Michigan Tradesman. Published Weekly. VOL. 9. MUSKEGON BRANCH UNITED STATES BAKING CO., Successors to MUSKEGON CRACKER Co., HARRY FOX, Manager. Crackers, Biscuits # Sweet Goods. MUSKEGON, MICH. SPECIAL ATTENTION PAID TO MAIL ORDERS. TELFER SPICE COMPANY, MANUFACTURERS OF GRAND RAPIDS, Spices and Baking Powder, and Jobbers of Teas, Coffees and Grocers’ Sundries. 1 and 3 Pearl Street, GRAND RAPIDS THE NEW YORK BISCUIT 60. Ss. A. SEARS, Manager. Cracker Manufacturers, 37,39 and 41 Kent St., - Grand Rapids. Our Fall Lines of Uil Cloths, Carpets and Curtains Now ready. Write for prices. SMITH & SANFORD, 68 Monroe St. NO BRAND OF TEN CENT CIGARS “ees Gimis R G. F. FAUDE, Sole Manufacturer, IONIA, MICH. . WM RAP & CoO. 9 North Ionia St., Grand Rapids. WHOLESALE FRUITS AND PRODUGE. Mail Orders Receive Prompt Attention. GS S. BROWN, JOBBER OF Foreign and Domestic Fruits and Vegetables, Oranges, Bananas and Karly Vegetables a Specialty, 24-26 No. Division St. Send for quotations. THE TRADESMAN COMPANY, PUBLISHERS. AUGUST 10, 1892. $1 Per Year. NO. 464. MOSELEY BROS. - WHOLESALE - FRUITS, SEEDS, BRANS AND PRODUGE, 26, 28, 30 & 32 OTTAWA ST, Grand Rapids, Mich. Quotations, ly) : PY iy? The Public! By splendid and expensive advertising the manufacturers create 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 purchasers to the store, and help sell less known goods. Anv Jobber will be Glad to Fill Your Orders. LEMON & WHERLER COMPANY, IMPORTERS AND Iluminating and Lubricating -OILs- NAPTHA AND GASOLINES. Offic., Hawkins Block. Works, Butterworth Ave. BULK WORKS AT GRAND RAPIDS, MUSKEGON, MANISTEE, CADILLAC, BIG RAPIDS, GRAND HAVEN, LUDINGTON. ALLEGAN, HOWARD CITY, PETOSKEY, HIGHEST PRICE PAID FOR KMPTY GARBON & GASOLIN’ BARRELS. Wholesale Grocers GRAND RAPIDS Summer (JSoOodSs. LAWNS, CHALLIES. INDIA LINENS, ORGANDIES, WHITE GOODS, MULLS. 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Executive Offices, 279, 281, 283 Broadway, N.Y CHARLES F. CLARK, Pres, Offices in —- cities of the United States, Canada, the European continent, Australia, and in London, England. Grand Rapids Office, Room 4, Widdicomb Bldg. HENRY ROYCE, Supt. FRANK H. WHITE, Manufacturer’s Agent and Jobber of Brooms, Washboards, Wooden ND Indurated Pails & Tubs, Woeden Bowls, Clothespins and Rolling Pins, Step Ladders, Washing Ma- chines, Market, Bushel and De- livery Bas’ ets, Building Paper, Wrapping Paper, Sacks, Twine and Stationery. Manufacturers in lines allied to above, wish- ing to be represented in this market are request- ed to communicate with me. 125 COURT ST., GRAND RAPIDS, MIOH. GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1892. A BRAVE GIRL. I am not inclined to disparage the physical bravery involved in facing bas- tions and taking cities, but I do say that this is not the most difficult side of the virtue, and that there are moral victories won in daily life evincing as honorable and enduring courage. Mattie was the only child of Major John Darley, a man who had done good service in the Mexican War and had been re- warded for it by an honorable and lucra- tive government office. He lived in good style in a handsome house, and Mattie was generally under- stood to be as well off in money matters as she was attractive in person and win- ning in manners. She visited in the most fashionable circles and was rather noted for her pretty toilets and the num- ber of her beaux. Mattie had, however, made her choice. Unreservedly she had given her affec- tions to Mark Taylor, a young man of no particular family, but of handsome ex- terior and fair business prospects. Many, indeed, wondered at the Major sanction- ing the match; but there are always rea- sons within reasons, and the poor father had his private motives for forwarding the views of the man who seemed most in earnest about marrying Mattie. But before Mattie’s pretty wardrobe was finished, and while the lovers were yet undecided as to whether the wedding was to be a public or a private one, Ma- jor Darley was found dead in bed one morning, and the house of pleasant an- ticipations became a house of mourning. This was but the beginning of Mattie’s troubles. Vague but terrible rumors of suicide and ruin began to be heard, and Mattie, even in the first gush of sympathy for her desolate condition, could feel that indefinate something which expressed disapprobation as well as pity; and after the funeral was over she was quite sensi- ble that her acquaintances and friends were ready to stand aloof from her at the first good opportunity. The world, upon the whole, is not fla- grantly unjust; it thought it had good rea- son for its disapprobation. Major Dar- ley had done wrong; he had squandered money not his own; and poverty and dis- honor it refuses to sanction. In the main itis right. And when Mattie knew all and knew, also, that it was generally believed that her father had slunk into the grave because he was afraid to face the wrong he had done, she did not much blame the world. She knew it must judge men and women on general rules. But she did blame Mark, for he had no such excuse. He had made particular promises to her and her alone. But when misfortune does not strengthen love, it kills it; and before Major Darley was in the grave, Mark’s behavior had lost something of its respect, and he soon became querulous and inattentive. Mat- tie did not hesitate long. Ina fewdig- nified lines she gave him his dismissal, and it was coolly accepted, with a very unmanly and ungenerous reflection upon the dead. Then the poor girl began seriously to NO. 464 consider her future. There was abso- lutely nothing for her but the furniture of the house in which she lived, and the half-and-half invitations which she had received from her two aunts to make her home for a time with them. One had a large family and lived in a pretty Jersey village; the other was an invalid and traveled a great deal. She sold the furniture at auction, paid out of it her father’s funeral expenses and found that she had about sixteen hundred dollars left. Upon the whole, the invalid aunt seemed the most desir- able, and she accepted her invitation first. It was the beginning of summer, and Mrs. Dayton was going to Europe ‘‘for her health.” Mattie was to go with her, but it was not until everything was arranged that Mattie found she was ex- pected to pay her own passage. She drew-four hundred dollars and went to sea with a heavy heart. The next six months were a simple record of an imaginary finvalid’s whims and unreasonable tyranny; Mattie took under these circumstances her first les- sons in that knowledge which teaches— ‘‘How salt the savor is of others’ bread! How hard the passage to descend and climb By others’ stairs!” And in spite of all Mattie’s efforts and humiliations, she did not please. Mrs. Dayton and her niece parted at last on very bad terms. She had still nine hundred dollars, and she found herself one morning in June ina New York boarding-house, asking her heart twenty times an hour: ‘‘What shall Ido with it??? One morning she lifted a paper and eagerly ran her eye over the ‘‘Wants.’’ This paragraph sup- plied her with the idea on wuich rested a very prosperous future: “WANTED—A thoroughly artistic, pro- fessional cook. A liberal salary given and two assistants allowed. Apply, etc.’’ Now, if there was one thing for which Mattie had a natural aptitude, it was the making of delicacies and the beauti- ful arrangement of a table. “Why should I not learn how to do this thing?” she said. ‘‘This very day I will see about it.’’ She had to take many a fruitless walk and to beara good deal of impertinent TWENTY THOUSAND RETAIL GROCERS have used them from one to six years and they agree that as an all-around Grocer’s Counter Seale the ‘‘PERFEC- TION’’ has no equal. For sale by HAWKINS & CO., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. And by WholesaleGrocers generally. 2 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. curiosity before she found what she wanted impart the secrets of his art for an equiv- alent in cash. Even then take her until the winter season made grand dinners in demand, and Mattie was forced to content herself with an he could not a professional cook willing to) engagement to the great artist in the | following October. Did she live on her small means in the interval? She woman in a retail store, and immediately began to sell trimmings and laces. Not unfrequently she had to wait on ladies at whose houses she had visited and with whom she had freqently spent the morn- | ing shopping not eighteen months be- fore. Some ignored the fact and treated her as a simple shop-girl, and some spoke to her in that tone of kind- still Others whis- pered to constrained harder to bear. their companions, as. they passed, her name and reverses; but, after all, she was amazed to find little these things hurt her. She was honestly glad one morning to ness how receive a note from Professor Deluce, requesting her services. In a plain, neat dress, wit: her large apron and she entered at daylight one of the principle hotels and took her way resolutely to the professor’s rooms, He set her to work with a very few words, and day after day, week after week, she assisted him in the production of the most won- linen sleeves in her satchel, derful dinners and suppers. When the fessor winter was over the pro- was willing to endorse his pupil in all things, and he offered to secure her a position for the summer months. Mat- tie very gratefully accepted his offer, and in afew days he was engagement for able to make an her at a fashionable summer hotel. She was to have one thousand dollars for the season and two assistants. For five years Mattie spent her mers at this hotel, sum- and her winters with some rich private family, making about fifteen hundred dollars a year, and saving nearly every dollar in view the opening of a had private For she large of it. hotel, the necessary funds, she must herself be willing to risk a respectable sum. was patient and industrious, and the day on which she was thirty her the mistress of a furnished mansion, every been taken before it was opened. For by this time Mattie’s skill was known to wealthy epi- cures, and it was So she years of age saw magnificently room of which had well and she knew that in order to get! took a situation as sales- | considered something | of a privilege to sit at a table she pro-| vided for, or live in a house she ordered. But though obliged now to dress as be- comes the lady of such a house, her patient attention to the detail of her duty, and boarders knew that the elegantly dressed woman who presided at the table been hours before in cap busy for their benefit and enjoyment ; knowledge relaxed smallest and the respect and admiration everyone delight- ed to give her. In three years Mattie had paid off the last cent of the money she had borrowed in order to start her enterprise, and thenceforward she began to make money and save money for Mattie Darley alone. She was still handsome and had many admirers, but she never | | tenement her | | marriage. many things about Mark’s desertion of her had left a sting in her heart which no future love could extract. She did not know whether he remembered her o not ; she had heard, while in Europe, that he was going to marry an old com- panion of hers, but that was twelve years ago, and twelve years rolled in be- two lives effectually separate them. When she was thirty-six years of age and a rich woman, she had an offer of She refused it, but the cir- cumstances set her thinking abcut Mark in a very persistent manner. She deter- mined to make some cautious enquiries about him; she was too old now for him to attribute any silly motive to her. The resolution ran in her mind for two or three days, and she determined one afternoon to go and find outan old friend likely to be familiar with Mark’s doings. But while she was dressing, an En- glish nobleman came torent a suite of rooms and was so full of crochets and orders, that she thought it best to remain in the house. He was very peculiar and insisted upon having all his meals in his own room ; but as he paid extravagantly for the privilege and kept his own ser- vant to attend upon him, Mattie thought it worth her while to humor so good a guest. She soon found, however, this strange ser- vanta very uneasy elementin her kitchen affairs. In a week her own maids were at open war with him; and she heard so much about his delightful singing and elegant manners that her curiosity was somewhat excited. One morning, as she was coming down-stairs, dressed to go out, she saw the wine-colored livery of my lord’s servant coming toward her with a tray, containing delicacies for his master’s breakfast. As they passed each other, Mattie looked steadily into the man’s face and saw Mark Taylor. He recognized her at thesame moment, but with the instinct of a little mind pre- tended not to know her. After his s‘are and silence there was nothing left for Mattie to say. She had been going to see him, and, lo, even as a servant he would not know her! The next day the servant’s parlor was desolate. Mark had | left my lord’s service. It might be four years after this event that Mattie bitter, snowy day re- ceived a letter which greatly agitated her. She was a very wealthy woman now, and though she still kept her hotel she also kept her private carriage. Af- ter half an hour’s troubled and uncer- tain thought, she ordered it, and greatly to the amazement of her servant, request- “4 tween generally one 'ed to be driven to a yery disreputable part of the city. It was hard for the vehicle to make its way to the wretched she indicated, and Mattie’s heart sunk at the filthy, slushy court and | dark, noisome stairs before her. had | a linen blouse and among her bright saucepans | detracted nothing from the} | request. she was of that order of} I might say that love made her re- gardless of these things, but that would not be true. There was no love in Mat- tie’s heart now for Mark Taylor, but his note had said he was dying, and she had not found herself able to refuse his last Indeed, she half doubted him now, for during the past two years he had begged money from her, under every possible pretext; and there was now more fear and contempt in her pity for her old lover than any lingering trace of affec- tion. But this time he had told the truth. women who love once and no more, and| Mattie barely got there in time to hear | MICHIGAN Fire & Marine Insurance Co Organized 1881, Fair Contracts, Kauitable Rates Prompt Settlements. 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Write the un- dersigned for prices and circulars, relative to Roofing and for samples of Building Papers, etc. H. M. REYNOLDS & SON, Practical Roofers, Gor. Louis and Campan Sts., Grand Rapids, Mich. GOLD MEDAL, PARIS, 1878. 