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instructions,
Address
PENINSULAR CO.,
Grand Rapids.
hour.
REMPIS & GALLMEYER,
POUNDERS
&. General Jobbers and Manufacturers of
Settees, Lawn Vases, Roof Crestings, Carriage
Steps, Hitching Posts and Stair Steps.
54-56 N. Front St. Grand Rapids, Mich.
Best and Cheapest
Thorough, Practical and Complete.
The West Michigan
Business University
AND NORMA
SCHOOL,
MeMullen Block, 23 South Division St.,
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
Is the Best Place to obtain a Thorough, Prac
tical and Complete Education. The Best
ACTUAL BUSINESS Department in the State.
The most thorough and practically conducted
Short-Hand and Typewriting Department in the
West. Do not fail to write for particulars.
A. E. YEREX, President.
SEEDS!
Write for jobbing prices on
Mammoth, Medium, Alsyke and
AlfalfaClover, Timothy, Orchard
Grass, Red Blue
Top, Grass,
Field Peas, Beans, Produce and
WOOL.
C. Aimewortn,
76 So. Division St., Grand Rapids.
S. G. KETCHAM,
DEALER IN
oe
Lime, Nair, Cement
BRICK, SEWER PIPE, TILE, ETC.,
14 West Bridge St.,
GRAND RAPIDS, - =
MICH
W. C. WILLIAMS,
A, 8S. BROOKS,
WILLIAMS,
SHELEY
& BROOKS
Successors to
FARRAND, WILLIAMS & CO.,
Wholesale Druggists,
AT THE OLD STAND.
Corner Bates and Larned Streets, Detroit. |
For Sale!
Or will exchange for city property, saw- |
mill and about 600
timber land, situated near Kalkaska.
Geo. Metz, 480 Cherry St., Grand Rapids,
Mich.
ALLEN DURFEE. A. D. LEAVENWORTR.
Allen Durfee & Co.,
A. SHELEY. |
acres of hardwood |
FUNERAL DIRECTORS,
103 Ottawa St., Grand Rapids.
S. A. Morman,
WHOLESALE
| Ml K,
AND LOUISVILLE
CEMENTS;
Stucco and Hair, Sewer Pipe, Fire Brick
and Clay.
PETOSKEY,
MARBLEHEAD
AND OHIO
AKRON, BUFFALO
Write for prices.
69 CANAL ST., GRAND RAPIDS.
RNR
If in want of Clover or Timothy,
Orchard, Blue Grass, or Red Top,
or, in fact, Any Kind of Seed,
send or write to the
Grand Rapids Seed store,
71 Cana! St, GRAND RAPIDS.
W.T. LAMOREAUX.
DOlll-ANnDal Clearance Nal6
Fine Millinery.
A Fine Opportunity to Buy Trimmed
Hats and Bonnets Cheap.
Adams & ak.
90 MONROE ST.,
OPPOSITE THE MORTON HOUSE.
~ GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 9, 1890.
RAILWAY RATE WARS.
Written for THE TRADESMAN.
The prevailing view regarding the dis-
jastrous effects of railway rate wars is a
| curious feature of the average newspaper |
comments. Where such ideas started, it
is hard to say, except
alarmed
from the pens of
stockholders only
| to any kind of a ‘‘war’’? have something
| to do with it; whatever the
| thing is certain, there hus been printed a
| great deal of
|
|
|
|
|
|
Perhaps the associations usually aseribed
cause, one
unnecessary
There are
lof course, where a rate war has proven a
| great loss to a road,
sympathy
| about the matter. instances,
there was concerted action by combined
rivals to oppress a weak opponent; but
publie is not justified in
such disturbances as unmitigated evils.
As arule, arate war is a great
to all kinds of business; not only with
all communities
through which
roads pass,
railways themselves. When a
ple ship merchandise for the saving such
rates permit. Buyers
numerous in all departments, and fre-
quently buy in order to thus advantage
become more
themselves. The manufacturer is pressed
with the
work to meet the
orders, wholesaler has hard
lessened cost
From one trade to another the
general prosperity.
induces an unusual amount of passenger
travel.
are phenomenally low and visit distant
and all points which they would not
think of doing at the regular rates. Buy-
ers go to distant points to buy supplies
whieh usually were obtained from visit-
ing salesmen, and lay in heavy stocks to
take advantage of the low freights; thus
a road’s business is greatly increased,
and frequently to such an extent that it
finds itself with insufficient facilities for
carriage to meet the demand. But the
oddest feature is the astonishment of the
railway officials when the monthly re-
turns are made up; for most of them had
been led to believe the road was oper-
ating under a heavy loss and that every
additional ton carried added to the road’s
liabilities. Railway men are in the habit
much per ton per mile, and the estimates
under the conditions given are about
right, but during a rate war the condi-
tions are altered. Although
per ton is much less than the previously
estimated
eost, asarule it
|made a much greater profit than at the
| rn : 2 :
old rates. This is due toa greatly in-
crease of cost in service.
| Of late, Western rate wars have been |
| from many frightened stockholders; but
| the profits of these roads and all roads in
the country have been exceptionally
partly in-|
formed concerning their cause and effect. |
particularly when |
these cases are so exceptional that the |
looking upon |
stimulus |
such |}
but with the participating |
road |
greatly reduces its rates, naturally peo- |
demand, and the re- |
tailer advertises job lots and runs off}
large quantities of goods, because the}
induces large purchases. |
season of |
a rate war is long remembered for its |
Low passenger rates |
People buy tickets because they |
of estimating the cost of carriage at so}
the charge |
is found in|
practice that the road in a rate war has |
ereased traffic with no appreciable in-|
| unusually severe, sufficiently so to hear |
NO. 355.
| large; an average of fully 13 per cent.
| for the five months since January 1, in
excess of the same period for 1889. Such
which is net in amount,
greatly surprises railway officials, for it
|} was wholly unexpected. The
percentage given over the en-
tire country, East, West and South, some
sections doing much better than others,
the Southwest
an increase,
average
extends
leading the list. But the
fighting roads show a full average of the
ratio of profits, and have greatly con-
tributed toward the
general
| throughout the Northwest.
prosperity
The general
increase of trade in all parts of the West,
| as shown by the clearing house reports,
| Which are nearly 15 per cent. in exeess
of last year during the same five months,
; shows a condition of that sur-
prises many people who are unable to
account for it; particularly as trade dur-
ing the spring season—the dullest of the
affairs
year—is in excess of the winter months
which precede it.
There are many good
reasons for considering this increase as
|} mostly due to the rate wars in the man-
ner above described. If there are other
| reasons they have not yet come to the
| surface.
The crops of
llarge, but
last season were
not so profitable to the grow-
;ers, who have had nosurplus cash to pay
| for supplies. The movement of general
| provisions, live stock and cereals by the
| different roads, has been exceedingly
| heavy, but mostly toward distant points.
cotton, the
| prospects are excellent
| So far, except coming crop
and, if equal to
| last season’s, the country will probably
freight next
| fall, owing to the inability of the trans-
isee some larger blocks of
portation lines to take care of it,
last
orders are being placed by all
than
| occurred year. Unusually large
Western
roads for freight cars and such supplies
This
market
As a rule,
| railway rate wars do little harm to the
retail interests.
as will increase present facilities.
will materially affect the
and increase
retail
present prices.
Low rates induce busi-
ness that otherwise would not take place.
JOHN M. BATCHELOR.
ee
Bank Notes.
Frank Hale, formerly cashier of the
defunet Carson City Savings Bank, has
taken a position with the State Bank of
Carson City.
The Charlevoix Savings Bank has sus-
pended, Banking Commissioner Sherwood
| having taken possession of the institu-
| tion last Thursday.
Marquette will have asavings bank.
| Its incorporators are C. H. Call, W. F.
| Fitch, N. M. Kaufman, W. P. Henley,
| Mary and S&S. K. Kaufman,
}of Marquette, Samuel Mitchell of Ne-
and M. W. O’Brien, of Detroit.
It will begin to receive the pennies about
|; August 1.
Five shares of the Chemical National
3ank of New York were sold on the New
York Stock Exchange, recently, at $4,925
per share.
Breitung,
gaunee,
This is the highest price ever
reached even by that famous stock. Al-
i though the institution has but $300,000
capital, the surplus and undivided profits
amount to over $5,000,000.
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The P. of I. Dealers.
The following are the P. of I. dealers who had
not cancelled their contracts at last accounts:
Ada—L. Burns.
Adrian—Powers & Burnham,
L. T. Lochner, Burleigh Bros.
Allegan—Chas, Spear
Allendale—Henry Dolman.
Almira—J. J. Gray.
Almont—Colerick & Martin.
Altona—Eli Lyons.
Armada—cC, J. Cudworth.
Assyria—J. W. Abbey.
Aurelius—John D. Swart.
Banfield—Andrew Brezee.
Bay City—Frank Rosman & Co.
Belding—Lightstone Bros.
Bellevue—John Evans.
Big Rapids—A. V. Young, E. P. Shankweiler
& Co., Mrs. Turk, J. K. Sharp, A. Markson.
Blissfield—Jas. Gauntlett, Jr.
Bowen’s Mills—Chas. W. Armstrong.
Brice—J. B. Gardner.
Burnside—John G. Bruce & Son.
Caldwell—C. L. Moses.
Capac —H. C. ea
Carlton ¢ "enter—J. . Covert.
Carson City—A. B. L oomis, A. Y. Sessions.
Cedar Springs—John Beucus, B. A. Fish, B.
ripp.
Anton Wehle,
Charlotte — John J. Richardson, Daron &
Smith, F. H. Goodby.
Clam River—Andrew Anderson.
Clio—John W. Hurd.
Coldwater—J. D. Benjamin.
Conklin—Wilson McWilliams.
Cook’s Corners—W. H. Hanks.
Coral—J. 8S. Newell & Co.
Deerfield—Henry W. Burghardt.
Dorr—Frank Sommer.
Dowling—Rice & Webster.
Eaton Rapids—H. os hek & Bro.
Evart—Mark Ardis, E. F. Shaw, John C. Devitt.
Fenwick— Thompson Bros., S. H. Rinker.
Flint—John B. Wilson, Geo. Stuart « son,
ney Granite and Marble Works.
Flushing—Sweet Bros. & Clark.
Forester—E. Smith.
Freeport—C, V. Riegler.
Gladwin—John Graham, J. D.
Croskery.
Gowan—Rasmus Neilson.
Grand Haven—N. J. Braudry & Co.
Grand Junction—Adam Crouse.
Grand Ledge—Frank O. Lord, Geo. Coryell.
Grand Rapids—Joseph Berles, A. Wilzinski,
Brown & Sehler, Houseman, Donnally & Jones,
Ed Struensee, Wasson & Lamb, Chas. Pettersch,
Morse & Co., Famous — Store, Harvey & Hey
stek, Mrs. E. J. Reynolds, E. Burkhardt.
alesse eres & Netzorg.
Hart—Rhodes & Leonard, W. Weidman,
E. Covel.
Hastings—J G. Runyan.
Howard City—O. J. Knapp, Herold Bros., C. E.
Pelton.
Hubbardston—M. H. Cahalan.
Hudson—Henry C. Hall.
Imlay City—Cohn Bros.,
Buck, E. E. Palmer.
Ionia—H. Silver.
Jackson—Hall & Rowan.
Jenisonvi a & L. Jenison (mill only).
Jones—R. C. Sloan.
Kalamo—L. R Cessna.
Kent City—M. L. Whitney.
Kewadin—A. Anderson
Kingsley—J. E. Winchcomb.
Lacey—Wm. Thompson.
Laingsburg—D. Lebar.
Lake City—Sam. B. Ardis,
Lake Odessa—Christian
Colwell & Son, Fred Miller.
Sanford, Jas.
Mrs.
Wyckoff & Co., C.J.
Haller & Co., E. F
Lakeview—H. C. Thompson, Andrew All &
Bro.
Langston—F D. Briggs.
Lansing—R. A. Bailey, Etta (Mrs. Israel) Glic-
man.
Lapeer—C. Tuttle & Son, W. H. Jennings.
Low Patrick Kelly.
McBain—Sam. B. Ardis.
McBride’s—J. McCrae.
Mancelona—J. L. Farnham.
Manton—A. Curtis, Mrs. E. Liddle.
Maple City—A. & O. Brow.
Marshall—W. E. Bosley,S. V. R. L
Mason—Marcus Gregory.
Mecosta—J. Netzorg.
Milan—C. C. (Mrs. H. S.) Knight, Chas. Gaunt
lett, James Gauntlett, Jr.
Millington—Chas. H. Valentine.
Minden City—I. Springer & Co.
Monroe Center—Geo. H. Wightman.
Morley—Henry Strope.
Mt. Morris—H. EB. Lamb,
. H. Cowles.
Mt. Pleasant ‘er McNamara.
Nashville—H. M. Lee.
North Dorr—John Homrich.
Nottawa—Dudley Cutler.
Ogden—A. J. Pence.
Olivet—F. H. Gage.
Onondaga—John Sillik.
Orange—Tew & Son.
Orono—C, A. Warren.
Oviatt—H. C. Pettingill.
Pearle—Geo. H. Smith.
Potterville—F. D. Lamb & Co.
Remus—C. V. Hane.
tichmond—Knight & Cudworth
Riverdale—J. B. Adams.
tockford—B. A. Fish.
Sand Lake—Frank E.
Blanchard.
Sebewa—John Bradley.
Shelbyville—Samuel Wolcott.
Shepherd—H. O. Bigelow.
Sheridan—M. Gray.
Shultz—Fred Otis.
Spencer Creek—M.
Spring Lake
epper & Son.
J. Vermett & Son,
a
, A. we.
Shattuck,
M. Elder.
-Geo. Schwab, A. Bitz.
j
67 Canal St.,
THE MICHIGAN
Woodbury—Henry Van Houten, Chas. Lapo.
Williamston—Thos. Horton.
Woodland—Carpenter & Son.
Yankee Springs—T. Thurston.
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Official Report of Secretary Bush.
LANSING, June 28, 1890.
Editor Michigan Tradesman:
|
| present.
| Koster.
| of Omaha, Neb.,
meeting of Nat.
| Michigan
I hand herewith report of the meeting of the
Board of Directors of the Michigan Knights of
| the Grip, held at the Morton House, Grand Rap-
ids, June 21.
Meeting called to order at 2
ter, chairman of Board.
Proxy of A. A. Howard held by L. J.
Mr. Mills read letter from C. S. Kelsey,
relative to sending delegate to
T. FP. A., at Denver.
The Secretary was instructed to write each
Congressman and Senator, urging
their support of House Bill No. 10,172 and Senate
Bill No. 3,7
L. M. Mills, Chas. F. Ballard and Geo, F
p.m. by L. J. Kos- |
Majority of Board |
|
|
| 86, which is an act to amend Section |
22 of the Interstate Commerce bill.
|
. Owen |
| were chosen to confer with members of different |
localities as to the best place of
annual meeting.
Monday, Dec. 29, 1890.
holding the |
The date decided upon was |
The Secretary was directed to issue a circular |
member,
introduction of
letter to every
gard to the
getting his views in re- |
an accident insur- |
| ance feature in our association, asit was deemed |
j advisable to
| the action of the
incorporate something of
this |
|
nature to insure the permanency of our organ-
ization. |
It was voted as the sense of the meeting that |
"Bus Committee,
the establishment of anew
| be endorsed by the Knights of the Grip.
The bill of $25 from Division ‘‘A,” for flags 4
in procuring |
‘bus line at Manistee, |
| furnished at the time of the last meeting, was |
| ordered paid. |
Bar- |
The meeting then adjourned,
call of the President. JNO. J. Busy, See’y.
CUTS for BOOM EDITIONS
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—OR—
PAMPHLETS
For the best work, at reasonable prices, address
THE TRADESMAN COMPANY,
Grand Rapids, Mich,
Cook & Bergthold,
MANUFACTURERS OF
SHOW GASES.
Prices Lower than those of
any competitor. Write for cata-
logue and prices.
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH
Furniture
——A T—
Nelson,
Matter
& Co's
ISTYLES:
Reed. |
Braman « |
Springport—Powers & Johnson, Wellington & |
Hammond, Elmer Peters.
Stan wood—F. M. Carpenter.
Traverse City—John Wilhelm, 8.
D. D. Paine.
Vassar—McHose & Gage.
Wayland—Pickett Bros.
Wheeler—Louise (Mrs. A.)
Breckenridge.
White Cloud—J. C. Townsend, N. W. Wiley.
Whitehall—Geo. Nelson, John Haverkate.
Williamsburg—Mrs. Dr. White.
Johnson, H. C.
C. Darrow,
New,
Cheap,
Medium
AND
Expensive.
Large Variety and
Prices Low.
subject to the |
TRADESMAN. |
GEO. H. REEDER,
State Agent
: Lycoming Rubbers
and Jobber of
Medinm Price Shoes
Grand Rapids, Mich.
Great, Genuine Spectal Sale
Of Trunks and Traveling Bags, Satchels, Ete. Prices reduced 25 to 40
per cent. We are manufacturers and can and will save you money and
at the same time furnish a better article, both as to durability, work-
manship and finish.
Now Is the Time to Buy,
As this sale will continue for a short time only. Trunks and Sample
Cases made to order. Repairing neatly done. Give us a call and con-
vince yourself that we are selling the best and cheapest trunks and
bags in the city.
HANISH & EIFERT,
74 Waterloo St... GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
‘1eqqny BuryA004g But
“180M 2 Zurji1g7 ssog ou,
Telephone 13.
I. M. CLARK & SON.,
Importers and Jobbers of
Fing Havana, Key West and Domestic
CIGARS!
