery hire is very reasonable and
the rigs are all first-class. Double rigs
cost $1 per hour and single rigs $1 for
the first hour and 50 cents per hour for
the balance of the time.
I am feeling splendidly. Am much
benefited by my sojourn here—and I take
great pleasure in recommending this as
the best place in the world for anyone
seeking entire rest.
Yours Sincerely,
Wo. H. Hoops.
P. S.—We sail for home on the steamer
Oronoco on Feby. 28 and will reach
Grand Rapids about March 7.
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There are always risks in business. It
should be a question of how few a firm
can take and keep up with competition.
It is not too late this year to start right
in this matter, and a good rule to apply
is for any man who is in doubt about
extending a credit to give himself, in a
large majority of eases, the benefit of the
doubt.
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 Portiand. 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 totwo days,
according to destination. No other line from 8t.
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.
FEE, General Passenger and Ticket Agent, St.
Paul, Minn.
HARDWOOD LUMBER.
The furniture factories here pay as follows for
dry stock, measured merchantable, mill culls
out:
Si oiwood ioe rea... tt 13 00@15 00
Birch, logrun......._..._. |... |... to Geis ob
Birch Nos dand2....: @22 00
Black Ash, log-run.... 14 00@16 00
Chery, lost. 25 00@35 00
Ghemy, Nos: 4 and 2)... 00@60 00
Cherm, cul. @12 00
Maple loprun .......-.... 2... _..-12 OO@14 0
Mapie, soft lozcum.. 11 00@13 00
Maple, Nos. fand2 ...-...-. @20 00
Maple, clear, floorme...,--.-_-_--__.- @25 00
Maple, white, selected = @25 00
Rea Oak Jog Tum 18 00@20 00
Bed Gak Nos. land? ... 24 00@2> 00
2ed Oak, 4 sawed, 8 inch and upw'd.40 00@45 00
Red Oak. 4 sawed,reeular.....-._-_-. 30 00€35 00
hed Oak, No. 1, step plank.....--.--_- (@25 00
Maing. locran @55 00
Walnut Nec fisgnd?:. @%5 00
Wants cat. @25 00
Grey Elm, log-run... ... ..12 00@13 05
White Ace toe run... .titié‘(é‘N‘ CL. ..14 00@16 00
Whitewood, l6ctum ...-.._-....-. 20 00@22 00
White Oak. ijogrunm 3... 17 00818 00
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.
ZACHARY T. ALDRICH.
Special Partner.
Rapids, Jan. 28, 1889.
Dated, Grand
TIME TABLES.
Grand Rapids & Indiana.
GOING NORTH.
Arrives. Leaves.
Traverse City & Mackinaw........ 2 7:00 am
Traverse City & Mackinaw 11:30 a m
From Cincinnati ate
For Petoskey & ¥ 5:00 pm
Saginaw Express. . ao 7:20am
_ ees ecu ccceaceers 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.
Fort Wayne Express 11:46am
Cincinnati Expres 5:00 pm
From Traverse City 0:46 pm
7:15a mtrain 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 & Indiana.
7:15am
Leave. Arrive.
ee ede cree coca dae 10:45 a m
Oe ta cece wceieicicicieiels 4:45pm
4:20 7:45pm
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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. . 1:05pm 1:00pm
+Through Mail.... - 4:55pm 5:10pm
+Grand Rapids Expres -10:40 pm
*Night Express........ : --» 6408 m 7:00am
Oe ee 7:45am
GOING EAST.
TDetrow Mares. oc 6:50am
ST erouen Me esc 10:20am 10:30am
tieveuiie Meeeress. on 3:40pm 3:50 pm
*Limited Express. .. .....0..