2 . Baker & 60's a Cocoa Ts Absolutely Pure and itis Soluble. \ Unlike the i, Dutch Process No alkalies oi other chemical: or dyes are usec in its manufac: ture. A description of the chocolate lant, and of the various cocoa anc hocolate preparations manufac- ured by Walter Baker & Co., wil ,e sent free to any dealer or pplication. Y. BAKER & 00, Do Dorchester, Mass. The GENUINE THOMPSON'S iid Cherry Phosphate A Delicious Beverage Condensed, Pos sessing Wonderful Medicinal. Properties. Tonic--Nervine-- Diuretic Anticeptic--Refrigerant Cheaper and Easier made than Lemonade and much more palatable. DIRECTIONS, One teaspoonful in a tumbler of water. Sweet en to taste same as lemonade. Ask Your Jobber for It, F. A. GREEN, Gen’l Agt. 34 Canal St., Grand Rapids, Mich. Send for circulars or call and sample it. Pace his last words—a pathetic entreaty for, a half-starved little lad sobbing his poor childish heart out for his dying father. | The child loved Mark—that almost re- deemed Mark in Mattie’s eyes. She promised faithfully to bring up the boy as her own, and she kissed and forgave at the last the poor, weak, heartless man. After the miserably selfish failure of his life, it was something to die with his child in his arms and the woman who had once loved him so dearly dropping tears upon his face and praying humbly for his peace. So Mattie buried Mark, and took to her home Mark’s little Roland. At first it was not altogether a pleasure. The love for other people’s children is not an instinct. But Roland had a handsome person and bright, bold manners. He won his way surely and rapidly, and Mat- tie, in his case, made true the sarcasm of a proverb, for this ‘‘old maid’s bairn was well taught and well bred.’’ About five years after Mark’s death, Mattie sold her business and bought the lovliest of lovely farms. She came to the country with the intention of taking life easy and enjoying the fruits of her twenty years of hard though pleasant labor. But Mattie can’t help making money, and her berries and vines, her milk and butter and grains are the won- der of the country. When anyone in our little community is sick or blue or tired, we go to see Mattie: when the church or the Sunday-school wants a de- lightful meeting or a pleasant picnic, it has it at Mattie’s place. If a young girl has any trouble about her wedding clothes, she goes to Mattie; if the elders ean’t raise our good minister’s salary, Mattte puts matters all straight. Everybody loves Mattie Darley. Even her aunts come to see her now; for sooner or later we pardon our friends the injuries we have done them. Now suppose Mattie had hung on to her aunts in wretched dependence. Sup- pose that she had dragged out a half-ex- istence trying to teach what she did not herself understand. Suppose that, ‘at the best, she had married for a living some man whom she did not love. How much nobler to accept the humble work she was fit for, and dignify it by a con- scientious, intelligent and artistic prac- tice! ‘‘You were a brave little woman, Mat- tie,’’ I once said to her, ‘‘to dare the scorn of friends and the descent from social position that the profession of cooking entailed.”’ “‘Independence,’’she replied, ‘‘can brave a great deal. None of my employers ever said a disrespectful word to me. No one pitied or patronized or pretended not tosee me. It is as great a pleasure as life affords to have work to do which you like to do and get well paid for do- ing it.’’ “But with your stylish bringing up and your gentle birth!” ‘“‘My friend, take your stylish bring- ing up and your gentle birth to the mar- ket and see what they will buy you. I love Roland dearly, and he will have plenty of money; but if he wanted to make a shoe or learn how to sew a dress- coat, I hope he’d be man enough to do it.” AMELIA E. BARR. ——_—>>-o-<—-___—— A Broom Speculation. A six-foot Yankee, seated upon a load of brooms, drove his team up before the door of an establishment where he ex- pected to find a purchaser. Jumping THE MICHIGAN from his seat he entered the store, | the following colloquy took place: cant | brooms to-day, mister? Dealer—No; I don’t want any. Yankee — I'll tell you what ’li do. If dozen. that. The dealer stroked his chin for a mo- ment, as if in deep thought, and then re- plied: Well, I don’t want any brooms, as I told you, but I don’t mind making a trade with you. Yankee—What sort of a trade? Dealer—Well, I’1l take the whole load at$1 a dozen, and pay you one-half cash, you to take the other half in trade. Yankee—No, you don’t, mister! You'll charge me with such all-fired profit on the other half that I might come out at the little end of the horn. Dealer—Oh, no, I promise you that you shall have the goods just at what they cost me. Yankee—Wall, mister, eall square dealin’. It’s a bargain. And he commenced to unload the brooms in a pile on the sidewalk. When he got through he walked into the store. There you are, mister; 14 dozen, which I caleurlate makes just $7 comin’ to me. Dealer—Yes, that’s right; there’s the money. Now what goods do you want for the other $7? Yankee—Wall, I dunno. You see mister, I hain’t much posted in your other truck, so | guess Vl] take brooms! oo 2 Annual Picnic of the Grand Rapids Grocers. Ata meeting of the retail grocers of Grand Rapids, held at the Morton House on August 3, to make arrangements for the usual annual picnic, A. J. Elliott was selected to act as Chairman, E. A Stowe to serve as Secretary and B.S. Harris as Treasurer. On motion of Harry DeGraaf, August 18 was selected as the date of the picnic. The designation of the place of the pic- nic was left to a committee of three com- posed of G. H. DeGraaf, Edward Win- chester and B. S. Harris. The following committees were select- ed: Executive—E. J. Herrick, A Henry J. Vinkemulder. Sports—Fred H. Ball, J. Geo. Lehman, James B. MeInnes. Badges—Ad. Morrison, Sumner Wells, Cc. C. Bunting. Judges—W. L. Freeman, Amos S. Mus- selman, F. J. Parker. ar G. H. DeGraaf, Edward Winchester, E. J. Carrel. E. A. Stowe introduced the following resolutions, which were adopted: Resolved, That the picnie held this year be a basket picnic and that no ban- quet be given. ResolWwed, That all entries for prizes be confined to wholesale and retail gro- cers and meat dealers and their employes; that all entries from employes be en- dorsed by employers of same; and that all entries, which must be made to the Chairman of the Committee on Sports, close at 6 o’clock p. m., August 15. There being no further business, the meeting adjourned, subject to the call of the Executive Committee. >>> Dr. Evans Wanted. RAVENNA, Aug. 3—As_ several very perplexing questions have arisen in con- nection with the work of our Club, we take this means of informing Dr. J. B. Evans that his presence is urgently need- ed here, as we recognize him as an expert of no mean ability. AARON ROGERS, President Ravenna Pedro Club. _—_——_o———__——— Use Tradesmanor Superior Coupons. You know they’re wuth double that’s what I . J. Elliott, Yankee — Can’t I sell you a load of | Yankee—Better take ’em—sell ’em dog- | cheap. | Dealer—Don’t want ’em; got enough brooms. you take the lot, l’ll let ’em go for $1 a} MENT, eRe) yas eR RIVERDALE eT oe Oo ticle. See that this Label appears on every (package, as it is a guarantee of the genuine ar- MENT, ECR) VE np UG RIVERDALE BIST wer gg FERMENTUM THE ONLY RELIABLE OMPRESSED YEAST Sold in this market for the past Fifteen Years, Far Superior to any other. Correspondence or Sample Order Solicited. Endorsed Wherever Used. L. WINTERNITZ, Telephone 566. MEN ee Rrese I Uap THER) VERDALE BIST sr ag 0 guarantee of article. See that this Label appears on every package, as it is a State Agent, Grand Rapids, Mich. 106 Kent St. FERN UM ert UG: RIVERDALE B pistl ~ 0 the gennine You can take your choice OF TWO OF THE Best Flat Opening Blank Books In the Market. Cost no more than the Old Style Books, Write for prices. GRAND RAPIDS BOOK BINDING CO., 29-31 Canal St., Grand Rapids, Mich. BEANS If you have any beans and want tosell, we want them, will give you full mar ket price. Send them to us in any quantity up tocar loads, we want 1000 bushels daily. Ww. T. LAMOREAUX CO 128, 130 and 132 W. Bridge St., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. RINDGE, KALMBACH & CO, 12, 14, 16 PEARL ST. Grand Rapids, Mich. E would call the atten- tion of the trade to our lines of walking shoes. We can show you all the novelties at popular prices. We also carry good lines of Tennis Goods at low prices. We want to sell you your rubbers for fall. Terms and discounts as good as offered by any agents for the Boston Rubber Shoe Co. THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. AMONG THE TRADE. AROUND THE STATE. Calumet—James Lane succeeds Ethier & Lane in the grocery business. Moorland—A. M. Porter is succeeded by Porter & Bier in the grocery business. Saginaw—John P. Friedlein, of the grocery firm of Friedlein & Graebner, is dead. Flint—Chas. E. Crusoe & Co. are clos- ing out their dry goods stock at this place. Saginaw—Miss A. E. Carman succeeds Carman & Banker in the fancy goods business. Stephenson—David Goldberg succeeds Goldberg & Robinson in the dry goods business. Hillsdale—L. A. Smith & Bro. are suc-! ceeded by G. A. Smith in the furniture business. Grayling—M. Simpson, grocer and meat dealer, has been closed under chattel mortgage. Seney—J. A. Sayers has removed to Detroit, having sold his general stock at | this place. Marquette—The style of the Jopling Hardware Co. has been changed to A. O. Jopling & Co. Manistee—John D. Maxted succeeds the firm of Maxted & Kobe in the planing mill business. Ishpeming—The Jochim Hardware Co., Limited, sueceeds J. W. Jochim in the hardware business. Lansing—Julian Ferrey, of the firm of Ferrey & Butts. furniture dealers and undertakers, is dead. Sherwood—kKissell & Harrison, dealers, have dissolved. Each continues in the business under his own name. Nadeau—William M. Lemke has pur- chased the general stock and cedar busi- ness of the firm of Lemke & Raiche. Manton—J. W. Bailey has retired from the general firm of C. B. Bailey & Co., C. B. Bailey continuing at the old stand. Traverse City—Bert McCoy has been admitted to partnership in the fruit and produce business of his father. The firm name will hereafter be A. A. Mc- Coy & Son. Mendon—W. W. Bishop, formerly en- gaged in trade at Piainwell, has leased two of the stores recently vacated by F. L. Burdick & Co.—who have removed to Sturgis—and will put in lines of dry goods and boots and shoes. Shelby—Joseph Ducett has purchased the one-quarter interest of Elmer Tyler in the Beckman & Tyler meat market, and acquires another quarter of Mr. Beckman, making the new firm of Beck- man & Ducett equal partners in the bus- iness. Belding—A. C. McGraw & Co., of De- troit, closed up the boot and shoe busi- ness of L. Greenwald last Thursday, on a chattel mortgage calling for $962. The mortgage was executed about two weeks immediately placed on meat ago and record. was Charlotte—Reynolds Bros. have again | branched out into new fields by purchas- ing the largest dry goods store in Albion and taking possession thereof. It is like- ly one of the members of the firm will take charge of it, but which is not yet} determined. Kalamazoo—Wm. L. Brownell, former- | ly engaged in the retail grocery business | here, but for the past year Secretary of the Featherbone Corset Co., retires from that position Sept. 1 to take an interest in the firm of Pierce & Coleman, meat packers. The new firm will also put in |a wholesale grocery stock. The style of | the new firm has not yet been announced. | Saginaw—Will C. Carman, of the firm | of Will C. Carman & Co., dry goods deal- ers at 108 South Washington avenue, has left for parts unknown. Miss Lizzie J. | Carpenter is the ‘‘company” of the firm. | She is, doubtless, the heaviest loser by Carman’s transactions, but states that she proposes to pay off every dollar of | indebtedness of the firm. An expert ac- |countant is now engaged on the books, | but it will take several days before the lextent of Carman’s irregularities is |known. The young man’s individual | debts are quite numerous and include a big board bill and considerable borrowed money. Flint is said to be the residence of a number of Carman’s relatives. | | | MANUFACTURING MATTERS. | Lowell—The Michigan Cutter Co. is |closing out its manufacturing business | at this place. Edenville—Maxwell & Gordon are suc- eeeded by John Howard in the shingle mill business. Saginaw—H. A. Batchelor & Son suc- ceed J. F. Batchelor & Son in the manu- facture of salt and lumber. Saginaw—The business h aretofore car- ried on under the name of J. F. Batchelor & Son will hereafter be done under the firm name of H. A. Batchelor & Son. tomulus—The Romulus Knitting Mills have been incorporated. The capital stock is $5,000. John Brennan, A. L. Courtney and Rufus N. Crosman are the shareholders. Saginaw—C. K. Eddy & Son are put- ting an electric light plant into their ; mill, and next week intend putting on a | double crew and will run night and day the rest of the season, having a sufficient stock of logs. Detroit—Charles V. Morris and Emil G. Puhl, of Detroit, and James G. Mor- gan, of Windsor, have filed articles of co- partnership as Morgan, Puhl & Morris. They will manufacture society and mili- tary goods here, with a capital stock of $5,000. lonia—The lonia Pants and Overall Co. has decided to remove its plant to Lan- sing, having been offered special induce- ments by the Lansing Improvement Co., with which Manager Voorhees has enter- ed into contract for the erection of a building toe be ready for occupancy November 1. Saginaw—The Saginaw Lumber & Salt Co. is operating its plant three-quarters time, and shipping nearly the entire pro- duct by rail. Mr. Loveland, the head of the concern, says it is a booming year in lumber, and no trouble is experienced in getting rid of everything that comes from the saw and at good prices. The mill is cutting Canada stock. Bay City—The planing mills and box factories here are having a busy and prosperous season. Russell Bros. are | running extra time, and orders are booked ahead to keep the establishment hum- ming the ensuing four months. Handy Bros., the Cramp Manufacturing Co. and all other concerns are running with full crews, a most satisfactory condition of affairs for this season of the year. Detroit — The Detroit and Lake Su- perior Sandstone Co., Limited, has been | organized with a capital stock of $500,- 000. The incorporators are C. W. Moore, Henry Wineman, Edward H. Hayes and Wm. R. Johnston, of Detroit, and Rich- ard Blake, of Marquette. The company’s property consists of five acres of sand- stone, located on the shores of Lake Su- yerior thirty miles above Marquette. The Grocery Market. Sugar—The market is firm and the brokers continue to predict higher prices, but the refiners are as taciturn as clams. Canned Goods—Nearly all lines con- tinue to grow firmer as the probability of short packs becomes more manifest. Gallon apples are actually 25c higher than a week ago. Potted Tongue—1¢ lb. packages have advanced 15c. Prunes—Higher and firmer, Turkey in casks now bringing 614¢ from first hands in New York. Currants—Higher and firmer, probably in sympathy with other dried fruits. Ordinary barrel goods have been so poor for some time past as to be nearly un- salable. Large handlers are recleaning them now and putting them up in small- er packages. Pickles—Glass have followed the bar- rel market and are 10 @15 per cent. higher. Cheese—Another advance is looked for any day. The market is firm and there is no accumulation of stock. Peanuts—Steady and in good demand at unchanged prices. The market would have been 1 c higher but for the action of two large handlers, who have held the price down by remaining outside the combination. Foreign Nuts—Firm at the recent ad- vance. Confectionery—Fair demand and prices unchanged. Oranges—Scarce and high. Lemons—The crop of Messinas is land- ing in small quantities and being taken at the prevailing high prices. The out- look indicates a continuance of the present high prices if the weather con- tinues seasonable. a The I. M. Clark Grocery Co. received a full carload of ‘‘Nellie Bly’’ fine-cut tobacco last Friday, which it claims is the first full carload of one brand of to- bacco ever brought to this market by a wholesale grocery house. FOR SALE, WANTED, ETC. Advertisements will be inserted under this head for two certs a word the first insertion and one cent a word for each subsequent insertion. No advertisements taken for less than 25 cents. Advance payment. BUSINESS CHANCES. OR SALE OR EXCHANGE—I WILL SELL or exchange my house and lot, located in the best city, of seven thousand, in the Upper Peninsula, for good property of equal value in a good live town of two to five thousand in South- ern Michigan. The house is a substantial eleven room house, good cellar 18x40, water works, — barn 18x26. good sheds, poultry yard, etc. Jouse and lot cost $2,500, value at $2,200, mort- gage %600 will exchange for a house and lot of equal value or less, or for a good grocery busi- ness; also, we have a good meat market and grocery we will exchange Located on the best corner in the city; can reduce stock down to $1,000 if necessary. Either or both the above we will exchange or sell for cash. Address No. 458. care Michigan Tradesman. 