Sole Agents for V. Martinez Ybor & Co., ‘‘El Principe de Gales’? Factory, Key
West;
Baltz, Clymer & Co.’s ‘‘El. Mereto’’ and ‘‘Henry Clay’’ brands;
Celestino Palacio & Co.’s ‘‘La Rosa’’ (full line); Seiden-
berg & Co.’s ‘Figaro’? and ‘‘Knapsack.”’
We want your trade on Havana and Key West goods and are prepared
to give you satisfaction in every instance.
I. M. CLARK & SON.
Fine Frosting Sugar.
For Fine Frosting and Pastry this Sugar has no equal, and only has to be used
to be appreciated. With it there is no trouble in making Nice, Soft, Smooth frost-
ing. No eggs, beating or cooking required; simply mix the sugar with a little
water or milk to the proper consistency, flavor to taste and spread upon the cake
with a thin knife. You can also use, in place of milk or water, Orange, Lemon or
Pineapple juice, or the Syrup from any kind of Canned Fruit or Berries with most
excellent results. Sold by all Grocers. Warranted Pure, and manufactured by
PUTNAM CANDY CO., Grand Rapids, Mich,
WHO URGES YOU
TO HBREEP
SA POLIO’?
He PUBLIC
By splendid ai expensive advertising the i cre
ate a demand, and only ask the trade to keep the goods in
stock so as to supply the orders sent to them. Without effort
on the grocer’s part the goods sell themselves, bring purchas-
ers to the store, and help sell less known g oods.
ANY JOBBER WILL BE GLAD TO FILL YOUR ORDERS.
sete, lt
rennet
meno
set le
yarn,
tee MACEEGCAN TRADESMAN.
A Typical Kansas Town.
The following interesting description of a
typical Kansas village is from the pen of Frank
S. Millington, who was formerly engaged in the
drug business at Paw Paw, under the style of
. Bartram & Millington:
¢
Kirwiy, Kan., June 26, 1890.
Editor Michigan Tradesman:
Once more my foot is on my native heath, or
would be if there was any heath to put it on;
but the lack of rain, warm wind and warmer sun
have parched said heath until it is a crumbling
mass of yellow, dead grass. This has been,
aceording to the oldest inhabitant, the dryest
spring and early summer in the fifteen years’
history of its civilization, with one exception.
Kirwin is pleasantly situated on the Solomon
River, near the junction of Deer Creek. Its
railroad is the central branch of the Union
Pacific, leased and operated by the Missouri
Pacific. Six miles north is the air line route of
the Rock Island road to Denver, which has taken
from our little city some of its best trade by the
building of new towns. Kirwin isa town of
about 800 inhabitants, built in the western style | ';
We are 242 miles west | '%
around a public square.
from Atchinson and thirty miles from the
Nebraska line, in the center of John C. Fre-
mont’s historical ‘‘Great American Desert,”
which we used to see in our old geographies.
The season is very discouraging. Small grain
is so short and already ripe that it will scarcely
more than give seed for cutting. Corn is pros-
perous, but a week or ten days’ more warm wind
and weather, without rain, will hurt us; and
corn is king here, if it is only worth 12 cents per
bushel. It sold when I came here in March for
12 and 12% cents, but is now bringing 21 cents.
I have charge of a pleasant little room, 30x40,
with a $5,000 stock. My employer is a practicing
physician and one whom the world has used
kindly. For all our western poverty, we carry a
better class of fine plush goods than any Mich-
igan dealer in a town of twice the size of Kirwin
dare carry. The people are discontented, how-
ever, and the Farmers’ Alliance is their anchor
of faith. Itis after the pattern of the P. of I.,
but much stronger and more powerful. I have
had several exciting discussions with prominent
members lately regarding their contracts with
dealers and have been able, so far, to hold my
own and convince them that no merchant can
do business on a basis of 10 per cent., unless he
is granted an enormous business and put to
small expense. Some of our dealers have made
these contracts. They will either fleece the poor
Alliance men or soon be in the position of the
man who stepped upon the orange peel
I must say one word about the wild flowers of
this section: They are numerous and handsome.
The sensitive rose is a very fragrant little pink
blossom, about the size of a white clover blos-
som, and just a mass of fine stamens, with no
visible petals. The leaves close upon contact,
orafter having been severed from the power
Wild verbenas are wonderfully plenty and very
pretty. I counted a dozen different kinds of
flowers in a seven-mile ride the other day, among
them two kinds of cacti.
Prairie dogs and jack rabbits are plenty and
very interesting, as are also the little cat owls,
which inhabit dog towns. There is quite a pop-
ulous town less than a mile south of the public
square.
A large red ant infests the country, which is
very destructive to pastures, often spoiling a
spot some ten feet in diameter. I had quite an
experience the other day watching a colony of
them move. It wasa constant stream of some
eight or ten rods for twelve hours, going each
way. I missed seeing the queen, however,
although I faithfully spent every spare moment.
The drug business is a picnic for fun in_ this
country. Some day when I have more time I
will give you a few of my experiences.
Iam lonesome without THE TRADESMAN and
Iwantit. I haven’t the $1 to spare just now, as
I am just finishing a round with the probate
judge, to whom I have to apply for the privilege
of selling “blue ruin.” [ll have it some time,
however, and if you won't send it to me on tick,
I'll send you the stuff as soon as I can, to insure
its reception. I am not doing an ‘original pack-
age’? business—only just using my legal rights
as a druggist in a prohibition state.
Yours resp’y. “CowBoy’’ MILLINGTON.
————_ > -4
Robbing Country Towns.
The country towns most subject to vis-
itation by burglars are those which lie
on the line of several railroads, and are
thus in communication with many differ-
ent places by various routes.
The ‘“teracksmen”’ arrive from the city
by the latest train at night, after the res-
idents are most of them asleep. They
have four, five or six hours for their
nefarious work, and the earliest trains |
in the morning take them away with
their plunder, before the good people of
the town have fairly wakened up.
It is also to be noted that towns thus
abundantly provided with railroad facil-
ities are likely to be prosperous, and,
therefore, attractive to thieves.
In all places so situated, the police
should be particularly watchful at and
above the various railway stations. In-
deed, the inhabitants really need just as
much police protection as the dwellers
in our large cities.
——_—> 4
Detroit—John B., Edward, Henry, Jr.,
Christopher and John Wagner have in-
corporated the Wagner Baking Co., with
a capital of $50,000, of which $35,000 is
paid in.
We are receiving
B N\ N N\ N N\ S from two to four
earloads of bananas
8 a.
a week, which is
more fruit than can be handled by any other house at this market. Remember
We Are Headquarters
GRAND RAPIDS FRUIT AND PRODUCE (CO.
A. J. BROWN
Wholesale dealer in Foreign, Tropical and
Domestic
Frvits and Seeds.
Direct Reccivers of
California Oranges——
—_AND—
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Pr
HEADQUARTERS FOR ee
BEACH’S
New York Goffes Rooms.
61 Pearl Street.
Five Cents Each for’ all}dishes served
from bill of fare.
Steaks, Chops and All Kinds of Order
Cooking a Specialty.
FRANK M. BEACH, Prop.
WANTED.
POTATOES, APPLES, DRIED
FRUIT, BEANS
and all kinds of Produce.
If you have any of the above goods to
ship, or anything in the Produce line, let
us hear from you. Liberal cash advances
made when desired.
EARL BROS.,
COMMISSION MERCHANTS
157 South Water St., CHICAGO.
BANANAS. —— Messina Lemons.
When in want of large lots of California Oranges, we are prepared to make you
low prices from fresh cars.
16 and 18 North Division St., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. send for Price List, Issued Weekly
Rindge, Bertsch & Co.
For warm weather we would call attention
of the trade to our
line of walking
shoes at popular
prices. We carry
= a line of russel
no : and black,in turn
and M.S., tips and plain, opera and common
sense toes, and invite inspection.
We also solicit your fall order for Boston and Bay State rubber goods, and
guarantee prices and terms as low as any house selling the same brand.
12, 14 AND 16 PEARL ST., - - GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
WM. SEARS & CO..
Gracker Manufacturers,
37,39 and 41 Kent St., Grand Rapids
We Manufacture
Everything in the line of
jo. DANA
Correspondence solic-
ited and prices quot-
ed with pleasure.
Write us.
MOSEHELEY BROS.
——_W HOLESALE——
Fruits, Seeds, Oysters? Produce.
All kinds of Field Seeds a Specialty.
if you are in market to buy or seli Clover Seed, Beans or Potatoes, will be
pleased to hear from you.
Reference: First NATIONAL BANK, Ohicago.
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. Grand Rapide.
FOURTH NATIONAL BANK
Grand Rapids, Mich.
A. J. BOWNE, President.
GEo. C. PIERCE, Vice President.
H. W. Nasu, Cashier
CAPITAL, - - - $300,000.
Transacts a general banking business.
| Make a Specialty of Collections. Accounta
of Country Merchants Solicited.
Playing Gards
WE ARE HEADQUARTERS
SEND FOR PRICE LIST.
Daniel Lynch,
19 So. Ionia St., Grand Rapids.
EDMUND B. DIKEMAN
THE GREAT
Watch Maker
= Jeweler,
hk CANAL SY.,
Grand Rapids, - Mish.
26, 28, 30 and 32 Ottawa St., - - GRAND RAPID&
AMONG THE TRADE.
AROUND THE STATE.
Homer—T. S. Dorsey is
the grocery business by E. R. Wallace.
Lake City—S. A. Howey will open a
complete stock of hardware
supplies about August 1.
Detroit—Pollock, Pettibone
man succeed Pollock, Baird &
wholesale millinery business.
Kent City—Price Bros. have sold their
meat business to Chas. Parrish and C.
Doughty, who will continue the business.
Miller—George V. Snyder is
bad luck this year. His new store build-
ing, which was being built on the site of
the burned a few weeks
blown down during a storm, a few
ago.
Vermontville—Goodman &
their building and
dry goods and drugs to ¢
Sandusky, Ohio, and A.
Zaleski, Ohio. The
known as Robinson & Rannells.
& Chap-
one ago, Was
days
Co. have
sold store
Robinson, of
new firm
dealer, recently quarreled with his wife
and left for parts unknown. The stock
was mortgaged, but his wife sold a por-
tion of it to Armstrong & Graves,
run it off to Sand Beach. The
succeeded in |
and mill}
Co. in the}
having |
e | of the building, which will be 40x80 feet
stock of |
. G. Rannells, of |
will be}
who | a . ‘
| small lot of pine on that entire river that
mortgage |
creditors thereupon replevined the goods |
and returned them to this place.
MANUFACTURING
Boyne Falls—Wm.
shingle mill machinery for getting
out chair stock.
Pentwater—The Pentwater Furniture
Co.’s sales of furniture forthe six months
ending June 30, exceed $70,000.
Midland— Shepherd & Parker
purehased machinery and will locate a
MATTERS.
his
have
small saw and shingle mill at Sanford.
Sullivan—A. B.
sawmill to take the place of the Spauld-
Klise is
ing mill, which was burned about a year
ago.
Benton Harbor—F.
ceeds to the
A. Blackmer
of the
S. MeCord
suc-
business
Pulp and Paper Co.,
retired.
Lake Odessa—The
and Cheese Co. has been organized.
eapita) stock is $10,000,
is paid in.
having
Lake Odessa Butter
The
of which $5,800
Eastman,
the
it, have
weeks,
Saginaw—E. O. and S. L.
ght a tract of
lumbering
for
who bou timber on
Tobacco and began
two
when business will be resumed.
Oscoda—The Gratwick, Smith & Fryer
sawmill commenced running nights last
Monday, an electric light plant having
been put into the premises. A force of
175 men compose the night crew.
Oscoda—The H. M. Loud & Sons Co.’s
new planing mill is about completed,
and is turning out 1,800 telegraph cross-
arms daily. It
tricity, and run day and night, while
capacity will be increased.
Saginaw—Judd & Judd have closed out
their and transferred their
lumber to Tonawanda. They
have no timber in this now, and
their stock, which from Lake
Superior, can be handled at Tonawanda
to better advantage.
Mt. Pleasant—William Pickard cut and
hauled 950,000 feet of basswood logs two
miles north of Clare to the railroad,
where they were shipped to this place,
The bas-
2,000,000
suspended operations
be lighted by elec-
the
will
yard here
business
section
comes
to be converted into baskets.
ket factory here manufactured
baskets last year.
Mears has added to |
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building a|
| well.
Blackmer
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| Pittsburgh,
| Detroit by P. H. Van Court.
| sheet
| daily.
ce
Detroit—The Black Hardware Co. has
ceased to do business in Detroit, the
doors having been closed last Monday,
after the stock had been shipped to
Seattle. The ground floor, 8°x100, has
been leased by Parke Bros. & Co., of
who will be represented in
They are
|manufacturers of all kinds of bar and
steel.
Clare—A corporation with $30,000 cap-
ital has been organized here to engage in
the manufacture of woodenware, and the
contract has been let for the construction
MICHIGAN TR. ADES IMAN.
much do you want?’ ‘Well, use your
own discretion, but all the way from six
to ten columns a day. Whodo you want
to take with you?’ ‘No one; I want to
take my stenographer, but no one else.’
‘All right.? So 1 say to my stenographer:
‘Girley, I want you to be ready to go to
Chicago next Tuesday. Goto the Leland
House, and here is my card—’ ‘I can’t.’
‘What? ‘Mr. Howard—you know I
would do anything for you.’ ‘Well, go
on. Why can’t you go? ‘Mr. Howard,
you know people will talk.’ ‘All right.
All right.’ In other words, the employer
of to-day is confronted by the opinion
expressed by Mrs. Grundy to Dame
Rumor, and sent broadeast throughout
| the earth by little Miss Tittle-Tattle that
| Mr.
and two stories high, with an engine and
detached.
that forty hands will be employed at the
outset, turning out 53
There is plenty of pine and bass-
wood available in the vicinity.
Au Sable—
boiler house
| disturbed by rumors that the J. E. Potts
: i | Potts says
Minden City—W. A. Soule, the general | ce
iall of
; sawed, and that the timber on
| river has been
Salt & Lumber Co. contemplates an early
transfer of its mill plant to Tawas. Mr.
his pine tributary to Au Sable
Au Sable
secured by manufacturers
to an extent that he knows of but one
san be purchased. If he continues the
business,
Female Stenographers.
fact that he uses his English most vigor-
ously. A short time since he was in-
vited to address the New York Steno-
Association, and choosing for
his subject, ‘‘Short-hand as a Business,’’
gave the young men and young women
assembled to hear him not only a
very entertaining talk, but one contain-
ing a large share of wholesome advice as |
He traced the course of
and sister who together study shorthand |
in aschool, pointing out their relative
usefulness to their employer, and indi-
ating the points in
where
young man when he meets ‘his
fate”
please and to earn promotion in business,
port.
hand, when she ‘‘is engaged,’’
careless as to her business,
soon to give it up, anyhow.
for
said :
“The difficulties that confront us are
these: The women who are, in my judg-
ment, best equipped by nature for sten-
work, after they reach the age
of 22 are
not worth the powder to blow |
It is expected |
stenographer absolutely
What for? To earn
paid toearn. The
Howard’s
went to Chicago.
the money that she is
| stenographer, in other words, has not the
|
|
The people here have been |
ane .,. | courage
0 tubs and 660 pails | =
of her convictions. Do you
mean to tell me that a woman would re-
main in the employ of a man six years
and a half, going on to seven, if it were
not a congenial employment? Do you
mean to tell me that any man born of a
woman, with sisters, a wife and daugh-
i ters, does not understand the relations
that in two years he will have |
| know better.
womanly that exist between him and this
most helpful abetment of his endeavors,
and that she would not be treated with
the courtesy that is her meed? You
You know very well that
that would be the illustration of employ-
|ment ninety-nine times out of a thou-
sand. And yet, so absolutely controlled
by the opinion of the dirty dogs of life
| was my stenographer, that she would not
the logs must come from Cana- |
ida, and Tawas bay affords better facilities
| for booming logs than any other point.
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a brother
the career of each |
important changes in life oceur. |
| mother was a woman.
seomes : i en ha
becomes all the more anxious tory have the intensest respect for geod
because he is soon to have a wife to sup- | WO™©”
The young woman, on the other |
becomes |
she is |
The speaker |
them to. blank as stenographers, simply |
because they have met ‘George’ around
the corner. Men regard stenography as
they regard the sale of dry goods, as
they regard any literary effort.
regard stenography as a bridge from the
now of endeavor to the then of
but take
creature,
their born name,
that gorgeous
they
heaven
erooks.”’
To emphasize another limitation in the
usefulness of female stenographers, the
speaker drew upon his own experience,
as follows:
that they had stuck to
‘‘T have, for thirty years, been strug- |
gling along the journalistic path, and for
the past ten years I have utilized sten-
ographers. The past six years and a
half 1 have had as good a one as walks
the earth. Her George, thank God, i
not yet in view, but the George will ul-
timately loom above the horizon. Who}
doubts it? I don’t, and she unquestion-
ably does not. Now, the New York
Herald’s chief comes to me and says:
‘We want you to go to the Chicago
| National Convention.’ ‘All right.
Women |
the |
apathetic state when they no longer have
the name of |
‘George’ —until |
are married—and then they wish to}
their |
How |
go with me to Chicago.”’
This part of his address the speaker
concluded as follows:
*‘I tell you, girls, you have got to do
two things. You have got to forget the
> : | Georges ife im ¥ yorking hours.