548 OR SALE OK EXCHANGE FOR A sTOCK of merchandise—A good hotel and furniture located at the thriving village of Homer, Cal- houn county, Mich. Price,86500 The Banner grist mill, located at Cadillac, Wexford county, Mich This is a desirable propesty for someone wanting to runa grist mill and feed and hay business Price, $4,000. I also have several pieces of farm and timbered lands and some cit and village lots that I will sell cheap, or will trade for a good mercantile stock, as Lam over- stocked on real estate. Albert E Smith, Box 1123, Cadillac, Mich. 547 OR SALE—SMALL MACHINE & FOUND- ry business, with or without tools. H. L. Chapman, White Pigeon, Mich. 558 OR SALE—STOCK OF DRUGS AND FIX: tures, $1,200 or less,in good location. Es- tablished trade. Willfsell for part cash and balance on time to good party. Good opening for a physician. eo for selling. Fred Brundage, Muskegon, Mich. 561 OR SALE—CLEAN GROCERY STOCK IN- voicing #1,5¢0. Address H. E. Lintz, Con- stantine, Mich. 567 OR SALE—A FIRST-CLASS HAT AND gent’s furnishing goods business at Benton Harbor, Mich., stock all new, controls the finest trade in the city; present proprietor going into other business; long lease of premises now oc- cupied guaranteed. Apply for full particulars of Dent & Dunn, real estate brokers, Benton Harbor, Mich. 566 OR SALE OR EXCHANE—CLEAN STOCK of dry goods and gents’ furnishing goods. Good point for trade. Reason for selling, other business requires our attention. Address No. 568, care Michigan Tradesman. 568 RUG BUSINESS FOR SALE, IN ONE OF the best cities in Michigan, of over 20,000 inhabitants; leading store and commands the very best patronage: death in the family only reason for selling; this is an opportunity seldom offered in drug business. For particulars write us. Rothwell & Co., 92 Griswold st., Detroit. 565 NROCERY, BAZAAR OR GENERAL MER- chandise stock wanted in exchange for good Detroit real estate, farm and town property or will pay 50 to 60 cents cash on dollar. Cor- respond with us. Rothwell & Co., 92 Griswold street, Detroit. 564 OR SALE CHEAP—STOCK OF GROCERIES and fixtures. Nearly new. Address Box 14, Rockford, Mich. 557 OR SALE OR EXCHANGE—GOOD HOTEL in the hustling city of Belding. Also de- sirable vacant building lots on easy terms. For particulars, address Lock Box 13, —— OR SALE—“‘GOLD MINE,” IN SHAPE OF a first-class drug stock, on easy terms. For ——_ address J L K, Box 160, Grand Rap- ds, Mich. , 560 XCELLENT OPPORTUNITY FOR A BUS- iness man with $5,000 to $10,000 ready money to embark in the wholesale business in Grand Rapids and take the management of same. House well established. Investigation solicited from persons who mean business. No others need apply. No. 556, care Michigan Tradesman. 556 OR SALE—CLEAN NEW STOCK OF DRY goods, notions, clothing, furnishing goods, shoes, groceries, cigars, tobaccos and confec- tionery, located in one of the best business towns in Michigan. Doing over snag ge month spot cash business. Not a dollar of credit. Stock will invoice about $6,000. Address No. 549, care Michigan Tradesman. 549 OR SALE—THE STOCK AND GOOD WILL of the best located hardware and implement business in the state, railroad junction; only exclusive hardware, stoc k $6,000, can be reduced to $5,000; double brick store and a big bonanza for someone. Principals meaning business ad dress Manwaring & Bartlett, Imlay City, —" OR SALE—CORNER DRUG STORE IN THE city. Doing first-class business. Living rooms above. Good chance foradoctor or a Holland druggist. Proprietor about to leave the state. Will sell cheap. Address No. 554, care Michigan Tradesman. 554 OR SALE—CIGAR AND TOBACCO STORE, invoicing about $1,000,in the best town in Michigan and the best location inthe city. A fine opening for confectionery in connection. Can give good reason for selling. Will want two-thirds cash. Address Derby Cigar Factory Belding, Mich. 550 OR SALE—NEW AND FINE CLOTHING and furnishing goods stock. Good cash trade. Rent moderate. In the fast growing city of Holland, Mich. A good investment for a man of some capital. Address Box 2167, Holland, Mich. 551 OR SALE—SMALL STOCK OF DRUGS which will invoice $700. $500 cash, balance on time. °92 sales, $1600. Will rent or sell resi- dence to purchaser. Rare chance for physieian or young man.- Address Doctor, care Michigan Tradesman. 544 OR SALE—CLEAN STOCK OF STAPLE dry goods, clothing, furnishing goods, mil- linery goods and boots and shoes in one of the best villages in Michigan. Stock will inventory $3,000 to $3,500, Liberal discount for cash. For ticulars, address No. 530, care Michigan adesman. 530 7 SALE—GROCERY STOCK AND FIX- tures in corner store in desirable portion of city, having lucrative trade. Best of reasons for selling. Address No. 504, care Michigan Trades- man. 504 MISCELLANEOUS. pD° YOU USE COUPON BOOKS? IF SO, DO you buy of the largest manufacturers in the United States? If you do, you are customers of the Tradesman Company, Grand Rapids. ANTED — DESIRABLE LOCATION FOR hardware store. Address, giving full par- ticulars as to population of town and surround- ing country and rentof building, No. 552, care Michigan Tradesman. 552 OR SALE — GOOD DIVIDEND - PAYING stocks in banking, manufacturing and mer cantile companies. E. A. Stowe, 100 Louis St., Grand Rapids. 370 OR SALE — BEST RESIDENCE LOT IN Grand Rapids, 70x175 feet, beautifully shad- ed with native oaks, situated in gooi residence es only 200 feet from electric street car line. ill sell for $2.500 cash, or part a ments to suit. E. A. Stowe, 100 Louis St. O RENT— BRICK STORE AT MENDON. Good snap for live clothier. Only one deal- er in that line and good point for another store. Levi Cole, Mendon, Mich. 563 a GRAND RAPIDS GOSSIP. H. E. DeBois succeeds P. J. Vollpert in the grocery business at 693 Broadway. Triel Bros., grocers at 152 North Divi- sion street, have dissolved, E. L. Triel continuing the business. Foster Bros., sawmill operators at Fountain, have put in a grocery stock, furnished by the Ball-Barnhart-Putman Co. The Valley City Rattan Co. has pur- chased 100 feet frontage on North Front street, just north of Leonard street, on which it proposes to erect a factory build- ing in the near future. Chas. H. Rowland has sold his interest in the firm of Rowland & Gauthier, gro- cers and meat dealers at 561 and 563 Cherry street, to his partner, who subse- quently disposed of it to Frank Van Deven, who has clerked for H. M. Lies- veld for several years. The new firm will be known as Gauthier & Van Deven. F. J. Kobe, general dealer and sawmill operator at Freesoil and Nessen City, has gotten into financial difficulties, and there is ageneral scramble among the credi- tors to find something to lay their hands on, with but small success in most cases. The trouble seems to have been caused by too much branching out for the amount of capital Mr. Kobe had. He was doing a snug business at Freesoil, but bought the plant at Nessen City and put up a mill there, which could cut in three months alithe logs he could get for itand wasidle the rest of the year. The Lemon & Wheeler Company, which is acreditor to the extent of $900, has joined forces with other creditors who are interested to the amount of about $7,000 and attached about $30,000 worth of property in the shape of mills, farms, merchandise, ete. The assignee of the Fidelity Savings, Loan and Security Association reports to the court that the total liabilities are $10,455.26 to the stockholders and $643,09 to the assignee for salary and expenses in winding up the business. The total re- ceipts to date have been $8,324.25, from which a dividend of 70 per cent. has been paid. This leaves a balance of $362.48 in the assignee’s hands, besides unsettled claims amounting to about $500, on receipt of which the stockholders will receive a final dividend of 7 or 8 percent. This is the association which was plun- dered by A. E. Yerex, who subsequently paid back the amount embezzled but did not reimburse the organization for the losses which ensued as the result of the embezzlement. The assignee put in a claim for $843.09, but was impelled to cut it down $200 through the intercession of a committee of the stockholders. Frank W. Smith, who was engaged in the retail grocery business at Coldwater for several years, sold out his stock last March and removed to Grand Rapids, lo- cating at 321 South Division street, with a full stock furnished by the Lemon & Wheeler Company. Business was not very brisk with the new concern and payments were not always made as promptly as good business principles dictated, but no one supposed that the owner of the store would resort to trick- ery to evade the payment of his honest obligations. Last Tuesday morning one of the Lemon & Wheeler Company’s city salesmen noticed that Smith’s store was vacant and so notified the house. In- THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. vestigation disclosed the fact that the stock had been shipped to Coldwater that morning in the name of O. M. Smith. An entire car had been engaged and the stock had been piled-in promiscuously, with no pretense whatever to packing. Mr. Lemon was out of the city at the time, but Mr. Wheeler was prompt to act in the matter and soon had an at- tachment on the stock. Smith and his cousin, a lady who claimed to own the stock by right of a bill of sale, returned to the city from Coldwater the next day and endeavored to secure the release of the attachment from the attaching credi- tor on the ground that the goods belonged to O. M. Smith and not to F. W. Smith, who had purchased same. Mr. Lemon very firmly and emphatically declined to re- lease the attachment and intimated that the duo would find themselves behind prison bars if they persisted in making him any more trouble. So strongly did he impress this fact on their minds that they concluded to give him a bill of sale of the stock, which they did, and it was subsequently returned to the store of the Lemon & Wheeler Company, where an inventory was taken. Mr. Lemon has since been ascertaining the names of other creditors of the city, so that any residue left ever and above his account may be turned over to them, instead of to Smith, who evidently expected a con- siderable equity in the stock. This transaction should serve as a warning to shyster merchants who imagine they can evade the payment of their obligations by clandestinely shipping their goods to another location. + <—— Gripsack Brigade. Amos S. Musselman is covering a por- tion of Valda Johnson’s territory this week, so that the latter may attend the races. P. H. Carroll leaves the latter part of the week for Portland, Oregon, where his wife and son have been spending the snmmer, His family will return with him about the middle of September. B. F. Parmenter and family will spend the next two weeks on their fruit farm near Saugatuck—that is to say, the fam- ily is rusticating and Frank will join them as soon as the race fever has sub- sided. Wm. B. Collins and Frank W. Hadden have sent out announcements to their customers, inviting them to attend the races this week and—incidentally, of course—inspect their lines of holiday goods. “If the scalpers all over the country cannot make a small fortune this year,’’ said a traveling man to-day, ‘‘then they had better pull up stakes and get out of the business. Never, since I have been connected with railroads have such op- portunities been given them to rake in the dollars. The railroads have all a cutting fever on and none of them feel disposed to live up to any agreement, but have made up their minds to go it alone. The Christian Endeavor conven- tion in New York and the G. A. R. En- campment in Washington, D. C., give the Eastern scalpers a show, while the Knights Templar conclave at Denver, both national political conventions at Minneapolis and Chicago, the Knights of Pythias conclave at Kansas City, and the Columbian Fair dedicatory ceremonies in Chicago next October, have given the Western scalpers a chance to keep the wolf from the door.”’ 5 GATON, LYON G0, 20 and 22 Monroe St., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH, Holiday Display NOW READY. Vy extend a cordial invitation to all visitors coming to the races to make our store headquarters. It is conceded that our line this year surpasses any line heretofore shown in variety of styles, elegance and price. We have 430 styles of Photograph Albums in Plush, Leather, Engraved Metal, Celluloid and Wood. Autograph and Scrap Albums in great variety. Our line of Toilet Cases, Toilet Trays, Manicure Sets, Jewel Cases, Work Boxes, Odor Sets, Odor Bottles, Shaving Sets, Glove and Handkerchief Cases, Lap Tablets, Portfolios, Music Binders and Rolls, Mirrors, Frames and Framed Pic- tures. We have the above in all the latest novelties; we also have a very complete line of DOLLS. Washable, Dressed, Papa and Mama, Bisque, Kid, China and Rubber. Blocks, Games, Ete. OUR TRAVELING SALESMEN: Mr. J. L. KYMER, Mr. C E. WATSON, Mr, GEO. H. RAYNOR, Mr. W. B. DUDLEY, Mr. P. LUBACH. HOUSE SALKSMEN: Mr. G. J HAAN, Mr. W. F. KNOX will be in to welcome their friends. Yours Truly, KAYON, LYON & 60. THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. TOO MUCH SYSTEM. Customers Dread to Purchase Where There Is an Excess of Red Tape. System is a good thing, but system can be overdone. The very system that is necessary to protect a store in general business from irregularities, and which seems to be necessary to the conduct of business upon the scale upon whieh bus- iness is conducted in the store, becomes a bore, if not something worse, to cer- tain classes of customers who deal with the store. The comic papers have not been slow to grasp the idea. Pictures are presented of people camping in the spacious aisles of a modern bazaar, with refreshments, books or smal! hand work to beguile the time, simply waiting for their change. Quite recently one of them has illustrated a stage attachment —that is, a theater—to which patrons are invited, thus spending their time pleas- antly while waiting for their change. Another paper, not a comic paper but a trade paper, discussing this same point somewhat seriously, talks about the era of ‘‘flumerdiddle.’”? lf aman who is ac- customed to business upon business prin- ciples, and who, by previous experience, has not been used to the restrictions up- on business following upon the system which the great dry goods stores find necessary to employ happens to cross the threshold of one of these modern bazaars for a coat button, for example, he comes face to face with a very peculiar set of conditions. He makes his way to the counter where coat buttons are sold, and, in time, is met by a sylph-like young lady of some seventeen summers, who somewhat absent-mindedly asks what he will have. After various attempts at matching, she at last produces the right button. The price is five cents. The man, in an off-hand way, presents a nickel and would put the button in his pocket and go. But no, that is not ac- cording tothe system. The young lady must first make a duplicate record of the transaction upon certain complicated blanks. One of these records, together with the button, must then go to a clerk not far away, who does them up in a lit- tle parcel. The other record, with the nickel, makes a long journey through a pheumatic tube or acash railway to the distant cashier’s desk, and the parcel maker cannot, on the peril of her posi- tion, deliver the button to the purchaser until the cashier has duiy inspected the nickel and sent back, through the same interminable pneumatic tube, a stamped record saying that the nickel has been received. This interesting ‘‘flumerdiddle,’’ says the paper from which we have taken the particulars above, in a certain instance a) few days since occupied ten minutes by the watch, during all of which time the man, who had exactly the right change for his button, writhed on his stool. All this, of course, was for the supposed in- terest of the house and wholly at the loss of the customer, not less than twenty eents’ worth of whose time was sacri- ficed to this beautiful system. The il- lustration is not overdrawn. The ques- tion then arises, must the system neces- sarily be such a tax upon the customer? In other words, cannot systems be de- vised which shall be equally advanta- geous to the house and yet less objec- tionable to the patrons of the concern? _> > << The Umbrella Trust a Failure. From the Dry Goods Reporter. The umbrella trust has so far not been the great money-making scheme that the originators’ fancy paintedit. Less than 50 per cent. of the manufacturers have gone into it and the number is too small to enable the trust to control the market. In view of this fact some of those who went into it are not altogether satisfied with the scheme. The trust has begun to discharge travelers and other em- ployes. The firms having been combined one man can cover territory that former- ly was worked by two or three. The only thing the trust has been successful in doing so far is to geta concession from | the umberella frame manufacturers so that they will sell frames to members of the trust at aslight reduction. >_> >< Use The Tradesman Co.’s Cowpon Books. Schilling Corset Co. s CORSETS * THE MODEL (Trade Mark.) FORM. | Keach LS atinaeal lt 0. 850. NOLIN s FRENCH SHAPE Send for Ilinstrated Catalogue. in this journal. SCHILLING CORSET CO., Detroit. Mich. and Chicago, Il. See price list Best Six Cord — FOR — Machine or Hand Use, FOR SALE BY ALL Dealers in Dry Goods & Notions BUY THE PENINSULAR Pants, Shirts, and Overalls Once and You are our Customer for life. STANTON, MOREY & CO.,, Mfrs. DETROIT, MICH. Gro. F. Owen, Salesman for Western Michigan, Residence, 59 N. Union St., Grand Rapids. Dry Goods Price Current. 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Portsmouth robes... 534 eo ns - 5K ae oa nT black. 5% Washington indigo. 5 Tur 2 DRILL. ek A ........ . mo Meme........ . % Top 7... 9 “Timpertal ke eeee ous 1% ~ 9@ 9% ce @10 as 12 DEMINB. Amoskeag Meacew ed 12%/{Columbian brown. .12 on... 138% Everett, pene... ..... 12 . brown .13 brown. ....12 Sueerer,....... 5...) 11% Haymaker blue. 7% Beaver Creek AA...10 brown 7% . pe... oo 11% . c.. Lancaster... 2% Boston, Mfg Co. br.. 7 Lawrence, 90 3% blue 8 No. 220 3 * £6 a 10% . No. 250....11% Columbian 2 br.10 - No. 280....10% XX bl.19 GINGHAMS, Aveo ...... .... 7 Lancaster, staple... 7 * Persian dress 8% fancies . 7 - Canton .. 8% ' Normandie 8 . a... .. 10%)|Lancashire.......... 6 ' Teazle...1044|Manchester......... 5% . Angola. .104|Monogram.......... 6% . Persian.. 8%|Normandie......... i Arlington staple.... 644|/Persian............. 8% Arasapha fancy.... 4%|Renfrew Dress...... ™% Bates Warwick dres 8%|Rosemont........... 6% . staples. on Slatersville ......... 6 Centennial......... 10% oe Le is ae oe 7 ee ....... .. OOOO ™% Cumberland staple. oy Toil 9 oe. ...... 10% Cumberland........ oe... — ete oe a ss seersucker.. 7% eS en oS eeeee.... «-.... Everett classics..... 8%|Whittenden......... 6% Bxposition.......... 74 nai heather dr. 8 ooo... .. 6 ig indigo blue 9 Glenarven.......... 6%|Wamsutta staples... “ies Gapmweed........... 7%|Westbrook.......... ae... A 19 Johnson Vhalon cl %/Windermeer.... .... 5 . indigo blue 9%|York..... - zephyrs....16 GRAIN BAGS, Aroeeee. ws. 2... 16% = | ew _ ee ae . ee = roe 1118 THREADS. Clark’s Mile End....45 |Barbour's........... 88 Cor, 2. &@F....... eS... ...... 88 eens. 22% KNITTING COTTON. White. Colored. White. Colored. «66h. 2 = nek Me 42 - ££... 34 a a 38 43 ee 40 a. 44 _ 2. 36 41 - me 45 CAMBRICS. oe. ..... ...... 4%(Edwards........... 4% cows S41 OCKwood.... .. —- ae 4% Newmarket......... ae DrUnewick ........ 4% RED FLANNEL. Pere renee R% Creedmore.......... ge SE Rh ‘Talos 2 aX......... _m wer eee......... aeres...... . 27% Buckeye eet oe eae =y MIXED FLANNEL. Red & Blue, plaid..40 |GreySRW......... 17% Dae B....45 5.5.2. 22%| Western W ......... % eee... — a es 18% 6 oz Western........ Fiushing XZZ...... 23% Unies &............ com emeee.... ....... 23% DOMET FLANNEL. Nameless a. : “eee oo. 9 ons — AND PADDING. —. Brown. Black./Slate. — a. 1 9% 934/13 wt 10% 104/15 15 15 11% 11% 114%}17 raf 17 12% 12% — ol 20 20 DU Severen, 8 oz........ 9% TWest Point, 80z....10% Mayland, 8o0z....... 10% 10 oz ...12% Greenwood, 7% oz.. 9% Raven, 100z accor. 13% Greenwood, 8 oz. °.11%/8 sane 13% Boston, § ox......... 10%!) ll e........ 12% WADDINGS, ae, oe... ...-.. 25 a bale, 40 dos....87 50 Colored, dos........ 20 SILESIAS. Slater, Iron Cross... 8 ;Pawtucket..........10% Red Cross.. 2 a 9 e Wc coi eearora.... .... .... 10% . Best AA.. _ wr Reece e 10% Ms eee eee ey UI bce e eden e ween 10% cc cence eee SEWING SILK Corticelli, doz....... 7% {Corticelli knitting, twi st, doz..37%| per %oz ball...... 30 50 04, doz. .37% KS AND EYES—PER GRO No 1 BI’r ¢ ‘ ‘White.. 4 No sBrr&, White. 2 “ 3 “ .12 | 10 “ 25 PINS. No 2—20, M C....... 50 _ 4—15 F 3%...... 40 “ 3—16,8 C......-- 45 COTTON TAPE. No 2 White & Bl’k..12 {No 8 White & BI’k..20 “ 4 “a a “ 10 “ ul 23 * © _ ook = - | SAFETY PINS. i 28 - Biciiccess acaueu 3 DLES—PER M i, co ccs a 40|Steamboat.... ... — = Crowel vs ieee co : = oe Byved.......... 1 50 Mareheirs........... ae a CLOTH. 5—4....2 % 6—4...3 26/5—4....195 6—4...2 9 ana 66h lh a 10) TTON TWINES. Cotton Sail Twine. a Geen... .... ..., " a 12 ii Star 4ply.. ae . ae eee... 5 cy — ieee oee...-.... .- "3 ee 13 Wool reietac’ 4 ply17% Cherry Valley...... 16 (Pownattan ........- oe. 18% PLAID OSNABURG Ane... ....5. 6%|Mount "Pleasant... . 6% Aeon... ...-.,.. OR os no sa nese 5 Be.) «20.2... ™% RE bec ce scence 5% EE —— 6 |Randelman......... 6 Georgla Levee eae 44|Riverside..........- 5 ES GM iSibley A........-.0. 6% ew Miver........- 5 |Toledo.... oe DE oven cceu en ae srRapeCONRmURRRNN IN rsaneyenaetetny “> apne Rr anna onattet ‘from the signature of THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. 7 BUSINESS LAW. Summarized Decisions from Courts of Last Resort. INSURANCE POLICY—WAIVER. Where an insurance policy provided, among other things, that no other part of its conditions should be waived, ex- cept in writing, signed by the secretary, the New York Court of Appeals held (O’Brien vs. Prescott Insurance Com- pany) that the fact that the premises had become vacant, said that it was all right as long as he notified the agent, was not a waiver of a provision in the policy that it should be void if the premises became vacant. REAL ESTATE COMMISSIONERS. The Supreme Court of Minnesota has held that where a land owner agrees with his agent, employed to take charge of and sell his lands upon commission, that he will allow the latter certain commis- sions on sales made by himself, he is only liable in case actual sales are made; that a transfer of the lands by the owner to secure his debts will not entitle the agent to commissions, and that under a denial of an alleged sale he may show that a conveyance absolute in form was made for security only, and is in fact a mortgage. SAVINGS BANK—NEGLIGENCE. In the case of Wall vs. Emigrant In- dustrial Savings Bank, the New York Supreme Court, General Term, held that a by-law of a savings bank, declaring that the bank will endeavor to prevent fraud on its depositors, but that pay- ments to persons producing pass-books shall discharge the bank, will not relieve the bank from liability to the depositor if itis negligent in failing to ascertain the identity of a person producing the pass-book, but that though the signature of a person producing a pass-book to a savings bank for payment of a deposit made twelve years before is different the depositor, written in the signature-book at the time he made the deposit, still, if on enquiry the person says that he is the depositor, and correctly answers three of the eight test questions written in the signature- book, giving the county in a foreign country where the depositor was born, the name of the vessel on which he came to this country, and his mother’s maiden name, even though the teller did not ask him the other five questions, it is not error for the court to hold, as a matter of law, that the bank used reasonable care in paying the deposit. <_< “ The Dark Side of ‘‘Bargains.” ‘John, dear!” “John, dear” glanced up from his pa- per. ‘*‘Mary’s wages are due to-day, and I have no money for paying her.” “No money, Jennie? Why, I gave you —let me see—it was $25 only last week. You haven’t spent it all?” ‘“Yes—I—have. You know this was ‘special sale’ week at three or four stores, and there were so many bargains offered. I knew I would save so much by buying things when I could get them cheap.”’ ‘*What did you get?’’ ‘‘Why, I got a dinner-set for one thing. Only think! I got a dinner-set of eighty pieces for $12, and the regular price is $18. “I thought we had a dinner-set.”’ “Yes, we have. But it won’t last al- ways, and you see I have saved $6 by getting this one now.”’ ‘“‘Didn’t you say the other day that you hadn’t room for what dishes you had?’ ‘‘Yes, but I had this new set taken up- stairs, unpacked, to stay until I useit.” “You don’t mean to say you’ve put money into aset of dishes toset upstairs two or three years, may be, unused?” ‘*‘Why, perhaps it will not be so long asthat. Even if it is, it will pay at the price I got it.” ‘What else did you get?” “Why, John, how dreadfully curious you are! I got some dress-goods for my- self and the children, and, well—some other things.” ‘“‘Didn’t you have a dressmaker here last week making dresses for you and the children?’’ ‘Yes, but this new goods I'll use later. And only think how much I saved by buying now, twenty-five cents on every yard.” ‘Saved! Humph! Wasted you’d better say. You spend a third more money every year on ‘bargains’ than it would take to support us well at regular prices. These ‘special sales’ and ‘bargain counters’ are baited traps for women. Dealers understand them. They get ‘bargain’ crazy, and buy cart-loads of things they don’t need, much of it they never use atall, just because they get them cheap. They have so many ‘bar- gains’ on hand always, the consequence is, they are not so careful of the old things and donot get so much use out of them as they otherwise would. Our attic is full of ‘bargains.’ Only yester- day I was up there and they stared at me from every side. There was that new- fangled clothes-rack, we had no place for it, so off it went to the attic. There was a pair of vases and a toilet set, with the price tag still on them, and two small paterns of carpeting that will not fit a room in the house. That big trunk has sat there for two years, of no earthly use; its merit lies in its being a ‘bar- gain.’ There is that suit of clothes you bought me at that great special sale, they are big enough for a three hundred pound man instead of a thin rail like me; $15 just the same as thrown away. I ex- pect some day to see coffins for the family placed up there to await our using them, perhaps thirty or forty years from now, just because you can buy them at a bargain.’’ ‘“‘Now, John, you’re just as unreason- able and unappreciative as you can be. Think of your talking like that when my whole object was to help you!’ ‘Well, you have certainly failed in your object. So much so that instead of help- ing me you havealmost ruinedme. Now it seems rather a paradoxical statement that a person can be financially ruined by buying things at a cheap price. Yet it’s afact and if you don’t overcome this ‘bargain’ mania the sheriff will be call- ing on us before long. If you would con- fine your purchases to just what you need, your bargains would be ahelp. But the most foolish and extravagant purchasing in the world is to get things that are not needed and will not be used, simply because they are cheap.” *‘Such base ingratitude I never heard of,” exclaimed Mrs. John, a half hour later, as she surveyed with pride a pile of unneeded goods. ‘‘I have saved dollars and dollars on these things and he has no appreciation of it at all.’”’ But the dollars and dollars which she had lost by buying injudiciously, for the sake only of getting a bargain, were en- tirely lost sight of. As ‘‘John,dear’’ wended his way office- ward, the bills waiting to be paid were flitting through his mind, and interlining such thoughts were fiery maledictions on ‘*bargain counters,” ‘‘special sales,” and the weakness of at least one woman for yielding to their ruinous fascinations. Te Use Tradesman Coupon Books. Hardware Price Current. These prices are for cash buyers, who pay promptly and buy in full packages. AUGURS AND BITS. dis. Eee 60 oO EE aes in ie sn smn = EE ——————— ee, TO 50810 AXES. First Quality, Sm eee... .......-........ $750 T © reeeee....._............ 