Everyone who has listened to Joe How- | Georges of life in your working hour
ard, Jr., speak, or who has read _ his ar- | ee ie ea ae Ma
ticles in the daily papers, recognizes the | 9 ag:
You have got to say to Mrs. Grundy, ‘Get
Otherwise, so
far as you are concerned, and so far as
that branch of endeavor is concerned,
women’s rights will never come to the
front.”’
We might make still other extracts
from this most interesting effort, all of
which would be entertaining, but lack of
space forbids. In closing, Mr. Howard
paid a pleasing tribute to woman’s worth
| in business, as follows:
“I didn’t come here to lecture—you
know that—I came here to have a little
talk. I have had it, and I want to thank
you for several things. 1 want to thank
you ladies first, for inspiration. My
I have been sur-
rounded by good women all my life; and
and I believe there is a great
future for the good women of this world.
I long to see women standing not alone
on the plane of suffrage, not alone on the
political, but upon the plane of comrade-
ship, and honor, and respect, of decency,
of courtesy and helpfulness, of the right
to work in the legitimate channels where
keen heads, warm hearts and facile fin-
gers are needed and can produce results.
I believe that all true men in this world
treat a woman as women wish to be
| treated and their sense of self-respect
| says they should be treated. And of all
the stenographers that I have ever met,
with the exception of two high-faluting,
somersault-turning girls in Chicago, I
| never in my life have met with one who
did not conduct herself, so far as my
work was concerned, with absolute self-
respect. I presume that the majority of
you are stenographers or typewriters—
about the same thing in one sense, so far
as publie utilization goes— and I believe
that, while men have the call so far as
the more profitable work is concerned,
yet that in time, having put the George
business and the Dame Rumor business
to the rear, in other words, being ready
to go wherever duty calls, that the
quicker intuition, more loyal natures and
more deft manipulation of women will
make them more successful as stenog-
raphers. I shall be heartily glad to have
it so, for there are many other callings
where men can make successes, but in
this it seems to me women will find their
ror sphere.
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.
BUSINESS CHANCES,
AOR SALE — OLD-ESTABLISHED GROCERY BUSI-
ness at Kalamazoo; clean stock; good location
and low rent; reason for selling, owner engaged in
other business; a rare chance and nota large invest
ment. Address No. 60, care Michigan Tradesman. 60
YROCERY STOCK—IN THE LIVELY VILLAGE OF
Chelsea, a stock of groceries and fixtures; a
paper takes all my time; $800 required. Wm. Emmert,
Chelsea, Mich. 57
OR SALE—STOCK OF GROCERIES AND FIXTURES,
splendid location; good reasons for selling. For
particulars, address No. 58, care Tradesman. 58
AKERY, RESTAURANT AND ICE CREAM °ARLOR;
$4,000 business last year; price $600; good reason
for selling. W. M. Smith, Box 382, St. Johns, Mich. 56
ae SALE—STOCK OF GROCERIES, BOOTS, SI SHOES,
hats and caps, together with store fixtures, which
will inventory about $1,200; must be cash;
be rented cheap Herbert Brown,
county, Mich.
4{vOR SALE—STO°K OF HARDWARE FOR CASH;
business established 20 years. Address Lock box
368, Charlotte, Mich. 54
SPLENDID OPPORTUNITY TO RENT 8TORE—RARE
K chance for opening a successful business in Sag-
inaw, east side; hardsome store, 25x117; building three
stories; splendid location on center of principal busi-
ness street in city. Max Havenrich, Saginaw, E. 8.
Mich. 55
OR SALE—TWO WHEELS, UPRIGHT AND PRESS,
used in manufacture of excelsior, for sale cheap.
Donker & Zuist, 216 Elizabeth St., Grand Rapids. 51
OR SALE—AT A GREAT BARGAIN, A FIRST-CLASS
water power, fully developed, with ten acres of
land; good house, barn and other out buildings. For
particulars, address E. B. Martin, Reed City, Mich. 50
oc. MARKET FOR SALE—DOING GOOD BUSI-
a ness; to a practical mana good chance. W. H.
Davis, Elk Rapids, Mich. 32
yy tD—I HAVE SPOT CASH TO PAY FOR A
general or grocery stock; must be cheap. _
dress No. 26, care Michigan Tradesman.
OR SALE—STORE, DRUG STOCK AND FIXTURES /
including postoffice fixtures, for sale on easy
terms, owing toill health; only drug store in town,
situated in center of fine fruit section, Address Dr.
8. J. Koon, Lisbon, Mich. 4
HELP
store may
Prairieville, Barry
53
WANTED.
W 4ASTED_REGISTERE ‘OR GOOD REGISTERED
assistant pharmacist. Address B, care Carrier
23, Grand Rapids. 61
bapa stay + IN GROCERY STORE; GOOD
penman. Address Lock box 1123, Cadillac, —
2
V TJANTED—A GOOD TINNER, GIVE EXPERIENCE
and references. Address A. W. Gammer & Co.,
Box 10, Coloma, Mich. 25
SITUATIONS WANTED.
Bdge eee rer gre BY A YOUNG REGISTERED
pharmacist of good habits. No. 59, care Michi-
gan Tradesman. 59
MISCELLANEOUS.
J,,OR SALE—ONE MILLION FEET OF HEMLOCK
bill stuff in lots of ten thousand feet or more.
For prices write Walter N. Kelley, Traverse City, Mich.
33
oe THE PASS BOOK AND SUBSTITUTE THE
i Tradesman Coupon, which is now in use by over
5,000 Michigan merchants—all of whom are warm in
praise of its effectiveness. Send for sample order,
which will be sent prepaid on receipt of $1. The
Tradesman Company, Grand Rapids.
XAMPLES OF TWO KINDS OF GOUPONS FOR RE-
tailers will be sent free to any dealer who will
write for them to the Sutliff Coupon Pass Book Co.,
Albany, N. Y. 564
FLOG IE
|
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| OFFICE—19 and 21 Waterloo St.
Telephone No. 319. |
Cylinder Oils,
| Signal Oil, Axle Grease, Boiler Purger,
seed Oils, ‘Castor Oil, Cooking Oils, ‘Axle
| Ete. See Quotations.
The largest and most complete oil ca in Michigan.
Engine Oils, W. Va. Oils, Lard Oils,
Kerosene Oils,
(Jil. CO,
Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Oils
and Makers of Fine Lubricants.
| WORKS—On C & W. M. and G. R. & I. R. R.,one
mile north of Junction. Telephone No. 611-3R
Jobbers of all kinds of
Neatsfoot Oils, Harness Oil,
Naptha, Turpentine, Lin-
Oils, Machinery Grease, Cotton Waste,
jPHREINS & HESS
DEALERS IN
Hides, Furs, Wool & Tallow,
NOS. 122 and 124 LOUIS STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN.
WE CARRY A STOCK OF CAKE TALLOW FOR MIUL USE.
ee
cor.
ee
THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.
GRAND RAPIDS GOSSIP.
L. Wells has engaged in the execs |
business near Allegan. The stock was |
purchased at this market.
Mm. A. & Co. have
grocery store at Mancelona.
Peters furnished the stock.
Blossen
Lemon
W. F. & W. M. Wurzburg have opened
a store at Petoskey for the summer for
the sale of Indian bead
kets, ete.
work, bas-
Dr. L. E. Phelps has closed out his|
drug business at 758 South
medicine on East Bridge hill.
F. A. Wurzburg & Co., who engaged in
the wholesale notion business about two
years ago, have closed out their stock to
F. W. Wurzburg and retired from busi-
ness.
The Grand Rapids Portable House Co.
has removed from the Grand Rapids
3ending Works building, on Prescott
street, to 98 and 100 Grandville avenue,
the building formerly occupied by A. M.
Collins as an excelsior factory.
H. E. Merritt & Co. have sold their
grocery stock at the corher of Wealthy
avenue and Henry street to Paul Steketee
and Benj. Vananrooy, both of Holland,
who will continue the business under the
style of Steketee & Vananrooy.
Chas. E. Sinelair has purchased the
interest of Sarah E. Crissman in the meat
market firm of W. G. Sinclair & Co. No
change will be made in the style of the
firm and the management of the business
will be the same as before, as the new
partner is a resident of Chicago.
H. Joldersma has purchased an inter-
est in the firm of De Jager & Stryker,
grocers at 166 Ellsworth avenue. The
new firm will be known as De Jager,
Stryker & Co., and the business will be
remoyed to 305 Center street, where A.
Stryker, Sr., carried on the grocery bus-
iness for several years.
— -- <-
Gripsack Brigade.
The following additions have been
made to the hotel list of the K. of the G.:
Hotel Buckner, Manistee; Hotel Crystal,
Flint; Hotel Perry, Sault Ste. Marie.
John P. Oggle has gone on the road for
the New York Biscuit Co., taking the
trade of the Pentwater branch, the north-
ern division of the G. R. & I. and the
Upper Peninsula.
When Albert C. Antrim starts out on
his fall pilgrimage for the Alabastine
Co., he will head toward Mexico, spend-
ing a couple of months among the cop-
per-colored denizens of that country.
Geo. Seymour was severely burned on
his right hand while exhibiting the trav-
eling men’s fireworks on the evening of
the Fourth. He will go as far as the Soo
on his next week’s trip, taking Mrs. Sey-
mour along with him.
A. D. Baker and family go to Chicago
this week, where they will remain sev-
eral days as the guests of Col. J. D. Bil-
lings and family. From Chicago they
will go to Mackinae Island on the City of
Traverse, returning home by way of
Traverse City.
B. F. Emery, Michigan representative
for the North American Provision Co.,
has received the appointment of broker
for J. & M. Schwabacher, rice and molas-
ses jobbers at New Orleans. As the two
houses are owned by the same men, the
opened a played at the Fountain street park last
& | Saturday forenoon, resulted in the vic-
| on the oceasion of the annual picnic on |
Division |
street and engaged in the practice of|
duties of the two positions will not con-
flict.
The match game of base ball between |
the nines selected by Jas. N. Bradford |
and Happy Hi. Robertson,
which was |
tory of the latter by a score of 19 to 9. |
Only five innings were played. It is un-|
i derstood that another contest will occur |
|
the 26th.
The Picnic Committee of the Grand
Rapids Traveling Men’s Association has
decided to hold the annual picnic at
North Park on Saturday, July 26. All
who attend are requested to meet at the
corner of Canal and Lyon streets at 8:50
a. m., where plenty of cable cars will be
in waiting to convey the entire party to
the resort. The picnic will be an old-
fashioned basket affair, and those not
provided with lunch should give the
caterer plenty of notice, in order that no
delay may be experienced in securing
dinner.
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‘ Counting-House Hints.
George Houghton in The Office.
I think there’s a little more whetstone
needed in that circular. The blade is
good, and deserves good, patient honing.
Instead of whistling to keep his cour-
age up, he’d do better to plunge his head
in work and keep his fears down.
He’s a walking negation. Why, he’s
said ‘‘no’’? so often that he’s got his
mouth shaped that way. He ought to be
a model at the temperance pledge bus-
iness.
His advertisements may be all right
for his class of goods and for the trade
his battery is aimed at. If so, all 1 can
say is, that sauce for his goose would be
‘‘pizen’’ for my gander.
All depends on the use we make of the
so-called advantages or disadvantages of
our position. With right handling, those
are synonymous terms. A Grant or
Sherman makes short rations merely a
spur to rush his army to the critical
point, and thereby saves the campaign.
There’s a heap more difference than
sound between working and shirking. A.
and B. are spelling them experimentally§
You’ve only to glance in their show win-
dows, and profit free of charge by their
spelling lesson.
Draw in our advertising horns at this
stage? Not a bit of it! After ninety-
nine years of watching and waiting, we
mustn’t let our century plant wither just
as it begins to poke up its flower stalk.
Get out your hoe and watering pot!
Advertising is the straw with which I
make my business bricks. But straw
alone won’t make bricks. I must also
have a blue clay bank at my back, and
plenty of fire.
To-day that new competitor may be
dangerous, because he is a schemer, but |
ultimately he’ll prove harmless for the |
self-same reason. Give him time, and
some fine morning he’ll stumble into one
of his own bear traps.
Land and forests and gold quartz are
nil. The American Indian had a con-
tinent full, and what’s he left to show
for’em? > ‘ i Y
screw Hook and) ee “net 10 GRAND RAPIDS, —_—
oe -....mee 6
“ i . 3% mee TG)
Notice is hereby given that the ae i i v Breer er sereees net ty
heretofore existing between W. G. Sinclair snd Strapand T.........--..- 1... esse eee ee dis. 70
S. E. Crissman, under the style of W. Sinclair HANGERS. is.
& Co., has been this day dissolved, W. C Sinelair | Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track... .50&10
succeeding to the business of the late firm. All | Champion, anti- ee 60&10 '
debts of the late firm will be paid by the suc- | Kidder, Gee 40
ceeding partner, who is also authorized to collect HOLLOW WARE. :
all accounts due the late firm. i i, 60
W. G. SINCLAIR, : i ;
x NPT Kettles..... 60
S. BE. CRISSMAN. Spiders i i 60
waa 6 — llO——— i
’ ’ Gray enameled....................... 40&10
. Hl a vin Was FURNISHING GOODS. ii e eC I } c 7 l I } Cj eC r
Stam — Wie new list 70&10
Copartnership Notice. | Sampedain Ware. . mY ‘
Notice is hereby given that a copartnership | Granite fron Wate ............... new list 33%&10
has been formed by W. G. Sinclair and Chas. E. WIRE GOODS. dis.
Sinclair to succeed to the business of the late | Bright...............-.esseeeeee cece cee 70&10&10 e
— of W. G. Sinclair & Co., under the same firm | Screw Eyes..........-.-...ce2 eee eeeees 70&10&10
sty re a s ... -70&10&10
Grand Rapids, June 26, 1890. Gate Hooks and Eyes............... 70&10&10
DESMAN.
Lhe Mic
Official Organ of Michigan Business Men’s Associ
ation. |
|
A WEEKLY JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE
Retail Trade of the Wolverine State.
The Tradesman Company, Proprietor.
Subscription Price, One Dollar per year, payable |
strictly in advance. |
Advertising Rates made known on application. |
Publication Office, 100 Louis St.
Entered at the Grand Rapids Post Office.
E. A. STOWE, Editor.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 9,
1890.
THE CELEBRATION OF INDEPEN-|
DENCE.
The character of chief
national festival of commemoration has
not received the attention it deserves. It|
is rare enough that a nation is able to
designate the time and the circumstances |
of its beginning, and to associate these |
with a single national event of palmary
importance. The only other case which |
occurs to us is the Jewish exodus from
unique our
Egypt, whose perils and triumphs welded
a group of loosely connected tribes into |
a compact nation. The nearest parallel |
in modern times is the association of a |
handful of Swiss mountaineers against |
the dukes of Austria.
is shrouded in obscurity and impossible
myth; and after all it was not to effect |
independence, but to maintain their right
of immediate relations to the Imperial |
authority, that the men of the three Can- |
tons joined hands and swore to stand by
each other. In our own century, the
3ut the occurence |
establishment of the Norwegian Consti-
tution of Eidsvold in 1814 furnishes the |
nearest parallel, as it raised the country
from its provincial position to national
But the
were obliged to lay aside that part of the |
Eidsvold which involved a}
claim to independence, and to accept the
of which |
them from
self-government. Norwegians
programme
the European
Denmark
decree concert,
tore and annexed
them to Sweden.
| Such a declaration of their loyal purpose
| if there be some boasting associated with |
| the act, that cannot detract from
| been obliged to vindicate their right to
| returns already in hand, that the popula-
| be over 29,000,000, and to be increasing
jat the
|half that of England and Wales.
ito blame. In one St. Louis district
were putting it off,’ is often quoted as| widely published as incorrectly returned,
though it were a piece of inspired wis-| the enumerator publicly offered a prem-
dom. But in truth history has not many|ium of $5 for every person residing in
finer things to show then men buckling | the district who had been missed. At the
putteth on his armor boast as though he
; on their armor for arighteous struggle, | end of five days after the offer had been
pledging their ‘‘lives, fortune and sacred made, not one person had come forward
honor’’ in the defense of an outnumbered |to claim it. In Detroit a block was
cause, and appealing to the Arbiter of | missed through a misunderstanding be-
War for his verdict upon their cause. | tween two enumerators respecting the
boundaries of their districts. This was
discovered and the count for the block
made. Aside from slips like this, aris-
ing solely from the natural limitations of
the human faculties, the count will be
found to be the most intelligent and cor-
rect the country has ever seen. The
scope of the census was broader than
ever before and many obstacles were en-
countered through the perversity and
folly of certain newspapers in encourag-
ing the ignorant not to answer the ques-
tions. But, taken altogether, the work
thus far has been accomplished with
very little friction. More than half of
what the public has heard has been sheer
exaggeration and imagination.
LAW BREAKERS.
The law is very plain on the subject of
boycotting, prohibiting it in unmistak-
able terms. Defying the statute books,
however, the Patrons of Industry have
placed boycotts on six wholesale houses,
as follows:
Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co., Grand
Rapids.
Telfer Spice Co., Grand Rapids.
H. A. Newland & Co., Detroit.
Jenness & McCurdy, "
W. J. Gould & Co.,
Moran Fitzsimons & Co.,
The wording of the resolution which is
sent out with the above names is as fol-
lows:
Wuereas, Certain wholesale dealers
have refused to sell their merchandise to
dealers contracting with the Patrons of
Industry; therefore,
Resolved, That the protection of our
|
is itself a grand achievement; and even |
its es-
that boast-
ing is always the part of a coward isa
mistake. Other words than those of
Luther may be—as Richter said of his—
‘half-battles.”? The Declaration,
its critics, will not hold water when sub-
mitted to the tests of historic fact. It is
itself an historic fact, which admits of
no discounting. Withits signature the
clock of time struck the opening of a new |
era—one in which
sential quality. The notion
|
says
Governments have |
exist by the consent of the governed and
for their benefit. It was the birth-day
of more than a nation.
CENSUS COMPARISONS.
Mr. Porter estimates, from the census
tion will reach the figure of 64,000,000.
The interesting point of its local distribu-
tion is not yet disclosed.
In England and Wales the population
is reported by the Registrar-General to
rate of 700,000 a year, without a
allowing for emigration or immigration.
In 1840 the population of [reland was
By
famine and emigration it has been re-
duced to one-sixth.
sé
In Spain they are now publishing the
results of of when the
population was found to be 17,550,216, a
a census 1887,
| gain of less than a million since 1977. | tural and God-given rights demand
Tate te am atenlavation of crowtl that we patronize no retail dealer that
s is an acceleration of growth, as
Distinct historie birthdays of nations |
are rarely capable of designation and
celebration. The whole later life of the |
Jewish nation was tinged by its recollec-
tions of the exodus. Its supreme legal
document, and that by which it has in- |
fluenced most the ethical development of
the to it.
“Out of the land of Egypt and out of the
is the preamble of its
race, begins with a reference
house of bondage’’
national constitution. No later deliver-
ance ever eclipsed that one, and to this
hour the annual commemoration of it is
the great social festival of the six and a}
half millions of the Jewish people scat-
tered all half-
civilized lands. |
through civilized and
Equally permanent the celebration of
our own Independence day seems likely
The War for the Union gave
us one more holiday, but it has not in the
the honor of the Fourth,
the
festival
to become.
least eclipsed
more wel-
of all
of Americans.
indeed, becomes
it
and
which,
is a common
all
Historians speak of the latter struggle
the of the
measured by the extent of the sacrifices
come as
classes sections
as more heroic two, when
of the American people to secure a great
all
with the heroism of the representatives
of the then feeble nation, who put their
to that
knowing that it signing their own
death-warrants if England got the better
of the impending struggle.
Ahab’s saying: ‘Let not him that
end. But we decline comparisons
hands memorable document,
was
| tion with her own produce.
| population
buys any of his merchandise from said
boycotting wholesale dealers.
Tur TRADESMAN is confident that the
boycott will not affect the business of the
houses attacked, and they will probably
take notice of the matter. Should
they deign to do so, however, every man
who voted for the boycott, or abetted the
boycotters, would have an opportunity
to see the sky behind prison bars.
It is unfortunate that in their anxiety
to tear down others in order to build
calculation, when he puts the amount of themselves up, the Patrons of Industry
compared with previous decades, and is
said to be due to continued peace and
greater care to keep the towns clean and
wholesome.
The census of this year gives us as
many cities of a million people and over
as Europe has. It indicates a growing
density of population, which will bring
us toa time when we shall not need to |
export food. But this point will not be
reached as quickly as Mr. C. Wood Davis’
no
acres. Europe has eight to an acre, and ithemselves in the position of law-
yet feeds the greater part of her popula- | breakers, defying the common law of the
With denser land. sane
outlay of
| The Park Place Hotel, at Traverse
capital on land and more careful meth- | City, is in better condition than ever, the
ods of cultivation, until Northern Bel-j| alterations in the ‘‘new part’? having
comes a greater
gium has 1,800 people to the square mile | been completed.
and little else than agriculture to sustain
them.
The traveling public
| sees few hotels which are more comfort-
|able and homelike than the Park Place.
lay of labor ceases to pay has never yet viareima Bt =
been reached by any country. | BS.
’ : ¢ | W R Lawton, Berlin E S Botsford, Dorr
| W D Struik, Byron Center G D Van Vranken, Cadillac
| S MeNitt, Byron Center
| W H Watts, Bowne Center G M Hartwell,Cannonsburg
The limit at which increased out-
THE CENSUS ENUMERATION.
It is about time general complaints | John Bishop. Montague — § J Koon, Lisbon
i RG Smith, Wayland Neal McMillan, Rockford
should cease in respect to the census | : Bouma, Fisher Hessler Bros., Rockford
Ten Hoor, Forest Grove Geo A Sage, Rockford
enumeration. Nothing has been more | Smallegan & Pickaard, E E Hewitt, Rockford
j ForestGrove DeVoist Bros., Alba
R Harrison, Sparta Eli Runnels, Corning
W Messenger, Spring Lk D O Watson, Coopersville
the population of | AMChurch, Englishville J A Lieber, Caledonia
| John Damstra, Gitchell 8 T McLellan, Denison
cities, and now, when the actual count | Rutgers & Tien,Graafschap John Gunstra, Lamont
i W H Harrison, Harrisburg C Schutt. Lakeview
of the population fails to sustain the es- | CK Hoyt & Co,Hudsonville Alex Denton, Howard City
it / . _, | JN Wait, Hudsonville J Krnisenga, Holland
tablished exaggeration, the chagrin of | DrHB Hatch, Hart Jno Farrowe, So Blendon
E _ | Herder & Lahuis, Zeeland Den Herd
‘the people grows into wrath and the | i Meijering, Jamestown a
| " | APSriver, Burnip’sCors Y 4 :
| enumerators receive the blame, while, as | RG Beckwith, Senter ee: cae
| | CH Milner, Big Rapids
|a general rule, the people themselves are saa
common, especially in the West, than |J
- o )
the exaggeration of
Carlson Bros, Gilbert
I F A Clary, Turtle Lake
Pierson, Irving
Nagler & Beeler, Caledonia |
CO-OPERATIVE DINING.
Details of the Decatur Neighborhood
Boarding House Scheme.
From the Chicago Tribune.
At Decatur, Ill., public interest is cen-
tered on ‘The Roby.’? There are such
things on at ‘The Roby’’ as have not
been witnessed since the first spirit rap-
pings were heard at Rochester. This
pretty little city has electric street rail-
ways, Six newspapers, a dozen fine
churches, metropolitan air, clean streets,
good water—and the servant girl ques-
tion. But all these ‘‘ain’t nothin’,’’ as a
small boy remarked in my presence when
these advantages were being enumerated.
‘““We’ve got something Chicago ain’t got.
It’s a Bellamy boarding-house.”’
“Tam in the swim,’’ remarked a quiet
gentleman. ‘‘Come down and see us.
We are living off the fat of the land for
$2.75 per week per head. And we have
no bother, no worry about servants. We
are located at ‘The Roby.’ ”’
This is the history of the experiment:
Miss Fanny Fuller and her mother
boarded at “The Roby’? with Mrs. Guy-
ton. It was the swell boarding-house of
Decatur. The Misses Witherspoon, two
handsome young ladies, also boarded
there. Mrs. Guyton never had trouble
with her servant girls.
Why ?
Because the work was systematized.
One did the cooking and laundry work,
another the second work. One had the
table to wait on and the dining-room to
eare for. When their work was done the
girls went where they pleased. Their
liberty after work hours did not depend
on the caprice of a mistress or the ex-
igencies of a private house.
This set Miss Fanny Fuller to think-
ing. One day she read “Looking Back-
ward,” and proceeded to look forward.
Where others read and marveled and
criticised, she read and adapted. One
morning she came into Mrs. Guyton’s
room with anidea. She read the chap-
ter from Bellamy’s book on the public
dining-room.
“Why can’t we do it ?”’ she aSked.
‘We can,’? said Mrs. Guyton,
cidedly.
Miss Fuller put on her smart jacket
and hat and called on the ladies of her
acquaintance with her idea. Everybody
was charmed. The gentlemen forgot im-
patience and listened.
A few weeks later a meeting was held
in Mrs. Guyton’s parlors. After a num-
ber of whereases, it was resolved to
establish :
1. A co-operative association for the
benefit of all its members.
2. No debts shall be contracted.
3. A President, Secretary and Treas-
user shall be elected from among the
members.
4. A superintendent shall be appointed
to act as the purchasing agent of the
club, vouchers to be delivered to the
treasurer.
5. Members shall pay $2.75
board to the treasurer;
de-
a week
children under
: : Ce uel | ten half price.
land required for each individual at 3.15 | should so far forget themselves as to put |
6. The superintendent is to have entire
charge of the dining room, kitchen and
servants, under the direction of a board
of managers.
It was agreed by all present to sign the
constitution, these being the charter
members. Applicants for membership
should have their names posted in the
dining room three days before admission,
and no one was to be receivedif aserious
objection was raised by any one member.
Mrs. B. K. Durfee was elected President
and Miss Fannie Fuller Treasurer and
Secretary.
Mrs. Guyton’s basement was rented,
including a large dining room, kitchen
and pantries, a manager installed, two
cooks and three waiter girls hired, and
|the Co-operative Club, after paying a
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membership fee of $2 and one week’s
board in advance, sat down to their first
meal at ‘‘The Roby.’’ Mrs. Guyton gave
up keeping boarders, and she and all her
guests fell into the new order of things.
There is no doubt about Mrs. Guyton’s
She met me and began
another book of her epic.
“What are we doing down here? Why,
you see expenses foot up so high in this
thriving, growing, booming city of Deca-
tur that people couldn’t stand it. Our
swell people are swell, I can tell you.
They formed this eating club, indulged
in the luxury of doing the discharging of
servants for once, put out the fires in the
ranges, locked up their larders, turned
their kitchens into sewing rooms or nurs-
eries, closed up accounts and drove dull
care away.
“We have fifty-four members—men,
women and children—all of the upper-
crust aristocracy, who are used to living
well, and they wouldn’t put up with any-
thing but the best. We get that for $2.75
a week a head; half-price for children.”
“What do you have to eat?”
“Everything in season. Stay to sup-
per and find out. Now we get everything
down to minimum cost by having each
family bring their own linen and silver
and fancy dishes. We have a common
stock of decorated china. The club rents
my basement, including the range.
Expenses are like this:
Rent (at $25 a month).............+.0-eeeeee 8 6.00 |
Manager’s salary............-..--.---------- 10.00 |
ee 5.00 |
Te . 400)
Three waiters, at $2.50............-.+---20- 7.50 |
ot, ee $32.50 |
The income is from:
Fifty-two grown people, at $2.75....... .-- $142.00
Gane child hall pay. ........-.............. ae
$143.40
‘Miss Fuller gets her board for her
services as Secretary and Treasurer.”’
Miss Fuller came in presently and
opened her books for our inspection. It
was discovered that a certain bill of fare
was guaranteed for the price. This is
something like what the club eats:
BREAKFAST.
Fruit, cereal food of some kind, two
kinds of meat, eggs, potatoes, biscuit,
griddle cakes or rolls, toast, tea and
coffee.
DINNER.
Soup, relish or salad, one kind of fish
and two kinds of meat, three vegetables,
pie or pudding, fruit, coffee, tea, choco-
late or milk.
SUPPER.
Cold meat, baked or cream potatoes,
salad, hot rolls, cakes or muffins, fruit or
dessert, coffee, tea, chocolate or milk.
“That is about as good as anybody
lives,’? remarked Miss Fuller. ‘*¥¢ is all
dainty and well cooked and_ nicely
served.”’
I went down into the dining room, a
large, cool apartment in the basement.
Eight or nine tables were covered with
snowy linen. Napkins in rings, silver
and china were on the table. In the
kitchen across the hall, where a range
was going at full blast, five girls, black
as Egypt, were sitting around the table
eating dinner. Custard and cabbages
were beautifully blended on their plates.
| store for them.”’
I stayed to supper. The ladies came
in the newest thing in tea jackets and |
sat on the front piazza. One of the
Misses Witherspoon had an aureole of |
pale golden hair. The company was
merry and talked volubly about their ex- |
periment. On the wall was the name of |
an applicant for membership. He will |
have to wait until some of the members
go away for the summer.
There was cold roast beef, baked pota-
toes, potato salad, eggs, a delicate cus-
tard, and cake, with tea, coffee, chocolate
or milk. Everything was good and abun-
dant, and served in the best style.
The membership includes:
Mr. F. Anderson and family of three,
Miss E. Anderson, Miss Florence Adams,
teacher; Mr. E. D. Bartholomew and
family of five; Mr. and Mrs. Richard
Bohrn; Mrs. William Chambers and fam-
ily of three; Mr. Henry Clark; Mr. Geo.
Durfee, five; Mr. B. Durfee, four; Mr. |
Will Edwards; Miss French; Mr. C. A. |
Foster, two; Mrs. C. F. Fuller and Miss |
Fannie Fuller; Mrs. Griswold; Mr. R. |
Johnstone, two; Mrs. Guyton; Miss Jud- |
son; Mr. J. Powell; Mr. Quinlan, four;
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THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. :
BROWN & SHHLER,
1 | Dealers in ENGINES, BOILERS and MILL MACHINERY, Farm Machinery,
Agricultural Implements, Wagons and Carriages.
financially and socially, so far, and 1 can
recommend the table.
If you should ever go to Decatur,
advise you to get a room somewhere and
take your meals at ‘The Roby,”’ in the
co-operative boarding house. Guests are
charged 25 cents a meal. By this means,
you will fare better for less money, meet
the cream of Decatur society, and see the |
practical working of a part of Bellamy’s | .
dream. You will be converted to the},
idea of co-operative cuisines and go home |
to spread the new gospel. Cooks will be
abolished from dwelling houses, and |
housekeepers emancipated. Theservant
girl question will be solved.
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P. of I. Gossip.
A Jones correspondent writes:
“*Pat- |
rons are quite thick here, but the move- |
Muskegon Cracker Co
~—
CRACKERS, BISCUITS AND SWEET GOODS.
LARGEST VARIBTY IN THE STATE
Corner West Bridge and North Front Sts., -
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
ment is drifting more and more into pol-
itics.’’
The Patrons of Industry have closed
the store and business of F. D. Lamb &
Co., of Potterville. They tried the 10
per cent. plan and now the sheriff is in
possession.
Davison Index:
| 457, 459, 46 33 W. WESTERN "ENUE - TSK EGON. }
im 6k Micon “Se 457, 459, 461, 4643 W. WESTERN AVENUE, MUSKEGON, MICH.
appears to have had more money than (racker TTist
former as to whom he considered would | F
be the next Governor of Michigan, has |
P. of I. companions for having allowed | Manufacturers’ Agents for
himself to be interviewed and ‘pumped GBAV AND GRIST MILL MACHINERY.
the order intended doing in the fall cam-| C@taegue WORKS we t
his fat position have been hinted at.”’ | meee re “desea
Robert Rouse writes as follows from | ES & BOILERS. as
SPECIAL ATTENTION PAID TO MAIL ORDERS.
wit, and who wanted to bet $100 of the No Cone 101 willl ANY
nnn ~~
been getting ‘roasted’ unmercifully by his | EL Be Sit BS FR 5& aT > a,
dry’ by a Detroit News reporter on what; send for ENGIN
\ NE
paign, and threats of kicking him outof; , Prices. A LAS
‘ a ..LldlULe CT RS OF
Pearle: ‘I am quite interested in look-|
ing over your ‘P. of I. Gossip,’ and not- | wee ii am
ing the contract dealers in different Planers, Matchers, Moulders and all kinds of Wood-Working Machin
places, and also the ‘Repentance Column,’ | Saws, Belting and Oils.
in Tue TRADESMAN every week. I have | And Dodge’s Patent Wood Split Pulley. Large stock kept on hand. Send for Sample
often wondered how you got the news . Pulley and become convinced of their superiority.
en wondered how you £0’ tie villi, 44, 46 and 48 So. Division St.. GRAND RAPIDS, MICh
have been watching to see if our place |
was reported to you and as I have failed
were wiamtieee FOL Puritano Cigar.
The Finest Gent bigar
of I. had formed an association at Pearle,
OM EARTH.
which has been in existence over two}
Carty Engines and Boilers in Stock pew
for immediate delivery. i
ery,
Write for Prices.
EL PURITANO
Sus
months and has about fifty members, and |
that George H. Smith keeps the contract |
Frightened at the storm of protests |
raised against his attempt to divert the |
political strength of the organization to |
a certain candidate for Governor, Su- |
preme Treasurer Krause now pleads the
baby act, claiming that he was misre- |
ported by the Detroit News. Referring |
to this phase of the matter, the News re-
marks: ‘In a recent interview printed
in this paper, F. H. Krause, editor of the
organ of the Patrons of Industry, said
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—|#es > | \ BRADDOCK, BATEMAN & CO.,
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ito put it mildly; and the Port Huron | ipl an
| Times, in commenting thereon, puts it-| nn ' ii
S. K. BOLLES. K. B. DIKEMAN.
lself into a position the foolishness of |
which it will realize if it stops to reflect. |
Among its remarks is one to the effect
that Mr. Krause practically repudiates
the interview and that the Times believes
|Mr. Krause. The News does not know
| what motive moves the Times to speak in
\ this way, but it does know that the inter-
Ss. K. Bolles & Co.,
77 CANAL ST., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
|
| Wholesale Cigar Dealers.
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|
view with Mr. Krause was the truth, that
if it were not Mr. Krause would pretty 66 J 99
| nearly have an action against the News, |
and that the News has not had a repudia- | e
tion or any other communication on the
Dr. Stoner, druggist, five; Mr. J. H.
Warner, two; the Misses Witherspoon
and Mr. L. W. Hatch.
They all expressed themselves as being | he would have retained the small respect |
charmed with the experiment, and did| which this paper entertained for him if
subject from Mr. Krause.
|man may be a fine newspaper man, but |
The gentle-
The “TOSS UP”. Cigar is not a competitor
against any other 5c brands, but all 10c brands,
because it is equal to any 10c cigar on the
> _ sOF Jeti ° “7 “j ag - . .
not fear the pessimistic prophecies COn-|}¢ had stood by those incautious state- |
cerning its destruction. The books show
that bills are being paid up every week
out of the allowance. It is a success,
market.
ments which he most certainly made to
a representative of the News.”’