12 00 a EE 8 50 ' a he eee ec. 13 50 BARROWS. dis. Me i $1400 Ts net 30 00 BOLTS. dis. Ee es 50&10 Carriage my Te. 4... ce. 75&10 ee en os eee 40&10 Sleigh ee. 70 BUCKETS. ee ee $3 50 Well, et esse ee 400 Reser CAST, dis. Ceet Hones Fin, Gard, ... wk. veces cscs ese 70& Wrought Narrow, orright Sent Joimt.......... 60&10 a — ese... ee | HAMMERS. rought ee Maydole — dis. 25 Wrought Inside Blind. ...........22.2..202 ee oe - = Wrought Brass a i 1 vues Ppambe _ ”40&10 pe eee. 70&16 Mason’s Solid Cast Steel................. 30c list 60 Blind, Oe ee — | Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel, Hand... .30¢e 40&10 Blind, ee iain BLOCKS. Geta Clare ng 1.2.48 ............ 2. dis.60&10 Ordinary Tackle, list April 1892. ......... De r doz. net, 2 50 CRADLES. Screw Hook and Strap, to 12 in. 4% 14 and oe 3% Cee ee ee dis. 50&02 | serew Hook and Bee eo net 10 CROW BARS. i “ . ,, en - rs ' i eo ne - Cost Mieek............. — a perm 5 J . fe JBOD net % manage... jl .. a 8 Ely’ i ce ce ec ce cece perm 65 P HANGERS. is. Hick’s C. F...... 02... -0ee ee sees ee eens [ 60 | Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track. .. .50&10 G. D .-.. 2-2 ee ee ee eee ee eee ee eee a 5 | Champion, anti-frietion 0.000.000.0000... 60&10 eee 60 | Kidder, aaa Ge CARTRIDGES. P HOLLOW WARE. 60d: fae... tt—CsCi‘(‘C(‘C ‘é‘COU!#*CO;#«(;#;‘C 50 Tc cease ee hc tl &10 NE Ee 60£10 e dis. 25 ee 60&:10 CHISELS. ais, | Coe CCN 40810 Soa |... 70&10 HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS. Socket Framing Oe cee ee 70&10 | Stamped Tin Ware................... .new list 70 O_O ee 70&10 Japanned Tin Ware.. co, 25 Seen eee T70&10 | Granite Iron Ware ............... new list —— Butehors Tanged Pirmer............ ...... 40 WIRE GOODS. COMBS. dis. ete 70&10810 Cre, Lewremene oo 40 sauna eeeeaee ec... 25 ae aa ee 70810810 CHALKE. LEVELS. dis.79 White Crayons, per gross.......... 12@12% dis. 10| Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s............... COPPER. Sisal i ls ROPES. Planished, 14 oz cut to size... .. ae ae ee 9% i mae... 13 Seeoe Fees, 16eee ................ 26 SQUARES dis Cold Rolled, 14x56 and 14x60... 2.0.02.02. 93 | seee) and Iron " i 1S Cold Rolled, ae 23 | pe Ane e fy ane Hever 60 oe 25 | Mitre on aca dis, | Mitre.............. siiear ino ee Ce Ee 50 . Smooth. Com. Taper and straight Shank................... mines it 4... $4 05 $2 95 More & Teer Gree. ..................... . Sei Mee ita... 405 3 05 DRIPPING PANS. — 18 to2 Lo ed ee Z = : 05 I SO ee 15 Small sizes, ser pound .............. 22.2000 OF | eee oes : = Large sizes, per pound...... ......-.. --... 6% Nos. 25 qa EER GEE: i Z a. £2 ELBOWS. All sheets No. 18 and lighter, over 30 ‘amen Com @ ieee Cin, dos.net 75} Wide not less than 2-10 extra CMEC dis 40 SAND PAPER. Adjustable Sl lca bc lta ol al lc dis. 40410 List acct. 19, ’86.... slp hay tae ial a a we at dis. 50 BXPANSIVE BITS. dis. | Silver Lake, White A......seeveeesee eo list 50 Clark's, amall, 616; large, G6................ 30 mon... , 55 ven. 1 Ge: = Oe Se... 25 a Witte oe . _ 50 ¥ eS 55 ' —— - i ae . = ee 60410 Discount, 10. ee Ae 60410 -" gagH WEIGHTS. eee Se goog ee oe eee cece ese a ee per ton 825 Heller's Horse Rasps..............scscceseee 50 ea soning dis. GALVANIZED IRON. Silver aa Fem X Cuts, per foot,.... 70 2 ¢ ie posto Steel Dex X Cuts, per foot.... 50 pang - - — - — — — ~ = = . cial Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foot.... 30 ie 60 C ampion and Electric Tooth X GAUGES. dis. Cuts, -_ ee ‘- Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s............... 50 | Steel, Game.......... nae ee woeio KNoBs—New List. dis. Oneida Community, Newhouse’s ........... Door, mineral, jap. trimmings .............. 55 | Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton’s. 70 Door, porcelain, Jap. Grimeies............ Oh} Mouse, GNeker.... 3.0... sl 18c per doz Door, porcelain, plated trimmings.......... So | Mouse, dctimion.... --....-......__.- $1.50 - ._" Door, poreetein, trimmings................. 55 WIRE. Drawer and Shutter, porcelain............. 7] fete Marke LOCKS—DOOR. dis. unewen MOeeet, de. 70-10 Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s new list ....... Gh | Comperom MaeEct |... Mallory, Wheeler & Con................... Si Tinsea Market 62% ee 55 Barbed F Spero Steer. 50 ae 6 | Barped Fence, galvanized.................. 3 00 MATTOCEKS. OG 2 55 eee ee... ce $16.00, dis. 60 HORSE NAILS, rr ee $15. 00, dis. _ Au Sanie ......_. - --..-Gim, G10 OE $18.50, a Oe | a ae dis. 06 “a. | None woter............... dig. 10&10 Sperry & Co.’s, Post, ‘handled Seeds cual WRENCHES. dis, MILLS. dis. Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled.............. 30 rs Pesos Cw at Coes Genie 50 PS. & WW. Mfg. Ca.” _ ee 40 | Coe’s Patent Agricultural, en Sbeseess 75 i Landers, Perry & Clerks............ 40 | Coe’s Patent, malleable. . i os co oe - eee |... 30 MISCELLANEOUS. dis. MOLASSES GATES. Gis | Bind Cagen. se 50 eee Wee Gomes | Fumes Cifern.. 7E&10 Sees 6 Ga... ...... .....-., Celie | Serame, New EME... ...... 70&10 Enterprise, self-measuring............ | 2} Contes, Bega @ Piete.................. 50810410 NAILS Dampers, Sie eS 1 85 | Forks, hoes, rakes and all steel goods...... 65 &10 OO EE 1 90 METALS, . Advance over base: Steel. Wire. PIé TIN. ey Base hee ee as... 26¢ eS. Base aires... 28¢ eee eae eee 05 25 ZINC. lL... 10 25| Duty: Sheet, 2%c per pound. es cee ceceoesen seer 15 95 | GOO pound CAME. 28.8... kek cere enns 6% ota. 15 EE 7 Oe ce ie tes wet wen on 15 45 SOLDER. ».. 20 le eee eect ee - se eee See dee pene esse eens en anes 25 60 _— pi mm, De ese neg oe uae ected en cues Pae....... 6... 8... 40 %7| The prices of the many other qualities of Bee ace dae sue oe 60 90 | solder in the market indicated by private brands Se . 1 00 1 20| vary according to composition. eS Se 1 50 1 60 ANTIMONY ree ec 1 50 5 i Cockeem.......-.....-......... per pound ee Oe 60 gO eS a 1 Be eres ere cee cae, cd nea 75 75 TIN—MELYN GRADE. Eee 90 90 | 10x14 IC, Charcoal eee $7 50 Finish . ee 85 Qe 7 50 eee 1 00 90 10x14 IX, . elewlesdeepecudtececuccasa, aa ’ S eee 115 1 10 | 14x20 IX, ———EO 9 25 Clinch; _ De ete oes teemececen coancn 85 70| Each additional X on this grade, $1.75. eee 00 80 TIN—ALLAWAY GRADE. - fy... oe... 1 15 90 _— Ic, Charcoal SE es $6 7% Barrell % cles bd ecWidies cchedadece cues 1% 1 75 | 14x20 IC, Se 6 75 Tool t PLANES. “oe ioxis x, a Cee ede eee cose cue seus 7 = Gilo Tool Cae fancy ..............-........ 4x20 Pe eee eee d eee eees ae. Each additional X on this grade $1.50. Sandusky Tool Co.’s, fancy................- @40 ROOFING PLATES Bench, first quality....... eo @60| 14x20 IC, “ Worcester.................. 6 50 Stanley Rule and ——, = ‘s, wood. . .... &10| 14x20 IX, . ee 8 50 20x28 IC, * = 13 50 ee, Ae. |... ....... 8... dis.60—10|14x201IC, ‘* Allaway Grade........... 6 00 Common, valued oS Ne dis. 20| 14220TX, a a 7 50 RIVETS. dis. 20x28 IC, . ' a 12 50 Ce i ee 40 | 20x28 IX, . - os 15 50 Copper ree 20 ee.................... 50—10 BOILER SIZE TIN PLATE. ATENT FLANISHED IR — = Ce ieee wee e ceed spe aaeae $14 00 tas! ly Wood's } patent planished Non. “A to - OE EE 15 “BY” Wood t. planished, Nos. 25 to 27... 9 20 texte a for No. : Boilers, | per pound.... 10 Broken cael ye per pound extra. 14x! 8 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. Michigan Tradesman Official Organ of Michigan Business Men’s Association. Retail Trade of the Wolverine State, Published at 100 Louis St., Grand Rapids, — BY — THE TRADESMAN COMPANY, One Dollar a Year, - Pestage Prepaid. ADVERTISING RATES ON APPLICATION. Communications invited from practical busi- ness men. Correspondents must give their full name and address, not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. Subscribers may have the mailing address of their papers changed as often as desired. Sample copies sent free to any address. Entered at Grand Rapids post office as second- class matter. t= When writing to any of our advertisers, please say that you saw their advertisement in Tse MicHIGAN TRADESMAN. E. A. STOWE, Editor. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1892. TWO-THIRDS TO THE LAWYERS. ** Jarndyce and Jarndyce,” as the cele- brated Gaines case has been to New Or- leans, has been settled, and that city is at last out of chancery. The wonderful sketch by Charles Dickens of the cause of Jarndyce in the Chancery Court of London has had its parallel in the slow and tedious progress of the litigation carried on against the city of New Orleans for so many long years by the heirs of Daniel Clark, and known as the ‘‘Gaines case. ” This cause, in respect to the large pecuniary interests involved and its numerous and mysterious complications, presents one of the most remarkable tissues of litiga- tion that ever dragged its slow length through the American courts. This extraordinary case has filled enough volumes of court records to load a railroad car, and any detail of its his- tory would be impossible here. Never- theless, a few words on a matter with which a city has been vexed for half a century, and to which it now bids fare- well, may be worth while. On the 16th of August, 1813, Daniel Clark, a wealthy citizen, died in New Orleans. Much of his pussessions con- sisted of lands in the rear of the city. He bequeathed all his property to his mother, Mary Clark, of Germantown, Pa., by the terms of an oleographic will. In due course Clark’s estate was disposed of, the city becoming purchaser of a large body of the lands, some 240 arpents, or more than 200 acres. On the 18th of June, 1835, Myra Clark Whitney, subsequently Gaines, appeared on the scene, claiming to be the daugh- ter of Clark and heiress to his estate. Her history isitselfaromance. She was either the issue of a secret marriage or was a natural child, according to the allegations made at the time; but, after long and complicated litigation, Myra, who had first been married to one Whit- ney, and afterwards to General Edmund P. Gaines, of the United States army, succeeded in having herself declared the lawful daughter and heir of Clark. Then followed a series of law-suits for the re- covery of Clark’s estate from the various parties into whose hands it had passed, and after about half a century in courts high and low, from those of the State to those of the United States, Mrs. Gaines succeeded in establishing her claims, and New Orleans was held accountable for the lands which had passed through its possession. The case was finally decided by the Supreme Court of the United States, Mr. Justice Bradley, in a deliverance, which is a masterpiece of perspicuous demon- stration and business common _ sense, having pronounced the judgment of the eourt. This was the 13th of May, 1889. The claims of the plaintiff amounted to millions, but Justice Bradley, by a most lucid and equitable statement of a vast tangle of complicated accounts, decreed that the defendant should pay to the Gaines heirs $576,707.92, with many years of interest, certain items to be examined for possible correction. The matter was then referred to a master in chancery to make up the ac- count. This has been done, and, with interest which amounts to nearly $344,- 000, the aggregate sum decreed against the city was $923,788. This amount was paid last Tuesday,and the city of New Orleans is forever released from the des- potism of this sword of Damocles, which for half a century has been hanging over it. Nobody who has ever followed the progress of such protracted and compli- cated litigation will be surprised to hear that more than two-thirds of the amount of the judgment will go for lawyers’ fees, which aggregate $658,000. The only wonder is that all the balance was not swallowed upin costs of court. ARMED SOLDIERY IN FREE STATES. The almost daily demand for the use of troops to enforce the civil laws and to maintain publie order, is a feature in the political and social life of this great re- public that should give cause for no lit- tle anxiety. A very few months ago the United States Government was forced to send troops into the territory of Wyoming to put down civil war between rival bands of cattle owners. Within afew weeks the entire corps of the Pennsylvania National Guard was put into the field to maintain order in the iron region near Pittsburg, and the trouble there is not ended. About the same time the entire power, civil and military, of the new state of Idaho, was virtually over- whelmed by an insurrection of miners, and the helpless Governor of that com- monwealth was forced in his extremity to ask the Federal Government for help by and from the army. Troops were sent to Idaho and the trouble there has not come to an end. But this is not the whole of the situa- tion. Last summer the coal miners in Tennessee, revolting against the em- ployment of the State convicts in the coal mines, took arms, routed the guards and set free the convicts at wholesale. The State Government quietly submitted to the revolt, but being bound in solemn contract to furnish the labor of its con- victs to work in certain mines, recap- tured all it could of those that were freed, and returned them to the mines under a guard of State soldiers. These troops have been in service for nearly a year. They are quartered with their prisoners in a fortified camp and are so closely beleaguered that they dare not expose themselves to the fury of the miners, by whom the troops are virtually besieged. All this is in Anderson county, Tennessee, where open war is momentar- ily threatened. In at least four States of the republic military force has been found necessary to maintain civil law and order, and in the State of Idaho the State Government was actually overthrown. The people whose disorders the soldiers are called on to quell are civilian citizens, strik- ing laborers chiefly. Revolution in four States, with armed soldiery performing the functions which belong to sheriffs and constables, means that something is very seriously wrong. The highest wisdom, the truest philan- thropy and the ablest statesmanship in the Union ought to unite to put all these wrongs in the way of being righted. No time is to be lost lest worse befall. THE PHARMACEUTICAL CONVEN- TION. The tenth convention of the Michigan State Pharmaceutical Association, which met in this city last week, was one of the most interesting and profitable meet- ings ever held by the organization, albe- it the attendance was not so large or representative as the importance of the occasion deserved. The address of the President and the report of the Secretary indicated the painstaking efforts of both officers to serve the Association faithfully and the report of the Committee on Trade Inter- ests was the most timely and suggestive document ever presented to the organi- zation. Its merit will readily be con- ceded when itis noted that the discus- sion of the recommendations made there- in occupied nearly one entire session. It is certainly to be regretted that so few druggists—not over fifty at the outside— were present to participate in the dis- cussion of so important a subject as the cutting of prices on proprietary articles, and it is difficult to account for the apathy of the trade toward the Associa- tion and its objects, when such manifest benefits could be secured through con- certed action on the part of a large por- tion of the trade. The entertainment features