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10
Drugs & Medicines.
State Board of Pharmacy.
One Year—Geo. McDonald, Kalamazoo.
Two Years—Stanley E. Parkill, Owosso.
Three Years—Jacob Jesson, Muskegon.
Four Years—James Vernor, Detroit.
Five Years—Ottmar Eberbach, Ann Arbor
President—Jacob Jesson, Muskegon.
Secretary—Jas. Vernor, Detroit.
Treasurer—Geo. McDonald, Kalamazoo.
Meetings during 1890—Marquette, Aug. 18 and 14;
Lansing, Nov. 5 and
Michigan State Pharmaceutical Asa’n.
President—Frank Inglis, Detroit.
First Vice-President—F. M. Alsdorf, Lansing.
3ec’d Vice-President—Henry Kephart, Berrien Springs
Third Vice-President—Jas. Vernor, Detroit.
Secretary—H. J. Brown, Ann Arbor.
Treasurer—Wm Dupont, Detroit.
Executive Committee—C. A. Bugbee, Cheboygan; E
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| Governmental
1
| known the city of her birth, the town in
| which she died unknown; her name has
| vives alone,’’
caused a nation of 40,000,000 of people
| to suffer from the vilest and dearest to-
| bacco on the face of the earth.
|it through feminine vanity, and in one
__
Webb, Jackson; D. E. Prall, East Saginaw; Geo. Mc- |
Donald, Kalamazoo; J. J. Crowley. Detroit.
t. |
Next Meeting—At Saginaw, beginning third Tuesday |
of September, 1890.
Grand Rapids Pharmaceutical Society.
| Tuilleries. Napoleon said to one of his
President, J. W. Hayward, Secretary, Frank H. Escott. |
Grand Rapids Drug Clerks’ Association.
President, F. D. Kipp; Secretary, W. C. Smith.
Detroit Pharmaceutical Society
President, J. W. Allen; Secretary, W. F. Jackman.
Muskegon Drug Clerks’ Association.
President, C. 8S. Koon; Secretary, J. W. Hoyt.
REGISTERED PHARMACISTS.
Names of Persons who Passed Examin-
ations at Star Island.
The examination of candidates for
registered pharmacists’ certificates, held
|ing with jewels ?””
| wife of M.
| turer.’’
| out to its unfortunate subjects such to
at Star Island June 30 and July 1, was |
2Q~
od
de-
this
candidates, fifteen
certificates. Of
attended by 1
siring assistants’
number seventy-seven passed the regis- |
examination,
About twenty-five of
tered pharmacists’
forty-five failed.
and |
the latter will, if they desire, receive as- |
sistants’ certificates, their averages being
over 40 per cent. Nine passed the as-
sistants’ examination and six failed.
This class is the largest ever examined
at one time by the Michigan Board of |
Pharmacy. The next meeting will be
held at Marquette August 13 and 14,
and the November meeting will be held
at Lansing the first Tuesday in that
month.
|insulted a respectable
THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.
Vandalia; F. S. Wilson, Mt. Clemens; A.
Worden, Trenton.
~~ 2 -——_—__—
Control of the Tobacco
Business.
It was a woman who did it.
“Un-
perished from the earth; this truth sur-
and the truth is that she
She did
moment avenged all that her sex has suf-
fered from the selfishness of tobacco
smokers. And this is how it happened:
One evening there was a ball at the
ministers:
“Who is that woman over there blaz-
“That,’? replied the minister, ‘‘is the
, the tobacco manufac-
“There is money in tobacco,’’ said the
emperor. ‘The Government will have a
monopoly of the tobacco business after
this.”’
So the French government, monarchi-
cal or republican, has ever since served
bacco as it thinks they can smoke with-
out falling dead when they get the first
whiff. It costs from half a frane to a
frane for a packet containing a couple of
ounces. The government is not content
with legitimate profits, but serves out
the most abominable mixture that ever
pipe. it is 8
black, stringy, rank substance, and the
|material of which it is made is kepta
American residents in France, the gov-
‘ernment reluctantly consented to allow a
The election of officers for the ensuing |
year resulted as follows:
Jacob Jesson, Muskegon;
James Vernor, Detroit; Treasurer,
MeDonald, Kalamazoo.
Following are the names of candidates
who passed the examination :
PD. Alton, Fremont; J. H. Beckton, Ft.
Gratiot: W. W. Boylan, Detroit; A. P.
Brietenbach, Detroit; M. A. Britton,
Pewamo; J. E. Cogwin, Auburn; W. E.
Collins, Farmington; A. L. Cooke, To-
ronto, Canada; John N. Day, Jr., Alma;
D. J. De May, Jackson; J. M. Deonund,
Grand Rapids: Charles Bornan, Elkton;
M. H. Douglas, Detroit; W. S. Dupont,
Detroit: R. R. Eaton, Lowell; C. Fuhr-
President,
| one or two brands of American tobacco
Secretary, |
Geo. | P
| times the cost of the tobacco to the gov-
| ernment.
| franes, or 40 cents—four times the Amer-
man, Muskegon; E. W. Gallogher, Sag-
inaw: N. A. Goodwin, C. Granisher, De- |
troit: P. M. Grice, Allegan: C. A. Gru-
bell, Detroit; T. W. Hammon, Hillsdale:
J. H. Hanley, Mariette; J. W. Haires,
Parma: L. G. Hargrave, Kalamazoo;
G. G. Holden, Brown City; C. W. Hollis,
Manchester: W. R. Hubbard, Detroit;
J. H. Hubert, Saginaw; J. H. Kotchings,
Bancroft: George D. Jones, Detroit:
W. G. Kash, Jackson: G. Kemp, Detroit;
M. S. Kirby, Grand Haven: T. L. Kirby,
Grand Haven: F. F. Koule, Jr., Monroe:
j. F. Lovis, Detroit; G. C. Lee, Detroit;
R. Lewis. Dowagiac; J. Lohrsterfer, Port
Huron: P. T. MeGeblim, Sarnia, Ont.:
Vm. McKimmie, Detroit; C. E. Martzloff,
Manchester, N. Y.: Wm. Marx, Detroit; |
F. N. Mans, Grand Rapids; G. C. Merz,
Monroe: E.C. Mickey, Detroit; T. J.
Milner, Big Rapids; B. J. Monkman, De-
troit: H. G. Nierman, Fort Wayne, Ind.;
J. H. Nicholson, Strathroy, Ont.;
W. Palmer, Ann Arbor; A. B. Fen-
ton. Detroit: T. E. Penton, Detroit;
I. E. Pettitt, Cedar Springs; C. Purtcher,
Detroit: G. J. Robinson, Detroit; A. E.
tudolphi, Dowagiac; W. M. Schuerman,
Toledo, O.; O. F. Schmidt, Ann Arbor;
E. F. Sinclair. Detroit; W. C. Snyder,
Horton: J. W. Stevens, Detroit; C. F.
\jion, let it not attempt to manufacture
Stewart, St. Clair; W. S. Terrill, Muir; |
L. C. Van Gorden, Jackson; F. Vaughan,
Stanton; Cora L. Waite, Traverse; J. J.
Wheeler, Detroit;
The following passed examinations for
assistants’ certificates:
H. Ameel, Mt. Clemens; T. Dugan,
Lapeer; F. W. Fisher, Detroit; O. Karm- |
Kelley, Wayne; |
sen, Greenville; F. H.
C. W. Wing, Detroit. |
secret by the officials. Some say it is
made from old rags, but this is evidently
untrue, for rags would smoke much bet-
ter than French tobacco does. Fearing
an uprising among the English and |
couple of brands of English tobacco and
to be sold in the republic. The price
put on these goods gives about three
Thus, a packet which sells in
Detroit for ten cents costs in France two
ican price. But, in order that the govern-
ment can do its own swindling and that
the retailer will not have a chance to run
in his own little local swindle on you,
the government does one good thing. It
prints on every package of tobacco or
bunch of cigarettes the price that is to
be paid.
The tobacco shops of France are gov-
ernment offices and are filled with de-
serving people who have claims on the
government; as, for instance, the widow
of a soldier who has died in the service
of his country. These tobacco shops are
few, as compared with the number found
in English or American cities. They are
all practically sub-postofiices, as they sell
stamps and weigh your letters or papers.
At the door of most of the tobacco shops
are letter boxes. :
Herein lies a hint to the United States
Government. There has been loud com-
plaint since the days of Washington that
there was not enough postoffices for the
patriots of the party to fill. Let the
government take over the tobacco shops
of the United States. Abraham Lincoln |
said, when threatened with the aa |
pox, that if he took it he would have |
|
something to give every office-seeker. If
the United States Government absorbed
the tobacco business, it would be almost
as well fixed as Lincoln. In most large}
cities there are thousands of tobacco |
shops to one postoffice or one custom
house. This is a good chance for the
government.
But unless it wants to stir up a rebel- |
the tobacco.
The Drug Market.
Gum opium has advanced. Morphia}
is tending higher. Quinine is steady.
Oil pennyroyal has advanced. Oil cinna- |
mon is higher.
——_—>-.<—_—_--—
Elk Rapids—Geo. Harris succeeds W.
J. B. Knopman, Detroit; C. L. Osborn, | H. “——" in the restaurant business.
—$—$$—$———————————————
WOMEN COLLECTORS.
New Occupation for Girls and One that
They Enjoy.
From the New York Press.
Bill collecting is a new job for the
women of this town. One of them came
in to see a Broadway business man last
Friday, and telling about it he said: ne!
had heard that there were a few female
collectors in New York, but I had never
met with one. It is a good idea, it seems
tome. If aman had presented that bill,
I would have delayed paying for a few
days untill had made my own collec-
tions. But she came at me insucha
quiet, business-like way that I had noth-
ing to say, and went right up to the desk
and drew a check for the amount.’
One of these collectors, an attractive
young woman, talked freely of her occu-
pation. “YT enjoy collecting bills very
much,”’ she said. ‘‘l have plenty of out-
door exercise and the experience of meet-
ing new people every day is pleasing.”’
“Are you confined exclusively to busi-
ness houses?’
“Oh, no; I go to the residence parts of
the city. There I have a little amuse-
ment, which I quietly enjoy. The ser-
vants meet me at the door with silver
card servers and ask for my card to take
up to the lady of the house. This was,
at first, somewhat embarrassing, and I
resorted to business cards, but that plan
did not work well. Word would usually
be sent down to call again. I had to
drop that programme, you see. Now,
when the servant asks my name, I say
no matter, or something of the kind, and
I usually get to see the person I want to
find. Often, the lady of the house thinks
an old friend has called and has a sur-
prise in store for her. She rushes into
the room, where I await her coming, with
a face beaming with expectant delight.
Her disappointment when I make known
my business and present my bill is great.
‘Sometimes the lady, supposing that I
am making a call, sends word that she
will be down presently, and then sets
about making elaborate preparations for
her guest. I have waited twenty minutes
or more in this way.”’
“Are you successful among business
men ?”’
“Business men nearly always pay with
promptness. Occasionally I meet a crank,
but the downright kickers are hard to
find.’’
The fair collector said that she had
been accustomed to book-keeping. On
throwing up a situation, she looked
around for something else. The oppor-
tunity to collect bills happening to pre-
sent itself, she took it as an experiment,
thinking that something better would
follow, but she was delighted with her
new business and did not mean to
leave it.
“Do you collect old accounts?”’ she was
asked.
“Yes. Ihave collected bills that have
been running for a long time. Nearly
always Lam pleasantly and cordially re-
ceived, even in these cases. Seldom do
Igo more than twice to collecta bill.
The firm that employs me says it is like
doing a cash business.”’
Repentance Column.
The following are some of the merchants who
have been under contract with the P. of L., but
have found the level profit plan a delusion and
asnare:
Belding--L. S. Roell.
Bellaire—Schoolcraft & Nash.
Big Rapids—Verity & Co.
Blanchard—L. D. Wait.
Bridgeton—Geo. H. Rainouard.
Casnovia—John E. Parcell.
Cedar Springs—L. A. Gardiner.
Chapin—J. L Vanderhoof.
Charlotte—C. P. Lock.
Chester—B. C. Smith.
Chippewa Lake—G. A. Goodsell & Co.
Clio—Nixon & Hubbell.
Cloverdale—Geo. Mosher.
Coopersville—W. D. Reynolds & Co.
Dimondale—Elias Underhill.
Dushville—G. O. Adams.
Eaton Rapids—E. F. Knapp, G. W. Webster.
Fork Center—D. Palmer & Co.
Fremont—J. B. Ketchum, W. Harmon, Boone
& Pearson.
Grand Ledge—A. J. Halsted & Son.
Grand Rapids—F. W. Wurzburg, Van Driele &
Kotvis, John Cordes, Huntley Russell.
Harvard—Ward Bros.
Hersey—John Finkbeiner.
Hesperia—B. Cohen.
Howard City—Henry Henkel.
Ionia—E. S. Welch, Wm. Wing.
Kent City—R. McKinnon.
Lake Odessa—McCartney Bros., Fred. Miller,
Loweli—Charles McCarty.
ST
Maple Rapids—L. 8. Aldrich.
Marshall—John Fletcher, John Butler, Charles
Fletcher.
Mecosta—Robert D. Parks. :
Millbrook—T. O. (or J. W.) Pattison.
Millington—Forester & Clough.
Minden City—W. A. Soules, F. O. Hetfield
& Son.
Nashville—Powers & Stringham.
Newaygo—W. Harmon.
New Era—Peter Rankin.
Olivet—F. H. Gage.
Otisco—G. V. Snyder & Co.
Ravenna—R. D. Wheeler.
Reed City—J. M. Cadzow.
Rockford—H. Colby & Co.
St. Louis—Mary A. Brice.
Sand Lake—C. O. Cain.
Sebewa—P. F. 7.
Sparta—Woodin & yan Wickle, Dole & Haynes.
Springport—Cortright & Griffin.
Stanton—Fairbanks & Co., Sterling & Co.
Sumner—J. B. Tucker.
Williamston—Michael Bowerman.
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We pay the highest price for it. Address
PECK BRO Wholesale ——
13 GRAND RAPIDS.
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THE MOST RELIABLE FOOD
H For Infants and Invalids.
Used everywhere, with unqualified}
success. Not a medicine, but asteam-
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druggists. In cans, 35c. and upw:
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JIHTTINE
Warranted not to Thicken, Sour or Mold in
any Climate. Quality Guaranteed Against Injury
by Freezing. All others worthless after frees
— See quotation. MARTELL BLACKING
CO., Sole Manufacturers, Chicago, M1.
IF YOU soxes Abts
——WRITE TO——
C. W. Johnson & Co.,
DRUGGISTS' PRINTERS,
44 West Larned St., DETROIT, MICH
——FOR CATALOGUE——
THEY CAN SAVE YOU MONEY
Do You Observe the Law ?
If not, send $1 to
THE TRADESMAN COMPANY,
For their combined
LIQUOR & POISON RECORD.
“THE WEAR IS THE TRUE TEST
OF VALUE.”’
We still have in stock the well-known brand
Pioneer
Prepared
Paint.
MIXED READY FOR USE.
Having sold same to our trade for over ten
years, we can say it has fulfilled the manufac-
turer’s guarantee. Write for sample card and
prices before making your spring purchases:
Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Oo.,
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
SOLE AGENTS
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ACIDUM.
Rostiewmn ...... ...... 10
Benzoicum German.. sng 00
Morac = ...........+-. 30
Cornerieum ..........- 38@ 12
ee ee 50@ 55
—— eens ee tacks 3 «CS
Nitrocum $ ...........- 10@ 12
Oxelicum ............- 11@ 13
Phosphorium dil...... 20
Salicylicum .........-- 1 40@1 80
Sulphuricum.... ...... 14@ 5
Wesaeum........-.--- 1 40@1 60
Wartaricum...........- 40@ 42
AMMONIA.
Aqua, 46 deze... .- 1@ 6
Ss G@ee........-. 6@ 7
Ceromee .... 6. .0-0--- 11@ 13
Chioridum ..........-. 12@ 14
ANILINE.
2 WO@2 2
80@1 00
ae 45 50
i ......--...-..- 2 50@3 00
BACCAE.
Cubeae (po. 1 50....--- 1 60@1 7
Jumiperus .......--...- 8 8@ i0
Xanthoxylum......... 2 30
BALSAMUM.
Copaiba ..........----- 60@ 65
ee tee _@l 30
Terabin, Canada ..... 35G 40
i 40@ 45
CORTEX.
Abies, Canadian. ....------ 18
eee ane 11
Cinchona Flava ....- 18
Euonymus atropurp. .
Myrica Cerifera, po.....---- 20
Prunus Virgini......-.------ 2
Quillaia, grd.......--------- 12
Gassatras .......---.+-++-++- 2
Ulmus Po (Ground ...... 10
EXTRACTUM.
‘lyeyrrhiza Glabra... 24@ 2%
G yeyrr 1 x ao Ss
Haematox, 15 lb. box 12
1s 14
“ % 15
“ce \y 17
FERRUM.
Carbonate Precip.....- @ 15
Citrate and Quinia.... @3 50
Citrate Soluble.....---. @ 80
Ferrocyanidum por... @ 50
Solut Chloride........ @ 15
Sulphate, eonrl......- 1%@ 2
pure Seu ea oe oe
FLORA.
ies oe wee se ee 14@ 16
Anthesais .........---- W@ 2
Matricaria ...... ..--- 25@ 30
FOLIA.