of the con- vention were carefully planned and were executed in a manner to reflect credit on the entertainers. The full text of the papers and reports and a summarized report of the discus- sions will be found on succeeding pages of this issue. Wm. Logie has had a relapse in the shape of erysipelas and was confined to his bed again all last week. He is im- proving, however, and proposes to leave the city as soon as he is able to travel for a month’s respite from business cares and duties. PRAGHES! PRAGHES! A. B. Schumaker, druggist and grocer at Grand Ledge, was in town Monday. Mr. Schumaker is President of the Grand Ledge Sewer Pipe Co., which has been making drain tile for the past two years and is now arranging to put in machin- ery for the manufacture of sewer pipe. This will necessitate the erection of a three-story brick building, 50x50 feet in dimensions, which the company expects to complete by Oct. 1. J. Julian, late of New York City, has taken the position of book-keeper for J. L. Strelitsky. Mr. Julian is the father- in-law of Mr. Strelitsky. Masons Fruit Jars. Note the extreme low prices at which we are now offering our Mason’s Porce- lain Lined Fruit Jars. Don’t lose any orders as there is a good profit at the price, and the demand has always been heavier than the supply at this season. Pints have same size mouth as quarts. MASON’S DANDY With Boyd’s Porcelain; Best Jars with Glass Caps. pr gr Covers. pr gr Pe [ore 10 50 a a 50 — ee ee 11 00 Pet Seen... 9 50/Half gallons.......14 00 No charge for package or cartage. All Fruit Jars shipped on receipt of order. Price guaranteed. H. LEONARD & SONS, Grand Rapids, - Mich. = IN = H. ot weather FKveryboay A ppreciates Light Drinks That are H ealthtful BF aultless UJ. nrivaled ] yucious. Williams Root Beer Extract makes the best drink of all and can be made in five minutes. For sale everywhere. Quotations in price column. PRAGHES! Can Ship Them 1000 Miles I make a specialty of them. Wire for prices, Am bound to please. Give me a trial and be convinced! THEO. B. GOOSSEN, Wholesale Commission, 33 Ottawa St., Grand Rapids, Mich. PEREINS & HESS DEALERS IN Hides, Furs, Wool & Tallow, NOS, 122 and 124 LOUIS STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN, WE OARRY A STOCK OF CAKE TALLOW FOR MILL USE. Ee = # 2 —— See , a MS PAL THE TENTH ANNUAL MEETING A SUCCESS. Full Text of the Proceedings--Incidents of the Convention. The tenth annual convention of the Michigan State Pharmaceutical Associa- ids, Tuesday afternoon, Aug. 2. The meeting was called to order by President Coleman, when City Attorney Taylor made a happy address of welcome, which was responded to, in behalf of the Asso- ciation, by Arthur Bassett, of Detroit. President Coleman then read his annual address as follows: We have again met to consider the work of our Association and the needs of our profession. Since our last meeting no great changes or new developments | have occurred. There has been no ses- sion of our State Legislature to inspire us with either hope or fear. Our Secre- tary, Mr. Parsons, has made an early and earnest and presistent effort to develop among our members an interest in the Association which should result in in- creased work, and also to develop among the druggists who are not members of our Association an interest which should give us increased membership. How successful these efforts have been the re- port of our officers and committees will show. So far as] know, everything re- mains about as it was last year. It has seemed to me to be an unusually un- eventful year. Possibly that is due ina measure to the fact that we are holding our annual meeting two months earlier in the season than usual and that, con- sequently, the past year has been a short one. There are two subjects which are al- ways with us and which, during the last few years, have been the principal sources of annoyance and of loss to drug- gists. They are the supplying of physi- cians by houses outside of the drug busi- ness and the cutting of prices of proprie- tary articles. These evils still exist. They have diminished in some places, they have increased in other places. Druggists are still asking if this Associa- tion cannot protect them against these evils. It is safe to predict that these subjects will always be before us. Re- garding the first one, 1 think that there is nothing which we, as an Association, ean do. The physician has an undoubt- ed right to buy his supplies wherever he pleases, and there will always be travel- ing salesmen who will represent to phy- sicians that they can give them advantag- es which their home druggist cannot or will not give them, and there will always be physicians who will believe them, and there will always be towns in which such statements will be correct. I am con- strained to repeat what I have said in some of our previous meetings, that l am convineed that the only remedy for this lies with the druggist. If he keeps an inadequate stock, or if he is so poora salesman or so lazy a salesman that he will permit an outsider, a stranger, to come into his town and sell his trade, he has no one to blame but himself. While, therefore, it may be proper and profita- ble for us as druggists to compare ideas as to how we can clear away misappre- hensions which, no doubt, exist in the minds both of physicians and of drug- gists regarding each other, how we may create a stronger sympathy and an identi- ty of interest between the two profes- sions, I do not believe that it is a matter in which we as an Association have, or can have, anything to do. In the matter of cutting of price I be- lieve that we may do something. In his address at our last annual meeting Pres- ident Prail read a resolution which had been passed by the American Pharma- ceutical Association inviting the pres- idents of the state associations each to send a delegate to the meeting of the National Druggists’ Association to con- fer with that body, and with a commit- tee from the American Pharmaceutical Association regarding a plan for reliev- ing the retail drug trade from the disas- | . : e . | trous effects of price cutting on proprie- pointed Mr. Arthur Bassett to be such a | delegate, and that Mr. Bassett was, at | | that time, attending the meeting of the} National Druggists’ Association in Louis- | Mr. Bassett will, during this | | session, give us a report from that meet- | | ville, Ky. jing. It appears to me that we may be medicines and the wholesale druggists persistent and united effort on the part |of amajority of the retail drug trade | will surely bring us relief and protection | from cutters. | [ say amajority of the retail trade; | we cannot at first get unity of action |from all retailers. There are among ithem some ‘‘dogs in the manger’? who) | delight in doing business for nothing and | | in making others do likewise; and for | some time to come we shall find ‘‘traitors |in the camp.” But I believe that a ma- | jority will stand by each other, enough | to in time bring the others into line. While I do not wish to anticipate or to | in any way interfere with our Committee | |on Trade Interests, | would recommend | that at this session measures be taken | | looking to the organizing of all the drug- | | gists in Michigan, whether members of | | this Association or not, in an effort to do |away with cutting unless it shall seem to us that what we did last year in giv-| ling our Committee on Trade Interests | | | special authority in this matter is suffi- | cient. | ‘There is a question, an old one, which |demands careful consideration from us | we interest more of the, \all. How can | druggists of Michigan in the Michigan State Pharmaceutical | believe that the Association is a good | thing for us, that we derive benefit from it, and also that as a means of protection we make How ean we reach order. cow can believe this? working others absorbed in their business that they think that they have no time for anything, either scientific or social? reach that other class who are not so very busy about anything, but who have that they are satisfied with humdrum and routine? with a desire for improvement and growth professionally as well us finan- cially and persuade them that they can find such improvement and growth in the Association? us will try to answer this question. I suggest that a revival of the question drawer, which during the last few years has fallen into comparative disuse, would greatly help to make our meetings in- teresting and profitable to the average druggist. Lhave often heard druggists deplore the decline of their prescription business. it. They cannot understand how a busy physician can have the time to compound his own prescriptions and do it accurate- are living in what may be styled the ready-made age. The blacksmith no longer forges his owr horseshoes or his own nails. He buys ready-made shoes and ready-made nails. Most shoemakers are simply cobblers. The dealer in ready- made shoes keeps ten times as many lengths, widths, etc., as he did twenty years ago, The grocer, in place of the single article of crackers, now displays a large variety of ready-made baker’s goods. In place of codfish and herring he displays a full variety of canned meats. He crowds hard on the butcher, the baker, and, for aught I know, on the candlestick maker. Even our newspa- pers, a majority of them, by the boiler plate process, are made up and edited by machinery. The old-time wheelwright or wagon- maker, who used to be a man of marvel- ous genius, no longer shaves out felloes, pores hubs, makes axles or anything else. He gets his wheels ready-made from one source, the other parts each | from its own source and then he simply THI: MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. | sure that the proprietors of proprietary | tion convened at Elk’s hall, Grand Rap- | | are all of them interested in protecting | us in the matter, and that systematic, | Association? We) it is wise and prudent for us to keep up| the organization and to keep it in good | those druggists who are so busy and so How can we| been jogging along in old ruts so long} How can we inspire all these) I trust that many of | Often they areata loss to account for | The explanation lies in the fact that we | dertakes to put an inch and a quarter hub on aninoch and a-half axle he gets along all right. Toa great extent the same is true of pharmacy, or, more properly speaking, the drug business. It could hardly be expected that this business would be an exception to a rule so universal. Our | shelves are loaded with ready-made, ma- 'ehine-made prescriptions. Compare a eatalogue of Tilden or twenty-five years ago Parke, Davis & Co., | day. tiles. |make. The physician can find pounds in various forms and in endless combinations, proportions and _ sizes. | And, although at times none of them ex- actly fit him, still some of them come so with to ‘‘make them do,’’ and sometimes, per- haps, he yields to that temptation. Therefore, just as a very a wheel or an axle, can quickly ‘‘set up’’ a whole wagon, so a physician whois a very ordinary pharmacist, though per- haps a good physician, can dispense his own medicine with small outlay of skill or time. And if sometimes he does try to fita 1-40 grain dose to a 1-50 grain patient no one knows it but himself. I am glad to believe, however, that there is an improvement in this respect, that a reaction is setting in. Thereisa disposition among physicians to do their work more deliberately, even if they do | less, that means doing it better. Some | of them, at least, instead of congratulat- ing themselves on the number of calls that they make in a day or the number of nights when they have been called up, consider rather the success of their work. They thus have time to study their cases more carefully and to adjust their remedies more accurately. Wher- | ever this is the case the services of the skilled pharmacist are required, and pre- seription writing and compounding are revived, provided always that the ‘skilled pharmacist” is at hand. Let us, therefore, keep our tools in order and our “hands in,’? and not let our profession degenerate into the mere handling of proprietary articles, or even into the mere counting or measuring of ready-made pills, elixirs. syrups, ete. | A movement has been started by the State Association of Iowa _ looking | towards having the Associations of the various states hold their annual meetings for 1893 at Chicago, in the building of their respective states, and at the same time, and the holding of union meetings of the entire association of dele- gates for securing union of action on points like price cutting, etc., which in- terest the retail drug trade generally. I think the idea is a good one. I hope that we may have asession in every ‘way profitable; that there may be a free interchange of ideas which shall help to bring about: the relations which should exist between our profes- sion and the various kindred interests. The address was well received and was referred to a special committee composed of Arthur Bassett, Detroit; F. | J. Wurzburg, Grand Rapids, and Arthur Webber, Cadillac. The following new members were re- ceived, on the recommendation of the | Executive Committee: Chas. E. Smith, Pontiac; Chas. B. |Fuqua, Big Rapids; Benj. Schrouder, | Grand Rapids; Adolphus O. Speckhard, | Watersmeet; A. P. Hart, Mulliken; F. K. | Stearns, Detroit; B. S. Hutchinson, Lonia; Walter K. Schmidt, Grand Rapids; James |W. F. Summer, Gould City; Harris Edson | Allen, Ann Arbor; J. D. Hamilton, Mar- |tin; W. S. Winegar, Lowell; J. M. Wol- | ecott, Grand Rapids; D. M. Russell, Grand | Rapids; Wm. Remus, Pontiac; C. H. Bos- itick, Manton; A. Price, Spring | Lake. Several interesting papers were then | presented by Prof. Prescott, when the | meeting adjourned until morning. Geo. puts them together. And unless he un-| ‘tary articles. Mr. Prall stated that in| response to that invitation he had ap- | Thayer of | one of} of the present | We now seldom get out our pill! Few are the emulsions that we} com- | near that the physician may be tempted | ordinary | mechanic, who could not possibly make | GHAS. A. GOYE, MANUFACTURER OF Awnings & Tel Horse and Wagon Covers, JOBBERS OF ‘Hammocks and Cotton Ducks SEND FOR PRICE LIST. ‘Il Pearl St, Grand Rapids, Mich, ~ -HESTER MACHINERY CO, AGENTS FOR Plain Slide Valve Engines with Throttling Governors. Automatic Balanced Single Valve Engines. Horizontal, Tubular and Locomotive BOILERS. Upright Engines and Boilers for Light Power. Prices on application. 45 8, Division St., Grand Rapids. Playing bars WE ARE HEADQUARTERS SEND FOR PRICE LIST. Daniel Lynch, 19 S. Ionia St., Grand Rapids. Geo. H. Reeder & Co., JOBBERS OF BOOTS & SHOES Felt Boots and Alaska Socks. State Agents for 158 & 160 FultonoSt. Grand Rapids} 10 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. WEDNESDAY FORENOON. At the opening of the Wednesday morning session, Secretary Parsons read his annual report, as follows: Your Secretary begs to submit his an- | nual report for the year, comprised within the dates of October 21, 1891, and August 3, 1892: Ce $556 57 Toeel Gxpemiiiares ..... ........... 