Barosm 12@ 4
Cassia “Acutifol, “Vin-
nivelly . 25@ 28
. Alx. 3@ 50
Salvia officinalis, 148
and %68....--.-.------ 10@ 12
Ce ee 8@ 10
@UMMI.
Acacia, ist picked.... @1 00
' 2d - |. @
. 3d neue @ 80
. sifted sorts... @ 6
' po...... ....- wat
Aloe, Barb, (po. = 50@ 60
66 Cape, (po. 20).. @ 12
* — Socotri, (po. 60) . @ WO
Catechu, 1s, (14s, 14 \s,
Se
Aromoniae ........-..- 25@ 30
Assafcetida, (po. 30)... _@ 15
Benzoinum.......----- W@ 55
Camphor®......-+++-++ 50@ 52
Euphorbium po ....-- 35@ 10
Galbanum. .......---- @3 00
Gamboge, po.....----- 80@ 9
Guaiacum, (po. 60) . @ 55
Kino, (po. 25)--------- @ Ww
Mase... ...-...-.-s @1 00
Myrrh, (po a @ 40
Opii, (pc. 5 20)......-. 3 75@4 00
Shellac ...... 2@ 35
" pleached...... 2@ 3
Tragacanth .......---- 30@ 75
HERBA—In ounce packages.
Abeiothium .........-...---- 25
———— de ees eee 20
Lobelia. . Lee
Majorum eet eee
Mentha Piperita.. ae 2
Vir Mcecee see
se 30
Tanacetum, V.........-.-.-. 22
Thymus, V......--------+--- 25
MAGNESIA.
Calcined, Pat.......... 55@ 60
Carbonate, Pat........ W@ Ww
Carbonate, K. & M....
Carbonate, Jenning5..
OLEUM.
Absinthigm. ........-5 G5 @
Amygdalae, Dulc.. 45@ 75
Amydalae, Amarae.. .8 00@8 25
ee ee 1 90@2 00
Auranti Cortex....... @2 50
Bergamil ...... byaees* 2 80@3 25
(Ceres... ....----- 90@1 00
Caryophyili............ 1 25@1 30
—. ..,...,.... 35@ «65
Chenopodii ... @1 75
Cinnemonit ......... -1 40@1 50
CAO .........<..- @ 7
Contam Mee.......... 35@ 65
i a 1 2W@I1 30
ree... 14 00@14 50
Exechthitos. . a 1 00
Erieeron .......--. <5: 20@1 30
Gomisners ...........- 2 10@2 20
Gerantom, ounce. .... @ %
Gossipii, 8 : 50@ 75
Hedeoma .1 75@1 80
eureeer.......-..-...- 502 00
Tevend@uie ............ 90@2 00
Sree ............... 1 50@1 80
Mentha Fiper.......... 2 25@2 40
Mentha Verid......... 2 50@2 60
Morrhuse, gal........- 80@1 00
Myrcia, onereuaranaree @ 50
We 1 00@2 75
Picis sageite, (gal..35) 10@ 12
a eee 1 24@1 36
Hoamarini......... T5Q@1 00
Boose, Gunee.......... @6 00
Bee 40@ 45
Pe 90@1 00
Pee ee 3 5SO@7 00
Sassafras. .... 45Q@ 50
Sinapis, ess, ounce. @ 6
oo @1 50
ol n@Q@ wD
. Ops ......._.. @ 60
"TROODTOMAS..........- 15@ W
POTASSIUM.
ow. 15@ 18
Michrowsate ........... 13@ 14
Bioeece........-...- 37@ 40
Coot... 5... .... 12@ 15
Chiorate, (po. 15)... .. 16@ 18
amie... ........ 50@ 55
a 2 80@2 90
Potassa, Bitart, pure.. #@ 33
Potassa, Bitart, com... @ 15
Petass Nitras, opt..... 8@ 10
Pots Niges.......... “ae §
Prupeieee .........-.-.. 283@ 30
Sara po..........- 15@ 18
RADIX.
Aconitum ..........-.- 2@ 2%
Ane. ...._........... 2@ 30
ae 15@ 2%
Ave, PO........-...-. @ &
ere ee 20@ 50
Gentiana, (po. 15)..... 10@ 12
Glyechrrhiza, (pv. 15).. 16@ 18
—— Canaden,
— -... ........ @ &
aaa Ala, po.. 15@ W
Theta, po.............. 15@ 2
Ipecac, po0.......------ 2 25@2 35
Iris plox (po. 20@22).. 18@ 20
aces pf... ........ 40@ 45
Maranta, “4s.......... @ 35
Podophyllum, po...... 15@ 18
aoe . 75@1 00
eo eee @1 75
[ ee %5@1 35
spige in. 48@ 53
Sanguinaria, (po 2 25) .. @
Serpentaria............ Al 45
eames we 45@ 50
Similax, Officinalis, H @ 40
M @ 4
Seillac, (po. %).......- 10@ 12
Symplocarpus, Feeti-
Ma, po......... 35
Valeriana, Eng. (po. 30) @ B
German... 15@ 2
Zingiper @........---.- 10@ 15
Rate 7... ..-. 22Q@ 2%
SEMEN.
Anisum, (po. 20). 15
Apium i akg 15@ 18
wee ts. 4@ 6
Carui, (po. - Lect uee &8@ 12
Cardamon.. .-1 00@1 2
Corlandrum. a 10@ 12
Cannabis Sativa....... 34@ 4
CvGontam.... ....+.-- 7T5Q@1 00
Chenopodium eS 10@ 12
Dipterix Odorate...... 2 2@2 50
Foeniculum.. ued @ 15
Foenugreek, po. . ._ Ot &s
ta... e.. 4 @4%
Lini, grd, (bbl.4 )... 44@ 4%
Li obelia Ey ce es 35@
Pharlaris Canarian.... 34@ 4%
Hape ............<.-...- 6@ 4
Sinapis, sk. 8@ 9
igre. .....-. 11@ 12
SPIRITUS.
Frumenti, W., D. Co..2 00@2 50
D. WR... 1 75@2 00
Co 10@1 50
jeuteedte Co. O. TF 1 G@i 7
oe 75@3 50
Saacharum N. E...... 1 75@2 00
St Vini Gelll........ 1 75@6 50
Wag) Opore ......._-.. 1 25@2 00
Vinl Alba............. 1 25@2 00
SPONGES.
Florida sheeps’ wool
orieee..... 2 25@2 50
Nassau sheeps’ wool
carriage
Velvet extra sheeps’
wool carriage
Extra yellow sheeps’
CE
Grass sheeps’ wool car-
riage .
Hard for slate use.
Yellow Reef, for slate
el
SYRUPS.
Cees... ci... se betes
i ee
BOONE cone oe nee ewe —
Wem toe... 5...
Auranti Cortes.. :
io ore..........-.
Similax Officinalia..........
“c “ ¥
Revo ee
Scillae Ce cdee ey mice cou ames
ee i
Tolutan . a
Prunus virg. Seema
| Glassware flint, 75 per cent.
TINCTURES.
Aconitum Napellis R....... 60
- _ P....... 50
Alpes. ........
= dee teger 60
ieee 50
Apeteige...........,.......- 50
Atrope Belladonna.......... 60
eee 60
oi oe 50 |
Sanguinaria....... 50 |
— ss ...... ..........., OF
Cantharides 0 7
Cpe (25.8... ... 50
Co
° Co... ............ 2 ae
OE 1 00
Cmccen.:...
oe 50
™ o............... . Gi
ee dc 50
ee
Cyere@. .-................... Be
Digitalis ........ oe ec 50
oe
Gentian eae 50 |
.. .. . 60 |
Guaica . .... .... a
. Doane 60
Po 50
Riyceeversas............._.. 50
foodie. ..... ......
' Colorless. . —. 2
Ferri Chloridum............ 35
ee 50
ee ee es 50 |
Myrrh.. See ol
a Vouten 50
CE Ee 85
** Camphorated. . oe
= Dengor................. 2 00
AuramtiCortex............. &@
see 50
= - cece ae 50
——= .... .... .....,..... 50
Cassia en 50
So 50
Berpentera ............_.... 50
Perens... ............ OF
co! i...
ee ng a ee —. oo
Veratrum Veride.....-.-_..._. 50
MISCELLANEOUS.
ther, Spts er 3 _" 2@ 28
- be
Diese wc 2%@ 3%
. . ground, (po.
Annaito es Ne 55@ 60
Antimont, e.......... — &
et Potass T. 55@
Aviipgrin............. 1 35@1 40
A oi oon cee ae @ Dd
Argenti Nitras, ounce @ %
oe oe «67
Balm Gilead Bud. 38@ 40
Bismuth S. N. 2 10@2 7
Bese e Chlor, ‘1s, ‘(KS
mo. , @ o|
canines Russian,
es eee eee ec ese @1 75
Capsici Fructus, af... @ 2
“ “ @ 16
“ce “ po. @ 14
Caryophyllus, > 2) 15@ 18
Carmine, No. 4)....... @3 75
Cera Alba, Ss @F....-
7
50@ 55
38
@era Wave... 8@ 40
Coeeme. oe @ 40
Cassia Wructus........ @ Ww
Comer... @ 10
aaa @ BW
Chloroform i... 50@ 55
squibbs .. @1 00
Chloral Hyd Crst...... 1 50@1 75
ors ..........-... 20@ 2%
Cinchonidine,P. & W 15@ 2
c German 4@ 10
Corks, list, dis. per
a @ 60
Creseotum ............ @ 50
Crete, (bGk %).-...... a
ee 56 5
oo Dees escesss 8@ 10
eee. @ 8
Crocus ..........._... 35@ 38
OO een ene @ 2A
CupeiGuiph........... S@ 9
ostrme ............ 10@ 12
Mines Suiph.....--...- 68@ 70
Emery, all numbers. @
2... @ é
Ergota, (po.) 60......- 50@ 55
Paes Wore.......... 12 ‘15
Gale... 8... 23
Gomer. 8 @9
Gelatin, a. ...... @ 9
French........ 40@ 60
by box 62% less
Glue, Brown. 15
White... nea &
Glycerina . oss ‘19%@ 25
Grana Paradisi........ @ 2
Humulus.. 23H 40
Hydraag Chior. Mite. @1 00
@ 88)
- Ox moncea @1 10}
c Ammoniati. @1 Ww}
’ Unguentum. 47@ pol
Hydrareyrum ........- @
Tehthyobolla, Am..... 1 25@1 50
meee 75@1 00
sales, Resuhi........2 3 1@3 85 |
meceote. @4 7
a — o
Lycopodium .........-
Macis ... Z|
Liquor Arsen et “Hy-
rere (eG... ........ 27
Liquor Potass Arsinitis 10@ 12
aes Sulph (bbl
a 2@ 3
Menem, &. F......... 45@ 50
Morphia, Ss. ay & W...2 85@3 10 | Seidlitz Mixture...... @ 2/| Lindseed, boiled .... © 68
“we an. ¥. © & wes 10 en _ @ 18 roe Foot, winter
He ee 2 3 1¢ —. (e.....-...... @ 3 orem 5O 69
Moschus Canton...... @ 40) Snuff, - caboy, De Spirits Turpentine 464% 52
Myristica, No. 1....... we @| Vow ..........-..... @ 3 PAINTS bbl. Ib
Nux Vomica, (po 20). @ 10| Snuff,Scotch,De. Voes @ : ae gen
Os Sent 30@ 32| Soda Boras, (po. 13). . 12@ 13| Red Venetian. ........1% 2@3
Pe ain Saac, H. & P. D. “~ Soda et Potass Tart... 30@ 33| Ochre, yellow Mars.. 1% a
Oe | Seana Carp............ rs ft t...,.t.twrwtCOCOCté«é‘éeaN.:'' ; %
Picis Liq, N. C., % gal Soda, Bi-Carb......... @ 5 ae a? es
ea @2 00 | Soda, Ash 1 Sagan Ure... .2he 24 (
Picia Liq., quarts ..... @1 00 | Soda, Sulphas......... a 2 | Vermilion Prime Amer ne
minis... |. @ 70| Spis. EtherCo........ 5O@ 55 | ican .. seeees eer ss 13QIC
Pil Hydrarg, (po. 80) - @ 50| “ Myrcia Dom..... @2 00} Vv ermilion, English... S0G@S2
Piper Nigra, (po. 22)... @ 18] ‘ Myrcia Imp.. @2 50 | Green, Peninsuler..... 2s
Piper Alba, (po g5).... @ 35| “ Vini Rect. bbl. on oe - @i'4
| Pix Bareae 0 aq 7) Say. @2 22 | white .... @i%
| Plumbi Acet ........ 14@ 15| Less5c gal.,cash tendays. | Whiting, white Span... @9
Pulvis Ipecac et opii. 4 10@1 20 | Strychnia Crystal. @1 10 Whiting, Gilde rs’... @w”
Pyrethrum, boxes H Sulphur, Subl.. S14 3% | = hite, Paris American 1 00
& P. D. Co., doz..... @1 2 Rol ee 3 | Whiting, Paris Eng.
Pyrethrum, pY oo. $0 3%) Tamariids.........._. 8@ 10 (cliff sess teee Inn 1 40
Quaesiae 00...) |... 8@ 10} Terebenth Venice..... 28@ 30 Pioneer I >repared Paintl 20@1 4
Quinia, LPaw.. 41@ 46| Theobromae .......... 5O@ 55 Swiss Villa P —— :
@ Geman... Wa 35) Vanilla... ........... 9 W@16 00 Paints . . -1 00@1 20
Rubia Tinctorum..... 12@ 14} Zinci Sulph.. ee | VARNISHES,
Saccharum Lactis pv.. @ 30 No. 1 Turp Coach. 10@1 20
Saige 1 80@2 00 OrLs. Kxtra Tarp... __- “ 60@1 70
Sanguis Draconis..... 40@ 50 Bbl. Gai | Coach ee. woe -t COs OO
Bamonene ..........-. @A 50} Whale, winter........ 70 70 | No. 1 Turp Furn : -1 00@1 10
Bas eee im 224 Lard, extra........... 55 60 | Eutra Turk Damar ...1 55@1 60
o_o Oa «1G Lard, Na. f..........- 45 50|Japan Dryer, No. 1
~ @........ ....... @ 15| Linseed, pureraw ... 62 65 cr dl a
HAZELTINE
& PERKINS
DRUG CO.
Importers and Jobbers of
—-DRUGS-—
Chemicals and Druggists’ Sundries.
Dealers in
Patent Medigines, Paints, Oils, Varnishes.
Sole Agents forithe Oelebrated Pioneer Prepared Paints.
We are Sole Proprietors of
WEATHERLY’S MICHIGAN CATARRH REMEDY.
We have in stock and offer a full line of
Whiskies, Brandies,
Gins, Wrines, Rums.
Weare Sole Agents in Michigan for W. D. & Co..,
Henderson County, Hand Made Sour Mash
Whisky and Druggists’ Favorite
Rye Whisky.
We sell Liquors for Medicinal Purposes only.
We give our Personal Attention to Mail Orders and Guar-
antee Satisfaction.
All orders are Shipped and Invoiced the same day we reé=
}, ceive them. Send in a trial order.
~ arelting & Perkins Drug Go.
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH,
THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.
GROCERIES.
P. of I. Misstatements Refuted.
Written for THE TRADESMAN.
I note that one of the leaders of the
Patrons of Industry, in attempting to
account for the depression in farming in-
that the currency has
been contracted from $56 per capita in
As this
statement is ona par with many other
uttered by P. of L. orators, I
take pleasure in refuting it by quoting
from the report of Secretary Windom,
1889 :
terests, asserts
1866 to $6 per capita in 1889.
falsehoods
made December 31,
In 1878 the net amount of money in
circulation was $668,334,000; in 1889
it was $938,503.000, an
$270,169,000. To this nine hundred and
thirty-eight millions of currency in cir-
culation must be added the vast amount
of gold and silver in everyday use, mak-
ing a total of $22.36 per capita, a sum
larger than in any leading country in
Europe except France.
Another statement frequently made to
farmers is that national banks are not
taxed. Let the farmer get a thousand
dollars in national bank stock, and, in-
stead of being assessed at about one-half
its value, as is his farm property, he
would pay taxes on its full face value.
A farmer recently said, ‘*The national
banks make 8 per cent. semi-annual div-
free of taxes.’? Some of the
pay S$ per cent. annual dividends,
but the stockholder receiving it pays 2
per cent. taxes, leaving him but 6 per
cent., and from 1870 to 1886 the profits
capital invested in national bank
stock has returned a profit of but little
I have no bank stock,
and am not writing in the interest of
bankers, but belong to the great army of
tillers, and fully sympathize with
them in their hardships, but a misstate-
ment of facts to antagonize the farming
class against the government, or against
the national banks, will not help our
case nor lift the farm mortgage. We are
getting back in the direction of ante-war
have not near reached them
yet in agricultural products, as our ante-
war farmers well know—but rather than
adopt the ante-war style of living for
and families, the farm mort-
gage may grow until it takes the farm.
There are many doctors in political
economy with a panacea for all the ills
that the farmer and laborer is heir to,
but the old law of supply and demand,
the success of those who spend less than
they earn, and who are industrious and
provident, and the failure of the im-
provident and intemperate, is, after all,
law—the law that makes
idends,
banks
on the
over 8 per cent.
soil
prices
ourselves
the universal
the poor and the rich; that lifts or fore-
closes the farm mortgage. A. &. EM.
ting of the Grand Rapids Travel-
ing Men’s Association.
GRraNnpD Rapips, June 28, 1890.
Ata meeting of the Grand Rapids
Traveling Men’s Association, held at
El ~ Hall on Saturday evening, June 28,
Hi. Robertson was selected to act as
ec Semen
N. Bradford, A. B. Cole, J. H. Rose-
man, Wm. B. Edmunds and Geo. H. Sey-
mour were appointed a committee on
permanent organization and presented
the following recommendations :
That the temporary organization be
made permanent, to be known as the
Grand Rapids Traveling Men’
tion.
That the officers consist of President,
Vice-President, Secretary and Treasurer,
to be elected annually by ballot.
That there be two committees—Ex-
ecutive and Sick—to be announced by
the President and hold office for one
year.
Me
increase of |
|
That each member pay annual dues of
$1, when he signs the roll.
That the President shall call a meeting
whenever requested to do so by three
members of the Executive Committee.
That the annual meeting of the Asso-
ciation be held the last Saturday of each
year and that the officers elected to-night
hold over until 1891.
That the Secretary be authorized to
engage a hall, whenever it is necessary
to do so.
The report was adopted, when the
election of officers resulted as follows:
President—H. S. Robertson.
Vice-President—J. F. O. Reed.
Secretary and Treasurer—Geo. H. Sey-
mour.
The President then announced the fol-
lowing committees:
Executive—Geo. F. Owen,
Edmunds, J. N. Bradford, W.
Wm. B.
F. Blake
iand J. H. Roseman.
|
.. | looked for.
s Associa- |
Sick—Chas. S. Robinson,
and Dick Warner.
Geo. H. Seymour, A. B. Cole and L. M.
Mills were appointed a committee to
make arrangements for the annual picnic.
The money in the treasury of the tem-
porary organization was ordered turned
over to the present organization.
Tue TRADESMAN was made the official
organ of the Association.
The meeting then adjourned.
Gro. H. SEyMour, Sec’y.
—————_—>_ 2 --
Wool Dull--Hides Firm--Tallow Quiet.
The wool market East is sadly demor-
alized. Manufacturers will not buy or
come to the market on any prices which
are now held. All quotations are based
on previous sales, not before reported.
Large buyers in the West have with-
drawn from the market at country points
and as growers are in midst of haying
and harvest, they are indifferent sellers.
This stage of waiting all round, with no
encouragement for buyer or seller to
move, is likely to remain. The future
outlook is none too good. In the mean-
time, foreign countries are sending all
the goods to this side they can before the
new tariff comes.
Hides remain firm and are in good re-
quest, but are no higher.
Tallow is quiet, with little doing, it
being too hot to move stocks without
A. B. Cole
| heavy shrinkage.
—_—__—»>___—
The Grocery Market.
The sugar market is firm and an ad-
vance may occur, although it is hardly
Other articles in the grocery
line are about steady.
>.> ___—
For the finest coffees in the world, high
grade teas, spices, etc., see J. P. Visner,
17 Hermitage block, Grand Rapids, Mich.
Agent for E. J. Gillies & Co., New York
City. 352tf
WOOL
Iam in the market for WOOL.
WANT TO BUY. Parties having i
for sale, if they will notify me, if in car
load lots, I will come and look at it and
try to buy it. If in small lots, if you
will send it to me, I will open it up and
report by return mail what I ean give for
it, before taking it into account. There
will be no charge on it, after it is once at
my store.
W T. LAMOREAUX,
73 CANAL STREET,
How to Keep a Store.
By Samuel H. Terry. A book of 400 pages
written from the experience and observation of
an old merchant. It treats of Selection of Busi
ness, Location, Buying, Selling, Credit, Adver-
tising, Account Keeping, Partnerships, etc. Of
great interest to every one in trade, $1.50.
THE TRADESMAN COMPANY,
Grand Rapids.
PRODUCE MARKET.
Apples—Dried, 6@6¢ for sun-dried and 10@11c
for evaporated. The market is fairly active.
Apples—Green, 75¢ per box. Each box is
seanuatent to contain 100 stomachaches.
Beans—Dry stock is scarce and firm, command
ing $1.85@$2 for city hand-picked.
Beets—New, 30¢ per doz.
Butter—Not in shape to make any_ quotations.
Cabbages— Cairo stock commands $1.50 per
erate; St. Louis stock, $ per crate.
Cheese—Full cream stock commands 6%@7c.
Cherries—#1.25 per %-bu. crate.
Cooperage—Pork barrels,$1.25; produce barrels
25c.
Cucumbers—40ce per doz
Eggs—The market is steady. Dealers pay 124%¢
aa hold at 13@l4c.
Field Seeds—Clover, mammoth, $3.50 per bu.;
medium, $3.50. Timothy: $1.60 per bu.
Green Beans—Wax, $1.50 per pak String, $1.25
r bu.
Maple Sugar —8@10e per lb., according to
quality.
Magle Syrup—75@85c per gal.
— 1u@12¢ per doz.
r
gore $1 per bu.
Pieplant—ic per Ib.
Pop Corn—4c per Ib.
Potatoes—Old stock is about played out. New
Southern is in active demand at $3@#3 25 per bbl.
Raspberries—Both black and red are in good
demand, commanding 8@10c “al r qt.
Radishes—2e per doz bune
Watermelons—25c apiece.
Whortleberries—8@10c per qt.
PROVISIONS.
The Grand Rapids Packing and Provision Co.
quotes as follows:
PORK IN BARRELS,
Me, ew. .-..... 1: 5s CC. .. 11 50
EE oi ee 11 50
extra clear pig, short cut...................
axten Clear, Denry....-........-...-...--...-
ieee tok OOOK......-.............,...-..... 12 B
Southern, $3
aes Cee, er a... ..-....-....-..- 12 50
Clear back, ra 12 5
Standard clear, short cut. best.............. 12 75
sausaGE—Fresh and Smoked.
Pie Bee... 8. 7
—_— 9
Tongue Sausage... 2
ies ee. 8
ee ee 5
Bologna, —*- ee pees hee cee ta tenes wet 5
Bologna, thick.. oe
Pare... a 5
LaRD—Kettle Rendered.
meee cee
Tie... .....-.- f
OT aici oes ve ee ee
LARD—Family.
ee 6
OO od GO Th, Te 8 ee, wee ee we 64%
Sik Pe oer ee oe... 7
Bib. Pale 10 tee Cbee...... ................. 6%
re Paes beac... 6%
ir Pa Eee... .............. Oe
ee oe, 64
BEEF IN BARRELS.
Extra Mess, warranted 200 Ibs............... 7 00
Extra Mom, Chicago packing................ 7 00
Bomeee, sei bee... ....-.....
SMOKED MEATS—Canvassed or Plain,
Hams, average 2 ee 9%
6 lbs -10
“ . 10%
Oe a is nc nw gens we _
‘
ero
Breakfast Bacon, boneless.................++. 8%
Dried beef, ham prices............-..-.+++-00- 9
Lone Cleare, ROAVY .... ..-. 22. one esc e tcenesee 6
Briskets, Tn EE eG 6
_ ONE oc ceo ec ie ee 6
OYSTERS and FISH,
F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows:
FRESH FISH.
eee @%%
" ee ES @8
eee @%™%
EE eee @15
eee @4
“ OYSTERS—Cans.
Fairhaven Counts............--0..-s00+ @35
Selects....... et no @30
F. J. D.’s @2%5
FRESH MEATS.
Swift and Company quote as follows:
Beef, Ee 5 @5%
hind quarters Coes eee eee ces ee 6%@ 7
ee 3 @3%
ns aan ae @9
isa ee @i%%
c TOMBUCK.... 2. 120s wee ee none soon @ 9
ies eed eee ise viens eee weg 5 @5%
POMBE . .w. . 29. no a nok ons oes seen @5
i @s8
«shoulders. . Lda ke ode aay ce @6
Sausage, Miabd or heed oc @5
vet. oo. a @5
' ete oe ck ee @8
Mutton . eed @ 8
CANDIES, FRUITS and NUTS.
The Putnam Candy Co. quotes as follows:
STICK CANDY.
——, 3 es 84@ 9 :
eee 66 eee eed seee eka s 8u@ 9 ¢
@ §
Cat Loe... 6s. ..+. a ee
Assorted Cream ..........
Mira oe. ee. se li
MIXED CANDY.
Standard, per ib............-. eee ees 8%
ee 8%
EN 9
eee ae 10
Eneiiek MOCK..............--..-...... 10
Conserves ea cee) Cd ee a ee 10
Broken. eS
Oe “10
I EE 12
Naley Coa... 13
Fancy—In 5 lb. boxes,
ee ee 12
eee es 13
Peggeris ete, 14
EE 14
i Mw Cee ere... 18
eS EEE 10
ne) ee 18
a Lies reese... .. 8, 14
Lozenges, ee 14
mene... ee 15
aes... 14
ee ES A ee 15
ce ee a els 13
Molasses Bar.
eee... 21... eS
ee ee Tee... .. i 18
ey eee ee cee ee sey 16
ee es 8 20
String Rock.. ede de bodes ee yates segs sae
Burnt TE Te 2
Womernroen Bertigs....................,.00., 14
FaNncy—In bulk.
Lozenges, —_. A OE 2
= roared. th petis............ -+sbe
Chocolate Drops, in pails...................... 12
I eee eee cee ws 6
EE EE 10
Beer eee eee 12
Deere, el eee... 12
ORANGES.
Rodi, choice, tO @ 7 50
“4 ee @
LEMONS.
Messina, asap eee da le @ 6
See ee ae @ 6 50
. fancy, 380 ee 7 00@ 7 50
a, 7 50@ 8 00
OTHER FOREIGN FRUITS,
Figs, Smyrna, new, fancy layers.. @16
ig choice “ @ 14
Te... @
Dates, re a @
4 frails, ee @
: Fard, 10-Ib. box Cece et cee eacens 3%
* on
- Fenton. MED, WOM... iste Ke
NUTS.
Almonds, ne Se @16
etches eee uae ue 15
. ll oi
Me ee @ll1
anes, Gere. .......-...........- @16
_ Ce, et @i5
peeeme Temes FY... ook. te 11 @l4
Coe ee @4 53
PEANUTS, :
Fancy, H. P., a @ 9%
. Roasted . Lek ee bee ween ol @11%
Fancy, H. Ps Game C Jocks.. nh @ 9%
Roasted — @i1%
Fancy, H. P., Stags... eiiepd @ 94
_ Roasted. @i11
Choice, H. Ps Stars .. a @ 9
. "Roasted. Lees ok @10%
Fancy, H. P., Steamboats sds ee le @9
Roasted....... @10%
For Sale by Leading Wholesale Grocers.
\Cpantarien certs
"Ci idtaatenrten scree anita
THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.
13
Wholesale Price Current.
The quotations given below are such as are ordinarily offered cash buyers who
pay promptly and buy in full packages.
APPLE BUTTER.
E. J. Mason & Co.’s goods.. 6
AXLE GREASE,
aes. 2 40
ae 1%
Diamond. ao .18
BAKING POWDER.
Thepure, gd ——- 01 2
ee 1 56
6 ey eo 2 28
' % Ib. Ty eeae 2 76
- 1202. ee 4 20
- 11b. ee 5 40
. 5 lb. oo 26 00
Less 20 per cent. to retailers.
Absolute, 4 Ib. cans, 100s..11 75
“c y% lb.
. 50s..10 00
_ 1lb. “ 508..18 7
Acme, 4 = cans, —- %
-_.S
oe 4 ~ oe : oe He 3 00
' eee. a 20
Our Leader, \4Ib. cans..... 45
” i% oe 90
ee a 1 60
Telfer’s, oie cans, doz.. 45
._ =
" + ib ' - 1.2
BATH BRICK.
English, 2 doz. in case. 80
a 75
American. 2 doz: in case. 70
BLUING. Dosen
Moxtean, 408............. 30
oc
(Ce 1
nei
No, 2 Carpet a
No. oe
Pie Gem... 2%
(iran Whisk............ 90
Fancy es 1 20
eS a 3 25
Wercoemee ....... -...-. 2 %
CANDLES
Hotel, 40 lb. boxes Ss 10
Tees 9%
a... |...
a 25
CANNED Goops—Fish.
Clams, 1 Ib. Little Neck..... 1 20
Clam Chowder, 3 Ib........- 2 10
Cove Oy sters, A Ib. —.- «a 16
2 Ib. 4 95
Lobsters, 11, “picnic oe. 17
ce 2 65
. 1 ‘Tb. a... 2 35
“ 2. ear........- 32
Mackerel, in Tomato Sauce.2 85
116. stand Leeean ee 1 20
vi 3 re eae awe 2 00
. 3 Ib. in Mustard. 2
. Sib. soused......- 2 8
Salmon, 2 lb. Columbia1 652 00
Ib. Alaska..1 40@1 .
Sardines, domestic ne
a @
%
sg Mustard s...... @9
" imported \4s...104@16
. spiced, 48....... 10
Trout, S 16. DEOOK...... .- 2 60
CANNED Goops—Fruits.
Apples, gallons, meme, <1... 3 25
Blackberries, tend ols 80
Cherries,red standard 1 = 20
- pitted 1 40
Damion ....,.............. 115
Egg Plums, stand..... 1 15@1 35
Gooseberries ..............-- 1 00
Grapes .......... en
Green Gages.........- 1 15@1 35
Peaches, yellow, stand eo 00
« ~’geconds ...... @1 90
1 30
ear!
Pineapples, common. 10@1 50
Johnson’ $.2 2 50@2 75
Quinces .......---------2- > 1 00
Raspberries, ae B
ice is ues 1 40
Strawberries .......... 1 15@1 35
Whortleberries.............. 75
CANNED VEGETABLES.
Asparagus, Oyster Bay......
Beans, Lima, stand......... 86
“Green Limas..
@1 35
*« Saioee......---. 80
‘© Stringless, Erie....... 80
* Lewis’ Boston Baked..1 40
Corn, Archer’ os Troonky...... 90
Morn’g Glory, 90
ba . Early Golden. 90
Peas, French.............-.- 1 68
‘© extra marrofat. . @1 2%
M BOONE oo. cone ce wees 80
« Jane, stand...........- 1 40
. « gaifved....... 1 ie 85
‘© French, extra fine... .1 50
Mushrooms, extra fine...... 215
Pumpkin, 3 lb. Golden @1 50
Succotash, standard....90@1 40
SquesM ........ ----------+++- 110
Tomatoes, Red Coat.. @1 00
Good Enough @1 00
- Ben Har ... @1 10
eg stand br.... @ %
CATSUP.
Snider’ 8, % pint........... 1 36
oo oe an ance ce 230
‘ =quatrt.... 3 50
CHEESE.
_— Full ee. @7
Oe
Part Seiamed......... 5 @6
San Sago........-..-.. 19 @20
ee ee ce @1 00
CHEWING GUM.
Rubber, 100 lumps........... 30
a 40
Spruce, 200 pieces........... 40
CHICORY.
Bulk..
CHOCOLATE—BAKER’S.
German Sweet.. ..........
— oe 35
Pie... ss. 11... 38
Breakfast Cocos.......... 40
ee 37
COCOA SHELLS.
ee. 4 @4%
Pound packages........ @7
COFFEE EXTRACT.
Malcoy (eee... .<..--.. 80
a... 110
COFFEE—Green,
—. .........--.- @21
«good 21 Q@R
r ae Pe es @23
‘“* fancy, washed.. @24
foe... 23 @24
ee 22 @23
Mexican & eee @24
Java, Interfor......
_ Mandheling.
Peaberry
Mocha, genuine. .
To ascertain cost of roasted
coffee, add %e. per lb, for roast-
ing and 15 per cent. for shrink-
age.
COFFEES— ———
Bunola.. oe 24%
«in cabinets........... 25%
McLaughlin’s XXXX.. a
DOG coe e cc ewes esc. eceee se
“in cabinets . a
eee 25
CLOTHES LINES.
Cotton, 40 f%......- per doz. 1 35
" Soie....... 1 50
= 60 . . 1%
. —o....... . 2 00
. 0 i. .---.- ' 22
Jute or... " 90
_ ao .....- ' 1 10
CONDENSED MILE.
one... 7 50
ia rie... 5: 6 00@ 7 60
COUPONS.
“Superior.”
$ 1, per hundred........... 2 50
_. eee. 3 00
ES “ gabe cue aues 4 00
a, a. |... 5 00
a eee ews 6 00
“Tradesman.”
$ 1, per hundred........... 2 00
ss * qo 250
5 * es. 3 00
10, * ec. 4 00
- 5 00
D,
Subject to the following dis-
counts:
200 or over......--. 5 per cent.
Bnet ae eee 10 ‘
—- 8 20 -
CRACKERS.
Kenosha Butter...........-.. 1%
Seymour ~ = ..---+--ce++s- 5%
EE 5%
i... 5%
Dipe@ie....-........... 6%
Oe ee 1%
ee 7%
ice nes 6
eee ee. 5%
City Oyster, XXX............ 5%
on... .. 6
CREAM TARTAR.
Strictly pure.............-- 38
Groeeee .....-.--.-..------- 2%
DRIED FRUITS—Domestic.
Apples, sun-dried..... 6
evaporated...
Apricots, "
Blackberries ‘‘
Nectarines ‘‘
Peaches c
Plums ne
Raspberries “
DRIED a
‘Partey.......--..--..- 64@ 6%
sl... @i7z
Californtia............- 10 @li
DRIED FRUITS—Peel.
oa. 8... 18
ee
DRIED FRUITS—Citron.
Te Grek... - -<05 02s
in bee .......----.-. @:
DRIED FRUITS—Currants.