448 00 One thousand copies of the proceedings of the ninth annual meeting, held at Ann Arbor, were printed and one was mailed to each member, the balance being sent to a carefully selected list of journals, secretaries of boards of pharmacy, asso- ciations and to leading representatives of pharmacy, as well as to all colleges of pharmacy. The expense of issuing this work was $333.25, but your Secretary is pleased to state that the receipts through advertising were sufficient to cover this expense, except one item of $10, which one advertiser failed to pay for his ad- vertisement. The total expense, exclu- sive of mailing, was $10. During the year your Secretary has written 502 letters, and has sent out cir- culars as follows: Three thousand cir- culars bearing application blank for membership ; three thousand slips ad- dressed to the druggists of Michigan : three thousand slips from the President, calling the attention of pharmacists to the general circular; two hundred and | fifty card circulars for the Committee on Adulteration : three thousand circulars were furnished the Secretary of the Board of Pharmacy, who transmitted them to the druggists of the State, asking for their votes as to member of Board of Pharmacy, and the result of this voting | Was presented in the volume of proceed- | ings, together with some other corres- | pondence held by the Secretary with the Board of State Auditors relative to pay- | ment for service of an attorney in prose- cution of violations of the law: three times he has sent notifications of dues to members, and, in receipting for dues, he | took occasion to close some kind of ecir- cular, generally the one pertaining to | membership and the announcement of the next meeting ; he transmitted, as in- structed by the by-laws, the program of this meeting to all members, which in- volved a very large amount of clerical work, but it is hoped that it has borne, or will bear, satisfactory fruit: the members of the several committees were properly notified of their appoi:tment, and occasionally reminded that reports were expected from them at this meeting. Your Secretary regrets that, in response to the 3,000 circulars sent endeavoring to increase our membership, he has received but eleven applications. These were acted upon by the Executive Committee and the candidates received. The Committee on Membership, com- posed of wholesale druggists, offered a cash prize to the one who should turn in the largest number of new members, and it is hoped that, in the report of this Committee, there will be seen a very pleasing accession to the roll. During the past year there have come to the | attention of your Secretary the deaths of | two members, E. W. Bartram, of Paw Paw, and C. H. Kirkwood, of Ishpeming. Three members have resigned, viz., C. | H. Franz, Saginaw, C. F. Kremer, Sagi- naw, and W. R. Mandigo, Sherwood. Four members have been dropped for non-payment of dues, viz., J. M. Croman, John De Boe, A. A. Goodsell and W. R. MeMillen. Two members, formerly drop- ped, have been re-instated through pay- | ment of past dues, viz., I. F. Hopkins and H. Lever. There is outstanding on the books an indebtedness from members of the fol- lowing amountd in dues. Pel OWE e CNen............. ek oer $211 we Ce. ol. eT cal Ee ia 144 | eee oe ‘ bar! es ..... a The Secretary begs leave to offer a number of suggestions and recommenda- | bear so close a relation to | tions which this report that it is difficult to make a sharp distinction. He recommends: 1. That the Association adopt definite dates for its official year. that this year should extend from Janu- He believes | ary 1 to December 31 inclusive. The reasons for this are strong. The by-laws definitely state that members should pay | their dues in advance. meeting, and, in consequence, the im- pression has gained ground that, by pay- | ing at one meeting, membership was held in foree until the next annual gath- ering. In carrying out his prescribed duties, the Secretary bas met with not a little criticism—not all of it good natured—which may be traced directly to this misconception. He suggests that members should be required to pay in advance of January 1, and that such pay- ment should hold membership in force during the entire succeeding year. So long as our annual meetings are held in the same month, confusion will not arise; but, when held one yearin August, another time in June and another in October, there at once arises a very an- noying condition of affairs. and it was this fact that led to the recommendation to take action to establish a eal year. 2. Great trouble is experienced in the | collection of dues. It is not right that the Association should expend so great an amount of postage in sending notifi- cations to which no attention is paid. The Secretary would, therefore, suggest that, in cases where members are two years in arrears and do not remit in re- | drawn upon by the Secretary for the amount of their indebtedness, and, | further,that,if this plan fails,their names be dropped from the roll for non-payment of dues. As reported, there is a sum of over $500 due the Association, more than half of which could have been collected |if such a rule as the proposed one were in force. There are instances where a member whoisin arrears prefers to be dropped and then rejoin, which he could |}do at a less expense. In such cases no ‘application should be considered until | all arrearages have been paid. | 38. It is believed that a more satis- | factory system might be achieved in the matter of issuing certificates of member- |Ship, and your Secretary would recom |mend some such plan asthis: Issue a | certificate of membership upon receipt of |dues, such certificate to consist of a | lithograph sheet, upon which is left a | blank for the name of the member, and |across the face of which is printed in large figures the year in which his mem- bership is in foree. The filling out of this certificate upon receipt of the mem- ber’s dues would require no additional work on the part of the Secretary, and it would serve as a receipt to the members and protect the Association against a number of abuses which have come into life. There are in the profession of drug- gists in this State many certificates of membership in this organization the holders of which are no longer members thereof, having resigned or been dropped for nonpayment of dues. and your Secre- tary feels that some such system as is proposed for yearly registration. if it may be so called, would prove both ben- eficial and satisfactory and tend toward an increase of our membership. The ; proposed certificate should be worthy of being framed, and, hung up in a drug | store, would bear weight with the public, | demonstrating to them that the holder is jin good standing. The following in- | stances will show the necessity for a | change of some character: The Secretary | received a Jetter stating that the writer jhad lost his certificate of membership | through the burning of his store and | wanted it replaced. It was found, upon search of the records, that this individual | bad been dropped several years before |for non-payment of dues, and, conse- quently, the new certificate was refused. In another case, a member of this Asso- | ciation, but who had never paid for a} | certificate, in purchasing a store from a | brother druggist, bought with the stock |a certificate of membership the name on which he erased and inserted his own. It would seem important that this As- | sociation be represented at the meeting | Of sister associations, particularly in the | adjoining States. The past year the del- Through custom | they have, as arule, paid at the time of | definite fis- | sponse to the first notification, they be | egates appointed were notified and re-| | quested to attend these meetings, but, so! ' | far as known, this Association was rep- | } resented only at the American Pharma- | ceutical Association, and only there by members who went for other reasons and not primarily as delegates. It is, | therefore, suggested that the Association or its Executive Committees look into | this matter and see if provision cannot be made for paying all, or part of, the expenses of delegates to the meetings of the more important associations. Your Secretary has received a very large number of letters, the greater portion of which have been on matters connected with his office, and a number were duly turned over to the committees for their consideration. There were others of a nature worthy the attention of this body | in general session, and at the proper time they will be called to your notice. The several committees will have interesting reports to read. In conclusion, your Secretary would crave the indulgence and pardon of the members for any fault of omission or commission, which, it is unnecessary to state, were in no way due to intention. As said, there have been several compli- | cations due to misunderstanding or mis- comprehension in the matter of dues, | which have been explained by the Secre- tary, which explanation has, so far as is known, been in each case satisfactory in clearing away the misunderstanding. | He would express to each and all, partic- i |hearty appreciation of their good will | and the many courtesies and aid extended | him. The report was aceepted and referred | |to a special committee consisting of | | Messrs. S. E. Parkill, H. J. Brown and/ E. Rudolphi. The First Vice-President was author- | ized to take charge of the Question Box. | Chairman Vernor presented the report | of the Committee on Legislation, as fol- | lows: Your Committee on Legislation have | | the honor to report that as there has been | no session of the Legislature since the | appointment of the Committee, there has | been no work for them todo. This fact was foreseen at our late meeting, as | shown by the report of the former Com- | mittee who, in making their report, asked that the recommendations that they made be referred to this Committee, with instructions to again present them at the meeting. They were as follows: | ‘That the event of there being intro- duced into the Legislature, as there is sure to be a bill intended to nullify the bene- ficial advantages of the Pharmacy Law, the proper forms of remonstrances may | be placed in the hands of every member | of this Association at the earliest possible | moment, and, to prevent a recurrence of the disappointment of last winter, to be accompanied with the request that they | be forwarded, as soon as signed to the | Chairman of your Committee on Legisla- | | tion, to be placed by him in the hands of ;a member of the Legislature who is | | friendly to the Pharmacy Law, for pre- | Sentation at the proper moment, thereby preventing the withholding of said peti- tions from presentation through their falling into the hands of members who do not look upon the Pharmacy Law with favor,’’ also “That a measure be introduced in the next Legislature that shall provide | for necessary amendments to the Phar- | macy Law in the following particulars: First, to make the proprietors responsible with the employe for violation of the |law by the employe, where the latter is | unregistered. The present law says that the proprietor ‘shall not permit,’ and, as a result, all the proprietor has to prove is that he told the clerk not to make sales during his absence. The reading should be ‘in whose place of business shall oc- cur.” Second to provide that the Board | of Pharmacy shall be plainly authorized | to empfoy any legal assistance they may | find necessary in the pur-uance of the carrying out of the provisions of the law | and also give the necessary power to an attorney so employed, to permit of his making complaints against the violators of the law, without the necessity of first | getting the permission of the prosecuting | ularly to the officers and committees, his | SMASH Go Prices on BICYCLES. CALL AND SEE! PERKINS & RICHMOND, 13 Fountain St. ghase & Sanborp THE BOSTON #0 IMPORTERS, Are now receiving by every incoming steamer and Overland, New Crop Teas of their own importations, which means that in pur- chasing from them you get Teas of special character and at only one reasonable profit above actual cost of importa- tion. You are surely paying two or more profits in buying of the average wholesaler. Chase & Sanborn, IMPORTERS, RBOSTON. CHICAGO. THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. 44 officer of the county in which the vicla- tion is found to exist. The action taken by this Association at its last meeting, in relation to this fea- ture of the work of the Board of Phar- macy. resulted as you are already in- formed through the published proceed- ings, in the partial withdrawal of the Board of State Auditors, from the posi- tion taken by themin the matter, shows somewhat the influence this Association has upon legislation, when the matter under consideration is of a pharmaceuti- eal nature. Your Committee recommended that the course proposed by the former Committee be carried out, and that the matter be re- | ferred to the next Committee on Legis- lation, with power to act, and we further earnestly ask the members of this Asso- ciation to respond heartily and promptly. when called upon by that Committee for personal letters or petitions to the State Legislature, or its members. Chairman Fairchild, of the Committee on Membership, presented a report de- ploring the lack of interest in the Asso- ciation, as evidenced by the few names added tothe membership during the year, and recommending that every member take home an application blank and secure at least one new member. Ac- cepted and placed on file. Chairman Peck, of the Committee on Trade Interests, presented the following report: 1. Your Committee on Trade Interests appreciates the responsibility of making a report of their work for the past year, and would be, indeed, pleased if they | liquor legislation will be again brought | forward at the meeting of the next State | could offer suggestions, or outline a plan of action, by which the present disabili- ty, under which the pharmacist is strug- gling, could be mitigated or removed. At the opening of the year the indica- tions pointed to substantial relief from the inroads which have so disastrously affected the business of the retail drug- gist, but the failure of the Manufacturers’ Committee to stand by each other, in consequence of an apprehension that such an action would conflict with the anti-trust law and thereby render them individually liable, seemed to dispel, for the time being, the hope that had been entertained that at last we should find protection against the blighting inroads of the cutter. But these events, how- ever, do not utterly discourage us, be- cause we are conscious that within our- selves, as pharmacists, we have a reserve power, when all else fails, that can be brought into operation through the in- fluence of our State and local associa- tions, and this influence, if we are but true to our own interests and to our As- sociation, will secure to us the right which we claim from manufacturers, viz., protection. The remedy to which your Committee refers is the discouragement of the sale of any proprietary medicine sold by the cut rate stores, and in the place of such medicine urges the sale of goods manufactured and put up by them- selves. Let the war be against the cut rate articles, and we shall soon secure) all that we demand. | It is not presumed that individual ef- | fort will produce much impression, but) we know the power of numbers, the value | of organization and the strength of a | united movement by all the members of- this and sister state associations. As a last resort, your Committee believes that common good, because at ths time we especially need all avaiable help to en- courage and further the efforts that my only be secured by unity of action. 