Zante, in barrels...... @ 5%
> in less quantity 6 @ 6%
DRIED FRUITS—Raisins.
CO
Camas. =... .... 5. @11%
Martane, ..........-,-. 0
London Layers, Cali-
MOTO. oe canes 2 50@2 80
London Layers, for’n. @
Muscatels, California.1 90@2 2
GUN POWDER.
%
—— a eda be ieee ees eee 5
Hae beeme.........-..-..:-.: 2 88
FARINACEOUS GOODS.
Farina, 100 lb. oer .
Hominy, per Dil.........--- 3 00
Macaroni, dom 12 lb box.. 60
. imported. . @ 9%
Peart Bariey.......-.- @ 2%
Peas, green..........-- @1 00
* geie.. .....-.-+.-- @ 3
Sago, German........- @6
Tapioca, fi’k or p’rl.. 6@ 7
Wheat, cracked....... @5
Vermicelli, import. . @10
‘domestic. . @60
FISH—SALT.
Coa waoe......._.... 5 @6
*« bonciess...... .. 6%@ 8
Halibut .- @ §
Herring, round, os ‘pbl.. 2 90
gibbed.. 2%
o Holland, “pbis.. 12 00
. ' kegs, new @ 7%
_ Scaled ........18@ 20
Mack. sh’s, ‘No, 2s 8 te 12 00
lb b Kit. .1 30
“ a“ a 20
Trout, io —......... @4 50
eo eee...
White, "No. 4, és bbls.. @6 00
2 Ib. kits..... 1 00
HERBS
ee 9
ee 14
JELLIES.
E. J. Mason & Co.’s goods.. 6
Cigeaee soeds.............. 4
LAMP WICKS.
~~ ...UlUrUCtC .”C~*~C~SCCC 30
a 1. ........... ee aes 40
as... 50
LICORICE.
ee 30 |
Calabria Es 25
ee 18 |
LYK.
Condensed, = dog. .........- 1 3 |
MATCHES.
Wo. colour... __........ 2 00 4
ee ee 1a
Mo Thome.................. 1 101 |
Export parior............... 4 00 |
MOLASSES. |
Bisee Sirep............... 20 |
Cuba Baking........ ae
Porto Rico.. os 30
New Orleans, “good. cues, 24
eneice...... 30
sc fan ncy.. 42
One-half barrels, 3¢ extra
OATMEAL,
Muscatine, —— Doers. 4 50
Half barrels..... 2 50
. Canes...... 2 15@2 2%
ROLLED OaTs.
Muscatine, Barrels.... @4 50
' Half bbls. . @2 50
_ Cases...... 2 15@2 2
OIL.
Michigan Vest.............. 9%
Watce Witte... ............ 10%
PICKLES.
Medium. . aun a a |
bbl . Cece .5@
Small, pbi.. - 11 00
wb bbl.. SS es 6 00
PIPES
am; Ma 216................ 1 %
D. fall count........ q
Cob, Koos Boat ecu es oe - 1 2
PRESERVES.
E. J. Mason & Co.’s goods.. 8
RICE.
Carolina — eee eee cote ee 6%
ae 53
. Ne 54@
dJopen, Net... .-......._ 6%
Woe. 8. oc. 5%
SNUFF.
Seotch, in bladders......... 37
Maccaboy, in jars.. . 30
French — - Jars.....43
Detroit Soap Co. *s Brands.
Superior...........0--. e200 3 30
Queen ANNe.........-----+- 3 85
German Family.. ....-....-.
Mottled German...........-. 3 00
Old German............ ee
U.S. Big Bargain. . -.2 OO
Wrosé, Piogter.......-... --. 3 15
Cocoa Castile .............. 3 00
Cocoa Castile, Fancy........ 3 36
Allen B. Wrisley’s Brands.
Happy Family, 75.......---- 2 9
Old Country, 80..........- 3 30
Wien 100... 4 3 65
Bounece, 100.......-....--..- 3 15
SAL SODA.
as 1%
ea. eee... ..... 2
SAPOLIO.
Kitchen, 3 doz. in box.. . 250
Hand sh 2
SOUPS.
Snider’s Tomato... ........ 2 40
spices—Whole.
Alispice............--.-+.--- 10
Cassia, China in mats...... 8
° Batavia in bund....15
” Saigon in —_ nee ee 35
Cloves, Amboyna.. ae
Taneiver..... .--..- 16
Mace Batavia....... ...---- 80
—, fomey...-........- 80
XN a : Seeeasecsccesas .
6c
Pepper, Singapore, — 6
white... .26
° shot ............... 20
spic—es—Ground—-In Bulk.
Allspice 5
Cass la, “Batavia kl 20
and Saigon.25
. Peigon ............. 42
Cloves, — Si ccenaesee 26
POMAIOEE. 240. 0000 2
Ginger, AtaCan.............1e6
cc. ........- 15
. 7 es oe 18
Mace Batavia..........-..-- 90
Mustard, English Leese 22
and Trie. .25
. Trieste ee eee aes P74
Nutmegs, he 2 ........---.- 80
Pepper, § Singapore, — oo
sa bite. ...- 30
- Guinn. oe
SUGARS. |
Out tedt.............. @ 7% |
te... ... 2... @ 6% |
Powaered ........-.-.. @ 7%
Standard Granulated. @6.56
7. .... @6.56
Confectioners’ Ac. @6.31
White Extra C.......-. @ 6%
_— ee ctce eee 5%@ 6
cece cue eee ae 5%@ 5%
—... @ 5%
SEEDS.
Pree biG.......-.... 4%@ 6
oe os 9
Canary .. .
on... - 3%
— aa Soe oes cree
ee é
meee ™%
Common Fine ao Oe sco. 80
Solar Rock, 56 lb. sacks..... 7
= pocket ae 1 90
ee cca, 2 00
$00 ace ee ee 2
Ashton bu. ‘bags Se ies 7
eT www one ewe T
arsaw ‘‘ Me etc eu ee 35
_ «(Ck 20
Diamond cry stal, cases....1 50
“Ib sacks 25
ac “cc 56-lb “es 50
. a & pocket .2 25
“ce ae 28 “ a 10
. - barrels .. .1 75
SALERATUS,
Church’s, Arm - Hammer...5%
Dwight’sCom.. —< 5%
Taylor’s.. a
DeLand’s C ap \Sheaf ||...) ag
7 eee 5%
Oo Ceeeee........
SYRUPS
Corn, begreie......-......- Qxzt
s¢ one-half barrels....@29
Pure Sugar, Re. 26@35
half barrel... .28@37
SWEET GOODS,
| Ginger Snaps.......... 8
Sugar Creams......... 8%
Frosted Creams....... 8
Graham Crackers..... 8
Oatmeal Crackers.... 8
SHOE POLISH.
Jettine, 1 doz. in box...... -%
TEAS.
JAPAN—Regular.
Pose ...............-... 14 @i6
oe. .., 18 @2R
Choice. . Cac. ee ce
Choicest.. Ss es 32 @38
SUN CURED.
wae 4 @i15
aoe. 16 @20
ese 24 @28
CeOncess............... 30 @33
BASKET FIRED.
ve ...........-..... @20
Craiee................. @25
A eOeme. ...........-.. @35
Extra choice, wire leaf @A0
GUNPOWDER.
Common to fair....... 25 @35
Extra fine to finest....50 @65
Choteest fancy.......- 75 @8s5
IMPERIAL,
Common to fair....... 20 @35
Superior tofine........ 40 @50
YOUNG HYSON.
Common to fair....... 18 @26
Superior to fine....... 30 @40
ENGLISH BREAKFAST.
Were ii 25 @30
Coomee............-... 30 @35
Poe ee one 55 @65
Tea Dust.......-.....- 8 @10
OOLONG.
Common to fair... ...25 @30
Superior to fine....... 30 @50
Fine to choicest. :..... 55 @65
Monee 54
a. English Nee deae og ae 4%
Tropaccos—Fine Cut.
D. Seotten & Co.’s Brands.
Meee. 5... 63
Sect Cums........... 36
Our Leader........ ' 35
ToBaccos—Plug.
Jas. G. Butler & Co.’s Brands.
Sometning Good.............. 38
Pecnie PGdro........... .....20
Peach Pie... ode e ae
Wedding Cake, ee =
eneces 37
topacco—Shorts,
Cum Deedew................... 15
ToBaccos—Smoking.
Gan teadee 16
ee wee tw ee W
Plow Boy, 2 Oz. te eeee cam
eee 31
. 5 Gn..... . ......52
VINEGAR.
aaa 6%
ae. Ts
PAPER & WOODENWARE
PAPER.
Curtiss & Co. quote as fol
1OWS:
ae 160
- — —: a
Sugar. ceas wet eos ae
Hardware .. ee
ee 2%
ey Goods ............ -.__.. 6
Jute Mane 4... 8
Red Express No. : Dee ee ces 5
eee 4
TWINES.
ee a 22
Cotton, No. 2................ 20
= a oe 18
Sea Island, assorted....... 40
No GBemp............. -.-. 18
mo 6... ck. b |
Wor... 8
WOODENWARE.
Tubs, = 1 Ce 8 00
Ne f..............- 7 00
a No - _.. 6m
Pails, No. 1, two-hoop.. 1 50
No. 1, three-hoop.... 1 7
Clothespins, Serboxes.... 55
Bowls, 11 inch Dee ctca ues 1 00
aC C........ 13
. ££ - ..... 2 00
a. ff * ........ ..... 2%
. — 1%s and 19s 2 50
o 5s, 17s and 19s 27
Baskets, “ike Ds ween 40
ushel . | 1%
. “with covers 1 90
. willow er ths, No. 1 5 7
ne No.2 6 25
ae “ce “ee No. 3 7 25
. splint « Nolsw
- s No.2 42%
e a « Noss @
GRAINS and FEEDSTUFFS
WHEAT.
White... ..-.......... §2
Red.. 82
All w heat bought on 60 lb. test.
MEAL.
CS ee i
Oranuiated,..........-.«-- 1a)
FLOUR,
Straight, in os ........ (a
DOITeis,....... 4 80
Petcnct ~ safes ........ 5 6
’ barrels ....... 5 80
RYE.
We, 40
MILLSTUFFS.
ee, 13 00
eee 3 00
Scena ................
Mrcaiien................. 14
Bived Feed............... 15 06
COGrSG meal.......,....... 15 00
il CORN,
ma ie. 40)
Car gg
OATS.
Small lots.. messy ee a
= .... 33
i BARLEY
No. 1 nee eee eee eee ae 1 10
eG &.............-......., 1 05
as HAY
Ng 10 75
No. 2. - 10 ©
HIDES, PELTS and FURS
Perkins & Hess pay as fol
lows:
‘ HIDES,
‘chitin @ 5%
Past Cated...... .. 5 @5%
ee 6 @6%
DEY ieee ere esa 6 @8
Maps, Sreen ..... ..... @5
© Gured..... wi. © @ GG
Calfskins, ereen...... 4 @6
Gured...... 5 @7
Deacon skins.. 10 @2%5
No. 2 hides i“ off.
PELTS,
Sheartings..........._. 10 @25
Estimated wool, per hb 20 @2s
WOOL,
Washed.) .......... |. age
| Umwashied............... 10@20
MISCELLANEOUS.
Toon... 3 @ 3%
Grease butter.........1 @2.
oo re 2
Ginseng. ......... 00@2 £0
LUBRICATING OILS,
The Hogle Oil Co. quote as
follows:
Extra WS Lard Oi1...53 @58
fof... 15 @aod
s¢ No. a
Pure Neatsfoot. ---- 02 @OO
Harness Oil. a iso
W Va Summer... .... TM4@l12
‘* Medium Winter. 8 @12
5 Cold Test. Lo.. 9 GS
ao 10 @i4
Old Re ig u ble ¢ ‘ylit nder (65
600 Mecca 50
— monopoly ‘“ ..35 @@
Corliss Engine Oil. @40
Golden Machine Oil..18 @25
Mower and Reaper Oi125 @30
Castor Machine Oil...25 @30
Boiled Linseed Oil. ..68 @66
Michigan WW. ...... @10
Turpentine...........46 @5l
ee
ae
Castor Oil, Pure 1
. Mineral... 30 os
c Distilled .
REMEMBER
TeAT
BUNOLA
COFFEE.
Is better and costs less than most
package coffees.
100-POUND CASES, 24 3-4;
Besides our FINE LINE of C
FIREWORKS, and have many spec
No old chestnuts to work off.
money.
before ordering.
100-CABINETS, 25 1-4.
FOR SALE BY ALL GRAND RAPIDS JOBBERS
FIREWORKS
ANDY, we are agents for the Best ALL COLORED
ialties in this line on which you can make some
Send for catalogue and get our prices
If you want the BEST CANDY put up NET WEIGHT, ask for our goods.
A. E. BROOKS & CO.,
CODY BLOCK, 158 EAST FULTON ST,, =.
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH
14
MICHIGAN TRADES
Trusts in America.
Whoever Mr. Robert Donald may be,
and the internal evidence of his article |
in the |
June number of the Contemporary Re- |
view, indicates that he is an American, |
his description and indictment of these |
”
on ‘Trusts in the United States,’
illegal combinations is one of the clear-
est expositions of their nature and tend- |
ency that has yet appeared in print.
So secret and rapid has been the}
growth of these monopolies in various
lines of business that the people of the |
United States are hardly aware of how |
comprehensive they have become. Their |
number as given in a list, which is by no |
means complete, is simply startling.
“There are trusts in kerosene oil, sugar, |
cottonseed oil, steel, rubber, steel beams,
-artridges, lead, iron, nails, straw, paper,
linseed oil, coal, slates, gas, cattle, tram-
ways, steel rails, iron nuts, wrought iron
pipes, stones, copper, paving pitch, felt
roofing, plows, threshing, reaping and
binding machines, glass, oatmeal, white
cornmeal, starch, pearled barley, water- |
works, lard, castor oil, barbed wire,
school slates, school books, lead pencils,
paper bags, envelopes, meat, milk,
matehes, canvas-back ducks, ultramarine,
borax, sand paper, screws, cordage, mar-
ble, coffins, tooth-picks, peanuts, lumber,
lime, overshoes, hides, railway springs,
carriage bolts, patent leather, thread,
white lead and whisky.”’
As Mr. Donald says, the American
must deal with trusts from the cradle to |
the grave. If he is a native of New
York State, a trust will nurture him with |
milk which it buys from the farmers at
three cents a quart and sells to the peo-
ple at from seven to ten cents a quart.
When he goes to school his slate is fur- |
nished by another trust which has raised
the price of school states 30 per cent.,
and, thanks to custom, sends its best
slates to England and Germany. If the
public school boy or benighted parochial |
school scholar wants a lead pencil, he}
must apply to a trust which charges him |
13¢ cents more than it asks from foreign- |
ers who have not emigrated. The sugar
trust increases the price and decreases
the sweetness of his candy, and the
Italian who sells him peanuts purchases
his supply from the peanut combination.
According to Mr. Donald, if the school-
boy developed a taste for canvas-back
duck, the Baltimore trust will control
his appetite by restricting the supply.
When he has finished the duck, ‘‘another
trust is ready with a tooth-pick—for even
such an insignificant industry as tooth-
pick making has not escaped the trust
schemers. The American may continue
his progress through life using ‘*trusted’’
envelopes, wearing ‘‘trusted’’ overshoes,
drinking ‘‘trusted’’ whisky, warming
himself at ‘‘trusted’’ stoves, and patron- |
iaing other trusts which control indis-
pensable commodities. Should illness
overtake him, a castor oil trust will do
its best for him, and as a duty of 200 per
cent. on castor oil will insure it an abso-
lute monopoly, it will charge very highly
for its medicine. Even death does not
free the American from trusts. They)
pursue him to the grave. There is a|
coffin-maker’s ring in New York which |
has raised prices to the trust standard.
The character of the trust as a mon-
opoly was defined by Lerd Coke in the|
famous case of monopolies, when he said |
that the inevitable result of a monopoly
were three: ‘1. That the price of the
same commodity will be raised; That
the commodity is not as good as before;
3. That it tends to the impoverishment |
of divers artisans, artificers and others.
The system by which the trust is gen- |
erally formed is described by Mr. Donald,
as follows: ‘‘Each of the parties enter- |
ing into the trust incorporates his own |
establishment, if it is not an incorporated |
company already. The stock of the sev-
eral persons forming the trust is then
handed to certain persons called trustees.
In payment for the stock the trustees
issue to each party ‘trust’ certificates— |
similar to shares of stock in corporations
—and also ‘trust’ certificates for the
good-will of the business. These certifi-
cates generally represent four times the
real value of the property. The trustees
—who have been the prime movers in|}
the concern and leading manufacturers
of the product ‘trusted’—retain the
major part of the stock in each corpora-
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being guaranteed to both wholesale and retail deal-
ers by a system of limited prices, while consumers
are furnished the purest, strongest and best cream
of tartar baking powder made.
MANUFACTURED
THEPURE BAKING POWDER CO.
ALBANY, N.Y.
TIME TABLES.
Grand Rapids & Indiana.
In effect June 22, 1890.
TRAINS GOING NORTH.
Arri
ve. Leave.
Big Rapids & Saginaw.............+- 6:55 am
Traverse City & Mackinaw........ 6:50am 7:25am
Traverse City & Mackinaw........ 9:15am 11:30am
Traverse City & Saginaw............ 2:15pm 4:10pm
Mackinaw City. .......---eesseeceess 8:50pm 10:30pm
Train leaving at 10:30pm, runs daily, Sunday in-
cluded. Other trains daily except Sunday.
GOING SOUTH.
Cinetanatl EUprene... ...+0..