2. Your Committee would aisu urge upon the pharmacist the necessity of manufacturing, as far as possible, his elixirs and similar preparations. This portion of his business has become grad- ually absorbed by the large manufactur- ing houses. While it is conceded that some fluid extracts and other prepara- tions may be more advantageously pur- chased than manufactured in a small way, yet the fact is patent that hundreds of preparations are now being habitually purchased that can with little effort be manufactured on the premises at a say- ing of, at least, 50 per cent. from the manufacturers’ prices. The habit which we are aptto fall into of bnying what we can quite as well manufacture is in- jurious to us in many ways, not only fi- nancially, butit also tends to 'ower our professional standard by an implied ac- knowledgment to the physician and the publie that either our knowledge or fa- cilities fail to meet the demands upon us, and that, in consequence, we have re- course to other sources. It is also necessary to call the frequent attention of physicians to our own preparations, to sample them judiciously, espec.ally if we have something really superior of its kind. In other words, show them that they are interested in what interests us, and prove by the superiority of our pro-| ducts that we can better serve them than the far-away purveyor. Win their friendship, if possible, but do not arouse | their antagonism. 3. Itis expected that the subject of Legislature, and the good offices of this Association will be sought for our mutual protection. It is, therefore. proper to urge every pharmacist to comply with all the provisions of the law and to re- frain from any violation thereof. Your Committee observes with regret that some druggists in different cities advertise wines and liquors in their store windows, giving the name of the wine with the | Otbers adver- | price per pint attached. tise wines and liquors in the newspapers, urging the sick and weary to possess themselves — for a consideration—of a bottle of such and such wine. Al]! these efforts should be condemned. They are the belongings of the druggist or pharmacist should resort to such nefarious means to increase his in- come. If he must sell all the liq- uors he ean, let him in 3 manly way open a saloon, retire from the drug business, pay his license and reconcile his conscience with the profits made un- der legal authority. The efforts in the past of the Committee on Liquor Traffic of this Association have been made ar- duous through the perversion of the privileges and rights of the respectable pharmacist by the liquor vendor under the clozk,of our honorable calling. If the guilty alone could be made to suffer for their own acts, the ends of justice would be assured; but there is danger all, and that a tax will be imposed both upon the law abider and the lawbreaker. Therefore, let the sentiment of this As- sociation be unmistakably against any palliation or excuse for the violation of the liquor law. 4. Your Committee would also recom- mend that an effort be made to induce such an attack upon proprietary medi-|some wholesale drug house within the cines would stimulate the efforts of the| borders of the State to act as the depot united manufa turers inthe sale of their | merchandise in its legitimate channel, | and, at least, will bring the weight of | their influence against the department | store and cutter, because, when their) sales are diminished, the terrors of the| trust law will not prevent them from) adopting the A. P. A. plan and testing | its validity in the courts if assailed by the cutter. In thiseonnection your Com- mittee would urge upon every pharma- cist in the State the duty of joining the M.S. P. A.. for through its efforts lies his only hope of a restoration of prices on lines of goods sold by the piratical cutter, and of loyally standing with his brethren in a united body, laying aside all petty jealousies and working for the | of this kind, ‘ever has found even for the purchase, sale and exchange of unsalable and odd stocks of proprietary medicines, and also to issue a catalogue enumerating such goods as they accumu- late from time to time and invite therein the exchange of other goods, charging such difference as may be just and proper. The time has come when a stock embracing about prove profitable to the wholesale drug- gist, and at the same time serve as a medium for inducing orders for staples, saloons, and no| or demand and would otherwise repre- sent ouly idle capital. 5. The subject of prices that should be charged neighboring retail druggists for their small needs from time to time may properly be introduced in this re- port. Such wants are simply accommo- dation demands, serving to supply com- petitors only until goods arrive, ete., and the subject should be discussed, as it is an everyday problem with every pharma- cist, as to what may be considered a proper charge, and one to which there appears to be no specially applied rule governing the price. Your Committee would recommend the following adjust- ment as tending to dispose of the ques- tion in a reasonable and_= satisfactory manner: Let the pharmacist simply di- vide the profits with his fellow pharma- cist ; for instanee, if the article costs $8 per dozen and retails for $1, the charge would be 84 cents, just one-half of the 33 cents margin. The same rule should be adhered to regarding apparatus, elas- tic stockings, trusses, etec., sold to phy- sicians, being just to the dealer, who car- ries the stock with the attending risks, and to the physician who prescribes and fits the article or appliance required. 6. The relations existing between the employer and the employes as applied to our profession is worthy of considera- tion, as there is no fixed rule governing special questions that frequently arise. A general application respecting the time given for vacations, or consumed by ill- iness, notice given by employes desiring to terminate an engagement, or the re- verse by the employer who finds it to his |interest to make a change may, in the / opinion of your Committee, be introduced and diseussed, in the hope that action ‘advantageous to all parties interested. | After careful consideration, founded on | the experience of several employers, your Committee, in order to be concise, reeom- mends to employers and registered phar- macists the following line of action. | This recommendation, however, may not | be adapted to all cases, but still may , serve as a just and equitable method of | which arise in! As all employers de- | | Sire to be as liberal in all things pertain- | disposing of questions every pharmacy. ing to the good and welfare of those as- sociated with them as circumstances and situations will permit, the following may furnish a plan which we think will be agreeable and mutually satisfactory, being the rules adopted by some of the pharmacies in large cities : allowed; one week’s vacation be allowed each year with full pay; not less than one week’s notice be required from either party in the event of dismissal or resig- pation, except for cause. Your Committee is aware that the sub- ject is a delicate one, and may or may not be worthy of discussion, but its im- portance none will deny, and the difficul- ties all have experienced in arriving at a just decision will serve asa reason for bringing it to the notice of the Associa- | tion. that the punishment will fall alike upon | In conclusion, your Committee would say that much work has been accom- plished in reconciling conflicting prices among druggists throughout the State, and, while our power has, in the nature of such efforts, been limited, we have invariably resorted to the milder meth- established prices. The volume of cor- respondence has been considerable, and many discouragements arose, the princi- pal being the refusal of parties at fault who complained, declining to have their name made known in the premises. were made to the Detroit and Grand all that | a limited sale, will | | sale druggists in owing to the fact that the much required, | odd or remote articles may be found with him, besides giving the retailers an op- portunity of turning over at some price goods that have not met an expected sale jing to such requests, ‘ing demoralization to decline further supplies. ‘Committee feels that edgement should be for their generous co-operation in acced- ing themselves as enemies to the impend- of the drug business of the State. may be secured that will prove mutually | In case of prolonged illness of an em- | ploye, not less than one week’s pay be} ods in inducing cutters to conform to the} 7. The practice of manufacturers of ‘putting up their pharmaceutical specia!- ties in containers of odd design and measkrement is opposed to the interest of the pharmacist and subjects him to loss in dispensing. The following articles have been selected simply for purpose of illustration: F., D. & Co. Cascara Cor- dial contains 12 fluid ounces ; Cordial Canloeorea contains 13 fluid ounces ; Elixir Three Bromides contains 11 fluid ounces; Wheeler’s Elixir contains 14 fluid ounces ; Hayden’s Urie Solvent con- tains 11 fluid ounces; Kennedy’s Pinus Canadensis contains 12 fluid ounces. Your Committee believes that consid- erable sustained by dispensing from such irregular containers, as it is necessary for the pharmacist to measure the contents of the package before he ean become acquainted with the number of ounces therein, and also to memorize such measurement. The article known as Kennedy’s Pinus Canadensis Bark is sold by the avoirdupois pound, but contains but 12 fluid ounees. Your Committee believes that the odd, irregularly-shaped bottles, like the peddlers’ panelled ware, are only intended to deceive, and that honest regular containers only should be employed, holding 4,8, 16 and 32 fluid ounces, thereby enabling the dispenser, at a glance, to determine just how much per ounce the preparation costs him. The odd-shaped packages may serve the manufacturer as a trade mark, but it would seem that a copyright label offers all the protection necessary. We would, therefore. -recommend regular glassware for all pharmaceutical preparations, as being a great aid tothe dispenser, besides enabling the buyer to know, ata glance, the quantity he pays for. So many new preparations are now | being brought to the notice of physicians, that uniformity of measurement is greatly to be desired, and cannot result in loss to either interested party. loss is On motion of F. J. Wurzburg the re- port was accepted and discussed by sec- tions. The first recommendation—that the sale of cut rate goods be discouraged—was then taken up. A. S. Parker, of Detroit, | thought that the most vital point at which j the druggist could attack the manufac- ‘turer of cut rate goods was to refuse to | distribute his advertising matter. He | thought druggists made a mistake in per- | mitting patent medicines to be advertised in newspapers over their names. John E. Peck said the retail druggist should patronize no wholesale druggist who sells to dealers who cut prices. Prof. Prescott said that few of the patents have any merit, so far as origin- ality is concerned, and that when the manufacturer does not conform to estab- lished trade usages, his interests should not be considered. The President cautioned the members against attempting to coerce the manu- facturer, when A. S. Parker remarked that the manufacturer was carrying ona crusade of coercion against the dealer, and that a turn about is fair play. John E. Peck said that if war was declared, the crusade should be carried on against all :7oods found in cut rate stores. we believe that every complaint has re- | ceived proper and prompt attention; but | to answer letters, and also of the parties | James Vernor asserted that the recom- mendations changed the warfare from the cutter himself to the cut rate goods, and that such a change of front would hae greatly multiply the number of cutters. few cases of persistent cutting, appeals | the manufacturers are not honest in their Rapids jobbing houses requesting them | And your} proper acknowl- | made to the whole- | the eities above named | | plan thereby establish- | Arthur Bassett asserted his belief that professions that they desire to put anend to the cutting of prices, and cited proof in support of this statement. H. J. Brown asked if the proposed involved action by druggists in towns where cutting is not done. Chairman Peck replied that, in his opinion, it applied only to cities and 12 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. _ towns where cutting was carried on. He stated as his belief that a quarter of a century would see the extinction of the retail druggist—that he would be swal- lowed up in the department store. The Secretary said that any action taken by this Association should be bind- ing on every member to be effective. S. E. Parkill called attention to the fact that while there are 600 druggists in the Association. there are 3,000 in the State, and that no action of this kind would eut much of a figure in the ag- gregate. This op.nion was strongly con- curred in by Jas. Vernor, A. H. Lyman and Dr. H. Lever. Arthur Bassett differed with John E. Peck in the statement that the druggist must go; in his opinion, the patent med- icine must go, its place being taken by preparations of the druggist himself. The strongest point of attack is to refuse to advertise the patent remedies and in- troduce them to the people. I. H. L. Dodd, of Buchanan, opposed antagonizing the manufacturers to the extent of refusing to sell cut goods, for | fear the manufacturers may establish cut rate stores of their own in every im- portant center. He approved of that portion of the recommendation which provided for the discouragement of the sale of these goods. The President thought there was no/| conflict between the physician and pat- ent medicines, as a man who is sick will | not temporize with patents, but go di- | rectly to the physician for assistance. Prof. Prescott defended the right of | substitution, so called, which was opposed by Mr. Dodd. The Committee withdrew the arbitary portion of its recommendation, leaving it | in the shape that the dealer discourage | the sale of goods sold by cutters and en- | courage the sale of goods of his own manufacture, which was adopted. The recommendation that the pharma- cist manufacture his own pharmaceutical remedies was adopted. The relative to the establishment of a clearing house for old and unsalable patent medicines was re- ferred to a committee composed of John E. Peck, James Vernor a:.d Arthur Bas- sett, to put the recommendation into effect, any eonnection tion. recommendation in borne by the